The Trial of the Chicago 7 Page #2

DAVE:

Why?

MRS. DELLINGER

You taught him to!

DAVE:

Guys. I’ve organized a hundred

protests. This one isn’t going to

be any different in that it almost

certainly won’t work. The police-

MRS. DELLINGER

I’m not worried about the police.

And I’m not worried about Hayden

and Rennie Davis. I’m worried about

Hoffman and Rubin.

6.

DAVE:

It’s the Democratic National

Convention, honey, every camera in

America is gonna be pointed at it

and Daley isn’t gonna let his city

become a theater of war. And

Hoffman and Rubin are geniuses...in

their own special way.

MRS. DELLINGER

Oh Jesus-

DAVE:

(re the SON)

He’s got a Scout meeting tonight at

7.

SON:

Dad-

DAVE:

If the police try to arrest me I’ll

do what I always do and what I’ve

taught you to do, which is what?

(beat)

Which is what? Tell me, bud.

SON:

Very calmly and very politely-

13 INT. BLACK PANTHER HEADQUARTERS -NIGHT 13

BOBBY:

F*** the motherfuckers up.

BOBBY, 32, is talking to his girlfriend, SONDRA, and getting

ready to leave. We’ll get a tour of Panther headquarters-printing

presses, maps, guns, body guards and women, a few of

them white.

BOBBY (CONT'D)

They leave us alone and

everything’s cool. They tangle,

disrupt, intimidate, they play it

fast and loose with the First

Amendment-

SONDRA:

Robert-

BOBBY:

--they start breaking heads, then

no, we will not be on our way.

7.

We ID BOBBY with a chyron-

Bobby Seale

National Chairman of the Black Panther Party

SONDRA:

You can’t give this speech in

Chicago.

BOBBY:

Fred Hampton wants me there.

SONDRA:

Let Fred give the speech.

BOBBY:

Between Hayden and Hoffman there

could be five-thousand people. It’d

be nice to talk to five-thousand

people.

SONDRA:

Not while you’re in trouble in

Connecticut.

BOBBY:

Yes while I’m in trouble in--I’m

the head of the Black Panthers,

Sondra, when the hell am I not

gonna be in trouble?!

SONDRA:

You’re gonna be in a lot more of it

if you stand up and say “Fry the

pigs”!

BOBBY:

“If they attack you”, you’re taking

it out of context.

SONDRA:

So will every white person in

America, cops won’t give a sh*t

about context and you don’t have

enough protection in Chicago!

BOBBY:

There’s no place to be right now

but in it.

SONDRA:

But fry the pigs?

8.

BOBBY:

“IF THEY-

SONDRA:

Dr. King-

BOBBY:

--is dead! He has a dream? Well now

he has a f***in’ bullet in his

head. Martin’s dead. Malcolm’s

dead. Medgar’s dead. Bobby’s dead.

Jesus is dead. They tried it

peaceful. We’re gonna try something

else.

(pause)

Sondra, I’ll be there for four

hours, that’s it.

SONDRA takes a pistol from a rack-

SONDRA:

You at least gonna take one of

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