All language subtitles for Cape.Fear.1991.720p .BrRip.x264.YIFY

My reminiscence.

I always thought that
for such a lovely river,

the name was mystifying,
Cape Fear.

When the only thing
to fear on those
enchanted summer nights

was that the magic
would end

and real life would
come crashing in.

GUARD: Okay, Cady,
the moment you've
been waiting for.

Any people
coming for you, Cady?

What about
your books?

Already read them.

Hi. How are you?

This ropa limpia?

No, no,
that means "clean."
These are dirty.

LEIGH: The idea is to
resolve the tension.

I need to find a motif
that's about movement.

Not the most
mind-blowing concept
for a travel agency,

but what the hey?

Like an arrow,
maybe?

Yeah, like an arrow.

Maybe.

But, see, then
the other aspect
is stability,

a company
that you can trust.

So if you can
balance those ideas

in a way that's
pleasing to the eye,
then you got a logo.

DANIELLE: Okay,
movement, stability,

and an arrow.

Okay, I'll think of
something for that one.

Benjamin! Yes.

They switched babies
on me at the hospital,
didn't they, huh?

So, how'd you do
in there?

Well,
I got the judge
to postpone

the alimony hearing
for another 21 days.

Great.

Well, I've got till Monday
to find out which S and L
and which municipality

my son-in-law
stashed all that money.

Right. Right.

But, anyway,
I thank you and
my daughter thanks you.

Oh, you're welcome, Tom.

Here's Daddy!

Good-bye, Junior!

Yes, that's very
creative, Junior.

He liked me.

All this time,
he actually liked me.

WOMAN: You can't go in.
Your father's making

a television appearance
for his campaign.

BEN: Dad!
Dad, I've got to
talk to you.

BIG BEN: Oh, what the hell
are you doing here?

I'm about to go
on the air.

What is this smoke?

Excuse me.
Excuse me.

Come on,
let's move our seats.

BEN: Okay,
then I quit
as your son.

So, do you believe
that annoying loser guy?

Dad, you should have
just punched him out.

What?
Just punched him out?

Yeah.

What do you mean?
You boxed.

You could've
shoved him around,

shut him up.
Yeah. Yeah.

I could take you.
Careful.

That's who
I could take.

You could've even
kicked him in the face.

Kicked him
in the face?

You know how to fight dirty.
You do that for a living.

Let's sit outside.
How much
do I owe you?

It's taken care of.

Taken care of? Who?

There.

Girls, girls, come on,
let's sit inside.

Yeah, let's sit inside.

Whoa, Mr. Perfect Form.

No, no, I don't.
You've got to...
What?

Look.
What?

You got to
snap your wrist
on the backhand.

Usually I like
a little music
at this point, Sam.

MAN: Sam, I want to play
in this lifetime.

All right,
all right,
all right.

You got to
snap your wrist.

Tag.

You know, we should
stop doing this
for a while.

Doing... Doing what?
We're not doing anything.

Yeah, I know that.
Yet.

Okay. No, fine, fine.
Maybe you're right.

Why?
Does your wife mind?

Well, my wife doesn't
even know you exist,

which, most certainly,
is for the best, you know.

Why's that?

God, you know, Lori,
you know why you have
to ask that question?

'Cause you've
never been married.
Why?

Is marriage synonymous
with deception?

It's just that,
you know,
when two people...

When two people
get married

and they live together
for a long time,
you know...

I like hanging out
with you, you know,
so sue me.

You're funny,
and you're cute,
and, I don't know...

We talk about the courts
and which judge is senile

and which one wears a gun
under his robe and...

Oh, God.
You know, Lori,

another time, another place,
and who knows, you know?

Tomorrow?

Yeah,
it's a light docket.

No, no, no, no,
I won two out of three.

Let's make it
the best out of five.

All right, well,
that's good, actually,

because today
I let you win.

(LAUGHS) Sure you did.

See you.
Sure you did.

Hey.

Free as a bird,
apparently.

You go everywhere
you want with whomever.

That much freedom
could maybe get
a fellow into trouble.

What do you think?

I'd like my keys.

Could it be
you don't remember me?

Oh, yeah, sure,
I remember you.

You were
at the movie house
the other night.

Oh, I'm disappointed.
I'm hurt.

I would like my keys.

Max Cady.

You look the same.

Maybe 15 pounds heavier.

But they say
the average man

gains a pound a year
till he's about...

Come on.

Gains a pound a year
till he's about 60.

Me? I dropped a pound
every year
of my sentence.

Atlanta, '77.
You got it. July.

Fourteen years since
I held a set of keys.

Well, you look good,
healthy.

Thank you. 'Cause it's
a struggle to stay healthy
in the joint.

But you wouldn't
know about that,
would you?

If you were me,
they would stick you
with the white trash.

They don't strike
a lick of work all day.

In fact,
this little old cigar
is my only vice

'cause I needed
a vice in the joint
to remind me I was human.

So, what brings you
to New Essex?

Oh, the climate.

Boy, the South.

I'm thinking of
settling right down here
in New Essex, Counselor.

Have you
been following me?

It's a small town.
Everywhere you turn,

I guess, we're gonna
run into each other.

Well, take care,
Mr. Cady.

You, too.

You're gonna learn
about loss.

What?

Dad, could you...

Hmm?

Oh, I'm sorry, Dani.

What're you working on?
It's English.

We're supposed to read
Look Homeward, Angel,

which is a kind
of reminiscence,

and we have to
attempt something
in the same style.

What's it about,
your reminiscence?

The houseboat.

Oh, the houseboat.

LEIGH: It's not even
July 3rd yet.

Yeah.

Yeah. I was thinking
we ought to take

two weeks off and
go up to Wilmington

like the old times,
dock the houseboat.

I wanted to
in early June.

Remember you said
you didn't have time
this summer.

I probably don't.

Yeah, well,
now I don't, either.

Besides,
Dani's got summer school
till Labor Day.

Is it really
that critical

that she can't
miss two damn weeks?

(SIGHS) Well, you know,
the alternative was
to expel her.

Besides,
maybe this Drama teacher
from the college

will get her excited
about something,
you know?

Yeah, about him,
probably.

I mean, why'd they have
to make such a stink,

like she was on heroin,
or something?

I mean, marijuana,
what's marijuana?

You and I smoked
a little dope
in our time.

Yeah.

You know,
in some cultures,

it's considered
almost a sacrament.

Of course,
I realize in ours,
it's forbidden.

Right up there with incest
and necrophilia
and bestiality.

Honey. Honey. Honey.

Worship of idols,
cannibalism.

Do that again.

What?

Do that again.

Sam. Sam,
somebody's out there!
What?

No, leave the light off.
Leave it off.

I saw him when
the fireworks went off.

What?

I think I talked
to him this afternoon.
You know him?

I want you the hell
off my property!

He's gone.

He said, "I'm gonna
make you think
about loss."

Or, "I'm gonna make
you learn about loss."
Something like that.

That's very poetic.

So, who is he?
Where did he come from?

Well, he's from...

Come on, Leigh,
get the dog off.
Ben, get down.

He doesn't
mind me at all.

Leigh, he's your dog.
Come on.

No, he shouldn't
be up on the table.

You're gonna have
dog hairs in the tea
and everything.

Get down.
So where's he from?

Oh, he's from the hills,
Pentecostal crackers,
you know.

What was he
in prison for?

I think it was battery.

You think
it was battery?
Yeah.

I mean, well,
who did he batter?

Did he batter a man?
Did he batter a woman?
What?

I don't know.

It was 14 years ago.
You know, it's kind of...

I really don't remember.

What does he want
with you?

He's just trying
to bug us,
just messing around.

You know,
he's an ex-con,
so he's just...

You know,
he's probably upset
at the lawyer.

Yeah, your clientele.

Yeah.

Bye, Dad.
Bye, Dani.

You look tired.

Thanks.
I needed that. Leigh.

Leigh,
I don't want
to alarm her,

but I'd rather Dani
didn't wander out alone

on her soul-searching
walks in the woods

at least till I've
started a few things,

maybe even talked
to the boss.

What if she takes
Benjamin with her?

What? Big Ben,
our guard dog?

What's he gonna do,
lick him to death?

Just tell her.
LEIGH: Tell her what?

I hardly know anything
about the man.

I don't mean
his biography.

Just there's
some creep around.

