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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.
0:11:16.826,0:11:18.787
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,
0:13:26.724,0:13:29.478
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.
0:14:16.129,0:14:18.341
I've got two black kids[br]facing the electric chair
0:14:18.507,0:14:20.177
for a crime they did not commit.
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They are innocent.
0:14:24.892,0:14:27.270
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!
0:15:25.397,0:15:26.356
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
0:15:46.511,0:15:48.096
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.
0:16:19.017,0:16:21.270
Madame! Mrs. von Bulow!
0:16:21.478,0:16:22.438
Leave her alone.
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She's sleeping.
0:16:25.234,0:16:26.444
She was drinking last night.
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We didn't get any rest.
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She's not sleeping.
0:16:30.867,0:16:32.703
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,
0:17:02.789,0:17:04.416
but he lied to doctor.
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Yes, she's sleeping now,
0:17:06.210,0:17:08.547
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,
0:17:14.055,0:17:15.224
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,
0:17:22.109,0:17:24.445
and Dr. Paultees, he comes and saves her.
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After they go to the hospital,
0:17:27.408,0:17:28.868
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,
0:17:33.792,0:17:35.712
she would not have peed in her bed.
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Right.
0:17:37.339,0:17:38.841
Why would Claus lie about that?
0:17:39.592,0:17:42.388
Well, it's suspicious,[br]but hardly criminal.
0:17:42.847,0:17:44.015
How about the second coma?
0:17:44.224,0:17:46.394
Well, Maria wasn't in Newport[br]for that one.
0:17:46.978,0:17:48.731
But shortly before the second coma...
0:17:48.772,0:17:50.066
I'm cleaning up their room
0:17:50.149,0:17:52.653
when I find Mr. von Bulow's[br]white canvas bag
0:17:52.820,0:17:53.988
packed for Newport.
0:17:54.865,0:17:57.702
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!
0:18:03.294,0:18:04.337
Alexander, come here!
0:18:08.635,0:18:09.720
Insulin.
0:18:10.763,0:18:12.807
For what, insulin?
0:18:13.141,0:18:14.894
My lady is not diabetic.
0:18:20.444,0:18:21.445
Three weeks later,
0:18:21.904,0:18:24.658
Sunny's lying unconscious[br]in a freezing bathroom
0:18:24.825,0:18:26.911
with her nightgown hiked over her waist.
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If I was on that jury,
0:18:29.039,0:18:30.500
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.
0:18:36.843,0:18:37.761
You know, Hitler calls up.
0:18:37.927,0:18:39.388
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.
0:18:54.243,0:18:56.705
I'm a maniac.[br]I need someone with your judgment,
0:18:56.788,0:18:59.918
someone to watch what I'm doing,[br]occasionally remind me about the law.
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When can I see the transcripts?
0:19:02.672,0:19:04.466
You're a former prosecutor, conservative.
0:19:04.633,0:19:06.260
We agree on nothing.
0:19:06.386,0:19:08.138
But you're smarter than[br]the Rhode Island DA.
0:19:08.138,0:19:10.266
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.
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Everything is political.
0:19:14.981,0:19:16.525
I don't think that way. You do.
0:19:16.817,0:19:20.197
I have to see the big picture.[br]I can't afford to immerse myself in facts,
0:19:20.323,0:19:21.992
but we must know the facts.
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Out of all my ex-students,
0:19:23.661,0:19:26.123
no one can assimilate information[br]as quickly as you two.
0:19:26.707,0:19:28.501
Well, I agree with that assessment.
0:19:33.884,0:19:34.760
You're out of your mind.
0:19:34.886,0:19:36.722
I only have 45 days to file.
0:19:37.014,0:19:38.140
I can't do it without you.
0:19:40.477,0:19:42.063
Look, Sarah,[br]I know you don't want to come back--
0:19:42.063,0:19:43.648
Is this strictly professional?
0:19:48.238,0:19:49.323
Better be.
0:19:50.742,0:19:51.410
That's wonderful.
0:19:51.660,0:19:54.038
Now, I want the best people in the world[br]on our side,
0:19:54.331,0:19:55.916
the most prestigious experts,
0:19:56.125,0:19:58.503
Nobel prize-winning scientists.
0:19:58.795,0:20:00.673
Some of your colleagues[br]at Harvard, perhaps.
0:20:00.673,0:20:02.050
Hey, hey, wa--wait a minute, Claus.
0:20:02.050,0:20:04.095
Look, we got a little problem there, okay?
0:20:04.220,0:20:06.515
People like that, we can't control.
0:20:06.640,0:20:08.309
They'll find one incriminating fact,
0:20:08.309,0:20:09.603
they'll tell the whole world.
0:20:09.603,0:20:10.646
I'm not afraid, Alan.
0:20:11.105,0:20:12.774
Let the chips fall where they may.
0:20:13.483,0:20:15.111
That's what an innocent man would say.
0:20:16.613,0:20:17.781
I know.
0:20:24.500,0:20:25.793
That just came for you, Dad.
0:20:27.963,0:20:30.383
My daughter, Cosima. She never doubted me.
0:20:31.259,0:20:32.720
She loves Alex and Ala dearly,
0:20:32.887,0:20:35.098
and siding with me[br]has cost her their affections.
0:20:39.730,0:20:41.274
I don't know what I would have done.
0:20:46.865,0:20:49.077
Okay, look, I said[br]I didn't want to hear your story,
0:20:49.077,0:20:50.287
but I do need some information.
0:20:50.287,0:20:51.456
'Course.
0:20:52.749,0:20:56.046
Okay, I gather they'll, the older[br]children, deny Sunny had a problem
0:20:56.212,0:20:57.297
with pills and alcohol?
0:20:57.423,0:20:59.008
Spectacular understatement.
0:20:59.342,0:21:00.761
So there must be somebody[br]who saw it, right?
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Some witness, somebody, somewhere?[br]A friend?
0:21:02.764,0:21:04.182
- You want affidavits?[br]- Yes, I do.
0:21:04.182,0:21:04.933
I'll get them.
0:21:05.267,0:21:05.810
You'll get them?
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You should also know, the drugs[br]prescribed for me were taken by Sunny.
0:21:09.732,0:21:11.026
That's a lot of drugs, Claus.
0:21:11.193,0:21:15.157
But the prosecution's allegation[br]that I knew about syringes, injections,
0:21:15.699,0:21:16.826
totally accurate.
0:21:17.869,0:21:21.249
Sunny and I used to give ourselves[br]B-12 injections in the late sixties.
0:21:21.458,0:21:22.334
It was quite the fad in London.
0:21:22.459,0:21:23.794
Can I explain something to you?
0:21:24.295,0:21:25.589
The less I know from you,
0:21:25.881,0:21:27.091
the more options I have.
0:21:27.508,0:21:28.843
When you tell me "the truth,"
0:21:28.885,0:21:31.931
you limit me to a defense that lines up[br]with what you have to say.
0:21:32.515,0:21:34.810
But isn't the truth[br]the simplest way, Alan?
0:21:35.937,0:21:38.816
I mean, why did I stay all day[br]at Sunny's side
0:21:38.941,0:21:40.569
without calling a doctor?
0:21:41.487,0:21:44.408
Because Sunny detested doctors.
0:21:44.783,0:21:46.536
If we called one[br]without her approval,
0:21:46.536,0:21:47.537
she went berserk.
0:21:47.871,0:21:48.706
Once she broke her hip
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and didn't go to hospital[br]for two full days.
0:21:50.834,0:21:52.503
Claus, did you hear what I just said?
0:21:53.004,0:21:55.257
Of course.[br]Did you hear the judge sentenced me?
0:21:55.424,0:21:57.844
Sorry. 30 years is[br]a pretty stiff sentence.
0:21:58.679,0:21:59.972
Twice trying to murder one's wife,
0:21:59.972,0:22:01.516
anything less would be monstrous.
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But for a man like myself,
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who did nothing...
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What I wanted to ask,
0:22:13.200,0:22:14.577
if we lose the appeal,
0:22:15.453,0:22:17.372
will I have the chance later
0:22:17.539,0:22:20.502
to set my affairs in order[br]before I'm incarcerated?
0:22:22.004,0:22:24.174
In Europe, a gentleman[br]is given the opportunity
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to end things properly.
0:22:30.016,0:22:31.143
Come on, Claus.
0:22:31.143,0:22:34.606
We are each the keeper[br]of our own souls, Alan.
0:22:38.028,0:22:39.196
Okay, two big problems.
0:22:40.197,0:22:42.451
The case against him is very strong.
0:22:43.327,0:22:44.579
But probably more important,
0:22:44.704,0:22:46.749
the legal conviction[br]isn't the only conviction
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that we got to reverse.
0:22:48.793,0:22:50.337
The more dangerous conviction
0:22:50.629,0:22:53.759
is the absolute certainty[br]of the American people
0:22:53.884,0:22:55.345
that Claus is guilty.
0:22:55.511,0:22:58.516
Finding grounds for reversal[br]won't be enough here.
0:22:59.100,0:23:03.106
Judges on the Rhode Island Supreme Court[br]will have to go home to their spouses
0:23:03.231,0:23:05.609
and explain why they reversed.
0:23:05.860,0:23:09.031
To get them to do that,[br]we must completely obliterate
0:23:09.198,0:23:12.119
every single aspect of the state's case.
0:23:12.620,0:23:15.374
Destroy both the medical case[br]and their witnesses
0:23:15.541,0:23:18.837
so the judges have[br]no possible way to affirm.
0:23:19.880,0:23:22.676
Total victory,[br]or we are dead in the water.
0:23:22.843,0:23:26.390
Now, I assume that[br]you've all had an opportunity
0:23:26.557,0:23:27.767
to look at the transcripts,
0:23:27.767,0:23:29.311
first impressions, yeah, Minnie?
0:23:29.519,0:23:31.147
I think this whole thing stinks.
0:23:31.981,0:23:34.235
I think Claus von Bulow stinks.
0:23:34.986,0:23:38.115
He's obviously guilty[br]of something pretty despicable.
0:23:38.282,0:23:39.576
And if we free him,
0:23:40.160,0:23:41.871
we become partners in his crime,
0:23:42.121,0:23:43.915
accessories after the fact.
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I'm really shocked,
0:23:46.294,0:23:48.088
with your record[br]defending the poor and oppressed,
0:23:48.088,0:23:49.549
that you've taken this case.
0:23:52.970,0:23:54.598
I won't have anything to do with it,
0:23:56.267,0:23:58.311
and I hope my fellow students[br]won't either.
0:23:59.355,0:24:00.356
Good-bye.
0:24:01.232,0:24:04.070
May I exercise my First Amendment right[br]to free speech?
0:24:07.909,0:24:09.578
If lawyers only defended innocent clients,
0:24:09.578,0:24:11.789
there would be 10 defense[br]lawyers in the entire country,
0:24:11.789,0:24:13.876
and none of you[br]would be able to find a job.
0:24:14.043,0:24:16.296
Why help guilty people get off?
0:24:18.048,0:24:20.385
Oh, you're sure he's guilty,[br]100 percent sure.
0:24:20.677,0:24:23.097
He had a lawyer. He had a trial.
0:24:23.640,0:24:24.892
He was convicted.
0:24:25.309,0:24:26.895
Are you sure he had a fair trial?
0:24:27.521,0:24:28.313
Come on!
0:24:28.439,0:24:31.485
It's the basis of the whole legal system.
0:24:31.819,0:24:34.531
Everyone gets a defense.
0:24:35.365,0:24:36.909
So the system is there
0:24:37.160,0:24:40.039
for the one innocent person[br]who is falsely accused.
0:24:41.791,0:24:42.835
Okay, look.
0:24:43.961,0:24:45.922
Say it's you, okay?
0:24:46.799,0:24:47.842
You decide...
0:24:48.468,0:24:49.970
you decide to get a divorce.
0:24:51.264,0:24:52.891
You're going to divorce your husband.
0:24:53.100,0:24:54.226
A week later,
0:24:54.852,0:24:56.772
you're accused of molesting your son.
0:24:57.940,0:24:59.567
Oh, no, now don't give me that look.
0:24:59.734,0:25:01.403
Stuff like this happens all the time.
0:25:01.821,0:25:03.156
Suddenly, you're alone.
0:25:04.074,0:25:05.117
You're hated.
0:25:05.409,0:25:06.870
It's--it's a nightmare.
0:25:07.996,0:25:11.001
Everyone assumes that you are guilty.
0:25:11.710,0:25:15.173
Even the mailman is beginning to[br]look at you a little--a little funny.
0:25:15.716,0:25:17.969
You only got one person[br]who believes in you.
0:25:18.303,0:25:20.056
There's only one person you can trust,
0:25:22.017,0:25:23.185
your lawyer.
0:25:23.435,0:25:24.979
Yeah. Okay.
0:25:25.605,0:25:27.733
So, someone's got to defend Claus.
0:25:28.234,0:25:29.277
But why you?
0:25:29.361,0:25:30.571
Why us?
0:25:31.948,0:25:33.283
Look, you're my student.
0:25:33.450,0:25:34.452
Y-you have a choice.
0:25:34.618,0:25:36.538
You d--you don't have to do[br]anything you don't want to do.
0:25:36.538,0:25:37.706
That is your choice.
0:25:38.457,0:25:40.126
The reason I take cases,
0:25:40.293,0:25:42.463
and here, I'm unlike most other lawyers
0:25:42.630,0:25:45.301
who are not professors[br]and therefore have to make a living,
0:25:45.468,0:25:48.555
I take cases 'cause I get pissed off,
0:25:49.891,0:25:52.019
and I am pissed off here.
