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do exactly what I did. They know

everything anyway. You can't save

Keating, but you can save yourselves.

Cameron walks away, closing the door behind him.

INT. TODD'S ROOM - DAY

Todd looks out the window and watches as Hager escorts Meeks back

to the dorm. Inside the room, Neil's bed has been stripped of all

its bedding.

INT. HALLWAY - DAY

Meeks walks slowly to his room. Hager remains standing at the end of

the hallway.

HAGER

Knox Overstreet.

Knox emerges from his room and goes to join Hager. He gives a thumbs

up to Todd as he passes his door. Once he leaves with Hager, Todd goes

over to Meeks' door.

TODD

Meeks?

MEEKS

Go away. I have to study.

TODD

What happened to Nuwanda?

MEEKS

Expelled.

TODD

What'd you tell 'em?

MEEKS

Nothing they didn't already know.

HAGER (O. S. )

Todd Anderson.

INT. HALLWAY - DAY

Todd is lead up the steps to Mr. Nolan's office by Hager.

INT. NOLAN'S OFFICE - DAY

Todd enters the room to see his mother and father seated opposite

Mr. Nolan's desk.

MR. ANDERSON

Hello, son.

MRS. ANDERSON

Hello, darling.

TODD

Mom.

The door closes behind Todd. He remains standing, not knowing

what to do.

MR. NOLAN

Have a seat, Mr. Anderson.

Todd sits down next to his parents.

MR. NOLAN

Mr. Anderson, I think we've pretty well

put together what's happened here. You

do admit to being a part of this Dead

Poets Society?

Todd says nothing.

MR. ANDERSON

Answer him, Todd.

TODD

Yes, sir.

Mr. Nolan puts his glasses on and glances at a paper before him

before removing his glasses once more.

MR. NOLAN

I have here a detailed description of

what occurred at your meetings. It

describes how your teacher, Mr. Keating,

encouraged you boys to organize this

club and to use it as a source of

inspiration for reckless and self-

indulgent behavior. It describes how Mr.

Keating, both in and out of the

classroom, encouraged Neil Perry to

follow his obsession with acting when he

knew all along it was against the

explicit order of Neil's parents. It was

Mr. Keating's blatant abuse of his

position as teacher that led directly to

Neil Perry's death.

Mr. Nolan motions to Todd's father, who passes along a sheet of

paper to Todd.

MR. NOLAN

Read that document carefully, Todd. Very

carefully.

Todd looks at the paper, which already contains the signatures of

the other four boys.

MR. NOLAN

If you've nothing to add or amend, sign

it.

TODD

What's gonna happen to Mr. Keating?

MR. ANDERSON

I've had enough. Sign the paper, Todd.

Mr. Nolan holds out a pen for Todd to take.

EXT. CAMPUS – DAY

Mr. McAllister leads his students, textbooks in hand, through the

snow outside the classrooms.

McALLISTER

Grass is gramen or herba. Lapis is

stone. The entire building is

aedificium.

Keating looks out from his office window. McAllister pauses and looks

up at Keating, giving him a brief wave. Keating waves back.

INT. KEATING'S OFFICE - DAY

Keating laughs slightly as he watches McAllister from the window.

Inside, all his belongings have been packed up.

INT. KEATING'S CLASSROOM - DAY

The students are all seated at their desks in silence. Everyone looks

as the door opens. They quickly stand as Mr. Nolan enters the room.

MR. NOLAN

Sit.

The students sit once again as Mr. Nolan walks to the front of the room.

MR. NOLAN

I'll be teaching this class through

exams. We'll find a permanent English

teacher during the break. Who will tell

me where you are in the Pritchard

textbook?

MR. NOLAN

Mr. Anderson?

TODD

Uh, in the, in the Pr-

MR. NOLAN

I can't hear you, Mr. Anderson.

TODD

In the, in the, in the Pritchard?

MR. NOLAN

Kindly inform me, Mr. Cameron.

CAMERON

We skipped around a lot, sir. We covered

the Romantics and some of the chapters

on Post Civil War literature.

MR. NOLAN

What about the Realists?

CAMERON

I believe we skipped most of that, sir.

MR. NOLAN

All right, then, we'll start over. What

is poetry?

There is a knock at the classroom door.

MR. NOLAN

Come.

The students look back as the door opens. They quickly turn

away when hey see it is Keating.

KEATING

Excuse me. I came for my personals.

Should I come back after class?

MR. NOLAN

Get them now, Mr. Keating.

MR. NOLAN

Gentlemen, turn to page 21 of the

introduction. Mr. Cameron, read aloud

the excellent essay by Dr. Pritchard on

" Understanding Poetry. "

Todd slowly closes his book. Keating opens the door to the tiny

room off the classroom.

CAMERON

That page has been ripped out, sir.

MR. NOLAN

Well, borrow somebody else's book.

CAMERON

They're all ripped out, sir.

MR. NOLAN

What do you mean, they're all ripped

out?

CAMERON

Sir, we, uh-

MR. NOLAN

Never mind.

Mr. Nolan takes his own book over to Cameron's desk and then

slaps the open page.

MR. NOLAN

Read!

As Cameron begins to read, Keating looks out at Todd as he puts

his scarf on. Todd looks at him for a moment and then glances away.

CAMERON

" Understanding Poetry by Dr. J Evans

Pritchard, Ph. D. To fully understand

poetry, we must first be fluent with its

meter, rhyme and figures of speech, then

ask two questions: 1) How artfully has

the objective of the poem been rendered

and 2)... "

The door squeaks as Keating shuts it behind him. Cameron pauses.

CAMERON

"... How important is that objective?

Question 1 rates the poem's perfection;

question 2 rates its importance. And

once these questions have been answered,

determining the poem's greatness becomes

a relatively simple matter. If the

poem's score for perfection is plotted

on the horizontal of a graph--"

Keating passes by Todd and the others and gets to the back of the

classroom before Todd leaps up from his seat and turns to face him.

TODD

Mr. Keating! They made everybody sign

it.

Mr. Nolan gets up from his desk and approaches Todd.

MR. NOLAN

Quiet, Mr. Anderson.

TODD

You gotta believe me. It's true.

KEATING

I do believe you, Todd.

MR. NOLAN

Leave, Mr. Keating.

TODD

But it wasn't his fault!

MR. NOLAN

Sit down, Mr. Anderson!

Todd reluctantly returns to his seat.

MR. NOLAN

One more outburst from you or anyone

else, and you're out of this school!

Leave, Mr. Keating.

Keating hesitates at the back of the classroom.

MR. NOLAN

I said leave, Mr. Keating.

Keating slowly turns and heads to the door. As he opens

it, Todd, stands upon his desk and turns to Keating.

TODD

O Captain! My Captain!

MR. NOLAN

Sit down, Mr. Anderson!

Keating pauses at the door and looks back at Todd on his desk.

MR. NOLAN

Do you hear me? Sit down! Sit down! This

is your final warning, Anderson. How

dare you? Do you hear me?

After a moment of indecision, Knox climbs up onto his desk.

KNOX

O Captain! My Captain!

MR. NOLAN

Mr. Overstreet, I warn you! Sit down!

Pitts climbs up onto his desk, followed by several others,

including Meeks.

MR. NOLAN

Sit down! Sit down. All of you. I want

you seated. Sit down. Leave, Mr.

Keating.

More students stand on their desks until half the class is standing.

MR. NOLAN

All of you, down. I want you seated. Do

you hear me?

Sit down!

Keating stands in the doorway, staring up at the boys in wonder. A

smile comes to his face.

KEATING

Thank you, boys. Thank you.