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                                        The EARLY draft of



                                          KILL BILL
										      (part 1)



                                      written & directed
                                              by
                                      Quentin Tarantino



                                 TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                   PROLOGUE
                                1. "2" goto
                                2. The Comatose Bride goto
                                3. The Man From Okinawa goto
                                4. Showdown at House of Blue Leaves goto
								5 - 10 removed


               OVER BLACK
               We hear labored breathing.

               BLACK FRAME
               QUOTE APPEARS:

                                    "Revenge is a dish
                                    best served cold"

                                                   - Old Klingon Proverb - 
               QUOTE FADES OUT

               WE STAY ON BLACK
               ...breathing continues...

               Then a MAN'S VOICE talks over the breathing;



                                   MAN'S VOICE (O.S.)
                         Do you find me sadistic?

                                                                CUT TO:

               BLACK AND WHITE CU of a WOMAN
               lying on the floor, looking up. The woman on the floor has
               just taken a severe spaghetti-western-style gang beating. Her
               face is bloody, beaten up, and torn. The high contrast B/W
               turning the red blood into black blood.

               A hand belonging to the off-screen Man's Voice ENTERS FRAME
               holding a white handkerchief with the name "BILL" sewn in the
               corner, and begins tenderly wiping away the blood from the
               young woman's face. Little by little as the Male Voice
               speaks, the beautiful face underneath is revealed to the
               audience.
               But what can't be wiped away, is the white hot hate that
               shines in both eyes at the man who stands over her, the
               "BILL" of the title.

               In another age men who shook the world for their own purposes
               were called conquerors. In our age, the men who shake the
               planet for their own power and greed are called corrupters.
               And of the world's corrupters Bill stands alone. For while he
               corrupts the world, inside himself he is pure.



                                   BILL'S VOICE (O.S.)
                         I bet I could fry an egg on your
                         head about now, if I wanted to.

               He continues wiping away the blood.



                                   BILL'S VOICE (O.S.)
                         No kiddo, I'd like to believe, even
                         now, you're aware enough to know
                         there isn't  a trace of sadism in
                         my actions... Okay - Maybe towards
                         these other jokers - bot not your.

               OVERHEAD SHOT
               We see for a moment, A WIDE SHOT looking down at the woman on
               the floor. Bill (from behind) bent down over her. Four others
               in black suits, standing over her (three are female, one is
               male). And about four DEAD BODIES lying in their own blood.
               We also see we're in a wedding chapel that's been redecorated
               by blood death and gunfire. And firstly or lastly, depending
               on the viewer, that the woman on the floor is dressed in a
               white bridal gown.
               This woman is our Heroine, and from this moment forth she
               will only be referred to as The BRIDE.

               Back to CU of The BRIDE.

               The BRIDE on the floor. Her pretty face is wiped clean.



                                   BILL'S VOICE (O.S.)
                         No Kiddo at this moment, this is me
                         at my most masochistic.

               While still in her CU The Bride speaks for the first time in
               the picture. She looks up at the man standing over her and
               says;



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Bill, I'm pregnant. It's your baby.

               After saying the "y" in "baby", we hear a BANG and The Bride
               receives a bullet in the side of her head.

                                                                CUT TO:
               BLACK SCREEN: Presentation Credit



                                     "The 4th Film by
                                    QUENTIN TARANTINO"



                                                                CUT TO:

               B/W CU of a Young MAN in a TUXEDO. Shot to death.

               The BRIDE speaks to us in a VO;



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         That's Tim, Arthur's best friend.

               CU A PRETTY YOUNG WOMAN in a frilly pink dress with two
               bullet holes in her.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         That's his girlfriend Janeen.

               CU A PLUMP YOUNG WOMAN, shot to death, wedding bouquet still
               clutched in her dead fist.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         That's my best friend from work
                         Erica.

               AN OLDER MAN IN A BLACK SUIT shot fulla holes.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         That's the minister. I think his
                         name was Reverend Hillhouse.

               A DEAD OLDER WOMAN by his side in an old-fashioned flower
               print dress.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         That's his wife.

               A DEAD OLDER WOMAN slumped over an organ.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         Organ player, don't know her name.

               A YOUNG MAN IN A TUXEDO WITH HIS FACE BLOWN OFF.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         That's Arthur. Arthur Plympton. The
                         name on his driver's license was
                         Charles Arthur Plympton, but for
                         some reason he preferred Arthur.
                         Maybe if he went by Carles people
                         would have called him Charlie. If
                         that was his reason for going by
                         Arthur I can understand it.
                         Nothing wrong with the name
                         Charlie, except he didn't look like
                         a Charlie, he looked like an
                         Arthur.
                         Obviously you'll have to take my
                         word on this. Speaking of names, I
                         was about two seconds away from
                         becoming Mrs. Charles Arthur
                         Plympton.

               And then finally, The Bride.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         And that, that's me. I'm the Bride.

               We do a DISSOLVE from the Bride looking dead in the bridal
               gown

               To

               The Bride, still in B/W, still in a bridal gown, but the
               asswippin she took in the scene before must have been in the
               past, because she looks like a million dollars
               now.......three million even.



               INT. CAR (MOVING) - NIGHT

               The Bride behind the wheel of a Volkswagen Karman Ghia
               convertible. Her long blodne hair whipping in the wind. A
               PROCESS SHOT PLAYS behind her.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         Looked dead, didn't I? Well I
                         wasn't, but it wasn'T for lack fo
                         trying, I can tell you that.
                         Actually Bill's last bullet put me
                         in a coma. A coma I was to lie in
                         for five years.
                         When I woke up, ...I went on what
                         the movie advertisements refer to
                         as a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. I
                         roarded and I rampaged and I got
                         bloody satisfaction. In all, I've
                         killed 33 people to get to this
                         piont right now.
                         I have only one more.
                         The last one.
                         The one I'M driving to right now.
                         The only one left.
                         And when I arrive at my
                         destination.....
                         .... I'm gonna Kill Bill.


               TITLE SEQUENCE

               As a female-sung ballad of heartbreaking lament plays on the
               soundtrack, we see the credits of "Kill Bill" play over the
               Bride in her bridal gown, driving to the film's climax.

               The sequence ends with the Bride arriving at Bill's home.

                                                       WE FADE TO BLACK



               BLACK FRAME
               TITLE APPEARS:


                                       Chapter one

                                           "2"


                                                                CUT TO:

               EX CU The BRIDE's EYEBALL IN GLORIOUS COLOR
               WE CUT OUT ONE...TWO...THREE...TO A
               CU of The BRIDE IN GLORIOUS COLOR
               She's sitting in a parked pickup truck. Her eyes focused on
               something.

               The BRIDE'S POV:
               A very homey three-bedroom house in the affluent suburb of
               Pasadena, California. A purple Dodge Neon sits parked in the
               driveway. A tricylce, a big wheel, and a few toys sprinkle
               the grass on the front yard. A mailbox with the name "The
               BELLS" on it sits out in front of the lawn. We hear but don't
               see ice cream truck bells.

               SUBTITLE APPEARS AT SCREEN BOTTOM:


                                       "The city of
                                  PASADENA, CALIFORNIA"


               We hear a Car Door Open and Close....THEN....The Bride Walks
               into the shot, heading for the front door.

               EX CU: A long, white female finger pushes a doorbell.



               EXT. RESIDENTIAL PASADENA STREET - DAY

               The front door opens and an attractive black HOUSEWIFE the
               same age as The Bride stands in the doorway.
               The Housewife's face shows immediate recognition of the
               blonde on her doorstep.

               The BRIDE
               on the porch; we do a quick Shaw-Brothers-style Zoom into her
               eyes.

               FLASHBACK - SPAGHETTI WESTERN STYLE
               (That means our Heroine is remembering something, and we see
               it with an orange filter.) We're back inside the wedding
               chapel. The Bride is taking the beating of her life by four
               people in black suits. A black woman PUNCHES HER in the
               face... WE see it's the black housewife, five years earlier.

               The BRIDE ON THE PORCH
               We Zoom quick out of her eyes to CU, a VENGEANCE THEME PLAYS
               LOUD ON THE SOUNDTRACK. (Whenever we hear this theme
               throughout the picture, we'll quickly learn what accompanies
               it is The Bride goin Krakatoa all over whoever's ass happens
               to be in front of her at that moment.) As the Vengeance Theme
               plays, a Vein in The Bride's forehead begins to pulsate. When
               the Vengeance Theme stops, The Bride ATTACKS The Housewife.



               INT. HOUSEWIFE'S NICE HOME - DAY

               The white woman and the black woman FLY into the center of
               the living room, CRASHING onto her coffe table in front of
               the sofa.

               These two wildcats go at each other savagely, TUMBLING OVER
               the couch, clawing and scratching all the way, landing
               together on the plush carpet.

               The HOUSEWIFE
               KICKS The Bride, sending her CRASHING backwards into the
               small table where the phone, a note pad (for messages), and
               the mail is kept.

               The Housewife scrambles up on her feet, but is caught by a
               FLYING TACKLE from behind by The Bride that sends them both
               into........

               An ornamental iron and tempered-glass bookcase that has
               framed family photos, display toys, some African art, and a
               collection of painted commemorative plates depicting the
               negro experience in the American military. Starting with a
               plate featuring Cripis Atkins in the revolutionary war, negro
               troops in union blue during the civil war, Buffalo soldiers
               fighting Indians, the Jim Crow troops of the first world war,
               the colored troops of world war two, Korea, Vietnam, and
               finally Colin Powell....The Bride and The Housewife CRASH
               THROUGH all this reducing everything to rubble.

               They land hard on the floor covered in broken glass, locked
               in grapple, each trying to get the best of the other one,...
               When The Housewife HEADBUTTS The Bride in the nose.

               The HOUSEWIFE
               hops off The Bride, runs into the kitchen, opens a drawer and
               comes out with a HUGE MOTHERFUCKIN BUTCHER KNIFE.

               The BRIDE
               rises from the floor, and WHIPS OUT a KNIFE in a sheath
               hanging from her belt known as a SOG. (A SOG is a long,
               double-edged knife that's as sharp as a razor, and is what
               Navy Seals use to kill humans with.)

               The Bride backs up into the mess of the now totally
               demolished living room.

               The two woman stalk each other, each holding her blade, each
               looking like they know how to use it, each waiting for the
               other to make a mistake so they can plunge their blade deep
               into the other one.

               Blood and sweat dript off of the faces of the two women
               locked in life and death combat......

               ....When The back kitchen door opens, and a FOUR-YEAR-OLD
               LITTLE GIRL, carrying a lunch box steps inside.



                                   FOUR-YEAR-OLD GIRL
                         Mommy, I'm home!

               The two warrior women whose eyes reflect only combat
               concentration, suddenly switch upon hearing the four-year
               old's voice. The Housewife's eyes flash a look of pleading to
               the eyes of The Bride.

               The Bride seems to answer back; "Okay."

               The Black woman and the white woman hide their edged weapons
               behind their backs, as the Four-Year-Old Little Girl walks
               into the newly destroyed living room.

               The Housewife switches to her mommy voice.



                                   THE HOUSEWIFE
                         Hey baby, how was school?

               The Little Girl is flabbergasted at the mess, and the
               condition of her mother, who looks like she's just been in a
               bar room brawl.



                                   LITTLE GIRL
                         Mommy, what happened to you and the
                         T.V. Room?



                                   THE HOUSEWIFE
                         Oh, that good for nothin dog of
                         yours, got his little ass in the
                         living room and acted a damn fool,
                         that's what happened.



                                   LITTLE GIRL
                         Barney did this?

               She says it with the slightest hint of skepticism, then tries
               to enter the living room.



                                   THE HOUSEWIFE
                         Now baby, you can't come in here,
                         there's broken glass all over the
                         floor, and you gonna cut yourself.

               The little girl's eyes go to the blonde lady in the living
               room who she ain't never seen before, who also looks like
               she's been fighting.

               The Bride smiles at the confused Little Girl.



                                   THE HOUSEWIFE
                         This is a old friend of mommy's I
                         ain't seen in a long time.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Hello sweety, I'm *(BLEEP)*, what's
                         your name?

               * Whenever during the picture somebody says The Bride's real
               name, it will be BLEEPED OUT ON THE SOUNDTRACK, ...that is,
               till I want you to know. *

               The shy, suspicious little girl doesn't say anything, she
               just stares at the blond lady.



                                   THE HOUSEWIFE
                         Her name is Nikki.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Nikki. What a pretty name for such
                         a pretty little girl. How old are
                         you Nikki?

               Nikki still says nothing, only stares.



                                   THE HOUSEWIFE
                         Nikki, *(BLEEP)* aked you a
                         question.



                                   NIKKI
                             (to The Bride)
                         I'm four.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Four years old, aye. You know I
                         once had a little girl. She'd be
                         five right now. Maybe you two could
                         of played with each other.



                                   THE HOUSEWIFE
                         Now baby, me an *(BLEEP)* have some
                         grown-up talk to talk about, so you
                         go in your room now and leave us
                         alone till I tell you to come out.

               The child doesn't move, so the mother repeats herself.



                                   THE HOUSEWIFE
                             (snapping her fingers)
                         Nikkia - in your room - now.

               The little girl slowly walks away and disappears behind the
               door of her bedroom.

               The two women turn to face each other, masquerade and combat
               both finished.



                                   THE HOUSEWIFE
                         Want some coffee?



                                   THE BRIDE 
                         Yeah, sure.

               The two women move into the kitchen. The Bride re-sheaths her
               SOG, and The Housewife puts the butcher knife back in the
               drawer.

               The Bride sits down at the kitchen table, while The Housewife
               pours both of them coffee.



                                   THE HOUSEWIFE
                         Cream and sugar?



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Both, please.

               As The Housewife fixes the coffee, we hear The Bride's
               VOICEOVER ON THE SOUNDTRACK:



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         This Pasadena homemaker's name is
                         Jeanne Bell. Her husband is Dr.
                         Lawrence Bell. But back when we
                         were acquainted, five years ago,
                         her name was VERNITA GREEN. Her
                         code name, was "COBRA"..... Mine
                         was BLACK MAMBA.

               The two combat artists sit at the kitchen table, drinking
               coffee out of Vernita's coffee mugs.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Were you expecting me?



                                   VERNITA
                         Yes and no. Bill got in touch with
                         me right after you woke up, and
                         then again a little later after
                         your episode in Japan.
                             (pause)
                         So I suppose it's a little late for
                         a apology, huh?



                                   THE BRIDE
                         You suppose correctly.



                                   VERNITA
                         Even if I was sincere?



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Oh. I'm quite positive you're
                         sorry, now.

               Vernita says to the Bride across the table furiously but with
               low volume;



                                   VERNITA
                         Look bitch, I need to know if
                         you're gonna start anymore shit
                         around my baby girl!



                                   THE BRIDE
                         You can relax for now. I'm not
                         going to murder you in front of
                         your daughter.



                                   VERNITA
                         That's being more rational than
                         Bill led me to believe you were
                         capable of.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Well that's a demonstration of
                         Bill's complete ignorance when it
                         comes to the subject of me, and
                         what I'm thinking, and what I might
                         do. It's mercy, compassion, and
                         forgiveness I lack, not
                         rationality.

               She pauses for effect -- the ham.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         I'll wait for now, but I won't wait
                         for long. I'll allow you to choose
                         a time and place for us to meet
                         again, preferably as far away from
                         Nikki as possible.
                         I could have just HIT you, I
                         didn't, I demand respect for that.
                         Since this is not a HIT, consider
                         it a DUEL. And as two former Deadly
                         Vipers, we will observe Viper rules
                         of honor. One on one - no help - no
                         bushwhackin - no treacherous
                         weapons - on weapon of choice - our
                         skill and our bodies.

               Vernita says her name;



                                   VERNITA
                         *(BLEEP)*



                                   THE BRIDE
                         - I'm not through telling you.
                         Failure to keep our date, or
                         duplicity of any kind, will result
                         in me putting a xoxo hollow point
                         bullet into the back of your skull
                         from a window of a building across
                         the street from Nikki's elementary
                         school. Now, feel free to respond.



                                   VERNITA
                         Look...I know I fucked you over. I
                         fucked you over bad. I wish to God
                         I hadn't, but I did.

               The blonde listens to the black woman with a poker face.



                                   VERNITA
                         If I could go back in a machine I
                         would, but I can't. All I can tell
                         you is I'm a different person now.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         I don't care.



                                   VERNITA
                         Be that as it may, I know I do not
                         deserve mercy or forgiveness.
                         However, I beseech you for both on
                         behalf of my daughter.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         -- Bitch, you can stop right there.

               The B-word stops Vernita short, almost like a cold-handed
               slap in the face (it should affect the audience that way as
               well).



                                   THE BRIDE
                             (leans in close)
                         Just because I have no wish to
                         murder you before the eyes of your
                         daughter, does not mean parading
                         her around in front of me is going
                         to inspire sympathy. You and I have
                         unfinished business.
                         And not a goddamn fuckin thing
                         you've done in the subsequent five
                         years - including getting knocked
                         up - is going to change that.



                                   VERNITA
                         You have every right to wanna get
                         even --



                                   THE BRIDE
                         -- But that's where you're wrong,
                         Vernita. I don't want to get even.
                         To get even, even Steven. I would
                         have to kill you, go into Nikki's
                         room, kill her, then wait for your
                         old man, Dr. Bell, to come home and
                         kill him. That would make us even.
                         No, my unborn daughter will just
                         hafta be satisfied with your death
                         at her mother's hands.

               Vernita knows no matter what else is said, blood will spill.



                                   VERNITA
                         When do we do this?



                                   THE BRIDE
                         It all depends... When do you want
                         to die? Tomorrow? The day after
                         tomorrow? That's about as long as
                         I'll wait.



                                   VERNITA
                         How bout tonight, bitch?



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Spendid. Where?



                                   VERNITA
                         There's a baseball diamond where
                         our little league has its games,
                         about a mile from here. We meet
                         there around two-thirty in the
                         morning, dressed all in black, your
                         hair in a black stocking, and we
                         have us a knife fight, we won't be
                         bothered. I have to fix Nikki's
                         cereal.

               As they continue to talk, Vernita pulls down a cereal bowl
               for her daughter and lays it on the kitchen counter.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Bill said you were one of the best
                         ladies he'd ever seen with an edged
                         weapon.

               Vernita moves to another kitchen cabinet, and pulls down a
               box of the sugar cereal, "Kaboom."



                                   VERNITA
                         Fuck you, bitch, I know he didn't
                         qualify it, so you can just kiss my
                         motherfuckin ass, Black Mamba.
                             (snorts to herself)
                         Black Mamba, I shoulda been
                         motherfuckin Black Mamba.

               As the two females continue to talk, Vernita reaches her hand
               inside the cereal box.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Weapon of choice? And if you want
                         to stick with your butcher knife,
                         I'm cool with that.



                                   VERNITA
                         Very funny.

               Vernita FIRES A GUN from inside the cereal box at The
               Bride....

               .... The bullet explodes out of the cardboard box, and HITS
               the coffee mugh directly in front of The Bride, BLOWING IT TO
               SMITHEREENS.

               The Bride THROWS HERSELF ON THE FLOOR....

               Vernita pulls the gun out of the cereal box and FIREES
               again...

               ...The bullet HITS THE FLOOR of the tiny kitchen...

               ...The Bride moves under the kitchen table, then using her
               back, LIFTS THE TABLE OFF THE GROUND, RAMMING IT STRAIGHT
               INTO Vernita, pinning her flat up against the table top, and
               the kitchen counter.

               While her left hand holds the table, her right hand goes to
               the SOG on her belt, her fingers wrap around the blade's
               grip, lifting it up out of the sheath and PLUNGING IT THROUGH
               THE TABLE TOP up to the handle, with all the SOG's steel
               entering Vernita's abdomen.

               The table falls back to the floor with the dying homemaker
               pinned to it. The two former colleagues meet eyes.



                                   VERNITA
                         Sorry, bout the bushwhack. Please
                         don't...



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Do to your daughter, what you did
                         to mine...
                             (she takes her hand)
                         ...I won't.

               Vernita dies.

               The Bride removes her Sog, looks up and sees little Nikki
               standing in the doorway of her room. The little girl sees her
               mother dead on the floor, lying in her own blood. And she
               sees the blonde lady standing over her mother, bloody knife
               still in her hand. But oddly enough, Nikki doesn't cry. The
               little girl locks eyes with the big girl, and holds her
               stare.

               As she talks to the little girl, she removes an already
               stained with blood white handkerchief with the name "BILL"
               sewn on it. And the blonde wipes the girl's mother's blood
               off her blade.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         It was not my intention to do this
                         in front of you. For that I'm
                         sorry. But you can take my word for
                         it, your mother had it coming. When
                         you grow up, if you still feel raw
                         about it, I'll be waiting.

               And with that apology, statement, and invitation, The Bride
               walks out the kitchen side door, leaving the little girl to
               her mourning.



               EXT. VERNITA'S HOME - DAY

               The Bride walks down the dead woman's driveway to her
               vehicle. She glances at the lawn toys one more time as she
               makes here getaway.

               She climbs into her big, yellow pickup truck, with the words
               "Pussy Wagon" written across the flatbed's hatch door in a
               pimpy font. She takes out a ringed notebook and turns to a
               page that's headline reads;


                                     DEATH LIST FIVE

               On the pager are five names numbered going down the page
               written in red ink.

               The first name has a line drawn through it with black ink.

               The second name on the list is;


                                      VERNITA GREEN
                                          COBRA

               The Bride takes a black felt pen and draws a line through
               Vernita's name. Turns on the truck's engine and drives out of
               the residential district.

                                                         FADE TO BLACK.
               OVER BLACK
               TITLE CARD:


                                       Chapter two

                                    The comatose Bride


               FADE UP ON

               CU The comatose Bride
               lying in her hospital bed, wide open unblinking sightless
               eyes, that constantly stare yet see nothing. The Bride is at
               the beginning of her comatose journey.

               A SUBTITLE APPEARS:
               under her face.


                           "Five years and four months earlier
                              in the city of El Paso, Texas"

               Although we're only in a tight CU, we can tell a few things:
               one, she's in her hospital room; two, she's alone; three,
               it's night; and four, one hellva RAINSTORM is pounding
               outside.



               EXT. EL PASO GENERAL HOSPITAL - NIGHT

               The rain pisses down in buckets in front of the hospital...

               WHEN...

               The wheel to an Alfa Romeo rolls into FRAME and stops.

               The car door opens and two yellow galoshes step out into the
               wet night.

               OVERHEAD SHOT
               A red umbrella opens as rain falls down.

               CU the back of a head wearing a yellow rainslicker hood,
               framed by the red umbrella above it, which water cascades
               down and beats a rhythm against.

               The figure in the yellow rainslicker with the red umbrella
               (who we can guess is female) starts walking towards the
               hospital.
			   
                                 WE GO TO SPLIT SCREEN

                      Left Side                   Right Side
               CU The Bride's unblinking        The back of the yellow
               comatose sleep.	                slicker - walking in the
                                                rain towards the
						hospital's entrance.

						CU her yellow galoshes
						slapping against the wet
						asphalt, and splashing
						through puddles.

	       CU The Bride in her coma	        CU the hospital's
						electrical doors -
						WOOSH - OPEN.

						We follow behind the
						woman in the raincoat
						as she walks from
						outside into the hospital
						down the hall, and into
						the ladies room door.

	       CU The BRIDE	                EX CU OF A WHITE
	       in her coma		        WOMAN'S SHAPELY
						BAREFOOT ANKLE AND LEG
						stepping into a sheer,
						white stocking.

						INSERT: OF THOSE LONG,
						WHITE LEGS STEPPING
						INTO A WHITE NURSE'S
						UNIFORM.

						INSERT: OF THE ZIPPER
						IN THE BACK ZIPPING
						UPWARDS.

						INSERT: OF WHITE, SHEER
						STOCKING FEET STEPPING
						INTO WHITE NURSE'S
						ORTHOPEDIC SHOES.

			-			INSERT: OF A SYRINGE
						NEEDLE STUCK IN A VIAL
						The liquid is drawn up
						into the syringe.

						SOME WRITTEN TEXT
						APPEARS BELOW IMAGE
						THAT READS:
											   
						"A lethal cocktail of
						Bill's own concoction.
						He calls it, 'Goodbye
						forever'."
								
						INSERT: THE DEADLY
						SYRINGE IS PLACED ON
						A NURSE'S TRAY

						INSERT: A LITTLE WHITE
						NURSE'S CAP IS PLACED
						ON TOP of the woman's
						blonde head.


               INT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - NIGHT

               The door marked "ladies" is opened, and a beautiful 6-foot
               blonde in a white nurse's uniform, with a matching white eye
               patch over her left eye, steps out, carrying the nurse's tray
               with the "Goodbye forever"-filled syringe on it.
               She walks down the corridor towards The sleeping Bride's
               room.

               SUBTITLE UNDERNEATH BLONDE NURSE:

                                       "ELLE DRIVER

                                        Member of
                           The DEADLY VIPER ASSASSINATION SQUAD
                                        codename:
                                CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN SNAKE"
                                   END OF SPLIT SCREEN
                                  STAY WITH ELLE'S SIDE



               INT. THE BRIDE'S HOSPITAL ROOM - NIGHT

               The Bride, alone in her bed, alone in her coma, alone in her
               room.

               Elle Driver opens the door to her room and steps inside.
               The female assassin approaches the comatose woman.

               EX CU ELLE DRIVER'S EYE AND WHITE EYE PATCH
               looking down at her sleeping target, victim, rival, and
               opposite number.

               EX CU The BRIDE'S EYES
               wide open - blank stare.

               Elle standing over The Bride's hospital bed, says to her;



                                   ELLE
                         I might never of liked you. Point
                         in fact I despise you. But that
                         doesn't suggest I don't respect
                         you. You were a master of a
                         profession that's most difficult to
                         master.
                         Dying in our sleep is a luxury our
                         kind is rarely afforded. My gift to
                         you.

               As she lifts the syringe off the tray....

               Her cell phone RINGS....

               She curses to herself...there can be only one person on the
               other end....she answers it.



                                   ELLE
                         Hello, Bill.
                             (pause)
                         Affirmative.
                             (pause)
                         Comatose.
                             (pause)
                         I'm standing over her right now.
                             (pause)
                         What!

               The female assassin turns away from the wide-eyed stare of
               The Bride, and paces the hospital room talking in the cell
               phone.



                                   ELLE
                         Don't fuckin ssshhh me! If you
                         think I came all the way down to
                         Texas - in a dog and cat rainstorm
                         no less - just to tuck sleeping
                         beauty in bed - you got another
                         fuckin thing comin -
                             (pause, then real loud)
                         You don't owe her Shit!!
                             (then again, but quieter)
                         You don't owe her shit.
                             (pause)
                         Man, fuck that bitch!
                             (pause)
                         Oh you're not are you? Well Bill,
                         you never leave a job half done.
                         A great teacher taught me that
                         once, he looked a whole lot like
                         you.

               Elle pauses as Bill on the other line has his say. We don't
               hear his side, we stay with Elle as he talks. We can tell by
               her face, he's making some sense. After awhile she answers
               back;



                                   ELLE
                         I guess.
                             (pause)
                         No, I don't need to guess, I know.
                             (pause)
                         Affirmative.
                             (pause)
                         I love you too, bye bye.

               The female assassin puts the phone away and looks down at The
               comatose Bride with the open eyes. Even though her face is
               expressionless, she almost seems to be smiling.



                                   ELLE
                         Thought that was pretty funny
                         didn't ya? Word of advice shithead,
                         don't you ever wake up.

               Elle leans closer to the Bride's face.



                                   ELLE
                         Ya know now I get a better look at
                         you, you're not so damn pretty.
                         Yeah, you go that Venus thing going
                         for you but...ya know, now I get a
                         closer look at you you're kinda
                         weird looking. You got this big
                         nose that doesn't fit with the rest
                         of your face, your eyes are two
                         different sizes. And look at your
                         skin...My complexion is way better
                         than yours --

               The Bride does one of her motor reflex functions...She SPITS
               in Elle's face.

               Elle springs up, wipes the spit off her cheek and looks down
               at The comatose Bride in her bed.



                                   ELLE
                         Oh, no you didn't.

               She grabs The Bride by the front of her hospital gown...

               ....Yanks Her up to a sitting position...

               ...And PUNCHES her hard in the face three times.



                                   ELLE
                         If you ever take your ass out of
                         this Goddamn bed for as long as you
                         fuckin live, I will beat you into
                         the ground, bitch!



               INT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - NIGHT

               Elle Driver in her nurse's uniform, angrily walks down the
               hallway. She passes by a DOCTOR, STRUGGLING WITH A PATIENT
               BLEEDING PROFUSELY on a gurney.



                                   DOCTOR
                             (yelling)
                         Nurse come here quick, we're losing
                         this man!

               Elle doesn't even look back.



                                   ELLE
                         Tough titty, I quit.

               She walks out of the SHOT.

                                                         FADE TO BLACK.



               BLACK FRAME
               TITLE CARD:


                                    Five years later.


                                                                CUT TO:



               INT. THE COMATOSE BRIDE'S HOSPITAL ROOM - NIGHT

               The CAMERA is in a corner of the ceiling, looking down on the
               comatose Bride, who lies motionless in her bed.

