Watchmen Page #2

NEWS VENDOR:

(re:
headlines)

Depressing ain't it?

MAN:

But good for business, right?

(CONTINUED)

4.

CONTINUED:

NEWS VENDOR:

Yeah. Irony's a b*tch.

The man pays for a newspaper when A HOMELESS MAN taps the

News Vendor on the shoulder.

HOMELESS MAN:

The current issue of The New

Frontiersman, where is it?

NEWS VENDOR:

It's late this month.

HOMELESS MAN:

When will it be here?

NEWS VENDOR:

I dunno, pal, like I said, it's late--

We MOVE BACK ACROSS THE STREET, to Blake's apartment

building, then MOVE UP the building, to the broken glass

window Blake was thrown out of. We MOVE INTO THE WINDOW--

INT. EDWARD BLAKE'S APARTMENT - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

--inside the apartment, where DET. GALLAGHER (older, jaded)

and DET. FINE (street worn, but not quite cynical yet) walk

through the crime scene. Fine studies the broken window.

DET. FINE

Edward Blake--63 years old, six-two, 225.

A solid 225, guy was built like a

linebacker. This is plate glass too,

you'd have to step on the gas just to put

a crack in this. Had to be a two man job.

At least. You check the bedroom?

DET. GALLAGHER

Drawers were open, tossed through.

Mattress flipped.

DET. FINE

Robbery?

DET. GALLAGHER

Or made to look like one.

(tosses Fine an ID)

Found that in the bedroom.

Det. Fine studies it. It's Blake's UNITED NATIONS ID. It

reads "Special Advisor, United States."

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