INT. COURTHOUSE - CORRIDOR OUTSIDE COURT TWO - DAY
Kasia sits on the bench with her coat already buttoned. Ruth comes out of the courtroom carrying a case file and two paper cups of water.
Ruth
You have your coat on.
Kasia
It is cold in there.
Ruth
It is colder out here. Twelve minutes, and you are back on the stand. Drink some water.
Kasia
I am not going back in.
Ruth
You are still under oath. If you walk out of this building, the judge issues a warrant, and you come back this afternoon in a police car. That is not a threat. That is the procedure.
Kasia
His brother is in the second row. When I said the words car park, he mouthed the name of my street.
Ruth
I will raise it with the judge before we resume. Security can move him.
Kasia
Move him where? The third row?
Ruth
Kasia. You are the only person who saw him in that car park. If you do not finish your evidence, he walks out at four o'clock, and his brother still knows your street.
Kasia
Is that supposed to help?
Ruth
It is supposed to be true. His lawyer is going to go back to the light. You will say what you said in your statement. The lamp above the pay machine was on, and you saw his face for four seconds.
Kasia
It was not four seconds.
Ruth
Your statement says four.
Kasia
Your detective said four. He said, would you say a few seconds? I said, maybe. He wrote four.
Ruth
Did you see his face?
Kasia
I saw a jacket. Green, with orange inside the hood. I saw a man running, and I saw the jacket.
Ruth
You picked him out of eight men. You did not even hesitate.
Kasia
Because I already knew which one. Detective Brandt showed me a photograph in his car, the day after. One photograph. He said, is this him? I said, I think so.
Ruth
Who else was in the car?
Kasia
Nobody. He said it was not official, it would just help me feel ready. Then he put the photograph back in the glovebox and bought me a coffee. So. Tell me what to say. You are good at it. Tell me, and I will say it word for word.
Ruth
I cannot tell you what to say.
Kasia
You have been telling me what to say for seven months.
Ruth
I have been reading back to you what you told us.
Kasia
Then what do I say when he asks about the light?
Ruth
The truth. The light, the jacket, the car, the photograph. All of it.
Kasia
Then he walks out at four o'clock, and his brother still knows my street.
Ruth
Yes. And before you say any of it in there, I say it to the judge. It is my case and my detective, and I should have asked you that question seven months ago.
Kasia unbuttons her coat, takes it off, and folds it over her arm.
Kasia
Where will you be sitting?
Ruth is already taking out her phone.
Ruth
Front row. Between you and the second row. Now give me two minutes. I have to tell a judge my case just changed.