               WE HEAR the sound of a BUZZING MOSQUITO, doing loop de loops
               and figure eights in the air, looking for some warm blood.

               The BUZZING stops....

               MACRO CU
               of mosquito on The Bride's forearm, its stinger dug in her
               flesh, visibly drawing blood from its host.

               CU MOSQUITO'S FACE
               drinking her blood.

               MACROSHOT OF MOSQUITO ON FOREARM
               drinking blood...when The Bride's hand comes into FRAME and
               SQUASHES the bug flat. Her fingers FLICK the dead bug away.

               CU The Bride
               her wide-open eyes, that have stared in a constant gaze for
               the last five years,
               finally...slowly...softly...shut.

               BEAT

               They SUDDENLY POP OPEN.

               The BRIDE SITS BOLD UPRIGHT IN BED.
               She has no idea where the fuck she is. WE DO A SHAW BROTHERS
               STYLE QUICK ZOOM INTO A CU OF HER FACE.

               QUICK CUT TO A FLASHBACK SPAGHETTI-WESTERN STYLE
               back at the wedding chapel, gun pointed down at our face.

               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 SIDE                    RIGHT 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 pussy is exposed. He does kind
               of a "TA-DA" presentation of her vagina.



                                   THE ORDERLY
                         Now is that the cutest little
                         blonde pussy you ever saw, or is
                         that the cutest little blonde
                         pussy, YOU-EVEA-SAW?

               Trucker #2 (Gerald) would tend to agree, Trucker #1 (Warren)
               fronts.



                                   WARREN
                         I seen better.

               CU The BRIDE
               EYES WIDE OPEN PLAYING POSSUM. She can't believe she's being
               exhibited in this manner. A look of chagrin crosses her
               trying-to-be expressionless face, "I've seen a fuck load
               better than you, fatass."



                                   THE ORDERLY
                         Yeah, in a movie - maybe. But I
                         know damn well this is the best
                         pussy you ever saw you had touchin
                         rights to. The price is seventy
                         five dollars a fuck gentlemen, you
                         gittin your freak on or what?

               The Truckers pay the bill of fare.

               As The Orderly counts The Truckers' money, he lays out the
               rules;



                                   THE ORDERLY
                         Here's the rules; Rule number one;
                         no punchin 'er.
                         Nurse comes in tomorrow an she got
                         'er a shiner - or less some teeth,
                         jig's up. So no knuckle sandwiches
                         under no circumstances. And by the
                         way, this little cunt's a spitter -
                         it's a motor reflex thing but spit
                         or no, no punchin. Now are we
                         absolutely positively clear about
                         rule number one?



                                   TWO TRUCKERS
                         Yeah.



                                   THE ORDERLY
                         Rule number two;
                         No monkey bites, no hickeys - in
                         fact no leavin no marks of no kind.
                         But after that, it's allll goooood.
                         Her plummin down there don't work
                         no more, so feel free to cum in 'er
                         all ya wont. Keep the noise down -
                         try not to make a mess, and I'll be
                         back in twenty.

               The Orderly turns to leave, then remembers something, and
               turns back. He takes out the most disgusting jar of vaseline
               in the history of cinema, and hands it to Warren.



                                   THE ORDERLY
                         Oh by the way, not all the time,
                         but sometimes this cunt's cunt can
                         get drier than a bucket of sand.
                         If she dry, lube up with this and
                         you'll be goo to go. BON-APPETIT,
                         gentlemen.

               And with that, The Orderly's gone.

               The BRIDE'S POV:
               As soon as he leaves the Two Truckers start giggling. Warren
               begins to unbuckle the belt that lies beneath his belly.
               While he looks down to accomplish this, The BRIDE'S POV
               BLINKS.



                                   GERALD
                         Hey Warren, she just blinked.



                                   WARREN
                         He said she can't blink.



                                   GERALD
                         I know what he said, I'm tellin ya
                         she just did.

               Warren drops his Levi's to his ankles.



                                   WARREN
                         Just wait, when I get through with
                         this little dumbbell, she gonna
                         stand up and recite the Gettysburg
                         Ad-dress.

               Warren begins to climb up on the bed and mount The Bride.
               Before he does he stops, and looks back to Gerald.



                                   WARREN
                         Hey, Gerald.



                                   GERALD
                         Yeah?



                                   WARREN
                         This shit ain't no peep show. Go
                         out in the hall and I'll let ya
                         know when it's your turn.



                                   GERALD
                         Awww c'mon, I gotta leave the room?



                                   WARREN
                         I can't get no errection wit you
                         lookin at me, so go on.



                                   GERALD
                         Well, just hurry up then.

               Gerald leaves the room; we go out with him in the hallway.



               INT. HALLWAY (HOSPITAL) - NIGHT

               Gerald paces, waiting for his turn behind the door.

               THEN...

               He hears behind the door a commotion, then Warren SCREAM LIKE
               A BITCH. He bangs on the closed door and says;



                                   GERALD
                         He man, keep it down in there, I
                         can hear your ass out here.

               More falsetto SCREAMS behind the door...

               THEN...

               The HEAVY THUD of a body falling. Not what the expected.



               INT. THE BRIDE'S ROOM - NIGHT

               Gerald pushes open the door to see one hellva sight. His
               buddy, bloody and lying motionless on the floor, and The
               Bride lying haphazardly on the bed, in her coma.

               He moves to his buddy, who's dead. Then moves to The comatose
               Bride... Who SUDDENLY SPRINGS TO LIFE, GRABBING him by the
               front of his shirt, YANKING HIM DOWN TO HER, and PLUNGING the
               I.V. NEEDLE in her arm DEEP INTO HIS TEMPLE, THEN TWISTING IT
               AROUND and AROUND, turning the right side of his brain into
               scrambled eggs a la The BRIDE.
               She tosses the now brain-dead Gerald to the floor.

               The BRIDE
               upon waking, without leaving the bed where she lay the last
               five years, has just killed two men. She throws off the
               bloody blankets, whips her legs off the side of the bed, and
               tries to stand - THEN QUICKLY FALLS OUT OF FRAME. WE HEAR THE
               CRASH BELOW FRAME.

               The Bride is flat on the floor. Her legs and feet don't work.
               Which means she's stuck on the floor with only a functioning
               top half, and a completely useless bottom half. What's a girl
               to do?



               INT. HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - NIGHT

               The elevator doors open, and The Orderly steps out.

               BACK TO The BRIDE
               She hears the sound of Bill's boots approaching the room...
               STEP...STEP...STEP...

               She sees Gerald has a Trucker's knife in a holster attached
               to his belt. Her hands removes it.

               The Orderly swaggers down the hall to The Bride's room, red
               Reeboks slapping against the smooth floor.

               CU The BRIDE
               She SNAPS the knife's BLADE OPEN in her CU.

               The Orderly pushes open The Bride's door, stopping in shock.

               The ORDERLY'S POV:
               He sees an empty bed with bloodstains on it, Two dead
               Truckers on the floor, and no Bride.



                                   ORDERLY
                         Oh shit!

               WE GO TO SLOW MOTION as he freaks, Then PAN DOWN HIM... Past
               shirts - pants - to his Reeboks...Once on the floor WE SEE
               The BRIDE, curled up low next to the doorway, behind his
               ankles, knife ready. WE GO BACK TO 24 FRAMES A SECOND. He
               steps into the room; when he does The Bride reaches out and
               SLASHES both of his Achilles tendons.

               The STANDING ORDERLY
               lets out a "YELP," adn FALLS OUT OF FRAME.

               IMPACT CUT
               The Orderly HITTING the floor face first. The boy is stunned.

               The BRIDE (Confined to the floor)
               crawls over and drags the stunned fucker across the floor,
               placing his melon head between the door and the door frame.
               Then taking the door in her right hand.

                                          SLAM!

                                          SLAM!

                                          SLAM!

               SLAMMING HIS HEAD THREE TIMES BETWEEN THE DOOR AND THE DOOR
               FRAME.

               The ORDERLY
               lies on the floor in a stange state of consciousness. He's in
               both excruciating pain, and quite sure he's lost his mind,
               since at this moment he's lying on the floor, looking up at
               The comatose Bride asking him questions.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Where's Bill?



                                   THE ORDERLY
                             (hurt and confused)
                         Who?

                                          SLAM!

               He screams.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Bill! Where is Bill!



                                   THE ORDERLY
                         I dunno no Bill.

                                          SLAM!



                                   THE BRIDE
                         I saw him here myself.....
                             SLAM!
                         ....Now do you tell me where he is,
                         or do I beat your fuckin brains in?

                                          SLAM!



                                   THE ORDERLY
                         Please please stop, don't hit me
                         again!



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Where is Bill?

                                          SLAM!

               Suddenly The Bride sees the gold coke straw around his neck,
               that she thought she'd seen earlier on Bill. She snatches it
               from around his neck.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Where did you get this from?



                                   THE ORDERLY
                         That's mine.

                                          SLAM!



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Bullshit! I saw Bill wearing it in
                         this room ten minutes ago.

                                          SLAM!

               Then The Bride looks down and sees two tatoos on the
               Orderly's hand - one spelling "B.U.C.K." on each finger of
               his left hand. And another spelling "F.U.C.K." on the fingers
               of his right.

               The Bride seems to look inside her own mind - Whenever she
               does this A SPECIAL THEME MUSIC WILL PLAY (We'll call it her
               REMEMBERING THEME).

               WE DO A QUICK SHAW BROTHERS ZOOM INTO HER EYES -
               We see Buck enter her room that first night, five years
               ago.... He's holding in his hand one of those big flashlights
               you use in a tent when camping. -- It gives off a soft blue
               light. Buck examines The Bride through the blue.



                                   BUCK
                         Well, ain't you the slice of cutie
                         pie they all said you wuz. Well
                         Ma'am, I'm from Longview Texas, my
                         name's Buck, and I'm here to fuck.

               He starts to unbuckle his belt.

               WE ZOOM OUT OF HER EYES INTO A CU. The REMEMBERING THEME CUTS
               OFF. She looks down at Buck and says;



                                   THE BRIDE 
                         Your name's Buck, right? And you
                         came to fuck, right?

               A "how the fuck does she know look," crosses his face.

               The Bride looks down at him....The VENGEANCE THEME BEGINS
               PLAYING LOUDLY ON The SOUNDTRACK, and the VEIN IN HER
               FOREHEAD BECOMES PRONOUNCED and begins to PULSATE IN TIME
               WITH The MUSIC. Every time The Bride comes face to face with
               a tormenter, this Theme will play on the soundtrack. By mid
               movie this music should drive the audience wild with orgasmic
               anticipation of the carnage to come...

               ...and With the door in her hand and one mighty slam, this
               Longview Texas boy is sent to the Promised Land.

               She searches the dead man's pockets, coming up with a brown
               wallet that says on it, "BIG EL PASO PIMPIN," loaded with
               lettuce. She also pulls out a set of car keys on a pickup
               truck key chain that has the words, "Pussy Wagon" on it
               written in a pimpy font. She gathers up all these items, and
               Gerald's knife, then begins to strip Buck of his orderly
               uniform.



               INT. UNDERGROUND PARKING LOT - NIGHT

               The elevator doors to the hospital's underground parking lot
               open, revealing The Bride in Buck's orderly scrubs in a
               wheelchair.

               She wheels out of the elevator fast into the parking lot. Her
               arms spinning the wheels as she goes down the line of cars,
               looking for a pickup truck that Buck would own...she stops.

               What made The Bride stop. The ass end of a big, yellow 4x4
               hard-body pickup truck, with flames painted along the side,
               and the words, "PUSSY WAGON," written along the flat-bed
               hatch door. Pimpy font.

               The Bride looks at Buck's key chain in her hand.

               EX CU CAR KEY in truck door lock, it turns.

               EX CU TRUCK DOOR LOCK POPS UP OPEN.



               INT. BACKSEAT OF BUCK'S TRUCK - NIGHT

               The Bride pulls herself up into the backseat of Buck's pickup
               truck. Once in the backseat, she shoves the wheelchair away.

               It rolls out of control down the parking ramp, and CRASHES.

               Now The Bride's lying vertically in Buck's truck's backseat.
               Seemingly out of danger - at least out of sight - but she's
               still stuck hiding in the hospital. And until she regains
               full use of her legs and feet, this little Bride ain't goin
               anywhere or doin anything.

               Lying flat, with the back of her head propped up against the
               door, her long, lifeless legs stretched out in front of her,
               her two bare feet at the end of them, pointing to the sky,
               the Bride focusses her eyes, her stare, her thoughts, her
               strength, and all her concentration....on her big toe.

               SLOW ZOOM INTO BIG TOE....

               SLOW ZOOM INTO HER FACE....

               SLOW ZOOM INTO BIG TOE....

               SLOW ZOOM INTO FACE.



                                   THE BRIDE
                             (monotone)
                         Wiggle your big toe.

               Toe doesn't move an inch.



                                   THE BRIDE 
                         Wiggle your big toe.

               It doesn't move.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Wiggle your big toe.
                             (VOICE OVER)
                         As I lay in the back of Buck's
                         pickup truck, trying to will my
                         limbs out of entropy, I could see
                         the faces of the cunts who did this
                         to me, and the dick responsible.
                         Members all of Bill's brainchild;
                         "The Deadly Viper Assassination
                         Squad."



               TITLE SEQUENCE

               For what looks like a 60's television show about an ALL-GIRL
               HIT SQUAD, complete with its own LALO SHIFFRIN THEME MUSIC.
               Against a BRIGHT ORANGE BACKGROUND, A SNAKE WITH SIX HEADS
               (All different breeds), DONE IN A COOL BUT LOW-BUDGET SPEED
               RACER-STYLE OF ANIMATION, rears its heads to strike.

               The IMAGE FREEZES... AND THE SHOW'S TITLE (In an especially
               cool font) AND LOGO (The black silhouette of five sexy gals
               each with a samurai sword hanging from their hip, and one guy
               in a black suit) APPEAR BENEATH IT.


                                    "The DEADLY VIPER
                                   ASSASSINATINO SQUAD
                                      the D.iV.A.S."

               The SHOW CAST CREDITS START:

               WE SEE The BRIDE doing something cool...FREEZE

               SCREEN GOES ORANGE  except for a SCOPE-SIGHT RIFLE GRAPHIC
               WITH CROSSHAIRS over The Bride's face. OFF TO THE SIDE IS HER
               IDENTIFYING CREDIT;

               "Starring
               (The Bride's real name is covered by a stamp that reads)
               CLASSIFIED
                   as
               BLACK MAMBA"

               A beautiful Japanese woman wielding a samurai sword - FREEZE
               ORANGE B.G. SCOPE-SIGHT GRAPHIC

               "Starring
               O-REN ISHII
                   as
               COTTONMOUTH"

               VERNITA GREEN doing something cool - FREEZE
               SAME GRAPHIC

               "Starring
               VERNITA GREEN
                   as
               COBRA"

               The older, male doing something cool - FREEZE
               SAME GRAPHIC

               "Starring
                  BUDD
                   as
               SIDEWINDER"

               ELLE DRIVER doing something cool - FREEZE
               ORANGE B.G. SCOPE-SIGHT GRAPHIC;

               "Starring
               ELLE DRIVER
                  as
               CALIFORNIA MOUNTAIN SNAKE"

               As the DEADLY VIPER ASSASSINATION SQUAD OPENING THEME PLAYS
               WE SEE VARIOUS SHOTS of The Vipers (all dressed alike in the
               same BLACK, SKINTIGHT CAT SUITS, except for Budd, the male
               who wears a BLACK SUIT) all doing exciting shit. It ends with
               the reappearance of the six-heades snake logo, and the six,
               black silhouettes.
               The FINAL CREDIT APPEARS;

               "Created and Produced
                         by
                        BILL"

               WE MOVE INTO A HEAD and SHOULDERS CU OF The BRIDE'S BLACK
               SILHOUETTE.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         Now after five years of beauty
                         sleep I knew absolutely nothing
                         about my enemies' strengths
                         weakness or whereabouts. But as
                         fated by God vengeance would have
                         it, I who knew nothing - knew one
                         thing. As sure as God made little
                         green apples...

               WE MOVE FAST TO O-REN ISHII'S SILHOUETTE, The SILHOUETTE
               BECOMES A POSED PICTURE OF O-REN in all her Deadly Viper
               glory.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                             (continued)
                         ....if O-Ren Ishii, the first name
                         on my Death List, was still
                         alive... she'd live in Japan. O-Ren
                         Ishii, made her first acquaintance
                         with death at the age of eleven.

               FLASH ON
               CU O-REN (11-years old), hiding under a bed, watching...

               ...her FATHER (dressed in the uniform of a sergeant for the
               American Army) fighting THREE YAKUZA GANGSTERS. He kills one
               with his bare hands. The other two slice him to death with
               samurai swords...

               ...and her MOTHER being raped by the same men. When they
               finish, they SHOOT her.

               Little O-Ren watches, hidden from sight, withi the eyes and
               face of a stone.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         It was at that age, a half-Chinese,
                         half-Japanese American Army brat
                         witnessed the murder of her Master
                         Sergeant father. And the rape, then
                         murder of her mother at the hands
                         of Japan's most ruthless Yakuza
                         boss, Boss Matsumoto. She swore
                         revenge...luckily for her, Boss
                         Matsumoto was a pedophile.

               SHOCK CUT
               O-REN ON TOP OF BOSS MATSUMOTO PLUNGING A HUGE KNIFE INTO HIS
               CHEST. A STREAM OF RED BLOOD SHOOTS UP OUT OF HIM like a
               geyser. Boss is naked, O-Ren wears a Japanese schoolgirl
               uniform.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         At thirteen, she got her revenge.

               The Boss's screams cause TWO OF BOSS'S MEN to run into the
               room, only to be SHOT DOWN by O-Ren, as she removes a gun
               from a holster strapped to her thigh.

               The 20-YEAR OLD O-REN ISHII
               on a rooftop with a high-powered, scope-sight rifle up to her
               eye. Her EYE is HUGELY MAGNIFIED in the SCOPE.



                                   THE BRIDE 
                         By twenty, she was one of the tip
                         top of female assassins in the
                         world.

               She fires.



               INT. CAR - DAY

               A Central American General riding backseat of his government
               vehicle. TWO BEAUTIFUL LATIN WOMEN in one-piece bathing suits
               sit on either side of him. They both wear sashes down their
               front; one reads, "Miss Panama," the other reads, "Miss
               Venezuela." As we cut to this shot, he has both hands on each
               of their bare knees. He's laughing as the TOP OF HIS HEAD is
               BLOWN OFF.

               The 23-YEAR OLD O-REN ISHII
               stands before Bill and The Bride. (Bill is not clearly
               viewed.)



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         At twenty-three she joined Bill's
                         Deadly Vipers...

               The 25-YEAR-OLD O-REN ISHII
               BEATING UP the pregnant Bride with the other Vipers...



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         At twenty five she did her part in
                         the killing of eight innocent
                         people, including my unborn
                         daughter, in a small wedding chapel
                         in El Paso Texas. But on that day,
                         five years ago, she made one big
                         mistake...

               POSED FIGURE of the BRIDE in all her pre-beating bridal gown
               glory.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         ...she Should of killed nine.
                         However, before statisfaction would
                         be mine, first things first...

               CU The BRIDE IN BUCK'S TRUCK
               An hour and a half later from the last time we saw her.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Wiggel your big toe.

               CU The BRIDE'S BIG TOE
               wiggles - slightly.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Hart part's over. Now let's get
                         these other piggies wiggling.

                                                         FADE TO BLACK.



               BLACK FRAME
               SUBTITLE APPEARS:


                                  "Thirteen Hours Later"

               BEGIN MUSIC MONTAGE

               FADE UP ON



               INT. UNDERGROUND PARKING LOT - DAY

               Pavement of the parking lot. We HEAR a CAR DOOR OPEN
               OFFSCREEN, then The Bride's bare foot comes from above FRAME,
               stepping down INTO The SHOT.

               She walks around to the driver's side and climbs in.

               She sticks Buck's ignition key in its slot and turns.

               The truck's engine RUMBLES to life.

               She spies a pair of Elvis T.C.B. SUNGLASSES lying on the
               dash. She puts them on.



               EXT. TEXAS STREETS/ INT. TEXAS STORES - DAY

               The Bride drives Buck's big, yellow pussy wagon all over El
               Paso buying supplies.

               WE FOLLOW Her bare feet into a clothing store.

               Her feet, legs, and ass slip into a new pair of LEVI'S.

               Her hands grab a pair of CHERRY BROWN COWBOY BOOTS.

               Then slips on the cowboy boots.

               Chooses another TOP.

               And finds a warm JACKET.

               She opens Buck's "BIG EL PASO PIMPIN" wallet, and pays for
               the items.

               She emerges from the store wearing her new outfit, and climbs
               back in the truck.

               She drives, stopping at a DEPARTMENT STORE, and walking
               inside.

               She picks up a SHOVEL, a HAND PICKAXE, a big CAMPING
               FLASHLIGHT, a MAP OF TEXAS, a writing NOTEBOOK, and a bunch
               of RED and BLACK FELT PENS.

               While the Bride is buying items in the department store we'll
               CROSSCUT....

               ....with her driving the pussy wagon up to a low-rent motel
               called, "The Texican"....

               ...Her Registering with the OLD BASTARD of a desk clerk,
               getting the key, and paying him out of the "BIG EL PASO
               PIMPIN" wallet....

               ...her drawing a bath in the bathroom of the motel room...

               Shampoo is taken off the shelf of the department store...

               ...conditioner...

               ...a bar of soap...

               ...hot water runs out of the bathtub faucet...

               ...steam rises off the hot bathwater...

               ...she pulls down a bunch of bath products, like bubble bath,
               salts, apricot this - kiwi that, we see her pour all the
               items in the bathwater...

               ...then we see her bare foot enter the bathwater...

               ...then Lower her whole body into the bathwater...

               ...now submerged in the warm bathwater, by herself, perfect
               MUSIC CUE ON SOUNDTRACK, she begins to cry...her poor heart
               has been shattered and five years of tears come flooding out
               of her.

               She cries for her baby...

               She cries for the motherhood robbed from her...

               She cries for all the innocent people at the wedding chapel,
               who died simply because they were unlucky enough to cross her
               path...

               She cries for the betrayal at the hands of her lover...

               She cries for the treachery at the hands of her comrades...

               She cries for the five years of life snatched from her...

               She cries for the countless violations she endured while
               incapacitated...

               And finally, she cries for all the misery she will cause the
               undeserving......enroute to Bill's retribution. Retribution
               that begins the minute she steps out of this bathtub.

               She curls up into a fetal position inside the tub of warm
               water...weeping.

               We DOLLY back...to give our heroine some privacy...WE
               DISSOLVE through the bathroom door...Till we're on the other
               side, filming a closed door with crying on the other side.

               When she's finished shedding tears, is when she'll begin
               shedding blood.

               When the bathroom door opens, the woman that emerges, has
               closed out all of her emotions...save from one...revenge.

               It's that woman, in her new outfit, that climbs into the
               yellow pussy wagon, puts the T.C.B. Sunglasses over her eyes,
               and starts the engine that sets into motion the gory story to
               follow.

               END OF MUSIC MONTAGE



               EXT./INT. BUCK'S TRUCK DRIVING IN DESERT (MOVING) - NIGHT

               POV THROUGH WINDSHIELD:
               The truck shines its headlight beams on an open patch of
               prairie wasteland. We see dirt, rocks, plants, and an oil
               derrick pumping up and down.

               The Bride STOPS the truck.

               Taking her flashlight with her, The Bride walks into the
               headlight beams towards one rock on the ground in particular.

               She lifts it off the ground, there's an X on it's underside.

               She smiles. If the X hadn't been there, she would have taken
               it as a sign that her vengeance quest was never meant to be.
               But as it is there, it would appear that fortune has smiled
               on The Bride and her bloody intentions.

               She walks back to the truck, takes the shovel and the hand
               pickaxe out from the flatbed, reaches into the truck cab and
               CHANGES THE MUSIC TO A POUNDING HEAVY METAL ANTHEM.

               CU The BRIDE'S COWBOY BOOTS
               next to the X ROCK
               IN TIME WITH The METAL, The Bride's cowboy boots count out
               ten paces from the rock.
               When the boots stop, the flashlight ENTERS THE SHOT
               illuminating the spot, THEN...the shovel ENTERS, striking
               deep in the unmarked earth.



               EXT. TEXAS DESERT - NIGHT

               Deep in the middle of Fuck-Knows Texas, lit by the headlights
               of Buck's 4x4, The Bride digs a hole in the
               ground......TILL...

               She HITS SOMETHING HARD.

               She gets down on her knees, hacking away at the dirt with the
               hand pickaxe, till a large box covered in plastic is
               revealed. She hoists it up out of the earth.

               She rips off the plastic, revealing a large, green Army
               footlocker, untouched by the condensation of being buried in
               the ground for over five years. Flipping the two locks open,
               she lifts the lid, placing the big camping flashlight on the
               rim.

               Unfolding a sleeping bag long-ways, she bought at the
               department store. The Bride begins collecting the contents of
               her buried treasure, and laying them on the sleeping bag.

               We see her remove them from the footlocker, one by one.

               The HEAVY METAL CONTINUES ON THE SOUNDTRACK.

               2 9mm AUTOMATICS, w/ AMMO
               and HOLSTERS.

               1 small HAND GUN, w/ AMMO
               and HOLSTER (which fits around the thigh).

               1 SNUB NOSE .38
               w/ ANKLE HOLSTER.

               1 double-edged SOG KNIFE
               w/ HOLSTER

               1 MOSSBERG PUMP ACTION SHOT GUN w/ AMMO

               1 SILVER STEEL BOOMERANG, w/ a double-sided razor's edge
               w/ HOLSTER.

               1 old fashioned STRAIGHT RAZOR

               1 BLACK VERTICAL ATTACHE CASE.
               She flips it open, and inside broken down into four separate
               pieces is a HIGH-POWERED, SCOPE-SIGHT RIFLE.

               1 MANILA ENVELOPE.
               She reaches in and pulls out a PHOTOCOPY OF HER SONOGRAM.
               There on the page is a photocopy of her unborn baby girl. A
               fierce grimness crosses her face as she places the sonogram
               back in the envelope.

               1 CLEAR ZIP-LOCK BAG containing a PHONY I.D. and BANK BOOK
               both w/ the name "CANDY RALSTON" on them. Reaching back in
               the locker she pulls out the final item,

               1 SMALL KEY attached to a "DEALY VIPERS" KEY CHAIN.

               She rolls up the weapons in the sleeping bag, and drives off.
               The HEAVY METAL CONTINUES...

               CU SIGN reading, COMMONWEALTH BANK OF TEXAS



               INT. COMMONWEALTH BANK OF TEXAS - DAY

               CU The BRIDE
               standing at a teller window, she holds up her key.

               INSERT: 1 BANK BOOK and 1 DRIVER'S LICENSE w/ The Bride's
               photo on it and the name "CANDY RALSTON" on each.



               INT. SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULT - DAY

               The Bride, with a big athletic bag slung over her shoulder,
               watches a TELLER remove four safety deposit boxes.



               INT. PRIVATE AREA - DAY

               Where you look isnide your safety deposit box by yourself.

               The Bride opens up the first box...

               ...It's filled w/ CASH.

               She opens up the second box....

               ...It's filled w/ CASH.

               She opens up the third box....

               ....It's filled w/ CASH.

               She opens up the fourth box....

               ....She Takes out a BAG. Inside the bag are 14 FORGED
               PASSPORTS and DRIVER'S LICENSES in 14 different names.

               Also in the box, is one COMPACT REFRIGERATOR CASE. She opens
               it, inside are 2 BEAUTIFUL HANDMADE GOLD SYRINGES and 1 VIAL
               OF FLUID.

               A SUBTITLE APPEARS UNDERNEATH:


                                       TRUTH SERUM
                                       of Bill's own
                                       concoction.
                                       He calls it,
                                       "The Undisputed Truth."

               AS The HEAVY METAL CONTINUES...WE see The BRIDE leaving the
               bank, all the weapons she needs, all the money she needs,
               taking the first step on her bloody trail...

               A RINKY DINK GRAPHIC OF A MAP OF JAPAN

               The tiny figure of a black AIRPLANE flies over the map,
               leaving a dotted-line trail behind it. We move into the black
               airplane and DISSOLVE to



               INT. AIRPLANE (FLYING)

               OVERHEAD SHOT
               of the Bride in her passenger seat, flying to Japan. We see
               she's holding a clean white handkerchief. She's sewing the
               name "Bill" in the corner.

               END OF MUSIC MONTAGE.
               BLACK FRAME
               TITLE CARD:


                                      Chapter Three

                                       The MAN From
                                         OKINAWA


                                                             FADE UP ON



               INT. SUSHI BAR (OKINAWA, JAPAN) - DAY

               The ENTRANCE to a tiny sushi bar, covered by a Japanese
               curtain....

               SUBTITLE APPEARS:


                                       "The City of
                                     OKINAWA, JAPAN"

               ....The fabric is moved aside, and The Bride enters the shot,
               and the tiny establishment.

               The little fish and sake bar is the definition of the word
               cozy. Besides The Bride, the only other person inside is The
               SUSHI CHEF, who smiles at her behind the midget bar.

               This Japanese man in his mid-fifties greets the tall, blonde
               western girl with a turned-on-for-the-tourists affability.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         English?



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         Almost -- American.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         Ahhhh,...America, welcome...
                         Welcome... My English -- Very good.

               The Bride smiles at this and walks further inside. She
               doesn't come across as one of the world's deadliest
               assassins, but instead as a sweet, slightly airheaded,
               American tourist.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Domo.

               The Sushi Chef gives an exaggerated look of surprise, and
               says;



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         Oh, "Domo", Very good -- very good,
                         you speak Japanese?



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         Nooo, just a few words I learned
                         since yesterday. - May I sit at the
                         bar?



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         Sure sure sure - sit. What other
                         words did you learn - excuse me --

               The Sushi Chef YELLS IN JAPANESE, to someone OFFSCREEN.

               The Bride thinks the restaurant so small it's almost hard to
               imagine there could be a back room to it.

               Before getting a response from whoever it was he was yelling
               to a moment ago, The Sushi Chef turns back to The Bride.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         -- What other Japanese you learn?

               The Bride puts on a thinking face.



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         Oh...let's see..."Arigato."



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         "Arigato"...Very good.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         ..."Ah-So"...



                                   SUSHI CHEF (JAPANESE)
                         "Ah-So!" You know what "Ah-So"
                         meansß



                                   THE BRIDE
                         "I See."



                                   SUSHI CHEF
                         I see - Very good.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         I already said "Domo", right?



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         Yes.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         "Kon-netie-wa."

               The Sushi Chef goes "Oooh" like he's just discovered the
               answer to a mystery.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         ..."Kon-nichi-wa"...repeat please.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         "Kon-nichi-wa?"

               Saying with surprise and admiration;



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         Most impressive...you say Japanese
                         words, like you Japanese.

               The Bride smiles and lets loose with a girlish giggle.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Now you're making fun of me.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         No no no - serious business.
                         Pronunciation - very good. You say
                         "Arigato" ...like we say "Arigato."



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         Well, thank you - I mean...arigato.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         You should learn Japanese - very
                         easy.



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         No kidding, I heard it's kinda
                         hard.

               Whenever the Sushi Chef doesn't either hear your or
               understand you, he yells the word;



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         What!

               And everybody always speaks LOUDER and CLEARER immediately
               afterwards.



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         I always heard it was difficult.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         Yes yes yes - most difficult. But
                         you have Japanese tongue.



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         Maybe I was Japanese in another
                         life.

               The Sushi Chef proclaims as if he should know;



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         Most definitely, most definitely
                         Japanese in another life.

               He sets an order of colorful, raw fish in front of the young
               blonde woman, that not only looks good, it looks beautiful.



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         How did you know tuna's my
                         favorite?



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         What!



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         Tuna's my favorite.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         Ah, thank you very much.

               He YELLS OFFSCREEN in Japanese agai. A little BALD JAPANESE
               MAN with a shitty attitude, comes out from the back room. He
               heads for the tall blonde asking in a grumbly voice in
               Japanese, "What she wants to drink?"



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                             (to the bald man)
                         I beg your pardon?

               The Sushi Chef pantomimes drinking.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         - Drink -



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         Oh yes, a bottle of warm sake.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         Ahhh sake,
                             (he holds up his thumb)
                         Very good.

               In Japanese he YELLS/ORDERS the warm sake, the little Bald
               Man disappears. The Bride takes a bite out of her fish.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         First time in Japan?



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         A-huh.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         What!



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         Yes, this is my first time.

               As the chef slices the next portion with a large knife, he
               asks;



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         What brings you to Okinawa?



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         I came to see a man.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         Aaahh, you have friend live in
                         Okinawa?



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         Not quite.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         Not friend?



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         I've never met him.

               The Sushi Chef continues slicing.....



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         Who is he, may I ask?



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Hattori Hanzo.

               There's a break in the Sushi Chef's slicing. After a beat, he
               brings a bloody finger INTO FRAME and sticks it in his mouth.

               The little Bald man appears with a bottle of warm sake, he
               pours one for The Bride, then disappears again.

               As The Bride sips the sake, she looks at the chef.

               As The Sushi Chef sucks his finger, he looks at The Bride.

               The Sushi Chef drops the voice he had been using up to that
               point...and IN JAPANESE SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH asks;



                                   SUSHI CHEF (JAPANESE)
                         What do you want with Hattori
                         Hanzo?

               The Bride answers in Japanese;



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         I need Japanese steel.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (JAPANESE)
                         Why do you need Japanese steel?



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         I have vermin to kill.



                                   SUSHI CHEF (ENGLISH)
                         You must have big rats you need
                         Hattori Hanzo steel.



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         Huge.



               INT. HATTORI HANZO'S ATTIC - DAY

               The trap door in the floor opens up, and HATTORI HANZO (Sushi
               Chef), climbs inside the room, followed by The Bride.

               The room has many handcrafted samurai swords in hand-carved
               wooden sheaths resting on wooden racks running the length of
               the second half of the attic.

               The Bride walks down the row of Japanese steel, looking and
               touching the shiny wood. She looks behind her to Hanzo who is
               still by the trap door, and says;



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         May I?

               The Sushi Chef answers in ENGLISH;



                                   HANZO (ENGLISH)
                         Yes you may.....

               She starts reaching for one...



                                   HANZO (ENGLISH)
                         ...try the second one down in the
                         sixth row on your left.

               She finds it lying sleeping in its shiny, black sheath.

               Her hand lifts it from the rack.

               She UNSHEATHS the steel, partially....then with GREAT
               FLOURISH....completely.

               Hanzo's mouth froms a smile.



                                   HANZO (ENGLISH)
                         Funny, you like samurai swords...

               He pulls a baseball out of his pocket.



                                   HANZO (ENGLISH)
                         ...I like baseball.

               THEN SUDDENLY - HE THROWS THE BASEBALL HARD, right at The
               Bride's head....

               QUICK AS A WHIP, SHE SLICES THE BALL IN HALF, IN MID AIR.

               The two perfectly cut baseball pieces, hit the floor.

               He gives her a slight nod, then crosses the attic towards
               her.



                                   HANZO (JAPANESE)
                         I wanted to show you these....
                         However someone as you, who knows
                         so much must surely know, I no
                         longer make instruments of death. I
                         keep these here for their ascetic
                         and sentimental value.
                             (he takes both sword and
                              sheath from her...)
                         Yet proud tho I am of my life's
                         work...
                             (...he closes them
                              together)
                         I am retired.



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         Then give me one of these.



                                   HANZO (ENGLISH)
                         These are not for sale.



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         I didn't say, sell me. I said, give
                         me.



                                   HANZO (ENGLISH)
                         And why should I be obliged to
                         assist you in the extermination of
                         your vermin?



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         Because my vermin, is a former
                         student of yours. And considering
                         the student, I'd say you had a
                         rather large obligation.

               Hattori Hanzo goes to a dusty window, and writes the name,
               "BILL" on it with his finger.

               The blonde girl nods her head yes.

               The proud warrior moves over to the door in the floor,
               throwing it open.

               He points into a corner...



                                   HANZO (JAPANESE)
                         ...You can sleep there...

               .....starts to descend....



                                   HANZO (JAPANESE)
                         ...it will take me a week to make
                         the sword...

               .....before his head disappears, he says;



                                   HANZO (JAPANESE)
                         ...I suggest you spend it
                         practicing.

               ...he closes the door behind him.

               She smiles slightly...then moves over to the window, takes
               out a handkerchief, and wipes Bill's name off.

                                                         FADE TO BLACK.



               OVER BLACK
               TITLE APPEARS:


                                     "One week later"

               Under black we hear Hattori Hanzo's voice in Japanese and
               read the subtitles;



                                   HANZO (V.O.; JAPANESE)
                         I'm done doing what I swore an oath
                         to God 28 years ago to never do
                         again. I've created, "something
                         that kills people." And in that
                         purpose I was a success.

                                                             FADE UP ON



               CU HATTORI HANZO



                                   HANZO (JAPANESE)
                         I've done this, because
                         philosophically I'm sympathetic to
                         your aim.

               EX CU The HANZO SWORD
               TRACKING EX CU of the Hanzo sword in its shiny, black wood
               sheath. At the base of the sheath, by the handle, he's carved
               the face of a lioness...



                                   HANZO (V.O.; JAPANESE)
                         I can tell you with no ego, this is
                         my finest sword. If on your
                         journey, you should encounter God,
                         God will be cut.

               CU HANZO.



                                   HANZO (JAPANESE)
                         Revenge is never a straight line.
                         It's a forest. And like a forest
                         it's easy to lose your way...to get
                         lost...
                         to forget where you came in. To
                         serve as a compass, a combat
                         philosophy must be adopted that can
                         be found in the secret doctrine of
                         the Yagu Ninja. And now my yellow
                         haired warrior, repeat after me;

               We go back and forth between CU of HANZO reciting the
               doctrine like a samurai drill instructor and the Bride
               repeating it.



                                   HANZO (JAPANESE)
                         "When engaged in combat, the
                         vanquishing of thine enemy can be
                         the warrior's only concern...

               The Bride repeats this...



                                   HANZO (JAPANESE)
                         ...This is the first and cardinal
                         rule of combat...

               The Bride repeats this...



                                   HANZO (JAPANESE)
                         ...Suppress all human emotion and
                         compassion...

               The Bride repeats this...



                                   HANZO (JAPANESE)
                         ...Kill whoever stands in thy way,
                         even if that be Lord God, or Buddha
                         himself...

               The Bride repeats this...



                                   HANZO (JAPANESE)
                         This truth lies at the heart of the
                         art of combat. Once it is
                         mastered... Thou shall fear no
                         one... Though the devil himself may
                         bar thy way...

               The Bride repeats this... Her eyes look at the greatest maker
               of swords on this earth and says;



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Domo.

               EX CU The Hanzo Sword,
               her white hand with her long fingers COMES INTO FRAME and
               removes the beautiful, artful instrument of vengeance.

                                                         FADE TO BLACK.



               OVER BLACK
               TITLE CARD:


                                       Chapter Four

                                         SHOWDOWN
                                            at
                                   HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES


                                                                CUT TO:

               A BLANK PIECE OF DRAWING PAPER
               A hand comes in and, as the Bride talks over this image,
               draws with a piece of charcoal, a portrait of the geisha
               regaled O-REN ISHII.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         When fortune smiles on something as
                         violent and ugly as revenge, at the
                         time it seems proof like no other,
                         that not only does God exist,
                         you're doing his will. At a time
                         when I knew the last about my
                         enemies, the first name on my death
                         list, was the easiest to find. But
                         of course, when one manages the
                         difficult task of becoming queen of
                         the Tokyo underworld, one doesn't
                         keep it a secret, does one?

               The charcoal drawing gets color and becomes ANIMATED, turning
               into a JAPAMATION O-REN...

               JAPANESE ANIMATION SEQUENCE
               We see Japamation-style images of The Bride's verbiage.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         At the age of twenty, Bill backed
                         his Nippon progeny financially and
                         philosophically in her
                         Shakespearian-in-magnitude power
                         struggle with the other Yakuza
                         clans, over who would rule vice in
                         the city of Tokyo.

               Japamation images of O-Ren and her Army, taking on ANOTHER
               YAKUZA ARMY, among falling cherry blossoms.

               WE CUT BACK AND FORTH between cartoon images of this and the
               real life real McCoy samurai sword battle.

               O-Ren's ability is simply amazing.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         When it was all over, it was the
                         geisha-regaled O-Ren Ishii that
                         proved the victor.



               INT. JAPANESE NIGHT CLUB

               O-Ren has just become the official leader of crime in the
               city of Tokyo. The six Yakuza clan bosses, each with TWO
               BODYGUARDS standing behind them, toast their new leader, with
               much laughter and drinking...all except one...BOSS TANAKA.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         And just in case you're wondering
                         how could a half breed Japanese
                         Chinese American become the boss of
                         all criminal activity in Tokyo,
                         Japan,... I'll tell you. The
                         subject of O-Ren's blood and
                         nationality came up before the
                         council only once. The night O-Ren
                         assumed power over the crime
                         council.

               Boss Tanaka is the picture of angered ambiance among the
               alcohol-fueled frivolity.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         The man who seems bound and
                         determined to break the mood is
                         Boss Tanaka. And what Boss Tanaka
                         thinks is...

               Boss Tanaka brings his fist down on the table, smashing the
               plate in front of him into itty bitty pieces.

               The party comes to a halt as all eyes go to the leader of the
               Tanaka Crime Family.



                                   CRIME FAMILY LEADER #2 (JAPANESE)
                         Tanaka? What's the meaning of this
                         outburst? This is a time for
                         celebration.



                                   BOSS TANAKA (JAPANESE)
                         And what exactly should I be
                         celebrating? The perversion of our
                         illustrious council?

               The Bosses all react with shock and outrage...O-Ren remains
               cool. She raises her voice for the first word, but lowers it
               for the rest of the sentence.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Gentlemen...Boss Tanaka obviously
                         has something on his mind. Allow
                         him to express it.



                                   BOSS TANAKA (JAPANESE)
                         My father...
                             (looking at a clan head)
                         ...along with yours and...
                             (looking at another)
                         ...along With yours, started this
                         council. And while you drink like
                         fish and laugh like donkeys, they
                         weep in the afterlife over the
                         perversion committed today.

               The BOSSES react again...O-Ren;



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Silence!
                             (then composed)
                         Of what perversion do you speak,
                         Tanaka?

               Boss Tanaka looks at the female half-breed American and says;



                                   BOSS TANAKA (JAPANESE)
                         I speak, Mistress Ishii,....of the
                         perversion done to this council,
                         which I love more than my own
                         children,...by making a half
                         Chinese American its leader.

               Then...

               Faster than you can say Jimminy Cricket,...

               O-Ren's samurai sword is unsheathed...

               Boss Tanaka's head is liberated from its body...

               The head hits the floor...

               And from the spot between its shoulder blades, a geyser of
               blood shoots up in the air.

               The BOSSES who were shocked at Tanaka's words are even more
               flabbergasted at O-Ren's resonse.

               The two bodyguard's, standing behind Boss Tanaka, hands go to
               their swords and draw them.

               O-Ren turns her blade in their direction.

               The Bosses and their bodyguards say nothing,...only watch.

               The lady looks across at the two men and says in and
               authoritative voice;



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Fight me or work for me.

               They look at her for a moment, then they lower their swords.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Drop them on the ground.

               They do.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Get behind me.

               They do.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Get on your knees.

