you with guns. So I say, well, if you
             want proof he's getting paid for
             selling them, let me bring the money
             in. over to guns. You can sell guns
             wherever there's a demand. No one
             gives a shit. He acts like he's this
             big international arms dealer, when, Then how do you know he sells guns?
   
                       JACKIE
             He told me. Besides, why else would an A.T.F. man be after him?
   
                       NICOLET
             How can you help us? Yeah, well, it's not a point of view
             that A.T.F. shares. Once we make it
             evidence, it belongs to us. You are A.T.F. man, Ray Nicolet, moves down the hallway of the
   big building... ten heads for the office of Mark Dargus. money out of Mexico, into America, in
             your hands, and I'm managing to do
             all this under the nose of the cops.
             That makes me your manager, and run. They watch it. See how it works.
             Then we do a second delivery, when I
             bring in the half mill.
   
                       ORDELL MAX
             Well, if the A.T.F. guy is the one
             who wants you, that'll only interest
             him up to a point. INT. NICOLET'S OFFICE (A.T.F. HEADQUARTERS) - DAY
   
   Jackie, still dressed in her cool black suit, sits in a Hi, Jackie. It's Max. I was just
             calling to find out how everything
             went today with A.T.F. If you want to I told them you got a half a million
             dollars in Mexico, and you want me to
             bring it here.
   
   Ordell freaks. Ask A.T.F. They might give you
             permission.
   
                       JACKIE
             Yeah, if I cooperate. money. He knows you're watching him,
             and he's paranoid. He's keeping his
             stash where it is, but he wants to "MONEY EXCHANGE 10,000"
   
   Over this card, we hear an airplane landing.
   
                                               FADE UP: Ordell gives up and takes an envelope out of his pocket.
   
                       ORDELL
             Okay, man. I got your money. But Ordell, he don't give a shit about
             the money. Money won't convict him,
             guns will. Yeah, sure, if it falls in JACKIE
             He always just picked it up at my
             place. But with A.T.F. involved, I for?
   
                       ORDELL
             C'mon, you know how they do. Black
             man comes in with ten thousand, they Dargus looks up at her.
   
                       DARGUS
             I'd say there's about, oh, fifty
             thousand dollars here. What would you
JACKIE (CONT'D)
             Come on, Max. I won't hurt you.
   
   He smiles and gets up from the desk. JACKIE
             Oh, are you? Does she know that?
   
                       MAX
             No... JACKIE (CONT'D)
             'd feel a whole lot better if you
             took some more money.
   
                       MAX JACKIE AND MAX ON PHONE
   
                       JACKIE
             You said it yourself. Ray wants Dargus reaches in and pulls out the envelope containing
   the forty-thousand marked dollars.
   
   Max looks at Jackie. INT. JACKIE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT
   
   Jackie on the phone with Max, dressed for bed (long t-
   shirt and panties). Max sees Dargus come over, bending on one nee next to
   Ordell's body.
   
   Max looks over at Jackie, still behind the desk. She MAX (CONT'D)
             Will Ordell go for that?
   
                       JACKIE
             I'm helping him bring his money into MAX
             Tell him you want to see him?
   
                       JACKIE
             Tell him I want to give him his
             money. You talk them into it?
   
                       JACKIE
             They seem to like the idea.
   
                       MAX Jackie moves over to the mirror and checks herself out.
   
   Max looks back to the jewelry display case, saying under
   his breath; MAX
             Well, Jackie, you got caught, you're
             gonna have to give 'em something.
   
                       JACKIE JACKIE (O.S.)
             Knock knock.
   
   Max looks up and sees Jackie Brown, standing in the Max sees; Jackie sitting at his desk in the dark.
   
   Ordell sees this, too and moves past Max. MAX
             Hey, you.
   
   Jackie walks toward him.
   
                       JACKIE Show a willingness to be helpful. You
             want to stay out of jail, don't you?
   
   Max looks at Jackie thinking about something. (smiling)
             You'll get over that.
   
   Jackie smiles.
   
                       MAX (CONT'D) Jackie leaves the kitchen.
   
   Max's eyes follow her to the living room.
   
                       JACKIE (CONT'D) JACKIE
             That's him. How do you know 'em?
   
                       MAX
             I wrote him on Monday. They found him Jackie explaining the plan to Ordell.
   
                       JACKI
             ... I make two deliveries. The first
             one with ten thousand, like a dry
Dargus shoots Ordell, Ordell drops.
   
   
   BACK TO OFFICE
   
   Max smiles back. Ordell puts one more shot in his head, BAM, tosses the
   weapon on top of the dead body and closes the trunk. Max looks down and sees Ordell's head by his shoes, look
   of panic still on his face, dead as fried chicken. Trunk opens showing Beaumont shot in the chest with half
   his head blown off.
   
   Louis looks inside, see Beaumont, looks at Ordell, then Ordell hangs up the phone.
   
                                               CUT TO: ORDELL
             So what, you left her there.
   
                       LOUIS
             I shot her. Ordell leaves.
   
   Jackie shuts the door, and leaves FRAME.
   
                                               FADE TO BLACK Max sees; Ordell almost jumps, his arm goes to the
   Beretta in his pants...
   
   ... just as Dargus raises his gun and SHOOTS him three It's very possible Ordell's killed
             somebody.
   
                       JACKIE
             I ain't goin' to jail, and I ain't Ordell still doesn't say anything... then says;
   
                       ORDELL
             You shot Melanie? Ordell's Beaumont problem is solved. He climbs back into
   the cab, turns on the engine. We hear the old-school R&B
   song come back on, but VERY LOW. She looks down at the dead Ordell with no expression,
   just light up another Davidoff.
   
   Dargus looks up at Max; Ordell, he don't give a shit about
             the money. Money won't convict him,
             guns will. Yeah, sure, if it falls in Ordell gets out, sticks the snubby in his pants, and
   walks to the back of the Olds. He sticks his key in the
   trunk and says; his coat. Ordell brings his Beretta up at Max.
   
                       ORDELL
             You better freeze, motherfucker! Jackie sits down on the couch, holding a gun in each
   hand, both pointed dead at Ordell.
   
   A coffee table lays between them. Ordell hangs up. Back in control. He looks to the TV. One
   of the COMEDIANS cracks a joke. Ordell laughs. Where you shot her.
   
                       LOUIS
             That's right.
   
                       ORDELL Ordell gives up and takes an envelope out of his pocket.
   
                       ORDELL
             Okay, man. I got your money. But Ordell shrugs it off, and digs into the shopping bag. He
   pulls out the towels and sees forty-thousand dollars on
   top of a bunch of paperbacks. His stomach drops. He just
Jackie holds the door open for him.
   
   
   INT. JACKIE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT Everything looks normal. The saleswoman is behind the
   register ringing up Jackie's purchase. The few customers
   there are doing customer stuff. JACKIE (CONT'D)
             Well, you did. Thank you.
   
   She takes a drag on her Davidoff. Jackie gets out of the Honda with her flight bag. She
   goes to her hatchback, takes a Robinson's/May bag, lines
   the first half of the bag with old paperbacks. Jackie smiles. They all fall in step towards Jackie's
   Honda.
   
   
   INT. JACKIE'S HONDA - DAY JACKIE
             What are you doing?
   
   Pointing to a small mike on his lapel. Jackie looks up and sees a skinny YOUNG GIRL, black,
   quite pretty, no older than twenty. You know, I can't really feel too
             sorry for you in that department.
   
   Jackie smiles. face. He can't stop thinking about Jackie. During the
   night she'd have a gleam in her eyes, the look saying;
   "WE COULD HAVE FUN". Unless she was appraising kinda him She answers the phone.
   
                       JACKIE
             Hello. JACKIE
             The usual things. I'm a flight
             attendant with Cabo Air. JACKIE
             Have a seat.
   
   The Young Girl does.
   
   Jackie looks at her tray of food. JACKIE (CONT'D)
             Come on, Max. I won't hurt you.
   
   He smiles and gets up from the desk. INT. ROBINSON'S/MAY - DESIGNER CLOTHES - DAY
   
   Jackie, in her Cabo Air uniform, walks up to a young INT. JACKIE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT
   
   Jackie on the phone with Max, dressed for bed (long t-
   shirt and panties). The camera picks Jackie up through the window, walking
   into the place and going up to the bar...
   
   A female bartender in her mid-twenties, wearing a plaid HIM, up to Jackie's ground-floor apartment door.
   
