The Trial/ Screenplay
- Flashback #1: When Steve Found Out
- Two women chat about the shooting; Steve is standing nearby with a basketball and can hear them. He starts walking, trotting, then running. The camera pans out until we can't see him anymore in the crowd of Harlem neighborhood residents.
- The two women talk about how they wish they could move away, but there's nowhere else to go.
- Flashback #2: The News Report
- Jerry and Steve are watching the news in their home.
- A neighborhood resident tells a newscaster that there's no surprise that the burglary/ murder happened. He says people get killed all the time.
- Jerry changes the channel. Steve stares, fish-faced, at the TV.
- Flashback #3: Steve's House, Two Weeks After the Shooting
- Mrs. Harmon is relieved that the burglars were caught. She and Steve watch the updated news report, and even Mayor Giuliani gives his two cents.
- Steve heads to his room and plays the stare game with the ceiling.
- The doorbell rings.
- It's Detectives Williams and Karyl. They need Steve for questioning.
- Steve's mom asks what's going on, but they brush her off. She will have none of that and insists on coming—she just needs to grab her coat.
- Jerry reaches out to Steve as the detectives cuff him and bring him to the patrol car. Off they go.
- Mrs. Harmon rushes outside, looks around, and starts running down the street. And then she realizes that she doesn't even know where the detectives took Steve.
- Not only did the cops not wait for her, they took her kid and didn't tell her where to. That is so not cool.