               They do.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Put your foreheads on the floor.

               They do.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Keep your mouths shut.

               You better believe they do.

               The mistress' eyes got to the other bosses looking at her.

               As she speaks English, bodyguard translators translate for
               their bosses.



                                   O-REN
                         I'm going to say this in English so
                         you know how serious I am. As your
                         leader, I encourage you to -- from
                         time to time and always in a
                         respectful manner, and with the
                         complete knowledge that my decision
                         is final -- to question my logic.
                         If you're unconvinced a particular
                         plan of action I've decided is the
                         wisest, tell me so. But allow me to
                         convince you. And I will promise
                         you, right here and now, no subject
                         will be taboo...except the subject
                         that was just under discussion.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                             (to a bodyguard)
                         Hand me that head.

               He picks it off the floor and meekly offers it to the Queen.

               She takes it by the hair and holds it up as she speaks.



                                   O-REN (ENGLISH)
                         The price you pay for bringing up
                         either my Chinese or my American
                         heritage as a negative is, I
                         collect your fuckin head.
                             (now completely American)
                         Just like this fucker here. Now if
                         any of you sonsabitches got
                         anything else to say, now's the
                         fuckin time.

               Nobody says anything.



                                   O-REN (ENGLISH)
                         I didn't think so.
                             (pause)
                         Meeting adjourned.



               EXT. THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES - JAPANESE RESTAURANT

               The entire O-Ren Ishii crew moves through the restaurant. The
               CUSTOMERS all look up now as the crew passes. The restaurant
               staff acts as if the Shogun himself has just showed up on
               their doorstep demanding a meal. No doubt if the meal is not
               satisfactory the staff will gladly slice off a finger. The
               door to a private dining room is slid open, the crew steps
               inside, the door is slid shut.



               INT. PRIVATE DINING AREA (RESTAURANT) - NIGHT

               The private dining area of the Japanese restaurant. The
               patrons are surrounded by white paper walls. The CAMERA
               CIRCLES around O-REN ISHII.

               Sitting in between her, two personal bodyguards, the Yubari
               sisters, YUKI AND GO GO. The Yubari sisters are younger than
               O-Ren; Yuki is sixteen and Go Go is seventeen. Both girls are
               dressed in Japanese schoolgirl uniforms complete with plaid
               skirts and matching blazers.

               FLASH ON
               EX CU OF AN EYEBALL (The BRIDE's)

               On her right is her French and Japanese lawyer, SOFIE FATALE.

               FLASH ON
               EX CU OF AN EYEBALL

               The bunch of mop-topped young men, who all wear black suits,
               white shirts, thin black ties and Kato masks over their eyes,
               are her soldiers, "The CRAZY 88."

               FLASH ON
               EX CU OF AN EAR, The Bride's fingers come into FRAME and move
               blonde hair out of the sensory appendage's way.

               And finally there's a tall dark American in a black suit sans
               Kato mask -- that's O-Ren's head of security, MR. BARREL.

               They're all drinking and having a good time as Sofie tells a
               joke in Japanese.



                                   THE BRIDE (V.O.)
                         The mop tops in black suits and
                         Kato masks were O-Ren's soldiers,
                         "The Crazy 88." The two young girls
                         in the schoolgirl uniforms are her
                         personal bodyguards, the Yubari
                         sisters. Yuki, aged sixteen, and Go
                         Go, aged seventeen. The pretty lady
                         who's dressed like she's a villain
                         on Star Trek is O-Ren's best friend
                         and her lawyer, Sofie Fatale. And
                         finally, the American in the black
                         suit but sans Kato mask, O-Ren's
                         head of security, Mr. Barrel.

               SUDDENLY O-Ren hears something. Like a deer in the forest,
               her head springs up on alert. It's almost as if she's
               listening to The Bride's narration.

               The Bride's NARRATION SUDDENLY STOPS IN MIDSENTENCE --

               O-Ren removes a SMALL DAGGER-DART from the folds of her robe
               and THROWS IT in the direction of the sound.

               CU The BRIDE dressed in a kimono
               on the other side of the private dining room's paper wall.
               The DART FLIES THROUGH The PAPER, STREAKS BY HER FACE, almost
               taking off the tip of her nose in the process.

               INSERT: DART EMBEDS ITSELF IN A WOOD POST.

               O-Ren's action instantly brings the room's frivolity to a
               halt. Mistress Ishii silently orders Go Go and Yuki to
               retrieve the eavesdropper.



               INT. JAPANESE RESTAURANT - NIGHT

               The white paper door to O-Ren's dining room SLAMS OPEN. Yuki
               and Go Go step into the corridor.

               All trace of the Bride has vanished.

               They look out over the restaurant, patrons look normal.

               Whoever was there is gone now.

               Go Go removes the small dagger from the wood post and the
               Yubari sisters go back into the private dining room, SLAMMING
               the door behind them.



               ONE SHOT

               CU The BRIDE
               at the bar, in her kimono, drinking a colorful cocktail. She
               observes all the activity by O-Ren's private dining room.
               When the Yubari sisters go back inside, the Bride climbs off
               her barstool and goes through the restaurant...into the
               parking area...and up to her rental car. She opens the door.
               Takes off her Japanese kimono, underneath is a one-piece
               yellow track suit with a black stripe going down both sides,
               like the one Bruce Lee wears in "Game of Death." She tosses
               the kimono in the trunk, then removes the sheathed Hanzo
               sword. With the sword of vengeance in her hand, we follow her
               back inside the restaurant. She looks upstairs to the O-Ren
               dining room. We see Yuki Yubari and Sofie Fatale, slide open
               the door, and walk down the stairs together. When they get to
               the bottom, they give each other a kiss goodbye, and Yuki
               leaves the restaurant, while Sofie makes her way to the
               bathroom...only to have The Bride, now dressed in her Bruce
               Lee yellow outfit and samurai sword in her hand, bar her way.

                                                            END OF SHOT
               BACK AND FORTH
               between CU's of the two women, face to face.



                                   SOFIE (JAPANESE)
                             (to Bride)
                         Can I help you?



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Yes, I am looking for the attorney
                         of O-Ren Ishii, Sofie Fatale. Would
                         that be you?



                                   SOFIE (JAPANESE)
                         I'm Mistress Ishii's attorney. How
                         can I help you?

               The Bride PUNCHES her in the face.



               INT. O-REN'S PRIVATE ROOM

               Aside from drinking like fishes, what is the queen of the
               Tokyo underworld - Mistress O-Ren Ishii - and her private
               army doing when we cut back?

               Singing karaoke, of course.

               It's Crazy 88 MIKI's turn at the mike and he's having a whale
               of a good time singing Dionne Warwick's "Walk On By," in
               Japanese....

               WHEN...

               A COMMOTION is heard being made by the restaurant staff and
               the other patrons, from the other side of the white paper
               wall...Just as they all start to notice it, they hear;



                                   THE BRIDE (O.S., JAPANESE)
                         O-Ren Ishii! You and I have
                         unfinished business!

               The Crazy 88 spring to their feet. One slides open the door.

               They see O-Ren's lawyer, Sofie Fatale, standing in the middle
               of the restaurant, her left arm completely outstretched, hand
               gripped around a post. She has a terrified look on her face.
               Before anybody on O-Ren's side of the room can say anything
               ...The Bride steps out from behind Sofie.

               O-REN'S
               reaction shows how effective the element of surprise turned
               out to be. She says The Bride's name softly to herself; it's
               BLEEPED OUT.

               The Bride
               The VENGEANCE THEME BURSTS ON THE SOUNDTRACK...The Vein on
               her forehead begins to pulsate. WE DO A QUICK SHAW BROTHERS
               ZOOM INTO HER EYES. A SPAGHETTI-WESTERN FLASHBACK of O-Ren
               beating the shit outta her at the wedding chapel IS
               SUPERIMPOSED OVER HER EYES. The FLASHBACK DISSOLVES, we ZOOM
               BACK INTO A CU, the vein stops pulsating, and the theme STOPS
               PLAYING OVER THE SOUNDTRACK, LEAVING A CLEAN, COLORFUL CU of
               The Bride loaded for bear.

               She raises her Hanzo sword, and Slices off Sofie's Arm at the
               Shoulder with one stroke.

               SOFIE
               Spewing and Gushing Blood from her stump, twists her body in
               agony, painting the floor and the walls with giant Splashes
               of Red, as her body hits the floor, twitching in both
               surprise and shock.

               The CRAZY 88
               run out into the dining area and create a human wall between
               themselves and their Mistress.

               MR. BARREL AND GO GO
               take positions on either side of O-Ren.

               O-REN
               seated in a shogun's seat, rises furiously to her feet.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         You bastard!

               The Bride does a swipe in the air with her sword; Sofie's
               blood flies off the blade.

               The entire floor of the dining room lies between the two
               warring parties.


                                        The Bride
                                           vs.
                                       The Crazy 88

               The restaurant's STAFF and PATRONS sit or stand rigidly in
               fear.

               O-Ren says loudly to the room;



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Sorry everybody, but I'm afraid
                         we're going to have to close the
                         place. There's some private
                         business that we must attend to
                         now.

               The Staff and The Customers Stampede the exits.

               The Bride, The Crazy 88, and O-Ren hold their ground without
               moving a muscle, till the dining room, as well as the entire
               restaurant known as "The House of Blue Leaves," is deserted
               of every human not engaged in the face-off that precedes
               combat.

               O-Ren gives a simple order;



                                   O-REN
                         Miki.

               MIKI, one of The Crazy 88 (The little one), steps forward,
               unsheaths his sword, and yells at the yellow clad blonde.



                                   MIKI (JAPANESE)
                         You had it coming bastard!

               Raising his samurai sword high, he Charges, Screaming A
               Banzai Scream...

               The Bride turns to face him.

               Miki Charging and Screaming...

               The Bride slowly raises the Hanzo Sword into Striking
               Position.

               Miki Charging and Screaming, almost on top of her.

               The Bride, sword in position, waits for her opponent to
               arrive.

               Miki arrives at his destination, he Swings...

               The Bride Swings...

               The Hanzo Sword Slices Miki's inferior blade in half. Miki
               looks down at the impotent weapon in his hand.

               The Bride Thrusts her sword through Miki's abdomen, then
               Lifts the little guy off the ground straight up in the air.

               Miki screaming, Impaled on her blade like a fish at the end
               of a spear. Held up in the air, restaurant light fixtures in
               the B.G.

               O-Ren and her crew watch stunned.

               The Bride Drops the shishkabobbed Miki into the koi pond that
               starts outside the restaurant and ends inside, with a huge
               blue splash. Koi pond - Blue water - Orange and yellow fish -
               Red blood - Dead man.

               The BRIDE
               looks up from the pond, across the length of the floor, into
               the eyes of O-Ren Ishii.
               She takes one step forward, hears the slightest noise, Twirls
               the samurai sword in the air once, drops to one knee, and
               thrusts the sword into the beige-colored carpet-covered
               floor. The sword sticks in the floor half way...

               The Sound of human death rises from underneath the floor...

               OVERHEAD SHOT
               Looking down on The Bride at one end and O-Ren and her crew
               at the other. A Red Circle appears where the blade is buried
               in the floor...The red circle grows larger...and larger...and
               larger...and larger still...

               Leaving the sword stuck in the floor, handle sticking
               straight up in the air, The Bride rises up from her one knee,
               and straight and tall, staring down the queen of the Tokyo
               underworld.

               O-Ren
               her eyes narrow with rage. She screams out another order;



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Tear the bitch apart!

               The six remaining Crazy 88 unsheath their swords at the same
               time with a GREAT SOUND EFFECT.

               They circle the Bride.

               The BRIDE
               Inside the circle of Combatants who surrounded her. She Whips
               the sword out of the floor and raises her blade diagonally in
               front of her. Her eyes are reflected in the shiny steel.

               Holding her sword in the diagonal position, The Bride can see
               reflected in the shiny blade, whoever stands behind her.

               The six Crazy 88 Attack...

               The BRIDE
               does a Zatoichi-like SWISH-SLASH-SWISH with her steel blade.

               Four boys die an immediate samurai blade-inflicted death,
               SCREAMING GRUNT, TWITCHING BODY, FROZEN IN THE STANCE IT WAS
               SLASHED IN, RED BLOOD SQUIRTING FROM WOUNDS, THEN A CRASHING
               COLLAPSE TO THE FLOOR.

               The last two put up more of a fight...but then one of them is
               SLASHED and FALLS and the last one is SLASHED AND CRASHES
               THROUGH the restaurant's big picture window.

               EX CU The EYES
               of The Bride, pointed down at the bodies by her feet,

               ...BEAT

               ...they Look back up at O-Ren.

               O-REN
               standing in between Go Go and Mr. Barrel. Her eyes narrow.

               The BRIDE
               swipes the air with her sword, the blood of the dead
               attackers flies off.

               GO GO and MR. BARREL
               unsheath their swords.

               WHEN...

               We hear a LOUD SOUND of many ENGINES behind the Bride. Then
               behind her, through the broken pictures window we see
               seventeen motorcycles pull up to the parking lot. All the
               riders wear black suits with kato masks, and all carry
               samurai swords.

               The BRIDE
               looks from the reinforcements to O-Ren.

               O-REN
               smiles.



                                   O-REN (ENGLISH)
                             (to the Bride)
                         You didn't think it was going to be
                         that easy, did you?



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                             (to O-Ren)
                         You know, for a second there, yeah
                         I did.

               O-Ren smiles...



                                   O-REN (ENGLISH)
                         Silly rabbit...

               Both O-Ren and the Bride finish the phrase together,...



                                   O-REN/THE BRIDE
                         ...Trix Are for kids.

               This is something they used to say back when they fought
               alongside of each other as "Vipers."

               The seventeen Crazy 88 reinforcements come running into the
               restaurant and with drawn swords surround The Bride.

               As a HEAVY METAL COMBAT BEAT begins to PULSATE ON THE
               SOUNDTRACK, The Boys and The Bride have a Spaghetti Western
               Stand-off.

               We do a 360 INSIDE the CIRCLE of The Crazy 88, who surround
               the yellow-haired warrior. Not all have Samurai swords; one
               JUGGLES TWO HATCHETS, another TWIRLS A THREE-STAFF TRIPLE
               IRON over his head.

               As the Heavy Metal music builds...We Cut to various Shots of
               The Two Opposing Forces Preparing to Strike....Hands on Sword
               Handles...Feet finding Combat Stance...etc...

               ....Until Heavy Metal reaches its Breaking Point...

               ...At that point, the Metal EXPLODES OVER THE SOUNDTRACK...IN
               TIME WITH The BRIDE EXPLODING INTO A VIOLENT KILLING MACHINE
               ON SCREEN.

