Plain Truth (2004 TV Movie)

Alison Pill: Katie Fitch

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• Ellie Harrison : Katie, do you know what an advocate is?

  Katie Fitch : Not really, no.

  Ellie Harrison : It's... it's somebody who supports somebody else. It's what a lawyer does, and it means that I'm on your side, and the sooner you realize that, I think the easier this is gonna be.

  Katie Fitch : Okay.

  Ellie Harrison : I just wanted to tell you that whatever we talk about is held in confidence. That means it's just between us.

  Katie Fitch : Mm-hmm.

  Ellie Harrison : So why don't we make a deal? I'm not gonna ask you if you're guilty, but in return, I need you to tell me the truth about the things that I do ask, okay?

• Ellie Harrison : I can't imagine how difficult this must be for you.

  Katie Fitch : The boy they're burying, he's not mine, if that's what you're thinking.

  Ellie Harrison : How did you know it's a little boy?

• Ellie Harrison : I heard you talking to somebody. You thought that he was hiding.

  Katie Fitch : She.

  Ellie Harrison : What?

  Katie Fitch : The person I was talking to is a girl.

  Ellie Harrison : Okay, so who is it?

  Katie Fitch : My sister, Hannah.

  Ellie Harrison : Your sister? How come I haven't met her? Where is she, at school?

  Katie Fitch : She's dead. She was seven. I was twelve. I was supposed to be watching her when she went missing. I tried to save her, but she drowned.

  Ellie Harrison : So... sometimes you come out here, and you... see your sister?

  Katie Fitch : Yes. At night, we talk.

  Ellie Harrison : What do you guys talk about?

  Katie Fitch : Things.

  Ellie Harrison : Katie, have you told anybody about this?

  Katie Fitch : No. No, mom and dad would think I'm frahoodled; crazy.

  Ellie Harrison : Do you think that you're... frahoodled?

• Ellie Harrison : Okay, so why don't we start with you telling me about the baby?

  Katie Fitch : I didn't have a baby. I wasn't even pregnant.

  Ellie Harrison : Katie, I can count at least three medical experts who have already gone on record saying that your body shows sign of a recent delivery. Plus, I can wave a blood test in your face that proves the same thing, so how can you sit there and tell me that you didn't have the baby?

  Katie Fitch : How can you sit there and say you're not judging me?

• Katie Fitch : I didn't have a baby.

  Ellie Harrison : Really? Even though the police, a doctor, and an entire hospital say that you did?

• Ellie Harrison : Katie, I can't help you unless you tell me the truth.

  Katie Fitch : I went to bed on Thursday evening. I woke up on Friday and made breakfast. Then I walked to the McKenzies' to deliver some milk.

  Ellie Harrison : Is there anybody else at all who can vouch that you were here sleeping in your bed all night?

  Katie Fitch : I don't know. I was asleep.

  Ellie Harrison : [indicating another bed]  What about the person that sleeps there? Who sleeps there?

  Katie Fitch : No one sleeps there.

• Katie Fitch : What are you doing here?

  Ellie Harrison : I think that's my question.

  Katie Fitch : Uh... I, uh...

  Ellie Harrison : Are you here meeting your boyfriend?

  Katie Fitch : Samuel? N-No.

  Ellie Harrison : Katie, you're on trial for murder and you're sneaking around here in the middle of the night. Who are you meeting?

  Katie Fitch : I wasn't meeting Samuel.

  Ellie Harrison : Okay, so who were you meeting?

  Katie Fitch : No one. I-I just... I-I couldn't sleep.

• Katie Fitch : Do you think I'm crazy?

  Ellie Harrison : No.

  Katie Fitch : Then why do you want to say that I am?

  Ellie Harrison : I'm only saying that you were temporarily in a mental state where you didn't know what you were doing.

  Katie Fitch : Ellie, once a cow goes mad or a horse goes lame, they don't recover.

  Ellie Harrison : And you are not an animal.

