Coronado - Dennis Lehane [56]
BOBBY I told her if you did find her to tell you I’d only said one word about where I hid it.
BOBBY’S FATHER And what word was that, pray tell?
BOBBY Fairgrounds.
[BOBBY’S FATHER smiles, taps the gun against his outer thigh.]
BOBBY Told her if you truly believed she didn’t know anything you might—just might—show mercy for once.
BOBBY’S FATHER And why would I do that?
BOBBY Because I loved her.
BOBBY’S FATHER Ain’t no such thing.
BOBBY You say! You say!
[BOBBY takes a few steps toward him and he raises the gun again. The sight of it makes BOBBY laugh.]
BOBBY Go ahead. Really. Pull that fucking trigger, tough guy.
Scene 8
GINA and WILL drag HAL toward the train tracks, struggling with his weight. HAL comes back to consciousness but is still groggy as hell.
HAL Don’t. Just don’t. Just listen. I—
[WILL shoves HAL’s gun under his chin.]
WILL Got your gun, Hal. Now shut the fuck up.
HAL [Screaming.] I’LL BE A GREAT FATHER THIS TIME, I WILL, AND GINA, I LOVE YOU, I DO, I KNOW I’VE HAD A FEW WIVES AND A BUNCH OF COCKTAIL WAITRESSES AND SOME STRIPPERS BUT NEVER ANYTHING LIKE YOU AND I’LL BE A GREAT DAD, A GREAT DAD, AND IF YOU COULD JUST SEE MY SOUL AND HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU, GINA, BABY, PLEASE, I—
[They hurl HAL onto the train tracks. SOUND OF IMPACT. GINA grabs her head and screams at the sky.]
GINA Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god…
[WILL tucks the gun under his shirt, stares off.]
WILL Bye, Hal.
[The DOCTOR and the PATIENT watch as the lights dim on WILL and GINA.]
DOCTOR You’ve confused your sins.
PATIENT What?
DOCTOR The hierarchy of them. You think you did something worse than murder? Leaving your child to be raised by Will? You had no choice.
PATIENT I could have died fighting.
DOCTOR End result would have been the same. You can’t fight a guy like Will. You can’t, Gina. The only thing that can stop a guy like Will is a guy like Will.
PATIENT No, I—
DOCTOR Your sin was killing Hal. You had choice there and you made the worst one. Do you even know why?
PATIENT Because we were in love.
DOCTOR You were in love. You could have divorced him. Was it his money?
PATIENT Didn’t hurt.
DOCTOR He’d have given you that. So…Why’d you kill Hal, Gina?
Scene 9
BOBBY’S FATHER pointing the gun at BOBBY. [Beat.]
BOBBY’S FATHER It just come to me.
BOBBY Yeah, what’s that?
BOBBY’S FATHER You’ve known for, what, three years that Gwen is no more?
BOBBY Dead.
BOBBY’S FATHER Whatever.
BOBBY Dead.
BOBBY’S FATHER If you like. Dead.
BOBBY Yeah, Daddy.
BOBBY’S FATHER Three years. Lotta time to think.
[BOBBY nods.]
BOBBY’S FATHER Plan.
[Another nod. BOBBY’S FATHER looks at his gun.]
BOBBY’S FATHER This going to fire?
BOBBY I’d say the odds are a might dubious.
BOBBY’S FATHER It’s loaded. I can feel the mag weight.
BOBBY Jack the slide.
[BOBBY’S FATHER yanks back hard. The slide is frozen.]
BOBBY Krazy Glue. Filled the barrel too.
BOBBY’S FATHER Thought I felt a monkey on my head.
[BOBBY produces a knife, expertly flips the blade free of the hasp.]
BOBBY’S FATHER The other great love of your life. I assume you’ve lost none of your talent with it.
BOBBY Wherever you buried her, you’re digging her out.
BOBBY’S FATHER I got a shovel in the trunk.
BOBBY [Shakes his head.] With your hands.
Scene 10
BOBBY and GWEN sit in each other’s arms at the fairgrounds.
GWEN You think it lasts?
BOBBY What?
GWEN This.
BOBBY Of course. Why not?
GWEN You look around, you see people who’ve been together, I mean, do they look happy? How do you hold something that feels this good?
BOBBY You just do.
GWEN But it’s got to burn after a while. It’s got to exhaust you. Maybe you let it cool a bit, just a bit, so it lets you breathe normal again. But once you do that…
BOBBY We don’t need to breathe normal.
GWEN Everyone needs to breathe normal.
BOBBY We’re not everyone.
GWEN Yes, we are.
BOBBY You’re scared. Tomorrow’s a scary day. But we’ll get through.
GWEN And then what? They never show you the ebb. I mean, it all ebbs.
BOBBY And gathers steam and comes back again.
GWEN You think?
BOBBY