Enemy of the State Page #2

RACHEL:

Here's what you asked for. Brill's

note said it was everything you'd

need to, shall we say, coax DePinto--

DEAN:

When do I get to meet him?

RACHEL:

DePinto?

DEAN:

Brill.

RACHEL:

Never.

DEAN:

That wasn't the answer I was hoping

for.

RACHEL:

What answer were you--

DEAN is reaching inside his jacket pocket. He removes

an envelope marked "BRILL".

DEAN:

"Soon". Or at least sooner than never.

RACHEL:

It's how he works.

DEAN:

Brill?

RACHEL:

Yes.

DEAN:

So you've said.

DEAN hands her the envelope.

DEAN (CONT'D)

Ten thousand cash. I don't know if

it's Brill's prices going up or

your commission.

RACHEL:

I take a straight 15 percent.

Brill's fee varies with risk.

Perhaps you'd be more comfortable

using someone else.

DEAN:

Other than Brill.

RACHEL:

Other than me.

DEAN:

Why would I--

RACHEL:

Someone with whom you don't have

quite so personal a--

DEAN:

I like our history. And I like you.

I'd probably like Brill if I ever

got to--

RACHEL:

He doesn't work that way.

DEAN:

I just want to make sure I'm not

breaking the law.

RACHEL:

You're not.

DEAN:

How can I be sure.

RACHEL:

I wouldn't let you. Good luck with

DePinto.

DEAN:

(pause)

Thank you.

RACHEL:

Eat your fish.

DEAN (V.O.)

Mr. DePinto? My name's Robert Dean.

I'm an attorney with Seth, Silverberg.

EXT. BUSY STREET - DAY

DEAN weaves his BMW through D.C. bumper-to-bumper

traffic as he eyes the photos that Rachel gave him

which are lying on the passenger seat. The photos show

DePINTO sitting in a motel lounge with TWO MOB TYPES.

He's talking on the phone.

INTERCUT WITH:

INT. BELLMOTH STEEL OFFICE - CONTINUOUS

DEPINTO:

What can I do for you?

DEAN:

Well, I was hoping you might stop

by my office to swear out a

criminal deposition against some of

your friends and co-workers.

DEPINTO:

(pause)

Is this a f***in' joke?

DEAN:

I don't believe it is, no.

DEPINTO:

Why the hell would I--

DEAN:

I've got photographs of you at the

Trenton Ramada looking very--

DEPINTO:

That ain't me.

DEAN:

It's not?

DEPINTO:

You don't know who the f***--

DEAN:

That's not you having a whiskey

sour with Carmine Morada.

DEPINTO:

This is f***ed. You don't know

who's in that--

DEAN:

You're right, Mr. DePinto, and

maybe I jumped the gun.

DEPINTO:

You're goddam right you jumped the gun.

DEAN:

That's probably not you in the

picture. I tell you what, I'll just

run the thing by the Grand Jury,

see if they can't--

DEPINTO:

I want to talk to a goddam lawyer.

DEAN:

Good news there, Mr. DePinto,

you're talking to one.

EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - DAY

News helicopters hover over Hamersley's wreck as police

direct traffic around the media circus.

INT. OLD CAR - CONTINUOUS

DAN ZAVITZ, looks older than he is, balding with a

weight problem, sweats behind SLAPPING wipers of a

beater car plastered with environmental issue stickers.

NPR drones on the radio as a police car crawls behind

him, SIREN YELPING, lights flashing, trying to get by.

ZAVITZ:

Alright, alright already, I see you.

ZAVITZ POV:
Wreckage surrounded by squad cars,

ambulances and media circus. Something's happened.

Something big.

EXT. SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK - DAY

A tall ladder leans against a dead oak. ZAVITZ sweats

and climbs to a branch where a platform's been built

supporting a large phony bird's nest. He lifts away the

nest, revealing--

--Two microphones and three motion-activated digital

video cameras and recorders. ZAVITZ checks the cameras'

viewfinders to see--

--TIME-CODED VIEWS - WIDE, MEDIUM AND CLOSE of a

squirrel's nest containing three newborns. The parents

are nowhere to be seen.

ZAVITZ eyes the recorders. The video disks are spent.

He ejects and pockets them, replacing them with fresh ones.

EXT. SOUTHEAST CAPITOL DISTRICT - DAY

An old building needing rehab. A SIDEWALK VENDOR does

brisk business, we DRIFT to an apartment window above.

TV NEWSCASTER (V.O.)

Police are labeling it an accident

but promise a full investigation.

INT. ZAVITZ APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS

ZAVITZ is staring intently at his computer monitor. We

don't know yet what he's looking at, but he's scared to

death as we continue to listen to the NEWS REPORT...

NEWSCASTER (O.S.)

Don Hamersley, senior GOP

congressional leader, was serving

as a negotiator on the House/Senate

sub-committee studying the Anti-

Terror Bill...

ZAVITZ leans in a little closer to get a better look at

his computer screen, not wanting to believe what he's

seeing...

NEWSCASTER (CONT'D) (O.S.)

...the controversial legislation

that would give various law

enforcement agencies expanded

authority in the fight against

terrorism.

And now we see what ZAVITZ is staring at on his

computer monitor. The film he shot at SHENANDOAH PARK...

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