EXT. EMPTY LOT - DAY

WINER

You haven’t seen Motormouth lately, have you? He’s not been at his house.

BUTTCUT

(hurling a rock) Yeah, the reason why is his wife kicked him out. His ex-wife. The house is in her name.

WINER

You don’t say.

BUTTCUT

Yeah - it’s hard for him to show his face, really, her runnin’ around on him the way she does. (hurls another rock - misses) First time was right after they was married. You know that?

WINER

No, I did not. 52.

BUTTCUT

Motormouth caught them in the backseat of an old Ford. The kid was so scared he couldn’t even get his pants on. A high school junior. ‘He’s not even on the Goddamned football team,’ he told her. Winer takes an amused sip from his coke.

BUTTCUT

But this whole thing with Cecil Blalock - Motormouth really outdone himself on that deal.

WINER

You don’t say?

BUTTCUT

Cecil took to wantin’ to screw Motormouth’s wife, so he got his brother Clyde to go over and get Motormouth to go coon-huntin’. They was coon-huntin’ pretty heavy there for a while. Motormouth was always braggin’ about it - he thought they wasn’t nobody like Clyde Blalock. Me and Clyde this, me and Clyde that. And all the while Cecil screwin’ her right in Motormouth’s bed. He flings a rock, which pings off the empty bottle.

WINER

You got something against that there empty bottle?

BUTTCUT

Just target practice is all. Gotta keep yourself sharp. Anything could be a weapon. Even that bottle itself.

WINER

Yep.

BUTTCUT

Fill ‘er up with gasoline, stick a wick in it and you got a bomb. That’s what they’re doin’ over in the War - usin’ ‘em against the Russians. They even have a name for it: Molotov Cocktail. 53.

WINER

That so?

BUTTCUT

Yeah. Anything can be a weapon. Or anybody. He flings another rock. This one connects squarely with the bottle, shattering it.