Int. Briar ridge mental hospital - morning

We see a tattoo: " Billy the Kid." TILT UP to WILLIAM WHARTON

staring out the window, wearing a hospital gown, his face

utterly blank. He looks heavily medicated.

Harry, Dean, and Percy enter. Billy doesn't react, just keeps

staring out. Harry waves his fingers in Billy's face.

HARRY

Boy's doped to the gills. Dean,

hand me them clothes...

Dean relays some folded prison clothes to Harry.

HARRY

William Wharton! Hey! I'm talking

to you! Put these clothes on!

Billy turns with a vacant look, takes the clothes. He fumbles

with the shirt, drops the pants. Harry and Dean sigh.

They strip Billy's hospital gown off and proceed to put the

shirt on him, guiding his limp arms through the sleeves.

PERCY

Hellraiser, huh? Looks more like

a limp noodle to me. Hey! Hey, you!

Billy looks up, meets Percy's eyes.

PERCY

You been declared competent! Know

what that means? Mean's you're

gonna ride the lightning, son!

Percy does a quick impression of a man jittering and jerking

in the electric chair.

PERCY

Bzzzzzzzzt-zap! Just like that!

How's it feel to know you're gonna

die with your knees bent?

DEAN

C'mon, Percy, give us a hand.

Laughing, Percy picks up the pants. They proceed to help

Billy into them one leg at a time...

CUT TO:

INT. E BLOCK TOILET - DAY

Paul is trying to piss. Except for a few drops hitting the

bowl, excruciating pain seems to be the only result. He gives

up, grabs a towel, wipes the sweat from his feverish face...

INT. E BLOCK - DAY

...and steps gingerly from the toilet. Del's watching.

DEL

Don' look so good, boss. Look like

you runnin' you a fever.

Paul shoots him a baleful look--no kidding. Another voice

calls softly from further down the Mile:

COFFEY (O.S.)

Boss Edgecomb? Needs ta see you

down here, boss.

PAUL

Got things to tend to just now,

John Coffey. You be still in your

cell now, y'hear?

Coffey falls silent. Paul goes to the entrance door and peers

through the viewing slot, anxious to have this over with...

EXT. COLD MOUNTAIN PENITENTIARY - DAY

The prison truck appears, swaying along the rutted road...

IN THE TRUCK

...while Billy Wharton stares at nothing, drool dripping from

his slack mouth in long strings.

INT. E BLOCK - DAY

Paul watches the truck pull in. He draws away from the slot,

proceeds toward the empty cell which used to be

Bitterbuck's...

ANGLE ON TRUCK

The rear doors are swung open. Harry emerges. Dean and Percy

are guiding Billy by the arm, helping him down...

INSIDE E BLOCK

Paul waits at the empty cell. ANGLE PANS TIGHT to Coffey at

his bars, eyes widening in a blossoming of some nameless fear

or dread. Something bad's coming. A whisper:

COFFEY

Careful.