Willie concludes the tale by outlining Claude’s plan: Ray and Claude would steal two bodies from the morgue, start the blaze, plant the bodies, hide in the fire trucks and depart with them in the morning. That night, the infirmary catches fire, and they seemingly perish in the flames. Claude tells Ray of yet another plan he has devised, but Ray has accepted his fate of dying in prison. In 1997 (present day), Ray and Claude are now very elderly, aged 90 years, living in the prison's infirmary. He intends to give them a pardon, but dies of a heart attack before he can do so. While on a pheasant hunt, Ray confronts Pike, where the sheriff admits to framing him and Claude with no remorse saying that "The state of Mississippi got forty years of cheap labor out of the deal." As Claude struggles to stop Ray from taking revenge, Pike attempts to kill them both, but he is shot and killed by Wilkins, realizing that Ray and Claude are indeed innocent, covering it up as a hunting accident. Lee Ermey), the man who framed them forty years earlier. Claude forms a friendship with Wilkins, and is entrusted to drive and pick up the new superintendent, Sheriff Warren Pike (R. Dillard still runs the camp, who one day informs Ray and Claude that they will be transferred to live and work at Superintendent Dexter Wilkins' ( Ned Beatty) mansion. All of Ray and Claude's friends have now died, except for Willie, now confined to a wheelchair. Twenty-eight years later, in 1972, Ray and Claude are now elderly, aged 65 years old. After 'Can't-Get-Right' is released to play for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, Ray devises an escape but Claude refuses, upset with the fact that 'Can't-Get-Right' was released without them, leading to an argument that results in Ray and Claude going their separate ways. During a dance social, Biscuit confides to Ray that he is going to be released however, Biscuit is afraid to return to his family, being gay, and committs suicide by deliberately running across the "firing line", getting shot and killed by the guard. Ray and Claude, seeing an opportunity to freedom, try to convince the scout to help let them out as well, as they relate to 'Can't-Get-Right' and get him to play best. He catches the eye of a Negro League scout who states that he can get him out of prison if he will play baseball. With any chance of being freed gone, Claude attempts to escape one night with Ray, getting as far as Tallahatchie before being captured and sentenced to a week in solitary confinement.Īround 1944, 12 years later, aged 37 years old, they meet a mute inmate nicknamed 'Can't-Get-Right' ( Bokeem Woodbine), a talented baseball player. Claude has his attorney cousin, Melvin, appeal against his conviction with his girlfriend Daisy's help, but it is denied, and shortly afterwards he finds out that Daisy has left him for Melvin. Núñez Jr.), Jangle Leg (Bernie Mac), Radio ( Guy Torry), Goldmouth ( Michael Taliferro), Cookie ( Anthony Anderson) and Pokerface ( Barry Shabaka Henley) - and dodging guards Sergeant Dillard (Nick Cassavetes) and Hoppin' Bob ( Brent Jennings) as their own friendship grows. They spend the next 65 years trying to escape from prison, while making new friends - Biscuit (Miguel A. Ray and Claude are sent to an infamous prison camp called 'Camp 8' (now Mississippi State Penitentiary) to perform hard labor. A short time later, they go to trial, are convicted, and sentenced to life. Before they can get back to New York, a man named Winston Hancock ( Clarence Williams III), who swindled Ray in a card game, is murdered outside of a juke joint by the town's sheriff, Warren Pike ( Ned Vaughn), who frames Ray and Claude for the murder. They both end up in the bad graces of the club's owner Spanky ( Rick James), and Ray arranges for himself and Claude to do some boot-legging to pay off their debt, heading down south in order to buy a carload of Mississippi 'hooch'. They are both at a club called Spanky's when Ray picks Claude as his mark to pick-pocket. Ray is a small-time hustler and petty thief, and Claude, an honest, yet often selfish minded man, has just been accepted for a job as a bank teller at First Federal of Manhattan. Ray Gibson (Eddie Murphy) and Claude Banks (Martin Lawrence) are two New Yorkers in 1932 from two different worlds. He begins telling the two young inmates digging the graves his friends' life story. Elderly inmate Willie Long (Obba Babatundé) attends the burial of two friends who recently perished in an infirmary fire in a Mississippi prison.
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