TAKE THIS WOMAN (IF I SHOULD DIE BEFORE I WAKE) CtAPb From sraveHh)”) Screenplay by orson Welles FINAL DRAFT (For Estimating Purposes) August 17, 1046It's late August, -- very early morning....The city, fretfully awake, gasps for breath in the stuffy atmosphero of a closet. In the dizzy heat Spires and tenements seem to sweat like the New Yorkers living in them. It's been a heavy sunmer and the whole weight of it has been congealed into one oven of a night. under the TITLE and CREDITS.+- We seo Manhattan at such an hour in such a seasons In particular: We see a girl walking. We see a man following her. She hears his footsteps, stops, he ducks out of her sight. In the dark doorway of a building we watch him hiding, -- listening... She has returned, searching for him, but she halts short of the door, changes her mind, and crosses the street, moving toward the place where hansoms and Victorias are waiting near the parkere The man scuttles away. CAMERA PANNING HIM takes in a luminous vista of the city acess. The CREDITS finish, ani wo DISSOLVE TO:INT, 1 NIGHT CLUB DOODLES....the screen is filled with theme». Figures, 1 drafted nervously ona tablecloth. HOT RUMBA MUSIC comes over the scene. CAMERA PULLS BACK to show the doodler; an aging playboy (Grisby) = in a most unheppy sweat of apprehension. He's sitting at a table in 2 night club, from the pattern of the upholstery: El loroceo. A waiter is speaking into his ear. THE WAITER -- No sir. I've checked again. THE PLAYBOY (nis voice shaking a little) You're sure? THE WAITER That's right, sir. She hasn't called. The waiter laves. The Playboy stares straight ahead, gripping the pencil in his shaking fingers. The pencil breaks... At this the CANERA WHIPS OFF THE SCENE. In a frantic smear of light = DISSOLVE TO: INSERT: A RADTO AND A PHONE 2 The music of El Morocco is being broadcast, but we hear it more tinnily now from the speaker. A phone in the f.g. is ringing. A hand coms into the scene, and lifts the roceiver off the cradle, CAMERA MOVING UP TO SHOW A MAN == a cripple, with a sharp, intelligent fece (this is Bannister). THE CRIPPLED MAN Yes -- 7 With his free hand, he completes anaction commenced when the phone rang. He knocks a pill or two cut o” a bottle, picks them up in his uncertain fingers, pops [Link] in his mouth and swallows them with a glass of water. He has just started his drink when something said on the phone makes himstop to answere THE CRIPPLED MAN (sharply) What do you mean == you lost hor? CUT TO:4 PHONE BOOTH GARAGE SEEN IN B.G. A man is at the phone (Broome). 3 His blank face shows nothing but greed. A loose mouth sports a set of teeth tho color of Camembert cheese. About two of these unlovely grinders are missing and this man Broome has a way of nursing a fat reptilian tongue through the gaping space with exactly the grimace of a sick lizard. Indeed, though a big fellow, he's quite probably unwell. Anyway, he looks ill. He also looks like a hoodlum. THE OTHER BROOME I tagged her as far as the Plazas Then she took this horse and buggy... I had to leave her go or she'd spot Me wee CUT TO: END OF THE PHONE CONVERSATION: 4 THE ORIPPLED MAN (furiously) You read the papors, don't you? You know the kind of things that're happening in the park nowadays? -- What's she doing out there += gone? DISSOLVE TO:EXT. CENTRAL PARK 5 CLOSEUP A GIRL 5 The girl we saw befores+seA very beautiful girl. She's riding in a carriage in the mrk. CAMERA CRANES BACK to show @ POLICE SQUAD CAR moving up behind her. INSERT: THE LITTLE DIAL OF A RADIO IN SQUAD CAR Through the speaker ani over the rattling of static comes the cop announcer reciting the police callse POLICE RADIO VOICE Car in 52nd Precinct, Signal 30 = 196th & Jerome - cries for help Car 510 will respond = proceed cautiously. + SQUAD CAR - NIGHT 6 MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT 6 4 couple of cops are listening to the calls. cop 2 Gettin! a lot of action up in tho Bronxe CoP 2 Yeah, quiet around here, -- for once. COP 1 Hey! Just a minute -- He jerks his hoad to indicate something we can't see outside. COP 1 (continuing) How about that guy, -- watchs think? Tho Voice ca the short wave radio drones on with the police callseres EXT. CENTRAL PARK = NIGHT 7 Tho redio in the parked squad car can still be heard, faint, 7 but audible. It's quict out here. And very hot. A man is walking in the park late at night. His footsteps echo on the sidowalk. He's singing under his breath, and with more than a touch of Irish brogue:10 CONTINUED: 7 ‘THE MAN Bold Robert Emmett, the darlin' of Erin Bold Robort Emmett, he died with a smile. So farewell == It's dark and the man's face is in shadow. But now a blade of light stabs through the darkness and picks up his face interrupting the song. The flashlight is held by a police= man, ond of the two, in the squad care Nothing is said for a waile. The flashlight travels up and dow scarching tho mane The cops looking him over without comment. The short wave radio rattles on with its routino refrain... TRUCKING SHOT 8 The man moves to a pedestrian crossing with traffic lights, the squad car inching after him. CLOSEUP THE MAN 9 He's big strapping Irishman with a pug nose =~ a little wild-eygd maybe, but he doosn't really look dangerous. This is Michacl. 0.8. the carriage is heard coming up. MEDIUS SHOT MICHAEL 10 Squad car in beg. The horse-drawn hack approaches =- a Victoria, chauffeured by a broken-down ola character in a topper, and containing by wy of a passenger, the Girl. With a lonely sounding "click," the traffic light changes and the carriage comes to @ halt beside Michnol. MICHAEL (he grins at the cabby) That horse o' yours, -- does he always stop by himself on a rea light? THE CABBY It's a her and she ain't color blind. MICHAEL (apparently for the benefit of the police) Sure, it's the middle of the night in the middle of the park, an! if there's over a point in a traffic light eat all, thore's no point in it here. So why does she stop?10 1 12 CONTINUED: 10 THE CABBY This hore's a law-abiding horses MICHAEL Therc's nobody obeys a law unless they're afraid of something. Michacl now pretends to talk to the horso, but of course all this isreally meant for the cops, end more importantly, for the girl. MICHAEL (continuing) Is it the old man's whip you tromble under, Rosinante? THE CABBY {dead pan) Now, don't be callin' her namese MICHAEL {catehing the Irish remnant In the old ecabby's infloction) You're a Cork man? THE CABBY Limericks But I left Ireland when Twas a kid MICHAEL So did T THE CABBY You're from the North, ain't ya? MICHAEL Tho West. Connomarra. (to the girl) Will you have a cigarette, mtam? CLOSEUP THE GIRL al Michael's eyes haven't left hors during all the foregoing and for good reasons, too. She's wearing a simple print frock -= but sho fills it with groat style. She's young - nothing frosh or cheap about her = reserved = but her cyes meet Michacl's with a level twinkle. MEDIUM SHOT IN CENTRAL PARK 12 The Cops in the squad car have been silently watching all of this and listening. Now, ono of them speaks:12 13 14 CONTINUED: 12 cop 1 It's a bad time to be out alonc, lady. Been a lotta trouble out hore lately = COP 2 Yeah, and maybe the Irishman Imows something about it. CoP 1 Maybe we ought to take him in and find oute Michacl, paying no attontion to this, repeats his offer to the girl. MICHAEL Cigarette? THE GIRL No, thanks. MICHAEL (as though the cops, who are watching him still - don't exist) The brand is ordinary but the smoke is sweet in the open night air. cop 1 (with a grunt) Aw = he's just showin' off to the girl. Tho squad car starts away.. CLOSEUP MICHAEL 13 The muscle twitches in Michael's jaw, but he goos on offering the cigarette. ‘Two SHOT MICHAEL It's mo last one. Ami Ibeoon looking forward to it, so please don't refusce MICHAEL AND THE GIRL 14 THE GIRL But I don't smokoe4 15 16 17 18 CONTINUED: 14 MICHAEL Experiment with this ono. In the dark of the road up there, there'll be nobody to see yous You've the look of a queen about you entirely, ridin! in your solitary luxuriousness, end it's only a queen Imows how to be aftor roceivin' a gifte MEDIUM SHOT MICHAEL, THE GIRL AND CARRIAGE 15 The lonely "click" again - tho traffic light has changeds MICHAEL I vant toremember you as the queen of tho night-time, the Empress of Central Park, so take the gift, Your Majesty, and don't disappoint mo» THE CABBY We better get goin', miss, bofore tho light changes againe With nice gravity, tho girl accopts the cigarotto, takes a handkerchief out of hor bag and wraps Michael's foolish little gift in ite CLOSEUP THE GIRL 18 She looks at Michacl for 1 minute, thon: THE GIRL Go ahead. ‘The way sho says it = still looking at him = it sounds vory much like an [Link] = MEDIUM SHOT THE CARRIAGE AND MICHAEL Bs But tho old Cabby takes it literally, and with a crack of his whip he starts up tho carriago. There's a sloepy 'clop= clop? of hooves as thoy go on off into ‘he darkness leaving Michacl all by himself. ORANE SHO? MICHAEL IN THE PARK 18 He starts slowly up the sidewalk in the samo direction. Then, after a bit, ho whispers his little song againe MICHAEL "gold Robert Emmett, he dicd with a smiles So farewell, companions, both brave and loyal, I laid down my life -- " Again hesinterrupted. Again by the return of the squad care19 20 21 22 MEDIUM SHOT SQUAD CAR 19 The car stops beside Michael. coP 1 Whatayu celebratin', bud? MICHAEL (with quiet belligerence) What do you mean? coP 1 Whatehu singin for? MICHAEL Sure, there isn't a soul for me to wake out here save the birds in the trees. Can't a man whisper @ small song to himself in the night- time for the companionship of it? And to keep himself from remembrint that the world is full of cops? A voice on the short wave radio comes over scene. COP 2 Just a second, Mac. VOICE (0.8.) Cars in the 22nd Precinct, Signal 32 at 86th St. trance, Cars 442, 464 will respond... cop 1 That's us. They drive off. TRUCKING SHOT MICHAEL 20 He continues on his walk. After a bit, something catches his eye. He passes it - then returns and picks it up; a woman's handbag. It looks like the Girl's. Michael glances around. LONG SHOT DESERTED PARK 21 Nothing but empty silence. CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 22 He opens the handbag. There is the handkerchief, and in it, the cigarette.23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 MEDIUM SHOT MICHAEL 23 He sees something on the ground. INSERT: ‘THE TRACKS OF CARRIAGE WHEELS 24 CUTTING ACROSS THE LAWN. TRUCKING SHOT MICHARL FOLLOWING CARRIAGE TRACKS 25 The carriage tracks lead to a dark place where there's no street lamp, but a thicket of young trees. The horse end carriage stand motionless in front of a grass embankment, CLOSE SHOT THE EMPTY CARRIAGE 26 CLOSE SHOT CABBIE, 27 Slumped over on oné side lying on the ground is the old cabbie. He's been knocked out, CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 28 Looks around. LONG SHOT MICHAEL'S POINT OF VIEW 29 He sees three men, their backs to him, surrounding the Girl. One of the men holds a gun, The Girl looks towards Michael, Her face brightens with hope as she sees him, DOLLY SHOT MICHAEL 30 He leaves the old cabbio and rushes toward the men. MEDIUM SHOT THE THREE MEN AND THE GIRL 31 Michael takes on the man holding the gun -- delivers a well aimed punch at the jaw. CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL AND THE MEN HOLDING THE GUN 32 It's a lucky punch and the man drops to the ground un- conscious - the gun falling in the bushes nearby, The second man closes in on Michael. CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 33 Swinging full force, Michael slashes wildly at this man, The man takes off, and, Roughneck, Number Two beats it, too, The girl, pale with shock, looks wonder- ingly up at her rescuer, the big Irishman, Nothing is said, he just looks back. They both like what they see, but her escape from the attackers has been too serious and energetic a business for a mood conducive to flirtation. Michael takes her by the arm and leads hor towards the carriage. He pats the horse, calming it.35 36 37 38 39 MED. SHOT MICHAEL AND THE GIRL THE GIRL What about the driver? MICHAEL He'll be the first towake up; He's bound to bese.. CLOSE SHOT THE CARRIAGE Michael takes out the carriage blanket, very carefully throws it over the unconscious cabbie, Michael kisses the horseshoe and places it on top of the blanket. CLOSE SHOT THE OLD CABBIE Dreaming peacefully, the blanket over him, the horse~ ‘shoe on top. ? TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND THE GIRL MICHAEL The copstll find him in a minute. They can figure it out for them selves. Climb aboard now and I'll take you home. She gets in the carriage with him. MEDIUM SHOT THE CARRIAGE Michael starts the Victoria and brings it back to the road. TWO SHOT MICHASL AND THE GIRL IN THE CARRIAGE (PROCESS) THE GIRL Well, you can take me to the garage = home's too far away. MICHAEL Nothing's too far away. THE GIRL (looking at him) You mean for yous 10 34 35 36 37 38 3939 40 41 42 CONTINUED: CLOSEUP CLOSEUP TNO SHOT MICHARL I mean for me, THE GIRL We'll spend the whole night, then -- driving at this rate of speed. MICHAEL MICHAEL sure, and there's nothin! to do with the night but to spend it, You can't be saving it. The night won't keep. ‘THE GIRL THE GIRL hat sounds like something in a book. MICHAEL AND THE GIRL MICHAEL It will bee THE GIRL Are you a writer? MICHAEL I will be. THE GIRL What kind of stories do you write? MICHAEL I'll decide after I've written them, THE GIRL But how can you write a story before you think about it? 1 39 40 41 4212 43 CLOSEUP MICHAEL 43, MICHAEL sure, you can't decide about a thing 'til it's all over end done, and even then, you can't be certain ecause who kmows when anything's done with -- for good and all. 44 TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND GIRL 44 THE GIRL (slowly) I think I kmow what you mean. MICHAEL I'm sure I don't. THE GIRL (giving him a sharp look) Are you making fun of me? MICHAFL I only make fun of myself. THE GIRL You're that funny? MICHAEL I'm that Irish. 45 CLOSEUP THE GIRL 45 THE GIRL (after a minute) You're wrong about love affairs. 46 CLOSEUP MICHAEL 46 MICHAEL I never mentioned any. a7 CLOSEUP THE GIRL 47 THE GIRL I think a person knows when they're not in love anymore -- You know when that's over.13 48 TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND THE GIRL 48 MICHAEL (giving her a shrewd glance) You know, but does he? The girl doesn't answer, She looks away. MICHAEL (continuing) You're sure it's overs THE GIRL It's none of your businoss. MICHAEL That's just why you can trust me with the secrets of your heart. I don't even kmow your name and you'll nover be sedin' me again, THE GIRL There you go being certain of something. A pauses 49 CLOSEUP MICHAEL 49 We see him changing his mind about several thingse MICHAEL You better give me your name. THE GIRL (with e twinkle) ‘And my phone number? MICHAEL Faith, tomorrow I!11 be out on the sea in a boat and it bound for the dark continent of Africas 50 TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND THE GIRL 50 THE GIRL (ner eyes laughing ab him) You've decided that, too?14 50 CONTINUED: 50 MICHAEL (looking at her - ruefully) You lmow something - you're too logical altogethers Michael watches her mouth as it decides to smile, then he speaks, thoughtfully. MICHAEL (continuing) Im going to call you Rosaleen, THE GIRL Rosaleen? Why? MICHAEL It's a gorgeous romantical name to be sure -- and nobody called Rosaleen could ever be logical, THE GIRL (ponders this for a minute’) I think you like to hear yourself talc. MICHAEL I enjoy it immensely. THE GIRL What shall I call you? MICHAEL -+ My true name. THE GIRL (atinge of sophisticated irony accents her tone) Now, don't tease me -~ what is 1t? MICHAEL Michael. And you're teasin'. THE GIRL (with more warmth) Yes, Michael, I'm teasing you. Do you enjoy that? 51 CLOSEUP MICHAEL 52 MICHAEL I'm enjoyint the two of us.52 53 54 55 56 CLOSEUP THE GIRL THE GIRL (smiling up eat him) And you're still going off to the dark continent of africa? CLOSEUP MICHAEL MICHAEL (smiling back) But I'll see you again, I've changed my mind about that, and it's gifts I'll be bringing you, combs from the tusks of the wisest elephants to put in your heir, Rosaleen, It's a marvelous fan I'l] wheedle away from the pygmy people, so you'll be coolin! your cheek from the feathers of educated peacocks. TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND THE GIRL THE GIRL Michael, youtre a character, MICHAEL I'm nothin! more than a sailor-man and him with the queen of the night ridin! along at his side. FULL SHOT THE PARK The squad car is glimpsed through the trees, passing then, but not seeing them, on another road, CLOSE TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND THE GIRL THE GIRL There's @ police car -- MICHAEL Wetre just comin? out of the park, the horse. and cart'll make it too simple for the cops to be findint us -- He pulls up to a lamp-post. 15 52 53 54 55 5687 58 MEDIUM SHOT THE CARRIAGE Michael gets out of the carriage and hitches the horse to the lamp. THE GIRL You don't care for them very much, do you, Michael? MICHAEL The cops? (somberly) Faith, they can struggle along with- out our doin! their work for ‘em. He helps the girl down out of the carriege, then bows to the horse. MICHAEL (continuing ) Farewell, Rosinante. THE GIRL That sounds like my name. (smiles) He takes her arm. TRUCKING SHOT MICHAL AND THE GIRL They start walking. MICHAEL Sure, Rosinante's a horse ina book. You're Rossleen. THE GIRL Who's she? MICHAEL A girl in a book. THE GIRL I remember -- Rosinante was the old nag Don Quixote rode when he went out after those windmills, I think you're a lot like Don Quixote, yourself Wichael. You haven't heard about the age of chivalry. It's out of business. MICHAEL The tough boys that went after you in the park == they didn't look like windmills to me = 16 87 5e58 CONTINUED: 17 58 THE GIRL They weren't. I'm sorry, Micheel, I guess you're really what you think you are. MICHAEL Whatever's that now? THE GIRL A knight errent -~ A real live knight errant. When you were e boy, you read all about them, didn't you, Michael? And you never got over it, MICHAEL (with a quizzical grin) You mean I never grew up? And what, can you tell me, does a knight errant do for his livelihood? THE GIRL Oh, he doesn't bother mach about earning e living. He spends most of his time rescuing maidens in distress. He always slays the dragon and saves the princess, and he makes the prettiest speeches. But you'd better be careful. Things have changed, Sir Knight. Nowadays it's usually tho dragon that lives happily ever after. MICHAEL Don't the princess and the knight ever make it? THE GIRL (stopping and turning to him) Sometimes she gives hime kiss. Michael just looks at her, terribly embarrassed. A funny little spark comes into her eye. THE GIRL (continuing ) Michael....You know what's wrong with being a knight errant? MICHAEL No.18 58 CONTINUED: (2) 58 THE GIRL He's brave and bold because his heart is pure, But he's an awful fool -- He doesn't know anything about women. She takes his hand and leads him to tho street corner. THE GIRL (continuing ) If I hadn't seen the way you can fight, I'd say you spend all your time reading. MICHAEL A sailor has nothin! but time, Paith, go must @ girl ridin! all by herself in a carriage in the lonesome dark. You must have time and to spare. THE GIRL (quietly) No, I haven't much timo (after a minute ~ she's been thinking) You don't like the police, Michael. Is there some reason why they don't like you? MICHAEL (darkly) They've never put mo in jail -- in America. By now they've stopped at the stroct corners EXT. STREET CORNER 59 MEDIUM SHOT 59 THE GIRL My car's a block down that way MICHASL (Lightly) The nicest jails are in Australia. The worst are in Spaine THE GIRL You must be a naughty boy, Michael. MICHAEL I'm careless.1g 5o CONTINUED: 59 THE GIRL Now, you're bragging. , (her smile is at once affectionate and derisive) Look at you, you're waiting for the red light! Come on, Michael. Leading him, she starts crossing the street against the ght. THE GIRL (continuing) What law did you break in Spain? MICHAEL I killed a man. A taxi whizzes by and almost runs them down, They continue crossing. THE GIRL (laughing) You almost killed a girl on Sixty-sevonth Street. MICHAEL Is there a law against that? Tney've reached a garage. EXT. GARAGE 60 60 THE GIRL Try it. You won't like the jails in New York. She leads him into the garage. INT. GARAGE 61 The girl gives an attendant a chcck. She and Michael stand 61 together waiting for hor cars MICHAEL (during the foregoing business) There was a woman hore killed her husband last wook. Ho'd gone to the ice-box for a bite of supper. The woman said she thought her husband was e burglar. She shot him fivo times in the head.61 62 63 64 65 66 CONTINUED: THE GIRL She had a good lawyer. TIGHT TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND THE GIRL MICHAEL Evidently. I saw the woman's picture in the nowspaper this morning -~ 'Vacation-bound for Bermuda,! it said. Come to think of it, they had the lawyer-man's picture, as woll. A sorry little eripplo fella, he was. Bainbridge or somethin'. ‘The paper called him the ‘World's Greatest Criminal Lawyer.' He looked like the World's greatest criminal. CLOSEUP THE GIRL THE GIRL (slowly) Some poople think he is. His name is Bannister. Harry Bannister. CLOSEUP MICHAEL MICHAEL You seem to know a lot about him. CLOSEUP THE GIRL THE GIRL I ought to, but I don't. TIGHT TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND THE GIRL MICHAEL (after a silence) I don't know what that means, but I won't apologize, regardless. THE GIRL Don't ever. MICHAEL I don't ever. 20 61 62 63, 64 65 6621 GARAGE 67 MEDIUM SHOT 67 ATTENDANT (coming into the Scone) Here's your car, Ma'am. Another Attendant drives up with a really huge and fiercely- alcok Hispano Suiza. THE GIRL Sond the bill to my husband. 