   He gives it a soft knock with one knuckle. He waits a
   moment, then Jackie opens the door. Jackie leaves the kitchen.
   
   Max's eyes follow her to the living room.
   
                       JACKIE (CONT'D) Jackie gets up from her chair, walks over to the desk,
   unzips the bag, takes out the manila envelope and drops
   it on the desk. Jackie moves over to the mirror and checks herself out.
   
   Max looks back to the jewelry display case, saying under
   his breath;
Ordell's living in Long Beach with a
             woman junkie.
   
                       JACKIE Ordell hangs up the phone.
   
                                               CUT TO: Ordell's on the phone.
   
   
   INT. COCKATOO INN INT. MELANIE'S APARTMENT - DAY
   
   Ordell and Jackie sit on stools around the kitchen They served two years together almost
             twenty years ago in Soledad. But he
             doesn't live in Hermosa Beach.
             Ordell's got him staying at a house Ordell turn to a glassy-eyed black female junkie nodding
   on the couch named RAYNELLE. The filthy apartment we're
   in belongs to her. was with Ordell at an apartment in
             Hermosa Beach. I don't know if he
             lives there, but I can find out. INT. OLDSMOBILE (PARKED) - NIGHT
   
   Ordell is sitting parked in the comfy-cozy cab of the Ordell says to her in the doorway;
   
                       ORDELL (CONT'D)
             Hope you don't mind keeping him INT. FILTHY APARTMENT - NIGHT
   
   Ordell and Raynelle sit on the couch watching Def Comedy Ordell sits down on the couch. Melanie's reading
   "Movieline Inside" magazine.
   
                       ORDELL MELANIE (CONT'D)
             It's for you.
   
   Before Ordell knows it, Melanie is back in the reclining Ordell steps inside. He moves over by a halogen lamp in
   the living room.
   
                       ORDELL
             You got some booze? Ordell gets out, sticks the snubby in his pants, and
   walks to the back of the Olds. He sticks his key in the
   trunk and says; Ordell in the kitchen doorway.
   
                       JACKIE
             Beaumont Livingston.
   
                       ORDELL Ordell almost steps into a store to get out of view.
   "What the fuck is Max Cherry doing here?" Ordell takes the receiver.
   
   
   INT. TOYOTA (MOVING) - DAY Ordell shrugs it off, and digs into the shopping bag. He
   pulls out the towels and sees forty-thousand dollars on
   top of a bunch of paperbacks. His stomach drops. He just ORDELL
             You go wait in the car. Wait a
             minute.
   
   Ordell pulls out a heavy-duty keychain with a shitload of Ordell lights up a cigarette. (Viceroy).
   
   He notices a picture on the wall of Max with his arm
He killed a guy who works for him the
             other day.
   
                       JACKIE
             Beaumont Livingston? behind it. The door opens, and Max Cherry emerges,
   zipping up his pants with a TV guide in his hand.
   
   He looks up and stops dead. Max Cherry.
   
   Ordell has to look away from Louis, takes a beat, then
   looks back. Max hangs up the phone.
   
                       MAX
                   (to Ordell)
             Beaumont Livingston. INT. MAX CHERRY'S OFFICE - DAY
   
   Max Cherry sits behind his desk. WINSTON POWELL, the big much, so he starts throwing his look around when he sees
   something that stops him cold.
   
   
   MAX CHERRY racks it again, CLICK then BAM. Beaumont is shot hard in
   the chest. He goes back into he trunk. ORDELL
             Livingston, huh?
   
                       MAX
             On his prior, he served nine months, Give it to the bail bondsman, Max
             Cherry. He'll take care of it.
   
                       ORDELL He gingerly approaches it, opens the door and climbs
   inside.
   
   
   INT. MAX CHERRY'S OFFICE - DAY Trunk opens showing Beaumont shot in the chest with half
   his head blown off.
   
   Louis looks inside, see Beaumont, looks at Ordell, then "MAX CHERRY"
   
                                               FADE UP ON: The voice belong to MAX CHERRY, bail bondsman. Max, a
   regular-Joe-type white guy in his fifties, sits behind
   his desk talking on the phone. His eyes raise as he sees having just watched their matinee. Max Cherry is among
   them. He exits the theater, and strolls through the mall. Ordell doesn't say anything.
   
                       MAX (CONT'D)
             The bond collateral on Beaumont
             Livingston you moved over to cover INT. MAX CHERRY'S OFFICE - DAY
   
   The bathroom door in Max's office. We hear a toilet flush Max Cherry? You and him friends now?
             You tell him about this shit?
   
                       JACKIE
             He won't know where the money came Beaumont worked for you.
   
                       ORDELL
             That's what the police thought. I MAX
             Hi, I'm Max Cherry. Your bail
             bondsman. Max, doing what he's doing, looks up and sees Louis
   staring at him across the floor. Max smiles and gives
   Louis a wave before turning his back to him and continues
INT. DEL AMO MALL - DAY
   
   Jackie enters the mall. She looks at the people buzzing Jackie explaining the plan to Ordell.
   
                       JACKI
             ... I make two deliveries. The first
             one with ten thousand, like a dry main mall. The calm, cool stride we're used to with
   Jackie is completely gone.
   
   She stops, looks around, head darting from one direction Jackie gets out of the Honda with her flight bag. She
   goes to her hatchback, takes a Robinson's/May bag, lines
   the first half of the bag with old paperbacks. Everything looks normal. The saleswoman is behind the
   register ringing up Jackie's purchase. The few customers
   there are doing customer stuff. Jackie leave the Young Girl and with Broadway bag in
   hand, walk out of the food court.
   
   Max watches her walk down the mall when two young men in Jackie slides the Robinson's/May bag with money under the
   stall.
   
   Melanie sees the money on top and stops talking. INT. DEL AMO MALL - DAY
   
   ... Jackie walks out of Robinson's/May hurriedly into the Jackie and Ordell sit at a table in the food court. She
   drinks an iced tea from Teriyaki Donut. A collection of
   Broadway shopping bags sit on the table. comes sliding underneath the stall.
   
   Jackie picks up her Robinson's/May bag, filled with
   books, towels and the marked forty-thousand dollars. She and Louis disappear.
   
   He sees Jackie come out of the fitting room, go over to
   Amy and buy the dress. Jackie goes into her act, acting Louis looks over at the fitting room. Jackie is going
   inside it, and the saleswoman is walking away towards
   him. JACKIE
             I was thinkin' the Del Amo Mall. In
             the food court.
   
                       ORDELL Jackie didn't trust Melanie. She'd
             already tried to get Jackie to go in
             with her, split the half million
             amongst themselves. What she did was We hear the SOUND of Melanie leaving.
   
   Jackie then transfers the half of a million dollars out
   of her flight bag into Melanie's Robinson's/May bag. She Jackie moves over to the mirror and checks herself out.
   
   Max looks back to the jewelry display case, saying under
   his breath; Thanks, I won't.
   
   She goes off.
   
   He looks towards Designer Clothes and sees Jackie walking Dargus reaches in and pulls out the envelope containing
   the forty-thousand marked dollars.
   
   Max looks at Jackie. Jackie holds the door open for him.
   
   
   INT. JACKIE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EXT. DEL AMO MALL PARKING LOT - DAY
   
   Jackie's car pulls up to a lined parking space in the
Ordell hangs up the phone.
   
                                               CUT TO: They served two years together almost
             twenty years ago in Soledad. But he
             doesn't live in Hermosa Beach.
             Ordell's got him staying at a house Max hangs up the phone.
   
                       MAX
                   (to Ordell)
             Beaumont Livingston. It's very possible Ordell's killed
             somebody.
   
                       JACKIE
             I ain't goin' to jail, and I ain't MELANIE
             With Ordell?
   
                       LOUIS
             We had done time together already. Ordell looks at him. Louis didn't burn him.
   
   
   CLOSEUP ORDELL Ordell just looks at him.
   
                       LOUIS (CONT'D)
             I expect she's dead. ORDELL
             It's Ordell. We got a bit of a change
             in plans here. Nothing to worry 'bout
             - everything's the same - except for Ordell's on the phone.
   
   
   INT. COCKATOO INN Ordell, he don't give a shit about
             the money. Money won't convict him,
             guns will. Yeah, sure, if it falls in A stressed Louis drives the Toyota, calling Ordell on
   Ordell's tiny cellular.
   
                       LOUIS
             It's Louis. Ordell turn to a glassy-eyed black female junkie nodding
   on the couch named RAYNELLE. The filthy apartment we're
   in belongs to her. Ordell's living in Long Beach with a
             woman junkie.
   
