"DONNIE BRASCO" (1997)

WINTER--windows foggy, snow outside. Late ‘78-- “TELL MM OMETHING GOOD” by Chaka Khan and Rufus plays on the jukebox.

Chipped formica on the tabletops, cracked leatherette on the banquettes.

Four men, neatly dressed in slacks and sport jackets, as the Grink demitasse at a table:

BENJAMIN *LEFTY" RUGGIERO, 50 years old, JUMPY with nerves, hoarse from chain-smoking ‘Engl ish Ovals. SWITCHED-ON, testy and restless

DOMINIC "SONNY BLACK” NAPOLITANO, 40s, squat and sexv. Sleepy and plavful as a lion after a big meal. Don't fuck with the lion

NICHOLAS “NICKY" TEMMA, 40s. Ready SMILE, teddy bear pauncn. Eager to piease. Plays the fool

JOEN "BOOBIES" CERASANI, 40s, close-mouthed, dour, and gun-metal HARD. All business. Nobody's fool.

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AT THE BAR

Donnie sits with a Daily News spread open before him. He wears JEANS. The Bartender refills his coffee cup and Donnie puts ina tablespoon of sugar, stirs it while he WATCHES... DONNIE’S POV--IN THE MIRROR Lefty, Sonny and the others at their table... BACK ON-~-TABLE As Lefty explicates the Cadillac Difference. * LEFTY Cadillac got more acceleration, more

power, more better-handling, more legroom for your legs, more power--

BOOBIE

More power.

“said. SONNY *: Mercedes got it all over both of * them. * Lefty reacts as if he's smelled something bad. * LEFTY * Mercedes? * BOOBIE Lincoln's like driving a fucking waterbed.

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Nicky starts to laugh.

Judy,

NICKY

Longer. Like longer. In inches. It's -

a longer car.

Sonny and Boobie join in.

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.

; LEFTY Who's that?

Leans over to Nicky.

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: NICKY Not Jilly Four Eyes. You know, Jilly. From Queens Jilly.

LEFTY : BRin't the question, I got something.

A little cannoli. (kiss) Svingi. (kiss) Sfogliatell'. (kiss)

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She giggles, Kisses Sonny on the cheek.

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

Donnie emerges, his breath visible in the COLD. ZZ2ZZH! ZZ2ZZH! ZZZZH! FREEZE FRAME and go to black-and-white.

Snapshots of Donnie.

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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: HUFFING AND PUFFING as

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

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

Donnie sips coffee at the bar. Lefty approaches him.

. LEFTY You Don the Jeweler?

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

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Lefty slides it back to him.

He returns the diamond to Lefty.

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Donnie takes out an ENVELOPE, spills five diamonds on the counter. Fits one dexterously in a ring-like holder, shows to Lefty.

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

DONNIE

Go ahead, try and sell it, you wanna be a dunsky.

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Lefty’s temper starts to rev...The Bartender hurriediy zaps club soda into a glass of white wine as Donnie carefully sweeps the diamonds back in to the envelope.

LEFTY

My family, my children--my mother can hold her head up in any neighbornood in the city when she walks down the block. In all the five borougns I'm known, fuggedaboudit--I'm known all over the world. Anybody--ask anybody about Lefty from Mulberry Street.

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DONNIE : Hey-~no disrespect. It’s a misunderstanding. Okay?

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

DONNIE

You’re the boss. Donnie shrugs, sits. The Bartender slides the spritzer over.

_ - BARTENDER On the house.

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Donnie drives. Lefty puffs on én English Oval.

LEFTY

You talk when I talk.to you.

(beat) You call that a fugazy? You don’t know word fucking one, my friend. I know--one look at you I “know. You're a guy can’t keep his fucking mouth shut.

{beat) Hey, I‘m talking to you.

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The SMOKE is THICK now. Donnie powers DOWN his WINDOW.

Donnie powers the window back UP.

. DONNIE Where are we going?

(beat) We're gonna find out.

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

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Sit down. Pandar sits.

{off Donnie) Who’s this?

Left, wno‘s this guy?

PAND:R What‘s a fugazy?

The diamond is a fugazy.

PANDA

Don’t tell me what I know.

Lefty's eyes go dead...

. DONNI= It’s a fugazy.

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

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

Lefty pulls his collar close around his neck--a “tell” that things are escalating...

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

PANDAR : Hey, you 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.

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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.

Sorry ain’t gonna do it.

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

Now it’s Lefty's.

Donnie takes a ten dollar bill off the table. Stuffs it in Pandar’'s mouth.

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Donnie drives through the Lower East Side WATERFRONT, peering

through billows of Lefty’s cigarette smoke.

LEFTY

Always on the amn.

(chuckles) You scared that guy, though, managaia--that cracks me up. I'got twenty-six fucking hits under my belt and you're the one he's scared of.

{catching himself) Fuck.

Shouldn't've said that about the hits.

_ LEPTY Pull over.

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

. LEFTY Fuggedaboudit. I'll get it myself. (finds pliers) You di’n’t hear that noise in the dash?

labors beneath

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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.

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(agitated) *

Did I--? Did I say~-?

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

DONNIE x Fuggedaboudit.

DONNIE * With the velour? *

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Like the Army. Chain of command.

LEFTY

Ain't nothing like the Amy. The Army, it‘s some guy you don't know sends you to whack out some other guy you don't know. The Army's a jerkoff outfit. You see, that's why I gotta school you. Because otherwise you get everything upside down.

(beat)

You wanna check in with me tomorrow?

Okay. Lefty looks at Donnie. Then shakes his head. LEFTY

I don’t know how the fuck you knew that was a fugazy.

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

Cadillac. Drives off.

Donnie EMPTIES an ashtray full of Lefty's CIGARETTE BUTTS. Runs a VACUUM through the car. SPRAYS the inside with a can of AIR

FRESHENER .

DONNIE RIDES

Through the car wash in his Cadillac, tilts 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.

TIM CURLEY, an OFFICE WORKER in shirtsleeves,

answers the phone.

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Curley. He CRADLES the phone with his shoulder, TYPES. INSERT--THE PAGE As Curley types, we catch FRAGMENTS...

..reported contact with...

Then:

...BENJAMIN RUGGIERO, a.k.a. LEFTY,

a.k.a. LEFTY GUNS, a.k.a. LEFTY Two

...a.k.a HALF COCK, a.k.a. HORSE

...Special Agent JOSEPH D.

...in an undercover capacity

utilizing the name DON BRASCO...

_ CURLEY

Okay. G/night. Curley hangs up the phone. Slides the sheet into his OUT box. INSERT--THE PAGE A Form 302, with the heading,

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

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

The lights are out as Donnie enters. Closes the door silently. Slips off his shoes. Ticptees upstairs. Moves along a dark corridor...

