Manhunter Page #4

FAST MOVEMENTS:
GRAHAM'S HAND

snakes out and hits the "Stop" button on the VTR.

PHONE:

is picked up and we MOVE WITH IT to his face. Graham punches

numbers into the phone. He waits. He clamps dawn again.

He is cold, calm.

GRAHAM:

Jack, this is Graham. Is Price still

in Latent Prints?

13.

CRAWFORD (V.O.)

He's working on the single print

index. What time is it?

Get him to Atlanta.

CRAWFORD (V.O.)

You said the guy down here is good.

GRAHAM:

He is good. Bur not as good as Price.

CRAWFORD (V.O.)

What do you want to do?

GRAHAM:

Mrs. Leeds' fingernails and toenails.

I think he took off his gloves, Jack.

(heat)

And dust all the corneas of all their

eyes.

CUT TO:

INT. ATLANTA DETECTIVE BUREAU - MOVING WITH GRAHAM, CRAWFORD

+ SPRINGFIELD -DAY

down the corridor.

SPRINGFIELD:

Our people swear he wore surgeons'

gloves the whole time. They dusted

everything.

GRAHAM:

The report didn't mention nails and

eyes.

SPRINGFIELD:

Why do you think he took his gloves

off?

GRAHAM:

Mrs. Leeds was a good-looking woman.

I'd want to touch her skin in an

intimate situation, wouldn't you?

SPRINGFIELD:

(sudden distaste)

'Intimate? !"

GRAHAM:

Yes. 'Intimate.' They had privacy.

(beat)

Everybody else was dead.

14.

Springfield looks at Graham. Springfield needs answers, not

voodoo. Then they enter the squad room. Twenty detectives

sit at desks. Graham and Crawford move to the back of the

class.

SPRINGFIELD:

All right. House to house interviews

will be extended four additional

blocks. R & I has loaned us two

clerks to help cross-matching airline

reservations between Birmingham last

month and between Atlanta now.

(beat)

Dr. Princi.

DR. DOMINIQUE PRINCI, Chief Medical Examiner for Fulton

County, walks to the front and stands under a drawing of

teeth. He hold's up a dental cast.

DR. PRINCI

This is what the subject's teeth

look like. The Smithsonian in

Washington reconstructed them from

the impressions we took of bite

marks off the Leeds woman here and

off the Jacobi woman last month in

Birmingham.

(beat)

As you can see, he has pegged lateral

incisors -- the teeth here and here.

The teeth look like teeth from a small bear.

SPRINGFIELD:

Investigator Graham has worked this

kind of thing before. Can you add

anything?

Graham doesn't like talking in public. He stutters and

starts to say something...

SPRINGFIELD:

Can't hear you. Can you come up to

the front?

Graham walks to the front of the room.

GRAHAM:

He may have a history of biting --

barroom fights or child abuse.

SPRINGFIELD:

He only bit women so far, right?

GRAHAM:

That's all we know about.

(MORE)

15.

GRAHAM (CONT'D)

(beat)

Most of the time in sex assaults the

bite mark has a livid spot in the

center. A suck mark. These don't.

So, for him, biting may be a fighting

pattern as much as sexual behavior.

(beat)

You could try emergency room

personnel, treatment for bite wounds.

I know that's pretty thin...

(beat)

He bites a lot.

SPRINGFIELD:

What's average?

GRAHAM:

Sex murder:
three. He likes to

bite. Six bad ones in Mrs. Leeds.

Eight in Mrs. Jacobi...

(beat)

... that's all I have.

Graham sits down.

SPRINGFIELD:

All right. Vice and Narcotics, take

the K-Y cowboys and the leather bars.

Marcus and Whitman heads up at the

funeral. The rest of you, your

assignments are on the sheet. Let's

go.

They start to rise. Springfield remembers.

SPRINGFIELD:

One more thing:
I've heard officers

referring to the killer as the 'Tooth

Fairy.

(on laughter)

Yeah, yeah, but I don't want to hear

that in public or internal memoranda.

That's it.

Detectives file out. Crawford and Graham remain.

Springfield crosses to them and they wait for all the other

detectives to leave.

SPRINGFIELD:

(to Crawford)

We don't have sh*t, and we know it.

Dr. Princi joins them.

16.

SPRINGFIELD:

(to Graham)

The Commissioner was saying you

were the one that caught Dr. Lecter

three years ago.

(beat)

He killed nine people, didn't he?

GRAHAM:

Nine that we know of. Two didn't

die.

SPRINGFIELD:

What happened to them?

GRAHAM:

One's on the respirator at a hospital

in Baltimore. The other is in a

private mental hospital in Denver.

SPRINGFIELD:

What did the psychologists say was

wrong with Lecter?

GRAHAM:

Psychologists call him a sociopath.

They don't know what else to call

him.

SPRINGFIELD:

What would you call him?

Graham doesn't answer.

SPRINGFIELD:

To yourself...

GRAHAM:

I call him a monster.

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