NATURAL BORN KILLERS

                         MALLORY
               That piece of shit lawnmower is fucked!  How am I
               supposed to use it?

     Dad backs her into the wall, puts his hand on her face, his thumb
     on her lip.  She's scared.

                         DAD
               You fuckin' little douchebag cunt, you watch your
               language in front of your mother.  I'll kick the
               shit outta you just like I do her.  Just remember
               you stupid bitch, you shit brown just like me.

     Mom just shakes her head at Dad's shenanigans and keeps setting
     the table.

                         BROTHER KEVIN
               Mom do we have any croutons?

                         MOM
               Sure Kevie.

     At the base of the stairs, Dad feels around Mallory's ass.  She
     writhes in disgust.

                         DAD
               This is my house.  It doesn't matter how much you
               wag your ass in my face.  If it's in my house,
               it's my ass.  Got it?  So take it upstairs and
               take a shower.  Make sure it's a good shower.
               Cause I'm coming up after to see how clean you are.

     Mallory runs upstairs really upset.  Dad reconfigures himself,
     sits back down at the table.

                         MOM
               Don't you think you were a little hard on her, dear?
                    (LAUGHTER)

                         BROTHER KEVIN
               Yeah Dad.  Mallory can't fix a broken bobbypin.
               How's she gonna fix a lawnmower? (LAUGHTER)

                         DAD
               I'll show her a...little "tenderness" after I eat (wink).
               When I get up there, she won't see my face for an hour.

     LAUGHTER.  The DOORBELL ringing.  Dad gets up but Mom stops him.

                         MOM
               That's probably Donna.  I'll break the news to
               her.  Don't let your macaroni get cold, Ed.

     But when Mom opens the door, it's MICKEY who steps in, dressed as
     a meatman with a big box of beef, blood all over his apron.  The
     APPLAUSE is deafening.  GIRLS in the audience SCREAM his name.
     Mickey hangs five for the recognition as he puts down the beef.

                         MICKEY
               Delivery for Ed Wilson.

                         MOM
               What on earth is it?

                         MICKEY
               It's beef lady.  Fifty pounds of beef.

                         MOM
               Well...wait here.  I need to have a word with
               my husband (exiting to kitchen).

     Mallory stands on the stairs, getting a good look at him.  His
     apron smeared with old blood.

                         MALLORY
               Who are you?

                         MICKEY
               I'm Mickey.  Who are you?

                         MALLORY
               I'm Mallory.

                         MICKEY
               You're "beautiful."
                    (Mallory melts at the appreciation, a look of
                    embarrassment at the camera)
               You a big meat eater, Mallory?

                         MALLORY
               I can be.

                         MICKEY
               You always dress like that, or were you waitin' for me?

                         MALLORY
               Why would I be waitin' for someone I don't even
               know?

                         MICKEY
               Well...maybe something's inside you told you to
               get ready...ever think about that?...Fate.  You
               believe in fate, Mallory?

                         MALLORY
               Maybe..

                         MICKEY
               You don't look too happy.  How bout we go for a
               ride?...Talk about it.

     She smiles.

     INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT

     MOM is scolding DAD, her hands on her hips.

                         MOM
               You promised your doctor, Ed -- no more meat.

                         DAD
               I eat what I want! So what! This food here (her
               food) you pray after you eat.

     Mom cries.

                         MOM
               I just don't want your arteries to clog up and
               then you'll keel over at the table.

                         DAD
               Don't fuckin' cry.  It turns me off!

                         MOM
               I haven't cried in 20 years and you still
               haven't touched me...
                    (big laughter)

                         DAD (pointing at Kevin)
               What about him?

                         MOM
               You thought you were in Mallory's room.  That's
               why we have Kevin.

                         KEVIN
               What?

                         MOM
                    (going back to the Living Room)
               I'm sending it back.  I don't care what you do
               to me.

     The SOUND of BURNING RUBBER.

     INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

     MOM and DAD RUN out.  The beef remains, with a note which Dad
     grabs.

                         DAD
               "Out with the meat man.  Back before dawn.
               Love Mallory."...that cunt!

                         MOM (at the window)
               They stole your car!

                         DAD
               That meatman cocksucker!  I'll get him too.
               Call the cops!

     INT. PRISON -- VISITING ROOM - DAY (TWO YEARS LATER)

     MALLORY, 2 years older, the braces gone, is visiting her love,
     MICKEY, who's taking on convict mannerisms -- early stages that
     are refined into the later, more famous Mickey.  He's doing 2
     years for car theft.  They are embracing, sitting down, in a room
     full of reunited FAMILIES.

     NOTE:  The shooting style reverts back to 16 mm black and white --
     two young lovers.

                         MICKEY
               Everything I see, I see you Mall.

                         MALLORY
               I know baby.  I'm goin' crazy too...

                         MICKEY
               Even ugliness looks beautiful cause of you.  Even
               though I'm here, I visit you every night.

                         MALLORY
               I know Mickey...I can't break away from you
               either, but you gotta listen...My Dad is moving
               us away so you can't never find us.  He's
               insane...He knows you're getting out next
               month.  He got a doctor to say you raped me and
               he's gonna bring more charges.

                         MICKEY
               He can't keep me away from you.

                         MALLORY
               He says if you ever show up he'll kill you.

                         MICKEY
               When's this supposed to happen?

                         MALLORY
               He won't say.  Look, I've gotta go.  If he
               finds out I'm gone he'll beat me...I just
               wanted to see you...I love you Mickey.  Please
               don't forget me.

                         MICKEY
               It's cool.  It won't matter where he takes you,
               to Timbuktu...I told you we're fate. They can't
               stop fate...Nobody can...it won't matter.

     She looks at him deeply.

                         MALLORY
               Bye.

                         MICKEY
               One of these nights, I'll be coming to see ya.

     On Mickey's face as she exits.

     EXT. FARMLAND - DAY

     A BLACK CLOUD rolls in.  The WIND is blowing.  A STORM is brewing.

     MICKEY is part of a Jail WORKCREW breaking MUSTANGS -- guarded by
     ARMED MEN on horseback (with shotguns)

     Suddenly a large FUNNEL CLOUD touches down. A TORNADO zigzags
     crazily up the road--more and more immense. The end of the world.

     The WORKBOSS is yelling for the men to get back to the bus.

     EVERYONE is running for the road.

     The TORNADO is moving in fast.

     But Mickey, lost in all the blowing and confusion, has taken off
     down the road, heading straight at the tornado.

     One of the GUARDS takes off after him...fires a shot.

     Mickey is running his ass off, straight into the twisting
     devil...obviously a PROCESS SHOT is looming here.

     The HORSEMAN is gaining on Mickey, fires again.  But the horse is
     spooked by the storm and THROWS the Guard.

     As the Man hits the ground, he discharges the shotgun right into
     himself -- blowing his chest out.

     Mickey is last seen as a tiny man disappearing into the TORNADO --
     arms extended as if he were embracing Death itself.

     INT. MALLORY'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

     She lays in bed, hears a car SCREECH up.  Knows it's him.  Runs
     downstairs.  Tonight will be the night!

     INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

     DAD is watching wrestling on TV in his underwear ("go on, break
     his arm!  Do something!  What do we got here...2 fuckin' faggots!
     Kill each other!") But it is no longer the sitcom style -- we are
     in 16 mm hard-edged film format.

                         DAD (to Mallory running to the door)
               Where the fuck do you think you're going! Get
               back upstairs!

                         MALLORY
               I'm going OOOUT!!

     The door BLASTS OPEN.  MICKEY -- all fucked up from the storm,
     cuts, bruises, is on Dad like lightning struck a demon.
     Hitting him with a tire iron.

