![]() ![]() Bobby uses Sailor's concern about having to support a family to persuade him to participate in an armed robbery. Bobby, meanwhile, intuits that Lula is pregnant after he pays her a surprise visit while Sailor's away and sees that she's puked on the floor due to morning sickness. Lula reveals to Sailor that she is pregnant from all the sex they've been having for the past few weeks. Running short on money, Sailor and Lula stop in the small town of Big Tuna, Texas where they meet several grade-A weirdos including Juana's sinister daughter Perdita ( Isabella Rossellini), local creeps Buddy ( Pruitt Taylor Vince), Timmy ( Frank Collison) and Sparky (Tim Lurie) crazy drunk 00 Spool ( Jack Nance) and the slimy Bobby Peru ( Willem Dafoe). Lula says that it's a bad omen of things to come. ![]() Soon after discussing that so-called accident, Sailor and Lula encounter a car accident on the roadside where a bloodied young woman ( Sherilyn Fenn) dies after stumbling out of the wrecked car. He was parked outside of her house the night it went up in flames, a witness to the conflagration in which Lula's father perished. On the road late at night, Sailor confesses to Lula that before he met her, he used to work as a driver for Marcelles Santos. ![]() Reindeer's hit squad, who kill the hapless investigator in a sexually-charged, ritualistic manner. Before Marietta can hustle him out of harm's way, Farragut is kidnapped by Mr. Marietta flies out to New Orleans and meets up with Farragut, but when he asks her whether Santos is involved in the hunt for Sailor and Lula, she denies it. They first stop in New Orleans where they check into another motel, have a rainbow spectrum of sex, go out dancing, and talk about their personal lives. Sailor suspects that Marietta may have put a hit out on him, and decides to break parole by leaving North Carolina with Lula and making a run for California. Having opened Pandora's Box, Marietta has a crisis of conscience and sets out to try and protect Farragut. Reindeer (William Morgan Sheppard), who assigns his assassins Juana ( Grace Zabriskie), Reggie ( Calvin Lockhart) and Dropshadow ( David Patrick Kelly) to handle the killings of both Sailor and Farragut. Marietta backtracks and tells Santos to leave Farragut out of it. Santos agrees to kill Sailor, but only on condition that he gets to kill Farragut, too, because Farragut is on to their criminal dealings. Freeman), another boyfriend and dubious associate, to kill Sailor. When Johnnie fails to find the couple quickly enough for her liking, Marietta also enlists the assistance of Marcelles Santos (J.E. Marietta entreats private investigator and part-time boyfriend Johnnie Farragut ( Harry Dean Stanton) to find Lula and bring her home. Marietta, who in fact drunkenly propositioned Sailor in the men's bathroom that fateful night in Cape Fear, as well as threatening Sailor with the possibility that he knows "too much," is beside herself with rage. Sailor is overjoyed to see Lula, who's brought him his prized snakeskin jacket, a symbol of his "individuality and belief in personal freedom." Sailor and Lula check into a motel, have mad, passionate sex, then go dancing at a local nightclub where he serenades her Elvis-style with "Treat Me Like a Fool." Lula asks Sailor why he never sings her "Love Me Tender," and he explains that he would only sing that song to his wife. Upon his parole, 22 months later, despite orders from her domineering mother that she should never see Sailor again, Lula runs off to reunite with Sailor. Sailor is convicted of manslaughter and sent to the Pee Dee Correctional Facility. Lemon announces that Marietta just paid him to kill Sailor and draws a switchblade, but Sailor defends himself, brutally beating and smashing his assailant's head into the floor in front of Lula, Marietta, and several other people. At a formal dinner party in Cape Fear, North Carolina, outgoing 23-year-old Elvis Presley freak Sailor Ripley ( Nicolas Cage) is accused by a goon named Bob Ray Lemon ( Gregg Dandridge) of making sexual advances on Marietta Fortune ( Diane Ladd), the mother of Sailor's 20-year-old girlfriend Lula ( Laura Dern). ![]()
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