Leon Page #14

LEON:

...Ten minutes at least... Not five.

In the corridor, cops eventually catch the pressurized pipe

and close the water. On all fours, Leon and Mathilda get in

the kitchen. He gets the axe and the violin case by the way.

Mathilda is more and more nervous. Leon is more and more

concentrated.

MATHILDA:

How shall we get out now, Leon?

LEON:

Let me work. We'll get out, I tell you!

He shoots at the dustbin duct and makes it explode. He

enlarges the hole by axe. Leon throws in the duct his

overcoat, his sack's content, and his violin (grenades,

weapons, etc...). Mathilda then throws in her teddy bear and

Polaroid.

In the corridor, sand bags are becoming a wall, armored

shields and cops multiply. A cop gets in position with a

rocket-launcher and shoots. The door explodes and smoke floods

the interior.

Leon helps Mathilda to get into the duct. She's half in when

she seems to realize something.

MATHILDA:

But... Leon? You'll never get in it!

It's nearly too small for me!?

LEON(smiling)

I know, my love!

Mathilda starts crying.

MATHILDA:

No! I don't want to leave you!!

LEON:

Mathilda, listen!

MATHILDA:

No, no! I don't want to go! I don't

want!

He rudely takes her face in his hands.

LEON:

Listen to me, sh*t! We've got no chance

to get out together! Alone, I will get

out! Trust me! I'm in perfect shape,

Mathilda, now! I slept well! I love you!

I'm happy! And I thought! I'll get all

the money Tony keeps for me and we'll

leave, OK? Together! We'll leave

tomorrow.

MATHILDA:

You say it just to calm me!

LEON:

Not at all, Mathilda! I tell you because

it's true! You'll buy the globe you told

me about and you will choose, OK? We'll

go where you want! I swear, you'll see,

Mathilda!!

He kisses all over her face. Mathilda is a little confused.

LEON:

Come on, go! Don't let them find you! I

finish this work and we meet at Tony's,

OK? Spread your arms to do not fall too

fast. So, good. At Tony's! One hour or

two, OK? I love you, Mathilda!

He kisses her again.

MATHILDA:

I love you too, my darling.

He pushes her. She disappears in the duct.

Leon pushes his back against the hall and dries up his tears.

He shouts:
terrifyingly. In the corridor, three first line

cops progress with gas masks; they decide to get in through

the destroyed door.

Mathilda gets in the trash bin. She carefully looks out:

nobody around. She gets out and recovers some weapons.

APARTMENT:

A wounded cop, mask on his face, gets out of the apartment

and out of the smoke cloud.

He's therefore protected and taken over

by another cop. He accompanies him a

little farther.

A BOSS:

Get downstairs, guy, get down!

He slaps him on his shoulder. The wounded cop obeys and gets

to the lower floor. He's someway surprised when he realizes

the stairs are literally full of cops everywhere.

The wounded cop passes by his colleagues and gets down. Cops

everywhere, sandbags. It looks like a trench warfare. He

didn't yet pull his mask off. One makes him sit on a bench

and starts pulling off his mask. A doctor comes in and checks

out cop's arm. He pulls off his mask. It's Leon.

DOCTOR:

It's deep. You'd better get down to the

ambulance, they'll care you properly. A

cop chief doesn't recognize Leon.

CHIEF:

3rd district? ...A mess up there, isn't

it.

Leon nods yes.

DOCTOR:

Let him breathe five minutes!!

(to Leon)

Would you like me to take you down?

Leon shakes his head no.

LEON:

Let me put my mask on. I breathe better

with it.

DOCTOR:

Yeah, right. Get down and wait for ten

minutes. I'll get to check you, OK?

LEON:

OK.

The chief gets away. Everything seems to work properly.

There's just one thing Leon didn't notice: it's STANSFIELD's

right hand, climbing upstairs, who identifies him and gets

back down. Mathilda got out.

She observes, from a corner, the movements in the street.

Police cars and ambulances all around.

IN THE APARTMENT

A cop's checking out the apartment, he pushes kitchen's door

and a grenade falls to his feet. The explosion shakes the

whole corridor. Cops crowd it. Below, Leon exploits the

moment to stand up and discreetly walk downstairs. Floor after

floor without problems.

SLOW MOTION:

Behind him, unheard and unseen, STANSFIELD follows him.

STANSFIELD rises his arm. A gun at hand. The gun aims at

LEON'S back of the neck.

Leon advances and can see just the light filled exit, synonym

of freedom. But his vision gradually gets paler and the image

tilts, without noise. The image is now completely inclined

and gets paler and paler. Overexposed image, then suddenly:

BLACK.

Leon's died. Without even realizing it. Mathilda is still

observing. Stansfield's right hand gets out of the building

and lifts an arm to the sky. He wants everyone's attention.

RIGHT HAND:

It's alright! We got him! It's over!

Some cops clap, others whistle. Mathilda leans on the wall

and cries. Stansfield is in the corridor, near Leon, officers

are congratulating him.

CHIEF:

Sh*t! Never seen anything like this

before!

ANOTHER:

He almost f***ed me, furthermore!

STANSFIELD:

He killed Richmond, my boss, two days

ago... And Rinaldi too! We've been on

him for months.

A chief slaps on his shoulder, but he's embittered, he lost

many men too.

CHIEF:

Nice shot.

SLOW MOTION:

Mathilda appears. She wears Leon's large overcoat. A silenced

gun at hand. Her face is harsh and immobile like never before.

In front of building's entry, two cops look at her, stunned.

This will be their last expression.

She gets in the corridor. At the end, STANSFIELD laughs

together with his colleagues. Mathilda advances until the

white sheet on the ground. She crouches down, lifts one end.

Leon's got blood everywhere, but his expression is sweet and

relaxed. Mathilda caresses his cheeks.

A man tips on STANSFIELD's back. The group turns and sees the

little girl crouched near the corpse. Mathilda kisses Leon's

mouth and stands up. She leaves her gun on the floor.

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