Cape Fear Page #9

...I can understand...

...and I could share this with you.

Because of that whatever it is

that you've got planned...

...I want you to do it just with me...

...not with her...

...because...

...we have this connection.

What do you think, Counselor?

That was real eloquent, Leigh.

Brave, too.

I want to thank you for conveying to me

your most powerful emotions...

...because...

...I'm going to enjoy this all the more.

Oh, my God!

The people call Samuel J. Bowden!

Do you swear to tell the truth

and nothing but the truth?

- Somebody's got to man the boat.

- Did you swear?

- I'll do it.

- Sit, Danielle.

Don't make light of your civic duty.

You're the jury.

All right, I swear to tell the truth.

What do you want to know?

Was a prior sexual history ever prepared

in connection with my defense?

It's...

I'm sorry, Your Honor.

That was argumentative.

An investigator did prepare a prior

sexual history on the alleged victim...

...true?

I can ask leading questions, Your Honor.

He is a hostile witness.

Would you care to tell the court

what the gist was of this report?

It was fourteen years ago.

I can't remember that.

How can he answer

when you're hitting him?

Because he's perjuring himself.

He knows damn well what it said.

- Don't you?

- It said that she was promiscuous.

It said she had three different lovers

in one month.

At least three! And did you show

this report to the D.A.?

I found it when I started representing

myself six years into my sentence!

But there it was in the court file.

Back in '77, you buried it, Counselor.

Would you care to tell the jury why?

Would you care to tell the court why?

Because I know he brutally raped her

and he beat her.

Talk to me! I'm standing here!

Just because she was promiscuous

doesn't justify you raping her!

You bragged that you beat two prior

aggravated rapes. You were a menace!

You were my lawyer!

That report could have saved me

fourteen years.

- You're probably right.

- You self-righteous f***!

I'm Virgil and I'm guiding you

through the gates of Hell.

We are now in the 9th circle,

the circle of traitors.

Traitors to country,

traitors to fellow man...

...traitors to God!

You, sir, are charged with

betraying the principles of all three!

Can you please quote for me the A.B.A.'s...

...Rules of Professional Conduct, Canon 7?

"A lawyer should represent his client-"

"Should zealously represent his client

within the bounds of the law. "

And I find you guilty, Counselor...

...guilty of betraying your fellow man...

...guilty of betraying your country...

...guilty of abrogating your oath...

...guilty ofjudging me and selling me out!

And with the power vested in me

by the kingdom of God...

...I sentence you to the 9th circle of Hell!

Now you will learn about loss...

...loss of freedom, loss of humanity.

Now you and I will truly

be the same, Counselor.

Danielle, get down on your knees.

Take off your clothes!

Down on your knees now!

Take off your clothes!

Get down on your knees!

Don't!

Now, off with your clothes!

You, Leigh, take off your clothes. Now!

Come on!

Tonight, you'll learn to be an animal...

...to live like an animal and to die like one.

Give me your hand!

Go!

Did you forget about that

restraining order, Counselor?

You're well within 500 yards!

Well, here we are, Counselor...

...just two lawyers...

...working it out!

I'm going to kill you!

You already sacrificed me, Counselor.

"On Jordan's stormy banks I stand

"Oh who will come and go with me

"I am bound for the promised land"

We neverspoke about what happened...

...atleast not to each other.

Fear, I suppose...

...that to remember his name

or what he did...

...would mean letting him into our dreams.

And me, I hardly dream

about him anymore.

Still, things won't ever be

the way they were before he came.

But that's all right...

...because ifyou hang onto the past,

you die a little every day.

And for myself...

...I know I'd ratherlive.

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