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PREOKRET SUDBINE(Reversal of Fortune, 1990) - CIJELI FILM sa HR prijevodom.

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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.
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    Out of all my ex-students,
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    no one can assimilate information
    as quickly as you two.
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    Well, I agree with that assessment.
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    You're out of your mind.
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    I only have 45 days to file.
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    I can't do it without you.
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    Look, Sarah,
    I know you don't want to come back--
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    Is this strictly professional?
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    Better be.
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    That's wonderful.
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    Now, I want the best people in the world
    on our side,
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    the most prestigious experts,
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    Nobel prize-winning scientists.
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    Some of your colleagues
    at Harvard, perhaps.
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    Hey, hey, wa--wait a minute, Claus.
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    Look, we got a little problem there, okay?
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    People like that, we can't control.
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    They'll find one incriminating fact,
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    they'll tell the whole world.
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    I'm not afraid, Alan.
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    Let the chips fall where they may.
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    That's what an innocent man would say.
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    I know.
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    That just came for you, Dad.
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    My daughter, Cosima. She never doubted me.
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    She loves Alex and Ala dearly,
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    and siding with me
    has cost her their affections.
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    I don't know what I would have done.
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    Okay, look, I said
    I didn't want to hear your story,
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    but I do need some information.
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    'Course.
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    Okay, I gather they'll, the older
    children, deny Sunny had a problem
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    with pills and alcohol?
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    Spectacular understatement.
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    So there must be somebody
    who saw it, right?
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    Some witness, somebody, somewhere?
    A friend?
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    - You want affidavits?
    - Yes, I do.
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    I'll get them.
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    You'll get them?
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    You should also know, the drugs
    prescribed for me were taken by Sunny.
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    That's a lot of drugs, Claus.
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    But the prosecution's allegation
    that I knew about syringes, injections,
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    totally accurate.
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    Sunny and I used to give ourselves
    B-12 injections in the late sixties.
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    It was quite the fad in London.
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    Can I explain something to you?
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    The less I know from you,
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    the more options I have.
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    When you tell me "the truth,"
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    you limit me to a defense that lines up
    with what you have to say.
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    But isn't the truth
    the simplest way, Alan?
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    I mean, why did I stay all day
    at Sunny's side
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    without calling a doctor?
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    Because Sunny detested doctors.
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    If we called one
    without her approval,
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    she went berserk.
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    Once she broke her hip
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    and didn't go to hospital
    for two full days.
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    Claus, did you hear what I just said?
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    Of course.
    Did you hear the judge sentenced me?
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    Sorry. 30 years is
    a pretty stiff sentence.
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    Twice trying to murder one's wife,
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    anything less would be monstrous.
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    But for a man like myself,
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    who did nothing...
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    What I wanted to ask,
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    if we lose the appeal,
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    will I have the chance later
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    to set my affairs in order
    before I'm incarcerated?
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    In Europe, a gentleman
    is given the opportunity
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    to end things properly.
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    Come on, Claus.
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    We are each the keeper
    of our own souls, Alan.
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    Okay, two big problems.
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    The case against him is very strong.
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    But probably more important,
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    the legal conviction
    isn't the only conviction
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    that we got to reverse.
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    The more dangerous conviction
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    is the absolute certainty
    of the American people
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    that Claus is guilty.
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    Finding grounds for reversal
    won't be enough here.
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    Judges on the Rhode Island Supreme Court
    will have to go home to their spouses
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    and explain why they reversed.
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    To get them to do that,
    we must completely obliterate
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    every single aspect of the state's case.
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    Destroy both the medical case
    and their witnesses
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    so the judges have
    no possible way to affirm.
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    Total victory,
    or we are dead in the water.
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    Now, I assume that
    you've all had an opportunity
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    to look at the transcripts,
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    first impressions, yeah, Minnie?
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    I think this whole thing stinks.
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    I think Claus von Bulow stinks.
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    He's obviously guilty
    of something pretty despicable.
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    And if we free him,
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    we become partners in his crime,
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    accessories after the fact.
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    I'm really shocked,
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    with your record
    defending the poor and oppressed,
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    that you've taken this case.
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    I won't have anything to do with it,
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    and I hope my fellow students
    won't either.
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    Good-bye.
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    May I exercise my First Amendment right
    to free speech?
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    If lawyers only defended innocent clients,
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    there would be 10 defense
    lawyers in the entire country,
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    and none of you
    would be able to find a job.
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    Why help guilty people get off?
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    Oh, you're sure he's guilty,
    100 percent sure.
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    He had a lawyer. He had a trial.
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    He was convicted.
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    Are you sure he had a fair trial?
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    Come on!
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    It's the basis of the whole legal system.
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    Everyone gets a defense.
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    So the system is there
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    for the one innocent person
    who is falsely accused.
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    Okay, look.
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    Say it's you, okay?
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    You decide...
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    you decide to get a divorce.
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    You're going to divorce your husband.
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    A week later,
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    you're accused of molesting your son.
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    Oh, no, now don't give me that look.
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    Stuff like this happens all the time.
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    Suddenly, you're alone.
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    You're hated.
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    It's--it's a nightmare.
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    Everyone assumes that you are guilty.
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    Even the mailman is beginning to
    look at you a little--a little funny.
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    You only got one person
    who believes in you.
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    There's only one person you can trust,
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    your lawyer.
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    Yeah. Okay.
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    So, someone's got to defend Claus.
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    But why you?
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    Why us?
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    Look, you're my student.
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    Y-you have a choice.
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    You d--you don't have to do
    anything you don't want to do.
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    That is your choice.
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    The reason I take cases,
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    and here, I'm unlike most other lawyers
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    who are not professors
    and therefore have to make a living,
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    I take cases 'cause I get pissed off,
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    and I am pissed off here.
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    The family hired a private prosecutor.
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    Unacceptable!
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    They conducted a private search.
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    Now, we let them get away with that,
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    rich people won't go to the cops anymore.
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    You know what they're gonna do?
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    They're going to get their own lawyers
    to collect evidence.
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    And then they are going
    to choose which evidence
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    they feel like passing on to the DA,
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    and the next victim
    isn't going to be rich like von Bulow.
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    But it's gonna be
    some poor schnook in Detroit
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    who can't afford
    or can't find a decent lawyer.
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    I think it's a little more complicated
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    than your simple moral superiority.
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    No?
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    I agree von Bulow is guilty,
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    but that's the fun,
    I mean, that's the challenge.
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    See, now there is a lawyer.
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    What?
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    Yeah, okay. Put him on.
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    Alan, a rather unsavory character
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    called David Marriott contacted me
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    claiming to have information about
    a drug delivery at Clarendon Court.
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    Okay. Now, where does he live?
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    Somewhere in Wakefield.
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    Okay, we--no, we'll get on it.
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    Tom, I want you to get
    a private investigator
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    to dig into a David Marriott
    who lives in Wakefield.
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    Okay. How are we going to win this case?
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    The judge made lots of mistakes.
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    Judges always make mistakes.
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    How are we going to win?
  • 26:27 - 26:28
    All right, one issue leaps up,
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    this lawyer, Brillhoffer,
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    interviewed Alex, Maria, everybody.
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    He was the first person
    to hear their stories.
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    He took notes and
    he used those notes at trial
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    against a defense witness.
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    But the defense never saw the notes.
  • 26:39 - 26:41
    The judge wouldn't let us have them.
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    This alone seems like sufficient grounds.
    It's perfect Brady.
  • 26:43 - 26:44
    Okay, fine.
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    Why don't you draft a letter
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    writing to Brillhoffer
    asking him very nicely
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    to send us his notes?
  • 26:49 - 26:51
    Yeah, right. He'll fax them right over.
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    Yeah, right.
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    We could win on this issue alone
    and he knows it.
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    You know it, I know it.
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    We'll just make sure he knows it.
  • 26:59 - 27:02
    Now... Nancy and Dobbs...
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    Yes?
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    They're going to attack
    the medical testimony.
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    Our Rhode Island counsel, Peter Macintosh,
  • 27:09 - 27:11
    he will analyze the state Supreme Court.
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    I think the rest of us
    should begin dissecting the transcripts,
  • 27:14 - 27:16
    errors, inconsistencies, anything unusual.
  • 27:16 - 27:17
    Okay, great. Now, remember,
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    most cases are won in the field,
  • 27:19 - 27:20
    not in court.
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    Minnie?
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    You want to work with Sarah on this?
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    You may learn something.
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    - Come on, Minnie.
    - Come on, Minnie.
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    - Minnie!
    - Come on.
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    Please?
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    Come on.
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    'Course I don't trust David Marriott.
  • 27:39 - 27:40
    I don't know David Marriott.
  • 27:40 - 27:41
    But if he knew Alex von Auersberg--
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    You're crazy,
    I don't know who you think you are.
  • 27:43 - 27:44
    You Perry Mason?
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    Let our private investigator
    interview this jerk.
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    It's stupid, it's arrogant,
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    and it's unprofessional.
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    - It's fun.
    - Fun? This guy is a sleaze.
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    You don't know what he's going to try.
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    What, is he going to shoot me?
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    Come on, I'm from Brooklyn.
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    Okay, look, I'll stand by the window
    every 10 minutes, okay?
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    That way you can know I'm safe.
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    I had this friend...
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    Gilbert Jackson...
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    interior decorator.
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    Flaming queen, but a very excellent guy.
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    He introduced me to Alex von Auersberg.
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    You sure it was Alex?
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    We had dinner a few times, drinks.
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    All I knew, Alex was some rich kid.
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    So sometimes,
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    this is like, uh, summer of '77,
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    I'd motor to Newport for some R and R.
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    Gilbert asked me to bring Alex a package.
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    I figured interior decoration.
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    Maybe drapes.
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    Like six times.
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    So I'd call Alex.
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    How'd you get his phone number?
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    From Gilbert.
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    You still have it?
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    Maybe.
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    I'm that kind of guy.
