a cocktail of suspense

EXT.  WALKER PLACE - NIGHT

The wind chimes on the gazebo TINKLE.  Racine sits smoking in the shadows.  He takes another drink from a glass of liquor.  All the lights on the lawn, gazebo, and boathouse are off.  Racine hears something and peers toward the driveway.  Headlights move very slowly up the drive toward the house.  It is Edmund's Cadillac, glowing in the moonlight.

(MUSIC is low and slow.)

The Cadillac stops in front of the house and for several moments nothing happens.  Then Matty gets out of the car.

She has on the same white dress she was wearing when Racine first saw her.

Racine watches from the blackness of the gazebo.  Silently.

Matty -- slim, strong, calm, bold in her dignity -- walks twenty feet past the gazebo and stops when she can make out the boathouse in the dark.

Racine steps to the edge of the gazebo. 
Matty turns her head, sees him.
She seems startled for only a split second.

MATTY
Hello darling.

^^ Hello, Matty.

"Where's your car?" she asks.
"In the back.  With yours," he replies.

^^ Why haven't you turned on the lights?
^^ I could see.

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Body Heat script -- Lawrence Kasdan.

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