FADE IN INT. POLICE STATION OFFICE DAY ALLEN GAMBLE sits at his desk and types on his computer. As he is typing, TERRY HOITZ enters the room. TERRY HOITZ Do you know what I just did? Allen Gamble stops typing TERRY HOITZ I just walked out that door, saw a couple detectives, and I was about to start bad mouthing you behind your back, but i stopped myslef because my pops taught me that a man that talks behind somebodys back, is a coward. ALLEN GAMBLE Wow, i actually appreciate that TERRY HOITZ Good, because im going to tell you directly to your face. ALLEN GAMBLE (Quietly) No, you don’t have too TERRY HOITZ I don’t like you. I think you’re a fake cop. The sound of your piss hitting the urinal, it sounds feminine. ALLEN GAMBLE Mmm TERRY HOITZ If we were in the wild,i would attack you. Even if you wern’t in my food chain, i would go out of my way to attack you. If i were a lion and you were a tuna, i would swin out to the middle of the ocean and i would freaking eat you! And then i’d bang your tuna girlfriend.
ALLEN GAMBLE Ok, first off, a lion? Swimming in the ocean? Lions don’t like water. If you’d placed it near a river or some fresh water source, that would make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, 20 foot wave, i’m assuming it’s off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full grown 800 pound tuna, with his twenty or thirty friends? You lose that battle. You lose that battle nine times out of ten. And guess what? You’ve wandered into our school of tuna, and we now have a taste of lion. We’ve talked to ourselves. we’ve communicated. TERRY HOITZ Yeah? ALLEN GAMBLE And said, you know what, lion tastes good! Lets go get some more lion. We’ve developed a system, to establish a beach head, and aggressivly hunt you and your family. And we will corner your, your pride, your childeren, your offspring. TERRY HOITZ How you gonna do that? ALLEN GAMBLE We will construct a series of breathing aparatus with kelp. We will be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. It’s not going to be days at a time. An hour, hour fourty five, no problem. That will give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get more oxygen, and then stalk you. You just lost at your own game, you are outgunned and outmanned. Awkward pause Allen Gamble resumes typing
ALLEN GAMBLE Did that go the way you thought it was gonna go? Allen shakes head Nope Terry dumps hot coffee on Allen. Allen screams as Terry exits the room. FADE OUT