there by seven-thirty

INT.  DETECTIVE GRACE'S OFFICE, POLICE STATION - NIGHT

Lowenstein is slouched in a chair.  Oscar Grace is turned away,looking out the window at the dark street.  They both look dejected.  After a silence --

GRACE:
(the quality of his voice is rich, rounded, and resonant; his attitude is that of personal defeat and resignation)
I better go get him.

EXT.  REAR OF WALKER HOUSE - NIGHT

The house looms darkly.  Racine has parked the Stingray in the black shadows of the big tree behind the house, hiding it.  He starts to walk back around the driveway-side of the house when something catches his eye at the other end of the house.  He walks over there.

Close to that far wall, in shadow as deep as the one he has just used is -- to Racine's surprise -- Matty's Mercedes.  Racine stares at the car.

[[ Until I read the script I never knew what that was -- looked like a table knife, to me...in Noir, the darkness and smoky, foggy, cloudy camera style can make different shapes look like different things....in the gloom....Nothing is certain.... ]]

INT.  EDMUND WALKER'S CLOSET IN BEDROOM - NIGHT

Racine pushes aside some clothes and reaches up to a high shelf.  He feels around until he's got what he wants.  He pulls down the wooden case and opens it.  Inside is Edmund's .38 revolver.

EXT.  RACINE'S APARTMENT BUILDING - NIGHT

Det. Oscar Grace exits the building and heads toward his car.

EXT.  WALKER PLACE, GAZEBO - NIGHT

Ned Racine, sitting quietly.  A cigarette held between his fingers; on the table next to him:  a bottle of hard liquor; a glass containing a little of the maple-hued liquid; the gun.

EXT.  DRAWBRIDGE ACROSS CANAL - NIGHT

Grace's car is among a dozen others held up by the raised drawbridge.  A sailboat is gliding slowly through.  Detective Grace is outside his car, leaning against it.

EXT.  WALKER GAZEBO - NIGHT

Chimes ding and tingle.

CLOSE SHOT on Racine's watch -- 10 after 10.

("I should be there by seven-thirty.  I can't wait to see you, darling.")

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Body Heat -- screenplay, written / Lawrence Kasdan.

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