Inglourious Basterds

by Quentin Tarantino

  “OPERATION KINO A COMPLETE SUCCESS.”

  FADE OUT

  FADE UP

  “HITLER DEAD. GOEBBELS DEAD. BORMANN DEAD. GOERING DEAD. ZOLLER DEAD. MOST OF HIGH COMMAND DEAD.”

  FADE OUT

  FADE IN

  “FOUR DAYS LATER, GERMANY SURRENDERS.”

  FADE OUT

  FADE IN

  “ONCE UPON A TIME IN NAZI…

  OCCUPIED FRANCE.”

  CUT TO

  EXT—WOODS—MORNING

  It’s a misty early morning in a woodsy area. The German truck, with Aldo and Utivich in the back, and Landa and Herrman in the front, comes to a stop.

  LANDA and HERRMAN IN THE TRUCK CAB

  Herrman, behind the wheel, tells Landa in German:

  HERRMAN

  These are the American lines, sir.

  In the back of the truck sit the two last remaining members of the Basterds, Lt. Aldo Raine and Pfc. Smithson Utivich, both with their hands cuffed behind their backs.

  Landa and Herrman appear at the truck rear. Landa says in ENGLISH:

  COL. LANDA

  Okay, gentlemen, you can climb down.

  Aldo and Utivich climb down from the truck.

  Col. Landa indicates for Herrman to remove the handcuffs from the two prisoners.

  He does.

  COL. LANDA

  Herrman, hand them your weapon.

  He does.

  Col. Landa hands over his LUGER and his very-cool-looking S.S. DAGGER.

  COL. LANDA

  I am officially surrendering myself over to you, Lieutenant Raine. We are your prisoners.

  LT. ALDO

  Thank you very much, Colonel. Utivich, cuff the colonel’s hands behind his back.

  COL. LANDA

  Is that really necessary?

  As Utivich cuffs the Colonel’s hands behind his back, Aldo says:

  LT. ALDO

  I’m a slave to appearances.

  Then Aldo takes the Luger and SHOOTS HERRMAN DEAD.

  The bound Col. Landa is appalled.

  COL. LANDA

  Are you mad? What have you done? I made a deal with your general for that man’s life!

  LT. ALDO

  Yeah, they made that deal, but they don’t give a fuck about him, they need you.

  COL. LANDA

  You’ll be shot for this.

  LT. ALDO

  Naw, I don’t think so, more like I’ll be chewed out. I’ve been chewed out before. You know, Utivich and myself heard that deal you made with the brass. End the war tonight? I’d make that deal. How ’bout you, Utivich, you make that deal?

  UTIVICH

  I’d make that deal.

  LT. ALDO

  I don’t blame ya. Damn good deal. And that pretty little nest ya feathered for yourself. Well, if you’re willing to barbecue the whole high command, I suppose that’s worth certain considerations. Now I don’t care about you gettin’ pensions, merit badges, ticker-tape parades, who gives a damn, let’s all go home. But I do have one question.

  When you go to your little place on Nantucket island, I imagine you gonna take off that handsome-looking S.S. uniform of yours, ain’t ya?

  For the first time in the movie, Col. Landa doesn’t respond.

  LT. ALDO

  That’s what I thought. Now that…… I can’t abide. How bout you, Utivich, can you abide it?

  UTIVICH

  Not one damn bit, sir.

  LT. ALDO

  I mean if I had my way, you’d wear that goddamn uniform for the rest of our pecker-suckin’ life. But I’m aware that ain’t practical. I mean at some point ya gotta hafta take it off.

  He opens Landa’s S.S. DAGGER and holds the blade in front of Hans’s face.

  LT. ALDO

  So I’m gonna give you a little somethin you can’t take off.

  CU COL. LANDA

  The dagger has just completed carving a swastika deep into his forehead.

  COL. LANDA’S POV

  On the ground, looking up at Aldo, bloody knife in hand, who straddles him. And Utivich, who’s next to him. The two Basterds admire Aldo’s handiwork.

  Aldo turns to Uitivich and says:

  LT. ALDO

  You know somethin’, Utivich? I think this just might be my masterpiece.

  They ghoulishly giggle.

  CUT TO

  WRITTEN AND DIRECTED

  BY

  QUENTIN TARANTINO