Charade Page #4

23.CLOSE SHOT -- INSPECTOR GRANDPIERRE

A heavy-set man of no particular age with tobacco-colored

hair, and thick glasses.

GRANDPIERRE:

Madame Charles Lampert?

24.WIDER ANGLE

Including REGGIE, in a state of near-shock.

REGGIE:

Yes.

GRANDPIERRE:

I am Inspector Edouard Grandpierre

of the Police Judiciaire. Would you be

so kind as to come with me, please?

25.INT. MORGUE -- DAY

We see a large metal drawer being opened and an all-too-

familiar shape outlined under a damp sheet of muslin.

26.ANOTHER ANGLE -- OVERHEAD

Looking straight down at the tops of REGGIE's, GRANDPIERRE's

and an ATTENDANT's head and smack into the open drawer.

GRANDPIERRE lifts a corner of the sheet at the bottom and

reveals a bare foot with a ticket tied to its big toe.

He stoops to read it. Satisfied, he recovers the foot,

then moves to the other end to uncover the head. As the

sheet starts to lift:

27.REVERSE SHOT

REGGIE as she looks down into the CAMERA. She closes her

eyes for a moment, then looks again.

GRANDPIERRE'S VOICE (o.s.)

Well, Madame -- ?

She nods.

GRANDPIERRE'S VOICE (o.s.)

You are positive?

She nods again. GRANDPIERRE moves into the SHOT.

GRANDPIERRE:

You loved him?

REGGIE:

I'm very cold.

GRANDPIERRE nods as he turns to the unseen ATTENDANT.

CAMERA suddenly moves as the 'drawer' is slid back into

the wall. BLACKNESS comes with a loud clang and continues

while the echo dies.

28. INT. GRANDPIERRE'S OFFICE -- DAY

CLOSE SHOT -- DESK DRAWER (FROM ABOVE) as it is pulled open.

A photograph of Charles Lampert lies face up in the drawer.

A hand reaches in and pulls it out.

29.WIDER ANGLE

Including GRANDPIERRE sitting behind his desk, and REGGIE,

sitting across from him. The office is as bare as most

policemen's offices. GRANDPIERRE studies the photo.

GRANDPIERRE:

We discovered your husband's body lying next

to the tracks of the Paris-Bourdeaux railroad

line. He was dressed only in his pajamas.

Do you know of any reason why he might have

wished to leave France?

REGGIE:

Leave?

GRANDPIERRE:

Your husband possessed a ticket of passage

on the 'Maranguape.' It sailed from Bordeaux

for Maracaibo this morning at seven.

REGGIE (a pause)

I'm very confused.

She starts to rummage through her bag. GRANDPIERRE shoves

a package of French cigarettes across the desk to her. But

she pulls a package of nuts out of her bag. She begins

separating the shells with her thumb nail and eating the

nuts, depositing the shells in the ashtray. GRANDPIERRE

watches this for an instant.

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