Voila! Finally, the Return To Sender
script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the Billie August movie
with Connie Nielsen and Kelly Preston. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly
transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of Return To Sender. I know, I know, I still need to get the cast names in there and I'll be eternally
tweaking it, so if you have any corrections, feel free to
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hurt my feelings. Honest.
I run out of stamps.
Congratulations you won
the lottery, you are patriots.
200 bucks a piece
for throwing a switch.
Blocks out
the smell reporter.
Frank.
Mark.
Poor Johnny.
- Aren't you going to read it?
- Do I have to?
I wake but there
ain't any birds singing.
And then I look up
in my minds eye...
and I know they are
saving their song...
for when I join them.
After this pain and noise...
it will be beautiful music.
Well?
Jesus...
How Much?
grand... tops.
Charlotte Cory.
You kept that one quite.
Biggest female execution
in Oklahoma history.
All American sport star
in there...
a baby killer,
the papers love that.
Its worth more than the last
or put together...
maybe worth
half a million dollars.
Half a million?
Minimum...
So... how did you get
through to her?
Her father was killed in Somalia.
I checked the army papers.
Told her I was
in his platoon.
Now I am a school teacher in
New Mexico teaching year olds.
Says here she wants you
to visit her.
Jesus isn't going to break his
own rule and meet this one?
I tell you
what I think Frank.
A shut at a half a million dollars
is worth one prison visit.
- Hallo?
- Charlotte?
Hi, it's Frank Walsh.
Frank.
Wow.
I can't believe it.
How are you doing?
So that's what you
sound like.
That's what I sound like.
I can't believe you
called me.
You get my last letter?
I did and I am real sorry
to hear that news.
It was always in the cards.
Listen I put you on
my visitors list.
And I was wondering
can you come? Can you come?
That's going
to be difficult.
You see I am real sorry
Charlotte I've got a prior.
I mean
I may be able to but...
That's okay Frank...
I don't know...
I got to go...
What? Charlotte?
Don't...
Oh shit.
Shit... shit...
Frank?
Frank?
Frank?
You haven't been answering
my calls, Frank.
She stopped writing.
Two letters a week for six
months and suddenly nothing.
We need the last letter,
Frank.
We've got a real circulation
builder here...
but we need the whole set.
Charlotte is our big star,
Frank...
and anything you can do to hype
it up is only gonna make it bigger.
We need that last letter.
A convoy of armed vehicles
left at Mabel Bassett...
transferring Thanksgiving
killer Charlotte Cory...
to the all male maximum security
facility at McAllister.
where execution is scheduled
in six days.
Cory was convicted of
the kidnapping of Kirstie Hammond...
daughter of major league
star hitter Joe Hammond...
who after a decade
with the LA dodgers...
retired to Oklahoma to head
a construction company.
The ransom money was
reportedly handed over...
but the child's body
was never found.
Having failed to get the supreme
court to hear her argument...
against the death penalty
handed to her years ago...
only one level
of review remains.
They have seen her Pontiac
near the Hammonds place...
right around
the kidnapping, right?
Didn't they arrest her
trying to leave town...
finding a dollar bill
from the ransom in the car...
and the bloodstain matching
the blood on accused pajamas...
they found
in that ditch.
Next Charlotte Cory
never denying her guilt.
Bob, this woman was so
cold hearted the cops says...
she stopped and ditched her
fan-belt with a stocking...
with that poor girl bleeding
in the car and she was a nurse.
Howdy I'm Frank Walsh. I'm here
to see Charlotte Cory.
I should be
on the list there.
Excuse me
are you Frank Walsh?
I'm Susan Kennan
Charlottes attorney.
How do you do,
very nice to meet you.
You knew her father
in the army?
Oh yes mam.
Yes mam I did.
I am sorry its just
you look familiar somehow.
I don't believe we've met.
It's gonna make her day to meet you.
She talks about you a lot.
Your letters have really
helped keep her going.
So it's a fait accompli.
They are going to do this thing?
There's an election
coming up.
And there's the view that
the public want her dead.
- Got a visitor for that girl.
- Very nice to meet you.
You too.
Thank you.
So we meet at last.
Sorry I didn't get the time
to put my face on.
I work out every time
I see the shrink.
Gets rid of the tension.
I wanna stay off
the psychotropic drugs...
and the paper dress.
Which I do.
I have to talk to him,
see him and talk to him.
But I do masturbate...
and don't eat roaches.
