Do The Right Thing 1989

DO '1'BE RIGHT THJ:HG
by
Spike Lee
FROMTHE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF MALCOLM
X
•The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in

America is that the black man in white Christian hands
ha• not grown violent. It ia a miracle that 22 million
black people have not risen up against their oppressors --
in which they would have been justified by all moral
criteria, and even by the democratic tradition. It is
a miracle that a nation of black people has so fervently
continued to believe in a turn-the-other-cheek and heaven-
for-you-atter-you•die philosophy. It is a miracle that
the American black people have remained a peaceful people,
whila catching all the centuries of hell that they have
caught,.here in the white man'• heaven. The miracle ia
that the white man's puppet Negro leaders, his preachers
and the educated Negroes laden with degrees and other ■
who have been allowed to wax fat off their black poor
brothers, have been able to hold the black masses quiet
until now.•
Malcolm X as told
to Alex Haley
l
Tl:TLES - WHITE ON BLACK
PLACE
Brooklyn, New York
CUT TO1
TIME
Present
CUT TO:
WEATHER
Hot as shit!
CUT TO:
1 INT: WE-LOVERADIO STATION STOREFRONT- DAY

EXTREME CLOSE UP
WE SBE only big white teeth and very Negroidal (bi3) lips.
MISTER SENOR LOVE DADDY
Waaaake upl
Wake up! Wake upl Wake upl
Up ya wake! Op ya Wake! Op ya wakel
CAMERAMOVESBACKSLOWLYTO REVEALMISTER sil$oR LOVE

DADDY, a OJ, a radio personality behind a microphone.
This
-
MISTER SENOR LOVE DADDY(contd)
is Mister se'i!or Love Daddy.
Your voice of choice. The world's
only twelve-hour strong man, here
on WE-LOVEradio, 108 FM. The
last on your dial, but the first
in ya hearts, and tha't'-'s the truth
Ruthl
The CAMERA,which is S'l·ILL PULLING BACK, shows that Mister
Senor Love Daddy is actually sitting in a storefront
window. The control booth looks directly out into the
street. This is WE-LOVERADIO, a modest station with a
loyal following, right in the heart of the neighborhood.
The OPENING SHOT will be a TRICK SHOT -- the CAMERA
PULLING BACKthrough the storefront window.
MISTER ss'foR LOVE DADDY(contd)
Here I.am. Am I here?
Y'know it. It ya know.
This is Mister SeWor Love Daddy,
doing the nasty to ya ears,
ya ears to the nasty.
I'se play only da platters dat matter,
da matters dey platter and
That's the truth, Ruth.
l CONTD 2
He hits the cart machine and we hear a station jingle._

VO
L-0-V-E M.DIO.
MISTER SE'IOR LOVEDADDY
Doing da ying and yang
da flip and flop
da hippy and hoppy
(he yodels)
Yoda lay he hoo.
I have today's forecast.
(he screams)
HO'l' 1
Be laughs like a madman.

2 INT: DA MAYOR'S BEDROOM
- DAY
An old, grizzled man stirs in the bed, his sheets are
soaked with sweat. He flings them off his wet body.
OA MAYOR
Damn, it's hot.
3 INT: JADE'S APARTMENT- DAY
CAMERAMOVESIN ON a young man sitting at the edge of a
sofa bed.
CLOSE UP - HIS SMALLBANDS
WE SEE him counting his money. This isn't any ordinary
counting of money, he's straightening out all the corners
of the billa, arranges them so the bills -- actually the
•dead president.a• -- are facing the same way. This ia
MOOKIE. Once he'• finished with that task, counting his
money, he aneaka into his sister's bedroom.
4 INT: JADE'S BEDROOM
- DAY
CLOSE OP - JADE
JADE, Mookie's sister, is fast asleep. Mookie's fingers
ENTER THE FRAMEand start to play with her lips. Jade
push'es his hands away. Mookie waits several beats and he
continues. Jade wakes up --
JADE
-
mad.
Don't you have enough sense not

to bother people when they're
sleeping?
MOOKIE
Wake upl
• CONTD
JADE
3
Wake up? Saturday is the lone

day I get to sleep late.
MOOK!E
It's gonna be hot today.
JADE
Good! Leave me alone when I'm
sleeping. I'm gonna get a lock
on my door, to keep ya ass outta
here.
MOOKIE
Don't ya love ya brother Mookie
anymore? I loves ya, Jade.
JADE
Oo me a favor. Go to work.
MOOKIE
Later. Gotta get paid.
He plants a big fat juicy on his sister's forehead.
-
s EXT: SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA - DAY
A 1975 El Dorado pulls up in front of the neighborhood
pizzeria -- Sal's Famous Pizzeria. From the car comes
out the owner, SAL, a slightly overweight man in his
early fifties, and his two sons, PINO, 22, and VITO, 20.
It's time for them to go to work at Sal's Famous Pizzeria
in the heart of Black Brooklyn. Sal's sits right on the
corner of The Block. The Block being where this film
on the hottest day of the summer takes place.
Pino kicks a beer can in his pat~ into the gutter.
SAL
Pino, get a broom and sweep
out front.
PINO
Vito, get a broom and sweep
out front.
VITO
See, Pop. That's just what I
was talkin' 'bout. Every single
time you tell Pino to do something,
he gives it to me.
PINO
He's nuts.
5 CONTD
SAL
The both of youse, shaddup.
VITO
Tell Pino.
PINO
Get the broom.
VITO
I ain't getting shit.
SAL
Beyl Watch it.
PINO
I didn't want to come to work
anyway. I hate this frea.kin'
place.
SAL
Can you do better? C'here.
Pino aow. is silent. Sal walks over to him.
SAL (contd)
Can you do better?
(he pops Pino
upside the head)
I didn't think so. Thi ■ is a
respectable business. Ruthin'
wrong with it. Get dat broom.
PINO
Tell Vito.
VITO
Pop asked you.
SAL
I'm gonna kill somebody today.
6 EXT; MOOKIE'S BROWNSTONE
- DAY
Mookie comes down his stoop and walks to work.
7 EX-r-: STREET'" - DAT
The Block is beginning to come to life. Those unlucky

souls who have to w~rk this Saturday drag themselves to
it, and the kids are out on the street to play in the
hot sun all day long.
5
8 EXT: MOTHERSISTER'S STOOP - DAY

Mookie stops to say hello to MOTHERSISTER. She leans
out her out her window on the parlor floor. In the
summertime, the only time when she's not perched in her
window is when she's asleep.
MOTHER SI STER
Good morning, Mookie.
MOOKIE
Good morning to you.
MOTHERSISTER
Now, Mookie, don't work too
hard today. The man said it's
gonna be HOT as the devil. I
don't want ya falling out from
the heat. You hear me, son?
MOOKIE
I hear ya, Mother Sister. I
hear you ..
MOTHERSISTER
Good. I'll be watching ya, son.
Mother Sister always watches.
9 INT: SAL'S PIZZERIA - DAY
Mookie ent~rs the pizzeria and Pino is on him before the
door closes.
PINO
Mookie, late again. How many
times I gotta tell you?
MOOI<IE
Hello, Sal. Hello, Vito.
SAL
How ya doin', Mookie?
VITO
Whaddup?
MOOKIE
Just cool in' •
PINO
You're still late.
SAL
Pino, relax, will ya.
9 CO!n'D 6
PINO
Here, take the broom. The
front needs sweeping.
MOOKIE
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
I just got here. You sweep.
I betcha Sal asked you firat
anyhow.
VITO
That's right.
PINO
Shaddup, Vito.
MOOKIE
Fuck dat shit. I deliver
pizzas. That's what I get
paid for.
PINO
Y9u get paid to do what we say.
MOOKIE
What ve say. I didn't hear
Sal say nu thin• •
Pino look.a at his father. Be wants to be backed up

on thisr all he gets is an amused look, and a smirk
from Vito.
PINO
Who's working for who?
There's a knock on the door and Da Mayor enters.
"
SAL
Come on in, Mayor.
DA MAYOR
Good morning, gentlemens. It's
gonna be a scorcher today,
that's for sure. Need any
work done around here?
Sal looks at Pino, who reluctantly gives Da Mayor the
broom.
DA MAYOR (contd)
It will be the cleanest side-
walk in Brooklyn. Clean as the
Board of Health.
9 CONTD 7
Da Mayor almost runs out of the pizzeria in his hurry;

soon as he finishes he'll be able to get a bottle.
PINO
Pop, I don't believe this shit.
We runnin' welfare or somethin'?
Every day you give da t bum •••
MOOKIE
Da Mayor ain't no bum.
PINO
Give dat bum a dollar for
sweeping our sidewalk. What
do we pay Mookie for? He don't
even work. I work harder than
him and I'm your own son.
MOOKIE
Who don't work? Let's see you
carry six large pies up six
flights of stairs. No elevator
either and shit.
SAL
Both of youse -- shaddup.
This is a place of business.
VITO
Tell 'em, Pop.
PINO
Me and you are gonna have a
talk.
VITO
Sez who?
PINO
Sez me.
SAL
Hey! What did I say.
MOOKIE
Who doesn't work? Don't start
no shit, won't be no shit.
SAL
Mookie, no cursing in the
store.
MOOKIE
Talk to your son.
8
10 EXTs SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA - DAY

Oa Mayor sweeps the sidewalk, happy as can be. As soon
aa he finishes he can get that money and get that bottle.
11 EXT: STOOP - DAY
A group of youths ait on a stoop waiting for someone.
They are CEE, PUNCHYand the lone female, ELLA.
ELLA
What's keeping him?
PUNCHY
You call him then.
Ella stands up and yells.
ELLA
Yo, Ah.ma.di
PUNCHY
I coulda done dat.
ELLA
Yo, Ahmadi
She looks up into his window, then sits down.
ELLA (contd)
Punchy, if ya want to do some
more screaming, be my guest.
The door swings

-
I'm too through.
open at the top of the stoop and AHMAD
appears.
AHMAD
Who's yelling my name?
ELLA
Punchy told me to.
AHMAD
Don't listen to him, it will
get ya in trouble.
ELLA
Heard that, Punchy.
Ahmad sits down with them.
AHMAD.
Blla, you have a brain,
use it.
g
11 CONTD
In the BG, we hear the dum•dum-dum of a giant box.

The aound gets louder as the box gets closer. The youths
look down the block and see a tall young man coming
towards them. He has a very distinct walk, it's more
like a bop .. This is RADIO RAHEEM. The size of his box
is tremendous and one has to think how does he carry
something that big around with him? It must weigh a ton,
and it seems like the sidewalk shakes as the rap music
blares out. The song we hear is the only one Radio
Raheem plays.
MEDIUMSHOT - RADIO RAHEEM
Radio Raheem stops in front of the group, looks at them
and turns down the volume. It's quiet again.
RADIO RAHEEM
Peace, y'all.
ELLA
Peace, Radio Raheem.
CEE
Peace.
PUNCHY
You the man, Radio Raheem.
AHMAD
It's your world.
CEE
In a big way.
Radio Raheem nods and turns up the volume. Way up.
AHMAD .,.
My people. My people.
12 EXT: WE-LOVESTOREFRONT- DAY
Radio Raheem waves to Mister se'iror Love Daddy as he
walks by.
13 INT: WE-LOVECONTROLBOOTH- DAY
Mister Se?ror Love Daddy gives Radio Raheem a clinched-
fist salute.
14 EXT: FRUIT-N-VEG DELIGHT - DAY
Da Mayor walks into a newly opened fruit and vegetable
deli stand that is owned by Koreans.
10
1S INT: FRUIT-N-VEG DELIGHT - DAY
Da Mayor is looking for his beer in the refrigerated
cases, his ice-cold beer.
DA MAYOR
Where's the Bud? Where's the
Bud?
KOREANCLERK
No mot Bud. You look what we
have and buy.
DA MAYOR
No more Bud. What kind of joint
is this? Bow come no mo• Bud?
Doctor, this ain't Korea, China,
or wherever you come from. Get
some Budweiser in this mother-
fucker.
KOREANCLERK
You buy 'nother beer.
0A MAYOR
Alright. Alright. Y'know you're
asking a lot to make a man change
his beer, that's asking a lot,
Doctor.
16 EXT1 MOTHERSISTER'S STOOP- DAY
Da Mayor has his can of beer (not Budweiser) and the
brown paper bag ia twisted into a knot at the bottom.
Be stops and takes a long swill.
MOTHERSI$TER
You ole drunk. What did I tell
ya about drinking in front of my
stoop? Move on, you're blocking
my view.
Da Mayor lowers the can from his mouth and looks up at hi•
heckler. It's obvious from the look on his face he'•
heard this before. Da Mayor contorts his face and stare ■
at her.
MOO'HER
SISTER (cont.d)
You ugly enough. Don't stare
at me.
Da Mayor changes his face into a more grotesque look.
16 CONTD 11
MOTHERSISTER (contd)
The evil eye doesn't work on me.
OA MAYOR
Mother Sister, you've been talkn'
'bout me the last eighteen years.
What have I ever done to you?
MOTHERSISTER
You're a drunk fool.
DA MAYOR
Besides that. Da Mayor don't
bother nobody. Nobody don't
bother Da Mayor, but you. Da
Mayor just mind his business.
I love everybody. I even love
you.
MOTHER SISTER
Bold your tongue. You don't
have that much love.
DA MAYOR
One day you'll be nice to ine.
We might be both dead and buried,
but you'll be nice. At least
civil.
Oa Mayor tips his beat-up hat to Mother Sister and takes
a final swig of beer just for her.
16A INT: TINA'S APARTMENT- DAY
An elderly Puerto Rican woman, CARMEN,is telling off her
daughter TINA in Spanish. Tina, having heard enough,
closes the door on her mother's\ranting and raving.
ANGLE- TINA
Tina bends down and scoops her baby son HECTORup from
the bed and holds him for dear life to her breasts. She
talks to her son while walking around the room.
TINA
Rector, I shouldn't be telling
you this but you would find
out sooner or later. Ya father
ain't no real father. Be's a
bum, a two bit bum in a hundred
dollar world. Your father is
to the curb. You're smart.
(MORE)
16A CONTD 12
TINA (contd)
I see that look on ya face.
You're 1eyin<J if he's such a
bum why am I with him? Good
question. Like I said
before, you're no dummy.
He talked his way into my
panties, I thought being a
mother would make me happy,
make me whole. Be'• a mistake,
but you are not.
Tina kisses her son. Tina is seventeen years old, another
teenage parent.
l7 EXT: STREET CORNER • DAY
Every day on this corner, summer or winter, spring or

