If you've seen the movie, this should be very familiar and easier to read…
*Remember this is in the form of a movie script. (The original typed script, is pretty messy!)
I've done my best to structure it better (comparing it to the original) This is all written in chronological order.
Netflix has it available to stream, be my guest to watch it first. It is a good movie, in my opinion. :)

-Enjoy!

POLICE HEADQUARTERS:

The door says Dr. Elizabeth Gardner, Counseling. Jethro opens the door, peeks in. The receptionist is not there…

THE COUNSELING OFFICE:

Jethro walks in - sees the inner door open, walks in.

JETHRO: "I'm sorry, Beth. I - I got hung up in Stinson."

(Dr. Elizabeth Gardner the police psychologist, is a very good looking, dark-haired woman. She is 30.)

BETH: (smiles) "How are you, Jethro?"

JETHRO: "I'm fine. Come on, Beth! You know I'm fine! How the hell long do I have to keep doing this?"

BETH: "As long as Internal Affairs wants you to, I suppose. Sit down, Jethro"

JETHRO: It's bullshit. You know it is."

BETH: (smiles) I know it is - but sit down anyway so we can get it over with, okay? (He sits down.) "So - how are things?"

JETHRO: (after a pause) "Things are fine. I told you. They're fine." (She watches him closely.)

BETH: "How is your - personal life?"

JETHRO: "My sex life is fine. My sex life is pretty shitty actually since I stopped seeing you - maybe I should think about my Electrolux again." (That embarrassed her; she looks away from him.)

JETHRO: (after a moment) "Sorry." (She shrugs.)

BETH: "How about the booze?"

JETHRO: "It's been three months."

BETH: (after a long moment) "How about the coke?"

JETHRO: "No."

BETH: "No?"

JETHRO: (hard) "No! I'm working my tail off. I'm off the sauce, I'm not even smoking anymore." (She smiles.)

BETH: "How's not smoking?"

JETHRO: "It's fucked - now will you please tell I.A. that I'm just you average healthy totally fucked-up cop and let me get out of here?

BETH: (after a pause; smiles) "Yes."

JETHRO: "Thank you." (And he starts heading out.)

BETH: (behind him) "I still miss you, Jethro." (He doesn't even turn, pretends he didn't hear.)

THE DETECTIVE BUREAU:

Jethro walks in. Gus Moran gets up from his desk as soon as he sees him.

GUS: "Talcott's in there. They're waiting." (They start heading for Lt. Walker's office.)

GUS: "How'd it go?"

JETHRO: "She misses me."

GUS:(grins) "Hallelujah."

LT. WALKER'S OFFICE:

Jethro and Gus sit there with Lt. Walker, Harrigan, Andrews and Captain Talcott…

HARRIGAN: "Sixteen stab wounds to the chest and neck. No usable prints, no forcible entry, nothing missing. No prints on the ice pick, either - it's available at any Safeway. The scarf is Hermes, expensive - they sell about 20,000 a year worldwide."

ANDREWS: "The powder was cocaine, high-quality, high-content. He inhaled it; there were minute quantities on his lips and penis. Mr. Boz leaves five million dollars, no insurance, no direct survivors. He liked his coke, he liked his girls, and he liked rock and roll.

JETHRO: "He liked the mayor, too, right?" (Talcott gives him a look.)

GUS: "What about his girlfriend?"

TALCOTT: "Is she relevant here? I didn't know she was a suspect?"

LT. WALKER: "She's a suspect."

TALCOTT: "On what basis?"

LT. WALKER: (looks at notes) Jennifer Shepard. Age 34. No priors, no convictions. Double major, magnum cum laude, Berkeley, 1980. Literature and Psychology. Daughter, sole survivor - Marvin and Elaine Shepard, killed in a boating accident, 1978, Jennifer Shepard sole heir. Estimated assets $110 million.

JETHRO: "Are you kidding me?"

LT. WALKER: (continues) "Formerly engaged to Roberto Vasquez, deceased" -

ANDREWS: "Bobby Vasquez?"

