Do the Right Thing/Transcript

==Transcript==
"The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America
is that the black man in white Christian hands has not grown
violent. It is a miracle that 22 million black people have
not risen up against their oppressors--in which they would
have been justified by all moral criteria, and = by the
democratic tradition! It is a miracle that a nation of
black people has so fervently continued to believe in a
turn-the-other-cheek and heaven-for-you-after-you-die
philosophy! It is a miracle that the American Black people
have remained a peaceful people, while catching all the
centuries of hell that they have caught, here in white man's
heaven! The miracle is that the white man's puppet Negro
'leaders,' his preachers and the educated Negroes laden with
degrees, and others who have been allowed to wax fat off
their black poor brothers, have been able to hold the black
masses quiet until now."
 	 --THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X
TITLES--WHITE ON BLACK
 				 PLACE
 			 Brooklyn, New York
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 				 TIME
 				 Present
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 				 WEATHER
 			 Hot as s***!
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INT: WE LOVE RADIO STATION STOREFRONT--DAY
EXTREME CLOSE UP
WE SEE only big white teeth and very Negroidal (big) lips.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 Waaaake up!
 	 Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
 	 Up ya wake! Up ya wake! Up ya wake!
CAMERA MOVES BACK SLOWLY TO REVEAL MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY,
a DJ, a radio personality, behind a microphone.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 This is Mister Se�or Love Daddy.
 	 Your voice of choice. The world's
 	 only twelve-hour strongman, here on
 	 WE LOVE radio, 108 FM. The last on
 	 your dial, but the first in ya
 	 hearts, and that's the truth, Ruth!
The CAMERA, which is STILL PULLING BACK, shows that Mister
Se�or Love Daddy is actually sitting in a storefront window.
The control booth looks directly out onto the street. This
is WE LOVE RADIO, a modest station with a loyal following,
right in the heart of the neighborhood. The OPENING SHOT
will be a TRICK SHOT--the CAMERA PULLING BACK through the
storefront window.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 Here I am. Am I here? Y'know it.
 	 It ya know. This is Mister Se�or
 	 Love Daddy, doing the nasty to ya
 	 ears, ya ears to the nasty. I'se
 	 play only da platters dat matter,
 	 da matters dat platter and that's
 	 the truth, Ruth.
He hits the cart machine and we hear a station jingle.
 				VO
 	 L-O-V-E RADIO.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 Doing da ying and yang da flip and
 	 flop da hippy and hoppy
 		 (he yodels)
 	 Yo da lay he hoo. I have today's
 	 forecast.
 		 (he screams)
 	 HOT!
He laughs like a madman.
INT: DA MAYOR'S BEDROOM--DAY
An old, grizzled man stirs in the bed, his sheets are soaked
with sweat. He flings them off his wet body.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Damn, it's hot.
INT: JADE'S APARTMENT--DAY
CAMERA MOVES IN ON a young man sitting at the edge of a sofa
bed.
CLOSE UP--HIS SMALL HANDS
WE SEE him counting his money. This isn't any ordinary
counting of money, he's straightening out all the corners of
the bills, arranging them so the bills--actually the "dead
presidents"--are facing the same way. This is MOOKIE. Once
he's finished with that task, counting his money, he sneaks
into his sister's bedroom.
INT: JADE'S BEDROOM--DAY
CLOSE UP--JADE
JADE, Mookie's sister, is fast asleep. Mookie's fingers
ENTER THE FRAME and start to play with her lips. Jade
pushes his hands away. Mookie waits several beats and he
continues. Jade wakes up--mad.
 				JADE
 	 Don't you have enough sense not to
 	 bother people when they're sleeping?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Wake up!
 				JADE
 	 Wake up? Saturday is the lone day
 	 I get to sleep late.
 				MOOKIE
 	 It's gonna be hot today.
 				JADE
 	 Good! Leave me alone when I'm
 	 sleeping. I'm gonna get a lock on
 	 my door, to keep ya ass outta here.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Don't ya love ya brother Mookie
 	 anymore? I loves ya, Jade.
 				JADE
 	 Do me a favor. Go to work.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Later. Gotta get paid.
He plants a big fat juicy on his sister's forehead.
EXT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
A 1975 El Dorado pulls up in front of the neighborhood
pizzeria--Sal's Famous Pizzeria.
From out of the car comes the owner, SAL, a slightly
overweight man in his early fifties, and his two sons, PINO,
22, and VITO, 20. It's time for them to go to work at Sal's
Famous Pizzeria in the heart of Black Brooklyn. Sal's sits
on the corner of The Block. The Block being where this film
on the hottest day of the summer takes place.
Pino kicks a beer can in his path into the gutter.
 				SAL
 	 Pino, get a broom and sweep out
 	 front.
 				PINO
 	 Vito, get a broom and sweep out
 	 front.
 				VITO
 	 See, Pop. That's just what I was
 	 talkin' about. Every single time
 	 you tell Pino to do something, he
 	 gives it to me.
 				PINO
 	 He's nuts.
 				SAL
 	 The both of youse, shaddup.
 				VITO
 	 Tell Pino.
 				PINO
 	 Get the broom.
 				VITO
 	 I ain't getting s***.
 				SAL
 	 Hey! Watch it.
 				PINO
 	 I didn't want to come to work
 	 anyway. I hate this freakin' place.
 				SAL
 	 Can you do better? C'mere.
Pino is now silent. Sal walks over to him.
 				SAL
 	 Can you do better?
 		 (he pops Pino upside
 		 the head)
 	 I didn't think so. This is a
 	 respectable business. Nuthin'
 	 wrong with it. Get dat broom.
 				PINO
 	 Tell Vito.
 				VITO
 	 Pop asked you.
 				SAL
 	 I'm gonna kill somebody today.
EXT: MOOKIE'S BROWNSTONE--DAY
Mookie comes down his stoop and walks to work.
EXT: STREET--DAY
The Block is beginning to come to life. Those unlucky souls
who have to work this Saturday drag themselves to it, and
the kids are out on the street to play in the hot sun all
day long.
EXT: MOTHER SISTER'S STOOP--DAY
Mookie stops to say hello to MOTHER SISTER. She leans out
her window on the parlor floor. In the summertime, the only
time when she's not perched in her window is when she's
asleep.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Good morning, Mookie.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Good morning to you.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Now, Mookie, don't work too hard
 	 today. The man said it's gonna be
 	 HOT as the devil. I don't want ya
 	 falling out from the heat. You
 	 hear me, son?
 				MOOKIE
 	 I hear ya, Mother Sister. I hear
 	 you.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Good. I'll be watching ya, son.
 	 Mother Sister always watches.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
Mookie enters the pizzeria and Pino is on him before the
door closes.
 				PINO
 	 Mookie, late again. How many times
 	 I gotta tell you?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Hello, Sal. Hello, Vito.
 				SAL
 	 How ya doin', Mookie?
 				VITO
 	 Whaddup?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Just coolin'.
 				PINO
 	 You're still late.
 				SAL
 	 Pino, relax, will ya.
 				PINO
 	 Here, take the broom. The front
 	 needs sweeping.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I
 	 just got here. You sweep. I
 	 betcha Sal asked you first anyhow.
 				VITO
 	 That's right.
 				PINO
 	 Shaddup, Vito.
 				MOOKIE
 	 That dat s***. I deliver pizzas.
 	 That's what I get paid for.
 				PINO
 	 You get paid to do what we say.
 				MOOKIE
 	 What we say. I didn't hear Sal say
 	 nuthin'.
Pino looks at his father. He wants to be backed up on this;
all he gets is an amused look, and a smirk from Vito.
 				PINO
 	 Who's working for who?
There's a knock on the door and Da Mayor enters.
 				SAL
 	 Come on in, Mayor.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Good morning, gentlemens. It's
 	 gonna be a scorcher today, that's
 	 for sure. Need any work done
 	 around here?
Sal looks at Pino, who reluctantly gives Da Mayor the broom.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 It will be the cleanest sidewalk in
 	 Brooklyn. Clean as the Board of
 	 Health.
Da Mayor almost runs out of the pizzeria in his hurry; soon
as he finishes he'll be able to get a bottle.
 				PINO
 	 Pop, I don't believe this s***. We
 	 runnin' welfare or somethin'?
 	 Every day you give dat bum--
 				MOOKIE
 	 Da Mayor ain't no bum.
 				PINO
 	 Give dat bum a dollar for sweeping
 	 our sidewalk. What do we pay
 	 Mookie for? He don't even work. I
 	 work harder than him and I'm your
 	 own son.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Who don't work? Let's see you
 	 carry six large pies up six flights
 	 of stairs. No elevator either and
 	 s***.
 				SAL
 	 Both of youse--shaddup. This is a
 	 place of business.
 				VITO
 	 Tell 'em, Pop.
 				PINO
 	 Me and you are gonna have a talk.
 				VITO
 	 Sez who?
 				PINO
 	 Sez me.
 				SAL
 	 Hey! What did I say?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Who doesn't work? Don't start no
 	 s***, won't be no s***.
 				SAL
 	 Mookie, no cursing in the store.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Talk to your son.
EXT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
Da Mayor sweeps the sidewalk, happy as can be. As soon as
he finishes he can get that money and get that bottle.
EXT: STOOP--DAY
A group of youths sit on a stoop, waiting for someone. They
are CEE, PUNCHY, and the lone female, ELLA.
 				ELLA
 	 What's keeping him?
 				PUNCHY
 	 You call him, then.
Ella stands up and yells.
 				ELLA
 	 Yo, Ahmad!
 				PUNCHY
 	 I coulda done dat.
 				ELLA
 	 Yo, Ahmad!
She looks up into his window, then sits down.
 				ELLA
 	 Punchy, if ya want to do some more
 	 screaming, be my guest. I'm too
 	 through.
The door swings open at the top of the stoop and AHMAD
appears.
 				AHMAD
 	 Who's yelling my name?
 				ELLA
 	 Punchy told me to.
 				AHMAD
 	 Don't listen to him, it will get ya
 	 in trouble.
 				ELLA
 	 Heard that, Punchy.
Ahmad sits down with them.
 				AHMAD
 	 Ella, you have a brain, use it.
In the BG, we hear the dum-dum-dum of a giant box. The
sound gets louder as the box gets closer. The youths look
down the block and see a tall young man coming towards them.
He has a very distinct walk, it's more like a bop. This is
RADIO RAHEEM. The size of his box is tremendous and one has
to think, how does he carry something that big around with
him? It must weigh a ton, and it seems like the sidewalk
shakes as the rap music blares out. The song we hear is the
only one Radio Raheem plays.
MEDIUM SHOT--RADIO RAHEEM
Radio Raheem stops in front of the group, looks at them, and
turns down the volume. It's quiet again.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 Peace, y'all.
 				ELLA
 	 Peace, Radio Raheem.
 				CEE
 	 Peace.
 										 10.
 				PUNCHY
 	 You the man, Radio Raheem.
 				AHMAD
 	 It's your world.
 				CEE
 	 In a big way.
Radio Raheem nods and turns up the volume. Way up.
 				AHMAD
 	 My people. My people.
EXT: WE LOVE STOREFRONT--DAY
Radio Raheem waves to Mister Se�or Love Daddy as he walks by.
INT: WE LOVE CONTROL BOOTH--DAY
Mister Se�or Love Daddy gives Radio Raheem a clenched-fist
salute.
EXT: FRUIT-N-VEG DELIGHT--DAY
Da Mayor walks into a newly opened fruit and vegetable deli
stand that is owned by Koreans.
INT: FRUIT-N-VEG DELIGHT--DAY
Da Mayor is looking for his beer in the refrigerated cases,
his ice-cold beer.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Where's the Bud? Where's the Bud?
 				KOREAN CLERK
 	 No mo' Bud. You look what we have
 	 and buy.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 No more Bud. What kind of joint is
 	 this? How come no mo' Bud? Doctor,
 	 this ain't Korea, China, or wherever
 	 you come from. Get some Budweiser
 	 in this stupid.
 				KOREAN CLERK
 	 You buy 'nother beer.
 										 11.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Alright. Alright. Y'know you're
 	 asking a lot to make a man change
 	 his beer, that's asking a lot,
 	 Doctor.
EXT: MOTHER SISTER'S STOOP--DAY
Da Mayor has his can of beer (not Budweiser) and the brown
paper bag is twisted into a knot at the bottom. He stops
and takes a long swig.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 You ole drunk. What did I tell ya
 	 about drinking in front of my stoop?
 	 Move on, you're blocking my view.
Da Mayor lowers the can from his mouth and looks up at his
heckler. It's obvious from the look on his face he's heard
this before. Da Mayor contorts his face and stares at her.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 You ugly enough. Don't stare at me.
Da Mayor changes his face into a more grotesque look.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 The evil eye doesn't work on me.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Mother Sister, you've been talkin'
 	 'bout me the last eighteen years.
 	 What have I ever done to you?
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 You're a drunk fool.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Besides that. Da Mayor don't
 	 bother nobody. Nobody don't bother
 	 Da Mayor but you. Da Mayor just
 	 mind his business. I love everybody.