INSIDE THE BEDROOM

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MAGGIE, 30, blonde and energetic, sleeps in a king-sized bed. Donnie, stripped down to his shorts now, slips 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 his finger along a line between her breasts and down her belly...As his hand turms, we see on his ring finger

AN IRISH CLADDAGH RING

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

Then his hand continues down her belly and out of frame, as she moans...She bites his ear and he rolls on top of her...

SUNLIGHT on Maggie's face as she rolls over and we see that Donnie is GONE. As TERRY, 8, runs in wearing a BRA, chased by SHERRY, 11.

Maggie wakes up, Gisoriented, as the girls wrestle over the bra and KERRY, 7, runs 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. Drums on the steering wheel. *

JILLY, 50s, unlit cigar and bifocals, has his nails filed by a * MANICURIST wno babbles in VIETNAMESE to a COLLEAGUE. Lefty sits *

beside him.

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Lefty emerges with dilly, who leans on the car by the driver’s side--his shirt hikes up, exposing his gut. Donnie powers down the window.

capeesh? DONNIE Okay, Jilly. JILLY

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

Lefty stops.

Donnie reaches in his wallet.

Lefty EMPTIES Donnie’s wallet. Folds it into a ROLL. Puts the

hundred dollar bill on the outside. Then puts the roll in his own pocket. Donnie looks at his empty wallet.

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

Lefty stops again.

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LEFTY

And buy yourself a pair of slacks. This ain‘’t a rodeo. Dress like me.

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; LEFTY

You don't got a family?

(off Donnie’s look) Don’t worry, I’m gonna school you in everything.

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

gotta be standing outside all day in the snow for?

Lefty arrives with Donnie.

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ANGLE ON--SONNY, NICKY, 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 COWBOY BOOTS

moving up the block...They belong to: ALPHONSE “SONNY RED" INDELICATO, 50s. With him, his son, ANTHONY BRUNO INDELICATO, 20s, pale, balding, and coked-out. Lefty looks over, turns to Donnie, his lip curled with disdain.

Sonny Red.

Sonny Red confronts Lefty.

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

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The boss. BODYGUARDS jump out of the Lincoln... TIME STANDS STILL

CARMINE "LILO" GALANTE, 53, 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 excnanges a look with Donnie. Then he watches, awestruck, as Galante disappears inside.

Donnie breakfasts among the Hasidim with Curley, who reaches for an ENVELOPE on the seat alo onesie him. CURLEY They want you to shave the moustache. Regulations. DONNIE C’mon, Curlev. How do they even know

about it? As Curley removes from an envelope PHOTOS OF DONNIE

The FREEZE FRAMES we 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.

Donnie flips to another photo... INSERT--SURVEILLANCE PHOTO Donnie walks with Lefty up the street to Toyland. DONNIE | I can feel it. I got the hook in him.

A PLASTIC CHRISTMAS TREE

on a stand in the corner. Lefty sits in his Barcalounger and watches television.

NARRATOR [(V.0.) Cloaked by the high grasses of the Africen savanna, the stalking : leopard moves stealthily...

TOMMY RUGGIERO, 20s, rangy in beil-bottom jeans, picks a pimple as he answers the doorbell. It’s Donnie, CLEAN-SHAVEN now, nolding an ENVELOPE.

Lefty's girlfriend, ANNETTE, a good-looking woman in her mid- 30s, enters in an apron from the kitchen.

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...5eparated from the herd, the

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

(aside, to Donnie) Bennie loves animals.

ON THE SCREEN

The leopard CHARGES...Teeth tear at the gazelle...And soon the leopard and her family FEED on a bloody carcass.

Annette exits. Donnie sits down, hands Lefty an ENVELOPE.

_DONNTE Here you go, Left. Merry Christmas.

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

DONNIE ; You know, I thought I'd stop by for a second. —

Lefty returms with an ENVELOPE.

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They both open the envelopes. Each one contains the same thing: FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS.

They sit and look at the money a beat. DONNIE

Well, Merry Christmas, Left. I'd better get going.

LEFTY .

ZI thought you was an orphan. DONNIE

Yeah. LEFTY

Then where you going?

Chopped BACON as it renders its fat in a skillet...Lefty HACKS at a chicken with a cleaver...

Can of Collidge Inn. Tomatoes. Puncn of salt...

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You know, sometimes you don’t make no sense, Donnie...

Wherever you go, the best cooks are men, that’s a fact. On Mars the best cooks are men.

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

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SUNSET filters through the windows...Donnie and Lefty sit over Grinks as Annette washes dishes in the kitchen.

Tommy ducks his head in.

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Then he quickly ducks out before Lefty can say anything.

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LEFTY

Cancer of the prick. Oh, yeah, you didn't know that? I'm in the medical books for that.

(resuming) T used to have a boat, beautiful boat--fifty foot Bertram with twin Chryslers--

LEFTY

Well, not fifty, forty-six--I hadda

give that up. The money I owe Sonny Red? The vig alone is ten grand a month, what I owe Sonny Red.

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LEFTY

A guy like you don’t raise his hands to a made guy.

(beat) You know what I did yesterday? I went in front of all the skippers, that cocksucker Sonny Red and all of them. I went on the record with you. You know what that means?

LEFTY

You got no fucking idea, my friend. I'm your man now--Jesus Christ canit touch you because I represent you. You keep your nose clean, be a good earner and follow the rules, maybe one day when they open the books vou'll get straightened out--become a wiseguy, a made guy.

(beat) I die wit'cha, Donnie. Anything happens, I'm responsible.

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: DONNT= Well, Merry Christmas, Left.

Donnie takes out his CHRISTMAS ENVELOPE. Lefty empties it. Folds the bills, pockets them.

LEFTY

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Make sure you check in tomorrow.

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Donnie enters, carrying SHOPPING BAGS with gifts.

In the living room, a CHRISTMAS TREE with opened gifts beneath. Only a small stack--his--remain unopened.

NOBODY GREETS HIM

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Donnie looks around, puzzled. Then hears sounds of somebody

washing dishes inside...He finds a SANTA HAT. Puts it on.

IN THE KITCHEN

Maggie washes dishes at the sink. Donnie enters wearing the

Santa hat and carrying his bags.

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She returns to her dishes. DONNIE Where're the girls--at your

mother's?

DONNIE

Christmas they can't stay home for

their father?

MAGGT=

Is that your way of saving you’re

sorry?

yourseli. They might think you're

the Fuller Brush Man.

DONNTE

You know, Maggie, if you knew what

was Going today--

MAGGIE

Don’t b.s. me, Joe. Like any of this

is for me.

Senor)

She resumes with the dishes. Domnie notices a jar of PEANUT BUTTER out on the counter. Closes it. Puts it away...Starts to

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(2) MAGGIE Yes, I’m getting the checks. DONNIE

Don’t say it like it’s nothing, Maggie. It’s not nothing.

