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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
had been urging all day.
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He summoned a physician.
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Dr. Paultees.
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I stopped breathing.
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My heart stopped beating.
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By this time,
I was certainly in a deep coma
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from which I awoke several hours later.
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By the next morning, I was myself again.
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There's no reason for all this fuss.
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I've never felt better in my whole life.
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This first coma aroused suspicion and fear
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in the minds of my personal maid, Maria,
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my son, Alex,
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and my elder daughter, Ala.
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From this time on,
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though they never voiced
their suspicions to me,
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they kept a vigilant eye on Claus.
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A year later, just before Christmas,
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their darkest fears seemed justified.
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Has Mummy had breakfast yet?
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No, we haven't seen her.
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My husband did not want
our daughter, Cosima,
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to see what he had found,
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so he motioned to his stepson Alex.
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Second coma.
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- Oh, no.
- My pulse was 38,
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my temperature, 81.6 degrees.
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Did you call an ambulance?
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Nicholas, would you ask Robert
to open the main gates?
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We're expecting an ambulance.
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Mrs. von Bulow...
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Ma'am, send an ambulance immediately.
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It's on Belleview Avenue.
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- Look, bring her something warm.
- Thank you.
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Uh, or--or blankets
or anything you can find.
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All this activity was pointless.
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We better do an EEG.
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I never woke from this coma,
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and I never will.
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I am what doctors call
persistent vegetative,
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a vegetable.
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According to medical experts,
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I could stay like this
for a very long time,
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brain-dead, body better than ever.
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Enter Robert Brillhoffer,
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former Manhattan District Attorney.
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My two children from my first marriage,
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Alex and Ala von Auersberg,
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hired Brillhoffer to investigate the case.
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He put a "do not resuscitate" order
on her hospital chart.
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They sent Alex and a private investigator
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back to my Newport cottage,
Clarendon Court,
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to search for drugs.
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They found plenty
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in Claus' closet.
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On top of that,
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the hospital lab reported
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that my blood insulin on admission
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was 14 times normal,
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a level almost surely caused by injection.
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Insulin injection could
readily cause coma...
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or death.
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This encrusted needle
tested positive for insulin.
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Alex couldn't wait to get back...
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Let's get out of here.
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...and show Brillhoffer.
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Now they felt they had the murder weapon.
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All they lacked was the motive.
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At that moment,
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my husband was vacationing
with his mistress,
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the very beautiful soap opera actress,
Alexandra Isles.
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Oh, God.
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Mrs. Isles, a 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,
at my death,
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Claus, whose own net worth
was only a million dollars,
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stood to inherit 14 million from me.
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Alexandra later testified
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that Claus showed her
a legal analysis of my will.
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On the evidence collected by Alex, Ala,
and their lawyer, Brillhoffer,
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my husband was accused of twice trying
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to murder me with injections of insulin.
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On March 16, 1982,
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he was found guilty on both counts.
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...charged the defendant
committed on December 27th, 1979...
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Even Alexandra Isles
testified against him.
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How do you find?
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Guilty.
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As to count two,
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charge the defendant committed
on December 21, 1980,
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the crime of assault
with intent to murder,
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how do you find?
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Guilty.
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You are about to see how
Claus von Bulow sought to reverse...
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or escape from that jury's verdict.
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You tell me.
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And two!
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Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!
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Taking you downtown!
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Air Dersh!
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Take it in! Take it in! Foul!
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Okay. Here I go.
Here I go! Watch the hands!
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Watch the hands!
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Yeah, hello.
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What?
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Oh, shit. Ju--bottom line.
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Oh, shit!
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Hi.
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Let's try that again.
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Hi, Dad.
Remember Maggie?
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Hi, Maggie. Hello.
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They're going to fry.
The Johnson brothers.
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What?
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But--
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Two black kids broke
their father out of prison.
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The father shot two people,
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and the sons are convicted of murder.
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A lawyer prays for an innocent client.
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Finally, finally, I get two.
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Both of them are going to get zapped.
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No more appeals?
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Supreme Court, but this was the best shot.
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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,
what's the point?
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- I might as well hang it up.
- Yeah. One second, one second, sorry.
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He really seems to think he's von Bulow.
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Hello. This is Alan Dershowitz.
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Who are you? What do you want?
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It's von Bulow.
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Back in business.
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Can I help you, sir?
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Claus von Bulow.
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Elevator's to the left, go right ahead.
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Holy shit.
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Hello?
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Hello?
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Professor Dershowitz, hello, hello.
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How good of you to come.
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Pleasure.
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Won't you sit down?
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Do you play?
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That? No.
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Most people think it's a game of luck.
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Actually, it's largely a matter of nerve.
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Um... nothing, thank you, Charles.
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Why don't we go to Delmonico's
and have a proper lunch?
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Whatever.
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I should tell you that
I have the greatest respect
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for the intelligence and
integrity of the Jewish people.
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When I married Sunny,
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she was the most beautiful divorc�e
in the world
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and one of the wealthiest.
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Even so, we never got this table.
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Professor Dershowitz.
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Dr. von Bulow.
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Two injections of insulin,
already I'm a doctor.
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No, in America,
it's fame rather than class.
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Now, after all this unpleasantness,
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I always get the best table and...
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Speaking of the unpleasantness--
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Oh, yes, I suppose
we better discuss your fee.
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Okay.
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It's 300 dollars an hour.
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Good Lord!
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You know, I used to be a lawyer in London.
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That sounds a bit steep.
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It's average for a case like this.
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Besides, I do a lot of pro bono work.
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You would pay for that.
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Plus, I have to pay students, associates--
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Are you saying if I agree to pay 300,
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you will handle my appeal?
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No, not so far.
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It doesn't look like my kind of case.
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I'm not a hired gun.
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I got to feel there's some moral
or constitutional issue at stake.
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But I'm absolutely innocent,
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and my civil liberties
have been egregiously violated.
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I've got two black kids
facing the electric chair
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for a crime they did not commit.
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They are innocent.
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Well, before you assume I'm guilty,
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won't you hear my story?
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Nope. Never let defendants explain.
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Puts most of them in an awkward position.
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How do you mean?
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Lying.
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But I give you my word as a gentleman.
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Oh... well...
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Well, won't you at least read the record
and
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see if you can find something... well...
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constitutional?
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You do have one thing in your favor.
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Everybody hates you.
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Well, that's a start.
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Come on, Maxwell!
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Get up! Come on, Max!
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- He was hit! He--
- Oh! Hit!
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Yes!
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So what do you think?
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Oh, he did it. He did it.
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Of course he did it. Can we win?
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Hundred to one against.
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The maid.
The maid shmeared him on both comas.
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Look at it. At this. It says here...
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After you realized that Mrs. von Bulow
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had not gotten up,
what did you do?
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I came downstairs,
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and Mr. von Bulow said that madame
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had a very sore throat,
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and I didn't have to do any work,
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and she was in bed all day.
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What are you doing?
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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.
- Maria.
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Go on!
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A half hour later, she had not moved.
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I went back and forth all morning.
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...strain over the last several days.
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Finally, mid-afternoon,
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Mr. von Bulow spoke to Dr. Paultees,
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but he lied to doctor.
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Yes, she's sleeping now,
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but she was up earlier this morning
to the bathroom
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and had a soft drink.
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So I don't think
there's any cause for alarm.
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But she never moved,
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never got up.
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She was lying
in the same position all day.
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Later, her heart stops,
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and Dr. Paultees, he comes and saves her.
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After they go to the hospital,
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I'm changing the sheets.
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I find a puddle of urine.
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If madame went to the bathroom,
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she would not have peed in her bed.
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Right.
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Why would Claus lie about that?
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Well, it's suspicious,
but hardly criminal.
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How about the second coma?
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Well, Maria wasn't in Newport
for that one.
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But shortly before the second coma...
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I'm cleaning up their room
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when I find Mr. von Bulow's
white canvas bag
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packed for Newport.
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Inside, there's a little black bag:
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a bottle of insulin,
a syringe, and needles.
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Alexander!
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Alexander, come here!
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Insulin.
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For what, insulin?
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My lady is not diabetic.
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Three weeks later,
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Sunny's lying unconscious
in a freezing bathroom
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with her nightgown hiked over her waist.
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If I was on that jury,
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I would have voted to convict.
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Then you're taking the case?
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It reminds me of my Hitler dream.
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You know, Hitler calls up.
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He's alive, needs a lawyer.
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I say, "Sure, come on over."
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Then I have to decide.
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Do I take the case or do I kill him?
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You? No question.
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I would take the case.
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Then kill him.
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I'm a maniac.
I need someone with your judgment,
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someone to watch what I'm doing,
occasionally remind me about the law.
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When can I see the transcripts?
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You're a former prosecutor, conservative.
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We agree on nothing.
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But you're smarter than
the Rhode Island DA.
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If I can beat your arguments,
I can destroy his.
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Look, Rhode Island is
the most corrupt state in the country.
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Everything is political.
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I don't think that way. You do.
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I have to see the big picture.
I can't afford to immerse myself in facts,
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but we must know the facts.
00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:43.800
Out of all my ex-students,
00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:46.360
no one can assimilate information
as quickly as you two.
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Well, I agree with that assessment.
00:18:53.760 --> 00:18:54.560
You're out of your mind.
00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:56.440
I only have 45 days to file.
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I can't do it without you.
00:19:00.040 --> 00:19:01.560
Look, Sarah,
I know you don't want to come back--
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Is this strictly professional?
00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:08.480
Better be.
00:19:09.840 --> 00:19:10.480
That's wonderful.
00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:12.920
Now, I want the best people in the world
on our side,
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the most prestigious experts,
00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:17.240
Nobel prize-winning scientists.
00:19:17.560 --> 00:19:19.240
Some of your colleagues
at Harvard, perhaps.
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Hey, hey, wa--wait a minute, Claus.
00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:22.480
Look, we got a little problem there, okay?
00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:24.800
People like that, we can't control.
00:19:25.120 --> 00:19:26.640
They'll find one incriminating fact,
00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:27.760
they'll tell the whole world.
00:19:27.760 --> 00:19:28.800
I'm not afraid, Alan.
00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:30.800
Let the chips fall where they may.
00:19:31.480 --> 00:19:33.120
That's what an innocent man would say.
00:19:34.600 --> 00:19:35.640
I know.
00:19:42.120 --> 00:19:43.360
That just came for you, Dad.
00:19:45.320 --> 00:19:47.640
My daughter, Cosima. She never doubted me.
00:19:48.560 --> 00:19:49.880
She loves Alex and Ala dearly,
00:19:50.040 --> 00:19:52.160
and siding with me
has cost her their affections.
00:19:56.560 --> 00:19:58.120
I don't know what I would have done.
00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:05.520
Okay, look, I said
I didn't want to hear your story,
00:20:05.520 --> 00:20:06.720
but I do need some information.
00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:07.760
'Course.
00:20:09.040 --> 00:20:12.200
Okay, I gather they'll, the older
children, deny Sunny had a problem
00:20:12.360 --> 00:20:13.400
with pills and alcohol?
00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:15.000
Spectacular understatement.
00:20:15.320 --> 00:20:16.680
So there must be somebody
who saw it, right?
00:20:16.680 --> 00:20:18.560
Some witness, somebody, somewhere?
A friend?
00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:20.040
- You want affidavits?
- Yes, I do.
00:20:20.040 --> 00:20:20.680
I'll get them.
00:20:21.040 --> 00:20:21.600
You'll get them?
00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:25.040
You should also know, the drugs
prescribed for me were taken by Sunny.
00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:26.480
That's a lot of drugs, Claus.
00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:30.480
But the prosecution's allegation
that I knew about syringes, injections,
00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:32.080
totally accurate.
00:20:33.120 --> 00:20:36.320
Sunny and I used to give ourselves
B-12 injections in the late sixties.
00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:37.320
It was quite the fad in London.
00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:38.840
Can I explain something to you?
00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:40.400
The less I know from you,
00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:41.840
the more options I have.
00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:43.520
When you tell me "the truth,"
00:20:43.600 --> 00:20:46.440
you limit me to a defense that lines up
with what you have to say.
00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:49.200
But isn't the truth
the simplest way, Alan?
00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:53.040
I mean, why did I stay all day
at Sunny's side
00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:54.680
without calling a doctor?
00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:58.400
Because Sunny detested doctors.
00:20:58.840 --> 00:21:00.440
If we called one
without her approval,
00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:01.480
she went berserk.
00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:02.600
Once she broke her hip
00:21:02.760 --> 00:21:04.600
and didn't go to hospital
for two full days.
00:21:04.600 --> 00:21:06.200
Claus, did you hear what I just said?
00:21:06.560 --> 00:21:08.760
Of course.
Did you hear the judge sentenced me?
00:21:08.920 --> 00:21:11.360
Sorry. 30 years is
a pretty stiff sentence.
00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:13.320
Twice trying to murder one's wife,
00:21:13.320 --> 00:21:14.760
anything less would be monstrous.
00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:17.400
But for a man like myself,
00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:20.280
who did nothing...
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What I wanted to ask,
00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:27.240
if we lose the appeal,
00:21:28.080 --> 00:21:29.920
will I have the chance later
00:21:30.080 --> 00:21:32.880
to set my affairs in order
before I'm incarcerated?
00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:36.400
In Europe, a gentleman
is given the opportunity
00:21:36.560 --> 00:21:37.720
to end things properly.
00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:43.000
Come on, Claus.
00:21:43.080 --> 00:21:46.320
We are each the keeper
of our own souls, Alan.
00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:50.760
Okay, two big problems.
00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:53.960
The case against him is very strong.
00:21:54.680 --> 00:21:55.920
But probably more important,
00:21:56.040 --> 00:21:58.080
the legal conviction
isn't the only conviction
00:21:58.240 --> 00:21:59.280
that we got to reverse.
00:21:59.960 --> 00:22:01.440
The more dangerous conviction
00:22:01.600 --> 00:22:04.640
is the absolute certainty
of the American people
00:22:04.800 --> 00:22:06.120
that Claus is guilty.
00:22:06.280 --> 00:22:09.240
Finding grounds for reversal
won't be enough here.
00:22:09.760 --> 00:22:13.600
Judges on the Rhode Island Supreme Court
will have to go home to their spouses
00:22:13.760 --> 00:22:16.040
and explain why they reversed.
00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:19.320
To get them to do that,
we must completely obliterate
00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:22.240
every single aspect of the state's case.
00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:25.320
Destroy both the medical case
and their witnesses
00:22:25.480 --> 00:22:28.640
so the judges have
no possible way to affirm.
00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:32.360
Total victory,
or we are dead in the water.
00:22:32.520 --> 00:22:36.000
Now, I assume that
you've all had an opportunity
00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:37.240
to look at the transcripts,
00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:38.640
first impressions, yeah, Minnie?
00:22:38.800 --> 00:22:40.360
I think this whole thing stinks.
00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:43.400
I think Claus von Bulow stinks.
00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:47.040
He's obviously guilty
of something pretty despicable.
00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:48.480
And if we free him,
00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:50.680
we become partners in his crime,
00:22:50.840 --> 00:22:52.640
accessories after the fact.
00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:54.480
I'm really shocked,
00:22:54.840 --> 00:22:56.640
with your record
defending the poor and oppressed,
00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:58.040
that you've taken this case.
00:23:01.280 --> 00:23:02.880
I won't have anything to do with it,
00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:06.440
and I hope my fellow students
won't either.
00:23:07.320 --> 00:23:08.360
Good-bye.
00:23:09.120 --> 00:23:11.840
May I exercise my First Amendment right
to free speech?
00:23:15.560 --> 00:23:17.240
If lawyers only defended innocent clients,
00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:19.240
there would be 10 defense
lawyers in the entire country,
00:23:19.240 --> 00:23:21.120
and none of you
would be able to find a job.
00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:23.560
Why help guilty people get off?
00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:27.440
Oh, you're sure he's guilty,
100 percent sure.
00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:30.040
He had a lawyer. He had a trial.
00:23:30.520 --> 00:23:31.800
He was convicted.
00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:33.680
Are you sure he had a fair trial?
00:23:34.280 --> 00:23:35.000
Come on!
00:23:35.160 --> 00:23:38.000
It's the basis of the whole legal system.
00:23:38.360 --> 00:23:41.080
Everyone gets a defense.
00:23:41.800 --> 00:23:43.240
So the system is there
00:23:43.520 --> 00:23:46.240
for the one innocent person
who is falsely accused.
00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:48.960
Okay, look.
00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:51.920
Say it's you, okay?
00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:53.800
You decide...
00:23:54.320 --> 00:23:55.800
you decide to get a divorce.
00:23:56.920 --> 00:23:58.520
You're going to divorce your husband.
00:23:58.720 --> 00:23:59.760
A week later,
00:24:00.320 --> 00:24:02.200
you're accused of molesting your son.
00:24:03.360 --> 00:24:04.920
Oh, no, now don't give me that look.
00:24:05.080 --> 00:24:06.680
Stuff like this happens all the time.
00:24:07.040 --> 00:24:08.320
Suddenly, you're alone.
00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:10.240
You're hated.
00:24:10.560 --> 00:24:11.920
It's--it's a nightmare.
00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:15.840
Everyone assumes that you are guilty.
00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:19.840
Even the mailman is beginning to
look at you a little--a little funny.
00:24:20.320 --> 00:24:22.560
You only got one person
who believes in you.
00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:24.520
There's only one person you can trust,
00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:27.440
your lawyer.
00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:29.280
Yeah. Okay.
00:24:29.880 --> 00:24:31.840
So, someone's got to defend Claus.
00:24:32.360 --> 00:24:33.400
But why you?
00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:34.480
Why us?
00:24:35.800 --> 00:24:37.200
Look, you're my student.
00:24:37.360 --> 00:24:38.200
Y-you have a choice.
00:24:38.360 --> 00:24:40.240
You d--you don't have to do
anything you don't want to do.
00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:41.320
That is your choice.
00:24:42.120 --> 00:24:43.640
The reason I take cases,
00:24:43.800 --> 00:24:45.880
and here, I'm unlike most other lawyers
00:24:46.040 --> 00:24:48.560
who are not professors
and therefore have to make a living,
00:24:48.840 --> 00:24:51.680
I take cases 'cause I get pissed off,
00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:55.000
and I am pissed off here.
00:24:55.680 --> 00:24:58.480
The family hired a private prosecutor.
00:24:59.640 --> 00:25:00.680
Unacceptable!
00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:03.440
They conducted a private search.
00:25:04.080 --> 00:25:05.880
Now, we let them get away with that,
00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:08.360
rich people won't go to the cops anymore.
00:25:08.520 --> 00:25:09.880
You know what they're gonna do?
00:25:09.960 --> 00:25:13.280
They're going to get their own lawyers
to collect evidence.
00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:16.760
And then they are going
to choose which evidence
00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:19.160
they feel like passing on to the DA,
00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:22.600
and the next victim
isn't going to be rich like von Bulow.
00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:25.000
But it's gonna be
some poor schnook in Detroit
00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:29.120
who can't afford
or can't find a decent lawyer.
00:25:35.240 --> 00:25:37.520
I think it's a little more complicated
00:25:38.080 --> 00:25:40.080
than your simple moral superiority.
00:25:41.840 --> 00:25:42.880
No?
00:25:43.520 --> 00:25:45.360
I agree von Bulow is guilty,
00:25:45.520 --> 00:25:47.600
but that's the fun,
I mean, that's the challenge.
00:25:47.760 --> 00:25:49.200
See, now there is a lawyer.
00:25:51.640 --> 00:25:52.680
What?
00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:55.280
Yeah, okay. Put him on.
00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:58.640
Alan, a rather unsavory character
00:25:58.800 --> 00:26:01.040
called David Marriott contacted me
00:26:01.520 --> 00:26:05.800
claiming to have information about
a drug delivery at Clarendon Court.
00:26:06.120 --> 00:26:07.560
Okay. Now, where does he live?
00:26:07.840 --> 00:26:08.520
Somewhere in Wakefield.
00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:10.120
Okay, we--no, we'll get on it.
00:26:11.240 --> 00:26:15.080
Tom, I want you to get
a private investigator
00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:18.480
to dig into a David Marriott
who lives in Wakefield.
00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:21.760
Okay. How are we going to win this case?
00:26:22.040 --> 00:26:23.680
The judge made lots of mistakes.
00:26:23.840 --> 00:26:25.440
Judges always make mistakes.
00:26:25.600 --> 00:26:26.400
How are we going to win?
00:26:26.560 --> 00:26:27.880
All right, one issue leaps up,
00:26:28.040 --> 00:26:29.360
this lawyer, Brillhoffer,
00:26:29.520 --> 00:26:31.680
interviewed Alex, Maria, everybody.
00:26:31.840 --> 00:26:33.320
He was the first person
to hear their stories.
00:26:33.320 --> 00:26:35.080
He took notes and
he used those notes at trial
00:26:35.080 --> 00:26:36.440
against a defense witness.
00:26:36.600 --> 00:26:38.400
But the defense never saw the notes.
00:26:38.560 --> 00:26:40.160
The judge wouldn't let us have them.
00:26:40.560 --> 00:26:42.800
This alone seems like sufficient grounds.
It's perfect Brady.
00:26:42.800 --> 00:26:43.480
Okay, fine.
00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:45.120
Why don't you draft a letter
00:26:45.280 --> 00:26:47.280
writing to Brillhoffer
asking him very nicely
00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:48.640
to send us his notes?
00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:50.800
Yeah, right. He'll fax them right over.
00:26:51.280 --> 00:26:52.320
Yeah, right.
00:26:53.040 --> 00:26:55.120
We could win on this issue alone
and he knows it.
00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:56.640
You know it, I know it.
00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:58.320
We'll just make sure he knows it.
00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:01.080
Now... Nancy and Dobbs...
00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:01.760
Yes?
00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:03.880
They're going to attack
the medical testimony.
00:27:05.080 --> 00:27:07.760
Our Rhode Island counsel, Peter Macintosh,
00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:10.480
he will analyze the state Supreme Court.
00:27:10.800 --> 00:27:13.200
I think the rest of us
should begin dissecting the transcripts,
00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:15.400
errors, inconsistencies, anything unusual.
00:27:15.560 --> 00:27:16.720
Okay, great. Now, remember,
00:27:16.800 --> 00:27:18.360
most cases are won in the field,
00:27:18.520 --> 00:27:19.560
not in court.
00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:23.040
Minnie?
00:27:25.080 --> 00:27:26.640
You want to work with Sarah on this?
00:27:27.800 --> 00:27:28.680
You may learn something.
00:27:28.840 --> 00:27:30.720
- Come on, Minnie.
- Come on, Minnie.
00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:32.400
- Minnie!
- Come on.
00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:33.680
Please?
00:27:34.120 --> 00:27:35.160
Come on.
00:27:36.600 --> 00:27:38.200
'Course I don't trust David Marriott.
00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:39.440
I don't know David Marriott.
00:27:39.640 --> 00:27:40.960
But if he knew Alex von Auersberg--
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:42.680
You're crazy,
I don't know who you think you are.
00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:43.720
You Perry Mason?
00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:46.520
Let our private investigator
interview this jerk.
00:27:46.760 --> 00:27:47.920
It's stupid, it's arrogant,
00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:49.040
and it's unprofessional.
00:27:49.120 --> 00:27:51.280
- It's fun.
- Fun? This guy is a sleaze.
00:27:51.880 --> 00:27:53.520
You don't know what he's going to try.
00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:55.320
What, is he going to shoot me?
00:27:56.040 --> 00:27:57.200
Come on, I'm from Brooklyn.
00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:06.000
Okay, look, I'll stand by the window
every 10 minutes, okay?
00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:08.000
That way you can know I'm safe.
00:28:09.840 --> 00:28:11.120
I had this friend...
00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:12.520
Gilbert Jackson...
00:28:13.280 --> 00:28:14.400
interior decorator.
00:28:15.360 --> 00:28:17.600
Flaming queen, but a very excellent guy.
00:28:20.280 --> 00:28:22.320
He introduced me to Alex von Auersberg.
00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:24.920
You sure it was Alex?
00:28:25.600 --> 00:28:28.240
We had dinner a few times, drinks.
00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:30.800
All I knew, Alex was some rich kid.
00:28:32.080 --> 00:28:33.120
So sometimes,
00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:36.000
this is like, uh, summer of '77,
00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:38.640
I'd motor to Newport for some R and R.
00:28:39.280 --> 00:28:41.080
Gilbert asked me to bring Alex a package.
00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:44.200
I figured interior decoration.
00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:46.000
Maybe drapes.
00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:47.680
Like six times.
00:28:47.960 --> 00:28:49.120
So I'd call Alex.
00:28:49.360 --> 00:28:50.720
How'd you get his phone number?
00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:52.280
From Gilbert.
00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:53.480
You still have it?
00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:54.960
Maybe.
00:28:55.840 --> 00:28:56.880
I'm that kind of guy.
00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:23.520
Here.
00:29:29.600 --> 00:29:30.920
One night I got curious.
00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:33.280
Opened the package.
00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:35.920
Fucking pharmacy, man.
00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:39.360
Needles, syringes, white powder.
00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:41.280
Nice selection of pills.
00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:42.480
Demerol.
00:29:42.800 --> 00:29:43.840
Like a drugstore.
00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:48.360
You delivered drugs six times
and didn't know it?
00:29:51.520 --> 00:29:52.560
Stupid, huh?
00:29:53.760 --> 00:29:55.040
Then Gilbert asked me again.
00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:57.600
I couldn't say no, but this time
00:29:57.640 --> 00:29:59.520
I made Alex open the package
in front of me.
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:01.520
Voila.
00:30:03.800 --> 00:30:06.160
I go, "Awful lot of pharmaceuticals
for one person."
00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:09.440
He goes, "Oh, I give some to my mom
00:30:09.600 --> 00:30:10.800
to keep her off my back."
00:30:12.560 --> 00:30:15.280
Few weeks later,
Gilbert gets mistaken for a softball.
00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:17.680
Two guys bash his head in.
00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:20.560
Alex calls me, totally urinary.
00:30:21.040 --> 00:30:22.440
Will the cops find his phone number
00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:24.400
and fuck up his trust fund or something?
00:30:25.840 --> 00:30:27.120
Well, that's the fat.
00:30:28.560 --> 00:30:29.600
That's the skinny.
00:30:30.840 --> 00:30:31.880
You like it?
00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:35.920
You traffic with drug dealers
and drag queens.
00:30:36.080 --> 00:30:37.200
You have a part-time job.
00:30:37.360 --> 00:30:39.000
You ride around in rented limos.
00:30:39.160 --> 00:30:40.320
All in all, I would have to say
00:30:40.320 --> 00:30:42.160
you're probably
the least impressive witness
00:30:42.160 --> 00:30:43.200
I've ever seen.
00:30:43.840 --> 00:30:44.880
Wait a minute.
00:30:48.840 --> 00:30:51.120
You think I'm scum, don't you?
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:54.040
Blow it out your ass.
00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:56.960
You want a witness to back me up?
00:30:57.640 --> 00:30:58.680
I'll get one.
00:30:59.320 --> 00:31:00.360
And, hey,
00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:02.960
maybe I'll see you at the Celtics, huh?
00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:16.200
I am not going to let them execute you.
00:31:16.360 --> 00:31:17.400
You're not going to die.
00:31:18.120 --> 00:31:19.160
Look, Johnny, th--
00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:21.720
Johnny, this is going to be
a lot easier on me
00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:24.280
if you don't cry, okay? I--I kn--
00:31:24.440 --> 00:31:26.080
I know your brother's hysterical, I--
00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:28.840
Number o--they always set a date
for the execution,
00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:30.320
and they always postpone it...
00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:32.760
He's great when he's like this, huh?
00:31:33.600 --> 00:31:34.360
That's right.
00:31:34.520 --> 00:31:36.680
I just wish he had something left
for the people around him.
00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:37.440
What are you talking to me about money?
00:31:37.600 --> 00:31:38.960
Did I ever ask you about money?
00:31:39.240 --> 00:31:41.000
Anyway, it's nice to have you back here.
00:31:42.800 --> 00:31:44.240
Okay. Say hello to your brother.
00:31:45.120 --> 00:31:46.160
Right.
00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:47.440
Okay.
00:31:55.040 --> 00:31:56.680
Okay, who's got what?
00:31:59.320 --> 00:32:01.200
Uh, yeah. Maria's testimony.
00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:04.160
She says Sunny did take Valium
prescribed for Claus.
00:32:04.520 --> 00:32:05.880
Okay, score one for von Bulow.
00:32:06.040 --> 00:32:08.280
And this Jamie Smather prescription?
00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:09.280
Who's Jamie Smather?
00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:12.400
Three-hundred-pound redheaded hooker
in pigtails and white boots.
00:32:12.560 --> 00:32:14.440
She supplied Claus with Valium.
00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:17.160
He had a gorgeous mistress
and he went with an ugly whore?
00:32:17.520 --> 00:32:19.880
You know, there's some things
even mistresses won't do.
00:32:22.080 --> 00:32:23.120
Like what?
00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:24.680
I-I'm not telling.
00:32:26.320 --> 00:32:28.480
Anyway, Maria swears
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:31.720
she first saw this Jamie Smather
prescription February 14th,
00:32:32.120 --> 00:32:34.120
and then again February 28th.
00:32:34.600 --> 00:32:35.200
So?
00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:37.240
It wasn't prescribed till the 28th.
00:32:37.600 --> 00:32:39.640
You're not suggesting she's lying?
00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:42.240
Okay, how about Maria's insulin?
"For what, insulin"?
