Green River KIiller Page #18

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TOM:

You put a rock in her vagina?

GARY:

I put a rock...

INT. PROSECUTION ROOM, ‘THE BUNKER’(2003) - CONTINUOUS

SHERIFF REICHERT

(willing him on)

Who else? One could be a lucky

guess. Who else? C’mon Tom, get him

to tell us who else he did that to.

TOM:

(on the monitor)

Why did you do that, Gary?

100.

SHERIFF REICHERT

Never mind ‘why’, Tom! Just get him

to say who else and then we’ve got

him...

INT. INTERROGATION ROOM, ‘THE BUNKER’ (2003) - CONTINUOUS

TOM:

Was it something to do with burying

them?

GARY looking at TOM, hesitant.

TOM (CONT’D)

Because you buried some and not

others didn’t you? Why was that?

INT. PROSECUTION ROOM, ‘THE BUNKER’ (2003) - CONTINUOUS

SHERIFF REICHERT

No! Go back to the rocks. If he

says he did it to the river girls

as well, we’ve got him. We’ll get

him on the rocks!

INT. INTERROGATION ROOM, ‘THE BUNKER’ (2003) - CONTINUOUS

GARY:

I started burying them because I...

GARY has a FLASH IMAGE of JUDITH when she visited him in

prison, her hand up against the window that divides them,

looking at him, tears in her eyes, confused, frightened.

Then we’re back in the INTERVIEW. GARY seems to change his

mind. TOM sees it.

GARY (CONT’D)

I liked knowing where they were,

and I didn’t want them scattered

all over. So, I started burying

them so they wouldn’t be found...

TOM:

So, is that where you’d get the

rocks from? From digging to bury

someone...

101.

INT. PROSECUTION ROOM, ‘THE BUNKER’ (2003) - CONTINUOUS

SHERIFF REICHERT

Yes, that’s it, Tom. Come on...

INT. INTERROGATION ROOM, ‘THE BUNKER’ (2003) - CONTINUOUS

TOM:

Is that how it was with Connie

Naon?

GARY:

I just saw it there, so... and I’d

already done it with the other

ladies...

INT. PROSECUTION ROOM, ‘THE BUNKER’ (2003) - CONTINUOUS

SHERIFF REICHERT

Which ones? Which ones?

TOM (ON THE MONITOR)

Which other ladies, Gary?

GARY (ON THE MONITOR)

(after a long pause)

The ones at the river.

SHERIFF REICHERT

(elated)

Yes! Finally! Thank you Gary, you

son-of-a-b*tch!

Celebration among the TEAM.

INT. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE INTERROGATION ROOM - MOMENTS LATER

TOM enters the corridor, turns the corner and DOYON is there,

elated, punches the air with joy, laughing. TOM smiling, huge

relief. He’s done it.

INT. RESTROOM, “THE BUNKER’ (2003) - LATER

TOM stands at the urinal, as PROTHERO enters and joins him.

PROTHERO seems uncomfortable.

TOM:

Well, your client just brought my

retirement a whole lot closer.

(MORE)

102.

TOM (CONT'D)

Maybe my bathroom will get

finished, after all.

PROTHERO just nods, doesn’t look at him.

TOM (CONT’D)

I suppose it’s congratulations all

round. Gary just gave us all what

we’ve been waiting for, huh?

PROTHERO doesn’t answer. TOM starts to leave.

PROTHERO:

(with difficulty)

It would be remiss of me to, uh...

TOM:

What?

PROTHERO:

Well... Gary’s seen all the

‘discovery’ materials. The case

against him. We showed him all

that. All perfectly legal, but...

Everything he just told you? It’s

all in there.

TOM takes this in, as PROTHERO, guiltily, goes to leave.

PROTHERO (CONT’D)

I just thought you should know.

INT. JENSEN HOUSE, BATHROOM (2003) - EVENING

The bathroom remodel is near to completion. TOM is on his

hands and knees, placing small tiles onto the floor. He’s

having difficulty, his hand shakes. He gets increasingly

frustrated. Eventually, something in him snaps. He angrily

throws the tile across the room, and smashes into the ones

already laid.

