Daily Dialogue — September 16, 2012

ZAVITZ is on his computer, watching his conservation video. He overhears a news report and finds footage of something interesting.

ZAVITZ: Fuck a duck. Holy shit!

ZAVITZ picks up his phone and dials a number. The camera cuts between ZAVITZ and BLOOM.

BLOOM: News desk!
ZAVITZ: Lenny, you are not going to believe what I have in my possession.
BLOOM: Zavitz, long time.
ZAVITZ: Lenny, I’ve go the Phil Hammersly murder on video tape.
BLOOM: Phil Hammersly died of a heart attack.
ZAVITZ: Negative, Hammersly was professionaly wasted under the direction of some anal retentive with what looks like a serious viatmin D defiency.

HICKS is easily angered by it. FIEDLER listens in.

BLOOM: How did you get the tape?
ZAVITZ: My conservation study at the lake photographed the murder.
BLOOM: You’re kidding me!
ZAVITZ: The camera was aimed straight at the pier, right where Phil Hammersly was killed.

FIEDLER picks up a mobile and dials.

BLOOM: How fast can you get that tape over here?
ZAVITZ: I’m making a copy right now!

— Zavitz (Jason Lee), Bloom (Grant Heslov), Enemy of the State (1998), written by David Marconi

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is phone call revelations, suggested by Debbie Moon. Today’s suggestion by blknwite.

Trivia: Writing credits in the film’s early promotional material read “Written by David Marconi and Aaron Sorkin and Henry Bean & Tony Gilroy”.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A phone call with five participants… only two of whom know it.