00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:43.720
- Anything more on that?
- Not yet.
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:47.360
Something about that bothers me.
00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:50.680
Okay, who's next?
00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:52.600
Brillhoffer wrote back.
00:32:54.040 --> 00:32:55.440
He's very attached to his notes.
00:32:58.760 --> 00:33:00.240
"I am satisfied
00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:03.080
that there is not a scrap of paper
in my files
00:33:03.240 --> 00:33:06.240
that might even arguably
be viewed as exculpatory."
00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:07.480
English translation?
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:09.680
He says he doesn't have
anything that'd help us.
00:33:12.320 --> 00:33:13.360
You with me?
00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:14.320
Pay dirt.
00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:15.360
What's pay dirt?
00:33:15.520 --> 00:33:16.560
He's a lawyer.
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:19.120
If he really didn't have anything,
he'd give it to us...
00:33:19.600 --> 00:33:20.360
but there's something there
00:33:20.520 --> 00:33:22.520
and he's gonna fight like hell
to hold onto it.
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:24.080
I will bet my fee
00:33:24.520 --> 00:33:26.240
that no one remembered seeing insulin
00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:28.520
until after the lab report came back.
00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:30.120
So... you're suggesting...
00:33:30.120 --> 00:33:31.160
Memory enhancement.
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:33.160
It might be more than that.
00:33:33.240 --> 00:33:34.280
Possibly.
00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:37.480
A frame-up.
00:33:38.080 --> 00:33:39.200
You mean by the kids?
00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:42.000
Where are you getting all this,
from Brillhoffer's letter?
00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:43.040
Pure deduction.
00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:47.720
A good lawyer is part psychiatrist,
detective, logician.
00:33:48.440 --> 00:33:49.160
A great lawyer--
00:33:49.360 --> 00:33:50.920
Never would have taken this case.
00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:54.160
If there's nothing more...
00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:56.240
has anybody read this?
00:33:58.320 --> 00:33:59.960
It's an interview with Truman Capote.
00:34:00.600 --> 00:34:02.320
He says when she was 19,
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:03.880
Sunny von Bulow
00:34:04.040 --> 00:34:05.760
taught him how to inject drugs.
00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:06.960
Let me see that.
00:34:09.600 --> 00:34:12.480
Well, well, well, the famous professor.
00:34:12.640 --> 00:34:14.800
Alan, I'd like to introduce
my new girlfriend,
00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:18.000
- Andrea Reynolds.
- I'm not his girlfriend, I'm his savior.
00:34:18.200 --> 00:34:18.760
Perfectly true.
00:34:18.920 --> 00:34:21.240
Two days after the trial ended,
we fell in love.
00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:25.000
- It was really very, very dramatic.
- Yes, Andrea, Andrea, come on.
00:34:26.520 --> 00:34:29.600
Since then, I've devoted my life
to clearing his name.
00:34:30.040 --> 00:34:32.120
I made him hire you.
00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:35.160
"Get the Jew," I said.
00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:37.520
Darling...
00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:39.880
Can the Jew get down to business?
00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:42.560
We've got an affidavit.
00:34:43.640 --> 00:34:46.160
A Smythe, Mrs. Ruth Smythe,
00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:49.600
gave us an affidavit
corroborating Truman Capote.
00:34:50.200 --> 00:34:51.480
I have affidavits, too.
00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:54.920
Newport people.
00:34:55.040 --> 00:34:57.040
They describe Sunny taking pills,
00:34:57.280 --> 00:34:58.920
getting drunk and falling down...
00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:00.720
bumping into doorways,
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:02.480
smearing lipstick all over her face.
00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:03.680
Not a very pretty picture.
00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:05.040
She did it, didn't she?
00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:07.680
Don't be a priss.
00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:09.680
Sunny was a lovely woman.
00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:10.880
Spoiled rotten.
00:35:11.720 --> 00:35:12.760
Yes, but lovely.
00:35:13.640 --> 00:35:14.680
Till she drank.
00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:18.680
Two drinks and she became... nasty,
00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:21.120
- irrational.
- All women are irrational, darling.
00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:22.560
Did we mention the priest?
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:26.800
Oh. Marriott apparently
confided in a priest
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:28.760
who's consented to talk to us.
00:35:31.600 --> 00:35:33.360
A Father Capello from Providence.
00:35:35.600 --> 00:35:36.640
Priest?
00:35:37.720 --> 00:35:39.400
Well, a priest is the ideal witness.
00:35:39.560 --> 00:35:41.360
- It's like getting the word of God.
- I checked.
00:35:41.360 --> 00:35:42.960
God is unavailable.
00:35:44.080 --> 00:35:44.680
If...
00:35:45.120 --> 00:35:46.640
if the priest comes through
00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:49.080
and we can get documentation
on Sunny's drug use,
00:35:49.520 --> 00:35:51.560
then self-injection
may be a plausible theory.
00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:53.240
There's no insulin in this case.
00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:54.920
Yeah, but people do use insulin,
00:35:55.400 --> 00:35:57.400
they use it for dieting,
it's not a prescription drug.
00:35:57.400 --> 00:35:58.840
Sunny was concerned about her weight.
00:35:58.840 --> 00:36:00.280
Maybe, but believe me, Alan...
00:36:01.080 --> 00:36:02.120
there's no insulin here.
00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:07.440
Really?
00:36:08.240 --> 00:36:09.280
How can you be so sure?
00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:18.400
Do you realize...
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:22.400
with this case,
I'm looking for evidence to exonerate you?
00:36:23.120 --> 00:36:25.480
But at the same time,
I'm also wondering...
00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:28.000
what really happened...
00:36:28.680 --> 00:36:29.720
who you are.
00:36:30.160 --> 00:36:31.360
Who would you like me to be?
00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:36.360
Your mother's death...
00:36:37.080 --> 00:36:38.120
what happened?
00:36:39.160 --> 00:36:41.160
I believe she had a heart problem.
00:36:42.120 --> 00:36:42.720
Really?
00:36:43.080 --> 00:36:44.720
The rumor in England is you killed her.
00:36:44.720 --> 00:36:46.000
Hey, wait a minute, Alan.
00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:48.360
Statute of limitations
ran out on that years ago.
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:50.360
There's rumors also that I killed my aunt.
00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:54.920
And that I'm a necrophiliac,
00:36:55.440 --> 00:36:57.080
who injected Sunny with insulin
00:36:57.240 --> 00:36:58.840
so that I could have my way with her.
00:37:00.600 --> 00:37:01.880
Please.
00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:09.320
Did Claus drive me crazy?
00:37:10.520 --> 00:37:11.800
Even I don't know.
00:37:13.040 --> 00:37:16.520
But it's true that I took up to
24 laxatives daily,
00:37:17.120 --> 00:37:19.080
popped Aspirin like M&Ms,
00:37:19.640 --> 00:37:22.080
smoked three packs of cigarettes a day,
00:37:22.680 --> 00:37:24.760
had a problem with alcohol,
00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:27.760
took Valium and Seconal frequently,
00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:30.440
and consumed large quantities of sweets
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:33.800
despite a medical condition, hypoglycemia,
00:37:34.120 --> 00:37:35.440
which made them hazardous.
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:39.120
As for my state of mind...
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:48.480
I had not had sex
with my husband for years.
00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:51.640
My schedule was...
00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:54.000
I woke at 9:30,
00:37:54.440 --> 00:37:56.680
did a little exercise and shopping,
00:37:57.280 --> 00:37:59.000
and returned to bed at three o'clock
00:37:59.160 --> 00:38:00.840
for the remainder of the afternoon.
00:38:02.040 --> 00:38:03.960
I liked to be in bed.
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.160
I didn't much like anything else.
00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:14.440
Hold on here, will you?
00:38:32.640 --> 00:38:33.280
Come in.
00:38:33.560 --> 00:38:34.600
Alan.
00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:36.560
Welcome to my humble law firm.
00:38:38.040 --> 00:38:39.080
In the kitchen,
00:38:39.600 --> 00:38:41.360
our insulin-on-the-needle team.
00:38:42.040 --> 00:38:44.720
They're cooking up some surprise for us.
00:38:49.400 --> 00:38:51.320
This is our Brillhoffer notes team.
00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:53.560
Mr. von Bulow!
00:38:54.120 --> 00:38:55.720
Where do you keep the paper towels?
00:38:56.720 --> 00:38:57.760
Ask Sarah!
00:38:57.920 --> 00:38:58.960
Sarah used to live here.
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:01.960
This--
00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:04.000
I guess he was up all night.
00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:13.120
This sort of commune,
00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:14.880
you do it on every case?
00:39:15.040 --> 00:39:16.080
Never before.
00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:18.560
Thirty-eight days to write 100 pages?
00:39:19.080 --> 00:39:20.200
Only way to get it done.
00:39:21.040 --> 00:39:22.480
Here's the black bag team.
00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:23.920
Illegal search teams.
00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:35.360
My son, Elon, lost his room.
00:39:35.520 --> 00:39:37.280
Well, actually, this is, uh,
this is another case
00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:38.320
that you're paying for.
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:40.920
And this is my team.
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:43.040
You wish.
00:39:43.720 --> 00:39:45.080
I--I can't find the damn thing.
00:39:46.600 --> 00:39:47.680
Hi. I'm Sarah.
00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:49.680
And a very lovely Sarah you are.
00:39:51.080 --> 00:39:52.280
Does that really work?
00:39:52.680 --> 00:39:53.240
Flattery?
00:39:53.640 --> 00:39:54.680
Absolutely.
00:39:56.720 --> 00:39:57.760
Like Chinese food?
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:01.400
What do you give a wife
who has everything?
00:40:03.720 --> 00:40:05.200
An injection of insulin.
00:40:08.600 --> 00:40:10.400
How--Ah, my prawns.
00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:13.840
How can one define a fear of insulin?
00:40:15.240 --> 00:40:16.400
Claus-trophobia.
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:24.080
Is there anything more you can tell us
00:40:24.240 --> 00:40:25.480
about Alexandra Isles?
00:40:26.600 --> 00:40:28.280
For instance, is it true
that she gave you a deadline
00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:29.960
of Christmas 1979 to be together?
00:40:30.680 --> 00:40:31.720
Uh, not really.
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:34.120
No, she knew I was looking
for full-time work.
00:40:34.320 --> 00:40:36.560
I worked for JP Getty in London.
00:40:36.720 --> 00:40:38.480
Alexandra assumed that
when you did find a job,
00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:39.560
you'd marry her, correct?
00:40:40.680 --> 00:40:41.840
Oh, she assumed it.
00:40:44.200 --> 00:40:45.080
How about when she testified,
00:40:45.240 --> 00:40:47.360
did you get a sense that
she wanted to get back together?
00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:49.920
Very much so.
In fact, at the trial, she said...
00:40:50.080 --> 00:40:54.240
I loved him, but I was still caught up
in my own anger...
00:40:55.880 --> 00:40:57.760
and I'm sorry I acted that way then.
00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:00.520
I loved him, and I was angry.
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:03.880
Let me ask you this.
Maybe you can't answer.
00:41:04.720 --> 00:41:05.800
Do you still love him?
00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:08.600
I don't know.
00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:10.440
That means yes, doesn't it?
00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:11.880
It would seem so.
00:41:12.200 --> 00:41:13.280
In fact, after the trial,
00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:15.480
she wrote me a letter
saying so explicitly.
00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:17.920
A very passionate letter.
00:41:18.120 --> 00:41:19.480
Passionate and...
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:21.040
jealous.
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:24.520
But that was the relationship
from the outset.
00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:26.280
That was Alexandra.
00:41:26.440 --> 00:41:27.520
She was your love slave.
00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:40.000
Well, I think now
I'll have my own individual order
00:41:40.160 --> 00:41:41.400
of ginger prawns.
00:41:43.720 --> 00:41:45.920
- Waiter.
- Three weeks before her final coma,
00:41:46.560 --> 00:41:48.000
Sunny overdosed on Aspirin.
00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:50.040
Can you tell us anything about that?
00:41:50.040 --> 00:41:52.400
No one maintained
I had anything to do with that, Alan.
00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:53.440
No, of course not.
00:41:54.040 --> 00:41:55.320
I'm asking you what happened.
00:41:55.640 --> 00:41:57.840
Well, Sunny had been unwell.
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:05.520
Are you all right?
00:42:05.720 --> 00:42:07.480
Oh, just a bit dizzy.
00:42:10.160 --> 00:42:12.000
Well, if you're dizzy, don't go wandering.
00:42:27.680 --> 00:42:28.720
Sunny?
00:42:31.640 --> 00:42:32.680
Oh, my God.
00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:34.000
Come on, my darling.
00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:35.680
Now, you're all right.
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:37.360
Come on, put your arm around my shoulder.
00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:37.880
There we are.
00:42:38.080 --> 00:42:39.360
Now, you're all right.
00:42:39.600 --> 00:42:42.160
Get you--come on.
We'll get you back into bed.
00:42:44.040 --> 00:42:45.720
Something happened to my head.
00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:47.200
- You're all right.
- It's cut.
00:42:48.120 --> 00:42:49.800
Just a little cut. It's nothing.
00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:51.000
Come on.
00:42:51.080 --> 00:42:52.480
Let's get you lying down.
00:42:56.560 --> 00:42:57.800
There you are.
00:43:01.680 --> 00:43:02.720
There.
00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:07.600
Shall I call a doctor?
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:09.680
No! No, I don't want--
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:10.880
I don't want a doctor.
00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:12.520
Just... don't want a doctor.
00:43:13.600 --> 00:43:16.120
Just want to be left alone.
00:43:17.200 --> 00:43:19.840
Want to be left alone
with all those beaut--beautiful letters.
00:43:20.560 --> 00:43:21.720
What did you do with those letters?
00:43:21.720 --> 00:43:23.120
Why did you write those letters?
00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:24.400
And those...
00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:26.440
Later, Dr. Praug said
00:43:26.600 --> 00:43:28.080
we needn't have gone to the hospital,
00:43:28.080 --> 00:43:29.840
but I wasn't going to take any chances.
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:31.480
Why did she take so much Aspirin?
00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:33.840
Oh, Sunny always took Aspirin.
00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:36.320
She'd been taking a lot for several days.
00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:37.640
That's not what our doctor said.
00:43:37.640 --> 00:43:39.320
Dr. Lucas Lupardus,
00:43:39.600 --> 00:43:42.320
chief forensic toxicologist,
Suffolk County,
00:43:42.640 --> 00:43:45.320
says that people who take large
amounts of Aspirin every day
00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:46.520
never reach that level.
00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:49.520
He also said the average blood level
in cases of death is...
00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:51.800
Sixty. Hers was 90.
00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:52.840
So...
00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:55.440
So it was obviously a suicide attempt.
00:43:56.720 --> 00:43:57.240
Why?
00:43:57.400 --> 00:43:58.760
Yeah, why?
00:43:58.920 --> 00:43:59.440
Why?
