Little Treasure (1985) - full transcript

Margo hilariously portrayed by Margot Kidder arriving in Mexico to see ailing father who soon dies; but not before telling her of a stolen treasure buried years ago in a ghost-town. Margo joins forces with Eugene played by Ted Danson. Their adventure must be financed, so they work in small towns she a professional-stripper and he as bartender. Their relationship develops while on weekends they search for the buried Treasure. Conflict ensues as he wonders whether the Treasure was just the old man's delusion while she never gives-up the hope of her father's buried fortune.

MAN: [SPEAKS SPANISH]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

MEN: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

MEN: [LAUGHING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[BELL DINGING]

MAN: [SPEAKS SPANISH]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[DISTANT DOG BARKING]

MAN: [SPEAKS SPANISH]

[SPEAKS SPANISH]



[SPEAKS SPANISH]

You speak American?

Um, could I have
a coffee?

Coffee?

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

EUGENE: You want it black
or with cream?

With cream.

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

MARGO: Yeah, leche.

Leche.

Are you American?

That's right.

You know this town?

Sure. Not much to know.



Is, uh, is this the only
bus depot?

Um-hmm.

Somebody supposed
to meet you here?

Yeah.

You got an address?

If you have an address,
you can walk over

instead of sitting around.

It won't be far.

Well, uh, he lives
outside town.

Between here and,
uh, Mya, something.

-Mya-Tomos.
-Yeah.

Yeah. Well,
you're gonna have to wait.

Must have his own
transport,

else he would've rode
the bus in.

He'll be here.

Uh-hmm.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

You're a spunky
little thing.

Those little guys
are called missolitos,

supposed to be the sweetest
singing birds in Mexico.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

He's offering to blind it
for you without charge.

And throw in a free cage.

Blind it?

What do you mean, blind it?

Yeah.

Well, it never did seem like
a lot of encouragement to me.

But they think that
it makes them sing better.

How does--

how do they blind it?

Well, they heat up a...
kind of needle thing.

-Oh, Jesus.
-EUGENE: Oh, no, no.

No, they don't stick it
in its eye.

They just hold it
close enough to, uh...

-To fry it.
-EUGENE: Cloud it.

That makes all the
difference, right?

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

[SPEAKS SPANISH]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Your friend
hasn't showed up.

Maybe he got
the wrong day.

He booked the ticket.

Uh-huh.

What's his name?

Techemacker.

Delbert Techemacker.

He's my father.

The thing is,
I wouldn't know him

if he came up and bit me
on the knee.

Might be a hungry dwarf.

You say--you say he lives out
by Mya-Tomos?

Yeah. Something like that.

Hmm.

I'm going out that way.

If you'd like,
you can ride around with me

and I'll ask about him,

can't be too many
Delbert Techemackers

up in those hills.

No hassles.
That's the truth.

My name's Wilson.

Eugene Wilson.

I'm Margo.

You never finished telling me
about your father.

I never started.

[LAUGHS]

I know. I'm kinda pushy.

I don't mean to be.

Just wanna hear the story,
I guess.

I don't remember him too well.

I was about, uh,
six or seven, I guess,

when he left.

Every so often he used
to send my mother money.

Nothin' regular, ya know?
Nothin' you could count on.

I mean, months would go by,
there'd be nothing.

And then all of a sudden
just...plop.

There'd be a few bucks.

He'd send like 17 bucks...

or 11.

Once he sent four bucks.

Hmm.

Weird.

Don't you think
that's weird?

I mean, to send 10 or 20.

But...

eleven bucks.

Weird.

You start thinking
in smaller numbers

when you live
down here awhile.

Well, about four or five
years ago,

the money just dried up.

Then my mother died.

And I was--I guess two
or three weeks ago,

I went through Zapford, that's
where my mother used to live.

And I kept her P.O. Box.

And there was this letter
in it from him.

And the thing was
that the letter was to me,

not to my mother.

And it was from him.
And it had a--

had a bus ticket down here

and the letter.

Said he had something
to give me.

Substantial
is what he called it.

Like a legacy, you know?

Hey [CHUCKLES]

I didn't kid myself.

I mean, a guy
who sends 11 bucks,

he ain't gonna be, uh,

but...

who knows, you know?

I didn't have anything
better to do, so why not?

♪ South of the border,
down Mexico way♪

Is that what you wanted
to hear?

The best story
I've run across in years.

MARGO:
Well, where are we going?

EUGENE: This is the road
to San Juan Delescolorus.

I show a movie there tonight.

MARGO: Out of this truck?

Yeah.

Got a little generator,
runs a projector.

Isn't too noisy.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

MAN: [SPEAKING SPANISH]

It won't be five minutes.

Got to get permission
from the priest .

You got to get permission
from a priest

before you can show a movie?

It's just routine.
He always says yes.

PRIEST: I see you have
for us another tale

of illicit passion,
Eugenio.

Well, you know how
the poster's always

a lot worse than
anything you ever see.

-Yeah.
-Remember the film

about the nun?

Ah, si, si,
The Temptations of Maria.

Well, the posters
looked terrible.

But all that happened
was she went skiing.

It ain't me, kid.

It ain't me.

I sometimes think
that putting the pleasure

between a woman's legs
was clever, but not wise.

But then he gave us
the sacrament of marriage

to correct that.

Sounds like
he's experimenting.

Would you like to be
an experiment of God?

Depends on how
I'd turn out.

Hey, Eugenio,
you have to remember

that God loves
each and every one of us,

as though there were
but one of us to love.

No matter how we turn out.

I'm gonna have some questions
about that when I come back.

Well, don't forget
I'm not God.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

How's that?

Ah, you see?

You have to improve
your Spanish and your soul

at the same time, huh?

Hmm.

EUGENE:
Priest says there's a gringo,

has a place on the other side
of the valley.

Guess it's got to be him.

MARGO:
Did he say it was a big place?

EUGENE:
He's never been over there.

MARGO:
Are you sure this is the way?

EUGENE:
Well, this is the way.

But I'm not sure
if this is the place.

MARGO: Think this is it?

