Illegal Page #13

- Waiting for you, Mr. Scott.

- Yeah?

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We've heard rumors, unpleasant rumors.

Let's take a little stroll.

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I'm in no mood for you. Beat it.

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Come on, Mr. Scott.

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Get in.

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- Hello, Victor.

- Hello, Frank.

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- Thought we'd better have a chat.

- About what?

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They're saying that you're going

to defend Ellen Borden in court.

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That's right.

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That might be embarrassing.

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Forget it. You're not going to be involved.

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I'm a worrier, Victor.

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Sometimes these things backfire.

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Well, every time you go into a courtroom,

it's a gamble.

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I'm the house, Victor.

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I never gamble.

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Don't you realize why I took this case?

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I know Ray Borden was your man.

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Now, do you want some other lawyer

poking into this thing,

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turning up all the evidence he can find,

no matter whom it hurts?

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I know how to keep on safe ground.

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I'm not just defending Ellen Borden.

I'm defending you.

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I want you to know, Victor,

that you'll be very well paid for this case,

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whichever way it turns out.

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...or knocked it aside. I'm not sure which.

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And that's when you pulled the trigger?

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I never even knew I pulled the trigger.

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Thank you.

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Your witness.

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FORD:
Mrs. Borden, not content with

just killing your husband,

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you would dishonor him as well.

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Destroy his fine record and reputation

by testifying to a mythical phone call.

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Tell us, who was the mythical person

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you ask us to believe was

on the other end of the line?

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I don't know.

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You claim this phone call led to

the killing of your husband,

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and you don't know?

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No.

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I see.

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This is a very harrowing picture

you've painted for us, Mrs. Borden.

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A maddened killer in front of you,

and a 10-story drop at your back.

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Classic picture.

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Defenseless womanhood with nothing but

a.38 caliber revolver in her hand.

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But naturally, it was well-painted.

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You and Mr. Scott have made

a very artistic team for a very long time.

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I object!

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VICTOR:
The prosecutor's comments

are not pertinent to the case.

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FORD:
I intend to show

that they are extremely pertinent.

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Objection overruled.

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Cross-examination will continue.

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Mrs. Borden, were you not indebted

to Victor Scott for your education?

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Yes. I'm grateful to him.

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FORD:
Were you not also indebted to him

for your first job,

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your only job, that of legal assistant

in the District Attorney's Office?

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Yes.

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Was not your relationship

with Victor Scott,

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who is here in court defending you today,

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so close that it continued even after

your marriage to Ray Borden?

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Why, yes.

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Wasn't that somewhat unusual

for a married woman?

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Of course not!

I don't know what you mean!

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Did you, or did you not,

visit Victor Scott the day of the murder?

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Your Honor, I object!

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The prosecutor knows that self-defense

is not murder.

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Objection sustained.

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Had not Victor Scott recently thwarted

justice in the so-called horse parlor case,

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a case which you had helped to prepare?

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Mr. Scott did win the case.

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Mr. Scott's success in that case

was obviously due to

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his having received prior information

concerning our plans.

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Were you, as my assistant,

in a position to give him that information?

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Your Honor, I object to Mr. Ford laying

the blame for his own ineptitude

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at the door of my client.

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Mr. Scott, you're out of order.

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The question here is one of fact,

not conjecture.

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Were you in such a position, Mrs. Borden?

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Yes.

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On the night in question, was there any

discussion between you and your husband

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about this leakage of information?

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Why, yes, there was.

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And wasn't it your husband's duty

as chief investigator

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to uncover the source of this betrayal

of public trust?

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Yes, it was his...

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And wasn't it his duty,

if he did uncover the pipeline,

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to report it to me immediately?

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Yes, but I'm trying...

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And as a point of fact,

did he not uncover it that night?

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Did he not confront you with your guilt,

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