And if you see him again,
call the cops
and then call me.

What about a weapon,
you know?

In case things get
exciting around here.

Look, Leigh,
would you really
feel more secure

with a loaded gun
in the house?

We'd probably end up
using it on each other.

Or Dani would.

He's not gonna do anything.
He just got out of prison.

He doesn't want
to go right back.
All right?

Call Lee Heller.

Lee is
a colorful character,

but he's still the best
criminal lawyer
in the state.

Good.
Bonnie,
get me Lee Heller.

Sam, you defended
this guy, right?

Right.

So, what makes you think
he wants to harm you?

Yesterday I was
getting in my car.

The guy comes up,
we have a little
conversation.

He says to me,
"You're gonna
learn about loss."

That'd hardly qualify
under the terrorist
threat statutes.

Oh, come on, Tom,
for Christ's sake,
the guy's an ex-con.

You know
as well as I do
what that means.

I mean, last night,
there he was,
he was behind our house.

Ah. Attempted B and E.

No, not exactly.

I mean,
he was sitting on a wall
that bounds our property.

(LAUGHS) That's not
even trespassing, Sam.

I mean, come on.
What can I say?

I mean,
get a restraining order.

I did.
I filed one this morning.
The hearing's in 10 days.

Good. Good.
I mean, you know,
anything I can do.

Tom, 14 years ago

in this case
I had a report
on the victim.

It was a rape case.
That's right.

Rape and
aggravated sexual battery.

Anyway,
I had a report
on this victim

and it came back that
she was promiscuous.

And...

I buried it.

Whew.

Anybody else know
about this?

No, no, no,
I buried it.

I mean,
I didn't show it
to the client,

I didn't show it
to the prosecution.

But if you had seen
what this guy had
done to this girl...

"In every
criminal prosecution,
the accused shall have

"the Assistance of
Counsel for his defense."

I know
the Sixth Amendment.

I believe in
the Sixth Amendment.

I mean, that's why I left
the Public Defender's Office.

There was no way
to serve the law
in that capacity.

Some folks just
don't have the right

to the best defense,
huh, Sam?

No! Of course
they deserve
the best defense!

But, I mean,
if you had seen what
he did to this girl...

You buried the report.

I mean, if it was
your own daughter, Tom.

Yeah, I mean...
Buried the report.

Jesus, Sam.

Oh, God.

But I don't see how
he could know that.

I mean,
he was illiterate.

I mean, I had to
read everything to him,

the probable
cause affidavit,

the arrest reports,
everything.

There's no way
he could know that.

Hey, Dani,
it's so quiet out here,
and the light's so perfect,

why don't you get your book
and come out here and read?

Why?

I told you why.

Well, is it because
he's like a flasher
or just a peeper?

What do you know
about that?
A flasher?

Oh, you don't think
I've been flashed
before?

Oh, well,
I certainly didn't mean
to insult you.

I'm sure you've
been flashed before.

Look, if you want to
come out, come on out.
If you don't, go on.

Do whatever you want.

Oh, but don't
go outside.

CADY: Afternoon,
Counselor.

What do you want,
Mr. Cady?

They're great at
that age, ain't they?

All those discoveries
ahead of them.

You're lucky,
Counselor.

My own daughter,
she don't even know me.

After I went inside,
her mama told her
I was dead,

which, in a way,
I was.

Look, Mr. Cady,
I realize that
you suffered.

I mean,
I understand your problem,
but, I mean, why me?

I was your lawyer.
I defended you.

I mean,
why not badger the D.A.
Or the judge?

"Badger."

Yeah. Why not them?

Yeah. Why not them?
"Badger."

Best I remember,
they was just doing
right by their jobs.

Oh, I didn't do my job?
Is that right?

Look, I pleaded you out to
a lesser occluded offense.

You could've gotten rape
instead of battery.

Oh, I'd have been up
for parole either way
in seven years

according to the
Georgia penal code.

Rape is
a capital offense.

I mean,
you could've gotten life,
you could've done death.

You could be sitting
on death row right now.

I learned to read
during my stretch.

First,
Spot Goes to the Farm,

then Runaway Bunny,
then law books, mostly.

Did you know that
after I discharged you,

I acted as
my own attorney?

Applied several times
for an appeal.

No, I didn't know that.

Mmm-hmm.

So, here we are,

two lawyers,
for all practical purposes,
talking shop.

All right. How much
do you want, Mr. Cady?

How much
do I want what?

How much money
do you want?

Money? Counselor,
do I look destitute
to you?

Well,
I'm open to discussion,
within reasonable limits.

You ever been a woman?

A what?

A woman.

Some fat, hairy,
ugly hillbilly's
wet dream?

Look, I realize that
you suffered in prison.

Suffered.

There's no question
about that.
"Suffered."

You don't know
what suffering is,
Counselor.

Like it says
in Galatians 3,

"Have ye suffered
so many things in vain?"

Yeah.

I learned from
the get-go in the joint
to get in touch

with the soft
nurturing side of myself,
the feminine side.

Well, I'm open to
some sort of discussion
on compensation.

What shall be
my compensation, sir,

for being held down
and sodomized
by four white guys

or four black guys?

Shall my compensation
be the same?

What is the formula
for compensation, sir?

How about $10,000
in cash?

Do I...

Well, let's just
break that down.
No.

Now, wait, wait,
wait a minute.
Let's just break it down.

You see,
that figure just came
to the top of my head.

Well, let's just say,
for argument's sake,

let's say $20,000,
let's say $30,000.

Say...
I'll tell you what.
Let's say $50,000.

$50,000 into 14 years.

Fourteen years times
365 days is about...

I say about 5,000 days.

Now,
you divide that by $50,000,
and that's like $10 a day.

That's not even minimum wage.

To say nothing about
the family that I lost,
the respect that I lost.

I don't think you really,
really understand

what we're
talking about here.

Fourteen years.

Whoops. Uh-oh.

Gotta git.

I'm late for
another appointment.

Sam, my man,
I got some good news.

I got the bank,
I got the account number.

Great. I'll call your
son-in-law's lawyer,

tell him we're going
to court.

Mr. Bowden,
your wife's
on line one.

Ask her to hold.
I got to make
a quick call.

I wouldn't make
that call, Sam.
The way I'd...

Mr. Bowden,
she says it's urgent.

Yeah?

...these kind of horrible,
high-pitched howls.

They sounded like
he was screaming,

and then Dani
came running in,

and I...

I called the vet.

Then it was so weird
because

it was like
he was winding down,

just winding down
like an old clock.

And then,
all of a sudden,
he just stopped.

He had this kind of...

His eyes just wide open,
and this kind of

surprised look.

And then...

And then he died.

He just died,
before the vet
even got here.

What did the vet say?

That he was poisoned.

Poisoned?

What kind of a poison?

I don't know
what kind of poison.

Oh, Jesus!

Leigh, I told you not
to let him out.

I didn't let him out!

Well, then how...

I didn't let him out!
Stop!

I've got
an English Setter myself,

so I don't cotton
to dog killers.

Trouble is,
poisoning a dog
is just a fine.

But if he's unemployed,
he got to have money

or we'll bust him
for vagrancy.

We'll give him
a full-body strip search.

Jerk a knot
in his tail.

All right.

They got so many ways
on the books to lean
on an undesirable.

He'll feel about
as welcome around here

as a case
of yellow fever.

OFFICER 1: Hands
against the wall.

Spread them.
Spread them.

That him?
OFFICER 2: Face the wall.

One-way mirror,
Mr. Bowden.

He doesn't
know you're here.

Yeah. Yeah, that's him.

Get the shirt off.

Come on, hurry up.

Let's go.
Just pass it
over to him.

Hand it to me.

All right.
Knock off the shoes.

Hand them to
the other officer.

Pass them to him.
Come on, come on.

All right.
Let's put the arms out.

Put your arms
out straight.

Roll your palms.
OFFICER 2:
Do what he says.

OFFICER 1:
Turn around, slow.

I don't know whether
to look at him
or read him.

OFFICER 1:
Stand still.

OFFICER 2:
One more step for you.
You know the routine.

Against the wall.

We searched his apartment.
His car registration
and everything's in order.

There's no guns or
any other weapons.
But we found these.

ELGART: Cady's
savings account.

$30,000?

Yeah, well, see,
his mother died
while he was serving

and the farm
got sold off.
He got the proceeds.

Well, he's got money.
Where does that leave us?

ELGART: Well,
at the very least,
we nail him for the dog.

Now, what happened?

You let the dog out.
Cady abducted him.

No.

We didn't
let the dog out.

Cady came
into your house?

That's illegal entry
with intent.

Yeah. But he didn't
come in the house.

Look, I'm not a cop.
I don't know exactly
how he did it.

I just know that
he did it somehow.

That's not good enough,
Mr. Bowden.

Now, you're a lawyer.
You damn well know that.

OFFICER 1:
Get off the pants.

Sooner or later,
he's gonna screw up.

I mean, the sheriff
assured me

that they always do.
He's an ex-con.

And then he's going
to get the message
in no uncertain terms.

I'd still like
to kill him.

Now, Dani, how come
you didn't join up
with them? You can tap.

Yeah, you can do that.
You can tap dance.

I wanted to once,
but I don't know...

Son of a bitch.

What?

He's staring at you.

What are you
talking about?

What the hell
are you doing?

Hot as a firecracker
on the 4th of July.

You're damn lucky
to have her, boy.

You son of a bitch.

Where did he go?

Son of a...

Watch my arm.
Watch my arm.
It might be broke.

What's with you, buddy?

You have no right
to be pushing me
around like that.

I was just
watching the parade.

I wasn't pranking
on nobody.

You son of a bitch!

What are you getting
so upset about?

You're lucky
I don't sue you.

All right.
All right.

MAN: Settle down.

SAM: I am. I am.
I am settled down.

Sam,
what are you doing?

Oh, it's nothing.

Who was that?
It's no one.

Who was that?
No one. Come on.

The fellow with the tie,
his wife took him away.

MAN: I think
he really hurt his arm.

Mom!

LORI: That's an awfully
strong drink you've
got there, mister.

CADY: You said it, boy.
(LAUGHS)

You just put
a little goldfish in it,
and you'll be fine.

You seem to be
having a good time.

I've been practicing.

Practicing for what?

How to fall
on the floor?

A life of debauchery.

"Debauch," what?

Debauchery.
It's a three-syllable word.
Yeah.

Making fun of me?
That's okay. No problem.

No, I'm not. I'm not.

I made you blush.

Blush?

Yes. You're now the color
of your shirt, scarlet.

(CHUCKLES)

I had no business
getting stuck on a guy
who was married.

You certainly did not.

I don't know
what I was thinking.

God only knows.

Now aren't I the bozo
on this bus?

Oh, God. Lest you think
that I slept with
this particular

married guy...
That's your business.
Not mine.

I don't want to
make it sound like

I've been through
a busload of them.

That's the way
it sounded to me.

He was the first.

Oh, yeah.

He was, I swear.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, boy.
Tell it to the judge.

Actually the rat
stood me up today.

Did he?

Yes!
What a shame.

I know.

So, now it's my turn.
Where are you from?

Where am I from?
Yes.

You're gonna love this.
Yes.

I'm from
the Georgia State
Correctional Facility.

Now you think I'm joking?
That's the truth.

I just got released
from prison.

Oh, my God.
This is the way my day
has been turning out.

Actually,
it reminds me
of a joke.

Do you want
to hear it?
Tell me.

Liven up the night.
All right.

An unmarried woman...

Wait a minute,
that's not it.
An unmarried woman...

Come on, get the joke
straight, darling.

Shut up. Shut up.
Let me do it.

An unmarried woman,
she meets a guy

and he tells her
he just got out
of prison.

"What did you do?"
She asks.

"I hacked my wife
into 52 pieces
with a chain saw."

(LAUGHS LOUDLY)

She says,
"So, you're single?"

That's even funnier.
Thank you.

Could I ask you
something?
What?

What did you do?
I knew you were
going to ask that.

I hacked my wife
into 52 pieces.

I was afraid you were
gonna say that.

Well, I'm a very
small person,
so maybe...

Maybe I can hack you
into 40 pieces.

What did you do,
really?

"No, really,
but what did you do?"

No, I just...
There was this protest march
on this nuclear power plant,

and so when they came
to arrest us,

this macho sheriff
got a tad rough with
the lady behind me,

so, I popped
the little bastard,

so they gave me
a little time for it.

I'm drinking a Sea Breeze.
I hope you can afford them.

But you gotta
stay sober.

If you ain't sober,
then you're taking
your chances.

Because I'm just
one hell of an animal.

Yeah? Do tell.

Get you on
this side, doll.
Let's do this.

Who is Loretta anyway?

That's the love of my life.
She's no longer with us.

I thought
I was the love
of your life.

Chopped her up
into 52 pieces.

He hurt you like this,
that married guy?

No.

He hurt you like this?

I told you,
we never did anything.

He hurt you like this?

Oh, scandal.

He's a rough one.

How's this feel?

Oh, my God.
Am I under arrest?

Not quite, darling.

Officer, I swear,
it's all a mistake.

That married guy
hurt you like this?

Because what he did to me
hurt a lot worse than this!

No!

I've got you now,
bitch!

Dani, when did
this key stop working?

What? Oh, I don't know.

No wonder.
A wire's missing.

A piano wire
is missing.

Was somebody
fooling around
with the piano?

What?

Yeah?
ELGART ON PHONE:
Mr. Bowden.

I think
we might could have
a little break here.

SAM: Good. Good.

I can be there
in a half hour.

All right, fine.
Thank you.

LEIGH: Who was that?

Cady raped another girl.

Rape? I thought
you said it was battery.

Well, yeah,
the case was wobbly.
I got it reduced.

Oh, I remember
those days,
old slippery Sam.

I'm sorry, Leigh.
I just didn't want
to alarm you or Dani.

Why? How old
was that girl?

Sixteen.

Sixteen, what?

Well, my birthday
is coming up.

Neighbors heard screams
and called us.

When the perp drove off,
somebody made his plate.

Max Cady.
Good. Great.

We got one bitty problem.
The girl is scared.

She's claiming
she fell down
some stairs.

Sam.

Don't...
Don't look at me.

Oh, my God.

You two know
each other?

Yeah, we work together.

I'll be outside.

I'm so stupid.

Oh, Lori, don't.

You stood me up
at the club
the other day.

And then
you didn't call.

And by last night,
I was feeling
pretty reckless.

I thought about
what you said,
you know,

that your wife,
she didn't know
I existed.

And I felt like
I was going
to show you.

I guess I showed you,
all right, didn't I?

I guess
I really showed you.

Lori, listen to me,
okay?

Now, look, this guy Cady,
he's done this kind
of thing before.

Now, he's going to
do this over
and over again

unless you testify and
we take him to court...

No. No. No.

And press charges
and testify.

Lori.
Sam.

Sam, I know,
I know how it works.
I see it every day.

Only this time,
I'm on the other side.

I don't want to
explain why I was
in a bar

and how much
I had to drink and
what I was wearing.

Not by the people
I work with.

Not by the guys that
I see cross-examine
other people on the stand,

just crucify them
and just laugh
about it later.

They'll even ask
about you.

Lori, listen to me.
I don't care about that.

Well, I care about that.

I'm sure you do, too.

I'm...

I'm terribly sorry, Lori.
I'm just terribly sorry.

ELGART: Look.

If all this is
something personal

between you and
the girl and Cady...

Personal? I mean...

All right, come on,
Lieutenant.

All right.
What are you implying?

Only that there
are some things

that are better
handled quietly.

Not by the police.

This Cady guy
is planning to
rape my wife,

but it's not
your problem anymore?

I can't bust someone
for planning to
rape your wife.

You're a lawyer, Mr. Bowden.
You know that damn well.

Thanks all the same.
The way I'd handle it...

What,
file a restraining order?
I already did.

Just think of
this fellow Cady
as a tiger.

The trick is to
get him out
of the brush.

Now how do we
do that?

You stake out
a couple of your goats
and hide in a tree.

What are you suggesting,
Lieutenant?

That I use
my family as bait?
And then what?

What? I'm gonna hope
that this psychopath

attacks my wife
and child?

And then what?
Blow his head off?

I'm a law officer.

It would be
unethical of me
to advise a citizen

to take the law
into his own hands.

So, I suppose you must've
misunderstood me.

Oh, I guess I must've.

Well, pardon me
all over the place.

And he's been
harassing my family,
but he's clever.

I mean, cleverly,
so that the law
can't touch him.

