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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.
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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.
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Two big problems:
the case against him is very strong,
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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.
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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
00:23:21,668 --> 00:23:26,423
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.
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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
00:23:43,273 --> 00:23:46,735
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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I won't have anything to do with it.
267
00:23:54,993 --> 00:23:59,122
And I hope my fellow students
won't, either. Goodbye.
268
00:23:59,915 --> 00:24:04,544
My I exercise my First Amendment
right to free speech?
269
00:24:06,463 --> 00:24:12,552
If lawyers only defended the innocent,
there'd be just ten lawyers in the country.
270
00:24:12,678 --> 00:24:15,430
Why help guilty people get off?
271
00:24:16,723 --> 00:24:18,934
You're sure he's guilty? 100% sure?
272
00:24:19,059 --> 00:24:23,814
He had a lawyer. He had a trial.
He was convicted.
273
00:24:23,939 --> 00:24:26,817
- Are you sure he had a fair trial?
- Come on!
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It's the basis of the whole legal system!
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Everyone gets a defense.
276
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So the system is there for the one
innocent person who was falsely accused.
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00:24:40,205 --> 00:24:45,210
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
00:25:00,183 --> 00:25:03,812
Suddenly, you're alone. You hate it.
282
00:25:03,937 --> 00:25:09,609
It's a nightmare.
Everyone assumes that you are guilty.
283
00:25:09,735 --> 00:25:13,780
Even the mailman is beginning
to look at you a little funny.
284
00:25:13,905 --> 00:25:16,700
You only got one person
who believes in you.
285
00:25:16,825 --> 00:25:21,038
There's only one person
you can trust: your lawyer.
286
00:25:21,872 --> 00:25:26,543
Yeah, OK. So, someone's
gotta defend Claus.
287
00:25:26,668 --> 00:25:28,962
But why you? Why us?
288
00:25:30,255 --> 00:25:32,799
Look, you're my student.
You have a choice.
289
00:25:32,924 --> 00:25:36,762
You don't have to do anything
you don't want to. That is your choice.
290
00:25:36,887 --> 00:25:40,807
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
00:25:48,106 --> 00:25:50,609
And I am pissed off here.
294
00:25:50,734 --> 00:25:56,323
The family hired a private prosecutor.
Unacceptable!
295
00:25:56,448 --> 00:25:59,660
They conducted a private search!
296
00:25:59,785 --> 00:26:04,247
Now, we let 'em get away with that, rich
people won't go to the cops any more.
297
00:26:04,373 --> 00:26:09,544
You know what they'll do? Get
their own lawyers to collect evidence.
298
00:26:09,670 --> 00:26:13,090
And then they are going
to choose which evidence
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00:26:13,215 --> 00:26:15,676
they feel like passing on to the DA.
300
00:26:15,801 --> 00:26:19,346
And the next victim isn't
gonna be rich like von Bulow,
301
00:26:19,471 --> 00:26:26,478
but is gonna be some poor schnook who
can't afford or can't find a decent lawyer.
302
00:26:32,275 --> 00:26:37,280
I think it's a little more complicated
than your simple moral superiority.
303
00:26:39,157 --> 00:26:40,701
No?
304
00:26:40,826 --> 00:26:45,080
I agree von Bulow is guilty, but that's
the fun. I mean, that's the challenge.
305
00:26:45,205 --> 00:26:48,000
See? Now, there is a lawyer.
306
00:26:49,376 --> 00:26:52,004
- What?
- I have Mr. von Bulow for you.
307
00:26:52,129 --> 00:26:54,339
OK, put him on.
308
00:26:54,464 --> 00:26:59,511
Alan, a rather unsavory character
called David Marriott contacted me,
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00:26:59,636 --> 00:27:04,057
claiming to have information about
a drug delivery at Clarendon Court.
310
00:27:04,182 --> 00:27:06,893
- OK. Where does he live?
- Somewhere in Wakefield.
311
00:27:07,019 --> 00:27:09,062
OK, we'll get on it.
312
00:27:09,813 --> 00:27:13,775
Tom, I want you to get
a private investigator
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00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:17,738
to dig into a David Marriott,
lives in Wakefield.
314
00:27:18,822 --> 00:27:22,784
- OK. How are we gonna win this case?
- The judge made lots of mistakes.
315
00:27:22,909 --> 00:27:25,620
Judges always make mistakes.
How will we win?
316
00:27:25,746 --> 00:27:28,332
One issue leaps up.
This lawyer, Brillhoffer,
317
00:27:28,457 --> 00:27:32,711
interviewed Alex, Maria, everybody.
He was the first to hear their stories.
318
00:27:32,836 --> 00:27:36,131
He took notes and used them at trial
against a defense witness.
319
00:27:36,256 --> 00:27:40,093
But the defense never saw the notes.
The judge wouldn't let us have them.
320
00:27:40,218 --> 00:27:42,554
It's perfect Brady.
321
00:27:42,679 --> 00:27:46,183
OK, why don't you draft a letter,
writing to Brillhoffer,
322
00:27:46,308 --> 00:27:48,852
asking him very nicely
to send us his notes?
323
00:27:48,977 --> 00:27:53,315
- Yeah, right. He'll fax them right over.
- Yeah, right.
324
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,567
We could win on this issue alone.
325
00:27:55,692 --> 00:27:59,279
You know it, I know it.
Just make sure he knows it.
326
00:27:59,404 --> 00:28:02,449
- Now, Nancy and Dobbs.
- Yes?
327
00:28:02,574 --> 00:28:05,744
They're going to attack
the medical testimony.
328
00:28:05,869 --> 00:28:09,081
Our Rhode Island counsel,
Peter Macintosh,
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00:28:09,206 --> 00:28:11,792
he will analyze the state supreme court.
330
00:28:11,917 --> 00:28:16,713
The rest of us should begin dissecting
the transcript. Errors, inconsistencies.
331
00:28:16,838 --> 00:28:22,844
OK, great. Now remember, most cases
are won in the field, not in court.
332
00:28:23,595 --> 00:28:25,639
Minnie?
333
00:28:26,723 --> 00:28:29,142
You wanna work with Sarah on this?
334
00:28:29,267 --> 00:28:33,021
- You may learn something.
- Come on, Minnie.
335
00:28:33,146 --> 00:28:34,564
Minnie!
336
00:28:34,690 --> 00:28:37,859
- Please?
- Come on.
337
00:28:38,777 --> 00:28:43,115
I don't trust Marriott. I don't know him.
But if he knew Alex von Auersberg...
338
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,910
You're crazy. I don't know who
you think you are. Perry Mason?
339
00:28:47,035 --> 00:28:51,623
Let our private investigator interview him.
It's stupid and unprofessional.
340
00:28:51,748 --> 00:28:54,668
- It's fun.
- Fun? This guy is a sleaze.
341
00:28:54,793 --> 00:28:58,964
- You don't know what he's gonna try.
- What, is he gonna shoot me?
342
00:28:59,089 --> 00:29:01,133
Come on, I'm from Brooklyn.
343
00:29:06,763 --> 00:29:11,852
OK, I'll stand by the window every ten
minutes. That way you can know I'm safe.
344
00:29:13,437 --> 00:29:19,109
I had this friend, Gilbert Jackson.
Interior decorator.
345
00:29:19,234 --> 00:29:22,195
Flaming queen,
but a very excellent guy.
346
00:29:24,364 --> 00:29:26,950
He introduced me to Alex von Auersberg.
347
00:29:27,951 --> 00:29:29,828
Sure it was Alex?
348
00:29:29,953 --> 00:29:35,584
We had dinner a few times, drinks.
All I knew, Alex was some rich kid.
349
00:29:36,627 --> 00:29:41,340
So sometimes - this is like summer of '77-
350
00:29:41,465 --> 00:29:44,009
I'd motor to Newport for some R and R.
351
00:29:44,134 --> 00:29:46,595
Gilbert asked me to bring Alex a package.
352
00:29:47,638 --> 00:29:51,683
I figured interior decoration.
Maybe drapes.
353
00:29:51,808 --> 00:29:54,394
Like six times. So I'd call Alex.
354
00:29:54,519 --> 00:29:57,731
- How did you get his phone number?
- From Gilbert.
355
00:29:57,856 --> 00:30:00,400
- You still have it?
- Maybe.
356
00:30:01,401 --> 00:30:03,570
I'm that kind of guy.
357
00:30:29,221 --> 00:30:31,264
Here.
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00:30:36,603 --> 00:30:40,732
One night, I got curious.
Opened the package.
359
00:30:41,650 --> 00:30:46,989
Fuckin' pharmacy, man.
Needles, syringes, white powder,
360
00:30:47,114 --> 00:30:51,576
nice selection of pills, Demerol...
Like a drugstore.
361
00:30:53,537 --> 00:30:57,749
You delivered drugs six times
and didn't know it?
362
00:30:59,501 --> 00:31:03,422
Stupid, huh?
Then Gilbert asked me again.
363
00:31:04,298 --> 00:31:08,927
I couldn't say no, but this time I made
Alex open the package in front of me.
364
00:31:09,052 --> 00:31:11,096
Voil�.
365
00:31:12,264 --> 00:31:15,434
I go "Awful lot of pharmaceuticals
for one person."
366
00:31:15,559 --> 00:31:19,563
He goes "Oh, I give some
to my mom to keep her off my back."
367
00:31:21,356 --> 00:31:25,068
A few weeks later,
Gilbert gets mistaken for a softball.
368
00:31:25,193 --> 00:31:30,115
Two guys bash his head in.
Alex calls me, totally urinary.
369
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:35,120
Will the cops find his phone number
and fuck up his trust fund or something?
370
00:31:35,245 --> 00:31:41,043
Well, that's the fat. That's the skinny.
You like it?
371
00:31:43,253 --> 00:31:45,881
You traffic with drug dealers
and drag queens,
372
00:31:46,006 --> 00:31:49,009
you have a part-time job,
you ride in rented limos.
373
00:31:49,134 --> 00:31:54,014
All in all, I'd say you're probably the least
impressive witness I've ever seen.
374
00:31:54,139 --> 00:31:56,725
Wait a minute.
375
00:31:59,269 --> 00:32:02,564
You think I'm scum, don't you?
376
00:32:02,689 --> 00:32:06,109
Blow it out your ass.
377
00:32:06,234 --> 00:32:10,030
You want a witness to back me up?
I'll get one.
378
00:32:10,155 --> 00:32:14,284
And hey, maybe I'll see you
at the Celtics, huh?
379
00:32:25,879 --> 00:32:29,633
I am not going to let them execute you.
You're not gonna die.
380
00:32:29,758 --> 00:32:34,554
Look, Johnny, this is gonna be
a lot easier on you if you don't cry, OK?
381
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,016
I... I know your brother's hysterical.
382
00:32:38,141 --> 00:32:41,019
Number one, they always
set a date for the execution,
383
00:32:41,144 --> 00:32:43,230
and they always postpone it.
384
00:32:43,355 --> 00:32:48,902
He's great like this. I just wish he had
something left for those around him.
385
00:32:49,027 --> 00:32:51,697
Why are you talking to me about money?
386
00:32:51,822 --> 00:32:54,574
Anyway, it's nice to have you back here.
387
00:32:55,492 --> 00:32:57,536
Say hello to your brother.
388
00:32:57,661 --> 00:32:59,997
Right. OK.
389
00:33:08,255 --> 00:33:10,757
OK, who's got what?
390
00:33:12,759 --> 00:33:17,723
Maria's testimony. She says Sunny
did take Valium prescribed for Claus.
391
00:33:17,848 --> 00:33:19,641
Score one for von Bulow.
392
00:33:19,766 --> 00:33:23,061
- And this Jamie Smather prescription?
- Who's Jamie Smather?
393
00:33:23,186 --> 00:33:28,483
300-pound red-headed hooker in white
boots. She supplied Claus with Valium.
394
00:33:28,608 --> 00:33:31,320
He had a gorgeous mistress
and went to an ugly whore?
395
00:33:31,445 --> 00:33:34,531
There are some things
even mistresses won't do.
396
00:33:36,533 --> 00:33:39,119
- Like what?
- I am not telling.
397
00:33:40,621 --> 00:33:45,500
Anyway, Maria swears she first saw
this Jamie Smather prescription
398
00:33:45,626 --> 00:33:49,463
February 14th,
and then again February 28th.
399
00:33:49,588 --> 00:33:52,549
- So?
- It wasn't prescribed till the 28th.
400
00:33:52,674 --> 00:33:55,218
You're not suggesting she's lying?
401
00:33:55,344 --> 00:33:58,180
How about Maria's insulin?
Anything more on that?
402
00:33:58,305 --> 00:34:00,349
Not yet.
403
00:34:01,350 --> 00:34:04,227
Something about that bothers me.
404
00:34:05,145 --> 00:34:09,650
- OK, who's next?
- Brillhoffer wrote back.
405
00:34:09,775 --> 00:34:11,902
He's very attached to his notes.
406
00:34:14,738 --> 00:34:19,242
"I am satisfied that there is not
a scrap of paper in my files
407
00:34:19,368 --> 00:34:22,496
that might even arguably
be viewed as exculpatory."
408
00:34:22,621 --> 00:34:27,417
- Translation?
- He says he has nothing that'd help us.
409
00:34:28,877 --> 00:34:31,213
- You with me?
- Pay dirt.
410
00:34:31,338 --> 00:34:33,298
- What?
- He's a lawyer.
411
00:34:33,423 --> 00:34:36,343
If he didn't have anything,
he'd give it to us.
412
00:34:36,468 --> 00:34:39,805
But there's something there,
and he'll fight to hold on to it.
413
00:34:39,930 --> 00:34:43,809
I will bet my fee that no one
remembered seeing insulin
414
00:34:43,934 --> 00:34:46,061
until after the lab report came back.
