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Somerset turns to see Mills.

EXT. CITY STREET -- DAY

A body bag is carried through a crowd of people outside the

tenement building.

Somerset follows the body bag out and Mills follows Somerset.

They walk towards the end of the filthy block, past a man

urinating on a car.

MILLS:

I'm a little thrown. I just got in town

like twenty minutes ago and they dumped me

here.

SOMERSET:

Since we're just starting out, I thought we

could go to a bar... sit and talk for

awhile. After that, we'll...

MILLS:

(interrupting)

Actually, if it's all the same, I'd like to

get to the precinct house a.s.a.p. Seeing

how we don't have much time for this whole

transition thing.

Somerset keeps walking, says nothing.

MILLS:

I need to start getting the feel of it all,

right? Meet the people.

SOMERSET:

I meant to ask you something, Mills, when

we spoke on the phone. I can't help

wondering... why here?

MILLS:

I... I don't follow.

SOMERSET:

All this effort you've made to get

transferred, it's the first question that

pops into my head.

MILLS:

I'm here for the same reasons as you, I

guess. Or, at least, the same reasons you

used to have for being here before...

before you decided to... quit.

Somerset stops and faces Mills.

SOMERSET:

You just met me.

MILLS:

Maybe I'm not understanding the question.

SOMERSET:

It's very simple. You worked a nice, quiet

town, but you fought to get here as if your

life depended on it. I've just never seen

it done that way before, Detective.

MILLS:

Maybe I thought I could do more good here

than there. I don't know. Look, it'd be

great by me if we didn't start right off

kicking each other in the balls. But,

you're calling the shots, Lieutenant, so...

however you want it to go.

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