Léon: The Professional/Transcript

[The movie opens as the camera flies through New York City while the credits roll. It arrives at Little Italy, where it comes to the Supreme Macaroni Co building. Inside, two men have a discussion.]
Tony: Allora, come stai, Leone?
Léon: Bene.
Tony: Okay, okay. Let's talk business. (slides in a picture of a man) This fat bastard is trying to move in on Morizio's business. And you know, Morizio is a reasonable guy. He just wants a little conversation. But this guy, he don't wanna hear about it. Maybe he'll listen to you. He comes to town every Tuesday. Are you free Tuesday?
Léon: Yeah, I'm free Tuesday.
[He drinks his glass of milk and takes the picture. Later, we see the same man from the picture walking into a hotel.]
Hotel Clerk: Nice to see you again, Mr. Jones.
[The drug dealer enters his hotel room with his men.]
Mr. Jones: Remember, neatness counts. You got one half hour.
[He sees a beautiful blonde woman and becomes smitten with her.]
Mr. Jones: One hour.
[Later, the two walk down the lane with Mathilda holding Léon’s potted plant and bag.]
Léon: Mathilda. Don't you ever do that again or I'll break your head. You got that?
Mathilda: Okay.
Léon: I don't work like that. It's not professional. There is rules.
Mathilda: Okay.
Léon: And stop saying “okay” all the time, okay?!
Mathilda: Okay.
Léon: Good.
Léon: Listen, Mathilda, you better be careful. You can't just speak to any guy off the street.
Mathilda: Leon, get a grip. What's the big fucking deal? I was just smoking a butt while I was waiting.
Léon: I want you to stop cursing. You can't talk to people like that all the time. I want you to make an effort to talk nice.
Mathilda: Okay.
Léon: And I want you to stop smoking. It will kill you.
Mathilda: (throws away her cigarette) Okay.
Léon: Stay away from him. He looks like a weirdo.
Mathilda: Okay.
Léon: I'll be out in five minutes. Stand where I can see you.
Mathilda: Okay.
[Back inside, Léon removes his mask and approaches the exit. However, Stansfield comes up behind him and shoots him in the back of the head. The corrupt cop then kneels down to the dying hitman.]
Léon: Stansfield?
Stansfield: At your service.
Léon: (gives Stansfield something) This is... from... Mathilda…
[Stansfield looks to see he’s been given the pin for a grenade. He then opens Leon's vest to find grenades strapped to his body.]
Stansfield: Shit.
[The building explodes, killing both Léon and Stansfield.]
SWAT Trooper: (to some civilians) Get out of here!
[Later, Mathilda sits down to meet Tony in the restaurant.]
Tony: Léon asked me to help you out… if something happened, and I think something happened. He put aside a little cash for you. So what I'm suggesting is that… seeing as how you're still so young… I should hold the money for you until you're older. Like a bank, you know, except… it's better than a bank 'cause banks always get knocked off. No one knocks off old Tony. But it's your money. In the meantime, all you gotta do is come here every once in a while and I'll dish it out so's you can have a little fun. Okay? (gives Mathilda some money) Here's a hundred bucks to start with.
Mathilda: Can't I get a job instead?
Tony: A job? What the hell can you do?
Mathilda: I can clean.
Tony: I ain't got no work for a twelve-year-old kid, so get it out of your goddamn head! It's OVER! The game's OVER! Léon's DEAD!
[Mathilda breaks down in tears.]
Tony: You hear me?! (softly) Come on. You think I ain't hurtin' too? But he's dead. And you're gonna forget all this craziness and get your little ass back to school. Capisce? (starts to get impatient) Now take this money, and get the hell outta here, and don't let me see your face till next month, cause something tells me I'm about to lose my famous kind streak!
[She leaves with the plant and her stuffed rabbit. She takes a trolley through the city. Soon, she arrives at the Spencer School for Girls.]
Mathilda: My parents... died… in a car accident four weeks ago. Terrible.
Margueritte: You know, we didn't have the time to get to know one another when you first came here. But I want you to know that I'm not the kind of woman that would let down a child. Whatever her situation, whatever her mistake. So, I'm going to help you and do my best to welcome you here again. But on one condition: you have to stop lying to me, Mathilda. I want you to take a chance and trust me. Now tell me what happened to you.
Mathilda: Okay. My family got shot down by D.E.A. officers because of a drug problem. I left with the greatest guy on earth. He was a hit man. The best in town. But he died this morning, and if you don't help me, I'll be dead by tonight.
[Afterwards, she heads out to the backyard past some girls.]
Girl 1: You know her?
Girl 2: I've never seen her.
[Mathilda gets the plant out of the pot and sets it in the ground.]
Mathilda: I think we'll be okay here, Léon.
[The camera pans away from Mathilda before showing a view of New York City. Roll credits.]
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