               As she matches skill with the army of black-suited boys, arms
               flailing, silver blade Clashing and Slashing, long blonde
               hair whipping like a whirling dervish....
               ...She's a Goddess of War Venus.

               Not only is the FIGHT CUT TO THE HEAVY METAL MUSIC, but The
               Bride seems to be somewhat dancing to it as she fights.

               This explosion of furious violence is punctuated
               CINEMATICALLY BY THE COLOR IN THE FILM POPPING OFF, and the
               fight being filmed in HIGH CONTRAST BLACK AND WHITE, turning
               the squirting, spewing geysers of BLOOD FROM CRIMSON RED TO
               OIL BLACK.

               Many members of The Crazy 88 are Sliced, Slashed, and
               liberated from the limbs they were born with at The Bride's
               blade.

               Some SPECIFIC MOMENTS

               While Clashing swords, The Bride whips the silver Boomerang
               out of its holster, and Throws it...

               ....It Twirls Through the Air...

               ...Embedding itself longways in one of the boy's faces.

               The Bride does a Mid-Air Somersault over the head of an
               Attacker, landing solid on her feet behind him...Slash, he's
               Out.

               The Bride is knocked to the floor, her Attacker stands over
               her to Spear the young blonde, Her Legs Spring Up In The Air,
               Ankles Lock Around The Boy's Neck.

               She throws him down to the ground. With his neck still in the
               vise-like grip of her ankles, She removes The SOG Knife from
               its sheath and Plunges it Deep Into The Boy's Chest.

               While still on the ground, an Attacker Charges at her.
               Yanking the Boomerang out of the Dead Boy's Face, She Sends
               It Flying in the Charging Man's path...

               ...Boomerang Twirling Through the Air Close to the Ground...

               ...Chopping Off the Charging Attacker's Foot in Mid Step, he
               falls flat.

               The Bride jumps up onto an attacker's shoulders. She locks
               her legs around him so he's helpless at shaking her off.

               ...she swings down with her sword, and cuts the man's hands
               off.

               So while the helpless man with no hands screams, the now nine
               foot tall Bride fights with the others.

               When she's through she brings the blade across the man she's
               perched on's throat. He falls to his knees, bringing the
               Bride back to the floor like an alevator.

               As soon as her soles touch ground, she's off his shoulders,
               somersaulting on the floor, bringing her blade up between an
               attacker's legs into his groin.

               He lets out a scream, as she yanks her blade free.

               ONE ATTACKER steps out from the rest, "The Best One." He
               Twirls his sword expertly, challenging the young woman to,
               "Come get a piece."

               The Bride does a screaming charge towards him....
               ...Sword raised, The Attacker stands his ground, calm -
               steady, waiting for the blonde-haired locomotive to
               collide.....They meet.....

               SWING - CLASH - DANCE - SEPARATE - SWING - CLASH - SPIN -
               CLASH - LOCK - TWIRL - SEPARATE -

               They match each other blow for blow, till one makes a
               mistake. It's the male. The Bride's swing, that's neither
               clashed or blocked, slices off his right arm.

               ...The arm, still gripping the samurai sword, drops to the
               floor.

               The Bride pushes the Hanzo Sword right through the middle of
               his chest.

               Only half of the Crazy 88s that started the fight remain
               alive, or intact...They start to approach...The Bride, still
               holding the sword that's still impaling the skilled Attacker,
               backs up, keeping his body between her and the remaining
               killers.

               Like a boxer, The Bride uses the momentary break in the
               action, to rest on her feet.....THEN...yanks the blade from
               his chest cavity....The Body Twitches - Spasms - Grunts and
               Crashes to the floor.

               The Attackers start to close in...The Bride readies herself
               for their attack....THEN (in perfect time with the Heavy
               Metal)...Drops to the floor on her back, Spinning like a top.
               She Swings and Slashes and Cuts down below at their legs and
               feet, like some hellish samurai sword-weilding turtle flipped
               over on its shell....

               Many black-suited, mask-wearing boys drop to the ground.

               ...Still Spinning like a break dancer, she spins up on top of
               her head, and Pops back up on her feet.

               And then there were seven.

               The seven remaining sword-weilding, black-suited boys moved
               out of range of the Bride's blade when she dropped to the
               floor. Now spread out, they make a large half-circle.

               The Bride, slowly points the tip of her blade to the floor,
               lowers herself to one knee and slightly bows her head. In
               repose.

               EX CU The Bride's eyes
               pointed up, watch them move closer, COLOR COMES BACK INTO THE
               FILM. We see her face is splashed with blood.

               O-REN
               WHIPS OPEN a red fan.

               GO GO stands by the restaurant's junction box, she flips the
               switch.

               The room goes dark.

               The Crazy 7 make a wide circle around the blonde who's still
               on the floor....

               ...Looking down on her breathing hard in the shadows. As she
               breathes in and out, The FACE OF A LIONESS IS SUPERIMPOSED
               OVER HER FACE.

               Breathe in (Bride) - Breathe out (Lioness) - Breathe in
               (Bride) - Breathe out (Lioness) .....

               The Bride rises to her feet...

               The Crazy 7 move in a circle around The Bride, she moves in a
               circle inside of their circle, all eight of them move in
               rhythm with the Metal...

               The Heavy Metal Music builds....to a big finish...THEN both
               Music and The Bride Explode!

               WIDE SHOT - FRAMED LIKE A KABUKI STAGE
               With the lights off, The White paper wall the eight killers
               fight in front of turns a Psychedelic Bright Blue. The snow
               falling outside is reflected against the paper wall like
               black snow falling on a blue shadow puppet stage.

               The eight samurais are Black Silhouettes against the blue
               backdrop. They begin to combat in a dance of blood, steel and
               death. The Bride does a sword-weilding dosey-doe with all
               sword-weilding partners.

               She CLISH-CLASH-CLISH-CLASHES with all of them - They
               seperate - stalk each other for a moment to the beat - then
               CLISH-CLASH-CLISH-CLASH again, with The Bride killing or
               hacking the limbs of one unlucky dance partner at each
               encounter - Sometimes during the separation, The Bride
               crouches down low in repose while the others continue to
               circle stalk...THEN...She Strikes again.

               We Cut in closer whenever we need to.

               Finally the last of O-Ren's soldiers falls to the Bride's
               sword.

               GO GO
               Standing by the junction box, flips a switch turning the
               lights back on. The electricity shines light on...

               The BRIDE
               Splashed all over with blood. Blood painting the floor, walls
               and ceiling. Dead bodies, several limbs, and horribly wounded
               men who have yet to die, litter the ground.

               With a big "Whoosh" in the air, the blood of O-Ren's
               subordinates fly off the blonde avenger's blade.

               Then saying to the foes who litter the ground.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Those of you lucky enough to still
                         have your lives. Take them with
                         you. But leave the limbs you've
                         lost. They belong to me now.

               The wounded men, crawl out of the restaurant.

               The yellow-haired crimson-covered woman, looks to the last
               remaining combatants...Mr. Barrel, Go Go Yubari, and O-Ren
               Ishii.

               Go Go
               steps forward and removes her weapon, it's not a samurai
               sword. It's a heavy metal ball at the end of a long chain.
               She begins TWIRLING it above her head. Each rotation makes a
               WHOOSH sound in the air.

               BALL AND CHAIN
               in a 3-D-like effect, the metal ball comes right at us.

               The BRIDE
               ducks out of the way, the heavy ball destroying a large chunk
               of wood post behind her.

               Go Go
               eyes focused on her enemy...WHOOSH....WHOOSH....WHOOSH...she
               lets fly...

               The ball and chains wrap around the blade of the Hanzo
               sword...

               ...Go Go yanks...

               ...the Hanzo sword FLIES out of her grip.

               GO GO
               smiles...then...WHOOSH...WHOOSH...

               The BRIDE
               removes her boomerang and THROWS it at Go Go.

               The BOOMERANG
               TWIRLS through the air heading right for Go Go.

               BAM

               The young bodyguard swats it out of the air with her ball and
               chain. She lifts up her chain and the boomerang lies bent, on
               the floor. She looks across at her opponent...WHOOSH...
               WHOOSH...WHOOSH..she LETS FLY. It Strikes the Bride in the
               chest, knocking her on her back...

               ...Go Go twirls it over her head and sends it towards the
               Bride on the floor. The Bride rolls out of the way, the metal
               ball PUNCHES a hole in an overturned table instead.

               The weaponless Bride wrestles a table leg loose from its
               purpose.

               She hops up on a table, table leg in hand, ready to fight.

               Go Go hops up on a table...

               As they fight they hop from table to table...

               Go Go throws her ball and chain...

               ...The Bride - QUICK AS A WHIP...

               BATS it away with the table leg.

               Go Go lets loose with the balls and chain...it wraps around
               the Bride's ankle...Go Go YANKS...

               ...The Bride's leg is yanked out from under her, she FALL
               CRASHING through another table.

               Go Go jumps on top of the Bride, attacking her with a samurai
               short sword. The Bride uses the table leg to block it.

               The women fight fiercely, locked in grapple, each face ugly
               with struggle. Go Go lets her left earlobe get too close to
               the Bride's mouth...the Bride BITES DOWN on it. Go Go screams
               as the lower part of the appendage is bitten off, and she
               rolls off the Bride. The Bride comes at her, bringing the
               table leg -- WHOOPS UPSIDE HER HEAD -- WHOOP-WHOOP-SIDES-HER
               HEAD.

               The girl in the schoolgirl uniform falls on her back, and
               delivers a powerful "C.K." to the Bride from below, dropping
               her to her knees.

               O-Ren is UP, and wraps the chain around the Bride's neck and
               begins to strangle.

               The chain digs into the Bride's throat.

               The Bride brings the table leg, which has a couple of nasty
               looking nails in it, hard against the Japanese girl's thigh.
               The nails cut through the plaid school uniform skirt into her
               flesh...the Bride rips out the nails, taking some leg meat
               with them.

               Go Go lets out a horrific scream.

               The Bride brings the table leg down on the toe of the young
               girl's white tennis shoe. The nails stick in, the white shoe
               becomes stained with red.

               Go Go SCREAMS letting loose of the chain...falling on the
               floor.

               The Bride unwraps the chain around her neck, and begins
               breathing air into her lungs.

               Go Go tries to escape, dragging her fucked-up leg with her...

               The Bride rises from the floor and begins, twirling Go Go's
               weapon above her head.

               Go Go, fast as she can, climbs up the stairs to the second
               floor...

               The Bride stands at the bottom of the stairs, twirling the
               ball and chain over her head.

               Go Go frantically, and in great pain, climbs the stairs...
               She gets to the top.

               The Bride lets loose with the ball and chain...

               It HITS the female bodyguard and one half of the Yubari
               sisters, smack DAB in the back of the head.

               CU GO GO
               We see her face as she's delivered a death blow right behind
               it. We see behind her eyes and features, her life and spirit
               shatter like a teapot.

               Like a discarded rag doll, Go Go Yubari TUMBLES down the
               staircase landing in a pile at the Bride's feet. Dead before
               the tumble began.

               The Bride throws the ball and chain to the floor. Her eyes go
               to the last two remaining combatants...

               ...Mr. Barrel and O-Ren Ishii.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Any more subordinates for me to
                         kill, O-Ren?

               Mr. Barrel says;



                                   MR. BARREL
                         One last one.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         You're Mr. Barrel, right?



                                   MR. BARREL
                         And you're Black Mamba.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Our reputations precede us.



                                   MR. BARREL
                         Apparently.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Tell me Mr. Barrel, why don't you
                         wear your Kato mask? Are you and
                         iconoclast?

               Mr. Barrel takes out a kato mask on a stick, like from a 17th
               Century costume ball, and holds it over his eyes.



                                   MR. BARREL
                         I don't like that rubber band. It
                         fucks up my hair.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         You shouldn't work for her.



                                   MR. BARREL
                         Too late.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         It's not too late to quit.



                                   MR. BARREL
                         Do you have choices?



                                   THE BRIDE
                         No.



                                   MR. BARREL
                         I know exactly how you feel.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         This has nothing to do with You and
                         I, and everything to do with me
                         taking satisfaction from that bitch
                         behind you. And there's absolutely
                         positively no way I'M going to
                         leave here without taking that
                         satisfaction. So Mr. Barrel, you
                         have to stand aside. And that means
                         you must quit, right now.



                                   MR. BARREL
                         I can't.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Yes you can.



                                   MR. BARREL
                         No I can't.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Don't say "Can't", there are no
                         "Cant's." Yes - You - Can.....

               O-REN ISHII
               Screams at her "...last line of defense;"



                                   O-REN (ENGLISH)
                         What are you waiting for? Are you
                         on a date? Attack her you fool!



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Oh my God...
                             (pause)
                         ...She just called you a fool. She
                         just called you a fool in front of
                         me. Not only am I your opponent.
                         I'm a female fellow countryman.
                         And you're going to risk your life -
                         to say nothing of harming me - for
                         a woman who refers to you as a
                         fool?

               O-REN
               is furious, and slaps Mr. Barrel on the shoulder.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Attack, Goddamn you!

               The Bride acts like she's embarrassed to witness what she
               just saw.

               Mr. Barrel spins in O-Ren's direction shooting her a look
               she's never seen from him before.

               He then looks back to the Bride.

               Her eyes are waiting for his. She says with just the
               slightest hint of plea in her voice;



                                   THE BRIDE
                         I'll owe ya one.

               He looks at her a BEAT longer...then says as he resheaths his
               sword;



                                   MR. BARREL
                         The things I do for a pretty face.

               INSERT: The Blade sliding back down into the Sheath, The
               Handle locks into place with a Click.

               He looks back over his shoulder at his former Mistress, and
               says;



                                   MR. BARREL (JAPANESE)
                         I quit.

               O-Ren fries and egg on her head.

               Then with his sheathed Sword in his right hand, and his left
               hand in his pants pocket, he walks across the carnage-strewn
               room and out the front door. As he walks, when he's parallel
               with the Bride, He stops and says;



                                   MR. BARREL
                         About that one you owe me.



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Yes?



                                   MR. BARREL
                         I'm gonna collect someday, you
                         know?



                                   THE BRIDE
                         I'll be disappointed if you don't.

               He continues walking without a look back. Before he Exits the
               restaurant, he throws a look in Sofie's direction, Who's
               lying minus her arm in a pool of her own blood, and says;



                                   MR. BARREL
                         Tough luck bout that arm Sofe.

               He exits the Movie.

               O-REN and The BRIDE
               match eyes. The Japanese gal says;



                                   O-REN (ENGLISH)
                         Very funny.
                             (pause)
                         Your instrument is quite
                         impressive.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Domo.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Where was it made?



                                   THE BRIDE
                         Okinawa.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Whom in Okinawa made you this
                         steel?



