EXT. KAREN TRIBE VILLAGE
Abandoned and disheveled. Huts cleared out in a hurry. CAMERA tracks through the empty village to...
Tha emerges from a hut, clay jars in hand.
CUT TO:
WES
Winces as Tha dabs a sticky poultice onto his wounds.
THA
Another fighter do this to you?
WES
That’s why they pay big bucks.
THA
How much you earn?
WES
Four hundred dollars.
THA
You must be a very rich man.
WES
Why do you say that?
THA
Because you beat-up very bad.
She presses a ‘leaf bandage’ to Wes’ shoulder, ties it in place with a fibrous thread.
THA
What you going to do with all your
money?
Wes
Buy a big houseby the sea.
Tha
One house is nothing. I try to buy whole
village.
Wes looks around
Why’d you leave?
AT A BANYAN TREE Tha kneels, bows
Tha reaches into
Lays it at the foot of the tree.
THA
(to Wes)
You kneel. Make offering.
Wes starts to protest, but thinks better of it. He kneels next to Tha. The two pray side-by-side.
the abandoned village. WES
you leave?
The soldiers come. Tell us they
need land. But one of soldiers from
nearby, tell us hunter man pay
General San for village.
deeply before the tree.
THA (V.O.)
THA
So Winston take me to Thailand, try
to make money. But very bad there.
No Banyan tree in bordertown. No
way to make offering to forest
spirit. So she is very hungry,
very angry. We all suffer...
her bag - pulls out a small pouch of rice.
Now that Y’wa is fed, we suffer no
more. She will return my brother and
village to me.