LA Confidential.pdf - Screenplay.com
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meat wagons cut off by the crown. As Ed emerges,<br />
reporters surge, shout questions. Exley hurries past,<br />
finds Dudley in <strong>com</strong>mand and barking orders.<br />
EXLEY<br />
Sir, I took the call. It's my<br />
case.<br />
DUDLEY<br />
Edmund, you don't want it and you<br />
can't have it.<br />
EXLEY<br />
Yes, I do, sir.<br />
DUDLEY<br />
It's mine. I'll make you my<br />
second in <strong>com</strong>mand.<br />
Exley spots a photographer moving in. He looks properly<br />
serious as the flash bulb pops.<br />
INT. NIGHT OWL - NIGHT<br />
Forensics Chief RAY PINKER walks Exley and Dudley<br />
through.<br />
PINKER<br />
We got a total of forty-five spent<br />
12-gauge Remington shotgun shells.<br />
Three men with five-shot-capacity<br />
pumps. All of them reloading<br />
twice.<br />
EXLEY<br />
Hold on... We need to canvass.<br />
See if a purple Mercury was seen<br />
around here tonight.<br />
Why?<br />
DUDLEY<br />
EXLEY<br />
We got a call earlier on three<br />
Negro youths. Firing shotguns in<br />
Griffith Park from a late-model<br />
purple Mercury Coupe.<br />
DUDLEY<br />
(to his adjutant)<br />
Get on it.<br />
A FORENSICS COP approaches Pinker.
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