68 CLOSEUP MICHAEL 68 MICHAEL Your husband. 69 CLOSEUP THE GIRL REACTION 69 70 CLOSEUP ‘ NICHAEL 70 MICHAEL Did you go ridin* in the carriage because you wanted loneliness to be thinkin! of him, or just so they could fix the plug? 72 PRESH ANGLE OF THE GARAGE 7 A concrete pillar behind Michacl. Broome's face inchos into tho picture. He watches the Girl and Micheel, careful not to be seen. 3 72 CLOSEUP THE. GIRL 72 THE GIRL (she looks at him for a minute ) I dontt like driving this things... Like to drive it for me? 73 ‘WO SHOT MICHAEL AND THE GIRL 73 He doosn't ansver. Sho gots into the cer, bohind the whoel. 14 CLOSEUP THE GIRL 74 THE GIRL @ like it.15 76 17 73 79 22 CLOSEUP MICHAEL 75 MICHAEL I'm shippin' out tomorrow. TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND THE GIRL 16 THE GIRL You've been to Africa. I'11 bet you've nover seon Long Island. It'll bo a now experience. Michacl's cyos don't leave hers, but he doosn't answer, THE GIRL (continuing ) Are you interestod in monoy? MICHAEL Not at ell. THE GIRL (giving him a card) In case you change your mind =~ CLOSEUP MICHAEL id Ho tears the card in two and throws it aways CLOSEUP THE GIRL . 78 THE GIRL I'11 make it worth your while -- Suddenly, her face changos..-her hand 1s still in hor bag. She misses something. She's frightenod. TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND THE GIRL. 79 MICHAEL Is this whet you're lookin! for? (no brings out a gun) You wore smart to carry it, ridin! alone in the park, but if you knew you had it in your bag why throw it away? THE GIRL I hopod you'd find it. I don't know how to shoot+ MICHAEL It's easy. You just pull the trigger.79 23 CONTINUED: 79 All at once her eyes fill with tears. Sho's a very scared, very helpless=looking little girl. Sho starts up the big car with a jerk. INT. GARAGE 80 el 82 MEDIUM SHOT 80 jhe Girl drives the car, much too quickly, out of ths garage. Michael stands looking after her. Broome comes up beside him. BROOME Some damo, ain't she? Michacl makes no reply. A GARAGS ATTENDANT Yoah -- and some car. Mr. Bannister had it made spocial for hor. CLOSEUP. MICHAEL 81 MICHAEL Bannister? TWO S{0T MICHAEL AND THE ATTENDANT 82 THE ATTENDANT Harry Bannister himsolf. (he sighs in an ecstasy of admiration) Some guys have all the luck! DISSOLVE TO:24 83 MOVING SHOT CRIPPLED LEGS OF A MAN LINPING THROUGH A 83 CROWD CAMERA PULLS BACK to show this man, Quite tragically crippled, he is -- wa've seen him before, Small, very palding, sharp faced, with a twisted mouth and very bright beady eyes. CAMERA SULLS FURTHER BACK to show: SEAMAN'S HIRING HALL 84 Hundreds of seamen gathered in groups -- faces represent- 64 ing all the people of the earth, In the center of the room, ona chair, a port steward stands calling off names. PORT STEWARD 8.8. American Trader, four A.B.'s, two ordinary seamen, one oiler, one wiper, three cooks, and boatewain, one quartermaster. She lays at Pier 43, She's feeding «++ ‘The crippled man comes up to one of the sailors. HE CRIPPLED 2AN Excuse me, could you help me locate a Mr, O'Hara -- Michael O'Hara? THE SAILOR (nis name is GOLDIE) Black Mike O'Hara ... a big harp that talks fancy? THE CRIPPLED MAN I Gn't kmow the man myself. Another sailor comes up to them, this one's name 1s Jake. TAKE I know him, THE CRIPPLED MAN Shipmetes? TAKE We was in Sriin together. A voice cuts in over the loudspeaker. VOICE 0.8. Michael O'Hara ... O'Hara ... Man wants to see you. Please step to the water cooler.84 85 CONTINUED: 25 84 JAKE They started’ callin' him Black Irish in '39, after what he did to then two strikebreakers. There's a lotta blarney in Mike, but he knows how to hurt a man when he gots mad. THE CRIPPLED MAN Everything goos black, huh? JAKE Black and blue. VOICE 0.8. (Loudspeaker) I got a tanker needs a cook's assistant. A short run to the Gulf. She's feedin', shoe's hot. MICHAEL 0.8, Youtre looking for me? THE CAMERA PANS to include Michael. The ex‘ippled man sizes him up with shrewd eyes. TWO SHOT THE CRIPPLED MAN O'Hare? MICHAEL O'Hara. MICHAEL AND THE CRIPPLED MAN 85 THE CRIPPLED MAN You're what they call an able-bodied seaman? MICHAEL That's what they call it. THE CRIPPLED MAN Can you drive a car? MICHAEL Yes. THE CRIPPLED MAN I presume you can manage a specd boat?85 86 87 ge 26 CONTINUED: 85 . MICHAEL I presume so. THE CRIPPLED MAN Do, you drink? MICHAEL (very softly) I beg your pardon. THE CRIPPLED MAN I asked you if you drink. MICHAEL Whatever's set in front of me, mister. It doesn't have to be wholesome, just so it's strongee. THE CRIPPLED NAN You drink habitually? MICHAEL May Iask, air, if you're extending an invitation? CLOSEUP THE CRIPPLED MAN a6 He chokes down his gall, pulls himself together, forces a smile. THE CRIPPLED MAN I guess it might as well bo. (he turns on the charm) If you'll show mo to the nearest bar, Mr, O'Hara, we'll sit down together and discuss your going to work for me. My name is Bannister. CLOSEUP MICHAEL'S REACTION 87 MEDIUM SHOT MICHAEL, THE CRIPPLED MAN AND THE TWO 88 SAILORS Michael addresses Goldie and Jake (who haven't been able to make up their minds whether to go away or to stick around in case their friend's being insulted.) MICHAEL \ Me Boyes, may I present Mr. Harry Bannister, the criminal lawyer. He'll get you out of anything -- Mr, Jake Bejornson and Goldie, (to Goldie) Right?27 88 CONTINUED: as GOLDIE (shakes hands with Bannister) Chaim Goldfish 1s the namo. Glad to know you, Mr. Bannister, The muscle is working now in Michael's jaw, Hots sore as hell, but his voice is soft. MICHAEL Mr, Eannister's wife sent him to get me. (turning to Bannister) Didn't she, Mr. Bannister? The knuckles of Bannister's hands are white as he grips his canes. MICHAEL (CONT'D) -- And now Mr, Bannister's going to buy us all a fow drinks while I entertain myself by refusin' to go to work for him. DISSOLVE TO: INT. BAR 89 A juke box is playing. Bannister and Michael face each 89 other across a booth ... dake beside Bannister and Goldie seated by Michael, Several hours have passed, There's eon a lot of drinking and Bannister is very drunk. JAKE (grinning affection- ately at Michael) «+. Yeah, Mike's kind of a screwball, Dut he's got a great line with the broads. BANNISTER So I hear Saved my wife's life, y'know. 0 a hero, Quite a tough guy. JAKE Mister, there ain't no such thing. BANNISTER No such thing as a tough guy?89 90 91 92 93 28 CONTINUED: 89 JAKE What's a tough guy? Hets a guy with an edge. A pause. We hear a crooner, Sinatra or Crosby, on the juke ‘box. JAKE (continued) What makes him sing purtier 'n me? CLOSEUP JAKE 90 He points to his throat. JAKE (contimaed) Somethin! in here, What makes it loud? A microphone. That's his edge. What's an edge? se» ‘An edge is a gun or a kmifo or a nightstick or a razor, Somethin! the other guy dontt have... A little extra reach on e punch, or a set of brass knuckles, or a stripe on your sleeve, or a badge that says 'Copt on it, or a piece of rock in your hand, or a bank roll in your pocket. That's an edge, brother ... Without no edge they ain't no tough guy. MEDIUM SHOT THE FOURSOME 91 Bannister, glassy-eyed, focuses balefully on Michsel. BANNISTER You hear that, Black Irish? CLOSEUP MICHAEL 92 MICHAEL It's true. CLOSEUP BANNISTER 98 BANNISTER Well, bear it in mind. Bannister passes out cold. DISSOLVE TO:29 INT. MAIN HOUSE OF THE BANNISTER ESTATE - LONG ISLAND ~ DAY 94 ‘THE FRONT HALLWAY 94 Elsa goes to tho door. ELSA (as she comes into scene) +++ Where? She's followed by Bessie, the housekeeper. Bessie is a Negro woman, about fifty, with a lean, strong face and weary, very gentle eyes. Her little frame is stooped after a life-time of hard work, but the spirit in her is erect and quite undaunted, Ina word, here 1a no Aunt Jemima, BESSIE ++ssIn front, Miz Bennister... seid he wouldn't go away without he could see you. ELSA He didn't give you his name? BESSIE Jest said it was personal, ma'am, that's all he'd say. EXT, DRIVEWAY: OVERSHOULDER SHOT 95 Elsa opens the door and sees an old battered Chevvy waiting 95 in the drive. Michael sits at the wheel. EXT. BANNISTER HOUSE 96 Bessie waits on the steps and Elsa moves down to Michael. 96 ELSA Hello... MICHAEL I guess with a car like this, I should've gone 'round t> the rear. ELSA It's yours? MICHAEL Goldie's. He's a friend of mine, 97 TWO SHOT ELSA AND MICHAEL 97 ELSA You didn't go to Africa.30 97 CONTINUED: 97 MICHAEL Goldie took my berth. ELSA Does that mean you've changed your mind about me? MICHAEL Sure, I told you before -- I never decide about anything at ell, till it's done with. 98 CLOSEUP ELSA 98 ELSA (very quietly, with really tremendous sincerity) I'm 4n trouble, Michael. I don't imow what would have happened if you hadn't come. (after a moment she goes on) You had to come, didn't you, Michsel? 99 CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 99 He looks at here MICHAEL I thought I'é better, You misplaced something. He gots out of the car. MICHAEL I thought you'd like to have it back. He opens the rear door. MICHAEL I'm returning your husband, Urs. Bannister. INT. CAR 100 CLOSE SHOT 100 In the back, a crumpled heap, is Herry Bannister lost in érunken dreams. 101 MEDIUM SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA AT THE CAR 101 Bannister is quite a sight - Elsa takes it in, then turns, calling:101 102 103 104 105, 31 CONTINUED: _ 101 ELSA Bossiet NEDIUM FULL SHOT 102 Bessie comes down the steps to Elsa. BESSIE Yes, Miz Bannister -- Bessie sees what's in the car, quickly comes to Elsa's aid. CLOSE SHOT BESSIE 103 The housokeeper struggles with Bannister's arm, trying to pull him out of the car, BESSIE (brisk and business- ‘like - to Michaol) Come on, you. Help mo out with this. MEDIUM SHOT THE CAR AND THE HOUSE. 104 With a fast, expert movement -- but not roughly -- Michael lifts Bannister out of the auto and carries him up the steps. Elsa picks up the cripple's cane, Bessie holds open the door. Michael steps back, holding the little lawyer like a sleeping child, MICHAEL After you, Mrs. Bannister -- Elsa looks at him, then goes into the great, marble-faced mansion. TWO SHOT BESSIE AND MICHAEL. 105 The housekeeper stops Micheel in the doorway -- BESSIE (under her breath) Don't go away, Mr. Nan -- She needs you -- MICHAEL I'm going to stay. Michael's hooked now, He carries Bannister over the thres- holes Bessie closes the door after them =- FADE OUT:32 FADE IN: INT. BANNISTER HOME - THE SERVANT!S WING 106 Broome, the butler, he of the gap-toothed leer, hurries 106 into the scene, goes to a phone, furtively lifts 1t off the cradle, and listens -- obviously to a conversation on another phone somewhere in tho house, 107 CLOSE SHOT BROOME LISTENING TO PHONE 107 This Broome, as earlier noted, is by no manner of moans the typé of the perfect servant. 108. MEDIUM SHOT BROOME AT PHONE 108 Bessie comes down the hell, and hearing her, Broome slides the phone behind his back. Bossie gives hime suit of clothes on a hanger. BESSIE Take these in to the new chauffeur, Then you cen got to work on all the barbecue stuff, I been after you to clean it for days. Bessie goos off down the hall. Broome brings the phone around from behind him end listens agein, We sco from his expression that the phone's dead now, Broome grunts an inaudible curse, and puts it back on the cradle. Carrying the suit, he moves up the hall, CAMERA FOLLOWING HIM, ‘He stops at a door - listens, Then he opens the door. 109 - OVER-SHOULDER SHOT FAVORING MICHAEL 109 Over Broome's shoulder we see into the room, Michael has been standing at the window. As Broome enters, he turns. INT. MICHAEL'S ROOM ant. wees ee no 110 A tiny, sparsely furnished apartment at the rear of the house. The low raked cefling makos Michael look even taller then he is, Broome steps quickly to Michael's side and peers out of the window, Then he grins. FULL SHOT THE GARDEN FROM BROOME'S ANGLE a 111s Elsa, dressed for work in a coolie hat, a blouse and a cute little pair of shorts, is seen benéing over a bed of dahlias. BROOME'S VOICE (his voice comes 0.8, over this tableau) Enjoying the scenery, huh?33, INT. MICHAEL'S ROOM 112‘ MEDIUM SHOT ne Michael turns on Broome, who bares his fangs in an answering leer. BROOME (continued) Quite a nature lover, ain't you, ur. O'Hara? MICHAEL O'Hara, Didn't I soo you last night in the garage? BROOME I get around -- Tako your chauffeurts suit, Mr, O'Hara, and try it on for size. He hands the uniform to Michael. 113° «MO SHOT MICHAEL & BROOME ns BROOME (continued) We're glad to seo ya. It sure gots lonesome out here in the sticks. Specially for a dame. Broome stops a quick movement of Michael's with one of his own toward his pocket. BROOME (continued) Hold on a minuto, Irish -- Byes. Broomo brings out a bottle of scotch ~ good scotch. BROOME (continued) Look what I got -- Benniater's dest ain't none too good for us, huh? He puts the bottle down on the table. BROOME (continued) Save me a snort or two, I'll be backs He turns at the door, flashing a parting smirk at Michael, BROOME (continued) S'long, Danny Boy.113 ExT. CONTINUED: Broome goos out. Michael watches the door close, starts toward it, then stops, feeling holpless, In spite of hinself, he turns back to the window, GARDEN 114 Elsa, her arms full of flowers now, crosses towards tho house. MICHAEL'S WINDOW EXT. 115 116 SHOOTING FROM GARDEN CLOSEUP MICHAEL'S FACE IN WINDOW He watches her, DISSOLVE TO: 34 1s ne ns ne117 35 CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL IN CAR 7 Now hets drossed in the chauffeur's uniform, and seated at the wheel of the Hispano Suiza. As in the previous shot, he's looking off scene -- mach the same expression on his face. EY. BANNISTER'S PRIVATE BEACH ne ny 121 0 8 FULL SHOT FROM MICHAEL'S ANGLE 1s A big lonely strip of beautiful white sand, Down near the water, Elsa. She's wearing quite some bathing sult, Indeed. Littered about her person are sun-tan lotions, magazines, all the usual props. REVERSE ANGLE 1g - Upon on the crest above the beach is the big Hispano Suiza. Wiehael is waiting at the wheel. CLOSE IN ON MICHAEL, watch- ingthe girl. The ear radio is playing a soap opera. ANNOUNCERS VOICE ( (o.8.) =- will Betty turn back to John if the operation is successful? Will John regain his sight? Does Ruth realize what happened in Bridgeport? Tune jn =~ Michael switches over to some jazz music ~~ hits the station very much too loud, and this makes Elsa turn -r sho looks up chael. UX SHOT ELSA ON THE BEACH 120 She hopes the loud music is a signal. Michael raises a newspaper, pretends to read it so he can't see her. She turns back. A Car comes up next to Michael and stops very close -~ as close as a car can get. It's on Michael's left, so that the man sitting at the wheel in the American car is next to Michael. CLOSE SHOT THE MAN IN THE CAR 122 Wetvs seen him before -- doodling doller signs on the night club tablo -- a hearty, silly ass, a racquet-club glamour boy in his late : orties, an expensively toggod out phoney, with the look about him of always coming fresh from the barberts and the steam bath. A real pillar of cafe society, this out of Groton and Harvard, and darn lucky to be out of jail. THE MAN (to Michael) Why don't you go swimning?36 122 TWO SHOT THE MAN AND MICHAEL lee MICHAEL (turning off the radio) Excuse mo, sir? THE MAN Why don't you go swimming? MICHAEL (grimly) Itm on duty. THE HAN {his is your first cheuffeuring job or you wouldn't take it so seriously, fella. MICHAEL I didn't bring a swim suit along on the job, sir. THE MAN You ought to the next time. MICHAEL Thore won't be a next time, sir. I'm quittin'. THE MAN My trunks should fit you. The groen ones. You'll find 'om in the locker back at the house. Michael doesn't lmow what to make of this anymore than wo do. 1ee CLOSEUP THE MAN 42s He answers Michael's puzzled look. ‘THE MAN I'm George Grisby -- the Grisby of Grisby & Bannistor. My partner tells me you once killed a man. I don't want to seem too inquisitive, but when did that happen? MICHAEL (taking his time to answer the queer question) At Murcia.Bs 124 125 126 37 CONTINUED : 123 GRISBY How did you do it? Forgive me for asking - or anyway, lot mo guess -- you killod him with your hands, didn't you? Michael doesn't answer. Thoro is no sound for a while excopt the breakers spending themselvos on the boach in front of Elsa. TO SHOT GRISBY AND MICHAEL 124 GRISBY Does it over bother you thinking about it? MICHAEL No. GRISBY What did he do to you? MICHAEL Nothing. GRISBY (giggles, thon changes nis tack, Almost locherously) Just killed him for the fun ef 1t? CLOSEUP MICHAEL 125 MICHAEL He was a Franco spy. There was a war on at the time. TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND GRISBY 126 GRISBY That moans it wasn't murder, I SUPPOSO sees The SOUND of the wavos again during another pauso. GRISBY (continuing) Would you do it again?se.. More waves.126 127 128 lee CONTINUED : 126 GRISBY Would you mind killing another man? MICHAEL (grimly pationt) I'd kill anothor Franco spy. GRISBY (with a grin) I was on @ pro-Franco Comittec, fella, during tho Spanish War. ‘Would you kill mo if I gavo you the chanco? PAN PROM CLOSEUP OF MICHAEL TO THE SEA. Michaol's oyos go to the sea, It's as though ho woro watching something -- not the girl -- something way out on the horizon. CLOSEUP GRISBY . 127 Grisby follows his look, soes nothing, turns back. GRISBY I may give you tho chanco, Another breaker crashos on the boach. TWO SHOT WICHAEL AND GRISBY 128 Elsa calls up from tho beach, ELSA'S VOICE (o.8.) Michael. Thoy both look. FULL SHOT ELSA ON BEACH lee Sho hasn't rison, but sho's turned around, We hear her voice again. ELSA Michaol. GRISBY'S VOICE (o.s.) She's calling for you. ELSA Bring down tho lunch, pleaso.130 131 39 MEDIUM SHOT MICHAEL AND GRISBY 130 Michaol gots out of tho car. MICHAEL Yes, matam. Ho takos a wickor baskot from tho side of the driver's scat. GRISBY (smirking) Is thoro onough for two? Michacl stops, not looking at Grisby at his shoulder or at Elsa waiting for him down at tho beach. MICHAEL (in a tight voico) Im suro I don't know, sir, Why don't you ask Mrs, Bannistor. GRISBY (loaning out of the car window, speaking into Michacl's car) Way don't you? MICHAEL (politely) Would you 1iko a good paste in the oy, sir? FULL SHOT ELSA ON BEACH TAKING IN GRISBY AND MICHAEL 182 Elsa has rison, Wow sho soos Grisby and waves, ELSA (without much onthusiasm) Hello, Goorgo. GRISBY (rotumns tho wave) Hil ELSA (shading her oyes) What arc you doing out horo? GRISBY (calling back) Giving Michacl a message. Sho stands for a moment looking at him and thon runs into tho surf.132 133 134 135 40 MEDIUM SHOT GRISBY AND MICHAEL GRISBY (to Michaol) I wish shotd ask mo to go swimming. Michaol turns back to tho car and gots out a thormos bottle. GRISBY (continuing) shofll ask you, wait and soc. Michaol turns on Grisby, about to answor or do somothing about it, but Elsa's voicc, o.s, stops him. ELSA'S VOICE (0.58.,calling) Michaol! FULL SHOT BEACH FROM MICHAEL'S ANGLE 133 Elsa is kmco-doop in tho water. MEDIUM SHOT GRISBY AND MICHAEL 134 MICHAEL Coming, Mrs. Bannistor. GRISBY No noed to hurry.... Grisby starts up his car. GRISBY (continuing) shotll wait for you. Tho car starts to back away. MOVING SHOT KICHAEL 135 Michaol, burning, moves slowly down onto the boach with tho picnic lunch. CAMERA CANES WITH HIM as ho puts tho basket down with tho girl's [Link] things. Thon wo soo hor logs come into the scono, wot from the sea. CAMERA PANS UP as Michacl straightons, and thu framo takes in Hlsa. Sho woars a terry cloth beach robo. Hor portablo radio is squeaking out an’ extromcly unploasant singing commorcial, OVER this, the crash of the breakors....,Thon, from tho radio, somothing slow and sultry and South Amoricanses.136 187 138 139 140 141 142 41 TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA 136 Thoy look at cach other. CLOSEUP MICHAEL 137 MICHAEL Do all rich womon play games liko this? TWO SHOT ELSA AND MICHAEL 158 Elsa stands bofore him without moving and making no answer, MICHAEL (continuing) You're going to havo to got yoursolf somebody olso, Mrs. Bannistor. Elsa vory slowly moves right up to Michaal until her wot bathing suit touches his clothes. ELSA Call me Rosaloon, Michael slaps her hard. CLOSEUP ELSA 139 She docsn't flinch. Moistncss starts into her oyos. Thon sho speaks under hor breath. ELSA I didntt think you'd do that, TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA 140 MICHAEL Noithor did I. CLOSEUP ELSA 141 ELSA” (soarching his oyos) You're scarod. CLOSEUP MICHAEL 142 Wo sou that ho is scared! MICHAEL Itm not sorryeese142 143 144 145 146 42 CONTINUED: 142 ELSA Itm scarod too... At this, something changes in Michacl's oyos. TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA 143 ELSA (speaking very quickly Ploaso don't kiss mo! Then Michel's oyos hardon again. MICHAEL You think that's the way you'ro going to got mo to do it -- by tolling mo not to? ELSA (still vory quickly, ‘and roally moaning what sho says) Ploaso don't kiss mo.... MICHAEL T wontt. CLOSEUP ELSA 144 Tho words broak out of her as though she couldn't stop thom, as though somothing damnod up inside of hor suddenly can't stoppod. ELSA Iwas oighteon. Ky mother was sick-- really sick, Sho nooded hospitals and doctors...oxponsivo ones. He was kind.,thon..,.and tho had monoy. CLOSEUP REACTION SHOT MICHAEL 145 CLOSEUP ELSA 146 ELSA (a dosperate whisper} I novor loved Harry =~ -147 148 149 43 TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA 147 MICHAEL Did you care for any of tho othors -- the othors boside mo you hired to drivo you to the boach ani -- consolo you? 4 toar falls on Elsa's faco but sho doosn't look away. ELSA I wish I could hate you. MICHAEL It's oasy. ELSA (suddonly almost angry) I'm not what you think I am -- I just try to bo liko that -- I just try. MICHAEL Go on trying. But loavo mo out ot ite 't. His lip Michacl wants to turn, to loavo, but finds ho now like a tromblos. Her wholo body is shaking. Sho spo littlo girl lost in the dark. ELSA Michacl, what are we scarcd of? Ho erushos hor wot body against him, kissos her brutally, There's the sharp noiso of an auto horn. Thoy broak and look up ---. FULL SHOT THE RIDGE ABOVE THE BEACH FROM THEIR ANGLE 149 Grisby's car, moving slowly, circles around in front of thom. He sotmds tho horn again, derisivoly, and wavos. Thon he drivos off. MEDIUM SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA ON BEACH REACTION QUICK FADE OUT:INT, BANNISTER'S STUDY - EVENING 44 150 Bannister is in his favorite chair by the window, Grisby 150 stands nearby. The door opens and Michacl enters, BANNISTER I'd like to talk to you, Micheel. MICHAEL Yes, sir, BANYISTER Mr. Grisby has justtold me some- thing I'm very sorry to hear, Behind Michael, Bessie comes shrough the open door with a glass of water and Bannister's bottle of pills. BESS 1E, Time for yo! mediciae, sins... Your coffee's on ths way, Mr. Grisby. GRISBY Thanks, Bessie. BANK (STER Will yéu please as} Mrs. Bannister to come in for a momen. BESS 1E Yes, sir. She goos out. There follows in uneasy pause, Finally, Bannister speaks: BANNISTER You've met Mr, Grisby, Michael? GRISBY We've spoken together. Another pause...Then Elsa appears in the door. BAL Sit down, lover, ‘STER She does so. (continued) This really concerns you more then anybody else. George here brought me some news about Michael...151 152 153 154 155 45 CLOSEUP ELSA 151 BANNISTER 0.8. (continued) seeeellaybe you can help... CLOSEUP BANISTER 152 BANSISTER (continued) «+.-According to George, Michael is anxious to leave. (to Elsa) Did you kmow about that? CLOSEUP ELSA 183 ELSA No, IT didn't. MEDIUM SHOT THE FOURSOME 184 BANNISTER I should have thought Michael would have talked to you about it. Perhaps we can make things easior for him. What's wrong, Michael? Are the hours too long? MICHAEL No, sir. BANNISTER How about the money? Suppose we gave you a raise? MICHAEL I don't care about that. CLOSEUP BANNISTER . 155 BANNISTER (rather sharply) Money doesn't seem to interest you, Michael, Are you inde~ pendently wealthy?156 157 158 46 CLOSEUP MICHAEL 156 MICHAEL I'm independent. CLOSEUP BANNISTER 187 BANNISTER of money? Before you start that novel Elsa says you're going to write, you'd better learn something. Youtve been travelling too much to find out anything about the world. MEDIUM SHOT BANNISTER'S STUDY ise Bossio coms in with a house-meid, bringing coffee things and brandy. CAMERA DOLLIES IN T0 CLOSBUP OF MICHAEL es he speaks. MICHAEL Well, sir, I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. Bessie places coffee before him. BANNISTER Thanks, Bessie... (he takes a sip of coffee) «+Money cannot bring you health and happiness, et cetera, is that ite (he puts the cup dow) Listen, without money I'd be flcé on my back in the ward of a county hospital. Look at this house CAMERA DOLLIES IN T0 CLOSEUP OF BANNIS{ER BANISTER (continued) It once belonged to Jules Bachrach, the grat Bachrach, who kept me out of his club because my mother was a Manchester Greek. I got him on perjury. He died bankrupt and here I am, Each men has his own idea of happiness, of course, but money's what all of us have in common,159 160 161 162 163 47 CLOSEUP BESSIE 159 BANXISTER 0.8. (contimed) Bessie here -- she worked for Bachrach... I pay her more...don't I, Bessie? BESSIE Yes, Mr. Bannister CLOSEUP BANNISTER z 160 BANNISTER (continued) Her salary means the happiness of a home in Harlem, Three rooms for two families..... CLOSEUP BESSIE 161 BANNISTER 0.8. (continued) A Bessie's a grandmother and a widow and only one of the boys is working... MEDIUM SHOT BANNISTER'S STUDY -162 BANNISTER (continued) [Link] Bessie goes to church every Sunday she gets off and prays to God she'll never be too old to earn one hundred and sixty dollars a month. (with a long, cold look at ifichsel) You call yourself independent..... Come around and see me five years from now. Bannister rises painfully to nis feet. His cane falls to the floor. TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND BANNISTER 165 Michael picks up the cane, Bannister takes it from him, walte-lipped.163 164 Im 165 43 CONTINUED: 163 BANNISTER (continued) (he catches his breath) ieanvhile, your two weeks’ notice is accepted. And now, Mr. Grisby wants you to take him back to town in the boat. MEDIUM SHOT BAINISTER'S STUDY 164 Bannister turns to Elsa. BANNISTER (continued) But perhaps wo oug Elsa's permission? ELSA Why. ask me? Bannister just looks at her. ELSA (continued) Get the boat ready, Hichael. MICHAEL Yes, matam, I'11 be at the dock, Mr. Grisby. Is that ell Mrs. Bannister? ELSA That's all, Michael...You can go. Michael leaves. Grisby raises his coffee cup, watching Elsa -~-~ DISSOLVE 70: TER KITC: Bessie is at the sink, Michaol comes through the pantry 165 door taking the chauffeur's cap off a hook. He crosses tho kitchen on his way out -- then s tops, and turns back to the housekeeper,165 166 167 168 169 170 49 CONTINUED: 165 MICHAEL Bessie, why do youstand for thet? I'm quitting, why don't you? CLOSEUP BESSIE 16s BESSIE (furiously angry) You heard him, Mr. Post. need the money. ‘TWO SHOT BESSIE AND MICHAEL 167 MICHAEL I'm sorry.e. She turns to the sink and makes herself busy there. MICHAEL (continued) Gantt you get work anywhere else? BESSIE Maybe... CAMERA FOLLOYS MICHAEL over to the window, CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 168 MICHAEL Am I ivsane? I must be. Or else this is a crazy housed -~ All this talk of money and murder. The double moanin's to everythin! that's said... CLOSE SHOT BESSIE 169 BESSIE (nunbly) I know -- That's why I can't leave. That poor little child he married... IKCHAEL AND BESSIE 170 TWO SHOT Michael turns. The old woman looks up into his face. BESSIE (continued) I'm scare for her. DISSOLVE TO:50 NEW YORK HARBOR - NIGHT 171 FULL SHOT a1 A luscious molon of a moon hangs over Manhatten. In the: : sequin train of its light a swanky speedboat 1s seen approach- ing shore. LOWER NEW YORK BY MOONLIGHT 172 173 174 175 FULL SHOT 172 UPSHOT: AN IMPRESSIVE NOCTURNAL PANORAMA OF THE SKYLINE. 173 GRISBY'S VOICE (oss) Ever think what a job Just one atom bomb could do to those puildings? MEDIUM TWO SHOT (PROCESS) GRISBY AND MICHAEL IN THE SPEED-174 BOAT COMING INTO DOCK A strango lock is in Grisby's face. Feeling Michael's eyes, he turns to him with a smile, forcing a brisk, businesslike tone: GRISBY (cont'd. ) I usually stop in at the office for a little night work, -- I like the quict....Mind walking with me, fella? I want to make you & proposition. Michael has made the boat fast. He gives Grisby a hand up on to the dock. GRISBY (cont'd. ) ‘Thankss.+ He looks up at the black buildings above him «gain, a little sweat showing on his forehead. MEDIUM TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND GRISBY 175 . GRISBY (cont'd.) Think the world's coming to an end. MICHAEL Well, there was a start to it somotime, so I guess there'll be a stop.175 176 177 178 51 CONTINUED: 175 GRISBY (glassy-eyed, still looking up at the spired city above) This'll be the first to go..... One bomb -- and no more New York. He looks down at Michael and starts out of the scene. Michacl not knowing what to make of all this, follows. MEDIUM TRUCKING SHOT GRISBY AND MICHAEL 176 Their feet sound like drums in the empty street. GRISBY (cont'd.) seseIt's coming -- The bomb. Itts got to comoses. MICHAEL, (with a wry smile) I prefer to be elsewhere when it does. GRISBY Iwill be. I'm making sure I won't be around, That's what I need you for, Michael: To see to 1t that I'm not around. He stops, looking up. GRISBY (cont'd.) The twenty-third floor.... FULL SHOT A TALL BUSINESS BUILDING + FROM THEIR ANGLE - 177 LOOKING BLACK AND DISTORTED IN THE NIGHT. GRISBY'S VOICE (oss) That's where he stood. TWO SHOT GRISBY AND MICHAEL 176 MICHAEL Who was that, sir?178 179 180 1s 182 CONTINUED! CLOSE UP CLOSE UP GRISBY That suicide. You remember the caso. It was in all the papers. Pictures of him standing thore on the ledge. My office window's there, just oprosite. I sat and watehéd him that whole night. A hot night 1t was, iike this one now. Ho was in shirt sleeves. He looked like a white flage... GRISBY GRISBY «»sBut he didn't surrender, after all. Eighteen hours he was up thore. Thoy had priests and mini- sters loaning out of the windows and hanging by ropes preaching and pleading. They lowered food to him and champagne... MICHAEL GRISBY (o.s.) They even got a pretty girl where ho could see her and hear what she sald, I don't know what she promised him if he'd come on back inside. CLOSE UP GRISBY TWO SHOT GRISBY But nothing in this world was cnough. Thoy stretched nets over the stroote... But he was smart -~ He got away from them. GRISBY AND MICHAEL GRISBY (cont'd.) It cost tho city moro than ono hundred thousand dollars to try to persundo that mon to stay alive. But he know better. (pointing) That's where he landed, -- there. Ho was too smart, So amt, How would you like five thousand dollars, Michael? 52 178 17g 180 181 162183 184 185 186 187 CLOSE UP CLOSE UP TWO SHOT CLOSE UP CLOSE UP 53 MICHAEL 163 MICHAEL (his tone that of the healthy man speaking to.a sick one) I'd like it, sir. What do I have to do for it? GRISBY 184 GRISBY I'll give you the details tomorrow. Meanwhile, think it over. Five thousand dollars, Michael....it's yours. All you have to de is kill somebody. 185 GRISBY AND MICHAEL MICHAEL Who, Mr. Grisby? I'm particular who I murder. GRISBY (with an approving smile) Good boy. MICHAEL I wouldn't like to kill just anybody -- Is it someone I know? GRISBY (pleased with his secret) Oh, yos. But youtll never guessees MICHAEL I give up. GRISBY 166 GRISBY It's me. REACTION MICHAEL 187 He can't believe he hoard right.188 189 5a TWO SHOT GRISBY AND MICHAEL 188 GRISBY (cont'd. ) I'm perfectly sober, Michaol...I'm willing to pay five thousand if the Job's well done. Michael just stares at him. GRISBY (cont'd.) This is a straight-forward business offer: I want you to kill mo. A moment's pause, then Grisby turns and goes into his office building. GRISBY (cont'd.) (with a parting smile) Goodnight, folla.... CLOSE UP REACTION MICHAEL 189 On his reaction to this wo: DISSOLVE TO: EXT, PIER - NIGHT 190 191 192 FULL SHOT BANNISTER'S BEACH 190 Michael makes the boat fast. Then turns to go ashore. He stops, startled. MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT ELSA 191 Elsa in a white bathing suit is standing on the ladder on the other side of the landing. She's como up from the water and waited quietly for Michael to pass her. ‘TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA 192 MICHAEL A bit late, isn't it, for swimming? Elsa smiles at him, ELSA No, it's nico. Michaol doesn't smile back. She climbs up off tho laddor.196 197 ise. 199 CONTINUED: ELSA (CONT'D. ) «sesif I swallowed all of them, if maybe they wouldn't kill my pain, -= the pain of just being alive. CLOSE UP MICHAEL MICHAEL (with angry humor) Sure, Grisby wants me to do tho job for him] Grisby wants mo $0 kill Grisby’ He throws the cigarette into the water. MICHAEL (oont!d.) I think he's out of his mind. MEDIUM TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA ELSA (still vory serious) Ho ise..He's not really sano, anyway. Neither's Harry. MICHAEL (grim now) Your husband can take care of himself, Suddenly seeing something off soreon. Addressing it sharply: == MICHAEL What do you want? Elsa screams. MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT BROO!E STANDING IN THE SHADOW OF THE LOCKER SHED BROOME Just taking a stroll. Beautifu2 moon...Nice night for it. Ain't it, Mp. O'Hara? 56 196 197 198 ise192 193 194 195 196 55 CONTINUED: 192 ELSA I couldn't sleep -- CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 2193 Ho turns and starts away. Her voice stops him. ELSA (cont.) 0.8. == Michael .+. MICHAEL Yos? TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA 194 ELSA. Did George say anything about us? MICHAEL No, he's very interested in [Link] MEDIUM SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA 195 With o sigh Michaol relaxes against the railing lighting a cigarotto. MICHAEL He's afraid the world's going to explode == Ho talked about suicide. He takes a deep breath of smoke, oxhales 1t slowly, looking past Elsa up at the moon, She's curled up with a towel on a pile of cushions. ELSA Ttve thought of that myself some- times..,Do you think it's wrong Michael? He goos on looking past her at the moon. ELSA (cont.) Would you kill yourself if you had to? MICHAEL If I had to. CLOSE UP ELSA 196 BLSA You know I've looked at those pills of Harry's so many times, -- the ones he takes to kill the pain, and wondered200 201 202 203 204 67 INT. 205 CLOSE UP MICHAEL 200 Michsol glowers at him, CLOSE SHOT BROOME 201 BROOME (cont'd. ) You didn't answor me, Mr. O'Hara, You ought to speak when you're spoken to. I'd hate to hafta report you to the lady's husband... I said it's a nice night for it. MEDIUM THREE SHOT MICHAEL, ELSA, BROOME 202 Without any warning movement Michael socks him. And as we've seen before, Michael can sock hard. With a little whining grunt Broome plunisdown on the wooden pier, and stays there inert, Clinging to her beach-robe, E1sa runs off scene. MEDIUM SHOT THE ROAD ABOVE BANNISTEE'S BEACH - NIGHT 203 Elsa is seon-running, a white exclemition point of terror on the dark road. Then she stops. MEDIUM SHOT ELSA LOOKING TEARFULLY A30UT HER. 204 She sees the car, its door open. She jumps in. After a moment Michael onters the scene. He starts to the chauffeur's seat, but turns in spito of himself and stands at the door. Looking int -= MICHAEL Stop cryin! From within the car we hear a miffled sob. MICHEAL (contta.) (furiously) I can't stand for you to ery -- Another sob. MICHEAL (cont'd.) Hear mo?.eeee Beside himself, Michael jumps into the back. CAR Elsa 1s huddled in the corner, her head buried in the 205 cushion of tho scat, her little body shaking, He sits at the edge of the soat for a long minute looking at her quite holplessly, then lays a well intentioned, clumsy hand on hor shoulder, She turns on him wildly:205 208 207 208 CONTINUED: ELSA You fool! Don't you mow that only makes ovorything worse! You can't solve anything by knocking peoplo down! MICHAEL (with quiot gravity) But suro, ho's a wicked man entirely. ELSA (biting her words out through her sobs) And I'm the princess in the fairy book... So you hit him ond mako a pretty speech to mo and we ride off together into the sunset... CLOSEUP MICHAEL MICHAEL (aftor a second, with a tentative grin) Well, why don't wo? CLOSEUP: ELSA CLOSE TWO ELSA (Looking into his oyes) Why don't wo what? SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA MICHAEL Ride off together -= into tho sunset? It's been done, you know, by roal live people. That's where they get the ideas for the books. ELSA Books aren't like people. People try to act like books. MICHAEL, Oh, no, Rosaleon, people are botter than books. 58 205 206 207 20859 208 CONTINUED: 208 ELSA Or worse. What about mo? You don't. Imow what I'm like. I hope you never find out. You'd better go before you do. Koop your droam, -- ride off into your sunset by yourself and look for windmills. I don't want to hurt you, Michael. 209 CLOSEUP ELSA 209 ELSA (cont'd.) I'm afraid for you,...You don't bolong here. 210 CLOSE TWO SHOT MICHAEL aND ELSA 210 ELSA (conttd.) Wo'ro different than you aro, Michacl. Horribly different. You're alivo Wotro dead...All of us are dead already! Please go away, Michael, before it's Se late. BROOME'S VOICE 0.5. Too late for what? 211 MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT BROONE'S HEAD, FRAMED IN THE CAR WIN- 211 i DOW. HE GRINS PHOSPHERESCENTLY 212 TIGHT SHOT BROOME, MICHAEL AND ELSA 212 Michael stiffens. She puts out a hand to stop him, He gots up slowly. Quickly Broome backs away as Michael opens the car door. EXT. CAR. 213 MEDIUM SHOT 213 Michaol gots out. Looks at Broome. Closes the car door and moves slowly, wordlessly to the whecl. Ho starts the engine and drives off. 214 CLOSE SHOT BROOME 214 In the moonlight he looks like a gargoyle leering after tho doparting car. FADE OUT:60 FADE IN: 218 216 217 218 FULL SHOT: NEW YORK HARBOR (NEAR THE BATTERY): DAY, 215 The Bannister speed-bosat roars into the scene, then slows down approaching the dock: Michael is piloting the boss to his office. 