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25.000 English[br]sync from 23.976 � 16.05.2023
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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[br]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,[br]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[br]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[br]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.[br]- 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[br]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.[br]- Thank you.
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Uh, or--or blankets[br]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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and I never will.
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I am what doctors call[br]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[br]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[br]on her hospital chart.
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They sent Alex and a private investigator
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back to my Newport cottage,[br]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[br]readily cause coma...
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or death.
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This encrusted needle[br]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[br]with his mistress,
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the very beautiful soap opera actress,[br]Alexandra Isles.
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Oh, God.
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Mrs. Isles, a divorc�e,
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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,[br]at my death,
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Claus, whose own net worth[br]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[br]a legal analysis of my will.
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On the evidence collected by Alex, Ala,[br]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[br]committed on December 27th, 1979...
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Even Alexandra Isles[br]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[br]on December 21, 1980,
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the crime of assault[br]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[br]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.[br]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.[br]Remember Maggie?
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Hi, Maggie. Hello.
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They're going to fry.[br]The Johnson brothers.
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What?
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But--
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Two black kids broke[br]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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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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What paper do you represent?
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If I can't save two innocent kids,[br]what's the point?
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- I might as well hang it up.[br]- 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[br]and have a proper lunch?
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Whatever.
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I should tell you that[br]I have the greatest respect
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for the intelligence and[br]integrity of the Jewish people.
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When I married Sunny,
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she was the most beautiful divorc�e[br]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,[br]already I'm a doctor.
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No, in America,[br]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 unpleasantness--
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Oh, yes, I suppose[br]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[br]or constitutional issue at stake.
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But I'm absolutely innocent,
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and my civil liberties[br]have been egregiously violated.
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I've got two black kids[br]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[br]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--[br]- 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.[br]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,[br]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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Did we ring for you?
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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.[br]- 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[br]to the bathroom
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and had a soft drink.
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So I don't think[br]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[br]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,[br]but hardly criminal.
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How about the second coma?
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Well, Maria wasn't in Newport[br]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[br]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,[br]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[br]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.[br]I need someone with your judgment,
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someone to watch what I'm doing,[br]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[br]the Rhode Island DA.
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If I can beat your arguments,[br]I can destroy his.
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Look, Rhode Island is[br]the most corrupt state in the country.
0:19:24.509,0:19:25.553
Everything is political.
0:19:25.637,0:19:27.140
I don't think that way. You do.
0:19:27.432,0:19:30.814
I have to see the big picture.[br]I can't afford to immerse myself in facts,
0:19:30.898,0:19:32.610
but we must know the facts.
0:19:33.027,0:19:34.154
Out of all my ex-students,
0:19:34.280,0:19:36.743
no one can assimilate information[br]as quickly as you two.
0:19:37.328,0:19:39.123
Well, I agree with that assessment.
0:19:44.509,0:19:45.386
You're out of your mind.
0:19:45.511,0:19:47.349
I only have 45 days to file.
0:19:47.641,0:19:48.768
I can't do it without you.
0:19:51.065,0:19:52.693
Look, Sarah,[br]I know you don't want to come back--
0:19:52.693,0:19:54.238
Is this strictly professional?
0:19:58.831,0:19:59.958
Better be.
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That's wonderful.
0:20:02.213,0:20:04.551
Now, I want the best people in the world[br]on our side,
0:20:04.843,0:20:06.430
the most prestigious experts,
0:20:06.681,0:20:09.102
Nobel prize-winning scientists.
0:20:09.395,0:20:11.232
Some of your colleagues[br]at Harvard, perhaps.
0:20:11.232,0:20:12.651
Hey, hey, wa--wait a minute, Claus.
0:20:12.651,0:20:14.614
Look, we got a little problem there, okay?
0:20:14.781,0:20:17.035
People like that, we can't control.
0:20:17.244,0:20:18.873
They'll find one incriminating fact,
0:20:18.873,0:20:20.125
they'll tell the whole world.
0:20:20.125,0:20:21.211
I'm not afraid, Alan.
0:20:21.587,0:20:23.340
Let the chips fall where they may.
0:20:24.050,0:20:25.637
That's what an innocent man would say.
0:20:27.140,0:20:28.309
I know.
0:20:35.073,0:20:36.284
That just came for you, Dad.
0:20:38.455,0:20:40.835
My daughter, Cosima. She never doubted me.
0:20:41.754,0:20:43.215
She loves Alex and Ala dearly,
0:20:43.382,0:20:45.553
and siding with me[br]has cost her their affections.
0:20:50.230,0:20:51.816
I don't know what I would have done.
0:20:57.370,0:20:59.582
Okay, look, I said[br]I didn't want to hear your story,
0:20:59.582,0:21:00.793
but I do need some information.
0:21:00.793,0:21:01.921
'Course.
0:21:03.215,0:21:06.514
Okay, I gather they'll, the older[br]children, deny Sunny had a problem
0:21:06.681,0:21:07.766
with pills and alcohol?
0:21:07.891,0:21:09.436
Spectacular understatement.
0:21:09.770,0:21:11.232
So there must be somebody[br]who saw it, right?
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Some witness, somebody, somewhere?[br]A friend?
0:21:13.278,0:21:14.656
- You want affidavits?[br]- Yes, I do.
0:21:14.656,0:21:15.407
I'll get them.
0:21:15.741,0:21:16.284
You'll get them?
0:21:16.701,0:21:19.958
You should also know, the drugs[br]prescribed for me were taken by Sunny.
0:21:20.125,0:21:21.420
That's a lot of drugs, Claus.
0:21:21.587,0:21:25.553
But the prosecution's allegation[br]that I knew about syringes, injections,
0:21:26.138,0:21:27.265
totally accurate.
0:21:28.309,0:21:31.691
Sunny and I used to give ourselves[br]B-12 injections in the late sixties.
0:21:31.858,0:21:32.777
It was quite the fad in London.
0:21:32.860,0:21:34.280
Can I explain something to you?
0:21:34.739,0:21:36.075
The less I know from you,
0:21:36.367,0:21:37.495
the more options I have.
0:21:37.954,0:21:39.290
When you tell me "the truth,"
0:21:39.332,0:21:42.296
you limit me to a defense that lines up[br]with what you have to say.
0:21:42.881,0:21:45.219
But isn't the truth[br]the simplest way, Alan?
0:21:46.305,0:21:49.228
I mean, why did I stay all day[br]at Sunny's side
0:21:49.353,0:21:50.981
without calling a doctor?
0:21:51.942,0:21:54.781
Because Sunny detested doctors.
0:21:55.240,0:21:56.910
If we called one[br]without her approval,
0:21:56.910,0:21:57.996
she went berserk.
0:21:58.288,0:21:59.123
Once she broke her hip
0:21:59.415,0:22:01.253
and didn't go to hospital[br]for two full days.
0:22:01.253,0:22:02.923
Claus, did you hear what I just said?
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Of course.[br]Did you hear the judge sentenced me?
0:22:05.804,0:22:08.267
Sorry. 30 years is[br]a pretty stiff sentence.
0:22:09.019,0:22:10.355
Twice trying to murder one's wife,
0:22:10.355,0:22:11.858
anything less would be monstrous.
0:22:13.111,0:22:14.614
But for a man like myself,
0:22:16.576,0:22:17.704
who did nothing...
0:22:21.587,0:22:22.839
What I wanted to ask,
0:22:23.549,0:22:24.969
if we lose the appeal,
0:22:25.846,0:22:27.724
will I have the chance later
0:22:27.891,0:22:30.856
to set my affairs in order[br]before I'm incarcerated?
0:22:32.317,0:22:34.489
In Europe, a gentleman[br]is given the opportunity
0:22:34.739,0:22:35.908
to end things properly.
0:22:40.334,0:22:41.420
Come on, Claus.
0:22:41.420,0:22:44.885
We are each the keeper[br]of our own souls, Alan.
0:22:48.392,0:22:49.520
Okay, two big problems.
0:22:50.522,0:22:52.818
The case against him is very strong.
0:22:53.612,0:22:54.906
But probably more important,
0:22:55.031,0:22:57.077
the legal conviction[br]isn't the only conviction
0:22:57.370,0:22:58.455
that we got to reverse.
0:22:59.123,0:23:00.626
The more dangerous conviction
0:23:00.877,0:23:04.050
is the absolute certainty[br]of the American people
0:23:04.217,0:23:05.595
that Claus is guilty.
0:23:05.804,0:23:08.852
Finding grounds for reversal[br]won't be enough here.
0:23:09.395,0:23:13.403
Judges on the Rhode Island Supreme Court[br]will have to go home to their spouses
0:23:13.570,0:23:15.950
and explain why they reversed.
0:23:16.159,0:23:19.332
To get them to do that,[br]we must completely obliterate
0:23:19.499,0:23:22.380
every single aspect of the state's case.
0:23:22.881,0:23:25.595
Destroy both the medical case[br]and their witnesses
0:23:25.804,0:23:29.061
so the judges have[br]no possible way to affirm.
0:23:30.146,0:23:32.985
Total victory,[br]or we are dead in the water.
0:23:33.152,0:23:36.701
Now, I assume that[br]you've all had an opportunity
0:23:36.868,0:23:38.038
to look at the transcripts,
0:23:38.038,0:23:39.582
first impressions, yeah, Minnie?
0:23:39.749,0:23:41.378
I think this whole thing stinks.
0:23:42.171,0:23:44.509
I think Claus von Bulow stinks.
0:23:45.177,0:23:48.392
He's obviously guilty[br]of something pretty despicable.
0:23:48.559,0:23:49.812
And if we free him,
0:23:50.355,0:23:52.150
we become partners in his crime,
0:23:52.317,0:23:54.154
accessories after the fact.
0:23:54.781,0:23:56.033
I'm really shocked,
0:23:56.493,0:23:58.330
with your record[br]defending the poor and oppressed,
0:23:58.330,0:23:59.791
that you've taken this case.
0:24:03.215,0:24:04.843
I won't have anything to do with it,
0:24:06.472,0:24:08.559
and I hope my fellow students[br]won't either.
0:24:09.562,0:24:10.564
Good-bye.
0:24:11.441,0:24:14.280
May I exercise my First Amendment right[br]to free speech?
0:24:18.121,0:24:19.791
If lawyers only defended innocent clients,
0:24:19.791,0:24:21.921
there would be 10 defense[br]lawyers in the entire country,
0:24:21.921,0:24:24.008
and none of you[br]would be able to find a job.
0:24:24.217,0:24:26.472
Why help guilty people get off?
0:24:28.267,0:24:30.564
Oh, you're sure he's guilty,[br]100 percent sure.
0:24:30.856,0:24:33.278
He had a lawyer. He had a trial.
0:24:33.779,0:24:35.115
He was convicted.
0:24:35.532,0:24:37.035
Are you sure he had a fair trial?
0:24:37.704,0:24:38.497
Come on!
0:24:38.622,0:24:41.587
It's the basis of the whole legal system.
0:24:41.921,0:24:44.718
Everyone gets a defense.
0:24:45.511,0:24:47.056
So the system is there
0:24:47.307,0:24:50.188
for the one innocent person[br]who is falsely accused.
0:24:51.942,0:24:52.985
Okay, look.
0:24:54.071,0:24:56.033
Say it's you, okay?
0:24:56.910,0:24:57.996
You decide...
0:24:58.622,0:25:00.125
you decide to get a divorce.
0:25:01.378,0:25:03.006
You're going to divorce your husband.
0:25:03.215,0:25:04.342
A week later,
0:25:04.969,0:25:06.889
you're accused of molesting your son.
0:25:08.058,0:25:09.687
Oh, no, now don't give me that look.
0:25:09.854,0:25:11.524
Stuff like this happens all the time.
0:25:11.983,0:25:13.236
Suddenly, you're alone.
0:25:14.196,0:25:15.240
You're hated.
0:25:15.574,0:25:17.035
It's--it's a nightmare.
0:25:18.121,0:25:21.127
Everyone assumes that you are guilty.
0:25:21.754,0:25:25.261
Even the mailman is beginning to[br]look at you a little--a little funny.
0:25:25.804,0:25:28.100
You only got one person[br]who believes in you.
0:25:28.434,0:25:30.146
There's only one person you can trust,
0:25:32.150,0:25:33.236
your lawyer.
0:25:33.486,0:25:35.115
Yeah. Okay.
0:25:35.741,0:25:37.829
So, someone's got to defend Claus.
0:25:38.330,0:25:39.415
But why you?
0:25:39.457,0:25:40.585
Why us?
0:25:42.004,0:25:43.382
Look, you're my student.
0:25:43.549,0:25:44.468
Y-you have a choice.
0:25:44.635,0:25:46.597
You d--you don't have to do[br]anything you don't want to do.
0:25:46.597,0:25:47.766
That is your choice.
0:25:48.559,0:25:50.188
The reason I take cases,
0:25:50.355,0:25:52.484
and here, I'm unlike most other lawyers
0:25:52.651,0:25:55.365
who are not professors[br]and therefore have to make a living,
0:25:55.574,0:25:58.622
I take cases 'cause I get pissed off,
0:25:59.958,0:26:02.046
and I am pissed off here.
0:26:02.714,0:26:05.637
The family hired a private prosecutor.
0:26:06.889,0:26:07.891
Unacceptable!
0:26:08.225,0:26:10.814
They conducted a private search.
0:26:11.524,0:26:13.319
Now, we let them get away with that,
0:26:13.946,0:26:15.908
rich people won't go to the cops anymore.
0:26:16.075,0:26:17.495
You know what they're gonna do?
0:26:17.662,0:26:21.086
They're going to get their own lawyers[br]to collect evidence.
