The Delivery (6) - Surgical scissors cut blood-soaked clothing off Augustus. Same goes for Jules, nearby. - Jules's pupils are checked with a flashlight. - Tubes are fed down Augustus's throat. - Blood flows out bullet holes. - Needles are inserted into veins. - Bloody slugs are dropped in a bowl with a METALLIC PING. - Aaron's face is covered by a sheet. Dead. - Merrill gets ELECTRIC SHOCK -- his body convulses 1 - At TED'S MANSION, champagne corks pop! People cheer. A COSTUME PARTY'S beginning in the great room. Distinguished guests flow in. Lots of whores. Across the room, THUGS drink at a fully stocked bar, each dressed as a REDCOAT. Poe's amongst them, dressed as BEN FRANKLIN, granny glasses and all. - The butler greets guests in the foyer. - Guests accept R, W+B hors d'oeuvres. - Elsewhere, Ted's entrance is met by applause. He's UNCLE SAM, adjusting his top hat and paste-on beard. - Guests gather round a TELEVISION showing the beginnings of the parade on Wilshire. - A STRING QUARTET plays. Nearby, Ted gives Poe an appreciative slap on the back. They share a laugh. - Guests share cocaine off coke-spoon necklaces. INT. MERRILL'S HOSPITAL ROOM -- NIGHT President Ford's SPEECH CONTINUES from the TV. Merrill's in the bed, bandaged all over, unconscious. PREZ FORD (v.o.) In the space of two centuries, we have not been able to right every wrong, to correct every injustice, to reach every worthy goal Merrill stirs. He opens his bleary eyes. Merrill tries to sit up, in terrible pain Merrill looks to the T.V. as it switches coverage, now SHOWING COVERAGE of the BICENTENNIAL PARADE on Wilshire. Merrill stares at this, then rises, barely, looks to a privacy curtain. He begins the slow climb out of bed. BEHIND THE CURTAIN, Merrill looks in. Augustus's out cold, stained bandages around his head, tubes up his nose. Merrill's eyes fill with tears and anger. MERRILL (quiet sorrow) What'd they do to my boy? Merrill touches Augustus's face, gentle. Suddenly, Augustus's awake -- gripping Merrill's throat! MERRILL (choked) ... Gus, no... it's... me... Augustus sees it's Merrill and releases. Merrill gasps. Augustus pulls tubes out of his body, touches his head wound, looking around, dazed. AUGUSTUS They... they shot me. MERRILL They shot us all, kid. AUGUSTUS What day is it? MERRILL Same day as before. I think. Augustus gets up, in extreme pain, one leg in a knee-to-heel cast. Merrill helps him out of bed. AUGUSTUS Where we going? MERRILL We're gonna rain on Ted's parade. INT. HOSPITAL, JULES'S ROOM -- NIGHT Merrill and Augustus sneak in. They're pale, wounds bleeding fresh in their bandages. Merrill goes to check a chart at the end of a bed. CUT TO: EXT. HOSPITAL -- NIGHT Many cop cars arriving. D.A. Cocksucker and the POLICE CHIEF climb out from one. FOLLOW as they join a throng of policemen heading to the hospital. D.A. COCKSUCKER (to Police Chief) I want men guarding their rooms. As soon as they wake up, I want them booked. If they die, I want their dead bodies arrested. BEHIND, another squad car halts. Officer Steve and Officer Jim, in unwieldy neck braces, get out from the back. INT. HOSPITAL, MERRILL'S ROOM -- NIGHT Cops enter, Officers Steve and Jim amongst them. D.A. Cocksucker and Police Chief push to front, stopping cold... on Augustus and Merrill's empty beds. INT. HOSPITAL, JULES'S ROOM -- NIGHT D.A. Cocksucker and Police Chief rush in with cops. Same story: Jules's bed empty. There's a POUNDING HEARD and MUFFLED CRY. Police Chief goes to open a closet... Finds a SECURITY GUARD, bound and gagged, on the floor. EXT. HOSPITAL, EMERGENCY ROOM ENTRANCE -- NIGHT Paramedics