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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[News anchor] Officials in the \N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have taken custody of a 13 year old girl,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who they say, was kept in such isolation\Nby her parents,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that she never even learned to talk.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The girl still wore diapers,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was uttering infantile noises,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when a social worker discovered the case
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two weeks ago.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The authorities are hoping
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she still may have a normal\Nlearning capacity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Among the first to see the child
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was Temple City detective,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sergeant Frank Linley.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Eerie music]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Sgt. Linley] I already knew that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the child was 13 1/2 years old,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I took one look at her,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she wasn't much bigger
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than my daughter, Beverly,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had just turned seven\Nabout 3 months earlier.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, I really had a hard time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conceiving of the idea that the child
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the age that she was.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The child, uh, obviously,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had been severely mistreated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was still in diapers, couldn't walk,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she had no verbal skills at all,\Nat that point.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Eerie music]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The last time I was on this street
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was probably 30 years ago.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yep, there it is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hasn't changed much.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The back yard looks the same.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all weeds and dead grass.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looks the same as it did in 1970.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] The house belonged\Nto Clark Wiley.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A loner, Clark had turned his
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back on the world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after his mother had been killed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a hit and run accident.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the accident,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things in the Wiley house
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would never be the same again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Sgt. Linley] The house was\Ncompletely dark.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the blinds were drawn.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were no toys.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No clothes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing that would ever\Nindicate to you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that a child of any age\Nlived there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Eerie music. Passing cars whoosh.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The child's bedroom was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back in this corner.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was the bedroom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The, uh, windows were covered
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to about 3 inches from the top,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was the only natural light
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had ever come in there,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all the time the child was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the bedroom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The entire furnishing to the bedroom
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consisted of a cage,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a, uh, pull-down chicken wire lid,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some type of -- piece of wire,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,securing it, when they closed it down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a potty chair,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with some kind of homemade\Nstrapping device.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] For thirteen years,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genie had spent her nights
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,locked in bed,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her days strapped \Nto a potty chair.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During that time,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clark had ordered his son John,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wife Irene,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never to talk to her.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In her darkened room,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she had led a life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or near total isolation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Eerie music]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even close neighbors
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were completely unaware
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of her presence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Neighbor] I came home from work,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the police was here,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they came to question us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's when we found --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,found out what, you know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happened, and uh, you know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they had a little girl.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody knew. Nobody knew before.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, uh, then we found out
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what happened, how she was treated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, everybody was shocked,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, just -- unbelievable.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For their whole marriage,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clark had imposed his will on Irene.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blind with cataracts,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she had been too scared to resist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But one day, something broke.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While Clark was out buying groceries,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she seized her chance, and fled.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the first glimpse\Nthe world would have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Clark and Irene's dark secret.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Sgt. Linley] I met Clark and Irene
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at Temple City sheriff station,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they were both \Nunder arrest, at the time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we interviewed Irene,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she would make no mention
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the family, whatsoever;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,particularly, the children.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I attempted, along with my partner,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to interview Clark.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He refused to talk to us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wouldn't say a word.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He never even acknowledged
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he understood\Nwhat we were talking about.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Reporter] Mr. Wiley?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Clark] Yes ma'am.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why did you keep your daughter
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a room --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lawyer] Mr. Wiley has no comment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Clark] No comment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lawyer] We haven't had time to discuss\Nthe charges.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We haven't even seen them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Unable to face the truth,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clark took matters into his own hands.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Eerie music]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[News announcer] This morning,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the authorities reported
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that 70 year old Clark Wiley
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shot and killed himself,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just before he was to go to court
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be arraigned
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for child abuse.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] After 13 years,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genie was, at last, free.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For scientists, she was just the case
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they had been waiting for.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For 13 years,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genie had lived a life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of complete isolation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Raised in a city bedroom,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genie was as much a feral child
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if she had been
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brought up by wolves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At 13, she was the size
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a six year old.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Worst of all,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she had never been taught to speak.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The question now:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could she ever learn?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Traffic softly whooshes.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genie's case was so \Nscientifically important,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the government funded\Na team of scientists
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help answer the many questions\Nshe posed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Clomps up the steps.]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two of the scientists
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who would become especially important\Nto Genie
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were child psychologist James Kent,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and linguist Susan Curtiss.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Susan] So good to see you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Neither had ever
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,encountered a case
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as extreme as Genie's.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[James Kent] We looked at her
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a newborn, in a way,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though we know she hadn't.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She came with 13 years
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of memories and experiences,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not all of them wonderful.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of them not, I think.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, we thought we needed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to start to expose her
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to what the would was going to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be like for her,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside the hospital bed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] To Genie,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything was a new experience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[James Kent] We did what you would do
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with your own kids,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you were introducing them\Nto the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take them out,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hold them up, and show them. [Chuckles]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sort of judge, from how they reacted,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether this was too much,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or not enough.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you could move on,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and do the next thing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Genie was making
