A Most Violent Year Page #9

BILL O'LEARY

Are you kidding me with this?

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ANDREW WALSH:

No.

BILL O'LEARY

Every driver in your fleet gets a

handgun.

ANDREW WALSH:

And a permit?

O'LEARY nods yes.

ANDREW WALSH (CONT’D)

When?

BILL O'LEARY

By Friday.

ANDREW WALSH:

Are the permits legit?

BILL O'LEARY

That depends what they do with it.

If they kill their wife with them,

then no. Then that is a very fake

permit, and I’ll walk away very

quickly. But they just need to show

that they are defending themselves,

and this will stop.

ANDREW WALSH:

Who is it?

BILL O'LEARY

I don’t f***ing know...

ANDREW WALSH:

I’ll talk to him.

INT. MORALES’ GARAGE - DAY

ANNA is struggling through the boxes in the garage. She moves

some things and then finds what she is looking for. A pile of

about nine matching file boxes that are all labeled the same.

It is their off the books bookkeeping.

INT. STUDY/LIBRARY OF THE NEW HOUSE - DAY

The library is filled with custom made bookshelves that are

still waiting to be filled. There is a large desk sitting in

the corner that hasn’t been fully unpacked yet.

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ANNA comes in struggling carrying the file boxes from the

garage, she piles them on the desk.

She looks around her feet at the pile, it’s literally the

skeletons from her closet. She resets, walks over to the

window to look out over her new beautiful home. Then she

turns back at the pile of boxes that hold their past and

their future.

EXT. LONG SUBURBAN DRIVEWAY - DAY

A Standard Oil DRIVER steers his truck down the driveway. As

he approaches the end he sees a massive bulk oil truck of one

of their competitors parked blocking the exit of the

driveway. He stops his truck and gets out warily. He looks

around. No one is in the cab of the truck. But he sees a

small note taped to the window. It reads: “Engine trouble,

back later... F*** you.”

INT. STUDY/LIBRARY OF THE NEW HOUSE

The phone starts ringing. ANNA gets up from her work and

answers it. We stay on her as she gets the news.

ANNA:

He’s not here.

Her face fills with building anger as she hears.

ANNA (CONT’D)

Okay. I will.

ANNA hangs up the phone and walks over to the window and

looks out and over at the other main wing of her new

beautiful home. Then she turns back and looks at the pile of

boxes that hold their past and their future.

EXT. GATE AT STANDARD HEATING OIL

O’LEARY walks over to ANDREW as he is getting in his car.

ANDREW WALSH:

How did that go?

BILL O’LEARY

Not well.

ANDREW WALSH:

He feels very strongly about this.

BILL O’LEARY

I can see that.

ANDREW WALSH:

I don’t think he fully understands

it.

BILL O’LEARY

What’s to understand?

ANDREW WALSH:

It’s illegal.

BILL O’LEARY

It’s not illegal if I say it isn’t.

This takes ANDREW back a step.

BILL O’LEARY (CONT’D)

My responsibility is to provide

safe and timely passage of goods

and products into and around this

city. And because of this situation

it is appearing to those whose

opinions I am concerned with, that

I can’t do that right now. That can

not and will not continue.

ANDREW WALSH:

I understand.

BILL O’LEARY

So talk to him. You need to protect

yourself. As a company.

ANDREW WALSH:

I will try to talk with him.

BILL O’LEARY

This is very serious. Just know

that.

ANDREW WALSH thinks this through.

ANDREW WALSH:

How would this work?

BILL O’LEARY

What does that mean?

ANDREW WALSH:

I guess I’m not even sure exactly

what you are suggesting.

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BILL O’LEARY

Are you kidding me with this?

ANDREW WALSH:

No.

BILL O’LEARY

Every driver in your fleet gets a

handgun.

ANDREW WALSH:

And a permit?

O’LEARY nods yes.

ANDREW WALSH (CONT’D)

When?

BILL O’LEARY

By Friday.

ANDREW WALSH:

Are the permits legit?

BILL O’LEARY

That depends what they do with it.

If they kill their wife with them,

then no. Then that is a very fake

permit, and I’ll walk away very

quickly. But they just need to show

that they are defending themselves,

and this will stop.

ANDREW WALSH:

Who is it?

BILL O’LEARY

I don’t f***ing know...

INT. ABEL’S OFFICE - LATER

ANDREW comes to the door. ABEL is staring out the window but

looks up as ANDREW sits down.

ANDREW WALSH:

They just got another truck.

ABEL:

I know.

ANDREW WALSH:

Who was driving?

ABEL:

Leo.

ANDREW WALSH:

Is he alright?

ABEL:

Yes.

ANDREW WALSH:

The drivers’ security aside... this

sh*t is starting to have a very

significant financial effect on us

here. It can’t continue.

ABEL:

I know.

ANDREW WALSH:

How was your talk? (nothing)

I spoke with him after. He’s going

to keep going ‘til he gets the

answer he’s looking for.

ABEL:

I said I wouldn’t do it.

They sit for a long beat.

ANDREW WALSH:

I’m not sure we are in a position

to say that.

ABEL:

What’s that?

ANDREW looks around. He’s getting paranoid.

ANDREW WALSH:

Do you want to go for a walk?

ABEL:

Are you really serious with this,

this is what it’s come to, walking

around outside like f***ing

gangsters?

ANDREW WALSH:

I am and it is.

EXT. STANDARD HEATING OIL TRUCK - DAY

Throughout this conversation ABEL is walking over to a

section of the yard where WORKERS are loading some sort of

additive chemical to the fuel trucks.

ANDREW WALSH:

It is looking like we must do this.

ABEL:

I must?

This gets a little personal.

ANDREW WALSH:

They will shut you down.

ABEL:

These men, they work for me. These

trucks they drive, the customers

they serve. They are here because

we built this.

ANDREW WALSH:

That’s true, until its not. And the

last person in the world right now

that we need working against us is

the president of the f***ing

teamsters. This company is out of

business in a month if he gets

these guys to walk. We are running

out of cash.

ABEL:

What are you even talking about

here?

ANDREW WALSH:

The union provides a handgun and a

permit to every one of the drivers.

And they think this whole thing is

over in a week.

ABEL:

These men are f***ing truck

drivers. This is insane. You know

who is gonna get it in the end

here, me. This comes back to me.

ANDREW WALSH:

It does either way.

ABEL:

I’m not doing it.

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ANDREW WALSH:

Would you put everything at risk to

stand by that.

ABEL thinks this through.

ABEL:

It will be the end of everything I

have worked for. If one of these

guys shoots somebody it’s me they

will bring down for it...I’ll talk

to him... And we need to close this

deal. We can’t stay like this any

longer. We must close on that

property... We are so weak right

now.

They are now standing on top of one of the trucks tanks as a

worker pours the additive into the tank. The container says

“GREEN DYE #7” on it. ABEL looks down as it flows in.

He stands up and looks out across the fence at the container

property.

ANDREW WALSH:

Why do you want this so badly?

ABEL:

Because I have my entire savings at

risk with this deposit. It is

everything.

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