unload an ambulance. Nurses assist, guiding the stretcher in. Merrill, Jules and Augustus hobble past, unnoticed in all the activity. Merrill drops a gun, scrambles to pick it up. He, Gus and Jules climb in the ambulance. EXT. HOSPITAL -- NIGHT The purloined ambulance, SIREN WAILING, moves past running policemen, past cop cars, to the street... CUT TO: EXT. MULHOLLAND DRIVE, LOOKOUT POINT -- NIGHT Where the shooting took place is a crime scene, roped off. DETECTIVES work. The Mustang's still here. A SIREN is HEARD... GETTING CLOSER. The ambulance arrives, snapping police tape as it hurtles forward, SKIDDING -- rear ends a detective's car, sending the car forward and over the edge into the canyon... BELOW Policemen, collecting money from foliage, flee. The car tumbles down... rolling... BURSTING INTO FLAMES. ABOVE Our heroes, still in gowns, stumble out the ambulance. Augustus falls and Jules helps him up while Merrill levels his gun shakily at the stupefied detectives. MERRILL Everybody take off your clothes. CUT TO: EXT. HOLLYWOOD STREET -- NIGHT The Mustang rides again... INSIDE THE MUSTANG Our ragged heroes wear stolen, ill-fitting clothing. Jules tightens bandages. In back, Augustus preps weapons from the trunk via the trap door. MERRILL How you doing back there? AUGUSTUS Feeling great. Blood flows out his nose. He wipes it, trying to ignore. AUGUSTUS (coughs harshly) Feels like there's a bullet still in my chest. JULES There probably is. AUGUSTUS (keeps working) Bummer. CUT TO: EXT. WILSHIRE BOULEVARD CROSS STREET -- NIGHT MARCHING BAND MUSIC 0.S. Mustang's parked, trunk open. Merrill, Gus (in football helmet) and Jules unload their trusty gun duffels, shotgun suitcase and box of dynamite. They trek toward Wilshire, toward the crowd with its back to them, where the parade flows past. CUT TO: INT. TED'S MANSION, GREAT ROOM -- NIGHT CLINKING a fork against a wine glass, Ted calls for attention. Guests clear a space around him. TED A moment of your time, friends! A mere moment... (waits for quiet) I welcome you, on this the occasion of America's birthday. Times like this, I become a sentimental fool, so I beg your indulgence. EXT. WILSHIRE BOULEVARD -- NIGHT On the sidewalk, Merrill, Jules and Augustus are at the front of the crowd, watching. Merrill's looking around, above... A T.V. CAMERA shoots the parade from atop a high platform... another T.V. CAMERA across the street, covering the festivities from another angle. Jules nudges Merrill and points... the Lincoln float's on its way. A MARCHING BAND slows. The Lincoln float stops behind. The DRIVER, a broken-nosed thug, looks impatient. SPEAKERS on the float BLAST "Stars and Stripes Forever." The pick-up's door opens and Augustus pulls the driver out and throws him. Behind, Jules and Merrill toss weapons on the float, struggling to climb on. INT. TED'S MANSION, GREAT ROOM -- NIGHT Ted continues his address. TED Our country has been called the land of opportunity. And, a wiser man than I once made the observation that the older you get, the longer it takes you to get to the door when opportunity knocks. (laughter from guests) But, didn't Thomas Jefferson say it best when he said... (sees something O.S., sudden horror and fury) Motherfucking cocksuckers!! I'll... I'll kill them...! Guests are startled. Ted pushes thru to the television, reddening with rage, quaking in disbelief. ON THE TELEVISION: Merrill, Jules and Augustus on the Lincoln float, blood stains beginning to show thru their clothing, waving wearily to cameras. T.V. ANNOUNCERS in V.0. express confusion as the float turns off course... EXT. WILSHIRE