The Town screenplay - Movie Cultists

THE TOWN - Rev. 5/20/10 (Buff Reshoots) 93.
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He grunts a little smile out, placing flowers in a jar.
FERGIE
You’re gonna do this for me or I’m
gonna clip your nuts like I
clipped your father’s.
DOUG
Don’t bring up my father.
FERGIE
Son. I knew your father. He
worked for me for years. Years.
Then he wanted his own thing.
Doug holds Fergie’s look.
FERGIE
You play the horses?
Fergie’s accent makes it sound like “husses.”
FERGIE
They either geld a horse with a
knife or with the chemicals.
(beat)
When your father said no to me I
did him the chemical way -- I gave
your mother a taste. Put the hook
in her. Then I turned her out.
She doped up and hung herself with
a wire down on Melnea Cass.
Fergie looks at Doug, who hasn’t moved.
FERGIE
Runnin’ all over the neighborhood.
He never had the heart to tell his
son he was lookin’ for a suicide
doper, who wasn’t never comin’
home. (beat)
Left her in a pauper’s grave. No
service. If there’s a heaven,
son, she ain’t in it.
(holds look)
You’re gonna do this. ‘Cause I
hear you got a nice girlfriend.
Lives on the park. I don’t want
to have to send her funeral
arrangement to your house, but I
will if I have to.
(beat)
Since I know where to find you.