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FLETCH
SCRIPT For the first time on the net... Laker Jim's Fletch Won Homepage presents Fletch Fans everywhere the 1984 Fletch Script. A New Section will be added every FRIDAY (This is not for reprint or sale. This script is solely for entertainment or educational purposes only...enjoy) |
FLETCH
SCRIPT PART 1 - Beginning of Movie (1) to Fletch in the records
room (59)
FLETCH
SCRIPT PART 2 - Gillett waits for Fletch (60) to Poon (80)
FLETCH
SCRIPT PART 3 - Cops after Gummy (81) to Jim Swarthout (114)
FLETCH
SCRIPT PART 4 - Finding the Deed (115) to Fletch almost gets
killed (148)
FLETCH
SCRIPT PART 5 - To Cabana 1 (149) to Underhill arrives to
collect(162)
FLETCH
SCRIPT PART 6 - Deed's a forgery(162-A) to Chased by the cops
(191-B)
FLETCH
SCRIPT PART 7 -Fred "the Dorf" Dorfman(192) to The
Mattress Police (219)
FLETCH
SCRIPT PART 8 -Meet Marvin and Velma (220) to Fletch breaks the
news (233)
FLETCH
SCRIPT PART 9 -Fletch on roller skates(234) to The police
arrive(260)
FLETCH SCRIPT
PART 10 - Don't call me Irwin (260-A) to The END
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FLETCH SCRIPT CONTINUED...
MRS. STANWYK
What does all this mean?
FLETCH
Have you ever heard the name Jim Swarthout?
MRS. STANWYK
Swarthout. Yes. He's the man who sold us the ranch in ---
FLETCH
Wrong. He sold you $3,000 worth of scrub brush.
MRS. STANWYK
But I've seen the deed.
FLETCH
You saw a forgery.
He takes out his photographs.
FLETCH
That's the real deed.
162-A INSERT - PHOTO OF DEED
It's is so fuzzy, shaky, and poorly framed that there's no way we can read the price on it.
FLETCH (O.S.)
Now, if this were at all legible, you'd believe me.
162-B MASTER
Fletch shows her more of the photos.
FLETCH
Here's this dog that tried to eat me.
Here's my motel. Here's the car I rented....
MRS. STANWYK
Stop it.
(angry and concerned)
Are you saying my husband is defrauding me?
FLETCH
I don't know. All I know is that he told me a lot
of things and so far not one of them has been true.
Mrs. Stanwyk stares at Fletch. She gets a little teary.
FLETCH
I'm really sorry I have to tell you all this.
MR. UNDERHILL
(O.S.)
Mrs. Stanwyk?
MRS. STANWYK
(really screams)
Just wait, all right?!?
(to Fletch)
I'm going to call my father. He'll know what ---
Fletch stops her.
FLETCH
No. You can't. Look, I know you don't know me from
Adam, but you've got to trust me.
MRS. STANWYK
Trust you? I may seem a little goofy at times, but
I'm not a complete Bozo, you know.
FLETCH
Just give me twenty-four hours. Please. Someone
almost killed me today. People are not being nice
lately, and I don't want you getting hurt. I think you're
terrific. Are you a Laker fan?
Gail is now teary, confused, and scared.
MRS. STANWYK
No...I've got to go to Mr. Underhill....
FLETCH
I'll take you to a game.
MRS. STANWYK
What are you talking about?
FLETCH
I'm talking about how much I'd like to take you
to a Laker game.
MRS. STANWYK
Wait a second. What am I supposed to do
for twenty-four hours?
FLETCH
(climbing out window)
Act natural.
MRS. STANWYK
I was afraid you'd say that.
FLETCH
If you need me, call the paper. Hand
me that extra bottle okay?
163 EXT. CABANA
Gail opens the door where Mr. Underhill has been waiting.
MRS. STANWYK
Sorry. Here.
(grabs the bill from his hand)
Thanks. Bye.
She closes the door in his face.
164 OMITTED
165 EXT. BOYD AVIATION - PARKING LOT
Alan Stanwyk crosses the parking lot and gets into his Jaguar. He starts the engine, backs out of his reserved space, and pulls out of the lot.
166 ANOTHER ANGLE - PARKING LOT
Fletch is reading a copy of Sports Illustrated. He puts it down, starts his car, and pulls out of the lot.
167 SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD
Stanwyk's Jaguar tools down Santa Monica Boulevard. Fletch's car follows, several discreet car lengths behind.
168 INT. JAGUAR
Stanwyk checks his watch, and makes a turn.
169 MASTER
Stanwyk has pulled into a service station. He gets out of his car and opens the trunk.
170 FLETCH
He pulls into a fast-food joint on the west side of the street. He opens the Sports Illustrated and peers over it.
171 STANWYK
He takes a gas can from the trunk, goes to the pump, fills it, and pays the attendant in cash.
172 FLETCH
Curious.
173 STANWYK
He puts the gas can back in the trunk, gets into the car, and starts off.
174 FLETCH
follows suit.
175 SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD
We are getting into the increasingly rundown section of Santa Monica. The Jaguar turns off. Hold: Several beats later, Fletch turns off.
176 OVERPASS
A freeway overpass. Stanwyk stops his car.
177 FLETCH'S CAR
He pulls off behind a liquor store, in view of the overpass. Fletch waits.
178 OVERPASS
A second car pulls up behind Stanwyk's. A cop steps out and says something to Stanwyk. Stanwyk gets out of his car and walks over to the unmarked police car, and gets in.
178-A FLETCH
takes out his binoculars.
178-B FLETCH'S POINT OF VIEW
Because he's looking through the reflection of sunlight on the back window of the unmarked police car, Fletch's point of view is fuzzy, but we can just make out the form of someone else in animated conversation with Stanwyk.
178-C FLETCH
A moment of possible recognition. He focuses intently.
178-D FLETCH'S POINT OF VIEW - THE OTHER MAN IN THE CAR
with Stanwyk...is Police Chief Cummings.
179 FLETCH
FLETCH
Jesus.
He starts up his car and backs out.
DISSOLVE TO
180 EXT. FLETCH'S APARTMENT HOUSE
Fletch pulls up to his house and stops the car.
181 INT. CAR
Fletch looks around.
182 EXT. HOUSE
Fletch doesn't leave the car.
183 INT. CAR
Fletch sits put, drumming his fingers on the steering wheel. He just has a feeling. He starts the car up, and pulls out.
184 EXT. HOUSE
Two cop cars, concealed in driveways, scream out, heading after Fletch's car.
185 INT. FLETCH'S CAR
Fletch sees them in the rearview and stomps on the gas.
FLETCH
Should've known. Goddamn it.
186 EXT. STREETS
Fletch floors it.
FLETCH
Great. First I'll get a speeding ticket,
then they'll shoot me. Terrific.
Fletch cuts through the parking lot of a drug store/dry cleaning complex. The cop cars follow suit. Shopping wagons are tossed about. He turns a corner and realizes he has a few seconds before they're on top of him again. He screeches up next to a teenager in a sports car.
FLETCH
All right, fella, smog check. Move over.
Before the guy can say "who?", Fletch is in the guy's driver seat and tears out, hell bent for leather.
187 ENTRANCE TO FREEWAY
Fletch peels off onto the Santa Monica Freeway.
188 FREEWAY
Fletch hits about ninety. So do the cops. Now a motorcycle cop joins the chase.
189 OMITTED
189-A INT. SPORTS CAR
TEENAGER
Holy sh*t!
FLETCH
Sorry, youngster, but we have to see what kind of
fluorocarbons this thing puts out at ninety-five.
TEENAGER
Holy sh*t!
FLETCH
Don't worry about the speed limit. That's
what the police escort's for.
190 EXT. FREEWAY
Indeed, behind them is a gaggle of speeding cop cars and motorcycles.
TEENAGER (O.S.)
Holy sh*t!
Fletch cuts across two lanes of traffic and gets off the freeway. He loses the motorcycle cop who goes past the exit. The squad cars are thrown behind a bit, but still chase.
191 INT. SQUAD CAR
COP #1
Sh*t! He'll kill us if we lose him.
191-A INT. SPORTS CAR
The teenager is sweating bullets.
TEENAGER
Okay, okay, just stop, will you. I admit
it. I stole it. I was just taking it for
a little joy ride, that's all....
FLETCH
Holy sh*t.
191-B EXT. CAR
Fletch squeals around a corner, runs a light, and booms into the parking lot of a large Holiday Inn. He's a few seconds ahead of the cops.
FLETCH
Okay, kid. Just stand here with your hands
on the car and wait for the cops. I gotta pee.
Here, take my hat.
Fletch pops his hat on the kid's head, and runs off.
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