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    Here.
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    One night I got curious.
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    Opened the package.
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    Fucking pharmacy, man.
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    Needles, syringes, white powder.
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    Nice selection of pills.
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    Demerol.
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    Like a drugstore.
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    You delivered drugs six times
    and didn't know it?
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    Stupid, huh?
  • 29:54 - 29:56
    Then Gilbert asked me again.
  • 29:57 - 29:58
    I couldn't say no, but this time
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    I made Alex open the package
    in front of me.
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    Voila.
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    I go, "Awful lot of pharmaceuticals
    for one person."
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    He goes, "Oh, I give some to my mom
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    to keep her off my back."
  • 30:13 - 30:16
    Few weeks later,
    Gilbert gets mistaken for a softball.
  • 30:17 - 30:18
    Two guys bash his head in.
  • 30:19 - 30:21
    Alex calls me, totally urinary.
  • 30:22 - 30:23
    Will the cops find his phone number
  • 30:23 - 30:25
    and fuck up his trust fund or something?
  • 30:26 - 30:28
    Well, that's the fat.
  • 30:29 - 30:30
    That's the skinny.
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    You like it?
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    You traffic with drug dealers
    and drag queens.
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    You have a part-time job.
  • 30:38 - 30:40
    You ride around in rented limos.
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    All in all, I would have to say
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    you're probably
    the least impressive witness
  • 30:43 - 30:44
    I've ever seen.
  • 30:44 - 30:45
    Wait a minute.
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    You think I'm scum, don't you?
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    Blow it out your ass.
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    You want a witness to back me up?
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    I'll get one.
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    And, hey,
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    maybe I'll see you at the Celtics, huh?
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    I am not going to let them execute you.
  • 31:17 - 31:18
    You're not going to die.
  • 31:19 - 31:20
    Look, Johnny, th--
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    Johnny, this is going to be
    a lot easier on me
  • 31:22 - 31:25
    if you don't cry, okay? I--I kn--
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    I know your brother's hysterical, I--
  • 31:27 - 31:29
    Number o--they always set a date
    for the execution,
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    and they always postpone it...
  • 31:32 - 31:33
    He's great when he's like this, huh?
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    That's right.
  • 31:35 - 31:37
    I just wish he had something left
    for the people around him.
  • 31:37 - 31:38
    What are you talking to me about money?
  • 31:38 - 31:39
    Did I ever ask you about money?
  • 31:40 - 31:42
    Anyway, it's nice to have you back here.
  • 31:43 - 31:45
    Okay. Say hello to your brother.
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    Right.
  • 31:47 - 31:48
    Okay.
  • 31:56 - 31:57
    Okay, who's got what?
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    Uh, yeah. Maria's testimony.
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    She says Sunny did take Valium
    prescribed for Claus.
  • 32:05 - 32:06
    Okay, score one for von Bulow.
  • 32:07 - 32:09
    And this Jamie Smather prescription?
  • 32:09 - 32:10
    Who's Jamie Smather?
  • 32:10 - 32:13
    Three-hundred-pound redheaded hooker
    in pigtails and white boots.
  • 32:13 - 32:15
    She supplied Claus with Valium.
  • 32:15 - 32:18
    He had a gorgeous mistress
    and he went with an ugly whore?
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    You know, there's some things
    even mistresses won't do.
  • 32:23 - 32:24
    Like what?
  • 32:24 - 32:25
    I-I'm not telling.
  • 32:27 - 32:29
    Anyway, Maria swears
  • 32:29 - 32:32
    she first saw this Jamie Smather
    prescription February 14th,
  • 32:33 - 32:35
    and then again February 28th.
  • 32:35 - 32:36
    So?
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    It wasn't prescribed till the 28th.
  • 32:38 - 32:40
    You're not suggesting she's lying?
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    Okay, how about Maria's insulin?
    "For what, insulin"?
  • 32:43 - 32:44
    - Anything more on that?
    - Not yet.
  • 32:46 - 32:48
    Something about that bothers me.
  • 32:50 - 32:51
    Okay, who's next?
  • 32:52 - 32:53
    Brillhoffer wrote back.
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    He's very attached to his notes.
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    "I am satisfied
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    that there is not a scrap of paper
    in my files
  • 33:04 - 33:07
    that might even arguably
    be viewed as exculpatory."
  • 33:07 - 33:08
    English translation?
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    He says he doesn't have
    anything that'd help us.
  • 33:13 - 33:14
    You with me?
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    Pay dirt.
  • 33:15 - 33:16
    What's pay dirt?
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    He's a lawyer.
  • 33:17 - 33:20
    If he really didn't have anything,
    he'd give it to us...
  • 33:20 - 33:21
    but there's something there
  • 33:21 - 33:23
    and he's gonna fight like hell
    to hold onto it.
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    I will bet my fee
  • 33:25 - 33:27
    that no one remembered seeing insulin
  • 33:27 - 33:29
    until after the lab report came back.
  • 33:30 - 33:31
    So... you're suggesting...
  • 33:31 - 33:32
    Memory enhancement.
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    It might be more than that.
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    Possibly.
  • 33:37 - 33:38
    A frame-up.
  • 33:39 - 33:40
    You mean by the kids?
  • 33:40 - 33:42
    Where are you getting all this,
    from Brillhoffer's letter?
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    Pure deduction.
  • 33:44 - 33:48
    A good lawyer is part psychiatrist,
    detective, logician.
  • 33:49 - 33:50
    A great lawyer--
  • 33:50 - 33:51
    Never would have taken this case.
  • 33:54 - 33:55
    If there's nothing more...
  • 33:55 - 33:57
    has anybody read this?
  • 33:59 - 34:00
    It's an interview with Truman Capote.
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    He says when she was 19,
  • 34:03 - 34:04
    Sunny von Bulow
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    taught him how to inject drugs.
  • 34:06 - 34:07
    Let me see that.
  • 34:10 - 34:13
    Well, well, well, the famous professor.
  • 34:13 - 34:15
    Alan, I'd like to introduce
    my new girlfriend,
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    - Andrea Reynolds.
    - I'm not his girlfriend, I'm his savior.
  • 34:19 - 34:19
    Perfectly true.
  • 34:19 - 34:22
    Two days after the trial ended,
    we fell in love.
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    - It was really very, very dramatic.
    - Yes, Andrea, Andrea, come on.
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    Since then, I've devoted my life
    to clearing his name.
  • 34:31 - 34:33
    I made him hire you.
  • 34:34 - 34:36
    "Get the Jew," I said.
  • 34:37 - 34:38
    Darling...
  • 34:39 - 34:40
    Can the Jew get down to business?
  • 34:42 - 34:43
    We've got an affidavit.
  • 34:44 - 34:47
    A Smythe, Mrs. Ruth Smythe,
  • 34:47 - 34:50
    gave us an affidavit
    corroborating Truman Capote.
  • 34:51 - 34:52
    I have affidavits, too.
  • 34:54 - 34:55
    Newport people.
  • 34:56 - 34:58
    They describe Sunny taking pills,
  • 34:58 - 34:59
    getting drunk and falling down...
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    bumping into doorways,
  • 35:01 - 35:03
    smearing lipstick all over her face.
  • 35:03 - 35:04
    Not a very pretty picture.
  • 35:04 - 35:06
    She did it, didn't she?
  • 35:06 - 35:08
    Don't be a priss.
  • 35:09 - 35:10
    Sunny was a lovely woman.
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    Spoiled rotten.
  • 35:12 - 35:13
    Yes, but lovely.
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    Till she drank.
  • 35:16 - 35:19
    Two drinks and she became... nasty,
  • 35:19 - 35:22
    - irrational.
    - All women are irrational, darling.
  • 35:22 - 35:23
    Did we mention the priest?
  • 35:23 - 35:27
    Oh. Marriott apparently
    confided in a priest
  • 35:28 - 35:29
    who's consented to talk to us.
  • 35:32 - 35:34
    A Father Capello from Providence.
  • 35:36 - 35:37
    Priest?
  • 35:38 - 35:40
    Well, a priest is the ideal witness.
  • 35:40 - 35:42
    - It's like getting the word of God.
    - I checked.
  • 35:42 - 35:43
    God is unavailable.
  • 35:45 - 35:45
    If...
  • 35:46 - 35:47
    if the priest comes through
  • 35:47 - 35:50
    and we can get documentation
    on Sunny's drug use,
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    then self-injection
    may be a plausible theory.
  • 35:52 - 35:54
    There's no insulin in this case.
  • 35:54 - 35:55
    Yeah, but people do use insulin,
  • 35:56 - 35:58
    they use it for dieting,
    it's not a prescription drug.
  • 35:58 - 35:59
    Sunny was concerned about her weight.
  • 35:59 - 36:01
    Maybe, but believe me, Alan...
  • 36:02 - 36:03
    there's no insulin here.
  • 36:07 - 36:08
    Really?
  • 36:09 - 36:10
    How can you be so sure?
  • 36:18 - 36:19
    Do you realize...
  • 36:20 - 36:23
    with this case,
    I'm looking for evidence to exonerate you?
  • 36:24 - 36:26
    But at the same time,
    I'm also wondering...
  • 36:27 - 36:28
    what really happened...
  • 36:29 - 36:30
    who you are.
  • 36:31 - 36:32
    Who would you like me to be?
  • 36:36 - 36:37
    Your mother's death...
  • 36:38 - 36:39
    what happened?
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    I believe she had a heart problem.
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    Really?
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    The rumor in England is you killed her.
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    Hey, wait a minute, Alan.
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    Statute of limitations
    ran out on that years ago.
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    There's rumors also that I killed my aunt.
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    And that I'm a necrophiliac,
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    who injected Sunny with insulin
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    so that I could have my way with her.
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    Please.
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    Did Claus drive me crazy?
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    Even I don't know.
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    But it's true that I took up to
    24 laxatives daily,
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    popped Aspirin like M&Ms,
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    smoked three packs of cigarettes a day,
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    had a problem with alcohol,
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    took Valium and Seconal frequently,
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    and consumed large quantities of sweets
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    despite a medical condition, hypoglycemia,
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    which made them hazardous.
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    As for my state of mind...
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    I had not had sex
    with my husband for years.
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    My schedule was...
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    I woke at 9:30,
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    did a little exercise and shopping,
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    and returned to bed at three o'clock
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    for the remainder of the afternoon.
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    I liked to be in bed.
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    I didn't much like anything else.
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    Hold on here, will you?
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    Come in.
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    Alan.
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    Welcome to my humble law firm.
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    In the kitchen,
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    our insulin-on-the-needle team.
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    They're cooking up some surprise for us.
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    This is our Brillhoffer notes team.
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    Mr. von Bulow!
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    Where do you keep the paper towels?
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    Ask Sarah!
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    Sarah used to live here.
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    This--
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    I guess he was up all night.
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    This sort of commune,
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    you do it on every case?
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    Never before.
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    Thirty-eight days to write 100 pages?
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    Only way to get it done.
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    Here's the black bag team.
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    Illegal search teams.
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    My son, Elon, lost his room.
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    Well, actually, this is, uh,
    this is another case
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    that you're paying for.
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    And this is my team.
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    You wish.
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    I--I can't find the damn thing.
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    Hi. I'm Sarah.
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    And a very lovely Sarah you are.
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    Does that really work?
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    Flattery?
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    Absolutely.
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    Like Chinese food?
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    What do you give a wife
    who has everything?
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    An injection of insulin.
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    How--Ah, my prawns.
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    How can one define a fear of insulin?
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    Claus-trophobia.
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    Is there anything more you can tell us
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    about Alexandra Isles?
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    For instance, is it true
    that she gave you a deadline
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    of Christmas 1979 to be together?
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    Uh, not really.
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    No, she knew I was looking
    for full-time work.
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    I worked for JP Getty in London.
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    Alexandra assumed that
    when you did find a job,
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    you'd marry her, correct?
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    Oh, she assumed it.
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    How about when she testified,
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    did you get a sense that
    she wanted to get back together?
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    Very much so.
    In fact, at the trial, she said...
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    I loved him, but I was still caught up
    in my own anger...
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    and I'm sorry I acted that way then.
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    I loved him, and I was angry.
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    Let me ask you this.
    Maybe you can't answer.
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    Do you still love him?
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    I don't know.
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    That means yes, doesn't it?
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    It would seem so.
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    In fact, after the trial,
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    she wrote me a letter
    saying so explicitly.
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    A very passionate letter.
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    Passionate and...
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    jealous.
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    But that was the relationship
    from the outset.
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    That was Alexandra.
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    She was your love slave.
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    Well, I think now
    I'll have my own individual order
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    of ginger prawns.
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    - Waiter.
    - Three weeks before her final coma,
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    Sunny overdosed on Aspirin.
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    Can you tell us anything about that?
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    No one maintained
    I had anything to do with that, Alan.
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    No, of course not.
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    I'm asking you what happened.
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    Well, Sunny had been unwell.
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    Are you all right?
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    Oh, just a bit dizzy.
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    Well, if you're dizzy, don't go wandering.
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    Sunny?
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    Oh, my God.
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    Come on, my darling.
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    Now, you're all right.
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    Come on, put your arm around my shoulder.
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    There we are.
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    Now, you're all right.
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    Get you--come on.
    We'll get you back into bed.
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    Something happened to my head.
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    - You're all right.
    - It's cut.
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    Just a little cut. It's nothing.
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    Come on.
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    Let's get you lying down.
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    There you are.
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    There.
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    Shall I call a doctor?
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    No! No, I don't want--
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    I don't want a doctor.
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    Just... don't want a doctor.
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    Just want to be left alone.
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    Want to be left alone
    with all those beaut--beautiful letters.
  • 43:21 - 43:22
    What did you do with those letters?
  • 43:22 - 43:24
    Why did you write those letters?
  • 43:24 - 43:25
    And those...
  • 43:25 - 43:27
    Later, Dr. Praug said
  • 43:27 - 43:29
    we needn't have gone to the hospital,
  • 43:29 - 43:30
    but I wasn't going to take any chances.
  • 43:30 - 43:32
    Why did she take so much Aspirin?
  • 43:32 - 43:34
    Oh, Sunny always took Aspirin.
  • 43:35 - 43:37
    She'd been taking a lot for several days.
  • 43:37 - 43:38
    That's not what our doctor said.
  • 43:38 - 43:40
    Dr. Lucas Lupardus,
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    chief forensic toxicologist,
    Suffolk County,
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    says that people who take large
    amounts of Aspirin every day
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    never reach that level.
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    He also said the average blood level
    in cases of death is...
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    Sixty. Hers was 90.
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    So...
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    So it was obviously a suicide attempt.
  • 43:57 - 43:58
    Why?
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    Yeah, why?
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    Why?
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    Alan, do they all want to be prosecutors?
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    We're waiting.
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    Well, I presume she was unhappy.
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    How about we all finish up
    and go back to the house?
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    We're not going to win this
    on a technicality. Peter.
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    I've read every case
    in the last seven years
  • 44:29 - 44:31
    where the Rhode Island
    Supreme Court reversed.
  • 44:31 - 44:33
    They don't like to make new law,
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    they don't like to discuss
    broad legal issues.
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    When they do reverse,
  • 44:36 - 44:38
    the grounds are technical,
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    but the reason seems to be
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    they suspect a convicted defendant
    may be innocent.
  • 44:44 - 44:45
    Okay, so everybody get that?
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    True or not,
    we've got to convince the judges
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    that you are innocent.
  • 44:52 - 44:55
    Claus, now I do want to hear
    your side of the story.
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    With pleasure.
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    Innocence has always been my position.
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    First coma. What preceded it?
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    Well, Sunny loved Christmas.
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    It was her favorite season, really.
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    You see, what you must understand
    about Sunny
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    is that she loved giving
    more than anything else.
  • 45:20 - 45:23
    � Peace on Earth and mercy mild
  • 45:23 - 45:25
    � God and sinners reconciled...
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    Each year, she always made
    a big bowl of fresh eggnog.
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    Now, that year, she drank a lot of it.
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    How much?
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    Oh, 10 or 12 glasses.
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    With her hypoglycemia?
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    She didn't always drink like that?
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    Never.
  • 45:42 - 45:45
    She never touched alcohol at all
    except on social occasions
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    to overcome her shyness...
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    or when she was upset.
  • 45:50 - 45:52
    This was not a social occasion.
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    No.
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    We'd been discussing divorce
    all afternoon.
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    This whole subject of your...
  • 46:17 - 46:19
    work... coming between us,
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    isn't it just a pretext
    when the real subject is her?
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    Certainly not.
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    I'm thinking of redecorating
    this whole fucking house.
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    Then she knew about Alexandra.
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    Yes.
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    How did she find out?
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    I, um...
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    I told her the previous summer.
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    Ala, can't we find one a bit slower?
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    - Ah, that's much better.
    - Hm.
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    - Cooler.
    - Hm.
  • 47:06 - 47:07
    Thank you.
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    Oh, I've been meaning to mention...
  • 47:18 - 47:20
    our understanding about my...
  • 47:22 - 47:24
    extracurricular activities.
  • 47:26 - 47:28
    I've been involved with someone who...
  • 47:29 - 47:31
    falls outside the parameters
    of our agreement.
  • 47:32 - 47:33
    - Really?
    - Someone...
  • 47:33 - 47:35
    peripherally in our circle.
  • 47:37 - 47:38
    Billy Botsky's daughter,
  • 47:38 - 47:39
    Alexandra Isles.
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    Well.
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    That must be better for you
  • 47:47 - 47:49
    than what you've had to put up with.
  • 47:51 - 47:52
    You're referring to the call girls.
  • 47:54 - 47:55
    Yes.
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    I mean, that is where
    you've gone previously, isn't it?
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    Yes, it is.
  • 48:04 - 48:05
    And isn't this better?
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    Or is Billy Botsky's daughter
    a call girl, too?
  • 48:10 - 48:12
    This is much better.
  • 48:21 - 48:22
    That was what, July, August?
  • 48:22 - 48:23
    Now it's Christmas time,
  • 48:24 - 48:26
    and you were
    still squabbling over Alexandra?
  • 48:26 - 48:28
    No. We were fighting about my work.
  • 48:29 - 48:30
    Sunny was...
  • 48:32 - 48:34
    well, by the evening,
  • 48:34 - 48:35
    she'd drunk so much eggnog,
  • 48:35 - 48:37
    that I had to help her into the bedroom.
  • 48:39 - 48:40
    Alexander.
  • 48:41 - 48:42
    Time for bed, darling.
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    There we are.
  • 48:55 - 48:57
    Please don't hold my arm.
  • 48:58 - 48:59
    Darling, you know
    when you get like this...
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    Remember?
  • 49:03 - 49:04
    You fell and broke your hip.
  • 49:04 - 49:06
    That was years ago.
  • 49:08 - 49:10
    It was two years ago.
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    Get me a scotch and soda.
  • 49:42 - 49:45
    May I at least urinate alone?
  • 50:04 - 50:06
    She runs the water
    every time she goes in there.
  • 50:08 - 50:11
    If she was already soused,
    why'd you go for the scotch?
  • 50:11 - 50:12
    Because she asked for it.
  • 50:14 - 50:16
    Sunny got what Sunny wanted.
  • 50:17 - 50:18
    It's okay.
  • 50:46 - 50:48
    Good night, Dad.
  • 50:48 - 50:49
    Good night, darling.
  • 50:51 - 50:52
    Good night, Claus.
  • 50:53 - 50:54
    Good night, Alex.
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    Hasn't my mother given us enough money?
  • 51:11 - 51:12
    Claus?
  • 51:12 - 51:14
    That night, we hardly slept.
