ACT 3, SCENE 2
Booker carefully moves up to the cab of the truck. Clementine slows down just enough for him to be able to slip inside as they continue to drive through Birmingham. Booker lets out a deep sigh.
BOOKER DARVILLE
I loved that damn truck.
CLEMENTINE SNOW
What's the plan, Book?
Booker purses his lips and then tosses his hands up in the air.
BOOKER DARVILLE
What plan? We're cooked. Without a blocker you can't make it to Atlanta in time, and the police are eventually gonna catch up with you since this was the last vehicle I was seen in... or well... on. Then they're gonna find Trigger and we'll both go to jail. Buford wins.
Booker sits for a moment, defeated. He slams his fist into the dash of the truck. Clementine smacks him in the shoulder.
CLEMENTINE SNOW
Hey, you can be pissed, but don't take it out on my truck!
BOOKER DARVILLE
Clem, It's not gonna be your truck much longer! We're going to jail, both of us. Just like dad. I can't believe I was so stupid, letting Burdette talk me into this.
CLEMENTINE SNOW
Is that it? Is that what you're afraid of, that you'll end up like your dad?
BOOKER DARVILLE
No.
CLEMENTINE SNOW
You're afraid of going to jail?
BOOKER DARVILLE
No!
CLEMENTINE SNOW
Then what is it, Booker?
BOOKER DARVILLE
I'm afraid of not being as good as Grandpa! I'm afraid that just because I'm a devil behind the wheel that everyone expects me to be just like him, and I can't! I'm not Bandit!
CLEMENTINE SNOW
Booker.
BOOKER DARVILLE
I don't want my whole life to be trying to live up to his legacy.
CLEMENTINE SNOW
Then don't make it about that. Just because you drive like him doesn't mean you are him or you have to be like him. He left his legacy, it's his. Now leave yours. You are the Bandit, you're never gonna escape that. Ever. It's literally in your blood, but that doesn't mean that you have to be like Bo. Make it your own, own it. You think I made it this far trucking trying to be like Paw-paw Cletus? No. I've got the name, but I'm nothing like him. You don't have to be Bo Darville to be the Bandit.
Beat.
CLEMENTINE SNOW
Now. We've come over a thousand miles to get this car and bring it back. And we've got just a little over 150 left and three hours. Let's get it done, Bandit.
Clementine holds out her hand, waiting for Booker to take it. He looks it over for a moment before taking hold of it.
BOOKER DARVILLE
Alright, Let's do it to it.
CLEMENTINE SNOW
Ha-Ha, Hell yeah.
BOOKER DARVILLE
They're still gonna try and stop this truck though.
CLEMENTINE SNOW
They'll have to catch us, first.
Clementine puts the hammer down and the truck speeds up as they head out of Birmingham.
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Bandit (Smokey and the Bandit Part IV)
Adventure43 years after the legendary Texarkana run by Cletus Snow and Bo Darville, their grandchildren discover that the vehicle used to block the police, Trigger, is in the possession of Buford T. Justice's own grandson. Together, Clementine Snow and Booke...