"DONNIE BRASCO" (1997)

By ( Ir i' 5i/-vJI t09r) PAUL ATTANAilJ:O

The chipper CHOCK of a coffee cup on a saucer, the HUSIC of silverware, the ebb and flow of TR)\FFIC outside--restau.:::-ant ·sounds, as they would occu~ to an EXVESDROPPER.Over this:

Wir\'"T2R.--windows foggy", snow outside·. Late 1 78-- ''TELL VS SOM:ETHING GOOD"by Chaka Kh.a, arid Rufus plays on the jukebox. Chipped fonnica on the table:::-.ops, c.:::-ackeci leatherette 0!1 the banquettes.

Four men, neatly dressed in slacks ar1ci sport jackets, as they drink deznitasse at a table:

3£:NJ.~..}fIN "L;'::?'T:" ?.UGGI:::.~o, SO yea:z:-s old,. J1JNPY with nerves, hoarse from chain-smoking English Ovals. SWITC:-2D-ON, testy a,d :.-est.less.

NIC~ It's the better auto~obile. Head and shoulde!:"s

LE??"! Iain' t mad at him. I'~ mad at his stupidity.

Donnie sits with a Dailv News spread open before him. He wears JEANS. The Bartender refills his coffee cup and Donnie puts in a tablespoon of sugar, stirs it while he WATCHES...

DONNIE'S POV--IN THE MIRROR

Lefty, Sonny and the others at their table ...

As Lefty explicates the Cadillac Difference.*

SONNY* Mercedes got it all over both of* them.*

Lefty reacts as if he's smelled something bad.*

Nicky starts to laugh. Sonny and Boobie join in.*

Judy, a WAITRESS, approaches the table. Sweet as corn, early 20s, new to the job. Sonny takes her hand, KISSES it.

LEFTY WATCHES DONNIE

sipping coffee at the bar. Leans over to Nicky.

LEFTY* I'm saying if I had a thing, he* could lay it off?*

NICKY* C'mon Left. Whaddaya got to lay* · off?*

ANGLE ON--SONNY WITH JUDY*

as he punctuates his order with KISSES of her hand.

She giggles, kisses Sonny on the cheek.

They all look at each other.

LAUGHTER all around. Lefty steals another look at Donnie, as he sits placidly drinking his coffee.

4EXT. DAY. MARE CHIARO RESTAUR.''.NT4

Donnie emerges, his breath visible in the COLD.

ZZZZH! ZZZZH! ZZZZH! FREEZE FRAME and go to black-and-white.

Snapshots of Donnie.

5EXT. NIGHT. DONNIE'S BUILDING5

6INT. NIGHT. DONNIE'S APARTMENT6

PANNING around the LONELY room--no tchotchkes, no photos, no pet. "CHARLIE'S ANGELS"on a small TV, unwatched--BACKGROUND NOISE. WEIGHTS and a bench. Over this: h-UFFING A.'ID PUFFING as

in his underwear. He finishes. Goes to a GRID--amount of weight, number of repetitions--makes a note on it.

7EXT. NIGHT. PHONE BOOTH--MANHATTAN7

Donnie, his breath visible in the cold, talks on a PAY PHONE on a deserted city street ...

He stands alone on the street and listens on the phone.*

8INT. DAY. MARE CHIARO RESTAURANT8

Donnie sips coffee at the bar. Lefty approaches him.

Donnie looks up to the Bartender. The Bartender nods. Lefty reaches in his pocket, produces a SIX-CARAT DIAMOND RING.

Donnie looks it over. Slides it over to Lefty.

Lefty slides it back to him.

He returns the diamond to Lefty.

LEFT"! Are you for real? I 1 m asking if you want to middle a diamond here. All I want for my end's eight thous2""1d.

DONNI:C: It's a fake.

Donnie takes out an Ei."11/ELO?E,spills rive diamonds onthe* counter. Fits one dexterously in a ring-like holder,shows it* to Lefty.*

DONNIE* Here, look at this. Now that's a* beautiful thing.*

LEFTY* It's the same fucking thing. What* a.bout my diamond'* -- DONNI;::* Go ahead, try 2""1dsell it, you 1-1anna* be a dunsky.*

Lefty's ta~per starts to rev ... The Bartender hurriedly zaps club soda into a glass of white wine as Donnie carefully sweeps the• diamonds back in to the envelope.

Donnie makes a gesture of backing off, moves to exit.

Donnie shrugs, sits. The Bartender slides the spritzer over.

9INT. DAY. DONNIE'S COUPE DE VILLE9

Donnie drives. Lefty puffs on a.~ English Oval.

The SMOKE is THICK now. Donnie powers DOWNhis WINDOW.

Donnie powers the window back UP.

10INT. DAY. STRIP JOINT--MANHATTAN10

Lefty and Donnie sit over drinks. A PORTER vacuums. A BARTENDER cleans glasses. P~.NDAR, a steroidal bull, 30s, bleached hair, enters from the back, surprised to see Lefty.

What? ( off Donz1ie) Who's this?

The vacuum snaps off as the Porter FLEES into the back.

PAN'D.>3. What's a fugazy?

PAND."-"· Don't tell rne what I know.

DONNI:=:: You know what you did.

P}'.ND,:;__'l_ That's a Tiffanyfucking diamond. That's my wife'sfucking diamond ring.--

Lefty's eyes go dead ...

DONNE: It's a fugazy.

Pandar clenches m.s fist--thinks to take a swipe at Donnie. Then thinks better of it. Points his finger at him.

PAND.l\..ll. I don't know what your fucking game is, pal. {turns to Lefty) Bring that ring to a.~y kike on 47th Street--

Leftv oulls his collar close around his neck--a "tell" that things-are escalating ...

Lefty pulls his collar tighter, springy with homicidal longings ...

PANDA..tz Hey, vou don't want it, give it back* to me~ Okay? Fine.* {gestures to Donnie)* Have Harry fucking Winston here throw it in the fucking street.

LEFTY* Eight thousand dollars.*

Donnie insists with a gesture. Lefty goes to the bar.

Then Donnie SLAPS Pandar hard with a flat palm. He topples with his chair to the floor. Donnie sticks two fingers in his nose, lifts him like a bowling ball onto his chair. With his fingers still in Pandar's nose, Donnie brings his face close, looks in his eyes, and WHISPERS.

Pandar looks into Donnie's eyes and sees nothing--no reflection, no sparkle of humanity. He sees death there, impersonal and matter-of-fact. Pandar whimpers pathetically.

Lefty signals for another spritzer, then looks at Pandar. Itching to put a bullet .in him ...

Don.~ie takes a ten dollar bill off the table. Stuffs it in Pandar's mouth.

11EXT. DAY. LATER. DONNIE'S CADILLAC11*

Jury-rigged CHAINS run from the trailer hitch to hooks under the Porsche's front end.*

12INT. DAY. SAME TIME. CADILLAC12

Donnie drives through the Lower East Side WATERFRONT,peering through billows of Lefty's cigarette smoke.

Shouldn't've said that about the hits.•

DONNI:2 Chop up that Porsche, you can get twenty grand from it.

13INT./EXT. DAY. LATER. CADILLAC13

TOOLS out on the front seat. In discomfort, Lefty labors beneath the dashboard. Donnie leans in.

DONNI:2 The vise grip or the needle nose?

This's a brand new car. I never had problems with this car before.

Lefty and Donnie PULL OFF the dashboard. Looks inside. Feels around.

DONNIE* Hey, Left, what are you doing?*

LEFTY* I'm feeling around.*

Donnie flares as he realizes what Lefty is up to.

DONNIE* Hey, what do you think, I got a wire* in mv car? You wanna call me a* stoolpigeon, pal, say it to my face.*

OONNI2* Go ahead, call r:-,e a stoolpigeon.*

14EXT. NIGHT. LEFTY'S APARTHENT14

Lefty and Donnie admire Donnie's Cadillac, parked on the street outside Lefty's projects.

LEFT'! I got the Fleetwood Brougha".

OONNI2* .. With the velour?

LEFTY* T Fuggedaboudit. (beat) You married?

Lefty looks at Donnie. Then shakes his head.

Donnie watches as Lefty enters the project. Then climbs into his Cadillac. Drives off.

15EXT. NIGHT. CAR WASH15

Donnie EMPTIES an ashtray full of Lefty"s CIGARETTE BUTTS. Runs a VACUUMthrough the car. SPRAYS the inside with a can of AIR FRESHENER.*

Through the car wash in his Cadillac, tiles his chair back as the wet cloth slaps at the windows. Then he breathes deeply, runs a hand through his· hair, groans, and, in the privacy of the soap suds, exposes the tension he has hidden all day.

16INT. NIGHT. OFFICE16

TIM CURLEY, an OFFICE WORKERin shirtsleeves, answers the phone.

He CR.l\DLES the phone with his shoulder, TYPES.

As Curley types, we catch FRAGMENTS.. .

Then: ... BENJAMIN RUGGIERO, a.k.a. LEFTY, a.k.a. LEFTY GUNS, a.k.a. LEFTY TWO GUNS... (carriage return) ... a.k.a HALF COCK, a.k.a. HORSE COCK...

Then: ... Special Agent JOSEPH D. PISTONE ...

Then: .. . in an undercover capacity utilizing the name DON BRASCO...

CURL.:.f Okay. G'night.

Curley hangs up the phone. Slides the sheet into his OUT box.

A Fonn 302, with the heading,

FEDERAL BUREAUOF INVESTIGATION

17EXT. NIGHT. TURNPIKE--REST STOP17

With a sigh, Donnie hangs up a PAY PHONE. Moves to his yellow CADILLAC COUPE DE VILLE, parked alongside the pay phone.

18INT. NIGHT. PISTONE HOME--NEWJERSEY18

The lights are out as Donnie enters. Closes the door silently. Slips off his shoes. 'I'iptoes upstairs. !-loves along a dark corridor ...

INSIDE THE BEDROO!-!

M.~GGIE, 30, blonde and energetic, sleeps in a king-sized bed. Donnie, strinned down to his shorts now, slios into bed beside her. She turns as he touches her, half-awake-as he kisses her ears, her mouth ... He unbuttons her nightie and it falls away ... They begin to make love passionately ...

Donnie runs nis ringer along a line between her breasts and down her belly ... As his hand turns, we see on his ring finger

AN IRISH cr.A.!)DAGHRING

Hands holding a heart, with a crown on it, symbolizing love, friendship, and loyalty ...

Then his ha.~C continues do;,.;n her bellv and out of fra.~e, as she moa.,s ... She bites his ear a.,d he rolls on top of her ...

19INT. MORNING. PISTONE HOME--BEDROOM19

SUNLIGHT on }!aggie' s face as she rolls over and we see that Donnie is GOc\l-:S. ;;..s TER.1".Y,8, runs in wearing a BRA, chased by SHER.1".Y,11.

Haggie wakes t:p, disoriented, as the girls wrestle over the bra and KER.""-Y,7, nms in and JUMPS on top of her.

Where's Joe? Was that him last night? Or a dream?

Donnie waits outside in his Cadillac with the motor running.* Watches the street. Dnnns on the steering wheel.*

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JILLY, 50s, unlit cigar and bifocals, has his ~::,.ils filed by a* MANICURIST who babbles in VIETNJ>.MSSEto a COLLEAGUE.Lefty sits* beside him.*

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JILLY• Don the Jeweler? Good earner. Ain't* a leech. Keens to himself. He's a* jewel guy. -*

LEFTY• You know where's he from, Jilly?*

JILLY* Florida. He's a jewel guy.*

LEFTY* Where Florida? The Beach?*

JILLY* Not the Beach. I dunno--wherever the* fuck the Mets have spring training.* He's a jewel guy.

LEFTY* He's a stand-up guy?*

JILLY* (to Manicu:::-ist)* Hey, girlie, don't butcher rr.y* cuticles.* (to Lefty)* I said I knew him, Left. I didn't say I fucked him.*

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19C 2XT. SA.l-E TIME. HA.c'HCURE P.~"-LOR19C*

Lefty e.s"erges with Jilly, who leans on the car by the driver's• side--his shirt hikes up, exposing his gut. Donnie powers down* the window.

