NATURAL BORN KILLERS

                         WAYNE TV
               ...after that there was no stopping Mickey and
               Mallory.  They tore up the countryside with a
               vengeance right out of the Bible.  In the
               course of 3 weeks that stretched down this
               Highway -- 666 -- to some a beautiful stretch of
               American landscape, to others the fastest
               distance between Cortez and Gallup, but to
               Mickey and Mallory a candy lane of murder
               and chaos.  As they slaughtered 48 people --
               innocent people, people they never met before,
               total strangers -- all killed to fill the
               fantasies of these love-crazed narcissist
               psychopaths...

     INT. TELEVISION STATION - DAY

     WAYNE GALE is looking at himself on tape with his CAMERA and
     EDITING CREW and JULIE, the assistant.  They're in an editing
     "session," rolled up sleeves, coffee, cigarettes, donuts, bagels.
     A mirror is close by.

                         WAYNE (involved)
               ...not bad, not bad.  Maybe trim that look...
               and go for the close-up there when I say "love-
               crazed-narcissistic etcetera."

                         DAVID (bright young editor)
               ...we really raped and pillaged the first show
               to do this.

                         ROGER (cameraman)
               ...but we changed the order around so it wasn't
               super obvious.

                         DAVID
               ...it still needs a new intro in my opinion
               Wayne, you can't cannibalize yourself all the
               time or...

                         WAYNE
               Repetition works, David, you think those
               schmucks out there in zombieland remember
               anything.  It's junkfood for the brains.  It's
               filler, fodder -- just build for the interview.
               Keep using that word -- "Live Interview."
               Anticipation, David -- that's all it's about,
               the next bite of chocolate, the next car, the
               next vacation, the next life, next -- that's
               all.  'Just do it.'

                         DAVID (making a tape cut)
               Heil, mein Fuhrer!

     DEBORAH, another assistant, hands him a cellular phone.

                         DEBORAH
               Your sensei...

     ON TV

     INSERT COLOR POSTCARD OF CHICAGO

                         WAYNE TV (V.O.)
               ...they began their crime wave in the poorer
               suburbs of Chicago...and they finally caged
               here at this All-Nite Pharmacy in the small New
               Mexico town of Jerome -- not far from the
               Navajo Indian Reservation.

     EXT. PHARMACY (REPEAT) - NIGHT

     Actual NEWS FOOTAGE of the apprehension, repeated.  Tracking in
     wildly behind the THREE WINDBREAKER COPS & SCAGNETTI on MICKEY,
     clobbering him for camera.

     PHOTO:  Police Academy BLACK and WHITE PHOTO OF OFFICER GERALD
     NASH.

                         WAYNE TV
               Patrolman Gerald Nash was just the first of
               twelve peace officers that Mickey and Mallory
               murdered during their reign of terror.

     PHOTO:  BLACK and WHITE photo of Gerald Nash and his partner
     DALE WRIGLEY, dressed in their uniforms, arms around each other.

                         WAYNE TV
               Gerald and his partner Dale Wrigley were parked
               at...

     PHOTO:  BLACK & WHITE snapshot of DONUT SHOP.

                         WAYNE TV
               ...this donut shop, Dales Donuts.  When --

     INT. DALE WRIGLEY HOME - DAY

     Interview with the real DALE WRIGLEY.  His name appears below him
     on the screen.

                         DALE
               ...This '68 Cadillac Coupe De Ville (or
               alternative) pulled up about three spaces away.
               Gerald -- three weeks out of the Academy
               came walking out with our coffee and --
                    (begins to tear up)
               my bear claw.  When the driver of the car asked
               him something...

     EXT. DONUT SHOP - DAY

     A cinema verite recreation of the crime, a la "COPS," shot in 16
     mm color.  Moving in fast on TV GERALD, who has little
     resemblance to the photograph of Real Gerald.

                         DALE (V.O.)
               Gerald started giving him what looked like
               street directions.  When he finished, the
               driver waved him "thanks," brought up a shotgun
               and --

     Pandemonium!  The shadowed figures of TV MICKEY and TV MALLORY
     firing a blast.  TV Gerald flying backward with pumped "sound"
     effects.