EUGENE:
Well, it's the only place I see.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

MARGO: He said in his letter
he had a modest estate.

I was thinking
maybe gouchos,

and cattle,
and a hacienda.

Well, that's the end
of that little dream.

Aren't you going in?

You've come all this way.

Yeah.

I'm going in.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

MARGO: Is anybody home?

[FLOOR CREAKS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

DELBERT: Evangelina?

Evangelina?

It's Margo.

Are you...

are you Delbert Teschemacker?

Margi?

You made it.

[CHIMES]

What day is it?

How come you got your foot
in a birdcage?

Most dumb thing
in the world.

Hit a tree with a blunt axe.

Bounced off and caught me
between the toes.

[FLOOR CREAKS]

EUGENE: Anybody home?

Margo?

MARGO: Yeah, we're in here.

Come on in.

[CHIMES]

Childhood friends?

Uh, this is
Eugene Wilson.

He works in town.

He gave me a ride
out here.

Oh. Many thanks,
Mr. Wilson,

been expecting my little Margi
for some time now,

told my Evangelina
to keep an eye out for her.

Maybe I told her
in American.

You know, sometimes
when I think on Margi,

I think American.

What'd you do
to your foot?

Oh, this dumb thing
in the world.

He hit his foot with an axe.

He should see a doctor.

DELBERT:
I don't trust doctors.

Not after what they did
to a friend of mine.

You don't call yourself
Margi anymore.

Margo.

I hate Margi.

Well, I'll try to keep it
from slippin' out.

Now that Margo is here,

things are gonna be
just fine.

Well...

you know, I think
this is just great.

Thank you.

You take care
of that foot now.

I got to get my case.

[GROANS]

Now you behave yourself.

Or I'll put you back
in your cage.

You hear me?

Tell you what.

I'm gonna be back
in three days.

If you want,
I'll give you a lift.

Chances are,
you're gonna be settled in,

rolling tortillas by then.

Don't bet on it.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

DELBERT: Well,
here's to us and our trip.

Where are we going?

I'm gonna take you back
to the bank.

Introduce you
to my manager.

And fix it so that all
that money I got there

is rightfully yours.

You mean you never
took it out?

Never touched a cent.

We'll have a fine trip
with that money.

Might be my last,
so I need to make it dandy.

We'll go someplace nice.

Where would you like to go?

Las Vegas.

Never been there.

All right.

Las Vegas it is.
And Frisco.

We'll go to Frisco.

How come you never took
the money out?

Money's funny stuff, Margo.

Money you can't touch
till you touch it right.

Like a dream,
you're being here.

I hope this ain't a dream
that don't wake up.

[CHEERFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

MARGO:
Hey, what are you doing?

Shouldn't you be resting
that foot?

Been in its cage all night.

Needs some freedom.

What are you doing?

Collecting a nice pan of eggs
for your breakfast.

You keep your eggs
out here?

That's where
she lays them.

This is kind of a lot,
don't you think?

Less some snake
would take them.

You got snakes
around here?

Oh, snakes is nighttime
beings.

[CHUCKLES]

I admire a chicken sittin'
out there in the dark.

Being a bird's
tough enough.

But when you can't fly...

well, that don't seem like
any fun at all.

[CHUCKLES]

[GROANS]

You'd have to be pretty damn
spunky to be a chicken.

Brave as a chicken?

Is that what
you're telling me?

[CHUCKLES]

Where is this bank of yours?

Mexico.

Up north
from Roswell.

How long you had
the account?

Well,
now let me see--

[GROANS]

I guess...

I must've been about
nineteen when...

Tevis and Scobbie,
and me were partners.

Just wild kids we were.

It must've been
all of forty-five years.

Well, you must've earned
a pile of interest on your money

in forty-five years.

Your money, Margo.

I saved it for you.

You see, darling,

I always expected
to come back and get you.

But your mother had a,
uh, she was mean-hearted.

She had plenty
to be mean-hearted

about after you left us.

When I left, I wanted
to take you with me.

She just laughed at me--

[GROANS]

Oh, Jesus!

What the hell is that goop
she's putting on your foot?

I stayed around
till you were--

till you were
about seven.

And I want you
to know, Margo,

that the best times
in my life

were spent with you.

And one morning I just upped
and blew down the road

like an old newspaper.

You got to see a doctor.

DELBERT: No doctors.

Not after what they did
to Scobbie.

There were three of them.

And not one of them
would help him.

The last one washed his hands

over and over again
till Scobbie died.

Tevish would've killed
'em then and there!

Only I begged him.

Daddy, are you all right?

I dreamed about Scobbie
last night.

MARGO:
Who the hell is this Scobbie

you keep talking about?

I was robbing a bank
in Del Rio, Texas.

First bank we ever robbed.

First and the last.

You robbed a bank?

When?

Oh, long before
you were born.

Bad times were plentiful.

And Tevis said that,

"We might as well be pirates.

Dry land pirates."

Brave as a chicken, I was.

Tevis said I'd do just fine.

What happened?

Scobbie died.

Tevis got thirty-four years.

I got twelve on account
of being young

and doing nothing
but driving.

Ain't nothing
to be proud of.

Except it's all buried now.

All except me.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[CHIMES]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

Hey, some of the little
mistletoes over there.

It's okay.

I'm not gonna hurt you.

Margi is not gonna hurt you.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

Oh, you bastard!

Did she catch
many with that stuff?

Oh, hundreds.

Evangelina makes the best gum
of anybody around here.

Bolivian secret.

You sure that's not what
she's putting on your foot?

I got to get you
a new room.

Hmm? Get you
a bigger cage.

[SPEAKING SPANISH].

A bird is never free
of the chains of the sky.

That's what they say.

Yeah. You know, that's exactly
the kind of bullshit I expect

from people
who blind birds

to make them
sing better.

Things have been going hard
for you, Margo?

You give some shit,
don't you?

Well, no.

Probably a day's never
passed that somewhere,

someplace I haven't
thought about you.

You're a goddamn liar!

You took off
when it suited you.

And sometimes
when you were loaded

or you saw some kid
looking cute,

you thought, "Oh, I wonder
where my little Margi is?"