That pisses him off.
You are not like
I thought you were.
Your hair, I never had
a schoolteacher look like you.
I don't know...
It's your face...
You don't look like the guy
who wrote those letters...
Well, I don't want
to sound cockey...
but I had a feeling it would
come right back to me.
I had a lot of letters
from real sickos so...
just people who wanted
to save me, marry me...
curse me, damn me.
There was one woman...
had her kids draw
pictures of me dead.
I had colleague professors
wanting to teach courses on me.
Specialists trying
to analyse me...
figure out what
made me so screwed up.
Trying to unlock
the secret on me.
Just closed down.
Everybody wanted something
that's what made you different.
Your letters were so...
sorrowful.
They spoke to me...
your' truthful...
with all their bitterness
and humour.
I felt like we were
on the same wavelength.
I felt that too.
One thing you said,
I think about a lot.
One moment of madness
is within all of us.
The unlucky ones pay for it.
The rest of us live without
ever knowing its within us...
and never learn
to understand ourselves.
Their from experience.
Maybe your moment of madness
is coming here to see me.
The anonymous caller
alerted us...
to visit Charlotte Corys empty house.
He called the police.
At Corys bedside
a strange twisted tableau...
a doll representing Charlotte Cory
with the words around its neck:
The innocence die
the guilty live.
Charlotte Cory
is a blood sacrifice.
But the most sinister detail
was a baby's shoe.
The question everyone
is asking now: Is it real?
Did it really belong
to little Kirstie.
Morning.
Saw that thing on the news.
About grannys house.
The fuckers.
Just remind me
what they are all about.
The vandals.
Just ain't right, she left it
to me, you know.
And it wasn't much...
but I fixed it up
best I could.
Guess what,
just what people do.
And that whole shoe business.
Its all bullshit.
Just some sick puppy
looking for attention.
I am sorry you have to have
this all going on around you.
What are you
sorry for, Frank?
I don't want you
to feel sorry for me, Frank.
Its not what
you are here for.
It was hell.
We were pinned down
in the "mogue", Mogadisio.
Its night time,
fire fight, may ham.
And the skinnies are firing
upon us from their roof top...
and we start taking fire
from the rear...
from where
our own troops are.
Now our radio
had been knocked out.
So this is friendly fire.
PFC private Sachs volunteered
to get a message through...
he got halfway across the square
and then he just got torn up.
We all figured he was dead.
But you know your old man,
stubborn bastard.
Never leave a man behind.
So he sat off and he got
hold of the kid...
and he was dragging him back
to us when it happened.
I want you to know
he didn't suffer.
He died instantly.
He's a hero.
Thank you.
What the army told us
was so un personal.
Your old man always put
his men first.
He saved a lot of lives that day.
You don't forget a man like that.
I'll be together
with him soon.
I'll see them all soon.
You don't believe there is
anything after all this, do you?
I don't know.
I sure hope there is but...
I don't know.
I don't think you do.
You don't seem like it.
Your letters are beautiful...
but you are so cut off,
lost maybe...
get your ideals
beaten out of you, did you?
Did you kind of cynical...
You sure are one perceptive
woman, aren't you?
I'd like to ask you to do
something for me?
Sure, what?
I'd like you to find
my sister.
I'd like Stella
to have this.
It's a beautiful name,
isn't it?
Will you please
get it over with.
I always hoped she'd
come back and live with me...
in Grannys.
I want her to have it now.
Their mother died
when Charlotte was eighteen.
Charlotte became her sisters
legal guardian.
I think they were
pretty wild, you know.
There was a car crash
a couple of years later.
Stella was blinded,
ended up hating Charlotte.
So you have any idea
where I could find her?
She met someone,
changed her name...
started a new life.
So, any idea
where I could find her
You can't.
My uncle hired a private
detective to try to locate her.
They never did.
Your uncle?
Who is your uncle?
Henry Mayer,
Charlottes original lawyer.
Died last year.
He was very old.
Maybe Charlotte didn't
get the best defense.
So you are saying
it's a dead end?
If there was a car crash
and Stella ended up blind...
did she ever claim
any kind of compensation?
To tell you the truth I have had
other things to worry about.
I understand.
But you did say that
Charlotte was at the wheel?
I want you to check
with her insurance company.
See if there is any claims
against her policy...
what ever the name.
That's a good idea.
Well, it might be.
Do you have a number
I can reach you at?
Here, let me punch it in.
