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NATALIE *

(casual) *

Hey, Jimmy - *

Natalie stares at Leonard confused. *

NATALIE (cont'd) *

I'm sorry, I... I thought you were*

someone else. *

Natalie backs away from the car, perturbed. Just before she*

disappears around the corner, she tips the lid of the *

dumpster, letting it fall with a metallic howl and a BANG. *

C140 INT. MOTEL ROOM 21 - DAY ##BLACK AND WHITE SEQUENCE## C140

Leonard talks on the phone, worried. *

LEONARD *

No, Officer, but with my condition, you*

don't know anything... you feel angry, *

guilty, you don't know why. You could do *

something terrible and not have the *

faintest idea ten minutes later. Like *

Sammy. What if I've done something like*

Sammy?! *

(listens) *

I didn't tell you? Didn't I tell you *

what happened to Sammy and his wife?! *

(listens) *

(MORE)

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LEONARD (contd)

Mrs. Jankis came to my off ice and asked *

my honest opinion about Sammy's *

condition. *

141 INT. LEONARD'S OFFICE - DAY ##BLACK AND WHITE SEQUENCE##141

Mrs. Jankis is seated across the desk from Leonard. She gets

up to leave. Leonard just sits there.

LEONARD (V.0.)

I never said he was faking. Just that

his condition was mental, not physical.

She seemed satisfied, she just said

"thanks" and got up to leave. I found

out later that she went home and gave

Sammy his final exam.

142 INT. THE JANKIS HOUSE LIVING ROOM - DAY ##BLACK AND WHITE 142

SEQUENCE##

Sammy watches T.V. commercials. Mrs. Jankis watches him.

MRS. JANKIS

Sammy, it's time for my shot.

Sammy looks up, smiling, glad to help. He goes into the

kitchen and comes back with a bottle of insulin, a syringe

and a cotton swab.

Sammy carefully prepares the injection and Mrs. Jankis offers

him her arm. (LEONARD AND LEONARD'S WIFE TO SUBSTITUTE)

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LEONARD (V.O.)

She knew beyond doubt that he loved her,

so she found a way to test him.

Sammy injects the insulin, then withdraws the needle, smiles

reassuringly at his wife and goes back into the kitchen.

Mrs. Jankis watches Sammy flipping through the channels,

looking for commercials.

She sets her watch back by fifteen minutes.

MRS. JANKIS

Sammy, it's time for my shot.

Sammy looks up, smiling, glad to be able to help. He goes

into the kitchen and comes back with the bottle of insulin,

the syringe and a new cotton swab.

He carefully prepares the injection and Mrs. Jankis offers

him her other arm. Sammy injects the insulin, then looks up

at her and smiles.

Sammy watches T.V. Mrs. Jankis sets her watch back by fifteen

minutes.

MRS. JANKIS (cont'd)

Sammy, it's time for my shot.

Sammy looks over from the T.V., smiling, glad to be able to

help.

Mrs. Jankis offers Sammy her leg, and he gives her another

shot of insulin, smiling.

LEONARD (V.O.)

She really thought she would call his

bluff...

Mrs. Jankis sets her watch back by fifteen minutes.

LEONARD (V.O.) (cont'd)

... or didn't want to live with the

things she'd put him through.

Sammy injects her in the stomach.

DISSOLVE TO:

Mrs. Jankis, unconscious in her chair. Sammy glances over from

watching T.V. commercials, wondering.

He goes to her and takes her hand, nudging her gently.

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LEONARD (V.0.) (CONT'D)

She went into a coma and never

recovered.

Sammy grabs for the phone, dialing frantically.

LEONARD (V.O.)(cont'd)

Sammy couldn't understand or explain

what had happened.

Sammy strokes Mrs. Jankis' cheek, crying.

143 INT. CROWDED DAY ROOM OF A NURSING HOME - DAY ##BLACK AND 143

WHITE SEQUENCE##

Sammy sits watching other patients and nursing staff pass by.

(LEONARD TO SUBSTITUTE) He looks at each one with a fresh

look of expectant recognition.

LEONARD (V.0.)

He's been in a home ever since. He

doesn't even know his wife is dead.

144 INT. MOTEL ROOM 21 - DAY ##BLACK AND WHITE SEQUENCE## 144*

Leonard strokes the tattoo on his hand.

LEONARD (cont'd) *

Sammy's brain didn't respond to *

conditioning, but he was no con man. *

When his wife looked into his eyes she *

thought he could be the same as he ever*

was. When I looked into Sammy's eyes, I*

thought I saw recognition. We were both*

wrong.

Leonard looks into the mirror.

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LEONARD (cont'd)

Now I know. You take it. If you think

you're supposed to recognize someone,

you pretend to. You bluff it to get a

pat on the head from the doctors. You

bluff it to seem less of a freak. *

145 EXT. STRIP MALL - DAY 145

The TYRES of the Jaguar SCREAM as the car SCREECHES to a

halt. Leonard backs the car up and stops in front of a TATTOO

PARLOR. He grabs a FILE CARD of f the dash which says:

"TATTOO:
FACT 6. CAR LICENSE: SG13 7IU"

146 INT. TATTOO PARLOR - DAY 146

Leonard (beige suit) enters. A TATTOOIST is sitting with a

magazine, smoking.

LEONARD:

Didn't know this town had a parlor.

TATTOOIST:

Every town's got a parlor.

LEONARD:

I'd like this on my thigh please.

Leonard hands her a FILE CARD. She reads the card, then looks

at him. He shrugs.

147 INT. CURTAINED CUBICLE - TATTOO PARLOR - DAY - CONTINUOUS 147

Leonard unbuckles his trousers and starts to pull them down.

He STOPS when he sees his thigh, looking up at the tattooist.

LEONARD:

Promise you won't call me an idiot.

He pulls down his trousers, revealing his SCABBY, homemade

tattoo. ("FACT 5: DRUG DEALER"). The tattooist looks at it.

TATTOOIST:

(shaking her head)

Idiot.

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148 INT. CURTAINED CUBICLE - TATTOO PARLOR - DAY - CONTINUOUS 148

Extreme close-up of the tattooing needle finishing an "F".

Wider shows us Leonard sitting with his suit trousers around

his ankles in a curtained cubicle. Next to him on the floor

is his sports bag of notes and papers. The tattooist is *

tattooing his thigh, Leonard is reading a file, fascinated.

The curtain is thrust open and Teddy pokes his head in.

TEDDY:

Hi, Lenny.

The tattooist turns and looks up at Teddy. *

TATTOOIST*

It's private back here.

TEDDY:

It's alright, we know each other, right,

Lenny?

The tattooist looks to Leaonard. Leonard shrugs. *

LEONARD:

How'd you know I was in here?

TEDDY:

The Jaguar's out front. You didn't even

Bother to put it around back.

Teddy cranes his neck to see what the tattoo says, but only

"6. LI" is visible.

TEDDY (cont'd)

You should have just left town, Lenny.

There's Tattoo parlors up North.

LEONARD:

Guess I wanted to get something down

before it slipped my mind.

The tattoo needle buzzes as the tattooist makes a start on *

the next letter:
a "C". Teddy sticks his hand through the

curtain.

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