SWEDEN:
(off-screen, barely audible)
There, you see an attempt to prepare a
victim for the sacrifice...two victims,
rather.
ABE stares at the hat, uncomprehending, as SWEDEN steps up behind him, machete in hand. At last ABE begins to grasp the full implication of the evidence. He spins around, narrowly missing the machete’s blade, which SWEDEN quickly moves out of the way.
ABE:
(horrified, dumb)
You don’t think that I...?
SWEDEN stares at him as the breeze blows.
SWEDEN:
I confess...I did wonder. As you are
wondering about me even now.
ABE tries to shake his head—both men know it is true.
SWEDEN:
But there’s more...
The camera dollies past SWEDEN as he approaches the canoe and lifts the hat—comes to a rest on a tiny hole in EXTREME CLOSE-UP; a hole that penetrates clean thr