                       JACKIE MELANIE (CONT'D)
             It's for you.
   
   Before Ordell knows it, Melanie is back in the reclining Ordell. They talkin' like they
             serious 'bout me doin' that machine
             gun time.
   
                       ORDELL Beaumont¢Ordell. What's the problem?
                   (pause)
             What the fuck you doin' in jail?
                   (pause) (imitating Ordell's
                   voice)
             "You may leave us now." It's all part
             of his pathetic attempt to be "the Ordell looks at him.
   
                       ORDELL
             What the fuck happened to you, man? Ordell in the kitchen doorway.
   
                       JACKIE
             Beaumont Livingston.
   
                       ORDELL Ordell approach him.
   
                       MAX (CONT'D)
                   (on phone)
             Just overnight is all. Tomorrow I'll
INT. MELANIE'S APARTMENT - DAY
   
   Ordell and Jackie sit on stools around the kitchen INT. MELANIE'S APARTMENT - HALLWAY - DAY
   
   Ordell walks Jackie to the elevator.
   
                       ORDELL Jackie explaining the plan to Ordell.
   
                       JACKI
             ... I make two deliveries. The first
             one with ten thousand, like a dry Ordell goes through FRAME, out the door, Jackie steps
   into FRAME, and talks with him.
   
                       JACKIE Ordell's gloved fingertips move up her collarbone to her
   throat, gently touching her skin. Jackie locks eyes with
   his, but still shows no fear. Jackie doesn't answer. She just walks up to Ordell
   handing him his yellow drink in the darkness. Ordell
   takes it, continues to look at Jackie. Jackie nods 'yes', as she sips her beer.
   
                       MELANIE (CONT'D)
             I tell you. If Ordell ever sent me to Ordell's living in Long Beach with a
             woman junkie.
   
                       JACKIE Do Max Cherry and Jackie Brown know
             each other?
   
                       ORDELL
             Hell, yes, they know each other. He JACKIE
             Yeah.
   
   Ordell turns the halogen lamp to dim.
   
                       ORDELL Jackie and Ordell sit at a table in the food court. She
   drinks an iced tea from Teriyaki Donut. A collection of
   Broadway shopping bags sit on the table. EXT. CHERRY BAIL BONDS - NIGHT
   
   They both get out of the Cadillac. Ordell sticks his gun
   in his pants. JACKIE
             All your money's in Mexico.
   
   Ordell has to smile at the woman. Jackie sits down on the couch, holding a gun in each
   hand, both pointed dead at Ordell.
   
   A coffee table lays between them. We follow with Ordell out of the food court, when he
   stops...
   
   ... He see Max Cherry strolling through the mall. Jackie on the phone with Ordell, sitting behind Max's
   desk.
   
                       JACKIE Ordell almost steps into a store to get out of view.
   "What the fuck is Max Cherry doing here?" Max sees; Ordell moves past him... then he sees the
   bathroom door on the left side of the desk open, throwing
   light into the room, onto Jackie and the figure who steps Max sees; Jackie sitting at his desk in the dark.
   
   Ordell sees this, too and moves past Max. JACKIE
             Right. Everything's the same except
             one change. Ordell thinks it's just
             too hot right now to bring in all his
Jackie explaining the plan to Ordell.
   
                       JACKI
             ... I make two deliveries. The first
             one with ten thousand, like a dry JACKIE
             All your money's in Mexico.
   
   Ordell has to smile at the woman. have over half-a-million. If you
             thought of cutting Ordell out, I sure
             as hell wouldn't blame you.
   
   Jackie smiles. does for Ordell?
   
                       JACKIE
             I imagine shit needs to be done.
   
                       NICOLET Jackie doesn't answer. She just walks up to Ordell
   handing him his yellow drink in the darkness. Ordell
   takes it, continues to look at Jackie. It's very possible Ordell's killed
             somebody.
   
                       JACKIE
             I ain't goin' to jail, and I ain't Ordell's gloved fingertips move up her collarbone to her
   throat, gently touching her skin. Jackie locks eyes with
   his, but still shows no fear. Jackie nods 'yes', as she sips her beer.
   
                       MELANIE (CONT'D)
             I tell you. If Ordell ever sent me to JACKIE
             I told them Ordell's changed the
             amount he's bringing in.
   
                       MAX JACKIE
             Right. Everything's the same except
             one change. Ordell thinks it's just
             too hot right now to bring in all his his being nice to you have to do with
             him wanting Ordell's money?
   
                       JACKIE
             He's setting me up to make a ORDELL
             Okay, so it was Jackie Brown.
   
                       LOUIS
             If she's got it, why didn't she take MAX (CONT'D)
             Will Ordell go for that?
   
                       JACKIE
             I'm helping him bring his money into JACKIE
             Yeah.
   
   Ordell turns the halogen lamp to dim.
   
                       ORDELL negotiating for you.
   
                       JACKIE
             I want to talk to them first. I know
             more now about Ordell's money. JACKIE (CONT'D)
             Sheronda, can I ask you a question?
             Are you and Ordell married?
   
   Without raising her head. JACKIE
             I didn't tell 'em anything.
   
   Ordell moves slowly towards Jackie.
   
                       ORDELL He takes his hand out, it's holding stack of bills
   wrapped in a rubber band. He tosses it to Ordell, who
   catches it with his free hand. INT. MELANIE'S APARTMENT - DAY
   
   Ordell and Jackie sit on stools around the kitchen Ordell shrugs it off, and digs into the shopping bag. He
   pulls out the towels and sees forty-thousand dollars on
   top of a bunch of paperbacks. His stomach drops. He just
It's very possible Ordell's killed
             somebody.
   
                       JACKIE
             I ain't goin' to jail, and I ain't Max hangs up the phone.
   
                       MAX
                   (to Ordell)
             Beaumont Livingston. Ordell, he don't give a shit about
             the money. Money won't convict him,
             guns will. Yeah, sure, if it falls in Ordell puts one more shot in his head, BAM, tosses the
   weapon on top of the dead body and closes the trunk. Dargus shoots Ordell, Ordell drops.
   
   
   BACK TO OFFICE
   
   Max smiles back. You thought right... Now take your
             hands from around my throat, nigga.
   
   Ordell flashes his hustler's smile and lets go. Trunk opens showing Beaumont shot in the chest with half
   his head blown off.
   
   Louis looks inside, see Beaumont, looks at Ordell, then Ordell hangs up the phone.
   
                                               CUT TO: Ordell just looks at him.
   
                       LOUIS (CONT'D)
             I expect she's dead. Max looks down and sees Ordell's head by his shoes, look
   of panic still on his face, dead as fried chicken. Ordell's Beaumont problem is solved. He climbs back into
   the cab, turns on the engine. We hear the old-school R&B
   song come back on, but VERY LOW. Ordell hangs up. Back in control. He looks to the TV. One
   of the COMEDIANS cracks a joke. Ordell laughs. doesn't want you mad at him, he wants
             you to tell him what you know. He
             uses you to get a line on Ordell, offering me a plea deal, and you know
             that. That's why you came here to
             kill me.
   
                       ORDELL MELANIE (CONT'D)
             It's for you.
   
   Before Ordell knows it, Melanie is back in the reclining Ordell looks at him. Louis didn't burn him.
   
   
   CLOSEUP ORDELL Ordell gives up and takes an envelope out of his pocket.
   
                       ORDELL
             Okay, man. I got your money. But Shit, your ass use'ta be beautiful.
   
   Ordell takes the bag and gets out of the car, leaving
   Louis' dead body there. Ordell shrugs it off, and digs into the shopping bag. He
   pulls out the towels and sees forty-thousand dollars on
   top of a bunch of paperbacks. His stomach drops. He just He takes his hand out, it's holding stack of bills
   wrapped in a rubber band. He tosses it to Ordell, who
   catches it with his free hand.
Ordell's gloved fingertips move up her collarbone to her
   throat, gently touching her skin. Jackie locks eyes with
   his, but still shows no fear. Jackie explaining the plan to Ordell.
   
                       JACKI
             ... I make two deliveries. The first
             one with ten thousand, like a dry Jackie shakes her head from side to side.
   
   Ordell moves his thumbs from her collarbone to the middle
   of her throat. Jackie sits down on the couch, holding a gun in each
   hand, both pointed dead at Ordell.
   
   A coffee table lays between them. Jackie doesn't answer. She just walks up to Ordell
   handing him his yellow drink in the darkness. Ordell
   takes it, continues to look at Jackie. Ordell tries to stop the hostile back and forth.
   