0:25:52.686,0:25:55.649
The family hired a private prosecutor.
0:25:56.859,0:25:57.902
Unacceptable!
0:25:58.195,0:26:00.823
They conducted a private search.
0:26:01.491,0:26:03.244
Now, we let them get away with that,
0:26:03.953,0:26:05.914
rich people won't go to the cops anymore.
0:26:06.081,0:26:07.500
You know what they're gonna do?
0:26:07.667,0:26:11.088
They're going to get their own lawyers[br]to collect evidence.
0:26:11.589,0:26:14.802
And then they are going[br]to choose which evidence
0:26:14.969,0:26:17.222
they feel like passing on to the DA,
0:26:17.640,0:26:20.811
and the next victim[br]isn't going to be rich like von Bulow.
0:26:21.186,0:26:23.440
But it's gonna be[br]some poor schnook in Detroit
0:26:23.565,0:26:27.696
who can't afford[br]or can't find a decent lawyer.
0:26:34.122,0:26:36.459
I think it's a little more complicated
0:26:36.959,0:26:39.171
than your simple moral superiority.
0:26:40.965,0:26:42.008
No?
0:26:42.843,0:26:44.637
I agree von Bulow is guilty,
0:26:44.762,0:26:47.016
but that's the fun,[br]I mean, that's the challenge.
0:26:47.183,0:26:48.643
See, now there is a lawyer.
0:26:51.314,0:26:52.315
What?
0:26:53.984,0:26:55.027
Yeah, okay. Put him on.
0:26:56.321,0:26:58.616
Alan, a rather unsavory character
0:26:58.741,0:27:01.161
called David Marriott contacted me
0:27:01.579,0:27:06.043
claiming to have information about[br]a drug delivery at Clarendon Court.
0:27:06.461,0:27:07.921
Okay. Now, where does he live?
0:27:08.213,0:27:08.881
Somewhere in Wakefield.
0:27:09.006,0:27:10.633
Okay, we--no, we'll get on it.
0:27:11.802,0:27:15.766
Tom, I want you to get[br]a private investigator
0:27:15.933,0:27:19.396
to dig into a David Marriott[br]who lives in Wakefield.
0:27:20.732,0:27:22.776
Okay. How are we going to win this case?
0:27:23.068,0:27:24.737
The judge made lots of mistakes.
0:27:24.863,0:27:26.657
Judges always make mistakes.
0:27:26.782,0:27:27.658
How are we going to win?
0:27:27.783,0:27:29.202
All right, one issue leaps up,
0:27:29.327,0:27:30.663
this lawyer, Brillhoffer,
0:27:30.913,0:27:33.125
interviewed Alex, Maria, everybody.
0:27:33.333,0:27:34.919
He was the first person[br]to hear their stories.
0:27:34.919,0:27:36.630
He took notes and[br]he used those notes at trial
0:27:36.630,0:27:38.215
against a defense witness.
0:27:38.215,0:27:40.135
But the defense never saw the notes.
0:27:40.343,0:27:41.929
The judge wouldn't let us have them.
0:27:42.388,0:27:44.850
This alone seems like sufficient grounds.[br]It's perfect Brady.
0:27:44.850,0:27:45.476
Okay, fine.
0:27:45.810,0:27:47.145
Why don't you draft a letter
0:27:47.437,0:27:49.398
writing to Brillhoffer[br]asking him very nicely
0:27:49.524,0:27:50.942
to send us his notes?
0:27:51.234,0:27:53.112
Yeah, right. He'll fax them right over.
0:27:53.655,0:27:54.823
Yeah, right.
0:27:55.449,0:27:57.660
We could win on this issue alone[br]and he knows it.
0:27:57.827,0:27:59.246
You know it, I know it.
0:27:59.496,0:28:01.082
We'll just make sure he knows it.
0:28:01.666,0:28:03.920
Now... Nancy and Dobbs...
0:28:04.045,0:28:04.671
Yes?
0:28:04.838,0:28:06.882
They're going to attack[br]the medical testimony.
0:28:08.009,0:28:10.971
Our Rhode Island counsel, Peter Macintosh,
0:28:11.305,0:28:13.684
he will analyze the state Supreme Court.
0:28:14.018,0:28:16.605
I think the rest of us[br]should begin dissecting the transcripts,
0:28:16.605,0:28:18.900
errors, inconsistencies, anything unusual.
0:28:19.025,0:28:20.235
Okay, great. Now, remember,
0:28:20.318,0:28:21.988
most cases are won in the field,
0:28:22.154,0:28:23.323
not in court.
0:28:25.868,0:28:26.870
Minnie?
0:28:28.956,0:28:30.625
You want to work with Sarah on this?
0:28:31.919,0:28:32.712
You may learn something.
0:28:32.962,0:28:34.923
- Come on, Minnie.[br]- Come on, Minnie.
0:28:35.507,0:28:36.676
- Minnie![br]- Come on.
0:28:36.884,0:28:38.053
Please?
0:28:38.470,0:28:39.638
Come on.
0:28:41.015,0:28:42.768
'Course I don't trust David Marriott.
0:28:42.768,0:28:44.061
I don't know David Marriott.
0:28:44.228,0:28:45.647
But if he knew Alex von Auersberg--
0:28:45.647,0:28:47.358
You're crazy,[br]I don't know who you think you are.
0:28:47.358,0:28:48.443
You Perry Mason?
0:28:49.194,0:28:51.489
Let our private investigator[br]interview this jerk.
0:28:51.656,0:28:52.908
It's stupid, it's arrogant,
0:28:53.033,0:28:54.076
and it's unprofessional.
0:28:54.076,0:28:56.329
- It's fun.[br]- Fun? This guy is a sleaze.
0:28:57.039,0:28:58.791
You don't know what he's going to try.
0:28:58.958,0:29:00.711
What, is he going to shoot me?
0:29:01.378,0:29:02.672
Come on, I'm from Brooklyn.
0:29:09.181,0:29:11.852
Okay, look, I'll stand by the window[br]every 10 minutes, okay?
0:29:12.561,0:29:13.938
That way you can know I'm safe.
0:29:15.899,0:29:17.193
I had this friend...
0:29:17.527,0:29:18.695
Gilbert Jackson...
0:29:19.446,0:29:20.615
interior decorator.
0:29:21.658,0:29:23.995
Flaming queen, but a very excellent guy.
0:29:26.707,0:29:28.877
He introduced me to Alex von Auersberg.
0:29:30.546,0:29:31.714
You sure it was Alex?
0:29:32.382,0:29:35.136
We had dinner a few times, drinks.
0:29:35.595,0:29:37.848
All I knew, Alex was some rich kid.
0:29:39.142,0:29:40.101
So sometimes,
0:29:40.853,0:29:43.273
this is like, uh, summer of '77,
0:29:44.024,0:29:45.985
I'd motor to Newport for some R and R.
0:29:46.736,0:29:48.614
Gilbert asked me to bring Alex a package.
0:29:50.158,0:29:51.910
I figured interior decoration.
0:29:52.661,0:29:53.746
Maybe drapes.
0:29:54.289,0:29:55.457
Like six times.
0:29:55.791,0:29:56.876
So I'd call Alex.
0:29:57.293,0:29:58.628
How'd you get his phone number?
0:29:59.213,0:30:00.339
From Gilbert.
0:30:00.423,0:30:01.466
You still have it?
0:30:02.008,0:30:03.052
Maybe.
0:30:03.928,0:30:05.096
I'm that kind of guy.
0:30:31.969,0:30:32.928
Here.
0:30:39.396,0:30:40.648
One night I got curious.
0:30:41.942,0:30:43.110
Opened the package.
0:30:44.320,0:30:45.947
Fucking pharmacy, man.
0:30:46.657,0:30:49.494
Needles, syringes, white powder.
0:30:49.786,0:30:51.581
Nice selection of pills.
0:30:51.706,0:30:52.791
Demerol.
0:30:53.083,0:30:54.251
Like a drugstore.
0:30:56.379,0:30:59.008
You delivered drugs six times[br]and didn't know it?
0:31:02.263,0:31:03.306
Stupid, huh?
0:31:04.641,0:31:05.852
Then Gilbert asked me again.
0:31:07.145,0:31:08.522
I couldn't say no, but this time
0:31:08.522,0:31:10.692
I made Alex open the package[br]in front of me.
0:31:11.360,0:31:12.778
Voila.
0:31:15.157,0:31:17.577
I go, "Awful lot of pharmaceuticals[br]for one person."
0:31:18.411,0:31:21.082
He goes, "Oh, I give some to my mom
0:31:21.249,0:31:22.459
to keep her off my back."
0:31:24.337,0:31:27.049
Few weeks later,[br]Gilbert gets mistaken for a softball.
0:31:28.092,0:31:29.594
Two guys bash his head in.
0:31:30.179,0:31:32.682
Alex calls me, totally urinary.
0:31:33.141,0:31:34.602
Will the cops find his phone number
0:31:34.602,0:31:36.688
and fuck up his trust fund or something?
0:31:38.190,0:31:39.484
Well, that's the fat.
0:31:41.028,0:31:42.071
That's the skinny.
0:31:43.406,0:31:44.408
You like it?
0:31:46.077,0:31:48.706
You traffic with drug dealers[br]and drag queens.
0:31:48.873,0:31:50.041
You have a part-time job.
0:31:50.208,0:31:51.877
You ride around in rented limos.
0:31:52.169,0:31:53.337
All in all, I would have to say
0:31:53.337,0:31:55.299
you're probably[br]the least impressive witness
0:31:55.299,0:31:56.384
I've ever seen.
0:31:57.051,0:31:58.053
Wait a minute.
0:32:02.225,0:32:04.646
You think I'm scum, don't you?
0:32:05.647,0:32:07.692
Blow it out your ass.
0:32:09.152,0:32:10.780
You want a witness to back me up?
0:32:11.405,0:32:12.574
I'll get one.
0:32:13.200,0:32:14.368
And, hey,
0:32:14.702,0:32:16.955
maybe I'll see you at the Celtics, huh?
0:32:28.973,0:32:30.850
I am not going to let them execute you.
0:32:31.143,0:32:32.102
You're not going to die.
0:32:32.895,0:32:33.980
Look, Johnny, th--
0:32:34.856,0:32:36.651
Johnny, this is going to be[br]a lot easier on me
0:32:36.651,0:32:39.363
if you don't cry, okay? I--I kn--
0:32:39.572,0:32:41.157
I know your brother's hysterical, I--
0:32:41.533,0:32:44.078
Number o--they always set a date[br]for the execution,
0:32:44.245,0:32:45.705
and they always postpone it...
0:32:46.582,0:32:48.126
He's great when he's like this, huh?
0:32:49.002,0:32:49.878
That's right.
0:32:50.003,0:32:52.340
I just wish he had something left[br]for the people around him.
0:32:52.340,0:32:53.133
What are you talking to me about money?
0:32:53.258,0:32:54.760
Did I ever ask you about money?
0:32:55.052,0:32:56.847
Anyway, it's nice to have you back here.
0:32:58.724,0:33:00.227
Okay. Say hello to your brother.
0:33:01.145,0:33:02.188
Right.
0:33:02.480,0:33:03.565
Okay.
0:33:11.493,0:33:13.204
Okay, who's got what?
0:33:16.083,0:33:17.919
Uh, yeah. Maria's testimony.
0:33:18.211,0:33:21.049
She says Sunny did take Valium[br]prescribed for Claus.
0:33:21.466,0:33:22.801
Okay, score one for von Bulow.
0:33:23.093,0:33:25.347
And this Jamie Smather prescription?
0:33:25.472,0:33:26.473
Who's Jamie Smather?
0:33:26.640,0:33:29.645
Three-hundred-pound redheaded hooker[br]in pigtails and white boots.
0:33:29.770,0:33:31.856
She supplied Claus with Valium.
0:33:32.148,0:33:34.777
He had a gorgeous mistress[br]and he went with an ugly whore?
0:33:34.986,0:33:37.489
You know, there's some things[br]even mistresses won't do.
0:33:39.826,0:33:40.911
Like what?
0:33:41.495,0:33:42.497
I-I'm not telling.
0:33:44.207,0:33:46.502
Anyway, Maria swears
0:33:46.669,0:33:49.841
she first saw this Jamie Smather[br]prescription February 14th,
0:33:50.383,0:33:52.386
and then again February 28th.
0:33:52.928,0:33:53.513
So?
0:33:53.805,0:33:55.724
It wasn't prescribed till the 28th.
0:33:56.058,0:33:58.270
You're not suggesting she's lying?
0:33:58.854,0:34:00.940
Okay, how about Maria's insulin?[br]"For what, insulin"?
0:34:00.940,0:34:02.442
- Anything more on that?[br]- Not yet.
0:34:04.821,0:34:06.281
Something about that bothers me.
0:34:08.660,0:34:09.703
Okay, who's next?
0:34:10.579,0:34:11.748
Brillhoffer wrote back.
0:34:13.250,0:34:14.794
He's very attached to his notes.
0:34:18.174,0:34:19.759
"I am satisfied
0:34:20.552,0:34:22.722
that there is not a scrap of paper[br]in my files
0:34:22.889,0:34:26.018
that might even arguably[br]be viewed as exculpatory."
0:34:26.185,0:34:27.312
English translation?
0:34:27.479,0:34:29.565
He says he doesn't have[br]anything that'd help us.
0:34:32.278,0:34:33.488
You with me?
0:34:33.905,0:34:34.489
Pay dirt.
0:34:34.823,0:34:35.532
What's pay dirt?
0:34:35.657,0:34:36.868
He's a lawyer.
0:34:36.909,0:34:39.538
If he really didn't have anything,[br]he'd give it to us...
0:34:39.955,0:34:40.873
but there's something there
0:34:40.999,0:34:43.127
and he's gonna fight like hell[br]to hold onto it.
0:34:43.502,0:34:44.671
I will bet my fee
0:34:45.046,0:34:46.924
that no one remembered seeing insulin
0:34:47.717,0:34:49.302
until after the lab report came back.
0:34:49.761,0:34:50.971
So... you're suggesting...
0:34:50.971,0:34:52.140
Memory enhancement.
0:34:53.058,0:34:54.226
It might be more than that.
0:34:54.226,0:34:55.395
Possibly.
0:34:57.648,0:34:58.775
A frame-up.
0:34:59.317,0:35:00.485
You mean by the kids?
0:35:01.028,0:35:03.448
Where are you getting all this,[br]from Brillhoffer's letter?
0:35:03.448,0:35:04.491
Pure deduction.
0:35:04.783,0:35:09.373
A good lawyer is part psychiatrist,[br]detective, logician.
0:35:10.208,0:35:10.959
A great lawyer--
0:35:11.126,0:35:12.795
Never would have taken this case.
0:35:14.965,0:35:16.133
If there's nothing more...
0:35:16.968,0:35:18.386
has anybody read this?
0:35:20.515,0:35:22.267
It's an interview with Truman Capote.
0:35:22.976,0:35:24.687
He says when she was 19,
0:35:24.812,0:35:26.273
Sunny von Bulow
0:35:26.523,0:35:28.234
taught him how to inject drugs.
0:35:28.401,0:35:29.528
Let me see that.
0:35:32.323,0:35:35.286
Well, well, well, the famous professor.
0:35:35.453,0:35:37.706
Alan, I'd like to introduce[br]my new girlfriend,
0:35:37.831,0:35:41.128
- Andrea Reynolds.[br]- I'm not his girlfriend, I'm his savior.
0:35:41.253,0:35:41.837
Perfectly true.
0:35:42.004,0:35:44.424
Two days after the trial ended,[br]we fell in love.
0:35:44.717,0:35:48.430
- It was really very, very dramatic.[br]- Yes, Andrea, Andrea, come on.
0:35:50.016,0:35:53.145
Since then, I've devoted my life[br]to clearing his name.
0:35:53.730,0:35:55.899
I made him hire you.
0:35:57.193,0:35:59.071
"Get the Jew," I said.
0:36:00.448,0:36:01.449
Darling...
0:36:02.618,0:36:03.953
Can the Jew get down to business?
0:36:05.497,0:36:06.832
We've got an affidavit.
0:36:07.959,0:36:10.504
A Smythe, Mrs. Ruth Smythe,
0:36:11.339,0:36:14.218
gave us an affidavit[br]corroborating Truman Capote.
0:36:14.802,0:36:16.179
I have affidavits, too.
0:36:18.641,0:36:19.809
Newport people.
0:36:19.893,0:36:21.937
They describe Sunny taking pills,
0:36:22.188,0:36:23.899
getting drunk and falling down...
0:36:24.274,0:36:25.776
bumping into doorways,
0:36:25.943,0:36:27.571
smearing lipstick all over her face.
0:36:28.030,0:36:28.781
Not a very pretty picture.
0:36:29.073,0:36:30.366
She did it, didn't she?
0:36:31.284,0:36:33.079
Don't be a priss.
0:36:34.372,0:36:35.123
Sunny was a lovely woman.
0:36:35.374,0:36:36.459
Spoiled rotten.
0:36:37.210,0:36:38.378
Yes, but lovely.
0:36:39.296,0:36:40.339
Till she drank.
0:36:41.508,0:36:44.512
Two drinks and she became... nasty,
0:36:44.804,0:36:47.141
- irrational.[br]- All women are irrational, darling.
0:36:47.433,0:36:48.643
Did we mention the priest?
0:36:48.893,0:36:53.108
Oh. Marriott apparently[br]confided in a priest
0:36:53.567,0:36:55.278
who's consented to talk to us.
0:36:58.115,0:36:59.951
A Father Capello from Providence.
0:37:02.413,0:37:03.373
Priest?
0:37:04.500,0:37:06.294
Well, a priest is the ideal witness.
0:37:06.461,0:37:08.338
- It's like getting the word of God.[br]- I checked.
0:37:08.338,0:37:10.008
God is unavailable.
0:37:11.218,0:37:11.885
If...
0:37:12.261,0:37:13.846
if the priest comes through
0:37:14.013,0:37:16.392
and we can get documentation[br]on Sunny's drug use,
0:37:16.851,0:37:19.021
then self-injection[br]may be a plausible theory.
0:37:19.313,0:37:20.648
There's no insulin in this case.
0:37:20.940,0:37:22.568
Yeah, but people do use insulin,
0:37:22.901,0:37:25.155
they use it for dieting,[br]it's not a prescription drug.
0:37:25.155,0:37:26.615
Sunny was concerned about her weight.
0:37:26.615,0:37:28.117
Maybe, but believe me, Alan...
0:37:28.994,0:37:30.037
there's no insulin here.
0:37:34.627,0:37:35.628
Really?
0:37:36.463,0:37:37.589
How can you be so sure?
0:37:46.060,0:37:47.062
Do you realize...
0:37:48.188,0:37:51.276
with this case,[br]I'm looking for evidence to exonerate you?
0:37:52.027,0:37:54.531
But at the same time,[br]I'm also wondering...
0:37:56.033,0:37:57.076
what really happened...
0:37:57.911,0:37:58.870
who you are.
0:37:59.371,0:38:00.623
Who would you like me to be?
0:38:04.754,0:38:05.797
Your mother's death...
0:38:06.548,0:38:07.758
what happened?
0:38:08.802,0:38:10.971
I believe she had a heart problem.
0:38:11.931,0:38:12.515
Really?
0:38:12.933,0:38:14.685
The rumor in England is you killed her.
0:38:14.685,0:38:16.020
Hey, wait a minute, Alan.
0:38:16.313,0:38:18.399
Statute of limitations[br]ran out on that years ago.
0:38:18.399,0:38:20.527
There's rumors also that I killed my aunt.
0:38:23.615,0:38:25.242
And that I'm a necrophiliac,
0:38:25.826,0:38:27.579
who injected Sunny with insulin
0:38:27.662,0:38:29.415
so that I could have my way with her.
0:38:31.293,0:38:32.545
Please.
0:38:38.428,0:38:40.389
Did Claus drive me crazy?
0:38:41.599,0:38:43.018
Even I don't know.
0:38:44.270,0:38:47.900
But it's true that I took up to[br]24 laxatives daily,
0:38:48.526,0:38:50.613
popped Aspirin like M&Ms,
0:38:51.197,0:38:53.742
smoked three packs of cigarettes a day,
0:38:54.326,0:38:56.580
had a problem with alcohol,
0:38:57.164,0:38:59.626
took Valium and Seconal frequently,
0:38:59.918,0:39:02.588
and consumed large quantities of sweets
0:39:02.839,0:39:05.927
despite a medical condition, hypoglycemia,
0:39:06.344,0:39:07.721
which made them hazardous.
0:39:09.640,0:39:11.518
As for my state of mind...
0:39:17.652,0:39:21.324
I had not had sex[br]with my husband for years.
0:39:23.410,0:39:24.621
My schedule was...
0:39:25.330,0:39:27.124
I woke at 9:30,
0:39:27.583,0:39:29.920
did a little exercise and shopping,
0:39:30.546,0:39:32.340
and returned to bed at three o'clock
0:39:32.507,0:39:34.385
for the remainder of the afternoon.
0:39:35.595,0:39:37.640
I liked to be in bed.
0:39:38.683,0:39:40.936
I didn't much like anything else.
0:39:47.320,0:39:48.447
Hold on here, will you?
0:40:07.600,0:40:08.184
Come in.
0:40:08.476,0:40:09.561
Alan.
0:40:09.853,0:40:11.606
Welcome to my humble law firm.
0:40:13.275,0:40:14.318
In the kitchen,
0:40:14.902,0:40:16.738
our insulin-on-the-needle team.
0:40:17.448,0:40:20.202
They're cooking up some surprise for us.
0:40:25.042,0:40:27.087
This is our Brillhoffer notes team.
0:40:28.213,0:40:29.465
Mr. von Bulow!
0:40:30.049,0:40:31.718
Where do you keep the paper towels?
0:40:32.720,0:40:33.888
Ask Sarah!
0:40:34.055,0:40:35.140
Sarah used to live here.
0:40:37.185,0:40:38.311
This--
0:40:39.104,0:40:40.398
I guess he was up all night.
0:40:48.576,0:40:49.786
This sort of commune,
0:40:50.204,0:40:51.748
you do it on every case?
0:40:51.873,0:40:53.041
Never before.
0:40:53.375,0:40:55.670
Thirty-eight days to write 100 pages?
0:40:56.212,0:40:57.339
Only way to get it done.
0:40:58.257,0:40:59.759
Here's the black bag team.
0:41:00.051,0:41:01.220
Illegal search teams.
0:41:11.568,0:41:13.237
My son, Elon, lost his room.
0:41:13.362,0:41:15.282
Well, actually, this is, uh,[br]this is another case
0:41:15.282,0:41:16.242
that you're paying for.
0:41:17.952,0:41:18.996
And this is my team.
0:41:20.164,0:41:21.249
You wish.
0:41:21.958,0:41:23.335
I--I can't find the damn thing.
0:41:24.963,0:41:26.006
Hi. I'm Sarah.
0:41:26.298,0:41:28.092
And a very lovely Sarah you are.
0:41:29.553,0:41:30.846
Does that really work?
0:41:31.347,0:41:31.889
Flattery?
0:41:32.390,0:41:33.392
Absolutely.
0:41:35.478,0:41:36.688
Like Chinese food?
0:41:38.316,0:41:40.485
What do you give a wife[br]who has everything?
0:41:42.780,0:41:44.366
An injection of insulin.
0:41:47.955,0:41:49.749
How--Ah, my prawns.
0:41:50.333,0:41:53.463
How can one define a fear of insulin?
0:41:54.881,0:41:56.133
Claus-trophobia.
0:42:02.476,0:42:04.103
Is there anything more you can tell us
0:42:04.270,0:42:05.605
about Alexandra Isles?
0:42:06.774,0:42:08.485
For instance, is it true[br]that she gave you a deadline
0:42:08.485,0:42:10.362
of Christmas 1979 to be together?
0:42:11.072,0:42:12.031
Uh, not really.
0:42:12.407,0:42:14.702
No, she knew I was looking[br]for full-time work.
0:42:14.952,0:42:17.206
I worked for JP Getty in London.
0:42:17.372,0:42:19.250
Alexandra assumed that[br]when you did find a job,
0:42:19.250,0:42:20.335
you'd marry her, correct?
0:42:21.503,0:42:22.797
Oh, she assumed it.
0:42:25.217,0:42:26.094
How about when she testified,
0:42:26.260,0:42:28.472
did you get a sense that[br]she wanted to get back together?
0:42:28.472,0:42:31.309
Very much so.[br]In fact, at the trial, she said...
0:42:31.476,0:42:35.691
I loved him, but I was still caught up[br]in my own anger...
0:42:37.402,0:42:39.446
and I'm sorry I acted that way then.
0:42:40.364,0:42:42.284
I loved him, and I was angry.
0:42:43.869,0:42:45.831
Let me ask you this.[br]Maybe you can't answer.
0:42:46.623,0:42:47.875
Do you still love him?
0:42:50.003,0:42:50.838
I don't know.
0:42:51.130,0:42:52.674
That means yes, doesn't it?
0:42:53.091,0:42:54.260
It would seem so.
0:42:54.427,0:42:55.720
In fact, after the trial,
0:42:55.804,0:42:58.015
she wrote me a letter[br]saying so explicitly.
0:42:58.850,0:43:00.519
A very passionate letter.
0:43:00.769,0:43:02.271
Passionate and...
0:43:02.730,0:43:03.815
jealous.
0:43:04.817,0:43:07.445
But that was the relationship[br]from the outset.
0:43:07.696,0:43:09.156
That was Alexandra.
0:43:09.407,0:43:10.575
She was your love slave.
0:43:20.256,0:43:23.552
Well, I think now[br]I'll have my own individual order
0:43:23.719,0:43:25.013
of ginger prawns.
0:43:27.433,0:43:29.770
- Waiter.[br]- Three weeks before her final coma,
0:43:30.479,0:43:32.023
Sunny overdosed on Aspirin.
0:43:32.774,0:43:34.193
Can you tell us anything about that?
0:43:34.193,0:43:36.571
No one maintained[br]I had anything to do with that, Alan.
0:43:36.571,0:43:37.614
No, of course not.
0:43:38.366,0:43:39.659
I'm asking you what happened.
0:43:39.951,0:43:42.330
Well, Sunny had been unwell.
0:43:49.215,0:43:50.216
Are you all right?
0:43:50.550,0:43:52.344
Oh, just a bit dizzy.
0:43:55.140,0:43:57.060
Well, if you're dizzy, don't go wandering.
0:44:13.542,0:44:14.543
Sunny?
0:44:17.673,0:44:18.633
Oh, my God.
0:44:19.133,0:44:20.093
Come on, my darling.
0:44:21.095,0:44:21.846
Now, you're all right.
0:44:22.013,0:44:23.640
Come on, put your arm around my shoulder.
0:44:23.640,0:44:24.266
There we are.
0:44:24.391,0:44:25.685
Now, you're all right.
0:44:25.977,0:44:28.689
Get you--come on.[br]We'll get you back into bed.
