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FOILE a DEUX Part 3 of 3

2009-10-22T12:42:21Z

Please see disclaimer at the beginning of Part 1.

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New change Dialog: ══Alex, ≡≡Bobby, ──Ross, →→Liz
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SCENE 38......MCS OBSERVATION

Emily, "He didn't do anything to Emma. May I speak to him?"

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SCENE 39......MCS INTERROGATION

EMILY TALKS TO GEORGE THEN LEAVES HIM.

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SCENE 40......MCS SQUAD ROOM

──It's almost forty-eight hours and those guys are a dead end.

≡≡The Haslum's hotel room door was opened at 7:22.

≡≡That was Carston.

≡≡Okay. . .then again at 8:36.

≡≡That was Andre.

≡≡Now Carston's a pro. He would have closed the door behind him.

══So no one else is in the room.

──So what are we missing? We've been all over that hotel, security videos,
elevator shafts, furnace, laundry, the windows don't open...As far as I can
tell there's no way anyone can get that kid out of that hotel.

≡≡Maybe they never brought the kid into the hotel.

──So where the hell is she?

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SCENE 41......CELIA'S HOME

══You didn't see Emma in the city?

Celia, "Emma's dead isn't she?

═Why would you say that?

Celia, "Because its been two days."

Celia, "Calista's so fragile. That child was everything. Her world. I
don't know how she's going to deal with this.

Celia, "You know she was hospitalized before they were married?

══Emotional problems?

Celia, "There was a bad spell last summer. Andre had to leave his job."

══Teaching at Hillis College?

CELIA NODS.

≡≡So this book, it's signed by the poet. It's probably gonna be worth
something someday.

Celia, "He hasn't published since they moved up to the middle of nowhere."

≡≡You saw them in Kent?

Celia, "No, its so far and my work..."

Andre, "Hopefully she'll sleep now."

Andre, "I honestly don't know if she can go through that again."

══Again?

Andre, "First you said it was a robbery and then a ransom payoff. . ."

Andre, "...and still no Emma."

≡≡Your aunt she...she's never had a child, right?

Andre, "No, she didn't"

≡≡Thinkin' of all that money you know.

══Phew!

Andre, "I've read the Iliad in the original Attic Greek, Detective, if you
want to trip me up you'll have to be more subtle than that."

≡≡Actually Homeric Greek....

Andre, "I should know."

Celia, "Andre, they're not accusing you of anything."

Andre, "Yes, they are."

Andre, "And yes I take her money, she's happy to give it to me."

Andre, "Its called patronage. Its respected and its as old as the arts.

BOBBY NODS

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SCENE 42......ON THE STREET

══Patronage! I'd say staging a kidnapping is more like extortion.

≡≡Well maybe Andre's aunt invited them here so that she could see Emma...

≡≡before she died.

══But if Andre knew his aunt was failing there'd be no point.

≡≡But say he didn't know.

≡≡Maybe she threatened to cut him out of her will.

≡≡You know say...say that, that they staged the dinner with Celia for an alibi
and they act out the kidnapping. The burglaries are coincidences.

══So its not about how they got Emma out of the hotel because they brought
her to New York.

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SCENE 43......INSIDE THE HASLUM'S HOME IN KENT

══Emma certainly lived the life.

≡≡How old do you think Emma is...

≡≡in this picture...five, six months?

══Give or take.

══They have more toys than F.A. Swartz but they don't baby proof the house?

≡≡What's wrong with this picture here?

══No swings.

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SCENE 44......BACKYARD

≡≡There's one in the neighbors yard.

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SCENE 45......CRAMPTON'S HOME

Crampton "I get sad just thinking about her."

══What about Andre?

Crampton, "How do you spell pompous?"

══Did Emma play in your backyard.

Crampton, "I assume she did. Lots of kids do."

══But you don't know for sure.

Crampton, "Melanie and I split. up what about a year agao, rather than move
Annie that's our two year old she stays here and we alternate . Its the new math.

≡≡Do you uh know what color hair Emma has?

≡≡No, no you don't.

≡≡Do you know what she called Calista.

≡≡Was it mom or momma?

≡≡or mommy--you don't know.

Crampton,"Okay, maybe."

Crampton, "I'm not as neighborly as I should be. I work, and when I'm actually
permitted to live in my own house I spend all my time with Annie."

══You've never ever seen Emma have you?

Emily, "Do you have any idea what its like to have everything taken away?

Crampton, "I must have in any case I'm sure Annie has."

≡≡Could we meet Annie?

Crampton, "Annie, Annie come here honey."

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SCENE 46......MCS CONFERENCE ROOM

EMILY HUNTFORD ENTERS AND SITS.

≡≡I'm very sorry to have to tell you this.

≡≡We've talked to every pediatrician in and around Kent, Connecticut and none of them have ever treated Emma. We found prescriptions in your nephew's house from over a year ago written by a Dr. Neokers and they've never been refilled.

Emily, "Please stop."

══Something happened to Emma and it wasn't at the Barton Hotel.

Emily, Do you have any idea what it's like to have everything taken away?"

Emily, "My husband had a stroke at his desk ten years ago. I'll be gone in
a matter of months. What good did all his money do me?"

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SCENE 47......ROSS' OFFICE

──There's no kid?

══Alex, The photos were of the neighbor's little girl no one's actually
seen Emma for six months.

──So they stage a kidnapping to coverup whatever was done to that child?

≡≡Yes, I mean mainly for the benefit of Andre's Great aunt.

≡≡See Emma's the golden goose.

≡≡It's Andre's only chance of inheriting the money.

──And the mother went along?

≡≡Yeah, my guess Calista had no choice...

≡≡She's emotionally fragile. I think Andre fed on that.

══We found baby powder that was never opened. Pampers that were never used
toys never played with. She believed Emma was alive.

≡≡Out of guilt or remorse Calista needs the illusion. It's a variation of
Foile a Deux.

──And you're going to prove this how?

≡≡Destroy the illusion.

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SCENE 48......CELIA'S HOME

Andre, "The longer Emma's gone the more likely. . ."

Calista, "NO! It's too early. Don't say that."

DOOR BELL RINGS

Andre, "There's something we may have to face, Calista..."

CELIA OPENS THE DOOR TO ALEX AND BOBBY

Celia, "What's going on?"

Andre,"Is there news?"

══We found Emma.

Andre, "WHAT!?"

══I'm sorry.

≡≡"Asleep no pain shall wake. . ."

Andre, "Our child is dead and you're quoting my work?"

≡≡Well it's in your book but its not your work, in fact its Christina
Rossetti'S.

Calista, "How dare you speak to him like that. You don't know how we've
suffered. Our child is gone."

≡≡I know she is. . . . . .last summer.

≡≡When things went wrong isn't that right, Mrs. Haslum?

══Whenever there's a question about Emma you look to him and you always have
an answer.

≡≡Your life with Andre---the poems that he wrote for you and love that you shared...

≡≡Did that end when you had Emma?

Calista,"You...my daughter meant everything to me. You can't fault me for
that.

≡≡I...I'm not faulting you, oomph...you gave her so much.

≡≡Was there anything left for him?

Andre, "STOP THIS! He knows nothing about us.

≡≡Well see that fury there

≡≡That...that's what happens when you start to feel ignored.

≡≡Is that what drives you

≡≡After other women?

≡≡You know the poems that he wrote weren't for you?

≡≡Is that how it all went wrong that summer?

≡≡I need you to tell me about Emma's last day.

≡≡Did you go looking in the wrong motel?

≡≡Maybe if you knew

≡≡Who he was with...how could you. So many women available to him and not just
students.

≡≡Let me read you something.

≡≡"What music have I sipped from your......siren eyes."

≡≡Andre, your husband, inscribed this book. He gave it to Celia.

≡≡to Celia) Were you with him that day?

Celia, "I'm so sorry."

≡≡It was afternoon......midsummer

≡≡It was a terribly hot day.

≡≡Right?

Calista, "Yeah, I burned my feet on the pavement. I left my shoes at the
house. I was so anxious to find him I went everywhere, knocked on all the
doors at all the motels.

══You left Emma in the car?

Calista, "Yeah, but I left the air conditioning on."

≡≡You checked it like you checked the thermostat in the hotel room.

Calista, "Yeah, I never would have left her in the car without the air
conditioning. How could I know that the engine was gonna die?"

Andre, "Calista, shut your mouth."

Calista, "Her skin was so hot to touch it was white she didn't move......
I took her home and put her in her room......pulled down the shades so it
was cool and dark and when Andre came home he......looked at her said I
did the right thing......he said everything would be okay if we didn't tell
anyone......he said Emma was alive and all I had to do......was believe him."

Calista, "But Emma is dead. I killed her."

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SCENE 49......MORGUE

→→The sheriff in South Salem found the remains about ten yards into the woods
on the property of an Emily Huntford.

≡≡That's the little girl's great aunt.

→→Here they wrapped her in this.

→→They found this with the remains. Looks like a poem.

≡≡"It's not death that holds thee its love."

≡≡It's stolen--Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

≡≡He couldn't even be original for his own daughter.

FAITHFULLY PART 3 of 3

2009-08-28T21:50:40Z

SEE DISCLAIMER ON PART ONE.
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SCENE 35.........MAJOR CASE INTERVIEW

Reverend, "Tragic. Tragic...why are we doing this?"

Alex, "We think he killed Dr. Conlon as a way of protecting you."

Reverend, "Protect me?"

Bobby, "The sex scandal would ruin your ministry."

Bobby, "Dr. Conlon finds out you're sleeping with his wife."

Reverend, "We've been through this before Carrie and I we're not involved."

Bobby, "Your reputation as a man of God is worth this?"

Alex, "Kevin Paxton's life?"

VERY LONG SILENCE

Reverend, "Look, I honestly didn't think it was connected...Ryan Conlon's
death with Carrie and I. About six months ago she...she came to me for
counseling for her marriage and yes I know how that sounds.

Reverend, "At the time I thought we were very good for each other and we
didn't hurt anybody."

Reverend, "That's the usual lie isn't it. Carrie called me last night and
left me a voice mail you should hear."

VOICE OVER CELL PHONE "You never thanked me for your birthday present.
I made the ultimate sacrifice for you..."

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SCENE 36.........MAJOR CASE INTERVIEW

VOICE "...for us and now you're pulling away from me. It's not fair.
Do you realize what I did for you?"

Carrie, "What is that?"

"It' you."

Carrie, "It's not me."

"Stop wasting our time."

Carrie, "That's my voice, but that's not me. I've never said those things
......EVER!"

There are other calls, one to the church secretary around the time of the
attack..."

"And in the same time frame...a birthday message for Reverend Wyler."

Carrie, "NO! That's not me. Play them all. Play them! I want to hear
them."

Bobby to Alex

Alex to Bobby

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SCENE 37.........MAJOR CASE OBSERVATION

"To me it sounds exactly like her."

"Well,"

"...you...you have to listen closely. There are subtle differences."

"And...and its not her personality type."

"Like saying 'ultimate sacrifice' it's too theatrical."

Bobby, "Then Carrie, she uses her sexuality for leverage not guilt."

"Like saying you don't appreciate me."

"That's not Carrie."

"I think our caller is Alison Wyler."

"Who else would have a motive?"

"Trained speech therapist I imagine it helps imitating voices. Spectra-
graphic analysis could eliminate Carrie, but then how do you get Alison.

Alex, "Um mm...conveniently for her, Kevin Paxton is dead.

Bobby, "Yeah."

"And she could actually get away with it."

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SCENE 38.........LINCOLN YOUTH CENTER

Mrs. Maher, "Can't fault Alison as an enthusiastic mentor but her style
didn't quite mesh with ours."

Alex, "She was fired?"

Mrs. Maher, "She became too attached to the boys and they became too
attached to her."

Bobby, "She only mentored boys?"

Mrs. Maher, "Well, at that age five times a many boys stutter as girls."

Alex, "At what point did her closeness with these kids become a problem."

Mrs. Maher, "It was becoming a personality cult. They idolized her, um...
some of the foster parents complained she was undermining their authority.
At that age...boys thirteen, fourteen they're very impressionism."

"It's like a fantasy girlfriend you know more glamorous,"

"...than girls their own age."

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SCENE 39.........KEVIN'S FUNERAL

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SCENE 40.........ROSS' OFFICE

"Why does Alison act when she acted?"

"What prompted her to solicitate murder?"

"Well she might have been worried about Dr. Conlon's need for resources."

"Something like the Cleon Lewis scandal blowing back on the church."

"An adulterous upper Eastside minister, that's a headline."

"Okay, say that's motive. How does Alison pay Kevin for murder?"

"Sex?"

"Who knows how far she took it with Kevin."

"So we have decent conjecture but no evidence."

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SCENE 41.........MAJOR CASE SQUAD

Alison, "I'm glad you called me about his things.

"You've been very cooperative. We appreciate it."

Alison, "Will this take long?"

"Well, we're almost done,"

"...the only thing that us, we haven't found,"

"...is evidence that Carrie solicited him,"

"...to commit murder."

"Here ya go."

Alison, "What about what she said to Dan on the phone?"

"Uh...well, Carrie claims she never made that call."

Alison, "You have the phone message."

"It's not enough. She never mentioned Kevin."

Bobby watching Carrie to prove his point or because he's a man?

"You can see how she could easily...manipulate,"

"I mean...just on her......"

"Just a purely physical level, I mean,"

"...sleeping with her was his dream."

"And I...I'm saying this not in judgment but we know that others shared this
dream.

Alison, "NO! ...... Kevin wasn't taken with her, his ideal was someone quite
different,

"My God! Of course,"

"He had feeling for you before he joined the church back when you were his
mentor."

Alison, "Not sexual feelings ... Kevin was attracted to something more
profound."

Bobby, "A teen-aged boy,"

BOBBY LAUGHS

"...know we heard that the boys that you mentored were in love with you."

Alison, "Please from those gossips in Children's Services."

"The power of others."

"You know......I was looking through this"

"And I noticed something Kevin wrote at the end of his ... daily prayers.
It was a plea. 'Heavenly Father, give me the strength to make the ultimate
sacrifice for your ministry.'"

Alex, "Ultimate sacrifice. Well there's a connection. What are the chances
two people would come up with that phrase?

"Carrie Conlon described in her voice mail the murder as the ultimate
sacrifice."

Alison, "So there's your proof. Your link to Carrie."

Alex, "Yeah, it won't work. It's not Carrie on that voice mail."

"Its you..."

Alison, "That's absurd."

"You're a very good mimic."

"This is a voice mail graph."

"And that's Carrie."

"That's you."

"I mean ..."

"You didn't get everything right."

"And tone, pitch, everything was there."

"Except for the ummm ...... breath.

"Where you breathe when you speak."

"That can't be altered."

It's connected to your nervous system."

"Do you wanna..."

"This is Carrie."

You never thanked me for your birthday present. I
made the ultimate sacrifice ... for you ... for us and now you're pulling
away from me. It's not fair.

Alex, "This is you."

You never thanked me for your birthday present.
I made the ultimate sacrifice for you for us and now you're pulling
away from me ... It's not fair.

"Catch the difference?"

Alex, "Twenty words with the same graphic signature can make a voice print.

"We can prove this was you."

Alison, "All you an prove is it wasn't Carrie, I'm a trained speech therapist.
I can read a voice print."

Alex, "Ready to bet your life on it?"

Alison, "You've gone to great lengths to hurt my ministry. you're not the
first and you will not succeed either."

She rises to leave and Alex and Bobby move to stop her."

She struggles and Bobby moves in closer.

"You mean Carrie?"

Alison, "She distracted my husband from his purpose."

Alison, "She's trash."

Alex, "Your husband didn't see it that way."

Alison, "He was blinded by her. Once Dan saw her diminished and rightly
accused I knew he'd reject her."

Alex, "So Dr. Conlon paid the ultimate price."

Alison, "Ryan Conlon lived by exposing people. He could have turned our parishioners against us."

"Poor Kevin."

"He was collateral damage to you sense of the greater good."

Alison, "But you know my sacrifice had no bounds."

Alison, "I cared about Kevin."

Alison, "But his death rests on your conscience, not on mine."

Alison, "You'll never convict me in court."

"Your final judgment will......"

"Well, it won't take place in court."

Alison, "But you know my sacrifice had no bounds."

Alison, "What I did was for us, for what we have built."

Reverend, "Doesn't make it right. Do you hear yourself, Alison?"

Alison, "We brought the word of God to the most important people in
the city. I preserved our good work. Tell me you understand that."

Reverend, "Yes, I understand., We're through. I don't know you. I don't
want to know you."
.

Alison, "NO! listen to me. We have to fight together. We love each other
we built something. Don't let them destroy it."

Reverend, "I want it destroyed. All of it. I'll start over."

Alison, "Without me."

Reverend, "With God if he'll forgive me."

He turns and goes. Alex handcuffs Alison."

SCENE 42.........BOBBY'S HOME

Bobby arrives home

Tosses keys on table

Notebook follows

Removes * sets gun down

Looks at mail

Pulls out envelope ... from: FRY 723 Penn Brook Rd, Lebanon, Mi. 27071
Bobby's address...219 Mather St, Greenport, Brooklyn. NY 11222

He opens envelope.

Note & Pictures (It was nice having you at our home. I hope you can visit us soon.
I'm sending you some pictures to remember us by. Love, Molly.)

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2009-08-06T18:14:42Z

NOTE: While I have seen SVU, the CSI series, NCIS, and other Television shows scripted & capped, I've only seen one or the other done for LO:CI, so I thought I would try it. I only do this for the joy of it and am receiving no compensation for anything, Mr. Wolf & your legal representatives. I know they all belong to you. And because the action is so fast you can miss so much so it helps seeing it written out.

Disclaimer: LO:CI, the story FAITHFULLY episode 127, pictures, dialog and action all belong to Dick Wolf. The teleplay is credited to Antoinette Stellar. No copyright infringement intended. Not for sale, no profits being made by myself. My personal use of the episode shared with other avid fans. I have had no access with anyone associated directly or indirectly with LO:CI, not even the cleaning crew, or to the script or any pages from it. Live in Tennessee and no time to travel to NYC to Watergate it.

I do not script everything. If it doesn't pertain to Bobby, Alex, Ross or Rodgers directly or indirectly it was omitted. There are other sites like NocostScripts.com that may have the full thing if you need it without caps. I got my copy from Amazon.com. My caps are from that. A note that some caps are not as clear as other sites that concentrate only on caps because I follow the motion with the characters words. Also, I write the dialog the way they speak it, no pause in their speech no pause in the scripting short pause three dots, long pause six dots.

**I'd like to make another note...All cappers struggle with Logos. Those taken directly from TV have those irritating USA HD or HALLMARK in the lower right along with any messages to the left. Amazon has a gray box with two silver rectangles in the upper right. Since I use Amazon, I try to stop short of it or go below when possible to delete it. But there are times that it's right in the middle of Bobby's head so you may see it at times...sorry.

There will be shots of Bobby's back, because that's my weakness and perhaps obsession. For friend's obsessions there are hand shots, tongue, eyelashes, crossed arms and feet.

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SCENE 1........DINING ROOM

Molly, "Bless us oh Lord,"

Molly, "...for these thy gifts,"

Molly, "...which we are about to receive through the bounty of Christ our
Lord."

Molly, "Amen."

All, "Amen."

Molly, "Butter beans?"

Bobby, "Okay."

"Thanks."

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SCENE 7........MURDER COMMITTED

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SCENE 11........STATEN ISLAND FERRY

"I'm just coming into the city, Captain."

"Where's the crime scene"

"Yeah, have a car meet me."

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SCENE 12........STATEN ISLAND STATION

Alex, "You were suppose to be away another week."

"Yeah."

"I got back last night."

"I went and saw family."

"You look good."

NODS."Thanks."

"Now we should get going."

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SCENE 13........CONLON HOME, CRIME SCENE

Detective, "I make it to be a simple B & E gone wrong."

Detective, "Uh. . .smashes a window ties up the wife tosses the place take
some jewelry, coin collection but leaves four hundred bucks in her purse."

Detective, "Victim surprised him."

Alex, "I'm a burglar. I get caught. My first instinct is to flee."

Bobby, "Yeah, maybe disable the victim but, uh. . .to finish him off?"

Alex, "What do we know about the victim?"

Detective, "Dr. Ryan Conlon, thirty-five."

"Yeah, I know that name. . .a coupla months ago,"

". . .got fired as the doctor for the Cougars."

Detective, "He must've landed on his feet. . .electronics are all high end."

"And not stolen."

"What's the time line?"

Detective, "He did his rounds at Lenox Hill and he caught the service at
St. Edward's, got home by 12:40,12:45."

Bobby, "So, another bloody footprint here."

Alex, "The Killer wore boots?"

Bobby, "Kind of looks like motorcycle boots."

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SCENE 14........CONLON HOME, BEDROOM

Carrie Conlon, "I couldn't get to the phone, I tried. I tried, but I. . .
. . . I couldn't. . ."

Alex, "Can you describe him?"

Carrie, "He was wearing a ski mask. . .but he was tall, maybe six feet."

Alex, "Anything else?"

Carrie, "His eyes. . .I was looking right in them when he hit me. I thought
he was going to kill me. . . . . .they were blue-gray."

Bobby looks at Alex (damn credits so missing cap) then at Carrie.

"You were expecting someone?"

Carrie, "No. . . . . .no, I was alone all morning."

Alex, "We'll talk to you after they check you out at the hospital."

Bobby, "Lace teddy. . .makeup."

Alex, "Perfume, either she was planning a matinee with the doctor. . ."

"Or she was entertaining, as my mom would say."

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SCENE 15........CONLON HOME, FOYER

Bobby, "Here we go."

"Star player addicted to painkillers."

"A lot of medical clinics are dishing the dirt these days--the one in L.A.,"

"What's the other one?"

"A guy gets fired maybe he's supplementing his income?"

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SCENE 16........MCS

Ross, "You look rested. Hope you had a good time. What've you got?"

Bobby, "We have a murder,"

"...staged to look like a home invasion."

Ross, "That's fresh."

Alex, "The killer took some rare coins and jewelry. The canvas found them
in a drain near the house."

Bobby, "Look at this,"

"...mighta been a payback killing."

"...the victim had that and the number."

"...of the Ledger on his speed dial."

Alex, "Dr. Conlon was until recently was the team doctor for the Cougars.
Cleon Lewis was their star running back."

Bobby, "The Ledger's not admitting anything."

"But we think they might of bought the medical records,"

"...from Conlon."

"What about leads from the canvas?"

"A woman takin' out the trash said she saw someone peel out of the alley
on a black motorcycle."

"Black helmet, glasses."

Ross, "Great--Batman."

"Actually, Batman was a vigilante,"

"...sir."

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Leon, "That douche bag had no right sellin' my story just because his ass
got fired."

Bobby, "When was the last time you saw Dr. Conlon?"

Leon, "Day before yesterday, and I got in his face. See I know he was behind it."

"He denied it."

Leon, "A guy like that's not about to sack up."

"Which made you angrier?"

Leon, "Conlon was spreadin' lies about my bein' addicted. What happen to
him don't help my case, It actually messes me up. You see, I got a lawyer
and we're suein' Conlon. Not gonna get my money off the man if I off 'em.
You feel me?"

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THEN LOOKS AT ALEX

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Alex, "He presented it as logic but its just an excuse."

Bobby, "Could've lost his temper, didn't stop to think,"

"...I wouldn't say he was in the clear."

"Shall we see how far the doctor spread his particular brand of joy?"

"Last people to see him were in church."

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Alex, "So Dr. Conlon attended services regularly,"

"...was he involved in any church activities."

Secretary, "We could count on him for charity drives. This is a well-to-do
congregation. Many of his best patients were involved in (phone rings
in the office) Excuse me."

Alison Wyler, "I'm Alison Wyler the Reverend's wife. I'm glad Major Case
is handling this. You'll appreciate our need for discretion."

"Yeah Dr. Conlon he was...um, here at the service before his death?"

Alison, "Yes, I remember...I remember greeting him."

Secretary, "His wife called after services...wanted him home before lunch."

Alex, "It's strange she wouldn't of called him on his cell phone."

Alison, "Cell phones are a no no in church."

Bobby to the secretary, "And what time was that?"

to Alison, "...Of course they are."

"That call was at noon."

Secretary, "I talked to her at 12:15, it's logged."

Alison, "Is Carrie's call somehow important?"

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SCENE 20........CONLON HOME

Carrie, "That morning I didn't call at 12:15 or any other time."

Alex, "The church secretary says one thing and you say another. I mean
who are we to believe?"

Carrie, "I didn't call her, I swear.

Bobby, "Well, maybe she's tellin' the truth."

"Maybe there's a reason why she didn't want her husband home."

Alex, "Yeah, right...who were you with?"

Carrie, "No one."

Alex, "DNA results will put someone else in that bed."

Carrie, "I don't have a lover."

"Somebody breaks in and kills your husband, leaves you alive."

"Killers don't usually leave witnesses."

"So what happened? Uh...your husband came here and found you with someone."

Carrie, "I...WAS...ALONE. After he taped me up he waited for my husband."

"Oh, so you hired the guy."

Carrie, "No. That's crazy."

Alex, It happens, Carrie, all the time,"

...successful professional, hefty life insurance...unhappy wife with a
lover."

Carrie, "I shouldn't be talking to you."

Carrie, "He taped me up, he hit me and you think I killed Ryan...ummm...I
...I need to call a lawyer.

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Alissa, "Detectives! This is hardly the time..."

Alissa, "These people are paying their respects."

Bobby, "Well, we're investigating Dr. Conlon's murder."

"I think that qualifies as very respectable."

BOBBY SWINGS AROUND TO LOOK BACK AT ALISSA.

ALEX SPOTS A GUY IN BOOTS

"Boots."

"Could be for a motorcycle."

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SCENE 23.........PARKING LOT

"Yeah the blue isn't shiny like the black."

"...sticky--adhesive."

Alex, "Put electrical tape on those blue flames and the bike is solid black."

Kevin, "That's my bike!"

Bobby, "It's nice."

"I like the blue flames,"

"...is that custom?"

Kevin, "Look, I gotta split, I have class."

Alex, "Yeah, we need to talk a little."

