Donnie Brasco
Hogue BROODS as the FBI men roll down their sleeves, pull on their jackets, snap closed their briefcases…
JULES I told you that wire was a fucking fiction writer.
LEBOW He’s never been wrong before.
HOGUE What exactly did the informant say?
LEBOW He said the hit’s going down tonight at the wedding.
HOGUE Did he say a hit on Sonny Black?
LEBOW A hit. There’s a war between Sonny Red and Sonny Black — they’re both at the wedding — I interpolated that —
HOGUE Who was this informant? Where does his information come from?
LEBOW He’s close to guys who are close to the guys in Sonny Black’s, crew. He’s very reliable.
HOGUE Goddamit!
Hogue frantically dials the phone.
LEBOW What?
HOGUE Sonny Black’s not the target. Sonny Black’s the shooter!
LEBOW I just assumed –
MARSHALL Oh my God.
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INT. LATER. BOOBIE’S CADILLAC
Boobie drives, Donnie beside him. The menacing QUIET of the open road. Past PROSPECT PARK…
SONNY Hey, Boob, remember how we used to run around here, when we was kids? We used to have running races…
BOOBIE I whipped your ass many a time.
SONNY Fuggedaboudit.
BOOBIE When I raced wit’cha, it looked like you’re standing still.
SONNY Oh, yeah? Pull over.
BOOBIE Fuggedabouit. I whipped your ass. Your day is done.
SONNY Pull over. We’re gonna see whose day is done. C’mon, Donnie. You do the on the marks.
Boobie pulls over. They pile out of the car.
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EXT. NIGHT. PROSPECT PARK
Boobie and Sonny crouch at an imaginary starting line.
SONNY Okay. We’re running to the fountain.
BOOBIE Okay.
SONNY You remember the fountain?
BOOBIE I remember the fountain.
SONNY Donnie — you do the ‘on your marks’.
DONNIE On your marks. Get set. Go!
They JUMP off the line… RUNNING through the blackness… Sonny takes an early lead, but Boobie’s leaner… Starts to pull away… Looks over at Sonny, GRINS…
DONNIE PEERS
into the darkness… Sees them DISAPPEAR into the trees.
SONNY AND BOOBIE RUN
huffing and puffing… They disappear into the darkness… And Donnie realizes that he’s
ALONE IN THE DARK
Turning, around and around… A RAT with no place to hide…
THE RACE CONTINUES
Boobie looks over at Sonny, pulls away…
DONNIE IN TERROR
Adrenaline rushes through him. As he turns, and turns, and WAITS… For the bullet that will kill him…
BOOBIE RUNS
Sonny yards behind him. Then Sonny STOPS. Reaches into his waistband. And pulls out
A PISTOL
Boobie running FREE in the night… Reaches the fountain, holds up his arms in victory. Leans over, hands on knees, WHEEZING. Turns, smiling. And his smile FRACTURES.
DONNIE FLEES
Jogs a couple of steps to find some cover… Then hears
A DISTANT GUNSHOT
as it echoes through the park. Donnie crouches by reflex. From the shadows, a man STAGGERS toward Donnie — it’s Boobie, bleeding profusely from a head wound… Sonny chases him… The champagne POP! of more GUNSHOTS…
SONNY AIMS
fires… His .45 JAMS…
SONNY Fucking son of a bitch! Donnie, get ‘im!
Boobie STAGGERS, bleeding from three wounds now… Running toward his car… Donnie runs toward him… The CRUNCH of wet grass…
DONNIE TACKLES HIM
Boobie falls heavily… BLOOD belches out of his mouth…
BOOBIE Help me…
Sonny catches up. Grabs his .45 by the barrel and savagely SMASHES Boobie in the head. A thick soundlike a melon falling off a shelf.
Again and again… Blood EVERYWHERE… Donnie backs off, looks up, as
LEFTY ARRIVES
in his Cadillac. Nicky beside him. Sonny tosses Boobie’s keys to Donnie.
SONNY Pull his car around, I think he has a bag in the trunk.
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INT. LATER. LEFTY’S APARTMENT
Lefty pours Donnie a Scotch. Sits down with a spritzer.
LEFTY He was holding out on him. Fucking coke deal Boobie was running down in Florida.
DONNIE Sonny found out about it?
LEFTY Do I still gotta school you after whatever fucking years? That’s the worst thing you could do to a man like Sonny Black. You could pull his cock before you could take a dollar out of his pocket.
DONNIE How’d he find out?
LEFTY Who?
DONNIE Sonny.
LEFTY Why the fuck are you asking so many fucking questions, Donnie?
DONNIE I don’t know, Left. Boobie was a friend of all of us.
LEFTY Boobie wasn’t no friend to you, Donnie, believe me.
DONNIE What are you talking about?
LEFTY Ain’t nobody gonna give you a pass no more, Donnie. You walk on a chalk fucking line from now on.
CLOSE ON — DONNIE
as he realizes that Lefty sold out Boobie to save him.
DONNIE You told Sonny that Boobie was holding out?
LEFTY Ain’t the question.
DONNIE Because of me? What was Boobie saying?
LEFTY Ain’t the question, Donnie.
Lefty finishes his spritzer. Gets up to make another.
LEFTY I don’t know what made you think I’d give you up. I had too many fucking disappointments in my life. Never in the fucking end of the earth will I give you up.
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INT. NIGHT. DONNIE’S APARTMENT
