Code of Silence Page #11

Lulu swings to the upper branches and sits, arms crossed,

staring eyeball-to-eyeball at her human counterpart, Gamiani.

Tito eats popcorn.

Eddie and Kosalas walk behind a mother and child, each holding

a balloon.

EXT. LIBRARY - DAY

Diana is on the front steps of the library saying good-bye

to two of the children from the zoo. She hands them over to

their mothers, and goes up the steps into the building.

Gamiani and Tito pull over and park down the street.

Eddie comes around the corner, and follows her in.

INT. LIBRARY HALL - DAY

The sign on the door tells us this is the city's Special

Education Program office. Diana enters the office and confers

briefly with another staff member.

INT. LIBRARY HALL - DAY

Through the open door of the Special Education Program office,

Eddie observes Diana chatting with her co-workers.

INT. READING ROOM - DAY

Eddie follows as Diana walks through the great hall past

long tables and out the other door.

EXT. LIBRARY - DAY

Diana comes down the steps, wading through the swarm of

homebound commuters, and catches a cab.

And head and shoulders above the crowd, scanning the tops of

heads, is Lou Gamiani.

Tito comes around the corner in his car, and pulls up to the

curb. Gamiani jumps in, and they take off after Diana's cab.

Eddie and Kosalas follow in Eddie's car.

EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING - DAY

Diana enters an apartment building.

EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING - DAY

By the time Diana exits it is dark. She is with a friend,

and both are in some kind of Halloween costume. They catch a

cab.

EXT. PARTY STREET - NIGHT

The taxi stops in front of an ancient brick loft building.

Diana and her friend get out and hit the buzzer at an unmarked

door. The door opens and they disappears inside.

Gamiani's car cruises past. It pulls up at the corner and

it's lights switch off.

Eddie's car pulls up. Eddie hops out. Kosalas slides behind

the wheel.

INT. EDDIE'S CAR - NIGHT

Eddie leans down to the open drivers window.

EDDIE:

Hold here a second.

Eddie goes to the back of the car, and Kosalas follows him

in the rearview mirror, losing sight when Eddie pops open

the trunk.

Kosalas watches the party goers enter the building.

There is a tapping at the window.

Eddie has donned a baseball uniform, matching cap, and now

carries a baseball bat with a pair of cleats hanging from

it.

EDDIE:

Keep with Gamiani.

Eddie tosses the keys back to Kosalas, and heads to the

building. Kosalas calls to him.

KOSALAS:

Bang a few for me.

INT. PARTY STAIRS - NIGHT

In the darkened stairway Eddie joins a group of outrageously

dressed characters. The door at the top of the stairs bursts

open on a punk-funk art student Halloween party.

INT. PARTY - NIGHT

A hundred people are jammed into the studio. It feels like

the Star Wars Saloon. The LIVE MUSICIANS match the look of

the party. The costumes are outrageous. Everyone is dancing.

Eddie looks the place over. He spots Diana.

Eddie walks over to her, grabbing a drink along the way. He

sidles up to Diana.

EDDIE:

Wanna play ball?

She looks him over taking in the outfit, the bat.

DIANA:

Are you pitching?

EDDIE:

Some people say I've got a pretty

good inside curve.

DIANA:

I don't know. You look strictly minor

league.

She smiles.

EDDIE:

I'm Eddie.

DIANA:

I make it Eddie-The-Cop.

EDDIE:

You've had a lot of experience with

cops?

DIANA:

All bad.

She is angry now, and walks away from him.

Eddie watches her go, and is about to follow. He sets his

drink down, and turns to find a girl, luscious as hell,

dressed like a Frederick's wet dream, making eyes at him.

She takes his bat, and gives it a long, lascivious lick.

EDDIE:

You'll get slivers.

He walks by her.

INT. PARTY BACK ROOM - NIGHT

Eddie steps over and around an assortment of wasted witches

and gooned out goblins snorting lines on the coffee table to

get to Diana who is tensely by herself.

He grabs her purse.

DIANA:

Hey, what the hell do you think you're

doing?

EDDIE:

I thought you knew all about cops.

You don't put anything up your nose

do you?

Eddie searches Diana's purse. He find her drivers license.

EDDIE:

Diana Luna?

(pause)

You're Tony Luna's daughter?

He drops the license into the purse and hands it back to

her. She stares him in the eye defiantly.

DIANA:

I don't know where he is, and I don't

really give a sh*t.

(tired)

When are you people going to realize

I don't have anything to do with my

father.

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