Goodfellas Page #24

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HENRY (V.O.)

It took me about a week of sneaking

around before I could unload the

Pittsburgh stuff without Paulie

finding out. But when I did, it

was a real score. I started using

Robin's place to mix the stuff and

even with Robin's snorting more

than she mixed, I could see this

was a good business. I made twelve

thousand dollars in my second week

and I had a down-payment on my

house. All I had to do was every

once in a while, tell Robin I loved

her.

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INT. PAROLE OFFICE - DAY TIGHT ON A PIECE OF PAPER

where stubby pencil calculations are being scribbled.

HENRY (V.O.)

It was perfect. As long as I kept

getting the stuff from Pittsburgh,

I knew Paulie would never find

out. But within a couple of weeks

it got to be so big I needed help.

I got Jimmy and Tommy to come in

with me.

HENRY (O.S.)

Fifteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty-

one-five.

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HENRY:

opening a shoe box he has hidden in a plastic grocery bag.

JIMMY and TOMMY lean close to HENRY in order to see inside.

HENRY:

(smiling)

Did I tell you?

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OPEN SHOE BOX:

filled with twenty-dollar bills.

JIMMY (O.S.)

Nice.

TOMMY:

Who's buying?

WE SEE HENRY's thumb run through the tightly-stacked

twenties like piano keys.

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PAROLE OFFICER:

in tired business suit coming out of door, over which WE

SEE sign reading "UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE -

PAROLE DIVISION," and WE SEE that HENRY, JIMMY and TOMMY

are in the large brightly lit Parole Office counting their

drug profits.

PAROLE OFFICER:

(overworked and

looking around the

crowded waiting

room)

Burke?

WE SEE JIMMY and PAROLE OFFICER walk into the office.

PAROLE OFFICER:

Still working?

Door closes.

CUT BACK TO:

A WHOLE FLOOR:

filled with EX-CON PAROLEES.

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INT. HENRY'S NEW HOUSE

WE SEE MARTY KRUGMAN and his wife, FRAN, being taken on a

tour of an over-decorated and expensive living room.

(SHOT almost like a commercial)

KAREN (O.S.)

This we had to have made special.

I mean, sit in it. Go ahead. Sit.

FRAN plops onto sofa.

KAREN (O.S.)

The others you couldn't even sit

in. And from here, watch the wall.

KAREN's hand flicks a switch on table next to sofa and

wall slides back, REVEALING TV and stereo.

KAREN (O.S.)

See. It opens. We had the

electricians fix it up special.

CUT TO:

LARGE MARBLE-TOP TABLE

KAREN:

This we imported. It came in two

pieces.

On third object, PAN TO KAREN.

As KAREN and FRAN KRUGMAN disappear behind swinging kitchen

doors, MARTY and HENRY drop onto the sofa.

MARTY:

It's a fait accompli?

HENRY:

Done.

MARTY:

And Jimmy's in it, right?

HENRY:

Will you stop.

HASTY:

But you don't understand. It's

worth millions. It's once in a

MARTY:

Lifetime. We'll be rich. No more

nut every week. I've been

cultivating this thing for two

years.

INT. ROBERT'S LOUNGE

A SEEDY MOB HANGOUT. WE SEE ALL OF THE WISEGUYS WHO WILL

BE A PART OF THE LUFTHANSA ROBBERY. MARTY, HENRY, TOMMY,

AND JIMMY ARE WATCHING A BASKETBALL GAME.

HENRY (V.O.)

And these are the guys.

CUT TO:

TOMMY AND ANGELO SEPE

who are leaning with their backs against the bar, their

jackets open, bosses of all they survey.

HENRY (V.O.)

Tommy and Sepe were going to grab

the outside guard and make him get

us in the front door.

CUT TO:

FRENCHY MCMAHON:

Who is playing shuffleball.

HENRY (V.O.)

Frenchy and

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