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Mafia Heaven is a Jay Dubya screenplay outline for a possible TV pilot.
“Mafia Heaven”
Synopsis for First TV Episode
Scene 1) New York City Mafia kingpin Dante “the Pope” Falcone is seated alone at his kitchen table eagerly eating a large salami sandwich for lunch and also drinking a tall glass of dago red wine. Suddenly, while glancing-down at a front-page newspaper article stating that Dante is to be indicted on seven major counts by the local District Attorney, the notorious Mafia Don experiences a massive heart attack and slowly drops from his chair onto the kitchen floor.
Scene 2) Dante’s spirit is instantly transformed into a two-dimensional soul that is swiftly ascending through his home’s roof and heading towards a blue sky speckled with high thick clouds. Soon Falcone’s ghost finds itself seated at a huge, lengthy marble table, surrounded by eleven of his former Mafia acquaintances who are also now dead. A long gray bearded fellow wearing a white robe presides over the strange gathering while seated at the head of the table, and the distinguished-looking elder introduces himself as St. Peter, who sits confidently with his raised wooden staff in his right hand.
Scene 3) Much to Dante’s astonishment, St. Peter welcomes Falcone and then re-introduces him to his former colleagues in crime. The assembled-but-deceased former syndicate members are:
1) Giovanni “the Moose” Campanella
2) Rocco “the Animal” Romano
3) Antonio “Fingers” Marcucci
4) Marco “Zucchini” Marino
5) Angelo “Bananas” Petruzzi
6) Dino “the Dago” Graziano
7) Mario “Gorilla” Renzi
8) Salvatore “the Butcher” Luchini
9) Giuseppe “the Whale” Calabrese
10) Luigi “the Barbarian” Lentini
11) Carlo “the Bone-breaker” Costa
Scene 4) St. Peter informs the twelve listless souls that they were being corralled in a “unique holding area of Purgatory” and that the former criminals had twelve opportunities to unite their talents and save their immortal souls from the horrifying infernos of Hell. St. Peter explains that Heaven was extremely concerned about the abundance of teenage bullying going on in schools and on the Internet, and that if the twelve dead souls gathered together at the marble table could stop twelve imminent incidents of bullying and consequently rehabilitate the juvenile perpetrators to a more moral earthly existence, then Heaven would be achievable for each of the former Cosa Nostra members.
Acting as the former Brooklyn Mafia Boss, Dante “the Pope” Falcone asks St. Peter, “Could we somehow use some supernatural magic to enact the conversion of these hostile school bullies to behaving like little angels?” St. Peter judiciously grants the twelve souls that rather extraordinary request.
Scene 5) Wimpy nerd Junior students Jonathan Macintosh and Bertram Bradley are seated and sweating in their high school cafeteria, the nervous pair being mocked and taunted by four high school punks (also seated at the table), Jake Johnson, Ted Bailey, Frank Powell and Pete Schmidt.
Suddenly, a freeze-frame situation develops where all of the teachers on duty along with the cafeteria servers and fellow students turn still-as-statues. Jonathan and Bertram are also motionless in a freeze-frame situation, but their four tormentors remain animated and alive. A now three-dimensional Dante Falcone approaches the aforementioned cafeteria table accommodating the suddenly frightened bullies, and the pale-faced, ghost-like Don is menacingly pointing his machine gun.
The four shocked bullies leap-out from their seats and sprint to various cafeteria exits, which are inconveniently blocked by the other eleven tough-looking Mafia men. After several minutes of frantically trying to escape, the punks’ futile attempts cease and Dante tells the obnoxious aggressors, “Go back to your table, and when human activity starts-up again, be sure that you young thugs politely apologize to Jonathan and to Bertram.”
Scene 6) The four bullies return to their cafeteria table, the freeze-frame scenario finishes, and then the petrified four bullies genuinely and sincerely apologize to Jonathan and to Bertram. In an instant, the twelve visiting souls vanish and return to Purgatory.
Scene 7) Back inside a remote section of Purgatory, St. Peter commends Dante and his eleven disciples for executing a job well-done. “Now Gentlemen, or should I say my warm congratulations to you dozen rather Poor Souls, that’s one challenge successfully down and only eleven more to go. Now my new Converts, Giovanni “the Moose” Campanella will be in charge of organizing your second teenage bullying expedition back down on Earth!”
Copyright: C June 1,2017
Jay Dubya (Google: Jay Dubya books)
Richard Campione
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