scared Puerto Rican kid!
JOSE
"Volunteers" again.
JOSE immediately rolls over and feigns sleep as SCARFACE, a
menacing guard with a jagged scar running down his cheek, looms
close to COLEs cage and unlocks it.
SCARFACE
"Volunteer duty".
The PRISONERS in the other cages watch silently with narrowed eyes.
COLE
I didnt volunteer.
SCARFACE
You causing trouble again?
COLE
(controls his temper)
No trou
A disheveled young man in a gaily colored Hawaiian shirt is launched into frame by someone offscreen.
He holds a printed paddle that reads "NO. 1468-6 NOV. 29 79."
The hatch marks on the wall behind him are apparently height markers.
VOICE OVER
... The first time I met Ed was in the county lock-up in Tempe, Arizona...
FLASH
As his picture is taken.
CLOSEUP
On the paddle: "NOV. 29 79."
VOICE OVER
RELIC
a screenplay by Amy Holden Jones
based on the book by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
March 16, 1995
TITLE CARD... BELEM BRAZIL - JULY...
EXT. BELEM STREETS - NIGHT
A taxi careens down narrow roadways at breakneck speeds.
INT. TAXI - NIGHT
In the back seat is WHITTLESLEY. Early 40s, the wreck of a once
handsome man. Unshaven. Sweat stained. Rail thin. Scratches on his
arms, a fresh scar
scarred and scruffy combat vetsitting in a
beat up carbon-fiber wheelchair. At 22his eyes are
hardened by the wisdom and wariness of one who has endured
pain beyond his years.
Jake stares upward at the levels of the city. MAGLEV TRAINS
WHOOSH overhead on elevated tracksagainst a sky of garish
advertizing.
JAKE (V.O.)
They can fix a spinalif you몶ve got the
money. But not on vet benefitsnot in
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