  Katie Fitch : Doesn't matter. But people will think. I'll be known as crazy forever.

• Ellie Harrison : Why didn't you tell me that you had a brother?

  Katie Fitch : Because we don't talk about him. My father doesn't allow it.

  Ellie Harrison : Katie. Katie, I don't care what your father allows. I'm your lawyer, defending you against murder. Didn't you think that your trips to the city were relevant?

  Katie Fitch : I don't see how.

  Ellie Harrison : Stop it! Just stop it! Was it some boy that you met in the city? Is that who the father is?

  Katie Fitch : I don't know his name. All I know is that he forced himself on me.

• Katie Fitch : Why can't you tell them I didn't do it?

  Ellie Harrison : Because I have nothing to back that up.

  Katie Fitch : I can tell them.

  Ellie Harrison : Get on the stand and testify?

  Katie Fitch : Yes.

  Ellie Harrison : [sarcastic laugh]  Oh. Okay. Katie, do you wanna lose? You're what I would call an unreliable witness. I can't allow that. Are you kidding me? The D.A. would crucify you. I'm sorry.

• Katie Fitch : I don't know.

  Ellie Harrison : You don't know what?

  Katie Fitch : I don't know who it was.

  Ellie Harrison : I don't know what that means.

  Katie Fitch : I don't remember.

  Ellie Harrison : Katie... did somebody rape you?

• Ellie Harrison : I can't believe what just happened. You admit to them that you had sex and, in essence, had a baby, but you deny it to me?

  Katie Fitch : Because it's expected of me, not because it's true.

  Ellie Harrison : Oh, so you let them, you let their system, walk all over you?

  Katie Fitch : No, I let the system work. I don't want to be right or strong or first, I just want to be part of them again. It's easier to confess than to fight. It... I don't expect you to understand.

  Ellie Harrison : [incredulous]  Understand? I'm playing house with the Waltons, which is a reference you don't even understand, and I can't get a straight answer out of you.

  Katie Fitch : I told you, I...

  Ellie Harrison : Don't. Don't. Don't even think about saying to me you already told me the truth. Your boyfriend, who, by the way, is devastated at the thought of you being with another guy, told me that you two have never slept together.

  Katie Fitch : Of course not. We're not married.

  Ellie Harrison : Oh, so now it's a virgin birth.

  Katie Fitch : I told you, I...

  Ellie Harrison : I know, you didn't. You didn't have sex with him, and you didn't have a baby. But your family just buried the baby, and the church punished you for your sin. But me, I can't get a straight answer out of you. How do you expect me to defend you if I don't know what happened? I don't know how to help you!

• Bishop Stoflus : Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night, which said there is a man-child conceived...

  Katie Fitch : He's apologizing for his weakness as a preacher.

  Ellie Harrison : If he's so bad, what's he doing up there at all?

  Katie Fitch : He's not really bad. He's just showing us he's not proud.

• Katie Fitch : You always talk to me like I'm stupid.

  Ellie Harrison : That's not true.

  Katie Fitch : Yes, it is. But I don't take it personally, because I figure you look down your nose at everyone. Come on, don't tell me you've never been called conceited?

  Ellie Harrison : I don't think that I've ever been called conceited.

  [they share a laugh] 

  Ellie Harrison : [giving her a playful elbow jab]  Okay, you're right. Maybe once. Jeez.

  Katie Fitch : That's what's nice about being Amish; it's a sin to act better than your neighbor. You know, we strive to be like every other Amish member. It takes the pressure off.

• Katie Fitch : What is this?

  Ellie Harrison : Oh, that's sculpture. Hey, I, uh... I left the TV on for you if you wanna watch it.

  Katie Fitch : You turned it on so I couldn't hear the two of you talk.

  Cooper : Smart girl.

  Ellie Harrison : Exactly, which is one reason why the insanity defense isn't gonna work.

  Cooper : Well, you always liked a challenge.

• Katie Fitch : Dr. Cooper likes you.

