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TRIPLUT
FADE IN:
EXT. DESERT TOWN – NOON
A shot of a desert with the sun high in the background, the
heat rays are almost entirely visible. A hawk flies in and
out of the view.
INT. GENERAL STORE – CONT'D
A retail store stocked with a wide variety of merchandise.
The STORE OWNER is sitting near a big black register, he is
reading what appears to be sheets of paper with printed
text.
He looks like he is in his forties, he wears rather nice
clothes for that certain time but he himself looks like he
doesn't appear to have a mirror to his avail.
He's so into the paper that he doesn't greet the man who
walks into his store. That man is BIG GUY, he wears black
clothes and has a black hat.
BIG GUY
Guns?
Store owner slowly looks up from his paper, eyeballing the
big guy who has a menacing look. He nods to a corner in the
back then quickly returns his attention to his paper.
STORE OWNER
Out there.
Big guy stand there for a few more seconds then moves
towards the corner.
When there's the silence of the footsteps, a buzzing sound
erects as if on queue.
Store owner gets bugged by a fly.
EXT. DESERT TOWN – CONT'D
Beautiful but busy town, people walking around doing their
things, mud, horses, a saloon, a prison, the typical works
you could expect from an old western town.
INT. GENERAL STORE – CONT'D
Store owner tries to smash the annoying fly with his bare
hands.
EXT. DESERT TOWN – CONT'D
A STRANGER on a horse walks into picture accompanied by a
DIRTY GUY, a stranger because some people are watching him
closely. Stranger has brown clothes and a hat, underneath
the hat there's blond hair. 30ish would be perfect. He
looks like he is used to the looks he receives. Dirty guy
has no taste whatsoever about clothing, you can't tell the
age and his long hairs looks like it could be a home for
rats.
INT. GENERAL STORE – CONT'D
Store owner is slowly rolling up a sheet of paper.
EXT. DESERT TOWN – CONT'D
Stranger stops in front of the general store, looks at it,
looks at his horse and nods at Dirty guy.
INT. GENERAL STORE – CONT'D
Stranger walks in, Store owner smashes the fly with the
sheet, he slowly looks up, his newly formed grin slowly
fades.
STRANGER
Good day.
Store owner nods once, very briefly. He watches his piece
of paper, looks at his table, wipes the remains of the fly
away on the end of the table. His look goes back up to the
Stranger, on the way up stopping when viewing a gun in a
holster. Shining.
STORE OWNER
Nice piece.
STRANGER
Thanks, I need ammo for it.
Store owner nods, as if he understood it all along.
STORE OWNER
Ammo.
(beat)
Everyone needs to have ammo
nowadays.
STRANGER
Ammo is necessery.
STORE OWNER
Ammo is a rarity in this town.
STRANGER
So I have heard.
They look at each other for a while.
Store owner stands up and walks to the storage room.
Stranger checks out the rest of the store whilst closely
holding the storage room door in sight.
Store owner returns, places a big shotgun on the table,
sits down.
STORE OWNER
I have ammo for this one.
STRANGER
I didn't ask for it.
STORE OWNER
The rest of the ammo is gone my
friend.
Stranger closes in.
STRANGER
May I?
Store owner grins.
STORE OWNER
She's a beauty ain't she,
I got it from one of those
shotgun messengers you know,
from the cavalry.
Good deal I tell ya.
Stranger touches the shotgun, moves his fingers over it.
Store owner picks up the shotgun.
STORE OWNER
I do need a high price for it
though.
STRANGER
You're quite the bussinesman
around here huh.
STORE OWNER
Well you could say...
I have a lot of good deals.
STRANGER
How about this deal?
Store owner is forming a big grin when suddenly in
slowmotion his grin fades away as quick as it came up.
Stranger holds his shining .45 against Store owner's head.
Stranger gets distracted by two clicking sounds he looks
around to see:
Big guy holding two .45s aimed at Stranger. The distraction
led Store owner to picking up the shotgun, quickly deciding
on which person to aim for, he settles on Big guy.
Big guy sees it and aims one gun at Store owner.
BIG GUY
Nasty situation ain't it.
STRANGER
Considering I almost closed a
good deal, yes it is.
They now both realize that big guy has only one eye left.
STRANGER
Think you can outaim me?
BIG GUY
Don't go for looks son, it's
better than two.
(beat)
What'd you want? You didn't came
here for no ammo or shotgun for
that matter.
STRANGER
Good deals mean good money, good
money means good deal for me.
Stranger moves to the register, punches it with his free
hand, eyes fixed on Big guy.
Store owner aims at Stranger.
STORE OWNER
What do you want?
STRANGER
Isn't it obvious.
STORE OWNER
What do you want, big guy?
STRANGER
Isn't that obvious too?
Store owner is about to shoot as stranger is taking out the
money, in slowmotion the store owner gets shot in the head,
the white walls behind him don't look like white anymore.
With a swift move and smoking gun Stranger ducks as big guy
shoots four bullets at stranger. Big guy runs for the
storage room, stranger shoots two bullets back but misses.
BIG GUY(O.S.)
A good deal huh?
STRANGER
I'll offer you a better one.
BIG GUY
Better than the guy on the
ground?
STRANGER
I take my money and leave, that's
the deal.
BIG GUY
Talking deals is shit, I'm going
to shoot you.
A black jacket gets thrown out of the storage room, in a
reflex Stranger shoots a bullet at it, Big guy leaps out of
the storage room shooting four bullets in the direction of
Stranger who has hid behind a little bar, he shoots two
back.
They're both down, but not shot.
Big guy shoots two bullets at two bottles of liquid who are
standing above Stranger's position. The shattered glass
falls upon Stranger.
STRANGER
(to himself)
Shit.
BIG GUY
You've got one left.
STRANGER
All I need is one.
Big guy laughs, stands up, Stranger stands up as well,
pieces of glass fall out of his hat, he shoots one, Big guy
shoots the last remaining bullets from both his guns.
Seconds go by, Stranger drops the six shooter, his hat
falls down, his body follows.
Big guy stands frozen but then holsters his weapons, and
smiles. He walks over to the register takes the money,
ducks takes the shotgun. Cocks the shotgun.
He takes something out of his pocket just when the window
of the General Store gets shot down. The shooting hasn't
been gone unnoticed, Dirty guy is about to enter the door.
BAM
He flies way back, to a position where lawmen start closing
in on the general store. They ignore the dead body, eyes
and guns fixed on the store.
EXT. GENERAL STORE – CONT'D
Big guy walks out in front of the store through the door
all in slowmotion.
The lawmen all aim at big guy. But quickly aim up when
seeing a silver badge reflecting the sun's light.
LAWMAN
Shit, man, almost shot ya.
What you got there?
BIG GUY
Something I was missing.
He walks away, the lawmen look at him then decide to enter
the store.
INT. GENERAL STORE – CONT'D
LAWMAN#2
What the fuck went on in here?
LAWMAN
Attempted robbery. I guess that
guy helped out.
LAWMAN#2
Helped out? Who the hell was that
guy?
LAWMAN
He's from the cavalry, we've
received message he'd be here.
Lawman points at the ground, Lawman#2 closes in.
CLOSE UP: two bullets who apparently hit each other midair,
bot flattened and almost forms one whole.
LAWMAN#2
Cavalry huh.
FADE OUT:
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