The Offer

INT. PARKING GARAGE - NIGHT

DETECTIVE REYES (29) walks toward her car.
A figure steps from the shadows: CAPTAIN FORD (58), her mentor.

FORD
I need a minute.

REYES
Cap, it's midnight—

FORD
I know what time it is.
(beat)
The Vásquez case. The evidence
in lock-up. I need it to disappear.

Long silence. Reyes stares at him.

REYES
You're not saying this to me.

FORD
I am.

REYES
After everything you've— you told me
the badge means something.

FORD
It does. That's why I'm asking you.
Someone I can trust.

REYES
(quietly furious)
Someone you can control.

She starts to leave. He calls after her.

FORD
There are people above me, Carmen.
Very far above me. This isn't a choice.

She stops. Doesn't turn around.

REYES
Everyone says that right before
they make one.

END OF SCENE