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111. CONTINUED                111.

He opens the gate as David and Sounder scatter back across the road -- the Other Guard calls out -- 

OTHER GUARD
Section J comin' through!

GUARD
Let 'er roll!

The truck motors through the gate and stops just outside as the Guard makes his final check of the Men. David, from where he is standing, also checks it thoroughly to see fi his father is on the truck. A number of trucks ROAR through the gate and David checks them all thoroughly, but his father is not on any of them. Finally the last truck comes out --

OTHER GUARD
Last one comin' atcha!

GUARD
Let me have it!

The truck pulls to a halt just outside the gate, and David eyes the Men on the truck carefully as the Guard makes his check --

DAVID LEE
He gotta be on this one, Sounder, it's the last truck.

There are not too many men on this truck which makes it quite easy for David to see that his father is not on it. Then where is he? The boy thinks to himself as he sees the truck move away up the road. The truck is moving no more than about twenty miles an hour -- David Lee makes a decision and takes off after the truck, running --

112. EXT. A FARM - DAY            112. 

A half hour later, the truck with the convicts pull into a huge farm area -- the Two Guards jump down from the truck and herd the Men into a group while a third Guard gets out of the cab -- and they distribute farm equipment to the Men. A PICKET FENCE stretches the area where the Men work. 

113. EXT. THE ROAD - DAY         113.

Some minutes later David Lee and Sounder, walking, approach the farm area where the convicts are, moving along the road outside of the fence. 

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