Green River KIiller Page #6

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CHARLAINE (CONT’D)

(looking at JOEY)

Well, if you won’t talk to me about

it, maybe talk to him. Just talk to

someone, okay?

Eventually, she goes to leave.

TOM:

(with difficulty)

Why would anyone want to hurt

people so much?

CHARLAINE stops, turns to listen.

TOM (CONT'D)

Why would one human being want to

cause so much misery, so much pain,

to other human beings?

She joins him at the table.

CHARLAINE:

I don’t know... but I don’t see him

hurting a whole lot of men.

TOM:

Everyone wants to think he’s

stopped, but... we keep finding

bodies. Maybe the Sheriff’s right.

It’s easy to find links. The more

bodies there are, the easier it

becomes. Doesn’t prove anything.

(MORE)

15.

TOM (CONT'D)

Let’s say he really hasn’t killed

anyone in years, why start up

again? Why now?

CHARLAINE:

Well... maybe because he doesn’t

have the entire police force in the

woods anymore, searching for him.

TOM thinks about this.

EXT. WOODS NEAR KEN’S TRUCK TOWN, NORTH BEND (1993) - DUSK

TOM walking through the woods. Stops. It’s very quiet. Only

sound the wind, only movement the tree branches and leaves.

Looks around. Finds a spot, settles in for a long wait.

As the late afternoon light fades, TOM hears the occasional

noise, odd flashes of movement. A hidden world coming to

life. Not a human world. A sense of being watched. Unnerving.

The wind picks up. As it blows through the trees it becomes

magnified, violent, angry. TOM suddenly feels very out of

place. Very vulnerable.

Hurriedly getting into his car. It’s dark now. Turns the

radio on. Sits there breathing hard, the radio commercials

make him feel better. Thinks back to his meeting with the

SHERIFF the day before.

INT. KING COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, SEATTLE (1993) - DAY

TOM is listening as the SHERIFF wraps up the meeting.

SHERIFF MONTGOMERY

I’m sure this is hard for you to

hear, Tom, but the truth is, it

looks like he got away with it.

We’re never going to find him now.

DOYON (O.S.)

Tom!

EXT. THE BUNKER, BOEING FIELD (2003) - DAY

Older TOM (50s), stands in the parking lot outside a large,

squat CONCRETE BUILDING, smoking a cigarette, planes flying

overhead. He checks his watch.

DOYON (O.S.)

Tom!

16.

Older JIM DOYON calls from the building. The roar of a plane

overhead means TOM doesn’t hear.

DOYON (CONT’D)

Tom!

The plane passes over, and TOM hears JIM. He turns.

DOYON (CONT’D)

He’s here!

TITLE over black screen.

“TEN YEARS LATER. JUNE 13 2003, ‘THE BUNKER’ -DAY ONE”

INT. THE BUNKER, MAIN ROOM (2003) - DAY

Headquarters for the Ridgway interviews, at the airport south

of Seattle. Work cubicles, filing cabinets, etc. Photos,

maps on the walls and desks. Windows blacked out.

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