GAIL (CONT'D) You didn't get where you are withouta healthy regard for the value of adollar. You know a bargain when you see one. You know how to seize the initiative when your opponent is athis weakest. What I'm offering isthe greatest bargain you're evergoing to get. But free never lasts.
She rises, leaving the jewelry on the table. Iacovoni tries to interrupt, but she ignores him.
GAIL (CONT'D) Six o'clock.
HOLD on Getty. Over the sound of a PLANE LANDING we CUT TO: INT. ROME FIUMICINO AIRPORT -- EVENING Little Paul emerges from the gate into Gail's arms. She holds him tightly, exhausted and relieved. For a moment, heaccepts her embrace, but then:
PAUL:
I wanted to stay.
GAIL:
Let's just go home, OK?
PAUL:
I was happy with Dad and Talitha.
Why'd you have to ruin it?
He pulls away from her. As they walk through the airport, Paul walks on ahead, pulling farther away from her.
Gail begins to reach out for him, but stops herself, givinghim his freedom, until he is nearly lost in the crowd.
INT. GAIL'S APARTMENT -- PAUL'S ROOM -- DAWN Gail has been up all night. We have come full circle now, and have returned to the night of Paul's disappearance.
Gail stands in the door of Paul's room, gazing at his bed, which has not been slept in. Her other two kids are asleep.
GAIL (V.O.) Call me if you hear from him. No questions asked. Just tell him to come home.
Gail hangs up the phone. She closes Paul's address book.
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with no other way to fill her time, she tries towork at her drafting table. She can't focus. 24.
She cleans the bathroom instead. She washes the sheets in the sink.
INT. GAIL'S APARTMENT -- DAWN Gail lies passed out on the bathroom floor, still wearingher rubber gloves. The apartment is immaculate.
The kitchen phone RINGS. She wakes, rises, goes to it.
GAIL:
Yes. Si?
The low VOICE on the other end speaks English with an accent.