Manhunter Page #7

LECKTOR:

That's the same atrocious aftershave

you wore in court three years ago.

GRAHAM:

I keep getting it for Christmas.

CLOSE:
LECKTOR'S HEAD

turns to us. His small eyes drill into Graham's brain.

Lecktor's attitude is professionally psychiatric, as if Graham

is the patient.

LECKTOR:

Did you get my card?

GRAHAM:

I got it. Thank you.

26.

GRAHAM' S

struggle will be to keep locked-down inside himself all his

emotional reactions.

LECKTOR:

And how is Officer Stuart? The one

who was the first to see my basement.

GRAHAM:

Stuart is fine.

LECKTOR:

Emotional problems, I hear. He was

a very promising young officer. Do

you ever have any problems, Will?

GRAHAM:

No.

LECKTOR:

Of course, you don't.

(pause)

I'm glad you came. My callers are

all professional. Clinical

psychiatrists from cornfield colleges

somewhere. Second-raters, the lot.

GRAHAM:

Dr. Bloom showed me your article on

surgical addiction in the journal

of Clinical Psychiatry.

LECKTOR:

And?

GRAHAM:

Very interesting, even to a layman.

Lecktor rolls around and examines the term "layman" in his

head. Then:

LECKTOR:

A layman.., layman. Interesting

term. So many experts on government

grants. And you say you're a

'layman?' But it was you who caught

me, wasn't it, Will? Do you know

how you did it'

GRAHAM:

You've read the transcript. It's

all there.

LECKTOR:

No it's not. Do you know how you

Did it Will?

27.

GRAHAM:

It's in the transcript. What does

it matter now?

LECKTOR:

(smiles)

It doesn't matter to me, Will.

GRAHAM:

I want you to help me, Dr. Lecktor.

LECKTOR:

Yes, I thought so.

GRAHAM:

It's about Atlanta and Birmingham.

LECKTOR:

Yes .

GRAHAM:

You read about it, I'm sure.

LECKTOR:

In the papers. I don't rear out the

articles.

(laughs)

I wouldn't want them to think I was

dwelling on anything morbid. You

want to know how he's choosing them,

don't you?

GRAHAM:

I thought you would have some ideas.

LECKTOR:

Why should I tell you?

GRAHAM:

There are things you don't have.

Research materials... I could speak

to the Chief of Staff...?

LECKTOR:

Chilton? Gruesome, isn't he? He

fumbles at your head like a freshman

pulling at a panty girdle.

(laugh;)

He actually tries to give me a

Thematic and Apperception test.

Hah. Sat there waiting for MF-13 to

come up. It's a card with a woman

in bed and a man in the foreground.

I was supposed to avoid a sexual

interpretation. I laughed in his

face.

(beat)

Never mind, it's boring.

28.

GRAHAM:

You'll get to see the file on this

case. And there's another reason.

LECKTOR:

Pray tell.

GRAHAM:

I thought you might be curious to

find our if you're smarter than

the person I'm looking for.

LECKTOR:

Then by implication, you think that

you are smarter than me, since you

caught me.

GRAHAM:

No. I knew that I'm nor smarter

than you are.

LECKTOR:

Then how did you catch me, Will?

GRAHAM:

You had disadvantages.

LECKTOR:

What disadvantage?.

GRAHAM:

You're insane.

LECKTOR:

You're very tan, Will.

Graham does not answer, If anything happens, there is a

tightening of the musculature repressing his reactions to

Lecktor.

LECKTOR:

Your hands are rough. They don't

look like a cop s hands anymore.

That shaving lotion is something a

child would select. It has a ship

on the bottle, doesn't it?

Another silence. Lecktor's eyes look as if they're drilling

into Graham's head, trying to find out things. Trying to

find a way to hurt Graham. He's very threatening. Then

relaxes:

LECKTOR:

Don't think you can persuade me with

appeals to my intellectual vanity.

29.

GRAHAM:

I don't think I'll persuade you.

You'll do it or you won't. Dr.

Bloom is working an it anyway, and

he's the best...

LECKTOR:

(interrupts)

Do you have the file with you

GRAHAM:

Yes.

LECKTOR:

Pictures?

GRAHAM:

Yes.

LECKTOR:

let me have them,, and I might

consider it.

GRAHAM:

No.

LECKTOR:

Do you dream much, Will?

GRAHAM:

Good-bye, Dr. Lecktor.

LECKTOR:

You haven't threatened to take away

my books yet.

Graham gets up and starts to walk away.

LECKTOR:

let me have the file. Then I'll

tell you what I think.

Graham stops at the door before he knocks for the attendant.

Then he folds the abridged file tightly into the sliding

tray. Lecktor pulls it through.

GRAHAM:

sits in the chair. He wants a cigarette. He doesn't take

one. He waits. And he watches. What he sees:

30.

GRAHAM'S POV:
EXTREME CLOSE PAN THROUGH CELL OP

DR. LECKTOR

Toothbrush, mirror, sink, Sryrofoam cups, soft paper jour-

nals, T-shirts, neatly stacked hospital pads, sneakers with-

no shoelaces, the wall, seatless toilet bowl, etc, etc

All the objects are brilliantly lit with sharp bluish light.

Their edges are sharper and more defined than normal. The

shadows of the bars make hard-edged stripes. It is a high

resolution, highly brilliant sec of images. It feels like a

hyper-perception of reality, a super-realism perceived by the

mind of Graham. It is interrupted when:

LECKTOR (O.S.)

There is a very shy boy, Will.

GRAHAM:

snaps back to the present, looks at Lecktor.

LECKTOR:

What were the yards like?

GRAHAM:

Big backyards, fences, some hedges,

why?

LECKTOR:

Because, my dear Will, if this

Pilgrim imagines he has a

relationship with the full moon,

he might go outside and look at it.

Have you seen blood in moonlight,

Will? It appears quite black. If

one were nude, it would be better

to have outdoor privacy for this

sort of thing.

GRAHAM:

That's interesting.

LECKTOR:

It's not 'interesting'. You thought

of it before.

GRAHAM:

Yes. I'd considered it.

LECKTOR:

You came here to look at me, Will.

To get the old scent again, didn't

you?

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