INT. BANCO COMMERCIALE DI ROMA -- MONTAGE -- DAY Nearly a dozen female BANK EMPLOYEES count out and bundlehuge piles of lira notes at a great counting table.
CINQUANTA (V.O.) The money must be in used lira notes, small denomination only, no marking.
A PHOTOCOPIER flashes as each note is photographed. The money is a 201-pound mountain. It is packed into three hugecanvas MAIL BAGS and loaded onto a rolling pallet.
EXT. ROME STREETS -- MORNING The streets of Rome are COMPLETELY, EERILY EMPTY. No cars.
CINQUANTA (V.O.) Because of the fuel crisis rationingmeasures, no cars will be allowed onthe roads on Sunday.
Chace fills up a 10-liter can of gasoline at a gas station.
He counts out a stack of lira notes for the owner.
CINQUANTA (V.O.) (CONT'D) This way the autostrada will be empty.
They will know if Gail is followed.
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CHACE:
I'll make the exchange on my own.
INT. GAIL'S APARTMENT -- DAY Chace is on the phone, with Gail, Del Rovere, Corvo, and asurveillance officer in the BG.
CINQUANTA (O.S.) Signora Getty only.
CHACE:
She's not going.
GAIL:
I can do it. I'm doing it.
DEL ROVERE:
Signora, be reasonable.
EXT. GAIL'S APARTMENT -- MORNING With dozens of paparazzi outside her building, Gail ascendsthe stairwell to the rooftop, crosses to another building, and descends to a car at street level on an adjacent block.
CHACE (V.O.) She'll be in a car with millions of dollars. The whole world knows what she looks like. She could be robbed on the highway.
CINQUANTA (V.O.) That's your problem.
CHACE (V.O.) Then we both go. Non-negotiable.
EXT. ROME AUTOSTRADA -- TOLL GATE -- DAY Gail drives, with Chace in the passenger seat. The trunk of the vehicle is weighed down by the money.
CINQUANTA (V.O.) Driving a Fiat 123 with two suitcasestied to the roof, exit the autostrada toll gate at 9AM and drive south at exactly 80 kilometers an hour.
Their car slowly makes its way on the vast, empty autostrada.
CINQUANTA (V.O.) (CONT'D) Don't stop for food, gas, toilet, nothing. Remember they are watching.