216 MEDIUM TWO SHOT: MICHAEL & BANNISTER IN THE BOAT (PROCESS) Over the water from the city comes the mttering traffic of lower Wall Street on a business day. BANNISTER Got a cigarette? Michael slows the boat almost to a stop and gets out a package of cigarettes for Bannister. BANWISTER Match? Michael strikes one for him, BANNISTER (Cont 'd.) {as he gets the light) You're quite en exceptional fellow, aren't you, Michael -- What are you efter? My wife? CLOSE UP_MICHAEL e217 Michael looks straight ahead, very chauffeur-like MICHAEL Isn't this where you dock, Xr, Bannister? CLOSE UP BANNISTER 218 Bannister goes on after a second: BANNISTER You don't want to talk about it, of course, and I respect the delicacy of your feelings, put don't you think you owe mo an answer? After all, I'm the husband. Still no word from Michael. BANNISTER (cont) Would you call yourself an honest man?219 220 221 222 223, 224 61 CLOSE UP MICHAEL e219 ‘ MICHAEL I wouldn't call myself a thief.... You might sey I'm not in the market. CLOSE UP BANNISTER 220 BANNISTER The market -- What's that? (giving him a sharp quizzical look) MEDIUM SHOT THE DOCK 221 Grisby is standing by the pilings. * GRISBY (with a vacant grin) Morning, Harry. MEDIUM SHOT BANNISTER & MICHAEL IN THE BOAT (PROCESS) 222 (his choery tone equally blank) What you doing here at the docks, George? MEDIUM SHOT THE DOCKS 223 Grisby watches the boat as it comes into the scene. GRISEY (calling) I need Michael's help for something, Can I borrow him for a few mimites? BANNISTER Why not? TWO SHOT MICHAEL & BANNISTER (PROCESS) 224 BANNISTER (quietly to Michael) The market? -~ You mean aren't buying anything? Or are you telling me you aren't for sale?224 225 226 227 228 62 CONTINUED: 224 MICHAEL (carefully) I don't need to make any deals, MEDIUM SHOT THE SPEED-BOAT 225 Michael edges the boat along the side of the dock, TWO SHOT: BANNISTER & MICHAEL 226 BAWNISTER A crust of bread and the open road and the song of the thrust at twilight, that's all you want, isn't it? You'll wake up out of your dream, Romantic Miko..., CLOSE yp BANNISTER 227 BANNISTER (cont) You'll want something and yout! pay for 4t. You'll go to the market like any other fat little pig or hungry farmer and you'l) make your deal. MEDIUM SHOT THE SPEED-BOAT 228 Still holding the wheel, Michael stands up and tosses a line to the dock attendant. BANNISTER (cont; looking up at him) But your kind always gets the worst of it. DISSOLVE TO: INT, THE BANK (DOWNTOWN) THE SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULT. 229 The regulation lay-out. All icy-glistening and very 229 formidable. Grisby is removing his safety deposit box as Michael watches, CAMERA TRUCKS with Grisby as he brings the box to one of the tables in the center of the vault, Grisby takes in Michael's discomfort with a side-long smirk,63 229 CONTINUED: 229 GRISBY She wants to leave him, you kmow, MICHAEL Who? GRISEY Now, don't act dumb, fella. see. Elsa's never had any kind of life with Harry, That's no secret. He can't hold her any longer. (Counting monoy) Three, four, five. Five thousand, Grisby gives the wad of bills to Michael, locks the safe deposit box, and takes it back to its place. GRISBY (Cont; speaking to the Guard) How you been Pote? i THE CUARD Fine, thanks, Looks 1ike another hot day. 230 TWO SHOT GRISBY & MICHAEL 230 Grisby turns to Michael, GRISBY (to Michael) You've got the money, havon't you, Michael? MICHAEL (bewildered) Yes, sir. Michael crosses and hands the money to Grisby. Daring this: GRISBY (loudly, to the guard) It's got to let up soon. What we need's a good rain, Puts the money in his pocket, and starts away.64 230 CONTINUED: 230 GRISBY (Cont; quietly to Michael) She doesn't love him, If you want the truth of it, she hates hin. ..seWell, she's not alone in that. Gome on, fella, Wichael, sore and puzzled, follows. DISSOLVE INT, BANNISTER'S PRIVATE OFFICE . 231 Bannister closes the door behind Broome. 231 BANNISTER (coldly furious) I told you not to see me here, BROOME This is important, Harry. BANNISTER I won't be satisfied without real evidence. He limps over to his desk, 232 CLOSE UP BANNISTER 232 BANNISTER (Cont.) What I really want is photo- graphs. It's the new chauffeur, Of COUrSo+e+e 233 OVER SHOULDER SHOT -- FAVORING BROOME 233 Broome crosses to the desk, BROOME (urgently) You can stop worryin' about your wife findin' herself 2 boy friend, Harry. I got something real for you to frot over. Tnis 1s hot.234 235 236 237 238 239 CLOSE UP BROOME He finds it hard to say this next: BROONE (Cont) ---The way I figure it's worth a little extra dough, TIGHT TWO SHOT BROOME AND BANNISTER Bannister takes this in; finally speaks with an icily sweet smile: ° BANNISTER The old shakedown--? Why, Sid, you ought to knowl wouldn't’ go for a shakedown} CLOSE UP BROOME He covers up by trying belligerence. BROOME When you hear what I got for ya, you'll say you bought it cheap, TIGHT TWO SHOT: BROOME AND BANNISTER BANKISTER (sighing) . You've worked a lot of cases for me, Sid, I'll be sorry if we have to make this one the last. BROOME (now completely on the defensive) But, Mr. Bannister, this is hot! CLOSE UP BANNISTER BANNISTER There's a plot against my life -- Correct? I'm going to be mrdered..,Isn't thet the information you're ped= dling? CLOSE UP BROOME ~ REACTION His jaw is hanging foolishly by now -~ 65 234 235 236 237 23966 240 CLOSE. UP BANNISTER 240 “ BANNISTER (Cont) I'm going to be killed --~ 241 @WO SHOT: BANNISTER & BROOME 241 Bannister tilts back in his swivel chair. BANISTER (Cont) Why, Sid, don't you think I Imow about 1t? All about it? Still leaning back in his chair: BANNISTER (Cont; his voice quiet but the tone threatening and really dangerous) Go on now, beat itd And don't let me see you anywhere except where you belongee, Unless you've got some news. 242 CLOSE UP BROOME 242 On his goggle-eyed reaction we ~~ FADE OUT:67 FADE IN: EXT. BANNISTER'S PRIVATE BEACH - NIGHT 243, 244 245 246 247 FULL SHOT 245 Portable barbecue wagons are in full blaze, Bessie is supervising with Broome; e house-man and a first maid helping. In evidence are all the gadgets ever sold by Abercrombie & Fitch. lear the water, a camp-fire, on which Elsa 1s doing some secondary cooking. Besids her Bannister, propped against one of those portable backrests used generally on the beaches for sunbething. He's been doing some more serious drinking. Across from hin is Grisby, surrounded by neat little buckets of ice, elaborate fitted eases of the best leather with silver flasks and cups, horn- handled corkscrews and every costly thing conceivevle for the manufecture of cocktails. THREE SHOT GRISBY, BANISTER, ELSA 244 Grisby right now is busy with a shaker, his flushed face announcing the effects of his own bartending, In spite of Elsa's remonstrances, Crisby 1s careful at all times to see thet his partner's glass is kept filled. Nor is Zannister unaware of this, He knows that Grisby likes to get him drunk, but he finds in this some private brand of his own black and bitter pleasure. Meybe Bannister is sc very fond of disaster; that even when 1t involves himself he enjoys it. GRISBY (cont) Time for another, Harry? BANNISTER (holding out his glass) Time for another. CLOSE Si0T ELSA 245 Sho fiddles with the radio and gots some music. Cocktail lounge jazz. Torchy but unobtrusive. She tunes it down so it's just loud enough for her to listen. She doesn't look at either of the men. CLOSE UP BANNISTER 246 BANNISTER Funny, --+------~ He takes a long drink. THREE SHOT BANISTER, GRISBY, ELSA (cont) 247 ELSA (no tone in her voice) What's funny?247 248 249 250 251 252 CONTINUED: BANNISTER (lowering his glass) Michael scoms to think you'ro the one who persuaded me to hire him. Actually it was George. GRISBY ‘That's right, Harry. CLOSEUP ELSA 7 With a sharp look at Grisby: ELSA You don't usually take George's advice. CLOSSUP BANISTER | BANNISTER Nobody takes George's advico -- But I wanted to see ycur doughty rescuer for myself, #lsa, I didn't really mean to give tho Irish Superman a job, but he went and got me drunics That's what George wants to do now. But George 1s only # broken-down playboy. He finishes the drink with satisfaction. BANNISTER (cont) I can outdrink George. CLOSEUP GRISBY GRISBY Yes, Michael told mo he was quitting. Try to make him change his mind, Harry. CLOSEUP [Link] ELSA Why? Why shouldn't he go if he wants to? THREE SHOT BANSISTER, GRISBY, ELSA BANNISTER Goorge likes to havo him around, lover. Michael is so big and strong. He makes a good bodyguard for you. Isn't that what you said, George? 68 247 248 249 250 251 25269 252 CONTINUED: + B52 GRISBY Right, Herry. BLSA I don't neod a bodyguard. 253 CLOSE UP BANNISTER 255 BANNISTER Not evon a big , strong bodyguard, lover, with an irish brogue? 254 TWO SHOT BANISTER & ELSA 264 ELSA Pleaso, Harry -= BANNISTER And when you feel like cruising around the park again, you wouldn't have to be alone =~ 255 THREE SHOT GRISBY, BANNISTER, ELSA 255 ELSA (to Grisby) Don't make another drink, Harry's had enough. (tight-voiced) I'm gotting a now chauffeur, that settlos it, Now let's talk about something olso... BANNISTER George thinks Michael's fallen for you. And that makes mo unhappy George hopes. 256 CLOSEUP GRISBY 256 BANNISTER (cont) 0.8. But George is wrong again. GRISBY (with blank-oyed innocence) Harry, I didn't say anything about Michael and Elsas 257 THREE SHOT GRISBY, BAILITST@R, ELSA 257 BANNISTER George is always wrong. Make us another cocktail, Goorgo.70 257 CONTINUED: 257 GRISBY (with mechanical charn, repeating an old party wheoze of his) Another Grisby Special -~ coming upt ELSA Ploase -- 258 — CLOSEUP_BAMINISTER 258 BANNISTER You're a stupid fool, George, but you ought to roalize that I don't mind a bit if my chauffour's in love with my wife. Ho's young. She's young. He's strongs She's peautiful. 259 CLOSHUP ELSA 259 She rises to her fect. BANNISTER 0.S. Sit down, darlings 260 CLOSEUP BANNISTER 260 Ho goes on looking up at her, his little beads of eyes agleam in the firolight. BANNISTER Where's your sense of humor? 261 CLOSE SiO? ELSA 261 ELSA I don't have to ait there and hear you talk like that, Harry -- BANNISTER 0.8. (without much emphasis, but with lots of authority) Oh, yos, you do, lovers Prosently Elsa sits down. 262 THREE SHOT GRISBY, BANNISTER, ELSA R62 GRISBY Here's your drink, Harry. Now you leave Elsa alone.265 264 265 266 1 CLOSEUP BANNISTER 263, Not looking away from Elsa, he takes tho frosh cocktail from Grisby. BANNISTER scome to think of it, it's CLOSEUP GRISBY 264 GRISEY What's queer, Harry? THREE SHOT GRISEY, BANNISTER, ELSA 265 BANNISTER Why doesn't Michael want to work here? ELSA (staring into the fire) Why would enybody want to work hore? Why would anybody want to live around us? BANISTER (nis voice thickening now with drink) Where's his sense of adventure? MEDIUM SHOT THE BEACH 266 BANNISTER (cont) (calling) Broome! -- Broome! Broome appears out of the darkness. BROOME Yos, Mr, Bannister. BANNISTER Is Michael waiting in the car? BROOME Yes, sir. BANNISTER Ask him to step over hero for a moment, will you, Broome? BROOME Yes, sir, Broome walks up the beach to the car, CAMERA FOLLOWING. Michael sits at the wheel.267 268 269 270 271 12 TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND BROOME 267 BROOME They want to see you. Without answering, Michael gets out of the car. In silence he goes down to the campfire, CAMERA FOLLOWING, WEDIUN SHOT BANNISTER, GRISEY, ELSA 268 The girl still stares into the fire. The men are watching the chauffeur as he comes into the sceno, Michael stands by them for a time before anything is said. BANNISTER Well, Michael? MICHAEL Well, lir, Bannister. BANNISTER My wife's lost her sense of humor, Michael, and you've lost your sense of adventure, She says you're quitting. CLOSE UP MICHAEL 269 MICHAEL That's right, sir. CLOSE UP BANNISTER 270 BANNISTER Sit down and have a drink, Michael. I'll go on calling you Michael, if I may? You call mo Harry, MEDIUM SHOT THE FOURSOME =~ 27 There is an ombarrassed pauscess. BANNISTER (cc .t) Make hima cocktail, George, and don't ook so shocked. Michael may not be in the Social Register, but then, neither are you -- anymoree. If he isn't work- ing for us, it's quite proper for Michael to join the family circle, And since I've invited hin, it would be quite incorrect for Michael to refuse,..Take off your coat, Michael, and be comfortable.271 1272 273 1 CONTINUED: 271 And sure enough, Michael takes off his coat, with very deliberate gestures. Grisby hands him up a glass. GRISBY, Here's your drink, fella. Slowly and easily Michael sits down by the fire, Then he takes the cocktail. MICHAEL Thank you, Mr, Grisby. BANNISTER You can call him George. MICHAEL I'd rather not. BANNISTER Call him what you like, He won't do anything about it, George used to be some sort of athlete -- you Imow, polo end rhumba,..But George 1s too fat novadays Go object anything, At the Stork Clvb I hear oven the busboys insult him, Michael looks from one to the others MICHAEL Is this what you folks do for amsement in the evenin's -~ Sit around toastin' marshmallows and callin! each other names? Nobody answers. CLOSE UP MICHAEL 272 MICHAEL (cont) Sure, if you're anxious for me to join the game, I'll be glad to. I can think of afew 2:ames I'd like to be callin! you myself, MEDIUM SHO? THE FOURSOME 273 BANNISTER Oh, but Michael, that isn't fair. MICHAEL It isn't fair -- and why not?273 274 275 276 277 278 CONTINUED: BANYISTER You're bound to lose the contest. We'll have to give you a handicap, Hichael, You dm't know enough about us. CLOSEUP MICHAEL MICHAEL I know enough, CLOSE SHOT BANNISTER BANNISTER I doubt it, You ought to Imow what George. knows about me, for instance, if you really want to call me names. Of course, my partner's very considerate ¢ my feelings e+e CLOSEUP ‘ GRISEY'S REACTION BANISTER 0.S. He likes the way his name looks in gold letters on the door in that big office of mine down in Wail Street. And I let him keep it there because I appreciate his consideration. CLOSEUP BANNISTER BANKISTER (cont) Now if you wanted to call George a nasty name you'd necd some facts, and ell the facts are going to dic with the respected firm of Bannister & Grisby, Attorneys-at-Law, CLOSEUP GRISEY BANNISTER 0.8. (cont) Blacimailer, now thero's a real nice nasty name for you, but as it is, you'll havo to be satisfied with "partner." 14 273 274 275 276 e77 278279 280 261 262 1S CLOSE SHOT BANNISTER 279 TWO SHOT BANNISTER (cont) That's not meh of an insult: "partner," =- but you Imow, from my point of view I sometimes think it is .... And Michael, if the story of how George got to be my partner is interesting, you ought to hear the one about how Elsa got to be my wife, ELSA & BANNISTER 260 ELSA (her eyes still fixed on the flames) Want me to tell him what you've got on mo, Harry? BANISTER (with demoniac srmgness) Please, lover. I have my prideve.. There is a silence....then Michael speals: CLOSEUP MICHAEL 281 MICHAEL (very slowly, as though to himself) Once, off the bump of Brazil, I saw the dcean so darkened with blood it was black, with the sun faintin' away over the lip of the sky, We'd put in at Fortaleza, and a few of us had lines out for a bit o dle fishin', It was me had the first stvikos.. CLOSHUP REACTION SHOT ELSA 282 MICHAEL 0.S.(cont) «eeA shark it was, and then thero was another, and another shark again, -- till all about the sea was made of sharks, and more sharks still, and no salt water at all...,283 204 285 286 CLOSEUP REACTION SHOT BANNISTER UICHABL 0.8. (cont) sesMine had torn himself from the hook, andthe smell or maybe the stain it was, -- and him bleedin' bis life away -- drove the rest of 'em mad... CLOSEUP REACTION SHOT GRISBY MICHAEL 0.8. (cont) «+[Link] the sharks all took to eatin' each othor,...in their frenzy they ate at themselves... CLOSEUP MICHAEL MICHAEL (cont) You could fool the lust of murder like a wind stingin! your eyes, and you could smell the death reekin' up out of the sear I never saw anythin! worse until this little picnic tonight. (he looks around from face to face) And dty! Imow -- there wasn't one of thim sharks in tho whole crazy pack that survived. MEDIUM SHOT THE FOURSOME Michael gets up, MICHAEL (looking down at the others) I'11 be leavin' you now, He turns and goes off into the darlmess. BANNISTER (after a moment to Grisby) You should've thanked hin, George, that's the first time anybody ever thought enough of you to call you a shark, If you were a good lawyer you'd be flattered. CRISBY (ignoring this last) I think Elsa ought to try to persuade him to stay. 76 283 284 285 286287 288 289 290 291 292 293 CLOSEUP BANNISTER He looks suddenly at Grisby. BANNISTER Why? (then quickly) Don't bother to answer that. I!11 figure it out for myself. (to Elsa) Go talk to the Irishman, lover. CLOSE SHOT ELSA ELSA You want mo to? CLOSE SHOT BANNISTER BANNISTER Sure, why not? MEDIUM SHOT THREESOME Elsa gets up. BANNISTER (cont) How doos the song go? -- 4 good man ia herd to finds CLOSEUP ELSA REACTING CLOSHUP BANNISTER BANNISTER (cont) (with a queer grin) When you look at me like that, lover, I feel as though you'd like to kil me. MEDIUM SHOT THREESOME Elsa wheels and hurries away. Bannister watches her go, then turns to Grisby: v7 287 288 289 290 291 292 293203 CONTINUED: BANNISTER (cont) Everybody wants to kill me, but 4t won't be easy. I know what everybody's up to. That's my edge. That makes mo a tough guy, George -~ (the grin hardens) too tough to kill. DISSOLVE TO: "2 29379 GARAGE BANNISTER'S ESTATE 294 Michael is throwing some of his gear‘into the back of the 294 little chevvy, which, by the way, looks mighty pathetic in the expensive company of the Bannister motor flest. He sees Elsats reflection in the glass and turns to hor. 295 CLOSHUP MICHAEL 295 MICHAEL I'm going to take you with me. 296 CLOSEUP ELSA 296 ELSA Now? 297 TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA 297 MICHAEL Now. ELSA, (trying to talk sense) George wants to go to the city. He wants you to drive him in, MICHAEL You're goin! with mosses. Before hia sad looking little auto, Michael stands staring at hen, trying to understand, She goes to an open wing of the garage door, CAMERA FOLLOWING, and closes it. 298 CLOSEUP ELSA 298 ELSA Michel! Michael, listen to me! Don't you know what Broome was doing last night? 290 TIGHT TO SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA 299 MICHAEL (crossing to her) spyin' on you. I'm goin! to take you where there aren't any spies.60 299 CONTINUED? 299 ELSA Oh, darling, you're: such a foolish knight errant, Will you ever grow up and find out how to defend yourself? Your fists aren't enough, Michael. No matter how good your heart may be, you can't get along with what you call Twicked men,! until you learn something about wickedness. MICHAEL But I don't want to get along with them. 300 CLOSEUP ELSA 300 ELSA Then where will you live? Is there a - place in the world where everybody's good? I don't know where it is. (she Looks at him out of mother's eyes) You're big and strong but you just don't know how to take care of your= selfs 301 TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA 301 ELSA (continued ) So how could you take care of me? Michael opens the door and starts out of the garage, Elsa following. EXT, GROUNDS OF THE BANNISTER ESTATE = NICHT 502 TRUCKING SHOT 302 Michael moves distractedly across the lawn. Elsa calls him back, the sharpness of her tone partly fire. ELSA Michael! (then, almost whispering) seeThat Broome is a detectives302 303 304 305 CONTINUED : He doesn't tako her eyo. ELSA (continuing) can't you understand that? My husband hires him to try and get ot ‘something on Ho wants ti ice Tri never divorce him. : MICHAEL Why? ELSA (simply) He needs me. I help him prove somothing to the world, end himself, too, maybe. CLOSEUP MICHAEL MICHAEL Ho's not your husband, He's 8 jailer! CLOSEUP ELSA ELSA (with a queer kind of tenderness) That's what he needs to bevers. You soc, dearest, what I say is true! You don't kmow anything about wicked- ness. How can you fight for the things you beliove in and the woman you love, until you do? TIGHT TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA MICHAEL (wryly) Well, I been roundin' out my education of late, He stops, grasping her arms savagely. el 302 303 304 305306 307 308, 309 310 82 CLOSEUP MICHAEL OVER ELSA'S SHOULDER 306 MICHAEL You think I can't take caro of you-~ don't you? You think I'd bo after takin! you to a desert island to eat berries and goat's milk, Somewhore east of the sun and wost of the moon, whoro you'd have to take in washing to support mo? REVERSE ANGLE CLOSEUP ELSA 307 ELSA (with a little smile) Well..eeee Sho looks off scene. ELSA (continuing) There comes Georgo! He mustn't see me horo with you ~~ Sho starts away, is halted by Michael's tone. CLOSEUP MICHAEL 308 Michacl is boside himself -- a new Michael now -- almost mad in his dosperato noed of her. MICHAEL What would you say to five thousand dollars to got us started? CLOSEUP ELSA 309 She stares at him, Then Grisby's voice 1s heard off scene. GRISBY'S VOICE Hello, kiddies! MEDIUM SHOT GRISBY 310 He's dressed for the city. CAMERA MOVES WITH HIM to Michael and Elsa, GRISBY Roady to go, fella? Michacl shoots a last look at Elsa.31O CONTINUED: 310 MICHAEL Yes, sir. Ready to go. He leaves, bound for the car in the garage. 