Code of Silence Page #23

LUIS:

Your cop friend is smart. Too smart

and he dies. Then I take care of you

personally.

EXT. LOWER WACKER - NIGHT

Eddie's car is totally ablaze. He walks past the streaming

hoses and slips into a parked blue and white, it's mars lights

still flashing. He roars off.

INT. GYM - NIGHT

The giant door opens, and a lone blue and white pulls in and

parks.

The place is deserted except for the duty officer who sits

in his tiny office watching television with his half-naked

girlfriend.

Eddie enters silently, glances into the duty office, and

heads to the other end of the large hall.

In the background we see the practice apartment set, the

boxing ring, and several special task force undercover

vehicles seen before.

INT. LOCKER ROOM - NIGHT

Eddie opens his locker and takes out his sawed-off automatic

shotgun. He checks the action. He loads it. He fills a duffle

bag with ammo and drops in another gun. He closes the locker

and heads out.

INT. GYM - NIGHT

The duty officer is still occupied. Eddie eases past him and

checks the key-board at the desk. He finds what he's looking

for. He lifts a set of keys from the hook.

EXT. GYM - NIGHT

From inside, we hear the SOUND of a TRUCK STARTING.

EXT. EXPRESSWAY - DAY

This city garbage van, an immense blue semi-trailer, is moving

south on the Dan Ryan at incredible speed, pushing traffic

out of the way like a battleship slicing through Sunday

boaters.

Eddie is at the wheel.

EXT. WAREHOUSE - DAY

Among the dockside ruins of the old facility, Luis carefully

checks his snipers and lookouts. Shouting in Spanish, he

directs them into position.

From the distance we see a signal from the Comacho stationed

at the top of a huge grain elevator overlooking the Calumet

Harbor.

INT. GYM - DAY

Kosalas enters. The place is in chaos. He joins the crowd

gathered in the center of the facility. Brennan and Cragie

are here. So is Music. Commander Kates has just arrived.

KATES:

What the hell is goin on?

BRENNAN:

Cusack made off with a truckload of

armour.

MUSIC:

(shakes his head)

He's a f***ing one man army now.

CRAGIE:

What'd I tell ya. The sonofabitch is

crazy.

Kosalas wanders through the wreckage. He is stunned. He is

starting to wake up.

KATES:

OK, everybody. No more games. Where's

Cusack.

The men all look at him silently.

Kosalas turns on them.

KOSALAS:

I can't swallow this sh*t! Eddie

Cusack's out there takin' on the

world by himself. And you f***in'

heros are gonna sit on your goddamn

asses!

He is mad and loud.

CRAGIE:

Cool it kid.

KOSALAS:

Don't you f***in' tell me to cool

it. I won't cool it. I'm not going

to f***in' lie for you any more.

(to Kates)

I lied, Commander. He laid a gun on

that kid. I saw the whole thing.

CRAGIE:

You little f***in' bastard!

Cragie jumps at Kosalas, but Kosalas is ready for him, and

braces Cragie against the wall.

With one hand Kosalas slams Cragie again, and reaches down

with his free hand, lifting Cragie's pants leg and extracting

a drop-gun from it's concealed holster.

KOSALAS:

What's this for partner? Your next

f*** up?

Kates steps in and separates them.

KATES:

(to the others)

Get someone in the air. We're gonna

find Cusack.

INT. WAREHOUSE - DAY

Diana, now hanging from her wrists like a slab of beef, is

guarded by a couple of Luis' boys, eyeing her hungrily.

Luis enters.

LUIS:

(subtitles)

Take off the gag. I want them to

hear her.

EXT. WAREHOUSE - DAY

Luis scans the daybreak sky. He and Efren take up positions.

Above them and around them, every line of fire is covered.

EXT. GRAIN ELEVATOR - DAY

From the lookout's POV atop the towering grain elevator, WE

SEE several garbage trucks moving in and out of an adjacent

dump.

One of them seems familiar to us.

INT. TRUCK CAB - DAY

Eddie's eyes search the harbour as he maneuvers slowly

alongside a rusting freighter. He stops and gets out.

EXT. GRAIN ELEVATOR - DAY

Eddie opens the rear of the truck and lowers a ramp.

EDDIE:

Here we go partner.

He picks up his gun and a duffle bag from the cab and heads

out.

INT. WAREHOUSE - DAY

The Comachos are ready and waiting. Luis walks through the

middle of the vast empty plant toward the front, checking on

his troops one last time.

EXT. DOCK - DAY

Against the grotesque shapes of the surrounding scrapyards,

Eddie moves quickly from one concealment to the next, crouched

low, advancing on the abandoned factory at the end of the

dock.

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