GATTACA by Andrew M. Niccol - The Script Source

26.
OWNER
Where's Earl?
JEROME
He fell. Lucky it was only the
second floor.
The owner nods and returns to his magazine. When he looks up
again one of his tripods is missing its telescope and Jerome
is nowhere to be seen.
INT. IN-VALID HOUSING PROJECT. NIGHT.
JEROME returns to his bare apartment. He removes the cloth
covering the bucket to reveal a dumpy-shaped telescope snugly
wedged inside. He starts to pour over his collection of
textbooks. Other tattered space paraphernalia adorns the
wall.
JEROME (VO)
Of course the best test score in
the world wasn't going to get me
in the front door unless I had the
blood test to go with it.
EXT. GATTACA. NIGHT.
While his fellow WORKERS sit on the steps at the service
entrance to Gattaca, passing around an unlabeled bottle of
clear liquor, VINCENT sits some distance away studying his
text book. In the absence of a computer, he practices typing
commands on a keyboard handdrawn on the flap of a cardboard
box.
A tiny, seedy-looking man, GERMAN, forties, appears from
nowhere and takes a seat beside him.
GERMAN
(offering his hand)
Vincent, I'm German--
(anticipating
Vincent's response)
That's my name.
He looks the apprehensive Vincent up and down.
VINCENT
What do you think?