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Is that what you’ve been doing 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.

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

Maggie goes back to her dishes...

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

Terry and Kerry are at my mother’s. You have to go pick them up.

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He's twelve, Joe.

you can just drop out of the sky like God of the guineas and bark out

orders-- : DONNIE I'm the nusband, Maggie. F'm the father. MAGGIE

Undercover my ass.

DONNIE

--and Christmas I gotta come home to a goddamn empty house?

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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 them upstairs against the

gravitational pull of makes NEED. And they almost make it. But at the very top of the stairs, need takes over. They make love

with the DESPERATION of - two *neople clinging to the last <lotsam of a shipwreck.

He holds her in his arms, naked beneath the sheets. She caresses him. MAGGTS .What happened to the moustache?

“MAGGIE Yeah, I did.

MAGGIE

He’s a nice kid. He’s on the wrestling team.

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Donnie sits with Sherry, Terry and Kerry over breakfast Nobody says a word.

C'tmon; I'll bet you. I'll bet you twenty bucks--you really think you can get through this entire breakfast without saying three

words? TERRY You lose. cur TO:

Maggie folds laundry in her bedroom. Glances outside. MAGGIE’S POV

A SHADOWY GUY has emerged from his parked car and Donnie is talking with him.

Maggie hustles the gizls downstairs toward the basement REC ROOM as Donnie and the Shadowy Guy head upstairs.

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

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As he talks on the phone.

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

DONNIE TENSE

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

light goes red. Checks his mirror--the other car STUCK at the light.

“INSIDE THE OTHER CAR

It's Maggie. She SMACKS the steering wheel in ANGER.

Donnie drives on toward the George Washington Bridge.

On the front page of the New York Post:

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

WIDER

Lefty folds it in DISGUST, lights a cigarette--even more JUMPY than usual. MANTOVANI plays on Lefty’s 8-TRACK PLAYER--the THEME from “A SUMMER PLACE”. Donnie drives across the 59th St. Bridge.

around. DONNIE Where're we going? LEFTY I got sent for. DONNIE What does that mean, you got sent for? LEFTY

What do you think it means?

“LEFTY You get sent for, you gotta go. I got sent for by Sonny, Donnie. I'm telling you, I'm sick with this.

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I thought you and Sonny Black were friends.

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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 himself, that cocksucker--

{crossing himself) Rest in peace.

Lefty lights another cigarette.

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

Lefty takes a last drag of his cigarette, exits.

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

Lefty comes in the front door.

tells him: this is how it havopens.

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Lefty gets up, lights a cigarette. *

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It‘s not Sonny. It’s Donnie.

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

NICKY

Boobie, that ain’t gin.

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Boobie takes a long look at his cards.

. NICKY T’ll tell you what. From now on we play the honor system.

Lefty watches the front door as Sonny enters.

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

ain’t playing gin with you, fuggedaboudit.

NICKY

Fuggedaboudit. I’m the only one knows how to keep score.

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

A BRAND NEW MERCEDES

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Neil Diamond’s “LOVE ON THE 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.

Lefty, NERVOUS, pulls down the sun visor. Looks at Boobie in the mirror. Boobie waves to him. Sonny catches this.

u

ervone laughs.

SONNY

We all gotta go sometime.

Lefty looks nervously at Boobie again. Donnie WATCHES

this...Thinks: what to do?

44,

They walk from the parked Mercedes toward a FREIGHT HANGAR.

The scene is otherwise DESERTED. Lefty NERVOUS, iights a cigarette. Planes periodically ROAR overhead.

Lefty heads toward the hangar, followed bv 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 hangar... DONNIE (mutters)

God damn it. ANGLE ON~--~LEFTY As he approaches the hangar, surrounded by the others...

Lefty opens the door, walks into the DARKNESS...A terrifying SILENCE. ..Then:

A LION ROARS

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

NICKY ~ Look, Left, he likes you.

The lion ROARS again.

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Gales of LAUGHTER from the guys. SONNY How come, that money you owe Sonny

Red? Don’t worry, chooch. Now vou owe it to me.

Donnie waits, powerless, by the Mercedes. Then looks up and sees

Sonny, Nicky and Boobie as they emerge around the cormer.

Followed by Lefty, leading the Lion on a leash.

CuT TO:

Donnie drives. Lefty, FUMING, smokes a cigarette. The Lion

growls, ROARS. Then ROARS again.

LEFTY ~ (to Lion) Okay, Shaddun already! {to Donnie) Pull over here.

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

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

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.

DONNIE

Not in so many words...

They toss the burgers without saying anything.

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They toss the burgers to the Lion.

LEFTY

I'il tell you, I wish I had that

boat again. That Bertram? One day

T'd just drive down to the pier with Annette, get on that boat, and just

go. North, South, East or West.

And nobody'd ever find me.

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

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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 FAMILY TREE. ;

MONTAGE

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...

Donnie at Katz‘’s Deli...Curley hands him a TAPE RECORDER and he *

sticks it in his boot.

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...

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

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

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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...

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

Sonny and his entourage sit at RINGSIDE TABLES at a Manhattan 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.

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

Hey, Curley.

Donnie thinks a beat.

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(beat) ;

And to make sure-~in all the hubbub- -~there’s no missed opportunities.

(beat)

You're not the only one risking your life out there, Bud. .

DAY. MOTION LOUNGE 57

A LION IN WINTER. Boobie in his overcoat, . their breath visible in the cold. The Lion stops, AUTOMOBILE. Lifts a leg...

the Lion on its leash, sniffs at an

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leg...Boobie YANKS on the leash--the Lion ROARS. Boobie DRAGS the Lion. into the Motion Lounge...

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A METALLIC BANG

as Lefty WHACKS at a stolen PARKING METER with a hammer. Sonny Sits with Donnie, Nicky, and the twenty other WISEGUYS in the

'crew--all poring over little spiral NOTEBOOKS. Like a BOARD

MEETING of the Sonny Black Corporation, punctuated by ROARS from the Lion, downstairs in the basement.

WISEGUY #1 ...L 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.

NICKY

You give two or three of those to a broad, fuggedaboudit. She’‘ll do anything you want.

BOOBIE

You think if I give three Quaaludes to Brenda, she’li cook?

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WISEGUY #2.reports, post-laryngectomy, with a BUZZER held to his throat.

WISEGUY #2 A dime on the vig.

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

WISEGUY #2 A hundred.

Sonny jots it down. Lefty WHACKS at the meter.

Managgia...Sonny Red's got a million

a week just with that trucking

‘company of his in Jersey--I got

fifty scoot. *

Nicky gets up, smokes a Cigarette. NICKY You know what? We should hijack an oil tanker. Lotta money in oil.

. NICKY

I'm saying look at how rich the Arabs are getting.

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

UP.

LEFTY

Florida got their own wiseguys, for your information. NICKY

Florida and Arizona. Because of the energy crisis. They had a whole conversation on The Long John Knebel Show.

Something has clicked with Sonny. SONNY {to Donnie} You're from there, Florida, right? Lefty BANGS the parking meter again. NICKY

Lotta parking meters down in Florida.

LAUGHTER all around. Till Sonny EXPLODE S. In a RAGE,

overturns the card table.

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Hah? (slaps Nicky) I'm the skipper. I gotta answer now. Fifty grand a month I gotta kick up to Rusty--every month! Ah, manacaia, one day I'm gonna die, and I'm gonna be in this same fucking room, with these same fucking guys, talking about these same fucking scams that never amount to anything, and that's how I'll know I got fucking sent to Hell.

Sonny STORMS out. The guys sit, look at each other. Some dazed. Some CALCULATING. Nicky, humiliated, lights enother cigarette. Boobie turms to the others:

Then Sonny RETURNS. Pale and shaken.

The guys file out. STARE at the EMPTY SPACE where the Mercedes used to be.

Donnie drives. Lefty smokes.

. LEFTY Donnie--why'd you inject that, Donnie, with Florida?

I didn't inject nothing, Left.

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LEFTY

You think Sonny Black was just bullshitting around?

DONNiI He wasn't?

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LEFTY .

You can't say that, Donnie. Sonny Black is the skipper. You don't cpen your mouth about him.

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LEFTY

Donnie--don't think you got the wood

over my eyes. I watch you siding up to Sonny Black.

LEFTY

I got two grenades at home--I'd blow

up all Mulberry Street before I'd give you up. I don't know what I'd do, you did something wrong.

Florida, you're responsible. And I'm

responsible ‘cause I represent you.

hassled by some half-assed wiseguys.

He needs a partner who can give him peace of mind. He has a nightclub down there.

LEFTY

.Do I know? Some fucking joint Nicky

picked. {resuming}

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A Japanese MAITRE D' greets them at the door.

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

The Maitre d' stops them, smiles.

DONNIE’S COWBOY BOOT

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

Nicky sits down. Takes off his shoes.

MATTRE D! I'm afraid is necessary.

~—

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

MAITRE D'‘ I'm afraid is necessary. {off Sonny’s look) I'm afraid is necessary. SONNY BLOWS *

Up like a tackle exploding off the line. GRABS the Maitre d' and RAMS him through the doors of the MEN'S ROOM...

Sonny BANGS on the Maitre d’, Donnie right behind him. They = overwnelm the Maitre d’as the others SWARM inside.

FISTS AND KICKS

erunch down on. the Maitre a‘. 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. PUNCHES hard across the Maitre d’s brow. Blood TORRENTS from 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. Ina RAGE now...

Boobie grabs a GARBAGE CAN, swings it at the Maitre d'. Again

and again. Till the Maitre d' COLLAPSES. The guys KICK at him...Until, WINDED, they pull away.

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Donnie looks at the Maitre d', splayed UNCONSCIOUS in the puddle of blood, groaning...Winded by the exértion...APPALLED by his part in the bloodshed.

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 £6oG.. a.

: SONNY ...Broad daylight. I still can’t get over it. You have to ask yourseli, 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.

MOVING TIGHTER

On Donnie...4& consummate performance that belies the emotions roiling inside him...

; SONNY I don't know what the world's coming to. I honestly don't.

oo

SONNY

We never had none of these problems with Nixon.

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Donnie, exhausted, sits on his monastic cot. Pulls off one COWBOY BOOT. Then pulls off the other. Reaches inside for

A NAGRA TAPE RECORDER

About twice the size of a deck of cards. Pulls out the CASSETTE, rewinds it in a TAPE DECK. Then presses “PLAY”.

on the explosion of violence...

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

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

A sign: WELCOME TO FLORIDA.

<

, and Judy, Nicky and

The guys arrive at the Miami airport-~Sonn al ty. NOT Annette.

Boobie with GIRLFRIENDS, and Donnie and Le

as

6&7

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Dressed in gym shorts, black socks and street shoes, the guys HACK enthusiastically on the TENNIS COURT.

Slathered with oil, holding REFLECTORS, the quys BAKE in the aun by the POOL. Boobie has two DOVES tattooed on his chest. On lounges nearby, the girls suntan together.

WATER SLIDES. The guys came down--on their bellies, on their backs, taking “trains” locking hands and ankles-~landing with a SPLASH in a big pool.

A cuddly FUN FIGURE gives Lefty a hug at a THEME PARK. Nicky snaps a picture...

The guys bury Lefty in the sand while he sleeps under an umbrella, an empty wine glass at his side...

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

A thick blanket of SNOW on the ground. Maggie shovels the STATION WAGON from out of a snawbank. She SNEEZES. The sound of the phone as it RINGS inside. She plants the shovel ina

snow with a THUNK! Goes inside. The slam of the door starts an AVALANCHE from the roof...

cur To:

In an alcove near poolside. Bonnie talks on a PAY PHONE. DONNIE (to phone) ++-I'm in Florida.

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GIRLS IN BIKINIS

Crisscrosa in the foreground, revealing Sonny with the New York papers, Boobie, and Nicky on chaises by the pool. Lefty sits with a spritzer in his “cabana set”.

SONNY * Lookit this-- John Wayne died. How + could John Wayne die? * LEFTY a The fucking Indians got him. *

Lefty gets up, exits. Judy brings Sonny a drink.

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

- MAGGIE Sherry, put that coat on. You get * back here, little lady.

tw ewe wares metas my?

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Donnie on the pay phone.

She‘s just acting out. Sounds of Sherry and Terry fighting...

DONNIE

Maggie, I gotta talk to her. Sunday’s right around the corner. I don’t know when I'm gonna have another chance to--

(beat) Does she know at least to don’t bite the wafer?

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

-+eInto a DIAL TONE. He hangs up as Lefty approaches.

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Richie (beat)

I wanna go see that club. while Donnie dials, Lefty looks furtively at Sonny. ANGLE ON-~SONNY Reading the paper as Boobie gets up, stretches...

222ZH1 2222K!

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

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

Z2222H! and FREEZE FRAME. ANGLE ON~-SONNY

As he watches Lefty and Donnie exit down the breezeway.

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

“KING’S COURT.” MIAMI, FLORIDA.

1980. CLOSER Donnie waits with Lefty in the hot sun. Lefty smokes, kicks irritably at the stones on the parking lot. ks at his watch. LEFTY

Donnie, it’s a half hour. Where is this guy?

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Donnie looks at his watch. Then a purple TRANS AM with a flaming eagle on the hood pulls up. RICHIE ZO, 408, a vibrantly suntanned undercover FBI agent, emerges. His open Hawaiian shirt veveals a brace of gold chains.

Do oo h h 1 Hey m~--you Brought the cava ! * ‘(with handshake) oe Richie Gazzo!

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

They are not amused. CUT TO;

A cobwebbed at sa 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 FLASHLIGHT behind the bar.

you'll plotg.

DONNIE ; What the hell happened, Richie?

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They exchange a look. Gazzo shrugs. Exits.

ANGLE ON~-<LEFTY

’ As he takes Donnie aside.

wife? | DONNIE

What, Richie? He's okay.

LEFTY

You vouch for this guy, Donnie?

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

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LEFTY

Donnie--Senny's down here for vacation. He ain't once got out of that chaise lounge, it's iike he's in traction.

DONNIE

“But I thought he said he wanted to

get some deals going.

DONNIE ; I guess once we get it going we can kick some fazools up to him.

LEFTY

Hah?

(musing) Thirty years busting my hump-~even a dog has a warm piece of the sidewalk, I cughtta have something to show for myself, doen't you think, Donnie? This ain't New York down here, you know, with all the politics. The beefs. The grudges. Down here a guy ike me could sit down with the 88. Get out from undex--be a free agent for a change.

(beat) I'm t6élling you, Donnie--nothing but nothing but right.

The parking lot of a motel. A rented CADILLAC pulls in. A man

gets out.

IT’S DONNIE

He looks around. Disappears furtively into the motel,

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

IT’S NICKY

He looks around. Disappears inside.

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...

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

BO

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

. US ATTORNEY #1 Wa just have a few things we'd like to go over. To make the loansharking indictment~-

TECHNICIAN #)] _ (with headphones)

FBI #1 You want some coffes, Joe?

TECHNICIAN #1 (with headphones} ..-Ninety...

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

Donnie rubs his head with his hands.

$8.

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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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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 HURLS it into the wall. BANG! It springs open, broken. Then he storms into the bathroom, SLAMS the door. Curley takes Blandford aside. CURLEY T'm worried. I think he’s getting strung out. BLANDFORD We're getting what we want. Fuck him.

A plastic bag full of white powder--a kilo of COCAINE. Thrown on the bed. Next to it: a brown paper bag, OPENED-~stacks of HUNDREDS, tied with rubber bands. HANDS riffle the bills... WIDER

Nicky stands in the room with two COLOMBIANS. Takes the cocaine, sticks it in a CARRY-ON BAG.

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

$2

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The ba Laps against the shore. Chirping bugs and palm-rustie. A car pulls into the parking lot. Nicky strolls with the carry-on bag, tossea it in the trunk of hie car... NICKY (sings) | “Colombla, the gem of the ocean. The home of the brave and the free..."

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

IT’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?

Rusty’s locked up in the can with his fucking sinyses and he finds out you're down in Florida?

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ou'll be crying you miss the New ork bread. NICKY New York bread is like cake. SONNY

What do you think, Left--I'‘m on vacation down here?

CLOSE ON~~DONNIE

As he registers this...Placidly turns the page...

; LEFTY No wonder we can’t get service in this joint. They think it’s Joe Batchagaloop in that shirt.

Sonny looks at Lefty. Folds up his newspaper. SONNY Rey, Donnie, let’s go take a walk, I wanna get a candy bar. Sonny and Donnie walk off in their flip-flops.

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| LEPTY That shirt is like the shirt the

barber gives you to put over your shirt.

ANGLE ON--SONNY

As he enters the alcove with Donnie and hearse the three of then LAUGH.

Sonny and Donnie walk on the Astroturf toward the vending machine in the hall. - a : ;

Last night?

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They look at each other. A SENIOR CITIZEN emerges from a nearby room in a pink terrycloth robe, squeazea by them.

Sonny watches as she disappears around the corner. Then turns again to Donnie.

Sonny EXPLODES, thumps his finger into Donnie'’s chest. SONNY Let me tell you something, I eat your balls for breakfast! Life and death -~every fucking one of you-- it’s my say-s0! My say-so!}

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

cuT TO: OMIT

OMIT

BBA

OMIT

Lefty and

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Lefty 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.

DONNIE ; Sure. “A friend of mine, a friend of ours.”

LEFTY

There’s a double meaning. A boss appreciates a thing like that.

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Irony? Fuggedaboudit. You put a *

beaner inside, he knows these are *

men of men. *

+

They resume strolling down the aisle.

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me

+ + OF

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

DONNIE

But than, if you disagree, like “A Lincoln’s better than a Cadillac.” “Tuggedaboudit.” Or if something's the greatest thing in the world. rnose peppers? Fuggedaboudit.* Or it's li know gomething you don't know, like, “He's making two million a year, tuggedaboudit.” Or it's like saying go to hell, like, “Boobie,

ou got a one-inch pecker,* and

Aeob @ says, “Fuggedaboudit.* And then, sometimes, it just means forget about it.

TECHNICIAN #2

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

TECHNICIAN #2 Hey, weren't you looking for a boat?

TECHNICIAN #2 You know that sting operation-- whatchamacallit--the agenta dress up as Arabs and bribe Congressmen--

TECHNICIAN #1 Yeah?

TECHNICIAN #2 Those guys have a boat down here.

B9 INT. NIGHT. THE TAHITIAN~-LEFTY'’S ROOM 89

The room is FREEZING, Lefty, swaddled in BLANKETS, twists helplessly at the stub where the CONTROL KNOB has been removed. KICKS the air conditionsr. Lights a cigarette, PACES...

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Donnie enters. Lefty GLARFES at him.

(off Lefty What's going on

you know, And I know you know I know you know.

Donnie moves toward the air conditioner... LEFTY

I'm freezing to my fucking death, Donnie.

Donnie opens the door on the unit--sees the KNOB is removed.

Donnie realizes what happened. Chuckles.

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

cocksucker-- DONNIE Hey, Left--don't call me that. LEFTY I’ll call you whatever I want. I'll call you cocksucker, Z'1ll call you

motherfucker, I’11 cail you, uh, uh-

They exchange a look. Then Lefty rummages in his bags...

Lefty turns to Donnie.

LEFTY

You take it back, Donnie.

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DONNIE : Fuggedaboudit. I'm getting my room. I'll see you tomorrow.

Hea turns, SLAMS out. Lefty chases hin.

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

Friday |

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A gorgeous MOTOR YACHT with “THE LEFT HAND” emblazoned on the stern...Big engines and endless staterooms, varnished parquet decks and teak veneers...Lefty SCRAMBLES around the deck, fussing with last-minute preparations, Donnie and 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 FLEETWOOD BROUGHAMS pull up. BODYGUARDS emerge, look up and down the marina. Lefty arrives, greets GRECO, 408, Trafficante's UNDERBOSS. Then BODYGUARD #1 lends a hand to SANTO TRAFFICANTE,

70, tinted bifocals, windbreaker and pork-pie hat, as he climbs

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They shake hands. A big momant for Lefty...

