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12 - Script CUT FROM BLACK TITLE: FIN EXTERIOR - LA - DAY Fin of red 1957 Chevy Impala convertible driving somewhere in the West. A car passes going the other way. TITLE: PLACE: Los Angeles MUSIC: Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet "Good Cop, Bad Cop." EXTERIOR - LA - DAY POV driving on freeway in rain. EXTERIOR - LA - DAY People with umbrellas standing on corner. EXTERIOR - LA - DAY People with umbrella walking over bridge. EXTERIOR - LA - DAY People walk across downtown intersection with umbrellas, bus in background. EXTERIOR - LA - DAY Rain and shadow on pavement. EXTERIOR - LA - DAY LA river wide, medium, close. We see graffiti swamped by high water. EXTERIOR - LA - DAY Large man walking with umbrella. WE HEAR: THUNDER MUSIC STOPS FIRST WOMAN I've been here one year and I've lived through an earthquake, fires, floods... SECOND WOMAN The rains...it just keeps coming...the floods...the hillsides are coming down... you can't get to and from work and it's just a mess. EXTERIOR - LA - DAY People walking against high winds, umbrella reversed. EXTERIOR - LA - DAY Family walking in the rain. Children protected by plastic bags. THIRD WOMAN You survive by natural instincts, you go with the flow. SFX: THUNDER EXTERIOR - LA - DAY Woman's foot stepping across swollen gutter. MUSIC RESTARTS EXTERIOR - LA RIVER- DAY Prow of buttress in rapids. The rains have stopped, only the floods remain. EXTERIOR - BEACH - EVENING Waves breaking on beach. EXTERIOR - OCEAN - NIGHT Tanker at night.