This had become possible thanks to two sorts of innovation. The first concerned the rules themselves. Under the original international capital accord struck in Basel in 1988, banks were meant to hold capital worth 8% of their assets. Since some assets are safer than others, and some banks are better at lending safely than others, it seemed sensible to allow banks to calculate how much capital the
shadow of a large plane crosses the desert floor. Then,
an old DC-3 flies fifty feet above the Police Sedan.
5.
INT. POLICE SEDAN - DAY
They watch the plane disappear over a small rise in the
desert. They look at each other and wait some more.
EXT. MEXICAN DESERT - LATER
From the direction of the landing strip, a moving van
lumbers down the road, two TEENAGERS in the cab.
INT. POLICE SEDAN - DAY
argument..."vegetables?"
"shit," "burgers"...Suddenly another voice rises above the
others.
BECKS VOICE/ RADIO
Okay, cut the chatter. Youre
not out of here, yet. Whos the
hook? Seven?...You got a hook on
container 22?
A pause, then more voices.
SIXPACKS VOICE/ RADIO
(redneck drawl)
The mans asking if youre hooked
on 22, you dumb shit.
JONES VOICE/ RADIO
Watch your mouth, Sixpack. Hello,
Shack, Se
shadow among darker shadows. Not noticed , no reason to be noticed, Travis is one with his surroundings. He wears rider jeans, cowboy boots, a plaid western shirt and a worn beige Army jacket with a patch reading, "King Kong Company 1968-70".
He has the smell of sex about him: Sick sex, repressed sex, lonely sex, but sex nonetheless. He is a raw male force, driving forward; toward what, one canno
shadows creep.
Drift little sleeper, off to dreams.
Slumber through the midnight screams...
??
(CONTINUED)
3.
??
SHERIFF #1 keeps his gun on Young Roger as SHERIFF #2 looks
into the bedroom... almost gets sick.
SHERRIFF #2 (O.S.)
Roger? Roger? What have you done?
Young Roger keeps singing the lullaby as Sheriff #1 and
Sheriff #2 cuff him, and lead him away from the carnage.
??
EXT. GRANDFORT HACI