Michael Clayton Page #3
MARTY:
Here’s what I know: your deadline wastwenty minutes ago, so either you’refishing for a story or trying to getout of writing a retraction. In either
case, I wish you well...best of luck...
(as he hangs up--)
...sweet dreams.
BARRY:
So?
MARTY:
(scanning the room)
Where the f*** is Karen Crowder?
INT. LAW FIRM LADIES ROOM -- NIGHT
A CORPORATE LOGO -- embossed on a high-quality, Kevlar,
travel tote:
u/north
“we grow your world together”
THE U/NORTH BAG on a shelf above a row of sinks. Water
running. But no one there. Stalls in the mirror and --
INT. LADIES ROOM STALL -- NIGHT
KAREN CROWDER sitting fully dressed on the john. She is
Senior In-House Counsel for the largest agricultural/chemicalsupply manufacturer on the planet. She is hiding here. She
is trying to fight off a panic attack using a breathingexercise she read about in an airline magazine. As we hear:
ARTHUR EDENS (V.O.)
...even this, Michael -- even now --
that you’re here -- there’s a reason,
a reason it’s you -- every reason --
surely you can sense that -- how itpulls together -- how it gathers --
Nurse Michael -- Secret Hero -- Keeperof the Hidden Sins -- tell me you cansee that, Michael, for God’s sake...
INT. CHINATOWN CARD ROOM -- NIGHT
MICHAEL CLAYTON’S FACE -- A PHOTOGRAPH laminated onto a
Kenner, Bach & Ledeen ID card -- FILLS OUR FRAME. It’s a
man’s face. Son of a second-generation cop’s face. Father
of a ten-year-old boy’s face. A face women like more than
they know why. The good soldier’s face. THE ID CARD justone of several objects sitting at the bottom of a shittyplastic basket. Also here: one roll of breath mints, two
mobile phones, business cards, too many keys on a Mercedessecurity pendant keychain, and one heavy-duty steel Rolex.
THREE OTHER BASKETS ON THE TABLE. Three other sets of
personal objects. A SMALL HOLSTERED GUN in one of the
collections. A stack of empty baskets to the side.
WE’RE IN
A CHINATOWN CASINO. A basement hideaway on a dead night.
TWO BORED CHINESE BOUNCERS sitting with the plastic basketsbeside a walk-through metal detector. Only one of the room’sten tables is lit tonight. In the background, a CantoneseAnnouncer calling the first race at Happy Valley and --
MICHAEL CLAYTON glancing at his four hole cards. Four upcards in the middle of the table. The game is Pot LimitOmaha and the eyes are weary tonight.
MICHAEL:
Check.
THE DEALER is Chinese and all business -- looking to -
PLAYER #2
(Dominican dude)
I go like that. Check.
PLAYER #3 has a bad toupee and a plumber’s flashroll -
PLAYER #3/PLUMBER
(peeling off twenties)
Half the pot. Two hundred.
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