0:44:30.650,0:44:32.403
Something happened to my head.
0:44:32.528,0:44:33.863
- You're all right.[br]- It's cut.
0:44:34.906,0:44:36.701
Just a little cut. It's nothing.
0:44:36.826,0:44:37.869
Come on.
0:44:38.036,0:44:39.455
Let's get you lying down.
0:44:43.794,0:44:45.004
There you are.
0:44:49.010,0:44:50.179
There.
0:44:54.059,0:44:55.228
Shall I call a doctor?
0:44:55.520,0:44:57.314
No! No, I don't want--
0:44:57.731,0:44:58.691
I don't want a doctor.
0:44:58.816,0:45:00.444
Just... don't want a doctor.
0:45:01.487,0:45:04.157
Just want to be left alone.
0:45:05.326,0:45:08.121
Want to be left alone[br]with all those beaut--beautiful letters.
0:45:08.789,0:45:10.083
What did you do with those letters?
0:45:10.083,0:45:11.543
Why did you write those letters?
0:45:11.835,0:45:12.878
And those...
0:45:13.504,0:45:15.090
Later, Dr. Praug said
0:45:15.215,0:45:16.759
we needn't have gone to the hospital,
0:45:16.759,0:45:18.553
but I wasn't going to take any chances.
0:45:18.720,0:45:20.306
Why did she take so much Aspirin?
0:45:20.765,0:45:22.810
Oh, Sunny always took Aspirin.
0:45:23.185,0:45:25.355
She'd been taking a lot for several days.
0:45:25.522,0:45:26.815
That's not what our doctor said.
0:45:26.815,0:45:28.485
Dr. Lucas Lupardus,
0:45:28.777,0:45:31.698
chief forensic toxicologist,[br]Suffolk County,
0:45:31.990,0:45:34.827
says that people who take large[br]amounts of Aspirin every day
0:45:34.952,0:45:35.912
never reach that level.
0:45:36.496,0:45:39.167
He also said the average blood level[br]in cases of death is...
0:45:39.334,0:45:41.545
Sixty. Hers was 90.
0:45:41.962,0:45:42.672
So...
0:45:42.839,0:45:45.259
So it was obviously a suicide attempt.
0:45:46.719,0:45:47.220
Why?
0:45:47.345,0:45:48.848
Yeah, why?
0:45:48.973,0:45:49.557
Why?
0:45:49.849,0:45:53.396
Alan, do they all want to be prosecutors?
0:45:56.108,0:45:57.110
We're waiting.
0:46:00.990,0:46:02.785
Well, I presume she was unhappy.
0:46:10.003,0:46:12.257
How about we all finish up[br]and go back to the house?
0:46:14.051,0:46:17.014
We're not going to win this[br]on a technicality. Peter.
0:46:18.140,0:46:20.018
I've read every case[br]in the last seven years
0:46:20.227,0:46:22.313
where the Rhode Island[br]Supreme Court reversed.
0:46:22.480,0:46:23.815
They don't like to make new law,
0:46:23.815,0:46:26.068
they don't like to discuss[br]broad legal issues.
0:46:26.194,0:46:27.529
When they do reverse,
0:46:27.696,0:46:29.156
the grounds are technical,
0:46:29.323,0:46:31.410
but the reason seems to be
0:46:31.577,0:46:34.205
they suspect a convicted defendant[br]may be innocent.
0:46:35.499,0:46:37.168
Okay, so everybody get that?
0:46:38.086,0:46:41.049
True or not,[br]we've got to convince the judges
0:46:42.092,0:46:43.469
that you are innocent.
0:46:44.345,0:46:47.266
Claus, now I do want to hear[br]your side of the story.
0:46:47.433,0:46:48.476
With pleasure.
0:46:49.186,0:46:51.481
Innocence has always been my position.
0:46:56.905,0:46:58.825
First coma. What preceded it?
0:47:01.245,0:47:02.705
Well, Sunny loved Christmas.
0:47:03.498,0:47:05.376
It was her favorite season, really.
0:47:06.544,0:47:09.549
You see, what you must understand[br]about Sunny
0:47:09.674,0:47:12.803
is that she loved giving[br]more than anything else.
0:47:13.095,0:47:16.517
� Peace on Earth and mercy mild
0:47:16.684,0:47:18.854
� God and sinners reconciled...
0:47:19.021,0:47:22.401
Each year, she always made[br]a big bowl of fresh eggnog.
0:47:22.943,0:47:25.113
Now, that year, she drank a lot of it.
0:47:25.530,0:47:26.490
How much?
0:47:26.782,0:47:28.701
Oh, 10 or 12 glasses.
0:47:30.162,0:47:31.831
With her hypoglycemia?
0:47:33.166,0:47:34.752
She didn't always drink like that?
0:47:34.794,0:47:35.795
Never.
0:47:36.087,0:47:39.551
She never touched alcohol at all[br]except on social occasions
0:47:39.676,0:47:41.303
to overcome her shyness...
0:47:41.720,0:47:43.473
or when she was upset.
0:47:44.558,0:47:46.811
This was not a social occasion.
0:47:47.354,0:47:48.439
No.
0:47:49.607,0:47:52.278
We'd been discussing divorce[br]all afternoon.
0:48:09.636,0:48:11.305
This whole subject of your...
0:48:12.766,0:48:15.144
work... coming between us,
0:48:16.646,0:48:19.901
isn't it just a pretext[br]when the real subject is her?
0:48:20.652,0:48:21.654
Certainly not.
0:48:24.575,0:48:27.704
I'm thinking of redecorating[br]this whole fucking house.
0:48:30.124,0:48:31.752
Then she knew about Alexandra.
0:48:33.546,0:48:34.673
Yes.
0:48:34.965,0:48:36.008
How did she find out?
0:48:38.470,0:48:39.722
I, um...
0:48:40.389,0:48:42.100
I told her the previous summer.
0:48:48.651,0:48:50.696
Ala, can't we find one a bit slower?
0:48:56.830,0:48:58.290
- Ah, that's much better.[br]- Hm.
0:48:59.793,0:49:00.836
- Cooler.[br]- Hm.
0:49:03.965,0:49:05.134
Thank you.
0:49:14.314,0:49:15.858
Oh, I've been meaning to mention...
0:49:17.026,0:49:18.987
our understanding about my...
0:49:21.157,0:49:22.951
extracurricular activities.
0:49:25.330,0:49:27.249
I've been involved with someone who...
0:49:27.792,0:49:30.713
falls outside the parameters[br]of our agreement.
0:49:31.005,0:49:32.257
- Really?[br]- Someone...
0:49:32.590,0:49:34.218
peripherally in our circle.
0:49:36.596,0:49:37.640
Billy Botsky's daughter,
0:49:37.806,0:49:39.309
Alexandra Isles.
0:49:41.896,0:49:42.939
Well.
0:49:46.235,0:49:47.445
That must be better for you
0:49:47.529,0:49:49.198
than what you've had to put up with.
0:49:50.951,0:49:52.620
You're referring to the call girls.
0:49:54.080,0:49:55.165
Yes.
0:49:56.626,0:49:59.880
I mean, that is where[br]you've gone previously, isn't it?
0:50:00.506,0:50:01.675
Yes, it is.
0:50:04.512,0:50:05.680
And isn't this better?
0:50:07.183,0:50:09.811
Or is Billy Botsky's daughter[br]a call girl, too?
0:50:11.647,0:50:12.983
This is much better.
0:50:22.288,0:50:23.665
That was what, July, August?
0:50:24.124,0:50:25.292
Now it's Christmas time,
0:50:25.584,0:50:27.838
and you were[br]still squabbling over Alexandra?
0:50:28.255,0:50:30.425
No. We were fighting about my work.
0:50:30.800,0:50:31.969
Sunny was...
0:50:34.222,0:50:35.975
well, by the evening,
0:50:36.142,0:50:37.602
she'd drunk so much eggnog,
0:50:37.727,0:50:39.647
that I had to help her into the bedroom.
0:50:41.024,0:50:42.192
Alexander.
0:50:43.360,0:50:44.612
Time for bed, darling.
0:50:50.329,0:50:51.497
There we are.
0:50:58.341,0:51:00.135
Please don't hold my arm.
0:51:01.053,0:51:02.931
Darling, you know[br]when you get like this...
0:51:03.682,0:51:04.641
Remember?
0:51:06.477,0:51:07.729
You fell and broke your hip.
0:51:07.896,0:51:09.607
That was years ago.
0:51:11.860,0:51:13.488
It was two years ago.
0:51:34.852,0:51:36.521
Get me a scotch and soda.
0:51:47.829,0:51:50.416
May I at least urinate alone?
0:52:10.321,0:52:12.574
She runs the water[br]every time she goes in there.
0:52:15.203,0:52:17.623
If she was already soused,[br]why'd you go for the scotch?
0:52:17.748,0:52:19.417
Because she asked for it.
0:52:21.170,0:52:23.423
Sunny got what Sunny wanted.
0:52:24.007,0:52:25.050
It's okay.
0:52:54.969,0:52:56.054
Good night, Dad.
0:52:56.638,0:52:57.681
Good night, darling.
0:52:59.809,0:53:01.103
Good night, Claus.
0:53:01.645,0:53:02.730
Good night, Alex.
0:53:16.542,0:53:18.587
Hasn't my mother given us enough money?
0:53:20.673,0:53:21.257
Claus?
0:53:21.549,0:53:23.218
That night, we hardly slept.
0:53:23.552,0:53:26.223
Your age,[br]it's perfectly acceptable to retire.
0:53:27.099,0:53:28.434
I'm already retired.
0:53:29.978,0:53:31.814
I haven't worked full-time since Getty.
0:53:31.981,0:53:33.442
Exactly. It's your ego.
0:53:33.567,0:53:35.319
You've never had a career. Not really.
0:53:36.279,0:53:37.907
Well, I'm going to have one now.
0:53:41.161,0:53:43.415
Oh, come on, Sunny, your father worked.
0:53:45.042,0:53:46.753
Do you want the children to grow up
0:53:46.920,0:53:49.048
thinking a male's place[br]is in a deck chair?
0:53:49.173,0:53:50.759
Claus, you marry me for my money,
0:53:50.759,0:53:51.593
then you demand to work.
0:53:51.718,0:53:53.179
You're the prince of perversion.
0:53:53.763,0:53:55.808
I mean, what? Are you trying[br]to destroy our whole family?
0:53:55.808,0:53:56.726
Oh, no, of course not.
0:53:56.893,0:53:59.021
I--I... I simply want some...
0:54:00.732,0:54:02.067
intercourse with the world.
0:54:02.192,0:54:03.402
Shut up, Pan!
0:54:04.445,0:54:05.614
Oh, what does it matter?
0:54:09.202,0:54:11.539
So Is that it?
0:54:13.083,0:54:14.084
Another divorce?
0:54:17.089,0:54:18.215
Okay.
0:54:18.424,0:54:20.469
I'll divorce you. I will.
0:54:21.512,0:54:22.889
Oh, God...
0:54:23.640,0:54:24.933
Two-time loser.
0:54:26.728,0:54:28.063
I'll divorce everybody.
0:54:28.647,0:54:30.775
I don't want a divorce.
0:54:31.610,0:54:34.280
I don't want to marry[br]Billy Botsky's daughter.
0:54:34.406,0:54:36.200
I want to stay with you[br]and I want to work.
0:54:36.200,0:54:38.704
I need that as a man.
0:54:42.709,0:54:43.794
It's hopeless.
0:54:47.007,0:54:48.092
Oh, God.
0:54:49.720,0:54:51.097
I need my beauty sleep.
0:54:51.305,0:54:54.310
Why do you--why do you believe[br]it's hopeless just because of some...
0:55:35.161,0:55:36.162
Good night, Claus.
0:55:38.541,0:55:40.043
Sunny, you know I love you.
0:55:58.862,0:55:59.905
Good night.
0:56:06.874,0:56:07.959
Okay, and the next day?
0:56:08.251,0:56:09.419
Well...
0:56:11.297,0:56:14.719
Maria's testimony was wildly exaggerated.
0:56:16.388,0:56:18.182
Sunny was never moaning.
0:56:19.309,0:56:21.437
Maybe the occasional snore, but...
0:56:23.356,0:56:25.693
And Maria shook Sunny.
0:56:28.697,0:56:31.410
Nobody ever shook Sunny.
0:56:35.708,0:56:37.877
What happened when[br]she regained consciousness?
0:56:38.211,0:56:39.588
After the first coma,
0:56:39.797,0:56:41.466
well, it was kind of absurd.
0:56:41.591,0:56:43.218
Everybody was angry at me.
0:56:47.350,0:56:49.311
Can't you ever leave me alone?
0:56:52.899,0:56:54.068
Why did you do it?
0:56:55.278,0:56:57.030
I would have been better off.
0:56:57.740,0:56:59.325
You would have been better off.
0:56:59.451,0:57:00.744
What do you want me to say?
0:57:01.203,0:57:02.789
That I'm sorry I saved your life?
0:57:03.081,0:57:04.041
Yes.
0:57:08.631,0:57:09.757
Say it.
0:57:17.727,0:57:18.979
Of course I'm not sorry.
0:57:37.423,0:57:38.424
Wha--
0:57:39.801,0:57:40.844
Claus...
0:57:45.142,0:57:47.312
what am I going to do with myself?
0:57:54.155,0:57:55.365
When I phoned Alexandra,
0:57:55.491,0:57:57.702
to tell her what had happened,[br]she said the same thing,
0:57:57.702,0:57:59.538
she said, "Why did you do it?
0:57:59.705,0:58:01.166
Why did you call the doctor?"
