Synopsis for
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

Back at the beginning, at the Two Pines Wedding Chapel in El Paso, TX, there is a dress rehearsal for a wedding taking place. The bridegroom's parents decide that, since the bride will have no relatives present at the wedding, their own relatives and friends can sit on both sides of the aisle. 'The Bride' (Uma Thurman) is suddenly distracted. She leaves the chapel "to get some fresh air" and finds Bill (David Carradine) sitting at a bench playing his flute. She asks him to be nice and he replies that he does not know how to be nice but will do his best...to be sweet. They enter the hall and she introduces him to her fiancé as her father. As the bride and groom are called to reverend Harmony (Bo Svenson), no attempt is made to introduce 'father' to the rest of the family.

Outside the chapel, four armed assassins appear. In one line they move to the door, they enter, and the shooting starts.

In a flashback, Bill and 'The Bride' (very much in love with him) sit at a fire and Bill tells her about his kung-fu teacher Pai Mei (Chia Hui Liu) and his 'five-point-palm-exploding-heart' technique after which the victim's heart explodes after he or she takes 5 steps. Pai Mei did not teach Bill the technique because he does not show it to anyone.

In a hotel room, 'The Bride' discovers that she is pregnant. Enters Karen Kim (Helen Kim) shooting a hole in the door with a shotgun. 'The Bride', pointing her gun at Karen (whom she knows) convinces her that she is pregnant and persuades her to walk away. Karen congratulates 'The Bride'.

Under the steps leading to Pai Mei's place, Bill informs 'The Bride' that Pai Mei will take her as his pupil - because he is lonely. Bill's face shows that he was hurt but refuses to say what happened. Bill warns her not to show any disrespect or disobedience to Pai Mei because Pai Mei hates Caucasians, despises Americans, and has nothing but contempt for women. She climbs the steps and is humiliated by Pai Mei. She works hard (bringing buckets of water up the steps) and learns hard. She finds striking a blow with her fist to break a hole through a plank the most difficult skill.

Back in the present, Bill visits his brother, Budd (Michael Madsen), at his trailer in the middle of nowhere and warns him about 'The Bride'. She will kill Budd if he does not allow Bill to protect him. They had differences in the past but they should move on. Budd, drinking as they talk, replies that maybe they should get killed. He then infuriates Bill by saying that he has sold his priceless samurai sword for 250 dollars.

Budd goes to work. He is 20 minutes late, argues in the office that there is nobody in the bar thus there was no need for him to be there as a bouncer, and gets fired. In the bar, he agrees to clean a messed up toilet.

He returns to his trailer but standing in front of it suddenly freezes. He then enters the trailer but looks out the window. 'The Bride', who was hiding under the trailer, sticks to the wall so he does not see her. She opens the door and gets shot in the chest with rock salt by Budd who was sitting waiting opposite the door. While she is lying on the ground, Budd is very pleased with himself and knocks her out by injecting her. He phones Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) and asks her for a million dollars for 'The Bride's' sword. Elle agrees to bring the money in the morning. Her condition is that 'The Bride' suffers to her last breath.

When the grave has been dug, 'The Bride' is given a choice: if she does not resist, she'll be given a torch, if she does, she will lose her eyes. She choses the torch, is put in a coffin and the lid is nailed down. She is placed in the grave and covered with soil. She manages to loosen her feet, gets her boot and takes out a razor hidden in the boot. With the razor, she loosens her hands and hits the lid with her fist repeatedly. The lid becomes smeared with her blood but it finally cracks. An arm sticks out from the soil, then 'The Bride' crawls out. Covered in dirt, she walks into a diner, sits down and asks for a glass of water.

Elle arrives at Budd's trailer and gives him a suitcase with money. He opens it and is struck by a black mamba that was hidden in it. Before he dies, Elle tells him that she is sorry that such a "piece of shit" was the one who managed to kill 'The Bride' - she deserved better! She phones Bill and tells him that 'The Bride' has killed his brother but that she, Elle, has killed her.

'The Bride' walks in. Elle tells her that Pai Mei ripped out her eye because she offended him. Later she poisoned Pai Mei and he died. They fight and Elle gets hold of 'The Bride's' sword. 'The Bride' uses Budd's sword dedicated "To my brother Budd, the only man I ever loved, Bill". Budd did not sell it after all, he lied to Bill. At close range, 'The Bride' rips out Elle's remaining eye and steps on it.

'The Bride' visits Esteban Vihaio, Bill's old mentor, and asks him to tell her where Bill is. He finally agrees because Bill would surely like to see her.

She enters Bill's mansion carefully, a gun in her hand, but is shocked when Bill and their small daughter, alive, both play-shoot at her with toy guns. She spends good time with her daughter who then falls asleep. 'The Bride' goes to speak to Bill.

Bill's warning shot pins 'The Bride' down in her seat, then he shoots her with a truth-serum dart to make her tell him the truth. She explains why she left him: because she wanted to take her child away from him. Bill is puzzled because he believes that she is a natural born killer and could not change. They agree to fight with swords on the beach. When she thinks that Bill will kill her before they get there, she strikes him with the 'five-point-palm-exploding-heart' technique. She tells Bill that she did not tell him that Pai Mei had taught her the technique because she is a bad person. Bill disputes that, takes 5 steps and dies.

'The Bride' takes her daughter away to start a new life: "The lioness has rejoined her cub, and all is right in the jungle."