Deja Vu Page #4

Synopsis: A ferry filled with crewmen from the USS Nimitz and their families was blown up in New Orleans on Mardi Gras. BATF Doug Carlin is brought in to assist in the massive investigation, and gets attached to an experimental FBI surveillance unit, one that uses spacefolding technology to directly look back a little over four days into the past. While tracking down the bomber, Carlin gets an idea in his head: could they use the device to actually travel back in time and not only prevent the bombing but also the murder of a local woman whose truck was used in the bombing?
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Tony Scott
Production: Buena Vista
  1 win & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
59
Rotten Tomatoes:
55%
PG-13
Year:
2006
126 min
$63,944,632
Website
4,727 Views


Claire saw a jazz funeral procession.

She asked me that day,

"Why do they always wait until the end

"to play the good music?"

Claire, honey, the music's playing

for you now and forever.

Were there four limo drivers or five?

Four limos.

Must have been four drivers, right?

He was here.

Address is in range.

Palace Restaurant.

They got good food there.

I'm so sorry for the wait.

I really am.

Listen...

Your table will be ready

in a few minutes.

Drinks are on me, all right?

It is gonna be a few more minutes

for your table...

Go upstairs and see if Table 45

is ready for desserts.

- All right?

- I will.

Hold on. Hang on. Hello? Hello?

Hey, are you the lady

with the Bronco for sale?

- That's him.

- How do you know?

- That's him.

- Well, call up the phone list.

Let's see if it's a number we've tracked.

Yes, that's me. Just a second.

Cover for me, all right?

Keep that tape running, too.

I'm gonna want a recording

of this conversation for voice analysis.

- I'm here. Can you hear me?

- Well, hello, there.

Let me tell you, first off,

I'm what you could call

a real motivated buyer.

I bet you are.

I'm ready to get something right away.

That sounds great.

I need to sell something right away.

Your price looks good,

model, mileage...

So where can I come by and see it?

Don't tell him.

I'm at 827 Kings Oak,

in the French Quarter.

- Need directions?

- Now he knows where she lives.

No, no, I'll find you.

Is tomorrow night good?

Actually, I...

Tomorrow night is not good.

- Tomorrow?

- I'm going out tomorrow.

He wants to wait for the last

possible moment to steal her car,

then it's too late to report it.

How does Tuesday sound?

Got it. 504-555-0147.

I see it. Tracking.

I think

that's gonna be too late.

See, I need the vehicle

Tuesday morning.

Is there anyone else there

that can show me the car?

- No. Sorry.

- He's thinking.

I'll tell you what. There's a K5 Blazer...

A date means

somebody's gonna be expecting her

and will miss her

if she doesn't show up.

That could ruin his plans.

Shanti, I want to see this guy.

No good. It's an outdoor phone booth.

Three miles out of range.

I hope to hear from you.

Can we get someone out there

with a goggle rig?

What's that do? Extend the range?

Yeah, it's immediate line of sight.

But we can use it to gather data

outside the target area.

Provided there's any data to gather.

How long is this guy

gonna be at the phone booth?

Not long.

- Have a good night.

- Thanks.

Bye.

Story of my life.

Yeah, story of my life, too.

All right, now we heard

the voice of our bomber,

now we're gonna go after him

the old-fashioned way.

Can we get video surveillance

on that phone booth?

We can access all surveillance

available to any government agency.

Okay, this is from the ATM camera

across the street.

All right. Let's fast-forward to the exact

time of his phone call to Claire.

Where are we supposed to be looking?

Behind the guy on the left.

Can you enhance it, Gunnars?

Not enough for an ID.

Wait, go back.

Can you rewind it just a little bit?

Stop. What is that on the ground?

Looks like a camcorder bag, maybe.

- We have facial recognition software?

- Yeah.

Let's use it on the bag.

Cross-match it to all the bags

on the south side of the city

in the 48 hours leading up

to the explosion, all right?

Don't think it's ever been

used this way.

