Devil in a Blue Dress Page #17

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She moves in close, caressing.

DAPHNE:

(continuing)

Come on, you know it's the right

thing to do... You know if things

were different what would happen

between us.

EASY:

I'll tell you what can happen

between us. You get Carter to

clear me up from all this and you

can have your pictures. That's all

that could have ever happened

between us.

DAPHNE:

(genuinely hurt)

Sure, baby. Of course,

sweetheart...

The sound of the front door pushing open startles them, and

Albright knocks on his way in.

ALBRIGHT:

Well I'll be damned. You found

her.

And Manny and Shariff step in, too, carrying baseball bats.

EASY:

Wait a minute, Albright.

Daphne breaks for the back way and Easy tries to bar Shariff

from going after her.

EASY:

Hey!

Manny swings the baseball bat into Easy's side. and Easy

yells and plows into him, wrestling him against the wall.

Albright grabs Easy from behind and pries him free enough

for Manny to uppercut him to the chin with the fat end of

the bat.

Easy sinks to his knees seeing double.

Shariff leads Daphne back into the room, her face contorted

into tears, her arm twisted up behind her in a hammerlock.

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ALBRIGHT:

(to Daphne)

Where are the pictures?

DAPHNE:

(terrified)

I don't know.

SMACK! He backhands her.

Easy grabs for the wall to get to his feet and Manny swings

the bat down into his kidney.

ALBRIGHT:

Where are they?

DAPHNE:

(indicating Easy)

I wouldn't tell him! And I won't

tell you!

ALBRIGHT:

Sure you will.

(to Shariff)

Let's go.

Shariff leads Daphne outside and Manny draws his forty-five

automatic and trains it on Easy, cocking the hammer.

ALBRIGHT:

What're you doin'? Who are we

gonna give 'em to cover this sh*t,

hunh?... Use your head.

He shoves Manny through the door and pushes Easy onto his

side with his foot and he's out the door.

Easy strains to get back to his knees as car doors slam and

the sound of a car engine growls to life.

He thrusts himself up from the floor and stumbles toward the

front door like a boxer who should have stayed down for the

count. He gets it open in time to see...

108 EXT. EASY'S HOUSE - NIGHT 108

The blurred white form of Albright's Caddy screaming away,

shattering the dark, shrieking in flight.

Dogs are barking and a baby is screaming somewhere in the

neighborhood while lights are going on up and down the

block.

Easy stumbles back inside and into

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109 THE BEDROOM 109

Where he manages to dial the phone.

on the other end, and finally:

It RINGS several times

Yeah.

MOUSE'S VOICE

(groggy)

Mouse...

EASY:

Hey, Easy?

MOUSE'S VOICE

EASY:

(slurring)

Get Dupree's car. Drive it to 78th

and Central... The butcher shop.

You alright?

MOUSE'S VOICE

Hurry up.

EASY:

He puts down the receiver, missing the cradle, and staggers

out of the room.

110 INT. EASY'S CAR - NIGHT 110

Easy is ripping through the night, the streetlights flashing

by in blurs of light. The windows down, he's coming to.

EASY (V.O.)

It had come to me in less time than

it takes to think that Albright was

taking Daphne someplace more

isolated than that office building

downtown... Someplace where there

would be no witnesses... And I was

being left alive to take the fall.

111 EXT. BUTCHER SHOP/JOPPY'S BAR - NIGHT 111

The street is still alive. A couple of late night juke

joints are coughing up the last drunken bits of the party

onto the sidewalk to straggle home. Easy's car screams

around the corner, and then skids in, sending a heavy-hipped

young sister, about to cross the street, scrambling for

cover.

He jumps out just as Mouse scorches the tires on Dupree's

'38 Packard in behind him.

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EASY:

(to the woman)

Sorry, baby... Lemme give you

twenty bucks for them stockings you

got on.

It takes a moment to register, but when she sees him pull

a twenty from his pocket, she gets busy.

He runs back to Mouse.

EASY:

Gimme one of them guns you got.

Mouse smiles, loving this side of Easy, and trades him a set

of car keys for a .32 automatic.

EASY:

(continuing)

Start up my car. I'm comin' out

fast.

He runs back to the woman he almost hit and hands off the

twenty, grabbing one of the nylons, leaving her still

stripping as he runs into

112 INT. STAIRWAY 112

He takes the steps two at a time, pulling the stocking down

over his face as he reaches the top and bursts through the

open door leading into

113 INT. JOPPY'S BAR 113

He charges through the raucous laughter of the half-full

room right up to the bar.

Joppy nearly drops the glasses he is clearing away as he

looks down the barrel of the pistol aimed at his face.

EASY:

Come on, Joppy. Let's go!

Joppy hesitates, recognizing the voice.

EASY:

You heard me. I'll blow your head

off!

And he c*cks the hammer, causing Joppy to get a move on from

behind the bar.

Easy shoves him through the door, calling back to the

startled crowd on his way out.

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EASY:

Don't follow me, goddammit!

And he's gone.

114 INT. JOPPY'S BAR - NIGHT 114

Easy hides the piece in his coat pocket as he bum rushes

Joppy to the car.

JOPPY:

Easy, what the hell you--

EASY:

Shut up!

And he shoves Joppy into the back seat, getting in next to

him.

EASY:

Drive this damn thing, Mouse!

Mouse pulls off, around the corner, down the street into an

alley.

A115 INT. EASY'S CAR - IN THE ALLEY A115

Mouse pulls to a stop.

EASY:

(to Joppy)

Albright's got the girl. He's

gonna kill her. Where would he

take her? And you better get it

right.

JOPPY:

Man, I don't--

EASY:

(screaming, pressing

the gun)

Don't fool with me, man!

JOPPY:

There's a cabin out in Malibu on

Route 9...

EASY:

Make a right, Mouse!

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B115 EXT. ALLEY - NIGHT B115

The car roars down the alley and turns right onto the

street.

115 INT. CAR - INDUSTRIAL STREET - NIGHT 115

EASY:

(to Joppy)

You sure 'bout this place?

JOPPY:

I guess so. He's done this kinda

thing out there before.

MOUSE:

Easy, what's done got into you?

Thought y'all was friends.

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