High Crimes Page #6

Synopsis: High powered lawyer Claire Kubik finds her world turned upside down when her husband, who she thought was Tom Kubik, is arrested and is revealed to be Ron Chapman. Chapman is on trial for a murder of Latin American villagers while he was in the Marines. Claire soon learns that to navigate the military justice system, she'll need help from the somewhat unconventional Charlie Grimes; meanwhile, Claire's sister, Jackie, is falling in love with wet-behind-the-ears Lieutenant Embry assigned as the official defense lawyer. And most of the eyewitnesses have rather too conveniently died.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Carl Franklin
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
48
PG-13
Year:
2002
115 min
284 Views


And Major Hernandez and

General Marks.

See you in court, sir.

So, no deal.

Can you believe I ask my

husband to do 5 years in prison?

Go ahead?

tell me what a waste of

oxygen all lawyers are.

You are curiously quiet on the

subject.

Jackie, would you please turn

that down? I mean come on?

Your husband came to my village

and killed my family.

And it's true.

Lawyers are a waste of oxygen.

drop this deal.

He went out!

Claire, are you okay?

Bastard!

It's Hernandez.

We turn down their deal and

they try to scare us.

You don't know how this people

work.

I don't know how any of those

work.

What do you mean?

This ther life of your.

You don't believe me do you?

Of course I believe you.

I'll take a polygraf.

It's not even admissible in

court.

To hell with the court.

I want to do it for us.

Hey, Ron.

Or Tommy, or whatever it is?

I just come here to help.

What are you doing here?

You ought to plea this out.

Major, no!

Stop!

Hold on!

Who let Major Hernandez in

here?

He is not suppose to be in

here.

He is provoking my client.

Who is in charge?

Who let him in here?

He is not suppose to be in

here.

Major Hernandez says he is a

defense witness.

He is not a witness for the

defense!

Who is in charge?

I want to talk to whoever is in charge!

Is your real name Ron Chatman?

Yes.

Yes.

did you participate in the

death of anyone in 15-3-1988?

You passed.

Of course I passed.

Are we being monitored?

No.

It absolutely secured.

Absolutely secured?

What do you mean?

What do you think I mean?

And Lieutenant Colonel?

Were there any eyewitnesses to

this massacre?

Yes.

We have 7 eyewitnesses'

statements.

All saying Ron is the shooter.

Thank you.

Nothing further, your honour.

You were and still are special

agent in charge of this

criminal investigation?

That's correct.

So, when you said the

investigation were not flawed,

you basically were giving

yourself a big thumb up.

I am just expressing my

opinion.

So help you God, no doubt.

Is it possible that this

witnesses were coached before

you got your hands on them?

I guess it is possible.

But unlikely.

And are you aware that 2 of the

witnesses were subsequently

killed in combat?

Yes, I'm aware of that.

And another 3 relatively young

men have die as well?

Yes.

That was Lieutenant Alan,

hit and run.

Sergeant Spencer,

accidental drowning.

And the other the unfortunate

mountain climbing fall.

That sounds right.

-does it?

That is interesting.

I just made up those causes of

death.

I mean there were no

accidental drowning,

no mountain climbing fall.

I do have the details about

these tragic deaths.

Including a fatal home invasion

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes

Yuri Zeltser

All Yuri Zeltser scripts | Yuri Zeltser Scripts

0 fans

Submitted on August 05, 2018

Discuss this script with the community:

0 Comments

    Translation

    Translate and read this script in other languages:

    Select another language:

    • - Select -
    • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
    • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
    • Español (Spanish)
    • Esperanto (Esperanto)
    • 日本語 (Japanese)
    • Português (Portuguese)
    • Deutsch (German)
    • العربية (Arabic)
    • Français (French)
    • Русский (Russian)
    • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
    • 한국어 (Korean)
    • עברית (Hebrew)
    • Gaeilge (Irish)
    • Українська (Ukrainian)
    • اردو (Urdu)
    • Magyar (Hungarian)
    • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
    • Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Italiano (Italian)
    • தமிழ் (Tamil)
    • Türkçe (Turkish)
    • తెలుగు (Telugu)
    • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
    • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
    • Čeština (Czech)
    • Polski (Polish)
    • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
    • Românește (Romanian)
    • Nederlands (Dutch)
    • Ελληνικά (Greek)
    • Latinum (Latin)
    • Svenska (Swedish)
    • Dansk (Danish)
    • Suomi (Finnish)
    • فارسی (Persian)
    • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
    • հայերեն (Armenian)
    • Norsk (Norwegian)
    • English (English)

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "High Crimes" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 9 Jun 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/high_crimes_9949>.

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest writers community and scripts collection on the web!

    Watch the movie trailer

    High Crimes

    Browse Scripts.com

    The Studio:

    ScreenWriting Tool

    Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features.