Inherent Vice Page #10

ADRIAN walks over.

ADRIAN:

This you're new partner, Bigfoot?

BIGFOOT:

Here, Adrian... have a banana.

Bend over and I'll stick it in for

you.

ADRIAN:

F*** you. And f*** your banana.

Adrian exits. Bigfoot to Doc...

DOC:

You guys go back, huh?

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BIGFOOT:

Where do you think Mickey Wolfmannis, Doc?

DOC:

Now that's a good question.

try Las Vegas yet?)

(You

BIGFOOT:

And where is that love of yourlife Shasta Fay Hepworth?

Play nice.

Bigfoot.)

DOC:

(Mighty snotty,

BIGFOOT:

And how much could she have reallymeant to him -- or him to her that

he could just let this all getso f***ed up?

DOC:

Best question yet.

multiple choice?)

(Is this

BIGFOOT:

There's places you don't want togo, Doc -- better get back to thebeach, you smell like a patchoulifactory.

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50 EXT./INT. DOC’S OFFICE - NIGHT 50

Doc walks the long corridor towards his office...

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walks into his office, is deep in thought, locks the doordouble and triple lock turns and SCREAMS AT THE SIGHT OFA SEXY YOUNG BIKER GIRL: CLANCY CHARLOCK.

DOC:

AHHHAHAHAHHA!!!! COOTIE FOOD!!

CLANCY:

Remains to be seen...

DOC:

WHO ARE YOU?!??

CLANCY:

Clancy Charlock.

DOC:

Glen Charlock’s?

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CLANCY:

Sister.

DOC:

I’m sorry about your brother...

CLANCY:

Glen was a sh*t and bound to have

his series canceled sometime. But

that don’t keep me from wanting to

know who his killer is.

DOC:

You talk to the police?

CLANCY:

They talked to me. Some smart-ass

named Bjornsen. Can’t say it was

encouraging. But I guess he’s a

fan of yours... Would you mind not

staring at my tits like that?

DOC:

Sorry -- I was just reading your

T-shirt. So now... you say...

Lieutenant Bjornsen referred you

to me?

CLANCY:

He sounded a lot more concerned

with Mickey Wolfmann's

disappearance than Glen's murder,

which I guess is no big surprise.

Is that a joint? Can I smoke it?

DOC pulls out a freshly rolled one.

DOC:

Here's a new one.../Please...

She lights it and smokes half of it down in one suck

before passing it back to Doc...

DOC:

The theory downtown is that your

brother tried to prevent whoever

it was from putting the snatch on

Mickey and got shot for doing his

job.

CLANCY:

Way too sentimental.

DOC:

Then maybe he saw something he

shouldn't have.

CLANCY:

That's how Boris has it figured

to.

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DOC:

Who's that?

CLANCY:

Another member of Mickey's muscle

patrol. They've all dropped out

of sight, but last night, Boris

called me late. We have some

history. Right now, he's scared

shitless.

DOC:

What of?

CLANCY:

He said Mickey was in the deepest

sh*t you could get in all because

of this idea that came to him.

DOC:

Which was?

CLANCY:

All the money he ever made -- he

was working on a way just to give

it back.

DOC:

Can I still get my name on the

list?

CLANCY:

That's what I said!

DOC:

Why, but why would he want to?

CLANCY:

Wouldn't be the first rich guy

on a guilt trip lately. He was

doing a lot of acid and peyote and

maybe it just got to a point...

you must've seen that happen.

DOC:

Once or twice, but it's more

like calling in sick for a couple

days, breakin' up with your old

lady, nothing on that scale.

CLANCY:

He said he felt bad about making

people pay for shelter -- that all

along he should have realized it

should've been for free -

DOC:

He told him that?

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CLANCY:

Boris heard him say it... he

wanted to build a big place out in

the desert where anybody could

come and live for free -- called

Arrepentimiento.

DOC:

Yeah, okay, and what's that mean

again?

CLANCY:

Spanish for ‘sorry about that.’

The idea was if there was an open

unit -- it was yours for free...

anyone from anywhere can have

shelter... are you gonna keep

holding on to that joint or are

you gonna marry it?

DOC:

And what about Mickey's ladies?

Any of them object to his big

giveaway?

CLANCY:

Only one I've heard Boris say

anything about is Shasta -- the

one's gone missing.

DOC:

What'd he say?

CLANCY:

Said Shasta was the only one that

ever made any sense around there --

she was nervous about Mickey

givin' away all his money -- which

I guess caused some problems

because it made him think that's

all she was worried about was her

meal ticket -- which I guess was

really crazy cause she was in love

with him. Deeply in love...