                       ORDELL
             Just chill the fuck out, Jackie. It She shoves both guns in Ordell's back.
   
                       JACKIE
             I said, you understand what I'm
             saying It's very possible Ordell's killed
             somebody.
   
                       JACKIE
             I ain't goin' to jail, and I ain't Shut your ass up and grab the wall!
   
   Jackie has Ordell against the wall and is frisking him
   the way a cop would. She finds the .22 pistol in his JACKIE
             I didn't tell 'em anything.
   
   Ordell moves slowly towards Jackie.
   
                       ORDELL JACKIE (CONT'D)
             Sheronda, can I ask you a question?
             Are you and Ordell married?
   
   Without raising her head. Jackie nods 'yes', as she sips her beer.
   
                       MELANIE (CONT'D)
             I tell you. If Ordell ever sent me to INT. MELANIE'S APARTMENT - HALLWAY - DAY
   
   Ordell walks Jackie to the elevator.
   
                       ORDELL JACKIE
             Yeah.
   
   Ordell turns the halogen lamp to dim.
   
                       ORDELL have over half-a-million. If you
             thought of cutting Ordell out, I sure
             as hell wouldn't blame you.
   
   Jackie smiles. INT. MELANIE'S APARTMENT - DAY
   
   Ordell and Jackie sit on stools around the kitchen My name come up?
   
   Jackie slowly shakes her head "no."
   
   Ordell directly in front of Jackie, he gently places his does for Ordell?
   
                       JACKIE
             I imagine shit needs to be done.
   
                       NICOLET JACKIE
             Right. Everything's the same except
             one change. Ordell thinks it's just
             too hot right now to bring in all his On the RIGHT-HAND SIDE is Ordell with his hands barely
   touching Jackie's throat. On the LEFT-HAND SIDE is Max
   driving home in his Seville.
Jackie explaining the plan to Ordell.
   
                       JACKI
             ... I make two deliveries. The first
             one with ten thousand, like a dry JACKIE
             All your money's in Mexico.
   
   Ordell has to smile at the woman. It's very possible Ordell's killed
             somebody.
   
                       JACKIE
             I ain't goin' to jail, and I ain't have over half-a-million. If you
             thought of cutting Ordell out, I sure
             as hell wouldn't blame you.
   
   Jackie smiles. Beaumont smiles. So does Ordell.
   
                       ORDELL (CONT'D)
             Just think, man. That Scoe's special, Ordell shrugs it off, and digs into the shopping bag. He
   pulls out the towels and sees forty-thousand dollars on
   top of a bunch of paperbacks. His stomach drops. He just Jackie nods 'yes', as she sips her beer.
   
                       MELANIE (CONT'D)
             I tell you. If Ordell ever sent me to JACKIE
             Right. Everything's the same except
             one change. Ordell thinks it's just
             too hot right now to bring in all his Ordell's gloved fingertips move up her collarbone to her
   throat, gently touching her skin. Jackie locks eyes with
   his, but still shows no fear. JACKIE
             I didn't tell 'em anything.
   
   Ordell moves slowly towards Jackie.
   
                       ORDELL his being nice to you have to do with
             him wanting Ordell's money?
   
                       JACKIE
             He's setting me up to make a Ordell, he don't give a shit about
             the money. Money won't convict him,
             guns will. Yeah, sure, if it falls in MAX (CONT'D)
             Will Ordell go for that?
   
                       JACKIE
             I'm helping him bring his money into INT. MELANIE'S APARTMENT - HALLWAY - DAY
   
   Ordell walks Jackie to the elevator.
   
                       ORDELL Jackie doesn't answer. She just walks up to Ordell
   handing him his yellow drink in the darkness. Ordell
   takes it, continues to look at Jackie. does for Ordell?
   
                       JACKIE
             I imagine shit needs to be done.
   
                       NICOLET INT. MELANIE'S APARTMENT - DAY
   
   Ordell and Jackie sit on stools around the kitchen Jackie shakes her head from side to side.
   
   Ordell moves his thumbs from her collarbone to the middle
   of her throat. My name come up?
   
   Jackie slowly shakes her head "no."
   
   Ordell directly in front of Jackie, he gently places his JACKIE
             Yeah.
   
   Ordell turns the halogen lamp to dim.
   
                       ORDELL
Jackie explaining the plan to Ordell.
   
                       JACKI
             ... I make two deliveries. The first
             one with ten thousand, like a dry JACKIE
             What for?
   
                       NICOLET
             Bank robbery? Do you know what he Jackie didn't trust Melanie. She'd
             already tried to get Jackie to go in
             with her, split the half million
             amongst themselves. What she did was Dargus reaches in and pulls out the envelope containing
   the forty-thousand marked dollars.
   
   Max looks at Jackie. JACKIE
             It's a lot of money. About a half-a-
             million dollars. All of it in Cabo in JACKIE
             Well, you know I'm not going to show
             him the whole amount. He'll see fifty
             thousand. comes sliding underneath the stall.
   
   Jackie picks up her Robinson's/May bag, filled with
   books, towels and the marked forty-thousand dollars. JACKIE (CONT'D)
             'd feel a whole lot better if you
             took some more money.
   
                       MAX JACKIE
             I told them Ordell's changed the
             amount he's bringing in.
   
                       MAX have over half-a-million. If you
             thought of cutting Ordell out, I sure
             as hell wouldn't blame you.
   
   Jackie smiles. Jackie gets out of the Honda with her flight bag. She
   goes to her hatchback, takes a Robinson's/May bag, lines
   the first half of the bag with old paperbacks. JACKIE
             I never have. It's not my money.
   
   He puts the envelope back in the bag and feels through to the envelope, opens the clasp and takes out five
   rubber-banded bond packets of loot.
   
                       JACKIE (CONT'D) We hear the SOUND of Melanie leaving.
   
   Jackie then transfers the half of a million dollars out
   of her flight bag into Melanie's Robinson's/May bag. She Jackie holds the door open for him.
   
   
   INT. JACKIE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT They reach the elevator. She presses the button.
   
                       JACKIE
             And a hundred thousand if I go to Jackie smiles. They all fall in step towards Jackie's
   Honda.
   
   
   INT. JACKIE'S HONDA - DAY ten thousand was against the law, why
             not pack a hundred grand?
   
   Jackie gets exasperated.
   
                       JACKIE Pull one more switch, up front.
             That's it. half-a-million dollars.
             Need help?
   
                       JACKIE Jackie slides the Robinson's/May bag with money under the
   stall.
   
   Melanie sees the money on top and stops talking.
comes sliding underneath the stall.
   
   Jackie picks up her Robinson's/May bag, filled with
   books, towels and the marked forty-thousand dollars. Hey, look. I found it!
   
   He drives away.
   
                                               CUT TO: Max begins counting it.
   
                       MAX
             Across the street a Great Western. It
             goes in a trust account. You'll need Then takes out of the flight bag the envelope with the
   fifty-thousand marked dollars, takes one packet of ten
   thousand, and puts it in her pocket. She lines the walks rapidly down an aisle of parked cars.
   
   Melanie follows close behind.
   
   We STEDICAM alongside. We walk for awhile, Louis changes We hear the SOUND of Melanie leaving.
   
   Jackie then transfers the half of a million dollars out
   of her flight bag into Melanie's Robinson's/May bag. She She and Louis disappear.
   
   He sees Jackie come out of the fitting room, go over to
   Amy and buy the dress. Jackie goes into her act, acting Ordell takes the receiver.
   
   
   INT. TOYOTA (MOVING) - DAY Jackie gets up from her chair, walks over to the desk,
   unzips the bag, takes out the manila envelope and drops
   it on the desk. want to move over the ten thousand
             you put down on Beaumont to the
             stewardess. That means paperwork. I
             have to get a death certificate, They have a bit of a staring contest before she gets up
   and gets the phone.
   
                       ORDELL (CONT'D) He opens the door to the stall. Sitting in the corner is
   the Robinson's/May bag. He walks over to it, lifts out Oredell in the passenger seat, bends over to the
   backseat, grabs the shopping bag, and brings it to his
   lap. He looks like a kid at Christmas. ... and just take it from him.
   
   
   INT. COCKATOO INN - DAY She leaves FRAME, and Max enters it, closing the door
   behind him. Max stands by the door, a little surprised
   and a touch pissed at the nonchalantness. They walk it; it's not it.
   