Alissa, "What's going on here?"

"Well we'd like your Acolyte,"

"...To account for his time Sunday morning."

"...around eleven o'clock."

Rev. Wyler, "Well that's easy. Kevin was at services with us."

Alex, "Anyway you can make us certain of that?"

Reverend, "Of course there were a dozen other acolytes there."

Kevin, "HEY! You don't get to touch me, you understand."

Alex, "Alright then, we'll just talk downtown,"

Reverend, "Okay Kevin, we're goin' to hire you an attorney. Don't speak
to them before you speak to him. You're wrong about this young man."

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SCENE 24.........MCS INTERVIEW

Bobby, "Mr. Paxton, isn't your legal name Nickler. Your foster parents
adopted you?

Kevin, "The Nickler's didn't deserve the grief I gave them and I didn't
deserve to have their name."

Alex, "Criminal charges, drug arrests I would agree with you on that."

Bobby, "Your juvie probation report,"

"...shows you made a lot of bad choices."

Kevin, "Until the presence of God in my life."

Attorney, "My client has been clean for three years."

Attorney, "Let's get on with this, Detectives."

Bobby, "Sunday morning, Mr. Paxton,"

"...you were scheduled to...assist,"

"...with the eleven o'clock service."

"Was a great sermon,"

"...um, I've been reading it."

"It's about the definition of love."

Kevin, "I heard it. I traded with another guy and I did the early service
instead."

"You...you needed the morning free?"

"For what?"

Kevin, "Service to God isn't restricted to the Church. I had some old
clothes, things I don't wear anymore. I...I...dropped them at a homeless
shelter."

Alex, "Bloody boot prints matching the size of boots you wear were found at
the home of the Conlon's."

Kevin, "Nuhuh, no, I went to the...yeah, that's right......the...shelter
that's right."

Kevin, "The shelter...I had some clothes to donate for the...yeah, that's
right...the...homeless people."

"I...I believe that you went to the shelter, that's the true part,"

"...of your lie,"

"...but you went after the...killing, to get rid,"

"...of the clothes and the boots."

"You didn't like Dr. Conlon?" Did ya?"

"Was that because you were sleeping with his wife or did she pay you?"

Attorney, "You don't have enough to charge Mr. Paxton with anything.
You're never going to indict,"

Lawyer, "...with a boot print that's not his..."

"Defensive wounds on his neck."

Lawyer, "Horsing around with his friends."

Bobby, "Make sure that he's......available,"

"...in the morning for a line-up."

Alex, "The woman you nearly hit comin' outta the alley wants to take a
look at your big blue eyes."

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SCENE 27.........CHURCH MEETING ROOM

ALLISON LEADING A TEEN BIBLE GROUP. NOTICES THE DETECTIVES, HANDS THE
BIBLE TO A YOUNG GIRL AND GOES TO GREET THEM.

Allison, "Hello."

The three move out into the hall.

Alex, "Uh...there's no easy way to tell you. We just got some news, Kevin
Paxton apparently a drug overdose."

Allison, "Oh my God! He tried once before--sleeping pills, but they saved
him."

Bobby, "We know that you gave him a lot of care."

Allison, "He was damaged. His birth parents......father beat his mother to
death...imagine that."

"That kind of thing is hard for some people to get past."

Allison rising and before storming out of the hallway."
"Why couldn't you have left him alone?"

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SCENE 28.........MORGUE

M.E. Liz Rodgers, "Bad combo--methadone and alcohol."

"Sent him into respiratory failure and his heart stopped."

"Methadone? No one told us Paxton was on a methadone program."

Alex, "For sure not the only thing they're keeping from us."

Liz, "Blood alcohol level of .34 and a methadone level consistent with an
oral intake of 240 mg."

"Well, they sometimes give take home methadone to addicts who are doing
well."

"Suicide, it's a hard choice for someone who's devout."

"I have no reason to rule this anything but suicide."

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Alex, "Wyler's way of making his sermon's relatable, he always puts in a
story about himself."

Bobby, "Yeah, but sometimes its what he doesn't say."

"This one on adultery,"

"There's something personal in it, you know?"

"In fact he barely touches on the subject."

"He makes it a lesson in forgiveness,"

"Kevin Paxton, he heard these sermons every Sunday. They could have been a
big influence in his life."

"He didn't buy the Reverend's lesson in forgiveness.

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Reverend Wyler, "Sorry."

Reverend, "I was trying to contact the other acolytes, Kevin's friends."

Bobby, "You had high hopes for him?"

"Hey, I've been reading your sermons, they're...they're fascinating by the
way."

Reverend, "Oh yeah, Trudy told me that you asked that the whole year be
sent to your office."

"Yeah, you have a methodical approach. You seem to hit every one of the
Seven Deadly Sins."

"But somehow you managed to keep it fresh."

Reverend, "Well you fall into a rut your congregation falls asleep."

"Hm mm, trying to think of your sermon on adultery."

"Do you think adultery is one of the lesser sins?"

Reverend, "Sin is sin, Detective. Look we're...uh, we're dealing with loss
right now."

Reverend, "I'm not really up to a theological debate, right now."

Reverend, "If you don't mind..."

"Kevin."

"Did you know what made him despondent?"

"Suicidal?

Reverend, "Well, I think that's a question you might better ask yourself."

"I have."

"Now I'm asking you."

Reverend, "I believe we all had a hand in failing him."

"I'm even more now inclined to go with my motive,"

"...the one I think you avoid in your sermons."

"That he was having sex with Mrs. Conlon."

Reverend, "No, he wasn't......NO!......You're wrong!"

"Well someone was."

"Somebody was there that morning."

"Doctor left for the hospital at five a.m."

"You an early riser?"

Reverend, "Yes I am at times."

"I just remembered your sermon."

"Would you mind giving us a sample of your DNA."

"I mean you might as well prove now you're not the one who had sex with
Mrs. Conlon.

Reverend, "Fine! I'll comply with your request...when you have a court
order."

Reverend, "You satisfied?"

"Yes."

"I am."

"Ah, that's what I need."

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SCENE 32.........MAJOR CASE SQUAD ROOM

Bobby, "That's my niece, she's nine."

"She's cute."

Alex, "The academic background on Mrs. Wyler--I figured her for a degree
in social work."

"Turns out she's a speech therapist."

"Master's in speech language pathology."

"You know I remember odd speech characteristics in Paxton's interview."

"Alex, "Mm mm, Yeah...certain words...almost stammered."

Alex, "Let's read it over"

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SCENE 33.........MAJOR CASE SQUAD VENDING ROOM

"Captain?"

"This statement..."

Ross, "Just a sec..."

Ross, "Yeah?"

"Uh...just..."

Just a tongue shot.

"You know when I noticed Kevin Paxton just like for Dr.Conlon,"

"...made me overlook some things."

"...his...his, his statement."

"Read this,"

"...right here."

Ross reads aloud the hi-lighted area."

"Hard to cram it all in like that, some people talk like that."

"Yeah. But...not him not usually."

"He uses the phrase..."

"...under stress."

"Mm mm mm..."

"He uses the phrase as a stop, you know, to keep from stuttering."

"He would have learned that in speech therapy."

"So being interviewed stresses him out. I don't get the significance?"

"Well, the Reverend's wife..."

"...Mrs. Wyler was a speech therapist."

"Loyal and deeply indebted to the person who taught him how to speak."

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SCENE 34.........MAJOR CASE SQUAD ROOM

Alex, "Thanks."

"Employee records at the Lincoln Youth center, Alisson mentored Kevin
Paxton,"

"...when he was fourteen and helped him get rid of his stutter."

Bobby, "So, Alison brings him into the family,"

"...first that he's ever had,"

"And then the affair between Reverend Wyler and Carrie Conlon threatens
to tear it apart."

"Take the Reverend out of his comfort zone. See what jogs loose.

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NOTE: While I have seen SVU, the CSI series, NCIS, and other Television shows scripted & capped, I've only seen one or the other done for LO:CI, so I thought I would try it. I only do this for the joy of it and am receiving no compensation for anything, Mr. Wolf & your legal representatives. I know they all belong to you. And because the action is so fast you can miss so much so it helps seeing it written out.

Disclaimer: LO:CI, the story IDENTITY CRISIS episode 126, pictures, dialog and action all belong to Dick Wolf. The teleplay is credited to Pamela Wechler. No copyright infringement intended. Not for sale, no profits being made by myself. My personal use of the episode shared with other avid fans. I have had no access with anyone associated directly or indirectly with LO:CI, not even the cleaning crew, or to the script or any pages from it. Live in Tennessee and no time to travel to NYC to Watergate it.

I do not script everything. If it doesn't pertain to Bobby, Alex, Ross or Rodgers directly or indirectly it was omitted. There are other sites like NocostScripts.com that may have the full thing if you need it without caps. I got my copy from Amazon.com. My caps are from that. A note that some caps are not as clear as other sites that concentrate only on caps because I follow the motion with the characters words. Also, I write the dialog the way they speak it, no pause in their speech no pause in the scripting short pause three dots, long pause six dots.

**I'd like to make another note...All cappers struggle with Logos. Those taken directly from TV have those irritating USA HD in the lower right along with any messages to the left. Amazon has a gray box with two silver rectangles in the upper Right. Since I use Amazon, I try to stop short of it or go below when possible to delete it. But there are times that it's right in the middle of Bobby's head so you may see it at times...sorry.

There will be shots of Bobby's back, because that's my weakness and perhaps obsession. For friend's obsessions there are hand shots, tongue, eyelashes, crossed arms and feet.

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SCENE 1.....CRIME SCENE

Det. Blaine, "Single shot fired face on from a small caliber weapon."

Alex, Robbery?"

Det.Blaine, "Single shot fired face on from a small caliber weapon."

Bobby waves the street cop to lift the tape barricade;

Det. Blaine, "No money or credit cards."

Det. Blaine, "Cardboard was placed over his face."

Bobby, "That's an odd gesture for a street crime."

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SCENE 2.....ALLEY

Rodgers, "Detectives,"

"There's no visible exit wound."

"I guess a single shot took out his pump."

"Small caliber entry could be a twenty-two?"

"Hit man's favorite"

"K-mart suite...white cotton socks...work shoes...dirt or grease under his nails..."

"Something in his sock..."

"Penn. Station locker key..."

"Have your people collect what's in it."

Det. Blaine, "I'm on it."

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SCENE 3.....ALLEY

"We got Victor Lustig no photo I.D. just a social security no......business cards."

"No, the thief would have taken the photo I.D. to use the credit cards."

"So we got a Brook Brothers' wallet..."

"...about three-hundred dollars,"

"...in a K-mart suit?"

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SCENE 4.....MAJOR CASE SQUAD ROOM

Ross, "You're not buyin' the social security card is...valid."

Bobby, "The only identification on that victim is that card and the name,"

"Victor Lustig. Happens to be the name of a nineteenth century conman,"

"...who once sold the Eiffel Tower."

"Victor Lustig could also be a mechanic from Bayeux who got shot on the Lower East Side."

"Name's not that unusual."

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SCENE 5.....MAJOR CASE SQUAD CONFERENCE ROOM

"Well, my guess is that the killer planted this,"

"This wallet and card......to hide the victims identity,"

"...cause it connects them."

"And here's a prescription for Compazine made out to Anthony Burris from a Doctor De Sousa from Philadelphia.

"Compazine? That's an anti-nausea. I had to take it last summer, after the P.B.A. clambake"

"Oh! Halloween?" I'd say the kids weren't havin' much fun."

"Yeah, I don't think it's Halloween."

Ross, "So now if Victor Lustig is now Anthony Burris. Who's Anthony Burris?"

Bobby, "Well, Anthony Burris' mail goes to 2112 Percival Street, Philadelphia."

"This is his phone bill."

Ross, "You can eat lunch on the Acela."

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SCENE 6.....ROOMING HOUSE HALLWAY

Landlady, "I rent by the week or by the month mostly single guys who work nearby."

Alex, "How long did Mr. Burris live here."

Landlady, "Um, about six months, he was working as a mechanic."

Alex, "Do you know where?"

Landlady, "Only know he took the bus. opens door

Landlady, "He owes a balance. Cops gonna be payin' me?"

Alex, "We'll talk after we look around."

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SCENE 7.....BURRIS' ROOM

Bobby, "Well, he knew how to live on minimum wage."

"Guess he wore his Sunday best,"

"...when he got shot."

"That goes long with meeting someone he was trying to impress."

Alex, "Here's something that's dated a little over a year ago. 'Dear mr. Burris, I have no information on the person of who you've inquired. Do not contact me again'."

"Signed Mavis Rightmere. Return address is New Canaan, CT."

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SCENE 8.....RIGHTMERE HOME

Mavis Rightmere, "Three years ago I was engaged to a man named Richard Phelps."

"This Anthony Burris person saw a photo of us taken at a charity event."

"He wrote me wanting to know about Richard."

"He thought he knew him,"

"...and wanted to re-establish contact."

Bobby, "And did Mr. Phelps,"

"...know Anthony Burris?"

Mavis, "He denied it. At first I believed him. Richard was Princeton '95, I was also Princeton."

Mavis, "But when I showed him the letter, his behavior changed."

"What? He thought that you mistrusted him?"

huffs "He made irate accusations that I was checking his past and that actually made me suspicious. So, I hired a former police officer. He found things on Richard's computer--research."

"Research?"

Mavis, "On others--divorced or widowed...well-off. When I confronted Richard, he wanted,"

"to explain everything. We had a nice dinner,"

Mavis, "...we were very close that night--in the morning he was gone."

"Did he have access to your accounts?"

"I...I...I don't think he was after money. His own money was tied up so I just lent him a little pocket money.

"And I bought him a few nice gifts."

Bobby nods.

Looks at Alex.

Alex, "A Brooks Brothers' wallet?"

Mavis nods. Alex looks at Bobby.

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SCENE 9.....ON THE STREET

Alex, "The cop she hired was very thorough,"

"...and so was Richard Phelps."

"His research on these women started at kindergarten.

"Lonely women,"

"...common mark for con men."

Bobby, "With a twist."

"He didn't grab her money before he left."

"I'm thinkin'. . .if Burris' letter ruined his plan with Mavis Rightmere,"

"...it's possible that Burris somehow ruined a more recent plan."

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SCENE 10.....MORGUE

Dr. Liz Rodgers, "The 22 caliber bullet tumbled after entry causing severe cardiac and arterial damage."

"And this is a burn?"

Liz, "It's old. Early childhood. The pattern looks like a steam iron. There's a similar burn on the other forearm."

"So, as a child he might have been an abuse victim."

Liz, "Um." shrugs

"What about the stomach contents?"

"Anything tell us where he had his last meal?"

"Huh. Probably a vending machine."

"Baloney, white bread, processed cheese."

"No wonder he needed anti-nausea medicine."

Liz, "That was probably to deal with chemotherapy."

Liz, "Lab test indicate blood malignancy. I'm not offering a medical expert opinion, but what I saw didn't look good.

Looks exchanged.

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SCENE 11.....ROSS' OFFICE

"I asked the doctor who wrote the Compazine prescription. He was treating Burris for lymphoma."

Ross, "Had he given a prognosis?"

Alex, "Six months tops."

Bobby, "I doubt the killer was aware that Burris was sick."

"Because he wouldn't bother to kill a man he knew was dying?"

Bobby, "I mean why would a dying man extort money?"

"Maybe he had a greedy family. What do we know about his family?"

Alex, "Um...his medical records had only one person listed as next of kin, Patricia Lumet, his ex-wife works at a supermarket in Metro Park."

Alex looks Bobby

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SCENE 12.....SUPERMARKET PARKING LOT

Patricia Lumet, "Poor Anthony, nuthin' ever went right for him, nuthin'."

Alex, "You were married three years was any of it good?"

Patricia, "Yeah, at first...kinda but you know Anthony was damaged goods."

Bobby, "Whad'da ya mean?"

Patricia, "I mean, he wasn't a bad guy, he just couldn't hold nuthin' together. Jobs, night school, he just couldn't cut it."

"You weren't aware of his illness?"

"You were listed,"

"...as next of kin."

Patricia, "I guess he never had no one else. I mean, he never really had a home. His mother was, you know, schizo."

Bobby, "And he was removed from her care?"

Patricia, "Nah, she died. I don't know if she killed herself or what, but there was something weird and he wouldn't talk about it."

Bobby stands bouncing with pent up energy.

Patricia, "Well, he and his brother went into foster care."

"His brother?"

"Yeah, Thomas. Anthony used to talk about findin' him, but it never happened."

Patricia, "I gotta go. Can't be late on break."

Alex's phone rings "Eames?"

Alex, "Okay, Thanks."

"Burris' last call was to an Upper East Side residential phone. The name's Vanderhoven.

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Reverend Wyler and Carrie Conlon.

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SCENE 26.........ROSS' OFFICE

"It's not unusual, the wife works with a hitman to replace the husband."

"It a little neat. Two people don't like each other, they don't have to hire
a hitman. They just hire the dirtiest lawyer in town."

"Believe me the damage is comparable."

"Okay, we go with what we know. The acolyte. What would he have gotten out
of it?"

"Kevin Paxton's at the rectory, he's young,"

"...he's not unattractive."

"So it wasn't some deep spiritual bond?"

Ross turns to Bobby

"Dr. Conlon doesn't seem the type,"

"to be oblivious to his wife's..."

"...his wife's affair."

"I finally got a hold of his nurse. She didn't know what Carrie was up to,"

"...but she said the doctor was a total gland. He hit on everyone.

"So if Carrie was hurt by his behavior or..."

"...needy."

"So it's fairly obvious who she'd turn to."

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SCENE 22.....M.C.S.--OBSERVATION ROOM

Lukie, "Yes, that's my husband."

Bobby, "Well his real name is Thomas Burris."

Lukie, "Who is he? Where's he from?"

Bobby, "Well he was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania"

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SCENE 23.....M.C.S.--CONFERENCE ROOM ONE

Julie, I know his a novelist. I knew creative people at Princeton. They're not like other people."

Alex,"Do you..."

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Lukie, "He understood finance. At our annual dinner I heard him talking about market trends with Brad Burnum of Crown Funds. Brad thought he was a genius."

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Julie, "I majored in English, I know that he's gifted."

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Bobby, "He get any money from any of these people?"

Lukie, "Half a million from Brad for my pet project restoring the fountains of Versailles."

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Julie, "He talked about his novel. It was real."

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Bobby, "And it all went to your charity>

Lukie, "Every penny.

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SCENE 28.....M.C.S.--interrogation

Burris, "An indictment. That would happen in your dreams counselor."

A.D.A. Damon Whitney, "We have evidence, a lease signed in another man's name...driver's license."

Burris, "Yeah, so...look hard you might find a misdemeanor."

Ross, "Something bigger than that."

Burris, "Ah, uh...the tragedy of my brother's death, the only thing that connects me to that is my grief.

Ross, "Take credit for the wallet and phony I.D. planted on his body."

Burris, "Come on, the wallet was a Christmas present. So Mr. D.A. the crime of re-gifting...what kind of time are they givin' for that these days?"

A.D.A., "Witness testimony will establish you had motive, means and opportunity."

Burris, "Okay, the wonderful Lukie. Yeah I...I'd be careful putting her on the stand. She might work better for me than for you."

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SCENE 29.....M.C.S.--Ross' Office

"He'd right. She'd make him sound wholesome,"

"...to avoid appearing like a fool."

"Julie's still smitten. You don't want a grand jury hearing anything she might say."

Ross, "What's the deal, Whitney? How hard can we come down on the identity charges?"

A.D.A.,"He's been very smart."

Ross, "Don't tell me the S.O.B. is gonna walk?"

Bobby, "If we release him,

"...he's gonna change his identity,"

"...and vanish."

"Go back to the women, push them on anything he's done, anything he's said, anything potentially incriminating."

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SCENE 30.....MCS--CONFERENCE ROOM

Julie, "He never told me anything remotely incriminating."

"I believe that..."

"...he's clever. He's had practice, but when you're first with a guy,"

"...there's usually something he says or does,"

"...that raises a flag. I...I'm just asking if there was anything that made you ask yourself,"

"...'Is he okay?' Maybe something little that didn't seem to matter."

Julie, "The day after he took the place, I saw him in the skiff. He wasn't rowing, just sitting. He, um...dropped something into the water and sat just watching where he dropped it......I don't know what it was."

"Do you know where this was?"

Julie nods.

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Burris, "Hey, hey, hey..."

Burris, "So you're it. Rolled out the big gun."

"Yeah."

Burris, "What is all this?"

"Well, this is your life."

"This was a present?"

Burris, "Christmas. You didn't find the card?"

"But you didn't wanna know the guy."

"So why give him a present?"

Burris, "Listen, I had it good he didn't"

"Is that because he punished himself for what he did to you or. . ."

Burris, "Listen, he was six, okay. I blame people like you, not him."

Bobby nods.

"Says here 'I couldn't see it happening again see her burning him,' that... that's you."

Burris, "I paid that debt."

"Well, then it was reform schools, foster families rejecting you. Who wants a matricidal delinquent? Right?"

Burris, "Yeah, you hear me complaining?"

"No."

"But you found a solution in your mother's illness."

Burris, "My...mother.......was, uh...she was schizophrenic. There's no solution in that."

"Oh, well, de...delusions of grandeur and a florid state in which you were a noble...Count of Havolvitz."

Bobby speaks to him in German? and Burris responds.
(IF SOMEONE WATCHES WHO SPEAKS THIS LANGUAGE I'D APPRECIATE A NOTE WITH THE WORDS, THANKS)

bobby nods.

Burris, "What now, you're my shrink? LAUGHS. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to use this session. I'll credit you when I bet my rap on an insanity plea.

"I want to just show you."

The TV plays the original interview of Burris confessing as a child

"And these pictures of you have,"

"... as an young noble with your mother."

"And that's your brother there, guess he wasn't part of it."

Burris, "Part of what?"

"The delusion you and your mother shared,"

"Which was more painful?"

"Her death or his betrayal."

"Uh...uh...I...I don't...I don't distinguish between...between them.

"You remember killing her, right?"

BOBBY RESTARTS THE TELEVISION AND PLAYS ANOTHER CLIP.

"Excellent attention to detail."

"Now you were barefoot?"

"Don't remember."

"No, it just you said that you feet were cold so you must've been barefoot."

"It's history, I mean, so who...who cares."

"Picture here, the heater now its plugged in above her so you would have to walk through the water to reach the heater."

"What...what's this about? What...I...I...I admitted to killing her, right. I did."

"If you walked across the water and touched the heater. . ."

"You'd be dead or gotten severely shocked."

"I don't think that you touched the heater.

"I think that that's your brother's lie."

"I think that you thought about it, watching your mother in the bath for hours everyday just,"

"...throw the heater in the tub but you didn't do it."

Burris, "No."

Burris, "She flew into a rage, because she wanted to put Anthony into the shower to wipe away the places that she burned waving her arms hit the cord."

"And then you paid for it."

"And when he came back you were gonna pay for it again."

"No, no...An..Anthony was...was a part of something I no longer wanted to be, okay. That's why I avoided him."

"So you don't think he got back into your life to destroy what you'd become?"

Burris, "Listen, your little psycho chatter/babble isn't working, okay?"

Burris, "Anthony was a failure. He was tyranny of the weak. And I didn't kill him."

Bobby nods.

"Well,"

"So that's what he's become--tyranny of the weak? Isn't he all you had......in the world?"

"When the two of you were little boys,"

"...comforting each other from that nightmare of a mother.

"Photos, I think you're teaching him how to swim. He trusts you."

"Did he still trust you like that?"

"You know it wouldn't be fair,"

"If I didn't show you this."

Burris, "His autopsy report?"

"You should read it."

"He only had a few months,"

"I don't think that Anthony came back to destroy your life."

"I think he came back for atonement."

"What he done to you. If you look at the photo,"

"He's reaching out for you, he trusts you, loved you. I...I...I think that's why he came back. To ask for forgiveness."

Burris, "He loved me."

"And did you feel that before you..."

Burris, "Yes."

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SCENE 16.....M.C.S INTERROGATION

Alex, "You're quite the dedicated fisherman, Mr. DiRaggo."

"Buying a boat mid-winter."

DiRaggo, "It's the right economy to buy anything."

"And paying to dry dock it for the winter?"

Bobby, "So where'd ya get..."

"...that nineteen-thousand dollars..."

"...cash from?"

DiRaggo, "It wasn't half that much."

DiRaggo, "This guy was dyin' to get rid of it."

Alex, "Humph. Your New York registration number--the seller,"

"...Mr. Owens listed price as nineteen-five."

"We'd really like to know where that money came from..."

DiRaggo, "It was a token of appreciation. I have a small truckin' company."

DiRaggo, "Business that hauls antiques for wealthy clients. The clients..."

"they appreciate the care I take."

Alex, "And they give you wads of cash?"

"Oh, don't worry, come tax time I'll report it."

"Can I uh..."

"see......your hand."

DiRaggo, "Sure."

DiRaggo, "See something you like, I'll set you up with my manicurist."

"Well, you know, our divers recovered this..."

"Walther PPK.380..."

"...from the river."

"Specifically from the port where your van was spotted..."

"...making an illegal entry."

Alex nods.

"Yeah, the funny thing about a Walther PPK is..."

"...is that it has a short grip...you know,"

"see..."

"and load the clip."

"You can pinch your..."

"...your little finger."

"Very similar to the pinch that you have."

Attorney, "You have nothing tying that gun to my client. We've been very co-operative but I think we're finished here."

Alex, "One more thing..."

"Can you pull up your sleeves."

DiRogga, "Lookin' for something special?"

Alex looks at his bare forearms.

Attorney, "We're done, Johnny."

Bobby, "That's very smart."

"Use a temporary tattoo..."

"Deliberately kept his sleeves up..."

"...draw attention away from his face."

Alex sighs deeply.

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Nurse, "Dr. Lansing, our attending psychiatrist, wants to stop by when you feel you're ready."

Stacy, "He needn't bother."

Nurse, "You're on suicide watch until he approves your release."

Stacy, "I'm in no hurry to leave."

Bobby, "The information you gave us about Rick was very helpful."

Stacy, "I'm glad someone was helped."

