Mulholland Dr.

INT. AUNT RUTH'S APARTMENT - BEDROOM - NIGHT

Rita has just taken the hatbox from the closet shelf and is
setting it on the bed.

BETTY
What are you doing?

Betty is sitting on the bed opposite. Rita opens the hatbox
and removes her purse. She opens the purse and takes out the
money. She sits down on the bed and while staring at the
money she thinks of what to say.

RITA
You've been so good to me ... now we know
why ... why I was so afraid. We know what
kind of trouble I'm in. I shouldn't...
ask you... I only have this to offer.
I'll give you this if I can stay here for
awhile. I don't know what else to do.

Betty moves across the bed to the side of Rita. She puts her
arm around Rita and holds her.

BETTY
Rita... I want you to stay here and you
don't have to give me that money.

RITA
But I want to.

BETTY
No. We shouldn't touch that money. We
don't know about that money. That might
be dangerous money. You have to start all
over again. You look like a brand new
person and you can be a brand new
person... whoever you want to be.

RITA
It sounds kind of nice ... being somebody
brand new.

BETTY
Hey, let's introduce the brand new you to
Hollywood. We haven't seen the roof
garden yet.

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EXT. COURTYARD - NIGHT

The girls come out the front door ... Betty leading and pulling
a much happier Rita along with her. They half run across the
courtyard to stone steps under an Ivy covered eave.

CUT TO:

EXT. ROOF GARDEN - NIGHT

The girls race up the stone steps toward us. Soon their wind-
blown, smiling faces fill the screen as they look out. There
before them are the lights of Hollywood with silhouetted
palms, slow-moving theater kleig lights, and floating above
it all the giant sign in the hills reading HOLLYWOOD.

BETTY
Here I am Hollywood! My name's Betty.

A pause.

BETTY (cont'd)
(to Rita)
Say it!

RITA
Here I am Hollywood! My name is ... Rita.

They look out, maybe waiting for an answer blowing in the
Santa Ana wind.

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INT. AUNT RUTH'S APARTMENT - NIGHT - A MOMENT LATER

We move in to the pile of money next to Rita's purse. Past
that we move down inside Rita's purse. We see the Blue Key
and move closer to it until it fills the screen.

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EXT. DENNY'S RESTAURANT - HOLLYWOOD - NIGHT

We drift along the red bricks past the payphone, along the
wall until we come to the corner. Slowly we round the corner
and move to a dark alley. There amongst the dumpsters and
trash cans is the dark silhouette of a figure. We move closer
to the figure. It is the bum and the bum sits. We move
closer and the bum's face fills the screen. It's face is
black with fungus. It's eyes turn and they seem to be red.