415
00:34:46,186 --> 00:34:49,314
- So you're suggesting...
- Memory enhancement.
416
00:34:49,439 --> 00:34:52,651
- It might be more than that.
- Possibly.
417
00:34:53,735 --> 00:34:57,197
- A frame-up.
- You mean, by the kids?
418
00:34:57,322 --> 00:35:01,034
- Where d'you get this? Brillhoffer's letter?
- Pure deduction.
419
00:35:01,159 --> 00:35:06,373
A good lawyer is part psychiatrist,
detective, logician.
420
00:35:06,498 --> 00:35:10,627
- A great lawyer...
- Never would have taken this case.
421
00:35:11,295 --> 00:35:15,632
If there's nothing more...
Has anybody read this?
422
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,094
It's an interview with Truman Capote.
423
00:35:19,219 --> 00:35:24,266
He says, when she was 19, Sunny von
Bulow taught him how to inject drugs.
424
00:35:24,391 --> 00:35:25,726
Let me see that.
425
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:34,568
- Well, well, well. The famous professor.
- My new girlfriend, Andrea Reynolds.
426
00:35:34,693 --> 00:35:37,988
- I'm not his girlfriend. I'm his savior.
- Perfectly true.
427
00:35:38,113 --> 00:35:43,243
Two days after the trial, we fell in love.
It was really very dramatic.
428
00:35:43,368 --> 00:35:45,412
Andrea, Andrea, Andrea, come on.
429
00:35:46,121 --> 00:35:49,374
Since then, I've devoted my life
to clearing his name.
430
00:35:49,499 --> 00:35:52,252
I made him hire you.
431
00:35:53,420 --> 00:35:55,797
"Get the Jew," I said.
432
00:35:56,632 --> 00:35:58,550
Darling...
433
00:35:58,675 --> 00:36:01,553
Can the Jew get down to business?
434
00:36:01,678 --> 00:36:05,057
We've got an affidavit. Smythe.
435
00:36:05,182 --> 00:36:10,771
Mrs. Ruth Smythe gave us an affidavit
corroborating Truman Capote.
436
00:36:10,896 --> 00:36:13,065
I have affidavits, too.
437
00:36:14,733 --> 00:36:18,070
Newport people.
They describe Sunny taking pills,
438
00:36:18,195 --> 00:36:20,238
getting drunk and falling down,
439
00:36:20,364 --> 00:36:23,909
thumping into doorways,
smearing lipstick all over her face.
440
00:36:24,034 --> 00:36:27,079
- Not a very pretty picture.
- She did it, didn't she?
441
00:36:27,204 --> 00:36:29,247
Don't be a priss.
442
00:36:30,332 --> 00:36:33,293
- Sunny was a lovely woman.
- Spoiled rotten.
443
00:36:33,418 --> 00:36:37,047
Yes, but lovely. Till she drank.
444
00:36:37,589 --> 00:36:41,176
Two drinks, and she became...
nasty, irrational.
445
00:36:41,301 --> 00:36:44,805
All women are irrational.
Did we mention the priest?
446
00:36:44,930 --> 00:36:51,144
Oh. Marriott apparently confided
in a priest, who's consented to talk to us.
447
00:36:54,147 --> 00:36:56,650
Father Capello from Providence.
448
00:36:58,193 --> 00:37:03,365
A priest? A priest is the ideal witness.
It's like getting the word of God.
449
00:37:03,490 --> 00:37:06,201
I checked. God is unavailable.
450
00:37:07,077 --> 00:37:09,705
lf... if the priest comes through,
451
00:37:09,830 --> 00:37:12,457
and we can get documentation
on Sunny's drug use,
452
00:37:12,582 --> 00:37:14,835
self-injection may be a plausible theory.
453
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,630
- There's no insulin in this case.
- But people do use insulin.
454
00:37:18,755 --> 00:37:22,301
They use it for dieting.
Sunny was concerned about her weight.
455
00:37:22,426 --> 00:37:26,930
Maybe, but believe me, Alan,
there's no insulin here.
456
00:37:30,434 --> 00:37:33,270
Really? How can you be so sure?
457
00:37:41,820 --> 00:37:47,743
You realize, with this case,
I'm looking for evidence to exonerate you.
458
00:37:47,868 --> 00:37:52,998
But, at the same time, I'm also
wondering... what really happened.
459
00:37:53,123 --> 00:37:56,835
- Who you are.
- Who would you like me to be?
460
00:38:00,505 --> 00:38:02,924
Your mother's death... What happened?
461
00:38:04,551 --> 00:38:07,512
I believe she had a heart problem.
462
00:38:07,638 --> 00:38:10,140
The rumor in England is you killed her.
463
00:38:10,265 --> 00:38:14,061
Hey, Alan. Statute of limitations
ran out on that years ago.
464
00:38:14,186 --> 00:38:16,980
There's rumors also that I killed my aunt.
465
00:38:19,149 --> 00:38:23,111
And that I'm a necrophiliac
who injected Sunny with insulin
466
00:38:23,236 --> 00:38:25,906
so that I could have my way with her.
467
00:38:26,823 --> 00:38:28,450
Please.
468
00:38:29,451 --> 00:38:32,651
Your Mother's death was not
recorded for five full days.
469
00:38:32,752 --> 00:38:33,852
True.
470
00:38:35,953 --> 00:38:37,153
- Where were you during that time ?
471
00:38:37,754 --> 00:38:38,854
In the flat.
472
00:38:39,255 --> 00:38:40,255
-Where the body was ?
473
00:38:47,856 --> 00:38:49,556
My mother is my own business.
474
00:38:56,332 --> 00:39:01,254
Did Claus drive me crazy?
Even I don't know.
475
00:39:02,130 --> 00:39:06,217
But it's true that I took
up to 24 laxatives daily,
476
00:39:06,342 --> 00:39:08,928
popped aspirin like M&M's,
477
00:39:09,053 --> 00:39:12,015
smoked three packs of cigarettes a day,
478
00:39:12,140 --> 00:39:15,018
had a problem with alcohol,
479
00:39:15,143 --> 00:39:17,478
took Valium and Seconal frequently
480
00:39:17,604 --> 00:39:20,481
and consumed large quantities of sweets,
481
00:39:20,607 --> 00:39:23,985
despite a medical condition,
hypoglycemia,
482
00:39:24,110 --> 00:39:26,321
which made them hazardous.
483
00:39:27,447 --> 00:39:30,408
As for my state of mind...
484
00:39:35,413 --> 00:39:39,542
I had not had sex with
my husband for years.
485
00:39:41,169 --> 00:39:47,800
My schedule was: I woke at 9.30,
did a little exercise and shopping,
486
00:39:47,926 --> 00:39:53,056
and returned to bed at 3 o'clock
for the remainder of the afternoon.
487
00:39:53,181 --> 00:39:59,020
I liked to be in bed.
I didn't much like anything else.
488
00:40:04,984 --> 00:40:07,070
Hold on here, will you?
489
00:40:25,213 --> 00:40:27,382
- Come in.
- Alan.
490
00:40:27,507 --> 00:40:30,677
Welcome to my humble law firm.
491
00:40:30,802 --> 00:40:34,889
In the kitchen,
our insulin-on-the-needle team.
492
00:40:35,014 --> 00:40:37,976
They're cooking up
some surprise for us.
493
00:40:42,564 --> 00:40:45,692
This is our Brillhoffer-notes team.
494
00:40:45,817 --> 00:40:47,443
Mr. von Bulow.
495
00:40:47,569 --> 00:40:51,364
- Where are the paper towels?
- Ask Sarah!
496
00:40:51,489 --> 00:40:53,533
Sarah used to live here.
497
00:40:54,742 --> 00:40:58,413
This... I guess he was up all night.
498
00:41:06,045 --> 00:41:09,215
This sort of commune,
you do it on every case?
499
00:41:09,340 --> 00:41:15,471
Never before. 38 days to write
100 pages. Only way to get it done.
500
00:41:15,597 --> 00:41:19,601
Here's the black-bag team.
Illegal-search team.
501
00:41:28,776 --> 00:41:33,740
My son Elon lost his room. Actually
this is another case that you're paying for.
502
00:41:35,241 --> 00:41:39,078
- And this is my team.
- You wish.
503
00:41:39,204 --> 00:41:41,831
I can't find the damn thing.
504
00:41:41,956 --> 00:41:46,794
- Hi. I'm Sarah.
- And a very lovely Sarah you are.
505
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:51,216
- Does that really work?
- Flattery? Absolutely.
506
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,344
Like Chinese food?
507
00:41:55,553 --> 00:41:58,806
What do you give a wife
who has everything?
508
00:42:00,099 --> 00:42:02,602
An injection of insulin.
509
00:42:04,979 --> 00:42:11,069
How... Ah, my prawns.
How can one define a fear of insulin?
510
00:42:12,153 --> 00:42:14,364
Claustrophobia.
511
00:42:19,577 --> 00:42:23,873
Is there anything more you can
tell us about Alexandra Isles?
512
00:42:23,998 --> 00:42:28,127
Is it true that she gave you a deadline
of Christmas 1979 to be together?
513
00:42:28,253 --> 00:42:31,840
Not really. No, she knew
I was looking for full-time work.
514
00:42:31,965 --> 00:42:34,300
I worked for JP Getty in London.
515
00:42:34,425 --> 00:42:38,221
Alexandra assumed that, when you did
find a job, you'd marry her?
516
00:42:38,346 --> 00:42:40,557
Oh, she assumed it.
517
00:42:42,308 --> 00:42:45,270
Did you sense that she
wanted to get back together?
518
00:42:45,395 --> 00:42:48,356
Very much so.
In fact, at the trial, she said...
519
00:42:48,481 --> 00:42:53,194
I loved him, but I was still
caught up in my own anger.
520
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:59,784
And I'm sorry I acted that way then.
I loved him then. I was angry.
521
00:43:00,785 --> 00:43:03,329
Let me ask you this.
Maybe you can't answer.
522
00:43:03,454 --> 00:43:05,707
Do you still love him?
523
00:43:06,916 --> 00:43:07,917
I don't know.
524
00:43:08,042 --> 00:43:10,962
- That means yes.
- It would seem so.
525
00:43:11,087 --> 00:43:15,675
In fact, after the trial, she wrote me
a letter saying so explicitly.
526
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:21,139
A very passionate letter.
Passionate and jealous.
527
00:43:21,806 --> 00:43:26,060
But that was the relationship
from the outset. That was Alexandra.
528
00:43:26,186 --> 00:43:29,439
She was your love slave.
529
00:43:35,195 --> 00:43:41,951
Ah. I think now I'll have my own
individual order of ginger prawns.
530
00:43:44,662 --> 00:43:49,417
Three weeks before her final coma,
Sunny overdosed on aspirin.
531
00:43:49,542 --> 00:43:53,171
- Can you tell us about that?
- I had nothing to do with that.
532
00:43:53,296 --> 00:43:56,716
Of course not.
I'm asking you what happened.
533
00:43:56,841 --> 00:43:59,177
Sunny had been unwell.
534
00:44:06,059 --> 00:44:10,021
- Are you all right?
- Just a bit dizzy.
535
00:44:11,981 --> 00:44:14,317
If you're dizzy, don't go wandering...
536
00:44:30,250 --> 00:44:32,293
Sunny?
537
00:44:34,379 --> 00:44:37,590
Oh, my God. Come on, my darling.
538
00:44:37,715 --> 00:44:40,969
You're all right. Put your arm
around my shoulder.
539
00:44:41,094 --> 00:44:45,348
No, you're all right. Come on,
we'll get you back into bed.
540
00:44:47,183 --> 00:44:51,312
- Something happened to my head.
- You're all right.
541
00:44:51,437 --> 00:44:54,107
It's just a little cut.
542
00:44:54,232 --> 00:44:57,110
Come on, let's get you lying down.
543
00:45:00,446 --> 00:45:02,490
There you are.
544
00:45:05,743 --> 00:45:07,120
There.
545
00:45:10,290 --> 00:45:13,334
- Shall I call a doctor?
- No!
546
00:45:13,459 --> 00:45:18,131
No, I don't want a doctor.
Just... I don't want a doctor.
547
00:45:18,256 --> 00:45:20,550
I just wanna be left alone.
548
00:45:21,885 --> 00:45:25,263
I wanna be left alone
with all those beautiful letters.
549
00:45:25,388 --> 00:45:29,517
What did you do with those letters?
Why did you write those letters?
550
00:45:30,143 --> 00:45:33,062
Later the doctor said
we needn't have gone to hospital,
551
00:45:33,188 --> 00:45:35,148
but I wasn't going to take any chances.
552
00:45:35,273 --> 00:45:37,275
Why did she take so much aspirin?
553
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:41,821
Sunny always took aspirin. She'd
been taking a lot for several days.
554
00:45:41,946 --> 00:45:45,200
- That's not what our doctor said.
- Dr. Lucus Lupardus,
555
00:45:45,325 --> 00:45:48,244
chief forensic toxicologist,
Suffolk County,
556
00:45:48,369 --> 00:45:52,749
says people who take lots of aspirin
every day never reach that level.
557
00:45:52,874 --> 00:45:58,922
He also said the average blood level
in cases of death is 60. Hers was 90. So...
558
00:45:59,047 --> 00:46:01,966
So, it was obviously a suicide attempt.
559
00:46:03,051 --> 00:46:05,261
- Why?
- Yeah. Why?
560
00:46:05,386 --> 00:46:09,599
- Why?
- Alan, do they all want to be prosecutors?
561
00:46:12,352 --> 00:46:14,145
We're waiting.
562
00:46:17,273 --> 00:46:19,526
I presume she was unhappy.
563
00:46:26,199 --> 00:46:29,953
How about we all finish up
and go back to the house?
564
00:46:30,078 --> 00:46:34,332
We're not gonna win this
on a technicality. Peter?
