Green River KIiller Page #14

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GARY points over to the undergrowth just beyond the field.

76.

GARY:

One over there, in the grass. White

girl. Maybe about twenty-five or

so?

He looks at TOM. TOM waits. There’s nothing else coming.

TOM:

You got it almost right. You got

the water tower one. That was well

documented. But we didn’t find one

in the grass. Maybe you’re thinking

of the one we found in the gully.

Except she wasn’t twenty-five, she

was fifteen. I dug her out of the

ground myself.

GARY is not sure how to respond. DOYON watches.

TOM (CONT’D)

Tell us about the other one.

GARY:

I.. I don’t think I left another

one out here...

TOM:

You just said you did! What’s going

on here Gary? You messing with us

again?

GARY:

...no, I’m not...

PROTHERO:

It’s been a long day. It might be

more productive if Gary has a

little time to process everything.

SHERIFF REICHERT

Good idea. Let’s resume this

tomorrow.

EXT. MINI-VAN, LITTLE LEAGUE FIELD, NORTH AIRPORT SITE (2003)

-DAY

GARY stands with PROTHERO, as they prepare to get back into

the MINI-VAN.

GARY:

Struck out today, didn’t I?

77.

PROTHERO:

You did fine Gary. It’s a good

start.

REICHERT takes TOM aside. DOYON notices.

SHERIFF REICHERT

Give him a break, okay? It’s been a

long time.

He walks off. TOM approaches GARY at the VAN.

GARY:

I’m sorry, Detective Jensen.

TOM stops.

GARY (CONT’D)

I guess there’s a lot I’ve

forgotten over the past twenty

years.

A PLANE roars overhead, as GARY gets helped into the MINIVAN.

TOM:

(under the noise)

It’s been twenty years for me too.

And I haven’t forgotten anything.

GARY turns back to TOM. Did he hear him over the plane?

GARY:

What?

TOM:

Never mind.

They look at each other, then GARY smiles, goes to his seat.

INT. THE BUNKER, MAIN ROOM (2003) - LATE AFTERNOON

TOM sits at his desk in his CUBICLE, observing GARY as he

sits in the doorway of his room, writing in his notebook.

TOM watches as a YOUNG WOMAN walks up to a desk near GARY’s

room. GARY looks up, watches her as she sorts through some

files. His eyes never leave her as she finds what she was

looking for, and walks off. TOM, unseen by GARY, observing

all this. GARY lost in thought even after she’s gone.

Eventually, he is brought out of his reverie as he realizes

TOM is looking at him. GARY smiles his innocent, dumb smile.

78.

ROSEN (O.S.)

Hey, Tom...

Leaning over from another cubicle is one of the Prosecution

team.

ROSEN (CONT’D)

You were in the Navy, right?

TOM:

Uh huh.

ROSEN:

Do you know the Navy chapel just

outside Seattle?

TOM:

Why?

ROSEN:

I’m going over the background

stuff. It says Gary married his

first wife there. Just wondering if

it had a name..?

On TOM, looking over to GARY, but he’s not in the doorway

anymore.

INT. JENSEN HOUSE, BEDROOM (2003) - NIGHT

CHARLAINE is in bed. TOM is getting undressed.

CHARLAINE:

(upset)

We had our wedding in the same

church as that man?

TOM, now wishing he hadn’t brought it up.

TOM:

I mean... it was a long time

before...

CHARLAINE:

That’s not the point, Tom. It was

the most special day of my life,

and now I can’t think about it

without him being there..

TOM:

Oh, come on Charl. You’re being a

little over dramatic, aren’t you?

79.

CHARLAINE:

Over dramatic?

TOM:

(tries to change the

subject)

Just forget it. So, did you pick

which tiles you like for the

bathroom floor, yet? I’m almost

ready to...

CHARLAINE:

It was our wedding day, Tom. I’m

allowed to have feelings about

this. Don’t you?

TOM:

Of course...

CHARLAINE:

(waits)

So... what are they? These feelings

that you have?

TOM stands awkwardly, not knowing how to answer.

CHARLAINE (CONT'D)

Tell me what you’re feeling, Tom!

He can’t. CHARLAINE buries her head in the pillow, turns

away, leaving TOM standing there, uncomfortable.

TOM:

You can’t let him spoil our

wedding, Charl. If you let him take

that away, then... he wins, doesn’t

he?

INT. WILLIAMS HOUSE, KENT (1985) - NIGHT

A dark-haired woman in a cowboy hat CHEERS excitedly, as a

country-music song starts up. A moderately drunk SUE (37),

stands in the middle of the living room of a small, run down

house. The man she met earlier tonight, T.J. WILLIAMS (38),

stoops over the record player.

T.J.

This the one?

A younger GARY (36) and JUDITH (40) sit on the sofa. They’re

a little drunk, but still on the best behavior that comes

with having only just met.

80.

SUE:

This is it right, Judith? The one

we danced to at the end, tonight?

(meaning T.J.)

This one says to me he’ll play it

for us if we come back to his

place.

T.J.

Am I not a man of my word?

T.J. and SUE begin to slow-dance.

JUDITH:

(to GARY)

I liked this one too.

GARY and JUDITH share a polite smile.

SUE:

I like a man who knows how to keep

a promise.

T.J.

You want to find another room to

dance in?

T.J. winks at GARY as he leads SUE to another room, leaving

JUDITH and GARY, a little awkwardly, on the sofa.

GARY:

So... you think you’ll go to

another Parents Without Partners

dance?

JUDITH:

Oh yes. I love country music. My

husband... my ex-husband wouldn’t

let me listen to it. He said it was

for low class people.

GARY:

I guess that makes me real low

class then, because I really like

it.

They smile.

JUDITH:

I had some lovely country records,

from years ago. My... ex-husband

took them out back one day and shot

them to pieces right in front of

me, with his shotgun.

(MORE)

81.

JUDITH (CONT'D)

So I couldn’t listen to them

anymore. He’d get like that,

sometimes. Real scary...

GARY:

Well, you can listen to it all you

want now. All day and all night, if

you like.

JUDITH:

(laughs)

I guess I can.

GARY flashes her a big grin. She’s very taken with him.

JUDITH (CONT'D)

You have a real nice voice. Kind of

soothing. Makes me feel calm.

GARY smiles, gives her a gentle kiss.

GARY:

Is that okay? To do that?

JUDITH nods, starts to cry a little.

GARY (CONT’D)

Did I upset you? I won’t do that

again. I’m sorry.

JUDITH:

No, it’s fine. I liked it. It’s

just... You’re so nice, Gary. I’m

not used to it.

GARY:

Well, it’s going to be different

from now on. Everything’s going to

be different from now on.

JUDITH sees that GARY too, has tears in his eyes.

INT. GARY’S ‘CELL’, TASK FORCE HEADQUARTERS (2003) - NIGHT

GARY is laying in bed awake, in the dark, looking at the

VICTIM’s photographs pinned up in the room beyond his open

doorway. He settles on one face, GISELE LOVVORN (19).

FLASH IMAGE of the ‘OLD FOREST’ before us, under a grey sky.

GARY stands looking at it, the wind that moves among it’s

branches, blows his hair across his face. A figure steps out

of the ‘OLD FOREST’.

82.

In the distance, she WAVES SLOWLY at him. It’s GISELE, the

girl from the photograph. Is she waving hello or goodbye?

On GARY’s face, suddenly illuminated, as the lights are

switched on back in his room.

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