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Woodward steps into the hallway from the door marked "VAULT ROOM." He takes a deep breath and puts his hand against his heart. He takes a moment to calm down, then slowly walks up the hall. As he comes around a corner he comes face to face with the old Cleaning Man. WOODWARD
CLEANING
MAN Woodward is furious. WOODWARD
The Cleaning Man is shocked and offended. Woodward stomps away.
Woodward arrives at the elevators. He pushes the down button, but it does not light up. A sign beside the elevator states that "The hours of operation are: 7:00 A.M. to 8:30 P.M." Woodward looks at his watch. It is 8:32. WOODWARD Woodward turns and sees a door with a sign above it reading, "STAIRS." The old Cleaning Man is just coming by with his mop and bucket. WOODWARD
The old Cleaning Man shakes his head. CLEANING
MAN WOODWARD
Woodward enters the door marked, "STAIRS." INT. TENTH FLOOR STAIRWELL - NIGHT Woodward enters the stairwell. He sees "10" stenciled on the wall. He looks down the stairs. It's a million miles down. He shakes his head and starts down the stairs.
We hear clinking and clanking of feet coming down metal stairs. Woodward steps into view with his suit coat over his arm and sweat stains soaking his shirt. INT. FIRST FLOOR STAIRWELL - NIGHT Woodward arrives at the bottom and is huffing and puffing, totally out of breath. He puts his suit coat back on and regains his composure. He opens the door to the lobby. INT. LOBBY IN THE OFFICE BUILDING - NIGHT Woodward comes out the door into the lobby. He sees the old Cleaning Man walk by with his mop and bucket. Woodward is stunned. WOODWARD
CLEANING
MAN Woodward is beyond words as he watches the old Cleaning Man walk away. Woodward walks across the lobby. As he passes the two Guards at the video console he waves his hand. WOODWARD
GUARDS
1 & 2 Woodward exits the building.
Woodward gets outside and quickly, though not too quickly, crosses the parking lot. He arrives at his mint brown 1950 Mercedes-Benz convertible. He puts the briefcase in the car and is about to get in himself when he sees a smudge on the car's finish. He takes out his handkerchief, breathes on the smudge and wipes it off. He gets in the car and drives away. DISSOLVE TO: EXT. LAKEFRONT JEWELERS - LATER THAT NIGHT Five cop cars sit outside the jewelry store with their flashers going. A black unmarked sedan pulls up and out steps POLICE LT. WOODROW TOBIAS, Jr., a disheveled, fifty-five year old man in a wrinkled overcoat. Tobias takes a beat up old leather cigar case from his pocket. He puts a big fat cigar in his mouth and lights up. A uniformed COP waves to him. COP
#1 TOBIAS Lt. Tobias enters the store. INT. LAKEFRONT JEWELRY STORE - NIGHT Lt. Tobias walks through the store. Pictures are being taken, they are dusting for prints, inspecting the damage. Another COP walks past. COP
#2
COP
#2 Tobias approaches a DETECTIVE who is looking at a broken glass case. The Detective looks up. DETECTIVE
A camera flashes. DETECTIVE
LT.
TOBIAS The Detective gets embarrassed. DETECTIVE
LT.
TOBIAS DETECTIVE
LT.
TOBIAS Lt. Tobias looks up at the hole in the ceiling. LT.
TOBIAS DETECTIVE Suddenly a fat man falls through the hole and crashes to the showroom floor.
42nd Street and Broadway. Masses of people, bright lights, taxi cabs, movie theaters. Leonard Woodward steps into a phone booth. He inserts a quarter in the phone and dials a number that he has written on the back of a crumbled cigarette pack. Above the number is the name, "Mickey Gratiot." As the phone is ringing, Woodward smells something foul, looks down and sees a pile of crap. He is horrified and just as he is about to hang up the phone is answered. MICKEY
(O.S.) WOODWARD
MICKEY
(O.S.) The smell in the phone booth is unbearable. Woodward goes the length of the phone cord out the door.
