He grasps both her shoulders and rubs her arms. She pulls him down to her level and they kiss passionately. GALE watches on, a little disgusted at the public display of affection. LUCY breaks the kiss she initiated. RANDY runs a finger through her hair, then turns around to go after SIDNEY. LUCY sighs.

GALE
I feel like I’m in an old war movie.

She sits down on the couch.

Outside, SIDNEY is desperately looking for TAD.

SIDNEY
Tad! Where are you? This isn’t cute, you know?

RANDY
Popping out of nowhere.
Sid?

SIDNEY
Startled.
Randy, you didn’t leave?

RANDY
No, somebody convinced me to stay.

SIDNEY
Lucy got you to stay in a Gale-infested house?

RANDY
Yup. And I got her to stay in a killer-infested one.

SIDNEY
Impressed.
You must really love her, huh?

RANDY
You have no…

He is interrupted by a most terrible sight. TAD’S dead, gutted body is propped up on his lower roof in his backyard. SIDNEY habitually moves the ladder that’s in her way.

SIDNEY
Not realizing what could happen.
No what?

As the wooden plank slides down to the ground, TAD’S body falls off the roof, nearly onto RANDY. A scream erupts from his throat, along with SIDNEY. She kneels down to TAD, who is hopelessly dead. She becomes upset, not because of losing TAD, but because she now knows that it was all happening again.

SIDNEY
God, I don’t believe this!

RANDY
Freaking.
Oh, my God! Someone has been killed in my house! My house is gonna be a crime scene! It’s gonna be haunted! It’s gonna be another Amityville Horror! Holy shit!

SIDNEY
It’s really happening again, Randy! We really do have to get the fuck out of here!

RANDY
Who’s car should we take?

KILLER
Why don’t we take mine?

RANDY
Huh?

RANDY turns around at the unfamiliar voice and the KILLER’S arm wraps around his neck, strangling him. He lets out a muffled yell for help.

SIDNEY
Randy!

The KILLER pins RANDY to the ground, cracking his head on the paved part of his back patio, dizzying him for a second. He looks up and sees two jagged knives raised above him. He tries to protest, but can’t get the words out; something is choking him.
SIDNEY kicks the KILLER from behind, causing the knife to fall on the ground next to RANDY, who is laying on the ground in a daze and gasping for breath. SIDNEY helps him up.

Randy, are you okay?

RANDY
My God, there’s two of you.

SIDNEY
We have to get out of here.

RANDY
Trying to point at SIDNEY.
Wait, which…one…?

SIDNEY grabs his hand to show where she is.

Oh. There you are. Stop moving…

SIDNEY
Come on, Randy, we’re leaving.

RANDY
Remembering his situation when he sees TAD’S gutted body.
Not without Lucy.

SIDNEY
Where is she?

RANDY
Inside.

He feels a presence behind him.
Sid?

SIDNEY
She is looking around her, but not at RANDY.
Yeah?

RANDY
I think we should run. Run! Now!

He starts to run, but the KILLER trips him, sending him back to the ground. SIDNEY runs, like RANDY had warned her to do, into his house. RANDY fights the KILLER, not letting him get him again. RANDY almost has him. He is grasping the KILLER’S arm.

Who are you?

KILLER
I told you before. I’m a friend.

The KILLER strikes a spot close to RANDY on the ground with the knife.

RANDY
What the hell kind of a friend tries to kill you?

KILLER
Interesting point. Why didn’t you ever ask Billy that question?

RANDY
Cowering. This guy knew a little too much about him.
What?

KILLER
Wasn’t Billy Loomis your friend?

RANDY
Not really.
He dodges another strike of the knife.
Listen! Who are you? Just fucking tell me!

KILLER
Someone who knows about you, Randy. Someone who can expose you. You, Sidney, Gale, and your father.

RANDY
Shudders.
How do you know about my father?

KILLER
I was there, Randy.

RANDY recoils, a feeling of extreme frustration overcoming him.