fall, a small group of men meet. They have no steady
employment, nothing they can ~peak of, they do, however,
have the gift of gab. These men can talk, talk, and mo'
talk and when a bottle i ■ going round and they're feeling
•nice,• they get philoaophical. Thsae men become the
great thinkers of the world with solutions to all its
ills, like drugs, the homeless and AIDS. They're called
the Corner Mena SWEE1'DICK WILLIE, COCONUTSID and ML.
All three are sitting in folding chairs up against a wall
in the shade.
ML
The way I ■ ee it, if thia hot
weather continues, it will surely
melt the polar caps and the whole
wide world-• the parts that
ain't water already•- will be
flooded.
COCONO'l'SID
You a dwnb-asa simple mother-
fucker. Where did you read
that?
ML
Oon't worry about it. But when
it happens and I'm in my boat
and ya black ass is drowning,
don't ask me to throw you a
lifesaver either.
SWEET DICK WILLIE
Fool, you're thirty cents away
from a quarter. How you gonna
get a boat1
17 CONTD 13
ML
Don't wor:ry about it.
SWEET DICK WILLIE
You're raggedy as a roach. You
eat the holes out of donuts.
ML
I'll be back on my feet. Soon
enough.
SWEET DICK WILLIE
So when is all this ice suppose
to melt?
18 INT: SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA - DAY
Customers are in Sal's; it's lunchtime and it's fairly
busy. Sal puts a hot slice down on the counter in front
of BUGGIN' OUT, AB-boy.
SAL
You paying now or on layaway?
Buggin' Out looks at the slice.
BOGGIN' OUT
How much?
SAL
You come in here at least three
times a day. You a retart?
A buck-fifty.
BUGGIN' OUT
Damn, Sal, put some more cheese
on that motherfucker.\
SAL
Extra cheese is two dollars.
Y'know dat.
BUGGIN' OUT
Two dollarsl Forget it.
Buggin' out slams his money down on the counter, takes
his slice and sits down.
ANGLE- TABLE
All around Buggin' Out, peering down from the WALLOF
PA.ME,·are signed, framed 8Xl0 glossies of famous Italian-
Americane. WE SEE Joe DiMaggio, Rocky Marciano, Perry
Como, Frank Sinatra, Luciano Pavarotti, Liza Minnelli,
Governor Mario Cuomo, Al Pacino and, of course, hov can
we forget Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa, THE
ITALIAN STALLION, also RAMBO.
18 CCINTD 14
CLOSE UP - BUGGIN' OUT

Be looks at the pictures hovering above him.
BUGGIN' OUT
Mookie.
CLOSE OP - MOOKIE
MOOKIE
What?
CLOSE UP - BUGGIN" OOT
BUGGIN' Ol11'
How eome you ain't got no
brothers up?
CLOSE UP - MOOKIE
MOOKIE
Ask Sal.
ANGLE- PIZZERIA
BUGGIN' Ol11'
Sal, how come you ain't got no
brothers up on the wall here?
SAL
You want brothers up on the
Wall of Fame, you open up your
own business, then you can do
what you wanna do. My pizzeria,
Italian-Americans up on the wall.
VITO -.
Take it easy, Pop.
SAL
Don't start on me today.
BUGGIN' Ot.rr
Sal, that might be fine, you
own this, but rarely do I aee
any Italian-Americans eating
in here. All I've ever seen i•
Black folks. So since we spend
~ money here, we do have oome
say.
SAL
You a troublemaker?
Pino walks over to Buggin' Out.
CONTD 15
PINO
You making trouble.
BUGGIN' OUT
Put some brothers up on this
Wall of Fa.me. We want Malcolm x,
Angela Davis, Michael Jordan
tomorrow.
Sal comes from behind the counter with his Louisville
Slugger Mickey Mantle model baseball bat. Vito is by his
side, but Mookie intercepts them, taking Buggin' Out
with him.
SAL
Don't come back, either.
BUGGIN' OUT
Boycott Sal's. Boycott Sal's.
19 EXT: SAL'S PIZZERIA - DAY
MOOKIE
Buggin' out, I gotta work here.
BUGGIN' OUT
I'm cool. I'm cool.
MOOKIE
Come back in a week, it will
be squashed.
They give each other five.
2G INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA - DAY
Mookie enters. \
SAL
Mookie, if your friends can't
behave, they're not welcome.
MOOKIE
I got no say over people.
PINO
You talk. to •em.
MOOKIE
People are free to do what
they wanna do.
SAL
I know, this is America, but
I don't want no trouble.
16
21 EXT: STREET - DAY
Mookie walks down the block with pizza box in hand when
he sees Oa Mayor sitting on his stoop.
DA MAYOR
Mookie.
MOOKIE
Gotta go.
DA MAYOR
C'here, Doctor.
Mookie turns around and goes back.
DA MAYOR (contd)
Doctor, this is oa Mayor
talkin'.
MOOKIE
OK. OK.
DA MAYOR
Doctor, alway-s try to do the
right thing.
MOOKIE
That's it?
DA MAYOR
That's it.
MOOKIE
I got it.
22 INT: TENEMENT BUILDING - DAY -'.>.
Mookie is hiking up a flight of stairs.

ANGLE- STAIRCASE
He puts the pizza box down and takes a breather.
CLOSE- UP - MOOXIE
Sweat drips off his face.
ANGLE - MOOKIE
He bends down to pick up the pizza box and tackles the
last few flights.
22 CONTD 17
CLOSE UP - DOORBELL
Mookie pushes the buzzer.
ANGLE- DOOR
A young Puerto Rican woman opens the door.
NILDA
I hope it's not cold.
Mookie hands her the pizza.
MOOKIE
No, it's not cold. Twelve
dollars for the pie.
Nilda hands him a handful of singles. Mookie looks at
the crumpled mess. Nilda attempts to close the door, but
Mookie's foot says, •hell no.•
MOORIE (contd)
Hold it. Let me count this
first.
First he straightens out the dollars, then counts the
bills.
MOOK.IE (contd)
You're short.
NILDA
I counted the twelve dollars
myself.
MOOKIE \
Twelve is right, but no tip.
NILDA
No tip.
MOOK-IE
Look, lady. I carried your
pizza up five flights of stairs
and &hit. The cheese didn't
slide over to one side like it
sometimes does with delivery
people who don't care. I do
care. May I get paid?
Nilda looks at him and sees right away he's not going
anywhere.
NILDA
Wait here.
22 CONTD 18
MOOKIE
I'll wait.
Nilda goes into the apartment and we hear her talking
in Spanish to a male.
Jade aits down next to Mother Sister on the stoop.
MOTHER SISTER
Jade, you're late.
JADE
I know, Mother Sister, but I'm
here now. Where's the stuff?
Mother Sister hands her a bag that is at her side.
MOTHER SISTER
Seen your brother, just walked by.
Jade unwraps a head scarf from around Mother Sister's
head and a full"· head of.:: long black hair falls to her
shoulders.
JADE
This might take some time.
MOTHER S 1STER
I got nowhere to go. We haven't
had a good sit down for a long
while.
Jade begins to part, grease and comb out Mother Sister'•
hair. .-.
MOTHERSISTER (contd)
Tender-headed runs in my family.
You tender-headed?
JADE
Yeah, me too.
MOTHERSISTER
That's why I don't fool with it.
only let you touch it ••• OUchl
JADE
Sorry, comb got caught.
MOTHER SISTBlt:
Be gentle, child. Mother
Sister is an old woman.
23 CONTD 19
JADE
Bow are you holding up in this
weather?
MOTHER SISTER
I'll do.
JADE
I don't know why you still
haven't bought an air conditioner?
MOTHER SISTER
Don't like 'em. A fan will do.
ANGLE - DA MAYOR
Da Mayor stands in front of the stoop, he's smiling for
days.
DA MAYOR
I didn't know you had such
beautiful hair.
ANGLE - STOOP
MOTHER SISTER
Fool, there's a lot in this
world you don't know.
CLOSE UP - DA MAYOR
DA MAYOR
I'm not stopping. I'm on ffl'J
way.
The Mayor tips his hat and heada~up the block.
ANGLE - STOOP
JADE
You are too cruel to Da Mayor,
it isn't right.
MOTHERSISTER
I'm not studying no Mayor.
Besides, he reminds me of ffl'J
least favorite peoples. Hy
tenants and my ex-husband --
Goddamn-bless his soul.
They both laugh.
23 CONTD 20
MOTHER SISTER
Number One1 I got some jive, late
rent paying trifling Negroes in
this houae. Every year I keep
threatening to sell it.
JADE
And move to Long Island
MOTHER SISTER
And move to Long Island.
Number 'l"Wot my ex-husband
lost all my property, all my
money in his scheme to build a
black business empire. Needless
to say what happened, this house
is it, all I got. I'm too
through with yar people.
CLOSE UP - JADE
JADE
Whewl
She looks up at the white-hot sun.
CLOSE UP - MOTHER SISTER
She does the same.

X CLOSE UP - 'l'BE WHITE BOT SUN
ANGLE- MOO:KIE
.Mookie bends down to tie his sneakers.
\
ANGLE• DOOR
Nilda reappears and holds out a lonely lone dollar for
him. Mookie has her hold it out for awhile, then he
takes it.
MOOKIE
Gracias mucho.
Nilda slams the door.
MOOKIE (contd)
A dollar! Cheap bastardl
Your pizza is gonna be fucked
next time.
23 CONTD 21
HOT, HOTTERAND HOTTEST MONTAGE
Right now, folks, we're gonna suspend the narrative and
show how pe9ple are coping with the oppressive heat.
2• People are taking cold showers.
2$ Sticking faces in ice-cold, water-filled sinks.
26 Heads stuck in refrigerators.
27 A wife telling her husband, "Hell, no, I'm not cooking.
It's too hot. The kitchen is closed.•
28 Men downing six-packs of ice-cold brew.
29' Faces stuck directly in front of fans.
29A A young kids cracks an egg on Sal's Cadillac. The
moment the egg hits the car hood it starts to cook.
The kids looks directly INTO THE CAMERAand smiles,
then looks up to see Sal, mad as a motherfucker, chasing
after him.
l-0 And how can I forget tne papers, the newspaper
headlines:
New York Post: •A SCORCHER"
New York Daill News: "2 Hot 4 01•
New York News ay1 •oa BOYi BAUD APPLE·
New York Times: ·RECORD HEATWAVE HITS CITY·
CLOSE UP - JO!mNY PUMP
FOWi A powerful gush of water flies out RIGHT AT THE
CAMERA.
Ahmad has just turned on the johnny pump and the white
stream of water flies across the street.
This attracts all the people on the block. It's a chance
to cool off and momentarily beat the killer heat.
ANGLE - CEE ANO PUNCHY
They both scrape beer cans on the sidewalk.
ANGLE - ELLA
She stands with caution away from the fire hydrant. Ella
doea·not want to get wet.
ANGLE - CEE AND PUNCHY
They're still scraping away.
31 CONTD 22
ANGLE - STREET
Folks, young and old, begin to get in the water and play.
ANGLE- CEE ANO PUNCHY
Both now have cans wit.h the ends scraped away, and go to
the johnny pump. Punchy bends down behind the hydrant
and places the can over the water. The can now directs
the water into giant streams.
ANGLE- ELLA
Ahmad sneaks up behind Ella and picks her up. She's
kicking and screaming furiously.
ELLA
Ahmad! Put me down! Put me
down. I can't get wet. I'm
not playing.
Ahmad is not having it. He carries a kicking Blla into
the middle of the street in direct line of fire.
AHMAD
Yol
ELLA
Nol
They both are hit with a blast of water and are soaked
to the bone. Ella starts to punch Ahmad who she chase•
a~ter.
ANGLE - STREET
...
We hear the familiar rap music of Radio Raheem'• box.
CLOSE - AA.D!ORAHEEM
CLOSE - RADIO RAHEEM

Raheem looks at Cee, he wants to get by and he doe ■n't
want to get wet either. And if his box gets wet, aC11Debody
is gonna die. Cee knows this too.
ANGLE - JOHNNYPUMP
·Cee·standa in front of the hydrant, blocking the water •o
Radio Raheem can. pa•••
31 CONTD 23
ANGLE - RADIO RAHEEM
He slowly bops across the street as all eyes watch. When
he'• clear, Cee moves and the water gushes out again as
folks play.
ANGLE - STREET _
We hear a car horn blowing. People move out of the way

as the vehicle speeds through the spray.
ANGLE - WHITE CONVERTIBLE
An older man, CHARLIE, stops his white convertible and
blows his horn.
CHARLIE
I'm not playing. There's
gonna be trouble if you fuck
around.
CLOSE - CEE AND PUNCHY
PUNCHY
Go 'head. You got it. You
got it.
CLOSE - CHARLIE
CHARLIE
This is an expensive oar.
CLOSE - CEE
CEE
You won't get wet.
ANGLE - HYDRANT
Both Punchy and Cee sit in front of the hydrant once
again, blocking the water.
ANGLE- WHITECONVERTIBLE
The car cautiously eases forward. Charlie doesn't trust
Cee and Punchy at all.
CLOSE - CHARLIE
MAN
I'm warning you.
CLOSE - CEE:AND PUNCHY
PUNCHY
C'mon.
31 CONTD 24
CEE
Hurry up. we ain't got all
day.
ANGLE- STREET
The people all move to the car, for they know what is
about to happen.
ANGLE- HYDRANT
Cee and Punchy leap off the hydrant, unleashing a jet
bla•t that flies directly into Charlie's car. The whole
block is dying.
ANGLE - STREET
Charlie pulls hia flooded car over to the curb, jumps

out and runs to get hold of Cee and Punchy. Of course,
he's elow, as both turn into track stars and make like
Carl Lewis.
ANGLE- CHARLIE
Charlie, a wet mesa, tries to buy some sympathy from the
folks; none is to be bought.
CHARLIE
I'm fucking soaked. If I ever
catch thoae fucks they'll be
sorry. Cocksucking aonabitcheal
The ranting continue ■, and people laugh at him.
CHARLIE (contd)
You people make me ai-ck.
A cop car screeches to a halt in front of the man. Two
officers, LONGand PONTE, get out.
CHARLIE (contd)
Officers, I want an arrest
made. Now.
OFFICER PONTE
What happened?
CHARLIE
Two black kid• soaked me and
my car. It's fucking ruined.
OPPICER LONG
Where are they?
31 CONTD 25
CHARLIE
~ere are they? What kind of
fucking asshole question is
that? They ran the fuck away.
OFFICER PONTE
Do you wish to file a compalint?
CHAR.LIE
A complaint. I want those fucks
locked under the jail.
Officer Long goes into his car and gets a wrench.
ANGLE - JOHNNYPUMP
Officer Long turns off the hydrant, then puts the cap
back on.
OFFICER PONTE
This hydrant better not come
back on or there's gonna be
hell to pay.
CHARLI~
What about my car? I want
justice.
Officer Long sides up to Oa Mayor who's been looking on.
OFFICER LONG
You know anything about this?
Da Mayor is quiet.
CHARLIE
Be knows. He's a witness.
They all know. Be saw the
whole thing.
Officer Ponte goes to Da Mayor's other side.
OFFICER LONG
Who were the punks?
DA MAYOR
Those who'll tell don't know.
Those who know won't tell.
OFFICER PONTE
A wise guy.
Mookie emerges from the crowd and leads Da Mayor away
from the interrogation.
31 CONTD 26
MOOKIE
Let's go, Mayor.
OFFICER LONG
Keep this hydrant off. You
want to swim, go to Coney
Island.
CHARLIE
He's leaving? What about me?
OFFICER PONTE
I suggest you qet in your car
quick, before these ;eeoele
start to strip It clean.
The man looks at the crowd of Blacks and Puerto Ricans
around him and he considers what he just heard.
OFFICER LONG
Let's go break it up. Go back
to your jobs.
OFPICER PONTE
What jobs?
Both cops laugh.
ANGLE- STREET
Charlie drives away, fuming.
32 EXT: ROOPTOP- DAY
Cee and Punchy look down from a roof on all the havoc
and confusion they've started. ..\
Both laugh •
33 INT: SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA - DAY
Mookie enters.
SAL
Mookie, what took you ao long?
I got a business to run.
MOOKIE
Run it then ..
SAL
Here, this goea to the radio
■tation.
Re gives Mookie a bag full of food.

CONTD 27
VITO
Pop, 1•m gonna go with Mookie.
SAL
Good, make sure he don't jerk
around.
PINO
Yeah, hurry back, it's getting
crowded.
Vito and Mookie walk down the block.
VITO
Mister Se'nor Love Daddy is
cool.
MOOKIE
Ya like him, huh?
VITO
Yeah.
MOOKIE
Y'know, Vito, I know Pino is
ya brother and ahit, but the
next time he hits ya, the next
time he touches ya, you should
"house htm.• Kick his ass.
VITO
I don't know.
MOOKIE ..\.
If you don't make a stand, he'•
gonna be beating ya like a egg
for the rest of your life.
VITO
That's what you think?
MOOl(IE
That•a what I think.
VITO
I don't like to fight.
MOOKIB
Do it this one time and he'll
never touch you again.
28
JS EXT: WE-LOVERADIO - DAY

Mookie and Vito wave at Mister Se~or Love Daddy through
the atorefront window a.nd he buzzes them in.
36 CHIT
37 INTz CONTROL BOOTH - DAY
Mookie and Vito very quietly walk in, the mania on the
air.
MISTER SENORLOVEDADDY
Peoples, Br/ stomach'• been
grumbling but help has arrived.
My main man Mookie ha.a saved
the day, straight frca Sal'•
Famous Pizzeria, down the
block. Come up to mike, Mookie.
Mookie goes to the mike.
MISTER SENORLOVE DADDY(contd)
c~mon, don't be shy. Mmm,
smells good. - This is ya Love
Daddy talkin' to ya, starvin'
like Marvin. Say something,
Mookie.
MOO:KIE
Mister se'iror Love Daddy, I'd
like to dedicate the next record
to my heart, Tina.
MISTER SEIOR LOVE DADDY
Alright. Let me play thi• record
while I go to work on~my chicken
parmigiana hero with extra cheese
and extra sauce.
Be hitG the cart machine ....
VO
I just looove you so much
Mister se'nor Love Daddy.
WE-LOVERADIO, 108 FM.
••• then cues up the record.
MISTER safoR LOVEDADDY
Here ya are.
(he hands Mookie
a twenty-dollar-
bill)
Keep the change.
CONTD 29
37
MOOKIE
That's right on time. This is
my friend -- Vito. His pops is
Sal.
MISTER sdloa LOVE DADDY
Tell ya father he makes the
best heroes in Brooklyn.
VITO
I'll do that.
MOOKIE
We're outta here.
..
Thanks for stopping by.
WE LOVE Radio, 108 FM.

On a stoop, a group of Puerto Ricans sit talking, drinking
•cervesa frio" and playing dominoes. One of their cars
sits in front. of the s·toop from which salsa music blasts.
ANGLE- RADIO RAHEEM
As usual we hear the rap music of Radio Raheem. but
underneath the salsa music. Radio Raheem does not like
to be bested, the aalsa music from the parked car is
giving him competition, this is no good. Radio Raheem
stands in front of the stoop and raises his decibel level.
ANGLE - STOOP
The Puerto Rican men look at him, then begin to yell at
him in Spanish. There is a staddoff, the rap and salsa
clashing in a deafening roar. One of the men, STEVIE,
gets off the stoop and goes to the car.
ANGLE - CAR
Steve turns the car radio off.
Radio Raheem smiles, nods, turns his box to a reasonable
listening level and bops down the block. Radio Raheem
still the loudest. Radio Raheem still the king.
STEVIE
You got it, bro.
CONTD 30
38
ANGLE- STOOP
The men curse in Spanish and shake their heads in
bewilderment and Stevie turns the salsa back on.
Vito and Mookie see Buggin' Out on their way back to
Sal'••
MOOKIE
You the man.
BOGGIN' OUT
You the man.
MOOKIE
No, you the man.
BUGGIN' OU'?
No. I'm just a struggling Black
man trying to keep my dick hard
in a cruel and harsh 'WOrld.
-
Buggin' Out gives Mookie five and a menacing look at
Vito.
MOOKIE
Vito is down.
Buggin' out is walking down the block when CLIFTON, a

Yuppie, accidentally bump• into him, stepping on his new
sneakers.
CLOSE• BUGGIN' OUT
Be looks at his sneakers.
CLOSE - SNEAKERS
There is a big black smudge on his new white unlaced

Air·Jordana.
ANGLE - BUGGIN1 00T
Be runs down the block after Clifton.
BUGGIN' OUT
Yo!
Clifton turns around.
40 CONTD 31
BUGGIN' OUT (contd)
Yo!
CLIFTON
Yes.
BUGGIN' OUT
You almost knocked me down.
The word is •excuse me.•
CLIFTON
Excuse me. I'm very sorry.
BUGGIN' OOT
Kot only did you knock me down,
you stepped on my new white
Air Jordans that I just bought
and that's all you can say,
•excuse me.•
This commotion has attracted a crowd, including Ahmad,
Cee, Punchy and Ella.
BUGGIN' OUT (contd)
1 1 11 fuck you up quick two times.
HERE WE GO!
BUGGIN' OU'l' (contd)
Who told you to step on my
sneakers? Who told you to walk
on my side of the block? Who
told you to be in my neighbor-
hood?
CLIFTON ..\
I own a brownstone on this block.
BUGGIN' OUT
Who told you to buy a brown-
stone on my block, in my
neighborhood on my side of the
street?
The crowd likes that one and they laugh and egg him on.
BUGGIN' OUT (contd)
What do you want to live in a
Black neighborhood for? Motherfuck
Gentrification.
CLIFTON
I'm u.nder t.he assumption that,
thi ■ is a free country and one
can live where he pleases.
40 CONTD 32
BUGGIN' OUT
A free country?
SHITl
AWWW Why did he get Buggin' started.
BOGGIN' OUT (contd)
I should fuck you up just for
that atupid shit alone.
Buggin' Out looks down at his marred Air Jordana. The
crowd, smelling blood, wants to see some.
AHMAD
Your Jordana are dogged.
CEE
You might as well throw 'em
out.
PUNCHY
They looked good before he
messed them up.
ELLA
You use to be so fine.
AHMAD
Bow much did you pay for them?
CEE
A hundred bucks.
AHMAD
A hundred buckal
BOGGIN' OUT
You're lucky the Black man has
a loving heart. Next,.\time you
see me coming, eroas. the
street quick.
AHMAD
He's dissing you.
BUGGIN' OUT
Damn, my brand new Jordans.
You should buy me another pair.
CLIFTON
I'm gonna leave now.
• BUGGIN• OUT
IfI wasn't a righteous Black
man you'd be in serious trouble.
S~RIOOS.
CONTD 33
The crowd gives their approval.

BUC..GIN'Otrr (contd)
Move back to Connecticut.
INT; SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA - DAY
Mookie and Vito enter the shop.
SAL
I should have Vito go with you
all the time.
PINO
Yeah, no more 90-minute
deliveries around the corner.
MOOKIE
Pino, I work hard like every-
body in here.
VITO
He's right.
PINO
C'here. _
(Pino smacks his
brother)
Don't get too friendly with
da Mook.
SAL
That's gonna be the last time
you hit Vito.
MOOltIE
Smack him back.
PIANO
What?
MOOKIE
Remember what I said.
Vito stands frozen in front of his brother.
PINO
Are you gonna listen to this
Mook? Listen to him tell you
to smack me? Your only
brother?
Vito walks away and Mookie ia disgusted.
PINO (contd)
I didn't think so.
3,1

Officers Ponte and Long drive down the block and at the
corner they stop, glare at nThe Corner Hen.•
CLOSE - OFFICER PONTE
CLOSE• SWEET DICK WILLIE

CLOSE - OF'PlCERLONG
CLOSE - COCONUT SID
ANGLE - POLICE CAR
OFFICER PONTE
What a waste.
ANGLE - CORNER
Sweet Dick, ML and Coconut Sid stare right back at the
cops.
ANGLE - POLICE CAR
It drives off.
ANGLE - CORNER
COCONUTSID
As I was saying before we were
so rudely interrupted by th~
finest.
ML
What was you saying?
Coconut Sid blanks.
SWEET DICK WILLIE
Motherfucker wasn't saying shit.
ML
Look at that.
COCONUT SID
Look at what?
ML points across the street to the Korean fruit and
vegetable stand.
ML
It's a fucking shame •
35
42 CONTD
SWEETDICK WILLIE
What is?
ML
Sweet Dick Willie.
SWEETOICX WILLIE
That's my name.
ML
Do I have to spell it out?
COCONUTSID
Make it plain ..
ML
OK, but listen up. I'm gonna
break it down.
SWEETDICK WILLIE
Let it be broke.
ML
Can ya dig it.?
SWEETDICK WILLIE
It's dug,
CLOSE - ML
ML .
Look at thoae Korean mother-
fuckers across the street. I
betcha they haven't been a year
off da motherfucking boat before
they opened up their Qwn place.
CLOSE - COCONUTSID
COCONUTSID
It's been about a year.
CLOSE - ML
ML
A motherfucking year off the
motherfucking boat and got a
good business in our neighbor-
hood occupying a building that
had been boarded up for longer
than I care to remember and
I've been here a long time.
42 CONTD 36
CLOSE - SWEET OICX WILLIE

SWEET DICK WILLIE
It has been a long tim,....
CLOSE - COCONUT SID

COCONUTSID
How long?
CLOSE - ML
ML
Too longl Too long. Now for
the life of me, I haven't been
able to figger this out. Either
dem Koreans are geniuses or
we Blacks are dumb.
This is truly a stupefying question and all three are
silent. What is the answer?
COCONUTSID
It's gotta be cuz we're Black.
No other explanation, nobody
don't want the Black man to
be about shit.
SWEETDICK WILLIE
Old excuse.
ML
I'll be one happy fool to see
us have our own business right
here. Yea, air. I'd be the
first in line to spend the
little money I got.
.\
Sweet Dick Willie geta up from his folding chair.
SWEETDICK WILLIE
It's Miller Time. Let me go
give these Koreans s'more
business.
ML
It' a· a motherfucking shame.
COCONUT SID
Ain't that a bitch.
43 EXT: STOOP - DAY
Da Mayor sits on his stoop and a kid, EDDIE, run• by.

