Blue Velvet Page #21

Suddenly there is a loud "radio voice" coming from the Yellow Man's police

radio which is turned "on" in his jacket pocket. Jeffrey's heart leaps

and just as suddenly the Yellow Man throws his arms out wildly knocking a

floor lamp to the ground and crushing out its light. Jeffrey's heart goes

wild at this sight and he jumps back but the Yellow Man is silent and

motionless again. The radio talks again.

RADIO VOICE #1

Get back and stay down.

RADIO VOICE #2

. It's apartment eight.

Music. LOVE LETTERS STRAIGHT FROM MY HEART. begins to play.

Jeffrey watches the Yellow Man and listens to the radio.

RADIO VOICE #2

(continuing)

I'm sending Jack and Pete to the roof.

It's.

RADIO VOICE #1

Hey.

Sounds of shots.

RADIO VOICE #1

(continuing)

He's shooting. from the second window.

RADIO VOICE #3

Stay in place.

RADIO VOICE #2

Jack. get up there quick. can return

fire?.

RADIO VOICE #3

I think he's alone. but return fire to

second window only.

Many shots.

We see Jeffrey's face in CLOSEUP.

CUT TO:

212. EXT. FRONT STREET - NIGHT

The real scene is before us. Police cars line the street along with a

huge fire truck and several ambulances. Special police marksmen are

crouched behind cars and behind a stone wall opposite Frank's building.

Screams are heard from within and police radios blare. Shots are being

fired into a black window. Once in a while a shot is returned. Two

policeman are dead and one is being loaded onto an ambulance.

POLICEMAN #1

He hasn't fired a shot for six minutes.

maybe we got him. get on the radio. get

Detective Williams. ask him if we can

rush the son of a b*tch.

A policeman runs off. more shots are fired into the building but none

are returned. The policeman comes running back.

POLICEMAN #2

It's in the works already. we're in

there. they're goin' down the back stairs

now. It won't be long. and they'll have

us rush 'em from here. one whistle and

we go.

Suddenly there is a long barrage of gunfire into Frank's apartment.

Then a loud whistle.

POLICEMAN #1

That's it. let's go.

Police race across the street to Frank's building.

213. INT. FRANK'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

Police kick the door in and rush into the apartment. It's empty excpt for

a large dog which has been shot. The dog growls and cowers back in a

corner. Every now and then it limps on bloody legs back and forth.

214. INT. DOROTHY'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

Jeffrey hears the radio. He hears the policemen talking at Frank's place. He hears that Frank is gone. He decides to leave Dorothy's apartment.

JEFFREY:

(speaking to T.R. Gordon who doesn't

hear him because he's almost dead)

I'm leaving now. I'll let them find you

all on their own. find all this horror

on their own.

(whispers)

Good bye.

He goes out and closes the door.

215. INT. STAIRWAY - APARTMENT BUILDING - NIGHT

The door clicks shut. He makes his way quietly down the hall to the

stairway. thinking. He starts down the stairs.

JEFFREY:

So. Frank escaped.

He rounds the corner on a landing on the stairway and goes down another

floor. and another. At the next landing, something out the window catches

his eye. He notices a man get out of the car. He recognizes the man.

It is the well-dressed man he saw with the alligator briefcase. Jeffrey

watches the man come toward Dorothy's building. Then his eye goes back

to the man's car. It is Frank's car. He notices the man is carrying a

police radio.

JEFFREY:

(to himself)

Frank's car. Is this man a cop? He has a

radio!. So did Frank though and he's no

cop. that's for sure. and he's driving

Frank's car. who is he?

The man enters the building at the front entrance directly below Jeffrey.

Jeffrey starts climbing back up the stairs. thinking faster.

JEFFREY:

What happened that day?.

216. EXT. FRONT STREET - DAY

FLASHBACK:

Jeffrey remembers Frank and the Yellow Man go into Frank's building.

217. INT. STAIRWAY - APARTMENT BUILDING - NIGHT

JEFFREY (V.O.)

They went in together.

218. EXT. FRONT STREET - DAY

FLASHBACK:

Jeffrey remembers the well-dressed man come out with the Yellow Man.

219. INT. STAIRWAY - APARTMENT BUILDING - NIGHT

JEFFREY:

and out came. No it couldn't be. But I

think it is!! It's Frank!!

Jeffrey runs like mad up to Dorothy's apartment. He looks back once and

sees the well-dressed man hurrying up the stairs.

CLOSEUP on well-dressed man's face. It is Frank, underneath a very good

disguise.

Jeffrey has trouble getting the key out of his pocket. He fumbles with it

and it drops to the floor.

Frank climbs the stairs.

Finally the key goes in and Jeffrey frantically opens the door. He rushes

into the room.

220. INT. DOROTHY'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

The horror and strangeness of the scene within strikes him again. He

rushes to the Yellow Man and takes the police radio out of his pocket.

He runs into the back of the apartment - to the back bedroom where he

crouches down behind a double bed.

JEFFREY:

(into the radio)

Detective Williams!! Detective Williams!!

DETECTIVE WILLIAMS

(over radio)

Detective Williams here. Is that you,

Jeffrey?

JEFFREY:

Yes it's me!!! Frank is on his way up

to Dorothy's apartment.

(thinks; hits himself in the

forehead; inner voice)

Oh no. Frank has a radio and is hearing

everything we say!!

(thinks some more - fast)

Detective Williams. hurry. I'm in the

apartment. hurry. I'm hiding in the back

bedroom.

DETECTIVE WILLIAMS

We're ten minutes away and moving as fast

as we can.

221. EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD STREET - NIGHT

Sandy runs frantically down a dark street. We see a street sign which

says "Lincoln."

222. INT. DOROTHY'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

Jeffrey drops the radio under the bed and runs back to the living room.

He leaps safely into the closet just as Frank opens the apartment door and

enters. Jeffrey freezes with fear in the darkness of the closet. Frank

is smiling.

FRANK:

(calling pleasantly in the direction

of the back bedroom)

Hey neighbor. sh*t for brains. You forgot

I have a police radio. I know where your

cute little butt is hiding. Here I come!

Ready or not!

He starts down the hall to the back bedroom. The police radio which

Jeffrey planted under the bed and Frank's radio both start broadcasting.

Frank turns his radio off - now only the one under the bed plays.

FRANK:

Hey f***. I can hear you radio! .Hey

you stupid f***. you got about a

second to live.

Jeffrey watches Frank reach inside his coat for his gun. He watches Frank

sneak to the back bedroom area. Jeffrey turns and looks at the Yellow

Man. He gets an idea. He quickly rushes out of the closet - feels inside

the Yellow Man's coat for his police gun. It's there. He gets it but it

causes the Yellow Man to moan and leap some in another almost death-spasm. Jeffrey takes the bloody pistol and races back inside the closet frantically catching his breath. Just then he hears Frank in the back room.

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