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25.000 English[br]sync from 23.976 � 16.05.2023
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This was my body.
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On December 27, 1979,
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I lay in bed all day.
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Whether I was asleep or in a coma
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later became a subject of dispute.
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When my breathing became obstructed...
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Maria!
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...my husband, Claus von Bulow,
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finally did as my maid[br]had been urging all day.
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He summoned a physician.
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Dr. Paultees.
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I stopped breathing.
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My heart stopped beating.
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By this time,[br]I was certainly in a deep coma
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from which I awoke several hours later.
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By the next morning, I was myself again.
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There's no reason for all this fuss.
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I've never felt better in my whole life.
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This first coma aroused suspicion and fear
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in the minds of my personal maid, Maria,
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my son, Alex,
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and my elder daughter, Ala.
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From this time on,
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though they never voiced[br]their suspicions to me,
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they kept a vigilant eye on Claus.
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A year later, just before Christmas,
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their darkest fears seemed justified.
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Has Mummy had breakfast yet?
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No, we haven't seen her.
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My husband did not want[br]our daughter, Cosima,
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to see what he had found,
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so he motioned to his stepson Alex.
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Second coma.
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- Oh, no.[br]- My pulse was 38,
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my temperature, 81.6 degrees.
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Did you call an ambulance?
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Nicholas, would you ask Robert[br]to open the main gates?
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We're expecting an ambulance.
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Mrs. von Bulow...
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Ma'am, send an ambulance immediately.
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It's on Belleview Avenue.
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- Look, bring her something warm.[br]- Thank you.
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Uh, or--or blankets[br]or anything you can find.
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All this activity was pointless.
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We better do an EEG.
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I never woke from this coma,
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and I never will.
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I am what doctors call[br]persistent vegetative,
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a vegetable.
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According to medical experts,
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I could stay like this[br]for a very long time,
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brain-dead, body better than ever.
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Enter Robert Brillhoffer,
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former Manhattan District Attorney.
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My two children from my first marriage,
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Alex and Ala von Auersberg,
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hired Brillhoffer to investigate the case.
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He put a "do not resuscitate" order[br]on her hospital chart.
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They sent Alex and a private investigator
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back to my Newport cottage,[br]Clarendon Court,
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to search for drugs.
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They found plenty
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in Claus' closet.
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On top of that,
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the hospital lab reported
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that my blood insulin on admission
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was 14 times normal,
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a level almost surely caused by injection.
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Insulin injection could[br]readily cause coma...
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or death.
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This encrusted needle[br]tested positive for insulin.
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Alex couldn't wait to get back...
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Let's get out of here.
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...and show Brillhoffer.
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Now they felt they had the murder weapon.
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All they lacked was the motive.
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At that moment,
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my husband was vacationing[br]with his mistress,
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the very beautiful soap opera actress,[br]Alexandra Isles.
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Oh, God.
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Mrs. Isles, a divorc�e,
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was the daughter of an old friend,
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Count Billy Botsky.
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Brillhoffer also discovered that,[br]at my death,
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Claus, whose own net worth[br]was only a million dollars,
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stood to inherit 14 million from me.
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Alexandra later testified
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that Claus showed her[br]a legal analysis of my will.
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On the evidence collected by Alex, Ala,[br]and their lawyer, Brillhoffer,
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my husband was accused of twice trying
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to murder me with injections of insulin.
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On March 16, 1982,
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he was found guilty on both counts.
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...charged the defendant[br]committed on December 27th, 1979...
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Even Alexandra Isles[br]testified against him.
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How do you find?
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Guilty.
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As to count two,
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charge the defendant committed[br]on December 21, 1980,
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the crime of assault[br]with intent to murder,
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how do you find?
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Guilty.
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You are about to see how[br]Claus von Bulow sought to reverse...
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or escape from that jury's verdict.
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You tell me.
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And two!
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Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!
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Taking you downtown!
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Air Dersh!
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Take it in! Take it in! Foul!
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Okay. Here I go.[br]Here I go! Watch the hands!
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Watch the hands!
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Yeah, hello.
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What?
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Oh, shit. Ju--bottom line.
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Oh, shit!
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Hi.
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Let's try that again.
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Hi, Dad.[br]Remember Maggie?
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Hi, Maggie. Hello.
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They're going to fry.[br]The Johnson brothers.
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What?
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But--
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Two black kids broke[br]their father out of prison.
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The father shot two people,
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and the sons are convicted of murder.
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A lawyer prays for an innocent client.
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Finally, finally, I get two.
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Both of them are going to get zapped.
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No more appeals?
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Supreme Court, but this was the best shot.
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It's the press.
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You don't want to talk to the press?
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Dershowitz Psychiatric Institute.
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Yeah, hang on a second.
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Claus von Bulow.
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It's a reporter.
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With an English accent?
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What paper do you represent?
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If I can't save two innocent kids,[br]what's the point?
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- I might as well hang it up.[br]- Yeah. One second, one second, sorry.
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He really seems to think he's von Bulow.
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Hello. This is Alan Dershowitz.
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Who are you? What do you want?
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It's von Bulow.
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Back in business.
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Can I help you, sir?
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Claus von Bulow.
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Elevator's to the left, go right ahead.
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Holy shit.
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Hello?
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Hello?
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Professor Dershowitz, hello, hello.
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How good of you to come.
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Pleasure.
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Won't you sit down?
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Do you play?
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That? No.
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Most people think it's a game of luck.
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Actually, it's largely a matter of nerve.
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Um... nothing, thank you, Charles.
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Why don't we go to Delmonico's[br]and have a proper lunch?
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Whatever.
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I should tell you that[br]I have the greatest respect
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for the intelligence and[br]integrity of the Jewish people.
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When I married Sunny,
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she was the most beautiful divorc�e[br]in the world
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and one of the wealthiest.
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Even so, we never got this table.
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Professor Dershowitz.
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Dr. von Bulow.
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Two injections of insulin,[br]already I'm a doctor.
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No, in America,[br]it's fame rather than class.
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Now, after all this unpleasantness,
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I always get the best table and...
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Speaking of the unpleasantness--
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Oh, yes, I suppose[br]we better discuss your fee.
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Okay.
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It's 300 dollars an hour.
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Good Lord!
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You know, I used to be a lawyer in London.
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That sounds a bit steep.
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It's average for a case like this.
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Besides, I do a lot of pro bono work.
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You would pay for that.
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Plus, I have to pay students, associates--
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Are you saying if I agree to pay 300,
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you will handle my appeal?
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No, not so far.
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It doesn't look like my kind of case.
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I'm not a hired gun.
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I got to feel there's some moral[br]or constitutional issue at stake.
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But I'm absolutely innocent,
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and my civil liberties[br]have been egregiously violated.
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I've got two black kids[br]facing the electric chair
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for a crime they did not commit.
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They are innocent.
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Well, before you assume I'm guilty,
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won't you hear my story?
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Nope. Never let defendants explain.
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Puts most of them in an awkward position.
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How do you mean?
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Lying.
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But I give you my word as a gentleman.
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Oh... well...
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Well, won't you at least read the record[br]and
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see if you can find something... well...
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constitutional?
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You do have one thing in your favor.
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Everybody hates you.
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Well, that's a start.
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Come on, Maxwell!
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Get up! Come on, Max!
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- He was hit! He--[br]- Oh! Hit!
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Yes!
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So what do you think?
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Oh, he did it. He did it.
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Of course he did it. Can we win?
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Hundred to one against.
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The maid.[br]The maid shmeared him on both comas.
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Look at it. At this. It says here...
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After you realized that Mrs. von Bulow
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had not gotten up,[br]what did you do?
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I came downstairs,
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and Mr. von Bulow said that madame
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had a very sore throat,
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and I didn't have to do any work,
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and she was in bed all day.
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What are you doing?
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Did we ring for you?
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She's ice cold.
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Madame! Mrs. von Bulow!
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Leave her alone.
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She's sleeping.
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She was drinking last night.
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We didn't get any rest.
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She's not sleeping.
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She's unconscious.
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- You must call a doctor.[br]- Maria.
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Go on!
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A half hour later, she had not moved.
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I went back and forth all morning.
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...strain over the last several days.
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Finally, mid-afternoon,
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Mr. von Bulow spoke to Dr. Paultees,
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but he lied to doctor.
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Yes, she's sleeping now,
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but she was up earlier this morning[br]to the bathroom
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and had a soft drink.
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So I don't think[br]there's any cause for alarm.
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But she never moved,
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never got up.
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She was lying[br]in the same position all day.
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Later, her heart stops,
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and Dr. Paultees, he comes and saves her.
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After they go to the hospital,
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I'm changing the sheets.
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I find a puddle of urine.
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If madame went to the bathroom,
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she would not have peed in her bed.
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Right.
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Why would Claus lie about that?
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Well, it's suspicious,[br]but hardly criminal.
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How about the second coma?
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Well, Maria wasn't in Newport[br]for that one.
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But shortly before the second coma...
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I'm cleaning up their room
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when I find Mr. von Bulow's[br]white canvas bag
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packed for Newport.
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Inside, there's a little black bag:
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a bottle of insulin,[br]a syringe, and needles.
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Alexander!
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Alexander, come here!
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Insulin.
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For what, insulin?
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My lady is not diabetic.
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Three weeks later,
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Sunny's lying unconscious[br]in a freezing bathroom
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with her nightgown hiked over her waist.
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If I was on that jury,
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I would have voted to convict.
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Then you're taking the case?
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It reminds me of my Hitler dream.
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You know, Hitler calls up.
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He's alive, needs a lawyer.
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I say, "Sure, come on over."
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Then I have to decide.
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Do I take the case or do I kill him?
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You? No question.
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I would take the case.
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Then kill him.
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I'm a maniac.[br]I need someone with your judgment,
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someone to watch what I'm doing,[br]occasionally remind me about the law.
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When can I see the transcripts?
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You're a former prosecutor, conservative.
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We agree on nothing.
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But you're smarter than[br]the Rhode Island DA.
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If I can beat your arguments,[br]I can destroy his.
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Look, Rhode Island is[br]the most corrupt state in the country.
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Everything is political.
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I don't think that way. You do.
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I have to see the big picture.[br]I can't afford to immerse myself in facts,
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but we must know the facts.
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Out of all my ex-students,
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no one can assimilate information[br]as quickly as you two.
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Well, I agree with that assessment.
0:18:53.760,0:18:54.560
You're out of your mind.
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I only have 45 days to file.
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I can't do it without you.
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Look, Sarah,[br]I know you don't want to come back--
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Is this strictly professional?
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Better be.
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That's wonderful.
0:19:10.640,0:19:12.920
Now, I want the best people in the world[br]on our side,
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the most prestigious experts,
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Nobel prize-winning scientists.
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Some of your colleagues[br]at Harvard, perhaps.
0:19:19.240,0:19:20.640
Hey, hey, wa--wait a minute, Claus.
0:19:20.640,0:19:22.480
Look, we got a little problem there, okay?
0:19:22.640,0:19:24.800
People like that, we can't control.
0:19:25.120,0:19:26.640
They'll find one incriminating fact,
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they'll tell the whole world.
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I'm not afraid, Alan.
0:19:29.200,0:19:30.800
Let the chips fall where they may.
0:19:31.480,0:19:33.120
That's what an innocent man would say.
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I know.
0:19:42.120,0:19:43.360
That just came for you, Dad.
0:19:45.320,0:19:47.640
My daughter, Cosima. She never doubted me.
0:19:48.560,0:19:49.880
She loves Alex and Ala dearly,
0:19:50.040,0:19:52.160
and siding with me[br]has cost her their affections.
0:19:56.560,0:19:58.120
I don't know what I would have done.
0:20:03.400,0:20:05.520
Okay, look, I said[br]I didn't want to hear your story,
0:20:05.520,0:20:06.720
but I do need some information.
0:20:06.720,0:20:07.760
'Course.
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Okay, I gather they'll, the older[br]children, deny Sunny had a problem
0:20:12.360,0:20:13.400
with pills and alcohol?
0:20:13.480,0:20:15.000
Spectacular understatement.
0:20:15.320,0:20:16.680
So there must be somebody[br]who saw it, right?
0:20:16.680,0:20:18.560
Some witness, somebody, somewhere?[br]A friend?
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- You want affidavits?[br]- Yes, I do.
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I'll get them.
0:20:21.040,0:20:21.600
You'll get them?
0:20:21.920,0:20:25.040
You should also know, the drugs[br]prescribed for me were taken by Sunny.
0:20:25.200,0:20:26.480
That's a lot of drugs, Claus.
0:20:26.640,0:20:30.480
But the prosecution's allegation[br]that I knew about syringes, injections,
0:20:30.960,0:20:32.080
totally accurate.
0:20:33.120,0:20:36.320
Sunny and I used to give ourselves[br]B-12 injections in the late sixties.
0:20:36.480,0:20:37.320
It was quite the fad in London.
0:20:37.480,0:20:38.840
Can I explain something to you?
0:20:39.160,0:20:40.400
The less I know from you,
0:20:40.720,0:20:41.840
the more options I have.
0:20:42.240,0:20:43.520
When you tell me "the truth,"
0:20:43.600,0:20:46.440
you limit me to a defense that lines up[br]with what you have to say.
0:20:46.960,0:20:49.200
But isn't the truth[br]the simplest way, Alan?
0:20:50.240,0:20:53.040
I mean, why did I stay all day[br]at Sunny's side
0:20:53.200,0:20:54.680
without calling a doctor?
0:20:55.680,0:20:58.400
Because Sunny detested doctors.
0:20:58.840,0:21:00.440
If we called one[br]without her approval,
0:21:00.440,0:21:01.480
she went berserk.
0:21:01.720,0:21:02.600
Once she broke her hip
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and didn't go to hospital[br]for two full days.
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Claus, did you hear what I just said?
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Of course.[br]Did you hear the judge sentenced me?
0:21:08.920,0:21:11.360
Sorry. 30 years is[br]a pretty stiff sentence.