JILLY* Hey, my friend Lefty's aksing (sic)* about you. Don't embarrass me,* capeesh?

DONNIE• Okay, Jilly.*

JILLY* 'Cause otherwise me or ~im's gonna* whack you out.•

Jilly thumps the. top of the Cadillac briskly, returns inside.* Lefty climbs into the Cadillac. Donnie pulls out.*

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20EXT. DAY. LITTLE IT.'ILY20

Donnie and Lefty head up the block, hunched against the cold.

DONNIE* So is that what I call you-- "a* friend of ours"?*

Lefty stops.

Donnie reaches in his wallet.

Lefty EMPTIES Don.~ie's wallet. Folds it into a ROLL. Puts the hundred dollar bill on the outside. Then outs the roll in his own pocket. Don.~ie looks at his empty waliet.

Lefty hustles again up the block, Donnie tagging after him. Then Lefty stops again.

Lefty stops again.

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Lefty resumes walking.

21EXT. DAY. TOYLAND--LITTLE ITALY21

Boobie, Sonny, Nicky, and other WISEGUYS stand guard near a social club, stamping their feet for warmth.

Gotta show the flag.

Lefty arrives with Donnie.

ANGLE ON--SONNY, NICh'Y, BOOBIE

SKEPTICAL as they check Donnie out.

ANGLE ON--THE CLUB

As a car pulls up and two prosperous-looking SKIPPERS get out: DOMINICK "BIG TRIN" TRINCHERA, 50s, and PHILIP "PHILLY LUCKY" GIACCONE, 50s. They disappear into the club.

RED COWBOYBOOTS

moving up the block ... They belong to: ALPHONSE "SONNY RED" INDELIC.O\.TO,50s. With him, his son, A.c'ITHONYBRUNOINDELICATO, 20s, pale, balding, and coked-out. Lefty looks over, turns to Donnie, his lip curled with disdain.

Sonny Red conf~onts Lefty.

SONNY=ZED Who's this guy?

Bruno stares at Donnie. Donnie stares him down as Lefty watches.

SONNY::ZED You gonna make this month '·s vig? I hope so.

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Bruno snorts in disgust as he and his father move along. Then all eyes turn as a huge LINCOL~ pulls up to the club.

BODYGUARDSjump out of the Lincoln ...

TIME STA-1-IDSSTILL

CARMINE "LILO" G}\.L.>,NTE,59, fat and bald, huge CIGAR, emerges from the Lincoln.

CLOSE ON--LEFTY

As he watches the boss emerge from the car. A big moment for him. He exchanges a look with Donnie. Then he watches, awestruck, as. Galante disappears inside.

22INT. MORNING. K.~TZ'S DELI22

Donnie breakfasts a'llong the Hasidim with Curley, who reaches for* an ENVELOPEon the seat alongside him.*

As Curley re.'lloves from a, envelope

PHOTOS OF DONNIE

The FREEZE FRAMESwe saw earlier, taken from a surveillance camera. He hands them to Donnie.

Curley They want you to shave it--that's the word. (Donnie laughs) What's so funny?

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Curley laughs, too.

CURLEY* Who, Ruggiero?*

Donnie flips to another photo ...*

I.NSERT--SURVEILLA.NCE PHOTO*

Donnie walks with Lefty up the street to Toyland.*

23INT. DAY. LEFTY'S APARTM:S:NT23

A PLASTIC CHRISTMAS TREE

on a stand in the corner. Lefty sits in his BarcalotL~ger and watches television.

ON THE SCREEN

A nature program. A LEOP.O...."illmoves stealthily ...

TOMMYRUGGIERO, 20s, rangy in bell-bottom jeans, picks a pimple as he answers the doorbell. It's Donnie, CLEAl,-SP.AVENnow, holding an ENVELOPE.

Lefty's girlfriend, ANNETTE, a good-looking woman in her mid- JOs, enters in an apron from the kitchen.

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Donnie follows her inside. Tommy disappears into the kitchen.

BACK ON--LEFTY

Watching, RAPT, as he eats anchovies out of a can.

NARR!\TOR (V. 0.) ... Separated from the herd, the gazelle senses danger ...

Donnie enters with Annette. Lefty's eyes glued to the set ...

ON THE SCREEN

The leopard C:i."I.RGES... Teeth tear at the gazelle ... .'\nd soon the leopard and her family FEED on a bloody carcass.

NAR..'<.ATOR(V.O.) ... Hunt.er and hunted, oredator and prey--t.he endless cycle of nature, repeated once again ...

SATISFIED, Lefty snaps off the show with his REMOTE CONTROL.

LEFT"! Mina'--you see that.?

A..l\INET?E I'll be inside if you need

J\ri_,,riette exit_s. Donnie sits down, har1ds Lefty an ENvELO?E.

Lefty gets up. While Lefty rununages under the tree, an ANXIOUS Donnie sneaks a look at his WATCH.

Lefty retu=-ns with an ENVELOPE.

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They both open the envelopes. Each one contains the same thing: FIVE HUNDREDDOLLA..'sS.

They sit and look at the money a beat.

24Th"T. DAY. L~TER. LEFTY'S APT.-- KITCHEN24

Chopped BACONas it renders its· fat in a skillet ... Lefty HACKS at a chicken with a cleaver ...

ANNE'T.rr'=' Let me do that, Bennie.

DONNIE* Punch?*

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LEFTY• You know, sometimes you don't make• no sense, Donnie ...•

He hurls the chicken, splattering fat across the stove. Then sprays BRANDY... OBLIVIOUS, he turns from the stove, returns to his prep as the brandy EXPLODES... A."mette follows on cue behind him. Fans at the conflagration with a dishtowel ...

SUNSET filters through the windows ... Dor:ui.ie and Lefty sit over drinks as A.,nette washes dishes in the kitchen.

Tommy ducks his head in.

TO!1l1Y Hey, Pop, I'm going out a couple hours, okay?

Then he quickly ducks out before Lefty can say anything.

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26:NT. LATER. LEFTY'S BUILDING--E"'.LLWAY26

Lefty walks Donnie out into the hall.

Donnie takes out his CHRISTM.~SENVELOPE. Lefty empties it. Folds the bills, pockets them.

27EXT. DUSK. GEORGE W,\SHINGTONBRIDGE27

Donnie speeds across. A sign reads:

WELCOMETO NEW J=:RSEY

28INT. NIGHT. PISTONE HOME28

Don...'1.ie enters, carr-Jing S:-!O??ING B.~GS '.•.'ith gifts.

OONNIE: I'm home.

In the living room, a CE:RIS'TI"_~sTREE with opened gifts beneath. Only a small stack--his--remain tmopened.

NOBODYGREETS HIM

Donnie looks around, puzzled. Then hears sounds of somebody washing dishes inside ... He finds a SP-"ITAHAT. Puts it on.

IN THE KITCHEN

Maggie washes dishes at the sink. Donnie enters wearing the Santa hat and carrying his bags.

MAGGI::: Look what the reindeer dragged in.

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DONNIE: I was working, Maggie.

MAGGIE: Who works Christmas Day, Joe?

She returns to her dishes.

M.l\.GGI2 Is that your way of saying you're* sorry?*

DONNIE* You know I'm sorry.*

MAGGIE:* Don't tell me. Tell the..~.* (beat)* Just make sure you introduce* yourself. They might think you're* the Fuller Brush Han.*

DONNE: You k.,ow, Haggie, if you k..r:,ewwhat I was doing today--

M.l\.GGI2 You won't tell me, rem~rnber?

DONNIE: That's for your o·wn protection.

She resumes with the dishes. Donnie notices a jar of PEANUT* BUTTER out on the counter. Closes it. Puts it away ... Starts to RE..l\..."IBJI.NGEthe cupboards, boxes and jars ...

DONNIE: You been getting the checks?

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D0:t<":NIE Yeah? There's a lot of women who would disagree with you.

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MAGGIE* Is that what you've been co:i.ng with* all your women, Joe--conducting a* poll?*

DONNIE* I'm not even gonna dignify that.* (mutters)* Seven days a week I'm out there* catching the badguys and this is* what I gotta come home to.*

MAC-GIE* You said it was gonna be three* months. It's going on three years.*

DONNIE* (off cupboards)* How do you find anything in here?* You have cereal on three different* shelves ...*

Maggie goes back to her dishes ...*

MAGGIE* Forget it.*

She glares at him. He turns away. Then she turns away, too.

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As they both blow ...

M.ll.C-GIE What do you think, Joe--you think you ca.~ just drop out of the sky like God of the guineas and bark out orders--

MAGGIE* Crucify me for wanting to be alone* with you.*

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29INT. NIGHT. LATER. LNING ROON29

They stumble, kissing and biting and sucking and tearing at each other ...

CRASH!

Into the Christmas tree ... Donnie reaches to right it, still holding onto Maggie, but loses his balance ... They topple over the couch and onto the floor.

Piggyback on each other, they head

UP THE STAIRS

In fits and starts--propriety draws th~" upstairs against the gravitational pull of naked NEED. ~~,d they almost make it. But at the very top of the stairs, need takes over. They make love with the DESPERATION of two people clinging to the last flotsa" of a shipwreck ...

30INT. NIGHT. LATER. PISTONE HOME--3EDR002'!30

He holds her in his arms, naked beneath the sheets. She caresses him.

MAGGIE* .. . What happened to the moustache?

DONNIE* The B--they made me shave it.*

MAGGIE* That was the only thing I liked* about this job.*

DONNIE* You liked the moustache?*

MAGGIE* Yeah, I did.*

DONNIE _* So Sherry has a boyfriend, huh?*

MAGGIE* He's a nice kid. He's on the* wrestling team.*

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DONNIE* I bet he is.*

MAGGIE* Wait'll you hear how Kerry does the* catechism. You should hear her, in* that little voice. "Who made you?"* "God made me." "Where is God?" "God* is everywhere." And you have to see* how they swim, all three of the..~,* it's unbelievable. Terry's a fish--* her hair's turning green from the* chlorine, but can she QQ, I mean--* you know what I mean? The coach says* he never saw nothing like it at her*· age. There's a meet on Saturday, if* you're--*

DCNNIE* We'll see.*

They lie ir. bed a beat.*

31INT. MORNING. PISTONE ::O:·!E--KITCHEN31

Donnie sits with Sher:::y, Terry a..~d Kerry over breakfast. Nobody says a word.

TER.'l.Y You lose.

32INT./EXT. DAY. PISTONE HO~!E32

Maggie folds launcLry in her bedroom. Gla..~ces outside.

MAGGIE'S POV

A SrJ...DOWY Gt}Y has e..-nerged f::-om his parked ca::- and Dorn1ie .1s talking with him.

33INT. DAY. PISTONE HOME33

Maggie hustles the girls downstairs toward the basement REC ROOMas Donnie and the Shadowy Guy head upstairs.

IN THE BEDROOM

Donnie takes a PHONE out of a drawer and dials.

Maggie tiptoes upstairs ... The door is slightly ajar ... She eavesdrons, watches her husband on the phone ... Then she watches as he CLOSES THE DOOR...

ANGLEON--DONNIE

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As he talks on the phone.

34EXT. DAY. NEW JERSEY SUBURBANSTREETS34

Donnie drives through the woodsy morning quiet of the suburbs on Christmas vacation. Looks in the REAR-VIEWMIRROR. Gets suspicious. Turns. A car turns with him ... FOLLOWINGhim.

DONNIE TENSE

Why was Lefty so insistent? He turns again. Again, the car FOLLOWS. Donnie looks again in the rear-view mirror. Something FAMILill.R about that car ... Turns again. A scowl of RECOGNITION plays across Donnie's face. And he goes COLD... Approaching an intersection:

A YELLOWLIGHT

Donnie slows, then SPEEDS through the intersection as the yellow li'ght goes red. Checks his mirror--the other car STUCK at the light.

