FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY - Daily Script

1 HEATbyMichael MannConverted to PDF by EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLYREVISED DRAFTM arch 3, 1994 EXT. CEDARS-SINAI - WIDE - DAYA monolith with alienating foregrounds. A bus pulls in onBeverly. NEIL McCAULEY and a nurse get off. Neil carriesa paper bag and wears white pants like a hospital attendant. Neil is an ice-cold professional: very big, very tough. At 42 his short black hair is graying. He spent eightyears in McNeil and three in San Quentin. He got out andhit the street in 1987. Four of the McNeil years werespent in the hole. Neil's voice is street, but his languageis precise like an engineer's. He's very careful and verygood. Neil runs a professional crew that pulls down highline, high number scores and does it anyway the score hasto be taken down: if on the prowl (a burglary), that'sfine; if they have to go in strong (armed), that's finetoo.

2 And if you get in their way, that's got to be yourproblem. His lifestyle is obsessively functional. There'sno steady woman or any encumbrance. Neil McCauley keepsit so there's nothing he couldn't walk from in 30 now, he enters the big double doors and pulls a whiteintern's coat from his paper TO:INT. CEDARS-SINAI CORRIDOR - TRAVELING TWO SHOT - DAYWe DOLLY on Neil as he crosses through the long crowdedcorridor. Patients, nurses, interns and doctors pass by. A broadcasts occasional crosses under an "EMERGENCY" sign and keeps goingtowards the exit - FRONTALNeil APPROACHES THE CAMERA. From the other direction twoambulance attendants wheel an old man under oxygen andpass by TO:WIDE REAR SHOTW ithout breaking his stride from the moment he got off thebus, Neil exits through the doors, examines four ambulancesparked in the slots, climbs into one and drives off.

3 Maybehe's stolen it. We don't TO:Converted to PDF by R & C CONSTRUCTION SUPPLIES - ON CHRIS - DAYCHRIS SHIHERLIS crosses past stacks of gravel and cementwith a white-coated BLACK CLERK. Chris wears a hard hatover a mongol cut, Levi's, black boots and a sleevelesssweat shirt and carries on one shoulder a 150 lb., red,Milwaukee Tool Company case. He looks like a constructionworker by day who by night hits 's slams, jams and raves. He's 29, from Austin, Texas. Chris is also a highlinepro: a boxman who knows five ways to open any safe made. Right now he's buying a hollow core drill. He and McCauleywere cellmates in San Quentin Penitentiary from 1984 to1987. Chris hit the streets in 1988. He's a hot dog andspends money as fast as he makes it. Right now, he andthe Clerk exit to the sales TO:EXT.

4 SALES COUNTER - TWO SHOTAs they approach, the Clerk goes behind you working on?CHRISD rillin' some post holes intoconcrete ..CLERK(re: toolcase)With that you can ream solidsteel. Check, charge, or cash?CHRISCash. Put "Jack's Fencing" onthe $788. 30 Chris pays; Clerk writes (continuing)..that a good racket? I oughtto get out from behind (takes receipt)Yeah.(beat)Take it leaves with the heavy red to PDF by "TOYS 'R' US STORE" - ON CERRITO - DAYMICHAEL CERRITO - at 40 - is looking at a doll house. He's a wide, thick, coarse-featured big man. Sicilianfrom Sunnyside, he's spent 15 years in Attica, Joliet andMarion penitentiaries. He's strictly a "cowboy": hisnatural inclination towards a score is "..get the gunsand let's go." He's been off smack and everything elsefor five years.

5 He's clean and sober. He's the nicestguy on the block and a loving father. If you get in hisway, he'll kill you as soon as look at you. If you askedhim about the contradictions, he wouldn't know what youwere talking OR DOLL HOUSE DETAILSIt's 3 x 6 and two feet high. Miniature room sets areinside. Cerrito's thick fingers close the door. He picksit up. WIDEN. He crosses to a counter and this here You're going to have ahappy little I got two 's And gimme those threemasks takes down Clark Gable, Three-eyed Monster, andBeautiful Lady, full-head rubber (continuing)Gimme Donald Duck, tooCLERK(does and laughs)A little early for Halloween?CERRITOYeah. Halloween's coming earlythis year. What do I owe you?CUT TO:Converted to PDF by CONDOMINIUM - A HAND - MORNINGS lides across the back of JUSTINE'S 'S AND HANNA'S FACESShe is 29, auburn, languorous, her eyes are closed and shemakes love with her husband, VINCENT HANNA.

