Original subtitles

What do you got?

Got some rabbit in him.

Carry him on.

Those guys with the guns?

Convicts.

What the hell you talking about?

Wakefield prisoners, baby.

Same as us.

He's not going to make it.

Take these boys on back. I'll talk yo you later.

One of you cons trying for parole?

Come on. Up, up.

You guys hit bottom.

Here you go.

In there.

Follow me.

In there.

That's it for you.

Okay, next man.

Let's just take a little off around the ears.

Costs five get's you no haircut, now Zaranska.

Two only gets a crew cut.

I'll tell you when. You!

Fuck, I could use this on a bed.

It'll all come off then.

Maybe ear with it.

Hey man. What happened to that guy on the bus?

Don't talk to me unless I tell you to.

You hear?

Yeah.

What's it be, my man?

Leave the ears.

I'm getting ready to come on in.

Fresh meat coming in.

Where in the hell's Lemar at?

He don't have the job no more?

What's it look like? I'm the man in here.

Come on, I'll show you where you're sleep.

Rest of you men, grab a blanket in the back.

Find some room on the floor.

We talk about beds when somebody gets out or dies.

Come on. Let's get down here.

Come on over here.

Every other one.

Come on down here.

Let's go.

What are you looking at?

Move on down there.

Come on, let's go.

Come on, move it down.

Move it on down.

Fucking shower.

Can't get a shower to save my fucking life.

Let me go!

Aah!

You all right, buddy.

You all right.

Dom do do do do

Mm mm mm mm mm

Dom do do do do do

De de do do

De de de de do

Dom do do do do

Do do do do do

Dom do do do do

Come on, boy.

Are you playing hard to get?

No!

God!

Ah!

Oh! Oh!

Get your own soap! You understand?

Ha ha ha!

Mr. Caldwell.

Lord, you getting fat, aren't you?

Stay out of my face, motherfucker.

- Hey, Huey. - Morning.

- Hey, Huey. How about that game?

I'm getting ready to be angry, Abraham.

I'm getting ready to be real angry.

Oh, look at her go!

She gets up along the inside.

She's still behind her.

Look out!

She throws a left hand.

Trying to knock the bigger gal off her feet.

Belts her again! And she goes down!

I'm going up to the house.

Some new people came in today.

They need to go to school. So why don't you run upstairs there,

and show them what the picture is here. Okay?

When this is over.

Now, Eddie.

Where's my boots?

Walter.

Coming in, Otis.

I ain't going ridin' the hide, Otis.

Hey, I told you I ain't have no match, man!

Bobby, they want you down at the bars, boy.

Down at the bars, Captain?

You heard me. Now move.

Bars, Captain?

Goddamn it! I said move!

I ain't got all fuckin' night! Now move!

Where's the bars, Captain?

I didn't do nothing. I didn't do nothing, Captain.

I didn't do nothing.

Aah!

Now drop them pants and get on that gate.

But I didn't do nothing.

I didn't do nothing.

Uh!

Uh!

Ah!

Is that one or two?

Three.

Three what?

Three, Captain! Four, Captain!

Five, Captain! Six, Captain!

Seven, Captain!

Eight, Captain!

Nine, Captain!

10, Captain! 11, Captain!

12, Captain!

Aah!

- Pick him up. The gate Otis.

What the hell you looking at?

Pick it up!

Pick it up! Pick it up!

Move it out!

Move out!

Let's see you swing them hoes!

All right, you boys, swing them hoes!

I'm getting it clean.

You coming down to the office today, Captain Renfro?

I wrote up them letters like you wanted.

Maybe you want to look at them?

What are we going to do about my brother?

Give your brother a call.

Tell him I'll send 10 boys over

to wash out his milk machine right on Tuesday.

Get yourself cleaned up, boy.

Hey, baby.

Coming to see me tonight?

I think he's blushing.

Why, you...

Beat him up, J.B.

Sucker, you in trouble, you know that?

- Beat him up, J.B. Beat him up.

What's going on there?

Boys!

Elwood!

Over here.

Come on. Come on.

You're fixing to getting stuff over to Camp Five.

- Thanks man. You're the dumbest asshole yet!

You got enough shit coming down on your head.

Now put him down on the ground.

Do it Bullin.

Now put the gun on him. Do it boy.

Get him down and hold him down.

I'm doing, Birdwell.

Ya'll look here now.

Aah! Aah!

Shut up!

Aah! Aah!

Aah!

All right. That's it.

We got a long night together

and I don't want to hear nothing but snoring.

You know you can't win 'em all.

No, I'll give you another shot at it. I promise.

We'll see you later.

My hospital calls, you ain't seen me.

You got it, Doc. Hey what about him?

I'll see him next week.

Want me to do anything to him?

I'll take care of you in a minute.

No. Sign says four today for blood.

Don't believe everything you read, Zaranska.

Give me a sandwich, man.

50 cents.

Man, I know what it is.

Give me a sandwich, buddy.

Sandwich.

Fresh out this morning.

Why don't you look around?

Are you finished with that, Mr. Caldwell?

Two bits.

50 cents.

75.

What?

Sold.

You just cost me 50 cents

that was needed elsewhere.

Go ahead. It's protein.

No, don't! Stop it!

No! Come on! Wait!

- No! Please!

Don't! Stop it!

Let me go!

- No!

- No!

- Let me go! Stop it!

Hey, Rob!

Where are you going with those boys?

I got to get this stuff milled and started today.

I got company insurance coming by Friday. What my inventory is.

Mr. Woodward. See, I gave you 20 people today

and I'm down on my count.

I got people working all over the place today.

I don't care other people's problems.

All right.

I got you a nice sirloin tip there.

Now Warden Renfro's going to hear direct

if you don't come through for me.

Don't you worry.

♪All for the love of sunshine♪

♪All for the love of sunshine♪

This one, up.

Let's go.

Hey, I'll take it.

Thanks, man.

Hey, I do that.

I do that.

Where's my meat?

It's coming in back there.

What the hell. You told me two steers.

That ain't two steers.

I know Pink, I'm sorry. I just couldn't do it this week.

Hey, don't tell me couldn't.

Suppose I can't spare you no beer this week?

How would that be?

I'll make it up to you, all right?

Where's Carol at?

Back at the house.

Back to the truck.

I'll give you the name of the stoolie.

Give me back my dough or there's going to be trouble.

Who told you to ask me?

The pin boy in the bowling alley.

So who told you to ask him?

The seller that works at the state auction.

Oh, shit!

Wash your mouth out.

Ha ha ha!

What time are you coming up there tonight?

I can't. My brother's got me working.

Your brother's got you working?

No, he doesn't.

Because I just bought you the night off.

What the hell you doing? Get up on them logs and start moving them.

You move them, asshole.

You're asking for it, boy.

Floyd!

Yeah, Huey?

