SCARLETT: Mother! Mother! Pa!

Lap Dissolve To: L.S. SCARLETT runs from camera to verandah and up steps.

SCARLETT: Mother! Mother! Pa!

L.S. SCARLETT running from camera to door; knocks.

C.S. SCARLETT's first pounding door, her shoulder and part of head framed scene. Door opens. GERALD stands in doorway. SCARLETT exits scene.

SCARLETT: Mother, Mother, let me in. It's me! Scarlett!

SCARLETT: (o.s.) Pa!

C.U. SCARLETT. She moves to camera.

SCARLETT: Oh-

M.C.S. GERALD in doorway. SCARLETT moves to camera.

SCARLETT: Pa - I'm home! I'm home!

GERALD: Katie - Katie Scarlett. Oh, darlin'.

C.U. SCARLETT in GERALD's arms. She is looking over his shoulder; moves away from him, camera pulling back as she advances through hall in b.g.; with flaming candle grease.

SCARLETT: Mammy...Mammy...I'm home.

MAMMY: Honey - Honey chile!

SCARLETT: Oh-

C.U. SCARLETT as she lifts her head away from MAMMY. MAMMY head in f.g.

SCARLETT: Mammy, I'm so - so...Where's mother?

C.U. MAMMY

MAMMY: Why - Miss Suellen and Miss Cerreen, dey was sick wid de typhoid.

C.U. SCARLETT. Mammy's head in f.g.

MAMMY: Dey had it bad, but dey's doin' all right now. Jes' weak like li'l kittens.

SCARLETT: But - but where's Mother?

C.U. MAMMY

MAMMY: Well, Miss Ellen - she went down to nuss dat Emmy Slat -

C.U. SCARLETT. MAMMY's head in f.g. MAMMY's head leaves scene

MAMMY: tery- dat w'ite trash - an' she took down wid it, too.

MAMMY: (o.s.) An' las' night she -

SCARLETT: Mother-

M.C.S. - CAMERA PANS SCARLETT away from MAMMY, across hall to study. SCARLETT looks in, turns away. CAMERA PANS WITH HER as she comes back to MAMMY to include MAMMY and reveal GERALD still standing in b.g., at open door.

SCARLETT: Mother...Mother...Mother...

C.U. MAMMY - her head turns to look off.

M.C.S. Parlor door slightly ajar, a light seen through it.

C.U. SCARLETT. She turns away from CAMERA, moves to parlor door, CAMERA PANNING WITH HER. She opens door.

C.U. SCARLETT entering parlor. She stops short.

L.S. ELLEN's body in b.g., pan of lighted candle grease at each end of bier. SCARLETT in f.g. Reverse L.S. ELLEN's body in f.g. SCARLETT comes into scene from b.g., advances to ELLEN's body. CAMERA PANS UP to exclude ELLEN's body and DOLLING IN TO C.U. SCARLETT, staring down. She drops to her knees, CAMERA PANNING DOWN WITH HER, and buries her head on the bier, sobbing.

SCARLETT: (scream)

L.S. Tara against dawn sky.

M.C.S. MAMMY waiting outside parlor door. PORK standing at window in b.g. Sound of door opening o.s. CAMERA PANS away from PORK and MAMMY to SCARLETT coming from parlor. CAMERA PANS with her and PULLS back, to include PORK and MAMMY. SCARLETT walks thru hall, PORK and MAMMY following, CAMERA with them. They come to stairs; SCARLETT starts up.

MAMMY: Miss Scarlett, honey.

PORK: If dey's anythin' ah can do, Miss Scarlett...

SCARLETT: What did you do with Miss Melly?

MAMMY: Don' yo' worry yo' pretty haid 'bout Miss Melly, chile. Ah done slapped her in bed a'ready, 'long wid de baby.

SCARLETT: You better put that cow I brought into the barn, Pork.

M.C.S. SCARLETT on stairs, turns, looks down.

PORK: (o.s.) Dere ain' no barn no mo', Miss Scarlett. De Yankees done buhned it fo' fiah wood.

MAMMY: (o.s.) Dey used de house fo' dey haidqua'ters, Miss Scarlett.

PORK: Dey camped all 'round de place.

SCARLETT: Yankees in Tara!

M.C.S. PORK and MAMMY at foot of stairs, looking up.

MAMMY: Yassum, an' dey stole mos' everythin' dey didn't burn. All de cloe's an' all de rugs. An' even Miss Ellen's rosaries.

M.C.S. SCARLETT on stairs. She starts up again, stops, looks down.

SCARLETT: I'm starving, Pork. Get me something to eat.

MAMMY: (o.s.) Dere ain' nuthin' to eat, honey. Dey tuk it all.

SCARLETT: All the chickens-everything?

