[Movie Script]Taking Lives

Taking Lives

by
Jon Bokenkamp
based on the novel by

Michael Pye
previous revisions by

Nicholas Kazan

H. Seitz

David Ayer
                  EARLY DRAFT



February 28, 2003



FADE IN:


INT. BUS STATION - DAY


SUPERIMPOSE:     17 YEARS AGO


Small, Canadian, rural. Just the Native American CASHIER

jotting down sports stats from the paper. MARTIN, 16,

enters. Slight, pale and frail, new clothes, a tag still

hangs from his stiff work jacket. Martin stands in front

of the Cashier a beat. Nervously tugs an earlobe.
                         MARTIN



Sir. Sir, may I have a ticket to

Montreal please?
                           CASHIER



Pardon?
                         MARTIN



I need a ticket to Montreal.
                           CASHIER



Montreal?
                            MARTIN



Yes, sir.     Please.
                         CASHIER


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