The Corruptor Page #7

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Chen holds up his glass in a mock toast...The Waitress

brings over a bottle of Cristal and three glasses.

LEE:

I hope to see much of you over the coming weeks.

Lee then disappears into the back as the Waitress

pours.

WALLACE:

(quietly)

He's Triad.

UNG:

That's why it's Cristal and not Asti f***in' Spumanti.

Chen and Ung clink glasses and down some bubbly.

EXT:
BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION- DAY

Establishing. Tucked between a pair of banks sits the

sand colored building highlighted with artifacts from

ancient Chinese culture.

INT:
BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION- DAY

A small group of Elderly Men sit at game tables

playing Mahjong. Sitting in the rear of such a table,

playing a round is Benny Wong and Henry Lee.

BENNY WONG:

(Cantonese)

It's very dangerous to approach a white cop. We

can't risk exposing our other ties in the

Department.

LEE:

(Cantonese)

That's why we must approach Wallace. He could

compromise Chen at a time when he is our best

weapon against the Fukes. We need him with us

to safeguard Chen's position. Besides, to the NYPD

Chen is Chinese first and a cop second.

WONG:

(Cantonese)

Chen can take care of himself. And he knows

what we need him to know.

LEE:

(Cantonese)

He knows what he hears in the Fifteenth. A white

officer would have ears outside the precinct. We

can let Chen test the waters.

Benny nods his acceptance and continues to Play.

INT:
BLUE EMPRESS CAFE - DAY

In between lunch and dinner. Lee is emptying the bar

of cash while waiters change the table linen. Chen

enters, moves directly to Lee

CHEN:

What do you want?

LEE:

I like your partner.

Chen looks at Lee who turns from the bar and begins

walking the length of the restaurant towards the

kitchen straightening napkins and silverware as he

goes.

LEE:

I think he could help us.

CHEN:

He could hurt us more.

LEE:

Afraid of competition?

CHEN:

Afraid of piquing the kid's interest...

LEE:

...in who else is a dirty cop?

Chen pretends to ignore him.

LEE:

Uncle Benny feels he might poke his nose in places a

Chinese cop wouldn't.

CHEN:

I can handle him.

LEE:

He also feels he could be an asset against the Fukes

since you don't seem to be doing much.

CHEN:

I'll take care of the Fukes. The kid's a short timer.

Leave him alone.

LEE:

I didn't realize you had such maternal

instincts...Uncle Benny wants you to speak with

him.

CHEN:

No.

Lee and Chen reach the kitchen, where amongst the

chickens, ducks and steaming dumplings, Triad

underlings are moving boxes of tourist trinkets that

fell off of some truck somewhere. Lee reaches into

one and pulls out a fake Rolex.

LEE:

This cost one dollar to make. And some fool will

pay hundreds for it. It's amazing how easy it is for

some people to over estimate worth. Don't

overestimate yours. Talk to him.

INT:
FIFTEENTH PRECINCT - DAY

Chen, lost in thought, enters the station house when

Wallace comes out of the A.G.U. office.

WALLACE:

There's a homicide on Worth.

8. ANOTHER VICTIM

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EXT:
REAR ENTRANCE OF A RESTAURANT-DAY

UNIFORMS from the Fifteenth have the area around

the dumpster taped off as Wallace and Chen pull up

and cross toward Deng and Ung.

CHEN:

Who's in the bin?

DENG:

The invisible woman. No I.D., no print record, no

nothing.

Wallace looks into the dumpster where a young

female, is tangled with yesterday's shellfish. He

instantly begins dry heaving.

UNG:

I thought you liked Chinese food, Junior?

CHEN:

Leave him alone...Let's go, I need about fifty

coffees.

WALLACE:

We're not gonna investigate this?

CHEN:

We just did.

WALLACE:

What're you talking about?

CHEN:

Tell our partner what we learned.

Ung puts on his Academy Instructor persona.

UNG:

Deceased is an illegal straight off the boat,

probably less than a week cause there's two

bills Chinese under the oysters, by her spleen.

DENG:

She finds her passage over was twice what she

thought. She can't pay and doesn't like working

as a prostitute. So she ends up here. No family,

no friends, no witnesses.

UNG:

No sense wastin taxpayers' money.

Wallace looks painfully at the young woman being

pulled from the bin and stuffed unceremoniously into

a body bag.

WALLACE:

So what? Case closed?

UNG:

He's so young.

Chen looks at Wallace. Remembers when he was that

young.

CHEN:

Take a walk around with Deng. See if anybody

knows anything.

Chen motions for Ung to come with him and the two

cops move off.

EXT:
EAST BROADWAY ARCADE-DAY

Jack and his girlfriend step from the arcade. He kisses

her goodbye and watches her as she heads north up

East Broadway.

He turns and heads south. He moves slowly down the

empty street as someone or something moves up

behind him. Quickly. He feels the presence and turns

as Chen and Ung grab hold of him and pull him into a

deserted alley.

EXT:
ALLEYWAY-DAY

Jack tries to get away but Ung slams the small boy

into the wall.

UNG:

Easy Jackarroo.

Jack looks at the two men as they close in on him.

UNG:

Detective Chen is now able to I.D. the shooter

who got away from the lamp store.

CHEN:

Unless he can do something for me...I want

Bobby Vu.

A bead of cold sweat tumbles down the back of Jack's

neck.

JACK:

He'll kill me.

UNG:

The alternative to helping us is ten to twenty at

Sing Sing. And that's gotta hurt. Especially for

somebody five foot nothin.

Jack stands with a million things racing through his

mind.

JACK:

No court? No wire?

CHEN:

No promises. Think about it. You've got ten

seconds to make up your mind.

Jack thinks....

JACK:

F*** you.

Jack runs but Ung slams his fist into his face knocking

him cold.

UNG:

Kid's loyal.

Ung kneels and cuffs the unconscious Fukienese

soldier.

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