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Do the Right Thing (1989)

by Spike Lee. Second Draft. March 1, 1988; Brooklyn, N.Y.

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FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY


"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 even 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

 							    CUT TO:

 				   TIME
 				  Present

 							    CUT TO:

 				  WEATHER
 			    Hot as shit!

 							    CUT TO:

INT: WE LOVE RADIO STATION STOREFRONT--DAY

EXTREME CLOSE UP

WE SEE only big white teeth and very Negroidal (big) lips.

 				MISTER SEÑOR 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 SEÑOR LOVE DADDY,
a DJ, a radio personality, behind a microphone.


 				MISTER SEÑOR LOVE DADDY
 	  This is Mister Señor 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
Señor 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 SEÑOR LOVE DADDY
 	  Here I am.  Am I here?  Y'know it.
 	  It ya know.  This is Mister Señor
 	  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 SEÑOR 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 shit.

 				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
 	  Fuck dat shit.  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 shit.  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
 	  shit.


 				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
 	  shit, won't be no shit.

 				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 Señor Love Daddy as he walks by.

INT: WE LOVE CONTROL BOOTH--DAY

Mister Señor 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 motherfucker.

 				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 motherfucker.
 	  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 motherfucker.

 										    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 shit.
 	  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 be fucked 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 motherfucker, 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 fuck 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 fucking soaked.  If I ever
 	  catch those fucks they'll be sorry.
 	  Cocksucking sonabitches!

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 fucking ruined.

 				OFFICER LONG
 	  Where are they?

 				CHARLIE
 	  Where are they?  What kind of
 	  fucking asshole question is that?
 	  They ran the fuck away.

 				OFFICER PONTE
 	  Do you wish to file a complaint?

 				CHARLIE
 	  A complaint.  I want those fucks
 	  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 Señor Love Daddy is cool.

 				MOOKIE
 	  Ya like him, huh?

 				VITO
 	  Yeah.

 				MOOKIE
 	  Y'know, Vito, I know Pino is ya
 	  brother and shit, 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 Señor 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 SEÑOR 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 SEÑOR 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 Señor Love Daddy, I'd like
 	  to dedicate the next record to my
 	  heart, Tina.

 				MISTER SEÑOR 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
 	  Señor Love Daddy.  WE LOVE RADIO,
 	  108 FM.

...then cues up the record.

 										    29.


 				MISTER SEÑOR 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 SEÑOR LOVE DADDY
 	  Tell ya father he makes the best
 	  heros in Brooklyn.

 				VITO
 	  I'll do that.

 				MOOKIE
 	  We're outta here.

 				MISTER SEÑOR 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 frío, 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 fuck 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?  Motherfuck
 	  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 SHIT!  Why did he get Buggin' started?

 				BUGGIN' OUT
 	  I should fuck you up just for that
 	  stupid shit 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
 	  Motherfucker wasn't saying shit.

 				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 fucking 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 motherfuckers
 	  across the street.  I betcha they
 	  haven't been a year off da
 	  motherfucking boat before they
 	  opened up their own place.

CLOSE--COCONUT SID

 				COCONUT SID
 	  It's been about a year.

CLOSE--ML

 				ML
 	  A motherfucking year off the
 	  motherfucking 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 shit.

 				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 motherfucking shame.

 				COCONUT SID
 	  Ain't that a bitch.

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
 	  shit.  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 Señor
 	  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 fucking talking on the phone
 	  and people are trying to call in
 	  orders.  He's making us lose
 	  business.

CLOSE--SAL

 				SAL
 	  Mookie, you're fucking up.

 				PINO
 	  Twenty minutes.
 		    (he hangs up the phone)
 	  How come you niggers are so stupid?

CLOSE--MOOKIE

 				MOOKIE
 	  If ya see a nigger here, kick his
 	  ass.

CLOSE--PINO

 										    41.


