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STANLEY I also know I could never lure a big foot like you to Alaska if... EILEEN If I wasn’t radioactive...
Stanley nods, pretty much. Then he pulls a PHOTO from his briefcase, places it on the table. It’s of a NATIVE ALASKAN WOMAN (18, sweet face.) STANLEY Gloria Nagiac. Lived in a village, on the North Slope. She went
missing after a party. Three months later, two hunters found her body in the woods outside her village. EILEEN (Picking up the photo) Homicide? STANLEY The police ruled out foul play. They say suicide or accident. Her mother disagrees. EILEEN Most parents do. Look, that’s horrible. But it’s a story about a dead woman in Alaska. I’ve never even been to Alaska. Why me? STANLEY
It’s not just a story about a dead woman in Alaska. She’s indigenous. He sets a LARGE STACK of PHOTOS down. Maybe FORTY in all. STANLEY (CONT'D) So are they. It’s a story about how Indigenous women in Alaska keep ending up missing or murdered and no one cares enough to find out why. We need to make them care. Eileen leafs through the stack. ALL INDIGENOUS WOMEN. ALL MISSING OR MURDERED. It’s ABSOLUTELY HAUNTING. STANLEY (CONT'D)
It’s a big story. One of a handful that I want to get before they turn out the lights. That’s ‘why you’, Eileen.
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