Cut to inside the house. LUCY is moving closer and closer to the phone.

GALE
Don’t touch the phone.

LUCY
Why not? Why haven’t we been calling the police?

GALE
Because if we call the police, he’ll know, and he’ll come after us.

LUCY
What’s that supposed to mean? What’s so scary about a phone, huh?

GALE
Listen! Let’s just say I don’t really trust phones anymore, okay?

LUCY
Why? You’re the one who whacked Randy with one. I’m surprised he even talks to you.

GALE
He scared me, okay? I was acting in self-defense.

LUCY
Only you, Gale. Only you would use a phone as a weapon. And get scared by Randy.

GALE
Anyone could get scared by Randy.

LUCY shoots GALE a pretty evil look.

GALE
Sorry. I forgot.

LUCY
“Forgot.”

They both sigh and look at the floor. SIDNEY comes running in.

SIDNEY
We have to get out of here. Now.

GALE
Quickly getting up.
Thank God.

LUCY
Wait, what about Randy? Where is he?

SIDNEY
He’s fighting with the killer.

LUCY
What?!

SIDNEY
She looks LUCY right in the eye.
He’ll be okay. Didn’t he promise?

LUCY nods her head.

Randy never breaks a promise. Never.

From the backyard, RANDY screams loudly. Another noise, like a hard, nasty punch, echoes through the entire block. LUCY runs to the backyard, to RANDY. SIDNEY runs after her and throws her car keys to GALE.

Gale, start my car. It’s the blue Civic.

SIDNEY leaves and GALE runs out the front door to find SIDNEY‘S car. LUCY is the first one to reach RANDY in the backyard. He is standing up, leaning against the wall of his house. LUCY runs to his side.

LUCY
Randy, what was that? Are you okay?

RANDY
He looks at her, scared out of his mind.
No, I’m not.

LUCY
Did he hurt you?

RANDY
Looking at SIDNEY and holding LUCY‘S hand.
In so many ways.

SIDNEY
Come on, Randy. Gale’s starting the car. We have to leave, right now.

Without a word, RANDY starts walking to the front yard, his arm slung over LUCY‘S shoulder. They all start walking away, the sound of SIDNEY‘S car coming from the front. The KILLER has disappeared.

Cut to the home of SAM KENSICK, who is sleeping on his couch next to DONNA SELDEN, his girlfriend. Both are hopelessly drunk. SAM’S parents are not home. Both are students who graduated from Woodsboro High that June. The KILLER is looming around his property, preparing for a double murder.
There is a knock at the door. SAM gets up.

DONNA
Sam, God, put a shirt on or something.

SAM
Shut up, slut.

DONNA
Don’t call me a slut, you dick!

SAM
Shut up!

He answers the door.
Yeah?

The KILLER slashes his throat, cutting off a scream, then plunges his knife into SAM’S bare chest several times. The KILLER walks into the house. DONNA looks over and sees SAM collapse to the floor.

DONNA
Sam?

Realizing that SAM has been stabbed to death, then spotting the KILLER. She screams.
Sam!!!

She screams again as the KILLER closes the door behind him and lumbers over to her. DONNA tries to run away, but all the furniture is in her way, slowing her down. The KILLER catches up to her and shoves her to the floor. She lets one more terrified shriek of certain death leave her throat as the KILLER viciously slashes her to death.

Cut to police station, the next morning. ALL have spent the night there, too scared to go anywhere else. RANDY is talking to SHERIFF BURKE.

BURKENow, what makes you think that this attack and the first one are not related to each other?

RANDY
Because he mentioned my father. The first attack was all about Sidney.

BURKE
What does your father have to do with anything?

RANDY
About four and a half years ago, my father was murdered in Pennsylvania. It was never solved. I think this guy knows exactly what happened.

BURKE
Do you know anything about the murder yourself, Randy?

RANDY
Apprehensive.
All I know is that it had something to do with his job and some clients of his. The clients were cleared.

BURKE
What kind of business did your father run?

