The Devil's Advocate Page #17

KEVIN:

When?

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Heath nearby has more answers -

HEATH:

Last night in the park. He was

running if you can believe it.

Kevin standing there, holding Christabella. Feeling the heat on the back of his neck and turning to find Milton at the far end of the hall. Their eyes lock -

CHRISTABELLA (O.S.)

What is wrong with people?

HEATH (O.S.)

At least they got the scumbags who did it.

KEVIN:

(turning on this)

Who?

LAWYER #1

Two old, homeless crazies.

Pam coming through the hallway like steel -

PAM:

Kevin... Kevin, I'm sorry, but you're due in court in thirty minutes.

As Melissa appears in the conference room door -

MELISSA:

Are we through here, or what?

PAM:

I'll bring Melissa down in the car, but you better get going.

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199 INT. SUBWAY TO COURT - DAY 199

SCREAMING uptown. Kevin looking very rattled. Milton,

beside him. Talking him down.

MILTON:

I want you to put Eddie aside.

Let me worry about it. You gotta deal with Cullen now. Marshal

your strength. Prioritize.

Conserve your energy.

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KEVIN:

I can't put her on the stand.

MILTON:

What choice do we have?

KEVIN:

I know she's lying.

MILTON:

Because she didn't answer you fast enough? Did she lie to you? No.

She said nothing. The fact is,

you'll never know.

KEVIN:

He killed those people.

MILTON:

You really believe that?

KEVIN:

Cullen set me up. Melissa, the whole thing, I know it.

MILTON:

Look, you gotta go with your gut.

KEVIN:

That's your advice?

MILTON:

I'll back you either way. Hey,

you think I haven't lost before?

(pause)

We talked about this, Kevin.

Pressure. Take a big whiff.

Kevin is unreadable. The SUBWAY CAR RATTLING away.

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200 INT. CULLEN COURTROOM - DAY 200

Packed and ready.

JUDGE POE:

Mr. Lomax, you may call your next witness.

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A long, awful pause. Kevin is in agony. Milton is behind him.

Cullen and Pamela and everyone waiting...

JUDGE POE:

Counselor...

KEVIN:

I call Melissa Block.

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201 INT. COURT - HALL - DAY 201

Chaos! -- media madness -- Kevin pushing past dozens of reporters and camera crews -- court officers trying to clear the way -- fifteen voices screaming at once -questions

flying like shrapnel -- Cullen, all smiles,

alongside Milton, as they're pushed along -- Pam, waving a cell phone, fighting her way to Kevin and -

PAM:

Kevin!

(re the phone)

Kevin, it's for you -

Kevin takes the phone, trying to hear above the noise.

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202 EXT. LOMAX BUILDING AND STREET - DAY 202

A cab speeds to a stop. Kevin jumps out. Feeney, the doorman, standing there with Felix, his partner.

FEENEY:

She didn't look well, sir. Felix

tried to talk to her, but she -Where

is she?

KEVIN:

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203 EXT. MADISON AVENUE AND CHURCH - DAY 203

Kevin running down the sidewalk and -CUT

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204 INT. CHURCH - DAY 204

Kevin enters. It's empty and dark. Two old ladies upfront. Mary Ann is in the back, wrapped in a comforter.

KEVIN:

Honey...

(sitting

beside her)

Mare. It's me.

MARY ANN:

He let himself in. You need to know that. The bath running, or something, I didn't hear him. I swear to you.

KEVIN:

Who?

MARY ANN:

Then we talked. We talked for

hours.

(coming apart for good)

I haven't talked to anyone, really talked to anyone in such a long time. You have this whole life

and all I have is me and he was so

clear about it all.

KEVIN:

Who let himself in?

MARY ANN:

I came down here. I've just been sitting. I'm afraid to pray. I

let him stay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Kevin.

KEVIN:

Did somebody hurt you?

MARY ANN:

Milton. He f***ed me, Kevin. I

let him f*** me. I couldn't stop him.

KEVIN:

What? When?

MARY ANN:

Today. This afternoon. All afternoon. God, I'm so ashamed...

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KEVIN:

Today? Today? Today. He was in court, Mare. He was in court, in

my presence all afternoon!

MARY ANN:

(sobbing)

I'm not crazy. I'm not. I swear.

KEVIN:

I don't know, Mare. I don't know

how much more of this I can take.

She stands. Throws open the comforter. She is naked.

There are scratch marks all over her body.

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205 INT. HOSPITAL CUBICLE - NIGHT 205

Kevin with a NURSE and paperwork.

NURSE:

Sign there... And there... And one

more...

(as he's done)

She's calm now so this might be a good time to say goodnight.

Kevin nods. Stands, moving now -- into -

206 INT. HOSPITAL HALLWAY - NIGHT 206

Mary Ann on a moving gurney. Calm now, in the sway of some very strong drugs. Kevin kneels beside her.

MARY ANN:

I know why this is happening.

KEVIN:

They want you to go to sleep.

MARY ANN:

It's the money, Kevin. Blood money. We just drank it down.

Both of us. We knew it. Winning those cases, taking the money. We knew they were guilty. But you kept winning. Every time.

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MARY ANN (CONT'D)

(fading)

I can't look at myself in the

mirror, Kevin.

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207 EXT. CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY 207

A big one. A funereal morning. Hearse and cortege parked on the street outside.

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208 INT. CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY 208

Barzoon's funeral. Big deal. Big crowd. An excess of

flowers. ORGAN MUSIC as foreplay. Milton, up front,

seating Diana and children.

Kevin seated on the aisle. Beside him, Jack Heath.

JACKIE:

What do they say?

KEVIN:

They don't know. It's bad. She's falling apart.

CHRISTABELLA (O.S.)

Do you have room for one more?

Kevin turns to see Christabella standing beside him.

Jackie's concerned expression blossoms into a private,

knowing smile now that Kevin has turned away.

Christabella squeezes in, as the MUSIC SWELLS and THE PRIEST walks solemnly to the altar. Kevin is caught in a high-intensity sexual cross-fire between Jackie and Christabella. He's tense. He's flipping out.

209 INT. CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY 209

Milton passes on his way to the back. Smiles.

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210 INT. CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY 210

On one side the Therapist, on the other Allesandra, except she looks different than last we saw her. Hair down.

Makeup. She could be all of seventeen.

THE PRIEST:

We are here today, to remember and pray and exalt in the spirit of Edward Barzoon...

Kevin staring at Cullen and the girl.

THE PRIEST:

...Father, husband, partner,

friend, colleague...

211 INT. CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY 211

(EFX) Cullen's hand stroking at the back of the pew -nothing

outrageous, except it does call to mind the hand of Mr. Gettys back in Florida -

THE PRIEST:

... taken from us so suddenly...

Cullen's hand moving with purpose -- stopping -waiting

-- as Allesandra sits back and now his fingers find her skin -- stroking ever so subtly -

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