Dog Day Afternoon Page #25

MORETTI:

He needed money? For the operation

for you?

LEON:

It made him crazy - so much demand,

he'd fly into this rages. And I got

more depressed than ever; I saw I'd

never get the operation. So I tried

to take my life - I swallowed about

a half pound of pills... blues,

reds, yellows, downers, uppers,

screamers... you name it. But I

just threw them up and wound up in

the hospital. Sonny comes there and

looks at me and just says: 'Wow!'

So when I hear he's in the bank, I

almost go crazy because I know he's

doin' it for me.

MORETTI:

Well, don't you figure you owe to

him to get him out of there?

LEON:

I can't talk to him.

MORETTI:

You're in it up to your ass, Leon.

You're an accessory. You talk him

out of there and they might be a

little more understanding of your

case.

LEON:

I'm afraid.

MORETTI:

How is he gonna hurt you on the

telephone?

LEON:

I don't know what to say to him. I

can't.

MORETTI:

You think it over, Leon.

Moretti walks over to the wall phone, picks up the receiver,

and waits to be connected with the bank and Sonny.

ON LEON:

Terrified. He really can't do it.

ON MORETTI:

waiting.

OMITTED:

INT. BANK - TURNING DARK NOW

as the phone rings. Sonny picks it up, hears Moretti's voice.

MORETTI (V.O.)

He won't talk to you. Let me work

on it.

Sonny hangs up. He and Sal walk toward the group at the

rear, around the desks.

ANGLE ON TELEVISION SCREEN

as we see TV newsman speaking.

TV NEWSMAN:

...police are questioning Leon, a

year-old admitted homosexual, who

claims to have been married to one

of the bank robbers in a ceremony

last November... [etc.]...

During the speech, Sylvia and her group wander toward

Mulvaney's desk to listen, as Edna wanders down from the

Conference Room, crosses to the set and turns up the volume.

ON SONNY:

pacing back and forth. They all stare at him. Slowly the

group shifts to other positions, without a word being said.

ANGLE ON TV SCREEN

TV NEWSMAN:

Our coverage of the Brooklyn robbery

where two homosexuals are holding

hostages for their demands of a

helicopter, a jet, and safe passage

out of the country...

ANGLE ON SONNY AND SAL

SAL:

Sonny, you hear that?

SONNY:

What?

SAL:

They keep sayin' two homosexuals.

I'm not a homosexual. I want you to

stop them saying that.

SONNY:

That's all they're interested in -

it's a freak show to them. I can't

control it, Sal - let'em say what

they want. Forget it. It don't

matter.

SOUND OF JET:

SONNY:

Where's the god-damn jet? They're

always flying overhead - going

somewhere.

OMITTED:

EXT. KENNEDY AIRPORT - NIGHT

FBI snipers area at positions, waiting. A small group of

men make a last check. A signal is given. They get in their

car and drive away. An FBI sniper lights a cigarette and

settles down to wait, moving his rifle to a comfortable

position.

EXT. APARTMENT HOUSE FIRE ESCAPE - NIGHT

The old lady dozes over her puzzle. The police agents are

being relieved. Light floods the front of the bank.

INT. BANK - NIGHT (APPROX. 8 P.M.)

Sonny paces back and forth (with ad-lib dialogue to group).

Margaret, seated at her desk, has feet up on another chair

while Jenny sits on top of her desk. Mulvaney is back at

water cooler, starting to feel very ill. Miriam and Deborah

are seated at Mulvaney's desk. Edna is seated at her desk,

while Sylvia sits on top of desk, talking on phone.

Suddenly, the lights go out, leaving only emergency lights

on (4 in the main area and 2 at back door area). Sylvia

immediately moves over toward the vault area and turns on 2

hand lamps.

SAL:

That's it, Sonny.

Both rush toward the front of the bank. They see that even

the flood lights are now out, but across the street can still

be seen lights in the store windows. Sonny rushes to a near-

by phone to try to reach Moretti, but even the phones are

dead. They hear Moretti's voice over a bull-horn outside:

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