Bobby, "I was wondering if you're feeling well enough..."

"...to look at some photos?"

"If you see the man that you described,"

"...just tell me."

Stacy, "Do we know why he shot Rick."

"No, we don't know that yet."

Bobby notices Stacy's HR and BP rising and turns to see the Councilman coming into the room.

"We just need a few more minutes ."

Councilman, "She needs her rest."

"Maybe you could just go......back over there."

Stacy, "I'm fine."

Stacy, "Actually, I don't think I'm ready to do something like this."

"It's okay."

"You've been through a lot."

"I understand."

"It must've been tough,"

"...being in that situation back at home."

"You don't know anything about that."

"That's not true."

"I came from......a bad home."

"You said when bad thing are happening."

"You need to......take yourself away to another place"

"And that's what I used to do I used to just want to lift myself up,"

"...and take myself to another place,"

"So, I could see things from somewhere else."

Stacy, "Maybe it was just the crack."

"I think we both know that that's not true."

Stacy, "I know what you're thinking......you're wrong."

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Josie Hugh-Fitzgerald, "My life has been about saving Stacy from herself. I home-schooled her in the ninth grade."

Alex, "Well that can't of been easy with your new baby."

Councilman, "We had good help. We were all in Europe that year."

Camille, "And they had me and I have friends we stayed in their villa it was magnificent. Is that detective still in there with her?"

Alex, "Yes."

Camille, "You can't hold Stacy to anything she says after what she's been through. She'll be home...part of our family again like our time in Sienna. That was real happiness."

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Ross, "They moved to Europe an odd place for a politician,"

"...with a hot career."

Bobby, "You know we've subpoenaed Stacy's records from Dell Crest High."

"And she'd been acting out, they recommended therapy."

"...but instead her parents pulled her out."

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Ross, "Well, some people view therapy as an indictment of their parenting skills."

"There's a bigger reason,"

"...to duck out of therapy."

"Sexual abuse by her step-father."

"That's a headline to die for if Siebert knew about it."

"Yeah, we don't have direct evidence,"

"...but you know I think he might have been onto it."

"Hughes-Fitzgerald's wife could have known."

Ross, "And Camille? Anything on the laptop?"

Alex, "Uh...some cryptic e-mails."

"She refers to a potentially volatile situation."

Ross, "Use it. Find the raw nerve that breaks through the family wall."

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Camille, "So, has the inconvenience caused me by taking my laptop been of some value."

Alex, We're curious about,"

"...this volatile situation you've mentioned in your e-mail to Neil."

Camille, "Volatile situations are a daily occurrence in politics."

Alex, "I'll bring it closer to home."

"You raise money for the Hughes-Fitzgerald Library, the Beautification of Van Cortland Park and St. Leobald's Shelter for Runaway Teens."

"Strange thing about that is the shelter got three times what the others got."

Camille, "Why should my personal charities be of any concern to you?"

Alex, "Well, these other fundraisers they're long standing projects. But your interest in St. Leobald's surfaced just a few years ago."

Bobby, "Shortly after Stacy left Dell Crest High."

Camille, "Investigating an addict's death does not give you the right to question my generosity."

Camille, "I've had enough."

Camille, "I'm calling the commissioner."

Bobby nods at her.

"So, raw nerve, hmmm?"

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Neil, "Back again? This is becoming harassment."

Bobby, "We're looking for the man who shot Stacy. Why would that be a problem?"

Neil, "I just don't wanna pressure her."

Neil, "Come on kids, let's go. We'll be in the hall."

Neil, "Excuse me..."

Bobby, "I just saw him."

"You don't want him touching you."

Bobby, "Stacy.......it's hard for...victims of this sort of thing...to have a normal...relationship.

"I mean, Rick Siebert...might of caught on to what was......"

Stacy, "Yeah."

"He knew what happened?"

Stacy, "Not at first. Um...he asked me a lot of stuff like, uh. . .why I ran away and......what the shelter was like."

Alex, "St. Leobald's?"

Stacy nods.

Bobby, "Rick might of threatened of uh blackmail...I mean far beyond any political scandal...which could of meant jail time for your step-dad."

Alex, "That's why Rick was killed."

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SCENE 23.....HUGHES-FITZGERALD'S HOME

Josie Hughes-Fitzgerald, "When I saw she'd gone I had to call you."

Bobby, "I guess we'll. . .just play games."

"There's a reason why she doesn't want to share a roof with your husband."

"I think we all. . .know what that is."

Josie, "Stacy says things. . .but she 's not always telling the truth."

Alex, "At what point do you stop lying?"

"How did he do it, diminish you, make you feel unworthy of a man of his stature?"

Bobby, "How does someone justify what he did?"

Josie, "Oh God!"

Alex, "How did you justify it?"

Bobby, "When the two of you met, she was around twelve,"

". . .I've seen photos of her, she was a beautiful girl."

Bobby, "Did you consciously. . .use that?"

Josie in tears, "NO! My God, No. It just happened."

Alex, "And it happened again and again and again."

Josie, "He loved me."

Alex, "And you paid for that with access to your daughter."

Josie, "It's not just me. . .Stacy's. . .unstable and,"

Josie, ". . .the drugs,"

Bobby looks over at Alex...

Then away.

Josie, ". . .and Rick."

"Rick was a shelter for her."

Josie, "She talked about him like he was a hero."

"Well. . .you weren't there for her,"

". . .she had to have someone to go to."

Josie crying, "It's true, I was afraid of losing everything."

Alex, "She ran away before. Where did she go?"

Josie, "To Rick, always to Rick."

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Stacy, "You knew I'd be here?"

"It wasn't hard to figure out,"

"...Don't have anyone else to go to."

Stacy, "Doesn't say much about me. . .everyone calls him a lowlife."

"Well, you did deserve better."

Stacy, "I had to get away."

"Look, you shouldn't go away this time."

"You have a responsibility, you know,"

". . .for somebody that you love,"

". . .somebody that you care about,"

". . .Sophie."

Stacy, "She's only a baby."

Sophie, "Neil wouldn't actually. . ."

"Maybe not. . . . . ."

"But, you know. . .people with his. . .sickness...You know their patterns,"

"They don't change,"

"And he's going to molest other girls."

"He. . .he will hurt her."

Stacy, "She's his blood."

"You wanna take that chance?"

"Abandon her, like your mother abandoned you. . .is that what you want?"

Stacy, "You know?"

Bobby Nods.

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SCENE 25.....MCS INTERROGATION

Bobby, "I thought it would be nice for the two of you,"

". . .to be together, you know, since,"

"You're...you're so close..."

Camille, "Drop it, my father hired ad fired police commissioners. I know how you work."

Bobby, "Of course you do."

Bobby, "So. . . . . . "

"Rick Siebert was very interested in your correspondence with your wine pals."

Camille, "What's he talking about, now?"

Neil, "I don't know."

Alex, "Something he never shared with you?"

"In these e-mails,"

". . .to your pals, you say that there's a special Chateau Jenez '94,"

". . .that you're longing for,"

". . .longing to savor."

Neil, "It was a joke. I know better than to hang onto a Jenez."

"Yeah. . . . . .right."

"But these are. . .not about. . . wine,"

"It's code,"

". . .'94 is the year,"

". . .that your babysitter was. . .born."

". . .Jessica."

"And these e-mails. . .brag to your,"

". . .your pedophile buddies,"

"That you would have sex with her,"

Neil laughs, "Are you insane?"

"We have a witness,"

"Stacy saw you and Jessica comes up from the wine cellar;"

". . .that's where this all happens isn't it?"

Neil, "Stacy's brain damaged. . .by drugs

"I mean, you can't make a case with her testimony about anything."

Neil to Stacy as Bobby brings her inside, "How dare you."

Neil, "So you lied to them."

Stacy, "I've given a statement. How you took ME to the wine cellar. What you did."

Camille, "You came from nothing, fatherless. You turn on us with these disgusting fantasies.

Alex, "The teen shelter didn't think they were fantasies,"

". . .especially after they found out she was pregnant."

Bobby, "And then you took her to Europe,"

". . .to some secluded villa."

"Where was it Sienna? Right?"

Stacy, "Sophie's my proof. She's my daughter. . .my sister and my daughter."

Neil rises and Bobby intercepts his approaching Stacy.

Neil, "Does it feel good to tell someone, Stacy? How you danced around in your underwear getting me excited. HUH? Did you leave that part out?"

Stacy, "I was a child."

Neil, "A child? You better get the whole story down because that's how its gonna go in court. Not just what I did but what you did."

Stacy, "I can't."

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Stacy, "I can't do it."

Stacy, "I. . .I'm too ashamed."

Bobby, "You know,"

". . .the shame,"

". . .will be his, okay?"

". . .not yours."

Ross, "You can trust us."

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SCENE 27.....INTERROGATION

Neil, "So I guess this interview is over."

Alex, "Oh, you can go, but you'll be back,"

". . .in handcuffs."

Neil, "Oh, face it without her what have you got?"

Bobby turning to Camille, "The effort that you put into him."

". . .has all been cursed;"

". . .because of this weakness."

Neil, "SHUT THE HELL UP!"

Neil, "Mom, we're outta this."

Bobby, "You're not out of this,

"All the dreams that your mother had for your future that's all gone."

"You just threw all that away."

"You're not outta this."

Neil, "Mom, they have no case. I mean, we can beat it."

Bobby, "Look at him. I'm sure you've seen this before."

"Momma please, Momma save me, Momma."

Neil, "Shut up, I said."

Bobby, "All the time that you've put into him."

"Your sacrifice was wasted."

Neil, "What sacrifice?" Neil reaches for her but she jerks away standing and walking to face the corner of the room.

Bobby, "Camille, your phone records,"

". . .the phone calls back and forth,"

". . .to Rick Siebert,"

". . .on his disposable cell."

Bobby, "You did everything you could,"

". . .to meet the demands of his blackmail."

Camille, "I only made phone calls to determine Stacy's well-being."

Alex, "Doubling back charity contributions to get the payoff money for Mr. DiRogga,"

". . .that you did for your son."

Camille, "You're better than I thought."

Neil, "Better at what? Meaningless allegations, Mom? I'll go to the right people. Get this turned around. I've always been able to turn things around."

Camille, "You. . .you didn't deal with Rick Siebert."

Neil, "What?"

Bobby, "You mother hired DiRogga to kill Rick Siebert."

Neil, "WHAT? You expect me to believe that. I don't believe that."

Camille, "Of course not. You think you just got lucky."

Camille, "One more time everything worked out for you."

Neil, "I honestly didn't know anything about this."

Neil, "I mean if. . .if there was a plan to kill Siebert."

Neil, "I had no part of it."

Camille, OH! How quickly he scrambles to distance himself."

Bobby, "It can't surprise you. I'm sure he's done it before."

Camille, "And denied it. Your life is blessed because of me. Because I dared to hope. . .I dared to dream that you would have the stones to go the distance but I was wrong."

Neil, "Ma, please don't say these things, not in front of them."

Camille, "I covered for you a thousand times in a thousand different ways and here we are. There's nothing more that I can do for you."

Camille, "STOP CRYING! It doesn't mean that I don't . . .that I don't love you."

Camille, "I love you."

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FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT AND IT WAS CERTAINLY MINE BELOW IN ORDER IS SEASON EIGHT CAPPED AND SCRIPTED OF LAW AND ORDER CRIMINAL INTENT.

IT'S DONE BECAUSE SOMETIMES THEY MOVE AND SPEAK SO FAST YOU MISS SOME OF THE LITTLE ZINGERS AND SUCH. I KNOW MR. WOLF THEY BELONG TO YOU, I ONLY TOOK THEM OUT TO PLAY...THEY'LL BE HOME IN TIME FOR SUPPER.

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FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT AND IT WAS CERTAINLY MINE BELOW IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER IS SEASON SEVEN CAPPED AND SCRIPTED OF LAW AND ORDER CRIMINAL INTENT.

ITS DONE BECAUSE SOMETIMES THEY MOVE AND SPEAK SO FAST YOU MISS SOME OF THE LITTLE ZINGERS AND SUCH. I KNOW MR. WOLF THEY BELONG TO YOU, I ONLY TOOK THEM OUT TO PLAY...THEY'LL BE HOME IN TIME FOR SUPPER.

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NOTE: While I have seen SVU, the CSI series, NCIS, and other Televisions shows scripted & capped, I've only seen one or the other done for CI, so I thought I would try it. I only do this for the joy of it and am receiving no compensation for anything, Mr. Wolf & your legal representatives. I know they all belong to you. And because the action is so fast you can miss so much so it helps seeing it written out.

Disclaimer: LO:CI, the story FRAME episode 123, pictures, dialog and action all belong to Dick Wolf. The teleplay is credited to Julie Martin & Kate Rorick. No copyright infringement intended. Not for sale, no profits being made by myself. My personal use, of the episode shared with other avid fans. I have had no access with anyone associated directly or indirectly with LO:CI, not even the cleaning crew, or to the script or any pages from it. Live in Tennessee and no time to travel to NYC to Watergate it.

I do not script everything. If it didn't pertain to Bobby, Alex, Ross or Rodgers directly or indirectly it was omitted. There are other sites like NocostScripts.com that may have the full thing if you need it without caps. I got my copy from Amazon.com. My caps are from that. A note that some caps are not as clear as other sites that concentrate only on caps because I follow the motion with the characters words. Also I write the dialog the way they speak it, no pause in their speech no pause in the scripting short pause three dots, long pause six dots.

**I'd like to make another note...All cappers struggle with Logos. Those taken directly from TV have those irritating USA HD in the lower right along with any messages to the left. Amazon has a gray box with two silver rectangles in the upper Right. Since I use Amazon, I try to stop short of it or go below when possible to delete it. But there are times that it's right in the middle of Bobby's head so you may see it at times...sorry.

There will be shots of Bobby's back, because that's my weakness and perhaps obsession. For friend's obsessions there are hand shots, tongue, eyelashes, and feet.

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SCENE 1 (M.C.S. INTERVIEW ROOM)

Alex, "No see,"

"...your brother knew all along...that you stole your mother's life savings."

William, "Don't listen to her."

Bobby, "You let Julie think that your mother killed herself because of the money. Your mother...didn't commit suicide."

"We...checked the prescriptions that's in your doctor's name its,"

"...your handwriting, you see it's your dyslexia."

Julie screaming and throwing herself across the table at her brother, "How could you do this to me? How could you?"

Bobby grabs Julie around the waist.

Pushes her up against the wall.

Takes the cuffs from Alex,

...and handcuffs Julie.

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SCENE 2 (M.C.S. HALLWAY)

Ross exits the observation room and meets Bobby and Alex in hallway.

Ross, "Nice job you two. When you're done with the paperwork,"

"...take a day." He walks away.

Alex turns to Bobby, "Go."

Bobby, "You sure?"

Alex nods and he walks away.

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SCENE 3 (N.A. MEETING)

Frank talking. Is that Nicole sitting beside him?

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SCENE 4 (GRAVE SITE)

Bobby stands before his mother's grave.

He bends and places the flowers on the grave,

"Happy birthday, Ma."

He stands.

Then notices the picture and squats down to look.

He picks up a framed photograph.

He stands and looks around.

Then stares out puzzled.

He looks down at the photograph.

It's a framed photograph of Bobby and Frank as children.

He stares out thinking.

His eyes refocus and looks out over the cemetery.

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SCENE V (RESTAURANT)

Frank meets Donnie's mom for coffee and to get eight-hundred dollars from her. As he goes to pay the cashier he is given a note from a blonde woman who just left. Again was that Nicole?

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SCENE 6 (BOBBY'S KITCHEN)

Bobby stands eating a salad and looking at his mom's old photo album.

He puts down his fork and picks up the photograph from the cemetery.

Bobby holds it before him and looks down nostalgically.

First unnecessary flashback. This one of Frank and Bobby.

Bobby pushes away from the counter.

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Picks up the phone hesitantly.

He enters Frank's number.

Bobby listens to the rings as he waits.

Frank glances at his phone but is too busy with his crack pipe to answer it.

Bobby listens then snaps his phone shut.

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SCENE 7 (FRANK'S APARTMENT)

Frank using his crack pipe, a knock at the door, Frank looks through peephole, blonde woman standing there. Is that Nicole?

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SCENE 8 (STREET CRIME SCENE ENTRANCE)

Officer ascending stairs toward crime scene tape.

Bobby walks past detective on the street.

Hesitates and walks back.

Bobby, "What's going on here?"

Det. Fonatanella, "Dead junkie got high took a header out his window."

Bobby slips his hand into his pocket.

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SCENE 9 (ENCLOSED ALLEY)

He tears the tape and heads down the stairs.

Det. Fonatanella, "Whoa, whoa, whoa."

Bobby hand raised with badge, "Major Case......Major Case."

He walks down the long enclosed alley.

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SCENE 10 (OPEN COURTYARD)

Bobby walks into the open alleyway,

...and turns the corner into the open courtyard.

He pauses as he see the covered body.

Bobby hesitates over the covered body,

stoops down.

As he recognizes Frank he sits back and covers his hand his face with his hand in shock and grief.

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SCENE 11 (ALLEY COURTYARD)

Bobby watches as Frank is zipped into a body bag and rolled away.

He sits between the two detectives.

Det. Fonatanella, "We found eight hundred bucks in his pockets. Think there's more to the story? Your brother had enemies?"

Bobby, "Well, he was a...gambler and a...junkie for you know...thirty years."

"I'm sure he had some enemies."

Det. Fonatanella, "Any names?"

Bobby, "No. I don't know we didn't keep in touch."

Det. Fonatanella, "So what, you just decided to show up this morning?"

Bobby, "Uh, yesterday was my mom's birthday she passed away last year.

Det. Robinson, "So you're the only family?"

Bobby, "Uh..he's got a son Donnie..."

"but the kid ran away from him...Look I don't know where the kid is.."

He stands and looks up at Frank's apartment window then around the courtyard.

He looks at Detective Fonatanella, "Thanks," then turns and walks away.

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SCENE 12 (1PP ELEVATOR)

Bobby and Alex in the elevator at One Police Plaza.

Bobby, "Frank he never blamed himself for anything,"

"...he directed his anger out not in..."

Alex nods.

Bobby, "Where did he get the eight hundred dollars?"

Alex, "Could he have won it at the track or gambling?"

Bobby, "Yeah...yeah he could of..."

The elevator opens and a man enters, Bobby and Alex step back and closer together.

Alex lowering her voice, "I'll talk to the Captain we'll make sure they do a real investigation."

"You'll be at arms length,"

"...but I'll keep you posted."

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SCENE 13 (FRANK'S APARTMENT)

Alex, Ross and C.S.U.'s searching the apartment.

Ross, "No food in the fridge nothing in the cupboards not even roaches."

Alex, "Captain, I can handle it if you need to get back."

Ross, "No, I want to, first his mother then his brother, it's a lot to lose."

Alex, "Well, I've got a N.A. meeting schedule looks like Frank had a meeting yesterday."

Ross rubbing the white powder on the table, "Guess it didn't take."

Alex, "Hmm. Evelyn, coffee, 9:40, Port Authority. Maybe a program date?"

Ross lifts a blonde hair from the bed, "Maybe more than that."

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SCENE 14(OUTSIDE FRANK'S APARTMENT)

Alex comes outside to Bobby.

Alex, "C.S.U. is bagging some effects. Frank's N.A. schedule he might of set up coffee after the meeting...Evelyn."

Bobby, "It could be Evelyn Carlson, Donnie's mother.

Bobby takes the bag and reads the note. Our Bobby's getting manicures now...nice cuticle work.

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SCENE 15 (EVELYN CARLSON'S HOME)

Evelyn and Alex on the porch Bobby standing on the sidewalk.

Evelyn, "I came to the city because Frank called me. He told me my son needed money for a lawyer. I was hoping...(shrugs) I haven't seen Donnie in over a year."

"I wish that you had taken more of an interest in your nephew."

Bobby, "An interest?"

Evelyn, "Frank said he reached out to you for help but you couldn't...or wouldn't."

Bobby looks away. Pain of memories of Tate, what he did for Donnie flickers over his face.

Alex, "How much money did you give Frank?"

Evelyn, "Eight-hundred."

Bobby, "Frank knew what to say when he wanted something."

Evelyn laughs, "Yeah, sometimes he didn't even have to speak. There was this woman at the coffee shop she left him her number. He didn't even speak to her. He could still pull after all these years."

Alex, "A woman? Can you describe her?"

Evelyn, "Blonde, average height, I...I didn't get a great look at her."

Alex, "After you had coffee?"

Evelyn, "Oh he walked me to the bus said he was going home. I guess he never figured out what to do for your mother."

Bobby, "He left a picture at her grave."

Evelyn, "Oh...so he did get in touch with you?"

Bobby shakes his head.

Evelyn, "He said he didn't even know where she was buried."

Bobby and Alex exchange glances,

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SCENE 16 (M.C.S. CONFERENCE ROOM)

Bobby going through Frank's evidence box when Alex joins him.

Alex, "Coffee shop remembered the blonde, ordered tea paid cash. Cashier's working with a sketch artist and latent didn't find any prints other than yours."

Bobby takes the photograph from Alex

Photograph with HANDS

"This frame it honors the...the memory."

"My brother he's not thoughtful. He tacks his photos to wall with push pins."

Alex's phone vibrates,

Bobby looks down at photos as she reads the text.

Alex, "The autopsy's back."

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SCENE 17 (MORGUE)

Rodgers, "Lacerations are from the fall, we found sperm in his urethra and trace saliva...we're running DNA on that...good luck, and on the blonde hair from his bed."

Alex, "So he wasn't alone when he fell out the window?"

Rodgers, "He didn't fall." (Turning toward Bobby) "Your brother was murdered. Besides crack cocaine there was succinylcholine in his system...a paralytic."

Bobby, "Right, which makes you stop breathing."

Rodgers nods. "There's an injection point in his side."

Bobby bends over to see the site with Alex at his side.

He stands and steps back.

"Uh...Frank never used needles he was afraid of them."

"It was Nicole, the blonde at the coffee shop."

Alex, "Nicole Wallace."

"She came after my brother."

Two more unnecessary flashbacks, redundant if you're a fan confusing if you just tuned in.

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SCENE 18 (FLOWER SHOP)

A car horn honks...Nicole Wallace holds up her hand telling them to wait then orders flowers; when the clerk tells her she forgot to sign one she kisses the card leaving her lipstick on it saying, "Bobby will know who it's from."

FLASHBACK: NICOLE BEING LED AWAY BY ALEX. NICOLE TURNS BACK TO HIM, "Don't think for one second that this is the end of us Bobby."
This was the only flashback I personally felt was needed in the story.

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SCENE 19 (MCS CONFERENCE ROOM)

Ross looking at murder board, "Nicole Wallace, I'm told she's your white whale." I'd like to know who told him that.

Bobby, "When she was a literature professor she lectured on Melville."

Ross, "Either way, what makes you think she killed your brother?"

Bobby, "That's what she does, Captain. She seduces then kills...usually with poison."

Alex, "She killed Mark Bailey, grad student by spiking his gum...Larry Chapel a health inspector injected under his tongue with potassium chloride, and Zack Thaler a diamond thief--succinylcholine injected into his side."

Bobby, "She used the same method on my brother."

"She knew that I would remember."

Ross, "But the last time that you saw her was what two years ago?"

Bobby, "Three years ago...I convinced her to give up the only person that she ever loved,"

"...it was a little sick girl named Gwen Chapel."

"Gwen was all that she had,"

"...she thinks Frank......is all I have."

Ross, "I'm not doubting you, Detective, but now that your brother's death has been ruled a murder it doesn't matter if Nicole was involved. Neither of you can go near this."

Alex, "Forget this case, Nicole jumped bail on a murder charge three years ago."

Ross, "Okay."

Ross, "Try to track her down before,"

"...the M.E.matches her DNA to your brother's room."

Bobby rises and leaves the room with Alex behind him, She pauses at the door as Ross calls to her...

"Eames?"

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SCENE 20 (MCS)

Bobby walks to his desk pauses and removes the card from the bouquet there.

He turns as Alex follows him into the squad room.

Bobby turning to her "What was that?"

Alex, "Captain wanted to make sure you weren't being paranoid."

Bobby handing her the card, "Show him that."

Alex reading the card, "Oh this is the poison of deep grief?"

Bobby, "Hamlet..."

Jeffries calling from across the room, "Hey, Goren?"

Bobby, "The nephew..."

Jeffries, "Belvedere Hospital called. You're listed as someone's next of kin, they wouldn't tell me who."

Looking at Alex...

"Well!"

"That's my nephew."

"That's Donnie."

"I guess she found him."

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SCENE 21 (HOSPITAL ROOM)

Bobby stands facing the window. Magnificent back shot

Declan, "Bobby...Oh...my old friend."

Bobby turns and moves to Declan's bed gently subduing the struggling man and easily settling him back into the bed, "Oh no, easy, easy, easy, easy."

Declan, "My old friend..."

Declan, "Forgive me,I didn't...I didn't know who else to put down......Someone uh bumped me. He fades back to sleep.

Just a HAND shot.

Bobby stares down at his old mentor.

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SCENE 22 (HOSPITAL CORRIDOR)

Bobby walks out of Declan's room and walks up to Alex and Detective Mertz. "He's out."

Alex, "Declan was at John J. He just finished a presentation on serial killers."

The paper the Detective holds Bobby reaches and takes.

Det. Mertz, "His colleagues found him collapsed in the stairwell. A witness saw a blonde woman leaving he scene." Hands Bobby a sealed bag with a syringe. "That was beside him."

Alex, "Okay, we're gonna need a round the clock guard on him." Det. Mertz nods and walks away.

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SCENE 23 (HOSPITAL CORRIDOR)

The doctor comes out of Declan's room shutting the door.

Alex, "When will we be able to talk to him?"

Dr. Athop, "We need to flush the poison out of his system first."

Bobby, "Some kind of paralytic?"

Dr. Athop, "Yes, he was found quickly but given his age and his poor health..."

Bobby, "His health was bad?"

Dr. Athop, "He never fully recovered from those stomach parasites he picked up last winter. I'm sorry. I thought next of kin...you knew about it."

