15 Minutes Page #4

LEON:

So, it looks to me - from the sixty-nine

position - that they were doin' each

other but were so whacked out of their

heads they set the pipe on the mattress,

lit it up, and they got fried. What do

you think, Eddie?

Jordy enters - with Korfin who's carrying a paint can.

EDDIE:

I don't know. We got the experts here.

Show them what you found - I hope you

don't mind, we came over to see if we

could help.

Korfin makes a beeline for Eddie - wanting to meet the

celebrity.

KORFIN:

Nah, not at all. Detective Flemming -

Bobby Korfin. My Uncle Tony worked with

you at 2-1 back when you were a rookie.

JORDY:

Could you put out the cigar? Part of

the job is picking up scents.

EDDIE:

Oh, sure.

Eddie puts his cigar out. Carefully slides it into a cigar

holder and pockets it to finish later.

LEON:

Well, I found - check it out - crack

pipe. Looks like they got careless.

Leon displays the pipe Emil found on the stairs. Korfin

shines the flashlight on Leon to look at the pipe.

LEON (CONT'D)

Mind not shining that light in my eyes?

KORFIN:

Sorry, bro.

JORDY:

Hey, that's great you guys got it all

wrapped up, but you don't mind if we go

through the routine? It gives us

somethin' to do.

EDDIE:

No, we don't mind. You mind Leon?

LEON:

No. Go ahead.

JORDY:

Thanks. Appreciate it.

Jordy throws a look at Korfin. Homicide detectives have no

respect for fire marshals' investigative skills. Eddie

rummages through the apartment - moving into the kitchen and

living room... Leon watches as Korfin sticks a pencil in a

charred beam, measuring how deep in it goes.

KORFIN:

Okay, Jordy - it was a fast fire, we got

good patterns - about thirty minutes

old.

Jordy moves to one of the corpses. He pulls on a white

rubber glove. Inserts his finger in the corpses mouth. The

glove comes out white.

JORDY:

Mouth's clean, too.

KORFIN:

Clean?

JORDY:

Don't blow your nose!

Jordy's looking at Leon, who was just about to blow his nose.

JORDY (CONT'D)

The smoke'll permeate your nostrils -

burn 'em out. Let it run.

KORFIN:

But you knew that, right?

Leon looks at Jordy, then lowers the handkerchief. Jordy

turns back to the corpses on the bed. Eddie - in the other

room - has found Tamina's brushed gold bracelet on the floor.

JORDY:

So the way you see it, two crack heads

burned themselves up?

LEON:

That's what it looks like to me.

JORDY:

And while they're burning up, they're

still goin' down on each other? You got

to hand it to them.

LEON:

(realizes he's wrong - blows it

off)

Yeah, well, some people got their

priorities straight.

Leon watches Jordy, quietly. With a pair of tweezers, Jordy

pulls a small unburned piece of cloth from behind one of the

heads. Korfin supplies the paint can. Jordy drops the cloth

inside.

LEON (CONT'D)

What was that?

JORDY:

Evidence. Of a homicide.

That got Eddie's attention and he comes back to the bedroom.

JORDY (CONT'D)

You know what that is, right?

EDDIE:

No, what is it?

JORDY:

Why don't you explain it, Bobby.

(to a fireman joking a wall)

Hey Camello! You mind punching a hole

in the floor?

CAMELLO:

No problem.

(to Eddie and Leon)

Excuse me, gentlemen. You might wanna

back up a little more. Don't wanna get

your pants wet.

Leon and Eddie move to higher ground - on top of a burnt TV

set. Eddie hands the brushed bracelet to Leon. As Camello

hacks at the floor with an ax, Jordy continues to examine the

bodies and Korfin explains:

KORFIN:

They have not soot in their mouths,

which means they weren't breathin'

before the fire and that usually means

they were deceased - and this piece of

cloth that my partner found means they

were wrapped up in something, probably

doused with a flammable liquid and

positioned like this on the bed. To the

untrained eye, it looks like an

accident.

Jordy kicks around the draining floor, reaches down for

something.

LEON:

What's he looking for?

EDDIE:

A timer.

Jordy finds some wires attached to an outlet, pulls them up -

on the other end is a timer. Korfin takes the timer from

Jordy and moves to Eddie.

KORFIN:

Here you go. A big double homicide.

EXT. MILOS' APARTMENT BUILDING - NIGHT

As Jordy and Korfin exit the brownstone, a CAMERA CREW is

arriving. Jumps out.

Korfin and Jordy cross toward Korfin's car. They open the

trunk. Take off their muddy boots throwing them in.

KORFIN:

You see Eddie's face when I gave him the

timer? Wish I had a picture of it.

JORDY:

He knew all along.

KORFIN:

What??

JORDY:

That's why he was so quiet. He was

testing us.

Eddie and Leon exit - Eddie carrying a baggie with a timer

inside. NICOLETTE KARAS, young and attractive, pushes her

microphone at Eddie. She's smart, aggressive and respected

by her peers.

NICOLETTE:

Detective, does it look like a murder?

EDDIE:

We don't know that yet. It's much too

early. There's a lot to be done.

NICOLETTE:

How many victims are up there?

EDDIE:

There are two bodies found at this

point.

NICOLETTE:

Can we go up to the crime scene?

EDDIE:

You know you can't do that. C'mon.

NICOLETTE:

Is it drug related?

EDDIE:

We don't know. When I have more I'll

let you know.

Nicolette signals for her camera man, MIKE, to zoom in on

Eddie's hand. She barrels on...

NICOLETTE:

Detective...what's that you're holding

in your hand? Evidence?

Mike pans up to Eddie's face. Other reporters arrive,

hurling questions which Eddie easily answers. Cameras flash

as we PAN BACK TO Korfin and Jordy. Jordy is about to get in

the car as he notices, back behind some construction - DAPHNE

HANDLOVA. She's still wearing the crumpled summer dress.

She tentatively steps out to signal Jordy. He only catches a

glimpse of her. He starts toward her -- knifes through the

crowd - but Daphne is gone.

KORFIN:

What?

JORDY:

There was a woman - I think she wanted

to talk to us. She looked scared. Oh

sh*t! Oh no!

EXT. CENTRAL PARK - LATER

Korfin's car SCREECHES to a stop. Jordy leaps out.

Suddenly, Jordy stops...the Mugger handcuffed to the tree is

now NAKED!

MUGGER:

You motherfuckin' bastard! She stripped

me! It was a bag lady! She touched me

all over, it was disgusting.

Jordy unlocks the handcuffs.

JORDY:

I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.

Korfin delivers a blanket. Jordy covers him.

JORDY (CONT'D)

You okay?

MUGGER:

A dog pissed on me!! I'm gonna sue you

for this! You violated my civil rights!

JORDY:

Your civil rights?! You tried to rob

me! I could arrest you right now!

You're lucky you're walking away from

this. Now get outta here.

Jordy gives him a push. The Mugger wraps the blanket around

himself cursing - hurrying away.

EXT. 8TH AVENUE - NIGHT

Exhausted HOOKERS who have worked all night loiter outside a

sleazy hotel. CAMERA PANS up to a blinking hotel sign.

INT. KING EDWARD HOTEL ROOM - NIGHT

The light is blinking an eerie green and yellow light into

the room. Emil is at the window pulling the blind down

trying to shut out the blinking light. He pulls it down

twice and it pops back up both times. The third time he

angrily pulls it so hard, it comes off the window completely.

He sits down in a chair in frustration - adjusting a pillow

behind his back. THE ROSEANNE SHOW is on TV. Roseanne has

been talking to a FATHER.

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