  • 51:14 - 51:16
    Your age,
    it's perfectly acceptable to retire.
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    I'm already retired.
  • 51:20 - 51:22
    I haven't worked full-time since Getty.
  • 51:22 - 51:23
    Exactly. It's your ego.
  • 51:23 - 51:25
    You've never had a career. Not really.
  • 51:26 - 51:28
    Well, I'm going to have one now.
  • 51:31 - 51:33
    Oh, come on, Sunny, your father worked.
  • 51:34 - 51:36
    Do you want the children to grow up
  • 51:36 - 51:38
    thinking a male's place
    is in a deck chair?
  • 51:38 - 51:40
    Claus, you marry me for my money,
  • 51:40 - 51:41
    then you demand to work.
  • 51:41 - 51:42
    You're the prince of perversion.
  • 51:43 - 51:45
    I mean, what? Are you trying
    to destroy our whole family?
  • 51:45 - 51:46
    Oh, no, of course not.
  • 51:46 - 51:48
    I--I... I simply want some...
  • 51:49 - 51:51
    intercourse with the world.
  • 51:51 - 51:52
    Shut up, Pan!
  • 51:53 - 51:54
    Oh, what does it matter?
  • 51:57 - 52:00
    So Is that it?
  • 52:01 - 52:02
    Another divorce?
  • 52:05 - 52:06
    Okay.
  • 52:06 - 52:08
    I'll divorce you. I will.
  • 52:09 - 52:11
    Oh, God...
  • 52:11 - 52:12
    Two-time loser.
  • 52:14 - 52:15
    I'll divorce everybody.
  • 52:16 - 52:18
    I don't want a divorce.
  • 52:19 - 52:21
    I don't want to marry
    Billy Botsky's daughter.
  • 52:21 - 52:23
    I want to stay with you
    and I want to work.
  • 52:23 - 52:26
    I need that as a man.
  • 52:29 - 52:30
    It's hopeless.
  • 52:34 - 52:35
    Oh, God.
  • 52:36 - 52:37
    I need my beauty sleep.
  • 52:38 - 52:41
    Why do you--why do you believe
    it's hopeless just because of some...
  • 53:20 - 53:21
    Good night, Claus.
  • 53:23 - 53:24
    Sunny, you know I love you.
  • 53:42 - 53:43
    Good night.
  • 53:50 - 53:51
    Okay, and the next day?
  • 53:51 - 53:52
    Well...
  • 53:54 - 53:57
    Maria's testimony was wildly exaggerated.
  • 53:59 - 54:01
    Sunny was never moaning.
  • 54:02 - 54:04
    Maybe the occasional snore, but...
  • 54:06 - 54:08
    And Maria shook Sunny.
  • 54:11 - 54:13
    Nobody ever shook Sunny.
  • 54:18 - 54:19
    What happened when
    she regained consciousness?
  • 54:20 - 54:21
    After the first coma,
  • 54:21 - 54:23
    well, it was kind of absurd.
  • 54:23 - 54:25
    Everybody was angry at me.
  • 54:29 - 54:30
    Can't you ever leave me alone?
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    Why did you do it?
  • 54:36 - 54:38
    I would have been better off.
  • 54:38 - 54:40
    You would have been better off.
  • 54:40 - 54:41
    What do you want me to say?
  • 54:42 - 54:43
    That I'm sorry I saved your life?
  • 54:44 - 54:45
    Yes.
  • 54:49 - 54:50
    Say it.
  • 54:58 - 54:59
    Of course I'm not sorry.
  • 55:16 - 55:17
    Wha--
  • 55:19 - 55:20
    Claus...
  • 55:24 - 55:26
    what am I going to do with myself?
  • 55:32 - 55:34
    When I phoned Alexandra,
  • 55:34 - 55:36
    to tell her what had happened,
    she said the same thing,
  • 55:36 - 55:38
    she said, "Why did you do it?
  • 55:38 - 55:39
    Why did you call the doctor?"
  • 55:39 - 55:41
    You telling me she wanted
    you to let Sunny die?
  • 55:42 - 55:44
    No, no, no, no, no.
  • 55:44 - 55:46
    It was more...
  • 55:46 - 55:49
    "Everybody says Sunny's
    such an unhappy woman
  • 55:50 - 55:53
    and has nothing to live for."
  • 55:55 - 55:57
    Well, so much for the first coma.
  • 55:58 - 56:00
    The second, of course,
  • 56:00 - 56:02
    was much more theatrical.
  • 56:02 - 56:04
    Theatrical? What is this, a fucking game?
  • 56:05 - 56:07
    This is life and death.
    Your wife is laying in a coma.
  • 56:08 - 56:10
    You don't even make a pretense
    of caring, do you?
  • 56:12 - 56:13
    'Course I care, Alan.
  • 56:15 - 56:17
    It's just I don't wear
    my heart on my sleeve.
  • 56:22 - 56:23
    Let's call it a night, okay?
  • 56:24 - 56:25
    Okay, guys, so...
  • 56:26 - 56:27
    As you wish.
  • 56:27 - 56:29
    There were three drugs
    on the needle, right?
  • 56:29 - 56:31
    Amobarbital, Valium, insulin.
  • 56:33 - 56:34
    We can't all be you, Alan.
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    Shoot! Shoot! All right.
  • 56:44 - 56:46
    Okay, get a doctor
    to prepare five needles,
  • 56:47 - 56:48
    one with nothing,
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    two with Valium, amobarbital, and insulin,
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    two with just Valium and amobarbital.
  • 56:53 - 56:56
    We're gonna send them to the same lab
    that our famous needle went to.
  • 56:56 - 56:58
    Let's see if we can get
    a false positive result.
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    If we don't?
  • 57:00 - 57:01
    We don't, I clean the latrines.
  • 57:02 - 57:03
    Aw, you're not gonna believe this.
  • 57:04 - 57:05
    David Marriott wants money.
  • 57:05 - 57:06
    Yeah, who doesn't?
  • 57:07 - 57:08
    I'm afraid his memory might fade.
  • 57:08 - 57:09
    Oh, the hell with him. Forget about him.
  • 57:09 - 57:11
    Well, he has lost his crumby job,
  • 57:11 - 57:13
    and he is running around
    trying to find evidence for us.
  • 57:15 - 57:17
    Okay, why don't we do what
    the government does with its witnesses?
  • 57:17 - 57:18
    Okay? We'll pay for his time.
  • 57:19 - 57:20
    What's his time worth?
  • 57:20 - 57:22
    - Buck and a half.
    - Sarah? Dersh?
  • 57:23 - 57:24
    Your team's on.
  • 57:25 - 57:27
    Okay.
    You going to pass to me this game or what?
  • 57:27 - 57:28
    No.
  • 57:30 - 57:31
    Their private investigator said
  • 57:31 - 57:33
    the needle had a small encrustation
    near the tip.
  • 57:33 - 57:36
    Now, doctors tell us this is
    totally inconsistent with injection.
  • 57:36 - 57:38
    Okay, so how did it get there?
  • 57:41 - 57:43
    If I inject this needle,
  • 57:43 - 57:45
    the skin acts as kind of a swab.
  • 57:46 - 57:47
    It cleans the needle off,
  • 57:47 - 57:50
    leaving the tip completely free of liquid.
  • 57:50 - 57:53
    But if I just dip the needle
    into the liquid,
  • 57:53 - 57:54
    what do you see?
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    Dry this out,
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    you have an encrustation.
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    So it's a frame-up?
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    It's Desdemona's handkerchief.
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    My stepchildren thought I was guilty,
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    didn't feel they had enough evidence,
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    and so concocted some.
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    This should win us the case, no?
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    No. We're maybe halfway home.
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    There's still a lot of weird stuff.
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    Did you love Sunny?
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    I married her.
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    Of course I loved her. She was beautiful.
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    Rich.
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    Why not?
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    What I've seen of the rich, you can have.
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    I do.
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    The black bag,
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    was it yours?
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    Sunny appropriated it.
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    Now, to understand that,
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    you must understand
    that after the first coma,
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    she went into a complete rage.
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    Where are they? Did you take them?
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    Certainly not. Take what?
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    My pills, you moron.
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    Valium, Seconal...
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    you took them, didn't you?
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    My dear, I've long since
    stopped interfering.
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    Well, who? My children wouldn't dare--
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    Oh, I know who.
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    Where are you going?
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    Maria!
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    She soon found them.
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    It's my lovely mother, isn't it?
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    She's behind all this.
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    She's in cahoots with Maria.
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    Well, just because she had all the money
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    before I had all the money
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    does not mean she's my lord and master.
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    'Course not. I am your lord and master.
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    Just kidding.
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    Maria loves me too much.
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    It's unhealthy for her,
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    and it's certainly no fun for me.
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    There.
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    We'll see if that ugly little maid of mine
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    can sniff this one out.
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    And what are you going
    to do with all that?
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    I'm not going to tell you.
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    I assure you,
    it not gonna be among my affairs.
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    Odd she used that word, affairs.
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    You realize the prosecution thinks
    you ground up the drugs
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    so you could inject Sunny?
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    And frankly, this nose drop business
    is pretty far-fetched.
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    But consider the pattern, Alan.
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    It's public record that Sunny used drugs.
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    Her behavior here of hiding them in liquid
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    so that no one will find them,
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    it's your classic alcoholic
    buying pints of whiskey
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    and stashing them all over the house.
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    You're right.
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    Of course, I mean...
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    I mean, you've always
    been right, haven't you?
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    This is the most dangerous case
    I've ever worked on.
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    You find that exhilarating?
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    No, I do not.
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    I am breaking every rule.
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    'Cause the best way to win
    is to proclaim your innocence,
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    and I've never done that for anybody.
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    And the problem I got is
    I see who you are.
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    You'd do anything to win.
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    So would you.
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    Yeah, but you don't trust
    the legal system.
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    You're saying I'd manufacture witnesses?
