<P> On the way they stop for a drink at a roadhouse bar where Thelma meets and dances with a flirtatious stranger, Harlan . When he takes her outside to the parking lot to get some fresh air, he starts kissing her and taking her clothes off without her consent . Thelma resists but Harlan hits her, and then starts raping her . Louise finds them and threatens to shoot Harlan with the gun that Thelma brought with her . Harlan stops but as the women walk away, he yells that he should have continued the rape and continually insults them . Enraged, Louise responds by shooting him dead, and the pair flee the scene . </P> <P> At a motel, they discuss how to handle the situation . Thelma wants to go to the police but Louise fears that no one will believe Thelma's claim of attempted rape and they will be subsequently charged for murder . They decide to go on the run, but Louise demands they travel from Oklahoma to Mexico without going through Texas . Something happened to Louise in Texas, and Thelma suspects it was something similar to what had happened with Harlan but Louise adamantly refuses to discuss it . Heading west, the women come across an attractive young drifter, J.D., who Thelma quickly falls for, and she convinces Louise to let him hitch a ride with them . Louise then contacts Jimmy and asks him to wire transfer her life savings to her . When she goes to pick up the money, she finds that Jimmy has come to see her to deliver the money in person, and the two spend the night together . Jimmy proposes to Louise but she refuses . Meanwhile, Thelma invites J.D. to her room, and they sleep together . She then learns he is a thief who has broken parole . </P> <P> The following morning, Thelma leaves J.D. in her motel room while she meets Louise downstairs for breakfast and, when they return, they discover J.D. has stolen Louise's life savings and fled . Louise is distraught, so a guilty Thelma takes charge and later robs a nearby convenience store using the tactics she learned from listening to J.D. Meanwhile, the FBI are getting closer to catching the fugitives after witnesses at the bar saw Louise's 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible speeding out of the parking lot the night of the shooting . Their whereabouts are also questioned by the owner of the fishing cabin after the women failed to arrive for the weekend . Arkansas State Police Investigator Hal Slocumb leads the investigation and questions both J.D. and Jimmy, and taps into the phone line at Darryl's house . He discovers that Louise had been raped years earlier in Texas, so sympathizes with her situation and understands why they didn't report Harlan's murder to the authorities . During a couple of brief phone conversations with Louise, he expresses his sympathy, but is unsuccessful in his attempts to persuade her to surrender . </P> <P> Thelma tells Louise she understands if she wants to go back home, knowing she has Jimmy waiting for her, but explains she cannot go back to Darryl . Louise promises they will keep going together . The pair are later pulled over by a New Mexico state trooper for speeding . Knowing he will soon discover they are wanted for murder and armed robbery, Thelma holds him at gunpoint and locks him in the trunk of his police car, while Louise takes his gun and ammunition . They drive away from the scene and spend the next few nights heading further west . On the road, they encounter a foul - mouthed truck driver who repeatedly makes obscene gestures at them . They pull over and demand an apology from him, but when he refuses, they fire at the fuel tanker he is driving, causing it to explode . </P>

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