0:58:01.458,0:58:03.544
You telling me she wanted[br]you to let Sunny die?
0:58:03.961,0:58:06.465
No, no, no, no, no.
0:58:06.548,0:58:07.842
It was more...
0:58:08.426,0:58:11.889
"Everybody says Sunny's[br]such an unhappy woman
0:58:12.140,0:58:15.353
and has nothing to live for."
0:58:17.648,0:58:20.193
Well, so much for the first coma.
0:58:21.320,0:58:22.488
The second, of course,
0:58:22.947,0:58:24.616
was much more theatrical.
0:58:25.493,0:58:27.454
Theatrical? What is this, a fucking game?
0:58:28.163,0:58:30.583
This is life and death.[br]Your wife is laying in a coma.
0:58:31.752,0:58:33.922
You don't even make a pretense[br]of caring, do you?
0:58:35.173,0:58:36.509
'Course I care, Alan.
0:58:38.971,0:58:41.057
It's just I don't wear[br]my heart on my sleeve.
0:58:45.814,0:58:47.149
Let's call it a night, okay?
0:58:47.859,0:58:49.236
Okay, guys, so...
0:58:50.028,0:58:51.155
As you wish.
0:58:51.447,0:58:53.200
There were three drugs[br]on the needle, right?
0:58:53.200,0:58:55.453
Amobarbital, Valium, insulin.
0:58:57.206,0:58:58.541
We can't all be you, Alan.
0:59:07.178,0:59:08.389
Shoot! Shoot! All right.
0:59:08.973,0:59:11.476
Okay, get a doctor[br]to prepare five needles,
0:59:11.894,0:59:13.271
one with nothing,
0:59:13.438,0:59:15.941
two with Valium, amobarbital, and insulin,
0:59:16.233,0:59:18.153
two with just Valium and amobarbital.
0:59:18.320,0:59:21.282
We're gonna send them to the same lab[br]that our famous needle went to.
0:59:21.282,0:59:23.410
Let's see if we can get[br]a false positive result.
0:59:23.703,0:59:24.871
If we don't?
0:59:25.747,0:59:27.249
We don't, I clean the latrines.
0:59:27.416,0:59:29.002
Aw, you're not gonna believe this.
0:59:29.753,0:59:30.838
David Marriott wants money.
0:59:31.047,0:59:32.131
Yeah, who doesn't?
0:59:32.883,0:59:34.468
I'm afraid his memory might fade.
0:59:34.510,0:59:35.637
Oh, the hell with him. Forget about him.
0:59:35.637,0:59:36.888
Well, he has lost his crumby job,
0:59:36.888,0:59:39.559
and he is running around[br]trying to find evidence for us.
0:59:41.312,0:59:43.440
Okay, why don't we do what[br]the government does with its witnesses?
0:59:43.440,0:59:44.900
Okay? We'll pay for his time.
0:59:45.443,0:59:46.527
What's his time worth?
0:59:46.653,0:59:49.198
- Buck and a half.[br]- Sarah? Dersh?
0:59:50.325,0:59:51.410
Your team's on.
0:59:52.161,0:59:54.080
Okay.[br]You going to pass to me this game or what?
0:59:54.080,0:59:55.123
No.
0:59:57.168,0:59:58.587
Their private investigator said
0:59:58.712,1:00:00.757
the needle had a small encrustation[br]near the tip.
1:00:00.757,1:00:03.594
Now, doctors tell us this is[br]totally inconsistent with injection.
1:00:03.886,1:00:05.221
Okay, so how did it get there?
1:00:08.893,1:00:10.813
If I inject this needle,
1:00:11.147,1:00:13.233
the skin acts as kind of a swab.
1:00:13.650,1:00:14.902
It cleans the needle off,
1:00:15.194,1:00:17.865
leaving the tip completely free of liquid.
1:00:18.032,1:00:21.245
But if I just dip the needle[br]into the liquid,
1:00:21.370,1:00:22.538
what do you see?
1:00:23.498,1:00:24.500
Dry this out,
1:00:24.792,1:00:26.419
you have an encrustation.
1:00:26.753,1:00:27.796
So it's a frame-up?
1:00:28.380,1:00:30.258
It's Desdemona's handkerchief.
1:00:31.343,1:00:33.095
My stepchildren thought I was guilty,
1:00:33.262,1:00:34.931
didn't feel they had enough evidence,
1:00:34.931,1:00:36.225
and so concocted some.
1:00:36.517,1:00:38.019
This should win us the case, no?
1:00:38.270,1:00:40.398
No. We're maybe halfway home.
1:00:41.858,1:00:43.402
There's still a lot of weird stuff.
1:00:44.404,1:00:45.530
Did you love Sunny?
1:00:45.781,1:00:46.907
I married her.
1:00:48.242,1:00:50.037
Of course I loved her. She was beautiful.
1:00:50.037,1:00:51.122
Rich.
1:00:51.247,1:00:52.248
Why not?
1:00:52.540,1:00:54.502
What I've seen of the rich, you can have.
1:00:54.961,1:00:56.129
I do.
1:01:00.594,1:01:01.720
The black bag,
1:01:01.887,1:01:02.847
was it yours?
1:01:05.184,1:01:06.811
Sunny appropriated it.
1:01:07.437,1:01:08.898
Now, to understand that,
1:01:09.148,1:01:11.860
you must understand[br]that after the first coma,
1:01:12.152,1:01:14.322
she went into a complete rage.
1:01:19.371,1:01:21.040
Where are they? Did you take them?
1:01:21.207,1:01:22.334
Certainly not. Take what?
1:01:22.501,1:01:24.045
My pills, you moron.
1:01:25.213,1:01:26.507
Valium, Seconal...
1:01:28.301,1:01:29.469
you took them, didn't you?
1:01:29.970,1:01:32.307
My dear, I've long since[br]stopped interfering.
1:01:32.474,1:01:34.351
Well, who? My children wouldn't dare--
1:01:36.313,1:01:37.815
Oh, I know who.
1:01:37.940,1:01:39.025
Where are you going?
1:01:52.211,1:01:53.379
Maria!
1:02:03.310,1:02:04.812
She soon found them.
1:02:06.440,1:02:08.401
It's my lovely mother, isn't it?
1:02:08.818,1:02:10.154
She's behind all this.
1:02:11.072,1:02:12.949
She's in cahoots with Maria.
1:02:14.869,1:02:18.875
Well, just because she had all the money
1:02:18.958,1:02:20.836
before I had all the money
1:02:20.961,1:02:23.214
does not mean she's my lord and master.
1:02:23.548,1:02:25.801
'Course not. I am your lord and master.
1:02:27.846,1:02:28.848
Just kidding.
1:02:34.230,1:02:35.858
Maria loves me too much.
1:02:37.318,1:02:38.528
It's unhealthy for her,
1:02:39.279,1:02:41.616
and it's certainly no fun for me.
1:02:46.874,1:02:47.959
There.
1:03:04.024,1:03:06.110
We'll see if that ugly little maid of mine
1:03:06.277,1:03:07.445
can sniff this one out.
1:03:17.585,1:03:19.338
And what are you going[br]to do with all that?
1:03:20.506,1:03:21.675
I'm not going to tell you.
1:03:22.593,1:03:25.221
I assure you,[br]it not gonna be among my affairs.
1:03:27.141,1:03:29.978
Odd she used that word, affairs.
1:03:31.063,1:03:33.400
You realize the prosecution thinks[br]you ground up the drugs
1:03:33.400,1:03:34.652
so you could inject Sunny?
1:03:35.027,1:03:37.823
And frankly, this nose drop business[br]is pretty far-fetched.
1:03:38.574,1:03:40.828
But consider the pattern, Alan.
1:03:41.996,1:03:44.959
It's public record that Sunny used drugs.
1:03:45.292,1:03:48.005
Her behavior here of hiding them in liquid
1:03:48.547,1:03:50.300
so that no one will find them,
1:03:50.926,1:03:53.262
it's your classic alcoholic[br]buying pints of whiskey
1:03:53.554,1:03:55.182
and stashing them all over the house.
1:03:56.559,1:03:57.727
You're right.
1:03:58.896,1:03:59.855
Of course, I mean...
1:04:00.565,1:04:02.818
I mean, you've always[br]been right, haven't you?
1:04:04.153,1:04:06.406
This is the most dangerous case[br]I've ever worked on.
1:04:06.699,1:04:07.992
You find that exhilarating?
1:04:08.159,1:04:09.202
No, I do not.
1:04:10.621,1:04:11.748
I am breaking every rule.
1:04:12.290,1:04:14.627
'Cause the best way to win[br]is to proclaim your innocence,
1:04:14.627,1:04:16.463
and I've never done that for anybody.
1:04:17.506,1:04:19.425
And the problem I got is[br]I see who you are.
1:04:19.884,1:04:21.053
You'd do anything to win.
1:04:21.554,1:04:22.513
So would you.
1:04:22.680,1:04:24.474
Yeah, but you don't trust[br]the legal system.
1:04:25.351,1:04:27.604
You're saying I'd manufacture witnesses?
1:04:28.313,1:04:29.357
Affidavits?
1:04:30.859,1:04:33.070
No, but you would sacrifice me.
1:04:33.321,1:04:34.447
Oh, please, Alan.
1:04:34.573,1:04:37.786
See, the more I believe that[br]you are innocent, the more nervous I am.
1:04:38.912,1:04:40.498
I go out on a limb for you,
1:04:40.957,1:04:43.002
you're proven guilty,[br]I look like an asshole.
1:04:43.627,1:04:46.590
My reputation, my credibility,[br]my career, destroyed.
1:04:48.217,1:04:50.095
That's the risk you're taking, isn't it?
1:04:50.095,1:04:51.180
Yeah, well, fuck you.
1:04:51.973,1:04:53.100
Fuck you, man.
1:05:05.701,1:05:07.245
I'm glad we understand one another.
1:05:10.792,1:05:14.005
It's easy to forget[br]all this is about me...
1:05:14.673,1:05:15.716
lying here.
1:05:16.717,1:05:19.388
To most of you, my name means coma.
1:05:19.847,1:05:23.060
My second marriage means attempted murder.
1:05:23.728,1:05:25.146
Everything that came before,
1:05:25.313,1:05:28.735
everything beautiful,[br]does not exist in the public mind.
1:05:29.611,1:05:31.990
No one thinks of how I loved my children.
1:05:32.449,1:05:33.742
Look at Cosima,
1:05:34.660,1:05:35.703
and Alex, of course,
1:05:36.288,1:05:37.456
and Ala,
1:05:37.623,1:05:39.876
and certainly no one cares about Claus,
1:05:40.335,1:05:42.630
the way he was[br]when I fell in love with him.
1:05:43.298,1:05:45.009
When Claus and I first met,
1:05:45.050,1:05:48.597
I was married to the dashing, young[br]Prince Alfred Eduard Friederich
1:05:48.764,1:05:51.894
Vincenz Martin Maria von Auersberg.
1:05:52.895,1:05:55.148
It was 1964,
1:05:56.192,1:05:58.654
seven years into my first marriage.
1:06:04.328,1:06:06.373
It seems that my first husband,
1:06:06.665,1:06:08.793
Alfie, as he was called,
1:06:09.670,1:06:13.801
had vowed to be unfaithful[br]with every pretty girl in Europe.
1:06:15.929,1:06:18.099
He was having quite a success.
1:06:20.060,1:06:21.103
And so...
1:06:22.271,1:06:24.817
I was unfaithful with Claus.
1:06:36.250,1:06:37.335
Psst!
1:06:43.385,1:06:45.138
Wildly unfaithful.
1:06:47.391,1:06:48.434
Happy memories.
1:06:57.614,1:06:59.993
But it's not the passion I remember most.
1:07:01.954,1:07:03.248
It's the tenderness.
1:07:10.091,1:07:11.426
Good God, what's that?
1:07:12.177,1:07:13.763
There's one of Frank's pets.
1:07:18.353,1:07:20.022
Oh, my God. No, no.
1:07:35.920,1:07:36.922
Come on, silly.
1:07:37.089,1:07:38.925
I never liked people much,
1:07:39.342,1:07:40.510
not as a rule.
1:07:41.095,1:07:41.971
Go ahead, feed him.
1:07:42.138,1:07:44.349
But Claus was somehow different.
1:07:47.312,1:07:49.690
Not a normal person, I guess.
1:07:53.738,1:07:55.198
It's all right. Do it again.
1:07:55.365,1:07:56.409
Give him some more.
1:08:10.012,1:08:12.557
One of those things you never forget.
1:08:14.518,1:08:17.356
Of course, now he lives in my apartment...
1:08:18.399,1:08:19.484
my bedroom...
1:08:20.736,1:08:21.737
my bed.
1:08:22.989,1:08:24.449
Cold, isn't it?
1:08:25.660,1:08:28.747
Cold and brutish and the way of the world.
1:08:30.333,1:08:31.126
Looking at him now,
1:08:31.293,1:08:33.004
the issues seem simple.
1:08:34.089,1:08:35.299
Is he the devil?
1:08:36.300,1:08:39.430
If so, can the devil get justice?
1:08:40.765,1:08:42.935
And all this legal activity...
1:08:44.312,1:08:46.732
is it in Satan's service?
1:08:47.733,1:08:50.070
"Sunny von Bulow was totally vulnerable
1:08:50.154,1:08:51.614
to Claus von Bulow."
1:08:52.782,1:08:53.951
Can't argue with that.
1:08:54.660,1:08:57.414
But it's speculation. Exaggeration.
1:08:57.623,1:08:58.708
You keep working on it.