43 CONTD 37
DA MAYOR
Sonny! Sonnyt
Eddie ■ tops.
·oA MAYOR(contd}
Doctor, what's your name?
EDDIE
Eddie Lovell.
DA MAYOR
Bow old are you?
EDDIE
Ten.
DA MAYOR
What makes Sammy run?
EDDIE
My name is Eddie.
DA MAYOR
What makes Sammyrun?
EDDIE
I said my name is Eddie Lovell.
DA MAYOR
Relax, Eddie, I want you to go
to the corner store. How
much will it cost me?
EDDIE
Row would I know how much it's
gonna cost if I don't~know
what I'm buying?
DA MAYOR
Eddie, you're too smart for
your own britches. Listen
to me. How much do you want
to run to the store for Oa
Mayor?
EDDIE
Fifty cents.
DA MAYOR
You g<:'lt a deal.
He gives Eddie some money.
38
43 CONTD
DA MAYOR
Git me a quart of beer, Budweiser,
aay it'• for your fother, if
they bother you.
Id.die runs down the block ju■ t a• Ahmad, Cee, Punchy and
Ella pass him.
AHMAD
Who told him he was 0a Mayor
of thi ■ block?
CEE
Be's self appointed.
ELLA
Leave him alone.
PUNCHY
Shut up.
DA MAYOR
Go on now. Leave me be.
AHMAD
You walk.up and down this block
like you own it.
CEE
1)3 Mayor.
PUNCHY
You're old.
AHMAD
A old drunk bum.
Oa Mayor stands up from his,seaa cushion on the stoop.
AHMAD (contd)
What do you have to say?
DA MAYOR
What do you know 'bout me?
Y'all can't even pee straight.
What do you know? Until you
have stood in the doorway and
heard the hunger of your five
children unable to do a damn
thing about it, you don't
le.now shit. You don't know
my pain, you don• t know me.
oon•t call me a bum, don't
call me a drunk, you don't
know me, and it's disrespectful.
I know your parents raised you
better.
43 CONTD 39
The teenagers look at Da Mayor.
ELLA
Be told you off.
oa Mayor sits back down on his seat cushion on his stoop •
.W INT: SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA• DAY
ANGLE - PAY PHONE ON WALL
Mookie is on the phone.
MOOKIE
I know I haven't seen you in
four days. I'm a working man.
TINA (VO)
I work too, but I still make
time.
MOOKIE
Tina, what do you want me to
do?
TINA (VO)
I want you to-spend some time
with me., I want you to try and
make this relationship work.
If not, I'd rather not be
bothered.
MOOKIE
Alright. Alright. 1 1 11 be
over there sometime today.
TINA (VO)
When?
\
MOOKIB
Before I get off work.
TINA (VO)
Bring some ice cream, I'm
burning up ••• Do you love me?
MOOKIE
Do I love you?
CLOSE - SAL
SAL.
Mookie, get offa da phone.
44 CONTD 40
CLOSE - MOOKIE
MOOKIE
Be off in a second. Tina, I
dedicated a record on Mister
Senor Love Daddy's show to you.
TINA (VO)
Big deal.
CLOSE - SAL
SAL
Mookiel Bow is anybody gonna
call in?
CLOSE - MOOKIE
MOOKIE
Big deal? If that's not LOVE,
I don't know what is.
CLOSE - PINO
PINO
You deaf or what?
CLOSE - MOOKIE
MOOKIE
Gotta go. See ya soon.
(he hangs up)
Everybody happy now1
The phone rings right away and Pino picks it up.
ANGLE - PINO
PINO
Sal's Famous Pizzeria, yeah,
two large pizzas, pepperoni and
anchovies, hold on ••• See,
Pop, Mookie fucking talking on
the phone and people are trying
to call in orders. He's making
us lose business.
CLOSE - SAL
SAL
Mookie, you're fucking up.
44 CONTD 41
PINO
Twenty minutes.
(he hangs up the
phone)
Bow come you niggers are so
stupid?
CLOSE - MOOKIE
MOOKIE
If ya see a nigger here, kick
his ass.
CLOSE - PINO
PINO
Fuck you and stay off the phone.
CLOSE - VITO
VITO
Forget it, Mookie.
ANGLE - PIZZERIA
MOOKIE
Who's your favorite basketball
player?
PINO
Magic Johnson.
MOOKIE
And not Larry Bird? Who's your
favorite movie star?
PINO \
Eddie Murphy.
Mookie is smiling now.
MOOKIE
Last question: Who's your
favorite rock star?
Pino doesn't answer, because he sees the trap he's alreay
fallen into.
MOOKIE (contd)
Barry Manilow?
Mookie and Vito laugh.
MOOKIE (contd)
Pino, no joke. c•mon, answer.
CONTD 12
VITO
It'a Prince. He's a Prince
freak.
PINO
shut up. The Bo ■ al Bruuuccellll
MOOKIE
Sound• funny to me. Aa much aa
you eay nigger this and nigger
that, all your favorite people
are •niggers.•
PINO
It's different. Magic, Eddie,
Prince are not niggers, I mean,
are not Black. I mean, they're
Black but not really Black.
They're more than Black. It's
different.
With each additional word Pino is hanging himself even
further.
MOOKIE
Pino, I think secretly that
you wish you were Black. That's
what I think. Vito, what do
you say?
PINO
Y'know, I've been listening and
reading 'bout Farakhan, ya didn't
know that, did you?
MOOKIE
I didn't know you could read.
PINO
Fuck you. Anyway, Minister
Parakhan always talks about
the •ao•called day• when the
Black man will rise. •we will
one day rule the earth as we
did in our glorious past.•
You really believe that shit?
MOOKIE
It's evita-ble.
PINO
Keep dreaming.
44 CONTD 43
MOOKIE
Fuck you, fuck pizza, and fuck
Frank Sinatra, too.
PINO
Well, fuck you too and fuck
Michael Jackson.
CU'I' TO:
RACIAL SLUR MONTAGE
The following will be a QUICK-CUTTINGMONTAGE of racist
slurs, with different ethnic groups pointing the finger
at each other. Each person looks directly INTO THE
CAMERA.
45 CLOSE - MOOKIE
MOOKIE
Dago, wop, garlic-breath, guinea
pizza-slinging, spaghetti-
bending, Vic Damone, Perry
Como, Luciano Pavarotti, Sole
Mio non-singi~g motherfucker.
CUT TO:
46 CLOSE - PINO
PINO
You gold-teeth, gold-chain-
wearing, fried-chicken-and-
biacuit-eatin' monkey, ape,
baboon, big thigh, fast-running,
high-jumping, spear-chucking,
three hundred sixty de9ree
basketball dunking spade
moulan yan.
CUT TO:
47 CLOSE - STEVIE
STEVIE
You slant-eyed, me-no-speak.
American, own every fruit and
vegetable stand in New York,
Reverend Moon, Sun:mer
Olympic• '88, Korean kick-
boxing bastard.
CUT TO:
44
48 CLOSE• OFFICER LONG
OFFICER LONG
Goya bean eating, fifteen in a
car, thirty in an apartment,
pointed shoea, red-wearing,
Menudo, meda meda Puerto Rican
cocksucker.
COT TO:
49 CLOSE - KOREAN CLERK
KOREANCLERK
It's cheap, I got a good price
for you, Mayor ~och, •sow I'm
doing,• chocolate egg-cream-
drinking, bagel and lox B'Nai
B'rith asshole.
CUT TO:
so INT: WE-LOVERAD.IOSTATION CONTROLROOM- DAY

CLOSE - MISTER smloR LOVE DADDY
MISTER sdoR LOVE DADDY

Yol Rold upl Time outl Time
out! Y'all take a chill. Ya
need to cool that ahit out •••
and that's the truth Ruth.
CUT TO:
X CLOSE - WHITE HOT SUN

51 INT a SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA • DAY
Mookie picks up his two pizza pies for delivery.

MOOKIE
Sal, can you do me a favor?
SAL
Depends.
MOOXIE
Can you pay me now?
SAL
Can't do.
.MOOKIB
sal, just thi• once, do me
that solid.
Sl CONTD 45
SAL
You know you don't get paid
till we close tonight. We're
atill open.
MOOKIE
I would like to get paid now.
SAL
Tonight, when we close.
Mookie leaves.
Mookie walks down the block. The streets are filled with
kids playing. WE SEE stoop ball, double dutch, hand
games, bike riding, skateboarding, etc.
ANGLE - MOOKIE
Radio Raheem approaches Mookie.
MOOKIE
Whaddup. Money?
.
RADIO RAHEEM
I was going to buy a slice.
MOOl<IE
1•11 be back after ·I make this
delivery.
RADIO RAHEEM
On the rebound.
Mookie stares at the gold •brass knuckles" rings Radio
Raheem wears on each hand. Spel~ed out across the
rings are the words •LOVE• and the right hand and •BATE"
on the left hand.
MOOKIE
That's the dope.
RADIO RAHEEM
I just copped them. Let me
tell you the story of Right-Band-
Left-Hand -- the tale of Good
and Evil.
MOOKIE
I'm listening.
RADIO RAHEEM
RATEi
52 CONTD 46
He thrusts up his left hand.
RADIO RAHEEM
It was with this hand that Brother
Cain iced hia brother. LOVEI
He thrusts up his right hand.
RADIO RAHEEM
See these fingers, they lead straight
to the soul of man. The right hand.
The hand of LCIV'Bl
Mookie is buggin'.
RADIO RAHEEM
The story of Life is this •••
He locks his fingers and writhes, cracking the joints.
RADIO RAHEEM(contd>
STATIC! one hand is always
fighting the other. Left Band Hate
is kicking much ass and it looks
like Right Band Love is finished.
Hold up. Stop the preaaesl Love
is coming back, yes, it's Love.
Love has won,. Left Band Hate
KO'ed by Love.
Mookie doesn't know what to say, ao he doesn't say
anything.
RADIO RAHEEM(contd)
Brother Mookie, if I love you I
love you but if I hate you •••
MOOlUE ·"
I understand.
RADIO RAHEEM
I love you, my brother.
MOOXIE
I love you black.
53 INT: SAL'S PIZZERIA - DAY
Radio Raheem enters Sal's with music blaring.
RADIO RAHEEM
'l'W0 slices.
47
53 CONTD
SAL
No service till you turn dat
shit off.
RADIO RAHEEM
Two slices.
PINO
Turn it off.
SAL
Mister Radio Raheem, I can't
even hear myself think. You
are disturbing me and you are
disturbing my customers.
Sal grabs his Mickey Mantle bat from underneath the
counter. Everyone, Sal, Vito, Pino, Radio Raheem and the
customers are poised for something to jump off, STATIC.
Re smiles and turns off the beat.
RADIORAHEEM
Two slices, extra cheese.
CLOSE - SAL
Sal puts Mickey Mantle back into its place.
SAL
When you come in Sal's Famous
Pizzeria, no music. No rap,
no music. Capice? Understand?
••• Thia is a place of business.
Extra cheese is two dollars.
S4 INT: TENEMENTHALLWAY- DAY
Mookie hands the pizzas over and takes the money and
counta1 it.
MOOKIE
Thanks.
S5 EXT: STREET - DAY
Mookie walks, aaya hello to the people he knows.
56 EXT: STOOP - DAY
Mookie runs up stoop.
48
57 INT: MOO:KIE'S APARTMENT- DAY

We hear a key in the door, the lock turns and Mookie
entere.
MOOKIE
Jade.
JADE (OS)
I'm in here.
58 INT r JADE' S BEDROOM - DAY
Jade sits in a chair directly in front of an air

conditioner going full blast.
JADE
Bow co1ae you• re not at Sal • s.
MOOKIE
I'm working.
JADE
Is this another one of your patented
two-hour lunches?
MOOltIE
I just come home to take a
quick shower.
JADB
Sal's goMa be mad.
MOOKIB
Later for Sal. Y'know, sometimes
I think you're more concerned
with him than me.
\
JADE
I think no such a thing. Sal
pays you, you should work.
MOOKIE
Slavery days are over. My
name ain't Xunte ~inte. Sia,
I don't want to argue, stop
pressing me.
JADE
I just don'twant you to loae
the one job you've been able to
keep, that•• all. I'm carrying
you as it ia.
49
58 CONTD
MOOl<IE
Don't worry 'bout me. I always
get paid.
JADE
Yeah, then ya should take better
care of your responsibilities.
M.OOKIE
What responsibilities?
JADE
I didn't stutter. Take care of
your responsibilities. Y'know
exactly what I'm talking about.
59 INT: SH~R - DAY
Mookie turns on the shower and screams; the water is
ice cold.
f
/"'···
',
Mother Sister sits in her window looking out at the block.
;
61 EXT: DA MAYOR'S STOOP - DAY
Da Mayor haa fallen asleep sitting on his stoop. Bia
hands loosely hold a brown paper bag that is tightly
twisted around a beer can.
62 EXT: CORNER - DAY
sweet Dick, ML and Coconut Sid each hold an umbrella
for protection from the hot and harsh rays.
\
63 EXT: FIRE ESCAPE - DAY

Ahmad, Punchy, Cee and Ella sit on a fire escape, trying
to keep still, trying to find a cool spot in the shade.
No one says a word.
64 INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA - DAY
Sal.. takea. a.. seat at one of the tables.

