Batman Page #5

In the background: a TV set tuned to the 11 o'clock news,

with highlights of HARVEY DENT's campaign speech.

DENT:

(on the TV screen)

Together we can make Gotham city a

safe place for decent people to live

and work and play.

THE HAND sets the deck on an end table, raps it twice,

turns up four aces off the top. This most unusual deck

sports a .22 calibre BULLET HOLE straight through the

middle.

JACK NAPIER:

Decent people shouldn't live here.

They'd be much happier someplace

else.

JACK NAPIER, 32, is right-hand man and chief enforcer to

Boss Carl Grissom. His features are delicate, almost

feminine, and he takes a vain, gangsterish pride in his

appearance. He is also absolutely merciless.

He trains a cold eye on DENT's televised image as ALICIA

HUNT -- 26, beautiful, Carl Grissom's kept woman -- glides

over in her negligee and snuggles up.

ALICIA:

Anything new?

JACK:

The usual gas. If this clown could

lay a hand on Grissom... I would've

had to kill him by now.

ALICIA finds JACK's necktie draped over a nearby chair. She

begins knotting it playfully about his neck.

ALICIA:

If Grissom knew about us... he

might kill you.

JACK seems uninterested in her affections. His eye darts

back and forth between the TV and his own reflection in a

nearby vanity.

JACK:

Don't think so, angel. I'm too

valuable. That's the way I've

planned it.

(pause)

And besides, he doesn't know.

JACK checks his watch, reaches for his topcoat, and stands

in front of the vanity. He runs a hand through sculpted

hair, checks out his Albert Nipon ensemble.

ALICIA:

You look just fine, Jack.

He smiles at himself before turning to the door.

JACK:

... I didn't ask.

CUT TO:

EXT. ALLEYWAY - NIGHT

The scene of the earlier mugging, a half-block off Gotham

Square. Only now, the deserted alleyway is a beehive of

activity:
police cars, an ambulance, a forensics van.

EDDIE THE PUNK goes past on a stretcher, catatonic.

Watching him are a porcine cop, LT. ECKHARDT, and a POLICE

MEDIC.

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