The Devil's Advocate Page #5

KEVIN:

Mom.

MRS. LOMAX

New York is not a good idea.

KEVIN:

Look, how you fixed for cash?

MRS. LOMAX

I have my bad feeling.

KEVIN:

(an envelope)

I put a couple hundred in here...

MRS. LOMAX

Sounds like more than two weeks.

KEVIN:

Mary Ann typed out the numbers for you -- phone, the flights -- it's all in there.

MRS. LOMAX

Let me tell you about New York.

KEVIN:

(with a smile)

Babylon.

MRS. LOMAX

Forewarned is forearmed.

(half-serious)

'Fallen, fallen is Babylon the

great. It has become a dwelling place of demons.' Revelation

Eighteen. Wouldn't hurt you to look it over.

KEVIN:

(rolls with it)

Couldn't forget it if I tried.

(CONTINUED)

14.

11 CONTINUED:
(2)

MRS. LOMAX

And what happened to Babylon?

KEVIN:

'Thou mighty city. In one hour

hast thou mighty judgement come.'

MRS. LOMAX

'And the light of a single lamp shall shine in thee no more.'

11

Kevin gathers her in. Kissing her good-bye, as we -CUT

TO:

12 INT. HOTEL SUITE - NIGHT 12

Darkness. Where are we? A door opens in another room -VOICES

-- KEVIN and MARY ANN. They're LAUGHING. Coming in from a big night out. For an instant -- light -- we glimpse a great hotel suite -- and then -KEVIN

(O.S.)

-- wait -- leave 'em off -MARY

ANN (O.S.)

-- what are you... I can't -KEVIN

(O.S.)

-- close your eyes -- do it -More

LAUGHTER. Stumbling shadows moving PAST us and -KEVIN

(O.S.)

Okay. Stop.

13 EXT. HOTEL SUITE - BALCONY - NIGHT 13

Kevin behind Mary Ann with his hands over her eyes.

takes his hands away, but her eyes stay closed...

KEVIN:

Okay. Open your eyes.

MARY ANN:

(as she does)

Wow.

He

14 EXT. HOTEL SUITE - BALCONY - NIGHT 14

The view. Wham. The definitive New York skyline.

15.

15 EXT. HOTEL SUITE - BALCONY - NIGHT 15

KEVIN:

'Go ahead...'

(in her ear)

'... bite the Big Apple.'

MARY ANN:

(she's dancing)

'... Rats on the West Side, bed

bugs uptown, I can't give it away on Seventh Avenue. This town

don't look good in tatters...'

KEVIN:

I don't know... looks to me like

that dress is in your way.

MARY ANN:

(shocked, stops)

Why, counselor...

(her best drawl)

Surely you don't think a small-

town girl changes overnight just because a man buys her dinner in the big city.

KEVIN:

No, ma'am. In fact, I hardly everthink at all.

MARY ANN:

Well, that's different, then.

You're my kind of guy.

Kevin smiles. She's taking off the dress. Babylon.

CUT TO:

16 EXT. FOLEY SQUARE - ESTABLISHING - DAY 16

Six huge courthouses. All those courtrooms.

CUT TO:

17 INT. JURY COURTROOM - DAY 17

Criminal court. Voire dire. Potential jurors fill the benches. A bored judge. MEISEL, defense counsel, is a

sour, New York veteran. The juror being questioned, a PIE-FACED MAN with bad vision.

(CONTINUED)

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