Donnie Brasco
Donnie scene from Donnie Brasco, practice script
- Men
- Playing age 20s–30s
- 3 pages
- Two-person scene
- Drama
A drama scene from Donnie Brasco for an actor, playing age 20s and 30s, with Maggie.
Donnie Brasco: Donnie scene
INT. PISTONE HOME - DAWN
Donnie tiptoes through the house. Pictures on the fridge show his once happy family. He glances briefly at them, then turns and starts -- It’s Maggie.
MAGGIE
Do you want to tell me what’s going on?
DONNIE
Nothing. Just go back to sleep. I just had to pick something up.
MAGGIE
That’s not going to work anymore, Joe.
He goes past her to the closet. Opens it. Looks inside.
DONNIE
Maggie, where is it?
MAGGIE
What’s going on, Joe?
DONNIE
Where is the bag, Maggie?
MAGGIE
There’s three hundred thousand dollars in that bag, Joe. I counted it.
DONNIE
(Angry)
You shouldn’t know about that.
MAGGIE
It’s in my house. Who would ever believe I didn’t know about it?
DONNIE
I didn’t do nothing wrong.
MAGGIE
We could both go to jail. What about our children, Joe?
DONNIE
Shut up. You don’t know what you are talking about.
MAGGIE
I know FBI men don’t walk around with three hundred thousand dollars in a bag, Joe.
DONNIE
Tell me where that bag is, Maggie.
MAGGIE
You’re becoming like them.
DONNIE
Where’s the bag, Maggie?
MAGGIE
The Bureau was here.
DONNIE
What did you tell them?
MAGGIE
You’re right, you miserable prick. I sold you out.
DONNIE
What did you tell them, Maggie? Did you tell them about the money?
She gives him a defiant look. Then turns, rummages in a hiding place. Returns with the bag. Shoves it at him.
MAGGIE
Do you wanna know how I get through my days? Do you know how I do it? I pretend you’re dead. Then I’m a widow--I can do that--with the pictures and the medals and the scrapbook and the memories... (breaking down) Now just go away and stay away.
DONNIE
I can’t.
MAGGIE
Then come home. Please.
DONNIE
I can’t.
MAGGIE
You’re killing me.
DONNIE
I can’t, Maggie.
MAGGIE
Why? Why do you hate me? Why? I love you so much. What did I do?
DONNIE
It went too far. I was supposed to be better than them. I was supposed to be different. The man in the white hat, the fucking Untouchables. Meanwhile the minute I come out from under everybody gets whacked--one guy already got whacked, dead--because of me--as good as if I put two bullets in his head myself. I got a contract right now to kill a guy I don’t even know. So you tell me, Maggie, you tell me what’s the difference? Where’s the right and wrong? I’m not becoming like them--I am like them. I spent all these years feeling so fucking superior, laughing at them behind my fucking mask. Who’s laughing now?
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