Rectify 03 – Benny Copy

Valerie: This 16-year-old kid was selling drugs and carrying a gun. It was always pretty Fill in the blank 1 of 5 (easy to prove). Are you worried that someone’s going to drag you into this? You were Fill in the blank 2 of 5 (assistant). You were invisible, my friend. No one even knows you were there. Don’t worry. I’ll Fill in the blank 3 of 5 (accept the blame) for this, which I am fine with, ’cause I know that conviction is just, Fill in the blank 4 of 5 (regardless of) how I got it, ’cause I know what that little Fill in the blank 5 of 5 (thug} did.

Benny: Wait a second. Now it you sounds like you’re contradicting yourself.

Valerie: I am not contradicting anything. I’m telling you I know what that little bastard did.

Benny: But how? ‘Cause your source told you or you told your source?

Valerie: Here’s the thing. My source is dead. So, no matter what this little crybaby says in court, it is what I say it is.

Benny: Oh, Valerie.

take the heat | punk | second-chair | open-and-shut | no matter

Valerie: Fill in the blank 1 of 8 (elegant) suit, Fill in the blank 2 of 8 (elegant) haircut. You’ve Fill in the blank 3 of 8 (succeeded), Benny. So, what brings you out to a cop bar at 2:00 in the morning?

Benny: Couldn’t sleep. I had a question, need an answer.

Valerie: Eddie Mitchell? The DA’s Fill in the blank 4 of 8 (bothering) too? How about we worry about the crimes from this decade?

Benny: Actually, I heard about it a different way, but, I just need to ask you, I need you to tell me, that was a Fill in the blank 5 of 8 (fair, just) conviction, wasn’t it, Valerie?

Valerie: What are you talking about? Of course it was. Absolutely.

Benny: And tell me about this woman, this sex worker. She testified for you, what, five times in five different cases?

Valerie: She was a source, Benny. She was a streetwalker. You walk the streets, you see things.

Benny: I know, I know. But you wouldn’t Fill in the blank 6 of 8 (persuade) her to lie, would you? Help to make the case Fill in the blank 7 of 8 (get solved) easy?

Valerie: What are you doing? Are you wearing a Fill in the blank 8 of 8 (microphone) for the DA now?

encourage | rattling your cage | fancy | righteous | wire | come up in the world | go down

Benny: How’d you get the judge to order a new trial?

Chunk: Actually, the client did all the Fill in the blank 1 of 9 (hard work). He realized that he and another Fill in the blank 2 of 9 (prisoner) were convicted based on eyewitness testimony from the same witness. And then, once I did a little Fill in the blank 3 of 9 (investigation), the same woman testified in five different murder trials.

Benny: Oops. Pretty damn convenient. You going to get her to Fill in the blank 4 of 9 (take it back)?

Chunk: I would if I could, but she died Fill in the blank 5 of 9 (a short time ago). The good news is that the judge agreed that it was highly probable that the witness Fill in the blank 6 of 9 (bore false witness), especially once we realized that she testified in five different cases for the same detective.

Benny: Wow. That’s some pretty flagrant Fill in the blank 7 of 9 (impropriety). How’d the DA’s office Fill in the blank 8 of 9 (not see) this?

Chunk: Cases Fill in the blank 9 of 9 (bridge) seven years. 
Different A.D.A.s in each case. I’m sure they’re going to say that it’s plausible that they had no idea this one witness was making the rounds.

Benny: I hear you.

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