Gossip Concluded

Hi Aki,

The ending to Gossip – we only missed maybe 5 minutes, and the ending was disappointing.

Things were looking bad for Derrick, so he got his passport and packed a bag and was about to flee the country. Meanwhile Jones is kicked out and drinking coffee down the street. She sees Travis buy a guy from some people, looking crazy. She goes to the apartment.

But Derrick is slipping out through the roof exit and there Travis is waiting, blaming him, pulls the gun and forces Derrick down into the loft. Jones bursts in, telling Derrick that Travis is crazy and has a gun – then she sees Travis there holding the gun on Derrick. She tries to talk Travis into putting the gun down. He wavers, looks away–

–that’s when Derrick jumps him, grabs the gun. There is the usual struggle and the gun goes off. Derrick and Travis react in shock, we are not sure for a few moments, did Derrick get shot, or did Travis. Then Travis looks, and we cut to Jones, who has blood on her blouse, and she is sinking down.

Derrick clutches her but she is shaking, going pale and weak. Derrick tells Travis to call 911. Travis does, but then he remembers that the police are downstairs looking for him, they must have heard the shot, he must go tell them. Derrick tells him to wait, they have to get ‘the story straight’ and at all costs Travis must say it’s an accident, that he had the gun.

Travis and Derrick argue over this, and at last Derrick bursts out, ‘Why do you keep talking about Naomi? I raped the bitch but I never killed anybody!’

Behind him we see him on a monitor and just after this the monitor replays him saying the line.

Jones stands up. Travis opens the door and the communications professor is there. Through another door we see the policemen and down the stairs from the roof walk Naomi and Beau. It has all been a plot cooked up by them; even the ‘cops’ are just hirelings of Naomi’s family, not real cops at all. The ‘liar’ Derrick is caught at last.

Jones walks out and turns back to say to Derrick, ‘at last I lied better than you.’

The End.

It was disappointing.

(written around 4 March 2009)