Silence. Gradually the sound of distant traffic becomes audible. A LOW ANGLE bounded on one side by a chain-link fence and on the other by the one-story public school buildings. Spray-can hieroglyphics and distant streetlight shadows. This is a Los Angeles public school in a blue collar neighborhood.
ANGLE BETWEEN SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Where a trash dumpster looms in a LOW ANGLE, part of the clutter b
ANGLE ON CHRISTINE CARTER
A thirteen-year-old girl sitting at a desk. She raises
her hand.
SISTER IMMACULATA
Christine?
CHRISTINE
Sister, may I be excused?
SISTER IMMACULATA
Christine...
CHRISTINE
Its an emergency. Real bad.
Sister Immaculata nods, pursing her lips. Christine
stands and heads for the door.
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CUT TO:
INT. GIRLS ROOM
Christine is now in the deserted St. Annes girls room.
She is st
ANGLE - Shorty pries open the can of lye, whiffs it. Its good and
strong. He pours some in the mason jar, stirring with the wooden
spoon. He cracks the eggs into the mixture and stirs. He waits as
fumes rise and feels the outside of the jar as it gets hot.
ANOTHER ANGLE - The barbershop SEEN from a door, slightly
ajar. A woolly head, entirely in shadow, peers out.
CHOLLYS VOICE
She says Im
ANGLE - THE DESK FAN
There is more of a hint of conincidence as the blades whirl and head
swivels. The boys figure passes, blocking the breeze.
THE GUIDEBOOK PAGES
stop dead on... Jim Morrisons decorated tomb in the Cemetiere du Pere
Lachaise. A pilgrim has spray painted "This is the End." Which in fact, it
is... of the MAIN TITLE
BARBARA
Alex...
CAMERA ADJUSTS, to fully reveal Alex Browning as h
angling at his side. We dont know him, and
its going to be a while before we see him again, but mark
his face because well see him again. The Killer now picks
up the dark shape in the Bodys hand, and we see its - A
BRIEFCASE. The Killer cuffs the Briefcase to his wrist and
turns to - TWO MEN standing behind him: subordinates. The
Killer shows them the Briefcase.
KILLER
God loves me.
THE BODY sudd