Also I believe
that he's able to slip

into the house
and out undetected.

Although, is he out?
I can't tell.

He's either out
or he's in.
I'm not sure.

Well, I can't
see through walls,
Mr. Bowden.

I'm not asking you
to see through walls.
That's fine.

I mean,
why can't anybody
do anything for me?

What good are cops
and laws...

Sam, Sam, Sam,
calm down.

Let me explain
something to you.

See, the system
is set up to handle
generalized problems

like burglary
and robbery.

But if some lone creep
out there targets you
for some obscure reason,

the system is
slow and skeptical.
It's pathetic even.

What's your connection
with this fellow?

(SIGHS)

I was his lawyer,
his public defender.

But you shafted
him somehow, right?

Well, at least that's
the way he perceives it.
Sam, Sam.

I don't care
what you did.
What did he do?

He raped
a 16-year-old girl.

Do you have a daughter
around sixteen?

She's fifteen.

All right.
Here's the deal.

I'll do a background check
on him,

follow him for about a week
and write you up
a risk assessment.

All right, good.
Great, great.

Now, the cops...

I can find him.

His name's Max Cady.
You already told me.

Just take it easy.
Stay calm.

Now, Dani, you can
just relax because

your daddy has
a private investigator
on the payroll.

Isn't that right?

What's your feeling
about him?
What, Sam Spade?

Mickey Spillane?
Peter Gunn?

Dirty Harry?
Perry Mason?

No, no, no, no.
Perry Mason...

Perry Mason
was a lawyer.

No, the minute
I walked in
this guy's office,

I felt totally relaxed.

I mean, this guy is
totally in charge.

Kersek deals
with these types
for a living.

He looked like
he was going
to enjoy...

Yes?
Yeah, it's me.

After you left,
I had this interesting
conversation

with a C.O. Over at
Statesboro prison.

Mmm-hmm.
Seems our man Cady had
a job in the kitchen.

Right.

There was this other
inmate working in there
with him,

he was an obstinate
S. O.B.
Right.

He hated Cady's
cigar smoke

and he was always bitching
and moaning about it.

Well, one day,
they found him

with his neck broke
and his tongue bit off.

Oh, Jesus.
Yeah.

KERSEK: They never could
place Cady near the scene
of the accident,

if you want
to call it that,
at least not out loud.

But the parole board,
they kept him in
for another seven years.

Uh-oh.
The subject is on the move.
Get a good night's sleep.

DANIELLE: Who was that?
Our private eye.

I thought
we were relaxed now.

WOMAN ON PHONE:
New Essex County Hospital.

Yes, room 5036, please.

One minute, please.

All right.

LORI ON PHONE: Hello?

Hi, Lori,
it's me, Sam.

Lori, I just
feel God-awful

you got dragged
into this thing.

It's not your fault.

If I had any idea
that Cady would hurt you

to get at me,
I would have warned you.

Yeah, I know. I know.
I'm glad you called.

Yeah. Yeah, well.

I'm so sorry
about this.

I feel the same way.

So, are you
really determined

about moving back
to Connecticut?

Well, I've thought
about it a lot.

I just think it's
probably the best thing.

I thought that
maybe I could
go back to school.

I'm really going
to miss you, though.

Right.
Excuse me, Lori.

You know,
that sounds real good.
Yeah.

That's gonna work out fine.
I'll get right back to you.

Okay. Bye.
All right, bye.

Well, I just don't know
what I hate more,

that insipid tone
or your stupid,
sophomoric infidelities.

Who was that? Huh?

The girl that
got beat up?

Yes,
it was the girl
that got beat up.

Lori Davis.
I already told you.

She works at
the county courthouse.
She's a clerk.

And what?
You're fucking her?

Interesting choice, Sam.

Calling from
our bedroom phone.

You know, Leigh,
why is it that

whenever I have
a private phone
conversation,

you assume that
I'm fucking someone,
huh? Why is that?

That's why
that psychopath
chose her, right?

Yes, yes, that's why
he chose her.

But I'm not
fucking her
in any way.

Well, you sleazy
son of a bitch!

You son of a bitch!
You son of a bitch!

Goddamn you!
You son of a bitch!

Stop it! Leigh!

Dani is
right downstairs.

Oh. Oh, honey,
there's nothing
the matter.

Yeah, I can see, Dad.

LEIGH: I thought
you promised to leave all
that shit behind in Atlanta.

SAM: What shit?

LEIGH: Christ,
what a waste!

The humiliation
we went through

confessing all our
dirty little secrets

in those horrible sessions
with Dr. Hackett.

Yeah. We talked that
one damn incident
to death, didn't we?

Yeah.
Why did you bother?

Because you
asked me to go.

I mean,
why did you bother?

Why did you bother?

Why did you bother
with you and me?
With the marriage?

Uprooting me and Dani?
Moving?

Because that's
what we decided to do!

You said that
you wanted to get out!
You don't get it, do you, Sam?

All right, Leigh.
What is it I don't get?

You just don't get it.

SAM: What...
What don't I get?

LEIGH: Why put us
through all of that!
Why?

Nadine?

It's Dani.

Nothing.

I'm just
losing my mind here.

You don't have
the balls to walk out,

if that's
what you wanted.
Oh, what I wanted?

Like I was going to split,
with you acting
the way you acted.

Acting?
Yeah.

You did some acting.
I don't remember
doing any acting.

Oh, you don't remember
doing any acting?

Well, hey,
let me refresh
your memory.

Do you remember
not taking any work
for three months?

Do you remember that?
You remember not
fixing any meals?

I'm not on
fucking trial here!

Do you remember crying
every goddamn morning,
afternoon, every evening?

Do you remember that?

I scared you, huh?

What did you think, Sam?

What did you think?
You thought maybe I was
going to kill myself?

Over you?
Who else?

You pompous ass.

Oh, God damn it, Leigh,
who knew what
you were gonna do?

You wouldn't
leave the bedroom!

Yeah. I wish you
could say the same.

Now, look, isn't this
what Dr. Hackett
talked about?

Digging up the past.

I mean,
the relevant issue here

is whether I've been
messing around
in New Essex.

And I have not been.

As far as this girl goes,
Lori, she's just a kid.

Well,
that shouldn't stop you.

She's a baby.

I mean, you know
when you gravitate
to people

in the same world
as you...

You gravitate to women.

Oh, come on, Leigh,
for Christ sake,

I'm a lawyer,
she's a clerk.
She looks up to me.

She's just infatuated.
I can't help that.

(SIGHS)

Look, Leigh,
I'm scared.

I think this
whole thing has...

I keep feeling that
there is some animal
out there stalking us.

I think he wants
to hurt us
in the worst way

and that's got me
frightened to death.

You really are scared,
aren't you?

Yeah.

Somebody finally
got to you.

Look, Leigh,
I think...

I think that this guy
beat and raped her

because he knew that
she wouldn't testify,

that she wouldn't
press charges,

because she knows
the system.

I mean,
she works in it.

She knows that
she'd be on trial.

And then, because
she wouldn't testify,
you would assume that

there was something
going on between us

and it would
cause a rift.

That we'd be much more
vulnerable to him.

I'm glad we talked
about this,

because now
we can work together.

We can beat that
son of a bitch,

the two of us together,
working as a team.

(GROANS)

Jesus Christ.

Oh, yeah, this is great.
This is something else.

Oh. Oh.

Oh, shit!

Here you go.

I'm sorry,
I haven't ordered yet.

That fellow over there
sent this over,
paid for and all.

Who?

Which one?

That guy who
is just leaving.

(SIGHS)

Excuse me.

Hey. Cady, come here.

Wait up a second.

I've been in
a real bad mood lately.
Shame, ain't it?

You know what you can do
to brighten my mood?

No.
Get the hell
out of here.

I don't mean just
this whole town,

I mean the whole
goddamn state.

I don't want to see you,
I don't want to hear you

and I don't want
to smell you.
Now, leave.

I like...
Are you my friend?

No, I'm not your friend.

Oh. 'Cause I thought
maybe you were my friend

because I like
to plan my comings
and goings with friends.

But if you're
not my friend,

and you're planning
my comings and goings,

I'd call that
presumptuous.

In fact, I'd call it
downright rude,

because I ain't
your porch-baby, buddy.

Gee golly gosh.
I sure am sorry
I offended you,

you white trash
piece of shit.

