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80. CONTINUED       80.

The Guard opens the box, pulls from his pocket a switchblade knife and with slow deliberation punctures knife holes in about fifteen different places in the cake. After he is done, he closes the box and rises.

GUARD (CONT'D)
What's your daddy's name?

DAVID LEE
Nathan Lee Morgan...

The Guard checks his list on the table --

GUARD
Okay, boy, fourth cell down there on your left.

David moves inside --

81. INT. CORRIDOR OF JAIL CELLS - DAY  81.

David Lee moves along the corridor, looking from one side to the other at the MEN sitting on cots and standing behind iron gates. He comes to Nathan's cell and there is his father, standing with his hands on the bars.

NATHAN LEE
Well, looka here...

DAVID LEE
Hi, Daddy...

NATHAN LEE
Hi to you, son...

He extends his hands and they shake -- and then he draws the boy close and embraces him -- 

DAVID LEE
Mama is outside with Josie Mae and Earl.

NATHAN LEE
They is!? It shore is good to see you, boy!

Finally David passes the box with the cake on to him.

DAVID LEE
This was a real cake before the man at the door put all these holes in it.

CONTINUED