0:21:11.960,0:21:13.320
Twice trying to murder one's wife,
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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,
0:21:25.880,0:21:27.240
if we lose the appeal,
0:21:28.080,0:21:29.920
will I have the chance later
0:21:30.080,0:21:32.880
to set my affairs in order[br]before I'm incarcerated?
0:21:34.240,0:21:36.400
In Europe, a gentleman[br]is given the opportunity
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to end things properly.
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Come on, Claus.
0:21:43.080,0:21:46.320
We are each the keeper[br]of our own souls, Alan.
0:21:49.640,0:21:50.760
Okay, two big problems.
0:21:51.720,0:21:53.960
The case against him is very strong.
0:21:54.680,0:21:55.920
But probably more important,
0:21:56.040,0:21:58.080
the legal conviction[br]isn't the only conviction
0:21:58.240,0:21:59.280
that we got to reverse.
0:21:59.960,0:22:01.440
The more dangerous conviction
0:22:01.600,0:22:04.640
is the absolute certainty[br]of the American people
0:22:04.800,0:22:06.120
that Claus is guilty.
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Finding grounds for reversal[br]won't be enough here.
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Judges on the Rhode Island Supreme Court[br]will have to go home to their spouses
0:22:13.760,0:22:16.040
and explain why they reversed.
0:22:16.200,0:22:19.320
To get them to do that,[br]we must completely obliterate
0:22:19.480,0:22:22.240
every single aspect of the state's case.
0:22:22.720,0:22:25.320
Destroy both the medical case[br]and their witnesses
0:22:25.480,0:22:28.640
so the judges have[br]no possible way to affirm.
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Total victory,[br]or we are dead in the water.
0:22:32.520,0:22:36.000
Now, I assume that[br]you've all had an opportunity
0:22:36.160,0:22:37.240
to look at the transcripts,
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first impressions, yeah, Minnie?
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I think this whole thing stinks.
0:22:41.160,0:22:43.400
I think Claus von Bulow stinks.
0:22:44.000,0:22:47.040
He's obviously guilty[br]of something pretty despicable.
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And if we free him,
0:22:48.920,0:22:50.680
we become partners in his crime,
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accessories after the fact.
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I'm really shocked,
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with your record[br]defending the poor and oppressed,
0:22:56.640,0:22:58.040
that you've taken this case.
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I won't have anything to do with it,
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and I hope my fellow students[br]won't either.
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Good-bye.
0:23:09.120,0:23:11.840
May I exercise my First Amendment right[br]to free speech?
0:23:15.560,0:23:17.240
If lawyers only defended innocent clients,
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there would be 10 defense[br]lawyers in the entire country,
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and none of you[br]would be able to find a job.
0:23:21.400,0:23:23.560
Why help guilty people get off?
0:23:25.240,0:23:27.440
Oh, you're sure he's guilty,[br]100 percent sure.
0:23:27.720,0:23:30.040
He had a lawyer. He had a trial.
0:23:30.520,0:23:31.800
He was convicted.
0:23:32.200,0:23:33.680
Are you sure he had a fair trial?
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Come on!
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It's the basis of the whole legal system.
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Everyone gets a defense.
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So the system is there
0:23:43.520,0:23:46.240
for the one innocent person[br]who is falsely accused.
0:23:47.920,0:23:48.960
Okay, look.
0:23:50.000,0:23:51.920
Say it's you, okay?
0:23:52.720,0:23:53.800
You decide...
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you decide to get a divorce.
0:23:56.920,0:23:58.520
You're going to divorce your husband.
0:23:58.720,0:23:59.760
A week later,
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you're accused of molesting your son.
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Oh, no, now don't give me that look.
0:24:05.080,0:24:06.680
Stuff like this happens all the time.
0:24:07.040,0:24:08.320
Suddenly, you're alone.
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You're hated.
0:24:10.560,0:24:11.920
It's--it's a nightmare.
0:24:13.000,0:24:15.840
Everyone assumes that you are guilty.
0:24:16.480,0:24:19.840
Even the mailman is beginning to[br]look at you a little--a little funny.
0:24:20.320,0:24:22.560
You only got one person[br]who believes in you.
0:24:22.880,0:24:24.520
There's only one person you can trust,
0:24:26.400,0:24:27.440
your lawyer.
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Yeah. Okay.
0:24:29.880,0:24:31.840
So, someone's got to defend Claus.
0:24:32.360,0:24:33.400
But why you?
0:24:33.440,0:24:34.480
Why us?
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Look, you're my student.
0:24:37.360,0:24:38.200
Y-you have a choice.
0:24:38.360,0:24:40.240
You d--you don't have to do[br]anything you don't want to do.
0:24:40.240,0:24:41.320
That is your choice.
0:24:42.120,0:24:43.640
The reason I take cases,
0:24:43.800,0:24:45.880
and here, I'm unlike most other lawyers
0:24:46.040,0:24:48.560
who are not professors[br]and therefore have to make a living,
0:24:48.840,0:24:51.680
I take cases 'cause I get pissed off,
0:24:52.960,0:24:55.000
and I am pissed off here.
0:24:55.680,0:24:58.480
The family hired a private prosecutor.
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Unacceptable!
0:25:00.920,0:25:03.440
They conducted a private search.
0:25:04.080,0:25:05.880
Now, we let them get away with that,
0:25:06.440,0:25:08.360
rich people won't go to the cops anymore.
0:25:08.520,0:25:09.880
You know what they're gonna do?
0:25:09.960,0:25:13.280
They're going to get their own lawyers[br]to collect evidence.
0:25:13.680,0:25:16.760
And then they are going[br]to choose which evidence
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they feel like passing on to the DA,
0:25:19.480,0:25:22.600
and the next victim[br]isn't going to be rich like von Bulow.
0:25:22.920,0:25:25.000
But it's gonna be[br]some poor schnook in Detroit
0:25:25.240,0:25:29.120
who can't afford[br]or can't find a decent lawyer.
0:25:35.240,0:25:37.520
I think it's a little more complicated
0:25:38.080,0:25:40.080
than your simple moral superiority.
0:25:41.840,0:25:42.880
No?
0:25:43.520,0:25:45.360
I agree von Bulow is guilty,
0:25:45.520,0:25:47.600
but that's the fun,[br]I mean, that's the challenge.
0:25:47.760,0:25:49.200
See, now there is a lawyer.
0:25:51.640,0:25:52.680
What?
0:25:54.240,0:25:55.280
Yeah, okay. Put him on.
0:25:56.480,0:25:58.640
Alan, a rather unsavory character
0:25:58.800,0:26:01.040
called David Marriott contacted me
0:26:01.520,0:26:05.800
claiming to have information about[br]a drug delivery at Clarendon Court.
0:26:06.120,0:26:07.560
Okay. Now, where does he live?
0:26:07.840,0:26:08.520
Somewhere in Wakefield.
0:26:08.680,0:26:10.120
Okay, we--no, we'll get on it.
0:26:11.240,0:26:15.080
Tom, I want you to get[br]a private investigator
0:26:15.240,0:26:18.480
to dig into a David Marriott[br]who lives in Wakefield.
0:26:19.920,0:26:21.760
Okay. How are we going to win this case?
0:26:22.040,0:26:23.680
The judge made lots of mistakes.
0:26:23.840,0:26:25.440
Judges always make mistakes.
0:26:25.600,0:26:26.400
How are we going to win?
0:26:26.560,0:26:27.880
All right, one issue leaps up,
0:26:28.040,0:26:29.360
this lawyer, Brillhoffer,
0:26:29.520,0:26:31.680
interviewed Alex, Maria, everybody.
0:26:31.840,0:26:33.320
He was the first person[br]to hear their stories.
0:26:33.320,0:26:35.080
He took notes and[br]he used those notes at trial
0:26:35.080,0:26:36.440
against a defense witness.
0:26:36.600,0:26:38.400
But the defense never saw the notes.
0:26:38.560,0:26:40.160
The judge wouldn't let us have them.
0:26:40.560,0:26:42.800
This alone seems like sufficient grounds.[br]It's perfect Brady.
0:26:42.800,0:26:43.480
Okay, fine.
0:26:43.680,0:26:45.120
Why don't you draft a letter
0:26:45.280,0:26:47.280
writing to Brillhoffer[br]asking him very nicely
0:26:47.440,0:26:48.640
to send us his notes?
0:26:48.880,0:26:50.800
Yeah, right. He'll fax them right over.
0:26:51.280,0:26:52.320
Yeah, right.
0:26:53.040,0:26:55.120
We could win on this issue alone[br]and he knows it.
0:26:55.200,0:26:56.640
You know it, I know it.
0:26:56.880,0:26:58.320
We'll just make sure he knows it.
0:26:58.880,0:27:01.080
Now... Nancy and Dobbs...
0:27:01.240,0:27:01.760
Yes?
0:27:01.920,0:27:03.880
They're going to attack[br]the medical testimony.
0:27:05.080,0:27:07.760
Our Rhode Island counsel, Peter Macintosh,
0:27:08.160,0:27:10.480
he will analyze the state Supreme Court.
0:27:10.800,0:27:13.200
I think the rest of us[br]should begin dissecting the transcripts,
0:27:13.200,0:27:15.400
errors, inconsistencies, anything unusual.
0:27:15.560,0:27:16.720
Okay, great. Now, remember,
0:27:16.800,0:27:18.360
most cases are won in the field,
0:27:18.520,0:27:19.560
not in court.
0:27:22.000,0:27:23.040
Minnie?
0:27:25.080,0:27:26.640
You want to work with Sarah on this?
0:27:27.800,0:27:28.680
You may learn something.
0:27:28.840,0:27:30.720
- Come on, Minnie.[br]- Come on, Minnie.
0:27:31.240,0:27:32.400
- Minnie![br]- Come on.
0:27:32.640,0:27:33.680
Please?
0:27:34.120,0:27:35.160
Come on.
0:27:36.600,0:27:38.200
'Course I don't trust David Marriott.
0:27:38.240,0:27:39.440
I don't know David Marriott.
0:27:39.640,0:27:40.960
But if he knew Alex von Auersberg--
0:27:40.960,0:27:42.680
You're crazy,[br]I don't know who you think you are.
0:27:42.680,0:27:43.720
You Perry Mason?
0:27:44.440,0:27:46.520
Let our private investigator[br]interview this jerk.
0:27:46.760,0:27:47.920
It's stupid, it's arrogant,
0:27:48.000,0:27:49.040
and it's unprofessional.
0:27:49.120,0:27:51.280
- It's fun.[br]- Fun? This guy is a sleaze.
0:27:51.880,0:27:53.520
You don't know what he's going to try.
0:27:53.680,0:27:55.320
What, is he going to shoot me?
0:27:56.040,0:27:57.200
Come on, I'm from Brooklyn.
0:28:03.440,0:28:06.000
Okay, look, I'll stand by the window[br]every 10 minutes, okay?
0:28:06.640,0:28:08.000
That way you can know I'm safe.
0:28:09.840,0:28:11.120
I had this friend...
0:28:11.440,0:28:12.520
Gilbert Jackson...
0:28:13.280,0:28:14.400
interior decorator.
0:28:15.360,0:28:17.600
Flaming queen, but a very excellent guy.
0:28:20.280,0:28:22.320
He introduced me to Alex von Auersberg.
0:28:23.880,0:28:24.920
You sure it was Alex?
0:28:25.600,0:28:28.240
We had dinner a few times, drinks.
0:28:28.720,0:28:30.800
All I knew, Alex was some rich kid.
0:28:32.080,0:28:33.120
So sometimes,
0:28:33.720,0:28:36.000
this is like, uh, summer of '77,
0:28:36.720,0:28:38.640
I'd motor to Newport for some R and R.
0:28:39.280,0:28:41.080
Gilbert asked me to bring Alex a package.
0:28:42.640,0:28:44.200
I figured interior decoration.
0:28:44.960,0:28:46.000
Maybe drapes.
0:28:46.640,0:28:47.680
Like six times.
0:28:47.960,0:28:49.120
So I'd call Alex.
0:28:49.360,0:28:50.720
How'd you get his phone number?
0:28:51.240,0:28:52.280
From Gilbert.
0:28:52.440,0:28:53.480
You still have it?
0:28:53.920,0:28:54.960
Maybe.
0:28:55.840,0:28:56.880
I'm that kind of guy.
0:29:22.480,0:29:23.520
Here.
0:29:29.600,0:29:30.920
One night I got curious.
0:29:32.160,0:29:33.280
Opened the package.
0:29:34.400,0:29:35.920
Fucking pharmacy, man.
0:29:36.640,0:29:39.360
Needles, syringes, white powder.
0:29:39.680,0:29:41.280
Nice selection of pills.
0:29:41.440,0:29:42.480
Demerol.
0:29:42.800,0:29:43.840
Like a drugstore.
0:29:45.880,0:29:48.360
You delivered drugs six times[br]and didn't know it?
0:29:51.520,0:29:52.560
Stupid, huh?
0:29:53.760,0:29:55.040
Then Gilbert asked me again.
0:29:56.200,0:29:57.600
I couldn't say no, but this time
0:29:57.640,0:29:59.520
I made Alex open the package[br]in front of me.
0:30:00.240,0:30:01.520
Voila.
0:30:03.800,0:30:06.160
I go, "Awful lot of pharmaceuticals[br]for one person."
0:30:06.960,0:30:09.440
He goes, "Oh, I give some to my mom
0:30:09.600,0:30:10.800
to keep her off my back."
0:30:12.560,0:30:15.280
Few weeks later,[br]Gilbert gets mistaken for a softball.
0:30:16.160,0:30:17.680
Two guys bash his head in.
0:30:18.240,0:30:20.560
Alex calls me, totally urinary.
0:30:21.040,0:30:22.440
Will the cops find his phone number
0:30:22.440,0:30:24.400
and fuck up his trust fund or something?
0:30:25.840,0:30:27.120
Well, that's the fat.
0:30:28.560,0:30:29.600
That's the skinny.
0:30:30.840,0:30:31.880
You like it?