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amazing progress.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the experts looked on,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they realized that she might\Nbe the answer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the question that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had troubled science for so long.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Susan Curtiss] So, we
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seized this wonderful opportunity
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that she provided us,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in as loving a way as we could,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but, using it to...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,finally get our chance to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,address, head on,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,specific hypotheses,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and notions about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human language,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the human mind.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] These hypotheses
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were based on the latest ideas
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about how children's brains developed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to the theory,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,young children
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could only learn certain things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at certain times,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called 'critical periods.'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Language was one of these
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'critical periods.'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to the theory,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genie, who was now a teenager,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had missed her chance forever.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, incredibly,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genie seemed to be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,proving the theory wrong.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As this footage shows,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genie was blossoming.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not only was she delighted
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the world around her,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but she was learning the words
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the new things she was seeing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Susan Curtiss] She was extremely
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,interested in everything around her.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She wanted to know the word
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for everything around her.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She wanted to engage people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all around her.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was not mentally deficient.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her lights were on,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everyone who worked with her,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from teachers, to therapists,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to me, knew
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that she was not retarded.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was clear as day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, as she began to learn
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more and more words,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hundreds of words,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much more rapidly
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than they ever imagined,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stringing them together,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I began to think that maybe
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will be wrong.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe she will be the one
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who will prove
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this hypothesis is incorrect.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] But Genie could not escape
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the effects of her past so easily.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was still haunted
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by her traumatic upbringing,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trapped by the memories
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the awful fate she had suffered.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Linguistically, she had stopped\Nmaking progress.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Susan Curtiss] She learned tons of words.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She has an enormous vocabulary.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But language is not words.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Language is grammar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Language is sentences.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do you make a sentence?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What can be a sentence?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is a sentence?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do you automatically know
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something is a sentence?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it wasn't because she was\Ncognitively deficient,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in other respects.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was because she was\Ncognitively deficient
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this island of human mind,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mental faculty that we call\N'grammar.'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] At the time\NGenie was found,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brain science was in its infancy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, we have a much clearer picture
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what actually happens
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in cases of extreme neglect,\Nlike Genie's.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Dr. Bruce Perry] In Genie's brain,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the left part of her brain, her cortex,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has those neural systems
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,responsible for speech and language,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because she never heard any words,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because she was never talked --
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spoken to very often,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they didn't get stimulated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, because they weren't stimulated,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they got smaller, and less functional,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and got disconnected, and ultimately,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that part of the brain literally,\Nphysically changes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Today,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with modern imaging technology,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can actually see what happens
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the brains of feral children.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The effects are shocking.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without normal stimulation,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their brains are smaller, and malformed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The earlier this neglect begins,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the longer it carries on,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the worse the damage will be.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Starved of stimulation,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genie's brain had simply
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not developed the capacity\Nfor language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, now that she was \Na teenager,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she would never be able to learn.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite this,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genie continued to be a close part
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of everyone's life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, there was more trouble ahead.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[James Kent] Children have to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,belong to somebody when they grow up,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she was still a child,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she needed a family to belong to.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, that's what we would've liked.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A family that she could belong to.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, that's not what happened,\Nunfortunately.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What did happen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,um, is about, I think,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the worst outcome\Nwe would've envisioned.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On her 18th birthday,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genie moved back \Nwith her mother Irene,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the house in which
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she had been so terribly abused.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But after only a few weeks,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was clear that Irene couldn't cope.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From here, Genie was moved\Ninto state care,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with terrible consequences.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Susan Curtiss] I was a student,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people wouldn't listen to me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who needed to intervene
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did not listen to me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, so, I spent lots and lots of time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the phone, pleading with people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to intervene, and save this person
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had had the worst experience\Nof deprivation,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and isolation, in all recorded\Nmedical history.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Genie moved
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from home to home,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes with the very people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who served as her therapists.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This potential conflict of interests
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,raised tensions among the many people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,involved in her life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A tug of war erupted over the child.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Genie's condition deteriorated,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Irene decided that Susan Curtiss
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the other academics had become\Ntoo close to Genie.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lawsuit followed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Susan Curtiss] I went from being asked
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be her guardian,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to, one week later,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being prevented from seeing her,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or phoning her.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ever since then, I've been prevented
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from having any contact, at all.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, although I have lots of,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, I'm still a scientist,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm still interested in knowing things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about her language now, and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all kinds of interesting things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would like to pursue academically,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,primarily I would just like to see her.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] Now a ward of the court,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Genie lives in an adult care home
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somewhere in Los Angeles,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prevented from seeing the people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who once meant so much to her.