Casino Page #21

VALET PARKER:

(Into telephone)

They're just checking in now.

INT. GOLD RUSH BACK ROOM - DAY

FUSCO:

(Into telephone, seated

on a couch)

Okay, I'll tell him.

INT. CASINO FLOOR - DAY

A PIT BOSS is on the phone.

ACE (V.O.)

Pit bosses.

PIT BOSS:

(Into telephone)

Yeah, room twelve-thirty, at the

Sirocco.

INT. GOLD RUSH BACK ROOM - DAY

MARINO:

(Into telephone)

Twelve-thirty, right.

INT. OFFICE - DAY

A SECRETARY seated at a desk.

ACE (V.O.)

Secretaries.

SECRETARY:

(Into telephone)

It's all in mint condition coins.

INT. GOLD RUSH BACK ROOM - DAY

HARDY:

(Into telephone)

Mint condition. All right.

ACE (V.O.)

And they all...

EXT. WAREHOUSE/JEWELRY STORE - NIGHT

HARDY and a hood are in a van parked in front of a warehouse

next door to a jewelry store.

ACE (V.O.)

...got a piece of the score.

HARDY:

(From inside the van,

into a walkie-talkie)

Car's comin'.

We move past the van to a larger truck parked in an alley.

Unseen, the truck has an open side door abutting the jewelry

store's wall. SAL FUSCO and BERNIE BLUE are inside the truck

drilling into the wall using a heavy-duty battery-powered

drill. The drill is muffled with sheets of insulation

material.

ACE (V.O.)

They were always very careful. And

they always bypassed the alarms, or

else... if not, they'd drill enough

holes to knock through the walls

with a sledgehammer...

BLUE widens the hole with a hammer muffled with insulation.

EXT. JEWELRY STORE WALL - DAY

A flashbulb explodes.

Cops and detectives are photographing and inspecting holes

drilled in the wall of the shop, through which the thieves

have come and gone. The camera moves in through the hole.

ACE (V.O.)

Nobody out there was expecting a guy

like him.

INT. JEWELRY STORE - DAY

The stunned STORE OWNER looks at the rubble and the empty

jewelry boxes.

Detectives collect evidence.

ACE (V.O.)

For Nicky, Las Vegas was the f***in'

Wild West.

STORE OWNER:

(Leading a detective

to his showroom)

I just got a shipment of diamonds

from Israel...

NICKY (V.O.)

But what the f*** they expect from

me? I had to earn, didn't I?

INT. PALM SPRINGS JEWELRY STORE - DAY

MARINO stands above two IRANIANS who are looking at the stolen

gems.

IRANIAN #1

You know, this diamond has flaws in

it.

MARINO:

No, no, there's no flaws in it.

IRANIAN #2

Don't tell me. I'm doing this for

twenty-five years.

MARINO:

You better clean your f***in' loupe.

'Cause there's no flaws in these

diamonds.

The two IRANIANS speak to each other in Farsi.

NICKY (V.O.)

Whenever we got local merch, we'd

usually send it to Palm Spring or

Arizona... LA. I had a couple of

sand n*ggers out there. You know,

Arabs.

MARINO:

What, are you gonna have a f***in'

meeting here, or are you gonna buy

some diamonds?

IRANIAN #2

(Chuckling)

No, no. I know his language. I'm

talking with him.

MARINO:

Forty thousand dollars, you can buy

the whole package.

IRANIAN #1

Twenty thousand, and that's my final

offer and...

MARINO:

(To IRANIAN #2)

All of a sudden he talks English,

now.

(To IRANIAN #1.)

Let's talk turkey here, how 'bout

twenty-five thousand?

IRANIAN #1 laughs.

INT. NICKY'S HOUSE - NIGHT

NICKY and MARINO sneak into the house past JENNIFER who is

asleep on the sofa in front of a TV set. NICKY takes out a

key and opens the metal door into his bedroom.

NICKY (V.O.)

I actually turned my bedroom into a

bank vault where I kept the choice

stuff.

MARINO:

(Referring to JENNIFER

as they pass the

kitchen)

She asleep?

NICKY:

Every night, on the couch.

NICKY (V.O.)

I couldn't leave it at the Gold Rush

in case we got raided by the cops...

or if my crew got cute.

Opening the metal door to his bedroom.

NICKY (V.O.)

I had the only key.

INT. NICKY'S BEDROOM/CLOSET - NIGHT

Camera pans across bedroom to closet door.

NICKY (V.O.)

Jennifer didn't give a f***. She

used to fall asleep on the couch

watchin' television every night.

This stuff was all mine. I didn't

send any of this back home.

NICKY opens the closet door. He and MARINO walk in and bend

down to lift up a small square of carpet to reveal a floor

safe.

NICKY (V.O.)

Actually, I couldn't because I wasn't

even supposed to be doin' it. The

bosses were makin' so much f***in'

money with the casinos

(unlocking the safe)

that they didn't want anybody makin'

any waves for them.

In the floor safe, there are several handguns and silencers.

FRANK hands NICKY a roll of money.

NICKY:

Give all the guys in your crew a

piece of that?

MARINO:

I took care of everybody.

NICKY:

Yeah?

He searches MARINO's jacket.

NICKY (V.O.)

That's why there was no real organized

street stuff in Vegas before I came

here.

NICKY throws the cash in the safe and closes the lid.

INT. NICKY'S HOUSE - DAY

NICKY is being shown papers by CHARLIE CLARK, a heavy-set

banker with a moustache. They're both seated at a table in

the living-room.

CHARLIE CLARK:

Yeah, that works out.

NICKY (V.O.)

But how much cash could I bury in my

closet, right?

CHARLIE CLARK:

You need to understand, and I - I'm

sure you do... that in a venture of

this kind, you have to be prepared

to take some kind of loss.

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