The Patriot Page #3
Squadrons of lead soldiers stand ready for battle as
Thomas, lying on the floor, deploys his men. Gabriel
reads the new pamphlets and broadsides. Marion walks in
and pours a drink. Gabriel hands several of the pamphlets
to his father.
GABRIEL:
The New York and Rhode Island
assemblies have been dissolved...
MARION:
The middle colonies?
GABRIEL:
Rioting both sides of the bay, in
Chestertown they burned the Customs
House and tar-and-feathered the
Customs Agent. He died of burns.
In Wilmington they killed a Royal
Magistrate and two Redcoats.
MARION:
Anything about the convention in
Philadelphia?
GABRIEL:
Poor Richard says they'll make a
Declaration of Independence by July.
Marion shakes his head and sits down, carefully extracting
a delicate pair of reading glasses from a wooden box. He
begins reading.
GABRIEL:
Scott Higgins joined the militia.
Marion hears but doesn't respond. Thomas looks up from
his lead soldiers.
GABRIEL:
He's seventeen. A year younger than
I.
Gabriel and Thomas wait for a reaction. There is none.
Gabriel goes back to reading and Thomas resumes playing
with his toy soldiers. Marion's eyes drift from the page
to Gabriel.
The Marion family, in two tightly-packed carriages, drives
on a beautiful road, cut through the swamps. The canopy
of swamp maples and weeping willows forms a tunnel of
green, mottled by sunlight.
EXT. BENNINGTON OVERLOOK - DAY
The two carriages pass a view of their entire valley.
Scattered farms with a patchwork of cultivated fields
surrounding the town of Bennington.
Passing through rolling farmland, the Marions head toward
the coast. They pass a large contingent of South Carolina
Militia, drilling in a field. The children, particularly
Gabriel, watch avidly.
EXT. CHARLESTON - DAY
A big, bustling city. Marion and Gabriel negotiate the
carriages through the busy streets. The children watch,
wide-eyed, seeing taverns, a public gallows, drunkards,
street entertainers, well-dressed ladies attended by their
maids, food venders, a man with a trained bear.
EXT. CHARLOTTE'S HOUSE - CHARLESTON - DAY
Grand. Four stories. Marion and his children pull up.
CHARLOTTE MOTTE hurries out. She's in her mid-thirties,
beautiful, with a deep sadness that she keeps hidden as
best she can.
The children leap from the carriages and swarm around her,
embracing her, smothering her with kisses.
THE CHILDREN:
Aunt Charlotte! Aunt Charlotte!
CHARLOTTE:
Welcome! Welcome! Margaret,
William, look at you...!
(to Marion)
They're huge. What have you been
feeding them?
MARION:
They're from good stock on their
mother's side.
CHARLOTTE:
Thank you.
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