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This was my body.

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On December 27, 1979,

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I lay in bed all day.

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Whether I was asleep or in a coma

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later became a subject of dispute.

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When my breathing became obstructed...

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Maria!

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My husband, claus Von bulow,

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finally did as my maid
had been urging all day.

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He summoned a physician.

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Dr. paultees.

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I stopped breathing.

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My heart stopped beating.

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By this time,
I was certainly in a deep coma

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from which I awoke several hours later.

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By the next morning, I was myself again.

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There's no reason for all this fuss.

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I've never felt better in my whole life.

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This first coma aroused suspicion and fear

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in the minds of my personal maid, Maria,

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my son, Alex,

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and my elder daughter, ala.

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From this time on,

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though they never voiced
their suspicions to me,

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they kept a vigilant eye on claus.

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A year later, just before Christmas,

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their darkest fears seemed justified.

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Has mummy had breakfast yet?

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No, we haven't seen her.

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My husband did not want
our daughter, cosima,

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to see what he had found,

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so he motioned to his stepson Alex.

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Second coma.

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- Oh, no.
- My pulse was 38,

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my temperature, 81.6 degrees.

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Did you call an ambulance?

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Nicholas, would you ask Robert
to open the main gates?

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We're expecting an ambulance.

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Mrs. Von bulow...

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Ma'am, send an ambulance immediately.

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= it's on belleview Avenue.

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- Look, bring her something warm.
- Thank you.

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Uh, or... or blankets
or anything you can find.

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All this activity was pointless.

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We better do an eeg.

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I never woke from this coma,

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ahd I never will.

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I am what doctors call
persistent vegetative,

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a vegetable.

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According to medical experts,

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I could stay like this
for a very long time,

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brain-dead, body better than ever.

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Enter Robert brillhoffer,

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former Manhattan district attorney.

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My two children from my first marriage,

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Alex and ala Von auersberg,

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hired brillhoffer to investigate the case.

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He put a "do not resuscitate” order
on her hospital chart.

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They sent Alex and a private investigator

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back to my Newport cottage,
clarendon court,

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to search for drugs.

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They found plenty

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in claus' closet.

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On top of that,

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the hospital lab reported

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that my blood Insulin on admission

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was 14 times normal,

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a level almost surely caused by injection.

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Insulin injection could
readily cause coma...

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Or death.

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This encrusted needle
tested positive for Insulin.

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Alex couldn't wait to get back...

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Let's get out of here.

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And show brillhoffer.

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Now they felt they had the murder weapon.

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All they lacked was the motive.

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At that moment,

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my husband was vacationing
with his mistress,

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the very beautiful soap opera actress,
Alexandra isles.

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Oh, god.

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Mrs. isles, a divorcée,

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was the daughter of an old friend,

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count Billy botsky.

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Brillhoffer also discovered that,
at my death,

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claus, whose own net worth
was only a million dollars,

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stood to inherit 14 million from me.

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Alexandra later testified

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that claus showed her
a legal analysis of my will.

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On the evidence collected by Alex, ala,
and their lawyer, brillhoffer,

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my husband was accused of twice trying

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to murder me with injections of Insulin.

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On march 16, 1982,

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he was found guilty on both counts.

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Charged the defendant
committed on December 27th, 1979...

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Even Alexandra isles
testified against him.

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How do you find?

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Guilty.

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As to count two,

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charge the defendant committed
on December 21, 1980,

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the crime of assault
with intent to murder,

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how do you find?

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Guilty.

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You are about to see how
claus Von bulow sought to reverse...

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Or escape from that jury's verdict.

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You tell me.

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And two!

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Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!

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Taking you downtown!

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Air dersh!

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Take it in! Take it in! Foul!

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Okay. Here I go.
Here I go! Watch the hands!

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Watch the hands!

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Yeah, hello.

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What?

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Oh, shit. Ju... bottom line.

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Oh, shit!

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Hi.

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Let's try that again.

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Hi, dad. Remember Maggie?

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Hi, Maggie. Hello.

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They're going to fry.
The Johnson brothers.

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What?

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But...

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Two black kids broke
their father out of prison.

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The father shot two people,

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and the sons are convicted of murder.

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A lawyer prays for an innocent client.

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Finally, finally, I get two.

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Both of them are going to get zapped.

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No more appeals?

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Supreme court, but this was the best shot.

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Mmm!

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It's the press.

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You don't want to talk to the press?

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Dershowitz psychiatric institute.

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Yeah, hang on a second.

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Claus Von bulow.

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It's a reporter.

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With an english accent?

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If I can't save two innocent kids,
what's the point?

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- I might as well hang it up.
- Yeah. One second, one second, sorry.

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He really seems to think he's Von bulow.

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Hello. This is Alan Dershowitz.

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Who are you? What do you want?

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It's Von bulow.

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Back in business.

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Can I help you, sir?

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Claus Von bulow.

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Elevator's to the left, go right ahead.

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Holy shit.

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Hello?

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Hello?

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Professor Dershowitz, hello, hello.

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How good of you to come.

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Pleasure.

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Won't you sit down?

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Do you play?

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That? No.

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Most people think it's a game of luck.

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Actually, it's largely a matter of nerve.

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Um... nothing, thank you, Charles.

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Why don't we go to delmonico's
and have a proper lunch?

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Whatever.

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I should tell you that
I have the greatest respect

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for the intelligence and
integrity of the Jewish people.

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When I married sunny,

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she was the most beautiful divorcée
in the world

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and one of the wealthiest.

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Even so, we never got this table.

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Professor Dershowitz.

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Dr. Von bulow.

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Two injections of Insulin,
already I'm a doctor.

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No, in America,
it's fame rather than class.

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Now, after all this unpleasantness,

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I always get the best table and...

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Speaking of the unpleasantnhess...

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Oh, yes, I suppose
we better discuss your fee.

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Okay.

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It's 300 dollars an hour.

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Good lord!

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You know, I used to be a lawyer in London.

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That sounds a bit steep.

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It's average for a case like this.

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Besides, I do a lot of pro bono work.

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You would pay for that.

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Plus, I have to pay students, associates...

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Are you saying if I agree to pay 300,

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you will handle my appeal?

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No, not so far.

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It doesn't look like my kind of case.

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I'm not a hired gun.

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I got to feel there's some moral
or constitutional issue at stake.

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But I'm absolutely innocent,

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and my civil liberties
have been egregiously violated.

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I've got two black kids
facing the electric chair

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for a crime they did not commit.

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They are innocent.

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Well, before you assume I'm guilty,

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won't you hear my story?

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Nope. Never let defendants explain.

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Puts most of them in an awkward position.

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How do you mean?

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Lying.

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But I give you my word as a gentleman.

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Oh... well...

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Well, won't you at least read the record
and

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see if you can find something... well...

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Constitutional?

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You do have one thing in your favor.

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Everybody hates you.

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Well, that's a start.

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Come on, Maxwell!

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Get up! Come on, Max!

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He was hit! He... = oh! Hit!

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Yes!

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So what do you think?

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Oh, he did it. He did it.

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Of course he did it. Can we win?

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Hundred to one against.

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The maid.
The maid shmeared him on both comas.

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Look at it. At this. It says here...

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After you realized that Mrs. Von bulow

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had not gotten up,
what did you do?

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I came downstairs,

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and Mr. Von bulow said that madame

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had a very sore throat,

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and I didn't have to do any work,

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and she was in bed all day.

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What are you doing?

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She's ice cold.

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Madame! Mrs. Von bulow!

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Leave her alone.

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She's sleeping.

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She was drinking last night.

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We didn't get any rest.

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She's not sleeping.

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She's unconscious.

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You must call a doctor. = Maria.

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Go on!

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A half hour later, she had not moved.

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I went back and forth all morning.

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Strain over the last several days.

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Finally, mid-afternoon,

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Mr. Von bulow spoke to Dr. paultees,

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but he lied to doctor.

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Yes, she's sleeping now,

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but she was up earlier this morning
to the bathroom

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and had a soft drink.

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So I don't think
there's any cause for alarm.

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But she never moved,

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never got up.

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She was lying
in the same position all day.

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Later, her heart stops,

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and Dr. paultees, he comes and saves her.

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After they go to the hospital,

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I'm changing the sheets.

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I find a puddle of urine.

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If madame went to the bathroom,

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she would not have peed in her bed.

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Right.

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Why would claus lie about that?

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Well, it's suspicious,
but hardly criminal.

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How about the second coma?

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Well, Maria wasn't in Newport
for that one.

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But shortly before the second coma...

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I'm cleaning up their room

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when I find Mr. Von bulow's
white canvas bag

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packed for Newport.

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Inside, there's a little black bag:

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A bottle of Insulin,
a syringe, and needles.

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Alexander!

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Alexander, come here!

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Insulin.

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For what, Insulin?

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My lady is not diabetic.

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Three weeks later,

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sunny"s lying unconscious
in a freezing bathroom

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with her nightgown hiked over her waist.

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If I was on that jury,

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I would have voted to convict.

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Then you're taking the case?

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It reminds me of my Hitler dream.

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You know, Hitler calls up.

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He's alive, needs a lawyer.

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I say, "sure, come on over."

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Then I have to decide.

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Do I take the case or do I kill him?

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You? No question.

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I would take the case.

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Then kill him.

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I'm a maniac.
I need someone with your judgment,

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someone to watch what I'm doing,
occasionally remind me about the law.

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When can I see the transcripts?

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You're a former prosecutor, conservative.

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We agree on nothing.

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But you're smarter than
the Rhode Island da.

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If I can beat your arguments,
I can destroy his.

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Look, Rhode Island is
the most corrupt state in the country.

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Everything is political.

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I don't think that way. You do.

00:19:17.031 --> 00:19:20.319
I have to see the big picture.
I can't afford to immerse myself in facts,

00:19:20.493 --> 00:19:22.154
but we must know the facts.

00:19:22.536 --> 00:19:23.696
Out of all my ex-students,

00:19:23.871 --> 00:19:26.362
no one can assimilate information
as quickly as you two.

00:19:26.832 --> 00:19:28.618
Well, I agree with that assessment.

00:19:34.090 --> 00:19:34.920
You're out of your mind.

00:19:35.091 --> 00:19:36.877
I only have 45 days to file.

00:19:37.176 --> 00:19:38.336
I can't do it without you.

00:19:40.638 --> 00:19:42.199
Look, Sarah,
I know you don't want to come back...

00:19:42.223 --> 00:19:43.713
Is this strictly professional?

00:19:48.354 --> 00:19:49.354
Better be.

00:19:50.856 --> 00:19:51.515
That's wonderful.

00:19:51.691 --> 00:19:54.023
Now, I want the best people in the world
on our side,

00:19:54.318 --> 00:19:55.933
the most prestigious experts,

00:19:56.237 --> 00:19:58.569
nobel prize-winning scientists.

00:19:58.906 --> 00:20:00.626
Some of your colleagues
at Harvard, perhaps.

00:20:00.658 --> 00:20:02.094
Hey, hey, wa... wait a minute, claus.

00:20:02.118 --> 00:20:03.798
Look, we got a little problem there, okay?

00:20:04.203 --> 00:20:06.444
People like that, we can't control.

00:20:06.789 --> 00:20:08.229
They'll find one incriminating fact,

00:20:08.374 --> 00:20:09.518
they'll tell the whole world.

00:20:09.542 --> 00:20:10.622
I'm not afraid, Alan.

00:20:11.043 --> 00:20:12.704
Let the chips fall where they may.

00:20:13.421 --> 00:20:14.941
That's what an innocent man would say.

00:20:16.674 --> 00:20:17.674
I know.

00:20:24.515 --> 00:20:25.635
That just came for you, dad.

00:20:27.852 --> 00:20:30.264
My daughter, cosima. She never doubted me.

00:20:31.230 --> 00:20:32.595
She loves Alex and ala dearly,

00:20:32.773 --> 00:20:34.980
and siding with me
has cost her their affections.

00:20:39.572 --> 00:20:41.028
I don't know what I would have done.

00:20:46.704 --> 00:20:48.744
Okay, look, I said
I didn't want to hear your story,

00:20:48.914 --> 00:20:50.142
but I do need some information.

00:20:50.166 --> 00:20:51.166
'Course.

00:20:52.585 --> 00:20:55.873
Okay, I gather they'll, the older
children, deny sunny had a problem

00:20:56.046 --> 00:20:57.046
with pills and alcohol?

00:20:57.214 --> 00:20:58.795
Spectacular understatement.

00:20:59.133 --> 00:21:00.527
So there must be somebody
who saw it, right?

00:21:00.551 --> 00:21:02.416
Some witness, somebody, somewhere?
A friend?

00:21:02.595 --> 00:21:03.955
- You want affidavits?
- Yes, I do.

00:21:04.054 --> 00:21:05.054
I'll get them.

00:21:05.097 --> 00:21:05.677
You'll get them?

00:21:06.015 --> 00:21:09.257
You should also know, the drugs
prescribed for me were taken by sunny.

00:21:09.435 --> 00:21:10.595
That's a lot of drugs, claus.

00:21:10.936 --> 00:21:14.929
But the prosecution's allegation
that I knew about syringes, injections,

00:21:15.441 --> 00:21:16.601
totally accurate.

00:21:17.693 --> 00:21:21.026
Sunny and I used to give ourselves
b-12 injections in the late sixties.

00:21:21.197 --> 00:21:22.215
It was quite the fad in London.

00:21:22.239 --> 00:21:23.479
Can I explain something to you?

00:21:23.991 --> 00:21:25.276
The less I know from you,

00:21:25.618 --> 00:21:26.778
the more options I have.

00:21:27.203 --> 00:21:28.363
When you tell me “the truth,”

00:21:28.621 --> 00:21:31.454
you limit me to a defense that lines up
with what you have to say.

00:21:32.124 --> 00:21:34.456
But isn't the truth
the simplest way, Alan?

00:21:35.544 --> 00:21:38.456
I mean, why did I stay all day
at sunny's side

00:21:38.631 --> 00:21:40.167
without calling a doctor?

00:21:41.217 --> 00:21:44.050
Because sunny detested doctors.

00:21:44.512 --> 00:21:46.002
If we called one
without her approval,

00:21:46.180 --> 00:21:47.215
she went berserk.

00:21:47.515 --> 00:21:48.515
Once she broke her hip

00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:50.339
and didn't go to hospital
for two full days.

00:21:50.518 --> 00:21:52.133
Claus, did you hear what I just said?

00:21:52.561 --> 00:21:54.847
Of course.
Did you hear the judge sentenced me?

00:21:55.022 --> 00:21:57.559
Sorry. 30 years is
a pretty stiff sentence.

00:21:58.192 --> 00:21:59.552
Twice trying to murder one's wife,

00:21:59.610 --> 00:22:00.941
anything less would be monstrous.

00:22:02.363 --> 00:22:03.853
But for a man like myself,

00:22:05.783 --> 00:22:06.783
who did nothing...

00:22:10.788 --> 00:22:12.028
What I wanted to ask,

00:22:12.706 --> 00:22:14.116
if we lose the appeal,

00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:16.911
will I have the chance later

00:22:17.086 --> 00:22:19.998
to set my affairs in order
before I'm incarcerated?

00:22:21.423 --> 00:22:23.664
In Europe, a gentleman
is given the opportunity

00:22:23.843 --> 00:22:25.049
to end things properly.

00:22:29.473 --> 00:22:30.473
Come on, claus.

00:22:30.641 --> 00:22:34.008
We are each the keeper
of our own souls, Alan.

00:22:37.481 --> 00:22:38.641
Okay, two big problems.

00:22:39.650 --> 00:22:41.982
The case against him is very strong.

00:22:42.736 --> 00:22:43.976
But probably more important,

00:22:44.154 --> 00:22:46.270
the legal conviction
isn't the only conviction

00:22:46.448 --> 00:22:47.528
that we got to reverse.

00:22:48.242 --> 00:22:49.778
The more dangerous conviction

00:22:49.952 --> 00:22:53.115
is the absolute certainty
of the American people

00:22:53.289 --> 00:22:54.654
that claus is guilty.

00:22:54.832 --> 00:22:57.915
Finding grounds for reversal
won't be enough here.

00:22:58.460 --> 00:23:02.453
Judges on the Rhode Island supreme court
will have to go home to their spouses

00:23:02.631 --> 00:23:04.997
and explain why they reversed.

