The Adventures of Pinocchio1996

Judge:
(Hammers three times) Court is now in session.

Guard:
Case number 491, your honor. The people versus Luca Antonio Renaldo Geppetto Baldini.

Pinocchio:
My papa! (hugs Geppetto)

Geppetto:
It will be alright, Pinocchio.

Baker's wife:
(enraged) There he is, your honor! That little mutilator! He ruined my cannolis! He ruined my fruit tarts!

Judge:
Silence, woman!

Baker's wife:
He even ruined my grandmother's torta della nonna with the pinoli and the chocolate...

Judge:
Are you done?

Baker's wife:
No, I am not done! I would... (the judge hammers loudly)

Judge:
Arrest her!

Baker's wife:
(the guards attempt to grab her and her husband) Now, I'm done. I'm done. (the bakers sit back down)

Judge:
Now, since you, Geppetto, are responsible for this, uh, puppet, how do you plead?

Geppetto:
Guilty, sir. (the crowd gasps)

Judge:
You will pay twenty-thousand lira to the bakers and ten-thousand to the court.

Geppetto:
I--I don't have it. That's--that's three years wages.

Judge:
If you cannot pay, then you will go to debtors prison! (hammers hardly) Three years locked away!

Lorenzini:
Your honor! I propose the court allow me to pay the fines for this poor, impoverished peasant.

Judge:
This is most generous of you, Signore Lorenzini.

Lorenzini:
Kindness is my weakness. Of course, no good deed should go without obligation, so all l ask is to keep Pinocchio in return.

Geppetto:
Lorenzini, please, take any other puppet! l will work for you day and night the rest of my life!

Lorenzini:
Geppetto, is it just money for you? Pinocchio needs a home. All you can offer him is table scraps and cold winter nights, but with me, he will have a family.

Pinocchio:
What's a family, Papa?

Lorenzini:
My goodness, such a heartbreaking question, one no one should ever have to ask. Pinocchio, l can give you a life other little boys only dream of.

Judge:
What is your decision, Geppetto? (Geppetto looks around the court room. Without any thought or feeling, he looks down at Pinocchio)

Geppetto:
Pinocchio...

Pinocchio:
Yes, Papa?

Geppetto:
Listen to me. You're going to go with that man now.

Pinocchio:
But I want to be with you.

Geppetto:
I know, but you see--you see, there--there's no other choice.

Pinocchio:
You're my papa.

Geppetto:
I can't be your papa! You're made of wood! You're not flesh! You're not a real boy! (snaps) NOW, GO! FOR EVERYONE'S GOOD!! (Pinocchio begins to tear up after hearing the harsh words from Geppetto)

Lorenzini:
Let's go, son. (Pinocchio walks down the steps and Lorenzini picks him up) Good boy. (Lorenzini carries Pinocchio out of the court room as everyone watches sadly)

Pinocchio:
I love you, Papa! (the scene cuts to Geppetto walking home)

Leona:
(peeking from her window) Geppetto... I'm sorry.

Geppetto:
Why does everything good get thrown to the beasts? (Geppetto continues walking home as Leona sadly watches him)