Bobby, "No."

Dr. Athop, "Never eat month old Christmas goose." (His pager goes off.) "Oh, excuse me." He rushes away.

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SCENE 24 (HOSPITAL CORRIDOR)

Bobby hands the bag with the syringe to Alex, "The syringe it's only half compressed."

A gratuitous cap of Bobby's thumb.

Alex, "Nicole was interrupted. She couldn't give him the full dose."

An aide approaches Declan's room with a cart of flowers. She lifts a bouquet similar to the one Bobby received.

Bobby looks at the flowers then at Alex.

He steps in front of her. "May I?" He removes the card and opens it.

Alex, "Who else knows Declan is here?"

Blurry but...lashes.

Bobby shows her the note, "This one,"

"...she signed." Another long thumb shot.

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SCENE 25 (FLOWER SHOP)

Michael looking at a photo of Nicole, "Yeah, that's her. So sad. She must be going through quite a lot."

Alex, "Why do you say that?" EYELASHES

Michael, "First she purchased two sympathy bouquets practically in tears the whole time. Then she e-mails an order for another to your friend at the hospital."

"At Belvedere and,"

"...do you know where the other two were sent?"

Michael, "One was sent to Police Plaza the other to Phoenix."

Alex and Bobby nod.

Michael, "Excuse me."

Bobby, "Phoenix, that's where Nicole took Gwen Chapel the girl was at high risk for cancer."

ANOTHER UNNECESSARY FLASHBACK

"Gwen Chapel the only person she ever loved. If she's dying that may be what set Nicole off."

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SCENE 26 (PHOENIX GWEN'S HOME)

Gwen, "I remember you, the New York detectives. Nicole said you might stop by."

Alex, "She came to see you?"

Gwen, "No. But she sent these."

"Well, they're very pretty,"

"......and she sent you something else?"

Gwen, "She sent me a get well card. There's a note for you inside."

Bobby stands to take it.

Gwen, "She told me not to tell Aunt Susan." Bobby glances back at her aunt.

He sits and looks at the note.

Alex reads it aloud, "Tit for Tat, Blood for blood."

Bobby turns it over to see an old picture of Donnie."

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SCENE 27 (PHOENIX OUTSIDE GWEN'S HOME)

Alex, "How did Nicole find Donnie?"

Bobby, "She didn't,"

"Nicole doesn't have Donnie if she did she would of sent a new picture of him."

Alex's phone vibrates and she reads it, "DNA from the hair...it's Nicole's."

"Of course,"

"...she left one strand of hair there on purpose."

Alex, "This is just a game to her."

Bobby, "The world cup."

He looks at the envelope.

"This letter is postmarked Pittsfield, MA."

"Nicole is sending us on a scavenger hunt."

Alex, "What's in Pittsfield?"

Bobby, "A white whale."

"That's where Melville wrote Moby Dick."

ANOTHER FLASHBACK WASTING SECONDS.

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SCENE 28 (Pittsfield, INN ON THE PORCH)

Stephanie, "Welcome to our inn."

Alex, "I'm Detective Eames."

Bobby, "I'm Detective Goren."

Stephanie, "Oh! Mr. Goren, wonderful, we have the honeymoon suite ready for you and your package arrived.

Bobby looks at Alex.

"I left it in the room." She leads the way into the Inn.

Bobby looks down at her hat in the chair.

Then stoops through the doorway to follow her in.

..........................CONTINUE TO PART TWO............................

FRAME 2 of 3

2009-02-28T11:37:31Z

SEE DISCLAIMER ON PART ONE.

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SCENE 29 (HONEYMOON SUITE)

Stephanie, "We were expecting you earlier, but no worries, you're just in time for wine and cheese."

Bobby, "Could you uh...excuse us for a minute?"

She leaves and Bobby shuts the door.

They stare at the box for a moment.

Alex looks at Bobby as he drops his binder on the chair.

They exchange a look.

"It's addressed to me from Donnie."

THOSE WITH BOBBY HAND FETISHES BRACE YOURSELF FOR A CORNUCOPIA OF THOSE LONG ELEGANT DIGITS.

He pulls the box to the bed's edge.

Takes out his knife and slices through the tape.

BOBBY MAY HATE GUNS BUT THE MAN KNOWS HOW TO WIELD A KNIFE.

Alex, "Uh...Why don't we wait..."

Bobby ignores her bomb squad advice as usual and cuts the box open flipping the flaps back.

His hand with with a knife.

He exposes a cooler lid and Alex moves closer...

Bobby reaches for the handle,

...and lifts the lid.

Alex covers her face and turns away. "Oh my God."

Bobby stares down into the box at the blooded human heart.

Alex turns to look up at Bobby.

Watching his pain.

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SCENE 30 (MORGUE HALLWAY)

Bobby with Alex walking down the hallway with Ross trailing.

Bobby, "It's Donnie's heart."

Alex, "Why don't we wait for the M.E."

"She took my brother she went after Declan now my nephew."

Ross, "Detective."

Bobby, "Look Nicole survived by having no emotions."

"Alright, I...I made her feel self-doubt, self-loathing."

"She never forgave me."

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SCENE 31 (MORGUE)

Rodgers, "It's not Donnie's heart. The DNA wasn't a match."

Bobby, "But...But you found a match, right?"

"Who did Nicole kill?"

Rodgers, "No one......the heart belongs to Nicole Wallace."

"No, I mean it's not hers."

Rodgers, "I ran the test three times."

"No you don't know her like I do."

"If anyone could fake this, it's her."

Rodgers, "It's her DNA."

Alex looks at Bobby.

"She can't have a twin."

"She doesn't. I checked her birth certificate with Melbourne."

"She's playing us."

Ross, "Or someone's playing with you, Detective and they killed Nicole Wallace."

"You can't kill Nicole, she's got nine lives."

Alex, "She ran out."

Bobby, "DON"T TAKE THAT SIDE."

"THESE TESTS THEY CAN HAVE FALSE RESULTS."

"YOU KNOW...NICOLE IS STILL OUT THERE. SHE'S GOT DONNIE,"

"......YOU'RE WRONG. YOU'RE ALL WRONG."

He storms out.

Ross to Rodgers, "I'm sorry, he's been under..."

Rodgers, "I know."

Ross, "Eames, could you give us the room?"

Alex gives him a look.

"I'll be upstairs."

Ross follows her to the door and shuts it. He turns back to Liz.

Ross, "My detective's in trouble. What do you know?

She turns away.

"I'm not threatening you Elizabeth, I'm trying to warn you Goren's vulnerable. He has a target on his back, so does anyone who helps him."

"Alright two months ago, Goren asked me to run a DNA test. He had me check his DNA against Mark Ford Brady."

Ross, "Brady, the serial killer?

Rodgers nods.

"What were the results?"

"No, you'll have to ask him."

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SCENE 32 (MCS ROSS' OFFICE)

"This is the first I'm hearing about it."

"Your partner actually believes Brady could be his father?"

"Well, he knows Brady's relationship with his mom continued after her marriage."

"And he's lived with that for a year, now he gets paternity results... suddenly this spree begins."

"What are you saying?"

"The victims...his estranged brother, his former mentor..."

"You and I both know he had nothing to do with these murders."

Ross nods.

"Then rule him out."

She gives him a dirty look and walks out.

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SCENE 33 (HOSPITAL CORRIDOR)

Declan in a wheelchair being pushed by Bobby.

Declan, "So, she lead you to her own heart?"

"That's what the M.E. wants me to believe."

Declan, "But you don't or maybe you just can't accept it."

"Your greatest nemesis brought down by someone else."

"Alright working theory, Nicole had a partner who turned on her."

"Y...Y...You mean someone who knows her history with me?"

Declan gestures, "You."

"Me?"

Declan laughs, "You're being set up."

"They're probably already investigating you...like I was, God...Hits Bobby with his hat, "when Eames was kidnapped. I...I never blamed you, come on move, move."

"My daughter was very clever.waves. "Come on."

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SCENE 34 (OUTSIDE HOSPITAL)

Declan gets out of the chair and shoves Bobby's helping hand away.

"How's Jo?"

Declan, "She's very well, considering, the irony is we spend more time together now than ever before. She's an intriguing case."

Bobby reaching for the car door handle but Declan pushes him out of the way.

Declan, "Alright, go through your case files, its someone from your past. Don't rule anyone out."

"You have to ask yourself, Bobby, who benefits from all this?"

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SCENE 34 (MCS CONFERENCE ROOM)

"Goren's LUD's and cell records, no calls to Phoenix or Pittsfield."

Ross, "He's smart enough to use a no name cell someone else's e-mail."

"Just a theory."

"Based on nothing."

Simmons enters, "Captain, I've gone through these account you gave me..." He trails off as he sees Alex.

Ross, "Simmons is taking a look at Goren's finances."

"Ask me. Goren had medical bills, he went six months without a paycheck, he's not flush."

Simmons, "She's right. He's got credit union loans, he's got charge card debt he pays the minimum..."

Ross, "You look at life insurance."

Simmons, "Uh, not yet. It'll just take one second to run a check. Goes to the computer and begins inputting."

Ross, "Start with Frank Goren."

"Frank? He lived hand to mouth. He didn't have a job or credit. How could he have life insurance?"

Simmons, "Well this just popped up. A Gen Life policy in Frank Goren's name. It's for five hundred thousand dollars."

"Who's the beneficiary?"

Simmons, "William Brady."

Ross looks at Alex.

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SCENE 35 (MCS ROSS' OFFICE)

Alex follows Ross into his office and shuts the door, "There's an explanation."

"William Brady is the name Goren used when he went undercover at Tate's. Why is there a policy on Frank's life in that name?"

"Someone went to a lot of trouble to set Goren up."

"I have to go upstairs with this. Get him a psych consultation."

Bobby slams into the room.

"Someone checked my LUD's,"

"... my credit union account, my e-mails?"

"You think I'm a suspect?"

"Bobby, right now you are a suspect but I..."

Bobby, "You think I'm capable of something like that."

She looks at him and sighs.

Ross, "You called Frank the night he was murdered, Detective. Did you go over to his apartment when he didn't answer?"

Bobby takes a menacing step forward, "You think that I would kill my own brother?"

"You're a detective."

"What should I think?"

"You're under sustained stress, your mother's death, your suspension,"

"...your father?"

Bobby paces to the door and back.

Our Bobby know how to fight...his thumb is outside his fist so it won't break if he had hit Ross.

He approaches Ross stopping to jab his fist toward him. To Ross' credit he doesn't flinch. "MY FATHER."

Furious Bobby glares at him.

"Your girlfriend tell you that?"

Alex looks down and shakes her head.

Glaring, "Hmm, you don't have the guts to ask me yourself?"

"I'm asking you now."

Bobby steps back breathing hard, turns and walks to the door, turns back...

"You guys wanna pry?"

removes a sheet of paper and flings it to the floor.

"Knock yourself out."

Alex, "That's not what this is about."

Bobby, "Yeah,"

"My father he was a killer."

Opens the door then walks back toward Ross,

"Yeah,"

"So I'm that too."

"Is that it?"

"Yeah I'm a killer."

"You happy, Captain?"

"That work for you."

Ross stoops to pick up the paper, "The question had to be asked and here's the answer."

"Mark Ford Brady is Robert Goren's biological father."

"So that means Goren is suddenly capable of murder?"

She huffs at him.

"You have a better suspect?"

"No, but I have a witness. My partner would tell you with serial killers the most important interview is with someone who survives."

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SCENE 36 (MCS CONFERENCE ROOM)

Declan looking at the murder board...

"So I just finished my lecture I was going down the staircase someone bumped me and uh I woke up in the hospital."

Alex, "Before you said it was a woman."

Declan, "Did I? It happened so fast."

Alex, "While you were giving your talk did you notice anyone or anything out of the ordinary?"

Declan sits beside Alex and across from Ross. "I...I do not look at my audience I lecture from notes. Now I stay glued to my cards or I go off on tangents. You see?"

Ross, "Dr. Gage before all this were you in touch with Detective Goren?"

"Didn't I see you at his mother's funeral? You've moved off Nicole Wallace as a suspect. Why?"

"The postmark on Nicole's heart, the heart was removed before you were poisoned."

Declan hesitates and shakes his head.

"It's not Bobby. It's not possible."

Ross, "You're sure."

"He certainly wasn't the one who bumped into me, that I would have noticed. He is caught up in a trap set up by someone close to him. Maybe even you.

Pointing at Alex.

"Excuse me."

"You care about your partner deeply. You know more about him than almost..."

"I don't need to listen to this." She rises

"You can have the room."

Declan,"Oh oh."

"That was uncalled for."

Declan, "You have to look at all the options Captain. Now we're back to Bobby. Why would he snap...now, hmm...at mid-life any psychopathology would of manifested itself earlier or..."

Ross, "Or Doctor."

"Or lain dormant till some sort of inciting incident. It would have to be something major something that shakes his foundation to the core but this looks likes revenge and everyone. Bobby's life including you, me, Eames even...

Ross phone beeps he reads the text and rises to leave to the room as Declan continues "has to be a suspect. It doesn't surprise me actually...genius can be very difficult to work with...are you even listening to me, Captain?"

Ross reacts to his cell text; rising quickly and leaving Declan sputtering.

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SCENE 37 (MORGUE)

Tray a instruments hit the floor.

Bobby, "THIS IS MY LIFE AND,"

"YOU PROMISED THAT THIS WOULD BE CONFIDENTIAL."

"YOU PROMISED ME."

"YOU PROMISED!"

Ross and Alex come in.

Ross, "DETECTIVE!" Ross looks at the destruction on the floor and then at Elizabeth.

"You alright?"

Liz. "Fine...I...I dropped my tray,"

"nothing broken...no damage."

Alex to Bobby "Let's go for a walk."

Bobby follows her out while Ross watches.

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SCENE 38 (OUTSIDE THE BUILDING)

Alex, "I was trying to clear you."

Bobby, "Good, Detective."

Alex, "There's an insurance policy on your brother,"

"...payable to a Swiss Bank account,"

"...in the name of William Brady."

He hesitates.

Bobby, "On on Fr.."

"There's an insurance policy on Frank?"

She nods.

Alex, "Someone's gaslighting you."

Bobby, "That's what Declan said."

Alex looks up at him.

Bobby looks down into her eyes.

Then he loses focus turning inward.

After a moment his gaze returns to her.

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SCENE 39 (MENTAL HOSPITAL)

Bobby sits waiting by the guard station.

Dr. Wen, "Detective Goren? You're here to see Jo Gage?"

"Yeah."

Dr. Wen, "You should of called first."

"Well I was afraid she'd tell her father that I was going to come for a visit."

Dr.Wen, "Hmm, that's highly unlikely. She's still in a coma...extreme blood loss deprived her brain of oxygen. Psych had just cleared Jo for visitation on the morning of her father's visit. We found her in her cell. She'd bitten her tongue off."

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SCENE 40 (MCS)

Declan following Ross through the room.

Ross, "I appreciate your coming."

Declan, "Does...Bobby know I'm here?"

Ross, "He asked for you."

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SCENE 41 (MCS INTERVIEW ROOM)

Declan follows Ross into the room.

Declan, "Bobby..."

"Eh...Oh, your partners here, Huh."

Alex, "Yeah, I as just telling him how you think I'm responsible for killing his brother."

Declan,"Well that's one working theory," taking a piece of paper out of his pocket opens it and then looks at her.

Alex, "Why would I do that now?"

"Wouldn't I need...what'd you tell the captain, some terrible trauma."

Declan, "Well, you've had those haven't you in spades. PTSD, pent up anger, its all there."

"Its there alright,"

"...but not toward my partner, She bends to look into his face then stands up, and looks at Bobby.

Alex, "If you think he can help you,"

"you're both out of your minds."

She leaves and Declan shoves the door closed behind her.

......................Continue to FRAME PART III

FRAME 3 of 3

2009-02-28T11:35:27Z

SEE DISCLAIMER ON PART ONE

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SCENE XXX XII (MCS INTERVIEW ROOM)

Declan, "Does she remind you of your mother?"

Bobby, "Come on,"

"...knock it off."

"Or Nicole? Laughs. No, I wouldn't think so."

"I mean those two women, eh...uh...geez never knew quite what to expect but that's what made them so exciting isn't it? It's tough, you know, staying engaged when you're always two steps ahead of everyone else in the room."

"It isn't Eames."

"Why,"

"...she lacks the nerve, huh?"

"No."

"The imagination then. What did Kragen call it the uh...the vision thing...um?"

"That was Bush."

"Was it? Talk about your father issues." Laughs.

"Were we talkin' about father issues?"

"Isn't that what this is all about? Come on, Bobby. You waited a year to check uh, um...Brady's DNA. Why?"

"You knew about my paternity test,"

"...how come you didn't say something to the Captain?"

HE TOLD DECLAN ABOUT BRADY MAYBE BEING HIS DAD BUT NOT EAMES?

"You told me that in confidence and don't change the subject. I...I...I get lost when you do that."

"I wasn't afraid of the test."

"That's right, because you always knew. I mean the minute you met Mr. Brady you, um"

"...didn't it all make sense. Your whole life your mother's husband never showed you love and,"

"...your mother despite everything you did for her. She preferred, er, uh...that cankerous brother of yours to you. Why would that be?"

"She knew that I could take care of myself,"

"um...she worried about him."

"Yeah, she did, didn't she. So you did what you could for him. You put him back in touch with your mom at the end and,"

"...what did he do? Hmm?

Bobby doesn't respond. Hmm?"

"He betrayed you."

"He tricked you into putting your career on the line,"

"...for a nephew you never knew existed. You, um..." Takes off his coat and drapes it over the chair. "Alright, alright" Clears his throat and sits across from Bobby.

"There's a theme here Bobby. Did you ever ask yourself why?"

"Why nobody ever came through for you...you think it was your fault?"

"Yes......I've thought that."

"It isn't, you know. They failed you. You did everything you could for them and more."

Bobby nods.

And nods.

And nods and sighs deeply.

"Thanks."

"Just like I did with Jo."

Bobby's demeanor changes immediately, he hesitates...

"You think you did everything you could for Jo?"

"I did the best I could. I'm a single parent."

"You told me your relationship with her had never been better."

"She's in a COMA."

Declan taps his lips, "I didn't want to upset you. I know you two are close in your way and you had enough goin' on."

Bobby looks at him.

"You're good."

Turns in the chair, "For a man with diminishing capacity..."

He stands, "You can still hold your own."

Bobby turns,

...and walks a few feet away...

"Diminishing capacity, what are you talking about?"

Bobby turns to face him."Jo's refusal to see you is that what pushed your mind over the edge?"

"What? You think I've lost it. I'm a tenured professor, I lecture, I write books."

Bobby in the mirror shots. Some call it python, some call them wrinkles. I can't see the python roused in all this angst.

"You forget to wash your hands,

HAND SHOT.

"...you eat candy without the wrapper." ANOTHER HAND SHOT.

"Oh um...am I a bad boy eh?"

"You ate month old Christmas dinner, what's the matter, the thought that the food had turned never came to you?"

"I get busy with my work..."mirrored Bobby back

"Executive function."

"Oh er, YOU WANT TO DO THE WISCONSIN CARD TEST? THE STROOP?"

Another python sighting?

"I don't need to."

"Your frontal lobe's been blown out, okay. It's too much formaldehyde...drug abuse."

"Genetic roulette that can be a factor."

"Man with your knowledge,"

"...must of been excruciating to know what your future was, you know."

"Your loss of judgment,"

"...lack of inhibition,"

"...there's no meds for that."

Declan, "There's occupational therapy and I'll make um...puffs...uh collages. Smiles up at Bobby and chuckles.

"Yeah."

"You do that already."

"You've cut and pasted,"

"...the pieces of my life together."

"Very good, Bobby, you may be on to something."

"You did this."

"Didn't you? You killed my brother."

Declan, "No, no that was Nicole."

Bobby looks at him for a long moment,

...then pushes himself to stand.

"How did you find her?"

"Ha ha, my latest book. I wrote about women serial killers, like Jo, like her. I knew she'd find it then find me.

Bobby stares at him.

Declan laughs and slaps at Bobby. "She tried to seduce me, Bobby...I think you and I may be the only two men who ever said no to her. It's the only way to engage her."

Bobby nods,

he sits back down "Yeah...and once,"

"...once you engaged her?"

"I convinced her that I was furious with you about Jo. She said she missed having a partner."

Bobby sighs.

"And my brother,"

"...that was her idea?"

"I let her think so. I knew she could get at him...she said it didn't take much...a little smile a little shove."

Bobby wars between rage and grief.

"Declan,"

"...you son of a bitch."

"He was going down anyway, Bobby, I didn't want him takin' you with him."

"You did this for me?"

"No......for both of us. After Jo I had no one. And you, you" huffs twice

"You're the son I never had. When...when I saw you at your mother's funeral, you broke my heart...I wanted you to engage again. So I gave you a puzzle. To solve."

"To play."

"A puzzle?"

"You think I needed her,"

"...to get me back in the game?"

"Precisely."

"And after she'd accomplished that,"

"...naturally she turned on me,"

"but I was waiting."

"You should of seen her, Bobby, when she realized it was finally her time. She looked up at me with those big doe eyes of hers...

SOUND FAMILIAR

"And she said tell Bobby he's the only man I ever loved..."

"As if a monster like that,"

"...was capable of love...you know I..."

Whispers, "Who else?"

"I'm curious, though...who...who are you gonna miss more? Nicole or your brother?"

"Tell me who else."

"Who else did you kill?......Donnie?"

"Your nephew...NO. No I would'na of done that even if I could of found him."

SO WHY DID HE SEARCH FOR HIM?

"That would'na helped you."

"Helped me?"

"Helped me?"

He stares at Declan in confusion.

"You still don't see, do you?"

Bobby shakes his head.

Declan hisses through his teeth and wraps his hands around Bobby's face,

"You're younger than you know." Bobby pulls away from him.

"You..." he hesitates.

"Frank...Nicole...me, we're dead weight. I wanted you to have a clean slate.

He laughs "You're free, now."

"Bobby,"

"...you're free."

FIN

LEGACY Part 1 of 2

2009-02-26T12:59:42Z

LEGACY

NOTE: While I have seen SVU, the CSI series, NCIS, and other Televisions shows scripted & capped, I've only seen one or the other done for CI, so I thought I would try it. I only do this for the joy of it and am receiving no compensation for anything, Mr. Wolf & your legal representatives. I know they all belong to you. And because the action is so fast you can miss so much so it helps seeing it written out.

Disclaimer: LO:CI, the story LEGACY episode 122, pictures, dialog and action all belong to Dick Wolf. The teleplay is credited to Alan Kingsberg & Kate Rorick. No copyright infringement intended. Not for sale, no profits being made by myself. My personal use, of the episode shared with other avid fans. I have had no access with anyone associated directly or indirectly with LO:CI, not even the cleaning crew, or to the script or any pages from it. Live in Tennessee and no time to travel to NYC to Watergate it.

I do not script everything. If it didn't pertain to Bobby, Alex, Ross or Rodgers directly or indirectly it was omitted. There are other sites like NocostScripts.com that may have the full thing if you need it without caps. I got my copy from Amazon.com. My caps are from that. A note that some caps are not as clear as other sites that concentrate only on caps because I follow the motion with the characters words. Also I write the dialog the way they speak it, no pause in their speech no pause in the scripting short pause three dots, long pause six dots.

**I'd like to make another note...All cappers struggle with Logos. Those taken directly from TV have those irritating USA HD in the lower right along with any messages to the left. Amazon has a gray box with two silver rectangles in the upper Right. Since I use Amazon, I try to stop short of it or go below when possible to delete it. But there are times that it's right in the middle of Bobby's head so you may see it at times...sorry.

There will be shots of Bobby's back, because that's my weakness and perhaps obsession. For friend's obsessions there are hand shots, tongue, eyelashes, and feet.

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LEGACY

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SCENE 1 (OUTSIDE MANOR HILL SCHOOL)

Bobby, Alex, and Det. Powell walking toward school entrance.

Bobby, "Manor Hill looks more like college than a high school."

Alex, "Costs like one, too."

Det. Powell, "Deceased is Paul Phillips, seventeen, dad's a big CEO. School's Head Master has Major Case pulled in for a hanging."

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SCENE 2 (Hallway of MANOR HILL SCHOOL)

Alex, "He thinks the local precinct doesn't like his kids."

Det. Powell, "On that he'd be right. Anna Nobile found the body around four p.m."

Anna, "It's No bi le...uh...Paul was a student of mine."

Alex, "You notice anything was he depressed?"

Anna, "No, but Paul lived in his own world."

Alex, "Not one of the popular kids?

Bobby looks at Anna.

"Was he new here?"

Bobby moves in closer to Anna looking down at her sweater's arm.

Alex, "Hmm."

Anna, "He was in the fourteen year club,"

Bobby continues to examine her arm.

"He started in pre-K but the longer he stayed the less he fit in."

Alex looks at Bobby following his eyes.

Alex, "Does he belong to any groups, sports?"

Bobby points his pen at Anna.

Anna, "Just cross country."

Bobby, "Loneliness of a long distance runner,"

"...could you just turn around, spin around just once."

She turns and Bobby picks a fleck of paint from her sweater with his pen.

"You have uh,"

...paint flecks all over you, yeah."

Anna, "Oh it um uh from the boiler room. I tried to hold Paul's body while I called for help."

"Boiler room?"

"Uh, what were you doing down there?"

Anna, "Uh, well,the door to the tunnels is supposed to be locked, it was wide open."

Det Powell walks up, "Um headmaster is waiting. A real C.Y.A.

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SCENE 3 (TUNNELS BENEATH MANOR HILL SCHOOL)

Det. Powell, Alex and Bobby enters tunnel. The headmaster waits.

Alex, "Let me guess kids come down here to hook up and get high."

H.M., "They call it the tunnels in the Thirties the seniors built a still
down here."

Keifer Gates the Head Master.Shakes her hand. "In hindsight Paul should of been in a less competitive school. This was a tragedy waiting to happen."

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Bobby bending over body.

"Rigor's just setting,"

"...and this wound in his neck its not very deep."

Alex stands listening.

Bobby touches the bottom of Paul's shoes.

