The Holy Bible ?? Placed by the Gideons.

Barton opens it, randomly, to the Book of Daniel. The text
is set in ornately Gothic type.

And the king, Nebuchadnezzar, answered and said to the
Chaldeans, I recall not my dream; if ye will not make known
unto me my dream, and its interpretation, ye shall be cut in
pieces, and of your tents shall be made a dunghill."

BARTON
Staring at the passage. His mouth hangs open.

THE BIBLE

Barton riffles to the first page.
In bold type at the top:

"THE BOOK OF GENESIS"
Underneath, in the same ornately Gothic type:

"Chapter One 1. Fade in on a tenement building on Manhattan's
Lower East Side. Faint traffic noise is audible; 2. As is
the cry of fishmongers."

BARTON
Squinting at the page through bloodshot eyes.
His mouth hangs open.

ELEVATOR
A small oscillating fan whirs up in a corner of the elevator.
We pan down to Barton, who is riding down with Pete, the old
elevator operator. Barton's voice is hoarse with fatigue.

BARTON
...You read the Bible, Pete?
PETE
Holy Bible?
BARTON
Yeah.
PETE
I think so... Anyway, I've heard about it.
Barton nods.


1 Fade in on a tenement building on Manhattan??s Lower East Side. Faint traffic noise is audible ;

2 As is the cry of the fishmongers.

3. And God said, Let there be light : and there was light. :stoned: