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FADE IN:
EXT. SPRING STREET, DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES, 8:52 AM
Rain on the facade of a 1927 art deco building. The lettering
above the entrance reads BRADBURY ANNEX. The name has faded
in
the way that names fade on buildings no one has bothered to
reletter since 1983.
A tan Mercedes sedan pulls up. 1999 E class, the kind with
leather seats that have cracked in the same three places in
three different cars. The driver cuts the engine. Sits a
beat.
Gets out without the umbrella on the passenger seat.
JACK MORRISON (62) crosses the sidewalk with the ease of a
man
who has walked this block four thousand times. He is tall,
not
heavy, wearing a tan trench coat that has been his coat for
eleven years. His hair is grey. His hands are a mechanic's
hands and have never been a mechanic's. A left cuff button is
missing. He does not notice.
JACK (V.O.)
You can tell the age of a building
by its lobby. The oldest ones
smell like brass polish. The