 	 I even love you.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Hold your tongue. You don't have
 	 that much love.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 One day you'll be nice to me. We
 	 might both be dead and buried, but
 	 you'll be nice. At least civil.
 										 12.
Da Mayor tips his beat-up hat to Mother Sister and takes a
final swig of beer just for her.
INT: TINA'S APARTMENT--DAY
An elderly Puerto Rican woman, CARMEN, is telling off her
daughter TINA in Spanish. Tina, having heard enough, closes
the door on her mother's ranting and raving.
ANGLE--TINA
Tina bends down and scoops her baby son HECTOR up from the
bed and holds him for dear life to her breasts. She talks
to her son while walking around the room.
 				TINA
 	 Hector, I shouldn't be telling you
 	 this but you would find out sooner
 	 or later. Ya father ain't no real
 	 father. He's a bum, a two-bit bum
 	 in a hundred-dollar world. Your
 	 father is to the curb. You're
 	 smart. I see that look on ya face.
 	 You're saying if he's such a bum
 	 why am I with him? Good question.
 	 Like I said before, you're no dummy.
 	 He talked his way into my panties,
 	 I thought being a mother would make
 	 me happy, make me whole. He's a
 	 mistake, but you are not.
Tina kisses her son. Tina is seventeen years old, another
teenage parent.
EXT: STREET CORNER--DAY
Every day on this corner, summer or winter, spring or fall,
a small group of men meet. They have no steady employment,
nothing they can speak of; they do, however, have the gift
of gab. These man can talk, talk, and mo' talk, and when a
bottle is going round and they're feeling "nice," they get
philosophical. These men become the great thinkers of the
world, with solutions to all its ills; like drugs, the
homeless, and AIDS. They're called the Corner Men: SWEET
DICK WILLIE, COCONUT SID, and ML. All three are sitting in
folding chairs up against a wall in the shade.
 				ML
 	 The way I see it, if this hot
 	 weather continues, it will surely
 	 melt the polar caps and the whole
 	 wide world--the parts that ain't
 	 water already--will be flooded.
 										 13.
 				COCONUT SID
 	 You a dumb-ass simple stupid.
 	 Where did you read that?
 				ML
 	 Don't worry about it. But when it
 	 happens and I'm in my boat and ya
 	 black ass is drowning, don't ask me
 	 to throw you a lifesaver either.
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 Fool, you're thirty cents away from
 	 a quarter. How you gonna get a boat?
 				ML
 	 Don't worry about it.
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 You're raggedy as a roach. You eat
 	 the holes out of donuts.
 				ML
 	 I'll be back on my feet. Soon
 	 enough.
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 So when is all this ice suppose to
 	 melt?
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
Customers are in Sal's; it's lunchtime and it's fairly busy.
Sal puts a hot slice down on the counter in front of BUGGIN'
OUT, a b-boy.
 				SAL
 	 You paying now or on layaway?
Buggin' Out looks at the slice.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 How much?
 				SAL
 	 You come in here at least three
 	 times a day. You a retard? A buck
 	 fifty.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Damn, Sal, put some more cheese on
 	 that stupid.
 										 14.
 				SAL
 	 Extra cheese is two dollars.
 	 Y'know dat.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Two dollars! Forget it!
Buggin' Out slams his money down on the counter, takes his
slice and sits down.
ANGLE--TABLE
All around Buggin' Out, peering down from the WALL OF FAME,
are signed, framed, eight by ten glossies of famous Italian
Americans. WE SEE Joe DiMaggio, Rocky Marciano, Perry Como,
Frank Sinatra, Luciano Pavarotti, Liza Minnelli, Governor
Mario Cuomo, Al Pacino and, of course, how can we forget
Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa: THE ITALIAN STALLION,
also RAMBO.
CLOSE UP--BUGGIN' OUT
He looks at the pictures hovering above him.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Mookie.
CLOSE UP--MOOKIE
 				MOOKIE
 	 What?
CLOSE UP--BUGGIN' OUT
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 How come you ain't got no brothers
 	 up?
CLOSE UP--MOOKIE
 				MOOKIE
 	 Ask Sal.
ANGLE--PIZZERIA
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Sal, how come you ain't got no
 	 brothers up on the wall here?
 				SAL
 	 You want brothers up on the Wall of
 	 Fame, you open up your own business,
 	 then you can do what you wanna do.
 	 My pizzeria, Italian Americans up
 	 on the wall.
 										 15.
 				VITO
 	 Take it easy, Pop.
 				SAL
 	 Don't start on me today.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Sal, that might be fine, you own
 	 this, but rarely do I see any
 	 Italian Americans eating in here.
 	 All I've ever seen is Black folks.
 	 So since we spend much money here,
 	 we do have some say.
 				SAL
 	 You a troublemaker?
Pino walks over to Buggin' Out.
 				PINO
 	 You making trouble.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Put some brothers up on this Wall
 	 of Fame. We want Malcolm X, Angela
 	 Davis, Michael Jordan tomorrow.
Sal comes from behind the counter with his Louisville
Slugger Mickey Mantle model baseball bat. Vito is by his
side, but Mookie intercepts them, and takes Buggin' Out
outside.
 				SAL
 	 Don't come back, either.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Boycott Sal's. Boycott Sal's.
EXT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
 				MOOKIE
 	 Buggin' Out, I gotta work here.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 I'm cool. I'm cool.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Come back in a week, it will be
 	 squashed.
They give each other five.
 										 16.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
Mookie enters.
 				SAL
 	 Mookie, if your friends can't
 	 behave, they're not welcome.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I got no say over people.
 				PINO
 	 You talk to 'em.
 				MOOKIE
 	 People are free to do what they
 	 wanna do.
 				SAL
 	 I know, this is America, but I
 	 don't want no trouble.
EXT: STREET--DAY
Mookie walks down the block with pizza box in hand when he
sees Da Mayor sitting on his stoop.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Mookie.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Gotta go.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 C'mere, Doctor.
Mookie turns around and goes back.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Doctor, this is Da Mayor talkin'.
 				MOOKIE
 	 OK. OK.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Doctor, always try to do the right
 	 thing.
 				MOOKIE
 	 That's it?
 				DA MAYOR
 	 That's it.
 										 17.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I got it.
INT: TENEMENT BUILDING--DAY
Mookie is hiking up a flight of stairs.
ANGLE--STAIRCASE
He puts the pizza box down and takes a breather.
CLOSE UP--MOOKIE
Sweat drips off his face.
ANGLE--MOOKIE
He bends down to pick up the pizza box and tackles the last
few flights.
CLOSE UP--DOORBELL
Mookie pushes the buzzer.
ANGLE--DOOR
A young Puerto Rican woman opens the door.
 				NILDA
 	 I hope it's not cold.
Mookie hands her the pizza.
 				MOOKIE
 	 No, it's not cold. Twelve dollars
 	 for the pie.
Nilda hands him a handful of singles. Mookie looks at the
crumpled mess. Nilda attempts to close the door, but
Mookie's foot says, "Hell no."
 				MOOKIE
 	 Hold it. Let me count this first.
First he straightens out the dollars, then counts the bills.
 				MOOKIE
 	 You're short.
 				NILDA
 	 I counted the twelve dollars myself.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Twelve is right, but no tip.
 										 18.
 				NILDA
 	 No tip.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Look, lady. I carried your pizza
 	 up five flights of stairs and s***.
 	 The cheese didn't slide over to one
 	 side like it sometimes does with
 	 delivery people who don't care. I
 	 do care. May I get paid?
Nilda looks at him and sees right away he's not going
anywhere.
 				NILDA
 	 Wait here.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I'll wait.
Nilda goes into the apartment and we hear her talking in
Spanish to a male.
ANGLE--MOOKIE
Mookie bends down to tie his sneakers.
ANGLE--DOOR
Nilda reappears and holds out a lonely lone dollar for him.
Mookie has her hold it out for awhile, then he takes it.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Gracias mucho.
Nilda slams the door.
 				MOOKIE
 	 A dollar! Cheap bastard! Your
 	 pizza is gonna b next time.
EXT: MOTHER SISTER'S STOOP--DAY
Jade sits down next to Mother Sister on the stoop.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Jade, you're late.
 				JADE
 	 I know, Mother Sister, but I'm here
 	 now. Where's the stuff?
Mother Sister hands her a bag that is at her side.
 										 19.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Seen your brother, just walked by.
Jade unwraps a head scarf from around Mother Sister's head
and a full head of long black hair falls to her shoulders.
 				JADE
 	 This might take some time.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 I got nowhere to go. We haven't
 	 had a good sit-down for a long while.
Jade begins to part, grease, and comb out Mother Sister's
hair.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Tender-headed runs in my family.
 	 You tender-headed?
 				JADE
 	 Yeah, me too.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 That's why I don't fool with it.
 	 Only let you touch it...Ouch!
 				JADE
 	 Sorry, comb got caught.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Be gentle, child. Mother Sister is
 	 an old woman.
 				JADE
 	 How are you holding up in this
 	 weather?
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 I'll do.
 				JADE
 	 I don't know why you still haven't
 	 bought an air conditioner.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Don't like 'em. A fan will do.
ANGLE--DA MAYOR
Da Mayor stands in front of the stoop, he's smiling for days.
 										 20.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 I didn't know you had such beautiful
 	 hair.
ANGLE--STOOP
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Fool, there's a lot in this world
 	 you don't know.
CLOSE UP--DA MAYOR
 				DA MAYOR
 	 I'm not stopping. I'm on my way.
The Mayor tips his hat and heads up the block.
ANGLE--STOOP
 				JADE
 	 You are too cruel to Da Mayor, it
 	 isn't right.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 I'm not studying no Mayor. Besides,
 	 he reminds me of my least favorite
 	 peoples. My tenants and my ex-
 	 husband--Goddamn-bless his soul.
They both laugh.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Number One: I got some jive, late-
 	 rent-paying trifling Negroes in
 	 this house. Every year I keep
 	 threatening to sell it.
 				JADE
 	 And move to Long Island...
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 And move to Long Island. Number
 	 Two: my ex-husband lost all my
 	 property, all my money in his
 	 scheme to build a Black business
 	 empire. Needless to say what
 	 happened, this house is it, all I
 	 got. I'm too through with yar
 	 people.
CLOSE UP--JADE
 				JADE
 	 Whew!
 										 21.
She looks up at the white-hot sun.
CLOSE UP--MOTHER SISTER
She does the same.
X CLOSE UP--THE WHITE-HOT SUN
HOT, HOTTER AND HOTTEST MONTAGE
Right now, folks, we're gonna suspend the narrative and show
how people are coping with the oppressive heat.
People are taking cold showers.
Sticking faces in ice-cold, water-filled sinks.
Heads stuck in refrigerators.
A wife tells her husband, "Hell no, I'm not cooking. It's
too hot. The kitchen is closed."
Men downing six-packs of ice-cold brew.
Faces stuck directly in front of fans.
A young kid cracks an egg on Sal's Cadillac. The moment the
egg hits the car hood it starts to cook. The kid looks
directly INTO THE CAMERA and smiles, then looks up to see
Sal, mad as a stupid, chasing after him.
And how can I forget the papers, the newspaper headlines.
 		 New York Post: "A SCORCHER"
 	 New York Daily News: "2 HOT 4 U?"
 	New York Newsday: "OH BOY! BAKED APPLE"
 New York Times: "RECORD HEATWAVE HITS CITY"
EXT: STREET--DAY
CLOSE UP--JOHNNY PUMP
POW! A powerful gush of water flies out RIGHT AT THE CAMERA.
Ahmad has just turned on the johnny pump and the white
stream of water flies across the street.
This attracts all the people of the block. It's a chance to
cool off and momentarily beat the killer heat.
ANGLE--CEE AND PUNCHY
They both scrape beer cans on the sidewalk.
 										 22.
ANGLE--ELLA
She stands with caution away from the fire hydrant. Ella
does not want to get wet.
ANGLE--CEE AND PUNCHY
They're still scraping away.
ANGLE--STREET
Folks, young and old, begin to get in the water and play.
ANGLE--CEE AND PUNCHY
Both now have cans with the ends scraped away, and go to the
johnny pump. Punchy bends down behind the hydrant and
places the can over the water. The can now directs the
water into giant streams.
ANGLE--ELLA
Ahmad sneaks up behind Ella and picks her up. She's kicking
and screaming furiously.
 				ELLA
 	 Ahmad! Put me down! Put me down!
 	 I can't get wet! I'm not playing!
Ahmad is not having it. He carries a kicking Ella into the
middle of the street in direct line of fire.
 				AHMAD
 	 Yo!
 				ELLA
 	 No!
They both are hit with a blast of water and are soaked to
the bone. Ella starts to punch Ahmad, and chases after him.
ANGLE--STREET
We hear the familiar rap music of Radio Raheem's box.
CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM
Radio Raheem is too cool. By the way he's dressed, it could
be fall, not the hottest day of the year. But you could
never tell it from him. He's too cool.
CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM
 										 23.