565
00:46:34,457 --> 00:46:38,670
I've read every recent case where
the Rhode Island Supreme Court reversed.
566
00:46:38,795 --> 00:46:42,423
They don't like to make new law
or discuss broad legal issues.
567
00:46:42,549 --> 00:46:45,385
When they do reverse,
the grounds are technical,
568
00:46:45,510 --> 00:46:47,554
but the reason seems to be
569
00:46:47,679 --> 00:46:51,599
they suspect a convicted
defendant may be innocent.
570
00:46:51,724 --> 00:46:54,143
OK, everybody get that?
571
00:46:54,269 --> 00:47:00,316
True or not, we've gotta convince
the judges that you are innocent.
572
00:47:00,441 --> 00:47:03,486
Claus, now I do wanna
hear your side of the story.
573
00:47:03,611 --> 00:47:08,741
With pleasure. Innocence
has always been my position.
574
00:47:12,954 --> 00:47:15,665
First coma: what preceded it?
575
00:47:17,208 --> 00:47:18,710
Sunny loved Christmas.
576
00:47:19,085 --> 00:47:22,547
It was her favorite season, really.
577
00:47:22,672 --> 00:47:25,800
You see, what you must
understand about Sunny
578
00:47:25,925 --> 00:47:29,137
is that she loved giving
more than anything else.
579
00:47:35,018 --> 00:47:38,938
Each year, she always made
a big bowl of fresh eggnog.
580
00:47:39,063 --> 00:47:41,441
On that year, she drank a lot of it.
581
00:47:41,566 --> 00:47:46,154
- How much?
- 10 or 12 glasses.
582
00:47:46,279 --> 00:47:50,617
- With her hypoglycemia?
- Did she always drink like that?
583
00:47:50,742 --> 00:47:53,912
Never. She never touched alcohol at all,
584
00:47:54,037 --> 00:47:57,582
except on social occasions
to overcome her shyness
585
00:47:57,707 --> 00:48:00,460
or when she was upset.
586
00:48:00,585 --> 00:48:03,254
This was not a social occasion?
587
00:48:03,379 --> 00:48:08,927
No. We'd been discussing
divorce all afternoon.
588
00:48:25,401 --> 00:48:31,199
This whole subject of
your work coming between us,
589
00:48:32,617 --> 00:48:36,329
isn't it just a pretext,
when the real subject is her?
590
00:48:36,454 --> 00:48:38,706
Certainly not.
591
00:48:40,375 --> 00:48:44,504
I'm thinking of redecorating
this whole fucking house.
592
00:48:45,964 --> 00:48:49,300
Then she knew about Alexandra.
593
00:48:49,425 --> 00:48:52,595
- Yes.
- How did she find out?
594
00:48:52,720 --> 00:48:56,015
Er... I...
595
00:48:56,140 --> 00:48:58,893
I told her the previous summer.
596
00:49:29,966 --> 00:49:32,635
Oh, I've been meaning to mention...
597
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:38,975
our understanding about my...
extracurricular activities.
598
00:49:39,100 --> 00:49:40,768
Mm?
599
00:49:40,894 --> 00:49:46,482
I've been involved with someone who falls
outside the parameters of our agreement.
600
00:49:46,608 --> 00:49:50,278
- Really?
- Someone peripherally in our circle.
601
00:49:52,113 --> 00:49:54,949
Billy Botsky's daughter, Alexandra Isles.
602
00:49:57,494 --> 00:49:59,537
Well...
603
00:50:01,748 --> 00:50:06,252
That must be better for you than
what you've had to put up with.
604
00:50:06,377 --> 00:50:09,506
You're referring to the call girls.
605
00:50:09,631 --> 00:50:15,303
Yes. I mean, that is where
you've gone previously, isn't it?
606
00:50:16,012 --> 00:50:18,264
Yes, it is.
607
00:50:19,974 --> 00:50:25,522
And isn't this better? Or is
Billy Botsky's daughter a call girl too?
608
00:50:27,190 --> 00:50:29,317
This is much better.
609
00:50:37,659 --> 00:50:39,285
That was what? July, August?
610
00:50:39,410 --> 00:50:43,581
Now it's Christmastime, and you were
still squabbling over Alexandra?
611
00:50:43,706 --> 00:50:46,000
No, we were fighting about my work.
612
00:50:46,125 --> 00:50:48,169
Sunny was...
613
00:50:49,587 --> 00:50:52,924
Well, by the evening,
she'd drunk so much eggnog
614
00:50:53,049 --> 00:50:55,844
that I had to help her into the bedroom.
615
00:50:58,721 --> 00:51:00,849
Time for bed, darling.
616
00:51:05,770 --> 00:51:07,897
There we are.
617
00:51:13,528 --> 00:51:16,156
Please don't hold my arm.
618
00:51:16,281 --> 00:51:18,741
Darling, you know when you get like this.
619
00:51:18,867 --> 00:51:23,246
Do you remember?
You fell and broke your hip.
620
00:51:23,371 --> 00:51:25,456
That was years ago.
621
00:51:27,333 --> 00:51:29,961
It was two years ago.
622
00:51:49,981 --> 00:51:52,317
Get me a Scotch and soda.
623
00:52:02,994 --> 00:52:05,747
May I at least urinate alone?
624
00:52:25,350 --> 00:52:28,394
She runs the water every time
she goes in there.
625
00:52:30,146 --> 00:52:32,315
If she was soused, why get the Scotch?
626
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,652
Because she asked for it.
627
00:52:35,777 --> 00:52:38,363
Sunny got what Sunny wanted.
628
00:52:38,488 --> 00:52:40,615
It's OK.
629
00:53:09,894 --> 00:53:12,730
- Good night, Daddy.
- Good night, darling.
630
00:53:14,858 --> 00:53:17,735
- Good night, Claus.
- Good night, Alex.
631
00:53:31,207 --> 00:53:36,004
Hasn't my mother given us
enough money? Claus!
632
00:53:36,129 --> 00:53:38,339
That night, we hardly slept.
633
00:53:38,464 --> 00:53:41,718
Your age is perfectly acceptable to retire.
634
00:53:41,843 --> 00:53:46,556
I'm already retired.
I haven't worked full-time since Getty.
635
00:53:46,681 --> 00:53:50,894
Exactly. It's your ego.
You've never had a career, not really.
636
00:53:51,019 --> 00:53:53,396
I'm going to have one now.
637
00:53:55,773 --> 00:53:58,860
Come on, Sunny. Your father worked.
638
00:53:59,777 --> 00:54:03,698
Do you want the children to think
a male's place is in a deck chair?
639
00:54:03,823 --> 00:54:06,284
You marry me for my money,
then demand to work.
640
00:54:06,409 --> 00:54:08,453
You're the prince of perversion!
641
00:54:08,578 --> 00:54:13,625
- Are you trying to destroy our family?
- No, of course not. I simply want some...
642
00:54:13,750 --> 00:54:16,794
...intercourse with the world.
643
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,005
Shut up, Pan!
