Pickman's Muse Page #4

GOODlE:
Look out any window in this city and you will see it!

GOODlE:
You will see it...!

PlCKMAN:
Shut up...

PlCKMAN:
Shut up...

PlCKMAN:
You know some of us are trying to work!

PlCKMAN:
ljust need some peace and quiet.

PlCKMAN:
Shut the dog up!

VOlCE:
No distractions...

LANDLADY:
Pickman , l know you 're in there.

LANDLADY:
Pickman , l'm here with the police.

LANDLADY:
They want to talk to you .

LANDLADY:
Pickman , do you hear me?!

PlCKMAN:
lt'll be just a second...

PlCKMAN:
Just give me one more minute!

LANDLADY:
Pickman !

PlCKMAN:
Yeah...Yeah, l'll be there in just a second! Okay?

LANDLADY:
Pickman ! Do you hear!?

PlCKMAN:
Just a second, l'm just getting some clothes.

PlCKMAN:
Just a minute, l'll be right there.

LANDLADY:
We haven 't got all day!

LANDLADY:
Pickman ...!

PlCKMAN:
Yeah. What do you want?

LANDLADY:
This detective wants to talk to you .

DETECTlVE:
Someone killed a dog last night.

LANDLADY:
lt wasn 't killed. lt was butchered.

LANDLADY:
And the parts laid out -- like in some of those

paintings of yours.

DETECTlVE:
We're just checking the building to see if anyone

saw or heard anything.

DETECTlVE:
Did you , sir?

PlCKMAN:
No...no...

PlCKMAN:
l didn 't see anything.

DETECTlVE:
Didn 't you file a number of noise complaints

against the owners of that dog?

PlCKMAN:
Yeah.

PlCKMAN:
You telling me l'm the only one that's complained

about that yapping dog?

DETECTlVE:
Call the Precinct in case you happen to

remember anything.

PlCKMAN:
Yes. l will.

LANDLADY:
l know it was you ...

DR. DEXTER:
Robert.

DR. DEXTER:
Open up. l'm not going away!

DR. DEXTER:
Robert!

DR. DEXTER:
Robert!

DR. DEXTER:
Robert!

DR. DEXTER:
Robert, are you here?

PlCKMAN:
What are you doing here?

DR. DEXTER:
Who've you been talking to?

PlCKMAN:
Get the hell out of my place!

DR. DEXTER:
l want to know who's been filling your mind with these things!

DR. DEXTER:
l don 't want you here.

You 're coming with me!

PlCKMAN:
Who let you in here?

DR. DEXTER:
You gave me a key!

DR. DEXTER:
The first thing we're going to do is destroy these obscenities!

PlCKMAN:
Don 't touch my... Get out of here!

PlCKMAN:
You 're not to touch my paintings.

Please don 't touch my things.

DR. DEXTER:
l'm not leaving!

R. DEXTER:
l'm not going from here... until all of those drawings are destroyed

DR. DEXTER:
l'm not going to let this happen to me again !

LANDLADY:
What's going on in here?

LANDLADY:
l'm going to call the cops, d'you hear me?

PlCKMAN:
ln my apartment! He... He should be arrested, call the cops!

PlCKMAN:
Call the cops!

RlCHARD:
l can 't believe you 'd do something like that!

RlCHARD:
What are you going to do if Dean Petersen finds out?

DR. DEXTER:
l'll take care of it.

RlCHARD:
He's already done a few... You know he's going to find about this.

RlCHARD:
And when he does, he's going to remove you from the Board.

DR. DEXTER:
l can handle Petersen . lt'll be alright.

RlCHARD:
People with your attitude...

RlCHARD:
Robert has never done anything wrong in his entire life.

RlCHARD:
He's nevertried to harm anyone.

Or himself!

DR. DEXTER:
Neither did Goodie!

RlCHARD:
What?!

DR. DEXTER:
Look! l need you to listen to me.

DR. DEXTER:
Starry Wisdom is an actual physical place.

RlCHARD:
Starry Wisdom?!

DR. DEXTER:
You 've heard Goodie Hines use

that phrase a million times, am l right?

RlCHARD:
Yes!

DR. DEXTER:
lt's not just some phrase he concocted... to...

DR. DEXTER:
...to give a name to his delusional states.

lt's an actual physical place.

