GATTACA by Andrew M. Niccol - The Script Source

25.
We follow VINCENT through the course of a day. Cleaning rest
rooms, toilets, picking up litter, sweeping, washing
windows - gazing at the AEROSPACE WORKERS below. The
building is part of the Gattaca facility, located near a
shuttle launch site. Throughout the day, with the regularity
of 747's, Vincent spies rocket ships in the distance,
launching into the sky. Jerome's is the only head that turns
and looks up. Long after the sun has set, Vincent is still
working. Another rocket ship lights up the darkness.
Vincent gazes forlornly into the heavens.
EXT. GATTACA - GLASS WALL. DAY.
VINCENT cleans a window from the outside, staring in at the
arrogant GATTACA EMPLOYEES entering the security channels -a
sample taken from their fingertips. Jerome, in a trance,
constantly cleans the same spot of glass. He fails to notice
an Older Janitor, CAESAR, appear beside him.
CAESAR
When you clean the glass, Vincent,
don't clean it too well.
VINCENT
(confused)
What do you mean?
CAESAR
(glancing to the
Gattaca workers)
You might get ideas.
VINCENT
But if the glass is clean, it'll
be easier for you to see me when
I'm on the other side of it.
Caesar smiles at Vincent's cockiness.
INT. GATTACA. DAY.
VINCENT empties garbage into a dumpster adjacent to Gattaca.
His attention is drawn to something in the trash. A
discarded manual on Celestial Mechanics and Navigation. He
wipes food residue off the corner.
INT. ASTRONOMY & TELESCOPE SHOP. DAY.
A forest of telescopes on tripods in an astronomy shop.
VINCENT enters the store with a bucket and squeegee and
immediately goes to clean the storefront window. The STORE
OWNER looks up from his tabloid - "STAR" magazine.