..-He holds onto Trafficante’s hand a little too long. Then finally lets go.

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 climb out. Then Sonny: Re and Lefty exchange a look. A second car with the girls pulls in beside them,

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Trafficante heads down the dock. Donnie hustles up the dock to * help unload Sonny's gear. As he grabs the gear out of the trunk, he watches as Sonny approaches Lefty.

ANGLE ON--SONNY AND LEFTY

As Sonny. lights a cigarette. Then he SMILES as he gazes out at * the dock. LEFTY yoo M BOrry, Sonny, I... * SONNY

Co2z2‘, will you leok at that boat? Sonny hands Lefty his book of matches as he heads down the dock. *

Lefty looks at the matches in his hand. . e INSERT=-BOOK OF MATCHES * KING'S COURT Every Man a King * Lefty turns away and sees Donnie right there. He and Lefty & exchange a look. Then Donnie continues down the dock.

The yacht is anchored at sea. Trafficante’s BODYGUARDS party *

with Boobie, the girls, and a few BIMBOS. Boobie flexes his pecs 60 the dove tattoos on his chest seem to "fly.”

Sonny emerges from belowdecke with Trafficante. The group looks expectantly toward them. They SHAKE HANDS. Applauae.

ANGLE ON-~-LEFTY

As Donnie brings him a spritzer. Lefty shoots Donnie a murderous look.

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LEFTY ; You stabbed the wrong fucking guy in the back, my friend.

DAY. YACHT: Donnie stands alone in the bow, leaning on the rail. A TAP ON THE SHOULDER

Startles him. It's Sonny.

That Trafficante is something.

Q@2.

Suddenly:

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SONHY

I want you to represent me in Florida, Donnie. Be my man down here--stay and get that club fixed up.

(off Dennie’s look) “King's Court*’-~you think I don’t know about that? I‘m gonna send the Lion down here wit‘cha--that big bastard. Reep him in the parking lot.

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

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I gust don’t want to be stepping on na y‘s toes.

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Donnie got this boat? Where‘d Donnie come up with a boat like this?

NICKY ; Lefty says this's a million bucks, this boat.

BOOBIE

He’s got a lot going on, Donnie. Nicky thinks. THEIR POV-~THE BOW

As Sonny introduces Donnie to Trafficante. They shake hands, CLOSE ON-~DONNIE

A major moment for him as he exchanges a look with Trafficante-- an undercover FBI agent shaking hands with the Bass!

As he watches Donnie with the boss. He goes to the railing- Takes out his greeting card, removes the hundred dollar biil. Tosses it into the water...

“FROM ONE FRIEND TO ANOTHER”

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Donnie, a Hawaiian shirt open to Nis A-shirt, PACES by a PAY PHONE as cars whiz by on the highway. Approaches the pay phone. Backs away, paces some more-~-REHEARSES 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 Snowed in. Can you believe it? UNCLE (shaking his head) His daughter's First Communion and he's stuck in an airport. MAGGIE It's for his own protection. AUNT I hate flying. She kisses Maggie. They exit. Maggie turns and sees Kerry in her COMMUNION DRESS, 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. MAGGIE Kerry-- (beat) I'm so proud of you, angel.

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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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Donnie, Lefty, Sonny, Nicky and Boobie walk through the terminal, 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 in Donnie’s eyes. GAZZO’S POV

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

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

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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.

Southern District, I was the--

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

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Sonny grabs Donnie and pulls him away.

You gotta keep your nose clean down here. You understand?

Get on the phone, get me a seat on the next fucking flight.

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

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

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and to make me happy with Him in heaven.”

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 the corner of the bed. Maggie mutters in her sleep. :

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DONNIE

Sometimes.

Berger makes a note.

“I ain't runnin’from nuttin’.” The man I married was a college man.

I hope you can do something for her,

because she's sick. You. hear how

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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...

(snaps fingers) this to me. Nothing.

(snaps fingers) Nobody.

(snaps fingers) That's who I am.

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I'll see you next week.

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.

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Can I ask you something? MAGGIE

No. DONNIE

How much is this costing? Maggie doesn't say anything.

7 DONNIE Okay, Maggie--I want you to answer my question. This is my intimacy request.

A hundred dollars. And how many of these do you think we'll need?

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Maggie punches him.

Maggie punches him repeatedly...He tries to grab her but she wrestles away, and in wrestling away hits him in the face...Then he succeeds in grabbing her wrists and she dissolves in tears of

anguish...

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You don’t know what I do all day? You‘re right. You sit in your little fucking house and you drive around your little fucking station wagon and you complain on the phone to your little fucking friends and dream up this latest hundred dollar headfuck-—

(mincing} “Will you rub my back”? Va'a'fongool!

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1O1A EXT. DAY. PARKING LOT 1O1LA* Two cars away, a MATRON loads 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... * DONNIE You don’t exist? Every fucking day you’re there with me. Every fucking day. You don’t leave. No. You don’t leave me. 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 wrappers...Soaps and hoses it...Hand-polishes the finish till it’s all but bruised.

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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.

LEFTY, What are you doing here, Donnie? You belong in Florida.

LEFTY

You called her from Florida?

Do I know? They got twelve fucking diplomas on the wall and they can’t tell you a fucking thing.

_ {beat} Fuggedaboudit. Tommy gets out of this fucking Bellevue, he’s going right back fucking in.

LEFTY

What are you gomzta do, Donnie--break the doctor's legs?

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What am I, Kunta Kinte? I go where I wanna go. Sonny can go fry an egg. He ain’t my man.

LEFTY

Idon't want vou here. You and Tommy--you’re peas in a fucking pod. You don’t listen. How many years I been on this earth-~for what? You got your own ideas. Up on your high horses-- do what you wanna do, like it's all a joke. You think they don‘t have room inside there for you, Donnie? They already wheeled two stifis out of the bed next to

him. DONNIE

What's that gotta do with me? * LEFTY

You get your ass to LaGuardia and get the next plane out. (shoves him) ‘ I'm telling you go now. =

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His heart stopped. Just like a watch--that's what the doctor said-- they hadda wind it back up. Next time, who knows? Maybe they can't.

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

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

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

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

and dedicated your life to?

Maggie tosses the letter down on the table.

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108 CONTINUED: | 108 MAGGIE We got audited.

CARS jockey for space in a full parking lot. A BANNER reads, “LAS VEGAS NIGHT~-BENEFIT FOR WAR VETERANS.” A bogus VETERAN in a VFW hat walks a WHEELCHAIR out to the front door, then sits in it. He puts on thick dark glasses. The Lion ROARS along 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 BODYGUARD guards the door

to a back room. Gazzo eftusively GREETS Sonny, Nicky, and Boobie as they arrive.