3112 WO SHOT GRISBY AND ELSA 311 GRISBY (Looking at Elsa) Harry's asking for you -- He wondered where you'd gone. (Then -- the sudden silly smile) I won't tell him, With a kind of giggle, Grisby walks out of the scene, Elsa stands looking after him, DISSOLVS TO: INT. GRISBY'S OFFICE NIGHT 312 A lonely desk lamp lights the scene, Michael sits in the 312 shadows twisting his cap, listening as Grisby reads: GRISBY "I, Michael O'Hara, in order to live at’ peace with my conscience and ny God, do freely make the following confessions: On the evening of August ninth" -- that's tomorrow night, folla -~ "I shot and killed Mr. George Grisby, placing his dead corpse in Long Island Sound.” -- 313 ‘OVER SHOULDIR SHOT FAVORING MICHAEL 313 MICHAEL Just a minute. Grisby looks up at him, MICHAEL (CONT.) What you're readin' there... I'm supposed to have written84 313 CONTINUED: 313 GRISBY Forgive me if I fail to catch your literary style, folla, But it's the thought that matters, MICHAEL Go on. GRISBY (continuing reading again) "It happoned this way: Mr. Grisby had como out by cab to the Bannister estate to got somo papers ho'd for- gotten. He askod mo to drive him to the station. Wo arrived too late for the ten-fifteon, ‘tho next train doesn't leave for three-quarters of an hour, and since it was a hot night, Mr, Grisby suggested that we fill the time by ériving to the beach -- “ 314 REVERSE ANGLE 314 GRISBY (continuing: to Michaol again) Wetll hold that conversation right in front of the ticket window, Michael, so the station attendant won't be able to miss a word... You sce I'vo got the whole thing very carefully planned, Adjusting his glasses, he goos back to the typewritten shoot in‘his hand, GRISBY (continuing; roading aloud) Wo arrivod at the seaside at approx- imately ten-twenty, a fairly deserted area just below tho Bannister private beach, As I pulled up Mr. Grisby said he heard a sound, Something suspicious. He said he was frightened of a holdup and asked me to got the gun out of the side pocket of the car just in case. T reached in and got it. But I had hardly taken the gun when it wont off in my hand. And I saw that Mr, Grisby was all covered with blood.”315 316 317 85 ‘TWO SHOT GRISBY AND MICHAEL 315 GRISBY (continuing) "gen I saw that he was dead. -- Michael rises. GRISBY (CONT.) (quickiy) fake it easy, Michaol. JT want you to got this straight, It's your story and you're going to have to stick to it. Michael steres down at him. Grisby goes back to the paper, Reading: -~ GRISBY (CONT. ) ---"I saw that he was dead, T was too startled by this to think clearly and I remember that I dragged his body out of the car into s clump of bushes. Then some people, who were picnicking on the beach" --- (Looking up) They do every night. I checked for a whole week, There're always two or three bonfires -- (going back to the paper; reading:) ",,,people who were picnicking on the peach came up to see about the gun-shot. I told thom I'd just been doing some target practice, and when they went away I throw Mr. Grisby's body into the Sound, I then drove back to the Bannister estate, where this is being written now --" CLOSEUP MICHAEL 316 GRISBY (0.8.) (continuing) "T can't say why I'm signing my name to this, but I think it 1s to ease my mind end perhaps also force myself to toll the truth when the police make Anquiries about this horrible accident." TWO SHOT GRISBY AND MICHAEL 317 Grisby lowers the paper, takes off his glasses and slides them delicately into their leather case.317 318 319 86 CONTINUED: 317 GRISBY (continuing) That's the easiest five thousand dollars you're ever going to earn, fella. A long silence... Then - MICHAEL Why don't you do it yourself? GRISBY Commit suicide? Don't be silly. MOVING SHOT 318 CAMERA FOLLOWS GRISBY. He rises, moves into the darimess the other end of the room, and twiddles with the wall safe. GRISBY (at the safe) I want to live, but I want to vanish. That isn't oasy nowadays. If theytro looking for you, thoy find you. Eveu on the smallest island in the South Seas... That's where I'1l be, Michas:., on that smallest island. But I want to live there in peaco and that won't bo possible unless the world is satisfied I'm dead, He opens the safe and brings out a packet of monoy. GRISBY (continuing) You Imow, the law is a funny thing, fella... The people of the state of New York will say I'm dead if somebody will say they mrdered mo, That's what I'm paying you to say, MEDIUM SHOT 319 He tosses the money on the desk in front of Michael and comes around into the light, looking down at him, GRISBY . (continuing ) And hore!s the real joker ere's what makes it such a pipe for you, You can confess to murder all you want to, but according to the law they can't got you for it, Look it up for yourself. In this state, there's no such thing as murder without finding the body and they'll make it hot for you while they search for mine,87 319 CONTINUED: 319 GRISBY (CONT. ) But thoy kmow it's a rough tide out thore on that part of the Sound. They!11 have to give up pretty quick. And then, they'll have to let you go.... Cigar? He opons a humidor with his flashing smile of hospitality. MICHAEL Mo, thanks. 320 CLOSE TWO SHOT GRISBY AND MICHAEL 320 GRISBY (removing long blond Havena and crinkling it by his ear) I mow, fella, you're wondering what's behind it all. “None of your business, actually, but since wetre what you might-call -- “(with a pleasant laugh) -- paftners in crimo -- I might as well tell you that this firm's insured. I nave-a wife that nags mc, end I don't want to be within a thousand miles of this eity when they drop that bomb... He rests his cigar lovingly on a Morocco leather box and unsheaths a fountain pen from an elaborate onyx desk set. Then, putting down the pen near Michael's hands -- GRISBY (continuing) Sounds crazy, I mow, but then -- wo all have our little eccentricities. Sign this 321 CLOSEUP MICHAEL sel Michael picks up the pen, looks at it for a steady minute in silence. Then scratchos his namo with a single gosture on the bottom of the paper. 322 TWO SHO? MICHAEL AND GRISBY 322 Grisby pulls the papor back toward him across the glass top of the desk, He folds the paper in two tidy creases, and files it away in his pocket with a satisfied sound of ox- heled breath.322 323 324 325 88 CONTINUED: 322 GRISBY (continuing during the above procedure) I hate to mako it all so formal, but you Imow the legal mind. (patting his pocket) This is just in case you change your story aftor the "murdor," I voulén't like that. And just in case you should @ecido not to go through with it, I'll koop the other half of the five thousand til tomorrow night. You'll get the rest pefore I climb into tho spoodboat, You might call this a rotednor, MICHAEL What about the shot? GRISBY That's a silly question, folla, You fire into the sand, of Course. CLOSEUP MICHAEL 323 MICHAEL Koop your money. I'll take it if I do the job. TIGHT TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND GRISBY 324 Michael has rison, Grisby looks up at him, his cyes nerrowing in the glare of the desk lamp. GRISBY You'll do it... five thousand dollars ought to take a little girl and a sailor on quite a nico little trip. Maybe wo'll all moet togother somewhere, Shall we make @ date in Pango Pango? MICHAEL (tonelc ssly) I'11 see you at tho house tomorrow night. GRISBY (with a ploasant grin) Goodbyo 'til then, you bloodthirsty killer, you. Ho laughs ... Michael movos away into the darkness and wo hear the office door closo -- good and hard. ChogRughing his silly leugh all by hinsolf 528 «+elaughing his 3) augh a! self. ening v " FADE OUT:89 FADE IN: INT. KITCHEN BANNISTER HOME - THE NEXT NIGHT 326 Wichacl sits in his shirtslooves smoking, a half empty cup 326 of coffee and an open book before him on the kitchen table. Bessio, drossed for her night out, stops by for a word. BESSIE What's eatin’ you, Mr. Man? I know, you were all set to quit last night, an! here you is... T know -- That gal can talk e body. into anything sho wants... I'm glad she kin. She needs you, -- Say, where is she now? MICHAEL Where you're goin! --, to the films? BESSIE (cheerfully) Not tho same theatre, Mr, Man, I'd vetter hurry. Whore I'm goin' it's bank night. MICHAEL Feol lucky? BESSIE No, jest hopeful. She starts out the door. QUICK DISSOLVE TO: EXT, BANNISTER ESTATE BEHIND THE GARAGE - NIGHT 327 Aman ia standing in the shadows. Grisby ontors the Scene, 327 GRISBY Is thet you, Broome? It 1s, but he doosn't enswer. Grisby looks about him nervously+ GRISBY Well, here I ame527 328 329 330 331 20 CONTINUED: se BROOME (quietly) Yes, sir, hore you are. TIGHT TWO SHOT GRISBY AND BROOME 3268 GRISBY (trying to koop his voice down) Lock, Broome, I'vo got to get into the city. I'm late and Michael's going to have to take me -~ He looks sherply at Broomo's face. GRISBY (continued ) What are you laughing at? BROOME The way you say it, it sounds phon: Like you practiced 1t too meny times! GRISBY (shrilly) I don't get what you're driving at. BROOME, Sure you do. CLOSEUP_GRISBY 329 Grisby looks at him for a silent, breathless minute, then speaks? GRISBY What do you want? CLOSEUP BROOME 330 BROOME I'll settle for five thousend dollars. Grisby gulps the air in a couple of times as though he'd been running heavily. TIGHT TWO SHOT GRISBY AND BROOME 331 Grisby tries to go, but finds ho can't. GRISBY I'l] talk to you tomorrow.91 331 CONTINUED: 331 BROOME Tomorrow? When you'll be playin! dead an' somebody else we both know's really dead? No, thanks, Mr. Grisby, WetiTscttie our account ‘right now, GRISBY. (his tone suddenly quite cool) All right, Broome, if you insist -- He reaches in his pocket and takes out a gun -- 332 CLOSEUP BROOME 332 BROOME (sharply) Not cur tor INT. KITOHEN 333. Michael is reading his book. From outside comes the SOUND 333 of a shot! Michaol looks up, puzzled. CAMERA PANS iim to the door. He goos out. EXT, KITCHEN ENTRANCE BANNISTER HOME - NIGHT 334 As Michacl comes out on the porch we can see he's trying 334 to place the direction of the gunshot. CUT TG: EXT. BACK YARD BEHIND THE GARAGE - NIGHT 335 CLOSE SHOT BROOME 335 lying with his face in the earth. CAMERA TILTS UP to HOLD ON Grisby, the smoking revolver, still in his hend. CAMERA MOVES with Grisby around to the side door of the garage. He opens it and starts in.92 INT. BANNISTER GARAGE - NIGHT 336 337 358 Grisby comes in the side door, tekes a flashlight out of 336 his left pocket and makes his way to the Hispano, CAMERA FOLLOWING. Moving quickly, Grisby wipes the gun with a big linen handkerchicf, end holdiny it in tho handkerchief, opens tho car door. Ha reaches in'> the flap pocket of the door and takes out another gun, (‘ae sano gun Elsa carried in hor bag in Central Park), Stil pinching the revolver he used to shoot Broome in the del sate folds of his handkerchief, ho drops it .in the evs pocket, MICHAEL'S VOICE (0.S.) What wes that shot? Grisby starts and straightons! Th: overhead floodlights. in the garage flash on as Michael turis tho switch MEDIUM SHOT MICHAEL 337 at the garago door. His hand on t'2 switch, Ho looks suspiciously off scroen. CAMERA F LLOWING, he crosses to Grisby, who manages to jam the gun ne took from the car into his coat pocket before Michae comes up to him. THO SHOT MICHAEL AND GRISBY 338 - GRISBY Iwas just doing a littl: target practices. Michael's eyes squint down at him, Grisby giggles nervously. GRISBY (continued) That's your line, isn't it? Remomber, that's what you'ro supposed to say. Michael is watchful and silont. With another of his childish spasms of laughter, Grisby climbs into tho car. GRISBY Como on, time to start... Very low thunder mumbles in the air outside. Slowly Michael gets in beside him, starts tho car and drives it out of tho garage DISSOLVE TO:EXT. 93, COUNTRY ROAD - NIGHT 339 EXT. 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 An overcast sky, Lightning, and the far-away threat of 339 thunder. The car races down the road, DOORWAY OF THE BANNISTER KITCHEN - NIGHT For a while nothing moves on the screen. Then over the 340 SOUND TRACK we hear the rasping static-like sounds of tortured breathing -- the breathing of a dying man. Up from the bottom of the Frame -- up to the steps, crawls Broome. Moving on his belly, an inch at a timo, he tries to get the door open with his fingers, tries to raise himself to the knobs..fallsee. finally makes it. CUT TO: h MEDIUM SHOT (PROCESS) 341 Michael is driving; Grisby slumped in the beck clenches an unlit cigar between his teeth. CLOSE. SHOT MICHAEL 342 His hands grip the wheel, nervouslyse.s CLOSE SHOT GRISBY 343 in the back seat. CLOSE S4OT MICHAEL 344 at the wheel, He stares into the rear view mirror of the car. CLOSE SHOT REAR VIEW MIRROR (SPECIAL EFFECTS) 345 Grisby, his forehead dripping CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 346 at the wheel, Impatiently, he steps on the gas. The car gathers still more speed. COUNTRY ROAD - NIGHT EXT, 347 In the distance ahead is seen the red light on the tail of 347 a truck. Michael's car rockets toward the truck.94 INT. CAR WINDSHIELD SHOT FROM MICHAEL'S PONT OF VIEW 348 349 350 352 EXT. The tail light comes closer -- and still closer... 348 CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 349 He quickly jerks back the emergency breke, swings the wheel around, jams on the footbrake -- CLOSE SHOT GRISBY 350 WINDSHIELD SHOT (SPECIAL EFFECTS) FROM MICHAEL'S POINT OF VIEW The CAMERA ZOOMS UP 'ti1 the glare of the tail light fills 351 the whole of the screen. A sudden jolt of CAMER‘ as the red blaze is broken by the shattering of glass in front of CAMERA Lens, splintering the entire picture... CUT TO: ROAD - NIGHT 352 REVERSE CLOSE SHOT ON MICHAEL 352 through broken windshield glass. Michael, stunned, hunches over the wheel, his face bleeding. Grisby, beg. Michaol comes to and with effort starts to leave the car. COUNTRY ROAD 353 MEDIUM SHOT 353 Michael's car has smashed into a truck. A man, the truck- driver runs toward Michael. MEDIUM SHOT MICHAEL AND TRUCK DRIVER 354 TRUCK DRIVER Anyboey hurt? MICHAEL I don't know. (he looks in back) Mr. Grisby -- Grisby slides out of the car, blood on his white linen suit, holding his hand to his wrist. GRISBY That was close, wasn't it? Not hart, aro you fella?355 356 357 358 359 360 95 CONTINUED: 354 MICHAEL I'm all right. TRUCK DRIVER You're lucky, flyin! glass can take your head off, MEDIUM SHOT MICHAEL, GRISBY AND TRUCK DRIVER 355 Followed by Grisby, Michael and the truck driver move into the bleze of the twisted headlights. The wholo front of the car is jammed against the back of the truck. CLOSE S1OT RED TAIL LIGHT OF THE TRUCK 356 smashed, s CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 357 He looks toward Grisby. CLOSE SHOT GRISHY 358 holding his bleeding wrist. He notices Michael looking at him and smiles back. GRISBY It's okay, folla, CLOSE SHOT TRUCK DRIVER 359 "TRUCK DRIVER You're cut bad. CLOSE SHOT GRISBY 360 He wraps s handkerchief around his wrist. GRISBY It's okay, really it is. MEDIUM SHOT CAR AND TRUCK 361 Michael gets inside the car and starts the motor. Grisby stands outside and turns to the truck driver. GRISBY What's your namo? TRUCK DRIVER Hey, you ain't goin' to try en' say I aia it?362 IN 362 96 CONTINUED: 361 GRISBY Don't be silly. We just want to be sure you're compensated for any damage we may havo caused your truck. TRUCK DRIVER That's different. Here's the driver's License .e. He starts getting it out. cur TO: BANNISTER OFFICE - NIGHT Pitch blackness and the empty atmosphere of lowor Wall 362 Street by night... Nobody around for a million miles... A phone is ringing... An insistent janglo... almost as though the phone itself were complaining of loneliness... cur TO: ROAD EXT. 363 Grisby is just giving the truck driver one of his cards. 365 GRISBY (as he climbs back into the partly wrecked Hispano) All right, now, you've got my name and address. Be sure end let me know the damage. Michael starts tho car. It roars up the road and out of sight. The truck drivor, holding Grisby's card betweon a couple of grimy fingers, stands watching it gows.r. QUICK DISSOLVE ‘TO:ov INT. BANNISTER'S OFFICE 364 As before. Tho phone still rings -~ seems to ocho through 364 the empty building... Thon the ringing stops abruptly -- cur TO: INT, BANNISTER KITCHEN - NIGHT 365 EXTREME CLOSE SHOT PHONE 365 Tho recolver hangs down on the cord as though it had been dropped. It swings and dangles aimlessly as the CANERA MOVES QUICKLY IN and the Frame 4s filled with the por- foratod membrane of the receiver. Over tho SOUND TRACK tho very tiny, very tiny voice of an opcrator 1s heard. OPERATOR'S VOICE (filter) Operator... Operator Oporator!.. Operator DISSOLVE TO:98 FRONT CAR 366 LOW ANGLE SHOT SHOWING DASHBOARD AND RIGHT GLOVE COMPART- 366 MENT CAMERA ON FLOOR OF CAR SHOOTING UP. Grisby's arm, a handkerchicf tied around it, is at scroon left (suspended over the Camera.) As hisother hand romoves the handkerchief, drops of blood fall over the Camera lens. As the first drop of blood spatters the lens, the loft hand of the screen becomes slightly blurred. MICHEAL 0.8. What are you doing? GRISBY 0.8. Gotting blood o11 over the floor of the cars My blood. It's ver- fect. If you shot mo thore!d be blood, folla -- sco? While Grisby's voice is heard over sceno, more drops of blood fall on the Camera lens, and tho left half of the screen decomes progressively more blurred. GRISBY 0.8. Get out the gun! Tho loft half of the frame 1s now complotely blurred, a fuzzy lino of demarcation between the left and right halves of tho soroon. Michacl's arm shoots out from this blurred dividing line into the right half of the sercen and raises the lid of tho glove compartment. Ho takes out a gun. Wo now seo in tho right half of the screen, Michaol's arm holding a gun. CAR INT. 367 TWO SHOT 367 Grisby, in the back, loaning over the front sent as he tics his handkerchief around his wrist. He is directly behind Michael who holds the gun in his hand. Michael closes the glove compartmont and opens the ear door. He and Grisby got out. EXT. CAR - NIGHT 368 Tho top of a little hill sloping down to tho sand and 368 tho sea.99 EXT. BEACH 369 © LONG SHOT 369 liany little fires are burning up and down the beach. By fit— ful hoat lightning people can be seen moving about and sitting in groups. A voice is heard singing, and an amatourish gui- - tar. Far in the distance 1s Bannister's pier and his speod poat. 370 TWO SHOT MICHAEL aND GRISBY 370 on the hill overlooking tho beach. GRISBY It's all working out perfectly. That truckdriver's going to make a Grado "A" witness. Now, mako suro somobody soos you go back whon you leave here. When you got back to tho garage, start washing out tho blood stains, You're trying to wino out tho evidence, soo, But bo caroful not to do such a good job that they can't analyze the’ stains. Grisby pauses, smiles at Michael. GRISBY (Cont'a.) To save your own neck, they've got to make sure Ttm dead. Grisby walks closor to Michaol and suddenly, pulling the handkerchief off his wrist, wipos some of the blood on Michael's clothes. 371 CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 371 as ho draws back. 372 CLOSE SHOT GRISBY 372 laughing. FRISBY Just try to wasa that off! EXT. BEACH - NIGHT 373 TWO SHOT GRISBY AND MICHAEL 373 Grisby roties the handkerchief around his wrist. GRISEY (Conttd.) Woll, thatts about all, folla, Soon as you hear the speedboat get away! - fire the gun.373 374 375, 376 3877 378 379 380 100 CONTINUED: 373 He shakes Michael's hand. GRISBY (Cont'd.) Well, this is gocdbyo. Ho quickly walks down the hill to the pier. OVER SHOULDER SHOT MICHAEL IN F.G. 374 Iightining shows Grisby walking towards the pier, Wo soe the many little firos and tho people on tho beach. Michael stands watching, the gun in his hand. CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 375 Ho wets his lips, looks nervously about and starts to lift his gun. The bedch is quiet save for desultory laughtor from the picnic groups and the distant song. Suddenly! VOICE 0.8. WaIT! WaIvs It's Grisby. Michael swings around. 