INSIDE THE OTHER CAR

It's Maggie. She SMACKSthe steering wheel in ANGER.

Donnie drives on toward the George Washington Bridge.

35INT. DAY. LEFTY'S FLEETWOOD--59THST. BRIDGE35*

On the front page of the New York l:Q§J;.:

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Carmine Galante, the BOSS, his cigar still clenched in his teeth, sprawled bloody, DEJ>.Din a Brooklyn restaurant. Under the headline: RUBOUT.

WIDER

Lefty folds it in DISGUST, lights a cigarette--even more JUMPY than usual. MANTOVA.J.~Iplays on Lefty's 8-TRACK PLAYER--the THEME from "A SUMMERPLACE". Donnie drives across the 59th St. Bridge.*

Donnie powers the window dm•m ...

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35CONTINlTED: ( 3)35 LEFTY (cont'd) out for all of them. I was the only• one. Two hundred fazools, week in,* week out. I got told to.shut my mouth about Sonny Black, I stood up* to the boss hm~elf, that* cocksucker-- {crossing himself) Rest in peace.

LEFT':!" You think I don't know how a hit* gets set up? What I know-- Twenty-* six times I was on the other end of that fucking phone!

Lefty lights another cigarette.

36EXT. DAY. THE MOTIONLOUNGE--GREENPOINT36

They drive up Withers Street. Donnie pulls up to a three-story building--the Motion Lounge.

Lefty takes a last drag of his cigarette, exits. Donnie drums

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37INT. DAY. T"IiE MOTION LOUNGE37

Nicky and Boobie play gin. .;. BAR along one wall. PINBALL MACHINE in the corner, POOL TABLE in the back.

Left_y comes in the front door.

Lefty sits down, NERVOUS. Something in their placid faces that tells him: this is how it haDDens.

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Dor1nie looks across the street. at the 11otion Lot.L."l.ge, thinking.* He reaches ·forward and opens the glove compart1"ent. . . takes out* a SWITCH BL.WE. . . slips it in his pocket. Exits the car,* crosses the street to the Notion Lm.u1ge.*

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Lefty gets up, lights a cigarette.*

AT THE DOOR

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It's not Sonny. It's Donnie.

Donnie sits. Lefty glares at him--ACCUSES him with his eyes. Wno told you to come in here?

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Boobie takes a long look at his cards.

Lefty watches the front door as Sonny enters.

Sonnv heads out the back door. Donnie and Lefty exchange a look, follow him. Boobie throws down his cards in disgust.

38EXT. DAY. MOTION LOUNGE38

They all emerge from the back door. Parked in the alley:

A BRA.J.'IDNEW ~IERCEDES

SONNY* Hey, Left, ride up front with me.*

Neil Diamond's "LOVE ON T:iE ROCKS"plays on the stereo of the Mercedes as Sonny drives on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Lefty in the front seat, Boobie, Nicky and Donnie in back.

Sonny and 3oobie MIME holding two big BREA.STS.

Lefty, NERVOUS, pulls down the sun visor. Looks at Boobie in the mir:::-or. Boobie waves t.o him. Sonny catches this.

Everyone laughs.

Leftv looks nervously at Boobie again . . Do:mie WATCHES this- ... Thinks: what to do?

40EXT. DAY. KENNEDYAIRPORT40

They walk from the parked Mercedes toward a FREIGHT 7~".NGAR. The scene is otherwise DESERTED. Leftv NERVOUS, lights a cigarette. Planes periodically ROAR overhead.

Lefty heads toward the hangar, followed by Sonny. Donnie moves to follow. Boobie stops him.

Donnie stops. Watches as Boobie and Nicky follow Sonny and Lefty, disappear around the corner of the h~~gar ...

ANGLEON--LEFTY

As he approaches the hangar, surrounded by the others ...

41INT. DAY. AIRPORT l-tl\.NGA.'R.41

Leftv ooens the door, walks into the DA.'R.:OlESS... A terrifying SILENCE·... Then:

A LION ROA.RS

Sonny switches on the lights. A pale and shaken Lefty looks at a LION CUB as it GROWLS.

NICKY __ Look, Left, he likes you.

Th~ lion RQA.qs again.

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41CONTINUED:41

NICh'Y Lefty thought he's gor-~a get whacked!

Gales of LAUGHTERfrom the guys.

42:::XT. DAY. AIRPORT HANGAR42

Donnie waits, powerless, by the Mercedes. Then looks up and sees Sonny, Nicky and Boobie as they ~~erge around the corner. Followed by Lefty, leading the Lion on a leash.

43INT. NIGHT. LEFTY'S FLEETWOOD43

Donnie drives. Lefty, FUMING, smokes a cigarette. The Lion growls, ROARS. Then ROARS again.

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44EXT. NIGHT. BURGERKORNER44*

Donnie and Lefty pull up. They leave the lion in the car and enter the diner.

45INT. NIGHT. BURGERKORNER45*

A SIGN: 'Home of the Square Hamburger'. Donnie and Lefty order at the counter.

46EXT. NIGHT. BURGERKORNER46*

Donnie and Lefty lean against the parked Cadillac with SACKS of hamburgers. They open up each hamburger, take the meat out and toss it to the Lion.

They toss the burgers without saying anything.

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DOJ:,i"NIE I'm saying they don't appreciate you.

They toss the burgers to the Lion.

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46CONTINUED: ( 2 )46 LEFTY (cont'd) (beat) I just don't move up.

They toss burgers to the Lion, the snow and the building lit white against the murk of Queens.

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47INT. DAY. FBI HEADQUARTERS47

AN ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

as Curley moves a MUG SHOT of Lefty under the name, BENJAMIN "LEFTY" RUGGIERO, into its place underneath Sonny Black.

CLOSE ON--THE MUG SHOT

As a PUSH PIN moves toward it ... The bony POP! of the puncture as the pin sticks Lefty to the wall ...

WIDER

One branch runs from Sonny Black down to Lefty, Boobie, Nicky and others ... Another branch runs down from SONNY RED to Bruno and others ... MUG SHOTS of Philly Lucky and Big Trin atop their crews ... A Bonanno FA.~ILY TREE.

MONTAGE

48EXT. NIGHT. TRUCK DEPOT AND BRIDGE48

Five armed men in SKI MASKS hijack a truck underneath the Manhattan Bridge, to Sister Sledge's "WE ARE FAMILY" ... The largest among them (Sonny) brutally PISTOL WHIPS the truck driver ... They whip off their masks--it's Sonny, Lefty, Boobie, Nicky ... And Donnie ...

49INT. DAY. KATZ'S DELI49

Donnie at Katz's Deli ... Curley hands him a TAPE RECORDER and he* sticks it in his boot.

50INT. NIGHT. MOTION LOUNGE50

On a SATURDAY NIGHT, the guys "hair dance" with their. girlfriends while SISTER SLEDGE--the actual Sister Sledge-- performs in the Motion Lounge ... Donnie ARM-WRESTLES with Sonny in front of a cheering crowd of guys and girls at the Motion Lounge ... They struggle, eyeball to eyeball ... Then Donnie puts him down .. .

51INT. NIGHT. DONNIE' S APARTMENT51

Donnie back at his monastic apartment, lifts weights and notes his progress on a chart ...

52INT./EXT. DAY. GARMENT CENTER LOADING DOCK AND STREET52*

A GARMENT-CENTER M.1\NAGER, sits with his mouth sealed with gaffer's tape, tied to a chair ... Our guys load RACKS OF CT,OTHING into vans ... Nicky tries on a SPORT JACKET in the mirror and Sonny cuffs him in the head.

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53INT. DAY. KATZ'S DELI53

Donnie meets with Curley at Katz's Deli. Takes the tape recorder* out of his boot, pulls out an AUDIO CASSETTE, hands it to Curley ...

54EXT. DUSK. 59TH STREET BRIDGE54*

The CADILLACS convoy behind Sonny's Mercedes over the 59th Street Bridge at night ...

55INT. NIGHT. MANHATTANDISCO55

Sonny and his entourage sit at RINGSIDE TABLES at a Manhatta.., DISCO ... Suddenly the MAITRE D' enters and, with copious insincerity, apologizes for moving them to another table. Sonny Black turns and sees SONNY RED with Philly Lucky, Big Trin, Bruno and a large group, toting bottles of Dom Perignon as they occupy the ringside tables ... Sonny Red and Sonny Black exchange a look.

56INT. DAY. KATZ'S DELI56

Donnie is perplexed to find Curley sitting with DEAN BLANDFORD, 40s, a Mormon with a fatherly manner.*

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56CONTINUED:56

BLANDFO?J) So could he. (beat) You're not the only one risking your life out there, Bud.

Donnie thinks a beat.

A LION IN WINTER. Boobie in his overcoat, the Lion on its leash, , . their breath visible in the cold. The Lion stops, sniffs at an AUTOMOBILE. Lifts a leg ...

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57CONTINUED:57

PEES ON THE TIRE

Boobie, embarrassed, looks around. NEIGHBORSwatch from windows- -some amused, some disapproving. The Lion moves on to the next car. Sniffs. Pees on the tire. And then on to the next ...

SONNY'S MERCEDES

The Lion sniffs. Boobie tugs on the leash. The Lion resists, sniffs some more. Boobie tugs harder. The Lion lifts its leg ... Boobie YANKS on the leash--the Lion ROARS. Boobie DRAGS the Lion. into the Motion Lounge ...

58INT. DAY. MOTION LOUNGE58

A METALLIC B.ll.NG

as Lefty WHACKSat a stolen P.?\.RKING~JETERwith a hammer. Sonny sits with Donnie, NickY, and the twenty other WISEGUYSin the crew--all poring over little spiral NOTEBOOKS.Like a BOA.."'ID MEETING of the Sonny Black Corporation, punctuated by ROARS from the Lion, downstairs in the base.~ent.

WISEGUY#1 ... I got a guy's gonna middle that load of the Sergio Valentes.

WISEGUY #2 Whaddawe go with that? I think I got a guy I can off that to.

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58CONTINUED:58

WISEGUY if2 reports, post-lacyngectomy, with a BUZZER held to his throat.

WISEGUYif2 A dime on the vig.

He hands Sonny a wad of one hundred hundred dollar bills in a rubber band. Sonny shoves it in his pocket.

WISEGUY#2 A hundred.

Sonny jots it down. Lefty WHACKSat the meter.

Nicky gets up, smokes a cigarette.

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58CONTINUED: ( 2 )58

DONNI:::: A guy I Y...nowdown in Florida, he says it' s wide open down there.

Lefty BANGS at the meter ... Gives Donnie a look that says: ShuT UP.

Something has clicked with Sonny ...

Lefty B.ll.NGSthe parking meter again.

NIC:KY Lotta parking meters down in Florida.

LAUGHTERall around. Till Sonny EXPLODES. In a R.~GE, he overturns the card table. -

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58CONTINUED: ( 3 )58

Sonny STORMS out. The guys sit, look at each other. Some dazed. Some CALCUL.'l.TING.Nickv, humiliated, lights another cigarette. Boobie turns to the others:

BOOBE: We better start earning or somebody's gonna get clipped.

Then Sonny RETURNS. ?ale a.~d shaken.

NIC:-"Y What happened?

59EXT. DAY. MOTION LOUNGE59

The guys file out. STA."-Eat the EMPTY SPACE where the Mercedes used to be.

60INT. NIGHT. DONNIE'S CADILL~C60

Don.~ie drives. Lefty smokes.

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LEFT:! You vouch for this guy?

DONNIE

He wasn t?

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60CONTINUED: ( 2 )60

LEFTY

picked.

(MORE)

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60CONTINUED: ( 3 )60 LEFTY (cont'd) (res1.uning) I die wit'cha, you u.~derstand? You walk on a chalk line from now on.

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61INT. NIGHT. JAPANESE RESTAUR..l\...~T61

A Japa.~ese M.~ITRE D' greets them at the door.

He ushers the.~ inside. Donnie lets the others go before him. Something on his mind ...

LEFTY* I never ate this. What kind of food* is this?*

The Maitre d' stops them, smiles.

MAIT?.E D' Please to remove your shoes.

DONNIE'S COWBOYBOOT

with the Nagra in it. The Maitre d' waiting for Donnie's shoes, GESTURES... Donnie thinking fast ...

Nicky sits down. Takes off his shoes.

DONNIE* I ain't gonna.*

SON1TY ,* What the fuck, Donnie, you gonna• fight the war all over agai¼?* C'mon, take off your fucking shoes.*

DONNIE* I ain' t gonna.*

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LEFTY* Donnie--*

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61CONTINUED: (2 )61

This affects everyone as if they'd just heard taps.*

MAIT:IB D' I'mafraid is necessary. (off Sonnv's look) I'mafraid is necessary.

SONNYBLOWS*

Up like a tackle exploding off the line. GRABS the Maitre d' and RAMS him t:hrough the doors of the MEN'S ROOM...

62INT. NIGHT. JAP1'.l'J'ES:2RESTJ..UR.Ai."TI'--ME.."l'S ROOH62

Sonny B.::..NGSon the He.it::=e d', Donnie right behind him. They* overwheL'll the Maitre d'as the others SWARHinside.

FISTS A.:'lDKICKS

crunch down on the Maitre d'. Donnie in with them--EXCITED by the fray, the adrenaline RUSH. The Maitre d' SCREAMS.·Lefty moves to the door, leans against it. Nicky takes

A ROLL OF QUARTERS

out of his jacket. PUNCHEShard across the Maitre d's brow. Blood TORR.EN'TSfrom the gash, pours down into the Maitre d's eyes . But he won' t go down. Swinging wildly ...

BOOBIE SLIPS ON THE BLOOD

And falls into the puddle ... Sees the STAINS on his slacks. In a RAGE now ...

Boobie grabs a GARBAGECAN, swings it at the Maitre d'. Again and again. Till the Haitre d' COLLAPS"SS. The guys KICK at him ... Until, WINDED, they pull away.

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62CONTINUED:62

Donnie looks at the Maitre d', snlaved UNCONSCIOUSin the nuddle of blood, groaning ... Winded by the exertion ... APPALLED by his part in the bloodshed.

63INT. NIGHT. RESTAURANT--CHINATO\•lN63

A Cantonese dive: "SAD EYES" plays on the JUKEBOX.*

CLOSE ON--DONNIE

As he gnaws a spare rib and the guys bullshit over their Chinese food ...

SONNY* ... Broad daylight. I still ca..~'t get* over it. You have to ask yourself,* what kind of people? A man's private* property, they take it right off the* , street.*

BOOBIE* (to Nicky)* How many times I gotta tell·you,* Nicky, you never hit a guy in the* head. The head bleeds like a* motherfucker.*

NICKY* I'm sorry.*

BOOBIE* "I 'rn sorry." Goddarnn Brioni suit.*

MOVINGTIGHTER

On Donnie ... A consuinmate performance that belies the ~~otions roiling inside him ...

SONNY* I don't know what the world's corning* to. I honestly don't.*

LEFTY* Fuggedaboudit, Sonny. The whole* society's going down the tubes.*

-- NICKY * Boobie, why don't you try club soda?* Sometimes that gets the stain out.*

SONNY* We never had none of these problems* with Nixon.*

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LEFTY * Nixon, fuggedacoudit, Nixon. That's * a different story. We had respect * all over the world. A..r:tdthere was * law and order in the streets. *

SONNY * It's too bad he wasn't Sicilia.ct, * Nixon. He would've ~~de a great Don. *

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64INT. NIGHT. DONNIE'S APAII.Tl-SNT64

Donnie, exhausted, sits on nis monastic cot. Pulls off one COWBOYBOOT. Then pulls off the other. Reaches inside for

A NAGRATAPE RECORDER

About twice the size of a deck of cards. Pulls out the CASSETTE, rewinds it in a TAPE DECK. Then presses "PT.AY".

CLOSE ON--DONNIE

As he reolavs the violence, the SCREAMSof the Maitre d', the CURSES of the guys, the loud THUD of his own boot ... He reflects on the explosion of violence ...

He stops the tape, pulls it out. Rips the tape out of the cassette. Burns it in a pan on his stove ...

MONTAGE

"Y .M. C .A. "by the Village People plays over:

65EXT. DAY. MIA.~65

A sign: WELCOMETO FLORIDA.

66INT. DAY. MIA.1.~IAIRPORT66

The guys arrive at the Mia,-:ii airport--Son.'ly and Judy, Nicky and Boobie '1i th GI?LFRim'DS, and Donnie and Lefty. NOT A..rmette.

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67EXT. DAY. MIAMI TENNIS COURT67

Dressed in gym shorts, black socks and stre1:!t shoes, thG guy• HACKenthusiastically. on the TENNIS COURT.

68EXT. DAY. MIAMI SWIMMINGPOOL68

Slathered with oil, holding JU;FLECTORS,the guys BAKE in the au.n by the POOL. Boobie has two DOVEStattooed on hie chest. On lounge• nearby, the girl• suntan together.

69EXT. DAY. MIAMI WATERPAR:K69

WATERSLIDES. The guys COJ!led01m--on their bellies, on their b.cks, lllclking "trains· locking hands and ankles--landing with a SPLASH in a big pool,

70EXT. DAY. M!AHI 'l'HEMEPAAK70

A cuddly FUN FIGURE gives Lefty a hug at a THEMEPARK. Nicky snaps a picture •••

71EXT. DAY. MIAMI BEACH71*

The gurs bury Lefty in the sand while he sleeps under an* umbrel a, an empty wine glass at his side ••...

EXT, DAY. MIAMI DOG'.t'RACK72

--The DOG TRACI<. Our guys cheer on the GREYHOUNDS.Down to the wire. The pack RUNS OVER US and we

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73EXT, DAY. PISTONE HOME--NtWJERSEY73

A thick blanket of SNOWon the ground. Maggie shovels the STATION WAGONfrom out of a snowbank. She SNEEZES. The sound of the phone as it RINGS inside. She plants the shovel in a snowk>ank with a THUNK!Goes inside. The slam o! the door starts an AVALANCHEfrom the roof •.•

74EXT. OAY. THE TAHITIANMOTEL74

ln an al.cove near poolside. Donnie talks on a PAY PHONE,

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74CONTINUED,7,(

DONNI!!: What do you think I'm doinq? I'm working.

GlRLS IN BIKINIS

Crisscross in the foreground, revealing sonny with the New York papers, Boobie, and Nicky on chaises by the pool. Lefty sita with a spritzer in his Mca.bana set•, ,. SONNY Lookit this-- John Wayne died. How

could John Wayne die?•

LEF"l'Y• The fucking Indians got him...

Lefty gets up, e.><;its. Judy brings Sonny a drink.

75INT. DAY. PISTONE HOKE75

Maggie in the kitchen, ·cradles the phone in her shoulder, amidst the chaos of getting the girls ready for school.

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76EXT, DAY. TAHITIAN MOTEL76

Donnie on the pay phone.

Sounds of Sherry and Terry fighting •••

MAGG!E (O.C.) I gotta go.

Donnie moves to hang up. Remembers. Lifts the phone •••

••• Into a DIAL TONE. He hangs up as Lefty approaches.

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While Donnie dials, Lefty looks furtively at Sonny.

ANGLEON--SONN'i

Reading the paper as Boobie gets up, stretches ••.

in the history ofthis country.

ZZZZHI ZZZZHI

FREEZE FRAMESin black and white, to the sounds of an autowinder.

•.• Then Boobie DIVES in the pool .•. As the water splashes up from his dive •••

ZZZZH I and FREEZE FRAME.

ANGLE ON--SONNY

A.she watches Lefty and Donnie exit down the breezeway.

77EXT. PAY. KING'S COURT77

A NIGHTCLUl!on the highway, with palm trees in front and six tennis courts in back. Donnie's rented Cadillac parked out front. Supered below:

uKING'S COURT.n MIAMI, FLORIDA. 1980.

CLOSER

Donnie waits with Lefty in the hot sun. Lefty smokes, kicks irritably at the stones on the parking lot. Looks at his watch,

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Donnie looks at hiB watch. Then a purple TRANSAM with a flaming eagle on the hood pulls up. RICRIE GAZZO, 40t, & vibrantly suntanned undercover FBI agent, emergea. His open Hawaiian ehirt reveals a brace of gold chains.

Gazzo offers his hand, but Lefty just stares at him. Fumbles in his pockets for his keys as he blusters toward the door •••

GAZZO• Oops ••• I'm late, I'm late, I'm• late ...~ (turns) I guess you guys got a chance to work on your suntans out here, hah?

They are not amused.

78INT. DAY. KING'S COUF.T78

A col:Tdebbed space with the power turned off. Gazzo opens the drapes and motes of dust dance in the sunlight that pokes through the windows. Gazzo finds a FLASffLIGflT behind the bar.

LEFT¥ Get him out of here, Donnie.

'l

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They exchange a look. Gazzo shrugs. Exits.

ANGLE ON--LEFTY

As he takes Donnie aside.

DONNI!: All I'm doing is making the • introduction. You make the decision.

Lefty thinks a beat. Loolcs at Gazzo through the windows as he smokes a cigarette outside. Then runs his hands over the leatherette as he wanders, musee, ••

U:FTY It'd be s0tnething, you know--if we had my own lounge d°""11here--~e and you?

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78CONTINUED I ( 2 )78

OONN!E But I thou9ht he said he wanted to get some deals going.

Bah?• (musing} Thirty years busting my hUl!>p--even a dog has a warm piece of the sidewalk, r oughtta have something to sh= for myself, don't you think, Donniei This ain't Ne,,, York down here, you know, with all the politics. The beefs. The grudges. DOW'l'lhere a guy like rne could sit down with the boas. Get out from under--be a free agent !or a change. (beat) I'm talling you, Donnie--nothing but nothing but right.

79EXT. NIGHT. MOTEL--P~ING LOT79

The parking lot of a motel. A rented CADILLACpulls in. A man gets out.

IT'S DONNIE

He looks around. Disappears furtively into the motel,

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79CONTINUED:79

A MINUTE passes. The bay laps against the shore. Chirping birds* a.,d palm-rustle, the noise of cars sweeping down the highway. Then another rented CADILLAC pulls up

IT-' S NICKY

He looks around. Disappears inside.

80INT. NIGHT. MOTEL--SAFE HOUSE80

HEADQUARTERS.for the Florida operation--a setup both elaborate and government-shabby. Donnie sits on a stool, like a prizefighter, as FBI #1 removes his WIRE... Blandford, Curley,* Gazzo, and other FBI AGENTS and US ATTORNEYS... TECHNICIANS* listen to WIRETAPS with HEADPHONES...

BLANDFORD* We can't spend that kind of money.* wnat kind of a boat?

CURLEY* A seventy foot boat?

TECHNICIAN #1 It's up to eighty. (explaining) We just picked up Lefty on a wiretap talking to one of Trafficante's guys.

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80CONTINUED:80

US ATTORNEY#1 approaches Donnie with a legal document •••

US ATTORNtY#1 we just have a few things ve'd like to r;o over. To mak• th• lo.aneharki.ng indl.ctiuent--

TECHNICIAN#l• (with headphones)• • • •Eighty-five .••*

FBI #1 You want sozne coffee, Joe?

TECHNICIANlfll (with headphones) ... Ninety •••

The phone RINGS, Curley picks up, covers the receiver.*

ClJRLEY Does Sally Paintglass reportto Nicky or Nicky Cigars?

Donnie rubs his head with his hands.

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80CONTINUED: (2)80

DONNIE* Nicky Glasses.*

CURLEY* Nicky Glasses?* (to phone)* Nicky Glasses.*

FBI #1 (with coffee) You're doing great, champ.

US ATTORNEY #2 As I was saying, we're trying to* fold Sonny into the RICO but--

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80CONTINUED: ( 3 )80

Technician #1 listens to a tape, his brow furrowed.

