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AVERY:

Dear Templeton, if at any time you

feel my excellent work isn't in

step with your piece of sh*t rag,

I'll more than happily decamp for

greener pastures.

He exits through the door. Peck shouting after him:

PECK:

I mean it!

166 INT. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE THIRD FLOOR -- DAY 166

Graysmith at his desk. He looks up at Peck's shout to see

Avery wobbling towards him.

GRAYSMITH:

What was that about?

AVERY:

A little editorial tete-a-tete.

Let's get a drink.

GRAYSMITH:

It's ten in the morning.

AVERY:

An early lunch.

GRAYSMITH:

Are you okay?

Avery stares at him for a moment. Touched.

AVERY:

Not at all. But thank you for

asking.

Avery claps him on the back.

AVERY (CONT'D)

Hey, Shorty, wanna get a drink?

SHORTY:

F***, yeah!

They head for the elevators. Hyman, passing by.

HYMAN:

Paul, where are you going?

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Avery merely raises his arm, SHOOTING HIM THE FINGER. Not

turning around. He gets in the elevator with Shorty. On

Graysmith. Watching him until the doors close. PRELAP:

ARMSTRONG (V.O.)

So how do you want to start doing

this?

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166A EXT. TRANSAMERICA BUILDING -- TIMELAPSE -- EFFECTS SHOT 166A

As it FINISHES CONSTRUCTION. Covering A YEAR. Over this:

TOSCHI (V.O.)ARMSTRONG (V.O.)

We need to recheck Benson and What about the watermarks-

Flowers-

CAPTAIN LEE TOSCHI (V.O.)

Why does Napa keep calling What about the postmarks?

about a Rick Marshall?

TOSCHI CAPTAIN LEE (V.O.)

I’m iffy on Marshall, but Every letter except the last

Vallejo’s on Benson and one is postmarked San

Flowers... Francisco-

MULANAX (V.O.)MORRILL (V.O.)

I looked at Benson and There's an Eaton Watermark on

Flowers, they're morons, but the first three letters, but

they're not Z-then it changes to a "Fifth

Avenue" watermark which is

sold at Woolworths-

TOSCHI (V.O.)PAROLE OFFICER (V.O.)

Narlow hasn't gotten This parolee David Carpenter

Marshall's prints yet-hasn't checked in, I think he

looks pretty good as your

guy-

ARMSTRONG (V.O.)NARLOW (V.O.)

So it's not Benson or I really like him for it-

Flowers?

MULANAX (V.O.)NARLOW (V.O.)

No ballistics match-No way it’s him.

TOSCHI (V.O.)MORRILL (V.O.)

Sherwood says he's a no-It's not his handwriting

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ARMSTRONG (V.O.)

Big fat no on Marshall-

TOSCHI (V.O.)

Carpenter was in custody at

the time-

TOSCHI (V.O.)

It's a dead end, Chief-

ARMSTRONG (V.O.)

We've got nothing.

SILENCE. The Pyramid - FINISHED. Then:

CATHERINE ALLEN (V.O.)

It's been awhile since we've heard

from you.

166B INT. JOHN AND CATHERINE ALLEN RESIDENCE -- EVENING 166B

Armstrong sits across from Catherine Allen.

ARMSTRONG:

We have a lot of cases, Mrs. Allen

and a lot of suspects on this case-

CATHERINE ALLEN:

You've moved off my brother-in-

law.

ARMSTRONG:

We couldn't get the warrant.

CATHERINE ALLEN:

Last year we arranged to get Leigh

help from a social worker. He

only went twice. We saw him

recently. The first time in nine

months, his mother brought him by

to see the new baby- After he

came by, I went to that social

worker. He couldn't talk about a

former patient. I told him he was

a Zodiac suspect and just asked

him straight if he thought Leigh

was capable of killing people-

ARMSTRONG:

But because of patient

confidentiality-

CATHERINE ALLEN:

The man said yes.

Armstrong stares at her.

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ARMSTRONG:

Why hadn't you seen him in nine

months?

CATHERINE ALLEN:

He's going to school in Santa

Rosa.

ARMSTRONG:

Santa Rosa? Where's he living?

CATHERINE ALLEN:

In his trailer.

166C INT. HALL OF JUSTICE -- HOMICIDE UNIT -- EVENING 166C

Toschi looks up as Armstrong enters.

TOSCHI:

We gotta go check a Z tip on Mare

Island-

ARMSTRONG:

The trailer in Santa Rosa.

TOSCHI:

What?

ARMSTRONG:

Leigh Allen. The one he lives out

of while he goes to school.

Toschi leans back, his attention captured.

ARMSTRONG (CONT'D)

You're Z. You've taken trophies -

a wallet, keys, bloody shirt. Are

you gonna hide them in your

mother's house or in your own

trailer?

166D INT. HALL OF JUSTICE CORRIDORS -- EVENING 166D

Toschi and Armstrong, walking with Captain Lee.

CAPTAIN LEE:

It's in Santa Rosa?

ARMSTRONG:

Sonoma County. We wouldn't have

to go through the Vallejo D.A.

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CAPTAIN LEE:

It's been eleven months since you

talked to this guy, now you want

to search his trailer?

TOSCHI:

If we find something, great, if

not, at least we get his prints

and handwriting from both hands.

Turning a corner:

CAPTAIN LEE:

I thought Sherwood shut you down.

TOSCHI:

What if we could get a second

opinion?

166E INT. QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS -- PASCOE'S OFFICE -- DAY 166E

Toschi with handwriting expert TERRY PASCOE.

PASCOE:

I don't want to step on Sherwood's

toes, he trained me at this-

TOSCHI:

Terry, all we need to know is - if

the suspect is ambidextrous, could

he have written the letters with

his other hand?

PASCOE:

Off the record? There are

differing schools of thought on

this. Get samples from his other

hand. If he's the Zodiac, you'll

get a match.

166F INT. HALL OF JUSTICE -- HOMICIDE UNIT -- NIGHT 166F

Captain Lee sits on the edge of Toschi's desk facing the two

detectives.

ARMSTRONG:

...we got that from Pascoe,

meanwhile I spoke to apsychologist who'd be willing to

testify that someone who undergoes

a personality change like Zodiac

would manifest it physically,

altering his handwriting

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TOSCHI:

Which is why Sherwood didn't get a

match from Allen's samples. We've

got Pascoe and this psychologist,

coupled with Cheney it could be

enough for the warrant.

Lee rises, heading for the door.

CAPTAIN LEE:

Get Cheney on the record.

167 INT. BECTEL CORPORATION BUILDING LOBBY -- DAY 167

DON CHENEY listens as Armstrong rapidly READS OFF a LIST OF

STATEMENTS:

ARMSTRONG:

...that on January 1st 1968,

Arthur Allen told you about

hunting people, that he said he

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