Dog Day Afternoon Page #4

She just stands there staring into his face like a hypnotized

chicken, the tears streaming down her face.

Sonny stops, staring at her. Mulvaney, starting to open the

gate, moves inside the vault, impatient...

MULVANEY:

Okay. Let's get you on your way.

Miriam - open the safe.

Miriam hesitates.

SONNY:

What's the matter with you?

MULVANEY:

(to Miriam)

Come on, lemme load you up...

MIRIAM:

There isn't any money...

Sonny looks at Mulvaney, alarmed...

MIRIAM:

They picked it up this afternoon...

SONNY:

No money?!

(moves inside the

vault)

MIRIAM:

There's only about four thousand in

singles, and maybe a few hundred in

larger bills... he's going to kill

us!

Sonny storms into the vault.

NEW ANGLE IN VAULT

as Mulvaney pulls a cash drawer out to show Sonny: even we

can see there isn't much there. Sonny searches for more,

finds nothing.

SONNY:

This is it? What am I gonna do with

this? Holy sh*t!

MULVANEY:

It's all we got.

SONNY:

Okay, don't worry about it. Stick

it in the bag...

At this, Sonny pulls out a plastic bag from his pocket, hands

it to Miriam, who opens it and puts the money into it. As

he turns, we see that Miriam is still staring at him,

terrified, and as his rifle swings around, she reels back

with a little screech of terror...

SONNY:

Ah, Jesus...

SAL:

Let's go, Sonny.

SONNY:

(suddenly gentle)

What are you crying for? Jesus

Christ. It's not your fault there's

no money...

MULVANEY:

She's afraid you're gonna shoot...

(hands Sonny the bag

of money)

Sonny starts out of the vault toward the teller's area with

bag of money. He speaks to Mulvaney.

SONNY:

What the hell would I shoot her for?

Miriam follows Sonny to teller's cages gate. He carries the

bag.

PHONE STARTS TO RING (#1)

SONNY:

Answer the phone!

Mulvaney crosses to his desk, picks up the receiver. Sal

follows him, yanks receiver from one ear to the other, so he

can hear conversation.

SONNY:

(to Miriam)

Okay... open this.

Miriam crosses to gate, presses the necessary button and the

gate opens from them. Sonny watches this carefully, noting

where the buzzer button is. He crosses in front of the drawer

at the first cage. He tries to open the drawer.

It's obviously locked.

SONNY:

Okay, who's the head teller here?

SYLVIA:

I am.

SONNY:

Open this up!

Sylvia comes forward and unlocks the first drawer, and begins

to remove the cash, but Sonny grabs her hands... alarmed...

SONNY:

Don't take it all out!

He grabs a piece of paper or cardboard...

CLOSE SHOT - SONNY'S HANDS AND CASH IN DRAWER

He takes all the singles but one out of the singles slot in

the drawer, leaving the bottom single in place. It is held

there by a metal clip. He carefully slips the paper under

the clip and then removes the single.

It is clear this is an automatic alarm - meanwhile...

SONNY:

Boy, I can't trust a one of you... I

worked in a bank, I know the alarms,

so don't try to fool around with me!

BACK TO SHOT OF SONNY AND SYLVIA AND MIRIAM

as they move to 2nd cash drawer at 2nd teller's cage. Sylvia

unlocks the drawer and starts to reach in for the cash, but

Sonny pushes his hand into the drawer instead. He begins to

stuff the money into the bag. Some fives, packaged with

rubber bands, in the drawer, he holds up so Sal and all can

see them... He laughs!

SONNY:

Decoy money, right, it's marked!

Sh*t!

He throws it into the air so the bills flutter all around

him, gaily... In the background, Mulvaney, having finished

with the phone conversation, is moving to the rear with the

rest of the girls. Sonny now moves to the 3rd cage's cash

drawer... Mulvaney ends phone conversation and Sal moves him

over to group at vault.

SONNY:

(mimicking Sylvia)

'This window is shut...'

Again, the same procedure begins. Sylvia unlocks the cash

drawer and Sonny starts to scoop it out and put it into the

opened plastic bag that Miriam holds.

SAL:

Cheer up, you'll be the veteran of a

robbery, the bank sends you a dozen

red roses, you know that?

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