(The Joker JABS)his gun in the Chechen's face. The Chechen's bodyguards
REACT. The Joker's men DRAW on them.

THE JOKER
And you know what they have in
common? They're cheap.

CHECHEN
You said you were a man of your word.
The Joker PLUCKS the cigar from the Chechen's lips.

THE JOKER
I am.
The Joker tosses the cigar at the pile.

THE JOKER
I'm only burning my half.



101.




The Chechen watches the money catch fire.

THE JOKER
All you care about is money. This
city deserves a better class of
criminal, and I'm going to give it to
them. This is my town now. Tell
your men they work for me.
The Joker crouches down to the Chechen's...

AMERICAN PSYCHO

by
Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner

Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis

Fourth Draft
November 1998


INT. PASTELS RESTAURANT- NIGHT

An insanely expensive restaurant on the Upper East Side.
The decor is a mixture of chi-chi and rustic, with swagged
silk curtains, handwritten menus and pale pink tablecloths
decorated with arrangements of moss, twigs and hideous
exotic flowers. The clientele is young, wealthy and
confident, dressed in the height of late-eighties style:
pouffy Lacroix dresses, slinky Alaïa, Armani power suits.

CLOSE-UP on a WAITER reading out the specials.

WAITER
With goat cheese...