Teddy Pasternak at 2012-08-04 22:20:37:
Go (1999) Written by John August
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GAINES
You come here out of the blue asking for
twenty hits. Just so happens twenty is
the magic number where intent to sell
becomes trafficking.
RONNA
Todd, I would never fuck you like that.
GAINES
How would you fuck me? Would you strap it
on?
He climbs over the sofa to a dresser. In a drawer, he digs
down through a pile of socks to find a wide-mouthed bottle.
And an empty Tylenol bottle. Blows out the dust.
GAINES
What’s the occasion?
RONNA
There’s this big Christmas party thing.
Warehouse, you know. A bunch of us are
doing sort of a pre-party thing.
GAINES
Friends of yours. You’re not going to go
and try to sell this on me, are you?
RONNA
No.
GAINES
You’re not dealing.
RONNA
Swear to God.
He transfers pills from the big bottle to the Tylenol bottle.
GAINES
This is the real thing. Pharmaceutical
grade, not that crunchy herbal rave shit.
Don’t let anyone double dose or you’ll be
frying eggs off ‘em in the emergency room.
One hit per headbanger.
RONNA
Understood.
He snaps the cap on tight.
GAINES
Twenty at fifteen is 300.
RONNA
Fifteen? I was thinking more like ten.
GAINES
You already did strap it on.
RONNA
It’s just that I know you charge Simon
ten.
GAINES
Inflation’s a bitch.
He offers it to Ronna, who doesn’t reach out for it.
RONNA
Here’s the deal. There’s 20 of us. I
need all of this. But I only have two
hundred. I mean, that’s all I have.
Gaines undoes the cap of the Tylenol bottle, starts pouring the
pills back out.
RONNA (CONT’D)
No, hear me out. This two-hundred is like
a downpayment. You give me the stuff, I
get the extra hundred from them, then I
come right back and pay you.
GAINES
See, that would be doing you a favor, and
you know how I feel about favors.
RONNA
I could leave something with you.
Collateral.
He gives her a quick look over.
GAINES
I already got a fucking Swatch. I need
something I know you’ll come back for.
Ronna looks at the Tylenol bottle in his hands. Thinking...
EXT. THE BEAST - NIGHT
Ronna kneels down beside the passenger window. Knocks on the
glass. Claire rolls down the window. MUSIC spills out.
RONNA
Claire, could you come up with me for a
sec?
EXT. DOORSTEP - NIGHT
The release BUZZER stops as Ronna pulls open the door to the
stairs. Claire just stands there, disbelieving, making no
motion to go in.
RONNA
Forty-five minutes. Hour, tops. You just
have to sit there.
CLAIRE
Hello! He’s a drug dealer.
RONNA
Jesus, Claire. Don’t get 818 on me here.
How much shit have I done for you? This
is nothing.
CLAIRE
No. No! You’re making me an accessory.
RONNA
Claire. That bracelet of mine you’re wearing
is an accessory. You are just some chick
who’s sitting in an apartment. That’s it.
It’s not just the matter at hand, but years of minor adjustment
and one-upsmanship. Ronna finally drops the bravado.
RONNA
Okay, no bullshit. I need this. I don’t
get this money, I get evicted. My ass is
out the street.