Léon: The Professional Page #13

Leon is more and more nervous, like a child.

LEON:

Maybe... Sure... But... I'm scared,

Mathilda.

Leon cries. Mathilda caresses his face.

MATHILDA:

Don't fear, Leon. You mustn't fear

love, when it's this beautiful.

She caresses his chest.

MATHILDA (con't)

I want you to be the first to touch

me... The first to make love with me.

Nobody before you.

She stands up and modestly gets off her briefs without taking

off her dress. Leon cries, unable to oppose her. Mathilda is

too young, but she's also too beautiful and lovely and sweet

and tender... She sweetly, very sweetly, gets on him.

LEON(crying)

Why me, Mathilda, why me?

Mathilda leans over to speak in his ear.

MATHILDA:

...Because you deserve it, Leon...

Leon embraces her. He's full of happiness, shame, so many

emotions, he can't control very well. But, hell, how

beautiful it is seeing them sweetly making love.

* * * * * * * * * *

MORNING:

A beautiful morning, like one wishes everyone to be. Leon in

the bed. It's the first time one sees him in a bed and,

furthermore, he sleeps. By his side, on a small table, a gun.

You never know. On the other side, Mathilda looks at him,

smiling, because he's almost nice while he sleeps. She starts

moving to stand up. Leon abruptly wakes up. His hand reaches

for the gun. He sees Mathilda and the room. Mathilda puts a

hand on his chest and kindly forces him to lay down.

MATHILDA:

Did you sleep well?

LEON:

...I never really sleep.

Mathilda smiles.

MATHILDA:

Huh, yes? I forgot! ...When you fake

sleeping, you'd better not snore!

LEON(trapped)

...I snore?

MATHILDA:

Like a baby!

She stands up and wears jeans.

MATHILDA:

I go looking for some milk for

breakfast... I come back.

(She kisses him.)

...I love you, Leon.

Leon is shy.

LEON:

You... You knock the code, when you come

back, OK?

MATHILDA:

Yes.

LEON:

Three times, then two times.

She nods her head yes. She tenderly looks at him.

MATHILDA:

May I ask you a personal question?

LEON:

...Yes.

MATHILDA:

What do you do, with the money you earn?

LEON:

Nothing, for the moment.

MATHILDA:

Maybe it's the time to do something,

isn't it?

LEON:

Yeah, what?

MATHILDA:

I don't know... Getting far away, the

two of us, for example... And forgetting

all this...

LEON(pause)

...Far... Where?

Mathilda smiles.

MATHILDA:

I'm gonna buy a globe, you'll see. Bronx

isn't even marked, so much the rest is

big.

(She walks toward

the door.)

...Think...

Mathilda gets out. Leon relaxes himself in the bed. He shyly

opens his arms and learns how to exploit a bed.

* * * * * * * * * *

INSIDE THE BUILDING

Mathilda comes back with her milk. She gets out of the lift

and a hand covers her mouth.

The man is member of a SWAT team: bullet-proof jacket,

gloves, and Uzi at hand. He's not alone. They're seven.

THE BOSS (low voice)

From now, you don't make a noise and

reply by nodding yes or shaking your head

no, OK?

Mathilda nods yes. She learns quickly.

THE BOSS:

Is he alone?

Yes from Mathilda.

THE BOSS:

Does he expect you?

Yes from Mathilda.

THE BOSS:

Have you got apartment's keys?

Yes from Mathilda. She hands him the keys.

THE BOSS:

Is there a code, a way to knock the door

or something?

Yes from Mathilda.

She approaches her hand to the wall: two knocks, three

knocks, two knocks. Wrong code.

The boss is satisfied anyway. He signs the group, they get in

position. Mathilda in a corner, a man remains with her.

MAN:

Don't fear.

MATHILDA:

I have no fear.

The first three cops are in position. The leader is nervous.

Everyone is ready. He knocks the code on the door. Reply

isn't late. Inside, a classical music starts. Cops get in, one

by one, commando style. From the corridor, one clearly sees

apartment's open door, and one clearly sees also the hand

above the door, that sweetly closes.

In the corridor, the other cops have no time. They hear the

slaughter in progress: shouts and shots, for twenty seconds.

Then door opens again. Three corpses in the apartment's

corridor. The man with Mathilda uses his walkie-talkie.

MAN:

Sh*t! We need reinforcements! Maximum!

Come on!

Mathilda puts a hand in her parcel and pulls out a gun she

keeps along her body. On door's side, a small reflex. It's

Leon's periscope, checking the other three cops' progression.

Two of them progress behind armored shields. Suddenly,

Leon's voice breaks the silence.

LEON(shouting)

Mathilda?... Now.

Leon appears from nowhere and empties his kalashnikov in the

corridor. The three cops don't shoot for a long. Mathilda

lifts her arm, kills the cop at lower landing and aims at the

cop who kept her.

LEON(loud)

Mathilda?!

She appears in the corridor, her hostage before her, still

her milk with her. Leon is relieved.

LEON:

Don't expose your back! Turn!

Mathilda obeys and walks backward.

She needs her hostage for protection and he remains in front

of her. Leon covers her from the apartment.

A group of cops, a dozen, gets upstairs. Leon breaks the

fire equipment niche's glass, unrolls the pipe in the

corridor, throws the axe into the apartment and opens the

water at full pressure. The pipe twists and beats all around

the corridor.

Leon shoots. Reply is immediate. Fortunately, Mathilda is

behind her hostage, his bullet-proof jacket is insufficient.

Leon and Mathilda get back in the apartment and close the

door, leaving the hostage crucified on it.

Mathilda is nervous. Leon is concentrated.

MATHILDA:

Why did you unleash the pipe, I don't

know?

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