Manhunter Page #16

MOLLY:

Do you remember what you said?

GRAHAM:

Yes. I said this is too good to live...

Molly stares into his eyes.

MOLLY:

Time is luck, Will.

(heat )

I know the value of our days...

They stare into each other. There's a pause. They rise.

She puts her arm around Graham's waist. They start towards

the house.

MOLLY:

Let's go to bed. I'll rub your back.

CUT TO:

INT. FBI CAFETERIA - CRAWFORD + BLOOM - DAY

CRAWFORD:

I need to talk to you about Will

Graham.

71.

BLOOM:

What about him?

CRAWFORD:

I need to ask you questions of a

psychological nature.

BLOOM:

Remember when you asked for a

study on him, I refused. Same

goes for now.

CRAWFORD:

That was Peterson upstairs.

BLOOM:

It was you who did the asking.

CRAWFORD:

He doesn't think you run mind games

on him.

BLOOM:

I wouldn't presume to try.

CRAWFORD:

You're never alone in a room with

Graham, are you? You're smooth

about it, but you're never one-on-

one with him. Why's that? Do you

think he's psychic?

BLOOM:

He's an eideteker. He has almost

total recall. But I don't think

he's psychic. What he has it empathy

and projection He can assume your

point of view and mine.., and some

other points of view that scare and

sicken him.

CRAWFORD:

Why aren't you ever alone with him?

BLOOM:

Because I'm professionally

concerned about him. And he'd

pick up on that. He's fast. He

hates being prodded and poked.

(beat)

So do I.

(beat)

What do you want?

CRAWFORD:

His nervous breakdown followed Hobbs.

Could he kill again if he had to save

his life? Or would he hesitate?

72.

BLOOM:

I'll tell you the events. The

psychology's none of your business.

Hobbs was trying to cut his eleven-

year-old daughter's throat. Graham

shot him with his .38 six times.

Hobbs still didn't go down. He had

to wade in...

CRAWFORD:

That's when it happened?

BLOOM:

No. It happened when Graham went

to see Hobbs' daughter four months

later in the hospital. She saved

her carotid artery.., but lost

three fingers and her larynx. She

was connected up to a voice box.

When Graham went to see her, she

asked him -- through the speaker:

'Why did you have to kill my

daddy? '

(beat)

That's when Graham had his nervous

breakdown.

CRAWFORD:

What's the bottom line?

BLOOM:

If he pushes too deep into our boy's

mind-set, he may destroy himself.

(beat)

What are you planning, Jack?

CRAWFORD:

Could he handle a direct contact?

BLOOM:

I don't recommend it.

GRAHAM (O.S.)

You don't recommend what, Sidney?

Crawford is surprised at Graham's entry. Bloom isn't.

BLOOM:

Crawford has a proposition. I

don't think it's a good idea.

GRAHAM:

If the Tooth Fairy listens to

Lecktor, he'll come for me. So

we're going to set me up as bait

to draw him out. Give him a

clean shot.

(MORE)

73.

GRAHAM (CONT'D)

(beat)

That's what you were thinking,

isn't it?

Crawford's embarrassed. Bloom said Graham was fast.

GXAHAM:

I'll use Lounds.

Now Bloom's surprised...

GRAHAM:

Sidney, he doesn't read the "Sunday

Times literary supplement. He

reads Lounds in the "Tattler."

(beat)

And I want this over with... Fast.

CUT TO:

INT. WASHINGTON APARTMENT - GRAHAM + LOUNDS - DAY

Graham leans against a table, his back to a window.

GRAHAM:

I believe he's socially

maladjusted. Laughed at by his

contemporaries...

LOUNDS:

How does he rate compared to Dr,

Hannibal Lecktor?

GRAHAM:

He's not as intelligent.

PULL BACK to reveal Bloom, Crawford, a photographer and

assistant. Graham motions for Lounds to turn off his

tape recorder.

GRAHAM:

(to Bloom)

What have we missed?

BLOOM:

He may have an unconscious

homosexual conflict. A fear of

being gay. He objects to the word

'fairy.' Plus smeared bloodstains

indicate that he put the shorts on

Charles Leeds after he was dead.

I believe he did this to emphasize

his lack of interest in Mr, Leeds.

Graham motions Lounds to turn the tape recorder on again.

74.

GRAHAM:

The killer has sexually molested

all his male victims. He is a

homosexual and impotent with

persons of the opposite sex.

(beat)

Our forensic psychologists have

projected he may have been the

product of an incestuous home

life .

(added afterthought)

And probably had sexual relations

with his mother...

Crawford stifles a laugh...

LOUNDS:

How long will you stay in

Washington?

GBAHAM:

Until we've taken out the Tooth

Fairy.

Graham gestures for Lounds to turn off the tape recorder.

GRAHAM:

All right. Let's shoot the

pictures .

LOUNDS:

(to Crawford)

I want shots with me and Graham

together .

Graham reacts.

LOUNDS:

C'mon, c'mon, c'mon. You want

this to look real, don't you?

STILL PHOTOGRAPHER'S POV THROUGH CAMERA: GRAHAM + LOUNDS

Lounds lays Graham's arm over his own shoulder and mugs :or

the camera. Behind him is the flood-lit Capitol dome and

the sign of a motel across the street.

GRAHAM:

Keep the motel sign across the

street just slightly out of focus.

He has to be able to read it, but

it can't look too obvious.

Lounds barks orders to the still photographer and splits.

The photographer starts breaking down his gear. Crawford

takes Graham aside.

75.

CRAWFORD:

(low)

Asian studies at Langley said the

mark you found on the tree is a

Chinese character considered a

positive or a lucky sign in

gambling. The character also

appears on a mah-jongg piece.

(beat)

It means Red Dragon.

(beat)

That mean anything to you?

GRAHAM:

No.

CUT TO:

EXT. WASHINGTON, D.C. PARKING LOT - GRAHAM, CRAWFORD + SPURGEN

7:
30 PM

SPURGEN, chief SWAT instructor from Quantico, examines the

parking lot. We've cut in mid-dialogue.

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