00:23:05.175 --> 00:23:08.417
To get them to do that,
we must completely obliterate

00:23:08.596 --> 00:23:11.463
every single aspect of the state's case.

00:23:11.974 --> 00:23:14.681
Destroy both the medical case
and their witnesses

00:23:14.852 --> 00:23:18.140
so the judges have
no possible way to affirm.

00:23:19.189 --> 00:23:22.022
Total victory,
or we are dead in the water.

00:23:22.192 --> 00:23:25.810
Now, I assume that
you've all had an opportunity

00:23:25.988 --> 00:23:27.068
to look at the transcripts,

00:23:27.114 --> 00:23:28.399
first impressions, yeah, minnie?

00:23:28.741 --> 00:23:30.356
I think this whole thing stinks.

00:23:31.201 --> 00:23:33.533
I think claus Von bulow stinks.

00:23:34.163 --> 00:23:37.326
He's obviously guilty
of something pretty despicable.

00:23:37.541 --> 00:23:38.826
And if we free him,

00:23:39.293 --> 00:23:41.124
we become partners in his crime,

00:23:41.295 --> 00:23:43.160
accessories after the fact.

00:23:43.756 --> 00:23:45.087
I'm really shocked,

00:23:45.466 --> 00:23:47.319
with your record
defending the poor and oppressed,

00:23:47.343 --> 00:23:48.799
that you've taken this case.

00:23:52.181 --> 00:23:53.842
I won't have anything to do with it,

00:23:55.434 --> 00:23:57.550
and I hope my fellow students
won't either.

00:23:58.479 --> 00:23:59.479
Good-bye.

00:24:00.356 --> 00:24:03.189
May I exercise my first amendment right
to free speech?

00:24:07.071 --> 00:24:08.751
If lawyers only defended innocent clients,

00:24:08.822 --> 00:24:10.884
there would be 10 defense
lawyers in the entire country,

00:24:10.908 --> 00:24:12.628
and none of you
would be able to find a job.

00:24:13.160 --> 00:24:15.401
Why help guilty people get off?

00:24:17.164 --> 00:24:19.450
Oh, you're sure he's guilty,
100 percent sure.

00:24:19.750 --> 00:24:22.162
He had a lawyer. He had a trial.

00:24:22.670 --> 00:24:24.001
He was convicted.

00:24:24.421 --> 00:24:25.981
Are you sure he had a fair trial?

00:24:26.590 --> 00:24:27.329
Come on!

00:24:27.508 --> 00:24:30.466
It's the basis of the whole legal system.

00:24:30.844 --> 00:24:33.677
Everyone gets a defense.

00:24:34.431 --> 00:24:35.921
So the system is there

00:24:36.225 --> 00:24:39.058
for the one innocent person
who is falsely accused.

00:24:40.813 --> 00:24:41.813
Okay, look.

00:24:42.982 --> 00:24:44.973
Say it's you, okay?

00:24:45.818 --> 00:24:46.933
You decide...

00:24:47.486 --> 00:24:49.022
You decide to get a divorce.

00:24:50.197 --> 00:24:51.677
You're going to divorce your husband.

00:24:52.074 --> 00:24:53.074
A week later,

00:24:53.742 --> 00:24:55.698
you're accused of molesting your son.

00:24:56.912 --> 00:24:58.493
Oh, no, now don't give me that look.

00:24:58.706 --> 00:25:00.321
Stuff like this happens all the time.

00:25:00.749 --> 00:25:02.080
Suddenly, you're alone.

00:25:03.002 --> 00:25:04.002
You're hated.

00:25:04.420 --> 00:25:05.830
It's... it's a nightmare.

00:25:06.964 --> 00:25:09.922
Everyone assumes that you are guilty.

00:25:10.592 --> 00:25:14.084
Even the mailman is beginning to
look at you a little... a little funny.

00:25:14.596 --> 00:25:16.928
You only got one person
who believes in you.

00:25:17.266 --> 00:25:18.881
There's only one person you can trust,

00:25:20.936 --> 00:25:21.936
your lawyer.

00:25:22.312 --> 00:25:23.927
Yeah. Okay.

00:25:24.565 --> 00:25:26.601
So, someone's got to defend claus.

00:25:27.151 --> 00:25:28.151
But why you?

00:25:28.277 --> 00:25:29.357
Why us?

00:25:30.738 --> 00:25:32.194
Look, you're my student.

00:25:32.364 --> 00:25:33.364
Y-you have a choice.

00:25:33.407 --> 00:25:35.343
You d... you don't have to do
anything you don't want to do.

00:25:35.367 --> 00:25:36.482
That is your choice.

00:25:37.327 --> 00:25:38.908
The reason I take cases,

00:25:39.079 --> 00:25:41.240
and here, I'm unlike most other lawyers

00:25:41.415 --> 00:25:43.906
who are not professors
and therefore have to make a living,

00:25:44.334 --> 00:25:47.292
I take cases 'cause I get pissed off,

00:25:48.630 --> 00:25:50.746
and I am pissed off here.

00:25:51.467 --> 00:25:54.379
The family hired a private prosecutor.

00:25:56.930 --> 00:25:59.546
They conducted a private search.

00:26:00.225 --> 00:26:02.090
Now, we let them get away with that,

00:26:02.686 --> 00:26:04.677
rich people won't go to the cops anymore.

00:26:04.855 --> 00:26:06.095
You know what they're gonna do?

00:26:06.356 --> 00:26:09.814
They're going to get their own lawyers
to collect evidence.

00:26:10.235 --> 00:26:13.443
And then they are going
to choose which evidence

00:26:13.614 --> 00:26:15.946
they feel like passing on to the da,

00:26:16.283 --> 00:26:19.525
and the next victim
isn't going to be rich like Von bulow.

00:26:19.870 --> 00:26:22.031
But it's gonna be
some poor schnook in Detroit

00:26:22.289 --> 00:26:26.328
who can't afford
or can't find a decent lawyer.

00:26:32.716 --> 00:26:35.082
I think it's a little more complicated

00:26:35.677 --> 00:26:37.759
than your simple moral superiority.

00:26:39.598 --> 00:26:40.598
No?

00:26:41.350 --> 00:26:43.261
I agree Von bulow is guilty,

00:26:43.435 --> 00:26:45.596
but that's the fun,
I mean, that's the challenge.

00:26:45.771 --> 00:26:47.261
See, now there is a lawyer.

00:26:49.817 --> 00:26:50.817
What?

00:26:52.528 --> 00:26:53.563
Yeah, okay. Put him on.

00:26:54.863 --> 00:26:57.104
Alan, a rather unsavory character

00:26:57.282 --> 00:26:59.614
called David marriott contacted me

00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:04.579
claiming to have information about
a drug delivery at clarendon court.

00:27:04.915 --> 00:27:06.405
Okay. Now, where does he live?

00:27:06.708 --> 00:27:07.413
Somewhere in Wakefield.

00:27:07.584 --> 00:27:09.074
Okay, we... no, we'll get on it.

00:27:10.254 --> 00:27:14.247
Tom, I want you to get
a private investigator

00:27:14.424 --> 00:27:17.791
to dig into a David marriott
who lives in Wakefield.

00:27:19.304 --> 00:27:21.215
Okay. How are we going to win this case?

00:27:21.515 --> 00:27:23.221
The judge made lots of mistakes.

00:27:23.392 --> 00:27:25.053
Judges always make mistakes.

00:27:25.227 --> 00:27:26.057
How are we going to win?

00:27:26.228 --> 00:27:27.593
All right, one issue leaps up,

00:27:27.771 --> 00:27:29.136
this lawyer, brillhoffer,

00:27:29.314 --> 00:27:31.555
interviewed Alex, Maria, everybody.

00:27:31.733 --> 00:27:33.253
He was the first person
fo hear their stories.

00:27:33.277 --> 00:27:35.077
He took notes and
he used those notes at trial

00:27:35.112 --> 00:27:36.522
against a defense witness.

00:27:36.697 --> 00:27:38.562
But the defense never saw the notes.

00:27:38.740 --> 00:27:40.401
The judge wouldn't let us have them.

00:27:40.826 --> 00:27:43.138
This alone seems like sufficient grounds.
It's perfect Brady.

00:27:43.162 --> 00:27:43.867
Okay, fine.

00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:45.569
Why don't you draft a letter

00:27:45.747 --> 00:27:47.829
writing to brillhoffer
asking him very nicely

00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:49.240
to send us his notes?

00:27:49.501 --> 00:27:51.492
Yeah, right. He'll fax them right over.

00:27:52.004 --> 00:27:53.004
Yeah, right.

00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:55.921
We could win on this issue alone
and he knows it.

00:27:56.091 --> 00:27:57.581
You know it, I know it.

00:27:57.843 --> 00:27:59.253
We'll just make sure he knows it.

00:27:59.928 --> 00:28:02.214
Now... Nancy and dobbs...

00:28:02.389 --> 00:28:02.923
Yes?

00:28:03.098 --> 00:28:05.054
They're going to attack
the medical testimony.

00:28:05.475 --> 00:28:06.180
Mm-hmm.

00:28:06.393 --> 00:28:09.180
Our Rhode Island counsel, Peter macintosh,

00:28:09.605 --> 00:28:12.017
he will analyze the state supreme court.

00:28:12.357 --> 00:28:14.836
I think the rest of us
should begin dissecting the transcripts,

00:28:14.860 --> 00:28:17.146
errors, inconsistencies, anything unusual.

00:28:17.321 --> 00:28:18.436
Okay, great. Now, remember,

00:28:18.614 --> 00:28:20.229
most cases are won in the field,

00:28:20.407 --> 00:28:21.487
not in court.

00:28:24.036 --> 00:28:25.036
Minnie?

00:28:27.247 --> 00:28:28.687
You want to work with Sarah on this?

00:28:30.083 --> 00:28:31.083
You may learn something.

00:28:31.168 --> 00:28:33.248
- Come on, minnie.
- Come on, minnie.

00:28:33.670 --> 00:28:35.070
- Minnie!
- Come on.

00:28:35.130 --> 00:28:36.130
Please?

00:28:36.673 --> 00:28:37.673
Come on.

00:28:39.259 --> 00:28:40.945
"Course I don't trust David marriott.

00:28:40.969 --> 00:28:42.089
I don't know David marriott.

00:28:42.429 --> 00:28:43.781
But if he knew Alex Von auersberg...

00:28:43.805 --> 00:28:45.575
You're crazy,
I don't know who you think you are.

00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:46.634
You Perry Mason?

00:28:47.434 --> 00:28:49.595
Let our private investigator
interview this jerk.

00:28:49.853 --> 00:28:50.968
It's stupid, it's arrogant,

00:28:51.146 --> 00:28:52.146
and it's unprofessional.

00:28:52.314 --> 00:28:54.555
- It's fun.
- Fun? This guy is a sleaze.

00:28:55.192 --> 00:28:56.712
You don't know what he's going to try.

00:28:57.069 --> 00:28:58.775
What, is he going to shoot me?

00:28:59.529 --> 00:29:00.609
Come on, I'm from Brooklyn.

00:29:07.246 --> 00:29:09.606
Okay, look, I'll stand by the window
every 10 minutes, okay?

00:29:10.582 --> 00:29:11.822
That way you can know I'm safe.

00:29:13.919 --> 00:29:15.250
I had this friend...

00:29:15.587 --> 00:29:16.702
Gilbert Jackson...

00:29:17.506 --> 00:29:18.666
Interior decorator.

00:29:19.675 --> 00:29:22.007
Flaming queen, but a very excellent guy.

00:29:24.805 --> 00:29:26.921
He introduced me to Alex Von auersberg.

00:29:28.558 --> 00:29:29.593
You sure it was Alex?

00:29:30.352 --> 00:29:33.094
We had dinner a few times, drinks.

00:29:33.605 --> 00:29:35.766
All I knew, Alex was some rich kid.

00:29:37.109 --> 00:29:38.109
So sometimes,

00:29:38.819 --> 00:29:41.185
this is like, uh, summer of '77,

00:29:41.947 --> 00:29:43.938
I'd motor to Newport for some r and r.

00:29:44.616 --> 00:29:46.447
Gilbert asked me to bring Alex a package.

00:29:48.120 --> 00:29:49.735
I figured interior decoration.

00:29:50.539 --> 00:29:51.619
Maybe drapes.

00:29:52.291 --> 00:29:53.371
Like six times.

00:29:53.667 --> 00:29:54.873
So I'd call Alex.

00:29:55.127 --> 00:29:56.367
How'd you get his phone number?

00:29:57.087 --> 00:29:58.087
From Gilbert.

00:29:58.338 --> 00:29:59.338
You still have it?

00:29:59.881 --> 00:30:00.881
Maybe.

00:30:01.883 --> 00:30:02.883
I'm that kind of guy.

00:30:29.661 --> 00:30:30.661
Here.

00:30:37.085 --> 00:30:38.450
One night I got curious.

00:30:39.755 --> 00:30:40.915
Opened the package.

00:30:42.090 --> 00:30:43.671
Fucking pharmacy, man.

00:30:44.426 --> 00:30:47.259
Needles, syringes, white powder.

00:30:47.596 --> 00:30:49.257
Nice selection of pills.

00:30:49.431 --> 00:30:50.431
Demerol.

00:30:50.849 --> 00:30:51.929
Like a drugstore.

00:30:54.061 --> 00:30:56.643
You delivered drugs six times
and didn't know it?

00:30:59.941 --> 00:31:00.941
Stupid, huh?

00:31:02.277 --> 00:31:03.608
Then Gilbert asked me again.

00:31:04.821 --> 00:31:06.152
I couldn't say no, but this time

00:31:06.323 --> 00:31:08.188
I made Alex open the package
in front of me.

00:31:09.034 --> 00:31:10.365
Voila.

00:31:12.746 --> 00:31:15.203
I go, "awful lot of pharmaceuticals
for one person.”

00:31:16.041 --> 00:31:18.623
He goes, "oh, I give some to my mom

00:31:18.794 --> 00:31:20.034
to keep her off my back.”

00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:24.713
Few weeks later,
Gilbert gets mistaken for a softball.

00:31:25.634 --> 00:31:27.215
Two guys bash his head in.

00:31:27.803 --> 00:31:30.215
Alex calls me, totally urinary.

00:31:30.722 --> 00:31:32.122
Will the cops find his phone number

00:31:32.182 --> 00:31:34.218
and fuck up his trust fund or something?

00:31:35.727 --> 00:31:37.058
Well, that's the fat.

00:31:38.563 --> 00:31:39.563
That's the skinny.

00:31:40.941 --> 00:31:41.941
You like it?

00:31:43.652 --> 00:31:46.234
You traffic with drug dealers
and drag queens.

00:31:46.405 --> 00:31:47.565
You have a part-time job.

00:31:47.739 --> 00:31:49.445
You ride around in rented limos.

00:31:49.616 --> 00:31:50.802
All in all, I would have to say

00:31:50.826 --> 00:31:52.566
you're probably
the least impressive witness

00:31:52.744 --> 00:31:53.744
I've ever seen.

00:31:54.496 --> 00:31:55.496
Wait a minute.

00:31:59.709 --> 00:32:02.075
You think I'm scum, don't you?

00:32:03.171 --> 00:32:05.127
Blow it out your ass.

00:32:06.633 --> 00:32:08.169
You want a withess to back me up?

00:32:08.885 --> 00:32:09.885
I'll get one.

00:32:10.637 --> 00:32:11.637
And, hey,

00:32:12.055 --> 00:32:14.421
maybe I'll see you at the celtics, huh?

00:32:26.361 --> 00:32:28.226
I am not going to let them execute you.

00:32:28.405 --> 00:32:29.405
You're not going to die.

00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:31.240
Look, Johnny, th...

00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:33.970
Johnny, this is going to be
a lot easier on me

00:32:33.994 --> 00:32:36.656
if you don't cry, okay? I... I kn...

00:32:36.830 --> 00:32:38.536
I know your brother's hysterical, I...

00:32:38.874 --> 00:32:41.411
Number o... they always set a date
for the execution,

00:32:41.585 --> 00:32:42.791
and they always postpone it...

00:32:43.879 --> 00:32:45.319
He's great when he's like this, huh?

00:32:46.381 --> 00:32:47.166
That's right.

00:32:47.340 --> 00:32:49.569
I just wish he had something left
for the people around him.

00:32:49.593 --> 00:32:50.378
What are you talking to me about money?