644
00:54:19,130 --> 00:54:21,466
Oh, what does it matter?
645
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:28,640
So, is that it? Another divorce?
646
00:54:31,684 --> 00:54:35,813
OK. I'll divorce you. I will.
647
00:54:35,939 --> 00:54:39,776
Oh, God. Two-time loser.
648
00:54:41,277 --> 00:54:45,949
- I'll divorce everybody.
- I don't want a divorce.
649
00:54:46,074 --> 00:54:48,618
I don't want to marry
Billy Botsky's daughter.
650
00:54:48,743 --> 00:54:52,121
I want to stay with you and I want
to work. I need that as a man.
651
00:54:57,210 --> 00:54:59,420
It's hopeless.
652
00:55:01,506 --> 00:55:05,593
Oh, God. I need my beauty sleep.
653
00:55:05,718 --> 00:55:10,557
Why do you believe it's hopeless
just because it's some...
654
00:55:49,304 --> 00:55:51,514
Good night, Claus.
655
00:55:52,765 --> 00:55:55,143
Sunny, you know I love you.
656
00:56:13,119 --> 00:56:15,371
Good night.
657
00:56:21,044 --> 00:56:23,505
- OK, and the next day?
- Well...
658
00:56:25,548 --> 00:56:29,177
Maria's testimony
was wildly exaggerated.
659
00:56:30,470 --> 00:56:36,142
Sunny was never moaning.
Maybe the occasional slur, but...
660
00:56:37,519 --> 00:56:40,230
And Maria shook Sunny.
661
00:56:42,941 --> 00:56:45,944
Nobody ever shook Sunny.
662
00:56:49,739 --> 00:56:52,242
What happened when
she became conscious?
663
00:56:52,367 --> 00:56:55,453
After the first coma,
it was kind of absurd.
664
00:56:55,578 --> 00:56:58,289
Everybody was angry at me.
665
00:57:01,376 --> 00:57:03,962
Can't you ever leave me alone?
666
00:57:06,881 --> 00:57:09,217
Why did you do it?
667
00:57:09,342 --> 00:57:13,429
I would've been better off.
You would've been better off.
668
00:57:13,555 --> 00:57:16,891
What do you want me to say?
I'm sorry I saved your life?
669
00:57:17,016 --> 00:57:19,060
Yes.
670
00:57:22,564 --> 00:57:24,607
Say it.
671
00:57:31,573 --> 00:57:34,409
Of course I'm not sorry.
672
00:57:53,636 --> 00:57:55,680
Claus.
673
00:57:59,100 --> 00:58:01,269
What am I going to do with myself?
674
00:58:07,817 --> 00:58:11,321
When I phoned Alexandra to tell her,
she said the same thing.
675
00:58:11,446 --> 00:58:15,158
She said "Why did you do it?
Why did you call the doctor?"
676
00:58:15,283 --> 00:58:17,660
Are you saying she wanted you
to let Sunny die?
677
00:58:17,785 --> 00:58:20,330
No, no, no, no, no.
678
00:58:20,455 --> 00:58:25,752
It was more "Everybody says
Sunny's such an unhappy woman
679
00:58:25,877 --> 00:58:29,339
and has nothing to live for."
680
00:58:31,341 --> 00:58:34,928
Well, so much for the first coma.
681
00:58:35,053 --> 00:58:39,140
The second, of course,
was much more theatrical.
682
00:58:39,265 --> 00:58:41,768
Theatrical? What is this, a fucking game?
683
00:58:41,893 --> 00:58:45,313
This is life and death.
Your wife is laying in a coma.
684
00:58:45,438 --> 00:58:48,691
You don't even make
a pretence at caring, do you?
685
00:58:48,816 --> 00:58:50,860
Of course I care, Alan.
686
00:58:52,570 --> 00:58:56,699
It's just I don't wear
my heart on my sleeve.
687
00:58:59,536 --> 00:59:01,579
Let's call it a night, OK?
688
00:59:03,748 --> 00:59:05,166
As you wish.
689
00:59:05,291 --> 00:59:09,796
Three drugs on the needle:
amobarbital, Valium, insulin.
690
00:59:10,755 --> 00:59:13,716
We can't all be you, Alan.
691
00:59:22,016 --> 00:59:25,395
Get a doctor to prepare five needles.
692
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:29,566
One with nothing, two with
Valium, amobarbital and insulin,
693
00:59:29,691 --> 00:59:31,609
two with just Valium and amobarbital.
694
00:59:31,734 --> 00:59:34,696
We send them to the lab
that our famous needle went to.
695
00:59:34,821 --> 00:59:36,865
See if we get a false-positive result.
696
00:59:36,990 --> 00:59:40,869
- If we don't?
- If we don't, I clean the latrines.
697
00:59:40,994 --> 00:59:44,455
You're not gonna believe this.
David Marriott wants money.
698
00:59:44,581 --> 00:59:46,374
Who doesn't?
699
00:59:46,499 --> 00:59:49,043
- His memory might fail.
- Forget him.
700
00:59:49,169 --> 00:59:54,465
He has lost his job, and he is running
around trying to find evidence for us.
701
00:59:54,591 --> 00:59:58,720
Let's do what the government does
with witnesses. Pay him for his time.
702
00:59:58,845 --> 01:00:01,973
- What's his time worth?
- Buck and a half.
703
01:00:02,098 --> 01:00:04,851
Dersh! Your team's on!
704
01:00:05,518 --> 01:00:08,813
- You gonna pass to me this game?
- No.
705
01:00:10,356 --> 01:00:14,027
Their investigator said the needle
had an encrustation near the tip.
706
01:00:14,152 --> 01:00:17,238
Doctors tell us this is
inconsistent with injection.
707
01:00:17,363 --> 01:00:19,574
So how did it get there?
708
01:00:21,117 --> 01:00:22,118
Oh.
709
01:00:22,243 --> 01:00:26,581
If I inject this needle,
the skin acts as a kind of a swab.
710
01:00:26,706 --> 01:00:31,169
It cleans the needle off, leaving
the tip completely free of liquid.
711
01:00:31,294 --> 01:00:36,508
But if I just dip the needle
into the liquid, what do you see?
712
01:00:36,633 --> 01:00:39,886
Dry this out, you have an encrustation.
713
01:00:40,011 --> 01:00:41,429
So it's a frame-up?
714
01:00:41,554 --> 01:00:44,474
It's Desdemona's handkerchief.
715
01:00:44,599 --> 01:00:49,646
My stepchildren thought I was guilty,
didn't have evidence, so concocted some.
716
01:00:49,771 --> 01:00:55,026
- This should win us the case, no?
- No. We're maybe halfway home.
717
01:00:55,151 --> 01:00:57,487
There's still a lot of weird stuff.
718
01:00:57,612 --> 01:00:59,864
- Did you love Sunny?
- I married her.
719
01:01:01,241 --> 01:01:03,284
Of course I loved her. She was beautiful.
720
01:01:03,409 --> 01:01:05,703
- Rich.
- Why not?
721
01:01:05,829 --> 01:01:08,081
What I've seen of the rich,
you can have 'em.
722
01:01:08,206 --> 01:01:10,291
I do.
723
01:01:13,837 --> 01:01:16,214
The black bag. Was it yours?
724
01:01:18,466 --> 01:01:20,510
Sunny appropriated it.
725
01:01:20,635 --> 01:01:25,014
But to understand that, you must
understand that, after the first coma,
726
01:01:25,139 --> 01:01:28,142
she went into a complete rage.
727
01:01:32,522 --> 01:01:35,400
- Did you take them?
- Certainly not. Take what?
728
01:01:35,525 --> 01:01:38,194
My pills, you moron!
729
01:01:38,319 --> 01:01:40,655
Valium, Seconal.
730
01:01:41,447 --> 01:01:45,368
- You took them, didn't you?
- I've long since stopped interfering.
731
01:01:45,493 --> 01:01:47,996
Well, who? My children wouldn't dare.
732
01:01:48,121 --> 01:01:52,041
- Oh. I know who.
- Where are you going?
733
01:02:05,305 --> 01:02:07,390
Maria!
734
01:02:16,149 --> 01:02:18,193
She soon found them.
735
01:02:19,444 --> 01:02:23,990
It's my lovely mother, isn't it?
She's behind all this.
736
01:02:24,115 --> 01:02:26,534
She's in cahoots with Maria.
737
01:02:27,744 --> 01:02:33,708
Well, just because she had all the money
before I had all the money
738
01:02:33,833 --> 01:02:36,377
does not mean she's my lord and master.
739
01:02:36,503 --> 01:02:39,255
Of course not. I am your lord and master.
740
01:02:40,673 --> 01:02:42,717
Just kidding.
741
01:02:47,013 --> 01:02:49,974
Maria loves me too much.
742
01:02:50,099 --> 01:02:55,063
It's unhealthy for her,
and it's certainly no fun for me.
743
01:02:59,859 --> 01:03:01,903
There.
744
01:03:16,835 --> 01:03:21,172
We'll see if that ugly little maid
of mine can sniff this one out.
745
01:03:30,181 --> 01:03:33,059
And what are you going
to do with all that?
746
01:03:33,184 --> 01:03:38,731
I'm not gonna tell you. I assure you,
it's not gonna be among my affairs.
747
01:03:39,816 --> 01:03:42,569
Odd she used that word - "affairs".
748
01:03:43,736 --> 01:03:47,448
The prosecution thinks you ground up
the drugs to inject Sunny.
749
01:03:47,574 --> 01:03:50,910
And this nose-drop business
is pretty far-fetched.
750
01:03:51,035 --> 01:03:54,414
But consider the pattern, Alan.
751
01:03:54,539 --> 01:03:57,792
It's public record that Sunny used drugs.
752
01:03:57,917 --> 01:04:03,298
Her behavior here of hiding them
in liquid so that no one will find them
753
01:04:03,423 --> 01:04:08,303
is your classic alcoholic stashing
pints of whiskey all over the house.
754
01:04:09,179 --> 01:04:15,310
You're right. Of course.
You've always been right, haven't you?
755
01:04:16,519 --> 01:04:19,189
This is the most dangerous case
I ever worked on.
756
01:04:19,314 --> 01:04:24,235
- You find that exhilarating?
- No, I do not. I am breaking every rule.
757
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:26,946
The best way to win
is to proclaim your innocence,
758
01:04:27,071 --> 01:04:29,657
and I have never done that for anybody.
759
01:04:29,782 --> 01:04:32,243
And the problem I got is
I see who you are.
760
01:04:32,368 --> 01:04:34,954
- You'd do anything to win.
- So would you.
761
01:04:35,079 --> 01:04:37,707
Yeah, but you don't trust the legal system.
762
01:04:37,832 --> 01:04:42,378
You're saying I'd manufacture
witnesses, affidavits?
763
01:04:43,379 --> 01:04:46,925
- No, but you would sacrifice me.
- Oh, please, Alan.
764
01:04:47,050 --> 01:04:51,221
The more I believe that you are innocent,
then more nervous I am.
765
01:04:51,346 --> 01:04:55,975
I go out on a limb for you, you're
proven guilty, I look like an asshole.
766
01:04:56,100 --> 01:04:59,604
My reputation, my credibility,
my career - destroyed.
767
01:05:00,647 --> 01:05:03,942
- That's the risk you're taking.
- Well, fuck you.
768
01:05:04,067 --> 01:05:06,110
Fuck you, man!
769
01:05:17,622 --> 01:05:20,625
I'm glad we understand one another.
770
01:05:23,211 --> 01:05:28,883
It's easy to forget all this
is about me, lying here.
771
01:05:29,008 --> 01:05:32,053
To most of you, my name means "coma".
772
01:05:32,178 --> 01:05:35,849
My second marriage means
"attempted murder".
773
01:05:35,974 --> 01:05:41,729
Everything before, everything beautiful,
does not exist in the public mind.
774
01:05:41,855 --> 01:05:46,651
No one thinks of how I loved
my children. Look at Cosima.
775
01:05:46,776 --> 01:05:49,946
And Alex, of course. And Ala.
776
01:05:50,071 --> 01:05:52,490
And certainly no one cares about Claus,
777
01:05:52,615 --> 01:05:55,493
the way he was when
I fell in love with him.
778
01:05:55,618 --> 01:05:58,913
When Claus and I first met,
I was married to the dashing young
779
01:05:59,038 --> 01:06:04,961
Prince Alfred Eduard Friederich
Vincenz Martin Maria von Auersberg.
780
01:06:05,086 --> 01:06:10,842
It was 1964, seven years
into my first marriage.
781
01:06:16,514 --> 01:06:21,561
It seems that my first husband,
Alfie, as he was called,
782
01:06:21,686 --> 01:06:26,316
had vowed to be unfaithful
with every pretty girl in Europe.
783
01:06:28,151 --> 01:06:31,529
He was having quite a success.
784
01:06:32,155 --> 01:06:37,285
And so... I was unfaithful with Claus.
785
01:06:48,046 --> 01:06:49,047
Psst.
786
01:06:55,428 --> 01:06:57,931
Wildly unfaithful.
787
01:06:59,265 --> 01:07:01,684
Happy memories.
788
01:07:09,442 --> 01:07:13,571
But it's not the passion
I remember most.
789
01:07:13,696 --> 01:07:15,990
It's the tenderness.
790
01:07:21,079 --> 01:07:23,540
Good God, what's that?
791
01:07:23,665 --> 01:07:26,209
Just one of Frank's pets.
792
01:07:30,421 --> 01:07:32,465
Oh, my God.
793
01:07:47,647 --> 01:07:48,690
Come on, silly.
794
01:07:48,815 --> 01:07:52,360
I never liked people much, not as a rule.
795
01:07:53,862 --> 01:07:56,739
But Claus was somehow different.
796
01:07:58,867 --> 01:08:01,369
Not a normal person, I guess.
