GUARD. This what you wanted?
FOREMAN. That’s right. Thank you.
(The GUARD nods and exits, EIGHT goes to FOREMAN and reaches for it.)
EIGHT. May I?
(The FOREMAN nods. EIGHT takes the diagram and sets it up on a chair so that all can see it. EIGHT looks it over. Several of the JURORS get up to see it better. THREE, TEN, and SEVEN, however, barely bother to look at it.)
SEVEN (to TEN). Do me a favor. Wake me up when this is over.
EIGHT (ignoring him). All right. This is the apartment in which the killing took place. The old man’s apartment is directly beneath it and exactly the same. (Pointing) Here are the el tracks. The bedroom. Another bedroom. Living room. Bathroom. Kitchen. And this is the hall. Here’s the front door to the apartment. And here are the steps. (Pointing to front bedroom and then front door.) Now the old man was in bed in this room. He says he got up, went out into the hall, down the hall to the front door, opened it and looked out just in time to see the boy racing down the stairs. Am I right?
THREE. That’s the story.
EIGHT. Fifteen seconds after he heard the body fall.
ELEVEN. Correct.
EIGHT. His bed was at the window. It’s—(looking closer)—twelve feet from his bed to the bedroom door. The length of the hall is forty-three feet, six inches. He had to get up out of bed, get his canes, walk twelve feet, open the bedroom door, walk forty-three feet, and open the front door—all in fifteen seconds. Do you think this is possible?
TEN. You know it’s possible.
ELEVEN. He can only walk very slowly. They had to help him into the witness chair.
THREE. You make it sound like a long walk. It’s not.
(EIGHT gets up, goes to the end of the room, and takes two chairs. He puts them together to indicate a bed.)
NINE. For an old man who uses canes, it’s a long walk.
THREE (to EIGHT.) What are you doing?