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

A GAMBLING JOINT

Roulette, craps, slots--the works...The guys bathe in the honey of success, as HALF~ASS WISEGUYS and their BIMBOS live it up...

CLOSE ON--SONNY

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

AT THE ROULETTE TABLE

Lefty sits alene,- watches as ‘he loses and the croupier slides his chips off:the table...Then watches as Sonny, Nicky and, Boobie enter. .

INSIDE A PHONE ‘BOOTH -

Donnie, RED-FACED with | anger, talks: to Blandford.

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BLANDFORD (0.C.}

Just calm down.

Donnie takes a deep breath.

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_ BLANDFORD I'm a GS-15. You can't hang up ona GS-15.

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

CASH

As it is abundantly relinquished, counted, squirreled away in the illicit gambling parlor...

ANGLE ON--~-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 TRAFFICANTE MEN 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 looks over at Donnie, who is giving a pointer toa CROUPIER. WAVES him over.

Late at night in’ ‘the CAGE, as ‘the money is counted... Thick | wedges of CASH as-;they’re riffled through and rubber- . banded. . .Sonny ‘grabs STACKS of"cash, stuffs them into

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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 hears the KERCHUNK! of A SHOTGUN And a VOICE behind him.

VOICE Just turn real slow.

But Donnie doesn’t turn. First, he CLOSES the trunk.. THE GYM BAG

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

THE SHERIFF |

And two of his DEPUTIES. One of them SWINGS Donnie around, slams him down on top of the trunk. CUFFS him hard... Bo BN

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The Sheriff SWINGS the shotgun butt into Donnie's back. Donnie GROANS.

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

bribing cops? Nobody authorized that. . ;

A ROULETTE WHEEL is eeested, SMASHED with a sledgehasmer.- betty looks on with his arms folded and a thousand yard stare. Until. the Deputies have nothing left to break.

- SHERIFF Okay. Let's lock these guineas up.

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The guys,

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

SONNY

Don’t you say a fucking word!

{resuming} I gotta go back like this to New York, I gotta face Rusty, I gotta face that cocksucker Sonny Red... And it was all in the palm of my fucking hand!

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

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Sonny thinks a beat. SONNY You find that snitch, Lefty. You find that fucking snitch, you chop him up, you put his balls in his fucking throat.

Sonny resumes pacing

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

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

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IN THE KITCHEN

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

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. * Curt TO:

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 BROAT! 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. cut TO: OMIT | 119* OMIT 120*

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

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

Wiseguy #2 croaks through his laryngectomy...

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

; SONNY What about in 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 truck?

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.

They walk out to Boobie's Cadillac.

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Boobie, we'll take your car. (beat)

Donnie, you ride up front.

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

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You know what you're gonna do when you find that snitch, Lefty?

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 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

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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 flaw on his property. Sonny Red smacks him.

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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.

BIG TRIN | Shit. Bulb must be out. Watch your step. .

They LAUGH as they head downstairs into the BASEMENT, 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:

--Sonny 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...

~-Somny RELOADS...Big Trin rallies, CHARGES 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 turns, 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 THUNK!:...

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

_ SONNY Go get Donnie. As he says this, Philly Lucky groans, claws on the cement floor * in a feeble attempt to survive. Sonny notices this, reloada 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 shotgun 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 emerges into a world of slaughter, lit red by the blood- spattered light bulb...Boobie behind him...Sonny, Lefty and Nicky in their working-man’s overalls...

they're gonna have to get in fucking line.

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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An array of KNIVES--breaking knives, steak knives, boning knives, meat saw, shears--for the butchery and filleting of a

human body.

knife...

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

of Big Trin.

.-Sonny distributes the tools...Each one holds a

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 then. Donnie turns, looks at them in their workingmen’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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DONNIE

I don't know what he did.

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.

DONNIE

What's one thing got to do with the other?

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There was a rat in Florida

cops. 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.

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Donnie glances over.

Nicky's a rat because Sonny Black savs he’s a rat. Who the fuck am I? I’m a spoke in the wheel. So was he. And so are you.

(beat) Quit riding the fucking brake.

another cigarette.

LISA.

Sees Lefty’s hand tremble as he lights

Donnie enters his monastic apartment. Takes off his coat, tosses it on his cot. And suddenly grabs a chair 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 CRUMPLES and books collapse to the ground...

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Nicky’s a rat beceuse Sonny Black Says he’s a rat. Who the fuck am 1? i'm a spoke in the wheel. So was he. And so are you.

( beat} Quit riding the fucking brake.

Donnie glances over. Sees Lefty’s hand tremble as he lights another cigarcttc.

Donnie enters his monastic apartment. Takes off his coat, tosses

it on his ent. And snuddenty grahs a chair an THROWS IT...1 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 CRUMPLES and books collapse to the ground...

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THE DOOR .

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

REVERSE ANGLE

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

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

Curtey and Blandford move around the kitchen as Maggie makes coffee. ;

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The only way to give him a raise would be to upgrade hin.

Maggie bites her tongue. Says nothing.

MAGGIE

Oh my God.

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MAGGIE

You want me to help out the Fs1? The frigging FBI that used my husband, sucked him dry, just so a bunch of supervieers could be promoted to SACs, and presecutors could become judges, and assholes like you could

ome GS-16. You don’t care if he’s dead or alivé--just as long as he follows procedures and you can cover your ass.

and Curley exchange a look.

dogs now. It‘s just not a problem we anticipated.

Maggie looks out the window.

He came home...for a sport coat.

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WISEGUYS standing guard out on the street, stamping their feet for warmth. Whispera and awestruck looks fram the wiseguys aa a big Cadillac pulls up. Boobie and Lefty emerge. Then Donnie...

WISEGUY #1 (awestruck) The bess.

e..Then Sonny. Huddling with Boobie, Lefty and Donnie, he disappears into the club.

cuT TO:

Boobie, Donnie, and two WISEGUYS sit at a card table. Boobie turns to Donnie. BOOBIE You know hew to keep score? A moment of recognition that WICKY'S GONE Then Sonny and Lefty enter from the back room, exchange a look-~- they've been conferring. ‘Then Lefty turns to Donnie. LEFTY Donnie, let‘’a go take a walk. CuT TO:

Lefty and Donnie walk up the block.

LEFTY

He's got a nickel a day coke habit. He gotta show up someplace.

{turne to Donnie) We got the contract. This gets done right, when the books open up, I'm gonne propose you for membership. ou know what that means?

tls.

or a Si aoe Ered eS 134 CONTINUED: 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 kiss on one cheek. Then hugs him, looks at him with pride. This is a big moment -- the greatest gift Lefty can bestow...

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

C’mon, Donnie, I'm freezing.

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Donnie 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.

KERRY AND TERRY ASLEEP

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

Iit’S MAGGIE

DONNIE

Nothing. Just go back to sleep. I - just had to pick something up.

