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Hero Page #18
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2002
- 107 min
- 2,130 Views
BERNIE:
Twenty-five grand is peanuts! All
you gotta do is get me outta here
long enough to collect.
BAILIFF:
The People versus Bernard LaPlante.
JUDGE GOINES scowls at the sight of BERNIE moving toward him
talking already.
BERNIE:
Your honor, my attorney here says
the prosecutor there wants
twenty-five grand bail...
DONNA looks horrified, the JUDGE furious...
JUDGE:
Mister LaPlante, you will be silent
unless the court recognizes you...
BERNIE:
(continuing grandly)
--which is fine by me. I got no
problem with that at all.
In fact, your honor, I'd be proud
to double it. Fifty grand! A tip
for "the people," your honor, if
I could just...
GOINES is banging his gavel angrily, glaring at BERNIE, not
noticing a SECOND BAILIFF hurry into the courtroom.
JUDGE GOINES:
Mister LaPlante, unless you stop
chattering immediately, I am going
to ask the Bailiff to...
JUDGE GOINES breaks off, eyes furious, as he spots BAILIFF CLAY,
the Court Reporter, DE TAGLIO and the SECOND BAILIFF engaged
in urgent whispering.
JUDGE GOINES:
DAMNIT! I SAID I WANTED ORDER!
CLAY:
Sorry, your honor...
SECOND BAILIFF:
We got carried away.
DETAGLIO:
They found him.
JUDGE GOINES:
Found who?
CLAY:
The "Angel of Flight 104".
SECOND BAILIFF:
It was on the news! Just now! He's
gonna be on Channel Four at noon!
BERNIE reacts, jaw sagging in disbelief. The JUDGE sneaks a
hasty look at his watch.
JUDGE GOINES:
We'll sustain bail at twenty-five
thousand dollars. That ought to
keep Mister LaPlante out of trouble
for a minute or two...
DONNA:
But your honor, my client is a
responsible family man with limited
resources who...
[PAGE 66 IS MISSING FROM THE SCRIPT]
GALE:
But finally you did come forward.
Why?
BUBBER looks her right in the eyes, gives a sheepish grin.
BUBBER/TV
The money, Gale. I wouldn't have
come forward at all if it wasn't
for the reward.
GALE'S VOICE (O.S.)
Cut right there, right on that look!
REVEAL GALE in an editing room looking over editor JOAN'S
shoulder as JOAN freezes the image and makes a note.
JOAN:
You didn't mention he was cute.
GALE is staring intently at BUBBER'S modest, humble face frozen
on the screen.
GALE:
He saved my life.
The humble, honest face of BUBBER, freeze framed as GALE'S
VOICE narrates...
GALE/TV VOICE OVER
--were shocked to learn that the
hero who appeared out of the smoke
and the fire and pulled them to
safety was indigent and tragically
hadn't slept in a bed in more than
three years.
INT. DAY ROOM/JAIL - DAY
Seeing BUBBER'S honest face on the TV screen in the day room
enrages BERNIE...
BERNIE:
The guy's a fake, for Chrissake!
He's a goddamn homeless bum. He
ain't no here, trust me on this,
buddy.
PRISONERS, standing in a group under the TV turn from the screen
to BERNIE, like "who's this a**hole?" A BIG PRISONER glares
at BERNIE ominously...
BIG PRISONER:
"Trust you"!
INT. DEAKINS' OFFICE - DAY
The office has become command-central. REPORTERS hurry in and
out, tearing off faxes, answering the phones, chattering at each
other, GALE among them. WALLACE is fretting to DEAKINS...
WALLACE:
I thought they'd all go "It's him!
It's him!" and hug the guy or
something.
DEAKINS:
Relax, Wally. He had the shoe and
the shoe checks out.
WALLACE:
Does this mean I can stop worrying?
Where'd we put him?
DEAKINS:
Drake Hotel, Penthouse Suite. Never
stop worrying. I figure we'll do
a sidebar on what it's like to go
from sleeping in your car and
collecting cans to sleeping in the
poshest suite in town. Also Gale's
onto something, digging into his
background.
PARKER rushes up to GALE...
PARKER:
Excuse me, Ms. Gayley. That guy
Inspector Dayton... he's recovered
a bunch of your credit cards and
he wants...
GALE:
Who?
PARKER:
Inspector Dayton, the cop from
Robbery Detail who was looking for
you. They caught the guy who stole
your credit cards trying to sell
them and he wants...
GALE:
Nobody stole my credit cards. They
burned up in the crash. Which
reminds me, did you get me cash?
And what about the reservations?
[PAGES 69-71 ARE MISSING FROM THE SCRIPT]
INT. COMMON ROOM/JAIL - NIGHT
Surrounded by the jailhouse cacophony, BERNIE stares glumly at a
plate of sh*t on a shingle in front of him while close at hand a
TOUGH PRISONER snarls at ANOTHER PRISONER...
TOUGH PRISONER #1
You mess with me, I'm gonna cut yer
heart out and eat it.
INT. FANCY RESTAURANT - NIGHT
The CAPTAIN finishes scribbling and seizes the menus.
CAPTAIN:
Very good, sir. It's a special
privilege to serve you.
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