Hudson Hawk Page #11

The Board members gush. The Elderly Woman gives a

thumbs-up.

DARWIN:

It's veja du, Hawkhead. Something

you wish never did happen. We shot

the entire operation with hidden

cameras behind the hidden cameras.

Hired the guy who did the last

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.

Excellent work....whoops, damn

Fotomat a**holes...

A slide hits the wall of himself in painfully tight,

nippleless bra and panties, with Minerva in malevolently

macho black leather and with Alfred stoically grappling

a mammoth spiked paddle.

Hawk looks away and sees that the Board members have an

annual Report-type booklet in front of them that reads-THE

DA VINCI/ALCHEMY PROJECT.

Minerva leans over in front of him.

MINERVA:

My man, you're going to hit a

church.

CUT TO:

74 EXT. A MASSIVE WIDE SHOT OF ST. PETER'S--DAY 74

The Vatican stands in its glory, mobbed by HUNDREDS OF

LOCALS AND SIGHTSEERS. The viewer's viewpoint zeroes in

on the Mayflower limousine circling around it.

75 INT. THE LIMOUSINE 75

Hawk looks out from the back seat of the limousine

in stylish Italian sunglasses.

HAWK:

The Vatican. I can't believe I'm

robbing the Vatican. The nuns at

St. Agnes predicted that I'd end up

doing this...

(CONTINUED)

49.

75 CONTINUED:
75

Two identical Twin Flunkies sit across from him, grinning

stupidly. Hawk pushes up his sunglasses with his middle

finger.

76 INT. STAIRWELL 76

Mentally casing the joint, Hawk gets some distance

between him and the flunkies as he enters into a room

that has a glorious, ancient Map of the World Mural.

77 INT. MAP ROOM 77

Hawk makes a scribble in a notepad before coming to a

Vatican guard, standing before a painting of a Pope

performing a Coronation.

HAWK:

Hey man.

GUARD:

Buon giorno.

HAWK:

Yeah, boun giorno, I'm being

blackmailed into robbing the Vatican

by a psychotic American corporation

and the CIA...

VATICAN GUARD:

"You're being"....uh, I don't,

uh...

A jaded Hawk laughs and pats the cop on the back.

HAWK:

You don't speak English? You know,

you have very beautiful eyes for a

man.

78 INT. ENTRANCE CASSETTE ROOM -PHONE 78

Hawk comes out onto a circular open-air hallway. He

scans up to some rooftops and makes a note...until he

sees a line of International Phone Boothettes. Checking

for Flunkies, he rips one up.

HAWK:

Operator, yes, I'm having a wonderful

buon giorno. I want to make a collect

call to Tommy 5-Tone Messina, that's

right, in New York. Stock broker.

The Flunkies drift into view. Hawk hangs up and seethes

off.

49A.

79 INT. HALLWAY LEADING TO CODEX ROOM 79

Hawk saunters down a long resplendent hallway toward a

room at the end bustling with excitement. Coming to the

mouth of the room, he looks to two gold framed mirrors on

either side of the opening, rubs his head, and scribbles.

50.

80 INSIDE THE CODEX ROOM 80

Hawk takes in the majestic beauty, and practical details,

of the room--windows, statues, a Massive Ornate Lighting

Fixture--as he moves down one of the twin winding staircases

leading to a path of people behind velvet ropes and

the object of their gaze...

81 THE DA VINCI CODEX 81

--an old book enclosed in a glass case, propped open to

the familiar BEAUTIFUL DRAWING of a MAN inside a CIRCLE.

ANNA:

Here we enter the Da Vinci room.

Are we all following? Leonardo is

best known to us as a painter. But

it is his gift as an inventor who

drew together science and art that

is most incredible.

Hawk brightens to the return of Anna, carrying a portfolio

bag, striding down the stairs with a group of INVESTORS

AND FAMILIES. She brightens back, giving him a quick

verbal breath and a hand squeeze.

ANNA:

Tough guy. What are you--(How's

your head.) What are you doing here?

HAWK:

(vegetable)

Yes, and my giraffe loves it,

too... (I heard it was a great place

to pick up girls.)

She laughs, going into her public voice.

ANNA:

As you know, the Da Vinci Codex,

has lived in the Vatican for

centuries and will continue to

live here for centuries more.

HAWK:

(under his breath)

That's what you theenk.

ANNA:

Question, sir?....His untiring pen

predicted the airplane, the

submarine, the bicycle, the

helicopter, and even the tank.

A LITTLE BRAT trailing the group, moves next to Hawk,

bitching away to her STUFFED ELEPHANT, POKEY.

(CONTINUED)

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81

LITTLE BRAT:

This is so bor-ing! Do you hate

Italy as much as I do, Pokey?

(bad ventriloquism)

Si, senor! Italy sucks the big

one! Why can't we go to the Epcot

Center!

The Little Brat stops and lets Pokey the elephant dangle

from her side. Hawk eyes the elephant strangely.

ANNA:

These more dangerous designs

inspired him to develop a secret

code that uh...

The stuffed elephant suddenly goes flying over Anna's

head.

The ALARM goes off. The Massive Ornate Lighting Fixture

swoops down from the ceiling, inverting in air, and slams

down over the Codex, transformed into a makeshift cage.

Strange green gas comes billowing out of the vents.

Needless to say, everyone goes crazy.

Coughing gas, Hawk peeks to see that a line of light

sensor alarms imbedded in the tablets are what set the

alarm off.

Two GAS MASKS drop airlinesquely from the mouth of the

entranceway and TWO RACING-IN GUARDS wrangle them on.

The Little Brat sees that Pokey the stuffed elephant has

been beheaded by the cage/lamp. She is pulled away and

spanked.

LITTLE BRAT:

Pokey, come back!

Anna yanks a notetaking Hawk away as the gas blusters in

around him. The Two Flunkies, eyes on Hawk, are haplessly

making their way up the opposite staircase.

ANNA:

Come on, this stuff will knock you

out. Have you ever had the feeling

you were being followed, Mr. Bond.

HAWK:

Never, why do you ask?

Reaching the top of the stairs, just outside the door,

Anna briskly pulls Hawk into a PIECE OF WALL THAT IS

REALLY A DOOR.

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The wall closes as the Flunkies come flying out, baffled.

82 INT. CIRCULAR STAIRCASE 82

Hawk, mucho impressed, and Anna move down a tight, dark

circular staircase.

ANNA:

Are you going to tell me why you

did that back there or are you

going to blame it on Dumbo?

HAWK:

Oh, you mean Pokey, could you

believe that crazy elephant?

Anna shakes her head as she opens a door into...

83 INT. A LITTLE UNDERGROUND SUBWAY--DAY 83

A four foot high mail train rumbles down the track of a

mini-underground station. Workers latch onto mail bags.

Hawk and Anna emerge from a small door.

HAWK:

The Vatican IRT.

ANNA:

The Pope takes his mail very

seriously. Christmas cards, Easter

seals, delivers up to ten at night.

It's actually not such an unusual

set-up. The secret passageway on

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