someone's got the glasses

EXT.  OCEAN PIER - NIGHT

The night is quiet.  Foghorns, distant.  Water softly lapping, tapping, aginst the wooden pier. 

Ned Racine and Peter Lowenstein stand side by side, looking out on the dark water.

LOWENSTEIN
Someone's putting you in deep trouble, my friend.  From three thirty to 5 a.m. on the night Walker was killed, someone called your hotel room repeatedly.  The hotel didn't want to put them through, but whoever was calling convinced them it was an emergency.  Your phone rang and rang, but you didn't answer.

(Ned looks at him)

LOWENSTEIN:  Unh--don't say anything.  Save it for some other time.  It gets worse.  Now someone's trying to give us Edmund's glasses.  We don't know who.  And we don't know what the glasses will tell us.  But our negotiations are continuing.  (pause)  I wish I knew what to tell you, Ned. ...

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{The screenplay for Body Heat, written by Lawrence Kasdan.}

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