Casino Page #2

ACE (V.O.)

For guys like me, Las Vegas washes

away your sins. It's a morality car

wash. It does for us what Lourdes

does for humpbacks and cripples.

And, along with making us legit...

INT. TANGIERS/HARD COUNT ROOM - NIGHT

Dolly back from a wall of money. An employee pours a bucket

full of coins into a trough. Camera follows progress as

numerous coins move on a conveyor system, through a sorting

machine. Camera reveals several rolls of coins on a lower

conveyor as they move up a ladder towards an employee's hands,

who then places the rolls on a rack.

ACE (V.O.)

...comes cash. Tons of it. I mean,

what do you think we're doing out

here in the middle of the desert?

It's all this money. This is the end

result of all the bright lights and

the comped trips, of all the champagne

and free hotel suites, and all the

broads and all the booze. It's all

been arranged just for us to get

your money. That's the truth about

Las Vegas.

INT. TANGIERS/FLOOR/SOFT COUNT ROOM - DAY

Camera follows JOHN NANCE carrying a small suitcase and

walking through the casino to a door leading to the cashier's

cage. The sign on the door reads 'Authorized Personnel Only'.

He walks through the cage, to another door: 'Notice - Keep

Out'.

ACE (V.O.)

We're the only winners. The players

don't stand a chance. And their cash

flows from the tables to our boxes

...through the cage and into the

most sacred room in the casino ...the

place where they add up all the money

...the holy of holies ...the count

room.

He opens the door. We see inside the count room from NANCE'S

point of view.

It looks like the area behind a teller's cage in a bank. A

large room, windowless, decor-free. One side is a mesh cage,

opened to reveal stacks of cash boxes. Several COUNTERS in

white shirts are gathered around a glass table counting and

sorting paper money.)

ACE (V.O.)

Now this place was off limits.

COUNTER #1

Verify two thousand.

ACE (V.O.)

Even I couldn't get inside, but it

was my job to keep it filled with

cash. That's for sure.

NICKY (V.O.)

They had so much f***in' money in

there, you could build a house out

of stacks of $100 bills. And the

best part was that upstairs, the

board of directors didn't know what

the f*** was going on.

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