Cape Fear Page #3

under the terrorist threat statutes.

Tom, for Christ's sake, the guy's an ex-con.

You know as well as I do what that means.

Last night, there he was, behind our house.

- Attempted B and E.

- No, not exactly.

He was sitting on a wall

that bounds our property.

That's not even trespassing, Sam.

Come on. What can I say?

Get a restraining order.

I filed one this morning.

The hearing's in ten days.

Good. Anything I can do.

Tom, fourteen years ago...

...in this case I had a report on the victim.

- It was a rape case.

- That's right.

Rape and aggravated sexual battery.

Anyway, I had a report on this victim...

...and it came back

that she was promiscuous.

And...

...I buried it.

- Anybody else know about this?

- No, I buried it.

I didn't show it to the client

or the prosecution.

But if you had seen

what this guy had done to this girl-

"In every criminal prosecution,

the accused shall have...

"... the Assistance of Counsel

for his defense. "

I know the Sixth Amendment.

I believe in it.

That's why I left

the Public Defender's Office.

There was no way to serve the law

in that capacity.

Some folks don't have the right

to the best defense?

Of course they deserve the best defense!

But if you had seen what he did

to this girl...

- Buried the report.

- If it was your own daughter.

- Yeah, I mean-

- Buried the report.

Jesus, Sam.

Oh, God.

But I don't see how he could know that.

He was illiterate.

I had to read everything to him:

the probable cause affidavit...

...the arrest reports, everything.

There's no way he could know that.

Hey, Dani...

...it's so quiet out here,

and the light's so perfect...

...why don't you get your book

and come out here and read?

Why?

I told you why.

Is it because he's like a flasher

or just a peeper?

What do you know about that? A flasher?

You don't think I've been flashed before?

I didn't mean to insult you.

I'm sure you've been flashed.

If you want to come out, come on out.

If you don't, go on.

Do whatever you want.

But don't go outside.

'Afternoon, Counselor.

What do you want, Mr. Cady?

They're great at that age, ain't they?

All those discoveries ahead of them.

You're lucky.

My own daughter,

she don't even know me.

After I went inside,

her mama told her I was dead...

...which, in a way, I was.

Mr. Cady, I realize that you suffered.

I understand your problem,

but, I mean, why me?

I was your lawyer. I defended you.

Why not badger the D.A. or the judge?

- "Badger. "

- Why not them?

Best I remember,

they was just doing right by their jobs.

I didn't do my job? Is that right?

I pleaded you out

to a lesser occluded offense.

You could've gotten rape

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