Code of Silence Page #5

VICTOR:

(to cousins in Spanish)

This one's got some balls, huh?

(to Spider)

I don't juke anybody.

Victor nods and one of the cousins brings in half a dozen

brick-sized bundles of cocaine from the next room.

Doc slices into one of the bags and with the tip of his knife

he drops a bit into a glass vial. He adds clear liquid with

an eye dropper and it instantly turns purple.

DOC:

I say, awright. The royal colors.

EXT. ALLEY - DAY

Eddie's eyes scan the scene as he sorts through a garbage

can with a stick.

INT. PAINTER'S HALLWAY - DAY

The painters carry their equipment down the long corridor

and enter a vacant apartment.

A door opens in the corridor, and a naked toddler steps out.

A Latino teenager comes out to retrieve the child. He sees

the backs of the painters, and carries the toddler back

inside.

INT. PAINTER'S APARTMENT - DAY

The painters are not what they seem. Working quickly,

silently, they open their tool kits and lay out their

hardware:
machine guns and automatics.

TONY LUNA, a barrel-chested Italian mobster is running the

show and it's well rehearsed. His boys, GUS, VITO, and EENIE

move like oiled machinery.

Vito turns on a radio to a Latino station to cover the SOUND

of their preparations. They remove the whole window from its

frame. Then they rest a wide plank on the window ledge.

Three feet away is the window of the adjacent building and

silhouetted against the shade we can SEE the drug deal.

Luna'ys check their weapons.

They put on painters' masks and goggles.

LUNA:

Okay, by the numbers.

He puts on his goggles.

EXT. ALLEY - DAY

Over the IDLING ENGINE of the garbage truck, Eddie and Donato

HEAR the deal going down on the RADIO.

EDDIE:

(to walkie-talkie)

Everybody on your toes.

MUSIC (V.O.)

(from radio)

Their Right Field's Clear. Those

painters are out of the way.

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