00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:03.040
Alan, do they all want to be prosecutors?
00:44:05.680 --> 00:44:06.720
We're waiting.
00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:12.120
Well, I presume she was unhappy.
00:44:18.920 --> 00:44:21.160
How about we all finish up
and go back to the house?
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:25.640
We're not going to win this
on a technicality. Peter.
00:44:26.720 --> 00:44:28.600
I've read every case
in the last seven years
00:44:28.760 --> 00:44:30.720
where the Rhode Island
Supreme Court reversed.
00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:32.280
They don't like to make new law,
00:44:32.280 --> 00:44:34.440
they don't like to discuss
broad legal issues.
00:44:34.600 --> 00:44:35.760
When they do reverse,
00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:37.280
the grounds are technical,
00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:39.400
but the reason seems to be
00:44:39.560 --> 00:44:42.120
they suspect a convicted defendant
may be innocent.
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:44.960
Okay, so everybody get that?
00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:48.680
True or not,
we've got to convince the judges
00:44:49.680 --> 00:44:50.960
that you are innocent.
00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:54.640
Claus, now I do want to hear
your side of the story.
00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:55.840
With pleasure.
00:44:56.520 --> 00:44:58.680
Innocence has always been my position.
00:45:03.840 --> 00:45:05.640
First coma. What preceded it?
00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:09.400
Well, Sunny loved Christmas.
00:45:10.160 --> 00:45:11.920
It was her favorite season, really.
00:45:13.040 --> 00:45:15.920
You see, what you must understand
about Sunny
00:45:16.080 --> 00:45:19.000
is that she loved giving
more than anything else.
00:45:19.200 --> 00:45:22.640
� Peace on Earth and mercy mild
00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:24.800
� God and sinners reconciled...
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Each year, she always made
a big bowl of fresh eggnog.
00:45:28.720 --> 00:45:30.720
Now, that year, she drank a lot of it.
00:45:31.120 --> 00:45:32.160
How much?
00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:34.320
Oh, 10 or 12 glasses.
00:45:35.600 --> 00:45:37.240
With her hypoglycemia?
00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:39.960
She didn't always drink like that?
00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:41.040
Never.
00:45:41.280 --> 00:45:44.560
She never touched alcohol at all
except on social occasions
00:45:44.720 --> 00:45:46.160
to overcome her shyness...
00:45:46.600 --> 00:45:48.280
or when she was upset.
00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:51.520
This was not a social occasion.
00:45:52.080 --> 00:45:53.120
No.
00:45:54.240 --> 00:45:56.760
We'd been discussing divorce
all afternoon.
00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:14.960
This whole subject of your...
00:46:16.280 --> 00:46:18.520
work... coming between us,
00:46:20.120 --> 00:46:23.120
isn't it just a pretext
when the real subject is her?
00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:24.920
Certainly not.
00:46:27.560 --> 00:46:30.640
I'm thinking of redecorating
this whole fucking house.
00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:34.440
Then she knew about Alexandra.
00:46:36.200 --> 00:46:37.240
Yes.
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:38.480
How did she find out?
00:46:40.920 --> 00:46:42.040
I, um...
00:46:42.760 --> 00:46:44.320
I told her the previous summer.
00:46:50.640 --> 00:46:52.520
Ala, can't we find one a bit slower?
00:46:58.440 --> 00:46:59.760
- Ah, that's much better.
- Hm.
00:47:01.240 --> 00:47:02.280
- Cooler.
- Hm.
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:06.360
Thank you.
00:47:15.120 --> 00:47:16.640
Oh, I've been meaning to mention...
00:47:17.720 --> 00:47:19.680
our understanding about my...
00:47:21.720 --> 00:47:23.400
extracurricular activities.
00:47:25.640 --> 00:47:27.480
I've been involved with someone who...
00:47:28.040 --> 00:47:30.840
falls outside the parameters
of our agreement.
00:47:31.120 --> 00:47:32.240
- Really?
- Someone...
00:47:32.560 --> 00:47:34.080
peripherally in our circle.
00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:37.400
Billy Botsky's daughter,
00:47:37.560 --> 00:47:38.960
Alexandra Isles.
00:47:41.480 --> 00:47:42.520
Well.
00:47:45.640 --> 00:47:46.800
That must be better for you
00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:48.480
than what you've had to put up with.
00:47:50.080 --> 00:47:51.760
You're referring to the call girls.
00:47:53.160 --> 00:47:54.200
Yes.
00:47:55.520 --> 00:47:58.680
I mean, that is where
you've gone previously, isn't it?
00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:00.320
Yes, it is.
00:48:03.120 --> 00:48:04.160
And isn't this better?
00:48:05.680 --> 00:48:08.120
Or is Billy Botsky's daughter
a call girl, too?
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:11.160
This is much better.
00:48:20.040 --> 00:48:21.480
That was what, July, August?
00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:22.920
Now it's Christmas time,
00:48:23.240 --> 00:48:25.440
and you were
still squabbling over Alexandra?
00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:27.920
No. We were fighting about my work.
00:48:28.240 --> 00:48:29.280
Sunny was...
00:48:31.520 --> 00:48:33.280
well, by the evening,
00:48:33.440 --> 00:48:34.720
she'd drunk so much eggnog,
00:48:34.880 --> 00:48:36.680
that I had to help her into the bedroom.
00:48:38.040 --> 00:48:39.080
Alexander.
00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:41.480
Time for bed, darling.
00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:48.000
There we are.
00:48:54.440 --> 00:48:56.280
Please don't hold my arm.
00:48:57.080 --> 00:48:58.920
Darling, you know
when you get like this...
00:48:59.640 --> 00:49:00.680
Remember?
00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:03.520
You fell and broke your hip.
00:49:03.720 --> 00:49:05.280
That was years ago.
00:49:07.560 --> 00:49:09.080
It was two years ago.
00:49:29.400 --> 00:49:31.000
Get me a scotch and soda.
00:49:41.920 --> 00:49:44.360
May I at least urinate alone?
00:50:03.320 --> 00:50:05.440
She runs the water
every time she goes in there.
00:50:07.960 --> 00:50:10.320
If she was already soused,
why'd you go for the scotch?
00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:12.000
Because she asked for it.
00:50:13.680 --> 00:50:15.920
Sunny got what Sunny wanted.
00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:17.400
It's okay.
00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:47.040
Good night, Dad.
00:50:47.600 --> 00:50:48.640
Good night, darling.
00:50:50.720 --> 00:50:51.760
Good night, Claus.
00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:53.360
Good night, Alex.
00:51:06.680 --> 00:51:08.560
Hasn't my mother given us enough money?
00:51:10.600 --> 00:51:11.160
Claus?
00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:13.040
That night, we hardly slept.
00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:15.960
Your age,
it's perfectly acceptable to retire.
00:51:16.720 --> 00:51:18.040
I'm already retired.
00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:21.160
I haven't worked full-time since Getty.
00:51:21.320 --> 00:51:22.720
Exactly. It's your ego.
00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:24.520
You've never had a career. Not really.
00:51:25.520 --> 00:51:27.000
Well, I'm going to have one now.
00:51:30.080 --> 00:51:32.400
Oh, come on, Sunny, your father worked.
00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:35.440
Do you want the children to grow up
00:51:35.600 --> 00:51:37.680
thinking a male's place
is in a deck chair?
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:39.280
Claus, you marry me for my money,
00:51:39.280 --> 00:51:40.120
then you demand to work.
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:41.680
You're the prince of perversion.
00:51:42.160 --> 00:51:44.160
I mean, what? Are you trying
to destroy our whole family?
00:51:44.160 --> 00:51:45.040
Oh, no, of course not.
00:51:45.200 --> 00:51:47.200
I--I... I simply want some...
00:51:48.840 --> 00:51:50.160
intercourse with the world.
00:51:50.320 --> 00:51:51.360
Shut up, Pan!
00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:53.520
Oh, what does it matter?
00:51:56.880 --> 00:51:59.160
So Is that it?
00:52:00.520 --> 00:52:01.560
Another divorce?
00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:05.520
Okay.
00:52:05.720 --> 00:52:07.720
I'll divorce you. I will.
00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:10.080
Oh, God...
00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:11.960
Two-time loser.
00:52:13.680 --> 00:52:14.960
I'll divorce everybody.
00:52:15.560 --> 00:52:17.600
I don't want a divorce.
00:52:18.360 --> 00:52:20.800
I don't want to marry
Billy Botsky's daughter.
00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:22.800
I want to stay with you
and I want to work.
00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:25.160
I need that as a man.
00:52:28.960 --> 00:52:30.000
It's hopeless.
00:52:33.080 --> 00:52:34.120
Oh, God.
00:52:35.640 --> 00:52:36.960
I need my beauty sleep.
00:52:37.120 --> 00:52:40.040
Why do you--why do you believe
it's hopeless just because of some...
00:53:19.040 --> 00:53:20.080
Good night, Claus.
00:53:22.320 --> 00:53:23.720
Sunny, you know I love you.
00:53:41.720 --> 00:53:42.760
Good night.
00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:50.480
Okay, and the next day?
00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:51.840
Well...
00:53:53.680 --> 00:53:56.920
Maria's testimony was wildly exaggerated.
00:53:58.440 --> 00:54:00.160
Sunny was never moaning.
00:54:01.200 --> 00:54:03.320
Maybe the occasional snore, but...
00:54:05.160 --> 00:54:07.360
And Maria shook Sunny.
00:54:10.360 --> 00:54:12.880
Nobody ever shook Sunny.
00:54:17.000 --> 00:54:18.960
What happened when
she regained consciousness?
00:54:19.400 --> 00:54:20.680
After the first coma,
00:54:20.840 --> 00:54:22.400
well, it was kind of absurd.
00:54:22.560 --> 00:54:24.200
Everybody was angry at me.
00:54:28.080 --> 00:54:29.920
Can't you ever leave me alone?
00:54:33.400 --> 00:54:34.440
Why did you do it?
00:54:35.640 --> 00:54:37.240
I would have been better off.
00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:39.520
You would have been better off.
00:54:39.680 --> 00:54:40.880
What do you want me to say?
00:54:41.280 --> 00:54:42.840
That I'm sorry I saved your life?
00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:44.040
Yes.
00:54:48.400 --> 00:54:49.440
Say it.
00:54:57.040 --> 00:54:58.280
Of course I'm not sorry.
00:55:15.880 --> 00:55:16.920
Wha--
00:55:18.120 --> 00:55:19.160
Claus...
00:55:23.320 --> 00:55:25.360
what am I going to do with myself?
00:55:31.840 --> 00:55:33.080
When I phoned Alexandra,
00:55:33.240 --> 00:55:35.280
to tell her what had happened,
she said the same thing,
00:55:35.280 --> 00:55:37.080
she said, "Why did you do it?
00:55:37.240 --> 00:55:38.640
Why did you call the doctor?"
00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:40.880
You telling me she wanted
you to let Sunny die?
00:55:41.320 --> 00:55:43.640
No, no, no, no, no.
00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:45.040
It was more...
00:55:45.560 --> 00:55:48.920
"Everybody says Sunny's
such an unhappy woman
00:55:49.080 --> 00:55:52.160
and has nothing to live for."
00:55:54.320 --> 00:55:56.760
Well, so much for the first coma.
00:55:57.840 --> 00:55:59.000
The second, of course,
00:55:59.400 --> 00:56:01.040
was much more theatrical.
00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:03.720
Theatrical? What is this, a fucking game?
00:56:04.400 --> 00:56:06.720
This is life and death.
Your wife is laying in a coma.
00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:09.920
You don't even make a pretense
of caring, do you?
00:56:11.120 --> 00:56:12.360
'Course I care, Alan.
00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:16.840
It's just I don't wear
my heart on my sleeve.
00:56:21.360 --> 00:56:22.560
Let's call it a night, okay?
00:56:23.280 --> 00:56:24.560
Okay, guys, so...
00:56:25.360 --> 00:56:26.400
As you wish.
00:56:26.640 --> 00:56:28.320
There were three drugs
on the needle, right?
00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:30.560
Amobarbital, Valium, insulin.
00:56:32.120 --> 00:56:33.400
We can't all be you, Alan.
00:56:41.720 --> 00:56:42.800
Shoot! Shoot! All right.
00:56:43.440 --> 00:56:45.800
Okay, get a doctor
to prepare five needles,
00:56:46.240 --> 00:56:47.440
one with nothing,
00:56:47.680 --> 00:56:50.080
two with Valium, amobarbital, and insulin,
00:56:50.320 --> 00:56:52.160
two with just Valium and amobarbital.
00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:55.240
We're gonna send them to the same lab
that our famous needle went to.
00:56:55.240 --> 00:56:57.280
Let's see if we can get
a false positive result.
00:56:57.520 --> 00:56:58.560
If we don't?
00:56:59.480 --> 00:57:00.880
We don't, I clean the latrines.
00:57:01.040 --> 00:57:02.560
Aw, you're not gonna believe this.
00:57:03.200 --> 00:57:04.400
David Marriott wants money.
00:57:04.560 --> 00:57:05.600
Yeah, who doesn't?
00:57:06.280 --> 00:57:07.720
I'm afraid his memory might fade.
00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:08.880
Oh, the hell with him. Forget about him.
00:57:08.880 --> 00:57:10.160
Well, he has lost his crumby job,
00:57:10.160 --> 00:57:12.560
and he is running around
trying to find evidence for us.
00:57:14.320 --> 00:57:16.400
Okay, why don't we do what
the government does with its witnesses?
00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:17.680
Okay? We'll pay for his time.
00:57:18.200 --> 00:57:19.240
What's his time worth?
00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:21.920
- Buck and a half.
- Sarah? Dersh?
00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:24.000
Your team's on.
00:57:24.680 --> 00:57:26.480
Okay.
You going to pass to me this game or what?
00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:27.520
No.
00:57:29.440 --> 00:57:30.800
Their private investigator said
00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:32.840
the needle had a small encrustation
near the tip.
00:57:32.840 --> 00:57:35.640
Now, doctors tell us this is
totally inconsistent with injection.
00:57:35.920 --> 00:57:37.240
Okay, so how did it get there?
00:57:40.680 --> 00:57:42.520
If I inject this needle,
00:57:42.840 --> 00:57:44.840
the skin acts as kind of a swab.
00:57:45.160 --> 00:57:46.360
It cleans the needle off,
00:57:46.680 --> 00:57:49.240
leaving the tip completely free of liquid.
00:57:49.400 --> 00:57:52.440
But if I just dip the needle
into the liquid,
00:57:52.600 --> 00:57:53.640
what do you see?
00:57:54.640 --> 00:57:55.680
Dry this out,
00:57:55.920 --> 00:57:57.360
you have an encrustation.
00:57:57.760 --> 00:57:58.800
So it's a frame-up?
00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:01.080
It's Desdemona's handkerchief.
