THE BARREL EXPLODES LEAT AT US - BANG! QUICK CUT BACK TO The BRIDE IN HER HOSPITAL BED, BANK still echoing in her ears. She lets out a SCREAM OF PAIN and her hand goes to the side of her head, as if she were just shot.
Her hand feels the metal plate embedded in the side of her skull where the hole was. She knocks against it with her knuckle...it goes...TINK...TINK.
Suddenly she says out loud;
THE BRIDE:
My baby.
Her hand goes down to her belly, unly to find it not swollen but flat. She doesn't understand, lifts up her hospital gown and sees a JAGGED SCAR which runs down her abdomen. Her fingertips trace it.
She quickly looks at the palm of her and and counts the lines.
MACRO CU The LINES IN HER PALM look like a road map.
She stops counting, shocked;
THE BRIDE:
(to herself) Five years.
She counts again.
THE BRIDE:
(a statement) Five years.
The Bride's two eyes fill with tears as she realizes her baby is long gone.
WHEN SUDDENLY... She hears the STEP...STEP...STEP...OF BILL'S BOOTS WALKING TOWARDS HER ROOM.... WE SEE THE CINEMATIC EQUIVALENT OF A COMIC BOOK THOUGHT BALLOON by her head. INSIDE OF IT WE SEE BILL'S BLACK BOOTS walking across the wood floor of the wedding chapel.
INT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR(THE BRIDE'S FLOOR) - NIGHT We see a HOSPITAL ORDERLY'S bright red and white Reeboks softly slapping against the smooth surface of the institution's floor. They make a sound nothing like Bill's shoes.
SCREEN GOES TO SPLIT SCREEN LEFT SIDERIGHT SIDE The BRIDE listening to them Orderly's Reeboks walking getting closer. WE HEAR the down the hospital STEP...STEP...STEP...in time corridor.
with Orderly's sneakers.
CAMERA MOVES UP TO Orderly's face, leading two TRUCKDRIVERS.
The Bride HEARS BILL'S VOICE SPEAK FOR THE ORDERLY; BILL'S VOICE ORDERLY (in time)(in time) She's right in here.She's right in here.
SPLIT SCREEN FINISHES STAY WITH The BRIDE'S SCREEN The Bride decides the best course of action, till she gets her bearings, is to play possum. She throws herself back down on the bed, just as the three men enter her room.
They see just what they expected to see, The Bride lying in her bed in her coma.
She duplicates her comatose eyes-wide-open-fixed stare.
Except knowing she's awake, and sees everything in front of her, creates a slightly different effect.
The Bride, however, while she sees the Two Truckdrivers for what they are, when she sees The Orderly she sees Bill, when The Orderly talks she hears Bill. WE HOWEVER WILL NEVER SEE BILL'S FACE COMPLETELY.
The Orderly takes her shee covering off, and hitches up her hospital gown till her blonde p*ssy is exposed. He does kind of a "TA-DA" presentation of her vagina.
THE ORDERLY:
Now is that the cutest little blonde p*ssy you ever saw, or is that the cutest little blonde p*ssy, YOU-EVEA-SAW?