hoisted into a second floor window by the
Acme Safe Moving Company. The rope holding the safe is
fraying down to a slender thread.
ROGER
gasps and rockets out the window toward Baby Herman. The
rope snaps. The safe falls. Roger arrives just in time to
pluck the Baby out of harms way. But not in time to save
himself. The safe CRUNCHES down on his head, burying Roger
into the sidewalk. After a beat
driving against traffic.
The adrenalin is pumping so hard
I cant see straight.
- What happened to the cops?
- I lost em.
Great. Nothing to worry about.
Did we order a Ferrari?
- You are a genius. Beautiful!
- Greg, the problem aint over.
What?
I bring the car in.
I put it on the hoist.
- I look, and the thing is moving.
- Right, its on a hoist.
I bring the car down
and open the trunk. Bang!
- I
time, but eventually backs away a step.
STARLING
Thank you. All right.
(re: the street plan)
The fish market backs on the water.
Across the street, ground floor, is the
meth lab --
EXT. FISH MARKET AND STREETS - DAY
The Macarena blares from a boom box. Snappers, artfully
arranged in schools on ice, stare up blankly. Crabs scratch
at their crates. Lobsters climb over one another in tanks.
One of t
time.
(Turns on the TV,
blasting the rock
video again.)
Shoot. Thats devil music. Little girls
shouldnt be watchin that.
BARKEEPER
Go home.
Thelma backs out of the restaurant, glaring at the
barkeeper, and gently bumping into a lady seated at a table.
TV
...life and death matter with them. They
were driven to their knees, they
acknowledged their sins, and they
confessed. And they said Mose
time for pancakes?
KENNY
Nope. Attorney General?
A PHONE RINGS as the kids cry out en masse.
KIDS
(chorus)
Too easy! Bobby, Bobby Kennedy!
Kenny glances up at the wall. There are two phones, side by
side. One RED, one BLACK. Its the black one ringing.
Helen answers. Kenny goes back to his papers.
KENNY
All right, wise guys, Assistant
Secretary of State for Latin America...
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