FORREST (V.O.). well, that's left after a new

...well, that's left after a new

hair cut and a new suit and I took

Momma out to real fancy dinner and I

bought a bus ticket and three Doctor

Peppers.

Forrest walks along a wooden pier. Forrest pays an old black

shrimper a large wad of cash.

OLD SHRIMPER

Tell me something. Are you stupid or

something?

FORREST

Stupid is as stupid does, sir.

EXT. BUBBA'S GRAVE

Forrest stands at the grave.

FORREST

Well, that's what's left after me

saying, " When I was in China on the

All-America Ping-Pong Team, I just

loved playing ping-pong with my Flex-

O-Ping-Pong Paddle." Which everybody

knows it isn't true, but Momma says

it's just a little white lie so it

wouldn't hurt nobody. So, anyway,

I'm putting all that on gas, ropes

and new nets and a brand-new shrimpin'

boat.

EXT. BAYOU - DAY

Forrest steers his shrimping boat. The boat is old and rusty.

Forrest unleashes his nets as his catch of the day drops to

the deck. It is a bunch of garbage and shells. Forrest picks

up one shrimp.

FORREST (V.O.)

Now, Bubba had told me everything he

knows about shrimpin', but you know

what I found out? Shrimpin' is tough.

EXT. DOCKS

Forrest pulls a couple of shrimp out of a bucket.

FORREST

I only caught five.

OLD SHRIMPER

A couple of more, you can have

yourself a cocktail.

The old shrimper begins to walk away, then stops and looks

at Forrest.

OLD SHRIMPER

Hey, you ever think about namin'

this old boat?

FORREST (V.O.)

I'd never named a boat before, but

there was only one I could think of.

Forrest paints a name on the side of his boat. The name is

" Jenny."

FORREST (V.O.)

The most beautiful name in the wide

world.

INT. DISCO

Disco lights flash and people dance. A guy asks a girl to

dance.

GIRL

Okay.

Jenny sits at a table with some other people. She is snorting

cocaine.

FORREST (V.O.)

Now, I hadn't heard from Jenny in a

long while. But...

EXT. BAYOU LA BATRE - DAY

Forrest stands at the helm as the boat glides across the

water.

FORREST (V.O.)

But I thought about her a lot. And I

hoped that whatever she was doing

made her happy.

INT. APARTMENT - NIGHT

Drug paraphernalia and a large wad of cash are spread out on

a table. A man drops a syringe on the table. He reaches over

and touches Jenny. She is pale with dark lines under her

eyes.

INT. BATHROOM

Jenny smears some lines of cocaine on a mirror. She looks at

herself in the mirror.