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LEO Respectfully, Your Honor, the victim is the truth. The state convicted me of killing Rachel Dawes based on the theory that I am a murderer. I am simply offering them an alternative murder. They can choose. But they can’t have both.

: Your protagonist’s world must be irrevocably changed by a "sentence." In a drama, this is the court's final word; in a comedy, it might be the "all clear" from a doctor that ironically ruins the protagonist's life. LIFE SENTENCE Script

Dr. Kim's cell in the women's prison. She's sitting on a bunk, staring blankly at the wall. A fellow inmate, an older woman named Carol, approaches her. LEO Respectfully, Your Honor, the victim is the truth

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LEO Life sentence. Singular. They can’t give me two. this is the court's final word