TOTAL FREEDOM FOR THE TWIN
by
Andrey Ruchkin
an original script
copyright 1997
FADE OUT
INT-HOUSE-BEDROOM.NIGHT
On a wide spaciousness bed are sleeping ROMEO
KOZLINETTI and LISA.Lisa wakes up,puts on dressing-gone
and leaves bedroom.Romeo enjoyes sleeping alone.
(O.S.) Lisa's footsteps.Unloud scream of Lisa.Then
her laughter.Then silence.And then heavy footsteps.KEN
TASIAN slides to the bedroom with a big revolver in
his mighty right hand.Kozlinetti is still sleeping.
Sniffing loud.Snoring much.Tasian slightly bangs him
on a seat. Kozlinetti stops to snore,but still
sniffing.Tasian bangs him one more time on the same
place.Now,without any slightness.Kozlinetti lows
and starts to shake his head. He partially wakes up.
KOZLINETTI
Honey!Stop it...Stop kidding.I'm
so ti...red.I must sleep...sleep.
TASIAN
Wake up Romeo!Juliet is waiting!
You'll get to sleep enough
in prison.You'll get enough time
for it...
You're under arrest,assel!
Tasian buries barrel of his big revolver straight
into Romeo's nose.And Kozlinetti openes his eyes.Now he
is coming back from dreams to cruel reality.
KOZLINETTI
Damn you !
Kozlinetti looks left,looks right,as he wants
to escape. Then looks at Tasian.But cop is too busy
for such eye plays.
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He gropes Kozlinetti's gun under the pillow.
TASIAN
Pretty thing!Too pretty for you.
He get's Romeo's gun,steps back and throws
a handcuff on the bed.Kozlinetti is sitting near
the handcuff with a dark face.
KOZLINETTI
Damn you!Shit...
TASIAN
Shut up and put it on!
Kozlinetti starts to sniff in an evil way.
KOZLINETTI
May be you'll let me to put
the dress on,first?!
TASIAN
Such a shy boy!
Streets are empty now.
But if you want...Is it yours?
From latest styles!
Tasian picks up Lisa's shorts and throws it to
Kozlinetti.But Romeo flings it back.
KOZLINETTI
It's not mine!
TASIAN
Are you sure?Come on,man!Put it
on your head...
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TASIAN
And it will be on a right place.
EXT-NIGHT-STREET
Kozlinetti slowly crawls out of the front door.
He is in the handcuff,in different colour shoes.He is
dressed without any care.His hair is tousled.In whole,
he looks like a punk rocker.Ken Tasian follows him
with revolver in hand and smile on lips.FRED PSPICK,
Tasian's partner is waiting in police-car.Street is
empty,but suddenly appears very quick and VERY OLD MAN.
VERY OLD MAN
What's going up here,hah?Have any
right to do,what are doing,hah?!
TASIAN
Sure gran-pa...I'm a cop.
He's a thief.And everything is OK.
VERY OLD MAN
Ye?It good,hah!Good night then...
And very old man dissapeares impetuosly.Like a ghost.
Meanwhile Kozlinetti casts a glance up at the window of
the second floor..Lisa's looking down and shows him
her little pink tongue.Kozlinetti gets anger,roars and
Tasian very unfriendly loads him into the car.And sits
down beside him.
Pspick starts an engine and police-car sets out
to darkness of the city.
PSPICK
Rat comes to a cage!We haven't got
any cheese...but we've got Lisa...
Hell bent for women always
and everywhere,ye?
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PSPICK
Ken,by the way,how many items
of accusation we've for this freak?
TASIAN
As I remember...mmm...four items.
Racket,drugs,double murder...
PSPICK
And what is the forth?
You named only three.
Tasian is trying to speak in a cool official manner.
TASIAN
Being in a deep-drunk non-sobriety
condition, venemously pissed
at the municipal building...
He was so drunk that thought
of municipal being his personal
dear piss-pot!
Pspick starts to laugh,losing vigilance and for one
moment the car was about to kiss a corner of an old house
with a lot of graffitti on it.
TASIAN
Keep your eyes om the road,Freddy!
If you'll smash the car it wouldn't
be such funny!We must get
this assel to the prison
as safe'n'sound as possible.
INT-NIGHT-POLICE-STATION.
Tasian and Pspick brings Kozlinetti inside.Puts him
on a bench.
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TASIAN
Enjoy a good sit,assel!
KOZLINETTI
Listen!I'll not answer on any of your
fucking questions until my lawyer'll came!
TASIAN
Who wanna ask you,assel?We know about you
more then enough.Keep silence,go on!
Tasian gives the OFFICER-ON-DUTY official pa-
pers.Officer-on-duty looks cool and chews a bubble gum.
TASIAN
Here's all things.A big fish we've
got tonight.
OFFICER-ON-DUTY
Ken,why if you arrest some punk
you're always doing it at night?
You've got some kind
of an insomnia?Am I right?
TASIAN
You're wrong,old man.No insomnia
or other fuck...I'm a cop
in kind of Dracula.Sleeping
all day.Working all night.
PSPICK
Great bloodsucker arrests
a motherfucker.Just an impromptu...
But Tasian stares at him angry and shakes head.
He doesn't like such an "impromptus".
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Meanwhile Kozlinetti starts to fidget on his
bench,looking from one cop to another.
KOZLINETTI
Hey!HEYYY!What about a phone!
A phone call?I've got a right
for a phone call.
PSPICK
If you've got the right
we've got the left.
Officer-on-duty keeps on chewing bubble gum and
looking threw official papers,throws the phone into
direction of Kozlinetti's personal bench.Kozlinetti
catches it like a professional goalkeeper.
KOZLINETTI
Thanks a lot!You're so kind!
PSPICK
This freak wanna wake up all
the city.
Kozlinetti starts to dial the phone number...He's
in a hurry...mistaken and starts to dial one more time
with silent damnations.Starts to sniff and waits for the
answer.
Tasian leaves the office room,crosses the corridor
and gets inside a little corner room.Nobody's here.There
are just a chair a table with a phone on it and an old pos-
ter "ENEMY NEVER SLEEPS!" on the wall.Tasian picks up the
receiver.And enjoyes eavesdropping Kozlinetti's talk.
KOZLINETTI
Hallo!Damn...Hallo!Jacobsson!
I need Jacobsson!IMMIDEATELY!
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KOZLINETTI
Sleeping...What the fuck
you talking about?Wake him up
and be quick!
INT-NIGHT-A ROOM IN AN OLD VICTORIAN STYLE.
An old grey haired servant talking on line with
furious Romeo.
SERVANT
One moment sir.
He neatly puts receiver on the table and goes to a
left room.
(O.S.) Voices of servant and JACOBSSON,the lawyer from
the left room.
SERVANT
Sir.wake up!Someone is calling you.
JACOBSSON
Ah? What?...what's the time?
KOZLINETTI
Answer,damn you,answer!
What the fuck are doing there?!
TASIAN
Don't be in a harry,Jacobsson...
JACOBSSON
What is the time?Auuugh...
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SERVANT
3.00 a.m. sir.
JACOBSSON
3.00 a.m.?So?What you want from me
at the 3.00 a.m.?Aughh?!
SERVANT
Some bumpkin is calling you,sir...
I said that you're sleeping,but
he...
Jacobsson fat & sleepy corpulent man in a purple
dressing-gown goes to the table and picks up a receiver.
JACOBSSON
I'm on line.Who is calling?
KOZLINETTI
Jacobsson!Sick motherfucker!
I'm paying you not for sleeping!
TASIAN
Enemy never sleeps,ye...
KOZLINETTI
I'm paying you my fucking money
to get your fucking phone and
answer me at the first second
I'm calling!Remember this!
On the first fucking second!
TASIAN
Jacobsson of a bitch!
JACOBSSON
Oh!Mr.Kozlinetti!Boss...
Glad to hear you!
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KOZLINETTI
Ye!It's me,your fucki...phhh...
your boss!
TASIAN
Shut up an listen!I'm under arrest!
KOZLINETTI
Shut up an listen!I'm under arrest!
Listen damned lawyer!You must
get me out of here!You must
get me out in security for any
fucking money!Go to the bank!
JACOBSSON
Bbbbosss!Bu-bu-but now it's only
a 3.00 a.m...sorry...3.07 a.m...
and the ba-ba-bank is clo...sed.
KOZLINETTI
I know it's closed!
Fucking pumpking-head...You'll
jump to the bank early
in the morning to the following
fucking opening!
If I'll spent two fucking
nights in prison,your third night
you'll get your fucking rest in
peace at the graveyard...
Sleep well,lawyer!But remember!
JACOBSSON
All right,sir!
I'm coming to you right now!
KOZLINETTI
Hah!He's coming!For what the fuck
I dare to ask?I don't miss you!
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KOZLINETTI
There'll be no fucking inquest
right now...
I am waiting for you in the morning.
With money.That's all!
Do as I said!
Kozlinetti puts receiver on.
KOZLINETTI
Fuck!
Jacobsson throws receiver on.
JACOBSSON
Fuck!
TASIAN
I agree with you gentlemen...FUCK!
Tasian puts his receiver on and leaves the secret
corner room.He's returning to the main office.Pspick is
standing near front door,waiting for him.Kozlinetti looks
at Tasian in ironical way.And venenously grins at him.
Tasian grins at Kozlinetti too.In a more venomous way.
And on his road to the front door treads his left foot
very heavily.Kozlinetti squeakes of pain and looks at
Tasian in fury.
EXT-NIGHT-STREET
Tasian and Pspick are sitting in police-car.
PSPICK
Now what?This freak will get free
tomorrow and all the work goes
to hell!Shit...
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TASIAN
It's a bad thing...really bad...
but may be,we can prevent it.
PSPICK
What are you talking about?
How we can prevent this
fucking shit?
TASIAN
We've got a lot of ways to do it...
We can robb the bank...
right now.Jacobsson goes-where's
the money?-sorry!someone
robbed us...sir!We can also kidnap
the city judge or invent some other
brilliant thing.Of a same kind.
Pspick yawnes twice and looks at the watches.It
shows 3.27 a.m.And Pspick yawns one more time.
PSPICK
Brilliant things...in a kind
of a science fiction...What we'll
do right now?
TASIAN
I think that our dear Romeo is in
a deep...deep...
PSPICK
...shit.
TASIAN
...in deep boredom now.
We can put some friends to him.
For a company.
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INT-NIGHT-POLICE STATION
Officer-on-duty still is chewing his lovely bubble
gum.He just finishing reading documents and putting it on
the table.
OFFICER-ON-DUTY
I've done the paper'ork.
Get him to camera!
Cop #1 and cop #2 are coming to get Kozlinetti.
COP # 1
What's his name?
OFFICER-ON-DUTY
Tasian called him...an ASSEL.
COP # 1
Tasian calles everybody in such way.
Stand up,Mr.Assel.Time to go.
COP # 2
Walking terror of all lawyers...
Kozlinetti stands up sniffing in an angry way and
starts his short jorney to the camera,crossing the corri-
dors with cops beside him.Kozlinetti is limping on one
leg:Tasian's boot was too heavy.
Cop #1 openes the door.Twilight and silence are in
the camera.Big indifferent black man in a baseball cap is
smoking a sigarette near the far wall,the noise of keys
in the lock makes him no interest.And the newcomer too.
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INT-BIG NEON NOTICE
..."GUANCHGOU china laundry".This is the notice,
but there is no laundry inside,no laundry at all.There's
a dancing club together with an opium den.Four opium
smokers with their pipes are sitting in the corners of
a rather big hall.As eastern gods.Silent and immovable.
Disco music is roaring from the speakers and about
of a two dozen of dancers are moving here and there.Among
of then there are also two guys from TRIAD: GU TA LIN and
CLO FE LIN.Each of them is dancing with his own girl-friend.
Gu Ta Lin for one moment leaves girl #1,rolls to the corner
still shaking in the music rythm and takes the opium pipe
from hands of the silent smoker and inhales two times.
He looks slightly mad and starts two shake two times quicker
in his own personal ryhtm,quicker then the music.So,moving
and shaking in a sich curious way he jumps back to girl #1.
Starts to dance near her half a minute,then closes his eyes
and screams with a kind of nostalgie in his voice.
GU TA LIN
Oh!An overgrowth of the native bamboo!
Oh,the Canton's bamboo!
How I miss for you!
