Legally Blonde Page #19

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ARROGANT AARON:

Why? ion .got a spot?

ENID:

Hey! Watch your hands, Mr.Grabass.

ARROGANT AARON '

(ignoring her)

That only leaves one for --

Elle, now next to him, gets a look at the board.

ELLE:

(shocked)

Me?!

Everyone REACTS. She turns and faces the throng. They stare

back at her in shock.

Dignified, she walks through them as they PART for her,

stopping in front of Warner and Sarah.

EL LE (CONT'D)

(continuing; to Warner) ·

Remember the time after Winter Formal?

When we spent four incredible hours In

the hot tub...?

(CONTINUED)

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81 (2) 81

Sarah looks away. . ·

ELLE (CONT'D)

This is way better than that.

(pushing Sarah aside)

Excuse me. I have some shopping to do.

As she goes, surprised CHATTER overtakes the hallway.

82 INT. SAK'S - WOMENS' DEPT. - DAY 82 ·

Elle scans the racks of conservative clothes. She holds up a

cashmere twinset and wrinkles her nose, but throws it over

her arm anyway.

83 INT. NORDSTROM'S - HANDBAGS - DAY - LATER 83

Elle admires a trendy handbag, but then promptly sets it down

and picks up a practical leather briefcase.

84 INT. AUSTEN, PLATT, JARET & DONOVAN - LOBBY - DAY 84

The elevator door opens and Warner and Elle emerge. Elle is

sporting her new, boring "lawyer" clothes. Warner is baffled

and impressed by her transformation.

WARNER:

You look -- nice.

ELLE:

Thank you.

She gives him an aloof smile and walks off. Warner watches her

go. Sarah stands in the lobby. None too happy to witness this.

85 INT. AUSTEN, PLATT, JARET & DONOVAN - DAY - MOMENTS LATER 85

Donovan strides through the office, his four interns behind

him. He points as he walks.

DONOVAN:

There's your office, there's the

bathroom, there's the coffee machine.

There's Gerard, Dick and1Bobby.

GERARD, smarmy and trim, DICK, short and bald, and BOBBY,

black and bespectacled, wave as the interns pass by.

DONOVAN (CONT'D)

(continuing)

They're the other associates on the case.

Ask them all your stupid questions, save

the smart ones for me.

63.

86 INT. AUSTEN, JARET, PLATT AND DONOVAN - CONFERENCE ROOM 86

Professor Donovan opens his briefcase as Elle, Sarah, Enid

and Warner hang on his every word.

PROFESSOR DONOVAN

We're defending Brooke Windham, whose

very wealthy husband was found shot to

death in their Beacon Hill mansion.

SARAH:

Gold digger?

PROFESSOR DONOVAN

You'd think so, since the stiff was

sixty, but she was rich on her own. Some

kind of fitness empire. You can buy her

exercise tapes on infomercials.

Elle frowns.

ELLE:

Wait a minute -- are we talking about

Brooke Daniels?

Donovan checks his papers.

PROFESSOR DONOVAN

M a i d e n name--Daniels.

(looking up)

You know her?

ELLE:

She was a Delta Gamma! Not in my pledge

class or anything -- she graduated ,five

years ahead of me. But I used to take her

class at the LA Sports Club. She's

amazing!

The others looks at each other and roll their eyes.

PROFESSOR DONOVAN

Amazing how?

ELLE:

She could make you drop three pounds in

one class. She's completely gifted!

PROFESSOR DONOVAN

Well, in all likelihood, she's completely

guilty as well. She was seen standing

over her husband's dead body.

(CONTINUED)

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WA RN ER:

B y who?

SA RAH:

(correcting him)

Whom?

PROFESSOR DONOVAN

His twenty-seven year old daughter and

the pool boy.

ELLE:

Maybe she found him like that.

P RO F ES S OR DONOVAN

That's the story she'll be telling the

jury. We just have to prove it.

Emmett walks in and sits.

EMMETT:

Sorry I ' m late.

Elle looks at him, confused.

P R O FE S SO R DONOVAN

This is Emmett Kerrigan, another associate.

Top three in his class and former editor of

H a r v a r d Law Review. You've probably seen

h i m lurking around campus doing my research.

EM ME TT:

Or napping on the quad. .

Elle smiles at him. He smiles back. Almost shy.

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