BOULEVARD -- NIGHT Augustus drives, accelerates, and spins the wheel... Guides the Lincoln float off the parade route and onto a side street as the panicked crowd parts like the Red Sea. T.V. cameras turn to follow as the float lumbers away. On the float, Jules looks to Merrill. JULES Think Ted's watching? MERRILL Who the fuck knows? We'll find out soon enough. EXT. TED'S MANSION -- NIGHT Redcoat/thugs run from the house, scrambling to black Cadillac�s. Ted follows, shouting... TED Wilshire Boulevard! Wilshire Boulevard! Kill them!! Ted gets in the passenger side of his white Cadillac. They ride. Poe follows in the super Mustang. CUT TO: EXT. URBAN STREETS -- NIGHT FOLLOW the float. Merrill stares up at giant Lincoln. MERRILL It turns my stomach they're using Honest Abe to smuggle their filth. Jules opens the suitcase, hands a shotgun to Merrill. Merrill limps aft, aims at the back of Abe Lincoln's head... MERRILL Sorry, old buddy. BOOM! White powder leaks out from behind Abe's left ear. JULES You John-Wilkes-Booth-ed him. MERRILL (to the pick-up) Gus! Gus! Merrill moves to the front, shouting. In the pick-up, Gus glances back, them watches thru the mirror. MERRILL Take us to the beach! Santa Monica...! The beach! Augustus finally nods, gives thumbs-up to show he heard. IN THE PICK-UP AUGUSTUS (to himself) The beach... the beach... Augustus's eyes flutter. He's sweaty, trying to stay conscious. He shakes himself, forcing his eyes wide. AUGUSTUS (to himself) Alright, big-fella, don't you go passing out! You're fine and dandy. You've had worse than this. He forces a laugh. Blood trickles down his forehead. He takes a pack of cigarettes off the dash. THRU THE WINDSHIELD: yellow traffic light... turning red. Augustus goes for it... ON THE STREET Augustus flouts the intersection, barely missing collision. On the float, Jules starts checking over guns. Merrill kneels behind Abe Lincoln's head, opening the box of dynamite. JULES Why the beach? MERRILL So there's nobody around to get killed in the explosion. Jules's confused. Merrill takes dynamite from the box and starts shoving it into Abe's head cavity, smiles at Jules. JULES (matter of fact) Oh, yeah... the explosion. MERRILL Know what I love about dynamite? JULES Do tell. MERRILL When you bunch it together, it's exponentially more powerful. Two sticks have the power of four sticks. Four sticks have the power of sixteen, and so on. JULES I don't think so. MERRILL Well, that's what I heard, and that's what I choose to believe. EXT. OTHER URBAN STREETS -- NIGHT Ted's Cadillac�s are on the prowl. Poe follows. EXT. YET ANOTHER URBAN STREET -- NIGHT Ted's' Cadillac convoy rounds another corner... Poe's Mustang breaks formation, heading elsewhere... ON A SIDE STREET The Mustang cruises, a strange sight since Poe's at the wheel still in his elaborate Ben Franklin get-up and there's a fully uniformed Redcoat in the passenger seat. INSIDE THE MUSTANG The thug beside Poe, REDCOAT-ONE, keeps an eye out... DOWN THE BLOCK: a glimpse of Abe crossing. REDCOAT-ONE (pointing) There! Over there...! MERRILL Know what I love about dynamite? EXT. URBAN STREET -- NIGHT In the pick-up, Augustus sees the Mustang arrive, heading this way. He BEEPS and leans out, shouting back. AUGUSTUS Merrill... we got company! Merrill and Jules look. I�m the Mustang, Poe talks in his CB RADIO, closing. Jules throws her duffel over her shoulder by a strap, starts up a ladder at the back of Lincoln's head. Augustus points a gun out his window. Redcoat-One leans out with a machine gun... The pick-up and Mustang TRADE GUNFIRE as they THUNDER past in opposite