CLO FE LIN
(to Gu Ta Lin)
Gu,you've got enough opium for today!
More then enough!It's time to stop!
But Gu Ta Lin doesn't want to hear him,looking at his
own well known girl #1 in a great surprise,as if he never
seen her before.As if she looks like an alien.
And Clo Fe Lin goes on talking with his girl,girl #2.
During the talks he's taking a comb,thinking that smth's
wrong with his outstanding last style haircut.
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CLO FE LIN
He always screams some bullshit after it.
Never mind...And be sure,baby,I'm a man
of another kind.
GIRL #2
I'm sure in it.Go on...you was telling
me your perfect neck-tie theory.
CLO FE LIN
Oh,ye!I remember...Well,neck-tie is a very
serious detail...our wise GranDaddy
from TRIAD always told us to dress well.
To dress refined.Just look at me!I'm looking
respectable...
GIRL #2
You looks brilliant,honey...Continue!
Clo Fe Lin takes his comb one more time and does
the same operation with his haircut.He's really fond
of it.
CLO FE LIN
So,if you wanna look respectable,you must
think about neck-ties in a very serious way.
An easy example:a bright neck-tie for
black dress is not just vulgar it's just...
He tumbles on a word.Cause at that moment Tasian and
Pspick enters this dancing-opium-laundry-club with their guns
ready.Pspick throws out the DJ and stops the misic.Silence
falls down.All the dancers stops except Gu Ta Lin.He is still
dancing in a quick heavy rythm.
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There is a little panic among the public.But when
Tasian and Pspick wants to get dancing Gu Ta Lin and standing
Clo Fe Lin out of the "club",three brave chinese boys starts
to move their hands and legs as they are great masters of
martial arts.One of them stops for a moment,thinking that
a spring-knife is more useful for such an event.And with his
spring-knife he jumps at Tasian.Tasian cuffs him very
unfriendly.The knife flows to one side,his owner to another.
Straight to a corner with an opium smoker.Smoker openes his
eyes and looks at all the happening with a great drug
interest.Pspick shots in the air and everything stands on
it's place.
Two other "great fighters" looses all their enthusiasm,
put their hands back,stares at the ceiling and starts
to twistle as nothing happened.Cops puts the hancuffs on Clo
Fe Lin and Gu Ta Lin,while Gu Ta Lin continues dancing with
handcuff on arms.
CLO FE LIN
What's the matter?Dances are not
prohibited in this country!
TASIAN
Who says you're arrested for dances?
Gu Ta Lin stops dancing and suddenly starts to cry.
GU TA LIN
My native bamboo!Bamboo!
TASIAN
An opium dancer!Move!
Tasian and Pspick takes both chinese to exit.
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CLO FE LIN
Be careful,please!My dress is very
expensive!Don't crumple my neck-tie!
Barbarians!
TASIAN
Shut up!Or I'll crumple your face!
You was so interested of arrest,dancer.
OK,I'll tell you.Kozlinetti have chattered
about some of your dirty deeds...
You'll get a long prison time...
CLO FE LIN
Kozlinetti?Fuck!I don't know what's
going on!
GU TA LIN
Bamboo!EEE!Kozlinetti!I'll kill him...
Right now!
Gu Ta Lin suddenly starts to run.Very quick.Tasian
throws Clo Fe Lin to Pspick and follows the runner.
As they were running a Very Old Man appears from
the corner and trips Gu Ta Lin.Chinese falls down and
brokes his nose and all the face.It bleeds.
VERY OLD MAN
Don't be such in a hurry,chink!
Or you'll meet with Mao Ze Doon
earlier than expects...Hah!
Tasian runs to the point.Very Old Man stares at him.
VERY OLD MAN
Hah!You again!Son,you wanna get all
the city riff-ruff tonight?
And what you'll do tomorrow,hah?
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TASIAN
I hope to rest tomorrow.
It was the best trip I ever seen!
Thanks for your help,gran-pa.
VERY OLD MAN
You're welcome!So long!
Tasian gets Gu Ta Lin by the scruff of the neck
and picks him up.Gu Ta Lin is still crying.
GU TA LIN
Bamboooo!Bambooo!
TASIAN
Shut up,roadrunner!
You have the right to keep silence.
So use it!
INT-POLICE-OFFICE
The corridor.Cop #1 and cop #2 takes Gu Ta Lin
and Clo Fe Lin to the same camera where Kozlinetti is.
Evil Romeo is lying on a bed with a sign of sad thoughts
on his face.Black man in baseball cap is standing near
the wall and smoking as before.Cops locks the door and
leaves.Kozlinetti paid no attention on presence of the
newcomers,but chinese looking inside the camera
discovered Kozlinetti.And they likes such a discover.
GU TA LIN
Kozlinetti,is it you?!
Kozlinetti looks at him with a great contemption.
KOZLINETTI
No!It's not me!It's the Pope!
What the hell do you want?
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CLO FE LIN
(to Gu Ta Lin)
After you,friend!
GU TA LIN
Thanks,brother!
And Gu Ta Lin roars,jumps to Kozlinetti with
a savage scream and begins to beat him by feasts,legs,head
and everything he've got.After half of a minute Clo Fe Lin
joins to the beating process.But before it,he carefully
takes off his brilliant neck-tie and hangs it on
the grating,the same operation he is doing with his
respectable coat.Looks at the small mirror on the camera
wall,gets his comb-on-duty,changes his haircut in the way
he likes more and after this runs to the battle field.And
the mirror cracks with no sound.
Indifferent black man is suprised watching
such a non-suspected show.He even drops a sigarette.
BLACK MAN
(in a hoarse voice)
Such a friendly fucking meeting!
As if I'm back to Saigon!
EXT-MORNING-STREET.
The street where CROCODILE INTERNATIONAL BANK is
situated.Tasian and Pspick are standing near police car
not far from the bank front door.
TASIAN
You know,Freddy,..as I think
all the lawyers are a kind of
an evil anticops.We do everything
we can,to get some assel to prison
and they are doing everything
to get 'im free.
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TASIAN
And another difference between us
is the money we get for our job...
They get more...
PSPICK
How much he'll get in his hellish
suitcase?How much,man?
TASIAN
Enough to get our assel free.
To get him free and enough to get
him out of the country.
If he'll get free,he'll not wait
for his own JUDGEMENT DAY.
He's an assel,but not a fool.
He'll fuck off as quick
as he can.And his dear lawyer'll
carry a million or two...in his
hellish suitcase,as you said.
A great temptation to shot him
and take the money,ye?
Pspick smiles.
PSPICK
You absolutely right,Ken.But we can
overcome this suitcase temptation.
TASIAN
Stop talking.It's a show time.
Here he is.
Jacobsson is coming out of the bank with big and
heavy "hellish" suitcase.He wants to get to his car but
Tasian and Pspick apperas on his way.They are standing
with brightly smiles on their friendly faces.
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PSPICK
Mr.Jacobsson!My God!Mr.Jacobsson!
What a meeting!Glad to see you.
TASIAN
Pretty morning,ye?And such
a pretty suitcase...I know
some fellows that can put a half
of a bank inside of such pretty
suitcase and they can do
it very easily.
JACOBSSON
Oh...oh...is it a ...a.robbe..ary?
TASIAN
Freddy,how do you think:
is it a robbery or not?Does it look
like a robbery?
Pspick lookes over the sitiuation from his point of
view and sways his head.
PSPICK
No.It doesn't look like a robbery.
I've seen many robberys of
a different kind during my life.
TASIAN
You see!Don't worry.It's not
a robbery.Freddy is a clever guy.
He always know what he's talking
about.Specially in the morning.
JACOBSSON
So...oh!So...you donna wanna
to robb me?
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TASIAN
Frankly and ornestly we want
to do it,but we are trying
to dominate this evil wish with
all the willpower we've got inside.
Kidding!Generally speaking,we wanna
invite you to drink with us.
As I heard you are a famous
beer drinker.
Tasian bangs at Jacobsson's bulky belly.Jacobsson
gives a start and draws in his belly frightently.
JACOBSSON
Oh...gentlemen,I'm busy now...
I'm in a hurry.Let me go.
PSPICK
It's not friendly.
We are also busy,but we've got
a time for you.
TASIAN
Ye-ye...we invited him to drink
with us.Easy...as old friends.
He just doesn't like our company,
I think.
Tasian pokes lawyer's belly by revolver.
TASIAN
Asking you last time:are you going
to drink with us?
JACOBSSON
E...i...yee...
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Tasian hides his revolver back.
TASIAN
Good boy!I know one place...
it's not far from here.Let's walk
a little.Freddy,get the car-keys
from Mr.Jacobsson,I donna wanna him
to loose it.
Pspick stretches out his hand for the keys.And
Jacobsson starts to runmage in his own pockets in a very
feverish way.His right hand is too busy with
the "hellish" suitcase and he is too frightened to get
upon an idea to change the hands at time of runmage
process.At the end,he finds the keys by right hand in
the left pocket of trousers.Pspick gets the keys and
puts it in his own pocket.Then all the company starts
to move.
(O.S.)
Quiet sounds of a dead march.
NOT FAR FROM THE BANK IS SITUATED "FUNNY JUDGE BAR".
Threw the glass door is shown notice "closed".
Tasian comes up to the door and knockes two times.
Soon from the other side of the glass appears CHARLIE,
the bar-owner.Charlie's face looks very discontent
and unfriendly first,but when he finds out who is
knocking,he smiles and openes the door.
CHARLIE
Ken!What the hell are you doing
here,fellow?It's too early.Can you
read? CLO-SED!
TASIAN
Charlie,I can read and I know
it's too early,but Freddy and I...
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TASIAN
we've met a friend.
ONE FUCKING FRIEND.
And he NEED TO DRINK right here
and right now.He just can die...
Only you can help'im,Charlie.
Be so kind!
Charlie's looking as he's surprised.He looks at
Pspick and Freddy smiles to him.He looks at Jacobsson.
Lawyer is standing with a pale stone face with a deep
sadness in his eyes.
CHARLIE
Looking upon the sitiuation
I found that your friend felt
bad.He's so pale.Get a heavy party
last night?OK...hell with you.
Come in!
And all the company is coming inside.The notice on
the door from the street is the same-"closed".
INT-INSIDE THE BAR
CHARLIE
All right,guys!Be quick and tell me
what you gonna drink...I need
to prepare for the evening and make
some doing up here.
TASIAN
(to Jacobsson)
We'd better ask our dear FRIEND.
So,assel,what kind of beer
you prefer at that time of a day?
Chairs are turned off and now are standing on the
tables.Pspick puts three of them on their normal position
on the floor,preparing the sits for all the company.
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Jacobsson looks at it and starts to dry cold
sweat from his forehead by a silk handkerchief with
an embroided words on it "Good bye cruel world!"
Fred Pspick puts a hand on lawyers shoulder and
Jacobsson gets down on an earlier preparied chair.
Puts his "hellish" suitcase on the floor beside him and
sighes like a man condemned to death.
JACOBSSON
Oh...have you Budwaiser?
TASIAN
Excellent!
Charlie,have we Budwaiser?
CHARLIE
Of course we have...
A bottle for each of you?
TASIAN
It's not for us...we're
on duty now.Even in a bar.
Charlie,look at this mighty belly,
look attentively...
and try to define how much beer
we need to full to overflowing
such a volume.
Charlie starts to look at lawyer's belly with a
great professional interest.Scratching his own chin and
thinking.
CHARLIE
Very respectable belly...
Very respectable.
I'm thinking about six litres.
Six!
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TASIAN
You see!A look of a real
professional!
So,Charlie,.. bottle means
half of litre...So we need
a dozen of bottles.Ye!
Charlie,a dozen of Budwaiser,please.
Jacobsson gets more paled and more nervous during
this prepearings for the "slaughter".
SAME PLACE.SOME TIME LATER.
There are 11 empty bottles on the table.The 12-th
bottle is still closed.Pspick is reading a newspa-
per.Charlie is washing the floor and dancing beetween the
tables,trying to imitate Mick Jagger's voice hearing from
the radio. \Rolling Stones "Satisfaction"\
CHARLIE
Satisfaction!SA..tis...Faction!
Tasian is sitting cool as a cucumber,playing by an
opener.Then he puts the opener on the table.Picks up
a metal cork from the last opened and empty bottle,bends it
by two fingers.Then throws it inside the bottle.Sound of
the fallen cork makes Jacobsson nervous.And Tasian picks up
the bottle and shakes it like a rattle.It tinkles.Then he
puts it back on the table.
