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This was my body.
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On December 27, 1979,
I lay in bed all day.
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Whether I was asleep or in a coma
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.
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.
I 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,
and my elder daughter Ala.
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From this time on, 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,
their darkest fears seemed justified.
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- Has Mummy had breakfast yet?
- No, we haven't seen her.
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My husband did not want our daughter
Cosima to see what he had found,
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so he motioned to his stepson Alex.
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Second coma. 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, ask Robert to open the main
gates. We're expecting an ambulance.
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Send an ambulance immediately...
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Keep her in something warm.
A blanket or anything you can find.
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All this activity was pointless.
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We'd better do an EEG.
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I never woke from this coma,
and I never will.
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I am what doctors call
"persistent vegetative", a vegetable.
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According to medical experts, 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,
former Manhattan district attorney.
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My two children from my first marriage,
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, to search for drugs.
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They found plenty... in Claus's closet.
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On top of that, the hospital lab reported
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that my blood insulin on admission
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
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, 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, was the daughter
of an old friend, 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 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
to murder me with injections of insulin.
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On March 16, 1982, he was
found guilty on both counts.
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... committed
on December 27, 1979...
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Even Alexandra Isles
testified against him.
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Guilty.
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As to count two, charged the defendant
committed on December 21, 1980,
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a crime of assault with intent to murder.
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- How do you find?
- 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! Here it comes. Here we go,
taking you downtown! And Dersh...
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Take it in! Foul! OK, here I go.
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Watch the hands! Watch the hands!
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Yeah, hello.
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What?
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Oh, shit... Bottom line.
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Aw, shit!
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Hi.
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Let's try that again.
Hi, Dad. Remember Maggie?
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Hi, Maggie.
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They're gonna fry. The Johnson brothers.
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What? But...
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Two black kids broke
their father out of prison.
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The father shot two people:
the sons are convicted of murder.
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A lawyer prays for an innocent client.
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Finally, I get two.
Both of them are gonna get zapped.
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- No more appeals?
- This was the best shot.
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Whoa. 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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Hang on a second.
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Claus von Bulow.
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- It's a reporter.
- 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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Yeah, 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.
Who are you? What do you want?
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- It is von Bulow.
- Back in business.
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- Can I help you?
- Claus von Bulow?
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Elevators to the left.
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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.
- Pleasure.
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Won't you sit down?
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- Do you play?
- That? No.
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Most people think it's a game of luck.
Actually, it's largely a matter of nerve.
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Erm... 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 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, 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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In America, it's fame rather than class.
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Now, after all this unpleasantness,
I always get the best table.
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- Speaking of the unpleasantness...
- Oh, yes. We'd better discuss your fee.
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OK. $300 an hour.
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Good Lord.
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You know, I used to be a lawyer
in London. That sounds a bit steep.
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It's average for a case like this.
Besides, I do a lot of pro bono work.
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You'd pay for that. Plus,
I have to pay students, associates.
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Are you saying that if I agree to pay 300,
you will handle my appeal?
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No, not so far.
Doesn't look like my kind of case.
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I'm not a hired gun. I gotta feel a moral
or constitutional issue is 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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Two black kids are facing the electric
chair 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,
won't you hear my story?
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No. Never let defendants explain. Puts
most of them in an awkward position.
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- How do you mean?
- Lying.
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But I give you my word as a gentleman.
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Oh. Well...
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Won't you at least read the record
and see if you can find something...
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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.
Yeah! Come on, Max.
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It was a hit! Yes!
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- So, what do you think?
- Oh, he did it. He did it.
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- Of course he did it. Can we win?
- A hundred to one against.
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The maid schmeared him on both comas.
Look at this. It says here...
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After you realized that Mrs. von Bulow
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 had a very sore throat,
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and I didn't have to do any work,
and she was in bed all day.
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What are you doing? 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. She's sleeping. She
drank last night. We didn't get any rest.
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She's not sleeping. 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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Finally, mid-afternoon,
Mr. von Bulow spoke to Dr. Paultees.
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But he lied to doctor.
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She's sleeping now, but earlier she was
up to the bathroom and had a soft drink,
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so there's no cause for alarm...
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But she never moved.
Never got up.
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She was lying
in the same position all day.
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Later her heart stops, and
Dr. Paultees, he comes and saves her.
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After they go to the hospital,
I change the sheets.
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I find a puddle of urine.
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If Madame went to the bathroom,
she would not have peed in her bed.
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Right.
Why would Claus lie about that?
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It's suspicious but hardly criminal.
How about the second coma?
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Maria wasn't in Newport for that one.
But shortly before the second coma...
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I'm cleaning up their room
when I find Mr. von Bulow's 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! Alexander, come here!
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Insulin? For what, insulin?
My lady's not diabetic.
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Three weeks later,
Sunny's lying unconscious
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in a freezing bathroom with
her nightgown hiked over her waist.
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If I was on that jury,
I would've voted to convict.
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Then you're taking the case?
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Reminds me of my Hitler dream.
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Hitler calls up, 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:
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.
- Then kill him.
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I'm a maniac. I need your judgment,
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someone to watch what I'm doing and
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.
We agree on nothing.
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But you're smarter than the DA. If I can
beat your arguments, I can destroy his.
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Rhode Island is corrupt. Everything is
political. I don't think that way. You do.
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I have to see the big picture.
I can't immerse myself in facts.
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But we must know the facts.
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No one can assimilate information
as quickly as you two.
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I agree with that assessment.
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- You're out of your mind.
- I only have 45 days to file.
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I can't do it without you.
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- I know you don't wanna come back...
- Is this strictly professional?
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It better be.
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That's wonderful. 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,
some of your colleagues at Harvard.
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Wait a minute, Claus.
We got a little problem, OK?
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People like that, we can't control.
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They find one incriminating fact,
they'll tell the world.
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I'm not afraid, Alan.
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, Daddy.
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My daughter Cosima.
She never doubted me.
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She loves Alex and Ala dearly. Siding
with me has cost her their affections.
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I don't know what I would've done.
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I don't want to hear your story,
but I do need some information.
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Of course.
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I gather the older children deny Sunny
had a problem with pills and alcohol.
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Spectacular understatement.
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So there must be somebody
who saw it. A witness, a friend?
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- You want affidavits?
- Yes.
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- I'll get them.
- You'll get them.
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The drugs prescribed for me
were taken by Sunny.
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That's a lot of drugs.
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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 gave ourselves B12 injections
in the late '60s. It was quite the fad.
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Can I explain something? The less I know
from you, the more options I have.
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When you tell me "the truth", you limit me
to a defense that fits with what you 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 without calling a doctor?
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Because Sunny detested doctors.
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If we called one without her approval,
she went berserk.
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Once she broke her hip and
didn't go to hospital for two days.
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- Did you hear what I just said?
- Did you hear the judge sentence me?
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Sorry. 30 years is a pretty stiff sentence.
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Twice trying to murder one's wife,
anything less would be monstrous.
243
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But for a man like myself,
who did nothing...
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What I wanted to ask:
if we lose the appeal,
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will I have the chance later to set my
affairs in order before I'm incarcerated?
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In Europe, a gentleman is given
the opportunity to end things properly.
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- Come on, Claus.
- We are each the keeper of our own soul.
248
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Two big problems:
the case against him is very strong,
249
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and the legal conviction isn't the only
conviction that we've got to reverse.
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The more dangerous conviction
is the absolute certainty
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of the American people
that Claus is guilty.
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Finding grounds for reversal
won't be enough here.
253
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Judges on the Rhode Island
Supreme Court
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will have to go home to their spouses
and explain why they reversed.
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To get them to do that, we have to
obliterate every aspect of the state's case.
256
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Destroy 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.
259
00:23:24,168 --> 00:23:28,923
Now, I assume that you've all had
an opportunity to look at the transcripts.
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First impressions?
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I think this whole thing stinks.
I think Claus von Bulow stinks.
262
00:23:36,139 --> 00:23:39,475
He's obviously guilty of
something pretty despicable,
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and, if we free him, we become partners
in his crime, accessories after the fact.
264
00:23:45,773 --> 00:23:49,235
I'm shocked, with your record
defending the poor and oppressed,
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that you've taken this case.
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00:23:54,198 --> 00:23:57,368
I won't have anything to do with it.
267
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And I hope my fellow students
won't, either. Goodbye.
268
00:24:02,415 --> 00:24:07,044
My I exercise my First Amendment
right to free speech?
269
00:24:08,963 --> 00:24:15,052
If lawyers only defended the innocent,
there'd be just ten lawyers in the country.
270
00:24:15,178 --> 00:24:17,930
Why help guilty people get off?
271
00:24:19,223 --> 00:24:21,434
You're sure he's guilty? 100% sure?
272
00:24:21,559 --> 00:24:26,314
He had a lawyer. He had a trial.
He was convicted.
273
00:24:26,439 --> 00:24:29,317
- Are you sure he had a fair trial?
- Come on!
274
00:24:29,442 --> 00:24:32,653
It's the basis of the whole legal system!
275
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Everyone gets a defense.
276
00:24:36,407 --> 00:24:42,580
So the system is there for the one
innocent person who was falsely accused.
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00:24:42,705 --> 00:24:47,710
OK, look. Say it's you. OK?
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You decide to get a divorce.
You're gonna divorce your husband.
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A week later, you're accused
of molesting your son.
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Don't give me that look.
Stuff like this happens all the time.
281
00:25:02,683 --> 00:25:06,312
Suddenly, you're alone. You hate it.
282
00:25:06,437 --> 00:25:12,109
It's a nightmare.
Everyone assumes that you are guilty.
283
00:25:12,235 --> 00:25:16,280
Even the mailman is beginning
to look at you a little funny.
284
00:25:16,405 --> 00:25:19,200
You only got one person
who believes in you.
285
00:25:19,325 --> 00:25:23,538
There's only one person
you can trust: your lawyer.
286
00:25:24,372 --> 00:25:29,043
Yeah, OK. So, someone's
gotta defend Claus.
287
00:25:29,168 --> 00:25:31,462
But why you? Why us?
288
00:25:32,755 --> 00:25:35,299
Look, you're my student.
You have a choice.
289
00:25:35,424 --> 00:25:39,262
You don't have to do anything
you don't want to. That is your choice.
290
00:25:39,387 --> 00:25:43,307
The reason I take cases - and here
I'm unlike most other lawyers,
291
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who are not professors
and have to make a living -
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I take cases cos I get pissed off.
293
00:25:50,606 --> 00:25:53,109
And I am pissed off here.
294
00:25:53,234 --> 00:25:58,823
The family hired a private prosecutor.
Unacceptable!
295
00:25:58,948 --> 00:26:02,160
They conducted a private search!
296
00:26:02,285 --> 00:26:06,747
Now, we let 'em get away with that, rich
people won't go to the cops any more.
297
00:26:06,873 --> 00:26:12,044
You know what they'll do? Get
their own lawyers to collect evidence.
298
00:26:12,170 --> 00:26:15,590
And then they are going
to choose which evidence
299
00:26:15,715 --> 00:26:18,176
they feel like passing on to the DA.
300
00:26:18,301 --> 00:26:21,846
And the next victim isn't
gonna be rich like von Bulow,
301
00:26:21,971 --> 00:26:28,978
but is gonna be some poor schnook who
can't afford or can't find a decent lawyer.
302
00:26:34,775 --> 00:26:39,780
I think it's a little more complicated
than your simple moral superiority.
303
00:26:41,657 --> 00:26:43,201
No?
304
00:26:43,326 --> 00:26:47,580
I agree von Bulow is guilty, but that's
the fun. I mean, that's the challenge.
305
00:26:47,705 --> 00:26:50,500
See? Now, there is a lawyer.
306
00:26:51,876 --> 00:26:54,504
- What?
- I have Mr. von Bulow for you.
307
00:26:54,629 --> 00:26:56,839
OK, put him on.
308
00:26:56,964 --> 00:27:02,011
Alan, a rather unsavory character
called David Marriott contacted me,
309
00:27:02,136 --> 00:27:06,557
claiming to have information about
a drug delivery at Clarendon Court.
310
00:27:06,682 --> 00:27:09,393
- OK. Where does he live?
- Somewhere in Wakefield.
311
00:27:09,519 --> 00:27:11,562
OK, we'll get on it.
312
00:27:12,313 --> 00:27:16,275
Tom, I want you to get
a private investigator
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00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,238
to dig into a David Marriott,
lives in Wakefield.