0:30:33.440,0:30:35.920
You traffic with drug dealers[br]and drag queens.
0:30:36.080,0:30:37.200
You have a part-time job.
0:30:37.360,0:30:39.000
You ride around in rented limos.
0:30:39.160,0:30:40.320
All in all, I would have to say
0:30:40.320,0:30:42.160
you're probably[br]the least impressive witness
0:30:42.160,0:30:43.200
I've ever seen.
0:30:43.840,0:30:44.880
Wait a minute.
0:30:48.840,0:30:51.120
You think I'm scum, don't you?
0:30:52.160,0:30:54.040
Blow it out your ass.
0:30:55.480,0:30:56.960
You want a witness to back me up?
0:30:57.640,0:30:58.680
I'll get one.
0:30:59.320,0:31:00.360
And, hey,
0:31:00.680,0:31:02.960
maybe I'll see you at the Celtics, huh?
0:31:14.400,0:31:16.200
I am not going to let them execute you.
0:31:16.360,0:31:17.400
You're not going to die.
0:31:18.120,0:31:19.160
Look, Johnny, th--
0:31:20.000,0:31:21.720
Johnny, this is going to be[br]a lot easier on me
0:31:21.720,0:31:24.280
if you don't cry, okay? I--I kn--
0:31:24.440,0:31:26.080
I know your brother's hysterical, I--
0:31:26.400,0:31:28.840
Number o--they always set a date[br]for the execution,
0:31:29.000,0:31:30.320
and they always postpone it...
0:31:31.200,0:31:32.760
He's great when he's like this, huh?
0:31:33.600,0:31:34.360
That's right.
0:31:34.520,0:31:36.680
I just wish he had something left[br]for the people around him.
0:31:36.680,0:31:37.440
What are you talking to me about money?
0:31:37.600,0:31:38.960
Did I ever ask you about money?
0:31:39.240,0:31:41.000
Anyway, it's nice to have you back here.
0:31:42.800,0:31:44.240
Okay. Say hello to your brother.
0:31:45.120,0:31:46.160
Right.
0:31:46.400,0:31:47.440
Okay.
0:31:55.040,0:31:56.680
Okay, who's got what?
0:31:59.320,0:32:01.200
Uh, yeah. Maria's testimony.
0:32:01.480,0:32:04.160
She says Sunny did take Valium[br]prescribed for Claus.
0:32:04.520,0:32:05.880
Okay, score one for von Bulow.
0:32:06.040,0:32:08.280
And this Jamie Smather prescription?
0:32:08.440,0:32:09.280
Who's Jamie Smather?
0:32:09.480,0:32:12.400
Three-hundred-pound redheaded hooker[br]in pigtails and white boots.
0:32:12.560,0:32:14.440
She supplied Claus with Valium.
0:32:14.680,0:32:17.160
He had a gorgeous mistress[br]and he went with an ugly whore?
0:32:17.520,0:32:19.880
You know, there's some things[br]even mistresses won't do.
0:32:22.080,0:32:23.120
Like what?
0:32:23.640,0:32:24.680
I-I'm not telling.
0:32:26.320,0:32:28.480
Anyway, Maria swears
0:32:28.640,0:32:31.720
she first saw this Jamie Smather[br]prescription February 14th,
0:32:32.120,0:32:34.120
and then again February 28th.
0:32:34.600,0:32:35.200
So?
0:32:35.400,0:32:37.240
It wasn't prescribed till the 28th.
0:32:37.600,0:32:39.640
You're not suggesting she's lying?
0:32:40.200,0:32:42.240
Okay, how about Maria's insulin?[br]"For what, insulin"?
0:32:42.240,0:32:43.720
- Anything more on that?[br]- Not yet.
0:32:45.960,0:32:47.360
Something about that bothers me.
0:32:49.640,0:32:50.680
Okay, who's next?
0:32:51.480,0:32:52.600
Brillhoffer wrote back.
0:32:54.040,0:32:55.440
He's very attached to his notes.
0:32:58.760,0:33:00.240
"I am satisfied
0:33:01.000,0:33:03.080
that there is not a scrap of paper[br]in my files
0:33:03.240,0:33:06.240
that might even arguably[br]be viewed as exculpatory."
0:33:06.400,0:33:07.480
English translation?
0:33:07.640,0:33:09.680
He says he doesn't have[br]anything that'd help us.
0:33:12.320,0:33:13.360
You with me?
0:33:13.720,0:33:14.320
Pay dirt.
0:33:14.640,0:33:15.360
What's pay dirt?
0:33:15.520,0:33:16.560
He's a lawyer.
0:33:16.720,0:33:19.120
If he really didn't have anything,[br]he'd give it to us...
0:33:19.600,0:33:20.360
but there's something there
0:33:20.520,0:33:22.520
and he's gonna fight like hell[br]to hold onto it.
0:33:22.920,0:33:24.080
I will bet my fee
0:33:24.520,0:33:26.240
that no one remembered seeing insulin
0:33:26.920,0:33:28.520
until after the lab report came back.
0:33:29.000,0:33:30.120
So... you're suggesting...
0:33:30.120,0:33:31.160
Memory enhancement.
0:33:32.000,0:33:33.160
It might be more than that.
0:33:33.240,0:33:34.280
Possibly.
0:33:36.440,0:33:37.480
A frame-up.
0:33:38.080,0:33:39.200
You mean by the kids?
0:33:39.680,0:33:42.000
Where are you getting all this,[br]from Brillhoffer's letter?
0:33:42.000,0:33:43.040
Pure deduction.
0:33:43.240,0:33:47.720
A good lawyer is part psychiatrist,[br]detective, logician.
0:33:48.440,0:33:49.160
A great lawyer--
0:33:49.360,0:33:50.920
Never would have taken this case.
0:33:53.000,0:33:54.160
If there's nothing more...
0:33:54.960,0:33:56.240
has anybody read this?
0:33:58.320,0:33:59.960
It's an interview with Truman Capote.
0:34:00.600,0:34:02.320
He says when she was 19,
0:34:02.480,0:34:03.880
Sunny von Bulow
0:34:04.040,0:34:05.760
taught him how to inject drugs.
0:34:05.920,0:34:06.960
Let me see that.
0:34:09.600,0:34:12.480
Well, well, well, the famous professor.
0:34:12.640,0:34:14.800
Alan, I'd like to introduce[br]my new girlfriend,
0:34:14.960,0:34:18.000
- Andrea Reynolds.[br]- I'm not his girlfriend, I'm his savior.
0:34:18.200,0:34:18.760
Perfectly true.
0:34:18.920,0:34:21.240
Two days after the trial ended,[br]we fell in love.
0:34:21.440,0:34:25.000
- It was really very, very dramatic.[br]- Yes, Andrea, Andrea, come on.
0:34:26.520,0:34:29.600
Since then, I've devoted my life[br]to clearing his name.
0:34:30.040,0:34:32.120
I made him hire you.
0:34:33.480,0:34:35.160
"Get the Jew," I said.
0:34:36.480,0:34:37.520
Darling...
0:34:38.440,0:34:39.880
Can the Jew get down to business?
0:34:41.320,0:34:42.560
We've got an affidavit.
0:34:43.640,0:34:46.160
A Smythe, Mrs. Ruth Smythe,
0:34:46.800,0:34:49.600
gave us an affidavit[br]corroborating Truman Capote.
0:34:50.200,0:34:51.480
I have affidavits, too.
0:34:53.880,0:34:54.920
Newport people.
0:34:55.040,0:34:57.040
They describe Sunny taking pills,
0:34:57.280,0:34:58.920
getting drunk and falling down...
0:34:59.320,0:35:00.720
bumping into doorways,
0:35:00.880,0:35:02.480
smearing lipstick all over her face.
0:35:02.840,0:35:03.680
Not a very pretty picture.
0:35:03.840,0:35:05.040
She did it, didn't she?
0:35:05.960,0:35:07.680
Don't be a priss.
0:35:08.880,0:35:09.680
Sunny was a lovely woman.
0:35:09.840,0:35:10.880
Spoiled rotten.
0:35:11.720,0:35:12.760
Yes, but lovely.
0:35:13.640,0:35:14.680
Till she drank.
0:35:15.800,0:35:18.680
Two drinks and she became... nasty,
0:35:18.840,0:35:21.120
- irrational.[br]- All women are irrational, darling.
0:35:21.360,0:35:22.560
Did we mention the priest?
0:35:22.800,0:35:26.800
Oh. Marriott apparently[br]confided in a priest
0:35:27.280,0:35:28.760
who's consented to talk to us.
0:35:31.600,0:35:33.360
A Father Capello from Providence.
0:35:35.600,0:35:36.640
Priest?
0:35:37.720,0:35:39.400
Well, a priest is the ideal witness.
0:35:39.560,0:35:41.360
- It's like getting the word of God.[br]- I checked.
0:35:41.360,0:35:42.960
God is unavailable.
0:35:44.080,0:35:44.680
If...
0:35:45.120,0:35:46.640
if the priest comes through
0:35:46.800,0:35:49.080
and we can get documentation[br]on Sunny's drug use,
0:35:49.520,0:35:51.560
then self-injection[br]may be a plausible theory.
0:35:51.800,0:35:53.240
There's no insulin in this case.
0:35:53.440,0:35:54.920
Yeah, but people do use insulin,
0:35:55.400,0:35:57.400
they use it for dieting,[br]it's not a prescription drug.
0:35:57.400,0:35:58.840
Sunny was concerned about her weight.
0:35:58.840,0:36:00.280
Maybe, but believe me, Alan...
0:36:01.080,0:36:02.120
there's no insulin here.
0:36:06.400,0:36:07.440
Really?
0:36:08.240,0:36:09.280
How can you be so sure?
0:36:17.360,0:36:18.400
Do you realize...
0:36:19.480,0:36:22.400
with this case,[br]I'm looking for evidence to exonerate you?
0:36:23.120,0:36:25.480
But at the same time,[br]I'm also wondering...
0:36:26.960,0:36:28.000
what really happened...
0:36:28.680,0:36:29.720
who you are.
0:36:30.160,0:36:31.360
Who would you like me to be?
0:36:35.320,0:36:36.360
Your mother's death...
0:36:37.080,0:36:38.120
what happened?
0:36:39.160,0:36:41.160
I believe she had a heart problem.
0:36:42.120,0:36:42.720
Really?
0:36:43.080,0:36:44.720
The rumor in England is you killed her.
0:36:44.720,0:36:46.000
Hey, wait a minute, Alan.
0:36:46.280,0:36:48.360
Statute of limitations[br]ran out on that years ago.
0:36:48.400,0:36:50.360
There's rumors also that I killed my aunt.
0:36:53.320,0:36:54.920
And that I'm a necrophiliac,
0:36:55.440,0:36:57.080
who injected Sunny with insulin
0:36:57.240,0:36:58.840
so that I could have my way with her.
0:37:00.600,0:37:01.880
Please.
0:37:07.480,0:37:09.320
Did Claus drive me crazy?
0:37:10.520,0:37:11.800
Even I don't know.
0:37:13.040,0:37:16.520
But it's true that I took up to[br]24 laxatives daily,
0:37:17.120,0:37:19.080
popped Aspirin like M&Ms,
0:37:19.640,0:37:22.080
smoked three packs of cigarettes a day,
0:37:22.680,0:37:24.760
had a problem with alcohol,
0:37:25.440,0:37:27.760
took Valium and Seconal frequently,
0:37:27.920,0:37:30.440
and consumed large quantities of sweets
0:37:30.760,0:37:33.800
despite a medical condition, hypoglycemia,
0:37:34.120,0:37:35.440
which made them hazardous.
0:37:37.280,0:37:39.120
As for my state of mind...
0:37:44.960,0:37:48.480
I had not had sex[br]with my husband for years.
0:37:50.440,0:37:51.640
My schedule was...
0:37:52.400,0:37:54.000
I woke at 9:30,
0:37:54.440,0:37:56.680
did a little exercise and shopping,
0:37:57.280,0:37:59.000
and returned to bed at three o'clock
0:37:59.160,0:38:00.840
for the remainder of the afternoon.
0:38:02.040,0:38:03.960
I liked to be in bed.
0:38:05.000,0:38:07.160
I didn't much like anything else.
0:38:13.360,0:38:14.440
Hold on here, will you?
0:38:32.640,0:38:33.280
Come in.
0:38:33.560,0:38:34.600
Alan.
0:38:34.880,0:38:36.560
Welcome to my humble law firm.
0:38:38.040,0:38:39.080
In the kitchen,
0:38:39.600,0:38:41.360
our insulin-on-the-needle team.
0:38:42.040,0:38:44.720
They're cooking up some surprise for us.
0:38:49.400,0:38:51.320
This is our Brillhoffer notes team.
0:38:52.440,0:38:53.560
Mr. von Bulow!
0:38:54.120,0:38:55.720
Where do you keep the paper towels?
0:38:56.720,0:38:57.760
Ask Sarah!
0:38:57.920,0:38:58.960
Sarah used to live here.
0:39:00.920,0:39:01.960
This--
0:39:02.760,0:39:04.000
I guess he was up all night.
0:39:11.880,0:39:13.120
This sort of commune,
0:39:13.400,0:39:14.880
you do it on every case?
0:39:15.040,0:39:16.080
Never before.
0:39:16.440,0:39:18.560
Thirty-eight days to write 100 pages?
0:39:19.080,0:39:20.200
Only way to get it done.
0:39:21.040,0:39:22.480
Here's the black bag team.
0:39:22.760,0:39:23.920
Illegal search teams.
0:39:33.800,0:39:35.360
My son, Elon, lost his room.
0:39:35.520,0:39:37.280
Well, actually, this is, uh,[br]this is another case
0:39:37.280,0:39:38.320
that you're paying for.
0:39:39.880,0:39:40.920
And this is my team.
0:39:42.000,0:39:43.040
You wish.
0:39:43.720,0:39:45.080
I--I can't find the damn thing.
0:39:46.600,0:39:47.680
Hi. I'm Sarah.