0:26:21.587,0:26:24.760
And then they are going[br]to choose which evidence
0:26:24.969,0:26:27.265
they feel like passing on to the DA,
0:26:27.641,0:26:30.856
and the next victim[br]isn't going to be rich like von Bulow.
0:26:31.190,0:26:33.445
But it's gonna be[br]some poor schnook in Detroit
0:26:33.612,0:26:37.704
who can't afford[br]or can't find a decent lawyer.
0:26:44.050,0:26:46.430
I think it's a little more complicated
0:26:46.973,0:26:49.102
than your simple moral superiority.
0:26:50.981,0:26:52.025
No?
0:26:52.777,0:26:54.614
I agree von Bulow is guilty,
0:26:54.739,0:26:56.994
but that's the fun,[br]I mean, that's the challenge.
0:26:57.161,0:26:58.622
See, now there is a lawyer.
0:27:01.211,0:27:02.255
What?
0:27:03.883,0:27:04.969
Yeah, okay. Put him on.
0:27:06.221,0:27:08.518
Alan, a rather unsavory character
0:27:08.685,0:27:11.106
called David Marriott contacted me
0:27:11.524,0:27:16.033
claiming to have information about[br]a drug delivery at Clarendon Court.
0:27:16.367,0:27:17.829
Okay. Now, where does he live?
0:27:18.121,0:27:18.831
Somewhere in Wakefield.
0:27:18.998,0:27:20.543
Okay, we--no, we'll get on it.
0:27:21.712,0:27:25.678
Tom, I want you to get[br]a private investigator
0:27:25.804,0:27:29.311
to dig into a David Marriott[br]who lives in Wakefield.
0:27:30.689,0:27:32.651
Okay. How are we going to win this case?
0:27:32.985,0:27:34.697
The judge made lots of mistakes.
0:27:34.781,0:27:36.534
Judges always make mistakes.
0:27:36.701,0:27:37.537
How are we going to win?
0:27:37.704,0:27:39.123
All right, one issue leaps up,
0:27:39.248,0:27:40.585
this lawyer, Brillhoffer,
0:27:40.752,0:27:43.006
interviewed Alex, Maria, everybody.
0:27:43.173,0:27:44.760
He was the first person[br]to hear their stories.
0:27:44.760,0:27:46.555
He took notes and[br]he used those notes at trial
0:27:46.555,0:27:48.058
against a defense witness.
0:27:48.100,0:27:50.021
But the defense never saw the notes.
0:27:50.230,0:27:51.858
The judge wouldn't let us have them.
0:27:52.317,0:27:54.739
This alone seems like sufficient grounds.[br]It's perfect Brady.
0:27:54.739,0:27:55.365
Okay, fine.
0:27:55.658,0:27:57.035
Why don't you draft a letter
0:27:57.328,0:27:59.332
writing to Brillhoffer[br]asking him very nicely
0:27:59.457,0:28:00.752
to send us his notes?
0:28:01.044,0:28:03.006
Yeah, right. He'll fax them right over.
0:28:03.507,0:28:04.635
Yeah, right.
0:28:05.303,0:28:07.557
We could win on this issue alone[br]and he knows it.
0:28:07.683,0:28:09.061
You know it, I know it.
0:28:09.353,0:28:10.939
We'll just make sure he knows it.
0:28:11.482,0:28:13.779
Now... Nancy and Dobbs...
0:28:13.904,0:28:14.530
Yes?
0:28:14.697,0:28:16.701
They're going to attack[br]the medical testimony.
0:28:17.871,0:28:20.752
Our Rhode Island counsel, Peter Macintosh,
0:28:21.086,0:28:23.507
he will analyze the state Supreme Court.
0:28:23.883,0:28:26.430
I think the rest of us[br]should begin dissecting the transcripts,
0:28:26.430,0:28:28.727
errors, inconsistencies, anything unusual.
0:28:28.894,0:28:30.063
Okay, great. Now, remember,
0:28:30.146,0:28:31.816
most cases are won in the field,
0:28:31.983,0:28:33.111
not in court.
0:28:35.699,0:28:36.660
Minnie?
0:28:38.789,0:28:40.418
You want to work with Sarah on this?
0:28:41.712,0:28:42.547
You may learn something.
0:28:42.756,0:28:44.676
- Come on, Minnie.[br]- Come on, Minnie.
0:28:45.303,0:28:46.472
- Minnie![br]- Come on.
0:28:46.722,0:28:47.891
Please?
0:28:48.225,0:28:49.395
Come on.
0:28:50.814,0:28:52.610
'Course I don't trust David Marriott.
0:28:52.610,0:28:53.862
I don't know David Marriott.
0:28:54.029,0:28:55.491
But if he knew Alex von Auersberg--
0:28:55.491,0:28:57.161
You're crazy,[br]I don't know who you think you are.
0:28:57.161,0:28:58.288
You Perry Mason?
0:28:58.998,0:29:01.211
Let our private investigator[br]interview this jerk.
0:29:01.420,0:29:02.714
It's stupid, it's arrogant,
0:29:02.797,0:29:03.883
and it's unprofessional.
0:29:03.883,0:29:06.138
- It's fun.[br]- Fun? This guy is a sleaze.
0:29:06.806,0:29:08.518
You don't know what he's going to try.
0:29:08.727,0:29:10.480
What, is he going to shoot me?
0:29:11.190,0:29:12.401
Come on, I'm from Brooklyn.
0:29:18.956,0:29:21.587
Okay, look, I'll stand by the window[br]every 10 minutes, okay?
0:29:22.255,0:29:23.674
That way you can know I'm safe.
0:29:25.637,0:29:26.931
I had this friend...
0:29:27.265,0:29:28.392
Gilbert Jackson...
0:29:29.186,0:29:30.355
interior decorator.
0:29:31.441,0:29:33.737
Flaming queen, but a very excellent guy.
0:29:36.493,0:29:38.622
He introduced me to Alex von Auersberg.
0:29:40.251,0:29:41.378
You sure it was Alex?
0:29:42.088,0:29:44.843
We had dinner a few times, drinks.
0:29:45.303,0:29:47.516
All I knew, Alex was some rich kid.
0:29:48.852,0:29:49.854
So sometimes,
0:29:50.605,0:29:52.944
this is like, uh, summer of '77,
0:29:53.695,0:29:55.741
I'd motor to Newport for some R and R.
0:29:56.409,0:29:58.288
Gilbert asked me to bring Alex a package.
0:29:59.916,0:30:01.545
I figured interior decoration.
0:30:02.338,0:30:03.466
Maybe drapes.
0:30:04.008,0:30:05.136
Like six times.
0:30:05.470,0:30:06.597
So I'd call Alex.
0:30:06.931,0:30:08.267
How'd you get his phone number?
0:30:08.894,0:30:09.979
From Gilbert.
0:30:10.146,0:30:11.190
You still have it?
0:30:11.649,0:30:12.777
Maybe.
0:30:13.612,0:30:14.781
I'm that kind of guy.
0:30:41.545,0:30:42.547
Here.
0:30:48.977,0:30:50.313
One night I got curious.
0:30:51.608,0:30:52.777
Opened the package.
0:30:53.946,0:30:55.532
Fucking pharmacy, man.
0:30:56.242,0:30:59.123
Needles, syringes, white powder.
0:30:59.457,0:31:01.169
Nice selection of pills.
0:31:01.253,0:31:02.380
Demerol.
0:31:02.672,0:31:03.841
Like a drugstore.
0:31:05.971,0:31:08.559
You delivered drugs six times[br]and didn't know it?
0:31:11.816,0:31:12.902
Stupid, huh?
0:31:14.238,0:31:15.491
Then Gilbert asked me again.
0:31:16.701,0:31:18.163
I couldn't say no, but this time
0:31:18.163,0:31:20.209
I made Alex open the package[br]in front of me.
0:31:20.919,0:31:22.338
Voila.
0:31:24.676,0:31:27.182
I go, "Awful lot of pharmaceuticals[br]for one person."
0:31:27.933,0:31:30.647
He goes, "Oh, I give some to my mom
0:31:30.814,0:31:31.983
to keep her off my back."
0:31:33.862,0:31:36.660
Few weeks later,[br]Gilbert gets mistaken for a softball.
0:31:37.662,0:31:39.165
Two guys bash his head in.
0:31:39.791,0:31:42.213
Alex calls me, totally urinary.
0:31:42.672,0:31:44.134
Will the cops find his phone number
0:31:44.134,0:31:46.221
and fuck up his trust fund or something?
0:31:47.724,0:31:49.019
Well, that's the fat.
0:31:50.605,0:31:51.649
That's the skinny.
0:31:52.944,0:31:53.946
You like it?
0:31:55.658,0:31:58.246
You traffic with drug dealers[br]and drag queens.
0:31:58.413,0:31:59.582
You have a part-time job.
0:31:59.749,0:32:01.420
You ride around in rented limos.
0:32:01.712,0:32:02.881
All in all, I would have to say
0:32:02.881,0:32:04.802
you're probably[br]the least impressive witness
0:32:04.802,0:32:05.887
I've ever seen.
0:32:06.597,0:32:07.557
Wait a minute.
0:32:11.775,0:32:14.196
You think I'm scum, don't you?
0:32:15.198,0:32:17.161
Blow it out your ass.
0:32:18.664,0:32:20.209
You want a witness to back me up?
0:32:20.919,0:32:22.046
I'll get one.
0:32:22.714,0:32:23.800
And, hey,
0:32:24.134,0:32:26.430
maybe I'll see you at the Celtics, huh?
0:32:38.455,0:32:40.292
I am not going to let them execute you.
0:32:40.543,0:32:41.545
You're not going to die.
0:32:42.338,0:32:43.466
Look, Johnny, th--
0:32:44.342,0:32:46.096
Johnny, this is going to be[br]a lot easier on me
0:32:46.096,0:32:48.810
if you don't cry, okay? I--I kn--
0:32:48.977,0:32:50.647
I know your brother's hysterical, I--
0:32:50.981,0:32:53.528
Number o--they always set a date[br]for the execution,
0:32:53.695,0:32:55.157
and they always postpone it...
0:32:55.992,0:32:57.620
He's great when he's like this, huh?
0:32:58.497,0:32:59.290
That's right.
0:32:59.415,0:33:01.712
I just wish he had something left[br]for the people around him.
0:33:01.712,0:33:02.505
What are you talking to me about money?
0:33:02.672,0:33:04.134
Did I ever ask you about money?
0:33:04.468,0:33:06.263
Anyway, it's nice to have you back here.
0:33:08.100,0:33:09.645
Okay. Say hello to your brother.
0:33:10.522,0:33:11.608
Right.
0:33:11.900,0:33:13.027
Okay.
0:33:20.877,0:33:22.630
Okay, who's got what?
0:33:25.428,0:33:27.349
Uh, yeah. Maria's testimony.
0:33:27.599,0:33:30.480
She says Sunny did take Valium[br]prescribed for Claus.
0:33:30.814,0:33:32.234
Okay, score one for von Bulow.
0:33:32.443,0:33:34.739
And this Jamie Smather prescription?
0:33:34.906,0:33:35.825
Who's Jamie Smather?
0:33:35.992,0:33:39.081
Three-hundred-pound redheaded hooker[br]in pigtails and white boots.
0:33:39.207,0:33:41.211
She supplied Claus with Valium.
0:33:41.503,0:33:44.092
He had a gorgeous mistress[br]and he went with an ugly whore?
0:33:44.342,0:33:46.848
You know, there's some things[br]even mistresses won't do.
0:33:49.144,0:33:50.271
Like what?
0:33:50.814,0:33:51.816
I-I'm not telling.
0:33:53.570,0:33:55.825
Anyway, Maria swears
0:33:55.992,0:33:59.248
she first saw this Jamie Smather[br]prescription February 14th,
0:33:59.708,0:34:01.712
and then again February 28th.
0:34:02.296,0:34:02.839
So?
0:34:03.132,0:34:05.052
It wasn't prescribed till the 28th.
0:34:05.386,0:34:07.557
You're not suggesting she's lying?
0:34:08.142,0:34:10.271
Okay, how about Maria's insulin?[br]"For what, insulin"?
0:34:10.271,0:34:11.775
- Anything more on that?[br]- Not yet.
0:34:14.196,0:34:15.574
Something about that bothers me.
0:34:17.996,0:34:19.081
Okay, who's next?
0:34:19.875,0:34:21.044
Brillhoffer wrote back.
0:34:22.547,0:34:24.092
He's very attached to his notes.
0:34:27.432,0:34:29.061
"I am satisfied
0:34:29.854,0:34:31.983
that there is not a scrap of paper[br]in my files
0:34:32.150,0:34:35.365
that might even arguably[br]be viewed as exculpatory."
0:34:35.532,0:34:36.618
English translation?
0:34:36.785,0:34:38.914
He says he doesn't have[br]anything that'd help us.
0:34:41.587,0:34:42.797
You with me?
0:34:43.132,0:34:43.758
Pay dirt.
0:34:44.092,0:34:44.802
What's pay dirt?
0:34:44.927,0:34:46.096
He's a lawyer.
0:34:46.221,0:34:48.810
If he really didn't have anything,[br]he'd give it to us...
0:34:49.228,0:34:50.146
but there's something there
0:34:50.271,0:34:52.401
and he's gonna fight like hell[br]to hold onto it.
0:34:52.735,0:34:53.946
I will bet my fee
0:34:54.363,0:34:56.200
that no one remembered seeing insulin
0:34:56.994,0:34:58.580
until after the lab report came back.
0:34:59.081,0:35:00.209
So... you're suggesting...
0:35:00.209,0:35:01.378
Memory enhancement.
0:35:02.296,0:35:03.424
It might be more than that.
0:35:03.507,0:35:04.635
Possibly.
