The Korvack Conspiracy by Paul Thain
THE KORVACK CONSPIRACY
(A SHORT SEQUENCE OF ELECTRONIC PIPS.)
ANNOUNCER :
(A RAPID, URGENT SERIES OF PIPS.
OVER, WE HEAR FEMALE, METALLIC)
VOICE : File is Classified. Do you have clearance?
(MORE PIPS)
VOICE : You have access.
VOICE : The Korvack Conspiracy began in New York on the night of July 23rd
(MORE PIPS)
TELEPHONE INTERCEPT START TONE
(AMERICAN TELEPHONE RINGING OUT)
LUCKY : Yeh ?
KORVACK : Me again. How much longer?
LUCKY : Mr Korvack -
KORVACK : When do I get to see him ?
LUCKY : When you' re told .
KORVACK : Look, can't you - ?
LUCKY : You see him when you're told.
(LUCKY HANGS UP. DISENGAGED TONE)
(TELEPHONE INTERCEPT END TONE)
VOICE : Call intercepted.
TELEPHONE INTERCEPT START TONE.
(AMERICAN TELEPHONE RINGING OUT.)
LUCKY : Yeh ?
KORVACK : Korvack.
LUCKY : Listen, Mr Korvack -
KORVACK : No - you listen, I'm tired of -
(DISENGAGED TONE)
(TELEPHONE INTERCEPT END TONE)
VOICE : Call intercepted.
TELEPHONE INTERCEPT START TONE
(AMERICAN TELEPHONE RINGS OUT)
KORVACK : Hello ?
LUCKY : That you Korvack ?
KORVACK : Speaking.
LUCKY : He'll see you tonight. You'll be picked up at eight.
KORVACK : Tonight?
(TELEPHONE INTERCEPT END TONE)
VOICE : Call intercepted.
SURVEILLANCE START TONE
(NEW YORK APARTMENT - HIGH ABOVE NIGHT TRAFFIC
LUCKY ENTERS)
LUCKY: ... Mr Gordinni ? Mr Gordinni ...
GORDINNI : ... in the bathroom.
LUCKY : He's here Mr Gordinni.
(W.C. FLUSHES)
GORDINNI : What ?
LUCKY : Korvack.
(GORDINNI ENTERS FROM BATHROOM)
GORDINNI : So how do you figure him ?
LUCKY : Aw, you know ... English - tight, wound up, looks like he has a
poker up his -
(SURVEILLANCE END TONE)
SURVEILLANCE START TONE.
(NEW YORK APARTMENT)
GORDINNI : Good to meet you, Mr Korvack. Please - have a seat.
KORVACK : Thank you.
GORDINNI : So ... How'd you find New York?
KORVACK : Filthy, crowded, noisy. Apart from that .. I hate the place.
GORDINNI : Prefer London, huh ?
KORVACK : Not particularly.
GORDINNI : (CHUCKLES.) Anyway, good to be out, right?
KORVACK 8 Right.
GORDINNI : Well, you certainly come highly recommended. Enrico says you're some kind
of genius, says you're a man of ideas ...
KORVACK : No, no. Just one - one idea.
GORDINNI : Okay, so long as it's good ...
KORVACK : Oh, it's good.
GORDINNI : Hm, hm. Let's, er, let's have a drink,then you can - you can tell me
all about it.
(SURVEILLANCE END TONE)
(SURVEILLANCE START)
(LONDON. FLAT. NORMA FURIOUSLY PACKS A SUITCASE.)
NORMA : Go fuck yourself. I'll do no such thing !
ENRICO : You'll do as I say, and if I say -
NORMA : - you say, you say. And who the hell are you ? I'm getting out. I've had about
as much of - Enrico, will you let go ?
ENRICO : Last warning, Norma, or so help me I'll -
NORMA : You lay one more finger on me and I'm bringing in the Law. I mean it, now get out of my -
(ENRICO GROANS WITH PAIN.)
NORMA : For God's sake, what's - ?
ENRICO ... pain ... pain here ...
(HE CRUMPLES TO THE FLOOR, UPSETTING DRESSING-TABLE AND SPILLING ITS CONTENTS)
(HE'S DYING OF A HEART-ATTACK)
ENRICO Don't just stand there, call a ... Norma ... ambulance ... get a ...
Norma ... Norma, please
(HE STRUGGLES FOR BREATH - A SHIP'S HORN SOUNDS)
ENRICO Norma ...
(SURVEILLANCE END)
SURVEILLANCE START
(NEW YORK APARTMENT)
GORDINNI : - there's people enough in the goddam world - few more,
few less, who cares ?
(TELEPHONE RINGS)
GORDINNI : Will you sit on that!
(HE SIGHS. DISTANT POLICE SIREN RECEDES)
GORDINNI : How old are you, Korvack? 35? 40? Me , I'd killed seven men by your age.
Two with my own hands. Ha! Now look at them. Arthritis. These claws couldn't
crack an egg. Lucky ..
LUCKY : Sir ?
GORDINNI : Bourbon. Sure you won't join me ?
KORVACK : Positive.
(AS LUCKY POURS DRINK)
GORDINNI : Anyway, you need action, right ?
KORVACK : I need your co-operation.
GORDINNI : So convince me.
KORVACK : A double hit - you here, me in London.
(GORDINNI CHUCKLES, LUCKY APPROACHES)
GORDINNI : Oh yeh? Leave it there, Lucky. So what's the target?
KORVACK : A bank. A merchant bank.
GORDINNI : Prison stewed your brain, Korvack? Merchant banks don't hold money.
KORVACK : Precisely.
GORDINNI : Precisely? What you mean precisely? Haven't I just - ?
KORVACK : I mean their Security isn't quite so ... rigorous.
GORDINNI : You come all the way from England just to - Damn !
(HIS GLASS FALLS)
GORDINNI : See? No grip. Be sucking it through a freaking straw next.
LUCKY : Get you another ?
GORDINNI : . . no, no .. .
KORVACK : Twenty million dollars ...
GORDINNI : ... twenty ?
KORVAOK : Probably more ...
GORDINNI : Look, didn't I just say -
KORVACK : Mr Gordinni, we don't steal the money, we steal the bank.
GORDINNI LAUGHS)
GORDINNI: ... the bank ?
KORVACK : Right. Then it gets even more funny. Soon after, we give it back.
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