0:39:47.920,0:39:49.680
And a very lovely Sarah you are.
0:39:51.080,0:39:52.280
Does that really work?
0:39:52.680,0:39:53.240
Flattery?
0:39:53.640,0:39:54.680
Absolutely.
0:39:56.720,0:39:57.760
Like Chinese food?
0:39:59.360,0:40:01.400
What do you give a wife[br]who has everything?
0:40:03.720,0:40:05.200
An injection of insulin.
0:40:08.600,0:40:10.400
How--Ah, my prawns.
0:40:10.960,0:40:13.840
How can one define a fear of insulin?
0:40:15.240,0:40:16.400
Claus-trophobia.
0:40:22.360,0:40:24.080
Is there anything more you can tell us
0:40:24.240,0:40:25.480
about Alexandra Isles?
0:40:26.600,0:40:28.280
For instance, is it true[br]that she gave you a deadline
0:40:28.280,0:40:29.960
of Christmas 1979 to be together?
0:40:30.680,0:40:31.720
Uh, not really.
0:40:31.920,0:40:34.120
No, she knew I was looking[br]for full-time work.
0:40:34.320,0:40:36.560
I worked for JP Getty in London.
0:40:36.720,0:40:38.480
Alexandra assumed that[br]when you did find a job,
0:40:38.480,0:40:39.560
you'd marry her, correct?
0:40:40.680,0:40:41.840
Oh, she assumed it.
0:40:44.200,0:40:45.080
How about when she testified,
0:40:45.240,0:40:47.360
did you get a sense that[br]she wanted to get back together?
0:40:47.360,0:40:49.920
Very much so.[br]In fact, at the trial, she said...
0:40:50.080,0:40:54.240
I loved him, but I was still caught up[br]in my own anger...
0:40:55.880,0:40:57.760
and I'm sorry I acted that way then.
0:40:58.760,0:41:00.520
I loved him, and I was angry.
0:41:02.000,0:41:03.880
Let me ask you this.[br]Maybe you can't answer.
0:41:04.720,0:41:05.800
Do you still love him?
0:41:07.960,0:41:08.600
I don't know.
0:41:08.880,0:41:10.440
That means yes, doesn't it?
0:41:10.840,0:41:11.880
It would seem so.
0:41:12.200,0:41:13.280
In fact, after the trial,
0:41:13.400,0:41:15.480
she wrote me a letter[br]saying so explicitly.
0:41:16.320,0:41:17.920
A very passionate letter.
0:41:18.120,0:41:19.480
Passionate and...
0:41:20.000,0:41:21.040
jealous.
0:41:22.000,0:41:24.520
But that was the relationship[br]from the outset.
0:41:24.800,0:41:26.280
That was Alexandra.
0:41:26.440,0:41:27.520
She was your love slave.
0:41:36.760,0:41:40.000
Well, I think now[br]I'll have my own individual order
0:41:40.160,0:41:41.400
of ginger prawns.
0:41:43.720,0:41:45.920
- Waiter.[br]- Three weeks before her final coma,
0:41:46.560,0:41:48.000
Sunny overdosed on Aspirin.
0:41:48.800,0:41:50.040
Can you tell us anything about that?
0:41:50.040,0:41:52.400
No one maintained[br]I had anything to do with that, Alan.
0:41:52.400,0:41:53.440
No, of course not.
0:41:54.040,0:41:55.320
I'm asking you what happened.
0:41:55.640,0:41:57.840
Well, Sunny had been unwell.
0:42:04.480,0:42:05.520
Are you all right?
0:42:05.720,0:42:07.480
Oh, just a bit dizzy.
0:42:10.160,0:42:12.000
Well, if you're dizzy, don't go wandering.
0:42:27.680,0:42:28.720
Sunny?
0:42:31.640,0:42:32.680
Oh, my God.
0:42:32.960,0:42:34.000
Come on, my darling.
0:42:34.880,0:42:35.680
Now, you're all right.
0:42:35.840,0:42:37.360
Come on, put your arm around my shoulder.
0:42:37.360,0:42:37.880
There we are.
0:42:38.080,0:42:39.360
Now, you're all right.
0:42:39.600,0:42:42.160
Get you--come on.[br]We'll get you back into bed.
0:42:44.040,0:42:45.720
Something happened to my head.
0:42:45.880,0:42:47.200
- You're all right.[br]- It's cut.
0:42:48.120,0:42:49.800
Just a little cut. It's nothing.
0:42:49.960,0:42:51.000
Come on.
0:42:51.080,0:42:52.480
Let's get you lying down.
0:42:56.560,0:42:57.800
There you are.
0:43:01.680,0:43:02.720
There.
0:43:06.400,0:43:07.600
Shall I call a doctor?
0:43:07.760,0:43:09.680
No! No, I don't want--
0:43:09.840,0:43:10.880
I don't want a doctor.
0:43:10.960,0:43:12.520
Just... don't want a doctor.
0:43:13.600,0:43:16.120
Just want to be left alone.
0:43:17.200,0:43:19.840
Want to be left alone[br]with all those beaut--beautiful letters.
0:43:20.560,0:43:21.720
What did you do with those letters?
0:43:21.720,0:43:23.120
Why did you write those letters?
0:43:23.360,0:43:24.400
And those...
0:43:24.960,0:43:26.440
Later, Dr. Praug said
0:43:26.600,0:43:28.080
we needn't have gone to the hospital,
0:43:28.080,0:43:29.840
but I wasn't going to take any chances.
0:43:30.000,0:43:31.480
Why did she take so much Aspirin?
0:43:31.920,0:43:33.840
Oh, Sunny always took Aspirin.
0:43:34.280,0:43:36.320
She'd been taking a lot for several days.
0:43:36.480,0:43:37.640
That's not what our doctor said.
0:43:37.640,0:43:39.320
Dr. Lucas Lupardus,
0:43:39.600,0:43:42.320
chief forensic toxicologist,[br]Suffolk County,
0:43:42.640,0:43:45.320
says that people who take large[br]amounts of Aspirin every day
0:43:45.480,0:43:46.520
never reach that level.
0:43:46.960,0:43:49.520
He also said the average blood level[br]in cases of death is...
0:43:49.760,0:43:51.800
Sixty. Hers was 90.
0:43:52.280,0:43:52.840
So...
0:43:53.000,0:43:55.440
So it was obviously a suicide attempt.
0:43:56.720,0:43:57.240
Why?
0:43:57.400,0:43:58.760
Yeah, why?
0:43:58.920,0:43:59.440
Why?
0:43:59.760,0:44:03.040
Alan, do they all want to be prosecutors?
0:44:05.680,0:44:06.720
We're waiting.
0:44:10.320,0:44:12.120
Well, I presume she was unhappy.
0:44:18.920,0:44:21.160
How about we all finish up[br]and go back to the house?
0:44:22.880,0:44:25.640
We're not going to win this[br]on a technicality. Peter.
0:44:26.720,0:44:28.600
I've read every case[br]in the last seven years
0:44:28.760,0:44:30.720
where the Rhode Island[br]Supreme Court reversed.
0:44:30.960,0:44:32.280
They don't like to make new law,
0:44:32.280,0:44:34.440
they don't like to discuss[br]broad legal issues.
0:44:34.600,0:44:35.760
When they do reverse,
0:44:35.920,0:44:37.280
the grounds are technical,
0:44:37.440,0:44:39.400
but the reason seems to be
0:44:39.560,0:44:42.120
they suspect a convicted defendant[br]may be innocent.
0:44:43.360,0:44:44.960
Okay, so everybody get that?
0:44:45.840,0:44:48.680
True or not,[br]we've got to convince the judges
0:44:49.680,0:44:50.960
that you are innocent.
0:44:51.840,0:44:54.640
Claus, now I do want to hear[br]your side of the story.
0:44:54.800,0:44:55.840
With pleasure.
0:44:56.520,0:44:58.680
Innocence has always been my position.
0:45:03.840,0:45:05.640
First coma. What preceded it?
0:45:08.000,0:45:09.400
Well, Sunny loved Christmas.
0:45:10.160,0:45:11.920
It was her favorite season, really.
0:45:13.040,0:45:15.920
You see, what you must understand[br]about Sunny
0:45:16.080,0:45:19.000
is that she loved giving[br]more than anything else.
0:45:19.200,0:45:22.640
� Peace on Earth and mercy mild
0:45:22.800,0:45:24.800
� God and sinners reconciled...
0:45:24.960,0:45:28.080
Each year, she always made[br]a big bowl of fresh eggnog.
0:45:28.720,0:45:30.720
Now, that year, she drank a lot of it.
0:45:31.120,0:45:32.160
How much?
0:45:32.320,0:45:34.320
Oh, 10 or 12 glasses.
0:45:35.600,0:45:37.240
With her hypoglycemia?
0:45:38.480,0:45:39.960
She didn't always drink like that?
0:45:40.000,0:45:41.040
Never.
0:45:41.280,0:45:44.560
She never touched alcohol at all[br]except on social occasions
0:45:44.720,0:45:46.160
to overcome her shyness...
0:45:46.600,0:45:48.280
or when she was upset.
0:45:49.440,0:45:51.520
This was not a social occasion.
0:45:52.080,0:45:53.120
No.
0:45:54.240,0:45:56.760
We'd been discussing divorce[br]all afternoon.
0:46:13.280,0:46:14.960
This whole subject of your...
0:46:16.280,0:46:18.520
work... coming between us,
0:46:20.120,0:46:23.120
isn't it just a pretext[br]when the real subject is her?
0:46:23.880,0:46:24.920
Certainly not.
0:46:27.560,0:46:30.640
I'm thinking of redecorating[br]this whole fucking house.
0:46:32.920,0:46:34.440
Then she knew about Alexandra.
0:46:36.200,0:46:37.240
Yes.
0:46:37.440,0:46:38.480
How did she find out?
0:46:40.920,0:46:42.040
I, um...
0:46:42.760,0:46:44.320
I told her the previous summer.
0:46:50.640,0:46:52.520
Ala, can't we find one a bit slower?
0:46:58.440,0:46:59.760
- Ah, that's much better.[br]- Hm.
0:47:01.240,0:47:02.280
- Cooler.[br]- Hm.
0:47:05.320,0:47:06.360
Thank you.
0:47:15.120,0:47:16.640
Oh, I've been meaning to mention...
0:47:17.720,0:47:19.680
our understanding about my...
0:47:21.720,0:47:23.400
extracurricular activities.
0:47:25.640,0:47:27.480
I've been involved with someone who...
0:47:28.040,0:47:30.840
falls outside the parameters[br]of our agreement.
0:47:31.120,0:47:32.240
- Really?[br]- Someone...
0:47:32.560,0:47:34.080
peripherally in our circle.
0:47:36.360,0:47:37.400
Billy Botsky's daughter,
0:47:37.560,0:47:38.960
Alexandra Isles.
0:47:41.480,0:47:42.520
Well.
0:47:45.640,0:47:46.800
That must be better for you
0:47:46.920,0:47:48.480
than what you've had to put up with.
0:47:50.080,0:47:51.760
You're referring to the call girls.
0:47:53.160,0:47:54.200
Yes.
0:47:55.520,0:47:58.680
I mean, that is where[br]you've gone previously, isn't it?
0:47:59.280,0:48:00.320
Yes, it is.
0:48:03.120,0:48:04.160
And isn't this better?
0:48:05.680,0:48:08.120
Or is Billy Botsky's daughter[br]a call girl, too?
0:48:10.000,0:48:11.160
This is much better.
0:48:20.040,0:48:21.480
That was what, July, August?
0:48:21.840,0:48:22.920
Now it's Christmas time,
0:48:23.240,0:48:25.440
and you were[br]still squabbling over Alexandra?
0:48:25.880,0:48:27.920
No. We were fighting about my work.
0:48:28.240,0:48:29.280
Sunny was...
0:48:31.520,0:48:33.280
well, by the evening,
0:48:33.440,0:48:34.720
she'd drunk so much eggnog,
0:48:34.880,0:48:36.680
that I had to help her into the bedroom.
0:48:38.040,0:48:39.080
Alexander.
0:48:40.280,0:48:41.480
Time for bed, darling.
0:48:46.960,0:48:48.000
There we are.
0:48:54.440,0:48:56.280
Please don't hold my arm.
0:48:57.080,0:48:58.920
Darling, you know[br]when you get like this...
0:48:59.640,0:49:00.680
Remember?
0:49:02.320,0:49:03.520
You fell and broke your hip.
0:49:03.720,0:49:05.280
That was years ago.
0:49:07.560,0:49:09.080
It was two years ago.
0:49:29.400,0:49:31.000
Get me a scotch and soda.
0:49:41.920,0:49:44.360
May I at least urinate alone?
0:50:03.320,0:50:05.440
She runs the water[br]every time she goes in there.
0:50:07.960,0:50:10.320
If she was already soused,[br]why'd you go for the scotch?
0:50:10.400,0:50:12.000
Because she asked for it.
0:50:13.680,0:50:15.920
Sunny got what Sunny wanted.
0:50:16.360,0:50:17.400
It's okay.
0:50:46.000,0:50:47.040
Good night, Dad.
0:50:47.600,0:50:48.640
Good night, darling.
0:50:50.720,0:50:51.760
Good night, Claus.
0:50:52.320,0:50:53.360
Good night, Alex.
0:51:06.680,0:51:08.560
Hasn't my mother given us enough money?
0:51:10.600,0:51:11.160
Claus?
0:51:11.440,0:51:13.040
That night, we hardly slept.
0:51:13.400,0:51:15.960
Your age,[br]it's perfectly acceptable to retire.
0:51:16.720,0:51:18.040
I'm already retired.
0:51:19.400,0:51:21.160
I haven't worked full-time since Getty.
0:51:21.320,0:51:22.720
Exactly. It's your ego.
0:51:22.880,0:51:24.520
You've never had a career. Not really.
0:51:25.520,0:51:27.000
Well, I'm going to have one now.
