Mike: Hold up, everybody. Hold up!
Bobby: We're ready to talk.
Mike: All right, Bobby. Go to the phone.
Bobby: Not you, Mike. Someone who can make good.
(cut inside, phone ringing) (Patrick picks it up and puts it up to Bobby's ear)
Bobby: Everyone goes free in exchange for charges dropped.
(cut outside)
Helen: Bobby...
(cut inside)
Bobby: Helen, that's the way it's gotta be.
Helen: Can he hear us?
Bobby: (looks at him) No. That's the offer.
Helen: All right. Tell him to send out the hostages and we will drop all charges.
Bobby: That won't work. You gotta do better than that.
Helen: Ugh. All right, all right. Tell him we'll keep the parole violation.
Bobby: Suspended sentence.
Helen: Whatever.
Bobby: You're not listening. He isn't doing time! We agree to no time or there's no deal. The guy's got a gun, he's about to
shoot me.
Helen: Okay, uh, I'm juts gonna keep talking so it looks like we're responding. Uh, Lindsay's doing okay, we're all taking care
of her. Bobby, we'll get you out.
Bobby: That's the only deal we're making. (nods to Patrick that he's done. Patrick hangs up the phone) Okay. Here's the offer.
They won't file on kidnaping, assault, or false imprisonment. But the parole violation stands.
Patrick: No. (walks away)
Bobby: Patrick, this is on the news. They can't just tell the public they let you walk free! I have Helen Gamble's word she will
agree to a suspended sentence on the parole violation, so in essence, you will be walking free.
Patrick: No judge is going to sign off on that!
Bobby: The judge will go along if we can show you were wrongly accused. (to Seymour) We'll need you for that.
Seymour: Fine.
Bobby: You can get out of all this, Patrick. All of it. It's not too late. It's not too late.
Patrick: No. I want your life ruined. I want your life ruined just like you ruined mine.
Suzie: Patrick, you want the world to know that you're not a murderer.
(loooooooong pause)
Patrick: I won't go back to prison?
Bobby: No.
Patrick: You leave last.
(cut outside, a teeny bit later)
Reporter: We're told the police have made dialogue with the suspect and an arrangement may have been made to release the
hostages.
(Helen walks over to Mike)
Helen: What is happening?
Mike: I'm not sure.
(Seymour runs out of the house)
Eugene: Who's he?
Ellenor: I have no idea.
(the police take Seymour into their mob of people)
(cut inside)
(Patrick walks away from the window and to Suzie)
Patrick: All right, Suzie.
Suzie: (stares at him a while) Bye.
Patrick: I didn't do it.
Suzie: I know, Patrick. I know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Patrick: Maybe I'll meet your kids someday, huh? (she's silent) All right. (softly) Get out of here.
(Suzie walks out with her hands up and Mike takes her)
Mike: You okay?
(cut inside)
Patrick: You got a girl?
Bobby: Engaged. She's out there-- scared to death.
Patrick: She's special, huh?
Bobby: Yeah. (pause) Look, I'm sorry. I should've found that witness. I'm sorry.
Patrick: You talked about the 10 years before. My priors. The last two, I was clean. I was getting my life together. Maybe I
could've been a lawyer or something, who knows.
(he notices the man on TV talking)
Man on TV: It really wouldn't matter what the DA was offering in terms of a plea.
(Patrick glances at Bobby, who looks like he's just been found out)
Man on TV: They could, in effect, promise the suspect anything under the sun and then vitiate the deal on grounds of duress.
Patrick: What does vitiate mean? What the hell does vitiate mean?!?! (silence) There's no deal, is there? You've screwed me
again.
Bobby: (quickly) The DA, she agreed-
(Patrick fires the gun and it hits inches from Bobby's shoulder)
Patrick: (yelling) Is there a deal or not?!
Bobby: There's a deal.
(he shoots again, same place)
(cut outside, Lindsay has just heard the shots)
Lindsay: Bobby. Bobby!! (She starts running towards the house)
Mike: Get her out of here! (a policeman stops her and brings her back to Rebecca)
News Reporter: We can't tell exactly what's going on, but we just heard the sound of gunfire coming from within the house,
where the gunman is still holding Bobby Donnell, the Boston attorney.
Mike: (on radio to his snipers) Sierra one, if you can get a shot.
(cut to a sniper's view of the window, his gun pointed straight at it)
Mike: (on radio, loud this time) Patrick! Patrick, if you could hear me... (to policeman next to him) Dial the number. (he does)
Patrick, pick up the phone. I need you to answer the phone!
(cut to Lindsay, Rebecca, and Ellenor. Lindsay is wiping a tear from her eye)
(We see Patrick bringing Bobby out. He's got the gun back at his neck. Lindsay sees him and begins to cry)
Patrick: Anybody does anything, and he dies!
Bobby: Patrick...
Patrick: Shut up! (pushes the gun harder against his throat) You hear me?
Mike: What do you want?
Patrick: I want you to send in the DA. And only her.
Mike: Patrick, we can't!
Patrick: I know she's out there. Send her in!
Mike: (to sniper) You got a shot?
Sniper: Barely.
Mike: Patrick, release Mr. Donnell and we'll send in the DA.
Patrick: No. No way.
Bobby: Patrick, please!
Patrick: You send her in right now, or he dies!
Mike: If you release Mr. Donnell--
Patrick: He dies on the count of 3. Do you understand me?
Helen: Let me go.
Mike: (holds her back) Not a chance. (awww...) Patrick!
Patrick: One....... (Lindsay is really really crying now) Two....
Mike: (to sniper) Take him.
GUNSHOT!!!
(Lindsay gasps. She thinks for sure she's lost him now. Patrick falls, taking Bobby with him. Mike smiles and hits the squad car
next to him. His team moves in. They pick Bobby off of Patrick. He stumbles out into the street. Lindsay sees him.)
Lindsay: Oh my God. (she runs towards him and Rebecca, Eugene, and Ellenor follow her. She finally reaches him and hugs
him as tight as she can. Eugene unties Bobby's hands and he wraps his arms around her. She pulls away and looks at his face,
then hugs him again.)
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Scene: Outside. Kinda. We see a body bag on a stretcher.)
News Reporter: One single gunshot wound to the head, Mr. Rooney went down immediately. The hostage, Robert Donnell,
was unhurt. (this is where the kinda comes in. We now see that Bobby and Lindsay are sitting in bed watching the TV.) Patrick
Kevin Rooney was pronounced dead on the scene. Police homicide detective Mike Maguire spoke later about the incident.
(Lindsay turns it off. Neither say anything for a while. Bobby looks to be deep in thought)
Bobby: I did screw up his case.
Lindsay: (kind of rolls her eyes) Bobby...
Bobby: I was right out of school. Taking three assignments a clip, 17 hours a day, trying to scratch. I trusted the DAs then. If
they told me he was guilty, I believed them. I probably did push that deal on him without even bothering to track down the
witness. Took one look at his rap sheet and prejudged him. And I doubt- I doubt it was the only time.
Lindsay: (takes a breath) I thought I'd lost you.
Bobby: The whole time, all I could see was your face.
Lindsay: (kisses him on the cheek) It's over.
Bobby: Your face. And all I can see now... is his.
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