Blackthorne--Episode 106

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Blackthorne

Cinemagenic 106

Heart Song

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

--Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince.

1(sound cue) piano and violins.

2(close-up) Johnny, after an inhalation of pain:

If it comes to killing him, use a knife. A blade is

best. I want him to feel his own bowels, as I feel

mine, drop into his hands, just a steaming pile

of guts in the street, like butchering a boar.

3(two-shot) Buck: A knife it shall be.

Johnny: He runs.

Buck: El Blanco?

Johnny: Yes, and he is swift.

Buck: Will you chase him?

Johnny: I want to. I could catch him. I, too, run

like the wind.

4(tight close-up) Buck: Let him go, brother. He 

will come again.

5(sound cue) guitar & harmonica.

6(two shot) Johnny, after a beat: Did I ever really

tell you about your father?

Buck: No.

Johnny: Why not do you think?

Buck: I never asked you about him.

Johnny: Then it is time.

Buck: after hesitation, If you say so.

Johnny: I do. Bill Buck...he was a man.

7(medium close-up) Buck, quickly: Whiskey

devoured him, drowned his heart, slayed his soul.

8(two-shot) Johnny: In the end something

destroys all of us.

Buck: So far, nothing really likes the taste of me.

Johnny: Even loneliness?

Buck: I am home now, and I am not lonely--I

have you.

9(close-up) Johnny: Me? I am nothing.

10(two-shot) Buck: No, sir, I will not hear you. You 

are the Aguila, soaring over the land, and we

wither in the shadow of your wings.

Johnny: I will not die.

11(sound cue) accordion and banjo.

Buck: Die? Can they kill the thunder

storm? If you throw a rock at the sun,

will it go away?

Johnny: The sun is inside me now--
burning my bowels.
Buck: The Doctor will be here soon;

just hang on, my brother. I will not

let you leave me.

Johnny: We will have a grand rancho.

Buck: The grandest.

12(medium close-up) Johnny: We were

going to go and find you?

13(two-shot) Buck: Who?

Johnny: Your father and me; a week before

he was killed? He was an old man, and he

couldn’t travel alone. I was his amigo.

Buck: After all those years, why in Christ’s

name would he do that?

14(close-up) Johnny: You were his only family,

his son. He wanted to look you in the flesh, and

try to tell you how sorry he was, and to tell you

he loved you.

15(two-shot) Buck: Love?

Johnny: He knew he would not live much longer.

Grief was consuming him.

Buck was silent.

Johnny: In your family, you are the life force. Your

people were not strong. Death rode their shoulders,

rode them right into the ground. Sadly, they never

lived as we do. Life shines in us, even though now

it grows dim in me.

Buck: I will fan that flame.

Johnny: I am fighting. I hear the words from

my death song, but I won’t sing them yet. 

Yet I have seen much. I rode hard.

Buck: You will ride again.

Johnny: Caramba...you would have to tie me on

a horse.

They both laughed, and it was difficult for the Eagle.

Buck: We are talking a lot. Does it hurt to talk? 

Would you like to close your eyes and rest? I

promise I will not leave you.

16(sound cue) cello

Glenn Buttkus

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