Blade Runner Page #4

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EXT. CITY STREET - NIGHT

Lights from the blimp flash along the street and wipe

across the crowds of pedestrians as the VOICE TRACK

CONTINUES TO BLARE from above.

A portable noodle bar is crowded with customers, sit-

ting on stools slurping their food out of bowls.

DECKARD is standing near the noodle bar waiting for a

seat. He's in his thirties, wiry, athletic, rumpled,

used, unshaven. He's holding a newspaper, made of

tissue paper, open while he glances at the blimp

passing NOISILY overhead. Then he notices the

COUNTERMAN.

The Counterman is beckoning to him to a newly vacated

seat.

Deckard sits down at the noodle bar and the Counterman,

an elderly Japanese, slaps a menu in front of him.

No words on the menu, just pictures of sliced fish

parts.

Deckard points to a particular item and holds up four

fingers.

The Counterman looks at the item on the menu, confirms

the order by holding up two fingers.

Deckard shakes his head "no" and repeats his four

fingers.

The Counterman nods, corrected and hurries off.

Deckard glances overhead.

The blimp drifts off among the buildings like a fish

disappearing in seaweed, the NOISY VOICE doing a

diminuendo.

Whap. The Counterman slaps a bowl of rice and a pot

of tea in front of Deckard. Then he puts the little

bowl with the two slices of fish on the counter.

Deckard looks at the fish. Two slices of fish.

He looks at the Counterman and holds up four fingers.

The Counterman looks down at the two slices of fish,

looks like two to him. He looks at Deckard as though

Deckard was a fool and holds up two fingers. He can

count!

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