Inherent Vice Page #9

COY:

I never got a chance to bring it

up. Look at me around here. I'm

lower than a groupie, fetching

weed, opening beers, making sure

there's only aqua jelly beans in

the giant punch bowl in the

parlor.

DOC:

I do get the feeling you'd rather

be someplace else -

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COY:

Back where I was would be nice,

but it's too late -

DOC:

Short of actual marriage

counseling, if I did just run a

fast check and happened to find

some angle you maybe haven't

thought of with this -

COY:

Nothing personal, man. But

there's too much you haven't

thought of. You want to run your

check, I can't stop you.

DOC:

I can dig you're tryin' to chase

me off this, but look, whatever it

is you're caught inside, I'm still

out here, on the outside of it. I

can move in ways you may not be

able to...

COY:

The baby? How'd she look?

DOC:

A sweetie pie.

COY:

Any sign of them little kid blues?

DOC:

I couldn't say...

COY:

... I've really blown this solo,

man.

DOC:

The original call from these

people, where did it come from?

COY:

It's like bein' stuck with a

borrowed horn.

DOC:

Just give me a glimpse here: Who

set you up with these people?

COY:

When I first started snitching, I

realized how often people ask

questions they already know the

answers to -- but they just want

to hear it from another voice,

like outside their head -

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DOC:

Help me out...

COY:

You'd better find Shasta Fay.

Doc blinks and Coy disappears again --

DOC:

Now... what the f***?

43 IN ANOTHER PART OF THE HOUSE 43

DENIS has made his way into the kitchen... Denis sees Coydrift into the dining room to get something to eat... sohe lifts his camera and snaps. Which sets off a bunch of

people moving towards them: Doc runs into Jade:

JADE:

Doc, can I get a ride, this placeis freakin' me out -They

head out of the house -CUT

TO:

44 EXT. TOPANGA CANYON - NIGHT 44

A SINISTER-LOOKING WOODIE WITH BLACKED OUT WINDOWS IS

FOLLOWING THEM... DOC drives faster and faster throughthe treacherous canyon road...

SORTILEGE (V.O.)

As if things weren't peculiarenough, Doc was managing to puthimself on a full-scale paranoidtrip about Shasta...

JADE and DENIS are in the backseat and start to strike upa conversation as Denis is rolling a joint...

DENIS:

And what's, like, your name?

JADE:

Ashley... do you eat p*ssy, by theway?

CLOSEUP - DOC

driving, paranoid, bad driver, lights in rearview mirror.

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SORTILEGE (V.O.)

... and how she must have been

using, all the time she and Doc

were together, maybe since before

they'd met, a devoted junkie

taking every chance she could to

slip out into the fine breezy

nights and go someplace they'd've

been looking after her outfit for

her so she wouldn't have to hide

it at home from Doc... just to be

back for a while among the junkie

fellowship, to have a break from

this hopeless stooge she was

already planning to split on and

so forth.

45 JADE 45

gets out of the car -

JADE:

Thanks for the lift, boys.

DOC:

Hey, Ashley?

JADE:

Yeah?

DOC:

I thought you said your name was

Jade?

JADE:

That's just my nom du Chick

Planet Massage.

DOC:

Alrighty, then -- while we're just

talking here, is there anything

else you wanna tell me about this

Golden Fang?

JADE:

They're an Indochinese heroin

cartel. A vertical package. They

grow it, bring it in, step on it,

run stateside networks of local

street dealers and take a separate

percentage off of each operation.

DOC:

So... you're dealing smack?

JADE:

No, but they use Chick Planet as a

front to launder money. Should I

have told you this earlier?

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DOC:

Maybe not.

JADE:

See you around.

(ALTERNATE)

... just be advised boys, you'llwant to watch your step, 'causewhat I am is, is like a small-

diameter pearl of the Orientrolling around on the floor oflate capitalism -- lowlifes of allincome levels may step on me nowand then but if they do -- it'llbe them who slip and fall and on agood day break their ass, whilethe ol' pearl herself just goes arollin'.

Thanks for the lift.

CUT TO:

46 EXT./INT. PARKER CENTER- DAY 46

Doc walks up and in the building.

planet.

Like being on another

SORTILEGE (V.O.)

All this strange alternate cophistory and cop politics -- copdynasties, cop heroes andevildoers, saintly cops and psychocops, cops too stupid to live andcops too smart for their own good-- insulated by secret loyaltiesand codes of silence from the

world they'd all been given tocontrol...

47 INT. HOMICIDE ROOM 47

DOC comes into HOMICIDE ROOM.

frozen banana.

BIGFOOT is here, eating a

BIGFOOT:

I hope this will not be another ofthose unabridged paranoid hippiemonologues I seem obliged to sitthrough.

DOC:

What if someone died but was

resurrected?

BIGFOOT:

Not at first glance a matter forHomicide.

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DOC:

So - who around here handles

resurrections?

BIGFOOT:

Bunco squad, usually.

DOC:

Does that mean LAPD officiallybelieves that every return fromthe dead is some kind of con?

BIGFOOT:

Not always. Could be a mistaken

or false I.D. type of problem.

But not -DOC

BIGFOOT:

You're dead, you're dead.

talking philosophy?

Are we

48 ANOTHER ANGLE - LATER 48

Doc and Bigfoot sitting together, Doc catching him up tospeed on Coy's case. DOC gives him a PHOTO OF COY: It's

like The Last Supper, Coy as Jesus grabbing food fromtable.

BIGFOOT:

Just remind me why I give a shitagain?

DOC:

He's worked for the Department asa snitch, he oughta be in yourfile...

BIGFOOT looks at Doc, then the picture:

Doc know?"

“How much does

BIGFOOT:

Alright, I'll look into itpersonally.

He motions down a back corridor...

BIGFOOT:

Just want to look in the freezer a

minute... come with me.

CUT TO:

49 INT. CORRIDOR/UTILITY ROOM - MOMENTS LATER 49

Bigfoot leads Doc down a hall and into a room with aCORPSE-SIZE PROFESSIONAL FREEZER.

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Bigfoot opens it up: INSIDE ARE SEVERAL HUNDRED FROZEN

CHOCOLATE COVERED BANANAS.

BIGFOOT:

I'm down to a dozen a day now.

The therapist says I've made

amazing progress. Please, dig in,

feel free. I'm told I have to

share.

He puts the FROZEN BANANAS in the PNEUMATIC TUBE

DISPENSER, sending chocolate frozen bananas hurling

around Parker Center...

DOC:

Certainly a lot of these in here.

Is the Department picking up the

tab?

Bigfoot's FACE TURNS AND THE MOLECULES COMPLETELY CHANGE

AS HE SEES SOMETHING OVER DOC'S SHOULDER... DOC looks

scared stiff... realizes Bigfoot's looking past him, Doc

turns -

DOWN THE CORRIDOR -

A FEW OFFICERS, DETECTIVES, VICE SQUAD MEMBERS ARE SAYING

SOME KIND WORDS, SHAKING HANDS, LAUGHING WITH A STRANGE

LITTLE MAN:
ADRIAN PRUSSIA. Everyone's all smiles as

they UN-CUFF ADRIAN...

DOC:

Is that Adrian Prussia? I

remember him from my skip tracing

days... he's the one with the

bat... he beat up an old lady with

a baseball bat. And why's he... I

mean... why's he shaking hands and

smiling and kissing babies with

the Vice Squad boys again? Which

part did I miss? And why's he

walking this way???

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