 THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE screenplay by Jonathan Lemkin and Tony Gilroy based on the novel by Andrew Neiderman REVISED SHOOTING DRAFT January, FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / FADE IN: FLORIDA COURTROOM - DAY Northern Florida in the midst of a heat wave. Air conditioners fighting a losing battle. The gallery is full. The JUDGE a stern, old hand. The PROSECUTOR, an efficient man with a good case. The witness is BARBARA. She is maybe . She is a witness in a criminal trial. Her testimony has been carefully rehearsed. BARBARA we go back to our homeroom for dismissal, unless you have a pass for sports or something. PROSECUTOR And is that what you did on the day in question? BARBARA No. Mr. Gettys asked me to stay after class. PROSECUTOR What happened next, Barbara? BARBARA Mr. Gettys closed the door. PROSECUTOR Everyone else had gone? BARBARA Yes. He told me to sit in the chair beside his desk. MR. GETTYS, the defendant, is . The very picture of respectability. His perfect wife and son staunchly enduring this testimony. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: PROSECUTOR In your own words, Barbara, can you tell us exactly what happened during the next few minutes? KEVIN LOMAX. Defense counsel. Taking it all in. BARBARA I told him I was afraid I would miss my bus. He promised I would get to the bus on time if I would help him to do something Kevin his eyes drifting around the courtroom taking inventory assessing damage BARBARA Then he put before I could say anything he placed his hand inside my blouse Kevin checking the jury and BARBARA I was so frightened I didn't move. I thought if I was just quiet it would be okay Kevin checking Gettys seeing something that stops him cold BARBARA Then his other hand went up under inside my skirt Gettys' hand down below the table down where no one but Kevin could possibly see it Getty's fingers subtly feeling their way along the leg of his chair BARBARA his hand then, it started, he started, moving back and forth farther and farther inside my skirt Kevin glancing around nobody else can see it BARBARA he said he was testing to see if I had any special feelings, that he wanted to find out what kind of feelings I had CONTINUED . CONTINUED: Gettys' hand excited now stroking the chair leg absently involuntarily unmistakably sexual BARBARA I didn't know what to say, I was trying to think of something to say but I was confused and he just kept on with his hand moving it under my dress higher and higher Kevin is rocked. Trying not to show it. BARBARA then I, I was asking him to stop but it was like he couldn't hear me he just kept on Suddenly, Gettys' hand stops moving BARBARA and then I screamed Kevin looks up to find Gettys' eyes waiting for him. Gettys quickly returns his hand into his lap. He's been caught watching, as Kevin turns away and BARBARA then he, he got mad and said we would have to try again sometime. PROSECUTOR And did he try again? BARBARA Not with me. PROSECUTOR With friends of yours? BARBARA Yes. PROSECUTOR And when you told them what he had done to you, they told you what he had done to them, isn't that true? BARBARA Yes. PROSECUTOR I have nothing further. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: JUDGE finding Kevin Your witness, Mr. Lomax. KEVIN Any chance, Your Honor, for a short recess? FLORIDA COURTHOUSE HALL - DAY Kevin heading quickly away from the courtroom. Gettys right on his heels. KEVIN Lloyd, as your attorney, I'm advising you to get the fuck away from me. GETTYS Why? What are you talking about? KEVIN The wife. The kid. The outrage. You definitely had me fooled. GETTYS You're my lawyer! You're here to defend me! KEVIN You know what I'm thinking? Why don't we put you on the stand and you can jerk off for the judge. GETTYS You know she's lying. KEVIN Get the hell out of my way. Gettys standing aside, as we FLORIDA COURTHOUSE MEN'S ROOM - DAY An ancient upstairs facility. Kevin standing at the mirror. Frozen there. Identity crisis. Morality crisis. He takes off his wedding ring. Letting cold water run in the sink. His eyes never leaving the mirror. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: Behind him, the door opens. A local REPORTER enters, moves to the urinal. REPORTER Well, hell, there you are. Rumor was you were out wandering in traffic. KEVIN Not now, Larry. REPORTER What's the game plan, Kevin? I got a four-thirty deadline. I need a quote. Gimme a quote. KEVIN Fuck off. REPORTER 'Mr. Lomax had no comment on today's events. Speculation, however, was widespread that the young lawyer's unblemished string of victories would come to an end in this courtroom.' Kevin pulls some cold water to his face. Startled, as THUNDER EXPLODES overhead then just as suddenly, becomes nothing more than the urinal flushing REPORTER It was a nice run, Kev. Had to close out someday. Nobody wins 'em all. The Reporter exits. Kevin alone with the mirror. And then it's over. He's made his decision. Replacing his wedding ring. Reaching for his jacket, as we FLORIDA COURTHOUSE HALLWAY - DAY Kevin walking through. His game face. A court officer opening the doors and DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . FLORIDA COURTROOM - DAY Barbara on the stand. Everyone in place. KEVIN Math hasn't exactly been your subject this year, has it? BARBARA No. KEVIN Any theories on why you've done so poorly in math this year? BARBARA It's not my fault. KEVIN Would you say Mr. Gettys is the problem? as she shrugs You're not sure. Have you had any discipline problems in math class this year? BARBARA No. KEVIN No? Isn't it true Mr. Gettys has had to talk to you repeatedly about your behavior? Isn't that why he asked you to stay after class? BARBARA No. KEVIN Have other teachers ever asked you to stay after class? BARBARA Once or twice. KEVIN Did they want to talk about your behavior? PROSECUTOR Objection. Immaterial. KEVIN Goes to motive. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: JUDGE Overruled. You may answer the question. BARBARA I don't know what the other teachers wanted. You'd have to talk to them. KEVIN You ever pass notes in class, Barbara? Maybe a note that made fun of Mr. Gettys? BARBARA No. KEVIN No? Never called him a 'disgusting pig monster'? BARBARA No. Kevin handing out paperwork. KEVIN Your Honor, I've pre-marked this Defense Exhibit A PROSECUTOR Objection, Your Honor, we've had plenty of time for discovery here. The Judge quickly studying his copy of the note. JUDGE I'm gonna let this in, Mr. Lomax, I'm also gonna suggest that if you have any other exhibits you present in a timely fashion or not at all. KEVIN right to the note I'm sorry, Barbara, I was wrong, it's 'huge hog beast'. This is your handwriting, isn't it? BARBARA Yes, but CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN You wrote this in his class. BARBARA It's a joke. KEVIN 'He's a huge hog beast. He probably eats a thousand pancakes for breakfast.' You're writing here about Mr. Gettys, aren't you? BARBARA It was meant to be a joke. KEVIN Have you ever had a party at your house when your parents were away? waiting Yes or no? PROSECUTOR Objection. This is way out of KEVIN Credibility and bias. JUDGE Overruled. Answer the question. BARBARA rattled Yes. KEVIN The word special came up in your testimony earlier. You claimed that Mr. Gettys asked you whether you had special feelings, if you felt special. beat Have you ever heard of a game called 'Special Places?' waiting You're under oath, Barbara. A man's career his reputation his life is on the line. This is not a joke. Have you ever played the game Special Places? BARBARA Yes. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN Is this game sexual in nature? waiting Is this game sexual in nature? BARBARA We only played it once. KEVIN This special party, Barbara, this was the first time you told the story about Mr. Gettys. BARBARA Yes. KEVIN I've spoken to the other children who were there that day. Can you think of anything else, Barbara, they might have told me about that party? PROSECUTOR Objection. Your Honor, if he has other witnesses let him call them. KEVIN right at Barbara If I need to call those other children, I will. JUDGE I'm gonna sustain that, Mr. Lomax. Rephrase your question. KEVIN You threatened those children, didn't you? BARBARA That's not the way it happened KEVIN You told them to falsely claim that Mr. Gettys had hurt them, didn't you? BARBARA These things did happen! CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / A. CONTINUED: A KEVIN Because if they didn't go along you were going to tell everyone about this special party. BARBARA They happened to me. KEVIN So you made up a story. A special story, about a math teacher a disgusting pig monster you didn't like. That's what really happened, isn't it? BARBARA I didn't want to be the only one! BARBARA'S FATHER can take it no longer suddenly on his feet charging BARBARA'S FATHER You son of a bitch! The bailiff making a diving grab KEVIN I have no further questions, Your Honor. Chaos court officers struggling with Barbara's Father and people yelling and Gettys hugging his wife and son and the gavel banging like mad and Kevin just sitting there, staring at the floor, completely drained, emotionally, morally, physically and In the back of the room, a man. He's black. Elegant. Amused by the scene. His name is LEAMON HEATH. MARY ANN LOMAX leans in behind her husband. She is a doll. We love her. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: MARY ANN Pack it up, baby. You need a drink. FLORIDA NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT It's a rock and roll joint. Florida style. But it's early and empty. Kevin at the bar with Mary Ann, two LAWYER friends, the Reporter and someone's girl friend. shot glasses, two rows of six. A perfect tequila pour and LAWYER # In the event we all get drunk and forget, I suggest we frontload the ceremonial bullshit a toast To the best damn trial lawyer in Alachua County. Kevin, subdued, watches the rest of them drink. REPORTER So, Kev, off the record, how's it feel to squeeze a man like Gettys through the door of reasonable doubt? MARY ANN No. waving him off I told you already, we're not gonna discuss that damn case anymore. Done. to Kevin Am I right? KEVIN I'll drink to that. as he does No shop talk. MONTAGE Tequila pours. As the night goes on FLORIDA NIGHTCLUB - MEN'S ROOM - NIGHT Drunk frat boys laughing as they exit. A BAR BAND in the distance. Kevin done pissing. Moving for the sink, when he suddenly stops. Freezes. A mirror above the sink. There he is. The guy that set Gettys free. HEATH Mr. Lomax? Kevin turns Leamon Heath standing beside him. HEATH Helluva job today. quickly presenting his card I didn't want to disturb your party. KEVIN Milton, Chadwick, Waters. Never heard of it. looking up What're you gonna do? Sue me? HEATH Actually, we were hoping to retain your services. We've been following your progress. KEVIN From New York. HEATH You've never lost a case. KEVIN I've had some sympathetic juries. HEATH That's exactly what we're looking for. We want you to come to New York. Help us pick a jury. KEVIN Really. amused now I'll tell you, man. You're pretty damn good. And the card is great. And the black thing you being black whose idea was that? Paul's? 'Cause that's just brilliant. as he's walking I'm just not drunk enough yet to fall for it. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: HEATH You'd have to start next week. waiting as Kevin stops there All expenses. First class travel and lodging. You and your wife. A lump sum payment, regardless of verdict in the amount of, well in his hand Here. Take a look. Kevin takes the check. Still looking at it, as we FLORIDA CINDERBLOCK CHURCH - DAY Two dozen cars parked. MUSIC and SINGING from inside. A sign reads: 'SEMINOLE CALVARY CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER' FLORIDA CINDERBLOCK CHURCH - DAY Inside the church. Plain and functional. Poor but faithful. A trio electric guitar, accordion, tambourine playing a hymn. Forty-five voices raised in song. The tempo is ragged and the pitch shaky, but the feeling is strong. They mean it. The CAMERA FINDS MRS. LOMAX. Kevin's mother. Forty- six. Singing her heart out. A woman with faith, in the presence of her Lord. The CAMERA FINDS Kevin. In the very back. Standing in the doorway. Halfway in. Halfway out. Shadow. Light. Waiting. FLORIDA CHURCH PARKING LOT - DAY Post-service. Mrs. Lomax and Kevin walking to her car. KEVIN It's two weeks at most. MRS. LOMAX You've never been to New York. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: KEVIN Every dog gets a day. MRS. LOMAX Pick a jury ridiculous I feel the hand of Mary Ann on this adventure. KEVIN Mom. MRS. LOMAX New York is not a good idea. KEVIN Look, how you fixed for cash? MRS. LOMAX I have my bad feeling. KEVIN an envelope I put a couple hundred in here MRS. LOMAX Sounds like more than two weeks. KEVIN Mary Ann typed out the numbers for you phone, the flights it's all in there. MRS. LOMAX Let me tell you about New York. KEVIN with a smile Babylon. MRS. LOMAX Forewarned is forearmed. half-serious 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great. It has become a dwelling place of demons.' Revelation Eighteen. Wouldn't hurt you to look it over. KEVIN rolls with it Couldn't forget it if I tried. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: MRS. LOMAX And what happened to Babylon? KEVIN 'Thou mighty city. In one hour hast thou mighty judgement come.' MRS. LOMAX 'And the light of a single lamp shall shine in thee no more.' Kevin gathers her in. Kissing her good-bye, as we HOTEL SUITE - NIGHT Darkness. Where are we? A door opens in another room VOICES KEVIN and MARY ANN. They're LAUGHING. Coming in from a big night out. For an instant light we glimpse a great hotel suite and then KEVIN wait leave 'em off MARY ANN what are you I can't KEVIN close your eyes do it More LAUGHTER. Stumbling shadows moving PAST us and KEVIN Okay. Stop. HOTEL SUITE - BALCONY - NIGHT Kevin behind Mary Ann with his hands over her eyes. He takes his hands away, but her eyes stay closed KEVIN Okay. Open your eyes. MARY ANN as she does Wow. HOTEL SUITE - BALCONY - NIGHT The view. Wham. The definitive New York skyline HOTEL SUITE - BALCONY - NIGHT KEVIN 'Go ahead...' in her ear '... bite the Big Apple.' MARY ANN she's dancing '... Rats on the West Side, bed bugs uptown, I can't give it away on Seventh Avenue. This town don't look good in tatters...' KEVIN I don't know looks to me like that dress is in your way. MARY ANN shocked, stops Why, counselor her best drawl Surely you don't think a small- town girl changes overnight just because a man buys her dinner in the big city. KEVIN No, ma'am. In fact, I hardly ever think at all. MARY ANN Well, that's different, then. You're my kind of guy. Kevin smiles. She's taking off the dress. Babylon. FOLEY SQUARE - ESTABLISHING - DAY Six huge courthouses. All those courtrooms. JURY COURTROOM - DAY Criminal court. Voire dire. Potential jurors fill the benches. A bored judge. MEISEL, defense counsel, is a sour, New York veteran. The juror being questioned, a PIE-FACED MAN with bad vision. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MEISEL Do you think as a juror you'd be able to set aside any prior opinions you might hold about the savings and loan industry? long pause That was a question, sir. PIE-FACE What? Do I like bankers? Heath catches Meisel's eye. Waves him over. MEISEL Your Honor, may I have a minute to speak with my colleagues. ANGLE ON DEFENSE TABLE Kevin and Heath. And the defendant a well-tailored reptilian banker. Meisel joins them. Sotto voce. KEVIN Dump him. While you're at it let's get rid of number six, eight, and I'd say lose number twelve, except the prosecutor's gonna fuck up and do it for us. MEISEL Number six? You're kidding, right? She's my first choice. KEVIN She's my first pass. MEISEL And eight? With the dreadlocks? That's crazy. He's a defendant juror if I ever saw one. KEVIN You see his shoes? MEISEL Look, kid, maybe down in Florida you're the next big thing, but this is New York. Manhattan. We're not squeezing oranges here. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: KEVIN He polishes those shoes every night. He makes his own clothes. He may look like a brother-with- an-attitude to you, but I see a man who's got a shotgun under his bed and woe betide the creature who steps into his garden. beat And number six? Your favorite? She's damaged goods. MEISEL She's a Catholic schoolteacher. to Heath She believes in human frailty. KEVIN No. There's something missing from her. She's wrong. eyes to the pool She wants on this jury. Somebody hurt her and she wants revenge. MEISEL How the hell do you know that? KEVIN honestly I don't know. MEISEL to Heath Look, either you put a stop to this happy horseshit or I walk. HEATH Walk. MEISEL a pause All right. Here's the deal. to Kevin I lose with your jury? You do the explaining. The defendant staring a hole into Kevin, as we FOLEY SQUARE JURY COURT - DAY Kevin leaving court. In no hurry to get home. He likes it here. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: Across the street, a man, one of many passing on the sidewalk. Except this man turns as Kevin passes. Watching him. Seeing something that pleases him. This is JOHN MILTON. And now, as Kevin disappears, Milton joins the flow of people heading down into a subway station down and gone, as we PULL BACK TO FOLEY SQUARE - DAY/NIGHT TIME LAPSE As day becomes night. A NIGHT BECOMES DAY A B AND AGAIN B C AND THIS TIME LIGHTNING SIZZLES THROUGH THE SKY C HOTEL SUITE - NIGHT Mary Ann watching TV alone. Remnants of a room service dinner. They've been living here for weeks now. The maids have started to give up. Kevin enters looking beat. Grabs a cold french fry. MARY ANN into her show Your mother called. She has her bad feeling. KEVIN Every now and then she gets one right. MARY ANN What's up? looks over You okay? Something's up. KEVIN They deliberated for thirty-eight minutes. MARY ANN Oh shit MORE CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MARY ANN CONT'D turns off the TV, comforting him Oh, Kevin I'm sorry, honey. What the hell did they expect? The man is guilty as can be. Wasn't a jury anywhere gonna let him off. KEVIN Yeah. Except one. MARY ANN Kev KEVIN a big ole smile Not fucking guilty. MARY ANN Omigod KEVIN Thirty-eight minutes. My jury. MARY ANN You did it! Omigod, Kevin KEVIN Put on something that's gonna be easy to take off later. We are going out, girl! LAW FIRM LOBBY - DAY Milton, Chadwick, Waters. Those words written in stone on the wall. The decor is stark, dramatic, awesome. The receptionist is simply stunning. Kevin, wearing his best suit, walking with Heath. HEATH Sorry to keep you waiting, but Mr. Milton got pinned down in Indonesia a little longer than expected. quietly as they hit the view Not bad, huh? You can play it cool if you want, but the first time I walked in here, my jaw was on the floor. LAW FIRM HALL - DAY The firm offices. A large central atrium. Offices rim this space. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: Lawyers come in all shapes and sizes. Assistants male and female are uniformly attractive. The HUM of serious BUSINESS in the background. HEATH as they walk We've got forty partners vested at the moment. Close to six hundred associates. This is the home office, but we've got quite a few international arrangements, so Mr. Milton spends a good deal of his time in the air. In addition to our corporate clients, we're currently representing about twenty-five foreign countries. Mid-East, Balkans, Central America, West Africa. Interesting work, but travel intensive. Kevin slowing as they pass an open doorway HEATH He's got you scheduled for fifteen minutes, which is a good sign, so make the most of it LAW FIRM - CHRISTABELLA'S OFFICE - DAY THROUGH a large window we see a woman pacing her office. She's wearing a headset and arguing in machine-gun Italian. She is a goddess. Her name is CHRISTABELLA. She is beautiful beyond propriety. She will also turn out to be a brilliant EUC lawyer. She turns. Sees us staring like that Venetian blinds close tightly. LAW FIRM HALL - DAY Heath is now far ahead. Kevin rushing to catch up LAW FIRM - ARCHED CORRIDOR - DAY Kevin about six steps into it when suddenly, he looks down. Stops. Completely spooked. HEATH Gotcha. smiles Man, I just love that CONTINUED . CONTINUED: The floor is nothing but glass. Sixty stories above the world. A bridge between two skyscrapers. HEATH I watched a Senator piss his pants right where you're standing. KEVIN nonplussed Great. HEATH He's waiting for you. Good luck. Kevin sucks it up. Starts walking. Up ahead, nothing but an open door. MILTON'S OFFICE - DAY First of all it's round. And large. The walls are made of stone. No windows. There are dramatic shafts of natural light from above. Stark and clean to the extreme. No paper anywhere. Kevin standing there. Taking in the space. MILTON Behind you. Kevin turns. There he is. MILTON Sorry. Didn't mean to KEVIN No. Please. his hand Kevin Lomax. MILTON they shake John Milton. KEVIN Nice to meet you. MILTON Have we been treating you well? KEVIN Very well. Thank you. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: MILTON Your wife, she's had a good time? KEVIN She sure has. It's been great. The whole thing's been great. MILTON Good. That's our secret. We kill you with kindness. walking the room, circling What's your secret? KEVIN I couldn't say. MILTON You were a prosecutor. KEVIN Out of law school. Five years in the Jacksonville D.A.'s office. MILTON Sixty-four straight convictions. What a number. KEVIN I like to be in court. I didn't plea out a lot. MILTON What's that like? One day you're putting them away and the next you're setting them free? KEVIN Takes a little getting used to. MILTON Pays better though, doesn't it? KEVIN Yes it does. MILTON The math teacher. The Gettys case. I hear you were brilliant. KEVIN Prosecutor dropped the ball. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON Really. So you think your guy was guilty. KEVIN I didn't say that. MILTON What did you say? KEVIN How's this? I began the case with a clear conscience. MILTON quiet a moment I was sure you had a secret. KEVIN The men's room. beat Upstairs men's room in the Duval County courthouse. There's a hole in the wall. Straight through to the next room. smiles I spent five years listening to juries deliberate. MILTON I love it. KEVIN Love it all you want, just don't repeat it. I'm not sure the Florida Bar Association would appreciate it. MILTON You don't really want to go back to Florida, do you? Walk with me. MILTON'S OFFICE - PANEL - DAY With that, Milton pushes a button. Huge panel screens open out to: MILTON'S TERRACE - DAY A reflecting pool. Water right to the edge. A narrow walkway straight through the middle. And we're fifty stories above the city. The effect is staggering. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON What do you think? Some people can't handle it. KEVIN It's peaceful. MILTON Exactly. pleased Fill in the resume. Tell me about your family. What does your father do? KEVIN I never got to know my father. He passed away before I was born. My mom raised me. Just the two of us. MILTON She never remarried? KEVIN She wasn't married the first time. MILTON That can't be easy in Gainesville. KEVIN I don't think it's easy anywhere. re the view Holy shit MILTON Little different when you're looking down, isn't it? beat Tell me about her. Your mother. What's she like? KEVIN She's a preacher's daughter. She's tough. She's worked in the same poultry plant for as long as I can remember. I think she's up to eight-fifty an hour. She's got a church she really likes, so she's usually either there or they go out, they do a lot of volunteer work. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON 'Many are in high places, and of great renown: but mysteries are revealed unto the meek.' KEVIN So they say. MILTON Didn't rub off on you? The book? The church? KEVIN I'm on parole. Early release for time served. Suddenly they're quiet. Silenced by the view. MILTON Lotta potential clients down there. Sooner or later it all flows through the streets.) KEVIN You don't have to sell me on New York. MILTON You like it here, don't you? KEVIN Are we negotiating? MILTON Always. KEVIN Why do you need a criminal department? MILTON Because our clients break the law just like everyone else and I'm tired of sending their business across the street. KEVIN Are you offering me a job? MILTON I'm thinking about it. You have the talent. I knew that before you got here. It's the other thing I wonder about. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN What thing is that? MILTON Pressure. Changes everything. Some people, you squeeze them, they focus. Some people fold. Can you summon your talent at will? Can you deliver on deadline? Can you sleep at night? KEVIN When do we talk about money? MILTON Money's the easy part. LOMAX BUILDING AND STREET - DAY Carnegie Hall. High off Central Park. A Mercedes stretch pulls to the curb. HEATH V.O.) Mt. Sinai Hospital right up the street. Some excellent schools. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: The driver rushing to open the door. Heath, Kevin and Mary Ann getting out of the car just as a group of uniformed school children come charging out of the building to meet their bus. HEATH I doubt it was at the top of his list when Mr. Milton bought the building, but it's a great neighborhood for children. LOOKING UP - BUILDING A stately, pre-war apartment house. One unique touch; the penthouse rises in a sort of wedding cake design. LOMAX APARTMENT LANDING - DAY Turn of the Century. Elegant. Two apartments per floor. JACKIE HEATH waiting here. She is black, early thirties, and very, very attractive. The elevator doors open. Mary Ann steps out, followed by Kevin and Heath. JACKIE You must be Mary Ann Welcome. I'm Jackie Heath MARY ANN It's so sweet of you to come by. JACKIE Please. We live across the hall. MARY ANN You're kidding? HEATH Right here. KEVIN So it's just two apartments per floor? JACKIE to her husband You didn't tell them about the apartment? CONTINUED . CONTINUED: HEATH I thought I'd let it speak for itself. Opening the door, and we enter LOMAX APARTMENT - DAY A dream. Twelve-foot ceilings. Huge, oversized rooms. Crown moldings. A huge central hallway. And light. Kevin and Mary Ann walking through. Blown away. HEATH It's what they call a classic eight. JACKIE We had them paint everything white. Let you see it naked before you pick your palette. MARY ANN What am I picking? JACKIE Palette. Your colors. HEATH I need to warn you about one thing. as they turn back There are going to be some very envious people at the firm. These apartments, there aren't many of them, it's really a partner's perk. You must've made quite an impression. JACKIE Took us six years to get in here. LOMAX APARTMENT BALCONY - DAY French doors opening. Kevin walks out. Mary Ann just behind him. They stand there, staring at the park. MARY ANN Are you really this good? CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN I sure as hell hope so. MARY ANN They must want you pretty bad. KEVIN Look, Mare, I'm only getting behind this if you're on board. You want to go home, I'm with you. MARY ANN Sure. Let's go back to Gainesville. You can keep scrounging for clients and pumping out the basement and I'll keep repossessing cars for Akamian. Maybe, if we kill ourselves, in about five years we can afford a baby and a weekend shack at Gulf Shores. beat Are you shitting me? She smiles first. Kevin pulling her toward him, as we FIRM CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY Incredible and extreme. Forty people SENIOR PARTNERS and department heads seated at the table. They've been going around the table introducing themselves to Kevin. Nearing the end now LAWYER # Krasna. Maritime Law. LAWYER # Parvathi Resh. Energy law. I run the Islamic sub-group. LAWYER # Joyce Rensaleer. Mergers and acquisitions. LAWYER # Chan Sanyou. Intellectual property. BARZOON Eddie Barzoon. Managing Director. Christabella and another woman running in. Taking seats quickly. Christabella beside Kevin. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: CHRISTABELLA Christabella Adrioli. Economics. Primarily G- and E.C. MILTON There you go, Kevin. The whole team. I'm trying to think how long it's been since we were all together. All of us. Too long. I'm looking around, I know some of you came from very far away to be with us here today. It's appreciated. pacing the window This room we're in was built architecturally designed to promote healthy group dynamics. A psychic centrifuge. Makes you want to reach out, doesn't it? Inclusion. Commonality. Synergy. All that good shit. That's what I'm looking for today. Because when I hear stories the kind of stories I've been hearing about backbiting, about partners not working together, departments cutting each other's throats over clients, or worse I feel drained. It drains me. I feel empty. I feel as though I've let you all down. off dead silence We need something. A gesture. across the table What do I need, Eddie? BARZOON How about a public flogging? MILTON Wait a minute. I got it. It's perfect. It's intimate. It's quick. Doesn't cost a thing. There's a power to it. What is it? beat Let's hold hands. All of us. Together. Milton is first. Reluctance begins to fold. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON Right now. Every person at this table take the hand of the person on either side Kevin finds Christabella's hand at his side. MILTON You want out of this, Eddie? BARZOON You've made your point, John. MILTON You won't hold hands? stare-down It's important to me, Eddie. Kevin watching Barzoon fold. Watching the circle form. MILTON See. See, I feel better already. KEVIN'S OFFICE HALL - DAY Very nice. Major windows. Stripped down at the moment, but there's a desk and phone. HEATH What do you think? KEVIN kidding I guess it'll do. PAM Until something better comes along In the doorway, PAM GARRETY. Never married. Two-pack-a- day habit. Tough as dirt. HEATH Kevin Lomax. Pam Garrety. MORE CONTINUED . CONTINUED: HEATH CONT'D as they shake Pam was with the Brooklyn D.A.'s office for fourteen years, so she knows her way around the local scene. She'll be your guide. to Pam You're gonna be expediting his New York Bar application, right? PAM In the pipeline. For now, we'll just have you work pro hac vice. We've petitioned Florida for a letter of good conduct. And a folder I prepared, at Mr. Milton's request, an overview of the Moyez case. KEVIN The Moyez case? EAST HARLEM STREET - DAY Deep ghetto side street. One of those blocks that have been completely lost. One whole side of the street has nothing but boarded-up row houses. A black Town Car pulling through. Slowing now A CAR EAST HARLEM - DAY A Kevin and his DRIVER peering across the street. DRIVER I gotta stick with the vehicle. DAHOUMEY BAKA - DAY A storefront botanica. Insane colors. Rusted iron grates covering two tiny cataract windows. A steel door is open. There's a sick-looking DOG tied to the doorknob; he begins BARKING wildly, as he sees Kevin walking from the car. Suit and tie. Briefcase. Turning, as he hears CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: JUNKIE You get 'em! Go get 'em, man! Three JUNKIES camped on the stoop of a burned-out brownstone across the street. Dull, wasted faces aroused by the DOG'S BARKING JUNKIE Tell her turn that shit down! I know what she's doin'! That's right! Tell 'em take that noise back t'Africa 'fore I Stopping instantly because a WOMAN is standing in the botanica doorway. Her skin is jet black. Her eyes are pale blue. Her hair is white. She holds a live chicken by its feet. The DOG is still BARKING so she slaps it. Hard. Now there is silence. KEVIN I'm looking for Phillipe Moyez. She moves aside. Kevin enters DAHOUMEY BAKA - DAY It's dark. Oil lamps and candles for light. The air thick with incense. Jars and bags and boxes are stacked on shelves everywhere. Powders. Oils. Bones. Skins. Potions. Dried herbs. KEVIN I called this morning, I'm not sure who I spoke with. awkward silence I'm his lawyer. I have a card finding it They said he would meet me here. Phillipe Moyez. WOMAN into the back Bhalla! Bhalla! Kevin taking a very deep breath, as we DAHOUMEY BAKA - STAIRS - DAY Darkness. A door opening above us. A BOY maybe ten standing there. Kevin behind him. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: KEVIN Look, I'm not sure I'm making myself clear here. BOY Moyez. a French accent You need him. Speak wid him. DAHOUMEY BAKA - STAIRS - DAY The Boy hits the lights. A naked bulb on the landing below. Beyond that, darkness. KEVIN You're saying he's down here? incredulous In the basement? In the dark? BOY laughing Where? Where you think ? Where you think me taking you? DAHOUMEY BAKA - BASEMENT HALL - DAY The Boy, still laughing, starts down the stairs into the darkness. Kevin hesitates. Sucks it up. Crouching not to hit his head as he goes down into DAHOUMEY BAKA - BASEMENT - DAY Around the landing the Boy still in front of him and down as another light comes up and the boy moves quickly through the space, turning on lamps here and there. No furniture. Mounds of bones. The walls painted a deep, black red. DAHOUMEY BAKA - MOYEZ'S BASEMENT - DAY Kevin waiting as the last light goes on MOYEZ I thought I would recognize you, but I do not. Kevin, spooked, wheels around CONTINUED . CONTINUED: PHILLIPE MOYEZ squatting in the corner. Skinny and intense. His eyes opaque and piercing at the same time. At once unassuming and terrifying. A plastic bag of fresh green roots in his lap. Ghat. Miraa. African cocaine. His teeth black from chewing it. KEVIN Mr. Moyez? as he nods We've never met. I'm a lawyer. I'm here about the animals. MOYEZ As you wish. KEVIN I'll be arguing your case with the city. I need to ask you some questions. gets folder I've done a little preliminary research precedent cases in the past that dealt with Santeria and Vou MOYEZ No. This is not Santeria. We are not Voodoo. Candomble. Obeayisne. None of that. We are much older. Before. Before all of it. KEVIN Okay. Is there a name? Or MOYEZ We have papers. At your firm. We have the tax exemption. KEVIN Okay. I'll get right into that. scribbling away The animals. Let's start with that, then. MOYEZ We have an investment in blood. Think of it as spiritual currency. Moyez stands. Starts slowly across the room. KEVIN Look, Mr. Moyez, I'm going to need your help with this. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: MOYEZ Yes. That's very clear. KEVIN Perhaps we could start at the beginning? Moyez, ignoring him, moves to an old refrigerator beside the stairs. For an instant, the door is open just a glimpse. Meat. Bags of entrails. Jars of blood. Moyez goes to a workbench near the wall KEVIN Mr. Moyez? MOYEZ What is the name of the man who will prosecute us? KEVIN scanning file Merto. Assistant District Attorney Arnold Merto. MOYEZ Bhalla. La chemise noire. Vite! The Boy already running up the stairs. The sound of NAILS FALLING onto the workbench KEVIN What are you doing, Mr. Moyez? Moyez stands aside, wiping his hands on his trousers. A huge beef tongue sits on the bench. The nails are scattered around it. MOYEZ You can go now. You will have all the help I can give you. Moyez now with a hammer. And the nail. Driving it into the tongue. Kevin backing away, as we KEVIN'S OFFICE AND HALL - DAY Video monitor FULL FRAME. DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . DAHOUMEY BAKA BASEMENT - DAY Hand-held footage of a police raid. We're running through a building New York cops an animal control officer through a door voices yelling down some steps into a back yard people standing Here a scuffle starting voices rising the camera shaking we see Bhalla and the Woman and There in the middle, is a goat on its knees its throat has just been cut blood pouring into a pan and Moyez holding its head with one hand a knife in the other and this positively orgiastic expression on his face, and on that image, we freeze frame. OMITTED & & REVERSE TO: KEVIN'S OFFICE AND HALL - KEVIN - DAY with the remote control. Pam there with him. A long, sour silence. PAM What do you think? KEVIN It's a health code case. And it's a loser. So what's the point? watching her It's a test, right? PAM Isn't everything? KEVIN The smart thing to do is make a deal. Plea him out and suppress the tape. PAM I'm sure the D.A.'s waiting for your call. KEVIN Yeah, well, let him wait. beat And you can tell Milton too. beat I didn't come to New York to plea bargain. DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . LOMAX APARTMENT - DAY Jackie rejecting Mary Ann's color choices. KEVIN'S OFFICE AND HALL - NIGHT Law books stacked around. An associate wheels in a trolley with more books. A LOMAX APARTMENT - NIGHT A Mary Ann eating fried chicken. She doesn't like the wallpaper. She's tearing it off, as we B KEVIN'S OFFICE AND HALL - NIGHT B Kevin working late. Across the hall Pam is going home. PAM It's only a health code case. MANHATTAN COURTROOM # MOYEZ COURTROOM - DAY Bench trial. No jury. JUDGE THEO SKLAR and staff. A.D.A. MERTO at his seat. Pam sits with Moyez. Other than that, it's empty. A rump roast slaps down onto a table. KEVIN That's a veal roast, Your Honor. U.S.D.A. approved and stamped. Eight days ago, in Kansas City, two men pushed a calf into a steel frame as a third man fired a high- voltage staple-gun into the animal's skull. Men kill animals and eat their flesh. Phillipe Moyez killed a goat. He killed a goat. And he did it at home, in a manner consistent with his religious beliefs. Now some people may find it bizarre. MORE CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / A/ . CONTINUED: KEVIN O.S.CONT'D It's certainly not a religious practice performed by everyone. It's not as common as, say, circumcision. It's certainly not as common as the belief that wine is transformed into blood. It's not even as common as the handling of poisonous snakes to prove one's faith. But Phillipe Moyez isn't two thousand miles away in a stockyard. He doesn't use electricity to kill. And worst of all holding up the roast Phillipe Moyez is not shrink- wrapped. Merto begins to cough. Quietly at first, but KEVIN Your Honor, the city timed this police action to catch my client exercising his constitutionally- protected right to religious freedom. Merto's coughing getting worse as he tries to stop JUDGE SKLAR This is a law protecting Kosher butchering. KEVIN Exactly, Your Honor. And I'd like to move at this time for an immediate directed verdict for dismissal. Moyez staring a hole in Merto, and the man cannot stop coughing JUDGE SKLAR I happen to know a little bit about Kashrut law, Mr. Lomax. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN I'm aware of that, Your Honor, which is why I feel confident in requesting a dismissal. JUDGE SKLAR Mr. Merto? Merto can't speak wheezing and coughing, as we MOYEZ COURTHOUSE HALLWAY - DAY TEN MINUTES LATER Empty and dark. Kevin, Moyez and Pam leaving the courtroom. All smiles. Moyez shaking his hand and thanking him, and then, from behind them, the sound of one person CLAPPING MILTON coming toward them Bravo, Kevin. Bravo. as he arrives Pamela, you're looking lovely. to Moyez Satisfied, Phillipe? MOYEZ Always. MILTON Kevin, what can I say? smiles Outstanding. Kevin, trying to look modest and failing, as we CANAL STREET CHINATOWN - DAY LITTLE LATER A street-food stall. Milton paying for Kevin's eggroll. And they're walking MILTON Best street food in the world. Try that. Tell me it isn't great. as Kevin eats New York. What a scene, right? MORE CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON CONT'D Guy like Moyez living in that subterranean shithole all the time he's running around with fifteen million dollars in the bank. KEVIN You gotta be kidding. MILTON What do you think? We're giving you away? He's paying us in goat's blood? I'm billing you out at four-hundred an hour, my friend. I don't see a whole lot of pro bono work in your immediate future. buzzing here Seriously, what I like, you got in there with him. Inside the cage. That's instinct. Can't be taught. You gotta hear that on your own. It's gotta be in your blood. It's molecular. I bet I've got five thousand lawyers working around the planet. I couldn't name ten couldn't name three I'd trust with Moyez. KEVIN So what the hell are they doing? MILTON What are they doing? They're corporate lawyers, what do you think they're doing? They're busy reducing life and death to the proper position of a semi- colon. They're doing needlepoint. Push button battles. Push button wars. Armies that get so fucking far away from each other they need satellites to tell them who won. No pain. No sound. No smell. One big, multinational circle jerk. You, on the other hand, you're on the slaughterhouse floor. You can't help but smell your clients. KEVIN I figure you came to court to make sure I didn't fuck this up. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON Maybe I did. But don't get too cocky. No matter how good you are. Don't let them see you coming. That's the gaff, my friend make yourself small. Be the hick. The cripple. The nerd. The leper. The shit- kicking surfer. Look at me I've been underestimated from day one. Do I look like a master of the universe? That's your only weakness as far as I can tell. KEVIN What's that? MILTON The look. The Florida stud thing. 'Scuse me, ma'am, did I leave my boots under your bed?' KEVIN Never worked a jury didn't have a woman. MILTON You know what you're missing? What I have? This beautiful girl she's just fucked me every way she knows how we're done she's walking to the bathroom she turns back and there I am. It's me. And she smiles it's like a veil coming down across her face and that smile, that's a question mark, because she's looking at me, she's wondering, how did that happen? And see, right there, from that moment on, she's got a secret. I'm the hand up Mona Lisa's skirt. I'm the whisper in Nefertitti's ear. I'm a surprise. They never see me coming. That's what you're missing. Milton escaping across the street. KEVIN So why did you come down today? CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON Because I knew it was gonna be good. Because I knew I was gonna like it. That you would shine that we would take this walk that we'd really talk. Why I came down? You want the truth? I'm an aging, hipster plutocrat. I came up from nothing. From dirt. I'm warming my hands on your talent distracted then Where's the chicken? KEVIN What? A CHINESE MAN sits in a doorway MILTON perfect Cantonese Where's the chicken? The chicken that plays tic-tac-toe. He used to be right here. CHINESE MAN Cantonese No, you passed it. Back that way. MILTON back to Kevin, as they walk There's a chicken, he's famous, he plays tic-tac-toe. He never loses. suddenly Hey. Like you. Right? catching himself Look, I'm rambling because I'm excited. You're in the part of the game I like best. The realm of the True Believers. You are a believer, aren't you? KEVIN I believe in the presumption of innocence. MILTON Better a hundred guilty men go free than a single innocent be executed. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN Something like that. MILTON No. Exactly like that. It's faith. You're either in or out. You can't believe a little bit. KEVIN I was kidding. MILTON You're not here to amuse me. See, that's why people hate lawyers. So many of us have lost our faith. Don't let that happen to you. Token? KEVIN Excuse me? Milton offering a token. Behind him, the entrance to the Canal Street station MILTON Learn the subways, Kevin. Use them. Stay in the trenches. Kevin taking the token, as we OMITTED & & LOMAX APARTMENT - NIGHT Kevin just coming in from work. The apartment is starting to come together. Still not enough furniture, but the sparseness reads as elegance. KEVIN walking through Mare Mare...? MARY ANN from the bedroom You're late CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: He stops. In the hallway a wall is missing sheetrock stacked on the floor tools piled around a renovation project halted for the night. KEVIN What's all this? MARY ANN All what? Mary Ann up the hall in the bedroom door. Finishing her makeup for a night out. MARY ANN Oh, that smiles It was gonna be a nursery, but then I remembered you'd have to be home long enough to knock me up, so now I'm thinking of building a law library. Kevin smiles. Drops his briefcase. Drops his pants. MARY ANN Save the thought. We were due up there fifteen minutes ago. She blows him a kiss. Ducking back into bedroom. LOMAX APARTMENT BUILDING - ELEVATOR - NIGHT Kevin and Mary Ann in their go-to-meeting clothes. Going up. Nervous. MARY ANN Tell me I can handle this. KEVIN You can handle this. MARY ANN Say something nice. KEVIN Something nice. MARY ANN Promise me you won't leave me alone in there. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN Promise. MARY ANN How the hell did we get here? KEVIN Instinct. BARZOON APARTMENT - NIGHT The door opens. DIANA BARZOON, tonight's hostess, standing there. DIANA There you are! to Kevin Diana Barzoon, Eddie's wife. an air kiss for Mary Ann Come on, you two. Everyone can't wait to meet you. BARZOON APARTMENT - NIGHT Twice the size of Kevin's place. Decorated and furnished to the max. Seventy-five guests and ten in staff. The crowd is very smart, sleek, and experienced at these sort of things. Mary Ann's hand squeezing Kevin's just a bit more tightly as Diana leads them into the throng, and we begin BARZOON APARTMENT - NIGHT SERIES OF SHOTS - PARTY Faces some of them strangers. Some of them familiar from the conference room scene. KEVIN huddled with Jackie and Mary Ann as Heath brings them drinks from the bar. PAM and two lawyers near the terrace doors the smoking section talking with nicotine-driven intensity. OMITTED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CHRISTABELLA simply walking through the room. EDDIE AND DIANA BARZOON They've found Kevin and Mary Ann. DIANA I love the eights. The entire 'A' line such a great shell. manic and perhaps a bit insane I do. I envy you. Starting from scratch. Do you have your fabrics yet? Tell me you don't. MARY ANN Not yet. I don't think so. DIANA Come with me. Instantly. to Kevin I'm borrowing your wife BARZOON Be gentle, honey. These are normal people. Mary Ann giving Kevin a 'help me' look as she's dragged into the party BARZOON Your first? KEVIN Excuse me? BARZOON Is this your first marriage? OMITTED BARZOON APARTMENT - SAME SCENE PARTY - NIGHT LATER Front door abuzz Milton has just arrived. DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . BARZOON APARTMENT - NIGHT Across the room, Mary Ann with Jackie and Diana and another wife MARY ANN Who is that? JACKIE looking over My God, girl DIANA You haven't met him yet? MARY ANN Who is he? BARZOON APARTMENT - NIGHT Milton across the room looks over he's found them already coming toward them smiling DIANA I swear he can hear us. JACKIE Hell, he can smell us. MILTON Mary Ann? John Milton his hand and eyes I was hoping we'd meet tonight. And here you are, already swimming with the sharks. Even as he says this, he's kissing their smiling cheeks. Mary Ann looking a little lost, as we BARZOON APARTMENT - NIGHT SAME TIME Kevin talking with another lawyer. Looking over as Christabella glides through the room. BARZOON APARTMENT - SOFA - DUSK SAME TIME Milton and Mary Ann sitting together. Alone. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MARY ANN Deadbeats. I mean, that's what it comes down to. You can call yourself a finance trainee, or a financial resources adviser, or whatever, you're still spending most of your day trying to hammer car payments out of deadbeats. looking around No deadbeats here tonight. MILTON You'd be surprised. There's a lot more fear in this room than you'd think. MARY ANN What do these people have to be afraid of? MILTON Each other. Themselves. Why? What scares you? MARY ANN Not knowing who the deadbeats are. MILTON You'll figure that out. There's only one thing worth being frightened of anyway, and that's being alone. Truly and finally alone. MARY ANN Yes. I think you're right. MILTON You know what terrifies me? Responsibility. MARY ANN For what? MILTON For what. For you. Let's be honest, I've changed your life. Changed it forever. There's been a seismic shift in your existence and I'm responsible. And you've never even met me. We're talking for the very first time. How insane is that? CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MARY ANN It's a wonderful opportunity for Kevin. MILTON Kevin. Please. I'm not worried about Kevin. He buys a few new suits. Learns a few new tricks. He's there. I don't worry about Kevin. What about you? MARY ANN I'm not leaving a lot behind. MILTON You must have family. MARY ANN Bad subject. I haven't spoken to my folks in a long time. My sister ran all the way to Germany. MILTON Whoaa I gotta think about that. I had you down as daddy's little girl, you know? The princess. Sugar plum snapshots. Pastel bedspreads. Cinnamon cookies. MARY ANN I tell Kevin the only thing worse than not having a father was having mine. MILTON So you've got a lot at stake here. You've made a real commitment. MARY ANN I guess I have. MILTON It's not gonna be like Gainesville, but then you know that already. MARY ANN We're gonna be fine. It's gonna be great. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON If it isn't, will you come to me? Let me help? I'd feel a lot less responsible. Will you do that for me? MARY ANN Sure. MILTON The worst vice is advice, right? But can I make a suggestion? It's about your hair, some people are sensitive, that's why I ask. MARY ANN No. I mean, go ahead. You don't like it? MILTON You have shoulders nobody can see. Pull it back. MARY ANN You mean, you want me to pull my hair back? MILTON If I do it, everyone in this room that's pretending not to watch us will assume we're fucking or something. Pull back your hair. there's the mirror Take a look. See. That's it. Isn't that incredible? You need to cut your hair. MARY ANN You're kidding. MILTON A woman's shoulders are the frontlines of her mystique. And her neck, if she's alive, has the very mystery of a border town. It's the no man's land in the battle between mind and body. beat You know, your natural color would really bring out your eyes Mary Ann frozen there, as we DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . BARZOON APARTMENT - TERRACE PARK VIEW - NIGHT MAGIC HOUR Kevin standing at the rail. He looks over. Christabella not ten feet away. CHRISTABELLA Do you have this view? KEVIN Sorry? CHRISTABELLA From your terrace, is this your view? KEVIN Sort of. Not exactly. I'm about twelve floors down. What about you? CHRISTABELLA No, I live downtown. This is the family building. KEVIN Sounds like fun. Downtown, I mean. I'm just getting to know the city. CHRISTABELLA Is it everything you expected? KEVIN More. CHRISTABELLA raising her glass May we always have more than we expect. Salute. KEVIN Amen. CHRISTABELLA Are you alone? KEVIN You mean, tonight? CHRISTABELLA Is your wife a jealous woman? beat Silly question. We're all jealous, aren't we? MORE CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: CHRISTABELLA CONT'D laughing Oh, dear, I'm going to scare you away. KEVIN I doubt it. CHRISTABELLA You like to be on top, don't you? KEVIN Excuse me? CHRISTABELLA Of the situation. You prefer to be on top. KEVIN Depends on the view. MILTON You know what I see? Milton in the doorway. He's been watching them. MILTON I see the future of this law firm. perfect Italian Christabella, cara, prestamelo per favore, pe lo riporto piu tardi. CHRISTABELLA It's a boring party, anyway. to Kevin Ciao. Kevin can't help watching her walk away. MILTON Look, we gotta talk. You grab Heath and Eddie Barzoon and get up to my place right away. And let's be quiet about it. OMITTED thru thru DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . BARZOON APARTMENT PARTY - NIGHT Getting louder and wilder. Mary Ann looking lost. Searching for Kevin He's not here not there MARY ANN Have you seen Kevin? Jackie Heath shaking her head no, as Mary Ann continues on through the party. LOMAX APARTMENT - ELEVATOR - NIGHT Silence. Going up. Kevin, Heath, and Barzoon. BARZOON APARTMENT - STUDY - HALLWAY - NIGHT Mary Ann still looking for Kevin. Scanning faces. Stopping as she reaches a door. Opening it and BARZOON APARTMENT - STUDY - NIGHT Just enough light to make out two MEN standing across the room. Silhouettes against the window. MARY ANN Sorry in doorway I'm looking for my husband. The Men two vaguely familiar faces from the firm. MAN # Don't think he's here. Suddenly, a WOMAN's head rises INTO FRAME WOMAN It's just us MAN # But feel free to join in And suddenly it's clear, she's walked in on an impromptu menage a trois. The Woman is kneeling on a table, dress hiked up, ass in the air. Man # fucking her from behind. Man # is getting blown and Mary Ann IN SHOT as the woman begins to laugh and the door WIPES the FRAME. DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . OMITTED MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT The penthouse. One enormous room. Grand scale everything. Otherworldly. Staggering. Of special, special interest: a huge Bas Relief dominates an entire wall. Carved into the marble are human forms young, naked bodies swimming in a hypnotic chaos of clouds. Milton is on the phone. Two lines going. The dialogue is unimportant, we'll not understand it anyway he's going back and forth between Korean and Russian brokering some emergency deal. Heath is at the bar, mixing drinks. Barzoon has a cigar. Kevin just standing there gaping at the space. KEVIN Is there more to it? BARZOON Just this room. KEVIN And a bedroom? BARZOON No bedroom. KEVIN Where does he sleep? HEATH Who said he sleeps? KEVIN Where does he fuck? MILTON behind them Everywhere. BARZOON What's up, John? MILTON How many hours did we bill Alex Cullen last year? HEATH Sixteen thousand, two hundred and forty-two. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: BARZOON What the fuck did he do now? MILTON Alex Cullen has just been charged with murdering his ex- wife, her stepson, and a maid. BARZOON When did this happen? MILTON Just now. Tonight. I already sent Pam downtown to make bail arrangements. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: BARZOON They'll fucking crucify him. They'll get in line. I gotta call Meisel MILTON No. I want Kevin on this case. BARZOON I hope you're kidding. beat Alexander Cullen in a Manhattan triple murder? With Kevin? You're dreaming. MILTON I've shaken hands with every marquee defense attorney in town. I take Kevin and I don't look back. BARZOON You're a great judge of talent, John. You're the master. I just don't see it coming together. MILTON I want you on board, Eddie. KEVIN Look, I appreciate the vote of confidence, but maybe Eddie's got a point here. MILTON We can get this case. The man's our client. BARZOON He's a business client. MILTON We know him better than he knows himself. We have the inside track. We have the best damn trial lawyer in the city. It's ours to lose. BARZOON Tell it to Cullen. MILTON No. That's up to Kevin. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: With that, the PHONE starts RINGING MILTON That's Pam calling to Kevin Are we fighting for this, or not? LOMAX APARTMENT - NIGHT It's late. Dark. Kevin tiptoeing through the apartment turning the corner and MARY ANN You left me there. I had a fucking panic attack until Jackie told me where you were. raw Three hours? You don't even call? KEVIN Stop. Reset. I'm upstairs, I'm with Milton and Barzoon and there is a very good possibility that I'm about to catch a triple homicide defendant who also happens to be the largest real estate developer in the city. I had to bail on the party! MARY ANN You bailed on me! KEVIN Mare did you hear me? MARY ANN I was all by myself! KEVIN For three whole hours as she's walking You gotta be kidding, right? No, she's leaving. Kevin left there, alone DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . STREET - CONSTRUCTION SITE - DAY MORNING A news van whipping up the block. TIRES SCREECHING as it pulls up beside a construction site where two other news vans are already unloading. The smell of headlines and STREET - CONSTRUCTION SITE - DAY Two photographers sprinting toward the shell of a high- rise building. A sign blankets the scaffolding. Huge, ego-size lettering reads CULLEN TOWERS 'The Next Great Address' CONSTRUCTION HIGH-RISE - DAY Looking DOWN FROM fifty stories high, as the media vehicles converge like toys below. CULLEN V.O.) Look at this, I'm not out twenty minutes, we're running from the goddamn press. Look at those insects down there CONSTRUCTION HIGH-RISE - DAY ALEXANDER CULLEN turns back from the edge. Forty-five. Tan, grief-stricken, and sleep deprived. The space is huge and bare. Unfinished concrete. Wide, open views. Kevin, Milton, and Barzoon standing there. CULLEN You may be right, but look at it from my point of view. I'm sure he's a whiz kid. I believe you. But this is my ass we're talking. to Barzoon Jesus, Eddie MILTON Alex, you know how this town works. You've got enemies you never heard of. And now? Now you're down? I'd prepare for a class-A, New York pig-fuck. You're going to have to ask yourself who you really trust. Who do you trust, Alex? CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: CULLEN I don't know I gotta look around. KEVIN You don't have time to shop, Mr. Cullen. the newspaper Jury selection started this morning at every breakfast table in the city. You lost round one. This is what people know. They know you and your wife were living separately. They see this maid Elucinda a sixty-eight-year-old grandmother supporting seven children. And then there's your stepson, a ten-year-old with a bullet in his brain. Those are already powerful images in the mind of the public. CULLEN I didn't kill anybody. KEVIN I'm telling you how it looks. You discover the crime. You call it in. You've got blood on your person and clothes, and before Cullen can cut him off and your prints are on the murder weapon. CULLEN How do you know that? KEVIN There's a second print in blood it's a partial of a hand on the wall next to th CULLEN I have keys! I called the cops from the house! I touched the goddamn wall! to Barzoon I was panicked! I panicked! KEVIN We need twelve people who can see past all that. I'd get out in front of this fast. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: CULLEN I panicked! Is that a crime? I touched the wall! BARZOON He's right, Alex. People need to hear these things. KEVIN You're not happy tomorrow? The next day? We'll move over. But right now this moment you need immediate representation. CULLEN I've got a fourteen-year-old stepdaughter who I care more about than anything in the world. They won't let me call her from downtown. They won't let me talk to her after I'm out. I gotta go deal with that first. KEVIN We need to issue a statement. Cullen looks to Milton. Waiting. Help me. MILTON He's a winner, Alex. And they'll never see him coming. CULLEN I'm gonna make some very tough phone calls. Then I'm gonna take a pill and try to get some sleep. My place. Eight A.M. tomorrow. Alone. beat And you better be every fucking inch as good as you think you are. OMITTED SOHO BOUTIQUE STREET - DAY A woman with short dark hair her back to us looking in a shop window. Her reflection in the glass, it's Mary Ann. She's cut and colored her hair. Jackie and Diana already going in and DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . SOHO BOUTIQUE AND DRESSING ROOM - DAY White wine and couture. Mary Ann holding a blouse. MARY ANN whispering This is three thousand dollars. JACKIE Know what you need to do? Buy it. Wear it once. And then throw it away. That'll loosen you up. DIANA I say spend it all. If you're never gonna see your husband, you might as well have a relationship with his money. as she strips I swear, if he wasn't afraid of me shooting my mouth off, Eddie would've put a cellulite clause in the pre-nup. JACKIE Dr. Robert, I'm telling you, he's the miracle man. You've seen my new tits, I mean who does it better than that? DIANA It's not my tits I'm worried about. Mary Ann turns. Jackie beside her. Topless. Smiling. JACKIE Real or not? her breasts They look real she shimmies They move real MARY ANN trapped there Must be real. JACKIE Feel them. Go ahead. That's the ultimate test. Before Mary Ann can stop her, Jackie is taking her hand, guiding it to her breast, and holding it there. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: JACKIE smiling Feel real? MARY ANN Yes. pulling away Absolutely. Real. JACKIE backing away Dr. Robert. When you're ready. Mary Ann looking away as Jackie walks off. Everything is as it was, and yet different. And then, she turns and sees OMITTED SOHO BOUTIQUE - DRESSING ROOM FX - DAY EFX Jackie pulling a dress down over her head. She's taking her time because it's a delicate, clingy SOHO BOUTIQUE - DRESSING ROOM FX - DAY complicated outfit turning and for one brief moment we see a serpent's head disappearing now into the dress as she struggles inside the material her body the body inside the dress transforming ribs and spikes and huge moving muscles strain the limits of the material, and then, suddenly, it's over. SOHO BOUTIQUE - DRESSING ROOM - DAY Jackie's face appears. She straightens the seams. Turning now JACKIE What do you think? But Mary Ann is gone. OMITTED thru thru DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / / . LAW FIRM - STAIRCASE/OFFICE - DAY Kevin, coming out a door with Heath and an associate. KEVIN first thing I need this ASAP I want articles, clippings, TV interviews, I want everything you can get on Alex Cullen. HEATH walking off You better get a semi truck. LAW FIRM - STAIRCASE/OFFICE - DAY Christabella climbing the stairs. Short skirt. Great angle. Halfway up, she stops to fix her stockings. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: CHRISTABELLA Enjoying yourself? KEVIN caught Sorry. I'm just CHRISTABELLA Just what? Looking? KEVIN Guilty. CHRISTABELLA Congratulations on Cullen. KEVIN Thank you. CHRISTABELLA What an incredible situation, even if you lose you become a star. KEVIN What if I win? CHRISTABELLA If you win smiles If you win it's everything. KEVIN Any advice? CHRISTABELLA Cullen is a pig. He's a pig beyond reasonable doubt. I suggest you keep him as far away from the jury as possible. KEVIN I'll keep it in mind. CHRISTABELLA leans in, whispering You can look all you want, but I don't fuck married men. KEVIN What a relief. I was starting to think you were perfect. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: PAM Kevin He turns instantly Pamela standing behind him. PAM Your wife is on the phone. She sounds upset Christabella smiling as Kevin rushes off. LOMAX APARTMENT - DAY Mary Ann very upset. Kevin has just come home. MARY ANN I don't care if they can hear me! I don't care! I don't like it here. And these women, my God I mean, I'm seeing things for crissake! KEVIN You just left them in the store? MARY ANN Yes! KEVIN Look, calm down, all right? Listen to me Mare? First, you do this radical thing with your hair MARY ANN You hate it. KEVIN Stop. I think it's fine. But I also think it's traumatic. You've got the pressure of fitting in with new friends, a new place add three bottles of wine and MARY ANN No! It wasn't the wine. It wasn't the wine or my hair or talking to Kathy, because I know that's what you're gonna say CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN What about Kathy? MARY ANN What about her? She's pregnant again. KEVIN Oh, and that's got nothing to do with it MARY ANN Kevin, I never see you anymore. Now that you've got this big case, it's just only gonna get worse. I don't know anybody here. These women scare the living shit out of me. If you can believe it, I'm actually looking forward to having your mother come and visit. KEVIN What about the apartment? MARY ANN Exactly! You just go out you buy a few new suits and you're fine. I've got this whole place to fill up and I know we have all this money and it's supposed to be fun, but it isn't! It's like a test! The whole thing is like one big test! I'm lonely. KEVIN Let's make a baby. MARY ANN Don't tease me. KEVIN I wouldn't do that. Unless you asked. MARY ANN You hate my hair, don't you? LOMAX APARTMENT - DAY His hand moves against her cheek, and then down the back of her neck. She moves into his body and DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / A. LOMAX APARTMENT - DAY EFX Suddenly She's Christabella right there in his arms before he can react before he can speak she finds his mouth and they are kissing and LOMAX APARTMENT - DAY Suddenly She's Mary Ann and he's pulling up her dress and she's helping him and his hand is moving over bare thigh and DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . LOMAX APARTMENT - DAY EFX Suddenly She's Christabella unbuttoning her blouse and she can't do it fast enough still with her mouth on his and his hand between her legs and LOMAX APARTMENT - DAY Suddenly She's Mary Ann flattening against the wall and her blouse is open and LOMAX APARTMENT - DAY EFX Suddenly She's Christabella pulling off her bra as his mouth moves over her breasts and his hands are everywhere and the bra is gone and she's tearing at his shirt and he's helping her and her dress is on the floor and there's no rug or anything, but this is where they will fuck because they can't stop themselves and she's on her back on the bare floor and he's kicking away his shoes and she's feeling herself and staring into his eyes and suddenly LOMAX APARTMENT - DAY MARY ANN Stop. Kevin looks like he's been shot. In the balls. MARY ANN Where are you? KEVIN Right here. Mary Ann doesn't look so sure. CULLEN'S APARTMENT - DAY Huge. Opulent. Kevin and Pamela have been taking notes. Cullen is exhausted, frustrated. KEVIN because it needs to be clear, Mr. Cullen, because I need to understand exactly what happened you're standing there you look down there's the gun CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: CULLEN I don't know why I picked it up it was before I saw Elucinda's body and then, I mean we've been over this KEVIN You kneeled down to pick it up? CULLEN You work late. You come home. You walk in. Everybody's dead. It's not something you plan for. KEVIN Back up. Two prints by the gun. Right knee. Right hand. It's a strange move you must've made to pick it up. CULLEN The blood, I don't know, maybe I was trying to avoid the blood. KEVIN I'm trying to picture it contorting Your hand came from inside and underneath. Cullen reaches into his jacket and pulls out a gun. CULLEN You want to see? Here dropping to his knees I'll fucking show you. Kevin watching Cullen quickly retrieve the gun from the floor with this weird little motion. CULLEN standing Okay? Clear? Got it? KEVIN Whose gun is that, Alex? CULLEN It's mine. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN Are you out of your mind? incredulous You're charged in a triple homicide, you're walking around with a forty-five? CULLEN I've had nine death threats. KEVIN Give it over. Now. Gimme the gun. CULLEN I gotta protect myself. KEVIN That's my job. When the case is over you can have it back. strong This is a dealbreaker, Alex. Cullen hands him the gun. KEVIN Okay. Let's wrap it up. CULLEN So what's next? KEVIN We need to talk to your assistant. CULLEN Call her. KEVIN You feel confident she'll back you on the time. CULLEN Melissa, yeah. She's okay. She's a real straight arrow. KEVIN So we're going to talk to her and you're not going to talk to anybody. Okay? CULLEN with a smile No comment. DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . D.A. MERTO'S OFFICE - DAY A large, ugly cube. Daylight through dirty windows. Kevin alone. On the table, a large, grey envelope. Printed on it: PROPERTY OF THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY FORENSIC LOG - # D - STATE VS. ALEX CULLEN Kevin going through a stack of crime scene photographs. Tough stuff. One after another. Three victims. Many angles. We can see their horror in his face. OMITTED LAW FIRM HELICOPTER - DUSK PANNING ALONG Wall Street. The whole downtown skyline. SETTLING finally ON the th floor of the law firm building. Hovering at a distance. Lights on here and there and One window. Kevin's office. He and Pamela are talking to a young woman. This is MELISSA BLOCK, Cullen's assistant and alibi. We can't hear what they're saying, but it looks to be a collegial meeting. OMITTED KEVIN'S OFFICE AND HALL - NIGHT Kevin and Pam walking Melissa out through the empty reception area. MELISSA Would my babysitter have to testify? KEVIN We need her to establish the time you returned home. MELISSA She doesn't have her green card is why I ask. I don't want her to get in trouble. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN Tell you what, Melissa, let's talk to her first. See where she stands and take it from there. PAM I'll make sure Melissa gets down to the car. MELISSA Mr. Cullen didn't kill those people. KEVIN That's why we're all working so hard. As Melissa exits with Pam, Kevin notices two associates carrying boxes far up the hall and we LAW FIRM LIBRARY AND HALL - NIGHT SAME TIME Paper shredders. Half a dozen of them cranking full tilt. Stacks of files left to go. Barzoon and six associates working late. Shirtsleeves and coffee. BARZOON directing traffic Okay, Excelsior Insurance, who's handling that? a hand goes up All this has to go. Guatemala, Sudan, Cyprus cheerleading Let's stay organized here. across the room Martin, no. Devada Holdings. That's all you're doing. Believe me, it'll take all night. Barzoon stops as he sees Kevin in the doorway. KEVIN I thought I was the only one working late. BARZOON So did we. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN Good news. We just wrapped up with Cullen's assistant. She looks like a great alibi. BARZOON What a pleasant surprise. KEVIN But it looks like you have your hands full. BARZOON Just a little housekeeping. beat If they ask, you never saw this. KEVIN Who would ask? BARZOON Weaver. KEVIN Who's that? BARZOON Justice Department. Weaver Commission. staring at him You don't know about Weaver? KEVIN Sorry. BARZOON How nice for you. MILTON Grab your coat, Mr. Lomax Milton in the hall behind Kevin. Tickets in hand. MILTON The night is young. re: tickets Title fight. Ringside. KEVIN I'd have to call Mary Ann MILTON Do it on the way. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: BARZOON am I here?) You get my message? MILTON You write beautifully, Eddie. BARZOON We need to talk. MILTON Soon. BARZOON I hope so. OMITTED & & SUBWAY TO FIGHTS TRAIN - NIGHT The car half full. Kevin and Milton standing near the door. Right behind them, three guys in the midst of an intense conversation in Spanish. KEVIN So what's this Weaver Commission? MILTON I don't micro-manage. You find the talent and then you delegate. Who knows what the hell Eddie's up to. He's got a lotta fingers in a lotta pies. Suddenly, one of the guys behind them, the biggest of the three, we'll call him BIG GUY, turns back BIG GUY What the fuck you looking at? it's Milton he's talking to You fucking deaf or something? MILTON No. I can hear you just fine. BIG GUY Good, 'cause I want you should get your skinny little ass somewhere down the fucking car away from me. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: MILTON stare-down I'm not going anywhere. Big Guy pulls open his jacket a knife in his belt. KEVIN Oh, shit. stepping back John But Milton doesn't move. He smiles. MILTON perfect Spanish Maricela, the moment you left the apartment she was upstairs with Carlos. They're on the pipe right now, my friend. They're in the kitchen splitting a jumbo and then he's going to fuck her in the ass, right on your bed, and she's going to like it. Big Guy backing away into his friends BIG GUY Como...? How do you...? The SUBWAY RATTLING into the Fourteenth Street station. MILTON still Spanish Do yourself a favor and put that knife where it belongs. The doors open. Big Guy stumbling back his friends catching him helping him off the train looking back, as the doors close and It's like it never happened. Milton straightening his cuffs as the train pulls away. KEVIN What did you say to him? MILTON I told him if he didn't leave us alone, you were going to kick all three of their asses. DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . MADISON SQUARE GARDEN - BOXING RING - NIGHT Right INTO it. Red trunks with a huge right hand and blue trunks drops and the Garden goes wild five thousand people yelling for blood. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN - NIGHT And Milton at ringside, breathing deeply of the vibe and KEVIN on his feet Get up! Get up, dammit! C'mon! MADISON SQUARE GARDEN - NIGHT Blue trunks rises on shaky legs as the BELL RINGS, the round over and the crowd groans back into its seats. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN - NIGHT Milton turning as DON KING collars him. DON KING Look at this sorry shit, you got better seats than me. MILTON You need a better lawyer. DON KING Nobody better than you, Johnny. MILTON Hang on a second presenting Kevin Meet my new heavyweight. Kevin Lomax. Kevin shaking hands with Don King, as we SPANISH RESTAURANT DOWNTOWN - NIGHT LATE Serious flamenco. Music is loud. The dancer is fantastic. Deep reds. Deep blacks. Skin. Duende. Milton, sitting beside some blonde he's discovered, he's got his jacket off, clapping perfectly to the beat. Behind him, a large table of ten/fifteen people. Food and wine to excess. Laughter and music and DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . SPANISH RESTAURANT - PHONE AND ROOM - NIGHT Kevin on a pay phone near the kitchen. KEVIN And say what? He's the senior partner at the pause Mare, you're really starting to piss me off pause Yes. I'm having one cigarette. You want me to lie? One cigarette after seven months is not pause That's exactly what I'm saying. Go to bed. I have no idea. pause I told you, he never sleeps. pause Mare. Stop. The guy pays our bills. The food, the heat, the rent on that enormous fucking apartment we live in. beat I live there, too! CLICK. The LINE is dead. He looks at the cigarette. Takes a hit. Fuck it. And then his eyes find The dressing room across the hall. An open door. Inside, a woman, one of the dancers, all but nude, stepping into her dress. A simply perfect body. And then she turns TOWARD us and it's Christabella clearly for a single moment before she slams shut the door. Kevin crosses to the door. Knocks. And again. The door opens. A DANCER standing there. It's not Christabella. DANCER Can I help you? Kevin already backing toward A SPANISH RESTAURANT - NIGHT Kevin moving toward the Milton table. Sitting down and just realizing that Cullen has joined the party. He's wasted. He waves. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . A CONTINUED: A Milton catching Kevin's eye, smiling as the Blonde slips below the table. As if nothing were going on. OMITTED thru thru LOMAX APARTMENT - NIGHT LATE Dark. Mary Ann asleep in a chair. A breeze through the open terrace windows. Suddenly she wakes. MARY ANN Kevin? Silence. And then, the sound of a BABY CRYING LOMAX NURSERY HALLWAY - NIGHT Mary Ann rushing through the dark, toward the nursery and the sound of the CRYING stopping suddenly at the nursery door MARY ANN How...? What are you...? LOMAX NURSERY AND HALL - NIGHT A one-year-old child sits naked on the floor amidst the tools and material. MARY ANN You poor thing Mary Ann easing slowly forward. MARY ANN How did you how did you get here? billing and cooing Are you okay? Look at you hello hello kneeling there Where's your mommy? The baby turns to her voice. Smiling now. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MARY ANN What are you playing with? What do you have there? The baby offers his open hands Viscera. Entrails and blood and slime. The child's hands full of someone's insides MARY ANN Oh, God, no The baby raising his hands toward her MARY ANN no please, God, no Stopping suddenly as she looks down at her body. Her nightgown is covered with blood. Just starting to scream, as we HARD OMITTED thru thru HEATH GUEST ROOM AND HALL - DAY Motion Kevin rushing down a hallway Heath behind him heading for an open door and into HEATH GUEST ROOM AND HALL - DAY Mary Ann in bed. Dead asleep. Jackie Heath, bedside nurse. JACKIE Took two seconals to get her out. KEVIN hung-over and guilty Milton got his hooks into me. HEATH Relax. We've all been there. JACKIE Leave her with me. Let her sleep. She'll be out another five, six hours at least. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN This transition, it's been really tough on her HEATH We're gonna find some names for you. Doctors. Good people. Kevin nods. Jackie ushering them out, as we A NY - DAY/NIGHT A New York time transition MOS. LAW FIRM STREET - DAY Pamela and three other women smoking. Looking up, as Kevin comes flying out of the building. PAM Caught me. KEVIN I've gotta find Cullen. as he passes We just got the prosecution discovery package. PAM That bad? Kevin just keeps going into LAW FIRM STREET - DAY Kevin needs a taxi bingo a cab dropping off right here he's got it opening the door and CHRISTABELLA Careful stepping out You'll spoil me for other men. KEVIN That's what they all say. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: CHRISTABELLA Heard he finally dragged you out the other night as she walks Can't believe I missed it. Kevin watching her go, looking up, seeing the glass bridge high above. NEW YORK SIDE STREET - DAY A limousine double-parked outside a brownstone. Kevin standing there as Cullen comes storming out of the building. CULLEN I get one supervised hour a week with my stepdaughter. This is it. You better have a great reason to call me out. KEVIN Your wife, the day she was killed, had lunch with a friend. She says and I quote: 'Alex is fucking around and I can prove it.' CULLEN Hearsay. Never gets in. KEVIN Wrong answer. listen to me Your prenuptial agreement is on file at the firm. The contract is null and void in the event of marital infidelity. beat You fuck around, she gets rich. you asshole That's a motive, Alex. long pause What do I need to know? CULLEN Melissa. My assistant. such a headache She's not even that good a fuck. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN And, on the night in question? CULLEN I was boning my assistant while my wife was getting shot. KEVIN I've got to re-interview Melissa. CULLEN Forget it. We're not telling that story. KEVIN Juries want honesty. Fuck with that at your peril. Cullen turns something more important CULLEN Allesandra. Wait Allesandra emerging from the building looking teary and distraught. Her THERAPIST helping her toward the limo. KEVIN Arthur CULLEN Not now. THERAPIST Time's up, Mr. Cullen. CULLEN Allesandra. Please Kevin watching Cullen rush away, as we OMITTED thru thru A NY - DAY/NIGHT A New York time transition MOS. OMITTED thru thru DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . A LOMAX APARTMENT BUILDING - SIDEWALK - NIGHT A A Towncar pulls up. Mary Ann, Kevin and Mrs. Lomax emerge. Just back from dinner. Two steps and A PAPARAZZI photographer nearby PAPARAZZI Kevin, hey, how's it going? Can we get a couple shots here? How about a thumbs-up here? What do you say? Kevin reluctantly smiles. Get it over with. MRS. LOMAX What's he doing? MARY ANN Kevin's had his picture in the paper. FEENEY, the doorman, at the ready. Mary Ann first inside. Mrs. Lomax lingers a moment watching Kevin have his picture taken. KEVIN Welcome to Babylon, Ma. FEENEY Sorry, Mr. Lomax, I thought we'd scared 'em all away MRS. LOMAX Always did like to stick his nose in a camera. LOMAX LOBBY - ENTRANCE - NIGHT FEENEY as they enter And how are you, Mrs. Lomax? Did you have a fine dinner? MRS. LOMAX I surely did. she's got a doggie bag Are you hungry? FEENEY No, I'm fine. Thank you. MILTON Speak of the devil CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / / . CONTINUED: There he is, waiting for the elevator. With him are Christabella and an Asian woman who is so sexy it hurts. Kevin off balance from this moment on. Mary Ann smells the danger. Everything is awkward. MILTON I was just telling the Moyez story. KEVIN Really. MILTON And is this your mother? KEVIN Yes. Mom, this is MILTON John Milton. Nice to meet you. MRS. LOMAX Alice Lomax. How do you do? MILTON Mary Ann a kiss for her I think you've met Christabella, and this is Giselle who's just in from Paris. A moment of bullshit superficial greetings and then the elevator doors opening and the whole uncomfortable clot of them moving into LOMAX APARTMENT ELEVATOR - NIGHT Just enough room. They ascend. KEVIN Thanks for the champagne. MILTON You've very welcome. to Mrs. Lomax This isn't really your first visit to New York, is it? KEVIN after a moment Yes. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: GISELLE Cette femme, elle est la mere de l'homme dont vous m'avez parle? MILTON She can't believe you're his mother. You've done one helluva job bringing him up, Mrs. Lomax. I'm sure it wasn't easy. MRS. LOMAX No. Mrs. Lomax has been staring, and now Milton meets her eyes as the elevator stops and the doors open. MARY ANN Nice to see you CHRISTABELLA Have a lovely evening. Kevin next out, holding the door, waiting KEVIN Mom, we're here MRS. LOMAX Yes. Good night to you. Mrs. Lomax takes one last look at Milton as she exits. MILTON Kevin, hang on holding the door How's Cullen. Everything on beam? KEVIN That's a long conversation. In the b.g., Mary Ann opening the apartment door and going inside. Mrs. Lomax right behind her. MILTON hush hush Why don't you come on up? KEVIN Now? Milton smiles. Christabella smiles. Giselle smiles. KEVIN Let's talk tomorrow. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: Milton shrugs. Your loss. Christabella has her hand on Giselle's ass, working up her skirt MILTON You sure? Kevin left standing there as the doors close. OMITTED thru thru LOMAX KITCHEN - NIGHT ONE MINUTE LATER Mrs. Lomax, subdued, listening to Kevin and Mary Ann bickering. MARY ANN That what you're doing when you're working late? KEVIN What are we talking about? MARY ANN You know exactly what I'm talking about. KEVIN That's ridiculous. MARY ANN I'm going to bed. walking off 'Night, Alice MRS. LOMAX 'Night. Mary Ann exits. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MRS. LOMAX I'm worried about her. You shouldn't fight like that. KEVIN That's not a fight, Ma, it's marriage. Not exactly your area of expertise. MRS. LOMAX Are you happy here? KEVIN What? MRS. LOMAX Are you happy here? KEVIN You're kidding, right? Am I happy? Every now and then I look around and I think my mama must be praying awful hard for me, 'cause I died and went to heaven. Am I happy? MRS. LOMAX You were always running somewhere. KEVIN I guess I finally got there. sensing something wrong Look, I'm sorry about being so busy this week. Maybe Saturday I can get some time off and MRS. LOMAX Don't worry on it. touching his face I love you more than anything in the whole world. You know that, don't you? KEVIN I love you too, Ma. Kevin turning out the lights, as we LOMAX APARTMENT - FOYER/HALL - DAY Newspapers. Laying on the doorstep. Headline reads: CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: CULLEN PRE-NUP SHOCKER! Kevin, dressed for work, briefcase in hand, rushing down a cup of coffee, reading the headline and KEVIN Shit! The door to the guest room is open. He looks in OMITTED LOMAX GUEST ROOM - DAY Mrs. Lomax fully dressed. The bed is made. Her bag is packed. KEVIN Mom? Ma, what are you doing? MRS. LOMAX I'm going home, Kevin. KEVIN What? What are you talking about? MRS. LOMAX I don't feel right. KEVIN You just got here. his watch Look, I'm late and I just got my teeth kicked in on the front page, so I gotta run. We'll talk later. MRS. LOMAX I have to go, Kevin. I miss my church. KEVIN Ma, this is New York, there must be twenty-thousand goddamn churches. Take your pick. MRS. LOMAX You need to do a better job with Mary Ann. She's not well. This place isn't good for her. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN So stay. Take care of her if you're so concerned! Help me out. MRS. LOMAX I'll take her home if you let me. KEVIN This is home. You understand? This is where we live! I'm not going back to Gainesville. Unbelievable. MRS. LOMAX 'Wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to temptation.' KEVIN It's a little early for scripture. I'm going to work. as he walks You can do whatever you want. Mrs. Lomax watching him go, as we CENTRAL PARK PLAYGROUND - DAY Melissa and Kevin on a bench. Kids playing. One of them is hers, but she's not paying much attention at the moment MELISSA I can't do it. It's one thing to have an affair with your boss, it's another to have to tell the world in a murder case. KEVIN We have to bring it out, Melissa. MELISSA My ex-husband would have a field day with this. KEVIN A man's life is at stake. You're our whole case. Melissa looking away, as we DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . WEAVER FEDERAL COURTROOM - DAY Modern. Empty. The JUDGE is a WOMAN. No bullshit. Barzoon sitting alone at the defense table. Federal prosecutor MITCHELL WEAVER on his feet. WEAVER there is nothing vague or exploratory about this subpoena request, Your Honor. We're specifically asking for any and all documents relating to Devada Holdings. It's taken six months and seventeen separate motions and we still don't know who's responsible here. We've got a paper trail here that seems to stretch into eternity! WOMAN JUDGE Mr. Barzoon? BARZOON Can't turn over what you don't have, Your Honor. We've been conducting a comprehensive search of our records and I'm sorry to say it's a great deal less than Mr. Weaver would suggest. WEAVER Your Honor, this is outrageous. We need to get in there and seize these documents before there's nothing left! BARZOON Your Honor, it's exactly these types of insulting accusations WOMAN JUDGE Enough. Both of you. Put it on paper. I'll read it. WEAVER Your Honor CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: But the gavel comes down. Done. Barzoon packing up, looks to the back of the room. Kevin sitting there. Waiting. WEAVER FEDERAL COURT - HALL - DAY MINUTES LATER Busy. Lots of traffic. Barzoon and Kevin walking. BARZOON Forget about lunch. This guy Weaver is running me ragged. A REPORTER pulls up alongside excited REPORTER Kevin. Nancy Osborne, Metro News. How are you? KEVIN Busy. REPORTER We had a report of a private plane at Teterboro airport ready to take Alexander Cullen out of the coun KEVIN cutting her off Mr. Cullen is innocent. He's not going anywhere. He's been released on a two million dollar bond. He looks forward to having his day in court. Thank you. REPORTER Kevin, is there any truth to KEVIN I'm in the middle of a meeting. Call my office. Schedule an interview. Or else forget it. Barzoon is getting away. Kevin hustling to catch up. KEVIN I'm picking a jury tomorrow. BARZOON You're good at that. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN You're not gonna have time to help me on Cullen, are you? BARZOON No. Just then, Weaver comes rumbling past WEAVER Devada Holdings, Eddie. Look in your rearview window, I'm right behind you. Before he can answer ANOTHER REPORTER swoops in REPORTER # Kevin, Chuck Higgery, Action News. Have you spoken with Alex Cullen concerning the D.A.'s report Kevin turns to see two more REPORTERS jogging over. REPORTER # Kevin, just a statement And a photographer Kevin under siege and BARZOON backing away Gotta go. Barzoon escaping as reporters begin to materialize from all sides, and we LOMAX LIVING ROOM - NIGHT Dark. Quiet. Mary Ann in her chair. She looks like hell. Eyes red from crying. Kevin has just come home and found her like this. MARY ANN I dreamt about this. beat Right here. beat It's not a dream if it's true. KEVIN Tell me this is the medication. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: MARY ANN You won't stay with me now. KEVIN Look, let's get you undressed and in the tub. Okay? MARY ANN You won't stay. I know you. You'll leave me now for sure. as he moves to comfort her Get-away-from-me! KEVIN Okay. I'm confused. furious Why? What is it now? What the fuck is it today, Mare? I swear to God, I'm calling this doctor, I'm gonna find out what the hell they're giving you. MARY ANN They took my ovaries. I told you! tears now My sisters have seven children between them. My mother had Derek when she was forty-five. You could set a clock by my periods. KEVIN What are you talking about? MARY ANN I can't have children! KEVIN Says who? MARY ANN The doctor! The other doctor. I was there today. beat Non-specific ovarian failure. KEVIN That's ridiculous. The PHONE begins to RING across the room. MARY ANN grabbing his arm I know you. You'll leave me. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN Mary Ann MARY ANN It's these monsters, Kevin. losing it I dreamt this The PHONE keeps RINGING. Kevin will finally pull away. Answering the phone O.S., quietly conducting business as Mary Ann falls apart. FOLEY SQUARE - DAY Kevin on a cell phone walking with Milton. KEVIN Uh huh. For sleep. And she can take that during the day? beat No, she won't be driving. beat I'm gonna have the pharmacy call you right back. Thanks. hangs up, sags against the car He thinks, he's not sure, he thinks it could be some kind of hormonal imbalance. MILTON I'm taking you off the case. KEVIN What? MILTON I want you to drop this case. KEVIN This case? Cullen? incredulous John, I've got a jury showing up this morning. MILTON Do you love this woman? KEVIN Yes. Of course I do. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON Kevin, she's sick. Everyone will understand. I'll understand. KEVIN stunned What about Cullen? MILTON We'll find someone new. You consult. You live to fight another day. KEVIN I put together a great jury. MILTON It's a disappointment. We all have them. Embrace it. Use it. You move on. KEVIN Hang on, we gotta talk about this. MILTON What's to talk? It's your wife, man. And she's very sick. And that's gotta come first. beat Are you telling me the possibility of leaving the case has never crossed your mind? KEVIN You know what scares me? I quit the case. She gets better. And I hate her for it. silence I don't want to resent her, John. I've got a winner here. I gotta nail this fucker down, do it fast, and put it behind me. Just get it done. Then put all my energy into her. MILTON I guess you have thought about it. I stand corrected. DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CULLEN COURTROOM - DAY Packed. JUDGE ARMAND POE presiding. Cullen seated with Kevin and Pam. The jury in their box. And prosecutor FRANK BROYGO on his feet, just wrapping up his opening statement BROYGO And when all that evidence is laid before you, when all these pieces weave together, you will conclude you will know that Alexander Cullen is guilty of murdering three people in cold blood with malice aforethought. Done. The courtroom is silent. The jury liked him. JUDGE POE Mr. Lomax checking his watch We can break for lunch now, or you can do a stop and start KEVIN If it's a choice, I'll go now. I won't be as long as Mr. Broygo. JUDGE POE Proceed. KEVIN We just spent our morning listening to Mr. Broygo talk about his 'evidence'. What he neglected to tell you is what this case is really about. He left out the most important fact of all: Alex Cullen was somewhere else when these murders took place. Now, Alex Cullen has done a lot of things I don't like. He's been a terrible husband to all three of his wives. He's been a destructive force in the lives of his step-children. He's cheated the city. His partners. His employees. He's paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties and fines over the years. I don't like those things. I don't expect you to like them. There will be other things during the course of this trial that you will hear about and like even less. But this isn't a popularity contest. It's a murder trial and Alex Cullen hasn't killed anybody. MORE CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN CONT'D The state is going all out here. They've got a whole team over there. They're throwing everything but the kitchen sink at this case. I need one thing from you. That's it. One thing. I need you to ask yourself, 'Is not liking this man reason enough to convict him of murder?' beat Enjoy your lunch. We'll talk again. Stunned silence, and then HARD COURTHOUSE - SMALL CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY Kevin thrown back against a wall CULLEN What the fuck was that? Are you out of your fucking mind? murderous They fucking hate me! Kevin one push Cullen sent flying. KEVIN Listen to me like you've never listened to anybody before. I'm going to bust my ass to make sure they hate you. Because as long as you're out boning Melissa, you're not home killing your wife. CULLEN pause, as he warms to the idea Why didn't you tell me before? KEVIN Then it doesn't look spontaneous. DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CULLEN COURTROOM - DAY A Forensic TECHNICIAN on the stand. A display chart beside him. Blowups of the bloody hand-prints. KEVIN Let me put it this way, then: can you tell from a blood sample if the person were alive or dead? TECHNICIAN The victim? Of course not. KEVIN And there's a two hour window in which to place these murders. TECHNICIAN Yes. KEVIN So, you've got absolutely no way to determine the condition of the victims when Alexander Cullen put his hand on that wall. OMITTED & & CARNEGIE HILL GROCERY - LATE AFTERNOON Kevin into the evening air, carrying a bag of stuff. Barzoon standing there in a jogging suit. Furious. KEVIN Eddie BARZOON Saw you go in. KEVIN What's up? BARZOON cold Congratulations. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN It's not over yet. BARZOON I'm not talking about the trial. KEVIN What are you talking about? BARZOON How the fuck does your name get on the firm's charter? KEVIN What? BARZOON Looks like it's been there for years. Now you're a partner? When did that happen? I am still the managing director of this firm. You want my job? Take me head on. Backdoor me one more time and I'll take your partnership papers and stuff 'em down your throat. KEVIN I don't know what you're talking about, but I sure as hell don't like your tone of voice. BARZOON Bullshit. KEVIN You got a problem with documents, I suggest you put together one of your late-night shredding sessions. BARZOON You think you're tough enough to run this firm? Fine. backing away You tell Milton next time Weaver calls maybe I pick up the phone. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: Kevin standing there, watching him jog away, as we MILTON'S APARTMENT - DUSK Kevin sitting there with his bag of groceries. Milton looking sadly perplexed MILTON Was he drunk? KEVIN I doubt it. He was going running. What the hell was he talking about? MILTON Eddie's gotten himself into trouble again. And he wants me to save him. And I can't. KEVIN Why does he think I'm after his job? MILTON Do you have any experience with manic-depression? KEVIN Not directly, no. MILTON You do now. Milton already on the phone. Punching a number. MILTON Yes, it's me. beat Get Eddie Barzoon. Right away. He may be out running, so page him if you have to. It's an emergency. hangs up, turns back to Kevin Looks like you could use a drink LOMAX APARTMENT - DUSK Mary Ann coming through the living room. She looks stoned. But moving with purpose. As if she were hearing something. Opening the terrace doors and staring out over the park, as we CENTRAL PARK RESERVOIR - DUSK The reservoir entrance. It's a nice night and busy with runners and bikes and Barzoon comes jogging past. MILTON'S APARTMENT - DUSK Kevin has a vodka in his hand. MARY ANN Eddie Barzoon. wearily I've nursed him through two divorces, a cocaine rehab, and a pregnant receptionist. beat God's creature, right? CENTRAL PARK - RESERVOIR - DUSK No leaves on the trees. Barzoon running. Breaking a sweat now. Leaving the heavy traffic behind. MILTON'S APARTMENT - DUSK MILTON I'll tell you, Kevin, because I know you're into theology. When you've seen when you've represented when you've dealt with as many people as I have over the years, finally you say to yourself, 'God must've been awfully bored.' MORE CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON CONT'D beat Choice. The opportunity to fuck up. Talk about entertainment value. CENTRAL PARK - RESERVOIR - DUSK Barzoon running. Into his pace. Glancing down and on the horsepath below. CENTRAL PARK - RESERVOIR - DUSK Three running shadows. Side-by-side. Just passing beneath an iron bridge. MILTON V.O.) You take a look at Eddie Barzoon you gotta wonder if maybe God overplayed his hand. Maybe he made the game a little too interesting A CENTRAL PARK - RESERVOIR - DUSK A Barzoon turns back stumbles catches himself sprinting now to the Pump House. He pulls up here. Resting as several other runners pass by. Glancing back, almost an afterthought and B CENTRAL PARK - RESERVOIR - DUSK B Those three running shadows are now crossing the bridge which is completely impossible considering where they just were a moment ago and C CENTRAL PARK - RESERVOIR - DUSK C Barzoon starts running again instinctively faster than before glancing back and D CENTRAL PARK - RESERVOIR FX - DUSK D EFX The three shadows. The sun setting behind them. Transforming as they run animal shapes mixing with the harsh silhouettes of bare trees and DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CENTRAL PARK - RESERVOIR - DUSK Barzoon freaked What the fuck was that? The park suddenly looking very empty and dark CENTRAL PARK - RESERVOIR - DUSK The three shadows and they're closer and weirder and A CENTRAL PARK TREE - DUSK A Barzoon suddenly turning changing course leaving the path into the woods quickly ducking down beside a huge sycamore tree. Hiding. Sweating. Scared. Staring back out at the path B CENTRAL PARK - RESERVOIR - DUSK B Three women runners clear as day pass beneath a streetlight. Team clothes. Machine-like strides. Flat- out. And then gone. CENTRAL PARK TREE - DUSK Barzoon stands from behind the sycamore tree. Relief. Smiling at his own stupidity. What a jerk. Dusting off. Heading back toward the path, when CENTRAL PARK TREE - DUSK Suddenly, there's an arm around his neck throwing him to the ground CENTRAL PARK TREE - DUSK Standing there above him, a crazed-looking homeless MAN he's white and old and hungry OLD MAN Gimme your watch. BARZOON standing now You want the watch, old man? Come and get it. DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CENTRAL PARK TREE - DUSK Barzoon moving toward the old guy when Crack! A tree branch swings out of nowhere catching his elbow snapping it back and A second homeless man. He's black and older than the first guy but just as wild and dangerous and he's winding up to swing the branch again and Barzoon on his knees dazed blood pouring from his head uncomprehending eyes watching these park creatures tear at his clothes CENTRAL PARK TREE - DUSK EFX Watching them grow more feral and less human by the moment and LOMAX TERRACE - DUSK Mary Ann staring out at the park. Covering her ears against some horrible sound that she alone can hear. CENTRAL PARK TREE - DUSK Barzoon on his belly in the dirt trying to move crawl anything CENTRAL PARK TREE - DUSK The two men beating Barzoon to death with stones CENTRAL PARK TREE FX - DUSK transforming with every blow EFX as their hands descend they become terrifying, demonic creatures, and as they rise we see them as men and over and over, as we hear DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / / . MILTON'S APARTMENT - DUSK MILTON V.O.) You take a look at Eddie Barzoon you gotta wonder if maybe God overplayed his hand. Maybe he made the game a little too interesting. Milton turns to find Kevin staring at him. KEVIN I'm gonna, I'm gonna go downstairs now. Put this stuff away. backing away with his bag of groceries Ice cream's already melting. Milton watching him walk away, as we LAW FIRM - PAM'S OFFICE AND HALL - DAY Pam exits the room. Melissa sitting at the head of the table. Kevin pacing around her. They are alone. Practicing her testimony over early morning coffee. KEVIN You testified that the defendant called you at four-thirty to ask you to come to his office gym for the purposes of sex. MELISSA Yes. KEVIN Mr. Cullen, though, he's not just your lover, is he? He's the boss. MELISSA Yes. KEVIN So two hours go by before you act on his request? CONTINUED . CONTINUED: MELISSA Yes, I went up at six-ten. I knew it was six-ten, they had weather coming on the news. I remember Cut off by KEVIN Okay. Stop. breaking character This prosecutor is no fool. He's gonna change tempo, attitude, tone of voice he's gonna come out with questions you never thought of, just to screw you up. coaching So what do we do? MELISSA Yes and no answers. Stay calm. KEVIN Exactly. back into it Is it your testimony, Ms. Block, that between the hours of six-ten and nine-forty you were engaged in sexual congress with the defendant? MELISSA Yes. KEVIN At any point during this three hour marathon, Ms. Block, did you lose sight of the defendant? MELISSA No. KEVIN Did he use the bathroom? MELISSA Yes. KEVIN Is he circumcised? silence You understand the question? MELISSA Yes. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: KEVIN So is he cut or not? MELISSA Yes. KEVIN Which is it? Silence. Melissa looks away. KEVIN You've been polishing his knob three times a week for six months and you don't know whether or not he's got foreskin? MELISSA total transformation I've had it up to here with this fucking game. Why don't you take your questions and shove 'em up your ass. Kevin staring at her. Looking away. Moving quickly for the door, and into: LAW FIRM LIBRARY HALL - DAY Three steps out and he stops. Something's wrong. Very wrong. People are out of their offices, standing in the doorways. Some of them crying. Christabella rushes toward him, into his arms CHRISTABELLA Oh, Kevin KEVIN What's happened? CHRISTABELLA Eddie Barzoon KEVIN What about him? CHRISTABELLA He's dead. He was killed. KEVIN When? CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: Heath nearby has more answers HEATH Last night in the park. He was running if you can believe it. Kevin standing there, holding Christabella. Feeling heat on the back of his neck and turning to find Milton at the far end of the hall. Their eyes lock CHRISTABELLA What is wrong with people? HEATH At least they got the scumbags who did it. KEVIN turning on this Who? LAWYER # Two old, homeless crazies. Pam coming through the hallway like steel PAM Kevin Kevin, I'm sorry, but you're due in court in thirty minutes. As Melissa appears in the conference room door MELISSA Are we through here, or what? PAM I'll bring Melissa down in the car, but you better get going. SUBWAY TO COURT - DAY SCREAMING uptown. Kevin looking very rattled. Milton, beside him. Talking him down. MILTON I want you to put Eddie aside. Let me worry about it. You gotta deal with Cullen now. Marshal your strength. Prioritize. Conserve your energy. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN I can't put her on the stand. MILTON What choice do we have? KEVIN I know she's lying. MILTON Because she didn't answer you fast enough? Did she lie to you? No. She said nothing. The fact is, you'll never know. KEVIN He killed those people. MILTON You really believe that? KEVIN Cullen set me up. Melissa, the whole thing, I know it. MILTON Look, you gotta go with your gut. KEVIN That's your advice? MILTON I'll back you either way. Hey, you think I haven't lost before? pause We talked about this, Kevin. Pressure. Take a big whiff. Kevin unreadable. The SUBWAY CAR RATTLING away. CULLEN COURTROOM - DAY Packed and ready. JUDGE POE Mr. Lomax, you may call your next witness. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: A long, awful pause. Kevin in agony. Milton behind him. Cullen and Pamela and everyone waiting JUDGE POE Counselor KEVIN I call Melissa Block. COURT - HALL - DAY Chaos! media madness Kevin pushing past dozens of reporters and camera crews court officers trying to clear the way fifteen voices screaming at once questions flying like shrapnel Cullen, all smiles, alongside Milton as they're pushed along Pam, waving a cell phone, fighting her way to Kevin and PAM Kevin! re the phone Kevin, it's for you Kevin takes the phone, trying to hear above the noise. LOMAX BUILDING AND STREET - DAY A cab speeds to a stop. Kevin jumps out. Feeney, the doorman, standing there with Felix, his partner. FEENEY She didn't look well, sir. Felix tried to talk to her, but she KEVIN Where is she? MADISON AVENUE AND CHURCH - DAY Kevin running down the sidewalk and . CHURCH - DAY Kevin enters. It's empty and dark. Two old ladies up front. Mary Ann in back, wrapped in a comforter. KEVIN Honey sitting beside her Mare. It's me. MARY ANN He let himself in. You need to know that. The bath running, or something, I didn't hear him. I swear to you. KEVIN Who? MARY ANN Then we talked. We talked for hours. coming apart for good I haven't talked to anyone, really talked to anyone in such a long time. You have this whole life and all I have is me and he was so clear about it all. KEVIN Who let himself in? MARY ANN I came down here. I've just been sitting. I'm afraid to pray. I let him stay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Kevin. KEVIN Did somebody hurt you? MARY ANN Milton. He fucked me, Kevin. I let him fuck me. I couldn't stop him. KEVIN What? When? MARY ANN Today. This afternoon. All afternoon. God, I'm so ashamed CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN Today? Today? Today. He was in court, Mare. He was in court, in my presence all afternoon! MARY ANN sobbing I'm not crazy. I'm not. I swear. KEVIN I don't know, Mare. I don't know how much more of this I can take. She stands. Throws open the comforter. She is naked. There are scratch marks all over her body. HOSPITAL CUBICLE - NIGHT Kevin with a NURSE and paperwork. NURSE Sign there And there And one more as he's done She's calm now so this might be a good time to say good night. Kevin nods. Stands, moving now into HOSPITAL HALLWAY - NIGHT Mary Ann on a moving gurney. Calm now, in the sway of some very strong drugs. Kevin kneels beside her. MARY ANN I know why this is happening. KEVIN They want you to go to sleep. MARY ANN It's the money, Kevin. Blood money. We just drank it down. Both of us. We knew it. Winning those cases, taking the money. We knew they were guilty. But you kept winning. Every time. MORE CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MARY ANN CONT'D fading I can't look at myself in the mirror, Kevin. CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY A big one. A funereal morning. Hearse and cortege parked on the street outside. CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY Barzoon's funeral. Big deal. Big crowd. An excess of flowers. ORGAN MUSIC as foreplay. Milton, up front, seating Diana and children. Kevin seated on the aisle. Beside him, Jack Heath. JACKIE What do they say? KEVIN They don't know. It's bad. She's falling apart. CHRISTABELLA Do you have room for one more? Kevin turns to see Christabella standing beside him. Jackie's concerned expression blossoms into a private, knowing smile now that Kevin has turned away. Christabella squeezes in, as the MUSIC SWELLS and THE PRIEST walks solemnly to the altar. Kevin caught in a high-intensity sexual cross-fire between Jackie and Christabella. He's tense. He's flipping out. CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY Milton passes on his way to the back. Smiles. DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY On one side the Therapist, on the other Allesandra, except she looks different than last we saw her. Hair down. Makeup. She could be all of seventeen. THE PRIEST We are here today, to remember and pray and exalt in the spirit of Edward Barzoon Kevin staring at Cullen and the girl. THE PRIEST Father, husband, partner, friend, colleague CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY EFX Cullen's hand stroking at the back of the pew nothing outrageous, except it does call to mind the hand of Mr. Gettys back in Florida THE PRIEST taken from us so suddenly Cullen's hand moving with purpose stopping waiting as Allesandra sits back and now his fingers find her skin stroking ever so subtly THE PRIEST to contemplate evil. How it robs how it steals everything of value from us Cullen turns except it's not Cullen, it's Gettys yes, Gettys whispering in Allesandra's ear and THE PRIEST farther from God's purpose CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY Kevin out of his seat. Pushing past Christabella rushing up the aisle THE PRIEST and the greater that distance, the greater evil's pleasure . CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY Milton watching Kevin flee the church. CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY Moments later. Kevin hustling away WEAVER behind him Mr. Lomax? KEVIN No comment. I'll have something for you later. WEAVER I'm a friend of Eddie Barzoon. Kevin turns. Weaver walking beside him. WEAVER Remember me? Mitch Weaver. Justice Department. KEVIN Staking out the funeral? WEAVER Looking for you actually. KEVIN I'm in a bit of a hurry right now. I need to talk to my wife. WEAVER Just wanted to ask you off the record I had a few questions about Eddie. CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY The funeral. In progress. CHOIR and ORGAN getting LOUDER. We're watching Milton move in the back of the church STREET - DAY Kevin walking faster. Weaver right beside him. WEAVER Milton, Chadwick, Waters is a little more than a law firm, but then I assume you knew that. working him Devada Holdings? I'm sure you've heard of it. London, Kinshasa, Karachi Arms brokering mostly. You've got Munzer-Dietch, they're in Berlin and Djakarta chemical weapons, toxic waste. Ivanaco Limited Moscow money laundering for the Eastern Bloc. at his ear It goes on and on, Kevin. CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY Stained glass. Angels. The Stations of the Cross. CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY Milton standing in the shadows at the back. Taking it all in. Prodigal angel. CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY EFX And then, the stained-glass angels begin to move. Wings begin to beat. Expressions come alive. Expressions of panic and fear and STREET - WEAVER - DAY Kevin really striding. Weaver right there. WEAVER Milton is into everything. listen to me Barzoon was coming in, Kevin. He was gonna testify. MORE CONTINUED . CONTINUED: WEAVER CONT'D Desoto and Dibalista, in Panama, that's a firm that specializes in opening bank accounts for judges all over South America. Huge drug cases. Murder. Everything. KEVIN He's a lawyer! What the fuck do you want? stopping there Stay off my back. Weaver left standing there, as Kevin rushes away through traffic across the street WEAVER This is a first time, last time offer! calling after him I'm learning about you, Kevin. I talked to some old friends down in Florida this morning louder now The Gettys case. The eighth grade teacher? did Kevin just slow down Found him this morning. He had the body of a ten-year-old girl in the trunk of his car. Kevin, across the street, stops. CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY EFX Stained-glass angels going nuts now wings flapping like mad danger everywhere, as the MUSIC STARTS to CLIMAX and CATHOLIC CHURCH - DAY Milton down below. Lowering a single finger into the holy water. Instantly it's boiling, and we HARD DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . STREET - DAY Kevin standing there, across the street Weaver smiles, thinking he'll talk now for sure stepping off the curb and TIRES SCREECHING and Weaver turning and A car trying to stop and Kevin watching as WHAMM! Weaver ploughed onto the hood and A mother at the wheel her daughter beside her both screaming and The car's WINDSHIELD as it CRUMPLES and Kevin watching as the car stops and Weaver is dazed but alive his face buried in the windshield pulling himself up and Weaver's face THROUGH the shattered glass as he looks down to see Mother and child EFX transforming for an instant into monsters and Weaver more terrified than hurt scrambling off the hood of the car staring back in horror and Mother and child completely freaked out both of them hysterical and Weaver holding his arm nose bloodied but moving backing away turning to find Kevin still across the street and It's gonna be okay. And then, a big flat-nose truck out of nowhere air BRAKES BLASTING as it just wipes Weaver OFF the SCREEN and Kevin falling back, flat against a wall STAYING ON Kevin as the street comes alive with the SOUNDS of EMERGENCY and he starts moving away and we OMITTED & & DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . HOSPITAL HALLWAY - DAY Kevin walking through stopping finally at an open door HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY Mary Ann in a chair. Heavily sedated. Pam standing beside her, brushing her hair. Mrs. Lomax, on her knees, standing now MRS. LOMAX Kevin honey KEVIN What are you doing here? MRS. LOMAX I came this morning. I been calling the house and getting no answer and then I spoke to Pam and I need to talk to you. PAM We got her on the first flight up this morning. MRS. LOMAX Are you all right? KEVIN I just I don't know. MRS. LOMAX Will you excuse us a moment? Mrs. Lomax guides Kevin out. Mary Ann's vacant eyes watching them exit HOSPITAL HALLWAY - DAY Just outside the room. MRS. LOMAX I never should've left. I knew it. I'll never forgive myself. KEVIN I was gonna call you, I just CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MRS. LOMAX What I did, Kevin, I thought it was for the best. Loving you was always first for me. KEVIN There's nothing you could've done. MRS. LOMAX I could've told you the truth. KEVIN About what? MRS. LOMAX I've lied to you, Kevin. KEVIN When? MRS. LOMAX Always. pause Baptist Endeavor Youth Crusade, ninety-sixty-four. I was here. In New York. That night in the elevator, you never let me answer. KEVIN What are you talking about? MRS. LOMAX We stayed a week. The Tremont Hotel, it's not there anymore, I went by and it's gone they had a restaurant downstairs and we ate there almost every meal KEVIN Wait. Stop. MRS. LOMAX Your father was a waiter in that restaurant. KEVIN Oh, this is great, Ma this is just perfect MRS. LOMAX honey, listen to me CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN total incredulity Now? You do this now? Because, I mean, your timing it's superb you wait thirty years? you fly up here you pick today? MRS. LOMAX Kevin, honey, wait KEVIN obviously I'm not under enough pressure I don't have enough on my mind, I need this little MRS. LOMAX Listen to me. KEVIN Why are you doing this now? MRS. LOMAX Because I'm afraid! Kevin overwhelmed walking away down the hall completely fritzed leaving her standing there MRS. LOMAX Kevin. Kevin! calling after him 'Behold I send you out as sheep amidst the wolves.' Kevin just stopped walking. HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY Mary Ann quiet as Pam finishes brushing her hair. PAM Don't you look beautiful now. re something in her bag Here. Have a look and see. A hand mirror. Mary Ann turns away instantly MARY ANN No. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: PAM It's all right, dear. Look MARY ANN No. Please PAM Go on. Take a look. See how beautiful you are? Mary Ann opens her eyes. There's her reflection. She is beautiful. It's okay. She smiles. What was she afraid of? And then, the mirror shifts to find OMITTED HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY Pam A monster EFX her features horribly transformed in the glass and HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY Mary Ann rears back her head smashing into Pam's face so hard that the MIRROR SHATTERS Pam, blind for a moment, staggering back Mary Ann on her feet and fighting and Pam suddenly pushed and HOSPITAL HALLWAY - DAY Pam standing there, holding her face in pain, as the glass door slams shut and MRS. LOMAX What's going on? Mary Ann THROUGH the glass, jamming a chair up under the doorknob MRS. LOMAX Kevin! Kevin jogging down the hall trying the door CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN it won't open Mary Ann. Hey. Hey! still no luck Omigod Get somebody! Go! Pam doesn't move. OMITTED & & HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY Mary Ann, kneeling on the floor, picking up a broken shard of mirror and HOSPITAL HALLWAY - DAY KEVIN Mare! Look at me! Stop! right now Mare! HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY Mary Ann raising the glass/blade to her throat. KEVIN through the glass Mary Ann, no! No! No! OMITTED HOSPITAL HALLWAY - DAY MRS. LOMAX Help! Help! Somebody! We need help DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . HOSPITAL GLASS DOOR/HALLWAY - DAY Kevin banging like mad on the glass but KEVIN Mare! No! Look at me! Mary Ann raising the blade to her throat and KEVIN Stop! No! Mare! Kevin grabbing a folding chair swinging it A OMITTED A thru thru A HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY A SMASH! GLASS SHATTERING over the floor, but Kevin still can't get in wire mesh embedded in the window is bent but unbroken and he's tearing at it and KEVIN Mare! Hang on! I'm almost there! Look at me! And she does. Watching him claw at the wire MARY ANN I loved you. Pulling the blade across her neck KEVIN Noooooooooo! B OMITTED B thru thru D D HOSPITAL HALLWAY - DAY Kevin kicking full force against the door and DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . A HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY A The door buckles the chair wedged in there sent flying Kevin stumbling over broken glass KEVIN Oh, God, Mare, what've you done? no Mary Ann falling to the floor her bloody hand still holding the blade deep in her neck ORDERLY # why? Oh God, Mare, why? over his shoulder We need a doctor in here! B HOSPITAL HALLWAY - DAY B Patients out of their rooms standing at their doorways sedated, bovine expressions watching MRS. LOMAX running through please somebody help her! What are you all doing? Somebody! ORDERLY # turning the corner up ahead ORDERLY # What's the hell's going on down here? C HOSPITAL ROOM - DAY C Kevin cradling Mary Ann his hand trying to staunch the wound in her neck blood flowing she isn't moving her eyes are starting to fix and KEVIN no, Mare hang on please, Mare, I'm right here, it's gonna be okay, baby oh, God, Mare, why did you do this? screaming now Where's the fucking doctor?! ORDERLY # Oh shit, man CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . C CONTINUED: C Kevin turns Orderly # in the doorway KEVIN What are you doing? Help her! ORDERLY # Hey, look, I ain't no doctor backing away Hang on lemme YELLING in the hall now, and faces in the doorway. Mrs. Lomax crying and two weird patients from the next staring and Pam. And only we can see it, but she's smiling KEVIN please, baby, stay with me it'll be okay it's gonna be fine just, just stay with me Oh God, Mare please, baby Kevin holding her, but she's gone, as we OMITTED thru thru HOSPITAL - BACK STAIRWELL - DAY But someplace completely different. Older. Dark. Empty. Echoey. A fluorescent bulb sputtering out. FOOTSTEPS approaching It's Kevin. And we know instantly that Mary Ann is dead. There's blood on his shirt. His eyes are raw. At his side, a small suitcase containing her personal effects. More than grief, more than shock, what we notice most is his frighteningly grim determination. Up ahead, a bench. Mrs. Lomax huddled here. Cried out. Empty. Holding herself more tightly as he sets down the suitcase. MRS. LOMAX I could've packed that up for you. Kevin sits. If he loses his steel he'll drown. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MRS. LOMAX I wish you'da let me help you. KEVIN Finish the story. off silence Nineteen-sixty-four. You're in New York. There's a waiter in a restaurant. waiting Finish the story. MRS. LOMAX He talked to me. Nobody'd ever really talked to me before. Sixteen years old, a thousand miles away from home, somebody takes an interest Working so hard, putting himself through school, I'd never met anybody like that. Knew the Bible, every word, just knew it by heart. Every meal, there he was, at my ear and I just I didn't want that week to ever end. But it did. He came to say goodbye, it was late, and I started to cry and he said not to worry, 'Behold, I send you out as sheep amidst the wolves.' And that just stopped me cold because we'd spent that whole day at Bible study reading Matthew Ten and there was just no way for him to know about that, so I was I took it as a sign. I let him in. And then everything was different. He was cruel. He was so cruel and I was so ashamed, I thought I'd die Kevin's eyes settle on the suitcase. Mary Ann MRS. LOMAX I promised right there if God would let me back into His grace I would never leave again. I prayed there was a reason this terrible thing had happened. There had to be a reason. And there was. It was you. You were my blessing. You were reason enough to endure anything. How much I love you. KEVIN I want to hear you say it. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MRS. LOMAX His face that night I knew it was him and the same time I was confused and you were so proud you'd come to New York and done all this on your own, I didn't have the heart to tell you KEVIN Say it. MRS. LOMAX desperate to finish you wondered yourself the apartment, the money, all this attention, everything out of nowhere pause Milton. He's your father. there it is, out loud Somehow he found us. Tracked you down. KEVIN No. MRS. LOMAX What do you mean? KEVIN He's always been there. I know that now. Watching. Waiting. He's been playing us like a game. Jerking us around. Destroying Mary Ann Kevin stands. Quiet fury. A machine. MRS. LOMAX What are you doing? KEVIN I gotta go. MRS. LOMAX No let it alone! Stay with me. panicked Forget about him! We can leave here. We can go home! We don't ever have to see him again! CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN I can't do that. You go home. backing away Pray for Mary Ann. MRS. LOMAX Kevin, please Honey! calling after him I love you! Kevin disappearing down the stairs. Mrs. Lomax dropping to her knees as his FOOTSTEPS ECHO away, and we HOSPITAL EXIT AND STREET - DAY As Kevin explodes through a fire door. Pam standing there, having a smoke. PAM There you are all smiles Look at you you're terrified. Not to worry. He'll take that fear away. You don't ever have to be frightened again. Go on, he's waiting Kevin turning and something is very wrong HOSPITAL EXIT AND STREET - DAY Fifty-seventh Street is empty. No cars. No people. Just the building and the silence. Turning back and Pam is gone, and then And then a WIDER ANGLE it goes on and on He's alone. Just now realizing the scale of Milton's power. Starting to walk, as we MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT The room's only light coming from the huge bas relief. Kevin steps off the elevator, into the room. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON You're right about one thing I have been watching. Couldn't help myself. Watching, waiting, holding my breath. But I'm no puppeteer, Kevin Milton appears out of nowhere. Walking past Kevin. MILTON I don't make things happen. Doesn't work like that. Free will it's like butterfly wings one touch and it never gets off the ground. I only set the stage. You pull your own strings. Kevin has a gun Cullen's gun, in his hand KEVIN What did you do to Mary Ann? MILTON A gun? In here? KEVIN What did you do to my wife? MILTON On a scale of one to ten, ten being the most depraved acts of sexual theater, one being an average Friday night run-through at the Lomax household, I'd say beat Six. Kevin FIRES the GUN BANG! BANG! BANG! bullets pass right through him into the wall MILTON Whoa Got me! Damn! laughing That's my boy. Step on up! Stay angry! Keep hold to that great fury! Hang on tight, Kevin, because it's the final fig leaf. Kevin lowers the gun to his side. KEVIN Who are you? CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON Never lost a case. Why? Why? Because you're so fucking good? Yes. But why? KEVIN Because you're my father. MILTON Well, I'm a little more than that. Awful hot in that courtroom, wasn't it? 'What's the game plan, Kevin?' reporter's voice 'It was a nice run, Kevin. Had to close out someday.' KEVIN Who are you? MILTON I have so many names. KEVIN Satan. MILTON Call me Dad. KEVIN Mary Ann, Barzoon, Weaver MILTON Come on. You're not listening. Blaming me for Mary Ann? I hope you're kidding. You could've saved her any time you liked. She only wanted love. But you knew it wouldn't really work out, didn't you? Mary Ann in New York? Face it, you started looking to better- deal her the minute you got here. KEVIN That's a lie. MILTON Hey, it's not that you didn't care for her, it's just you were a little bit more involved with someone else. Yourself. KEVIN What the hell do you know about love? CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON Bio-chemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate. sharply now Don't be such a fucking chump. There's only one real sickness in all of creation and that is self- delusion. I told you to take care of your wife that the world would understand. And you made a choice. 'You know what scares me, John? I leave the case, she gets better and I hate her for it...' Remember? KEVIN You set me up. It's entrapment. MILTON Who told you to pull out the stops for Mr. Gettys? And Moyez the direction you took Snake handlers, Popes and swamis all feeding at the same trough whose ideas were those? And then Cullen knowing he's guilty seeing those pictures putting that lying bitch on the stand What did I say, Kevin? Maybe it was time to lose, right? You didn't think so. KEVIN That's my job. That's what I do! MILTON Exactly! gotcha Vanity is definitely my favorite sin. Self love. It's so basic. What a drug. Cheap, all-natural, and right at your fingertips. Pride. That's where you're strongest. And believe me, I understand. Work for someone else? Hey, I couldn't hack it. 'Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.' KEVIN What do you want from me? MILTON What do I want? I want you to be yourself! DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . OMITTED & & MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX The Bas Relief that wall of bodies swirling in marble clouds it's going to come to life MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT MILTON I've had many children, Kevin. So many disappointments. Neurotic, indecisive wannabes. Over-eager, ham-handed butchers. Strung-out, priapic losers. And then there's you. Your mother, I'll tell you, she outstripped my wildest fantasy. That church she dragged you to? Every day? What training. What a challenge! It's awesome what you've done. How far you've come. Both of you You and your sister. Christabella emerges from behind the bar MILTON Half-sister to be exact. CHRISTABELLA Surprise. MILTON What do you think, Kevin? What a scene, huh? CHRISTABELLA passing Kevin Don't let him scare you. MILTON Wait till you meet her mother. KEVIN It is a test, isn't it? The whole game, you sitting there, keeping score. MILTON No. That's the other guy. I don't judge anybody. As far as I'm concerned, everyone's a winner. MORE CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON CONT'D God's your prankster, my boy. Think of it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift and then, I swear to you for his own amusement his own private, cosmic gag reel he sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch but don't taste. Taste but don't swallow. And while you're jumping from one foot to the other he's laughing his sick fucking ass off! He's a tight-ass. He's a sadist. He's an absentee landlord! incredulous Worship that? Never. MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX The Bas Relief getting stranger and more seductive by the moment bodies spinning and spawning MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT MILTON I'm here, on the ground, my nose in it since the whole damn thing began. Why? Because I worship man himself. And it's my time now. Our time. CHRISTABELLA Anybody want a drink? I'm having a drink. KEVIN This is some pitch. You must need me pretty bad. What do you want? MILTON Eddie was right. Your name is on the partnership charter. I want you to take over the firm. You and your sister. KEVIN Is that it? CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON No. letting his hand brush her cheek She's ovulating. Right now. KEVIN What? MILTON Your vanity is justified, Kevin, you're the seed to a new future. Your son will sit at the head of all tables. You hold a special place in the history of all things. KEVIN You want a child. MILTON I want a family. KEVIN The Antichrist. MILTON Whatever KEVIN But I have to volunteer. Christabella begins to strip. MILTON Free will. It's a bitch. beat I need a family. I command an ever larger presence on the board. I'm busy and I need some help. There's a plan here. I've been conserving my energy. Synergy. Prioritize. It's the millennium, Kevin. Title fight. Round twenty. I'm ready to work. KEVIN So what are you offering? MILTON Are we negotiating? KEVIN Always. CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: MILTON Yes! KEVIN What are you offering? MILTON Everything. Anything. All of it! he's got him What am I offering? I'm offering bliss. Instant bliss. Bliss by remote control. Bliss on tap. That first line of cocaine. That walk into a strange girl's bedroom. The jury coming back in thirty- eight minutes. Freedom. Revolution! Viva la causa! OMITTED thru thru MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX The Bas Relief transforming into real clouds and bodies and the frame of it disappearing and MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT KEVIN You're right, aren't you? About me. I mean, I made all the choices, didn't I? Gettys. Cullen. Mary Ann. I did kill her, didn't I? MILTON Don't be too hard on yourself. Christabella passing Kevin, handing him her bra. CHRISTABELLA It's done. Forget it. It's all for us now. MILTON God, she's just fucking stunning, isn't she? Christabella lingering and Kevin leaning in kissing her just a moment before she pulls away CONTINUED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . CONTINUED: KEVIN You're right. I wanted to fuck her from the minute we met. MILTON Like that's wrong. Like there's anything wrong with that. That there could be laws preventing something so natural. That's our ticket in. excited now Did you know there were more students in law school right now than lawyers walking the Earth? MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX The Bas Relief has become an orgy, bodies coming to life in a swirling, narcotic haze and MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT MILTON We're coming out, guns blazing. The two of you all of us acquittal after acquittal until the stench of it reaches so high into heaven it chokes the whole fucking lot of them! What we cannot legislate we will buy. What we cannot buy we will degrade. We will blow every fuse of enlightenment until it looks like a vandalized, neon sign! And while God is busy at his peephole as he deigns us with his disapproval as he lumbers around his empty kingdom like some overfed colonial governor as God sleeps late, we will win. We've got a winner here, kids! KEVIN In the Bible you lose. You're destined to lose. MILTON Consider the source. Christabella her hands moving over her body CHRISTABELLA Stop talking. Both of you. reaching out Kevin, please DEVIL'S ADVOCATE - Rev. / / . MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX The bodies craning to watch as they roll by. MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT CHRISTABELLA urgently now Kevin, really, please MILTON She's right, my son. It's time to step up and take what's yours. KEVIN You're right. It's time. Kevin raises the GUN to his temple quick and simple SNAP! he's blown his brains out Milton stunned disbelieving for a moment and then an aura of fire and heat explodes around him MILTON Nooooooo...! OMITTED & & . MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX Kevin starting to fall in SUPER SLOW MOTION and MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX The room consumed with fire as the heat explodes around Milton's body and MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX Kevin still falling and MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX Christabella beating at the flames that now cover her body and MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX Kevin still falling and MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX The Bas Relief. The clouds are now fire the bodies now burning and MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX Kevin still falling and MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX Milton as his clothes burn away as the heat eats away his features . MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX as he becomes younger and younger and younger, until suddenly MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX For a moment. He is an angel. An instant of exquisite perfection amidst the flames. And then, just as MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX suddenly HE EXPLODES! and we MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX The Bas Relief freezing instantly back into stone trapped in tortured, agonizing finality. MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX And then, the whole thing just crumbling. Stone raining down in tiny pieces and MILTON'S APARTMENT - NIGHT EFX Kevin in SUPER SLOW MOTION as he falls the final few inches to the floor and at the moment of impact we hear the sound of THUNDER and we FLORIDA COURTHOUSE - MEN'S ROOM - DAY The mirror. And Kevin's face. As THUNDER ECHOES AWAY and becomes nothing more than a FLUSHING URINAL. We're back in Florida. Where we started. Kevin touches his face. His body. His head. He's alive. He touches the mirror. He's insane. He's here. It's now. WATER RUNNING in the sink. CONTINUED . CONTINUED: REPORTER behind him It was a nice run. Kev. Had to close out someday. Nobody wins 'em all. The Reporter exits. Kevin alone with the mirror and his reflection. And then it's over. He's made his decision. Replacing his wedding ring. Reaching for his jacket, as we FLORIDA COURTHOUSE - HALLWAY - DAY Kevin walking through. His game face. A court officer opening the doors and FLORIDA COURTROOM - DAY Kevin entering. Standing there a moment. Searching for Heath in the back of the courtroom. He's not there. A single empty seat. Kevin moving quickly down the aisle. Mary Ann standing there, completely unprepared as Kevin comes in behind her. Embracing her. Holding her tightly to him with a fervor that we alone will understand. MARY ANN Honey, what are you doing? quietly Are you okay? Kevin nods. Smiles. Backs away. Into his seat. Gettys there beside him. Kevin will not look at him. BAILIFF All rise for the honorable Justice Garson Deeds. The Judge enters. Takes his seat. JUDGE to Barbara You're still under oath, young lady. MORE CONTINUED . CONTINUED: JUDGE CONT'D to Kevin Your witness, Mr. Lomax. KEVIN Your Honor, I'm terribly sorry, but I can no longer represent my client. I need to be replaced as counsel. Another silence. But this one isn't very long. There will be chaos in the courtroom. Gettys will freak out and the press will start running for the phones and the Judge will be banging that gavel, as we FLORIDA COURTHOUSE - HALLWAY - DAY As the doors open and the chaos begins to spill into the hallway. Kevin trying to rush away with Mary Ann but right behind them REPORTER Kevin! Hey! catching up Listen, this story this is the one, pal this is the one you dream about KEVIN There is no story. REPORTER Bullshit. A lawyer with a crisis of conscience? You gotta be kidding. It's huge! KEVIN They're gonna disbar me, Larry. You can cover that. MARY ANN Can they do that? REPORTER Not when I get through with the story. still walking You gotta talk, Kevin. You gotta gimme an exclusive. MORE CONTINUED . CONTINUED: REPORTER CONT'D This is wire service. This is 'Sixty Minutes'. This is a story that needs to be told. It's you! You're a star! KEVIN Call me tomorrow. REPORTER You got it. First thing. Kevin nods. Holding Mary Ann's hand as they escape. FLORIDA COURTHOUSE - HALLWAY - DAY The Reporter watching them go for a moment. Then turning back. FLORIDA COURTHOUSE - HALLWAY - DAY EFX And as he does, his features change, transforming - - like that into Milton. FLORIDA COURTHOUSE - HALLWAY - DAY It's Milton. Always there. And he smiles. And we FREEZE FRAME. FADE OUT. THE END 