Inherent Vice Page #6

32.

LUZ:

A guy over in North Hollywood doescustom work.

DOC:

How about that chick... what's her

name? The one's been missing?

LUZ:

Shasta. Yeah. She's in there

someplace. Mickey always used totake me in the shower to f***. I

never got a chance to do anythingon that groovy bed in there.

LUZ!

SLOANE (O.S.)

DONDE ESTAS, MI HIJATA??

LUZ:

Another time, perhaps. You're not

really a shrink are you?

No.

DOC:

But I do have a couch.

LUZ:

Piscodelico, ese!

She flashes her teeth. He hands her one of the FAKE

BUSINESS CARDS with his real number on it. She leaves.

CUT TO:

23 EXT. WOLFMANN MANSION 23

BIGFOOT/DOC scene TBD.

CUT TO:

24 INT. LUNCH SPOT (DOWNTOWN) - DAY 24

DOC is sitting in a lunch spot downtown populated with anassortment of JUDGES, LAWYERS, all completely DRUNK atlunchtime. In walks DEPUTY D.A. PENNY KIMBALL (30s).

PENNY:

This Wolfmann-Charlock case.

Apparently, one of your oldgirlfriends is a principal?

DOC:

I just heard that she skipped.

PENNY:

Put it another way: How close

were you and Shasta Fay Hepworth?

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DOC:

Well, now, I've been asking myself

that very question. It was all

over years ago. Months? If you

hadn't come along, babe, who knows

how bad it might've got?

PENNY:

True. You were a f***ing mess

when I met you.

DOC:

And how ‘bout now?

PENNY:

Old times aside, have you had any

contact with Miss Hepworth, in,

say, the last week or so?

DOC:

Well, now, funny you should ask

because she called me up a couple

days ago before Mickey Wolfmann

disappeared with a story about how

his wife and her boyfriend were

plotting to hustle Mickey

into the booby hatch and grab all

his money. So I sure hope you

guys, or the cops or whoever, are

looking into that.

PENNY:

And with your years of experience

as a P.I., would you call that a

reliable lead?

DOC:

I've known worse. Or are you all

just gonna just ignore that? Some

hippie chick with boyfriend

trouble, brains all mushed up with

dope, sex, rock and roll -

PENNY:

I've never seen you this

emotional, Doc.

DOC:

‘Cause the lights are out,

usually. I've never had lunch

with you before.

PENNY:

You didn't tell any of this to

Lieutenant Bjornsen when he pulled

you in at the crime scene? And

Bjornsen seems to think you're as

good a suspect as any -

34.

DOC:

‘Seems to’?? You've been talking

to Bigfoot? About me??

PENNY:

Doc. Shhh. Please. Besides,

maybe you did do it, has that

crossed your mind yet? Maybe

you just forgot? (Maybe you just

conveniently forgot about it the

way you do so often forget things

and this peculiar reaction of

yours is a typically twisted way

of confessing the act?)

DOC:

Did do what?

PENNY:

Kill Glenn Charlock.

DOC:

Kill him? What? How would I

forget something like that?

PENNY:

Grass and who knows what else,

Doc.

DOC:

I'm only a light smoker.

PENNY:

How many joints a day do you

smoke?

DOC:

I... I'11 have to check the log

book.

PENNY:

You can't remember?

DOC:

I don't keep track.

PENNY:

Or maybe you can't keep track.

DOC:

I don't think my smoking has any

link to the Wolfmann-Charlock,

Shasta case -

PENNY:

... No? Why did Shasta Fay

Hepworth dismantle your

relationship?

35.

DOC:

She had other fish to fry.

PENNY:

Would you say you're still in lovewith her?

No.

DOC:

Wait, what is this, I'm not -PENNY

Hectic week ahead for me, sounless any of this heats updramatically, I hope youunderstand.

DOC:

Wouldn't it be nice...

PENNY:

Walk me back to my office? I have

to swing by the FederalCourthouse...

25 EXT. FEDERAL COURTHOUSE - DAY 25

DOC and PENNY enter. She guides the way, into thewaiting arms of: TWO FBI AGENTS BORDERLINE and

FLATWEED... Penny keeps walking, having set him up...

FLATWEED:

I am Agent Flatweed and this isAgent Borderline.

DOC:

Did I miss an episode...?

FLATWEED:

It's come to our attention that

not too long ago you had a visitfrom a black prison militantcalling himself Tariq Khalil. We

naturally became curious.

26 INT. FEDERAL COURTHOUSE - OFFICE - DAY 26

In a tiny office.

BORDERLINE:

We like investigating and spendingenergy on Black Nationalist hate

groups...

FLATWEED:

It's the chronology, really.

Khalil visits your place ofbusiness.

(MORE)

36.

FLATWEED (CONT'D)

Next day, a known prison

acquaintance of his, Glen

Charlock, is slain, Michael

Wolfmann disappears, and you get

arrested and let go on suspicion.

DOC:

So what do you want with me?

FLATWEED:

Ordinarily, we're the one's asking

the questions.

DOC:

Sure thing, fellas, except aren't

we all in the same business?

FLATWEED:

There's no need to be insulting.

BORDERLINE:

Why don't you just share with

us what Mr. Khalil had to say the

other day when he visited you?

DOC:

Because he's a client, so that's

privileged is why.

BODERLINE:

If it has a bearing on the

Wolfmann case, we might have to

disagree.

DOC:

I wish I could help -- but what I

can't figure is if your shop is

really so focused on the Black

Panthers and all that then what's

with your interest in Mickey

Wolfmann?

LONG PAUSE. No one says anything.

DOC:

... Are you guys figuring Mickey's

kidnapping as a Black Panther

operation? Did they put the

snatch on Mickey to make a

political point? A nice shot at

some ransom money?

Flatweed and Borderline blink a lot and look nervous.

DOC:

Maybe you've at least thought

of putting that out there as a

cover story for whatever did

happen? Can I be frank for a

minute?

37.

Of course.

FLATWEED/BORDERLINE

DOC:

Fly me to the moon... let meswing among those stars... Tell

Penny how nice our time hasbeen...

FLATWEED:

As a COINTELPRO informant youcould be making up to threehundred dollars a month, Larry.

Consider that.

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27 EXT. DOC'S OFFICE - DAY 27

Doc comes walking up to his office and sees: JADE and

BAMBI, from the Chick Planet Massage, running away fromhis office, hopping into a HARLEY EARLE IMPALA andpeeling out...

He walks over to PETUNIA who hands him a flyer for CHICKPLANET MASSAGE P*SSY EATER'S SPECIAL, shakes her head andlooks sad:

PETUNIA:

Oh, Doc. It's dark and lonelywork, but someone has to do it?

DOC:

I can explain this...

DOC turns it over, written across the back it reads:

JADE (V.O.)

‘Heard they cut you loose. Need

to see you about something. I'm

working weeknights at ClubAsiatique in San Pedro. Love and

Peace, Jade. P.S. BEWARE THE

GOLDEN FANG!!!’

Doc notices, out the window, across the parking lot:

BIGFOOT'S EL CAMINO parked in the distance, engine firedup and watching Doc...

DISSOLVE TO:

28 INT. CLUB ASIATIQUE - NIGHT 28

DOC sits with a cocktail. JADE, wearing a cocktail

uniform, approaches DOC:

DOC:

There you are.

38.

JADE:

See me outside, okay?

CUT TO:

29 EXT. BEHIND THE CLUB/SAN PEDRO DOCKS - NIGHT 29

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