395    EXT. SEAMAN’S BAR NEAR DOCKS – NIGHT                                                     395

 

SEAGRAM (V.O.)

(he’s had a few)

                                                                        If I felt the way Sandecker does

                                                                        I never would have started the

                                                                        project in the first place . . .

 

396    INT. BAR – EXTREME CLOSEUP – SEAGRAM                                                    396

 

SEAGRAM

                                                                        I mean if it’s all some kind of

                                                                        a lousy game, who needs it?

 

            We PULL BACK and INCLUDE PITT.  They’re in a corner booth with a JUKEBOX PLAYING and

            pinball machines.

 

SEAGRAM

(continuing)

                                                                        You know something?  I’m glad we

                                                                        didn’t find the stuff.  I never thought

                                                                        I’d say it, but I’m just as glad we

                                                                        struck out.

 

PITT

                                                                        No, you’re not.

 

SEAGRAM

                                                                        The heck I’m not.  I mean it.

 

397    SINGLE ON PITT                                                                                                        397

 

            He still has the postcard we saw before.

 

PITT

(shakes his head)

                                                                        It’s not that easy.  I won’t

                                                                        let you wiggle off the hook

                                                                        like that.

 

398    ANOTHER ANGLE                                                                                                     398

 

            He slides the postcard across the table to Seagram.  Seagram looks at it.

 

SEAGRAM

                                                                        It’s an English postcard.  I        

                                                                        saw it already.

 

PITT

                                                                        That’s right.  We all saw it.

                                                                        Brewster bought it someplace,

                                                                        stuck it in his pocket, and

                                                                        never mailed it.

 

SEAGRAM

                                                                        So what?

 

PITT

                                                                        So read the fine print on the

                                                                        back.  The ink is smudged.  It’s

                                                                        hard to make out.

 

SEAGRAM

(he turns it over and reads)

                                                                        ‘A typical country church and

                                                                        graveyard in county Hampshire

                                                                        near the village of . . . Southby . . .’

 

399    INSERT                                                                                                                        399

 

            We SEE the card as he turns it over.  A country church and graveyard.  Sepia print.

 

SEAGRAM (O.S.)

                                                                        Southby . . .

 

PITT (O.S.)

                                                                        That’s right.  Southby.  We

                                                                        guessed wrong.  It’s not a man.

                                                                        It’s a place.  Twenty kilometers

                                                                        from Southampton . . .

 

399A TWO SHOT – SEAGRAM AND PITT                                                                     399A

 

            They react.

 

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