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Natural Born Killers – TV Interview
TV INSERT -- LOGO for "AMERICAN MANIACS" rolls to loud cue-in
MUSIC and ANNOUNCER.
TV ANNOUNCER
...and now Wayne Gale goes one to one with
Mickey Knox. Straight from Batongaville
Penitentiary -- on the eve of Mickey Knox's
lobotomy. Is he or isn't he? Let America be
the Judge...
CUT TO:
MICKEY'S face -- in a chair, real calm, no handcuffs, a pleasant
smile.
MICKEY (TO THE GUARD)
How ya doin' today?
Across from him is WAYNE, with a serious intensity, half-glasses,
consulting his yellow legal pad notes, Mike Wallace-style.
WAYNE TV
Mickey Knox. Thank you for this time. I have
a few questions I'd like to start with, do you
mind?
MICKEY TV (smiles)
Let's roll the fuckin' (BLEEP) dice, Wayne.
WAYNE TV
Mickey Knox, when did you first start thinking
about killing?
CAMERA now in the room, rolling off Wayne to reveal Mickey and the
setup. It's made to look like a one on one but we now see
McClusky's DEPUTIES, among them WURLITZER and KAVANAUGH, are quite
close, just out of camera range. Mickey is cool as a feather.
MICKEY
Birth... I was thrown into a flaming pit of
scum...forgotten by God (laughs).
WAYNE
What do you mean by that?
MICKEY
What do I mean?...I mean I came from
violence... it was in my blood. My Dad had it.
(chuckles)
You know. Eat, Shit, f*ck, Kill, Die... it was
all my fate...my fate.
INSERT TV MONITOR -- the words are BLEEPED immediately.
Wayne's excited, Mickey's rolling right out the gate.
WAYNE
No one is born evil Mickey, it's something you
learn...Let's talk about your father? How he was
murdered? You were 10 years old when he died is that...
Mickey's mood immediately changes, darkens.
MICKEY TV
I didn't kill my father...and I don't want to
talk about that shit...
He throws a box of donuts at the camera.
JULIE signals excitedly from the monitor - a head set sending
messages to her. More people turning on. Thumbs up to WAYNE,
excited.
MICKEY
Please.
WAYNE TV
OK OK Mickey, let's go on to something else. I
understand Mickey Knox is reading the Bible these
days?
MICKEY
Ya?
WAYNE
The teachings of the Bible seem inconsistent
with your actions -- Christian values.
MICKEY
I don't know why. The Bible's full of killings.
WAYNE
But what about God, does he have the right to
judge you?
Wayne's eyes scooting everywhere, motioning to McClusky to get
his men out of the background when Mickey's on camera.
MICKEY
God created me...if what I did was so bad why
didn't he stop me...why didn't he protect me
when I was a kid...He's doing it, not me.
WAYNE
Mickey, how can you look at an ordinary
innocent person...a guy with kids...and shoot
him to death... how can you do that?
MICKEY
Innocent? Who's innocent Wayne?...it's just
murder man. Everyone does it, all God's
creatures ...in one form or another...I know a
lotta people deserve to die...
(a look at McClusky who is impervious)
WAYNE
Why do they deserve to die?
MICKEY
Everybody got somethin' in their past, some
guilt, some sin, some awful secret thing...I
think people who deserve to die are those
people who are not living in the first place.
I think there's a lotta people walkin' round
right now who are aiready dead and need to be
put outta their misery.
WAYNE
...sort of "everyone meets their serial killer
half way"? Is that what you're saying?. The
theory that the Jews wanted to be victims
walking into the gas chambers at Auschwitz;
that even genocide at some level's agreed
upon...?
MICKEY
The wolf don't know why he's a wolf, and a deer
don't know why he's a deer...God just made it
that way...
WAYNE
...You're talking now about "predators" Mickey.
You're saying the world itself is predatory.
When a mountain lion takes down an elk, it's
because it's the elk's time to go, and all the
b.s. liberal agenda about saving the animal
herds only overpopulates the balance of nature?
Maybe you're right Mickey Knox, maybe you're
right.... Corporate
predators. Enviromental predators. Nuclear
predators. Life is a hunt. I've seen it
Mickey. I was there. When the shit (BLEEP)
hit the fan. At Grenada. I saw it all go down
at Grenada...
Mickey bored. Julie signalling frantically to Wayne to cut the
jab. Wayne sees the signal,
WAYNE
...so tell me Mickey, any regrets? Three
weeks. 47 people, not cool.
MICKEY (corrects)
...48. Ya, I'm sorry I got Mallory into this
mess. Prison and all. She doesn't really
deserve it.
WAYNE
Anything else?
MICKEY
I'm sorry the Indian got killed.
WAYNE (consulting his notes)
The next to last victim. The one whose
grandson testified at the trial that his
grandfather was trying to help you...
MICKEY
He saw it...
WAYNE
He saw what?
MICKEY
The Demon...He saw the Demon.
Mickey is deep into the memory. Wayne's puzzled.
WAYNE
So what happened?
MICKEY
The whole deal was a mistake. I didn't mean to
kill him...The old man was trying to help us...
WAYNE
So what happened?
(fiercely, aside, to McClusky)
Dwight, will you get those two assholes outta
there! It's supposed to look like me and
Mickey alone!
MCCLUSKY (aside)
Don't call my men assholes.
WAYNE (aside)
Shhh! I didn't mean they were assholes. I mean
"get 'em outta here!"
McClusky signalling to Kavanaugh and Wurlitzer to step back.
Julie signalling fiercely for quiet.
WAYNE (to himself, re: McClusky)
Asshole.
MICKEY (meanwhile deep into it)
...there was a fight in my dream, see...it's
the same dream I've had since I was a
kid...it's hard to move...like I'm made of
lead...I taste metal in my mouth...Then...the
Demon comes after me.
WAYNE
What does it want...your soul?
(no answer)
What does it do?
MICKEY
It kills in this case something good.
WAYNE
So as long as you're bad...it won't kill you.
MICKEY (somewhere else)
...after the old man, we were gonna stop
killin'. The old man took it out of us.
WAYNE
...but you both've killed on the inside?
MICKEY
The Demon lives in here. Everyone's got the
demon. It feeds on their hate, it cuts, rapes,
kills...it's the alien man, it uses your
weakness, your fear...only the vicious survive.
WAYNE (skeptical)
So that's why you're reading the Bible, you're
looking for help? Hard to believe, Mickey.
MICKEY
You mean if Jesus could raise Lazarus from the
dead maybe he could help me?...No dice. (pause)
You know the only thing that kills the Demon?
...Love. That's why I know Mallory is my
salvation. She was teaching me how to love.
It's like being in the Garden of Eden...
WAYNE
"Only love can kill the demon." Hold that thought.
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