RANDY takes a breath and prepares to bring out all his old memories. On the other side of the station, SIDNEY is pacing back and forth, looking out the window. Another officer, OFFICER DOWNS, is questioning her about TAD’S murder.

SIDNEY
The last time I saw him alive, he was nauseous, so I sent him upstairs to get some Pepto Bismal from the bathroom. A little while later, Randy and I went outside and his body fell onto his back porch.

DOWNS
Do you know who did it?

SIDNEY
You mean, like, their name?

DOWNS
Yeah.

SIDNEY
No. Some guy has been hanging around Randy’s house and tried to kill him this afternoon.

DOWNS
It was the same guy?

SIDNEY
I would assume so, yeah. Did you hear about anyone else?

DOWNS
No, but you never know, do you?

SIDNEY looks at DOWNS suspiciously, as if he knew something that she didn’t.
LUCY and GALE are looking at RANDY being questioned by BURKE. He looks more and more frustrated every minute and shows it by running both his hands through his hair, playing with his empty coffee cup and rubbing his eyes. LUCY fills her coffee cup and hears a phone ring over by BURKE, who answers it. She hears him from a distance.

BURKE
Burke…Oh, no. We’ll be right over.

He hangs up the phone, almost slamming it.

RANDY
What?

BURKE
There’s been a double murder. Two kids. Stay here.

RANDY stands up and BURKE grabs his jacket from his seat. RANDY worriedly looks across to LUCY, who has already started walking over to him.

LUCY
What’s going on?

RANDY
There’s been another murder.

LUCY
Oh, no.

SIDNEY walks over, with GALE, and takes RANDY‘S empty coffee cup to throw it away.

GALE
What are you saying? That it is happening again?

RANDY
I don’t know. I don’t even know who it was. Sheriff Burke just left and told us to stay here.

SIDNEY
Bullshit, I’m staying here. We should all go somewhere that we know he won’t find us.

GALE
Like where?

RANDY
Thinking for a moment, remembering every word the KILLER had said to him.
You know, when he was talking to me, he mentioned everyone except you.
He looks at LUCY.

LUCY
Reluctant.
Me?

RANDY
You.

LUCY makes a couple of noises like a victim being choked.

LUCY
Like, my house?

RANDY
He points at her with both hands.
Your house.

LUCY
Randy, my parents would be pissed if they found out there was a killer in the house…

RANDY
But that’s the point. The killer won’t come to your house.

LUCY
Heavily protesting.
How the hell do you know that? You don’t!

RANDY
Lu, when he was threatening me, he mentioned me, Sidney, Gale, and my dad. Nothing about you, even though you were in the same house and you’re a big-ass part of my life. Now, I’m sure that means he doesn’t know who you are.

LUCY
You could be right.

RANDY
See?

LUCY
Or it could be a trick.

RANDY
Oh.

LUCY
Come on, Ran, I’m disappointed in you. You should have picked that up by now.

RANDY
Folding his arms and clearing his throat.
I should have. But I haven’t been able to concentrate very well.

LUCY rubs his arm and they give each other a hug.

SIDNEY
What did Sheriff Burke ask you, Randy?

RANDY
Everything possible. He asked why I might have been attacked, what he said, how he found my address. Then I said he mentioned my dad, so he asked every question imaginable about him, then I got all frustrated…

SIDNEY
It’s okay to get frustrated.

There is a moment of silence between them. GALE breaks it.

GALE
So, where can we go? We have all day.

SIDNEY
If we’re lucky.

LUCY
Please, don’t talk like that.

SIDNEY
Sorry. You might as well get used to it, though, with me and Randy for friends.

RANDY
Yeah, really.

GALE
Speaking from experience.

LUCY looks at everyone around her. OFFICER DOWNS comes over and startles LUCY when he puts his hand on her shoulder.

DOWNS
You guys do realize that the only safe place for you is here?

ALL nod.

Okay, as long as you realize that.

RANDY
We still plan on leaving.

DOWNS
Really?

