GATTACA by Andrew M. Niccol - The Script Source

51.
INT. INVESTIGATOR'S CRIME LAB. NIGHT.
A severed HUMAN TONGUE sits on a tray in a sterile, sealed
chamber. Using gloves that protrude through the chamber's
glass wall, face buried in a binocular eyepiece, the
INVESTIGATOR takes a swab from the tongue.
INVESTIGATOR
(to the tongue, as he
inserts the tip of
the swab into an
analyzer)
Let's see what you've got to say
for yourself.
A FEMALE ASSISTANT, looking on, hardly has time to smile at
the remark before information begins to appear on a nearby
computer terminal. The computer gradually builds a portrait
of the owner of the tongue using genetic predictors. The
Investigator wanders over to the window as his Assistant
reads the information from the screen.
ASSISTANT
The tongue is male. Mature.
Blonde hair. Brown eyes. Light
complexion. Between 5'11 and 6'1.
Pronounced Caucasian nose. Thin
lips. Weak chin. Lobeless ears.
Prematurely balding. Slightly bow-
legged. Broad shoulders. Barrel
chest... (pause)
Blind.
INVESTIGATOR
(interest piqued)
Blind? (mildly amused,
checking the monitor
for himself)
The tongue is blind?
ASSISTANT
(confused)
Who cuts out the tongue of a blind
man?
INVESTIGATOR
(shrugs)
Someone who is mindful that the
blind still speak.