314
00:27:21,322 --> 00:27:25,284
- OK. How are we gonna win this case?
- The judge made lots of mistakes.
315
00:27:25,409 --> 00:27:28,120
Judges always make mistakes.
How will we win?
316
00:27:28,246 --> 00:27:30,832
One issue leaps up.
This lawyer, Brillhoffer,
317
00:27:30,957 --> 00:27:35,211
interviewed Alex, Maria, everybody.
He was the first to hear their stories.
318
00:27:35,336 --> 00:27:38,631
He took notes and used them at trial
against a defense witness.
319
00:27:38,756 --> 00:27:42,593
But the defense never saw the notes.
The judge wouldn't let us have them.
320
00:27:42,718 --> 00:27:45,054
It's perfect Brady.
321
00:27:45,179 --> 00:27:48,683
OK, why don't you draft a letter,
writing to Brillhoffer,
322
00:27:48,808 --> 00:27:51,352
asking him very nicely
to send us his notes?
323
00:27:51,477 --> 00:27:55,815
- Yeah, right. He'll fax them right over.
- Yeah, right.
324
00:27:55,940 --> 00:27:58,067
We could win on this issue alone.
325
00:27:58,192 --> 00:28:01,779
You know it, I know it.
Just make sure he knows it.
326
00:28:01,904 --> 00:28:04,949
- Now, Nancy and Dobbs.
- Yes?
327
00:28:05,074 --> 00:28:08,244
They're going to attack
the medical testimony.
328
00:28:08,369 --> 00:28:11,581
Our Rhode Island counsel,
Peter Macintosh,
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00:28:11,706 --> 00:28:14,292
he will analyze the state supreme court.
330
00:28:14,417 --> 00:28:19,213
The rest of us should begin dissecting
the transcript. Errors, inconsistencies.
331
00:28:19,338 --> 00:28:25,344
OK, great. Now remember, most cases
are won in the field, not in court.
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00:28:26,095 --> 00:28:28,139
Minnie?
333
00:28:29,223 --> 00:28:31,642
You wanna work with Sarah on this?
334
00:28:31,767 --> 00:28:35,521
- You may learn something.
- Come on, Minnie.
335
00:28:35,646 --> 00:28:37,064
Minnie!
336
00:28:37,190 --> 00:28:40,359
- Please?
- Come on.
337
00:28:41,277 --> 00:28:45,615
I don't trust Marriott. I don't know him.
But if he knew Alex von Auersberg...
338
00:28:45,740 --> 00:28:49,410
You're crazy. I don't know who
you think you are. Perry Mason?
339
00:28:49,535 --> 00:28:54,123
Let our private investigator interview him.
It's stupid and unprofessional.
340
00:28:54,248 --> 00:28:57,168
- It's fun.
- Fun? This guy is a sleaze.
341
00:28:57,293 --> 00:29:01,464
- You don't know what he's gonna try.
- What, is he gonna shoot me?
342
00:29:01,589 --> 00:29:03,633
Come on, I'm from Brooklyn.
343
00:29:09,263 --> 00:29:14,352
OK, I'll stand by the window every ten
minutes. That way you can know I'm safe.
344
00:29:15,937 --> 00:29:21,609
I had this friend, Gilbert Jackson.
Interior decorator.
345
00:29:21,734 --> 00:29:24,695
Flaming queen,
but a very excellent guy.
346
00:29:26,864 --> 00:29:29,450
He introduced me to Alex von Auersberg.
347
00:29:30,451 --> 00:29:32,328
Sure it was Alex?
348
00:29:32,453 --> 00:29:38,084
We had dinner a few times, drinks.
All I knew, Alex was some rich kid.
349
00:29:39,127 --> 00:29:43,840
So sometimes - this is like summer of '77-
350
00:29:43,965 --> 00:29:46,509
I'd motor to Newport for some R and R.
351
00:29:46,634 --> 00:29:49,095
Gilbert asked me to bring Alex a package.
352
00:29:50,138 --> 00:29:54,183
I figured interior decoration.
Maybe drapes.
353
00:29:54,308 --> 00:29:56,894
Like six times. So I'd call Alex.
354
00:29:57,019 --> 00:30:00,231
- How did you get his phone number?
- From Gilbert.
355
00:30:00,356 --> 00:30:02,900
- You still have it?
- Maybe.
356
00:30:03,901 --> 00:30:06,070
I'm that kind of guy.
357
00:30:31,721 --> 00:30:33,764
Here.
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00:30:39,103 --> 00:30:43,232
One night, I got curious.
Opened the package.
359
00:30:44,150 --> 00:30:49,489
Fuckin' pharmacy, man.
Needles, syringes, white powder,
360
00:30:49,614 --> 00:30:54,076
nice selection of pills, Demerol...
Like a drugstore.
361
00:30:56,037 --> 00:31:00,249
You delivered drugs six times
and didn't know it?
362
00:31:02,001 --> 00:31:05,922
Stupid, huh?
Then Gilbert asked me again.
363
00:31:06,798 --> 00:31:11,427
I couldn't say no, but this time I made
Alex open the package in front of me.
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00:31:11,552 --> 00:31:13,596
Voil�.
365
00:31:14,764 --> 00:31:17,934
I go "Awful lot of pharmaceuticals
for one person."
366
00:31:18,059 --> 00:31:22,063
He goes "Oh, I give some
to my mom to keep her off my back."
367
00:31:23,856 --> 00:31:27,568
A few weeks later,
Gilbert gets mistaken for a softball.
368
00:31:27,693 --> 00:31:32,615
Two guys bash his head in.
Alex calls me, totally urinary.
369
00:31:32,740 --> 00:31:37,620
Will the cops find his phone number
and fuck up his trust fund or something?
370
00:31:37,745 --> 00:31:43,543
Well, that's the fat. That's the skinny.
You like it?
371
00:31:45,753 --> 00:31:48,381
You traffic with drug dealers
and drag queens,
372
00:31:48,506 --> 00:31:51,509
you have a part-time job,
you ride in rented limos.
373
00:31:51,634 --> 00:31:56,514
All in all, I'd say you're probably the least
impressive witness I've ever seen.
374
00:31:56,639 --> 00:31:59,225
Wait a minute.
375
00:32:01,769 --> 00:32:05,064
You think I'm scum, don't you?
376
00:32:05,189 --> 00:32:08,609
Blow it out your ass.
377
00:32:08,734 --> 00:32:12,530
You want a witness to back me up?
I'll get one.
378
00:32:12,655 --> 00:32:16,784
And hey, maybe I'll see you
at the Celtics, huh?
379
00:32:28,379 --> 00:32:32,133
I am not going to let them execute you.
You're not gonna die.
380
00:32:32,258 --> 00:32:37,054
Look, Johnny, this is gonna be
a lot easier on you if you don't cry, OK?
381
00:32:37,180 --> 00:32:40,516
I... I know your brother's hysterical.
382
00:32:40,641 --> 00:32:43,519
Number one, they always
set a date for the execution,
383
00:32:43,644 --> 00:32:45,730
and they always postpone it.
384
00:32:45,855 --> 00:32:51,402
He's great like this. I just wish he had
something left for those around him.
385
00:32:51,527 --> 00:32:54,197
Why are you talking to me about money?
386
00:32:54,322 --> 00:32:57,074
Anyway, it's nice to have you back here.
387
00:32:57,992 --> 00:33:00,036
Say hello to your brother.
388
00:33:00,161 --> 00:33:02,497
Right. OK.
389
00:33:10,755 --> 00:33:13,257
OK, who's got what?
390
00:33:15,259 --> 00:33:20,223
Maria's testimony. She says Sunny
did take Valium prescribed for Claus.
391
00:33:20,348 --> 00:33:22,141
Score one for von Bulow.
392
00:33:22,266 --> 00:33:25,561
- And this Jamie Smather prescription?
- Who's Jamie Smather?
393
00:33:25,686 --> 00:33:30,983
300-pound red-headed hooker in white
boots. She supplied Claus with Valium.
394
00:33:31,108 --> 00:33:33,820
He had a gorgeous mistress
and went to an ugly whore?
395
00:33:33,945 --> 00:33:37,031
There are some things
even mistresses won't do.
396
00:33:39,033 --> 00:33:41,619
- Like what?
- I am not telling.
397
00:33:43,121 --> 00:33:48,000
Anyway, Maria swears she first saw
this Jamie Smather prescription
398
00:33:48,126 --> 00:33:51,963
February 14th,
and then again February 28th.
399
00:33:52,088 --> 00:33:55,049
- So?
- It wasn't prescribed till the 28th.
400
00:33:55,174 --> 00:33:57,718
You're not suggesting she's lying?
401
00:33:57,844 --> 00:34:00,680
How about Maria's insulin?
Anything more on that?
402
00:34:00,805 --> 00:34:02,849
Not yet.
403
00:34:03,850 --> 00:34:06,727
Something about that bothers me.
404
00:34:07,645 --> 00:34:12,150
- OK, who's next?
- Brillhoffer wrote back.
405
00:34:12,275 --> 00:34:14,402
He's very attached to his notes.
406
00:34:17,238 --> 00:34:21,742
"I am satisfied that there is not
a scrap of paper in my files
407
00:34:21,868 --> 00:34:24,996
that might even arguably
be viewed as exculpatory."
408
00:34:25,121 --> 00:34:29,917
- Translation?
- He says he has nothing that'd help us.
409
00:34:31,377 --> 00:34:33,713
- You with me?
- Pay dirt.
410
00:34:33,838 --> 00:34:35,798
- What?
- He's a lawyer.
411
00:34:35,923 --> 00:34:38,843
If he didn't have anything,
he'd give it to us.
412
00:34:38,968 --> 00:34:42,305
But there's something there,
and he'll fight to hold on to it.
413
00:34:42,430 --> 00:34:46,309
I will bet my fee that no one
remembered seeing insulin
414
00:34:46,434 --> 00:34:48,561
until after the lab report came back.
415
00:34:48,686 --> 00:34:51,814
- So you're suggesting...
- Memory enhancement.
416
00:34:51,939 --> 00:34:55,151
- It might be more than that.
- Possibly.
417
00:34:56,235 --> 00:34:59,697
- A frame-up.
- You mean, by the kids?
418
00:34:59,822 --> 00:35:03,534
- Where d'you get this? Brillhoffer's letter?
- Pure deduction.
419
00:35:03,659 --> 00:35:08,873
A good lawyer is part psychiatrist,
detective, logician.
420
00:35:08,998 --> 00:35:13,127
- A great lawyer...
- Never would have taken this case.
421
00:35:13,795 --> 00:35:18,132
If there's nothing more...
Has anybody read this?
422
00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:21,594
It's an interview with Truman Capote.
423
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:26,766
He says, when she was 19, Sunny von
Bulow taught him how to inject drugs.
424
00:35:26,891 --> 00:35:28,226
Let me see that.
425
00:35:31,020 --> 00:35:37,068
- Well, well, well. The famous professor.
- My new girlfriend, Andrea Reynolds.
426
00:35:37,193 --> 00:35:40,488
- I'm not his girlfriend. I'm his savior.
- Perfectly true.
427
00:35:40,613 --> 00:35:45,743
Two days after the trial, we fell in love.
It was really very dramatic.
428
00:35:45,868 --> 00:35:47,912
Andrea, Andrea, Andrea, come on.
429
00:35:48,621 --> 00:35:51,874
Since then, I've devoted my life
to clearing his name.
430
00:35:51,999 --> 00:35:54,752
I made him hire you.
431
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,297
"Get the Jew," I said.
432
00:35:59,132 --> 00:36:01,050
Darling...
433
00:36:01,175 --> 00:36:04,053
Can the Jew get down to business?
434
00:36:04,178 --> 00:36:07,557
We've got an affidavit. Smythe.
435
00:36:07,682 --> 00:36:13,271
Mrs. Ruth Smythe gave us an affidavit
corroborating Truman Capote.
436
00:36:13,396 --> 00:36:15,565
I have affidavits, too.
437
00:36:17,233 --> 00:36:20,570
Newport people.
They describe Sunny taking pills,
438
00:36:20,695 --> 00:36:22,738
getting drunk and falling down,
439
00:36:22,864 --> 00:36:26,409
thumping into doorways,
smearing lipstick all over her face.
440
00:36:26,534 --> 00:36:29,579
- Not a very pretty picture.