RANDY
I think Sid and I have spent enough time in police stations.

SIDNEY
Yeah. Let’s go. Where are my keys?

GALE
I have them.
She throws them to SIDNEY.

SIDNEY catches them and ALL leave the station after SIDNEY. DOWNS watches them walk out.

Outside, SIDNEY starts the car, GALE sitting shotgun and RANDY and LUCY in the back. The radio turns on and the first thing they hear is a news report about the double murder.

RADIO ANNOUNCER
Samuel Kensick and Donna Selden, both eighteen and graduates of Woodsboro High School, were stabbed to death in Kensick’s home last night. They were found by the boy’s parents early this morning. No leads have been found, but the attack of Randall Meeks, also a graduate of Woodsboro High, may be a connection to the murders. Meeks was one of the survivors from the original Woodsboro bloodbath a little more than one year ago and was attacked by a stranger in his home yesterday afternoon…

RANDY
Well, that feels weird.

LUCY
What does?

RANDY
Hearing your name on the radio like that.

SIDNEY
Oh, your name was all over the news after last year.

RANDY
Really?

SIDNEY
Oh, yeah! Yours and mine. We were all over the news.

RANDY
Leering at GALE.
I wonder who put us there.

GALE
You’d like to think it was me, but I didn’t have anything to do with it. I went into hiding after that.

RANDY
Yeah, I’ve always wanted to hide with Diane Sawyer and Dateline NBC.

GALE
I had to talk to somebody! My only friend was dead!

SIDNEY
Who, that cameraman?

GALE
Sighing for the painful memory.
Yes, Kenny.

LUCY
He was your only riend?

GALE
Well, Dewey and I were getting close, but…

LUCY
Dewey?

RANDY
I never told you about Dewey Riley?

LUCY
No, who’s that?

SIDNEY
He’s my best friend’s brother. He’s another survivor. He was stabbed in the back and he’s been in physical therapy ever since. He hasn’t even talked to anyone.

RANDY
Well, neither did you, for awhile.

SIDNEY
Neither did you!

RANDY
Laughing.
I was in the hospital for a month! There was no one to talk to! The only person who visited me was my mom and my sister.

SIDNEY
Defensive.
Hey, I came once! It wasn’t my fault you were asleep.

RANDY
Quiet for a moment.
There was the whole rest of the month, Sid.

SIDNEY
Also quiet for a moment, realizing how RANDY had felt earlier, during their conversation the day before.
I’m sorry, Randy. It was just, I don’t know…too difficult.

RANDY
What was too difficult? It was only me.

SIDNEY
That was it. It was you. You and me, the only ones left. How was I supposed to handle that?

RANDY
Doesn’t understand, and would rather drop the subject all together.
I dunno.

On the radio, the love theme from Titanic starts playing. RANDY holds LUCY‘S hand and smiles. He gives her a rather goofy, sappy, lovey look. She groans; she knows what’s coming.

LUCY
Oh, no. I know what this means.

GALE
What?

RANDY
Singing like Celine Dion.
“Every night in my dreams…”

LUCY
Shoves RANDY.
No, stop.

RANDY
Laughing, still singing.
“I see you…I feeeeeeeeeel you…”

GALE
What is he doing?

LUCY
He loves this song. It’s one of our songs.

RANDY
“That is how I know you…go onnnnnnnnnnn…”

GALE
Trying not to laugh.
Oh, my God.

LUCY
Please, Celine, you sound like someone is standing on your…
Stopping herself.
…foot.

RANDYHey, I resent that. I was in my fifth grade show choir and played the dentist in a community…

LUCY
Finishing with him.
…community theatre production of Little Shop of Horrors. What Randy doesn’t realize is that since puberty, he no longer has that cherubic melody in his voice.

RANDY
Ignoring her.
“You have come to show you…go onnnnnnnnnn…”

SIDNEY
How romantic.

LUCY
Not really. Here it comes!