MAGGIE

That’s not going to work anymore, Joe,

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

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You shouldn’t know about that.

Donnie exits the bedroom. She follows.

. DONNIE Tell me where that bag is, Maggie. | *

He continues to forage for the bag...

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She gives him a defiant look. Then turns, rummages in a hiding place. Returns with the bag. Shoves it at him.

MAGGIE

Do you wanna know now I get through my days? Do you know now I do it? I pretend you're dead. Then I’ma widow--Z can do that--with the pictures and the medals and the scrapbook and the memories...

(breaking down) ; Now just go away and stay away.

Maggies breaks down.

- You're killing me.

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HIGHWAY~--NEW JERSEY |

Donnie talks on a PAY PHONES by the highway.

LEFTY

We ain’t got time, Donnie. Meet me

there.

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

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Hello? =

He listens. Hangs up. RUNS.

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

LEFTY ; He's at the end of the pier. We'll wait while he has his drink. Let him get a little sleepy. I'm getting sleepy myself.

DONNIE

How's his boat? 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 noboedy’d ever find you?

Sonny Red got clipped--it's alli getting too hot. Go back to the

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DONNIE (cont'd)

city, pick up Annette. Then you buy * that boat and go. Forget Bruno... * LEFTY *

Sonny ain't gonna forget Bruno.

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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:

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

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; ‘DONNIE Twice a week, at least.

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‘DONNIE You're right.

DONNIE

We're sitting here, right? They think they outsmarted us, but we outsmarted them. We beat the agents!

Lefty thinks, looks at Donnie another long beat.

LEFTY

You still got two strikes on you. DONNIE

Okay. LEFTY

C'mon, let's go do this work and get this over with. ;

He hands the gun to Donnie, climbs out. Donnie looks at the gun in his hand, then sticks 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.

DONNTE’S Pov

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

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ANGLE ON~-DONNIE AND LEFTY Donnie tenses as they move down the pier towards the boat. LEFTY Remember, two behind the ear. Like pushing a button. Bing bing, that’s ac. DONNIE Okay. . LEFTY Don't freeze up. You gonna freeze * up? - DONNIE No. LEFTY

A lot of guys freeze up.

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. - ; LEFTY Did I say you's a rat? I can't believe you even brought that up. I *

never said you's a rat, Donnie. I'm your best friend.

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 bilge pump flicker off. ad LEFTY . *

Get ready Donnie. He's gonna be *

outta there in a second. *

Bruno slides open the 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 nungrily. * CLOSE ON--The gun in Donnie‘s hand and his trigger fives 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, FSI 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...

Donnie, don't say nothing. Don't say nothing to them.

CURLEY

Congratulations. It's over, Joe. DONNIE

What do you mean, it's over? That’s

my call. I come out when I say. LEFTY

Donnie, don't say nothing.

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.

BLANDFORD

You've known this guy as Donnie Brasco. That’s not his real name. The truth is, he’s been an FBI agent all along.

(with business card) Here's where you can contact me if you want to talk.

Sonny, Boobie, and Lefty watch as the FBI cohort drive off. They

Stand on the street corner--DEATH and disbelief written in their faces.

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Late n't ted east

be an agent.

An FBI MAN nides on a nearby ROOFTOP with a TELEPEOTO LENS.

Z2ZZH! A FREEZE FRAME of the guys standing outside. _ LEFTY That boat was é setup. They set up that boat and then we think Donnie's a rat. Z2ZZH! and another FREEZE FRAME. SONNY They aimost had me going LEFTY If you didn’t know Donnie. 2224! ZZZH! SONNY Right? IT£ you didn't know Donni Z2ZZH! Z2ZZH! ZZZH! FREEZE FRAMES like tombstones.

Lefty sits, BROODS, watches a NATURE SHOW on his TV. The phone rings.

angs up. Thinks a beat. Then takes off his GOLD WATCH,

“KS Lt in a drawer. Then the CROSS he wears on a chain

nd his neck. His WALLET. The KEYS to his Cadillac. Closes Grawer as Annette enters.

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He gives Annette a kiss.

He turns to the door, turns back.

gonna be anyone, I'm glad it was him.

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A line of EIGHT MEN in windbreakers and caps slencilled with "F.B.I.” in yellow ietters. They shoot at man-shaped targets. At the cnd of the line, Donnie. His hair is no longer the sleek black cap of his time with Lefty.

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Donnie completes shooting off his clip. He raises his empty gun * and watches as the range mechanism returns his target down the *

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wires. The black outline of a man peppered with bullet holes trundles inexorably towards him.

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ublic room with rows of cheap government-issue CHAIRS and a

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LE TERN with the FBI SEAL, flanked by FLAGS. Curley introduces = Donnie to a FUNCTIONARY in the public affairs division--the = shaxe hands and the Functionary takes out a NOTEBOOK. Maggie * and the three girls in their pinafores sit on metal chairs. * CURLEY ; *

+--This is Joseph Pistone. * FUNCTIONARY i

I just want to make sure I have the =

correct spelling of your name. .

DONNIE -

This is my wife, Maggie. *

Donnie beckons to her...

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Blandford enters with the DIRECTOR, a Midwestern waxworks in his 60s, Ttollowed by three AIDES, one of whom directs him to a PLATFORM In front of the lectern. Blandford ushers Donnie over to him.

AIDE #4 approaches, whispers in the Director’s ear. Donnie looks at Maggie. Maggie SQUEEZES his hand. The Director returns his attention to them.

MAGGIE

He's a very special man.

An Aide Leads Maggie pack to her seat under the prompting of the photographer.

The Director puts on his READING GLASSES as an AIDE hands him an INSCRIPTIOGN to read...

The Director hands Donnie a VELVET CASE and a large CHECK. A

PIIOTOGRAPHER steps forward. The Director and Donnie shake hands tor the camera.

Donnie complies. FLASH! Donnie and the Director captured with

their frozen smiles. 222ZH! Then TIGHT cn Donnie. 2ZZZH! Again, TIGHTER. 2ZZ2H!

DIRECTOR

Congratulations again, gon. (winks to Maggie}

Ma'am, you take good care of hin.

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The Aides whisk the Director out. The Photographer packs up his equipmerit, Slandford approaches, shakes Donnie's hand.

He pats him on the back, exits. Maggie approaches Donnie, holding Kerry's hand.

Donnie remains, ALOWE in the large room, with the flags anc the

‘ ceremonial trappings...He opens the velvet box. Looks at his

medal. Looks up, and out the window. 2Z2ZH! FREEZE FRAME.

A CRAWL rune over this cleseup ae the color desaturates:

The avidence collected by "Dennie Brasco" lad to over 200

indictments and over 100 convictions, including the famous *Pizza Connection" aase.

The "Commission Case" resnited in the convintions of four of the heads of the Five Families under the RICO statute.

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

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

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