The American Page #7

FATHER BENEDETTO

Va bene! You stay at Loggia

Abruzzo.

Also a statement: this time with touch of triumph.

JACK is disconcerted but doesn’t show it.

JACK:

Not for much longer.

FATHER BENEDETTO

On vacation?

"The American" June 21st, 2010 page 14. page 14.

JACK:

Working vacation.

This much is true- after a fashion.

They speak in English unless otherwise specified:

FATHER BENEDETTO

Lavoro? Che genere de lavoro?

JACK:

Photographer.

FATHER BENEDETTO

Va bene. Che genere de fotografia?

JACK:

Pictures of the region.

Architecture, landscapes...

FATHER BENEDETTO

People?

FATHER BENEDETTO stands straight and poses winningly.

JACK:

No people. Sights and landmarks.

For guidebooks, magazines...

FATHER BENEDETTO

Ah! Magazine! Which magazine?

JACK shows no discomfort.

JACK:

Actually it’s a syndicate. Lots of

different publications. Um... Casa

editrice.

Father Benedetto points to the camera, assuming it is

digital.

FATHER BENEDETTO

Va bene. So you must share a glass

of wine with me. Questa sera. This

evening.

A beat.

JACK is slightly thrown.

JACK:

You’re very kind, but I...

FATHER BENEDETTO

Certo. You want to know the truth

about Abruzzo? A priest sees

everything.

"The American" June 21st, 2010 page 15. page 15.

30 EXT. PAY PHONE, CASTELVECCHIO DAY 30

Pronto?

PAVEL *

JACK:

It’s Jack.

PAVEL:

You don’t answer the cell I gave

you.

*

A beat.

JACK:

I’m calling you now.

*

*

PAVEL:

You don’t make this easy for me

Jack. I have a job for you, it’a a

custom fit... You don’t even have

to pull the trigger.

*

*

*

*

*

Beat. *

JACK:

I’ll think about it.

*

*

Beat. *

PAVEL *

That’s a good idea. *

"The American" June 21st, 2010 page 16. page 16.

INT. FATHER BENEDETTO’S HOUSE- MAGIC HOUR 31 *

The SUN is sinking behind the high mountains that overlook

the hilltop town.

JACK is wearing an immaculate white linen shirt.

He’s sitting in a small walled garden snuggled at the rear of

a crumbling fifteenth century edifice, overlooked yet

secluded and trapping the last rays of the sun.

FATHER BENEDETTO pours two large glasses of brandy from a

globulous green bottle of ARMAGNAC and sniffs his drink like

a honey bee hovering over a bloom.

FATHER BENEDETTO

Que siamo! The quality of the

brandy is good, the liquor is

smooth and the glass warmed by the

sun.

He pronounces warmed “war-med”. His English is sophisticated

but quaint, like an out-of-date book.

JACK sniffs his drink before he sips it. Not like a

connoisseur:
like a White House taster checking the safety of

a Presidential beverage.

FATHER BENEDETTO

(in ENGLISH)

The only good thing to come from

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