PULP FICTION by Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary

1 pulp FICTIONbyQuentin Tarantino & Roger AvaryPULP [ pulp ] A soft, moist, shapelessmass or A magazine or book containing luridsubject matter and being characteristicallyprinted on rough, unfinished Heritage Dictionary: New College EditionINT. COFFEE SHOP MORNINGA normal Denny's, Spires-like coffee shop in Los Angeles. It'sabout 9:00 in the morning. While the place isn't jammed, there's ahealthy number of people drinking coffee, munching on bacon andeating of these people are a YOUNG MAN and a YOUNG WOMAN. The YoungMan has a slight working-class English accent and, like his fellowcountryman, smokes cigarettes like they're going out of is impossible to tell where the Young Woman is from or how oldshe is; everything she does contradicts something she did. The boyand girl sit in a booth. Their dialogue is to be said in a rapid-pace "HIS GIRL FRIDAY" MANNo, forget it, it's too risky. I'm throughdoin' that WOMANYou always say that, the same thing everytime: never again, I'm through, MANI know that's what I always say.

2 I'malways right too, but YOUNG WOMAN but you forget about it in a day or two YOUNG MAN yeah, well, the days of me forgittin'are over, and the days of me rememberin'have just WOMANWhen you go on like this, you know whatyou sound like?YOUNG MANI sound like a sensible fucking man, iswhat I sound WOMANYou sound like a duck.(imitates a duck)Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, MANWell take heart, 'cause you're never gonnahafta hear it again. Because since I'mnever gonna do it again, you're nevergonna hafta hear me quack about how I'mnever gonna do it WOMANA fter boy and girl laugh, their laughter putting a pause in there,back and MAN(with a smile)Correct. I got all tonight to WAITRESS comes by with a pot of I get anybody anymore coffee?YOUNG WOMANOh yes, thank Waitress pours the Young Woman's coffee. The Young Man lightsup another MANI'm doin' Waitress leaves. The Young Man takes a drag off of his Young Woman pours a ton of cream and sugar into her Young Man goes right back into MANI mean the way it is now, you're takin'the same fuckin' risk as when you rob abank.

3 You take more of a risk. Banks areeasier! Federal banks aren't supposed tostop you anyway, during a robbery. They'reinsured, why should they care? You don'teven need a gun in a federal bank. I heardabout this guy, walked into a federal bankwith a portable phone, handed the phone tothe teller, the guy on the other end ofthe phone said: "We got this guy's littlegirl, and if you don't give him all yourmoney, we're gonna kill 'er."YOUNG WOMANDid it work?YOUNG MANF uckin' A it worked, that's what I'mtalkin' about! Knucklehead walks in a bankwith a telephone, not a pistol, not ashotgun, but a fuckin' phone, cleans theplace out, and they don't lift a fuckin' WOMANDid they hurt the little girl?YOUNG MANI don't know. There probably never was alittle girl the point of the story isn'tthe little girl. The point of the story isthey robbed the bank with a WOMANYou wanna rob banks?YOUNG MANI'm not sayin' I wanna rob banks, I'm justillustrating that if we did, it would beeasier than what we been doin'.

4 YOUNG WOMANSo you don't want to be a bank robber?YOUNG MANNaw, all those guys are goin' down thesame road, either dead or servin' WOMANAnd no more liquor stores?YOUNG MANWhat have we been talking about? Yeah, no-more-liquor-stores. Besides, it ain't thegiggle it usta be. Too many foreigners ownliquor stores. Vietnamese, Koreans, theycan't fuckin' speak English. You tell 'em:"Empty out the register," and they don'tknow what it fuckin' means. They make ittoo personal. We keep on, one of thosegook motherfuckers' gonna make us kill' WOMANI'm not gonna kill MANI don't wanna kill anybody either. Butthey'll probably put us in a situationwhere it's us of them. And if it's not thegooks, it these old Jews who've owned thestore for fifteen fuckin' generations. Yagot Grandpa Irving sittin' behind thecounter with a fuckin' Magnum. Try walkin'into one of those stores with nothin' buta telephone, see how far it gets you.

5 Fuckit, forget it, we're out of WOMANWell, what else is there, day jobs?YOUNG MAN(laughing)Not this WOMANWell what then?He calls to the MANG arcon! Coffee!Then looks to his MANThis Waitress comes by, pouring him some (snotty)"Garcon" means WOMANHere? It's a coffee MANWhat's wrong with that? People never robrestaurants, why not? Bars, liquor stores,gas stations, you get your head blown offstickin' up one of them. Restaurants, onthe other hand, you catch with their pantsdown. They're not expecting to get robbed,or not as WOMAN(taking to idea)I bet in places like this you couldcutdown on the hero MANC orrect. Just like banks, these places areinsured. The managers don't give a fuck,they're just tryin' to get ya out the doorbefore you start pluggin' , forget it, they ain't takin' abullet for the register. Busboys, somewetback gettin' paid a dollar fifty a hourgonna really give a fuck you're stealin'from the owner.

