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U - T u r n (Stray Dogs) Screenplay by John Ridley and Richard Rutowski & Oliver Stone NOTE: THE HARD COPY OF THIS SCRIPT CONTAINED SCENE NUMBERS AND SOME "OMITTED" SLUGS. THEY HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THIS SOFT COPY. EXT. SOMEWHERE IN THE DESERT SOUTHWEST - DAY BEGIN TITLES OVER: It is early morning and already hot.INSECTS drone, crackle, and scurry for shade.PRAIRIE DOGS burrow to escape the sun. We can see the heat shimmering off the surface of the Earth. On a dusty highway, a pair of VULTURES dine on a dead coyote. One of them snags an intestine and tugs a few feet of it out of the carcass. In the distance, where a long, dusty road meets the horizon, a small shape appears -- a Sixty-four-and-a-half Mustang convertible, its top down.Its candy-apple red burns like a brilliant fireball under the sun.As the car drifts closer, we see steam escaping from under the hood.Sammi Smith's "Please Help Me Get Through The Night" plays on the car's radio. INT. BOBBY COOPER'S MUSTANG - DAY At the wheel, ignoring impending disaster, BOBBY COOPER, young, good- looking, fiddles with the RADIO dial, annoyed only to find country stations. He's been driving since noon yesterday and it shows -- along with a heavily-bandaged left hand resting on the steering wheel. He finds something by Pearl Jam or Smashing Pumpkins and he cranks it. He pops a Percodan with his good hand as, in the shimmering distance ahead, he sees black shapes in the road and lays on the horn. BOBBY Get off the goddamn road!