TECHNICIAN #2 Joe, uh ... I think there's a malfunction on the tape recorder.*

Donnie walks over to Technician #2.

TECHNICIAN #2 I'm not getting anything.

Donnie takes the tape recorder. Then' he ~~tJRLS it into the wall.* BANG! It springs open, broken. Then he storms into the bathroom,* SLll-~S the door. Curley takes Blandford aside.

81INT. NIGHT. MOTEL ROOM81

A plastic bag full of white powder--a kilo of COCAI~'E. Thrown on the bed. Next to it: a brown paper bag, OP~'ED--stacks of ffilli""DREDS,tied with rubber bands. HANDS riffle the bills ...

WIDER

Nicky stands in the room with two COLOMBL~.NS.Takes the cocaine, sticks it in a CA.R.RY-ONBAG.

He exits. The Colombians shrug, pack up the money.

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The bay laps against the shore. Chirping bugs and palm-nistle. A car pull• into the parking lot, Nicky strolls with the carry-on bag, tosses it in th• trunk of his car,,.

He starts the car, drives toward the exit ••. A Cadillac coming the opposite way. Nicky looks.

I'I" S DONNIE

Donnie looks.

IT'S NICKY

As Donnie drives, he thinks: did he see me?

And as Nicky drives, he thinks: did he see me?

Fuck.

SJOMIT83

84EXT, DAY. TAHITIAN84

sonny, Lefty, Donnie, Nicky and Boobie sit out by the pool with drinks, Donnie immersed in his newspaper.

SONNY

••• If you took my blood pressure right now, it'd be down one hundred percent.

L!'.l'Tlt' Rusty's locked up in the can with his fucking sinuses and he finds out you're down in Florida?

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C!..OSEON--OONNIE

As he registers thia .•• Placidly turns the page •.•

Sonny looks at Letty. Folds up his newspaper.

Sonny and Donnie walk off in their flip-flops.

LEY'l'Y What are we supJiX:Sed to call him n""'--Sonny Flor~da?

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NICl';Y Watch out, you're gonna put him on thQ warpath.

L!:M'Y That 1hirt is like the shirt the barber gives you to put~ your lhirt.

ANGLEON--SONNY

AJ5 he enters the alcove with Donnie and hears the three of th~ LAUGH.

85INT./EXT. DAY. TAHIT!AN--HAI.,LWAY85

Sonny and Donnie walk on the AStrotur:f toward the vending machine in the hall , • .. ·

DONNlE I'm saying, when yesterday?

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They look at each other.~ SENIOR CITIZEN emerges ,. from a ne=by room in a pink terrycloth robe, squoo~ee by them.

Sonny watches as ahe disappears a.round the corner. Then turns again to Donnie.

l>ONNIE l don't understand, Sonny--you wanna know about every half-assed sc.m that don't =nt to nothing?

Sonny EXPLODES, thumps his finger into Donnie's chest.

Sonny and Donnie look at each other. Then abruptly, Sonny turns and exits. Donnie watches as Sonny heads down the hall alone.

86 OMIT 86

87 OMIT 87

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88 OMIT88*

Lefty and Donnie walk up the aisles of GREETING CARDS.*

LEFTY* ... Santo Trafficante, he's been* around since the Moustache Petes.* You gotta respect the man.* (beat)* You get that boat yet, Donnie?*

DONNIE* I'm working on it.*

LEFTY* You get that boat! I reached out* already--his man said to me, "Lefty,* he loves boats"! I told him a* hundred foot boat! I'm on the* fucking clothesline now!*

DONNIE* I told you, I'm working on it.*

LEFTY* Don't you disappoint me again,* Donnie.*

DONNIE* Since when did I disappoint you?*

Leftv scowls, then smiles as he finds what he's looking for.* Pulls a GREETING CARD out of the rack ...*

INSERT--THE CARD*

"FROM ONE FRIEND TO ANOTHER", with a saccharine picture of* sailboats at sunset.*

LEFTY* You see that? That's like what we* call each other.*

DONNIE* Sure. "A friend of mine, a friend of* ours."*

LEFTY* There's a double meaning. A boss* appreciates a thing like that.*

DONNIE* You mean the ~~ony of it?*

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LEFTY* Irony? Fuggedaboudit. You put a* beaner inside, he knows these are* men of men.*

They resume strolling down the aisle.*

LEFTY* (continuing)* You know, if I'm gonna think out the* strategy like this, Donnie, you* gotta hold up your end.*

DONNIE* A girl I used to know down here, I* think her brother has a boat.*

LEFTY* Get that boat, Donnie.* (beat)* Stay away from the girl.*

SSB INT. NIGHT. MOTEL--SAFE HOUSE88B*

Donnie goes over tapes with Technician #1 and Technician #2. He slumps deeper. Closes his eyes. Rolls the cold Coke across his forehead.

TECHNICIAN #1 You're doing an amazing job, you know.

Donnie opens his eyes.

TECHNICIAN #1 I mean, we all think so.

Donnie and Technician #1 exchange a look. Then Technician #2 pulls off his headphones, turns to Donnie.

TECHNICIAN #2 Can I ask you something? What's "fuggedaboudit"?

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TECHNICIAN #2 Okay, Got it,

TECHNICIAN #2 Okay. Thanks.

Donnie sinks back into his chair. Rolls the Coke can across his forehead again.

TECBNIC!AN #2.. Eey, weren't you looking for a boat?

TECHNICL'\N#2 You know that sting op,eration-- whatcha.macallit--the agents aress up as Arabs and bribe Congressmen--

TECHNICIAN #1 Yeah?

TECHNICIAN#2 Those guys have a boat down here.

89INT. NIGHT. THE TAHITIAN--LEFTY'S ROOM89

The rOOlll is FREEZING. Lefty, swaddled in BLANKETS,twists helplessly at the stub where the CONTROLKNOBh~s been removed. KICKS the air conditioner. Lights a cigarette, PACES•••

3/29/96 SALMONRevision78. 89CONTINUED:

Donnie entera. Lefty GLARl:S at him.

Donnie moves toward the air conditioner •••

DOnnie opens the door on the unit--sees the KNOBis removed.

Donnie realizes what happened. Chuckles.

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89CONTINUED: ( 2 )89

DO:t--i'NIE Left, c'mon--you know Sonny's sense of humor. It was Sonny fucking around.

Lefty blanches at the idea ... His mind racing ...*

They exchange a look. Then Lefty ru.mrnages in his bags ...

Lefty turns to Donnie.

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89CONT!NUEO1 ( 3)

Lefty RAGESoutside his room as Donnie continues up the hall, then disappears down the stairs.

LEE"t'Y (after h.un) I got ne,,re for you, Donnie--you won• t see ine I You won'j; see m.e tomorrow! Tomorrow'e Good Friday! And wiseguya don't work on Good Friday!

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90 OMIT90

90A OMIT90A*

A gorgeous MOTORYACHTwith MTHELEFT HAND~einblazoned on the stern ••• Big engines and endless stater=, varnished parquet deelcs <U\d teak veneers ••• Le!ty SCRAM5!.ESaround the deck, fussing with last-minutQ preparations, DOnnie =d Gazzo lug coolers up the dock, ••

They load the coolers on board. Lefty looks up, sees something, hurries off the boat and up the dock. Donnie turns.

DONNIE'S POV

Two n.EETWOODl:lROUGHAMSpull up. BODYGUA:ru)Seir.erge, look up and dCMn the marina. Lefty arrives, greets GRECO, 40s, Traffioante's O'NOERBOSS.Then BODYG!.1MD#1 lends a hand to SlUITO TRAFFICI\N'l'E, 70, tinted bifocals, windl::>reaker and pork-pie hat, as he olilnbs out. *

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91CONTINVEDt91

They shake hands. A big mOll\ent tor Lefty •••

TRAFFICANT!! Nice to raeet you too, Lefty •

••• He holds onto Tratfica.nte's hand a little too long. Then

TRA!TICANTE Where's Sonny Black?•

Lefty takes this in a beat. Then looks up as a rented CADILLAC pulls into the parking lot of the marina.

LEFTY'S POV

Nicky and Boobie clim.b out. Then Soruiy. He and Lefty exchange a look. A second car with the girls pulls in beside them.

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Trafficante heads down thedock. Donnie hustlesup 't.he dock to• help =load Sonny's gear.As he gr•bs the ge11.rout of the trunk, he watches as Sonnyapproaches Lefty.

ANGLE ON--SONNY AND LE?"TY

As Sonny lights a cigarQtte. Then he SMILES as he gazes out at the dock.

LEFTY

Sonny hands Lefty his book of matches as he heads down the dock... Lefty looks at the matches in his hand.•

Lefty turns away and sees Donnie right there. He and Lefty* exchange a look. Then Donnie continues down the dock.

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92EXT. DAY. LATER, YACHT92

The yacht is anchored at sea. Trafficante's BODYGUARDSparty* with Boobie, the girls, and a few BIMBOS. BOobie flexes his pees so the dove tattoos on his chest seem to "fly.•

Sonny emerges fr001 belowdecks with Trafficante. The group look!! expectantly toward them. They SHAKEHA.'WS. Applause.

ANGLE ON--LEFTY

As Donnie brings him a spritzer, Lefty shoots Donnie a murderou$ look.

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93EXT. DAY, YACHT·93

Donnie stands alone in the bow, leaning on the rail. Suddenly: *

A TAP ON THE SHOULDER

Startles him. It's sonny.

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DONNI!: Sonny Red's freezing his asa off right now.

DONITT:E: Does that mean we're going back to New York?

Sonny turns to hilll.

DONNI!: r don't know, sonny. It's 1ust--I got a lot of things going n New York.

sonny thinks a beat as he looks out over the water.

will never forget that. I will* neye~ forget that.

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94EXT. DAY. YACHT94

Nicley in the stern as Boobie sidles up to him.

Nicky thinks,

THEIR POV--THE BOW

Ae sonny introduces Donnie to Trafficante. They shake hands,

CLOSE ON--DONNIE

A major moment tor him as he exchanges a look with Trafficante-- an undercover FB! agent shaking hands with the Boss!

CLOSE ON--LEFTY

As he watches DQnnie with the boss. He goes to the railing. Talces out his greeting card, removes the hundred dollar bill. Tosses it into the water ••.

-"FROM ONE FRIEND TO ANOTHER"

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95EXT. DAY. l·1Il~1-'!I EIGHWAY95

Donnie, a Hawaiia1: shirt open to nis A-shirt, ?ACES by a PAY PHONE as cars whiz by on the highway. Approaches the pay phone. Backs away, paces some more--REHEA.qsES in his mind the conversation he's about to have. Approaches again. Picks up the phone. Puts it back. Leans against the phone, sighs heavily.

In the foyer, STREAMERS and BALLOONS for the Communion party.* Maggie ushers some last stragglers -- an AUNT and UNCLE, both 50s -- out of the house.*

UNCLE* Make sure you give our best to* Joseph.*

MAGGIE* It's for his own protection.*

She kisses Maggie. They exit. Maggie turns and sees Kerry in* her COMMUNIONDRESS, amidst the remains of the party, sitting on a dining room chair and aimlessly kicking her legs up and down.* Then she looks up with tears in her eyes. She and Maggie* exchange a look.*

11AGGIE Kerry-- * (beat)* I'm so proud of you, angel.*

KERRY* I'm gonna go upstairs.*

Kerry slips do·,m out of the chair, collects her TEDDY BEAR.* Maggie watches her as she goes upstairs.

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Donnie pumps quarters into a PAY PHONE as more cars whiz by on the highway. Dials ...

Donnie, puzzled, hangs up. Did he dial a wrong number? He fishes the quarters out of the coin return, pumps them back in. Dials again ...

Donnie thinks a beat. Then SLAMS the phone down in a RAGE. Paces by the phone as the cars whiz by.

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98EXT. MORNING. MIAMI AIRPORT 98

Donnie, Lefty, Sonny, Nicky and Boobie walk through the * tenninal, followed by Gazzo, swallowed by LUGGAGE,a pack-animal with ten suitcases. Sonny looks around. *

Lefty nods to Nicky and Boobie, and they leave. Sonny heads off. * Gazzo stands with Donnie. Looks up and down. DOUBLETAKES. *

"Joe." RAGE flickers almost imperceptibly J.n Donnie's eyes.

