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GATTACA by Andrew M. Niccol - The Script Source

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43.<br />

No.<br />

IRENE<br />

(wary, wondering<br />

where the<br />

conversation is<br />

headed)<br />

JEROME<br />

Why don't we say we were together?<br />

IRENE<br />

(confused)<br />

Why would we do that?<br />

JEROME<br />

I have better things to do this<br />

week than answer the foolish<br />

questions of some flatfoot. Don't<br />

you?<br />

JEROME<br />

(gently pressing)<br />

Well, shall we say we spent the<br />

evening together?<br />

Irene is still unsure whether or not Jerome is serious.<br />

IRENE<br />

To be convincing, Jerome, I would<br />

have to know what that was like.<br />

Irene turns and departs. Jerome watches her go.<br />

INT. EUGENE'S CONDOMINIUM. NIGHT.<br />

<strong>The</strong> paraplegic EUGENE, seated <strong>by</strong> the window, meticulously<br />

cuts a long fingernail into numerous clippings. He places<br />

the clippings in small plastic bags and seals them. He then<br />

begins to fill tiny sachets with blood. He turns as he hears<br />

JEROME enter down the spiral staircase with the groceries.<br />

EUGENE<br />

You didn't forget the truffles?<br />

JEROME places the items in the refrigerator in the bathroom<br />

and retrieves a bottle of vodka - the vodka incongruous-<br />

looking beside the blood and urine specimens. Joining Eugene<br />

at his workbench, he pours them both a drink.

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