LT. WALKER: "Bobby Vasquez, former middleweight contender, killed in the ring Atlantic City, 1984."

JETHRO: (smiles) "I love it. She's got a hundred million bucks. She fucks fighters and rock and roll stars. And she's got a degree in screwing with peoples' heads."

LT. WALKER: "You forgot her degree in literature. She's a writer. She published a novel last year under a pen name. Do you want to know what it's about?" (They just stare at him.)

LT. WALKER: "It's about a retired rock and roll star who is murdered by his girlfriend."

JETHRO'S APARTMENT - (NIGHT):

His apartment is very bare - very few things - with wide open spaces. There is a lot of chrome. He sits on the couch, reading a book. It is a paperback. We see the title - Love Hurts, by Jennifer Adams. He puts the book down, then picks the phone up, and dials.

JETHRO: "Page 67, Do you know how she does the boyfriend? With an icepick, in bed, his hands tied with a white silk scarf."

A POLICE DEPARTMENT CONFERENCE ROOM - (DAY):

Jethro, Gus, Lt. Walker, Harrigan, Andrews, Captain Talcott - and Beth Gardner. With them is an older, white-haired man, Dr. Andrew Lamott There are copies of "Love Hurts" around the table.

LT. WALKER: "Dr. Gardner?"

BETH: "I've asked Dr. Lamott to consult with us. This isn't really my turf. Dr. Lamott teaches the psycho-pathology of psychopathic behavior at Stanford and is also a member of the Justice Department's Psychological Profile team. Dr. Lamott?

DR. LAMOTT: "There are two possibilities. One. The person who wrote this book is your murderer and acted out the killing described in ritualistic, literal detail. Two. Someone who wants to do the person who wrote this book harm read the book and enacted the killing described to incriminate the writer."

JETHRO: (after a long pause) "What if the writer did it? What are we dealing with?"

DR. LAMOTT: "You're dealing with a devious, diabolical mind. This book must have been written at least six months, maybe years before it was published. That means the writer planned the crime, at least in the subconscious, back then. The fact that the writer carried it out indicates psychopathic obsessive behavior in terms not only of the killing itself but in terms of applied advance defense mechanism."

GUS: "Most times I can't tell shit from shinola, Doc. What was all that

you just said?" (Some grins, titters.)

BETH: "She anticipates the book to be her best alibi."

DR. LAMOTT: "Correct."

BETH: "She's going to say 'Do you think I'd be dumb enough to kill anyone in the exact way I've described in my book? I wouldn't do that because I'd know I'd be a suspect?'" (they all think about it.)

JETHRO: "What if it's not the writer? What if it's someone who read the book?"

DR. LAMOTT: "You're dealing then with someone so obsessed that he or she is willing to kill an irrelevant and innocent victim to place the blame on the person who wrote this book. We are talking about deep-seated, obsessional hatred; an utter lack of sense of proportion or perspective."

GUS: "We've got a top-of-the-line, once- in-a-lifetime loony-tune either way you cut it - that's what you're saying, right, Doc?"

DR. LAMOTT: "You're dealing with someone very dangerous and very ill."

THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE - (DAY)

PROSECUTOR JOHN CORRIGAN, a big man in his 50's, with Captain Talcott, Lt. Walker, Jethro, and Gus. Corrigan is reading a file. He gets up, yawns, goes to his window, looks out…

CORRIGAN: "Come on, you know there's no case here. There's no physical evidence - okay, she doesn't have an alibi but there's no motive. Her defense would just beat us to death with the copycat thing. Anybody who read the book could have done it."

JETHRO: "So what do we do - nothing?"

LT. WALKER: (after a moment) "We bring her in for questioning."

TALCOTT: "She's got enough money to burn this whole department down."

LT. WALKER: "She was the last person seen with the guy - I'll take the responsibility."

TALCOTT: "It's yours."

CORRIGAN: "It won't do any good. She'll come in with Lee Bailey and Mel Belli trailing behind her on a solid gold chain from Tiffanys."