A few more of them
every day.
The circus is coming to town.
I spoke to someone at
Charlotte's insurance company.
There was a claim,
from a Julie Smith.
By God,
that's fast work.
I should have thought
of it my self.
A friend of mine
was a broker.
He's going to send over
the whole file.
Do we have an address
on this Julie Smith?
The guy said Dakota but
in the last five years...
she's been up at the Oklahoma
school for the blind.
It's about
an hour away Muskogee.
Muskogee?
Give our team a great begin.
- Can I help you?
- I am looking for a Julie Smith.
In connection to?
Just a friend.
Gubby, there's a man here.
He'd like to see Julie.
Gub MacCredy.
- What's your name stranger?
- Frank Walsh. How do you do?
Welcome to you. You say
you are a friend of Julie?
The truth is I have a letter
for her from an old friend.
Martin?
Martin?
This is Martin North's
workshop.
Julies guy.
They spend lunch
inhere usually.
Wait here, they are properly
over at the administration.
I'll send her down to you.
Well, is there
a light up there?
Hello?
I couldn't find
the light switch.
Mr. Walsh,
I'm Martin North.
How do you do.
I am afraid that you workshop here
just got a little redecorated.
Some of us forget
to put the light on.
Can save a lot
of power though.
So what did you
wanna see her about?
I've got...
a letter here from
her sister Charlotte.
I thought so...
You didn't tell nobody about
them being sisters did you?
No Sir, I did not.
I look out for her.
You know what the papers would be if
they found out who her sister was.
I'm not from the papers.
Anyway, her and Charlotte
ain't sisters anymore.
Are you a friend of hers,
a husband or...
We have been together
since she lost her sight.
I guess some good
did come out of it.
She won't have nothing to do
with Charlotte after that.
I understand but
I did promise Charlotte...
that I'd try and deliver
this letter personally...
so that's what
I am trying to do.
- Hi Mary.
- Hi, Mr. North.
Only about thirty percent
are totally blind.
Mary has some shadowed vision,
she can see shadows, some light.
I saw that game that
they are playing outside.
Beeper ball,
we are local champions.
Wrestling too.
We play soccer with a ball
that has a bell in it.
We just try to do things
like anyone else.
You, just wait here
for a minute.
Come on in.
Thank you.
Julie...
this is Mr. Walsh.
How do you do?
Hello...
I hear you got
something for me.
From my sister.
Yes mam, I've got
a letter for you from her.
So you are a friend of hers?
Yes.
She doesn't have many.
She don't have any.
Including you.
How much money
have you given her?
I haven't given
her any money.
Then she must want something
else out of you.
She's out of my life.
I don't want her letter.
You tell her that.
Alright.
But you should know that
she does care about you.
Mister, that's not for
a stranger to decide.
Julie has faced her all she can.
Her sister stole her sight from her.
Her sister
is also about to die, Sir.
You feel pain.
You be with her at the end.
You hold her hand.
It's too late
for her and me.
It's just the way
things are.
That's enough, Mr. Walsh.
If you do change your mind I'm gonna
leave my number on the counter...
I am real sorry for
upsetting you.
I should have known it would
be a waste of time.
But I am glad
she is alright.
Thanks a lot for doing that.
I do wish there were some way
I could reward you though.
What did she say about me?
I know she hates me.
You don't have
to pretend she doesn't.
Stop pretending when
we are in the same room.
I don't think she hates you.
I think she's confused.
I fucked up.
My mum died.
My dad had passed away
the year before.
And I couldn't handle
the responsibility...
taking care of Stella.
Lost in drugs, drinking...
and anything bad.
And I had this boyfriend,
an older guy.
We were in the car.
We were high.
Stella was in the back.
She was seventeen
she was beautiful and smart.
She was gonna
teach kinder garden.
Me and this guy
we were making out.
The car was going
way too fast.
Stella was freaking out.
I remember her screaming.
But we were too fare gone.
We didn't care...
we crashed.
Stella was in
the hospital for months.
She lost her sight.
Her face was ruined.
And a lot of other stuff.
She'll never forgive me.
That's the one shrinks
like to hear.
- Hallo?
- Frank?
About fucking time man.
Only four days to go.
- Listen I've been busy.
- I guess.
Do you have anything to do
with that baby shoe stunt?
I don't know what you are talking
about. It has nothing to do with me.
At least you don't mind I upped
the prize by another fifty grand.
I think we could push this thing
all the way to six hundred.