Alex, "There's some kind of sailor's knot tied at this end."

Bobby, "It's a bowline. So he uh gets the noose over the pipe."And a magnificent Bobby back.

"...kicks the chair out,"

He looks up at the pipe.

"......should be more...paint chips,"

Bobby looks down at chips on the floor.

"...I mean even if someone wants to kill himself,"

"you know the body still...fights to survive."

"Cell phone, back pack?"

Detective, "M.I.A. we're searching the grounds."

"Mud on his sneakers is still fresh."

"So he hanged himself but decided to go for training run first?"

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SCENE 5 (Paul's Home)

Bobby and Alex with Paul's parents in his bedroom.

Mrs. Phillips, "Paul was doing better. He was actually looking forward to the Prom." She hands Alex a photo.

Alex passes it to Bobby.

"He has a nice smile. How'd Prom go?"

Mrs., "I don't know. Bill had a Sailing Regatta this weekend. We got back today."

"You sail Mr. Phillips?"

Bill, "Yeah."

"Paul sail?"

Bill, "He tried, he'd get seasick."

"Neither of you spoke to Paul since Friday?"

Bill, "We were trying to foster more independence. Build his self-esteem."

"This tux here," Pulling from the closet "The one in the photo is this yours it...it just looks big on him?"

Bill, "He likes to borrow my things."

Bobby tosses tux onto the bed and examines it.

"Well it looks like he spilled something on it,"

"...and put the whole thing in the wash."

Bill, "How stupid can you be. Its ruined." His wife looks at him horrified "My boy." He sinks onto the bed his arms around the tux.

Bobby looks at him sympathetically.

"You just...you said he'd been better lately."

"Is he on medication?"

Mrs., "Several." Her husband clears his throat. "Bill, they need to know. I'll get you a list."

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"So Paul's meds aren't all for depression."

Mrs., "We were also on the lookout for schizophrenia."

"There's a history in Bill's family."

"Ah and he's embarrassed about it?"

Mrs., "He's private, Detective, I didn't see any signs that Paul was slipping. Maybe a year ago, but recently it seemed like,"

"...like he was happy for the first time."

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Rodgers, "Cause of death asphyxiation from hanging."

Alex, "But he didn't do it himself."

"Not unless he fractured his own skull first. His hair masked the bruising but there was extreme internal bleeding."

Alex, "So he was out cold when he was hanged."

"Any other bruising? He starts to lift the sheet on the corpse, ...but Rodgers takes it from him.

She gives him a LOOK.

Bobby and Alex step back and watch her pull the sheet down.

Rodgers, "I was just getting to that. There are more around the kidneys, groin and buttocks but these are from two or three days before his death,"

"...he literally got his ass kicked."

Bobby, "No hits to the face or upper body we've seen this before."

Rodgers, "In abused wives and children the abuser knows not to hit them where it will show."

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SCENE 8 (MCS)

Alex, Bobby and Ross walking through the squad.

Ross, "So Paul took a beating on Saturday and was hanged on Monday, poor kid his back pack turn up?"

Alex, "Not at his home and not in Manor Hill public spaces or classrooms."

Ross, "What about student lockers?"

Alex, "School's legal team's getting back to us on that."

Bobby, "The problem may be less in school than in house."

Ross, "Tell me we're not talking about Bill Phillips?"

Alex, "The pit bull in pin stripes corporate raider buys up companies fires half the staff and bullies the rest."

Bobby "Bullies are disgusted by weakness,"

"son Paul...was a disappointment."

Ross, "A lot of dad's are disappointed by their kids doesn't mean they'd hang them."

Bobby, "Well Phillips family's history of schizophrenia."

"He knows the misery,"

"...the inevitability."

"He could of seen his son slipping."

Ross, "Cut his losses. Hope you are wrong."

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SCENE 9 (GYM OUTSIDE SQUASH COURT)

Bobby, "We were surprised when your wife said you were playing squash."

Bill, "It's how I deal with bad news get out my anger."

Alex, "I'm afraid we may have more bad news we don't think Paul committed suicide.

Bill, "What are you saying?"

Alex, "You told us Paul didn't have many friends maybe he fell in with a new crowd recently...tougher crowd."

Bill, "He barely left his damn room."

Bobby, "Here's what's troubling Paul was,"

"... was beaten badly sometime Saturday,"

"...and bruises all over him where you couldn't see them.

"You said you were away sailing but the Regatta didn't start till Sunday."

Bill, "We made a weekend of it, well you think I hit him...are you nuts?"

Bobby, "Well, you do have a temper." Reaches and takes his glass from him

Bill, "And you have your nerve. Anymore questions?"

Bobby, "Wh...where were you Monday afternoon."

Bill, "Board meeting in Virginia. I took off in my Gulf Stream from Teterburo at Ten a.m."

"You know they told me that Major Case was a elite unit. I'm underwhelmed."

Takes back his water glass."Thank you." He walks away.

Bobby looks at Alex...

...Then after Phillips.

Alex looks after Phillips.

Alex, "If he was my Dad I'd hide in my room, too."

Bobby, "So outcast at home,"

"...outcast at school."

"Paul had to have someone."

shrugs "...Right?"

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SCENE 11 (MANOR HILL HALLWAY)

Jack walker III, Bobby, Alex, And the Head Master in the hallway outside a classroom.

Jack, "Grief Counselor gave you my name?"

Ales, "She just told us you and Paul were friends. She didn't tell us what you two spoke about."

H.M., "The officers aren't convinced Paul killed himself."

Jack, "Oh." looks into in the room at students.

Bobby moves to block his view.

Bobby, "If this isn't a good place to talk..."

Jack, "I just don't want,"

"to miss any classwork."

"I think" looks into the classroom

"that we would rather talk to you at your home."

Jack nods.

Bobby, "All right, thanks."

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Bobby picks up a framed photograph.

Walker, "This is a big year for us. Jack's applying to Harvard in the fall."

Jack, "Dad, I want to help."

Walker, "This needs to stay off the record."

Alex nods. Walker takes the Photo out of Bobby's hands.

Bobby, "Sorry." Alex gives Bobby a LOOK.

Bobby, "So uh...did Paul talk to you about who beat him up over the weekend?"

Jack, "He got beat up? OH!"

Alex, "Oh, what Jack?"

Jack, "That's why he made the video."

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SCENE 13 (WALKER HOME DEN)

Video on Big screen. Bobby, Walker and Alex sit watching while Jack stands to the side with the remote.

Jack, "Paul just said he was fed up and he wasn't going to take it anymore."

Bobby, "The Photo Shopped faces uh of these girls. They were in your classroom today."

Jack, "Tess Nobile and Kiana Richmond."

Alex, Nobile...is she related to the teacher?"

Jack, "Her daughter, I told Paul not to send it but by noon on Monday he'd already V-casted to half the student body."

Alex looks at Bobby.

Alex, "And four hours later he was dead."

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SCENE 14 (Manor Hill Hallway of Lockers)

Police Officer with bolt cutters and Bobby stands at lockers. Students huddle in a group snapping phone pictures behind them. Kiana Richmond stands defiantly by her locker.

Kiana, "You want to invade our privacy you're gonna have to cut our lock."

Officer looks at Bobby, who motions him on.

The Officer cuts the lock as Bobby looks at Kiana.

Bobby points across the hallway to another locker, Tessa steps in front of him.

Tessa, "We don't have Paul's backpack, this is crazy."

The Officer cuts her lock. Anna Nobile hurries up.

Tessa, "Mom, they're searching my locker."

Anna to Bobby, "You don't have the right to do this."

Alex, "No see we do private schools act in loco parentis. Your headmaster gave us permission."

Anna, "Keifer, this isn't right."

CSU, "We found two laptops." He holds them up. Anna grabs one of them.

Ana, "This one is my daughter's and you can't look at it without a search warrant. That much I know."

Bobby, "Well, we'll get one."

Kiana, "You already Guantanamo'd my locker. Y'all wanna bust into my laptop go ahead. I got nuthing to hide."

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Scene 15 (MCS VIDEO ROOM)

Ira, "Kiana used data utility wiping freeware but it performs like malware."

Alex, "In English."

Ira, "She downloaded a program to permanently delete a file but it jut moved it to another part of her hard drive."

Alex, "Half the school saw Paul's prank video,"

"...why go to all the trouble to erase it?"

Ira, "Different video, this one's of you vic."

They watch the attack.

Ira, "It was downloaded Saturday night."

Alex, "Now we know how Paul got his bruises. Did they post this on the Net?"

Ira,"I haven't found it anywhere."

Bobby, "Could you roll it back,"

"...and slow it down. They're wearin' sport's goggles."

Alex, "She runs with her left hand low her right high. That's how you hold a Lacrosse stick my cousin played girls Lacrosse guess what they called the three front line players,"

"...attack men."

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SCENE 16 (MCS)

Kiana walking between Bobby and Alex to interrogation.

Kiana, "I don't need no daddy I can take care of myself."

Alex, "Really. That's not what your daddy told us."

Ross, "Kiana's father is here. Father and lawyer. Why is my daughter in your custody?"

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SCENE 17 (MCS INTERROGATION)

They sit around the table watching the video of Paul being beaten.

Bobby, "I don't know that sure seems to be you."

Kiana, "Racial profiling."

Bobby looks at her.

Father, "She says its not her, let's move on."

Kiana, "When the man speaks, the man listens."

Alex, "You have any idea who these girls are."

Kiana, "Nope."

Alex, "How 'bout Tessa Nobile? Some people think you and she are more than just friends."

Father, "What'd that suppose to mean?"

Alex use the remote to turn on another TV.

Father, "That's offensive."

Ross, "I'm very sorry, we apologize."

Bobby, "That videos retaliation for the beat down."

Father, "You misunderstand, Kiana, she grew up on Park Avenue not the projects."

Alex, "We get it, her ghetto act only fools her private school pals."

Kiana, "No, I know more about the projects than you."

Bobby, "Do you?"

"Tell me Kiana what would they do in the projects if someone dissed them like that?"

Kiana, "Make sure they never diss them again."

Bobby nods.

Father, "My daughter's done posing." They get up and leave.

Bobby looks over at Ross.

Ross looks back to him.

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SCENE 18 (MCS INTERROGATION)

Ross, Alex and Bobby watch them leave from the door.

again that hand on his belt just stirs me up.

Alex, "Every girl on that Lacrosse team is going to be lawyered up by the end of the day."

Bobby, "The ones that can afford it,"

"Tessa's mom's a teacher."

Ross, "Which makes Tessa the weak link."

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SCENE 19 (ANNA AND TESSA NOBILE'S HOME)

Alex showing Tessa and Anna the tape of Paul being beaten.

Alex, "Which girls on your team did this."

Ann, "You don't have to talk to them. The warrant's only for your computer."

Alex, "Shall we start with e-mails or I.M.'s."

Tessa, "Hey, those are private."

"Um...try LUV40,"

"...there's a lot of them that's before prom right,"

"...so click on......"

Tessa, "Don't please. I think I can help. Those are my teammates but I wasn't there."

Anna, "You weren't?"

Tessa, "Mom"

Bobby busy scribbling notes.

"They did it because Paul hurt me. See I was suppose to go to the prom with Luv40, Joe."

Bobby, "Luv40 the tennis player?"

Tessa, "Yeah, but Paul told him the Lacrosse team was all lesbians, so Joe ditched me."

Alex, "Paul had it in for you? Any idea why."

Tessa, "That's what's the weird thing. I asked Paul why he hated me."

Alex, "After his tape went out?"

Tessa, "He said he didn't that he loved me way more than Joe."

Alex, "Were you surprised?"

Tessa, "We never even hung out, I told him you're the last person on earth
I could ever love. He started crying and then he ran off into the tunnels."

Alex nods.

Tessa, "If he killed himself because of me...."

"Did you tell anyone about what Paul said?"

Tessa, "Kiana, before Lacrosse practice."

"How did she react?"

Anna, "Hey, you have to tell them what you know."

Tessa, "Kiana told me not to worry. She was going to put an end to it."

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SCENE 20 (MCS INTERROGATION)

Kiana, "I was at Lacrosse practice when Paul died, ask my teammates."

Alex, "We did, they back you,"

"...but your coach said you were a half hour late."

Richmond, "He said they said."

Bobby, "What was it about Paul?"

"Was it that he was a weird kid? Um awkward always staring?"

Kiana, "I had nothing against Paul until he started dissing me."

"No, no, no...You mean dissing you and Tessa were you mad at him because he outed you or maybe because he had the guts to say something you never could that he had a crush on Tessa?"

Richmond, "My daughter is not a murderer and she is not a lesbian."

"Which of those scares you more Mr. Richmond?"

Richmond, "You don't know my daughter."

Kiana, "Neither do you. Look, Paul deserved to be got but I didn't kill him. My plan was to jam his bike lock make him walk home."

"Light punishment."

Kiana, "It wouldn't be once we shoved him in a car truck stripped him and dumped him in the South Bronx."

Richmond, "What do you know about the South Bronx?"

Kiana, "I know things Dad, get used to it. Messin' with his bike made me late for practice."

"There were no signs of tampering."

Kiana, "That's because Ms. Nobile caught me."

Alex's surprise shows

"Ms. Nobile? You're sure?"

Kiana, "She asked me what I was doing when I say getting back at Paul."

Bobby, "For his video. So she knew."

Kiana, "I showed it to her she needed to know what Paul did to her daughter she said go back to practice. Forget about it. She'd talk to Paul."

Alex nods.

Alex looks at Bobby.

He looks down at her.

Then over at Kiana..

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SCENE 21 (MRS. NOBILE'S OFFICE)

Jack comes in to speak with Ms. Nobile.

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SCENE XXII (MCS)

"Anna Nobile...tells Kiana she's gonna have a talk with Paul and then she discovers his body. She say anything when her daughter implicated Kiana?"

"Not a word."

"How did we miss her on the first pass?"

"She's a renaissance art scholar and mom ...you arrested a lot of those?"

Ross, "University of Florence graduate, socio-curator at the Frick and she goes from teaching at Risdy to Manor Hill."

"Turns out when mom signed on to teach Tessa got a full scholarship."

"Anna put her career aside to insure her daughter had the best shot possible."

"She ever thought that Tessa's future was being threatened..."

"Tell Head Master Gates we want to go ahead to search Anna's faculty office. If he gives you any guff, tell him we'll be by with a warrant and a half dozen tabloid photographers by lunch."

"That would be a bluff."

"That would."

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SCENE 23 (ANNA NOBILE'S OFFICE)

Alex, "How well did you know Paul Phillips?"

Anna, "I uh er... He was in one of my five classes."

Alex, "Did he ever come for office hours?"

Anna, "Never. He had a hard time just making eye contact."

Bobby holding up a back pack "Really Ms. Nobile?"

"Looks like it has Paul's Phillips' phone and Mr.Phillips' notebooks."

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SCENE 24 (OUTSIDE MANOR HILL)

Alex and Bobby put Ms. Nobile into the Black SUV,

...while from the balcony hands take pictures on a cellphone,

...and then high five.
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LEGACY Part 2 of 2

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SCENE 25(MCS INTERROGATION)

Alex, "Monday afternoon right before Paul was killed Kiana showed you the video he made."

She nods.

"You didn't tell us about that."

Anna, "I was protecting my daughter. I was afraid Tessa was a part of that pack that beat up Paul. They could expel her for that."

Alex, "But she says she wasn't there."

Anna, "I wasn't sure she was telling the truth."

"And we're not sure if you're telling the truth."

"Paul ruined Tessa's prom and her first love and then you saw the video he made and you ran off in a rage to find him."

Anna, "Which I did hanging from a pipe."

Alex, "Maybe you strung him up over that pipe."

Anna, "Me?laughs I could barely hold up Paul's legs when I tried to save him. If there's anyone I want to kill it's Joe."

Anna looks over at Bobby.

Bobby, "You didn't like Joe?"

Anna, "I never met him. Tessa only met him once at a party. They call it cyber-relationship but I saw his web page. I read his e-mails and I thought he was the perfect boy for her."

Bobby, "She let you read his e-mails?"

Anna, "In the beginning, she wanted my approval and I gave it freely. He had such poetry."

Bobby, "He was a uh like a sensitive soul. What made you change your mind about him?"

Anna, "After prom weekend, there was an envelope under my office door from Joe with photos of Paul being beaten by the girls. Joe's note said that Tessa was one of them and that he'd post the video online unless I resign."

Alex cuts her eyes over to Bobby.

Bobby looks and Alex.

Bobby, "You were being blackmailed?"

Anna nods "Um hm."

Bobby, "Did you tell anyone at school?"

Anna, "At Manor Hill. laughsPlease...those other girls would be protected by their parents but if Tessa were involved she'd be the scapegoat. Kicked out right before her senior year."

Bobby nods.

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SCENE 26 (MCS VIDEO ROOM)

Alex, Bobby, Ross and CSU computer tech. Ira.

"Anna's story checks out. Here's a copy of the blackmail letter from Joe and the photos."

"Okay so Joe's a blackmailer. What does he have to say about Paul's murder?"

"We...We're still trying to find him. Bristol Academy is not being cooperative."

Ross, "Terrific. Track him through his friend's post page."

Ira, "He took it down, um I'm using the Way Back Machine. They archive snapshots of all websites. There's your Joe Cardinal."

Ross, "Handsome kid."

"The school may not confirm that he's there, but I mean, here he is on the campus."

"Likes tennis, Camus, hanging with the boys. Not a lot of wall action probably doesn't use th site very much."

Alex turns to look at him in amazement.

Ross notices the look.

"I have a couple of teen-aged boys."

Alex shakes her head and smiles.

"Well his friends list the only kids from Manor Hill on it...Tessa and Paul."

"So why would a kid from a Connecticut boarding school with no connections to Manor Hill try to blackmail one of their teachers?"

Ross, "Get up there and ask him."

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SCENE 27 (BRISTOL ACADEMY ADMIN.OFFICE)

Carol, "I can help you since this doesn't concern our student's privacy. No Joseph Cardinal currently or ever enrolled here."

Alex, "You Checked?"

Carol, "Don't need to got um all up here. Taps her head.

Bobby, "Your sure you've never seen this face?"

Carol, "NOT a student here. drops a catalog on the desk in front of him. "Our catalog from last Spring and those aren't students."

Bobby flips through the catalog

"You used models." They turn away.

"We need this."

Carol calls after them "You're welcome."

Bobby, "It's the hiking picture from Joe's page."

"These photos were cut and pasted onto Joe's friend post page."

"Joe Cardinal doesn't exist."

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SCENE 28 (MCS)

Ross, "I dreamed of your face last night the freckles on your cheek. One man's poetry..."

"Bristol tennis team, summer house in the vineyard,"

"Tessa is on a scholarship, self-conscious."

"This kind of boyfriend was tailor-made for her status."

Ross, "Could she of created him?"

Alex, "Um...We checked, different I.P.'s, different locations,"

"and then there's Joe's I.M.s to Tessa from prom night."

Ross, "What's under your dress web cam me I'm smiling all night."

"Cheeky."

Alex, "Um, Tessa said no half hour later Joe backs outta the prom and using Paul as an excuse."

Ross, "Inventing Joe asking for a strip video a lot of work just to humiliate her."

Bobby, "But if humiliating Tessa wasn't the goal but a means to an end."

"I mean Anna Nobile cares about her daughter more than anything on the earth."

Alex, "And we know whoever invented Joe tried to blackmail Anna into resigning."

Ross, "Starts with a hoax escalates to a beating ends with a murder. Some kid or kids at that school put all this in motion just to take down a teacher.

Bobby shrugs

"Lord of the Flies up there."

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SCENE 29 (NOBILE'S HOME)

Tessa, "I met Joe at Nessing's party."

Anna, "You were there? Eric Nessing is a senior, class clown, his parents went out of town. He sold his key to some juniors, got out of hand."

Alex and Bobby exchange looks

Bobby, "Did you talk to Joe at the party?"

Tessa, "I must have. I had a lot of punch so things got fuzzy. He friended me the next day. He said he liked my dress, the green one. He said he liked the way I danced when I took off my shoes."

Bobby, "Liked the way you dance when you took off your shoes,"

"...are you still in touch with him?"

Tessa, "I e-mail him, he never writes back."

"Could we talk to your mom alone?"

Tessa, "Sure." She leaves the room.

Anna, "That boy's no good."

Alex, "Not only is he no good he's not real. Someone made him up so they could toy with Tessa."

Anna, "Why would anyone want to hurt my daughter?"

"Maybe to get to you."

Bobby, "Could Paul have pretended to be Joe?

Anna, "It's not possible...for Paul to write poetry would be like a tone deaf boy singing Nessa Dorma."

Bobby, "Okay, then uh which students resent you?"

Anna, "Everyone who doesn't get an A."

"So you're a tough grader?"

Anna, "Yeah..yeah I also initiated community service as a requirement for graduation that didn't go over too well either."

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SCENE 30 (MCS VIDEO ROOM)

Party video playing on screen."]

Ross, "What am I looking at?"

Alex, "Pictures of the party where Tessa met Joe all pasted online."

Ross, "Kids these days live their lives publicly they don't realize..."

Alex, "Hmm."

Ross, "Once its out there..."

"They name-tagged their photos. Forty of them go to Manor Hill including Paul on the outside looking in."

"Assuming he's not Joe that still leaves three dozen other suspects. If we cast that wide a net parents are gonna raise hell."

Bobby nods.

Bobby, "Well,"

"...then let's line catch 'em."

"Whoever is behind Joe is obsessed taking Anna down."

"If he thought that had failed maybe he'd react."

Alex, "What if instead of Anna resigning she gets promoted."

Bobby nods.

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SCENE 31 (MANOR HILL HALLWAY)

Anna's promotion is posted on a bulletin board. Unknown hand rips it off and crumples it up.

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SCENE 32 (NOBILE'S OFFICE)

An envelope slides under the door. Bobby reaches and opens the door immediately. NICE HAND SHOT.

Bobby, "Hey."

Reaches down & picks up the envelope. "May I help you?"

Jeffy Lumley, "I was just dropping off a paper."

Bobby, "Yeah?" Opens and pulls out sheet of paper.

Bobby looks at Alex.

Bobby reading, "You didn't resign like you agreed now what's more important your job or you daughter?"

Alex, "And what class would that be for?"

Jeffy holds his hand up in the air "Lawyer."

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SCENE 33 (HEADMASTER'S OFFICE)

Alex moving the phone, "Anytime you want to call your dad about that lawyer after all that's what dads are for..."

Bobby, "Maybe you don't want to involve your dad,"

"...maybe you'd just rather just tell you what your know."

Jeffy, "I'm not a rat I'm just heeling for Scouts and Scholars."

Alex, "Heeling?"

H.M.. "Competing its a future leaders' club."

Alex, "But you may be joining a less prestigious one."

"The I could of been an Ivy Leaguer if I hadn't gone to Juvie club."

Bobby, "Someone from Scout and Scholars ordered you to drop this off,"

"...so we need to know who."

Jeffy, "I don't know, but everyone knows the Jack Pack runs the Scouts."

Alex, "Write down the names, please."

Jeffy pouting as he bends to write the name, "I'll never get in now."

Bobby smiles down at him in amusement.

Then looks over at Alex.

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SCENE 34 (MCS, Vending Room)

Alex, "Jeffy coughed up ten names but Eric Nessing, Brandt William and Jack walker are the three who brought grading challengers against Anna Nobile this semester."

Ross, "Any of them so desperate for an A they'd kill?"

Alex, Nessing's already admitted to Brown but the other two are juniors. Brandt's a legacy at Yale and Walker's family went to Harvard.

Ross, "Bring 'em in, one of them isn't going Ivy League."

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SCENE 35 (MCS INTERROGATION I)

Bobby, "Nessing? Oh, you're that kid who sold his key to the juniors so that they could have a party at your house, right?"

Eric, "Dad told me to be more industrious. I tell you that prank's become pretty legendary."

Bobby nods.

Bobby, "And what about creating Joe, is that going to be your next legendary prank?"

THIS ONE'S JUST ABOUT THE MAN'S HANDS.

Brandt, "Look, if Tessa thought she could land a guy like that she deserved to get punked"shrugs "Just sayin'."

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SCENE 36 (MCS INTERROGATION II)

Brandt, "Paul liked Tess so we created Joe as a Cyrano thing and prom night was going to be bait and switch."

Alex, "Except that was never gonna happen because this was never about Tessa or Paul."

"The real target was Ms. Nobile."

"Joe gets Tessa to strip on camera and you guys blackmail her mother to resign."

Brandt, "What's wrong with trying to get rid of a teacher who makes you do community service and gives out C's is there a crime in that."

Atty, "He's right, Detective, we're talking about harmless school boy pranks."

Alex, "No, we're talking about murder."

Brandt,"I had nothing to do with murder."

Alex,"One of you did."

"Now if it wasn't you who was it Nessing or Jack?"

"Loyalty or Yale. Your call?"

Brandt after a few moments, "Nessing's the picador...Jack 's the matador."

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SCENE 37 (WALKER'S STUDY)

Bobby and Alex enter walker's Study.

Waiting are Jack, his dad and Attorney Stanford.

Stanford, "What's this about Detectives?"

Walker, "You have a suspect?"

Alex, "Joe Cardinal, he goes to another school and he was a friend of Paul's."

Walker, "Then what does this have to do with Jack?"

Alex, "We need Jack to tell us all he can about Joe."

Jack, "Dad. I never even met the guy."

Bobby, "Easy, we know you ran errands for him."

Stanford, "These errands? My client can't discuss them if they might lead to..."

Alex interrupting, "Mr. Walker, the only person we're interested in prosecuting is Joe."

Walker, "Alright then, son tell them what you know."

Jack, "I'm not gonna rat anybody out."

Walker, "Do not be an idiot. You're not going to throw away your future to protect some sociopath."

Stanford, "Walker its all going to work out. Jack is an outstanding scholar athlete. His future is bright,

Jack, "He means I'm going to Harvard."

Alex, "Don't count on that Jack right now we have enough to charge you with extortion, a felony."

Walker, "You just said you weren't interested in prosecuting him."

Jack, "Dad, hello..they're bluffing."