What do you got them doing, taking a nap, Floyd?

Alright, get back to work there now!

Huey, don't get excited.

Take it easy, now.

Floyd, shut up, man.

- Alright, just for that it went up to six bits.

They want you up at the bars, Bullen.

Who wants the last peanut butter and jelly sandwich?

Half a rock. Who wants it?

You got yourself a phone call.

Aw, fuck!

Look here, Eddie.

Eddie, why a phone call?

Let's go, Bullen.

Why a fucking phone call?

Hey.

What's with the phone call?

I'm getting ready to say something important now.

I want to know that when I'm talking, I'm being listened to.

I'm getting ready to give out the detail.

Now Leonard, I want you to go the kitchen.

Collins, slaughterhouse.

Sanitation detail.

You, too, Bullen.

Now wait a minute. This man is hurting...

You just deal with colored.

I'll take care of the white folks, okay?

Besides, I don't think Bullen's got much more

than refried shit for brains this morning.

What about your boy, Boyd, for clerical?

Come on, come on. We ain't got all day.

Hey!

I got this honky here!

I'll rip this cat's head off!

You get me the man!

I want to see the man, now!

I can hear his neck snapping.

I want some respect!

You som bitches hear me out there?

I want some respect!

Yah we hear you, Walter. We hear you.

I want to see the man!

I hear his neck snapping. I do!

Open this. - Where you at?

You want in?

Yeah.

Some fucking respect around here.

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. !

♪Find out what it means to me♪

♪What you want♪

♪A little respect♪

♪What you need♪

♪A little respect♪

♪All I'm asking♪

♪For a little respect when you come home♪

♪Baby, when you come home♪

Hey!

Can we talk?

Who the fuck are you?

I want the man!

I am. I am the man.

I'm the new warden here. My name is Henry Brubaker.

Man, don't be fucking with my head.

New warden, my ass!

It's true. I swear it.

Then how come you look like a scumbag.

Because I'm fooling those guys out there.

Ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha!

When are you going to paint this place?

What color?

Yellow, yellow.

Yellow.

I want a picture window in my place.

This yours? This one?

And one of them high-low pinto shag rugs.

Some liquor and a TV

like them fucking trusties all got.

And some fresh air.

Which wall?

Which wall, what?

The window. The picture window.

Come on. Show me exactly.

Maybe I want a skylight.

Yeah, I want...

I want a skylight.

Aah! Aah!

How you doing?

Open this. Open it up!

Get this man some medical attention.

Get this place dried out and painted up.

What color?

Any fucking color he wants.

Everybody crazy around here. - Where to now?

My office.

Mess with me now, you'll regret it later.

We don't work this thing out fast mister

you're not going to be around later.

Do you want I.D. ?

Listen man, all I have to do

is raise my right hand and that tower guard blow you out.

Or you can continue walking with me

like the smart escort I figure you could be.

Hey!

Hold it right there!

I'm sorry, I'm replacing you.

Coombes, you want to give me a hand here.

Call Lillian Grey. She's special assistant to the governor.

Who is this asshole?

Beats the shit out of me.

The name's Brubaker.

He thinks he's the new warden.

I'm sorry, I didn't want it this way.

But that's the way it is.

What is? Hmm, what is?

You're Willets, Earl?

Burl.

Burl, right.

State employee, purchasing agent.

You've been here

three years next May.

Five years in July.

Government service ranking is seven.

You're due for an in-grade raise in May?

Yes, sir. That part's all true.

Captain, this is a hell of a note.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll make sure all your magazines get forwarded.

Don't worry.

You know something Mr. Brubaker?

The smartest thing you ever done

was come in here incognizant.

The dumbest was stepping forward.

You want it, you got it.

Bye.

Can you hear me now?

Can you hear me?

The name is Henry Brubaker.

I'm what the new governor promised, a reform warden.

That sneaks in like James fucking Bond.

All right. Yeah!

Purcell, give me that.

See this? This thing is gone.

Any trusty who wants to go back to raking rocks

just get caught using this on one of your charges.

If an inmate is to attempt an escape

should we just sorta wave so long?

Shoot him.

- We can't hear you over here.

He asked me what happens

if an inmate tries to escape and I said shoot him.

Wound him if you can.

'Cause nobody's getting paroled anymore

for trying to kill escaping inmates.

Let's get something straight.

I figure most of you guys belong here.

I think basically, you don't have any respect for other people or yourselves.

You want more from me, you'll have to earn it.

We're going to have to figure out someway to make this run like a 20th-century farm.

You're going to stop selling blood to buy decent food.

You're going to go out in those fields and plant vegetables.

What you got your bubbles on for Cleave?

Hey Mr. Deach, no women can't come in here.

It's all right, Ruben.

No more 15-hour shifts.

And the beef that you raise here on this farm

is going to be eaten on this farm, by everyone.

What the...

Son of a bitch.

He was an army lieutenant.

He ran a military stockade in Maryland.

Uh, to enforce...

This is ridiculous.

I found him teaching penology at Price University...

Hold on. How old are you?

40.

- 40 To enforce the laws of this state.

and the enire United States. - This is ridiculous.

It's "to enforce the laws..."

We've got angry, underpaid...

...prison without taking a loyalty oath.

To enforce state laws of this state. - To enforce state laws of this state.

And the entire United States. - And the entire United States.

To be respectful to my superiors.

- To be respectful to my superiors.

- And to well and faithfully perform the duties of this office.

No publicity on how I came in here.

You got some good men on your side out there Mr. Brubaker.

It's good strong stuff.

Lillian I know what I'm saying, no publicity.

I quite agree.

To be loyal to...

- I don't know how you folks ever pulled this off but I can't be kept in the dark

on something like this.

And Lillian knows that now.

Chairman of the prison board is expected to approve

everything pertaining to the prison.

- I just hope you're not one of those people,

gonna start screaming for, "Free-World Guards."

I don't know yet.

How long did you say have you've been on the prison board Mr. Deach?

- Did I say that? It's brilliant.

17 years this summer. - Print it!

- Credit the government. Bye, bye.

Well John. What do you think of our new warden?

I'm trying to get a fix on, what his first order of business here's going to be.

Blow the place up.

Start from scratch.

You're making a joke, of course.

Of course.

Oh, yes.

Learn much?

Not enough.

I've never seen anything like this place.

There isn't anything like this place.

Just so you understand.

That the problem not just inside the prison.

I do understand. That's why I have to move so fast.

Carefully.

Same thing, Lillian.

Henry, this is very important to me.

No kidding.

I just want to tell you sir.

You're one of the strangest individuals I've ever laid my eyes on.

I've got an 11:00 Lillian. What's the problem?

She was just saying how you're one of the most punctual individuals

she's ever worked with.

I'll call you later in the week.

I know you will.

Man, this is pathetic.

- That's it, Purcell. I'm sorry Fenway.

