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MILK
by Dustin Lance Black

FADE IN: 1 INT. HARVEY'S KITCHEN - RECORDED WILL - NIGHT 1978 Close on a finger pressing the "record" button of a circa 1970's tape recorder. HARVEY MILK This is Harvey Milk speaking on (V.O.) Friday November 18th. This is to be played only in the event of my death by assassination... REVEAL: HARVEY MILK, 48, sitting at his kitchen table in a cluttered San Francisco apartment. HARVEY MILK During one of the early campaigns, (CONT'D) I started opening my speeches with the same line and it sort of became my signature... 2 EXT. CITY HALL NIGHT In street clothes, trying to corral an angry mob on City Hall's steps, Harvey lifts a bullhorn. HARVEY Hello, I'm Harvey Milk, and I'm MILK here to recruit you. 3 INT. HARVEY'S KITCHEN - RECORDED WILL NIGHT Harvey at his kitchen table making his recording... HARVEY If I was speaking to a slightly MILK hostile or mostly straight audience, I'd try to break the tension with a joke... 4 INT. UNION HALL NIGHT Harvey is in a plain, ill fitting brown suit making a CAMPAIGN SPEECH to a crowd of stone faced UNION BOYS. HARVEY I know, I know, I'm not what you MILK were expecting, but I left my high heels at home. Harvey gets AUDIENCE. a LAUGH from the

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INT. HARVEY'S KITCHEN - RECORDED WILL NIGHT RETURN TO: Harvey speaking into his tape recorder. HARVEY I fully realize that a person who MILK stands for what I stand for - an activist, a gay activist - becomes the target or potential target for a person who is insecure, terrified, afraid or very disturbed themselves...

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INT. CITY HALL OFFICES - MONTAGE DAY POLICE OFFICERS AND PRESS RACE THROUGH THE HALLS of Hall, City their walkie-talkies squawking. Something terrible has happened. It's chaos. A STRETCHER IS WHEELED OUT OF AN OFFICE. On it, a FILLED BAG with a WHITE SHEET draped over BODY it. The press rush to get a shot. The police officers quickly load the body onto the elevator and disappear from sight.

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EXT. S.F. CITY HALL / FRONT STEPS DAY A shell shocked DIANNE FEINSTEIN, 45, wades into a throng of REPORTERS. Those surrounding her try to quiet the crowd. DIANNE FEINSTEIN As President of the Board of Supervisors, it's my duty to make this announcement. Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot... and killed. GASPS from the REPORTERS. Dianne struggles to be heard. DIANNE FEINSTEIN (CONT'D) Police are looking for a suspect... Supervisor Dan White.

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INT. ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL DAY The very picture of loveliness, MARY-ANN WHITE, 28, finds her husband DAN WHITE, 31, sitting in the pews praying. He’s a handsome, devout, all-American man in a three-piece suit. She sits by him. A weight hangs. He can't make eye contact. DAN Something has WHITE happened.

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She puts her arm around him, feels a gun at his side. She holds him, firmly gripping the revolver in his holster, to conceal, to keep him from using it, potentially on himself. 11 INT. HARVEY'S KITCHEN - RECORDED WILL NIGHT RETURN TO: Harvey speaking into his tape recorder... HARVEY Knowing that I MILK be assassinated could at any moment, I feel it's important that some people should understand my thoughts. I think that-- (pauses, not sure what to say) I wish I had time to explain everything I did. Almost everything that was done was done with an eye on the gay movement. CUT TO BLACK: CLEAN WHITE LETTERS ON A BLACK SCREEN READ INT. NEW YORK SUBWAY PLATFORM NIGHT TITLE: "New York City. 1970." “MILK"

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HARVEY, 40, is HEADING UP THE STAIRS from the platform. subway He is wearing a SUIT, but he's less than clean cut. His hair is brushing past his ears. HARVEY'S VERY INTERESTED POV: SCOTT SMITH, 22, a sexy haired hippie in tight jeans and boots, is HEADING DOWN THE curly THE STAIRS. Harvey tries to make eye contact. Hey. Harvey. HARVEY I'm MILK

Okay, Harvey...

SCOTT SMITH (so what?)

HARVEY Today's my birthday. MILK (Scott laughs) No, today is my birthday. actuall Well, tonight. y At midnight. SCOTT SMITH Really?

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HARVEY And, believe it MILK I don't or not, have any plans. People took me out after work... SCOTT SMITH (looking him over) Work? So, that would be... Let guess. Ma Bell or AT&T. me HARVEY The Great American Insurance MILK Company. I'm part of the big, evil, corporate establishment that, let me guess, you think is the cause of every evil thing in the world from Vietnam to diaper rash. SCOTT SMITH You left out bad breath. Falling for it, Harvey covers his mouth. Scott laughs. They both smile, realizing they share a wry sense of humor. A TRAIN IS COMING, Harvey has to work fast. HARVEY So... You're not going to let me MILK celebrate my birthday all by myself are you? SCOTT SMITH (gently teasing) Listen, Harvey, you're kind of cute for a suit... But I don't do guys over forty. HARVEY Well then, I'm in luck. MILK How's that? SCOTT SMITH

HARVEY Because I'm still thirty-nine... MILK (showing Scott his watch) And it's only eleven-fifteen. 14 INT. HARVEY'S NEW YORK APARTMENT NIGHT IN A TIGHT TWO-SHOT, Scott is pressed against a wall with Harvey pressed against his back having sex. Harvey is the aggressor, completely uninhibited.

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