Why Should You Care?

".....for Me, personally, it's Brunettes --

.....but Redheads are The Wildcard."

-- David Lynch

Erik The Viking - Initial scene

Erik is fiddling and futzing around 

with his belt-buckle, self-consciously --

The Redhead :

...have you done this sort of thing before?

Erik The Viking :

Me? Of course. I've been 

looting and pillaging 

up and down the coast.

The Redhead :

Looting and pillaging, eh?

Erik The Viking :

Yes.

The Redhead :

What about The Raping?

Erik The Viking :

Shut up.

Well, it's obvious you haven't 

raped anyone in your life.

.......do you like women?

Erik The Viking :

What? Of course I like 

women. I love 'em.

The Redhead :

You don't love me.

Erik The Viking :

Well, no, I don't.

....mind you, I'm not saying

I couldn't get to like you.

As a matter of fact I actually 

prefer it if there's some sort of 

mutual feeling between two people...

The Redhead :

What? Rape? 

Erik The Viking :

No. Obviously then it wouldn't 

be rape then, would it?

The Redhead :

...get it over with.

Erik The Viking :

I don't suppose that you...

No... no.

The Redhead :

What?

Erik The Viking :

I don't suppose that... you...

You do like me at all?

The Redhead :

What d'you expect?

You come in here, burn my village,

kill my family, and try to rape me.

.....You don't like it, do you? 

Erik The Viking :

Well I just think it's a little 

bit crude, that's all.

The Redhead :

What about all the killing and looting?

That's just as crude, isn't it?

Erik The Viking :

Well, you have to do them.

The Redhead :

Why? Why do you have to go around

killing and looting all the time?

Erik The Viking :

To pay for the next expedition, of course.

The Redhead :

But that's a circular argument!

If the only reason for the expedition

is the killing and looting

and the only reason for

the killing and looting is

to pay for the next expedition,

they cancel each other out.

Erik The Viking :

Stop talking as if we were married!

The Redhead :

Well you started it.

Erik The Viking :

I just said I didn't 

feel like raping you.

The Redhead :

And I was just saying that rape is no more pointless 

or crude than all the killing and looting.

Someone is coming --

Erik The Viking :

Scream.

She does, quietly. --

Erik The Viking :

Louder.

The Redhead :

Aaagh! Rape!

Erik The Viking :

Oh, thanks.

Another Viking :

Rape?

A Third Viking :

Where?

The Redhead :

He raped me standing up.

Another Viking :

You finished, then?

Erik The Viking :

I suppose so...

A Third Viking :

Right!

Erik The Viking :

Leave her alone! No!

In the ensuing brief struggle, everyone ends up 

either dead or mortally wounded, except Erik --

The Redhead :

Thanks for saving me from

a fate worse than death.

Erik The Viking :

I didn't mean to!

The Redhead :

Oh, that's all right then...

It's The Thought that counts.

You told them 

I raped you, why?

The Redhead :

I don't know... You looked 

so... vulnerable.

Erik The Viking :

Why should you care?

The Redhead :

Why... should you care?

Erik The Viking :

Tell me your name?

Tell me, what is it?

She dies in His Arms.