6 Pressing herface to his, their hair It's morning. Weare in an expensive two bodies locked into the rhythms of their love-making,twisted in white sheets. OFF SCREEN a shower TO:INT. SHOWER - HANNAIs in it. The water streams off his body. The glass ismisted. He turns off only the hot and breathes fast inthe cold spray. OFF SCREEN a cigarette lighter TO:BEDROOM - JUSTINE smoking, still under the white sheets, watches Hanna taking me out to breakfast?HANNA(looks at watch)Can't. Bosko's (passing door)Hi Vincent. Mom, where's mybarrettes?LAUREN, Justine's daughter, is 15 and tall and , saw them on the kitchen(to Hanna)Want me to make coffee?HANNA(to Lauren in otherroom)No school today?Converted to PDF by ( )Daddy's picking me up! We'regoing to see the new site andthen shopping and lunch.

7 (beat)They're not on the I don't (to Hanna)He's already half an hour gonna show? Or the son of abitch gonna stand her up likelast time?Hanna clips a 2" .38 in his waistband. Justine shrugs andshakes her (starting out ofbed)Want the coffee?HANNAI'm out of back on the pillow,disappointed. It's as if she'dbeen stood-up. The bed sheetfalls half off of her. She'sexposed, vulnerable. She looksout the window, occluded by lightmuslin, away from us and TO:INT. MACARTHUR PARK, MEN'S ROOM - ON WAINGRO - DAYBare-chested washing at a sink. WAINGRO'S 27. He sportsprison tattoos including an Aryan Brotherhood swastikacovering his abdomen. He's a graduate of the "gladiatoracademies," Chino and 's dressed in Army and Navy Store gray workman's clothes. He combs his long hair straight back off his round forehead.

8 Now he tucks his shirt in and puts on wrap around TO:Converted to PDF by MACARTHUR PARK - WAINGROW aits. His shell jacket is in a tight roll under his arm. Then a garbage truck - a Dempsey Dumpster (the kind with apower forklift on the front) - pulls TO:INT. TRUCK - WIDE - DAYM ichael Cerrito is the Waingro? climbs in. Cerrito pulls out. Waingro - delayed -offers his hand. Cerrito has to wait until he finisheshis gear change to shake it. The timing's a little (continuing loud)You're Cerrito huh?(pause)What kinda guy is this Neil?CERRITO(loud) do like he says. like .. he .. have to talk loudly over the clapped-out ENGINE' TO:EXT. ALLEY - ON GARBAGE TRUCK - DAYIt's ABRUPTLY QUIET. The truck's parked. The two men sitidly. Waingro finishes take-out coffee and tosses TRUCK - CERRITOL ights a cigarette.

9 Belatedly, he offers one to Waingro. Waingro lights up. The two men relax under the swirls ofblue guys always work together?CERRITOAll the to PDF by tight crew, huh?CERRITOThat's works good, maybe I couldgo again?Cerrito looks at Waingro. He wants to protect Stop talking, ends the conversation. Waingro drums his fingernailson the dash. He's TO:CHEVY TOWTRUCK - ON TOWNER - DAYTOWNER'S a sloppy, nondescript man in his 40's. He slouchesbehind the wheel. A Bearcat 210 Scanner is under the dashand a walkie-talkie on the seat. As in the garbage truck,it's quiet and he waits. Then:NEIL ( )(radio filter)You ready if I need you?TOWNER(into radio; low) ( )(radio filter)Got their air? a low level we HEAR POLICE TO:INT. AMBULANCE - TWO SHOT - DAYC hris and Neil are sitting in the front seat of theambulance Neil drove away from the to PDF by ANNOUNCER(radio filter).

10 Daddio's jazz patio on KDCA. Brought to you this fine day,which is A-okay, by Twister. Hey, mister, go out and buy abottle of it turns it OFF. A little anxiety TO:INT. GARBAGE TRUCK - TWO SHOT - DAYCERRITO(checks watch) stubs out his cigarette in nervous jabs. Cerritopulls from a paper bag two of the rubber masks he boughtand surgical gloves. He and Waingro put them on quickly. Cerrito has the monster mask three eyes and a twisted mouth. Waingro is a beautiful woman. Their movements now arevery fast. Cerrito pulls the truck out of the 'S POV:As we approach the street an armored truck passes by. Wefall in behind. At this point we realize these men aregoing to pull down an armed robbery of this armored truck. But, we turn LEFT. The armored truck went straight.