As they drive they glimpse isolated FIGURES standing at theedge of the highway:
SENTRIES posted by the N'dragheta. CINQUANTA (V.O.) (CONT'D) A handful of gravel will strike yourwindshield. This will be their sign.
They enter the mountains; a FOG shrouds everything.
CINQUANTA (V.O.) (CONT'D) Obey these rules or they will takehis other ear, his eyes, a hand.
A FISTFUL OF GRAVEL peppers their windshield. Chace cranes his neck to see who threw it and glimpses a figure by theroadside darting back into the trees.
Gail pulls over. The highway is empty. It's unclear what they should do next. Then Gail sees him:
A YOUNG BOY:
standing by the roadside, shadowed in the mist a hundredyards away. Gail runs toward him...
GAIL:
Paul -- ! ...but then she slows. The boy is not Paul. It's a 12-yearold mafia wannabe smoking a cigarette, waiting. A messenger.
ROADSIDE KID:
Lasciare i soldi. Leave the money.
Drive on to the gas station and waitfor our call while we count it.
The kid turns and vanishes into the forest.
那孩子转身消失在森林里。
CUT TO:
THE BAGS OF MONEY by the side of the road. As Chace drives away we glimpse the shadows of men emerging from the forest - -- then CUT TO an AERIAL VIEW of the scene as viewed from a POLICE SURVEILLANCE AIRPLANE high above. In an instant, themail bags are whisked away into the forest.
EXT. AGIP GAS STATION -- DAY Closed. A cardboard sign on the pump reads "NIENTE BENZINA -NO GAS." Gail pulls up in front of a battered pay phone.
INT. COUNTING ROOM -- DAY The mail bags are unzipped. The bricks of lira are broken down and counted by hand, all under Saverio Mammoliti's eye.
110.
We recognize the woman from Mammoliti's factory among them.
INT. DELIVERY TRUCK -- DAY Paul Getty rides in back, along with Cinquanta and Sgro. He is dressed in brand-new clothes. Cinquanta brushes him off.
CINQUANTAThat's better. You can't go home toyour mother looking like a sciattone.
SGR.
I still say we should have cut histongue out, just to be safe.
The truck stops. Cinquanta pulls a ski mask over the boy'shead backwards, so as to blindfold him.
SGR. (CONT'D) Walk twenty paces, then stop andwait. We're watching. Take the mask off and we'll kill you.
EXT. AUTOSTRADA -- DRAIN PIPE -- DAY The truck's rear doors open next to a concrete drain pipe.
As Cinquanta helps Paul out of the truck he whispers: