Green River KIiller Page #7

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

GARY is bent over the map now.

GARY:

There’s another one near the Lewis

and Clark Theatre, off Pacific

Highway South. Another one over by

Lake Fenwick, and one around 292nd

Street, south of Star Lake.

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

Much map-checking and files being looked through.

SHERIFF REICHERT

Are you getting all these down?

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DETECTIVES:

Yes, sir!

SHERIFF REICHERT

(into radio)

Pacific Highway South...

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

GARY is paying out.

GARY:

I think there’s about three up

Highway 410 towards Mount Rainier,

and there’s definitely one on

Auburn-Black Diamond Road...

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

DET. SUE PETERS looks up.

PETERS:

(to REICHERT)

Auburn-Black Diamond Road is where

we found Yvonne Antosh, sir.

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

Almost like he can hear her.

GARY:

Not the one you already got,

another one. I put one at Northwest

Hospital...

INT. THE BUNKER, PROSECUTION VIEWING ROOM (2003) - DAY

REICHERT is ecstatic. Everyone is excited.

SHERIFF REICHERT

Right off the bat! This is

fantastic!

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

TOM is busily writing these down.

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GARY:

And there’s one near Seattle

International Raceway.

TOM looks up. Something not right here, but he covers it.

TOM:

What was that one, Gary?

GARY:

S.I.R. Out there.

TOM:

Can you be any more specific?

GARY:

Just where people take short-cuts

down to the racetrack, y’know? By

the woods there, I think.

TOM:

Okay, thanks.

MULLINAX:

Well, that’s great, Gary. We really

appreciate your help with those.

Thank you.

GARY looks happy to have pleased them.

MULLINAX (CONT'D)

So let’s start trying to put some

names to these. What can you tell

us about these women?

GARY:

Uh... Well, my memory’s not too

good with names, and that kind of

thing. I’ve always had trouble with

that. Names, faces...

TOM:

You’ve given us about a dozen

locations there, you must remember

something about the women? Black,

white?

GARY:

I, uh, I don’t... I don’t know.

TOM:

Short? Tall? Fat? Tattoos?

Anything...

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GARY:

There were so many, I don’t, uh...

TOM:

You don’t remember.

GARY:

It’s been a long time. I stopped in

uh, in ‘85, like I said.

TOM:

There’s no possibility any of this

is going into ‘86, or...?

GARY:

No, sir. Not after Judith.

TOM studies him for a few beats, then writes in his notepad.

MULLINAX:

Okay. Let’s try something else.

Gary, can you tell us a little

about how the killings would

happen?

GARY:

Well, it would always happen in the

middle of the ‘date’ because

something went wrong and I’d

snap...

TOM:

Hold on. Just talk us through it

from the start.

GARY:

Okay. Well, I’d pick up a... one of

the ladies up, in my truck, and

we’d agree to go for a ‘date’,

y’know... to have sex.

MULLINAX:

Sure.

GARY:

We’d go somewhere, like my house or

the woods, or somewhere. Sometimes,

just the back of my truck. And we’d

start to have sex, but if she

starts hurrying me, or it don’t

feel right ‘cause she’s not into

it, or she’s lyin’ to me, y’know...

’cause I had a lot of rage in me at

that time...

(MORE)

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GARY (CONT'D)

uh, a lot of the hatred for the

women... times I wouldn’t stand up

for myself. Well, I would feel the

rage coming and, eventually, they’d

make me snap.

MULLINAX:

What would you do?

EXT. NORTHWEST HOSPITAL WOODS (1982) - DAY

GARY standing, looking down at something before him, the

woods at his back. Black smoke rises in front of his face,

and a sound like hair burning.

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

And just as quickly, we’re back in the room.

GARY:

What... what would I do?

TOM watches GARY carefully. Notices his right hand squeezing

the area between his thumb and forefinger on his left hand.

MULLINAX:

When you ‘snapped’?

GARY:

(he demonstrates)

I’d put my arm around them. My

right arm, around their neck. Like

this, in a choke-hold, y’know?

EXT. VACANT LOT, SOUTH AIRPORT (1983) - DAY

Naked, raging GARY, on all fours like a wild animal,

ferociously biting into the breast of a very recently

strangled, naked woman.

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

GARY:

And then I’d choke ‘em.

Again, the hands. TOM watching him.

GARY (CONT’D)

(slight pause)

Anyway, that’s how I killed ‘em.

(MORE)

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GARY (CONT’D)

Didn’t mean to. It just, uh... just

happened.

TOM’s eyes fixed on him. GARY gives him an eager smile.

EXT. BOEING FIELD PERIMETER (2003) - EVENING

TOM stands near to a fence overlooking the airport runway. He

smokes a cigarette and watches the planes coming in. The

landing lights make the obscured planes look ghostly as they

move slowly through the heavy, low-hanging, grey cloud.

SHERIFF REICHERT (O.S.)

We’ve waited a long time for this

day, you and me.

TOM is joined by the SHERIFF.

SHERIFF REICHERT (CONT’D)

Couldn’t have hoped for better.

TOM:

They find anything yet?

SHERIFF REICHERT

No, but we’ll start again tomorrow.

TOM:

So... am I still on the team?

SHERIFF REICHERT

(smiles)

You put your case forward that you

should be in that room, and you

convinced us. You’ve earned it. Now

we need to get it done, quickly and

smoothly. Put this whole thing

behind us. Right?

TOM doesn’t answer.

SHERIFF REICHERT (CONT'D)

Yes, you’re still on the team.

TOM nods. They stand in silence for a little.

SHERIFF REICHERT (CONT’D)

I guess it’ll be strange for you to

work on another case after this?

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TOM:

Once this is over, I’m done. I

never want to see another dead

girl’s face looking up at me, ever

again.

REICHERT nods. They watch a plane come in. Hidden, wreathed

in cloud, lights searching for the runway.

TOM (CONT’D)

What if it’s not quick, Dave? Or

smooth?

SHERIFF REICHERT

What do you mean?

TOM:

What if he’s not telling us the

truth? What happens then?

SHERIFF REICHERT

He’s the Green River Killer. All

the evidence says it. And now he’s

saying it. Why would he lie to us

now?

TOM:

I don’t know, I’m just asking, what

if he is lying? About the rest of

them, I mean. What happens then?

SHERIFF REICHERT

That makes no sense! He’s the one

who wants to do this...

TOM:

But we can’t trust this guy! Just

because he says...

SHERIFF REICHERT

Right here, this is what we’re

concerned about, Tom. Look, I get

it. I want to punch this little

sonuvabitch in the face every time

I see him. Worse, even. But we

can’t. We take him out tomorrow,

start collecting bodies, we get our

proof and we can finish it. After

twenty years, we can finish this.

And if you can just control

yourself, you’ll see this through

to the end. I need you in there

with him, Tom, but you’ve got to

have total control over him.

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