Freedomland Page #3

Three knocks, this nitwit pulls

a Monte Cristo. F*** you.

F*** me? You son of a b*tch!

I'll show you "f*** you"!

Son of a b*tch! I'll kill you.

F*** you! F*** you!

- I'm taking you off this one.

- Don't.

- I'm taking you off!

- Don't, lieutenant, don't.

- Armstrong is mine.

- No, she's yours!

What's wrong with you,

bringing her back here?

Get her looking at mug shots yet?

- No.

- You sit her with a sketch artist?

She's yours!

- I love him so much.

- Come on, come on.

Come on, Big Daddy, chill out.

Come on.

- I love him so much.

- I know you do, Brenda. I know you do.

I wish... I wish...

I still wanna work here. I wanna...

I wanna work harder.

I have so much love in me.

I know you do, Brenda.

I know you do.

- What do I do? What do I do?

- Thanks, ladies. Let's go, Brenda.

All right. Everybody

make room, please.

- What's wrong with you?

- You are two heartbeats from a lockup.

You're gonna lock me up now?

Take me now, and lock me up.

Lock me up.

That's what you should do...

...you old hillbilly-ass cracker!

Can't you do something about this?

You can't lock people up

in their own neighborhood!

- Step behind the barricade.

- F*** them!

- Take these barricades out!

- I'm not talking till you step back.

You're not talking to me?

Fine, I'll talk.

- Do you see him?

- Hey, look...

Just go and get him, take him upstairs

before he gets in trouble, all right?

- You know where she lives?

- Yeah, why?

Meet me over there, huh?

You step off!

No, this is my neighborhood!

These are my projects.

I'm not going nowhere.

No, I'm not going nowhere.

- Billy, come on!

- No!

- You think you is, man?

- Come on.

Go home!

Attention, Armstrong residents,

this is a lockdown.

Please remain behind the barriers...

...while police conduct

their investigation.

Detective, is that Cody's mom?

- Do you think it was deliberate?

- Get the hell out of here.

Come on, Detective Council.

Look over here.

This is a lockdown.

Please remain behind the barriers.

- I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do.

- We gotta go.

- No, please.

- All right, all right.

You know, I was thinking.

Once I said,

"Cody, do you love me?"

And you know what he said?

He's 4, right.

He said, "Of course I love you,

Mommy.

Why would you even ask me that?"

All right, I'll see if they'll post a

Gannon detective downstairs for you.

The sketch artist is on his way over.

He's gonna do the jacker.

I'll get Felicia to come stay with you.

Okay.

Get some sleep.

Okay.

Felicia.

You see him?

- You see him?

- Yeah.

Look, I promise I'll deal with it.

That sketch artist is on his way over.

As soon as he's done...

...make sure her head

is on a pillow. Okay?

Lorenzo.

I don't know anybody

in those houses...

...who would have laid a

hand on Brenda.

She was known.

She was respected.

All right.

- Thanks for this.

- Sure.

Say, partner, you good to drive?

- What?

- You good to drive?

Well, hell, yeah.

Tell you what,

why don't you take a power nap?

- I'll bring these back in an hour.

- Man, what the hell are you doing?

If you're trying to get

my attention, you got it.

How you doing, Detective Council?

- You're a reporter?

- Me? No.

Karen Collucci. Friends of Kent.

Friends of K..?

Oh, you those people go around

looking for missing children and such.

We find them.

Remember Corey Baker

over in Bayonne?

- And Nedra Davis in Jersey City?

- Yeah. They were killed.

I know. We found them.

Anyways, if you think it would help,

and if the mother agrees...

...we'd like to help you

find Cody Martin.

- No, I don't think so.

- Okay. No problem.

How about you take one of our cards

in case you change your mind?

You know, I'd bet everything

I have that...

...Tania Leeds...

...been dead from the jump.

Probably. But whoever did her

is still out there, right?

Anyways, it's the anniversary, so we're

hoping somebody'd step up, but...

You look half dead, Lorenzo.

Hope you can get some sleep.

Check it out.

Who the hell is that, now?

Buddha or some-f***ing-body?

What? It's Tupac, man.

It's Pac.

Jas, man, come on.

This is your body,

not some billboard.

Well, I was about

to get Tiger Woods...

...but I figured that wouldn't go over

too well with the brothers in here.

I'm sorry, man. Time's up.

Finish up over here, folks.

Watch your back, all right?

You too, Pops.

This is ridiculous!

They have to go to school!

- You don't understand.

- Come on!

We're trying.

- The search for the missing child,

Cody Martin.

I'm tired of this.

Just give me a break, okay?

You gotta move back.

Tell me, how's this supposed

to help?

You're doing nothing but

harassing innocent people.

Three years ago,

Belmont Houses...

...maintenance man gets shot, 700

windows overlooking the scene.

We shut it down, what,

a day, day and a half...

...they brought us the actor

on a platter. That was my call.

Yeah, but what if nobody

around here knows nothing?

If this was anywhere

other than Armstrong...

If this was anywhere than Armstrong

Housing, I would have yanked you.

- Now, the mother. Is she a scumbag?

- No, I don't think so.

So if she's the actor,

will she hang tough?

- No, I don't.

- It's time to take a hard run at her.

You think?

Back it up, back it up.

He has no statement.

You know, Bobby,

if this woman is faking it...

...she's in the wrong line of work.

There is one thing that

keeps bugging me.

All right, so I go by the hospital

last night, right?

She says she got beat on by

a black man, 5'8", 150 pounds.

Now here comes me.

Black as a coal miner's ass...

...at midnight and twice that size.

I roll right up on her.

You know what she does?

She shakes my hand.

She should've taken a look at me

and jumped out of her skin.

But, no, she shakes

my motherfucking hand.

Lorenzo. You wanna do yourself

a big favor?

- Give her to me.

- You?

Yeah. Look, if she

don't give it up soon...

...with this going on, all these people,

they're gonna come down on you.

It's wrong.

- Call the Dempsy Police

at 201- 153...

- All right.

- Hey. Big Daddy!

- You gonna do anything about this?

- Yeah, what you gonna do, man?

I'm here at the Armstrong Houses on

the border of Gannon and Dempsy.

Tempers are beginning to flare.

This is day two of the search...

...for 4-year-old Gannon resident

Cody Martin.

Police suspect his abductor

is here in the Armstrong Houses.

We will continue our coverage

through the day...

...bringing you news as it breaks.

This is Victor Diaz reporting

to you from Channel 9.

- Danny.

- Brenda, listen to me.

- Leave me alone.

- Brenda, please.

- Why's it always gotta be like this?

- Stop, no.

Every time I see you, I put out a fire.

- Tell me what happened.

- Leave me alone.

Brenda, please.

Tell me what happened.

- I said, 50 times.

- Yeah, I know. Say it again.

Brenda. Please,

we are chasing ghosts out there.

Where's the kid? Where's the car?

We can't even find...

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes