She stands there, solid, ready to punch him again. Slowly, he slides his belt out of his trousers, and doubles it in his hand.
CARLO:
Clean it up!
He swings the belt against her heavy hips. She moves back into the kitchen, and gets a kitchen knife, and holds it ready.
CARLO:
Even the female Corleones are murderers.
He puts the strap down on a table, and moves after her. She makes a sudden thrust at his groin, which he avoids. He pulls the knife away, cutting his hand in the process. She gets away momentarily, but he pursues her around the table, gets her; and starts to slap her in the face.
She breaks away from him, and rushes into the bedroom.
CONNIE:
The baby! The baby!
INT DAY:
CONNIE'S BEDROOM (SPRING 1946) She runs into the bedroom; he follows. She moves into a corner, and then like a desperate animal, tries to hide under the bed.
He reaches under, and pulls her out by the hair.
He slaps her in the face until she begins to weep; then he throws her on the bed, contemptuously. He grabs part of her thigh, pinching it very hard.
CARLO:
You're fat as a pig.
Then he pushes her away, and walks out of the room, leaving her in tears. She is crying; she pulls herself to the bedroom phone, and in a whisper:
CONNIE:
Mama...mama, it's Connie. Mama, I can't talk any louder. No, I don't want to talk to Sonny.
We can tell that the phone has been passed to SONNY.
INT DAY:
DON'S KITCHEN (SPRING 1946) In the kitchen at the Mall, MAMA cannot understand the whispering and she has given the phone to SONNY.
SONNY:
Yeah Connie.
CONNIE (O.S.) Sonny, just send a car to bring me home. I'll tell you then, it's nothing Sonny, don't you come.
Send TOM, please Sonny, it's nothing; I just want to come home.
SONNY's face is turning red.
SONNY:
(in a controlled voice) You wait there. You just wait there.
He hangs up the phone; and just stands there for a moment.
SONNY:
(quietly) That sonofabitch; that sonofabitch... HAGEN enters the room; he knows what is happening, knows he cannot interfere.
EXT DAY:
MALL SONNY leaves the house. HAGEN moves to the outside mall just as SONNY's car is driving off. He moves to a group of BUTTON MEN.