Ooh-ooh. I got
the all-over fidgets
on that one.

You've really shaken me up.
I'm shivering all over.

Ooh.

It's not necessary to
lay a foul tongue
on me, my friend.

I could get upset.
Things could get
out of hand.

And then, in self-defense,
I could do something to you

that you would not like,
right here.

Anytime you
feel squirrelly,
you just jump.

You threatening me?

You catch on fast.

'Cause I'm well
within my rights

to be here
and you know it.

If I stay here,
what you going to do?

I don't give a rat's ass
about your rights.

You just watch your step,
and you know what
I'm talking about.

What are you gonna do?
Arrest me?

You a cop?
Or were you a cop?

Or were you not good enough
to remain on the force?

'Cause, you know
that's the feeling
I'm getting here.

Hope you enjoyed
your breakfast.

Ma'am,
this belong to you?

LEIGH: Can I help you?

I just found it.

I thought you
might need it back.

Not to frighten you,
but if a dogcatcher

comes across a dog
without a license,

he's liable to
think he's a stray

and do God knows
what to it.

You know,
our dog is...

He passed away.

Oh, what a shame.
Yeah.

Man's best friend and all.
Woman's, too.

Even without
closing my eyes,
I can picture him,

big, friendly, shaggy,
asleep at your feet,

keeping you company
while you're trying

to finish up those
pesky little sketches.

Oh, you're Max Cady,
aren't you?

You know, you better
get the hell out of here
before I call the police.

I'm not doing nothing.

Just giving you back
your dog collar.

I'm not on
your property.

Oh, what'd you
come out here for,
you want to look around?

Go ahead, Mr. Cady,
take a good look.

Nice house.
Yeah.

It is a nice house.
You satisfied
now you've seen it?

Or is there more? Huh?

Is that it?

There is going to
be more, isn't there,
Mr. Cady? Huh?

You won't stop
until you're happy.

How can I be happy, Leigh,
when you're not happy?

You don't know
anything about me.

I know what I see,
ma'am.

Yeah?
Mmm-hmm.

I wanted to know
what you looked like.

I've been waiting
to see your face,

but you know now
that I see you,

you are just repulsive.

I understand.
Yeah.

I'm not your type.
No.

All that prison time
made me coarse.

Guess I'm covered in
too many tattoos, huh?

But, you see,
there's not a whole
hell of a lot

to do in prison but
desecrate your flesh.

Of course it didn't
have to be that way
for either of us

if your husband
hadn't betrayed us both.

Who knows?
We might have been
different people.

We might have
been happy, Leigh.

Mom, someone's
on the phone!

Dani!

Don't come out here!

Sam. Hey, Sam.
Yo, Sam.

Sam, I thought
I'd catch you here.

Well, that little
smart aleck made me.

He what?

Well, it wasn't
my fault.

He was looking
to be covered.

You're right. There is
a lot of cutsie-cutsie

in that little prick,
isn't there?

Yeah, I told you.

You know
where he was today?

At the public library reading
Thus Spake Zarathustra

by Friedrich Nietzsche,
he's this German philosopher.

He said that
God is dead.

God is dead. Right.

Look, we can keep
going this way,

but it's going to get
awful expensive, Sam.

Well, look, I'm not so
concerned about days.

Just stay on him
a few more nights,
will you?

Look, do you really want
to resolve this situation?

Yes, I'd love
to resolve it.

Then I got
a suggestion.

There's men that
can be hired, by me,

to do a little job on Cady,
a little hospital job.

What are we
talking about here?

Two pieces of pipe
and a bicycle chain.

Sam.

He won't be
so scary after that.

I'm a lawyer, right?

We agree that
I'm a lawyer?
Yeah.

You know,
maybe 2,000 years ago,

we'd have taken this guy out
and stoned him to death.

I can't operate
outside the law.
The law is my business.

SAM: Hi, I'm home!
Where is everybody?

In here.

Evening, ladies.
Oh, chicken.

How is everything?
Is everything okay?

DANIELLE: Yeah.
Good. Good.

He was here today.

DANIELLE: Hello?

MAN ON PHONE:
Hello, Danielle?

Is this
Miss Danielle Bowden?

Yeah.

This is your
new teacher calling.

From English or Drama?

Drama.

So how you doing?

Fine.

Well, I'm just
going down the list,

greeting my
summer students.

You sound kind of down.

No.

There's just been stuff
going on around here,
that's all.

I see.
Anything I can do?

I doubt it.

I mean,
shit happens, you know,
like the T-shirt says.

Yeah.

Well, you know, Danielle,
all that negativity,
you can use that.

What do you mean?

Well, I'm the kind
of teacher that takes

a very personal interest
in his kids.

And don't mind me if
I tell you everything

you're going through,
it's okay, go with it.

The awkwardness
you feel, say,

when you're walking
down the street

and some leering fool
is making fun
of your sexuality,

the turmoil you feel,
extra bad when

that particular time
of the month
comes around,

the anger you feel
that your mom and dad

won't let you
just grow up

and be yourself,
be a woman.

Go with it.
Don't suppress
or deny it.

Use it in your life
and your work.

Okay. I mean...

That's... I'll have to
think about all that.

So, class is tomorrow
in Room 110, right?

No, it's been changed
to the theater.

I mean, what better place
for drama, right?

Yeah.

And remember, Danielle,

you can use all those fears
to draw upon and learn.

You know
this little tune?

WOMAN ON TAPE: (SINGING)
If you want a

Do-right-all-day woman

Woman

You've got to be
a do-right-all-night man

Man

Now, you can trust in me,
because I'm a do-right man,
okay?

Okay, 'night now.

Okay. Good night.

You know, honey,
I think maybe
I should walk you in.

No, it's okay, Mom.
There's a lot
of people here.

I'll be right here
at 4:00 to pick you up.

Okay. Bye.
Bye.

I didn't think
summer session was
gonna be so crowded.

It's not.
They're just having
a big meeting

about next fall's
chorus program.

I have to go downstairs
for Drama. Bye.

Okay, bye.

Hello.

Nadine?

I'm here for
the Drama class.

Hi.

Oops.

Am I busted?

No.
I hope not.

You can't smoke grass
in school.

Privilege of
the profession.

Eases inhibitions.
You down here for Drama?

Yeah.

Are you
the Drama teacher?

And you're,
let me guess.

Cecile James?

No, I'm Danielle Bowden.

Danielle.
Oh, we spoke last night.

Yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry.
How rude.

It's okay.

Um...

(SINGING) I think
we're alone now...

(CHUCKLES)

Okay.

Thanks. Here.

I'm going to
give this to you.

Ow. (LAUGHS)

Little trick I learned.
Take it.

You know when we spoke
on the phone last night?

Mmm-hmm.

You really
made sense to me

and I thought a lot.

Those are human truths,
darling.

That's what
it's all about.

And that's what
we deal with here.

See the book you have,
Thomas Wolfe?

It's all about
self-discovery,
the inner voyage.

I like the end

where Eugene's journey...
It was really mystical,
you know,

and it was almost
like a pilgrimage.

Almost like a cop-out,
if you ask me.

Although those were
the facts of Wolfe's life.

The novel is
what you would call
a roman � clef.

You know what that is?
(SIGHS)

Sure.

Well, nonetheless,
you can't escape

your demons just
by leaving home.

Although writers
do find new freedom
when they relocate abroad.

Take Henry Miller.
Have you read
his trilogy?

Plexus, Nexus
and Sexus?

No. No.
You haven't
read that?

You're missing
something.

Well, you know what?
I did read
Tropic of Cancer.

Just parts of it,
though,

because I had to
sneak it off my parents'
shelf, you know?

But his descriptions
are pretty vivid,
I would say.

In one of the novels,
I don't recall which,

he describes an erection
as a piece of lead
with wings on it.

I didn't read
that part.

Of course not.
You're not allowed.

Your parents
don't want you to
achieve adulthood.

That's natural.

They know the pitfalls
of adulthood,
all that freedom.

They know it
only too well.

Temptation to stray,
deflecting their guilt
and anger onto you

for a crime that's
not even a crime,
for smoking grass.

Wait a second.

Where are you from?

Where am I from?

Yeah.
Where do you think
I'm from?

I don't know, but...

If I told you,
you going to
get mad at me?

No.

I'm from
the black forest.

That's funny.