Jacobbson settles down near him with an empty glass
beside himself.Lawyer is looking terrible.He "can get
no satisfaction".He is hiccuping.He's drunk and the quantity
of all the beer he drunk,is making him sick.He is looking
such as the beer is splashing not only in his belly,but
also in his wise big head.
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Tasian is opening a new bottle,the last of a dozen.
Opening it in a very artistic way.Jacobsson starts
to hiccup faster and stronger and is trying not to look
at the beer.He hates this drink now,with all his soul.
Lawyer's face gets a green'n'blue coloured.His sickness
gets to maximum.
TASIAN
Hey man!You don't like the beer?
Tasian drinks from fresh opened bottle slowly.His
tasting it and shows that his getting high.
TASIAN
No...I haven't found the problem.
Beer is excellent.May be you
want more?
Lawyer's face changes.He's trying to say something,
but failes at the first time.
JACOBSSON
Please!I need to go to the toilet.
Immi...deately.
TASIAN
Charlie,does your toilet works well?
CHARLIE
It works well,but I haven't wash
it today.I usially do it later.
TASIAN
Nevermind!That's OK.Freddy,drop
all your papery news and accompany
Mr.Lawyer to the toilet.
I donna wanna him to get lost...
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And I'll call a police-station.
May be there are some news for us.
I think I have a right
for a one phone call!
Tasian is coming to the phone,but Charlie stops him.
CHARLIE
Don't go on the freshwashed!
Step there...
Tasian gets to phone by a dry way and starts to de-
al the number.Pspick is busy with the lawyer.Radio now is
playing LED ZEPPELIN'S "WHEN LEVEE BREAKS".
PSPICK
Come on,big and fatty!
Jacobsson gets up and starts his heavy way to the
toilet.He is moving slowly as he is afraid to blow up
from a too hard move.Meanwhile the beer is loudly splas-
hing inside him.
INT-THE PRISON HOSPITAL-SAME MORNING.
Kozlinetti is situated on a bed.He looks such
as he was beaten to pulp.Two doctors and cop #1 are
beside him.Officer-on-duty enters.
DOCTOR
What's the matter with him?
OFFICER-ON-DUTY
Nothing serious.
Just a quarrel in the cell.
He's a very quarrelsome
son of a bitch...
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Kozlinetti,that "quarrelsome son of a bitch"
opened his muddy black eyes.
KOZLINETTI
Where is my lawyer?
He must be here!
OFFICER-ON-DUTY
Your lawyer?Of course he is here!
Let me introduce to you Mr.Dusker!
DUSKER is coming in,as if he is in a hurry.
DUSKER
Good morning,sir!
Forget about everything!
I'll get away all your problems.
KOZLINETTI
Fuck!Who is this clown ?!
Where is Jacobsson?
OFFICER-ON-DUTY
There is no Jacobsson or som'in such
a kind.The Law says that if you haven't
a lawyer we can give it to you.
And here he is.
Dusker bows with a smile on his lips.
OFFICER-ON-DUTY
If you donna want Mr.Dusker,you have
the right to protect yourself by your
own poor brain resources,you're welcome.
Solve this problem now.
Mr.Dusker is a very busy man.
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KOZLINETTI
Fuck!...Jacobsson!You're dead man!
INT-CHARLIE'S BAR.
Some time later.Tasian finishes talking,puts
the phone back.He looks very content with the info
he've got.
Jacobsson creeps back to his chair from the toilet.
He looks better now.He's hair and face and dress are wet.
Pspick gets to the table too.
TASIAN
The levee was broken as I see...
Does he bathe there?
PSPICK
Ken,I can tell you what
he was doing there,but I don't think
that you'd like to hear 'bout it.
TASIAN
All right.Then I can tell you more
pretty'n'interesting thing.Our poor
friend,our dear Romeo,was putten
to a camera with two very very evil
chinese boys from the TRIAD...
There was a little quarell
between them and a little
italo-chinese war has takem place.
Romeo loose.He was beaten
to a pulp and now he enjoys life
in prison hospital.I wish him
to stay there until a JUDGEMENT DAY.
Jacobsson starts to howl in a quiet way.
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PSPICK
I think that these chinese guys
must get an additional helping
of noodles for such a good job!
TASIAN
Good idea!
Tasian lookes at Pspick,Pspick lookes at Jacobs-
son,Jacobsson lookes at Charlie,but Charlie is too busy
with the floor.He have no time for such a bullshit.
TASIAN
I also have another news...
A bad news for you,Jacobsson.
You lost your client.
Romeo chose another lawyer.
Better then you...A real ornest man.
I'm talking about Mr.Dusker!
Know him?
After Tasian's news Jacobsson startes to giggle.
In a very nervous unnormal way.
JACOBSSON
Do I know Dusker?!Do I know!
Hi-Hi-hi-hi!
As they said he can lose
133 trials of 132.
He is a king of loosers...
Walking legend.
Suddenly he stops to giggle and sadly shakes
his head.
JACOBSSON
O,God Almighty! Romeo'll kill me.
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TASIAN
If he got such an outstanding law-man
You have no reasons to worry.
Romeo'll get all what he deserved.
I hope that Mr.Dusker'll brilliantly
loose this trial as all the others.
So!Our dear lawyer,what we'll do
with you now?May be you would
like some noodle too?Or more beer?
JACOBSSON
Oh...oughh!Nooo!
TASIAN
(in a horrible voice)
You're a strange...really
mysterious guy.If you were paying...
But we are treating...
(with some sadness)
You're an unfortunate guy,lawyer.
Very unfortunate.You were in
a wrong place at the wrong time.
Your fucking client...this assel
Romeo Kozlinetti will get you even
from a hospital.And when he'll get,
he'll ask you,he'll ask you
in a very unkindly way:
Where you've been
sick motherfucker,when I was
staying in this fucking damned
calaboose?When I was wrestling
there with two evil chinese?
Where the hell you was
at that moment?!
And you,as an ornest goodguy,
will answer him:
Sir!When your were staying
in this damned fucking calaboose
I was drinking a good beer
in an accompany of my old friends.
It will be the holy truth,
but I have a little doubt,that
Kozlinetti would be happy to hear
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such a thing.And his bandits,too.
Kozzlinetti is a very nervous guy.
He'll order to shoot or to cut you.
No difference:cause the result
will be the same.
Jacobsson drunkly sobs.
JACOBSSON
It's true...aughhh!
He said:if I'll spent two nights
in prison...your own third night
you'll spent on the grave-yyaaard!
TASIAN
As I heard he's a man of a word.
PSPICK
Very cruel and very dangerous!
TASIAN
As he's in the hospital...
use the moment!Get the money
and scram!Scram to the edge
of the world.Try to dissapear.
Dissapear right now.
We'll get you to airport.
Remember:we're your friends!
PSPICK
(speaking as a bad cop)
An airport?
He'll vomit all the plane.
TASIAN
(speaking as a good cop)
Someone can think that you're
a big boss from PAN AMERICAN.
May be he'll vomit it,
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but the plane problems
is not our buisness...
We are talking about a man's
life to save!Plains...
PSPICK
(in a low voice)
And if he'll vomit a car?
TASIAN
(also in a low voice)
We'll get his own car
to take him to airport.
The keys are in your pocket.
PSPICK
Stand up,crying lawyer!
Now is your turn.
To be safe and free.
Jacobsson nodes and starts his way to exit.The
"hellish" suitcase is still standing on the floor.
TASIAN
Don't forget about the money.
Without money nobody will need you
at the edge of the world.
Jacobsson turnes on 180 degrees,automatically picks
up the suitcase and goes to the door.Pspick opens
the door for him.Charlie's looking at the happening with
big genuine interest.
CHARLIE
He is moving like a robot...
or like a cyborg.
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TASIAN
Like a beer-borg.Budwaiser
is a terrible thing if you're
drinking it more then you can
swallow.Thanks for everything...
See you in the evening!
CHARLIE
Leaving now?I was ready to put on
another notice on my bar.
"Kenneth Tasian personal office"
instead of the "FUNNY JUDGE".
TASIAN
Don't do it,man!Such name can
easily frighten away all
the habitues.Me in the first place.
PSPICK
Good bye,Charlie!
EXT-HIGHWAY.
Tasian and Pspick are coming back from airport
on Jacobsson's car.Pspick is driving and singing.
PSPICK
Lawyer's flying to Bahamas
To Bahamas lawyer's fly
Whom he'll vomit at first time?
TASIAN
Freddy,shut up please!
I wish him to fly to Greenland...
And never be back!
PSPICK
As you say,Ken!Mmmm...
Lawyer's flying just to Greenland
To the Greenland lawyer's fly...
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TASIAN
Fuck!Freddy,stop being an assel.
Tasian puts on the radio.
RADIO-VOICE
...nd now the criminal news,
from me,Bobby Pushful!
A double murder in a private house
on St.Bartolomeo avenue.
Two men were killed.The crime
has taken place two or three days ago
in the evening...or in the morning.
Police says,it wasn't a robbery.
We wanted to get more
details and asked lietenant
Salfares about it...
Lietenant,what you can tell us
about this horrible murder?
VOICE of SALFARES
I can tell you the only thing
I can.Go to hell with your silly
fucking questions!
RADIO-VOICE
Thanks a lot,lieutenant!
Pspick and Tasian starts to laugh.
PSPICK
Salfares is in a good mood today!
TASIAN
Wait!
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RADIO-VOICE
This private house is a strange
thing...really strange.A room
that is looking like a prison cell.
We suspect that the killer
was sitting here.For long time...
But who was he?An innocent victim
putten in chains or a bloody maniac
that now get free and may be knocking
at the door of your own house?
We will...
Tasian turns radio off.
TASIAN
I hate this fucking talks 'bout
maniacs!Shit...
PSPICK
What's up,man?
TASIAN
I wanna tell you something.
It was five years ago...
INT-MORGUE
Corpse of a man on the table.Two bullet wounds.
In breast.And in head.An anathom walking around the table.
(O.S.) VOICE OF TASIAN
...he was a kind of a walking terror
of our god damned city.
They called him Twice.Cause everytime
he used two bullets for each victim.
Hell knows why.
There was an unknown call.Who was calling
and where from...nobody knows.May be Twice
himself wanted to meet with death
face to face...
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INT-POLICE-STATION
Officer-on-Duty is on line,caring the phone receiver
and writing information on paper.
(O.S.) VOICE OF TASIAN
...so,we've got the information that
this fucking Twice-maniac is hiding
at the hatter's ware house,situated
somewhere in the middle of West street.
EXT-POLICE CAR.
Tasian,patrolman #1,patrolman #2 and patrolman #3
are inside.Car is running to the West street.And then
stops near the warehouse.And a heavy rain starts to fall.
(O.S.) VOICE OF TASIAN
I remember it was a rain of cats
and dogs,when we were on the point.
Fuck...no!There was no rain that day!
EXT-NEAR ENTRANCE TO THE WAREHOUSE.
Rain still's falling down.Patrolmen are getting
from the car.Each of them is carring revolver
in one hand and an opened umbrella in another.
Suddenly the rain stops.Sun starts to shine.
Patrolman looks at the sky,then looks at Tasian
in some angry way,closes their umbrellas and puts it
back to the car.
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Tasian just shrugs one's shoulders and prepares
a heavy bunch of keys to open the warehouse door,but he's
late.Patrolman #1 breaks the door from the run and enters
in a very noisy way.All the others follows him.
INT-WAREHOUSE
Not far from the door a small receiver is standing
on the floor.Playing jazz.Very loud.Tasian wants
to turn it off,but patrolman #2 stops him and shakes
his head.They starts to move deeper into warehouse space
and leaves receiver with it loud jazz behind.
(O.S.) VOICE OF TASIAN
I wanted to turn off this fucking
music but they didn't let me do it.
So jazz was screaming all the time
we were there...stamping one's foot
and searching for suspected killer.
And this music was making us
more nervous.
All guys of the cop-company are deep in their
searches.Warehouse is a rather big hall with many open
bookcases on which are sitiuated hats.Different colour.
And different size.They are situated without any boxes.
It looks like an exhibition of hats,not like
a buisness-practise warehouse keeping it's wares from
dirt and dust.
(O.S.) VOICE OF TASIAN
There was a lot different hats in that
god damned place...hats,hats and hats!
Everywhere...Such and such.
Any kind you need,any kind you want.
Really a sick quantity of hats!
From that time I can't look at hats
without a shudder.
We were hanging around,searching for
the Twice-maniac for a long time.
But there were only this fucking hats.
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(O.S.) VOICE OF TASIAN
And nothing more.We were about to go back
from that place and all came to one point,
but suddenly...
The bookcases with hats are standing in such way,
that they forms a kind of a labyrinth and in the end all
cops comes to one point.Tasian comes the last.And nearby
that point,betweem two bookcases overfulled by hats is
sitting a little puny man with defenceless smile on his
lips.He is sitting directly on the concrete floor,not far
from the wall,in the end of this "hats" labyrinth.
(O.S.) VOICE OF TASIAN
We just haven't signed him first time.
He even doesn't look as our suspected
target.He waited for a while and then
even not changing expression of face,
even with smile on his lips,he began
to shoot...
Before we've got what's going on.
Twice-maniac starts to shoot.Patrolman #3 gets
two bullets:into forehead and into throat.And falls down.
Patrolman #1 gets another couple.Right eye and left
shoulder.Patrolman #2 gets a wound in right leg and
falls down.And six and the last bullet shot a hat
at his back.He looses his gun in time of falling and
can't get it because of wounded leg.Tasian is the only
one and last.Safe and sound.With his gun ready.Aiming
at the killer.Meanwhile,Twice drops his empty gun.
Still sitting on the floor and smiling.He stares at
Tasian in a strange way.
(O.S.) VOICE OF TASIAN
When I looked at his eyes,I've got
a kind of shock.It was an unhuman gaze.
I was like devil himself used fucking
eyes of that man just to look at me.
I was ready to shoot him down,but just
can't move at all.I felt a kind of fear
I never felt before...
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Patrolman #2 turns himself over.Seen all
the happening.
PATROLMAN #2
Shoot that son of a bitch!
What the fuck are you waiting for?!
TWICE
Ye!It's revolver time.It came!
Tasian gives a start and pulles the trigger.
Four shots.And maniac falls down dead,buried under
an avalanche of hats jumping down at him from their points
in bookcases.Silence falls down.Only patrolman #2 moans
and somewhere far mad radio still throws it's jazz into
outer space.
Suddenly maniac's hand appears between the sea of
fallen hats and threatens Tasian by a forefinger.Tasian
shoots two times more.And hand dissapeares never
to rise again.Tasian breaths in a quick and heavy way.
\ end of Tasian's recollections \
EXT-HIGWAY-LAWYER'S CAR.
TASIAN
Now you know why I don't like
all this radio-bullshit about
maniacs and so on.
It's not such pretty or such
interesting
as some assels thought...
(thinking)
In whole don't worry,Freddy!
You know Salfares will get
this fucking killer even from hell
in which he sent this assel from
radio.
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PSPICK
Or we'll do it.
TASIAN
Or we'll do it,ye.
By the way,are you hungry?
PSPICK
Well...may be.
TASIAN
"Well...may be..."
I don't like such an answer
on such a serious question.
There are only two variants
of answer that I like.
Not hungry yet or hungry
like a beast.
PSPICK
Crrrr!Like a beast!I think
you wanna get me to Mother
De Lana's dining.
TASIAN
You've got something
against the mexican cookery?
PSPICK
Not I.But my stomach.
May be'll go to some other place?
TASIAN
And my stomach is in a mexican mood
today.Come on,amigo!Drive straight
to Mother De Lana!
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INT-DAY.
"Hot & Hotter dining" of MOTHER DE LANA.Pspick and
Tasian just coming inside.An old mexican woman,Mother De
Lana nodes them friendly.
TASIAN
Good afternoon,Mother De Lana!
We are hungry like wolves!
MOTHER DE LANA
Wait a little,dear boys,
wait a little!
Mother De Lana will never let
you die from hunger...
what you'd like today?
Tasian is thinking for a while then began to talk
in "spanish".
TASIAN
Una cervesa deportista...en cortar
grosero un el agudo sauce...
Inexplicable framar un complot
salchichas...Elfresa compota...
Los salados en el peor corrompido
hombes.That's all,Mom!
MOTHER DE LANA
All right...wait a little
and everything be ready.
Take a sit.
And cops goes to the table situated near
an opposite wall.
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PSPICK
Ken,I don't know spanish as well,
as you do,but something is telling
me,that this dinner will give me
a great heartburn.
TASIAN
Then wait on and prey...
that it will not be a smoked
crocodile under a chocolate sauce.
Meanwhile Mother De Lana appears with the food.
MOTHER DE LANA
Bon appetit,dear boys!
TASIAN & PSPICK
(in one voice)
Thanks a lot!
They starts their true mexican dinner.
PSPICK
(chewing)
Mmm...This meat is excellent.
But I kmow what is waiting
my stomuch in the nearest future...
Pspick suddenly stops his dining proccess.He is
sitting,as he can see the front door and can see everyone
who's coming in or goes out.Tasian is sitting back to the
door and can see nothing.Four big mighty guys are coming
in.They are looking such as they are searching for someone
to give him a good kick.
PSPICK
Ken,I think you've got
some problems.
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TASIAN
Thas a fly in my coffee?
PSPICK
Forget about your coffee.Look back!
Tasian turns back.Looks.His face changes.
TASIAN
Oh,shit!
Meanwhile three guys of four,began to read menu and
to talk with Mother De Lana and a young mexican wait-
ress.The forth guy who's nickname is DaddyTiger nodes to
Tasian and goes to the toilet.
PSPICK
Just look at his face!I think
DaddyTiger brought you a serious
and upleasant news.I felt something
bad about visiting this place...
TASIAN
Freddy,you're full of superstions.
Like an old english lady!
PSPICK
All right,man.All right!
I accompinied the lawyer.Now is your
turn.Toilet is waiting for heroes!
Tasian goes to the toilet with a very dark face.When
he is coming in,DaddyTiger is getting his bladder
"free",sniffing of pleasure during this process.
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TASIAN
Listen,man,we've got a treaty
to use this room as a point
of communications...only for this.
DADDYTIGER
I need it man...to join the work
and a kind of pleasure,if you can
call it so.
TASIAN
Brought something serious,man?
DaddyTiger finishes with his "pleasure" and
starts to wash hands.
DADDYTIGER
Serious?Oh,ye!
Murder is not an object
for some fucking jokes...even
for a humour as black as my skin.
TASIAN
Murder?Go on.Who was killed,
when and where?
DADDYTIGER
Too many questions for such
a little man as I am.I don't know
who was killed,but it was a work of
a real fucking maniac.Corpses cutten
to little pieces.Not far from here.
Tasian's face changes one more time.
Also changes his voice.As he if he's very tired.
TASIAN
Wait a minite!You wanna say me
that somewhere nearby somebody was
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murdered in a very unpleasant way
and even cops doesn't know about it?
DADDYTIGER
Ye!You're the first.Cop number one.
And now you know.It was
at the neglected billiards
of Costello Bastindos.Know that
place?There are only that fucking
rats and some billiard tables
with teared cloth...Cloth was taken
and the tables were too heavy
to be stolen.As I know this fucking
building is ready to be pulled
down...it's place will be selled or
is just ready for selling.
TASIAN
Who wanna buy it?
DADDYTIGER
Hell knows!Ask the guys from mafia.
It's their fucking buisness.They
ordered to clean and wash the place
and said to keep silence for
everybody who seen or heard
something...as no fuck has taken
place.No corpses-no case.
Who wanna to get troubles with cops
for a false call?
TASIAN
You're the one who seen?
DADDYTIGER
I'm the one who heard...and you,too.
If you mean was I inside,enjoying
the look at corpses-no!I wasn't.
What for?I've got enough fucking
troubles in my life...and as I said,
now there are no corpses,
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no traces...all is fucking clean.
They washed it all yesterday.
But the who seen said it was
a real good show...fucking
maniac work!
TASIAN
And WHO seen?Can you tell?
DADDYTIGER
Sorry,man.I can't.They are kids
and they are hiding.You'll waste
you time trying to find them
and they'll tell you the same
thing...Better try to find this
Jack the Ripper or John...
the Head-Cutter and cut his own
fucking balls.If I'll get
something more I'll tell...
I must go now...See you!
TASIAN
Thanks,man.
(thinking)
Thanks a lot...
DaddyTiger leaves.Tasian is standing and thinking.
He openes cold water.Then closes.Openes hot water and
starts to wash his hands.Mechanically.Until he feels
the pain from boiling hot water and screams.
EXT-DAY-STREET
The building of billiards of Costello Bastin-
dos.Street is empty.Pspick and Tasian are coming up to
the building.Tasian gets a pocket light.
TASIAN
It's here.
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PSPICK
Ye...this damned billiard is here...
Damned mexican sauce!
TASIAN
Got a heartburn?
Pspick nodes sadly.Detectives are looking at the
building.Building is old and looks bad.Most of win-
dow-glasses are broken.Detectives goes to the front door
and suddenly a black cat crosses their way.Pspick stops.
PSPICK
Shit!It's a bad sign...
TASIAN
(trying to joke,but his voice is too cool for jokes)
Freddy-boy,superstitions are just
superstitions...and nothing more.
This funny black pussy-cat is not
dangerous.I've seen that early
in the morning a big white mouse
crossed it's own way...the way
of this fucking cat and all
the danger's gone...flown away.
Gone with the wind!
Cat is out of game.
Pspick smiles and keeps on moving.Tasian is looking
at the front door.At it's lock.
PSPICK
Can you open it?
TASIAN
I can open any lock...except
a war...lock.
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PSPICK
I hope there are no warlocks or
sorcerers near by.
Tasian stretches left hand to the door,but it ope-
nes before he touched it.
TASIAN
Unlocked...
Welcome to kingdom of darkness!
I'll be your gide...
Tasian switches his electric pocket light and they
are coming inside.There are only twilight and emptyness
inside.Old and dirty billiards.Broken glass on the floor
and rats moving here and there.
TASIAN
Your own famous black pussy-cat
can get a lot of fresh meat here...
if it doesn't like WISKAS...Ye...
Not a bad place for murders.
Near the entrance is sitiuated a little room,and a
bar near it.There are three empty bottles.Old and
dust.Bar's counter is rather high and one billiard table
is hidden by it.Even the corner in which it is situated
staying in the shadow.And in the center of hall thas a
broken window and the daylight is putting the corner to
shadow more.Smth black is lying on that billiard table
but detectives haven't sign it,their attention is coming
to the other six billiards.Tasian is moving by an elect-
ric light but haven't seen nothing interesting.All the
same:broken glass,stiring rats and dust everywhere.
TASIAN
If there was something interesting,
now it's gone...mafia destroyed
all the fucking tracks.If there
was something,yet.
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PSPICK
It was easy...wash all down and
put on the dust and glass and
a fuck you can find!I think that
the dogs or the guys from FBI can
find there something...not I.
TASIAN
May be...may be.I'm sure only in
one thing:it's a good place for
a slaughter-house.
He lights left and suddenly sees some puddle of a
dark liquid.
TASIAN
Shit!It's blood!Fresh blood!
As he's saying it,they hears a moan from the left
dark corner.Tasian puts the light on it and Pspick gets
his revolver ready.The light shows them a man lying on a
billiard,pined to it by several knives.Man is moaning.At
the next moment they sees the dark figure standing near
the bar with a knife in it's hand.Pspick screams and
shots two times.Figure throws a knife and quickly
escapes.Pspick falls down.Maniac's knife is stretching
from the center of his stomach.Tasian gets to him.
TASIAN
Hold on,man!Hold on!
PSPICK
(weakly)
Get 'is'on of a 'itch...Get'im!
Fuck...'nife out 'nd 'eartburn
'nside.
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Tasian with revolver runs out,but the street is
empty.Killer is gone.Tasian quickly jumps into police-car
and takes the radio.
TASIAN
Here is the car 22!I need help...
two men are seriously wounded.
SAME PLACE.SOME TIME LATER.
Two embulance cars getsaway Pspick and the man
from a billiard table.Experts with dogs are
searching inside and around.Tasian is talking with
lietenant SALFARES.
SALFARES
So this motherfucker's gone...
And where he's gone?
TASIAN
I wish to know.Frankly I had no time
for a good search.I called help and
ran back to billiards...I thought
he can easily get inside by a back
door or by his own fucking way and
finish them both.
SALFARES
You're a wise man,Ken.That's OK.
Have you seen the face...
of this bastard?
TASIAN
No,sir.He was too quick.
SALFARES
Too quick to be dead?
Al right!If mafia wanna play
with us,we'll also play.
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SALFARES
But by our own rulls.
And at last we'll see who'll
be the fool...
If you wanna kick some ass
from the klan,do it!
Without any fucking doubt.
Do everything you want.
I'll get all the responsibility.
(after a pause)
Hope that Freddy will be OK.
So,began to work,son.
Tasian nodes.
TASIAN
Sir,I'll do the best I can.
EXT-STREET-"SCAFFANDRA ROMANA" CLUB.
Two mighty guards from mafia are standing near ent-
rance.Tasian is coming closely to them.
GUARD #1
Sir,show your membership card,
please.
TASIAN
My membership card?Oh,ye!Sure...
He gets his police badge and shows it to the guards.
TASIAN
The best membership card I've got.
GUARD #1
Pretty badge...cram it into your
own bum,cop.
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TASIAN
May be better...I'll beat your face
...but I don't wanna to get it dust.
GUARD #1
Afraid to beat me,cop?Say it!
You're afraid?You're afraid that I
can give you a good kick?
TASIAN
I'm not afraid of such an assel,
like you...I'm on duty now...And
I never fight when I'm on duty.
GUARD #1
Really?And how much longer
will long your fucking duty?
Tasian looks at his own watches.
TASIAN
For two seconds...one...two!
And Tasian cuffs him from right,then from the
left.Second cuff is hard.Guard #1 falls down,his partner
starts to move,but Tasian puts revolver on him and he im-
mideately steps back.Meanwhile Tasian takes a sit
on the lying guard #1 and put the revolver straight
to his nose.
TASIAN
You feel comfortable?I'm asking:
do you feel comfortable,assel?
Never try to cad me...I don't like
someone trying to cad me.I don't
like violence...but if I'm saying
I wanna enter,better let me in...
without any fucking questions.
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GUARD #1
And have you an order for it,cop?
TASIAN
You're really a funny guy.Lying
on asphalt as if it's normal.
Smelling the barrel of my revolver.
And even have an impudence
to ask me,if I have an order!
All right,assel.I'm kind today.
Can tell you confidentially:I have
no order.I came here just because
your fucking boss invited me
to visit this fucking club.
Guard #1 smiles in an ironical way and Tasian bangs
him to the face.
TASIAN
Don't smile,assel!You think I'm
kidding about the invitation?
I'm not kidding.He invited me
10 years ago...I was too busy
to come in time,but today I've
got a free hour.Ye...late,but
he'll not be angry.He'll be glad
to see me.And you continue to enjoy
life...it's too short.
Tasian stands up slowly and moves to the door.
INT-CLUB ISIDE
Personal cabinet of the official club owner MARKEO
TOLSTINNI.Thas a battle picture on the wall showing the
ancient roman warriors fighting with more ancient ger-
mans.Thas a metal bust of July Ceasar in a corner of ca-
binet.A heavy press-paper of godness Femida \BLIND JUSTI-
CE\ is standing on the table.Markeo Tolstinni himself is
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sitting comfortably in a giant arm-chair good enough for
his body size.Tolstinni is reading "THE DIARY OF JULY CE-
ASAR".Drinking Martini from a glass.And a big bottle of
Dry Martini is standing beside him.
Suddenly cabinet's door flows down inside with a
great thunder.The plaster is falling up and down,flowing in
the air,creating a kind of a frog.And Tasian appears from
this frog like a ghost.Tolstinni drops the book and
spills Martini on his own trousers.Jumps in his giant
arm-chair,throws the empty glass away.Leaning upon the
table by left hand,while right hand is searching for a
gun inside of a table-box.But Tasian is quicker.He gets
the heavy press-paper and beats Tolstinni's left
hand.Tolstinni screams of pain and drops the gun from his
right hand back to the table-box.Tasian beats him by
BLIND JUSTICE on the right hand and then puts press-paper
to it's place on the table.Tolstinni is still crying and
blowing on both hands.Tasian gets him unfriendly and puts
into another arm-chair,little and very uncomfortable.It's
not big enough for such a Tolstinni.His face and hands
getting the red colour.
TASIAN
Ye!This brilliant moment came!
The Justice was waiting so long,but
now it beated your hands dusted
by different crimes...I came here
as a friend...I came in peace and
you wanna get a gun...What's up
with you,friend Markeo?
Are you insane?
TOLSTINNI
Tasian,what the hell are you doing?
Oh...my poor little hands!
Tasian finds Tolstinni's squash hat and kicks it
with deep and real hate.Hat flows out threw the window.
Tasian pickes up the book.It's name greatly impresses him.
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TASIAN
The diary of July Ceasar...
Ave Ceasar!You'd better have to read
the biography of Mussolini.You've
got some resemblance with him.
In face and manners.
(O.S.) Noise from the corridor.
Tasian gets his revolver.The club guards are coming.
TASIAN
Gentlemen,if some one will try
to enter I'll shot him
to the ground in the name
of Irish Republican Army.
GUARD #1
Boss,are you OK?
TOLSTINNI
Ye!I'm OK!Better then else!
Everything's pretty...Scram out!
TASIAN
Ye...we are talking about serious
literature.Don't disturb us,please.
Guards slowly goes away.
TASIAN
So,my dear friend,I wanna warn you
that I'm only the first spring bird
...tomorrow will be a lot of cops
...a lot of to turn over your shitty
club,all your snake pit,
with great pleasure,understand?
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TOLSTINNI
Buttt...wha...what's the problem?
TASIAN
Ye.There's really a problem.
I'm interesting about the little
massacre that has taken place at
the billiards of Costello Bastindos.
I wanna know where are the corpses
and why your assels washed
everything cleanly in secret,
as nothing happened.Somewhere near
is walking Jack the Ripper with
a pretty hatchet and you're sitting
here and representing Rome
at time of Decadance!
Wanna me get you by the scruff
of the neck and beat all your shit
out threw your fucking ears?!
TOLSTINNI
It's Kozlinetti who gave the order.
He said me to sent the people
to get all the shit out of billiards
and wash everything.Tasian,I'm
an old little man...
I never ask questions,when I'm
getting an order!
TASIAN
You even haven't asked your fellows
what they've seen there?
TOLSTINNI
No...I'm not curoius in things
of such a kind!
TASIAN
You sent your own guards?
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TOLSTINNI
No,no!My boys always stays in
club,no other job...I've ordered
to do this...guys of Luciano
Borbikineo.
He's got a petrol-station at
the border of northern suburbs.
TASIAN
You wanna sell the billiards
buildung?Whom?
TOLSTINNI
Some company...I just don't know.
Kozlinetti wanted to say it after
returning back.May be already sold it.
TASIAN
And where he came to?
TOLSTINNI
Cop,you're kidding?He is the boss.
How do I know?He said he's getting
out of the city for a week or two.
Tasian smiles in an evil way.
TASIAN
Thanks a lot!By the way:
pay your attention to own trousers.
Martini's dry,but you are not.
Use Pampers.
Tolstinni looks at his wet trousers.
TOLSTINNI
Oh,fucking shit!
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Tasian in the corridor.
TASIAN
(mutters)
Now we've got a little oil war!
EXT-NORTH CITY SUBURBS-PETROL-STATION.
Tasian stops the car not far from it,but not too
close.And starts to steal up to petrol-station.It looks
empty.No cars,no stuff.No life at all.Tasian stands beside
of one of the filling-station's boxes and keeps on
looking the curious empty surroundings.
At that moment a bigman BALTASAR gets out
of the station with a two-barrel shot-gun ready.Coming to
Tasian,trying to be unnoisy,but his steps sounds too heavy.
Tasian hears him,but doesn't make a hard moves,just puts
his hand on revolver.And starts to show that he is
diligently smell the filling-station box.Two seconds later
Baltasar puts barrels of his short gun to Tasian's
right ear.
BALTASAR
What the fuck are you doing here?
TASIAN
Hush!Hush,old man!Don't disturb me
with your silly questions!
BALTASAR
Hey!You are the one one of this
fucking sick toxico-men?
TASIAN
What the fuck are YOU talking about?
You just can't understand!I'm
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TASIAN
smelling and trying to fix what
kind of oil was use to made...
this petrol.Where does it came from?
If it's from IRAQ my car will not
work on it.I can't put different
shit into the car-cistern.
Baltasar is surprised.He smiles and little relaxes.
BALTASAR
And where is your such
an outstanding car?I can't see any
car near...by.
Tasian turns back and shows by his hand somewhere
into outer space.
TASIAN
Are you blind,old man?
It's standing there!
Baltasar turns back,gets the trick,putting his
weapon down.Tasian gets his own revolver quickly and puts
it to Baltasar's belly.
TASIAN
Don't be a trigger-happy here!
May be this oil came from IRAQ,
may be not,but it can easily blow up
if you gonna play a spagetti-western
here.Drop your gun...good boy!
And tell me now where I can talk
with Luciano Borbikineo?
Baltasar drops his gun an stands in a little shock.
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BALTASAR
He's inside.If you told,you came
for buisness-talk...and you standing
here,talking bullshit and showing
yourself as a crazy lunatic...
TASIAN
Your shot-gun is not a well thing
for buisness-talk...
It's a very unfriendly thing!
BALTASAR
Some bastards wanted to blow up
the station last week.So I'm
keeping eye on strangers.
TASIAN
How you even work here?
No cars...nobody.
BALTASAR
It's only today.Usially we've got
a lot of clients.By the way,man,who
sent you?Chinese or Tolstinni?
TASIAN
I'm acting in the name of brave
guerrillas of Greenland...move on!
Baltasar stares at him as Tasian is insane,but tells
him nothing at this point.They are coming inside
petrol-station office.Here is sitting LUCIANO.
TASIAN
No kidding and no jokes with guns!
I came here just to talk.
LUCIANO
I have only a nalefile.
But it's unloaded.Get down
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LUCIANO
to buisness...what you want from us?
If you want money you came to
a wrong place.
TASIAN
They said,that you and your guys
have done some work in one of
a very famous and rat-popular
billiards.I wanna know where is
the dust and how it was looked
when you came there at first time.
Baltasar and Luciano are getting pale.
BALTASAR
Not chinese and not Tolstinni...
you're just a damned cop!
TASIAN
Just a cop.Not damned yet...
Don't wanna talk with me?
LUCIANO
Look,man,it's nothing personal...
but the thing you're talking about
is not such interesting
as you think.
TASIAN
I've heard all about omerta...
have you heard about vendetta?
BALTASAR
What you mean?
TASIAN
I mean that that fucking butcher
seriously wounded my partner.
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TASIAN
That's what I mean...
And it's personal thing.I don't
think that this damned maniac
IS ONE OF THE FAMILY!
One of the KLAN!
LUCIANO
You're right.He's not...and omerta
doesn't goes so far.You wanna hear
what we seen at the billiards?OK
...I'll tell you.Imagine two
human beings cutten into small
pieces and thrown on a floor like
parts of a broken puzzle.
Blood on the walls,on the tables,
on the floor...everywhere.And smell
of death.One more work of such a kind
and I'll lose all last respect
to my boss.
TASIAN
And what you've done with corpses...
or with what it was?
BALTASAR
Burned...if you need the ashes...
TASIAN
No I don't need it...Guys you know
what can happen to you if
you were taken on the place washing
the blood?A good chance of
a long prison.
BALTASAR
You mean that someone wanted
to frame us?
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TASIAN
Hell knows.I still can't see
any chain beetween your boss and
this Jack The Ripper The Second.
BALTASAR
I hope there's no chain.It was
a psycho...fucking pcycho...
preparing for a cannibal lunch...
Meanwhile outside someone picks up the two-barrel
shot-gun of Baltasar.And slowly walks right to the door
of petrol-station office.
Inside.
LUCIANO
I've heard that...
Door openes suddenly and appears a man with a
shot-gun.He shots from both two barrels at Luciano.Lucia-
no falls down will a savage scream.He is dead.Killer
steps back and closes the door.
Balrasar gets to the wall from left of the door,
Tasian from the right.Baltasar gets a crow-bar from
the table.Tasian is waiting with his revolver ready.
BALTASAR
(desparately)
What a bastard!Luchi's dead...
...listen,there were only
two catrieges in my fucking gun!
Only two...I'll break his head
with this thing!
Baltasar with a crow-bar in his hands moves
to the door.
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TASIAN
Wait!
May be he've got something else.
BALTASAR
Go to hell!
Everything he need is just a little
fire and we'll fly up to heaven.
Fuck your waiting!I'm coming out!
Baltasar openes the door,pumping it by leg,gets out,
he turns left and gets a wrong direction.Killer steps
him from his back and cuts his throat by knife from
ear to ear.The crow-bar falls down on asphalt.In agony
Baltasar turns to the killer and he is greatly surprised.
BALTASAR
(hoarsely)
Don Romeo?!R-rom...
Baltasar falls down,chokes with his own blood.
And now we can see the killers face.This is the face
of Kozlinetti.Tasian hearing the noise,runs out and finds
himself face to face with Kozlinetti.Tasian also
is surprised.Kozlinetti's face changes into
an evil mask of madness.
TASIAN
Don't try to move!
You're under arrest,assel!
Kozlinetti looks threw him.Drops the hatchet.
His face changes second time.Now it's calm.
Then turns back.And Tasian is watching him going away.
Slowly.Without any hurry.
TASIAN
I said stop!I'll shot you
to the ground,motherfucker!
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No reaction.Kozlinetti is still walking away.Tasian
puts revolver down,aming at maniac's leg.But the bullet
is out of target.Suddenly Tasian hears a noise on his
back,turns around.The petrol-station is on fire.
TASIAN
Real pretty funny day...
He is running away from the station and trying to
get Kozlinetti by the run,but the petrol-station blows
and Tasian is falling down and fainting fit.
Sometime later.Ruins of petrol-station are still on
fire.Tasian is sitting on the ground.Face is black of
smoke,dress is in dust.Tasian touches head.
TASIAN
Fuck!He's gone...How he get free
from the prison-hospital?
Tasian stands on his feet and slowly walks to his own
car.Trying to put on the radio,but it's cutten and broken
as well as possible.
TASIAN
Shit!
INT-PRISON HOSPITAL.
Kozlinetti is lying on a bed with a sad face,signed
by chinese fists.Tasian is coming with a bad smile on his
lips.
TASIAN
Sorry,that haven't got flowers...
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Kozlinetti stares at him in the evil way and ans-
wers nothing.
TASIAN
You look very bad...
Getting kung fu lessons last night?
KOZLINETTI
Fuck you!
TASIAN
Never tease an evil cop!
Never...assel!You just lying here
and have no idea why I came in?
KOZLINETTI
I see you came in,but I wich you
to fuck off!
TASIAN
I just came to see your evil
fucking smile one more time...
Kozlineti stares at him with some curiosity.
TASIAN
...same smile after you shot first
and cut the second...your fucking
smile before you blown up Luciano's
petrol-station.The same smile that
you had, pining a man
to a billiard with knives.It was
too dark there,but I know that you
smiled,enjoying the pain of your
victim. So,assel!
Such a Good Friday Face!Wanna say
something?
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Kozlinetti is getting pale.He starts to scream.
KOZLINETTI
What he fuck are you talking about?
What knives?What petrol-station?
What the fuck?!
TASIAN
You know what the fuck.
You know it well.I saw you and
the guy you pined to the table...
...he's still alive.I showed him
your photo.He said-Ye!It's him!...
Frankly I'm interested only
in one thing:why you came back?
Why you're here now?Trying to make
an alibi yourself?Ha!
KOZLINETTI
I don't know what the fuck's
going on!As I see you wanna put
some murders on me...but I can
tell you this...I can tell you
this,motherfucker:I'm staying here
from the night!I can't even move!
This damned chinese!They broken me
three ribs!And dislocated leg...
TASIAN
My congratulatins!But this bullshit
doesn't impress me,assel!This is
the only fucking fact:it was your's
face walking around the street and
killing people in different way with
a mad fucking smile.I just can't
imagine that a face can move
separately of it's owner.I think
you were there both,you and your
fucking face.
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KOZLINETTI
It wasn't me!
TASIAN
Sure!You're framed as
a Roger Rabbit!But everything
that happened doesn't look like
a Roger Rabbit...it's another movie
and it's not far from
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE!Or you used
a hatchet,a good old hatchet?
Kozlinetti looses all control on himself,tries to
stand up,moanes of pain and sreams.
KOZLINETTI
IT WASN'T ME!I SWARE!
TASIAN
I haven't got a Holy Bible now...
And all your oaths costs nothing...
KOZLINETTI
I know who done it!
My damned brother...
My crazy twin-brother...
Tasian begins to walk from one corner to another,
keeping eye on Kozlinetti.
TASIAN
Oh,ye!A terrible mystery of your
fucking family...Crazy brother-twin
sitting in a cup-board and suddenly
gets free!A real gothic novel...
Stop fucking my brains,assel.
I know that your dear brother is dead.
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KOZLINETTI
He is alive...He was putten into
a private house under guards...
On St.Bartolomeo avenue...
Tasian steps closer to Kozlinetti's bed.
TASIAN
And when you saw him last time?
KOZLINETTI
Five years ago...I don't remember!
You doesn't believe me,ye?Fuck!
Put your fucking cops right here,
in this room!And when he'll kill
once more you'll see that it's not
my deeds!
TASIAN
I suspected something like that...
but I wanted to hear it from you.
There was a double murder
on St.Bartolomeo avenue...lately.
He get free.
KOZLINETTI
Fuck!There's another thing,cop!
I wanna now where is my lawyer?!
What you've done with Jacobsson?
TASIAN
Jacob-sson?Never heard of any of them.
By the way,an ill man needs a doctor
not a lawyer...
and there is a lot of doctors.
I hope they'll find something
Like Black Death or Anthrax...
You deserved such a thing...
Have a good time,assel!
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INT-CENTRAL CITY POLICE-OFFICE.DAY.
Tasian slowly walks down the corridor,searching for
something.Pulls at door-knob.But the door is closed.
He steps to another,pulls it's door-knob.Unlocked.He openes
the door and looks inside.There's only darkness inside.
Just two rows of tables with turned off computers on it.
And no human beings around.
TASIAN
Anybody home?Fuck...
Idler loafers!
Steps back to the corridor and shuts the door.Coming
to another room.There's light.Also two rows of computer
tables,most of them free.Only two monitors working.A pop-eye
youngster is working on the first and second is occupied by
Lisa.Lisa is not such busy as pop-eye youngster,she signes
Tasian.
LISA
High,Ken!Finally came to get well virtual
education?Right in time.
A lot of place today.
Take any seat you'd like.
TASIAN
Lisa,you know I hate this thinking metal
monsters...but now I need information.
Can you help me?
LISA
Sorry,Ken.Help yourself and learn
some easy operations...
Tasian gaves her an entreat gaze.She laughes.
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LISA
Sorry,Ken...I'm really busy now.
If you need help right now,better
ask Ofigelos.He's all the same
doing bullshit.Playing a fool.
TASIAN
Playing a fool?
LISA
Come and see!...
By the way,how is our dear Romeo?
TASIAN
As normal as possible.Missing him?
LISA
I don't think so.I can't say that
he was excellent in the bed...
Hearing that POP-EYE YOUNGSTER turnes back and looses
control with his program.When he put his pop-eyes back to
the monitor,he signes something wrong.
POP-EYE YOUNGSTER
Oh,hell!Not that!Not that!
LISA
(continues)
...well.He looked well and snored
very loud.That all I've got from
that night,cause he was very drunk.
The only satisfaction was the feeling
of the thing I done I done for my
country...but sometime it's not enough,
specially for a lone woman.
Lisa looks at Tasian with a tempting smile.
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LISA
May be you can do something for me...
TASIAN
(imitates Lisa's intonations)
I'm too busy now.If you need help right
now,better ask Ofigelos.
Lisa starts to laugh.Pop-eyed youngster looks at
the funny couple in an angry way.
POP-EYE YOUNGSTER
Hey!Hey!Someone is trying to work...
LISA
Ok...work on.See you,Ken!
Tasian comes to the adjacent-room door,as he is
coming closer he starts to hear very strange sounds.
Shots,blows,roaring.Tasian gets greatly surprised.
TASIAN
What a jungle sounds!What's going on?
LISA
Somethin' terrible 's going on.
Afraid to enter,hero?
TASIAN
Not afraid,just surprised...
Tasian openes the door.Now shots and roaring
are louder.As loud as possible.And now everything is clean.
LUIS OFIGELOS is sitting and playing a computer game
DOOM II:HELL ON EARTH ( ID SOFTWARE ).Savage sounds from
the speakers beats all the space of room,as a battle takes
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place here.Ofigelos is deep in the game.He doesn't here
or see anything around.Including Tasian.Luis is using
a mouse and a keyboard in his holy war with terrible aliens.
His eyes are red,partly inflamed,slightly mad.
Tasian closes the door and comes to Ofigelos.
Ofigelos cuts two ZOMBIE-MEN with a chainsaw.
Then eliminates a dozen of IMPS by a machine-gun.His last
victim is a giant spider,SPIDER MASTERMIND.He puts
the "pause" on, stops the game and in silence screames,
getting high.
OFIGELOS
I've got you!Finally I've got you,
son of a bitch!Ho-ho!Carramba!
Damned spider...
Tasian insinuaty coughs at his back.Ofigelos jumps
in his chair frightened.Slowly turns back.Finds out that
it's only Tasian and sighes in easy way.
OFIGELOS
Thanks God!It's you,amigo...
TASIAN
And whom you expected?One of this ugly
cricious from your silly game?
OFIGELOS
There are some beings more dangerous
and terrible then they...
Ofigelos starts to rub his inflamed eyes.
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OFIGELOS
More dangerous...Lietenant...
Lietenant Salfares.If he'll see
what I'm doing here he'll made
a virtual beefsteak of me.
TASIAN
And he'll be absolutely right.
Why you playing a fool?
You're not a child,Luis!
OFIGELOS
Not a child?What are you talking
about?Child...
It's the game for real men!
Just try!Come on!Take a sit!
It's not an easy thing!
There's a lot of tricks you must
use on 8-th level,if you want
to survive...
Ofigelos stretches left hand to the mouse and suddenly
screams of pain and starts to massage left shoulder by right
hand.
TASIAN
Aliens wounded you.
Wounded seriously.
You lost not only brain,but
a shoulder,too.
OFIGELOS
Can't move a hand...Fuck!
It's not so funny,amigo...
TASIAN
Let me do it!
He starts a hard massage and Luis moans of pain.
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OFIGELOS
Aughhh!Easy,amigo!You wanna kill me?
TASIAN
I'm doing a virtual beefsteak of you
In a kind of Salfares cookery.
Haven't you've got nightmares after
such a monitor-hunting?
OFIGELOS
Sometimes...Enough,amigo...I'm well now.
Tasian stops "the virtual beefsteaking".
OFIGELOS
But it's a great game!
Getting such high!It's more easy
to play a team...by modem.
Yesterday I and two guys from
Forth Department came in together
and gave to this creatures everything
they deserved.Or thas another way:
to hunt each other in no monsters mode.
It calles DEATHMATCH!Or...
TASIAN
Listen,virtual fanatic...I see,
you are insane,but may be you'd
get back to your straight work.
Ofigelos stratches a hand into the air.
And starts to smell the air.Gets down on his knees,creeps
under the table to the wall,looks at the electric saurce.
OFIGELOS
Nothing...Nothing hot.
No smoke.It's normal.
He creeps out and gets back on his feet.
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TASIAN
What's wrong?
OFIGELOS
I smells something's burning...
thought it's electricity.
TASIAN
It's not electricity.
It's me.
OFIGELOS
Really?What happened with you?
TASIAN
It's a long story.Hanging 'round
of a burning petrol-station.
Come on!Turn off your play
and let's work a little!
Luis Ofigelos takes his sit.
OFIGELOS
As you say,amigo...But before I save it.
Notice at the left high corner of the monitor:
"GAME SAVED"
Fingers of Ofigelos continues to move on a keyboard
and soon another notice jumps out:
"ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO QUIT
WITH THIS GREAT GAME?
YES NO"
Ofigelos sadly sighes.