GAZZO'S POV

HOLLMAN,a sharply-dressed LAWYERin conversation with a * COLLEAGUE, moves towards Donnie from the parking lot entrance. *

Sonny returns as Hollman walks by. Gazzo glances nervously as * Hollman passes... *

(CONTINUED\

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Hollman has turned, spotted Donnie. He walks towards him* through the crowd.*

Donnie ignores him.

Sonny's SUSPICION rises like bile in his throat .•. Hollman moves to take Donnie by the elbow. And Donnie WHIRLS on him.

HOLLl-!AN Don't you remember me? From the Southern District, I was the--

Donnie CLOCKShim and Hollman slams back, knocking over a bunch of suitcases.

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98CONTINUED: (2)98

Sonny grabs Donnie and pulls him away.

Gazzo has gone to Hollman and is helping him up, dusting him* off.*

ANGLE ON -- A COP approaching. *

Sonny exits toward the gate. Donnie lingers as Gazzo approaches * him. They start to go down the escalator. *

ANGLE ON--LEFTY

Watching them.*

99INT. NIGHT. PISTONE HOME99

Lights-out and quiet. Donnie tiptoes in with a CARRY-ONBAG. Punches the code on the ALARM.

Donnie enters, looks at his daughter, asleep in her bed. He pulls the covers up over her and she wakes up.

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She smiles. Donnie smiles. Kisses her.

Donnie tiptoes into

Maggie sleeps--DIAGONAL--across the entire bed. Donnie pulls off his shirt, his pants, shoes. Assesses the situation. CURLS UP in che corner of the bed. μ..aggie mutters in her sleep.

( CONTINlJED)

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99B CONTHH.iED:993

SHELLY BERGER, late 40s, flannel shirt, earth shoes-- PSYCHOTHERAPIST--sits with Donnie and Maggie.

MAGGIE* (off Donnie's look)* You see that look? I tell him it's* killing me and that's what I get.* Nothing. I don't exist.*

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100 CONTI1'7JED:100

DONNIE* (to Berger)* I hope you can do something for her,* because she's sick. You hear how* sick she is?*

BERGER* Please, Joe, just listen.*

--

(CONTINIJ;:.:J)

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Berger turns to Donnie.*

BERGER* You disappear for two months at a* time?*

DONNIE* Sometimes.*

Berger makes a note.

DONNIE* (to Berger)* I hope you can do something for her,* because she's sick. You-hear how* sick she is?*

MAGGIE* I'm through.*

BERGER* Please, Joe, just listen.*

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DONNIE* Tell him what you did.* (to Berger)* She changed the phone number on me.*

M.l\.GGIE* I don't exist--you don't exist.*

DONNIE* (to Berge::-)* Change the phone nu..-nber--you tell me* that's normal.*

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MAGGIE* (right back)* Now I know how it feels. You wanna* know-what? It felt great. Now I* know. How in control--how frigging* strong you are t*

OVERLAPPING--*

DONNIE* You're fucking right I'm in control.*

MAGGIE* Everybody's the enemy.* Everybody's ...* (gestures)* ... this big in your little gunsight.*

Donnie starts to laugh ...*

DONNIE* You think you got a chance against* me, Maggie? A hundred grand* means ...* (snaps fingers in her face)* •.. this to me. Life and death* means •..* (snapsfingers)* this to me.Nothing.* (snapsfingers)* Nobody.* (snaps fingers)* That's who I am.*

Berger looks at his watch.

( CO!'ITINUED)

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Berger's office is in a New Jersey strip mall--an optometrist, a * Grand Union, a pizzeria. Donnie stalks out to his Cadillac, * Maggie following with her arms crossed. They say nothing to * each other until they slam into the car. *

Maggie doesn't say anything.

( CONTINlIBD)

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Is this still fOUr intimacy request?* Because otherwise I'd rather not discuss it any more.

M.l\.GGIE Risk your life. You don't have a* life.

Maggie punches him.*

Maggie punches him repeatedl¥--·He tries to grab her but she* wrestles awar, and in wrestlin9 away hits him in the face ... Then* he succeeds in grabbing her wrists and she dissolves in tears of* anguish .•.*

He looks at her. Then climbs out of the car.*

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Two cars away, a MATRONloads groceries into a STATION WAGON. * Donnie paces around the car. Maggie stews inside, then unlocks * the door, unlatches it and moves to leave. Donnie sees this and * SLAMS his weight against the door. Then SLAMS his fist down on * the hood.... *

The Matron, the PIZZERIA PATRONS look on as Donnie RAGES.*

Donnie vacuums furiously in the living room.

Donnie washes the station wagon. Dumps Maggie's full ashtrays ... Trashes the clutter of old magazines, soda cans and McDonald's wrapners ... Soans and hoses it ..• Hand-polishes the finish till it's all but bruised.

As Donnie enters, Maggie and the girls have already sat down to dinner in the kitchen, at a table set for four--persisting in their routine, as if he's not there. He pauses, EAVESDROPS.Then goes into the bedroom. Takes his secret phone out of the drawer. Dials.

Donnie hurries through the depressed hospital corridors, the smell of antiseptic and decay, till he arrives at Lefty, AGITATED, pacing at the end of the corridor.

DONNIE* I was up here. I had some things I* hadda take'care of.*

LEFTY* Donnie--listen to me, Donnie--*

DONNIE* What the hell happened? Is he gonna* be okay?

DONNIE* You want me to talk to the guy?..

LEFTY* What are you gon~a do, Donnie--break* the doctor's legs?*

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::16.

DONNIE* I'm saying is there anyting you want* me to do?*

LEFTY* I told you waht I want. I want you* to go back down to Florida.*

Lefty and Donnie exchange a look. Lefty, spent, sags into a* cheap plastic chair. Donnie sits beside him. Lefty lights an English Oval. They both stare at the wall a beat.

;; Ort.

DONNIE* Whaddaya gonna do? You do what you* can do.*

They stare at the wall another beat. Lefty squeezes Donnie's* knee.*

LEFTY* I love you, Donnie.*

Then Lefty gets up. Donnie watches as Lefty walks down the* corridor.*

106:~"T. NIGHT. MANHATTAN DISCO106

Sonny Red enters his usual disco. Sonny Black sits at Sonny Red's usual table with Boobie, NickY, and others from his crew.

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Sonny Red and Sonny Black exchange a look. Then Sonny Red looks to the maitre d'. Then he turns back to Sonny Black. Smiles.

He pinches Sonny's cheek. Sonny watches as Sonny Red and his entourage depart.

l 07 :::XT. MORNING. ?I STONE HOME:107

Maggie goes out to get the mail. Finds a letter that furrows her brow.

NSERT--TEE 2-fvELOPE

The return address, INTEP-NAL&."'VEN,JESERVICE.

Donnie reads the paper with his morning coffee.

Maggie tosses the letter down on the table.

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10 9 EXT. NIGHT. KING' S COURT109

CARS jockey for space in a full parking lot. A BANNER reads, ·LAS VEGAS NIGHT--BENEFIT FOR WARVETERANS.• A bogus VETERAN in* a VFW hat walks a WHEELCHAIRout to the front door, then sits in* it. He puts on thick dark glasses. The Lion ROARSalong an* improvised dog run in the parking lot.

The club is fixed up now, swanky in the Vegas style. The bar is packed, the restaurant busy, .. A burly BODYGUARDguards· the door to a back room. Gazzo effusively GREETS So=y, Nicky, and Boobie as they arrive.

He ushers them past the Bodyguard, through the back door and into

A GAMBLINGJOINT

Roulette, craps, slots--the works ... The guys bathe in the honey of success, as HALF-ASS WISEGUYSand their BIMBOSlive it up ...

CLOSE ON--SONNY

As he takes it in. SMILES as he shoots his cuffs, runs his hands over his bespoke silk suit.

·' I like it. ,I like it pigtime.

AT THE'ROULETTE'TABLE

Lefty sits alone,· watches as he loses and the . croupier slides his chips off.the table ... Then watches as So=y, Nicky and Boobie enter.

INSIDE A PHONE.BOOTH

Donnie, RED-FACEDwith anger, talks to Blandford . ....-_. ~ BLANDFORD(0. C . )

-with,an,.IRS.audit, _Joe.· Can you ·imagine the flap if that got out?

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Donnie takes a deep breath.

' '

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Donnie looks at the receiver. In a RAGE, he SLAMSit down ...

CASH

As it is abundantly relinquished, counted, squi=eled away in the illicit gambling parlor ...*

ANGLEON--DONNIE*

As he enters the big room, WATCHING... Signals to a WAITRESS to* bring complimentary DRINKS to two high rollers at the roulette.. wheel ... Then he moves to a HIGH ROLLER at the craps table,* greets him, introduces him to a SEXY GIRL ...*

Then Greco arrives with.other TRAFFICANTEMEN who we saw on the boat earlier. He gives Sonny a hug and a kiss.

More noise and jostling as everyone greets each other. Sonny smiles in the manly hubbub.

SONNY* Hey, I want you to say hello to* Donnie. Where"s Donnie?..

Sonny looks over at Donnie, who is giving a pointer to a* CROUPIER. WAVEShim over.*

Late at night i.n.the CAGE, as the money is counted ... Thick wedges of CASH as ,·they' re riffled through and rubber- . banded ... Sonny•grabs STACKSof·cash, stuffs them into

,--: ·~,~-; ',.,

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A BLUE GYMBAG

When it's full--three hundred thousand dollars full--he hands it to Donnie.

Donnie takes the bag. Exits.the cage. Heads through the kitchen with the bag. Cuts outside through a back door.

CUT TO:.

Donnie emerges with the gym bag. Opens the trunk of his rental car. Lifts the carpet, sticks the bag in the well where the spare tire goes. About to close it when he hear:. the KERCHtlNlC! of

A SHOTGUN

And a VOICE behind him.

VOICE Just turn real slow.

But Donnie doesn't turn. First, he CLOSES the trunk ...

THE GYMBAG

In the well_ ... Then he turns.slowly. And sees:

THE SHERIFF

And two of his DEPUTIES. One of them SWINGSDonnie around, slams him down on top of· the trunk. CUFFS him hard._ ·. ....,-,,~:

SHERIFF...;_..·*

What• s your name?

-~----~

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The Sheriff SWINGSthe shotgun butt into Donnie's back. Donnie GROANS.

GAMBLERShurry away--confused, scared, angry ...

AXES smash at a craps table ... CASH disappears as the cage is rifled ... As Sonny is HANDCUFFED,he watches in mournful SHOCKas his dream is destroyed; Nicky WINCESas DEPUTY#1 slashes at upholstery ... DEPUTY#2 drags his nightstick along the shelf and bar glasses CRASH... Donnie takes Gazzo aside.

A ROULETTEWHEELis toppled, SMASHEDwith a sledgehammer: Lefty;' looks on with his arms folded and a thousan-:3. yard stare .. aUntil the Deputies have nothing left.to break.

The guys are led into a paddy wagon. -*

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The guys, MOROSE, sit in a jail cell. Sonny paces, fumes.

DONNIE* They took everything, Sonny.*

SONNY* All that fucking money gone? That's* Rusty's money!*

Sonny fumes, smashes the wall with a forearm. A long beat as the guys cower and don't say a.~ything. Then Lefty looks up.

LEFTY* You know, usually, the fucking cops,* they're so dumb--it takes them three* months just to get wind that* something's going on. Then they* gotta get a warrant. Then they* gotta, uh, uh--*

NICKY* Surveillance.*

LEFTY* That's right. Three more months to* take pictures. How'd these cops* know so much, we just opened the* fucking doors?*

SONNY* What are you saying, Left?*

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Sonny thinks a beat.*

LEFTY* Okay.*

Sonny resumes pacing*

SONNY* Aaaargh! I'm in a rage with this!*

Lefty scrutinizes the guys as they look awkwardly at their* shoes, cowered by Sonny's rage. Lefty and Donnie exchange a* look.*

Sonny Red talks on the phone in his New Jersey mansion.

l.U4.

