Mattie, discomfited by his look, turns hastily forward and pushes open the door. A
jingling sound prompts one more glance to the side.
The man's face is now hidden by his hat. Just before Mattie's point of view, now a lateral
track, starts to lose him behind the door jamb, he raises a spurred boot to push against the
porch rail and tip his chair back. He raises his other foot, spur jingling, and drapes it over
the first.
INSIDE
We are pushing in on the landlady.
to see you this evening.
opened up? Grandma Turner. . . the bed is quite narrow.
porch has just taken it. But don't worry yourself, dear--you
are not disturbing Grandma Turner.
DARK BEDROOM
As before, unseen Grandma Turner snores loudly as wind whistles and Mattie shivers.
Fade to black.
Very quiet.
In the quiet, a faint crickle-crackle of flame. It is followed by a lip-pop and a deep inhale.
Mattie opens her eyes. She is beaded with sweat. She looks blearily up.
The room is dim. A man sits facing her in a straghtback chair, faintly backlit by the
daylight leaking through the curtained window behind him. He exhales pipesmoke.
The man rises and, spurs jingling, crosses to the window, and throws open the curtain.
Mattie squints at him against the daylight:
The man has a cowlick and barndoor ears and is once again well-accoutered for riding. He
steps away from the window and reseats himself.
come from Yell County.
yesterday morning. She says for you to come right on home.
LeBoeuf takes a small photograph from his coat.
Mattie looks at the picture through red-rimmed eyes.
Mattie declines to contradict. LeBoeuf continues:
used the names Theron Chelmsford, John Todd Andersen,
and others. He dallied in Monroe, Louisiana, and Pine Bluff,
Arkansas before turning up at your father's place.
Bluff, Arkansas?
LeBoeuf tips back in his chair and draws back his coat to display a star. A smug look.
should mind that your Texas trappings and title do not make
you an object of fun. Why have you been ineffectually
pursuing Chaney?
LeBoeuf's smile stays in place with effort.
Waco, Texas. The Bibbs family have put out a reward.
you know anything about where Chaney has gone?
earning your bounty.
gang that they say Chaney has tied up with.
knows the Territory; I know Chaney. It is at least a two-man
job taking him alive.
hang. I am not having him go to Texas to hang for shooting
some senator.
months' work.
you have been eluded the winter long by a halfwit. Marshal
Cogburn and I are fine.
LeBoeuf stands.
While I sat there watching you I gave some thought to
stealing a kiss, though you are very young and sick and
unattractive to boot, but now I have a mind to give you five
or six good licks with my belt.
LaBoeuf (Matt Damon)