EAST NEW YORK Draft 1-24-2022 Starred

40.

CORINNE (CONT'D)

If you can’t come up with the money by tonight, I’m taking my father up

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on his offer.

She kisses him, exits. PRE-LAP hospital monitor alarm.

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INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - CONTINUOUS

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Quinlan rushes in; Opal’s thrown herself on top of McKay

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whose monitor shows a flat line --

OPAL Don’t leave me, Lynton...don’t you leave me.

INT. CAPTAIN’S OFFICE - AFTERNOON Killian and Morales play recording from Quinlan’s phone for Haywood -- DIDIER (O.S.) Brenda Sykes callin’ me. Askin’ where is it. OPAL (O.S.)

Don’ you be tellin’ her nothin’. That devilish woman’s why my Lynton be lyin’ in this hospital bed.

Sound of a monitor flat-lining --

OPAL (O.S.)(CONT'D)

Oh my God...oh my God...

Morales shuts phone off -- HAYWOOD Bring her in. Morales goes to the door, indicates Opal should come in; Opal enters -- HAYWOOD (CONT'D)

I’m sorry for your loss, Ms. McKay, but every hour that goes by makes it harder to find the man who killed him. OPAL (tearful) He with God now.

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