We PUSH IN on Getty as the OPENING BELL RINGS... INT. LONDON HEATHROW AIRPORT -- DAY The boarding gate door opens and Fletcher Chace emergeswearing a suit, sunglasses and a repentant look. Then he sees something that stops him cold:
EMBARGO:
headlined on every London newspaper's evening edition:
"OPEC shuts off global oil supply." CHACE (V.O.) When I got on the plane this morningoil was $4 per barrel.
INT. SUTTON PLACE -- DAY Chace walks the halls alongside Getty.
GETTY:
You should have bought it. No one will ever see that price again.
Getty's secretary hurries up to him in her high heels. She hands him a slip of ticker tape.
67.
SECRETARY:
The New York open, Mr. Getty.
CHACE:
I think it's time to reassess our strategy -
GETTY:
Shh.
Getty reads the tape and gazes into the distance.
CHACE:
What are you doing, sir?
GETTY:
Multiplication.
Then he's done. The number seems to surprise even him.
GETTY (CONT'D) A good day.
CHACE:
I'm glad to hear that, Mr Getty.
It'll make this much easier.
(a beat) We need to pay the ransom.
GETTY:
You said it was a hoax.
CHACE:
Your grandson was kidnapped by membersof the Calabrian N'dragheta, theoldest of all Italian Mafias. Two of the original kidnappers are deadand one is missing.