But you sure as hell
weren't wondering

where this Margo
was every day.

And you got me down here
with some load of crap

about how you had
something to give me.

'Cause you knew I'd never
come to this dump

unless you said
some pile about money.

Go on, admit it.

I just wanted
to see you.

Nothing wrong
with that.

How come you left it
so fucking long?

All right, it's true.

There were times
when I didn't think of you.

For long times.

Then suddenly,
out of nowhere you'd--

you'd pop
into my head and...

I'd be your father again.

And it was always better.

You're the only treasure
I got, Margo.

And every time
I'd think about you,

I get a little bit rich.

Then why didn't you send
for me years ago?

You got this money
you say you have.

You could've set yourself up
in business instead of this.

I mean, how much
is it anyway?

I never counted
it myself.

About eighteen thousand,
Tavis said.

Near as he could figure.

This is the money
you stole?

The actual money you stole
that what's-his face

got killed for
and the other guy

and you went to
jail for?

I couldn't spend it,
you see.

Not with Tevis
and Scobbie gone.

Tevis tried to break out
four times.

Would you shut up about them!

What are you telling me?

You just walked into a bank
and then you deposited it?

Is that what I'm supposed
to believe?

No. We buried it.

Tevis said he wouldn't put
his money in a bank.

Not with fellas
like us around.

Oh, that Tevis, he was one
for getting a laugh.

Even old Scobbie, propped up
in the back of that Packard,

holding his guts in.

He got a laugh
out of that one.

We tried to find a doctor
to help Scobbie.

You got to understand,
we were scared bad.

We drove on all that night.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

So we wrapped up the money
in Scobbie's slicker

and we buried it under
that tree and we drove on.

Scobbie died that night.

Tevis wouldn't bury him
no place,

except in Oklahoma,
with his folks.

Two days later
they caught up with us.

And I, for one, was glad.

Cause Scobbie
began to smell real bad.

And we still had
a long ways to run.

It's all yours, girl.

I just wish I had more.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[SINGING IN SPANISH]

This is a night to remember.

Make no mistake about that.

DELBERT: Evangelina
with her own picture show

and me with my own daughter.

Let's drink.

How she loved to swing
in the rain.

It would rain and she'd come
running to me and say,

"Swing me, Dada.
Swing me."

And I'd wrap her up
in my yellow oilskin.

And we'd swing
back and to.

And the rain would be
tapping away outside.

You remember any of this?

I remember the tree.

It didn't go no place.

Well, she was too young.

Daddy's little treasure,
she was.

Wow.

It's really something you two
caught up with each other.

I think it's great.

You see, we're planning
to take a trip, she and I.

As soon as this darn foot
of mine quits to hurting.

Oh, this dumb thing
in the world.

Well, I'll drink to that.

To your foot quittin'
hurtin'.

And to your trip
with Margo.

When you get to my age,

journeys will be
gravely considered.

You hear what I'm saying,
Eugene?

Well, sure.

MARGO: Dad, do you think
you should be drinking so much

with your foot like that?

You're right.
I'm gonna quit.

[LAUGHS]

Get ready for my trip.

There you go.

Thank you.

Oh.

Hey, you're as big
as Scobbie.

Took up a lot of room,
I can tell you.

We had to dig awful deep
to put him down under.

Evangelina?

Smell it?

My foot. Do you smell it?

No, sir.

Here you go.

MAN: [SPEAKS SPANISH]

Enjoying the movie?

Yeah.

It's good when you can't
understand

what they're saying.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

DELBERT:
♪ There was a young man♪

♪ Who got shot in the gut♪

♪ Shot in the gut♪

♪ Shot in the gut♪

♪ There was a young man♪

♪ Got shot in the gut♪

♪ Down in Damarara♪

MARGO:
You shouldn't be drinking!

-It's bad for your foot!
-Helps kill the smell!

Can't you smell it?

[GROANS]

Oh!

What happened?

What happened?

Look at his foot.

Oh, Jesus.
He's burning up.

Evangelina!

I don't smell like Scobbie,
do I, Tevis?

No, sir. No, sir.
Come on, help me

get him in the truck!
Come on, move!

Will you? Move!

[GROANS]

Come on, easy.

Feet first.
Come on. Let's go.

DELBERT:
Don't bury me, Tevis.

Till you get me home.

[GROANS]

Goddamn, them Packards.

I'm Scobbie.

Why am I Scobbie?

You're not Scobbie!

Scobbie's dead!

You're my daddy!

I smell something.

You won't throw me out
if I smell bad, will you?

No!

Scobbie's dead.

Okay?

I'm gonna get you
to a doctor.

No doctors.

My Margi will get here.

She'll fix it.

I'm here!

I'm here!

You asked me to come
and I came!

I'm here!

It's a long journey.

MARGO:
We're almost there.

Are we almost there?!

It's waitin' for you,
Little Treasure.

[CRYING]

MARGO: I just got here.

I just got here.

You sent for me
and asked me to come

and I came.

I'm sorry I didn't come
sooner. But...

[CRYING]

This is the death
certificate.

I think maybe
you would wanna give this

to Evangelina.

What does she want
with it?

Well, she was with him
for a long time.

Doesn't have a marriage
certificate,

nothin' like that.

I think she'd put
some store in the paper.

What does it say?

It's the cause
of death.

"Insult to the heart,

due to blood poisoning."

"Insult to the heart".

Doctors got some good lines,
I tell you.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

I'm sorry.

And I am sorry
for you, also.

Maybe he wouldn't
have died if I hadn't come.

No.

You come in time
to let him free.

That is why
he has sent for you.

[DOG BARKING]

MARGO: Sure ain't
lookin' forward

to that bus ride back,
I can tell you.

Stick around.

Give yourself a chance to--

Got a family to support.

-You got a family?
-MARGO: Sure.

I got a Visa card.

I got a Master Charge.

I got three gas cards.

Department store cards.

All crying out
for Mama to feed 'em.

Oh, yeah. I remember them
little bread snappers.

What kind of work
do you do?

I'm a dancer.

I'm a stripper.
I take my clothes off.