376 ‘Wo SHOT Grisby runs up to Michael, out of breath. GRISBY A little thing like this and I forget 1t! Quick, give mo your cap. Michael hands Grisby his cap, and without ancthor word, Grisby starts off again. OVER SHOULDER SHOT 377 Michael watching Grisby as ho goes to the speedboat at the pior, CLOSEUF MICHAEL'S FACE 378 Tho noise of the speedboat fills the air = then slowly dios away. CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 379 Ho points the gun toward the sand and fires it. LONG SKOT BEACH MICHAEL IN F.G. 380 The singing and the laughtor suddenlys top, Michnol stands thore, tho smoking gun in his hand Silence,381 382 383 384 101 TRUCKING SHOT 381 Michael runs down to the pior, turns and starts along tho beach. A fat man ina bathrobe grabs him by the arm and swings him around. MEDIUM SHOT FAT MAN 382 The fat man grabs the gun from Michael's hand. Fa? MAN Here! Hore, what are you doing? Other pooplo dressed in boach robes, mon and women, run into sceno. PEOPLE - AD LIBS What havponed? What was the shooting for? What does ho want? Who is he? Michael tries to laugh, - motions to tho gun. MICHAEL I just folt like hoaring it go off. Anything wrong with that? FaT MAN oh ... Just did it for a whim, T s'poso? MICHAEL That's right. Just o whim. Ho abruptly swings around and starts towards the top of the hill. “MEDIUM SHOT ‘THE PEOPLE ON THE BEACH 383 They watch him go. MEDIUM SHOT TOP OF THE HILL 384 Michael, putting tho gun in his pocket, Jumps into the car and starts the motor. . DISSOLVE TO: INT. CAR (PROCESS) 385 Michael at the whool driving ... He joms his foot on tho 385 brake, getting all possible epced he can. Suddonly the car Lights go out.386 387 102 CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 386 as ho reacts. MEDIUM SHOT CAR 387 Pitch black «+» Michaol slows. The horn on the car jams. Tho irritating long steady drone of the horn cuts the night to ribbons +++ SLOW DISSOLVE TO: INT. BANNISTER'S OFFICE 388 As before. 388 Tho visual action of the DISSOLVE is synchronized with a cross fadé of sound: From tho maddening whine of the auto horn to the mddoning whine of tho phone. CUT TO: INT. BANNISTER KITCHEN 389 Broome has somehow pulled himself uo from the floor long 569 enough to dial the numbor again. Ho's hanging on to tho Poceiver now listening to the buzz...Gasping out his life... CUT TO: INT, BANNISTER'S OFFICE 390 Tho phone still yammers in tho darkmess, But now THE 390 GAMERA MOVES UP FROM THE DESK AND APPROACHES THE WINDOW. 391 HIGH ANGLE SHOT - SHOOTING DOWN INTO THE STREET 391 Far bolow the tiny figure of a man cen just be mdo out on tho black pavement...Suddenly, with tho sound perspective matching this distance, there is heard a faint but sharp toxtured gunshot! The noice richochets off tho granite faces of tho anpty buildings echoing remotely. This during a silent phraso of one of the moasured pauses betwoon tho exclamations of the phono puzzer...Precisely on the instant of the gunshot, the moving CAMERA had pulled up and locked301 103, CONTINUED: 391 its focus in a fixed stare at the strect below..,.The miniscule shapo of the man 1s secon to foll....Tho phone bell clattors....Tho man lies motionless. SLOW DISSOLVE TO: EXP. 302 393 304 ROAD - NIGHT As before. 392 Tho action of the dissolve matches the movement of a cross fade of sound effects. Tho phone bell merging into the ery of tho jammed auto horn and melting away under it...His road lights short-circuited, Michael sits at the wheel undecided what to do...With the shock of a sudden shout, a not, bright light is beamed on his faco. CLOSEUP - MICHAEL 393 He swings around and squints into the glare. MEDIUM SHOT OVER SHOULDER MICHAEL 394 A motorcycle cop comes opposite tho car. THE COP. Having troublo? MICHAEL The lights went out on mo and the horn jamnod. Tho cop dismounts and walks round the car -- noticos the wreckod front. THE COP Looks like you had a little accident. MICHAEL Yeoh...A truck. For a minute the cop studies Michacl. Then with his flash- light looks into the car.395 396 104 CLOSE SHOT - MICHAEL 395 Ho holds his broath. TWO SHOT = COP AND MICHAEL 396 THE COP I'11 got ya a tow car. He rides away on tho motorcycle. DISSOLVE TO:105 EXT, NIGHT - HIGH ANGLE - STREET BELOW ~ SHOOTING 397 FROM WINDOW OF BANNISTER'S OFFICE 397 ‘as boforo the CAMERA poors down the giddy distanco of twonty stories to tho murky stroot. Soveral figuros are soor. to gather, eircling tho placo where tho man foll. Polioc whistles Ero hoard, and thon from blocks away! The banshoe yolling of polico sirons....Tho phono has stoppod ringing... DISSOLVE"): EXT, NIGHT ~ WALL STREET 398 THE CAMERA IS ANGLED IN A DOWN-SHOT procisely as befere, 398 But now tho lens is a moro fiftoon feet apove tho pavorcnt. The polico...squad cars...an ambulanco...The hoart of shis tableau is the darkest objoct in tho composition. Th figure of the fallon man, an obvious corpso. DISSOLVE TO: INT. BANNISTER GARAGE 399 With a desperato striving and a feverish haste Michac’ 399 is washing away at tho blood stains in tho car. A vo'co is heard. THE VOICE O'Hara l.e...0'Hara!! Michacl looks toward tho door. THE VOICE (CONT.) It's Broome lessees Wichacl docsntt moo =- scarcoly broathes. Thon Broomo's voice scattors the silonco again, an agonizcd croak. BROOME'S VOICE (Cort) I know you'ro thero, O'Hara...Jot mo ine.e, Michacl docsn't speak. For a momont all wo can hear is tho Liguid spattoring from the cloth in his hand on to tho moist conercto....Thon tho door of the garago swings sharply in with a shrick of hinges and Broome falls into tho scono.106 TIGHT TWO SHOT - MICHAEL AND BROOME 400 Michaol catches him with his wot hands. 400 BROOME (nis oyos glazed) Blood. .+Blood..+ (wondoringly) It ain't all, minds. MICHAEL (abruptly) Thad an aceidont. BROOME, {sti11 clinging to «im) And Bannister? Whon dié ao dio? MICHAEL (parking at him) You'ro drunk, Broomo, Mr Bannister isnt doad. : Broomo sinks on to the ‘running bor. 4 of the: car, rolling his eyes up at Michael. 401 CLOSE UP BROOME 401 BROOME Whore's Grisby? Ye can tell from the leer of blanked out tecth that Broome is trying to smile. 402 CLOSE UP BROOME 402 BROOME (CONT. ) Did he give you the dough? Don't stall, I nood a doctor. I got somothingeres 4s hand goos to his breast, wo think to his wound, thon we roalizo to his pocket. BROOME (CONT.) =+ to sell. Cost you five grand... 403 CLOSE UP MICHAEL 403 MICHAEL (without exprossion) What are you talking about?404 405 406 407 408 CLOSE UP BROOME BROOME (with an angry snoor) Evorybody dummies up on moles. You'ro all wastint your timo. And I ain't got no timo. I bet you don't know why Grisby stu you on that murdor framo-up?, CLOSE UP MICHAEL Michaol still holds him in a blank stare. BROOME (CONT.) 9.8. Sure hots a lammestor -- but 1s he's boatin! it, he's takin' gimp with him. WICHAEL . What do you moan? CLOSE UP BROOME Ho gots for answor Broomo's ompty loor. CLOSE TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND BROOME MICHAEL (CONT.) Do you moan Bannister and Griaby are’ running off togethor? BROOME Bannistor's dead, hots gonna bo whon Grisby gots to Wall Streot. That's why Grisby wants it to li like you croaked hin, That way hots cloan, sco? Without nobody goin! aftor him, It's his alibi, soo?-- CLOSE UP BROOME BROOME (CONT.) All the timo hots supposed to bo murdorcé, hots roally murderin! Bannister -- Thon sharply, a fresh note of fright in his voico. BROOME (GONT.) 107 404 405 406 407 408409 410 ann 412 413 108 MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 403 MICHAEL Wall Stroot -- Michaol heg started into tho car. MEDIUM SHOT 410 BROOME If you wanta savo Bannistor, you better stop on it...But first -- first -- gimme that fivo grand. Michaol lodks back at him, BROOME (CONT. ) It's on you now, It's gotta bol! Ho's trying to sound vicious, but by now tho offoct is only pathotic. BROOME (CONT.) Gimme that fivo grand! MICHAEL What for? CLOSEUP BROOME 411 BROOME A littlo picco of paper, that's what for. A paper with your namo signod to it. A confession T lifted it offa Grisby whon ho wasn't lockin', CLOSE UP MICHAEL 412 MICHAEL Show it to mo, TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND BROOME = * 415 BROOME Show mc that fivo grand... Michael gets out tho monoy. Broomo soizos it in groody fingors sticky with bloods413 414 415 416 109 CONTINUED : 413 BROOME (CONT.) (ereoring in a kind of dying cestacy) «ssFive G's...I worked hard for this.-- CLOSE UP BROOME 414 Ho slumps to tho conercto floor -~ falls dead in a biood morass of paper monoy. MEDIUM, CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 415 Aftor a minute, Michael forces himeclf into a scarch for tho confossion. Finds it in Broomo's pocket. Puts it away in his ows. Michacl would got into the car, but ho can't. -- Fivo thousand dollars cry out to him from tho ground, CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 416 As ono in a tranec, ho stoops and gathcrs up tho prosious garbage. Shovels the moist and dripping stuff into the car. Ho follows it in himsolf with a slam of tho door. Ho yanks tho ear into speed and his face sot and rigid as a vioop~ walkerst, ho jolts out of the sconc.,.c hoar stripping gears and serodching rubbor -- as Wo «.. DISSOL¥S TO: ET - FIGHT EXT, WALL S! 417 Tho samo shot as before -- but still closer. Now tho 417 shadowed corps? is ringed with a sizosblo crowd. TKE CAMERA HASN'T MOVED, cut other clomonts in tho picturo have shifted onough to indicate a passago of timo. Ono of tho cops, & licutenant, turns and looks off-scenc. THE COP LT. Hoy! Whots that? (to attonding subordinates) Bo suro he stops. CAMERA TILTS UP THE STREET to show tho approach of Michaol in his car. Tho crowd swallows and stalls tho littlo Chovvy, and the cops dcsecnd on Michaol like an cagor swarm of flicse418 110 MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL AND THE COP CLOSEST TO HIM 416 MICHAEL (to him) Am I too late? THE COP Too lato for what, buddy? MICHAEL To save him! Is he alivo? THE COP Is who alivo? MICHAEL Bannistor -~ Harry Bannister, THE COP What was that name again? THE COP LY (moving majostically into tho seoho What's his namc? That's what I want to Imow, What's he doing hero? During the whole of this scone, CAMERA DOLLIES IN TOWARD MICHARL'S FACE...The cops got to be voiccs only. As wo train our sights on Michacl's mounting terror. --= A COP'S VOICE 0.8, Hoy, look! That's blood, aintt it? ANOTHER COP 0.8. Blood? MANY VOICE OF THE POLICE 0.8. Suro it's blood! All ovor his clothes! Come on! Out! THE FRAME CLOSES IN ON THE LIMITS OF MICHAEL'S FACE as tho cops drag him out of tho car. The voleos pross ons THE vo10ES Samo thing a11 ovor tho soat! Money! Hundred dollar bills! Blood all over him! Gomo onJ Who aro you? * MICHAEL Ho was killed wasn't ho? Or you wouldn't bo hore, Somobody slams him across tho faco.418 419 420 12 CONTINUED : 416 A HORASE VOICE 0.S, Shut up! 5 THE LT. 0.8. Search him! Soc if ho's armods MICHAEL I'm Michaol O'Hara. I just wan to know about Bannistor, that's all! I just -- THE COP 0.8, (speaking in caroful tones) O'Hore...0 -H-A- ANOTHER COP 0.8. (shouting) What's this?! show a uniformed Exactly on this cry, CAMERA YANKS BACK lod, stained arm dragging from ifichacl's coat tho o confossion. MICHAEL If somebody doosn't toll mo about Mr. Bannister, I'11 go out of my mind! ‘A COP 0.8. Liston to this! (roading) "I, Michaol O'Hara, in ordor te livo at page with my conseleneo and my Goa =~ A socond of silence grocts thia phraso. CLOSE UP BANNISTER 419 Ho smilos sweotly at Hichacl, tho brilliant oyos aglow. Off secre tho cop continuvs reading the confossion. THE COP 0.8. “.-do frooly mako tho following confossion. On tho ovoning of August ninth I shot and killed Goorge Grisby --" CLOSE UP NICHAEL 420 MICHAEL Grisby!420 421 422 423 424 425 CONTINUED : BANNISTER 0.8. That's right, Michaol. CLOSE UP BANNISTER BANNISTER (CONT) =:That's what you say thoro in your confession. CLOSEUP MICHAEL MICHAEL (the sky falling on his hoad) Grisby! Grisby was killod.... TIGHT TWO SHOT BANNISTER AND MICHAEL “ BANNISTER Ys, Michaol, with your cap in his hand. Iéts lucky Itm horow.. CLOSEUP HICHAEL CLOSEUP BANNISTER BANNISTER Youtre going to nocd a good lawyor. ne 420 421 422 425, 424 425 Tho flamos fairly cracklc in his tiny dark oyos as Bannistor digs into Michaol with a long doop look.113 FADE IN: INT, JAIL MICHAEL'S CELL- DAY 426 Bannister limps up to Michael, whos its stonily on hin cot, 426 In the b.g. the guard closes the cell door, locks it and moves away. BANNISTER I brought you the papers. Michael refuses to acknowledge this and Bannister tones some gaudy looking tabloids onto the cot beside the prisoner. BANNISTER (continued) They're giving the case a good play. You're quite a sensation, Michael wee 427 CLOSEUP MICHAEL 427 BANNISTER 0.S. (continued) ss. The papers are all saying your confession's a phoney. They want to know how you could kill Grisby out on my beach in Long Island, throw his body into the Sound, and have his body turn up dry at the foot of Wall Street? -- 428 CLOSEUP BANNISTER 42E BANNISTER (continued) «e- They think you did it, but they don't know how .,. The D.A.'s going to say you took him down there -- in the speed-boat. 429 CLOSEUP MICHAEL 459 MICHAEL I couldn't heve. 430 TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND BANNISTER 430 BANNISTER Unless you got Mrs. Bannister to lie about the time ... He couldn't have taken himself.430 451 432 433 434 435 CONTINUED: cLOsnUP TWO SKOT CLOSEUP CLOSEUP TiO SHOT MICHAEL Why not? BANNISTER BANNISTER Because there wasn't any other way for him to go. He didn't take the train, we checked. He didn't drive or we would've found the car, He didn't take the speod- boat because how could he. have got ib back? MICHAEL AND BANNISTER MICHAEL Back where? BANNISTER Back at the beach, That boat couldn't have driven itseif home. Maybe it was Grisby's ghost, Maybe he took himself down and the boat just drifted pack. Or maybe you had semeone working with you. -- BANNISTER BANNISTER Michael, you must see what an odd position this puts me in -- defending a man for killing ny own law partner. I'm going to have a job persuading the judge to let me do it. Now thon -- What really happened? Why'd you shoot him? MICHAEL ICHAEL I didn't shoot him, MICHAEL AND BANNISTER BANUISTER Then why @id you say you did...to get out of another crime -- the murder of Broome? 14 430 431 432 433 4351s 435 CONTINUED: 435 MICHAEL (quickly) No -- BAINISTER Well, if you didn't shoot Grisby, why that confession? 436 CLOSEUP MICHAEL 436 MICHAEL He made me write it. BAREISTER Who? MICHAEL Grisby. I didn't know he was going to get killed. 437 CLOSEUP BAY HISTER 437 BANSISTER Are youtrying to make me think you're crazy? Is that your ganc? 438 CLOSEUP MICHAEL ase MICHAEL It was supposed to be a fake murder. 439 CLOSECP BANNISTER 439 BARNISTER ag 440 CLOSEUP MICHARL 440 MICHAEL Grisby wanted to get avay from his wife -- she wouldn't give him a divorce. So he hired mo to pretend to kill him accidently.441 442 443 444 445 TWO SHOT CLOSEUP TWO SHOT CLOSEUP CLOSEUP ile BANNISTER AND MICHAEL 442 BANNISTER If you think I'm going into a court with a story like that, you are crazy! -- No, wetll say Grisby took the boat to Wall Street of his own accord and died there from your shot. BANNISTER 442, BANRNISTER Excusable homicide -- accident. That's going to have to be the plea, It's our only bet.. MICHAEL AND BANNISTER 443 MICHAEL But we can prove I didn't do it with that gun I had, BANNISTER Maybe you had another gun . can't prove you didn't. MICHAEL 444 MICHAEL (slowly) «++ So I'm going on trail for my life, claiming to have killed a man I didn't kill. BANNISTER 0.8. And hoping they'll believe you, put not to the extent where they!1l send you to the chair. BANNISTER 445 He's almost smiling. FADE OUT.117 FADE IN: INT. COURTROOM 446 «THE TOP OF THE JUDGE'S BENCH 446 His books and papers impressively arrayed. But the no:t prominent thing in the picture: INSERT: A RACING FORM 447 CLOSEUP_ DOP OF DESK 447 On scratch paper His Honor is calculating the odds on «ome- thing good for the Fifth. o.s, the District Attorney Galloway is oxamining a witness. D.A.'S VOICE Now, then, Officer Peters, you say you heard no shot. Yet from the | condition of tho blood, which you testified was still wet when you discovered the body, we know the death must have come on Wall Street, put, not as it would appoar, from a shot fired on Wall Strect or you would have heard it, Isn't that right? 448 MEDIUM SHOT THE COURTROOM 448 A burly policeman named Peters is testifying. BANNISTER (rising) Objection! The shot might have been fired before the Officer came within hearing distance, Wo definite con- clusion can be drawn from the fact that the Officer heard no shot. JUDGE Sustained, Strike the District Attorney's remarks from the record, GALLOWAY But, Your Honor, the fact no shot was heard, simply bears out the defendant's written confession -- But we'll return to that later, Right now we'll continue with the Officer's testimony as I'm sure he's anxious to got home to his wife and family before returning to duty.449 450 451 452 453 CLOSEUP PETERS CLOSEUP GALLOWAY CLOSEUP BaiiNISTER iis TWO SHOT PETERS AND GALLOWAY 449 Peters looks at him and starts to say something, but Galloway GALLOWAY An important point, Mr. Potors: Will you tell: the jury the condition of lir. Grisby's clothos the moment you came upon the body? PETERS They seemed to be in good condition, exeept for the blood, of sourse. GALLOWAY The clothes wore wet or dry? 450 PETERS They were dry. GALLOWAY Dry! Yet the defendant ssid in his confession that he'd thrown the body into tho Sound, 452 BANNISTER I object. GALLOWAY'S VOICE Grounds? BANNISTER ly client has withdravn the state- mont that the body was thrown into the Sound. The District attorney is taking unfair advantage of a situation which he knows has been rectified. MEDIUM SHOP COURTROOM 453 JUDGE Objection sustained, The District Attorney's last remarks will be stricken from the rocord,4535 454 455 456 457 CONTINUED: ne 453 Galloway shrugs and looks at the jury to make sure they got it anyway, MEDIUM SHOT JURY'S FACES They got the point. GLLLOWAY'S VOICE The fact remains that the clothes were dry. Now, Mr. Peters, was there anything else that struck you at the time of the discovery of the body? MEDIUM SHOT GiLLOWAY AND PETERS PETERS Yes, sir, Thoro was something, Mr. Grisby was lying face down with his arm throw out. His hat had rolled to one side but in his right hend he had a cap, Ho was holding it so tight the Homicide man had a hard time getting 1t loose. GALLOWAY What kind of cap? Peters wets his lips and looks across the courtroom to Michael, PETERS A cheuffeur's cap. CLOSE REACTION SHOT MICHAEL WEDIUM SHOT COURTROOM 454 455 456 457 Galloway crosses to the table, snatches up a cap, holds it over his head, GALLOWS Is this the cap? PETERS It looks like it. Galloway turns to the jury waving the cap.457 458 459 460 461 462 463 120 CONTINUED : 457 GALLOWAY Here is a lawyer mortally wounded, struck down in the prime of life, yet with the quickness end brilliance of thought that characterized his whole carcer at the bar, he snatched the evidence that would send his murderer to the chair} -~ MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT JURY 458 GALLOWAY So that a competent jury sitting in trial upon that murderer might avenge his death without the slightest foar of error or possible miscarriage of Justice... CLOSE SHOT GiLLOWAY 459 GALLOWAY Watch} CLOSE THREE SHOT G/LLOWAY, MICHAEL AND BANNISTER 460 Galloway has crossed to Michacl's side. He slaps the cap on his head tight, BANNISTER (rising; shouting) Objections Ho gots to his feet so quickly he wrenches his leg. CLOSEUP BANNISTER 461 Pain shoots through his face. He grabs the table to hold on, THREE SHOT GALLOWAY, MICHAEL AND BANNISTER 462 GALLOWAY Of course tho Defense Counsel objects. The cap fits) CLOSEUP B/NNISTER 463 BANNISTER The District Attorney is supposed to be conducting a direct examination. Such dramatics are entirely unnecessary, The cap would fit ton million others a3 easily.464 465 466 467 468 MEDIUM SHOT COURT BANNISTER'S VOICE I ask the District Attorney's conclusions be stricken from the record as being ill-timed, unfounded and immaterial. CLOSEUP JUDGE suDeE Sustained. I'd say the evidence is material, but I mst caution the District attorney to confine himself to the direct examination until he's ready for summation. MEDIUM SHOT GALLOWAY GALLOWAY (yanking cap off Michael) It is not only highly material, but I shall attempt to show it is positive evidence. We haven't here a mere case of accidental shooting, as the defense would like us to believe, and as attested in the defendant's so- called confession, but an out and out case of first degree murder, Michael jumps to his feet. CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL MICHAEL That's not true. I -- TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND BANNISTER The Judge pounds his gavel. Bannister puts a hand on Michael's arm to keep him dow, BANNISTER Let him finish, Our turn will come later, MICHAEL Will you put me on the stand? 