Walker, "Do you have any idea how much it took to get you this far. Your Grandfather and I donated a computer room at Manor Hill to get you enrolled after middle school."

Jack, "That was in middle school, Dad."

Walker, "We've been endowing a chair in Cambridge for the last five years."

Jack, "Yeah, five years, I know."

Walker, "So tell me what is your problem?"

Bobby, "Tell him."

"......Come on,"

"...Go on,

"...tell him how sick you are of hearing that you'll never make it on your own."

Walker, "That's not what I'm saying."

Alex, "Aren't you on the tennis team, Scouts and Scholars."

Jack, "And a 3.7129 G.P.A."

Alex, "Wow, four decimals. So why does your dad think you need to be carried?"

Walker, "What's wrong with a father helping his son?"

Jack, "I don't need help especially not from you."

Bobby, "He's right. He's successful young man."

"You think he's a failure, I mean that's..."

Walker, "You're way out of line here and you better start taking to them and tell them what you know."

Jack, "I'm not going to rat out Joe."

Bobby, "Good for you that's what cops like,"

"They like people that won't turn on their friends you know."

Walker, "Jack, why are you doing this. Why are you protecting this moron?"

Jack, "Moron? You would like Joe. How many times have you bitched about how the school is going down the tubes. How teachers like Ms. Nobile are ruining Manor Hill, and Joe figured out how to stop it."

Bobby, "Two of you,"

"...he devised a plan where only."

"...the less desirable would suffer."

Jack, "That's right."

Bobby, "How smart was that?"

Alex, "Like Paul..."

Jack, "A suicide waiting to happen."

Alex, "He would not have survived a semester at college."

Jack, "Not even a chance."

Alex, "And Tessa..."

Jack, "A loser on scholarship freeloading off our tuition just like you said Dad."

Walker, "Jack, you can not take things like that out of context."

Stanford, "I feel it's in my client's best interest to take a break."

Ignoring him Alex continues, "How about Kiana?"

"She's a star athlete."

Jack, "If she wasn't black she'd be going to U. of M. next year not Wellesley. Just like he said in five years the yearbook is going to look like the cover of National Geographic."

Bobby nods.

Bobby, "Joe orchestrated things better than your Father's friends could ever have done."

Jack, "He should be thanking Joe."

Alex, "He should be thanking you. There is no Joe. Your son created him."

Walker laughs, "Tell her that she's wrong, NOW."

Bobby, "You see that Jack,"

"he...he won't even give you credit,"

"...for creating Joe, creating Joe's friends post page his friends,

"...the perfect match for Tessa Nobile."

Walker, "Jacky couldn't have done that he's not smart enough, he's not creative enough. He never finishes what he starts."

Jack, "SHUT UP! I did it, okay for you."

Stanford, "This is off the record, none of this is admissible."

Jack, "Okay, the school wasn't what it was when you went there."

Walker, "That's enough."

Stanford, "Jack..."

Jack, "Shut your mouth Stanford, Dad thinks your a tool, too. He'd never let you take anything to trial...there's no Joe, I did it all."

Walker laughs, "He's just saying this to get attention."

Jack, "Every step of the way I almost had Tessa stripping for Joe on web cam..."

Alex, "But she said no."

Jack, "Yeah, at the very end."

Alex, "That's when you told her Joe was dumping her."

Jack, "Well it wasn't like he was going to show up at the prom is it?"

Bobby, "Paul who was waiting for Tessa,"

"...well how did you handle that?"

Jack, "Yeah, well I had to scramble, I knew Kiana had a crush on Tessa so I played her against Paul. Oh and that worked too, Dad. Those girls and this is so Darwinian, these girls beat the crap out of him and video taped it."

Bobby, "And Paul struck back with his video."

Jack, "Dumb geek. I told him not to."

Bobby, "I can't...what I do not get,"

"...I mean you're so smart you,"

"...uh you didn't attack Paul did you?

Jack, "I didn't attack Paul. He came at me."

Alex, "Because you'd ruined things with Tessa and got him beat up."

Jack, "He was weak. So I gave him a shove. He went down."

Alex takes out her handcuffs.

Walker, "Jacky?"

Bobby, "H. Jack Walker the third you're under arrest for the murder of Paul Phillips.

Walker, "It's alright, it's alright, I'll bail you out. It'll be okay."

Jack. "You still don't get it do you Dad, you can't fix it this time."

They escort him out.

end
I gave you lots of hands and eyelashes and myself lots & lots of back & shoulders..sorry feet guys, no good shots this time. Hope you enjoyed.

VANISHING ACT Part 1 of 3

2009-02-25T17:24:08Z

NOTE: While I have seen SVU, the CSI series, NCIS, and other Televisions shows scripted & capped, I've only seen one or the other done for CI, so I thought I would try it. I only do this for the joy of it and am receiving no compensation for anything, Mr. Wolf & your legal representatives. I know they all belong to you. And because the action is so fast you can miss so much so it helps seeing it written out.

Disclaimer: LO:CI, the story VANISHING ACT episode 121, pictures, dialog and action all belong to Dick Wolf. The teleplay is credited to Jerome Hairston. No copyright infringement intended. Not for sale, no profits being made by myself. My personal use, of the episode shared with other avid fans. I have had no access with anyone associated directly or indirectly with LO:CI, not even the cleaning crew, or to the script or any pages from it. Live in Tennessee and no time to travel to NYC to Watergate it.

I do not script everything. If it didn't pertain to Bobby, Alex, Ross or Rodgers directly or indirectly it was omitted. There are other sites like NocostScripts.com that may have the full thing if you need it without caps. I got my copy from Amazon.com. My caps are from that. A note that some caps are not as clear as other sites that concentrate only on caps because I follow the motion with the characters words. Also I write the dialog the way they speak it, no pause in their speech no pause in the scripting short pause three dots, long pause six dots.

**I'd like to make another note...All cappers struggle with Logos. Those taken directly from TV have those irritating USA HD in the lower right along with any messages to the left. Amazon has a gray box with two silver rectangles in the upper Right. Since I use Amazon, I try to stop short of it or go below when possible to delete it. But there are times that it's right in the middle of Bobby's head so you may see it at times...sorry.

There will be shots of Bobby's back, because that's my weakness and perhaps obsession. For friend's obsessions there are hand shots, tongue, eyelashes, and feet.

CAPS PRECEDE DIALOG.

VANISHING ACT

OPENING SCENE, FROM INTERVIEWING SHAWN ROBINSON, PAUL SCHAFFER,
AND NAKED COWBOY TO THE GREAT CARMINE'S MAGIC PRESHOW, AND OVER TO MILES STONE IN CEMETERY VIDEO, REPORTERS, MILES DISTRESS, CARMINE PUTTING SWORDS INTO BOX, THE DIGGING UP OF THE GRAVE, BOX OPENS TO FIND MILES PIERCED WITH SWORDS AND CARMINE IN SHOCK, TO CEMETERY WHERE BOX IS OPENED AND NO MILE, EVERYBODY'S SHOCKED.

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Let's just say...

SCENE 10 (CRIME SCENE-THE GREAT CARMINE'S MAGIC STAGE)

Det Agnes Farley "The great Carmine saved his best trick for last. Carmine closes the lid, does the swords, opens the box and presto...Miles Stone. At nine forty-five his lovely assistant climbed into this."

BACK SHOT

Bobby very excited, "This is a...uh...uh...

"...ah blade box it's a,"

"...it's a classic old school magicians they all have this in their repertoire."

"My Uncle used to take me to Tannin's Magic Shop."

Alex smiles at his excitement.

"Carmine and his assistant?"

Det. Farley, "He's in his dressing room. Miranda...no last name, fled the scene."

Alex "You get statements from the audience?"

Det. Farley, "All six of 'em. They only saw what they were supposed to see."

Bobby examining the body, "Rigor's just setting in."

"This guy's emaciated."

Alex, "He's been on a diet locked in a casket for a month."

Bobby, "Even so seven stab wounds there'd be more blood."

Alex, "Hmmm."

Bobby speaking very fast, very excited, "Well, this isn't,

"...a typical blade box."

Alex grimaces as he surrounds the corpse with his body in the box.

"Its a modified mummy cabinet see wh..wh there should be a mummy where Stone is now."

"Th...the assistant closes the door."

"an..and in..inside,"

"there's spinning cabinet here,"

"lookin' to trade places with the mummy..."

He looks at her and settles down, "...and she should show up in the back of the house."

Alex turns to look toward the back of the house.

Alex, "So this explains how she got out,"

"...and how Stone got in or how someone put him in. Where'd the assistant go?"

Bobby, "Well, backstage...there's a fire exit."

Alex "Oh, your ruining the illusion." They head backstage.

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SCENE 11 (MIRANDA WALKING ON THE STREET WITH CELL PHONE)

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SCENE 12 (CARMINE'S DRESSING ROOM)

Carmine is sprawled in a chair, Bobby sit across from him, Alex stands to the side.

Carmine, "I don't even know her last name."

Alex, "You always hire strangers?"

Carmine, "Last month outta the blue my girl Mercedes quit on me, been with me for years."

Alex stands in background playing with a giant card.

Carmine, "In walks this new kid, costume fits, she has experience. I hired her."

Alex, "How'd you find her, Craig's List?"

Carmine, "Who's Craig? I put the word out. She found me." He sits forward toward Bobby. "I didn't mean to kill Miles."

"When the swords go in that box should be empty."

"So,"

"...someone wants us to believe,"

"...you want Stone dead."

Carmine, "What? Come on. He used to sweep my stage. I taught him twisted aces. I gave him his start. He's a star now."

Bobby Nods.

Carmine. "Besides I'm practically the only guy in the business that still likes him."

Alex, "How's that?"

Carmine, "He's got no respect. Makes himself out better than the tradition."

"Tradition,"

"...does that include...uh,"

"...getting drunk before you go on stage. I mean not even that onion could keep the smell of vodka off you."

Carmine. "Just enough to loosen up the old chords."

Bobby looks at him. Carmine sits back and passes out."

Bobby bends to look at him as Alex phone rings and she takes it out of her pocket,

then Bobby sits back.

Alex read the text message.

Bobby glances up at her. He looks down picks up a card and reads it aloud, "The Great Carmine...the man who taught Dean Holiday and Miles Stone everything they know."

Alex, "The Great Carmine. Let him dry out in holding."

"We got another stop to make."

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SCENE 13 (CEMETERY)

Alex walking with Det.Becker."The grave's been filled in before anyone called the cops."

Det. Becker, "People thought Stone's vanishing act was part of the show. By the time we got here, the casket was already loaded in the hearse."

Bobby going through the casket holding the two pillows in his hands.
Tosses them into the casket.

And he begins pushing and pulling on the sides and ends.

"Doesn't smell like anyone's been buried in this thing for a month."

Bobby continues to bang on the sides.

"Gotta be a trap door somewhere."

Alex, "Hmm. When my partner's done playing send this over to the trap specialist at the garage."

"Whose in charge?"

Det. Becker, "Guy named Jacob Green."

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SCENE 14 (CEMETERY)

Bobby sits beside Jacob Green on a wall in the cemetery. Alex stands nearby.

Jacob, "Of course he was suppose to be in the casket when it opened. I can't explain how this happened."

Alex, "Can't or won't?"

Bobby, "Well,"

"I...I think Mr. Green feels he has to protect..."

"...Miles Stone secrets, right."

"I respect that..."

"...but this is a murder investigation."

Jacob, "I only know what everyone knows. Miles was buried in that casket. Nothing but a breathing tube, a catheter and an I.V. for fluids, and a web cam streaming a live feed."

Jacob, "Last night was the moment he'd dreamed of. He'd done it."

Alex, "Sounds more like self-torture than a magic trick."

Alex looks down at the text on her cell phone.

Jacob, "He called it the new magic. He trained like a tri-athlete."

Alex, "Hmm. What about the alert, the vital signs crashing, the big rush to pry him out?"

Jacob, "That... was pre-planed for the finale. Miles like drama."

"How did he keep track time underground?"

Jacob, "Pure mind over matter."

Bobby let's his amusement show to Alex over Jacob's serious answer.

Jacob, "He was a superman. I still think when I get home I'll find him in my kitchen drinking my last beer."

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SCENE 15 (MCS VIDEO ROOM)

Bobby and Alex watching the screen with Ross.

Ross, "Magicians are like doctors and priests now. Jacob Green thinks he can claim some kind of magician's privilege."

Bobby, "That's their code of, you know, can't tell anyone how..."
(a girl enters and hands a note to Ross)

"...a trick works."

Ross, "And Carmine isn't talking either."

Ross leaves the room.

Alex follows....

Bobby rises from the chair he is straddling and follows.

"Well, he's still sleeping it off. Anyway that trick is too sophisticated for...uh, an old drunk."

Ross, "Okay, how 'bout the missing assistant?"

Alex, "She was backstage putting on her sequins by nine. Miles Stone had to have been on his way to Coney Island by then."

Ross, "Out of his casket into a blade box,"

"...without anyone seeing how it was done." Alex shakes her head.

Ross looks at the unusually silent Bobby. "You have a theory, Detective?"

Bobby, "W...Well,I..I'd tell you but,"

Shrugs, "You know..."

Ross, "The Code."

I love this little wave Ross gives them, like "Go", but they again blocked half the shot with a wandering extra. I capped both parts anyway.

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SCENE 16 (MORGUE)

Rodgers, "Done thousands of autopsies, never seen bowels this empty. That and his muscle tone looks like he's been in a box for a month."

Bobby, "Well, he was on an I.V. for nourishment."

Rodgers, "The bear minimum. Just enough to keep him alive."

Alex, "Is that why he didn't bleed much when he was stabbed?"

Rodgers, "Well, if his heart was pumpin' he'd of gushed no matter how emaciated he was."

Alex turns back quickly to look up at Bobby.

Bobby, "So what killed him?"

"Heart attack. Arrhythmia brought on by a prolonged acute malnutrition."

Alex, "He starved himself to death."

Bobby nods.

Bobby, "Then why wasn't he in the casket when they opened it."

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SCENE 17 (MCS)

Alex, "Carmine will be relieved to hear the guy he stabbed was already dead."

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SCENE 18 (MCS HOLDING CELL)

Officer Jones to Alex and Bobby, "Detectives."

They enter, stop and stare at the empty cell.

Bobby, "Officer, where's the old man?"

Officer Jones, "He's been here all ... I don't under...He could'na just disappeared."

Bobby walks to cell...

opens unlocked door,

...examines the lock.

Puts his hands in his pockets and turns to Alex "Well he is...is the...uh, Great Carmine."

"I guess we underestimated him."

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SCENE 19 (MCS HOLDING CELL)

Ross holds key out to Officer Jones who takes it and puts it back in his pocket. "Tell us what happened Officer Jones.

Bobby walks out of cell to Officer Jones.

Officer Jones, "The old man asked for some coffee."

Ross, "So you brought him a cup?"

Officer Jones, "Handed it to him through the bars."

Bobby, "Was his hand steady?" Bobby holds out his hand.

Officer Jones, "He had the D.T.'s and spilled coffee all over himself and me."

Ross frowns at him.

Bobby holding out glass of water, "So he was like shaky?"

Officer Jones, "Sure."

"That's what I was sayin'" He spills the water on the officer.

Officer Jones, "Hey."

"That's my fault."

"That's my fault."

"I'm very sorry." Bobby takes the handkerchief from the officer and begins to dab at him.

The officer takes it back, "I got it."

Bobby takes it back and begins to wipe at his clothes. "Nah, let me just help you out..."

"You wanna do it, fine."

"It's...I'm sorry."

Ross stands back watching the show. The officer takes the cloth back

"And then you helped him wipe it up. I guess?"

Officer Jones shrugs, "Yeah."

Bobby nods and looks at him.

His hand moves to the side of the Officer's and he pulls out the jail cell key. The young officer looks mortified.

Ross smirks.

Bobby hands it back to him, "Here."

Bobby moves to leave the room, "Yeah, its the classic misdirect."

"Right?"

"That's why ...uh, magicians have pretty girls,"

"...because they're looking at the girl."

"...instead of..."

Ross to Bobby as Bobby leaves the room, "Speaking of pretty girls, when you find Carmine see what he knows about his mysterious assistant."

Bobby nods.

Officer Jones starts to follow him out.

"Officer Jones?" He turns to face Ross. "You and I aren't done yet."

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SCENE 20 (CARMINE'S APARTMENT)

"Clothes, cards, handkerchiefs..."

Bobby approaches her with two metal pans.

Alex, "...everything a magician might need." She unfurls a fan and looks up at Bobby "Looks like Carmine was getting ready to take his act on the road."

Bobby holds the pans up for her to see.

Bobby puts the two pans together for Alex,

...opens to show them filled with scarves.

Tosses them into the air.

He smiles at her.

Both turn back to work laughing.

He sets the pans down and stretches one arm toward the dollhouse.

"Th..this dollhouse illusion."

"I wanted one of these when I was a kid..."

"Look at this..."

Alex smiles with him covering her mouth to cover an excited giggle.

..then he snaps open a wand tapping around inside.

He taps the bottom and hesitates,

...stands and looks at her,

...she smiles back.

He closes the door and moves to stand beside the house.

Det. Farley leans against the doorway watching.

...grasps the steeple...

...and pulls it up.

The sides fall and Carmine falls out.

Carmine, "You can't take me back to jail again. I swear I didn't kill Miles.

Bobby, "Yeah,

"We know."

Carmine, "So, I'm free to go. I gotta gig in Alcoa. I need to catch bus."

Alex, "Not until you tell us how his body got into our blade box."

Carmine, "I got no idea."

Alex, "Your assistant may know. Oh! That's right, you don't know who she is."

Carmine, "She worked for Dean Holiday, that was good enough for me."

Bobby, "Did you call Holiday, you know, check it out?"

Carmine, "Why? She knew his act, inside stuff. I'd know if she wasn't on the square."

Alex, "No last name,"

"No phone number? You did pay her, right?"

Carmine, "Under the table, just like me. We good?"

Alex, "Sorry, we have to charge you for your great escape."

Carmine, "Uh, well...may be there's a little something more I, can,,,uh, give ya..."

He take a teddy bear from off the shelf,

...and hands it to Bobby.

Bobby looks down. At the bear's camera eye.

Carmine, "...to, uh... identify her. A man has needs."

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SCENE 21 (DEAN HOLIDAY'S DRESSING ROOM)

Alex showing a picture of Carmine's assistant, "Do you recognize this woman? Goes by the name of Miranda. She's Carmine's assistant."

Dean, "Carmine's still a Peeping Tom. Hole in the dressing room wall."

Alex, "Uh...no teddy bear nanny cam."

Dean, "Umm, old boy's keeping up with the times."

Bobby, "And what about his assistant?"

Dean, "Must be new. She wasn't with him last year when he came backstage."

LOUDSPEAKER "MR. HOLIDAY, TWO MINUTES."

Alex, "But Carmine said he hired her because she worked with you, knew your act."

Dean, "Probably got it off the internet. You'd be amazed how many web sites are dedicated to me."

Alex, "Oh? I can't wait to check them out."

Dean, "Ha. Why not just stay for my midnight show. Atlantic City is hopping after dark."

Alex, "Some other time maybe."

"This girl she duped Carmine."

Dean, "He might not be as sharp as he used to be, although I did hear he recently escaped from One Police Plaza. Is he really a suspect?"

Bobby, "You think he's beyond that?"

Dean, "Carmine's old school...Catskill's, Sullivan Show...those illusions are way too advanced for him."

Bobby, "M.E. told us Stone really was buried alive."

"No trick."

Dean, "Believe me, detective, you ask any true magician, there is always a trick."

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SCENE 22 (POLICE GARAGE)

C.S.U. Malone, "It took me awhile to figure this one out,"

A back shot that takes up the entire frame.

"...electro-magnetic strips hidden in the head panel and edges of the casket, long as the juice is running the magnetic seal won't budge."

"Well, where did the current come from?"

Malone, "Carbon battery."

"This strip hands it to Alex hidden in the base of the casket."

Alex, "Looks like ordinary black tape."

Bobby, "So how did he turn it off to open the trap?"

Malone, "With a remote, like this one." Pulls out remote and hands it to Bobby, "No lock or latches."

Bobby clicks remote and the end falls on the casket.

Bobby smiles at Malone then Alex.

Malone, "Ingenious."

Alex, "Well, ingenious as it is Stone was still buried six feet under. It may be a clever way out, but out to where?"

Bobby tosses the remote into the casket.

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SCENE 23 (GRAVE SITE)

Bobby inside the grave digging into the side of one end, he punctures the side...once,

...twice,

Three times...

Four times...

Alex and another man walk up to the grave and look down at him.

Five, six times he stabs into the dirt, with the seventh the dirt gives and falls. Bobby digs away to clear an opening.

He shines his flashlight into the tunnel.

Bobby is replaced by CSU with snake camera working it way through tunnel,

As promised a shoe shot of Bobby's....Brown shoes to match the dirt he was playing in.

...Bobby joins Alex at the top of the grave watching a remote television screen of the snake traveling through the tunnel.

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SCENE 24(SEWER SYSTEM)

CSU pointing flashlight into a hole, "Here's where your cemetery tunnel ends."

"Maybe fifty yards from the grave."

Bobby walking through the sewer.

Bobby, "Well, Stone would have had to crawl to get here."

Alex, "From here on he could have gone anywhere."

"Well, the shape he was in he couldn't have gone far."

Bobby stoops and reaches down to touch the floor.

"Ah cemetery dirt, well tracks track that-a-way."

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SCENE 25 (JACOB'S HOUSE)

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SCENE 26 (SEWER)

"Eames?"

"Where could that go?"

PLEASE GO TO PART 2

VANISHING ACT Part 2 of 3

2009-02-25T16:14:57Z

SEE PART ONE FOR DISCLAIMER...

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SCENE 27 (OUTSIDE A BOARDED UP BUILDING)

Officer pulls planks from the front door.

Officer cuts lock and chain from door.

"Easy in, easy out.

Alex, "Um, open casket matches the one in the cemetery."

Bobby, "And a web cam."

Alex, "Miles Stone didn't spend thirty-one days in that cemetery. He spent it in here.
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SCENE 28(OUTSIDE BOARDED BLDG)

Police car pulls up. Jacob get out and faces Bobby.

Jacob, "Why'd you bring me here? What is this?"

Bobby, "You know what it is."

Motions him inside

Alex, "This is where the real web cam is set up, so his fans could watch him suffer for his vision day and night."

Bobby, "Right here,"

pointing to the camera

"...and when he needed a break you switched to the pre-recorded video loop."

Alex, "It was a sham."

Jacob, "I don't know know anything about this."

Bobby, "You don't? But it was your design."

"Th..the tunnel the electro-magnetic traps."

"I mean, Stone couldn't come up with this on is own."

"He didn't have a high school education."

Alex, "But you, Cal Tech at sixteen. Straight A's in engineering."

Jacob, "I'm telling you I was never here."

Alex, "We're going to find your fingerprints on this casket and your DNA all over this room."

Jacob, "Oh...Look I was just trying to protect him."

Bobby, "From what?"

Jacob, "Himself, Miles started to believe his own hype. He wanted to be buried for real. I told him I could make it look and feel real with a lot less risk."

Alex, "Well I guess you were wrong."

Jacob, "I had nothing to do with his death,"

"...You know I was at the cemetery. I was on camera."

Alex, "You had an accomplice. Who else knew about this place?"

Jacob, "No one, I had the only key."

Bobby, "Oh!"

"Well, then I guess you're the last one to see him alive."

Jacob, "Because I was keeping him alive, I changed his IV bags, I made sure he got exercise, I put salve on his sores."

Alex, "We get it, you were a regular a Florence Nightingale."

Alex shoves a picture out at him, "You know who this woman is? She goes by the name of Miranda?

"...She was Carmine's assistant."

Jacob shakes his head, "I don't know her, sorry."

Alex lowers the picture.

Jacob, "Can I go,now?"

Alex, "Nope, we've had enough vanishing acts lately. Officers?"

Jacob turning to look at Bobby sitting behind him, "You're arresting me?"

Alex pushing him toward the officer, "Yep, that's what happens when you lie to the police."

Bobby, "So...Jacob said that he changed Stone's IV bags."

"Stone had a central line inserted. That's something that doctors do."

"These gloves they seem small for a man."

Alex pulls one on over her small gloved hand, "Our missing assistant fit into Mercedes costume,"

"...I'll bet she fit into these."

Bobby, "Serial number."

Alex, "This stuff's not mail order. He might of had assess to a hospital."

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SCENE 29 (MORGUE)

Rodgers, "Well, I missed it the first time. Color me chagrined."

Hands paper to Bobby.

Bobby, "Potassium chloride..."

Rodgers, "Triggers a heart attack. There were traces of it in the IV bag and the insertion point of the central line."

"But it's hard to detect."

Rodgers, "Impossible once its in the body."

Alex, "Perfect choice for an angel of mercy."

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SCENE 30 (HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS OFFICE)

Bobby flipping through book of doctor photographs with Alex sitting beside him. Administrator stands behind them.

Bobby, "We traced the IV bags back to this hospital."

Admin. walking back to sit behind her desk across from them, "This is a municipal hospital things disappear."

Bobby, "And these are all the females physicians?

Admin., "Um hm."

Alex, "What about the nurses?"

Admin., "You have to be at least a resident to insert a central line.

Alex, "What a nurse is authorized to do,"

"...and what a nurse is capable of are two different things."

Admin., "We have over eight-hundred nurses on staff here. Do you want photos of each one?"

Bobby nods, "Yeah,"

"...start with the units that specialize in long term IV care."

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SCENE 31 (HOSPITAL HALLWAY)

Outside patient room, Alex and Bobby follow a nurse to window. Stand a moment watching the nurse with a patient.

Bobby taps on the window.

Lays badge against the glass.

Then he motions her out.

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SCENE 32 (MCS INTERROGATION)

Teresa "It sounds lame, I know. I joined the side show to gain Jacob's attention. It's like he was engaged to Miles instead of to me, the amount of time they spent together."

Alex, "Oh you and Jacob are engaged?"

Alex, "Then how come when we showed him your picture, he said he didn't know you?"

Teresa, "Probably weirded out. He had no idea I was working for Carmine."

