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HUDGEONS I like it! I like it! INT. 2245 MARAVILLA - NIGHT The arc light floods the living room about the same time that Jack kicks the door in. The room is caught flush: Christmas tree, a bag of weed on the couch, two kids necking in their BVDs. MATT REYNOLDS and TAMMY JORDAN. Police! JACK EXT. 2245 MARAVILLA - NIGHT Jack exits, hauling Jordan and Reynolds by the neck. Jack stops with Grauman's FRAMED behind him and Hudgeons CLICKS off several shots with his CAMERA. HUDGEONS Cut! Wrap it! Windows light up. Rubberneckers appear. Jack hands the kids to the patrolmen, heads back in with Hudgeons in tow. INT. 2245 MARAVILLA - NIGHT Jack scoops the pot, flips through an address book. A card falls out. "Fleur-de-Lis. Whatever you desire..." Jack looks from the card out the window at the kids being loaded into a black and white. They're both crying now. HUDGEONS (stantorian tone) It's Christmas morning in the City of Angels, and while decent citizens sleep the sleep of the righteous, hopheads prowl for marijuana, not knowing that a man is coming to stop them. The freewheeling, big-time Big V, celebrity crime-stopper, Jack Vincennes, the scourge of grasshoppers and junk fiends everywhere. You like it, Jackie- Boy? JACK Yeah, it's subtle. Sid hands him a President Grant 50.
HUDGEONS Remember: you heard it first here, off the record, on the Q.T. and very Hush-Hush. INT. HOLLYWOOD STATION - DISPATCH DESK - NIGHT Suspects, mostly drunk and disorderly, are ushered through. Sgt. ED EXLEY, 30, bespectacled, is at the desk with a YOUNG OFFICER. Exley is an up-and-comer. Burning with ambition. The faster he rises through the ranks, the more resentment he leaves in his wake. EXLEY What's on the call sheet? YOUNG OFFICER A guy dressed as Santa has been exposing himself to kids in Los Feliz. Apparently, sir, he's decorated himself. Decorated? EXLEY YOUNG OFFICER With tinsel and plastic icicles and... on his penis, sir. EXLEY I get the idea. You got a description? YOUNG OFFICER Of his penis, sir? EXT. HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD - HOLLYWOOD LIQUOR - NIGHT Tinsel-trimmed photos of movie stars look down from the walls as the OWNER takes an order from LYNN BRACKEN. LYNN A case each of gin, Scotch, and rum. Everything top shelf. None of that watered-down stuff you push on Errol Flynn. OWNER (laughs) Sounds like a helluva party. Her hair kerchiefed, Lynn waits as the Owner writes it up. There's glamour, a cat-girl grace about Lynn. She seems like she belongs up on the wall with the movie stars.
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Page 3 and 4: INT. THE MOCAMBO - NIGHT A CLUB PHO
Page 5 and 6: COHEN Bullshit. What's the charge?
Page 7 and 8: Without warning, Bud grabs Stompana
Page 9: The Actress storms off. Jack looks
Page 13 and 14: MEEKS Cut me some slack. I used to
Page 15 and 16: DUDLEY This way, gentlemen. Dudley'
Page 17 and 18: DUDLEY Would you be willing to rig
Page 19 and 20: OPERATOR (V.O.) (filtered) Please h
Page 21 and 22: Cops block Exley's way. As Bud look
Page 23 and 24: EXLEY The public demands justice, s
Page 25 and 26: LOEW But my office has a stellar wi
Page 27 and 28: CLERK Edmund J. Exley to chambers.
Page 29 and 30: BUD He helped me out once. That's a
Page 31 and 32: with a gold shovel. Pierce Patchett
Page 33 and 34: EXT. McNEIL PENITENTIARY - DAY Grim
Page 35 and 36: INT. HUSH-HUSH MAGAZINE OFFICE - DA
Page 37 and 38: STENSLAND Don't look so down in the
Page 39 and 40: meat wagons cut off by the crown. A
Page 41 and 42: FLATNOSE I don't know. No one knows
Page 43 and 44: BUD What happened? EXLEY Someone he
Page 45 and 46: CHIEF Enough on that. Gentlemen, ju
Page 47 and 48: PATCHETT I am. Are you soliciting f
Page 49 and 50: PATCHETT Wait. Our deal still holds
Page 51 and 52: JACK We're looking for three colore
Page 53 and 54: BUD You use words like that, you mi
Page 55 and 56: BUD You look better than Veronica L
Page 57 and 58: EXLEY Quiet. I'm ranking officer he
Page 59 and 60: EXLEY Did one of the officers work
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EXLEY Why were you throwing clothes
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EXLEY Larry, he called you queer. H
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BUD One in six. Where's the girl? E
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EXLEY How's it going to look on you
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ELEVATOR Coates watches as the elev
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INT. STATE ASSEMBLY - CHAMBER - DAY
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DUDLEY Breaking a big case sticks y
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Yeah. JACK Jack doesn't really feel
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REYNOLDS I can't do it. HUDGEONS Ta
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INT. LYNN BRACKEN'S (1736 NOTTINGHA
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INT. AFTER HOURS CLUB - NIGHT The B
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EXLEY Until he gunned down six peop
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BUD It's like they knew they were g
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DEN Innocuous except for the smell.
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EXLEY Officer White? A sweet man. E
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EXLEY Do you make the three Negroes
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Should I? STOMPANATO BUD His file l
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They stand, kiss again. Lynn's gown
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INT. 1184 GRETNA GREEN (PATCHETT'S)
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EXLEY Miss Bracken, I'm Lieutenant
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INT. PACIFIC DINING CAR - NIGHT Jac
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LYNN Like recognizes like. I'm pret
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JACK Have you a valediction, lad? D
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EXLEY We got a dead ex-cop and a gi
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And? DUDLEY HUDGEONS In my car. Bla
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EXT. 1736 NOTTINGHAM (LYNN BRACKEN'
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EXLEY Look. Dudley and Meeks go way
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BUD There are no rules! Why the fuc
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EXT. 1736 NOTTINGHAM (LYNN BRACKEN'
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OFFICE BATHROOM Loew is at the mirr
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BUD They never made a match on the
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BUD You wanted to meet here? EXLEY
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EXLEY I'm thinking we might walk aw
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EXLEY Something like that. DUDLEY R
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OBSERVATION ROOM Loew leans over, w
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The car moves. A turn into traffic,
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