The Sweet Hereafter
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:12:02
l'm a lawyer.
:12:05
This is an awful time.
lt's important that we talk.

:12:11
Kyle Landston's a drunk.
:12:13
Nobody likes him.
He's a nasty piece of work.

:12:16
ln what way?
:12:17
He's been drinking
since high school.

:12:19
Fucked himself up.
:12:21
Used to be smart enough.
:12:23
Any criminal record?
:12:24
Probably half a dozen
traffic convictions.

:12:28
Drunk driving,
lost his license.

:12:31
That's why he don't work.
:12:34
Can't get off that shitty dump
they live on.

:12:38
Whatever money does come in
goes to booze.

:12:41
How does the family survive?
:12:45
l don't know.
:12:48
Church charity,
welfare, food bank.

:12:50
They scrape by.
:12:59
What about Dora?
:13:01
Dorene. She was
a friend of mine.

:13:06
-When was that?
-ln school.

:13:11
She fell for Kyle
just before we graduated.

:13:16
She got pregnant...
moved into a trailer...

:13:22
up on a wood lot
Kyle's dad used to own.

:13:25
Kyle started spending
more time at the Spread Eagle.

:13:29
That's the local bar?
:13:34
And coming home drunk.
:13:37
And feeling trapped
by his life, l guess,

:13:41
and blaming her for that and...
:13:46
And?
:13:50
And he beat her.
:13:52
He beat her?
:13:58
To do this right, to actually
have a chance of winning,


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