Hudson Hawk Page #14

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ALMOND JOY:

Damn baby, when's the last time

you had a vacation...Jesus, I

gotta get out of this job. If

my Mom knew her daughter

assassinated the leader of the

anti-Apartheid movement....

SNICKERS:

Quit bitching, you got the employee

of the month plaque for that sh*t...

BUTTERFINGER:

Ah to be in Pari-i and in love.

They look off to.....

105 HAWK AND ANNA'S TABLE 105

Physically sarcastic, the Waiter brings a tall wine

basket with a bottle of ketchup in it. Hawk nabs it.

HAWK:

Grazie. Multo bene. This is

bueno. They had the worst

ketchup in prison.....uh.

Prison?

ANNA:

HAWK:

I was the Warden?

ANNA:

How long were you in?

HAWK:

Let's just say, I never saw E.T.

ANNA:

Wow, you were "in the joint."

"Doing hard time." It's funny,

but that excites me. I seem to

have a thing for sinners.

HAWK:

I seem to have a thing for sinning.

Check please.....

WAITER:

Ah, anything for dessert?

Yes.

ANNA:

(she shoots)

Something to go.

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HAWK:

(she scores)

I'll bring the ketchup.

106 INT. ANNA'S HOUSE--NIGHT 106

64A.

ANNA:

Where did you get the hawk?

HAWK:

Ossining, New York.

ANNA:

Why do they call you Hudson Hawk?

HAWK:

The hawk is a slang word for the

wind that blows in the winter time.

I grew up in a town called Hoboken

in New Jersey. Well, Hoboken is

on the Hudson River. So, Hudson

River.

ANNA:

Hudson Hawk. So, why did they call

you Hawk?

HAWK:

Anytime anybody needed something stolen

--needed a favor from me, they'd come to

me and I'd perform that favor like a

hawk. You know, like the wind.

ANNA:

Where'd you get these?

HAWK:

I had a little accident around

the house.

ANNA:

What happened?

HAWK:

I fell on some chickens.

ANNA:

Does it hurt?

HAWK:

Yes, it hurts.

ANNA:

Maybe I can make them better.

HAWK:

See what you can do. Don't tickle.

Don't tickle...

Come here, I want to tell you

something. I got to whisper it.

ANNA:

I can't do this.

64B.

HAWK:

What's the matter?

ANNA:

It's been a long time for me.

HAWK:

Well, it's been a really long time

for me. Outside of a friendly dog

sniffing my genitals yesterday,

it's been a slow decade.

I don't make love every ten years,

I get a little crankly.

You know, I may have forgotten how

to kiss girls.

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Their heads fuse for a semi-classic screen kiss until

THE CRUCIFIX LIGHTS UP AND BEGINS SHOUTING IN ITALIAN.

HAWK:

Catholic girls are scary...

ANNA:

Somebody robbed the Vatican.

Really.

HAWK:

Anna slides on her shoes and makes a hasty retreat.

She bumps into the canvas bag. The Codex slides out.

They both catch it in mid-air. Anna's eyes pop. She

wrenches the Codex away and kicks. Hawk pulls her into

a compassionate back-against-his-stomach hug. The Codex

falls to the floor unharmed.

HAWK:

It's not what you think.

maybe it is....

Okay,

ANNA:

You went and did it! You really

did it! In one day, less than a

day, of planning, you did it.

You started the week stealing the

Sforza and you ended it swiping

the Codex.

Yeah, but -HAWK

ANNA:

What are your plans for the

weekend? Hoisting away the

Colosseum? Hawk, but I... Tell

me, did the devil make you do it

or did Darwin and Minerva

Mayflower?

107 EXT. A CAR OUTSIDE OF ANNA'S PLACE--NIGHT 107

Crammed together in the front seat, Snickers, Almond

Joy, and Butterfinger are watching the shadows of

Hawk and Anna up in the window. Snickers snaps a

cartridge into a gun while Butterfinger attacks a

goo-ey pastry, then discards it.

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BUTTERFINGER:

Dunkin does it better.

ALMOND JOY:

What's going on in there?

BUTTERFINGER:

Do you want me to rape them?

SNICKERS:

Just go read, Butterfinger.

Butterfinger pulls up the book on Da Vinci that Anna

wrote and starts reading like a schoolboy.

BUTTERFINGER:

"Da Vinci had fears about his

more dangerous designs, so he

created a shorthand code in

reverse script..."

ALMOND JOY:

To yourself!.....What are they doing?

SNICKERS:

All right, enough of this:

twenty seconds, we go in.

In

108 INT. ANNA'S PLACE 108

Foam shoots out over the coffee. Hawk smiles down at

it as Anna works a cappuccino machine.

ANNA:

For two years, I've been tracking

the Mayflowers' peculiar interest

in three Da Vinci pieces. Their

Sforza replica was as fake as

the "gas leak" that supposedly

destroyed it.

HAWK:

Does everyone in the world know

more than I do? Jesus, I'm just

some guy who happens to be good

at swiping stuff....."Hey Dad,

what time it is?" Oh, I don't

know, son, let me check my watch.

What, somebody stole my watch. Ho,

Ho, you got me again son." Who

knew it would lead... They even

got the CIA involved...

ANNA:

The C.I. what?

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HAWK:

(raising his cup)

Ooh, I guess I do know something

nobody else knows. ...Here's looking

at you, kid...

109 THE CAR OUTSIDE 109

The agents burst from the car, guns raised.

SNICKERS:

Now.

110 ANNA'S HOUSE 110

Hawk sips the cappuccino. His face immediately contracts.

HAWK:

This doesn't taste like cappuccino.

ANNA:

Oh, I must have put too much

ethyl-chloride in it.

Anna throws a pillow on the ground and holds out her hand.

Hawk collapses. His coffee cup lands perfectly in Anna's

outstretched hand and his head lands perfectly on the

pillow.

Butterfinger crashes the door and himself down onto the

ground. Snickers and Almond Joy race in, guns raised.

ANNA:

Why didn't you tell me at the

restaurant that he had hit the

Vatican tonight. My people will

not be happy. I want to see Kaplan.

ALMOND JOY:

That's not overly possible. He...

SNICKERS:

For security reasons, Mr. Kaplan's

coordinates are being kept secret

even from us....

BUTTERFINGER:

But guys, he's in the castle at

Vinci....

Snickers and Almond Joy grimace into fake smiles.

111 EXT. THE CASTLE--NIGHT 111

A helicopter thunders up to the awesome castle from the

opening Da Vinci sequence.

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