Goodfellas Page #11

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KAREN:

(filled with alarm)

Button year shirt, quick! Hurry

HENRY buttons his shirt as KAREN'S MOTHER comes to the

door.

KAREN:

Ma, this is my friend, Henry Hill.

MOTHER:

My daughter says you're half-Jewish?

EXT. COPACABANA - NIGHT

HENRY gives the keys and a rolled-up twenty-dollar bill to

the DOORMAN at the building across the street and steers

KAREN toward the Copa.

KAREN:

What're you doing? What about the

car?

HENRY:

(while pushing her

through the crowd

waiting to get in)

He watches it for me. It's better

than waiting at a garage.

HE SEE HENRY deftly steer KAREN away from the Copa's main

entrance and down the basement steps. A HUGE BODYGUARD,

eating a sandwich in the stairwell, gives HENRY a big

"Hello." WE SEE HENRY walk right through the basement

kitchen, which is filled with CHINESE and LATINO COOKS and

DISHWASHERS who pay no attention. KAREN is being dragged

along, open-mouthed, at the scene. HENRY starts up a stained

kitchen staircase through a pair of swinging doors and

suddenly KAREN sees she is inside the main room. The harried

MAITRE D' (he is surrounded by CUSTOMERS clamoring for

their tables) waves happily at HENRY and signals to a

CAPTAIN. WE SEE a table held aloft by TWO WAITERS wedging

their way toward the stage and plant the table smack in

front of what had until that moment been a ringside table.

As HENRY leads KAREN to their seat, she sees that he is

nodding and shaking hands with MANY of the OTHER GUESTS.

WE SEE HENRY quietly slip twenty-dollar-bills to the

WAITERS.

KAREN:

(sitting down)

You gave them twenty dollars each?

WE SEE the CAPTAIN approach with champagne.

CAPTAIN:

This is from Mister Tony, over

there.

HENRY:

Where, over there?

CAPTAIN:

Over there, over there.

KAREN watches HENRY turn around and wave at a 280-POUND

HOOD.

KAREN:

What do you do?

HENRY:

(toasting Karen and

clinking glasses)

I'm in construction.

KAREN:

(taking his hands)

They don't feel like you're in

construction.

HENRY turns to the stage where the lights begin to dim and

BENNY YOUNGMAN walks out.

HENRY:

I'm a union delegate.

EXT. AIR FRANCE CARGO AREA - NIGHT

On loading platform HE SEE HENRY and TOMMY dressed in Air

France coveralls.

HENRY is carrying a large suitcase.

Suddenly WE SEE FRENCHY McMAHON come through a door, slip

HENRY a key and lead them back into the office area near

the entrance.

HENRY goes to the door marked "SECURITY AREA" that FRENCHY

points out and opens it with the key. HENRY and TOMMY go

inside.

CUT TO:

HENRY AND TOMMY:

coming out with the suitcase, close the door and walk right

past FRENCHY without saying a word.

INT. CABSTAND BACKROOM - NIGHT

WE SEE the suitcase open on the desk. WE SEE VARIO, JIMMY,

HENRY and TOMMY standing around, wreathed in smiles. HENRY

is counting stacks of cash, spreading them all over the

desk.

HENRY (V.O.)

Air France made me. We walked out

with four hundred and twenty

thousand dollars without a gun.

And we did the right thing.

HENRY counts up $420,000 and slides ten packages of $l00-

bills in front of VARIO who stands up and proudly kisses

HENRY on the cheek. JIMMY and TOMMY, both aglow with the

moment, look on. It is clear that HENRY has come of age.

CUT TO:

HENRY'S FACE

VARIO:

(to Henry)

It's a lot of money for a kid. If

anyone asks, just say you won it

shooting crap.

EXT. BEACH CLUB - DAY

HENRY and KAREN are at a sun-drenched table after paper-

cup and paper-plate lunch where HENRY is trying to pay

cash.

KAREN:

(touching Henry's

arm)

No. No. You've got to sign for

it.

WE SEE athletic YOUNG MEN and WOMEN in white clothe*

carrying tennis and squash rackets walk by. One young man,

BRUCE, says hello to KAREN. She introduces him to HENRY.

CUT TO:

KAREN:

(after Bruce walks

on)

He lives across the street.

CUT TO:

CHAMPAGNE:

being sent to table.

INT. NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT

CAMERA PANS to stage where WE SEE SINGER'S back and HENRY

and KAREN at a luxurious ringside table with linen, silver,

and crystal.

KAREN (V.O.)

One night Billy Daniels sent us

champagne. There was nothing like

it. I didn't think that there was

anything strange in any of this --

you know, a twenty-one-year-old

kid with such connections.

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