Code of Silence Page #13

PUNCH! Eddie hits the mit so hard that Howard is knocked

back a couple of steps.

BRENNAN:

Get off your high horse, Cusack. He

made a couple of mistakes, OK. The

guy was a hero. What the f*** does a

bunch of civilians know about comin'

up some shithouse stairway day after

day, scared outta your shorts.

PUNCH! With a whirling kick, Eddie knocks the mit right out

of the Howard's hand, and across the gym.

Eddie turns to face Brennan, nose to nose.

EDDIE:

We're all scared, Brennan. Cragie

should have been off the street a

long time ago. He's gonna hurt

somebody else with his bullshit.

Maybe even you.

Eddie goes back to punching. Brennan storms out.

EXT. LATIN STREET - DAY

A funeral cortege makes it's way sedately down the street

past the Comacho owned pool hall. Two hearses, a flower car,

a limo, and several other cars with funeral stickers on their

windshields pass bye. The slain Comacho cousins from the

raid are being escorted to the cemetery.

Luis Comacho is in the limo along with the woman from the

airport.

INT. BRENNAN'S CAR - DAY

Brennan and Music are following the procession. Brennan is

on the radio.

MUSIC:

(to mike)

The funeral director says they plan

on cruisin right past luna's house.

EXT. LUNA'S STREET - DAY

Tito, one of Tony Luna's bodyguards, watches from the steps

of Luna's porch as a procession of cars follows the hearses

slowly up the street.

At the end of the block, an old man is selling produce to

the neighborhood housewives off the tailgate of his truck.

They watch the procession in wonder.

INT. EDDIE'S CAR - DAY

The cortege passes the unmarked car down the block from Tony's

house. Eddie is watching. Kosalas is with him.

KOSALAS:

(to radio)

They're wastin' the show. Tony's not

even in town.

EDDIE:

He'll get the word.

Across the street, WE SEE another bodyguard joint Tito on

the front steps. They stand, arms folded, watching the

procession.

INT. LIMO - DAY

Luis Comacho takes a flower and tosses it out the window as

he cruises past the two goons. Their EYES LOCK. Tito walks

up and grinds the flower into the ground with his shoe.

EXT. LUNA'S STREET - DAY

Brennan and Music bring up the rear in their ummarked car.

INT. LUNA'S HOUSE - DAY

Tito, the body guard, picks up the phone.

EXT. LAKE - DAY

At the pay phone next to a lakeside bait shop, Tony Luna is

getting the word. He's worried.

LUNA:

(to phone)

What the f*** are you talkin about?

Nobody's gonna touch nothin. Just

stay put.

(pause)

I give a sh*t about their f***in

parade?

A floozy slides up next to him, and he puts an arm around

her waist.

LUNA:

(to phone)

They wanna throw flowers we can fix

it so they're pushing up daisys.

He laughs. The girl joins in like she's supposed to.

EXT. WAREHOUSE - DAY

A tan Dodge rolls over the rutted scrapyard roadway, bouncing

toward the immense old warehouse along the river's edge. The

city seems to have abandoned this remote industrial area;

giant grain elevators, rusting freighters and vast scrapyards

surround us.

INT. POMPAS' CAR - DAY

Pompas and Efren Comacho drive through the gate and enter

the warehouse as the door opens for them.

INT. WAREHOUSE - DAY

The car halts in the vast empty chamber. It is quickly

surrounded by members of the Comacho family. They begin to

unload the car. The trunk is filled with cases of heavy

ammunition.

At the back of the warehouse, other Comachos are test firing

their weapons.

INT. LUIS' OFFICE

Luis is directing things as they are preparing for battle.

The weaponry spread on the table is astonishing.

EXT. HARBOR - DAY

Eddie's beat up Chevy is parked beyond the line of yachts

toward the end of the pier. Eddie gets out of the car. Kosalas

looks worried.

KOSALAS:

I can back you up.

EDDIE:

Stay by the radio.

Eddie walks to the 75 foot steel cruiser tied to the end of

the pier.

Eddie walks up the gangplank.

EXT. YACHT - DAY

An ape in a suit, ROCCO, appears.

ROCCO:

What the hell you doin' here? Off,

a**hole.

Rocco goes for Eddie. A couple of quick blows and Rocco is

in the water. Eddie continues up the gangway to the rear of

the boat.

EXT. YACHT - DAY

Eddie finds FELIX (THE RAIL) SCALESE sitting on a chaise

lounge, reading. A beautiful girl lays on her stomach on a

deck pad typing at a personal computer terminal.

Scalese looks up at Eddie. He is momentarily discombobulated,

but recovers.

SCALESE:

(referring to computer)

The modern age's answer to the crystal

ball. Marvelous. If you know how to

read it.

(pause)

Listen. If you have some extra cash,

buy oranges. The price is low, and I

can promise you the threatened

trucking strike will be avoided.

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