TOM:

(furious)

F*** this! F*** you! F*** you!

He wildly hurls the bucket next to him against the wall, its

contents splattering everywhere. He wants to destroy

everything he’s done in here. Totally losing control.

He stops, breathing hard. He hangs his head. Eventually, he

looks up into the mournful eyes of JOEY, their elderly lab,

beyond the door. With him, CHARLAINE, looking at her husband,

distressed by the havoc he has wrought.

103.

CHARLAINE:

(almost in tears)

What’s happening, Tom?

TOM walks past her in silence and shame, and goes out.

EXT. EMPTY PARKING LOT (2003) - EVENING

TOM sits in his parked car, silently staring ahead. His mind

full of images, memories from the last 20 years. Haunted.

INT. MILLIGAN RESIDENCE, KING COUNTY (1984) - DAY

MRS. MILLIGAN sits in her chair. CHILD at her feet. The YOUNG

BOY, his eyes full of pain and anger. The picture of TERRY on

the wall. The CLOCK ticking.

INT. R.J.C., VIEWING/HOLDING ROOM (2001) - EVENING

A familiar DIGITAL CLOCK changes from “7:29” to “7:30”.

(We’re back at GARY’s post-arrest interview.) TOM watches

GARY through the TWO-WAY MIRROR, as GARY, now alone,

confusedly looks through a phone book. On TOM, thinking. He

starts writing on a piece of paper.

TOM comes out the door of the VIEWING ROOM, sees DOYON

standing outside the closed HOLDING ROOM door. No-one else

around. TOM takes out his GUN, offers it to DOYON.

TOM:

(vulnerable but covering)

Will you hold this for me?

DOYON:

(taking gun)

He’s all yours, detective.

TOM opens the door.

INT. REGIONAL JUSTICE CENTER, HOLDING ROOM (2001) -

CONTINUOUS:

TOM enters. GARY still looking through phone book. TOM sits

at the table. Silence.

TOM:

You found anyone?

104.

GARY:

(embarrassed)

I don’t know who to call.

TOM puts the piece of PAPER down, on the table.

TOM:

That’s the number for the Public

Defender’s office. You should try

them.

GARY:

(grateful)

Thanks.

Nervy silence. TOM pretends to look over a FILE. Then...

TOM:

Do you know who I am?

GARY:

You’re the man looking for the

Green River Killer.

TOM:

That’s right.

They look at each other. GARY breaks it.

GARY:

I need to call my wife. She’ll be

worried.

TOM:

Your wife knows. There are

detectives at your house right now,

talking to her.

GARY is visibly distraught at this.

GARY:

What... what are you telling her?

Judith doesn’t know anything.

She’ll be so scared.

TOM sees that GARY has tears in his eyes.

TOM:

Gary, do you love your wife?

GARY nods.

105.

TOM (CONT’D)

Then can I give you some advice?

The kindest thing you can do for

her is divorce her, immediately.

This is going to cost you every

penny you have. But you divorce her

now, she’ll get half.

GARY takes this in, gets more teared up. His head drops.

TOM (CONT’D)

Don’t take everything away from

her. Let her keep something. You

owe her that.

GARY looks up at TOM. TOM sees something in his eyes.

INT. TOM’S CAR - EMPTY PARKING LOT (2003) - EVENING

TOM remembering that look, that moment.

EXT. EMPTY PARKING LOT (2003) - EVENING

TOM’s car, tiny in the large empty lot, slowly pulls away.

EXT. JENSEN HOUSE BEDROOM (2003) - EVENING

TOM enters the bedroom. CHARLAINE is there, ready for bed. In

silence, TOM begins to undress.

CHARLAINE:

Where did you go?

TOM just shakes his head.

TOM:

I’m sorry. I didn’t want you to see

me like that. I’ll clean it up

tomorrow.

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