     TV DALE, another actor type with little resemblance to the real
     Dale, is jumping out of his car, gun pulled, in futile anger as:

     TV Mickey peels his car out -- leaving a really bloodied corpse
     of TV Gerald on the pavement, bear claws and donuts and coffee
     heaped over him.

     BLACK & WHITE PHOTO of Alfie's DONUT SHOP.  A white grease
     pencil circles where REAL GERALD is shot.  We hear another
     shotgun BLAST and a SCREAM over this.

     BLACK & WHITE PHOTO of MICKEY and MALLORY standing next to
     each other, guns in hand, smiling into camera.  We hear
     LAUGHTER and a car PEELING OUT over this.

     INT. COP CAR - MOVING - HIGHWAY - DAY

     TV DALE is pursuing MICKEY and MALLORY -- FIRING rounds out his
     side window as he drives.

                         TV DALE (into radio)
               I am currently in high pursuit!  Send back up!
               Send back up!

     INT. MICKEY CAR - MOVING - HIGHWAY - DAY

     TV MICKEY is weaving back and forth on the road like Steve
     McQueen in "Le Mans."  TV MALLORY is hanging out the window,
     FIRING her shotgun, laughing her head off.  She sees something
     that gets her attention.

                         WAYNE TV (V.O.)
               ...in the ensuing chase, they even managed to
               kill American marathon bicyclist, Bryan Smyj,
               who was in the wrong place at the wrong time,
               only because...

     Mallory passing a BICYCLIST decked out in colors, flying down
     the road, sucking on a water bottle.  Threatened by the vehicles
     barreling down the road at war, he shoots Mallory the finger.

     Like a skilled trap-and-skeet shooter, Mallory whips her shotgun
     left, tracks the fast-moving target, and gleefully BLASTS the

     Cyclist off the bike, then whips her shotgun back onto the
     oncoming Cop.

     EXT. HIGHWAY - DAY

     As the CYCLIST flies off the road, the TWO CARS whip through the
     FRAME, one at a time, SPITTING gunfire.

                         REAL MALLORY (V.O.)
               ...well I always wanted to take a shot at one
               of 'em...they're not so easy to hit.

     ON TV (CONT'D):

     EXT. BLEACHERS - DAY

     TV WAYNE stares at us a few beats, sitting in some school
     football bleachers.

                         WAYNE TV
               Sick, isn't it?
                    (mournful pause)
               Renaissance psychopaths that they were -- and
               obviously bored with conventional robbery and
               murder, they would always leave one clerk or
               one policeman alive...to tell the tale...of
               Mickey and Mallory.

                         WAYNE (between dialogue, on the cellular)
               And cut there.  Pop to the "Maniacs" logo,
               ding, ding, two commercials, AT & T and Reebok
               with any fucking luck, and we come back on:  da
               da introducing "The Schmuck Fans"
                    (into phone)
               ...sensei...Taru pleeze. How can you even think
               that?  I would never advance to a brown belt
               without doing the work, I would not!...Please
               let me come in and talk to you, please.  I feel
               like shit...Network just told us we're goin'
               live next week -- Super Bowl Sunday.  80-100
               million people.  I gotta be together for this
               one, taru...Stress?  I invented the word.
               Please don't turn me away...sensei?...sensei?
                    (cuts off, to Julie)
               My life's falling apart.  I sense it.  It's
               coming to an end.

                         JULIE (sign language)
               You're so dramatic.

     ON TV

                         WAYNE TV
               ...and famous they became.  Worldwide, loved,
               adored by their fans, driven by the madness of
               media, the dragon grew more and more heads ...

     EXT. COURTROOM STEPS (MICKEY'S TRIAL) - DAY

     In a LARGE CROWD gathered outside Mickey's and Mallory's trial,
     WAYNE interview THREE LONG HAIRED GUYS, cinema verite style,
     jumpcutting their response time.

                         KID 1
               Hot.

