ACT THREE
FADE IN
INT. COURTHOUSE - DAY
Barney hustles Goober and Floyd into separate jail cells.
BARNEY
Get in there! And you get in the other
one!
GOOBER
Ain't you gonna put us in a cell
together? We's wanted for the same
crime.
FLOYD
You don't mind, do you, Barney? It
gets awful lonesome in the big house.
BARNEY
Shut your trap and get in there before
I charge you with resisting arrest.
FLOYD
(worried)
That could go on our permanent record.
They obediently file into their cages. Andy comes in.
ANDY
What are you doing, Barney? We've got
two cells. We don't have to use both
of 'em.
BARNEY
Standard interrogating technique, Andy.
I read about it in Policeman's Monthly.
Separate the prisoners - keeps 'em from
keeping their stories straight - then
we sweat 'em a spell and see who cracks
first.
GOOBER
You gonna sweat us now, Barney?
BARNEY
Quiet in there, Goober!
FLOYD
He's awful touchy today.
BARNEY
No fraternizing, Floyd!
GOOBER
Little late for that.
BARNEY
Goober!
The prisoners fall silent.
ANDY
Looks like you got 'em not to talk.
Now what?
BARNEY
(whispers)
Sensory deprivation technique. The
silence eats at their nerves until
they're ready to confess to just about
anything.
ANDY
Well, we don't want 'em confessing to
anything. Just the murder.
BARNEY
Do you want to do this??
ANDY
No, go on. You're the expert.
Barney unlocks Goober's cell and goes inside. Goober looks
apprehensive as Barney sits down across from him.
BARNEY
All right Goober, talk.
GOOBER
What you wanna talk about?
BARNEY
The murder!
GOOBER
I don't know nothing about that.
BARNEY
You're sure?
GOOBER
Honest, Barney, we didn't have nothing
to do with it.
BARNEY
Really?
GOOBER
Scout's honor.
BARNEY
Because that's not what Floyd's saying.
GOOBER
It ain't?
BARNEY
We got him over in the next room and
he's singing like a canary.
GOOBER
He is?
FLOYD (O.S.)
No, I'm not, Barney.
BARNEY
Floyd, mind your business!
FLOYD
But I don't know any more about it than
Goober does.
BARNEY
Floyd, I'm trying to run a
investigation here.
FLOYD
And you're doing a wonderful job,
Barney. But Goober, don't believe him,
I never said any such thing.
BARNEY
I said pipe down, Floyd!
GOOBER
Barney, is this the part where you
sweat us? 'Cause you're lookin' a
little hot.
Andy chuckles to himself, as he heads for the door.
ANDY
Well, I'll leave you three to it.
BARNEY
Where are you going, Andy?
ANDY
I want to run over to the bank and see
if they'll put this evidence in a safe
deposit box for us.
BARNEY
What if I need someone to be the bad
cop?
ANDY
I think you're doin' just fine.
Andy grins and heads out the door --
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