   Louis changes direction and cuts between some cars to the
   next one. Max, doing what he's doing, looks up and sees Louis
   staring at him across the floor. Max smiles and gives
   Louis a wave before turning his back to him and continues FADE TO BLACK
   
   
   INT. CHERRY BAIL BONDS - DAY money out of Mexico, into America, in
             your hands, and I'm managing to do
             all this under the nose of the cops.
             That makes me your manager, and Louis walks out of the office. He goes up to Ordell's
   black Mercedes. He points the little black box at it. The
   car goes BLEEP.
ORDELL
             What?
   
                       LOUIS
             You know who I saw in the dress
             department? We PAN away and find Louis and Melanie by a dress rack,
   watching Jackie.
   
                       MELANIE He sees Louis and Melanie squabbling.
   
   He sees Jackie disappear into the fitting room.
   
   He sees Amy leaving the fitting room entrance. She and Louis disappear.
   
   He sees Jackie come out of the fitting room, go over to
   Amy and buy the dress. Jackie goes into her act, acting Louis looks over at the fitting room. Jackie is going
   inside it, and the saleswoman is walking away towards
   him. Pretends to shop. She watches Louis grab Melanie.
   
                       NICOLET (V.O.)
             We had our agent on you. She sees a a distance. "This looks pretty good on me."
   
   Max hears a commotion behind him and turns to see Louis
   and Melanie hurriedly making their way towards Designer He watches the saleswoman walk by him, then looks back in
   time to see Melanie enter the fitting room.
   
                       LOUIS courage, then makes her move, entering the fitting room.
   
   Max smiles to himself, "so far so good" he thinks. He
   throws a look towards Louis, only to see Louis staring Max, doing what he's doing, looks up and sees Louis
   staring at him across the floor. Max smiles and gives
   Louis a wave before turning his back to him and continues LOUIS AND MELANIE
   
   In Melanie's Toyota drive towards the mall. Melanie
   drives singing along with Kate Bush on her car stereo. Max continues his fake browsing.
   
   He sees Melanie come out of the fitting room carrying a
   Robinson's/May bag close to her chest. EXT. PARKING LOT - DEL AMO MALL - DAY
   
   Louis, clutching the shopping bag close to his chest, ORDELL
             You see Max Cherry in the dress
             department. We're about to be handed
             half-a-million dollars - Man, look at EXT. PARKING LOT - DEL AMO MALL - DAY
   
   Louis and Melanie pull up to a lined parking space in ORDELL
             She saw you with Sheronda. So Simone
             goes to the dress department with her
             Robinson's/May bag. Nooo, that's towards Sears. We came
             in through Bullocks. I know where it
             is. Want to follow me, Lou-is? Max is looking at dresses, paying no attention to the
   fitting room.
   
   He thinks, 'what the fuck is Max Cherry doing here?' around. Any one of them could be surveillance.
   
   She calmly walks down the mall, then turns into the
   Roinson's/May store. walks rapidly down an aisle of parked cars.
   
   Melanie follows close behind.
   
   We STEDICAM alongside. We walk for awhile, Louis changes
Ordell called and wants to meet me
             and I'm scared.
   
                       MAX
             We get Ordell to come to my office. Ordell almost steps into a store to get out of view.
   "What the fuck is Max Cherry doing here?" Max looks at Ordell, getting his drift, then says;
   
                       MAX
             So, you want a ten-thousand dollar Ordell approach him.
   
                       MAX (CONT'D)
                   (on phone)
             Just overnight is all. Tomorrow I'll As Ordell watches, he sees Max head towards the food
   court.
   
                       MAX
             walks into the food court. He stands Max looks at Winston.
   
                       MAX
             You're right, that was Ordell. You
             have time, you think you could find motions for Ordell to take a seat.
   
                       MAX (CONT'D)
                   (on phone) MAX
             That's Ordell's.
   
                       JACKIE
             They've confiscated all his other Max sees; Ordell moves past him... then he sees the
   bathroom door on the left side of the desk open, throwing
   light into the room, onto Jackie and the figure who steps of Ordell. Max goes back to counting the money. Ordell
   reads the first agreement then says;
   
                       ORDELL (CONT'D) Max sees; Jackie sitting at his desk in the dark.
   
   Ordell sees this, too and moves past Max. We follow with Ordell out of the food court, when he
   stops...
   
   ... He see Max Cherry strolling through the mall. his coat. Ordell brings his Beretta up at Max.
   
                       ORDELL
             You better freeze, motherfucker! get you out, I promise. But it means
             I gotta pick you up tonight.
   
   Ordell motion to the chair in front of Max's desk. Max Jackie on the phone with Ordell, sitting behind Max's
   desk.
   
                       JACKIE MAX
             You have it with you?
   
   Ordell picks up his Lakers bag and puts it in the empty
   chair next to him. Max throws a look past Ordell to Louis.
   
                       ORDELL (CONT'D)
             Oh, that's just my white friend, MAX (CONT'D)
             Will Ordell go for that?
   
                       JACKIE
             I'm helping him bring his money into BACK TO ORDELL AND MAX
   
   The song plays LOUD. Ordell moves his head to the music
   slightly. Mak sits silently in the passenger seat, Max sees Dargus come over, bending on one nee next to
   Ordell's body.
   
   Max looks over at Jackie, still behind the desk. She
The third person watching the video is the person who
   lives in this apartment, MELANIE RALSTON. Melanie, thirty- MELANIE (CONT'D)
             It's for you.
   
   Before Ordell knows it, Melanie is back in the reclining Who's the other one?
   
                       JACKIE
             White girl named Melanie Ralston.
             Another girlfriend of Ordell's. man." You know Mr. Walker don't you?
   
   Jackie nods "yes."
   
                       MELANIE (CONT'D) gives her a look that says: "I'm not on your side, bitch.
   So knock it of."
   
   Melanie sees this and takes her foot away. Melanie notices the change.
   
                       MELANIE (CONT'D)
             Hey, hey, hey. I think somebody's got Jackie looks at her a moment.
   
                       JACKIE
             Sure.
   
                       MELANIE CUT TO:
   
   
   INT. MELANIE'S BEACH APARTMENT - DAY She rings the doorbell.
   
   The door opens, she sees Melanie (for the first time) on LOUIS
             What does that mean?
   
                       ORDELL
             You can't trust Melanie. But you can Pissed, he leaves FRAME. Melanie, wearing her Melanie
   smirk, follows behind. Melanie smiles.
   
                       MELANIE
             It's that late? Can I ask you about Melanie?
   
                       ORDELL
             Sure.
   
                       LOUIS MELANIE (CONT'D)
             You think I'm kidding?
   
                       JACKIE As she does all this Melanie continues talking.
   
                       MELANIE (O.S.) (CONT'D)
             We coulda worked this. You know that, INT. MELANIE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT
   
   EXTREME CLOSEUP - Ordell on the phone So far Melanie has been able to make a living out of
   lying in the sun, always finding a generous, wealthy man
   more than willing to pay her rent and pick up her tabs. He watches Melanie, by herself, watch Amy leave. Melanie
   watches the fitting room for a few moments. Gathering her Louis shoots Melanie a hard convict look.
   
   Melanie smiles at him, feeling the stare, but too much of (to Jackie)
             Jackie - his is Louis, Louis -
             Jackie. And the chick stompin' around
             in the other room is Melanie.
Jackie gets out of the Honda with her flight bag. She
   goes to her hatchback, takes a Robinson's/May bag, lines
   the first half of the bag with old paperbacks. agitated and distracted as she talks to Amy, pays with
   cash, then leaves stopping to say;
   
                       JACKIE comes sliding underneath the stall.
   
   Jackie picks up her Robinson's/May bag, filled with
   books, towels and the marked forty-thousand dollars. to you.
   
   Jackie picks up Sheronda's bag and leaves. Thanks, I won't.
   
   She goes off.
   
   He looks towards Designer Clothes and sees Jackie walking Jackie didn't trust Melanie. She'd
             already tried to get Jackie to go in
             with her, split the half million
             amongst themselves. What she did was Jackie puts out her cigarette.
   
                       JACKIE
             Okay, let's go. We hear the SOUND of Melanie leaving.
   
   Jackie then transfers the half of a million dollars out
   of her flight bag into Melanie's Robinson's/May bag. She JACKIE (CONT'D)
             'd feel a whole lot better if you
             took some more money.
   
                       MAX JACKIE (CONT'D)
             Well, you did. Thank you.
   
   She takes a drag on her Davidoff. papers for him to sign. Walk out and
             call the Sheriff's department.
   