- She did it, didn't she?
441
00:36:29,704 --> 00:36:31,747
Don't be a priss.
442
00:36:32,832 --> 00:36:35,793
- Sunny was a lovely woman.
- Spoiled rotten.
443
00:36:35,918 --> 00:36:39,547
Yes, but lovely. Till she drank.
444
00:36:40,089 --> 00:36:43,676
Two drinks, and she became...
nasty, irrational.
445
00:36:43,801 --> 00:36:47,305
All women are irrational.
Did we mention the priest?
446
00:36:47,430 --> 00:36:53,644
Oh. Marriott apparently confided
in a priest, who's consented to talk to us.
447
00:36:56,647 --> 00:36:59,150
Father Capello from Providence.
448
00:37:00,693 --> 00:37:05,865
A priest? A priest is the ideal witness.
It's like getting the word of God.
449
00:37:05,990 --> 00:37:08,701
I checked. God is unavailable.
450
00:37:09,577 --> 00:37:12,205
lf... if the priest comes through,
451
00:37:12,330 --> 00:37:14,957
and we can get documentation
on Sunny's drug use,
452
00:37:15,082 --> 00:37:17,335
self-injection may be a plausible theory.
453
00:37:17,460 --> 00:37:21,130
- There's no insulin in this case.
- But people do use insulin.
454
00:37:21,255 --> 00:37:24,801
They use it for dieting.
Sunny was concerned about her weight.
455
00:37:24,926 --> 00:37:29,430
Maybe, but believe me, Alan,
there's no insulin here.
456
00:37:32,934 --> 00:37:35,770
Really? How can you be so sure?
457
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:50,243
You realize, with this case,
I'm looking for evidence to exonerate you.
458
00:37:50,368 --> 00:37:55,498
But, at the same time, I'm also
wondering... what really happened.
459
00:37:55,623 --> 00:37:59,335
- Who you are.
- Who would you like me to be?
460
00:38:03,005 --> 00:38:05,424
Your mother's death... What happened?
461
00:38:07,051 --> 00:38:10,012
I believe she had a heart problem.
462
00:38:10,138 --> 00:38:12,640
The rumor in England is you killed her.
463
00:38:12,765 --> 00:38:16,561
Hey, Alan. Statute of limitations
ran out on that years ago.
464
00:38:16,686 --> 00:38:19,480
There's rumors also that I killed my aunt.
465
00:38:21,649 --> 00:38:25,611
And that I'm a necrophiliac
who injected Sunny with insulin
466
00:38:25,736 --> 00:38:28,406
so that I could have my way with her.
467
00:38:29,323 --> 00:38:30,950
Please.
468
00:38:31,951 --> 00:38:35,151
Your Mother's death was not
recorded for five full days.
469
00:38:35,252 --> 00:38:36,352
True.
470
00:38:38,453 --> 00:38:39,653
- Where were you during that time ?
471
00:38:40,254 --> 00:38:41,354
In the flat.
472
00:38:41,755 --> 00:38:42,755
-Where the body was ?
473
00:38:50,356 --> 00:38:52,056
My mother is my own business.
474
00:38:58,832 --> 00:39:03,754
Did Claus drive me crazy?
Even I don't know.
475
00:39:04,630 --> 00:39:08,717
But it's true that I took
up to 24 laxatives daily,
476
00:39:08,842 --> 00:39:11,428
popped aspirin like M&M's,
477
00:39:11,553 --> 00:39:14,515
smoked three packs of cigarettes a day,
478
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,518
had a problem with alcohol,
479
00:39:17,643 --> 00:39:19,978
took Valium and Seconal frequently
480
00:39:20,104 --> 00:39:22,981
and consumed large quantities of sweets,
481
00:39:23,107 --> 00:39:26,485
despite a medical condition,
hypoglycemia,
482
00:39:26,610 --> 00:39:28,821
which made them hazardous.
483
00:39:29,947 --> 00:39:32,908
As for my state of mind...
484
00:39:37,913 --> 00:39:42,042
I had not had sex with
my husband for years.
485
00:39:43,669 --> 00:39:50,300
My schedule was: I woke at 9.30,
did a little exercise and shopping,
486
00:39:50,426 --> 00:39:55,556
and returned to bed at 3 o'clock
for the remainder of the afternoon.
487
00:39:55,681 --> 00:40:01,520
I liked to be in bed.
I didn't much like anything else.
488
00:40:07,484 --> 00:40:09,570
Hold on here, will you?
489
00:40:27,713 --> 00:40:29,882
- Come in.
- Alan.
490
00:40:30,007 --> 00:40:33,177
Welcome to my humble law firm.
491
00:40:33,302 --> 00:40:37,389
In the kitchen,
our insulin-on-the-needle team.
492
00:40:37,514 --> 00:40:40,476
They're cooking up
some surprise for us.
493
00:40:45,064 --> 00:40:48,192
This is our Brillhoffer-notes team.
494
00:40:48,317 --> 00:40:49,943
Mr. von Bulow.
495
00:40:50,069 --> 00:40:53,864
- Where are the paper towels?
- Ask Sarah!
496
00:40:53,989 --> 00:40:56,033
Sarah used to live here.
497
00:40:57,242 --> 00:41:00,913
This... I guess he was up all night.
498
00:41:08,545 --> 00:41:11,715
This sort of commune,
you do it on every case?
499
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:17,971
Never before. 38 days to write
100 pages. Only way to get it done.
500
00:41:18,097 --> 00:41:22,101
Here's the black-bag team.
Illegal-search team.
501
00:41:31,276 --> 00:41:36,240
My son Elon lost his room. Actually
this is another case that you're paying for.
502
00:41:37,741 --> 00:41:41,578
- And this is my team.
- You wish.
503
00:41:41,704 --> 00:41:44,331
I can't find the damn thing.
504
00:41:44,456 --> 00:41:49,294
- Hi. I'm Sarah.
- And a very lovely Sarah you are.
505
00:41:49,420 --> 00:41:53,716
- Does that really work?
- Flattery? Absolutely.
506
00:41:55,300 --> 00:41:56,844
Like Chinese food?
507
00:41:58,053 --> 00:42:01,306
What do you give a wife
who has everything?
508
00:42:02,599 --> 00:42:05,102
An injection of insulin.
509
00:42:07,479 --> 00:42:13,569
How... Ah, my prawns.
How can one define a fear of insulin?
510
00:42:14,653 --> 00:42:16,864
Claustrophobia.
511
00:42:22,077 --> 00:42:26,373
Is there anything more you can
tell us about Alexandra Isles?
512
00:42:26,498 --> 00:42:30,627
Is it true that she gave you a deadline
of Christmas 1979 to be together?
513
00:42:30,753 --> 00:42:34,340
Not really. No, she knew
I was looking for full-time work.
514
00:42:34,465 --> 00:42:36,800
I worked for JP Getty in London.
515
00:42:36,925 --> 00:42:40,721
Alexandra assumed that, when you did
find a job, you'd marry her?
516
00:42:40,846 --> 00:42:43,057
Oh, she assumed it.
517
00:42:44,808 --> 00:42:47,770
Did you sense that she
wanted to get back together?
518
00:42:47,895 --> 00:42:50,856
Very much so.
In fact, at the trial, she said...
519
00:42:50,981 --> 00:42:55,694
I loved him, but I was still
caught up in my own anger.
520
00:42:56,820 --> 00:43:02,284
And I'm sorry I acted that way then.
I loved him then. I was angry.
521
00:43:03,285 --> 00:43:05,829
Let me ask you this.
Maybe you can't answer.
522
00:43:05,954 --> 00:43:08,207
Do you still love him?
523
00:43:09,416 --> 00:43:10,417
I don't know.
524
00:43:10,542 --> 00:43:13,462
- That means yes.
- It would seem so.
525
00:43:13,587 --> 00:43:18,175
In fact, after the trial, she wrote me
a letter saying so explicitly.
526
00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:23,639
A very passionate letter.
Passionate and jealous.
527
00:43:24,306 --> 00:43:28,560
But that was the relationship
from the outset. That was Alexandra.
528
00:43:28,686 --> 00:43:31,939
She was your love slave.
529
00:43:37,695 --> 00:43:44,451
Ah. I think now I'll have my own
individual order of ginger prawns.
530
00:43:47,162 --> 00:43:51,917
Three weeks before her final coma,
Sunny overdosed on aspirin.
531
00:43:52,042 --> 00:43:55,671
- Can you tell us about that?
- I had nothing to do with that.
532
00:43:55,796 --> 00:43:59,216
Of course not.
I'm asking you what happened.
533
00:43:59,341 --> 00:44:01,677
Sunny had been unwell.
534
00:44:08,559 --> 00:44:12,521
- Are you all right?
- Just a bit dizzy.
535
00:44:14,481 --> 00:44:16,817
If you're dizzy, don't go wandering...
536
00:44:32,750 --> 00:44:34,793
Sunny?
537
00:44:36,879 --> 00:44:40,090
Oh, my God. Come on, my darling.
538
00:44:40,215 --> 00:44:43,469
You're all right. Put your arm
around my shoulder.
539
00:44:43,594 --> 00:44:47,848
No, you're all right. Come on,
we'll get you back into bed.
540
00:44:49,683 --> 00:44:53,812
- Something happened to my head.
- You're all right.
541
00:44:53,937 --> 00:44:56,607
It's just a little cut.
542
00:44:56,732 --> 00:44:59,610
Come on, let's get you lying down.
543
00:45:02,946 --> 00:45:04,990
There you are.
544
00:45:08,243 --> 00:45:09,620
There.
545
00:45:12,790 --> 00:45:15,834
- Shall I call a doctor?
- No!
546
00:45:15,959 --> 00:45:20,631
No, I don't want a doctor.
Just... I don't want a doctor.
547
00:45:20,756 --> 00:45:23,050
I just wanna be left alone.
548
00:45:24,385 --> 00:45:27,763
I wanna be left alone
with all those beautiful letters.
549
00:45:27,888 --> 00:45:32,017
What did you do with those letters?
Why did you write those letters?
550
00:45:32,643 --> 00:45:35,562
Later the doctor said
we needn't have gone to hospital,
551
00:45:35,688 --> 00:45:37,648
but I wasn't going to take any chances.
552
00:45:37,773 --> 00:45:39,775
Why did she take so much aspirin?
553
00:45:39,900 --> 00:45:44,321
Sunny always took aspirin. She'd
been taking a lot for several days.
554
00:45:44,446 --> 00:45:47,700
- That's not what our doctor said.
- Dr. Lucus Lupardus,
555
00:45:47,825 --> 00:45:50,744
chief forensic toxicologist,
Suffolk County,
556
00:45:50,869 --> 00:45:55,249
says people who take lots of aspirin
every day never reach that level.
557
00:45:55,374 --> 00:46:01,422
He also said the average blood level
in cases of death is 60. Hers was 90. So...
558
00:46:01,547 --> 00:46:04,466
So, it was obviously a suicide attempt.
559
00:46:05,551 --> 00:46:07,761
- Why?
- Yeah. Why?
560
00:46:07,886 --> 00:46:12,099
- Why?
- Alan, do they all want to be prosecutors?
561
00:46:14,852 --> 00:46:16,645
We're waiting.
562
00:46:19,773 --> 00:46:22,026
I presume she was unhappy.
563
00:46:28,699 --> 00:46:32,453
How about we all finish up
and go back to the house?
564
00:46:32,578 --> 00:46:36,832
We're not gonna win this
on a technicality. Peter?
565
00:46:36,957 --> 00:46:41,170
I've read every recent case where
the Rhode Island Supreme Court reversed.
566
00:46:41,295 --> 00:46:44,923
They don't like to make new law
or discuss broad legal issues.
567
00:46:45,049 --> 00:46:47,885
When they do reverse,
the grounds are technical,
568
00:46:48,010 --> 00:46:50,054
but the reason seems to be
569
00:46:50,179 --> 00:46:54,099
they suspect a convicted
defendant may be innocent.
570
00:46:54,224 --> 00:46:56,643
OK, everybody get that?
571
00:46:56,769 --> 00:47:02,816
True or not, we've gotta convince
the judges that you are innocent.
572
00:47:02,941 --> 00:47:05,986
Claus, now I do wanna
hear your side of the story.
573
00:47:06,111 --> 00:47:11,241
With pleasure. Innocence
has always been my position.
