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Scene: Several men in a room. The room is early ‘30’s construction in style, some craks in the plaster and only one small window out to the street 8 stories below. Some men are in a group wearing Italian suits. Two men are wearing sweat jump suits. The last man is wearing jeans and a tee shirt.
Guido is lead man for the larger group. He is talking to Johnny who is in the jeans.
Guido(Italian mob accent): So is that what you want? These guys don’t care ‘bout yous. Theys only wants to use you. They might give you all lots o nice stuff and all but who is gonna save you from Pops? Only I’s can save you Johnny. Only me.
Johnny: How you gonna save me from anything. I saw how your Pops treats you. Hung you out to dry. And I saw, you didn’t even deserve the rap you got. Clean you were, but you didn’t say a word, just did the time. Now you think I can trust you to save me?!?
Guido: How many times do we got to go over this? I did that for you. I knew all ‘bout you before, but I brought you in anyway. I knew how it would go. You don’t even know what you’ve done. I saw you.
Johnny: Done? All I did was “borrow”(put quotes in the air with fingers” a couple bucks. Now I am gonna die for it and you think I can just trust you to save me. That’s rich.
Guido: I said you didn’t get it. I told you not to steal from us, not even a penny but you did not listen(getting louder.) I told you! … (now calmer) I know it only looked like a couple of dollar bills, but they were much more. First run in the series. If you had looked at the serial numbers you would have noticed. We still have the next fifty, but without on and two they are friggin worthless. They cost millions to get and were worth tens of millions. (now beginning to yell again) and you wanted a candy(voice crack) bar!?!
(long pause, uncomfortable silence)
Guido(shaking but much calmer): Well I guess you will get what you deserve, but I already paid the price for you if you will choose me over THEM.
Guido is lead man for the larger group. He is talking to Johnny who is in the jeans.
Guido(Italian mob accent): So is that what you want? These guys don’t care ‘bout yous. Theys only wants to use you. They might give you all lots o nice stuff and all but who is gonna save you from Pops? Only I’s can save you Johnny. Only me.
Johnny: How you gonna save me from anything. I saw how your Pops treats you. Hung you out to dry. And I saw, you didn’t even deserve the rap you got. Clean you were, but you didn’t say a word, just did the time. Now you think I can trust you to save me?!?
Guido: How many times do we got to go over this? I did that for you. I knew all ‘bout you before, but I brought you in anyway. I knew how it would go. You don’t even know what you’ve done. I saw you.
Johnny: Done? All I did was “borrow”(put quotes in the air with fingers” a couple bucks. Now I am gonna die for it and you think I can just trust you to save me. That’s rich.
Guido: I said you didn’t get it. I told you not to steal from us, not even a penny but you did not listen(getting louder.) I told you! … (now calmer) I know it only looked like a couple of dollar bills, but they were much more. First run in the series. If you had looked at the serial numbers you would have noticed. We still have the next fifty, but without on and two they are friggin worthless. They cost millions to get and were worth tens of millions. (now beginning to yell again) and you wanted a candy(voice crack) bar!?!
(long pause, uncomfortable silence)
Guido(shaking but much calmer): Well I guess you will get what you deserve, but I already paid the price for you if you will choose me over THEM.
