Strange Days Page #7

LENNY:

Yeah, I can use this...

(to the stoned girl)

... but honey you gotta move your

eyes slower next time. It's too

jerky.

SKINNER:

It was her first time, Lenny. Cut

her some slack.

TIGHT SLOWMO SHOTS... ABSTRACT: SQUID tapes and money

changing hands. A SQUID tape sliding sensuously into a

deck.

TIGHT CU LENNY, through the windshield of his car. Neon

moving over him.

NEWS FOOTAGE:
LAPD Aerospatiales circling, their xenon

lights turning night into day, giving the impression of a

futuristic war zone.

INSIDE THE COCKPIT, the infrared camera shows green-screen

images of people in cars, in their homes... like footage

of hyenas shot at night in total darkness.

The impression is of a society under siege, an occupied

nation... a watched society where the camera eye and the

police spotlight define our reality.

HOST:

Go ahead, caller, you're on the air.

VOICE:

My name's DeWayne, and I got a New

Year's resolution for the po-lice.

Hey, yo Five Oh, you better get down

with 2-K.

CRASH Unit cops with a bunch of Salvadoran gang kids

racked up against a storefront. A dozen 16 year-old girls

and guys, hands against the wall, acting bored, as the

cops walk up and down, reading IDs.

HOST:

2-K? What's that DeWayne?

A group of cops have two black guys proned out. Nearby a

crowd jeers, shouting insults. A black kid throws a beer

bottle and one of the cops chases him into the crowd.

DEWAYNE:

2-K. The big two thousand. Comin

tomorrow night. Out with the old

and in wit da new. See for the Man,

no new is good new, what I'm sayin.

He like to keep it the way it is.

But we going to take it, make it

new, make it our own. History gonna

start right here, right now--

LENNY cuts him off as his cellular call connects.

LENNY:

Hi, Dave, this is Lenny.

(pause)

Nero. Lenny Nero. That's right.

Oh, is it late? Sorry. It's just

that I have something that might be

of interest, and since I always call

you first--

(pause)

Uh, huh. Well, what would be a good

time? Okay, sure. Catch you then.

CUT TO:

A GAME ARCADE. Light and noise as the customers drop

quarters for synthetic thrills. Lenny is talking to a

nice-looking street kid in his early 20's named EDUARDO.

EDUARDO:

Let me get this straight... you

gonna pay me 200 bucks to put on a

hair net and bang some beautiful

babe. I don't know, I gotta think

about this.

Lenny smiles and pulls out a SQUID-net. He motions

Eduardo into the shadows.

LENNY:

Okay, let's get you wired up. I

hope this axle grease you got in

your hair doesn't screw up the squid

receptors.

EDUARDO:

What's all this squid sh*t?

As Lenny works, fitting the network of sensors over

Eduardo's head, he holds class.

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