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Verona

Season One, Episode One

Crash

Cast

Scene 1 [Producer]

  • INT, DAY – PSYCHOLOGIST’S OFFICE
    • MEGAN CREEGAN begins telling DR. JANICE CHAPLAIN what’s been troubling her dreams lately.
  • EXT, EVENING – VITAGLIANO MANOR
    • RYAN CREEGAN gets into the driver seat of a car, laughing and looking a little tipsy.
    • LUCIANO VITAGLIANO, similarly inebriated, gets into the passenger seat of car.
    • JULIA CREEGAN, accompanying YOUNG MEGAN CREEGAN and FRANK CREEGAN get into the back seat.
  • EXT, EVENING – STREETS OF VERONA
    • Car driven by RYAN CREEGAN crashes at an intersection into a car driven by JOSEPH MARLOW.
    • Fade to black with sound of approaching sirens and crying children.

CREDITS – VERONA

Scene 2 [Producer]

  • INT, DAY – JUDGE’S CHAMBERS
    • JUSTICE THOMAS HEANLY discusses the custody situation with POLICE CHIEF JONATHAN CREEGAN and his brother, COUNSELOR HENRY CREEGAN, while YOUNG MEGAN and FRANK look on.
    • JONATHAN, in frustration at the situation, makes an impassioned statement in an attempt to bring the children home with him.
    • FATHER SALVATORE VITAGLIANO enters accompanied by NICK PODLESKI.
    • SALVATORE attempts to guilt trip JONATHAN.
    • JONATHAN demands that the children come with him.
    • HENRY attempts to speak authoritatively on legal precedence with which he is not very familiar.
    • NICK makes a derogatory comment about the Irish.
    • In frustration, THOMAS decides that the children will be wards of the state for at least one week until custody can be worked out in hearings.

Scene 3 [Russell, Eddy, Kelley, Producer]

  • INT, DAY – HENRY CREEGAN’S HOUSE
    • JONATHAN and HENRY barge through the door, expressing their frustrations with the situation.
    • JONATHAN implies that he lives here since his recent separation with his wife, MARY ANNE CREEGAN.
    • General sounds of habitation can be heard from the kitchen.
    • HENRY tells JONATHAN that he’ll get him a drink and enters the kitchen.
    • He finds BRIDGET MARIE CREEGAN, his daughter, smoking a cigarette and filing her nails after a failed attempt at cooking.
    • They argue.
    • JONATHAN enters the kitchen.
    • BRIDGET scolds the two men upon learning that they failed to bring home the children.
    • HENRY rails that his brother doesn’t respect him.
    • JONATHAN states his grim intention to make sure that the children will come home with them.

Scene 4 [Producer]

  • INT, EVENING – O’MALLEY’S BAR
    • JUSTICE THOMAS HEANLY sits at a dimly lit table.
    • NICK joins him and hands him a paper bag full of money.
    • NICK tells THOMAS that the other half will follow after the children are in the Vitagliano’s custody.
    • THOMAS says that he’ll make it happen and seeks assurance from NICK that “he’ll have no more trouble.”
    • THOMAS gets up to leave.

Scene 5 [Michelle]

  • FOLLOW THOMAS TO DOOR, EXIT
    • ENTER FATHER SALVATORE VITAGLIANO, FOLLOW TO BAR
    • SALVATORE greets the bartender, PATRICK O’MALLEY, and asks for a bottle of wine.
    • In the background…
      • BRIDGET plays pool by herself.
      • NICK sips his beer.
      • Both listen to PATRICK and SALVATORE’S conversation.
    • PATRICK brings him a bottle of red wine.
    • SALVATORE laments the situation regarding the children.
    • PATRICK hopes there won’t be too much trouble.
    • SALVATORE mentions that FRANCO VITAGLIANO will be home soon and checks to make sure that he can stay in the room above PATRICK’S bar.
    • NICK wanders over and alludes that FRANCO has been in prison, trying to dissuade PATRICK from giving FRANCO the room.
    • PATRICK makes it clear that he knows FRANCO because he was FRANCO’S sponsor in prison.
    • PATRICK states that FRANCO can have the room.
    • EXIT, SALVATORE and NICK.

Scene 6 [Kelley]

  • PAN TO SHOT OF PATRICK BEING PULLED INTO BACK ALCOVE BY BRIDGET
    • BRIDGET talks seductively with PATRICK.
    • She implies that the police will likely be looking closely at O’Malley’s with two ex-convicts occupying the place.
    • She says she’ll keep the police off PATRICK’S back if he will keep her appraised of FRANCO’S visitors.
    • PATRICK agrees.