1:08:58.833,1:09:00.919
Totally inflammatory!
1:09:02.881,1:09:04.508
Okay, good. Let's go over this.
1:09:05.843,1:09:09.432
Okay, we went over it... once,[br]I just wanted you to see if...
1:09:17.276,1:09:19.363
Oh, shit, wha--what is this,[br]illegal search?
1:09:22.159,1:09:23.327
It's a classic technicality.
1:09:23.327,1:09:24.245
It's a guilty man's argument.
1:09:24.245,1:09:25.539
Come on, this is different.
1:09:25.705,1:09:27.834
Usual Fourth Amendment case,[br]you're trying to exclude evidence
1:09:27.834,1:09:29.294
- that's bad for your client.[br]- No, no. No, no.
1:09:29.294,1:09:30.754
Same thing here. Same thing.
1:09:30.921,1:09:33.258
No. This search destroyed evidence.
1:09:33.884,1:09:35.261
No fingerprints, no inventory.
1:09:35.386,1:09:37.431
Yeah, what's left hurts Claus,[br]but under Brady,
1:09:37.431,1:09:38.599
the state has an obligation--
1:09:38.599,1:09:40.727
Wait, wait, wait a second.[br]The cops tested the drugs
1:09:40.727,1:09:42.438
- from the illegal search, right?[br]- Yes, yes.
1:09:42.438,1:09:45.943
And we are saying that that test[br]constituted a second illegal search.
1:09:46.194,1:09:46.986
There are precedents.
1:09:47.112,1:09:48.864
- Walter, Jacobson, Morgan.[br]- I know there are precedents.
1:09:48.864,1:09:50.909
I know the law is on our side.[br]I'm not debating that.
1:09:50.909,1:09:51.535
What I'm trying to do is--
1:09:51.702,1:09:54.664
No. You're debating me personally. Why?
1:09:56.709,1:09:59.421
I'm debating strategy, okay?[br]I'm not--I'm not debating you.
1:09:59.588,1:10:00.590
We're all on the same team.
1:10:00.757,1:10:02.259
A-a-are we on the same team here or not?
1:10:02.259,1:10:04.137
I don't know. We seem to be.
1:10:04.303,1:10:05.764
Well then, why don't I feel it?
1:10:06.432,1:10:08.142
I thought this was strictly professional.
1:10:08.142,1:10:09.770
- It was.[br]- That's bullshit, Alan.
1:10:10.270,1:10:12.774
Look, I brought you--I--I asked you[br]to work on this case
1:10:12.899,1:10:14.235
because I think you are a good lawyer.
1:10:14.235,1:10:16.905
I think you're a fine lawyer, too.[br]You're a great lawyer.
1:10:17.072,1:10:18.532
But you give everything you have[br]to the law,
1:10:18.532,1:10:19.910
and you forget the people you care about.
1:10:19.910,1:10:22.705
My clients are the people[br]that I care about.
1:10:22.830,1:10:23.456
Obviously.
1:10:23.623,1:10:25.334
What I care about, all I care about,
1:10:25.334,1:10:27.504
all I fucking care about is this!
1:10:28.213,1:10:29.382
This case!
1:10:29.841,1:10:33.513
And making--making the best possible[br]appeal we're capable of doing, okay?
1:10:33.972,1:10:36.058
Now, you can make[br]your argument better, Sarah.
1:10:36.058,1:10:37.894
You know that! I know that!
1:10:38.103,1:10:40.648
So why don't you just do it[br]and cut out all the bullshit?
1:10:41.816,1:10:44.237
Wow, you always have to have[br]the last word, don't you?
1:11:15.866,1:11:16.993
What?
1:11:19.538,1:11:20.540
We're going to lose.
1:11:21.791,1:11:24.128
W-why do you think[br]this case fascinates people?
1:11:25.922,1:11:28.843
'Cause one time or other every man[br]is driven crazy by his wife,
1:11:29.010,1:11:30.095
and in his secret heart,
1:11:31.138,1:11:33.475
he wants to do exactly[br]what Claus is accused of,
1:11:34.685,1:11:38.441
kill her in some sly, silent way[br]that can't be detected.
1:11:38.858,1:11:40.736
Claus is a scapegoat.
1:11:41.195,1:11:43.907
Someone has to suffer for the sin[br]that we all want to commit.
1:11:46.703,1:11:49.332
Alan, that's ridiculous.
1:11:51.460,1:11:52.920
It's ridiculous, you're right.
1:11:53.212,1:11:54.464
It's rid--
1:11:57.677,1:11:58.762
What do you got?
1:11:59.054,1:12:02.100
Prosecution's case is based on a theory.
1:12:03.894,1:12:04.812
The needle in the bag,
1:12:04.938,1:12:06.607
plus insulin on the needle,
1:12:06.899,1:12:09.820
- plus insulin in her blood.[br]- Right, right, yeah. Okay, fine.
1:12:10.780,1:12:13.951
In Derek, this Rhode Island Supreme Court,
1:12:14.201,1:12:15.203
these same judges,
1:12:15.954,1:12:19.960
said that in a case based[br]on circumstantial theory,
1:12:21.295,1:12:23.006
the case falls apart
1:12:23.840,1:12:25.927
if any part of the theory is weak.
1:12:26.928,1:12:28.555
If there's a weak link in the chain,
1:12:28.555,1:12:30.141
then you throw the whole chain out?
1:12:30.475,1:12:31.518
Exactly.
1:12:33.438,1:12:35.065
Peter, that's very--that's good.
1:12:35.232,1:12:36.275
That--that's very good.
1:12:40.865,1:12:41.908
Oh, yeah, this is good.
1:12:42.618,1:12:43.703
- Thank you.[br]- Oh, yeah.
1:12:43.995,1:12:45.664
Wait, wait, wait.[br]What do you want me to do now?
1:12:45.664,1:12:46.457
What I want you to do?
1:12:46.623,1:12:49.294
I want you to find as many[br]alternative theories as possible.
1:12:50.671,1:12:53.175
Come on, come on, come on.[br]There's only seven days left.
1:12:57.890,1:13:00.560
Dersh? I'm sorry,[br]but you better come downstairs.
1:13:01.896,1:13:04.441
Hey, Dersh. Sorry to get you out of bed.
1:13:05.902,1:13:07.863
What do you--what do you want, more money?
1:13:07.863,1:13:09.031
Can you get more?
1:13:11.159,1:13:12.745
Can I have a glass of water, please?
1:13:17.210,1:13:18.378
No.
1:13:18.462,1:13:19.588
The reason I'm here,
1:13:19.880,1:13:21.508
my affidavit is inaccurate.
1:13:25.931,1:13:27.892
Great. Just what I need right now.
1:13:29.519,1:13:30.604
- That's swell.[br]- Yeah.
1:13:31.898,1:13:34.485
I left something out,[br]something incredibly important.
1:13:36.196,1:13:39.325
Remember I gave Alex's drugs[br]to a woman at Clarendon Court?
1:13:40.535,1:13:41.537
Yeah. So?
1:13:41.829,1:13:44.249
Well, that bitch was[br]definitely Sunny von Bulow.
1:13:46.210,1:13:47.921
David...
1:13:48.839,1:13:49.841
this, uh...
1:13:50.800,1:13:52.094
this is bad. It looks bad.
1:13:52.386,1:13:55.516
I've met with you, what,[br]five times now? All of a sudden--
1:13:55.641,1:13:57.143
No, it's not sudden.
1:13:57.936,1:13:59.980
I think I always knew,[br]but I became convinced
1:14:00.106,1:14:01.691
by staring at pictures of her.
1:14:05.614,1:14:08.242
Well, we can't use your affidavit[br]unless it's truthful.
1:14:08.868,1:14:09.870
Are you sure this time?
1:14:09.953,1:14:11.080
I swear...
1:14:11.831,1:14:13.792
on the body and soul of my mother.
1:14:15.545,1:14:16.588
Poor woman.
1:14:19.592,1:14:21.303
Put in this change and make him go over
1:14:21.303,1:14:22.680
every word of the affidavit.
1:14:25.601,1:14:26.770
can I use your men's room?
1:14:38.370,1:14:39.288
More money?
1:14:39.455,1:14:40.456
Can you get more?
1:14:46.715,1:14:48.760
But if Claus had injected her,
1:14:48.927,1:14:50.846
he'd have thrown away the needle, right?
1:14:51.013,1:14:53.183
Sure. If he threw away the insulin,
1:14:53.934,1:14:55.144
why keep the needle?
1:14:55.144,1:14:57.231
Hey, Claus is strange,[br]but he ain't stupid.
1:14:58.023,1:14:59.192
He is arrogant.
1:14:59.776,1:15:00.527
Is that a crime?
1:15:00.819,1:15:01.821
Sometimes.
1:15:02.280,1:15:04.199
Why are we even discussing this?
1:15:04.366,1:15:06.327
It's obvious. The kids framed him.
1:15:06.452,1:15:08.622
Whoa, you changed your tune.
1:15:11.919,1:15:13.963
A frame-up doesn't mean he's innocent.
1:15:14.798,1:15:16.843
The kids could have framed a guilty man.
1:15:18.053,1:15:19.054
Dersh!
1:15:19.221,1:15:20.389
Telephone!
1:15:23.936,1:15:25.105
It's Peter Macintosh.
1:15:26.231,1:15:27.358
Yeah?
1:15:32.991,1:15:34.201
You know what it is?
1:15:37.122,1:15:38.165
Okay.
1:15:42.672,1:15:45.009
Word in Rhode Island[br]is that the state can't lose.
1:15:45.301,1:15:46.845
They got an ace up their sleeve.
1:15:47.846,1:15:49.014
What is it?
1:15:51.852,1:15:53.229
He's going to try to find out.
1:15:56.025,1:15:57.151
All right, my friend...
1:15:57.360,1:15:58.570
Friend? I like that.
1:15:58.570,1:15:59.613
Nothing personal.
1:16:00.615,1:16:02.367
Okay, no students, no witnesses.
1:16:02.868,1:16:04.162
Second coma. Let's hear it.
1:16:05.163,1:16:06.248
Well, Alan,
1:16:06.540,1:16:08.877
strange as it may seem now in retrospect--
1:16:08.918,1:16:10.003
Claus, cut the bullshit.
1:16:10.212,1:16:11.631
December 20, 1980.
1:16:14.886,1:16:16.054
Sunny was unwell.
1:16:16.471,1:16:19.601
We'd been arguing all afternoon.
1:16:20.310,1:16:23.481
I'd at last been offered a new position[br]in the oil business,
1:16:23.607,1:16:26.027
which would have meant[br]my spending some time in Europe.
1:16:30.867,1:16:32.787
Well, the discussion must have escalated,
1:16:32.954,1:16:35.040
because I went to talk to the children.
1:16:37.377,1:16:40.673
This cargo will bring 50,000 gold florins
1:16:40.798,1:16:42.259
from any rebels worth the name.
1:16:42.342,1:16:43.677
50,000 florins?
1:16:43.970,1:16:45.680
That's a pretty good take.
1:16:45.847,1:16:47.016
Let's put it to the vote.
1:16:47.016,1:16:48.226
All those in favor--
1:16:48.393,1:16:50.813
If you'll forgive[br]my interrupting, skipper,
1:16:51.063,1:16:52.816
I'd like to think before I...
1:16:55.653,1:16:58.658
I... I've something to tell you both.
1:16:59.033,1:17:01.787
We're heading for[br]the biggest and the best pirate days ever!
1:17:02.163,1:17:03.999
I...
1:17:08.130,1:17:09.298
It looks as if...
1:17:10.675,1:17:11.844
as though...
1:17:12.303,1:17:14.681
Mummy and I are going to have to split up,
1:17:16.434,1:17:19.271
because my work is something[br]she just cannot tolerate.
1:17:19.563,1:17:21.232
Mummy says things like that.
1:17:22.693,1:17:24.153
She always gets over it.
1:17:24.737,1:17:27.283
Yes, but this has been[br]going on for too long.
1:17:35.461,1:17:38.007
I'm going to Europe for a few months[br]in the new year,
1:17:40.177,1:17:42.013
and this will probably lead to a split.
1:17:44.182,1:17:45.726
It's all right. She'll get over it.
1:17:49.482,1:17:52.194
Yeah, well, Alexander says[br]that conversation happened the next day.
1:17:52.194,1:17:53.821
Can you imagine anything more absurd
1:17:54.030,1:17:56.200
than announcing your intention[br]to divorce a woman
1:17:56.200,1:17:58.119
who's just fallen into a coma?
1:17:58.912,1:18:02.543
No. That evening,[br]everything seemed normal enough.
1:18:04.045,1:18:05.130
Not cheerful,
1:18:06.048,1:18:08.676
but then, we didn't usually[br]giggle at mealtimes.
1:18:09.845,1:18:12.641
Despite her doctor's warnings[br]about sweets,
1:18:12.807,1:18:15.812
the only thing Sunny consumed[br]was a sundae.
1:18:27.537,1:18:30.625
After supper, I went to finish off[br]some work in my study.
1:18:31.835,1:18:32.712
Well, what should we all do?
1:18:32.962,1:18:35.257
The others decided to chat[br]in the living room.
1:18:36.592,1:18:38.094
Ah, that would be lovely, but...
1:18:38.804,1:18:41.599
first I need to go to my--[br]to my room for just a minute.
1:18:56.162,1:18:58.374
After about an hour, I dropped in on them.
1:19:03.131,1:19:04.883
Darling, would you care for anything?
1:19:09.348,1:19:11.602
if there's some...
1:19:12.770,1:19:14.147
Chicken Bullion left.
1:19:18.737,1:19:19.738
I'll look.
