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Do you believe me?
NICK
(after a beat)
I don't know.
CATHERINE
I'll convince you.
And she kisses him slowly, with more and more heat, on the lips.
The cordless phone on the deck table goes off. It keeps RINGING. She breaks finally
from the kiss, picks it up.
CATHERINE
(continuing)
Hello?
She listens a beat, then hands him the phone.
CATHERINE
(continuing)
It's Gus-who-doesn't-like-me.
He takes the phone.
NICK
Catherine says you don't like her.
INT. THE DETECTIVE BUREAU – DAY
GUS
(on the phone)
She's right. You got an icepick in you yet?
EXT. HER DECK – STINSON
Catherine sees him smile.
CATHERINE
What did he say?
NICK
He asked if I had an icepick in me yet.
CATHERINE
(smiles)
Funny.
INT. THE DETECTIVE BUREAU – DAY
GUS
(on the phone)
You know that stuff they say about how you can judge
people by their friends?
EXT. HER DECK
NICK
I don't believe it.
INT. THE DETECTIVE BUREAU – DAY
GUS
Why not?
NICK
(smiles)
You're my friend, Gus.
She watches him.
INT. THE DETECTIVE BUREAU – DAY
GUS
(seriously)
I'm gonna make you believe in it, friend.
INT. CLOVERDALE POLICE DEPARTMENT – DAY
IN CLOSEUP: We see a large, glossy photograph of Roxy. She looks about thirteen.
She has braces in her teeth.
Nick is looking at the photo – it is in a file in his hands. He sits
there with Gus in front of a woman juvenile officer.
He turns the file and we see a glossy of a little boy in a pool of
blood.
Nick looks up at the woman.
NICK
(after a beat)
How old was she when this happened?
THE WOMAN
Fourteen. We seal juvenile records until they're
deceased. That's why you didn't find it in your computer.
GUS
What was the motive?
THE WOMAN
She said she didn't know herself, just sort of did it
on impulse.
(she shrugs)
The razor just happened to be there.
They stare at her.
THE WOMAN
(continuing)
That's what she said.
INT. CLOVERDALE POLICE DEPARTMENT – DAY
It is a small, old, rural building: a lot of Four-H type stuff on the walls.
NICK
I don't understand what the hell's going on here, pop.
GUS
Ain't that hard, son. This young farmgirl, she got
tired of all that attention goin' to her little brothers – she fixed 'em. Just
like 'ole Hazel Dobkins fixed her whole family – except young Roxy here, she
didn't use a wedding present. She used Daddy's razor.
EXT. THE CLOVERDALE POLICE DEPARTMENT
They are going to their cars, parked side by side. The Porsche looks pretty badly banged up.
GUS
It sure makes you wonder what they talked about when
they set themselves down in front of the campfire at night. You ever met any of
her friends who hasn't killed somebody.
Nick looks at him.
GUS
(continuing)
It musta beat your ordinary everyday girl talk.
Nick get into his car, sits there a beat.
NICK
I'm not sure anymore she did it.
GUS
(after a beat)
Which one you talkin' about now, son? We know ole
Hazel did it; we know young Roxy did it – and the other one: Well, hell, she's
got that magna come lawdy pussy on her that done fried up your brain.
Nick looks at him.
INT. THE REGISTRAR'S OFFICE – U.C. BERKELEY
A young woman is checking a computer. Nick is with her.
THE WOMAN
Anderson. Jack W. Donald M. I'm sorry. No Lisa.
NICK
Did you check all four years?
THE WOMAN
Yes I did.
NICK
(in disbelief)
Can you check again?
She gives him a look, but punches it in again.
THE WOMAN
No Lisa Anderson, detective.
NICK
(after a beat)
Can there be some mistake?
THE WOMAN
(straining patience)
Only if you're making it.
He looks at her.
EXT. CATHERINE'S HOUSE ON DIVISADERO – DAY
He gets out of the Porsche, starts to go in. He looks disturbed
Catherine comes out of the house with Hazel Dobkins, the old woman
we saw with her in Mill Valley. Nick watches them a beat, then goes up to them.
CATHERINE
Hazel , this is Nick. I told you all about him. This
is Hazel Dobkins.
HAZEL
(smiles)
You're the Shooter, aren't you? How are you?
NICK
(after a beat)
Fine. Thank you.
He looks at her sort of warily.