00:58:02.160 --> 00:58:03.840
My stepchildren thought I was guilty,
00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:05.600
didn't feel they had enough evidence,
00:58:05.600 --> 00:58:06.760
and so concocted some.
00:58:07.120 --> 00:58:08.520
This should win us the case, no?
00:58:08.720 --> 00:58:10.840
No. We're maybe halfway home.
00:58:12.200 --> 00:58:13.720
There's still a lot of weird stuff.
00:58:14.600 --> 00:58:15.640
Did you love Sunny?
00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:16.960
I married her.
00:58:18.280 --> 00:58:20.040
Of course I loved her. She was beautiful.
00:58:20.040 --> 00:58:21.080
Rich.
00:58:21.160 --> 00:58:22.200
Why not?
00:58:22.440 --> 00:58:24.240
What I've seen of the rich, you can have.
00:58:24.720 --> 00:58:25.760
I do.
00:58:30.120 --> 00:58:31.160
The black bag,
00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:32.360
was it yours?
00:58:34.520 --> 00:58:36.040
Sunny appropriated it.
00:58:36.640 --> 00:58:38.040
Now, to understand that,
00:58:38.240 --> 00:58:40.880
you must understand
that after the first coma,
00:58:41.120 --> 00:58:43.200
she went into a complete rage.
00:58:48.040 --> 00:58:49.640
Where are they? Did you take them?
00:58:49.800 --> 00:58:50.880
Certainly not. Take what?
00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:52.560
My pills, you moron.
00:58:53.600 --> 00:58:54.880
Valium, Seconal...
00:58:56.560 --> 00:58:57.680
you took them, didn't you?
00:58:58.160 --> 00:59:00.360
My dear, I've long since
stopped interfering.
00:59:00.520 --> 00:59:02.360
Well, who? My children wouldn't dare--
00:59:04.280 --> 00:59:05.640
Oh, I know who.
00:59:05.800 --> 00:59:06.840
Where are you going?
00:59:19.480 --> 00:59:20.520
Maria!
00:59:30.040 --> 00:59:31.520
She soon found them.
00:59:33.080 --> 00:59:34.880
It's my lovely mother, isn't it?
00:59:35.240 --> 00:59:36.520
She's behind all this.
00:59:37.440 --> 00:59:39.160
She's in cahoots with Maria.
00:59:41.040 --> 00:59:44.880
Well, just because she had all the money
00:59:45.040 --> 00:59:46.720
before I had all the money
00:59:46.880 --> 00:59:49.080
does not mean she's my lord and master.
00:59:49.400 --> 00:59:51.560
'Course not. I am your lord and master.
00:59:53.520 --> 00:59:54.560
Just kidding.
00:59:59.520 --> 01:00:01.160
Maria loves me too much.
01:00:02.440 --> 01:00:03.680
It's unhealthy for her,
01:00:04.400 --> 01:00:06.560
and it's certainly no fun for me.
01:00:11.720 --> 01:00:12.760
There.
01:00:28.080 --> 01:00:30.000
We'll see if that ugly little maid of mine
01:00:30.160 --> 01:00:31.360
can sniff this one out.
01:00:40.920 --> 01:00:42.760
And what are you going
to do with all that?
01:00:43.800 --> 01:00:44.920
I'm not going to tell you.
01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:48.240
I assure you,
it not gonna be among my affairs.
01:00:50.160 --> 01:00:52.840
Odd she used that word, affairs.
01:00:53.880 --> 01:00:56.040
You realize the prosecution thinks
you ground up the drugs
01:00:56.040 --> 01:00:57.240
so you could inject Sunny?
01:00:57.640 --> 01:01:00.320
And frankly, this nose drop business
is pretty far-fetched.
01:01:01.040 --> 01:01:03.280
But consider the pattern, Alan.
01:01:04.240 --> 01:01:07.120
It's public record that Sunny used drugs.
01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:10.200
Her behavior here of hiding them in liquid
01:01:10.600 --> 01:01:12.280
so that no one will find them,
01:01:12.880 --> 01:01:15.160
it's your classic alcoholic
buying pints of whiskey
01:01:15.320 --> 01:01:16.920
and stashing them all over the house.
01:01:18.280 --> 01:01:19.320
You're right.
01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:21.440
Of course, I mean...
01:01:22.080 --> 01:01:24.240
I mean, you've always
been right, haven't you?
01:01:25.520 --> 01:01:27.760
This is the most dangerous case
I've ever worked on.
01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:29.160
You find that exhilarating?
01:01:29.320 --> 01:01:30.360
No, I do not.
01:01:31.720 --> 01:01:32.840
I am breaking every rule.
01:01:33.240 --> 01:01:35.480
'Cause the best way to win
is to proclaim your innocence,
01:01:35.480 --> 01:01:37.320
and I've never done that for anybody.
01:01:38.200 --> 01:01:40.120
And the problem I got is
I see who you are.
01:01:40.520 --> 01:01:41.600
You'd do anything to win.
01:01:42.080 --> 01:01:43.120
So would you.
01:01:43.160 --> 01:01:45.000
Yeah, but you don't trust
the legal system.
01:01:45.760 --> 01:01:47.840
You're saying I'd manufacture witnesses?
01:01:48.640 --> 01:01:49.680
Affidavits?
01:01:51.080 --> 01:01:53.240
No, but you would sacrifice me.
01:01:53.400 --> 01:01:54.440
Oh, please, Alan.
01:01:54.600 --> 01:01:57.560
See, the more I believe that
you are innocent, the more nervous I am.
01:01:58.720 --> 01:02:00.200
I go out on a limb for you,
01:02:00.680 --> 01:02:02.600
you're proven guilty,
I look like an asshole.
01:02:03.240 --> 01:02:06.040
My reputation, my credibility,
my career, destroyed.
01:02:07.640 --> 01:02:09.360
That's the risk you're taking, isn't it?
01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:10.400
Yeah, well, fuck you.
01:02:11.240 --> 01:02:12.400
Fuck you, man.
01:02:24.320 --> 01:02:25.880
I'm glad we understand one another.
01:02:29.280 --> 01:02:32.280
It's easy to forget
all this is about me...
01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:33.960
lying here.
01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:37.400
To most of you, my name means coma.
01:02:37.880 --> 01:02:40.920
My second marriage means attempted murder.
01:02:41.560 --> 01:02:42.920
Everything that came before,
01:02:43.080 --> 01:02:46.360
everything beautiful,
does not exist in the public mind.
01:02:47.160 --> 01:02:49.480
No one thinks of how I loved my children.
01:02:49.960 --> 01:02:51.040
Look at Cosima,
01:02:51.920 --> 01:02:52.960
and Alex, of course,
01:02:53.600 --> 01:02:54.640
and Ala,
01:02:54.800 --> 01:02:57.000
and certainly no one cares about Claus,
01:02:57.480 --> 01:02:59.560
the way he was
when I fell in love with him.
01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:01.840
When Claus and I first met,
01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:05.440
I was married to the dashing, young
Prince Alfred Eduard Friederich
01:03:05.600 --> 01:03:08.400
Vincenz Martin Maria von Auersberg.
01:03:09.440 --> 01:03:11.600
It was 1964,
01:03:12.560 --> 01:03:14.880
seven years into my first marriage.
01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:22.280
It seems that my first husband,
01:03:22.560 --> 01:03:24.640
Alfie, as he was called,
01:03:25.400 --> 01:03:29.400
had vowed to be unfaithful
with every pretty girl in Europe.
01:03:31.480 --> 01:03:33.520
He was having quite a success.
01:03:35.400 --> 01:03:36.440
And so...
01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:39.960
I was unfaithful with Claus.
01:03:50.880 --> 01:03:51.920
Psst!
01:03:57.720 --> 01:03:59.360
Wildly unfaithful.
01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:02.560
Happy memories.
01:04:11.160 --> 01:04:13.560
But it's not the passion I remember most.
01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:16.600
It's the tenderness.
01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:24.520
Good God, what's that?
01:04:25.160 --> 01:04:26.680
There's one of Frank's pets.
01:04:31.120 --> 01:04:32.680
Oh, my God. No, no.
01:04:47.840 --> 01:04:48.880
Come on, silly.
01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:50.800
I never liked people much,
01:04:51.200 --> 01:04:52.280
not as a rule.
01:04:52.800 --> 01:04:53.680
Go ahead, feed him.
01:04:53.840 --> 01:04:55.960
But Claus was somehow different.
01:04:58.800 --> 01:05:01.040
Not a normal person, I guess.
01:05:04.840 --> 01:05:06.320
It's all right. Do it again.
01:05:06.480 --> 01:05:07.520
Give him some more.
01:05:20.440 --> 01:05:22.880
One of those things you never forget.
01:05:24.720 --> 01:05:27.520
Of course, now he lives in my apartment...
01:05:28.480 --> 01:05:29.520
my bedroom...
01:05:30.640 --> 01:05:31.680
my bed.
01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:34.320
Cold, isn't it?
01:05:35.400 --> 01:05:38.400
Cold and brutish and the way of the world.
01:05:39.840 --> 01:05:40.680
Looking at him now,
01:05:40.840 --> 01:05:42.400
the issues seem simple.
01:05:43.440 --> 01:05:44.640
Is he the devil?
01:05:45.560 --> 01:05:48.600
If so, can the devil get justice?
01:05:49.880 --> 01:05:51.960
And all this legal activity...
01:05:53.280 --> 01:05:55.600
is it in Satan's service?
01:05:56.480 --> 01:05:58.720
"Sunny von Bulow was totally vulnerable
01:05:58.880 --> 01:06:00.280
to Claus von Bulow."
01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:02.440
Can't argue with that.
01:06:03.080 --> 01:06:05.760
But it's speculation. Exaggeration.
01:06:05.920 --> 01:06:06.960
You keep working on it.
01:06:07.120 --> 01:06:09.160
Totally inflammatory!
01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:12.600
Okay, good. Let's go over this.
01:06:13.880 --> 01:06:17.240
Okay, we went over it... once,
I just wanted you to see if...
01:06:24.720 --> 01:06:26.760
Oh, shit, wha--what is this,
illegal search?
01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:30.560
It's a classic technicality.
01:06:30.560 --> 01:06:31.360
It's a guilty man's argument.
01:06:31.520 --> 01:06:32.680
Come on, this is different.
01:06:32.720 --> 01:06:34.960
Usual Fourth Amendment case,
you're trying to exclude evidence
01:06:34.960 --> 01:06:36.240
- that's bad for your client.
- No, no. No, no.
01:06:36.240 --> 01:06:37.600
Same thing here. Same thing.
01:06:37.760 --> 01:06:40.040
No. This search destroyed evidence.
01:06:40.560 --> 01:06:41.880
No fingerprints, no inventory.
01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:43.960
Yeah, what's left hurts Claus,
but under Brady,
01:06:43.960 --> 01:06:45.080
the state has an obligation--
01:06:45.080 --> 01:06:47.120
Wait, wait, wait a second.
The cops tested the drugs
01:06:47.120 --> 01:06:48.760
- from the illegal search, right?
- Yes, yes.
01:06:48.760 --> 01:06:52.200
And we are saying that that test
constituted a second illegal search.
01:06:52.360 --> 01:06:53.080
There are precedents.
01:06:53.240 --> 01:06:54.880
- Walter, Jacobson, Morgan.
- I know there are precedents.
01:06:54.880 --> 01:06:56.840
I know the law is on our side.
I'm not debating that.
01:06:56.840 --> 01:06:57.480
What I'm trying to do is--
01:06:57.640 --> 01:07:00.440
No. You're debating me personally. Why?
01:07:02.400 --> 01:07:05.120
I'm debating strategy, okay?
I'm not--I'm not debating you.
01:07:05.280 --> 01:07:06.080
We're all on the same team.
01:07:06.240 --> 01:07:07.760
A-a-are we on the same team here or not?
01:07:07.760 --> 01:07:09.440
I don't know. We seem to be.
01:07:09.800 --> 01:07:11.160
Well then, why don't I feel it?
01:07:11.840 --> 01:07:13.360
I thought this was strictly professional.
01:07:13.360 --> 01:07:14.960
- It was.
- That's bullshit, Alan.
01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:17.760
Look, I brought you--I--I asked you
to work on this case
01:07:17.840 --> 01:07:19.120
because I think you are a good lawyer.
01:07:19.120 --> 01:07:21.600
I think you're a fine lawyer, too.
You're a great lawyer.
01:07:21.760 --> 01:07:23.240
But you give everything you have
to the law,
01:07:23.240 --> 01:07:24.640
and you forget the people you care about.
01:07:24.640 --> 01:07:27.200
My clients are the people
that I care about.
01:07:27.360 --> 01:07:28.000
Obviously.
01:07:28.160 --> 01:07:29.680
What I care about, all I care about,
01:07:29.680 --> 01:07:31.880
all I fucking care about is this!
01:07:32.520 --> 01:07:33.680
This case!
01:07:34.080 --> 01:07:37.600
And making--making the best possible
appeal we're capable of doing, okay?
01:07:38.040 --> 01:07:40.000
Now, you can make
your argument better, Sarah.
01:07:40.000 --> 01:07:41.760
You know that! I know that!
01:07:41.920 --> 01:07:44.360
So why don't you just do it
and cut out all the bullshit?
01:07:45.480 --> 01:07:47.800
Wow, you always have to have
the last word, don't you?
01:08:18.080 --> 01:08:19.120
What?
01:08:21.520 --> 01:08:22.560
We're going to lose.
01:08:23.760 --> 01:08:25.960
W-why do you think
this case fascinates people?
01:08:27.680 --> 01:08:30.480
'Cause one time or other every man
is driven crazy by his wife,
01:08:30.640 --> 01:08:31.680
and in his secret heart,
01:08:32.720 --> 01:08:34.960
he wants to do exactly
what Claus is accused of,
01:08:36.040 --> 01:08:39.560
kill her in some sly, silent way
that can't be detected.
01:08:40.080 --> 01:08:41.760
Claus is a scapegoat.
01:08:42.320 --> 01:08:44.920
Someone has to suffer for the sin
that we all want to commit.
01:08:47.600 --> 01:08:50.000
Alan, that's ridiculous.
01:08:52.080 --> 01:08:53.480
It's ridiculous, you're right.
01:08:53.880 --> 01:08:55.000
It's rid--
01:08:58.040 --> 01:08:59.080
What do you got?
01:08:59.440 --> 01:09:02.280
Prosecution's case is based on a theory.
01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:04.840
The needle in the bag,
01:09:05.000 --> 01:09:06.560
plus insulin on the needle,
01:09:06.960 --> 01:09:09.600
- plus insulin in her blood.
- Right, right, yeah. Okay, fine.
01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:13.680
In Derek, this Rhode Island Supreme Court,
01:09:13.840 --> 01:09:14.880
these same judges,
01:09:15.520 --> 01:09:19.360
said that in a case based
on circumstantial theory,
01:09:20.640 --> 01:09:22.240
the case falls apart
01:09:23.040 --> 01:09:25.040
if any part of the theory is weak.
