LA Confidential.pdf - Screenplay.com
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EXLEY<br />
Ask for Captain Dudley Smith.<br />
We'll have a party. Hot dogs and<br />
sauerkraut.<br />
A beat as Loew considers his options.<br />
LOEW<br />
It's okay. These are police<br />
(as she leaves)<br />
WHAT do you want?<br />
EXLEY<br />
I want D.A. bureau men to tail<br />
Dudley Smith twenty-four hours a<br />
day; I want you to get a judge to<br />
authorize a wire tap on his home<br />
phone; I want authorization to<br />
check his bank records and I want<br />
it all in an hour.<br />
LOEW<br />
On what evidence?<br />
EXLEY<br />
None. Call it a hunch.<br />
LOEW<br />
(incredulous)<br />
Absolutely not. Dudley Smith is a<br />
highly decorated member of this<br />
city's police department and I<br />
won't smear his name without --<br />
EXLEY<br />
Without what, his smearing yours<br />
first? What's he got on you,<br />
Loew? Pictures of you and an out<br />
of work actor with your pants<br />
down?<br />
LOEW<br />
Do you have any proof?<br />
EXLEY<br />
The proof had his throat slit.<br />
(a beat)<br />
So far you're not denying it.<br />
LOEW<br />
I'm not going to dignify youwith<br />
answers. If you'll excuse me,<br />
I've got a Jack Vincennes press<br />
conference to prepare for.<br />
Loew enters his bathroom. Bud looks to Exley who nods:<br />
Go.
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