Alex, "Oh...why'd you keep that a secret?"

Teresa, "I was going to bring Jacob to the show and surprise him for his birthday.

Alex looks back at Bobby then down.

He moves away from the wall toward Teresa.

"And how did you hear about the job."

"Was that Carmine's ad..."

"...or his post on Craig's List?"

Bobby sits beside Teresa and turns to face her.

Teresa, "Craig's list, that's it."

Bobby nods.

Alex, "Hmm...Why'd you disappear the night Carmine stabbed Stone."

Teresa, "I panicked. Something went wrong with the trick. I just freaked out and ran."

Bobby, "Oh,"

"...I just, um..have one more question."

"So when was the last time you were in the safe room."

"Because we found your prints on,"

Looks over at Alex holding bagged gloves. "...these."

Teresa, "I was just there once, I swear. All I did was insert the line."

"We found potassium chloride at the insertion point and in the IV bags."

He moves into her personal space.

"Do you have a professional opinion on how it got there?"

Teresa, "Do I need a lawyer?"

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SCENE 33 (MCS OBSERVATION ROOM)

Ross waiting as Alex and Bobby enters.

Ross, "Carmine didn't post on Craig's List."

Bobby, "No, but Teresa did get her job,"

"...in time for Stone's grand finale."

Alex, "We left calls for his old assistant. It's timed to pay her a visit."

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SCENE 34 (OUTSIDE BOTANICAL DEL CARMEN)

Bobby and Alex walking with Mercedes' sister, Adele...

Adele, "She didn't call you back because Mercedes didn't take her cell phone with her."

Alex, "With her where?"

Adele, "My sister won a contest. A cruise around the world."

Bobby, "Wow!"

"She really hit the jack pot."

Adele, "It was a dream come true. She always wanted to travel."

Alex, "You know where she is now?

Adele hands her bag to Bobby.

Adele, "Uh...well the last postcard I got was a week ago." opens her purse and takes out a postcard and hands it to Alex.

Alex, "Casa Blanca."

Hands photo to Bobby,"You know who sponsored this contest?"

Teresa, "She didn't even remember entering, but sometimes fate..."

takes her bag from Bobby "works in mysterious ways.

Bobby smiling, "Doesn't it."

"Thank you"

Walking away he looks over at Alex, "Her lifelong dream. Someone made it happen."

Alex, "Hmm, Just like magic."

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SCENE 35 (DEAN HOLIDAY'S SHOW in ATLANTIC CITY)

Dean on stage with audience member.

Bobby and Alex watch from from back of room.

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SCENE 36 (DEAN'S DRESSING ROOM)

Bobby shuffling and spreading cards down his arm entertaining Alex. Bobby is sitting while Alex stands.

Dean walks in with audience member.

Dean turns, "Detectives"

Alex, "We caught the end of your show. Your stage manager let us in."

Dean sends the girl off to wait at the bar.

Bobby turns away to face the mirror.

Dean, "You should of called, I would of comped you. How'd you like my act?"

Alex, "It was magical."

Deans laughs.

"Eames? Points to photograph "Look it's our friend Adele with The Great Carmine and her sister Mercedes."

Alex, "Hmm."

Dean, "I only met her the one time. Don't remember the name."

Bobby "She was Carmine's assistant until she won an around the world... cruise."

"Only we checked with the cruise line, she didn't win any contest, turns out someone here in Atlantic City wired cash to buy her a ticket."

Dean "A lot of high rollers in this town."

"Yeah, well some how one of them knew that her dream was to see the world. You know, like he read her mind."

"Much like you just did on stage."

"You know,"

"...on stage with that girl."

Dean, "Oh, you think that's what I was doing, tonight?"

"What would you call it?"

Dean removes his coat and looks over at Alex holding out his arms, "Hold on, I uh... I think I'm getting something here...I think, there are some unresolved issues with a man in your life."

"Some trust issues. He's betrayed you hasn't he."

"Kept a secret from you."

Bobby looks uncomfortable and he and Alex exchange looks.

Dean, "And not for he first time, poor thing."

"How's my aim, pretty close?"

Bobby, "Well, good chance guess. They usually are, you know. That's the trick of a cold read psychic."

"Charlatans use it all the time."

"You know to con their clients.

Alex turns, "Or an audience."

Dean, "Well, so do criminal profilers. Biggest frauds of all."

"What's the name of that shrink helped catch the mad bomber back in the fifties?"

"James Brussel."

Dean, "Right, now he said the bomber would be German, a loner with facial scar."

Bobby "Yeah,"

"...meticulously dressed in a double breasted suit."

"Right,"

He looks at Alex, she looks back at him then at Dean.

"...when he was arrested he was wearing just that."

Dean, "But he wasn't German."

Bobby, "Right, he had no scar, but Brussel didn't get it all right but he did get enough right to stop a mad man."

Dean, "Oh, come on. Brussel was way off his read."

"He was just another carny tin hustler who got over."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

"You consider him to be the father of criminal profiling don't you."

Bobby exchanges looks with Alex his temper flaring,

"This guy..."

He stands to his full height and smiles. "And you,"

"...you leave your eyes open when you do a read."

"I mean that's your...your tell."

"There's two kinds of psychics,"

"...the kind that shut their eyes who truly believe they have a gift,"

"...then the ones that leave their eyes open,"

"...like you, who know that they're a con.

Dean, "Well, I told you there's always trick. I...I admit I'm a fraud. How about you?"

Alex, "Actually, we were wondering if you were a murderer."

Dean, "Now here you go. that is a good chance guess, but you missed."

Bobby nods.

Dena, "Wanna try another?"

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SCENE 37(MAJOR CASE SQUAD)

Bobby and Ross walking through squad toward Alex's desk.

Bobby, "We know that Mercedes went backstage after Holiday's show."

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Ross, "Where he read her mind."

They stop beside Alex sitting at her desk.

Ross, "I believe you, but do we have any proof Holiday paid for her cruise ticket?"

Alex standing to walk with them toward interrogation, file in hand,

"No trace in his financials but it wouldn't be hard or him to hide hundred thousand in cash."

Ross, "He makes that much money?"

Alex, "Yep. Nothing compared to Stone. This is Stone's latest deal with NBC." Hands him a file.

Ross, "Nine million over three years."

Alex, "Um hm, Holiday had a similar deal but they dropped him when they signed Stone."

Ross, "So, where was he the night Stone died."

Bobby, "At the Casino for his midnight show."

"According to his keycard he was in his room all evening."

Ross, "Guy made the Space Needle disappear."

"I'm sure he could make it look like he was in his room when he wasn't."

He looks through the Interrogation room window, "Teresa's lawyer's here. Maybe she's ready to deal."

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SCENE 38 (MCS INTERROGATION)

Teresa, "A few weeks ago I was walking home from work, and I hear someone call my name. Dean Holiday in a limo."

Alex, "He just happened to be cruising by the hospital."

Teresa nods and shrugs her shoulders looking over at Bobby.

Alex, "What's he want?"

Teresa, "We just talked."

Bobby, "About the cemetery stunt?"

Teresa, "He couldn't get over it. He kept saying how brilliant Jacob was.
How Miles was just the face but Jacob the real talent."

Bobby, "He asked you,"

"...how the trick worked?"

Teresa, "I didn't tell him, I swear. He talked like he already knew. He said there had to be a tunnel. I said I don't know and he said I thought so."

Alex, "Well, he was reading you,

"...your reactions."

Teresa, "I didn't mean to give it away."

"You're proud of Jacob."

Teresa, "He...he doesn't know how good he is."

"I mean after you told Holiday that...did he offer to make Jacob a star?"

Teresa, "He said he could help..."

"in exchange for putting the potassium chloride in Stone's IV?"

Teresa, "No, no...I swear. All he said was that his friend Carmine needed an assistant for a few weeks."

Alex, "That's all he wanted."

Teresa, "Jacob cannot know. Okay."

"Three nights I slept on the couch. worried that he'd smell Holiday's cologne on me.

I told you everything I know. Just please don't tell Jacob."

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SCENE 39 (SECOND INTERROGATION ROOM)

Jacob, "She told Holiday about the safe room, no way. She would never betray me."

Alex, "No, then why was she working with Carmine without telling you."

Jacob, "I don't know."

Alex, "Wanna guess who got her the job?"

Jacob, "Teresa would never hurt Miles or me."

"Jacob only you and Teresa knew about the safe room,

"and you think that she'd never tell Holiday."

Alex, "Then how did Stone's body end up in Coney Island?"

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SCENE 40 (MCS HALLWAY)

Bobby, Jacob and Alex round corner and Ross exits observation and looks at Jacob.

Teresa is brought out from the other room. Everyone stands and stares.

Teresa, "Jacob...Jacob please...say something."

Bobby watches them both.

Jacob turns and walks away with Alex at this side.

Teresa, her attorney and officers wait a moment then follow them to booking.

Bobby, "Well, I don't think that he's going to forgive her,"

"...but he wouldn't turn on her.

JUST A BOBBY TONGUE SHOT.

Ross, "You're buying their little soap opera?"

"Well, I think they may have helped kill Stone."

I just don't think that they knew."

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SCENE 41 (MCS VIDEO ROOM)

"This is the last loop that Stone prerecorded."

"It was switched on when he had to go it gives him time to get from the safe room to the underground casket."

Alex, "Hmm."

"Look at his breathing."

"Hmm, he's barely breathing."

"This one is an hour earlier. The live feed from the safe room."

"He's not breathing at all."

They exchange looks.

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VANISHING ACT Part 3 of 3

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SEE PART 1 FOR DISCLAIMER

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SCENE 42 (ATLANTIC CITY DEAN ON STAGE)

Dean on stage practicing a guillotine act.

Applause from the back of the house. Bobby and Alex walking forward.

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Bobby, "That's...that was great, oh really,"

"...aw, Dean go ahead."

"...I...I'm sorry you can do your bow thing."

Dean removes his hood.

Bobby to Alex, "I used to have one of these when I was a kid...I did, really honestly."

"Mine was eleven foot but, you know, a little different than this mine was a double blade.

"This is a uh...er...a body switch right."

Dean, "Something like that, yeah."

Bobby and Alex on stage looking at he equipment.

"This is really cool,"

"...though it really is I mean its all pretty simple."

"You know, it's all just fake legs,"

"...trap doors."

Dean, "Please don't touch."

"It all just seems so obvious when you finally know."

"...what the..."

"...the secret is its just like right in front of your face the whole time."

Dean " Yeah it's misdirection."

"Yeah, uh...misdirection. You know we arrested Stone's, uh... killers,"

"...Jacob Green and his fiancee'."

"She's a burn unit nurse,"

"Uh...Teresa." A girl pulls a box out onto stage Bobby immediately heads toward the box.

Dean, "Really."

"I...I know how this trick works."

Dean "Did they confess?"

Alex, "No, but they poisoned him through his IV. Their prints were all over the safe room."

Bobby to the girl, "Please, one time, he assists her into the box and shut the door.

Dean, "Oh, that's how they did it, the buried alive gag...I mean, safe room.

Alex, "Well, killing him was the easy part. He was a sitting duck."

"But the theatrics they were spectacular."

to Alex "I know how to do this, I can."

"Watch." Alex stops to watch as Bobby he slowly pulls the top to the side while talking to Dean.

"You know the thing we can't figure out."

"...how Jacob pulled off the switch,"

"Isn't that great? Look!"

They both laugh.

Bobby to the girl, "Sorry." Places her hand back into the box. and shuts the door.

Dean, "Did you say his fiancee' was involved?"

Alex, "Oh she was on stage with Carmine when Stone's body must've been moved and Jacob was at the grave site."

"Thank you."

"Thanks."

Dean, "So all they needed was a stagehand to move the body from the safe room to Coney Island."

"But not just anyone,"

"...I mean you can't give an outsider the ace to palm."

"I mean, it had to be another magician. Someone as good as Stone."

"Y...you know for awhile I thought,"

"...it was you, you know."

"...cause you fit the profile for whatever its worth,"

"...I know according to you not much."

Dean huffs, "So..its always flattering when people think you're smarter than you are..."

Alex laughs, "Or more vain. Didn't you use to have a network deal, before they dropped you in favor of Stone?"

"How many millions of people saw him on TV that night."

"Fifteen, perfect opportunity to show millions of people that,"

"...Stone wasn't the real deal."

Dean, "Well, all due respect he wasn't."

"Not like you, right?"

"I thought that you killed him because he eclipsed you."

Dean, "That's a pathetic portrait."

"And its way too simple."

"I realized when I was watching Stone's web cam feed,"

"...that for almost an hour his chest stopped moving,"

"...for more than an hour."

"His fans were watching a dead man and didn't even know it."

"And that the killer was brazen enough to kill Stone."

"...in front of millions of witnesses."

"It took real passion."

"...that's when we knew it couldn't of been you."

Dean, "You have some anger. Don't you, Detective. Is it a betrayal."

"What about yours,"

"...you know your betrayal to your art."

"We saw your show and you know.."

"You're phoning it in."

"Ten years ago you would have had the audacity, but now, no chance."

Dean, "What about you Detective?"

"Lost a step or two over the years."

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"...or still think you can pull of the big solve when you need to."

"Oh,"

"...but he solved this one."

"Jacob was the jealous unsung genius who pulled off the greatest trick of all time live while the nation was watching."

Dean, "I thought you said you still didn't know how he did it?"

"No, we don't but he'll probably end up pleading out."

"Wanna know the irony of the thing?"

Dean, "If you insist."

"...That Jacob engineered the whole trick,"

"...just to show the world that,"

"...Stone wasn't what they thought he was."

"Hmm, and since he won't confess his death is still a mystery."

"Yeah, he'll probably end up being a bigger legend than,"

"...I don't know, ah like... like Houdini."

"And Jacob the only person who knows the secret won't reveal it."

Dean "Huh, Jacob is not a genius. He's a geek. The tunnel, the safe room, they're all very workman like but no vision."

"No, no not like Stone."

"I think he transcends magic."

Dean, "Stone was an overpaid over-indulged little punk."

Alex, "Um hm."

Bobby nods.

"Well, he...he had nerve,

"...you gotta give him that."

Dean, "Nerve?"

Bobby nods.

Dean, "The only nerve that he had was to think it all began and ended with him. You know there's a history to what we do, there's a code. That kind of disrespect."

"And he needed to be taught a lesson."

Dean, "Yeah, yeah he did."

Alex, "You had the perfect crime. Slip into Stone's safe house inject the potassium chloride, slip out. You even had two perfect patsies to take the fall."

"But you're too much of a showman for that."

"You took Stone's body to Coney Island yourself, planted him on Carmine's stage."

"Come on, Dean."

"What's the bigger crime...you killed Miles Stone,"

"...or that no one will ever know. I mean you need to take him down. There's only one way."

Dean, "You know, Stone's as much to blame as I am. If he hadn't starved himself, he hadn't made it look so real. He hadn't the strength to put up a fight. He made it easy for me.

"Dean Holiday you're under arrest,"

"...for the murder of Miles Stone."

Bobby shakes his head, "No I don't think so."

Grabs Dean's arm and turns him around, and cuffs his hands behind him.

Dean, "Is all this restraint,"

"...really necessary?"

"We learn our lessons, too."

Dean, "Glad some people sill know the meaning of respect.

THE END

Throughout this entire project scripting and capping I caught myself say, "Slow down baby." Bobby doesn't use punctuation when he speaks nor does he take a breath. And he moves FAST. BABY BABY BABY.

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NOTE: While I have seen SVU, the CSI series, NCIS, and other Televisions shows scripted & capped, I've only seen one or the other done for CI, so I thought I would try it. I only do this for the joy of it and am receiving no compensation for anything, Mr. Wolf & your legal representatives. I know they all belong to you. And because the action is so fast you can miss so much so it helps seeing it written out.

Disclaimer: LO:CI, the story PLEASE NOTE episode 120, pictures, dialog and action all belong to Dick Wolf. The teleplay is credited to Mary Grace O'Shea. No copyright infringement intended. Not for sale, no profits being made by myself. My personal use, of the episode shared with other avid fans. I have had no access with anyone associated directly or indirectly with LO:CI, not even the cleaning crew, or to the script or any pages from it. Live in Tennessee and no time to travel to NYC to Watergate it.

I do not script everything. If it didn't pertain to Bobby, Alex, Ross or Rodgers directly or indirectly it was omitted. There are other sites like NocostScripts.com that may have the full thing if you need it without caps. I got my copy from Amazon.com. My caps are from that. A note that some caps are not as clear as other sites that concentrate only on caps because I follow the motion with the characters words. Also I write the dialog the way they speak it, no pause in their speech no pause in the scripting short pause three dots, long pause six dots.

**I'd like to make another note...All cappers struggle with Logos. Those taken directly from TV have those irritating USA HD in the lower right along with any messages to the left. Amazon has a gray box with two silver rectangles in the upper Right. Since I use Amazon, I try to stop short of it or go below when possible to delete it. But there are times that it's right in the middle of Bobby's head so you may see it at times...sorry.

There will be shots of Bobby's back, because that's my weakness and perhaps obsession. For friend's obsessions there are hand shots, tongue, eyelashes, and feet.

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SCENE 1(PLAYGROUND)

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SCENE 2 (SKIP REMEMBERING PLAYING HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS WITH SON)

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SCENE 5 (CRIME SCENE)

Detective Peary walking with Bobby, "Skip Lowe, big time financial analyst. Shot in the chest. Called his ICE#, his wife's in Dallas on business, can't get a flight back till morning."

Alex, "A stroller, where's his kid?"

Det. Peary, "Leo. two years old, the officer who found Lowe said the boy was asleep when she got here. He's with the Nanny."

"Okay, thank you."

Alex, "No signs of a struggle. No scuff marks"

(She opens his gym bag and sniffs)"There's clean clothes in the gym bag."

"He's got a nice watch, wedding ring..."

"...a wallet." (Alex squats beside him. He uses tweezers to probe the material around the entry wound.)

"Powder burns..."

"...no soot though."

"Huh...close range..."

"...twenty-two caliber."

"So h..he's with his son in a park tunnel at night. He lets the shooter get within a couple of feet."

"Well, it was either a random act..."

"...or he knew his assailant and didn't feel threatened."

(Alex stands) "A Wall Street guy out with his kid..."

"...in the park on a week night."

Alex, "Isn't that why they have nannies?"

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SCENE 6 (SKIP LOWE'S HOME)

Teya, "Leo fell back to sleep, thank God. I don't know what to tell him."

"His mom's on a business trip? She travel a lot?"

Teya, "She's vice president of hotel company. She and Mr. Lowe work very hard to give everything to Leo."

"This pillow here, is so Leo can reach?"

Teya, "He has music lessons twice a week."

"Piano? And he's how old?"

Teya, "Two, he mostly just bangs."

"This (holds book up) see Chinese. That's a difficult language. Can he say anything, yet?"

Teya, "He's still learning English, but he has Chinese class every Thursday."

Alex, "Thursday, so he had class today?"

(Bobby looks into the kitchen.)(BACK SHOT)

Teya, "Yes."

"How did Skip and Leo end up in the park?"

Teya, "I'm not sure. Mr. Lowe always picks Leo up after class, I guess they decided to go the playground."

"You guess, you weren't with them?"

Teya, "No, He called, he said he was running late, that something came up
at work. I had to get back to my own kids so...I had to leave Leo with a mom in the class, Marla."

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SCENE 7(THE REYNOLD'S HOME)

(In the kitchen. Bobby and Alex at the table, Henry the baby in a high chair, with Marla fixing his breakfast.)

Marla."Skip didn't get to class until after five-thirty. Here you go, Hank, grits like you love, extra butter. But his boy and mine were having such a good time I didn't mind."

"Did he say why he was late?"

Marla, "No, he went to the gym, I think. He had wet hair."

"Did you know Skip Lowe well?"

Marla, "Not so much, he...he seemed sweet with his kid. But you know you don't get a lot of straight dads doing pickups."

"What about Leo's mom, Kelly?"

Marla, "I never met her. You know most of the mom's work. It's just me and the nannies."

Bobby, "So after class did Skip say anything about where he was going next?"

Marla, "We all went to the park together, you know, let the kids run around, get tired before you go home, but it gets dark so early these days we all left around six."

Eleanor, "Marla, it's not appropriate to talk about this in front of Henry."

Marla, "Oh, I don't...I don't think Hank understands."

Eleanor, "I'm Eleanor Reynolds, Henry's grandmother."

"Really, you live here?"

Eleanor, "May I ask you to speak to my daughter-in-law outside."

Marla, "Henry's having breakfast, we can just talk in the..."

Eleanor, "Wait, wait..what are you feeding him?"

"MARLA, this is not the trailer park."

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Marla, "Don't mind my mother-in-law. She's upset. She was with us at the playground yesterday."

"And did you notice if Skip was worried or agitated?"

Marla. "He and his wife kept trading messages. How she travels so much with a toddler at home. Must be hard"

Marla, "Where are you going? He hasn't finished his breakfast."

Eleanor, "Swifty's for eggs and soldiers."

Marla, "I'll get my coat."

Eleanor, "Oh, we won't be long."

(Bobby watches her go)

(They hear Eleanor's voice to Henry,) "You'll get some real breakfast now, honey."

A cell rings, Alex looks at the text message.

Marla, "It's her house, she lives upstairs."

"Skip's wife Kelly, her flight from Dallas just landed."

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(Bobby and Alex Stand as Kelly Lowe walks across the room with a laundry basket picking up baby toys.)

Kelly, "I travel a lot for my job, but...uh, Skip and I ...we were...we were blissful. We'd found our balance."

"You're lucky having a toddler, both of you working full time ... it's stressful?"

Kelly, "Skip was very driven, competitive, but managed to find ways to relax."

"Like going to the gym?"

Kelly, "Yeah, he took an early spinning class almost every day."

"So, he never went to the gym after work?"

Kelly, "Well he must have yesterday."

"So when you kept..."

"missing each other...?" (Bobby looks over at Alex...)

(And Alex looks at him.)

Kelly, "I usually call him at closing bell and ...uh, (clears her throat)"...yesterday the office said he'd already left for the day."

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SCENE 10(ON THE STREET)

(Alex & Bobby outside walking)

"Lowe told his nanny he was tied up at the office, but he wasn't there to take his wife's call."

"Closing bell's at four. Lowe got to his Chinese class after five-thirty."

"So Lowe has a wife away on business,"

"...one hour hole in his afternoon...clean gym clothes, wet hair..."

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SCENE 11 (HERRON GREEN)

Remsen, "An affair? Skip Lowe? Nah, I don't think so. His number was too low."

"His number? The number he had to hit before he'd retire?"

Remsen, "Eleven and not for Jamal Crawford. If you're cheating you think divorce, increase your number. Skip hasn't budged from eleven million since he got here."

"His browser's history's been cleared."

Remsen, "Yeah, we all do that. Porn. Not that anything actually disappears."

"Well good, restore it."

(Remsen moving to restore), "Don't tell his wife." (He clicks the buttons.)

(Bobby opens his binder and lays it on the desk Alex moves back in front of the computer.)

"HUMPH, last hit three-thirty yesterday..."

"...his private account "Big Skipper"

"Big Skipper's not his company's address, is it?"

(Remsen shakes his head no, Bobby waves him away.) "You can go now."

"Skip was responding to a post on Craig's List from KEV9."

Bobby reads, "Discrete married man with wide nine seeking same."

Alex, "Arranged a pre-scope at the Celestial Gym at four-fifteen."

"Skip's missing hour."

"Hmm, let's e-Mail KEV 9..."

"...see if he's interested in meeting another discrete married man."

"I'll make sure your his type."

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SCENE 12 (CELESTIAL GYM)

(Okay so it's not a full back shot, but it is a shoulder.)

Kevyn, "You're...uh, BIGFOOT, the guy who found my keys?"

Bobby, "You are Kevyn?

Kevyn, "Um hum."

(Bobby hands him the keys.)

Kevyn, "I'd like to give you a reward...Uh, my wallet's downstairs. Want to take a walk with me?"

"Sure."

(First the hand...{and I love that he wears French cuffs}...and then)

(his badge on the table, Kevyn turns.)

(Alex blocks his way her badge held out.)

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SCENE 13 (M.C.S. INTERROGATION ROOM)

Kevyn, "Okay, look...I am happily married. I love my wife and I love my children, and sometimes once in a while I hook up with other men that love their wives and love their children."

"Other men like Skip?"

Kevyn, "Maybe."

"After he left you, he was shot."

Kevyn (covers his face in shock), "What the hell happened?"

"You tell me, he leave too soon?"

Kevyn, "No, it was a perfect relationship. He was in a hurry and so was I."

Alex, "Well maybe it was Skip who wanted more. He threatened to tell your wife?"

Kevyn, "No, I'm very cautious about who I do this with."

"Cautious? We e-Mailed you and forty-five minutes later you were offering my partner a reward."

Kevyn, "Before I make a move, I suggest we go unsafe....tell them I'm not really married and try to lure them in. If they agree to any of that I'm outta there.

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SCENE 14 (M.C.S. OBSERVATION ROOM)

(Alex walks in, Ross is at the window, Bobby's on his cell.)

Bobby, "Okay, thanks."

"I don't make Kevyn as a killer. He's married, getting what he wants on the side. It works for him."

"That was Kevyn's boss. He confirms that Kevyn got back from the gym at five-fifteen. He stayed until ten."

"Did his wife know about his double life?"

"There's no evidence of that. She was out of town, but from her perspective the marriage was good."

"There must be something we're missing."

"Captain, this is Skip's dark side, the rest of his life seems clean."

"Father shot while walking his two year old home. Hate to think this was a random act."

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SCENE 15 (PARK TUNNEL)

(Woman walking her dog and pushing a baby buggy, looks behind her at noise, smile and turns back. Shot in back.)

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SCENE 16 (CRIME SCENE)

(Bobby & Alex squatting beside the body.)

Alex, "Palamo Rinzo, corporate executive, mother of Lily, two...out for a morning dog walk."

"Teen-aged girl on horseback came across the body."

"Said Lily was still in the stroller...unharmed."

"She was shot at close range..."

"...in the back."

"Its another twenty-two."