                         KID 2
               Hot.

                         KID 3
               Totally hot.

                         KID 1
               Mickey and Mallory are the best thing to happen
               to mass murder since Manson.

                         KID 2
               But they're way cooler...

                         KID 3
               They're romantic, I dunno...

                         KID 1
               I'm not saying y'know I believe in mass murder
               or that shit, but...

                         KID 2
               Don't get us wrong.

                         KID 3
               We respect human life and all...

                         KID 1
               Yeah it's a tragedy but...if I was a mass
               murderer, I'd be Mickey and Mallory.

                                                           JUMP TO:

     EXT. LONDON STREET - DAY

     "Man in the Street" interview style.  TITLE CARD reads "LONDON."
     A BOY and a GIRL, dressed like the Knox's.

                         LONDON BOY
               You take all the great figures from the
               States.. Elvis, Jack Kerouac, James Dean, Jim
               Morrison, Jack Nicholson...add a bloody pale of
               nitro and you got Mickey and Mallory.  They're
               like rebels without a cause, except they have a
               cause. Only nobody knows what it is.

                         LONDON GIRL (screaming)
               Their cause is each utter!

     EXT. TOKYO STREET - DAY

     TWO JAPANESE TEENS dressed like the Knox's speak in Japanese
     which is translated in English.

                         TRANSLATOR V.O.
               Keep the faith, Mickey and Mallory, keep the faith.

     EXT. PARIS STREET - DAY

     TWO FRENCH TEENS, also dressed like the Knox's, speak in English.

                         FRENCH BOY
               Mickey and Mallory have a love that's L.A.M.F.

                         FRENCH GIRL (in English)
               They are super cool!

     INT. PSYCHIATRIST OFFICE - DAY

     WAYNE is interviewing Dr. EMIL REINGOLD who talks to us with an
     impressive manner. His name on a TITLE CARD underneath.

                         DR. REINGOLD
               ...Mickey and Mallory's operatic devotion to each
               other. In a world where people can't seem to make
               the simplest of relationships work and the slightest
               emotional commitment is considered devastating,
               Mickey and Mallory have a do or die romance of a
               Shakespearian magnitude. To the country's youth, 75
               percent of whom are coming from broken homes, they
               have an us-against-the world posture which youth
               loves. And they've taken that posture 10 steps
               beyond. Mickey and Mallory have shocked a country
               ntimb with violence. They've created a world where
               only two exist and anybody who inadvertently enters
               that world is murdered...

     Wayne going at it on a cellular conference call.

     He knows the footage, bored.

                         WAYNE (in phone)
               Bill...Bill listen to me...if you advertise that we'll
               hit a 75 awareness. By Wednesday!  By Saturday we'll be
               85, 90 climbing...by Sunday morning only homeless
               morons living in parks won't know we're there! We'll
               eviscerate "60 Minutes" -- they'll be a spark in a
               distant galaxy fart. We're LIVE Don, hello! Anybody in?
               Right after the Superbowl! We got 'em in their houses,
               angry, the Game's just sucked (it always does), and
               they wanna see this guy Mickey. What makes him tick! Is
               he like me! The guy wants to tear apart his wife! His
               best friend he wants to kill. Recent statistics show
               that more husband-wife beatings take place during and
               after sports events than at any other...listen, Bill,
               this is Don King and Muhammed Ali in the Jungle,
               Michael Jackson at the SuperBowl! The most talked about
               event in television history. Books will be written ...
               So?  Who cares, it's a book for chrisakes, who the fuck
               reads a book. Don Don listen to Jim, talk to Don -- who
               can stop live TV? Nobody. You blow this and NBC'll be
               eating your lunch next season, and I'll be there too
               ... With Letterman.  And you'll be cleaning out gorilla
               shit and reptile cages in pet stores, you better
               fuckin' believe me for once.  Cause ... 'cause I am
               outta here!...I'm out unless...unless yeah...you
               know...yeah...at least a mill...maybe 2 we're talkin'
               now...should've signed me a month ago. Peanuts!  Fox
               was offerin' more.  Lobotomy Bay.  Right...yeah right...

