A Most Violent Year Page #2
EXT. MASSIVE OIL TANK FARM: BROOKLYN NY WATERFRONT - DAY
ABEL comes walking across the parking lot and sees ANDREW
WALSH standing in the middle of the dusty parking lot. ANDREW
is their longtime LAWYER/RIGHT-HAND MAN and is in his mid
fifties. He is smart but tired. The oversized briefcase in
his left hand seems to have permanently tilted his posture
that direction. The large oil-holding tanks loom above them.
The place is rusting and could use some work.
As they wait, the setting has the look and choreography of an
illegal transaction about to go down.
ANDREW WALSH:
So how are we this morning?
ABEL:
(gives a smile and nod)
ANDREW WALSH:
Well I woke up feeling very good
about this.
ABEL:
Really?
They both take a look at their watches.
ABEL (CONT’D)
You’ve been telling me not to do
this for a year.
ANDREW WALSH:
Well we are going all in... so now
I love it.
Gives him another slight smile. They stand around in awkward
silence. Finally a late-model Ford Ltd. station wagon pulls
into the lot.
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ANDREW WALSH (CONT’D)
Here we go.
And a group of FIVE HASIDIC JEWS gets out. There are two guys
in their twenties, two in their fifties, and one in his midto-
late seventies. They all shake each other’s hands then
stand around for a beat.
ANDREW WALSH (CONT’D)
Should we head inside?
INT. SMALL TEMPORARY OFFICE TRAILER - DAY
The group is now jammed around a folding table inside the
trailer. ABEL and his lawyer sit at one end facing the rest
of them. Finally, the senior member of the group, JOSEPH
MENDELSOHN, eyes up ABEL and leans forward. His accent is
strong yet you can understand every word.
JOSEPH:
So why is it you want this land?
ABEL:
I’m sorry?
JOSEPH:
It has been difficult for you to
get me here, no? Over a year?
ABEL:
Almost two.
JOSEPH:
There are many like it around? And
thanks to all these tests you paid
for, we now know it is as much of a
mess below the ground as it is
above. My people have looked at
your books, I know this is a lot of
money for you, so why have you kept
on us so... just for this ugly and
polluted little piece of the earth.
ABEL:
I have been looking over my fence
at this property for a very long
time.
JOSEPH:
So it is just proximity?
ABEL:
No... I imagine I want it for the
same reason you did.
JOSEPH:
And what’s that?
ABEL:
To grow.
JOSEPH:
Well, I am in the garment business
so I appreciate that sentiment. But
I inherited this land from my
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