MOM & SON ESQ. P.I. - "PILOT"
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JOAN (whisper) Don’t say a word. No matter what I do. Trust me. Kim (in shock) can only stare back. Joan presses down firmly on Kim’s hand - and stands. JOAN Your honor, in light of this over- whelming new evidence, my client would like to change her plea. To guilty. ELEANOR What?! The courtroom ERUPTS. Kim’s eyes pop: Joan presses her hand - and rolls right past the Judge’s baffled confusion: JOAN And while we recognize that first degree murder in the state of Oregon carries a mandatory life sentence ... JUDGE What are you doing? This is not-- Eleanor is sick, tormented, dying. Joan lays it on, thick: JOAN I would ask you to consider my client’s assault, and perhaps reduce her prison sentence to 50 or 60 years? ELEANOR NO!! NO!! Eleanor’s outburst gets the court’s attention. This was Joan’s plan. Eleanor is a wretched mess, sobbing in her seat: ELEANOR She didn’t do it!! That’s not her!! That’s... I only... She’s my daughter. Joan... I only meant - to scare him... GASPS rise. Eleanor shakes her head, the jig is up. Kim stares at her mother: KIM Mom? You didn’t... (cries) Mom. Joan gently puts her free hand on Eleanor’s hand (now connecting her to both mom and daughter). And it’s over.
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