The Verdict Page #27

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GALVIN:

Rooney's protecting someone. Who is

she protecting?

MICKEY:

The Doctors.

GALVIN:

She's protecting the Doctors she'd

be up there on the stand...

MICKEY:

(listlessly)

Read me what she said.

Galvin flips through his notes. Reads.

GALVIN:

'You guys are a bunch of whores...

uh... loyalty... you don't care who

gets hurt... you don't have any

loyalty...'

MICKEY:

...one of the other nurses?

GALVIN:

Who? They're all testifying. Everybody

who was in the O.R.'s going to take

the stand.

MICKEY:

All right. Who wasn't in the O.R.?

GALVIN:

What difference can that make...?

All right...

He starts checking the charts. Sighs. "This is useless..."

GALVIN:

Uh... the admitting nurse...

MICKEY:

What did she do?

GALVIN:

She didn't do anything. She took the

patient's history and signed the

charts. 'K.C.'

(looks in the notes

for what the initials

signify)

'Kathy Costello...'

MICKEY:

The 'History'...?

GALVIN:

(explaining)

How old are you, how many children...

when did you last eat...

INT. ST. CATHERINE LABOURE HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - NIGHT

Mary Rooney and another Nurse walking down the corridor

carrying foil-covered dishes of food, chatting.

ANGLE:

Galvin watching them from behind a corner.

ANGLE:

The Nurses come to the corner, Galvin walks past. "Notices"

Rooney. Stops.

GALVIN:

Miss Rooney. Oh. Listen.

(beat)

I understand what you are doing. And

I want you to know it's all right.

He nods, starts off in the direction he was going in.

ROONEY:

What are you talking about?

Galvin turns, confused. Goes back to her. Warmly,

conciliatory.

GALVIN:

About Kathy Costello.

(beat)

I understand, and I don't blame you

for shielding her.

A beat.

Mary Rooney motions the other Nurse to go away. She steps

closer to Galvin.

GALVIN:

I spoke to her, and everything is

all right.

ROONEY:

I, what are you talking about? I

talked to her this morning, and she

said...

GALVIN:

(nods)

She told me.

ROONEY:

(credulous)

She did?

GALVIN:

I just saw her.

ROONEY:

In New York?

GALVIN:

What?

ROONEY:

You saw Kat in New York...

(beat)

...or is she in town? Is she in

town...?

Beat. It occurs to her that she's been duped, as Galvin starts

off hurriedly down the hall.

INT. GALVIN'S OFFICE BUILDING CORRIDOR - NIGHT

Laura. SEEN from the back, walking down the corridor. CAMERA

FOLLOWS her. She stops outside Galvin's door. She turns.

We SEE she is carrying a tray of coffee containers. She opens

door. CAMERA FOLLOWS her INTO the office. Mickey is on the

phone in the vestibule, Galvin is on the phone in his office.

He is just hanging up.

GALVIN:

Thank you. I'm sorry.

Laura starts distributing coffee. Galvin shouts to Mickey in

the far room.

GALVIN:

We don't have anything from the Nurse

Association?

MICKEY:

The broad has disappeared...

GALVIN:

The Hospital...?

Laura goes into Galvin's office with coffee. CAMERA FOLLOWS

her.

MICKEY:

No records since she quit in '76.

She quit two weeks after the incident.

Laura hands coffee to Galvin.

GALVIN:

Thank you.

LAURA:

I have to talk to you.

GALVIN:

(to Mickey)

Call the A.M.A.

(to Laura)

...I can't talk now.

(to Mickey)

...tell them you're Dr. Somebody...

you have to find this nurse...

MICKEY:

...yeah... good...

GALVIN:

...you need some old forms that she

had... somebody's dying...

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