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| “ | Suppose I shot you. How'd that be? | „ |
| ~ Kit menacing one of his victims |
| “ | At this moment, I didn't feel shame or fear, but just kind of blah, like when you're sitting there and all the water's run out of the bathtub. | „ |
| ~ Holly about allowing Kit to kill her father |
Kit Carruthers and Holly Sargis are the villain protagonists of the 1973 independent film Badlands. They are a pair of lovers who go on a killing spree after murdering Holly's father. They are loosely based on the late real-life spree killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate.
Kit was portrayed by Martin Sheen - who also portrayed Jason Wynn in Spawn, Greg Stillson in The Dead Zone, Captain Hollister in Firestarter, and Sly Sludge in Captain Planet & the Planeteers - and Holly was portrayed by Sissy Spacek, who also portrayed Carrie White in the 1976 film adaptation of Carrie.
and Biography[]
Not much is known about Kit or Holly's pasts, though what is known is that Holly's mother died of pneumonia when she was very young, and some day, ten years after the funeral held in the late mother's honor, her father moved away from Texas and traveled to Fr. Dupree, South Dakota, planning to start a new life and avoid so many painful memories. Holly -- now 15 years old -- lived a mostly quiet, subdued life.
Kit happened to be in the area and he had a job as a garbageman. A one point, he'd search through trash cans for valuable items or to satisfy his curiosity about other people's lives. After suddenly deciding to quit, he walks through a vacant alley between houses, crosses a street and spots Holly who was practicing with a baton at the time. He introduces himself and then requests her company to go walking. Holly knew that her father wouldn't be comfortable with her hanging out with a garbage man, and lies about him being a yardman worker.
Kit finds job he was fired from his job upon returning to where he worked, so he goes to a clerk about his plans, where he's offered a chance to deal with cattle. But when Holly notices Kit again through a window, she gets attracted to him and they'd have some chats and slowly fall in love. Although the two of them kept the relationship a secret as to not offend Holly's father due to Kit be too old for Holly (10 years older) and his heritage. Although she still falls to notice how dangerous Kit was, until he proposed using a stone to crunch their heads in honor of their first sexual encounter, which Holly's objected to.
Mr. Sargis inevitably finds out about Holly's relationship with Kit, and shoots her dog and tosses it into the river, and forces her to take additional music lessons to keep her busy. Kit would try to talk things out with Mr. Sargis only for the latter to rebuff him. While Mr. Sargis was out, he packs Holly's suitcase preparing leave with her. Mr. Sargis and Holly arrive back shortly, and after once again ordering Kit to leave, and threatening to call the authorities, Kit threatens to shoot Sargis, and shiftly does just that without any guilt. Holly doesn't show much emotion over her father's death merely slapping Kit in the face. At the town's near-deserted train station, Kit goes into a recording studio booth to record a vinyl record and narrates a fake-suicide testimony that would be left at the house for the authorities to find. He then arrives back at Holly's house, he douses the inside with gasoline. The duo collect various items to take with them. Before setting the house on fire and fleeing the murder scene, Kit sets up a Victrola on a table in the back yard and puts the needle on the record to play again and again.