The Usual Suspects Page #5

BLUE 06/01/94

14.

15 INT. INTERROGATION ROOM

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Hockney's turn in the chair. He laughs it all off.

HOCKNEY:

- my lawyer. I'll have your badge,

cocksucker.

OVERLAPPED:

HOCKNEY (CONT'D)

I know you. You don't think I know

you're on the take. This whole f***ing

precinct is dirty. You don't have a

f***ing leg to stand on.

VERBAL (V.O.)

Hockney was just a bad bastard. Good with

explosives. Mean as a snake when it

mattered .

VOICE (O.S.)

You think so, tough guy? I can put you in

Queens the day of the hijacking.

HOCKNEY:

I live in Queens. What the f*** is this?

You come into my store and lock me up in

front of my customers. What the hell is

wrong with this country? Are you guys

gonna charge me or what?

VOICE (O.S.)

You know what happens if you do another

turn in the joint?

HOCKNEY:

I'll f*** your father in the shower.

Charge me, dick-head.

16 INT. INTERROGATION ROOM 16

Now Keaton sits in the chair, cool and indifferent.

VERBAL (V.O.)

Keaton was the real prize for them, for

obvious reasons.

VOICE (O.S.)

I'll charge you when I'm ready.

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KEATON:

with what?

VOICE (O.S.)

You know damn well, dead-man.

KEATON:

Hey, that was your mistake, not mine. Did

you ever think to ask me? I've been

YELLOW 06/11/94

15.

KEATON (cont'd)

walking around with the same face, same

name - I'm a businessman, fellas.

VOICE (O.S.)

What's that? The restaurant business? Not

anymore From now on you're in the

getting-f***ed-by-us business . I'm gonna

make you famous, cocksucker.

Keaton shows just a flicker of contempt. The threat has hit

home.

KEATON:

Like I said. It was all your mistake.

Charge me with it and I'll beat it. Let's

get back to the truck.

A FIST flies into the frame and connects with Keaton's jaw.

His head snaps back, blood flowing freely from his mouth.

17 DELETED 17

18 INT. CELL BLOCK 18

Keaton is brought in to a holding where he joins Fenster,

Hockney, Verbal and McManus. He sits in a corner and keeps to

himself.

Fenster is in mid-tirade.

FENSTER:

Somebody should do something. What is

this sh*t - getting hauled in every five

minutes? Okay, so I did a little time,

does that mean I get railed every time a

truck finds its way off the planet?

McManus is silently staring at Keaton, who sits on a bench,

looking away.

HOCKNEY:

These guys got no probable cause.

SCRIPT DATE 5/25/94

16.

FENSTER:

You're f***in' A right, no P.C. Well

screw P.C. No right. No goddamn right.

You do some time, they never let you go.

Treat me like a criminal, I'll end up a

criminal.

HOCKNEY:

You are a criminal.

FENSTER:

Why you gotta go and do that? I'm trying

to make a point.

KEATON:

Then make it. Christ, you're making me

tired all over.

McManus looks at Keaton.

McMANUS

I heard you were dead, Keaton.

KEATON:

You heard right.

HOCKNEY:

The word I got is you hung up your spurs,

man. What's that all about?

McMANUS

What's this?

HOCKNEY:

Rumor has it, Keaton's gone straight -

cleaning house. I hear he's tapping Edie

Finneran.

McMANUS

Who?

HOCKNEY:

She's a heavy-weight criminal lawyer from

uptown. Big-time connected. She could

erase Dillinger's record if she tried. I

hear she's Keaton's meal ticket.

(To Keaton)

Is it true?

McMANUS

What about it, Keaton? You a lawyer's

wife. What sort of "retainer" you giving

her?

SCRIPT DATE 5/25/94

17.

Keaton shoots McManus a fiery glare.

FENSTER:

I'd say you've gotten on his main and

central nerve, McManus.

KEATON:

Do your friend a favor, Fenster, keep him

quiet .

McMANUS

You're clean, Keaton? Say it ain't so.

Was it you that hit that truck?

FENSTER:

Forget him. It's not important. I was

trying to make a point.

KEATON:

(Ignoring McManus)

This whole thing was a shakedown.

McMANUS

What makes you say that?

KEATON:

How many times have you been in a line-

up? It's always you and four dummies. The

P.D. pays homeless guys ten bucks a head

half the time. No way they'd line five

felons in the same row. No way. And what

the hell is a voice line-.up? A public

defender could get you off of that.

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