The Fugitive Page #10
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1993
- 130 min
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Gerard moves back through the bedroom past the SCREAMING
woman. He locks in on the voice and sound of the moving
fugitive.
Copeland listens but gets no response from Gerard. He backs
through the second bedroom door, pulling Newman into the -
LIVING ROOM:
Newman's eyes are pure terror - the blade pressed against
his throat.
COPELAND:
(to Gerard)
You hear me? I said, I want out or
I'll cut your man's throat!
GERARD:
Keeps moving down the hallway, through first bedroom, pauses
at door to the second bedroom and chooses his course.
LIVING ROOM:
Copeland positions himself between the bedroom door and the
hallway opening. He's troubled he can't hear Gerard.
Suddenly he hears a NOISE behind him at the bedroom door He
whips Newman around and we see:
A shoe hits the floor. Copeland realizes his mistake too
late. He turns back to the hallway and there is Gerard.
He never blinks. FIRES once killing Copeland instantly.
The knife falls to the floor. Newman clutches his head,
stunned but unhurt.
Gerard now turns to the screaming woman behind him in the
bedroom doorway.
GERARD:
Shut up.
She does. Immediately.
EXT. HOUSE - MORNING
As coroners and tactical police mop up. Gerard moves across
the yard, sips coffee from Styrofoam cup. He stops at a
sheriff's car, Newman sits on back seat, shaken, nearly
hysterical, clutching his ear.
NEWMAN:
My ear... I can't hear a thing out
of it. I can't believe you did that!
GERARD:
You think I should have bargained
with him, don't you?
NEWMAN:
Yes. You could've missed! You
could've killed me!
GERARD:
Yeah, you're absolutely right. I
could've.
They hold a look.
GERARD:
How bad's your ear?
NEWMAN:
Terrible. I probably have permanent
hearing damage.
GERARD:
Let me see it.
Newman leans toward him. Gerard speaks into his ear.
GERARD:
I don't bargain.
Gerard leaves. Newman watches him - realizing what a truly
unsettling man Gerard is.
EXT. CHICAGO PAY PHONE - MORNING
Kimble makes call. While he waits for phone to be answered
TRAINS COME and GO in the b.g. An EL CROSSES OVERHEAD. The
BELLS of Chicago River DRAWBRIDGE.
KIMBLE:
Walter. It's Richard.
INTERCUT WITH:
INT. LAW OFFICES OF GUTHERIE, MORGAN AND WAINWRIGHT - DAY
Walter Gutherie answers phone from his office overlooking
Lake Michigan.
GUTHERIE:
Richard... Jesus, why did you run?
Running only makes you look guilty.
KIMBLE:
I wasn't worrying about appearances,
Walter.
GUTHERIE:
Tell me where you are. I'll come
meet you so you can turn yourself
in .
KIMBLE:
I'm not turning myself in. I need
money.
Gutherie is silent. When he speaks again his speech takes on
the lawyerly tone of a man who's covering his own bases.
GUTHERIE:
Richard. You're asking me to harbor
and aid a convicted felon... I can't
help you that way. My advice - both
as a friend and as your legal counsel
- is for you to give yourself up.
Now tell me... where are you?
Kimble picks up the change in his attorney's tone.
KIMBLE:
(beat)
St. Louis.
GUTHERIE:
Give me an address. I'll be -
CLICK. Gutherie hears the LINE GO DEAD. Kimble's gone.
EXT. DOWNTOWN - DAY
Kimble stands in the doorway with cup of coffee. He considers
his next move. Then seeing bank clock flash the time: 9:30 -
he knows what that move is.
INT. NORTH BANK TENNIS CLUB - DAY
An upscale mid-town tennis club. Behind glass windows of
the entryway we see tennis courts. From the courts comes Dr.
Charles Nichols still dressed in his warmups, carrying his
tennis bag. A friendly DESK ATTENDANT Sharon) smiles as he
goes by.
DESK ATTENDANT:
See you tomorrow, Dr. Nichols?
NICHOLS:
Creature of habit, Sharon.
EXT. NORTH BANK CLUB - DAY
Dr. Nichols leaves the club. He tosses his gym bag into the
back of his car and drives off.
INT. / EXT. NICHOLS'S CAR - DAY
As he pulls up to the first stoplight, a homeless man moves
toward the driver's side and begins washing his windshield.
Nichols waves the man off.
NICHOLS:
Not today, please.
The man shuffles off. Just then a second man appears at his
passenger window. He leans down to wave him away
NICHOLS:
No. Not -
... then stops - the face at his passenger window is
Richard Kimble's.
NICHOLS:
(stunned)
Oh, my God... Richard...
Nichols rolls down the passenger window.
KIMBLE:
How're you doing, Charlie?
NICHOLS:
You're alive...
KIMBLE:
Yeah. And I need your help.
NICHOLS:
Anything.
KIMBLE:
I need some money. Whatever you've
got on you.
NICHOLS:
Of course.
Nichols reaches into his gym bag in the backseat and digs
for his wallet...
NICHOLS:
Tell me where you're staying. I'll
get you more money. Some clothes.
Just give me an address...
KIMBLE:
I'll call you.
Kimble glances around, the area is still clear. He looks
back into the car and doesn't see the police car turn the
corner and come up the street behind them.
Nichols finds his wallet ant hands all the cash he's got to
Kimble, who quickly pockets it.
NICHOLS:
I know why you came back - to find
him. If I can help, call me...
Call me.
They hold a look. The stoplight changes to green but they
don't see it.
KIMBLE:
Thanks, Charlie...
NICHOLS:
Here, Richard, take my coat...
He reaches into the back for his coat, suddenly police car
behind him POPS its SIREN. Nichols looks into his rearview
mirror. Sees a COP lean out his window.
COP:
(to Nichols)
Hey, buddy - green light. Let's go.
Nichols looks back at Kimble. He's gone.
INT. U.S. MARSHAL'S OFFICES (CHICAGO) - CLOSE ON AUDIO TAPE - DAY
REWINDING. The media room - just what it sounds like -
banks of audio/video equipment and a sound board.
Renfro rewinds the tape. Gerard, Biggs, Poole and Newman.
POOLE:
We've alerted St. Louis P.D
GERARD:
Call them back. Tell them you've
made a mistake.
POOLE:
What?
GERARD:
(to Renfro)
Stop it there.
Renfro hits play. Kimble's VOICE is heard again:
GERARD:
Drop the voices.
Renfro removes the two voices. What comes up are the
BACKGROUND SOUNDS. EXTERIOR NOISES (BELLS RINGING, TRAFFIC,
MECHANICAL... TRAINS). Everyone becomes focused to the
sounds now.
GERARD:
(he's heard something)
Listen.
BIGGS:
Trains? Traffic?
GERARD:
More... there's a voice in the
background.
At first the sound is unrecognizable. A BELL. GRINDING
MECHANICAL. Then a P.A. VOICE on the tape: "Next stop
Merchandise Mart."
RENFRO:
That's an El announcement.
GERARD:
And there's no E1 in St. Louis.
Ladies and gentlemen, Richard Kimble
is in Chicago. Poole, get his
artwork out to local police and have
C.P.D. check the shelters... Biggs,
bring in the detectives that handled
his case.
Instantly the room is in movement.
STEVENS:
I'll prepare the press release.
GERARD:
No.
Stevens stops.
GERARD:
They don't know he's alive and as
far as Kimble knows we don't either.
I want to keep it that way as long
as we can. Are we clear?
The whole group sense Gerard's intensity in regard to
Kimble.
RENFRO:
(for the group)
Perfectly.
Gerard reflects on a moment of personal satisfaction.
GERARD:
Noah... go to my office and let's
officially take Dr. Kimble out of
purgatory.
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