directions... Jules reaches the top of Lincoln's stovepipe hat, hurting. BEHIND, the Mustang u-turns to pursue. And, FURTHER BACK, the Cadillac�s arrive, SCREEEEEECHING; one white, two black. Here they come, GUNS BLAZING. JULES The gang's all here! MERRILL Keep 'em busy. Merrill keeps loading dynamite, hurried. Poe's Mustang and the Cadillac�s close in. Ted leans out the white Caddie, demented, his Uncle Sam beard flapping in the breeze, FIRING A MACHINE GUN... On the float, Jules RETURNS FIRE from above. Below, Merrill wrestles a plastic bag of heroin out of Lincoln's head moves back, keeping low... He chucks the heroin bag... The bag SLAMS the windshield of one black Cadillac with a blinding POOF! Wipers come on. INSIDE THE WHITE CADILLAC TED That's my heroin! (to REDCOAT-DRIVER) Move it! Get beside the son of a bitch! Now, now, now! ON THE STREET The white Cadillac gets close. Ted FIRES. TED Die, Merrill... you self-righteous fuck! On the float, Merrill cowers. BULLETS RIP Abe's head. INSIDE THE PICK-UP Augustus corners, hard... ON THE STREET Cutting the corner short, blocking the white Cadillac and DECAPITATING a FIRE HYDRANT! Instant water fountain. Atop Lincoln's hat, Jules hangs on tight. CUT TO: EXT. URBAN STREETS, FURTHER ON -- CHASE CONTINUES In the middle of the street, five CHILDREN are huddled. A flickering flame lights their faces. They have a G.I. JOE DOLL propped up, trying to light the firecracker wedged under its arm. The fuse sparks. The children run, squealing with delight, turning to watch from the safety of the sidewalk. The fuse gives off a sizzle. The children wait... and wait. Meanwhile, "Stars and Stripes Forever" can be HEARD distant. ONE CHILD (disappointment) Dud. GUNSHOTS are HEARD. The children look... Here comes the Lincoln float. It ZOOMS past, followed by the Mustang and Cadillac�s... Gunplay... Loud patriotic music... Giant Abe Lincoln. The children watch, awed. It's gone. They're still staring off in wonder as relative quiet returns. In the street, G.I. Joe's arm gets blown off with a "pop." FURTHER ON FOLLOW the Lincoln float. Merrill's adding more t.n.t. IN THE WHITE CADILLAC Ted raises his machine gun, aiming, pauses... IN THE WHITE CADILLAC Ted realizes what Merrill's doing. Dread. Ted grabs the microphone of his CB. TED (into radio) Hold your fire! You hear...? IN POE'S MUSTANG Redcoat-One's SHOOTING. From the CB: TED'S VOICE (v.o.) (from radio, garbled) Hold your fire, Goddamn it! You'll blow it up! ON THE STREET Above on the float, Jules FIRES down... Keeping the villains' cars at bay. Below, Merrill pulls the fuse of one stick of dynamite with his teeth, lengthening it, then searches his pockets for a lighter... remembers these aren't really his pockets. MERRILL Damn it! Merrill looks to the pick-up, sees cigarette smoke. IN WHITE CADILLAC TED (into microphone) Run them off the road! Shoot the driver! Just don't shoot Abraham Lincoln! ON THE STREET Merrill moves to the front, makes the short leap into the bed of the pick-up. Short leap, but harshly painful for a man in Merrill's condition. He continues... IN THE PICK-UP Merrill leans around to Augustus's window. MERRILL Gimmie a butt. AUGUSTUS Why? MERRILL I'm not taking a cigarette break, jackass, just give me one! Augustus takes the pack from his pocket and offers it. Merrill slaps the pack away, takes the lit cigarette sticking out from Augustus's helmet facemask and exits. AUGUSTUS (indignant, to Merrill) Rude! ON THE STREET Merrill's heading back, but stops, looking down... In the pick-up, sticking out from under a blanket, there's a cardboard BOX labeled "Caution: FLAMMABLE." Merrill shrugs, takes the box... He leaps back onto the float, falls, gets up, returning to the hole behind Lincoln's ear. Merrill opens the box, pleased to find big, rocket-like FIREWORKS, which he quickly starts cramming in the hole. Above, Jules's gun empties. She flattens, reloading as best she can with only one functioning hand. Behind, one black Cadillac comes ahead. On board the float, Merrill finishes filling the hole and grabs his box of dynamite, moving back, and... SPLIT-Screen To the RIGHT... To the LEFT... JULES looks down from Merrill holds a the stovepipe hat. dynamite fuse to his cigarette. One black Cadillac The fuse lights. pulls along side, SLAMMING... moving Merrill throws the beside the pick-up dynamite... and BASHING! The dynamite Above, Jules FIRES bounces off the down, furious... white Cadillac... INSIDE THE BLACK EXPLODES on the CADILLAC, bullets' RIP roadway behind! thru the roof and kill the Red coated thugs, Merrill lights Swiss-cheesing them! another stick of t.n.t., throws... Above, Jules tosses one gun, aims another, The t.n.t. stick keeps BLASTING... hits the street, rolls... Below, the black Cadillac swerves off... The other black Cadillac passes over the t.n.t... SPLIT-SCREEN ENDS The bullet-ravaged black Cadillac SMACKS a telephone pole! With a BOOM!, the other black Cadillac is THROWN UPWARDS by the EXPLOSION beneath, flipping and flaming! ON THE FLOAT MERRILL (looking back) God Bless America! ON THE STREET The white Cadillac jerks to pass the burning wreckage. Poe's Mustang GROWLS, taking the lead... Merrill throws another lit stick of dynamite... The dynamite lands on the white Cadillac's windshield. Inside, Ted's eyes go wide. Ted leans out his window, struggles to reach the stick of dynamite... it's just out of reach... The fuse is very short, sputtering, getting shorter... Ted grunts and groans in terror, straining, can't reach. Suddenly, he realizes... IN THE CADILLAC Ted gets back in, reaching across the driver to turn on the windshield wipers... WIPERS come to life, SWEEPING, tossing the dynamite away... ON THE STREET The DYNAMITE EXPLODES behind the white Caddie. AHEAD The Mustang RAMS the float from behind. Redcoat-One FIRES. High up on the float, Jules SHOOTS... INSIDE THE MUSTANG Windshield SHATTERS! Redcoat-One is HIT, spraying blood. Poe cringes and curses... ON THE STREET The Mustang slows, pulling back... INSIDE THE MUSTANG Poe wipes flecks of blood off his face, fury building. Redcoat-One's dead. IN THE PICK-UP Augustus glances back, then faces forward. He yelps... THRU THE WINDSHIELD: a car's crossing. ON THE STREET The pick-up SMASHES the car aside. JARRING... Merrill's knocked off his feet, cigarette flying. Above, Jules's knocked from the stovepipe hat... She hangs off the edge, barely. Merrill's cigarette lands in the textured crepe-paper-surface of the float, tip glowing. Above, Jules's in trouble. Her bag of guns slides off... Guns clatter across the pavement below. JULES Merrill! A little help here... ! Merrill rises, stumbling to the ladder. MERRILL Hang on, honey... I'm coming... IN THE MUSTANG Poe speeds up, to the right of the Lincoln float... ON THE STREET Poe pulls close beside the float, reaching with one hand to grip the edge. He climbs out the Mustang's window, pulling himself onto the float as... The driver-less Mustang veers... INT. RESTAURANT -- CHASE CONTINUES Romantic. Candles on tables. Poe's Mustang CRASHES in, plowing forward. Diners depart most hastily. EXT. URBAN STREETS -- CHASE CONTINUES On the float, Jules shouts a warning to Merrill, but Poe's already jumping to pull Merrill