Reacher Pilot 6th Pre-Production Studio Draft 1/12/2021 13.
FINLAY ( are you kidding me? ) So you have no home, no phone. You get on a bus in Tampa with 212 dollars, a toothbrush and a French War Medal and travel over 500 miles so you could read up on a dead blues musician? That sum up your past 24 hours? REACHER
No. I also went to a diner, ordered peach pie and never got to eat it because I was arrested for murder. Reacher is on Finlay’s last nerve. Always an answer, always a remark that is factual but frustrating. FINLAY
Ok. Enough of this. Medical Examiner put the victim’s time of death at around midnight last night-- REACHER This morning . It’s last night until 11:59 and 59 seconds. Then it becomes this morning . In an investigation, details matter. FINLAY ( wants to kill Reacher ) 12 A.M. this morning is the time of death. So if I can confirm you were on a Greyhound bus at that time, you’re cleared. Until then, you’re in the holding cell. REACHER For how long? FINLAY
Long as it takes. We’re running down a phone number found in the dead guy’s shoe - was on a scrap of paper with Pluribus written on it. Wanna clear that up too before we let you go? That mean anything to you, that piece of paper? Finlay takes the scrap of paper, shows it to Reacher. REACHER
Means I’m gonna be locked up for a while. Phone companies are slow responding to warrants.
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