You're not
the Drama teacher,
are you?

Maybe I'm
the big bad wolf.

Umm...

So you're that guy
that's been hanging
around the house?

You're the one that
killed my mom's dog?

Your mom's dog
was killed?

Yeah.

I didn't even know
anything about that.

That's a shame.

That's a damn shame.

Yes, it was.

What kind
of dog was it?

I don't know.
He was just...

He was fluffy, and...

Fluffy?

Mmm-hmm.

So you didn't do that?

Of course
I didn't do that.

Okay.

I wouldn't do that.

So why... What are
you doing here, then?

Well, I came to meet you,
to be honest with you.

Why? I mean...

Because

I wanted to meet you,
see what you're like.

I see you're
a nice person.
That's all.

You're not going
to hurt me, are you?

I'm not going to
hurt you at all.

There's no
hurting here, Danielle.

Between us,
there's no anger,
nothing.

Just a search
for truth.

I mean, did you judge me,
did you get angry at me

when you caught me
smoking the grass?

Hmm?

No.

But your parents,
they judged you.

They got plenty angry
at you, didn't they?

Yeah.
Mmm-hmm.

They punished you
for their sins.

What did they do?

They...

My dad...
They just yelled
a whole lot

and my mom cried

and my dad said
I couldn't drive
the Cherokee.

I would say
they punished you
for their sins,

and you resent that,

and you should
resent it.

But Professor do-right has
a little advice for you.

You shouldn't
damn them.

Don't judge them.
Just forgive them,

for they know not
what they do.

Oh...
Um...

Why do you
hate my father?

I don't hate him at all.
Oh, no. I pray for him.

I'm here to help him.

I mean, we all
make mistakes,
Danielle.

You and I have.
But at least we try
to admit it.

Don't we?

Yeah.

But your daddy,
he don't.

Every man carries
a circle of hell around
his head like a halo.

Your daddy, too.

Every man, every man
has to go through hell
to reach his paradise.

You know
what paradise is?

No.
Salvation.

'Cause your daddy's
not happy.

Your mommy's
not happy.

And you know what?
You're not happy.

Are you?

No, I'm not.

You thought about me
last night, didn't you?

Um...

Yes, I did.

I know.

You know, I think
I might have
found a companion,

a companion for
that long walk
to the light.

Do you mind if
I put my arm
around you?

Um...

It's okay.

No, I don't mind.

Okay.

(GIGGLES)

Kersek, where the hell
have you been,
for Christ sake?

He came at my daughter
at school.

You asked me to
watch him nights.

I'm watching him nights.
What happened?

My wife, Leigh,
she found some marijuana

in one of
Dani's schoolbooks.

We don't know if Cady
gave it to her or
exactly what happened,

but she's scared and
she won't talk about it.

But now this has
gone far enough.
It's got to stop!

You phone the cops?

No, I didn't
phone the cops.

I mean, what did
you call them?

You call them "Slow,
skeptical, pathetic, even."

Dani.
No, Leigh,
that's all right.

Just hold on a minute.

Kersek, look,
I want to hire
those three guys,

you remember,
the hospital job.

Consider it done,
the sooner the better.

Three men's going
to cost you a grand.

Now I know that's
not chicken feed,

but you don't wanna go
with less than three.

It's better to
overdo it.

Okay.
You'll have the money
in the morning.

All right.
Then we'll be on
for tomorrow night.

And Sam,
you'll feel good
about this.

All right.

Do you notice
these young people?

They don't
look very happy.

They're committed
to their professions
and to their ambitions,

but they're not
committed to each other.

Cady, shut up
and listen.

If you don't leave...

If you don't
leave my family alone

and if you don't
get out of here,

you're going to be hurting
like you never dreamed.

Could you repeat that?

I said,

if you don't
get out of here,

you're going to be hurting
like you never dreamed.

A threat?
Yeah.

You bet your ass
that's a threat.

Well,
I have thought
of relocating

somewhere where I'd
be more appreciated,
California, perhaps.

I could teach
earthquake preparedness.

But then it hits me,
I love New Essex,
Counselor.

I mean,
where else could
I just casually confer

with an old colleague?

We're not colleagues.
Do you understand that?
We're not colleagues.

Still think you're
better than me.

No, I don't think
I'm better than you.

That's not
the goddamned point.

Good. 'Cause if
you're not better than me,

then I can have
what you have.

What do I have?

A wife, a daughter.

I'm going to teach you
the meaning of commitment.

Fourteen years ago,
I was forced to make

a commitment to
an eight-by-nine cell

and now you're
going to be forced
to make a commitment.

You could say I'm here
to save you.

Fine.

Check out the Bible,
Counselor,

the book between
Esther and Psalms.

Dani? Dani?

You all right?

What?
Is everything
all right?

Yeah.

This isn't going
to work, you know.

What isn't going
to work?

Locking us in,
hiding us from the world.

Oh, don't be
so dramatic, Dani.

Making me stay out
of school.

You're going back
to school tomorrow.

And put
some clothes on.

You're not
a little kid anymore.

Yeah? Then why
am I going back
to school tomorrow?

What are you
going to do?

That's none of
your concern, Dani.

Dad, he didn't
force himself
on me, you know.

I know you'd like
to think that he did.

But I think he was...

I think he was
just trying to make
a connection with me.

You know?
Now, Dani,

I want you to
listen to me.

All right? No.
Do you understand?

No. There will never
be any connection

between you
and Max Cady.

You understand that?

Did he touch you?

(CHUCKLES)

What are you
laughing about?
Why are you smiling?

I'm asking you a question.
Did he touch you?

Dani, wipe that
smile off your face!

I'm asking you,
did he touch you?

No, no, no, wait, Dani.
I'm sorry.

No, I'm sorry.

Wait, honey.
I'm sorry.

Get out of here!
Get out of here!

THUG: Max?

Come on.
Come on. Come on.

Come on.

Counselor?

Is that you?

Counselor?

Come out, come out,
wherever you are.

I ain't no white trash
piece of shit.

I'm better
than you all.

I can out-learn you.

I can out-read you.

I can outthink you,
and I can
out-philosophize you.

And I'm going
to outlast you.

You think
a couple of whacks

to my good-old-boy gut's
gonna get me down?

It's going to
take a hell of a lot more
than that, Counselor,

to prove you're
better than me!

"I am like God,
and God like me.

"I am as large as God.

"He is as small as I.

"He cannot above me
nor I beneath him be."

Silesius,
17th century.

Counselor?

Could you be there?

Counselor?

I wonder
if you're here.

Fuck it.

If you're here,
what the fuck's
the difference?

Fuck it!

WOMAN: I've got
Mr. Kersek on one.

SAM: Good.
I'll take it.

Tom.

Sam, you look tired.
You get that writ?

No, no, we got to
get into that.
Let me just grab this.

Kersek.
Look, I'm damn sorry
about last night.

That son of a bitch
could survive

a preemptive
nuclear strike.

All right.
Hang on a second.
Hang on a second.

Tom, I'm not doing it.
I pulled a fast one

and it's come back and
it's bit me on the ass
in a major way.

What you did was dumb.

What I'm asking here
is no big deal, Sam.
This is my daughter!

No, Tom, it's perjury
and it's bullshit

and I'm not doing it!
Now, excuse me.

All right?
All right.
I'll be in my office.

Tom, who was that
top criminal lawyer?

Lee Heller.
Kersek.

We need to talk.
KERSEK: Trouble is

if word gets out
how Cady bushwhacked
those poor bastards,

it's gonna be
a bitch to line up
three new guys.

I don't want three new guys.
No more guys, you hear me?

Mr. Heller,
it's Sam Bowden

from Broadbent
and Denmeyer.

Tom speaks
very highly of you.

In fact,
he says you're the best,

and the best is
what I need right now.

HELLER: (ON PHONE)
We froze our butts
together in Korea.

How can I help you,
Sam?

Well, it's a simple petition
for a restraining order,

but there's been
some complications.

Now,
I know this is
short notice,

but look,
I need this injunction.

You see,
there's an ex-convict
by the name of Max Cady,

he's been
harassing my family.

I'm sorry, Mr. Bowden.
I can't continue
this conversation.

Well, is there
a more convenient time?

No, no. The damn thing
is I have a conflict.

Now, what would
that be?
Well, you see,

Mr. Cady retained
my services
as of yesterday.

He what?