Listen, I got to go.
I'm trying to keep
a low profile here, you know.
Hello there.
- Got a problem?
- Yeah, this piece of maneuver.
Hop in,
I'll get you back to town.
No, I better stay
with the car here.
I'll call my friend Tony.
If its not too serious he'll
fix it and get it back to you.
Just leave the keys
on top of the tire.
That's how
we do things around here.
Ok.
She won't help herself. She kept
her mouth shut from the start.
Never blamed it on voices
in her head.
Never tried to make herself
look better to the jury.
Guess she hasn't opened up
to you about the crime?
No.
Maybe her silence is her only
way of dealing with the guilt.
Bullshit.
She's protecting someone.
The guy who helped her do it who
got away with the ransom money.
All I know is women don't
kidnap kids for money.
They do it to have a child of
their own. That's statistical.
Then maybe you are right
maybe there was a man.
Comes down to love.
Some guy is out there...
sitting on that money,
doing nothing to help her.
But she goes on protecting
the bastard.
And you think she is capable
of that kind of loyalty?
Under that surface,
yes, I do.
I thought we were heading
into town?
I'm sorry, I'm late.
I can't be late for this.
- For what, where are we?
- The Hammonds.
The Hammonds? What the hell
are we doing here?
That baby shoe
at Charlottes place.
The cops weren't going
to show it to Hammonds.
I insisted that they do,
just in case.
I need to be here
when they do it.
Come on, this is ridiculous.
That story was just a hooks.
I mean,
don't you think?
But what if the shoe
is for real?
Maybe we get
the sentence commuted to life.
I've got to take every chance.
At least get her to stay.
Keep her alive a couple
of more weeks.
You are late.
Who is this?
An associate of mine.
Come on in then,
let's get it over with.
You better come.
- District Attorney.
- Did your client insist on this...
to give Joe more heartache?
Who are you?
My associate.
- Joe Hammond.
- Frank Walsh, nice to meet you.
If we could just
get on with this I...
I'm...
I'm not sure.
Could you get Mary please.
It's alright son, I'll be
with you in just a bit.
Could you go now please?
This has been fare too hard.
Please, go.
Thanks for the ride.
I can't believe
I did that to them.
Was I wrong?
No. Hang on a second here now.
You had to give it a try.
I can't take
much more of this.
It's alright.
I am sorry.
I almost forgot.
There's some stuff
in the back for you.
Charlottes impounded
by the police.
It's backed and tacked.
She wanted you to have it.
She's not even dead yet.
You are a big part
of her life.
It's her wish, Frank.
You are a good guy.
This thing is hard
for all of us.
Goodnight.
Stella, maybe one day
you will forgive me.
I can't ever
forgive my self.
But I dream
what could have been.
I see the two of us living
in our house, Grannys house.
I see you coming home
from work teaching little kids.
Us eating together,
we could have had a good life.
But I made us
take a different course.
I had this lovely girl
to take care of...
but I ruined her,
she's blind.
Her womanhood is gone,
and we are both in prison.
You in your blindness
and me in here.
I'll be free soon...
but no one can ever
free you of your prison.
These are my thoughts.
I want you to know...
I love you and I always will.
I don't expect you to visit me,
so this is goodbye.
What the fuck happened
to you?
I don't know...
I didn't see them.
It was dark.
Maybe one of Hammond clan or one of
those pro dithers out there.
I shouldn't have asked you
to come.
No, it was just a blanket
party, I'll live.
That's a prison term, Frank.
Blanket party.
School kids use it too.
There's something
I never asked you, Frank.
I know you are divorced.
Are you sleeping
with anyone right now?
- You are not sleeping with Kennan?
- Kennan?
No.
I save this hickey for you,
Frank.
I'd like you
to think of me tonight.
At midnight.
I'll be thinking about you.
Do you dream about me?
Yes.
In what way?
In that way.
I know it's hard for you,
Frank.
I mean people are scared
of so many things.
You are scared of not
making your way in.
Getting mugged.
Getting old.
I don't have to be scared
of any of those things.
I think you
are afraid of something.
I'm not scared of getting
involved with you, Frank.
That's what
I'm talking about.
Officer?
Is something going on?
Are you Frank Walsh?
Yes, Sir.
Officer Charbonic.
- I am babysitting you.
- Babysitting me?
I shouldn't be.
I am detailed of Miss Kennan.
She took off to the State Capital,
will be gone for a couple of days...
