Blade Runner Page #3

GAFF:

(in Japanese)

*** You will be required to

accompany me, sir. ***

Deckard doesn't understand Japanese, thinks the man

wants a seat.

DECKARD:

Wait your turn, pal.

Deckard turns back to his food.

GAFF:

(in Japanese)

*** If you do not comply with an

official request, I will be

obliged to exert my authority. ***

Deckard is ignoring Gaff but the Counterman leans in

Deckard's face and translates.

THE COUNTERMAN:

He say, you go with him.

Deckard turns and finds Gaff waving a badge in his face.

GAFF:

(in Japanese)

*** To defy duly constituted

authority is to flaunt the public

good. ***

Deckard doesn't understand a word.

THE COUNTERMAN:

He say, you're under arrest, Deckard.

Deckard turns back to his food.

DECKARD:

Tell him he's got the wrong guy.

(turning to Gaff

loudly)

You got the wrong guy, pal.

GAFF:

(in Japanese)

*** Wrong guy, my ass. You're

known as The Boogeyman in every

mean joint in town. ***

THE COUNTERMAN:

He say, Boogeyman.

Deckard flinches at the word "Boogeyman," but goes on

eating. But now we know, and he knows it's not a

mistake.

GAFF:

(in Japanese)

*** You are a Blade Runner in the

Four Sector and after the slaughter

at the steel shop they called you

Mister Nighttime. ***

THE COUNTERMAN:

He say, Brade Runner. He say,

Mister Nightime.

DECKARD:

Tell him I'm eating.

GAFF:

(to the Counterman

in Japanese)

*** Please tell this notorious

gentleman that I am acting as an

emmisary from Captain Bryant and

Captain Bryant has ordered me to

bring Mr. Deckard to headquarters

even if I have to serve him like

so much sushi. ***

Deckard is continuing to eat but he has reacted to

Gaff's repeated use of the word "Bryant."

THE COUNTERMAN:

(to Deckard)

He say, you be ornery, okay. He

say big boss Bryant give him

permission to use violence make

arrest. He say Bryant tell him

rearrange your brains akay. Make

you raw fish.

Deckard looks disgusted and resigned.

DECKARD:

Bryant huh.

CUT TO:

EXT. STREET - NIGHT

Deckard, still holding his bowl of food, is climbing

into a spinner behind Gaff as the two cops loom over

him. One of the cops shuts the spinner door behind

Deckard and the spinner lifts off in a flurry of wind.

CUT TO:

EXT. CITY - BIRD'S EYE VIEW - NIGHT

The spinner zips through the canyons of the city.

Deckard is sitting in the passenger seat, eating while

he watches the maze of suspension bridges, platforms

and catwalks swim by below. The tops of larger build-

ings emblazoned with fluorescent numerals and scrawls

of neon ads.

CUT TO:

INT. SPINNER - NIGHT

Deckard is sitting gloomily in the passenger seat,

still eating from his bowl with chopsticks as Gaff

maneuvers the spinner through the city canyons chat-

tering in rapid Japanese.

GAFF:

(in Japanese)

I told Bryant I could take care of

this myself. Just move me up.

I'll do the job, I told him. Five

phonies. I just air 'em out.

(he imitates shooting)

Bow! Bow! Bow!

Deckard looks at Gaff uncomprehendingly.

GAFF:

(continuing in Japanese)

But no, he says. Bryant thinks

you're hot sh*t, smartest spotter,

baddest Blade Runner. You don't

look so hot to me. Don't even

shave. Bad grooming reflects on

the whole department. You don't

dress well, that reflects on me...

makes the whole department look

like sh*t.

The skin jobs look better than you

do! What's the point of wiping out

skin jobs if they look better than

Enforcement? pretty soon the public

will want skin jobs for Enforcement.

I guess you'd prefer that, hunh?

That why you quit?

Deckard looks at Gaff. He hasn't understood a word.

DECKARD:

I don't understand a word you're

saying.

Gaff glares and mutters, turning his attention to navi-

gation of the spinner.

GAFF:

(in Japanese)

Exactly! Whatta jerk! If I wasn't

up for promotion I'd put this baby

in a hot spin and leave your dinner

all over the glass!

The spinner flies low along the center of a busy

street and then turns right.

EXT. PRECINCT SPINNER PAD - NIGHT

The spinner slides toward the pad, cuts speed and

gently touches down as another lifts off.

CUT TO:

INT. POLICE HQ CONCOURSE - NIGHT

An enormous grey vault of a building, Deckard and Gaff

stride down the long corridor. Perhaps Gaff is still

jabbering in Japanese.

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