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“ | Tell me, big shot, how you gonna write a book about something you know nothing about? | „ |
~ Early Grayce to Brian. |
Early Grayce is the main antagonist of the 1993 drama-thriller film Kalifornia.
He was portrayed by Brad Pitt, who would later play Jeffrey Goines in 12 Monkeys and Tyler Durden in Fight Club.
Biography[]
Early Grayce was living in Louisville, Kentucky and grew up there. As a young boy, his father would verbally and physically abuse him. Early went to prison for beating a bartender half to death, and got paroled after a few years. He met a woman named Adele Corners, who he saved from some guys raping her, and they would fall in love and live together despite her parents' objections to it. Both Early and Adele were living in a trailer park, owned by John Diebold. Early was working at a mirror factory and got fired for breaking some mirrors there which would cause him and Adele to be behind on rent, though Adele was working at a local diner.
One rainy night, Early was out in the rain, and would pick up a big rock and drop it from a bridge on an oncoming car, driven by a man who picked up a female hitchhiker. He would then take the hitchhikers high heals and give them to Adele as a birthday present.
Early was about to go out somewhere and Adele told him that Diebold stopped by and demanded the rent money or he will kick them the out of there. Later that day, he got home and saw a car and as soon as he goes into his trailer, he saw his parole officer. The parole officer tells him he's supposed to notify him when he loses his job, and to be at an address at 3:00 PM and tells Early what job it is,- a janitor's job, with Early not wanting to be a janitor. The parole officer tells him if he does not show up, he'll have Early arrested.
The next day, Early gets a visit from John Diebold and demands his money. Early tries to run him down in his car for fun before then driving off. Diebold tells Adele he wants them out of the trailer by Sunday, or he will call the police. Early goes the place where he's supposed to be at an interview for a janitor's job at the local college and sees a bulletin board with an note about sharing expenses for a ride across country to see historical murder sites all the way to California, a note left by Brian Kessler, a writer, planning to write a book about the warehouse murders.
Later that night, Early kills Diebold, cuts off his middle finger, and buries his body by his trailer, which he burns along with his car. The next morning Early and Adele are at the bus station and meet with Brian Kessler and his girlfriend, Carrie Laughlin, all going on the road trip.
In Tennessee, Early, Adele, Brian and Carrie arrive at a farm, the former Novak farm, where some murders took place. Carrie is taking pictures of the place and Brian is recording his voice log on his recorder. The new owner of the farm refuses to let them in the house to take pictures. Early goes up to a window in the kitchen, opens the window, and takes the purse on the table. Subsequently that evening, the four are at a hotel, having dinner. Early takes his shoes off and scratches his feet to Carrie's disgust.
Later on their travels they arrive in Texas and stop at a gas station and Early, in the bathroom and having to pay for gas, kills a man with a knife and takes his money before they all leave. While driving, Brian talks about a killer called the "Black Dahlia Killer" and records on his recorder, asking Early his opinion on the killer. At a hotel they stop at, Brian and Early go out to have some beer at a bar and Brian nearly gets into a fight with some other guy, but Early saves Brian and beats up the other man.
The next morning, they drive off and Brian is hungover from the other night. Later on in the day, they stop at an old building. Early, who brought a gun with them teaches Brian how to shoot it and are shooting it at the windows of the building. Later on, they stop at their next destination and Brian and Carrie are taking pics and get into an argument. Carrie walks away and sees Early and Adele having sex in the car and Early gives Carrie an evil look, scaring her.
At a gas station in the desert of Arizona, they stop and Brian talks to Early and Adele about them taking a bus cause of personal reasons while Carrie is inside the station. Carrie sees the Early on the news, being wanted for murdering his landlord and the man at the gas station in Texas. Early walks in and takes Carrie and the gas station attendant, Walter Livesy, hostage. He has Adele distract Brian and kills Walter before he takes both of them hostage.
Later on, they're driving to the next destination and Brian is not interested anymore in his pictures. At a building out in the Nevada desert, Early takes some pictures himself. Brian tells the story of the murders and Early is amused. Two state police officers see Adele and Carrie and tell them they're on private property and the car is identified. Witnessing this, Early shoots the male cop and kills the female cop. Early tries to force Brian to shoot the wounded male cop, but he refuses, ending with Early killing the cop.
The four then stop at a desert house, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Hank Musgrave. Early, having Brian and Carrie handcuffed to the piano, asks Mrs. Musgrave where her husband is, telling him she's a widow. Early finds out she was lying when he went the upstairs part of the house, killing Hank Musgrave. Mrs. Musgrave sees her husband dead, with Adele seeing him dead also. Adele helps sneak Mrs. Musgrave out of the house while Early is looking at some of Carrie's pictures. Early goes to the door to look for Mrs. Musgrave and shoots outside before Adele picks up a cactus and hits Early in the face with it and tells him she doesn't love him cause of him killing people Saying she doesn't want to be with him anymore, Early gets angry and shoots Adele; killing her.
Early goes into the house and sees Carrie loose from the piano and gets angry. Early is about to shoot Brian but begs him to spare his life as she will go with Early. Early hits Brian in the head with his gun, knocking him out. Early drives off with Carrie in Brian's car and go to a nuclear test site, located near the Nevada-California border. Brian gets freed by Mrs. Musgrave and drives Hank's truck to find them.
Meanwhile, Early is about to rape Carrie, who stabs him with a piece of glass. Early hits her, takes her to a room, handcuffs her to a bed, and rapes her. Brian arrives at the site and hits Early with a shovel. Brian goes to see Carrie and sees she was raped and is angered. Early gets Brian from behind and Early cut Brian with his knife while Brian manages to keep fighting and grabs Early's gun and Carrie hits Early in the face with a part of a dummy. Brian then shoots Early dead.
External Links[]
- Early Grayce on the Pure Evil Wiki