DON DE LUCA

Written By
Kyle Pell

Copyright, 2007
Blackscreen Productions
Kyle Pell
Phone(509)-290-1573
Email: Blackscreenproductions@yahoo.com
Spokane WA, 99223
4145 E.27th

Black Screen

(Words appear on screen.)

“Never hate your enemies, it effects your judgment.”

(The screen remains black and we hear the sound of a telephone ringing. ANTHONY answers the phone.)
ANTHONY
Hello?

DON DE LUCA
Anthony

ANTHONY
 Don De Luca.

DON DE LUCA
I need you to do something for me.

ANTHONY
Anything for the family.

DON DE LUCA
Call Tommy braza, congratulate him and tell him it’s time for his promotion.

ANTHONY
You’re promoting him?

DON DE LUCA
Yes. Is this a problem for you?

ANTHONY
No sir, what else do you want me to tell him?

DON DE LUCA
Tell him I want to meet with him. And tell him to go to the very place him and I met, at one o’clock.

ANTHONY
I’ll call him right away.

DON DE LUCA
Thank you Anthony.

Fade In

EXT: Open Field- Day

(We see two men standing in an open field by railroad tracks. DON DE LUCA the Don of the De Luca family, and ANTHONY is the under boss of the De Luca family.)

 	ANTHONY
Where the hell is he?

DON DE LUCA
Patients Anthony, he’ll be here.

ANTHONY
Wait there he is right there.

(We see two other men TOMMY BRAZA and Joe Porrello. They’re walking across the field.)

DON DE LUCA
Who the hell is with him?

ANTHONY
Holy shit.

DON DE LUCA
What is it?

ANTHONY
That’s Joe Porrello. He’s the son of a bitch who shot Jimmy Costello.

DON DE LUCA
That prick killed Jimmy?

ANTHONY
Yeah that’s him.

DON DE LUCA
How can you be sure of this?

ANTHONY
This is what happen, Joe over there set up a secret meeting with Vincent Marino who’s a capo for the Alfinni Family. And he told Vincent everything about Jimmy and how he was our number one gun. So Vincent went and told Don Alfinni. And Alfinni decided that Jimmy needed to be taken out. So he called upon Joe to wait outside his house. So when Jimmy came home one night Joe ran up to his window and shot him three times in the head.

DON DE LUCA
Well what the hell is he doing showing his face around me?

ANTHONY
He doesn’t think anybody knows it was him.

DON DE LUCA
Why didn’t you tell me of this before?

ANTHONY
I’m sorry Don. I was going to take care of it.

(TOMMY and JOE walk into frame.)

TOMMY
Don De Luca
(he kisses Don’s hand)
Thank you so much for bringing me here today.

DON DE LUCA
You know, my father was very respectable man. He was a very honest and forgiving man to. But my father had his bad side. He taught me many things about people and how to be a leader. He taught me to never hate my enemies. But let me tell you something Tommy. It is hard not to hate a man who has betrayed you.
(DON DE LUCA quickly pulls out his gun and shoots JOE in the middle of the head.)

TOMMY
Holy Shit! What the fuck!

DON DE LUCA
Tommy come, walk with me.

(TOMMY follows along side DE LUCA. He’s breathing hard and is very shocked. )

DON DE LUCA
Look Tommy there’s a lot about you’re friend that you don’t know. Anthony just told me everything about what the piece of shit did. You see Joe was the one who murdered Jimmy. It was him and a guy from the Alfinni family. The guy I want you to take care of. His name is Vincent Marino. I want you to make it quick and silent. I know you can. You have always been loyal to this family Tommy, and you’ve always been loyal to me. Now I was going to make this you’re promotion day. But I have this one last test for you. I want you to assassinate Vincent tomorrow and meet me back here the day after. I trust you to get this job done for me Tommy.

TOMMY
I wont disappoint Don De Luca.

Fade out

(Black screen reads)

“The year 2007”

Fade In

INT: Car-Day

(We see a man  in a black suite sitting in the back of a car we can see he was in deep thought. This is THOMAS DE LUCA the son of Don De Luca but he is now The Don of the De Luca family. The car pulls over and a man in a nice suite and a long dress coat enters in the back seat. This is SALVATORE ALFINNI The Don of the Alfinni family.)

THOMAS DE LUCA
Salvatore Alfinni my friend, it’s good to see you with such hospitality.

Cut To

INT: Car-Day

(THOMAS DE LUCA and his BODY GUARD are sitting in a indoor parking lot talking.)