                                   THE BRIDE
                         This is Hattori Hanzo steel.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         YOU LIE!!

               The Bride just smiles at her rival's response.

               O-Ren's composure returns.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Swords however never get tired. I
                         hope you've saved your energy. If
                         you haven't, you might not last
                         five minutes.
                             (pause)
                         Have you seen the garden in this
                         establishment?



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         No.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Oh, you really should. It's quite
                         beautiful. Allow me.

               O-Ren moves out of the position she's stood in for the entire
               battle. She steps on the doormat of a corpse, that serves the
               same purpose of a bottom step, and moves over to the white
               paper wall and slides it open....REVEALING....

               .....A WHITE WINTER WONDERLAND, set against a Jet Black sky.
               A Snow-covered Japanese Garden awaits right outside. Snow
               falls from the sky (Slightly artificial, not phony - but
               Operatic/Theatrical). O-Ren stands next to the Bride in the
               doorway looking out into the white night.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         As last looks go, you could do
                         worse.

               The Queen of the Tokyo Underworld steps outside...

               The Bride follows her...



               INT. SNOW-COVERED JAPANESE GARDEN - NIGHT

               As snow falls around them, they stand the correct distance
               from one another.

               COMBAT MUSIC BEGINS PLAYING, but not Japanese drums - Spanish
               Flamenco Guitar.......

               The Bride Unsheaths her Sword Quickly...Holding it out in
               front of her...Tip of Blade pointed at O-Ren...Sword's Handle
               and her Fingers wrapped around that handle, up by her
               cheek...Her eyes are Reflected on the Blade...Snow falls
               around her.

               O-Ren begins walking forward towards the Bride...She raises
               up her Sword, still in its sheath, in front of her face
               vertically...then begins slowly unsheathing it...Snow falls
               around her.

               O-REN'S FEET
               White socks in wooden clogs, walk forward, Crunching Snow
               underneath them...

               The BRIDE
               Holding Sword...Eyes reflected in Blade...her Yellow Sneakers
               Crunching snow underneath them...

               O-REN
               when her Sword is fully unsheathed, the Japanese combat
               artist holds both arms straight out at her sides, Sword in
               one hand - Wood sheath in the other, like a bird....

               ....The Two Women circle each other....

               They SWING - CLASH - DANCE - SEPARATE...CIRCLE...SWING -
               CLASH - DANCE - SEPARATE...

               O-REN LEAPS in the air
               does a Somersault over the Bride's head, landing behind her
               opponent. She brings her Sword down in a Slashing Swing...

               SLASHING The BRIDE
               across her back - Spinning her around...

               O-Ren goes in for the kill...The Bride meets her blade... The
               Blades Clash and Lock...The Two Women's faces come together
               as the Blades become entangled...

               O-Ren moves her arm in a counter-clockwise motion that
               loosens the grip enough to bring her sword handle hard into
               The Bride's mouth...

               Knocking her backwards over a small, stone bench - Flat on
               her ass in a koi pond.

               - The Combat Guitar Stops -

               O-Ren doesn't charge the fallen blonde, She laughs;



                                   O-REN (ENGLISH)
                         Silly Caucasian girl likes to play
                         with samurai swords. Bill might of
                         humored you, but you will find
                         neither humor nor mercy at my
                         blade. Now unless you intend to
                         commit sepeku among the koi, stand
                         up and fight. You may not be able
                         to fight like a samurai, but you
                         can at least die like a samurai.

               The Combat Guitar starts again...As The Bride slowly rises
               out of the koi pond. She brings up her sword and Says Calmly
               to O-Ren in Japanese;



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Attack me. With everything you
                         have.

               The Two Women Clash Swords furiously, their attack ends with
               The Bride's Striking O-Ren - not fatally - but deep. They
               separate...

               ...breathing hard...Cold Air coming out of their mouths like
               two locomotives...

               O-Ren looks down to her wound, then back up to The Bride. The
               respect for the Bride's ability is transparent.

               The Two Women Circle Stalk each other again...

               Red Blood running down Yellow Legs onto Yellow Sneakers...

               Wooden Clogs crunching the Snow, Blood trail dripping down
               legs staining White Socks with Red...

               They Attack, the Geisha figurine and The tall western girl
               with the mane of Whipping Blonde Hair. They Swing - Twist -
               Turn - Clash, matching blow for blow till they both back off.

               Both Women are out of breath and have to stop to recuperate.
               As they both drink the harsh cold air into their lungs,
               leaving red blood stains in the white snow, the two females
               have the same thought. The next clash will be their last.



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         I apologize for ridiculing you
                         earlier.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Accepted.

               They continue breathing...



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Ready?



                                   O-REN (JAPANESE)
                         Yes.

               The Flamenco Guitar begins again, as The Two Women Circle
               each other for their final attack.

               With all the quickness and skill at their command, they clash
               in a superb display of Samurai Swordplay...TILL...They Find
               themselves on opposite sides of a garden wall...

               ...The Bride and O-Ren both begin Running diagonally through
               the snow, Swords held up high, Facing each other, Continuing
               to run even after they passed the wall, Screaming their
               Samurai hearts out...

               UNTIL...

               They both SWING...

               ...can't tell who got who...

               A SCALP OF LONG, BLACK HAIR FLIES THROUGH THE AIR, landing in
               the white snow.

               CU O-REN ISHII
               facing away from the Bride. Sword still in her hand. We see
               she doesn't have the TOP OF HER HEAD ON. A touch of her BRAIN
               is exposed. Blood Droplets streak her face like raindrops.
               The Queen of the Tokyo Underworld, who's regime has just
               ended with one swing, stares off into space.



                                   O-REN (ENGLISH)
                         That really was a Hattori Hanzo
                         sword...

               Her sword FALLS from her grip...in the snow by her feet.



                                   O-REN (ENGLISH)
                         I always dreamed of owning one...

               O-Ren FALLS to her knees, toppling forward.

               Left Cheek in the snow, just barely alive, She says;



                                   O-REN (ENGLISH)
                         Did he make it for you?



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         Yes.

               The Last thing she says before she dies;



                                   O-REN (ENGLISH)
                         ...He must of liked you.

               With her cheek resting against the snow, her eyes close and
               she's gone.

               The BRIDE
               removes a white handkerchief (The One we saw her sewing
               earlier with "Bill" in the corner), and uses it to wipe the
               blood, once belonging to the first name on her death list,
               off her Hanzo Steel.

               EX CU THE HANZO SWORD
               is returned back to its sheath. The LION'S HEAD that Hanzo
               carved into the wood seems pleased.

                                                                CUT TO:

               The BRIDE
               now wearing a yellow, faceless motorcycle crash helmet on her
               head, stands FRAMED in a TRUNK SHOT.

               SOFIE FATALE
               Minus an arm, lies curled up in the trunk of her MAZDA XOXO.

               The BRIDE slams the trunk, SCREEN BOES BLACK...

               The MAZDA driving down the road at supersonic speed.

               The BRIDE
               behind the wheel wearing her crash helmet. It looks like an
               insert from "GRAND PRIX."

               POV THROUGH WINDSHIELD
               car speeding...then stopping.

               BLACK SCREEN
               The BRIDE lifts up trunk lid, we look up at her FRAMED in the
               TRUNK SHOT. Helmet on head making her faceless, gold Deadly
               Viper syringe in her hand.

               When she speaks it comes out of a VOICE BOX at the bottom of
               the helmet. Turning her voice deeper and electronically
               spooky. The two women speak Japanese to each other.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         I've kept you alive for one reason.
                         Information. Being O-Ren's lawyer,
                         I take it you're familiar with
                         Bill?



                                   SOFIE (JAPANESE)
                         Yes.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         In fact, I'd guesstimate, you
                         worked for Bill before O-Ren, and
                         that's how it is you came to work
                         for O-Ren. Am I correct?



                                   SOFIE (JAPANESE)
                         Yes.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         I thought so. Give me the arm you
                         have left.



                                   SOFIE (JAPANESE)
                         Why?



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         I want information. Now gimme your
                         arm.

               Sofie offers up her remaining arm.

               She injects Sofie with the gold syringe.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         The cocktail racing through your
                         bloodstream at this moment is
                         Bill's own recipe. He calls it "The
                         Undisputed Truth."

               Sofie is injected.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Okay, first things first. Where was
                         the other Yubari sister? Yuki?



                                   SOFIE (JAPANESE)
                         Yuki's sick. She went home early.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Do tell? What's wrong with her?



                                   SOFIE (JAPANESE)
                         She has a cold.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Awwww poor baby. What do you think
                         she'll do when she finds out what
                         happened?



                                   SOFIE (JAPANESE)
                         She'll wail with grief.

                                                           SHOCK CUT TO

               YUKI YUBARI upon hearing the news of her sister's death...

               She SCREAMS!

               BACK TO SOFIE



                                   SOFIE
                         She'll drink excessively.

               BACK TO YUKI
               Big bottle of sake in her mouth pointed bottom up.

               BACK TO SOFIE



                                   SOFIE
                         She'll start trouble.

               BACK TO YUKI
               sitting at a bar in drunken stupor. An OLDER JAPANESE MAN in
               a business suit sits next to her at the bar...he puts the
               make on her.



                                   BUSINESS SUIT (JAPANESE)
                         Do you like Ferraris?

               Yuki staring out into space, says with a drunken voice;



                                   YUKI (JAPANESE)
                         Ferrari...Italian trash.

               She slowly turns to face the older Japanese man in the
               business suit.



                                   YUKI (JAPANESE)
                         Do you find me hot?

               The man in the business suit giggles at her boldness; she
               gets annoyed;



                                   YUKI (JAPANESE)
                         Don't laugh! Do you want to fuck
                         me, yes or no?



                                   BUSINESS SUIT (JAPANESE)
                         Yes.

               THEN...

               He lets out a GRUNT coming from below.

               We see she has stabbed him in the belly with a samurai short
               sword, and is slowly dragging the blade across his abdomen,
               creating a big red grin across his mid-section.

               TWO SHOT YUKI AND BUSINESS SUIT
               Yuki focused, Business Suit penetrated...She opens him up
               more...he feels every inch of the blade's progress.



                                   YUKI (JAPANESE)
                         How bout now, big boy, do you still
                         wish to penetrate me...

               Blade cuts deeper...



                                   YUKI (JAPANESE)
                         Or is it I who has penetrated you.

               And with her last line, does the final disemboweling slice
               that sends his insides spilling out onto the barroom floor.

               BACK TO SOFIE



                                   SOFIE (JAPANESE)
                         When she stops shedding tears,
                         she'll start shedding blood.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Best guess, what will she do?



                                   SOFIE (JAPANESE)
                         I don't hafta guess, she'll come
                         after you.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Will she ever give up?



                                   SOFIE (JAPANESE)
                         She won't have to. When she finds
                         you, I don't know who will win. But
                         what I do know is, she will find
                         you.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Is she more skilled than I?



                                   SOFIE (JAPANESE)
                         Skilled won't be the word.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Don't be coy with me, bitch. What
                         would be the word?



                                   SOFIE
                         Crazy.

               The Bride takes this in...then moves on.



                                   THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
                         Okay, now I want all the
                         information on the Deadly
                         Vipers,... What they've been doing
                         and where I can find them.



               EXT. TOKYO GENERAL HOSPITAL - NIGHT

               The big hospital of TOKYO is located by a hill by the
               highway. Sofie's MAZDA pulls off the highway to the side.

               The Bride hops out of the car, runs to the back, opens the
               trunk, takes out Sofie's body, and rolls it down the
               hill....Sofie stops rolling in front of the entrance of the
               huge hospital.

                                                                CUT TO:

               CU SOFIE
               in a hospital environment. Bill's voice speaks to her OFF
               SCREEN;



                                   BILL (O.S.; ENGLISH)
                         Sofie, Sofie, my Sofie, I'm so
                         sorry.



                                   SOFIE (ENGLISH)
                         Please forgive my betrayal --

               He shhhh's her off screen;



                                   BILL (O.S.; ENGLISH)
                         -- no more of that. I invented that
                         truth serum. Once it entered your
                         bloodstream, you no longer had a
                         choice.



                                   SOFIE (ENGLISH)
                         But, still --



                                   BILL (O.S.; ENGLISH)
                         -- But still -- nothing, except my
                         aching heart over what she's done
                         to my beautiful and brilliant
                         Sofie.
                             (pause)
                         If you had to guess why she left
                         you alive, what would be your
                         guess?



                                   SOFIE (ENGLISH)
                         Guessing won't be necessary. She
                         informed me.

               BACK TO THE BRIDE AT THE TRUNK



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         I'm allowing you to keep your
                         wicked life for one reason and one
                         reason only. So you can tell him,
                         in person, everything that happened
                         here tonight. I want him to witness
                         the extent of my mercy..., by
                         witnessing your deformed body. I
                         want you to tell him, all the
                         information you just told me. I
                         want him to know what I know. I
                         want him to know I want him to
                         know.

               Then with SUPERMAN X-RAY VISION we see through the helmet to
               the Bride's face inside as she says the last line.



                                   THE BRIDE (ENGLISH)
                         And I want them all to know,
                         they'll all soon be as dead as O
                         REN.

                                                           WE CUT TO A 

               CU of SOFIE
               WE PAN to a CU of YUKI

               Bill says off screen;



                                   BILL (O.S.; JAPANESE)
                         If O-Ren was number one, unless
                         she's being tricky, Vernita Green
                         will be number two.



                                   YUKI (JAPANESE)
                         Where is Vernita Green?



                                   BILL (O.S., JAPANESE)
                         Los Angeles. Vernita's in Pasadena.
                         But the woman you want will hold up
                         in a low budget motel, fifteen of
                         twenty minutes away from stepping
                         on board a plane departing LAX. If
                         I had to bet...I'd say Hawthorne.

               Yuki blows a pink bubble gum bubble, it pops and she says in
               English;



                                   YUKI (ENGLISH)
                         California, here I come.

                                                                CUT TO:

               CU HATTORI HANZO
               He's sewing something that requires a lot of concentration.

               CU The BRIDE'S BARE BACK
               What he's sewing is, the NASTY SLASH O-Ren gave the Bride on
               her back, closed with a simple needle and thread.

               CU The BRIDE
               lies naked on her stomach, head up, chin resting on her
               folded hand, feeling no pain at the needle piercing her
               flesh. The sleeping giant is awake, and in her eyes we see
               she's filled with a terrible resolve.

               As Hanzo sews, he recites in Japanese the Yagu mantra, the
               Bride recites in Japanese after him.

               EX CU: O-REN ISHII'S name written in the Bride's notebook
               with the number one next to it. A black felt pen comes into
               frame and draws a line through the name.

                                                         FADE TO BLACK.