The Further Adventures of No Country For Old Men’s Chigurh

By Chris Ward

O miracle of miracles, it appears we’ll have an Academy Awards ceremony this Sunday after all. If it hadn’t, we couldn’t have put down 10 G’s on Javier Bardem to win Best Supporting Actor for Anton Chigurh, the Pete Rose-coiffed hitman of the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men. Bardem is beyond fantastic as the bizarre, morally insane killer, and his Oscar win is a lock (or so our bookie told us). In fact, it’s no surprise that Miramax has already had the returning writers’ whip up a few tentative new sequels starring the popular Chigurh, which T.R. had the unique privilege reading after we pilfered them from Miramax president Daniel Battsek’s desk. Enjoy!

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN 2: ANTON RETURNS A MOVIE
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[Chigurh places copy of Operation Dumbo Drop on counter]

CLERK: Ah, Operation Dumbo Drop! A fine Doug E. Doug vehicle

CHIGURH: What business is it of yours, friendo?

CLERK: I didn?t mean nothing by it. I just enjoy Doug E. Doug.

CHIGURH: You didn?t mean nothing by it. You just enjoy Doug E. Doug.

CLERK: I just…think it?s a good family movie.

CHIGURH: You just think it?s a good family movie.

CLERK: Stop saying what I?m…

CHIGURH: Stop saying what I?m saying. [eats handful of cashews]

[long silence]

CLERK: … Will there be something else?

CHIGURH: I don?t know. Will there?

CLERK: The computer shows you have a late balance of $32.15.

CHIGURH: You have no idea what you?re talking about, do you? What?s the most you ever lost on a late balance.

CLERK: …on a late balance? That doesn?t make sense.

CHIGURH: I?m afraid it does. You know how this is going to end, don?t you?

CLERK: With…you paying the late balance?

CHIGURH: I?m not concerned with the late balance. It will be brought to me and placed at my feet. The late balance got here the same way I did. Somewhere you made a choice to penalize my account. All followed to this. Do you see?

CLERK: It?s two for Tuesday, if you want to pick another movie out it?s only $1 more for seven nights.

CHIGURH: You?re asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do.

[Car suddenly comes through the wall and hits Chigurh]

CLERK: I?ll sell you my shirt for $1000.

CHIGURH: Deal.

—-

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN 3: ANTON GOES TO ARBYS

CASHIER: Welcome to Arby?s, can I take your order?

CHIGURH: I don?t know. Can you?

CASHIER: Well?I can rightly try. [scratches nose] We?re featurin? Potato Cakes on our Pick Five menu. They’s different from Potato Bites. Bites have cheese in ?em. Cakes don?t. A lot a? folks confusin? the two. Bites and cakes and such.

CHIGURH: What time do you close.

CASHIER: This location is open 24 hours, sir.

CHIGURH: 24 hours is not a time. What time do you close.

CASHIER: ?

CASHIER: Umm?Never-O-Clock? We?re?always open.

CHIGURGH: I could come back then. [eats handful of cashews]

CASHIER: That would be fine. We?ll be here.

CHIGURH: [takes cold tater tot off of floor] Call it.

CASHIER: What?

CHIGURH: Call it.

CASHIER: [long silence] The tater tot?

CHIGURH: Yes.

CASHIER: But store policy?

CHIGURH: Anything can be an instrument. Small things. Potato things. Things you wouldn?t even notice. People don?t pay attention. And then one day, there?s an accounting and nothing is the same. Call it. [flips tot in the air]

CASHIER: Heads! No?Tails!

CHIGURH: Well done. Take it. It?s your lucky tot. Don?t put it by the fryer. It?ll get mixed in with the others and become just a tot. Which it is.

CASHIER: I don?t mean to be rude, but you?re kind of holding up the entire line.

CHIGURH: Just three packets of Horsey Sauce, then.

—-

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN 4: ANTON PLAYS XBOX LIVE

[CHIGURH_86 has joined the match]

BOMB DADDY: Hey Anton, I want you to flank around to the red team?s base and grab the flag. I?ll snipe from the ridge and?

CHIGURH_86: Do you know where I?m going? I know where the flag is, but that?s not where I?m going. Do you know where I?m going? I think that you do.

BOMB DADDY: Goddammit, Anton. Don?t start this shit again. It?s Capture the Flag. So go capture it. Don’t be a douchebag.

CHIGURH_86: They always say the same thing: you don?t have to do this. It?s not any help though, is it?

BOMB DADDY: Every time. Every goddamn time with you. You?re on thin ice with the entire guild.

K1LL4B33TCH: Just shoot the asshole!

BOMB DADDY: No, Scott?I’m going to give him one more chance.

K1LL4B33TCH: He’s going to fuck the mission!

BOMB DADDY: Look, Anton, we’re blue this time. The other guys are red.

XBOX LIVE: [BOMB DADDY was Cattlegunned by CHIGURH_86]

BOMB DADDY: HEY!

K1LL4B33TCH: Fucker! I knew it!

BOMB DADDY: Not cool, dude. Un-fucking cool. What are you, five years old? Fine, if that?s how it?s gonna be.

XBOX LIVE: [CHIGURH_86 was Railgunned by BOMB DADDY]

BOMB DADDY: Okat, everyone, back to Plan A. Leroy, head through the gulch. D-Dawg, camp out by?

XBOX LIVE: [CHIGURH_86 has re-joined the match]

CHIGURH_86: I?m looking for Llewellyn Moss.

BOMB DADDY: Fuck! Please just leave.

K1LL4B33TCH: Fuck off!

CHIGURH_86: This is what I?ll offer. You bring me the flag and I?ll let it go. Otherwise, the blue team?s accountable, same as you. That?s the best deal you are going to get. I won?t tell you that you can save your game because you can?t.

BOMB DADDY: Goddammit.

XBOX LIVE: [BOMB DADDY has left the game]

XBOX LIVE: [CHIGURH_86 was Sniped by K1LL4B33TCH]

K1LL4B33TCH: Asshole!

XBOX LIVE: [K1LL4B33TCH has left the game]

CHIGURH_86: I?m hitting ?A? but it?s not doing anything.