The Missing

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In Chapter 18 of THE INVISIBLE GIRL, police officer Lane Diamond convinces police chief Winn Sackler to let her investigate the disappearance of Bettie Bee ...


INT. POLICE HEADQUARTERS - CHIEF’S OFFICE - DAY
A shitty, overstuffed room.
File cabinets.

Rows of cardboard boxes
stuffed with paperwork.

A desk covered in file folders.
Pictures of dead cops
and plaques line the walls.

Sitting behind his desk
is police chief
WINN SACKLER (60’s),
poster boy for the
Big And Tall Store.

Beer belly strains
against his belt.

Right now he’s staring
at Lane Diamond --

Standing before him,
hat literally in her hands.

LANE
But chief, the girl was
TARRED AND FEATHERED.

WINN
School-yard shenanigans. Hijinks.

LANE
I think it’s connected to
the missing girl, Bettie Bee.
She was cyber-bullied
and then ran away from home.

WINN
(picks a report up off his desk)
And according to her father,
she’s invisible.

LANE
I know it sounds incredible,
but there were a whole high school
cafeteria full of witnesses.
Maybe that’s why none of them
would come forward.

WINN
Do you realize how CRAZY
this sounds, Diamond?

LANE
Yes I do, sir.
But the father filed
a mission persons report,
and I’d like to follow up on it.
(off his stare)
Sir. Please.

WINN
Ah, what the fuck.
Keep you out of trouble --

LANE
Thank you, sir.
You won’t be sorry.

WINN
You’ve been on the job,
what -- a week now?

LANE
Yes, sir.

WINN
Don’t make me regret
hiring you, Diamond.

LANE
You won’t, sir.
(salutes)
Thank you, sir.

She turns on her heel
and walks out.
He watches her go.

WINN
The things I would do
to that ass --