Birdman of Alcatraz
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1:54:01
Have you read it?
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Enough to realise that it's a blast
at the entire penal system.

1:54:07
You're in serious trouble.
1:54:10
The bureau has known for months
what you were writing.

1:54:14
You haven't told me what you think of it.
1:54:23
I resent this personally.
1:54:26
I stand high in my profession,
1:54:29
and I believe I've earned that esteem.
1:54:32
I am proud of the advances
that I have helped to inaugurate.

1:54:35
Think back to the old times.
Leg irons, carrying the iron ball,

1:54:38
stripes, corporal punishment,
indefinite periods in the hole.

1:54:43
I have been instrumental
in abolishing that kind of treatment.

1:54:46
Yes, that's true, Harvey.
1:54:48
Furthermore, you completely ignore my
fight for a constructive work programme.

1:54:54
Like making belt buckles,
or running a drill press?

1:55:00
I see.
1:55:02
My entire career has been for nothing.
I'm all wrong and you're all right.

1:55:07
I'm not talking about one tree, Harvey.
I'm talking about the whole forest.

1:55:12
I haven't spent most of my life
behind bars for nothing.

1:55:16
I've reached conclusions about penology,
and a couple of them may be valid.

1:55:23
When you first came here,
I thought you were changed.

1:55:29
I was even planning to return you
to the general prison population.

1:55:35
And now this. Well,
you're not gonna get away with it.

1:55:39
The bureau has suggested privileges be
suspended. You know what that means.

1:55:45
You know better than try to frighten me,
Harvey, at this late date.

1:55:49
Damn your heart!
1:55:53
Do you think that
I wanna go on punishing you?

1:55:56
We've grown old together, and in all that
time I've only asked one thing from you.


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