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    Affidavits?
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    No, but you would sacrifice me.
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    Oh, please, Alan.
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    See, the more I believe that
    you are innocent, the more nervous I am.
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    I go out on a limb for you,
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    you're proven guilty,
    I look like an asshole.
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    My reputation, my credibility,
    my career, destroyed.
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    That's the risk you're taking, isn't it?
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    Yeah, well, fuck you.
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    Fuck you, man.
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    I'm glad we understand one another.
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    It's easy to forget
    all this is about me...
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    lying here.
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    To most of you, my name means coma.
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    My second marriage means attempted murder.
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    Everything that came before,
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    everything beautiful,
    does not exist in the public mind.
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    No one thinks of how I loved my children.
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    Look at Cosima,
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    and Alex, of course,
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    and Ala,
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    and certainly no one cares about Claus,
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    the way he was
    when I fell in love with him.
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    When Claus and I first met,
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    I was married to the dashing, young
    Prince Alfred Eduard Friederich
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    Vincenz Martin Maria von Auersberg.
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    It was 1964,
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    seven years into my first marriage.
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    It seems that my first husband,
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    Alfie, as he was called,
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    had vowed to be unfaithful
    with every pretty girl in Europe.
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    He was having quite a success.
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    And so...
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    I was unfaithful with Claus.
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    Psst!
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    Wildly unfaithful.
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    Happy memories.
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    But it's not the passion I remember most.
  • 64:16 - 64:17
    It's the tenderness.
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    Good God, what's that?
  • 64:26 - 64:27
    There's one of Frank's pets.
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    Oh, my God. No, no.
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    Come on, silly.
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    I never liked people much,
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    not as a rule.
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    Go ahead, feed him.
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    But Claus was somehow different.
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    Not a normal person, I guess.
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    It's all right. Do it again.
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    Give him some more.
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    One of those things you never forget.
  • 65:25 - 65:28
    Of course, now he lives in my apartment...
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    my bedroom...
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    my bed.
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    Cold, isn't it?
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    Cold and brutish and the way of the world.
  • 65:40 - 65:41
    Looking at him now,
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    the issues seem simple.
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    Is he the devil?
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    If so, can the devil get justice?
  • 65:50 - 65:52
    And all this legal activity...
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    is it in Satan's service?
  • 65:57 - 65:59
    "Sunny von Bulow was totally vulnerable
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    to Claus von Bulow."
  • 66:02 - 66:03
    Can't argue with that.
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    But it's speculation. Exaggeration.
  • 66:06 - 66:07
    You keep working on it.
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    Totally inflammatory!
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    Okay, good. Let's go over this.
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    Okay, we went over it... once,
    I just wanted you to see if...
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    Oh, shit, wha--what is this,
    illegal search?
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    It's a classic technicality.
  • 66:31 - 66:32
    It's a guilty man's argument.
  • 66:32 - 66:33
    Come on, this is different.
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    Usual Fourth Amendment case,
    you're trying to exclude evidence
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    - that's bad for your client.
    - No, no. No, no.
  • 66:37 - 66:38
    Same thing here. Same thing.
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    No. This search destroyed evidence.
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    No fingerprints, no inventory.
  • 66:42 - 66:44
    Yeah, what's left hurts Claus,
    but under Brady,
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    the state has an obligation--
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    Wait, wait, wait a second.
    The cops tested the drugs
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    - from the illegal search, right?
    - Yes, yes.
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    And we are saying that that test
    constituted a second illegal search.
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    There are precedents.
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    - Walter, Jacobson, Morgan.
    - I know there are precedents.
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    I know the law is on our side.
    I'm not debating that.
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    What I'm trying to do is--
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    No. You're debating me personally. Why?
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    I'm debating strategy, okay?
    I'm not--I'm not debating you.
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    We're all on the same team.
  • 67:07 - 67:08
    A-a-are we on the same team here or not?
  • 67:08 - 67:10
    I don't know. We seem to be.
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    Well then, why don't I feel it?
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    I thought this was strictly professional.
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    - It was.
    - That's bullshit, Alan.
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    Look, I brought you--I--I asked you
    to work on this case
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    because I think you are a good lawyer.
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    I think you're a fine lawyer, too.
    You're a great lawyer.
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    But you give everything you have
    to the law,
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    and you forget the people you care about.
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    My clients are the people
    that I care about.
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    Obviously.
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    What I care about, all I care about,
  • 67:30 - 67:32
    all I fucking care about is this!
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    This case!
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    And making--making the best possible
    appeal we're capable of doing, okay?
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    Now, you can make
    your argument better, Sarah.
  • 67:40 - 67:42
    You know that! I know that!
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    So why don't you just do it
    and cut out all the bullshit?
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    Wow, you always have to have
    the last word, don't you?
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    What?
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    We're going to lose.
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    W-why do you think
    this case fascinates people?
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    'Cause one time or other every man
    is driven crazy by his wife,
  • 68:31 - 68:32
    and in his secret heart,
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    he wants to do exactly
    what Claus is accused of,
  • 68:37 - 68:40
    kill her in some sly, silent way
    that can't be detected.
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    Claus is a scapegoat.
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    Someone has to suffer for the sin
    that we all want to commit.
  • 68:48 - 68:50
    Alan, that's ridiculous.
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    It's ridiculous, you're right.
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    It's rid--
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    What do you got?
  • 69:00 - 69:03
    Prosecution's case is based on a theory.
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    The needle in the bag,
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    plus insulin on the needle,
  • 69:07 - 69:10
    - plus insulin in her blood.
    - Right, right, yeah. Okay, fine.
  • 69:11 - 69:14
    In Derek, this Rhode Island Supreme Court,
  • 69:14 - 69:15
    these same judges,
  • 69:16 - 69:20
    said that in a case based
    on circumstantial theory,
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    the case falls apart
  • 69:24 - 69:26
    if any part of the theory is weak.
  • 69:27 - 69:28
    If there's a weak link in the chain,
  • 69:28 - 69:30
    then you throw the whole chain out?
  • 69:30 - 69:31
    Exactly.
  • 69:33 - 69:34
    Peter, that's very--that's good.
  • 69:34 - 69:35
    That--that's very good.
  • 69:40 - 69:41
    Oh, yeah, this is good.
  • 69:41 - 69:43
    - Thank you.
    - Oh, yeah.
  • 69:43 - 69:44
    Wait, wait, wait.
    What do you want me to do now?
  • 69:44 - 69:45
    What I want you to do?
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    I want you to find as many
    alternative theories as possible.
  • 69:49 - 69:52
    Come on, come on, come on.
    There's only seven days left.
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    Dersh? I'm sorry,
    but you better come downstairs.
  • 70:00 - 70:02
    Hey, Dersh. Sorry to get you out of bed.
  • 70:04 - 70:06
    What do you--what do you want, more money?
  • 70:06 - 70:07
    Can you get more?
  • 70:09 - 70:10
    Can I have a glass of water, please?
  • 70:15 - 70:16
    No.
  • 70:16 - 70:17
    The reason I'm here,
  • 70:17 - 70:19
    my affidavit is inaccurate.
  • 70:23 - 70:25
    Great. Just what I need right now.
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    - That's swell.
    - Yeah.
  • 70:29 - 70:31
    I left something out,
    something incredibly important.
  • 70:33 - 70:36
    Remember I gave Alex's drugs
    to a woman at Clarendon Court?
  • 70:37 - 70:38
    Yeah. So?
  • 70:38 - 70:40
    Well, that bitch was
    definitely Sunny von Bulow.
  • 70:42 - 70:44
    David...
  • 70:45 - 70:46
    this, uh...
  • 70:47 - 70:48
    this is bad. It looks bad.
  • 70:48 - 70:51
    I've met with you, what,
    five times now? All of a sudden--
  • 70:51 - 70:53
    No, it's not sudden.
  • 70:54 - 70:55
    I think I always knew,
    but I became convinced
  • 70:56 - 70:57
    by staring at pictures of her.
  • 71:01 - 71:03
    Well, we can't use your affidavit
    unless it's truthful.
  • 71:04 - 71:05
    Are you sure this time?
  • 71:05 - 71:06
    I swear...
  • 71:07 - 71:09
    on the body and soul of my mother.
  • 71:10 - 71:11
    Poor woman.
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    Put in this change and make him go over
  • 71:16 - 71:17
    every word of the affidavit.
  • 71:20 - 71:21
    can I use your men's room?
  • 71:32 - 71:33
    More money?
  • 71:33 - 71:34
    Can you get more?
  • 71:40 - 71:42
    But if Claus had injected her,
  • 71:42 - 71:44
    he'd have thrown away the needle, right?
  • 71:44 - 71:46
    Sure. If he threw away the insulin,
  • 71:47 - 71:48
    why keep the needle?
  • 71:48 - 71:50
    Hey, Claus is strange,
    but he ain't stupid.
  • 71:51 - 71:52
    He is arrogant.
  • 71:52 - 71:53
    Is that a crime?
  • 71:53 - 71:54
    Sometimes.
  • 71:55 - 71:57
    Why are we even discussing this?
  • 71:57 - 71:59
    It's obvious. The kids framed him.
  • 71:59 - 72:01
    Whoa, you changed your tune.
  • 72:04 - 72:06
    A frame-up doesn't mean he's innocent.
  • 72:07 - 72:09
    The kids could have framed a guilty man.
  • 72:10 - 72:11
    Dersh!
  • 72:11 - 72:12
    Telephone!
  • 72:16 - 72:17
    It's Peter Macintosh.
  • 72:18 - 72:19
    Yeah?
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    You know what it is?
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    Okay.
  • 72:34 - 72:36
    Word in Rhode Island
    is that the state can't lose.
  • 72:36 - 72:38
    They got an ace up their sleeve.
  • 72:38 - 72:40
    What is it?
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    He's going to try to find out.
  • 72:46 - 72:47
    All right, my friend...
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    Friend? I like that.
