[interior, police station locker room. @Rappin4Safety walks in brusquely, wearing a tan trench coat and fedora pulled down low over his face. His hands are shoved deep in his pockets and he’s chewing on a toothpick. @lifeonmarvin follows him through the door, dressed in a freshly
starched uniform.)
LoM: So whats our angle on this?
R4S: whaddy mean OUR angle kid? I prefer to work alone
LoM: but Chief Mose just assigned us both to the Thrill Killer case....
[R4S interrupts, grabbing the lapels of my uniform and pushing me up against the lockers]
LoM: So whats our angle on this?
R4S: whaddy mean OUR angle kid? I prefer to work alone
LoM: but Chief Mose just assigned us both to the Thrill Killer case....
[R4S interrupts, grabbing the lapels of my uniform and pushing me up against the lockers]
R4S: See here kid, idk if you need your ears cleaned or you’re just thick—but I said I work alone. You investigate on your own if you like, but I plan to find this guy and I don’t need some greenhorn gettin in my way
[I shake R4S off and push him back a step]
[I shake R4S off and push him back a step]
LoM: Listen pal, I don’t care if we have to get our hands dirty! I graduated top of the academy and I didn’t do it without taking some knocks and sticking my nose where I shouldn’t. Together I think we can get this guy!
[R4S stands staring at me for a second. Then spits out his
[R4S stands staring at me for a second. Then spits out his
toothpick and takes an fresh one out of an ornately engraved silver case from the breast pocket of his dark grey wool suit. He pauses for a moment, then, without looking up:]
R4S: I SAID I worke ALONE, kid.
[He puts the fresh toothpick into his mouth, then turns to walk away]
R4S: I SAID I worke ALONE, kid.
[He puts the fresh toothpick into his mouth, then turns to walk away]
LoM [calling after him]: You didn’t always! What about the case of the Cowtown Devil?
[R4S stops abruptly, as if struck, standing still in the doorway]
LoM: The other guys say you had a partner back then. Said he uh....he...we lost him...in the line of duty.
[R4S stops abruptly, as if struck, standing still in the doorway]
LoM: The other guys say you had a partner back then. Said he uh....he...we lost him...in the line of duty.