Sitting at a desk is CANDY BLUE. The desk is filled with
papers, a laptop, a handgun. Walking in is RON WHITE.
RON WHITE
May I?
CANDY BLUE
May you what?
RON WHITE
We have to talk.
CANDY BLUE
You shouldn't be here, the boss...
RON WHITE
Forget about the boss.
CANDY BLUE
The boss will flip a lid if he
finds out I met with the
opposition.
RON WHITE
Now you see, we are not the
opposition. Our interests are
sympatico. We are like that...
Ron puts two fingers together and then sits down.
CANDY BLUE
That chair is for my guests. You
are not invited here.
RON WHITE
So much animosity. It hurts my
feelings.
CANDY BLUE
More than your feelings are going
to hurt if you don't leave.
RON WHITE
My boss has a message for your
boss, Candy.
CANDY BLUE
Don't call me Candy.
RON WHITE
Can we dispense with the
formalities.
CANDY BLUE
I am Ms. Blue. You are Mr. White.
We stick with protocol. Any
conversation can be bugged.
RON WHITE
OK Ms. Blue. My boss is not happy
with the encroachment into
Bushwick.
CANDY BLUE
Encroachment? You cannot encroach
on something you already own.
RON WHITE
This is the thing, time moves
forward and things shift, facts on
the ground change.
CANDY BLUE
Bushwick is blue territory.
RON WHITE
The thinking... the thinking is not
aligned with the White family. The
Whites have the millennials. We
own the millennials. Bushwick is
shifting... it has become white
territory... it is no longer blue.
CANDY BLUE
Bushwick is our territory
regardless of the population.
RON WHITE
The core of it, the paradigm of our
very family names, the Blues and
the Whites, is based on our
clients. You have the blue collar
clients, we have the white collar.
CANDY BLUE
That thinking, as you say, was
never really the thinking. The way
our grandfathers and grandmothers
talked, the words they used, the
jokes they made, is ancient
history.
RON WHITE
History... history is so important.
It provides a sense of integrity on
how we conduct ourselves.
How can we conduct ourselves
without the history? It would be
chaos. It would be a mess. And we
Whites don't want a mess.
CANDY BLUE
Cut the crap about the history.
The Whites and Blues have been at
relative peace because we stuck
with the rules. The Blues have
Brooklyn and the Bronx. The Whites
have Wall Street and Park Avenue.
You guys do Wall Street. You guys
do Park Avenue. We do Bushwick.
We do Borough Park and Crown
Heights.
RON WHITE
Yeah, that's the thing, Wall Street
is moving into Bushwick. Brooklyn
is becoming millennial. Brooklyn
is becoming White territory.
CANDY BLUE
You talk about history. The
history is that Bushwick is Blue
family territory. That is the way
it has always been. Plain and
simple.
RON WHITE
We have computers. There are
algorithms, computer code,
demographic tracking programs. I
mean, we have google maps to map
and re-map. It is time to re-map
the boundaries, the lines on a map
that form our territories. Our
markets are shifting.
CANDY BLUE
You want a war? Is that it?
Because there will be a war.
RON WHITE
That kind of talk is not necessary.
CANDY BLUE
Look, personally, I don't give a
fuck. But I have a boss. And my
boss insists that our markets are
based on geography, not
demographics....
as it has always been. And it
shall remain as it has always been.
A beat. Ron White Stands.
RON WHITE
The Blues are being inflexible.
And that always leads to bloodshed.
And I hate bloodshed. The mess is
just so... messy.
CANDY BLUE
I say we have a summit. Between
the bosses.
RON WHITE
My boss doesn't want a summit. He
wants Bushwick. And he's going to
get it.
A beat. Ron leaves. Hold on Candy.
THE END.
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