0:51:30.080,0:51:32.400
Oh, come on, Sunny, your father worked.
0:51:33.920,0:51:35.440
Do you want the children to grow up
0:51:35.600,0:51:37.680
thinking a male's place[br]is in a deck chair?
0:51:37.840,0:51:39.280
Claus, you marry me for my money,
0:51:39.280,0:51:40.120
then you demand to work.
0:51:40.280,0:51:41.680
You're the prince of perversion.
0:51:42.160,0:51:44.160
I mean, what? Are you trying[br]to destroy our whole family?
0:51:44.160,0:51:45.040
Oh, no, of course not.
0:51:45.200,0:51:47.200
I--I... I simply want some...
0:51:48.840,0:51:50.160
intercourse with the world.
0:51:50.320,0:51:51.360
Shut up, Pan!
0:51:52.480,0:51:53.520
Oh, what does it matter?
0:51:56.880,0:51:59.160
So Is that it?
0:52:00.520,0:52:01.560
Another divorce?
0:52:04.480,0:52:05.520
Okay.
0:52:05.720,0:52:07.720
I'll divorce you. I will.
0:52:08.760,0:52:10.080
Oh, God...
0:52:10.800,0:52:11.960
Two-time loser.
0:52:13.680,0:52:14.960
I'll divorce everybody.
0:52:15.560,0:52:17.600
I don't want a divorce.
0:52:18.360,0:52:20.800
I don't want to marry[br]Billy Botsky's daughter.
0:52:20.960,0:52:22.800
I want to stay with you[br]and I want to work.
0:52:22.800,0:52:25.160
I need that as a man.
0:52:28.960,0:52:30.000
It's hopeless.
0:52:33.080,0:52:34.120
Oh, God.
0:52:35.640,0:52:36.960
I need my beauty sleep.
0:52:37.120,0:52:40.040
Why do you--why do you believe[br]it's hopeless just because of some...
0:53:19.040,0:53:20.080
Good night, Claus.
0:53:22.320,0:53:23.720
Sunny, you know I love you.
0:53:41.720,0:53:42.760
Good night.
0:53:49.440,0:53:50.480
Okay, and the next day?
0:53:50.800,0:53:51.840
Well...
0:53:53.680,0:53:56.920
Maria's testimony was wildly exaggerated.
0:53:58.440,0:54:00.160
Sunny was never moaning.
0:54:01.200,0:54:03.320
Maybe the occasional snore, but...
0:54:05.160,0:54:07.360
And Maria shook Sunny.
0:54:10.360,0:54:12.880
Nobody ever shook Sunny.
0:54:17.000,0:54:18.960
What happened when[br]she regained consciousness?
0:54:19.400,0:54:20.680
After the first coma,
0:54:20.840,0:54:22.400
well, it was kind of absurd.
0:54:22.560,0:54:24.200
Everybody was angry at me.
0:54:28.080,0:54:29.920
Can't you ever leave me alone?
0:54:33.400,0:54:34.440
Why did you do it?
0:54:35.640,0:54:37.240
I would have been better off.
0:54:38.000,0:54:39.520
You would have been better off.
0:54:39.680,0:54:40.880
What do you want me to say?
0:54:41.280,0:54:42.840
That I'm sorry I saved your life?
0:54:43.000,0:54:44.040
Yes.
0:54:48.400,0:54:49.440
Say it.
0:54:57.040,0:54:58.280
Of course I'm not sorry.
0:55:15.880,0:55:16.920
Wha--
0:55:18.120,0:55:19.160
Claus...
0:55:23.320,0:55:25.360
what am I going to do with myself?
0:55:31.840,0:55:33.080
When I phoned Alexandra,
0:55:33.240,0:55:35.280
to tell her what had happened,[br]she said the same thing,
0:55:35.280,0:55:37.080
she said, "Why did you do it?
0:55:37.240,0:55:38.640
Why did you call the doctor?"
0:55:38.880,0:55:40.880
You telling me she wanted[br]you to let Sunny die?
0:55:41.320,0:55:43.640
No, no, no, no, no.
0:55:43.800,0:55:45.040
It was more...
0:55:45.560,0:55:48.920
"Everybody says Sunny's[br]such an unhappy woman
0:55:49.080,0:55:52.160
and has nothing to live for."
0:55:54.320,0:55:56.760
Well, so much for the first coma.
0:55:57.840,0:55:59.000
The second, of course,
0:55:59.400,0:56:01.040
was much more theatrical.
0:56:01.920,0:56:03.720
Theatrical? What is this, a fucking game?
0:56:04.400,0:56:06.720
This is life and death.[br]Your wife is laying in a coma.
0:56:07.840,0:56:09.920
You don't even make a pretense[br]of caring, do you?
0:56:11.120,0:56:12.360
'Course I care, Alan.
0:56:14.800,0:56:16.840
It's just I don't wear[br]my heart on my sleeve.
0:56:21.360,0:56:22.560
Let's call it a night, okay?
0:56:23.280,0:56:24.560
Okay, guys, so...
0:56:25.360,0:56:26.400
As you wish.
0:56:26.640,0:56:28.320
There were three drugs[br]on the needle, right?
0:56:28.320,0:56:30.560
Amobarbital, Valium, insulin.
0:56:32.120,0:56:33.400
We can't all be you, Alan.
0:56:41.720,0:56:42.800
Shoot! Shoot! All right.
0:56:43.440,0:56:45.800
Okay, get a doctor[br]to prepare five needles,
0:56:46.240,0:56:47.440
one with nothing,
0:56:47.680,0:56:50.080
two with Valium, amobarbital, and insulin,
0:56:50.320,0:56:52.160
two with just Valium and amobarbital.
0:56:52.320,0:56:55.240
We're gonna send them to the same lab[br]that our famous needle went to.
0:56:55.240,0:56:57.280
Let's see if we can get[br]a false positive result.
0:56:57.520,0:56:58.560
If we don't?
0:56:59.480,0:57:00.880
We don't, I clean the latrines.
0:57:01.040,0:57:02.560
Aw, you're not gonna believe this.
0:57:03.200,0:57:04.400
David Marriott wants money.
0:57:04.560,0:57:05.600
Yeah, who doesn't?
0:57:06.280,0:57:07.720
I'm afraid his memory might fade.
0:57:07.760,0:57:08.880
Oh, the hell with him. Forget about him.
0:57:08.880,0:57:10.160
Well, he has lost his crumby job,
0:57:10.160,0:57:12.560
and he is running around[br]trying to find evidence for us.
0:57:14.320,0:57:16.400
Okay, why don't we do what[br]the government does with its witnesses?
0:57:16.400,0:57:17.680
Okay? We'll pay for his time.
0:57:18.200,0:57:19.240
What's his time worth?
0:57:19.440,0:57:21.920
- Buck and a half.[br]- Sarah? Dersh?
0:57:22.960,0:57:24.000
Your team's on.
0:57:24.680,0:57:26.480
Okay.[br]You going to pass to me this game or what?
0:57:26.480,0:57:27.520
No.
0:57:29.440,0:57:30.800
Their private investigator said
0:57:30.960,0:57:32.840
the needle had a small encrustation[br]near the tip.
0:57:32.840,0:57:35.640
Now, doctors tell us this is[br]totally inconsistent with injection.
0:57:35.920,0:57:37.240
Okay, so how did it get there?
0:57:40.680,0:57:42.520
If I inject this needle,
0:57:42.840,0:57:44.840
the skin acts as kind of a swab.
0:57:45.160,0:57:46.360
It cleans the needle off,
0:57:46.680,0:57:49.240
leaving the tip completely free of liquid.
0:57:49.400,0:57:52.440
But if I just dip the needle[br]into the liquid,
0:57:52.600,0:57:53.640
what do you see?
0:57:54.640,0:57:55.680
Dry this out,
0:57:55.920,0:57:57.360
you have an encrustation.
0:57:57.760,0:57:58.800
So it's a frame-up?
0:57:59.320,0:58:01.080
It's Desdemona's handkerchief.
0:58:02.160,0:58:03.840
My stepchildren thought I was guilty,
0:58:04.000,0:58:05.600
didn't feel they had enough evidence,
0:58:05.600,0:58:06.760
and so concocted some.
0:58:07.120,0:58:08.520
This should win us the case, no?
0:58:08.720,0:58:10.840
No. We're maybe halfway home.
0:58:12.200,0:58:13.720
There's still a lot of weird stuff.
0:58:14.600,0:58:15.640
Did you love Sunny?
0:58:15.920,0:58:16.960
I married her.
0:58:18.280,0:58:20.040
Of course I loved her. She was beautiful.
0:58:20.040,0:58:21.080
Rich.
0:58:21.160,0:58:22.200
Why not?
0:58:22.440,0:58:24.240
What I've seen of the rich, you can have.
0:58:24.720,0:58:25.760
I do.
0:58:30.120,0:58:31.160
The black bag,
0:58:31.320,0:58:32.360
was it yours?
0:58:34.520,0:58:36.040
Sunny appropriated it.
0:58:36.640,0:58:38.040
Now, to understand that,
0:58:38.240,0:58:40.880
you must understand[br]that after the first coma,
0:58:41.120,0:58:43.200
she went into a complete rage.
0:58:48.040,0:58:49.640
Where are they? Did you take them?
0:58:49.800,0:58:50.880
Certainly not. Take what?
0:58:51.000,0:58:52.560
My pills, you moron.
0:58:53.600,0:58:54.880
Valium, Seconal...
0:58:56.560,0:58:57.680
you took them, didn't you?
0:58:58.160,0:59:00.360
My dear, I've long since[br]stopped interfering.
0:59:00.520,0:59:02.360
Well, who? My children wouldn't dare--
0:59:04.280,0:59:05.640
Oh, I know who.
0:59:05.800,0:59:06.840
Where are you going?
0:59:19.480,0:59:20.520
Maria!
0:59:30.040,0:59:31.520
She soon found them.
0:59:33.080,0:59:34.880
It's my lovely mother, isn't it?
0:59:35.240,0:59:36.520
She's behind all this.
0:59:37.440,0:59:39.160
She's in cahoots with Maria.
0:59:41.040,0:59:44.880
Well, just because she had all the money
0:59:45.040,0:59:46.720
before I had all the money
0:59:46.880,0:59:49.080
does not mean she's my lord and master.
0:59:49.400,0:59:51.560
'Course not. I am your lord and master.
0:59:53.520,0:59:54.560
Just kidding.
0:59:59.520,1:00:01.160
Maria loves me too much.
1:00:02.440,1:00:03.680
It's unhealthy for her,
1:00:04.400,1:00:06.560
and it's certainly no fun for me.
1:00:11.720,1:00:12.760
There.
1:00:28.080,1:00:30.000
We'll see if that ugly little maid of mine
1:00:30.160,1:00:31.360
can sniff this one out.
1:00:40.920,1:00:42.760
And what are you going[br]to do with all that?
1:00:43.800,1:00:44.920
I'm not going to tell you.
1:00:45.840,1:00:48.240
I assure you,[br]it not gonna be among my affairs.
1:00:50.160,1:00:52.840
Odd she used that word, affairs.
1:00:53.880,1:00:56.040
You realize the prosecution thinks[br]you ground up the drugs
1:00:56.040,1:00:57.240
so you could inject Sunny?
1:00:57.640,1:01:00.320
And frankly, this nose drop business[br]is pretty far-fetched.
1:01:01.040,1:01:03.280
But consider the pattern, Alan.
1:01:04.240,1:01:07.120
It's public record that Sunny used drugs.
1:01:07.480,1:01:10.200
Her behavior here of hiding them in liquid
1:01:10.600,1:01:12.280
so that no one will find them,
1:01:12.880,1:01:15.160
it's your classic alcoholic[br]buying pints of whiskey
1:01:15.320,1:01:16.920
and stashing them all over the house.
1:01:18.280,1:01:19.320
You're right.
1:01:20.400,1:01:21.440
Of course, I mean...
1:01:22.080,1:01:24.240
I mean, you've always[br]been right, haven't you?
1:01:25.520,1:01:27.760
This is the most dangerous case[br]I've ever worked on.
1:01:28.000,1:01:29.160
You find that exhilarating?
1:01:29.320,1:01:30.360
No, I do not.
1:01:31.720,1:01:32.840
I am breaking every rule.
1:01:33.240,1:01:35.480
'Cause the best way to win[br]is to proclaim your innocence,
1:01:35.480,1:01:37.320
and I've never done that for anybody.
1:01:38.200,1:01:40.120
And the problem I got is[br]I see who you are.
1:01:40.520,1:01:41.600
You'd do anything to win.
1:01:42.080,1:01:43.120
So would you.
1:01:43.160,1:01:45.000
Yeah, but you don't trust[br]the legal system.
1:01:45.760,1:01:47.840
You're saying I'd manufacture witnesses?
1:01:48.640,1:01:49.680
Affidavits?
1:01:51.080,1:01:53.240
No, but you would sacrifice me.
1:01:53.400,1:01:54.440
Oh, please, Alan.
1:01:54.600,1:01:57.560
See, the more I believe that[br]you are innocent, the more nervous I am.
1:01:58.720,1:02:00.200
I go out on a limb for you,
1:02:00.680,1:02:02.600
you're proven guilty,[br]I look like an asshole.
1:02:03.240,1:02:06.040
My reputation, my credibility,[br]my career, destroyed.
1:02:07.640,1:02:09.360
That's the risk you're taking, isn't it?
1:02:09.360,1:02:10.400
Yeah, well, fuck you.
1:02:11.240,1:02:12.400
Fuck you, man.
1:02:24.320,1:02:25.880
I'm glad we understand one another.
1:02:29.280,1:02:32.280
It's easy to forget[br]all this is about me...
1:02:32.920,1:02:33.960
lying here.
1:02:34.840,1:02:37.400
To most of you, my name means coma.
1:02:37.880,1:02:40.920
My second marriage means attempted murder.
1:02:41.560,1:02:42.920
Everything that came before,
1:02:43.080,1:02:46.360
everything beautiful,[br]does not exist in the public mind.
