杰瑞发布于2022-10-16
IACOVONI (O.S.) We have a problem. Giovanni Iacovoni has set up a makeshift office at a tableby the window. He rises and approaches them, agitated. IACOVONI (CONT'D) The contract you signed. The languageof the document. It's hidden. (a beat) Getty has agreed to loan his son the ransom up to the amount that is taxdeductible. 99.GAIL: No. The phone starts RINGING.IACOVONI: So I investigate. Under US tax code, only the first million is deductible. That's all they wired to us.GAIL: What is the ransom down to?CHACE: Four. Down from seventeen.GAIL: We don't have four. We have one. A series of clicks as, back in Rome, the Italian Police setup the phone connection: SQUADRA MOBILE (O.S.) Momento per favore. Then Cinquanta comes on the line: CINQUANTA (O.S.) Meno male. It's almost over.GAIL: What is Paul's condition? CINQUANTA (O.S.) He's not so good, but we can keephim alive a few days, long enough tomake the exchange.GAIL: We may not have all of it. CINQUANTA (O.S.) All of what?GAIL: We only have a million. INT. PHONE BOOTH, REGGIO, CALABRIA -- INTERCUT -- NIGHTCINQUANTA: The number is four. CHACE (O.S.) One is the new number. 100. CINQUANTAOne is one quarter of the ransom. For this they'll send one-quarter of your son. Tell me, which quarter doyou want?