THOMAS DE LUCA
I’m meeting with Don Alfinni today, and I want you to do something for me.

Cut To

INT: Car-day

(Back to THOMAS and SALVTORE.)

SALVATORE ALFINNI
Yes it is. It feels so good to know that our families will be in peace after so many years of war. Our Fathers hated each other, but we are better men today.

THOMAS DE LUCA
Yes, yes we are.

Cut To

INT: Car-Day

(Back to THOMAS and BODY GUARD)

BODY GUARD
What would you like me to do?

THOMAS DE LUCA
I want you to kill him.

BODY GUARD
Why are you going to kill him? I thought we are going to make peace with the Alfinni’s?

Cut To

INT: Car-Day

(Back to THOMAS and SALVATORE)

THOMAS DE LUCA
Now by us making this peace between our families, I want to make sure Salvatore that there will be no breaking this peace. I want to warn you now that if you decide to do a low blow, I will kill you and all the Alfinni’s.

SALVATORE ANFINNI
Don De Luca, I assure you it will not be me to break this peace between us.

Cut To

INT: Car-Day

(Back To THOMAS and BODY GUARD.)

BODY GUARD
I don’t understand why you would want to do that. If you killed the Don that would start war.

THOMAS DE LUCA
Hey! Don’t you get it? If we kill Don Alfinni then that eliminates all competition we have. And that means we can take this city. Then we can work our way into Politics. The De Luca family has a future. But we have to do this to get there.

Cut To

INT: Car-Day

(Back to THOMAS and SALVATORE.)

SALVATORE
You can let me out here. 

THOMAS DE LUCA
Ok. Pull over here.

(The driver pulls over and gets out to open Salvatore’s door.)

THOMAS DE LUCA
Well goodbye my friend, and take care of yourself.

SALVATORE ALFINNI
You to Don De Luca.

(The BODY GUARD opens the door for SALVATORE, he begins walking away but the body guard wraps a wire around Salvatore’s neck and strangles him to death. He runs back into the car and speeds off.)

Cut To

Black screen reads.

(“1944 the day after the assassination.”)

Fade In

(We see two men holding TOMMY down on his knees
and DON DE LUCA is stand in front of him. TOMMY is bleeding from his nose.)

TOMMY
Don De Luca I’m sorry!

DONE DE LUCA
I asked you to do one little task for me Tommy and I trusted you to do that task. All you had to do was put a bullet in that piece of shit’s head.

TOMMY
I couldn’t do it Don I couldn’t.

DON DE LUCA
And tell me why the hell couldn’t you do it.

TOMMY
You don’t understand, Vincent is my brother.
DON DE LUCA
Oh he’s you’re brother? 

TOMMY
Yes.

(DON DE LUCA punches him in the face.)

DON DE LUCA
So is that suppose to make me give a shit Tommy?

TOMMY
No Don, I’m just letting you know that there was no way I could kill my own brother.

DON DE LUCA
Well a part of me didn’t think you would. But I thought you were more loyal to me then that.

TOMMY
Wait. You knew he was my older brother?

DON DE LUCA
Of corse I knew Tommy, He use to work for me. But he went to the Alfinni family years ago. 

TOMMY
So what’s going to happen now?

DON DE LUCA
I’ll tell you what’s going to happen now Tommy, Look over there.

(We see ANTHONY has a gun to VINCENT and he’s bringing him to DON DE LUCA. ANTHONY and VINCENT walk into frame.)

DON DE LUCA
This is what’s going to happen. I’m going to kill you’re brother and you’re going to watch me do it, and then I’m going to kill you.

(DON DE LUCA grabs VINCENT and puts him on his knees in front of TOMMY.)

TOMMY
Vincent, I’m sorry.
(DON DE LUCA puts the gun to the back of VINCENT’S head and pulls the trigger. Blood flies on TOMMY’S face and he quickly turns his head away in fear. DON DE LUCA points his gun and shoots TOMMY two times in the chest.)

DON DE LUCA
Oh god, I’m sorry Tommy. Come on, let’s get out of here.  

(ANTHONY and the two body guards follow along. We watch them walk across the field and we pan down to see that Tommy is still alive.)

CUT TO

“BLACK SCREEN READS.”

“2006, Three days after the assassination of Salvatore Alfinni.” 

Fade In

INT: THOMAS’S OFFICE-DAY

(THOMAS is sitting down behind his desk When  BODY GUARD(VINNIE) comes in and sits down.)

THOMAS DE LUCA
Vinnie.

VINNIE
What can I do for you Don De Luca? 