- That's all I've got.

Well, you're out of luck. - Look.

- I need a supervisors desk job, like you.

Anyway, you's overworked.

Hey man. It ain't up to me alone.

Purcell, can I see you a minute?

Yeah.

I got this...

Man I love what you did with old John Deach out there.

A lot of people going to get a kick out of that. - The day that...

Who was that lady out there, by the way?

The day I came in on the bus

trusties put a man on, gunshot wound.

Uh-huh.

Is he okay?

What do you mean?

I mean, how is he? Is he okay?

Is he back in the barracks? Is he a security risk?

I mean, how is he?

I imagine we shipped him on off to the county hospital,

Don't you?

Find out.

And could you get me a dozen pair of sunglasses, please?

All right.

You want them polarized or tinted?

You want the kind with the little mirrors in the front?

People can't see in.

Makes them nervous as hell.

Just the regular glasses.

You got 'em.

Look, Captain...

Don't call me Captain.

Mr. Brubaker,

I know you're probably getting ready

to make some new job assignments around here.

You'll probably even name

your own warden's clerk.

Well if you got a minute I'd like to make a shot at making a case for myself.

Uh...

Ha ha.

Hey I know I'm not the smartest guy in the world

but I do know this job.

And I know this damn place

better than any man here, and that's a fact.

I've been the warden's clerk for eight years.

I know it.

What you got here, mainly,

are rural people,

you know what I mean?

They're not much at paperwork.

No sophistication. They...

I'm not trying to put anybody down.

Don't get me wrong.

I'm just telling you the way it is. And that is the way it is.

What are you in for, Purcell?

Nothing, really. I...

Nothing?

I held up a card game, if you're ready.

Ha ha.

Pretty stupid, huh?

Undoubtedly they were cheating you?

Absolutely.

That's a fact.

Anyway, uh...

You need something, I'm your man, okay?

Well, just the sunglasses for now.

You got 'em.

They all for you?

None for me.

Gotcha.

What are you going to do about my parakeet?

Abraham, come on.

Tell your story walking.

Yeah, I know. Your poor bird.

Roy, Roy.

Do I get the desk job?

You want a desk job huh? I got a desk job for you.

Spell ophthalmology.

Say what?

Jesus.

Come on. Come on.

Now these men get out of their cells once a day, not every six months.

All right, sir.

Purcell.

I want to see Bullen at the house tonight.

Now let's look at look at that boiler.

You say come in?

Look, I don't like being here.

Looks like I'm sucking up to the man.

You know what I mean?

You're a lifer.

Habitual criminal.

The big bitch.

You don't want to get on my bad side.

Word is that I'm dangerous.

How about you setting that weapon aside?

How about you take off them glasses?

Now it says here they put you away for breaking a toilet.

Says you quit school in the third grade.

I ain't never quit nothin' in my life.

Born Louisiana,

twin brother run over by a train at 15,

you both were trying to escape the Hartsville Reformatory in Texas.

Well, they shot Hollis and laid him on the tracks

so the train would squash him up

and make it look like an accident.

Kind of soured me, you know?

I got away...

Got arrested for stealing

a '65 Pontiac sedan.

I got two years for that

and I done them.

I got arrested for stealing

a '69 Pontiac convertible.

You big on Pontiacs?

Bone white,

leather oxblood upholstery,

big, huge chrome fender skirts.

How do they compare?

They fucked up the engine in '69, if you ask me.

I got three years for that.

Another felony.

Then come the toilet.

I got picked up for vagrancy, misdemeanor.

The next morning, the toilet's broke clean off the damn wall.

There's six men in the cell and they stick

me with destuction of city property over $50.

Felony number three, habitual.

That judge gives you life for a toilet.

Yeah, or give me the toilet for life.

- Same difference.

Anyhow here I am shoveling shit for dead men.

Instead, how would you like to be a trusty,

and run my motor pool?

Ahem.

Mr. Brubaker, I've been studying you

since you first come in,

and it's come clear to me

that you are one weird fucking individual.

I ain't got you figured out yet,

whether you're good or bad.

Does that mean you'll run my motor pool?

Wear them khakis

and get me a guitar,

be the warden's new boy?

No. You're smarter than that Bullen.

The whole world's fucked up, Mr. Brubaker.

Yeah.

It ain't no use.

Tower number three.

Who am I looking at? He's looking at me.

Up there, you got Douglas Mizell.

Who's Doug Mizell?

He's a forger.

Three times grand theft.

I want a run-down on everybody that's got tower duty.

I do believe that's Purcell's job, sir.

I want only murderers up there,

one-time impulse killers.

Aren't you taking kind of a chance doing that?

Aren't you... I mean....

It's the habituals you can't trust.

Murders, most of them. Already have it out of their system.

Guys like you, right?

Ha ha ha.

There's nobody around here like me.

Oh.

Back there on death row, why'd you let me go?

You tell me.

You're the man.

You're trying to cover yourself both ways.

You're in for murder, aren't you?

I thought you asked me to come here so you...

All this good land, all this acreage,

livestock, and everybody is starving.

Except guys like you.

Did you eat?

I don't eat that shit you eating.

Oh. Know a lot about nutrition?

I know about hungry.

You like being a trusty?

Better than being a rank man.

I supposed you getting used to reform wardens.

Seen a lot of them.

Every one was a reform warden.

Not Renfro.

Not Renfro?

Uh-uh.

Where the hell do you think those came from, the rank mens wearing?

Think we got some special factory that makes rags?

Renfro got those brand-new.

Just like the ones you gonna be bringing in.

- How do you know... They'll be the same rags,

the next reform warden throws out.

- Let me ask you something about being a trusty.

When you're out in the fields and your sitting on your horse

and holding your gun,

holding all the cards,

what keeps you from taking off?

Uh, Mr. Brubaker, sir...

I wouldn't go around be putting these ideas in nobody's head.

I mean one day, we could lay down our shovels

and our guns, and stop playing the man's game,

pick up and run off.

Hello. Brubaker.

Yeah.

Hang on.

Coombes?

Coombes?

- Yeah?

For you.

Yeah?

- What?

How many hurt?

What about security?

Okay, I'll be right there.

What's...? - Are we finished with all the ah...?

Yah, what's wrong?

The rank barracks roof just caved in.

Hey you boys get back to your bunks over there!

You're taking a chance going in there,

you know that?

Somebody kill the current in this building!

Aah!

Get it off of me!

Give me a hand!

Give me a hand, Coombes!

Come on!

Get them out!

Get back!

There you go.

Holy Christ, how'd they get through there?

- Get these men out of here! Now!

What are you going to do with them, put them in your house?

What do you mean, call the state hospital?

You're 20 miles closer.

It's raining like hell outside!

I've got one station wagon. I can't put them in open trucks.

What?

Listen to me. These are injured men.

Don't lay down! Hey, don't lay down!

