Goodfellas Page #21

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KAREN:

I've been all over town. I got a

call from the bondman. He says

they're going to rescind your bail

if you don't show up and sign in

right now. They're going to take

away the house.

HENRY:

Sh*t.

HENRY looks at his PALS, orders his last Screaming Eagle

for a while, and gently touches the tips of KAREN'S fingers.

He swallows his drink, hugs and kisses a tearful KAREN and

walks out of the bar to a long, white, stretch limo waiting

at the curb.

TOMMY:

Say hello to Jimmy.

HENRY gets in the rear seat of the limo.

HENRY:

(downing a plan

full of valium)

Okay, now you can take me to jail.

CUT TO:

INT. DORMITORY - LEWISBURG FEDERAL PRISON

CLOSE UP - GARLIC

being sliced razor thin.

HENRY (V.O.)

Dinner was always a big thing. We

had a pasta course and then meat

or fish. Paulie did the prep work.

He was doing a year for contempt

and he had a system for doing

garlic. He used a razor and he

sliced it so thin it used to liquify

in the pan with a little oil.

CUT TO:

HOT PLATE:

with a pot full of tomato sauce and meatballs being stirred.

HENRY (V.O.)

Vinnie was in charge of the tomato

sauce. I felt he put in too many

onions, but it was a good sauce

anyway.

CUT TO:

FRYING PAN:

With smoking steaks.

HENRY (V.O.)

Johnny Dio did the meat. He didn't

have a broiler, so Johnny did

everything in pans. He smelled up

the joint something awful and the

hacks used to die.

CUT TO:

HOT FLAT:

Hooked up by long extension cord to an electric outlet in

the toilet. There are huge kitchen knives, a block of ice

in a tin pail covered with a cloth and large pots and

colanders necessary for cooking pasta dishes.

PULL BACK to a large dorm with four beds separated by

shoulder-height partitions. The room does not look like a

prison. There are curtains over the bars. The room is filled

with smoke from the pan-fried steak.

HENRY (V.O.)

Everybody else in the joint was

doing real time, all mixed together,

living like pigs.

CUT TO:

HENRY:

In grey prison garb, carrying a heavy canvas mail sack

marked "LEWISBURG PRISON." He dumps the sacks on one of

the beds.

HENRY (V.O.)

We lived alone, we owned the joint.

Even those hacks who we couldn't

bribe would never rat on the guys

who did.

CUT TO:

HENRY:

opens the sack on his bad and pulls out bottles of wine,

scotch, and brandy, and holds them aloft.

HENRY:

(looking for praise)

Nice? Good?

VARZO:

(looking up from

his garlic surgery)

Okay. What else?

WE SEE HENRY reach in the sack and pull out cheeses, dried

sausages, a large jar of vinegar peppers and dried

mushrooms.

VARIO:

(beaming with pride)

Now we eat.

WE SEE HENRY begin to set the table.

CUT TO:

VARIO AND THE REST OF TEE MOB BOSSES

playing cards, sipping wine, scotch and brandy. HENRY is

sitting on his bed with his back to the GROUP. When he

sees that no one is watching him, he pulls a black plastic

garbage bag out of the sack. HENRY opens the bag and

quickly counts the clear plastic bags of marijuana, glassine

envelopes of heroin and bottles of pills. HENRY quickly

repacks the drugs and slips them under his covers.

INT. PRISON ENTRY GATE - DAY

Visiting day. HENRY is in a GUARD'S booth watching the

VISITORS' gate through a window. WE SEE a GUARD in the

room with HENRY. There is a knock. The GUARD opens the

door and looks at HENRY. HENRY nods. The GUARD lets the

INMATE enter. While the GUARD watches, the INMATE gives

HENRY some cash and HENRY gives him one of the plastic

bags filled with marijuana and a bottle of pills. The INMATE

is then escorted out by the GUARD who closes the door.

GUARD:

Are there any more?

HENRY:

(looking intently

at the visiting

gate)

No, that's it. Ho more today.

WE SEE HENRY casually stuff some bills into the GUARD'S

shirt pocket.

CUT TO:

INT. VISITORS' GATE - DAY

ANGLE ON KAREN:

coming through. She is wearing such a large, oversized

coat that KAREN looks twice as big as she was when we last

saw her. She has the TWO CHILDREN with her. She is carrying

a large purse and some empty shopping bags. The GUARDS see

her and immediately help her get through the metal detection

device and past the table where OTHER WOMEN are emptying

the contents of their bags and packages.

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