"Another single shot, another tunnel. A woman pushing fifty pounds of stroller on gravel... a slow moving target."

"And the gravel is... is noisy, she would have heard someone behind her."

"She saw her killer."

"Yeah and she would have turned and then..."

"she turned...her back..."

"...she didn't perceive a threat."

"Why not?"

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Nanny, "Lily's uncle is flying in from California to take her. He has lot of kids, dogs. Lily will be all right."

"Paloma wasn't married, was she involved with anyone?"

Nanny, "No, she told me she had a fiance' who passed away years ago. Guess she never found anyone else."

"She found Lily."

Nanny, "Paloma works but the rest of her life is about her daughter, she moved here so she could walk Lily to pre-school just down the block."

"Now on Saturday, she always goes for a walk with Lily, with the dog."

Nanny, "Every weekend, no matter what the weather she bundled Lily up take her to the park. She felt bad we didn't have outdoor space; that Lily was cooped up in the apartment. I guess Lilly will have a back yard, now."

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SCENE 19 (M.C.S.)

(This is just a cap of Bobby holding his belt. Serves no purpose to the story, except that for some reason it stirs me up.)

(Alex at her desk, Ross and Bobby stand nearby.)

Alex, "Ballistics confirms the same gun killed both Paloma and Lowe."

Ross, "Did they know each other? Was there a connection?"

Bobby, "They both worked on Wall Street."

Alex, "Lowe was a Telecom analyst at Herron Green and Paloma as a V. P. at
Qual XT."

"Qual XT the Telecom company."

"Did Lowe analyze their stock?"

"Let's see, (turns to the computer) Here we go Herron Green issued a new report two days ago. Skip went from HOLD to STRONG BUY."

"He flipped his rating. Was he alone in that?"

"Yup. Four other top firms posted Qual XT a HOLD, an UNDERWEIGHT, SELL and a HOLD."

"Stock analyst usually line up and lock step. Find out why Lowe was so positive about Qual XT."

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SCENE 20 (QUAL XT)

(Paloma's Office with her boss Max Wright)

Max, "Paloma was dear to us, QUAL XT has offered a reward to catch her killer."

"How well did you know her, Mr. Wright?"

Max, "She was my number two for ten years."

"Any idea if she and Skip Lowe ever crossed paths."

Max, "Lowe? The analyst who was shot? I'm sure she took his calls. We want those guys on our side."

"Well, she got him there, a couple of days ago Lowe upgraded your company from a HOLD to a STRONG BUY."

Max, "Sometimes the critics get it right. We're rolling out some innovative products next quarter."

"Well, your stock went up sharply the day Lowe's report was published."

Max, "A good rating will do that, what are you getting at?"

"Look we read the other analyst reports. We know Lowe was your only fan. We're wondering if someone thought Skip and Paloma were in collusion?"

Max, "Despite what you might read on the blogs, that's not the way things work anymore. We pride ourselves on our transparency."

Max, "Paloma would never do anything to compromise our reputation."

"The..the blog? Someone's flaming you?"

Max, "Its a volatile market, people lose money. They hunt for a scapegoat."

"Any idea who?"

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PLEASE NOTE 2 of 3

2009-02-24T14:46:20Z

See disclosure on Part 1

SCENE 20 (ON THE STREET)

Bobby and Alex standing on a street talking with John Echardt

John, "Yeah, that's my blog. I lost more in one day than you'll earn in a thousand years.

"Sounds like you had a good reason to be upset."

John, "Huh. Upset. I'm out fifty million, if you ask me, Skip got his...

(Bobby looks down at Alex.)

"Meaning you think he'd profited from the report or you think he deserved to be murdered?

John, "Both...there's no way he writes that report without gettin' something out of it. He's too good an analyst."

"Where were you the night Skip was murdered?"

John points behind him, "Upstairs. This is as far from my office as I get. You can ask my staff."

"They all hate me. I never go home, so...uh no one else can. (He laughs)"

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SCENE 21 (M.C.S ROSS' OFFICE)

"John Echardt's alibi checks. He was hooked to his terminal like a junkie.

Ross hands papers to Alex, "It's moot. Lowe and Paloma weren't killed for their Wall Street connections...third victim showed up."

Bobby takes the paper from Alex. "In the park?"

"No at a hospital in Far Rockaway."

Ross, "Denise Myler was shot in the chest ten days ago."

"She died yesterday. When the M.E. pulled the bullet out it was a match for the bullets that killed Lowe and Paloma."

"She was shot in her car in a laundry mat parking lot."

Alex, "Her two year old daughter was strapped in the car seat.

"Makes her our first victim."

"We could be looking at a hunter."

"Three shootings in two weeks. What the hell are we dealing with here?"

Ross, "Son of Sam killing parents in front to their kids?"

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SCENE 22 (M.C.S.)

Alex, "Denise Myler...lived in Far Rockaway, worked as a cook in a soup kitchen on the Upper Eastside."

Ross, "Soup kitchen. A long way from Wall Street. Precinct have any suspects?"

"Denise had just taken out an O.O.P. against her husband. They assumed domestic violence, picked up Tim Myler."

"Where's Myler now?"

"Well he didn't make bail. He's been in Riker's for a week and a half."

Well, so he couldn't of killed Lowe or Paloma. They were all shot with the same gun. Probably didn't kill his wife either."

"The wrong guy."

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SCENE 23 (RIKER'S)

Tim, "That's what I been sayin' all along. I don't own a gun. This is a mistake. I didn't kill Denise."

"Yeah, the thing is your police report says that you don't have an alibi."

Tim, "The cops never checked my alibi. I drive a limo. I was circling the block waiting for some golden boy."

"I don't think my partner believes you."

John, "The doorman at the Raleigh can vouch for me."

"Why'd your wife take out an O.O.P.?"

John, "She over-reacted, man. I wasn't stalkin' her."

"So, you just happened to be parked in front of her apartment twenty-four hours a day?"

John, "Denise and I, we have a daughter together. I was trying to protect Tiffany. Strange men in the house around my little girl."

"All right so Denise had boyfriends."

John, "She was just tryin' to hurt me. The mechanic, the bartender, the delivery guy...but that preacher, he was the worst of the bunch. He runs a homeless shelter uptown."

"Preacher, you mean the guy from the Church soup kitchen."

John, "Yeah, they work together...claimed that they were friends. (Hisses) I didn't buy that. She had to take a job all the way out in the city. I'm not stupid. I know what was goin' on."

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SCENE 24 (SOUP KITCHEN)

Billy, "I drove Denise home a few times. She was terrified of her ex."

Alex, "You looked out for her?"

Billy, "Well, we were really lucky to have Denise. She was a real cook, you know, not just a can opener."

"How'd you find her?"

Billy, "She attended our sister congregation out in Far Rockaway. And last July ...uh, we placed a notice on the community bulletin boards and she just responded right away."

(Bobby nods.)

"And how long after that did you..."

"...start to drive her home?"

Billy, "I'm sorry, what are...what are you gettin' at?"

"Well her ex-husband thought there might be something going on between the two of you."

Billy, "Right. He's crazy."

"I"m just. I'm trying to figure out why she would take a job such a long way from home."

"Far Rockaway is quite a commute for a single mother..."

"...and what would the attraction be?"

Billy, "Look, Denise was only interested in one thing. She took this job "...because of her daughter Tiffany."

"I don't follow."

Billy, "Our church is affiliated with a preschool ...um, CARNEGIE HILL DAY and I pulled a lot of strings to get her daughter a scholarship slot."

"That's not in this building is it because of the homeless."

Billy, "It's a few block north of here on 88th Street."

"Denise's little girl, whose watching her now?"

Billy, "Her grandparents, when Denise was shot, her family pulled her daughter out of the school."

"O...Okay."

"Thank you."

BACK SHOT

"Paloma lived on 88th Street. She moved there so she could walk her daughter to preschool."

"Skip Lowe, I wonder what preschool his son Leo goes to?"

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SCENE XX V (LOWE'S HOME)

(Alex and Bobby sit in living room with Kelly Lowe.)

Kelly, "We applied to over twelve preschools but even at $30,000 a year tuition CARNEGIE HILL DAY was still our first choice."

"And you didn't get accepted?"

Kelly, "We got wait-listed there were over three hundred couples at the open house, and the school said after legacies and siblings there'd only be five spots left for three year olds."

"And that's why Leo is taking so many classes, isn't it?"

Kelly, "The competition is insane. I mean they don't just screen the kids, they screen the families, too."

"Your husband he was a stock analyst..."

"...and you're the VP of a company."

"I'd think that you'd have the right pedigree."

Kelly, "So did we, Skip even managed to get a letter of recommendation from a board member and that only bumped us to the top of the wait-list. The irony is (she reaches into a drawer pulls out a paper and hands it to Alex) We just got this yesterday."

Alex reads, "We are pleased to offer Leo Lowe..."

"...a place in our three's class for the school year 2008."

Kelly, "A week ago, getting in would have meant everything, but with Skip gone, Leo and I are going to move closer to my parents. To Greenwich."

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SCENE 26 (CARNEGIE HALL DAY)

(Director's Office, Alex and Bobby sit across from the director at her desk.)

Director, "Of course we were upset about Denise Myler's death. Her daughter is on the scholarship here but very bright.

"And Paloma Rinzo?"

Director, "That was a tragedy."

"You're the director of the school."

"You had to realize that parents were being targeted."

"You...you didn't call the police?"

Director, "Targeted? We were told that Denise was shot by her estranged husband and Paloma was killed by a sniper in the park."

"What about Skip Lowe?"

Director, "I don't follow. He's not one of our parents."

"Leo, his son was on the waiting list until Skip was killed."

She presses the intercom, "Janine, can you come in here please. Our admissions director. I had no idea Skip Lowe was on that list."

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Janine, "Yes, I knew, I was the one who wait-listed the Lowe family to begin with."

"After the shooting..."

"...you didn't tell your director."

Janine looking at the director, "I didn't want to alarm you. This is a very exclusive school. I assumed it had to be a terrible coincident."

"We're going to need to see a class list..."

"...and your waiting list.

Janine, "That's confidential."

Director, "Janine, get the list. If there's anything that else we can do?"

"There is, you'll need to put a freeze on next year's admissions."

"Right now, it looks like your wait-list is a hit list."

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SCENE 27 (M.C.S. CONFERENCE ROOM)

Alex and Ross sit before a dry erase board, Bobby stands beside it. On the board are two lists of names.

Alex, "These are the three year olds admitted or wait-listed of CARNEGIE HILL DAY for Fall 2008."

"When Denise Myler was killed her daughter Tiffany Myler's spot opened up."

(He erases her name and a back shot) Leo Lowe, he was on top of the wait-list."

(He draws and arrow from Leo to Tiffany's spot.) "And then Leo's dad Skip was killed. Now Leo's mother decided to take them back to Connecticut to the parents."

(He erases the arrow.)

"Then Paloma Rinzo was shot, her orphaned daughter Lily will be raised by an uncle in California.

(He erases her name.)

"Battered wife, single mom, Dad leading a double life. The..the killer he's...he's looking for weak spots on the list."

"I...I follow your logic, I just find it hard to believe someone would do all of this just to get their kid into pre-school."

"Well, not just any pre-school CARNEGIE HILL DAY is the gateway to the Ivy League. These parents their whole sense of self-worth rides on this."

"Okay I get it. My grand kids won't be getting in. What do we know about the families on the wait list?"

"They're all in the blue book, active in charities, pillars of business."

"Citizens above suspicion."

"Start suspecting."

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SCENE 28 (STOOP OF REYNOLDS HOME)

(Bobby Knocks on door. Eleanor Reynolds pushes up with buggy and her grandson.) and a BACK SHOT.

Eleanor, "Can I help you, detectives?"

"Oh, Mrs.Reynolds, we're looking for your son and daughter-in-law."

Eleanor, "Brian's at work and Marla's at the salon getting her roots dyed. (Pushing the buggy by Alex, Bobby blocks her in front of the door.) "Will you excuse me."

Bobby, "You just back from the playground?"

Eleanor, "Yes and I'm eager to get Henry inside."

"Why don't you come back after six?" (She begins digging through her bag.)

"My keys. They should be right here."

(Bobby glances at the door then gives Alex a look. Eleanor pulls up the diaper bag and begins pulling things out.)

"Can I help you, Mrs. Reynolds?"

(BACK SHOT, okay, okay so its just a shoulder.) Eleanor, "You can help me by not blocking the light."

"Oh, dear God!" (Alex looks at her, then at the gun.)

(Bobby reaches for the twenty-two...)

(He picks it up...)

(looks at the gun...)

(then looks at Eleanor.)

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SCENE 29 (M.C.S. INTERROGATION ROOM)

Eleanor, ""Well, I certainly didn't put a gun in the changing pad. I never diaper Henry in public." (All the while putting anti-bacterial gel on her hands.)

Alex, "Then why bring the diaper pad with you?"

Eleanor, "You know who you should be talking to...the nannies in that park. All they do is sit on the benches and complain. I'll bet one of them did it."(A hand shot, and what a pretty pen, he does tricks with it!)

Bobby, "Why would they do that Mrs. Reynolds?"

Eleanor, "They know I watch them. If I see a nanny mistreat a child I tell the parents. My son is here, may I go now?"

"Not yet, any chance you were in the park last Saturday around eight a.m.?"

Eleanor, "When Palamo Rinzo was killed?"

Alex, "Oh you know her?"

Eleanor, "She was always in the playground with that filthy dog."

"You ever talk to Skip Lowe about that? You were with him in the park last Thursday."

Eleanor, "Only briefly, I went home in haste. It was past Henry's dinner time."

"Your daughter-in-law will confirm?"

Eleanor, "You'd take her word over mine?"

"By seven o'clock its bath, books and bed for Henry every night."

"You seem very involved with Henry..."

"...even though Marla stays at home."

Eleanor, "If I left it to her, Henry would eat potato chips and watch Jerry Springer all day."

"CARNEGIE HILL DAY that was your idea?"

Eleanor, "Absolutely. Marla wanted a chain pre-school. That's glorified day care. (She sees Marla walk in) What's she doing here? Where's Henry?"

(Bobby watches her pull out a handkerchief and dab at her perspiring face.)

"You're perspiring, Mrs. Reynolds. It is warm in here. Can I get you a glass of water?"

Eleanor holds her hands up and out, "No, no water, I need to get home to take my medication."

"Blood pressure pills?"

Eleanor, "YES! IT'S URGENT."

Bobby. "Yeah, we're not going to be much longer."

(Eleanor dabs at her face.)

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SCENE 30 (M.C.S. INTERROGATION ROOM)

Brian, "I'm an architect. I've never even held a gun and I was out of town on Thursday."

"And what about Saturday Morning?"

Marla, "Brian was home with me."

Alex, "Did your mother-in-law take Henry out?"

Marla, "I'm not sure."

"Eleanor takes quite an interest in Henry...hm, ...uh, almost like a...a second mom really."

Marla, "She's always there."

"And she was there ...uh, Thursday night in the park you two were together the entire time?"

Marla, "That's right."

Alex, "Mr. Reynolds, your mother seems anxious, maybe you should talk to her."

Brian, "Marla, why don't you call and...and check on Henry."

(Alex gives Bobby a look, then leads Brian out.)

(Bobby rises and moves to the chair in front of Marla,) "Before you check that, can I just ask you one question? So Eleanor and you walked Henry home?"

Marla, "Henry wanted salmon for dinner."

Bobby, "Yeah."

Marla, "But I forgot to buy it, so I told Eleanor a white lie and ran to the store."

"And the salmon, that was your mother-in-law's idea? I just noticed she's particular."

Marla, "She just wants what's best for Henry."

"Like CARNEGIE HILL DAY?"

Marla, "She told you about that? Did she tell you she's mad at me?

"About him not getting in? Yeah, it came up."

Marla, "It's all my fault. She told me they didn't want spirited boys. So, I let Henry run around before his interview and by the time we got there he was dirty, his nose was running."

"Well, he is a kid."

Marla, "You don't understand, she wrote our essay, the letters of recommendation for people to sign."

Alex, "She had it all figured out."

Marla, "...for years. She decided Henry had to go there before he was even born. She ..uh, well..."

She laughs nervously, Bobby smiles encouragingly

Marla, "Ha...listen to me just running on, Brian told me to check on Henry."

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SCENE 31 COURT HOUSE STEPS.

"Ballistics are a match for all three murders. The gun's unregistered. Last legal sale recorded eight years ago."

Ross, "Where does a upper East Side doyenne get an illegal handgun"

Bobby, "Well she was quick to accuse the nannies. Maybe she bought it from one of them."

"And she has no alibi for any of the three shootings."

"She admits to being in the park when Skip and Paloma were killed and the day Denise Myler was shot she claims to be home alone."

"Except we checked with her garage, her Mercedes was out that day five hours."

"Okay, motive...opportunity. She knew about Skip and Paloma, but how'd she know Denise Myler was a parent at that school."

Alex, "Eleanor was on a mission. She had two years to do reconnaissance".

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SCENE 32 (CARNEGIE HILL DAY)

Janine, "Yes, I'm friends with Eleanor. But we met long before her Grandson applied."

Alex, "How did you two meet?"

Janine, "She attended a fund-raiser I organized for the Carnegie Spay/Neuter clinic. We hit it off right away. She's a real dog person."

Alex, "It must have been awkward..."

"...for your friendship when Henry was rejected."

Janine, "We don't use that term, and Eleanor understands the complex algorithm of money, social standing, fitting in..."

Bobby nods, "Um...She ever ask you where Henry was on the wait-list?"

Janine, "She would not abuse our relationship, that is confidential."

"I tried to reassure her, I explained she was competing with letters of recommendations from Henry Kissinger and Max Wright."

"Then how did Tiffany Myler get in? A girl from a troubled home."

Janine, "Oh, I explained our commitment to economic diversity. Eleanor understood completely."

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SCENE 33 (M.C.S. INTERROGATION ROOM.)

(Eleanor Reynolds, Whitehall her attorney, Alex and Bobby.)

Eleanor, "Yes, I sought out Janine. Is it a crime to worry about my Grandson's future?"

"It is if you shoot the parents you think are standing in the way."

Eleanor, "You have your nerve young lady."

Whitehall, "Detectives, I've known Mrs. Reynolds for over thirty years. This is preposterous."

"Well.this isn't. It's a ballistics report, the gun we found in your client's diaper bag was used to kill all three victims."

Whitehall, "Anyone could have put that gun there."

Eleanor, "I told them about the nannies...Have you spoken to them yet?"

"Um..the night that Skip Lowe was killed we know you weren't with Marla."

Eleanor, "Who told you that, Marla? That woman is pure white trash."

Her attorney whispers, "Sh..Eleanor,"

"How did she and Brian meet?"

Eleanor, "She was a cocktail waitress, she tricked him into marrying her."

Alex, "She got pregnant."

(Eleanor nods),) "And now I have this beautiful grandson, who deserves every advantage in the world,and because of her he can't have them." (She rubs her temples)

(She crosses and recrosses her legs pulling at her skirt.

Eleanor "How much longer is this going to take?"

"Can I get you a glass of water?"

Eleanor, "No. no. (She squirms in her seat. "I need to go home."

Alex, "We can take a break."

Eleanor, "Let's just get this done with."

"The blood pressure medication, that means you probably take diuretics. Could my partner show you to the ladies room?"

Eleanor, "I need to go home, NOW!"

Bobby nods "Yeah."

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SCENE 34 (M.C.S. ROSS' OFFICE)

Bobby, "Eleanor Reynolds couldn't have driven to Far Rockaway. Its three hours round trip. She couldn't be away from her own bathroom that long."

"The public restroom phobia defense. Maybe, it means someone framed her."

"Not her son he's a Mama's boy."

"Marla lives in Eleanor's house under her thumb, under her rules."

"Maybe she found a way out?"

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PLEASE NOTE Part 3 OF 3

2009-02-24T13:46:38Z

SEE PART ONE FOR DISCLOSURE

These last few scenes are classic Bobby. And I being a classic Bobby lover have over-capped it. So if you are up to it, get you a cup or tea or coffee hot or cold or a glass of wine, sit back put your feet up and enjoy.

SCENE 35 (REYNOLD'S HOME)

Brian, "Marla called asked me to come home and take care of Henry. I get here and she's left Henry alone in his crib, and she left this note.

"She's at CARNEGIE HILL DAY."

"She thinks they've accepted Henry."

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SCENE 36 (CARNEGIE HALL DAY HALLWAY)

Marla "Close the door, you'll wake them."

Six napping children are on pallets on the floor.

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SCENE 37 (CARNEGIE HALL DAY NAP ROOM)

(Bobby and Alex enter, pulling the door closed behind them.)

Marla, "Never wake a sleeping baby."

"Don't come any closer."

Bobby, "I won't"

(Bobby moves to put himself between Marla and the sleeping children.)

"I'll be right here."

"You don't need that gun."

"You don't need it."

(Bobby looks down at the children.)

The gun never wavers, "Henry is a good boy. He'll be happy here."

Alex steps forward, "I'm sure he will."

Marla, "and successful."

Marla, "Friends he makes here will stay with him the rest of his life."

Marla, "That's the CARNEGIE HILL DAY promise."

Marla swings the gun toward Alex, "I brought his cubby box."

(Marla follows her with the gun now pointing it at Bobby.)

(A child mumbles in their sleep and Marla moves forward. Bobby steps in front of her effectively blocking her.)

"Okay, just wait."

"Look you'll wake them. We don't want to wake them, we don't want to wake the kids."

"Right?"

"You said it yourself. W...We should go talk in the other room."

(Marla follows his gaze to the connecting room.)

"It's okay, Marla, I can watch the kids."

Marla to Bobby, "Okay, but you go first," (motioning him with the gun.)

"Okay."

Marla, "Go on."

"All right..."

Marla swings the gun toward Alex then back to Bobby, "And, honey, I've always been a pretty good shot."

(Alex smiles and nods agreeably.)

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SCENE 38 (CARNEGIE HALL DAY CLASSROOM)

Bobby backs all the way into the room.

Marla, "Detective, I think you know Janine,"

"...and that's Mrs. Chestnut, she's going to be Henry's teacher next year."

Bobby calls out, "Eames, Janine and Mrs. Chestnut are in here."

Alex, "Very good."

(Alex bends over the children whispering,)

"Hey, come on. Wake up."

"So this is going to be his classroom, huh?"

"Yeah its going to be nice and bright in here."

(Alex opens the door and begins ushering the children out.) "Sh...quick, quickly... come, come."

(The two tied women stare fearfully at Bobby.)

Bobby slowly moving toward her, "He...He's got his cubby box here..."

(Bobby points at an empty top slot.)

"That's a good spot...it..it's good that its near the door."

(He steps closer, pointing.) "It...it'll be easy for him...

(Marla panics and screams, gun shaking,) " Get back...get over there with them..."

(Alex pulls the door shut...)

(The hostages watch terrified.)

Marla, "Get over there..."

"...with them."

(...peering through the window towards her partner and Marla with her gun steadily pointing toward his heart.)

"Okay."

(Bobby turns his back to Marla and looks at the hostages.)

(As he sits beside the trussed up women, he reassures them,) "I'm gonna take care of you."

(Marla slides Henry's tub into the cubby her gun never leaving Bobby.)

"Family photo is that so he can remember you during the day."

"He's so beautiful. Your parents must be proud."

Marla, "They speak to him on the phone but they really don't know him."

"They don't visit?"

Marla, "Once for Henry's christening. But they didn't like it here. It's too loud, too crowded...They're from Kentucky."

"You're a long way from home."

(She nods.)

Bobby, "Why'd you come here?"

Tears streaming down her face, she's sobbing, "To be a dancer."

Marla, "I had fancy dreams. I ended waiting tables like everyone else."

"Its a hard place to live."

Marla, "Everyone's so busy. Nobody has time to make a new friend."

"Yeah, but you met Brian."

Marla sobbing, "I thought he was going to be my Prince Charming, but he's busy, too. And his friends, they're all so smart. I never finished college. I can't keep up."

"You can't keep up?"

"Yeah, but you're smart, too. I don't think people realize..."

(He slowly stands and moves toward her.) And a BACK SHOT.

"Get back."

"How smart you are."

(He reaches for the gun, she shoves him away and screams at him,)"Come on get back!"

"Okay, okay..."

"...all right."

(He takes a step back.)

Marla, "Do you mean it?

"I do."

"I thinks its tough for you."

"I know it must be..."

"...difficult for you to find people to hang out with."

"Who do you talk to?"

Marla, "I used to have friends at the women's residence, but Eleanor didn't like them. Now I talk to Henry and the nannies."

"The nannies..."

"...the Lowe's and Paloma's nannies?"

Marla, "I sit on the bench next to them listening."

"Yeah, I think they like you."

"You know, they saw they way Eleanor treated you."

Marla, "She was so upset when Henry got wait-listed."

"All you do is try to please her..."

"but she would be proud of you now. Henry got in."

(Marla's openly sobbing, but her gun never wavers.)

(Bobby watches her with apparent sympathy.)

Marla, "It's my fault he didn't get in. Eleanor's right. Ah..," She sobs aloud. "I can't give Henry what he needs. He's better off without me. (She puts the gun to her temple.)

Bobby, yells at her, "No, no, no,"

"...she's wrong."

(The gun comes down to aim point at Bobby.)

Marla, "Get back."

"Look you know what he needs. You know what he likes."

"I've seen you with him."

"His eyes they light up when you're around."

Marla, "How can Eleanor love Henry and not love me. I made him."

"Look its been tough for you."

"All you've wanted to do is be a good mom."

(Marla puts the gun back to her temple.)

"No, no don't do that, you're irreplaceable."

"You're his mother."

"He needs you, Marla."

"You have to give me the gun."

"You've gotta give me the gun."

"Okay."

Marla, "I'm irreplaceable."

"Yeah."

Pushing her into the window he yells, "CLEAR!"

"Marla Reynolds..."

"You are under arrest for the murder of Paloma Rinzi, Skip Lowe and Denise Myler."

Marla, "What's happening? I thought you were my friend?"

"They had kids, too."

(Episode ends with a full back shot. {Sigh} And Janine looking up at him like MY HERO, which he was.)

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