Enemy of the State Page #4

DEAN:

You're right, Mr. DePinto, and

maybe I jumped the gun.

DEPINTO:

You're goddam right you jumped the gun.

DEAN:

That's probably not you in the

picture. I tell you what, I'll just

run the thing by the Grand Jury,

see if they can't--

DEPINTO:

I want to talk to a goddam lawyer.

DEAN:

Good news there, Mr. DePinto,

you're talking to one.

EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD - DAY

News helicopters hover over Hamersley's wreck as police

direct traffic around the media circus.

INT. OLD CAR - CONTINUOUS

DAN ZAVITZ, looks older than he is, balding with a

weight problem, sweats behind SLAPPING wipers of a

beater car plastered with environmental issue stickers.

NPR drones on the radio as a police car crawls behind

him, SIREN YELPING, lights flashing, trying to get by.

ZAVITZ:

Alright, alright already, I see you.

ZAVITZ POV:
Wreckage surrounded by squad cars,

ambulances and media circus. Something's happened.

Something big.

EXT. SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK - DAY

A tall ladder leans against a dead oak. ZAVITZ sweats

and climbs to a branch where a platform's been built

supporting a large phony bird's nest. He lifts away the

nest, revealing--

--Two microphones and three motion-activated digital

video cameras and recorders. ZAVITZ checks the cameras'

viewfinders to see--

--TIME-CODED VIEWS - WIDE, MEDIUM AND CLOSE of a

squirrel's nest containing three newborns. The parents

are nowhere to be seen.

ZAVITZ eyes the recorders. The video disks are spent.

He ejects and pockets them, replacing them with fresh ones.

EXT. SOUTHEAST CAPITOL DISTRICT - DAY

An old building needing rehab. A SIDEWALK VENDOR does

brisk business, we DRIFT to an apartment window above.

TV NEWSCASTER (V.O.)

Police are labeling it an accident

but promise a full investigation.

INT. ZAVITZ APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS

ZAVITZ is staring intently at his computer monitor. We

don't know yet what he's looking at, but he's scared to

death as we continue to listen to the NEWS REPORT...

NEWSCASTER (O.S.)

Don Hamersley, senior GOP

congressional leader, was serving

as a negotiator on the House/Senate

sub-committee studying the Anti-

Terror Bill...

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