0:35:06.889,0:35:07.975
A frame-up.
0:35:08.559,0:35:09.770
You mean by the kids?
0:35:10.271,0:35:12.693
Where are you getting all this,[br]from Brillhoffer's letter?
0:35:12.693,0:35:13.737
Pure deduction.
0:35:14.029,0:35:18.622
A good lawyer is part psychiatrist,[br]detective, logician.
0:35:19.415,0:35:20.167
A great lawyer--
0:35:20.334,0:35:22.004
Never would have taken this case.
0:35:24.175,0:35:25.303
If there's nothing more...
0:35:26.221,0:35:27.557
has anybody read this?
0:35:29.770,0:35:31.482
It's an interview with Truman Capote.
0:35:32.150,0:35:33.904
He says when she was 19,
0:35:34.071,0:35:35.532
Sunny von Bulow
0:35:35.699,0:35:37.453
taught him how to inject drugs.
0:35:37.620,0:35:38.789
Let me see that.
0:35:41.503,0:35:44.468
Well, well, well, the famous professor.
0:35:44.635,0:35:46.931
Alan, I'd like to introduce[br]my new girlfriend,
0:35:47.056,0:35:50.313
- Andrea Reynolds.[br]- I'm not his girlfriend, I'm his savior.
0:35:50.480,0:35:51.065
Perfectly true.
0:35:51.232,0:35:53.612
Two days after the trial ended,[br]we fell in love.
0:35:53.904,0:35:57.620
- It was really very, very dramatic.[br]- Yes, Andrea, Andrea, come on.
0:35:59.248,0:36:02.338
Since then, I've devoted my life[br]to clearing his name.
0:36:02.839,0:36:05.052
I made him hire you.
0:36:06.388,0:36:08.225
"Get the Jew," I said.
0:36:09.603,0:36:10.647
Darling...
0:36:11.733,0:36:13.111
Can the Jew get down to business?
0:36:14.697,0:36:15.992
We've got an affidavit.
0:36:17.119,0:36:19.708
A Smythe, Mrs. Ruth Smythe,
0:36:20.418,0:36:23.299
gave us an affidavit[br]corroborating Truman Capote.
0:36:23.925,0:36:25.303
I have affidavits, too.
0:36:27.724,0:36:28.894
Newport people.
0:36:29.019,0:36:31.106
They describe Sunny taking pills,
0:36:31.273,0:36:33.069
getting drunk and falling down...
0:36:33.403,0:36:34.864
bumping into doorways,
0:36:35.031,0:36:36.701
smearing lipstick all over her face.
0:36:37.161,0:36:37.954
Not a very pretty picture.
0:36:38.246,0:36:39.457
She did it, didn't she?
0:36:40.376,0:36:42.171
Don't be a priss.
0:36:43.466,0:36:44.175
Sunny was a lovely woman.
0:36:44.468,0:36:45.553
Spoiled rotten.
0:36:46.347,0:36:47.516
Yes, but lovely.
0:36:48.392,0:36:49.478
Till she drank.
0:36:50.647,0:36:53.612
Two drinks and she became... nasty,
0:36:53.904,0:36:56.200
- irrational.[br]- All women are irrational, darling.
0:36:56.493,0:36:57.787
Did we mention the priest?
0:36:57.996,0:37:02.171
Oh. Marriott apparently[br]confided in a priest
0:37:02.672,0:37:04.301
who's consented to talk to us.
0:37:07.223,0:37:09.019
A Father Capello from Providence.
0:37:11.441,0:37:12.443
Priest?
0:37:13.570,0:37:15.365
Well, a priest is the ideal witness.
0:37:15.532,0:37:17.411
- It's like getting the word of God.[br]- I checked.
0:37:17.411,0:37:19.081
God is unavailable.
0:37:20.251,0:37:20.877
If...
0:37:21.336,0:37:22.839
if the priest comes through
0:37:23.006,0:37:25.428
and we can get documentation[br]on Sunny's drug use,
0:37:25.929,0:37:28.017
then self-injection[br]may be a plausible theory.
0:37:28.351,0:37:29.687
There's no insulin in this case.
0:37:29.979,0:37:31.566
Yeah, but people do use insulin,
0:37:31.983,0:37:34.154
they use it for dieting,[br]it's not a prescription drug.
0:37:34.154,0:37:35.658
Sunny was concerned about her weight.
0:37:35.658,0:37:37.161
Maybe, but believe me, Alan...
0:37:38.079,0:37:39.081
there's no insulin here.
0:37:43.591,0:37:44.593
Really?
0:37:45.470,0:37:46.597
How can you be so sure?
0:37:55.031,0:37:56.033
Do you realize...
0:37:57.244,0:38:00.251
with this case,[br]I'm looking for evidence to exonerate you?
0:38:01.044,0:38:03.507
But at the same time,[br]I'm also wondering...
0:38:05.052,0:38:06.096
what really happened...
0:38:06.848,0:38:07.850
who you are.
0:38:08.351,0:38:09.645
Who would you like me to be?
0:38:13.737,0:38:14.823
Your mother's death...
0:38:15.532,0:38:16.743
what happened?
0:38:17.787,0:38:19.875
I believe she had a heart problem.
0:38:20.877,0:38:21.503
Really?
0:38:21.879,0:38:23.591
The rumor in England is you killed her.
0:38:23.591,0:38:24.969
Hey, wait a minute, Alan.
0:38:25.261,0:38:27.390
Statute of limitations[br]ran out on that years ago.
0:38:27.390,0:38:29.478
There's rumors also that I killed my aunt.
0:38:32.568,0:38:34.238
And that I'm a necrophiliac,
0:38:34.739,0:38:36.493
who injected Sunny with insulin
0:38:36.618,0:38:38.372
so that I could have my way with her.
0:38:40.209,0:38:41.503
Please.
0:38:47.349,0:38:49.311
Did Claus drive me crazy?
0:38:50.564,0:38:51.900
Even I don't know.
0:38:53.194,0:38:56.785
But it's true that I took up to[br]24 laxatives daily,
0:38:57.453,0:38:59.541
popped Aspirin like M&Ms,
0:39:00.084,0:39:02.672
smoked three packs of cigarettes a day,
0:39:03.173,0:39:05.470
had a problem with alcohol,
0:39:06.096,0:39:08.518
took Valium and Seconal frequently,
0:39:08.810,0:39:11.441
and consumed large quantities of sweets
0:39:11.733,0:39:14.864
despite a medical condition, hypoglycemia,
0:39:15.198,0:39:16.618
which made them hazardous.
0:39:18.580,0:39:20.376
As for my state of mind...
0:39:26.555,0:39:30.146
I had not had sex[br]with my husband for years.
0:39:32.276,0:39:33.528
My schedule was...
0:39:34.238,0:39:35.992
I woke at 9:30,
0:39:36.451,0:39:38.747
did a little exercise and shopping,
0:39:39.415,0:39:41.211
and returned to bed at three o'clock
0:39:41.378,0:39:43.173
for the remainder of the afternoon.
0:39:44.426,0:39:46.430
I liked to be in bed.
0:39:47.516,0:39:49.812
I didn't much like anything else.
0:39:56.159,0:39:57.286
Hold on here, will you?
0:40:16.409,0:40:16.994
Come in.
0:40:17.286,0:40:18.413
Alan.
0:40:18.706,0:40:20.376
Welcome to my humble law firm.
0:40:22.004,0:40:23.132
In the kitchen,
0:40:23.674,0:40:25.553
our insulin-on-the-needle team.
0:40:26.221,0:40:28.977
They're cooking up some surprise for us.
0:40:33.862,0:40:35.866
This is our Brillhoffer notes team.
0:40:36.994,0:40:38.246
Mr. von Bulow!
0:40:38.789,0:40:40.501
Where do you keep the paper towels?
0:40:41.461,0:40:42.630
Ask Sarah!
0:40:42.797,0:40:43.883
Sarah used to live here.
0:40:45.887,0:40:47.015
This--
0:40:47.850,0:40:49.144
I guess he was up all night.
0:40:57.328,0:40:58.580
This sort of commune,
0:40:58.914,0:41:00.501
you do it on every case?
0:41:00.585,0:41:01.795
Never before.
0:41:02.129,0:41:04.384
Thirty-eight days to write 100 pages?
0:41:04.927,0:41:06.054
Only way to get it done.
0:41:06.973,0:41:08.476
Here's the black bag team.
0:41:08.810,0:41:09.937
Illegal search teams.
0:41:20.209,0:41:21.879
My son, Elon, lost his room.
0:41:22.046,0:41:23.925
Well, actually, this is, uh,[br]this is another case
0:41:23.925,0:41:24.927
that you're paying for.
0:41:26.597,0:41:27.683
And this is my team.
0:41:28.852,0:41:29.937
You wish.
0:41:30.605,0:41:32.025
I--I can't find the damn thing.
0:41:33.653,0:41:34.697
Hi. I'm Sarah.
0:41:34.990,0:41:36.827
And a very lovely Sarah you are.
0:41:38.288,0:41:39.541
Does that really work?
0:41:40.000,0:41:40.543
Flattery?
0:41:41.002,0:41:42.004
Absolutely.
0:41:44.134,0:41:45.344
Like Chinese food?
0:41:47.015,0:41:49.144
What do you give a wife[br]who has everything?
0:41:51.441,0:41:53.027
An injection of insulin.
0:41:56.618,0:41:58.455
How--Ah, my prawns.
0:41:59.040,0:42:02.129
How can one define a fear of insulin?
0:42:03.466,0:42:04.760
Claus-trophobia.
0:42:11.065,0:42:12.735
Is there anything more you can tell us
0:42:12.902,0:42:14.238
about Alexandra Isles?
0:42:15.365,0:42:17.161
For instance, is it true[br]that she gave you a deadline
0:42:17.161,0:42:18.998
of Christmas 1979 to be together?
0:42:19.666,0:42:20.668
Uh, not really.
0:42:21.002,0:42:23.299
No, she knew I was looking[br]for full-time work.
0:42:23.507,0:42:25.846
I worked for JP Getty in London.
0:42:26.013,0:42:27.850
Alexandra assumed that[br]when you did find a job,
0:42:27.850,0:42:28.977
you'd marry her, correct?
0:42:30.104,0:42:31.399
Oh, she assumed it.
0:42:33.820,0:42:34.697
How about when she testified,
0:42:34.823,0:42:37.119
did you get a sense that[br]she wanted to get back together?
0:42:37.119,0:42:39.875
Very much so.[br]In fact, at the trial, she said...
0:42:40.042,0:42:44.259
I loved him, but I was still caught up[br]in my own anger...
0:42:46.013,0:42:48.017
and I'm sorry I acted that way then.
0:42:48.977,0:42:50.814
I loved him, and I was angry.
0:42:52.443,0:42:54.363
Let me ask you this.[br]Maybe you can't answer.
0:42:55.198,0:42:56.451
Do you still love him?
0:42:58.580,0:42:59.374
I don't know.
0:42:59.666,0:43:01.169
That means yes, doesn't it?
0:43:01.670,0:43:02.756
It would seem so.
0:43:03.006,0:43:04.217
In fact, after the trial,
0:43:04.384,0:43:06.514
she wrote me a letter[br]saying so explicitly.
0:43:07.349,0:43:09.102
A very passionate letter.
0:43:09.311,0:43:10.772
Passionate and...
0:43:11.232,0:43:12.359
jealous.
0:43:13.361,0:43:15.950
But that was the relationship[br]from the outset.
0:43:16.284,0:43:17.745
That was Alexandra.
0:43:17.912,0:43:19.081
She was your love slave.
0:43:28.768,0:43:32.067
Well, I think now[br]I'll have my own individual order
0:43:32.234,0:43:33.570
of ginger prawns.
0:43:35.992,0:43:38.288
- Waiter.[br]- Three weeks before her final coma,
0:43:38.998,0:43:40.501
Sunny overdosed on Aspirin.
0:43:41.294,0:43:42.630
Can you tell us anything about that?
0:43:42.630,0:43:45.052
No one maintained[br]I had anything to do with that, Alan.
0:43:45.052,0:43:46.096
No, of course not.
0:43:46.848,0:43:48.142
I'm asking you what happened.
0:43:48.434,0:43:50.772
Well, Sunny had been unwell.
0:43:57.745,0:43:58.747
Are you all right?
0:43:59.040,0:44:00.835
Oh, just a bit dizzy.
0:44:03.591,0:44:05.553
Well, if you're dizzy, don't go wandering.
0:44:21.921,0:44:22.965
Sunny?
0:44:26.096,0:44:27.056
Oh, my God.
0:44:27.516,0:44:28.518
Come on, my darling.
0:44:29.478,0:44:30.271
Now, you're all right.
0:44:30.438,0:44:32.067
Come on, put your arm around my shoulder.
0:44:32.067,0:44:32.693
There we are.
0:44:32.860,0:44:34.154
Now, you're all right.
0:44:34.363,0:44:37.077
Get you--come on.[br]We'll get you back into bed.
0:44:39.081,0:44:40.793
Something happened to my head.
0:44:40.960,0:44:42.296
- You're all right.[br]- It's cut.
0:44:43.299,0:44:45.052
Just a little cut. It's nothing.
0:44:45.261,0:44:46.305
Come on.
0:44:46.388,0:44:47.850
Let's get you lying down.
0:44:52.192,0:44:53.403
There you are.
0:44:57.453,0:44:58.539
There.
0:45:02.422,0:45:03.591
Shall I call a doctor?
0:45:03.883,0:45:05.720
No! No, I don't want--
0:45:06.054,0:45:07.056
I don't want a doctor.
0:45:07.182,0:45:08.810
Just... don't want a doctor.
0:45:09.896,0:45:12.526
Just want to be left alone.