   Jackie gets off the bed. Jackie slides the Robinson's/May bag with money under the
   stall.
   
   Melanie sees the money on top and stops talking. Jackie smiles. They all fall in step towards Jackie's
   Honda.
   
   
   INT. JACKIE'S HONDA - DAY She and Louis disappear.
   
   He sees Jackie come out of the fitting room, go over to
   Amy and buy the dress. Jackie goes into her act, acting They reach the elevator. She presses the button.
   
                       JACKIE
             And a hundred thousand if I go to JACKIE
             I never have. It's not my money.
   
   He puts the envelope back in the bag and feels through JACKIE
             I think maybe I have more options
             than I thought.
   
                                               DISSOLVE TO: JACKIE (CONT'D)
             Melanie burst in the dressing room
             and took the money!
   
                                               CUT TO: Jackie leaves the kitchen.
   
   Max's eyes follow her to the living room.
   
                       JACKIE (CONT'D) JACKIE
             It's a lot of money. About a half-a-
             million dollars. All of it in Cabo in
JACKIE (CONT'D)
             Well, you did. Thank you.
   
   She takes a drag on her Davidoff. Jackie gets out of the Honda with her flight bag. She
   goes to her hatchback, takes a Robinson's/May bag, lines
   the first half of the bag with old paperbacks. face. He can't stop thinking about Jackie. During the
   night she'd have a gleam in her eyes, the look saying;
   "WE COULD HAVE FUN". Unless she was appraising kinda him Jackie holds the door open for him.
   
   
   INT. JACKIE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT JACKIE
             What are you doing?
   
   Pointing to a small mike on his lapel. Jackie looks up and sees a skinny YOUNG GIRL, black,
   quite pretty, no older than twenty. JACKIE (CONT'D)
             Put both hands behind our head.
   
   Ordell does... You know, I can't really feel too
             sorry for you in that department.
   
   Jackie smiles. JACKIE
             Have a seat.
   
   The Young Girl does.
   
   Jackie looks at her tray of food. Jackie smiles. They all fall in step towards Jackie's
   Honda.
   
   
   INT. JACKIE'S HONDA - DAY The camera picks Jackie up through the window, walking
   into the place and going up to the bar...
   
   A female bartender in her mid-twenties, wearing a plaid JACKIE
             Uh-huh.
   
                       NICOLET
             Was she there? JACKIE (CONT'D)
             Come on, Max. I won't hurt you.
   
   He smiles and gets up from the desk. Jackie didn't trust Melanie. She'd
             already tried to get Jackie to go in
             with her, split the half million
             amongst themselves. What she did was JACKIE
             Oh, are you? Does she know that?
   
                       MAX
             No... Jackie paces in front of him, white wine in one hand,
   Davidoff in the other, going over the details of
   tomorrow. One could notice a slight change in Jackie. JACKIE
             The usual things. I'm a flight
             attendant with Cabo Air. JACKIE
             It never was, so I'm not gonna start
             worrying about it now. Look, Ray more
             or less believes my story, and he MAX (CONT'D)
                   (low)
             And away we go.
   
   Jackie looks at her reflection in the mirror. Then she Jackie. She smiles and steps OUT OF FRAME.
   
   END OF SHOT
   
   Jackie hears behind her;
Then how do you know he sells guns?
   
                       JACKIE
             He told me. Besides, why else would You ever see him sell guns?
   
                       JACKIE
             No.
   
                       NICOLET Jackie sits down on the couch, holding a gun in each
   hand, both pointed dead at Ordell.
   
   A coffee table lays between them. JACKIE
             Mark...
                   (raising her voice)
             ... he's got a gun! money?
   
                       JACKIE
             He sells guns.
   
                       NICOLET suspect. It doesn't matter who brings
             him in, he's gonna name you as an
             accessory.
   
   Jackie lights up a Davidoff. over to guns. You can sell guns
             wherever there's a demand. No one
             gives a shit. He acts like he's this
             big international arms dealer, when, JACKIE
             What for?
   
                       NICOLET
             Bank robbery? Do you know what he Jackie explaining the plan to Ordell.
   
                       JACKI
             ... I make two deliveries. The first
             one with ten thousand, like a dry JACKIE
             Right. Everything's the same except
             one change. Ordell thinks it's just
             too hot right now to bring in all his JACKIE
             Yeah.
   
   Ordell turns the halogen lamp to dim.
   
                       ORDELL Ordell turns back to Jackie and smiles, holding up his
   screwdriver.
   
                       ORDELL (CONT'D) JACKIE
             Plus the same deal as before.
   
                       ORDELL
             I can do that. Jackie smiles. They all fall in step towards Jackie's
   Honda.
   
   
   INT. JACKIE'S HONDA - DAY JACKIE
             You want your gun, don't you? Come
             in. I'll go get it. JACKIE
             Ray Nicolet with Alcohol, Tobacco,
             and Firearms.
   
   Max puts it together. JACKIE
             Thanks, but I have my own now.
   
                       MAX
             You went out this morning and bought JACKIE
             It wasn't mine.
   
   Ordell has to stop and think.
   
   Jackie makes screwdriver. Jackie sitting behind the desk. She opens the drawer to
   her right, Max's .38 sits there. She closes the drawer. Nicolet, Dargus, and two other plainclothes cops, come
   running out of a store towards Jackie. As they reach her,
   a frantic Jackie yells;
to you.
   
   Jackie picks up Sheronda's bag and leaves. papers for him to sign. Walk out and
             call the Sheriff's department.
   
   Jackie gets off the bed. Jackie leaves the kitchen.
   
   Max's eyes follow her to the living room.
   
                       JACKIE (CONT'D) Jackie puts out her cigarette.
   
                       JACKIE
             Okay, let's go. Jackie smiles. They all fall in step towards Jackie's
   Honda.
   
   
   INT. JACKIE'S HONDA - DAY Jackie gets out of the Honda with her flight bag. She
   goes to her hatchback, takes a Robinson's/May bag, lines
   the first half of the bag with old paperbacks. Thanks, I won't.
   
   She goes off.
   
   He looks towards Designer Clothes and sees Jackie walking another one, then. Thanks, anyway.
   
   Jackie turns to leave.
   
                       MELANIE Jackie paces in front of him, white wine in one hand,
   Davidoff in the other, going over the details of
   tomorrow. One could notice a slight change in Jackie. Jackie leave the Young Girl and with Broadway bag in
   hand, walk out of the food court.
   
   Max watches her walk down the mall when two young men in face. He can't stop thinking about Jackie. During the
   night she'd have a gleam in her eyes, the look saying;
   "WE COULD HAVE FUN". Unless she was appraising kinda him agitated and distracted as she talks to Amy, pays with
   cash, then leaves stopping to say;
   
                       JACKIE Pause between them.
   
                       JACKIE
             I'm leaving, I have my things in my Dargus stands up and says to Jackie;
   
                       DARGUS
             Let me have a word outside with Agent beer.
   
   Jackie leaves.
   
   
   CLOSEUP MELANIE They both leave, leaving Jackie all by herself in the
   room, smoking.
   
   They both come back in. JACKIE (CONT'D)
             Well, you did. Thank you.
   
   She takes a drag on her Davidoff. Jackie shakes her head "no!"
   
                       JACKIE
             Let's get realistic, baby. Sooner or
             later they're gonna get around to Where're you going?
   
                       JACKIE
             Spain.
   
                       MAX sitting down, bends sideways to glance under the table.
   
                       JACKIE (CONT'D)
             Then when I leave, well, you know.
make a case, then take him federal.
             You know what Ordell's into?
   
                       JACKIE
             I have a pretty good idea. Ordell Ordell hangs up the phone.
   
                                               CUT TO: We've been following Mr. Gara, and
             he's definitely working for Ordell.
   
                                               FLASH ON: Ordell hangs up. Back in control. He looks to the TV. One
   of the COMEDIANS cracks a joke. Ordell laughs. Ordell almost steps into a store to get out of view.
   "What the fuck is Max Cherry doing here?" Ordell's on the phone.
   
   
   INT. COCKATOO INN The phone rings again.
   
   Ordell looks at Melanie.
   
   Melanie looks at Ordell. Ordell shrugs it off, and digs into the shopping bag. He
   pulls out the towels and sees forty-thousand dollars on
   top of a bunch of paperbacks. His stomach drops. He just Ordell just looks at him.
   
                       LOUIS (CONT'D)
             I expect she's dead. Ordell takes the receiver.
   
