victims blood on his
clothes...
A servant, CASSY, enters with a tray of iced tea and glasses.
MRS. GRANDFORT
Thank you, Cassy. You may leave.
She pours a glass from the pitcher.
MRS. GRANDFORT
Iced tea?
LARRUE
No.
(beat)
Roger has been in trouble before.
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(CONTINUED)
4.
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MRS. GRANDFORT
Drugs, drink, brawling. Youthful
indiscretions. Nothing like this.
Why would he want to kill that girl?
L
victim here?
Let me suggest to you
the following.
Your husband,
on a prior occasion,
had slapped you-- beat you.
I think that word
is not inappropriate.
No, I--
Let me finish, please.
Im not concerned
with who slapped whom first.
Your husband,
who had beaten you repeatedly--
No, he never--
Please-- repeatedly, was at the time
brandishing your firearm.
- It was his gun.
- And well get it back for
BODY OF EVIDENCE
by
Brad Mirman
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(second draft)
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Over the BLACK we hear the SOUNDS of two people making love. A
MANS VOICE MOANS passionately.
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FADE IN:
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INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT
ANDREW MARSH lies on his back in bed. He is a frail-looking
man in his early sixties, with thinning gray hair. On top of
him is a much younger WOMAN. Although her back is to us, we
catch flashes of her face for a mom
Nashville Script
Now, after years in the making,
Robert Altman brings to the big
screen the long-awaited Nashville,
with ... count em...
of your very favorite stars!
David Arkin, Barbara Baxley,
Ned Beatty in Nashville!
And the fabulous performances
of Karen Black, Ronee Blakely!
Timothy Brown in Nashville,
along with the spectacular
Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin!
With Robert Doqui in Nashvi
THE VERDICT
by David Mamet
INT. FIRST FUNERAL PARLOR - DAY
A working-class funeral in progress. THIRTY PEOPLE and an
inexpensive bier SEEN from the back of the hall.
ANGLE
A MANs back FILLS the SCREEN. He is dressed in a black suit;
his hands are clasped behind him. ANOTHER MAN stands next to
him. The Second Man reaches behind the First Mans back and
puts a discreetly folded ten-dollar bill into
victims is relief
from passivity. For these men, ten
minutes relief is worth far more
than the life of another human
being. Torture, the pain they
inflict, the screams of the victim,
are all part of the ritual that
gives them a brief respite from
their own psychic pain. And then
the depression, the forgetting, the
feeling of sadness and despair
begins the cycle all over again.
Like addicts seekin
Mighty Aphrodite Script
Woe unto man.
Brave Achilles, slain in trial by blood.
For prize, the bride of Menaleas,
and father of Antigone, ruler of Thebes,
self-rendered sightless by lust for expiation,
lost victim of bewildered desire.
Nor has Jasons wife fared better,
giving life, only to reclaim it, in vengeful fury.
For to understand the ways of the heart
is to grasp as clearly the malice or in
victims
of a drug deal gone bad.
The identity of the victims
has been withheld.
Firemen were summoned to extract a man
from a ventilator duct of a building.
The man became trapped when he entered
the duct in order to rob the premises.
The deficit now stands
at an astounding $ billion.
A reputed crime lord and of his
henchmen were gunned down today.
Witnesses said the gunmen
rode past Mr. Armeteo.
victims
and starving children.
Now Im quite sure that
North Korean government wont mind...
...but how do you think the world press
is going to react to that?
What do you want?
I want you back at the negotiating table
with South Korea tomorrow.
That is impossible.
Sending.
Well, just take a look at your monitor.
Well, if its still an impossibility,
press " " on your keypad.
If its a possibility...
victim.
Those that are not solved within
the first hours seldom are.
Not so with serial killers.
One advantage
in this line of work
is knowing that as long as
the UNSUB is out there,
youll always have
another chance.
With each new killing comes
a resetting of the clock.
Time is on your side.
The model for this exercise
was a missing-persons search
in Buffalo, .
The dead man was an accomplice
who