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5.

CONTINUED:

DET. GALLAGHER (CONT'D)

You see this?

He picks up a PHOTO from the floor, hands it to Fine.

DET. GALLAGHER (CONT'D)

Shaking hands with the President.

DET. FINE

You're saying this guy was a spook? You

think this might be a political murder?

DET. GALLAGHER

I think that this is way bigger

than the both of us.

He leaves Det. Fine to ponder this.

EXT. STREET - LATE NIGHT/EARLY MORNING

Outside Blake's apartment building. It's later now, the news

stand is closed, businesses closed, people gone.

We move into someone's POV. The person stares up at the

broken window of Blake's apartment, now covered with PLASTIC

SHEETING.

RORSCHACH (V.0.)

Rorschach's Journal, October 12th.

Earlier today I came across what appeared

to be a suicide. It was later learned to

be a homicide. Someone's time was up.

Still in POV, we see the person pull something from his

pocket--the happy face pin. We realize that this was the

person whose POV we were in earlier.

RORSCHACH (V.0.) (CONT'D)

I discovered a clue. Something I

recognized. And suddenly, unexpectedly

. I heard my own clock ticking.

We move out of the POV and see our guy for the first time--

RORSCHACH (roar-shock)--a masked vigilante who wears a trench

coat, fedora, and a silver-white MASK with oily BLACK SPOTS

moving about, creating shifting, doubled PATTERNS like a

Rorschach test. Scary looking.

Rorschach draws a hydraulic GRAPPLING GUN from his coat, and

FIRES the HOOK AND CABLE THIRTY STORIES UP where it latches

itself through Blake's broken window. Pressing RETRACT,

Rorschach FLIES UP THE WALL to the 30th floor.

6.

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

With a grunt, Rorschach pulls himself past the plastic

sheeting, through the window, and into Blake's apartment. He

investigates, silent. He sees the same things that the cops

saw . . but he notices the speakers by the TV. Notices one

of the speaker covers is ever so slightly askew.

Rorschach pulls the speaker cover off and discovers that the

speaker was hollow. (The Intruder clearly took Blake's gun

and put the cover back on when he left. Why?)

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