Manhunter Page #4

CLOSE:
GLASS DOOR

We hear the lock click and the door slide open as Graham

enters. It's like he's a burglar.

GRAHAM'S FEET

walk through the kitchen as if he knows where he is going.

A thermostat clicks and air conditioning comes on loudly.

Graham's feet pass our of frame...

INT. LEEDS HOUSE, SECOND STORY - FLOOR

is empty. The carpet is dark. We hear Graham's footsteps

up the stairs. Then his feet enter the frame and a flash-

light beam hits the carpet. It dwells on a couple of dark

stains. Track with Graham's feet to the entry to the master

bedroom. The bedroom is dark. We see nothing.

INT. LEEDS MASTER BEDROOM - LIGHT SWITCH

Graham's hand enters. He hits the light switch.

BLOOD:

screams at us from the walls.

CLOSE:
GRAHAM

doesn't visibly react.

8.

WIDER - GRAHAM

moves into the room. The bloodstains are extensive. Half

the walls look like a monochromatic Jackson Pollock. The

mirrors are smashed. Taped outlines on the mattress indi-

cate where the bodies had been found. Graham opens the

file he carries containing autopsy, lab and crime reports.

OVERHEAD ANGLE - GRAHAM

standing alone in the middle of the master bedroom. The

crime scene -- the disarray, the big splashes of arterial

blood on the walls, the smashed mirrors, taped outlines or

bodies -- is a testament to a violence that is pornographic.

Graham pulls out a tape recorder and starts dictating his

own notes, thumbing through various reports for reference.

GRAHAM:

intruder entered through kitchen

sliding door. Probably a glass

cutter. Why didn't he care that he

left AB saliva on the glass? it was

hot out that night. inside, the

house must' have been pleasantly cool

to him.

(beat)

The intruder cut Charles Leeds'

throat as he lay asleep beside Mrs.

Leeds. He shot Mrs. Leeds as she was

rising... Bullet entered the right of

her navel and lodged in her lumbar

spine, but she died of strangulation...

increase of serotonin and free

histimine levels in the gunshot wound

indicates... she lived at least five

minutes after she was shot... All

her other injuries were post-mortem.

(beat>

Then he went toward the children's

room.

(beat)

Direction and velocity of blood

stains on the east wall indicate

arterial spray.;. With his throat

cut, Mr. Leeds still tried to fight.

Because the intruder was moving to

the children's room...

(beat)

in the children's room the intruder

shot the first boy in bed. Second

boy was found in bed, but dustballs

indicate he was dragged out from

under his bed to be shot...

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