1:19:35.052,1:19:36.221
There you are, darling.
1:19:46.569,1:19:47.654
Thank you.
1:19:55.833,1:19:58.086
How is your work... coming?
1:19:58.295,1:19:59.380
I'm totally flummoxed.
1:19:59.546,1:20:01.424
I can't get the figures to make any sense.
1:20:05.013,1:20:06.640
Why don't you call your friend Deborah?
1:20:08.101,1:20:09.728
I doubt she'd be in Saturday night.
1:20:14.568,1:20:18.032
So, Deborah, I think you'll agree,[br]that's 728... right, now.
1:20:18.574,1:20:19.743
But Deborah was home,
1:20:19.993,1:20:22.371
and we did talk for some time until...
1:20:23.707,1:20:24.708
- Claus.[br]- Hold on.
1:20:24.875,1:20:26.127
Come quick. Mummy's not well.
1:20:26.795,1:20:29.215
Deborah, can I call you back[br]in the morning? Thanks.
1:20:29.674,1:20:32.762
Her voice got very weak and[br]she almost fell down. I had to help her.
1:20:43.903,1:20:45.405
Somebody open a window.
1:20:49.077,1:20:51.038
I find the chill reassuring.
1:20:55.920,1:20:57.506
Now I must speak with Claus.
1:20:57.673,1:20:58.758
- Night, Mummy.[br]- Night.
1:21:04.391,1:21:05.392
Good night, darling.
1:21:08.230,1:21:09.315
Good night, Alex.
1:21:09.983,1:21:11.067
She'll be all right.
1:21:20.999,1:21:23.085
That is, if Claus has time to talk.
1:21:23.961,1:21:24.754
Or are you going to work
1:21:24.963,1:21:27.133
every spare moment[br]right through Christmas?
1:21:30.971,1:21:32.766
Is your work really so fascinating,
1:21:33.433,1:21:34.810
or are you trying to drive me away?
1:21:34.810,1:21:37.022
Because if you are,[br]it's succeeding beautifully,
1:21:37.147,1:21:38.107
because I don't want this.
1:21:39.275,1:21:40.444
I didn't marry you for this.
1:21:41.529,1:21:42.655
I could have had anybody.
1:21:42.822,1:21:44.449
With my money? Anybody.
1:21:46.077,1:21:47.120
Well?
1:21:48.163,1:21:49.332
Say something!
1:21:51.710,1:21:52.795
Do something!
1:21:54.047,1:21:55.132
Be a man!
1:21:57.176,1:21:58.428
I already have a butler.
1:22:03.477,1:22:04.604
Do something!
1:22:05.772,1:22:08.192
I don't want this! I don't!
1:22:08.443,1:22:09.569
I don't want this!
1:22:10.446,1:22:11.489
Please! I don't--
1:22:11.781,1:22:13.200
I don't want th...
1:22:15.036,1:22:17.539
The same conversation[br]as the previous year,
1:22:17.998,1:22:19.918
only this time with greater venom.
1:22:20.168,1:22:21.545
You've always been afraid of me.
1:22:21.879,1:22:23.214
It's not because of my money.
1:22:23.757,1:22:25.593
It's basically because you're a coward.
1:22:26.594,1:22:28.681
Because your pitiful masculinity[br]is so fragile
1:22:28.931,1:22:30.892
you can't stand the idea of confrontation,
1:22:31.059,1:22:33.521
so you go off with Miss Botsky--
1:22:33.604,1:22:34.773
Good night.
1:22:52.841,1:22:55.678
As was usual,[br]I was awakened before dawn.
1:23:01.937,1:23:04.274
I let the dogs out, as was customary.
1:23:09.323,1:23:10.700
I went back through the bedroom
1:23:10.700,1:23:13.663
to my study as quietly as possible.
1:23:19.421,1:23:21.841
I did not notice if my wife was in bed.
1:23:22.134,1:23:25.555
I did not notice if the light was on[br]under the bathroom door.
1:23:26.098,1:23:28.893
Had it been on,[br]I wouldn't have given it a thought.
1:23:29.770,1:23:32.190
I did my exercises, showered,
1:23:32.482,1:23:34.360
and then I called Deborah Knowles.
1:23:34.902,1:23:37.364
Well, I mean,[br]it's stable and it's profitable.
1:23:38.574,1:23:40.160
Can anyone really believe,
1:23:40.202,1:23:42.455
if I was trying to murder my wife,
1:23:42.622,1:23:46.252
that I would spend an hour[br]going over a tedious set of figures?
1:23:47.921,1:23:50.174
After the call, I passed[br]through the bedroom again.
1:23:50.300,1:23:51.635
I remember it was freezing.
1:23:52.177,1:23:54.556
By this time,[br]Sunny was certainly not in bed,
1:23:55.182,1:23:57.393
and I heard water running in the bathroom.
1:24:00.940,1:24:03.819
I had breakfast, walked the dogs,
1:24:04.487,1:24:05.614
and on my return,
1:24:05.822,1:24:07.783
asked the children where Mummy was.
1:24:09.035,1:24:10.329
Has Mummy had breakfast yet?
1:24:11.497,1:24:12.666
We haven't seen her.
1:24:17.423,1:24:18.507
Sunny?
1:24:20.552,1:24:22.513
Her bathroom was her private sanctuary.
1:24:22.972,1:24:25.768
No one entered it,[br]except the maid, of course,
1:24:25.935,1:24:26.936
to clean up.
1:24:27.980,1:24:30.817
Sometimes she stayed there for hours,[br]or so it seemed.
1:24:31.401,1:24:34.990
One can only speculate what goes on[br]behind a closed door.
1:24:35.240,1:24:36.575
Sunny, are you there?
1:24:38.245,1:24:40.164
I hesitated even to knock.
1:24:43.127,1:24:44.295
Darling?
1:25:00.736,1:25:01.821
Sunny?
1:25:04.199,1:25:05.367
Oh, God.
1:25:06.995,1:25:09.081
Once I'd ascertained she was breathing,
1:25:09.206,1:25:11.042
I went to fetch Alexander.
1:25:11.919,1:25:13.504
Why not call an ambulance first?
1:25:13.838,1:25:16.050
Panic, Alan, panic.
1:25:16.509,1:25:17.594
I mean, I--I...
1:25:18.595,1:25:20.848
I--I needed to talk to somebody. There--
1:25:21.850,1:25:23.477
There was no--I wasn't worried that--
1:25:23.477,1:25:25.105
she was breathing normally.
1:25:25.230,1:25:27.650
It wasn't--It wasn't like the year before.
1:25:28.860,1:25:31.072
I mean, in retrospect it seems absurd,
1:25:31.239,1:25:34.326
but I looked at her upper lip,[br]she had blood on it.
1:25:34.493,1:25:35.954
I thought she'd broken a tooth.
1:25:35.954,1:25:38.082
That was the extent of my concern,
1:25:39.208,1:25:40.252
and that's...
1:25:40.752,1:25:42.338
that's really all--all I can...
1:25:43.089,1:25:44.424
that's really all I can say.
1:25:46.803,1:25:48.263
Yeah, but is it the truth?
1:25:48.681,1:25:49.724
Of course.
1:25:50.099,1:25:51.226
But not the whole truth?
1:25:51.977,1:25:54.356
I don't know the whole truth.
1:25:54.522,1:25:57.026
I don't know what happened to her.
1:25:57.193,1:25:58.361
Wish I didn't believe you.
1:25:59.279,1:26:02.117
You know, it's very hard to trust someone[br]you don't understand.
1:26:04.871,1:26:06.123
You're a very strange man.
1:26:08.293,1:26:09.670
You have no idea.
1:26:18.558,1:26:19.559
Everybody here?
1:26:19.601,1:26:21.771
Peter Macintosh is late.[br]Says he's got bad news.
1:26:24.316,1:26:25.484
There he is.
1:26:38.879,1:26:40.047
Well?
1:26:41.049,1:26:42.593
I found out what the state has.
1:26:42.718,1:26:44.345
- Mm-hm.[br]- Their ace in the hole.
1:26:45.597,1:26:46.765
It's you.
1:26:48.935,1:26:50.020
It's me?
1:26:50.270,1:26:53.984
David Marriott taped[br]all his conversations with you.
1:26:54.276,1:26:55.361
Oh, great.
1:26:56.655,1:27:00.828
The scuttlebutt is, if we win the case,[br]you go to prison.
1:27:02.205,1:27:03.373
What did I say?
1:27:04.249,1:27:07.254
Good ol' corrupt Rhode Island,[br]I got a friend to get me an excerpt.
1:27:07.671,1:27:08.839
The reason I'm here,
1:27:09.841,1:27:11.218
my affidavit is inaccurate.
1:27:12.261,1:27:14.514
David, this is bad. It looks bad.
1:27:14.639,1:27:16.100
What, you want more money?
1:27:16.851,1:27:17.936
Can you get more?
1:27:19.104,1:27:20.273
Yeah.
1:27:21.274,1:27:23.110
Hey, that is not what I said.
1:27:23.277,1:27:23.986
It's on tape, Alan.
1:27:24.278,1:27:26.406
I don't care if it's on tape,[br]it's not what I said.
1:27:26.699,1:27:28.159
- What do we do?[br]- I don't know.
1:27:32.582,1:27:34.669
I--I'll tell you what we do.[br]We ignore it, that's what we--
1:27:34.669,1:27:36.880
Alan, with that tape,[br]it's your whole career.
1:27:39.718,1:27:42.138
I now believe Claus is innocent. So.
1:27:42.638,1:27:45.935
We've decided,[br]no tricks, no technicalities.
1:27:46.102,1:27:47.729
We are going to base our appeal
1:27:47.729,1:27:51.276
directly and explicitly[br]on Claus' innocence.
1:27:51.735,1:27:52.737
That's not proper.
1:27:52.778,1:27:55.032
An appeal has to be[br]based on judicial error.
1:27:55.449,1:27:57.243
It is. The judge should've[br]thrown out the case.
1:27:57.243,1:27:59.288
How can you say[br]there was insufficient evidence
1:27:59.288,1:28:00.456
when a jury convicted him?
1:28:00.623,1:28:03.002
- That's a good point, but--[br]- But that's what we are saying.
1:28:03.002,1:28:05.213
If the rules don't work, you change them.
1:28:05.964,1:28:08.343
Red Auerbach got[br]the jump ball rule changed
1:28:08.510,1:28:10.012
when the Celtics had a short team.
1:28:10.012,1:28:11.889
Uh, but it's dangerous politically, Alan.
1:28:11.931,1:28:13.892
If the judges feel insulted,[br]then we're gonna find--
1:28:13.892,1:28:17.356
Wait up, here. State Supreme Court[br]shouldn't even look at an appeal
1:28:17.398,1:28:18.608
based on new evidence.
1:28:20.485,1:28:23.490
Hey, guys, I'll take care of that, okay?
1:28:23.782,1:28:25.159
You just--you leave it to me.
1:28:27.078,1:28:28.664
Look, I know you're all exhausted.
1:28:29.081,1:28:31.334
We got four days left.
1:28:31.960,1:28:33.922
What we do now[br]is going to decide this thing.
1:28:33.922,1:28:35.215
Do you wanna win, or not?
1:28:35.632,1:28:36.592
- Alan![br]- What?
1:28:36.884,1:28:38.929
- We've got something.[br]- We've hit the jackpot.
1:28:39.805,1:28:42.768
Our needles that had[br]amobarbital and Valium...
1:28:42.935,1:28:43.686
But no insulin...
1:28:44.103,1:28:47.108
Both came back with[br]false positive readings
1:28:47.233,1:28:47.984
for insulin.
1:28:48.276,1:28:49.486
Okay.
1:28:49.611,1:28:51.405
One was 93, the other 282.
1:28:51.531,1:28:54.076
We've knocked out every piece[br]of their medical case.
1:28:57.289,1:28:57.873
Good work, good work.
1:28:58.082,1:29:01.003
Okay, now, now all they've got left[br]is my neck.
1:29:02.088,1:29:04.299
Anybody know anything[br]about editing audio tapes?
1:29:13.980,1:29:15.983
Defense! For what, defense!
1:29:16.025,1:29:17.110
- Come on![br]- Come on!
1:29:27.583,1:29:28.543
All right, Alan.
1:29:29.628,1:29:30.588
- Come on![br]- Hey!
1:29:31.005,1:29:32.048
Hurry up!
1:29:32.674,1:29:34.176
- What's going on?[br]- Pass it, Alan.
1:29:34.886,1:29:37.347
I got it. Wait a minute.[br]I got it, I got it.
1:29:37.431,1:29:38.766
- Where's Raj?[br]- He's upstairs.
1:29:39.309,1:29:40.352
- Where you going?[br]- Alan!
1:29:41.562,1:29:44.024
Raj, Raj, I got it.
1:29:44.650,1:29:45.818
I got it.
1:29:45.902,1:29:47.028
Remember Maria?
1:29:47.362,1:29:49.073
She could have said it like this...
1:29:49.407,1:29:50.450
Insulin?
1:29:52.661,1:29:54.164
For what, insulin?
1:29:55.916,1:29:58.044
My lady is not diabetic.
1:29:58.336,1:30:01.549
You see? "My lady is not diabetic."
1:30:02.217,1:30:05.013
She is assuming that the bag is Sunny's.
1:30:05.472,1:30:07.642
Her first reaction, instantaneous,
1:30:07.809,1:30:09.728
not part of a legal strategy[br]devised later,
1:30:09.895,1:30:11.397
is that the stuff in the black bag
1:30:11.522,1:30:13.108
belonged to Sunny, not Claus.
