Goodfellas Page #17

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EXT. CONNECTICUT WOODLAND - NIGHT

WE SEE TOMMY, HENRY and JIMMY burying BATTS.

HENRY (V.O.)

Before you could touch a made guy,

you had to have a good reason.

There had to be a sit-down. And

you better get an okay, or you'd

be the one who got whacked.

HENRY slams down trunk.

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INT. COPACABANA - LATE SHOW - NIGHT

ANGLE ON TABLE:

being quickly set up by WAITERS and MAITRE D' as HENRY,

TOMMY, ANGELO SEPE, and JOE MANRI sit down. In BG, WE SEE

OLDER HOODS with YOUNG SHOWGIRL TYPES.

WE SEE LINDA, a cheery, California blonde, and SOME

GIRLFRIENDS seated at a table directly behind HENRY'S table.

CUT TO:

STAGE AND AS STAGE LIGHTS DIM:

HENRY (V.O.)

Saturday night was for wives, but

Friday night at the Copa was always

for the girlfriends.

CUT BACK TO:

HENRY'S TABLE

HENRY is now sitting next to LINDA. TOMMY is with GIRL #l.

SEPE is with GIRL #2.

GIRL #1

Last week I saw Sunny Davis. What

a performer. You gotta see him.

You gotta catch him. He does

imitations I swear you'd think it

was the real people.

GIRL #2

Yeah, the way he moves. It's

unbelievable. I mean, you can

understand how a white girl could

fall for him.

TOMMY:

What are you talking about?

GIRL #2

I don't mean me. Not me. I just

mean, you can see how some girls

could. Like that Swedish girl.

You can see how she fell for him.

You can see how he has this, this,

personality.

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COPA STAGE:

spotlight. BOBBY DARKEN is singing.

EXT. LINDA'S APARTMENT BUILDING - NIGHT

HENRY'S convertible pulls up.

HENRY has his arm around LINDA'S neck. WE SEE them go

into the building.

DISSOLVE TO:

DAWN.

INT. VARIO'S HOUSE - DAY

Sunday. There are LOTS OF RELATIVES and FRIENDS present.

HENRY and KAREN arrive. KAREN ia carrying their NEW BABY

and HENRY has his TWO-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER by the hand. A

Great fuss is made over the NEW BABY and over KAREN by the

WOMEN, including VARIO'S WIFE. VARIO puts an arm around

HENRY and leads him into an alcove.

VARIO:

What did you hear about that thing?

HENRY:

What thing? The Brooklyn thing?

VARIO:

No. No. The guy from downtown.

HENRY:

The guy from near where Christie

used to live?

VARIO:

No. The other one. The one who

disappeared up the block from

Christie. The one they made a beef

on.

HENRY:

Oh I Him.

VASIO:

You know the one I mean?

HENRY:

Oh yeah. Sure. That guy. I know

him.

VASIO:

That Batts was a miserable f***,

but his people are looking still

for him.

HENRY:

Oh yeah. Yeah. I know. I even looked

into it myself. Nobody knows what

the f*** happened to him. He came

in the joint that one night and

then he disappeared.

VARZO:

Hell, keep your eyes open. They're

busting my balls looking for the

f***.

INT. THE SUITE - NIGHT

HENRY and LINDA, with the CREW, are drinking. MARTY KRUGMAN

is reluctantly paying off a bet at the bar. JIMMY calls

HENRY aside.

JIMMY:

We got a problem, that thing we

took care of upstate?

HENRY:

(surprised)

Paulie was just talking about him.

JIMMY:

Well, we gotta dig him up again.

HENRY:

(shocked)

What?

JIMMY:

The guy just sold the property.

They're gonna build condominiums

and I don't want anybody digging

up the little bastard.

HENRY:

(horrified)

It's been six months.

JIMMY:

It's still better than letting

somebody find him.

HENRY:

(nodding in agreement

and concerned)

If Paulie finds out, we got

problems.

JIMMY:

F*** Paulie. If Batts' crew finds

we whacked him, we got real

problems.

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