SAM AGOSTINO & SAL:

Sam and Agostino walk step out of the cleanly carpeted Hospital elevator and enter the hallways. Florecent lights hanging over head and the smell of babypowder. The hospital might be the cleanest place Agostino'd ever seen in Liberty City. Sam's sneakers squeeked across the floor as she walked, while Agostino's shoes clicked as he walked.

As they walk forward trying to find the room they'd move Sal into, Agostino out of the corner of his eye catches Samantha looking at him.

"Agostino?" Sam says, as they walk, "What's the weirdest thing that's ever happened to you?"

"What do you mean? Like if I had a weird dream or something?"

"No, something that actually happened."

"Uhh," He pokes his head inside of a room then keeps walking, "You know what? Why don't you tell me yours first so I can get an idea what you're talkin' about."

"Okay!" She says smiling, running forward to get ahead of him so she can look at him while she speaks, walking backwards she continues. "I'm sitting in class this one day..."

"Okay?"

"and alluva' sudden I hear the loudest scream I've ever heard in my entire life and this kid stands up screaming, blood running down his pants, a huge pencil is sticking out of his thigh, and my teacher calls the hospital."

"What happened?"

"The kid had stolen someones girlfriend and he made him pay for it."

"That's not weird! That happens in my business."

"Has it ever happened two years in a row to the day?"

"What?" Agostino says raising his eyebrows.

"See that's what was so weird about it, it happened the next year to the day."

"How do you know?"

"It was my birthday." She says bumping into an empty stretcher.

"Really well that's pretty weird. Fortunately, you won't be bored, 'cause I got one just as weird as that."
"Oh you do huh!"

"This is the door right here, we'll go inside in a minute." He looks around for hospital staff, nobody. He takes out a cigarette and sets it aflame. "This'll be no problem I guess, since you already know what I do. This guy was messin' with Tony, takin' money from him. A lot of money. Then he decided to insult him in front of his mother. So Tony tells me, 'Agostino,' and this is before Fido even came into the picture you know? Anyways he says 'Agostino, the son of a bitch stole my fuckin' money, then he disrespects me. He don't have the right to do that to us. You and your brother are the best guys I got. I want you to find that asshole and make'm pay.

So I do what he says right, go to the house, get my gun ready, knock on the door. The guy's not answerin' like nobody's home or somethin'. Later, it turns out, nobody was home. I'd kicked the door down, and gone through all of his shit, when I realize he's really not there, and his backdoor's locked from the inside.

I step out the front door, and I spot him. He goes running into this little park, nice green grass, a little pond, and one tree. He jumps behind the tree and I fire like six shot's at it. Now I go around the tree and... poof gone."

"What?! No way! That's impossible" she sounds serious, but she looks anxious to hear more.

"They checked the whole area, never found anyway he could've escaped. He resurfaced like two year later maybe and killed off a few of our guys. The guy'd told some people he was going to find me, but he never did and no one's seen him since."

"Wow," she says pulling on the strings of her hoody, "that's like a ghost story. Are you afraid he'll find you?"

"No," He says pulling open the door, "I'm actually looking forward to it."

Sal, lays in a hospital bed watching the news. The two of them walk in, and spot him; wearing his glasses. Hiding his eyes from everyone.

"Hi Sal." Samantha says waving at him.

"What's up."

"We where just having a conversation about weird things..." Agostino says smiling.

"What?" Sal lets out a little bit of a laugh, wrapping his hands around his taped ribs.

"What's the weirdest thing that's ever happened to you?" Samantha says pulling up a chair, she sits down resting her arms on the backrest, and her head on her arms.

"That's not really for little girls..."

"Oh, come on, please!"

"What story is it?"

"Carrie."

"Oh god, I don't know about that... Naw come on, tell her anyway it couldn't hurt her any. I don't think."

"What is it!?" She says impatiently.

"Fine, fine, I've got this friend - Well I HAD this friend named Serri. I was chillin' out on his couch having a beer. This fucking asshole does I think three different drugs right there in front of me. Acid, Heroin, and Coke. He was also drinkin' and told me he'd done some LSD earlier that day.

This guy was lookin' like a damn beast or somethin', he no longer looked like a mobster. You know what I mean? He was skinny, unshaved, and his house was shitty as hell. HE tells me there's a women in the other room naked. Of course I didn't believe him who the hell would come into his dump you know, and want to see him, I couldn't even believe I was there. He picks up the biggest knife I've ever seen, goes into the other room.

After about fifteen minutes, I start wondering what the hell he's really doing. He comes out holding the goddamn thing with blood dripping off of it, he comes off with some bullshit about, she wouldn't 'let him have it'. I didn't even think their was a girl before that. I go inside and theres a chick strapped to the bed, stabbed five times. She lifts her head up and says, 'Either fuck me, or kill me but do something you stupid son of a bitch.' So I unstrapped her carried her over my shoulder. Shot the motherfucker comin' through the door and drove her to the hospital in my car. That's how I met Carrie."