0:45:13.653,0:45:16.493
Want to be left alone[br]with all those beaut--beautiful letters.
0:45:17.203,0:45:18.413
What did you do with those letters?
0:45:18.413,0:45:19.875
Why did you write those letters?
0:45:20.167,0:45:21.211
And those...
0:45:21.795,0:45:23.382
Later, Dr. Praug said
0:45:23.549,0:45:25.052
we needn't have gone to the hospital,
0:45:25.052,0:45:26.889
but I wasn't going to take any chances.
0:45:27.056,0:45:28.643
Why did she take so much Aspirin?
0:45:29.102,0:45:31.106
Oh, Sunny always took Aspirin.
0:45:31.524,0:45:33.653
She'd been taking a lot for several days.
0:45:33.820,0:45:35.115
That's not what our doctor said.
0:45:35.115,0:45:36.785
Dr. Lucas Lupardus,
0:45:37.077,0:45:40.000
chief forensic toxicologist,[br]Suffolk County,
0:45:40.292,0:45:43.090
says that people who take large[br]amounts of Aspirin every day
0:45:43.257,0:45:44.259
never reach that level.
0:45:44.843,0:45:47.474
He also said the average blood level[br]in cases of death is...
0:45:47.641,0:45:49.896
Sixty. Hers was 90.
0:45:50.313,0:45:50.939
So...
0:45:51.106,0:45:53.570
So it was obviously a suicide attempt.
0:45:54.990,0:45:55.574
Why?
0:45:55.658,0:45:57.203
Yeah, why?
0:45:57.286,0:45:57.871
Why?
0:45:58.121,0:46:01.628
Alan, do they all want to be prosecutors?
0:46:04.384,0:46:05.428
We're waiting.
0:46:09.228,0:46:11.065
Well, I presume she was unhappy.
0:46:18.246,0:46:20.501
How about we all finish up[br]and go back to the house?
0:46:22.296,0:46:25.219
We're not going to win this[br]on a technicality. Peter.
0:46:26.347,0:46:28.309
I've read every case[br]in the last seven years
0:46:28.476,0:46:30.564
where the Rhode Island[br]Supreme Court reversed.
0:46:30.731,0:46:32.067
They don't like to make new law,
0:46:32.067,0:46:34.322
they don't like to discuss[br]broad legal issues.
0:46:34.489,0:46:35.783
When they do reverse,
0:46:35.950,0:46:37.411
the grounds are technical,
0:46:37.578,0:46:39.666
but the reason seems to be
0:46:39.833,0:46:42.463
they suspect a convicted defendant[br]may be innocent.
0:46:43.716,0:46:45.386
Okay, so everybody get that?
0:46:46.305,0:46:49.269
True or not,[br]we've got to convince the judges
0:46:50.313,0:46:51.733
that you are innocent.
0:46:52.568,0:46:55.491
Claus, now I do want to hear[br]your side of the story.
0:46:55.658,0:46:56.743
With pleasure.
0:46:57.453,0:46:59.708
Innocence has always been my position.
0:47:05.094,0:47:07.015
First coma. What preceded it?
0:47:09.436,0:47:10.898
Well, Sunny loved Christmas.
0:47:11.733,0:47:13.612
It was her favorite season, really.
0:47:14.697,0:47:17.745
You see, what you must understand[br]about Sunny
0:47:17.912,0:47:21.002
is that she loved giving[br]more than anything else.
0:47:21.253,0:47:24.718
� Peace on Earth and mercy mild
0:47:24.885,0:47:27.015
� God and sinners reconciled...
0:47:27.182,0:47:30.522
Each year, she always made[br]a big bowl of fresh eggnog.
0:47:31.106,0:47:33.236
Now, that year, she drank a lot of it.
0:47:33.653,0:47:34.656
How much?
0:47:34.948,0:47:36.910
Oh, 10 or 12 glasses.
0:47:38.330,0:47:40.000
With her hypoglycemia?
0:47:41.336,0:47:42.881
She didn't always drink like that?
0:47:42.923,0:47:43.925
Never.
0:47:44.217,0:47:47.683
She never touched alcohol at all[br]except on social occasions
0:47:47.808,0:47:49.395
to overcome her shyness...
0:47:49.812,0:47:51.566
or when she was upset.
0:47:52.735,0:47:54.948
This was not a social occasion.
0:47:55.491,0:47:56.576
No.
0:47:57.745,0:48:00.376
We'd been discussing divorce[br]all afternoon.
0:48:17.745,0:48:19.415
This whole subject of your...
0:48:20.793,0:48:23.215
work... coming between us,
0:48:24.760,0:48:27.975
isn't it just a pretext[br]when the real subject is her?
0:48:28.768,0:48:29.770
Certainly not.
0:48:32.651,0:48:35.783
I'm thinking of redecorating[br]this whole fucking house.
0:48:38.205,0:48:39.833
Then she knew about Alexandra.
0:48:41.628,0:48:42.714
Yes.
0:48:42.965,0:48:44.050
How did she find out?
0:48:46.514,0:48:47.766
I, um...
0:48:48.476,0:48:50.104
I told her the previous summer.
0:48:56.743,0:48:58.706
Ala, can't we find one a bit slower?
0:49:04.843,0:49:06.305
- Ah, that's much better.[br]- Hm.
0:49:07.808,0:49:08.894
- Cooler.[br]- Hm.
0:49:12.025,0:49:13.152
Thank you.
0:49:22.296,0:49:23.883
Oh, I've been meaning to mention...
0:49:25.052,0:49:27.015
our understanding about my...
0:49:29.144,0:49:30.939
extracurricular activities.
0:49:33.319,0:49:35.240
I've been involved with someone who...
0:49:35.783,0:49:38.706
falls outside the parameters[br]of our agreement.
0:49:39.040,0:49:40.209
- Really?[br]- Someone...
0:49:40.501,0:49:42.129
peripherally in our circle.
0:49:44.551,0:49:45.553
Billy Botsky's daughter,
0:49:45.720,0:49:47.265
Alexandra Isles.
0:49:49.812,0:49:50.898
Well.
0:49:54.154,0:49:55.407
That must be better for you
0:49:55.491,0:49:57.119
than what you've had to put up with.
0:49:58.873,0:50:00.501
You're referring to the call girls.
0:50:02.004,0:50:03.090
Yes.
0:50:04.509,0:50:07.808
I mean, that is where[br]you've gone previously, isn't it?
0:50:08.434,0:50:09.562
Yes, it is.
0:50:12.401,0:50:13.612
And isn't this better?
0:50:15.115,0:50:17.704
Or is Billy Botsky's daughter[br]a call girl, too?
0:50:19.624,0:50:20.919
This is much better.
0:50:30.188,0:50:31.566
That was what, July, August?
0:50:32.025,0:50:33.152
Now it's Christmas time,
0:50:33.486,0:50:35.783
and you were[br]still squabbling over Alexandra?
0:50:36.200,0:50:38.330
No. We were fighting about my work.
0:50:38.706,0:50:39.833
Sunny was...
0:50:42.088,0:50:43.883
well, by the evening,
0:50:44.050,0:50:45.470
she'd drunk so much eggnog,
0:50:45.637,0:50:47.516
that I had to help her into the bedroom.
0:50:48.935,0:50:50.063
Alexander.
0:50:51.232,0:50:52.526
Time for bed, darling.
0:50:58.205,0:50:59.374
There we are.
0:51:06.138,0:51:07.975
Please don't hold my arm.
0:51:08.894,0:51:10.731
Darling, you know[br]when you get like this...
0:51:11.524,0:51:12.526
Remember?
0:51:14.280,0:51:15.616
You fell and broke your hip.
0:51:15.741,0:51:17.411
That was years ago.
0:51:19.708,0:51:21.336
It was two years ago.
0:51:42.630,0:51:44.342
Get me a scotch and soda.
0:51:55.616,0:51:58.205
May I at least urinate alone?
0:52:18.038,0:52:20.334
She runs the water[br]every time she goes in there.
0:52:22.923,0:52:25.344
If she was already soused,[br]why'd you go for the scotch?
0:52:25.470,0:52:27.140
Because she asked for it.
0:52:28.894,0:52:31.190
Sunny got what Sunny wanted.
0:52:31.691,0:52:32.777
It's okay.
0:53:02.630,0:53:03.716
Good night, Dad.
0:53:04.342,0:53:05.344
Good night, darling.
0:53:07.516,0:53:08.727
Good night, Claus.
0:53:09.269,0:53:10.397
Good night, Alex.
0:53:24.217,0:53:26.180
Hasn't my mother given us enough money?
0:53:28.309,0:53:28.935
Claus?
0:53:29.144,0:53:30.856
That night, we hardly slept.
0:53:31.232,0:53:33.862
Your age,[br]it's perfectly acceptable to retire.
0:53:34.781,0:53:36.117
I'm already retired.
0:53:37.578,0:53:39.457
I haven't worked full-time since Getty.
0:53:39.624,0:53:41.002
Exactly. It's your ego.
0:53:41.127,0:53:42.881
You've never had a career. Not really.
0:53:43.883,0:53:45.470
Well, I'm going to have one now.
0:53:48.768,0:53:51.065
Oh, come on, Sunny, your father worked.
0:53:52.693,0:53:54.322
Do you want the children to grow up
0:53:54.489,0:53:56.701
thinking a male's place[br]is in a deck chair?
0:53:56.785,0:53:58.372
Claus, you marry me for my money,
0:53:58.372,0:53:59.207
then you demand to work.
0:53:59.374,0:54:00.793
You're the prince of perversion.
0:54:01.336,0:54:03.382
I mean, what? Are you trying[br]to destroy our whole family?
0:54:03.382,0:54:04.342
Oh, no, of course not.
0:54:04.509,0:54:06.597
I--I... I simply want some...
0:54:08.267,0:54:09.687
intercourse with the world.
0:54:09.770,0:54:10.981
Shut up, Pan!
0:54:12.067,0:54:13.152
Oh, what does it matter?
0:54:16.743,0:54:19.123
So Is that it?
0:54:20.585,0:54:21.587
Another divorce?
0:54:24.676,0:54:25.720
Okay.
0:54:25.971,0:54:28.058
I'll divorce you. I will.
0:54:29.102,0:54:30.438
Oh, God...
0:54:31.232,0:54:32.484
Two-time loser.
0:54:34.280,0:54:35.574
I'll divorce everybody.
0:54:36.242,0:54:38.372
I don't want a divorce.
0:54:39.165,0:54:41.754
I don't want to marry[br]Billy Botsky's daughter.
0:54:41.921,0:54:43.716
I want to stay with you[br]and I want to work.
0:54:43.716,0:54:46.180
I need that as a man.
0:54:50.188,0:54:51.357
It's hopeless.
0:54:54.489,0:54:55.574
Oh, God.
0:54:57.203,0:54:58.664
I need my beauty sleep.
0:54:58.831,0:55:01.795
Why do you--why do you believe[br]it's hopeless just because of some...
0:55:42.589,0:55:43.591
Good night, Claus.
0:55:45.971,0:55:47.474
Sunny, you know I love you.
0:56:06.263,0:56:07.307
Good night.
0:56:14.280,0:56:15.407
Okay, and the next day?
0:56:15.699,0:56:16.827
Well...
0:56:18.706,0:56:22.088
Maria's testimony was wildly exaggerated.
0:56:23.716,0:56:25.553
Sunny was never moaning.
0:56:26.639,0:56:28.810
Maybe the occasional snore, but...
0:56:30.731,0:56:33.027
And Maria shook Sunny.
0:56:36.117,0:56:38.831
Nobody ever shook Sunny.
0:56:43.090,0:56:45.177
What happened when[br]she regained consciousness?
0:56:45.553,0:56:46.973
After the first coma,
0:56:47.140,0:56:48.768
well, it was kind of absurd.
0:56:48.894,0:56:50.564
Everybody was angry at me.
0:56:54.656,0:56:56.660
Can't you ever leave me alone?
0:57:00.167,0:57:01.378
Why did you do it?
0:57:02.589,0:57:04.301
I would have been better off.
0:57:05.010,0:57:06.639
You would have been better off.
0:57:06.806,0:57:08.100
What do you want me to say?
0:57:08.559,0:57:10.063
That I'm sorry I saved your life?
0:57:10.355,0:57:11.357
Yes.
0:57:15.950,0:57:17.035
Say it.
0:57:25.010,0:57:26.263
Of course I'm not sorry.
0:57:44.635,0:57:45.678
Wha--
0:57:47.015,0:57:48.100
Claus...
0:57:52.443,0:57:54.572
what am I going to do with myself?
0:58:01.378,0:58:02.589
When I phoned Alexandra,
0:58:02.714,0:58:04.885
to tell her what had happened,[br]she said the same thing,
0:58:04.885,0:58:06.764
she said, "Why did you do it?
0:58:06.973,0:58:08.392
Why did you call the doctor?"
0:58:08.685,0:58:10.814
You telling me she wanted[br]you to let Sunny die?
0:58:11.190,0:58:13.653
No, no, no, no, no.
0:58:13.779,0:58:15.073
It was more...
0:58:15.699,0:58:19.165
"Everybody says Sunny's[br]such an unhappy woman
0:58:19.332,0:58:22.547
and has nothing to live for."
0:58:24.843,0:58:27.432
Well, so much for the first coma.
0:58:28.476,0:58:29.687
The second, of course,
0:58:30.146,0:58:31.816
was much more theatrical.
0:58:32.693,0:58:34.697
Theatrical? What is this, a fucking game?
0:58:35.365,0:58:37.787
This is life and death.[br]Your wife is laying in a coma.
0:58:38.998,0:58:41.086
You don't even make a pretense[br]of caring, do you?