In fact,
I see on my phone sheet

Mr. Cady called
this morning,

so I'm sure
he'll fill me in...

But wait a minute, Lee.
Now, look, this man
is a psychotic.

It appears
I'll be seeing you at
that hearing after all.

CADY ON TAPE:
Could you repeat that?

SAM ON TAPE: I said
if you don't leave...

If you don't
leave my family alone

and if you don't
get out of here,

you're gonna be hurting
like you never dreamed.

A threat?

Yeah, you bet your ass
that's a threat.

HELLER:
You need only glance
at my client to know

that Mr. Bowden
made good

on his heinous
and cowardly threat.

Just as God arose
to judgment

to save all the meek
of the earth,

I hope and pray
you will do
the same, sir.

Your Honor,

Mr. Cady wouldn't
have surreptitiously
taped our meeting

unless he knew
that he'd...

This court
does not condone

feuds, vendettas
or vigilantism.

Let me quote our
great Negro educator,
Mr. Booker T. Washington.

"I will let no man
drag me down so low

"as to make me
hate him."

Yes.

I will grant
the restraining order

not to validate
the malice between you,

but in the interest
of Christian harmony.

You may not come
within 500 yards

of Mr. Maximilian Cady

until such time
as the court may
lift the injunction.

King Solomon could
not have adjudicated
more wisely, Your Honor.

I am so offended by
the philistine tactics
of Mr. Bowden,

I petitioned the A. B.A.
For his disbarment

on the grounds of
moral turpitude.

Now, if you will
excuse us, my client...

Come on, son...

Is due back
at the hospital

for the results of
his numerous X-rays.

Kersek, I want a gun.

I need a gun.
I want a gun.

You want a gun?

Yeah, I need a gun.

Know anything
about guns?
No.

No, I don't believe
in them.

I never had them
around the house
or anything.

All right,
I'll get you a gun.

What kind of
gun you want?
Now, calm down.

Well, just something simple,
something I can handle.

Let me see
what fits you. A.45...

Let me see your hands.
Okay.

A.38 snub-nosed
special. Yeah.
All right. Good.

That'll do. I can even
teach you how to use it.

All right. Great.
The first lesson
is this.

Don't think of it
as shooting a man
or trying to kill him.

Right.
Think of it as
an extension of your fist.

You're just reaching out
and knocking the man down.

All right.

Later on we can
go out to the woods
and shoot some trees, okay?

That'd be great.
That'd be great. Good.

What is it? What?

Well, Sam...
Yeah?

I give you a gun.
You pull it on Cady,

and it's gonna
dawn on you

that shooting a man
is different

than blowing holes
in some tree.

Next thing, you know,
you don't have my gun,
Cady does.

No, no, no.
You're gonna teach me.

I know how
to handle a gun.

He won't take it
away from me.

Best-case scenario,
you kill Cady dog-dead.

Fifteen years to life.
Do you realize that,
Counselor?

Oh, Jesus!
It's all fucked up,
Kersek!

I mean,
the law considers me

more of a loose cannon
than Max Cady!

Some big-shit attorney
has whipped

the A. B.A.'s
ethics committee
into a frenzy.

There's an emergency session
in Raleigh over the assault.

How did they link that
to you?

I went to warn Cady.
I thought it was
the decent thing to do.

Maybe I'd scare him.
And he was wired.

Goddamn fools.

This hearing,
it's real important?

(LAUGHS)

Only if I want to continue
to practice law. Yeah.

Cady isn't
expected there, is he?

Oh, no, no, no.
Mr. Cady,
he's beyond reproach.

But you're required
to be there.
Yeah.

When is this hearing?

It's Thursday morning,
9:00.

The torture begins
and lasts for two days.

You have to fly up
the night before?

Right.

Cady's an opportunist.

If he thinks
you're gonna be out
of town for two days,

that's going to be
as tempting to him
as shit is to a fly.

If Cady breaks
into your home,

he can be killed.

Justifiably.

But he won't show
unless he's real sure
you're not gonna be there.

Have a good trip.

All right. Bye-bye.

Call us tonight, okay?

All right.

I didn't miss
the 9:20 to Raleigh?

I'm afraid you did, sir.
But there's a 10:20.

Oh, it's not that.

I just have some very,
very important papers
for Samuel Bowden.

Was he on the 9:20?

We can't give out
that information, sir.

Well, it's just...

I guess I could send it
to him overnight,

but he might be back,
for all I know,
tomorrow morning, and I...

See, I...

My wife and I have
been in an accident,
and he's our lawyer.

And if I don't get
in touch with him,
we could lose this case.

We've already lost
our little daughter, Dani.

Is...

Is there any way
I can find out

if he was on that flight
and when he's coming back?

It'd really,
really help us.

He'll be back the day
after tomorrow, sir.

Bless your heart.

Go on. Go on in.

Get down, Sam.

Leigh. Leigh,
give me a cigarette.

You better
slow down, Sam.

You're outpacing me
two-to-one since
you started smoking.

Just keep track of
how many I owe you.

So, how'd it go
at the airport?

Well, we did our thing,

but we don't know
if he saw us,

we don't even know
if he was there.

Set the trap
and we'll see.

What if we don't
want to see?

Dani!
DANIELLE: What?

Maybe he
poisoned the dog.

Dani...
Sam, watch out
for the windows.

Yeah, you're not
allowed to stand up,
Dad, remember?

Didn't Cady
go after her?

LEIGH:
You don't know Dani.

If she finds
a palmetto bug
in her bedroom,

she takes it outside.

You know, she could
never kill anything.

Even a six-foot
palmetto bug?

Oh, God.

What is that?

It's a monofilament line.
I got it from
Sam's fishing gear.

See, what I do is
I stretch it across
the windows and the doors

and tie it to
Dani's teddy bear here.

If the bear moves
a quarter of an inch,

I'll know
if the holy ghost
is sneaking in.

What are you reading?

Why? Did Kersek quit?

No.

It's just
that Cady said...

You want some answers.

Me, too.

I'd like to know just
how strong we are
or how weak.

But I guess
the only way we're going
to find that out

is just by
going through this.

It's just that Cady said
to read the book between
Esther and Psalms.

Which is which one?

The Book of Job.

Job was a good man.
He believed in God

and God tested
his faith.

He took away
everything he had,

even his children.

(GASPS)

DANIELLE:
It's hideous, this plan.
I mean, barbaric.

They're crazy.
My dad's turned
into some kind of...

I don't know what.

Barbaric.

Listen to your father.
Do what they say.
What else you can do?

Leave. We could go
to the houseboat,
you know,

and get lost
in any inlet.

Dani, come on.

Don't stay outside.

You wanna know what
really disturbs me?
It's killing this guy.

I mean,
taking a man's life.

I don't know if
I can live with that.

You may have to.

Sam, just remember
the plan.
I know the plan.

Damn, it's premeditated.
It's...

It makes me an accomplice,
an accessory, an abettor.

It's also excessive force.

Sam,
the only thing excessive
we could do to Cady

would be to gut him
and eat his liver.

That might
be excessive.

Jesus Christ,
Kersek, I'm serious.

No, you're scared.

But that's okay.
I want you to
savor that fear.

You know,
the South evolved in fear.

Fear of the Indian,
fear of the slave,
fear of the damn Union.

The South has
a fine tradition
of savoring fear.

SAM: What's the matter?

Don't look over!
Don't look.

She's making me nervous.

What would
she normally do

if Sam wasn't around
to run her home?

She'd stay...
SAM: She'd stay over.

Well, then,
she stays over.

Leigh?

What?
Leigh.

I know how
the dog died.

Sam, are you dreaming?
No. No.

I just had
the weirdest feeling

he was already
in the house.

Can't sleep,
huh, Miss Graciela?

Yeah. It's hot.

You know,
I think it's the humidity

that makes us all
so thirsty.

Excuse me.

My pop was a cop.

Twenty years.

This was his favorite drink
when he was on a stakeout.

I learned that
in prison. You like?

White trash
piece of shit.

Stay here, Leigh.

Kersek?

Dani, Dani,
go back to your room.
Go back to your room.

Lock the door.

Kersek?

Don't go down there, Sam.

No, it's all right.

Kersek?

Sam?

SAM: Dani, don't look.

Oh, my God, Graciela!

Dani, don't look.
Don't look, Dani.

Oh, my God.

