Read the following scene from The Inheritors.
FRED JORDAN'S cell. Slowly, at the end left unchalked, as for a door, she goes in. Her hand go.
against a wall; looks at her other hand, sees it is out too far, brings it in, giving herself the width of
Walks its length, halts, looks up.) And one window-too high up to see out.
(In the moment she stands there, she is in that cell; she is all the people
who are in those cells. EMIL JOHNSON [who works at the courthouse],
appears from outside.)
MADELINE: (stepping out of the cell door, and around it) Hello, Emil.
EMIL: How are you, Madeline? How do, Mr Morton. (IRA barely nods and does not turn... EMIL turns E
MADELINE) Well, I'm just from the courthouse. Looks like you and I might take a ride together, Ma
You come before the Commissioner at four.
A possible disadvantage to watching this scene, as opposed to reading it silently, is that viewers are
required to conceptualize the cotting of the inilhouCO
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