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OFIGELOS
Of course "NO!"...but what can I do?
The game dissapeares.Ofigelos is back
to DOS Shell.
OFIGELOS
So,amigo,what you wanna know?
TASIAN
Some info about Kozlinetti family.
OFIGELOS
Got it!You need all the family?
Romeo is a pretty name!
When I was at school our teacher
once mentioned him in some way...
TASIAN
I can tell you more interesting
things about Romeo.Things your teacher
never expected of...Tell me 'bout his
twin-brother.
OFIGELOS
Alessandro?But he's dead...What do
you want from a dead man?
TASIAN
Dead man?!Get the fuck if he's
a dead man!When dead are really dead
I'm smelling by an Old Spice not
by smokes and burnings.
OFIGELOS
As you like...but here says he's dead.
Thas nothing interesting here.
look yourself...born...entered school,
studies well...and dead.
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OFIGELOS
A brilliant way of life...wishing for
everybody.With such biography he's gone
straight to heaven...a holy man.
TASIAN
Holy man with holy hatchet...
Pray never to meet such a saint...
OFIGELOS
Gmm!You wanna cemetery?He was buried...
TASIAN
Fuck it all!Buried...
Maybe there are eves of Santa Claus,
but not Alessandro.
OFIGELOS
So?What you want then...
TASIAN
Wait...try to find have they invited
any of psycho...psychiatrists?
OFIGELOS
Nothing...here...here is it!
Dr.Ludo-Edovich...but his dead.
And the other...
Professor Barzick.
TASIAN
Barzick?
OFIGELOS
Don't be such in a hurry,amigo!
I must get out of Kozlinetti's file,
first.
Here is he,your long-awaited Barzick!
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Photo of a thin man appears at the monitor.
OFIGELOS
Such a thinny...a lost appetit man...
So!Professor Barzick.He's got his own
clinic now.Wanna read biography?
TASIAN
Adress of clinic,quick!
OFIGELOS
Hmm...Crossbrain street,13.
TASIAN
Thanks a lot!See you.
OFIGELOS
You're welcome,amigo.Any time.
Tasian gets out and Ofigelos loads DOOM II again.
OFIGELOS
(in a brave voice)
So,my dear monsters...
I'm back!Are you ready to die?
INT-BARZICK'S CLINIC.PROFESSOR'S CABINET.
A fat sad PSYCHO is sitting on a chair.Fasten to it
by a rope.He only can move his head.It's the only one free
part of him.Near the psycho is sitting very thin professor
BARZICK.With a spoon in one hand and a plate full
of porridge in the other.He is trying to put a spoon with
porridge inside of psycho's mouth,but it's not easy.Madman
is shaking his head escaping from porridge.
Professor is tired.
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BARZICK
What's the problem with you today?
You aren't hungry?
PSYCHO
Am I hungry or not is my buisness.
I'll never swallow any part of
this poison.
BARZICK
It's not poisonous.Look!
Barzick takes the spoon and tastes the porridge.
BARZICK
It's excellent!Just taste.
PSYCHO
I prefer to live longer.
BARZICK
You think I can poison myself?
PSYCHO
Of course not!
You swallowed some anti-poison drug
or something like that.You're not
as fool as you wanna show yourself,doc!
BARZICK
And who done it?Who poisoned it?
PSYCHO
How do I know?I wasn't at the kitchen
when this killing thing was cooked...
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PSYCHO
And saying frankly,doc,any porridge
is dangerous.
BARZICK
Why?
PSYCHO
It was made of milk,am I right,doc?
So...someone need a cow to generate
thy milk,that white death...
BARZICK
White death?Interesting...go on!
PSYCHO
The fields are full of chemistry.
All field-flowers,all grass,
everything...
So!Grass is poisoned!Cow is poisoned!
Milk is poisoned!Porridge is poisoned!
I am the last in this chain!But I'll
never give up!I wanna die
as an ecologically pure being!
BARZICK
But at last you'll die from hunger!
PSYCHO
Well...Hunger is better then poison.
It's not such painful.
Hunger is too ecologically pure thing,
As I am.
BARZICK
I think we'd better try one more time.
He takes the spoon full of porridge and starts
to move it slowly to psycho's mouth.Psycho is sitting
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unmovable,looking at the spoon as it was a kind of snake.
Then suddenly openes mouth and by a quick beat of his
long tongue turns the spoon over and the porridge flows
down to the floor.
PSYCHO
Hurrah!Victory!Porridge in a deep
knock out!
Tasian enters the cabinet.
TASIAN
Professor Barzick?
BARZICK
It's me.And who are you?
TASIAN
I'm a cop.
PSYCHO
And have you've got a handcuff?
TASIAN
Sure,I have.
PSYCHO
So,arrest that man!
Do it immideately!
What are you waiting for?
TASIAN
And what is the problem?
PSYCHO
He wants to porridge me...
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PSYCHO
Sorry!He wants to poison me
by porridge...
To poison like poisoned
the green field and all the world!
Have you ever heard about scientific
conspiracy?Ha!Once day they'll abolish
Jesus,put computer to a church and 'll
make all humanity to pray at it!
I'm the only one who knows the truth,
but I'm hear,in prison!
TASIAN
And you wanna me to arrest him?
PSYCHO
Oh,yes!For a poison-tryin- porridge
with a heavy circumstances!
TASIAN
I need public prosecutor's permittion
to arrest someone.If I'll get it...
PSYCHO
And this...prosecutor...
He is not a scientist?
TASIAN
No.He is a kind of poet.
PSYCHO
(to Barzick)
If it's true your song is over.doc!
I'll visit you in prison...
Ten years after.
TASIAN
Professor,can we talk in some
other place?
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BARZICK
This is too insane for you?
TASIAN
Ye.I think that your wise patient
will not die of hunger till time
you get back to him.He doesn't look
thin at all.
PSYCHO
You're from their gang!Now I see.
Cops and scientists are together.
OK!I'll be a lone warrior.
Psycho frowns,throws a gaze to the left room's
corner and looks greatly surprised.As if he saw something
outstanding."Scientist" and cop absolutely involuntary
turns back.But there's nothing.Just a wall.Psycho looks
at them in a mysterious way and then starts to giggle.
PSYCHO
Oh!It's really something!
They looked both,but they are
looks as if they signed nothing
interesting.Trying to make me
a fool?
BARZICK
And what you signed there?
PSYCHO
Same thing as you do.
Only a blind can't sign
a big pink elephant
in a corner of a room!
So,who is insane you or I?
Not to sign an obvious things!
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Barzick and Tasian goes to another room.Empty,clean
of porridge and free of psychos.They takes a seat.
BARZICK
So,what can I do for you?
TASIAN
I heard that you visited Kozlinetti
family some time ago...
About seven years ago.
BARZICK
Kozlinetti?Can't remember.
I've got many patients...
TASIAN
They are from mafia,so I
think you remember it well.
BARZICK
Oh,ye!Now I remembers...So?
TASIAN
Who was ill?
BARZICK
Ill?It wasn't just an ilness...
If someone in the middle of a night
takes knife and tries to cut his
own family...it's not an ilness.
It's a very heavy thing,my friend...
TASIAN
So,what was it...
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BARZICK
I'll better tell you all from
beginning.I never heard about their
klan...belongs to mafia and so on.
They sad,that something was wrong
with one of the twins.An illness,
as you sad.When I came,they told me
to keep my visits in secret.
And they were not kidding.
TASIAN
Secret?What for?
BARZICK
I think that old Kozlinetti didn't
want to know anybody...that one of
his brilliant sons get a lunacy.
A shadow on family's honour or
something like that.
He paid me rather good for silence.
Only for silence.
Cause it was impossible to do
something serious with his son.
TASIAN
Impossible?
BARZICK
Maniac-depressive psycho...
Like possesed by evil.
I don't believe in hell or
something like that,but I just
don't know how to treat this.
Just to poison him by chemistry,
easy put in a prison cell in
a madhouse.He was too dangeruos
to be free.Thanks God,he's dead.
TASIAN
I am sorry to say,doc...
but he's not dead.
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BARZICK
Are you sure?
TASIAN
I am.He was taken to prison
in a special byed private-house.
And get free two days ago.
Four men killed.Two are seriously
wounded.At minimum...May be it's
not all.I wanna know more about
him.
BARZICK
Oh,God!Well...As I came at first time
I was surprised.
Alessandro was absolutely normal.
Insanity doesn't come of nothing.
Than old Kozlinetti said
that his son exposed to violence.
Of some kind.
In my talks with Alessandro I found
out that he was tortured
by chinese Koza Nostra...
TASIAN
Triad...chinese Triad.
BARZICK
May be...Triad.He also told me
something about a billiards.
I think,all this terrible things
has taken place there.In this
billiards.
TASIAN
And why he's killing?
BARZICK
Throwing agression out.
If you're hungry,you're eating.
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BARZICK
It's a kind of it for him.
There is a time after murder
When he's not dangerous.
Murder-rest.Murder-rest.
This is the rythm,
I think.But...may be not.
TASIAN
How do you think,
he'll try to return
to the billiards?
BARZICK
He will.It's a place where
he was changed...his mind
was changed.This place for him
is a kind of a church and
a house of pain in one face...
EXT-STREET-SURROUNDINGS OF BILLIARDS.
Tasian stops the car,looks a the building and sre-
ams of fury.
TASIAN
Fuccck!
There's only one wall of billiards-building is
standing and even that last wall is under attack of
a bulldozer.Tasian is standing and watching as the wall
falls down.The building is destroyed to the ground.
Meanwhile bulldozer's driver named ALEC stops his
terrible car and gets out enjoying life.He's got a silly
face and heavy way squint,so he looks like a mad cartoon
hero.Alec is coming to Tasian,nodes him friendly.
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ALEC
Nice work,ye?Just a half an hour
and no building at all!
TASIAN
What the fuck!What the...why you
destroyed it?Who gave you the order?!
ALEC
Oh!Sorry,man,really sorry...
I even didn't now that someone
is living there...so you're
homeless now?
TASIAN
Crrr...Tell me just one thing!
Just one thing:WHO GAVE YOU
THE ORDER?!
ALEC
Mr.Jankins,Jr.
TASIAN
And who is this Jr,Jankings?!
ALEC
He is my boss!Big man...
I can show you the papers.
Don't be so nervous.
Alec gets back to bulldozer,takes the papers and go-
es back to Tasian.He closes one eye for more easy reading
and gets the right paper.
ALEC
That's it!That's the order,look it
yourself!I can't remember that
Mr.Jankings,Jr ever was mistaken!
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Tasian sadly takes the papers and looks threw them
qiuckly.Then returns it back.
TASIAN
All right!Take back your papery...
But tell me: have your seen yellow
police ribbons,when you came here?
ALEC
Well,I have some eyes problems...
TASIAN
I've signed it.Go on!
ALEC
But there was nothing yellow
or police,when I came here.I'm sure!
As Tasian enjoys talking with an outstanding bull-
dozer,the maniac ALESSANDRO KOZLINETTI is looking at them
from the street corner.He is looking at the destroyed bu-
ilding and something gonna change in his gaze.He turns
around and slowly goes away,not seen by Tasian or anybody
else.He's walking down the street as he's very tired wit-
hout any sence where he's moving.Just gading about.
Suddenly a car stops near him.Doors openes and
Tolstinni with his bodyguards flows out of the car with
servile smiles on their faces.
TOLSTINNI
Boss!Don Romeo!We were searching
you everywhere...there are some
problems with chinese.
It's too dangerous now and you're
walking alone without
any protection.
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Alessandro looks at Tolstinni with a tired and
incomprehended gaze.
TOLSTINNI
Boss,get in the car,please.
The street is full of danger...
we must protect you.
Clo Fe Lin and Gu Ta lin were
arrested last night...
But now they are free.
TRIAD said that they wanna talk
with our klan and you,specially,
as you are the head of the klan,
the head of the family...
But it can be a dirty trick
from their side.
And cops still hanging around...
Alessandro slowly gets inside the car.Tolstinni and
his guards too.
TOLSTINNI
You know don Romeo,last time I...
ALESSANDRO
Hush!I got a headache.
TOLSTINNI
Oh!I see...you're ill,boss...
you look very bad.You need a doc!
This easy phrase gets Alessandro out of his indif-
ferent and tired condition.Deep fury is looking in his
eyes and a kind of cramp is running threw his face.