IN THE KITCHEN

Philly Lucky, Big Trin and Bruno eat manicotti. Sonny Red rejoins them, tucks a napkin in his collar.

PHILLY LUCKY* You're gonna send for him?*

SONNY RED* He sits down with us, bing bing,* it's done. The whole fucking crew* of them.*

BIG TRIN* I'll get the guns.*

The flight back to New York. Lefty SLEEPS. Donnie opens up NEWSWEEK. Sees an article entitled:

ABSCAM: FBI "SHEIKS" STING CORRUPT LAWMAKERS

With a PHOTO of FBI AGENTS in full Bedouin regalia ... He turns the page. TERROR deep in his heart, as he looks at a PHOTO of the ABSCAM YACHT with Blandford and other smiling FBI AGENTS and the caption, "THE LEFT HAND". It's

THE SAME BOAT!

The one they took Trafficante out on. Donnie closes the magazine. Looks over af Lefty as he SNORES. Folds the magazine up, secretes it in the seat pocket in front of him.

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120 OMIT120*

..LV:>-.Lu I.

Another BOARD MEETING of the Sonny Black Corporation. A grey film of despair coats the enterprise.

WISEGUY #1 ... Napkins and tablecloths. Five hundred scoot.*

BOOBIE• Five hundred scoot. In Florida it* was five hundred a minute.

Wiseguy #2 croaks through his laryngectomy ...

WISEGUY #2 A dime on the vig. (off Sonny's look)* I'm doing the best I can.*

NICKY* I thought we weren't supposed to* talk about Florida.*

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sonny and Nicky exchange a long look. The pay phone in the* hallway RINGS. Sonny hands his book to Boobie as he gets up to* answer it.*

WISEGUY #3 ... Truckload of razor blades.

WISEGUY #3 Hey, you know how many razor blades fit in a tru,::k?

BOOBIE* Lefty?*

LEFTY* Next.*

WISEGUY #4* I got an inside guy, he works in a* warehouse has the art collection of* the Shah of Iran.*

Sonny returns from the phone.*

SONNY* That was Sonny Red.I gotta go down* to Little Italy. Igot sent for.*

They walk out to Boobie's Cadillac.

Just as casual as that. Donnie takes an almost imperceptible beat as TERROR strikes in his heart.

)

Donnie climbs alongside Boobie in front. As Boobie adjusts the REAR-VIEW MIRROR, Donnie catches a glimpse of Lefty's eyes burning into him from the back seat. Donnie thinks a beat: this is how it happens. Then he jumps a little as Boobie hits the POWER LOCKS with a THUNK!

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The Cadillac rolls silently, engine cut, headlights out, onto a deserted street. Donnie looks around--this isn't Little Italy. The guys climb out.*

DONNIE* I thought we were going down to* Little Italy.*

Donnie and Lefty exchange a look. Then the guys exit. Sonny watches Donnie ALONE in the car. Donnie thinking fast as the TRUNK opens. Then the trunk closes and the guys walk off, carrying CANVAS BAGS of various shapes and sizes ... Donnie"s heart POUNDING in the eerie quiet ... He looks up and down the street--DESERTED ... He adjusts the mirror so he can see behind him ... Donnie's heart all but pounds through his chest as he sits and waits.

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Sonny Red, Philly Lucky and Big Trin climb out of a Lincoln Town Car, head up the path. As Trin lumbers, he pauses to inspect a flaw on his property. Sonny Red smacks him.

Ct.TT TD:

J..J....l..•

Philly Lucky, Sonny Red, and Big Trin enter the house. Flick on the lights, move through the foyer into the kitchen ... To a door leading down into the BASEMENT... Trin flips a LIGHT SWITCH. On. Off. On. NOTHING.

They LAUGH as they head downstairs into the BASEMENr, the DARK, damp concrete and sawdust rising in their nostrils. Big Trin SWATS the air, searching for the LIGHT CORD. Finds it.

LIGHTS ON

Sonny, Lefty, Nicky and Boobie, OVERALLS over their street clothes--SHOTGUNS at .the ready.

MONTAGE

In slow motion:

--Sonnv FIRES. The BLAST catches Big Trin in the belly. A huge lump of flesh tears off, FLIES ...

--Philly Lucky RUNS ... Reaches the stairs as Boobie aims and a shotgun blast shreds the top of his head ... His BIFOCALS fall to the ground, followed by a chunk of scalp, hank of hair ..

--Sonny Red turns, SCREAMS as he runs ... Lefty aims, fires ... Shot in the back, Sonny Red-FALLS toward the stairs ... Nicky aims, BLASTS at Sonny Red's KNEES ... Crippled and SCARED, he claws at the stairs, pulling himself over the body of Philly Lucky ...

--Sonny RELOADS.· .. Big Trin rallies, CHA.RGES him with a roar ... Sonny whirls, BLASTS away another slab of his massive body ... Big Trin grabs Sonny and they fall to the ground ... Lefty tums, sees Sonny struggling under Big Trin. Finds a HATCHET stored with other tools on a pegboard ... Grabs it, plants it in Big Trin's skull with a THill-<"K!...

--Nicky RELOADS... Plants a foot on Sonny Red's butt--like a big- game hunter--aims and BLOWS HIS HEAD OFF ...

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--sonny climbs out from under Big Trin. Flicks a piece of bone off his sleeve.

As he says this, Philly Lucky groans, claws on the cement floor

in a feeble attempt to survive. Sonny notices this, reloads his shotgun .••*

Donnie hears the THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! of the shotguns, like shells from a distant front. Then nothing. Then

I'M NEXT

The door opens behind him. It's Boobie in his blood-stained overalls, a shot$Un by his side .•• He sits behind Donnie a good long while. Donnie looks in the mirror. Sees Boobie watching him. Appraising him? or just enjoying himself?

So does he .cut Boobie's throat? Wrestle his gun away? Arrest him? He sees the intense dislike in Boobie's eyes. And what Donnie does is stay in character.

DONNIE WALKS

Past GARBAGE CANS perfectly suited to stashing his bones ••• To the crypt-like wooden doors ••• Where Boobie nods brusquely and Donnie climbs down

Donnie emer9es into a world of slaughter, lit red by the blood- spattered li9ht bulb ••. Boobie behind him ••. sonny, Lefty and Nicky in their working-man's overalls •••

Lefty removes the trap cover from the drain in the laundry room... Reaches inside •••

..• Pulls out four NINE MILLIMETER PISTOLS •.• Then Sonny turns to a CANVAS KNIFE ROLL, unties it •••

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AS THE BAG UNROLLS

An array of KNIVES--breaking knives, steak knives, boning knives, meat saw, shears--for the butchery and filleting of a human body ... Sonny distributes the tools ... Each one holds a knife ..•

Donnie looks at the KNIFE in his hand. They approach the corpse of Big Trin.

And then Lefty, as casually as could be, follows behind Nicky and puts two .22 caliber bullets in his head. Nicky falls dead on top of Big Trin's body. A moment of stillness among them. Donnie turns, looks at them in their workingman's overalls, SHOCKED.

Donnie, the knife in his hand, looks at Nicky's body beneath him.

Donnie stares straight ahead as he drives. Lefty smokes. They* drive a long while without saying anything.*

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LEFTY

Shut up, Donnie. You don't say his

name no more.

DONNIE

You tell yourself whatever you want to.*

LEFTY

You were down there with your own eyes.*

DONNIE

I don't know what he did.

LEFTY

That's right. You don't know.

That's your famous words.

DONNIE

You're right, Left.

LEFTY

Don't say I'm right like I'm wrong. *. DONNIE

Why, because the club got busted up?

LEFTY

Thank you.

DONNIE

That's beautiful, Left. You know

the guy twenty years, you kill him

over a lounge.

LEFTY

The man held out. He held out on a

coke deal.

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DONNIE* Hey, how long've I been riding* around this car with you, carrying* your fucking bags--don't treat me

like a jerkoff.*

LEFTY* Whaddaya mean, Richie fucked up--?*

DONNIE* "Nicky's a rat." Nicky stepped off* a curb and got hit by a bus.*

LEFTY* You don't say his name no more.* That's the rules.*

DONNIE* Fuck the rules.*

LEFTY* That's the rules, Donnie*

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DO~IE* You can't say it. Go ahead, say it.* Say his fucking name.*

Donnie glances over. Sees Lefty's hand tremble as he lights another cigarette.

Donnie enters his monastic apartment. Takes off his coat, tosses it on his cot. And suddenly grabs a chair an THROWSIT .•. It SPLINTERS ... He grabs the bar from his weight bench and SWINGS...

SMASH!

An electric sizzle as the TV tube irnplodes ... Donnie swings on his bookcase ... It CRUMPLESand books collapse to the ground ...

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Donnie glances over. Sees Lefty's hand tremble as he lights ~nother cig~rcttc.

Donnie enters his manasti.c apartment. Takes off his coat, tosses it en his cot. Anrl s;nrlrlAn l y gr;ih" a ch,; i r an THROWS IT ••• It SPLINTERS... He grabs the bar from his weight bench and SWINGS•••

SMASH!

An electric sizzle as the TV tube implodes ... Donnie swings on his bookcase ..• It CRUMPLESand books collapse to the ground ..•

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From & dietance, we hear the sounds of furniture being reduced * to kindling. *

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l31A INT,/EXT. DAY. PISTONE HOME--ENTRANCE131A

THE DOOR

as the doorbell RINGS. Maggie opens it. And gives a little moan of FEM--

REVERSEANGLE

Blandford and Curley stand at.the door--the Grim Reapers.

CU"IU,EY Everything's okay, Maggie.

She relents. Moves aside. But only so they can barely, stepping crab-wise, squeeze past her.

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131B INT, DAY, LATER. PISTONE HOME131B

Curley and Blandford=• around the kitchen as Maggie makes coffee.

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(blankly) GS-14 is a supervisor, Maggie.

CUIU..!:Y But he's undercover. He's not supervising anyone.

M.aggie bites her tongue. Says nothing •

The point is, that's the last we heard from him. Standard procedure is to check in f!Nery day--:tiaybe miss a day here or there, but •••

cu;u:.EY It was three weeks ago.

CURLE¥ Maggie, we can't tell you that.

C\JRLEY We can't tell you because we don't know.

MAGGI.I!: Oh my God,

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If he contact• you, we need you to talk SOllle seneo to hi.in. Help us out.

Blandford and Curley exchange a l00k.

~e's right in the line of fire. Not because he's one of us. Because he's one of thelll--who he's with and who he's close to, they•re a.ll the top dogs now, It's just not a problem we anticipated.

Maggie laoks out the window.

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WlSEGIJYS atandin9 guard out on the street, stamping their feet or wa=th. Whispers and awestruck looks from the wiseguya ae a big Cadillac pulls up. Boobie and Lefty emerge. Then Donnie .••

WISEG!JY#l {awestruck) Theboss .

••• Then sonny. Huddling with Boobie, Lefty and Donnie, he disappear• into the cl@.

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133 INT, DAY. LATER. MOTIONLOUNGE133

:aoobie, Donnie, and two WISEGUYSsit .at a card table, Boobie turns to Donnie.

A moment of recognition that

NICKY'S GONE

Then sonny and Lefty enter :from the back rOOlll, exchange a look-- they've been confei::ring, Then Lefty turns to Donnie.

Lefty and Donnie walk up the block.

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DONNIE* Don't worry. I won't fuck it up.*

LEFTY* You read my mind. Don't fuck this* up.*

Lefty takes Donnie by the shoulders, gives him a formal kisson * one cheek. Then hugs him, l_ooks at him with pride. This isa * big moment -- the greatest gift Lefty can bestow .....

