Claude tells Ray a new plan, but Ray has accepted his fate. In 1997 (current timeline), Ray and Claude live in the prison infirmary. Realizing they are innocent, Wilkins kills Pike and covers it up as a hunting accident, but then suffers a fatal heart attack in his bathroom before he can pardon them.
As Claude struggles to stop Ray from killing him, Pike aims at them both. He tells Wilkins that Pike framed him and Claude for murder, which the sheriff admits. While on a pheasant hunt, Ray notices Pike has his father's watch and confronts him. Claude is entrusted to pick up the new superintendent, Sheriff Warren Pike, the very man who wrongfully framed them. Ray does yard work, while Claude works inside and befriends him. One day, Ray and Claude are transferred to live and work at Superintendent Dexter Wilkins' mansion. Touched, Claude apologises, and they finally make amends. Ray refuses and is given the same punishment.
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Dillard offers to set Ray free if he will shoot Claude should he move. One day, Claude snaps, running past armed guards to steal a pie he is punished by having to stand barefoot on a case of bottles for 24 hours. Over the following years, Ray attempts several escapes alone unsuccessfully.īy 1972, Ray and Claude are still not speaking, other inmates have come and gone. Can't-Get-Right's release without Ray and Claude causes extreme frustration and a bitter falling out. Despite Ray’s sincere encouragement to resume life on the outside, Biscuit instead commits suicide by crossing the gun line, much to the shock and heartache of the other inmates. Various inmates simultaneously claim to be to confuse Abernathy and save Can't-Get-Right.ĭuring a dance social, Biscuit confides to Ray that he is due for release but fears returning to his family because of his homosexuality. After Mae-Rose gives birth to a biracial boy, Abernathy demands to know who is the father. Despite his talent, Can't-Get-Right is often distracted by Mae-Rose, the daughter of Camp 8's superintendent Abernathy.
Sensing opportunity, Ray and Claude introduce themselves as his handlers. In 1944, twelve years later, Claude and Ray meet young, mute inmate "Can't-Get-Right", a talented baseball player who is sighted by a Negro league scout who offers a pardon to play. With no chance at freedom, Claude and Ray break out, getting as far as Tallahatchie before being captured. Claude's cousin, an attorney, unsuccessfully appeals his conviction and seduces his girlfriend (who’s grown tired of Claude’s selfishness). They immediately run afoul of the guards, Sergeant Dillard and Hoppin' Bob, and also meet fellow inmates Jangle Leg (who makes a pass at Claude), Willie Long, Biscuit (another homosexual inmate, involved with Jangle Leg), Radio, Goldmouth (a bully who picks a fight with Ray), Cookie the chef, and Pokerface. Ray and Claude are given life sentences, with hard labor at an infamous prison camp.
Outside, sheriff Warren Pike kills Hancock, framing Ray and Claude. Ray loses his father's prized pocketwatch to card hustler Winston Hancock. Traveling south to buy Mississippi "hooch", they pay for the booze and enter a local bar. Ray convinces club-owner Spanky to let him and Claude pay off their debt via boot-legging. Ray, a small-time thief, picks Claude as a mark. Ray Gibson and Claude Banks, New Yorkers from different worlds, meet at a club called Spanky's in 1932. In 1997 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, elderly convict Willie Long tells his friends' life story at their burial.
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