First Script

SCRIPT:

Opening Scene: *Main Character Exits the car and walks into the building housing the crime scene*

(Main Character walks proposed route through crime scene until he locates the man he is looking for, mid conversation with another officer.)

 J. Walker: … I want you to see if you can get any video footage from the area, either inside or around the building.

Police Officer 1: Yes sir.

(J. Walker turns around and notices Alex, They begin conversation)

J. Walker: *Brief Pause* you must be Cross.

Alex Cross: You would be too sir. Just call me Alex (The detectives shake one another’s hand)

J. Walker: Alright, I’m Jack by the way. Well, this isn’t the nicest case to start with I’m afraid; at least that’s what I’ve been told. (The detectives begin walking through the scene) This all started with an anonymous call this morning, the call was made from a phone box

(The detectives come across a set of windows along the buildings frame, none of which are broken, none of the doors are broken and everything is clean and tidy)

Alex Cross: Hmm, No broken windows, no mess, awfully clean.

J. Walker: Yeah, Strange. The method of murder seems more radical than the method of entry. You don’t seem much like a rookie to me.

Alex Cross: I think one thing you learn from this job is the wonders of perception.

J. Walker: Quite so

(The two detectives begin to walk over to the body)

Alex Cross: Damn, they don’t tell you about the smell.

J. Walker: Don’t worry it grows on you. Hmm, It should have been a clean kill but this is peculiar, the body has been cleaned but the method of murder is so brutal. Almost a conflicted operation.

Alex Cross: Wait, what’s that.

(Detective Cross Pulls a piece of paper out of the victims hand and hands it to Walker, He begins reading the note)

Alex Cross: Well, what is it.

J. Walker: I have no idea, its jumbled, letters and numbers. Symbols too but it doesn’t look like any code I’ve seen before.

(J. Walker puts the note into an evidence bag and hands it to a CSI Member)

J. Walker: This is looking like it’s gonna be a long one.

(The scene continues with a time lapse of the crime scene being investigated) Narration talks over the scene.

Alex Cross Narration: And that’s how it started, putting a young detective on that case was a big mistake, it just made no sense. Nothing this killer ever did made sense. This case was just the first of many, every week we’d just see more and more bloodshed, with a new note each time, each time just a mess of letters and numbers. We interviewed suspects left and right but none of them fit. This case just didn’t work with police guidelines and so. We weren’t going to either.

(Scene transitions into Opening Credits)