THOMAS DE LUCA
I want to play a game of poker tonight, and I want you to call town to the police station down town and talk Chief Callahan. Tell him Don De Luca would like to play poker with him tonight.

VINNIE
Why would you want the chief of police to play poker with you?

THOMAS DE LUCA
Look Vinnie, you’ll understand in time why I need him to play poker with me tonight. Just call him up and tell him.

VINNIE
Ok. I’ll call him now.

(Vinnie gets up and walks out the door.)

CUT TO

BLACK SCREEN READS

“Poker Night”

FADE IN

INT: BASEMENT-NIGHT

(THOMAS DE LUCA is sitting at the poker table with the chips out getting ready to play Texas Hold’em. CHIEF CALLAHAN enders the room escorted by VINNIE.)

THOMAS DE LUCA
Chief Callahan. It’s good to see you.

CALLAHAN
Same to you Don De Luca.

THOMS DE LUCA
Please take a seat, and I assume that you know how to play Texas Hold’em?

CALLAHAN
Oh yes I don’t want to brag but I’m quite good actually.

THOMAS DE LUCA
Well good. Maybe I finally have a good opponent.

(They begin to play the game. We fade out.)

(We fade back in and we can clearly see time has passed. THOMAS DE LUCA has a pile of chips on his side.)

THOMAS DE LUCA
So chief-

CALLAHAN
Please call me Derek.

THOMAS DE LUCA
Derek, There is a reason why I called you here tonight. Being a man in the business that I am. I sometime have to do things that require breaking the law. So Derek, I’m not going to bullshit you I will pay five hundred thousand dollars right now if you’ll just look the other way.

CALLAHAN
What do you mean look the other way?

THOMAS DE LUCA
Over the next couple weeks you’ll find that several men will come up missing.

CALLAHAN
Missing.

THOMAS DE LUCA
Listen, these men are scumbags. They’re criminals. And they’re pieces of shit that don’t matter in this world. 

CALLAHAN
You’re bribing a police officer Thomas, and for what? Murder…you know I cold put you away for a very long time for doing this.

(Vinnie quickly pulls out his gun and puts it to CALLAHAN’S head.)

THOMAS DE LUCA
I’m a very powerful man. I can make you disappear and no one will ever find you’re body. I think it would be in you’re best interest to take my offer.

(CALLAHAN thinks about it for a moment.)

CALLAHAN
Fine. I accept you’re offer. 

THOMAS DE LUCA
Good, now that we have that out of the way will you take a check?

Cut To

INT: Office-Day

(THOMAS is sitting down behind his desk in deep thought when VINNIE comes through the door.)

VINNIE
Don De Luca I think we have a problem.

THOMAS DE LUCA
What is it?

VINNIE
It’s the Alfinni family.

THOMAS DE LUCA
What about them?

VINNIE
They have a new Don.

THOMAS DE LUCA
They have a new Don already?

VINNIE
But sir that’s not the only thing.

THOMAS DE LUCA
Well what is it?

VINNIE
They put a hit on you.

THOMAS DE LUCA
What do you mean they put a hit on me?

VINNE
Well first I got word about it, then I looked into it more and I found out that The new Don Alfinni has hired a contract killer. He goes by the name Kenneth Ford.

THOMAS DE LUCA
Kenneth Ford?

VINNIE
You know him?

THOMAS DE LUCA
Yeah. I hired him three years ago to take care of someone for me. This guy is good though.

VINNIE
What should we do?

THOMAS DE LUCA
There’s only one thing we can do.

VINNIE
What?

THOMAS DE LUCA
We fight fire with fire. I’m going to hire another contractor to take Kenneth Ford out. 

VINNIE
Well who are you going to hire?

THOMAS DE LUCA
There’s this Irishmen that I know of who they say can take care of anything.

VINNIE
Whats his name?

THOMAS DE LUCA
Connor McCoy.

Fade out

Fade In

EXT: Coffee Shop-Day

(We see Connor McCoy walking down the sidewalk smoking a cigarette. He walks up to the front door of the coffee shop, throws his cig and walks in.)

Cut To

INT: Coffee Shop-Day

(We follow CONNOR, he see THOMAS DE LUCA sitting at a table. He sits down across from him. He pulls out his pack of cigs and pulls one out and starts fiddling with it in one hand.)

CONNOR
So it sounds to me like you’ve got yourself a problem Mr. De Luca.

THOMAS DE LUCA
I do. You see some asshole has put a hit on me and I called you because I think you can take care of this for me.

CONNOR
Who’s the target?