1:02:47.160,1:02:49.480
No one thinks of how I loved my children.
1:02:49.960,1:02:51.040
Look at Cosima,
1:02:51.920,1:02:52.960
and Alex, of course,
1:02:53.600,1:02:54.640
and Ala,
1:02:54.800,1:02:57.000
and certainly no one cares about Claus,
1:02:57.480,1:02:59.560
the way he was[br]when I fell in love with him.
1:03:00.360,1:03:01.840
When Claus and I first met,
1:03:02.000,1:03:05.440
I was married to the dashing, young[br]Prince Alfred Eduard Friederich
1:03:05.600,1:03:08.400
Vincenz Martin Maria von Auersberg.
1:03:09.440,1:03:11.600
It was 1964,
1:03:12.560,1:03:14.880
seven years into my first marriage.
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It seems that my first husband,
1:03:22.560,1:03:24.640
Alfie, as he was called,
1:03:25.400,1:03:29.400
had vowed to be unfaithful[br]with every pretty girl in Europe.
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He was having quite a success.
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And so...
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I was unfaithful with Claus.
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Psst!
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Wildly unfaithful.
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Happy memories.
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But it's not the passion I remember most.
1:04:15.400,1:04:16.600
It's the tenderness.
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Good God, what's that?
1:04:25.160,1:04:26.680
There's one of Frank's pets.
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Oh, my God. No, no.
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Come on, silly.
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I never liked people much,
1:04:51.200,1:04:52.280
not as a rule.
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Go ahead, feed him.
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But Claus was somehow different.
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Not a normal person, I guess.
1:05:04.840,1:05:06.320
It's all right. Do it again.
1:05:06.480,1:05:07.520
Give him some more.
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One of those things you never forget.
1:05:24.720,1:05:27.520
Of course, now he lives in my apartment...
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my bedroom...
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my bed.
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Cold, isn't it?
1:05:35.400,1:05:38.400
Cold and brutish and the way of the world.
1:05:39.840,1:05:40.680
Looking at him now,
1:05:40.840,1:05:42.400
the issues seem simple.
1:05:43.440,1:05:44.640
Is he the devil?
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If so, can the devil get justice?
1:05:49.880,1:05:51.960
And all this legal activity...
1:05:53.280,1:05:55.600
is it in Satan's service?
1:05:56.480,1:05:58.720
"Sunny von Bulow was totally vulnerable
1:05:58.880,1:06:00.280
to Claus von Bulow."
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Can't argue with that.
1:06:03.080,1:06:05.760
But it's speculation. Exaggeration.
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You keep working on it.
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Totally inflammatory!
1:06:11.000,1:06:12.600
Okay, good. Let's go over this.
1:06:13.880,1:06:17.240
Okay, we went over it... once,[br]I just wanted you to see if...
1:06:24.720,1:06:26.760
Oh, shit, wha--what is this,[br]illegal search?
1:06:29.440,1:06:30.560
It's a classic technicality.
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It's a guilty man's argument.
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Come on, this is different.
1:06:32.720,1:06:34.960
Usual Fourth Amendment case,[br]you're trying to exclude evidence
1:06:34.960,1:06:36.240
- that's bad for your client.[br]- No, no. No, no.
1:06:36.240,1:06:37.600
Same thing here. Same thing.
1:06:37.760,1:06:40.040
No. This search destroyed evidence.
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No fingerprints, no inventory.
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Yeah, what's left hurts Claus,[br]but under Brady,
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the state has an obligation--
1:06:45.080,1:06:47.120
Wait, wait, wait a second.[br]The cops tested the drugs
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- from the illegal search, right?[br]- Yes, yes.
1:06:48.760,1:06:52.200
And we are saying that that test[br]constituted a second illegal search.
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There are precedents.
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- Walter, Jacobson, Morgan.[br]- I know there are precedents.
1:06:54.880,1:06:56.840
I know the law is on our side.[br]I'm not debating that.
1:06:56.840,1:06:57.480
What I'm trying to do is--
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No. You're debating me personally. Why?
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I'm debating strategy, okay?[br]I'm not--I'm not debating you.
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We're all on the same team.
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A-a-are we on the same team here or not?
1:07:07.760,1:07:09.440
I don't know. We seem to be.
1:07:09.800,1:07:11.160
Well then, why don't I feel it?
1:07:11.840,1:07:13.360
I thought this was strictly professional.
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- It was.[br]- That's bullshit, Alan.
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Look, I brought you--I--I asked you[br]to work on this case
1:07:17.840,1:07:19.120
because I think you are a good lawyer.
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I think you're a fine lawyer, too.[br]You're a great lawyer.
1:07:21.760,1:07:23.240
But you give everything you have[br]to the law,
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and you forget the people you care about.
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My clients are the people[br]that I care about.
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Obviously.
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What I care about, all I care about,
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all I fucking care about is this!
1:07:32.520,1:07:33.680
This case!
1:07:34.080,1:07:37.600
And making--making the best possible[br]appeal we're capable of doing, okay?
1:07:38.040,1:07:40.000
Now, you can make[br]your argument better, Sarah.
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You know that! I know that!
1:07:41.920,1:07:44.360
So why don't you just do it[br]and cut out all the bullshit?
1:07:45.480,1:07:47.800
Wow, you always have to have[br]the last word, don't you?
1:08:18.080,1:08:19.120
What?
1:08:21.520,1:08:22.560
We're going to lose.
1:08:23.760,1:08:25.960
W-why do you think[br]this case fascinates people?
1:08:27.680,1:08:30.480
'Cause one time or other every man[br]is driven crazy by his wife,
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and in his secret heart,
1:08:32.720,1:08:34.960
he wants to do exactly[br]what Claus is accused of,
1:08:36.040,1:08:39.560
kill her in some sly, silent way[br]that can't be detected.
1:08:40.080,1:08:41.760
Claus is a scapegoat.
1:08:42.320,1:08:44.920
Someone has to suffer for the sin[br]that we all want to commit.
1:08:47.600,1:08:50.000
Alan, that's ridiculous.
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It's ridiculous, you're right.
1:08:53.880,1:08:55.000
It's rid--
1:08:58.040,1:08:59.080
What do you got?
1:08:59.440,1:09:02.280
Prosecution's case is based on a theory.
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The needle in the bag,
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plus insulin on the needle,
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- plus insulin in her blood.[br]- Right, right, yeah. Okay, fine.
1:09:10.600,1:09:13.680
In Derek, this Rhode Island Supreme Court,
1:09:13.840,1:09:14.880
these same judges,
1:09:15.520,1:09:19.360
said that in a case based[br]on circumstantial theory,
1:09:20.640,1:09:22.240
the case falls apart
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if any part of the theory is weak.
1:09:26.080,1:09:27.560
If there's a weak link in the chain,
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then you throw the whole chain out?
1:09:29.320,1:09:30.360
Exactly.
1:09:32.240,1:09:33.720
Peter, that's very--that's good.
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That--that's very good.
1:09:39.280,1:09:40.320
Oh, yeah, this is good.
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- Thank you.[br]- Oh, yeah.
1:09:42.320,1:09:43.920
Wait, wait, wait.[br]What do you want me to do now?
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What I want you to do?
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I want you to find as many[br]alternative theories as possible.
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Come on, come on, come on.[br]There's only seven days left.
1:09:55.600,1:09:58.120
Dersh? I'm sorry,[br]but you better come downstairs.
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Hey, Dersh. Sorry to get you out of bed.
1:10:03.240,1:10:05.080
What do you--what do you want, more money?
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Can you get more?
1:10:08.240,1:10:09.800
Can I have a glass of water, please?
1:10:14.080,1:10:15.120
No.
1:10:15.280,1:10:16.320
The reason I'm here,
1:10:16.560,1:10:18.120
my affidavit is inaccurate.
1:10:22.400,1:10:24.320
Great. Just what I need right now.
1:10:25.840,1:10:26.880
- That's swell.[br]- Yeah.
1:10:28.120,1:10:30.640
I left something out,[br]something incredibly important.
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Remember I gave Alex's drugs[br]to a woman at Clarendon Court?
1:10:36.280,1:10:37.320
Yeah. So?
1:10:37.480,1:10:39.880
Well, that bitch was[br]definitely Sunny von Bulow.
1:10:41.840,1:10:43.360
David...
1:10:44.160,1:10:45.200
this, uh...
1:10:46.160,1:10:47.440
this is bad. It looks bad.
1:10:47.760,1:10:50.640
I've met with you, what,[br]five times now? All of a sudden--
1:10:50.800,1:10:52.120
No, it's not sudden.
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I think I always knew,[br]but I became convinced
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by staring at pictures of her.
1:11:00.400,1:11:02.760
Well, we can't use your affidavit[br]unless it's truthful.
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Are you sure this time?
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I swear...
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on the body and soul of my mother.
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Poor woman.
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Put in this change and make him go over
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every word of the affidavit.
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can I use your men's room?
1:11:31.520,1:11:32.560
More money?
1:11:32.640,1:11:33.680
Can you get more?
1:11:39.600,1:11:41.520
But if Claus had injected her,
1:11:41.720,1:11:43.520
he'd have thrown away the needle, right?
1:11:43.680,1:11:45.680
Sure. If he threw away the insulin,
1:11:46.520,1:11:47.560
why keep the needle?
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Hey, Claus is strange,[br]but he ain't stupid.
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He is arrogant.
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Is that a crime?
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Sometimes.
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Why are we even discussing this?
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It's obvious. The kids framed him.
1:11:58.480,1:12:00.480
Whoa, you changed your tune.
1:12:03.600,1:12:05.560
A frame-up doesn't mean he's innocent.
1:12:06.440,1:12:08.240
The kids could have framed a guilty man.
1:12:09.520,1:12:10.560
Dersh!
1:12:10.640,1:12:11.680
Telephone!
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It's Peter Macintosh.
1:12:17.440,1:12:18.480
Yeah?
1:12:23.840,1:12:24.880
You know what it is?
1:12:27.760,1:12:28.800
Okay.
1:12:33.120,1:12:35.240
Word in Rhode Island[br]is that the state can't lose.
1:12:35.600,1:12:37.000
They got an ace up their sleeve.
1:12:38.000,1:12:39.040
What is it?
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He's going to try to find out.
1:12:45.760,1:12:46.800
All right, my friend...
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Friend? I like that.
1:12:48.320,1:12:49.360
Nothing personal.
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Okay, no students, no witnesses.
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Second coma. Let's hear it.
1:12:54.480,1:12:55.520
Well, Alan,
1:12:55.800,1:12:58.000
strange as it may seem now in retrospect--
1:12:58.160,1:12:59.200
Claus, cut the bullshit.
1:12:59.280,1:13:00.760
December 20, 1980.
1:13:03.800,1:13:04.960
Sunny was unwell.
1:13:05.360,1:13:08.320
We'd been arguing all afternoon.
1:13:09.040,1:13:12.000
I'd at last been offered a new position[br]in the oil business,
1:13:12.160,1:13:14.520
which would have meant[br]my spending some time in Europe.
1:13:19.080,1:13:20.960
Well, the discussion must have escalated,
1:13:21.120,1:13:23.080
because I went to talk to the children.
1:13:25.320,1:13:28.440
This cargo will bring 50,000 gold florins
1:13:28.600,1:13:29.960
from any rebels worth the name.
1:13:30.120,1:13:31.440
50,000 florins?
1:13:31.600,1:13:33.200
That's a pretty good take.
1:13:33.480,1:13:34.560
Let's put it to the vote.
1:13:34.560,1:13:35.680
All those in favor--
1:13:35.840,1:13:38.160
If you'll forgive[br]my interrupting, skipper,
1:13:38.480,1:13:40.080
I'd like to think before I...
1:13:42.800,1:13:45.680
I... I've something to tell you both.
1:13:46.000,1:13:48.680
We're heading for[br]the biggest and the best pirate days ever!
1:13:49.040,1:13:50.760
I...
1:13:54.800,1:13:55.840
It looks as if...
1:13:57.200,1:13:58.320
as though...
1:13:58.800,1:14:00.920
Mummy and I are going to have to split up,
1:14:02.640,1:14:05.360
because my work is something[br]she just cannot tolerate.
1:14:05.640,1:14:07.280
Mummy says things like that.
1:14:08.640,1:14:09.920
She always gets over it.
1:14:10.600,1:14:13.040
Yes, but this has been[br]going on for too long.
1:14:20.880,1:14:23.320
I'm going to Europe for a few months[br]in the new year,
1:14:25.400,1:14:27.080
and this will probably lead to a split.
1:14:29.200,1:14:30.720
It's all right. She'll get over it.
1:14:34.200,1:14:36.800
Yeah, well, Alexander says[br]that conversation happened the next day.
1:14:36.800,1:14:38.400
Can you imagine anything more absurd
1:14:38.560,1:14:40.640
than announcing your intention[br]to divorce a woman
1:14:40.680,1:14:42.440
who's just fallen into a coma?
1:14:43.240,1:14:46.640
No. That evening,[br]everything seemed normal enough.
1:14:48.120,1:14:49.200
Not cheerful,
1:14:50.120,1:14:52.640
but then, we didn't usually[br]giggle at mealtimes.
1:14:53.760,1:14:56.360
Despite her doctor's warnings[br]about sweets,
1:14:56.520,1:14:59.400
the only thing Sunny consumed[br]was a sundae.
1:15:10.680,1:15:13.600
After supper, I went to finish off[br]some work in my study.
1:15:14.640,1:15:15.520
Well, what should we all do?
1:15:15.680,1:15:17.960
The others decided to chat[br]in the living room.
1:15:19.120,1:15:20.640
Ah, that would be lovely, but...
1:15:21.360,1:15:24.040
first I need to go to my--[br]to my room for just a minute.
1:15:37.920,1:15:40.040
After about an hour, I dropped in on them.
1:15:44.680,1:15:46.280
Darling, would you care for anything?
1:15:50.560,1:15:52.720
if there's some...