RANDY
“Neeeeeeeeeeeear…faaaaarrrrrrrr…where-EEEEEE-ver you are…”

GALE
Laughing.
Holy shit!

SIDNEY
Also laughing, moving past her guilt.
Randy, I didn’t know you had it in you.

RANDY
“I be-leeeeeeeeeeeve that…the heart does…go onnnnnnnnnn…”

Cut to SHERIFF BURKE and other various COPS at the crime scene, some DETECTIVES are investigating the bodies with paramedic and others are consoling the parents.

BURKE
Well, we’ve got two former students of Woodsboro High dead, another former student is attacked, then stalked. It has to be a connection to last year’s killings.

DETECTIVE MARIN
But how can they be connected? Is anyone related to the other?

BURKE
Well, Randy is one of last year’s victims. I was talking to him this morning. He’s the one who’s been stalked. He says that the last two killers were exclusively after Sidney Prescott. This time, he says the killer was talking about his father, who was murdered about five years ago in Pennsylvania. He says he may be after him and the two are not connected.

MARIN
What if it’s just a copycat? If it was a highly publicized murder in Pennsylvania, the killer could have easily dug up some information and bluffed Randy into thinking he was involved.

BURKE
Well, I’ve never heard about the murder. Of course, I’m not from Pennsylvania.

MARIN
Maybe the killer isn’t, either. Any kind of sicko copycat could have easily gone into a library, looked up a murder, and followed up on it. He could have learned about the incident, memorized the key facts, and simply scared Randy with them. The fact that Randy knows Sidney is just a lucky coincidence, and he used that. Or maybe he knew the original killers and they told him to target Sidney’s friends.

BURKE
I highly doubt that. The original killers were a couple of high school kids.

MARIN
Then maybe it’s an angry relative.

BURKE
Come on. That’s ridiculous.

MARIN
Why do you say that?

BURKE
I know you’re new here, Detective Marin, but you have to realize that the killers in Woodsboro want to be original, and having a relative act out their revenge on people is not original.

MARIN
Almost laughing at BURKE’S theory.
What makes you say that?

BURKE
Because it’s right out of Friday the 13th. Come on, you should have known that

He walks away from the house and towards his car.

Listen, maybe you’re right. It is almost an exact carbon copy of what happened last year. First, two isolated murders, then the unsuccessful attack of another student. But if we don’t catch this guy, we have to expect one more isolated murder or a whole cluster of them.

MARIN
Well, shouldn’t we try to prevent that?

BURKE
It’s hard to. With a copycat, you never can tell, can you? But if Randy’s right, and that kid wouldn’t lie, then I suggest investigating that murder.

BURKE whips out his car keys and continues toward his car. He turns back to speak to MARIN.

So, what would you rather do? Wait until it’s too late or try another theory?

MARIN
Speechless.
I…don’t know.

BURKE
I’d decide quickly.

BURKE walks to his car as MARIN stands there in a stupor.

MARIN
Hey, Sheriff Burke?

BURKE turns around.

What was his name again?

BURKE
Meeks. Randy Meeks.

Cut to RANDY'S house. SIDNEY pulls up into his driveway. He and LUCY get out of the car and run into the house.

RANDY
Looking around his house
God, I didn’t realize it was such a mess. My mom’s gonna be pissed.

LUCY
Maybe you should call her. How long is she going to be out of town?

RANDY
Oh, I’ve got until next weekend to get this cleaned up. My mom is coming home to a perfectly undisturbed house.

LUCY picks up a picture off the ground, of RANDY'S family.

LUCY
Do you really think this might have something to do with your dad?

RANDY
Heading upstairs. He starts avoiding the touchy subject.
I’ll be…uh, right down.

LUCY
Did he say something to you?

RANDY
Shouting.
Come upstairs!

LUCY puts the picture down and walks upstairs. RANDY pops out of nowhere and startles LUCY.

Oh, sorry. Come on in. It’s a mess. Like always. Eww, look! There’s blood on the carpet!

LUCY
Randy, you’re avoiding the question.

RANDY
Of course I am.