                         MICKEY
               Hey Jack, Mickey's back.

     But Dad doesn't go down.  He fights back.

     Tipping the scale, Mallory jumps on her dad's back -- liberated
     at last -- kicking him, tearing his eyes out!  It goes round and
     round.

     Mickey hits him again. Dad's dazed.

     They stuff his head in the fish tank.  They hold him down.  Dad
     drowns.

                         MICKEY
               Where's the old bag?

     INT. MOTHER'S BEDROOM - NIGHT

     MOM comes awake from an open-mouthed snore -- terrified eyes as:

     MICKEY stuffs a sock, soaked in gasoline, into her throat,
     shutting her up.

     The rest of her is sprayed with gasoline from the can Mickey is
     holding.

     CLOSE UP of a MATCH being lit.

     MALLORY holds it in front of her face for a moment.

     MOM begging for her life with her daughter.  Her words muffled by
     the sock:

                         MOM
               Oh God.  Don't please don't Mallory!

     Mallory tosses the match.  We hear ignition.

     INT. STAIRS/HALLWAY - NIGHT

     Mickey and Mallory exit the room on the run, freezing as
     Mallory's little brother, KEVIN, stares at them in his nightshirt
     from the hallway.

     Mallory makes a farewell gesture.

                         MALLORY
               You're free!

     They run out.

     EXT. MOVING CAR - NIGHT (PROCESS SHOT)

     MICKEY and MALLORY flying blind to their freedom.  Outrageous
     STARS whirl and collide above them.

                         MALLORY
               Wherever we go, whatever happens Mickey, when I
               look up at the stars, I'll know you're looking
               at the same ones.

                         MICKEY (sweet)
               The same ones, baby.

                         MALLORY
               Mickey.

                         MICKEY
               Yeah.

                         MALLORY
               You make every day like kindergarten.

     EXT. RIO GRANDE GORGE - DAY

     They're standing by an old iron BRIDGE looking down into an enormous
     100-foot drop into the feisty waters of the Rio Grande.

     All their last clothes and possessions sail over.

     MALLORY even lets her favorite teddy bear go.

     MICKEY takes both her hands.

                         MICKEY
               Mall, it's time to grow up, we got the road to
               hell in front of us...will you marry me?

                         MALLORY
               Oh Mickey I been ready for so long, but where
               we gonna have our wedding Mickey?

                         MICKEY
               Right here. This is our church, Mall.

     They notice, for the first time, the beauty of the land and water
     around them.  They look at each other.

                         MALLORY
               Oohh.  I'm so excited!
                    (goes to the car and pulls out a headdress)
               I got the perfect thing.

     Mickey takes out his knife and slits his left hand.

     He takes Mall's right hand and slits it.

                         MALLORY
               Oh, it's not what I had in mind.

     They clasp their hands, mixing blood. He hikes Mall and himself
     up closer to the railing so they are looking directly down into
     the plummeting gorge.

     They watch as the blood drips from their hands into the river
     below (ANIMATION OPTION). Mickey pulls out the two wedding rings
     he's been saving.

                         MALLORY (quietly)
               ...we'll be livin' in all the oceans now.

                         MICKEY
               God...before you and this river and all the
               things we don't know about...Do you Mickey take
               Mallory to be your wife, to stay with her and
               treat her right -- till you die?
                    (answering himself)
               I do.

     A TRUCKLOAD OF INDIANS drive by looking at these gringos.

                         MICKEY (Cont'd)
               Mallory, do you take Mickey to be your husband,
               and love him till you die?

                         MALLORY
               For all eternity until you and I and you die and die
               and die again. Till death do us part! Yes, yes, yes.

                         MICKEY
               Then baby...we're man and wife.

     He puts the rings on their fingers. And they kiss joyfully.

     INSERT - TELEVISION FILM - "AMERICAN MANIACS"

     WAYNE GALE is once again standing on HIGHWAY 666 right next to a
     shot-up roadsign.