00:32:50.552 --> 00:32:51.837
Did I ever ask you about money?

00:32:52.262 --> 00:32:53.862
Anyway, it's nice to have you back here.

00:32:55.974 --> 00:32:57.494
Okay. Say hello to your brother.

00:32:58.393 --> 00:32:59.393
Right.

00:32:59.728 --> 00:33:00.728
Okay.

00:33:08.737 --> 00:33:10.443
Okay, who's got what?

00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:15.156
Uh, yeah. Maria's testimony.

00:33:15.452 --> 00:33:18.239
She says sunny did take valium
prescribed for claus.

00:33:18.622 --> 00:33:20.032
Okay, score one for Von bulow.

00:33:20.207 --> 00:33:22.539
And this Jamie smather prescription?

00:33:22.709 --> 00:33:23.709
Who's Jamie smather?

00:33:23.793 --> 00:33:26.830
Three-hundred-pound redheaded hooker
in pigtails and white boots.

00:33:27.005 --> 00:33:28.961
She supplied claus with valium.

00:33:29.216 --> 00:33:31.502
He had a gorgeous mistress
and he went with an ugly whore?

00:33:32.177 --> 00:33:34.634
You know, there's some things
even mistresses won't do.

00:33:36.932 --> 00:33:37.932
Like what?

00:33:38.558 --> 00:33:39.593
I-I'm not telling.

00:33:41.353 --> 00:33:43.594
Anyway, Maria swears

00:33:43.772 --> 00:33:46.980
she first saw this Jamie smather
prescription February 14th,

00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:49.482
and then again February 28th.

00:33:49.986 --> 00:33:50.600
So?

00:33:50.820 --> 00:33:52.731
It wasn't prescribed till the 28th.

00:33:53.114 --> 00:33:55.230
You're not suggesting she's lying?

00:33:55.825 --> 00:33:57.929
Okay, how about Maria's Insulin?
"For what, Insulin"?

00:33:57.953 --> 00:33:59.313
- Anything more on that?
- Not yet.

00:34:01.831 --> 00:34:03.162
Something about that bothers me.

00:34:05.669 --> 00:34:06.669
Okay, who's next?

00:34:07.587 --> 00:34:08.827
Brillhoffer wrote back.

00:34:10.257 --> 00:34:11.713
He's very attached to his notes.

00:34:15.178 --> 00:34:16.714
"I am satisfied

00:34:17.514 --> 00:34:19.675
that there is not a scrap of paper
in my files

00:34:19.849 --> 00:34:22.966
that might even arguably
be viewed as exculpatory.”

00:34:23.143 --> 00:34:24.258
English translation?

00:34:24.437 --> 00:34:26.428
He says he doesn't have
anything that'd help us.

00:34:29.317 --> 00:34:30.317
You with me?

00:34:30.777 --> 00:34:31.391
Pay dirt.

00:34:31.735 --> 00:34:32.474
What's pay dirt?

00:34:32.654 --> 00:34:33.654
He's a lawyer.

00:34:33.905 --> 00:34:36.105
If he really didn't have anything,
he'd give it to us...

00:34:36.908 --> 00:34:37.693
But there's something there

00:34:37.867 --> 00:34:39.707
and he's gonna fight like hell
to hold onto it.

00:34:40.370 --> 00:34:41.576
I will bet my fee

00:34:42.038 --> 00:34:43.824
that no one remembered seeing Insulin

00:34:44.541 --> 00:34:46.031
until after the lab report came back.

00:34:46.710 --> 00:34:47.853
So... you're suggesting...

00:34:47.877 --> 00:34:48.877
Memory enhancement.

00:34:49.838 --> 00:34:50.918
It might be more than that.

00:34:51.130 --> 00:34:52.130
Possibly.

00:34:54.467 --> 00:34:55.467
A frame-up.

00:34:56.177 --> 00:34:57.337
You mean by the kids?

00:34:57.846 --> 00:35:00.127
Where are you getting all this,
from brillhoffer's letter?

00:35:00.265 --> 00:35:01.265
Pure deduction.

00:35:01.558 --> 00:35:06.222
A good lawyer is part psychiatrist,
detective, logician.

00:35:06.980 --> 00:35:07.719
A great lawyer...

00:35:07.939 --> 00:35:09.554
Never would have taken this case.

00:35:11.735 --> 00:35:12.941
If there's nothing more...

00:35:13.778 --> 00:35:15.109
Has anybody read this?

00:35:17.282 --> 00:35:18.988
It's an interview with Truman capote.

00:35:19.659 --> 00:35:21.445
He says when she was 19,

00:35:21.620 --> 00:35:23.076
sunny Von bulow

00:35:23.246 --> 00:35:25.032
taught him how to inject drugs.

00:35:25.206 --> 00:35:26.206
Let me see that.

00:35:29.044 --> 00:35:32.036
Well, well, well, the famous professor.

00:35:32.213 --> 00:35:34.454
Alan, I'd like to introduce
my new girlfriend,

00:35:34.633 --> 00:35:37.796
- Andrea Reynolds.
- I'm not his girlfriend, I'm his savior.

00:35:38.011 --> 00:35:38.591
Perfectly true.

00:35:38.762 --> 00:35:41.174
Two days after the trial ended,
we fell in love.

00:35:41.389 --> 00:35:45.098
- It was really very, very dramatic.
- Yes, Andrea, Andrea, come on.

00:35:46.686 --> 00:35:49.894
Since then, I've devoted my life
to clearing his name.

00:35:50.357 --> 00:35:52.518
I made him hire you.

00:35:53.943 --> 00:35:55.683
"Get the Jew," I said.

00:35:57.072 --> 00:35:58.072
Darling...

00:35:59.115 --> 00:36:00.435
Can the Jew get down to business?

00:36:02.118 --> 00:36:03.403
We've got an affidavit.

00:36:04.537 --> 00:36:07.153
A Smythe, Mrs. Ruth Smythe,

00:36:07.832 --> 00:36:10.744
gave us an affidavit
corroborating Truman capote.

00:36:11.378 --> 00:36:12.709
I have affidavits, too.

00:36:15.215 --> 00:36:16.215
Newport people.

00:36:16.424 --> 00:36:18.506
They describe sunny taking pills,

00:36:18.760 --> 00:36:20.466
getting drunk and falling down...

00:36:20.887 --> 00:36:22.343
Bumping into doorways,

00:36:22.514 --> 00:36:24.175
smearing lipstick all over her face.

00:36:24.557 --> 00:36:25.576
Not a very pretty picture.

00:36:25.600 --> 00:36:26.840
She did it, didn't she?

00:36:27.811 --> 00:36:29.597
Don't be a priss.

00:36:30.855 --> 00:36:31.685
Sunny was a lovely woman.

00:36:31.856 --> 00:36:32.856
Spoiled rotten.

00:36:33.817 --> 00:36:34.817
Yes, but lovely.

00:36:35.819 --> 00:36:36.819
Till she drank.

00:36:38.071 --> 00:36:41.063
Two drinks and she became... nasty,

00:36:41.241 --> 00:36:43.607
- irrational.
- All women are irrational, darling.

00:36:43.868 --> 00:36:45.108
Did we mention the priest?

00:36:45.370 --> 00:36:49.534
Oh. Marriott apparently
confided in a priest

00:36:50.041 --> 00:36:51.577
who's consented to talk to us.

00:36:54.546 --> 00:36:56.377
A father capello from Providence.

00:36:58.717 --> 00:36:59.717
Priest?

00:37:00.927 --> 00:37:02.667
Well, a priest is the ideal witness.

00:37:02.846 --> 00:37:04.699
It's like getting the word of god.
= I checked.

00:37:04.723 --> 00:37:06.384
God is unavailable.

00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:08.559
If

00:37:08.643 --> 00:37:10.224
If the priest comes through

00:37:10.395 --> 00:37:12.761
and we can get documentation
on sunny's drug use,

00:37:13.231 --> 00:37:15.347
then self-injection
may be a plausible theory.

00:37:15.608 --> 00:37:17.098
There's no Insulin in this case.

00:37:17.318 --> 00:37:18.854
Yeah, but people do use Insulin,

00:37:19.362 --> 00:37:21.424
they use it for dieting,
it's not a prescription drug.

00:37:21.448 --> 00:37:22.925
Sunny was concerned about her weight.

00:37:22.949 --> 00:37:24.439
Maybe, but believe me, Alan...

00:37:25.285 --> 00:37:26.320
There's no Insulin here.

00:37:30.832 --> 00:37:31.832
Really?

00:37:32.751 --> 00:37:33.751
How can you be so sure?

00:37:42.260 --> 00:37:43.340
Do you realize...

00:37:44.471 --> 00:37:47.508
With this case,
I'm looking for evidence to exonerate you?

00:37:48.266 --> 00:37:50.723
But at the same time,
I'm also wondering...

00:37:52.270 --> 00:37:53.270
What really happened...

00:37:54.063 --> 00:37:55.063
Who you are.

00:37:55.607 --> 00:37:56.727
Who would you like me to be?

00:38:00.987 --> 00:38:01.987
Your mother's death...

00:38:02.822 --> 00:38:03.822
What happened?

00:38:04.991 --> 00:38:07.073
I believe she had a heart problem.

00:38:08.077 --> 00:38:08.691
Really?

00:38:09.078 --> 00:38:10.638
The rumor in england is you killed her.

00:38:10.789 --> 00:38:12.120
Hey, wait a minute, Alan.

00:38:12.415 --> 00:38:14.451
Statute of limitations
ran out on that years ago.

00:38:14.626 --> 00:38:16.662
There's rumors also that I killed my aunt.

00:38:19.756 --> 00:38:21.417
And that I'm a necrophiliac,

00:38:21.966 --> 00:38:23.672
who injected sunny with Insulin

00:38:23.843 --> 00:38:25.379
so that I could have my way with her.

00:38:27.347 --> 00:38:28.678
Please.

00:38:29.849 --> 00:38:32.465
Your mother's death
wasn't recorded for five full days.

00:38:33.102 --> 00:38:34.102
True.

00:38:36.439 --> 00:38:37.719
Where were you during that time?

00:38:38.233 --> 00:38:39.233
In the flat.

00:38:39.901 --> 00:38:40.901
Where the body was?

00:38:48.451 --> 00:38:50.157
My mother is my own business.

00:38:56.668 --> 00:38:58.579
Did claus drive me crazy?

00:38:59.838 --> 00:39:01.169
Even I don't know.

00:39:02.465 --> 00:39:06.083
But it's true that I took up to
24 laxatives daily,

00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:08.755
popped aspirin like m&ms,

00:39:09.347 --> 00:39:11.884
smoked three packs of cigarettes a day,

00:39:12.517 --> 00:39:14.678
had a problem with alcohol,

00:39:15.395 --> 00:39:17.807
took valium and seconal frequently,

00:39:17.981 --> 00:39:20.597
and consumed large quantities of sweets

00:39:20.942 --> 00:39:24.105
despite a medical condition, hypoglycemia,

00:39:24.445 --> 00:39:25.810
which made them hazardous.

00:39:27.740 --> 00:39:29.651
As for my state of mind...

00:39:35.748 --> 00:39:39.411
I had not had sex
with my husband for years.

00:39:41.462 --> 00:39:42.702
My schedule was...

00:39:43.506 --> 00:39:45.167
I woke at 9:30,

00:39:45.633 --> 00:39:47.965
did a little exercise and shopping,

00:39:48.595 --> 00:39:50.381
ahd returned to bed at three o'clock

00:39:50.555 --> 00:39:52.295
for the remainder of the afternoon.

00:39:53.558 --> 00:39:55.549
I liked to be in bed.

00:39:56.644 --> 00:39:58.885
I didn't much like anything else.

00:40:05.361 --> 00:40:06.476
Hold on here, will you?

00:40:25.465 --> 00:40:26.124
Come in.

00:40:26.424 --> 00:40:27.424
Alan.

00:40:27.800 --> 00:40:29.540
Welcome to my humble law firm.

00:40:31.095 --> 00:40:32.095
In the kitchen,

00:40:32.722 --> 00:40:34.553
our Insulin-on-the-needle team.

00:40:35.266 --> 00:40:38.053
They're cooking up some surprise for us.

00:40:42.941 --> 00:40:44.932
This is our brillhoffer notes team.

00:40:46.110 --> 00:40:47.270
Mr. Von bulow!

00:40:47.862 --> 00:40:49.622
Where do you keep the paper towels?

00:40:50.573 --> 00:40:51.653
Ask Sarah!

00:40:51.824 --> 00:40:52.824
Sarah used to live here.

00:40:54.953 --> 00:40:55.953
This...

00:40:56.871 --> 00:40:58.156
I guess he was up all night.

00:41:06.381 --> 00:41:07.666
This sort of commune,

00:41:07.966 --> 00:41:09.502
you do it on every case?

00:41:09.676 --> 00:41:10.676
Never before.

00:41:11.135 --> 00:41:13.342
Thirty-eight days to write 100 pages?

00:41:13.888 --> 00:41:15.048
Only way to get it done.

00:41:15.932 --> 00:41:17.422
Here's the black bag team.

00:41:17.725 --> 00:41:18.931
Illegal search teams.

00:41:29.237 --> 00:41:30.852
My son, elon, lost his room.

00:41:31.030 --> 00:41:32.841
Well, actually, this is, uh,
this is another case

00:41:32.865 --> 00:41:33.945
that you're paying for.

00:41:35.576 --> 00:41:36.611
And this is my team.

00:41:37.787 --> 00:41:38.787
You wish.

00:41:39.580 --> 00:41:40.945
I... I can't find the damn thing.

00:41:42.583 --> 00:41:43.698
Hi. I'm Sarah.

00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:45.791
And a very lovely Sarah you are.

00:41:47.255 --> 00:41:48.495
Does that really work?

00:41:48.923 --> 00:41:49.503
Flattery?

00:41:49.924 --> 00:41:50.924
Absolutely.

00:41:53.136 --> 00:41:54.171
Like Chinese food?

00:41:55.888 --> 00:41:58.004
What do you give a wife
who has everything?

00:42:00.435 --> 00:42:01.971
An injection of Insulin.

00:42:05.523 --> 00:42:07.388
How... ah, my prawns.

00:42:07.984 --> 00:42:10.976
How can one define a fear of Insulin?

00:42:12.447 --> 00:42:13.653
Claus-trophobia.

00:42:14.866 --> 00:42:16.402
Hm.

00:42:19.871 --> 00:42:21.657
Is there anything more you can tell us

00:42:21.831 --> 00:42:23.116
about Alexandra isles?

00:42:24.292 --> 00:42:26.020
For instance, is it true
that she gave you a deadline

00:42:26.044 --> 00:42:27.784
of Christmas 1979 to be together?

00:42:28.546 --> 00:42:29.546
Uh, not really.

00:42:29.839 --> 00:42:32.125
No, she knew I was looking
for full-time work.

00:42:32.341 --> 00:42:34.673
I worked for jp getty in London.

00:42:34.844 --> 00:42:36.655
Alexandra assumed that
when you did find a job,

00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:37.679
you'd marry her, correct?

00:42:38.973 --> 00:42:40.179
Oh, she assumed it.

00:42:42.643 --> 00:42:43.704
How about when she testified,

00:42:43.728 --> 00:42:45.914
did you get a sense that
she wanted to get back together?

00:42:45.938 --> 00:42:48.600
Very much so.
In fact, at the trial, she said...

00:42:48.775 --> 00:42:53.109
I loved him, but I was still caught up
in my own anger...

00:42:54.822 --> 00:42:56.778
And I'm sorry I acted that way then.

00:42:57.825 --> 00:42:59.656
I loved him, and I was angry.

00:43:01.204 --> 00:43:03.035
Let me ask you this.
Maybe you can't answer.

00:43:04.040 --> 00:43:05.155
Do you still love him?

00:43:07.418 --> 00:43:08.077
I don't know.

00:43:08.377 --> 00:43:09.992
That means yes, doesn't it?

00:43:10.421 --> 00:43:11.421
It would seem so.

00:43:11.839 --> 00:43:12.919
In fact, after the trial,

00:43:13.091 --> 00:43:15.252
she wrote me a letter
saying so explicitly.

00:43:16.135 --> 00:43:17.796
A very passionate letter.

00:43:18.012 --> 00:43:19.422
Passionate and...

00:43:19.972 --> 00:43:20.972
Jealous.

00:43:22.058 --> 00:43:24.674
But that was the relationship
from the outset.

00:43:24.977 --> 00:43:26.513
That was Alexandra.

00:43:26.687 --> 00:43:27.802
She was your love slave.

00:43:35.822 --> 00:43:36.822
Ah.

00:43:37.448 --> 00:43:40.815
Well, I think now
I'll have my own individual order

00:43:40.993 --> 00:43:42.278
of ginger prawns.

00:43:44.705 --> 00:43:46.991
- Waiter.
- Three weeks before her final coma,

00:43:47.667 --> 00:43:49.157
sunny overdosed on aspirin.

00:43:50.002 --> 00:43:51.271
Can you tell us anything about that?

00:43:51.295 --> 00:43:53.581
No one maintained
I had anything to do with that, Alan.

00:43:53.756 --> 00:43:54.836
No, of course not.

00:43:55.466 --> 00:43:56.626
I'm asking you what happened.

00:43:57.135 --> 00:43:59.421
Well, sunny had been unwell.

00:44:04.809 --> 00:44:05.809
Ohhh...

00:44:06.352 --> 00:44:07.352
Are you all right?

00:44:07.645 --> 00:44:09.476
Oh, just a bit dizzy.

00:44:12.275 --> 00:44:13.955
Well, if you're dizzy, don't go wandering.

00:44:30.543 --> 00:44:31.543
Sunny?

00:44:34.672 --> 00:44:35.672
Oh, my god.

00:44:36.048 --> 00:44:37.048
Come on, my darling.

00:44:38.050 --> 00:44:38.880
Now, you're all right.

00:44:39.051 --> 00:44:40.612
Come on, put your arm around my shoulder.

00:44:40.636 --> 00:44:41.170
There we are.

00:44:41.387 --> 00:44:42.718
Now, you're all right.

00:44:42.972 --> 00:44:45.634
Get you... come on.
We'll get you back into bed.

00:44:47.602 --> 00:44:49.342
Something happened to my head.

00:44:49.520 --> 00:44:50.851
You're all right. = it's cut.

00:44:51.856 --> 00:44:53.596
Just a little cut. It's nothing.

00:44:53.774 --> 00:44:54.774
Come on.

00:44:54.942 --> 00:44:56.398
Let's get you lying down.

00:45:00.656 --> 00:45:01.941
There you are.

00:45:05.995 --> 00:45:06.995
There.

00:45:10.917 --> 00:45:12.157
Shall I call a doctor?

00:45:12.335 --> 00:45:14.326
No! No, I don't want...

00:45:14.503 --> 00:45:15.503
I don't want a doctor.

00:45:15.671 --> 00:45:17.286
Just... don't want a doctor.

00:45:18.424 --> 00:45:21.040
Just want to be left alone.

00:45:22.178 --> 00:45:24.760
Want to be left alone
with all those beaut... beautiful letters.

00:45:25.681 --> 00:45:26.867
What did you do with those letters?

00:45:26.891 --> 00:45:28.176
Why did you write those letters?

00:45:28.601 --> 00:45:29.601
And those...

00:45:30.269 --> 00:45:31.805
Later, Dr. praug said

00:45:31.979 --> 00:45:33.459
we needn't have gone to the hospital,

00:45:33.522 --> 00:45:35.353
but I wasn't going to take any chances.

00:45:35.524 --> 00:45:37.060
Why did she take so much aspirin?

00:45:37.526 --> 00:45:39.517
Oh, sunny always took aspirin.

00:45:39.987 --> 00:45:42.103
She'd been taking a lot for several days.

00:45:42.281 --> 00:45:43.467
That's hot what our doctor said.

00:45:43.491 --> 00:45:45.231
Dr. Lucas lupardus,

00:45:45.534 --> 00:45:48.367
chief forensic toxicologist,
Suffolk county,

00:45:48.704 --> 00:45:51.491
says that people who take large
amounts of aspirin every day

00:45:51.666 --> 00:45:52.666
never reach that level.

00:45:53.209 --> 00:45:55.791
He also said the average blood level
in cases of death is...

00:45:56.128 --> 00:45:58.244
Sixty. Hers was 90.

00:45:58.756 --> 00:45:59.336
So...

00:45:59.507 --> 00:46:02.044
So it was obviously a suicide attempt.

00:46:03.386 --> 00:46:03.920
Why?

00:46:04.095 --> 00:46:05.505
Yeah, why?

00:46:05.680 --> 00:46:06.214
Why?

00:46:06.555 --> 00:46:09.968
Alan, do they all want to be prosecutors?

00:46:12.728 --> 00:46:13.728
We're waiting.

00:46:17.566 --> 00:46:19.431
Well, I presume she was unhappy.

00:46:26.534 --> 00:46:28.574
How about we all finish up
and go back to the house?

00:46:30.663 --> 00:46:33.530
We're not going to win this
on a technicality. Peter.

00:46:34.667 --> 00:46:36.770
I've read every case
in the last seven years

00:46:36.794 --> 00:46:38.594
where the Rhode Island
supreme court reversed.

00:46:39.088 --> 00:46:40.368
They don't like to make new law,

00:46:40.464 --> 00:46:42.705
they don't like to discuss
broad legal issues.

00:46:42.883 --> 00:46:44.089
When they do reverse,

00:46:44.260 --> 00:46:45.670
the grounds are technical,

00:46:45.845 --> 00:46:47.881
but the reason seems to be

00:46:48.055 --> 00:46:50.717
they suspect a convicted defendant
may be innocent.

00:46:52.018 --> 00:46:53.679
Okay, so everybody get that?

00:46:54.603 --> 00:46:57.561
True or not,
we've got to convince the judges

00:46:58.607 --> 00:46:59.938
that you are innocent.

00:47:00.860 --> 00:47:03.772
Claus, now I do want to hear
your side of the story.

00:47:03.946 --> 00:47:04.946
With pleasure.

00:47:05.740 --> 00:47:07.981
Innocence has always been my position.

00:47:13.372 --> 00:47:15.237
First coma. What preceded it?

00:47:17.710 --> 00:47:19.166
Well, sunny loved Christmas.

00:47:19.962 --> 00:47:21.793
It was her favorite season, really.

00:47:22.965 --> 00:47:25.957
You see, what you must understand
about sunny

00:47:26.135 --> 00:47:29.172
is that she loved giving
more than anything else.

00:47:29.388 --> 00:47:32.972
J peace on earth and mercy mild j

00:47:33.142 --> 00:47:35.224
j god and sinners reconciled... j

00:47:35.394 --> 00:47:38.636
each year, she always made
a big bowl of fresh eggnog.

00:47:39.315 --> 00:47:41.397
Now, that year, she drank a lot of it.

00:47:41.817 --> 00:47:42.817
How much?

00:47:43.069 --> 00:47:45.151
Oh, 10 or 12 glasses.

00:47:46.489 --> 00:47:48.195
With her hypoglycemia?

00:47:49.492 --> 00:47:51.053
She didn't always drink like that?

00:47:51.077 --> 00:47:52.077
Never.

00:47:52.411 --> 00:47:55.824
She never touched alcohol at all
except on social occasions

00:47:55.998 --> 00:47:57.488
to overcome her shyness...

00:47:57.958 --> 00:47:59.698
Or when she was upset.

00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:03.081
This was not a social occasion.

00:48:03.672 --> 00:48:04.672
No.

00:48:05.925 --> 00:48:08.541
We'd been discussing divorce
all afternoon.

00:48:25.778 --> 00:48:27.518
This whole subject of your...

00:48:28.906 --> 00:48:31.238
Work... coming between us,

00:48:32.910 --> 00:48:36.027
isn't it just a pretext
when the real subject is her?

00:48:36.831 --> 00:48:37.831
Certainly not.

00:48:40.668 --> 00:48:43.876
I'm thinking of redecorating
this whole fucking house.

00:48:46.257 --> 00:48:47.838
Then she knew about Alexandra.

00:48:49.677 --> 00:48:50.677
Yes.

00:48:50.970 --> 00:48:52.170
How did she find out?

00:48:53.097 --> 00:48:54.097
Uh...

00:48:54.598 --> 00:48:55.758
I, um...

00:48:56.517 --> 00:48:58.132
I told her the previous summer.

00:49:04.733 --> 00:49:06.689
Ala, can't we find one a bit slower?

00:49:12.867 --> 00:49:14.067
- Ah, that's much better.
- Hm.

00:49:15.786 --> 00:49:16.786
- Cooler.
- Hm.

00:49:20.040 --> 00:49:21.040
Thank you.

00:49:30.259 --> 00:49:31.840
Oh, I've been meaning to mention...

00:49:32.970 --> 00:49:35.006
Our understanding about my...

00:49:37.141 --> 00:49:38.881
Extracurricular activities.

00:49:39.477 --> 00:49:40.477
Mmm?

00:49:41.228 --> 00:49:43.139
I've been involved with someone who...

00:49:43.731 --> 00:49:46.643
Falls outside the parameters
of our agreement.

00:49:46.942 --> 00:49:48.102
- Really?
- Someone...

00:49:48.444 --> 00:49:50.025
Peripherally in our circle.

00:49:52.406 --> 00:49:53.486
Billy botsky's daughter,

00:49:53.657 --> 00:49:55.113
Alexandra isles.

00:49:57.745 --> 00:49:58.745
Well.

00:50:02.082 --> 00:50:03.242
That must be better for you

00:50:03.417 --> 00:50:04.857
than what you've had to put up with.

00:50:06.712 --> 00:50:08.452
You're referring to the call girls.

00:50:09.924 --> 00:50:10.924
Yes.

00:50:12.384 --> 00:50:15.672
I mean, that is where
you've gone previously, isn't it?

00:50:16.305 --> 00:50:17.305
Yes, it is.

00:50:20.309 --> 00:50:21.309
And isn't this better?

00:50:22.978 --> 00:50:25.515
Or is Billy botsky's daughter
a call girl, too?

00:50:27.483 --> 00:50:28.689
This is much better.

00:50:37.952 --> 00:50:39.442
That was what, July, August?

00:50:39.828 --> 00:50:40.943
Now it's Christmas time,

00:50:41.288 --> 00:50:43.574
and you were
still squabbling over Alexandra?

00:50:44.041 --> 00:50:46.157
No. We were fighting about my work.

00:50:49.922 --> 00:50:51.753
Well, by the evening,

00:50:51.924 --> 00:50:53.255
she'd drunk so much eggnog,

00:50:53.425 --> 00:50:55.290
that I had to help her into the bedroom.

00:50:56.720 --> 00:50:57.720
Alexander.

00:50:59.056 --> 00:51:00.296
Time for bed, darling.

00:51:02.768 --> 00:51:04.850
Mmm, mmm, mmm.

00:51:06.021 --> 00:51:07.021
There we are.

00:51:13.821 --> 00:51:15.732
Please don't hold my arm.

00:51:16.574 --> 00:51:18.254
Darling, you know
when you get like this...

00:51:19.243 --> 00:51:20.243
Remember?

00:51:22.037 --> 00:51:23.243
You fell and broke your hip.

00:51:23.497 --> 00:51:25.112
That was years ago.

00:51:27.501 --> 00:51:29.082
It was two years ago.

00:51:50.274 --> 00:51:51.935
Get me a scotch and soda.

00:52:03.329 --> 00:52:05.866
May I at least urinate alone?

00:52:25.643 --> 00:52:27.850
She runs the water
every time she goes in there.

00:52:30.481 --> 00:52:32.921
If she was already soused,
why'd you go for the scotch?

00:52:33.025 --> 00:52:34.686
Because she asked for it.

00:52:36.445 --> 00:52:38.777
Sunny got what sunny wanted.

00:52:39.239 --> 00:52:40.239
It's okay.

00:53:10.145 --> 00:53:11.145
Good night, dad.

00:53:11.814 --> 00:53:12.814
Good night, darling.

00:53:15.067 --> 00:53:16.067
Good night, claus.

00:53:16.735 --> 00:53:17.735
Good night, Alex.

00:53:31.709 --> 00:53:33.665
Hasn't my mother given us enough money?

00:53:35.796 --> 00:53:36.376
Claus?

00:53:36.672 --> 00:53:38.333
That night, we hardly slept.

00:53:38.716 --> 00:53:41.378
Your age,
it's perfectly acceptable to retire.

00:53:42.177 --> 00:53:43.542
I'm already retired.

00:53:44.972 --> 00:53:46.803
I haven't worked full-time since getty.

00:53:46.974 --> 00:53:48.430
Exactly. It's your ego.

00:53:48.600 --> 00:53:50.261
You've never had a career. Not really.

00:53:51.353 --> 00:53:52.889
Well, I'm going to have one now.

00:53:56.108 --> 00:53:58.520
Oh, come on, sunny, your father worked.

00:54:00.112 --> 00:54:01.693
Do you want the children to grow up

00:54:01.864 --> 00:54:04.025
thinking a male's place
is in a deck chair?

00:54:04.199 --> 00:54:05.530
Claus, you marry me for my money,

00:54:05.701 --> 00:54:06.701
then you demand to work.

00:54:06.744 --> 00:54:08.109
You're the prince of perversion.

00:54:08.704 --> 00:54:10.765
I mean, what? Are you trying
to destroy our whole family?

00:54:10.789 --> 00:54:11.789
Oh, no, of course not.

00:54:11.874 --> 00:54:13.956
I... l... l simply want some...

00:54:15.669 --> 00:54:17.034
Intercourse with the world.

00:54:17.212 --> 00:54:18.212
Shut up, pan!

00:54:19.465 --> 00:54:20.465
Oh, what does it matter?

00:54:24.052 --> 00:54:26.418
So is that it?

00:54:27.848 --> 00:54:28.883
Another divorce?

00:54:31.977 --> 00:54:32.977
Okay.

00:54:33.270 --> 00:54:35.352
I'll divorce you. I will.

00:54:36.440 --> 00:54:37.805
Oh, god...

00:54:38.567 --> 00:54:39.773
Two-time loser.

00:54:41.570 --> 00:54:42.901
I'll divorce everybody.

00:54:43.530 --> 00:54:45.646
I don't want a divorce.

00:54:46.450 --> 00:54:48.987
I don't want to marry
Billy botsky's daughter.

00:54:49.161 --> 00:54:50.901
I want to stay with you
and I want to work.

00:54:51.079 --> 00:54:53.536
I need that as a man.

00:54:57.503 --> 00:54:58.503
It's hopeless.

00:55:01.799 --> 00:55:02.834
Oh, god.

00:55:04.468 --> 00:55:05.833
I need my beauty sleep.

00:55:06.011 --> 00:55:08.772
Why do you... why do you believe
it's hopeless just because of some...

00:55:49.721 --> 00:55:50.721
Good night, claus.

00:55:53.141 --> 00:55:54.597
Sunny, you know I love you.

00:56:13.370 --> 00:56:14.370
Good night.

00:56:21.420 --> 00:56:22.420
Okay, and the next day?

00:56:22.838 --> 00:56:23.838
Well...

00:56:25.841 --> 00:56:29.208
Maria's testimony was wildly exaggerated.

00:56:30.804 --> 00:56:32.590
Sunny was never moaning.

00:56:33.682 --> 00:56:35.889
Maybe the occasional snore, but...

00:56:37.811 --> 00:56:40.097
And Maria shook sunny.

00:56:43.233 --> 00:56:45.849
Nobody ever shook sunny.

00:56:50.157 --> 00:56:51.988
What happened when
she regained consciousness?

00:56:52.659 --> 00:56:53.990
After the first coma,

00:56:54.161 --> 00:56:55.776
well, it was kind of absurd.

00:56:55.954 --> 00:56:57.660
Everybody was angry at me.

00:57:01.710 --> 00:57:03.621
Can't you ever leave me alone?

00:57:07.257 --> 00:57:08.337
Why did you do it?

00:57:09.593 --> 00:57:11.254
I would have been better off.

00:57:12.054 --> 00:57:13.635
You would have been better off.

00:57:13.805 --> 00:57:15.045
What do you want me to say?

00:57:15.474 --> 00:57:17.089
That I'm sorry I saved your life?

00:57:17.267 --> 00:57:18.267
Yes.

00:57:22.898 --> 00:57:23.898
Say it.

00:57:31.907 --> 00:57:33.192
Of course I'm not sorry.

00:57:51.551 --> 00:57:52.551
Wha...

