Scene 7.08 - Honor Among Thieves
EST: INT. Havana Halls Of Justice, Cuba - January 12th, 1799 - Night.
(Here's the skinny: We're back in WINNIE'S office. LARRY and MOE enter.)
WINNIE
I was wondering when I was going to see the two of you again.
MOE
Where is Monty? What have you done with him?
WINNIE
You came to me with the intention of doing him harm, Monsieur DeMoney, and harm has been done. The man next to you is our phantom witness who signed his name, here, when you filed these charges.
MOE
I wanted him shamed, not hanged!
LARRY
I only wanted his job! Where is he? What have you done with him?
WINNIE
Sit. (They don't.) Well let's just say that, like you, I also found him to be a person I with whom would be better off without. He's being indefinately detained. That's what I do with people I consider to be dangerous to me.
MOE
Dangerous?
WINNIE
Come on, man; you know what it is to want to rid the world of someone. Didn't you tell me about how much you hated your father?
MOE
That was years ago. We were boys then.
WINNIE
We're still boys now. You still hate him. You still wish him dead. It's no secret, not even to your father.
MOE
Perhaps I do; he is a cruel tyrant; always will be. He Christened me Molonachus Moses Maurice Monegundis Mohammed Montague Montgomery De Money -- that's reason enough... I simply don't have the nerve to kill him or I would. He knows I won't. I can't.
WINNIE
And you, Mr. Bling? Do you not hate your employer, Lord Bennie?
LARRY
I want to bleed him from his pocket, not from a bullet hole.
WINNIE
I asked myself, "Why would a quartermaster and a shipmate wish ill of an innocent man?" I did a little investigation of my own and I have a plan that will seal this deal and ensure that all of us will maintain our continued silence; else we suffer Monty's fate.
LARRY
A plan?
MOE
Where is Monty, what have you done with him?
WINNIE
We've crossed a threshold; we're a team now, whether you like it or not. Monty Bizkit is being booked on a nearby island police sub-station where they can hold him for three days, but I hope in that time, we will have made the necessary shows of faith to assure that not only our interests are protected, but that we shall also be considered blameless in all of this, and Mr. Bizkit will have no other option than to accept that life is full of innocent misunderstandings which can carry a heavy toll on opportunity. Our actions have started a chain of events that must be seen to completion. Either we ride at the helm or get crushed underfoot by circumstance. (Stands.) Sit, gentlemen, for I will reveal to you the scheme of how this week shall unfold and why it must be this way hence.
MOE
(Sits.) How are you sure we will be cooperative in this scheme?
WINNIE
It will benefit all of us equally and we equally face the gallows already for what we've done; one for all, and all for one.
LARRY
They don't hang men like me -- they work us to death... (Sits. Lights a blunt.) Okay, what's done is done; you got us listening.
WINNIE
If there is any doubt or mistrust within these walls, please speak up and I will either console you with reasons of why my plan will work, or, if I share your doubts, I may choose to shoot you both right now. Either way, this entire matter will remain a secret.
(He produces a pistol. Silence. Shrewd. The men look to one another; satisfied to hear the plan.)
MOE
What'cha got in mind, Winn?
WINNIE (Cont'd)
(Tokes.) All for one, one for all.
DISSOLVE TO:
CUTAWAY: MONTY being fed slop through a slot on a wood plate. He has the beginnings of a beard and looks desperate.
MONTY
Wait! What's my crime? What's my crime? Please; say something. Something? Answer me! I beg of you, what's my crime?
FTB