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Ext. House in tefton - back porch - day






 

BURT HAMMERSMITH, public defender for Trapingus County, sits

with a cold soda and a magazine, watching his TWO CHILDREN

playing on a swing at the far end of the backyard. The screen

door opens and CYNTHIA HAMMERSMITH ushers Paul out.

 

CYNTHIA

I offer you a cold drink?

 

PAUL

Yes, ma'am, a cold drink would be

fine. Thank you.

 

She goes back inside. Burt rises.

 

PAUL

Mr. Hammersmith. Your office said

I'd find you at home today. I hope

I'm not troubling you.

 

BURT

That depends, Mr.--?

 

PAUL

Paul Edgecomb. I'm the E Block

superintendant at Cold Mountain.

 

BURT

The Green Mile. I've heard of it.

Lost a few clients your way.

 

PAUL

That's why I'm here. I'd like to

ask you about one of them.

 

Burt settles back down, motions " please sit".

 

BURT

Which client? Now you got my

curiosity aroused.

 

PAUL

John Coffey.

 

BURT

Ah, Coffey. He causing you

problems?

 

PAUL

No, can't say he is. He doesn't

like the dark. He cries on

occasion. Other than that...

 

BURT

Cries, does he? Well, he's got a

lot to cry about, I'd say. You

know what he did.

 

PAUL

(nods)

I read the court transcripts.

 

Cynthia reappears, hands Paul a cold root beer.

 

PAUL

Thank you, Missus.

 

CYNTHIA

My pleasure. Kids! Lunch is about

ready! Y'all come on up!

 

She goes back inside, but the kids aren't quite able to tear

themselves away from their play.

 

BURT

What exactly are you trying to

find out? Satisfy my curiosity,

I'll see if I can satisfy yours.

 

PAUL

I've wondered if he ever did

anything like that before.

 

BURT

Why? Has he said anything?

 

PAUL

No. But a man who does a thing

like that has often developed a

taste for it over time. Occurred

to me it might be easy enough to

follow his backtrail and find out.

A man his size, and colored to

boot, can't be that hard to trace.

 

BURT

You'd think so, but you'd be

wrong. Believe me, we tried. It's

like he dropped out of the sky.

 

PAUL

How do you explain that?

 

BURT

We're in a Depression. A third of

the country's out of work.

 

People are drifting by the

thousands, looking for work,

looking for that greener grass.

Even a giant like Coffey wouldn't

get noticed everywhere he goes...

not until he kills a couple of

little girls.

 

PAUL

He's...strange, I admit. But there

doesn't seem to be any real

violence in him. I know violent

men, Mr. Hammersmith. I deal with

'em day in and day out.

 

Burt smiles, realizing:

 

BURT

You didn't come up here to ask me

whether he might have killed

before. You came up here to see if

I think he did it at all. That's

it, isn't it?

 

PAUL

Do you?

 

BURT

One seldom sees a less ambiguous

case. He was found with the

victims in his arms. Blurted out

a confession right then and there.

 

PAUL

Yet you defended him.

 

BURT

Everyone is entitled to a defense.

 

Cynthia hollers from an open window:

 


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