12 Angry Men (3) Flashcards
(Act 3 Beginning)
Foreman. No. There’s nothing wrong. You can take that back. We’re finished with it. (jurors still are silent)
(turn around for a moment)
(loud) Well, what are you looking at?
- Yes, vote.
.7. So all right, Let’s do it.
I want an open ballot. Let’s call out our votes. I want to know who stands where.
- I’ll tell you something. The crime is being committed right in this room.
Foreman. The vote is six to six.
I’m ready to walk into court right now and declare a hung jury. There’s no point in this going on any more.
7—let the kid take his chances with twelve other guys?
Foreman. Six to six. I don’t think we’ll ever agree on anything.
It’s got to be unanimous (at 8) and we’re never going to convince him.
- At first I was alone. Now five others agree; there is a doubt.
You can’t ever convince me that there’s a doubt, because I know there isn’t no doubt.
(second vote)
Foreman. Maybe we should vote.
- What do you mean vote?
Not again!
Foreman. Right. And if seven or more vote no, that means that we aren’t a hung jury, and we go on discussing it.
- It doesn’t seem quite right to me.
It’s the only solution
- I agree, its the only way.
- Anything to end this.
Foreman. Are we agreed then? Seven or more vote yes and we take it in to the judge.
Let’s call our votes out.
Foreman. three?
yes
(are or aren’t hung jury)
Foreman. Twelve?
- Yes
Oh, no!
4—El trains screech when they go around curves. So the old man could have heard a scream, which is high-pitched. And it is a tenement and they have thin walls.
Yeah, Yeah. That’s right, That’s right.
4—Please remember that there weren’t any fingerprints on the knife, and it is summer, so gloves seem unlikely.
(to 8) Now I want you to listen to her, She knows what’s going on.
- And it might have taken a few seconds to get a handkerchief out and wipe the fingerprints away.
.8.This is a point.
Why don’t we just time this one, to see?
4—and get down the stairs to the place where the old man saw him, the boy that is.
This is right
- I think a murderer could use up thirty or forty seconds pretty easily at that point.
.4. Let’s reconstruct the killing.
.7. Yes, Let’s
(take knife giving it to 8) Here, you do the stabbing.
- No, I’ll do it.
(to 7) Why don’t you be the one that gets stabbed? You’re younger than I am. And don’t forget, you take one second to fall.
- Divorce yourself from this particular case, just human nature.
.8. Yes, it seems reasonable.
Hey, wait a minute! He falls and he ends up on his right side, the father did, but stabbing someone isn’t like shooting them, even when it’s right in the heart. The father would have worked around for a few seconds lying there on the floor, writhing maybe.
4—there would have been enough oxygen in his system to carry him for two or three seconds, I should think.
- Wouldn’t the father have cried out?
Maybe the kid held his mouth
- That also seems possible.
4—it would jut be for a second or two, I should think, but still he would look around.
This gets better and better
4—it was the kid, he still had to run down the hall and down the stairs—at least one flight of stairs
You see! You see!
- That may be true, that the old man lies in part, but I think it will change my vote once more. Guilty.
(to 6) What about you? What do you think now?
6.I’m not just sure what I think. I want to talk some more. At first I thought guilty, then I changed. Now I’m sort of swinging back to guilty.
(to 11) And what about you?
11.—real doubt
5. I say guilty. I was right the first time.
Now we’re beginning to make sense in here
- He was one hundred per cent wrong about the time; it took twice as long as he thought.
.11. Then could not the old man be one hundred per cent wrong about who he saw?
That’s the most idiotic thing I’ve ever heard of. You’re making that up out of thin air
- Well, something’s been bothering me a little. This whole business about the stab wound, and how it was made—the downward angle of it, you know?
Don’t tell me we’re going to start that. they went over it and over it in court.
2—It’s a very awkward thing to stab down into the chest of someone who’s half a foot taller than you are
(grabs knife standing) Look, you’re not going to be satisfied till you see it again. I’m going to give you a demonstration somebody get up. (go to 8) Okay. Now watch this. I don’t want to have to do it again (crouch) is that six inches?
- That’s more than six inches
Okay, let it be more (throw him across the galaxy)
(they freak, I laugh)
(right after fake stab/ GALAXY)
5. What’s the matter with you?
Now just calm down. Nobody’s hurt, are they?
- No. Nobody’s hurt
All right. there’s your angle. Take a look at it. Down and in. That’s how I’d stab a taller man in the chest, that’s how it was done. Take a look at it, and tell me I’m wrong. (sits)
- Did you ever stab a man?
.6. Of course not
.8. Did you?
All right, Let’s not be silly.
8. Did you?
No. I didn’t!
8. Where do you get all your information about how it’s done?
What do you mean? It’s just common sense.
Have you ever seen a man stabbed?
…No
5—not if he’d ever had any experience with switch knifes, and we know that the kid had a lot of experience with switch knives.
I don’t believe it.
8— Doesn’t it seem like an awkward way to handle a knife?
What are you asking me for?
- Before we decide anything more, I would like to try to pull this together
This should be good
- I want you all to look at this logically and consistently
We have. Guilty.