DANIELLE: Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

It's the piano wire.

LEIGH: Sam!

I'm going to get
this son of a bitch!

Sam!

No! No! No!

No!

I'm gonna slit
that son of a bitch!

Tell him to stop!

God, he might be out here!
He might be out here!

SAM: Now, listen,
I've got Kersek's
gun with me

and you're gonna
find the piano wire that
Cady used in the house.

Yeah, I know
how this looks.
I know it.

You're not supposed
to flee a murder scene.

Listen, Lieutenant, now,
you may know this
and you may not,

but in the law,
there's a thing
called force majeure.

It means
an unforeseeable act of God

and it cancels
all promises
and obligations.

So, legally speaking,
all bets are off.

You find Max Cady
and we'll come back.

What did he say?

He said we're fugitives.

DANIELLE:
What's that mean?

SAM: That means we're
doing something right.

Where's that
old mongrel dog
of yours, Mrs. Bowden?

Tomorrow,
I'll catch some fish.

Oh, you know,
you don't have to.

I've got
enough food here
to last us a week.

But it'd be nice.

Good.

It's only rain.
A sheet of rain.

What was that?

It's just a squall.

I'll go check
the anchor.

Wait, Dad.
Don't go out.

No, Dani. Now, look,
everything is okay.
All right?

Yeah. We're on
the river now, baby.

It's just a squall
kicking up.

Graciela has a brother.

I mean, she had...

Oh, sweetie.

We'll get in touch
with him right away.

Sam?

We're making some tea.

Sam?

Dad?

SAM: I can't hear you.
It's windy out.

What's that?

Are we moving?

Sam?

Evening, ladies.

You know my husband
has a gun?

Not this gun?

Is it this gun?

Where is he?

Resting up. He had
a long, difficult day.

Danielle, I told you,
you can't escape

your demons just
by leaving home.

I didn't.

My parents
brought me here.

Of course.

Where's Sexus?

Back at the house.

Shame.

I had hoped
we could read aloud
from it together.

Well,

I memorized some
for you.

Did you?

Yeah.
Did you?

Yeah.

Well, I'm impressed.

Which part?

The part...

You know what part,
you know.

I don't think
you did your homework.

I did.

What parts were they?

The good parts?

Yeah. They were...

Were you a good girl?

I was.

I knew you'd
follow me here and...

You know me pretty well,
don't you, darling?

Yeah. I do.

You're gonna get
to know me
a lot better, too.

Are you offering me
something hot?

Let's get
something straight here.

I spent 14 years in
an eight-by-nine cell

surrounded by people
who were less than human.

My mission
in that time

was to become
more than human.

You see?

Granddaddy used
to handle snakes
in church.

Granny drank strychnine.

I guess you could
say I had a leg-up,
genetically speaking.

(SCREAMS)

I'm gonna forgive you,
Danielle, honey.

'Cause I know that
wasn't the real you,
the true you.

But I would like you
to wait in the hold.

Danielle, Danielle,
get in the hold.

Danielle!

Stop!
No!

No!

Ready to be born again,
Mrs. Bowden?

A few minutes alone
with me, darling,

and you will be
speaking in tongues.

(EXCLAIMING)

Excuse me, Mrs. B.

Please don't
take umbrage,

but in the plan
that I have formulated,

there's much more to it
than just you and
I just making love.

I mean, that's just
so commonplace
and dreary.

Here and now,
we have an opportunity.

"What is that opportunity?"
You ask.

Why, here and now,
we have an opportunity

to depict
and dramatize...

No!

...both the heights
and the depths

of a mama's true love
of her daughter,
if you all get my meaning.

Come on out, babe.
Come on, darling.
Let's go.

Get out.
Get up here.

Cady, listen to me.
This is between

you and me.
Leave them out of it.

This is my night, Counselor.
Don't you step on my lines.

No! Stop! Stop!

Yes, Leigh?

Listen to me, Max.
Listen to me.

You know, Max,
since all this started,

I've thought
about you all the time.

I've tried to imagine
what it must have
been like for you

all those years,
locked up in jail.

I've tried
to imagine you
and even your crimes

and how you must have felt
in those moments
that you did them.

See, I know
about loss, Max.

I know about losing time,
even losing years.

And I know it
doesn't compare to jail,

but I can understand
and I could
share this with you.

Because of that,
whatever it is
that you've got planned,

I want you to do
it just with me,

not with her,

because we have
this connection.

What do you think,
Counselor?

No!

That was real eloquent,
Leigh.

Brave, too.

I wanna thank you
for conveying to me
your very powerful emotions

because

I'm gonna enjoy this
all the more.

Oh, my God!

Oh, God!

The people call
Samuel J. Bowden!

Do you swear
to tell the truth

and nothing but the truth,
so help you, God?

Cady, somebody's
got to man the boat.

We're heading into
unprotected water.

Do you swear?
I'll do it, Dad.

You sit, Danielle!
Don't you make light

of your civic duty,
darling. You're the jury.

SAM: All right,
all right, okay,

I swear to tell the truth.
What do you wanna know?

Was a prior
sexual history
ever prepared

in connection
with my defense?

Was a prior
sexual history
ever prepared

in connection
with my defense?

It's...

I'm sorry,
Your Honor. I agree.
That was argumentative.

An investigator
did prepare a prior

sexual history on
the alleged victim.

True?

I can ask
leading questions,
Your Honor.

He is a hostile witness.

Would you care
to tell the court

what the gist was
of this report?

Cady, it was 14 years ago.
I can't remember that.

How can he answer
when you're hitting him
like that?

Because he's
perjuring himself,
Your Honor.

He knows damn well
exactly what it said.

Don't you?

It said that
she was promiscuous.

It said that she had
three different lovers
in one month.

At least three!
At least three!

And did you show
this report to the D. A?

No, no!

I only discovered it
by chance when I started
representing myself

six years
into my sentence!

But there it was
in the court file.

But back in '77,
you buried it,
Counselor.

Would you care to
tell the jury why?

Would you care to
tell the court why?

Because I know
he brutally raped her
and he beat her.

Talk to me!
I'm standing here!

Just because she
was promiscuous

didn't give you
the right to rape her!

You bragged to me
that you beat two prior

aggravated rapes.
You were a menace!

You were my lawyer!
You were my lawyer!

That report could
have saved me 14 years.

You're probably right.

You self-righteous fuck!

I'm Virgil, Counselor,
and I'm guiding you
through the gates of Hell.

We are now
in the 9th circle,
the circle of traitors.

Traitors to country,
traitors to fellow man,

traitors to God!

You, sir, are charged

with betraying
the principles
of all three!

Can you please quote for me
the American Bar Association's

Rules of
Professional Conduct,
Canon seven?

"A lawyer should
represent his client..."

"Should zealously
represent his client

"within the bounds
of the law."

And I find you guilty,
Counselor,

guilty of betraying
your fellow man,

guilty of
betraying your country,

guilty of
abrogating your oath,

guilty of judging me
and selling me out!

And with
the power vested in me
by the kingdom of God,

I sentence you to
the 9th circle of Hell!

Now you will learn
about loss,

loss of freedom,
loss of humanity.

Now you and I will truly
be the same, Counselor.

Danielle,
get down on your knees.

Both of you
take off your clothes!

Down on your knees now!

No, no, no.

Down on your knees!

Take off your clothes!
Get down on your knees!

No! Don't!

Now, take off your clothes!
Off with your clothes!

You, Leigh, take off
your clothes. Now!

DANIELLE: No!

CADY: Come on!
Git! Git!

No!
Git!

Tonight, you're gonna
learn to be an animal,

to live like an animal
and to die like one.

Give me your hand!

No!

Go! Go!

Did you forget about
that restraining order,
Counselor?

You're well
within 500 yards!

Well, here we are,
Counselor,

just two lawyers
working it out!

I'm going to kill you!

You already
sacrificed me,
Counselor.

(SPEAKING GIBBERISH)

On Jordan's stormy banks I stand

Oh who will come
with me?

I am bound for
the promised land

DANIELLE: We never spoke
about what happened,
at least not to each other.

Fear, I suppose,
that to remember his name
or what he did

would mean letting him
into our dreams.

And me, I hardly dream
about him anymore.

Still, things won't
ever be the way they were
before he came.

But that's all right

because if you
hang onto the past,
you die a little every day.

And for myself,

I know I'd rather live.

The end.