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407. Sympathy For The Devil |
Scene Ten - Willie's Apartment. He and Michael are tossing back a couple of brewski's. Talk about things you don't normally see Michael doing! We can see Vietnam pictures and memorabilia in the room. Willie: Heroes. Keepers of the faith. Defenders of the realm. That's what they call you when they send you off to die. Problem is, what they forget to mention, the other side's telling their grunts exactly the same thing. You know what I mean? It's always root, root, root for the home team. Can't tell the players without a body bag. Michael: You were drafted? Willie: (lights a cigarette) All the brave young men. The truth is, most of us were there because we didn't have the smarts or the dough to stay out. A bunch of dumb,stupid kids. Not a clue what we were doing there. Michael picks up a silver lighter. Engraved on it is "War is Hell" Willie: What's even worse, it's the stupider ones. The ones who think they know. Hey. So, are you in it? Michael: No. Willie: It's not so much the dying, you know. It's not so much having to watch when the mortars hit your buddy:the guy you just bummed a smoke from turns into meat and gravy. It's not knowing why. "What am I doing here? How'd I get here?" I mean, six months ago, all I'm thinking about is trying to get into Susan Ellerman's pants. Whether the guy down the block is really such a prick, or am I just jealous of him because he gets to drive the Trans-Am and I don't? How am I going to tell my old man I'm never going to be what he expected me to be. Hell, what I expected me to be. Now, here I am in the jungle. All dressed up in my G.I. Joe accessories ready to die. Man, I miss my dog. Michael takes out an envelope from his jacket and hands it to Willie. Willie: What? What's this? What's this for? Michael: For you to get even. Willie: Get - what? Who said I was down? Michael: Those two guys who were here. You owe them money. Willie: Well it's not likely they're going to be back! Michael: Others will. Willie: What? Man, that's a lot of money. Michael: I can afford it. Willie: If you can afford it, why don't you buy yourself a better place to live in? Why are you living here? I mean, why don't you buy a nice slinky dress for that girlfriend of yours? Why, why me, what are you doing this for? Michael: (gets up and puts a hand on Willie's shoulder) You're used to no whys. Willie: Well, yeah, I said I've been through that. I didn't say I was used to them. Why, what for, what are you doing this for? Michael: For defending the realm, then. Pay them. Michael leaves. Willie: Man. Scene Eleven - Section One, Operations Perch. Operations is looking at pictures of Willie from the war. It seems to be affecting him deeply. He says nothing. Scene Twelve - Outdoors, a city street. Seems to be a Chinatown area. Willie is in his hooded coat, walks into a building, talks to two asian men. Willie: Hey guys. He continues past. Michael is following him. One of the Asians steps in Michael's path and talks to him in Vietnamese. Michael replies in Vietnamese. He hands them money. Vietnamese Guy: (in English) Okay, go. Michael enters what appears to be an opium den. Stoned people are lying around everywhere, smoking. Willie lays on a couch. An asian man approaches him. Asian Guy: You got your tribute? Willie hands him money - a lot of it. Scene Thirteen - Section One - Operations Perch. Operations, Michael and Nikita reviewing the video from the opium den. Operations: He could be paying for the opium. Michael: $800. It's more than that. Operations is watching the video and sees the man who tortured him; starts flashing back. Flashback: Vietnamese: It is only a matter of time. (Holding up knife) Operations remembers himself screaming. Operations: Phan Van Nahn. Scene Fourteen - Section One - Main Floor. Walter sees Michael and Nikita approaching. Walter: Hey, you guys! What's shaking, sugar? Nikita: Busy. Rerunning the Angola sim. Evaluating what went wrong. Walter: Oh, so you've been able to fit that in while you're doing personal work for Operations? Michael: We have to go. Walter: Now, Michael, you can go. But not until I've said what I've got to say. Michael: All right. Walter: I've put it on the line for you more times than you can count, Michael. But there's something I want you to do for me now. I know about Willie Kane. Operations doesn't know I know, but I do. Nikita: So what do you want? Walter: I want you to let it go. Make it disappear. You shake Willie's tree hard enough and he'll take off like a jackrabbit, and we'll all be the better for it. Michael: How is that? Walter: I wouldn't ask if I didn't have a good reason. Now, Hell, did you ever wonder how I survived in this place as long as I have? Just do it. (He sees Operations, says in a louder voice) Well, nice to see you kids again. Remember, stay vertical! Nikita: Which way do we play it, his way or Walter's? Michael: Ours. Scene Fifteen - Michael and Nikita's skanky apartment. They are sitting on the couch. Michael is stroking the side of Nikita's face, playing with her hair. He leans over and kisses his way down her face. Nikita pulls back. Nikita: I'm sorry, I - it's just that I - Michael: It's all right. Nikita: How do you do it, Michael? Michael: Do what? Nikita: Keep your feelings sorted out, your head straight. You were married to Elena. Michael: Well, sometimes, our thoughts and feelings take us where we can no longer go. Feelings are not captive. Nikita: Maybe it'd be better if they were. Michael: I don't know. Nikita: (reaches up, strokes Michael's face) You know, a year ago, having time like this together:Michael, I'm lost. I don't know what I am anymore. Scene Sixteen - Back at the Opium Den. Michael enters, says something in Vietnamese to a man who attacks him. Dumb move. Michael quickly controls the situation. Phan appears. Phan: That is enough! You have business here? Michael: What is your relationship with Willie Kane? Phan: (laughs) My relationship? Would you any more ask me what my relationship is with my dog? Michael: He pays you. Why? Phan: Because I tell him to. He's quite clever, really. He'd deliver my morning paper to me in his teeth if I so requested. Michael: I asked you a question. Phan: And I gave you my answer. Suddenly Phan throws his pen violently at Michael, like a dart. Of course Michael evades it and quickly knocks out Phan. Scene Seventeen - Willie's Apartment. Willie is inside boozing it up. There is a knocking on the door. It's Michael, Nikita and Phan. Willie: No, no, no, no! You can't bring him in here! I don't want him in here, no! Nikita: It's all right, Willie. Willie: No it's not! You don't understand. Anything that's done to him, I'm the one who's gonna have to pay. Phan: Woof. Michael: He's just a man, Willie. Willie: Who are you people? Nikita: We're here to help you, but you got to tell us the truth. Phan: Yes, Willie - time to tell the truth. Tell them. Tell them how easily a man will surrender his manhood. How for a sack of rice and the promise to live another day, a man would willingly hand over his comrades to the enemy. Nikita: The ambush? Willie: What - what do you know about any of this? Nikita: Is that how they knew, Willie? Is that how the V.C. knew the exact time and place that your platoon would be walking on the road? Is that how they knew? Wlilie: Were you there? No, you weren't there. You have no idea what happened over there. You have no idea! Nikita: Tell us the truth, Willie. Michael: Willie. You were not tortured. Phan: No. But content to make it appear as if he had been. Always so obedient. Always ready to please your masters. Tell them. Tell them how you tried to please us. Willie has moved over to his shelf of memorabilia. Without warning, he grabs a knife and plunges it into Phan's chest. Willie: I hope this pleases you! Michael grabs him, slams him up against the windows, holding up his hand and the bloody knife. Willie: Oh, no, no, no, no. You have no idea. You have no idea what they did to men over there. You have no idea what they would have done to me. You know? It was - it was terrible there, terrible. Vicious - vicious people. Michael: Let go. Willie: You know, it's not like they gave me a choice, you know? No choice: (time passes - still in Willie's apartment. He's on the floor. Michael and Nikita beside him, Nikita rifling through his pockets.) Nikita: So you were skimming from Bonaventure to pay Nahn? Willie: Oh yeah. Chicken money. Nikita: He threatened to tell the truth on you? Willie: Yeah. Like anybody'd give a damn at this point, huh? Nikita looks into space - she knows who would. Nikita: Wait across the hall, in our place. Here, this was yours. She hands money back to him. He leaves. Michael: (dials phone) Housekeeping. Nikita: So Walter's protecting Operations. I guess he thinks it's better for a man to have his illusions. There's still some good left in the world. Michael: Those illusions will die with the truth. In the hallway, Willie is grabbed from behind and dragged off. Scene Eighteen - Hallway of the Skanky Apartment Building. Operations, Nikita and Michael. Operations is holding Willie's dropped lighter. Operations: Are you sure it was Bonaventure's men who took him? Michael: Yes. Operations: Did Willie ever explain why he'd taken the risk? Stealing from Bonaventure? Nikita: No. Operations: I know Willie. He won't go down easily. I want you to arrange a meeting. I want to meet with Bonaventure. You let me know when you have it set up. Operations leaves. Scene Nineteen - A building downtown. Operations walks up, presses a buzzer to be let in. He is buzzed in and enters. Two men are there. Operations: Where's Bonaventure? Man #1: (dials phone and speaks into it) He's here. The other man leads Operations off. Two other men are in the back. One is Bonaventure. Bonaventure: So the syndicate - a lot of money was made from drugs. Bonaventure approaches a table and sits down. Operations approaches. Bonaventure: You Paulie? Operations: Paul. Bonaventure: "Balls?" If not it oughta be. 