0:58:42.380,0:58:43.716
'Course I care, Alan.
0:58:46.138,0:58:48.267
It's just I don't wear[br]my heart on my sleeve.
0:58:52.985,0:58:54.322
Let's call it a night, okay?
0:58:55.031,0:58:56.409
Okay, guys, so...
0:58:57.203,0:58:58.330
As you wish.
0:58:58.622,0:59:00.292
There were three drugs[br]on the needle, right?
0:59:00.292,0:59:02.589
Amobarbital, Valium, insulin.
0:59:04.301,0:59:05.637
We can't all be you, Alan.
0:59:14.322,0:59:15.532
Shoot! Shoot! All right.
0:59:16.159,0:59:18.622
Okay, get a doctor[br]to prepare five needles,
0:59:19.040,0:59:20.334
one with nothing,
0:59:20.501,0:59:23.090
two with Valium, amobarbital, and insulin,
0:59:23.340,0:59:25.219
two with just Valium and amobarbital.
0:59:25.428,0:59:28.434
We're gonna send them to the same lab[br]that our famous needle went to.
0:59:28.434,0:59:30.564
Let's see if we can get[br]a false positive result.
0:59:30.814,0:59:31.983
If we don't?
0:59:32.860,0:59:34.405
We don't, I clean the latrines.
0:59:34.572,0:59:36.075
Aw, you're not gonna believe this.
0:59:36.827,0:59:37.996
David Marriott wants money.
0:59:38.163,0:59:39.290
Yeah, who doesn't?
0:59:39.958,0:59:41.545
I'm afraid his memory might fade.
0:59:41.587,0:59:42.714
Oh, the hell with him. Forget about him.
0:59:42.714,0:59:44.008
Well, he has lost his crumby job,
0:59:44.008,0:59:46.597
and he is running around[br]trying to find evidence for us.
0:59:48.392,0:59:50.522
Okay, why don't we do what[br]the government does with its witnesses?
0:59:50.522,0:59:51.942
Okay? We'll pay for his time.
0:59:52.484,0:59:53.612
What's his time worth?
0:59:53.737,0:59:56.326
- Buck and a half.[br]- Sarah? Dersh?
0:59:57.411,0:59:58.497
Your team's on.
0:59:59.248,1:00:01.127
Okay.[br]You going to pass to me this game or what?
1:00:01.127,1:00:02.171
No.
1:00:04.175,1:00:05.637
Their private investigator said
1:00:05.762,1:00:07.766
the needle had a small encrustation[br]near the tip.
1:00:07.766,1:00:10.647
Now, doctors tell us this is[br]totally inconsistent with injection.
1:00:10.898,1:00:12.317
Okay, so how did it get there?
1:00:15.908,1:00:17.871
If I inject this needle,
1:00:18.205,1:00:20.251
the skin acts as kind of a swab.
1:00:20.626,1:00:21.921
It cleans the needle off,
1:00:22.213,1:00:24.885
leaving the tip completely free of liquid.
1:00:25.052,1:00:28.225
But if I just dip the needle[br]into the liquid,
1:00:28.351,1:00:29.520
what do you see?
1:00:30.522,1:00:31.524
Dry this out,
1:00:31.816,1:00:33.445
you have an encrustation.
1:00:33.779,1:00:34.864
So it's a frame-up?
1:00:35.407,1:00:37.244
It's Desdemona's handkerchief.
1:00:38.372,1:00:40.125
My stepchildren thought I was guilty,
1:00:40.292,1:00:41.962
didn't feel they had enough evidence,
1:00:41.962,1:00:43.215
and so concocted some.
1:00:43.549,1:00:45.010
This should win us the case, no?
1:00:45.261,1:00:47.432
No. We're maybe halfway home.
1:00:48.852,1:00:50.397
There's still a lot of weird stuff.
1:00:51.441,1:00:52.484
Did you love Sunny?
1:00:52.777,1:00:53.904
I married her.
1:00:55.240,1:00:57.035
Of course I loved her. She was beautiful.
1:00:57.035,1:00:58.163
Rich.
1:00:58.288,1:00:59.290
Why not?
1:00:59.582,1:01:01.461
What I've seen of the rich, you can have.
1:01:01.921,1:01:03.048
I do.
1:01:07.599,1:01:08.685
The black bag,
1:01:08.852,1:01:09.854
was it yours?
1:01:12.150,1:01:13.779
Sunny appropriated it.
1:01:14.405,1:01:15.908
Now, to understand that,
1:01:16.075,1:01:18.831
you must understand[br]that after the first coma,
1:01:19.123,1:01:21.253
she went into a complete rage.
1:01:26.305,1:01:27.975
Where are they? Did you take them?
1:01:28.184,1:01:29.228
Certainly not. Take what?
1:01:29.395,1:01:31.023
My pills, you moron.
1:01:32.109,1:01:33.445
Valium, Seconal...
1:01:35.240,1:01:36.367
you took them, didn't you?
1:01:36.910,1:01:39.248
My dear, I've long since[br]stopped interfering.
1:01:39.415,1:01:41.253
Well, who? My children wouldn't dare--
1:01:43.215,1:01:44.676
Oh, I know who.
1:01:44.843,1:01:45.971
Where are you going?
1:01:59.165,1:02:00.251
Maria!
1:02:10.188,1:02:11.691
She soon found them.
1:02:13.319,1:02:15.282
It's my lovely mother, isn't it?
1:02:15.658,1:02:17.035
She's behind all this.
1:02:17.954,1:02:19.791
She's in cahoots with Maria.
1:02:21.712,1:02:25.678
Well, just because she had all the money
1:02:25.846,1:02:27.641
before I had all the money
1:02:27.766,1:02:30.063
does not mean she's my lord and master.
1:02:30.397,1:02:32.651
'Course not. I am your lord and master.
1:02:34.697,1:02:35.741
Just kidding.
1:02:41.044,1:02:42.714
Maria loves me too much.
1:02:44.134,1:02:45.344
It's unhealthy for her,
1:02:46.096,1:02:48.392
and it's certainly no fun for me.
1:02:53.737,1:02:54.781
There.
1:03:10.856,1:03:12.902
We'll see if that ugly little maid of mine
1:03:13.069,1:03:14.238
can sniff this one out.
1:03:24.342,1:03:26.138
And what are you going[br]to do with all that?
1:03:27.307,1:03:28.434
I'm not going to tell you.
1:03:29.353,1:03:31.942
I assure you,[br]it not gonna be among my affairs.
1:03:33.904,1:03:36.743
Odd she used that word, affairs.
1:03:37.829,1:03:40.084
You realize the prosecution thinks[br]you ground up the drugs
1:03:40.084,1:03:41.378
so you could inject Sunny?
1:03:41.754,1:03:44.509
And frankly, this nose drop business[br]is pretty far-fetched.
1:03:45.303,1:03:47.599
But consider the pattern, Alan.
1:03:48.685,1:03:51.649
It's public record that Sunny used drugs.
1:03:51.983,1:03:54.781
Her behavior here of hiding them in liquid
1:03:55.240,1:03:56.994
so that no one will find them,
1:03:57.662,1:03:59.958
it's your classic alcoholic[br]buying pints of whiskey
1:04:00.209,1:04:01.879
and stashing them all over the house.
1:04:03.299,1:04:04.384
You're right.
1:04:05.595,1:04:06.597
Of course, I mean...
1:04:07.265,1:04:09.520
I mean, you've always[br]been right, haven't you?
1:04:10.856,1:04:13.152
This is the most dangerous case[br]I've ever worked on.
1:04:13.445,1:04:14.739
You find that exhilarating?
1:04:14.864,1:04:15.908
No, I do not.
1:04:17.328,1:04:18.497
I am breaking every rule.
1:04:18.956,1:04:21.253
'Cause the best way to win[br]is to proclaim your innocence,
1:04:21.253,1:04:23.173
and I've never done that for anybody.
1:04:24.175,1:04:26.096
And the problem I got is[br]I see who you are.
1:04:26.555,1:04:27.683
You'd do anything to win.
1:04:28.225,1:04:29.186
So would you.
1:04:29.353,1:04:31.148
Yeah, but you don't trust[br]the legal system.
1:04:32.025,1:04:34.238
You're saying I'd manufacture witnesses?
1:04:35.031,1:04:36.033
Affidavits?
1:04:37.537,1:04:39.791
No, but you would sacrifice me.
1:04:39.958,1:04:41.086
Oh, please, Alan.
1:04:41.211,1:04:44.426
See, the more I believe that[br]you are innocent, the more nervous I am.
1:04:45.595,1:04:47.098
I go out on a limb for you,
1:04:47.599,1:04:49.645
you're proven guilty,[br]I look like an asshole.
1:04:50.313,1:04:53.236
My reputation, my credibility,[br]my career, destroyed.
1:04:54.906,1:04:56.701
That's the risk you're taking, isn't it?
1:04:56.701,1:04:57.829
Yeah, well, fuck you.
1:04:58.664,1:04:59.791
Fuck you, man.
1:05:12.276,1:05:13.904
I'm glad we understand one another.
1:05:17.453,1:05:20.585
It's easy to forget[br]all this is about me...
1:05:21.253,1:05:22.338
lying here.
1:05:23.299,1:05:25.971
To most of you, my name means coma.
1:05:26.430,1:05:29.645
My second marriage means attempted murder.
1:05:30.355,1:05:31.775
Everything that came before,
1:05:31.942,1:05:35.324
everything beautiful,[br]does not exist in the public mind.
1:05:36.200,1:05:38.622
No one thinks of how I loved my children.
1:05:39.081,1:05:40.251
Look at Cosima,
1:05:41.211,1:05:42.213
and Alex, of course,
1:05:42.881,1:05:43.967
and Ala,
1:05:44.175,1:05:46.472
and certainly no one cares about Claus,
1:05:46.931,1:05:49.144
the way he was[br]when I fell in love with him.
1:05:49.896,1:05:51.524
When Claus and I first met,
1:05:51.649,1:05:55.198
I was married to the dashing, young[br]Prince Alfred Eduard Friederich
1:05:55.365,1:05:58.413
Vincenz Martin Maria von Auersberg.
1:05:59.457,1:06:01.670
It was 1964,
1:06:02.672,1:06:05.136
seven years into my first marriage.
1:06:10.856,1:06:12.902
It seems that my first husband,
1:06:13.152,1:06:15.324
Alfie, as he was called,
1:06:16.200,1:06:20.292
had vowed to be unfaithful[br]with every pretty girl in Europe.
1:06:22.422,1:06:24.593
He was having quite a success.
1:06:26.597,1:06:27.599
And so...
1:06:28.727,1:06:31.315
I was unfaithful with Claus.
1:06:42.714,1:06:43.800
Psst!
1:06:49.896,1:06:51.649
Wildly unfaithful.
1:06:53.862,1:06:54.906
Happy memories.
1:07:04.008,1:07:06.430
But it's not the passion I remember most.
1:07:08.392,1:07:09.687
It's the tenderness.
1:07:16.534,1:07:17.912
Good God, what's that?
1:07:18.622,1:07:20.125
There's one of Frank's pets.
1:07:24.760,1:07:26.430
Oh, my God. No, no.
1:07:42.255,1:07:43.340
Come on, silly.
1:07:43.466,1:07:45.303
I never liked people much,
1:07:45.762,1:07:46.931
not as a rule.
1:07:47.432,1:07:48.351
Go ahead, feed him.
1:07:48.518,1:07:50.772
But Claus was somehow different.
1:07:53.695,1:07:56.075
Not a normal person, I guess.
1:08:00.084,1:08:01.545
It's all right. Do it again.
1:08:01.712,1:08:02.797
Give him some more.
1:08:16.326,1:08:18.914
One of those things you never forget.
1:08:20.835,1:08:23.674
Of course, now he lives in my apartment...
1:08:24.760,1:08:25.804
my bedroom...
1:08:27.015,1:08:28.058
my bed.
1:08:29.311,1:08:30.814
Cold, isn't it?
1:08:31.983,1:08:35.073
Cold and brutish and the way of the world.
1:08:36.618,1:08:37.495
Looking at him now,
1:08:37.620,1:08:39.290
the issues seem simple.
1:08:40.376,1:08:41.587
Is he the devil?
1:08:42.547,1:08:45.762
If so, can the devil get justice?
1:08:47.056,1:08:49.228
And all this legal activity...
1:08:50.647,1:08:53.069
is it in Satan's service?
1:08:54.029,1:08:56.367
"Sunny von Bulow was totally vulnerable
1:08:56.493,1:08:57.954
to Claus von Bulow."
1:08:59.123,1:09:00.209
Can't argue with that.
1:09:00.919,1:09:03.674
But it's speculation. Exaggeration.
1:09:03.841,1:09:04.969
You keep working on it.
1:09:05.094,1:09:07.223
Totally inflammatory!
1:09:09.186,1:09:10.814
Okay, good. Let's go over this.
1:09:12.109,1:09:15.699
Okay, we went over it... once,[br]I just wanted you to see if...
1:09:23.507,1:09:25.595
Oh, shit, wha--what is this,[br]illegal search?
1:09:28.392,1:09:29.562
It's a classic technicality.
1:09:29.562,1:09:30.480
It's a guilty man's argument.
1:09:30.522,1:09:31.775
Come on, this is different.
1:09:31.900,1:09:34.113
Usual Fourth Amendment case,[br]you're trying to exclude evidence
1:09:34.113,1:09:35.532
- that's bad for your client.[br]- No, no. No, no.
1:09:35.532,1:09:36.994
Same thing here. Same thing.
1:09:37.161,1:09:39.457
No. This search destroyed evidence.
1:09:40.084,1:09:41.503
No fingerprints, no inventory.