   
   INT. TOYOTA (MOVING) - DAY of Ordell. Max goes back to counting the money. Ordell
   reads the first agreement then says;
   
                       ORDELL (CONT'D) Ordell, he don't give a shit about
             the money. Money won't convict him,
             guns will. Yeah, sure, if it falls in Max throws a look past Ordell to Louis.
   
                       ORDELL (CONT'D)
             Oh, that's just my white friend, He takes his hand out, it's holding stack of bills
   wrapped in a rubber band. He tosses it to Ordell, who
   catches it with his free hand. favor and be there when I get there.
   
   He hangs up the phone.
   
   Ordell sits in front of the desk, smiling at him and MAX
             That's Ordell's.
   
                       JACKIE
             They've confiscated all his other They have a bit of a staring contest before she gets up
   and gets the phone.
   
                       ORDELL (CONT'D) INT. OLDSMOBILE (PARKED) - NIGHT
   
   Ordell is sitting parked in the comfy-cozy cab of the Ordell gets out, sticks the snubby in his pants, and
   walks to the back of the Olds. He sticks his key in the
   trunk and says; As he approaches, the power window on the driver's side
   comes down, revealing a comfortable Ordell sitting back
   in his seat looking up at Louis.
I told them you got a half a million
             dollars in Mexico, and you want me to
             bring it here.
   
   Ordell freaks. Jackie explaining the plan to Ordell.
   
                       JACKI
             ... I make two deliveries. The first
             one with ten thousand, like a dry Ordell shrugs it off, and digs into the shopping bag. He
   pulls out the towels and sees forty-thousand dollars on
   top of a bunch of paperbacks. His stomach drops. He just Max looks at Ordell, getting his drift, then says;
   
                       MAX
             So, you want a ten-thousand dollar Ordell, he don't give a shit about
             the money. Money won't convict him,
             guns will. Yeah, sure, if it falls in He takes his hand out, it's holding stack of bills
   wrapped in a rubber band. He tosses it to Ordell, who
   catches it with his free hand. Ordell gives up and takes an envelope out of his pocket.
   
                       ORDELL
             Okay, man. I got your money. But JACKIE
             All your money's in Mexico.
   
   Ordell has to smile at the woman. of Ordell. Max goes back to counting the money. Ordell
   reads the first agreement then says;
   
                       ORDELL (CONT'D) JACKIE
             I told them Ordell's changed the
             amount he's bringing in.
   
                       MAX Beaumont smiles. So does Ordell.
   
                       ORDELL (CONT'D)
             Just think, man. That Scoe's special, Ordell approach him.
   
                       MAX (CONT'D)
                   (on phone)
             Just overnight is all. Tomorrow I'll MAX
             That's Ordell's.
   
                       JACKIE
             They've confiscated all his other Ordell opens the glove box and takes out the Beretta. He
   smells the end of the barrel. He releases the magazine.
   
                       LOUIS (CONT'D) ORDELL
             You go wait in the car. Wait a
             minute.
   
   Ordell pulls out a heavy-duty keychain with a shitload of Ordell hangs up the phone.
   
                                               CUT TO: Ordell takes the receiver.
   
   
   INT. TOYOTA (MOVING) - DAY Ordell gets out, sticks the snubby in his pants, and
   walks to the back of the Olds. He sticks his key in the
   trunk and says; Floyd comes back with Ordell's screwdriver.
   
                       FLOYD
             Three twenty-five. JACKIE
             Right. Everything's the same except
             one change. Ordell thinks it's just
             too hot right now to bring in all his
You know the motherfucker's a bail
             bondsman, don't ya? You know every
             last one of them motherfuckers is
             crooked as hell? The voice belong to MAX CHERRY, bail bondsman. Max, a
   regular-Joe-type white guy in his fifties, sits behind
   his desk talking on the phone. His eyes raise as he sees Give it to the bail bondsman, Max
             Cherry. He'll take care of it.
   
                       ORDELL INT. CHERRY BAIL BONDS - DAY
   
   Inside Cherry Bail Bonds, looking out through the picture MAX
             Hi, I'm Max Cherry. Your bail
             bondsman. Miss Brown... I'm Max Cherry. I'm
             your bail bondsman.
   
   She takes the card and shakes his hand saying nothing. INT. CHERRY BAIL BONDS - NIGHT
   
   Max in his office on the phone. Especially now, since I'm getting out
             of the bail bonds business.
   
   Jackie looks at him, "wow, that was a statement," but she Cherry Bail Bonds.
   
                       ORDELL
             Let me speak to Max Cherry. EXT. CHERRY BAIL BONDS - DAY
   
   The store front window of Cherry Bail Bonds in Inglewood, INT. CHERRY BAIL BONDS - DAY
   
   Winston behind his desk, on the phone.
   
                       WINSTON Hello.
   
   
   INT. CHERRY BAIL BONDS - NIGHT bring in fifty thousand for bail in
             case he needs it.
   
                                               CUT TO: People talk to Winston. He's street,
             same as them, they trust him. They
             get busted, they know somebody who
             can bond them out. I thought I might Don't you know all them bail bondsmen
             are crooks...
   
   ... the door shuts. FADE TO BLACK
   
   
   INT. CHERRY BAIL BONDS - DAY EXT. CHERRY BAIL BONDS - NIGHT
   
   They both get out of the Cadillac. Ordell sticks his gun
   in his pants. (back on the line)
             Hello, this is Max Cherry. Cherry
             Bail Bonds. Who's this?
                   (pause) Max puts his key in the ignition, when Jackie asks;
   
                       JACKIE
             Are you really a bail bondsman? there. Judge gonna set your bail. I'm
             gonna pay your bail, they gonna cut
             you loose. By tomorrow night, you'll
             be back home, I promise.
Hermosa Beach, California that Ordell pays for an drops
   in and out of. She's curled up in a reclining chair,
   smoking weed from a pipe, reading Movieline Magazine and Who's the other one?
   
                       JACKIE
             White girl named Melanie Ralston.
             Another girlfriend of Ordell's. Ordell turn to a glassy-eyed black female junkie nodding
   on the couch named RAYNELLE. The filthy apartment we're
   in belongs to her. Ordell's living in Long Beach with a
             woman junkie.
   
                       JACKIE ORDELL
                   (smiling)
             'Cause she my fine little surfer gal. MELANIE (CONT'D)
             It's for you.
   
   Before Ordell knows it, Melanie is back in the reclining INT. MELANIE'S APARTMENT - DAY
   
   Ordell and Jackie sit on stools around the kitchen Ordell hangs up the phone.
   
                                               CUT TO: They served two years together almost
             twenty years ago in Soledad. But he
             doesn't live in Hermosa Beach.
             Ordell's got him staying at a house Ordell in the kitchen doorway.
   
                       JACKIE
             Beaumont Livingston.
   
                       ORDELL Ordell's gloved fingertips move up her collarbone to her
   throat, gently touching her skin. Jackie locks eyes with
   his, but still shows no fear. Ordell says to her in the doorway;
   
                       ORDELL (CONT'D)
             Hope you don't mind keeping him INT. MELANIE'S APARTMENT - HALLWAY - DAY
   
   Ordell walks Jackie to the elevator.
   
                       ORDELL Ordell sits down on the couch. Melanie's reading
   "Movieline Inside" magazine.
   
                       ORDELL She looks down at the dead Ordell with no expression,
   just light up another Davidoff.
   
   Dargus looks up at Max; Jackie nods 'yes', as she sips her beer.
   
                       MELANIE (CONT'D)
             I tell you. If Ordell ever sent me to Ordell says to Louis, but loud enough for Melanie in the
   other room to hear;
   
                       ORDELL (CONT'D) Beaumont comes out of the apartment, sporting Nikes and a
   Queen Latifah t-shirt. He locks his front door and walks
   with Ordell to his car. They talk the whole way. We The phone rings again.
   
   Ordell looks at Melanie.
   
   Melanie looks at Ordell. was with Ordell at an apartment in
             Hermosa Beach. I don't know if he
             lives there, but I can find out.
Ordell puts one more shot in his head, BAM, tosses the
   weapon on top of the dead body and closes the trunk. It's very possible Ordell's killed
             somebody.
   
                       JACKIE
             I ain't goin' to jail, and I ain't Trunk opens showing Beaumont shot in the chest with half
   his head blown off.
   
   Louis looks inside, see Beaumont, looks at Ordell, then Max looks down and sees Ordell's head by his shoes, look
   of panic still on his face, dead as fried chicken. Ordell hangs up the phone.
   
