Taking Lives Page #3

Synopsis: The film starts in the early 1980s. Young Martin Asher took a bus for Canada. He meets another teen on the bus Matt Soulsby. When the bus broke they decided to rent a car and drive to Seattle. On the road the car gets a flat tire, and Matt starts changing the tire Martin comments on how he and Matt are about the same height and he quickly pushes Matt in the way of an oncoming truck causing a huge accident where Matt and the driver both die. He took Matt's guitar and left singing like Matt did. Twenty years later, an FBI profiler, Illeana Scott comes to Canada to help hunting down a serial killer Martin Asher who killed multiple men and lived by their identities. Martin's mother claims that she saw Martin in Quebec city and she tells the police that Martin is evil. The police also has an eyewitness James Costa who saw Asher kill his last victim...
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): D.J. Caruso
Production: Warner Bros.
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
38
Rotten Tomatoes:
22%
R
Year:
2004
103 min
$32,634,479
Website
474 Views


What do you think?

Yeah, pattern marks on Morin's neck

show the killer's left-handed.

He sketches with his right,

tried to light a cigarette with his right.

l think we need

a little more than that, no?

l know. There's also

a file open on the table.

lt's your profile.

Evidence, notes, everything.

lf he were the killer, chances are

he'd be trying to take a look.

Psychopaths actually have

very different brain patterns.

You say words like ''tree,'' ''sofa,''

''house,'' ''rape,'' ''incest,'' ''murder'' ...

...a normal person's brain pattern changes,

their frontal lobe reacts.

Psychopaths have no reaction.

They feel the same about murder

as they do about dinner.

They have no emotional connection.

Anyway, my point is that

when he saw the garrotte...

...he reacted...

...with genuine shock and disgust.

A psychopath's brain?

You learn a lot of that stuff

at the FBl, don't you?

l mean, all those theories,

all those books.

Yeah, that's right.

l'm not sure what l see in you yet,

with your tricks.

-l don't have any.

-Bullshit.

You pulled a lot of them in that room.

Agent Scott?

-Could l talk to you for a second?

-Excuse me.

l have sisters who get that look in their eye

when they're cornered and don't like it.

-l'm sorry if l'm wrong, but--

-No.

-Thank you.

-All right.

-Agent Scott.

-Can l talk to you?

-You haven't slept yet.

-No.

There's a guard

in the lobby of that hotel.

And we're right by a road.

So it doesn't make any sense.

Do you think it was staged?

No. There's always

a sense of joy in a staging.

A kind of arrogance.

There's none of that behavior here.

Maybe he wants us to find the bodies

quickly, like at the construction site.

Yeah. But why?

l mean, why?

He's not taunting us.

You know,

there's no ''f*** you'' anywhere.

Why do you do that?

-What?

-Cover your ears?

l just think better when it's quiet.

lt makes sense.

With all this,

maybe he's just getting desperate.

-That happens, doesn't it?

-Yeah, but why?

We're nowhere near him.

And he knows it.

Henri Bisonnette,

a freelance scuba diver.

-ls that our construction site body?

-Yes.

His sister identified him.

Bisonnette used to work for him

on and off for a few years.

Also, his sister said he disappeared

just about a couple of weeks ago.

But his credit cards have been

in use all this time.

What kind of a man was he?

What do we know?

He lived in a small apartment...

...picked up odd computer jobs...

...didn't have a lot of friends.

You ever do that? Go diving?

My ex-wife made us take

one of those Club Med holidays.

She wasn't down 20 feet

before she freaked out. Couldn't take it.

That's a good one.

Have you ever gone diving,

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes

Jon Bokenkamp

Jon Bokenkamp is an American writer and producer best known for his role in writing the screenplay for Taking Lives, The Call, and creating the NBC series The Blacklist along with The Blacklist: Redemption.Bokenkamp was encouraged to enter a script writing competition by friend and fellow Nebraskan, Todd Nelson, creator of the Nebraska Coast Connection. After winning the competition, Jon landed an agent and his first paid assignment, rewriting a horror film for Exorcist director Billy Friedkin.Success allowed Bokenkamp to return to his hometown where he earned the 2013 Hub Freedom Award for his work restoring the historic World Theater in downtown Kearney, Nebraska. more…

All Jon Bokenkamp scripts | Jon Bokenkamp Scripts

0 fans

Submitted on August 05, 2018

Discuss this script with the community:

0 Comments

    Translation

    Translate and read this script in other languages:

    Select another language:

    • - Select -
    • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
    • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
    • Español (Spanish)
    • Esperanto (Esperanto)
    • 日本語 (Japanese)
    • Português (Portuguese)
    • Deutsch (German)
    • العربية (Arabic)
    • Français (French)
    • Русский (Russian)
    • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
    • 한국어 (Korean)
    • עברית (Hebrew)
    • Gaeilge (Irish)
    • Українська (Ukrainian)
    • اردو (Urdu)
    • Magyar (Hungarian)
    • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
    • Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Italiano (Italian)
    • தமிழ் (Tamil)
    • Türkçe (Turkish)
    • తెలుగు (Telugu)
    • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
    • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
    • Čeština (Czech)
    • Polski (Polish)
    • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Românește (Romanian)
    • Nederlands (Dutch)
    • Ελληνικά (Greek)
    • Latinum (Latin)
    • Svenska (Swedish)
    • Dansk (Danish)
    • Suomi (Finnish)
    • فارسی (Persian)
    • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
    • հայերեն (Armenian)
    • Norsk (Norwegian)
    • English (English)

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "Taking Lives" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 5 May 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/taking_lives_19338>.

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest writers community and scripts collection on the web!

    Browse Scripts.com

    The Studio:

    ScreenWriting Tool

    Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features.