1:09:41.587,1:09:43.633
Yeah, what's left hurts Claus,[br]but under Brady,
1:09:43.633,1:09:44.802
the state has an obligation--
1:09:44.802,1:09:46.889
Wait, wait, wait a second.[br]The cops tested the drugs
1:09:46.889,1:09:48.643
- from the illegal search, right?[br]- Yes, yes.
1:09:48.643,1:09:52.150
And we are saying that that test[br]constituted a second illegal search.
1:09:52.401,1:09:53.194
There are precedents.
1:09:53.361,1:09:55.031
- Walter, Jacobson, Morgan.[br]- I know there are precedents.
1:09:55.031,1:09:57.119
I know the law is on our side.[br]I'm not debating that.
1:09:57.119,1:09:57.787
What I'm trying to do is--
1:09:57.912,1:10:00.835
No. You're debating me personally. Why?
1:10:02.839,1:10:05.637
I'm debating strategy, okay?[br]I'm not--I'm not debating you.
1:10:05.804,1:10:06.722
We're all on the same team.
1:10:06.889,1:10:08.476
A-a-are we on the same team here or not?
1:10:08.476,1:10:10.271
I don't know. We seem to be.
1:10:10.522,1:10:11.942
Well then, why don't I feel it?
1:10:12.651,1:10:14.322
I thought this was strictly professional.
1:10:14.322,1:10:15.950
- It was.[br]- That's bullshit, Alan.
1:10:16.451,1:10:18.914
Look, I brought you--I--I asked you[br]to work on this case
1:10:19.040,1:10:20.376
because I think you are a good lawyer.
1:10:20.376,1:10:23.006
I think you're a fine lawyer, too.[br]You're a great lawyer.
1:10:23.173,1:10:24.676
But you give everything you have[br]to the law,
1:10:24.676,1:10:26.096
and you forget the people you care about.
1:10:26.096,1:10:28.852
My clients are the people[br]that I care about.
1:10:28.977,1:10:29.603
Obviously.
1:10:29.812,1:10:31.441
What I care about, all I care about,
1:10:31.441,1:10:33.695
all I fucking care about is this!
1:10:34.322,1:10:35.532
This case!
1:10:35.992,1:10:39.624
And making--making the best possible[br]appeal we're capable of doing, okay?
1:10:40.084,1:10:42.171
Now, you can make[br]your argument better, Sarah.
1:10:42.171,1:10:44.008
You know that! I know that!
1:10:44.175,1:10:46.722
So why don't you just do it[br]and cut out all the bullshit?
1:10:47.891,1:10:50.313
Wow, you always have to have[br]the last word, don't you?
1:11:21.962,1:11:23.006
What?
1:11:25.595,1:11:26.555
We're going to lose.
1:11:27.850,1:11:30.146
W-why do you think[br]this case fascinates people?
1:11:31.983,1:11:34.864
'Cause one time or other every man[br]is driven crazy by his wife,
1:11:35.031,1:11:36.159
and in his secret heart,
1:11:37.244,1:11:39.582
he wants to do exactly[br]what Claus is accused of,
1:11:40.710,1:11:44.468
kill her in some sly, silent way[br]that can't be detected.
1:11:44.927,1:11:46.722
Claus is a scapegoat.
1:11:47.265,1:11:49.979
Someone has to suffer for the sin[br]that we all want to commit.
1:11:52.735,1:11:55.324
Alan, that's ridiculous.
1:11:57.453,1:11:58.914
It's ridiculous, you're right.
1:11:59.290,1:12:00.501
It's rid--
1:12:03.674,1:12:04.760
What do you got?
1:12:05.094,1:12:08.058
Prosecution's case is based on a theory.
1:12:09.937,1:12:10.814
The needle in the bag,
1:12:10.939,1:12:12.610
plus insulin on the needle,
1:12:12.944,1:12:15.825
- plus insulin in her blood.[br]- Right, right, yeah. Okay, fine.
1:12:16.785,1:12:19.958
In Derek, this Rhode Island Supreme Court,
1:12:20.209,1:12:21.211
these same judges,
1:12:21.962,1:12:25.929
said that in a case based[br]on circumstantial theory,
1:12:27.265,1:12:28.977
the case falls apart
1:12:29.854,1:12:31.942
if any part of the theory is weak.
1:12:32.944,1:12:34.572
If there's a weak link in the chain,
1:12:34.572,1:12:36.117
then you throw the whole chain out?
1:12:36.451,1:12:37.453
Exactly.
1:12:39.415,1:12:41.002
Peter, that's very--that's good.
1:12:41.169,1:12:42.213
That--that's very good.
1:12:46.764,1:12:47.850
Oh, yeah, this is good.
1:12:48.559,1:12:49.687
- Thank you.[br]- Oh, yeah.
1:12:49.979,1:12:51.608
Wait, wait, wait.[br]What do you want me to do now?
1:12:51.608,1:12:52.401
What I want you to do?
1:12:52.568,1:12:55.198
I want you to find as many[br]alternative theories as possible.
1:12:56.660,1:12:59.123
Come on, come on, come on.[br]There's only seven days left.
1:13:03.800,1:13:06.430
Dersh? I'm sorry,[br]but you better come downstairs.
1:13:07.808,1:13:10.313
Hey, Dersh. Sorry to get you out of bed.
1:13:11.816,1:13:13.737
What do you--what do you want, more money?
1:13:13.737,1:13:14.906
Can you get more?
1:13:17.077,1:13:18.622
Can I have a glass of water, please?
1:13:23.132,1:13:24.259
No.
1:13:24.342,1:13:25.470
The reason I'm here,
1:13:25.762,1:13:27.390
my affidavit is inaccurate.
1:13:31.816,1:13:33.820
Great. Just what I need right now.
1:13:35.365,1:13:36.534
- That's swell.[br]- Yeah.
1:13:37.787,1:13:40.376
I left something out,[br]something incredibly important.
1:13:42.004,1:13:45.219
Remember I gave Alex's drugs[br]to a woman at Clarendon Court?
1:13:46.388,1:13:47.390
Yeah. So?
1:13:47.641,1:13:50.146
Well, that bitch was[br]definitely Sunny von Bulow.
1:13:52.109,1:13:53.737
David...
1:13:54.656,1:13:55.699
this, uh...
1:13:56.660,1:13:57.996
this is bad. It looks bad.
1:13:58.288,1:14:01.336
I've met with you, what,[br]five times now? All of a sudden--
1:14:01.503,1:14:02.923
No, it's not sudden.
1:14:03.800,1:14:05.762
I think I always knew,[br]but I became convinced
1:14:05.929,1:14:07.474
by staring at pictures of her.
1:14:11.441,1:14:14.029
Well, we can't use your affidavit[br]unless it's truthful.
1:14:14.656,1:14:15.658
Are you sure this time?
1:14:15.825,1:14:16.910
I swear...
1:14:17.662,1:14:19.624
on the body and soul of my mother.
1:14:21.294,1:14:22.380
Poor woman.
1:14:25.428,1:14:27.098
Put in this change and make him go over
1:14:27.098,1:14:28.476
every word of the affidavit.
1:14:31.399,1:14:32.568
can I use your men's room?
1:14:44.134,1:14:45.094
More money?
1:14:45.261,1:14:46.263
Can you get more?
1:14:52.526,1:14:54.530
But if Claus had injected her,
1:14:54.697,1:14:56.618
he'd have thrown away the needle, right?
1:14:56.785,1:14:58.914
Sure. If he threw away the insulin,
1:14:59.708,1:15:00.877
why keep the needle?
1:15:00.877,1:15:02.923
Hey, Claus is strange,[br]but he ain't stupid.
1:15:03.800,1:15:04.927
He is arrogant.
1:15:05.470,1:15:06.263
Is that a crime?
1:15:06.514,1:15:07.516
Sometimes.
1:15:08.017,1:15:09.937
Why are we even discussing this?
1:15:10.146,1:15:12.067
It's obvious. The kids framed him.
1:15:12.192,1:15:14.322
Whoa, you changed your tune.
1:15:17.620,1:15:19.666
A frame-up doesn't mean he's innocent.
1:15:20.543,1:15:22.505
The kids could have framed a guilty man.
1:15:23.800,1:15:24.802
Dersh!
1:15:24.927,1:15:26.054
Telephone!
1:15:29.645,1:15:30.772
It's Peter Macintosh.
1:15:31.942,1:15:33.069
Yeah?
1:15:38.706,1:15:39.875
You know what it is?
1:15:42.797,1:15:43.841
Okay.
1:15:48.392,1:15:50.731
Word in Rhode Island[br]is that the state can't lose.
1:15:50.981,1:15:52.526
They got an ace up their sleeve.
1:15:53.570,1:15:54.656
What is it?
1:15:57.578,1:15:58.914
He's going to try to find out.
1:16:01.670,1:16:02.756
All right, my friend...
1:16:03.006,1:16:04.217
Friend? I like that.
1:16:04.259,1:16:05.303
Nothing personal.
1:16:06.221,1:16:08.017
Okay, no students, no witnesses.
1:16:08.518,1:16:09.770
Second coma. Let's hear it.
1:16:10.772,1:16:11.900
Well, Alan,
1:16:12.192,1:16:14.489
strange as it may seem now in retrospect--
1:16:14.572,1:16:15.658
Claus, cut the bullshit.
1:16:15.825,1:16:17.328
December 20, 1980.
1:16:20.543,1:16:21.670
Sunny was unwell.
1:16:22.046,1:16:25.261
We'd been arguing all afternoon.
1:16:25.887,1:16:29.102
I'd at last been offered a new position[br]in the oil business,
1:16:29.186,1:16:31.691
which would have meant[br]my spending some time in Europe.
1:16:36.493,1:16:38.413
Well, the discussion must have escalated,
1:16:38.580,1:16:40.668
because I went to talk to the children.
1:16:42.965,1:16:46.221
This cargo will bring 50,000 gold florins
1:16:46.388,1:16:47.850
from any rebels worth the name.
1:16:47.975,1:16:49.311
50,000 florins?
1:16:49.603,1:16:51.273
That's a pretty good take.
1:16:51.441,1:16:52.610
Let's put it to the vote.
1:16:52.610,1:16:53.862
All those in favor--
1:16:54.029,1:16:56.451
If you'll forgive[br]my interrupting, skipper,
1:16:56.660,1:16:58.413
I'd like to think before I...
1:17:01.211,1:17:04.259
I... I've something to tell you both.
1:17:04.593,1:17:07.349
We're heading for[br]the biggest and the best pirate days ever!
1:17:07.724,1:17:09.603
I...
1:17:13.695,1:17:14.864
It looks as if...
1:17:16.284,1:17:17.453
as though...
1:17:17.912,1:17:20.209
Mummy and I are going to have to split up,
1:17:21.962,1:17:24.760
because my work is something[br]she just cannot tolerate.
1:17:25.094,1:17:26.764
Mummy says things like that.
1:17:28.225,1:17:29.645
She always gets over it.
1:17:30.271,1:17:32.860
Yes, but this has been[br]going on for too long.
1:17:41.002,1:17:43.507
I'm going to Europe for a few months[br]in the new year,
1:17:45.678,1:17:47.516
and this will probably lead to a split.
1:17:49.645,1:17:51.273
It's all right. She'll get over it.
1:17:54.948,1:17:57.704
Yeah, well, Alexander says[br]that conversation happened the next day.
1:17:57.704,1:17:59.332
Can you imagine anything more absurd
1:17:59.541,1:18:01.670
than announcing your intention[br]to divorce a woman
1:18:01.670,1:18:03.591
who's just fallen into a coma?
1:18:04.426,1:18:08.017
No. That evening,[br]everything seemed normal enough.
1:18:09.478,1:18:10.605
Not cheerful,
1:18:11.566,1:18:14.196
but then, we didn't usually[br]giggle at mealtimes.
1:18:15.324,1:18:18.079
Despite her doctor's warnings[br]about sweets,
1:18:18.246,1:18:21.211
the only thing Sunny consumed[br]was a sundae.
1:18:33.027,1:18:36.075
After supper, I went to finish off[br]some work in my study.
1:18:37.244,1:18:38.121
Well, what should we all do?
1:18:38.372,1:18:40.668
The others decided to chat[br]in the living room.
1:18:41.962,1:18:43.507
Ah, that would be lovely, but...
1:18:44.259,1:18:47.015
first I need to go to my--[br]to my room for just a minute.
1:19:01.503,1:19:03.758
After about an hour, I dropped in on them.
1:19:08.518,1:19:10.271
Darling, would you care for anything?
1:19:14.697,1:19:16.994
if there's some...
1:19:18.205,1:19:19.582
Chicken Bullion left.
1:19:24.050,1:19:25.052
I'll look.
1:19:40.334,1:19:41.503
There you are, darling.
1:19:51.900,1:19:52.985
Thank you.
1:20:01.169,1:20:03.424
How is your work... coming?
1:20:03.591,1:20:04.718
I'm totally flummoxed.
1:20:04.802,1:20:06.681
I can't get the figures to make any sense.
1:20:10.271,1:20:11.942
Why don't you call your friend Deborah?
1:20:13.361,1:20:14.990
I doubt she'd be in Saturday night.
1:20:19.875,1:20:23.257
So, Deborah, I think you'll agree,[br]that's 728... right, now.
1:20:23.883,1:20:25.052
But Deborah was home,
1:20:25.219,1:20:27.641
and we did talk for some time until...
1:20:29.019,1:20:29.937
- Claus.[br]- Hold on.
1:20:30.104,1:20:31.441
Come quick. Mummy's not well.
1:20:32.067,1:20:34.489
Deborah, can I call you back[br]in the morning? Thanks.
1:20:34.948,1:20:38.038
Her voice got very weak and[br]she almost fell down. I had to help her.
