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GATTACA by Andrew M. Niccol - The Script Source

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24.<br />

Maria takes Antonio aside. Anton and Vincent exchange a look.<br />

INT. HOME. NIGHT.<br />

ANTON<br />

Why didn't you say anything?<br />

VINCENT<br />

Why didn't you?<br />

(staring back at his<br />

father knowingly)<br />

It's okay. It's the way they want<br />

it.<br />

JEROME (VO)<br />

It confirmed everything in the<br />

minds of my parents - that they<br />

had taken the right course with my<br />

younger brother and the wrong<br />

course with me. It would have<br />

been so much easier for everyone<br />

if I had slipped away that day.<br />

I decided to grant them that wish.<br />

ANTON stands at the mantelpiece in the dimly-lit living room.<br />

He gazes at a framed family portrait - Vincent's face has<br />

been torn out of it. He suddenly spies VINCENT exiting the<br />

front gate, carrying a suitcase. Anton goes to shout<br />

Vincent's name but the words don't get out.<br />

EXT. <strong>GATTACA</strong>. DAWN.<br />

A pick-up truck, packed with a CLEANING CREW, pulls into the<br />

rear of the building. <strong>The</strong>y are no longer strictly the<br />

migrant workers we have come to expect but rather a mixture<br />

of ethnicities - all members of a genetic underclass that<br />

does not discriminate <strong>by</strong> race.<br />

As VINCENT exits the truck and turns towards the camera, we<br />

discover that he has now matured into the man we have come to<br />

know as JEROME. <strong>The</strong> only visible differences are the glasses<br />

he wears and his hair, still naturally dark.<br />

JEROME (VO)<br />

Like many others in my situation,<br />

I moved around a lot in the next<br />

few years, getting work where I<br />

could. I must have cleaned half<br />

the toilets in the state.

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