Out of Sight Page #11

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Buddy follows Foley's gaze to...

ACROSS THE STREET

As a car door opens and Karen Sisco gets out, rifles her purse

for change. She drops a quarter, Foley now watching as she

bends down to grab it, her skirt hiking way up her thigh...

BUDDY:

Oh, my.

Foley watches, her hair in her face as she tries to reach under

the car and grab it.

BUDDY (CONT'D)

Okay, you saw her. That's all you

get.

They watch as she walks to the Normandie and shows the YOUNG

AGENT her ID...

FOLEY:

I guess Adele's in good hands.

BUDDY:

Sure looks that way.

FOLEY:

(finally)

Let's go to Detroit.

BUDDY:

Now you're talkin'.

INT. HALLWAY OUTSIDE ADELE'S APARTMENT - DAY

Adele has the chain on the door, talks to Karen through the

narrow opening.

ADELE:

You were both in the trunk? Together?

KAREN:

From Glades to the turnpike. Then I

left with Glenn.

Karen watches Adele's face in the opening, freshly made up,

heavy on the eye shadow and lip gloss.

KAREN:

The FBI didn't tell you I was with

them?

ADELE:

They didn't tell me anything, they

asked questions.

KAREN:

But you know what I'm talking about,

don't you? About Glenn, don't you,

and the second car?

ADELE:

I know a Glenn.

She thinks a moment. The door closes and opens again, all the

way. Adele stands there in a robe, hanging partly open, panties,

but no bra.

ADELE (CONT'D)

I'm getting ready to go out. You can

come in if you want, sit down for a

minute. Would you like a Diet Coke?

KAREN:

No, thanks.

She comes in, checks out the place. She turns a chair from the

glasstop table and sits down as Adele comes out of the

kitchenette with a Diet Coke and packet of cigarettes.

ADELE:

Those are cute shoes. The kind of

jobs I get, I have to wear these killer

spikes, they ruin your feet.

She walks away, comes back with an ashtray.

ADELE (CONT'D)

When you were in the trunk with Jack...

Karen waits, watches her light her cigarette.

ADELE (CONT'D)

He didn't hurt you or anything, did he?

KAREN:

You mean, did he try to jump me? No,

but he was kind of talkative.

ADELE:

He gets that way when he's nervous

sometimes.

Adele sits down at the other end of the table.

KAREN:

You didn't visit him in prison.

ADELE:

He didn't want me to.

KAREN:

Why not?

ADELE:

I don't know. He was different after

he was sentenced, looking at thirty

years. Said it depressed him every

time the younger cons called him an

old timer.

KAREN:

But you spoke to him on the phone.

ADELE:

He'd call every once in a while.

KAREN:

He called the day he escaped.

ADELE:

He did? I don't remember. Did he say

about me? In the trunk?

KAREN:

(beat, lies)

He said he wished the two of you could

start over, live a normal life.

ADELE:

Huh. Problem is, Jack's idea of a

normal life is robbing banks. It's

all he's ever done.

KAREN:

Did you know that when you married

him?

ADELE:

He said he was a card player. I could

live with that. I never knew he robbed

banks till he got busted with that car

that caught fire -- if you can imagine

something like that happening, comes

out of the bank and the car's on fire.

I did go see him in jail to tell him I

was filing for divorce. He said,

"Okay." Jack's so easy going.

(then)

He was fun, but never what you'd call

a real husband.

Adele looks out the window. Karen waits, looks to an end table

where she sees a photograph of Jack and Adele on a boat somewhere

ten years back.

ADELE (CONT'D)

I'll say one thing for Jack, he was

never ugly or mean, or drank too much.

He was very considerate, lights on or

off, if you know what I mean.

KAREN:

Really.

(looking at the picture)

Hm.

She realizes Adele is looking at her.

KAREN (CONT'D)

Adele, sooner or later, he's gonna get

caught. I'd like to get him before he

does something else, makes it worse on

himself.

ADELE:

Buddy'll take care of him. Keep him

out've trouble. He's Jack's conscience.

Always has been.

(chuckles)

He tell you how they met?

Karen shakes her head.

ADELE (CONT'D)

Jack came out of a bank he just robbed

in Pasadena, couldn't get his stolen

car to start. Battery was dead. He

looks over, sees Buddy sitting in a

burgundy Bonneville, goes up, offers

him a thousand dollars for a jump.

Turns out, Buddy was casing the same

bank and saw the whole thing. Buddy

says, I'll take the thousand, but we're

leaving in my car, not that piece of

sh*t you come in.

(then)

They musta robbed fifty banks together.

KAREN:

Till they got busted.

ADELE:

That wasn't Jack's fault. No, that

was on account of Buddy, for some

reason, decided to call his sister and

confess to a job before they'd done it

instead of after. She called the FBI

and they both went down, ended up at

Lompoc.

(then)

I think Buddy felt kinda bad about

that.

KAREN:

Any idea where I could find Buddy? Or

Glenn?

Adele looks at Karen, then jumps at the sound of three quick

raps on the door.

CHINO'S VOICE

Adele? You in there?

ADELE:

Yes.

CHINO:

I want to speak with you, please.

ADELE:

Who is it?

CHINO'S VOICE

I talk to the guy you work for, Emil.

He tole me your number and where you

live. See, I'm looking for an assistant

and would like to speak to you.

ADELE:

Oh. Uh-huh.

CHINO'S VOICE

You did work for Emil, right?

ADELE:

Yeah, I was Emil's box-jumper for almost

four years.

CHINO'S VOICE

You were his what, his box?

ADELE:

His assistant.

Karen looks at the door. Something's wrong... through the glass

bricks that line one side of the door, we see blurred movement

on the other side, someone doing something...

ADELE (CONT'D)

You say you perform in the Miami area?

CHINO'S VOICE

Yes, around here. I was a mayishan in

Cuba before I come here. Manuel the

Mayishan was my name.

And now Karen and Adele look at each other.

CHINO'S VOICE (CONT'D)

Can you open the door?

Karen shakes her head "no."

ADELE:

I'm not dressed.

CHINO'S VOICE

Listen to me.

(lowers his voice)

I'm a good friend of Jack Foley.

Boom. Karen gets to her feet, brings her bag to the edge of

the table, sees Adele staring at her.

KAREN:

Ask him his name.

ADELE:

Who are you?

CHINO'S VOICE

(beat)

Jose Chirino.

Karen brings her Beretta out of the bag.

CHINO'S VOICE (CONT'D)

Or maybe you hear Jack Foley call me

Chino. I'm the same person.

Karen moves along the table to Adele...

KAREN:

(soft)

Tell him to wait in the hall, you have

to get dressed. Say it loud.

As Adele speaks, Karen racks the slide on her 9mm.

ADELE:

Wait in the hall! I have to get

dressed!

CHINO'S VOICE

Tell me where is Jack Foley, I don't

bother you no more.

Karen motions for Adele to keep talking as she takes a position

beside the door, where we now see Chino's silhouette in one of

the three glass panels in the centre of the door.

ADELE:

I don't know where he is.

CHINO'S VOICE

Listen, I'm the one help Jack escape

from prison. He tole me, I can't find

him to see you. So why don't you open

this f***ing door. Okay? So we can

speak.

ADELE:

(staring at Karen)

Go away, or I'll call the police.

CHINO'S VOICE

Why you want to do that, to a frien'?

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