 				PINO
 	  Fuck 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 nigger this and nigger that,
 	  all your favorite people are
 	  "niggers."

 										    42.


 				PINO
 	  It's different.  Magic, Eddie,
 	  Prince are not niggers, 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
 	  Fuck 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 shit?

 				MOOKIE
 	  It's e-vit-able.

 				PINO
 	  Keep dreaming.

 				MOOKIE
 	  Fuck you, fuck pizza, and fuck
 	  Frank Sinatra, too.

 				PINO
 	  Well, fuck you, too, and fuck
 	  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
 	  motherfucker.

 							    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 SEÑOR LOVE DADDY

 				MISTER SEÑOR LOVE DADDY
 	  Yo!  Hold up!  Time out!  Time out!
 	  Y'all take a chill.  Ya need to
 	  cool that shit 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 shit
 	  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 niggers, 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 Señor 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 motherfucking 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 fucking 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 motherfucker.
 	  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!  Motherfucker!  Twenty!

CLOSE--KOREAN CLERK

 				KOREAN CLERK
 	  Motherfucker you.

Radio Raheem has to laugh at that one.

 										    57.


 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	  Motherfucker 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 shit.  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 to fuck.

 				SWEET DICK WILLIE
 	  Never too hot, never too cold for
 	  fucking.

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 SEÑOR LOVE DADDY

 				MISTER SEÑOR 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 Señor Love Daddy.  I'd
 	  kiss your feet every morning,
 	  that's how much I love you.

 				MISTER SEÑOR 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 SEÑOR LOVE DADDY
 	  Love Line, you're on.

 				FEMALE VOICE #3 (VO)
 	  You give me fever.
 		    (she moans)


 				MISTER SEÑOR 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 SEÑOR LOVE DADDY
 	  That was the last call for tonight
 	  on Mister Señor 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 Häagen-
 	  Dazs butter pecan?

 				MOOKIE
 	  Shit!  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 Señor Love
Daddy serenades them with slow jams.

 				MOOKIE
 	  I'm gonna take off ya clothes.

 				TINA
 	  Mookie, I told you already it's too
 	  fucking 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 SEÑOR 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 shit.

 				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 fucking 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 fucking 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 shit.  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 shit.

 				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 motherfucker.

 				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 the
 	  fuck he think he is?  Don Corleone
 	  and shit.

 				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 motherfuckers.  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
 	  motherfucker 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 fuck!  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 shit off
 	  and getting the fuck outta my
 	  pizzeria.

 				PINO
 	  Radio Raheem.

 				RADIO RAHEEM
 	  Fuck 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 a fuck 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
 	  FUCKIN' 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
 	  Fuckin' niggers.

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 Señor 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 Señor Love Daddy is in his familiar place behind the
mike.

 				MISTER SEÑOR 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
 	  Señor Love Daddy here on WE LOVE
 	  RADIO, 108 FM on your dial, and
 	  that's the truth, Ruth.

CLOSE--MISTER SEÑOR LOVE DADDY

 										    88.


 				MISTER SEÑOR LOVE DADDY
 	  Today's weather.
 		    (he yells)
 	  HOT!

CLOSER--MISTER SEÑOR LOVE DADDY

He screams:

 				MISTER SEÑOR 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 SEÑOR LOVE DADDY (VO)
 	  WAKE UP!

 				MOOKIE
 	  Fuck!  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
 	  Whatdafuck 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
 	  Motherfuck a window, Radio Raheem
 	  is dead.

 				SAL
 	  You're right, a kid is dead, but
 	  Mook, this isn't the time.

 				MOOKIE
 	  Fuck dat.  The time is fuckin' 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 bullshitting.

 				SAL
 	  You don't know shit about shit.

 										    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
 	  fucking 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
 	  fuckin' Rockefeller.

Mookie is stunned by Sal's outburst.  He picks up the bills.

 				SAL
 	  Ya just got paid, so leave me the
 	  fuck 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 motherfucker.

 				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.

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