As her blood continues to escape, both women look across each other.
The effect is that Elle Driver is a balloon and her life is escaping before both their very eyes. And now looking across at each other, the two women see the other for the first time, not as adversaries, or opponents, or as rivals, or as b*tches...but as sisters.
Elle no longer has enough life in her to stand up...She falls to her knees in front of The Bride. then as she dies, she leans the side of her head against The Bride's standing body. Her blood runs down The Bride's leg. As she passes on, Elle gently wraps her arms around the Bride's leg.
The Bride's hands go down to Elle's long blonde hair, and begins gently stroking it, easing her pain as she expires.
Only in death do they find the sisterhood that could have been theirs.
WIDE SHOT:
The Bride standing, Elle on her knees, the desert surrounds them.
The BRIDE putting a shovel down.
WIDE SHOT:
The Bride has finished burying Elle. She sticks a jerry rigged wood cross in the ground as a marker. Then using her sog;
WOODEN CROSS:
carves the name "L. DRIVER" on the cross.
Then drives away in the big red pickup.
SPAGHETTI WESTERN MUSIC ENDS FADE TO BLACK.
BLACK FRAME:
TITLE APPEARS:
Final chapter "The blood-splattered BRIDE" INT. BILL'S HACIENDA - DAY Bill on the patio of his beautiful hacienda home(named Villa Quatro) located on the beach in Mexico. At the moment Bill partaking of his current hobby......Flower Arranging.
With his hands among various flowers of BRIGHT COLORS, he sorts and prunes a very pretty arrangement.
EX CU the BRIDE'S EYE ....watching.... Bill's Mexican housekeeper, JOSEPHINA, appears on the patio.
JOSEPHINA:
Mr. Bill, you wanted me to tell you to leave now.
BILL:
(finishing up) Yes, I got to go and meet the Duchess.
(referring to the flowers) Do you like it?
JOSEPHINA:
Oh yes Mr. Bill, it's very pretty.
BILL:
Why don't you put it on the dinner table, so we can enjoy it tonight.
JOSEPHINA:
(she takes it) Good idea, she'll love it.
As he heads out the patio, he tells her;
BILL:
Oh and Josephina, take the remaining flowers and spread them around the house, if you would.
JOSEPHINA:
Yes, Mr. Bill.
He exits the patio, then turns around and pops his head back in.