Asked me to keep
an eye on you.
After what happened.
That's good of you.
I'm doing it for me, she'll owe me
a little favour after this.
She's got nice legs that girl.
Are you making a report on me
at the same time?
A crime novel.
I'll make that a best seller.
Blackmail, murder, bad guys end
up in prison that kind of thing.
You don't need prison if you
got violent retribution.
Blow the fuckers away,
that's what I say.
Who needs happy endings?
That is a happy ending.
Goodnight.
Joe Hammond.
Things are just different here
than I thought they would be.
Hold on, partner.
Rounding fourth, you are almost
home. Only hours to go.
No,
I don't know about this one.
I always pick cases
that are slammed dunks.
Well this ain't feeling like
a slammed dunk anymore.
I am starting to have
my doubts here.
Every layer in the face of the
fight says he has an instinct.
And it's bullshit.
You are believing
your own propaganda.
No, it takes a certain
kind of person...
to kill a kid.
That's what I'm saying.
No face is too pretty not
to end up as a mug shot.
You are going to turn around and
try make a guilty person innocence...
for all those clients you lost.
That is not what this is about.
What is going on
between you two?
There is nothing going on.
Listen Frank, you are the guy
who said emotion is fatal.
The rest of the world is moving
on and you are standing still.
We are talking . bucks.
How much?
. grand.
Frank she probably minced
that kid...
into tiny little pieces.
This is Susan Kennan.
Could you pull up everything
you have on one Frank Nitzche...
Texas, defense attorney?
I'll be right down.
If the Governor ever
gets down to see me...
I'll be down
in the law library.
I'm sorry, Miss Kennan, his mind
is made up on this one.
Look, no shackles.
I told my shrink that the bruises
was cruller than usual.
Guess what, it's time.
It's time to trust me.
I know you don't want
to tell me.
And I need to know the truth.
You want to know
where the ransom money is?
Please, I don't give
a fuck about that.
I just want you
to be yourself.
Otherwise it makes all
of this all bullshit.
All guards, report.
I read you.
We have a situation
in block .
I am trying
to thrust you, Frank.
I am, but we can't help
what this is.
Roger to that,
we are on our way.
I'm trying to be strong here.
And I don't want you
to stop me from being strong.
I am not trying to stop you
from being strong.
I'm just trying to help you.
- Unburden yourself.
- I've got to luck you in.
It won't be for long,
alright?
Don't forget
you are being watched.
And she will be stripped
searched afterwards.
This is like being married.
Just the two of us.
I don't think anyone will be
watching the monitors...
with all that stuff going on.
I don't care
if they are watching.
Well...
So close.
Come here.
Let me kiss it better.
Frank, I forgot how good
it can be.
You are not a killer.
You never killed that baby.
Yes, I am.
No, you are not.
- I killed that baby.
- You are lying through your teeth.
I killed that baby.
Don't you understand.
I killed that baby.
Now fuck me.
Can I have the bill please.
I'm leaving.
- Hallo?
- Kennan?
Do you remember that make shift
fan belt on the kidnap car...
that was really a stocking?
Yes.
When I was with Stella Cory she
was wearing the same stocking.
- And?
- That's her style, not Charlottes.
I have seen pictures of hem
when they were younger.
I am saying Stella is the one
Charlotte is protecting.
How are you planning on making
money of off that, Mr. Neitzche?
- What are you talking about?
- I know about your dirty game.
Selling death row letters
and I am on my way to tell her.
No, Kennan, listen, I am not
going to sell her letters.
Kennan, please don't do that.
Don't do that to her.
To her or to you?
What you do is the lowest
thing I can think of.
Listen, believe it or not
I can explain it.
I don't doubt it.
I read what a persuasive
talker you were in court.
You know I was
a death row lawyer, too.
I want to help.
Thanks for all
your calls this morning.
- Now please be patient our.
- Get out of my way.
We are staying on the air non
stop the next hours...
until the execution.
Susan? Susan, don't...
Been running, Frank?
This might be a meeting
you wanting to miss.
The night is gone.
Dreaming is over.
Witching hour.
Did we do it, Frank?
We did it, didn't we?
Was it good for you?
Scary good.
You two had a fight.
Didn't you?
I hope it isn't about me.
Well figure it out
when I am gone.
Frank?
Yes.
There's something
I like to ask you.
Sure.
What?
This is real now, ok?
I want to be cremated.
But the state
won't pay for it.