574
00:47:15,454 --> 00:47:18,165
First coma: what preceded it?
575
00:47:19,708 --> 00:47:21,210
Sunny loved Christmas.
576
00:47:21,585 --> 00:47:25,047
It was her favorite season, really.
577
00:47:25,172 --> 00:47:28,300
You see, what you must
understand about Sunny
578
00:47:28,425 --> 00:47:31,637
is that she loved giving
more than anything else.
579
00:47:37,518 --> 00:47:41,438
Each year, she always made
a big bowl of fresh eggnog.
580
00:47:41,563 --> 00:47:43,941
On that year, she drank a lot of it.
581
00:47:44,066 --> 00:47:48,654
- How much?
- 10 or 12 glasses.
582
00:47:48,779 --> 00:47:53,117
- With her hypoglycemia?
- Did she always drink like that?
583
00:47:53,242 --> 00:47:56,412
Never. She never touched alcohol at all,
584
00:47:56,537 --> 00:48:00,082
except on social occasions
to overcome her shyness
585
00:48:00,207 --> 00:48:02,960
or when she was upset.
586
00:48:03,085 --> 00:48:05,754
This was not a social occasion?
587
00:48:05,879 --> 00:48:11,427
No. We'd been discussing
divorce all afternoon.
588
00:48:27,901 --> 00:48:33,699
This whole subject of
your work coming between us,
589
00:48:35,117 --> 00:48:38,829
isn't it just a pretext,
when the real subject is her?
590
00:48:38,954 --> 00:48:41,206
Certainly not.
591
00:48:42,875 --> 00:48:47,004
I'm thinking of redecorating
this whole fucking house.
592
00:48:48,464 --> 00:48:51,800
Then she knew about Alexandra.
593
00:48:51,925 --> 00:48:55,095
- Yes.
- How did she find out?
594
00:48:55,220 --> 00:48:58,515
Er... I...
595
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,393
I told her the previous summer.
596
00:49:32,466 --> 00:49:35,135
Oh, I've been meaning to mention...
597
00:49:35,260 --> 00:49:41,475
our understanding about my...
extracurricular activities.
598
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:43,268
Mm?
599
00:49:43,394 --> 00:49:48,982
I've been involved with someone who falls
outside the parameters of our agreement.
600
00:49:49,108 --> 00:49:52,778
- Really?
- Someone peripherally in our circle.
601
00:49:54,613 --> 00:49:57,449
Billy Botsky's daughter, Alexandra Isles.
602
00:49:59,994 --> 00:50:02,037
Well...
603
00:50:04,248 --> 00:50:08,752
That must be better for you than
what you've had to put up with.
604
00:50:08,877 --> 00:50:12,006
You're referring to the call girls.
605
00:50:12,131 --> 00:50:17,803
Yes. I mean, that is where
you've gone previously, isn't it?
606
00:50:18,512 --> 00:50:20,764
Yes, it is.
607
00:50:22,474 --> 00:50:28,022
And isn't this better? Or is
Billy Botsky's daughter a call girl too?
608
00:50:29,690 --> 00:50:31,817
This is much better.
609
00:50:40,159 --> 00:50:41,785
That was what? July, August?
610
00:50:41,910 --> 00:50:46,081
Now it's Christmastime, and you were
still squabbling over Alexandra?
611
00:50:46,206 --> 00:50:48,500
No, we were fighting about my work.
612
00:50:48,625 --> 00:50:50,669
Sunny was...
613
00:50:52,087 --> 00:50:55,424
Well, by the evening,
she'd drunk so much eggnog
614
00:50:55,549 --> 00:50:58,344
that I had to help her into the bedroom.
615
00:51:01,221 --> 00:51:03,349
Time for bed, darling.
616
00:51:08,270 --> 00:51:10,397
There we are.
617
00:51:16,028 --> 00:51:18,656
Please don't hold my arm.
618
00:51:18,781 --> 00:51:21,241
Darling, you know when you get like this.
619
00:51:21,367 --> 00:51:25,746
Do you remember?
You fell and broke your hip.
620
00:51:25,871 --> 00:51:27,956
That was years ago.
621
00:51:29,833 --> 00:51:32,461
It was two years ago.
622
00:51:52,481 --> 00:51:54,817
Get me a Scotch and soda.
623
00:52:05,494 --> 00:52:08,247
May I at least urinate alone?
624
00:52:27,850 --> 00:52:30,894
She runs the water every time
she goes in there.
625
00:52:32,646 --> 00:52:34,815
If she was soused, why get the Scotch?
626
00:52:34,940 --> 00:52:38,152
Because she asked for it.
627
00:52:38,277 --> 00:52:40,863
Sunny got what Sunny wanted.
628
00:52:40,988 --> 00:52:43,115
It's OK.
629
00:53:12,394 --> 00:53:15,230
- Good night, Daddy.
- Good night, darling.
630
00:53:17,358 --> 00:53:20,235
- Good night, Claus.
- Good night, Alex.
631
00:53:33,707 --> 00:53:38,504
Hasn't my mother given us
enough money? Claus!
632
00:53:38,629 --> 00:53:40,839
That night, we hardly slept.
633
00:53:40,964 --> 00:53:44,218
Your age is perfectly acceptable to retire.
634
00:53:44,343 --> 00:53:49,056
I'm already retired.
I haven't worked full-time since Getty.
635
00:53:49,181 --> 00:53:53,394
Exactly. It's your ego.
You've never had a career, not really.
636
00:53:53,519 --> 00:53:55,896
I'm going to have one now.
637
00:53:58,273 --> 00:54:01,360
Come on, Sunny. Your father worked.
638
00:54:02,277 --> 00:54:06,198
Do you want the children to think
a male's place is in a deck chair?
639
00:54:06,323 --> 00:54:08,784
You marry me for my money,
then demand to work.
640
00:54:08,909 --> 00:54:10,953
You're the prince of perversion!
641
00:54:11,078 --> 00:54:16,125
- Are you trying to destroy our family?
- No, of course not. I simply want some...
642
00:54:16,250 --> 00:54:19,294
...intercourse with the world.
643
00:54:19,420 --> 00:54:21,505
Shut up, Pan!
644
00:54:21,630 --> 00:54:23,966
Oh, what does it matter?
645
00:54:26,260 --> 00:54:31,140
So, is that it? Another divorce?
646
00:54:34,184 --> 00:54:38,313
OK. I'll divorce you. I will.
647
00:54:38,439 --> 00:54:42,276
Oh, God. Two-time loser.
648
00:54:43,777 --> 00:54:48,449
- I'll divorce everybody.
- I don't want a divorce.
649
00:54:48,574 --> 00:54:51,118
I don't want to marry
Billy Botsky's daughter.
650
00:54:51,243 --> 00:54:54,621
I want to stay with you and I want
to work. I need that as a man.
651
00:54:59,710 --> 00:55:01,920
It's hopeless.
652
00:55:04,006 --> 00:55:08,093
Oh, God. I need my beauty sleep.
653
00:55:08,218 --> 00:55:13,057
Why do you believe it's hopeless
just because it's some...
654
00:55:51,804 --> 00:55:54,014
Good night, Claus.
655
00:55:55,265 --> 00:55:57,643
Sunny, you know I love you.
656
00:56:15,619 --> 00:56:17,871
Good night.
657
00:56:23,544 --> 00:56:26,005
- OK, and the next day?
- Well...
658
00:56:28,048 --> 00:56:31,677
Maria's testimony
was wildly exaggerated.
659
00:56:32,970 --> 00:56:38,642
Sunny was never moaning.
Maybe the occasional slur, but...
660
00:56:40,019 --> 00:56:42,730
And Maria shook Sunny.
661
00:56:45,441 --> 00:56:48,444
Nobody ever shook Sunny.
662
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:54,742
What happened when
she became conscious?
663
00:56:54,867 --> 00:56:57,953
After the first coma,
it was kind of absurd.
664
00:56:58,078 --> 00:57:00,789
Everybody was angry at me.
665
00:57:03,876 --> 00:57:06,462
Can't you ever leave me alone?
666
00:57:09,381 --> 00:57:11,717
Why did you do it?
667
00:57:11,842 --> 00:57:15,929
I would've been better off.
You would've been better off.
668
00:57:16,055 --> 00:57:19,391
What do you want me to say?
I'm sorry I saved your life?
669
00:57:19,516 --> 00:57:21,560
Yes.
670
00:57:25,064 --> 00:57:27,107
Say it.
671
00:57:34,073 --> 00:57:36,909
Of course I'm not sorry.
672
00:57:56,136 --> 00:57:58,180
Claus.
673
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:03,769
What am I going to do with myself?
674
00:58:10,317 --> 00:58:13,821
When I phoned Alexandra to tell her,
she said the same thing.
675
00:58:13,946 --> 00:58:17,658
She said "Why did you do it?
Why did you call the doctor?"
676
00:58:17,783 --> 00:58:20,160
Are you saying she wanted you
to let Sunny die?
677
00:58:20,285 --> 00:58:22,830
No, no, no, no, no.
678
00:58:22,955 --> 00:58:28,252
It was more "Everybody says
Sunny's such an unhappy woman
679
00:58:28,377 --> 00:58:31,839
and has nothing to live for."
680
00:58:33,841 --> 00:58:37,428
Well, so much for the first coma.
681
00:58:37,553 --> 00:58:41,640
The second, of course,
was much more theatrical.
682
00:58:41,765 --> 00:58:44,268
Theatrical? What is this, a fucking game?
683
00:58:44,393 --> 00:58:47,813
This is life and death.
Your wife is laying in a coma.
684
00:58:47,938 --> 00:58:51,191
You don't even make
a pretence at caring, do you?
685
00:58:51,316 --> 00:58:53,360
Of course I care, Alan.
686
00:58:55,070 --> 00:58:59,199
It's just I don't wear
my heart on my sleeve.
687
00:59:02,036 --> 00:59:04,079
Let's call it a night, OK?
688
00:59:06,248 --> 00:59:07,666
As you wish.
689
00:59:07,791 --> 00:59:12,296
Three drugs on the needle:
amobarbital, Valium, insulin.
690
00:59:13,255 --> 00:59:16,216
We can't all be you, Alan.
691
00:59:24,516 --> 00:59:27,895
Get a doctor to prepare five needles.
692
00:59:28,020 --> 00:59:32,066
One with nothing, two with
Valium, amobarbital and insulin,
693
00:59:32,191 --> 00:59:34,109
two with just Valium and amobarbital.
694
00:59:34,234 --> 00:59:37,196
We send them to the lab
that our famous needle went to.
695
00:59:37,321 --> 00:59:39,365
See if we get a false-positive result.
696
00:59:39,490 --> 00:59:43,369
- If we don't?
- If we don't, I clean the latrines.
697
00:59:43,494 --> 00:59:46,955
You're not gonna believe this.
David Marriott wants money.
698
00:59:47,081 --> 00:59:48,874
Who doesn't?
699
00:59:48,999 --> 00:59:51,543
- His memory might fail.
- Forget him.
700
00:59:51,669 --> 00:59:56,965
He has lost his job, and he is running
around trying to find evidence for us.
701
00:59:57,091 --> 01:00:01,220
Let's do what the government does
with witnesses. Pay him for his time.
702
01:00:01,345 --> 01:00:04,473
- What's his time worth?
- Buck and a half.
703
01:00:04,598 --> 01:00:07,351
Dersh! Your team's on!
704
01:00:08,018 --> 01:00:11,313
- You gonna pass to me this game?
- No.
705
01:00:12,856 --> 01:00:16,527
Their investigator said the needle
had an encrustation near the tip.
706
01:00:16,652 --> 01:00:19,738
Doctors tell us this is
inconsistent with injection.
707
01:00:19,863 --> 01:00:22,074
So how did it get there?
708
01:00:23,617 --> 01:00:24,618
Oh.
709
01:00:24,743 --> 01:00:29,081
If I inject this needle,
the skin acts as a kind of a swab.
710
01:00:29,206 --> 01:00:33,669
It cleans the needle off, leaving
the tip completely free of liquid.
711
01:00:33,794 --> 01:00:39,008
But if I just dip the needle
into the liquid, what do you see?
712
01:00:39,133 --> 01:00:42,386
Dry this out, you have an encrustation.
713
01:00:42,511 --> 01:00:43,929
So it's a frame-up?
714
01:00:44,054 --> 01:00:46,974
It's Desdemona's handkerchief.