down off the ladder... Poe and Merrill land. Poe starts PUNCHING... Merrill's getting pounded. BEHIND, in the white Cadillac, an overzealous thug, REDCOAT-TWO, clamors out a rear window, pulling himself up to the car's roof... As the Cadillac gets close... Redcoat-Two runs across the hood, leaping thru the air... Landing on the Lincoln float. Redcoat-Two moves past Poe and Merrill's fisty-cuffs, climbs the ladder up Lincoln's head, toward helpless Jules. Nobody notices: the crepe-paper around Merrill's cigarette bursts into flame, fanned by rushing wind. IN THE PICK-UP Augustus looks back... Sees Redcoat-Two reach the top of the stovepipe hat. Augustus BASHES his elbow against his rear window, over and over, KNOCKING the window out. ON THE STREET On the float, the cigarette fire spreads quickly, moving up toward the dynamite-packed hole. Above, Redcoat-Two grins down at Jules, who tries in vain to pull herself up with one arm. REDCOAT-TWO Goodbye, bitch... He grinds his foot down on her hand. She cries out. IN THE PICK-UP Gun in hand, Gus checks his rearview, BRAKES hard... ON THE STREET The Lincoln float LURCHES. Redcoat-Two falls forward... Jules is thrown, tumbles across the brim of Abe's hat... Merrill and Poe roll, still grappling... Redcoat-Two lands with a THUD in the rear of the pick-up. Jules miraculously lands still on board the float. In the pick-up, Augustus points his gun out the rear window and FIRES REPEATEDLY into Redcoat-Two! Behind, the white Caddie SLAMS the rear of the float... moves along side... BASHING... The float picks up speed, moving over to block. Poe and Merrill are still beating on each other. Poe's winning. Merrill's wounds are really bleeding through his clothes now. He barely has the strength to punch. Poe KNOCKS him down... Poe KICKS Merrill. Merrill's not getting up. Poe straddles Merrill, wraps his hands around his neck, choking the life out of him. Merrill gasps, about to pass out. Poe grunts, gleeful, strangling. HONKING is HEARD. Poe looks to the HONKING. Ted leans out the white Caddie, pointing... TED Behind you... ! Poe turns, too late, as Jules steps up and swings a shotgun -- CLUNK! -- clubbing Poe. Poe goes flying off Merrill. Jules comes to help Merrill up. MERRILL (weakly) Thanks, doll, Merrill tries to smile, but spots something horrible... MERRILL Oh, Lord... on the overflowing t.n.t. hole. Flames climbing the back of Lincoln's head have lit the fuses on several jutting sticks of dynamite! In the white Cadillac, Ted sees the same, mortified. TED NO!! SLO MO: Merrill grabs the shotgun from Jules and pushes her ahead of him as he runs. MERRILL Go! Go... ! SLO-MO: they stumble ahead, toward the pick-up. SLO-MO: Jules leaps into the pick-up. SLO-MO: Merrill follows, in the air, pointing the shotgun down between the pick-up and float, BLASTING... SLO-MO: the shotgun DESTROYS the pick-up's trailer hitch! SLO-MO: Merrill falls into the pick-up. SLO-MO: the Lincoln float is released, slowing... END SLO-MO. The float rushes back at the white Cadillac with tremendous speed. Unavoidable IMPACT... The Cadillac RECOILS, out of control... IN THE CADILLAC Ted screams as... ON THE STREET The white Cadillac CRUNCHES parked cars, tipping on its side and sliding forward, METAL SHRIEKING, sparks flying. On the float, Poe rises, holding his bleeding face. And... The LINCOLN FLOAT EXPLODES!! It rattles the world... Shatters nearby windows... The FIREBALL lights up the night. WHITE POWDER SHOOTS sky-high, blooming... Howling FIREWORKS SHOOT ALL DIRECTIONS, red, white + blue! IN THE PICK-UP Augustus watches via in his rearview. AUGUSTUS Holy