Smokin' Aces Page #3

DUPREE:

He buys into his bullshit, building

street cred, he's got plans and pull,

he's makin' plays, living the mob

life for real. Somehow, it takes:

Lounge act turned legitimate thug.

INT. POOL HALL

Dupree rips the eight ball, corner pocket.

DUPREE:

In reality, he doesn't know the ball

from the bounce... He's not a crook,

so he starts f***ing up fast and

picking up speed, putting a floodlight

on the whole Carlotta organization.

Cops get curious, start camping out,

compiling names and faces and pretty

soon Israel's bullshit has brought

the heat to bear on none other than

Primo Sparraza --

LOCKE (V.O.)

-- Enforcer. Extortionist. Killer.

CUT TO:

INT. BRIEFING ROOM -- DAY

WE RECOGNIZE Carruthers and Messner as the two Agents from

the Padiche/Serna surveillance. They are sitting with F.B.I.

Deputy Director STANLEY LOCKE. A debrief is in progress.

SUPER:
WASHINGTON, D.C.

A Mafia Family Tree has been erected behind them with a photo

of Primo Sparazza at the top.

LOCKE:

Sparazza is rumored to have performed

in excess of one-hundred and thirty

contract murders, including one of

the bureau's most celebrated agents.

Freeman Heller. You heard of "The

Turnpike Murders" that was Sparazza.

MESSNER:

I thought Heller was a double op?

CUT TO SCENE:

FREEMAN HELLER, 20's, clean cut Cornell grad, class of 1937.

He's on a pistol range, scoring perfect marks.

LOCKE (V.O.)

No. He worked for the O.S.S. before

joining the Bureau in its heyday. He

was the first operative assigned

with infiltrating the mob.

CUT TO SCENE:

Heller, outdistancing the rest of his recruiting class in a

training run, nearly a mile ahead of the next man.

LOCKE:

Full immersion and assimilation,

fake identity, falsified background,

everything that is now standard

operating procedure, Heller

implemented, way back when.

CUT TO SCENE:

Heller oversees every aspect of his transformation, radically

altering his appearance, adding different mannerisms, an

accent, etc...befuddled FBI brass can only look on in awe.

LOCKE:

And as a result, his undercover work

was wildly successful. He eventually

reached the rank of Capo inside the

Carlotta crime family... but through

some internal slip-up, his cover was

compromised and Primo Sparazza was

given the contract to kill him.

CUT TO:

EXT. NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE -- NIGHT (PAST)

A '51 Ford Fairlane, flush with an embankment, bullet

perforated, dead-body draped. A top-coated gunman (presumably

Primo Sparazza) stalks the vehicle's sole survivor, FREEMAN

HELLER; faux mafioso, full-time federal agent.

LOCKE (V.O.)

There wasn't enough evidence to bring

formal charges, so the case never

went to trial.

Heller collapses, the gunman looms over, levels a .45, FIRES.

LOCKE:

Sparazza is a bit of a specter.

Over the years, the serious crimes

with which he was thought to be

involved, including Heller's murder,

could never be traced back to him.

The gunman slinks back to his car as we --

CUT BACK TO:

INT. BRIEFING ROOM -- CONTINUOUS

Locke stands, distributes files.

LOCKE:

A dedicated viciousness and a slavish

devotion to mob doctrine had

Sparazza's star on the rise. So the

mob relocated him to Nevada and he

became the unofficial head of the

Las Vegas LCN.

CUT TO SCENE:

A PHOTOGRAPH of PRIMO SPARRAZA, sharkskin suit, vintage 60's

coif, posing in front of The Riviera with a dour, pissed-off

Frank Sinatra.

CUT BACK TO SCENE:

MESSNER:

So he's personally issued the contract

on Israel?

LOCKE:

Sparazza was the one who introduced

Israel to the life, gave him his

first big break, brought him through

the ranks.

CARRUTHERS:

Made him a friend of the family.

CUT TO SCENE:

Sparazza and Israel, Casino grand opening, flashbulbs burst.

LOCKE (V.O.)

...His hand-picked protege, successor

to the throne... and Israel played

the situation very shrewd.

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