[Movie Script]Bringing Out the Dead

                    BRINGING OUT THE DEAD


First draft (11/7/97)
Paul Schrader
From the novel by

Joseph Connelly
After World War One it was called

Shell Shock.
After World War Two it was called

Battle Fatigue.
After Vietnam it was called

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Frank Pierce, 28, drives an EMS vehicle for

Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, New York City.

He has been a paramedic for five years.
     EXT. NEW YORK STREETS--NIGHT


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