     ON TV CONT'D:

                         DR. REINGOLD (Cont'd)
               Insane, no.  Psychotic, yes. But to suggest
               that they're insane gives the impression that
               they don't know right from wrong.  Mickey and
               Mallory know the difference between right and
               wrong.  They just don't give a damn.

                         WAYNE TV (in front of courthouse)
               It was Dr. Reingold who Mallory Knox strangled
               six months after this interview.

     FREEZE FRAME ON REINGOLD

                         WAYNE (to the editors)
               Rrrrrnnnnggg. Commercial.  How to brush your
               teeth. How to get an enema, how to live
               longer. Fanfuckingtastic! But less of the
               shrink.  Keep the teens, the long hairs, love
               the cop at the donut shop, love the Warden,
               he's so dumb McClusky, he still thinks he's the
               good guy. Cut in right when he's on that
               horrific fuckin' laugh. Freeze frame on the
               laugh (the Warden displays a rictus of francis
               bacon madness on his face)...don't even let him
               answer. Fuck him. He's such an idiot. Then cut
               to me talking with the Huns...

                         JULIE (sign language, subtitled)
               Should we shoot film on Mickey?  For posterity?
               Maybe a PBS; gives us library value; give us
               some respect for a change, maybe an Emmy?

                         DAVID
               Fat fuckin' chance.

                         WAYNE
               Yes!  Great idea Julie!  Same time as the video. I
               see... high contrast sixteen millimeter black and white.
               And I mean black and white, where the black's black and
               the white's white.  For history.  For prosperity.

                         DAVID
               Posterity.

                         WAYNE
               You're right, David.  Prosterity. Film!

     ON TV (CONT'D):

     INT. GOLD'S GYM - DAY

                         WAYNE TV
               ...Even their victims fell in love with Mickey
               and Mallory!

     WAYNE'S standing in a GYM.  Behind him MUSCLE MEN and WOMEN are
     working out; their GRUNTS fill the BG.  Wayne turns off camera
     into an ECU of two heads belonging to the famous bodybuilder
     twins, SIMON and NORAAN HUN.  Their names appear in a subtitle
     card below screen.

                         WAYNE
               Simon and Norman Hun, what do you think of
               Mickey and Mallory?

                         SIMON
               I admire them.

                         NORMAN
               I do, too.

                         WAYNE (confused)
               But how can you say that?

                         SIMON
               They're mesmerizing.

                         NORMAN
               Have you seen "Pumping Iron?"

                         WAYNE
               Yes.

                         SIMON
               Then you've seen the scene where Arnold
               Schwarzenegger is talking to Lou Ferigno.

                         WAYNE
               Yes.

                         NORMAN
               Through the power of the simple word --

                         SIMON
               And a snake-eye glare --

                         NORMAN
               -- and a snake-eye glare, Arnold was able to
               totally psyche out any confidence Ferigno had.

                         SIMON
               He squashed him mentally before physically
               defeating him.

                         NORMAN
               He had the edge.  The mind's edge.

                         SIMON
               Mickey and Mallory have that edge.

                         NORMAN
               They've hypnotized the nation.

                         SIMON
               Schwarzenegger was the king of the edge before
               they came along

     ZOOM BACK to WAYNE.

                         WAYNE
               Yet you two are both victims of Mickey and
               Mallory?

     SHOT now ZOOMS back to reveal that both Simon and Norman are in
     wheelchairs (their legs maimed or gone).

                         SIMON & NORMAN
               Yes.

                         WAYNE
               How can you say you "admire" them?

                         NORMAN
               It's like this, Wayne.  Two people are standing
               in a dark room waiting for the other to attack.
               These two people can't see each other, yet they
               know they're there.  Now, they can either stand
               in that dark room forever waiting until they
               die of boredom, or one of them can make the
               first move.

                         WAYNE
               Why can't they just shake hands and be friends?

                         NORMAN
               They can't because neither knows if the other
               is a deranged senseless killer like the knoxs.
               So, you may as well make the first move.