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THEN CAMERA PANS DOWN TO A CELLULAR PHONE, F.G. AND FOCUS

RACKS TO E.C.U. AS A FINGER PUSHES THE "END" BUTTON.

CLOSE:
ANDY

Putting down the phone. Irritated...

ANDY:

Sh*t...

CUT TO:

INT. POLICE LIBRARY - DAY

CLOSE:
AN ATTORNEY IN COURT

ATTORNEY:

... it was your feeling after

careful evaluation that he was a

sexual sadist who satisfied at

least four out of ten criteria in

the DMS III?

SHOW M.J. and Ruben watching videotapes, and eating Chinese

takeout. HELEN is being interrogated by the ATTORNEY for

Daryll Lee Cullum. Helen sure of herself to the point of

arrogance, which is her undoing...

HELEN:

Yes. Without question.

ATTORNEY:

Without question? He only scored

40 percent, four out of ten

criteria? Couldn't another expert

say he flunked the sexual sadist

test? What curve are you marking

on, Doctor?

HELEN:

The test criteria are only part of

what we look at in evaluating

subjects.

ATTORNEY:

Only part. What else? What did

you think of his claim that he tied

this girl to the tree and set fire

to her because Joan of Arc told him

to do it.

HELEN:

He was lying.

ATTORNEY:

'Lying. He was lying.' I asked

you what you thought, not what he

did.

HELEN:

I thought he was lying.

ATTORNEY:

You said, first, he was lying. How

do you know that, Doctor?

HELEN:

Because people who are suffering

from aural hallucinations hear

voices in both ears. Daryll Lee

told me that Joan of Arc always

appeared beside him on his left

side and spoke softly in his left

ear.

Murmur of subdued laughter in court.

HELEN:

(emboldened)

He took pains to hide his actions

because he knew they were morally

wrong. He was not acting on mad

impulse. He was sane and acting

out a pattern he carefully followed

every time.

ATTORNEY:

(playing causal)

What pattern was that?

HELEN:

The same as the first time...

She catches herself. The D.A. has leapt to his feet, but now

tries to sit down as though nothing was happening, but

Helen, the Attorney and the D.A. all are clearly disturbed

by the line this questioning is taking.

ATTORNEY:

The first what?

(as she hesitates)

Your Honor, she's got this far, I

think she should finish. I don't

think this jury should be left

wondering where the rest of her

statement would lead.

JUDGE:

I agree, Doctor.

HELEN:

The first two murders.

ATTORNEY:

What first two murders. We don't

know about them here, do we?

HELEN:

(giving up)

He told me he had done two others

just like it.

ATTORNEY:

When was that?

HELEN:

When he was seventeen.

ATTORNEY:

And you believed him when he told

you he had done that.

HELEN:

Yes. I believed him.

The D.A. is rushing to the bench to argue with the Judge.

JUDGE (V.O.)

Yes, I'll accept a call for a

mistrial. Evidence of that other

crime when the defendant was a

juvenile is inadmissible and never

should have been heard by this

jury...

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