Code of Silence Page #4

INT. COMACHO APARTMENT - DAY

Tony and his partners start back over the gangway to the

other building. Vito is bringing up the rear.

Suddenly Victor Comacho comes to life. He gets off A BURST

with his AUTOMATIC. Vito catches it in the back.

EXT. ALLEY - DAY

Donato is moving down the gangway when Vito's body -- followed

by the scaffold plank -- falls from the sky and CRASHES into

the pavement right in front of him.

INT. COMACHO APARTMENT - DAY

Eddie jumps into the living room doorway, gun drawn, and

takes in the carnage. He kicks the gun out of Victor's hand,

and bounds to the shattered bay window and looks down in

time to SEE --

EXT. GANGWAY - DAY

Donato jumps over the broken body, running through the gangway

toward the front of the building.

DONATO:

They're goin out the front!

INT. COMACHO APARTMENT - DAY

The bridge to the other building is gone, but there is a

large drainpipe running down the outside of the building.

Eddie climbs out on the shattered window sill, and stretches

for the pipe. The pipe is just out of reach. Pushing off

from the ledge, he jumps for the drainpipe, grabbing it on

his way down.

EXT. DRAINPIPE - DAY

As he slides down three stories.

INT. PAINTER'S HALLWAY - DAY

The painters run down the stairs toward the front of the

building.

EXT. COMACHO STREET - DAY

Music, Brennan, and Kobas rush the front door of the Comacho's

building, and enter.

EXT. GANGWAY - DAY

Eddie lands on his feet and heads for the front.

EXT. ALLEY - DAY

Cragie and Kosalas brace themselves on each side of the rear

door to the Painters' building. Cragie is white with fear.

Kosalas kicks in the door. They enter.

EXT. COMACHO STREET - DAY

At the front of the building Donato emerges from the

passageway and he's met by a HAIL of GUNFIRE. He jumps back

and takes a more cautious look.

Tony Luna and Gus make a run for the van. Donato steps out

from between the two buildings and raises his gun.

But he hasn't seen Eenie, just coming out of the building

next door.

Eenie fires and Donato goes down, wounded in the foot. But

before Eenie can get off another shot --

-- Eddie leaps from the gangway and drops Eenie with a BURST

from his AUTOMATIC.

EXT. COMACHO STREET - DAY

Luna pulls out PEELING RUBBER, but he's nearly surrounded.

squad cars have pulled in blocking both ends of the street.

Another squad car screeches to a halt and both officers jump

out and start firing.

Luna hits the fender of the squad car head on, knocking both

officers to the ground. He spins the van around with cops

FIRING from every angle, jumps the curb, and roars past the

roadblock on the sidewalk with pedestrians leaping in all

directions.

INT. PAINTERS' BACK STAIRS - DAY

Heart pounding, Cragie leads Kosalas blindly up the darkened

steps.

INT. PAINTER'S HALL - DAY

A door opens behind Cragie. He whirls and FIRES into the

darkness.

The riddled body of a Mexican teenager, eyes wide with shock,

pitches into the hall.

Kosalas, down the hallway, hugs the wall, petrified.

KOSALAS:

Cragie?!

CRAGIE:

It's O.K. I got the sonovabitch.

Kosalas creeps ahead, gun drawn, just in time to see Cragie

pull a small handgun from his pocket and lay it in the boys

hand.

Cragie looks up at Kosalas and their eyes meet.

EXT. COMACHO STREET - DAY

Luna's van, it's windshield shot out, takes the first corner

on two wheels. Behind him the police scramble for their blue

and whites. Half way down the block, the van lurches into an

alley.

EXT. ALLEY - DAY

The van hurtles down the alley, splashing through puddles

past the loading docks of a packing company. Parked along

one side of the end of the alley is a meat truck from the

opening montage. A loading ramp leads to the gaping rear

doors.

The thieves have done their homework. The Luna gang slams up

the ramp into the rear of the meat truck.

A bee fy compatriot in a blood stained butcher's smock pulls

several sides of beef along the rail and into the truck.

With the van concealed, the line of police cars ROAR splashing

by.

INT. PAINTER'S HALL - DAY

Cragie, kneeling over the body, looks at Kosalas eyeball to

eyeball.

SCREAMS come from within the boy's apartment.

CRAGIE:

(yelling into the

apartment)

Police! Stay where you are!

They HEAR FOOTSTEPS pounding up the front stairs. Cragie and

Kosalas look up.

Eddie appears at the front of the hall, gun drawn. He sees

the boy on the hallway floor.

He approaches cautiously, taking in the body, the gun, Cragie

sitting against the wall, and the distraught Kosalas who

stands transfixed by the dead kid. Eddie goes to Kosalas.

EDDIE:

Take it easy, Kosalas.

CRAGIE:

The kid didn't dust him. I did.

Eddie looks at Cragie.

CRAGIE:

Him or me, Sarge.

(pause)

The kid saw the whole thing.

Both Eddie and Cragie look at Kosalas.

CRAGIE:

Tell him, Nick.

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