SAL
I'm beat.
Pino sits down next to hia father.
,,.
64 CONTD 50
PINO
Pop, I think we should seli
this pl~ce, get outta here
while we're still ahead •••
and alive.
SAL
Since when did you know what's
beat for ua?
PINO
Couldn't we •ell this and open
up a new one in our own neigh-
borhood?
SAL
Too many pizzerias already
there.
PINO
Then we could try something
else.
SAL
we don't know nuthin' elae.
/) PINO
' I'm sick of niggers, it's a
bad neighborhood. I don't
like being around them, they're
animala.
VITO
Some are Olt.
PINO
My friends laugh at me all
the time, laugh right\in rtl'f
face, tell me go feed the
Mouliea.
SAL
Do your frienda put money in
your pocket? Pay your rent?
Food on ya plate?
Pino is quiet.
SAL (contd)
I didn't think so.
PINO
Pop, what elee can I say? I
don't wanna be here, they don't
want us here. We should stay
in our own neighborhood, atay
in Bensonhur ■ t. •
64 CONTD 51
SAL
So what if this is a Blaek
neighborhood, so what if we're
a minority. I've never had no
trouble with dese people, don't
want none either, so don't
start none. This is America.
Sal's Famous Pizzeria is here
for good. You think you know
it all, well, you don't. I'm
your father, you better remember
that.
65 INT: BATHROOM - DAY
Mookie pulls the shower curtain back and steps out.

61i. INT: MOOKIE' S ROOM - DAY
Mookie sits on his bed, still wet.

ANGLE - JADE
JADE
Burry up and get dressed.
MOOKIE
I'm coming.
JADE
I'm going with you.
67 EXT: WE-LOVERADIO - DAY
Suggin' Out waves at Mister seri'or Love Daddy aa he walk•

by the storefront.
68 INT: SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA - O~Y
Buggin' out sticks his head in and yells:
BUGGIN' OUT
Sal, we're gonna boycott ya
fat ass.
Before Sal and his two sons can answer, Buggin' Out is
gone.
Buggin' out has one foot up on a fire hydrant and tries
to clean his soiled Air Jordan.
69 CO!ffD -52
ANGLE - JADE AND MOOKIE

Jade and Mookie walk up to Buggin' Out.
BOGGIN' OUT
It's so nice to see a family
hanging out together.
MOOJCIE
We're not hanging out. I'm
being escorted back to work.
JADE
That's not even true. I just
want a. alice.
BOGGIN' OUT
Jade, you don't know this, but
I'm organizing a boycott of
Sal's Famous Pizzeria.
JADE
What did he do this time?
BOGGIN' OO'l'
Y'know all those pictures he
has hanging on the Wall of
Fame.
JADE
Sol
BUGGIN' OUT
Save you noticed something
about them.?
JADE
No.
MOOKIE
(interjects)
Yo, I'm gone.
JADE
I'll see ya there.
BUGGIN1 Otn'
Peace.
Mookie leaves.
DUGGIN'· OUT (contd)
Every single one of those
pictures is somebody Italian.
CONTD 53
69
JADE
And?
BUGGIN' OUT
~ I, we want some Black people
up.
JADE
Did you ask Sal?
BUGGIN' OUT
Yeah, I askedhim. I don't want
nobody in there, nobody spending
good money in Sal's. He should
get no no' money from the
community till he puts some
Black faces up on that mother-
fucking wall.
Jade looks at Buggin' Out like "are you serious?•
JADE
Buggin' Out, I don't mean to be
disrespectful, but you can
really direct your energies in
a more useful way.
BUGGIN' OOT
So, in other wards, you are not
down.
JADE
I'm down, but for a worthwhile
cause.
BUGGIN1 OUT
Jade, I still love you.
\
JADE
I still love you too.
INT: SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA - DAY
Sl'..L
Mookie, you are pushing it.
You're really pushing it. I'm
not paying you good money to
fucking jerk me around.
Mookie has ncthing to say.
SAL (contd)
You're gonna be in the street
with the rest of your homeboys.
69 CONTD 54
PINO
'Bout time, Pop.
ANGLE - DOOR
Jade enters, and Sal looks up. He stops blasting Mookie
and a very noticeable change comes over him.
SAL
Jade, we've been wondering when
ya would pay us a visit.
JADE
Hi, Sal, Pino, Vito.
VITO
What's happening, Jade?
JADE
Nuthin' really. Bow are you
treating my brother?
SAL
The Mook? Great. Mookie's a
good kid.
PINO
Pop, stop lying.
SAL
Shaddupl Jade, what can I
fix you?
JADE
What's good?
SAL
Everything, but for you I'm
gonna make up something 1pecial.
Take a seat. There, that•• a
clean table.
Sal moves behind the counter and goea to work. Pino and
Mookie look at each other in agreement, neither like•
what he has seen. This happens to Sal every time Jade
is in Sal's Famous Pizzeria.
ANGLE- TABLE
Vito sits down with Jade.
JADE
You atill letting Pino push
you around?
70 COOTD 55
VITO
Who told you that? He doesn't
push me, who told you, Mookie tell
you that? I hold nry own.
JADE
Forget about it, Vito. Forget
I !.!!.!l brought it up.
VITO
Pino picks on me, but I don't
let him push me around. Mookie
tell you that?
JADE
Alright already.
71 EXT: ROOFTOP- DUSK
The once white-hot sun is now turning into a golden
orange glaze as it begins to set. Ahmad, Cee, Punchy and
Ella dance on the roof around a box that is tuned into
WE-LOVE. Each one is trying to come up with some new
moves, a new dance and a name for it.
72 EXT: STREET - DUS,
Radio Raheem is walking down the block and there is
something wrong, something is not quite right. AHAi
His music is not loud, the rap song begins to drag and
finally stops all together.
He looks at his box and presses the battery level
indicator.
CLOSE - BATTERY LEVEL INDICATOR '-
The needle doesn't move. His batteries have had it.

73 INT: FRUIT-N-VEG DELIGHT - DUSK
RADIO RAHEEM
Twenty •on Duracells.
CLOSE - KOREAN CLERK
KOREANCLERK
Twenty •c• Duracells.
CLOSE ·- RADIO RA.REEM
RADIO RAHEEM
D, not c.
73 CON'l'D 56
CLOSE - KOREAN CLERK
KOREANCLERK
-·· C Duracell.
CLOSB • RADIO RAHEEM
RADIO RAHEEM
DI DJ Dl You dumb motherfucker.
Learn how to speak English fir ■ t.
D.
Radio Raheem points to the D batteries behind the counter ..
CLOSE - XOR.BAN
CLERlt
KORE.AN
CLERK
Bow many you say?
RADIORAHEEM
Twentyl Motherfucker I Twenty!
CLOSE - KOREAN
CLERK
1· KOREAN CLERK
Motherfucker you.
Radio Raheem has to laugh at that one.
RADIO RAHEEM
Motherfucker you. You're
alright. You're alright. Ju ■t
gimme my twenty Duracells, please.
74 BXT: FRDIT-N-VBGDELIGHT- DUSK

,.
Da Mayor is looking at a bunch of cut flowers when Radio
Raheem comes out with batteries in hand, finally.
75 BXTI MOTHER SISTER'S STOOP - DUSK
ANGLE- WINDOW
Mother Sister is sitting in her window aa usual.
ANGLE - STOOP
Da Mayor walks up the stoop with a bunch of fresh-cut
flowers i:1 a discarded wine bottle for a vaee.
ANGLE- DA MAYOR
Da Mayor holds them out for Mother Sister, who doea not
acknowledge him at all.
J,·
75 CONTD 51
DA MAYOR
x•d thought you might like
these••• I guess not.
Da Mayor takes a seat on the stoop and puts the flowers
to his face.
DA MAYOR(contd)
Ain't nuthin' like the smell
of fresh flowers. Don't you
agree, Miss Mother Sister?
Mother Sister does not answer. Be puts the flowers down.
DA MAYOR{contd)
Summertime, all ya can smell
ia the garbage. Stink overpowers
everything, especially soft sweet
smells like flowers.
He looks up at Mother Sister who immediately turns away.
DA MAYOR(contd)
If you don't mind, I'm gonna
set right here, catch a breeze
or two, then .be on my way.
Oa Mayor looks up at the setting sun.
DA MAYOR(contd)
Thank the Lord, the sun is
going down, it's hot as blazes.
Yea Jesus.
X CLOSE - SUN
The aun is an orange and purple glaze.

76 EX'l'i STREBT- DUSK
Radio Raheem is back in action. He's alive, he's bad
and he got his twenty •o• Duracell batteries, his box ia
kicking.
ANGLE - CORNER
Radio Raheem bops by coconut Sid, ML and sweet Dick Willie.

CLOSE - COCONUTSID, ML and SWEETDICK WILLIE
All three shake their heads in bewilderment as Radio
~heem goes by.
ML
What can you say?
76 Cc::NTD 58
COCONUT SID
I don't know how he does it.
sweet Dick. Willie gets up from his chair and goes to the
corner, zip• down his pants and urinates.
SWEETDICK WILLIE
ML?
ML
What?
SWEETDICK WILLIE
ML, hold this for me.
Swee~ Dick Willie and Coconut Sid laugh.
ML
That •s OK. At least my moms
didn't name me Sweet Dick Willie.
Sweet Dick Willie zips up his pants and returns to his
seat.
SWEE'?DICK WILLIE
Why you gotta- talk 'bout my
mom.a?
ML
Nobody talkin• 'bout ya moms.
SWEETDICK WILLIS
I didn't say nobody, I aaid you.
ML
sweet Dick, I didn't mean it like
that.
SWEETDICX WILLIE
Yea you did.
COCONUTSID
Squash it.
ML
I just wanted to know who named
ya Sweet Dick Willie?
SWEETDICK WILLIE
It'a just a name.
COCONUTSID
And what does M!., stand for?
76 CONTD 59
ML
ML stands for ML. That's it.
SWEETDICK WILLIE
Naw, that's some stupid shit.
Now you know how I got that name.
ML
Negroes kill me, always holdin'
onto, talkin' 'bout their dicks.
COCONUTSID
I don't know 'bout you, but it's
too hot to fuck.
SWEETDICK WILLIE
Never too hot, never too cold
for fucking.
77 EXT: STREET - DUSK

An old Puerto Rican man rings a bell as he pushes his
cart on wheels. On the side of it is hand-lettered,
HELADOOE coco, and a big block of ice rests on top
surrounded by different colored bottles of flavors.
ANGLE - CART
A group of kids eagerly wait for the ices. The man

scrapes the block of ice, puta the shavings in a paper
cup and drowns it with syrup.
ANGLE- DA MAYOR
Da Mayor is walking down the street.
ANGLE- MISTER SOPTEE TRUCK
We hear the familiar tune from the Mister Softee truck
as it comes down the street.
ANGLE- EDDIE LOVELL
Eddie, the young kid who earlier ran an errand for Da
Mayor, looks up from the sidewalk where he's playing and
runs out into the street in pursuit of Mister Softee.
EDDIE
Ice cream. Ice cream.
Eddie ia running in pursuit of the truck, unaware of the
oncoming speeding car in the opposite direction.
77 CONTD 60
ANGLE- DA MAYOR
oa Mayor sees the speeding car bearing down on Eddie.
ANGLE - STREBT
oa Mayor run• across the street and knocka Eddie
down, out of the way of the car. Both are thrown, just
being hit 'by .the rectlesa driver.
CLOSE - EDOIB ANODA MAYOR
Ed.die ia crying as Da Mayor picks him up.
DA MAYOR
Doctor, you know better to run
out in the atreet ••• Stop
crying, son.
ANGLE - STREET
A crowd gathers.
DA MAYOR
Doctor, there's nothing to cry
about. You're OK.
A woman in her twenties, LOUISB, Bddie's mother. brea.ka
through the crowd and h~gs her baby.
LOOISE
What'• wrong?
EDDIE
Mayor knocked me down.
LOUISE
You should be ashamed\of your-
self.
DA MAYOR
Ma'am, the boy is just scared
to death. What actually
happened is that I was minding
my business when I saw your son
about to be run over. I ran
into the street to save him
and I had to knock him down to
keep the both of us from getting
hit.
The crowd agree ■ •that'• the way it happened,• and
Louise st.and ■ up.
77 CONTD 61
LOUISE
Eddie, is that the truth?
Eddie is quiet.
LOUISE (contd)
Bddie, you hear me talkin' to
you?
Eddie is still mum.
LOUISE (contd)
I'm talkin' to you, boy.
DA MAYOR
Miss, the boy is fine.
WRAP! Louise hits him on da butt. Eddie starts to dance

as his tn0ther hits hard; she's heavy-handed.
LOUISE
What did I tell you 'bout
lying?
WHOP!
LOUISE (contd)
What did I tell you 'bout
playing in the street?
WBAP!
EDDIE
Mommy! Mommyl I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
WBOPJ
LOUISE
Get upstairs now.
Eddie runs away.
LOUISE (contd)
And when your father comes home,
he's gonna wear ya little narrow
behind out too,.
DA MAYOR
You didn't have to hit your son,
he's·scared to death as it'~as • .
LOUISE
I appreciate ya helping my Eddie.
I truly do, but I'll have nobody
(MORE)
it·
CONTD
62
77
LOUISE (contd)
question how I raise him, not
even his Daddy.
DA MAYOR
You're right.
Louise goes away, probably to give her son another
•whooping.• Da Mayor tips hi• hat to her.
78 INTa SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA - DUSX
Sal sit• at a table talking to Jade as she finishes her
•special• ■ lice.
JADE
Sal, that was delicious.
SAL
Anytime.
Vito, Pino and Mookie look on, watching Sal have the time
of his life.
JADE
Thanks.
) Jade gets up and Mookie helps her.