  • 72:49 - 72:50
    Nothing personal.
  • 72:51 - 72:52
    Okay, no students, no witnesses.
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    Second coma. Let's hear it.
  • 72:55 - 72:56
    Well, Alan,
  • 72:56 - 72:58
    strange as it may seem now in retrospect--
  • 72:59 - 73:00
    Claus, cut the bullshit.
  • 73:00 - 73:01
    December 20, 1980.
  • 73:04 - 73:05
    Sunny was unwell.
  • 73:06 - 73:09
    We'd been arguing all afternoon.
  • 73:10 - 73:12
    I'd at last been offered a new position
    in the oil business,
  • 73:13 - 73:15
    which would have meant
    my spending some time in Europe.
  • 73:20 - 73:21
    Well, the discussion must have escalated,
  • 73:22 - 73:24
    because I went to talk to the children.
  • 73:26 - 73:29
    This cargo will bring 50,000 gold florins
  • 73:29 - 73:30
    from any rebels worth the name.
  • 73:31 - 73:32
    50,000 florins?
  • 73:32 - 73:34
    That's a pretty good take.
  • 73:34 - 73:35
    Let's put it to the vote.
  • 73:35 - 73:36
    All those in favor--
  • 73:36 - 73:39
    If you'll forgive
    my interrupting, skipper,
  • 73:39 - 73:41
    I'd like to think before I...
  • 73:43 - 73:46
    I... I've something to tell you both.
  • 73:46 - 73:49
    We're heading for
    the biggest and the best pirate days ever!
  • 73:50 - 73:51
    I...
  • 73:55 - 73:56
    It looks as if...
  • 73:58 - 73:59
    as though...
  • 73:59 - 74:01
    Mummy and I are going to have to split up,
  • 74:03 - 74:06
    because my work is something
    she just cannot tolerate.
  • 74:06 - 74:08
    Mummy says things like that.
  • 74:09 - 74:10
    She always gets over it.
  • 74:11 - 74:14
    Yes, but this has been
    going on for too long.
  • 74:21 - 74:24
    I'm going to Europe for a few months
    in the new year,
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    and this will probably lead to a split.
  • 74:30 - 74:31
    It's all right. She'll get over it.
  • 74:35 - 74:37
    Yeah, well, Alexander says
    that conversation happened the next day.
  • 74:37 - 74:39
    Can you imagine anything more absurd
  • 74:39 - 74:41
    than announcing your intention
    to divorce a woman
  • 74:41 - 74:43
    who's just fallen into a coma?
  • 74:44 - 74:47
    No. That evening,
    everything seemed normal enough.
  • 74:49 - 74:50
    Not cheerful,
  • 74:51 - 74:53
    but then, we didn't usually
    giggle at mealtimes.
  • 74:54 - 74:57
    Despite her doctor's warnings
    about sweets,
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    the only thing Sunny consumed
    was a sundae.
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    After supper, I went to finish off
    some work in my study.
  • 75:15 - 75:16
    Well, what should we all do?
  • 75:16 - 75:18
    The others decided to chat
    in the living room.
  • 75:20 - 75:21
    Ah, that would be lovely, but...
  • 75:22 - 75:25
    first I need to go to my--
    to my room for just a minute.
  • 75:38 - 75:41
    After about an hour, I dropped in on them.
  • 75:45 - 75:47
    Darling, would you care for anything?
  • 75:51 - 75:53
    if there's some...
  • 75:54 - 75:56
    Chicken Bullion left.
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    I'll look.
  • 76:16 - 76:17
    There you are, darling.
  • 76:27 - 76:28
    Thank you.
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    How is your work... coming?
  • 76:38 - 76:39
    I'm totally flummoxed.
  • 76:39 - 76:41
    I can't get the figures to make any sense.
  • 76:44 - 76:46
    Why don't you call your friend Deborah?
  • 76:47 - 76:49
    I doubt she'd be in Saturday night.
  • 76:53 - 76:57
    So, Deborah, I think you'll agree,
    that's 728... right, now.
  • 76:57 - 76:58
    But Deborah was home,
  • 76:58 - 77:01
    and we did talk for some time until...
  • 77:02 - 77:03
    - Claus.
    - Hold on.
  • 77:03 - 77:04
    Come quick. Mummy's not well.
  • 77:05 - 77:07
    Deborah, can I call you back
    in the morning? Thanks.
  • 77:08 - 77:11
    Her voice got very weak and
    she almost fell down. I had to help her.
  • 77:21 - 77:23
    Somebody open a window.
  • 77:26 - 77:28
    I find the chill reassuring.
  • 77:33 - 77:34
    Now I must speak with Claus.
  • 77:35 - 77:36
    - Night, Mummy.
    - Night.
  • 77:41 - 77:42
    Good night, darling.
  • 77:45 - 77:46
    Good night, Alex.
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    She'll be all right.
  • 77:57 - 77:59
    That is, if Claus has time to talk.
  • 78:00 - 78:00
    Or are you going to work
  • 78:01 - 78:03
    every spare moment
    right through Christmas?
  • 78:06 - 78:08
    Is your work really so fascinating,
  • 78:09 - 78:10
    or are you trying to drive me away?
  • 78:10 - 78:12
    Because if you are,
    it's succeeding beautifully,
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    because I don't want this.
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    I didn't marry you for this.
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    I could have had anybody.
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    With my money? Anybody.
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    Well?
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    Say something!
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    Do something!
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    Be a man!
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    I already have a butler.
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    Do something!
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    I don't want this! I don't!
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    I don't want this!
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    Please! I don't--
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    I don't want th...
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    The same conversation
    as the previous year,
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    only this time with greater venom.
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    You've always been afraid of me.
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    It's not because of my money.
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    It's basically because you're a coward.
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    Because your pitiful masculinity
    is so fragile
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    you can't stand the idea of confrontation,
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    so you go off with Miss Botsky--
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    Good night.
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    As was usual,
    I was awakened before dawn.
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    I let the dogs out, as was customary.
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    I went back through the bedroom
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    to my study as quietly as possible.
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    I did not notice if my wife was in bed.
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    I did not notice if the light was on
    under the bathroom door.
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    Had it been on,
    I wouldn't have given it a thought.
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    I did my exercises, showered,
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    and then I called Deborah Knowles.
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    Well, I mean,
    it's stable and it's profitable.
  • 80:08 - 80:10
    Can anyone really believe,
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    if I was trying to murder my wife,
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    that I would spend an hour
    going over a tedious set of figures?
  • 80:17 - 80:20
    After the call, I passed
    through the bedroom again.
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    I remember it was freezing.
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    By this time,
    Sunny was certainly not in bed,
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    and I heard water running in the bathroom.
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    I had breakfast, walked the dogs,
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    and on my return,
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    asked the children where Mummy was.
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    Has Mummy had breakfast yet?
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    We haven't seen her.
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    Sunny?
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    Her bathroom was her private sanctuary.
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    No one entered it,
    except the maid, of course,
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    to clean up.
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    Sometimes she stayed there for hours,
    or so it seemed.
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    One can only speculate what goes on
    behind a closed door.
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    Sunny, are you there?
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    I hesitated even to knock.
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    Darling?
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    Sunny?
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    Oh, God.
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    Once I'd ascertained she was breathing,
  • 81:35 - 81:37
    I went to fetch Alexander.
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    Why not call an ambulance first?
  • 81:39 - 81:42
    Panic, Alan, panic.
  • 81:42 - 81:43
    I mean, I--I...
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    I--I needed to talk to somebody. There--
  • 81:47 - 81:49
    There was no--I wasn't worried that--
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    she was breathing normally.
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    It wasn't--It wasn't like the year before.
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    I mean, in retrospect it seems absurd,
  • 81:56 - 81:59
    but I looked at her upper lip,
    she had blood on it.
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    I thought she'd broken a tooth.
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    That was the extent of my concern,
  • 82:04 - 82:05
    and that's...
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    that's really all--all I can...
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    that's really all I can say.
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    Yeah, but is it the truth?
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    Of course.
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    But not the whole truth?
  • 82:16 - 82:18
    I don't know the whole truth.
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    I don't know what happened to her.
  • 82:21 - 82:22
    Wish I didn't believe you.
  • 82:23 - 82:26
    You know, it's very hard to trust someone
    you don't understand.
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    You're a very strange man.
  • 82:31 - 82:33
    You have no idea.
  • 82:41 - 82:42
    Everybody here?
  • 82:42 - 82:44
    Peter Macintosh is late.
    Says he's got bad news.
  • 82:47 - 82:48
    There he is.
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    Well?
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    I found out what the state has.
  • 83:04 - 83:06
    - Mm-hm.
    - Their ace in the hole.
  • 83:07 - 83:08
    It's you.
  • 83:10 - 83:11
    It's me?
  • 83:12 - 83:15
    David Marriott taped
    all his conversations with you.
  • 83:15 - 83:16
    Oh, great.
  • 83:18 - 83:22
    The scuttlebutt is, if we win the case,
    you go to prison.
  • 83:23 - 83:24
    What did I say?
  • 83:25 - 83:28
    Good ol' corrupt Rhode Island,
    I got a friend to get me an excerpt.
  • 83:28 - 83:29
    The reason I'm here,
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    my affidavit is inaccurate.
  • 83:32 - 83:35
    David, this is bad. It looks bad.
  • 83:35 - 83:36
    What, you want more money?
  • 83:37 - 83:38
    Can you get more?
  • 83:39 - 83:40
    Yeah.
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    Hey, that is not what I said.
  • 83:43 - 83:44
    It's on tape, Alan.
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    I don't care if it's on tape,
    it's not what I said.
  • 83:46 - 83:48
    - What do we do?
    - I don't know.
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    I--I'll tell you what we do.
    We ignore it, that's what we--
  • 83:54 - 83:56
    Alan, with that tape,
    it's your whole career.
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    I now believe Claus is innocent. So.