1:15:53.880,1:15:55.240
Chicken Bullion left.
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I'll look.
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There you are, darling.
1:16:26.120,1:16:27.160
Thank you.
1:16:34.960,1:16:37.200
How is your work... coming?
1:16:37.360,1:16:38.400
I'm totally flummoxed.
1:16:38.480,1:16:40.320
I can't get the figures to make any sense.
1:16:43.680,1:16:45.360
Why don't you call your friend Deborah?
1:16:46.680,1:16:48.240
I doubt she'd be in Saturday night.
1:16:52.920,1:16:56.200
So, Deborah, I think you'll agree,[br]that's 728... right, now.
1:16:56.760,1:16:57.800
But Deborah was home,
1:16:57.960,1:17:00.280
and we did talk for some time until...
1:17:01.680,1:17:02.520
- Claus.[br]- Hold on.
1:17:02.680,1:17:03.960
Come quick. Mummy's not well.
1:17:04.600,1:17:06.960
Deborah, can I call you back[br]in the morning? Thanks.
1:17:07.360,1:17:10.280
Her voice got very weak and[br]she almost fell down. I had to help her.
1:17:20.880,1:17:22.360
Somebody open a window.
1:17:25.840,1:17:27.680
I find the chill reassuring.
1:17:32.480,1:17:33.920
Now I must speak with Claus.
1:17:34.080,1:17:35.120
- Night, Mummy.[br]- Night.
1:17:40.440,1:17:41.480
Good night, darling.
1:17:44.160,1:17:45.200
Good night, Alex.
1:17:45.880,1:17:46.920
She'll be all right.
1:17:56.320,1:17:58.400
That is, if Claus has time to talk.
1:17:59.160,1:17:59.920
Or are you going to work
1:18:00.080,1:18:02.240
every spare moment[br]right through Christmas?
1:18:05.880,1:18:07.640
Is your work really so fascinating,
1:18:08.280,1:18:09.560
or are you trying to drive me away?
1:18:09.560,1:18:11.600
Because if you are,[br]it's succeeding beautifully,
1:18:11.680,1:18:12.800
because I don't want this.
1:18:13.800,1:18:15.000
I didn't marry you for this.
1:18:15.960,1:18:17.040
I could have had anybody.
1:18:17.360,1:18:18.800
With my money? Anybody.
1:18:20.360,1:18:21.400
Well?
1:18:22.440,1:18:23.480
Say something!
1:18:25.720,1:18:26.760
Do something!
1:18:27.960,1:18:29.000
Be a man!
1:18:30.840,1:18:32.160
I already have a butler.
1:18:37.000,1:18:38.040
Do something!
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I don't want this! I don't!
1:18:41.640,1:18:42.760
I don't want this!
1:18:43.680,1:18:44.720
Please! I don't--
1:18:44.920,1:18:46.200
I don't want th...
1:18:48.040,1:18:50.400
The same conversation[br]as the previous year,
1:18:50.800,1:18:52.680
only this time with greater venom.
1:18:52.840,1:18:54.240
You've always been afraid of me.
1:18:54.600,1:18:55.880
It's not because of my money.
1:18:56.400,1:18:58.080
It's basically because you're a coward.
1:18:59.120,1:19:01.080
Because your pitiful masculinity[br]is so fragile
1:19:01.240,1:19:03.240
you can't stand the idea of confrontation,
1:19:03.400,1:19:05.640
so you go off with Miss Botsky--
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Good night.
1:19:24.200,1:19:26.800
As was usual,[br]I was awakened before dawn.
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I let the dogs out, as was customary.
1:19:39.920,1:19:41.280
I went back through the bedroom
1:19:41.320,1:19:44.040
to my study as quietly as possible.
1:19:49.560,1:19:51.880
I did not notice if my wife was in bed.
1:19:52.200,1:19:55.440
I did not notice if the light was on[br]under the bathroom door.
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Had it been on,[br]I wouldn't have given it a thought.
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I did my exercises, showered,
1:20:02.040,1:20:03.840
and then I called Deborah Knowles.
1:20:04.360,1:20:06.680
Well, I mean,[br]it's stable and it's profitable.
1:20:07.920,1:20:09.320
Can anyone really believe,
1:20:09.480,1:20:11.560
if I was trying to murder my wife,
1:20:11.720,1:20:15.160
that I would spend an hour[br]going over a tedious set of figures?
1:20:16.760,1:20:19.000
After the call, I passed[br]through the bedroom again.
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I remember it was freezing.
1:20:20.840,1:20:23.160
By this time,[br]Sunny was certainly not in bed,
1:20:23.720,1:20:25.800
and I heard water running in the bathroom.
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I had breakfast, walked the dogs,
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and on my return,
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asked the children where Mummy was.
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Has Mummy had breakfast yet?
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We haven't seen her.
1:20:44.920,1:20:45.960
Sunny?
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Her bathroom was her private sanctuary.
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No one entered it,[br]except the maid, of course,
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to clean up.
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Sometimes she stayed there for hours,[br]or so it seemed.
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One can only speculate what goes on[br]behind a closed door.
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Sunny, are you there?
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I hesitated even to knock.
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Darling?
1:21:26.360,1:21:27.400
Sunny?
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Oh, God.
1:21:32.400,1:21:34.320
Once I'd ascertained she was breathing,
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I went to fetch Alexander.
1:21:37.120,1:21:38.520
Why not call an ambulance first?
1:21:38.920,1:21:41.000
Panic, Alan, panic.
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I mean, I--I...
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I--I needed to talk to somebody. There--
1:21:46.560,1:21:48.080
There was no--I wasn't worried that--
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she was breathing normally.
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It wasn't--It wasn't like the year before.
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I mean, in retrospect it seems absurd,
1:21:55.560,1:21:58.480
but I looked at her upper lip,[br]she had blood on it.
1:21:58.640,1:21:59.920
I thought she'd broken a tooth.
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That was the extent of my concern,
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and that's...
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that's really all--all I can...
1:22:06.880,1:22:08.080
that's really all I can say.
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Yeah, but is it the truth?
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Of course.
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But not the whole truth?
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I don't know the whole truth.
1:22:17.840,1:22:20.160
I don't know what happened to her.
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Wish I didn't believe you.
1:22:22.320,1:22:25.000
You know, it's very hard to trust someone[br]you don't understand.
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You're a very strange man.
1:22:30.880,1:22:32.280
You have no idea.
1:22:40.720,1:22:41.600
Everybody here?
1:22:41.760,1:22:43.840
Peter Macintosh is late.[br]Says he's got bad news.
1:22:46.240,1:22:47.280
There he is.
1:23:00.200,1:23:01.240
Well?
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I found out what the state has.
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- Mm-hm.[br]- Their ace in the hole.
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It's you.
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It's me?
1:23:11.120,1:23:14.560
David Marriott taped[br]all his conversations with you.
1:23:14.880,1:23:15.920
Oh, great.
1:23:17.080,1:23:21.120
The scuttlebutt is, if we win the case,[br]you go to prison.
1:23:22.480,1:23:23.520
What did I say?
1:23:24.480,1:23:27.360
Good ol' corrupt Rhode Island,[br]I got a friend to get me an excerpt.
1:23:27.680,1:23:28.720
The reason I'm here,
1:23:29.680,1:23:31.040
my affidavit is inaccurate.
1:23:32.000,1:23:34.240
David, this is bad. It looks bad.
1:23:34.480,1:23:35.680
What, you want more money?
1:23:36.440,1:23:37.480
Can you get more?
1:23:38.560,1:23:39.600
Yeah.
1:23:40.640,1:23:42.480
Hey, that is not what I said.
1:23:42.640,1:23:43.360
It's on tape, Alan.
1:23:43.520,1:23:45.680
I don't care if it's on tape,[br]it's not what I said.
1:23:45.880,1:23:47.240
- What do we do?[br]- I don't know.
1:23:51.520,1:23:53.520
I--I'll tell you what we do.[br]We ignore it, that's what we--
1:23:53.520,1:23:55.480
Alan, with that tape,[br]it's your whole career.
1:23:58.240,1:24:00.640
I now believe Claus is innocent. So.
1:24:01.040,1:24:04.240
We've decided,[br]no tricks, no technicalities.
1:24:04.400,1:24:05.880
We are going to base our appeal
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directly and explicitly[br]on Claus' innocence.
1:24:09.720,1:24:10.760
That's not proper.
1:24:10.840,1:24:13.000
An appeal has to be[br]based on judicial error.
1:24:13.240,1:24:15.040
It is. The judge should've[br]thrown out the case.
1:24:15.040,1:24:17.000
How can you say[br]there was insufficient evidence
1:24:17.000,1:24:18.120
when a jury convicted him?
1:24:18.280,1:24:20.520
- That's a good point, but--[br]- But that's what we are saying.
1:24:20.520,1:24:22.640
If the rules don't work, you change them.
1:24:23.400,1:24:25.600
Red Auerbach got[br]the jump ball rule changed
1:24:25.760,1:24:27.240
when the Celtics had a short team.
1:24:27.280,1:24:29.080
Uh, but it's dangerous politically, Alan.
1:24:29.120,1:24:31.000
If the judges feel insulted,[br]then we're gonna find--
1:24:31.000,1:24:34.240
Wait up, here. State Supreme Court[br]shouldn't even look at an appeal
1:24:34.400,1:24:35.440
based on new evidence.
1:24:37.120,1:24:40.120
Hey, guys, I'll take care of that, okay?
1:24:40.440,1:24:41.720
You just--you leave it to me.
1:24:43.560,1:24:45.040
Look, I know you're all exhausted.
1:24:45.480,1:24:47.600
We got four days left.
1:24:48.240,1:24:50.160
What we do now[br]is going to decide this thing.
1:24:50.160,1:24:51.320
Do you wanna win, or not?
1:24:51.640,1:24:52.680
- Alan![br]- What?
1:24:52.840,1:24:54.840
- We've got something.[br]- We've hit the jackpot.
1:24:55.720,1:24:58.520
Our needles that had[br]amobarbital and Valium...
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But no insulin...
1:24:59.720,1:25:02.640
Both came back with[br]false positive readings
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for insulin.
1:25:03.800,1:25:04.960
Okay.
1:25:05.120,1:25:06.720
One was 93, the other 282.
1:25:06.880,1:25:09.440
We've knocked out every piece[br]of their medical case.
1:25:12.440,1:25:13.000
Good work, good work.
1:25:13.160,1:25:15.880
Okay, now, now all they've got left[br]is my neck.
1:25:16.960,1:25:19.120
Anybody know anything[br]about editing audio tapes?
1:25:28.440,1:25:30.200
Defense! For what, defense!
1:25:30.360,1:25:31.400
- Come on![br]- Come on!
1:25:41.280,1:25:42.320
All right, Alan.
1:25:43.320,1:25:44.360
- Come on![br]- Hey!
1:25:44.680,1:25:45.720
Hurry up!
1:25:46.240,1:25:47.720
- What's going on?[br]- Pass it, Alan.
1:25:48.320,1:25:50.600
I got it. Wait a minute.[br]I got it, I got it.
1:25:50.760,1:25:52.080
- Where's Raj?[br]- He's upstairs.
1:25:52.560,1:25:53.640
- Where you going?[br]- Alan!
1:25:54.720,1:25:57.080
Raj, Raj, I got it.
1:25:57.720,1:25:58.760
I got it.
1:25:58.920,1:25:59.960
Remember Maria?
1:26:00.360,1:26:01.880
She could have said it like this...
1:26:02.200,1:26:03.240
Insulin?
1:26:05.320,1:26:06.760
For what, insulin?
1:26:08.440,1:26:10.440
My lady is not diabetic.
1:26:10.760,1:26:13.800
You see? "My lady is not diabetic."
1:26:14.520,1:26:17.120
She is assuming that the bag is Sunny's.
1:26:17.640,1:26:19.640
Her first reaction, instantaneous,
1:26:19.800,1:26:21.640
not part of a legal strategy[br]devised later,
1:26:21.800,1:26:23.280
is that the stuff in the black bag
1:26:23.320,1:26:24.800
belonged to Sunny, not Claus.
1:26:24.960,1:26:26.400
Who's gonna know better than she?
1:26:26.840,1:26:27.880
Start writing.
1:26:29.120,1:26:31.880
You are not God, you are a prosecutor,
1:26:32.040,1:26:34.280
and Alabama cannot execute[br]those Johnson kids
1:26:34.440,1:26:35.840
before the Supreme Court rules!
1:26:36.120,1:26:37.800
That--that's right! You heard me right.
1:26:37.800,1:26:39.680
You've got two hours[br]to get to Rhode Island.
1:26:39.800,1:26:40.600
You're gonna have to speed.
1:26:40.760,1:26:41.840
You want me to commit a crime?
1:26:41.840,1:26:43.320
Of course not! Because if you do,[br]they're gonna stop you,
1:26:43.320,1:26:44.640
you're not gonna make the deadline.
1:26:44.640,1:26:47.280
I'm tellin' you right now, buddy,[br]those kids fry, you're next!
1:26:47.480,1:26:48.280
You forgot your jacket.
1:26:48.440,1:26:49.480
You're damn right!
1:26:50.160,1:26:52.680
Some startling developments[br]in the von Bulow case.
1:26:53.000,1:26:54.960
Harvard Law School[br]professor Alan Dershowitz
1:26:55.120,1:26:57.560
had been accused of paying[br]for falsified testimony,
1:26:58.080,1:27:00.040
but those accusations[br]were discredited today
1:27:00.200,1:27:01.800
by the Rhode Island attorney general,
1:27:01.920,1:27:04.280
who announced that[br]David Marriott's tape was doctored
1:27:04.680,1:27:07.120
and that Marriott[br]is not a reliable witness.
1:27:07.640,1:27:08.960
So, what was he up to, Alan?
1:27:09.480,1:27:10.640
Who was he working for?
1:27:11.080,1:27:12.120
Damned if I know.
1:27:16.080,1:27:18.000
Hope they don't think[br]he was working for you.
