The Place Beyond the Pines Page #4

OFFICER 1:
Okay? Do not move!

Get me another cop back here!

(POLICE RADIO CHATTER)

(RESPIRATOR HISSING)

(HEART MONITOR BEEPING)

(BABY CRYING)

JENNIFER:
Baby?

Hey.

Hey.

Hi.

Hi.

Uh-oh.

What's my dad doing here?

JENNIFER:
We're all here.

Do you remember

what happened? Any of it?

Hey, honey, don't... Don't...

It's all right. It's all right.

AL:
Don't do that. Leave it.

Hey, hey, hey, honey, just...

Not... AL:
Avery.

Hey, honey. Avery!

AL:
Avery,

you got a bad injury.

You gotta take it easy.

JENNIFER:
It's okay, honey.

Just gotta relax, okay?

ALI All right?

JENNIFER:
We're all here.

Okay, okay, yeah.

AL:
You understand?

Yeah.

I'm sorry. (SOBBING)

I'm sorry. JENNIFER: It's okay.

Hey, baby.

We're all here.

It's okay. It's okay.

It's okay. It's okay.

You just gotta rest...

AL:
You're gonna be in here

a couple of days. All right?

JENNIFER:
That's it.

A couple of days.

(INDISTINCT PA ANNOUNCEMENT)

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

NURSE:
Good morning, Mr. Cross.

You feeling up to

a couple of visitors?

There's a couple men

who wanna speak to you.

WEIRZBOWSKI:
Avery.

Hey.

How's our hero?

Chief. How you feeling?

You all right?

I'm good, yeah, yeah. They

taking good care of you?

Yes, sir. Thank you.

Sausage and pepper.

Thanks for coming out.

From Sabatiello's.

Oh, how are you?

Bill Killcullen, DA. Avery Cross.

Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you. Oh, of course.

I know who you are.

I know your father, you know.

Long time now.

I apologize. No, not at all.

He's a great guy.

I wouldn't have expected

anything less from his son,

but this was above and beyond.

I just did what

anybody would do, right?

WEIRZBOWSKI:
That's right. And better.

I don't know about that...

The whole force is pulling for you, man.

Don't you forget that.

They're all outside.

Banners, everything.

What happened to that guy? That guy's gone.

He's dead. It's over.

That's the way it happens.

Right?

AVERY:
Yeah, but did he

leave anybody behind?

That's not... It's not for you

to worry about right now.

We got people who are

gonna talk to you about that.

There's people

talking to his family.

Got rid of another bad guy.

And you're a hero.

All right?

Yeah.

Bill wants to ask you a few questions.

Is that all right?

It's just your first

impressions, that kind of thing.

Just what...

WEIRZBOWSKI:
Formality, you know?

Yeah, it's pretty simple.

Yeah. Sure.

All right, I'll leave you two

to get to know each other.

Oh. All right.

So what happened when you

were just outside the door?

Um, I said,

"Police, drop your weapon."

Um, "Face down on the ground

with your hands spread."

And, uh, nothing.

Nothing, right.

Nothing.

Did you announce

yourself again, or not?

No. No, that's all we need to do

is make ourselves known, right?

Yeah, but it's sometimes

not easy to tell

whether they've heard you

making yourself known.

You know what I mean?

Anyway, you were yelling.

Is that right?

I was making myself known

as we were trained, correct.

Okay. All right.

Okay. Then what?

At that point, I knew that I had to

make entry, and I kicked the door down.

Was then. Was the door locked?

Correct.

And you knew that because...

What do you mean?

You just assumed that

the door was locked?

How did I know it was locked?

Yeah.

Is that a trick question?

No. No. I'm just wondering

why you didn't turn the thing.

That's how I knew

it was locked.

Did you tell me that?

No.

Okay.

All right, so you kick it in.

Right.

Why are you...

Why'd you come down here?

I'm sorry, why did

I come down here?

Yeah.

Why wasn't somebody else...

A slow day at the office or...

No.

What happened after that? What

would you like me to tell you?

I just need you to

tell me what happened.

You do?

I don't want you to

misremember so, tomorrow,

you're trying to match

what you half-thought today.

I only want you to tell me what

you saw and what you remember.

I shot the perpetrator,

he fell out the window.

I know that.

When did he pull his gun?

Did you shoot him first,

or did he shoot first?

Don't f*** with me.

Do the right thing, tell

me what the f*** happened.

It was pretty quick.

Who shot first?

His hand comes up, you fire?

His hand comes up,

he fires, you fire?

Right.

Like that?

Yeah.

Like pop-pop.

That sounds like he shot first.

Yeah.

FEMALE REPORTER:
Well, it's just a

triumphant day for Officer Avery Cross.

He left Ellis Hospital well enough

to go home and happy to be alive,

with supporters from his Schenectady

PD family cheering him on.

His father, State Supreme

Court Judge AI Cross,

says he's very happy

his son is alive today.

There's the life of a cop,

the life my son chose.

REPORTER:
Twenty-nine-year-old Cross hadn't

even been on the force for a full year

before he ran head-on

into the alleged Moto Bandit.

Pursuing Luke Glanton through

the streets of Schenectady

after a bank robbery, Glanton

ran into a home, then he came

face-to-face with Officer Cross.

You okay?

Glanton fired at Cross,

hitting him in the knee.

Cross fired back, killing Glanton

and saving the hostages.

Glanton was a drifter and, at

times, a motorcycle stunt rider,

and police say he had

a very violent past.

OFFICER:
The guy had

a long track record, you know?

He was a professional criminal.

REPORTER:
He moved here last spring,

and he hadn't even been here

for a full month

before he started

robbing banks here.

He leaves behind an infant son.

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JENNIFER:
Was it scary, honey?

AVERY:
Happened so fast.

I don't think there was

time to be scared.

Scary for me.

I just don't understand why

you're doing this. Nobody does.

Doing what?

What am I doing?

I was speaking

with your father and we...

(SIGHS)

We both agree...

Of course he does.

I'm sorry.

I just thought that...

I'm a cop, Jen. I'm a cop.

That's it. There's no...

I just thought maybe after this,

maybe you would've had enough.

Hey, there's no more

to discuss.

That's all. I just thought

maybe you would've had enough.

That's it. Okay?

Baby, you can't expect me not to think that.

You guys just don't get it.

You guys just don't get it.

I'm sorry. We're just worried.

We're just worried about you.

Stop saying that.

That's all.

Stop f***ing saying that.

THERAPIST:
Have you been replaying

the incident in your mind?

Not really.

Mmm-hmm.

No, I'm trying to put it

out of my mind, I think.

Does that work?

Yeah.

You think you're ready

to go back to duty?

Yes.

Would you want

yourself as a partner?

Absolutely.

What have you been thinking

about since the shooting?

Not much, um...

(CHUCKLES)

(STAMMERS) Everything's been so crazy,

you know, with the rehabilitation

and work

and everything at home.

Mmm-hmm. Everything at home?

What's happening at home?

(CLEARS THROAT) Well, I'm there

now, which is much different.

Who's at home with you?

Um...

Well, uh, my mother-in-law,

uh, my wife and my boy.

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