Basic Page #5

Dunbar eyes it, wary but definitely wanting it.

HARDY:

Go on. You can eat in front of

someone and still not talk to them my

parents did it for years.

Dunbar grabs the donut, wolfing it down.

HARDY:

Want another one?

No response. Osborne looks to her watch - it's been a minute.

12.

HARDY:

Maybe later. Ray, let me say this

up front - I'm not a cop.

Dunbar turns away, no longer interested. Hardy continues:

HARDY:

I used to be, but that's beside the

point. Who I am doesn't really

matter; what matters is that right

now, you're in a shitload of trouble.

You understand that, right?

No response.

HARDY:

Now, I don't know if you did what

you did in self defense and frankly

I don't really care. I'm just doing

a favor for Colonel Styles because

he wants to know if anyone else who's

still out there is in need of

assistance. To be honest with you,

though, I don't care about that

either.

Dunbar looks up at this, surprised.

HARDY:

I don't know those guys, you do.

They die, to me, it's like seeing a

couple people died in a fire on the

news - tragic, but it doesn't affect

me. The only thing I care about is

I agreed to do a favor for a friend

and try and talk to you till your

transpo shows up. You like baseball?

No response. Osborne looks at her watch - two minutes.

HARDY:

I could talk baseball for days.

Batting averages, ERA's, I got

statistics in my brain, I don't know

how I remember them. It's freaky.

You wanna talk baseball?

Dunbar, completely confused.

HARDY:

Come on Ray, we're gonna be here

five hours, we gotta talk about

something. So who do you like?

A long silence and then:

13.

DUNBAR:

I don't like baseball.

Hardy grins as Osborne stops her watch at 2:41.

HARDY:

Why not?

DUNBAR:

I asked for a policeman.

HARDY:

You're under military arrest, it's

not gonna happen. What's wrong with

baseball?

DUNBAR:

It's... too slow.

HARDY:

Well, it's a game of anticipation,

that's the beauty.

DUNBAR:

I just don't like it.

HARDY:

What do you like then?

As they continue, we TRACK under the table to reveal a HIDDEN

MICROPHONE...

INT. STYLES' OFFICE -- MORNING

Styles and an M.P. listening to the Coffee Room conversation.

DUNBAR'S VOICE, over the speaker:

DUNBAR (O.S.)

I don't know... I like the Army.

HARDY (O.S.)

C'mon, Ray, everyone hates the Army

during Basic. I'll tell you straight,

I hated it here.

INT. COFFEE ROOM -- MORNING

DUNBAR:

You did Basic here?

HARDY:

Fifteen years ago under Sergeant

West. Piece of work, that guy. I

remember, he used to have these two

silver .45's with ivory handles and

if you weren't quick enough, he’d

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