GATTACA by Andrew M. Niccol - The Script Source

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93. DETECTIVE (handing the Investigator Irene's pill box) We caught them trying to flush these, Sir. The Investigator carefully examines the heart pills. EXT. IRENE'S APARTMENT. NIGHT. JEROME walks IRENE to the steps of her apartment. Jerome thinks about departing but Irene takes him gently by the hand. IRENE So sure of what you can't do. Jerome follows her inside. INT. IRENE'S BEDROOM. NIGHT. JEROME and IRENE climb a staircase to her bedroom. Without another word they begin to make love. LATER THAT NIGHT, JEROME cannot sleep. He rises quietly so as not to disturb IRENE. He silently opens the double- windows of the upstairs bedroom. He carefully gathers his pillow from the bed and shakes it out of the window. Slowly Jerome turns to gaze at the wood floor. In the moonlight we see an EXTREME CLOSE UP of a single hair lying on the floorboards. Jerome bends and picks up the hair, trying to identify it in the dim light. On his hands and knees he tries to clean the floor with a towel. Irene turns over in the bed. Jerome freezes but she continues to sleep. He realizes he may be spreading even more of his skin and hair over the floor. Overcome with frustration and the enormity of his task, he begins to quietly weep. EXT. A FIELD. DAWN. A light shroud of mist hangs over the trees that encircle a grassy clearing beyond Irene's building. Something lies in the center of the clearing. We jump-cut to an EXTREME CLOSE UP of two or three blades of grass. Bristles rain down on the blades. Without access to his incinerator, the crouched, naked figure of JEROME disposes of his whiskers, skin and hair in an open field. His clothes sit in a neat pile at his side. He pours glycolic acid over his body and scrubs at his back, feet and hands with a brush.
94. There is a haunted, tortured look in his eyes as he tries desperately to rid himself of himself. INT. POOL. MORNING. The INVESTIGATOR swims obsessively in his aquatic treadmill. INT. IRENE'S APARTMENT. LATER THAT MORNING. Back in the bedroom, JEROME, partially dressed, holds IRENE in bed. She softly touches the scars on his shins. IRENE (referring to the shins) What happened? JEROME You remember the '99 Chrysler LeBaron? It's the exact height of the front fender. (shrugs) Looked right instead of left. IRENE (comforted by the thought) So you're not so smart after all. (awkward about raising the subject) I want you to know--if it ever came to it--I'd be willing to get an ovum from the Egg Bank. In fact, I'd rather use a donor egg-- (quickly covering herself again) --if it came to it. JEROME But "if it came to it" then it couldn't have your-- (searching for an appropriate body part) --nose. (stroking her face) How perfect does your child have to be?
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30. EUGENE (deadpan) Four foot six.
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Page 71 and 72: 70. INVESTIGATOR We're in the wrong
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Page 99 and 100: 98. DETECTIVE HUGO He's the only ab
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