
Green River KIiller Page #21
- Year:
- 2005
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As we slowly move in, keeping our distance, we see it’s GARY
sitting naked in the dark, drinking from a bottle of wine,
eyes glistening.
GARY (O.S.) (CONT'D)
But she wouldn’t wash herself with
me... too much in a hurry.
Now we’re moving along another corridor. On the wall a framed
picture of GARY and his son MATTHEW. In the reflection, we
see GARY, naked, pulling a TRUNK along the corridor towards a
room at the end.
GARY (O.S.) (CONT'D)
It had been so good before, but...
she wasn’t satisfying me. She
wasn’t enjoying it.
INT. BEDROOM, RIDGWAY HOUSE, SEA-TAC (1983)
Very close on GARY’s face. Locks of blonde hair across it.
Slow pullback over the next speech, revealing GARY laying
next to CAROL CHRISTENSEN, both naked in his bed, sheets
pulled back. He holds her lifeless body close to him. Clothes
on the floor, a belt at the foot of the bed, the trunk
waiting near the doorway.
GARY (O.S.)
I couldn’t climax on top of her,
like before... and every time she
said hurry, I got madder and
madder. I got behind her, and after
I was done... I killed her.
INT. THE BUNKER, INTERROGATION ROOM (2003) - CONTINUOUS
GARY:
I cried afterwards.
TOM:
Did you keep her overnight?
GARY:
Uh, maybe...
118.
TOM:
Did you have sex with her again?
GARY:
I don’t remember...
TOM:
It’s okay.
GARY:
I, uh... I might have.
EXT. WOODED AREA, MAPLE VALLEY (1983) - DAY
Close on FISH SCALES. Another slow pullback reveals the fish
laying on the body of CAROL CHRISTENSEN, laying on the ground
among bits of trash, fully clothed, bag over her head,
sausage meat in her hands. Finally, a wine bottle is placed
on her by an unseen GARY.
GARY (O.S.)
When I dropped off her body, it was
in the day, I know that. I had some
stuff in the refrigerator, the fish
and the sausage meat and... They
didn’t mean nothing. I was just
trying to confuse you guys. I put
her clothes back on, because I
didn’t want to go back. I couldn’t
do that to her. I cared for her.
INT. THE BUNKER, INTERROGATION ROOM (2003) - CONTINUOUS
GARY:
I really cared for her. I’d had
great times with her before. Why
not this time?
GARY stops. The room is silent. TOM just looking at GARY.
MATTSEN unsure where TOM is at. PROTHERO looks up from
writing.
INT. THE BUNKER, PROSECUTION VIEWING ROOM (2003) - CONTINUOUS
REICHERT standing, watching on the monitor, next to him JIM
DOYON.
SHERIFF REICHERT
I think Tom’s losing it. Do we stop
it now?
119.
DOYON:
Just give him a little longer...
REICHERT looks to GRADDON. GRADDON gives a small nod.
INT. THE BUNKER, INTERROGATION ROOM (2003) - CONTINUOUS
TOM staring at GARY. Looks down, shakes his head.
TOM:
Help me here, Gary.
GARY just looks at him.
TOM (CONT’D)
Carol was special to you, right?
GARY:
Yes.
TOM:
You cared about her?
GARY:
Yes.
TOM:
Okay. So, why kill her?
GARY:
I told you. Because of the
hurryingness, and...
TOM:
I know what you told me, Gary. But
it doesn’t make any sense.
GARY stares at him, blankly.
TOM (CONT'D)
In all these interviews you say you
just wanted sex, and these women,
they do something wrong, they piss
you off, and you snap. They tap
your ‘rage’ and you end up choking
them.
GARY just blinks.
TOM (CONT’D)
But Carol, she tells you right
away, she’s in a hurry. She can’t
give you the time you want.
(MORE)
120.
TOM (CONT’D)
Right there, you should have known.
And I think you did. You say this
was just about the sex. But it was
about the killing too. Wasn’t it?
GARY and TOM, eyes locked, no-one else exists.
TOM (CONT'D)
You’d killed before. Many times.
GARY:
Yes.
TOM:
You know what’s going to happen if
she pisses you off?
GARY:
Uh huh.
TOM:
And you like this woman. You care
about her?
GARY:
Yes.
TOM:
And you get into this anyway.
Knowing full well she could end up
dead.
GARY:
Yes.
TOM looking into this man’s face. Into the last twenty years.
Into nothingness. Finally
TOM:
Why?
GARY:
(not understanding)
What’s that?
TOM:
Why? Why’d you do this?
GARY looks at him.
GARY:
I just...
121.
GARY has a FLASH IMAGE of standing among the trees inside the
‘OLD FOREST’. He is looking at JUDITH, who stands just
outside in the grey light. (We cut between the room and the
forest).
GARY (CONT’D)
I needed to kill.
JUDITH is walking away across the fields towards the rise in
the distance. TOM intent on GARY’s face, his words.
GARY (CONT’D)
Because of... that.
Just before JUDITH disappears over the rise, she turns and
SLOWLY WAVES in that familiar way. GARY watches her from
within the darkness. And then she’s gone.
GARY (CONT’D)
I just needed to kill.
Everyone sits in silence. We realize TOM is crying.
TOM:
You touched me, Gary. You touched
me. I need to take a break.
TOM stands. He leaves the room, as MATTSEN turns off the
camera.
GARY:
(to PROTHERO)
What happened? Did I say something
wrong?
INT. THE BUNKER, CORRIDOR (2003) - CONTINUOUS
TOM walks along the corridor. Enters an empty room. Sits at a
table and starts to weep. JIM DOYON stands outside the door,
watches his friend sobbing. A man who has looked into the
abyss and found no answers, only darkness.
EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - DAY
We’re travelling along a mountain road. We can’t see
surroundings yet, just the ground beneath us moving fast.
TOM (V.O.)
The interviews with Gary Ridgway
went on to last 188 days.
(MORE)
122.
TOM (V.O.) (CONT'D)
frustrate, the breakthroughs of
that day gave us what we needed to
continue.
EXT. JENSEN HOUSE BACKYARD (2003) - DAY
TOM and CHARLAINE sit next to each other on the deck. She can
see he’s been through something shattering.
CHARLAINE:
How was your day?
TOM just smiles and shakes his head. It’s all he can do not
to break down again. He takes her hand.
TOM (V.O.)
The next day I went back to work
and resumed my place.
As we travel along, the camera rises and we see that we’re on
a mountain road, steep bank to one side.
TOM (V.O.)
We never discussed what happened,
my ‘breakdown’ as I call it, and
nothing like it occurred again.
INT. KING COUNTY COURTHOUSE (2003) - DAY
A packed courtroom, nearly three hundred people squashed in.
Jury box crammed with REPORTERS. Cameras. POLICE and SWAT
team members everywhere. The main seating area full of the
VICTIM’S FAMILY members. TOM sits to one side of them. At the
very front, GARY. PROTHERO next to him.
TOM (V.O.)
On November 5, 2003, Gary Leon
Ridgway was formally charged with
forty-eight counts of murder.
We hear the names of the victims being read out. (This will
now continue under until the end.) “...Wendy Lee Coffield...
Giselle A. Lovvorn... Debra Lynn Bonner...”
123.
As we travel along, we look down the embankment at the side
of the road. In the distance below us, we see two pale
figures, naked, dirty, watching us as we pass. They stand
where their lifeless bodies were left. “...Alma Ann Smith...
Carrie Ann Rois...”
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