The Boondock Saints Page #36

INT. COURTROOM MORNING

The media, with their cameras and notebooks, are at the back

of the courtroom. Yakavetta is testifying on the stand. He

is cocky. The judge warns Yakavetta that he will have no

more of this behavior in his courtroom.

MEDIA MAN 1

(whispering to #2)

Look at his charisma. He's the next

John Gotti.

MEDIA MAN 2

He'll walk. Even with all this

evidence.

MEDIA MAN 1

Look.

(points to the left

and right sections

of courtroom seating)

All Yakavetta's people are on the

right. All the families of the men

he has killed are on the left.

Everyone wants some justice.

MEDIA MAN 2

Look at him. He doesn't have a care

in the world. He's gonna walk.

INT. FOYER TO COURTROOM DAY

The MacManusus stand in the foyer. There are a pair of doors

that go to the outside hallway and a pair that go to the

inside courtroom. There is an armed guard directly inside

the courtroom, in front of the doors.

The door opens a crack and Connor waves the guard into the

foyer and starts talking to him. Then dad zaps him with a

stun gun. The guard is on the floor, incapacitated and

drooling as the boys handcuff him.

Connor pulls out a length of chain and drapes it through the

door handles that lead from the hall into the foyer. He locks

them in with a padlock.

FATHER:

How long do these put a man down

for?

MURPHY:

Ten minutes.

The father zaps the incapacitated man a second time as he

lay.

FATHER:

Twenty is a bit better.

They suit up, Connor and Murphy in their usual masks and

gloves, Dad is already in his usual dark hat and glasses.

The boys start for the courtroom door but dad gently holds

them back. He takes a moment, then slowly removes his hat

and glasses. His sons look at one another and then remove

their masks. The three look into each others eyes for a

moment.

INT. COURTROOM DAY

JUDGE:

Due to the lack of hard evidence......

The three burst in, guns drawn, and are walking down the

aisle.

FATHER:

All media to the back! Drop the

cameras! Drop 'em!

Terrified, they all obey. Connor and Murphy pull Yakavetta

from the witness booth by his hair and place him on his knees

just before the judge's bench. They face him toward the

occupants of the courtroom. The father walks up and motions

for the judge, who is now banging his gavel and shouting in

protest, to come off the stand.

As soon as he is within arms reach, dad takes him by the

collar and drags him down the aisle all the way to where the

media stands in horror. He turns and walks back down the

aisle.

FATHER:

(loudly)

You people have been chosen to reveal

our existence to the world. You will

witness what happens here today and

you will tell of it afterwards.

All eyes to the front.

YAKAVETTA:

(looking to his

comrades)

F***in' do something!

The father keeps them covered. He passes the front, he looks

and sees a VIRGINAL-LOOKING WOMAN with her head down crying

into her hands. She is on the left side. He gently tilts her

chin forward, her eyes fixated on a faded blue butterfly on

the back of his hand.

FATHER (WHISPERS)

(whispers)

You must watch dear. It'll all be

over soon.

(she obeys)

The father takes out a flask. He pours the booze on the judges

bench and set it ablaze. Fire alarms start to sound.

Connor and Murphy jump up on the lawyers' tables. Murphy on

the prosecution side, Connor on the defense. The father has

his sawed-off to the back of Yakavetta's head.

CONNOR:

(yelling over the

alarm)

Now, you will receive us.

MURPHY:

(yelling over the

alarm)

We do not ask for your poor or your

hungry.

CONNOR:

We do not want your tired and sick.

MURPHY:

It is your corrupt we claim.

CONNOR:

It is your evil, who will be sought

by us.

MURPHY:

With every breath we shall hunt them

down.

CONNOR:

Each day we will spill their blood

till it rains down from the skies.

MURPHY:

Do not kill, do not rape, do not

steal. These are principles which

every man of every faith can embrace.

CONNOR:

These are not polite suggestions.

They are codes of behavior and those

that ignore them will pay the dearest

cost.

(points to Yakavetta)

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