A Most Violent Year Page #19

Suddenly a panic stricken VOICE blasts through on the radio.

SENIOR DRIVER EDDY V.O.

Motherfuckers!

RADIO DISPATCHER V.O.

Who’s that?

SENIOR DRIVER EDDY V.O.

It’s 17. Two guys are coming at me.

RADIO DISPATCHER V.O.

Where are you?

We now hear the driver yell at the TWO GUYS coming at him.

SENIOR DRIVER EDDY V.O.

F*** you!

RADIO DISPATCHER V.O.

Where are you!

SENIOR DRIVER EDDY V.O.

Hall Street and Flushing Ave. I’m

out of...

RADIO DISPATCHER V.O.

Eddy? Eddy?

ABEL looks up at the street where they are and realizes this

is going down right down the street from them. He’s had

enough.

He pulls across the intersection and heads down a street. He

comes to the next intersection and right in front of him the

truck comes flying by.

He looks to his right and sees EDDY standing at the side of

the road. But he wants to end this. So he pulls out and

starts following the truck leaving EDDY behind.

ABEL follows the truck for several blocks through the

industrial neighborhood. He is tempted to pull up alongside

of it to see who is driving but doesn’t. He continues to

follow him.

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They get to a light and the truck makes a right hand turn

and, as they are turning, LOUIS SERVIDIO who is sitting in

the passenger seat looks behind him and sees that ABEL is

following him. It now turns into a high speed chase as the

driver steps on it.

They race down a ramp into a railyard. ABEL chases the truck

as it crosses the tracks and heads towards an abandoned

tunnel. The truck races into the tunnel and ABEL follows. The

truck is throwing up a dust storm and ABEL has a difficult

time seeing where he is going but he keeps up.

The roadway is very bumpy and both the truck and ABEL’S car

are thrown around and the truck almost hits the sides of the

tunnel.

The light at the end of the tunnel starts to appear through

the dust but we can’t see the truck. As ABEL comes into the

light he has to SLAM on his brakes because the TRUCK has

flipped over in front of him.

As he gets out of his car he sees LOUIS SERVIDIO jumping down

from the overturned cab and run off into the train yard. ABEL

looks at the crushed cab of the truck and sees the DRIVER has

been killed. There is a gun sitting on the dash of the truck

and ABEL looks and thinks. He then picks up the gun and

chases after LOUIS SERVIDIO.

In the distance he sees LOUIS SERVIDIO leave the yard and

head up into an elevated subway station.

EXT. SUBWAY STATION - DAY

ABEL runs up the stairs of the station and hops onto a

leaving train just as the doors shut. ABEL looks around.

There are three people in his car. It is covered in graffiti.

He starts making his way down to the end of the train where

the guy is.

He looks into the last car and sees LOUIS SERVIDIO and just

bull rushes him to the ground. He starts beating on him very,

very badly with the pistol. All the rage comes out of him. He

then aims the gun at LOUIS SERVIDIO.

LOUIS SERVIDIO:

Please. Please.

They stare at each other.

ABEL:

Your friend is dead... who do you

work for.

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LOUIS SERVIDIO:

You know I could never tell you

that.

ABEL:

Stop... just stop.

LOUIS SERVIDIO:

This was it anyway. Okay... Okay.

ABEL looks right through him and then finally lowers the gun

and releases his hands from around his jacket and he gets up

and looks back at ABEL.

LOUIS SERVIDIO (CONT’D)

Thank you.

LOUIS SERVIDIO then runs out of the car as the door opens.

ABEL sits up and slows his breathing down. Finally he looks

around the trashed car and sees that a woman has been in the

car with them the whole time and she is just staring at him.

INT. BROOKLYN BARBERSHOP - DAY

ABEL walks into the shop and is a little put back together

but is worse for the wear. ARNOLD KLINE is sitting in one of

the chairs waiting. He turns to ABEL.

ARNOLD KLINE:

Hey.

ABEL:

Jimmy, can you give me a minute?

Jimmy looks around then walks into the back.

ARNOLD KLINE:

Abel, that was well said.

ABEL:

Thank you.

ARNOLD KLINE:

What can I do for you?

ABEL:

I’ve just come to collect that

check you owe me.

This takes him back a step.

ARNOLD KLINE:

What check is that?

ABEL:

The one for $213,000.

ARNOLD KLINE:

I’m sorry?

ABEL:

That’s how much has been taken from

me over the last six months.

ARNOLD KLINE:

I had nothing to do with that.

ABEL:

Your Far Rockaway facility bought a

load of fuel last week off one of

my stolen trucks.

ARNOLD KLINE:

That’s not possible.

ABEL:

I was standing on top of one of my

hi-jacked trucks a couple weeks ago

thinking about the cowards who did

this when I remembered I had bought

the load of fuel off a friend’s

tanker straight from Texas. As I’m

sure you know Texas #4 is marked.

But that was just one load, so

every truck that has left my lot

for the last two weeks has been

marked with dye that I’ve put in...

And luckily four more of my trucks

got jacked since.... My guess is

there are at least 4600 gallons of

marked fuel in your small tank

right now.

No answer. Finally.

ARNOLD KLINE:

How much?

ABEL:

I said...213,000.

ARNOLD KLINE:

I’ll need a day.

ABEL:

Okay.

ABEL gets ready to leave.

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ARNOLD KLINE:

I’ve just been buying this stuff

off these guys, it was only a

couple loads, I don’t know who they

are. I would never do that.

ABEL:

My goal was to have you out of

business by the end of next year.

And if you’re this f***ing

desperate it doesn’t seem like it

will even take that long.

He walks away.

ARNOLD KLINE:

Abel, I wasn’t the only person

buying this sh*t.

He turns.

ABEL:

I don’t care.

ARNOLD KLINE:

It may ruin me.

ABEL:

When you find out who else it was

you can get them to pay you back

the difference. Kinda makes you

miss having your father around? But

I need the whole lot tomorrow or

the feds will be at your doorstep

by noon.

He leaves.

EXT. UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC FIELD - DAY

ABEL is sitting on a bleacher totally alone watching a prep

school football practice. We stay with him as he sits quietly

just watching.

Eventually his 21-YEAR-OLD YOUNGER BROTHER, ELIAS, comes

walking off the field over to him. PLAYERS start leaving the

field.

ABEL:

You look good out there.

ELIAS:

I didn’t know you were coming.

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ABEL:

I didn’t either... I didn’t mean to

take you away.

ELIAS:

We’re done.

He sits down next to him. They both look out for a long, long

beat.

ELIAS (CONT’D)

Thanks for coming.

ABEL:

Of course. You’ve grown.

ELIAS:

You saw me a month ago.

ABEL:

I know... but you have.

ABEL looks across as a small group of GIRLS FIELD HOCKEY

PLAYERS walk across the field in front of them. They watch

them pass and walk away.

ABEL (CONT’D)

The girls at this place... they are

so beautiful?

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