Raheem looks at Cee, he wants to get by and he doesn't want
to get wet either. And if his box gets wet, somebody is
gonna die. Cee knows this too.
ANGLE--JOHNNY PUMP
Cee stands in front of the hydrant, blocking the water so
Radio Raheem can pass.
ANGLE--RADIO RAHEEM
He slowly bops across the street as all eyes watch. When
he's clear, Cee moves and the water gushes out again as
folks play.
ANGLE--STREET
We hear a car horn blowing. People move out of the way as
the vehicle speeds through the spray.
ANGLE--WHITE CONVERTIBLE
An older man, CHARLIE, stops his white convertible and blows
his horn.
 				CHARLIE
 	 I'm not playing. There's gonna be
 	 trouble if you around.
CLOSE--CEE AND PUNCHY
 				PUNCHY
 	 Go 'head. You got it. You got it.
CLOSE--CHARLIE
 				CHARLIE
 	 This is an expensive car.
CLOSE--CEE
 				CEE
 	 You won't get wet.
ANGLE--HYDRANT
Both Punchy and Cee sit in front of the hydrant once again,
blocking the water.
ANGLE--WHITE CONVERTIBLE
The car cautiously eases forward. Charlie doesn't trust Cee
and Punchy at all.
 										 24.
CLOSE--CHARLIE
 				CHARLIE
 	 I'm warning you.
CLOSE--CEE AND PUNCHY
 				PUNCHY
 	 C'mon.
 				CEE
 	 Hurry up. We ain't got all day.
ANGLE--STREET
The people all move to the car, for they know what is about
to happen.
ANGLE--HYDRANT
Cee and Punchy leap off the hydrant, unleashing a jet blast
that flies directly into Charlie's car. The whole block is
dying.
ANGLE--STREET
Charlie pulls his flooded car over to the curb, jumps out,
and runs to get hold of Cee and Punchy. Of course, he's
slow, as the kids turn into track stars and make like Carl
Lewis.
ANGLE--STREET
Charlie, a wet mess, tries to buy some sympathy from the
folks; none is to be bought.
 				CHARLIE
 	 I'm soaked. If I ever
 	 catch those they'll be sorry.
The ranting continues, and people laugh at him.
 				CHARLIE
 	 You people make me sick.
A cop car screeches to a halt in front of the man. Two
officers, LONG and PONTE, get out.
 				CHARLIE
 	 Officers, I want an arrest made.
 	 Now.
 										 25.
 				OFFICER PONTE
 	 What happened?
 				CHARLIE
 	 Two Black kids soaked me and my car.
 	 It's ruined.
 				OFFICER LONG
 	 Where are they?
 				CHARLIE
 	 Where are they? What kind of
 	 question is that?
 	 They ran away.
 				OFFICER PONTE
 	 Do you wish to file a complaint?
 				CHARLIE
 	 A complaint. I want those
 	 locked under the jail.
Officer Long goes into his car and gets a wrench.
ANGLE--JOHNNY PUMP
Officer Long turns off the hydrant, then puts the cap back on.
 				OFFICER PONTE
 	 This hydrant better not come back
 	 on or there's gonna be hell to pay.
 				CHARLIE
 	 What about my car? I want justice.
Officer Long sides up to Da Mayor who's been looking on.
 				OFFICER LONG
 	 You know anything about this?
Da Mayor is quiet.
 				CHARLIE
 	 He knows. He's a witness. They
 	 all know. He saw the whole thing.
Officer Ponte goes to Da Mayor's other side.
 				OFFICER LONG
 	 Who were the punks?
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Those who'll tell don't know.
 	 Those who know won't tell.
 										 26.
 				OFFICER PONTE
 	 A wise guy.
Mookie emerges from the crowd and leads Da Mayor away from
the interrogation.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Let's go, Mayor.
 				OFFICER LONG
 	 Keep this hydrant off. You want to
 	 swim, go to Coney Island.
 				CHARLIE
 	 He's leaving? What about me?
 				OFFICER PONTE
 	 I suggest you get in your car
 	 quick, before these people start to
 	 strip it clean.
The man looks at the crowd of Blacks and Puerto Ricans
around him and he considers what he just heard.
 				OFFICER LONG
 	 Let's go, break it up. Go back to
 	 your jobs.
 				OFFICER PONTE
 	 What jobs?
Both cops laugh.
ANGLE--STREET
Charlie drives away, fuming.
INT: ROOFTOP--DAY
Cee and Punchy look down from a roof on all the havoc and
confusion they've started. Both laugh.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
Mookie enters.
 				SAL
 	 Mookie, what took you so long? I
 	 got a business to run.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Run it then.
 										 27.
 				SAL
 	 Here, this goes to the radio station.
He gives Mookie a bag full of food.
 				VITO
 	 Pop, I'm gonna go with Mookie.
 				SAL
 	 Good, make sure he don't jerk around.
 				PINO
 	 Yeah, hurry back, it's getting
 	 crowded.
EXT: STREET--DAY
Vito and Mookie walk down the block.
 				VITO
 	 Mister Se�or Love Daddy is cool.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Ya like him, huh?
 				VITO
 	 Yeah.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Y'know, Vito, I know Pino is ya
 	 brother and s***, but the next time
 	 he hits ya, the next time he
 	 touches ya, you should "house him."
 	 Kick his ass.
 				VITO
 	 I don't know.
 				MOOKIE
 	 If you don't make a stand, he's
 	 gonna be beating ya like a egg for
 	 the rest of your life.
 				VITO
 	 That's what you think?
 				MOOKIE
 	 That's what I think.
 				VITO
 	 I don't like to fight.
 										 28.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Do it this one time and he'll never
 	 touch you again.
EXT: WE LOVE RADIO--DAY
Mookie and Vito wave at Mister Se�or Love Daddy through the
storefront window and he buzzes them in.
OMIT
INT: CONTROL BOOTH--DAY
Mookie and Vito very quietly walk in; the man is on the air.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 Peoples, my stomach's been grumbling
 	 but help has arrived. My main man
 	 Mookie has saved the day, straight
 	 from Sal's Famous Pizzeria, down
 	 the block. Come up to the mike,
 	 Mookie.
Mookie goes to the mike.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 C'mon, don't be shy. Mmm, smells
 	 good. This is ya Love Daddy
 	 talkin' to ya, starvin' like Marvin.
 	 Say something, Mookie.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Mister Se�or Love Daddy, I'd like
 	 to dedicate the next record to my
 	 heart, Tina.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 Alright. Let me play this record
 	 while I go to work on my chicken
 	 Parmigiana hero with extra cheese
 	 and extra sauce.
He hits the cart machine...
 				VO
 	 I just looove you so much Mister
 	 Se�or Love Daddy. WE LOVE RADIO,
 	 108 FM.
...then cues up the record.
 										 29.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 Here ya are.
 		 (he hands Mookie a
 		 twenty-dollar bill)
 	 Keep the change.
 				MOOKIE
 	 That's right on time. This is my
 	 friend, Vito. His pops is Sal.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 Tell ya father he makes the best
 	 heros in Brooklyn.
 				VITO
 	 I'll do that.
 				MOOKIE
 	 We're outta here.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 Thanks for stopping by. WE LOVE
 	 Radio, 108 FM.
EXT: STREET--DAY
On a stoop, a group of Puerto Ricans sits talking, drinking
cerveza fr�o, and playing dominoes. One of their cars is
parked near the stoop, and blasts salsa music.
ANGLE--RADIO RAHEEM
As usual we hear the rap music of Radio Raheem, but
underneath the salsa music. Radio Raheem does not like to
be bested; the salsa music from the parked car is giving him
competition, this is no good. Radio Raheem stands in front
of the stoop and raises his decibel level.
ANGLE--STOOP
The Puerto Rican men look at him, then begin to yell at him
in Spanish. There is a standoff, the rap and salsa clashing
in a deafening roar. One of the men, STEVIE, gets off the
stoop and goes to the car.
ANGLE--CAR
Stevie turns the car radio off.
CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM
Radio Raheem smiles, nods, turns his box to a reasonable
listening level, and bops down the block. Radio Raheem
still the loudest. Radio Raheem still the king.
 										 30.
 				STEVIE
 	 You got it, bro.
ANGLE--STOOP
The men curse in Spanish and shake their heads in
bewilderment and Stevie turns the salsa back on.
EXT: STREET--DAY
Vito and Mookie see Buggin' Out on their way back to Sal's.
 				MOOKIE
 	 You the man.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 You the man.
 				MOOKIE
 	 No, you the man.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 No. I'm just a struggling Black
 	 man trying to keep my dick hard in
 	 a cruel and harsh world.
Buggin' Out gives Mookie five and a menacing look at Vito.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Vito is down.
EXT: STREET--DAY
Buggin' Out is walking down the block when CLIFTON, a
yuppie, accidentally bumps into him, stepping on his new
sneakers.
CLOSE--BUGGIN' OUT
He looks at his sneakers.
CLOSE--SNEAKERS
There is a big black smudge on his new white unlaced Air
Jordans.
ANGLE--BUGGIN' OUT
He runs down the block after Clifton.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Yo!
Clifton turns around.
 										 31.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Yo!
 				CLIFTON
 	 Yes?
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 You almost knocked me down. The
 	 word is "excuse me."
 				CLIFTON
 	 Excuse me. I'm very sorry.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Not only did you knock me down, you
 	 stepped on my new white Air Jordans
 	 that I just bought and that's all
 	 you can say, "Excuse me?"
This commotion has attracted a crowd, including Ahmad, Cee,
Punchy, and Ella.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 I'll you up quick two times.
HERE WE GO!
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Who told you to step on my sneakers?
 	 Who told you to walk on my side of
 	 the block? Who told you to be in
 	 my neighborhood?
 				CLIFTON
 	 I own a brownstone on this block.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Who told you to buy a brownstone on
 	 my block, in my neighborhood on my
 	 side of the street?
The crowd likes that one and they laugh and egg him on.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 What do you want to live in a Black
 	 neighborhood for? stupid
 	 gentrification.
 				CLIFTON
 	 I'm under the assumption that this
 	 is a free country and one can live
 	 where he pleases.
 										 32.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 A free country?
AWWW s***! Why did he get Buggin' started?
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 I should f*** you up just for that
 	 stupid s*** alone.
Buggin' Out looks down at his marred Air Jordans. The
crowd, smelling blood, wants to see some.
 				AHMAD
 	 Your Jordans are dogged.
 				CEE
 	 You might as well throw 'em out.
 				PUNCHY
 	 They looked good before he messed
 	 them up.
 				ELLA
 	 You used to be so fine.
 				AHMAD
 	 How much did you pay for them?
 				CEE
 	 A hundred bucks.
 				AHMAD
 	 A hundred bucks!
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 You're lucky the Black man has a
 	 loving heart. Next time you see me
 	 coming, cross the street quick.
 				AHMAD
 	 He's dissing you.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Damn, my brand-new Jordans. You
 	 should buy me another pair.
 				CLIFTON
 	 I'm gonna leave now.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 If I wasn't a righteous Black man
 	 you'd be in serious trouble.
 	 SERIOUS.
 										 33.
The crowd gives their approval.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Move back to Connecticut.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
Mookie and Vito enter the shop.
 				SAL
 	 I should have Vito go with you all
 	 the time.
 				PINO
 	 Yeah, no more ninety-minute
 	 deliveries around the corner.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Pino, I work hard like everybody in
 	 here.
 				VITO
 	 He's right.
 				PINO
 	 C'mere.
 		 (Pino smacks his brother)
 	 Don't get too friendly with da Mook.
 				SAL
 	 That's gonna be the last time you
 	 hit Vito.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Smack him back.
 				PINO
 	 What?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Remember what I said.
Vito stands frozen in front of his brother.
 				PINO
 	 Are you gonna listen to this Mook?
 	 Listen to him tell you to smack me?
 	 Your only brother?
Vito walks away and Mookie is disgusted.
 				PINO
 	 I didn't think so.
 										 34.
EXT: STREET--DAY
Officers Ponte and Long drive down the block and at the
corner they stop, glare at the Corner Men.
CLOSE--OFFICER PONTE
CLOSE--SWEET DICK WILLIE
CLOSE--OFFICER LONG
CLOSE--COCONUT SID
ANGLE--POLICE CAR
 				OFFICER PONTE
 	 What a waste.
ANGLE--CORNER
Sweet Dick, ML, and Coconut Sid stare right back at the cops.
ANGLE--POLICE CAR
It drives off.
ANGLE--CORNER
 				COCONUT SID
 	 As I was saying before we were so
 	 rudely interrupted by the finest.
 				ML
 	 What was you saying?
Coconut Sid blanks.
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 Motherf***er wasn't saying s***.
 				ML
 	 Look at that.
 				COCONUT SID
 	 Look at what?
ML points across the street to the Korean fruit and vegetable
stand.
 				ML
 	 It's a shame.
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 What is?
 										 35.
 				ML
 	 Sweet Dick Willie.
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 That's my name.
 				ML
 	 Do I have to spell it out?
 				COCONUT SID
 	 Make it plain.
 				ML
 	 OK, but listen up. I'm gonna break
 	 it down.
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 Let it be broke.
 				ML
 	 Can ya dig it?
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 It's dug.
CLOSE--ML
 				ML
 	 Look at those Korean stupid
 	 across the street. I betcha they
 	 haven't been a year off da
 	 stupid boat before they
 	 opened up their own place.
CLOSE--COCONUT SID
 				COCONUT SID
 	 It's been about a year.
CLOSE--ML
 				ML
 	 A stupid year off the
 	 stupid boat and got a good
 	 business in our neighborhood
 	 occupying a building that had been
 	 boarded up for longer than I care
 	 to remember and I've been here a
 	 long time.
CLOSE--SWEET DICK WILLIE
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 It has been a long time.
 										 36.
CLOSE--COCONUT SID
 				COCONUT SID
 	 How long?
CLOSE--ML
 				ML
 	 Too long! Too long. Now for the
 	 life of me, I haven't been able to
 	 figger this out. Either dem
 	 Koreans are geniuses or we Blacks
 	 are dumb.
This is truly a stupefying question and all three are silent.
What is the answer?
 				COCONUT SID
 	 It's gotta be cuz we're Black. No
 	 other explanation, nobody don't
 	 want the Black man to be about s***.
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 Old excuse.
 				ML
 	 I'll be one happy fool to see us
 	 have our own business right here.
 	 Yes, sir. I'd be the first in line
 	 to spend the little money I got.
Sweet Dick Willie gets up from his folding chair.
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 It's Miller time. Let me go give
 	 these Koreans s'more business.
 				ML
 	 It's a stupid shame.
 				COCONUT SID
 	 Ain't that a bi**h.
EXT: STOOP--DAY
Da Mayor sits on his stoop and a kid, EDDIE, runs by.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Sonny! Sonny!
Eddie stops.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Doctor, what's your name?
 										 37.
 				EDDIE
 	 Eddie Lovell.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 How old are you?
 				EDDIE
 	 Ten.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 What makes Sammy run?
 				EDDIE
 	 My name is Eddie.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 What makes Sammy run?
 				EDDIE
 	 I said my name is Eddie Lovell.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Relax, Eddie, I want you to go to
 	 the corner store. How much will it
 	 cost me?
 				EDDIE
 	 How would I know how much it's
 	 gonna cost if I don't know what I'm
 	 buying?
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Eddie, you're too smart for your
 	 own britches. Listen to me. How
 	 much do you want to run to the
 	 store for Da Mayor?
 				EDDIE
 	 Fifty cents.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 You got a deal.
He gives Eddie some money.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Git me a quart of beer, Budweiser,
 	 say it's for your father, if they
 	 bother you.
Eddie runs down the block just as Ahmad, Cee, Punchy, and
Ella pass him.
 										 38.
 				AHMAD
 	 Who told him he was Da Mayor of
 	 this block?
 				CEE
 	 He's self-appointed.
 				ELLA
 	 Leave him alone.
 				PUNCHY
 	 Shut up.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Go on now. Leave me be.
 				AHMAD
 	 You walk up and down this block
 	 like you own it.
 				CEE
 	 Da Mayor.
 				PUNCHY
 	 You're old.
 				AHMAD
 	 A old drunk bum.
Da Mayor stands up from his seat cushion on the stoop.
 				AHMAD
 	 What do you have to say?
 				DA MAYOR
 	 What do you know 'bout me? Y'all
 	 can't even pee straight. What do
 	 you know? Until you have stood in
 	 the doorway and heard the hunger of
 	 your five children, unable to do a
 	 damn thing about it, you don't know
 	 s***. You don't know my pain, you
 	 don't know me. Don't call me a
 	 bum, don't call me a drunk, you
 	 don't know me, and it's
 	 disrespectful. I know your parents
 	 raised you better.
The teenagers look at Da Mayor.
 				ELLA
 	 He told you off.
Da Mayor sits back down on his seat cushion on his stoop.
 										 39.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
ANGLE--PAY PHONE ON WALL
Mookie is on the phone.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I know I haven't seen you in four
 	 days. I'm a working man.
 				TINA (VO)
 	 I work too, but I still make time.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Tina, what do you want me to do?
 				TINA (VO)
 	 I want you to spend some time with
 	 me. I want you to try and make
 	 this relationship work. If not,
 	 I'd rather not be bothered.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Alright. Alright. I'll be over
 	 there sometime today.
 				TINA (VO)
 	 When?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Before I get off work.
 				TINA (VO)
 	 Bring some ice cream, I'm burning
 	 up. Do you love me?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Do I love you?
CLOSE--SAL
 				SAL
 	 Mookie, get offa da phone.
CLOSE--MOOKIE
 				MOOKIE
 	 Be off in a second. Tina, I
 	 dedicated a record on Mister Se�or
 	 Love Daddy's show to you.
 				TINA (VO)
 	 Big deal.
 										 40.
CLOSE--SAL
 				SAL
 	 Mookie! How is anybody gonna call
 	 in?
CLOSE--MOOKIE
 				MOOKIE
 	 Big deal? If that's not LOVE, I
 	 don't know what is.
CLOSE--PINO
 				PINO
 	 You deaf or what?
CLOSE--MOOKIE
 				MOOKIE
 	 Gotta go. See ya soon.
 		 (he hangs up)
 	 Everybody happy now?
The phone rings right away and Pino picks it up.
ANGLE--PINO
 				PINO
 	 Sal's Famous Pizzeria, yeah, two
 	 large pizzas, pepperoni and
 	 anchovies, hold on... See, Pop,
 	 Mookie talking on the phone
 	 and people are trying to call in
 	 orders. He's making us lose
 	 business.
CLOSE--SAL
 				SAL
 	 Mookie, you're up.
 				PINO
 	 Twenty minutes.
 		 (he hangs up the phone)
 	 How come you ni**ers are so stupid?
CLOSE--MOOKIE
 				MOOKIE
 	 If ya see a ni**er here, kick his
 	 ass.
CLOSE--PINO
 										 41.
 				PINO
 	 F*** you and stay off the phone.
CLOSE--VITO
 				VITO
 	 Forget it, Mookie.
ANGLE--PIZZERIA
 				MOOKIE
 	 Who's your favorite basketball
 	 player?
 				PINO
 	 Magic Johnson.
 				MOOKIE
 	 And not Larry Bird? Who's your
 	 favorite movie star?
 				PINO
 	 Eddie Murphy.
Mookie is smiling now.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Last question: Who's your favorite
 	 rock star?
Pino doesn't answer, because he sees the trap he's already
fallen into.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Barry Manilow?
Mookie and Vito laugh.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Pino, no joke. C'mon, answer.
 				VITO
 	 It's Prince. He's a Prince freak.
 				PINO
 	 Shut up. The Boss! Bruuucce!!!!
 				MOOKIE
 	 Sounds funny to me. As much as you
 	 say ni**er this and ni**er that,
 	 all your favorite people are
 	 "ni**ers."
 										 42.
 				PINO
 	 It's different. Magic, Eddie,
 	 Prince are not ni**ers, I mean, are
 	 not Black. I mean, they're Black
 	 but not really Black. They're more
 	 than Black. It's different.
With each word Pino is hanging himself even further.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Pino, I think secretly that you
 	 wish you were Black. That's what I
 	 think. Vito, what do you say?
 				PINO
 	 Y'know, I've been listening and
 	 reading 'bout Farrakhan, ya didn't
 	 know that, did you?
 				MOOKIE
 	 I didn't know you could read.
 				PINO
 	 F* you. Anyway, Minister
 	 Farrakhan always talks about the
 	 so-called "day" when the Black man
 	 will rise. "We will one day rule
 	 the earth as we did in our glorious
 	 past." You really believe that s***?
 				MOOKIE
 	 It's e-vit.
 				PINO
 	 Keep dreaming.
 				MOOKIE
 	 F*** you, pizza, and
 	 Frank Sinatra, too.
 				PINO
 	 Well, that you, too, and
 	 Michael Jordan.
 							 CUT TO:
RACIAL SLUR MONTAGE
The following will be a QUICK-CUTTING MONTAGE of racial
slurs, with different ethnic groups pointing the finger at
one another. Each person looks directly INTO THE CAMERA.
CLOSE--MOOKIE
 										 43.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Dago, wop, garlic-breath, guinea,
 	 pizza-slinging, spaghetti-bending,
 	 Vic Damone, Perry Como, Luciano
 	 Pavarotti, Sole Mio, nonsinging
 	 stupid.
 							 CUT TO:
CLOSE--PINO
 				PINO
 	 You gold-teeth, gold-chain-wearing,
 	 fried-chicken-and-biscuit-eatin',
 	 monkey, ape, baboon, big thigh,
 	 fast-running, three-hundred-sixty-
 	 degree-basketball-dunking spade
 	 Moulan Yan.
 							 CUT TO:
CLOSE--STEVIE
 				STEVIE
 	 You slant-eyed, me-no-speak-
 	 American, own every fruit and
 	 vegetable stand in New York,
 	 Reverend Moon, Summer Olympics '88,
 	 Korean kick-boxing bastard.
 							 CUT TO:
CLOSE--OFFICER LONG
 				OFFICER LONG
 	 Goya bean-eating, fifteen in a car,
 	 thirty in an apartment, pointed
 	 shoes, red-wearing, Menudo, meda-
 	 meda Puerto Rican cocksucker.
 							 CUT TO:
CLOSE--KOREAN CLERK
 				KOREAN CLERK
 	 It's cheap, I got a good price for
 	 you, Mayor Koch, "How I'm doing,"
 	 chocolate-egg-cream-drinking, bagel
 	 and lox, B'nai B'rith asshole.
 							 CUT TO:
 										 44.
INT: WE LOVE RADIO STATION CONTROL ROOM--DAY
CLOSE--MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 Yo! Hold up! Time out! Time out!
 	 Y'all take a chill. Ya need to
 	 cool that s*** out... and that's
 	 the truth, Ruth.
 							 CUT TO:
CLOSE--WHITE-HOT SUN
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
Mookie picks up his two pizza pies for delivery.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Sal, can you do me a favor?
 				SAL
 	 Depends.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Can you pay me now?
 				SAL
 	 Can't do.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Sal, just this once, do me that
 	 solid.
 				SAL
 	 You know you don't get paid till we
 	 close tonight. We're still open.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I would like to get paid now.
 				SAL
 	 Tonight, when we close.
Mookie leaves.
EXT: STREET--DAY
Mookie walks down the block. The streets are filled with
kids playing. WE SEE stoop ball, double dutch, hand games,
bike-riding, skateboarding, etc.
ANGLE--MOOKIE
 										 45.
Radio Raheem approaches Mookie.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Whaddup. Money?
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 I was going to buy a slice.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I'll be back after I make this
 	 delivery.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 On the rebound.
Mookie stares at the gold "brass knuckles" rings Radio
Raheem wears on each hand. Spelled out across the rings are
the words "LOVE" on the right hand and "HATE" on the left
hand.
 				MOOKIE
 	 That's the dope.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 I just copped them. Let me tell
 	 you the story of Right-Hand--Left-
 	 Hand--the tale of Good and Evil.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I'm listening.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 HATE!
He thrusts up his left hand.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 It was with this hand that Brother
 	 Cain iced his brother. LOVE!
He thrusts up his right hand.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 See these fingers, they lead
 	 straight to the soul of man. The
 	 right hand. The hand of LOVE!
Mookie is buggin'.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 The story of Life is this...
He locks his fingers and writhes, cracking the joints.
 										 46.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 STATIC! One hand is always fighting
 	 the other. Left Hand Hate is
 	 kicking much ass and it looks like
 	 Right Hand Love is finished. Hold
 	 up. Stop the presses! Love is
 	 coming back, yes, it's Love. Love
 	 has won. Left Hand Hate KO'ed by
 	 Love.
Mookie doesn't know what to say, so he doesn't say anything.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 Brother, Mookie, if I love you I
 	 love you, but if I hate you...
 				MOOKIE
 	 I understand.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 I love you, my brother.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I love you, Black.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
Radio Raheem enters Sal's with music blaring.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 Two slices.
 				SAL
 	 No service till you turn dat s***
 	 off.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 Two slices.
 				PINO
 	 Turn it off.
 				SAL
 	 Mister Radio Raheem, I can't even
 	 hear myself think. You are
 	 disturbing me and you are disturbing
 	 my customers.
Sal grabs his Mickey Mantle bat from underneath the counter.
Everyone, Sal, Vito, Pino, Radio Raheem, and the customers
are poised for something to jump off, STATIC.
CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM
 										 47.
He smiles and turns off the beat.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 Two slices, extra cheese.
CLOSE--SAL
Sal puts Mickey Mantle back into its place.
 				SAL
 	 When you come in Sal's Famous
 	 Pizzeria, no music. No rap, no
 	 music. Capisce? Understand?...
 	 This is a place of business. Extra
 	 cheese is two dollars.
INT: TENEMENT HALLWAY--DAY
Mookie hands the pizzas over and takes the money and counts
it.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Thanks.
EXT: STREET--DAY
Mookie walks, says hello to the people he knows.
EXT: STOOP--DAY
Mookie runs up stoop.
INT: MOOKIE'S APARTMENT--DAY
We hear a key in the door, the lock turns and Mookie enters.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Jade.
 				JADE (OS)
 	 I'm in here.
INT: JADE'S BEDROOM--DAY
Jade sits in a chair directly in front of an air conditioner
going full blast.
 				JADE
 	 How come you're not at Sal's?
 				MOOKIE
 	 I'm working.
 										 48.
 				JADE
 	 Is this another one of your patented
 	 two-hour lunches?
 				MOOKIE
 	 I just come home to take a quick
 	 shower.
 				JADE
 	 Sal's gonna be mad.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Later for Sal. Y'know, sometimes I
 	 think you're more concerned with
 	 him than me.
 				JADE
 	 I think no such a thing. Sal pays
 	 you, you should work.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Slavery days are over. My name
 	 ain't Kunta Kinte. Sis, I don't
 	 want to argue, stop pressing me.
 				JADE
 	 I just don't want you to lose the
 	 one job you've been able to keep,
 	 that's all. I'm carrying you as it
 	 is.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Don't worry 'bout me. I always get
 	 paid.
 				JADE
 	 Yeah, then ya should take better
 	 care of your responsibilities.
 				MOOKIE
 	 What responsibilities?
 				JADE
 	 I didn't stutter. Take care of
 	 your responsibilities. Y'know
 	 exactly what I'm talking about.
INT: BATHROOM--DAY
Mookie turns on the shower and screams; the water is ice cold.
EXT: MOTHER SISTER'S STOOP--DAY
Mother Sister sits in her window looking out at the block.
 										 49.
EXT: DA MAYOR'S STOOP--DAY
Da Mayor has fallen asleep sitting on his stoop. His hands
loosely hold a brown paper bag that is tightly twisted
around a beer can.
EXT: CORNER--DAY
Sweet Dick, ML, and Coconut Sid each hold an umbrella for
protection from the hot and harsh rays.
EXT: FIRE ESCAPE--DAY
Ahmad, Punchy, Cee, and Ella sit on a fire escape, trying to
keep still, trying to find a cool spot in the shade. No one
says a word.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
Sal takes a seat at one of the tables.
 				SAL
 	 I'm beat.
Pino sits down next to his father.
 				PINO
 	 Pop, I think we should sell this
 	 place, get outta here while we're
 	 still ahead...and alive.
 				SAL
 	 Since when do you know what's best
 	 for us?
 				PINO
 	 Couldn't we sell this and open up a
 	 new one in our own neighborhood?
 				SAL
 	 Too many pizzerias already there.
 				PINO
 	 Then we could try something else.
 				SAL
 	 We don't know nuthin' else.
 				PINO
 	 I'm sick of ni**ers, it's a bad
 	 neighborhood. I don't like being
 	 around them, they're animals.
 										 50.
 				VITO
 	 Some are OK.
 				PINO
 	 My friends laugh at me all the
 	 time, laugh right in my face, tell
 	 me go feed the Moulies.
 				SAL
 	 Do your friends put money in your
 	 pocket? Pay your rent? Food on ya
 	 plate?
Pino is quiet.
 				SAL
 	 I didn't think so.
 				PINO
 	 Pop, what else can I say? I don't
 	 wanna be here, they don't want us
 	 here. We should stay in our own
 	 neighborhood, stay in Bensonhurst.
 				SAL
 	 So what if this is a Black
 	 neighborhood, so what if we're a
 	 minority. I've never had no
 	 trouble with dese people, don't
 	 want none either, so don't start
 	 none. This is America. Sal's
 	 Famous Pizzeria is here for good.
 	 You think you know it all? Well,
 	 you don't. I'm your father, you
 	 better remember that.
INT: BATHROOM--DAY
Mookie pulls the shower curtain back and steps out.
INT: MOOKIE'S ROOM--DAY
Mookie sits on his bed, still wet.
ANGLE--JADE
 				JADE
 	 Hurry up and get dressed.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I'm coming.
 				JADE
 	 I'm going with you.
 										 51.
BUGGIN' OUT BOYCOTT MONTAGE
EXT: STREET--DAY
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Da Mayor, we need your leadership.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Doctor, what are you talkin' bout?
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 I'm organizing a boycott of Sal's
 	 Famous Pizzeria.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Keep walkin', Doctor. I don't want
 	 to hear none of your foolishness.
 							 CUT TO:
CLOSE--CORNER MEN
 				ML
 	 No!
 				COCONUT SID
 	 No!
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 Hell no! Goddamnit. Sal ain't
 	 never done me no harm. You either.
 							 CUT TO:
CLOSE--BUGGIN' OUT
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Would you like to sign a petition
 	 to boycott Sal's Famous Pizzeria.
 							 CUT TO:
CLOSE--AHMAD, CEE, PUNCHY, and ELLA
They DOG him out (ADLIB)
 							 CUT TO:
CLOSE--BUGGIN' OUT
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 I'll do it without your help.
 										 52.
EXT: WE LOVE RADIO--DAY
Buggin' Out waves at Mister Se�or Love Daddy as he walks by
the storefront.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
Buggin' Out sticks his head in and yells:
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Sal, we're gonna boycott ya fat ass.
Before Sal and his two sons can answer, Buggin' Out is gone.
EXT: STREET--DAY
Buggin' Out has one foot up on a fire hydrant and tries to
clean his soiled Air Jordan.
ANGLE--JADE AND MOOKIE
Jade and Mookie walk up to Buggin' Out.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 It's so nice to see a family
 	 hanging out together.
 				MOOKIE
 	 We're not hanging out. I'm being
 	 escorted back to work.
 				JADE
 	 That's not even true. I just want
 	 a slice.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Jade, you don't know this, but I'm
 	 organizing a boycott of Sal's
 	 Famous Pizzeria.
 				JADE
 	 What did he do this time?
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Y'know all those pictures he has
 	 hanging on the Wall of Fame?
 				JADE
 	 So?
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Have you noticed something about
 	 them?
 										 53.
 				JADE
 	 No.
 				MOOKIE
 		 (interjects)
 	 Yo, I'm gone.
 				JADE
 	 I'll see ya there.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Peace.
Mookie leaves.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Every single one of those pictures
 	 is somebody Italian.
 				JADE
 	 And?
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 And I--we--want some Black people up.
 				JADE
 	 Did you ask Sal?
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Yeah, I asked him. I don't want
 	 nobody in there, nobody spending
 	 good money in Sal's. He should get
 	 no mo' money from the community
 	 till he puts some Black faces up on
 	 that stupid wall.
Jade looks at Buggin' Out like "Are you serious?"
 				JADE
 	 Buggin' Out, I don't mean to be
 	 disrespectful, but you can really
 	 direct your energies in a more
 	 useful way.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 So, in other words, you are not down.
 				JADE
 	 I'm down, but for a worthwhile cause.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Jade, I still love you.
 										 54.
 				JADE
 	 I still love you too.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
 				SAL
 	 Mookie, you are pushing it. You're
 	 really pushing it. I'm not paying
 	 you good money to jerk me
 	 around.
Mookie has nothing to say.
 				SAL
 	 You're gonna be in the street with
 	 the rest of your homeboys.
 				PINO
 	 'Bout time, Pop.
ANGLE--DOOR
Jade enters, and Sal looks up. He stops blasting Mookie and
a very noticeable change comes over him.
 				SAL
 	 Jade, we've been wondering when ya
 	 would pay us a visit.
 				JADE
 	 Hi, Sal, Pino, Vito.
 				JADE
 	 What's happening, Jade?
 				JADE
 	 Nuthin' really. How are you
 	 treating my brother?
 				SAL
 	 The Mook? Great. Mookie's a good
 	 kid.
 				PINO
 	 Pop, stop lying.
 				SAL
 	 Shaddup! Jade, what can I fix you?
 				JADE
 	 What's good?
 										 55.
 				SAL
 	 Everything, but for you I'm gonna
 	 make up something special. Take a
 	 seat. There, that's a clean table.
Sal moves behind the counter and goes to work. Pino and
Mookie look at each other in agreement, neither likes what
he has seen. This happens to Sal every time Jade is in
Sal's Famous Pizzeria.
ANGLE--TABLE
Vito sits down with Jade.
 				JADE
 	 You still letting Pino push you
 	 around?
 				VITO
 	 Who told you that? He doesn't push
 	 me, who told you, Mookie tell you
 	 that? I hold my own.
 				JADE
 	 Forget about it, Vito. Forget I
 	 even brought it up.
 				VITO
 	 Pino picks on me, but I don't let
 	 him push me around. Mookie tell
 	 you that?
 				JADE
 	 Alright already.
EXT: ROOFTOP--DUSK
The once white-hot sun is now turning into a golden orange
glaze as it begins to set. Ahmad, Cee, Punchy, and Ella
dance on the roof around a box that is turned into WE LOVE.
Each one is trying to come up with some new moves, a new
dance, and a name for it.
EXT: STREET--DUSK
Radio Raheem is walking down the block and there is something
wrong, something is not quite right. AHA! His music is not
loud; the rap song begins to drag and finally stops
altogether.
CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM
He looks at his box and presses the battery level indicator.
 										 56.
CLOSE--BATTERY LEVEL INDICATOR
The needle doesn't move. His batteries have had it.
INT: FRUIT-N-VEG DELIGHT--DUSK
CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 Twenty "D" Duracells.
CLOSE--KOREAN CLERK
 				KOREAN CLERK
 	 Twenty "C" Duracells.
CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 D, not C.
CLOSE--KOREAN CLERK
 				KOREAN CLERK
 	 C Duracell.
CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 D! D! D! You dumb stupid.
 	 Learn how to speak English first. D.
Radio Raheem points to the D batteries behind the counter.
CLOSE--KOREAN CLERK
 				KOREAN CLERK
 	 How many you say?
CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 Twenty! Motherf***er! Twenty!
CLOSE--KOREAN CLERK
 				KOREAN CLERK
 	 Motherf***er you.
Radio Raheem has to laugh at that one.
 										 57.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 Motherf***er you. You're alright.
 	 You're alright. Just gimme my
 	 twenty Duracells, please.
EXT: FRUIT-N-VEG DELIGHT--DUSK
Da Mayor is looking at a bunch of cut flowers when Radio
Raheem comes out with batteries in hand--finally.
EXT: MOTHER SISTER'S STOOP--DUSK
ANGLE--WINDOW
Mother Sister is sitting in her window as usual.
ANGLE--STOOP
Da Mayor walks up the stoop with a bunch of fresh-cut
flowers in a discarded wine bottle for a vase.
ANGLE--DA MAYOR
Da Mayor holds them out for Mother Sister, who does not
acknowledge him at all.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 I'd thought you might like these...
 	 I guess not.
Da Mayor takes a seat on the stoop and puts the flowers to
his face.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Ain't nuthin' like the smell of
 	 fresh flowers. Don't you agree,
 	 Miss Mother Sister?
Mother Sister does not answer. He puts the flowers down.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Summertime, all ya can smell is the
 	 garbage. Stink overpowers
 	 everything, especially soft sweet
 	 smells like flowers.
He looks up at Mother Sister who immediately turns away.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 If you don't mind, I'm gonna set
 	 right here, catch a breeze or two,
 	 then be on my way.
Da Mayor looks up at the setting sun.
 										 58.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Thank the Lord, the sun is going
 	 down, it's hot as blazes. Yes Jesus.
CLOSE--SUN
The sun is an orange and purple glaze.
EXT: STREET--DUSK
Radio Raheem is back in action. He's alive, he's bad and he
got his twenty "D" Duracell batteries, his box is kicking.
ANGLE--CORNER
Radio Raheem bops by Coconut Sid, ML, and Sweet Dick Willie.
CLOSE--COCONUT SID, ML, and SWEET DICK WILLIE
All three shake their heads in bewilderment as Radio Raheem
goes by.
 				ML
 	 What can you say?
 				COCONUT SID
 	 I don't know how he does it.
Sweet Dick Willie gets up from his chair and goes to the
corner, zips down his pants, and urinates.
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 ML?
 				ML
 	 What?
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 ML, hold this for me.
Sweet Dick Willie and Coconut Sid laugh.
 				ML
 	 That's OK. At least my moms didn't
 	 name me Sweet Dick Willie.
Sweet Dick Willie zips up his pants and returns to his seat.
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 Why you gotta talk 'bout my moms?
 				ML
 	 Nobody talkin' 'bout ya moms.
 										 59.
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 I didn't say nobody, I said you.
 				ML
 	 Sweet Dick, I didn't mean it like
 	 that.
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 Yes you did.
 				COCONUT SID
 	 Squash it.
 				ML
 	 I just wanted to know who named ya
 	 Sweet Dick Willie?
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 It's just a name.
 				COCONUT SID
 	 And what does ML stand for?
 				ML
 	 ML stands for ML. That's it.
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 Naw, that's some stupid s***. Now
 	 you know how I got that name.
