Kirk Carter@ WGA Copyright 2013
WINE MAMA (15)
THE STATEMENT
EXT. MODESTO SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT-PARKING LOT-12:55 P.M.
SITTING IN BRIAN'S VAN, SANDY WEARING PERKY SPRING DRESS, FLOPPY HAT, HEELS, BRIAN WEARING BLUE JEANS, WHITE SHIRT, TIE, AND TENNIS SHOES
SANDY ADJUSTING BRIAN'S TIE
SANDY
"You guys never seem to get these things right...I swear!"
BRIAN
"I don't know who came up with this crap anyway...makes me feel like I'm being wrapped as a gift or something?"
SANDY
"Yea...you can be my gift, wait till you see how I can open your package...okay, there!"
BRIAN
"That doesn't surprise me, your a package freak...but I mean that in a good way..."
SANDY
"Well, you ready?"
BRIAN
"Yea, let's go do this thing!"
(scene switch)
BRIAN AND SANDY WALKING UP TO DESK SARGENT
SARGENT
"Afternoon, and how may I help you?"
SANDY
"I'm here...my name is Sandy Hudson, about the self-defense shootings at the Hudson Vineyards last night...ah, was told to to come here to finish my statements or something?"
SARGENT
"Yea, your that Bear killer lady...heard all about you, I condemn any..."
SANDY
"Listen to me, I did not...it was an accident, funny...nobody seems to concerned that I killed a man, too!"
SARGENT LAUGHING
SARGENT
"Hold it right there young lady...Mam, the fact is, the man was on your property with a gun that he fired at your door, almost killing you right...you defended yourself and that's that, okay...now, I don't know what his motive's were...if he was coming in to steal, hang out to drink your booze and rape you, take your life, who knows...but the little Bear...that cute...defenseless little Bear didn't have a chance...his paws were clean, you here me...doesn't look good!"
SANDY
"Cute little Bear my ass...it was pitch dark, I didn't even see the little garbage thief!"
SARGENT
"Oh, so now he's a presumed garbage thief, guess all is settled and done...guess we have a reason for our actions now...don't we?"
SANDY
"Look, the garbage was, the stuff I just put out, was all over the street...I live across the street from the forest, the woods...there were Bear tracks coming away from all the crap they found in the bins after they had turned them over...it's pretty obvious to me the Bear's were in my garbage!"
SARGENT
"Okay Mam, let me get Detective Smith for you...and you two can hash it out...poor little Bear."
(scene switch)
DETECTIVE SMITH ANSWERING PHONE
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Oh she's here...okay, thanks!"
SETTING PHONE DOWN, GIVING A SMIRK TO DETECTIVE SMITH
DETECTIVE BROWN
"Let me guess...Hudson?"
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Yea, take her to room three, I'll grab her file...oh wow, looks like she brought that gate-crasher Cashman with her, too!"
SMITH LOOKING AT FRONT LOBBY SURVEILLANCE MONITOR
DETECTIVE BROWN
"Yea, this guy somehow managed to muddle everything up pretty quickly, huh?"
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Yes he did...I tell you what...let's just get her statement and dance her the hell out of here, got that?"
DETECTIVE BROWN
"Right on the money honey!"
(scene switch)
DETECTIVE BROWN WALKING OUT INTO LOBBY
DETECTIVE BROWN
"Afternoon Miss Hudson, and how are we holding up?"
SANDY
"Well, still a bit shaken, but I'm glad to be alive."
DETECTIVE BROWN
"Well considering what you've been through, your holding up remarkably, please follow me down here to room three, Detective Smith will be with you shortly."
WALKING DOWN CORRIDOR, DETECTIVE BROWN SHOWS THEM IN
DETECTIVE BROWN
"There is ice water on the table, we'll be right back with you two in a moment...oh, and your name sir?"
BRIAN
"Brian, Brian Cashman, I'm the co-owner on the Hudson property, her friend..."
DETECTIVE BROWN
"Of course you are...be right back!"
SANDY WHISPERING TO BRIAN
SANDY
"This is weirding me out, never been accused of killing a protected species before."
BRIAN
"Don't forget...a man, too!"
SANDY
"yea, him too...but I thought you said I don't have anything to worry about?"
BRIAN
"Well, actually your just here finishing your statement...you haven't been charged with anything, arrested...your not being subpoenaed, so just be cool, just stick to the facts and everything will be just fine...you can handle that."
SANDY
"It's still weird?"
DETECTIVE SMITH AND BROWN WALKING INTO ROOM
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Afternoon Miss Hudson, we are just here to get a true and accurate accounting of the events that occurred yesterday, the morning of June twelfth at your residence at forty-three twenty Carpenter Road here in Modesto, okay?"