01:09:26.080 --> 01:09:27.560
If there's a weak link in the chain,
01:09:27.560 --> 01:09:29.080
then you throw the whole chain out?
01:09:29.320 --> 01:09:30.360
Exactly.
01:09:32.240 --> 01:09:33.720
Peter, that's very--that's good.
01:09:33.880 --> 01:09:34.920
That--that's very good.
01:09:39.280 --> 01:09:40.320
Oh, yeah, this is good.
01:09:40.960 --> 01:09:42.080
- Thank you.
- Oh, yeah.
01:09:42.320 --> 01:09:43.920
Wait, wait, wait.
What do you want me to do now?
01:09:43.920 --> 01:09:44.680
What I want you to do?
01:09:44.840 --> 01:09:47.400
I want you to find as many
alternative theories as possible.
01:09:48.720 --> 01:09:51.120
Come on, come on, come on.
There's only seven days left.
01:09:55.600 --> 01:09:58.120
Dersh? I'm sorry,
but you better come downstairs.
01:09:59.440 --> 01:10:01.760
Hey, Dersh. Sorry to get you out of bed.
01:10:03.240 --> 01:10:05.080
What do you--what do you want, more money?
01:10:05.120 --> 01:10:06.160
Can you get more?
01:10:08.240 --> 01:10:09.800
Can I have a glass of water, please?
01:10:14.080 --> 01:10:15.120
No.
01:10:15.280 --> 01:10:16.320
The reason I'm here,
01:10:16.560 --> 01:10:18.120
my affidavit is inaccurate.
01:10:22.400 --> 01:10:24.320
Great. Just what I need right now.
01:10:25.840 --> 01:10:26.880
- That's swell.
- Yeah.
01:10:28.120 --> 01:10:30.640
I left something out,
something incredibly important.
01:10:32.120 --> 01:10:35.200
Remember I gave Alex's drugs
to a woman at Clarendon Court?
01:10:36.280 --> 01:10:37.320
Yeah. So?
01:10:37.480 --> 01:10:39.880
Well, that bitch was
definitely Sunny von Bulow.
01:10:41.840 --> 01:10:43.360
David...
01:10:44.160 --> 01:10:45.200
this, uh...
01:10:46.160 --> 01:10:47.440
this is bad. It looks bad.
01:10:47.760 --> 01:10:50.640
I've met with you, what,
five times now? All of a sudden--
01:10:50.800 --> 01:10:52.120
No, it's not sudden.
01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:54.920
I think I always knew,
but I became convinced
01:10:55.040 --> 01:10:56.520
by staring at pictures of her.
01:11:00.400 --> 01:11:02.760
Well, we can't use your affidavit
unless it's truthful.
01:11:03.320 --> 01:11:04.360
Are you sure this time?
01:11:04.520 --> 01:11:05.560
I swear...
01:11:06.280 --> 01:11:08.200
on the body and soul of my mother.
01:11:09.720 --> 01:11:10.760
Poor woman.
01:11:13.720 --> 01:11:15.320
Put in this change and make him go over
01:11:15.320 --> 01:11:16.560
every word of the affidavit.
01:11:19.320 --> 01:11:20.480
can I use your men's room?
01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:32.560
More money?
01:11:32.640 --> 01:11:33.680
Can you get more?
01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:41.520
But if Claus had injected her,
01:11:41.720 --> 01:11:43.520
he'd have thrown away the needle, right?
01:11:43.680 --> 01:11:45.680
Sure. If he threw away the insulin,
01:11:46.520 --> 01:11:47.560
why keep the needle?
01:11:47.680 --> 01:11:49.520
Hey, Claus is strange,
but he ain't stupid.
01:11:50.480 --> 01:11:51.520
He is arrogant.
01:11:52.000 --> 01:11:52.800
Is that a crime?
01:11:52.960 --> 01:11:54.000
Sometimes.
01:11:54.480 --> 01:11:56.280
Why are we even discussing this?
01:11:56.480 --> 01:11:58.320
It's obvious. The kids framed him.
01:11:58.480 --> 01:12:00.480
Whoa, you changed your tune.
01:12:03.600 --> 01:12:05.560
A frame-up doesn't mean he's innocent.
01:12:06.440 --> 01:12:08.240
The kids could have framed a guilty man.
01:12:09.520 --> 01:12:10.560
Dersh!
01:12:10.640 --> 01:12:11.680
Telephone!
01:12:15.120 --> 01:12:16.240
It's Peter Macintosh.
01:12:17.440 --> 01:12:18.480
Yeah?
01:12:23.840 --> 01:12:24.880
You know what it is?
01:12:27.760 --> 01:12:28.800
Okay.
01:12:33.120 --> 01:12:35.240
Word in Rhode Island
is that the state can't lose.
01:12:35.600 --> 01:12:37.000
They got an ace up their sleeve.
01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:39.040
What is it?
01:12:41.800 --> 01:12:43.120
He's going to try to find out.
01:12:45.760 --> 01:12:46.800
All right, my friend...
01:12:47.120 --> 01:12:48.160
Friend? I like that.
01:12:48.320 --> 01:12:49.360
Nothing personal.
01:12:50.160 --> 01:12:51.920
Okay, no students, no witnesses.
01:12:52.400 --> 01:12:53.560
Second coma. Let's hear it.
01:12:54.480 --> 01:12:55.520
Well, Alan,
01:12:55.800 --> 01:12:58.000
strange as it may seem now in retrospect--
01:12:58.160 --> 01:12:59.200
Claus, cut the bullshit.
01:12:59.280 --> 01:13:00.760
December 20, 1980.
01:13:03.800 --> 01:13:04.960
Sunny was unwell.
01:13:05.360 --> 01:13:08.320
We'd been arguing all afternoon.
01:13:09.040 --> 01:13:12.000
I'd at last been offered a new position
in the oil business,
01:13:12.160 --> 01:13:14.520
which would have meant
my spending some time in Europe.
01:13:19.080 --> 01:13:20.960
Well, the discussion must have escalated,
01:13:21.120 --> 01:13:23.080
because I went to talk to the children.
01:13:25.320 --> 01:13:28.440
This cargo will bring 50,000 gold florins
01:13:28.600 --> 01:13:29.960
from any rebels worth the name.
01:13:30.120 --> 01:13:31.440
50,000 florins?
01:13:31.600 --> 01:13:33.200
That's a pretty good take.
01:13:33.480 --> 01:13:34.560
Let's put it to the vote.
01:13:34.560 --> 01:13:35.680
All those in favor--
01:13:35.840 --> 01:13:38.160
If you'll forgive
my interrupting, skipper,
01:13:38.480 --> 01:13:40.080
I'd like to think before I...
01:13:42.800 --> 01:13:45.680
I... I've something to tell you both.
01:13:46.000 --> 01:13:48.680
We're heading for
the biggest and the best pirate days ever!
01:13:49.040 --> 01:13:50.760
I...
01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:55.840
It looks as if...
01:13:57.200 --> 01:13:58.320
as though...
01:13:58.800 --> 01:14:00.920
Mummy and I are going to have to split up,
01:14:02.640 --> 01:14:05.360
because my work is something
she just cannot tolerate.
01:14:05.640 --> 01:14:07.280
Mummy says things like that.
01:14:08.640 --> 01:14:09.920
She always gets over it.
01:14:10.600 --> 01:14:13.040
Yes, but this has been
going on for too long.
01:14:20.880 --> 01:14:23.320
I'm going to Europe for a few months
in the new year,
01:14:25.400 --> 01:14:27.080
and this will probably lead to a split.
01:14:29.200 --> 01:14:30.720
It's all right. She'll get over it.
01:14:34.200 --> 01:14:36.800
Yeah, well, Alexander says
that conversation happened the next day.
01:14:36.800 --> 01:14:38.400
Can you imagine anything more absurd
01:14:38.560 --> 01:14:40.640
than announcing your intention
to divorce a woman
01:14:40.680 --> 01:14:42.440
who's just fallen into a coma?
01:14:43.240 --> 01:14:46.640
No. That evening,
everything seemed normal enough.
01:14:48.120 --> 01:14:49.200
Not cheerful,
01:14:50.120 --> 01:14:52.640
but then, we didn't usually
giggle at mealtimes.
01:14:53.760 --> 01:14:56.360
Despite her doctor's warnings
about sweets,
01:14:56.520 --> 01:14:59.400
the only thing Sunny consumed
was a sundae.
01:15:10.680 --> 01:15:13.600
After supper, I went to finish off
some work in my study.
01:15:14.640 --> 01:15:15.520
Well, what should we all do?
01:15:15.680 --> 01:15:17.960
The others decided to chat
in the living room.
01:15:19.120 --> 01:15:20.640
Ah, that would be lovely, but...
01:15:21.360 --> 01:15:24.040
first I need to go to my--
to my room for just a minute.
01:15:37.920 --> 01:15:40.040
After about an hour, I dropped in on them.
01:15:44.680 --> 01:15:46.280
Darling, would you care for anything?
01:15:50.560 --> 01:15:52.720
if there's some...
01:15:53.880 --> 01:15:55.240
Chicken Bullion left.
01:15:59.440 --> 01:16:00.480
I'll look.
01:16:15.120 --> 01:16:16.160
There you are, darling.
01:16:26.120 --> 01:16:27.160
Thank you.
01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:37.200
How is your work... coming?
01:16:37.360 --> 01:16:38.400
I'm totally flummoxed.
01:16:38.480 --> 01:16:40.320
I can't get the figures to make any sense.
01:16:43.680 --> 01:16:45.360
Why don't you call your friend Deborah?
01:16:46.680 --> 01:16:48.240
I doubt she'd be in Saturday night.
01:16:52.920 --> 01:16:56.200
So, Deborah, I think you'll agree,
that's 728... right, now.
01:16:56.760 --> 01:16:57.800
But Deborah was home,
01:16:57.960 --> 01:17:00.280
and we did talk for some time until...
01:17:01.680 --> 01:17:02.520
- Claus.
- Hold on.
01:17:02.680 --> 01:17:03.960
Come quick. Mummy's not well.
01:17:04.600 --> 01:17:06.960
Deborah, can I call you back
in the morning? Thanks.
01:17:07.360 --> 01:17:10.280
Her voice got very weak and
she almost fell down. I had to help her.
01:17:20.880 --> 01:17:22.360
Somebody open a window.
01:17:25.840 --> 01:17:27.680
I find the chill reassuring.
01:17:32.480 --> 01:17:33.920
Now I must speak with Claus.
01:17:34.080 --> 01:17:35.120
- Night, Mummy.
- Night.
01:17:40.440 --> 01:17:41.480
Good night, darling.
01:17:44.160 --> 01:17:45.200
Good night, Alex.
01:17:45.880 --> 01:17:46.920
She'll be all right.
01:17:56.320 --> 01:17:58.400
That is, if Claus has time to talk.
01:17:59.160 --> 01:17:59.920
Or are you going to work
01:18:00.080 --> 01:18:02.240
every spare moment
right through Christmas?
01:18:05.880 --> 01:18:07.640
Is your work really so fascinating,
01:18:08.280 --> 01:18:09.560
or are you trying to drive me away?
01:18:09.560 --> 01:18:11.600
Because if you are,
it's succeeding beautifully,
01:18:11.680 --> 01:18:12.800
because I don't want this.
01:18:13.800 --> 01:18:15.000
I didn't marry you for this.
01:18:15.960 --> 01:18:17.040
I could have had anybody.
01:18:17.360 --> 01:18:18.800
With my money? Anybody.
01:18:20.360 --> 01:18:21.400
Well?
01:18:22.440 --> 01:18:23.480
Say something!
01:18:25.720 --> 01:18:26.760
Do something!
01:18:27.960 --> 01:18:29.000
Be a man!
01:18:30.840 --> 01:18:32.160
I already have a butler.
01:18:37.000 --> 01:18:38.040
Do something!
01:18:39.160 --> 01:18:41.480
I don't want this! I don't!
01:18:41.640 --> 01:18:42.760
I don't want this!
01:18:43.680 --> 01:18:44.720
Please! I don't--
01:18:44.920 --> 01:18:46.200
I don't want th...
01:18:48.040 --> 01:18:50.400
The same conversation
as the previous year,
01:18:50.800 --> 01:18:52.680
only this time with greater venom.
01:18:52.840 --> 01:18:54.240
You've always been afraid of me.
01:18:54.600 --> 01:18:55.880
It's not because of my money.
01:18:56.400 --> 01:18:58.080
It's basically because you're a coward.
01:18:59.120 --> 01:19:01.080
Because your pitiful masculinity
is so fragile
01:19:01.240 --> 01:19:03.240
you can't stand the idea of confrontation,
01:19:03.400 --> 01:19:05.640
so you go off with Miss Botsky--
01:19:05.800 --> 01:19:06.840
Good night.
01:19:24.200 --> 01:19:26.800
As was usual,
I was awakened before dawn.
01:19:32.840 --> 01:19:35.040
I let the dogs out, as was customary.
01:19:39.920 --> 01:19:41.280
I went back through the bedroom
01:19:41.320 --> 01:19:44.040
to my study as quietly as possible.
01:19:49.560 --> 01:19:51.880
I did not notice if my wife was in bed.
01:19:52.200 --> 01:19:55.440
I did not notice if the light was on
under the bathroom door.
01:19:55.920 --> 01:19:58.520
Had it been on,
I wouldn't have given it a thought.
01:19:59.400 --> 01:20:01.760
I did my exercises, showered,
01:20:02.040 --> 01:20:03.840
and then I called Deborah Knowles.
01:20:04.360 --> 01:20:06.680
Well, I mean,
it's stable and it's profitable.
01:20:07.920 --> 01:20:09.320
Can anyone really believe,
01:20:09.480 --> 01:20:11.560
if I was trying to murder my wife,
01:20:11.720 --> 01:20:15.160
that I would spend an hour
going over a tedious set of figures?
01:20:16.760 --> 01:20:19.000
After the call, I passed
through the bedroom again.
01:20:19.160 --> 01:20:20.320
I remember it was freezing.
01:20:20.840 --> 01:20:23.160
By this time,
Sunny was certainly not in bed,
01:20:23.720 --> 01:20:25.800
and I heard water running in the bathroom.
01:20:29.200 --> 01:20:32.040
I had breakfast, walked the dogs,
01:20:32.600 --> 01:20:33.640
and on my return,
01:20:33.840 --> 01:20:35.720
asked the children where Mummy was.
01:20:36.960 --> 01:20:38.160
Has Mummy had breakfast yet?
01:20:39.360 --> 01:20:40.400
We haven't seen her.
01:20:44.920 --> 01:20:45.960
Sunny?
01:20:47.880 --> 01:20:49.880
Her bathroom was her private sanctuary.
01:20:50.280 --> 01:20:52.920
No one entered it,
except the maid, of course,
01:20:53.080 --> 01:20:54.120
to clean up.
