FADE IN:
INT. JAIL CELL - DAY
EXTREME CLOSE-UP on a DROP OF WATER, gathering at the tip OFa faucet, a FLASH OF LIGHT refracting through it just before it FALLS.......
PULLING BACK slowly, we see ANOTHER DROP OF WATER gather andFALL... and then ANOTHER... into a METAL SINK BASIN filled with water, rippling in concentric circles with each DROP, which we HEAR in a steady rhythm: DRIP... DRIP... DRIP...
RICKY (O.C.)(singing in time to the water dripping)I'M FIXING A HOLE... WHERE THE RAIN GETS IN....
REVERSE ANGLE on the face OF a YOUNG MAN with his hair cutshort, military-style, watching the dripping water as if hypnotized. We ZOOM slowly toward him...
This is RICKY FITTS. He's twenty, but his eyes are much older. Underneath his Zen-like tranquility lurks something wounded... and dangerous. He SINGS softly to himself:
RICKY (cont'd)AND STOPS MY MIND FROM WANDERING...
Through the bars OF his CELL we see RICKY is seated on theedge of a solitary cot in a JAIL CELL, staring intently at the metal sink on the wall across from him..
RICKY (cont'd)WHERE IT WILL GO...
ON TELEVISION: INT. COURTROOM - DAY
A sullen TEENAGE GIRL sits at a table in a COURTROOM, surrounded by lawyers. SUPERIMPOSED across the bottom of screen: TEENAGE GIRL ACCUSED OF HIRING FATHER'S KILLER. At the lower right corner is the JUSTICE TV logo. In the upper right corner: LIVE.
This girl is JANE BURNHAM. Seventeen-years-old, with dark, intense eyes. She stares blankly at the table in front of her.