Code of Silence Page #10

Suddenly Eddie moves, faster than anyone else can react to,

and he has Luis pinned to the wall, choking him.

EDDIE:

Stay off my streets, a**hole. Or

I'll bite your head off, and sh*t in

your neck.

He releases Luis just as quickly, and turns to walk out,

Kosalas backing with him, hand on gun.

Luis gets some air back, and starts to scream.

LUIS:

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You're meat cop! Dead meat!

The other Comachos have to restrain him.

INT. MORGUE EXAMINING ROOM - DAY

Retired detective HANK FLANNIGAN runs the high-tech morgue

where the bodies are stacked on trays like bakery buns.

Flannigan, a trim, bespectacled Mr. Clean, clicks his false

teeth between thoughts.

The body on the exotic lab table is the gunman Eddie shot

during the raid. Eddie is here to confirm the identification.

His new partner, Kosalas, is with him, very uncomfortable in

this setting.

FLANNIGAN:

Eenie Verona is the gentleman's name.

(looks down)

You did a hell of a job on him.

EDDIE:

I was motivated.

Flannigan has already pulled Verona's record. He hands it to

Eddie who passes it on to Kosalas without looking at it.

Kosalas concentrates on the file, uneasy with the dead.

FLANNIGAN:

Know him?

EDDIE:

He's a punk. Punk thief. Booster.

FLANNIGAN:

Looks like he graduated.

EDDIE:

He had a brother-in-law. They were

tight. Served time together.

Ganelli..., Gagleone...

KOSALAS:

Gamiani.

Eddie looks at Kosalas who glances up from the report

triumphantly.

FLANNIGAN:

If I was you, I'd sit on him.

KOSALAS:

You figure he's connected?

Eddie just smiles.

FLANNIGAN:

Looks like you're gonna be busy,

Cusack. Uh, you gonna be using those

Cubs' tickets?

Eddie reaches into his pocket, and tosses a ticket to

Flannigan who grins.

INT. EDDIE'S CAR - NIGHT

Eddie and Kosalas cruise the Rush Street area at night. They

search the neon lit crowds on the sidewalks for a glimpse of

Lou Gamiani.

EXT. GAMIANI'S STREET - DAY

On a tree-shaded block of classic brownstones, the unmarked

car is parked at the corner.

INT. EDDIE'S CAR - DAY

Eddie is at the wheel wearing a sportscoat and sweater,

scanning the sports page. Kosalas is nervous and chatty,

bubbling. He's still reading the records from the morgue.

KOSALAS:

This Ganiani's a swinger, huh?

EDDIE:

He's just makin' up for the time he

spent in the joint.

EXT. GAMIANI'S STREET - DAY

LOU GAMIANI, 55, Italian, and huge, comes out the front door

of a brownstone, and gives a perfunctory kiss to his aging

"Playmate", who stands in the doorway in a housecoat. Gamiani

comes down the steps, and jumps into a car.

In the car with Gamiani, a fat man, TITO, is at the wheel.

They pull into the street passing the unmarked car.

EXT. NORTH SIDE STREET - DAY

Trailing Gamiani and his partner through the North Side

neighborhoods, they wind up in Lincoln Park.

With considerable skill Kosalas and Eddie manage to stick to

them undetected.

EXT. PARK - DAY

Gamiani and Tito park by the botanical gardens and stroll

past the fields of flowers into the zoo. Eddie and Kosalas

follow.

KOSALAS:

Now what? They selling protection to

the bears?

EDDIE:

Relax kid.

EXT. CHILDREN'S ZOO - DAY

Strolling among the baby elephants and fuzzy rabbits, the

two heavies could not be more out of place. Tito has a racing

form. Lou, tall enough to see over heads, looks like a loose

gorilla on the prowl. He is searching for somebody.

Surrounding the incubators filled with hatching chicks is a

cluster of schoolchildren.

They are having a ball.

Eddie has noticed DIANA, a lovely 19 year old who is in charge

of the children.

And she has noticed Gamiani. She's visibly upset.

KOSALAS (V.O.)

What's this? Kinda young for that

old fart ain't she?

EDDIE (V.O.)

Just watch, kid. Learn.

Diana leaves the children with the zoo lecturer.

DIANA:

Be back in a minute.

She crosses to the two goons and looks up at Gamiani.

DIANA:

What do you want?

LOU:

Your Papa worries about you.

DIANA:

Get out of here, Lou. Leave me alone.

Gamiani shrugs, his pal Tito seems embarrassed, but they

don't move.

INT. GORILLA HOUSE - DAY

The CHILDREN SCREAM, and LULU, the half-ton baboon flies

into frame, swinging down from the artificial branches of an

iron tree in the three story central cage. The children clutch

at Diana in delightful terror. The gorilla, inches away,

kisses the thick glass that separates them.

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