ALESSANDRO
Weapon...weapon I need...
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Tolstinni's looking curious.He is puttting hand in
his own pocket,getting a gun and giving it to the
"boss".Alessandro looks at the gun from both sides with a
mask of surprisness and contemption.
ALESSANDRO
Is it...a weapon?
TOLSTINNI
Ye!Boss,what's wrong with you?
ALESSANDRO
I'm all right.
He puts weapon on Tolstinni and begins to shoot.Un-
til the weapon is empty.Tolstinni and his bodyguards are
dead.Driver is alive and calm as nothing serious happened.
Alessandro pulles the trigger twice,but without any
result,cause the gun's empty.So he looses any interest
to it and throws it down to the car floor.Fury's gone
away and he looks again sick and tired.
DRIVER
Absolutely right,boss!
I suspected that they've got
a kind of conspiracy against you...
together with chinese.
Tolstinni was a damned
fucking traitor.
ALESSANDRO
Traitors are everywhere...
DRIVER
They've got everything they deserved.
But the street is not a best place
for the corpses...Coming home?
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ALESSANDRO
Ye!Home...I wanna go home.
And they starts riding home in friendly company of
three warm corpses.The car stops near a rich big private
residence.They passes big gates and rides to the
yard.Driver's getting out to open the door for Alessand-
ro,but "boss" gets out of the car himself.He doesn't need
any help.He's looking around in curiosity.He's remembe-
ring this place.Meanwhile the house guards are taking
corpses from the car to a cellar.But it's not interesting
for Alessandro.He enters the house.Coming up on the next
floor and stands looking at a portrait of an old grey
haired man.
ALESSANDRO
Hallo,father!Still hanging on the wall?
INT-CHARLIE'S BAR.
Now it's opened,but still not crowded.Tasian is
coming in.
CHARLIE
Good evening,bunny!You're looking
sad and tired...Have a hard day?
TASIAN
As hard as possible.
Fred's in hospital with a dagger
in a belly and some motherfucker
is walking down the street
killing people
and blowing up petrol-stations.
I need some rest for my own soul.
CHARLIE
Whiskey?
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TASIAN
Ye!
Tasian drinks his first glass quickly.
TASIAN
One more and I'll be OK.
Charlie fills another glass for him.
CHARLIE
Please.
Tasian 's looking at the second glass thinking.And
drinks it slowly.
TASIAN
Listen,Charlie,if you was hunting
a maniac...
CHARLIE
No "IF"!No!No maniacs...Thanks God,
I have a cool and silent work.
TASIAN
Never mind...Tell me:if you
was going to arrest a maniac,
what you'll do at the first hand?
Get a revolver and tell:
you're under arrest?Hands up?
CHARLIE
Hmm...and what kind of a maniac?
He's raping women?
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TASIAN
No.Not raping,but ripping.
Just a killer.Fucking killer.
Butcher.
CHARLIE
An easy normal psycho as I think...
there's a lot of troubles with
such bastards.First of all he just
can't understand you.You wanna
arrest him,but he just can't
understand it.Hell knows what's
moving in such a cracked brain,
but it's moving in a wrong way.
If you'll meet a mad dog,put
revolver on it and'll tell it:
hands up!You're under arrest!
He'll understand nothing and'll
try to bite you.
TASIAN
Why a mad dog?Just a dog,normal dog
can't understand the fact of arrest.
CHARLIE
Ken!We are talking about damned
psychos!You have no reason to arrest
a normal dog.
TASIAN
What a bullshit...dogshit...
So,Dr.Charlie,you wanna say me that
this fucking butcher just can't
understand easy normal english?
CHARLIE
English or chinese,that's
no difference for him!If you wanna
get him,you need some non-standard
thing.Invent some'ng original.
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TASIAN
Original?What you mean?
CHARLIE
Don't shout anything...under arrest!
or some'ng like 'at.Keep silence.
He'll be surprised and you'll shoot
him to the ground without
any warning.
TASIAN
Fuck!That you mean original
and non-standard?!
CHARLIE
You asked,I answered.More whiskey?
TASIAN
Ye!If you've got nothing more clever
to say.
A VERY OLD MAN coming to them with a glass of whiskey.
VERY OLD MAN
Who is talking about maniacs
in this holy place?Hah!
I remember you!You're the cop and
you have the right to arrest.
Am I right?
TASIAN
High old man!Wanna drink with me?
VERY OLD MAN
Why not?
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TASIAN
I'm drinking for the all maniacs
sails away somewhere
to the North pole...to the hell!
VERY OLD MAN
I know a better thing to make
maniacs be good boys.
TASIAN
Really?And what's it?
Very old man shows him a big revolver with a high honour.
CHARLIE
It's good enough for any maniac...
and it's non-standard and original,
as I said to you,Ken.
VERY OLD MAN
Best friend of a real Shooter.
Like it?
TASIAN
Have you've got a permittion
for such a GUN?
VERY OLD MAN
Sure I have...wanna look?
TASIAN
No...I just asked...a bad habit.
Let's drink,old man.Night is coming
...it's not a time for
silly questions.
Charlie gives them more whiskey.
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VERY OLD MAN
For the best barman I know...
for you,Charlie!
TASIAN
Ye!For you Dr.Charlie...
non-standard and original!
Two more clients are coming for Charlie.He gives
them beer.Very old man and Tasian is still talking.
VERY OLD MAN
I haven't asked you who was the guy
you arrested last night,
I was too busy.
TASIAN
A big boss with big ass...
from mafia.
Than another two little bosses
from another little mafia...
And what you're busy of
in such a late time?
VERY OLD MAN
Well...I've got a girl-friend nearby
and that night her husband
was at work...So,I was working here,
he was working there...
that's why I was busy.
Tasian laughes.
TASIAN
Not bad,not bad!
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INT-PRIVATE HOUSE.RESIDENCE OF KOZLINETTI.
Alessandro comes to the cabinet and began to look
threw his brother's papers.Two gunmen are talking near
the cabinet's door.
GUNMAN #1
How is boss?Is he OK?
GUNMAN #2
He's little angry...
GUNMAN #1
E?'nd how many he shot...today?
GUNMAN #2
Tolstinni together with two guards.
GUNMAN #1
Only three?Hey,man!He's not angry...
just a kind of a bad mood.I think...
Everything's OK.
GUNMAN #2
Hush!The car...chinese are coming.
Tell the boss.
Gunman #1 shows at the window.Big black car stoppes
nearby and three chinese in it.The well known Clo Fe Lin
and Gu Ta Lin and their famous GRANDFATHER FROM TRIAD.
THE HALL IN KOZLINETTI'S HOUSE.
Alessandro with his five gunmen and two china
youngsters with their Grandfather are sitting
at the table and conduct negotiations.But it doesn't
conduct well.Alessandro's sitting with a stone face,
his gunmen too.Chinese are little nervous.
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GRANDFATHER OF TRIAD
Mr.Kozlinetti,I suspect that we
just can't understand each other.
We came here as friends...
CLO FE LIN
Let me speak,Gran-dy...
May be don Romeo is angry of the event
in prison cell ?It was my fault
and I and my brother are very sorry
of that event.It was the cop's joke...
GUNMAN #2
( to ALESSANDRO )
Boss,what they are talking about?
What prison cell?
ALESSANDRO
How do I know?I know just one thing:
they are irritating me...irritating
me seriously.
GUNMAN #1
May be...better kill'em?Boss?
ALESSANDRO
Ye...what other thing we can do
with such irritating men?
Kill them all!Kill them right now!
All the gunmen get their weapons immideately and
the massacre begins.Clo Fe Lin and Gu Ta Lin falls down
dead,Grandfather of TRIAD is more quick.He get's his own
gun and wounds gunman #3.Alessandro stands up and comes
to him,granfather wants to shoot him down,but there is
something wrong with his gun,meanwhile Alessandro gets
a hatchet and cuts old man's hand together with a gun.
Then cuts his head.
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Alessandro looks over the battle field,his face
changes into a mad evil mask,he enjoys the happening.
He starts to laugh and all the gunmen,even the wounded
gunman #3 starts too laugh.After a minute their laughter
becomes histerical and mad too.They all are mad.
And laughter sounds like the howling of wolves.
ALESSANDRO
I've got one more thing to do...
and then we all can get long
long rest...
And he strokes his hatchet as a baton.
EXT-STREET.
Tasian and Very Old Man gets out of Charlie's bar
deeply drunk.They are coming together and singing.
TASIAN & VERY OLD MAN
Mary's got a lamb!
Pretty white little lamb!
But the lamb's got a bank
And police's got the lamb!
And police's got a lamb...
TASIAN
What a savage song we sing,fuck!
VERY OLD MAN
Not savage.Normal.
TASIAN
Normal?And what was later
with this lamb?
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VERY OLD MAN
Who knows...long years in prison,
I think.Sad story...
TASIAN
For Mary...Her white little lamb
became a big stoopid ram when he
get free...hah!
They comes to a long but narrow empty street.No
sign of life around.
TASIAN
Terrible place!I don't like it!
VERY OLD MAN
Come on!Such places are created
for real heroes!To taste from
what they are made...
Suddenly a car closes a street from the front.The
other car closes the street from the back.Tasian and Very
Old Man looks at each other.
Alessandro and his gunmen are getting out of cars.
Very Old Man shows at Alessandro.
VERY OLD MAN
I remember this freak...hah!
You arrested him last night.ye?
I think you're arrested him in
a very bad way!Why he's walking here
if he's under arrest?!
Arrest him one more time!
Alessandro and his company looks mad.As mad as
possible.
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TASIAN
They all are crazy!
Crazy like foxes...Now I know why
psycho must stay in a madhouse...
it can deasese all normal.
Meanwhile Alessandro and his gunmen are getting
closer and starts to shoot.Very Old Man is surprised.
VERY OLD MAN
They are shooting at us?Damn!
I think they wanna infringe my own
rights!If I'm little drunk and
singing some lamb songs it doesn't
mean that some punks can shoot
at me.I can defend myself!
TASIAN
Ye!It's fucking revolver time!
It came!
Tasian and Very Old Man starts to shoot back.First
without any success,but as they themselve are drunk their
movements are unnormal.And it's not easy to shoot them
down,too.
VERY OLD MAN
They are drunk more then we are.
Too drunk to be good targets.
I'd better taste their car!
He shots twice and his almighty big revolver blows
first car.Three gunmen flows to the air,falls down fore-
ver.Alessandro is alive.He is moving forward slowly with
a hatchet in his hand.Tasian and Very Old Man turns
back.Tasian shots down a fellow with a small machi-
ne-gun.And Very Old Man shots at the other with a
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pomp-gun.His bullet gets straight into a cartridge-clip
and the gun blows in gangster's hands.He falls down with
a wild scream.
TASIAN
Not bad!Not bad!
Meanwhile Very Old Man reloads his revolver.A huge
gunman shoots at him,but Very Old Man rocks a little as
he's drunk and the bullet flows into outer space.And at
next moment Tasian blows head of the huge gangster with
two straight shots.Huge gangster falls down and baries
under his back another small gangster,who wisely was hi-
ding at his back all the time shooting somewhere .Small
gangster is trying to get free,but the heavy carcass
becomes a kind of a gravestone for him.Small
gangster is dying of asthma.
VERY OLD MAN
We've got them all?
TASIAN
Look back!This is the last...
and I have no wish to arrest him.
Alessandro is coming to them with pale face,furious
eyes and his well known hatchet.
VERY OLD MAN
You said he's mad?He's really ill?
TASIAN
I think we've got a good medicine
for such a kind of an illness,doc!
They put their guns on the maniac and begins to
shoot both.He rocks,he shakes,he looses his hatchet.Last
shot of Very Old Man blows his head into small pieces.
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Dead body falls down slowly.All's gone.
TASIAN
What can happen when a twin
gets free...damn!
VERY OLD MAN
I think you are wrong,son.
Nothing can happen.Nothing serious,
as I and my revolver are walking
down the street.This city can sleep
easily.With a little sniff,hah!
Jankings,Jr. and his revolver can
defend the city.
TASIAN
Jankings,Jr.?
You bought that billiards?
VERY OLD MAN
Hah!I do...and what's wrong?
May be you wanna arrest me
for it?
FADE IN
THE END
Total freedom for the twin
© Copyright: Андрей Ручкин, 2007
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