  • 84:02 - 84:05
    We've decided,
    no tricks, no technicalities.
  • 84:05 - 84:06
    We are going to base our appeal
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    directly and explicitly
    on Claus' innocence.
  • 84:10 - 84:11
    That's not proper.
  • 84:11 - 84:14
    An appeal has to be
    based on judicial error.
  • 84:14 - 84:16
    It is. The judge should've
    thrown out the case.
  • 84:16 - 84:18
    How can you say
    there was insufficient evidence
  • 84:18 - 84:19
    when a jury convicted him?
  • 84:19 - 84:21
    - That's a good point, but--
    - But that's what we are saying.
  • 84:21 - 84:23
    If the rules don't work, you change them.
  • 84:24 - 84:26
    Red Auerbach got
    the jump ball rule changed
  • 84:26 - 84:28
    when the Celtics had a short team.
  • 84:28 - 84:30
    Uh, but it's dangerous politically, Alan.
  • 84:30 - 84:32
    If the judges feel insulted,
    then we're gonna find--
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    Wait up, here. State Supreme Court
    shouldn't even look at an appeal
  • 84:35 - 84:36
    based on new evidence.
  • 84:38 - 84:41
    Hey, guys, I'll take care of that, okay?
  • 84:41 - 84:42
    You just--you leave it to me.
  • 84:44 - 84:46
    Look, I know you're all exhausted.
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    We got four days left.
  • 84:49 - 84:51
    What we do now
    is going to decide this thing.
  • 84:51 - 84:52
    Do you wanna win, or not?
  • 84:52 - 84:53
    - Alan!
    - What?
  • 84:53 - 84:55
    - We've got something.
    - We've hit the jackpot.
  • 84:56 - 84:59
    Our needles that had
    amobarbital and Valium...
  • 84:59 - 85:00
    But no insulin...
  • 85:00 - 85:03
    Both came back with
    false positive readings
  • 85:03 - 85:04
    for insulin.
  • 85:04 - 85:05
    Okay.
  • 85:06 - 85:07
    One was 93, the other 282.
  • 85:07 - 85:10
    We've knocked out every piece
    of their medical case.
  • 85:13 - 85:14
    Good work, good work.
  • 85:14 - 85:16
    Okay, now, now all they've got left
    is my neck.
  • 85:17 - 85:20
    Anybody know anything
    about editing audio tapes?
  • 85:29 - 85:31
    Defense! For what, defense!
  • 85:31 - 85:32
    - Come on!
    - Come on!
  • 85:42 - 85:43
    All right, Alan.
  • 85:44 - 85:45
    - Come on!
    - Hey!
  • 85:45 - 85:46
    Hurry up!
  • 85:47 - 85:48
    - What's going on?
    - Pass it, Alan.
  • 85:49 - 85:51
    I got it. Wait a minute.
    I got it, I got it.
  • 85:51 - 85:53
    - Where's Raj?
    - He's upstairs.
  • 85:53 - 85:54
    - Where you going?
    - Alan!
  • 85:55 - 85:58
    Raj, Raj, I got it.
  • 85:58 - 85:59
    I got it.
  • 85:59 - 86:00
    Remember Maria?
  • 86:01 - 86:02
    She could have said it like this...
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    Insulin?
  • 86:06 - 86:07
    For what, insulin?
  • 86:09 - 86:11
    My lady is not diabetic.
  • 86:11 - 86:14
    You see? "My lady is not diabetic."
  • 86:15 - 86:18
    She is assuming that the bag is Sunny's.
  • 86:18 - 86:20
    Her first reaction, instantaneous,
  • 86:20 - 86:22
    not part of a legal strategy
    devised later,
  • 86:22 - 86:24
    is that the stuff in the black bag
  • 86:24 - 86:25
    belonged to Sunny, not Claus.
  • 86:25 - 86:27
    Who's gonna know better than she?
  • 86:27 - 86:28
    Start writing.
  • 86:30 - 86:32
    You are not God, you are a prosecutor,
  • 86:33 - 86:35
    and Alabama cannot execute
    those Johnson kids
  • 86:35 - 86:36
    before the Supreme Court rules!
  • 86:37 - 86:38
    That--that's right! You heard me right.
  • 86:38 - 86:40
    You've got two hours
    to get to Rhode Island.
  • 86:40 - 86:41
    You're gonna have to speed.
  • 86:41 - 86:42
    You want me to commit a crime?
  • 86:42 - 86:44
    Of course not! Because if you do,
    they're gonna stop you,
  • 86:44 - 86:45
    you're not gonna make the deadline.
  • 86:45 - 86:48
    I'm tellin' you right now, buddy,
    those kids fry, you're next!
  • 86:48 - 86:49
    You forgot your jacket.
  • 86:49 - 86:50
    You're damn right!
  • 86:51 - 86:53
    Some startling developments
    in the von Bulow case.
  • 86:54 - 86:55
    Harvard Law School
    professor Alan Dershowitz
  • 86:56 - 86:58
    had been accused of paying
    for falsified testimony,
  • 86:59 - 87:01
    but those accusations
    were discredited today
  • 87:01 - 87:02
    by the Rhode Island attorney general,
  • 87:02 - 87:05
    who announced that
    David Marriott's tape was doctored
  • 87:05 - 87:08
    and that Marriott
    is not a reliable witness.
  • 87:08 - 87:09
    So, what was he up to, Alan?
  • 87:10 - 87:11
    Who was he working for?
  • 87:12 - 87:13
    Damned if I know.
  • 87:17 - 87:18
    Hope they don't think
    he was working for you.
  • 87:19 - 87:20
    Alan, no one's going to think--
  • 87:20 - 87:22
    Look, I don't think you did it, okay?
  • 87:23 - 87:24
    But at the Chinese restaurant,
  • 87:25 - 87:26
    you did duck the big question.
  • 87:26 - 87:28
    Chuck is our Alexandra Isles expert.
  • 87:30 - 87:31
    Sunny's Aspirin overdose...
  • 87:33 - 87:34
    why did she take so many?
  • 87:36 - 87:38
    What happened? Sunny had a headache?
  • 87:41 - 87:45
    Headache... was Alexandra, right?
  • 87:49 - 87:50
    Let's hear it, Claus.
  • 87:53 - 87:55
    Alexandra was spiteful.
  • 87:56 - 88:00
    On the day of Sunny's Aspirin overdose,
  • 88:01 - 88:04
    she returned some presents I'd given her,
  • 88:04 - 88:06
    some photographs...
  • 88:07 - 88:08
    love letters.
  • 88:10 - 88:12
    She dropped them off in a shopping bag.
  • 88:13 - 88:14
    Did Sunny see them?
  • 88:15 - 88:16
    Sunny was home.
  • 88:17 - 88:18
    I was not.
  • 88:20 - 88:23
    Alexandra neglected to address
    the package to me.
  • 88:24 - 88:27
    I want to be left alone
    with all those beau--beautiful letters.
  • 88:28 - 88:30
    What did you do with those letters?
    Why did you write those letters?
  • 88:33 - 88:36
    There's a big difference
    between knowing about an affair
  • 88:37 - 88:39
    and having love letters
    crammed down your throat.
  • 88:42 - 88:44
    It seems that
    Sunny did care about your affair.
  • 88:44 - 88:46
    She cared a lot.
  • 88:49 - 88:50
    Why didn't you tell us?
  • 88:52 - 88:53
    Everything was open book.
  • 88:55 - 88:56
    "Get the best experts.
  • 88:57 - 88:58
    I'm not afraid of the truth."
  • 89:03 - 89:06
    Looks to me like Alexandra
    tried to force Sunny into a suicide.
  • 89:09 - 89:10
    Or they plotted it together.
  • 89:12 - 89:14
    Either way, he's protecting Alexandra,
  • 89:15 - 89:16
    because he's still in love with her.
  • 89:16 - 89:17
    And why not?
  • 89:18 - 89:19
    I mean, hey, she's a babe.
  • 89:21 - 89:23
    'Course I still love her.
  • 89:26 - 89:27
    And hate her.
  • 89:29 - 89:33
    Alexandra, Sunny, Andrea...
  • 89:36 - 89:37
    I love them all.
  • 89:45 - 89:47
    Being a human being is very literal.
  • 89:48 - 89:49
    You're trapped.
  • 89:49 - 89:51
    Time moves in only one direction,
  • 89:52 - 89:53
    forward.
  • 89:53 - 89:54
    It's stupid and boring
  • 89:55 - 89:56
    and results in a lot of silliness.
  • 89:57 - 89:59
    Example, the legal process.
  • 90:01 - 90:02
    In this particular case,
  • 90:02 - 90:06
    a vast amount of time,
    effort, and money was spent
  • 90:06 - 90:08
    trying to determine
    precisely what happened
  • 90:09 - 90:11
    on those two nights so close to Christmas,
  • 90:11 - 90:16
    December 26th, 1979, December 20th, 1980.
  • 90:18 - 90:19
    Happened right here.
  • 90:21 - 90:24
    Even now it all looks the same,
  • 90:24 - 90:28
    feels the same, smells the same.
  • 90:29 - 90:32
    If you could just go back in time
    and take a peek,
  • 90:32 - 90:34
    you'd know,
  • 90:35 - 90:37
    and all this would be unnecessary.
  • 90:38 - 90:39
    All rise!
  • 90:43 - 90:44
    Hear ye, hear ye!
  • 90:44 - 90:47
    All persons having business
    before the Supreme Court
  • 90:47 - 90:50
    holding in Providence within and for
    the state of Rhode Island
  • 90:50 - 90:51
    may now draw near...
  • 90:52 - 90:53
    Then again,
  • 90:54 - 90:55
    everyone enjoys a circus.
  • 90:57 - 90:58
    Be seated.
  • 91:01 - 91:02
    If the appellant is ready,
    you may proceed.
  • 91:05 - 91:05
    If it please the court,
  • 91:06 - 91:08
    oral argument will be made
    by out-of-state counsel,
  • 91:08 - 91:10
    professor Alan Dershowitz.