Oh.

Well, that's,
that's pretty interesting.

Beats keepin' chickens
where you can't find the eggs.

I dance good and I take
my clothes off good.

But I don't do love numbers.

And I don't go bottomless.

You know, last year,
I almost made the chorus

at the Tropicana.

What are love numbers?

Where you pretend
to fuck on stage.

Oh.

So what do you got
to show a girl

-on her last night here?
-Well, that depends

on what you got in mind.

Oh, why don't we...

get drunk
and go dancing?

Well, the first part
I can manage.

-Good.
-The, um,

second part,
I'm not too sure about.

Well, hell,
I can dance well enough

for the two of us.
Here.

-Just go with your ears.
-Okay.

Now, show me
where the action is.

-Huh?
-Well, I do know where, um, uh,

a jukebox that has
great old music. It's...

[CHUCKLES]

[OVERLAPPING CONVERSATION]

Oh, my God.

Millie Jackson.

What the hell
are you doing down here?

EUGENE: Si.

Thanks.

SINGER: ♪ Don't you
ever stop loving me, baby♪

♪ Don't you ever walk away
and leave me, baby♪

♪ Don't you ever stop
loving me, baby♪

♪ Don't you ever walk away
and leave me, baby♪

♪ I know I'm not
[INDISTINCT] cash♪

♪ But [INDISTINCT]
cold, cold cash♪

♪ You runnin' around
for a little piece of land♪

♪ If you need anything else♪

♪ She has to go out and dance


♪ Don't you ever stop
loving me, baby♪

♪ Don't you ever walk away
and leave me, baby♪

♪ I gave you love,
you gave me hell♪

♪ I asked for head
and you gave me tail♪

♪ I don't have to ask♪

♪ I can demand♪

♪ I can always take
the situation at hand♪

♪ Don't you ever stop
loving me, baby♪

♪ Don't you ever walk away
and leave me, baby♪

♪ Don't you ever stop
loving me, baby♪

♪ Don't you ever walk away
and leave me, baby♪

-♪ Never♪
-BACKUP: ♪ Never stop♪

SINGER: ♪ Never♪

-BACKUP: ♪ Never stop♪
-SINGER: ♪ Wow♪

[POP MUSIC PLAYING]

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

Put that fucker
on again, Eugene!

We got a paying
audience tonight!

[OVERLAPPING CONVERSATION]

[BELL DINGING]

Do you hate me?

EUGENE: Didn't think of it.

Well, I hate myself.

So...
what are your plans?

Do you think my...

my father was crazy?

Well, he was a little
goofy there towards the end.

But I don't think
he was crazy.

He said some pretty
crazy stuff about money.

You mean, like calling you
his Little Treasure?

Uh-uh, uh-uh.
This was--

this was, uh,
before that,

when you weren't there.

I liked that about
swinging you under the tree,

all wrapped up
in the rain.

He said
he robbed a bank.

He robbed a bank?

When?

Way back
before I was born.

Sounded like...

the depression
or something.

How much did he get?

Twelve years.

He got caught?

Yup. Him and two others.

One of 'em died.

Scobbie.

What a name.

Makes you wanna
scratch yourself.

I better change
into something

more comfortable
than what I wore

on the way down.

Those pants nearly
cut me in half.

[SCOFFS]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[BELL DINGING]

I'll drive you
to the border.

Why would you drive
all that way?

I enjoy your company.

Be a trip for me.

I could use a trip.

Okay?

Okay.

[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING]

MARGO: God, I can't believe
that they blind

these little birds
just to make 'em sing better.

EUGENE: I was blind once.

My eyelids stuck shut.
Some kind of infection.

MARGO: Holy shit!
You must have been terrified.

-EUGENE: Uh-huh.
-MARGO: How old were you?

EUGENE: About eleven.

Didn't make me sing any better,

but I sure got good at praying.

And your prayers were answered?

I remember I was,
uh, sitting up in my bedroom,

waiting for my breakfast.

And all of a sudden,
it was like--

it was like
the whole world

just appeared.

Thank you.

It was like
there were magic pictures

in my head.

Only I didn't, uh,
I didn't remember

the names of things
I was lookin' at.

I'd forgotten
the names.

Thanks.

When I was in the seminary,

I remember reading in the Bible

somebody got his sight back,

and said,

"And he saw men

as trees walking".

Boy, I knew exactly
what it meant.

Well, how long did you stay
in the seminary?

Right up until
Lucille came along.

What would make you wanna go
to the seminary anyway?

Well, I thought
I wanted to be a priest.

Ah, I get it.
And then Lucille came along

and de-frocked you, right?

EUGENE: So, we came out
to California.

Lucille took acting classes

and I got various jobs.

Finally ended up working
with Pacific Exterminator.

Catchy title, huh?

Yeah, you know, uh,
roaches, termites, those guys?

I could tell you stuff
about termites.

Don't.

Here.

Tell me about Lucille.

When did she start
screwing around, hmm?

How'd you know that?

Never mind.

Tell me about Lucille.

Well, she got
a part in a movie.

She's pretty good, too.

So at least
the main actor thought.

How'd you find out?

Lucille told me.

She said she thought
our relationship

was more platonic
than sexual.

Shit, I wish I could come up
with lines like that.

[ENGINE REVVING]

EUGENE: One day
I was rolling along

to my local liquor store,

and this BMW pulled alongside.

It was Lucille.

She was sorry she stopped me
when she got a look.

I'm not too impressive
when I've been drinking.

I think it's the eyes.

What'd you do?

She wrote me a check
for five hundred dollars,

got in her BMW
and drove off.

Whew.

That's not bad
for your first handout.

That's what I thought.

But I knew it'd be
downhill from then on.

So, I...

cashed the check
and I left town

that very day.

Didn't tell anyone.

Didn't shut off
the gas, nothing.

Just...

Blew down the road
like an old newspaper.

Exactly.

That's exactly so.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[INSECTS CHIRPING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Puttin' on the miles, Margo.

You look great.

Yeah.

Hey, uh,

um,

thanks for the ride.

I had a good time.

Yeah.

Me, too.

I can do it.
I got it. I got it.

I'll take those one, too.

-Look, uh...
-Here.

I'd take you on through,
but those guys

would tear
my truck apart.

Wait till you see
what they do to my suitcase.

Yeah, I bet you got more
in your suitcase than I--

than I got in my truck.

Take care
of yourself, Eugene.

I'd kiss you,
but I'd ruin my face.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

Good morning. Do you have
anything to declare?

[ENGINE STARTING]

But you have
medical papers for it.

All livestock require them.

Livestock?

It's a tiny little bird,
for Christ's sake.

-Look at it.
-Well, I'm sorry.

But the regulation
is quite clear.

This is livestock.

I don't believe this shit.

Sir, what do you do

about all the birds that fly

over the border every day?

I mean, do they have
medical papers?

It is a legal requirement.

You and your legal
requirement.

[ENGINE REVVING]

[HORN HONKS]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[PLANE ENGINE WHIRRING]

[CHEERFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

MARGO: Remember, I told you

my father robbed a bank?

Well, he told me

what he did with the money.

EUGENE: I thought
he got caught.

MARGO: He did.

Before he got caught,
they buried it.

EUGENE: Buried it? Where?

MARGO: In some old ghost town.

North of Roswell, in Mexico.

Behind a building
that used to be a bank,

they wrapped the money
in a slicker

and then they buried it

under a cottonwood tree.

That's what he said, anyway.

EUGENE: Well, I heard him
talk about a cottonwood tree.

MARGO: Almost

$20,000.

I mean, wouldn't
it be something

if it was still there?

-It'd be like a--
-EUGENE: Your legacy.

MARGO: [CHUCKLES] Yeah, yeah.

[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING]

[DOOR OPENS]

JOSEPH: You can provide
your own linen

or else we can rent it to you.

Two dollars a week.

What's the rent?

Seventy-five dollars a week.

Seventy-seven
if you rent the linen.

Much cheaper than any motel
you're gonna find around here.

You charge
for grease in the place?

Uh, you Manuel?

No.

Manuel was my wife's
first husband.

He killed himself
with a car.

-Hmm.
-My name's Joseph.

Hmm. Well, uh,

mind if we talk
this over, Joseph?

Sure enough.

-Hey, check this.
-Yo.

[LAUGHTER]

JOSEPH: That sure
is a fancy truck you're driving.

You two honeymooners
or something?

-What did he say?
-It's a dump.

Well, it's cheap.
He's right about that.

If you're honeymooners,
this would be the place.

Used to be
a honeymoon trailer.

I fixed it up when me
and my wife first got married.

-Tropical style.
-[LAUGHTER]

Come on. What do you think,
what do you think?

What did you--shh, shh, shh.

What do you think?

We'll take it.

Uh, for a week.

MAN: [INDISTINCT]

what are you doing?

WOMAN: I'm [INDISTINCT]

EUGENE: Thirty-six.

Thirty-six ghost towns
are marked on this map.

Thirty-six?

-Uh-hmm.
-Shit.

I thought
there'd be two or three.

Well, 36 isn't so bad.

The man at the, uh,
Chamber of Commerce said

that most of them
aren't there anyway.

Just blew away.

Oh, that's a big help.

Gonna take us months.

Can I have one
of your cigarettes?

Hmm.

-Hmm.
-No, come on.

Let's say--let's say

we see ten a week?

That's one month.

How much money
have we got?

Last count,
a hundred and--

two hundred and sixty.

Well, that'll last
about two weeks.

So we get jobs.

-Jobs?
-Yeah.

When are we gonna look
for ghost towns?

EUGENE: On our weekends.
Days off.

That's gonna take us years.

Oh, come on.

It'll be like a hobby for us.

I mean, plenty of people
go hunting or fishing

on weekends.

We got good jobs.

Get a nice,
decent place to stay.

It won't be so bad.

Oh, hell, Margo,
it'd almost be like real life.

Well,

I saw a bar on the way
in that was advertising

for go-go dancers.

Can't be a hell of a lot
in a town this size.

Then I can get
top billing in there

as easy
as falling in a hole.

You wanna try it?

Well...what the hell?

-[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING]
-[GUNFIRE]

SINGER: ♪ She arrives
in all her splendor♪

♪ Every night at nine o'clock


♪ And her chariot♪

♪ Is a cross-town bus♪

♪ That stops right
down the block♪

♪ The ol' piano minstrel♪

♪ Plays a song♪

♪ As she walks in♪

♪ And the queen
of the Silver Dollar♪

♪ She's home again♪

♪ Yeah♪

♪ She's the queen♪

♪ Of the Silver Dollar♪

♪ And she rules♪

-♪ This smokey kingdom♪
-She's new, ain't she?

That's right. Yes.

Thought so.

This whole place
has changed.

SINGER: ♪ And the jesters
flock around her♪

-♪ And fight to win her favors
♪ -Wonder who's drinking

out of her cup.

Scotch on the rocks.

Clean glass
if you got it.

SINGER: ♪ The queen
of the Silver Dollar♪

♪ The queen
of the Silver Dollar♪

♪ Is not as haughty
as she seems♪

Well, my tips are bigger.

That'll be two
and a quarter.

MAN: You weren't here
last night either, were you?

Bet you're wondering who's
drinking out of my cup too, huh?

SINGER: ♪ But I found her♪

♪ And I won her♪

♪ And I brought her
to this world♪

♪ Yes, I'm the man♪

♪ Who made a queen♪

♪ Of a simple country girl♪

♪ She's the queen
of the Silver Dollar♪

♪ And she rules
this smokey kingdom♪

♪ And her scepter
is a wine glass♪

♪ And a barstool♪

♪ Is her throne♪

♪ And the jesters
flock around her♪

♪ And fight to win her favors


♪ And see which one♪

♪ Will take the queen♪

♪ Of the Silver Dollar home♪

♪ She's the queen
of the Silver Dollar♪

♪ And she rules♪

♪ This smokey kingdom♪

♪ And her scepter♪

♪ Is a wine glass♪

♪ And a barstool♪

♪ Is her throne♪

♪ And the jesters♪

♪ They flock around her♪

♪ And they fight♪

♪ To win her favors♪

♪ And see which one♪

♪ Will take the queen♪

♪ Of the Silver♪

♪ Dollar home♪

[CROWD CHEERING]

Your girlfriend,

she's cute.