DOC:

Shasta and I lived for a short

while together and I can't say for

sure how deep it went. How she

really felt about me.

CLANCY:

Well, I hope this ain't a bummer

for you to be hearin'...

DOC:

Clancy, I only look like an evil

motherf***er... secretly, I'm as

sentimental as any ex-old man.

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CLANCY:

You are a pretty dangerous hombre,

I can see that... but, as one

who's been down this particular

exit ramp -- you can only cruise

the boulevards of regret so far,

and then you've got to get back up

onto the freeway again.

DOC:

Who else does he think was worried

about Mickey's big giveaway?

Business partners? The wife?

CLANCY:

That cop friend of yours kept

showing up at the house all the

time warning Mickey...

DOC:

Bigfoot? So he warned Mickey to

what?

CLANCY:

I don't know. (Mickey didn't

listen to advice... maybe he said

don't give away all your money?

Stop doing peyote? Stop doing

acid? You're the detective.)

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52 EXT. DOC'S OFFICE - NIGHT 52

Clancy and Doc step out of the office. She has TWO

BIKERS waiting for her...

DOC:

Anything else?

THE BIKES FIRE UP LOUD. CLANCY YELLS TO DOC:

CLANCY:

PUCK BEAVERTON.

DOC:

UH-HUH.

CLANCY:

HE HAD THE DUTY TO GUARD MICKEY

THAT DAY BUT CHANGED SHIFTS WITH

GLEN AT THE LAST MINUTE...

DOC:

YOU THINK PUCK SET GLEN UP?

CLANCY:

PUCK'S AN A**HOLE.

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DOC:

SOUNDS LIKE YOU DATED.

CLANCY:

HIM AND HIS ROOMMATE EINAR.

DOC:

BOTH? (TWO AT A TIME?)

CLANCY:

THAT'S MY PREFERENCE.

DOC:

KNOW WHERE I MIGHT FIND THIS

MR. BEAVERTON?

CLANCY:

PROBABLY OUT LOOKING FOR GIRLS TO

TREAT LIKE SH*T -- PREFERABLY

ONES THAT DON'T MIND. HAPPY

HUNTING.

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A53 INT. DOC'S CAR - NIGHT A53

After Clancy. Driving to get postcard... NO SORTILEGE.

53 EXT. DOC'S APARTMENT - NIGHT 53

Doc walks up to his place... a FEW SHADOWS AND MOVEMENTS

AROUND click him into a paranoia alert... He sees on the

doorsill a POSTCARD... He carefully picks it up, looks it

over... it's from some place deep in the Pacific Ocean.

SHASTA (V.O.)

I wish you could see these waves.

It's one more of these places a

voice from somewhere else tells

you you have to be. Remember the

day with the Ouija board? I miss

those days and I miss you. I wish

so many things could be

different... Nothing was supposed

to happen this way, Doc, I'm

sorry...

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54 INT. DOC'S APARTMENT 54

He comes in, places the postcard down and lights a joint,

SHASTA'S VOICE CONTINUES.

SHASTA (V.O.)

... you don't remember the Ouija

board? Come on, Doc...

(MORE)

...go stumbling through that citydump of a memory... It had beenone of those prolonged times of nodope, nobody had any, everybodywas desperate and suffering lapsesof judgment.

SHASTA (V.O.) (CONT'D)

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55 FLASHBACK - INT. SORTILEGE'S HOUSE 55

DOC and SHASTA with SORTILEGE and a OUIJA BOARD.

DOC:

Hey! You think it knows where we

can score?

SORTILEGE:

Easy as pie, just do it all byyourself.

DOC and SHASTA put their hands on it. The PLANCHETTE

TAKES OFF LIKE A ROCKET, SPELLING OUT AN ADDRESS AND APHONE NUMBER. They furiously write this down. DOC picksup the phone and dials. It rings and a FEMALE VOICERECORDING ANSWERS:

FEMALE VOICE (V.O.)

‘Howdy, dopers! We've gotwhatever you need, and remember --

the sooner you get over here, themore there'll be left for you.’

DOC:

Who is this? Whom I talking to?

Hey! She just hung up.

SORTILEGE:

Did you hear what she wasscreaming at you: ‘Stay away! I

am a police trap!’ You see the

problem about Ouija boards -DOC

looks to SHASTA and they RUN OUT THE DOOR, IGNORINGSORTILEGE.

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56 EXT. SUNSET (NEAR VERMONT)

They arrive at the address in the rain. It's a HUGE,

EMPTY, EXCAVATED LOT. Rain water fills it up... it...

flows out into the street...

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