THOMAS DE LUCA
Actually I have three targets for you. The first is a man named Vinnie Russo.

CONNOR
Vinnie Russo? Vinnie Russo’s you’re body guard.

THOMAS DE LUCA
Well he was my body guard. But that is until you get through with him.

CONNOR
So let me get this straight here. You want me to kill you’re body guard. Now I usually never ask about my targets, but why do you want him dead?

THOMAS DE LUCA
Well lets just say that Vinnie is a man who thinks he sneaky, but I reasons to believe that he’s in communication with the Alfinni family. Anyways, the second target is Don Alfinni.

(THOMAS lays out a picture of DON ALFINNI.)

THOMAS DE LUCA(continued)
And the third, is a man named Kenneth Ford. This is the man the Don Alfinni hired to assassinate me. 

CONNOR
Alright. Well when do you want me to take care Vinnie Russo?

THOMAS DE LUCA
There’s a street called twenty seventh over in the suburbia’s are you familiar with this?

CONNOR
Yeah. 

THOMAS DE LUCA
Tomorrow I’m going to tell Vinnie to go to a house on that street. The address is forty one forty five, that’s where I want you to do it. 

CONNOR
And what time will this be at?

THOMAS DE LUCA
One pm sharp.

CONNOR
Alright, but I think you’re forgetting one thing.

THOMAS DE LUCA
Whats that?

CONNOR
Well Mr. De Luca I’m a gun for hire, but I don’t work for free.

THOMAS DE LUCA
Oh right, right. Well tell me, what are you’re terms?

CONNOR
Two hundred thousand and I’ll do it.

THOMAS DE LUCA
I’ll give two fifty.

CONNOR
Aww you’re a very generous man. One o’clock tomorrow I’ll be there.

(CONNOR gets up and walks out the door.)

Cut To

INT: Office- Day

(THOMAS is sitting behind his desk, when VINNIE walks into the room.)

VINNIE
You called for me?

THOMAS DE LUCA
Yes. There’s a house on twenty seventh over in the suburbia’s, the address is forty one forty five. I want you to go over and take care of the man living there. That’s all you need to know. Be there at one o’clock.

VINNIE
Yes Don De Luca.

Cut To

EXT: House- Day

(We see VINNIE pull up in front of the house. He gets out of his car and slowly walks up the drive way. WE do a fast pan down the street to see that CONNOR McCoy is sitting one knee with a sniper rifle pointed directly at VINNIE. CONNOR motions the father, son, holy spirit before firing.)

CUT TO BLACK

(We hear one gun shot go off.)

Stay on black

(we hear the voice of KENNETH FORD)

KENNETH FORD
My name is Kenneth Ford.

Cut To

EXT: STREET-DAY

 (we see a close up on Kenneth walking down the street.)

KENNETH FORD
I've been a contract killer for thirty two years, recently theres been a plan put together that i have been apart of to execute, This plan could change the way of the city, and the way of the people. The job i've been hired to do will be the biggest hit of my life. April, 6th two thousand seven. Documentation one over.

Cut To

INT: OFFICE-DAY

 (We see THOMAS DE LUCA walk into his office and see that his new body gaurd is sitting in his chair facing the wall.)

THOMAS DE LUCA
lets get one thing stright, if you want to work for this family then you will learn to respect me. and you sitting behind my desk shows me disrespect.

(THOMAS walks up to the chair and sees that the body gaurd has been shot in the head. right as he sees this we see a gun put to the back of THOMAS'S head. It's KENNETH FORD.)

KENNETH FORD
Don.

(befor THOMAS can say anything KENNETH hits him over the head and knocks him out.)

Cut To

INT: ALFINNI OFFICE-DAY

 (we see a very beautiful women sitting behind a desk this is the new DON ALFINNI. CONNOR McCOY walks into the room and sits down accross from her.)

CONNOR
it's a pleasure to meet Dom Alfinni.

(he kisses her hand)

DON ALFINNI
you to mr. McCoy, but i'm a very busy woman so please state you're buisness.

CONNOR
I've got word that you're looking for a gun to take out Don De Luca? and i'm here to answer that reqest. of coarse for a certain price.

DON ALFINNI
well i've already hired a contractor for that job. But one more gun certainly wouldnt hurt. What are you're terms?

CONNOR
I'll do it 400,000.

DON ALFINNI
Done.I'll give you the money onece i see De Lucas head on my table.

CONNOR
Oh that wont be nessesary.

DON ALFINNI
What?

(CONNOR reaches down and grabs a gun from his ankle strap and points it at DON ALFINNI.)

