Code of Silence Page #6

It's not a joke, but a threat. Pompas spits at Brennan.

Brennan is enraged, but Eddie pushes him back with a hand.

Eddie faces the Comachos.

EDDIE:

We're jerking off here.

Eddie goes out the door.

INT. HEADQUARTERS HALL - DAY

As Eddie emerges, he bumps into the Camacho's lawyer SANCHEZ;

thirty-eight, well dressed, smooth as silk.

Sanchez sees the tableau in the room. As Cusack walks down

the hall the attorney follows him.

SANCHEZ:

Let's cut the sh*t, Cusack.

Eddie ignores him.

SANCHEZ:

Option 1:
you can send em downtown.

If Judge Collins didn't get laid

last night, you can probably get him

to arraign my clients for loitering

in their own hallway. He'll set bail.

I'll take care of it. Option 2:

release them here and now and we'll

call it a day.

(pause)

Up to you.

EDDIE:

I like to see you earn your money.

Sanchez backs off. We follow Eddie down the hall.

INT. KATES' OFFICE - DAY

The head of Area Four, COMMANDER KATES, is grilling Cragie

and Kosalas.

CRAGIE:

We come up the back stairs. We start

cleanin' the hallway when the deceased

pops out of a doorway with a 25

automatic. I tell him to drop it,

but he's comin. We had no choice.

Kosalas here saw the whole thing.

Kates turns to Kosalas.

KATES:

Did you?

Kosalas looks haggard.

KOSALAS:

I was on another doorway...

KATES:

But you saw the action?

KOSALAS:

I saw him fall.

KATES:

And the kid was armed?

KOSALAS:

That's the way it went down.

KATES:

And you saw the weapon?

KOSALAS:

(nods)

Yes sir. I saw it in his hand.

KATES:

O.K.

(signs document)

Cragie, you'll be assigned to

headquarters until the hearing --

CRAGIE:

Hearing? Who called for a hearing?

The little f*** tried to shoot me in

the back!

Eddie enters. Kates looks up from his desk.

KATES:

Ms. Partida --

CRAGIE:

That piece of sh*t!

KATES:

Shut-up, Cragie.

(pause)

Partida has demanded a formal hearing.

You will be under oath so the

department will provide you with a

lawyer unless you've got your own.

(stands)

An OPS Review Board member is waiting

to talk to you. Doesn't sound like

you got anything to worry about.

Cragie gets up. Kosalas, sitting through this interview in

stunned silence stands also.

KATES:

Kosalas, you work with Cusack until

this is over.

KOSALAS:

Yes sir.

Kosalas and Cragie exit.

EDDIE:

I ain't got no time to nursmaid a

rookie. I don't need a partner.

KATES:

(explodes)

Your right! You don't need a partner!

You need a goddamn keeper!

(slams fist on desk)

Jesus Christ! How do I explain this

one upstairs?

(stands)

We gave you 600 man-hours, you took

a month planning the damn thing, and

what have you got to show for it?

Nine bodies? A dead informant? One

of my best men shot! For Christ's

sake!

(stares at ceiling)

You're going to have me back on a

beat busting perverts in the park.

Kates sits, sighs, suddenly tired.

EDDIE:

We got a bigger problem. These

Comachos aren't gonna take this lying

down. The animals are out of the

cages.

KATES:

Just what I need. A goddman war.

Eddie turns to leave.

KATES:

Keep track of this business with

Cragie?

EDDIE:

Yeah.

The PHONE RINGS.

KATES:

I'll deal with upstairs.

Eddie starts to leave again. Kates picks up the phone, and

puts a hand over the mouthpiece.

KATES:

Just get me some answers, huh.

EDDIE:

That's my job.

Eddie exits.

INT. HEADQUARTERS OFFICE - DAY

Kosalas, without an attorney, is being interviewed by Partida.

A court stenographer is silently typing.

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