01:20:55.000 --> 01:20:57.800
Sometimes she stayed there for hours,
or so it seemed.
01:20:58.360 --> 01:21:01.800
One can only speculate what goes on
behind a closed door.
01:21:02.040 --> 01:21:03.240
Sunny, are you there?
01:21:04.880 --> 01:21:06.680
I hesitated even to knock.
01:21:09.600 --> 01:21:10.640
Darling?
01:21:26.360 --> 01:21:27.400
Sunny?
01:21:29.720 --> 01:21:30.800
Oh, God.
01:21:32.400 --> 01:21:34.320
Once I'd ascertained she was breathing,
01:21:34.480 --> 01:21:36.240
I went to fetch Alexander.
01:21:37.120 --> 01:21:38.520
Why not call an ambulance first?
01:21:38.920 --> 01:21:41.000
Panic, Alan, panic.
01:21:41.440 --> 01:21:42.480
I mean, I--I...
01:21:43.440 --> 01:21:45.560
I--I needed to talk to somebody. There--
01:21:46.560 --> 01:21:48.080
There was no--I wasn't worried that--
01:21:48.080 --> 01:21:49.600
she was breathing normally.
01:21:49.760 --> 01:21:52.160
It wasn't--It wasn't like the year before.
01:21:53.360 --> 01:21:55.400
I mean, in retrospect it seems absurd,
01:21:55.560 --> 01:21:58.480
but I looked at her upper lip,
she had blood on it.
01:21:58.640 --> 01:21:59.920
I thought she'd broken a tooth.
01:21:59.920 --> 01:22:02.080
That was the extent of my concern,
01:22:03.080 --> 01:22:04.120
and that's...
01:22:04.640 --> 01:22:06.080
that's really all--all I can...
01:22:06.880 --> 01:22:08.080
that's really all I can say.
01:22:10.440 --> 01:22:11.760
Yeah, but is it the truth?
01:22:12.160 --> 01:22:13.200
Of course.
01:22:13.520 --> 01:22:14.600
But not the whole truth?
01:22:15.280 --> 01:22:17.600
I don't know the whole truth.
01:22:17.840 --> 01:22:20.160
I don't know what happened to her.
01:22:20.360 --> 01:22:21.480
Wish I didn't believe you.
01:22:22.320 --> 01:22:25.000
You know, it's very hard to trust someone
you don't understand.
01:22:27.720 --> 01:22:28.840
You're a very strange man.
01:22:30.880 --> 01:22:32.280
You have no idea.
01:22:40.720 --> 01:22:41.600
Everybody here?
01:22:41.760 --> 01:22:43.840
Peter Macintosh is late.
Says he's got bad news.
01:22:46.240 --> 01:22:47.280
There he is.
01:23:00.200 --> 01:23:01.240
Well?
01:23:02.240 --> 01:23:03.680
I found out what the state has.
01:23:03.840 --> 01:23:05.320
- Mm-hm.
- Their ace in the hole.
01:23:06.640 --> 01:23:07.680
It's you.
01:23:09.800 --> 01:23:10.840
It's me?
01:23:11.120 --> 01:23:14.560
David Marriott taped
all his conversations with you.
01:23:14.880 --> 01:23:15.920
Oh, great.
01:23:17.080 --> 01:23:21.120
The scuttlebutt is, if we win the case,
you go to prison.
01:23:22.480 --> 01:23:23.520
What did I say?
01:23:24.480 --> 01:23:27.360
Good ol' corrupt Rhode Island,
I got a friend to get me an excerpt.
01:23:27.680 --> 01:23:28.720
The reason I'm here,
01:23:29.680 --> 01:23:31.040
my affidavit is inaccurate.
01:23:32.000 --> 01:23:34.240
David, this is bad. It looks bad.
01:23:34.480 --> 01:23:35.680
What, you want more money?
01:23:36.440 --> 01:23:37.480
Can you get more?
01:23:38.560 --> 01:23:39.600
Yeah.
01:23:40.640 --> 01:23:42.480
Hey, that is not what I said.
01:23:42.640 --> 01:23:43.360
It's on tape, Alan.
01:23:43.520 --> 01:23:45.680
I don't care if it's on tape,
it's not what I said.
01:23:45.880 --> 01:23:47.240
- What do we do?
- I don't know.
01:23:51.520 --> 01:23:53.520
I--I'll tell you what we do.
We ignore it, that's what we--
01:23:53.520 --> 01:23:55.480
Alan, with that tape,
it's your whole career.
01:23:58.240 --> 01:24:00.640
I now believe Claus is innocent. So.
01:24:01.040 --> 01:24:04.240
We've decided,
no tricks, no technicalities.
01:24:04.400 --> 01:24:05.880
We are going to base our appeal
01:24:06.040 --> 01:24:09.320
directly and explicitly
on Claus' innocence.
01:24:09.720 --> 01:24:10.760
That's not proper.
01:24:10.840 --> 01:24:13.000
An appeal has to be
based on judicial error.
01:24:13.240 --> 01:24:15.040
It is. The judge should've
thrown out the case.
01:24:15.040 --> 01:24:17.000
How can you say
there was insufficient evidence
01:24:17.000 --> 01:24:18.120
when a jury convicted him?
01:24:18.280 --> 01:24:20.520
- That's a good point, but--
- But that's what we are saying.
01:24:20.520 --> 01:24:22.640
If the rules don't work, you change them.
01:24:23.400 --> 01:24:25.600
Red Auerbach got
the jump ball rule changed
01:24:25.760 --> 01:24:27.240
when the Celtics had a short team.
01:24:27.280 --> 01:24:29.080
Uh, but it's dangerous politically, Alan.
01:24:29.120 --> 01:24:31.000
If the judges feel insulted,
then we're gonna find--
01:24:31.000 --> 01:24:34.240
Wait up, here. State Supreme Court
shouldn't even look at an appeal
01:24:34.400 --> 01:24:35.440
based on new evidence.
01:24:37.120 --> 01:24:40.120
Hey, guys, I'll take care of that, okay?
01:24:40.440 --> 01:24:41.720
You just--you leave it to me.
01:24:43.560 --> 01:24:45.040
Look, I know you're all exhausted.
01:24:45.480 --> 01:24:47.600
We got four days left.
01:24:48.240 --> 01:24:50.160
What we do now
is going to decide this thing.
01:24:50.160 --> 01:24:51.320
Do you wanna win, or not?
01:24:51.640 --> 01:24:52.680
- Alan!
- What?
01:24:52.840 --> 01:24:54.840
- We've got something.
- We've hit the jackpot.
01:24:55.720 --> 01:24:58.520
Our needles that had
amobarbital and Valium...
01:24:58.680 --> 01:24:59.480
But no insulin...
01:24:59.720 --> 01:25:02.640
Both came back with
false positive readings
01:25:02.840 --> 01:25:03.640
for insulin.
01:25:03.800 --> 01:25:04.960
Okay.
01:25:05.120 --> 01:25:06.720
One was 93, the other 282.
01:25:06.880 --> 01:25:09.440
We've knocked out every piece
of their medical case.
01:25:12.440 --> 01:25:13.000
Good work, good work.
01:25:13.160 --> 01:25:15.880
Okay, now, now all they've got left
is my neck.
01:25:16.960 --> 01:25:19.120
Anybody know anything
about editing audio tapes?
01:25:28.440 --> 01:25:30.200
Defense! For what, defense!
01:25:30.360 --> 01:25:31.400
- Come on!
- Come on!
01:25:41.280 --> 01:25:42.320
All right, Alan.
01:25:43.320 --> 01:25:44.360
- Come on!
- Hey!
01:25:44.680 --> 01:25:45.720
Hurry up!
01:25:46.240 --> 01:25:47.720
- What's going on?
- Pass it, Alan.
01:25:48.320 --> 01:25:50.600
I got it. Wait a minute.
I got it, I got it.
01:25:50.760 --> 01:25:52.080
- Where's Raj?
- He's upstairs.
01:25:52.560 --> 01:25:53.640
- Where you going?
- Alan!
01:25:54.720 --> 01:25:57.080
Raj, Raj, I got it.
01:25:57.720 --> 01:25:58.760
I got it.
01:25:58.920 --> 01:25:59.960
Remember Maria?
01:26:00.360 --> 01:26:01.880
She could have said it like this...
01:26:02.200 --> 01:26:03.240
Insulin?
01:26:05.320 --> 01:26:06.760
For what, insulin?
01:26:08.440 --> 01:26:10.440
My lady is not diabetic.
01:26:10.760 --> 01:26:13.800
You see? "My lady is not diabetic."
01:26:14.520 --> 01:26:17.120
She is assuming that the bag is Sunny's.
01:26:17.640 --> 01:26:19.640
Her first reaction, instantaneous,
01:26:19.800 --> 01:26:21.640
not part of a legal strategy
devised later,
01:26:21.800 --> 01:26:23.280
is that the stuff in the black bag
01:26:23.320 --> 01:26:24.800
belonged to Sunny, not Claus.
01:26:24.960 --> 01:26:26.400
Who's gonna know better than she?
01:26:26.840 --> 01:26:27.880
Start writing.
01:26:29.120 --> 01:26:31.880
You are not God, you are a prosecutor,
01:26:32.040 --> 01:26:34.280
and Alabama cannot execute
those Johnson kids
01:26:34.440 --> 01:26:35.840
before the Supreme Court rules!
01:26:36.120 --> 01:26:37.800
That--that's right! You heard me right.
01:26:37.800 --> 01:26:39.680
You've got two hours
to get to Rhode Island.
01:26:39.800 --> 01:26:40.600
You're gonna have to speed.
01:26:40.760 --> 01:26:41.840
You want me to commit a crime?
01:26:41.840 --> 01:26:43.320
Of course not! Because if you do,
they're gonna stop you,
01:26:43.320 --> 01:26:44.640
you're not gonna make the deadline.
01:26:44.640 --> 01:26:47.280
I'm tellin' you right now, buddy,
those kids fry, you're next!
01:26:47.480 --> 01:26:48.280
You forgot your jacket.
01:26:48.440 --> 01:26:49.480
You're damn right!
01:26:50.160 --> 01:26:52.680
Some startling developments
in the von Bulow case.
01:26:53.000 --> 01:26:54.960
Harvard Law School
professor Alan Dershowitz
01:26:55.120 --> 01:26:57.560
had been accused of paying
for falsified testimony,
01:26:58.080 --> 01:27:00.040
but those accusations
were discredited today
01:27:00.200 --> 01:27:01.800
by the Rhode Island attorney general,
01:27:01.920 --> 01:27:04.280
who announced that
David Marriott's tape was doctored
01:27:04.680 --> 01:27:07.120
and that Marriott
is not a reliable witness.
01:27:07.640 --> 01:27:08.960
So, what was he up to, Alan?
01:27:09.480 --> 01:27:10.640
Who was he working for?
01:27:11.080 --> 01:27:12.120
Damned if I know.
01:27:16.080 --> 01:27:18.000
Hope they don't think
he was working for you.
01:27:18.200 --> 01:27:19.040
Alan, no one's going to think--
01:27:19.200 --> 01:27:21.160
Look, I don't think you did it, okay?
01:27:22.280 --> 01:27:23.600
But at the Chinese restaurant,
01:27:24.040 --> 01:27:25.360
you did duck the big question.
01:27:25.680 --> 01:27:27.400
Chuck is our Alexandra Isles expert.
01:27:29.400 --> 01:27:30.880
Sunny's Aspirin overdose...
01:27:32.240 --> 01:27:33.640
why did she take so many?
01:27:35.400 --> 01:27:37.760
What happened? Sunny had a headache?
01:27:40.640 --> 01:27:44.240
Headache... was Alexandra, right?
01:27:48.760 --> 01:27:49.800
Let's hear it, Claus.
01:27:52.440 --> 01:27:54.040
Alexandra was spiteful.
01:27:55.720 --> 01:27:59.800
On the day of Sunny's Aspirin overdose,
01:28:00.840 --> 01:28:03.560
she returned some presents I'd given her,
01:28:03.720 --> 01:28:05.400
some photographs...
01:28:06.200 --> 01:28:07.240
love letters.
01:28:09.000 --> 01:28:11.200
She dropped them off in a shopping bag.
01:28:12.320 --> 01:28:13.360
Did Sunny see them?
01:28:14.440 --> 01:28:15.480
Sunny was home.
01:28:16.640 --> 01:28:17.680
I was not.
01:28:19.080 --> 01:28:22.920
Alexandra neglected to address
the package to me.
01:28:23.600 --> 01:28:26.280
I want to be left alone
with all those beau--beautiful letters.
01:28:27.040 --> 01:28:29.960
What did you do with those letters?
Why did you write those letters?
01:28:32.320 --> 01:28:35.280
There's a big difference
between knowing about an affair
01:28:36.160 --> 01:28:38.960
and having love letters
crammed down your throat.
01:28:41.120 --> 01:28:43.160
It seems that
Sunny did care about your affair.
01:28:43.960 --> 01:28:45.000
She cared a lot.
01:28:48.600 --> 01:28:49.640
Why didn't you tell us?
01:28:51.360 --> 01:28:52.440
Everything was open book.
01:28:54.280 --> 01:28:55.880
"Get the best experts.
01:28:56.240 --> 01:28:57.520
I'm not afraid of the truth."
01:29:02.640 --> 01:29:05.800
Looks to me like Alexandra
tried to force Sunny into a suicide.
01:29:08.520 --> 01:29:09.960
Or they plotted it together.
01:29:11.760 --> 01:29:13.440
Either way, he's protecting Alexandra,
01:29:14.120 --> 01:29:15.680
because he's still in love with her.
01:29:15.680 --> 01:29:16.720
And why not?
01:29:17.080 --> 01:29:18.200
I mean, hey, she's a babe.
01:29:20.840 --> 01:29:22.160
'Course I still love her.
01:29:25.040 --> 01:29:26.080
And hate her.
01:29:28.360 --> 01:29:32.120
Alexandra, Sunny, Andrea...
01:29:35.240 --> 01:29:36.280
I love them all.
01:29:44.160 --> 01:29:46.760
Being a human being is very literal.
01:29:47.280 --> 01:29:48.320
You're trapped.
01:29:48.600 --> 01:29:50.720
Time moves in only one direction,
01:29:51.080 --> 01:29:52.120
forward.
01:29:52.200 --> 01:29:53.960
It's stupid and boring
01:29:54.120 --> 01:29:55.800
and results in a lot of silliness.
01:29:56.120 --> 01:29:58.640
Example, the legal process.
01:30:00.360 --> 01:30:01.800
In this particular case,
01:30:01.960 --> 01:30:05.480
a vast amount of time,
effort, and money was spent
01:30:05.640 --> 01:30:07.880
trying to determine
precisely what happened
01:30:08.040 --> 01:30:10.360
on those two nights so close to Christmas,
01:30:10.680 --> 01:30:15.640
December 26th, 1979, December 20th, 1980.
