GATTACA by Andrew M. Niccol - The Script Source
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.