His Girl Friday Page #4

BURNS:

What?

DUFFY:

And that means Earl Williams dies

tomorrow morning and makes a sucker

out of us!

BURNS:

You're crazy. Where's Mac?

DUFFY:

He's on my phone. He just called me.

BURNS:

They can't do that to me!

He grabs the phone on his desk:

BURNS:

Give me that call on Duffy's wire!

Hello -- Mac? Burns. Where's the

Governor? -- What do you mean, you

can't locate him?

(apparently pleading

to the one man in

the world who can

help him)

Mac, you know what this means. We're

the only paper in town defending

Earl Williams and if he hangs tomorrow

we're washed up! Find the Governor

and when you find him tell him we

want that reprieve!... Tell him I

elected him and I can have him

impeached! Sure, you can do it, Mac --

I know you can. I always said you

were the greatest reporter in the

country and now you can prove it.

Get going! Attaboy!

He hangs up.

BURNS:

(to Duffy,

sarcastically)

The greatest reporter in the country!

First I gotta tell him what news to

get! Gotta tell him how to get it --

then I gotta write it for him

afterward! Now if you were a decent

City Editor --

CLOSE SHOT DUFFY AND BURNS

with Louie and Hildy in the b.g.

DUFFY:

Don't blame me. I'm City Editor in

name only. You do all the hiring

around here.

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