01:30:17.240 --> 01:30:18.360
Happened right here.
01:30:20.200 --> 01:30:23.160
Even now it all looks the same,
01:30:23.880 --> 01:30:27.080
feels the same, smells the same.
01:30:28.120 --> 01:30:31.400
If you could just go back in time
and take a peek,
01:30:31.960 --> 01:30:33.000
you'd know,
01:30:34.720 --> 01:30:36.760
and all this would be unnecessary.
01:30:37.120 --> 01:30:38.160
All rise!
01:30:42.160 --> 01:30:43.400
Hear ye, hear ye!
01:30:43.560 --> 01:30:46.080
All persons having business
before the Supreme Court
01:30:46.240 --> 01:30:49.000
holding in Providence within and for
the state of Rhode Island
01:30:49.160 --> 01:30:50.240
may now draw near...
01:30:51.200 --> 01:30:52.240
Then again,
01:30:53.120 --> 01:30:54.960
everyone enjoys a circus.
01:30:56.320 --> 01:30:57.360
Be seated.
01:31:00.040 --> 01:31:01.960
If the appellant is ready,
you may proceed.
01:31:04.120 --> 01:31:04.840
If it please the court,
01:31:05.000 --> 01:31:07.600
oral argument will be made
by out-of-state counsel,
01:31:07.760 --> 01:31:09.680
professor Alan Dershowitz.
01:31:19.080 --> 01:31:20.120
Your Honors,
01:31:20.520 --> 01:31:22.760
you may not like Claus von Bulow.
01:31:23.560 --> 01:31:25.400
You may think he is guilty of something,
01:31:25.560 --> 01:31:27.880
but I am here to tell you he is innocent.
01:31:28.840 --> 01:31:29.720
Our new evidence will clear--
01:31:29.880 --> 01:31:33.600
Professor, you know there isn't
a single case which allows you
01:31:33.760 --> 01:31:36.080
to introduce new evidence on appeal.
01:31:36.360 --> 01:31:38.040
Well, there is one, Your Honor,
01:31:38.840 --> 01:31:41.160
and you wrote it. Derek.
01:31:42.680 --> 01:31:43.720
In Derek...
01:31:44.360 --> 01:31:46.160
in Derek, you yourself said
01:31:46.600 --> 01:31:50.280
that a case based on circumstantial theory
rather than fact
01:31:50.680 --> 01:31:51.720
only stands up
01:31:51.840 --> 01:31:54.120
if no other theory makes sense.
01:31:54.520 --> 01:31:57.040
The only way to show a better theory
01:31:57.200 --> 01:31:58.240
is to present it.
01:32:04.040 --> 01:32:05.560
Get on with it, counselor.
01:32:07.240 --> 01:32:09.760
The first issue is the encrusted needle.
01:32:10.960 --> 01:32:12.280
I hope you will have the courage
01:32:12.280 --> 01:32:13.800
to free an innocent man
01:32:13.960 --> 01:32:15.880
and remedy a grave injustice.
01:32:16.440 --> 01:32:17.560
This will never work.
01:32:18.120 --> 01:32:19.440
Too smart for his own good.
01:32:20.480 --> 01:32:21.880
Alan says it will work,
01:32:22.920 --> 01:32:24.960
if the prosecutor takes the bait.
01:32:25.920 --> 01:32:27.000
What do you mean, "bait"?
01:32:28.400 --> 01:32:29.760
Argues the evidence.
01:32:30.920 --> 01:32:31.560
Your Honors,
01:32:31.720 --> 01:32:34.280
introduction of new evidence on appeal
01:32:35.680 --> 01:32:38.800
violates every principle of jurisprudence,
01:32:39.200 --> 01:32:40.400
every statute,
01:32:41.120 --> 01:32:43.520
every precedent, every rule of ethics.
01:32:43.880 --> 01:32:45.480
Ah, he's nailing us right off the bat.
01:32:45.480 --> 01:32:47.200
I am not going to stand before you
01:32:47.360 --> 01:32:49.520
and argue Mr. von Bulow's guilt.
01:32:52.240 --> 01:32:53.280
However,
01:32:53.600 --> 01:32:56.480
I have no choice but to address
Mr. Dershowitz' arguments
01:32:56.640 --> 01:32:57.680
one by one.
01:32:58.960 --> 01:33:00.000
- Bingo.
- First,
01:33:01.080 --> 01:33:02.680
the matter of the encrusted needle...
01:33:04.120 --> 01:33:06.640
So? Now it's up to the judges.
01:33:07.360 --> 01:33:08.640
Tell me what you really think.
01:33:08.640 --> 01:33:10.960
I think it's easier to love somebody
01:33:11.120 --> 01:33:12.240
than to live with them.
01:33:14.240 --> 01:33:15.680
Love is fantasy.
01:33:16.040 --> 01:33:17.520
Living is work.
01:33:17.760 --> 01:33:20.560
I'll say. And those people
don't like to work.
01:33:21.040 --> 01:33:23.360
But, if you don't do the work,
the love dies,
01:33:23.680 --> 01:33:25.640
and nobody wants to deal with that one.
01:33:27.920 --> 01:33:28.960
The love died,
01:33:29.600 --> 01:33:30.800
Sunny couldn't accept it...
01:33:32.160 --> 01:33:33.760
so Claus tried to kill her?
01:33:33.920 --> 01:33:34.960
Maybe.
01:33:35.200 --> 01:33:36.240
I don't agree.
01:33:37.120 --> 01:33:40.160
Face it, all we had to do
was prove the state made a lousy case.
01:33:40.560 --> 01:33:42.280
We didn't prove that Claus was innocent.
01:33:42.320 --> 01:33:44.640
We couldn't. We didn't have to,
and he probably isn't.
01:33:44.640 --> 01:33:45.520
He isn't? You mean, you thi--
01:33:45.680 --> 01:33:47.720
I mean, so,
he didn't inject Sunny with insulin.
01:33:48.200 --> 01:33:50.720
So what? Break it down.
First coma, no problem.
01:33:50.880 --> 01:33:53.840
Even the attending doctor thought
it was caused by hypoglycemia,
01:33:54.000 --> 01:33:55.560
loss of air to the brain, and so on.
01:33:55.600 --> 01:33:57.840
All right. But what about the second coma?
01:33:58.000 --> 01:34:00.080
I mean, why does Claus act so guilty?
01:34:00.240 --> 01:34:03.160
Hey, come on, wouldn't any man feel guilty
if his wife was suicidal?
01:34:03.760 --> 01:34:06.800
Yeah, so, so maybe she took
the sleeping pills
01:34:06.960 --> 01:34:08.600
with the intention of killing herself,
01:34:09.200 --> 01:34:13.280
but how did she end up lying
on a marble floor in a freezing bathroom
01:34:13.440 --> 01:34:15.000
with her head under the toilet bowl?
01:34:15.360 --> 01:34:16.400
How about this?
01:35:02.760 --> 01:35:04.280
Sunny wakes up miserable.
01:35:09.720 --> 01:35:11.120
Second marriage is over.
01:35:11.280 --> 01:35:12.400
Children are leaving home.
01:35:13.760 --> 01:35:14.800
What's to live for?
01:37:22.680 --> 01:37:24.120
But when she was found,
01:37:24.280 --> 01:37:25.960
her nightgown was hiked over her waist.
01:37:26.080 --> 01:37:28.400
Exactly. How did it get there?
01:37:30.000 --> 01:37:31.840
Okay, let's say
she's standing at the sink.
01:37:32.400 --> 01:37:33.440
She has to pee.
01:37:33.840 --> 01:37:35.200
At exactly the same instant,
01:37:35.640 --> 01:37:36.680
the drugs hit.
01:37:37.240 --> 01:37:38.280
Body convulses.
01:37:38.640 --> 01:37:40.160
She grabs the nightgown.
01:37:44.880 --> 01:37:45.680
I don't buy that.
01:37:45.840 --> 01:37:47.560
It does seem far-fetched.
01:37:48.200 --> 01:37:49.360
So's the truth sometimes.
01:37:49.520 --> 01:37:52.280
Oh, bull. I think she took
the barbiturates the previous night.
01:37:52.520 --> 01:37:54.960
And, let's say he saw her take them,
01:37:55.680 --> 01:37:58.960
or she told him she was going to
before they fell asleep.
01:38:07.200 --> 01:38:10.040
This time, he wants her to succeed.
01:38:19.840 --> 01:38:20.880
Sunny?
01:38:47.040 --> 01:38:48.960
Maybe there's some way
he can help her along.
01:38:50.360 --> 01:38:53.360
Of course, the open window.
01:38:54.320 --> 01:38:55.760
Zero degrees.
01:38:57.200 --> 01:38:58.640
But somebody might see her there.
01:39:00.000 --> 01:39:03.080
The action of dragging her
would naturally pull up the nightgown.
01:39:32.280 --> 01:39:35.000
In this cold, how long could she survive?
01:39:54.880 --> 01:39:56.160
Remember what Sunny said?
01:39:57.440 --> 01:39:58.760
"I would have been better off.
01:40:00.160 --> 01:40:01.560
You would have been better off."
01:40:06.280 --> 01:40:08.680
...because the law is a blunt instrument.
01:40:08.840 --> 01:40:11.400
It is not a rapier. It is a cudgel.
01:40:12.640 --> 01:40:14.320
Tomorrow, death penalty,
01:40:14.960 --> 01:40:16.640
which reminds me of the comedian who said,
01:40:16.640 --> 01:40:18.720
"I don't know why
they call it the death penalty.
01:40:18.840 --> 01:40:20.920
That's no penalty.
You're out of the game!"
01:40:29.720 --> 01:40:31.040
- Good news.
- Great news.
01:40:31.360 --> 01:40:32.160
And more good news.
01:40:32.320 --> 01:40:33.360
The decision came down?
01:40:33.560 --> 01:40:34.320
They just announced it.
01:40:34.560 --> 01:40:35.120
Five-zip.
01:40:35.280 --> 01:40:36.320
We murdered them.
01:40:37.160 --> 01:40:37.760
Grounds?
01:40:38.160 --> 01:40:39.560
Well, they got the Brillhoffer notes.
01:40:39.560 --> 01:40:41.400
And that silly, silly guilty
man's argument,
01:40:41.400 --> 01:40:42.200
search and seizure.
01:40:42.360 --> 01:40:43.240
- Federal or state?
- Both.
01:40:43.400 --> 01:40:45.840
- That's important.
- Yeah, it's federal, they could appeal it
01:40:45.840 --> 01:40:46.520
in the US Supreme Court.
01:40:46.680 --> 01:40:48.800
But because it's Rhode Island,
they can't. We win.
01:40:49.800 --> 01:40:52.400
Don't--don't get too excited
until we see Brillhoffer's notes.
01:40:52.400 --> 01:40:53.800
We destroyed their medical case,
01:40:54.040 --> 01:40:56.080
but their witnesses
still carry emotional weight
01:40:56.080 --> 01:40:57.200
if there's a second trial.
01:40:57.480 --> 01:40:58.520
Unless...
01:40:59.200 --> 01:41:01.840
the Brillhoffer notes show
that they've changed their stories.
01:41:02.840 --> 01:41:03.880
Good afternoon, sir.
01:41:06.320 --> 01:41:07.360
Let me get that for you.
01:41:08.080 --> 01:41:09.120
Thank you.
01:41:22.160 --> 01:41:23.520
You have Brillhoffer's notes?
01:41:23.880 --> 01:41:24.600
Yes.
01:41:24.920 --> 01:41:25.480
Well?
01:41:25.920 --> 01:41:27.040
They're not what we hoped.
01:41:27.080 --> 01:41:28.120
I knew it.
01:41:31.200 --> 01:41:32.240
They're much better.
01:41:34.600 --> 01:41:37.800
No one mentioned seeing insulin
when they first talked to Brillhoffer.
01:41:38.040 --> 01:41:40.440
Plus... Maria told them
01:41:40.840 --> 01:41:42.760
that at Thanksgiving,
when she supposedly saw insulin
01:41:42.760 --> 01:41:43.440
for the first time,
01:41:43.600 --> 01:41:44.920
she couldn't even read any of the labels.
01:41:44.920 --> 01:41:46.040
They were all scraped off.
01:41:47.520 --> 01:41:48.400
What does this mean?
01:41:48.560 --> 01:41:49.600
It means
01:41:49.960 --> 01:41:51.160
that if there is a second trial,
01:41:51.160 --> 01:41:52.480
we can be reasonably confident
01:41:53.240 --> 01:41:55.120
both the medical case and their witnesses
01:41:55.280 --> 01:41:56.560
are now highly suspect.
01:41:56.720 --> 01:41:58.800
Oh, God.
01:42:01.320 --> 01:42:02.360
So...
01:42:18.320 --> 01:42:19.360
Darling...
01:42:20.120 --> 01:42:21.600
This is Alan Dershowitz.
01:42:21.960 --> 01:42:23.040
Yes, I know. Hello.
01:42:23.840 --> 01:42:24.880
Alan tells me...
01:42:25.360 --> 01:42:27.520
well, things look very hopeful.
01:42:29.160 --> 01:42:30.680
I knew it would come out all right.
01:42:31.000 --> 01:42:32.040
Thank you.
01:42:35.760 --> 01:42:36.960
Yes, Alan, thank you.
01:42:37.120 --> 01:42:38.480
I am eternally grateful.
01:42:38.640 --> 01:42:40.720
Hey, this means
we'll be getting back your bail,
01:42:40.880 --> 01:42:41.960
a million dollars.
01:42:42.640 --> 01:42:44.400
Uh, I know I still owe you, Alan.
01:42:46.280 --> 01:42:47.840
Please send me your bill.
01:42:49.160 --> 01:42:51.040
And maybe when you're in New York,
01:42:51.200 --> 01:42:52.240
uh, we can...
01:42:53.360 --> 01:42:55.120
we can meet for lunch. I'd enjoy that.
01:42:56.240 --> 01:42:57.280
One thing, Claus...
01:42:57.960 --> 01:42:59.640
legally, this was an important victory.
01:43:00.520 --> 01:43:02.120
Morally, you're on your own.
01:43:14.640 --> 01:43:17.480
Claus von Bulow was given a second trial
01:43:17.800 --> 01:43:19.720
and acquitted on both counts.
01:43:21.960 --> 01:43:23.560
This is all you can know...
01:43:25.240 --> 01:43:26.640
all you can be told.
01:43:27.920 --> 01:43:29.400
When you get where I am,
01:43:30.520 --> 01:43:31.560
you will know the rest.
01:44:03.640 --> 01:44:05.040
Two packs of Vantage, please.
01:44:13.320 --> 01:44:14.360
Anything else?
01:44:15.800 --> 01:44:17.160
Yes, a vial of insulin.
01:44:24.320 --> 01:44:25.360
Just kidding.