The Public Eye Page #2
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- Year:
- 1992
- 99 min
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INT. DAILY NEWS BUILDING - NIGHT
CLOSE ON a Daily News check, made out to Leon Bernstein. On
a stub, the check is carefully accounted for.
1 Corpse (2 bullets @ $1.50 each)............$3.00
Bernzy, riding down in an elevator, folds the check into his
pocket.
The elevator doors open, Bernzy steps out.
The Photographer we saw leaving Thompson St. steps into the
lobby.
He only has to see Bernzy to know he's too late.
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Sh*t.
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INT./EXT. BERNZY'S SEDAN/STREET - NIGHT
Bernzy drives, his eyes intently scanning the nighttime
street.
A steady, low hiss is emitted from a police radio, that is
gerry-rigged under his dusty dashboard, swaying on its wires.
A metal plate on the radio says FOR POLICE VEHICLES ONLY.
Bernzy's Speed Graphic, with flash, sits on the seat next to
him.
As Bernzy reads every shadow and doorway for potential
pictures,
We see what he sees out the window (buildings and people) in
black and white, slightly overcranked: the POV of Bernzy's
trained eye.
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On the landing of the stairwell, a young Puerto Rican Woman
wails hysterically as two Cops try to calm her down. She's
in her nightgown. A flashbulb fires over her.
The narrow stairway is packed with Policemen and Puerto Rican
neighbors in their T-shirts, pajamas and robes.
A COP leads two Ambulance Attendants, with a stretcher, up
the stairs shouting as he goes.
COP:
Clear the way, get back, c'mon, c'mon,
c'mon --
Now he passes Bernzy, near the top of the stairs --
COP:
BERNZY:
But I hear this guy's walkin' around
with a meat cleaver in his head -- !
-- as if it's every man's God-given right to photograph such
a rare sight.
COP:
Get the Hell out.
As the Cop heads into the Woman's apartment, he speaks to
the ambulance Attendants, but looks at Bernzy as he does so.
COP:
Throw a sheet over him.
The Cop is suspiciously keen to thwart Bernzy: Bernzy smells
something.
He turns to a Puerto Rican MAN, the next door neighbor, who
watches in his T-shirt and boxers.
BERNZY:
Who is this guy, anyway?
MAN:
(Puerto Rican accent)
Working for the Mayor. Visits at
night.
Bernzy sizes up the elements of the tragedy as the Orderlies
bring the victim out of the apartment. He looks at the
hysterical mistress and then at her victim/paramour, who is
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