121 464 465 466 467 468468 469 470 471 122 CONTINUED: 468 BANNISTER That would give him just tye chance he wants to cross examine “ou. MEDIUM SHOT GALLOWAY 469 Galloway turns to Peters. GALLOWAY That's all, Your witness, Mr. Bannister. Bannister stands up slowly, thinkin. BANNISTER No questions -- except, ye, one, He looks at Peters, who is half way out of his chair. BANNISTER of course, I don't want tc keep you from your wife and childre. any more than the District Attorne; who was so concerned about them a woment ago. But I would like to ask or question, CLOSEUP PETERS 470 BANNISTER'® VOICE Mr. Peters, have you a wifs and children? PETERS Well -- Peters looks at Galloway and starts to smile, PETERS No. MEDIUM SHOT COURTR OM 47. A laugh goes up over the courtroom, The Judge bangs his gavel. Galloway reddons, but tries to shrug it off. BANNISTER (to Peters) Thank you, you may step down, Bannister looks at Galloway, smiling, Laughter is still heard in spite of the gavel.471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 123 CONTINUED: 471 GALLOWAY our next witness is a man of un- impeachable integrity -- honest, fearless and public-spirited in the extreme. Although he may be somewhat surprised at the request, I'm sure he will not hesitate to testify. I call Harry Bannister. CLOSE SHOT BANNISTER REACTION 472 MEDIUM SHOT COURTROOM 473 “ BAILIFF « Harry Bannister... A murmur starts up in the courtroom, as the Judge's gavel hits, the bench. CLOSKUP MICHAEL 474 Michgel looks at Zlsa. CLOSEUP ELSA 475 She tries to smile encouragement. But wo can see that she's plenty worried, CLOSEUP BANNISTER 476 He is furious. BANNISTER All right. 1'11 take the stand, CLOSE SHOT THE JUDGE 477 JUDGE One minute, JI think the defendant has something to say about that... OVER SHOULDER SHOT FAVORING JUDGE 478 open (continuing; he looks at Michaol) It is within your discretion to refuse to allow Defense Counsel to place your case in jeopardy by exposing himself to the Proszcution's questioning.479 480 481 to 485 486 124 REVERSE SHOT FAVORING MICHAEL 479 MICHAEL (ho has risen) No, Your Honor, IT don't want any other lawyer, if that's what you mean, I'm not afraid of having Mr. Galloway asking him any questions, Because's there's nothing to be afraid of, I haven't done anything, FULL SHOT COURTROOM 480 excitement. QUICK SERIES OF REACTION SHOTS: 461 REACTION: ELSA to REACTION: MICHAEL 485 REACTION: SPECTATORS REACTION: JURY REACTION: REPORTERS MEDIUM SHOT REPORTERS 486 1ST REPORTER Hoy! Galloway can't make Bannister testify against his om client, can he? 2ND REPORTER This whole trial gets screwier every minutes SRD REPORTER He's going to be under oath, and I always thought he was smart, 1s REPORTER He's got something up his sleeve, SRD REPORTER Don't forget the kid was his chauffeur, 2ND REPORTER This is a new one, all right. A lawyer testifying in his own case against his own client. Over this last we hear the Bailiff swearing Bannister in,486 487 488 489 125 CONTINUED: 486 BAILIFF'S VOICE (softly 3.) Doyousweartotell thetruththewhole truthandnothingbutthetruth, sohelp youGod? CLOSE SHOT BANNISTER 487 BANNISTER I doe He sits down, his face dark, angered, his Jaw set. lic tries to cover up his twisted leg so he wouldn't look awkwird -~ fails. It seems to hang loosely disconnectod...Thori. isn't a sound in the whole courtroom. MEDIUM SHOT COURTROOM 488 GALLOWAY Your name? BANNISTER Harry Bannister, GALLOWAY fargion? : BANNISTisn Im a lawyers GALLOWAY Your address? BANNISTER 120 Wall Street. GALLOWAY That's the address of your office? BANNISTER It is. Y 489 TWO SHOT BANNISTER AND GALL GALLOWAY Now, Mr. Bannister, on the nighb of August twelfth you were in that office? BANNISTER Yes.489 490 491 492 493, 494 126 CONTINUED: 489 GALLOWAY =- waiting for your partner, George Grisby, who'd gono out to your home to got_somo papers, At what time did you realize that Mr. Grisby wasn't coming back? BANNISTER At eleven thirty-five, whon the night watchman came to tell'me that George was lying dead out in the street. I immediately atcompanied him downstairs . and identified the body, CLOSEUP GALLOWAY 490 GALLOWAY You noticed the cap in Mr. Grisby's hand? CLOSE SHOT BANNISTER 491 BANNISTER I did. CLOSEUP GALLOWAY 492, GALLOWAY Didn't you say that your chauffeur must have killed him? CLOSEUP BANNISTER 493 BANNISTER I said it looked that way. WO SHOT BANNISTER AND GALLOWAY 494 GALLOWAY Did you or did you not suggest that a search for the chauffeur be made at once? BANNISTER Naturally, if my chauffeur were guilty I wanted him apprehended. GALLOWAY Naturally. You wanted to avenge George Grisby's death, That was your duty just as it is my duty. I should imagino you also felt a certain senso of responsibility, having hired and trusted the defendant Michael O'Hara, who later showed his gratitude by killing your ow partner. Bannister just looks at him.495 496 497 498 1e7 CLOSEUP MICHAEL REACTION 495 OVER SHOULDER FAVORING BANNISTER 496 GALLOWAY How long was Michael O'Hara in yo.» employ before the shooting? BANNISTER A little less than a week, GaLLoway He wasn't very content with his jrb, was he? BANNISTER No, I don't think he wase GALLOWAY As a matter of fact, he was prepe: ing to leave the country -- Go back t: seas I wonder if you can enlighten us ©a that, Mr. Bannister? Why did he vant to leave? Bannister turns to the Judge. MEDIUM THREE SHOT JUDGE, GALLOWAY AND BANTISTER 497 CLOSEUP BANNISTER As Defense Counsel I object to th: District attorney's line of questioning. By indirection he is attempting tc establish premeditation which dos: not exist. JUDGE Objection sustained. GALLOwaY Very well, thon, ‘to return to the night of the crime. Wat did you say about the five thousand dollars discovered by the police on O'Hara's person? BANNISTER 498 BANNISTER I didn't say anything.499 500 501 502 503 TWO SHOT les GALLOWAY AND BANNISTER 499 GALLOWAY You weren't surprised? BANNISTER In,our profession, lr, Galloway, one ceases to be surprised at anything, GALLOWAY For the same reason that one ceases to put much trust in his fellow men. BANNISTER Possibly. GALLOWAY But yet you trusted Michael O'Hara -- without Imowing any more about hin than that he had been a sailor? BANNISTER I trusted him, CLOSEUP GALLOWAY 500 Galloway lashes a sharp fingor at him, GALLOWAY Then why did you hire the detective Broome? CLOSEUP BANNISTER 501 BANWISTER We live in a rather deserted section-= TWO SHOT GALLOWAY AND BANNISTER 502 GALLOWAY [Link], please. You live there how long? BANNISTER Eight years. CLOSEUP GALLOWAY 805 GALLOWAY Eight yearst You've lived in a rather deserted soction of Long Island for eight years and then suddenly you feel P called on to keep a detective on the premisest504 505 508 507 CLOSE SHOT BANNISTER BANNISTER Your Honor, I fail to see what possible connection the District Attorney's present line of question- ing can have on the case. If I hadn't trusted my chauffeur, I would have dismissed him, Certainly I would not have gone to the expense of hiring a detective to watch him, THREE SHOT JUDGE, BANNISTHR AND GALLOWAY CLOSEUP Reaction, MED. SHOT JUDGE : Can the District Attorney justify his present line of questioning? GALLOWAY I propose to show, Your Honor, that the hiring of detective Broome has a direct bearing on this case, JUDGE Very well. GALLOWAY I propose to show that the defendant was hired because of his youth and general physique and because he could not be trusted! MICHAEL COURTROOM JUDGE Proceed. GALLOWAY Isn't it true, Hr. Bannister, that you'd used the detective Broome in Several of your cases having to do with divorce actions? BANNISTER I'm not in the habit of accepting such cases, GALLOWAY No, but you've handled a number, have you not? 129 504 505 506 507507 CONTINUED: 508 509 510 S11 512 CLOSEUP CLOSEUP CLOSEUP CLOSEUP CLOSEUP 130 507 BANRISTER Yes. GALLOWAY You found it expedient to hire Broome for these cases because you knew his whole reputation and training had been in the procuring of such evidence? BANNISTER Yes. GALLOWAY 508 GALLOWAY Do you mean to tell us you would hire a man trained in divorce actions, merely to watch your house?! BANNISTER 509 BANISTER Partly, yes. GALLOWAY 510 GALLOWAY What do you mean,partly? BANNISTER S11 BANNISTER (looking at the Judge) I refuse to answer on the ground ==1 GALLOWAY 512 GALLOWAY (breaking in) Exactly as I thought, You didn't hire him to watch your house at all. You hired hin to watch your wife, You didn't trust her with ‘your new chauffeur, You didn't fire him either, You wanted to leave them together. You wanted to gather evidence,515 514 515 516 S17 518 519 CLOSEUP reaction CLOSEUP reaction CLOSEUP Two SHOT Bannister MED, THREE SHOT JUDGE, GALLO CLOSEUP MED, SHOT Bannister gury. 131 ELSA 513 MICHAEL 514 BANNISTER 516 BANNISTER I never had any thought of having Michael watched. BANNISTER AND GALLOWAY 516 GALLOWAY Waom did you want watched? doesn't answer. He just scowls angrily, 517 JUDGE (breaking in) I fail to see the connection between that and the case at hand. GALLOWAY The connection would be quite apparent if the questions were answered truthfully. JUDGE, 518 JUDGE I think then that since lir, Bannister has declined to answer on legal grounds, that the present line of questioning should be dropped. COURTROOI 519 GALLOWAY That's all then, Your witness, Mr, Bannister, climbs down off the stand and confronts the520 521 522 523 182 MED, SHOT BANNISTER AND JURY 520 BANNISTER As defense counsel, I should like to ask the witness, -- myself, that is, -- a question, Why did I say on seeing the cap in George Grisby's hand that my chauffeur must have Killed him? Because at the moment that seemed to be the logical explans tion. CAMERA DOLLIES IN to CLOSEUP = BANNISTER BANNISTER Michael O'Hara did shoot George Grisby, but after his voluntary surrender he convinced me that’ he had no premeditated ideas of murder - that it had been an accident, OVER SHOULDER SHOT OF BANNISTER FAVORING JURY S21 BANISTER (cont'd) Ho told me he decided that the most honorable course was to put trust in the police and you, the gury. CAMERA PANS the Jury. BANHISTER 0.S. (cont'd.) He thereupon surrendered out of his own innate sense of honor, That is all. MED, SHOT BANNISTER 522 Bannister goes back to his chair, Galloway smiles up at him. GALLOWAY A very pretty speech. Bannister doesn't look at him, He sits down, GALLOWAY (still smiling, on his feet) Call Mrs, Bannister. Excitement in the courtroom! CLOSEUP ELSA STARTLED 523 She rises, CAMERA TRUCKS WITH HER as she goes to the stand,523 CONTINUED: 524 525 526 527 528 — 523 BAILIFF (the routine unintelli- gible sprawl of sounds) Doyousweartotellthetruth, the wholetruthand nothingbutthe truth, sohelpyouGod? ELSA I do, CLOSE SHOT OF MICHAEL 524 watching her. CLOSE SHOT ELSA 525 on the stand. She looks at Michael, tries to smile. TIGHT TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND BANNISTER 526 Bannister takes out his medicine bottle. Pours out couple of pills into a shaking hand and swallows the ‘TWO SHOT CLOSEUP GALLOWAY'S VOICE (0.8.) Your name and occupation? ELSA'S VOICE 0.3, Elsa Bannister ... Housewife, ELSA AND GALLOWAY sev GALLOWAY Mrs. Bannister, is it true that you asked your husband to employ fichael O'Hara as your chauffuer? ELSA Mr. Grisby suggested -- GALLOWAY Answer the question, yes or no. ELSA No. GALLOWAY Is it true you were personally acquainted with the defendant Michael o'Hara before he entered your employ? ELSA 528 ELSA One evening in Central Park, I sss.529 530 531 532 533 534 535 CLOSE SHOT GALLOWAY GALLOWAY Yes or no, Mrs, Bannister, if you Please! You Imew Michael OTiara personally before he was hired by your husband? ELSA Yes. TWO SHOT GALLOWAY AND ELSA GALLOWAY Why do you think he accepted the position as chauffeur ~~ as your chauffeur? te ELSA I don't understand the question. CLOSE SHOT GALLOWAY GALLOWAY Urs, Bannister, let me simplify it. Was it because of you? CLOSE SHOT BANNISTER BANNISTER Objectiont CLOSE SHOT JUDGE JUDGE Objection overruled. MED, SHOT COURTROOM ELSA (slowly) Yes. CLOSE SHOT GALLOWAY GALLOWAY Then it was because of you that the defendant Michael O'Hara stayed on in your house as your servant? Is that true, Mrs, Bannister? 154 520 530 581 533 534 535536 543 544 546 135 CLOSE SHOT ELSA 536 She hesitates, then looks toward Bannister, ELSA Yes, it's true. CLOSE REACTION SHOT BANNISTER 537 CLOSE REACTION SHOT MICHAEL 538 CLOSH REACTION SHOT JURY 539 REACTION SHOT ee 540 REACTION SHO? REPORTERS 841. CLOSE SHOT GALLOWAY 542 GALLOWAY « Bannister, while the defendant was in your employ as a chauffeur -~ what exactly were his duties? CLOSE SHOT ELSA 543, ELSA To drive either Ure Bannister or or myself, of courses SOP GALLOWAY AND ELSA GALLOWAY Is that all? She looks at him. GALLOWAY (Cont'd) Sorry, rs. Bannister, my fault. Let me clarify the question. CLOSEUP ELSA 546 GALLOWAY'S VOICE 0.8. (Cont'd) Did Michael O'Hara in the performance of his duties make love to you?547 548 549 550 581 552 553 MEDIUM SHOT COURTROOM A wave of sound rises, and then, -- suddenly there isn't a whisper. Bannister swings to his feet. CLOSEUP BANWISTER PANNISTER (shouting) GLOSEUP GALLOWAY GALLOWAY I should think the defense counsel would object? REDIU SHOT COURTROOM Iaughter is heard ani the Judge's gavel?i GALLOWAY (Cont'd) The witness will please answere Elsa looks at the Judge appealingly+ JUDGE, Is the question pertinent? MEDIU! THREE SHOT ELSA, GALLOWAY, JUDGE. Your Honor, pertinent! I want to know exactly why Bannister is protecting this mane JUDGE How do you mean ~ protecting him? GALLOWAY Ry saying he was back at her husband's house by eleven o on the night of the murder. ock CLOSE SHOT ELSA She looks wildly at Bannister - sees no hope there evs CLOSE SHOT BANISTER He says nothing» 136 547 548 540 550 553554 555 556 557 558 559 560 THREE SHOT GALLOWAY, JUDGE, ELSA JUDGE The witness may answers GALLOWAY Let me put the question this way, Mrs» Bannister - The defendant while working es wt chauffeur has on more than one oecasion kissed yout CLOSEUP ELSA ELSA (almost eagerly) Yes! CLOSE SHOT BANNISTER PION He segs in his chaire CLOSE SHOT MICHEL REACTION REACTION SHOT COURTROOM TWO SHOT ELSA ..ND GALLOY GALLOWAY And that's why Michael didn't leave as he at first intended, isn't it? ELSA I don't knows GALLOWAY Well, I would have stayed! FULL SHOT COURTROOM 137 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 A laugh goes up from the gallery, but Calloway isn't laughe ing himself. He plunges one CAMBRA DOLLIES IN to MEDIUM SHOT GALLO GALLOWAY (Cont'a) That's why 3 about the your lover uu Lied to the police rime he got back to the house? You wanted to cover up for561 562 563 564 565 566 867 568 CLOSSUP ELSA ELSA (scarcely breathing) He was beck before elevene I know =~ I looked at the clock. THO SHOT GALLOWAY .ND ELSA GALLOWAY Remember you're under oath! ELSA He was back before eleven ess CLOSEUP ELSA ELSA (Cont'a) se You don't like the truth because it means he couldn't have been down at Wall Street the night Grisvy was murdered -- ind he wasn't! TIGHT TWO SHOP GALLOWAY AND ELSA GALLOY (coming close to her) Mrs. Bannister, do you know the laws in this state against perjury? CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL He grips his chair with both hands. CLOSEUP ELSA ELSA (flaring) Yes! CLOSEUP GALLOWAY GALLOw.y But you admit he kissed you == several time 282 =~ MEDIUM SHOT COURTROOM GALLOWAY (Cont ta) Thank you, Mrs. Bannister, Your witness, Nre Bamistere 562 564, 565 566 567 568568 569 570 FADE INTs S71 S72 CONTINUED: Bannister rises painfully and limps over to the witness stand. CLOSEUP BANNISTER He starts to speak to Eisa, then changes his mind. He looks at her for a vhile. Then: RANNISTER No questions. ON JUDGE'S GAVEL IT COMES DOWN ON THE LENS, BLACKING OUT THE SCREEN oe FADE OUT. IN: JATL = THB VISITOR'S GALLERY - DAY. Elsa and Michael are looking at each other through the heavy wire screens She's veiled. ELSA I shouldn't come here. It would be awful for you if I'm recognized. MICHAEL Your husband doesn't think I ve much of a chance, does he? EBA Whatever else ho is, Harry's e worder= ful lawyer. You ought to trust hin, Michaele He says you told hiza wild story =-- MICHAEL About Grisby paying me five thousand dollars to make believe I'd killed him? Well, he did. OVER SHOULTER OF [Link] FAVORING sbsi ELSA But he said you @id it to help Grisby get away from his wife. 139 568 569 870 871572 573 874 575 576 577 CONTINUED: MICHAEL That's what Grisby told me. ELSA But he wasn't married REVERSE ANGLE FAVORING ICHAEL MICHAEL Whet? = But Grisby told me -~ BISA George had no wifes MICEAEL Elsa, d'ya know the truth of it? Grisby wanted to make it look like she was'dead, because he wanted to Kill somedoiy else. He knew they'd never suspect him if I cculd prove I'd killed him -= accidentally, of course, that ho was already murdered when ho himself was actually committing a murders CLOSEUP EISA BISA George Grisby? CLOSEUP MICHAEL MICHAEL That's right, Grisby» CLOSEUP ELSA ELSA Michael, what aro you trying to tell me? ICHAEL ‘The truth. ELS\ Did you kill Broome, Michael? CLOSEUP MICHAEL He stares at here 140 872 873 574 575 576 577577 CONTINUED: ELSA 0.8. (Cont'd) Please don't be afraid to tell mae I don't care, I just want to knows 578 CLOSEUP MICHAEL MICHAEL (slowly) I never should have let you lie about the time I got to the garage. You shouldn't have lied about being in the house» TI shouldn't have let yous Now you think everything's a lie. ELSA Michael, no matter what's I love you. hapre ned ~ MICHIEL Grisby killed Broome. He was going to kill your husbande 579 CLOSEUP BISA EISA Harry! That's fiossible! What could he possibly gain from it? 580 CLOSEUP MICHiEL MICKAEL There's something called partnership insurances.