'Cause either you're very stupid, or you get a set of big brass shiny ones. Operations smiles indulgently. He knows how this story is going to end. It's that Maddy-in-the-White-Room, cat-at-the-mouse-hole smile. Bonaventure: So, Balls, my people tell me you want to say something to me. What can I do for you? Operations: First, you can let Willie Kane go. Bonaventure: Second? Operations: You forget about him. Operations seats himself; one of Bonaventure's bodyguards looks about to make a move, but Bonaventure holds up a hand to stop him. Bonaventure: It's all right. Operations: Once you let him go, as far as you're concerned, he's dead and gone. Bonaventure: Second part's no problem. Operations: I'm not asking, Carlo. Bonaventure: (rises, angry) Listen, you pasty-faced son of a bitch - nobody comes in here, sits at my table and tells me what to do. Not even the dumbest hole in the planet! This is my house and right now, you're stinking it up. Operations: You touch me, you fail to do what I've told you to do - your organization will be eliminated. Surgically and systematically. And once you've had time to read about it, you'll be next. Bonaventure spits in his face. Bonaventure: Never threaten my family. Operations is perfectly calm. Wipes his face with a handkerchief. Operations: You have capos in New York, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles. Failure to comply will result in their elimination. Bonaventure: Failure to comply? Up yours! Make sure nobody finds this mook. Bonaventure sits back down, waiting for his men to drag Operations off. It doesn't happen. Operations: Your nephew Francis is living in Sicily, avoiding the police. Bonaventure and his right hand man exchange a look - it's obvious they're shocked that Operations could know this. Operations: When was the last time you spoke with him? Bonaventure: Nobody! Nobody could get to Frankie. I got 20 guys watching him. They move him around every other day, Hell, even I don't know where he is most of the time. All I got is a cell phone number. Operations: Before you dispose of me, maybe you should give him a call? Bonaventure: Why? So I can be the second dumbest hole on the planet? (laughs) Operations laughs too. Then silence. They stare at each other. Suddenly Bonaventure slams his hand down on the table and then rises. He pulls out his cell phone, dials. Bonaventure: Yeah, yeah, it's me. Put Frankie on the phone. Bonaventure's face falls. He lowers the cell phone. Bonaventure: They popped Frankie four hours ago. 20 guards guarding the place didn't see a damn thing. That was my baby brother's kid. Who the Hell are you? Operations: You have two hours. (He stands, nonchalantly picks up an olive and eats it) This dump might be your house, Carlo. Everything else - everything outside this door? That's mine. He flips the olive pit into Bonaventure's wine glass and exits. Nobody bothers him. Scene Twenty - Willie's Apartment. Willie is on the phone, apparently receiving shocking news. Willie: What are you telling me? What are you telling me? You're telling me Paul's alive? Well you know what I heard. Operations: What you heard was wrong. (Operations himself emerges from around the corner in Willie's apartment. Willie flashes back) Flashback of young Willie: "Our team! I told you we'd make it. My lieutenant here is going to need some help. Take care of yourself Lieutenant." They approach each other in the present, shake hands and then hug, slapping each other on the back. Operations: Oh, man, it's good to see you, Willie! Willie: You know you, you're looking awfully good for a dead man. Oh, man. You know, uh, your friends, you know, they've been telling me all you've been doing for me and uh - Operations: You did it for me, Willie. I wish I could have done more. Willie: (turns away) Well, uh, you know, that's just it, uh- you know, I'm not really worth it, you know what I mean? Operations: Times haven't been so good. Willie: Time. Times are what they are, you know? It's just uh - Outside the apartment building, a dark car draws up. Willie: Uh, Paul - you got the wrong guy. Operations: I got the guy who saved my life. Willie: Yeah. Um, no, Paul, look - uh, you got it wrong. You know, uh, when you and I were in that camp - Gunfire blasts through the window, Operations hits the deck and Willie is riddled full of holes. Outside the black Lincoln squeals off into the night. Operations turns over the body, but Willie is already dead. Outside we see the car - Walter is driving. TAG: Section One, Operations Perch. Michael and Nikita enter. Operations is standing, looking out over Section. Nikita: We heard what happened. Operations: It's no matter. You did what I asked you to do. I owe you fifteen days, they're yours. Something wrong? Michael: We'd prefer to wait. Operations: If that's what you want. Nikita: It would be better to wait. Nikita walks off long before Michael follows her. After they go, Operations pulls up a screen - looks like he's scrolling news articles. The headline says "Bonaventure Family Hit." Operations got his revenge after all. Section One - Munitions. Walter: I told you. There are some things you're better off not knowing. Birkoff: It's too late for that now. Walter: Yeah, but then you wish you'd never found out, right? Birkoff: Your name was on four signature files before the decision was made. Before my brother was released. Why? Walter: I made the decision. I decided who would walk and who would stay inside. Birkoff: Based on what? What criteria? I didn't see any psych forms, evaluations? Walter: It wasn't necessary. Birkoff: So how did you decide?! Walter: (pulls out a coin and flips it into the air. Birkoff catches it) Tails. Birkoff opens his palm. Tails. Walter: You lost, amigo. Birkoff lays the coin down and walks away. The End |