All the Money in the World Page #20

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Chace walks down to the end of the driveway, puts on hissunglasses, and holds out his thumb to hitch a ride.

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EXT. ROME STREETS -- OVERHEAD -- DAY

We FLY OVER the same streets of Rome where the movie began.

INT. ROME FIUMICINO AIRPORT -- BOARDING GATE -- DAY

Chace emerges from the terminal. Iacovoni is waiting therefor him; he falls into step beside Chace as they exit.

IACOVONI:

The money came through. We were on

the phone, and my secretary beginsto shout the bank wire came through.

(a beat)

It was the full ransom. $3.3 million

at today's exchange rate. $1.6

billion in lira.

Chace misses a step, surprised.

IACOVONI (CONT'D)

What did you say to him?

CHACE:

I couldn't even tell you.

INT. BANCO COMMERCIALE DI ROMA -- MONTAGE -- DAY

Nearly a dozen female BANK EMPLOYEES count out and bundlehuge piles of lira notes at a great counting table.

CINQUANTA (V.O.)

The money must be in used lira notes,

small denomination only, no marking.

A PHOTOCOPIER flashes as each note is photographed. The

money is a 201-pound mountain. It is packed into three hugecanvas MAIL BAGS and loaded onto a rolling pallet.

EXT. ROME STREETS -- MORNING

The streets of Rome are COMPLETELY, EERILY EMPTY. No cars.

CINQUANTA (V.O.)

Because of the fuel crisis rationingmeasures, no cars will be allowed onthe roads on Sunday.

Chace fills up a 10-liter can of gasoline at a gas station.

He counts out a stack of lira notes for the owner.

CINQUANTA (V.O.) (CONT'D)

This way the autostrada will be empty.

They will know if Gail is followed.

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CHACE:

I'll make the exchange on my own.

INT. GAIL'S APARTMENT -- DAY

Chace is on the phone, with Gail, Del Rovere, Corvo, and asurveillance officer in the BG.

CINQUANTA (O.S.)

Signora Getty only.

CHACE:

She's not going.

GAIL:

I can do it. I'm doing it.

DEL ROVERE:

Signora, be reasonable.

EXT. GAIL'S APARTMENT -- MORNING

With dozens of paparazzi outside her building, Gail ascendsthe stairwell to the rooftop, crosses to another building,

and descends to a car at street level on an adjacent block.

CHACE (V.O.)

She'll be in a car with millions of

dollars. The whole world knows what

she looks like. She could be robbed

on the highway.

CINQUANTA (V.O.)

That's your problem.

CHACE (V.O.)

Then we both go. Non-negotiable.

EXT. ROME AUTOSTRADA -- TOLL GATE -- DAY

Gail drives, with Chace in the passenger seat. The trunk of

the vehicle is weighed down by the money.

CINQUANTA (V.O.)

Driving a Fiat 123 with two suitcasestied to the roof, exit the autostrada

toll gate at 9AM and drive south at

exactly 80 kilometers an hour.

Their car slowly makes its way on the vast, empty autostrada.

CINQUANTA (V.O.) (CONT'D)

Don't stop for food, gas, toilet,

nothing. Remember they are watching.

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As they drive they glimpse isolated FIGURES standing at theedge of the highway: SENTRIES posted by the N'dragheta.

CINQUANTA (V.O.) (CONT'D)

A handful of gravel will strike yourwindshield. This will be their sign.

They enter the mountains; a FOG shrouds everything.

CINQUANTA (V.O.) (CONT'D)

Obey these rules or they will takehis other ear, his eyes, a hand.

A FISTFUL OF GRAVEL peppers their windshield. Chace cranes

his neck to see who threw it and glimpses a figure by theroadside darting back into the trees.

Gail pulls over. The highway is empty. It's unclear what

they should do next. Then Gail sees him:

A YOUNG BOY:

standing by the roadside, shadowed in the mist a hundredyards away. Gail runs toward him...

GAIL:

Paul -- !

...but then she slows. The boy is not Paul. It's a 12-yearold

mafia wannabe smoking a cigarette, waiting. A messenger.

ROADSIDE KID:

Lasciare i soldi. Leave the money.

Drive on to the gas station and waitfor our call while we count it.

The kid turns and vanishes into the forest.

CUT TO:

THE BAGS OF MONEY by the side of the road. As Chace drives

away we glimpse the shadows of men emerging from the forest -

-- then CUT TO an AERIAL VIEW of the scene as viewed from a

POLICE SURVEILLANCE AIRPLANE high above. In an instant, themail bags are whisked away into the forest.

EXT. AGIP GAS STATION -- DAY

Closed. A cardboard sign on the pump reads "NIENTE BENZINA -NO

GAS." Gail pulls up in front of a battered pay phone.

INT. COUNTING ROOM -- DAY

The mail bags are unzipped. The bricks of lira are broken

down and counted by hand, all under Saverio Mammoliti's eye.

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We recognize the woman from Mammoliti's factory among them.

INT. DELIVERY TRUCK -- DAY

Paul Getty rides in back, along with Cinquanta and Sgro. He

is dressed in brand-new clothes. Cinquanta brushes him off.

CINQUANTAThat's better. You can't go home toyour mother looking like a sciattone.

SGR.

I still say we should have cut histongue out, just to be safe.

The truck stops. Cinquanta pulls a ski mask over the boy'shead backwards, so as to blindfold him.

SGR. (CONT'D)

Walk twenty paces, then stop andwait. We're watching. Take the

mask off and we'll kill you.

EXT. AUTOSTRADA -- DRAIN PIPE -- DAY

The truck's rear doors open next to a concrete drain pipe.

As Cinquanta helps Paul out of the truck he whispers:

CINQUANTA:

Bona fortuna, Paolo.

PAUL:

You too.

The boy starts walking blindly along the highway. The doors

close and the truck drives away, leaving Paul behind.

EXT. AGIP GAS STATION -- DAY

The phone RINGS. Gail picks up. Chace starts the car.

CINQUANTA (O.S.)

Three kilometers down the autostrada

is a drain pipe. Paul waits there

for you. Get him out of Italy asfast as you can, I beg you.

EXT. AUTOSTRADA -- DRAIN PIPE -- DAY

The truck is gone. Paul waits a moment, then pulls off themask. There's no one around. There's a town in the distance.

AERIAL VIEW:
CARABINERI POLICE CARS have begun to convergeon the scene from nearby villages. SEARCH TEAMS with dogscomb the forest. The are encircling the area.

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INT. COUNTING ROOM -- EVENING

The money is stacked, bundled, zipped into the mailbags, andloaded onto a truck. Saverio Mammoliti hands out envelopesof cash to each of his employees, including Cinquanta.

CINQUANTA:

Grazie, Signore.

In the distance, we hear DOGS BARKING. Mammoliti stops:

MAMMOLITI:

Cane. Molti. Polizia. Tradimento.

Mammoliti climbs into his waiting Mercedes. To his men:

MAMMOLITI (CONT'D)

Tornare indietro e prendere il

ragazzo.

(subtitled)

Go back and get the boy.

EXT. AUTOSTRADA -- DRAIN PIPE -- EVENING

The boy is gone. Gail is still, silent, frightened.

CHACE:

Footprints.

GAIL:

He's not here, Chace.

CHACE:

They made the drop.

Chace frantically searches the snow on the hillside.

CHACE (CONT'D)

Paul's a smart kid. What would youdo? You wouldn't wait here for them

to change their minds.

Then he finds it, tossed into the drain pipe: the ski mask.

CHACE (CONT'D)

He ran.

Chace looks down the highway, until he sees it on a nearbyhilltop: the medieval-looking village of LAGONEGRO.

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