Code of Silence Page #3

DOC:

I say, awright. The royal colors.

EXT. ALLEY - DAY

Eddie's eyes scan the scene as he sorts through a garbage

can with a stick.

INT. PAINTER'S HALLWAY - DAY

The painters carry their equipment down the long corridor

and enter a vacant apartment.

A door opens in the corridor, and a naked toddler steps out.

A Latino teenager comes out to retrieve the child. He sees

the backs of the painters, and carries the toddler back

inside.

INT. PAINTER'S APARTMENT - DAY

The painters are not what they seem. Working quickly,

silently, they open their tool kits and lay out their

hardware:
machine guns and automatics.

TONY LUNA, a barrel-chested Italian mobster is running the

show and it's well rehearsed. His boys, GUS, VITO, and EENIE

move like oiled machinery.

Vito turns on a radio to a Latino station to cover the SOUND

of their preparations. They remove the whole window from its

frame. Then they rest a wide plank on the window ledge.

Three feet away is the window of the adjacent building and

silhouetted against the shade we can SEE the drug deal.

Luna'ys check their weapons.

They put on painters' masks and goggles.

LUNA:

Okay, by the numbers.

He puts on his goggles.

EXT. ALLEY - DAY

Over the IDLING ENGINE of the garbage truck, Eddie and Donato

HEAR the deal going down on the RADIO.

EDDIE:

(to walkie-talkie)

Everybody on your toes.

MUSIC (V.O.)

(from radio)

Their Right Field's Clear. Those

painters are out of the way.

EDDIE:

(to walkie-talkie)

What the hell you talking about?

MUSIC (V.O.)

(from radio)

We got a painting crew of painters

just went in the building next door.

Eddie looks at Donato.

EDDIE:

Painters? That building's gonna be

condemned!

Like a coiled spring, Eddie leaps from the truck and runs

for the rear gate, gun in hand.

EDDIE:

(shouts)

Play Ball! Play-f***ing-ball!

DONATO:

(to mike)

Home Team! We're goin in! Move it!

Move it!

INT. PAINTER'S APARTMENT - DAY

Tony and his men face the window across the gangway. Two of

them hold sawed off double barreled shotguns. Tony counts it

down, and they all fire as one.

One GIANT BLAST tears into the window. It disintegrates.

The four men toss aside their empty guns, and grab other

guns.

EXT. GANGWAY - DAY

Eddie HEARS THE GUNFIRE and hits the wall. He sees the glass

showering down around him. He vaults over the backyard fence

and head for the porch stairs.

EXT. CEMETERY - DAY

Kosalas is finally pissing against the wall.

KOSALAS:

I knew it.

Cragie is using the crate to climb the wall. He is up and

over, and falls to the ground on the other side. He's still

trying to get to his feet when Kosalas comes over.

They start running, yanking their guns out.

INT. COMACHO APARTMENT - DAY

Doc and Spider are blown backwards in their chairs. One of

the cousins has fallen across the piles of money and drugs.

Victor and the other cousin are slumped on the floor. The

woman in the bedroom is screaming.

Through the jagged glass around the window frame, Tony's

boys shove a broad plank.

EXT. GANGWAY - DAY

Three floors up, we see the "painters" rush across the gangway

to the other building.

EXT. COMACHO BACK STAIRS - DAY

EFREN COMACHO, the heavyweight guarding the back door, is

distracted by the SHOUTS and GUNFIRE upstairs. Eddie crashes

through the door and Efren spins just in time to meet Eddie's

blurring attack.

The struggle on the landing is brief. Efren's size is no

match for Eddie's speed and power. With a grunt he sags to

the floor.

Eddie leaps over him and bounds up the steps.

EXT. COMACHO STREET - DAY

Brennan, Music and Kobas are now on their way, using parked

cars to cover their advance toward the front door of the

Comacho building.

EXT. COMACHO BACK STAIRS - DAY

Eddie passes the second floor landing and takes a quick look

up the porch stairs. The door to the second floor apartment

starts to open behind him. He spins and kicks it.

There stands a terrified old woman looking up the barrel of

his gun.

EDDIE:

(shouts)

Police! No se mueve!

He spins and bounds up the stairway.

INT. COMACHO APARTMENT - DAY

The woman is huddled in a corner, still screaming. Tony comes

to stand over her, and coldly shoots her. Then he rips off

his mask and goggles as his boys clear the bodies and scoop

up the drugs and money from the table.

Victor Comacho lies slumped against the wall, one side of

his face and one shoulder bloodied. He appears dead, eyes

open. But then he blinks once.

INT. COMACHO BACK STAIRS - DAY

Eddie has entered the rear of the apartment. He moves

cautiously forward.

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