  Ellie Harrison : Yeah, well, we're friends.

  Katie Fitch : I didn't mean as friends. I mean... he *likes* you.

  Ellie Harrison : Don't be ridiculous. What made you say that?

  Katie Fitch : The way he looks at you. And the way you look at him.

• Katie Fitch : I know I've been lying, but I haven't meant to hurt anyone. I need to tell the truth now.

  Ellie Harrison : Katie...

  Katie Fitch : I want the jury to know what really happened.

  Ellie Harrison : Katie, the truth is gonna get you fifteen years to life in prison. Nobody is gonna believe that you gave birth, you... fell asleep, you woke up, and poof, your baby was gone.

  Katie Fitch : If you tell them I committed murder...

  Ellie Harrison : I'm telling them that you were mentally incapacitated.

  Katie Fitch : But it's a lie. Ellie, in my world, if I make a mistake and admit it and repent, I'll be forgiven. But if I lie, I won't be welcomed back. I won't even be able to look at myself. I'll be totally alone. I might as well be dead. Please. If I have to go to prison, I'd rather it be because I told the truth.

• Ellie Harrison : Katie, I am gonna ask you one last time. *One* last time. What happened the night you gave birth?

  Katie Fitch : I don't know. I was shaky and dizzy, and I couldn't stand up, so I laid down, and I must have fallen asleep, because when I woke up, the baby was gone. And I thought God had finally listened and taken him back, and it was a miracle, and the only thing I could do was go back to my room, but I swear to you, I never hurt him.

  Ellie Harrison : Listen, it is possible that you did without even realizing it.

  Katie Fitch : No. No, I couldn't have.

  Ellie Harrison : Then who came to that pond and killed that baby? Hmm?

  Katie Fitch : I don't know! Ellie, but it wasn't me!

• Katie Fitch : Sometimes I wish you could stay out here on the farm.

  Ellie Harrison : I always wanted a kid sister.

  Katie Fitch : Someone you could boss around, you mean.

  Ellie Harrison : Well, isn't that the whole point?

  Katie Fitch : [laughing]  Well, I volunteer. There's something else I lied about.

  Ellie Harrison : Oh, no, Katie. What?

  Katie Fitch : The hoagies. I had one before with Jacob.

  Ellie Harrison : [laughing]  Jeez!

  Katie Fitch : You were so excited, I didn't want to disappoint you. Are you mad?

  Ellie Harrison : [laughing]  No, I not mad.

  [hugging] 

  Ellie Harrison : I am gonna miss you. I really am.

  Katie Fitch : Thank you for everything.

• Katie Fitch : I don't blame you for wanting to leave. I've lied to you way too much.

  Ellie Harrison : Why? Why? Why didn't you just tell me?

  Katie Fitch : I don't know. I... I didn't plan it or anything at first. I just... I thought maybe none of it had really happened, that it was all a bad dream. But then the police arrested me, and I prayed to God to make it all go away, and I just pretended that nothing had happened. You started to believe me, so I...

  Ellie Harrison : Does this Adam, does he know that you even had a baby?

  Katie Fitch : No. He moved to Europe to go to graduate school.

  Ellie Harrison : Does he even know that you were pregnant? Did Jacob?

  Katie Fitch : He didn't even know that Adam I were... seeing each other. We kept it secret.

• Ellie Harrison : Do you know any other lawyers?

  Katie Fitch : What do you mean?

  Ellie Harrison : I'd like to quit.

  Katie Fitch : What?

  Ellie Harrison : But there's this thing, it's called a code of professional ethics, and when you become a lawyer, you have to take an oath. And you have to abide by it. And it says that I can't quit unless I find myself an adequate replacement. But seeing as your trial is only in a couple days, I don't know who we're gonna get.

  Katie Fitch : You wanna quit? I don't understand.

  Ellie Harrison : [showing her the photo booth pictures she stumbled upon]  You want to tell me who that is? The truth, Katie.