We are CLOSE on a Uniformed POLICEMAN, Ser, REINEKE,
REINEKE:
Shot in the face,
The Policeman and Harry stent in-as sloping vacent lot at
the corner. of Sierra and Texas Streets, There. is an am~
bulance, a coupie of black and white units and Harry's car.
In the >,g. we see an enormous oil storage tank, In the
knee-high grass and the rubbish nearby is> a CHILD'S BODY -
partially scavierld by a bi anket,
: _ REINEKE:
Blew part of it away..
oo HARRY: |
Who is het? Does anyone know who he is?
a MRS. RUSSELL'S VOICE:
I'm his mother, ~
Harry stops and turns: toward ‘the Voices.
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ANOTHER ANGLE - INCLUDING HARRY - mare ANT.
As the Policeman starts toward the: body followed by Harry;
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. a YOUNG BLACK WOMAN, the dead child's Mother, stands _
nearby. She is quiet and dignified and strangely
hollowed out by grief,
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| | | MRS. RUSSEL:
a His name was Charlie Russel ‘and
) . _ he was ten- “years-old,
y A FRIEND comes up and takes Mrs, Russel away. Harry
) , looks afterherfor a moment. © ars
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\. Se ol os mbe Policeman stands’ by the child's body. ‘Harry now
yoo LS turns away from Mrs. Russel and crosses uD to.where
the body is. The Policeman.bends down and removes
the blanket. Harry looks down. A beat, then Chico
-_ i: — crosses over, notebook in‘ band, - -
. : Pos : CHICO: ~~
ey oe fers “Inspector ,. this officer . says coer
y{ ™“ me, _" Chico breaks ones looking dowa at the dead voy,
then: : —
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Oh, jesus Christ. .
| HARRY:
You: better sit down before you.
fall. down.
As Chico mores off, then suddenly stops, bends over
and vomits in the bigh: grass.
I CO os FP - 3, ‘POLICEMAN'S VOICE:
hoe oe [= (over walkie- talkie)
-_ = -Reineke? Sergeant Reineke?
Harry and the others react to ithe SOUND of. one
voice, —
150, ANOTHER ANGIE - APARTYENT: ON EInDtt—~S~S 150.
LEO) There are: some two or three- story apartments on the
AL a - Will overlooking the lot,. On the roof of the nearest,
-is a FOLLCEMAY with «& welkiontaliies Harry .
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-as Chico comes up to Harry, his eyes still watering. an oy
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crosses over toward one of the black and. white units, The
“Policeman gives. Harey a walkie-talkie. Harry calls up.
BARRE:
What you got?
As we ZOOM IN on the walkie-talkie Policeman. on the’ roof-
top, he raises a shiny brass object on a pencil. X.,
| “WALKIE-TALKIE POLICEMAN: a
Thirty-ought six shell casing. . He _ xX -
was up here all right... ~. . 7 Sy
ANOTHER ANGLE me. - - s- AB
| HARRY: ”
Welcome to Homicide.
Hey moves off, followed by Chico.’ We HOLD on the large
‘oL1 mtereee tank in the peckerows then:
QUE TO: .
SINT, CHIEF'S OFFICE - DAY i xX 1152.
We are CLOSE ON a rifle carrying case, Someone opens it,
revealing a high-powered hunting rifle with a telescopic
-Sight, As @ HAND reaches in and carefully removes the.
rifle and its case, we PULL BACK TO reveal Harry, He ©
4s in the Chief's office, Also present are the Chief,
Lt. Bressler, and Chico, The latter two not included,
as. Harey ' turns to the Chief with» the gun.
ae HARRY: -
_— Four fitty-eignt Winchester.
Harry hands the gun to the Chief, who, examines it.
| _ CHIEF:
This thing'1l stcp an elepnant.
: (a glance at.
Harry)
Apparently you like a little edge.
HARRY:
- All I can get.
flags. on them. .Chico is sticking the flags into the
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ANOTHER ANGLE - INCLUDING BRESSLER AND CHICC. 153. |
The Lieutenant and the young Detective are at a
wall map of San Francisco. Bressler has a type- -
written paper and Chico has a plastic box of little
stick-pins with little numbered blue swallow-tailed
map as Bressler tells him where,’ — - z
| CHIEF: © rer
-» He's no elephant, Harry, Hets are,
no animal of any kind. Remember - . a> rr
- .(to Bressler) |. an x.
Are you. ready to show me. what x. ’
“you've wor ked- outs Lieutenant?
o _ BRESSLER:-
‘Yes, sir.
ANOTHER ANGIE
As the Chief crosses over to Bressler at the map
which we SEE is well dotted with the little blue. a
flags excePy around the area of Washington. Square. _
" BRESSIER:
These blue flags stand for units.
we'll have on duty by dark tonighte
— - CHIEF:
Double. shifts and overtime? -
. HARRY:
(nods) — a
dust at night. We figure the =. |
helicovters will keep nim or rf the: -
roofs in the daytime, os
CHIEF:
I see.
BRESSLER:
We're going for high visibility.
I've. given our units orders to 2
-make themselves very noticeable “~
(indicates) a
| Except here. In: the North Beach
' @rea, We're leaving tnat open for
hime
| | “CHIEF: | tees?
“(to Harry): = " oo ,
You found a gocd place for. your -
- stake out?
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"HARRY:
Yes Sir. ‘Looks right down on the:
. roof where the chopper patrol
spotted him yesterday.
ANOTHER ANGLE - FEATURING CHICO = i si(atsti‘“s:=s:*ts*s*«
as he shakes his head,
‘BRESSIER:
(dryly)
Some thing bothering you, Gonsales?,
a . CHICO:
, No. No. Nothing.
| . CHIEF: _ a
oS Speak up, 7HS Poe LOR « You're. among
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CHICO:
_ It just : seems like. such a Long shot
«= that he'd come back to the very’.
Same moors
CHIEF: | oe
Not ete) “much. as you'd think. One <- .
he likes rooftops. That we know, — qd.
. CHICO: | .
- A lot cf BOSE Tere in. ‘San Francisco,
| CHIEF:
Most of which are locked. But, this .
will be open for him. | fe 8 we
(to Bressler)
Did you follow up on that?
Yes, Sir, I talked toa ‘the man who
runs the building. No problems
a | CHIEF:
_ In the second ‘place, the sociopathic.
“personality -- and we're dealing with
a classic sociopath, there's no doubt
about that -~ runs toward patterns.
They'll rob the very same store three.
- «= four times in a row, It makes them
feel audacious, Like The Scarlet
“Pimpernel. “Scorpio strikes again. Bey
like that ‘feeling.
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; "HARRY: |
There! 8 one more reason. that he-
_ might want to use that same roof...
He's gota clear fileid of fire to
Saint Peter and Paulis.
BRESSLER:
And, they're baving: a Novena to-
night. .
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_ BRESSLER:
His note. “He threatened to kill.
a Catholic priest. or a Negro. The
Russel boy was black, oo
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“So he might just feel. he owes him- -
self a Padre. — : So a
‘As etal Chie looks sherply § at Harry, we a
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