DR. DEXTER:
lt's that church on Federal Hill.

RlCHARD:
What does this have to do with you

busting into Robert Pickman 's studio today?

DR. DEXTER:
lt has everything to do with it!

DR. DEXTER:
Look.

DR. DEXTER:
Otherthan you and me, the public has never

seen any of Goodie's final paintings -- am l right?

RlCHARD:
Yes, that's right.

DR. DEXTER:
Robert Pickman has a studio full of

identical work...

DR. DEXTER:
down to the smallest detail, almost to the very

brush stroke...

DR. DEXTER:
...as exacting as if they were photocopies.

DR. DEXTER:
Every... Every vile world...

DR. DEXTER:
Every creature...

DR. DEXTER:
Every brutal ritual...

DR. DEXTER:
This is all playing out as if it were a novel l read a

thousand times before...

DR. DEXTER:
Only this time, l intend on changing the ending.

DR. DEXTER:
Richard, l need your help...

DR. DEXTER:
l need you to cover my patient list for a few days.

RlCHARD:
Oh, God! l can 't!

RlCHARD:
l... l don 't want to get involved

with whatever you 're planning!

DR. DEXTER:
You won 't. Just coverfor me at the hospital.

RlCHARD:
You 'd be arrested if you get

within 100 yards of Pickman !

DR. DEXTER:
l... l don 't intend to.

DR. DEXTER:
ljust need to keep an eye on him for

a few days, to see whom he comes in contact with.

DR. DEXTER:
Richard, please. l'm begging you .

DR. DEXTER:
You know l'll do this with orwithout your help.

RlCHARD:
Okay...

MESSENGER:
l got that painting stuff you wanted.

PlCKMAN:
Here.

MESSENGER:
Oh, l don 't know if l can make change forthis.

PlCKMAN:
Keep it.

MESSENGER:
Wow. Thanks.

MESSENGER:
l can go home early today.

VOICE.. A gift...

MESSENGER:
Listen , do you need me to pick up something

else for you ... (FADE OUT)

VOICE.. Re-pay us...

VOICE.. Re-pay your de-bt...

VOICE.. Re-pay us...

MESSENGER:
...so what do you say? l could really use

the extra cash.

PlCKMAN:
Get out of here!

PlCKMAN:
And don 't ever come back.

VOICE.. You stole- from us...

VOICE.. Re-pay your de-bt.

VOICE.. Allow us to taste- fe-ar again .

PlCKMAN:
No!

VOICE.. Re-pay your de-bt...

PlCKMAN:
l can 't!

PlCKMAN:
l'm sorry.

PlCKMAN:
ljust need to see again ...

PlCKMAN:
ljust need to see again ...

PlCKMAN:
Everything will be fine if l can see one more time.

PlCKMAN:
l'm so sorry...

PlCKMAN:
ljust need to see one more time.

PlCKMAN:
l'm so sorry!

PlCKMAN:
...l need to see... l am so sorry...

PlCKMAN:
l'm sorry!

PlCKMAN:
l need to see again .

PlCKMAN:
l'll do anything you want!

PlCKMAN:
Anything!

PlCKMAN:
l'm sorry...

PlCKMAN:
l wasn 't listening.

PlCKMAN:
Show me what to do...

PlCKMAN:
l want to see! Tell me what to do!

PlCKMAN:
Show me what to do!

PlCKMAN:
Show me what to do...

PlCKMAN:
Show me...

Dr. Ambrose Dexter

Hines, Goody

DR. DEXTER:
Robert, we have to talk.

PlCKMAN:
Not a word... take me to see Goodie. Get back

in the car.

PlCKMAN:
Take me to see Goodie.

DR. DEXTER:
Why, Robert?

PlCKMAN:
Because he has the answers.

DR. DEXTER:
Tell me why you want to see him...

PlCKMAN:
Because he has the answers!

Just take me to see him.

DR. DEXTER:
l will not help you with any of this, Robert.

PlCKMAN:
You will... you will.

PlCKMAN:
You 're actually going to help me forthe first time

in a long time...

PlCKMAN:
Alright, stay there.

DR. DEXTER:
Robert...

PlCKMAN:
Sit in this chair and don 't say a word!

PlCKMAN:
Sit down !

PlCKMAN:
You 're the one that needs to be locked up, not him.

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