I'm going to put this on here.

Give me your hand. Put pressure on it, alright?

An hour?!

Why?

Why?!

Alright, I'm counting on that.

- Two ambulances. Yeah, thanks.

Thanks a lot.

We've got a bleeder over here!

Got to get this man to a hospital!

They all gotta be at the hospital.

I can't afford no more.

Shut up!

What did he say?

Nothing.

I can't afford no more!

Shut up!

What's going on here?

I said, nothing.

What the hell's the matter with you?

You mean to tell me, you're charging for medical attention?

-Who? -You!

What are you getting so excited about?

We've been doing it this was for years.

Get your hands off me!

You call yourself a doctor? - God dammit, don't!

Get your... - Crazy man!

You're a crazy man!

- Crazy fool!

Zaranska, this is your hospital now.

What? Hell, I...

I said you're in charge here, starting right now.

Until we can get a real doctor.

Yah, but I don't know shit about hospitaling.

You know a lot more about than I do.

Work with me.

♪Galveston, oh, Galveston♪

♪I can hear your sea waves crashin'♪

♪While I watch the cannons splashin'♪

♪I clean my gun♪

♪And dream of Galveston♪

Looking good, Warden.

Willets,

you just took delivery

on 300 cases of chili con carne last week.

Where are they now? - I wonder.

I just looked in the locker.

The boys gobble it up?

Not the rank men.

There's only 50 trusties.

That comes to 7,200 cans

divided by 50 trusties.

That comes to 144 cans.

You correct me if I'm wrong. I'm no good at math.

You okay? You're going too fast for me.

Divided by seven days,

that comes to...

...20.5 cans of chili

per trusty per day.

Does that tell you anything?

Willets?

Are you alive, Willets?

No, sir.

Excuse me. The roof just fell in.

People around here are starving to death.

I'd like you to find out just where in the hell all the food going around here?

Purcell.

Sir? I want this...

You'll do that Willets? Sir?

I want this posted.

Only regulation outfits from now on

are prison-issue pants, boots, and shirts.

We don't have any boots.

Well, order them.

That's Willets' area, acquisition.

No, you order them.

Would you please and I'm going to need about 700 pairs.

- Yeah but... and no more shaved heads!

Yeah. But sizes! How am ever I going to figure out how many?

You know that.

Yes. I'll be ready.

Goddamn, look at you, new blood.

That's what this place needing, fresh air.

You're Brubaker, am I right?

That's right.

You sure as hell don't look like no warden.

Chocolate prune cake in there.

My missus baked it up special for you.

I hate prunes. They cloud my mind.

I say my name?

No. But I know who you are.

C.P. Woodward. Call me Woody.

And you say we met?

What can I do for you Mr. Woodward?

Roof.

What?

Roof. I came about the roof.

Purcell, you gave me a yell, said you'd declared

a state of emergency or something.

I thought you just sell lumber.

I sell it, I grow it. I mill it, I hammer it.

I got wood in my veins.

You just give me your John Hancock.

We'll fix things up tight.

No. Hold it, now.

Don't you want to go up there first and look at it

and see what the size of the problem is?

Whatever we find, we'll fix.

See, the damn thing of it is,

is you get one little pinprick hole in that tarpaper from the factory...

This isn't a question of pinpricks in tarpaper.

You built that thing wrong

and you know it.

You built that 2 years ago and I want you to rebuild it

the way you should have built it the first time.

Of course you do.

And don't you worry, I'll can help you out on the cost.

- I'll bill only my materials full, this time around.

This isn't going to cost me anything.

You guarantee your work, don't you?

Of course.

Look, look, look, look. Look. You get on top of this shit pile Henry.

and then the job's not just a ballbuster.

You'll be happier then.

Well, I'm not complaining.

Are you unhappy? It sure sounds like it to me.

I'm not in the construction business for my health.

Or anybody else's it seems.

What I am, is in the middle of my inventory.

It's a pain in the ass but I rushed over here.

Ain't been anybody coming from Wakefield to give me a hand lately.

Well we're not sending convicts to you anymore Mr. Woodward.

That's slave labor.

No. It is not.

No, no. You got it all backwards,

because this is a community.

The people around here

don't ostracize this prison.

We accept it.

We cooperate.

It's a two-way street.

Now you gonna be seeing a lot of nice things

from people in the farm supply business,

clothing business...

Lumber business.

Yeah. Take that cake.

Now the point ain't whether you like prunes.

It's the thought that counts.

Exactly.

It's only smart to accept the stuff, keep your mouth shut

and let things run like they've been going for 100 years,

before we was born, you and me.

I'm talking about tradition.

Don't fuck with tradition.

Count your own woodpile, Woody.

I'll fix my own roof.

A lot of people going to be disappointed in you Brubaker.

It won't be the first time.

And I hope you're right.

Take this. - Take it.

Purcell, get me all the contracts and insurance policies on that roof.

I want everything you got.

Whose team you on Purcell?

What can I say?

He's the coach for now.

Short season.

Oh, no, it's no secret.

Has to write it all down.

We got prison lumber, prison labor, building motels for people in town.

Building people's swimming pools.

That's right.

In my kitchen right here.

My trusty is loading our food into state police cars.

State police? It runs that deep?

We'll be stepping on more toes than I imagined.

What's that?

Well, I'm just warning you that's all,

because you're likely to start hearing some things.

Alright, I'll be ready to run interference for you.

No, no. I'll talk to the governor.

Let me do that.

Lillian, can I call you back?

Uh-huh.

Bye.

Hey wait a minute man! - Here you go...

Where, uh, where's Huey, Rauch?

- I don't see him around.

Smell this.

I'm a city boy.

Purcell?

That smells like kerosene.

This animal's been shot. You know anything about it?

That truck driving out there,

you don't know anything about that either, I suppose?

Looked like a free worlder.

Now what are these?

I don't know.

Shacks.

Are they on our property?

Let me think.

Honestly...

Yeah!

I think.

Shit.

I don't know who's in there and I don't know what you're up to

but we got the new warden from the prison out here,

and we're probably coming in!

Right?

Probably nobody home.

Fuck you Julian.

I ain't hiding in the dark like no human insect.

Yeah? What?

- Good morning. - Morning.

Would you please get your ass out here and take care of this.

Excuse me, I have a tight schedule.

...like some animal with one thing on his mind.

Oh, Mother, even kids can have sex.

Is that what you do at parties?

How many out there?

I don't know. Three, four.

I don't want you getting a reputation.

Pull it up.

I already have one. The wrong kind.

Marry a man who respects you.

I want you to have a good name.

You! You want!

Is that all you can say?

Uh... You want a beer or something?

Don't talk like that again!

The improved Veg-o-Matic stretches food dollars.

Millions bought at $7.77.

Now yours for only $5.77.

You'll save $2.00!

Where's your wallet at?

Veg-0-Matic can cut a whole, firm tomato,

in one stroke!

That's my personal property.

I'm going.

Save $2.00 from the former price.

Get one today for only $5.77.

Let me give you...

I got it. I got it.

Hot dog! Look what we got here.

That be Warden Renfro's monthly supply I imagine.

Man took baths in that stuff.

Come on. Come on.

Hey Willets,

try staying with me on this one will you Willets.

The rankmen have been working sunrise to sunset growing produce.

So the warden and the trusties could sell at below market value

to some local cannery.

Where the proceeds could in turn, go toward buying more chili and soda

which in turn, could be resold to some supermarket chain

at an even greater profit.

You think so?

Well I think so.

What have you've been doing with this chili and all this other stuff?

You've been signing it out, haven't you?

How about that?!

I signed what Captain Renfro told me to.

Well you can sign your own severance check, Willets,

- because you're fired. I'm in civil service.

Fired.

Uh, boy!

Hey, this is past.

How we supposed to handle purchasing without Willets?

They're going to do it.

Who?

We're going to have an election.

Pick an inmate council.

That's a hell of an idea.

What?

I said, that's a hell of an idea!

Huey! Glad to see you back.

Something real funny about that?

I can't wait till you break out of here.

We all get dibs on that.

That's funny.

- Floyd.

Brubaker's been turning this place into a damn jailhouse.

Yeah. Well, he just doesn't know who's running the place.

Deach will set him straight on that.

I hope so. - Floyd,

get out of here.

What?

Get out of here.

I live here Huey.

Get your stuff and get out of here Floyd!

I got to move in here. This is mine now.

Get my bird, pack the rest of my stuff.

- Let's go.

Spivey, you take that shack over there.

Bullen, take that one.

- Seems like it would be a whole lot smarter to do this during daylight hours.

- Not so many people would see the flames.

Well now.

Maybe that's exactly why he's doing it now. You ever think of that?

He's crazy.

No, he's not.

He's dangerous.

Somebody needs to stop him.

Put a bullet in him.

There's a disease growing in there, Henry.

Hostile to your health.

I know that.

You ought to get yourself some

paper cups or plates or something.

Ah ha!

You ought to get yourself someone to look after you around here.

That doesn't sound like the kind of advice

I'd expect from you.

No. I meant...

I meant one of those convicts.

So how's it going?

If the Chinese invade us,

I got insurance.

If we have a landslide, earthquake, a volcano erupts,

I'm covered.

If my roof caves in, nothing.

No insurance.

What are you going to do?

Going to rebuild it ourselves.

- Terrific!

Terrific?

Yes, the governor's been wanting to come down here for quite awhile.

It's a perfect time.

He'll come and he'll actually see something happening.

He wants to come here, have pictures taken, shake a few hands,

put his arm around an inmate.

It's what you all call a photo opportunity.

That's uncalled for.

Tom's not like that and you know it.

- I don't know what Tom's like. - Well he hired you, didn't he?

Yes, but I need a doctor here Lilly, not a governor.

- You need both. - I know what I need here.

No. I know what you need here.

Very complex world out there Henry.

And right now I'm dealing with a lot of people

who would much rather not see that prison change at all.

They're sure letting me know about it.

I've been hit from all sides.

I got people out there trying to shoot my cattle.

I got trusties inside here sabotaging my crops.

And there's not a damn thing I can do about it.

Why not?

Well, do you know what happens if I rank a man,

if I send a trusty back into the barracks?

- What? He's dead.

The other men will kill him.

Can't you work with them? Change their attitude.

I'm trying,

but I got to deliver.

I can't come in here and just paint this place.

- Lillian? - Hmm?

A permanent doctor.

Yeah, yeah I know. I am getting you one, I am.

Look, there's a prison board meeting on Tuesday night.

I want you there.

The great diplomat?

Ah ha ha!

I'll take that risk.

They're bringing in some deputy warden from out of state

who's gonna give a nice little talk on prison reform. Hmm.

I see, and you want me there to defend myself.

- No. I want a second opinion in that room, Henry.

State your case. They need to meet you.

I mean, you do make an impression, right?

Ha.

All right!

There's daddy, give him a kiss.

Vote for Frank Zaranska He will help you

Pray and he will pull for you

Don't you listen to them others

They'll lie and cheat and screw you

Warden!

Hey, this is like sitting on top of the world, ain't it?

God Almighty.

You know what I'd like to do with her?

Yeah, I know what you'd like to do.

You're wrong.

You ever just want to talk?

Shit.

You been whacking it so long

your mind is starting to collapse in on itself.

Brubaker. Yeah?

You know something?

That's the first time I've heard those guys laugh in 15 years.

It doesn't bother you, does it?

Oh man, I tell ya.

We got to hang in together.

We got to put some men on that council

that still got their heads screwed on straight

because Brubaker is going to use that council

to take away your power completely.

Hell, he already took away my refrigerator and my lockers.

I heard he's going to put a new lock on the gate!

There, you see?

My name is Jerome L. Boyd.

And I got what is called a sociopathic personality.

- A sociopathic personality. That means I ain't got no feeling

for my fellow man.

'Cause of how my parents fucked me up.

- Now, hold on a minute, man. Listen.

I deem it an honor... - How much are you gonna pay us boy?

...to throw aside my hatred

for all you dumb assholes, and try to help you.

♪Sometimes it causes me to tremble!♪

Let there be a hush on the land.

Gentlemen, Jesus come over to my bunk here last Tuesday.

He hovered up there... Kinda hovered You know what he said?

What did he say?

Say what?

- What did he say?! Oh well...

He said: " Frank, many is called, but damn few is chosen."

Amen!

- "I want to put you on my first team.

- "I want you to put, these boys under your wing.

" and see to it that they get any subscriptions

"to any damn magazines they want!"

All right! Yeah!

Frankie scores again with a left hand.

Now, I am corrupt.

That's right. Just like the rest of you.

But,

I am honest about it.

Now, you vote for Mr. Clarence,

know exactly what you get.

Zaranska?

Yes?

- One vote now. One vote.

Don't be such an old woman, alright?

One vote, one vote. Feel the power!

I feel my mysterious and wondrous workings within!

Hallelujah! Can I get a witness?

I believe the Lord is with us!

Name?

What about the doctor?

Supposed to be here this afternoon.

They said he was going to be here this afternoon three days ago.

Said he's coming about 1:00.

Double-check that.

One more.

What are you waiting for?

We're waiting on you.

You guys are the inmate council.

You know how it works. Go on ahead.

I'll be with you in a minute.

Now wait a minute. No, hold on.

'Cause that's not the way I understood it.

Lillian Gray got authorization from the district court

for you people to go out and get bids on that new boiler right away.

- Well how long does his lunch take?

When will he be back from his haircut?

- Yes.

- Would you please? Definately.

- Yes.

