A Few Good Men Page #22

JO:

Just because a person has a motive

doesn't mean --

KAFFEE:

Relax. We'll deal with the fenceline

shooting when it comes up. For now

we start here --

(pointing to INTENT)

I don't know what made Santiago die,

I don't want to know. I just want to

be able to show it could've been

something other than poison. Jo,

talk to doctors. Find out everything

there is to know about lactic

acidosis. Let's start prepping for

Stone.

JO:

As long as we're on the subject of

the doctor --

KAFFEE:

Here we go.

JO:

Listen to me, three o'clock he doesn't

know what killed Santiago, then he

meets with Jessep, and at five o'clock

he says it was poison? The doctor's

covering up the truth.

KAFFEE:

Oh, that's a relief. I was afraid I

wouldn't be able to use the "Liar,

Liar, Pants on Fire" defense. We

can't prove coercion!! Alright,

fitness reports and biographical

information.

SAM:

Cartons 3 and 4.

KAFFEE looks at the cartons and the mind-numbing amount of

paper.

KAFFEE:

No Cliff-Notes on these things?

DISSOLVE TO:

INT. KAFFEE'S APARTMENT -

SERIES OF SCENES

The scenes cover the three weeks of preparation leading up

to the trial, and are interspersed with shots of Kaffee's

apartment getting messier, KAFFEE, JO and SAM flipping through

documents and reference books, writing on the blackboard,

dozzing off...

We start with

INT. KAFFEE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

Jo's on the phone, KAFFEE and SAM are going over testimony,

with SAM sitting in a mock witness chair. During this, KAFFEE

will go to the door, pay the PIZZA Man for the pizza, and

return without missing a single beat.

JO:

(into phone)

Captain Hill, this is Lt. Commander

Galloway, I'm an internal affairs

officer with the JAG Corps in

Washington, D.C. I'm trying to track

down a Captain Matthew Andrew

Markinson, USMC...

KAFFEE:

Doctor, other than the rope marks,

was there any other sign of external

damage?

SAM:

No.

KAFFEE:

No scrapes?

SAM:

No.

KAFFEE:

No cuts?

JO:

(into phone)

He resigned his commission a week

ago Thursday.

KAFFEE:

Bruises? Broken bones?

SAM:

No.

JO:

(into phone)

No, please don't put me on hold --

KAFFEE:

Doctor, was there any sign of

violence?

SAM:

(beat)

You mean other than the dead body?

KAFFEE:

F***!! I walk into that every goddam

time!

SAM:

Don't ask the last question.

CUT TO:

INT. A LAW LIBRARY - NIGHT

MOS -- JO pulls two thick volumes off a shelf and takes them

to the table where SAM and KAFFEE are working. She plops the

books down where they join a pile of about two-dozen just

like them and we

CUT TO:

INT. A COFFEE SHOP - DAY

The LAWYERS have their books and papers spread out in front

of them.

KAFFEE:

Lt. Kendrick, the type of disciplinary

action, or "training'' as you say --

JO:

Object.

KAFFEE:

Please the Court, I maintain that

nothing could be more relevant than

what the defendants learned by the

example of, among others, the witness.

JO:

Nice.

CUT TO:

INT. KAFFEE'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

MOS -- KAFFEE's paying the pizza boy again. He goes into the

living room where SAM is on the "stand". It's getting hard

to see the floor from all the papers, cartons, books, pizza

boxes, etc., and

CUT TO:

INT. THE BRIG - DAY

A HOLDING ROOM where DAWSON and DOWNEY are being put through

their paces.

JO:

And what happened after Kendrick

came into your room?

DOWNEY:

(beat)

He ordered me and Corporal Dawson to

give Willy a Code Red.

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