15 Minutes Page #7

JORDY:

Okay, you're under arrest! Now you

happy?

MUGGER:

Fire Department? Firemen don't carry

guns.

JORDY:

Oh yeah? Guess again.

Jordy handcuffs the Mugger and searches the Mugger's coat

pockets - pulling out a handful of driver's licenses and

credit cards.

JORDY (CONT'D)

Nice - how many people you ripped off

tonight?! Get up!

As Jordy yanks the Mugger to his feet, his BEEPER goes off.

JORDY (CONT'D)

You couldn't listen to me, could you?

Jordy drags the Mugger to a tree. Cuffs him so his face is

pressed up against the bark.

JORDY (CONT'D)

I'll send a cop back for you.

MUGGER:

Hey. C'mon, you can't leave me like

this. Some freak'll come by and stab

me!

Jordy jogs off across the park.

MUGGER (CONT'D)

Wait! Come back!!

EXT. MILOS' APARTMENT - NIGHT

FIRE TRUCKS from three battalions. Radios CRACKLE. There's

a crowd growing. Jordy pushes his way through. The top

floor of the brownstone where Milos and Tamina lived has been

reduced to smoking ruins. The trees are covered in debris

and soot. Jordy moves to LOUIE - Battalion Chief.

LOUIE:

Lieutenant - take up your line and

relieve Ladder Company 60 on the top

floor.

JORDY:

Hey, Louie, were you first due?

LOUIE:

Yeah, I radioed you guys right away

'cause you got two roasts on the top

floor but you don't hafta investigate

cause homicide is up there.

JORDY:

Homicide? Who let them up? I didn't

make it a crime scene yet.

LOUIE:

Hey, it's Eddie Flemming.

KORFIN (O.S.)

Yo, Jordy!

BOBBY KORFIN - an overweight arson investigator with a quick

with and good sense of humor - comes over, pulling on a

turnout coat.

KORFIN (CONT'D)

Where you been, man? We got a

celebrity!

JORDY:

I heard. Who the hell let them up

there?

KORFIN:

I don't know, you think Eddie will give

me his autograph?

JORDY:

You see anything in the crowd? Anybody

suspicious?

KORFIN:

Naw - I'm sure the suspect's not here.

JORDY:

Oh yeah, why?

KORFIN:

'Cause Eddie woulda locked him up by

now!

INT. MILOS' APARTMENT - NIGHT

The roof is gone. The sky is exposed. It's charred ruins,

smoked beams and watery muck. Eddie and Leon are standing by

what's left of the mattress, looking at Milos and Tamina's

charred bodies. Eddie grips a half-smoked Cuban cigar,

listening to Leon.

LEON:

So, it looks to me - from the sixty-nine

position - that they were doin' each

other but were so whacked out of their

heads they set the pipe on the mattress,

lit it up, and they got fried. What do

you think, Eddie?

Jordy enters - with Korfin who's carrying a paint can.

EDDIE:

I don't know. We got the experts here.

Show them what you found - I hope you

don't mind, we came over to see if we

could help.

Korfin makes a beeline for Eddie - wanting to meet the

celebrity.

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