Thank you.

Oh.

Something wrong?

Don't know exactly where to start here, Mr. Brubaker.

One man, one vote. It's up to you.

You got hammer on what you don't like.

No.

All right, then.

I make a motion that we consider a movement

to discuss the shitty plumbing in the barracks.

How many say aye?

Aye ! - Thanks Zack.

Somebody should be taking notes about this.

How about Pavitch?

There's a rumor he can write.

Yeah, Pavitch, take note.

This coffee tastes like Zaranska washed his feet in it.

Only you would know about that special flavor Larry Lee,

you old sock-sucker.

Sir, this is looking like a damn waste of time.

Alright Caldwell, then why don't you resign?

We can find a replacement for you, fast.

Yeah!

- I think living facilities are important you know.

- Toilets and beds, and such like.

- I think we ought to start there. It's a good place to start.

- Why can't we get a contractor here or somebody to to redo the toilets?

Mr. Spivey, can I see the warden?

The council is in session

and these men got appointments afterwards.

Probably not gonna get in on account

Mr. Brubaker got a prison board meeting tonight he maybe got to be at.

But I want to see him.

If a trusty escapes out from our own security,

then he can't be a trusty no more.

- Damn straight.

- If you can't trust a trusty then who can you trust?

Well sure, but I'm talking about extenuating circumstances.

For instance, a man escapes, then realizen the errors of his ways,

gives hisself up voluntarily.

That's horseshit.

You put him in the hole for 10 days.

I'd go along with that and take away all his visiting privileges for a month.

What the fuck you talking about visiting privleges?

And don't let him mail more than one letter a week.

- I like it.

Yeah, and send him up to his room and don't let him no watch TV for a whole damn week.

- Birdwell, you started this.

- I don't know where you get your ideas of criminal justice.

Up your ass, I believe.

Want to know something, Zaranska?

Sure, I'd love to know something.

About your mama?

Hey! Hey!

Come on, Abraham.

Let's go. Get your ass...

You get your goddamn hands off him, Purcell!

I got to clean my conscience.

- I got something to tell you about in private.

Abraham, you don't got to have to explain anything to anybody.

Why don't you come into my office. - Abraham.

Say, I got guys waiting outside, that have appointments.

Well tell them a story Roy. You guys can manage.

I come to Wakefield before World War ll.

Take a walk, Purcell.

This ain't open to the public.

Yeah.

We used to make corn liquor out of this.

Growed it at a Campfire Field.

What happened?

What happened to your eye?

Got hit.

With what?

A baseball bat, chase chain

and a rope with knots in it.

You're doing time for manslaughter?

Yes sir.

- For killing my baby brother with a rock.

How much time?

How much time?

35 year.

How long have you been here Mr. Cook?

Hell, I don't know.

Well, I do.

38 years, 6 months,

according to this.

Yeah.

Your doctor here. He's is standing here waiting to say hello.

Great. Tell him just a minute would you?

There was lots of guys.

The yardman say, "Abraham, chop them up,

"in tiny little pieces and take them for a walk down in them shadows."

What?

I give Jake the clothes to the laundry.

- Come Christmas day...

I stuck them in close at the fence,

where all them other boys are dead and buried.

There must be over 200 of them out there now.

Wait a minute. Abraham, are you talking about the bodies

that are supposed to be buried here on this farm?

Yes.

Where?

There's 15,000 acres out there.

I know exactly where they lay.

Campfire pasture.

- How?

- Abraham, how do you know?

I was the coffin maker.

Mr. Brubaker, this is Dr. Campbell.

Yeah.

Will you show me exactly where tomorrow morning?

Yes, sir.

I figure that board meeting ought to end around 10:00.

I should be home by midnight.

We'll hold the fort.

I need five guys, you can trust with shovels right after breakfast.

You got 'em, coach.

Whatcha going to do about Abraham?

I got Purcell filling out forms in triplicate

and I'm going to get him released just as soon...

- Why would you want to go and do that?

Do what?

Look, why don't you leave him be? I mean.

All he knows is this place.

You knew that he'd been in here as long as he's been in here, didn't you?

Just leave him alone. He's not bothering nobody.

Hey, you can't hide in prison forever Coombs.

Stir up some hell, Henry.

How you doing, Abraham? Let me take that from you.

You got an appointment.

What?

Little business.

Where we going?

Doc wants to see you, Abe.

I ain't sick.

Hello, Abe.

Abe, we got some questions that have to be answered.

Then you can get some sleep. Alright?

Eddie, get that stuff off there.

No, please don't do that!

Ahh!

Hell, I know Captain Brubaker is an expert at penology

- but I think he's been out of the mainstream too long.

- There are 13 states, my own included,

that still rely on a leather strap to control the convicts.

Because other people do it that way doesn't per se make it right.

Oh, the hell it doesn't.

Cuts down on your time lost due to convicts sitting in the hole, degenerating.

- And it's a simple fact we have to face,

that crop production at Wakefield

is down nearly 40% this last quarter since she...

- But revenues are up 20%.

If you would just give me a year.

Leave us alone,

and let us eat the food that we grow, and sell the rest on the open market,

at a fair price.

I'll show you a profit. I'll show you a cash surplus in a year.

Fine. All we're saying is, give us some warning, Mr. Brubaker.

So when you go doubling the price of corn...

When out of the clear blue sky, you cancel an age-old contract...

with a customer like C.P. Woodward Lumber.

There wasn't any contract. He was using prisoners for slave labor.

- As far as corn goes, we're still a dollar below fair market.

How much potential cash surplus are you talking about here, Mr. Brubaker?

In farm accounting alone,

150,000.

Dollars?

Yes, sir.

Good Lord.

- Sounds like we're gonna need some high-powered Wall Street types

to help us figure out where to put it all.

Well, I'd like to put it all back into the facility.

- Because the place is literally falling apart.

- You've got dry rot, disease, rats all over everywhere

not enough place for the men to sleep.

You've got a boiler that your own state inspectors condemned six years ago.

We authorized a bid on a new boiler. Am I wrong?

Then why won't your purchasing take my calls?

I'm looking into that.

- While we're at it.

- Let's look into things like assaulting a medical doctor,

firing a state employee,

who's been keeping the books down on that farm for years.

Because he wasn't worth a... - Yeah, well...

Look, you're letting inmates take over the place,

inmates with fourth-grade educations.

They don't all have fourth-grade educations.

You're not gonna sit here and tell me seriously that's gonna work.

It doesn't matter because

the point is these men have to at least feel like

they're taking responsibility for thier own lives.

They're going to change this place, not me.

What the hell are we paying you for? - All right, all right. Hold it.

The bottom line here is that,

you want to make life real easy for those men.

Don't you, Mr. Brubaker?

No. Not at all.

I think it is. I think you kind of like men like that.

Maybe because they're reckless, same as you.