1:20:49.144,1:20:50.647
Somebody open a window.
1:20:54.322,1:20:56.284
I find the chill reassuring.
1:21:01.169,1:21:02.672
Now I must speak with Claus.
1:21:02.839,1:21:03.925
- Night, Mummy.[br]- Night.
1:21:09.562,1:21:10.605
Good night, darling.
1:21:13.486,1:21:14.530
Good night, Alex.
1:21:15.198,1:21:16.284
She'll be all right.
1:21:26.180,1:21:28.309
That is, if Claus has time to talk.
1:21:29.144,1:21:29.937
Or are you going to work
1:21:30.104,1:21:32.359
every spare moment[br]right through Christmas?
1:21:36.159,1:21:37.954
Is your work really so fascinating,
1:21:38.580,1:21:40.000
or are you trying to drive me away?
1:21:40.000,1:21:42.129
Because if you are,[br]it's succeeding beautifully,
1:21:42.255,1:21:43.299
because I don't want this.
1:21:44.426,1:21:45.595
I didn't marry you for this.
1:21:46.681,1:21:47.808
I could have had anybody.
1:21:48.017,1:21:49.603
With my money? Anybody.
1:21:51.232,1:21:52.317
Well?
1:21:53.361,1:21:54.489
Say something!
1:21:56.827,1:21:57.954
Do something!
1:21:59.207,1:22:00.209
Be a man!
1:22:02.255,1:22:03.591
I already have a butler.
1:22:08.643,1:22:09.729
Do something!
1:22:10.898,1:22:13.319
I don't want this! I don't!
1:22:13.528,1:22:14.697
I don't want this!
1:22:15.616,1:22:16.660
Please! I don't--
1:22:16.952,1:22:18.288
I don't want th...
1:22:20.167,1:22:22.630
The same conversation[br]as the previous year,
1:22:23.090,1:22:25.052
only this time with greater venom.
1:22:25.219,1:22:26.639
You've always been afraid of me.
1:22:27.015,1:22:28.351
It's not because of my money.
1:22:28.852,1:22:30.689
It's basically because you're a coward.
1:22:31.733,1:22:33.779
Because your pitiful masculinity[br]is so fragile
1:22:33.987,1:22:35.992
you can't stand the idea of confrontation,
1:22:36.159,1:22:38.580
so you go off with Miss Botsky--
1:22:38.747,1:22:39.833
Good night.
1:22:57.912,1:23:00.668
As was usual,[br]I was awakened before dawn.
1:23:06.973,1:23:09.269
I let the dogs out, as was customary.
1:23:14.363,1:23:15.783
I went back through the bedroom
1:23:15.783,1:23:18.706
to my study as quietly as possible.
1:23:24.426,1:23:26.848
I did not notice if my wife was in bed.
1:23:27.182,1:23:30.564
I did not notice if the light was on[br]under the bathroom door.
1:23:31.106,1:23:33.862
Had it been on,[br]I wouldn't have given it a thought.
1:23:34.781,1:23:37.244
I did my exercises, showered,
1:23:37.537,1:23:39.374
and then I called Deborah Knowles.
1:23:39.958,1:23:42.338
Well, I mean,[br]it's stable and it's profitable.
1:23:43.591,1:23:45.094
Can anyone really believe,
1:23:45.219,1:23:47.474
if I was trying to murder my wife,
1:23:47.641,1:23:51.232
that I would spend an hour[br]going over a tedious set of figures?
1:23:52.902,1:23:55.157
After the call, I passed[br]through the bedroom again.
1:23:55.324,1:23:56.576
I remember it was freezing.
1:23:57.119,1:23:59.541
By this time,[br]Sunny was certainly not in bed,
1:24:00.125,1:24:02.338
and I heard water running in the bathroom.
1:24:05.846,1:24:08.810
I had breakfast, walked the dogs,
1:24:09.395,1:24:10.564
and on my return,
1:24:10.731,1:24:12.693
asked the children where Mummy was.
1:24:13.987,1:24:15.282
Has Mummy had breakfast yet?
1:24:16.451,1:24:17.578
We haven't seen her.
1:24:22.296,1:24:23.424
Sunny?
1:24:25.428,1:24:27.474
Her bathroom was her private sanctuary.
1:24:27.933,1:24:30.689
No one entered it,[br]except the maid, of course,
1:24:30.856,1:24:31.858
to clean up.
1:24:32.860,1:24:35.741
Sometimes she stayed there for hours,[br]or so it seemed.
1:24:36.284,1:24:39.958
One can only speculate what goes on[br]behind a closed door.
1:24:40.167,1:24:41.461
Sunny, are you there?
1:24:43.132,1:24:45.052
I hesitated even to knock.
1:24:48.017,1:24:49.228
Darling?
1:25:05.553,1:25:06.681
Sunny?
1:25:09.102,1:25:10.230
Oh, God.
1:25:11.858,1:25:13.946
Once I'd ascertained she was breathing,
1:25:14.029,1:25:15.950
I went to fetch Alexander.
1:25:16.785,1:25:18.330
Why not call an ambulance first?
1:25:18.706,1:25:20.919
Panic, Alan, panic.
1:25:21.294,1:25:22.422
I mean, I--I...
1:25:23.424,1:25:25.678
I--I needed to talk to somebody. There--
1:25:26.681,1:25:28.267
There was no--I wasn't worried that--
1:25:28.267,1:25:29.896
she was breathing normally.
1:25:30.063,1:25:32.526
It wasn't--It wasn't like the year before.
1:25:33.695,1:25:35.908
I mean, in retrospect it seems absurd,
1:25:36.117,1:25:39.207
but I looked at her upper lip,[br]she had blood on it.
1:25:39.332,1:25:40.710
I thought she'd broken a tooth.
1:25:40.710,1:25:42.923
That was the extent of my concern,
1:25:44.050,1:25:45.052
and that's...
1:25:45.553,1:25:47.140
that's really all--all I can...
1:25:47.933,1:25:49.228
that's really all I can say.
1:25:51.649,1:25:53.027
Yeah, but is it the truth?
1:25:53.486,1:25:54.530
Of course.
1:25:54.906,1:25:56.075
But not the whole truth?
1:25:56.743,1:25:59.165
I don't know the whole truth.
1:25:59.374,1:26:01.795
I don't know what happened to her.
1:26:01.962,1:26:03.132
Wish I didn't believe you.
1:26:04.092,1:26:06.889
You know, it's very hard to trust someone[br]you don't understand.
1:26:09.645,1:26:10.898
You're a very strange man.
1:26:13.027,1:26:14.489
You have no idea.
1:26:23.299,1:26:24.259
Everybody here?
1:26:24.384,1:26:26.514
Peter Macintosh is late.[br]Says he's got bad news.
1:26:29.102,1:26:30.188
There he is.
1:26:43.591,1:26:44.718
Well?
1:26:45.720,1:26:47.307
I found out what the state has.
1:26:47.474,1:26:49.061
- Mm-hm.[br]- Their ace in the hole.
1:26:50.355,1:26:51.524
It's you.
1:26:53.653,1:26:54.781
It's me?
1:26:54.990,1:26:58.706
David Marriott taped[br]all his conversations with you.
1:26:58.998,1:27:00.042
Oh, great.
1:27:01.294,1:27:05.511
The scuttlebutt is, if we win the case,[br]you go to prison.
1:27:06.931,1:27:08.100
What did I say?
1:27:08.977,1:27:11.983
Good ol' corrupt Rhode Island,[br]I got a friend to get me an excerpt.
1:27:12.359,1:27:13.486
The reason I'm here,
1:27:14.489,1:27:15.908
my affidavit is inaccurate.
1:27:16.910,1:27:19.207
David, this is bad. It looks bad.
1:27:19.374,1:27:20.752
What, you want more money?
1:27:21.503,1:27:22.589
Can you get more?
1:27:23.716,1:27:24.885
Yeah.
1:27:25.887,1:27:27.808
Hey, that is not what I said.
1:27:27.975,1:27:28.643
It's on tape, Alan.
1:27:28.935,1:27:31.106
I don't care if it's on tape,[br]it's not what I said.
1:27:31.399,1:27:32.818
- What do we do?[br]- I don't know.
1:27:37.286,1:27:39.332
I--I'll tell you what we do.[br]We ignore it, that's what we--
1:27:39.332,1:27:41.461
Alan, with that tape,[br]it's your whole career.
1:27:44.342,1:27:46.806
I now believe Claus is innocent. So.
1:27:47.265,1:27:50.564
We've decided,[br]no tricks, no technicalities.
1:27:50.731,1:27:52.317
We are going to base our appeal
1:27:52.401,1:27:55.908
directly and explicitly[br]on Claus' innocence.
1:27:56.367,1:27:57.370
That's not proper.
1:27:57.411,1:27:59.708
An appeal has to be[br]based on judicial error.
1:28:00.000,1:28:01.837
It is. The judge should've[br]thrown out the case.
1:28:01.837,1:28:03.925
How can you say[br]there was insufficient evidence
1:28:03.925,1:28:05.052
when a jury convicted him?
1:28:05.177,1:28:07.641
- That's a good point, but--[br]- But that's what we are saying.
1:28:07.641,1:28:09.770
If the rules don't work, you change them.
1:28:10.564,1:28:12.944
Red Auerbach got[br]the jump ball rule changed
1:28:13.111,1:28:14.614
when the Celtics had a short team.
1:28:14.614,1:28:16.451
Uh, but it's dangerous politically, Alan.
1:28:16.534,1:28:18.539
If the judges feel insulted,[br]then we're gonna find--
1:28:18.539,1:28:21.921
Wait up, here. State Supreme Court[br]shouldn't even look at an appeal
1:28:21.962,1:28:23.132
based on new evidence.
1:28:25.010,1:28:28.100
Hey, guys, I'll take care of that, okay?
1:28:28.392,1:28:29.729
You just--you leave it to me.
1:28:31.691,1:28:33.194
Look, I know you're all exhausted.
1:28:33.653,1:28:35.866
We got four days left.
1:28:36.576,1:28:38.539
What we do now[br]is going to decide this thing.
1:28:38.539,1:28:39.791
Do you wanna win, or not?
1:28:40.125,1:28:41.127
- Alan![br]- What?
1:28:41.420,1:28:43.424
- We've got something.[br]- We've hit the jackpot.
1:28:44.384,1:28:47.307
Our needles that had[br]amobarbital and Valium...
1:28:47.432,1:28:48.267
But no insulin...
1:28:48.601,1:28:51.649
Both came back with[br]false positive readings
1:28:51.816,1:28:52.568
for insulin.
1:28:52.777,1:28:54.029
Okay.
1:28:54.154,1:28:55.908
One was 93, the other 282.
1:28:56.075,1:28:58.664
We've knocked out every piece[br]of their medical case.
1:29:01.754,1:29:02.380
Good work, good work.
1:29:02.589,1:29:05.511
Okay, now, now all they've got left[br]is my neck.
1:29:06.597,1:29:08.810
Anybody know anything[br]about editing audio tapes?
1:29:18.497,1:29:20.418
Defense! For what, defense!
1:29:20.459,1:29:21.628
- Come on![br]- Come on!
1:29:32.025,1:29:33.027
All right, Alan.
1:29:34.113,1:29:35.115
- Come on![br]- Hey!
1:29:35.491,1:29:36.576
Hurry up!
1:29:37.161,1:29:38.664
- What's going on?[br]- Pass it, Alan.
1:29:39.332,1:29:41.754
I got it. Wait a minute.[br]I got it, I got it.
1:29:41.879,1:29:43.257
- Where's Raj?[br]- He's upstairs.
1:29:43.716,1:29:44.843
- Where you going?[br]- Alan!
1:29:46.013,1:29:48.434
Raj, Raj, I got it.
1:29:49.144,1:29:50.271
I got it.
1:29:50.397,1:29:51.524
Remember Maria?
1:29:51.858,1:29:53.486
She could have said it like this...
1:29:53.862,1:29:54.906
Insulin?
1:29:57.161,1:29:58.622
For what, insulin?
1:30:00.292,1:30:02.422
My lady is not diabetic.
1:30:02.756,1:30:05.971
You see? "My lady is not diabetic."
1:30:06.681,1:30:09.436
She is assuming that the bag is Sunny's.
1:30:09.896,1:30:12.025
Her first reaction, instantaneous,
1:30:12.192,1:30:14.154
not part of a legal strategy[br]devised later,
1:30:14.322,1:30:15.866
is that the stuff in the black bag
1:30:15.908,1:30:17.495
belonged to Sunny, not Claus.
1:30:17.662,1:30:19.040
Who's gonna know better than she?
1:30:19.499,1:30:20.626
Start writing.
1:30:21.921,1:30:24.843
You are not God, you are a prosecutor,
1:30:25.010,1:30:27.307
and Alabama cannot execute[br]those Johnson kids
1:30:27.516,1:30:28.935
before the Supreme Court rules!
1:30:29.269,1:30:31.065
That--that's right! You heard me right.
1:30:31.065,1:30:32.985
You've got two hours[br]to get to Rhode Island.
1:30:33.111,1:30:33.946
You're gonna have to speed.
1:30:34.113,1:30:35.240
You want me to commit a crime?
1:30:35.240,1:30:36.868
Of course not! Because if you do,[br]they're gonna stop you,
1:30:36.868,1:30:38.205
you're not gonna make the deadline.
1:30:38.205,1:30:40.960
I'm tellin' you right now, buddy,[br]those kids fry, you're next!
1:30:41.127,1:30:41.921
You forgot your jacket.
1:30:42.129,1:30:43.173
You're damn right!
1:30:44.008,1:30:46.597
Some startling developments[br]in the von Bulow case.