The bar is dark, smokey, empty and quiet with just a few diehards at a few tables and one old man at the bar. He is MICKEY GRATIOT, a fence, a con-man, a low-life. He looks like Burgess Meredith and wears a hearing-aid. He finishes messing with the answering machine. MICKEY WOODWARD
(O.S.) MICKEY WOODWARD
(O.S.) MICKEY WOODWARD
(O.S.) MICKEY WOODWARD
(O.S.) MICKEY WOODWARD
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(V.O.) EXT. TIMES SQUARE - NIGHT Woodward hangs up the phone, steps out the door and takes a deep breath. He smells his clothes and winces. He quickly leaves Times Square.
The Last Chance Bar & Grill is a ratty little dive under a freeway overpass. A green 1964 Impala pulls into the parking lot and Frank gets out. On his rear bumper is a faded, peeling Humphrey/Muskie sticker. Frank goes into the bar. INT. BAR - NIGHT Frank approaches Mickey's table. FRANK
MICKEY
Frank pauses, then speaks louder. FRANK
Mickey speaks a little too loud as well. MICKEY
Frank looks all around in a panic, however no one seems to be listening. He puts his fingers to his lips. FRANK MICKEY
Frank looks at the juke box which is not on. It is completely quiet. FRANK
Frank follows Mickey into the back. BACK ROOM - NIGHT It's a dingy little room with a desk that has a million cigarette burns on it. Mickey sits behind the desk. Frank shows him his stolen jewelry and Mickey puts a jeweler's loop in his eye and inspects it. MICKEY FRANK Mickey laughs, then looks down at the jewels. MICKEY FRANK MICKEY FRANK MICKEY Frank shakes his head, not sure of what just transpired. FRANK MICKEY FRANK MICKEY FRANK
MICKEY
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Frank stands and leaves. INT. BAR - NIGHT Frank comes walking out of the back room just as Ray comes out of the Men's room. Frank points at Ray. FRANK
RAY
FRANK
RAY
Frank shrugs. FRANK
Mickey steps out into the quiet bar from the back room and sees Frank. MICKEY
Frank grimaces and Ray looks at him. RAY
Frank ignores Ray and goes to the bar. FRANK
Ray follows him to the bar and begins to laugh. RAY
Ray motions for the bartender. Frank sneers. FRANK
RAY
Frank's left eyebrow begins to twitch slightly. FRANK
Ray sticks his face into Frank's face. RAY
Frank gets his shot and downs it, then turns to Ray. FRANK
Frank eyes glare as he turns to leave. FRANK BARTENDER
Frank stops, rolls his eyes, reaches into his pocket and pulls out a ten dollar bill. He slaps it on the bar. FRANK
Frank turns and leaves the bar. Ray turns grinning to Mickey. RAY Mickey's got his hearing aid firmly in his ear and shakes his head. MICKEY RAY MICKEY
RAY
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Ray is wide-eyed and leaning forward. RAY
MICKEY
RAY MICKEY
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The bartender hollers to Mickey. Mickey stands up and shrugs. MICKEY DISSOLVE TO:
Frank walks up the huge stone steps to the library past many people. He goes in the front door.
Frank walks through the hushed silence of people reading. He steps up to the reference desk. A pretty young REFERENCE LIBARAIAN sitting behind the desk looks up at him. REFERENCE
LIBRARIAN FRANK Frank leans back on the desk and looks around. He sees two giggly teenage girls talking to each other. Suddenly a stern-looking, female LIBRARIAN wearing half-glasses appears behind them. She makes an awful face and puts her fingers to her lips. LIBRARIAN The teenage girls immediately become embarrassed
and stop talking. LIBRARIAN FRANK LIBRARIAN The Librarian does an about face and stalks away. Frank turns and sees Ray walking up. Frank furrows his brow. Ray sees him and approaches. FRANK |