1:27:18.200,1:27:19.040
Alan, no one's going to think--
1:27:19.200,1:27:21.160
Look, I don't think you did it, okay?
1:27:22.280,1:27:23.600
But at the Chinese restaurant,
1:27:24.040,1:27:25.360
you did duck the big question.
1:27:25.680,1:27:27.400
Chuck is our Alexandra Isles expert.
1:27:29.400,1:27:30.880
Sunny's Aspirin overdose...
1:27:32.240,1:27:33.640
why did she take so many?
1:27:35.400,1:27:37.760
What happened? Sunny had a headache?
1:27:40.640,1:27:44.240
Headache... was Alexandra, right?
1:27:48.760,1:27:49.800
Let's hear it, Claus.
1:27:52.440,1:27:54.040
Alexandra was spiteful.
1:27:55.720,1:27:59.800
On the day of Sunny's Aspirin overdose,
1:28:00.840,1:28:03.560
she returned some presents I'd given her,
1:28:03.720,1:28:05.400
some photographs...
1:28:06.200,1:28:07.240
love letters.
1:28:09.000,1:28:11.200
She dropped them off in a shopping bag.
1:28:12.320,1:28:13.360
Did Sunny see them?
1:28:14.440,1:28:15.480
Sunny was home.
1:28:16.640,1:28:17.680
I was not.
1:28:19.080,1:28:22.920
Alexandra neglected to address[br]the package to me.
1:28:23.600,1:28:26.280
I want to be left alone[br]with all those beau--beautiful letters.
1:28:27.040,1:28:29.960
What did you do with those letters?[br]Why did you write those letters?
1:28:32.320,1:28:35.280
There's a big difference[br]between knowing about an affair
1:28:36.160,1:28:38.960
and having love letters[br]crammed down your throat.
1:28:41.120,1:28:43.160
It seems that[br]Sunny did care about your affair.
1:28:43.960,1:28:45.000
She cared a lot.
1:28:48.600,1:28:49.640
Why didn't you tell us?
1:28:51.360,1:28:52.440
Everything was open book.
1:28:54.280,1:28:55.880
"Get the best experts.
1:28:56.240,1:28:57.520
I'm not afraid of the truth."
1:29:02.640,1:29:05.800
Looks to me like Alexandra[br]tried to force Sunny into a suicide.
1:29:08.520,1:29:09.960
Or they plotted it together.
1:29:11.760,1:29:13.440
Either way, he's protecting Alexandra,
1:29:14.120,1:29:15.680
because he's still in love with her.
1:29:15.680,1:29:16.720
And why not?
1:29:17.080,1:29:18.200
I mean, hey, she's a babe.
1:29:20.840,1:29:22.160
'Course I still love her.
1:29:25.040,1:29:26.080
And hate her.
1:29:28.360,1:29:32.120
Alexandra, Sunny, Andrea...
1:29:35.240,1:29:36.280
I love them all.
1:29:44.160,1:29:46.760
Being a human being is very literal.
1:29:47.280,1:29:48.320
You're trapped.
1:29:48.600,1:29:50.720
Time moves in only one direction,
1:29:51.080,1:29:52.120
forward.
1:29:52.200,1:29:53.960
It's stupid and boring
1:29:54.120,1:29:55.800
and results in a lot of silliness.
1:29:56.120,1:29:58.640
Example, the legal process.
1:30:00.360,1:30:01.800
In this particular case,
1:30:01.960,1:30:05.480
a vast amount of time,[br]effort, and money was spent
1:30:05.640,1:30:07.880
trying to determine[br]precisely what happened
1:30:08.040,1:30:10.360
on those two nights so close to Christmas,
1:30:10.680,1:30:15.640
December 26th, 1979, December 20th, 1980.
1:30:17.240,1:30:18.360
Happened right here.
1:30:20.200,1:30:23.160
Even now it all looks the same,
1:30:23.880,1:30:27.080
feels the same, smells the same.
1:30:28.120,1:30:31.400
If you could just go back in time[br]and take a peek,
1:30:31.960,1:30:33.000
you'd know,
1:30:34.720,1:30:36.760
and all this would be unnecessary.
1:30:37.120,1:30:38.160
All rise!
1:30:42.160,1:30:43.400
Hear ye, hear ye!
1:30:43.560,1:30:46.080
All persons having business[br]before the Supreme Court
1:30:46.240,1:30:49.000
holding in Providence within and for[br]the state of Rhode Island
1:30:49.160,1:30:50.240
may now draw near...
1:30:51.200,1:30:52.240
Then again,
1:30:53.120,1:30:54.960
everyone enjoys a circus.
1:30:56.320,1:30:57.360
Be seated.
1:31:00.040,1:31:01.960
If the appellant is ready,[br]you may proceed.
1:31:04.120,1:31:04.840
If it please the court,
1:31:05.000,1:31:07.600
oral argument will be made[br]by out-of-state counsel,
1:31:07.760,1:31:09.680
professor Alan Dershowitz.
1:31:19.080,1:31:20.120
Your Honors,
1:31:20.520,1:31:22.760
you may not like Claus von Bulow.
1:31:23.560,1:31:25.400
You may think he is guilty of something,
1:31:25.560,1:31:27.880
but I am here to tell you he is innocent.
1:31:28.840,1:31:29.720
Our new evidence will clear--
1:31:29.880,1:31:33.600
Professor, you know there isn't[br]a single case which allows you
1:31:33.760,1:31:36.080
to introduce new evidence on appeal.
1:31:36.360,1:31:38.040
Well, there is one, Your Honor,
1:31:38.840,1:31:41.160
and you wrote it. Derek.
1:31:42.680,1:31:43.720
In Derek...
1:31:44.360,1:31:46.160
in Derek, you yourself said
1:31:46.600,1:31:50.280
that a case based on circumstantial theory[br]rather than fact
1:31:50.680,1:31:51.720
only stands up
1:31:51.840,1:31:54.120
if no other theory makes sense.
1:31:54.520,1:31:57.040
The only way to show a better theory
1:31:57.200,1:31:58.240
is to present it.
1:32:04.040,1:32:05.560
Get on with it, counselor.
1:32:07.240,1:32:09.760
The first issue is the encrusted needle.
1:32:10.960,1:32:12.280
I hope you will have the courage
1:32:12.280,1:32:13.800
to free an innocent man
1:32:13.960,1:32:15.880
and remedy a grave injustice.
1:32:16.440,1:32:17.560
This will never work.
1:32:18.120,1:32:19.440
Too smart for his own good.
1:32:20.480,1:32:21.880
Alan says it will work,
1:32:22.920,1:32:24.960
if the prosecutor takes the bait.
1:32:25.920,1:32:27.000
What do you mean, "bait"?
1:32:28.400,1:32:29.760
Argues the evidence.
1:32:30.920,1:32:31.560
Your Honors,
1:32:31.720,1:32:34.280
introduction of new evidence on appeal
1:32:35.680,1:32:38.800
violates every principle of jurisprudence,
1:32:39.200,1:32:40.400
every statute,
1:32:41.120,1:32:43.520
every precedent, every rule of ethics.
1:32:43.880,1:32:45.480
Ah, he's nailing us right off the bat.
1:32:45.480,1:32:47.200
I am not going to stand before you
1:32:47.360,1:32:49.520
and argue Mr. von Bulow's guilt.
1:32:52.240,1:32:53.280
However,
1:32:53.600,1:32:56.480
I have no choice but to address[br]Mr. Dershowitz' arguments
1:32:56.640,1:32:57.680
one by one.
1:32:58.960,1:33:00.000
- Bingo.[br]- First,
1:33:01.080,1:33:02.680
the matter of the encrusted needle...
1:33:04.120,1:33:06.640
So? Now it's up to the judges.
1:33:07.360,1:33:08.640
Tell me what you really think.
1:33:08.640,1:33:10.960
I think it's easier to love somebody
1:33:11.120,1:33:12.240
than to live with them.
1:33:14.240,1:33:15.680
Love is fantasy.
1:33:16.040,1:33:17.520
Living is work.
1:33:17.760,1:33:20.560
I'll say. And those people[br]don't like to work.
1:33:21.040,1:33:23.360
But, if you don't do the work,[br]the love dies,
1:33:23.680,1:33:25.640
and nobody wants to deal with that one.
1:33:27.920,1:33:28.960
The love died,
1:33:29.600,1:33:30.800
Sunny couldn't accept it...
1:33:32.160,1:33:33.760
so Claus tried to kill her?
1:33:33.920,1:33:34.960
Maybe.
1:33:35.200,1:33:36.240
I don't agree.
1:33:37.120,1:33:40.160
Face it, all we had to do[br]was prove the state made a lousy case.
1:33:40.560,1:33:42.280
We didn't prove that Claus was innocent.
1:33:42.320,1:33:44.640
We couldn't. We didn't have to,[br]and he probably isn't.
1:33:44.640,1:33:45.520
He isn't? You mean, you thi--
1:33:45.680,1:33:47.720
I mean, so,[br]he didn't inject Sunny with insulin.
1:33:48.200,1:33:50.720
So what? Break it down.[br]First coma, no problem.
1:33:50.880,1:33:53.840
Even the attending doctor thought[br]it was caused by hypoglycemia,
1:33:54.000,1:33:55.560
loss of air to the brain, and so on.
1:33:55.600,1:33:57.840
All right. But what about the second coma?
1:33:58.000,1:34:00.080
I mean, why does Claus act so guilty?
1:34:00.240,1:34:03.160
Hey, come on, wouldn't any man feel guilty[br]if his wife was suicidal?
1:34:03.760,1:34:06.800
Yeah, so, so maybe she took[br]the sleeping pills
1:34:06.960,1:34:08.600
with the intention of killing herself,
1:34:09.200,1:34:13.280
but how did she end up lying[br]on a marble floor in a freezing bathroom
1:34:13.440,1:34:15.000
with her head under the toilet bowl?
1:34:15.360,1:34:16.400
How about this?
1:35:02.760,1:35:04.280
Sunny wakes up miserable.
1:35:09.720,1:35:11.120
Second marriage is over.
1:35:11.280,1:35:12.400
Children are leaving home.
1:35:13.760,1:35:14.800
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.
1:37:45.840,1:37:47.560
It does seem far-fetched.
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So's the truth sometimes.
1:37:49.520,1:37:52.280
Oh, bull. I think she took[br]the barbiturates the previous night.
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And, let's say he saw her take them,
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or she told him she was going to[br]before they fell asleep.
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This time, he wants her to succeed.
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Sunny?
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Maybe there's some way[br]he can help her along.
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Of course, the open window.
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Zero degrees.
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But somebody might see her there.
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The action of dragging her[br]would naturally pull up the nightgown.
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In this cold, how long could she survive?
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Remember what Sunny said?
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"I would have been better off.
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You would have been better off."
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...because the law is a blunt instrument.
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It is not a rapier. It is a cudgel.
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Tomorrow, death penalty,
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which reminds me of the comedian who said,
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"I don't know why[br]they call it the death penalty.
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That's no penalty.[br]You're out of the game!"
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- Good news.[br]- Great news.
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And more good news.
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The decision came down?
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They just announced it.
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Five-zip.
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We murdered them.
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Grounds?
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Well, they got the Brillhoffer notes.
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And that silly, silly guilty[br]man's argument,
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search and seizure.
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- Federal or state?[br]- Both.
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- That's important.[br]- Yeah, it's federal, they could appeal it
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in the US Supreme Court.
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But because it's Rhode Island,[br]they can't. We win.
1:40:49.800,1:40:52.400
Don't--don't get too excited[br]until we see Brillhoffer's notes.
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We destroyed their medical case,
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but their witnesses[br]still carry emotional weight
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if there's a second trial.
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Unless...
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the Brillhoffer notes show[br]that they've changed their stories.
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Good afternoon, sir.
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Let me get that for you.
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Thank you.
1:41:22.160,1:41:23.520
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.
1:41:34.600,1:41:37.800
No one mentioned seeing insulin[br]when they first talked to Brillhoffer.
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Plus... Maria told them
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that at Thanksgiving,[br]when she supposedly saw insulin
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for the first time,
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she couldn't even read any of the labels.
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They were all scraped off.
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What does this mean?
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It means
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that if there is a second trial,
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we can be reasonably confident
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both the medical case and their witnesses
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are now highly suspect.
1:41:56.720,1:41:58.800
Oh, God.
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So...
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Darling...
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This is Alan Dershowitz.
1:42:21.960,1:42:23.040
Yes, I know. Hello.
1:42:23.840,1:42:24.880
Alan tells me...
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well, things look very hopeful.
1:42:29.160,1:42:30.680
I knew it would come out all right.
1:42:31.000,1:42:32.040
Thank you.
1:42:35.760,1:42:36.960
Yes, Alan, thank you.
1:42:37.120,1:42:38.480
I am eternally grateful.
1:42:38.640,1:42:40.720
Hey, this means[br]we'll be getting back your bail,
1:42:40.880,1:42:41.960
a million dollars.
1:42:42.640,1:42:44.400
Uh, I know I still owe you, Alan.
1:42:46.280,1:42:47.840
Please send me your bill.
1:42:49.160,1:42:51.040
And maybe when you're in New York,
1:42:51.200,1:42:52.240
uh, we can...
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we can meet for lunch. I'd enjoy that.
1:42:56.240,1:42:57.280
One thing, Claus...
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legally, this was an important victory.
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Morally, you're on your own.
1:43:14.640,1:43:17.480
Claus von Bulow was given a second trial
1:43:17.800,1:43:19.720
and acquitted on both counts.
1:43:21.960,1:43:23.560
This is all you can know...
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all you can be told.
1:43:27.920,1:43:29.400
When you get where I am,
1:43:30.520,1:43:31.560
you will know the rest.
1:44:03.640,1:44:05.040
Two packs of Vantage, please.
1:44:13.320,1:44:14.360
Anything else?
1:44:15.800,1:44:17.160
Yes, a vial of insulin.
1:44:24.320,1:44:25.360
Just kidding.