1:30:46.931,1:30:48.977
Harvard Law School[br]professor Alan Dershowitz
1:30:49.144,1:30:51.691
had been accused of paying[br]for falsified testimony,
1:30:52.192,1:30:54.280
but those accusations[br]were discredited today
1:30:54.447,1:30:56.075
by the Rhode Island attorney general,
1:30:56.242,1:30:58.664
who announced that[br]David Marriott's tape was doctored
1:30:59.123,1:31:01.628
and that Marriott[br]is not a reliable witness.
1:31:02.129,1:31:03.591
So, what was he up to, Alan?
1:31:04.050,1:31:05.344
Who was he working for?
1:31:05.804,1:31:06.848
Damned if I know.
1:31:11.065,1:31:13.111
Hope they don't think[br]he was working for you.
1:31:13.278,1:31:14.154
Alan, no one's going to think--
1:31:14.322,1:31:16.284
Look, I don't think you did it, okay?
1:31:17.537,1:31:18.873
But at the Chinese restaurant,
1:31:19.332,1:31:20.752
you did duck the big question.
1:31:21.086,1:31:22.881
Chuck is our Alexandra Isles expert.
1:31:24.969,1:31:26.472
Sunny's Aspirin overdose...
1:31:27.933,1:31:29.395
why did she take so many?
1:31:31.190,1:31:33.653
What happened? Sunny had a headache?
1:31:36.701,1:31:40.418
Headache... was Alexandra, right?
1:31:45.136,1:31:46.305
Let's hear it, Claus.
1:31:48.977,1:31:50.689
Alexandra was spiteful.
1:31:52.443,1:31:56.701
On the day of Sunny's Aspirin overdose,
1:31:57.871,1:32:00.626
she returned some presents I'd given her,
1:32:00.793,1:32:02.589
some photographs...
1:32:03.382,1:32:04.468
love letters.
1:32:06.305,1:32:08.601
She dropped them off in a shopping bag.
1:32:09.729,1:32:10.898
Did Sunny see them?
1:32:12.025,1:32:13.111
Sunny was home.
1:32:14.280,1:32:15.407
I was not.
1:32:16.868,1:32:20.835
Alexandra neglected to address[br]the package to me.
1:32:21.587,1:32:24.342
I want to be left alone[br]with all those beau--beautiful letters.
1:32:25.177,1:32:28.225
What did you do with those letters?[br]Why did you write those letters?
1:32:30.647,1:32:33.779
There's a big difference[br]between knowing about an affair
1:32:34.739,1:32:37.662
and having love letters[br]crammed down your throat.
1:32:39.916,1:32:42.046
It seems that[br]Sunny did care about your affair.
1:32:42.839,1:32:44.008
She cared a lot.
1:32:47.641,1:32:48.810
Why didn't you tell us?
1:32:50.522,1:32:51.691
Everything was open book.
1:32:53.612,1:32:55.240
"Get the best experts.
1:32:55.741,1:32:56.994
I'm not afraid of the truth."
1:33:02.296,1:33:05.678
Looks to me like Alexandra[br]tried to force Sunny into a suicide.
1:33:08.476,1:33:10.063
Or they plotted it together.
1:33:11.858,1:33:13.612
Either way, he's protecting Alexandra,
1:33:14.280,1:33:16.033
because he's still in love with her.
1:33:16.033,1:33:17.035
And why not?
1:33:17.495,1:33:18.622
I mean, hey, she's a babe.
1:33:21.378,1:33:22.756
'Course I still love her.
1:33:25.762,1:33:26.931
And hate her.
1:33:29.228,1:33:33.152
Alexandra, Sunny, Andrea...
1:33:36.409,1:33:37.495
I love them all.
1:33:45.678,1:33:48.434
Being a human being is very literal.
1:33:49.019,1:33:50.063
You're trapped.
1:33:50.355,1:33:52.526
Time moves in only one direction,
1:33:52.985,1:33:54.071
forward.
1:33:54.113,1:33:56.033
It's stupid and boring
1:33:56.117,1:33:57.996
and results in a lot of silliness.
1:33:58.330,1:34:00.919
Example, the legal process.
1:34:02.714,1:34:04.175
In this particular case,
1:34:04.384,1:34:08.058
a vast amount of time,[br]effort, and money was spent
1:34:08.225,1:34:10.522
trying to determine[br]precisely what happened
1:34:10.731,1:34:13.152
on those two nights so close to Christmas,
1:34:13.445,1:34:18.622
December 26th, 1979, December 20th, 1980.
1:34:20.334,1:34:21.420
Happened right here.
1:34:23.424,1:34:26.472
Even now it all looks the same,
1:34:27.265,1:34:30.564
feels the same, smells the same.
1:34:31.649,1:34:35.073
If you could just go back in time[br]and take a peek,
1:34:35.616,1:34:36.827
you'd know,
1:34:38.664,1:34:40.793
and all this would be unnecessary.
1:34:41.086,1:34:42.213
All rise!
1:34:46.430,1:34:47.641
Hear ye, hear ye!
1:34:47.766,1:34:50.397
All persons having business[br]before the Supreme Court
1:34:50.689,1:34:53.570
holding in Providence within and for[br]the state of Rhode Island
1:34:53.737,1:34:54.781
may now draw near...
1:34:55.866,1:34:56.868
Then again,
1:34:57.829,1:34:59.666
everyone enjoys a circus.
1:35:01.127,1:35:02.255
Be seated.
1:35:05.010,1:35:06.973
If the appellant is ready,[br]you may proceed.
1:35:09.228,1:35:10.021
If it please the court,
1:35:10.188,1:35:12.944
oral argument will be made[br]by out-of-state counsel,
1:35:13.111,1:35:15.073
professor Alan Dershowitz.
1:35:24.969,1:35:26.013
Your Honors,
1:35:26.472,1:35:28.727
you may not like Claus von Bulow.
1:35:29.603,1:35:31.482
You may think he is guilty of something,
1:35:31.775,1:35:34.113
but I am here to tell you he is innocent.
1:35:35.115,1:35:36.075
Our new evidence will clear--
1:35:36.200,1:35:40.084
Professor, you know there isn't[br]a single case which allows you
1:35:40.292,1:35:42.672
to introduce new evidence on appeal.
1:35:42.923,1:35:44.718
Well, there is one, Your Honor,
1:35:45.511,1:35:47.933
and you wrote it. Derek.
1:35:49.562,1:35:50.689
In Derek...
1:35:51.357,1:35:53.278
in Derek, you yourself said
1:35:53.653,1:35:57.537
that a case based on circumstantial theory[br]rather than fact
1:35:57.996,1:35:58.998
only stands up
1:35:59.123,1:36:01.545
if no other theory makes sense.
1:36:01.921,1:36:04.551
The only way to show a better theory
1:36:04.843,1:36:05.846
is to present it.
1:36:11.858,1:36:13.486
Get on with it, counselor.
1:36:15.282,1:36:17.871
The first issue is the encrusted needle.
1:36:19.123,1:36:20.501
I hope you will have the courage
1:36:20.501,1:36:22.171
to free an innocent man
1:36:22.338,1:36:24.342
and remedy a grave injustice.
1:36:24.885,1:36:25.971
This will never work.
1:36:26.639,1:36:27.975
Too smart for his own good.
1:36:29.061,1:36:30.564
Alan says it will work,
1:36:31.649,1:36:33.779
if the prosecutor takes the bait.
1:36:34.781,1:36:35.908
What do you mean, "bait"?
1:36:37.328,1:36:38.831
Argues the evidence.
1:36:39.958,1:36:40.585
Your Honors,
1:36:40.752,1:36:43.549
introduction of new evidence on appeal
1:36:45.010,1:36:48.225
violates every principle of jurisprudence,
1:36:48.685,1:36:49.896
every statute,
1:36:50.689,1:36:53.236
every precedent, every rule of ethics.
1:36:53.570,1:36:55.240
Ah, he's nailing us right off the bat.
1:36:55.240,1:36:57.035
I am not going to stand before you
1:36:57.203,1:36:59.415
and argue Mr. von Bulow's guilt.
1:37:02.213,1:37:03.382
However,
1:37:03.674,1:37:06.639
I have no choice but to address[br]Mr. Dershowitz' arguments
1:37:06.806,1:37:07.975
one by one.
1:37:09.228,1:37:10.397
- Bingo.[br]- First,
1:37:11.524,1:37:13.152
the matter of the encrusted needle...
1:37:14.739,1:37:17.328
So? Now it's up to the judges.
1:37:18.038,1:37:19.457
Tell me what you really think.
1:37:19.457,1:37:21.879
I think it's easier to love somebody
1:37:22.046,1:37:23.173
than to live with them.
1:37:25.261,1:37:26.764
Love is fantasy.
1:37:27.223,1:37:28.727
Living is work.
1:37:28.894,1:37:31.942
I'll say. And those people[br]don't like to work.
1:37:32.359,1:37:34.781
But, if you don't do the work,[br]the love dies,
1:37:35.115,1:37:37.203
and nobody wants to deal with that one.
1:37:39.582,1:37:40.585
The love died,
1:37:41.378,1:37:42.589
Sunny couldn't accept it...
1:37:43.967,1:37:45.637
so Claus tried to kill her?
1:37:45.804,1:37:46.931
Maybe.
1:37:47.140,1:37:48.225
I don't agree.
1:37:49.186,1:37:52.317
Face it, all we had to do[br]was prove the state made a lousy case.
1:37:52.777,1:37:54.530
We didn't prove that Claus was innocent.
1:37:54.614,1:37:57.035
We couldn't. We didn't have to,[br]and he probably isn't.
1:37:57.035,1:37:57.996
He isn't? You mean, you thi--
1:37:58.121,1:38:00.292
I mean, so,[br]he didn't inject Sunny with insulin.
1:38:00.752,1:38:03.382
So what? Break it down.[br]First coma, no problem.
1:38:03.549,1:38:06.639
Even the attending doctor thought[br]it was caused by hypoglycemia,
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loss of air to the brain, and so on.
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All right. But what about the second coma?
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I mean, why does Claus act so guilty?
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Hey, come on, wouldn't any man feel guilty[br]if his wife was suicidal?
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Yeah, so, so maybe she took[br]the sleeping pills
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with the intention of killing herself,
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but how did she end up lying[br]on a marble floor in a freezing bathroom
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with her head under the toilet bowl?
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How about this?
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Sunny wakes up miserable.
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Second marriage is over.
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Children are leaving home.
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What's to live for?
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But when she was found,
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her nightgown was hiked over her waist.
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Exactly. How did it get there?
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Okay, let's say[br]she's standing at the sink.
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She has to pee.
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At exactly the same instant,
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the drugs hit.
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Body convulses.
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She grabs the nightgown.
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I don't buy that.
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It does seem far-fetched.
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So's the truth sometimes.
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Oh, bull. I think she took[br]the barbiturates the previous night.
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And, let's say he saw her take them,
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or she told him she was going to[br]before they fell asleep.
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This time, he wants her to succeed.
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Sunny?
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Maybe there's some way[br]he can help her along.
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Of course, the open window.
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Zero degrees.
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But somebody might see her there.
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The action of dragging her[br]would naturally pull up the nightgown.
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In this cold, how long could she survive?
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Remember what Sunny said?
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"I would have been better off.
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You would have been better off."
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...because the law is a blunt instrument.
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It is not a rapier. It is a cudgel.
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Tomorrow, death penalty,
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which reminds me of the comedian who said,
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"I don't know why[br]they call it the death penalty.
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That's no penalty.[br]You're out of the game!"
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- Good news.[br]- Great news.
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And more good news.
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The decision came down?
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They just announced it.
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Five-zip.
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We murdered them.
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Grounds?
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Well, they got the Brillhoffer notes.
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And that silly, silly guilty[br]man's argument,
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search and seizure.
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- Federal or state?[br]- Both.
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- That's important.[br]- Yeah, it's federal, they could appeal it
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in the US Supreme Court.
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But because it's Rhode Island,[br]they can't. We win.
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Don't--don't get too excited[br]until we see Brillhoffer's notes.
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We destroyed their medical case,
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but their witnesses[br]still carry emotional weight
1:45:27.766,1:45:28.977
if there's a second trial.
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Unless...
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the Brillhoffer notes show[br]that they've changed their stories.
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Good afternoon, sir.
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Let me get that for you.
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Thank you.
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You have Brillhoffer's notes?
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Yes.
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Well?
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They're not what we hoped.
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I knew it.
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They're much better.
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No one mentioned seeing insulin[br]when they first talked to Brillhoffer.
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Plus... Maria told them
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that at Thanksgiving,[br]when she supposedly saw insulin
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for the first time,
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she couldn't even read any of the labels.
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They were all scraped off.
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What does this mean?
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It means
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that if there is a second trial,
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we can be reasonably confident
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both the medical case and their witnesses
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are now highly suspect.
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Oh, God.
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So...
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Darling...
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This is Alan Dershowitz.
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Yes, I know. Hello.
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Alan tells me...
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well, things look very hopeful.
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I knew it would come out all right.
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Thank you.
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Yes, Alan, thank you.
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I am eternally grateful.
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Hey, this means[br]we'll be getting back your bail,
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a million dollars.
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Uh, I know I still owe you, Alan.
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Please send me your bill.
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And maybe when you're in New York,
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uh, we can...
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we can meet for lunch. I'd enjoy that.
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One thing, Claus...
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legally, this was an important victory.
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Morally, you're on your own.
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Claus von Bulow was given a second trial
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and acquitted on both counts.
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This is all you can know...
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all you can be told.
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When you get where I am,
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you will know the rest.
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Two packs of Vantage, please.
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Anything else?
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Yes, a vial of insulin.
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Just kidding.