The Thirteenth Floor Page #2

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DOUGLAS:

Did he ever tell you he had a daughter?

WHITNEY:

Why?

DOUGLAS:

Because I just met her.

WHITNEY:

You're kidding me.

INT. OFFICE ROBBY

DOUGLAS:

John, I need the number of that cab company.

GUARD:

No need, sir. She went to the Omni Hotel.

INT. THE 13TH FLOOR

WHITNEY:

Doug?

McBAIN

Detective McBain. Sorry to disappoint you.

WHITNEY:

I'll find Doug.

McBAIN

Actually it's you I want to have a few word with.

WHITNEY:

What for?

McBAIN

Want me to catch your boss's killer?

WHITNEY:

Of course.

McBAIN

The whole thing's a giant computer game?

WHITNEY:

No not at all, it doesn't need a user to interact with it to

function. Its units are fully-formed, self-learning cyber beings.

McBAIN

Units?

WHITNEY:

Electronic, simulated characters. They populate the system. They

think they work, they eat,

McBAIN

They f***?

WHITNEY:

Let's just say that they're modeled after us. Right now we have

a working prototype

Los Angeles, circa 1937.

McBAIN

Why '37?

WHITNEY:

Fuller wanted to start by recreating the era of his youth. You

see, while my mind is jacked in, I'm walking around experiencing

1937. My body stays here and holds the consciousness of the

program link unit.

McBAIN

You think one of them units crawled up an extension cord and

killed its maker?

INT. HOTEL ROBBY

DOUGLAS:

Miss Fuller checked in yet?

DOUGLAS:

Glad I caught you.

JANE:

Mr. Hall. What are you doing here.

DOUGLAS:

Well, it's about your father. Actually. You said you spoke with

him a few days ago. Can you tell me anything about that

conversation? Did he seem strange to you at all?

JANE:

Well, he'd been under a lot of stress lately. He asked me to fly

to the States, so I could help with the company.

DOUGLAS:

Help him run it?

JANE:

Shut it down.

DOUGLAS:

I worked with him for 6 years. If he wanted to shut it down, he

would've told me about it.

JANE:

He didn't tell you about me. But I wish he had.

MAN:

It's nice to see you again.

JANE:

Sorry I'm late. Have you had a chance to look through the

paperwork?

MAN:

Yes, I have. And I think we have a very strong case. The company

should be yours in no time.

JANE:

What do you mean strong case?

MAN:

What I'm saying is , your father changed his will in favor of

the employees. In fact you aren't mentioned in the original will

either. But as I said, I think we have a very strong case.

JANE:

Who will heard the board now?

MAN:

Douglas Hall.

McBAIN

Not bad. Owner of a &2 billion enterprise. Strange, Fuller would

amend his will just a couple days before he died.

DOUGLAS:

I was on a airplane when it happened.

McBAIN

According to the security guard, Fuller left the office at ten-

thirty p.m., 30 minutes after your plane arrived. Autopsy shows

that he died around midnight. You had time to catch up with him.

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