MOOXIE
I'll see you out.
JADE
See ya around.
SAL
Don't wait too long to come
back. ,
79 EXTz SAL'S PAMOUS PIZZERIA - DOSK
Mookie talces Jade by the hand and pulls her out of view
from Sal.
ANGLE - MOOKIEAND JADE
MOOKIE
Jade, I don't want you coming
in here no mo•.
JADE
Stop tripping.
:ONTD 63
MOOKIE
No, you're tripping. Don't
come in Sal'•• Alright, read
'lff'f lips.
JADE
What are you ao worked up about?
MOOKIB
over Sal, the way he talks and
the way he looks at you.
JADE
He's just being nice.
Nice!
JADE
Be's completely innocent.
MOOKIE
Innocent!
JADE
I didn't stu~ter. You heard me.
MOOXIE
You should see the way he
looks at you. All Sal wants
to do is hide da salami.
JADB
You are too crude.
MOOKIE
I might be, but you're not
welcome here.
JADE
Stop trying to play big brother.
I'm a grown woman. You gotta
lotta nerve. Mookie, you can
hardly pay your rent and you're
gonna tell me what to do. Come
off it.
MOOKIE
One has nuthin' to do with the
other.
JADE
Oh, it doesn't, huhl You got
your little 250 dollars a week
plus tips•••
79 CC.TD .,..
MOOKIB
I'm getting paid•••
JADE
••• peanuta.
MOOKIE
Pretty soon I'll be making a
move.
JADE
I truly hope ■ o. I'm tired of
supporting a grown man.
80 INTt CONTROL 800TB - DDSK
CLOSE - MISTER SmfoR LOVEDADDY
MISTBR SEiOR LOVE DADDY
A• the evening alowly tall•
upon us living here in Brooklyn,
New York, this ia ya Love Daddy
rappin' to you. Right nov we're
gonna open up the Love Linea.
Bello, you're on Love Daddy'•
Love Line. No name ■ , please.
Let•• keep it-anonymoua.
FEMALE VOICB 11 (VO)
Hi, Mister Senor Love Daddy.
I'4 kiaa your feet every morning,
that'• how much I love you.
""' LOVBDADDY
MISTER SENOR
How nice of you.
FE.MALE VOICE t2 (VO)
I thinJc. you have the sexiest ·
voice in the world. All you
have to do i• talk.
MISTER s!MoR LOVB DADDY
Love Line, you're on.
FEMALEVOICE 13 (VO)
You give me fever.
(she moans)
She's feeling it.

-·
MISTER SENORLOVE DADDY
FEMALEVOICE 14 (VO)
Love Daddy, I'd work in Mickey
D'• 24, 7 and 365 just to call
you my own~ Give you all_my
money, honey •
...
80 CONTD 65
-
That was the last call for
tonight on Mister Se!lor Love
Daddy'• Love Line. I love you.
You I love.
81 EXT: MOTHER SISTER'S S'l'OOP - NIGHT
Da Mayor is walking by Mother Sister in her window when

she calls him.
CLOSE - MOTHER SISTER
MOTHER SISTER
Mister Mayor, I saw what you
did.
ANGLE- DA MAYOR
Da Mayor stops and looks at her. A smile comes to his
face1 after eighteen years has he finally broken down
her defenses?
CLOSE - MOTHER SISTER
MOTHER SISTER
That was a foolish act, but
it was brave. That chile owes
you his life.
CLOSE - DA MAYOR
DA MAYOR
I wasn't trying·to be a hero.
I aaw what was a.bout to happen
and I reacted, didn't even
think. If I did, I might not
have done it in second thought.
Da Mayor ia an old mart, haven't
run that fast in years. I
went from first to home on a
bunt single, scored the winning
run, the bottom of the ninth,
two out, August 1, 1939, Snow
Hill, Alabama.
(he is warming up
now)
Maybe I should be heroic more.
often.
CLOSE - MOTHERSISTER
MOTHER SISTER
Maybe you •houldn't. Don't
get happy. This changes nothing
(HOR.B)
...
11 CON'l'D
MOTHER SISTER (contd)
''
between you and me. You did a
good thing and Mother Sister
wanted to thank you for it.
ANGLE - STOOP
DA MYOR
I thank you.
MOTHERSISTER
You're welcome.
Da Mayor tips his hat.
82 INT: SAL'S FAMOUS PIZZERIA - NIGHT
Mookie enter■•
HOOKIE
Sal, I don't care if you fire
me this exact minute, leave
my sister alone.
SAL
Mookie, I don't know what
you're talking about, plus I
;
don't want to hear it.
MOOKIE
Sal, just do me a favor, leave
Jade alone.
SAL
Bere, you gotta delivery.
Mookie take ■ the pie and looks at the addre ■■•
MOOJ<I2
Is thia the right name and
address?
SAL
Yeah, do you know 'em?
MOOKIE
No, just checking.
83 INT: HALLWAY- NIGHT
Mookie ringa the bell and a «fine• Puerto Rican aiater

answers the door.
83 Cc:NTD 67
MOO!t.IE
Delivery from Sal's Famous
Pizzeria.
TINA
What took you so long? Is it hot?
MOOKIE
Rot. Hot.
TINA
Come in then.
84 INT: TINA'S APARTMENT... NIGHT
Tina watches Mookie watch her. When she's through watch-
ing, she takes the pizza from his hands and puts it on
the floor. Mookie grabs her and starts to kiss. Tina
is Mookie's woman, the one he's been on the phone with
earlier. We've heard the voice and now SEE the person.
MOOKIE
Tina, you are~ slick.
TINA
Bow else was I-going to get
you here. I haven't seen you
in a week.
MOOKIE
I've been working hard, getting
paid.
TINA
Where's the ice cream? The
Baagen-Dazs butter pecan?
MOOKIE ~
Shits I forgot.
TINA
Your memory is really getting
bad.
MOOKIE
I just forgot.
TI!m
And I really wanted some ice
cream :t:.oo.
MOOKIE
I can run out and get it.
84 CONTD 68
TINA
Nol Nol You won't come back
either.
MOOlUE
I can't be ataying long anyway.
TINA
Bow long then?
MOOKIE
Long enough for us to do the
naaty.
TINA
That's out. Nol It's too hotl
You think I'm gonna let you get
some, put on your clothes, then
run outta here and never aee you
again in who knows when?
MOOKIE
A quickie is good every once in
a blue moon.
'r-INA
) You a blue-moon fool.
MOOKIE
Then we'll do something else.
TINA
What else?
MOOKIE
Trust me.
TINA .,.
Trust you? Because of trusting
you we have a son. :Remember your
son?
MOOKIE
Trust me.
Mookie pushes Tina back into her bedroom.
8S INT: TINA'S BEDROOM
- NIGHT
Mookia sits Tina down: on her futon bed, turns off the
light• and turns on WE-LOVERADIO as Miater Senor Love
Daddy_ serenades them with alow jama.
MOOKIE
I'm gonna take off ya clothes.
.8'5 CONTD 69
TINA
Mookie, I told you already it's
too fucking hot to make love.
MOORIE
Why you gotta curse?
TINA
I'm sorry, but no rawness is
jumping off tonight.
MOOKIE
No rawness.
Be laughs his sinister laugh.
ANGLE - MOOKIEAND TINA
Mookie unsnaps her bra, then pulls her panties off. Tina
is naked as a jaybird.
MOOI<IE
Tina, you're sweating.
TINA
Of course I'm-sweating. I'm
burning up. It's hot, horon,
only a hundred degrees in here.
MOOKIE
Lie down, please.
Be gets up.
86 INT: TINA'S KITCHEN
Mookie walks into the kitchen and sees CAFOEN, Tina's

grandmother, fixing some food on\the stove.
MOOJ<IE
Bello, Mrs. Ra.mpolla.
Carmen stares at him, it's a look that would definitely
atop traffic, she mutters some Spanish and goes into her
bedrpom, slamming the door behind her.
ANGLE - MOOKIE.
He opens the refrigerator and takes out all the trays of
ice.
70
87 INT: TINA'S BEDROOM- NIGHT

Mookie sits down on the bed with a bowl filled with ice
cubes.
CLOSE - TINA'S FOREHEAD
Mookie rubs an ice cube on her forehead.
TINA
It's cold.
MOOKIE
It's 'pose to be cold.
TINA
Later for you.
MOOKIE
Meda. Meda.
TINA
What?
MOOKIE
Tina, you don~t have a forehead,
you got a eight head.
CLOSE - TINA'S NECK
Mookie rubs an ice cube on her neck.
CLOSE - TINA'S LIPS
Mookie rubs an ice cube on her full moist lips, then puts
it in her mouth.
NI
MISTER SENOR LOVE DADDY (VO)
Yea, children, this is the
Cool Out Corner. We're slowing
it down for all the lovers in
the house. I'll be giving you
all the help you need, musically,
that is.
CLOSE - TINA'S THIGHS
He rubs an ice cube up and down her thighs.
MOOKIB (VO)
Thank God for thighs.
87 CONTD 71
CLOSE - TINA'S BUTTOCKS
Be rubs an ice cube on her round, firm buttocks.

