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TROOPER
You’’re required to display
temporary tags, either in the
plate area or taped inside the
back window.
CARL
Certainly -
TROOPER
Can I see your license and
registration please?
CARL
Certainly.
He reaches for his wallet.
CARL
…… I was gonna tape up the
temporary tag, ya know, to be
in full compliance, but it, uh,
it, uh …… must a slipped my
mind……
He extends his wallet toward the trooper, a folded fifty-
dollar bill protruding from it.
CARL
…… So maybe the best thing
would be to take care of that,
right here in Brainerd.
TROOPER
What’’s this, sir?
CARL
That’’s my license and regis-
tration. I wanna be in
compliance.
He forces a laugh.
CARL
…… I was just thinking I could
take care of it right here. In
Brainerd.
The policeman thoughtfully pats the fifty into the billfold
and hands the billfold back into the car.
TROOPER
Put that back in your pocket,
please.
Carl’’s nervous smile fades.
TROOPER
…… And step out of the car,
please, sir.
Grimsrud, smiling thinly, shakes his head.
There is a whimpering sound.
The policeman hesitates.
Another sound.
The policeman leans forward into the car, listening.
Grimsrud reaches across Carl, grabs the trooper by the hair
and slams his head down onto the car door.
The policeman grunts, digs awkwardly for footing outside and
throws an arm for balance against the outside of the car.
With his free hand, Grimsrud pops the glove compartment. He
brings a gun out and reaches across Carl and shoots - BANG -
into the back of the trooper’’s head.
Jean screams.
GRIMSRUD
Shut up.
He releases the policeman.
The policeman’’s head slides out the window and his body
flops back onto the street.
Carl looks out at the cop in the road.
CARL
(softly)
Whoa…… Whoa, Daddy.
Grimsrud takes the trooper’’s hat off of Carl’’s lap and sails
it out the open window.
GRIMSRUD
You’’ll take care of it. Boy, you
are smooth smooth, you know.
CARL
Whoa, Daddy.
Jean, for some reason, screams again. Then stops.
GRIMSRUD
Clear him off the road.
CARL
Yeah.
He gets out.
EXT. ROAD
Carl leans down to hoist up the body.
Headlights appear: an oncoming car.
INT. CIERA
Grimsrud notices.
EXT. ROAD
The car approaches, slowing.
Carl, with the trooper’’s body hoisted halfway up, is frozen
in the headlights.
The car accelerates and roars past and away. We just make
out the silhouettes of two occupants in front.
INT. CIERA
Grimsrud slides into the driver’’s seat. He squeals into a U-
turn, the driver’’s door slamming shut with his spin.
Small red tail lights fishtail up ahead. The pursued car
churns up fine snow.
Grimsrud takes the cigarette from his mouth and stubs it in
his ashtray. We hear the churning of the car wheels and the
pinging of snow clods and salt on the car’’s underside.
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