They see something they don't like,

they shoot it up, burn it down,

make up their own laws as they go along.

Sir, I didn't make up those laws. You did.

Because they've held up our businesses.

They've raped our daughters and murdered our sons.

And so we make them wards of the state.

Which means we accept the responsibility to feed them,

to clothe them, to give them medical attention.

not to starve them, not to torture them, not to humiliate them.

And if you don't like the laws, then change them.

In the meantime, it's my job-...

It's your job to listen to the people who pay your salary.

No sir. It is my job to reform a prison.

I'm not here to work for a political party, or the state or a governor.

May I butt in a second?

- Let the record show that State Senator Charles Hite desires to comment.

Mr. Brubaker, I think you owe it to yourself to face some hard facts.

- The people in this state have got themselves a whole lot of problems,

getting jobs, paying rent, insurance premiums.

Now come election time,

they might vote for your prison-reform thing

but that's just a reflex.

They don't really want to hear their taxes are being raised

to take care of murderers and rapists.

- That farm wasn't costing anybody anything

before you got your hands on it.

You follow what I'm saying?

- Why don't we go and build them a putting green or a clubhouse?

or a miniature golf course,

a hot whirly, bubbly bath in it?

Why don't we build them a roof that won't cave in on their heads?

That's enough.

An insured roof this time.

What do you mean?

The collapsed roof isn't covered at all, that's what I mean.

- But we do have coverage for thrashing machines,

balers, swathers, a tractor.

Sounds sensible to me to have the things insured.

I approved those policies personally. - You did more than that.

Your company sold us the policies.

The only trouble is, we don't have that equipment on our farm.

It doesn't exist!

What you have got, Mr. Brubaker, is a piss-poor attitude.,

- I don't like you, but that's beside the point.

No, it's not.

And still I'm telling you this as a favor to Lillian Gray,

who, for some unknown reason, believes in you.

Do not... I repeat! Do not come marching in here

from wherever the hell she found you

and presume to lecture us about how to treat our fellow man.

We're all sitting here for free tonight, except you.

We all got better places we could be.

So do I.

- I think we all better have a little food and calm down.

Brubaker!

How long do you think you'll last

pulling stunts like this?

What do you want to hear? That I know exactly what I'm doing?

I'm sorry I don't have all the right answers for you.

Or for them.

Then make some up.

Because what you've got to understand Henry,

is that they'll pull the plug on all this and I mean it.

And if you're not in the system, you can't change it.

Give them something.

Let them think they control you. That's the secret.

You know who the real obstacles to prison reform are?

It's not John Deach or Senator Whatever-The-Hell-His-Name-Is.

Hite. Hite.

It's prison reformers, pseudo-reformers.

People that want to say the right thing, be at the right place, at the right time.

Get themselves in the paper,

and get nothing done.

You see everything from Brubaker's point of view.

Everything you do is right, everything everybody else does is absurd.

I don't know what's right or wrong. Everybody's got their own version of that.

I'm just interested in what works.

There's no way to beat guys like that.

You can't toe the line. Because the line keeps changing.

You have to be smarter than they are.

I've locked the goddamn keys in the car.

Jeez!

God!

For the first time, it's occurring to those prisoners

that they don't have to take everything that's shoved at them

because they're still human beings.

So maybe someday, when they do get out,

they won't rape John Deach's daughter.

Or murder his son.

Bravo, but you're full of shit.

Just not enough to make things work inside that prison.

The real problem is out here. Well out here they don't want to hear you.

And they don't want to see me. So why do you bother?

Why do you spend day after day

sitting in rooms with people like that

and let them make a fool out of you?

Because sometimes you don't lose.

- And if you can't figure out how to hell to play these people,

you're going to self-destruct

and then you'll be of no use to me.

Turn on the lights.

I just got the call from the tower.

Find out why the man on duty in Tower One didn't report anything.

These guys at night, they...

Find out!

You had to listen to him, huh?

What?

What?

I don't believe men like you.

- You're dangerous man.

You start wars and let other people fight them.

You come and talk about,

"Do this, do that. Think this way. Be this way. "

You stick a sign in some poor fool's hand and you say,

"Follow me around, I've got the whole figured out."

"So we can change things for the better."

Well, that's a lot of bullshit!

There's only one thing you do. And that's get people killed!

Maybe you're right.

- You don't wanna go in there now. - But I have...

Not now.

- Warden. - Yeah?

There's a Lillian Gray on the phone.

She's saying it's urgent.

I'm through talking.

I can't figure out how you found out about this so fast?

Nothing happens at that prison that doesn't get out.

That's what I'm trying to tell you.

Now you're sounding paranoid.

I'm not paranoid.

The enemy is real.

All right, you know the fairgrounds,

the auction house where we sell our cattle? I'll find it.

What time in the morning?

8:00. I'll meet... No!

Make that earlier, 7:00. I have to be back.

I'll see you at 7.

I said alone.

He's a friend.

You haven't actually found anything yet, have you?

No.

Doesn't matter. It's having its effect.

You called him? - Didn't have to.

The senator called Lillian last night himself.

Well, let me put this as simple as I can, Mr. Brubaker.

You've gotta stop digging.

Why?

- Because you have been salaried

to run one of the best-conceived prisons in this country, sir.

Because although Wakefield is admittedly

an imperfect institution, much like America herself,

she is nonetheless a grand experiment.

Government of the man, for the man,

by the man.

Plus the fact that it's the only prison in United States that's shown a profit.

What is this horseshit?

Listen to what he's saying, Henry.

Because I think the senator's exhibiting uncommon foresight.

As we're going try and salvage something here today.

We're gonna work with you on this, Mr. Brubaker.

release funds.

You can hire people,

get you that boiler.

Yep.

Sit down and draw up some plans for some more barracks.

Get yourself a couple of new tractors.

How many men are buried out there?

You wouldn't even know, would you?

That field was an old paupers' graveyard,

when my granddaddy was alive.

It's a matter of historical record.

I'm talking about murder.

It's time to cut through the bull.

Grave robbery is a felony in this state.

You don't want to wind up in your own prison, Mr. Brubaker?

He means it.

I'm calling the governor.

The governor already knows.

- Nobody's asking you to stop digging.

- We're ordering you to.

I don't like being put in a corner.

Listen Edwards, stay out of this.

You're another token liberal

that doesn't know shit.

I was hired to reform this prison.

If that means putting the prison board behind bars, I'll do it.

I've been behind bars, Brubaker.

Two years in Atlanta for real,

not a few days in disguise.

So you listen to this nice token liberal, for a minute.

Because you got a high opinion of yourself.

Most of it I actually agree with.

But you don't really understand inmate mentality.

If you did,

you'd know that asshole is ready to offer you anything you need for those men.

It's not enough.

Henry, stop the digging.

- Concentrate on the men who are alive.

We are winning. We have leverage now.

