12 Angry Men Page #3

[They all begin to sit down. The foreman is seated at the head of the table. NO. 8 continues to look out the

window.]

FOREMAN:
(to NO. 8). How about sitting down? (NO. 8 doesn't hear him.) The gentleman at the window.

[NO 8 turns, startled.]

FOREMAN:
How about sitting down?

NO. 8:
Oh. I'm sorry. [He heads for a seat.]

NO.10:
(to NO. 6). It's tough to figure, isn't it? A kid kills his father. Bing! Just like that. Well, it's the element.

They let the kids run wild. Maybe it serves ‘em right.

FOREMAN:
Is everybody here?

NO.12:
The old man's inside.

: Is everybody here?

NO.12:
The old man's inside.

[The foreman turns to the washroom just as the door opens. NO. 9 comes out, embarrassed.]

FOREMAN:
We'd like to get started.

NO.9:
Forgive me, gentlemen. I didn't mean to keep you waiting.

FOREMAN:
It's all right. Find a seat.

[NO. 9 heads for a seat and sits down. They look at the foreman expectantly.]

FOREMAN:
AII right. Now, you gentlemen can handle this any way you want to. I mean, I'm not going to

make any rules. If we want to discuss it first and then vote, that's one way. Or we can vote right now to see how

we stand.

NO.7:
Let's vote now. Who knows, maybe we can all go home.

NO. 10:
Yeah. Let's see who's where.

NO. 3:
Right. Let's vote now.

FOREMAN:
Anybody doesn't want to vote? (He looks around the table. There is no answer.) Okay, all those

voting guilty raise your hands.

[Seven or eight hands go up immediately. Several others go up more slowly. Everyone looks around the table.

There are two hands not raised, NO. 9's and NO. 8's. NO. 9's hand goes up slowly now as the foreman counts.]

FOREMAN:
Nine... ten ... eleven... That's eleven for guilty. Okay. Not guilty? (NO. 8's hand is raised.) One.

Right. Okay. Eleven to one, guilty. Now we know where we are.

NO. 3:
(sarcastically) Somebody's in left field. (To NO. 8) You think he's not guilty?

NO. 8:
(quietly). I don't know.

NO. 3:
I never saw a guiltier man in my life. You sat right in court and heard the same thing I did. The man's a

dangerous killer. You could see it.

NO. 8:
He's nineteen years old.

NO. 3:
That's old enough. He knifed his own father, four inches into the chest. An innocent little nineteen-year

old kid. They proved it a dozen different ways. Do you want me to list them?

NO. 8:
No.

NO. 10:
(to NO. 8). Well, do you believe his story?

NO. 8:
I don't know whether I believe it or not. Maybe I don't.

NO. 7:
So what'd you vote not guilty for? : So what'd you vote not guilty for?

NO. 8:
There were eleven votes for guilty. It's not so easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die

without talking about it first.

NO. 7:
Who says it's easy for me?

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