00:57:53.887 --> 00:57:54.887
Claus...

00:57:59.309 --> 00:58:01.425
What am I going to do with myself?

00:58:08.193 --> 00:58:09.478
When I phoned Alexandra,

00:58:09.653 --> 00:58:11.756
to tell her what had happened,
she said the same thing,

00:58:11.780 --> 00:58:13.645
she said, "why did you do it?

00:58:13.824 --> 00:58:15.280
Why did you call the doctor?”

00:58:15.534 --> 00:58:17.616
You telling me she wanted
you to let sunny die?

00:58:18.078 --> 00:58:20.490
No, no, no, no, no.

00:58:20.664 --> 00:58:21.949
It was more...

00:58:22.499 --> 00:58:25.991
"Everybody says sunny" s
such an unhappy woman

00:58:26.169 --> 00:58:29.377
and has nothing to live for."

00:58:31.633 --> 00:58:34.170
Well, so much for the first coma.

00:58:35.303 --> 00:58:36.509
The second, of course,

00:58:36.930 --> 00:58:38.636
was much more theatrical.

00:58:39.558 --> 00:58:41.198
Theatrical? What is this, a fucking game?

00:58:42.144 --> 00:58:44.510
This is life and death.
Your wife is laying in a coma.

00:58:45.731 --> 00:58:47.651
You don't even make a pretense
of caring, do you?

00:58:49.151 --> 00:58:50.436
'Course I care, Alan.

00:58:52.988 --> 00:58:55.104
It's just I don't wear
my heart on my sleeve.

00:58:59.828 --> 00:59:00.948
Let's call it a night, okay?

00:59:01.830 --> 00:59:03.161
Okay, guys, so...

00:59:03.999 --> 00:59:04.999
As you wish.

00:59:05.333 --> 00:59:07.053
There were three drugs
on the needle, right?

00:59:07.085 --> 00:59:09.417
Amobarbital, valium, Insulin.

00:59:11.048 --> 00:59:12.379
We can't all be you, Alan.

00:59:21.058 --> 00:59:22.258
Shoot! Shoot! All right.

00:59:22.851 --> 00:59:25.308
Okay, get a doctor
to prepare five needles,

00:59:25.771 --> 00:59:27.011
one with nothing,

00:59:27.272 --> 00:59:29.763
two with valium, amobarbital, and Insulin,

00:59:30.025 --> 00:59:31.936
two with just valium and amobarbital.

00:59:32.110 --> 00:59:34.977
We're gonna send them to the same lab
that our famous needle went to.

00:59:35.155 --> 00:59:37.111
Let's see if we can get
a false positive result.

00:59:37.532 --> 00:59:38.532
If we don't?

00:59:39.576 --> 00:59:41.032
We don't, I clean the latrines.

00:59:41.203 --> 00:59:42.843
Aw, you're not gonna believe this.

00:59:43.455 --> 00:59:44.695
David marriott wants money.

00:59:44.873 --> 00:59:45.873
Yeah, who doesn't?

00:59:46.666 --> 00:59:48.031
I'm afraid his memory might fade.

00:59:48.210 --> 00:59:49.353
Oh, the hell with him. Forget about him.

00:59:49.377 --> 00:59:50.688
Well, he has lost his crumby job,

00:59:50.712 --> 00:59:52.912
and he is running around
trying to find evidence for us.

00:59:55.050 --> 00:59:57.195
Okay, why don't we do what
the government does with its witnesses?

00:59:57.219 --> 00:59:58.459
Okay? We'll pay for his time.

00:59:59.096 --> 01:00:00.096
What's his time worth?

01:00:00.388 --> 01:00:02.970
Buck and a half. = Sarah? Dersh?

01:00:04.059 --> 01:00:05.059
Your team's on.

01:00:05.852 --> 01:00:07.705
Okay.
You going to pass to me this game or what?

01:00:07.729 --> 01:00:08.729
No.

01:00:10.816 --> 01:00:12.226
Their private investigator said

01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:14.320
the needle had a small encrustation
near the tip.

01:00:14.361 --> 01:00:17.273
Now, doctors tell us this is
totally inconsistent with injection.

01:00:17.572 --> 01:00:18.778
Okay, so how did it get there?

01:00:21.451 --> 01:00:22.451
Oh.

01:00:22.536 --> 01:00:24.447
If I inject this needle,

01:00:24.788 --> 01:00:26.870
the skin acts as kind of a swab.

01:00:27.207 --> 01:00:28.447
It cleans the needle off,

01:00:28.792 --> 01:00:31.454
leaving the tip completely free of liquid.

01:00:31.628 --> 01:00:34.791
But if I just dip the needle
into the liquid,

01:00:34.965 --> 01:00:35.965
what do you see?

01:00:37.092 --> 01:00:38.092
Dry this out,

01:00:38.426 --> 01:00:39.916
you have an encrustation.

01:00:40.345 --> 01:00:41.385
So it's a frame-up?

01:00:41.972 --> 01:00:43.803
It's desdemona's handkerchief.

01:00:44.933 --> 01:00:46.673
My stepchildren thought I was guilty,

01:00:46.852 --> 01:00:48.342
didn't feel they had enough evidence,

01:00:48.520 --> 01:00:49.726
and so concocted some.

01:00:50.105 --> 01:00:51.436
This should win us the case, no?

01:00:51.773 --> 01:00:53.980
No. We're maybe halfway home.

01:00:55.402 --> 01:00:56.858
There's still a lot of weird stuff.

01:00:57.904 --> 01:00:58.904
Did you love sunny?

01:00:59.281 --> 01:01:00.281
I married her.

01:01:01.741 --> 01:01:03.402
Of course I loved her. She was beautiful.

01:01:03.577 --> 01:01:04.577
Rich.

01:01:04.744 --> 01:01:05.744
Why not?

01:01:06.079 --> 01:01:07.719
What I've seen of the rich, you can have.

01:01:08.456 --> 01:01:09.456
I do.

01:01:14.087 --> 01:01:15.087
The black bag,

01:01:15.338 --> 01:01:16.338
was it yours?

01:01:18.675 --> 01:01:20.256
Sunny appropriated it.

01:01:20.886 --> 01:01:22.342
Now, to understand that,

01:01:22.554 --> 01:01:25.296
you must understand
that after the first coma,

01:01:25.557 --> 01:01:27.718
she went into a complete rage.

01:01:32.772 --> 01:01:34.433
Where are they? Did you take them?

01:01:34.608 --> 01:01:35.688
Certainly not. Take what?

01:01:35.859 --> 01:01:37.474
My pills, you moron.

01:01:38.570 --> 01:01:39.901
Valium, seconal...

01:01:41.656 --> 01:01:42.696
You took them, didn't you?

01:01:43.325 --> 01:01:45.611
My dear, I've long since
stopped interfering.

01:01:45.785 --> 01:01:47.696
Well, who? My children wouldn't dare...

01:01:48.455 --> 01:01:49.455
Oh.

01:01:49.706 --> 01:01:51.116
Oh, I know who.

01:01:51.291 --> 01:01:52.291
Where are you going?

01:02:05.555 --> 01:02:06.555
Maria!

01:02:16.566 --> 01:02:18.102
She soon found them.

01:02:19.736 --> 01:02:21.601
It's my lovely mother, isn't it?

01:02:21.988 --> 01:02:23.319
She's behind all this.

01:02:24.282 --> 01:02:26.068
She's in cahoots with Maria.

01:02:28.036 --> 01:02:32.029
Well, just because she had all the money

01:02:32.207 --> 01:02:33.947
before I had all the money

01:02:34.125 --> 01:02:36.411
does not mean she's my lord and master.

01:02:36.753 --> 01:02:38.994
'Course not. I am your lord and master.

01:02:41.049 --> 01:02:42.049
Just kidding.

01:02:47.305 --> 01:02:49.011
Maria loves me too much.

01:02:50.350 --> 01:02:51.635
It's unhealthy for her,

01:02:52.394 --> 01:02:54.635
and it's certainly no fun for me.

01:03:00.026 --> 01:03:01.106
There.

01:03:17.085 --> 01:03:19.076
We'll see if that ugly little maid of mine

01:03:19.254 --> 01:03:20.494
can sniff this one out.

01:03:30.473 --> 01:03:32.153
And what are you going
to do with all that?

01:03:33.476 --> 01:03:34.636
I'm not going to tell you.

01:03:35.603 --> 01:03:38.094
I assure you,
it not gonna be among my affairs.

01:03:40.108 --> 01:03:42.895
Odd she used that word, affairs.

01:03:43.987 --> 01:03:46.215
You realize the prosecution thinks
you ground up the drugs

01:03:46.239 --> 01:03:47.479
so you could inject sunny?

01:03:47.907 --> 01:03:50.694
And frankly, this nose drop business
is pretty far-fetched.

01:03:51.453 --> 01:03:53.785
But consider the pattern, Alan.

01:03:54.789 --> 01:03:57.781
It's public record that sunny used drugs.

01:03:58.168 --> 01:04:01.001
Her behavior here of hiding them in liquid

01:04:01.421 --> 01:04:03.161
so that no one will find them,

01:04:03.798 --> 01:04:06.164
it's your classic alcoholic
buying pints of whiskey

01:04:06.343 --> 01:04:07.958
and stashing them all over the house.

01:04:09.429 --> 01:04:10.429
You're right.

01:04:11.639 --> 01:04:12.639
Of course, I mean...

01:04:13.391 --> 01:04:15.632
I mean, you've always
been right, haven't you?

01:04:16.978 --> 01:04:19.018
This is the most dangerous case
I've ever worked on.

01:04:19.564 --> 01:04:20.770
You find that exhilarating?

01:04:20.940 --> 01:04:21.940
No, I do not.

01:04:23.443 --> 01:04:24.603
I am breaking every rule.

01:04:25.028 --> 01:04:27.268
'Cause the best way to win
is to proclaim your innocence,

01:04:27.364 --> 01:04:29.275
and I've never done that for anybody.

01:04:30.200 --> 01:04:32.191
And the problem I got is
I see who you are.

01:04:32.619 --> 01:04:33.654
You'd do anything to win.

01:04:34.245 --> 01:04:35.245
So would you.

01:04:35.372 --> 01:04:37.052
Yeah, but you don't trust
the legal system.

01:04:38.083 --> 01:04:40.244
You're saying I'd manufacture witnesses?

01:04:41.086 --> 01:04:42.166
Affidavits?

01:04:43.630 --> 01:04:45.871
No, but you would sacrifice me.

01:04:46.049 --> 01:04:47.049
Oh, please, Alan.

01:04:47.300 --> 01:04:50.020
See, the more I believe that
you are innocent, the more nervous I am.

01:04:51.596 --> 01:04:53.132
I go out on a limb for you,

01:04:53.640 --> 01:04:55.471
you're proven guilty,
I look like an asshole.

01:04:56.309 --> 01:04:59.221
My reputation, my credibility,
my career, destroyed.

01:05:00.897 --> 01:05:02.512
That's the risk you're taking, isn't it?

01:05:02.690 --> 01:05:03.725
Yeah, well, fuck you.

01:05:04.651 --> 01:05:05.857
Fuck you, man.

01:05:18.289 --> 01:05:19.904
I'm glad we understand one another.

01:05:23.461 --> 01:05:26.578
It's easy to forget
all this is about me...

01:05:27.257 --> 01:05:28.337
Lying here.

01:05:29.259 --> 01:05:31.921
To most of you, my name means coma.

01:05:32.429 --> 01:05:35.592
My second marriage means attempted murder.

01:05:36.266 --> 01:05:37.676
Everything that came before,

01:05:37.851 --> 01:05:41.264
everything beautiful,
does not exist in the public mind.

01:05:42.105 --> 01:05:44.517
No one thinks of how I loved my children.

01:05:45.024 --> 01:05:46.139
Look at cosima,

01:05:47.068 --> 01:05:48.103
and Alex, of course,

01:05:48.820 --> 01:05:49.820
and ala,

01:05:50.071 --> 01:05:52.357
and certainly no one cares about claus,

01:05:52.866 --> 01:05:55.027
the way he was
when I fell in love with him.

01:05:55.869 --> 01:05:57.405
When claus and I first met,

01:05:57.579 --> 01:06:01.163
I was married to the dashing, young
prince Alfred eduard friederich

01:06:01.332 --> 01:06:04.244
vincenz Martin Maria Von auersberg.

01:06:05.336 --> 01:06:07.577
It was 1964,

01:06:08.590 --> 01:06:11.002
seven years into my first marriage.

01:06:16.764 --> 01:06:18.720
It seems that my first husband,

01:06:19.017 --> 01:06:21.178
Alfie, as he was called,

01:06:21.978 --> 01:06:26.142
had vowed to be unfaithful
with every pretty girl in Europe.

01:06:28.318 --> 01:06:30.434
He was having quite a success.

01:06:32.405 --> 01:06:33.405
And so...

01:06:34.532 --> 01:06:37.148
I was unfaithful with claus.

01:06:48.546 --> 01:06:49.546
Psst!

01:06:55.678 --> 01:06:57.384
Wildly unfaithful.

01:06:59.557 --> 01:07:00.717
Happy memories.

01:07:09.692 --> 01:07:12.183
But it's not the passion I remember most.

01:07:14.113 --> 01:07:15.353
It's the tenderness.

01:07:22.330 --> 01:07:23.615
Good god, what's that?

01:07:24.290 --> 01:07:25.871
There's one of frank's pets.

01:07:30.505 --> 01:07:32.120
Oh, my god. No, no.

01:07:49.107 --> 01:07:51.018
I never liked people much,

01:07:51.442 --> 01:07:52.557
not as a rule.

01:07:53.111 --> 01:07:54.111
Go ahead, feed him.

01:07:54.195 --> 01:07:56.402
But claus was somehow different.

01:07:59.367 --> 01:08:01.699
Not a normal person, I guess.

01:08:05.665 --> 01:08:07.201
It's all right. Do it again.

01:08:07.375 --> 01:08:08.375
Give him some more.

01:08:10.587 --> 01:08:11.587
Aw!

01:08:21.930 --> 01:08:24.467
One of those things you never forget.

01:08:26.394 --> 01:08:29.306
Of course, now he lives in my apartment...

01:08:30.314 --> 01:08:31.394
My bedroom...

01:08:32.567 --> 01:08:33.567
My bed.

01:08:34.902 --> 01:08:36.392
Cold, isn't it?

01:08:37.529 --> 01:08:40.646
Cold and brutish and the way of the world.

01:08:42.160 --> 01:08:43.160
Looking at him now,

01:08:43.202 --> 01:08:44.817
the issues seem simple.

01:08:45.912 --> 01:08:47.152
Is he the devil?

01:08:48.124 --> 01:08:51.287
If so, can the devil get justice?

01:08:52.629 --> 01:08:54.790
And all this legal activity...

01:08:56.174 --> 01:08:58.586
Is it in Satan's service?

01:08:59.510 --> 01:09:01.842
"Sunny Von bulow was totally vulnerable

01:09:02.013 --> 01:09:03.469
to claus Von bulow."

01:09:04.640 --> 01:09:05.640
Can't argue with that.

01:09:06.392 --> 01:09:09.179
But it's speculation. Exaggeration.

01:09:09.354 --> 01:09:10.354
You keep working on it.

01:09:10.604 --> 01:09:12.720
Totally inflammatory!

01:09:14.651 --> 01:09:16.312
Okay, good. Let's go over this.

01:09:17.654 --> 01:09:21.146
Okay, we went over it... once,
I just wanted you to see if...

01:09:28.956 --> 01:09:31.072
Oh, shit, wha... what is this,
illegal search?

01:09:33.877 --> 01:09:34.997
It's a classic technicality.

01:09:35.046 --> 01:09:35.876
It's a guilty man's argument.

01:09:36.046 --> 01:09:37.126
Come on, this is different.

01:09:37.298 --> 01:09:39.610
Usual fourth amendment case,
you're trying to exclude evidence

01:09:39.634 --> 01:09:40.944
that's bad for your client.
= no, no. No, no.

01:09:40.968 --> 01:09:42.378
Same thing here. Same thing.

01:09:42.553 --> 01:09:44.919
No. This search destroyed evidence.

01:09:45.473 --> 01:09:46.804
No fingerprints, no inventory.

01:09:46.974 --> 01:09:48.839
Yeah, what's left hurts claus,
but under Brady,

01:09:49.018 --> 01:09:50.162
the state has an obligation...

