![]() Armstrong, in his anger at being played, lies to Sullivan and tells him his parents were alive and that they "forgive him." Sullivan becomes enraged. Armstrong asks why he was needed for their scheme, and Sullivan replies that was "Bobby Earl's call", meaning that Armstrong would be much more believable in establishing the verdicts than either Ferguson or Sullivan. Back at the prison, Sullivan gloats that he and Ferguson struck a deal: Ferguson would kill Sullivan's parents in exchange for freedom, while Sullivan would claim responsibility for the girl's murder, which Ferguson did in fact commit. Arriving at the house, Armstrong sees various religious items before finding their butchered decaying bodies. Subsequently, the governor authorizes Sullivan's execution.Īrmstrong receives a call from Sullivan, who says he has a final clue to share, but first wants Armstrong to visit Sullivan's parents and tell them he said goodbye. With a new testimony and with the murder weapon at hand, Ferguson gets a re-trial and is acquitted and thereafter freed from prison. Armstrong then discovers why Brown is so passionate to get Ferguson convicted: the murdered girl was Brown's daughter's best friend. Brown tries to threaten Armstrong into abandoning the investigation. ![]() Armstrong and Brown go to the place, where Armstrong asks Brown to retrieve the knife as Brown's the actual police officer. ![]() Sullivan, through the use of Biblical cryptic clues, later reveals the location of the knife used to kill the girl. According to Ferguson, Sullivan constantly taunts him about his conviction for the crime. As Armstrong digs deeper into the case, he discovers that Tanny Brown ( Laurence Fishburne), the chief detective on the case, did indeed coerce Ferguson's confession.įerguson tells the professor that the murder was actually committed by Blair Sullivan ( Ed Harris), a serial killer awaiting execution. Armstrong, believing in his innocence, must save him from being executed in the electric chair. Ferguson tells Armstrong that he was physically and psychologically tortured by two police detectives to get a forced confession, but firmly states he is innocent. Ferguson, a former Cornell University student, was convicted of raping and brutally murdering a young white girl named Joanie Shriver (Barbara Jean Kane) eight years prior. Paul Armstrong ( Sean Connery), a liberal Harvard professor and former lawyer opposed to capital punishment, is persuaded by an elderly woman ( Ruby Dee) to go to Florida to investigate the conviction of her grandson Bobby Earl Ferguson ( Blair Underwood) for murder.
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