CONNOR
It would be best if you didnt move.

DON ALFINNI
What the fuck is this?

(CONNOR gets up and walks behind her and pulls a bag out of his pocket and puts it over her head.)

Cut To Black

(We hear the voice of THOMAS DE LUCA, the screen is black.)

THOMAS DE LUCA
Last night i had a dream. I dream't i was in an empty room painted in all black. There was a man sitting across from me. he was nothing. he had no face. and when he finally spoke to me he told me."keep you're friends close but you're enimies closer." but i did not respond. he then said "Thomas,never trust a man who's consience is up for sale."...this man was god.

Fade In

INT: EMPTY ROOM-DAY

(We see THOMAS DE LUCA and DON ALFINNI tied up in chairs next to eatch other. CONNOR and KENNETH FORD enter the room.)

THOMAS DE LUCA
what the fuck is going on?

KENNETH FORD
Well i thought you looking around may be self-explanatory enough but if you really need me to explain, me and mr. McCoy here have been hired by someone to put you where you are now.

THOMAS DE LUCA
And who would that man be?

(CHIEF CALLAHAN enters the room)

CALLAHAN
That would be me. Well well well here i am standing in front of the city's top criminals all tied up.

DON ALFINNI
What the hell do you want from me. Is this a matter of money chief? 

CALLAHAN
I dont want you're money Alfinni. The reason why you two pieces of shit are here is because i'm going to kill you. With both of you're families off the streets my department may actuly be able to get some work done, and my cops will quit showing up dead or missing, and the docks can now be controled with out you running you're illigal drug operations.

THOMAS DE LUCA
My friend, you are making one big fucking mistake. 

CALLAHAN
Oh and what the fuck are you going to do about it?

THOMAS DE LUCA
Callahan? what would you say to me if i were to say to you that i think in less then the next thirty seconds you will be dead?

CALLAHAN
I'd ask you exactly how do you think that will happen when you're-

(Befor he can finish CONNOR shoots CALLAHAN in the back killing him. CONNOR goes and unties THOMAS DE LUCA.)

DON ALFINNI
What the hell is going on right now?

THOMAS DE LUCA
So you're the new Don Alfinni? well arent you a beauty. I can tell by the look on you're face you're a little confused.let me explain, You hired Mr. Ford here to kill me. I got word, and i hired Mr.McCoy to kill you. But you see thats where the true brains of the situation tell me and you apart. Little did you know that when you hired kenneth Ford. That the previous day i hired him to take you're job. So what I'm saying is that both of these men work for me.

DON ALFINNI
You're a son of a bitch.

THOMAS DE LUCA
I really hate to see such a beautiful wome go to waste,but a woman can only do so much for you...but power, power can change the way the world functions around you.

(Both KENNETH FORD and CONNOR point the guns at DON ALFINNI and fire.)

THOMAS DE LUCA
Well now that, thats taken care of.

(CONNOR turns around and shoots THOMAS onece in the leg. CONNOR gets on his cell phone.)

CONNOR
yeah, it's clear.

(A man enters the room. his name is Joe Alfinni.)

THOMAS DE LUCA
Who the fuck are you?

JOE
You can call me Don Alfinni.

THOMAS DE LUCA
What the hell are you talking about?

JOE
The woman over there is not The don. she's simply my decoy. here let me explain,you've been set up don. you see what you dont know is that me and these two gentlemen have been planing this for the last eight months. You're a very predictable man.I knew every move you were going to do starting with killing Salvatore Alfinni, which is why i was able to execut this plan so perfectly. 

THOMAS DE LUCA
(starts claping)
well i must say don. You really did get me. So now what, what are you going to do after you kill me?

JOE
I'll tell you what i'm going to do, i'm going to every last De Luca there is all the way down to you're third cousin.The De Luca family has seen it's last days. it's all over for you now.

THOMAS DE LUCA
No. Thats where you're wrong, I have one more trick up my sleeve.

(Thomas pulls a gun out and points it at JOE ALFINNI)

JOE
I thought you two checked him for weapons.

(CONNOR and KENNETH FORD point there guns at JOE)

CONNOR
You look surprised Joe? And what the hell is all this we've been planing this for eight months? I'll tell ya you're better at lying out of you're ass then you are being a don.

KENNETH FORD
We go where the money is. And the De Luca family happened to be paying more. 

(THOMAS DE LUCA shoot's JOE in the head.)

THOMAS DE LUCA
Let's get the fuck out of here.

(The three men walk out of the room.)

Fade Out

THE END