The Verdict Page #14

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GALVIN:

I've got to go see Gruber.

(to Cigar Stand

Operator)

What's the best cigars you have?

MICKEY:

Give 'em a box of Macanudos.

GALVIN:

Mickey:
I'm supposed to meet somebody

at O'Rourke's, I can't make it.

JOHN:

Here you are, Franky.

GALVIN:

(takes box)

Thanks. Can you go over and meet

her...? Tell her I'll stop by when

I'm through... Laura Fischer...

MICKEY:

Sure. Who is she?

JOHN:

That's thirty-three bucks. Can you

believe that...?

MICKEY:

Oh, yeah. Your broad from last night.

Galvin pays the Cigar Stand Operator.

JOHN:

Thanks, Franky.

GALVIN:

Tell her that I'll meet her there,

okay? See you tomorrow in the office.

Mickey shrugs.

GALVIN:

We're doing fine.

ANGLE:

The two of them crossing the lobby.

Dick Doneghy, looking around the lobby, spies them, starts

across, and accosts Galvin.

DONEGHY:

You said you're gonna call me up.

You didn't call me up. Who do you

think you are?

(pushes Galvin into a

wall; advances; pushes

him again)

Who do you think you are...?

GALVIN:

Hold on a second.

DONEGHY:

I'm going to have you disbarred. I'm

going to have your ticket. You know

what you did? Do you know what you

did?

He pushes Galvin again. Galvin waves Mickey off.

GALVIN:

It's all right, Mickey.

DONEGHY:

You ruined my life, Mister... Me and

my wife... and I am going to ruin

yours...

(pushes Galvin again)

You don't have to go out there to

see that girl. We been going four

years.

(beat)

Four years... my wife's been crying

herself to sleep what they, what,

what they did to her sister.

GALVIN:

I swear to you I wouldn't have turned

the offer down unless I thought that

I could win the case...

DONEGHY:

What you thought!? What you thought...

I'm a workingman, I'm trying to get

my wife out of town, we hired you,

we're paying you, I got to find out

from the other side they offered two

hundred...

GALVIN:

I'm going to win this case... Mist...

Mr. Doneghy... I'm going to the Jury

with a solid case, a famous doctor

as an expert witness, and I'm going

to win eight hundred thousand dollars.

DONEGHY:

You guys, you guys, you're all the

same. The Doctors at the hospital,

you... it's 'What I'm going to do

for you'; but you screw up it's 'We

did the best that we could. I'm

dreadfully sorry...' And people like

me live with your mistakes the rest

of our lives.

He nods sadly to himself. Beat.

GALVIN:

If I could accept the offer right

now, I would.

(beat)

They took it back.

DONEGHY:

I understand.

(starts to walk away

from Galvin; stops)

I went to the Bar Association. They

tell me you're going to be disbarred.

INT. O'ROURKE'S PUB - NIGHT

Laura is sitting in the same place at the bar. Mickey comes

up to her.

MICKEY:

Franky can't make it. He had an

appointment he forgot, he's going to

see you later. I'm Mickey Morrissey,

we're supposed to get to know each

other.

LAURA:

How'm I doing so far?

MICKEY:

So far you're great. You got a

cigarette?

Laura opens her purse, starts hunting for a cigarette.

LAURA:

What are you drinking?

(hands him cigarettes,

smiles, calls the

Bartender)

Jimmy...?

INT. GRUBER'S HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - NIGHT

Galvin walks up to a door marked Doctors Only. He opens his

briefcase, takes out the box of Macanudo Cigars, smiles to

himself, walks inside.

INT. DOCTORS' LOCKER ROOM - GRUBER'S LOCKER

Galvin enters, looks around, it is empty. He looks at the

clock, takes out his appointment book, turns to appropriate

page.

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