  • 91:20 - 91:21
    Your Honors,
  • 91:21 - 91:23
    you may not like Claus von Bulow.
  • 91:24 - 91:26
    You may think he is guilty of something,
  • 91:26 - 91:28
    but I am here to tell you he is innocent.
  • 91:29 - 91:30
    Our new evidence will clear--
  • 91:30 - 91:34
    Professor, you know there isn't
    a single case which allows you
  • 91:34 - 91:37
    to introduce new evidence on appeal.
  • 91:37 - 91:39
    Well, there is one, Your Honor,
  • 91:39 - 91:42
    and you wrote it. Derek.
  • 91:43 - 91:44
    In Derek...
  • 91:45 - 91:47
    in Derek, you yourself said
  • 91:47 - 91:51
    that a case based on circumstantial theory
    rather than fact
  • 91:51 - 91:52
    only stands up
  • 91:52 - 91:55
    if no other theory makes sense.
  • 91:55 - 91:58
    The only way to show a better theory
  • 91:58 - 91:59
    is to present it.
  • 92:05 - 92:06
    Get on with it, counselor.
  • 92:08 - 92:10
    The first issue is the encrusted needle.
  • 92:11 - 92:13
    I hope you will have the courage
  • 92:13 - 92:14
    to free an innocent man
  • 92:14 - 92:16
    and remedy a grave injustice.
  • 92:17 - 92:18
    This will never work.
  • 92:19 - 92:20
    Too smart for his own good.
  • 92:21 - 92:22
    Alan says it will work,
  • 92:23 - 92:25
    if the prosecutor takes the bait.
  • 92:26 - 92:28
    What do you mean, "bait"?
  • 92:29 - 92:30
    Argues the evidence.
  • 92:31 - 92:32
    Your Honors,
  • 92:32 - 92:35
    introduction of new evidence on appeal
  • 92:36 - 92:39
    violates every principle of jurisprudence,
  • 92:40 - 92:41
    every statute,
  • 92:42 - 92:44
    every precedent, every rule of ethics.
  • 92:44 - 92:46
    Ah, he's nailing us right off the bat.
  • 92:46 - 92:48
    I am not going to stand before you
  • 92:48 - 92:50
    and argue Mr. von Bulow's guilt.
  • 92:53 - 92:54
    However,
  • 92:54 - 92:57
    I have no choice but to address
    Mr. Dershowitz' arguments
  • 92:57 - 92:58
    one by one.
  • 92:59 - 93:00
    - Bingo.
    - First,
  • 93:02 - 93:03
    the matter of the encrusted needle...
  • 93:05 - 93:07
    So? Now it's up to the judges.
  • 93:08 - 93:09
    Tell me what you really think.
  • 93:09 - 93:11
    I think it's easier to love somebody
  • 93:12 - 93:13
    than to live with them.
  • 93:15 - 93:16
    Love is fantasy.
  • 93:17 - 93:18
    Living is work.
  • 93:18 - 93:21
    I'll say. And those people
    don't like to work.
  • 93:22 - 93:24
    But, if you don't do the work,
    the love dies,
  • 93:24 - 93:26
    and nobody wants to deal with that one.
  • 93:28 - 93:29
    The love died,
  • 93:30 - 93:31
    Sunny couldn't accept it...
  • 93:33 - 93:34
    so Claus tried to kill her?
  • 93:34 - 93:35
    Maybe.
  • 93:36 - 93:37
    I don't agree.
  • 93:38 - 93:41
    Face it, all we had to do
    was prove the state made a lousy case.
  • 93:41 - 93:43
    We didn't prove that Claus was innocent.
  • 93:43 - 93:45
    We couldn't. We didn't have to,
    and he probably isn't.
  • 93:45 - 93:46
    He isn't? You mean, you thi--
  • 93:46 - 93:48
    I mean, so,
    he didn't inject Sunny with insulin.
  • 93:49 - 93:51
    So what? Break it down.
    First coma, no problem.
  • 93:51 - 93:54
    Even the attending doctor thought
    it was caused by hypoglycemia,
  • 93:54 - 93:56
    loss of air to the brain, and so on.
  • 93:56 - 93:58
    All right. But what about the second coma?
  • 93:58 - 94:01
    I mean, why does Claus act so guilty?
  • 94:01 - 94:04
    Hey, come on, wouldn't any man feel guilty
    if his wife was suicidal?
  • 94:04 - 94:07
    Yeah, so, so maybe she took
    the sleeping pills
  • 94:07 - 94:09
    with the intention of killing herself,
  • 94:10 - 94:14
    but how did she end up lying
    on a marble floor in a freezing bathroom
  • 94:14 - 94:16
    with her head under the toilet bowl?
  • 94:16 - 94:17
    How about this?
  • 95:03 - 95:05
    Sunny wakes up miserable.
  • 95:10 - 95:12
    Second marriage is over.
  • 95:12 - 95:13
    Children are leaving home.
  • 95:14 - 95:15
    What's to live for?
  • 97:23 - 97:25
    But when she was found,
  • 97:25 - 97:26
    her nightgown was hiked over her waist.
  • 97:27 - 97:29
    Exactly. How did it get there?
  • 97:30 - 97:32
    Okay, let's say
    she's standing at the sink.
  • 97:33 - 97:34
    She has to pee.
  • 97:34 - 97:36
    At exactly the same instant,
  • 97:36 - 97:37
    the drugs hit.
  • 97:38 - 97:39
    Body convulses.
  • 97:39 - 97:41
    She grabs the nightgown.
  • 97:45 - 97:46
    I don't buy that.
  • 97:46 - 97:48
    It does seem far-fetched.
  • 97:49 - 97:50
    So's the truth sometimes.
  • 97:50 - 97:53
    Oh, bull. I think she took
    the barbiturates the previous night.
  • 97:53 - 97:55
    And, let's say he saw her take them,
  • 97:56 - 97:59
    or she told him she was going to
    before they fell asleep.
  • 98:08 - 98:11
    This time, he wants her to succeed.
  • 98:20 - 98:21
    Sunny?
  • 98:48 - 98:49
    Maybe there's some way
    he can help her along.
  • 98:51 - 98:54
    Of course, the open window.
  • 98:55 - 98:56
    Zero degrees.
  • 98:58 - 98:59
    But somebody might see her there.
  • 99:00 - 99:04
    The action of dragging her
    would naturally pull up the nightgown.
  • 99:33 - 99:36
    In this cold, how long could she survive?
  • 99:55 - 99:57
    Remember what Sunny said?
  • 99:58 - 99:59
    "I would have been better off.
  • 100:01 - 100:02
    You would have been better off."
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    ...because the law is a blunt instrument.
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    It is not a rapier. It is a cudgel.
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    Tomorrow, death penalty,
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    which reminds me of the comedian who said,
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    "I don't know why
    they call it the death penalty.
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    That's no penalty.
    You're out of the game!"
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    - Good news.
    - Great news.
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    And more good news.
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    The decision came down?
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    They just announced it.
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    Five-zip.
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    We murdered them.
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    Grounds?
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    Well, they got the Brillhoffer notes.
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    And that silly, silly guilty
    man's argument,
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    search and seizure.
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    - Federal or state?
    - Both.
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    - That's important.
    - Yeah, it's federal, they could appeal it
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    in the US Supreme Court.
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    But because it's Rhode Island,
    they can't. We win.
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    Don't--don't get too excited
    until we see Brillhoffer's notes.
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    We destroyed their medical case,
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    but their witnesses
    still carry emotional weight
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    if there's a second trial.
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    Unless...
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    the Brillhoffer notes show
    that they've changed their stories.
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    Good afternoon, sir.
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    Let me get that for you.
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    Thank you.
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    You have Brillhoffer's notes?
  • 101:24 - 101:25
    Yes.
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    Well?
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    They're not what we hoped.
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    I knew it.
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    They're much better.
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    No one mentioned seeing insulin
    when they first talked to Brillhoffer.
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    Plus... Maria told them
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    that at Thanksgiving,
    when she supposedly saw insulin
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    for the first time,
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    she couldn't even read any of the labels.
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    They were all scraped off.
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    What does this mean?
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    It means
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    that if there is a second trial,
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    we can be reasonably confident
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    both the medical case and their witnesses
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    are now highly suspect.
  • 101:57 - 101:59
    Oh, God.
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    So...
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    Darling...
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    This is Alan Dershowitz.
  • 102:22 - 102:24
    Yes, I know. Hello.
  • 102:24 - 102:25
    Alan tells me...
  • 102:26 - 102:28
    well, things look very hopeful.
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    I knew it would come out all right.
  • 102:32 - 102:33
    Thank you.
  • 102:36 - 102:37
    Yes, Alan, thank you.
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    I am eternally grateful.
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    Hey, this means
    we'll be getting back your bail,
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    a million dollars.
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    Uh, I know I still owe you, Alan.
  • 102:47 - 102:48
    Please send me your bill.
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    And maybe when you're in New York,
  • 102:52 - 102:53
    uh, we can...
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    we can meet for lunch. I'd enjoy that.
  • 102:57 - 102:58
    One thing, Claus...
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    legally, this was an important victory.
  • 103:01 - 103:03
    Morally, you're on your own.
  • 103:15 - 103:18
    Claus von Bulow was given a second trial
  • 103:18 - 103:20
    and acquitted on both counts.
  • 103:22 - 103:24
    This is all you can know...
  • 103:26 - 103:27
    all you can be told.
  • 103:28 - 103:30
    When you get where I am,
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    you will know the rest.
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    Two packs of Vantage, please.
  • 104:14 - 104:15
    Anything else?
  • 104:16 - 104:18
    Yes, a vial of insulin.
  • 104:25 - 104:26
    Just kidding.
Title:
PREOKRET SUDBINE(Reversal of Fortune, 1990) - CIJELI FILM sa HR prijevodom.
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