Duplicity Page #5

I'm really not a gullible person;

But; ; ; But the children

and their little hearts; ; ;

And; ; ; And, yes, I felt special, you know,

that I could help him and the children;

And, yes, he was cute, I'll admit it;

Everything falling out of his pockets,

and charming;

You know, I mean special;

Special, like there was no one

in the world but me;

Hasn't anyone ever made you feel special?

(CHUCKLING)

Maybe for you it happens all the time;

Yeah, you probably have someone

making you feel that way all the time;

You know what? I don't even care;

Do whatever you're gonna do;

'Cause you know what?

I loved it!

It was worth it;

It was so very worth it;

It was incredibly worth it;

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

- Hello?

- RAY:
Hey, it's me;

- You're so early; I just got in;

- I ran;

- It went okay?

- Not a hitch; God, you feel good;

I can't believe you got here so fast;

I'm sorry,

but two months is just too goddamn long;

What? Did you; ; ; Did you push

your appointment up? You go in early?

It was fine; There wasn't that much to it;

- You did it, right?

- What?

- You told them;

- Of course;

- And you're okay with it?

- I'd better be, right?

How?

(NERVOUS CHUCKLE)

How; ; ;

How did you do it? You just; ; ;

(CLEARS THROAT)

- You walked in and what, said, "I quit"?

- Basically;

- They must have tried to talk you out of it;

- Not really, no;

Well, they can't be happy to see you go;

It couldn't have been that easy;

What are you trying to tell me?

- You didn't do it, did you?

- Hang on;

There's no way

that they just let you just walk out;

- Wait;

- You just punched out? Just walked out?

No, no, no, no, no; Hang on;

- Answer the question;

- Did they ask you to stay?

- You're ducking the question;

- They did, didn't they?

- This is classic;

- They asked you to stay;

- I know this drill, okay;

- Did you quit or not?

Deny everything; Admit nothing;

- Make counter-accusations;

- That's what you're doing;

I asked you how it went and you evaded!

How it went?

I just terminated a 12-year career with Ml6;

I spent an hour

signing non-disclosure forms,

I did a quick outplacement polygraph,

I turned in my credentials

and I walked out

on the only job I've ever really had,

and now, right now,

I'm getting the very distinct impression

that you changed your mind,

kept your job, and left me out in the cold;

They kind of begged me to stay;

And you don't call

to tell me that this morning?

I couldn't risk it;

You're unbelievable;

- I was completely surprised;

- I don't believe this;

I hope you kept your passports;

What am I supposed to do? I can't go back;

You have to turn in a couple

to make it look good, but; ; ;

I am totally cooked;

; ; ;we're gonna need decent passports;

What are you talking about?

I took everything I could get my hands on;

After they begged me;

You b*tch;

(WHISPERS) Admit it;

You don't trust me, either;

So, the total footprint;

That's if you're interested in both buildings,

'cause they're both available right now;

It's about 22,000 square feet;

The ventilation, it's zoned;

And you've got separate filtration systems

for the lab, office, storage and loading;

- It's lovely and clean;

- Yes, indeed;

The last tenants left the place

in terrific shape; It's just spotless;

What kind of business were they in?

REALTOR:
Formavale? Damned if I know;

Some kind of biotech;

They took the place, loaded in their gear

and that's about the last we saw of them;

Hell, they used to truck out their own trash;

Cronin Partiz; Ronnie Partiz;

Dr; Ronald Partiz;

This is 10 years ago up in Albany;

He's graduating high school,

but he's a smart kid;

He gets a free ride to Cornell;

He finds his way

into the biochemistry department;

Two years later, he's in med school;

PAM; He's 18, he's doing research

with some heavy hitters,

he's getting good evaluations,

he's rolling along;

called American Dermatologist;

- About?

- Something about a fungus;

What kind of fungus?

DUKE; It doesn't matter;

RICHARD; Doesn't matter?

Everything matters;

He plagiarized it; He stole it;

He got caught immediately;

PAM; They bounced him out of Cornell;

He set up shop in his parents' garage,

started working on some kind of skin cream;

DUKE:
Yeah, something called; ; ;

- What?

- PAM:
Spring Skin;

He tried to sell it to health food stores

in the area up there;

Now, you're sure this is a cream

or was it a lotion?

- Because a lot of people confuse the two;

- I don't know;

Well, for Christ's sake, Duke, let's have that!

Let's have that! I mean, if; ; ;

If there is even a chance that this guy

is Tully's secret weapon,

we're gonna need a hell of a lot more

than his goddamn grade point average!

You gotta get me his cream!

Show me the cream!

Dick, he went bankrupt overnight;

It was a bust, okay;

We don't think the cream

is the answer here;

So, Ronnie Partiz

now goes deep underground;

It's as if he doesn't exist;

No taxes, no bank records, nothing;

Then, two years ago,

he walks into a bank in Atlanta

and produces a $500,000 letter of credit

and a business card from Formavale;

DUKE:
Now, we've been working hard,

we've been working fast

and yet we can't find anything

about Formavale;

We don't have a vendor,

we don't have an insurance company,

we don't have anybody down there

who knows anything about

what the hell Formavale does;

PAM:
We're working these

New York travel records;

Howard Tully bouncing down to Dunwoody

like a busboy;

DUKE; Yeah, and two days after Ronald Partiz

sells Formavale Labs to B&R,

three armored trucks

pull up outside the building;

PAM:
Not only that,

B% R sends a security detail down there

to guard the load out,

which takes place at night;

And consider that B% R has yet to disclose

their financial statements

showing the acquisition;

And then add the fact that Ronnie Partiz

has been living for the last six months

in a $10,000-a-day penthouse suite

at the Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas;

And the coup de grace,

toss in the fact that he is playing baccarat

whenever he's sober enough

to make his way down to the tables

to the tune of $300,000 a week;

Duke, God damn it,

you gotta stop waltzing around,

and you have got to get on this guy;

You can forget his room;

It's like Fort Knox up there;

It'd be a major operation;

- I told you;

- So what do you wanna do?

Have a drink;

Turn-down service;

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

This is a waste of time;

You wanna just sit here all night?

Look at him, he's paralyzed;

He couldn't leave if he wanted to;

Why don't you give me the credit card,

let me get in the game;

It's a $5,000 table;

That's okay; I'll share my winnings;

Forget it;

FETYOV:
Look, maybe you're right;

Maybe tonight he goes nowhere;

What we do?

Tonight we watch like this, and tomorrow; ; ;

Tomorrow, we'll find somebody

who works upstairs in those rooms, okay?

SECURITY:
How's it going, fellows?

- Yeah, we're good, thanks; Very good;

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