This one did, that’s for damn sure.

  (to Domergue)

  Now we come to the part of the story where I blow your head off.

  Maj.Warren YELLS from the bed;

  MAJ.WARREN

  Don’t shoot her, Mannix!

  CHRIS

  Why the hell not?

  MAJ.WARREN

  John Ruth might of been one mighty mighty bastard. But the best thing that bastard did ’fore he died was save your life.

  (beat)

  We’re gonna’ die, white boy. And we ain’t got no say in that. But there’s one thing left we do have a say in. How we kill this bitch. And I “say”, shootin’s too good for her. If John Ruth wanted to shoot her, he coulda’ shot her anytime anywhere along the way. But John Ruth was “The Hangman”. And when The Hangman catches ya’, you don’t die by a bullet, when The Hangman catches ya’, you hang.

  Chris starts to catch Maj.Warren’s drift.

  CHRIS

  (remembering)

  “You only need to hang Mean Bastards. But Mean Bastards, you need to hang”.

  CUT TO

  A HANGMAN’S NOOSE is put around Domergue’s neck.

  Chris throws the rope over the ceiling beam, it makes him cringe.

  Chris leaning against the bed, with Maj.Warren’s help, HOISTS THE ROPE…

  PULLING ON DOMERGUE’S NECK and lifting her feet off the ground.

  Domergue KICKS HER FEET.

  Chris and Maj.Warren YANK HARD on the rope, SCREAMING!

  Domergue is YANKED WAY UP. She hangs by the neck, suffocating, while John Ruth’s wrist hangs off of her chain.

  DOMERGUE’S FACE

  as the rope cuts in.

  CHRIS SCREAMS!

  CHRIS

  As my first and final act as the Sheriff of Red Rock, I sentence you, Domergue, to hang by the neck until dead.

  He YANKS the rope again.

  She goes higher.

  As she twists and turns, Chris ties off the rope and collapses on the floor.

  Until she fights and kicks herself out, and is just hanging from the rope dead.

  Chris on the floor by the bed, and Maj.Warren on the bed look up and watch her die.

  After she dies, Chris looks up at Maj.Warren;

  CHRIS

  Hey, can I see that Lincoln Letter?

  MAJ.WARREN

  Sure.

  Maj.Warren reaches his bloody hand into his jacket, and pulls out the letter, smearing red blood all over the white envelope. He hands it to Chris, who with dripping red blood hands of his own, takes the envelope, opens it up, and takes out the letter, smearing blood all over it.

  Chris reads it, as the WIND BLOWS inside, Domergue SWINGS from the rope.

  Just then, CEASER The CAT, who must’ve been hiding all this time, finally decides the anxiety in Minnie’s has calmed down considerably, and jumps up on the bed, joining the two men.

  He’s hungry, and makes a hungry sound to the fella’s.

  Maj.Warren looks over at the cat.

  MAJ.WARREN

  Where did you come from?

  Chris reads.

  CHRIS

  “Ole’ Mary Todd”. That’s a nice touch.

  MAJ.WARREN

  Thanks.

  CUT TO BLACK

  THE END

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  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  COVER

  TITLE PAGE

  WELCOME

  FOREWORD BY ELVIS MITCHELL

  CHAPTER ONE

  LAST STAGE TO RED ROCK

  CHAPTER TWO

  SON OF A GUN

  CHAPTER THREE

  MINNIE’S HABERDASHERY

  CHAPTER FOUR

  DOMERGUE’S GOT A SECRET

  CHAPTER FIVE

  THE FOUR PASSENGERS

  LAST CHAPTER

  BLACK MAN, WHITE HELL

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  COPYRIGHT

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