COMMERICAL BREAK

Scene 7 [Russell]

  • INT, EVENING – CASTLE MOTEL, ROOM 201
    • HENRY CREEGAN pushes money at CANDY MCLESKI, who whines that she likes HENRY for who he is and doesn’t want his money.
    • CANDY whines that HENRY said he’d take her away to Vegas and she still wants to go.
    • HENRY agrees to go to Vegas with CANDY. The implication is that they will be married.
    • EXIT, HENRY

Scene 8 [Jason]

  • EXT, EVENING – CASTLE MOTEL, ROOM 201
    • HENRY lights a cigarette and is surprised to see NICK PODLESKI approach.
    • NICK insults HENRY, who hauls off and slugs him.
    • As he’s sliding down the door, NICK opens the door to CANDY’S room.
    • CANDY shrieks and drags NICK inside, expressing her confusion and anger at HENRY.

Scene 9 [Kelley]

  • EXT, EVENING – STREET IN VERONA
    • ENTER BRIDGET leaving a 24 hour Kinko’s carrying a stack of copied flyers and humming in a self-satisfied manner.
    • Passing a phone booth, she drops a couple of the sheets into it before continuing on out of the shot.
    • ZOOM on the flyer which advertises “Candy McLeski – Sensual Massage Specialist.”

Scene 10 [Producer]

  • INT, DAY – VITAGLIANO BEACH HOUSE
    • Camera sits behind the head of ESMARETTA VITAGLIANO, looking at FATHER SALVATORE VITAGLIANO standing in front of her, and FABIAN sitting off to one side.
    • ESMARETTA expresses her gratitude for SALVATORE handling this situation, and her expectation that he will retrieve the children for her.

Scene 11 [Eddy]

  • INT, DAY – POLICE CHIEF’S OFFICE
    • JONATHAN CREEGAN sits glowering at his monitor.
    • ENTER OFFICER KARL GREEN.
    • JONATHAN informs KARL that JUDGE THOMAS HEANLY is being bribed by the Vitaglianos.
    • JONATHAN tells KARL to investigate THOMAS and if he can’t find proof of the bribery or some other scandal to make something up.
    • KARL agrees.
    • JONATHAN mentions that FRANCO VITAGLIANO is being released on good behavior and tells KARL that he will be FRANCO’S parole officer.
    • KARL, delightedly tells JONATHAN that he’ll make FRANCO’S life difficult.

Scene 12 [Producer]

  • INT, DAY – OUR LADY OF SORROWS CHURCH
    • FATHER SALVATORE delivers a sermon about Jacob and Esau.
    • During poignant moments, side shots and cross-fades highlight…
      • JONATHAN and HENRY sitting stoically in the front of the church.
      • YOUNG MEGAN and FRANK sitting silently in the back.
      • ESMARETTA VITAGLIANO wearing a black veil sitting next to the comatose LUCIANO VITAGLIANO lying in a hospital bed.
      • BRIDGET CREEGAN having sex with DR. JACK EVANS
    • While the sermon continues, LIEUTENANT MICHAEL CREEGAN gets up and heads for the bathroom.
    • NICK PODLESKI gets up and follows him.
  • EXT, DAY – OUR LADY OF SORROWS CHURCH
    • MICHAEL tells NICK that JONATHAN is on to his deal with JUDGE THOMAS HEANLY.
  • INT, DAY – PSYCHOLOGIST’S OFFICE
    • MEGAN CREEGAN tells DR. JANICE CHAPLAIN that though the crash mixed up her life, she’ll never forget the fiasco of her uncle HENRY’S Vegas wedding.

CLOSING CREDITS

COMING UP ON VERONA

  • QUICK SHOT of HENRY CREEGAN with a wedding ring between his fingers.
  • QUICK SHOT of BRIDGET CREEGAN shooting a police-issue gun.
  • QUICK SHOT of CAPTAIN KARL GREEN beating the crap out of someone off camera.
  • PANNING SHOT of NICK PODLESKI under a bridge saying “The grass is always greener, but I can never cross over the bridge.”
  • QUICK SHOT of FATHER SALVATORE carrying/walking YOUNG MEGAN and FRANK, who are crying, into the church.