And I ain't got no money left.
Will you take care of it?
Yes.
Susan, thank you.
Why didn't you tell her?
She likes you.
Why should she loose that just
because you happen to be a shit.
I guess things didn't work out
at the Capital.
That fuck of a Governors just
signed the death warrant.
You walk into that court and
the prosecution is against you...
The police are against you,
the judge, the jury...
Hell, even the law
is against you.
If you don't believe
in yourself no one else will.
I had some early success.
Maybe I started believing
my own bullshit.
You know that, are you doing
it for your client...
or are you doing it for
your self thing.
All it takes
is one victory, Frank.
That's what my uncle said.
Always held out for.
Did he get ahead?
He may have been defeated...
but he did not end up
running a scam.
In a scam there is a victim
in this nobody gets hurt.
I do my research, I know which
ones are going to go all the way.
How many people
are you writing to Frank?
I don't know.
- How many?
I don't know, ...
Why don't you get off your moral
high horse here for a second.
You think I don't
suffer with them?
You are suffering
all the way to the bank.
It's all about money.
If you only knew...
Fuck.
You planted that baby shoe
there, didn't you?
To up the prize.
And then you watched while
I made the Hammonds look at it...
- You son of a bitch.
- No, hang on...
I didn't mean
for that to happen.
I am sorry about that.
I really am but listen...
I need you to get me
your uncles file papers.
- Cause I want to help you.
You want to help now.
The big shut lawyer
to the rescue.
Did you know that Hammond was
having an affair with Charlotte.
What are you talking about?
It is right there on one
of them home movies.
No, I watched those movies.
He is not on the film.
Its tacked on right there at
the end where you would not see it.
- It is him.
- Are you sure?
I am positive.
- You are sure it is Hammond?
- It is him, clear as day.
How long have you been sitting
on that little bombshell?
Hello, I need to speak
to the district attorney.
It is Susan Kennan.
Hello?
Who is this?
Hello?
So the bitch was fucking
Joe Hammond. So what?
Now you listen and listen hard
Kennan, I am not putting...
Joe Hammond and his family
through any more shit.
Now the only thing you got is
the reason why she did it.
And if you think I am letting
Mary Hammond know...
that her husband was screwing around
with the woman who murdered her child...
you really have lost it.
The torso was severed
just below the waist...
with a serrated knife.
Jagged lumps of flesh hanging
just below the navel.
The other body half
lay only a few yards away.
The strangest damn thing...
both halves had been
drained of blood...
and both halves...
were from different bodies...
of different sexes.
Shit.
That is everything.
I have been through it all
about twenty times.
Each one of these tabs
is something I figured...
my uncle overlooked
at the original trial.
I put it all in a motion of
ineffective assistance of council.
You did?
That must have been hard, him
being your uncle and all.
Tell me about it.
Tell my aunt.
And then the supreme court
would not even look at it.
Even if they had it would
not have been enough.
Charlotte needs a miracle.
What was that videotape?
It came this morning.
This is from the insurance
files from the accident.
You know when you were
trying to find Stella.
Julie Smith surveillance tape,
.
Stella is finding herself
in the back yard.
She reaches for the radio and
turns up the volume without looking.
It is half an hour later and
she falls flat on her face.
Poor girl.
I guess we still have time
for one last look.
I see your friend Tony here
fixed Charlottes car once.
No wonder her fan belt broke.
Morning.
Morning.
Thanks for keeping me
warm last night.
Did you find anything?
Only that you don't have
the prerequisite...
for a death row lawyer.
Coffee?
Dakota?
You remember Stella used her
stocking for the fan-belt?
They were in contact. But they both
are saying that they were not.
And Stella used
to live in Dakota.
Now Charlotte was arrested
somewhere between Oklahoma City...
and the road to Dakota.
- Hello?
- Yes hello, is Julie Smith there?
One moment, please.
No.
Can you hang on one second.
That is her cell phone?
Go ahead.
Goose.
Well, now we played
goose outside.
- And then what?
- And then we heard...
this phone coming off...
and then we walked over
to the dead body and...
You are not welcome here,
Walsh.
- What happened?
- You happened.
I do not know who you are...
but you are the one who
pushed Julie over the edge.
What are you talking about?
She was alright.
She is dead now.
She killed herself.
She started sinking as soon
as you started coming around.
Now, you get the fuck out of
this school and out of this state.
And do not come near
Martin again.
Sorry, Mister.
Come on.
I need to see her.
She is on her way, won't be
for a couple of hours.
I need to talk to someone now!
I have something
to say.
Come on.
Dr. Sharkey I got something
to tell you.
I heard about your sister.
You have to listen to me.
It is very important.
Get out of the way.
- Did she hear?
- Sent her into a panic.
She spoke to the psychiatrist.
Said she was innocent.
By the time I got here she had
come down, withdrawn her story.
Innocent?
Wait a minute,
what was her story?
Frank you have
been through this before.
Last minute pleas of innocence
are normal, isn't that right?
Yes, that's right,
but what was her story?
She won't say.
She won't let
the shrink tell anyone.
I guess she think
it's just too late.
It's never too late.
It was nothing.
It was just a lie, I panicked.
I've gone all this time in here. I
never thought it would get to this.
- I'm fine.
- You know something?
I think you
are bullshitting me.
I don't think you are
capable of killing a baby.
It was screaming
when I got it.
It knew what was happening.
I thought stick a pacifier in
it's mouth and it's gonna shut up.
I didn't mean to kill it...
- but it happened.
Why?
Why take a child?
Why take this child?
For Stella.
The ransom was for her.
She had lost everything.
She couldn't even have
a kid cause of that crash.
I had destroyed her life.
The ransom money
was compensation.
You know what I think?
You picked Joe Hammond...
because Joe was just as responsible
for that crash as you were.
He was the one you were
fooling around with.
How did you know about Joe?
Just you never mind how I know.
I know. Now stop the bullshit.
Tell me what really happened.
I woke up in the hospital.
And he had disappeared.
I asked the doctor
where he was.
He said I was delirious.
No one believed me.
I didn't know what to do.
I guess that gives you
a motive.
You are damn right it does.
What did you do with the body?
I got rid of it.
Look, I killed that baby.
You know something?
I don't believe you.
And if you think that turning
yourself into some psycho...
is going to make me feel
better about you dying...
you are wrong.
Now I am sorry...
but your sister is dead.
Stop covering for her.
I know you loved her.
I know you felt guilty
about her being blind...
and I know she is dead now.
God rest her soul...
but stop lying.
There is no reason
to lie anymore.
I want you to live.
And I think somewhere
in there you want to live too.
- It's too late.
- No.
I've got to know what happened.
- It's too late.
- Not for me, ok?
I have to wake up tomorrow.
Just tell me
the fucking truth, will you?
Your not going to like it.
Try me.
I was sick that whole
Thanksgiving weekend.
I never even got out of bed.
I saw the news about
the kidnapping on TV.
The ransom being paid.
I didn't think about it.
I felt bad for Joe.
But then out of the blue
I get a call from Stella.
First time in two years.
She sounded weird.
She was telling me to get
rid of the car fast.
My car.
That's when I knew
she was involved.
So I got into the car
to go find her.
And you headed
for where she lived?
I thought if the baby
was still alive.
I could get Stella
to let it go.
Give her back.
But I never made it there.
She was impressionable.
Maybe she had gotten
into some bad people.
But then she must have found out
that they had used my car.
So she called to warn me.
She called me.
I told you she wanted
to teach kinder garden.
She would never have killed
a child on her own.
It was all my fault.
I didn't take care of her
like I should.
I was on the wrong path.
Drugs, drinking.
Fooling around
with a married man.
I thought about Joe
and his family.
- They had lost a daughter.
- You didn't do it.
For Christ sake.
Why didn't you tell the truth?
I owed it to her.
She was my sister...
and I took everything
away from her.
But I loved her.
And that call
meant she loved me.
I did the right thing.
The right thing is tell
everyone the truth right now...
and maybe we can stop
all of this now.
Don't be naive.
What judge is going
to believe you.
We have no proof.
I can't.
I think about the moon.
When it's pink
early in the morning.
And the sun is rising.
And they are both
low in the sky.
That's the only thing
I'm going to miss.
I want you to go now.
You don't want me to stay?
No.
Promise me you are not going to go
there and trying to stir things up.
Promise me.
I want to do this.
I'm fine with it.
Goodbye, Frank.
Thank you for everything.
You have been so good to me.
I'll write.
What did she say?
She said she made it all up.
She's at peace with dying.
We said goodbye.
Even if she had
proof of being innocent...
it's not grounds
for stay this late.
I know.
You don't want to go to that motel.
There are reporters hanging around.
You can stay
at my place if you want.
I got to be here for the end.
OK.
Thank you.
You can get the key
from the guard.
I'll see you later.
Gees the whole
press club is here.
- Can I buy you a drink?
- Yeah, okay.
Ten hours to go. It looks like
it's the real thing this time.
- Did you ever sit in on one?
- Yeah.
Electrocution down in Texas,
Johnny Decker.
Had to soak
my suit for three days...
to get rid of the smell
of burning flesh.
Give me a lethal injection
anytime.
I'll have a cold one.
What are you having?
Make that two.
Are you watching
an empty house?
Tell me about it.
Ain't you going to the prison
to hold Cory's hand?
You can you know.
It's not the electric chair.
It's the mercy seat.
The week before the kidnapping.
What are you saying, Frank?
That a blind woman and a half
blind man pulled off a kidnapping?
I checked this guys file.
He's done some serious time.
He is no saint.
Charlotte was sick in bed
over that Thanksgiving.
They could have taken her car
without her knowing maybe.
Maybe to get revenge on her
and Hammond for what happened.
What am I supposed to do
with this? There is no time.
I want you to call Charbonic
and tell him to do what I say...
because he'll listen to you.
He's got the hots for you.
Okay.
Just trust me on this.
That's bullshit.
I know my job.
This could make a difference.
You can catch yourself
a murderer here. Come on.
Violent retribution.
No.
Justice.
The final night of Charlotte
Cory's life we can expect.
The witnesses to the execution
to begin arriving around five am.
Thirty people
in all will watch...
Charlotte Cory's final moments
through the glass screen.
And around four thirty am...
we can expect to see
the three.
Three civilians who have
applied for the dollar job.
of operating those syringes.
Sizing this crowd there must have
been a lot of applicants for the job.
Yes?
Mr. North...
I was told I could find
you here.
And you are?
Officer Charbonic.
I'm just returning your
wife's clothes and stuff.
I am real sorry about
your wife.
Well, if you need
anything call us.
I've got to move now.
They think they have discovered
the body of the Hammond kid...
and all hell's breaking
loose at the station.
Goodnight.
Your fucking fool.
That poor guy is not
hiding nothing.
He didn't give a shit
about that body laying.
You're a flick mister,
I'm going.
Hi, baby girl.
Dad, I feel so bad.
Come here, sweetheart.
It's okay.
Are you lost or something?
I never knew you
had a daughter.
I thought Stella
couldn't have children.
Who was that?
How old are you?
Nine in two months.
You look a lot like
your little brother Kirstie.
What are you doing?
This is our home.
You get the hell out of here.
The power is gone,
my radio won't work.
Quite.
Shut up, I say.
Did a man come in here?
I don't think so.
No one came in here.
I know you are in here.
You've come to take my child.
What father
would let you do that?
Now look where we got to.
I never killed anyone before.
Oh yeah?
What happened to Stella?
Things went wrong,
because of you.
You brought
her sister back to her.
It was her and Joe Hammonds fault
Stella couldn't have kids.
All we ever wanted was
the things everyone else had.
A normal life,
a family.
That ain't at all bad.
What's happening?
Where's my dad?
You got to come with me.
Listen I'm a policeman,
it's not safe here.
Where's my dad?
Stay right here,
I'll be right back.
Tonight of all nights
you show up.
What the hell are you
trying to do?
I've got someone in my car
that you have to meet.
Let me out.
What's going on?
Mister Hammond, I don't know
how to say this to you...
but...
- Could you come with me.
- Don't follow...
Let me out of here.
Just come with me.
Take a look at this girl here.
Just take a look at her.
What are you doing
with that girl? What is this?
This is your daughter.
The kidnappers
didn't kill her.
They took her as her own.
This is way too...
Take a look at her
and you tell me.
We need a blood test.
And we need it right now.
They have postponed, some kind of new
evidence, the governor just called.
Postponed.
But it can still happen.
I don't think so.
There's a new material witness.
You are safe now.
You are not going to die.
Okay.
Your attention please.
It's been cancelled.
I don't know the governor called
just now. It's off.
I think we just got us
a miracle.
Hi there.
You did it, Frank.
All it takes is one victory
and you got it.
Did you tell her about me?
Yeah,
the bad and the good.
I hope you made a strong case
for me, counselor.
I defended you brilliantly.
Forget about me,
what she needs to know...
is that her sister tried
to save her in the end.
Make sure she knows that.
I see you in court sometime,
counselor.