[TITLE UP - 11:30 A.M.]
[INT. HENRY'S CAR - DAY]
[WE SEE KAREN and HENRY in car when KAREN points out the window.]
CUT TO: HELICOPTER
HENRY: We're going to your mother's.
CUT TO: KAREN'S MOTHER'S COVERED GARAGE AREA - DAY
HENRY *V.O.*: Now I'm sure we're being tailed. My plan was to go to her mother's and unload the guns. Who needed them in the trunk with all this heat?
CUT TO: HENRY putting the guns into garbage cans.
HENRY *to Karen*: Go inside. Tell her not to touch anything outside the house. Nothing.
CUT TO: KAREN AND HENRY looking up at helicopter.
HENRY: Let's go shopping.
[EXT. LONG ISLAND SHOPPING MALL - DAY]
[CLOSE UP OF HENRY ON PHONE]
[Nearby WE SEE KAREN standing outside of their parked car. In BG, WE SEE a large, busy shopping mall with cars and SHOPPERS.]
[TITLE UP - 12:30 P.M.]
CUT TO: MALL PHONE BOOTH
HENRY: I'm not nuts. It's been following me all f**ing morning. I mean it.
[WE SEE HENRY slam down the phone. DOLLY INTO FACE
HENRY *to Karen*: They think I'm paranoid. The dumb f**s. I should bring them the helicopter, then we'll see how paranoid I am.
[TITLE UP - 1:30 P.M.]
CUT TO: MALL ENTRY
[HENRY and KAREN peek out the mall door surrounded by PEOPLE with shopping carts and look into the sky for the helicopter. It is gone. He listens. No noise.]
HENRY: Okay! Quick! Let's get back to your mother's.
[EXT. KAREN'S MOTHER'S GARAGE AREA - DAY]
[ANGLE ON HENRY getting guns out of garbage.]
[TITLE UP - 3:30 P.M.]
[INT. MOTEL APARTMENT - DAY]
[WE SEE PITTSBURGH DEALER laughing as HENRY gives him the package of guns. A YOUNG MAN is also standing in the room.]
DEALER: Didn't I tell you you were paranoid? See, Karen, didn't I tall him he was paranoid?
KAREN *barely looking up and wandering toward kitchen*: I need some coffee.
[DEALER puts his arm around HENRY and motions him toward the bedroom where they snort some coke and laugh. After snorting the coke, HE SEE the DEALER give HENRY a plastic package of h**n he has taken out of a paper bag on the dresser. HENRY casually puts it in his jacket pocket.]
HENRY *V.O.*: My plan was I had to get home and get the package ready for Judy to take on her trip. Also, I had to get to Robin's house to give the package a whack with some quinine. Plus, I knew Robin was gonna get on my a**. Then I had the cooking to finish at home, and I had to get Judy ready for the trip.
[Phone rings in bedroom. DEALER picks it up, listens a moment and offers it to HENRY.]
DEALER *whispering so Karen cannot hear in next room*: It's Robin.
HENRY *annoyed*: Yeah?
[HENRY covers the mouthpiece.]
HENRY *To dealer*: A pain in the a**. *into phone* I'll see you in about an hour. *pause* I can't. I got my brother home tonight. *pause* We'll talk about it later. Okay?
[HENRY hangs up the phone, pauses and dials again.]
[INT. HENRY'S KITCHEN - DAY]
[Phone rings. WE SEE JUDY WICKS answer the phone. WE SEE MICHAEL is stirring the tomato sauce.]
CUT TO: DEALER'S BEDROOM HENRY is on the phone.
HENRY: You ready?
CUT TO: HENRY'S KITCHEN
JUDY: Yeah.
CUT TO: DEALER'S BEDROOM
HENRY: Tell Michael not to 1et the sauce stick.
CUT TO: HENRY'S KITCHEN
JODY *to Michael, who is still stirring*: Henry says don't let the sauce stick.
MICHAEL: I'm stirring.
HENRY *O.S.* *on phone*: You know what to do?
JUDY *bored*: Yeah, yeah.
CUT TO: DEALER'S BEDROOM
HENRY: Now this is important. Make sure you leave the house when you make the call. You understand? Do you hear me? It's important. Call from an outside phone. I mean it.
CUT TO: HENRY'S KITCHEN
JUDY: Jesus! You must think I'm dumb. What are you bugging me for? I know what to do!
HENRY *O.S.* *on phone*: Just make sure you do it. You know what I mean?
JUDY: Jesus Christ! You can be such a pain.
HENRY: Just do what I say! Judy Okay.
[WE SEE JUDY hang up the kitchen wall phone.]
MICHAEL *still stirring*: What'd he say?
JUDY: Nothing.
[JUDY WICKS takes a puff on her cigarette and starts to fish around in the bottom of her pocketbook which is on the kitchen counter near the wall phone.]
[WE SEE JUDY WICKS take out an airline ticket.]
HENRY *V.O.*: So, what does she do after she hangs up with me? After everything I had told her? After all her yeah, yeah, yeah, bullsh**? She picks up the phone and calls from the house. Now, if anybody was listening, they'd know everything. They'd know that a package was leaving from my house and they'd even have the time and the flight number. Thanks to her.
[JUDY WICKS reaches for the kitchen phone and dials.]
[TITLE UP - 6:30 P.M.]
[INT. HENRY'S HOUSE - EVENING]
[HENRY is working in the kitchen.]
HENRY *V.O.*: As soon as I got home, I started cooking. I had a few hours until Judy's flight. I told my brother to keep an eye on the stove. All day long, the poor guy's been watching helicopters and tomato sauce. I had to drive over to Robin's place, mix it once and get back to the gravy.
[INT. ROBIN'S HOUSE - EVENING]
[HE SEE HENRY watching ROBIN mix the half-kilo of h**n with milk sugar, doubling the amount. There is silence between them. HENRY looks at his watch. ROBIN pauses for a moment and sniffs a line of coke she has cut on a mirror near the table.]
[HENRY snorts some coke, too. The table and room is a mess. Mixing bowls, scales, and sieves are strewn around the room.]
ROBIN *getting angrier while mixing*: I don't need this... You said tonight and now it's not tonight...
HENRY *watching the dope being mixed while stroking Robin's neck and shoulders*: It's okay. I'll make it up. I promise. Just hurry it up a little. Okay?
ROBIN *finishing the package with tape, and almost purring*: Okay?
[WE SEE HENRY grab the two half-kilo packages off the table and start for the door. ROBIN is startled.]
ROBIN *shrieking*: You ba*tard! Where are you going?
[WE SEE HENRY get out the door just before ROBIN throws the scale at it.]
[TITLE UP - 8:30 P.M.]
[INT. HENRY'S DINING ROOM - NIGHT]
[After dinner. EVERYONE is feeling very expansive. JUDY and HENRY have left the table and are standing in the kitchen.]
JUDY *to Henry*: I gotta go home.
HENRY: What for? I got a pound of stuff in my jacket I've been carrying around all day. We gotta start taping it to your leg.
JUDY: I gotta go home and get my hat.
ENRY: Forget your f**ing hat. What are you, kidding me? Just what I need now is a trip to Rockaway. Just because you want your hat.
JUDY: I need it. I gotta have it. It's my lucky hat. I never fly without it.
HENRY: Do you realize what we're involved in here now?
JUDY: I don't care. I need my hat. I won't go without it.
HENRY *V.O.*: What could I do? If she insisted, I had to drive her home for her goddamn hat. I threw the package in the kitchen and went to take her hone.
CUT TO: HENRY nodding to KAREN that the h**n is in the kitchen.