TALCOTT: "Yes she will."

JETHRO: "No she won't." (They look at him.)

JETHRO: (smiles) "I don't think she's going to hide behind anybody. I don't think she's going to hide at all."

TALCOTT: "I think you're as crazy as she probably is, Curran." (Jethro says nothing.)

GUS: "You know what they say: It takes one to know one." (Jethro looks a Gus, grins.)

JENNIFER'S HOUSE IN STINSON - (DAY)

They walk from the car to the door of the big beach house. They ring the bell. They hear typing inside. The typing stops. She comes to the door in jeans and a short sweatshirt that exposes her midriff.

JETHRO: "Ms. Shepard, we'd like you to come downtown and answer some questions for us."

JENNIFER: "Are you arresting me?"

JETHRO: "If that's the way you want to play it." (They look at each other.)

JENNIFER: (smiles) Can I change into something more appropriate? It'll just take a minute." (He nods.)

JENNIFER: "Come in."

IN THE HOUSE:

It is beautifully done in a Santa Fe motif. She goes to a bedroom off the living room. Jethro sits down on a couch facing the bedroom she's walked into. Gus sits across from him, his back to the bedroom. There is a coffee table between them. She leaves the bedroom door halfway open. An old newspaper is on the coffee table. Jethro reaches for it. The headline says: VICE COP CLEARED IN TOURIST SHOOTINGS. A headline underneath says: GRAND JURY SAYS SHOOTINGS ACCIDENTAL. There is a photograph of Jethro. He stares at the paper.

JENNIFER: "How long will this take?" (Jethro puts the paper down on the coffee table. He is lost in his thoughts. Gus picks the paper up.)

JETHRO: (looks up) "I don't know." (Jethro, facing the half open bedroom door, sees a mirror near the wall of the bedroom. The mirror reflects her in the other corner of the bedroom. She is taking her clothes off. He stares. She strips down naked. He sees her back. She has a beautiful body. She puts on a short, white, sleeveless, dress. She doesn't put any underwear on.)

JETHRO: "Do you always keep old newspapers around?"

JENNIFER: "Only when they make interesting reading." (and she is suddenly out of the bedroom. She stands there, smiles. They look at each other for a long moment.)

JENNIFER: (finally) "I'm ready." (They get up, head out.)

GUS: "You have the right to an attorney."

JENNIFER: "Why would I need an attorney?"

INSIDE THE CAR - (DAY):

They sit in the front; she is in the back. The car goes over the winding, two-lane Mt. Tamalpais road. We see the beach far below.

JENNIFER: (Puts her hand on Jethro's shoulder) "Do you have a cigarette?"

JETHRO: "I don't smoke."

JENNIFER: "Yes, you do."

JETHRO: "I quit." (She smiles, looks at him. He turns away. She lights a cigarette up.)

JETHRO: "I thought you were out of cigarettes?"

JENNIFER: "I found some in my purse; would you like one?" (He turns back to her.)

JETHRO: "I told you - I quit."

JENNIFER: "It won't last." (She stares at him, and then he turns away.)

GUS: "You workin' on another book?"

JENNIFER: "Yes I am."

GUS: "It must really be somehtin' -makin' stuff up all the time. (He watches her in the rearview mirror.)

JENNIFER: "It teaches you to lie."

GUS: "How's that?"

JENNIFER: "You make it up, but it has to be believable. They call it suspension of disbelief."

GUS: "I like that. "Suspension of Disbelief." (He smiles at her in the mirror.)

JETHRO: "What's your new book about?"

JENNIFER: "A detective. He falls for the wrong woman. (He turns back to her.)

JETHRO: "What happens to him? She looks right into his eye."

JENNIFER: "She kills him." (They look at each other, and then he turns away from her. Gus watcher her in the rearview mirror.)

TO BE CONTINUED…

*Coming up, is the famous interrogation/leg-crossing scene. If you've seen the movie, you know what I'm referring to. ;)

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