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You go get Dean and Harry looked at Make sure they’re all right

Percy, you make the report to the warden for me

Say the situatiors under control It’s not a story

He won’t appreciate you drawing out the suspense

What about you You’re about to collapse

I’ve got the Mile till you all come back

Go on, now Go

Come on, boy Let’s get you looked at

Boss, I needs to see you down here

This is not a good time, John Coffey

not a good time at all

But I needs to see you, boss I needs to talk to you

Closer

Boss, you know you ain’t supposed to do that

Mind your business, Del

What do you want, John Coffey

Just to help it

Don’t be afraid

Help

Help

John Coffey’s killing Boss Edgecomb

Help

What are you doing

Boss Howell Help

Boss Stanton Somebody, come

Help

Boss Howell Boss Stanton

Somebody, come John Coffey’s killing Boss Edgecomb

Del, for chrissakes, shut up

What did you just do to me

I helped it

Didrt I help it

I just took it back, is all

Awful tired now, boss

Dogtired

Boss, what that man do to you

Burt, you got some company

Can I offer you a cold drink

Oh, yes, ma’am

A cold drink would be fine

Thank you

Mr Hammersmith, your office said I might find you at home

Hope I’m not troubling you

Well, that depends, Mr

Paul Edgecomb I’m E Block supervisor up on Cold Mountain

The Green Mile

Yeah, I’ve heard of it Lost a few clients your way

I’d like to ask you about one of them

Have a seat

Thank you

Which client

Now you got my curiosity aroused

John Coffey

Coffey

He causing you problems

No

Can’t say he is

He doesn’t like the dark and cries on occasion

but other than that

He cries, does he Well, got a lot to cry about, I’d say

You know what he did

I read the court transcript

Thank you, missus

My pleasure

Kids

Lunch is about ready

Y’all come on up

Coming, Mama

What exactly are you trying to find out

I’ve wondered if he did anything like that before

Why Has he said anything

No, but a man who does a thing like that

has often developed a taste for it over time It occurred to me that it might be easy enough to follow his back trail

Find out A man his size, and colored to boot, can’t be that hard to trace

You’d think so, but you’d be wrong

Believe me, we tried

Like he’d dropped out of the sky

How can that be

We’re in a depression

A third of the country’s out of work

People are drifting by the thousands, looking for jobs, for greener grass

Even a giant like Coffey wouldn’t get noticed everywhere

Not until he kills a couple of little girls

He is

strange, I admit

But there doesn’t seem to be any real violence in him

I know violent men, Mr Hammersmith

I deal with them day in and day out

You didn’t come to ask me whether he killed before

You came to see if I think he did it at all

Do you

One seldom sees a less ambiguous case

He was found with the victims in his arms

And yet you defended him

Everyone is entitled to a defense

Kids Lunch

Y’all listen to your mama

I’ll tell you something

And you listen close too, because it might be something you need to know

I’m listening

We had us a dog

Just a sweet mongrel

You know the kind

Well, in many ways, a good mongrel dog is like a Negro

You get to know it

Often, you get to love it It is of no particular use

but you keep it around because you think it loves you

If you’re lucky, Mr Edgecomb, you never have to find out any different

My wife and I were not so lucky

Caleb, come here for a second

Come here

Please, son

He still has the one good eye

I suppose he’s lucky

not to be completely blind

We get down on our knees and thank God for that much at least

Right, Caleb

Okay, go on in now

That dog attacked my boy for no reason

Just got it in his mind one day

The same with John Coffey

He was sorry afterwards Of that I have no doubt

But those little girls

stayed raped and murdered

Maybe he’d never done it before

My dog never bit before

But I didn’t concern myself with that

I went out with my rifle, grabbed his collar and blew his brains out

Is Coffey guilty

Yes, he is

Don’t you doubt it

And don’t you turn your back on him

You may get away with it once or even a hundred times

but in the end

you’ll get bit

Oh, me Oh, my

John

John

I’m smelling me some corn bread

It’s from my missus

She wanted to thank you

Thank me for what

Well, you know

For helping me

Helping you with what

You know

Oh

Was your missus pleased

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