Clarence Carnes:
[
Runs past Stroud's cell and sees him standing passively, when the doors to D-Block's cells are opened during the 1946 escape attempt. He runs back] Come on! You're free!
Robert Stroud:
[
calmly] I'm not going anywhere.
Clarence Carnes:
Come on man, let's go!
Robert Stroud:
Guys like them boys do things the hard way, don't they?
[
sits down on his bunk and picks up the book he'd been reading before the commotion began]
Robert Stroud:
They'll be dead before sundown; and a lot of other poor, ignorant fools with them. Maybe you too, son.
Clarence Carnes:
But... You're in this cell for life.
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