JFK Page #24

AL:

Boss, Oswald impersonators? Sounds

like James Bond now.

JIM:

Al, you can't tell a mink from a

coonskin unless you see the fur up

close. Goddamn, Sam! If we don't

start reading between the lines here!

Y'all gotta start thinking on a

different level - like the CIA does.

We're through the looking glass.

Here white is black and black is

white.

BILL:

What do you think, Lou?

LOU:

I'm just an investigator, Bill. I

leave the theories to you lawyers.

BILL:

You, Numa?

NUMA:

A week ago I would've said this is

nuts, but now ...

(shakes his head)

There's a lot of smoke there, but

there's some fire.

BILL:

Now you guys, come on. You're talking

about the United States Government

here!

JIM:

We're talking about a crime, Bill.

No one is above the law. Reduce it.

A crime was committed. Let's get to

work.

MEDICAL UNIT - JAIL - DAY(1966)

Jack Ruby, thick fudge of an angry face, flu-ridden, confronts

a doctor and two guards in his cell.

RUBY:

Christ, what the hell kinda needle

is that? I just got a cold for

Chrissake. I don't want any shot!

DOCTOR:

Please relax, Mr. Ruby. This'll

calm you down and clear this up.

RUBY:

Doc, I'm telling you, I don't need

any shots.

DOCTOR:

Mr. Ruby, I don't want to involve

the guards. It'll just take a few

seconds.

Ruby looks over at the two guards, who eye him. The Doctor

gives him the injection.

FLASHBACK TO Ruby's jail cell in 1964. Ruby talks to men

with their backs to us. Lawyers and police clutter the cell,

making Ruby hyper-nervous. The chief official's white hair

and avuncular voice are all we see and hear of him; his back

is to us.

RUBY:

Then do you understand that I cannot

tell the truth here? In Dallas.

That there are people here who do

not want me to tell the truth...

who do not want me to have a retrial?

OFFICIAL:

Mr. Ruby, I really can't see why you

can't tell us now.

Ruby catches the stern face of Sheriff Bill Decker from the

corner of his eye, the Assistant D.A. next to him.

RUBY:

When are you going back to Washington,

sir?

OFFICIAL:

(looks at watch)

I am going back very shortly after

we finish this hearing - I am going

to have some lunch.

RUBY:

Can I make a statement? If you

request me to go back to Washington

with you right now, that is if you

want to hear further testimony from

me, can you do that? Can you take

me with you?

OFFICIAL:

No, that could not be done, Mr. Ruby.

There are a good many things involved

in that.

RUBY:

What are they?

OFFICIAL:

Well, the public attention it would

attract. And we have no place for

you there to be safe, we're not law

enforcement officials, and many things

are at stake in this affair, Mr.

Ruby.

RUBY:

But if I am eliminated there won't

be any way of knowing. Consequently

a whole new form of government is

going to take over this country, and

I know I won't live to see you another

time. My life is in danger here.

Do I sound screwy?

OFFICIAL:

Well I don't know what can be done,

Mr. Ruby, because I don't know what

you anticipate we will encounter.

RUBY:

Then you don't stand a chance, Mr.

Chief Justice, you have a lost cause.

All I want is a lie detector test,

and you refuse to give it to me.

Because as it stands now - and the

truth serum - how do you pronounce

it - Pentothal - whatever it is.

They will not give it to me, because

I want to tell the truth... And then

I want to leave this world.

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