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[edit] Verona
Season One, Episode One
[edit] Crash
Cast
- Police Chief Jonathan Liam Creegan: Police chief who will do anything to see justice done. Played by Eddy Webb.
- Henry Creegan: Dysfunctional father and public defender. Played by Russell Bailey.
- Bridget Marie Creegan: Little girl lost. Played by Kelley Barnes.
- Lt. Michael Creegan: Police lieutenant with a secret. Played by David Bounds.
- Dona Esmaretta Vitagliano: The matriarch. Played by Joseph Carriker.
- Franco Vitagliano: Loyal family thug. Played by Ned Coker.
- Father Salvatore Vitagliano: Father confessor. Played by Michelle Webb.
- Nicolas "Nick Vitagliano" Podleski: Young turk. Played by Jason Bolte.
[edit] 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.
[edit] CREDITS – VERONA
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] COMMERICAL BREAK
[edit] 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
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.”
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] CLOSING CREDITS
[edit] 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.
