Nightcrawler Page #6

It's the same argument, man.

I said this route.

If you wanted to

take Laurel,

you should have

said something.

I thought that you

worked in other factors.

If I didn't think

that you could do better,

Iwouldn't ride you so hard

about the routes.

I think

you know that, Rick.

I think it may

just be possible

that I have a higher opinion of

you than you have of yourself.

RICK; What the f***?

God damn it!

Seriously?

To get to a van crash

on Moorpark?

Who cares?

What's the rush?

Why aren't we at the rape at

Griffith Park like everybody else?

Oh, f***! Oh, f*** me.

Oh, God! That's the f***ing

Mayhem van.

Joe Loder

and the other dude.

What's his name?

F***ing Marcus.

Park the car

and get your camera.

Now, let's get one guy inside.

Hold the seats back.

You can't get

that in right there?

No, there's no room.

Here we go.

What the hell happened?

According to witnesses, they

were driving at a high rate of speed,

probably toward

Griffith Park,

when, apparently, they ran

head-on into this light pole.

No other car.

Single vehicle.

How did they just

run into a pole?

Get that backboard

right up against him.

Gas? -.

Hey, don't film that, man.

He's one of us.

Not anymore, Rick.

We're professionals.

He's a sale.

Got facial trauma. Got

lacerations all the way down...

Yeah,

I'm calling it in.

Minimize

that movement.

Get him back in the ambulance

and put some oxygen on him.

Drop him down.

Keep pressure on him.

Back that unit off.

Yeah, let's get some

four-by-fours on there.

Bring the gurney

all the way up.

Come on, let's go.

Stay with me.

I got him,

Igot him.

Make sure you size him right.

All right.

Man, we are way

the hell out here.

Any Mission unit.

Residential 211 in progress.

37 Bonhi Road.

Receiving 211

siren activation.

Armed response

on a home invasion.

We're five blocks away.

Pull a U-turn.

At the end of the street.

Coming up.

4808. Here!

We beat the police.

What do you want me to do?

You know what to do, Rick!

3-X-21.

Go ahead.

3-X-21, confirm address

on the 211 at Bonhiil Road.

What is going on?

We're leaving.

What?

What's in there?

What's going on?

What happened in there?

You should have walked

in and looked, Rick,

if you're that curious.

That's what

I'm paying you to do.

You need to

show initiative.

There is no better way

to achieve job security

than by making yourself

an indispensable employee.

I heard gunshots!

All the more reason you

might have helped me.

You might have learned a new

skill that made you more useful

and put us on

a track toward growth!

Stay in the car.

Why?

Because I said so.

We have a hit-and-run

in Beverly Hills,

a car versus pedestrian

incident and a robbery.

Do we have

footage of the crash?

Surveillance footage.

I've been trying to reach

you for the last hour.

In the future, when you

don't have anything,

man up and don't dodge

my f***ing calls.

I do have something.

What?

Home invasion, triple

murder in Granada Hills.

That's just breaking now.

We got there

before the police.

You have it?

I'm not going to list the

many benefits of this piece.

I think it's probably best if

you just watch it for yourself.

I could have had

someone out there by now.

Why didn't you call it in?

To increase your need, and

improve my bargaining position.

Frank, Jenny!

Bay 2, now!

Get Linda in here.

Home invasion in Granada.

He got there

before the cops.

We have 10 minutes

to airtime.

How much of this

can we show?

You mean, legally?

No, morally.

Of course, legally.

Have they been identified?

It just happened,

so you have to assume no,

and that's just

one of the issues.

We can't broadcast

their identities

without notifying

the next of kin.

We're not identifying them.

You are by proxy,

by showing their faces.

We pixelate the faces.

Where did you get this?

Stringer.

Hi, Linda. I'm Lou.

Um, Jesus. Is there a dead

baby inside of there?

No. The crib was empty.

Oh,

for Christ's sake.

Are we breaking the law

by showing this?

Block the faces, don't give

out the exact address.

Do that, I guess.

I don't know.

I wouldn't think so, no.

Journalistically

and ethically?

This isn't Hartford.

We are beyond

all broadcast standards.

Have you seen

the overnights?

I'll risk the fine.

What did you pay for this?

The price hasn't been

negotiated yet.

Give us a minute.

Thanks.

How much?

$100,000.

How much'?

$50,000.

I need a number. Nine minutes.

I need a number.

I just gave you two.

$3,000.

I got $3,000 for the

food truck stabbings.

There were more dead.

Those were poor Mexican

people in a roach coach.

Two of them

were illegals.

These are three

wealthy white people,

shot and killed

in their mansion.

Including a suburban housewife

shotgunned in her bed.

I know you, Nina.

I know your interest and

excitement in this product

is greater than the

amount you're offering.

$5,000.

$30,000.

$7,000.

$25,000.

$8,000.

$15,000.

$9,000.

$15,000.

$10,000.

$15,000.

Give me a serious number.

$15,000.

Can't do it. Never happen.

There's a matter of precedent.

Ten is my last best offer.

OK3'! -

Really?

Where are you going?

Seven has approached me

at least several times.

The ND there

gave me his number.

They'll make me a better offer.

It's a five-minute drive.

Hold on!

Twelve.

Fifteen.

I can't spend a month's

budget on a single story.

What if the story's

not over?

The people who

did this escaped.

They're still out there, walking

around with the rest of us.

If I had a family and I lived in a

home, that might make me nervous.

I'd want updates

on what was going on.

With this footage, people would

turn to your channel for the story.

I like you, Nina.

And I look forward

to our time together.

But you have

to understand.

$15,000 isn't

all that I want.

From here on,

starting now,

I want my work to be credited

by the anchors and on a burn.

The name of my company is

Video Production News, a

professional news-gathering service.

That's how

it should be read

and that's how

it should be said.

I also want to go to the next

rung, and meet your team.

And the station manager and

the director and the anchors.

And start developing my own

personal relationships.

I'd like to start meeting

them this morning.

You'll take me around, you'll introduce

me as the owner and President

of Video Production News

and remind them of some

of my many other stories.

I'm not done.

I also want to stop our

discussion over prices.

This will save time.

When I say that

a particular number

is my lowest price,

that's my lowest price.

And you can be

assured that I arrived

at whatever that number

is very carefully.

Now, when I say that

I want these things,

I mean that I want them.

And I don't want to

have to ask again.

And the last thing

that I want, Nina,

is for you to do the things

that I ask you to do

when we're alone together

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