Goodfellas Scene 9

[TITLE UP - 11:30 A.M.]

[INT. HENRY'S CAR - DAY]

[WE SEE KAREN and HENRY in car when KAREN points out the window.]

CUT TO: HELICOPTER

HENRY: We're going to your mother's.

CUT TO: KAREN'S MOTHER'S COVERED GARAGE AREA - DAY

HENRY *V.O.*: Now I'm sure we're being tailed. My plan was to go to her mother's and unload the guns. Who needed them in the trunk with all this heat?

CUT TO: HENRY putting the guns into garbage cans.

HENRY *to Karen*: Go inside. Tell her not to touch anything outside the house. Nothing.

CUT TO: KAREN AND HENRY looking up at helicopter.

HENRY: Let's go shopping.

[EXT. LONG ISLAND SHOPPING MALL - DAY]

[CLOSE UP OF HENRY ON PHONE]

[Nearby WE SEE KAREN standing outside of their parked car. In BG, WE SEE a large, busy shopping mall with cars and SHOPPERS.]

[TITLE UP - 12:30 P.M.]

CUT TO: MALL PHONE BOOTH

HENRY: I'm not nuts. It's been following me all fucking morning. I mean it.

[WE SEE HENRY slam down the phone. DOLLY INTO FACE

HENRY *to Karen*: They think I'm paranoid. The dumb fucks. I should bring them the helicopter, then we'll see how paranoid I am.

[TITLE UP - 1:30 P.M.]

CUT TO: MALL ENTRY

[HENRY and KAREN peek out the mall door surrounded by PEOPLE with shopping carts and look into the sky for the helicopter. It is gone. He listens. No noise.]

HENRY: Okay! Quick! Let's get back to your mother's.

[EXT. KAREN'S MOTHER'S GARAGE AREA - DAY]

[ANGLE ON HENRY getting guns out of garbage.]

[TITLE UP - 3:30 P.M.]

[INT. MOTEL APARTMENT - DAY]

[WE SEE PITTSBURGH DEALER laughing as HENRY gives him the package of guns. A YOUNG MAN is also standing in the room.]

DEALER: Didn't I tell you you were paranoid? See, Karen, didn't I tall him he was paranoid?

KAREN *barely looking up and wandering toward kitchen*: I need some coffee.

[DEALER puts his arm around HENRY and motions him toward the bedroom where they snort some coke and laugh. After snorting the coke, HE SEE the DEALER give HENRY a plastic package of heroin he has taken out of a paper bag on the dresser. HENRY casually puts it in his jacket pocket.]

HENRY *V.O.*: My plan was I had to get home and get the package ready for Judy to take on her trip. Also, I had to get to Robin's house to give the package a whack with some quinine. Plus, I knew Robin was gonna get on my ass. Then I had the cooking to finish at home, and I had to get Judy ready for the trip.

[Phone rings in bedroom. DEALER picks it up, listens a moment and offers it to HENRY.]

DEALER *whispering so Karen cannot hear in next room*: It's Robin.

HENRY *annoyed*: Yeah?

[HENRY covers the mouthpiece.]

HENRY *To dealer*: A pain in the ass. *into phone* I'll see you in about an hour. *pause* I can't. I got my brother home tonight. *pause* We'll talk about it later. Okay?

[HENRY hangs up the phone, pauses and dials again.]

[INT. HENRY'S KITCHEN - DAY]

[Phone rings. WE SEE JUDY WICKS answer the phone. WE SEE MICHAEL is stirring the tomato sauce.]

CUT TO: DEALER'S BEDROOM HENRY is on the phone.

HENRY: You ready?

CUT TO: HENRY'S KITCHEN

JUDY: Yeah.

CUT TO: DEALER'S BEDROOM

HENRY: Tell Michael not to 1et the sauce stick.

CUT TO: HENRY'S KITCHEN

JODY *to Michael, who is still stirring*: Henry says don't let the sauce stick.

MICHAEL: I'm stirring.

HENRY *O.S.* *on phone*: You know what to do?

JUDY *bored*: Yeah, yeah.

CUT TO: DEALER'S BEDROOM

HENRY: Now this is important. Make sure you leave the house when you make the call. You understand? Do you hear me? It's important. Call from an outside phone. I mean it.

CUT TO: HENRY'S KITCHEN

JUDY: Jesus! You must think I'm dumb. What are you bugging me for? I know what to do!

HENRY *O.S.* *on phone*: Just make sure you do it. You know what I mean?

JUDY: Jesus Christ! You can be such a pain.

HENRY: Just do what I say! Judy Okay.

[WE SEE JUDY hang up the kitchen wall phone.]

MICHAEL *still stirring*: What'd he say?

JUDY: Nothing.

[JUDY WICKS takes a puff on her cigarette and starts to fish around in the bottom of her pocketbook which is on the kitchen counter near the wall phone.]

[WE SEE JUDY WICKS take out an airline ticket.]

HENRY *V.O.*: So, what does she do after she hangs up with me? After everything I had told her? After all her yeah, yeah, yeah, bullshit? She picks up the phone and calls from the house. Now, if anybody was listening, they'd know everything. They'd know that a package was leaving from my house and they'd even have the time and the flight number. Thanks to her.

[JUDY WICKS reaches for the kitchen phone and dials.]

[TITLE UP - 6:30 P.M.]

[INT. HENRY'S HOUSE - EVENING]

[HENRY is working in the kitchen.]

HENRY *V.O.*: As soon as I got home, I started cooking. I had a few hours until Judy's flight. I told my brother to keep an eye on the stove. All day long, the poor guy's been watching helicopters and tomato sauce. I had to drive over to Robin's place, mix it once and get back to the gravy.

[INT. ROBIN'S HOUSE - EVENING]

[HE SEE HENRY watching ROBIN mix the half-kilo of heroin with milk sugar, doubling the amount. There is silence between them. HENRY looks at his watch. ROBIN pauses for a moment and sniffs a line of coke she has cut on a mirror near the table.]

[HENRY snorts some coke, too. The table and room is a mess. Mixing bowls, scales, and sieves are strewn around the room.]

ROBIN *getting angrier while mixing*: I don't need this... You said tonight and now it's not tonight...

HENRY *watching the dope being mixed while stroking Robin's neck and shoulders*: It's okay. I'll make it up. I promise. Just hurry it up a little. Okay?

ROBIN *finishing the package with tape, and almost purring*: Okay?

[WE SEE HENRY grab the two half-kilo packages off the table and start for the door. ROBIN is startled.]

ROBIN *shrieking*: You bastard! Where are you going?

[WE SEE HENRY get out the door just before ROBIN throws the scale at it.]

[TITLE UP - 8:30 P.M.]

[INT. HENRY'S DINING ROOM - NIGHT]

[After dinner. EVERYONE is feeling very expansive. JUDY and HENRY have left the table and are standing in the kitchen.]

JUDY *to Henry*: I gotta go home.

HENRY: What for? I got a pound of stuff in my jacket I've been carrying around all day. We gotta start taping it to your leg.

JUDY: I gotta go home and get my hat.

ENRY: Forget your fucking hat. What are you, kidding me? Just what I need now is a trip to Rockaway. Just because you want your hat.

JUDY: I need it. I gotta have it. It's my lucky hat. I never fly without it.

HENRY: Do you realize what we're involved in here now?

JUDY: I don't care. I need my hat. I won't go without it.

HENRY *V.O.*: What could I do? If she insisted, I had to drive her home for her goddamn hat. I threw the package in the kitchen and went to take her hone.

CUT TO: HENRY nodding to KAREN that the heroin is in the kitchen.