Num

Minutes

Title

Relevant action and inferences

1

0 11

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Pumpkin (Tim Roth) and Honey Bunny (Amanda Plummer) decide to rob their breakfast diner, and pull their guns. Opening titles.

2

11 24

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Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson), dressed in suits, are driving off to the white-boy drug-dealers' house. They shoot two of them (and scene fades out, unresolved).

3

25 63

Vincent Vega and Marcellus Wallace's wife

Butch (Bruce Willis), a washed-up fighter, takes a payoff from Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), who has a band-aid across the back of his neck, to go down in the fifth round. In walk Vincent and Jules, dressed in tee-shirts (Santa Cruz) [later revealed to be after the restaurant]. Vincent and Butch verbally spar, and Butch leaves.

Vincent changes, dresses in string tie, visits his dealer (Eric Stoltz), buys heroin, meets Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman), has dialog revealing this is after Scene 2. They dine, dance, go home, she snorts heroin (thinking it's cocaine), overdoses, he races her back to his dealer, she gets an adrenaline shot, he takes her home.

4

63 67

Butch's dream

Young Butch is visited by his dad's Air Force friend (Christopher Walken) and given his great-grandfather's watch.

5

67 68

Butch's fight

Butch wakes in shock, ready to fight (after Scene 3). In prep, sees Mia Wallace, she thanks Vincent for the nice night.

6

69 105

Butch's watch

Butch in a cab, right after the fight. His opponent is dead. Flirts with Hispanic cab driver. Makes pay phone call, we learn that he bet on himself, cleaned up a packet. Arrives at motel (cute French girlfriend). His watch is missing. Goes back to his apartment to get the watch, finds it, despite danger. Instead of leaving, makes a breakfast. Notices gun. Vincent Vega comes out of bathroom. Butch kills him. Puts down the gun, wipes prints, leaves.

Driving away, feeling good, he stops at a light … there is Marcellus. He rams Marcellus, crashes the car, they are both knocked out.

When they wake, Marcellus chases Butch into a rebel store, where they are both knocked out by the proprietor and tied up. Marcellus is being raped when Butch frees himself. He could leave but he goes back, slices one guy, and frees Marcellus, who shoots Zed. They are cool, but his LA privileges are over. Butch collects his cute girlfriend, they roar off on Zed's motorcycle.

7

106 127

The Bonnie situation

Flashback to the shooting sequence (Scene 2) from the POV of a white guy hiding behind the door. He comes out, shoots them both, somehow misses, Vincent and Jules shoot him.

Driving away, Vincent sees this as divine intervention, and vows to quit Marcellus's employ. Vincent, gesturing with his gun in conversation, accidentally blows off the black college guy's head. They race to [name]'s house [Quentin Tarantino], where the homeowner demands they get things fixed before Bonnie comes home at 9:30 am. Jules calls Marcellus, who sends Mr. Wolf (Harvey Keitel), who cleans up the car and them and they roar off to Monster Joe's (Julia Sweeney). The car disposed of, they go for breakfast … at the diner.

8

128 143

At the diner, Jules explains to Vincent how he has witnessed a miracle (Scene 7) and he is going to change his life. While Vincent is in the bathroom (yet again), Pumpkin brandishes a gun in his face. Jules grabs it, forces Pumpkin to surrender, and explains that he is trying real hard to be the shepherd. Gives Pumpkin his money, buying Pumpkin's life, they leave. Vincent and Jules leave…