M.C.S. PORK and MAMMY at foot of stairs, looking up.

PORK: Dey tuk dem de fust thing, an' whut dey didn' eat dey cahh'ied off 'cross dey saddles.

M.C.S. SCARLETT on stairs. She looks off (to study).

SCARLETT: Don't tell me any more about what they did.

L.S. GERALD seated in Study. CAMERA DOLLIES IN. SCARLETT enters. She picks up cup from table, drinks. Fills cup from jug on table and drinks again. She goes to GERALD and sits beside him.

SCARLETT: What's this, Pa? Whiskey?

GERALD: Yes, daughter. Here, Katie Scarlett, that's enough! You're not knowing spirits - you'll make yourself drunk.

SCARLETT: I hope it makes me drunk. I'd like to be drunk.

GERALD: Scarlett.

SCARLETT: Oh, Pa. What are those papers?

C.S. SCARLETT and GERALD. SCARLETT sits away from him, turns to window, holds her head in her hand. She looks up at GERALD, studies him closely. GERALD starts to rise.

GERALD: Bonds. They're all we've saved...all we have left. Bonds.

SCARLETT: What kinds of bonds, Pa?

GERALD: Why, Confederate Bonds, of course, daughter.

SCARLETT: Confederate Bonds! What good are they to anybody?

GERALD: I'll not have you talking like that, Katie Scarlett.

SCARLETT: Oh, Pa, what are we going to do with no money and nothing to eat.

GERALD: We must ask your mother. That's it! We must ask Mrs. O'Hara. Yes, Mrs. O'Hara will know what's to be done. Now don't be botherin' me. Go out for a ride. I'm busy.

M.S. GERALD rises, moves toward table. SCARLETT, seated at window, watches him.

C.U. SCARLETT, staring. She rises, CAMERA PULLS back as she comes forward. CAMERA includes GERALD seated in f.g., at table. SCARLETT stands behind him. She leans over him, takes his shoulders. She exits scene. CAMERA DOLLIES IN to C.U. GERALD with ELLEN's sewing box and earrings, her thimble on his little finger. CAMERA continues to C.U. of box and GERALD's hands, GERALD's face tipped in at top of screen.

SCARLETT: Oh, Pa, don't worry about anything. Katie Scarlett's home. You needn't worry.

M.S. SCARLETT outside study door, just closing it. She leans against door-jamb. MAMMY enters scene. SCARLETT crosses hall, MAMMY following, CAMERA PANNING with them. They come to foot of stairs, stop as PRISSY comes downstairs, stops midway. SCARLETT leaves foot of stairs, continues toward back entrance, CAMERA excluding MAMMY and PRISSY and revealing PORK on porch outside door. CAMERA DOLLIES after SCARLETT as she goes out onto porch and exits scene into yard.

MAMMY: (o.s.) Miss Scarlett.

MAMMY: Whut are we gwine to do wid nuthin' to feed dose sick fo'ks an' dat chile?

SCARLETT: I don't know, Mammy, I don't know.

MAMMY: We ain' got nuthin' but radishes in de garden.

PRISSY: Miss Scarlett, Miss Suellen an' miss Carreen, dey's fussin' to be sponged off.

SCARLETT: Where are the other servents, Mammy?

MAMMY: Miss Scarlett, dere's only jes' me an' pork left. De odeers went off to de war or runned away.

PRISSY: Ah sain' take care o' dat baby an' - (o.s.)- sick fo'kses, too. Ah's only got two han's.

PORK: Who's gwine to milk dat cow, Miss Scarlett? We'se house-workers.

M.C.S. SCARLETT walks down steps of Covered Way, CAMERA PANS with her. She stops in C.U.

L.S. Desolate field- dawn sky. Wreckage strewn about. Burned buildings silhouetted on horizon.

C.U. SCARLETT - she moves to CAMERA and out of scene.

L.S. SCARLETT, silhouetted against dawn sky, enters vegetable garden through gate. She walks toward CAMERA drops to the ground.

C.U. SCARLETT's hand pulling radish out of ground, wiping off dirt. Hand with radish leaves scene.

M.C.S. SCARLETT, silhouetted against the dawn, straightens up, starts to eat the radish, it makes her sick, CAMERA starts to dolly in. She retches, falls to the ground, sobs. She rises slowly, CAMERA pans up with her and moves to big C.U. She looks heavenword and raises her fist.

SCARLETT: As god as my witness- as god as my witness, they're not going to lick me. I am going to live through this, and when it is all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor nay of my folks. If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill.

M.L.S. SCARLETT standing silhouetted against the dawn, her clenched fists upraised. CAMERA PULLS AWAY to E.L.S. of SCARLETT's tiny figure against the wide expanse of dawn sky.

SCARLETT: As god as my witness, I'll never be hungry again!