Jackie Brown

MAX

Yes.

ORDELL

You better be, motherfucker.

EXT. CHERRY BAIL BONDS – NIGHT

They both get out of the Cadillac. Ordell sticks his gun in his pants.

ORDELL

Get ahead of me and open the door.

Max steps in front of him, puts his keys in the lock and opens the door.

ORDELL (CONT'D)

Step inside easy.

Max does.

Max sees; Jackie sitting at his desk in the dark.

Ordell sees this, too and moves past Max.

ORDELL (CONT'D)

Hey, girl, what the hell you sitting in the goddamn dark for?

Max sees; Ordell moves past him... then he sees the bathroom door on the left side of the desk open, throwing light into the room, onto Jackie and the figure who steps out of the bathroom... Mark Dargus.

Max sees; Ordell looks to Dargus, then back to Jackie. Then Jackie says;

JACKIE

Mark...

(raising her voice)

... he's got a gun!

Max sees; Ordell almost jumps, his arm goes to the Beretta in his pants...

... just as Dargus raises his gun and SHOOTS him three times in the chest...

... Ordell drops o the ground like a sack of potatoes, he lands at Max's feet.

Max looks down and sees Ordell's head by his shoes, look of panic still on his face, dead as fried chicken.

Max sees Dargus come over, bending on one nee next to Ordell's body.

Max looks over at Jackie, still behind the desk. She looks eyes with Max for a moment, then stands and walks over to the body.

Then Max sees ONE SHERIFF DEPUTY step out of the dark holding a shogun ... then another... then Winston step out of the bathroom.

DARGUS

He's dead.

Dargus looks up at Max;

DARGUS (CONT'D)

Does he have the marked bills on him?

Max still shaken;

MAX

In his inside coat pocket.

Dargus reaches in and pulls out the envelope containing the forty-thousand marked dollars.

Max looks at Jackie.

She looks down at the dead Ordell with no expression, just light up another Davidoff.

Dargus looks up at Max;

DARGUS

Why were you with him?

MAX

I went to give him his refund, so he wouldn't have to come here.

DARGUS

How'd you know where he was?

MAX

I found out.

DARGUS

And you didn't tell the Police?

MAX

I told Jackie, and Jackie said you wanted him.

Dargus looks down at he man he just killed.

JACKIE

Remember when Ray said you hoped you'd get him before he got me?

Dargus looks up and nods his head.

JACKIE (CONT'D)

Well, you did. Thank you.

She takes a drag on her Davidoff.

FADE TO BLACK

INT. CHERRY BAIL BONDS – DAY

As opposed to the last scene late at night, it's early morning. Max sits at his desk, filling out a report.

A SUB-TITLE APPEARS BELOW:

"TEN DAYS LATER"

Max hears someone go;

JACKIE (O.S.)

Knock knock.

Max looks up and sees Jackie Brown, standing in the doorway. She smiles at him.

JACKIE (CONT'D)

Hey.

MAX FLASHES ON Jackie behind the desk.

JACKIE (CONT'D)

Mark... he's got a gun!

Dargus shoots Ordell, Ordell drops.

BACK TO OFFICE

Max smiles back.

MAX

Hey, you.

Jackie walks toward him.

JACKIE

I got your package. It was fun getting a half-a-million dollars in the mail.

MAX

Less ten percent.

JACKIE

Yeah, your fee. I had to figure that out, since there wasn't no note.

She sits in the chair in front of his desk.

JACKIE (CONT'D)

Only this isn't a bail bond, Max.

MAX

I hesitated taking that much.

JACKIE

You worked for it – if you're sure that's all you want.

MAX

I'm sure.

Pause between them.

JACKIE

I'm leaving, I have my things in my car. Why don't you walk out with me? I want to show you something.

Max hesitates.

JACKIE (CONT'D)

Come on, Max. I won't hurt you.

He smiles and gets up from the desk.

As she stands, Jackie says;

JACKIE (CONT'D)

I saw Ray the other day. Boy is he pissed he missed all the excitement.

MAX

What's he doing?

JACKIE

He's on to a new thing. He's after a guy who owns a gun shop he says is "woefully and wantonly" selling assault rifles to minors. He says he's gonna take him down if it's the last thing he does.

MAX

Did you tell him you were leaving?

JACKIE

I told him I might.

EXT. CHERRY BAIL BONDS – DAY

They walk outside and Max sees Ordell's black Mercedes convertible.

MAX

That's Ordell's.

JACKIE

They've confiscated all his other stuff. But this one's sorta left over. The registration's in the glove box, the keys were under the seat... What's a matter" haven't you ever borrowed someone's car?

MAX

Not after they're dead.