MOOKIE (VO)
Thank God for buttocks.
CLOSE - TINA'S BREAST
Be ru.ba an ice cube on her breast.
M)()KIE (VO)
Thank God for the right nipple •••
Thank God for the left nipple •••
Both Tina and Mookie are dying. Mookie now has an ice
cube on the left and right nipples and WE SEE before
,· our very own eyes both get swollen, red and erect.
TINA (VO)
Feela good.
MOOKIE (VO)
Yes, yes, Lord. Isn't this
better than Haagen•Daza butter
pecan ice cream.
CLOSE - TINA'S MOUTH
Mookie kisses her.
MOOKIE
I'll be back tonight.
88 INT: SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA - NIGHT
Officers Ponte and Long are awaiting~
their orders.
SAL
It's almost ready.
OFFICER LONG
What time you closing tonight?
SAL
Ten.
Sal goes over to the oven, takes out their food and
wraps it up.
SAL (contd)
Here you go.
OFFICER POW!'E
What do we owe you?
.... CONTD 72
SAL
Nine-fifty.
OFFICER PaiTE
Here.
SAL
Than.ks. Enjoy.
OFFICER LONG
Vito, Pino, see ya later.
The officers leave just as Mookie enters.
MOOKIE
Sal, if you want me to deliver
., any faster, get me a jet
rocket or ■ omething, cuz I
can't run with pizzas, all the
cheese ends up on one side and
shit.
SAL
I didn't aay nuthin'. You
must have a guilty conscience.
What are you guilty of?
MOOJCIE
I'm not guilty of nuthin'.
SAL
You must be guilty of something
or you would have never come
in saying the things you ■ aid.
MOOKIB
C'mon, Sal.
SAL
Where we goin'?
While Sal laughs at his corny joke, Pino pulls Vito into
the back.
89 INT: STOREROOM•NIGHT
PINO
Vito, I want you to listen
to me. I'm your brother. I
may smack you around once in
awhile, boas you around, but
·"---" I'm still your brother.
VITO
,i· I know this.
CONTD
73
89
PINO
I love you.
VITO
I'm listening.
PINO
Good. I want you to listen.
VITO
Jesus Christ on the erosa, I
said I'm listening.
PINO
Good. Vito, you trust that
Mook too much. So does Pop.
VITO
Mook:ie's OK.
PINO
You listening to me?
VITO
Stop busting my balls. I said
I'm listening_ten fucking times
already.
PINO
Mookie is not to be trusted.
No moulan yan can be trusted.
The first time you turn your
back, boom, a knife right
here.
(Pino gestures)
In the back.
VI'l'O
Bow do you know this?
PINO
I know.
VITO
You really think so?
PINO
I know so. Be, them, they're
not to be trusted.
VITO
So what do you want me to do?
74
89 CONTD
PINO
Be on guard. Mo<>kie has Pop
conned already, so~ have to
look out for him.
VITO
I like Mookie a lot.
PINO
And that's exactly what I'm
talk.in • •bout.
SAL (OS)
Vitol Pinol Let's g~.
PINO
Be right there, Pop. Listen
to what I said.
VITO
You don't listen to me, never
have. Just run your big fucking
mouth always playing big brother.
You don't listen, but Mookie does.
, 90: BOT CITY HIGHT MONTAGE_
THE BLOCR. WE'VE SEEN it at daytime, but now WE SEE it
at night. Even though the white-hot sun is gone, none-
theless the heat is still stifling. And in a peculiar,
funny sort of way, it's worse. You expect it to be hot.
during the light of day when the sun is beating down on
the cement and tar, but at night it should be considerably
cooler; well, not tonight, it's hot. All the resident.a
of The Block: The Corner Men, Mottier Sister, Da Mayor,
Jade, etc., all the people WE'VE SEEN throughout the
day are now coping with the nighttime heat, plus it's
humid as •hit. Everyone is outside, sitting on atoops,
on cars and you know the kids are playing, running up
and down the block. Now it's the hottest night of the
year.
91 EXT: STREET - NIGHT
Buggin' Out sits down on a car next to Radio Raheem; as
usual, his box is blasting.
BUGGIN1 OUT
Bow you be?
RADIO RAHEEM
I be. I'm living large.
BUGGIN' OUT
Is that the only tape you got?
•·
91 CalTD 75
RADIO RAHEEM
You don't like Public Enemy.
It'a the dope shit.
BUGGIN' OUT
I like 'em, but you don't play
anything else.
RADIO RAHEEM
I don't like anything else.
BUGGIN' OUT
Check this out. Y'know Sal•s.
RADIO RAHEEM
Yeah, I know dat motherfucker.
BUGGIN' OUT
I'm trying to organize a
boycott of Sal's pizza joint.
Ya see what I'm saying?
RADIO RAHEEM
I almost had to yoke him this
afternoon. Tell me, tell me,
Radio Raheem to turn my music
/ '\:!.
i
down. Didn't even say please.
Who the fuck he think he is?
Don Corleone and shit.
BUGGIN' OUT
Be makes all his money off us
Black people and I don't see
nuthin' but Italians all up
in there, Sylvester Stallone
and motherfuckers. Ya see what
I'm saying, homeboy?
\
RADIO RAHEEM
Talk to me.
BUGGIN' OUT
We shouldn't buy a single slice,
spend a single penny in that
motherfucker till some people
of color are put up in there.
RADIO RAHEEM
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.
That's what I'm talkin 1 'bout.
DUGGIN' OU'l'
You got my back.
91 CONTD 76
AADIORAHEEM
Ya back i• got.
BUGGIN' OUT
My brother.
RADIO RAHEEM
My brother.
92 INT: SAL'S PIZZBRIA - NIGHT
Vito, Pino and Mookie are cleaning up.
MOOKIE
Sal, it'a
almost quitting time
so please start counting my
pay. I gotta get paid.
Sal is looking into the cash register.
SAL
We did good business today.
We got a good thing going.
Nothing like a family in
business working together.
One day the !>9th of you will
take over••• and Mookie, there
( will always be a place for you
at Sal's Famous Pizzeria.
Y'lmow, it ahould be Sal's and
Sons Pamoua Pizzeria.
ANGLE- VITO, PINO ANDMOOKIE
All three look at each other. The horror ia on their
faces, with the proaP4ct of working, 1laving in Sal'• and
Sona Famous Pizzeria, trapped for the rest of their lives.
Ia this their future? It'• a f~ightening thought.
ANGLE- DOOR
Ahmad, Cee, Punchy and Ella enter.
SAL
We're about to close.
AHMAD
Ju.at- four- slices, regular
slices. Please. To 901
SAL
OK, but that'• it. It's been
a long day.
Mookie goes over to the table where Ahmad, Cee, Punchy
and Blla ait:.
77
92 CONTD
MOOIUE
Look:, I want you to get your
slices, then outta here. No
playing around.
You got it.

1'KX>KIE
Good. No joke. We all wanna
go home.
OB NOl We hear the dum-dum-dum of Radio Raheem'a box ..
As everyone turns their heads to the door, Buggin' Out
and Radio Raheem are inside already. We have never heard
the rap music aa loud as it ia now. You have to scream
to be heard and that's what they do.
SAL
What did I tell ya 'bout dat
noise?
1 OUT
BOGGIN
What did I tell ya 'bout dem
pictures.
\
SAL
,,/ What da fuck! Are you deaf?
BUGGIN' OUT
No, are you? We want some
Black people up on the Wall
of Pa.me.
SAL
Turn that JUNGLEMUSIC off.
We ain't in Africa.
Ahmad, Cee, Punchy and Ella start to dance while Mookie
takes a seat, thG impartial observer that he is.
BOGGIN' OUT
Why it gotta be about jungle
music and Africa?
SAL
It'a about turning that shit
off and getting the fuck outta
my pizzeria.
PINO
Radio Raheem.
RADIO RAHEEM
Fuck you.
18
92 CONTD
SAL
What ever happened to nice
music with words you can
underatand?
RADIO RAHEEM
Thia ia music. My music.
VITO
We're closed.
BOGGIN' OUT
You're closed alright, till
you get some Black people up
on that wall.
Sal graba his Mickey Mantle bat from underneath the
counter and bring• it down on Radio Raheem•s box, again
and again and again. The music stops.
CLOSE - RADIO RAHEEM'SBOX.
Radio Raheem'• pride and joy is smashed to smithereens.
It'• going to the junkyard quick.
ANGLE- PIZZERIA
There is an eerie quiet as everyone is frozen, surprised
by the suddeMeaa of Sal's action, the swings of hia
Mickey Mantle bat. All look at Radio Raheem and realize
what is about to happen.
ANGLE- RADIO RABB.EM
Radio Raheem scream.a, he goes crazy.
RADIORAHEEM
My muaicl -~
Radio Raheem pick• Sal up from behind the counter and

etarta to choke hi• ass. Radio Raheem' ■ prized possession
- his box, t.he only thing he owned of value -- hia box,
the one thing that gave him any sense of worth -- hi•
box, haa been am.ashed to bit■• (Radio Raheem, like the
large majority of Black youth, is the victim of material! ■•
and a misplaced aense of values.) Now he doesn't give a
fuck anymore. He'• gonn& make Sal pay with hi• life.
Vito and Pino jwnp on Radio Raheem who only tighten■ hi■
grip around Sal'• neck. Buggin' Out tries to help hi ■
friend. Mookie juat atanda and watches ae Ahmad, Ce•,
Punchy and Blla cheerlead.
79
93 EXT: SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA - NIGHT
The tangled mass of chokinq, biting, kicking, screaming
confusion flies through the door of Sal's out onto the
sidewalk.
CLOSE - EDDIE
The kid yells:
EDDIE
Fight! Fight!
COT TO:
CLOSE - DA MAYOR
He looks up.
CUT TO:
CLOSE - MOTHERSISTER
She looks up.
CUT TO:
CLOSE - SWEET DICK WILLIE

He also looks up.
ANGLE - STREET
The people on The Block run to Sal's Famous Pizzeria to
see the STATIC •
ANGLE- SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA

_\
Radio Raheem, Duggin' Out, Sal, Vito and Pino are still
entangled, rolling around on the sidewalk, but now before
an entertained crowd of onlookers:
ANGLE - DA MAYOR
DA MAYOR
Break it up. This is crazy.
The fight continues. Da Mayor is smart enough not to get
in the middle of this war, when we hear sirens, somebody
has called DA COPS.
ANGLE - STREET
- The cop cars

over some people.
come right
The ccps
through
get
the
out
crowd,
with
almost
nightsticks
running
and
CONT'D 80
guns drawn. WE RECOGNIZEtwo of the faces, Officers Long
and Ponte. Anytime there ia a skirmish between a Black
man and a White man, you can bet the houae on who the
cop• are gonna go for. You know the deall 8u99in' Out
1• pulled off first, then Vito and Pino, but Radio Raheem
1• a crazed man. It takes all six cops to pull him off
Sal who is red aa a beet from being choked.
ANGLE• COPS
Handcuffs are put on Duggin' Out aa he watches the other
put a choke hold on Radio Raheem to restrain him.
ANGLE- RADIO RA.BEEM
Be's still struggling, then he just atopa, his body goes
limp and he falls to the sidewalk like a fifty-pound bag
of Idaho potatoes.
ANGLE - STREET
Officers Long and Ponte kick him.
OFFICER LONG
Get upl Get upl
Radio Raheem just lies there like a bump on a log.
ANGLE - CROWD
The crowd starea at Radio Raheem's still body. Be'a
unconscious or dead.
CLOSE - OFFICER LONG
OFFICER LONG
Quit :faking.
ANGLE - STRUT \
The officer ■ all look at each other. They know,

they know exactly what they've done. The infamous Michael
Stewart choke hold.
OFFICER PONTE
Let's get him outta here.
The officer ■ pick up Radio Raheem•• limp- body and throw

him into the back seat. Buggin' Out is pushed into
another car.. The cop eara speed off, in their ha ■ te to
beat it, they have left a crowd. It' ■ at this point
t.he crowd becomes an angry mob.
-
..
81
93 CON'rD
ANGLE MOB
The mob looks at•••

ANGLE - HOB POV
Sal still on the aidewalk, being helped to hie feet
by Vito and Pino who are in bad shape themselves.
ANGLE - MOB
The mood/tone of the mob ia getting ugly. Once again
they have seen one of their own killed before their eyes
at the hands of the cops. We hear the murmurs of the
folks go through the crowd.
VOICES OF MOB
THEY KILLED HIM
THEYKILLED RADIO RAHEEM
IT'S MURDER
DID IT AGAIN
JUST LIKE THEY DID MICHAELSTEWART
MURDER
ELEANORBtJMPURS
MORDER
IT'S NOT SAFE
NOT EVEN IN OUR OWNNEIGHBORHOOD
IT'S NOT SAFE
NEVERWAS
NEVER WILL BE
The cops, in their haste to get Radio Raheem out of there,
have left an angry mob of Black folks with a defenseless
Sal, Vito and Pino.
The mob looks at them.
VOICES OF\MOB (contd)
WON'T STANDFOR IT
THE LAST TIME
PUCKIN1 COPS
THE LAST TIME
IT'S PLAIN AS DAY
DIDN'T HAVETO KILL THE BOY
HIGH ANGLE
Mookie looks at the crowd and notices he'a on the wrong
side. Be leaves Sal and his two sons.
ANGLE - STREET
Da Mayor walks in front of the crowd.
93 CONTD 82
DA MAYOR
Good people, let's all go home.
Somebody's gonna get hurt.
CROWD(OS)
Yeah, youl
DA MAYOR
If we don't atop this now, we'll
all regret it. Sal and his two
boy• had nothing to do with what
the police did.
CROWD(OS)
Get out of the way, old man.
You a Tom anyway.
DA MAYOR
Let 'em be.
ANGLE - STREET
Mookie picks up a garbage can and dumps it out into the
street. Be walks through the crowd, up to Da Mayor,
Sal, Vito and Pino.
CLOSE - MOOKIB
__
) He screams.
MOOKIE
BATEl 111
SLOWMOTION
Mookie hurls the garbage can through the plate-glas ■
window of Sal's Famous Pizzeria. That's it. All hell
breaks loose. The dam. has been unplugged, broke. The
rage of a people has been unleashed, a fury. A lone
garbage can thrown through the air has spurred a tidal
wave of frustration.
ANGLE- STREET
Da Mayor pushes Sal, Vito and Pino out of the way as
the mob storm11 into Sal's Famoua Pizzeria.
94 INT; SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA - NIGHT
The people rush into Sal's Famous Pizzeria, tearing it up.
CLOSE - CA.SBREGISTER
The cash register is _opened. WE SEE only coins, Sal ha ■
the paper •
.!,·
83
95 EXTr DA MAYOR'S STOOP - NIGHT
oa Mayor leads Sal, Vito and Pino back to his stoop where
they watch in horror.
SAL
There it goes. Why?
OA MAYOR
You was there. First White
folks they saw. You was there.
PINO
Fuckin' niggers.
96 INT: SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA - NIGHT
Someone lights a match. WHOOOSB!
Sal's Famous Pizzeria is going up in flames and now it's
a carnival.
MOTHERSISTER
Burn it down. Burn it down.
One might have thought that the elders, who through
the years have been broken down, whipped, their spirits
crushed, beat into submission, would be docile, strictly
onlookers. That's not true except for Da Mayorc. The
rest of the elders are right up in it with the young
people.
98 INT: SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA - RIGHT
CLOSE - PHOTOSON WALLOP"FAME
The photos of famous Italian-Americans\ are burning.
99 EXT: FRUIT-N-VEG DELIGHT - NIGHT
The mob now moves across the street in front of the Korean
fruit and vegetable stand. Sweet Dick Willie, Coconut
Sid and ML stand at the head of the mob.
ML
It's your turn.
CLOSE - KOREANCLERK
Be's scared to death, as the mob is poised to tear hi•
place up too. The clerk wildly swings a broom to hold
them off.
84
99 CONTD
KOREAN CLERIC
Me no White. Me no White~
Me Black. Me Black. Me Black.
CLOSE - ML
ML
Me Black. Me Black.
The mob atarta to laugh1 they feel for him.
ANGLE- MOB
SWEETDICK WILLIE
Korea man is OK. Let's leave
him alone.
ML
Him no White. Him no White.
COCONUTSID
Him Black. Bim Black.
100 EXT: DA MAYOR'S STOOP - NIGHT
sal,.Vito, and Pino look on as Sal's Famous Pizzeria goe•
up in smoke.
DISSOLVE TO:
CLOSE .. VITO
DISSOLVE TO:
CLOSE - PINO
DISSOLVE TOt
CLOSE - SAL
•
101 EXT1 STREET - NIGHT
ANGLE - STREET
Jade is running through the mob, looking for her brother.
JADE
Mook.lei Mookiel
ANGLE- MOOKIE
Mookie i• running around wi.th the rest of the mob.
/ ANGLE - STREET
The wail of fire trucks and police,. sirens• is• now added
a·
to the night. ,
as
The mob moves back to in front of Sal's as the fire
trucks and police, in full riot gear, pull up in the
street behind them.
POLICE LOUDSPEAKER(VO)
Good people. Please disperse.
Please disperse.
The firemen rush to hook up their hoses, the police
force themselves between the crowd and the burning
Sal's Famous Pizzeria.
POLICE LOUDSPEAKER(VO contd)
Please disperse! Please
disperse!
The mob doesn't listen, they will not be moved. The mob
will not be moved until they see Sal's Famous Pizzeria
burn to the ground.
ANGLE - SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA
The firemen douse the pizzeria, trying desperately to
stop the fire from spreading into the adjoining buildings.
POLICE LOUDSPEAKER(VO)
Good people, we're giving you one
more warning. Please go back
home.
CLOSE - MOOiCIE
MOOKIE
This is our home.
CLOSE - MOTHER
SISTER \
MOTHER SISTER
Thia is our neighborhood.
ANGLE- MOB
It will take fore~ to move this mass of people.
POLICE LOUDSPEAXER (VO)
You've had your warning!
POW!
The hoses are turned on the mob.
•·
102 CONTD 86
WE SEE Mookie, Mother Sister, Sweet Dick Willie, ML,
Coconut Sid, Jade, Ahmad, Cee, Punchy and Ella, etc.,
go down before the powerful blast of the fire hoses.
It would take force to move them and that's exactly what