I've got a prison to run.

I hope so.

Bullen!

Come over here and bring some guys.

Zaranska, Elwood.

- Romeo! Beasley! Start digging here.

Hey, Brubaker!

- I believe we got us one.

Mr. Brubaker, got one over in this hole!

Hold it. Hold it. Careful.

Okay, careful.

- Just scoop it out, handful at a time.

Easy,huh?

- Spoon it out if you have to. Careful now.

- Got one over here, boss!

Easy!

Careful, pry this off.

Don't touch anything you find inside.

Don't touch anything inside.

Zaranska.

- Mr. Brubaker!

I can't get it out! Everytime I start to move it, it cracks.

Careful, careful. Now don't touch it.

- The whole goddamn place has gone crazy.

- They got those guys digging up those diseased carcasses

of men dead and rotten for 30 years.

And that is because the man took away the reason to be smart

and have some self-respect.

Turning the whole damn place upside down.

Prison board will stop him.

Bullshit, Floyd!

They already tried to buy the dumb bastard, but...

So, what do we do?

What about it, Dicky?

You got the man's ear. I mean what's he want to do?

Wake up dead? There's talk around here man!

I can't control it anymore.

You know, you're the only one doing all the talking, Huey.

Yeah, that's great.

And all because one old, damn deaf fool starts

running off at the mouth.

Uh...

Eddie, come here.

It's time to go.

It's time to check out.

- Why?

Why?

What do you mean? It's too loose.

It's crazy.

They're digging up bodies.

It's... Too many people got the answer.

Well, I figure I'm going to stick around.

Take my chances here.

Skull lying under the left arm.

- Both lower leg bones severed from the thigh.

- Then stacked in beside the knees.

The legs appear to have been cut off. Why?

Because it's easier to shorten the man than it is to lengthen the box.

Can you tell me how long has he been in the ground?

Well, I'm just not a pathologist, not a coroner.

Doc, I need some answers and I need them fast.

I have to have causes of death, dates of death.

If I took them to the state hospital.

Do it!

Purcell, call the TV stations, and newspapers.

And tell them we just found four murdered bodies in our pasture.

There's probably going to be more.

- You're going to start a stampede. - Exactly.

Mr. Brubaker!

Hey Mr. Brubaker! We got a runaway vehicle.

And Huey Rauch is in it.

- Huey? - Yes, sir.

Why?

Well, tell him! He killed Abraham.

Where would he be? Where would he go?

Pinky's.

Maybe.

Alive.

I want him alive.

Try over there.

I ain't open yet.

I ain't open for business.

Hey, what the hell's going on here?

You guys crazy?

Who are you making the sandwiches for?

Nobody.

Where's Huey Rauch?

Who?

Where's your sister at, Pinky?

What, Carol?

Where does that door go?

- My house. - Open it.

The door's locked. It ain't been used for years.

I'll go round to front.

- Hey. This is my castle!

- You can't come in here walking all over me!

- I'm calling the law. - Then call them.

- Hey I will! - For now, shut up.

Hold it!

He's dead. He's dead.

- You've examined all the remains in what? A laboratory environment?

Yes I have.

Dr. Gregory, what about all these broken bones?

Well, they may be due to a blunt trauma

But you need to temper that with the knowledge those same fractures,

could have occurred several years after death,

as a result of a cave-in of the grave walls.

You don't have to be in practice for 20 years to recognize a skull,

a skull violently crushed to the size of a grapefruit.

Son, I have got the forensic expert's report,

sitting in front of me here.

And according to all my scientific friends, who are very knowledgeable in this area.

it's just not all that clear on that point.

You've got probably a couple of dozen or so indigent inmates,

buried in an old paupers' graveyard.

Anything else, I think, is pure speculation.

Paupers don't die in pieces. Do they Dr. Gregory?

- I want to put it to you Mr. Partridge,

that this board is quite capable

of questioning its witnesses

and this whole procedure...

This whole procedure could just as easily have been a closed hearing.

What I think would be in the best interest of all concerned and people of this state

might be if we got Mr. Brubaker's thoughts on his firing.

Our primary responsibility at this point in time.

Is number one, to facilitate the decent Christian re-interment of the remains.

And two, to regain the control over this institution

that our warden has relinquished.

We don't go have any more gunfights in our streets.

How about that, Mr. Brubaker?

Any comment on what your thoughts might be on priority?

Priority?

Well I tried to reach the governor on that

and give him my thoughts but,

we all know what a busy man he is.

I think the board can handle this.

I was going to suggest that,

the best way in the future to prevent any trouble, or confusion,

or a waste of the taxpayers' time and money.

Would be next time a man's sentenced to Wakefield prison,

take him out behind the courthouse and shoot him.

All right, that's enough!

You stay here and answer to those remarks, mister!

Miss Gray can explain them.

I believe you speak the same language.

- You want me to go bring him back for you Mr. Deach?

- No.

Nobody touches him.

I figured I hadn't heard the last from you.

I want to know why you always think you can just walk out.

Because that's murder they're talking about in there.

And if they condone it, you can't turn around

and tell these men why they're locked up.

It's one standard for everybody, the way I see it.

And you don't see any options, no middle ground?

No. I don't see playing politics with the truth, Lilly.

No way to compromise?

Oh, on strategy, maybe,

but not on principle.

But that's what I... Goddamn it, I agree with you!

No, you don't.

Not really.

The business of this here prison is farming.

Not digging up good pastureland looking for old graveyards.

What's done is done.

We got ourselves plenty to think about today.

Never mind dwelling about yesterday.

We all got to get back to the basics at hand.

And that's why I'm standing up here,

saying to you convicts straight out,

how Rory Poke is going to run this here prison.

So we won't be wasting any more time,

misunderstanding each other.

I am a firm believer in discipline.

A convict does his fair share of work,

and he's not going to have anything to worry about.

But I know that that ain't been happening around here lately.

And there ain't no crop

in no field,

at no prisons,

that I'm in charge of

that's going to die in the fields.

The trusties will divide you up into work groups.

You listen, now.

You give them any trouble,

and they've got my permission

to see to it that the troublemaker is punished.

Hard.

Fair, but hard.

- I packed up all your personal things that I could find.

If I've missed anything or you have any mail, I'll take care of it.

Don't worry.

Hey, Brubaker.

I'm getting ready to tell you something.

POKE: All of you here, every damn one of you,

will receive equal justice...

You were right.

I don't believe in making no specials,

having some convicts looking more important than others.

Trusties are the only men that deserve.

That's what you're going to discover

Rory Poke is all about.

There ain't gonna be no more warden

playing favorites at Wakefield.

Ain't gonna be no more inmate council.

You've gotta earn privileges from now on.

That convict in the rear there.

Get back there in line! Get back into formation!

You men, you... get back into line!

Get back into formation! You'll get a taste of the strap!

What the hell?