Blade Page #5
- R
- Year:
- 1998
- 120 min
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CURTIS WEBB, the forensic pathologist (30s, white bread, a little on
the smarmy side) steps forward, unzips the bag --
It's Quinn, what's left of him, anyway. Burnt to a charcoal
briquette, limbs twisted horribly, oozing fluids.
Curtis turns his head, grimacing, wafting the air.
CURTIS:
Jesus, that's rank --
Curtis turns back, makes note of the blackened stump where Quinn's
arm used to be, the ruined throat --
CURTIS:
What's his story?
ASSISTANT:
Paramedics said he was still screaming
when they found him. Looks like some
joker had stapled him to a wall.
CURTIS:
Pretty.
CUT TO:
INT. HOSPITAL, HEMATOLOGY LAB - NIGHT
MICROSCOPE POV:
of a slide-mounted blood smear stained with Wright stain (blue ink).
What we see is a collection of donut-shaped pink things (red blood
cells) intermingled with some small blue specks (platelets) and the
occasional larger, light-blue blobs (white blood cells).
KAREN JANSEN (20s), a fine-featured hematologist with a social life
in suspended animation, sits back from the microscope, stumped. Next
to her is JULIE WHITAKER, a cheerful chemtech.
KAREN:
You took this off a DOA?
Curtis sits on a stool nearby, slowly nodding.
KAREN:
This isn't human blood.
CURTIS:
Then what is it?
KAREN:
I don't know --
(re:
microscope)Curtis takes a look for himself.
KAREN:
The red blood cells are biconvex,
which is theoretically impossible.
They're hypochromic, there's virtually
no hemoglobin in them.
(shaking her head)
Look at the PMNs, they're binucleated,
they should be mononucleated.
CURTIS:
What about the chemistry panel?
Karen looks to Julie, who reaches for a computer print-out.
JULIE:
Blood sugar level is three times the
norm, phosphorous and uric acid are
off the scales.
(shrugs)
Like the woman said, impossible.
Karen removes her glasses, rubbing the bridge of her nose.
KAREN:
Curtis, it's three in the morning. I'm
really not in the mood for one of your
practical jokes.
CURTIS:
(insistent)
It's not a joke. I've got the stiff
sitting in the morgue right now --
look, just come up and see him, okay?
Five minutes, that's all I ask.
KAREN:
I thought you promised to give me some
distance?
CURTIS:
This is purely professional curiosity,
Karen, I swear.
Karen rolls her eyes, lets loose a tired sigh.
KAREN:
Five minutes, not a second more. And I
don't want to hear a word about "us".
CURTIS:
No problem.
The dead of night, not a mouse in the house. Curtis and Karen, each
garbed in a mask, stand on either side of Quinn's body, which now
rests on the autopsy table.
QUINN'S BODY
A preliminary exploratory Y-incision has been made across the chest,
stretching from shoulder to shoulder, then continuing on down the
abdomen. Ribs and cartilage have been cut open to expose the heart
and lungs.
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