Goodfellas Page #7

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WE SEE HENRY standing near her car and watching.

SCHOOL-CROSSING GUARD

(driving off)

Thank you, sweetheart.

CUT TO:

JIMMY standing between TOMMY and HENRY.

JIMMY:

(to Henry)

Say hello to Tommy. You'll do good

together.

CUT TO:

POLICE CAR:

pulling onto the sidewalk where HENRY, TOMMY and JIMMY are

standing. The COPS recognize JIMMY.

COP #1

Anything good?

HENRY watches JIMMY smile and toss a couple of cartons of

cigarettes into their radio car.

The COPS wave and drive off.

EXT. FACTORY GATE - QUITTING TIME

WE SEE HENRY busily selling cartons to WORKERS. TOMMY is

getting cartons out. of the trunk of a car parked nearby.

HENRY is so busy he can hardly keep the money and cash

straight. Instead of the neat roll we saw on JIMMY, HENRY's

cash is a wrinkled mess. Some of it is rolled, some folded,

some in different pockets. WE SEE HENRY approached by TWO

CITY DETECTIVES.

DETECTIVE #1

What do you think you're doing?

DETECTIVE #2

Where did you get these cigarettes?

(offering them

cartons)

It's okay.

DETECTIVE #l roughly grabs HENRY's arm. DETECTIVE #2 grabs

HENRY's cigarette cartons. WE SEE HENRY pull his arm away

and ONE of the DETECTIVES slaps him across the face.

WE SEE that TOMMY is about to say something, but runs away

instead.

INT. CABSTAND - DAY

WE SEE TOMMY talking to TUDDY and ASSORTED HOODS at the

cabstand.

INT. COURTROOM - "AR-1" (ARRAIGNMENT PART 1)

HENRY is waiting along with DOZENS OF HOOKERS, nodding

JUNKIES, MUGGERS and SHOPLIFTERS. When HENRY'S case is

called, WE PAN to a well-dressed MOB LAWYER. HENRY, who

has never seen the LAWYER before, walks to the

PROSECUTOR'S, rather than the DEFENDANT'S table. A COURT

CLERK nods him over toward his own LAWYER.

Without acknowledging HENRY, the LAWYER nods and smiles at

the JUDGE, who smiles and nods back.

JUDGE:

Councilor, proceed.

CUT TO:

INT. COURTROOM - CENTER AISLE

HENRY is walking out of the court. HENRY sees JIMMY BURKE

smiling and waiting for him in the rear of the courtroom.

JIMMY puts his arm around HENRY like a father, and tacks a

one-hundred dollar bill into HENRY's chest pocket. They

walk out into the court corridor in silence together and

then, suddenly, HENRY sees PAUL VARIO, TOMMY, TUDDY, and

the WHOLE CREW from the cabstand waiting for him. They

start clapping and whistling and slapping his back and

cheering. VARIO, TUDDY and BURKE embrace him.

While bewildered COPS and LAWYERS watch!

CHORDS OF HOODS:

You broke your cherry! You broke

your cherry!

LAST FREEZE.

TITLE UP - IDLEWILD AIRPORT: 1955

EXT. WIDE SHOT - IDLEWILD CARGO AREA

HENRY (V.O.)

By the time I grew up, there was

thirty billion a year in cargo

moving through Idlewild Airport

and we tried to steal every bit of

it.

EXT. AIRPORT DINER - PARKING LOT - DAY

ANGLE - GREY LIZARD SHOES AND SHARP GREY PANTS

and UP TO SEE HENRY standing in parking lot, when a large

truck pulls up. WE SEE TOMMY DESIMONE standing with him.

HENRY (V.O.)

You've got to understand, we grew

up near the airport.. It belonged

to Paulie. We had friends and

relatives who worked all over the

place and they tipped as off about

what was coming in and what was

going out.

WE SEE DRIVES get out of track with engine still running

and leave door open. He nods to HENRY who does not respond

and the DRIVES casually walks toward the diner.

HENRY (V.O.)

If any of the truckers or airlines

gave as trouble, Paulie had his

people scare then with a little

strike. It was beautiful. It was

an even bigger money-major than

numbers, and Jimmy was in charge.

Whenever we needed money, we'd rob

the airport. To us, it was better

than Citibank.

INT. TABLE IN DINER

WE SEE DRIVER rise from debris of breakfast dishes, leave

a tip and pay the CASHIER. Be walks out the door toward

his truck in the parking lot.

HOLD ON the door.

DRIVER rushes back in through the door toward the CASHIER.

DRIVER:

(flushed and agitated)

Hurry, gimme the phone. Two n*ggers

just stole my track.

INT. SONNY'S BAMBOO LOUNGE - DUSK

A cavernous room within earshot of the airport that looks

like a movie nightclub. No matter when you walk into the

Bamboo Lounge it's always the middle of the night.

CAMERA TRACKS past the zebra-striped banquettes and bar

stools, past sharpy BUSINESSMEN, BOOKMAKERS and HOODS.

HENRY (V.O.)

There was Jimmy and Tommy and me.

And there was Anthony Stabile,

Angelo Sepe, Fat Andy, Frankie the

Wop, Freddy No Nose, Pete the

Killer, Nicky Blanda, Mikey

Franzese, and Johnny Echoes, who

got that nickname because he said

everything twice. Like*, "You

wanna get the papers, get the

papers."

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