Manhunter Page #8

GRAHAM:

I want your opinion.

31.

LECKTOR:

I don't have one right now.

GRAHAM:

When you do have one I'd like to

hear it.

LECKTOR:

May I keep the file?

GRAHAM:

I haven't decided yet.

LECKTOR:

I'll study it, Will. When you get

more files, I'd like to see them,

too. You can call me. When I

have to call my lawyer, they bring

me a telephone. Would you like to

give me your home number?

Threat.

GRAHAM:

No.

LECKTOR:

Do you know how you caught me,

Will?

GRAHAM:

Goodbye, Dr. Lecktor. You can

leave messages for me at the number

on the file.

Graham bangs on the door. Locks are starting to be unlocked.

Graham can't wait to get out of here. He wants the locks to

get unlocked faster!

LECKTOR:

Do you know how you caught me?

The door is now open. Graham fights down the impulse to run

through. As Graham -- controlled -- steps out, what he hears

is :

LECKTOR (O.S.)

The reason you caught me, Will, is:

we're just alike. You want the

scent? Smell yourself.

The DOOR SLAMS shut on Lecktor.

CUT TO:

32.

INT. CHESAPEAKE:
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE CRIMINALLY

INSANE, CORRIDOR - GRAHAM - DAY

walks down the corridor. He's very stiff. He's walking

towards the outside door. The door is a rectangle of white

light that sends daggers of brilliance across the highly

polished institution's floor. Graham walks for the light.

CUT TO:

EXT. CHESAPEAKE STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE CRIMINALLY

INSANE - ENTRANCE - DAY

The DOOR SLAMS open and Graham comes out into daylight and

air. The air is tactile to him. He can almost feel the

motes of dust and light that swim freely. He breathes.

GRAHAM'S POV:
GRASS

is dappled with pointillist points of color: a spectral

breakup. As it returns to a normal green...

TIGHT SHOT:
GRAHAM

breathes. He stands in front of the sign on the building:

"CHESAPEAKE STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE CRIMINALLY INSANE." He

leans against the railing and breathes clean air. The image

is flattened in a LONG LENS. We hear a CLICK. It FOCUSES

and DE-FOCUSES.

CUT TO:

INT. CXR - FREDDIE LOUNDS - DAY

is photographing Graham with a Nikon and a 500mm Questar

reflector. Be puts the camera to his eye again and hits the

button. The MOTOR DRIVE knocks off three shots.

CUT TO:

INT. G:
,TEWAY LABS - SCREEN DIVIDED INTO FOUR QUADRANTS - DAV

The quadrants display 4 home movies at six times normal

speed:
an old couple, 2 men, a baby and a family. The fam-

ily quadrant slows to normal. We TIGHTEN in on it. We will

come to know these people as the SHERMANS. An 11-year-old boy,

a I4-year-old girl, Mr. Sherman and Mrs. Sherman. A handmade

sign says:
"THE NEW HOUSE - SWIMMING POOL." Mrs. Sherman has

brown hair. She wears a bikini. She has a nice body. She's

sensuous and tan in her thirties. She dives into the pool.

The next shot:
water. Out of the water surfaces Mrs.

Sherman. She shakes her head and water sprays off her hair.

33.

A couple drops hit the lens and diffuse a small area of the

image. Mrs. Sherman puts her hands on the side of the pool

and shoves down to hoist herself out. Her breasts are glis-

tening. Her teeth are white. She smiles at the camera.

Whoever controls the console puts Mrs. Sherman in reverse.

It runs forward again. Mrs. Sherman's glistening body coming

our of the water...

REAR SHOT:
CONSOLE AND A MAN

Beyond is the screen. The man at the console is FRANCIS

DOLLARHYDE. He has a weightlifter's body. We don't see his

face. Black goggles with red lenses are on the console. He

puts them on and watches Mrs. Sherman...

CUT TO:

INT. NEGATIVE PROCESSING ROOM - DOOR - DAY

It slams open. Dollarhyde enters and walks through the dim

green light past the developers in his black goggles with

red lenses. Thousands of feet of negative move through the

tank on rollers. Dollarhyde walks past the baths. We TRACK

WITH him to the door.

CUT TO:

INT. LIGHT TRAP-DOOR - DAY

slams open. Dollarhyde enters. As he reaches the next door...

CUT TO:

INT. DRYER ROOM - DOLLARHYDE - DAY

enters and we TRACK WITH him past film snaking across pul-

leys and rollers through the drying cabinets. As Dollarhyde

passes the dryers...

INT. CAFETERIA - DOLLARHYDE - DAY

in the brilliant aluminum and peach cafeteria gets coffee.

A newspaper's under his arm. As he waits to pay, EILEEN

approaches. She, too, wears goggles, but on a lanyard around

her neck. She's petite, fragile. Dollarhyde towers over her.

EILEEN:

Mr. Dollarhyde?

CLOSER - DOLLARHYDE

looks up.

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His face bears the scars of a Z-plast procedure to fix a

harelip and cleft palate. Immediately, in characteristic

gesture, he curls his right hand under his nose to hide

his Z-plast scars.

DOLLARHYDE:

Yes, Eileen.

EILEEN:

Bill told me to tell you there was

a variation in the gamma of the

number three developer. But he

caught it.

DOLLARHYDE:

And?

EILEEN:

On the densitometer it came out

within tolerances.

DOLLARHYDE:

Thank you, Eileen.

Graciously Dollarhyde lets her go first and then he crosses

to an empty table. He opens his newspaper.

TRACK ACROSS FRANCIS DOLLARHME'S BACK

where the fabric stretches between his shoulder blades and

past his cheap haircut's line at the nape of his neck into

his left shoulder to reveal he's reading the National Tattler.

It's about Will Graham with a Freddie Lounds byline. The

only words we catch are: "FBI Manhunter Consults Fiend Who

Tried To Kill Him, by Freddie Lounds." We also catch: "The

Tooth Fairy - Psychopathic Slayer of Entire Families in

Birmingham and Atlanta..."

CLOSE:
FRANCIS DOLLABHYDE

takes off the black goggles with red lenses. His eyes are

white violet. He turns the page.

NATIONAL TATTLER'S OLD PICTURE OF GRAHAEI

It's the one Lounds took after Graham was slashed by Lecktor.

It's a black-and-white square image of a sleeping man with a

myriad of tubes running into his stomach and a temporary

colostomy bag. A black square is imposed over his genitals.

The caption reads: "Federal Manhunter Will Graham Recover-

ing from Near-Fatal Slashing By Hannibal 'the Cannibal'

Lecktor."

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