Just Cause Page #2

All I'm saying is that...

...every once in a while

you got to get a little bloody.

It's good for the soul.

- I see them.

- There they are.

Grandma!

Dad.

What's that on your face?

Hi, sweetness.

Welcome.

It's not a bad paper as papers go,

but that's not saying much.

Delores, sweetheart.

Hey, Mr. Phil.

It's been a long time.

Paul Armstrong.

My son-in-law.

Delores Rodriguez,

keeper of archives, news-trivia expert.

Buried three husbands.

Were it not for Libby, I could well be No. 4.

How is Libby's health?

It's good.

Pity.

Business.

Paul needs information

on the Joanie Shriver murder.

That poor kid from Ochopee?

Watch your back in here.

We are on-line back to 1985.

Everything before that is on microfiche.

I'll see what else I can find.

How long?

That depends. You'll be amazed

at what I can do with a little help.

Mr. Armstrong.

Sergeant Rogers?

Raise your arms, please.

Tape recorder.

There you go.

Your first time, Mr. Armstrong?

Buzz when you want out.

If you're unable to buzz,

don't worry about it.

Sweet Jesus.

The old girl said

you'd be coming up in here.

I said, "No.

"No, Grandma, he's too busy...

"...to come all the way from Harvard

just to give me his time."

But praise God...

...here you is.

If I really talked with

that verbal buck-and-shuffle...

...I'd be free today.

What's your game?

It's no game.

Funny thing about

small-town Florida people.

Like crabs in a bucket, black or white.

One tries to climb out, the others

hop on his back to put him back in.

Souls of Black Folk, DuBois.

I've read it.

I'm impressed.

Good.

I've always been that climb-out crab.

My mother OD'd on heroin

when I was 13 up in Newark.

Grandma got me and brought me here.

I was high school valedictorian.

I got a full scholarship to Cornell, but...

...they treated me like an outsider.

How do you like Grandma?

She's something else.

She's very determined.

But why did you send her up to see me?

Because you are from a small town,

like me.

Fife, Scotland. First in your family

to attend a university.

Magna from Cambridge. Columbia Law.

Youngest assistant DA, 1960-69.

Joined a law firm, 1970.

1980 to the present...

...Harvard professor of law...

...author of Process and Law,

and six books since.

I've read them all.

Enough.

Let's start.

Joanie Shriver.

The victim.

Eleven years old. White girl.

Snatched from the Ochopee

Elementary School, March 4, 1986.

Found a day later, raped and cut up

in the Glades.

A teacher ID'd the car

as somewhat like mine.

Officer Tanny Brown come and lock me up.

- I read the transcript.

- I'll tell you this:

Down here, if the chief head-banger

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