+«Never mind, if you don't believe it, the jury never wills 5681 TWO SHOT MICHAEL axD =LSA ELSA But_where was Ge Georne goinn to go? Where could he HICHEL He said he was going to the South Seas. M41 577 578 580 ~ 881582 583 584 585 CLOSEUP TWO SHOT CLOsEUP CLOSEUP She looks at him not believing @ word he says. uIsA ELSA The South Seas} Way the whole thing's fantastic, Michael, you haven't told this to anyone > have you? MICHAEL AND ELSA EBA (Cont'd) You mustn't. It's fhe worst possitle thing you could say. MICHAEL MICHEL But it's my only chance. Sure and all I was supposed to dowas to fire a shot into the send. That's all I did. And now they're trying to send me to the chair for it. For a shot in the sani! ELSA DISSOLVE 142 582 584143 COURTROOM ~ DAY Int. 586 587 588 590 591 592 593 MEDIUM SHOT THE JURY BOX 586 It is ompty. LONG SHOT THE COURTROOM 587 A tonso silonco waits ovor tho room. TO SHOT MICHAEL AND BANNISTER 588 Bannistor flanks thy dofondant on ono sido and a Guard is on tho other, Bannistor's pill bottle is on the table wiia a glass of water. MICHAEL How long do thoy take usually? BARRISTER You can't ever toll about’ a jury. MEDIUM SHOT SPECTATORS 589 Sowing, rosding papers and oating sandwichos....Somo h: ids aro turned toward the jury rc CLOSE sO? MICHAEL 590 CLOSEUP BANNISTER 5oL His fingers drum on tho table... CLOSE SHOT ELSA 592 Shots orying. MEDIUM SHOT BANNISTER AND MICHAEL 593 BANNISTI By tho way, what did Elsa havo “to say for horsolf?ecs. Wichaol looks at him quickly. BANNISTER (cont. ) ino I wouldn't find 0 to sco your Or did you im out that sho MICHAEL She askod mo to trust you.594 595 596 THE COURTROOM 604 laa CLOSEUP BANNISTER 594 BANNISTER (Looking at him closcly) But you don't. Why not? 8 CLOSSUP . MICHAEL 5 MICHAEL you wanted u2 to Bocauge I Ime bo convictud. TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND BANNISTER 596 BAMIISTER (very suayo, almost tondorly) Michacl, you forgot Do you imagino that I record 30d? This caso of its kind I over lo at YY ropr cation. A sorios of shots, Tho idlo gesture: of tho gallory grow more subdued, The prossure of waitins hangs hoavy ovor tho POM. ve MEDIUM SHOT THE DOOR TO TSE JURY ROC: 603 Tho Jury files in. CAMERA TOLLG!S TH JURY as thoy tako thoir placos in the bex. (Tho above is intor-eut with tho following :) THO SHOT MICHAEL AND BANNISTER 604 ‘STER (CONT) However -+ now thet it's too lato for you to do anything about it, 111 bo frank with you. This is onc caso I've njoyod losing. BAY MICHAEL Suro, end that's why you dofonded mo, isn't it? You wantua’to bo sure I'd lose. BANNISTER You could bo right, but thorots nothing you could do about it now. Youtro going to burnesese605 606 607 608 609 610 CLOSEUP BANNISTER BANNISTER (CONT) I'm going to coms to see you in the death-house, Michael, every day. Our little visits will be fun--- CLOSEUP MICHAEL . BAKNISTER (CONT) 0.8. I'm going to ask for a stay of execution. And I really hope it will be granted. I want you to live as long as possible -- before you die =~ You know why I want that, don't you, Michael? TIGHT TYO SHOT MICHAEL AND BAINISTER : HICHAEL Because youtre the T_ know killer --- MEDIUM SHOT THE COURTROOM The clerk steps forward. THE CLERK (to the Jury) Have you agreed upon a verdict? CLOSE S*oT THE JURY The Foreman rises, very puffed up with his own importance. THE FOREMAN We have. VERY TIGHT TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND BANNISTER Micheel is staring into the lawyer's oyes. ICHAEL (with very quiet, but terrible intensity) You killed Grisby! THE CLERK 0.8. The prisoner will rise! Michael stands up. 145, 605 606 607 608, 609 61061 az 61s 614 615 616 617 eis 619 620 621 146 CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 611 CLERK 0.8. The jury will lock upon the prisoner. The prisoner will look upon the jury. CLOSE SHOT JURY . 612 CLERK How say you, guilty or not guilty? ‘The foreman clears his throat again. GLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 613 He stands tense as the foreman pronounces him: FOREMAN 0.8. Guilty.... CLOSE SHOT REACTION: BANNISTER 614 CLOSE SHOT REACTION: GALLOWAY (D.A.) CLOSE SHOT REACTION: ELSA 616 CLOSE SHOT REACTION: GOLDIEZ AWD JAYR (Michael's old shipmates) MEDIUM SHOT REACTION: SPECTATORS AN’) REPORTERS IN COURT 616 CLOSE SHOT ELSA 619 Her eyos, swimaing with tears, are signalling to Michael. CLOSE SPOT MICHAEL 620 He follows her look to the bottle on the table before him. Then, as her meening sinks into his brain, he looks back at her, quite a now expression in his ey: CLOSE UP ELSA 621 Almost imperceptibly sho rods.622 623 624 to 628 629 630 631 652 633 147 CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 622 He looks back at tho bottle. Then with a quick movement he seizos it, dumps out the pills. Before he can be stopped he swallows most of them. MEDIUM SHOT COURTROOM 623, TFEN: A SERIES OF svoTs 624 to All hell breaks loose. 628 SPLOTATORS (ad 1ib) Hets taken poisons Tried to beat the death rap. That proves he's guilty. He's comitted suicide. etc. Reporters make a mad ‘dash for their phones. Turmoil. The judge bangs on the bench for order. Guards rush towards Iichael, CLOSE sho? ELSA 629 She rises. MEDIUM SHOT HICHSEL AND BANNISTER 650 Michael sits dazed in his chair, Bannister and guards stand over hin, MEDIUM SHOT COURTROOM 651 Spectators strain to sec what's happoning. gUDGE Clear the court! Gcurt is in recess! Take the prisoner to my chambers, The guards lift Michael out of the chair, into the judge's chambers. NEDIUH SHOT ELSA 632 Sho moves weakly out the door, MEDIU SHOT COURTROOM 633 Confusion,148 634 INT. PRESS ROOM 634 to A quick series of reaction shots as reporters call their to 638 papers announcing that Michael on hearing the death 638 verdict committod suicide. INT. JUDGE'S CHAYBERS 639 Hichaol lies on the couch in the judgots chambors. A 639 guaré is beside him. Another guard onters. SECOND GUARD Just spoke to the doctor. He says keop him on his foot - koop him moving till he gots here. Onco tho guy falls asleep he's through. Tho second guard exits. Tho first guard is left with Mlchacl, He studies him for a moment, thon helps him to his foot. FIRST GUARD C'mon ~- Dee says you'vo got to koop movinge 640 CLOSE SuOT MICHAEL 640 Dazed, ho stands on his foot and walks up and down in the small anteroom. As he moves his head seems to clear. 641 TO SHOT GUARD AND MICHAEL 641 Without warning Michacl suddenly swings around and hits tho guard, who crumples and falls wiconscious to the floor. CAMERA PANS MICHAEL, to a side door of the judge's chambers, He exits. INT. CORRIDOR IN THE COURT oF GANER 642 TRUCKING SHOT 642 Quickly Wichael closes the door behind him and starts down the corridor. The front entrance to court is hoavily guarded so thero's no possible way for him to got out. ci DOR FRESH ANGLE 645 Goldic and Jako. sooing Michaol, sot up a diversion for tho bonofit of the cops at tho other ond of the hall. GOLDIE Thore ho goes. * TAKE This way! Hurry up! You can still catch him,644 645 646 647 648 649 650 149 MEDIUM SHOT MICHAEL IN THE CORRIDOR 644 He notices across the way anothor courtroom where another trial is in progross -- He steps outsido the door, CLOSE SHOT JURY ROOM 645 Nichacl stands undecided, sces a guard, his back turned, opening a door marked "Jury Room, MEDIUN SHOT MICH&EL AND MEMBERS OF THE JUPY OF THE GRAND 646 LARCENY TRIAL, Twolvo mon and women jurors file out of the room and Michaol finds himsolf in their midst. Tho guard addrossos then. GUARD (mochanically) Stay togethor now while I escort you to dinner. Plcaso do not taik about the caso outside tho jury 1aome Tho judge hopos you arrive at a vordict as soon as possiblo. MTCHAEL 647 TRUCKING SHOT MEN AND WOMEN OF THE JURY A} ae follows next The guard loads thom down tho corridor. W. toa little old lady. THE OLD LADY (whispora to iichaol) Ho's too nico looking to have stoton all that jowolry. It's such a rospons- Ability knowing what to do,don't you think? Wichaol morcly nods. CLOSE s"O?r GUARD 48 The guard turns around and looks towards Michaol, GUARD Hoy, you! CLOSE SHOT MiCHAEL 640 Eo stops abruptly, stands “rozon, as tho guard walks towards hin. AND Mid 650 chacl and solemly studios hia for a TWO SHOT GUAT The guard roaches K socond,150 650 CONTINUED : 650 GUARD You were told not to talk about tho case. Wow, don't let it happon agin, All right, now keep moving! Vichacl manages a smile of apclogy as the guard continues to lead thom down tho corridor and out the front entrance. SIDS EXT. COURT OF GENERAL 651 Led by tho guard, the jury start down the steps on their 651 way to dinner. liichael slips away during tho confusion, Elsa is on tho other side of the street. She sees Michacl, 652 = TRUCKING ‘SHOT MICHAEL 652 Hichaol is walking -~ tuming back to s00 if he's followed, Ho is -- by Hlsa- Sho hurrios trying to catoh up with him, Dazod by tho drug, scereoly mowing vhat hets doing, Michacl moves fastor trying to oludo hor. [EDIUH SHOT sUBYAY 653, A crowd of pyoplo aro coming out. Michael slips arong thom and walks down to the trains. 653 INT, SUBWAY PLATFORN 654 Michael slips through the turnstile and enters the plat- 654 form, The train is just leaving the station, The crowds clbew into the train, pushing fellow passengers and Nichaol in with then, iAY_ PLAPPORE 655 Elsa comes out of tho crowd, seus Hichaol, runs after 655 him.....The subway doors closc in her face and the train pulls away. AY TRAN 656 The jampacked train leavos the stabion gathering spood for 656 tho long run to 125th St. Passongors sottlo down into thoir own small private worlds. 657 = CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 657 Ho tightons his clutch on an overhead strap -- sways back and forth -- swoats ss.isl Ind. CAR 658 MEDIUM SHOT 658, 659 660 to 665 Passengers building up their worlds behind nowspapers, maga= zines, behind closed cyes, or staring et tho various cclorod show cards that border the car. CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 659 Fighting dosporatoly to keep from falling asleop, he tyes to focus on the ads ~~ CLOSE SHOT ADS IN THE CAP SERIES OF sxoTS 660 Through Michacl's oyos, tho pestors socr. to chango. f to girl in a bathing suit suddenly bocomes Zlsa, the man 665 noxt to hor advertising the razor becomes Bannister, ‘he man in a apeodboat becomes Grisby. Each ad becomes sc in- cident in Michael's ming, leading up to the murder. A vubway sign streaks over the scene with a roar, then stops, v breting quecrly, ‘CONDUCTOR'S VOICE 0.8, 205th Street. Youtll have to get out buddy, This is the end of the linc. Bannister's face bolts into tho aperture. (Distortion . ons) BANETST! (ochoing the Conductor's words) The ond of tho linc....This is the end of the linc, Michaol, His face is replaced by tho floor of the garago....The pilo of monoy swirls in a crazy windsee. ELSA'S VOICE 0.8.--(normal quality) Oh, Michael, I found youl I took tho next train just on the chance you'd ride this far -- GRISBY'S VOI! (repeating the words) eeeeeTho ond of tho Lincesers BROOHE'S YOICE . (filtor and ocho --vory Tho end of the Line. E (echo chamber) ‘ar away) Over the abovo we also hear the perfectly Literal sound of a nickel being droppod into a pay telophono and a numbor being dialed, £6 the samo momont tho whirl: money changes to a whirling phono dialssess ELSA'S VOICE Hollo -- Hollo, this is Krs. Bannister -. Mrs. Harry Bannister --- Hor voice FADES as the SCREEN goos black. FADE OUT:152 FADE IN: IND. ORAZY HOUSE - NIGHT 666, Michael wakes up to find himself alon» in one of the 686 queorest rooms evor built by man... The floor is raked at an angle of the shoorcst vortigo, tae walls end coiling arc puro "Cabinet of Dr, Caligari"... Ho risos from tho little pallet that's boon fixod for him, blinks his cyos, shakos his head and wonders -- as wo «o ~~ where in hell ho is, For a fact, Holl itself could:.'t bo a stranger place to lock at. Ho staggors over to a co:k-eyod door, and stumbles out. ‘ INT. HALIWAY CRAZY HOUSE - NIGHT 667 A corridor like the corrifors in dreams; a sloped tunnel 667 disbolically gimmiked to bump and trin the visitor without morey, Down this terrifying alley Michael makos his painful, bowlldered way, A spring under his foot snaps a pancl opon with a suddon squeak as shocking as a scroam in the night -~ a staring corpse falls out at him. | Tho head of the corpso falls off the shoulders and bobbles hideously on a grotesque coil of wire.... A second look shows Michael the dust on the wax fignre, and, as he approaches it, his weight scts off a further mechanism: the dummy bolts pack into the wall with an ochoing bonk of timber, there is a rattle of countorweights and the devfoning complaint of tortured, rusty metal as the floor itself tilts slowly down and Gown and down. Michael loses his footing and plummets into the blacimess toward the chomping jaws of a dragon. The apparatus is very nicoly calculated and the gore-stainod teeth grind and crash shut a tight second after Micheel has rocketed through the Holl-mouth into the woodon gullet of the mad Leviathan. INT. ANOTHER ROOM IN THE CRAZY HOUSE 668 EXT, CRAZY HOUSE - NIGHT 669 Distortion mirrors, @ whole holl of thom... A monstrous 666 portrait gallory out of bedlam. Michecl soos himsolf (in- sanely multipliod) as a scurrying humuneuli, e spider, all logs and cyes -- sees himself dwarfish, distended... thin as doath and fat as sin. He chooses one of sevoral doors and finds the open air. 669 We realize now, if Michael doesn't that hots found his way somehow into the bleak acreage of a deserted amusement park.669 679 671 672 153 CONTINUED: 669 Rides and concessions are boarded up for tho winter, Lacking the sounds and music and people, with the color and smell of carnival suspended until spring, a dreary gloom hangs over "Tho Palisados," -- a spooky calm worse than a morgue!s, It's colder than the gravo out hére, lonejier than the omptigst valley on tho moon ... a voice broaks the stillness: THE VOICE (0.56) Michacl| Michaels Ho turns and soes: MEDIUM SHOT ELSA 670 It was sho who called, MEDIUM SHOT BASE OF ROLLER COASTER 671 It's Elsa -- sho calls out in a sharp whisper: ELSA Don't stand out there, Michsel, You'll be seen, Go back, MEDIUM SHOT MICHAEL 672 Micheél dazed, holds his place in the center of the dosortod mid-way. MICHAEL Go back == ? ELSA Tore. Where you came fror. Michael looks behind him -- sees the mammoth, grinning masks, -~ the sign: -- "THE CRAZY HOUSE" -- ELSA (continuing) Through the rear -- this wey, 11] show you, Hurry. He moves over to her, slowly. ELSA (continuing) Bessie says ‘a car's just cone into tho park. BESSIE'S VOICE 0.8. It may bo the police,CONTINUED: Bessio steps into the scono behind Elsa. BESSIE One of moh boys works hyah as a night watchnan, It's a fine place to hide since it's closed up. So when Miz Bannister phonod moe, we come and got in his car and brung ph out while yuh was sloepin'. CAMERA DOLLIES with Bossie as during the above « Michaol and Elsa under tho Roller Coaster and ar the Crazy House. BESSIE (CONT.) Botter get inside now till we seo who's comin'. Bessie gocs, Elsa and Michael pass a brick bull wo road a sign bege "BUSINESS OFFICE PALISADES AMUSEMENT-PARK" They go through the back entrance into the Crazy INT, CRAZY HOUSE 673 674 MAZE OF MIRRORS (No distortion mirrors here, this is tae rogule: maze, gaffed so tho suckor's bound to loso his + cones in to find a hundred Elsas waiting for hin himself, reflected as many times... moving up tr he speaks it is with an o@d, new note of coldnes: MICHAEL Why are you here? ELSA Bessie brought mo. She tolé mo where they'd hidden you, Oh, Michsel, -- I want to be with you no m ctor where you are, Put your arms arcand mo, please Michael, -- I want your love, REVERSE ANGLE The door. Bessic rushos ins... BESSIE It's him, It's Mr. Bannister! Hido Mizz Elsal -- both of youl... Hide where ho can't find you, or he'll kill ya sure! (to Elsa breathlessly) He mist!a followed mo when I brought Re aa. 154 672 2 leads ‘and behind ing and” House. 673 carnival y). Michael He soos ner, Whon 674155 EXT. AMUSEMENT PARK 675 FULL DOWN SHOT ANGLING THROUGH ROLLER COASTER 675 A shadow, long, black and misshapen announcos the arrival of Bannister. Ho limps into scene CAMERA PANNING him tovard Crazy Housce 676 MED, CLOSE SHOT THE DOORWAY 676 Michael appears ‘and stands waiting for Bannister. MICHAEL it's me you're lookin! for. I thine 677 —- REVERSE ANGLE BANNISTER (AMUSEMENT PARK B.G.) err The little lawyer stops, leans on his cane, gasping [Link]- fully from tho exertion of his wallc. 5 BANFISTER No, Ihf not looking for you. 678 TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND BANNISTER 678, BANSISTER (CONT, ) But since I'm here: -- (he grins iro:deally at the Crazy House behind’ Michael) ---May I come in? Kichaol doosntt spoak or move. BANNISTER (CONTD. ) You're pot vory hospitable,-- or can it bo youtre afraid? ... There's no need tobe. I have no fircarms, I'm alone, and I'm a harmless crippleses Michael steps aside, -- Bannister entors. INT. CRAZY HOUSE - PALISADES AKUSERENT PARK 679 TO SHOT MICHAEL /ND BANNISTER 679 BANNISTER Now -- Where's my wifo?... I'm not going to turn you in, Michaels 680 CLOS: MICHAEL REACTION 680 681 681 CLOSEUP BANNISTER BANKISTER (CONTD) I told you, Michacl, I want to keep you alive - Just as long as possible. fiinter's coming - It's going to be nico and cold out hero, I'il stop by in tho evenings afker work and wateh you shiver.682 683, a4 156 CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 682 MICHAEL (finally: answoring) You framed mo, why aron't you satisfied with that? THO SHOT 683 BANNISTER I'm novor satisfied -- 1’m what thoy call the jealous husband. (His voice 1s raised abovo its normal Level; Bannistor knows Elsa's hiding sonovhero near, and what ho says now is for her to hear:) If my wifo couldn't love me, I wanted to be sure she wasn't capable of lovo. That isn't much, but I'm nob very well, you knov, and I’ simply had to have thet. You took’ it away from mo. Not hor lovo ~ there wasn't any - just my poor 1ittlo hopo that Elsa could nover truly love anything -- oxcept monoye I think sho loves you, Black Irish. I think sho really does... Bat I know Elsa ~ shetli always be trus to my monoy, Some day, of course, she'll kill me for it, I know she will--- Ana yot T can't protoot mysolf, Thore are women who do that to men. Look what sho did to Grisby, -- he didn't have a chances MICHAEL (a donb bursting in his brain) Is that another way you'ro tryin! to torture me -~- Tellin! me that? BANNISTER Torture? Torture you? How do you think I felt whon I loarned she'd persuaded George to murder no ity God, how do you think he folt?... What was it like for George when he found her there in Vall Street waiting for hin with a gun?? CLOSE SHOP ELSA 684 ELSA What's it like for you, Horry? She's standing in the door, A gun in her hand, pointed at Bennister, He looks at hor -~684 685 686, 687 688 689 690 691 187 CONTINUED: 684 BANNISTER Hello, lovor. {a long silonce) You're going to kill mo, too? We can sce him finding the answor, BANNISTER (cont!é: Becauso I Imow about you - Lover’ I won't tell anybody - and Michsol doosn't count. CLOSE SHOT ELSA 685 She shoots. MED, SHOT BANNISTER 686 AND, IN THE HALL OF MIRRORS MANY OF HIS REFLECTIONS Mirrors shatter and crash, destroying many imagos,. Tho rest of the Sannisters - (we can't tell which is the real ono) stand facing Elsa, - calmly facing he, with a curious relaxed kind of dauntlossnoss. CLOSE SHOT ELSA a7 Madness in her oyes, Unable to docide whee Bannister is, she looks from image to imags, then shoots again, twice, and very quickly. THE MAZE OF MIRRORS ” 688 Kore of Bannister's images smash to plecoe -- but he still stands. BANNISTER Thoro's only one bullot left. CLOSE SHOT ELSA 689 BANNISTER'S YOICE Why don't you save it, lover? CLOSE SHOT ELSA 690 Sho fires, Thore 1s no answoring crash of glass, We hear the sound of a cane falling to the floor, thon a body-~ MED, SHOT BANNISTER 691 He lios dead.692 693 694 695 696 158 CLOSE SHOT ELSA 692 She stares for a long silence, seeing a great deal of Hamister or secing nothing of him--it's impossible to say which. Then she looks quickly to Michael. CLOSE SHOT MICHAEL 693 His face is a mask, TWO SHOP MICHAEL AND ELSA 694 ELSA I couldn't help it. Michael grabs her-wtears the gun out of her fingers,--and throws her away from him... She stumbles and fails,--lies on the floor weeping. ELSA (cont'd) Icouldn't help it, Michael... Michael says nothing, shows nothing. ELSA (cont'd) (with great pathos) I couldn't let him say those things in front of you. ‘MICHAEL (very quietly) There wouldn't be much point in killing him if he was lying. CLOsaUP ELSA 695 A wretched figure huddled against the tin wall. ELSA Oh, Michael!--Michael! 696 MED. SHOT Michael turns away to the dead Bamister. Her looks follows his. ELSA 0.S. (shouting) You've got the gunt697 698 699 700 701 702 703 MED. CLOSE SHOT ELSA ELSA (cont'd) Shoot me if you think it's true, what he told youl--T don't want to livel CLOSEUP MICHAEL Michael picks up the gun. Looks at it thoughtfully. OVER SHOULDER MICHAEL - FAVORING ELSA MICHAEL Do you. really want to die? She turns the tearful face of martyrdom toward the m: of the gun. REVERSE ANGLE FAVORING MICHAEL MICHAEL (cont'd) There is another bullet, you know -- CLOSEUP ELSA Elsa jumps to her feet; with a yell 1 ELSA Nol He said -- CLOSEUP MICHAEL MICHAEL (gently) He waa lyin! about that. If you missed the fourth shot, he might have saved himself, He gambled on your losing count. Sure, it was one of his tricks. He did it with mirrors. TWO SHOT MICHAEL AND ELSA ea fishwifet: 159 697 698 699 700 TOL 702 7103 Elsa wears quite a different face again, She's thinking furiously about that bullet... MICHAEL (cont'd) (reveating the question, the words sharp as razors) Are you sure you want to die? Now she's very frightened...