715
01:00:47,099 --> 01:00:52,146
My stepchildren thought I was guilty,
didn't have evidence, so concocted some.
716
01:00:52,271 --> 01:00:57,526
- This should win us the case, no?
- No. We're maybe halfway home.
717
01:00:57,651 --> 01:00:59,987
There's still a lot of weird stuff.
718
01:01:00,112 --> 01:01:02,364
- Did you love Sunny?
- I married her.
719
01:01:03,741 --> 01:01:05,784
Of course I loved her. She was beautiful.
720
01:01:05,909 --> 01:01:08,203
- Rich.
- Why not?
721
01:01:08,329 --> 01:01:10,581
What I've seen of the rich,
you can have 'em.
722
01:01:10,706 --> 01:01:12,791
I do.
723
01:01:16,337 --> 01:01:18,714
The black bag. Was it yours?
724
01:01:20,966 --> 01:01:23,010
Sunny appropriated it.
725
01:01:23,135 --> 01:01:27,514
But to understand that, you must
understand that, after the first coma,
726
01:01:27,639 --> 01:01:30,642
she went into a complete rage.
727
01:01:35,022 --> 01:01:37,900
- Did you take them?
- Certainly not. Take what?
728
01:01:38,025 --> 01:01:40,694
My pills, you moron!
729
01:01:40,819 --> 01:01:43,155
Valium, Seconal.
730
01:01:43,947 --> 01:01:47,868
- You took them, didn't you?
- I've long since stopped interfering.
731
01:01:47,993 --> 01:01:50,496
Well, who? My children wouldn't dare.
732
01:01:50,621 --> 01:01:54,541
- Oh. I know who.
- Where are you going?
733
01:02:07,805 --> 01:02:09,890
Maria!
734
01:02:18,649 --> 01:02:20,693
She soon found them.
735
01:02:21,944 --> 01:02:26,490
It's my lovely mother, isn't it?
She's behind all this.
736
01:02:26,615 --> 01:02:29,034
She's in cahoots with Maria.
737
01:02:30,244 --> 01:02:36,208
Well, just because she had all the money
before I had all the money
738
01:02:36,333 --> 01:02:38,877
does not mean she's my lord and master.
739
01:02:39,003 --> 01:02:41,755
Of course not. I am your lord and master.
740
01:02:43,173 --> 01:02:45,217
Just kidding.
741
01:02:49,513 --> 01:02:52,474
Maria loves me too much.
742
01:02:52,599 --> 01:02:57,563
It's unhealthy for her,
and it's certainly no fun for me.
743
01:03:02,359 --> 01:03:04,403
There.
744
01:03:19,335 --> 01:03:23,672
We'll see if that ugly little maid
of mine can sniff this one out.
745
01:03:32,681 --> 01:03:35,559
And what are you going
to do with all that?
746
01:03:35,684 --> 01:03:41,231
I'm not gonna tell you. I assure you,
it's not gonna be among my affairs.
747
01:03:42,316 --> 01:03:45,069
Odd she used that word - "affairs".
748
01:03:46,236 --> 01:03:49,948
The prosecution thinks you ground up
the drugs to inject Sunny.
749
01:03:50,074 --> 01:03:53,410
And this nose-drop business
is pretty far-fetched.
750
01:03:53,535 --> 01:03:56,914
But consider the pattern, Alan.
751
01:03:57,039 --> 01:04:00,292
It's public record that Sunny used drugs.
752
01:04:00,417 --> 01:04:05,798
Her behavior here of hiding them
in liquid so that no one will find them
753
01:04:05,923 --> 01:04:10,803
is your classic alcoholic stashing
pints of whiskey all over the house.
754
01:04:11,679 --> 01:04:17,810
You're right. Of course.
You've always been right, haven't you?
755
01:04:19,019 --> 01:04:21,689
This is the most dangerous case
I ever worked on.
756
01:04:21,814 --> 01:04:26,735
- You find that exhilarating?
- No, I do not. I am breaking every rule.
757
01:04:26,860 --> 01:04:29,446
The best way to win
is to proclaim your innocence,
758
01:04:29,571 --> 01:04:32,157
and I have never done that for anybody.
759
01:04:32,282 --> 01:04:34,743
And the problem I got is
I see who you are.
760
01:04:34,868 --> 01:04:37,454
- You'd do anything to win.
- So would you.
761
01:04:37,579 --> 01:04:40,207
Yeah, but you don't trust the legal system.
762
01:04:40,332 --> 01:04:44,878
You're saying I'd manufacture
witnesses, affidavits?
763
01:04:45,879 --> 01:04:49,425
- No, but you would sacrifice me.
- Oh, please, Alan.
764
01:04:49,550 --> 01:04:53,721
The more I believe that you are innocent,
then more nervous I am.
765
01:04:53,846 --> 01:04:58,475
I go out on a limb for you, you're
proven guilty, I look like an asshole.
766
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:02,104
My reputation, my credibility,
my career - destroyed.
767
01:05:03,147 --> 01:05:06,442
- That's the risk you're taking.
- Well, fuck you.
768
01:05:06,567 --> 01:05:08,610
Fuck you, man!
769
01:05:20,122 --> 01:05:23,125
I'm glad we understand one another.
770
01:05:25,711 --> 01:05:31,383
It's easy to forget all this
is about me, lying here.
771
01:05:31,508 --> 01:05:34,553
To most of you, my name means "coma".
772
01:05:34,678 --> 01:05:38,349
My second marriage means
"attempted murder".
773
01:05:38,474 --> 01:05:44,229
Everything before, everything beautiful,
does not exist in the public mind.
774
01:05:44,355 --> 01:05:49,151
No one thinks of how I loved
my children. Look at Cosima.
775
01:05:49,276 --> 01:05:52,446
And Alex, of course. And Ala.
776
01:05:52,571 --> 01:05:54,990
And certainly no one cares about Claus,
777
01:05:55,115 --> 01:05:57,993
the way he was when
I fell in love with him.
778
01:05:58,118 --> 01:06:01,413
When Claus and I first met,
I was married to the dashing young
779
01:06:01,538 --> 01:06:07,461
Prince Alfred Eduard Friederich
Vincenz Martin Maria von Auersberg.
780
01:06:07,586 --> 01:06:13,342
It was 1964, seven years
into my first marriage.
781
01:06:19,014 --> 01:06:24,061
It seems that my first husband,
Alfie, as he was called,
782
01:06:24,186 --> 01:06:28,816
had vowed to be unfaithful
with every pretty girl in Europe.
783
01:06:30,651 --> 01:06:34,029
He was having quite a success.
784
01:06:34,655 --> 01:06:39,785
And so... I was unfaithful with Claus.
785
01:06:50,546 --> 01:06:51,547
Psst.
786
01:06:57,928 --> 01:07:00,431
Wildly unfaithful.
787
01:07:01,765 --> 01:07:04,184
Happy memories.
788
01:07:11,942 --> 01:07:16,071
But it's not the passion
I remember most.
789
01:07:16,196 --> 01:07:18,490
It's the tenderness.
790
01:07:23,579 --> 01:07:26,040
Good God, what's that?
791
01:07:26,165 --> 01:07:28,709
Just one of Frank's pets.
792
01:07:32,921 --> 01:07:34,965
Oh, my God.
793
01:07:50,147 --> 01:07:51,190
Come on, silly.
794
01:07:51,315 --> 01:07:54,860
I never liked people much, not as a rule.
795
01:07:56,362 --> 01:07:59,239
But Claus was somehow different.
796
01:08:01,367 --> 01:08:03,869
Not a normal person, I guess.
797
01:08:07,915 --> 01:08:11,710
It's all right. Do it again.
Give him some more.
798
01:08:24,139 --> 01:08:27,434
One of those things you never forget.
799
01:08:28,602 --> 01:08:34,650
Of course, now he lives
in my apartment, my bedroom,
800
01:08:34,775 --> 01:08:37,027
my bed.
801
01:08:37,152 --> 01:08:43,283
Cold, isn't it? Cold and brutish,
and the way of the world.
802
01:08:44,326 --> 01:08:47,997
Looking at him now,
the issue seems simple.
803
01:08:48,122 --> 01:08:50,165
Is he the devil?
804
01:08:50,290 --> 01:08:53,877
If so, can the devil get justice?
805
01:08:54,878 --> 01:09:01,593
And all this legal activity...
is it in Satan's service?
806
01:09:01,719 --> 01:09:04,013
"Sunny von Bulow was totally vulnerable
807
01:09:04,388 --> 01:09:06,807
to Claus von Bulow"?
808
01:09:06,932 --> 01:09:11,562
- Can't argue with that.
- But it's speculation, exaggeration.
809
01:09:11,687 --> 01:09:15,524
- You keep working on it.
- Totally inflammatory!
810
01:09:16,734 --> 01:09:19,820
OK, good. Let's go over this.
811
01:09:19,945 --> 01:09:24,158
OK, we went over it once.
I just want you to see if it...
812
01:09:31,206 --> 01:09:38,088
Oh, shit. What is this? Illegal search?
A technicality, a guilty man's argument.
813
01:09:38,213 --> 01:09:42,843
This is different. Usual Fourth Amendment
case, you're trying to exclude evidence.
814
01:09:42,968 --> 01:09:44,678
Same thing here.
815
01:09:44,803 --> 01:09:49,224
No, this search destroyed evidence!
No fingerprints, no inventory.
816
01:09:49,350 --> 01:09:52,227
What's left hurts Claus,
but the state has to...
817
01:09:52,353 --> 01:09:55,397
The cops tested the drugs
from the illegal search.
818
01:09:55,522 --> 01:09:57,733
- Yes.
- And we are saying that that test
819
01:09:57,858 --> 01:09:59,943
constituted a second illegal search.
820
01:10:00,069 --> 01:10:04,531
- There are precedents.
- I know there are. I'm not debating that.
821
01:10:04,657 --> 01:10:09,203
- What I'm trying to do...
- You're debating me, personally. Why?
822
01:10:10,496 --> 01:10:13,457
I'm debating strategy.
I'm not debating you.
823
01:10:13,582 --> 01:10:15,918
We're all on the same team, aren't we?
824
01:10:16,043 --> 01:10:18,128
I don't know. We seem to be.
825
01:10:18,253 --> 01:10:21,757
- Then why don't I feel it?
- I thought this was professional.
826
01:10:21,882 --> 01:10:23,884
- It was.
- That's bullshit, Alan!
827
01:10:24,009 --> 01:10:28,013
I asked you to work on this case
because I think you are a good lawyer.
828
01:10:28,138 --> 01:10:33,394
You too, but you give all you have to the
law and forget the people you care about.
829
01:10:33,519 --> 01:10:36,438
My clients are the people
that I care about.
830
01:10:36,563 --> 01:10:38,774
- Obviously.
- What I care about,
831
01:10:38,899 --> 01:10:43,445
all I fuckin' care about is this!
This case!
832
01:10:43,570 --> 01:10:47,533
And making the best possible appeal
that we're capable of doing, OK?
833
01:10:47,658 --> 01:10:51,370
You can make your argument better.
You know that! I know that!
834
01:10:51,495 --> 01:10:54,248
So why don't you just do it
and cut all the bullshit?
835
01:10:55,416 --> 01:10:58,335
You always have to have
the last word, don't you?
836
01:11:29,408 --> 01:11:31,452
What?
837
01:11:33,037 --> 01:11:35,289
We're gonna lose.
838
01:11:35,414 --> 01:11:39,126
Why do you think this case
fascinates people?
839
01:11:39,251 --> 01:11:44,465
Cos one time or other, every man is
driven crazy by his wife, and in his heart,
840
01:11:44,590 --> 01:11:48,010
he wants to do exactly
what Claus is accused of.
841
01:11:48,135 --> 01:11:52,181
Kill her in some sly, silent way
that can't be detected.
842
01:11:52,306 --> 01:11:54,350
Claus is a scapegoat.
843
01:11:54,475 --> 01:11:59,313
Someone has to suffer for the sin
that we all wanna commit.
844
01:12:00,147 --> 01:12:02,858
Alan, that's ridiculous.
845
01:12:04,777 --> 01:12:07,529
It's ridiculous. You're right.
846
01:12:11,033 --> 01:12:16,205
- What have you got?
- Prosecution's case is based on a theory.