 				ML
 	 Negroes kill me, always holdin'
 	 onto, talkin' 'bout their dicks.
 				COCONUT SID
 	 I don't know 'bout you, but it's
 	 too hot.
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 Never too hot, never too cold for
 	 f**king.
EXT: STREET--DUSK
An old Puerto Rican man rings a bell as he pushes a cart on
wheels. On the side of the cart is hand-lettered HELADO DE
COCO, and a big block of ice rests on top surrounded by
different colored bottles of flavors.
ANGLE--CART
A group of kids eagerly waits for the ices. The man scrapes
the block of ice, puts the shavings in a paper cup, and
drowns it with syrup.
 										 60.
ANGLE--DA MAYOR
Da Mayor is walking down the street.
ANGLE--MISTER SOFTEE TRUCK
We hear the familiar tune from the Mister Softee truck as it
comes down the street.
ANGLE--EDDIE LOVELL
Eddie, the young kid who earlier ran an errand for Da Mayor,
looks up from the sidewalk where he's playing and runs out
into the street in pursuit of Mister Softee.
 				EDDIE
 	 Ice cream. Ice cream.
Eddie is running in pursuit of the truck, unaware of the
oncoming speeding car.
ANGLE--DA MAYOR
Da Mayor sees speeding car bearing down on Eddie.
ANGLE--STREET
Da Mayor runs across the street and knocks Eddie down, out
of the way of the car. Both are thrown as they are hit by
the reckless driver.
CLOSE--EDDIE AND DA MAYOR
Eddie is crying as Da Mayor picks him up.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Doctor, you know better to run out
 	 in the street... Stop crying, son.
ANGLE--STREET
A crowd gathers.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Doctor, there's nothing to cry
 	 about. You're OK.
A woman in her twenties, LOUISE, Eddie's mother, breaks
through the crowd and hugs her baby.
 				LOUISE
 	 What's wrong?
 										 61.
 				EDDIE
 	 Mayor knocked me down.
 				LOUISE
 	 You should be ashamed of yourself.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Ma'am, the boy is just scared to
 	 death. What actually happened is
 	 that I was minding my business when
 	 I saw your son about to be run over.
 	 I ran into the street to save him
 	 and I had to knock him down to keep
 	 the both of us from getting hit.
The crowd agrees "That's the way it happened," and Louise
stands up.
 				LOUISE
 	 Eddie, is that the truth?
Eddie is quiet.
 				LOUISE
 	 Eddie, you hear me talkin' to you?
Eddie is still mum.
 				LOUISE
 	 I'm talkin' to you, boy.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Miss, the boy is fine.
WHAP! Louise hits Eddie on da butt. Eddie starts to dance,
as his mother hits hard; she's heavy-handed.
 				LOUISE
 	 What I tell you 'bout lying?
WHOP!
 				LOUISE
 	 What did I tell you 'bout playing
 	 in the street?
WHAP!
 				EDDIE
 	 Mommy! Mommy! I'm sorry. I'm
 	 sorry.
WHOP!
 										 62.
 				LOUISE
 	 Get upstairs now.
Eddie runs away.
 				LOUISE
 	 And when your father comes home,
 	 he's gonna wear ya little narrow
 	 behind out too.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 You didn't have to hit your son;
 	 he's scared to death as it was.
 				LOUISE
 	 I appreciate ya helping my Eddie.
 	 I truly do, but I'll have nobody
 	 question how I raise him, not even
 	 his Daddy.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 You're right.
Louise goes away, probably to give her son another
"whooping." Da Mayor tips his hat to her.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DUSK
Sal sits at a table talking to Jade as she finishes her
"special" slice.
 				JADE
 	 Sal, that was delicious.
 				SAL
 	 Anytime.
Vito, Pino, and Mookie look on, watching Sal have the time
of his life.
 				JADE
 	 Thanks.
Jade gets up and Mookie helps her.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I'll see you out.
 				JADE
 	 See ya around.
 				SAL
 	 Don't wait too long to come back.
 										 63.
EXT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DUSK
Mookie takes Jade by the hand and pulls her out of view from
Sal.
ANGLE--MOOKIE AND JADE
 				MOOKIE
 	 Jade, I don't want you coming in
 	 here no mo'.
 				JADE
 	 Stop tripping.
 				MOOKIE
 	 No, you're tripping. Don't come in
 	 Sal's. Alright, read my lips.
 				JADE
 	 What are you so worked up about?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Over Sal, the way he talks and the
 	 way he looks at you.
 				JADE
 	 He's just being nice.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Nice!
 				JADE
 	 He's completely innocent.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Innocent!
 				JADE
 	 I didn't stutter. You heard me.
 				MOOKIE
 	 You should see the way he looks at
 	 you. All Sal wants to do is hide
 	 the salami.
 				JADE
 	 You are too crude.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I might be, but you're not welcome
 	 here.
 										 64.
 				JADE
 	 Stop trying to play big brother.
 	 I'm a grown woman. You gotta lotta
 	 nerve. Mookie, you can hardly pay
 	 your rent and you're gonna tell me
 	 what to do. Come off it.
 				MOOKIE
 	 One has nuthin' to do with the other.
 				JADE
 	 Oh, it doesn't, huh! You got your
 	 little 250 dollars a week plus
 	 tips...
 				MOOKIE
 	 I'm getting paid...
 				JADE
 	 ...peanuts.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Pretty soon I'll be making a move.
 				JADE
 	 I truly hope so. I'm tired of
 	 supporting a grown man.
INT: CONTROL BOOTH--DUSK
CLOSE--MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 As the evening slowly falls upon us
 	 living here in Brooklyn, New York,
 	 this is ya Love Daddy rappin' to
 	 you. Right now we're gonna open up
 	 the Love Lines. Hello, you're on
 	 Love Daddy's Love Line. No names,
 	 please. Let's keep it anonymous.
 				FEMALE VOICE #1 (VO)
 	 Hi, Mister Se�or Love Daddy. I'd
 	 kiss your feet every morning,
 	 that's how much I love you.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 How nice of you.
 				FEMALE VOICE #2 (VO)
 	 I think you have the sexiest voice
 	 in the world. All you have to do
 	 is talk.
 										 65.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 Love Line, you're on.
 				FEMALE VOICE #3 (VO)
 	 You give me fever.
 		 (she moans)
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 She's feeling it.
 				FEMALE VOICE #4 (VO)
 	 Love Daddy, I'd work in Mickey D's
 	 24, 7, and 365 just to call you my
 	 own. Give you all my money, honey.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 That was the last call for tonight
 	 on Mister Se�or Love Daddy's Love
 	 Line. I love you. You I love.
EXT: MOTHER SISTER'S STOOP--NIGHT
Da Mayor is walking by Mother Sister in her window when she
calls him.
CLOSE--MOTHER SISTER
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Mister Mayor, I saw what you did.
ANGLE--DA MAYOR
Da Mayor stops and looks at her. A smile comes to his face;
after eighteen years has he finally broken down her defenses?
CLOSE--MOTHER SISTER
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 That was a foolish act, but it was
 	 brave. That chile owes you his life.
CLOSE--DA MAYOR
 				DA MAYOR
 	 I wasn't trying to be a hero. I
 	 saw what was about to happen and I
 	 reacted, didn't even think. If I
 	 did, I might not have done it in
 	 second thought. Da Mayor is an old
 	 man, haven't run that fast in years.
 				(MORE)
 										 66.
 				DA MAYOR (CONT'D)
 	 I went from first to home on a bunt
 	 single, scored the winning run, the
 	 bottom of the ninth, two out,
 	 August 1, 1939, Snow Hill, Alabama.
 		 (he is warming up now)
 	 Maybe I should be heroic more often.
CLOSE--MOTHER SISTER
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Maybe you shouldn't. Don't get
 	 happy. This changes nothing
 	 between you and me. You did a good
 	 thing and Mother Sister wanted to
 	 thank you for it.
ANGLE--STOOP
 				DA MAYOR
 	 I thank you.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 You're welcome.
Da Mayor tips his hat.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
Mookie enters.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Sal, I don't care if you fire me
 	 this exact minute, leave my sister
 	 alone.
 				SAL
 	 Mookie, I don't know what you're
 	 talking about, plus I don't want to
 	 hear it.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Sal, just do me a favor, leave Jade
 	 alone.
 				SAL
 	 Here, you gotta delivery.
Mookie takes the pie and looks at the address.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Is this the right name and address?
 										 67.
 				SAL
 	 Yeah, do you know 'em?
 				MOOKIE
 	 No, just checking.
INT: HALLWAY--NIGHT
Mookie rings the bell and a fine Puerto Rican sister answers
the door.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Delivery from Sal's Famous Pizzeria.
 				TINA
 	 What took you so long? Is it hot?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Hot. Hot.
 				TINA
 	 Come in then.
INT: TINA'S APARTMENT--NIGHT
Tina watches Mookie watch her. When she's through watching,
she takes the pizza from his hands and puts it on the floor.
Mookie grabs her and starts to kiss. Tina is Mookie's
woman, the one he's been on the phone with earlier. We've
heard the voice and now SEE the person.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Tina, you are too slick.
 				TINA
 	 How else was I going to get you
 	 here? I haven't seen you in a week.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I've been working hard, getting paid.
 				TINA
 	 Where's the ice cream? The H�agen-
 	 Dazs butter pecan?
 				MOOKIE
 	 S***! I forgot.
 				TINA
 	 Your memory is really getting bad.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I just forgot.
 										 68.
 				TINA
 	 And I really wanted some ice cream
 	 too.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I can run out and get it.
 				TINA
 	 No! No! You won't come back either.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I can't be staying long anyway.
 				TINA
 	 How long then?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Long enough for us to do the nasty.
 				TINA
 	 That's out. No! It's too hot!
 	 You think I'm gonna let you get
 	 some, put on your clothes, then run
 	 outta here and never see you again
 	 in who knows when?
 				MOOKIE
 	 A quickie is good every once in a
 	 blue moon.
 				TINA
 	 You a blue-moon fool.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Then we'll do something else.
 				TINA
 	 What else?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Trust me.
 				TINA
 	 Trust you? Because of trusting you
 	 we have a son. Remember your son?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Trust me.
Mookie pushes Tina back into her bedroom.
 										 69.
INT: TINA'S BEDROOM--NIGHT
Mookie sits Tina down on her futon bed, turns off the
lights, and turns on WE LOVE RADIO as Mister Se�or Love
Daddy serenades them with slow jams.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I'm gonna take off ya clothes.
 				TINA
 	 Mookie, I told you already it's too
 	 hot to make love.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Why you gotta curse?
 				TINA
 	 I'm sorry, but no rawness is
 	 jumping off tonight.
 				MOOKIE
 	 No rawness.
He laughs his sinister laugh.
ANGLE--MOOKIE AND TINA
Mookie unsnaps her bra, then pulls her panties off. Tina is
naked as a jaybird.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Tina, you're sweating.
 				TINA
 	 Of course I'm sweating. I'm
 	 burning up. It's hot, moron, only
 	 a hundred degrees in here.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Lie down, please.
He gets up.
INT: TINA'S KITCHEN
Mookie walks into the kitchen and sees CARMEN, Tina's
mother, fixing some food on the stove.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Hello, Mrs. Rampolla.
Carmen stares at him, it's a look that would definitely stop
traffic, she mutters some Spanish and goes into her bedroom,
slamming the door behind her.
 										 70.
ANGLE--MOOKIE
He opens the refrigerator and takes out all the trays of ice.
INT: TINA'S BEDROOM--NIGHT
Mookie sits down on the bed with a bowl filled with ice cubes.
CLOSE--TINA'S FOREHEAD
Mookie rubs an ice cube on her forehead.
 				TINA
 	 It's cold.
 				MOOKIE
 	 It's 'pose to be cold.
 				TINA
 	 Later for you.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Meda. Meda.
 				TINA
 	 What?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Tina, you don't have a forehead,
 	 you got a eight-head.
CLOSE--TINA'S NECK
Mookie rubs an ice cube on her neck.
CLOSE--TINA'S LIPS
Mookie rubs an ice cube on her full moist lips, then puts it
in her mouth.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY (VO)
 	 Yes, children, this is the Cool Out
 	 Corner. We're slowing it down for
 	 all the lovers in the house. I'll
 	 be giving you all the help you
 	 need, musically, that is.
CLOSE--TINA'S THIGHS
He rubs an ice cube up and down her thighs.
 				MOOKIE (VO)
 	 Thank God for thighs.
 										 71.
CLOSE--TINA'S BUTTOCKS
He rubs an ice cube on her round, firm buttocks.
 				MOOKIE (VO)
 	 Thank God for buttocks.
CLOSE--TINA'S BREAST
He rubs an ice cube on her breast.
 				MOOKIE (VO)
 	 Thank God for the right nipple...
 	 Thank God for the left nipple...
Both Tina and Mookie are dying. Mookie now has an ice cube
on the left and right nipples and WE SEE before our very own
eyes both get swollen, red, and erect.
 				TINA (VO)
 	 Feels good.