NICK
(continuing; to Catherine)
Can I talk to you a minute?
CATHERINE
(to Hazel)
Honey, why don't you go in the car? I'll be right
there.
The old woman starts going to the Ferrari.
HAZEL
(brightly)
Goodbye, Shooter.
Nick looks at Hazel a beat, then at Catherine.
NICK
You like to hang out with murderers or what? Did you
know Roxy –
CATHERINE
Of course I knew.
He looks at her a long beat.
CATHERINE
(continuing; casually)
Look. Sometimes when I do my research, I get involved
with people. It happened with you, too.
She smiles. He looks at her, doesn't know what to say.
CATHERINE
(continuing)
Killing isn't like smoking. You can quit.
CATHERINE
(continuing; preoccupied)
I've go to go. I promised to get her home by six
o'clock. She just loves "America's Most Wanted."
America's Most Wanted? She turns to go.
NICK
There was no Lisa Anderson at Berkeley when you were
there.
She stops, looks at him a beat.
CATHERINE
What were you doing, checking up on me? What for?
He says nothing. A long beat, she looks hurt.
CATHERINE
(continuing; after a beat)
Henderson.
And she's gone.
INT. A PHONE BOOTH – DAY
He is on the phone.
NICK
Henderson. Lisa Henderson. With an H.
He waits.
NICK
(continuing)
You do?
INT. THE DETECTIVE BUREAU – NIGHT
He sits in front of a computer screen with Andrews.
ANDREWS
I can get my butt kicked for this. You're not supposed
to be in here.
NICK
It's not gonna take long, Sam.
We see the computer screen. The screen says:
"LISA HENDERSON
DMV LICENSE CHECK"
We wait and then we see the words:
"1983 RENEWAL – ELIZABETH GARDNER, 147 QUEENSTON DRIVE,
SALINAS, CAL."
Nick stares at the screen.
NICK
(continuing)
Bring it up, will you, Sam?
A beat, and then we see the license itself: It is Beth Gardner on the photo. Nick stares.
ANDREWS
Hey, that's Dr. Gardner, isn't it?
NICK
Bring 1976 up.
A beat, and the license comes up. We see a young Beth Gardner on the
photo. She has blonde hair.
Nick stares.
INT. BETH GARDNER'S APARTMENT – NIGHT
She walks in. The apartment is dark.
NICK (O.S.)
You shouldn't leave your door open.
She is startled.
BETH
(after a beat)
I didn't. Something's wrong with my lock.
A beat, she looks at him.
BETH
(continuing; cold)
What do you want, Nick?
NICK
(quietly)
Tell me about Catherine.
BETH
She told you, didn't she?
NICK
(after a beat)
What did she tell me, Beth?
BETH
(after a long beat)
I slept with her once in school.
(a beat)
I was just a kid. I was experimenting. It was just
that one time.
(a beat)
She developed a... fixation... on me. She styled her
hair like mine. She wore the same kind of clothes I did. It scared me.
She looks at him, sees his look.
BETH
(continuing)
Isn't that what she told you?
He looks at her a long beat.
NICK
She told me it was you. You wore the same kind of
clothes. You dyed your hair blonde.
A long beat as they look at each other.
BETH
I did dye my hair. It didn't have anything to do with
her. I was a redhead for a while, too.
NICK
(after a beat)
Did you know Noah Goldstein?
BETH
I had him in two classes.
NICK
You saw all the reports, Beth! Phil had you copied.
You never said anything!
BETH
(after a beat)
What do I say – Hey, listen, guys, I'm not gay, but I
did fuck your suspect.
(she turns away)
I was embarrassed. It's the only time I've been with a
woman.
She turns to him.
BETH
(continuing)
She's really sick you know. Don't you know what she's
doing? She knows I went to Berkeley. She knows I knew Noah. She makes up that
story about me. She's handing you somebody who's obsessed with he her.
NICK
She didn't hand you to me. She doesn't even know who
you are. She told me about Lisa Henderson.
BETH
She knew you'd find out who Lisa Henderson is. You're
a good cop – what did she do? Tell you casually and make it seem irrelevant?
(she smiles)
Did she tell you in bed, Nick? That's how I'd do it.
Nick looks at her a long beat.
NICK
Why did you change your name?
BETH
I got married.
(a beat)
He was on staff at the clinic. I was down in Salinas.
It didn't... last long.
He gets up. He looks at her a long beat.
BETH
