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INT. CASINO - NIGHT - FLASHBACK

The Blackjack table where DELMER Is dealing. DOLLY AROUND to reveal

a drunk and obnoxious CRAIG HANSEN, screaming about the cards he's

been dealt and taunting Delmer

NARRATOR:

-- added to this, Mr. Hansen's

tortured life met before with

Delmer Darion just two nights previous --

Hansen SPITS and PUNCHES at Delmer Darion's FACE for dealing the

cards he's been dealt. SECURITY GUARDS attack and pull him to the ground.

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INT. MOTEL ROOM - DAY - BACK TO SCENE

CRAIG HANSEN reading the paper, looking at the cover story,

that has a photo of DELMER DARION. He's crying and

mumbling to himself:

CRAIG HANSEN:

...oh God...f***...I'm sorry...I'm sorry...

NARRATOR:

The weight of the guilt and the

measure of coincidence so large,

Craig Hansen took his life.

Replay of Craig Hansen's suicide, except this time, right before he

blows his head off we hear him say, through tears:

CRAIG HANSEN:

...forgive me...

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INT. CASINO - NIGHT - BACK TO SCENE

Back to the fight DELMER and CRAIG HANSEN are having: CAMERA DOLLIES

IN QUICK TOWARDS Delmer on the ground with blood coming from his nose.

FREEZE FRAME.

NARRATOR:

And I Am Trying To Think This Was All

Only A Matter Of Chance.

QUICK DISSOLVE TO:

INSERT, CLOSE UP - HOTEL EVENTS BOARD.

It reads:
Welcome! AAFS Awards Dinner and Reception

Walnut Room

8pm

INT. HOTEL BANQUET ROOM - NIGHT (1961)

CAMERA pushes in following two GUESTS through some double

doors and reveals the DINNER RECEPTION.

ANGLE, MAN BEHIND PODIUM.

CAMERA pushes in quick then blends to 60fps on a man in glasses:

DONALD HARPER, forensic scientist as he speaks into the microphone.

NARRATOR:

The tale told at a 1961 awards dinner

for the American Association Of Forensic

Science by Dr. Donald Harper, president

of the association, began with a simple

suicide attempt --

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EXT. ROOFTOP - MORNING - FLASHBACK (1958).

A seventeen year old kid SYDNEY BARRINGER steps up on to the

roof of a nine story building and looks down.

NARRATOR:

Seventeen year old Sydney Barringer.

In the city of Los Angeles on March 23, 1958.

CAMERA DOLLIES towards Sydney landing in a CLOSE UP of his feet

on the ledge, they wobble a bit -- he jumps, disappears from FRAME.

BEAT. The following happens very quickly:

ANGLE, looking up towards the sky...Sydney falls past CAMERA....

ANGLE, looking down towards the street...Sydney continues to fall...

ANGLE, a random window on the sixth floor of the building SMASHES....

ANGLE, Sydney's stomach...a BULLET rips into it as he falls...blood

splatters and his body flinches....

ANGLE, looking up towards the sky...Sydney's body and some shattered

glass FALL directly at the CAMERA...which pulls back a little to reveal:

a SAFETY NET in the foreground....Sydney's body falls LIMP into the

net...FREEZE FRAME.

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