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ADAMS:

(reading) ...you will face further

prosecution." Do you under-...

ADAMS:

(off) ...-stand?

GENERAL:

I assume your silence indicates assent.

Transfer to Leavenworth will be

immediate. You're dismissed.

LONG:

(off) Andrew...

LONG:

...I wish they would've let me say

something...

LONG:

...about--

BRYNNER:

(interrupting) There's nothing to say,

doctor. Someone had to take the fall,

and they still need you, whereas...I've

never been anything more than a thorn in

their collective side, as you once said.

BRYNNER:

So I'll be locked safely away in some

hole along with my secret sins. And

yours.

SCENE:

INT. FORT LEAVENWORTH/CELLBLOCK - DAY.

NARRATIVE TITLE:

FORT LEAVENWORTH

SCENE:

INT. FORT LEAVENWORTH/BRYNNER'S CELL -

DAY.

BRYNNER:

(sighs)

SCENE:

EXT. FORT LEAVENWORTH - TEN YEARS LATER

- DAY.

NARRATIVE TITLE:

TEN YEARS LATER:

SCENE:

INT. FORT LEAVENWORTH/BRYNNER'S CELL -

DAY.

YOUNG GUARD:

Ready?

SCENE:

EXT. RIVER - DAY.

MASON:

(grunts)

MASON:

Been trying to figure out your secret.

LONG:

My secret?

MASON:

Yeah. Ten months we've been fishin' this

river together. We use the same

equipment, more or less...

MASON:

(off) ...but you pull twice as many fish

out of the water as I do.

MASON:

And I'm good at this. Been doing it

since I was a kid. But you, I don't

know. Somehow you think...

MASON:

(off) ...like a fish.

LONG:

(chuckles) (chuckling) No, that's not

possible, Mason. The trout... (grunts)

LONG:

(off) ...is a perfect hunter.

LONG:

(off) He's brains without ambition...

LONG:

...sensitivity without neurosis. He's...

LONG:

(off) ...the master of his realm.

LONG:

(face off) How can we ever hope to win

against the trout?

LONG:

There's only one way you can do it,

Mason.

LONG:

(off) Turn the power of the hunter

against him.

LONG:

Tie a fly...

LONG:

(off) ...create a piece of bait that

sends the fish's instincts into

overdrive...

LONG:

...forcing him to strike. And only then

does our noble friend realize that the

prey...can bite...

LONG:

(face off) ...back...

LONG:

...and that power...

LONG:

(face off) ...without caution...

LONG:

...is death.

MASON:

Some people might say you're readin' an

awful lot in-...

MASON:

(off) ...-to a simple thing like...

MASON:

(off) ...fishin'.

LONG:

(off) Some people might.

LONG:

But I don't think you would.

SCENE:

INT. DARLENE'S STORE - DAY.

MASON:

(exhales)

DARLENE:

(off) Goddamn it, Ma-...

DARLENE:

(off) ...-son. Of all the days for you

to show up late. (sighs) First, the idiot

April calls in sick. Then I got a bad

tooth...

DARLENE:

...and then my night man shows up when he

feels like...

DARLENE:

...it.

MASON:

Darlene, it's five-thirty. Now, I worked

late for you this mornin', and you didn't

wanna spring for over-...

MASON:

(face off) ...-time, (off) remember?

DARLENE:

Oh. Well, I have got to get to the

dentist be-...

DARLENE:

...-fore he closes, which means you're

gonna have to cover the grill and the

floor.

MASON:

I can handle it.

DARLENE:

Mm. It doesn't take a genius.

DARLENE:

(sighs) How'd we do today, doc?

LONG:

(sighs) Oh, caught a few, lost a few.

DARLENE:

(chuckles) Story of my life. (sighing)

Well, one thing you won't lose is that

friend of yours back there, I'll tell you

that.

LONG:

Oh, no?

DARLENE:

Oh, you're two of a kind, doc. Oh, he

may not have your sheepskins, and...

DARLENE:

(off) ...well, most of the time he looks

like something the cat might have dragged

in, but, you know...

DARLENE:

...he's smart enough to get you...