6 Customers are sittin'there with food in their mouths, theydon't know what's goin' on. One minutethey're havin' a Denver omelette, nextminute somebody's stickin' a gun in Young Woman visibly takes in the idea. The Young Man continuesin a low MANSee, I got the idea last liquor store westuck up. 'Member all those customers keptcomin' in?YOUNG MANThey you got the idea to take everybody' MANThat was a good MANWe made more from the wallets then we didthe WOMANYes we MANA lot of people go to WOMANA lot of MANP retty smart, huh?The Young Woman scans the restaurant with this new sees all the PATRONS eating, lost in conversations. The tiresWAITRESS, taking orders. The BUSBOYS going through the motions,collecting dishes. The MANAGER complaining to the COOK aboutsomething. A smiles breaks out on the Young Woman's WOMANP retty smart.(into it)I'm ready, let's go, right here, MANR emember, same as before, you're crowdcontrol, I handle the WOMANGot both take out their.

7 32-caliber pistols and lay them on thetable. He looks at her and she back at WOMANI love you, MANI love you, Honey with that, Pumpkin and Honey Bunny grab their weapons, standup and rob the restaurant. Pumpkin's robbery persona is that ofthe in-control professional. Honey Bunny's is that of thepsychopathic, hair-triggered, loose (yelling to all)Everybody be cool this is a robbery!HONEY BUNNYAny of you fuckin' pricks move and I'llexecute every one of you motherfuckers!Got that?CUT TO:CREDIT SEQUENCE:" pulp FICTION "INT. '74 CHEVY (MOVING) MORNINGAn old gas guzzling, dirty, white 1974 Chevy Nova BARRELS down ahomeless-ridden street in Hollywood. In the front seat are twoyoung fellas one white, one black both wearing cheap blacksuits with thin black ties under long green dusters. Their namesare VINCENT VEGA (white) and JULES WINNFIELD (black). Jules isbehind the Okay now, tell me about the hash bars?

8 VINCENTWhat so you want to know?JULESWell, hash is legal there, right?VINCENTYeah, it's legal, but is ain't a hundredpercent legal. I mean you can't walk intoa restaurant, roll a joint, and startpuffin' away. You're only supposed tosmoke in your home or certain are hash bars?VINCENTYeah, it breaks down like this: it's legalto buy it, it's legal to own it and, ifyou're the proprietor of a hash bar, it'slegal to sell it. It's legal to carry it,which doesn't really matter 'cause get aload of this if the cops stop you, it'sillegal for this to search you. Searchingyou is a right that the cops in Amsterdamdon't did it, man I'm fuckin' goin',that's all there is to 'll dig it the most. But you know whatthe funniest thing about Europe is?JULESWhat?VINCENTIt's the little differences. A lotta thesame shit we got here, they got there, butthere they're a little , in Amsterdam, you can buy beer in amovie theatre.

9 And I don't mean in a papercup either. They give you a glass of beer,like in a bar. In Paris, you can buy beerat MacDonald's. Also, you know what theycall a Quarter Pounder with Cheese inParis?JULESThey don't call it a Quarter Pounder withCheese?VINCENTNo, they got the metric system there, theywouldn't know what the fuck a QuarterPounder 'd they call it?VINCENTR oyale with (repeating)Royale with Cheese. What'd they call a BigMac?VINCENTBig Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it LeBig Big Mac. What do they call a Whopper?VINCENTI dunno, I didn't go into a Burger you know what they put on french friesin Holland instead of ketchup?JULESWhat? !VINCENTI seen 'em do it. And I don't mean alittle bit on the side of the plate, theyfuckin' drown 'em in !CUT TO:INT. CHEVY (TRUNK) MORNINGThe trunk of the Chevy OPENS UP, Jules and Vincent reach inside,taking out two .45 Automatics, loading and cocking should have shotguns for this kind many up there?

10 JULEST hree or our guy?JULESI'm not there could be five guys up there?JULESIt's should have fuckin' CLOSE the TO:EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING COURTYARD MORNINGV incent and Jules, their long matching overcoats practicallydragging on the ground, walk through the courtyard of what lookslike a hacienda-style Hollywood apartment TRACK 's her name? did Marsellus and her meet?JULESI dunno, however people meet people. Sheusta be an ever do anything I woulda saw?JULESI think her biggest deal was she starredin a 's a pilot?JULESWell, you know the shows on TV?VINCENTI don't watch , but you're aware that there's aninvention called television, and on thatinvention they show shows? , the way they pick the shows on TV isthey make one show, and that show's calleda pilot. And they show that one show tothe people who pick the shows, and on thestrength of that one show, they decide ifthey want to make more shows.