01:09:50.185 --> 01:09:52.225
Wait, wait, wait a second.
The cops tested the drugs

01:09:52.313 --> 01:09:53.999
- from the illegal search, right?
- Yes, yes.

01:09:54.023 --> 01:09:57.607
And we are saying that that test
constituted a second illegal search.

01:09:57.777 --> 01:09:58.516
There are precedents.

01:09:58.695 --> 01:10:00.381
- Walter, Jacobson, Morgan.
- I know there are precedents.

01:10:00.405 --> 01:10:02.424
I know the law is on our side.
I'm not debating that.

01:10:02.448 --> 01:10:03.107
What I'm trying to do is...

01:10:03.282 --> 01:10:06.194
No. You're debating me personally. Why?

01:10:08.246 --> 01:10:11.079
I'm debating strategy, okay?
I'm not... I'm not debating you.

01:10:11.249 --> 01:10:12.079
We're all on the same team.

01:10:12.250 --> 01:10:13.811
A-a-are we on the same team here or not?

01:10:13.835 --> 01:10:15.575
I don't know. We seem to be.

01:10:15.962 --> 01:10:17.202
Well then, why don't I feel it?

01:10:18.089 --> 01:10:19.650
I thought this was strictly professional.

01:10:19.674 --> 01:10:21.335
- It was.
- That's bullshit, Alan.

01:10:21.759 --> 01:10:24.171
Look, I brought you... I... l asked you
to work on this case

01:10:24.345 --> 01:10:25.656
because I think you are a good lawyer.

01:10:25.680 --> 01:10:28.262
I think you're a fine lawyer, too.
You're a great lawyer.

01:10:28.433 --> 01:10:29.952
But you give everything you have
to the law,

01:10:29.976 --> 01:10:31.412
and you forget the people you care about.

01:10:31.436 --> 01:10:34.098
My clients are the people
that I care about.

01:10:34.272 --> 01:10:34.931
Obviously.

01:10:35.106 --> 01:10:36.546
What I care about, all I care about,

01:10:36.691 --> 01:10:38.977
all I fucking care about is this!

01:10:39.652 --> 01:10:40.858
This case!

01:10:41.279 --> 01:10:44.942
And making... making the best possible
appeal we're capable of doing, okay?

01:10:45.408 --> 01:10:47.273
Now, you can make
your argument better, Sarah.

01:10:47.452 --> 01:10:49.283
You know that! I know that!

01:10:49.454 --> 01:10:51.694
So why don't you just do it
and cut out all the bullshit?

01:10:53.166 --> 01:10:55.286
Wow, you always have to have
the last word, don't you?

01:11:27.158 --> 01:11:28.158
What?

01:11:30.745 --> 01:11:31.745
We're going to lose.

01:11:33.080 --> 01:11:35.366
W-why do you think
this case fascinates people?

01:11:37.168 --> 01:11:40.080
'Cause one time or other every man
is driven crazy by his wife,

01:11:40.254 --> 01:11:41.334
and in his secret heart,

01:11:42.423 --> 01:11:44.755
he wants to do exactly
what claus is accused of,

01:11:45.885 --> 01:11:49.548
kill her in some sly, silent way
that can't be detected.

01:11:50.097 --> 01:11:51.837
Claus is a scapegoat.

01:11:52.433 --> 01:11:55.049
Someone has to suffer for the sin
that we all want to commit.

01:11:57.939 --> 01:12:00.430
Alan, that's ridiculous.

01:12:02.610 --> 01:12:04.066
It's ridiculous, you're right.

01:12:04.487 --> 01:12:05.647
It's rid...

01:12:08.825 --> 01:12:09.825
What do you got?

01:12:10.284 --> 01:12:13.242
Prosecution's case is based on a theory.

01:12:15.039 --> 01:12:16.039
The needle in the bag,

01:12:16.082 --> 01:12:17.697
plus Insulin on the needle,

01:12:18.125 --> 01:12:20.662
- plus Insulin in her blood.
- Right, right, yeah. Okay, fine.

01:12:21.921 --> 01:12:25.129
In Derek, this Rhode Island supreme court,

01:12:25.299 --> 01:12:26.299
these same judges,

01:12:27.051 --> 01:12:31.044
said that in a case based
on circumstantial theory,

01:12:32.390 --> 01:12:34.051
the case falls apart

01:12:34.892 --> 01:12:36.974
if any part of the theory is weak.

01:12:38.062 --> 01:12:39.502
If there's a weak link in the chain,

01:12:39.605 --> 01:12:41.005
then you throw the whole chain out?

01:12:41.440 --> 01:12:42.440
Exactly.

01:12:44.485 --> 01:12:46.021
Peter, that's very... that's good.

01:12:46.195 --> 01:12:47.230
That... that's very good.

01:12:51.826 --> 01:12:52.906
Oh, yeah, this is good.

01:12:53.578 --> 01:12:54.738
- Thank you.
- Oh, yeah.

01:12:54.996 --> 01:12:56.640
Wait, wait, wait.
What do you want me to do now?

01:12:56.664 --> 01:12:57.449
What I want you to do?

01:12:57.623 --> 01:13:00.160
I want you to find as many
alternative theories as possible.

01:13:00.543 --> 01:13:01.543
Hey! Hey, hey!

01:13:01.669 --> 01:13:03.869
Come on, come on, come on.
There's only seven days left.

01:13:08.843 --> 01:13:11.459
Dersh? I'm sorry,
but you better come downstairs.

01:13:12.847 --> 01:13:15.259
Hey, dersh. Sorry to get you out of bed.

01:13:16.809 --> 01:13:18.745
What do you... what
do you want, more money?

01:13:18.769 --> 01:13:19.769
Can you get more?

01:13:22.023 --> 01:13:23.463
Can I have a glass of water, please?

01:13:28.112 --> 01:13:29.112
No.

01:13:29.363 --> 01:13:30.363
The reason I'm here,

01:13:30.698 --> 01:13:32.313
my affidavit is inaccurate.

01:13:36.787 --> 01:13:38.778
Great. Just what I need right now.

01:13:40.374 --> 01:13:41.454
- That's swell.
- Yeah.

01:13:42.752 --> 01:13:45.368
I left something out,
something incredibly important.

01:13:46.923 --> 01:13:50.131
Remember I gave Alex's drugs
to a woman at clarendon court?

01:13:51.260 --> 01:13:52.260
Yeah. So?

01:13:52.511 --> 01:13:55.002
Well, that bitch was
definitely sunny Von bulow.

01:13:57.058 --> 01:13:58.639
David...

01:13:59.477 --> 01:14:00.477
This, uh...

01:14:01.562 --> 01:14:02.893
This is bad. It looks bad.

01:14:03.230 --> 01:14:06.222
I've met with you, what,
five times now? All of a sudden...

01:14:06.400 --> 01:14:07.765
No, it's not sudden.

01:14:08.694 --> 01:14:10.650
I think I always knew,
but I became convinced

01:14:10.821 --> 01:14:12.357
by staring at pictures of her.

01:14:16.410 --> 01:14:18.570
Well, we can't use your affidavit
unless it's truthful.

01:14:19.455 --> 01:14:20.535
Are you sure this time?

01:14:20.706 --> 01:14:21.706
I swear...

01:14:22.541 --> 01:14:24.532
On the body and soul of my mother.

01:14:26.128 --> 01:14:27.128
Poor woman.

01:14:30.299 --> 01:14:31.859
Put in this change and make him go over

01:14:31.968 --> 01:14:33.253
every word of the affidavit.

01:14:34.929 --> 01:14:35.929
Uh...

01:14:36.138 --> 01:14:37.344
Can I use your men's room?

01:14:48.859 --> 01:14:50.003
More money?

01:14:50.027 --> 01:14:51.507
Can you get more?

01:14:57.284 --> 01:14:59.275
But if claus had injected her,

01:14:59.495 --> 01:15:01.360
he'd have thrown away the needle, right?

01:15:01.539 --> 01:15:03.621
Sure. If he threw away the Insulin,

01:15:04.500 --> 01:15:05.500
why keep the needle?

01:15:05.710 --> 01:15:07.621
Hey, claus is strange,
but he ain't stupid.

01:15:08.629 --> 01:15:09.709
He is arrogant.

01:15:10.214 --> 01:15:11.044
Is that a crime?

01:15:11.215 --> 01:15:12.695
Sometimes.

01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:14.665
Why are we even discussing this?

01:15:14.885 --> 01:15:16.796
It's obvious. The kids framed him.

01:15:16.971 --> 01:15:19.053
Whoa, you changed your tune.

01:15:22.309 --> 01:15:24.345
A frame-up doesn't mean he's innocent.

01:15:25.271 --> 01:15:27.136
The kids could have framed a guilty man.

01:15:28.482 --> 01:15:29.482
Dersh!

01:15:29.650 --> 01:15:30.650
Telephone!

01:15:34.321 --> 01:15:35.481
It's Peter macintosh.

01:15:36.741 --> 01:15:37.741
Yeah?

01:15:43.414 --> 01:15:44.414
You know what it is?

01:15:47.501 --> 01:15:48.501
Okay.

01:15:53.090 --> 01:15:55.251
Word in Rhode Island
is that the state can't lose.

01:15:55.676 --> 01:15:56.956
They got an Ace up their sleeve.

01:15:58.179 --> 01:15:59.179
What is it?

01:16:02.141 --> 01:16:03.341
He's going to try to find out.

01:16:06.270 --> 01:16:07.270
All right, my friend...

01:16:07.688 --> 01:16:08.768
Friend? I like that.

01:16:08.939 --> 01:16:09.939
Nothing personal.

01:16:10.858 --> 01:16:12.689
Okay, no students, no withesses.

01:16:13.194 --> 01:16:14.274
Second coma. Let's hear it.

01:16:15.362 --> 01:16:16.362
Well, Alan,

01:16:16.739 --> 01:16:19.025
strange as it may seem now in retrospect...

01:16:19.200 --> 01:16:20.200
Claus, cut the bullshit.

01:16:20.367 --> 01:16:21.903
December 20, 1980.

01:16:25.081 --> 01:16:26.287
Sunny was unwell.

01:16:26.707 --> 01:16:29.790
We'd been arguing all afternoon.

01:16:30.544 --> 01:16:33.627
I'd at last been offered a new position
in the oil business,

01:16:33.798 --> 01:16:36.005
which would have meant
my spending some time in Europe.

01:16:41.013 --> 01:16:42.969
Well, the discussion must have escalated,

01:16:43.140 --> 01:16:45.176
because I went to talk to the children.

01:16:47.520 --> 01:16:50.762
This cargo will bring 50,000 gold florins

01:16:50.940 --> 01:16:52.350
from any rebels worth the name.

01:16:52.525 --> 01:16:53.890
50,000 florins?

01:16:54.068 --> 01:16:55.729
That's a pretty good take.

01:16:56.028 --> 01:16:57.130
Let's put it to the vote.

01:16:57.154 --> 01:16:58.314
All those in favor...

01:16:58.489 --> 01:17:00.901
If you'll forgive
my interrupting, skipper,

01:17:01.242 --> 01:17:02.903
I'd like to think before I...

01:17:05.746 --> 01:17:08.738
L... I've something to tell you both.

01:17:09.083 --> 01:17:12.003
We're heading for
the biggest and the best pirate days ever!

01:17:12.253 --> 01:17:14.039
L...

01:17:18.259 --> 01:17:19.259
It looks as if...

01:17:20.761 --> 01:17:21.921
As though...

01:17:22.429 --> 01:17:24.636
Mummy and I are going to have to split up,

01:17:26.433 --> 01:17:29.266
because my work is something
she just cannot tolerate.

01:17:29.562 --> 01:17:31.268
Mummy says things like that.

01:17:32.690 --> 01:17:34.021
She always gets over it.

01:17:34.733 --> 01:17:37.270
Yes, but this has been
going on for too long.

01:17:45.452 --> 01:17:47.989
I'm going to Europe for a few months
in the new year,

01:17:50.166 --> 01:17:51.726
and this will probably lead to a split.

01:17:52.084 --> 01:17:53.084
Oh.

01:17:54.128 --> 01:17:55.538
It's all right. She'll get over it.

01:17:59.341 --> 01:18:01.981
Yeah, well, Alexander says
that conversation happened the next day.

01:18:02.052 --> 01:18:03.713
Can you imagine anything more absurd

01:18:03.888 --> 01:18:05.924
than announcing your intention
to divorce a woman

01:18:06.098 --> 01:18:07.929
who's just fallen into a coma?

01:18:08.767 --> 01:18:12.305
No. That evening,
everything seemed normal enough.

01:18:13.856 --> 01:18:14.971
Not cheerful,

01:18:15.941 --> 01:18:18.557
but then, we didn't usually
giggle at mealtimes.

01:18:19.737 --> 01:18:22.444
Despite her doctor's warnings
about sweets,

01:18:22.615 --> 01:18:25.607
the only thing sunny consumed
was a sundae.

01:18:37.379 --> 01:18:40.416
After supper, I went to finish off
some work in my study.

01:18:41.508 --> 01:18:42.569
Well, what should we all do?

01:18:42.593 --> 01:18:44.959
The others decided to chat
in the living room.

01:18:46.180 --> 01:18:47.761
Ah, that would be lovely, but...

01:18:48.515 --> 01:18:51.302
First I need to go to my...
To my room for just a minute.

01:19:05.783 --> 01:19:07.990
After about an hour, I dropped in on them.

01:19:12.831 --> 01:19:14.311
Darling, would you care for anything?

01:19:16.460 --> 01:19:17.460
Mmm...

01:19:18.963 --> 01:19:21.204
If there's some...

01:19:22.424 --> 01:19:23.834
Chicken bullion left.

01:19:28.222 --> 01:19:29.222
I'll look.

01:19:44.571 --> 01:19:45.571
There you are, darling.

01:19:56.041 --> 01:19:57.041
Thank you.

01:20:05.259 --> 01:20:07.591
How is your work... coming?

01:20:07.761 --> 01:20:08.761
I'm totally flummoxed.

01:20:08.929 --> 01:20:10.609
I can't get the figures to make any sense.

01:20:14.351 --> 01:20:16.057
Why don't you call your friend Deborah?

01:20:17.479 --> 01:20:19.094
I doubt she'd be in Saturday night.

01:20:23.986 --> 01:20:27.399
So, Deborah, I think you'll agree,
that's 728... right, now.

01:20:27.990 --> 01:20:29.150
But Deborah was home,

01:20:29.241 --> 01:20:31.653
and we did talk for some time until...

01:20:33.120 --> 01:20:34.120
- Claus.
- Hold on.

01:20:34.163 --> 01:20:35.323
Come quick. Mummy's not well.

01:20:36.165 --> 01:20:38.622
Deborah, can I call you back
in the morning? Thanks.

01:20:39.043 --> 01:20:41.876
Her voice got very weak and
she almost fell down. I had to help her.

01:20:53.140 --> 01:20:54.676
Somebody open a window.

01:20:58.312 --> 01:21:00.223
I find the chill reassuring.

01:21:05.235 --> 01:21:06.725
Now I must speak with claus.

01:21:06.904 --> 01:21:07.984
- Night, mummy.
- Night.

01:21:13.535 --> 01:21:14.535
Good night, darling.

01:21:17.414 --> 01:21:18.414
Good night, Alex.

01:21:19.208 --> 01:21:20.368
She'll be all right.

01:21:30.094 --> 01:21:32.255
That is, if claus has time to talk.

01:21:33.055 --> 01:21:33.840
Or are you going to work

01:21:34.014 --> 01:21:36.255
every spare moment
right through Christmas?

01:21:37.309 --> 01:21:38.309
Hmm?

01:21:40.062 --> 01:21:41.893
Is your work really so fascinating,

01:21:42.564 --> 01:21:43.875
or are you trying to drive me away?

01:21:43.899 --> 01:21:45.935
Because if you are,
it's succeeding beautifully,

01:21:46.110 --> 01:21:47.150
because I don't want this.

01:21:48.320 --> 01:21:49.480
I didn't marry you for this.

01:21:50.572 --> 01:21:51.652
I could have had anybody.

01:21:52.032 --> 01:21:53.522
With my money? Anybody.

01:21:55.160 --> 01:21:56.160
Well?

01:21:57.329 --> 01:21:58.329
Say something!