DETECTIVE BROWN
"Please speak clearly into the microphone and follow your timeline as to what occurred before you presumably caused the untimely expiration of one Bear cub..."
SANDY
"Well, I was asleep, not a worry in the world, then my motion detector went off at the front gate, which also made my I-Phone go off, cause Brian has it set to call me if it goes off, like that. So, I look down at the phone and nothing...figured it was a false alarm, so I went back to bed, and a little while later, like three minutes...it went off again, and I look at my screen, and I see two guys walking up my driveway, I mean I freaked, grabbed my passed away husband's old shotgun, cracked the door, told them to get the hell off my property...then one of them took a shot at me, blowing half the door to pieces, so I stuck the gun out the crack in the door and shot back,,,I guess that's when I hit one of them..."
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Yes Miss Hudson, we have all that, but at what point did you feel it necessary to shoot the little Bear?"
SANDY STANDING UP, PACING THE ROOM, TREMBLING FINGER IN THE AIR
SANDY
"Look...it was a double-barreled shotgun, I've only shot Frank's shotgun once in my life, and I didn't know if there was two or twenty out there...I didn't even know there were Bears running around in my yard...the second shot was just a warning shot okay...I was nervous, I had nothing else to defend myself with, I was nervous, I didn't know what else to do...look, I Love animals, I would never intentionally shoot a creature unless I felt threatened okay Detective Smith...Brown, stop provoking me, there's my statement, my testimony to the facts, so take me to jail if you feel the need, if it will make you feel any better, but quit thinking I did any of this with any ill-will or some trumped up preconceived move toward animal vindictiveness, now get over it!"
LONG SILENCE, EVERYONE JUST STARING AT EACH OTHER
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Well...that will be all for now Miss Hudson, I think we got to the principle points to the nature of your actions, uh...we want to thank you for coming in, you will be contacted in regard to any motions that may or may not be filed by the District Attorney's office, please have a good day!"
SANDY
"Thank you, thank you...thank you very much...come on Brian!"
BRIAN
"Yes dear..."
WALKING TOWARDS VAN IN POLICE PARKING LOT, SANDY DOING WESTERN TWO-STEP, DANCING AROUND
BRIAN
"Come on Sandy, get in, stop throwing it in their face, don't forget...your still the Bear killer in their eyes, it's going to take a while for all this to calm down...they're real sensitive about their wildlife...you should see all the crap I went through just to serve smoked Gator tail around here?"
GETTING INTO VAN
SANDY
"But what are they gonna do...fucking nothing, that's what...I killed a bad guy, took down the accidental Bear, I've cleared my head of all of this shit!
BRIAN
"Well, little miss reborn, what do you feel like doing now?"
SANDY
"Let's go back to the vineyards, make a fat sandwich, drink a little Port, and baby us some grapevines, they need some Love, too!"
BRIAN
"Damn girl, that's my girl, let's get busy with it!"
(scene switch)
INT: DETECTIVE SMITH"S OFFICE
DETECTIVE SMITH MAKING PHONE CALL, PARTY ANSWERING PHONE
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Ah yes, this is Smith, is Kyncl there?"
PARTY ON PHONE
"Yeah, he's available, what's it to you?"
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Tell him that Hudson chick is on hold till we can figure something out, okay?"
PARTY ON PHONE
"He will not be pleased, but I will pass on the situation, anything else?"
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Contact John over at Fairfield Vineyards and tell him Sam and Peter will not be coming back."
PARTY ON PHONE
"They went AWOL?"
DETECTIVE SMITH
"They went to meet Jesus...or Satan, hard to tell with them?"
PARTY ON LINE
"I must go now..."
DETECTIVE SMITH
Good idea...bye!"
scene close
DETECTIVE BROWN
"Let me guess...Hudson?"
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Yea, take her to room three, I'll grab her file...oh wow, looks like she brought that gate-crasher Cashman with her, too!"
SMITH LOOKING AT FRONT LOBBY SURVEILLANCE MONITOR
DETECTIVE BROWN
"Yea, this guy somehow managed to muddle everything up pretty quickly, huh?"
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Yes he did...I tell you what...let's just get her statement and dance her the hell out of here, got that?"
DETECTIVE BROWN
"Right on the money honey!"
(scene switch)
DETECTIVE BROWN WALKING OUT INTO LOBBY
DETECTIVE BROWN
"Afternoon Miss Hudson, and how are we holding up?"
SANDY
"Well, still a bit shaken, but I'm glad to be alive."
DETECTIVE BROWN
"Well considering what you've been through, your holding up remarkably, please follow me down here to room three, Detective Smith will be with you shortly."
WALKING DOWN CORRIDOR, DETECTIVE BROWN SHOWS THEM IN
DETECTIVE BROWN
"There is ice water on the table, we'll be right back with you two in a moment...oh, and your name sir?"
