父愛如山

父愛，不像母愛般溫柔，也不及母愛般細膩，但是這平凡樸素的愛就如山一般深邃而內斂。本期《影視派對》即將講述的就是關于父愛的故事。

漢克是一名律師，為了賺錢，時常鉆法律漏洞給罪犯開脫。他的父親，帕爾瑪法官，在印第安納州供職42年，兢兢業業。母親的離世使漢克回到家鄉，卻不料父親卷入一場謀殺案中。在尋找事實真相為父親辯護之時，漢克終于明白了他與父親疏離的原因，二人重修于好。

Palmer法官在妻子葬禮當晚卷入了一場交通事故中，但他完全想不起來自己曾經撞車。警方調查發現受害人正是20年前被Palmer審判入獄的Mark Blackwell，是巧合還是蓄意謀殺？

Dale Palmer： Why were those people so mad？ She 1）spit on the window.

Glen Palmer： Look， Dad’s a judge， you know. It’s， sometimes he has to make difficult decisions.

Hank Palmer： There was a girl.

Dale： What， what was her name？

Hank： Hope Stevens. There was a guy， Mark Blackwell， was his senior， like Glen. Hope was his girlfriend， just turned 16. He took a 38 to her house， shot the place up…

Glen： Can we talk about something else？

Dale： I don’t get it. Why…why…

Judge Palmer： He shot out at her bedroom windows， angry over whatever kids get angry about when they’ve been dating for…what？ 6 months？ Now you listen to me. He stood in court and 2）wept like a lost child， said he was drunk， would never do it again. If he meant to hurt her， he would have. I believed him！ I believed him. I believed him. I gave him the minimum， 30 days. I remember the morning he got out， Glen and I were in the backyard， tinkling with his breaking ball. But uh…God help us， while we did that...

Hank： Blackwell drug her down to a spill pond...

Glen： It’s about 50 yards behind her house. He hauled her into 2 feet of water. He kneeled on her chest until he drowned her. Dad gave him 20 years， he got out in April.

戴爾·帕爾默：這些人為什么這么生氣？她往車窗上吐痰。

格倫·帕爾默：注意，爸爸是一名法官，你知道吧。有時候他必須作出艱難的抉擇。

漢克·帕爾默：有一個女孩。

戴爾：她叫什么？

漢克：霍普·斯蒂芬斯。還有一個人叫馬克·布萊克韋爾，比你大，和格倫一般年紀。霍普是他的女朋友，剛滿16歲。他拿著一把點三八口徑手槍到她的住處開槍……

格倫：我們能聊些別的嗎？

戴爾：我不明白為什么……為什么……

帕爾默法官：他朝她臥室的窗戶開槍了，氣急敗壞，那時他們約會了……多長時間？6個月？現在聽我說。他站在法庭上，哭得像個迷失的孩子，說他喝醉了，以后再也不會發生這樣的事情。如果他有意要傷害她，他早已這么做了。我相信了他！我相信了他。我相信了他。我判了他最短刑期，入獄30天。我記得他出獄那天早上，格倫和我在后院研究著他的變化球。