VeronaPTA1-TheWill

Verona

Season One, Episode One

The Will

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.