Real Jake – Scene 14
EXTERIOR – STREET – NIGHT
Leroy and Jake walk down the stairs of the Police Station and turn right.
JAKE
Thanks Leroy !
LEROY
Yeah.
JAKE
I really mean it, Leroy. That was special. You went out of your way to help me. I don’t know how I’ll ever be able to repay you.
LEROY
I’ll think of something.
JAKE
Where’s your cab?
LEROY
Back in the lot. Hank drove me. I’m through for the night.
JAKE
Where do you live?
LEROY
Just a few blocks from here.
JAKE
Hey, we’re neighbors! I’m just around the corner. Why don’t you come on up to my apartment for a while?
LEROY
I don’t think so.
JAKE
Come on, Leroy. I’ll buy a six pack of any beer you want. I have to start paying you off somehow.
Leroy thinks it over.
LEROY
Okay, Jake. But I can’t stay too long.
JAKE
That’s great. Thanks. Leroy.
LEROY
Yeah.
Jake and Leroy enter a grocery store and walk out with a six pack of Budweiser.
SHOT OF JAKE’S APARTMENT BUILDING. IT’S IN SUCH BAD SHAPE THAT IT LOOKS LIKE IT’S JUST ABOUT TO COLLAPSE.
JAKE
This is it.
LEROY
Damn !
Jake pulls out some keys as they walk up the sidewalk stairs of the building. Jake opens the door, and they begin their walk up the staircase to Jake’s apartment. Leroy is tiring, out of breath.
LEROY
Goddamn it, Jake, what floor you live on ?
JAKE
Sixth.
LEROY
Sixth ? There ain’t no sixth floor in these buildings.
JAKE
I have the penthouse, Leroy.
They reach the fifth floor hallway, and Jake reaches up and pull down an extension ladder. He begins climbing up.
LEROY
Jesus, Jake, you’ve got to be kidding.
Leroy looks up at Jake and just shakes his head in disbelief. When Jake reaches the top of the ladder, he opens a trap door, continues his ascent, and disappears. Leroy follows Jake up, barely squeezing through the narrow trap door. He struggles to stand up, as the hatch snaps shut.
Jake’s apartment is an over-sized closet sitting atop the apartment building’s roof. The superintendent threw some wood together and now collects rent from Jake.
LEROY
You live in this shit-hole ?
JAKE
Welcome to my humble abode.
LEROY
Humble ? That’s got to be biggest fucking understatement I ever heard.
Jake sits down at a tiny table, takes out two beers from the six pack and twists the screw on caps open. With beer in hand, he extends his arm and offers one to Leroy.
JAKE
Have a seat, Leroy.
Leroy sits down at right angle to Jake at the tiny table. He gulps down the entire bottle of beer in one shot. Jake hands him another.
JAKE
You must be real thirsty.
LEROY
Yeah.
Leroy proceeds to empty the second bottle in the same fashion as he did the first.
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