BRIAN
"Brian, Brian Cashman, I'm the co-owner on the Hudson property, her friend..."
DETECTIVE BROWN
"Of course you are...be right back!"
SANDY WHISPERING TO BRIAN
SANDY
"This is weirding me out, never been accused of killing a protected species before."
BRIAN
"Don't forget...a man, too!"
SANDY
"yea, him too...but I thought you said I don't have anything to worry about?"
BRIAN
"Well, actually your just here finishing your statement...you haven't been charged with anything, arrested...your not being subpoenaed, so just be cool, just stick to the facts and everything will be just fine...you can handle that."
SANDY
"It's still weird?"
DETECTIVE SMITH AND BROWN WALKING INTO ROOM
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Afternoon Miss Hudson, we are just here to get a true and accurate accounting of the events that occurred yesterday, the morning of June twelfth at your residence at forty-three twenty Carpenter Road here in Modesto, okay?"
DETECTIVE BROWN
"Please speak clearly into the microphone and follow your timeline as to what occurred before you presumably caused the untimely expiration of one Bear cub..."
SANDY
"Well, I was asleep, not a worry in the world, then my motion detector went off at the front gate, which also made my I-Phone go off, cause Brian has it set to call me if it goes off, like that. So, I look down at the phone and nothing...figured it was a false alarm, so I went back to bed, and a little while later, like three minutes...it went off again, and I look at my screen, and I see two guys walking up my driveway, I mean I freaked, grabbed my passed away husband's old shotgun, cracked the door, told them to get the hell off my property...then one of them took a shot at me, blowing half the door to pieces, so I stuck the gun out the crack in the door and shot back,,,I guess that's when I hit one of them..."
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Yes Miss Hudson, we have all that, but at what point did you feel it necessary to shoot the little Bear?"
SANDY STANDING UP, PACING THE ROOM, TREMBLING FINGER IN THE AIR
SANDY
"Look...it was a double-barreled shotgun, I've only shot Frank's shotgun once in my life, and I didn't know if there was two or twenty out there...I didn't even know there were Bears running around in my yard...the second shot was just a warning shot okay...I was nervous, I had nothing else to defend myself with, I was nervous, I didn't know what else to do...look, I Love animals, I would never intentionally shoot a creature unless I felt threatened okay Detective Smith...Brown, stop provoking me, there's my statement, my testimony to the facts, so take me to jail if you feel the need, if it will make you feel any better, but quit thinking I did any of this with any ill-will or some trumped up preconceived move toward animal vindictiveness, now get over it!"
LONG SILENCE, EVERYONE JUST STARING AT EACH OTHER
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Well...that will be all for now Miss Hudson, I think we got to the principle points to the nature of your actions, uh...we want to thank you for coming in, you will be contacted in regard to any motions that may or may not be filed by the District Attorney's office, please have a good day!"
SANDY
"Thank you, thank you...thank you very much...come on Brian!"
BRIAN
"Yes dear..."
WALKING TOWARDS VAN IN POLICE PARKING LOT, SANDY DOING WESTERN TWO-STEP, DANCING AROUND
BRIAN
"Come on Sandy, get in, stop throwing it in their face, don't forget...your still the Bear killer in their eyes, it's going to take a while for all this to calm down...they're real sensitive about their wildlife...you should see all the crap I went through just to serve smoked Gator tail around here?"
GETTING INTO VAN
SANDY
"But what are they gonna do...fucking nothing, that's what...I killed a bad guy, took down the accidental Bear, I've cleared my head of all of this shit!
BRIAN
"Well, little miss reborn, what do you feel like doing now?"
SANDY
"Let's go back to the vineyards, make a fat sandwich, drink a little Port, and baby us some grapevines, they need some Love, too!"
BRIAN
"Damn girl, that's my girl, let's get busy with it!"
(scene switch)
INT: DETECTIVE SMITH"S OFFICE
DETECTIVE SMITH MAKING PHONE CALL, PARTY ANSWERING PHONE
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Ah yes, this is Smith, is Kyncl there?"
PARTY ON PHONE
"Yeah, he's available, what's it to you?"
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Tell him that Hudson chick is on hold till we can figure something out, okay?"
PARTY ON PHONE
"He will not be pleased, but I will pass on the situation, anything else?"
DETECTIVE SMITH
"Contact John over at Fairfield Vineyards and tell him Sam and Peter will not be coming back."
PARTY ON PHONE
"They went AWOL?"
DETECTIVE SMITH
"They went to meet Jesus...or Satan, hard to tell with them?"
PARTY ON LINE
"I must go now..."
DETECTIVE SMITH
Good idea...bye!"
scene close
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