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CHARLIE (CONT'D)
That was Judge Elliot on the phone and when Judge Elliot calls, I jump! Good day, Rita.

He moves to the door, to the waiting area and opens it to leave -- David Lee can be seen standing in the background of Charlie --

MRS. BOATWRIGHT
But Charlie --

CHARLIE
No! N - O, NO!

Just like that he is gone. Mrs. Boatwright stands in the middle of the floor in a moment of frustration, with David Lee looking on from the alcove. She thinks for a moment and then looks to the file cabinets against the wall. David stands in the doorway as she decides to go to the file cabinets. She checks the outer notation on each one of the cabinets until she comes to the one that reads: PRISONER CASES. She quickly opens the cabinet drawer and hurriedly fingers through the files until she find the file with Nathan Lee Morgan's name on it. She goes through it until she has gotten the information she wants and just as she is about to put it back, Charlie Davis has returned and has caught her in his files. She looks cheaply to him, slips the file back into its place, closes the cabinet drawer and backs away from the file cabinet. He moves past David Lee into the office on to the file cabinet where she was, opens it enough for him to tell that she has disturbed the one single file of Nathan Lee Morgan. He slams the file drawer back shut and turns to her.

CHARLIE (CONT'D)
I see you found what you was lookin' for.

MRS BOATWRIGHT
I did look, Charlie, but I --

CHARLIE
No buts, Rita!

MRS. BOATWRIGHT
Charlie, you have no legal right not to let this boy know where his father is! You hear that, you and this whole damn court house; what you are doing is wrong!

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