Mammon

This screenplay is about the love of money. I have only written a few scenes but would love to know what you guys think so far. The bible says, "You cannot serve God and Mammon." This is where the..

    
M A M M O N



Bible: Riches, avarice, and worldly gain personified as a false god in the New Testament.
Mammon: Material wealth regarded as having an evil influence  Mammon: The love of Money.

    The language of her body spoke to him.  It said, “Never mind what I say. Never mind what is right! Just know that in another life you would be mine!”  The way she turned her body toward his, the way her eyes occasionally glanced at him was enough to send a surge of heat through his body.  An unspoken waltz, a  conversation sustained beyond words was  fueled by their mutual allure.  “Was I suffering from forbidden fruit syndrome or was this something more?” he thought.   The truth is, the truth could never be revealed.  It lay buried beneath layers upon layers of lies and deceit.  Under the guise of avarice and its persuasion did the two continue to dance.
    The power of money and its seductive lure is coveted by many. Its deceitful comfort and fictitious guise act only as a mirage that can be identified by only the strongest of men.  His will power was never that great.  As he sat in his car that night, he wondered,  “ How could it have come to this? How could I have succumb to its vice like grasp so easily.  Crossing so many lines now that they are  not only seemed blurred but non-existent”  
    Niko Romanoff sat in his truck parked next  across from 17 Main Street.   The sun was starting to rise as he stare vacantly at quite street in front of him.  Niko held  a nickel plated 9mm in one hand and in the other a half drunken bottle of Ouzo .  Blood began to run down his arm and started to bleed heavily, effecting his motor functions.  With tears running down his face Niko takes a long swig of the clear liquid, swallows  and savors its sting. The radio in his black pick up plays an old 60’s tune his mother used to play for him as a child. (The Carnival is Over by The Seekers)   Two keys dangle from a key chain held in by a key in the ignition. One was to the glove box and the other a large master key he used to open the lock to the building.  
    Niko exits the truck and began to walk  toward a  side entrance located in an alley way adjacent to the building. Wearing a dark pin striped suit the whites of his cuffs were stained blood red. A steady stream of dark red drops began to run down the barrel of the gun and a faint blood trail is left as he headed toward a side entrance. Niko approaches the door with the silver key in his hand, slides it into the chamber, turns it and  enters.
    The well furnished building is even evident from the side entrance where the maintenance crews  enter and exit.  Niko enters a freight elevator pulls the doors shut and  presses  the button for the 15th floor. 1501.  Using the same key Niko opens the door and is greeted by a  well decorated duplex like  co-op.  Memories of another life flash through his mind. Haunting him, provoking a pain surging straight through the middle of his head. He and his wife making love on the hard wood floors, they day she told him she was pregnant with his child, the Japanese style diner he surprised her with one night all add to the gravity of  upcoming events.  He uses the stairs and heads torward the master bedroom.
    The door is slightly ajar and the rooms’ only
 light source radiates from a small angel like night light plugged into the wall. Isabel,  a very attractive brunette lays sleeping  in her king sized bed. With a canvas, oak pillars and less then modest head board, she begins to stir.  Isabel can feel Niko’s presence hovering over her. She awakens and asks “Baby, is that you?” Still shaking off the midnight cobwebs. H er vision is blurry and she cant fully make out who is there.   Niko stays silent for a moment savoring the sight of his love then enters the soft light.  He approaches Isabel with the gun in his hand.  Niko, just above a whisper says, “Baby, I love you,” Points the gun to his head and pulls the trigger.  
        “Check”, Nicolai  says as he looks up at Sen. Benjamin Wellstone.  He takes a long pull of the Cigars he is known for ritualistically smoking as he plays chess in the park.  With a very focused look on his face Benjamin moves his pawn up to block Nicolai’s advancing queen but opens his king and remains in check.  Nicolai shakes his head as he gestures  toward a bishop laying in wait having anticipated Ben’s counter. Benjamin smiles and moves his king back as he foresees checkmate rapidly approaching. “You see each piece in chess, as in life, serves its purpose. Some are made to attack while  others are meant to sacrificed .” Nicolai moves his  pawn up one box closer to reaching Ben’s side of the board ensuring him a queen.  “Tonight, 6pm, a fund raiser, it’ll be held on the roof top of the Hilton in Midtown. In commernce Financial (an adjacent builing that was know for being a very larde and tall builing), inside The Law groups of WinFord and  Dexler, Corner office, south side. Keys must be destroyed upon completion of course.) Nikolai stays silent as Benjamin is oblivious to the chess game.  “Your move.” says Nikolai.   Benjamin moves his king one box to the left prolonging the obvious.  “Money.  Money has never been an issue. Anonimity. That’s always our first priority, isn’t Nicolia/  I do not want a mess.  Descrestion. This is why I came to you.”  Nicolai stays silent and advances his pawn.  “Someone possibly lower on the scale of things. Someone who can be easily coerced.  They both knew what that meant. It meant someone whom no one would miss after the job was done.  Benjamin moves his king to the last row, being pushed back by Nikolai‘s advance.   Nikolai continues to push but it is evident he is listening to every word that Benjamin says . “You see,  Benjamin, sometimes the piece that we believe  poses the least amount of  threat, becomes the most powerful piece on the board”  Benjamin moves his king one box left, with no where left to move, trying to force a stale mate. Nikolai  “In your inbox you’ll find all the details needed.  The money will be transferred to an escrow account upon completion.   I don’t think we’ll have a problem. Check mate, congressman”  The congressman gets up, and says, “No mistakes Nicolai and no loose ends”.  Then walks away.  Niko replaces him in his seat.  “Previet papa.. Who was that and whats going on.  
        Hooker looking in the mirror getting ready for a client.
Next scene of person senator is trying to have killed.
Next of assasion Nicolia hires for senotor job.  Man works in special gun factory. Or has acces to it.  Pics weapon, then we have assembling weapon scene.