The Big Blue Page #3

ENZO walks over to JACQUES.

ENZO:

(showing him the

coin)

Who's is it now? You saw it but I

dove for it!

JACQUES doesn't answer.

ENZO smiles and slowly puts the coin in his pocket. He

pulls it out again and waves it under JACQUES' nose.

ENZO:

(without turning

around)

Roberto? How long?

ROBERTO:

Six seconds.

ENZO looks at JACQUES for a while.

ENZO:

I'll throw it back into the water.

You dive and if you do less than six, it's yours.

JACQUES doesn't say anything, then finally shakes his head,

negatively. ENZO smiles, taps him on the shoulder.

ENZO:

Brava!

The first boy finally sums up his courage to speak.

BOY:

(timidly)

Enzo? I saw the coin first... We

split?

ENZO:

(smiling)

You can't split a coin, stupid.

ENZO laughing, sticks the coin in his pocket and leaves

the pier with his gang.

The pope smiles and pulls a coin from his pocket.

With his flippers dangling from one hand, JACQUES sadly

stares out at the sea. The pope calls him over.

PRIEST:

Jacques... Come, look.

JACQUES goes over to him, sees where he is pointing, the

faint gleam of the coin underwater.

PRIEST:

Is it a coin shining down there?

JACQUES:

(overjoyed)

It is. It's a coin! I'll get it

for you, Father!

PRIEST:

It'll be for the poor.

JACQUES, intent on the coin's glimmer, quickly slips on

his fins, prepares his mask. He swims in the water like a

fish, goes directly to the coin. Scoops it up, brings it

to the surface.

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