 				MOOKIE (VO)
 	 Yes, yes, Lord. Isn't this better
 	 than Haagen-Dazs butter pecan ice
 	 cream?
CLOSE--TINA'S MOUTH
Mookie kisses her.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I'll be back tonight.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
Officers Ponte and Long are awaiting their orders.
 				SAL
 	 It's almost ready.
 				OFFICER LONG
 	 What time you closing tonight?
 				SAL
 	 Ten.
Sal goes over to the oven, takes out their food and wraps it
up.
 				SAL
 	 Here you go.
 										 72.
 				OFFICER PONTE
 	 What do we owe you?
 				SAL
 	 Nine-fifty.
 				OFFICER PONTE
 	 Here.
 				SAL
 	 Thanks. Enjoy.
 				OFFICER LONG
 	 Vito, Pino, see ya later.
The officers leave just as Mookie enters.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Sal, if you want me to deliver any
 	 faster, get me a jet rocket or
 	 something, cuz I can't run with
 	 pizzas, all the cheese ends up on
 	 one side and s***.
 				SAL
 	 I didn't say nuthin'. You must
 	 have a guilty conscience. What are
 	 you guilty of?
 				MOOKIE
 	 I'm not guilty of nuthin'.
 				SAL
 	 You must be guilty of something or
 	 you would have never come in saying
 	 the things you said.
 				MOOKIE
 	 C'mon, Sal.
 				SAL
 	 Where we goin'?
While Sal laughs at his corny joke, Pino pulls Vito into the
back.
INT: STOREROOM--NIGHT
 				PINO
 	 Vito, I want you to listen to me.
 	 I'm your brother. I may smack you
 	 around once in awhile, boss you
 	 around, but I'm still your brother.
 										 73.
 				VITO
 	 I know this.
 				PINO
 	 I love you.
 				VITO
 	 I'm listening.
 				PINO
 	 Good. I want you to listen.
 				VITO
 	 Jesus Christ on the cross, I said
 	 I'm listening.
 				PINO
 	 Good. Vito, you trust that Mook
 	 too much. So does Pop.
 				VITO
 	 Mookie's OK.
 				PINO
 	 You listening to me?
 				VITO
 	 Stop busting my balls. I said I'm
 	 listening ten times already.
 				PINO
 	 Mookie is not to be trusted. No
 	 Moulan Yan can be trusted. The
 	 first time you turn your back,
 	 boom, a knife right here.
 		 (Pino gestures)
 	 In the back.
 				VITO
 	 How do you know this?
 				PINO
 	 I know.
 				VITO
 	 You really think so?
 				PINO
 	 I know so. He, them, they're not
 	 to be trusted.
 				VITO
 	 So what do you want me to do?
 										 74.
 				PINO
 	 Be on guard. Mookie has Pop conned
 	 already, so we have to look out for
 	 him.
 				VITO
 	 I like Mookie a lot.
 				PINO
 	 And that's exactly what I'm talkin'
 	 'bout.
 				SAL (OS)
 	 Vito! Pino! Let's go.
 				PINO
 	 Be right there, Pop. Listen to
 	 what I said.
 				VITO
 	 You don't listen to me, never have.
 	 Just run your big mouth
 	 always playing big brother. You
 	 don't listen, but Mookie does.
HOT CITY NIGHT MONTAGE
THE BLOCK. WE'VE SEEN it at daytime, but now WE SEE it at
night. Even though the white-hot sun is gone, nonetheless
the heat is still stifling. And in a peculiar, funny sort
of way, it's worse. You expect it to be hot during the
light of day when the sun is beating down on the cement and
tar, but at night it should be considerably cooler; well,
not tonight, it's hot. All the residents of The Block: the
Corner Men, Mother Sister, Da Mayor, Jade, etc., all the
people WE'VE SEEN throughout the day are now coping with the
night-time heat, plus it's humid as s***. Everyone is
outside, sitting on stoops, on cars and you know the kids
are playing, running up and down the block. Now it's the
hottest night of the year.
EXT: STREET--NIGHT
Buggin' Out sits down on a car next to Radio Raheem; as
usual, his box is blasting.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 How you be?
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 I be. I'm living large.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Is that the only tape you got?
 										 75.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 You don't like Public Enemy? It's
 	 the dope s***.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 I like 'em, but you don't play
 	 anything else.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 I don't like anything else.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Check this out. Y'know Sal's.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 Yeah, I know dat stupid.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 I'm trying to organize a boycott of
 	 Sal's pizza joint. Ya see what I'm
 	 saying?
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 I almost had to yoke him this
 	 afternoon. Tell me, tell me, Radio
 	 Raheem, to turn my music down.
 	 Didn't even say please. Who he think he is? Don Corleone
 	 and s***.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 He makes all his money off us Black
 	 people and I don't see nuthin' but
 	 Italians all up in there, Sylvester
 	 Stallone and stupid. Ya see
 	 what I'm saying, homeboy?
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 Talk to me.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 We shouldn't buy a single slice,
 	 spend a single penny in that
 	 stupid till some people of
 	 color are put up in there.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.
 	 That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 You got my back.
 										 76.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 Ya back is got.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 My brother.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 My brother.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
Vito, Pino and Mookie are cleaning up.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Sal, it's almost quitting time so
 	 please start counting my pay. I
 	 gotta get paid.
Sal is looking into the cash register.
 				SAL
 	 We did good business today. We got
 	 a good thing going. Nothing like a
 	 family in business working together.
 	 One day the both of you will take
 	 over...and Mookie, there will
 	 always be a place for you at Sal's
 	 Famous Pizzeria. Y'know, it should
 	 be Sal's and Sons Famous Pizzeria.
ANGLE--VITO, PINO, AND MOOKIE
All three look at each other. The horror is on their faces,
with the prospect of working, slaving in Sal's and Sons
Famous Pizzeria, trapped for the rest of their lives. Is
this their future? It's a frightening thought.
ANGLE--DOOR
Ahmad, Cee, Punchy, and Ella enter.
 				SAL
 	 We're about to close.
 				AHMAD
 	 Just four slices, regular slices.
 	 Please. To go!
 				SAL
 	 OK, but that's it. It's been a
 	 long day.
Mookie goes over to the table where Ahmad, Cee, Punchy, and
Ella sit.
 										 77.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Look, I want you to get your
 	 slices, then outta here. No
 	 playing around.
 				AHMAD
 	 You got it.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Good. No joke. We all wanna go
 	 home.
OH NO! We hear the dum-dum-dum of Radio Raheem's box. As
everyone turns their heads to the door, Buggin' Out and
Radio Raheem are inside already. We have never heard the
rap music as loud as it is now. You have to scream to be
heard and that's what they do.
 				SAL
 	 What did I tell ya 'bout dat noise?
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 What did I tell ya 'bout dem
 	 pictures?
 				SAL
 	 What da! Are you deaf?
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 No, are you? We want some Black
 	 people up on the Wall of Fame.
 				SAL
 	 Turn that JUNGLE MUSIC off. We
 	 ain't in Africa.
Ahmad, Cee, Punchy, and Ella start to dance while Mookie
takes a seat, the impartial observer that he is.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 Why it gotta be about jungle music
 	 and Africa?
 				SAL
 	 It's about turning that s*** off
 	 and getting the outta my
 	 pizzeria.
 				PINO
 	 Radio Raheem.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 F*** you.
 										 78.
 				SAL
 	 What ever happened to nice music
 	 with words you can understand?
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 This is music. My music.
 				VITO
 	 We're closed.
 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	 You're closed alright, till you get
 	 some Black people up on that wall.
Sal grabs his Mickey Mantle bat from underneath the counter
and brings it down on Radio Raheem's box, again and again
and again. The music stops.
CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM'S BOX
Radio Raheem's pride and joy is smashed to smithereens.
It's going to the junkyard quick.
ANGLE--PIZZERIA
There is an eerie quiet as everyone is frozen, surprised by
the suddenness of Sal's action, the swings of his Mickey
Mantle bat. All look at Radio Raheem and realize what is
about to happen.
ANGLE--RADIO RAHEEM
Radio Raheem screams, he goes crazy.
 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	 My music!
Radio Raheem picks Sal up from behind the counter and starts
to choke his ass. Radio Raheem's prized possession--his
box, the only thing he owned of value--his box, the one
thing that gave him any sense of worth--has been smashed to
bits. (Radio Raheem, like many Black youth, is the victim of
materialism and a misplaced sense of values.) Now he doesn't
give anymore. He's gonna make Sal pay with his life.
Vito and Pino jump on Radio Raheem, who only tightens his
grip around Sal's neck. Buggin' Out tries to help his
friend. Mookie just stands and watches as Ahmad, Cee,
Punchy, and Ella cheerlead.
 										 79.
EXT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
The tangled mass of choking, biting, kicking, screaming
confusion flies through the door of Sal's out onto the
sidewalk.
CLOSE--EDDIE
The kid yells:
 				EDDIE
 	 Fight! Fight!
 							 CUT TO:
CLOSE--DA MAYOR
He looks up.
 							 CUT TO:
CLOSE--MOTHER SISTER
She looks up.
 							 CUT TO:
CLOSE--SWEET DICK WILLIE
He also looks up.
ANGLE--STREET
The people on The Block run to Sal's Famous Pizzeria to see
the STATIC.
ANGLE--SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA
Radio Raheem, Buggin' Out, Sal, Vito, and Pino are still
entangled, rolling around on the sidewalk, but now before an
entertained crowd of onlookers:
ANGLE--DA MAYOR
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Break it up. This is crazy.
The fight continues. Da Mayor is smart enough not to get in
the middle of this war. We hear sirens, somebody has called
DA COPS.
ANGLE--STREET
 										 80.
The cop cars come right through the crowd, almost running
over some people. The cops get out with nightsticks and
guns drawn. WE RECOGNIZE two of the faces, Officers Long
and Ponte. Any time there is a skirmish between a Black man
and a white man, you can bet the house on who the copes are
gonna go for. You know the deal! Buggin' Out is pulled off
first, then Vito and Pino, but Radio Raheem is a crazed man.
It takes all six cops to pull him off Sal, who is red as a
beet from being choked.
ANGLE--COPS
Handcuffs are put on Buggin' Out as he watches the other
cops put a choke hold on Radio Raheem to restrain him.
ANGLE--RADIO RAHEEM
Radio Raheem is still struggling, then he just stops, his
body goes limp and he falls to the sidewalk like a fifty-
pound bag of Idaho potatoes.
ANGLE--STREET
Officers Long and Ponte kick him.
 				OFFICER LONG
 	 Get up! Get up!
Radio Raheem just lies there like a bump on a log.
ANGLE--CROWD
The crowd stares at Radio Raheem's still body. He's
unconscious or dead.
CLOSE--OFFICER LONG
 				OFFICER LONG
 	 Quit faking.
ANGLE--STREET
The officers all look at each other. They know, they know
exactly what they've done. The infamous Michael Stewart
choke hold.
 				OFFICER PONTE
 	 Let's get him outta here.
The officers pick up Radio Raheem's limp body and throw him
into the back seat. Buggin' Out is pushed into another car.
The cop cars speed off; in their haste to beat it, they have
left the crowd. It's at this point the crowd becomes an
angry mob.
 										 81.
ANGLE--MOB
The mob looks at...
ANGLE--MOB POV
Sal still on the sidewalk, being helped to his feet by Vito
and Pino, who are in bad shape themselves.
ANGLE--MOB
The mood/tone of the mob is getting ugly. Once again they
have seen one of their own killed before their eyes at the
hands of the cops. We hear the murmurs of the folks go
through the crowd.
 				VOICES OF MOB
 	 THEY KILLED HIM
 	 THEY KILLED RADIO RAHEEM
 	 IT'S MURDER
 	 DID IT AGAIN
 	 JUST LIKE THEY DID MICHAEL STEWART
 	 MURDER
 	 ELEANOR BUMPERS
 	 MURDER
 	 IT'S NOT SAFE
 	 NOT EVEN IN OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD
 	 IT'S NOT SAFE
 	 NEVER WAS
 	 NEVER WILL BE
The cops, in their haste to get Radio Raheem out of there,
have left an angry mob of Black folks with a defenseless
Sal, Vito, and Pino.
The mob looks at them.
 				VOICES OF MOB
 	 WON'T STAND FOR IT
 	 THE LAST TIME
 	 F***IN' COPS
 	 THE LAST TIME
 	 IT'S PLAIN AS DAY
 	 DIDN'T HAVE TO KILL THE BOY
HIGH ANGLE
Mookie looks at the crowd and notices he's on the wrong side.
He leaves Sal and his two sons.
ANGLE--STREET
Da Mayor walks in front of the crowd.
 										 82.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Good people, let's all go home.
 	 Somebody's gonna get hurt.
 				CROWD (OS)
 	 Yeah, you!
 				DA MAYOR
 	 If we don't stop this now, we'll
 	 all regret it. Sal and his two
 	 boys had nothing to do with what
 	 the police did.
 				CROWD (OS)
 	 Get out of the way, old man. You a
 	 Tom anyway.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Let 'em be.
ANGLE--STREET
Mookie picks up a garbage can and dumps it out into the
street. He walks through the crowd, up to Da Mayor, Sal,
Vito, and Pino.
CLOSE--MOOKIE
He screams.
 				MOOKIE
 	 HATE!!!!
SLOW MOTION
Mookie hurls the garbage can through the plate glass window
of Sal's Famous Pizzeria. That's it. All hell breaks loose.
The dam has been unplugged, broke. The rage of a people has
been unleashed, a fury. A lone garbage can thrown through
the air has released a tidal wave of frustration.
ANGLE--STREET
Da Mayor pushes Sal, Vito, and Pino out of the way as the
mob storms into Sal's Famous Pizzeria.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
The people rush into Sal's Famous Pizzeria, tearing it up.
CLOSE--CASH REGISTER
The cash register is opened. WE SEE only coins, Sal has the
paper.
 										 83.
EXT: DA MAYOR'S STOOP--NIGHT
Da Mayor leads Sal, Vito, and Pino back to his stoop where
they watch in horror.
 				SAL
 	 There it goes. Why?
 				DA MAYOR
 	 You was there. First white folks
 	 they saw. You was there.
 				PINO
 	 F***in' ni**ers.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
Someone lights a match. WHOOOSH!
EXT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
Sal's Famous Pizzeria is going up in flames and now it's a
carnival.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Burn it down. Burn it down.
One might have thought that the elders--who through the
years have been broken down, whipped, their spirits crushed,
beaten into submission--would be docile, strictly onlookers.
That's not true except for Da Mayor. The rest of the elders
are right up in it with the young people.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
CLOSE--PHOTOS ON WALL OF FAME
The photos of famous Italian-Americans are burning.
EXT: FRUIT-N-VEG DELIGHT--NIGHT
The mob now moves across the street in front of the Korean
fruit and vegetable stand. Sweet Dick Willie, Coconut Sid,
and ML stand at the head of the mob.
 				ML
 	 It's your turn.
CLOSE--KOREAN CLERK
He's scared to death, as the mob is poised to tear his place
up too. The clerk wildly swings a broom to hold them off.
 										 84.
 				KOREAN CLERK
 	 Me no white. Me no white. Me
 	 Black. Me Black. Me Black.
CLOSE--ML
 				ML
 	 Me Black. Me Black.
The mob starts to laugh; they feel for him.
ANGLE--MOB
 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	 Korea man is OK. Let's leave him
 	 alone.
 				ML
 	 Him no white. Him no white.
 				COCONUT SID
 	 Him Black. Him Black.
EXT: DA MAYOR'S STOOP--NIGHT
Sal, Vito, and Pino look on as Sal's Famous Pizzeria goes up
in smoke.
 							 DISSOLVE TO:
CLOSE--VITO
 							 DISSOLVE TO:
CLOSE--PINO
 							 DISSOLVE TO:
CLOSE--SAL
EXT: STREET--NIGHT
ANGLE--STREET
Jade is running through the mob, looking for her brother.
 				JADE
 	 Mookie! Mookie!
ANGLE--MOOKIE
Mookie is running around with the rest of the mob.
ANGLE--STREET
 										 85.
The wail of fire trucks and police sirens is now added to
the night.
EXT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
The mob moves back to in front of Sal's as the fire trucks
and police, in full riot gear, pull up in the street behind
them.
 				POLICE LOUDSPEAKER (VO)
 	 Good people. Please disperse.
 	 Please disperse.
The firemen rush to hook up their hoses, the police force
themselves between the crowd and the burning Sal's Famous
Pizzeria.
 				POLICE LOUDSPEAKER (VO)
 	 Please disperse! Please disperse!
The mob doesn't listen, they will not be moved. The mob
will not be moved until they see Sal's Famous Pizzeria burn
to the ground.
ANGLE--SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA
The firemen douse the pizzeria, trying desperately to stop
the fire from spreading into the adjoining buildings.
 				POLICE LOUDSPEAKER (VO)
 	 Good people, we're giving you one
 	 more warning. Please go back home.
CLOSE--MOOKIE
 				MOOKIE
 	 This is our home.
CLOSE--MOTHER SISTER
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 This is our neighborhood.
ANGLE--MOB
It will take force to move this mass of people.
 				POLICE LOUDSPEAKER (VO)
 	 You've had your warning!
POW!
The hoses are turned on the mob.
 										 86.
WE SEE Mookie, Mother Sister, Sweet Dick Willie, ML, Coconut
Sid, Jade, Ahmad, Cee, Punchy, and Ella, etc., go down
before the powerful blast of the firehouse.
Now we've come full circle. We're back to Montgomery or
Birmingham, Alabama. The only thing missing is Sheriff Bull
Connor and the German shepherds.
It would take force to move them and that's exactly what the
mob got. People are trying to hold on to each other, cars,
railings, anything to keep from being swept away.
EXT: DA MAYOR'S STOOP--NIGHT
Da Mayor, Sal, Vito, and Pino watch in disbelief. It's
unbelievable what is happening before their eyes.
 							 CUT TO:
THE STREET--NIGHT
THEIR POV
People are screaming, kids and women are not being spared
from the brute force of the firehoses either.
EXT: WE LOVE STOREFRONT--NIGHT
WE SEE the reflection of the fire in the storefront window
as Mister Se�or Love Daddy looks on.
EXT: STREET--NIGHT
ANGLE--JADE AND MOTHER SISTER
Jade and Mother Sister try to hold on to a streetlamp as a
gush of water hits them; their grips loosens, the water is
too powerful, and they slide away down the block and Da
Mayor runs after them.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--NIGHT
CLOSE--PHOTOS
Some burnt photos on the floor.
CLOSE--MICKEY MANTLE BAT
The Mickey Mantle bat burns.
CLOSE--RADIO RAHEEM'S BOX
Radio Raheem's box has melted into a black mass of goo.
CLOSER--RADIO RAHEEM'S BOX
 										 87.
As WE MOVE IN TIGHTER ON the melted box, we begin to hear
the rap song that we've hear throughout. All other sound
drops as the rap song gets louder and louder until it's
deafening.
ANGLE--SMILEY
Smiley sits up from where he hid during the burning and
looting of Sal's Famous Pizzeria. Smiley looks around and
goes directly to the smoldering Wall of Fame. He stands
there. Smiley pins one of his Malcolm X/Martin Luther King,
Jr., cards to the Wall of Fame.
CLOSE--PHOTO
CLOSE--SMILEY
We're on Smiley's face and a smile slowly travels across.
It's the first time Smiley has smiled in years and nobody is
there to see this event.
FADE TO BLACK
THE MORNING AFTER
FADE IN:
EXT: THE STREET--TO INT: RADIO STATION STOREFRONT--DAY
The CAMERA, FROM HIGH ABOVE, CRANES DOWN ON The Block. The
sidewalk is deserted, broken glass is everywhere, and it
looks exactly as how one expects it to look, the morning
after an uprising.
The CAMERA NOW MOVES IN ON the WE LOVE storefront where
Mister Se�or Love Daddy is in his familiar place behind the
mike.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 My people. My people. What can I
 	 say? Say what I can. I saw it but
 	 I didn't believe it. I didn't
 	 believe it what I saw. Are we
 	 gonna live together? Together are
 	 we gonna live? This is ya Mister
 	 Se�or Love Daddy here on WE LOVE
 	 RADIO, 108 FM on your dial, and
 	 that's the truth, Ruth.
CLOSE--MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 										 88.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 Today's weather.
 		 (he yells)
 	 HOT!
CLOSER--MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
He screams:
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY
 	 WAKE UP!
 							 CUT TO:
INT: TINA'S BEDROOM--DAY
Mookie jumps out of her bed; Tina sleeps by his side and
their son Hector is between them.
 				MISTER SE�OR LOVE DADDY (VO)
 	 WAKE UP!
 				MOOKIE
 	 My money!
 				TINA
 	 Where are you going?
 				MOOKIE
 	 To get my money.
 				TINA
 	 Mookie, you must think I'm stupid
 	 or something. You're gonna run
 	 outta here and I won't see your
 	 black ass for another week.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Tina, it's not like that.
Mookie is putting on his clothes.
 				TINA
 	 You don't care about me and you
 	 definately don't care 'bout your son.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Tina, I'll be right back.
 				TINA
 	 Be a man.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I am a man.
 										 89.
 				TINA
 	 Act like one then. Be a man.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Later.
 				TINA
 	 You're to the curb. You better
 	 step off. Get a life.
Mookie leaves.
MOTHER SISTER'S BEDROOM--DAY
Da Mayor wakes up in Mother Sister's big brass bed (she was
born in it). At first he has no idea where he's at, then
sees Mother Sister sitting down across the room smiling at
him.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Good morning.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Is it a good morning?
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 Yes indeed. You almost got yourself
 	 killed last night.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 I've done that before.
Da Mayor gets up out of her big brass bed.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 Where did you sleep?
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 I didn't.
 				DA MAYOR
 	 I hope the block is still standing.
 				MOTHER SISTER
 	 We're still standing.
Da Mayor and Mother Sister both look out the parlor window
to see THE BLOCK and Mookie.
EXT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA--DAY
Mookie walks up to Sal's Famous Pizzeria as it still
smoulders in the morning light. Sal emerges from the
wreckage; he looks like he might have slept there.
 										 90.
 				SAL
 	 Whatda do you want?
 				MOOKIE
 	 I wants my money. I wants to get
 	 paid.
Sal looks at Mookie in disbelief.
 				SAL
 	 Mookie, I always liked you. Not
 	 the smartest kid, but you're honest.
 	 Don't make me dislike you.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Sal, I want my money.
 				SAL
 	 Don't even ask about your money.
 	 Your money wouldn't even pay for
 	 that window you smashed.
 				MOOKIE
 	 Motherf*** a window, Radio Raheem
 	 is dead.
 				SAL
 	 You're right, a kid is dead, but
 	 Mook, this isn't the time.
 				MOOKIE
 That dat. The time is now.
 	 Y'know I'm sorry 'bout Sal's Famous
 	 Pizzeria, but I gotta live, too. I
 	 gotta get paid.
 				SAL
 	 We both do.
 				MOOKIE
 	 We all know you're gonna get over
 	 with the insurance money anyway!
 	 Ya know da deal.
 				SAL
 	 Do we now?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Quit bulls****ing.
 				SAL
 	 You don't know s*** about s***.
 										 91.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I know I wants to get my money.
Sal has had it.
 				SAL
 	 How much? How much do I owe you?
 				MOOKIE
 	 My salary. Two-fifty.
Sal pulls out a wad and quickly peels off hundred dollar
bills.
 				SAL
 	 One, two, three, four, five.
Sal throws the "C" notes at Mookie, they hit him in the
chest and fall to the sidewalk.
 				SAL
 	 Are you happy now? That's five
 	 hundred dollars. You just
 	 got paid. Mookie, you are a rich
 	 man, now ya life is set, you'll
 	 never have another worry, a care in
 	 the world. Mookie, ya wealthy, a
 	 Rockefeller.
Mookie is stunned by Sal's outburst. He picks up the bills.
 				SAL
 	 Ya just got paid, so leave me the
 	 alone.
 				MOOKIE
 	 You only pay me two-fifty a week.
 		 (he throws two "C"
 		 notes back at him)
 	 I owe you fifty bucks.
 				SAL
 	 Keep it.
 				MOOKIE
 	 You keep it.
 				SAL
 	 Christmas came early.
Both look at the two hundred-dollar bills on the sidewalk
and refuse to pick them up. It's a stalemate.
 										 92.
 				MOOKIE
 	 This is the hottest Christmas I've
 	 known.
Mookie counts his money.
 				SAL
 	 It's supposed to be even hotter
 	 today.
 				MOOKIE
 	 You gonna open up another Sal's
 	 Famous Pizzeria?
 				SAL
 	 No. What are you gonna do?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Make dat money. Get paid.
 				SAL
 	 Yeah!...I'm goin' to the beach for
 	 the first day in fifteen years.
 	 Gonna take the day off and go to
 	 the beach.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I can dig it. It's gonna be HOT as
 	 a stupid.
 				SAL
 	 Mookie?
 				MOOKIE
 	 Gotta go.
 				SAL
 	 C'mere, Doctor.
Mookie turns around and goes back.
 				SAL
 	 Doctor, this is Sal talkin'.
 				MOOKIE
 	 OK. OK.
 				SAL
 	 Doctor, always try to do the right
 	 thing.
 				MOOKIE
 	 That's it?
 										 93.
 				SAL
 	 That's it.
Mookie thinks about it, looks at the two "C" notes still
smiling up at him. He quickly scoops them up.
 				MOOKIE
 	 I got it.
EXT: STREET--DAY
HIGH ANGLE
As Mookie turns and walks away, Sal goes back into Sal's
Famous Pizzeria to salvage what is salvageable, and The
Block begins to awake from its slumber, ready to deal once
again with the heat of the hottest day of the year.
 							 FADE OUT.
ROLL CREDITS.
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