01:22:00.749 --> 01:22:01.749
Do something!

01:22:03.085 --> 01:22:04.085
Be a man!

01:22:06.088 --> 01:22:07.453
I already have a Butler.

01:22:12.511 --> 01:22:13.511
Do something!

01:22:14.763 --> 01:22:17.175
I don't want this! I don't!

01:22:17.349 --> 01:22:18.509
I don't want this!

01:22:19.476 --> 01:22:20.476
Please! I don't...

01:22:20.769 --> 01:22:22.100
I don't want th...

01:22:24.022 --> 01:22:26.479
The same conversation
as the previous year,

01:22:26.900 --> 01:22:28.856
only this time with greater venom.

01:22:29.027 --> 01:22:30.587
You've always been afraid of me.

01:22:30.863 --> 01:22:32.023
It's not because of my money.

01:22:32.739 --> 01:22:34.299
It's basically because you're a coward.

01:22:35.576 --> 01:22:37.612
Because your pitiful masculinity
is so fragile

01:22:37.786 --> 01:22:39.868
you can't stand the idea of confrontation,

01:22:40.038 --> 01:22:42.370
so you go off with miss botsky...

01:22:42.541 --> 01:22:43.541
Good night.

01:22:59.266 --> 01:23:00.676
Hey! Hey.

01:23:01.727 --> 01:23:04.434
As was usual,
I was awakened before dawn.

01:23:10.736 --> 01:23:13.022
I let the dogs out, as was customary.

01:23:18.118 --> 01:23:19.403
I went back through the bedroom

01:23:19.578 --> 01:23:22.411
to my study as quietly as possible.

01:23:28.170 --> 01:23:30.582
I did not notice if my wife was in bed.

01:23:30.923 --> 01:23:34.290
I did not notice if the light was on
under the bathroom door.

01:23:34.801 --> 01:23:37.508
Had it been on,
I wouldn't have given it a thought.

01:23:38.430 --> 01:23:40.887
I did my exercises, showered,

01:23:41.183 --> 01:23:43.048
and then I called Deborah Knowles.

01:23:43.602 --> 01:23:46.014
Well, I mean,
it's stable and it's profitable.

01:23:47.314 --> 01:23:48.770
Can anyone really believe,

01:23:48.941 --> 01:23:51.102
if I was trying to murder my wife,

01:23:51.276 --> 01:23:54.860
that I would spend an hour
going over a tedious set of figures?

01:23:56.532 --> 01:23:58.864
After the call, I passed
through the bedroom again.

01:23:59.034 --> 01:24:00.240
I remember it was freezing.

01:24:00.786 --> 01:24:03.198
By this time,
sunny was certainly not in bed,

01:24:03.789 --> 01:24:05.950
and I heard water running in the bathroom.

01:24:09.503 --> 01:24:12.461
I had breakfast, walked the dogs,

01:24:13.048 --> 01:24:14.083
and on my return,

01:24:14.341 --> 01:24:16.297
asked the children where mummy was.

01:24:17.594 --> 01:24:18.714
Has mummy had breakfast yet?

01:24:20.097 --> 01:24:21.097
We haven't seen her.

01:24:25.894 --> 01:24:26.894
Sunny?

01:24:28.981 --> 01:24:31.063
Her bathroom was her private sanctuary.

01:24:31.483 --> 01:24:34.225
No one entered it,
except the maid, of course,

01:24:34.403 --> 01:24:35.403
to clean up.

01:24:36.405 --> 01:24:39.317
Sometimes she stayed there for hours,
or so it seemed.

01:24:39.908 --> 01:24:43.492
One can only speculate what goes on
behind a closed door.

01:24:43.745 --> 01:24:44.985
Sunny, are you there?

01:24:46.707 --> 01:24:48.572
I hesitated even to knock.

01:24:51.628 --> 01:24:52.628
Darling?

01:25:09.104 --> 01:25:10.104
Sunny?

01:25:12.608 --> 01:25:13.723
Oh, god.

01:25:15.402 --> 01:25:17.393
Once I'd ascertained she was breathing,

01:25:17.571 --> 01:25:19.402
I went to fetch Alexander.

01:25:20.324 --> 01:25:21.780
Why not call an ambulance first?

01:25:22.200 --> 01:25:24.361
Panic, Alan, panic.

01:25:24.828 --> 01:25:25.828
I mean, I... il...

01:25:26.913 --> 01:25:29.120
I... l needed to talk to somebody. There...

01:25:31.752 --> 01:25:33.333
She was breathing normally.

01:25:33.503 --> 01:25:35.994
It wasn't... it wasn't
like the year before.

01:25:37.257 --> 01:25:39.373
I mean, in retrospect it seems absurd,

01:25:39.551 --> 01:25:42.588
but I looked at her upper lip,
she had blood on it.

01:25:42.763 --> 01:25:44.003
I thought she'd broken a tooth.

01:25:44.097 --> 01:25:46.338
That was the extent of my concern,

01:25:47.392 --> 01:25:48.392
and that's...

01:25:49.019 --> 01:25:50.509
That's really all... all I can...

01:25:51.355 --> 01:25:52.595
That's really all I can say.

01:25:55.067 --> 01:25:56.432
Yeah, but is it the truth?

01:25:56.860 --> 01:25:57.940
Of course.

01:25:58.278 --> 01:25:59.518
But not the whole truth?

01:26:00.113 --> 01:26:02.525
I don't know the whole truth.

01:26:02.783 --> 01:26:05.195
I don't know what happened to her.

01:26:05.410 --> 01:26:06.525
Wish I didn't believe you.

01:26:07.454 --> 01:26:09.934
You know, it's very hard to trust someone
you don't understand.

01:26:13.085 --> 01:26:14.165
You're a very strange man.

01:26:16.380 --> 01:26:17.836
You have no idea.

01:26:26.640 --> 01:26:27.640
Everybody here?

01:26:27.724 --> 01:26:29.885
Peter macintosh is late.
Says he's got bad news.

01:26:32.396 --> 01:26:33.396
There he is.

01:26:46.952 --> 01:26:47.952
Well?

01:26:49.079 --> 01:26:50.569
I found out what the state has.

01:26:50.747 --> 01:26:52.283
Mm-hm. = their Ace in the hole.

01:26:53.667 --> 01:26:54.667
It's you.

01:26:56.962 --> 01:26:57.962
It's me?

01:26:58.338 --> 01:27:01.922
David marriott taped
all his conversations with you.

01:27:02.259 --> 01:27:03.259
Oh, great.

01:27:04.553 --> 01:27:08.762
The scuttlebutt is, if we win the case,
you go to prison.

01:27:10.183 --> 01:27:11.183
What did I say?

01:27:12.269 --> 01:27:15.102
Good ol' corrupt Rhode Island,
I got a friend to get me an excerpt.

01:27:15.605 --> 01:27:17.205
The reason I'm here,

01:27:17.691 --> 01:27:19.101
my affidavit is inaccurate.

01:27:20.110 --> 01:27:22.442
David, this is bad. It looks bad.

01:27:22.696 --> 01:27:23.936
What, you want more money?

01:27:24.740 --> 01:27:26.220
Can you get more?

01:27:26.950 --> 01:27:27.950
Yeah.

01:27:29.119 --> 01:27:31.030
Hey, that is not what I said.

01:27:31.204 --> 01:27:31.943
It's on tape, Alan.

01:27:32.122 --> 01:27:34.122
I don't care if it's on tape,
it's not what I said.

01:27:34.583 --> 01:27:35.823
What do we do? =I don't know.

01:27:40.464 --> 01:27:42.525
I... I'll tell you what we do.
We ignore it, that's what we...

01:27:42.549 --> 01:27:44.585
Alan, with that tape,
it's your whole career.

01:27:47.471 --> 01:27:49.962
I now believe claus is innocent. So.

01:27:50.390 --> 01:27:53.723
We've decided,
no tricks, no technicalities.

01:27:53.894 --> 01:27:55.430
We are going to base our appeal

01:27:55.604 --> 01:27:59.017
directly and explicitly
on claus' innocence.

01:27:59.441 --> 01:28:00.441
That's not proper.

01:28:00.609 --> 01:28:02.850
An appeal has to be
based on judicial error.

01:28:03.111 --> 01:28:04.951
It is. The judge should've
thrown out the case.

01:28:04.988 --> 01:28:06.853
How can you say
there was insufficient evidence

01:28:07.032 --> 01:28:08.192
when a jury convicted him?

01:28:08.366 --> 01:28:10.678
- That's a good point, but...
- But that's what we are saying.

01:28:10.702 --> 01:28:12.909
If the rules don't work, you change them.

01:28:13.705 --> 01:28:15.991
Red auerbach got
the jump ball rule changed

01:28:16.166 --> 01:28:17.576
when the celtics had a short team.

01:28:17.751 --> 01:28:19.491
Uh, but it's dangerous politically, Alan.

01:28:19.669 --> 01:28:21.606
If the judges feel insulted,
then we're gonna find...

01:28:21.630 --> 01:28:24.997
Wait up, here. State supreme court
shouldn't even look at an appeal

01:28:25.175 --> 01:28:26.175
based on new evidence.

01:28:28.011 --> 01:28:31.128
Hey, guys, I'll take care of that, okay?

01:28:31.473 --> 01:28:32.804
You just... you leave it to me.

01:28:34.726 --> 01:28:36.086
Look, I know you're all exhausted.

01:28:36.728 --> 01:28:38.935
We got four days left.

01:28:39.606 --> 01:28:41.437
What we do now
is going to decide this thing.

01:28:41.608 --> 01:28:43.127
Do you wanna win, or not?

01:28:43.151 --> 01:28:44.231
Alan! = what?

01:28:44.402 --> 01:28:46.484
- We've got something.
- We've hit the jackpot.

01:28:47.405 --> 01:28:50.317
Our needles that had
amobarbital and valium...

01:28:50.492 --> 01:28:51.492
But no Insulin...

01:28:51.576 --> 01:28:54.613
Both came back with
false positive readings

01:28:54.830 --> 01:28:55.660
for Insulin.

01:28:55.831 --> 01:28:57.037
Okay.

01:28:57.207 --> 01:28:58.868
One was 93, the other 282.

01:28:59.042 --> 01:29:01.704
We've knocked out every piece
of their medical case.

01:29:04.840 --> 01:29:05.420
Good work, good work.

01:29:05.590 --> 01:29:08.423
Okay, now, now all they've got left
is my neck.

01:29:09.553 --> 01:29:11.794
Anybody know anything
about editing audio tapes?

01:29:21.523 --> 01:29:23.354
Defense! For what, defense!

01:29:23.525 --> 01:29:24.605
- Come on!
- Come on!

01:29:34.911 --> 01:29:35.911
All right, Alan.

01:29:37.038 --> 01:29:38.318
- Come on!
- Hey!

01:29:38.456 --> 01:29:39.456
Hurry up!

01:29:40.083 --> 01:29:41.763
- What's going on?
- Pass it, Alan.

01:29:42.252 --> 01:29:44.618
I got it. Wait a minute.
I got it, I got it.

01:29:44.796 --> 01:29:46.316
- Where's raj?
- He's upstairs.

01:29:46.673 --> 01:29:48.313
- Where you going?
- Alan!

01:29:48.925 --> 01:29:51.382
Raj, raj, I got it.

01:29:52.053 --> 01:29:53.053
I got it.

01:29:53.305 --> 01:29:54.305
Remember Maria?

01:29:54.806 --> 01:29:56.206
She could have said it like this...

01:29:56.725 --> 01:29:57.725
Insulin?

01:29:59.978 --> 01:30:01.468
For what, Insulin?

01:30:03.231 --> 01:30:05.313
My lady is not diabetic.

01:30:05.650 --> 01:30:08.813
You see? "My lady is not diabetic.”

01:30:09.571 --> 01:30:12.278
She is assuming that the bag is sunny's.

01:30:12.824 --> 01:30:14.906
Her first reaction, instantaneous,

01:30:15.076 --> 01:30:16.987
not part of a legal strategy
devised later,

01:30:17.162 --> 01:30:18.572
is that the stuff in the black bag

01:30:18.747 --> 01:30:20.283
belonged to sunny, not claus.

01:30:20.457 --> 01:30:21.777
Who's gonna know better than she?

01:30:22.417 --> 01:30:23.417
Start writing.

01:30:24.794 --> 01:30:27.661
You are not god, you are a prosecutor,

01:30:27.839 --> 01:30:30.171
and Alabama cannot execute
those Johnson kids

01:30:30.342 --> 01:30:31.798
before the supreme court rules!

01:30:32.093 --> 01:30:33.733
That... that's right! You heard me right.

01:30:33.845 --> 01:30:35.756
You've got two hours
to get to Rhode Island.

01:30:35.931 --> 01:30:36.761
You're gonna have to speed.

01:30:36.932 --> 01:30:38.034
You want me to commit a crime?

01:30:38.058 --> 01:30:39.577
Of course not! Because if you do,
they're gonna stop you,

01:30:39.601 --> 01:30:40.953
you're not gonna make the deadline.

01:30:40.977 --> 01:30:43.593
I'm tellin' you right now, buddy,
those kids fry, you're next!

01:30:43.939 --> 01:30:44.769
You forgot your jacket.

01:30:44.940 --> 01:30:45.940
You're damn right!

01:30:46.733 --> 01:30:49.349
Some startling developments
in the Von bulow case.

01:30:49.694 --> 01:30:51.730
Harvard law school
professor Alan Dershowitz

01:30:51.905 --> 01:30:54.442
had been accused of paying
for falsified testimony,

01:30:54.991 --> 01:30:57.027
but those accusations
were discredited today

01:30:57.202 --> 01:30:58.682
by the Rhode Island Attorney General,

01:30:58.995 --> 01:31:01.452
who announced that
David marriott's tape was doctored

01:31:01.873 --> 01:31:04.410
and that marriott
is not a reliable witness.

01:31:04.960 --> 01:31:06.360
So, what was he up to, Alan?

01:31:06.878 --> 01:31:08.084
Who was he working for?

01:31:08.546 --> 01:31:09.546
Damned if I know.

01:31:13.760 --> 01:31:15.520
Hope they don't think
he was working for you.

01:31:15.971 --> 01:31:16.989
Alan, no one's going to think...

01:31:17.013 --> 01:31:19.049
Look, I don't think you did it, okay?

01:31:20.225 --> 01:31:21.431
But at the Chinese restaurant,

01:31:22.060 --> 01:31:23.266
you did duck the big question.

01:31:23.770 --> 01:31:25.556
Chuck is our Alexandra isles expert.

01:31:27.649 --> 01:31:29.185
Sunny's aspirin overdose...

01:31:33.905 --> 01:31:36.362
What happened? Sunny had a headache?

01:31:39.369 --> 01:31:43.112
Headache... was Alexandra, right?

01:31:47.836 --> 01:31:48.836
Let's hear it, claus.

01:31:51.673 --> 01:31:53.334
Alexandra was spiteful.

01:31:55.093 --> 01:31:59.336
On the day of sunny's aspirin overdose,

01:32:00.432 --> 01:32:03.265
she returned some presents I'd given her,

01:32:03.435 --> 01:32:05.175
some photographs...

01:32:06.021 --> 01:32:07.021
Love letters.

01:32:08.940 --> 01:32:11.226
She dropped them off in a shopping bag.

01:32:12.402 --> 01:32:13.402
Did sunny see them?

01:32:14.612 --> 01:32:15.647
Sunny was home.

01:32:16.906 --> 01:32:17.906
I was not.

01:32:19.451 --> 01:32:23.444
Alexandra neglected to address
the package to me.

01:32:24.164 --> 01:32:26.826
I want to be left alone
with all those Beau... beautiful letters.

01:32:27.751 --> 01:32:30.431
What did you do with those letters?
Why did you write those letters?

01:32:33.256 --> 01:32:36.339
There's a big difference
between knowing about an affair

01:32:37.260 --> 01:32:40.172
and having love letters
crammed down your throat.

01:32:42.432 --> 01:32:44.552
It seems that
sunny did care about your affair.

01:32:45.393 --> 01:32:46.393
She cared a lot.

01:32:50.231 --> 01:32:51.231
Why didn't you tell us?

01:32:53.109 --> 01:32:54.224
Everything was open book.

01:32:56.154 --> 01:32:57.815
"Get the best experts.

01:32:58.198 --> 01:32:59.483
I'm not afraid of the truth.”

