Manhunter Page #5

SPRINGFIELD:

I understand he cut you pretty good...

GRAHAM:

(cold right turn>

What about the dog?

SPRINGFIELD:

It's at the vet's. The kids brought

it in with a puncture wound in the

abdomen. icepick or an awl.

GRAHAM:

Was the dog wearing a collar with

the Leeds' name on it?

SPRINGFIELD:

No.

17.

GRAHAM:

Did the Jacobis in Birmingham have

a dog?

CRAWFORD:

(alert)

A cat. We found a litter box

downstairs but not the cat.

Neighbors are watching for it.

GRAHAM:

Why don't you get Birmingham P.D.

a methane probe out of D.C. and

have them cover the backyard...

maybe the cat's dead and the kids

buried it.

Crawford starts to move. The PHONE RINGS. Springfield

answers.

SPRINGFIELD:

Yeah?

(waits)

Lemme put you on the speaker phone.

JIMMIE PRICE (V.O.)

Who am I talking to?

CRAWIIORD:

Jimmie, it's me, Jack Crawford, and

you got Will Graham here.

JIMMIE PRICE (V.O.)

I got a partial with a tented arch

that's probably a thumb print and

a fragment of a palm.

Springfield reacts.

JIMMIE PRICE (V.O.)

Came off the oldest kid's left eye.

It stood out against an eight-ball

hemorrhage from the gunshot wound.

CRAWFORD:

Can you make an identification off

it?

JIMMIE PRICE (V.O.)

Don't know. The palm came off the

nail of Mrs. Leeds' left big toe.

I want to work these up in my own

darkroom. I'll fax the prints down

to you this afternoon.

Hangs up.

18.

SPRINGFIELD:

thought Graham was ridiculous. Now his expression is very

changed.

GRAHAM:

senses Springfield's staring at him. Graham's face is blank.

He leaves. Springfield -- shaking Crawford's hand -- watches

Graham all the way to the door.

CUT TO:

EXT. ATLANTA POLICE HEADQUARTERS - GRAHAM s CRAWFORD - DAY

coming down the stairs. News media are all over Springfield,

the Commissioner, the Mayor's P.R. Officer in the b.g. No-

body recognizes Crawford and Graham except one short man, who

separates himself from the pack and darts up to them. He is

LOUNDS. He starts chasing behind them.

LOUNDS:

Will Graham! Remember me? Freddie

Lounds? I covered the Lecter

case for the Tattler. I did the

paperback... !

CLOSE:
GRAHAM

walking down the stairs. His face is locked like a steel

trap. He's repressing something powerful.

LOUNDS:

(running on, behind

them)

When did they call you in, Will?

What have you got?

Graham won't answer him. They are on the sidewalk by now.

CRAWFORD:

Lounds, give it a rest...

LOUNDS:

Come on, Graham?! Talk to me!

Graham and Crawford are moving dawn the sidewalk now. Crawford

tries to block Lounds. Lounds moves around him, dogging Graham:

LOUNDS:

How does this guy compare with

Lecter? How does he do them?

Right now he makes the mistake of grabbing Graham's arm to

turn him around.

19.

GRAHAM:

Grabs Lounds by the labels, kicks his legs out from under

him and throws him over the hood of a car upside-down. The

impact STARS the WINDSHIELD Lounds is scared to death. The

violence totally surprises us. Graham's face is inches from

Lounds.

GRAHAM:

(very low)

Keep the f*** away from me!

Crawford is pulling on Graham. He can't budge him. Graham

lets go.

WIDER:
CRAWFORD PULLING GRAHAM AWAY

down the sidewalk and Lounds who slides off the car hood and

lands on all fours.

CRAWFORD:

(over his shoulder

to Lounds)

Get the hell away from here, Lounds!

CUT TO:

INT. DINER, BOOTH - GRAHAM + CRAWFORD - DAY

Graham is staring into the black deep recesses of his coffee.

Crawford is looking at him. Finally:

GRAHAM:

...snuck in the hospital while I

was sedated, flipped back the sheets

and shot pictures. The only decent

thing he did was run a black square

over my balls...

CRAWFORD:

I know...

Graham looks away. Then he lights another cigarette.

GRAHAM:

(back to business)

Atlanta and Birmingham can run

the thumb print against known sex

offenders. Five will get you

ten they don't come up with an

identification. Jimmie may in the

Finder program... if he's ever been

printed and in his Index.

20.

CRAWFORD:

Say we've arrested a good suspect.

You walk in and see him. What

is there about him that doesn't

surprise you?

GRAHAM:

I don't know, Jack. He's got no

face for me.

CRAWFORD:

You can tell something about him

or we wouldn't have found the finger

print. ..

GRAHAM.

Don't expect too much from me, Jack,

all right?

(pause)

We'll get him one way or the other.

CRAWFORD:

What's one way?

GRAHAM:

We find an event that connects both

families. Same vacation hotel; same

hospital, different times. Then we

check employees and come up with a

male nurse, hairdresser, whatever...

(beat)

If we find out how he found them,

then we'll find him.

CRAWFORD:

We're running it through the

computers now. So far there's no

event or service that doubles back

into both families. Plus they were

big consumers:
snowmobiles, fishing

trips, scuba, videogames, lots of

routine medical and dental. It's

a haystack.

(beat)

What's the other?

GRAHAM:

He makes noise going in and the

husband gets to a gun in time.

CRAWFORD:

No other possibilities?

GRAHAM:

You think I'm gonna spot him 'across

a crowded room?' That's Ezio Pinza

you're thinking about.

(MORE)

21.

GRAHAM (CONT'D)

(beat)

The Tooth Fairy will go on until we

get smart or get lucky. He won't

stop.

CRAWFORD:

Why?

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