DONNIE* Yeah, I know.*

LEFTY* C'mon, let's go back inside.*

Lefty turns to head back to the club. Donnie stops him.*

DONNIE* Hey, Left?* ,. LEFTY .. What? {beat)* C'mon, Donnie, I'm freezing.*

DONNIE* You know that Bertram you used to* have? How much is it, a boat like* that--you think three hu.~dred grand?*

LEFTY* You could get the sports fisherman* maybe for three hundred used. What* .. are you talking about boats, Donnie?

DOljNIE* I just wanted to know.*

LEFTY* It's ten fucking degrees out, you* wanna have a conversation about* .. boats. This ain't the ti.me to lose your marbles, Donnie. You* understand? We hit this cocksucker* and leave him in the street.*

_,'I_,,...., _,.._, __ •'-'""'"-->--..,,••

Don.~ie drives his Cadillac past the house. Cases it for surveillance. Then drives to the next block. Parks. cuts through his neighbor's backyard, vaults the fence. Jimmies the back door. Enters.

KERRYAND TERRY ASLEEP

In their shared bedroom as Donnie tiptoes past. Glances briefly at them. Then turns--

IT'S MAGGIE

He goes past her to the master closet. Opens it. Looks inside ...

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Donnie exits the bedroom. She follows.

He continues to forage for the bag ...

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M.".GGIE The 3ureau was here.*

She crives hi.~ a defiant look. Then turns, rummages in a hiding place. Returns with the beg. Shoves it at him.

~.aggie breaks down.

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136 CONTINlJED: (3)136 DONNIE (cont'd) guy already got whacked, dead-- because of rne--as good as if I put two bullets in his head myself. I got a contract right now to kill a guy I don't even Jmow. So you tell me, Maggie, you tell me what's the difference? Where's the right and wrong? I'm not becoming like them--.. I am like them. I spent all these.. years feeling so fucking superior, laughing at tha~ behind my fucking mask. Who's laughing now?

Donnie talks on a PAY PHONE by the highway.

LEFTY {O.C.) You're right you gotta see me. We found Bruno. He's on a boat out in City Island.

The Suit, ALONE in the office. The phone RINGS.

Hello?

He listens. Hangs up. RUNS.

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139INT./EXT. NIGHT. DONNIE'S CADILLAC139

Donnie waits in his car. Lefty appears, taps on the window. Climbs inside.

LEFTY* Nice one, fuggedaboudit.*

DONNIE* Yeah?*

LEFTY* I'm telling you, Donnie--one thing I know is boats.

DONNIE* You know what you said a couple of* times--how if you had that Bertram.. again you'd drive down to the pier.. one day, take Annette and just go?* Remember? North South East or West--* and nobody'd ever find you?*

LEFTY* Donnie--that was before. Don't* remind me of all that.*

DONNIE* I just wanna know--did you mean it?*

LEFTY* Donnie--who am I, Rockefeller? I'm* gonna go buy a boat?*

DONNIE* I'm sayin9 what if? I got some* things ooing on the side. Maybe I* could find that kind of money.*

LEFTY* For me? That's very generous.*

DONNIE• (off Lefty's look)* You know what I'm sayin9. Since• Sonny Red got clipped--it's all* gettlng too hot. Go back to the* (MORE)

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LEFTY* Sonny ain't gonna forget Bruno.•

DONNIE* So that's his headache. Get out of• the life, Left. Go live in the* Bahamas, open up a bait shop and eat* coconuts.•

Lefty looks at Donnie a long beat.

Lefty reaches in his pocket, takes out a piece of paper, folded. Hands it to Donnie. Torn from a magazine:

THE NEWSWEEKARTICLE

with the PHOTO of "The Left Hand."

Donnie looks up from the article. Sees a .22 BERETTA AUTOMATIC in Lefty's hand.

-LEFTY I even remember the name, Donnie. "The Left Hand." That's like my name. That's that ABSCAM boat!

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Lefty thinks, looks at Donnie another long beat.

DONNIE* Okay.*

He hands the gun to Donnie, climbs out. Donnie looks at the gun in his hand, then st~cks it in his belt, follows Lefty.

Bruno sits on his boat, watches a small TV, his back to the sliding glass doors that lead into the cabin.

DONNIE'S POV

Of Bruno, as Donnie and Lefty move down the pier--a tunnel of drydocked boats. The PUTT-PUTT of a distant engine as a boat is* dimly seen app~oaching from seaward ...*

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Donnie tenses as they move down the pier towards the boat.

They're very close to Bruno's boat now, but he doesn't see them. • They're screened by the dock's gas and water pumps. • *

Donnie turns to look at Lefty.

LEFTY* C'mon, Donnie. We gotta get this* · thing done now.*.

Lefty stoops down and disconnects the dockside power to Bruno's.. boat. The TV and bi_lge pump flicker off.*

LEFTY* Get ready Donnie. He's gonna be.. outta there in a second.•

Bruno slides open th_e glass door and steps onto the aft deck.• Lefty nudges Donnie, who aims his gun at Bruno. All innocence,*· Bruno climbs off the boat and heads towards them.*

Donnie tenses with anticipation. Lefty watches Donnie h"cmgrily.*

CLOSE ON--The gun in Donnie's hand and his trigger t::,,.,iei:: not.. tightening. Lefty begins to draw his own gun...

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The movement catches Donnie's attention. And suddenly he• REALIZES what he's doing down here ...*

Bruno approaches closer, almost up to their hiding place. The * sound of the approaching boat is loud now. Donnie looks from * Lefty to Bruno, his gun still raised. *

Then:

LIGHT EXPLODES from a POLICE BOAT as a SPEAKER SQUAWKS•..

FBI #1 PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEAD RIGHT NOW!

Suddenly, FBI MEN in blue windbreakers with big white letters-- "FBI"--storm the pier from the land side, grab Donnie and Lefty ... Other FBI men nab Bruno .•• The FBI pulls Donnie one way,* Lefty the other ... curley at Donnie's elbow ...

Curley It's over, Joe.

Donnie starts to run ...

ANGLE ON--LEFTY*

As he's HANDCUFFED, looks up the dock to where Curley and other* FBI MEN catch up with Donnie, wrestle him away. Donnie* STRUGGLES, exchanges a look with Lefty as he's dragged away.*

CLOSE ON--LEFTY*

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As he smiles to himself--relieved to find Donnie is on his side

after all. Then he notices ...

BACK ON--DONNIE

That Donnie is NOT HANDCUFFED•.. As Curley drapes an FBI

WINDBREAKER over Donnie's shoulders and they escort him into a car ...* • TIGHT ON--LEFTY

PHOTOS OF DONNIE

With other FBI MEN, at Quantico, etc., as Curley and Blandford show them to Sonny, Boobie, Lefty and other WISEGUYS. Then Blandford passes his business card to Sonny.

Sonny, Boobie, and Lefty watch as the FBI cohort drive off. They stand on the street corner--DEATH and disbelief written in their faces.

1,;;2142

You believe t::a.t · ::.:ckir:g ;-...:y? There's r.o f1...:.cki~g way Donr:.i.2 could be a..~ agent..

BOOBI:S Some fucking bluf£.

An FBI l,l_Jl.Nhides on a nearby ROOFTOP with a TELEPHOTO LENS.

ZZZH!

A FREEZE F?-1:U·S o: the guys sta.~ding outside.

LEF'.rf That boat was a set.up. :'hey set. up that ;:'.;oat:arid t:.hen ·,ve t:link Donnie's a rat.

ZZZH! ZZZH!

ZZZH! ZZZH! ZZZH!

F?2.:::ZE: ?? ..A.HES like tombstones.

143INT. NIGHT. LEFTY'S APARTMENT143

Leftv sits, BROODS, '"atches a NATURE SHOW on his TV. The phone ::-ings.

He hangs up. Thinks a beat. Then takes ·off his GOLD WATCH,. sticts it:. in a d:-aw2r. '!'hen t.:l.e CP.OSS he wears on a chain a::-ound his neck:. !Iis WALLET. The K.::.-YSto his Cadillac. Closes the C.::aw.e::::-as .i\..··1ne~tl':> ente::-s.

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He gives Annette a kiss.

LE:'TY G'night, Annette. Don't wait up.

He turns to the door, turns back.

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A line of EIGHT 11.ENin windbreakers and caps s Lenc.i.ll,:,u w.ltl1A "F.B.!." in yellow ::.etters. They shoot at man-shaped targets.* ht tho end of tho line, Donnie. His hair is no longe= the sleek• black ca? of his time with Lefty.•

Donnie completes shooting off his clip. He raises nis empty gun• ;;lTirl w.=tT'.r.he~;:;\:';t~e ranr;t? m~chanism r~turns his target down thCJ* wires. 7he black outline of a man peppered with bullet holes• trundles inexorably towards him.*

CUT T-0:*

A public room with rows of cheap government-issue CHAIRS and a• LECTERN with the FBI SE.AL, flanked by FLAGS. Curley introduces• Don.,ie to a FUNCTIONARYin the public affairs .division--they* sha'l:e hands and the runctionary takes out a NOTEBOOK. Maggie* and the three girls in their pinafores sit on metal chairs.*

CURLEY* ••• This is Joseph Pistone.*

nJNCTIONARY* I just want to make sure I have the.. correct spelling of your name.•

DONl'lIE* This is my wife, Maggie.•

Donnie beckons to her .•.•

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Blandford enters with the DIRECTOR, a Midwestern waxworks in his * 60~, followed by three AIDES, one of whom directs him to a * PL.~TFORM In front of the lectern. Blandford ushers Donnie over * to him. *

ELANDrORD And this is Mrs. Pistone.

AIDE #4 approaches, whispers in the Director's ear. Do:inie* looks at Maggie. Meggie SQ~EEZES hi3 hund. Tho Director* returns his attention to them.*

DIRECTOR* You nust be very proud of your* husband.

MAGGIE* H~·~ ~ vP.ry ~~r.ial man.

An Aide leads ~aggie back to her seat under the prompting of the* photographer.*

The Director outs on his READINGGLASSES as an AIDE hands him an * INSCRIPTIONt0 ~ead .. ~ *

DIRECTOR* (readir.g)* "To Special Agent Joseph Pistone, in.. gratetul recognition for meritoriuus.. service." Allow· me to present you.. wit.I! U-1.i.s medal and a check for five• hundred dollars...

The Director hands Donnie a VELVETCASE and a lar9e CHECK. A* PllOTOORAFllER :a-:eps forward. The Director and Donnie :,hc,ka ho.nd:, for the camera.

Donnie cOlllplies. FU.SH! Donnie and the Dir,;,ctor captured with their frozen smiles. ZZZH! Then TIGHT en Donnie. ZZZH! Again, • TIGHTER.. ZZZH! *

DIRECTOR • Congratulations again, son. • (winks to Maggie) • Ma·am, you take good care of him. •

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MAGGIE • I will. *

The Aides whisk the Director out. The Photo9rapher packs up his * equipment, Blandford approaches, shakes Donnie's hand. •

BLANDFORD • Congratulations, Joe._ •

He pats him on the bac~, exits. Maggie approaches Donnie,

holding Kerry·s hand.•

MAGGIE• I'm gonna take the girls to the• bathroom. I'll be right back.

Maggie and the girls exit •.. As does the Photographer... •

Donnie remains, ALONE in the large i:-oom, with the !lags anct the • ceremonial trappings .•. He opens the velvet box. Looks at his * medal. Looks up, dnd out the window. ZZZH! ~EZE FRAME. *

J;AOE OUT.

A CRl\WL runs over this closeup as tho color dccatur~tcz:

ThQ .. vidQncG> collact<>d by "Donnie Brasco" lad to over 200 indictments and over 100 convictions, including the famous "Pi7.7.~ Conr.~ctinn" ~~~P.~

The "Commission Cas;e• rP.,m1t:P.ci in r.hP ,:,nnvil't.inns of four of the heads of the Five Families under the RICO statute. ½

Special Agent Joseph Pistone lives with his wife under 3.n assumed name in an undisclosed location. There is still a $500,000 open contract on his head.

The IRS assessed him for $7,000 in back taxes arid penalties. The FBI denied him a pension.