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THE GOOD WIFE #105 "For the Camera" PINK COLLATED 9/16/09 10.
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PATRICE
So you’re his new lawyers then?
ALICIA
No. Legal Aid didn’t have the
staff to argue the appeal, so we’re
just on temporarily.
Alicia pauses, realizes this sounds officious.
PATRICE
Because you never said anything
about Clarence being innocent.
ALICIA
Yes, unfortunately, that wasn’t the
point of this appeal. It was
whether some mistake was made in
the law.
PATRICE
But isn’t it a mistake in the law
if he didn’t do it? If he was with
me that night?
Alicia stares at her. A woman more heartbroken than angry.
PATRICE (CONT’D)
Have you ever even met him?
(Alicia shakes her head)
And you’re arguing for his life?
Alicia feels punched in the stomach. Patrice reaches into
her purse, takes out a photo:
PATRICE (CONT’D)
I want you to have this. That’s
the last time he held his daughter.
She leaves the photo with Alicia and starts up the aisle with
her daughter. Alicia feels naked, standing there, photo in
her hand. She looks down at it. Clarence on a beach,
holding his infant daughter, waving. Alicia hears...
...a side-door opening. Looks over, sees Will exiting.
Crossing toward the table, stacking up his papers.
WILL
We lost the appeal.
ALICIA
What? When? How do you know?
(CONTINUED)