01:33:04.871 --> 01:33:08.159
Looks to me like Alexandra
tried to force sunny into a suicide.

01:33:11.002 --> 01:33:12.492
Or they plotted it together.

01:33:14.380 --> 01:33:16.120
Either way, he's protecting Alexandra,

01:33:16.841 --> 01:33:18.281
because he's still in love with her.

01:33:18.468 --> 01:33:19.468
And why not?

01:33:19.928 --> 01:33:20.968
I mean, hey, she's a babe.

01:33:23.848 --> 01:33:25.213
"Course I still love her.

01:33:28.228 --> 01:33:29.228
And hate her.

01:33:31.689 --> 01:33:35.602
Alexandra, sunny, Andrea...

01:33:38.863 --> 01:33:39.898
I love them all.

01:33:48.164 --> 01:33:50.871
Being a human being is very literal.

01:33:51.417 --> 01:33:52.417
You're trapped.

01:33:52.794 --> 01:33:55.001
Time moves in only one direction,

01:33:55.380 --> 01:33:56.380
forward.

01:33:56.548 --> 01:33:58.379
It's stupid and boring

01:33:58.550 --> 01:34:00.290
ahd results in a lot of silliness.

01:34:00.635 --> 01:34:03.251
Example, the legal process.

01:34:05.056 --> 01:34:06.546
In this particular case,

01:34:06.724 --> 01:34:10.387
a vast amount of time,
effort, and money was spent

01:34:10.562 --> 01:34:12.894
trying to determine
precisely what happened

01:34:13.064 --> 01:34:15.476
on those two nights so close to Christmas,

01:34:15.817 --> 01:34:20.982
December 26th, 1979, December 20th, 1980.

01:34:22.657 --> 01:34:23.817
Happened right here.

01:34:25.743 --> 01:34:28.826
Even now it all looks the same,

01:34:29.581 --> 01:34:32.914
feels the same, smells the same.

01:34:34.002 --> 01:34:37.415
If you could just go back in time
and take a peek,

01:34:38.006 --> 01:34:39.006
you'd know,

01:34:40.884 --> 01:34:43.000
and all this would be unnecessary.

01:34:43.386 --> 01:34:44.386
All rise!

01:34:48.641 --> 01:34:49.926
Hear ye, hear ye!

01:34:50.101 --> 01:34:52.717
All persons having business
before the supreme court

01:34:52.896 --> 01:34:55.763
holding in Providence within and for
the state of Rhode Island

01:34:55.940 --> 01:34:57.055
may now draw near...

01:34:58.067 --> 01:34:59.067
Then again,

01:35:00.069 --> 01:35:01.980
everyone enjoys a circus.

01:35:03.406 --> 01:35:04.406
Be seated.

01:35:07.285 --> 01:35:09.276
If the appellant is ready,
you may proceed.

01:35:11.539 --> 01:35:12.278
If it please the court,

01:35:12.457 --> 01:35:15.164
oral argument will be made
by out-of-state counsel,

01:35:15.335 --> 01:35:17.326
professor Alan Dershowitz.

01:35:27.138 --> 01:35:28.138
Your honors,

01:35:28.640 --> 01:35:30.972
you may not like claus Von bulow.

01:35:31.809 --> 01:35:33.720
You may think he is guilty of something,

01:35:33.895 --> 01:35:36.307
but I am here to tell you he is innocent.

01:35:37.315 --> 01:35:38.375
Our new evidence will clear...

01:35:38.399 --> 01:35:42.267
Professor, you know there isn't
a single case which allows you

01:35:42.445 --> 01:35:44.857
to introduce new evidence on appeal.

01:35:45.156 --> 01:35:46.896
Well, there is one, your honor,

01:35:47.742 --> 01:35:50.154
and you wrote it. Derek.

01:35:51.746 --> 01:35:52.746
In Derek...

01:35:53.498 --> 01:35:55.363
In Derek, you yourself said

01:35:55.833 --> 01:35:59.667
that a case based on circumstantial theory
rather than fact

01:36:00.088 --> 01:36:01.123
only stands up

01:36:01.297 --> 01:36:03.663
if no other theory makes sense.

01:36:04.092 --> 01:36:06.708
The only way to show a better theory

01:36:06.886 --> 01:36:07.886
is to present it.

01:36:14.018 --> 01:36:15.599
Get on with it, counselor.

01:36:21.234 --> 01:36:22.586
I hope you will have the courage

01:36:22.610 --> 01:36:24.191
to free an innocent man

01:36:24.362 --> 01:36:26.353
and remedy a grave injustice.

01:36:26.948 --> 01:36:28.108
This will never work.

01:36:28.700 --> 01:36:30.065
Too smart for his own good.

01:36:31.160 --> 01:36:32.616
Alan says it will work,

01:36:33.705 --> 01:36:35.821
if the prosecutor takes the bait.

01:36:36.833 --> 01:36:37.833
What do you mean, "bait"?

01:36:39.419 --> 01:36:40.829
Argues the evidence.

01:36:42.046 --> 01:36:42.705
Your honors,

01:36:42.880 --> 01:36:45.542
introduction of new evidence on appeal

01:36:47.010 --> 01:36:50.252
violates every principle of jurisprudence,

01:36:50.680 --> 01:36:51.920
every statute,

01:36:52.682 --> 01:36:55.173
every precedent, every rule of ethics.

01:36:55.560 --> 01:36:57.080
Ah, he's nailing us right off the bat.

01:36:57.228 --> 01:36:59.014
I am not going to stand before you

01:36:59.188 --> 01:37:01.429
and argue Mr. Von bulow's guilt.

01:37:04.277 --> 01:37:05.277
However,

01:37:05.695 --> 01:37:08.687
I have no choice but to address
Mr. Dershowitz' arguments

01:37:08.865 --> 01:37:09.865
one by one.

01:37:11.284 --> 01:37:12.284
- Bingo.
- First,

01:37:13.494 --> 01:37:14.974
the matter of the encrusted needle...

01:37:16.664 --> 01:37:19.280
So? Now it's up to the judges.

01:37:20.043 --> 01:37:21.243
Tell me what you really think.

01:37:21.377 --> 01:37:23.789
I think it's easier to love somebody

01:37:23.963 --> 01:37:25.123
than to live with them.

01:37:27.216 --> 01:37:28.706
Love is fantasy.

01:37:29.093 --> 01:37:30.629
Living is work.

01:37:30.887 --> 01:37:33.799
I'll say. And those people
don't like to work.

01:37:34.307 --> 01:37:36.719
But, if you don't do the work,
the love dies,

01:37:37.060 --> 01:37:39.096
and nobody wants to deal with that one.

01:37:39.395 --> 01:37:40.395
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

01:37:41.481 --> 01:37:42.481
The love died,

01:37:43.232 --> 01:37:44.472
sunny couldn't accept it...

01:37:45.902 --> 01:37:47.563
So claus tried to kill her?

01:37:47.737 --> 01:37:48.737
Maybe.

01:37:49.072 --> 01:37:50.072
I don't agree.

01:37:51.074 --> 01:37:54.237
Face it, all we had to do
was prove the state made a lousy case.

01:37:54.660 --> 01:37:56.260
We didn't prove that claus was innocent.

01:37:56.496 --> 01:37:58.737
We couldn't. We didn't have to,
and he probably isn't.

01:37:58.915 --> 01:37:59.975
He isn't? You mean, you thi...

01:37:59.999 --> 01:38:02.199
I mean, so,
he didn't inject sunny with Insulin.

01:38:02.627 --> 01:38:05.243
So what? Break it down.
First coma, no problem.

01:38:05.421 --> 01:38:08.504
Even the attending doctor thought
it was caused by hypoglycemia,

01:38:08.674 --> 01:38:10.114
loss of air to the brain, and so on.

01:38:10.343 --> 01:38:12.675
All right. But what about the second coma?

01:38:12.845 --> 01:38:15.006
I mean, why does claus act so guilty?

01:38:15.181 --> 01:38:18.139
Hey, come on, wouldn't any man feel guilty
if his wife was suicidal?

01:38:18.851 --> 01:38:22.014
Yeah, so, so maybe she took
the sleeping pills

01:38:22.188 --> 01:38:23.803
with the intention of killing herself,

01:38:24.524 --> 01:38:28.767
but how did she end up lying
on a marble floor in a freezing bathroom

01:38:28.945 --> 01:38:30.385
with her head under the toilet bowl?

01:38:30.947 --> 01:38:31.947
How about this?

01:39:20.371 --> 01:39:21.952
Sunny wakes up miserable.

01:39:27.628 --> 01:39:29.084
Second marriage is over.

01:39:29.255 --> 01:39:30.415
Children are leaving home.

01:39:31.841 --> 01:39:32.841
What's to live for?

01:41:46.267 --> 01:41:47.757
But when she was found,

01:41:47.935 --> 01:41:49.641
her nightgown was hiked over her waist.

01:41:49.812 --> 01:41:52.224
Exactly. How did it get there?

01:41:53.899 --> 01:41:55.859
Okay, let's say
she's standing at the sink.

01:41:56.402 --> 01:41:57.402
She has to pee.

01:41:57.903 --> 01:41:59.313
At exactly the same instant,

01:41:59.780 --> 01:42:00.780
the drugs hit.

01:42:01.449 --> 01:42:02.484
Body convulses.

01:42:02.908 --> 01:42:04.489
She grabs the nightgown.

01:42:09.415 --> 01:42:10.245
I don't buy that.

01:42:10.416 --> 01:42:12.202
It does seem far-fetched.

01:42:12.877 --> 01:42:14.083
So's the truth sometimes.

01:42:14.253 --> 01:42:17.120
Oh, bull. I think she took
the barbiturates the previous night.

01:42:17.381 --> 01:42:19.918
And, let's say he saw her take them,

01:42:20.676 --> 01:42:24.089
or she told him she was going to
before they fell asleep.

01:42:32.688 --> 01:42:35.646
This time, he wants her to succeed.

01:42:45.868 --> 01:42:46.868
Sunny?

01:43:14.230 --> 01:43:16.310
Maybe there's some way
he can help her along.

01:43:17.692 --> 01:43:20.809
Of course, the open window.

01:43:21.821 --> 01:43:23.311
Zero degrees.

01:43:24.824 --> 01:43:26.155
But somebody might see her there.

01:43:27.743 --> 01:43:30.951
The action of dragging her
would naturally pull up the nightgown.

01:44:01.402 --> 01:44:04.235
In this cold, how long could she survive?

01:44:24.967 --> 01:44:26.298
Remember what sunny said?

01:44:27.636 --> 01:44:28.967
"I would have been better off.

01:44:30.473 --> 01:44:31.838
You would have been better off.”

01:44:36.854 --> 01:44:39.345
Because the law is a blunt instrument.

01:44:39.523 --> 01:44:42.185
It is not a rapier. It is a cudgel.

01:44:43.486 --> 01:44:45.226
Tomorrow, death penalty,

01:44:45.905 --> 01:44:47.585
which reminds me of the comedian who said,

01:44:47.656 --> 01:44:49.772
"ll don't know why
they call it the death penalty.

01:44:49.950 --> 01:44:52.111
That's no penalty.
You're out of the game!"

01:45:01.295 --> 01:45:02.660
- Good news.
- Great news.

01:45:03.005 --> 01:45:03.835
And more good news.

01:45:04.006 --> 01:45:05.006
The decision came down?

01:45:05.299 --> 01:45:06.299
They just announced it.

01:45:06.342 --> 01:45:06.922
Five-zip.

01:45:07.092 --> 01:45:08.092
We murdered them.

01:45:09.053 --> 01:45:10.053
Grounds?

01:45:10.095 --> 01:45:11.531
Well, they got the brillhoffer notes.

01:45:11.555 --> 01:45:13.295
And that silly, silly guilty
man's argument,

01:45:13.474 --> 01:45:14.304
search and seizure.

01:45:14.475 --> 01:45:15.515
Federal or state? = both.

01:45:15.559 --> 01:45:17.999
- That's important.
- Yeah, it's federal, they could appeal it

01:45:18.103 --> 01:45:18.808
in the us supreme court.

01:45:18.979 --> 01:45:20.939
But because it's Rhode Island,
they can't. We win.

01:45:22.233 --> 01:45:24.753
Don"t... don't get too excited
until we see brillhoffer's notes.

01:45:24.944 --> 01:45:26.400
We destroyed their medical case,

01:45:26.654 --> 01:45:28.610
but their witnesses
still carry emotional weight

01:45:28.781 --> 01:45:29.821
if there's a second trial.

01:45:30.241 --> 01:45:31.241
Unless...

01:45:32.034 --> 01:45:34.474
The brillhoffer notes show
that they've changed their stories.

01:45:35.830 --> 01:45:36.830
Good afternoon, sir.

01:45:39.458 --> 01:45:40.458
Let me get that for you.

01:45:41.293 --> 01:45:42.293
Thank you.

01:45:55.975 --> 01:45:57.415
You have brillhoffer's notes?

01:45:57.768 --> 01:45:58.768
Yes.

01:45:58.853 --> 01:45:59.853
Well?

01:45:59.895 --> 01:46:00.935
They're not what we hoped.

01:46:01.105 --> 01:46:02.105
I knew it.

01:46:05.401 --> 01:46:06.401
They're much better.

01:46:08.946 --> 01:46:12.279
No one mentioned seeing Insulin
when they first talked to brillhoffer.

01:46:12.533 --> 01:46:15.024
Plus... Maria told them

01:46:15.452 --> 01:46:17.430
that at Thanksgiving,
when she supposedly saw Insulin

01:46:17.454 --> 01:46:18.159
for the first time,

01:46:18.330 --> 01:46:19.683
she couldn't even read any of the labels.

01:46:19.707 --> 01:46:20.747
They were all scraped off.

01:46:22.418 --> 01:46:23.418
What does this mean?

01:46:23.502 --> 01:46:24.502
It means

01:46:24.962 --> 01:46:26.189
that if there is a second trial,

01:46:26.213 --> 01:46:27.453
we can be reasonably confident

01:46:28.382 --> 01:46:30.338
both the medical case and their withesses

01:46:30.509 --> 01:46:31.840
are now highly suspect.

01:46:32.011 --> 01:46:34.172
Oh, god.

01:46:36.807 --> 01:46:37.807
So...

01:46:54.533 --> 01:46:55.533
Darling...

01:46:56.410 --> 01:46:57.946
This is Alan Dershowitz.

01:46:58.329 --> 01:46:59.444
Yes, I know. Hello.

01:47:00.289 --> 01:47:01.324
Alan tells me...

01:47:01.874 --> 01:47:04.115
Well, things look very hopeful.

01:47:05.836 --> 01:47:07.236
I knew it would come out all right.

01:47:07.755 --> 01:47:08.755
Thank you.

01:47:12.718 --> 01:47:13.958
Yes, Alan, thank you.

01:47:14.136 --> 01:47:15.546
I am eternally grateful.

01:47:15.721 --> 01:47:17.882
Hey, this means
we'll be getting back your bail,

01:47:18.057 --> 01:47:19.172
a million dollars.

01:47:19.892 --> 01:47:21.723
Uh, I know I still owe you, Alan.

01:47:23.687 --> 01:47:25.302
Please send me your bill.

01:47:26.690 --> 01:47:28.646
And maybe when you're in New York,

01:47:28.817 --> 01:47:29.817
uh, we can...

01:47:31.070 --> 01:47:32.901
We can meet for lunch. I'd enjoy that.

01:47:34.073 --> 01:47:35.073
One thing, claus...

01:47:35.866 --> 01:47:37.606
Legally, this was an important victory.

01:47:38.535 --> 01:47:40.196
Morally, you're on your own.

01:47:53.258 --> 01:47:56.216
Claus Von bulow was given a second trial

01:47:56.553 --> 01:47:58.544
and acquitted on both counts.

01:48:00.891 --> 01:48:02.552
This is all you can know...

01:48:04.311 --> 01:48:05.767
All you can be told.

01:48:07.106 --> 01:48:08.642
When you get where I am,

01:48:09.817 --> 01:48:10.897
you will know the rest.

01:48:44.351 --> 01:48:45.807
Two packs of vantage, please.

01:48:54.445 --> 01:48:55.445
Anything else?

01:48:57.031 --> 01:48:58.441
Yes, a vial of Insulin.

01:49:05.914 --> 01:49:06.914
Just kidding.