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Hero Page #22
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2002
- 107 min
- 2,130 Views
BERNIE:
(actually stops, faces
her)
You whaaaaaat? You paid it? You
gave a bondsman ten percent?
DONNA:
I was inspired by the hero, how he
stuck his neck out for others, how
he took a chance...
BERNIE:
(apoplectic)
That fake inspired you to loan a
guy who's been fired off his job
twenty-five hundred goddamn dollars?
A guy you say is probably gonna do
time! You're s'posed to be an
attorney for Chrissake! You're
s'posed to have good judgment!
DONNA:
(fighting tears)
Well, as you like to point out,
Mister LaPlante, I'm relatively
inexperienced. My naivete may have
worked to your benefit in this
instance.
BERNIE frowns at that, starts walking again.
BERNIE:
Well, you're right, I'm glad you
got me out, I appreciate that.
BERNIE charges out the door, exiting the building with DONNA
right behind him.
Hurrying down the steps, BERNIE barks over his shoulder at
DONNA.
BERNIE:
Listen, now that I owe you
twenty-five hundred bucks plus, how
about loaning me twenty for cab
fare?
DONNA:
So you can call me "naive," Mister
LaPlante.
BERNIE:
Hey, you could call me "Bernie,"
forget the "Mister LaPlante" stuff.
(seeing Donna open her
wallet)
You are naive.
DONNA:
I read the probation report. It's
not good. I think you're going...
going to prison, Mister... Bernie.
I know that scares you but..
BERNIE:
TAXI! HEY, TAXI!
(turning on her)
Well, at least I'm gonna get my
goddamn million bucks.
(screaming at a cab)
TAXI FOR CHRISSAKE!
A cab pulls to the curb and BERNIE jumps in, talking.
BERNIE:
do-gooder a**hole's gonna go visit
sick kids at three-thirty.
(to the Cabbie)
Children's Hospital, on the double.
DONNA:
(alarmed)
You mean John Bubber?
BERNIE speaks out the window of the cab as it pulls away.
BERNIE:
(then, through the
window)
That bozo don't just owe me a
million bucks for my shoe, he's a
goddamn menace! Look what he done
to you! He's makin' people insane.
He's a whacko, he' gotta be stopped.
Stunned, DONNA watches the cab disappear in traffic with BERNIE
raving from the open window.
EXT. CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - LATER (DAY)
Limos are parked out front of the hospital and there is a
gathering of TV vans as BERNIE exits a cab and charges toward
the entrance of the hospital, a tiny figure dwarfed by the huge
building. He disappears inside.
INT. CORRIDOR/CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
We discover BERNIE wandering around, lost. A NURSE gives him
a glance in passing and BERNIE suddenly is aware that his
appearance is unusual. Disheveled. Unshaven. He tries to
smooth his hair a little as he turns into a doorway.
INT. SPECIAL CHILDREN'S WARD/CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
Stepping through the door BERNIE is immediately horror stricken.
Rows of beds. A room full of seriously SICK CHILDREN. Palsied.
Eyes out of sync. Motor disorders, spasms. Terrifying
paraphenalia... tubes, machines, monitors, bags of fluid. A
place of sUffering. To BERNIE it's a vision of a leper colony!
A SEVEN YEAR OLD spots him, clutches at him with clawlike hands,
jerky movements.
BERNIE recoils in horror, backing away.
A FIVE YEAR OLD, "blinded" by the gauze wrapped around his face
"looks" toward BERNIE and speaks.
"BLIND" CHILD'S VOICE (O.S.)
Is that him? Is he here yet, Miss
Roberts?
An EIGHT YEAR OLD with a bandaged arm responds, looking at
BERNIE.
EIGHT YEAR OLD:
Naw, it's just some guy.
A nurse MISS ROBERTS, appears from behind a curtain suddenly
and restrains the SEVEN YEAR OLD as she addresses BERNIE...
MISS ROBERTS:
Excuse me, sir. Can I help you?
BERNIE:
Uh, well I... what I...
Looks "wrong," acts "wrong." Looks like a child molester!
MISS ROBERTS:
You'll have to leave, ,sir. This
ward is off limits. If you want
to arrange a visit...
Just then a couple of CAMERAMEN back through the door shooting.
It's the head end of an entourage of REPORTERS, CAMERAMEN,
HOSPITAL PERSONNEL and a couple of SECURITY GUYS that are
traveling with BUBBER.
BERNIE is bumped backward by a CAMERAMAN just as he sees BUBBER
enter surrounded by MEDIA PEOPLE.
BERNIE'S P.O.V.
seeing BUBBER unhesitatingly reach out to the grotesque SEVEN
YEAR OLD and lift him into is arms, eyes shining with warmth,
smiling genuinely like he likes picking up hideous looking kids.
tapping one of the SECURITY OFFICERS on the shoulder and
indicating BERNIE to him.
ANGLE ON BERNIE:
remembering why he's here. It's not going to be as easy as he
thought. He starts to move through the entourage looking very
out of place.
BERNIE:
Excuse me, pal. Uh, couldja lemmee
through here? Thanks I...
THE SECURITY OFFICER is suddenly between BERNIE and his
destination.
SECURITY OFFICER
BERNIE:
Press pass? Uh, hey, I lost it.
Listen...
ANGLE ON BUBBER:
holding the SEVEN YEAR OLD. Smiling broadly, the child radiates
joy in the warmth of BUBBER'S embrace, his grotesqueness
miraculously minimized by his mood.
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