[Movie Script]We Own the Night

                                 WE OWN THE NIGHT




Written by


James Gray








          FADE IN:



          A PAIR OF SMOKESTACKS AGAINST AN ORANGE AUTUMN SUN SKY...

          THE CAMERA ZOOMS OUT to REVEAL: A CEMETERY in the

foreground. TOMBSTONES blend into a NEVER-ENDING SEA OF

MIDDLE-CLASS ROW HOUSES in the distance, and nothing seems

to separate the two. A NEWLY DUG GRAVE is in the LOWER

LEFT-HAND CORNER of our FRAME.



          MILITARY DRUMS. HUNDREDS of POLICEMEN, in their DRESS

BLUES, ENTER from FRAME RIGHT. A FEW COPS CARRY a COFFIN.



          SUPERIMPOSE ON THE SCREEN'S LEFT SIDE: THE FOLLOWING WORDS

          FADE IN--PARAGRAPH BY PARAGRAPH:



          New York, New York.   1988.



          A new breed of narcotics has swept the great city, bringing

with it a ferocious crime wave more terrifying than any in

recent memory.






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