                                               CUT TO: ORDELL
             So what, you left her there.
   
                       LOUIS
             I shot her. You thought right... Now take your
             hands from around my throat, nigga.
   
   Ordell flashes his hustler's smile and lets go. Ordell's Beaumont problem is solved. He climbs back into
   the cab, turns on the engine. We hear the old-school R&B
   song come back on, but VERY LOW. ORDELL
             You go wait in the car. Wait a
             minute.
   
   Ordell pulls out a heavy-duty keychain with a shitload of Ordell shrugs it off, and digs into the shopping bag. He
   pulls out the towels and sees forty-thousand dollars on
   top of a bunch of paperbacks. His stomach drops. He just Ordell, he don't give a shit about
             the money. Money won't convict him,
             guns will. Yeah, sure, if it falls in Dargus shoots Ordell, Ordell drops.
   
   
   BACK TO OFFICE
   
   Max smiles back. Shit, your ass use'ta be beautiful.
   
   Ordell takes the bag and gets out of the car, leaving
   Louis' dead body there. (imitating Ordell's
                   voice)
             "You may leave us now." It's all part
             of his pathetic attempt to be "the Ordell gets out, sticks the snubby in his pants, and
   walks to the back of the Olds. He sticks his key in the
   trunk and says; She looks down at the dead Ordell with no expression,
   just light up another Davidoff.
   
   Dargus looks up at Max; Ordell almost steps into a store to get out of view.
   "What the fuck is Max Cherry doing here?" Ordell leaves.
   
   Jackie shuts the door, and leaves FRAME.
   
                                               FADE TO BLACK Ordell turn to a glassy-eyed black female junkie nodding
   on the couch named RAYNELLE. The filthy apartment we're
   in belongs to her. MELANIE (CONT'D)
             It's for you.
   
   Before Ordell knows it, Melanie is back in the reclining
Young plainclothes cop, MARK DARGUS, walks up to her,
   holding open his I.D. case.
   
                       DARGUS DARGUS
             Help us do what?
   
                       JACKIE
             Help you get Ordell Robbie. INT. DARGUS OFFICE - DAY
   
                       DARGUS (O.S.) DARGUS
             Why were you with him?
   
                       MAX
             I went to give him his refund, so he DARGUS
             You have the right to say "no." And I
             have the right to make you wait here
             with Ray while I go get a warrant. Dargus looks up at Max;
   
                       DARGUS (CONT'D)
             Does he have the marked bills on him? Hi, I'm Detective Mark Dargus.
             L.A.P.D. can I ask what you have in
             that bag? DARGUS
             What's her name?
   
                       JACKIE
             He wouldn't say. You gonna follow DARGUS
             What's this?
   
                       JACKIE
             That's my diet shit. DARGUS
             Yes, I do, your honor. Based on the
             defendant's prior conviction and the
             extreme possibility of flight due to DARGUS
             That's correct, your honor.
   
                       JUDGE
             You have a recommendation for bail? Dargus looks up at her.
   
                       DARGUS
             I'd say there's about, oh, fifty
             thousand dollars here. What would you Dargus stands up and says to Jackie;
   
                       DARGUS
             Let me have a word outside with Agent out of the bathroom... Mark Dargus.
   
   Max sees; Ordell looks to Dargus, then back to Jackie.
   Then Jackie says; I found out.
   
                       DARGUS
             And you didn't tell the Police?
   
                       MAX Nicolet continues, Dargus takes a seat in the corner
   saying nothing.
   
                       NICOLET (CONT'D) Dargus sits down next to Nicolet. They smile and giggle
   together.
   
   Jackie sees them giggle like fifth graders. It fucking Dargus reaches in and pulls out the envelope containing
   the forty-thousand marked dollars.
   
   Max looks at Jackie. Dargus, hardly even looked at it.
             "Oh, I'd say there's fifty thousand
             here. What would you say?" But all Nicolet and Dargus laugh at that.
   
                       JACKIE
             Look, that shit ain't mine.
JACKIE
             Do you think I took some of that
             money?
   
                       NICOLET Jackie didn't trust Melanie. She'd
             already tried to get Jackie to go in
             with her, split the half million
             amongst themselves. What she did was JACKIE (CONT'D)
             Melanie burst in the dressing room
             and took the money!
   
                                               CUT TO: JACKIE (CONT'D)
             'd feel a whole lot better if you
             took some more money.
   
                       MAX with the money. It's evidence.
   
                       JACKIE
             What about you Max?
   
                       MAX Melanie digs in her purse for the money.
   
                       JACKIE
             He said he didn't know about it. money and who you're giving it to.
   
   Jackie doesn't sat anything... she just smokes. comes sliding underneath the stall.
   
   Jackie picks up her Robinson's/May bag, filled with
   books, towels and the marked forty-thousand dollars. JACKIE
             What for?
   
                       NICOLET
             Bank robbery? Do you know what he JACKIE
             I never have. It's not my money.
   
   He puts the envelope back in the bag and feels through How do you know she did that?
   
                       JACKIE
             I was there, I saw her do it. Dargus reaches in and pulls out the envelope containing
   the forty-thousand marked dollars.
   
   Max looks at Jackie. What did they want to know?
   
                       JACKIE
             Who gave me the money and who I was
             giving it to. And some guy they found Jackie slides the Robinson's/May bag with money under the
   stall.
   
   Melanie sees the money on top and stops talking. It's possible. You're saying you
             don't have any idea what happened to
             that fifty thousand?
   
                       JACKIE JACKIE
             Are you sure she don' know about the
             money?
   
                       ORDELL Max Cherry? You and him friends now?
             You tell him about this shit?
   
                       JACKIE
             He won't know where the money came We hear the SOUND of Melanie leaving.
   
   Jackie then transfers the half of a million dollars out
   of her flight bag into Melanie's Robinson's/May bag. She She and Louis disappear.
   
   He sees Jackie come out of the fitting room, go over to
   Amy and buy the dress. Jackie goes into her act, acting JACKIE
             It's a lot of money. About a half-a-
             million dollars. All of it in Cabo in
Where did the ATF believe the exchange of money will be? What is the plan Jackie proposes to Max? Who shoots and kills Ordell? What is Jackie's job? Who does Ordell live with? What does Max Cherry do to Beaumont Livingston? Who does Jackie plan to exchange the money with in the mall? What is Ordell's former cell mate name? Where do Ordell and Cherry go to meet Jackie? Why does Jackie smuggle money for Ordell? Why does Ordell kill Livingston? How does Jackie prevent Ordell from killing her? Why does Ordell agree to Jackie's deal to help him smuggle $550,000? How much money does Jackie plan to steal? Where does the transfer take place? Who did Louis see in the dress department of the Mall? Why does Ordell go to Max's office? Who is Melanie Ralston? Where does Jackie decide to go once she has the money? What was Jackie's original career? What was the name of the black market gun runner Jackie smuggles for? At the end of the story, Jackie plans to leave the country and go where? What federal agency has eyes on Ordell? How much money is ordell trying to smuggle in? What is the name of the bail bondsman? What is the name of Ordell's surfer girl roommate? Who does ordell murder in the beginning of the story? What does Mark Dargus do for a living? Who does Jackie claim stole  the money?
The food court. Del Amo Mall. 
Pretend to help the authorities while smuggling Ordell's money. To double cross everyone and keep the money
Ray Nicolette Nicolette
Flight Attendent flight attendant 
Melanie Ralston Melanie Ralston.
Murders him. Bails him out of jail
Melanie Melanie and Max.
Louis Gara Louis Gara.
Cherry's office. Max's office 
She needs to earn more money than her salary pays to live on. To make ends meet
Ordell thinks Livingston will inform on him to the cops. Assumed he would snitch 
She makes a deal with him to pretend to help the FBI while actually smuggling in Ordell's money. By pulling a gun and negotiating a deal
He can retire on that money. Because she has him at gunpoint
$500,000. $500,000
The Del Amo Mall. A dressing room
Max Cherry. Max Cherry
Max tells him Jackie is there with his money. To find Jackie
A girl who lives with Ordell. A stoned surfer that lives with Ordell. 
Madrid, Spain. Madrid.
Flight attendant Flight attendant
Ordell Robbie Ordell Robbie 
Madrid, Spain  Madrid
ATF  AFT
$550,000 $550,000
Max Cherry Max Cherry. 
Melanie Ralston Melanie Ralston.
Beaumont Livingston Beaumont Livingston.
LAPD detective Detective
Melanie Ralston Melanie. 