DARLENE:

(off) ...somehow. (chuckles - continues

under following scene)

DARLENE:

There's something else too.

LONG:

Uh, we both like to fish.

DARLENE:

(grunts) Secrets.

LONG:

Ah.

DARLENE:

His I know. Yours I don't have a clue.

(grunts) But if it wasn't for you, I

think he'd have drifted right on through

this town.

DARLENE:

(chuckles)

LONG:

You know, I have yet to get a simple cup

of coffee and a meal in this place,

Darlene.

DARLENE:

And you ain't gonna start now.

DARLENE:

Ma-...

DARLENE:

(off) ...-son!

MASON:

Yeah?

DARLENE:

Be sure you feed Bosco.

DARLENE:

And don't give him any ice cream...

DARLENE:

(off) ...like April. It gives him gas.

And make sure there's (on) two pots of

coffee...

MASON:

(off) (overlapping) Two pots of coffee...

DARLENE:

(off) ...ready before the morning crowd

blows in.

MASON:

(off) (overlapping) ...ready before the

morning crowd blows in. I got it...

MASON:

(off) ...Darlene.

LONG:

(grunts)

BRYNNER:

(face off) Is this stool taken?

LONG:

No, go--

BRYNNER:

You look good, Richard.

BRYNNER:

You look fit...healthy...

BRYNNER:

...not at all like a man responsible for

the deaths of eighteen peo-...

BRYNNER:

(off) ...-ple.

LONG:

Is that why you're here? To blame...

LONG:

(off) ...me? Well, you could've saved

yourself the trip.

LONG:

I know where the (chuckling) blame

belongs. But I didn't put you in prison,

Andrew. The government did...

LONG:

...that.

BRYNNER:

Oh, I'm well aware of what the government

did, I assure you. Actually, I've just

come to say how grateful I am to you...

BRYNNER:

(off) ...and the government.

LONG:

Grateful?

BRYNNER:

(off) Mm-hm.

BRYNNER:

Together, you gave me the opportunity to

realize just how very wrong my life had

gone.

BRYNNER:

(off) Do you remember telling me once

that all through my career, I'd never fit

in? Well...

BRYNNER:

...you were right, of course. But

after...

BRYNNER:

(off) ...years of thinking the matter

over, I began to see that the whole thing

wasn't really my problem.

BRYNNER:

What rational man could fit in with the

sorts of things our government was doing?

The sorts of things you've...

BRYNNER:

(off) ...always done, Richard?

LONG:

Do you think I haven't seen the bodies of

those...

LONG:

(off) ...men every time I've closed my

eyes? But after you went away, I--

BRYNNER:

(interrupting) Went away? (chuckles -

continues under following scene)

BRYNNER:

(off) "Went away." I like that.

BRYNNER:

Almost quaint.

LONG:

All right. After they put you away...

LONG:

...I began trying to find ways of

controlling the effects of the weapon

that we tested on Horn Island.

BRYNNER:

And let me guess. You failed.

LONG:

So far, ye-yes.

BRYNNER:

Why is it you scientists can create

implements of destruction...

BRYNNER:

(off) ...so quickly, but when it comes to

cures and benefits, your...

BRYNNER:

...speed is nothing short of glacial?

BRYNNER:

(off) Though at least you're trying,

Richard. And if the road to hell is

paved with good intentions...

BRYNNER:

...we know you'll find your way there

quickly.

BRYNNER:

(off) And don't worry.

BRYNNER:

It's not such a bad place. I should

know, after all.

MASON:

Okay, doc.

MASON:

The usual. Doc.

SCENE:

EXT. U.S. ARMY RESEARCH

LABORATORY/GUARD GATE - JEROME - NIGHT.

NARRATIVE TITLE:

U.S. ARMY RESEARCH LAB. - JEROME

KIOSK GUARD:

Good morning, Dr. Long.

LONG:

Hi.

SCENE:

INT. U.S. ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY -

NIGHT.

PUMPER:

Morning, doc. Awful early, aren't ya?

LONG:

Couldn't sleep, Pumper. Is everything,

uh, all right tonight?

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