of Chipmunk. There's more than one to choose from, goingall the way back to his childhood.
INT. EVIDENCE ROOM -- DAY The Police clerks search through boxes of criminal photofiles. Photos of Chipmunk are pinned to the wall.
CORVO:
Ettore "Il Tamia" Pazzano, age 33 years. Purse snatching, publicindecency, vandalism, desecration ofa holy place, corruption of the youth.
PHOTOS of Cinquanta and Piccolino are pinned up on the board.
CORVO (CONT'D)
Known associates:
Alberto Laganadi, Dino Bova, Dante Agnana, all fromFiumara, Calabria, population 1381.
CHACE:
How fast can we get to Fiumara?
CUT TO:
A CONVOY OF SQUADRA MOBILE VEHICLES
On the unpaved road through the Calabrian mountains:
we gazedown at them from a police helicopter circling high overhead. EXT. MOUNTAIN ROAD -- CALABRIA --PRE-DAWN The police cars stop on the mountain road and the uniformedpolice climb out. Del Rovere instructs Chace:
DEL ROVERE:
I must ask you to stay here. For your own safety.
Chace watches Rovere head off down the road.
CHACE:
(to Gail) Stay here.
Chace opens the door and climbs out. The officer at the wheel protests, but Chace ignores him. Then Gail climbs out as well, and the cop goes apoplectic.
63.
GAIL:
Arrest me.
We can see the stone house from several hundred meters awayas the police create a wide perimeter encircling it. Nearby, a SQUADRA OFFICER questions a GOATHERD. Gail listens in:
GOATHERD:
...hanno mantenuto il ragazzo in una grotta nelle montagne... Gail starts walking up the mountain road, in the oppositedirection from the police, and Chace follows. They reachthe mouth of the cave, which is littered with cigarette butts.
Gail enters. Chace casts a glance back:
in the pasture farbelow, the police cordon around the stone house draws tighter. INT. CAVE We HOLD on GAIL as she moves deeper into the dark, followingthe last of daylight into its depths. Then she finds it:
GAIL:
Paul.
PAUL'S BED, empty. The chain and shackle lie beside it, andPaul's Fantastic Comics lies on the ground. An unfinished letter in his handwriting crumpled beside it.
GAIL (CONT'D) "If you love me, Mother -- " GUNSHOTS ring out, the echoes multiplying off the cave walls.
Gail and Chace hurry to the mouth of the cave.
EXT. STONE HOUSE -- MORNING The house is riddled with gunfire, the windows shattered.
Piccolino slumps in the doorway with his shotgun in the dustbeside him. Del Rovere kicks the gun aside.