Hero
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2002
- 107 min
- 2,197 Views
INT. COURTROOM - DAY
JUDGE GOINES turns to the Jury FOREMAN.
JUDGE GOINES:
Mister Foreman, have you arrived
at a verdict?
FOREMAN:
We have, your honor. We find the
defendant guilty of all the charges.
ANGLE ON THE DEFENDANT, BERNIE LAPLANTE
Forty, rumpled, cheap suit, cheap haircut. He reacts, turning
to the jury, indignant.
His attorney, DONNA O'DAY, rises. She's twenty-four, looks
younger.
DONNA:
Your honor, may I approach the
bench?
As BERNIE fumes, the JUDGE, DONNA and the youthful clean-cut
PROSECUTOR engage in an earnest, inaudible discussion.
Frustrated, Bernie is watching them when he notices something
that distracts him from his anguish.
Donna's wallet is lying in her open attache case. The open top
of the case screens the wallet from the view of the JURY, THE
JUDGE, COURT REPORTERS, etc.
Bernie looks around, checking the spectators section.
No spectators.
TITLE CONTINUE:
Bernie gets the wallet to his lap. In between cautious glances
toward the bench where the conference continues inaudibly, he
surreptitiously selects some of the twenties and some of the
tens from the wallet.
AT THE BENCH:
The conference breaks up, DONNA heads back toward the defense
table.
The wallet still concealed in his lap under the table, BERNIE
is indignant.
BERNIE:
What's going on? "Guilty"! What
is this?
DONNA:
I got your bail continued.
BERNIE:
Bail, for Chrissake! I'm innocent!
The JUDGE gavels for order as BERNIE slips DONNA's "lightened"
wallet back into her attache case unseen.
JUDGE GOINES:
Mister LaPlante, I have been
persuaded in view of your continued
employment and your lack of prior
convictions, to continue your bail
under the same conditions
heretofore, pending sentencing six
days from now. In the meantime you
will make an appointment with the
probation officer who will make a
recommendation to me regarding your
sentence. I urge you to use these
six days to set your personal
affairs in order in anticipation
of incarceration.
THE TITLES CONCLUDE
INT. CORRIDOR/HALL OF JUSTICE - MINUTES LATER (DAY)
BERNIE and DONNA are hurrying along the crowded corridor outside
the courtroom.
BERNIE:
"Anticipation of incarceration"?
DONNA:
(upset)
He means prison, Mr. LaPlante.
BERNIE:
I know what he means. I'm not a
prison kinda guy, Miss O'Day. I'm
a goddamn working man for
Chrissake! Maybe I "augment" my
income a little with some
"business deals," maybe summa the
guys I sell to are crooks, how
would I know, I'm not an
investigator. You can't make it
on a wage no more, not in this
country.
DONNA:
I think our best course right now
would be to focus on the Probation
Officer's report...
BERNIE:
He gives a good report and I walk?
DONNA:
We can hope.
(consulting her notes)
You still have your job, right?
BERNIE:
Yeah, I been calling in sick. They
think I got the flu.
DONNA:
And a son by your ex-wife? Joseph.
BERNIE:
A son, yeah. What about him? Joey.
DONNA:
Are you pretty involved in his
upbringing?
BERNIE:
Involved! Christ! She attached my
goddamn paycheck! Child support.
Why do you think I can't afford a
lawyer?
(then...)
You know what I mean. Why I got
a court appointed lawyer instead
of a, uh, more experienced...
DONNA:
I understand. How often do you see
your son?
BERNIE:
Often, uh.
DONNA:
How recently?
BERNIE:
Uh, his birthday, uh, May. I
think.
DONNA:
It's November.
BERNIE:
(beat... beat...
beat...)
She don't like me to see him.
Says I'm a bad influence.
DONNA:
I think you should visit your son.
And try and get your boss to write
a note about your performance on
the job. You need to create the
impression of a responsible, decent
citizen with familial
responsibilities who happened to
slip up once.
They have reached the front door. BERNIE nods, about to exit.
DONNA:
(with difficulty)
Uh, I know you're having financial
difficulties, Mister LaPlante, but
I wonder if... I mean, the money
I loaned you...
BERNIE:
Some of it. Right here. I got some
of it. I'll get the rest as soon
as I can.
BERNIE pulls out the crumpled bills he took from Donna's wallet
and hands them to her.
DONNA:
(surprised and touched)
I know things are difficult for you,
Mister LaPlante. I don't want to
take your last dime...
BERNIE is already reaching for a twenty.
BERNIE:
Right. I better keep some if I'm
gonna see the kid. For gas and
stuff.
Then, unable to resist the chance, he snatches another.
EXT. LION CAGES/ZOO - ANOTHER DAY
A LION lies glumly in his cage, staring balefully through the
bars at BERNIE who stares balefully back, contemplating the iron
bars. At BERNIE'S side is a ten year old boy, JOEY, whose neat,
scrubbed appearance is in sharp contrast to BERNIE'S rumpled,
slightly soiled look.
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