847
01:12:17,206 --> 01:12:20,876
The needle in the bag, insulin
on the needle, insulin in her blood.
848
01:12:21,001 --> 01:12:23,087
Right, right, right. OK, fine.
849
01:12:24,129 --> 01:12:29,176
In Derek, this Rhode Island
Supreme Court, these same judges,
850
01:12:29,301 --> 01:12:34,348
said that, in a case
based on circumstantial theory,
851
01:12:34,473 --> 01:12:39,144
the case falls apart
if any part of the theory is weak.
852
01:12:40,312 --> 01:12:43,524
If there's a weak link,
then you throw the whole chain out?
853
01:12:43,649 --> 01:12:45,693
Exactly.
854
01:12:46,777 --> 01:12:49,697
Peter, that's good. That's very good.
855
01:12:54,159 --> 01:12:57,162
- Oh, yeah, this is good.
- Thank you.
856
01:12:57,287 --> 01:12:58,914
What do you want me to do now?
857
01:12:59,039 --> 01:13:02,751
I want you to find as many
alternative theories as possible.
858
01:13:02,876 --> 01:13:06,046
Hey! Come on.
There's only seven days left.
859
01:13:10,926 --> 01:13:13,804
Dersh! You'd better come downstairs.
860
01:13:15,139 --> 01:13:18,434
Hey, Dersh. Sorry to get you out of bed.
861
01:13:19,435 --> 01:13:23,063
- What do you want? More money?
- Can you get more?
862
01:13:24,148 --> 01:13:26,608
Can I have a glass of water, please?
863
01:13:30,321 --> 01:13:34,825
No. The reason I'm here...
my affidavit is inaccurate.
864
01:13:38,996 --> 01:13:42,374
Great. Just what I need right now.
865
01:13:42,499 --> 01:13:44,877
- It's slow.
- Yeah.
866
01:13:45,002 --> 01:13:48,922
I left something out,
something incredibly important.
867
01:13:49,048 --> 01:13:53,177
Remember I gave Alex's drugs
to a woman at Clarendon Court?
868
01:13:53,302 --> 01:13:54,303
Yeah. So?
869
01:13:54,428 --> 01:13:57,181
That bitch was definitely
Sunny von Bulow.
870
01:14:00,100 --> 01:14:04,188
David... this is bad.
871
01:14:04,313 --> 01:14:08,359
It looks bad. I've met with you
five times now, and all of a sudden...
872
01:14:08,484 --> 01:14:10,694
No, it's not sudden.
873
01:14:10,819 --> 01:14:15,199
I think I always knew, but I became
convinced by staring at pictures of her.
874
01:14:18,410 --> 01:14:22,790
We can't use your affidavit unless
it's truthful. Are you sure this time?
875
01:14:22,915 --> 01:14:27,086
I swear... on the body
and soul of my mother.
876
01:14:28,128 --> 01:14:30,339
Poor woman.
877
01:14:32,549 --> 01:14:37,012
Put in this change, and make him
go over every word of the affidavit.
878
01:14:37,137 --> 01:14:40,015
Uh... can I use your men's room?
879
01:14:51,068 --> 01:14:54,363
- More money?
- Can you get more?
880
01:14:59,576 --> 01:15:03,539
If Claus had injected her, he would've
thrown away the needle, right?
881
01:15:03,664 --> 01:15:07,710
Sure. If he threw away the insulin,
why keep the needle?
882
01:15:07,835 --> 01:15:12,381
- Claus is strange, but he ain't stupid.
- He is arrogant.
883
01:15:12,506 --> 01:15:14,842
- Is that a crime?
- Sometimes.
884
01:15:14,967 --> 01:15:19,013
Why are we even discussing this?
It's obvious: the kids framed him.
885
01:15:19,138 --> 01:15:21,890
Whoa! You changed your tune.
886
01:15:24,393 --> 01:15:30,316
A frame-up doesn't mean he's innocent.
The kids could've framed the guilty man.
887
01:15:30,441 --> 01:15:32,484
Dersh! Telephone!
888
01:15:36,530 --> 01:15:38,824
It's Peter Macintosh.
889
01:15:38,949 --> 01:15:40,993
Yeah.
890
01:15:45,622 --> 01:15:47,750
Do you know what it is?
891
01:15:49,710 --> 01:15:51,545
OK.
892
01:15:55,257 --> 01:16:00,179
Word in Rhode Island is that the state
can't lose. Got an ace up their sleeve.
893
01:16:00,304 --> 01:16:02,348
What is it?
894
01:16:04,308 --> 01:16:06,435
He's gonna try to find out.
895
01:16:08,437 --> 01:16:10,981
- All right, my friend.
- Friend? I like that.
896
01:16:11,106 --> 01:16:12,941
Nothing personal.
897
01:16:13,067 --> 01:16:17,446
OK, no students, no witnesses.
Second coma: let's hear it.
898
01:16:17,571 --> 01:16:20,699
Strange as it may seem now,
in retrospect...
899
01:16:20,824 --> 01:16:24,912
OK, Claus, cut the bullshit.
December 20, 1980.
900
01:16:27,122 --> 01:16:32,670
Sunny was unwell.
We'd been arguing all afternoon.
901
01:16:32,795 --> 01:16:35,756
I'd been offered a new position
in the oil business,
902
01:16:35,881 --> 01:16:39,259
which would've meant
my spending some time in Europe.
903
01:16:43,180 --> 01:16:47,851
The discussion must've escalated
because I went to talk to the children.
904
01:16:49,561 --> 01:16:54,525
This will bring 50,000 gold florin
from any rebels worth the name.
905
01:16:54,650 --> 01:16:58,070
- 50,000 florin?
- That's a pretty good take.
906
01:16:58,195 --> 01:17:05,119
- Let's vote on it! All those in favor...
- If you'll forgive my interruption...
907
01:17:07,955 --> 01:17:11,166
I... I've something to tell you both.
908
01:17:11,291 --> 01:17:14,003
We're heading for
the best pirate days ever.
909
01:17:14,128 --> 01:17:16,547
I...
910
01:17:20,342 --> 01:17:26,890
It looks as if... as though Mummy
and I are going to have to split up,
911
01:17:28,559 --> 01:17:31,645
because my work is something
she cannot tolerate.
912
01:17:31,770 --> 01:17:36,817
Mummy says things like that,
but she always gets over it.
913
01:17:36,942 --> 01:17:40,654
Yes, but this has been
going on for too long.
914
01:17:47,619 --> 01:17:53,834
I'm going to Europe in the new year.
This will probably lead to a split.
915
01:17:53,959 --> 01:17:56,211
Oh.
916
01:17:56,337 --> 01:17:59,048
It's all right. She'll get over it.
917
01:18:01,592 --> 01:18:04,011
Alex says you said that the next day.
918
01:18:04,136 --> 01:18:08,223
Is anything more absurd than announcing
your intention to divorce a woman
919
01:18:08,349 --> 01:18:10,392
who's just fallen into a coma?
920
01:18:10,517 --> 01:18:15,939
No. That evening everything
seemed normal enough.
921
01:18:16,065 --> 01:18:21,654
Not cheerful. But then, we didn't
usually giggle at mealtimes.
922
01:18:21,779 --> 01:18:24,657
Despite her doctor's warnings
about sweets,
923
01:18:24,782 --> 01:18:28,661
the only thing Sunny consumed
was a sundae.
924
01:18:39,546 --> 01:18:44,593
After supper, I went to finish off
some work in my study.
925
01:18:44,718 --> 01:18:48,263
The others decided to
chat in the living room.
926
01:18:48,389 --> 01:18:53,894
That would be lovely, but first
I need to go to my room for just a minute.
927
01:19:07,908 --> 01:19:11,245
After about an hour, I dropped in on them.
928
01:19:14,999 --> 01:19:17,543
Darling, would you care for anything?
929
01:19:18,627 --> 01:19:21,046
Mm...
930
01:19:21,171 --> 01:19:26,218
lf... there's some...
chicken bouillon left.
931
01:19:30,347 --> 01:19:32,391
I'll look.
932
01:19:46,697 --> 01:19:48,991
There you are, darling.
933
01:19:58,083 --> 01:20:00,294
Thank you.
934
01:20:07,384 --> 01:20:09,678
How is your work coming?
935
01:20:09,803 --> 01:20:15,059
I'm totally flummoxed. I can't
get the figures to make any sense.
936
01:20:16,477 --> 01:20:22,858
- Why don't you call your friend Deborah?
- I doubt she'd be in Saturday night.
937
01:20:25,819 --> 01:20:29,990
So, Deborah, I think you'll agree
that's 7-2-8. Right. Now...
938
01:20:30,115 --> 01:20:34,953
But Deborah was home,
and we did talk for some time, until...
939
01:20:35,079 --> 01:20:38,040
Claus, come quick. Mummy's not well.
940
01:20:38,165 --> 01:20:41,085
Deborah, can I call you back
in the morning? Thanks.
941
01:20:41,210 --> 01:20:45,339
Her voice got very weak, and she
almost fell down. I had to help her.
942
01:20:55,140 --> 01:20:57,518
Somebody open a window.
943
01:21:00,437 --> 01:21:03,023
I find the chill reassuring.
944
01:21:07,277 --> 01:21:09,029
Now I must speak with Claus.
945
01:21:09,154 --> 01:21:12,032
- Good night, Mummy.
- Good night.
946
01:21:15,452 --> 01:21:17,496
Good night, darling.
947
01:21:19,665 --> 01:21:21,709
Good night, Alex.
948
01:21:32,219 --> 01:21:34,513
That is, if Claus has time to talk.
949
01:21:35,139 --> 01:21:41,020
Or are you going to work every spare
moment right through Christmas?
950
01:21:42,229 --> 01:21:45,899
Is your work so fascinating?
Or are you trying to drive me away?
951
01:21:46,025 --> 01:21:50,279
Because if you are, you're succeeding,
because I don't want this.
952
01:21:50,404 --> 01:21:54,033
I didn't marry you for this.
I could've had anybody.
953
01:21:54,158 --> 01:21:56,327
With my money? Anybody!
954
01:21:57,328 --> 01:22:00,873
Well? Say something!
955
01:22:02,875 --> 01:22:06,712
Do something! Be a man!
956
01:22:08,172 --> 01:22:10,215
I already have a butler.
957
01:22:14,595 --> 01:22:18,390
Do something! I don't want this!
958
01:22:18,515 --> 01:22:21,560
I don't! I don't want this!
959
01:22:21,685 --> 01:22:24,938
I don't... I don't want this!
960
01:22:26,106 --> 01:22:30,861
The same conversation as the previous
year, only this time with greater venom.
961
01:22:30,986 --> 01:22:34,782
You've always been afraid of me.
It's not because of my money.
962
01:22:34,907 --> 01:22:37,618
It's basically because you're a coward.
963
01:22:37,743 --> 01:22:41,997
Your pitiful masculinity is so fragile,
you can't stand confrontation,
964
01:22:42,122 --> 01:22:44,500
so you go off with Miss Botsky.
965
01:22:44,625 --> 01:22:46,877
Good night.
966
01:23:03,811 --> 01:23:07,314
As was usual,
I was awakened before dawn.
967
01:23:12,987 --> 01:23:15,823
I let the dogs out, as was customary.
968
01:23:19,994 --> 01:23:25,374
I went back through the bedroom
to my study as quietly as possible.
969
01:23:30,295 --> 01:23:32,965
I did not notice if my wife was in bed.
970
01:23:33,090 --> 01:23:36,719
I did not notice if the light was on
under the bathroom door.
971
01:23:36,844 --> 01:23:40,431
Had it been on, I wouldn't
have given it a thought.
972
01:23:40,556 --> 01:23:45,686
I did my exercises, showered,
and then I called Deborah Knowles.
973
01:23:45,811 --> 01:23:48,731
Well, I mean, it's stable and it's profitable.
974
01:23:49,440 --> 01:23:53,277
Can anyone really believe,
if I was trying to murder my wife,
975
01:23:53,402 --> 01:23:58,615
that I would spend an hour
going over a tedious set of figures?
976
01:23:58,741 --> 01:24:02,828
After the call, I passed through
the bedroom again. It was freezing.
977
01:24:02,953 --> 01:24:05,706
By this time, Sunny
was certainly not in bed.
978
01:24:05,831 --> 01:24:09,418
And I heard water
running in the bathroom.
979
01:24:11,503 --> 01:24:15,049
I had breakfast, walked the dogs,
980
01:24:15,174 --> 01:24:19,678
and, on my return,
asked the children where Mummy was.
981
01:24:19,803 --> 01:24:22,139
Has Mummy had breakfast yet?
982
01:24:22,264 --> 01:24:24,308
We haven't seen her.
983
01:24:28,103 --> 01:24:30,147
Sunny?
984
01:24:31,106 --> 01:24:33,484
Her bathroom was
her private sanctuary.
985
01:24:33,609 --> 01:24:38,405
No one entered it. Except the maid,
of course, to clean up.
986
01:24:38,530 --> 01:24:41,909
Sometimes she stayed there
for hours, or so it seemed.
987
01:24:42,034 --> 01:24:45,704
One can only speculate
what goes on behind a closed door.
988
01:24:45,829 --> 01:24:48,165
Sunny, are you there?
989
01:24:48,874 --> 01:24:51,543
I hesitated even to knock.
990
01:24:53,796 --> 01:24:55,839
Darling?
991
01:25:11,188 --> 01:25:13,232
Sunny?
992
01:25:14,775 --> 01:25:16,819
Oh, God.
993
01:25:17,569 --> 01:25:21,824
Once I'd ascertained she was breathing,
I went to fetch Alexander.
994
01:25:22,491 --> 01:25:26,787
- Why not call an ambulance first?
- Panic, Alan, panic.
995
01:25:26,912 --> 01:25:28,998
I mean, I...
996
01:25:29,123 --> 01:25:32,084
I needed to talk to somebody.
997
01:25:32,209 --> 01:25:39,299
I wasn't worried if she was breathing
normally. It wasn't like the year before.
998
01:25:39,425 --> 01:25:43,887
In retrospect it seems absurd,
but I looked at her upper lip.
999
01:25:44,013 --> 01:25:49,393
She had blood on it. I thought she'd
broken a tooth. That was my concern.
1000
01:25:49,518 --> 01:25:55,024
And that's really all I can...
that's really all I can say.
1001
01:25:57,318 --> 01:26:00,279
- But is it the truth?
- Of course.
1002
01:26:00,404 --> 01:26:04,742
- But not the whole truth.
- I don't know the whole truth.
1003
01:26:04,867 --> 01:26:09,496
- I don't know what happened to her.
- I wish I didn't believe you.
1004
01:26:09,621 --> 01:26:13,917
It's very hard to trust someone
you don't understand.
1005
01:26:15,210 --> 01:26:17,379
You're a very strange man.
1006
01:26:18,464 --> 01:26:20,924
You have no idea.
1007
01:26:28,724 --> 01:26:32,186
- Everybody here?
- Macintosh says he's got bad news.
1008
01:26:34,647 --> 01:26:36,857
There he is.
1009
01:26:49,119 --> 01:26:51,121
Well?
1010
01:26:51,246 --> 01:26:55,751
I found out what the state has.
Their ace in the hole.
1011
01:26:55,876 --> 01:26:57,961
It's you.
1012
01:26:59,088 --> 01:27:00,381
It's me?
1013
01:27:00,506 --> 01:27:04,343
David Marriott taped
all his conversations with you.
1014
01:27:04,468 --> 01:27:06,595
Oh, great.
1015
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:11,392
The scuttlebutt is,
if we win the case, you go to prison.
1016
01:27:12,393 --> 01:27:14,436
What did I say?
1017
01:27:14,561 --> 01:27:17,648
Good old corrupt Rhode Island.
A friend got me an excerpt.
1018
01:27:17,773 --> 01:27:22,152
The reason I'm here...
My affidavit is inaccurate.
1019
01:27:22,277 --> 01:27:26,740
David, this is bad. It looks bad.
What do you want? More money?
1020
01:27:26,865 --> 01:27:29,034
Can you get more?
1021
01:27:29,159 --> 01:27:31,161
Yeah.
1022
01:27:31,286 --> 01:27:33,998
- That is not what I said.
- It's on tape, Alan.
1023
01:27:34,123 --> 01:27:36,625
I don't care. That's not what I said.
1024
01:27:36,750 --> 01:27:38,961
- What do we do?
- I don't know.
1025
01:27:42,631 --> 01:27:44,633
I'll tell you what we do. We ignore it.
1026
01:27:44,758 --> 01:27:47,886
Alan, with that tape,
it's your whole career.
1027
01:27:49,471 --> 01:27:51,640
I now believe Claus is innocent,
1028
01:27:51,765 --> 01:27:55,936
so we've decided:
no tricks, no technicalities.
1029
01:27:56,061 --> 01:28:01,525
We are going to base our appeal directly
and explicitly on Claus's innocence.
1030
01:28:01,650 --> 01:28:06,822
- Appeals must be based on judicial error.
- The judge should've thrown out the case.
1031
01:28:06,947 --> 01:28:10,367
You can't say there wasn't
sufficient evidence. He was convicted.
1032
01:28:10,492 --> 01:28:12,828
- Good point.
- That's what we are saying.
1033
01:28:12,953 --> 01:28:15,748
If the rules don't work, you change them.
1034
01:28:15,873 --> 01:28:19,752
Red Auerbach changed the jump-ball rule
when the Celtics had a short team.
1035
01:28:19,877 --> 01:28:23,589
But it's dangerous politically.
If the judges feel insulted...
1036
01:28:23,714 --> 01:28:29,970
Wait. State supreme court shouldn't even
look at an appeal based on new evidence.
1037
01:28:30,095 --> 01:28:35,934
Hey, guys. I'll take care of that, OK?
You just leave it to me.
1038
01:28:36,935 --> 01:28:41,482
Look, I know you're all exhausted.
We got four days left.
1039
01:28:41,607 --> 01:28:45,110
What we do now will decide this thing.
Do you wanna win or not?
1040
01:28:45,235 --> 01:28:49,448
- Alan! We've got something.
- We've hit the jackpot.
1041
01:28:49,573 --> 01:28:52,493
Our needles that had
amobarbital and Valium...
1042
01:28:52,618 --> 01:28:53,619
But no insulin.
1043
01:28:53,744 --> 01:28:58,457
Both came back with
false-positive readings for insulin.
1044
01:28:58,957 --> 01:29:01,001
One was 93, the other 282.
1045
01:29:01,126 --> 01:29:04,963
We've knocked out every piece
of their medical case.
1046
01:29:07,383 --> 01:29:11,512
OK, now all they've got left is my neck.
1047
01:29:11,637 --> 01:29:14,431
Anybody know anything
about editing audio tapes?
1048
01:29:23,649 --> 01:29:27,152
Defense! Defense! Come on.
1049
01:29:27,277 --> 01:29:29,697
Come on, baby! Come on, baby!
1050
01:29:37,037 --> 01:29:40,499
- All right, Alan.
- Come on!
1051
01:29:42,334 --> 01:29:44,420
Pass it, Alan.
1052
01:29:44,545 --> 01:29:47,131
Wait a minute. I got it. Where's Raj?
1053
01:29:47,256 --> 01:29:49,425
- He's upstairs.
- Where are you going?
1054
01:29:51,051 --> 01:29:53,971
Raj. Raj, I got it.
1055
01:29:54,096 --> 01:29:56,140
I got it. Remember Maria?
1056
01:29:56,932 --> 01:29:58,767
She could have said it like this:
1057
01:29:58,892 --> 01:30:03,689
Insulin? For what, insulin?
1058
01:30:05,399 --> 01:30:07,693
My lady is not diabetic.
1059
01:30:07,818 --> 01:30:11,447
You see? "My lady is not diabetic."
1060
01:30:11,572 --> 01:30:14,783
She is assuming that the bag is Sunny's.
1061
01:30:14,908 --> 01:30:19,204
Her first reaction, not part of
a legal strategy devised later,
1062
01:30:19,330 --> 01:30:22,499
is that the stuff in the black bag
belonged to Sunny, not Claus.
1063
01:30:22,624 --> 01:30:26,545
Who'd know better than she?
Start writing.
1064
01:30:26,670 --> 01:30:29,840
You are not God! You are a prosecutor!
1065
01:30:29,965 --> 01:30:34,136
Alabama can't execute those Johnson
kids before the Supreme Court rules!
1066
01:30:34,261 --> 01:30:35,888
You heard me right.
1067
01:30:36,013 --> 01:30:39,850
- You got two hours to make Rhode Island.
- You want me to speed?
1068
01:30:39,975 --> 01:30:42,895
No. They'll stop you
and you won't make the deadline.
1069
01:30:43,020 --> 01:30:46,690
I'm telling you right now,
those kids fry, you're next!
1070
01:30:46,815 --> 01:30:48,275
You're damn right!
1071
01:30:48,859 --> 01:30:51,862
Some startling developments
in the von Bulow case.
1072
01:30:51,987 --> 01:30:57,117
Professor Alan Dershowitz had been
accused of paying for falsified testimony,
1073
01:30:57,242 --> 01:31:01,080
but those accusations were discredited
today by the attorney general,
1074
01:31:01,205 --> 01:31:04,041
who announced that
David Marriott's tape was doctored
1075
01:31:04,166 --> 01:31:07,002
and that Marriott is not a reliable witness.
1076
01:31:07,127 --> 01:31:10,631
So, what was he up to, Alan?
Who was he working for?
1077
01:31:10,756 --> 01:31:13,008
Damned if I know.
1078
01:31:15,928 --> 01:31:17,971
Hope they don't think he worked for you.
1079
01:31:18,097 --> 01:31:22,267
- No one's going to...
- Look, I don't think you did it, OK?
1080
01:31:22,393 --> 01:31:25,854
But at the Chinese restaurant,
you did duck the big question.
1081
01:31:25,980 --> 01:31:28,691
Chuck is our Alexandra Isles expert.
1082
01:31:29,900 --> 01:31:35,072
Sunny's aspirin overdose.
Why did she take so many?
1083
01:31:36,031 --> 01:31:39,410
What happened? Sunny had a headache?
1084
01:31:41,495 --> 01:31:45,499
The headache was Alexandra, right?
1085
01:31:50,045 --> 01:31:52,131
Let's hear it, Claus.
1086
01:31:53,882 --> 01:31:56,176
Alexandra was spiteful.
1087
01:31:57,302 --> 01:32:02,433
On the day of Sunny's aspirin overdose,
1088
01:32:02,558 --> 01:32:08,022
she returned some presents
I'd given her, some photographs.
1089
01:32:08,147 --> 01:32:11,025
Love letters.
1090
01:32:11,150 --> 01:32:13,569
She dropped them off in a shopping bag.
1091
01:32:14,695 --> 01:32:16,739
Did Sunny see them?
1092
01:32:16,864 --> 01:32:20,409
Sunny was home. I was not.
1093
01:32:21,577 --> 01:32:25,873
Alexandra neglected
to address the package to me.
1094
01:32:25,998 --> 01:32:29,835
I wanna be left alone with
all those beautiful letters.
1095
01:32:29,960 --> 01:32:33,881
What did you do with those letters?
Why did you write those letters?
1096
01:32:35,466 --> 01:32:39,345
There's a big difference
between knowing about an affair
1097
01:32:39,470 --> 01:32:42,848
and having love letters
crammed down your throat.
1098
01:32:44,642 --> 01:32:48,812
It seems that Sunny did care
about your affair. She cared a lot.
1099
01:32:52,524 --> 01:32:55,069
Why didn't you tell us?
1100
01:32:55,194 --> 01:32:57,237
Everything was open-book.
1101
01:32:58,447 --> 01:33:02,660
"Get the best experts."
"I'm not afraid of the truth."
1102
01:33:06,955 --> 01:33:11,043
Looks to me like Alexandra
tried to force Sunny into suicide.
1103
01:33:13,212 --> 01:33:15,339
Or they plotted it together.
1104
01:33:16,632 --> 01:33:20,344
Either way, he's protecting Alexandra
because he still loves her.
1105
01:33:20,469 --> 01:33:23,138
And why not? Hey, she's a babe.
1106
01:33:26,016 --> 01:33:28,352
Of course I still love her.
1107
01:33:30,479 --> 01:33:32,523
And hate her.
1108
01:33:33,899 --> 01:33:38,112
Alexandra, Sunny, Andrea...
1109
01:33:41,031 --> 01:33:43,158
I love them all.
1110
01:33:50,499 --> 01:33:53,419
Being a human being
is very literal.
1111
01:33:53,544 --> 01:33:58,716
You're trapped. Time moves
in only one direction: forward.
1112
01:33:58,841 --> 01:34:02,720
It's stupid and boring
and results in a lot of silliness.
1113
01:34:02,845 --> 01:34:05,681
Example: the legal process.
1114
01:34:07,224 --> 01:34:12,604
In this particular case, a vast amount
of time, effort and money was spent
1115
01:34:12,730 --> 01:34:17,901
trying to determine what happened on
those two nights so close to Christmas,
1116
01:34:18,027 --> 01:34:23,657
December 26, 1979, December 20, 1980.
1117
01:34:24,491 --> 01:34:26,535
Happened right here.
1118
01:34:27,911 --> 01:34:35,169
Even now, it all looks the same,
feels the same, smells the same.
1119
01:34:36,211 --> 01:34:41,759
If you could just go back in time
and take a peek, you'd know.
1120
01:34:43,010 --> 01:34:45,471
And all this would be unnecessary.
1121
01:34:45,596 --> 01:34:47,640
All rise!
1122
01:34:50,893 --> 01:34:54,897
Hear ye, hear ye. All persons having
business before the Supreme Court
1123
01:34:55,022 --> 01:35:00,194
holding in province within and for the
State of Rhode Island may now draw near.
1124
01:35:00,319 --> 01:35:04,156
Then again, everyone enjoys a circus.
1125
01:35:05,824 --> 01:35:07,868
Be seated.
1126
01:35:09,495 --> 01:35:13,624
If the appellant is ready,
you may proceed.
1127
01:35:13,749 --> 01:35:15,959
Oral argument will be made
1128
01:35:16,085 --> 01:35:20,047
by out-of-state counsel,
Professor Alan Dershowitz.
1129
01:35:29,348 --> 01:35:33,811
Your Honors, you may not
like Claus von Bulow.
1130
01:35:33,936 --> 01:35:39,400
You may think he is guilty of something.
But I am here to tell you he is innocent.
1131
01:35:39,525 --> 01:35:41,986
- Our new evidence...
- Professor.
1132
01:35:42,111 --> 01:35:46,991
You know there is no case which allows
you to introduce new evidence on appeal.
1133
01:35:47,116 --> 01:35:53,580
There is one, Your Honor.
And you wrote it: Derek.
1134
01:35:53,706 --> 01:35:57,501
In Derek, you yourself said
1135
01:35:57,626 --> 01:36:02,214
that a case based on
circumstantial theory rather than fact
1136
01:36:02,339 --> 01:36:06,176
only stands up if no other theory
makes sense.
1137
01:36:06,301 --> 01:36:09,930
The only way to show a better theory
is to present it.
1138
01:36:16,228 --> 01:36:19,440
Get on with it, counselor.
1139
01:36:19,565 --> 01:36:22,609
The first issue is the encrusted needle.
1140
01:36:23,444 --> 01:36:26,363
I hope you will have the courage
to free an innocent man
1141
01:36:26,488 --> 01:36:29,033
and remedy a grave injustice.
1142
01:36:29,158 --> 01:36:33,287
This will never work.
Too smart for his own good.
1143
01:36:33,412 --> 01:36:38,876
Alan says it will work.
If the prosecutor takes the bait.
1144
01:36:39,001 --> 01:36:41,462
What do you mean, "bait"?
1145
01:36:41,587 --> 01:36:44,131
Argues the evidence.
1146
01:36:44,256 --> 01:36:49,094
Your Honors, introduction
of new evidence on appeal
1147
01:36:49,219 --> 01:36:54,725
violates every principle of
jurisprudence, every statute,
1148
01:36:54,850 --> 01:36:57,561
every precedent, every rule of ethics.
1149
01:36:57,686 --> 01:36:59,355
He's nailing us.
1150
01:36:59,480 --> 01:37:04,735
I am not going to stand before you
and argue Mr. von Bulow's guilt.
1151
01:37:06,445 --> 01:37:12,368
However, I have no choice but to address
Mr. Dershowitz's arguments one by one.
1152
01:37:13,410 --> 01:37:17,831
- Bingo.
- First, the encrusted needle.
1153
01:37:18,832 --> 01:37:23,337
So, now it's up to the judges.
Tell me what you really think.
1154
01:37:23,462 --> 01:37:27,800
I think it's easier to love somebody
than to live with them.
1155
01:37:29,426 --> 01:37:32,888
Love is fantasy. Living is work.
1156
01:37:33,013 --> 01:37:36,433
I'll say. And those people
don't like to work.
1157
01:37:36,558 --> 01:37:41,230
But if you don't do the work, the love dies,
and nobody wants to deal with that one.
1158
01:37:41,355 --> 01:37:43,607
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
1159
01:37:43,732 --> 01:37:49,863
The love died, Sunny couldn't accept it...
so Claus tried to kill her?
1160
01:37:49,989 --> 01:37:52,074
- Maybe.
- I don't agree.
1161
01:37:53,242 --> 01:37:56,787
Face it. All we had to do was
prove the state made a lousy case.
1162
01:37:56,912 --> 01:38:00,874
We didn't prove Claus was innocent.
We couldn't, and he probably isn't.
1163
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:04,712
- You mean you think?
- So he didn't inject Sunny with insulin.
1164
01:38:04,837 --> 01:38:07,423
So what? First coma, no problem.
1165
01:38:07,548 --> 01:38:13,053
The attending doctor thought it was
caused by hypoglycemia. All right.
1166
01:38:13,178 --> 01:38:17,266
But what about the second coma?
I mean, why does Claus act so guilty?
1167
01:38:17,391 --> 01:38:20,978
Wouldn't any man feel guilty
if his wife was suicidal?
1168
01:38:21,103 --> 01:38:26,567
Yeah. So maybe she took the sleeping
pills with the intention of killing herself.
1169
01:38:26,692 --> 01:38:30,070
But how did she end up
lying on a marble floor
1170
01:38:30,195 --> 01:38:32,990
in a freezing bathroom
with her head under the toilet?
1171
01:38:33,115 --> 01:38:35,159
How about this?
1172
01:39:22,623 --> 01:39:25,292
Sunny wakes up miserable.
1173
01:39:29,838 --> 01:39:33,967
Second marriage is over,
children are leaving home.
1174
01:39:34,093 --> 01:39:36,136
What's to live for?
1175
01:41:48,519 --> 01:41:51,897
But when she was found, her nightgown
was hiked over her waist.
1176
01:41:52,022 --> 01:41:55,025
Exactly. How did it get there?
1177
01:41:55,943 --> 01:42:00,030
OK, let's say she's standing
at the sink. She has to pee.
1178
01:42:00,155 --> 01:42:03,534
At exactly the same instant,
the drugs hit,
1179
01:42:03,659 --> 01:42:07,121
her body convulses,
she grabs the nightgown.
1180
01:42:11,625 --> 01:42:14,378
- I don't buy that.
- It does seem far-fetched.
1181
01:42:15,129 --> 01:42:17,006
- So is the truth sometimes.
- Bull!
1182
01:42:17,131 --> 01:42:22,761
I think she took the drugs the previous
night. Maybe he saw her take them.
1183
01:42:22,886 --> 01:42:26,265
Or she told him she was going to
before they fell asleep.
1184
01:42:34,940 --> 01:42:38,652
This time, he wants her to succeed.
1185
01:42:48,120 --> 01:42:50,164
Sunny?
1186
01:43:16,523 --> 01:43:19,735
Maybe there's some way
he can help her along.
1187
01:43:19,860 --> 01:43:23,197
Of course. The open window.
1188
01:43:24,114 --> 01:43:26,659
Zero degrees.
1189
01:43:26,784 --> 01:43:29,828
But somebody might see her there.
1190
01:43:29,953 --> 01:43:34,667
The action of dragging her would
naturally pull up the nightgown.
1191
01:44:03,654 --> 01:44:07,157
In this cold, how long
could she survive?
1192
01:44:27,136 --> 01:44:29,763
Remember what Sunny said?
1193
01:44:29,888 --> 01:44:34,560
"I would've been better off.
You would've been better off. "
1194
01:44:39,148 --> 01:44:41,650
...because the law is a blunt instrument.
1195
01:44:41,775 --> 01:44:45,529
It is not a rapier. It is a cudgel.
1196
01:44:45,654 --> 01:44:49,825
Tomorrow, death penalty. Which
reminds me of the comedian who said
1197
01:44:49,950 --> 01:44:54,538
"Why do they call it the death penalty?
It's no penalty. You're out of the game!"
1198
01:45:03,422 --> 01:45:05,674
- Good news.
- And more good news.
1199
01:45:05,799 --> 01:45:08,552
- The decision came?
- They just announced it.
1200
01:45:08,677 --> 01:45:10,929
- Five-zip.
- We murdered 'em.
1201
01:45:11,055 --> 01:45:13,557
- Grounds?
- They got the Brillhoffer notes.
1202
01:45:13,682 --> 01:45:16,477
And that guilty-man's argument,
search and seizure.
1203
01:45:16,602 --> 01:45:18,896
- Federal or state?
- Both.
1204
01:45:19,021 --> 01:45:24,109
If it's federal, they could appeal, but
as it's Rhode Island, they can't. We win.
1205
01:45:24,234 --> 01:45:27,029
Don't get too excited till
we see Brillhoffer's notes.
1206
01:45:27,154 --> 01:45:32,451
We destroyed their medical case, but their
witnesses still carry emotional weight.
1207
01:45:32,576 --> 01:45:37,539
Unless the Brillhoffer notes show
that they've changed their stories.
1208
01:45:38,165 --> 01:45:40,209
Good afternoon, sir.
1209
01:45:41,669 --> 01:45:44,254
- Let me get that for you.
- Thank you.
1210
01:45:58,185 --> 01:46:00,896
- You have Brillhoffer's notes?
- Yes.
1211
01:46:01,021 --> 01:46:03,065
- Well?
- They're not what we hoped.
1212
01:46:03,190 --> 01:46:05,275
I knew it.
1213
01:46:07,653 --> 01:46:09,697
They're much better.
1214
01:46:11,156 --> 01:46:14,660
No one mentioned insulin
when they first talked to Brillhoffer.
1215
01:46:14,785 --> 01:46:20,332
Plus, Maria told him that, when
she supposedly first saw insulin,
1216
01:46:20,457 --> 01:46:24,586
she couldn't even read any of the
labels. They were all scraped off.
1217
01:46:24,712 --> 01:46:27,006
- What does this mean?
- It means...
1218
01:46:27,131 --> 01:46:30,467
that if there is a second trial,
we can be confident.
1219
01:46:30,592 --> 01:46:34,179
Both the medical case and
their witnesses are now highly suspect.
1220
01:46:34,305 --> 01:46:36,181
Ah!
1221
01:46:56,744 --> 01:47:00,414
Darling, this is Alan Dershowitz.
1222
01:47:00,539 --> 01:47:02,333
Yes, I know. Hello.
1223
01:47:02,458 --> 01:47:06,295
Alan tells me...
Well, things look very hopeful.
1224
01:47:08,005 --> 01:47:11,800
I knew it would come out all right.
Thank you.
1225
01:47:14,970 --> 01:47:17,806
Yes, Alan, thank you.
I am eternally grateful.
1226
01:47:17,931 --> 01:47:22,061
Hey, this means we'll be getting back
your bail. A million dollars.
1227
01:47:22,186 --> 01:47:24,980
I know I still owe you, Alan.
1228
01:47:25,939 --> 01:47:28,776
Please send me your bill.
1229
01:47:28,901 --> 01:47:35,032
And maybe when you're in New York
we can meet for lunch. I'd enjoy that.
1230
01:47:36,283 --> 01:47:40,621
One thing, Claus. Legally,
this was an important victory.
1231
01:47:40,746 --> 01:47:43,248
Morally, you're on your own.
1232
01:47:55,469 --> 01:48:02,184
Claus von Bulow was given a
second trial and acquitted on both counts.
1233
01:48:03,102 --> 01:48:07,940
This is all you can know,
all you can be told.
1234
01:48:09,274 --> 01:48:13,821
When you get where I am,
you will know the rest.
1239
01:48:46,520 --> 01:48:48,772
Two packs of Vantage, please.
1240
01:48:56,613 --> 01:49:00,784
- Anything else?
- Yes, a vial of insulin.
1241
01:49:08,083 --> 01:49:10,127
Just kidding.
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