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Billy joins Greta in a booth. Gone is any pretense; she's just the girl next door. |
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BILLY (V.O.) She looked different in the daylight. Without the makeup, and the greasemonkeys [alt: barbacks] leering. She looked like a girl I used to know, back when all I worried about was baseball practice and girls like her. She told me about her dreams, her drive out here with a long forgotten friend, struggling to pay the bills until Fred spotted her at his nightclub. And that was when it was all going to change, it was all looking up. (beat) I made a living reading batter's faces, and Greta Glade was as transparent as they come. You can't hide fear and anger, no matter how hard you try...
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GRETA I've gotten to know Fred. I know some things about him and what he's doing that he don't want in the papers. Yet.
BILLY What do you mean?
GRETA He's got an inappropriate video involving his lovely movie star wife Ava, and he plans on selling it to the highest bidder.
BILLY How do you know?
GRETA Because he showed me it when he was trying to get me in my own inappropriate video. (beat) How do you think a scumbag like Fred ends up with a star like Ava? Leverage. Blackmail. Inflicting pain. But it can go both ways. (beat) Help me get that video. I know where it is, in his house. You gotta go drop off Ava's car, perfect excuse to be up there. We can get this video...
BILLY And do what with it?
GRETA Get it out of Fred's hands. Give it to the cops. Sell it ourselves... (she takes his hand, beguiling) Let's do it.
BILLY Fred'll come after us. Ava'll come after us. We'd have to disappear, or be 'disappeared.'
GRETA I've come too far to disappear now, not when I'm getting started.
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GRETA (CONT'D) Like he's got these bonds, in a safe box at the bank. They're too hot to sell right now but he's got to move them or he'll get burned. We're talking like $6 million. Think of what we could do with $6 million.
BILLY That's not that hard. (beat) But what can we do, I don't know anyone...
GRETA I got some people lined up... Will you help me? Are you in?
She slides a SKI MASK across the table.
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GRETA (CONT'D) Suit yourself. But Fred's not a good guy Billy. And I'm gonna make him pay for what he does to me when his wife's gone, when his mechanics [alt: bartenders] and stoolies can't hear my screams - or can hear, but don't care.
BILLY I'd do somethin'.
GRETA I know you would.
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