He starts packing a bag and emptying his dresser and closet. He throws a leopard-print bra at LUCY.

I think that’s yours.

LUCY
She catches the bra.
Why?

RANDY
He is indeed avoiding the question.
Uh, because I don’t wear bras.

LUCY
Don’t fuck with me when I’m worried! Answer the question I asked you!

RANDY
He zips up the bag.
Yes, as a matter of fact, he did say something. And I’d rather not talk about it. It really emotionally killed me, and I’d rather not talk about it, okay?

LUCY
Did you at least tell the police?

RANDY
Of course I did. I told him everything.

LUCY
Holding his hand and looking into his eyes, concerned.
What did he say, Randy?

RANDY
Uneasy, for good reason.
He said that it could be a copycat.

LUCY
He didn’t believe you?

RANDY
No, he did. But he was just exploring the options, I guess. He said it’s very possible that it could be connected, but it’s also very possible that he could have looked the case up somewhere and faked me out.

LUCY
What do you think?

RANDY
Sits on his bed.
I don’t know what to believe. All I can think right now is someone wants to kill me. And it’s scaring the shit out of me. I just wish it would go away. I’m sick of seeing blood wherever I go.

LUCY
She kneels down to his level.
I know. I wish it would go away, too. It’s hard to see you scared everyday.

RANDY
He touches her face.
You, too.

LUCY
I miss us.

RANDY
So do I.

He brings her face closer to his and they kiss.

Why did this have to happen now?

LUCY
It seems like Woodsboro is just a big bad luck charm for you.

RANDY
I swear, after I go back to college, I am never coming back here. I don’t care if I’m on the other side of the world…

LUCY
Puts her finger to his lips.
Neither do I. As long as I’m with you.

RANDY smiles and kisses her again, this time longer.

Outside, SIDNEY has turned the car off waiting for RANDY and LUCY. She sighs.

SIDNEY
What the hell are they doing up there?

GALE
I don’t know, but I really wanna get outta here.

SIDNEY
I’ve never wanted to leave Randy’s house so badly.
Thinks for a second.
Oh, no. I have. Never mind.

GALE
No, tell me!

SIDNEY
Looks at GALE, who is acting like a gossipy cheerleader. She laughs.
No!

GALE
Oh, come on! Tell me!

SIDNEY
No, it’s nothing. We were doing math homework and he grossed me out with his stories.

GALE
Stories?

SIDNEY
Yeah. Randy used to come up with these disgusting horror stories about blood and guts and killers…
SIDNEY remembers those old times and how unaware they both were that the stories would come true. She leans on the car horn and yells.
Randy! Lucy! Get down here! We’re leaving now!

RANDY and LUCY run out of the house. RANDY stays behind to lock the front door, then comes back to the car and throws his bag in the back. SIDNEY looks at him when he gets in the back seat next to LUCY.

RANDY
What?

SIDNEY
What was the purpose of that?

RANDY
What was the purpose of what?

SIDNEY
Locking your door! There’s a big hole in the side of your house where a window should be. Locking your door won’t do any good if anyone wanted to break in.

RANDY looks back at his house. SIDNEY was right.

RANDY
He shrugs.
Maybe no one will notice.

SIDNEY starts the car and backs out of the driveway. They head toward LUCY‘S house next.

Cut to MARIN, in her home office. She is researching the murder, or at least trying to. She is sitting at her computer, on the Internet. Before she begins her search, she gazes into a picture on her desk of her husband, who had disappeared five years ago. She types into the search engine “MEEKS MURDER.” Results come up on the screen. She clicks on one entry, entitled “MURDER IN PITTSBURGH.” It is a newspaper article from 1992, December second. It reads:

“Hamilton Meeks, a respected attorney of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was killed last night in an arranged car crash. The motive behind the murder is not clear, but Meeks’ most recent case was not a victory, and his clients were, expectedly, upset with the verdict and with Meeks. The clients, Fran Toomey and Harold Dumonte, are being held in the Pittsburgh Police Department and are being questioned.
“Meeks was driving down Fifth Street during last night’s heavy rainstorm, on his way to the local arcade to pick up his teenage son. At approximately 9:30, after the blackout occurred, a red Jeep Cherokee drove directly into Meeks’ white BMW sedan, causing the car to flip completely on its side, trapping Meeks. Paramedics said he was ‘hanging on’ when they reached him, but was pronounced dead at 10:02 that night in the emergency room. The driver of the Jeep and its two other passengers left the scene before the police could apprehend them. A witness says they are three white males, ages unknown, wearing black coats with hoods.“Hamilton Meeks leaves behind a wife, Tara, two step children, Donna and Jack, and his fourteen year old son, Randy.”

MARIN
Bingo.

Cut to police station. SHERIFF BURKE and OFFICER DOWNS are looking over some old newspaper articles that an intern found for them.

BURKE
Unbelievable.

DOWNS
Donna. It’s the same name as one of those new victims. Coincidence?

BURKE
I don’t know. It seems like an easy pattern to follow. Too easy, don’t you think?

DOWNS
I guess.

BURKE
It doesn’t exactly help us. It doesn’t give us any clues as to who it could be. Detective Marin is convinced it’s nothing but a copycat, but I don’t think someone would go through all that trouble to be only a little bit like someone else. You know what I mean? Either she doesn’t want to believe Randy or me, or she’s just in denial. She has been since her husband left her. Never got over that one. Christ, five years ago. You’d think she’d be done with that funk.

DOWNS
I guess.

BURKE looks at DOWNS suspiciously. He wasn’t exactly saying very much.

BURKE
Are you just one of those strong, silent types? Or do you know something that I should?

DOWNS
I don’t know anything.

An easy target. BURKE walks away from DOWNS, laughing, when he hears his phone ring.

Oh, you know what I meant.

BURKE
Into phone.
Hello?

MARIN
On phone.
I found a lot of information about this Meeks murder.

BURKE
Hopefully more than we did.

MARIN
Why, what did you find?

BURKE
Just some names. Names of his family members, his clients, but no suspects. The two clients were cleared. What did you find?

MARIN
Well, Randy was his only biological child. His other two children were stepchildren. Now, the case that Meeks had been trying to settle, but lost, involved these two unmarried parents, Fran and Harold. They wanted to keep their children from being put into foster homes.

BURKE
And they lost?

MARIN
Yeah.

BURKE
Why?

MARIN
They thought because Meeks wasn’t taking them seriously just because they were recovering drug addicts.

BURKE
Well, is that why they lost?

MARIN
No, they lost because the kids testified against them.

BURKE
Silent for a moment.
So, they cleared the ctual parents.

MARIN
Yes.

BURKE
What about everyone in contact with the parents?

MARIN
I don’t think so. The parents wouldn’t talk to anyone. They actually went into hiding after the trial. Refused to pay Meeks.

BURKE
This sounds incredibly suspicious. Did you find anyone else?

MARIN
Yeah, they had identified two of the three passengers of the Jeep that killed him. Daryl Zimmerman and Robert Jilsen. They were never found.

BURKE
What about the third one?

MARIN
They have no information about him. Or her.

BURKE
Did you find pictures of the two named passengers?

MARIN
Yes, I’ll fax them over to you. Another name came up, Thomas Fader. He was the other attorney in the case. Apparently, he was throwing a celebratory party the night of the murder.

BURKE
Celebrating what? The victory?

MARIN
No, the case was a month before the murder. He was celebrating his purchase of a new sports car with his paycheck from the foster home that took the kids in.

BURKE
Did he say anything to the drivers?

MARIN
I don’t know. Unless those drivers are found, I never will.

BURKE
Why is that?

MARIN
Fader died two years ago. Heart attack.

BURKE
Well, you’re right. Unless those passengers are found, we’re screwed. And Randy is in danger, along with everyone he knows. That still doesn’t explain the murders of those two kids.

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