the mob got. People are trying to hold onto each other,
care, railings, anything to keep from being swept away.
103 EXT: DA MAYOR'S STOOP - NIGHT
Oa Mayor, Sal, Vito and Pino watch in disbelief. It's

unbelievable what is happening before their eyes.
CUT TO:
104 THE STREET - NIGHT

THEIR POV
People are screaming, kids and women are not being spared
from the brute force of the fire hose either.
105 EX'l': WE•LOVESTOREFRONT- NIGHT
WE SEE the reflection of the fire in the storefront window
as Mister Se~or Love Daddy looks on.
106 EXT: STREET - NIGHT
ANGLE - JADE ANO MO'l'HERSISTER
Jade and Mother Sister try to hold onto a street lamp
as a gush of water hits themr their grip loosens, the
water is too powerful and they slide away down the block
and oa Mayor runs after them.
107 INT: SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA - NIGH'l'
CLOSE - PBO'l'OS
Some burnt photos on the floor.

CLOSE - MICKEYMANTLEBAT
The Mickey Mantle bat burns.
CLOSE - RADIO RAHEEM'SBOX
Radio Raheem's box has melted into a black mass of goo.
CLOSER - MOIO RAREEM'S BOX
Aa WE MOVEIN TIGHTER ON the melted box, we begin to hear
!,· the rap song that we've heard throughout. All other
Mf CONTD 87
aound drops out as the rap song gets louder and louder
until it gets deafening, then we ·
CUT TO BLACK.
THE HORNING AFTER
PADE IN1
Na EXT: THE STREET - TO INTt RADIO STATION STOREFRONT
The CAMERA,FROMHIGB ABOVE, CRANESDOWNON The Block.

The sidewalk is deserted, broken glass is everywhere
and it looks exactly as how one expects it to look,
the morning after an uprising.
The CAMERANOWMOVESIN ON the WE-LOVEstorefront where
Mister sef!or Love Daddy is in his familiar place behind
the mike.
My people. My people.
What can I say?
Say what I can
I saw it but I didn't believe it.
I didn't believe it what I saw.
Are-we gonna live together?
Together are we gonna live?
This ia ya Mister Se~or Love Daddy
here on WE-LOVERADIO, 108 FM
on your dial, and that's the truth
Ruth. •
CLOSE - MISTER -
SENOR LOVE DADDY

Today's weather.
(he yells)
BOT!
CLOSER - KISTER SENOR LOVE DADDY

He screams:
.,,,
MISTER SENORLOVE DADDY
WAKEUPI
CUT 'l'Os
109 IN'l't TINA'S BEDROOM- DAY
Mookie jumps out of her bedr Tina sleeps by his aide and
their son Hector ia between them.
Jt·
109 CONTD 88
""" LOVE DADDY (VO}
MISTER SENOR
WAKE UP!
MOOKIE
Fuck 1 My money 1
TINA
Where are you going?
MOOXIE
To get my money.
TINA
Mookie, you must think I'm stupid
or something. You're gonna run
outta here and I won't see your
black ass for another week.
MOOKIE
Tina, it's not like that.
Mookie is putting on his clothes.
TINA
You don't care about me and you
definitely don't care 'bout
your son.
MOOKIE
Tina, I'll be right back.
TINA
Be a Man.
MOOKIE
I am a Man.
TINA \
Act like one then. Be a Man.
MOOKIE
Later.
TINA
You're to the curb. You better
step off. Get a life.
Mookie leaves.
109A MOTHERSISTER'S BEDROOM- DAY
Da Mayor wakes up in Mother Sister's big brass bed (she
·- wae born in it), at first he has no idea where he'• at,
then· sees Mother Sister sitting down across the·room
smiling at him. ·
109A CONTD 89
.
MOTHER SISTER
Good morning.
0A MAYOR
Is it a good morning?
MOTHERSISTER
Yes indeed. You almost g~ yourself
killed laet night.
DA MAYOR
I've done that before.
Da Mayor gets up out of her big brass bed.
DA MAYOR(contd)
Where did you sleep?
MOTHER SISTER
I didn't.
DA MAYOR
I hope the block is still standing.
MOTHER SISTER
We're still st-anding.
Da Mayor and Mother Sister both look out the parlor window
to see THE BLOCKand Mookie.
110 EXTs SAL'S PAMOUSPIZZERIA - DAY
Mookie walks up to Sal'• Famous Pizzeria as it still
smoulders in the morning light. Sal emerges from the
wreckage, he look■ like he might have alept there.
SAL
Wh.atdafuck do tOU want?
MOOKIE
I wants my money. I wants to
get paid.
Sal looks at Mookie in disbelief.
SAL
Mookie, I always liked you,
not the smartest kid, but
you're honest. Don't make
me d.islike you.
MOOKIE
Sal, I want 11.t':f money.
110 C~TD 90
SAL
Don't even aak about your
money. Your money wouldn't
even pay for th3t window you
smashed.
MOOJCIB
Motherfuck a window, Radio Raheem
is dead.
SAL
You're right, a kid is dead but
Mook, this isn't the time.
MOOKIE
Puck dat. The time is fuckin'
now. Y'know I'm sorry 'bout
Sal's Famous Pizzeria, but I
gotta live too. I gotta get
paid.
SAL
We both do.
MOOKIE
We all know ~ou•re gonna get
over with the insurance money
anyway! Ya know da deal.
-·
SAL
Do we now?
MOOKIE
Quit bullshitting.
SAL
You don't know shit about shit.
MOOKIE
I know I wants to get my money.
Sal haa had it.
SAL
How much? How much do I owe
you?
MOOKIE'
My salary. Two•fifty.
Sal pulls out a wad and quickly peels off hundred dollar
billa.
SAL
One 1 two, three, four, five.
110 CONTD 91
Sal throws the •c• notes at Mookie, they hit him in the
chest and fall to the sidewalk.
SAL (contd)
Are you happy now? That'•
five fucking hundred dollars.
You just got paid. Mookie, you
are a rich man, now ya life is
set, you'll never have another
vorry, a care in the world.
Mookie, ya wealthy, a fuckin'
Rockefeller.
Mookie is stunned by Sal'a outburst. Be picks up the
bills.
SAL (contd)
la. justgot paid, so leave me
the fuck alone.
MOOKIE
You only pay me two-fifty a week.
(he throws two •c•
notes back at him)
Lowe you fifty bucks.
__
)
Xeep it.
SAL
MOOKIE
rou keep it.
SAL
Christmas eame early.
Both look at the two one-hundred bills on the sidewalk
and refuse to pick them up. It's \ a stalemate.
MOOltIE
Thia is the hottest Christmas
I've known.
Mookie counts his money.
SAL
It's suppose to be even hotter
today.
MOOKIE
You gonna open up another
Sal'• Pamoua Pizzeria?
SAL
No. What are you gonna do?
110 CONTD 92
MOOKIE
Make dat money. Get paid.
SAL
Yeah! I'm goin' to the
•••
beach for the firat day in
fifteen years. Gonna take
the day off and go to the
beach.
MOOl<IE
I can dig it. It's gonna be
HOT as a motherfucker.
SAL
Mookie?
MOOK.IE
Gotta go.
SAL
C'here, Doctor.
Mookie turns around and goes back.
SAL
._.) Doctor, this is Sal tat.kin~ •
MOOKIE
OK. OK.
SAL
Doctor, always try to do the
right thing.
MOOKIE
That's it?
SAL
That's it.
Mookie thinks about it, looks at the two •c" notes still
smiling up at him. He quickly scoops them up.
MOOKIE
I got it ..
HIGH ANGLE
J\a Mookie turns and walks away, Sal goes back into Sal'•
Famous Pizzeria to salvage what is salvageable, and '
•
Bl CQITD 93
The Block begins to awake from its slumber, ready to deal
once again with the heat of the hottest day of the year.
FADE OUT.
ROLL CREDITS •
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DO '1'BE RIGHT THJ:HG

•The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in

1 INT: WE-LOVERADIO STATION STOREFRONT- DAY

CAMERAMOVESBACKSLOWLYTO REVEALMISTER sil$oR LOVE

He hits the cart machine and we hear a station jingle._

Be laughs like a madman.

Don't you have enough sense not

Wake up? Saturday is the lone

The Block is beginning to come to life. Those unlucky

8 EXT: MOTHERSISTER'S STOOP - DAY

Pino look.a at his father. Be wants to be backed up

Da Mayor almost runs out of the pizzeria in his hurry;

10 EXTs SAL'S FAMOUSPIZZERIA - DAY

The door swings

In the BG, we hear the dum•dum-dum of a giant box.

Every day on this corner, summer or winter, spring or

CLOSE UP - BUGGIN' OUT

Mookie is hiking up a flight of stairs.

She does the same.

CLOSE - RADIO RAHEEM

We hear a car horn blowing. People move out of the way

Charlie pulls hia flooded car over to the curb, jumps

Re gives Mookie a bag full of food.

JS EXT: WE-LOVERADIO - DAY

38 EXT: STREET - DAY

Buggin' out is walking down the block when CLIFTON, a

There is a big black smudge on his new white unlaced

The crowd gives their approval.

42 EXT: STREET - DAY

CLOSE• SWEET DICK WILLIE

CLOSE - SWEET OICX WILLIE

CLOSE - COCONUT SID

Da Mayor sits on his stoop and a kid, EDDIE, run• by.

so INT: WE-LOVERAD.IOSTATION CONTROLROOM- DAY

MISTER sdoR LOVE DADDY

X CLOSE - WHITE HOT SUN

Mookie picks up his two pizza pies for delivery.

57 INT: MOO:KIE'S APARTMENT- DAY

Jade sits in a chair directly in front of an air

63 EXT: FIRE ESCAPE - DAY

Sal.. takea. a.. seat at one of the tables.

65 INT: BATHROOM - DAY

Mookie pulls the shower curtain back and steps out.

Mookie sits on his bed, still wet.

Suggin' Out waves at Mister seri'or Love Daddy aa he walk•

ANGLE - JADE AND MOOKIE

The needle doesn't move. His batteries have had it.

74 BXT: FRDIT-N-VBGDELIGHT- DUSK

The aun is an orange and purple glaze.

Radio Raheem bops by coconut Sid, ML and sweet Dick Willie.

77 EXT: STREET - DUSK

A group of kids eagerly wait for the ices. The man

WRAP! Louise hits him on da butt. Eddie starts to dance

) Jade gets up and Mookie helps her.

She's feeling it.

Da Mayor is walking by Mother Sister in her window when

Mookie ringa the bell and a «fine• Puerto Rican aiater

Mookie walks into the kitchen and sees CAFOEN, Tina's