(sotto voce) I'm starting to see why they don'twant their kid back. Maybe they'dpay us to keep him, or kill him.
82.
CINQUANTADon't blame the kid. You'd have done the same if you could havethought of it.
Mammoliti gazes out the rear window.
MAMMOLITI:
A big fire like this? It draws attention. Inspectors. Bribes to be paid. We budget for contingencies, but nothing like this.
The farmhouse comes into view. The wooden shed is scorched but still standing. We pull up in front of it.
MAMMOLITI (CONT'D) There are carrying costs. It's discipline, fiscal discipline. Either the family pays, or we must cut ourlosses.
INT. GAIL'S APARTMENT -- MORNING The cops are all gone. Only their overflowing ashtrays andcoffee cups remain. Gail and Chace have been up all night.
Chace sits at the table, tie askew, helping Ariadne, Gail'syoungest, complete a word-search puzzle in a coloring bookas her other son watches television.
ARIADNE:
They always hide the words backwards.
GAIL:
You don't have to do that.
CHACE:
I enjoy it. It's about my speed.
GAIL:
He's not going to call. Go home.
CHACE:
I don't have a home. I have a hotel.
GAIL:
(to Ariadne) Come here, darling. I'll help you.
The girl sits beside Gail. She turns to another puzzle -- amaze -- as Chace reluctantly gathers his jacket to leave.
Gail watches, mesmerized with exhaustion, as the point ofthe pencil slowly winds its way through the maze. Then: 83.
GAIL (CONT'D) My God. How could I be so stupid.
Gail leaps up from her chair and RUNS through the livingroom, down the hallway and into INT. BEDROOM -- MORNING Gail throws open the closet, opening shoeboxes and flingingthem aside. She reaches deep into the dark and finds it: THE MINOTAUR statuette lies inside, swathed in Gail's scarf.
She closes the box and runs back down the hallway, past Chace.
GAIL:
Watch the kids.
CHACE:
What am I supposed to feed them?
The door SLAMS behind her on the way out.
EXT. SOTHEBY'S ROME -- PALAZZO COLONNA -- DAY Gail fixes her makeup in a vanity mirror as her cab pulls upoutside the auction house. She pays the driver - INT. SOTHEBY'S ROME -- DAY -- and grips the shoebox in both hands as she waits. An APPRAISER in a bespoke suit greets her.