She's a real good turn.

Customers like her.

You two been together long?

No. Not long.

Look, um--

what's your first name again?

Eugene.

Well, look, Gene,

there's this thing
I wanted to mention.

Now while you're working,
you know, behind the bar,

I don't want you
to make it obvious

that you and Margo

are, you know, together.

That's all.

And Margo,

she's a pro.

She'll tell you herself.

Customers sitting there
looking at this piece,

shake her thing up there,

and they're thinking a lot
of good stuff about her.

All I'm trying to say is,

could be a real
downer to find out

she's laying the bartender.

Kind of spoils the illusion,
if you get my drift.

Blind man on a galloping horse

couldn't miss it.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

EUGENE: How far out
of Roswell did he say?

MARGO: He didn't.
He just said north.

Wouldn't it be great
if we found it the first place

we looked?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

-EUGENE: What's out back?
-MARGO: Zilch.

-EUGENE: No tree, huh?
-MARGO: No.

EUGENE: Map says it should be
along here somewhere.

MARGO: Well, maybe it blew away
like that other place.

EUGENE: There's no bank.

No tree that I see.

You sure you're remembering
right about what he said?

See anything back there?

MARGO: Ah!

It was a fuckin' rattlesnake!

It went [HISSES]

Watch out, there may be
more down there.

EUGENE: Okay. I think from now
on you gotta wear some boots.

-MARGO: Yeah, and I want a gun.
-EUGENE: All right.

MARGO: I wanna shoot
those bastards with a gun.

[GUNFIRE]

Aha!

Eugene, do you think

if you'd stuck to your
original profession

that you'd be a saint by now?

Hmm?

I mean, who was that saint

that got tempted
in the desert, huh?

Wasn't that Saint Eugene?

Eugene.

Saint Jerome.

This truck's taking
a beating out on these roads.

We can get a new one
when we get the money.

Huh?

I know what we'll do.

We'll buy a convertible

and then we'll go to Las Vegas,

and check-in
to Caesar's Palace

and order room service.

You know, those little
tins of nuts and tabs,

and cold sandwiches.

What if we don't find it?

Well, we'll find it.
You just keep

this truck runnin',
we'll find it.

I mean, it's out here
under a tree someplace.

Trees just don't
blow away, do they?

No.

-No, they don't.
-Well, that's what he said.

Under a cottonwood tree,
wrapped in a slicker.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

He also talked about
another cottonwood tree.

One he used
to swing you under.

And he said
he wrapped you in a slicker

to keep you
from getting wet.

That was a different tree.

That was when I was a kid.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

He also called you
his Little Treasure, Margo.

You know what I'm saying?

I mean, he was kind
of delirious at the time.

And with you being there
and everything.

Yeah, I know
what you're saying.

You're saying
it's all bullshit.

You're saying let's quit
because your fucking truck

-is getting bounced around.
-No, no, no.

My truck has
nothing to do with it.

I just don't wanna see you
getting fixed on something

-that may not happen.
-You're a quitter.

Do you know
that about yourself?

That's why you're
so fucking easy going.

-Well--
-You quit already.

-Hey, wait, wait.
-SADIE: Hello, there.

Everything all right
with you folks?

We heard--
we heard shootin'.

Anybody get...

in the way?

No, no.
We're fine.

We, uh--we're just
hunting beer cans.

Ah.

Where are you folks
heading?

-Uh--
-Hi.

My name is Sadie.

Uh, we're going out towards, uh,

those two ghost towns.

What were--
what are the names, Margo?

SADIE: You mean,
Dalla and Tishamingo.

If you folks are heading up
to Dalla, stop by.

We could have a drink.

It's getting toward
that time of day.

Um, maybe next time.

Um,

I think we'd better be
heading on.

I don't wanna be, uh,

out here when it gets dark.

Come by and see us.

We'll have a drink.

[ENGINE REVVING]

-Hi, Joseph.
-Hi.

Hi, honey, hmm.

-Close your eyes.
-Why?

Close 'em. Okay.
Turn around.

[LAUGHTER]

Turn around.
Okay.

Now, are you ready?

Yes.

Ta-dah!

Pretty good, huh?

Huh?

I mean, you said
the old truck

wasn't gonna last
much longer.

We don't wanna get stuck
in the boonies, do we?

How'd you get it?

MARGO: I got it
from Chuck, the manager.

He finances autos.
He gave it to me real cheap.

Real cheap.

-How cheap?
-Twelve hundred.

Twelve hundred,
it's got everything.

It's got AM/FM radio.

It's got wide [INDISTINCT]
it has factory air.

It's got power steering.

-Hmm.
-It's loaded.

I don't get you.
You know that?

-If you mind, Joseph?
-Nope. Bye.

-Bye, Joseph.
-Bye.

Because I thought--

I thought that we were
gonna get out of this place

when we got some bucks, huh?

-Look, I didn't pay cash for it.
-Oh, come on.

God, I'm paying it off
at two hundred a month.

That's six months' worth.

Well, actually, uh--

actually, it's eight,
with interest.

Eight.

Hey, honey,
when we get the money,

you know,
we'll just pay it off.

We may not find
the money, Margo.

MARGO: Oh, God,
don't start that shit again.

Look, it's my bill,
all right?

Don't worry about it.

I'm sick of eating dust.

I'm sick of pounding around

in that heap
of scrap metal of yours.

Look,

Chuck says
that there's an apartment

that we can rent
behind the club.

I don't wanna live
behind the club

in Chuck's apartment.

I don't even like you
working there

in the first place.

What's wrong with
me working there?

-You work there.
-Not naked, I don't!

I don't go naked,
Goddamnit!

-I wear a string!
-Well, you look naked to me,

Margo! Well, they don't pay
a hell of a lot

if you wear an overcoat!

[GLASS SHATTERS]

[WEDDING MUSIC PLAYING]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

MAN: I think
she's telling you something.

What can I do for you, boss?

I just came in from talking
to young Norman Kane.

Hmm. Is that my cue?

Well, he liked your act.

His whole party did.
They want you to come back

and do a private
little show for 'em.

I don't go
for that kind of scene.

CHUCK: Oh, come on, Margo.

This guy has class.

-Oh.
-Comes from one

of the finest families
in the state.

You won't get any kind
of trouble there.

Boy, now there's a theory.

Christ, it's not like
I'm trying to get you

to screw anybody.

Just trying to pass
a little extra money your way.

[SIGHS] What's in it
for you, Chuck?

Keeping myself
on the right side

of the right kind of people.

Now, you've been
around long enough

to know how that goes.

Everybody owes somebody.

How much are they paying?

There's a hundred in it.

Make it a hundred and fifty.

JOSEPH: Ah,

mind if I come in?

No. Sure, come on in.

I was just sittin' around.

I noticed your wife's
car wasn't there.

She working late?

Kind of.

You want a drink?

Yeah. Well, I brought
something along.

You're a tequila man,
I see.

Yeah.

Kinda got used to it

down in Mexico.

Well, Manuel, my wife's

first husband,

he was a tequila man.

She made me promise
I'd never touch the stuff.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[GLASS CLINKS]

[DOG BARKING]

[OPERA MUSIC PLAYING]

WOMAN: Bravo.

MAN: Excellent.

WOMAN: Wonderful.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

WOMAN: Let's go swing it.

Uh,

I've just gone
through my repertoire.

You never know
what turns some people on.

Chuck tells me
you never drop your string.

Never.

Well, have a good time, huh?

Follow the show.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

I don't mean to be crude,

but when we in bed,

I mean, me and my wife--

I mean, actually in bed,

she'll say things like,

"The garbage disposal
broke again."

And right in the middle,

she'll say things like that.

Hmm.

That's bad, ain't it?

It ain't good.

Your wife ever say
anything like that?

Well, we don't have
a garbage disposal.

Well, you're better off
without one.

Them things can fuck up
a guy's nooky something awful.

SINGER: ♪ Silent night♪

♪ Holy night♪

♪ All is calm♪

JOSEPH: Your wife's a dancer,
I hear.

Yeah. That's so.

Well, I hear she turns on
a real good show.

She can shake it.

No doubt about it.

This was our honeymoon trailer.

I fixed it up myself
when we first got married.

Sometimes when it ain't rented,

I like to come out here
and just sit.

Practice my whistling.

I like to rent it
to young couples.

I gotta go now.

I'm gonna pick up my wife.

[OVERLAPPING CONVERSATIONS]

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

Where are you going?

I got another routine.

Why don't you forget the routine
and start from here?

Look, if you like bare ass
so much,

why don't you just watch them,
huh?

Is that what you think
this is about?

I just wanna see
your bare ass?

Well then, why else would you
wanna make me drop my string?

I once bet five
thousand dollars

a grasshopper couldn't get off
of a spoon full of honey.

Five thousand dollars?

-Did it?
-Of course not.

Nobody gets out of a spoon
full of honey.

-You want me to dance or not?
-I want you to dance.

No strings attached.

Forget about the string,
all right?

I'm all for that.

How much would it take
to let you forget it?

Why don't you think of it
like an apron?

When it comes off, you don't
have to be the maid anymore.

You'll just be naked
like the rest of the guests.

MAN: Oh!

-Get him! Get him!
-WOMAN: I got him!

What do you get out of this?

I don't know.

Hasn't happened yet.

And you don't know either.

You know, it might not be
such a big deal

when it drops.

I don't dance bare ass.

We all dance bare ass, Margo.

Just some of us
don't admit it.

A thousand.

Wait a minute.

Maybe a thousand
isn't enough.

Why don't you just dance
to the music,

let it fall,

and I'll pay you
what I think it's worth.

You just might get rich

and liberated
at the same time.

WOMAN: hey, that's enough.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[OVERLAPPING CONVERSATIONS]

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

[SOBBING]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

It's time to quit, Margo.

Maybe you're gonna let her
decide that, huh?

Come on. Let's go.

Well, Margo,
I said I would pay you

what I thought it was worth.

[SOBBING]

Shall I settle up with you?

You are right on the edge,
Mister.

That puts all of us
in the same place then,

doesn't it?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

MAN: Now you decide to join us.

WOMAN: Yeah.
And you're still dressed.

Not fair.

MAN: Hey, come out.

WOMAN: Where's some towels?

MAN: Here you can have one.

WOMAN: Oh, gosh.
Are you all right?

WOMAN: I don't know.
It's cold out here.

[CAR ENGINE REVS]

The fuckin' car won't start!

Shit!

[CAR ENGINE REVS]

[SNIFFS]

You okay?

Are you all right?

You know,
I really almost did make it

to the chorus of the Tropicana.

[LAUGHS]

I was too short.

Not that--

Why don't you and I
get married, Margo?

Why?

So you can take me away
from all this?

Because I have nothing
but good feelings for you.

I swear I don't know
how you survived so long

in this world, Eugene.

We'll ran away.

Well, when we find this money,
we'll both run away.

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

[BIRDS SQUAWKING]

[CAR ENGINE REVVING]

EUGENE: Left is the way
to Tishomingo.

Right goes to Dollar.

Where that old couple lives.

That's not the place.

How do you know?

My father wouldn't bury it
near two spooks like that.

[CAR ENGINE REVVING]

[WIND BLOWING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[BIRDS SQUAWKING]

[CAR DOOR OPENS]

What?
What is it?

It's here!

-What is?
-The tree!

We found it!

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Well, tree, all right.

I don't think
it's a cottonwood.

Since when are you
a tree expert?

It's just that I don't think
it's a cottonwood.

Well, it was behind the bank.

How do you know
it was a bank?

Because it said so right on
the sign out on the building.

Ah!

This is it!

I know it!

I know it!

Get the shovels, Eugene!

Let me loosen it up
a little bit.

-Huh?
-Make it easier to get started.

