Edge of Darkness Page #7

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If you win the case

there'll be a civil suite

by that point you won't

be able to afford a lawyer.

What are they

offering you?

I got kids, Tommy.

I don't.

But even if you did, right?

- Even if you did.

- Yup. Even if I did.

You know, Bill. No one

expects you to be perfect.

But there's a few basic

things you got to get right.

Always do the best you

can by your family,

go to work every day,

always speak your mind.

Never hurt anyone that

doesn't deserve it.

Never take anything

from the bad guys.

It's all. It's not

much to ask.

Hello, Craven.

I need your car.

Not yet.

Go ahead.

Hold on.

I'll call you back.

Derek?

Derek?

Sh*t.

You're all f***ed

up, Craven.

You're all done.

Sit down.

Lie down.

Be dead.

F***.

- Say "Craven".

- F*** you.

- You f***.

- "Craven". Say it.

- Craven.

- Louder!

- Craven!

- LOUDER!

CRAVEN!

I'm sorry you had

to see that, honey.

Deep down...

You know you

deserve this.

We've got a cop of almost

and there's not one person,

on our side, who can explain

his instability without lying,

who has executed the director

of a nuclear research facility

where his daughter worked.

Okay. Ideas?

Your scenario is this.

He was accidently

poisoned by his daughter.

- But he blamed Bennett.

- How do we know that?

Testimony of an altercation at

Northmoor when he was there.

Testimony from the Senator.

I can easily testify that he was

unstable. He came to my house.

That's right. He made wild

allegations. He was armed.

You know, you were

very lucky to live.

That's true.

That's very true.

Now the real story

here gentlemen, is:

"United States Senator

escapes assassination."

- That's right.

- That's the lead story.

That will wipe the rest of

it right out of the media.

Anyone who looks

at the rest of this

is going to see that

something happened.

But no one is going to be

able to figure it out.

That's your objective.

To make it so convoluted that

anyone can have a theory.

- But no ones got the facts.

- That's quite good, Jedburgh.

Senator, I've been making things

unintelligible for 30 years.

And by the way, its

Captain Jedburgh to you.

Captain. Of what?

Very little he can

tell you about.

Right. Well. Seems we

have a good starting point.

What's the prognosis

on Craven?

- Well, you know he's terminal.

- We're all terminal, Millroy.

Even middle management.

But how fast is

he being terminal?

- He's incapable of speech.

- Thank God for that.

I understand you had a chance

to terminate Detective Craven

and did not do so.

You come to me. I look

at things. I decide.

Jedburgh, we've got to get

the Senator out to the press.

I've decided what

this country is.

What?

People, who

deserve better.

We all appreciate Captain Jedburgh.

Yet we would have not got

to this extremity had he done what

the situation clearly dictated.

Senator, I dont think you

really understand what side

of this situation you're on.

Well, I think we've had

a successful meeting...

I...

am a United

States Senator.

By what standards?

- You got a family?

- Yeah.

- Kids?

- Yeah.

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