shit. In back, Merrill and Jules shield their eyes. ON THE STREET Poe's flaming body falls from the sky and lands hard. Up the street, it's snowing heroin. The float topples, with Lincoln's giant head blown wide open and still burning. The pick-up stops. Our heroes climb out. At the white Cadillac, the driver's head is thru the windshield. Ted struggles out, gored. He falls, crawls, looks up. Merrill, Jules and Augustus trudge this direction, spent, barely functioning. TED (near tears) You fuckers... damn you! Why?! Why me!? Why the obsession with me? MERRILL It's our job. TED You think you accomplished something... like you're heroes? Fuck you! This is meaningless! You'll never win! You know, as soon as I'm gone... someone's going to take my place. Merrill arrives, grips Ted, and pulls him to his feet... Merrill We'll burn that bridge when we get to it. Merrill PUNCHES Ted, and Merrill's so exhausted that the momentum of his fist throws him off balance... He hits the ground and stays there. Augustus lifts Ted back up, KICKS him, then CLOBBERS him backwards with an elbow strike... Jules KARATE CHOPS Ted on the fly... Ted falls flat, belly first. Augustus's knees give out and he falls, groggy. Jules kneels to cuff Ted's hands behind him, then backs off, falls back on her ass, exhausted, lays down... Our heroes lie there, staring up at the sky, bleeding, too tired to speak. SIRENS can be HEARD far away. Neighbors peer out from windows. DOWN THE BLOCK Squad cars arrive. Uniformed cops get out. They walk toward the burning Lincoln float, taking in the scene. They mutter disbelief. They study Poe's burning corpse. Officers Steve and Jim are here, looking at the flaming bags of heroin that spilled out of Abe's skull. Officers Steve and Jim share a look of amazement. More cops arrive. From the other end of the street, a plain-clothes car arrives. D.A. Cocksucker and Police Chief get out... Cops gather around Augustus, Merrill and Jules, just gawking at them and at Ted, dumbfounded. Someone whispers that it's Ted. D.A. Cocksucker and Police Chief push thru the cops to Merrill, Jules and Augustus, who make no effort to get up or move. D.A. COCKSUCKER (to cops) Don't just stand there. Arrest them. Merrill The captain was dirty. AUGUSTUS He tried to kill us. JULES We've got the tape to prove it. D.A. COCKSUCKER (still to cops) Arrest them! What are you waiting for?! Do it! Someone arrest them! Cops look at each other. Behind, AMBULANCES arrive. D.A. COCKSUCKER You! You... (points to YOUNG COP) I'm ordering you to take them into custody this instant! The YOUNG COP studies D.A. Cocksucker, takes his handcuffs off his belt, pauses, then throws the cuffs to D.A. Cocksucker. YOUNG COP Do it yourself. Young Cop goes to help Merrill up. Other cops join in... D.A. Cocksucker rants and raves, ignored. As cops help Merrill, Jules and Augustus to ambulances, Merrill manages to lift his head, looking up... Far off, FIREWORKS BURST, brightening the skyline. Merrill stops and looks to Jules, sees her noticing them too. MERRILL You see that? JULES Yeah. MERRILL Good. Thought I was imagining them. AUGUSTUS I saw 'em too. Fireworks. Augustus's behind, grinning. He falls out of the arms of the cops supporting him. They help pick him back up. Merrill looks back to the fireworks, then to Jules and Gus. MERRILL Happy Independence Day. AUGUSTUS Yeah. Happy Fourth of July. JULES You too. Jules manages a smile. Paramedics arrive to assist... Merrill, Jules and Augustus receive much needed medical attention. Cops drag Ted to a squad car. THE END
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