There's no rush now, Margo.
You can take your time.

You beginning to get
some idea, Margo,

just how much digging
we got here?

Even if we don't go any deeper
than we are right now,

it's gonna take us two,
maybe three days.

Well, what's your idea?
We go hire a bulldozer?

Look, if you really
wanna do this seriously,

you go back to town,
you get provisions

and you stay here
as long as it takes.

Hey, look, while we're
standing here arguing,

we could find it
if we were digging.

If this is the place!

Goddammit!
This is the place!

You've been saying
this isn't the place

since we got here!

This is the place!

If we find it,
then this is the place.

If not, it's just some sick
old man dreaming.

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

[THUD]

[GRUNTS]

Gonna kill the battery.

Turn the light on.
I can't see to dig.

Turn the light on, Goddammit.

How's that?

It's fine.

Come on. Get digging.

This is not gonna work,
Margo.

What do you mean
you're not gonna work?

It's time to quit.

Quit?
We just got started.

We're through.
We're leaving.

[LAUGHS]

So we can come back tomorrow
and find out

some other people stole it?

There's nothing to steal,
Margo!

Nothing to steal?

You liar!

You Goddamn fuckin' liar!

It's just something
that he made up.

He didn't make it up!

He wouldn't do that to me!

All right.
All right.

Maybe he didn't make it up.

Maybe he heard it
or dreamed it,

or read about it someplace,

or maybe just got confused
after all these years.

But whatever it is,
it is not what--

look at us!

Will you look at us,
for Christ's sake?

I mean, we're out here
digging away

like crazy people
for buried treasure!

There is no treasure, Margo!

Except you and me
being decent to each other!

Don't you understand
anything?

-Get away from me!
-You fucked up, pathetic bitch!

Get away from me!

You know,
you're wasting your life!

And you're wasting mine!

I--don't you know every time
you stand up there

and take your clothes off,
I wanna cry

at the sad sight you make!

-You just wanna rob me!
-EUGENE: What?

That's right!
You just wanna rob!

Huh? You got nothin'
worth stealing, Margo!

You and you--your G-string.

It's supposed to protect you-
-your treasure!

I mean, who wants it?

Nobody, except me!

You're too fuckin' dumb
to realize it!

I'm the only stupid son
of a bitch that gives a shit

whether you're naked or not!

[GRUNTS]

The show's over, Margo!

It's all crazy!

This money's here
and my daddy gave it to me!

It's crazy!

[GUNSHOT]

[GRUNTS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[GASPING]

No!

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[ENGINE STARTS]

[THUD]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[GROANS] No.

There, go there.

SADIE: Ah! Ah!

Charlie! Charlie! Help!

-Oh!
-What happened?

We had an accident.

-All right. Let's get him--
-Oh, come in. Come in.

--into the chair.
Easy, easy, easy.

Oh. Oh, honey.

Oh, oh, honey.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Let me see that.

Oh.

Give me my keys.

You're not leaving me here
without my keys.

But where do you want to go,
honey?

I just want [INDISTINCT]

-Give me my keys!
-You're warm.

I swear to God,
if you do not give me my keys,

I will see you in jail.

I'll take you any place
you want to go.

-Oh.
-Listen to me.

-If you--
-No!

No!

No!

CHARLIE: If you're going
to Roswell,

you'd best get some stuff
for this fellow's shoulder.

SADIE:
I'll take you back to Roswell.

Sit down.

Easy now.

Easy.

Sadie.
Sadie, wait a second.

SADIE: Yeah. Yeah.

-CHARLIE: Just [INDISTINCT]
-SADIE: Yeah. Yeah.

CHARLIE: And you better get--

better get
a little something extra.

SADIE: No, you're paying?

No.

CHARLIE: Oh, this boy
is gonna need a drink

before the night is out.

Oh.

All right.

I'll take care of you.

Just take it easy.

Let me look at that.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

CHARLIE: What did she--
what did she shoot you for?

Had to be either love
or money.

But most likely--

most likely both.

You know, I tell you,
if she'd stood any closer,

you'd have bled dry

before we could have got you
any place.

Not too many more.

Lucky for you
they were number tens

or else they'd be the devil
and all to come out.

If these were nuggets,
you'd be one rich, sick fellow,

or I would,

seeing as how I am
the one who mined them.

You know, I've been mining gold
for the best part

of twenty years and I never had
a pan this full before.

There's gold here.

And before this is over,
Charlie Parker will find it.

You know, what some folks
don't understand,

what's for you won't go past.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[SNORING]

[WIND BLOWING]

[BIRDS SQUAWKING]

[METAL CLANKS]

[GROANS] Oh!

[BIRDS SQUAWKING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[GROANS]

[CAR APPROACHING]

-Is it?
-Of course it is.

Good as gold.

[EXHALES HEAVILY]

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

CHUCK: Margo? You're on.

[OVERLAPPING CONVERSATIONS]

CHUCK: Hey, Margo!

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

CHUCK: You hear me?

[DOORKNOB RATTLING]

[ENGINE REVVING]

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

CHUCK: Hey, Margo?

You're on.

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

CHUCK: You hear me?

[DOORKNOB RATTLING]

CHUCK: I don't know what you got
against the door.

But if you don't get your ass
out here,

I'm opening the bitch!

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

CHUCK: You hear me?!

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

[DOORKNOB RATTLING]

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

EUGENE: Hey, Margo?

CHUCK: Hey, what you doing here?
You're fired.

EUGENE: Margo, you all right?

Margo? It's Eugene.

Open the door.

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

Oh.

CROWD: Margo!

Margo!

Margo!

You're fired.

And you're on.
You hear me?

We got a deal.

Uh-uh.

Stay there, Chuck.

[CROWD CHEERS]

WOMAN: My God,
is he gonna strip too?

CHUCK: You're a pair
of deadbeats!

You deserve each other!

EUGENE: Kill that music.

Margo!

I don't know what I thought
you were, but I was wrong!

Go on!

Get the fuck out of my life!

[LAUGHS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[CAR DOOR CLOSES]

You and me?

[CAR ENGINE STARTS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]