Two Winters Past

EXT. SUBURBAN HOUSE. NIGHT.

BLYTHE and SPIDER hide in the bushes, watching RANGO as he goes into the house. TIP and 2 TRINANGLES are searching the area.

SPIDER coughs. 

BLYTHE freezes, but none of the TRIANGLES noticed. 

SPIDER coughs again, spasms, and vomits. BLYTHE tries to quiet her, but SPIDER is thrashing on the ground.

TRIANGLE: (pointing) I see him!

BLYTHE runs. TRIANGLE jump-starts his motorcycle and follows, spinning a chain in the air. 

As TRIANGLE passes the hiding spot, SPIDER leaps from hiding, knocks TRIANGLE from his bike.

SPIDER and TRIANGLE roll on the ground. SPIDER bites his face and chest. 

BLYTHE runs back, smashing SPIDER in the chest with his axe to knock her away. 

SPIDER is thrown through the air and rolls. 

BLYTHE leaps on TRIANGLE smashes him in the face with the butt of his axe. TRIANGLE 2 and TIP are on their motorcycles.  

BLYTHE runs through a backyard, jumps a fence and races through another. RANGO gives chase on foot, but loses ground when he struggles over the fence. 

BLYTHE gets past the house, through the front yard. The sound of motorcycles are approaching. When BLYTHE reaches the street, TIP and TRIANGLE ride past. TIP sweeps out BLYTHE's legs with a chain, and BLYTHE faceplants. 

BLYTHE is dazed, and has dropped his axe. 

RANGO reaches BLYTHE and tackles him before he can get up. TRIANGLE   kicks BLYTHE’s axe away.  RANGO gets off BLYTHE and stands.

RANGO: You think that’s real cute, don’t ya, Blythe?

BLYTHE: I got no ammunition. You can have whatever food I’ve got, but I need to deliver information to Turner.

TIP: Zach Cooley been herding cannibals? We know all about it.

BLYTHE: I saw the Swordsman. He told me a Muslim army attacked a settlement in Hancock, burned it to the ground.

TRIANGLE 2 pulls BLYTHE to his feet.

RANGO: Bullshit.

BLYTHE: A thousand men.

RANGO: There ain’t a thousand men in that whole country.

BLYTHE: Parlor City is a week’s march from Hancock at best, maybe two if any other settlements give some resistance. Every community needs to know. We need to tell Turner, and we need to tell Elijah Cooley.

RANGO: Turner best be talking nice to Elijah Cooley.

BLYTHE: If you ain’t gonna kill me, Rango, I’d prefer you let me go. I’m sick of looking at you.

RANGO is enraged. 

TIP and TRIANGLE are laughing. TRIANGLE draws a giant cleaver from his saddlebag. SPIDER is approaching cautiously, unsure of a target. RANGO smiles.

RANGO: Wait!

TRIANGLE backs away. 

TIP pushes BLYTHE at SPIDER. She leaps to attack, but BLYTHE avoids. Before he can recover, she is on his back. 

BLYTHE rolls to avoid being bitten, throwing SPIDER down. TRIANGLES are laughing.

TIP: Maybe she’ll give you one last blowjob, Blythe!

BLYTHE jumps on TIP. Both fall, with SPIDER on top.

TIP kicks wildly to drive her back, but she is only off balance a moment before BLYTHE drives TIP into her with his shoulder.

BLYTHE dives and rolls, collecting his axe. TRIANGLE 2 tries to intercept, but BLYTHE clubs him and spins, chopping SPIDER in her left eye.

CLOSEUP: Most of SPIDER's face is destroyed, but she still lives. Her arms grapple clumsily with BLYTHE around the axe. BLYTHE pushes her down and yanks the axe free.

BLYTHE chops again. This time, SPIDER is dead.

BLYTHE looks down at her a moment before he throws his axe away and turns to RANGO. BLYTHE puts his hands in the air. 

BLYTHE: I surrender.

RANGO strikes BLYTHE in the face, knocking him down. BLYTHE needs to recover a moment, but the TRIANGLES allow him to get up to his knees.

BLYTHE: She didn’t deserve to be taken down by any of you, Rango. You’re a piece of shit.

TIP bashes BLYTHE in the head. BLYTHE falls on his face.

RANGO: We’ll take him back to camp. Maybe the dogs will want to eat him. Someone tie him to a bike.

Zoom out as TRIANGLES produce rope and pull BLYTHE to his feet.

FADE TO BLACK.