1:30:13.275,1:30:14.652
Who's gonna know better than she?
1:30:15.069,1:30:16.279
Start writing.
1:30:17.573,1:30:20.452
You are not God, you are a prosecutor,
1:30:20.619,1:30:22.956
and Alabama cannot execute[br]those Johnson kids
1:30:23.123,1:30:24.583
before the Supreme Court rules!
1:30:24.875,1:30:26.669
That--that's right! You heard me right.
1:30:26.669,1:30:28.589
You've got two hours[br]to get to Rhode Island.
1:30:28.714,1:30:29.590
You're gonna have to speed.
1:30:29.674,1:30:30.800
You want me to commit a crime?
1:30:30.800,1:30:32.469
Of course not! Because if you do,[br]they're gonna stop you,
1:30:32.469,1:30:33.805
you're not gonna make the deadline.
1:30:33.805,1:30:36.601
I'm tellin' you right now, buddy,[br]those kids fry, you're next!
1:30:36.767,1:30:37.602
You forgot your jacket.
1:30:37.769,1:30:38.854
You're damn right!
1:30:39.688,1:30:42.234
Some startling developments[br]in the von Bulow case.
1:30:42.568,1:30:44.612
Harvard Law School[br]professor Alan Dershowitz
1:30:44.779,1:30:47.283
had been accused of paying[br]for falsified testimony,
1:30:47.867,1:30:49.912
but those accusations[br]were discredited today
1:30:50.078,1:30:51.748
by the Rhode Island attorney general,
1:30:51.873,1:30:54.293
who announced that[br]David Marriott's tape was doctored
1:30:54.710,1:30:57.339
and that Marriott[br]is not a reliable witness.
1:30:57.798,1:30:59.300
So, what was he up to, Alan?
1:30:59.759,1:31:01.053
Who was he working for?
1:31:01.428,1:31:02.472
Damned if I know.
1:31:06.728,1:31:08.772
Hope they don't think[br]he was working for you.
1:31:08.939,1:31:09.816
Alan, no one's going to think--
1:31:09.983,1:31:11.944
Look, I don't think you did it, okay?
1:31:13.154,1:31:14.489
But at the Chinese restaurant,
1:31:15.032,1:31:16.492
you did duck the big question.
1:31:16.784,1:31:18.620
Chuck is our Alexandra Isles expert.
1:31:20.665,1:31:22.167
Sunny's Aspirin overdose...
1:31:23.669,1:31:25.088
why did she take so many?
1:31:26.924,1:31:29.386
What happened? Sunny had a headache?
1:31:32.390,1:31:36.104
Headache... was Alexandra, right?
1:31:40.861,1:31:42.071
Let's hear it, Claus.
1:31:44.700,1:31:46.369
Alexandra was spiteful.
1:31:48.121,1:31:52.419
On the day of Sunny's Aspirin overdose,
1:31:53.588,1:31:56.425
she returned some presents I'd given her,
1:31:56.550,1:31:58.386
some photographs...
1:31:59.138,1:32:00.264
love letters.
1:32:02.100,1:32:04.353
She dropped them off in a shopping bag.
1:32:05.480,1:32:06.690
Did Sunny see them?
1:32:07.733,1:32:08.860
Sunny was home.
1:32:09.987,1:32:11.155
I was not.
1:32:12.616,1:32:16.621
Alexandra neglected to address[br]the package to me.
1:32:17.372,1:32:20.168
I want to be left alone[br]with all those beau--beautiful letters.
1:32:20.961,1:32:24.049
What did you do with those letters?[br]Why did you write those letters?
1:32:26.427,1:32:29.557
There's a big difference[br]between knowing about an affair
1:32:30.475,1:32:33.438
and having love letters[br]crammed down your throat.
1:32:35.733,1:32:37.861
It seems that[br]Sunny did care about your affair.
1:32:38.612,1:32:39.780
She cared a lot.
1:32:43.494,1:32:44.662
Why didn't you tell us?
1:32:46.331,1:32:47.500
Everything was open book.
1:32:49.419,1:32:51.047
"Get the best experts.
1:32:51.506,1:32:52.799
I'm not afraid of the truth."
1:32:58.140,1:33:01.478
Looks to me like Alexandra[br]tried to force Sunny into a suicide.
1:33:04.316,1:33:05.902
Or they plotted it together.
1:33:07.696,1:33:09.448
Either way, he's protecting Alexandra,
1:33:10.074,1:33:11.827
because he's still in love with her.
1:33:11.827,1:33:12.870
And why not?
1:33:13.329,1:33:14.456
I mean, hey, she's a babe.
1:33:17.210,1:33:18.670
'Course I still love her.
1:33:21.633,1:33:22.801
And hate her.
1:33:25.138,1:33:29.019
Alexandra, Sunny, Andrea...
1:33:32.273,1:33:33.358
I love them all.
1:33:41.537,1:33:44.333
Being a human being is very literal.
1:33:44.917,1:33:45.960
You're trapped.
1:33:46.252,1:33:48.464
Time moves in only one direction,
1:33:48.881,1:33:49.966
forward.
1:33:50.008,1:33:51.885
It's stupid and boring
1:33:52.052,1:33:53.846
and results in a lot of silliness.
1:33:54.222,1:33:56.893
Example, the legal process.
1:33:58.603,1:34:00.106
In this particular case,
1:34:00.356,1:34:04.028
a vast amount of time,[br]effort, and money was spent
1:34:04.195,1:34:06.448
trying to determine[br]precisely what happened
1:34:06.615,1:34:09.077
on those two nights so close to Christmas,
1:34:09.369,1:34:14.502
December 26th, 1979, December 20th, 1980.
1:34:16.338,1:34:17.381
Happened right here.
1:34:19.342,1:34:22.472
Even now it all looks the same,
1:34:23.223,1:34:26.477
feels the same, smells the same.
1:34:27.646,1:34:31.067
If you could just go back in time[br]and take a peek,
1:34:31.526,1:34:32.820
you'd know,
1:34:34.656,1:34:36.826
and all this would be unnecessary.
1:34:37.118,1:34:38.203
All rise!
1:34:42.376,1:34:43.669
Hear ye, hear ye!
1:34:43.794,1:34:46.381
All persons having business[br]before the Supreme Court
1:34:46.674,1:34:49.511
holding in Providence within and for[br]the state of Rhode Island
1:34:49.678,1:34:50.805
may now draw near...
1:34:51.848,1:34:52.849
Then again,
1:34:53.809,1:34:55.687
everyone enjoys a circus.
1:34:57.147,1:34:58.232
Be seated.
1:35:01.028,1:35:02.989
If the appellant is ready,[br]you may proceed.
1:35:05.242,1:35:05.993
If it please the court,
1:35:06.202,1:35:08.956
oral argument will be made[br]by out-of-state counsel,
1:35:09.165,1:35:11.126
professor Alan Dershowitz.
1:35:21.057,1:35:22.017
Your Honors,
1:35:22.476,1:35:24.771
you may not like Claus von Bulow.
1:35:25.647,1:35:27.483
You may think he is guilty of something,
1:35:27.817,1:35:30.154
but I am here to tell you he is innocent.
1:35:31.197,1:35:32.115
Our new evidence will clear--
1:35:32.198,1:35:36.204
Professor, you know there isn't[br]a single case which allows you
1:35:36.371,1:35:38.749
to introduce new evidence on appeal.
1:35:39.042,1:35:40.794
Well, there is one, Your Honor,
1:35:41.587,1:35:44.049
and you wrote it. Derek.
1:35:45.593,1:35:46.761
In Derek...
1:35:47.471,1:35:49.390
in Derek, you yourself said
1:35:49.724,1:35:53.604
that a case based on circumstantial theory[br]rather than fact
1:35:54.063,1:35:55.065
only stands up
1:35:55.232,1:35:57.610
if no other theory makes sense.
1:35:58.028,1:36:00.615
The only way to show a better theory
1:36:00.907,1:36:01.908
is to present it.
1:36:07.959,1:36:09.586
Get on with it, counselor.
1:36:11.380,1:36:13.926
The first issue is the encrusted needle.
1:36:15.261,1:36:16.638
I hope you will have the courage
1:36:16.638,1:36:18.265
to free an innocent man
1:36:18.516,1:36:20.477
and remedy a grave injustice.
1:36:21.019,1:36:22.104
This will never work.
1:36:22.814,1:36:24.149
Too smart for his own good.
1:36:25.192,1:36:26.694
Alan says it will work,
1:36:27.821,1:36:29.907
if the prosecutor takes the bait.
1:36:30.867,1:36:32.036
What do you mean, "bait"?
1:36:33.454,1:36:34.998
Argues the evidence.
1:36:36.125,1:36:36.751
Your Honors,
1:36:36.918,1:36:39.755
introduction of new evidence on appeal
1:36:41.174,1:36:44.387
violates every principle of jurisprudence,
1:36:44.888,1:36:46.014
every statute,
1:36:46.849,1:36:49.394
every precedent, every rule of ethics.
1:36:49.728,1:36:51.439
Ah, he's nailing us right off the bat.
1:36:51.439,1:36:53.191
I am not going to stand before you
1:36:53.358,1:36:55.612
and argue Mr. von Bulow's guilt.
1:36:58.449,1:36:59.617
However,
1:36:59.910,1:37:02.872
I have no choice but to address[br]Mr. Dershowitz' arguments
1:37:03.039,1:37:04.207
one by one.
1:37:05.418,1:37:06.586
- Bingo.[br]- First,
1:37:07.754,1:37:09.298
the matter of the encrusted needle...
1:37:10.884,1:37:13.471
So? Now it's up to the judges.
1:37:14.180,1:37:15.641
Tell me what you really think.
1:37:15.641,1:37:18.061
I think it's easier to love somebody
1:37:18.228,1:37:19.355
than to live with them.
1:37:21.483,1:37:22.943
Love is fantasy.
1:37:23.486,1:37:24.904
Living is work.
1:37:25.113,1:37:28.159
I'll say. And those people[br]don't like to work.
1:37:28.576,1:37:30.955
But, if you don't do the work,[br]the love dies,
1:37:31.372,1:37:33.417
and nobody wants to deal with that one.
1:37:35.837,1:37:36.838
The love died,
1:37:37.631,1:37:38.800
Sunny couldn't accept it...
1:37:40.260,1:37:41.929
so Claus tried to kill her?
1:37:42.054,1:37:43.223
Maybe.
1:37:43.390,1:37:44.474
I don't agree.
1:37:45.434,1:37:48.564
Face it, all we had to do[br]was prove the state made a lousy case.
1:37:49.023,1:37:50.817
We didn't prove that Claus was innocent.
1:37:50.817,1:37:53.237
We couldn't. We didn't have to,[br]and he probably isn't.
1:37:53.237,1:37:54.239
He isn't? You mean, you thi--
1:37:54.364,1:37:56.575
I mean, so,[br]he didn't inject Sunny with insulin.
1:37:57.034,1:37:59.705
So what? Break it down.[br]First coma, no problem.
1:37:59.872,1:38:02.876
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.
1:42:05.647,1:42:07.400
It does seem far-fetched.
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So's the truth sometimes.
1:42:09.528,1:42:12.407
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."
1:44:32.695,1:44:35.073
...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.
1:45:04.992,1:45:05.534
Grounds?
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Well, they got the Brillhoffer notes.
1:45:07.537,1:45:09.373
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.
1:45:11.543,1:45:13.963
- 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.
1:45:18.094,1:45:20.890
Don't--don't get too excited[br]until we see Brillhoffer's notes.
1:45:20.890,1:45:22.392
We destroyed their medical case,
1:45:22.559,1:45:24.729
but their witnesses[br]still carry emotional weight
1:45:24.729,1:45:25.856
if there's a second trial.
1:45:26.273,1:45:27.274
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.
1:45:52.102,1:45:53.438
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.
1:46:05.038,1:46:08.418
No one mentioned seeing insulin[br]when they first talked to Brillhoffer.
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Plus... Maria told them
1:46:11.631,1:46:13.592
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.
1:46:15.929,1:46:17.055
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
1:46:24.566,1:46:26.527
both the medical case and their witnesses
1:46:26.653,1:46:28.113
are now highly suspect.
1:46:28.280,1:46:30.366
Oh, God.
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So...
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Darling...
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This is Alan Dershowitz.
1:46:54.694,1:46:55.737
Yes, I know. Hello.
1:46:56.613,1:46:57.656
Alan tells me...
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well, things look very hopeful.
1:47:02.121,1:47:03.707
I knew it would come out all right.
1:47:04.166,1:47:05.125
Thank you.
1:47:09.131,1:47:10.300
Yes, Alan, thank you.
1:47:10.425,1:47:11.927
I am eternally grateful.
1:47:12.094,1:47:14.305
Hey, this means[br]we'll be getting back your bail,
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a million dollars.
1:47:16.267,1:47:18.144
Uh, I know I still owe you, Alan.
1:47:20.106,1:47:21.733
Please send me your bill.
1:47:23.068,1:47:24.988
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.
1:47:30.454,1:47:31.622
One thing, Claus...
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legally, this was an important victory.
1:47:34.919,1:47:36.671
Morally, you're on your own.
1:47:49.649,1:47:52.737
Claus von Bulow was given a second trial
1:47:53.070,1:47:55.115
and acquitted on both counts.
1:47:57.493,1:47:59.163
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,
1:48:06.381,1:48:07.466
you will know the rest.
1:48:40.974,1:48:42.434
Two packs of Vantage, please.
1:48:51.155,1:48:52.198
Anything else?
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Yes, a vial of insulin.
1:49:02.630,1:49:03.673
Just kidding.