Yeah, that's kind of a simple image

to go for a match.

Well, we got nowhere else to go.

- Look, same bag.

- Bingo.

Okay, freeze it.

Yeah, looks like the same guy, too.

Where is this?

Security camera

at the Algiers ferry dock.

Okay, when is this?

Two nights before the explosion.

Seven hours from now.

Two nights before the explosion

is seven hours from now?

Seven hours from now, we will be able

to access this point in our time window.

Gotcha.

Kind of creepy, seeing that lady's life

go down in flames.

Yep.

Makes you appreciate life.

I suggest you go home

and jump on whoever you got.

- That's what I'm gonna do.

- Nobody home.

How'd you let that happen?

Everything you have, you lose, right?

Mother, father, gone.

Good looks, Pryzwarra, gone.

Loved ones gone in a second.

That's what this job teaches you,

doesn't it?

No matter what,

no matter how hard you grab

onto something, you still lose it, right?

Well, we're gonna grab onto this guy

in a couple hours.

We're gonna nail this son of a b*tch.

What's wrong?

No matter what, we still lose her.

Right?

dot-com for

a link to the FEMA Web site.

dot-com for

a link to the FEMA Web site.

Military helicopters that have

served as an emergency force

are leaving the city. Hundreds

of thousands of New Orleans residents

have been unable to come back home,

and entire neighborhoods...

Did you talk to him?

...are still waiting to rebuild.

This while governmental agencies...

Oh, no.

What is it?

Mom asked me to say a prayer

for David this morning, but I forgot.

- Okay.

- Mom is gonna be so mad at me.

She's not gonna be mad at you.

Come on.

We'll just say one now, all right?

- It's too late.

- It's never too late, sweetie.

We'll just pray

that David had a good day, all right?

How about this? You pray for David,

and I'll pray for my mom, okay?

- Okay.

- All right.

- What's going on?

- Give it a second.

- Gunnars.

- It's rebooting. It's coming back.

- Are we online?

- Wait.

- Are we online?

- Gunnars!

- What the hell's going on?

- Shanti, are we back online?

I don't know.

Something broached the field.

- What broached the field?

- That broached the field, right there.

That broached the field, right there.

That's what broached the field.

Now, you wanna tell me

what the hell this thing is?

It's not surveillance, Paul.

It's not electronic thermal imaging.

You guys have figured out a way

to look into the past. Yes or no?

- No.

- You're lying.

- You're lying, and you know it.

- I've told you everything I can.

She saw it, Paul.

I pointed this thing at her just now,

and she responded to it

from four and a half days ago.

- Explain that to me.

- All right.

Somebody explain it!

Hit it, Shanti.

For three years,

Cambridge has been working

for National Reconnaissance

on an R and D grant.

Okay.

We were attempting

to use concentrated bursts of energy

to enhance the sensitivity

of optical telescopes.

In the process, we had a breakthrough.

Given enough energy,

we could warp the very fabric of space.

I said explain it to me, not talk science.

- They found a way to...

- Look, I'll tell you what.

Why don't you guys just keep talking?

I'll just sit here

until you figure out

what it is you really wanna tell me.

They found a way

to fold space back onto itself.

All right, look. We're used to viewing

space as flat, right?

- Like this piece of paper.

- Right.

To see something from a distance,

light has always had to travel

the long way

across the flat space in between.

But given what I was trying to explain,

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Bill Marsilii

Bill Marsilii (born 1962) is an American screenwriter. Marsilii was born in Wilmington, Delaware. After graduating with a degree in drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he attended Circle in the Square Theatre School, he founded a theater company called Bad Neighbor and performed solo comedy in Manhattan.His spec script for Déjà Vu, written with Terry Rossio, sold for $3 million against $5 million, setting a record at the time for the highest price ever paid for a screenplay. Since then, he has been credited as a screenwriter on such projects as the upcoming adaptation of The Wind in the Willows and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo. more…

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