PASTELS RESTAURANT- NIGHT An insanely expensive restaurant on the Upper East Side.
She turns her back and searches the cash register for change. BATEMAN (V.0.) I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine. Bateman does his morning stretching exercises in the living room wearing the ice pack. Bateman is luxuriating in the shower steam, scrubbing his body, admiring his muscles. O.) After I remove the icepack, I use a deep pore-cleanser lotion. BATEMAN I occasionally box with Ricky at the Harvard Club.
Bateman pulls out an expensive-looking wallet and hands her a . The room is impeccably neat, and oddly impersonal - as if it had sprung straight from the pages of a design magazine. Bateman walks into his bathroom, urinates while trying to see his reflection in a poster for Les Miserables above his toilet. Spencer wants to meet you for a drink at Fluties Pier 17.
A huge white living room with floor-to-ceiling windows looking out over Manhattan, decorated in expensive, minimalist high style: bleached oak floors, a huge white sofa, a large Baselitz painting (hung upside down) and much expensive electronic equipment. I live in the American Garden Buildings on West Eighty-First Street, on the eleventh floor Tom Cruise lives in the penthouse.
BATEMAN'S APARTMENT- MORNING Tableaux of Bateman's apartment in the early morning light.
He gives a last look at the mirror and likes what he sees.
BATEMAN (V.0.) My conscience, my pity, my hopes disappeared a long time ago, if they ever did exist. OFFICES OF PIERCE & PIERCE - DAY As Bateman walks down the corridor, he passes another MAN who looks just like him.
BATEMAN You spin a dreidel, Mc Dermott, not a menorah.
The bastard brought a Hanukkah bush into the office last December. Bateman, do you want me to fry you up some fucking potato pancakes?
Bateman stands in front of a massive marble sink applying a gel facial masque. O.) Then I apply an herb mint facial masque which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine.
BATEMAN You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and then play around with your blood. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser, then a honey-almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub.