31. Good Dreams Bad Dreams-Eric

• FADE IN


• EXT. DESERT-DAY


• Boise and Terrance drive a jeep down a lonely desert road, looking somber.


• TERRANCE
• Do you think this guy's legit?


• Terrance lights a cigarette.


• BOISE
• Oh yeah. I just talked to Vic and Cathy, and they're in heaven. They're like two different people now. They thought I was some monk. Their dream is that they're both in Tibet. When Vic goes to work, he really thinks he's going to a Buddhist Temple.


• TERRANCE
• Sounds kind of creepy if you ask me, and we still don't know the long term effects.


• BOISE
• Creepy? I think it's more creepy that he's worked at that grease-pit shit-hole for six years sober, wouldn't you want to believe you were somewhere else? I'd have literally killed someone by now, if I worked there that long. And this stuff is safe.


• TERRANCE
• I guess. But I'm more of a reality man. There's no difference between what this Prince of Dreams does and drugs.


• BOISE
• No drugs involved. He's just a shaman. And you know if it happens in your head, for all practical purposes, it is reality.


• TERRANCE
• Solipsism.


• EXT. DESEERT-EVENING


• Boise and Terrance pull up into a make shift parking spot, between hundreds of other vehicles. Hubdreds of tiki lamps burn around a large pavillion. People enter and speak with the Prince. He hands them a silver chalice. They drink while he places both hands on their shoulders, and chants.


• BOISE
• Well, here we are. You ready for your Dream?


• TERRANCE
• Yeah, I guess so.


• BOISE
• Don't be a downer, man. Once you talk to the Prince, you can dream that you're successful, and that Cathy didn't leave you for Vic.


• TERRANCE
• Geez, thanks...


• Boise and terrance wait in line. Finally, they see the Prince. He looks like a gypsy. A dark blue kerchief wraps around his head. His eyes seem to glitter gold in the darkness. Boise approaches and drinks from the chalice. The Prince chants and places his hands on Boise's shoulders. Moments later Boise falls out. The crowd gasps and rushes around him. The Prince retreats a few steps back. Boise's eyes finally flutter open. He looks frightened at the crowd. He leaps to his feet and brandishes a gun. He shoots the Prince, and then turns the gun on the crowd, that is running for cover.


• INT. LIVING ROOM-SEVERAL DAYS LATER


• Cathy strokes Terrance's hair. A movie is playing on the television, but they are only occupied with themselves. Vic lies in the bedroom asleep, talking to himself, and gesticulating.


• CATHY
• Well, he's been like that for three weeks. We agreed to only take a sip from the chalice. I didn't want to be walking around in my hallucination forever. I'm too engrained in reality. But I guess he's still at the temple. He didn't ever want it to end.


• TERRANCE
• Yeah, I had creepy feelings from the start. I was just gonna pretend I was drinking. That sucks about Boise. In his dream, we must have all been demons, or secret agents, or something. He still won't talk.


• CATHY
• When do you think they'll let him out?


• TERRANCE
• I dunno. Maybe never. I'm going to visit him this weekend. Want to go with me?


• CATHY
• Sure.


• INT. LIVING ROOM-SECONDS LATER


• BOISE and TERRANCE sit on the couch and neck.


• FADE TO BLACK