"You saved her?" she says with a kind of gleam in her eyes.

"Yeah. A lot of guys in Liberty seem to think women are some kind of thing that they can just take their anger out on. Shit you want to take out your anger that bad, just cruise around poppin' rival gangsters. Some of these guys pop of hookers like M&M's."

"What happened?"

"I married her."

"What! Whoa, really!"

"Yeah why not?"

"That is a weird story. Do you guys have any kids?"

"No, thank god." he pauses, "no offense."

"You getting better?" Agostino asks.

"Oh yeah, I feel like roses and sunshine." Agostino's head jerks. "What is it?"

"Sshh." Agostino says listening. He whispers quietly, "Did you hear that?"

"What?" Sam says, alert, but unafraid.

"Gunfire... muffled. At least I think so. Here, Sam, I want you to get in this bed over here on the right side of the room. Stay under the covers." He hides next to the door. Sal to his left and Sam to his right, the door was also on his left. He points his gun over at the left wall.

The door swings open and a Cartel come through holding a silenced Uzi, he brings it forward to fire at Sal, he's shocked to see that a gun is being pointed at his face, he begins to turn towards Agostino. 'BLAM' Agostino grabs the Cartel's gun as he falls.

"Sal, it's got to be a hit man. I need you to get up and go to the car."

"Fuck the doctors." Sal says getting up, the doctors had told him he might not be able to walk for a few months. He stands on his own two feet and starts to walk - ridgedly - towards the door.

"Sam, you and Sal stay ahead of me, I'm going to be covering you both, you've got to stay down."

Sam moves ahead and helps Sal stay on his feet.

Agostino walks behind them cautiously, slowly, moving forward with two guns like a soldier. They make it to the elevator without any negative recognition, aside from a few nurses.

The elevator doors open and like a trumpet sounding, Agostino's gun launches bullets through the air, dropping a Cartel. And they move through the lobby. A Security guard moves forward and gets a Glock shoved in his face.

"See what happens motherfucker!?" Agostino says smiling. The guard takes a step back. "Yeah... That's what I thought."

A Cartel comes through the double doors to Agostino's left, as they get to the front door. Agostino's quick reflexes, send him down. He swerves around and drops a bullet in the security guards head. The guard was only a fraction of a second to sending Agostino back to his maker.

They get into Agostino's Car and start driving a top speed. Six Cartels jump into the back of a truck, and it moves forward.

'FUCK!' Agostino thinks, these guys are going to do us in. They make it to an area familiar to Fidelio, he'd been to Fido's hideout a few times, the are driving past it... now. They swerve where two streets meet. Agostino fires through the window at the Cartels. An old fashioned Horse and buggy had been on the street. The horse startled, runs through the street, right through the Cartels line of vision. The horse clears the Cartels truck but, the truck slams into the buggy with a violent force, this yanks the horse back, and knocks it to the ground. The truck from the force of the buggy tilts over and the Cartels are gone.

"That was lucky," Agostino says, coming back through the window and sitting down.

"Hey is that Fido!" Sam says pointing forward.

Another person jumps almost right in front of the car. "WHAT THE FUCK!"

Agostino accidentally runs down the man and then to his horror a green Sabre flies into the road. 'BAM!' Their car stops almost instantly and the Sabre goes forward making threesixties.

Agostino struggles with his airbag. Annoyed he puts a bullet through it, as well as the passanger side. "Fuck," he says taking off his seatbelt. He leans over and looks at his brother. Sal's slumped forward his seat belt holding him up. Agostino takes the seatbelt off and lays him down on both seats. He hears the back door click. He lifts his head, tasting the metallic blood run into his mouth from his broken nose.

"Sam! SAM what are you doing."

When he hears her voice she sounds unharmed, "I saw my dad." he hears from a distance.

"What!?"

"I saw my dad!"

"Are you crazy!? SAM!?" -

- Sam runs forward "Oomph!" she slams into a Latino man, and it knocks her to the ground, frozen, she doesn't know what to do. She looks down at her gray hoody, and blue jeans blood is smeared across them. She watches the man limp away. He apologizes to her, as he does.

She gets a look at 8-ball and her dad.

"...now let's go find Fido." 8-ball says.

"Fido?" Sam says. The both of them jump obviously suprised to see her. "I just saw Fido, he - he - I don't know. Everything's confusing. I -- we just got back from the hospital, these guy where trying to kill us, and then... we hit this car. And I spotted you two. I... I don't know but I think Sal might be hurt."

"Sal's with you. Jesus Christ. Sam why didn't you stay with Agostino, there's a lot of dangerous shit going on!" Trent says to her.

"I know," she says frantically, "I had to see you."

"Where's, Agostino and Sal?"

"Over here! Hurry..." She runs forward ahead of them. Leading the way.