[Movie Script]Defiance

                                      DEFIANCE




                                     Written by
Clayton Frohman & Edward Zwick








          FADE IN:



          1 NEW YORK CITY - PARK AVENUE - NIGHT - 1982 1

          A TAXI pulls over to a curb where an ELDERLY MAN waits with

his MIDDLE-AGED SON in THE RAIN.
          MIDDLE-AGED SON

          (as they climb in)

23rd and Lex.

The CABBIE grunts a reply.
          MIDDLE-AGED SON (CONT'D)

          How ya doin', Papa, you doin'

alright?
          ELDERLY MAN

          Fine, fine...
          MIDDLE-AGED SON

          This is just a check-up, okay?

Doctor Katz says you'll outlive us

all.

(looks out the window)

Traffic isn't bad. We should be

back in time to watch the Mets.

He notices his father is STARING, wide-eyed, at the cabby's

HACK LICENSE. We glimpse only the last name..."Bielski."
          MIDDLE-AGED SON (CONT'D)


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