797
01:08:05,415 --> 01:08:09,210
It's all right. Do it again.
Give him some more.
798
01:08:21,639 --> 01:08:24,934
One of those things you never forget.
799
01:08:26,102 --> 01:08:32,150
Of course, now he lives
in my apartment, my bedroom,
800
01:08:32,275 --> 01:08:34,527
my bed.
801
01:08:34,652 --> 01:08:40,783
Cold, isn't it? Cold and brutish,
and the way of the world.
802
01:08:41,826 --> 01:08:45,497
Looking at him now,
the issue seems simple.
803
01:08:45,622 --> 01:08:47,665
Is he the devil?
804
01:08:47,790 --> 01:08:51,377
If so, can the devil get justice?
805
01:08:52,378 --> 01:08:59,093
And all this legal activity...
is it in Satan's service?
806
01:08:59,219 --> 01:09:01,513
"Sunny von Bulow was totally vulnerable
807
01:09:01,888 --> 01:09:04,307
to Claus von Bulow"?
808
01:09:04,432 --> 01:09:09,062
- Can't argue with that.
- But it's speculation, exaggeration.
809
01:09:09,187 --> 01:09:13,024
- You keep working on it.
- Totally inflammatory!
810
01:09:14,234 --> 01:09:17,320
OK, good. Let's go over this.
811
01:09:17,445 --> 01:09:21,658
OK, we went over it once.
I just want you to see if it...
812
01:09:28,706 --> 01:09:35,588
Oh, shit. What is this? Illegal search?
A technicality, a guilty man's argument.
813
01:09:35,713 --> 01:09:40,343
This is different. Usual Fourth Amendment
case, you're trying to exclude evidence.
814
01:09:40,468 --> 01:09:42,178
Same thing here.
815
01:09:42,303 --> 01:09:46,724
No, this search destroyed evidence!
No fingerprints, no inventory.
816
01:09:46,850 --> 01:09:49,727
What's left hurts Claus,
but the state has to...
817
01:09:49,853 --> 01:09:52,897
The cops tested the drugs
from the illegal search.
818
01:09:53,022 --> 01:09:55,233
- Yes.
- And we are saying that that test
819
01:09:55,358 --> 01:09:57,443
constituted a second illegal search.
820
01:09:57,569 --> 01:10:02,031
- There are precedents.
- I know there are. I'm not debating that.
821
01:10:02,157 --> 01:10:06,703
- What I'm trying to do...
- You're debating me, personally. Why?
822
01:10:07,996 --> 01:10:10,957
I'm debating strategy.
I'm not debating you.
823
01:10:11,082 --> 01:10:13,418
We're all on the same team, aren't we?
824
01:10:13,543 --> 01:10:15,628
I don't know. We seem to be.
825
01:10:15,753 --> 01:10:19,257
- Then why don't I feel it?
- I thought this was professional.
826
01:10:19,382 --> 01:10:21,384
- It was.
- That's bullshit, Alan!
827
01:10:21,509 --> 01:10:25,513
I asked you to work on this case
because I think you are a good lawyer.
828
01:10:25,638 --> 01:10:30,894
You too, but you give all you have to the
law and forget the people you care about.
829
01:10:31,019 --> 01:10:33,938
My clients are the people
that I care about.
830
01:10:34,063 --> 01:10:36,274
- Obviously.
- What I care about,
831
01:10:36,399 --> 01:10:40,945
all I fuckin' care about is this!
This case!
832
01:10:41,070 --> 01:10:45,033
And making the best possible appeal
that we're capable of doing, OK?
833
01:10:45,158 --> 01:10:48,870
You can make your argument better.
You know that! I know that!
834
01:10:48,995 --> 01:10:51,748
So why don't you just do it
and cut all the bullshit?
835
01:10:52,916 --> 01:10:55,835
You always have to have
the last word, don't you?
836
01:11:26,908 --> 01:11:28,952
What?
837
01:11:30,537 --> 01:11:32,789
We're gonna lose.
838
01:11:32,914 --> 01:11:36,626
Why do you think this case
fascinates people?
839
01:11:36,751 --> 01:11:41,965
Cos one time or other, every man is
driven crazy by his wife, and in his heart,
840
01:11:42,090 --> 01:11:45,510
he wants to do exactly
what Claus is accused of.
841
01:11:45,635 --> 01:11:49,681
Kill her in some sly, silent way
that can't be detected.
842
01:11:49,806 --> 01:11:51,850
Claus is a scapegoat.
843
01:11:51,975 --> 01:11:56,813
Someone has to suffer for the sin
that we all wanna commit.
844
01:11:57,647 --> 01:12:00,358
Alan, that's ridiculous.
845
01:12:02,277 --> 01:12:05,029
It's ridiculous. You're right.
846
01:12:08,533 --> 01:12:13,705
- What have you got?
- Prosecution's case is based on a theory.
847
01:12:14,706 --> 01:12:18,376
The needle in the bag, insulin
on the needle, insulin in her blood.
848
01:12:18,501 --> 01:12:20,587
Right, right, right. OK, fine.
849
01:12:21,629 --> 01:12:26,676
In Derek, this Rhode Island
Supreme Court, these same judges,
850
01:12:26,801 --> 01:12:31,848
said that, in a case
based on circumstantial theory,
851
01:12:31,973 --> 01:12:36,644
the case falls apart
if any part of the theory is weak.
852
01:12:37,812 --> 01:12:41,024
If there's a weak link,
then you throw the whole chain out?
853
01:12:41,149 --> 01:12:43,193
Exactly.
854
01:12:44,277 --> 01:12:47,197
Peter, that's good. That's very good.
855
01:12:51,659 --> 01:12:54,662
- Oh, yeah, this is good.
- Thank you.
856
01:12:54,787 --> 01:12:56,414
What do you want me to do now?
857
01:12:56,539 --> 01:13:00,251
I want you to find as many
alternative theories as possible.
858
01:13:00,376 --> 01:13:03,546
Hey! Come on.
There's only seven days left.
859
01:13:08,426 --> 01:13:11,304
Dersh! You'd better come downstairs.
860
01:13:12,639 --> 01:13:15,934
Hey, Dersh. Sorry to get you out of bed.
861
01:13:16,935 --> 01:13:20,563
- What do you want? More money?
- Can you get more?
862
01:13:21,648 --> 01:13:24,108
Can I have a glass of water, please?
863
01:13:27,821 --> 01:13:32,325
No. The reason I'm here...
my affidavit is inaccurate.
864
01:13:36,496 --> 01:13:39,874
Great. Just what I need right now.
865
01:13:39,999 --> 01:13:42,377
- It's slow.
- Yeah.
866
01:13:42,502 --> 01:13:46,422
I left something out,
something incredibly important.
867
01:13:46,548 --> 01:13:50,677
Remember I gave Alex's drugs
to a woman at Clarendon Court?
868
01:13:50,802 --> 01:13:51,803
Yeah. So?
869
01:13:51,928 --> 01:13:54,681
That bitch was definitely
Sunny von Bulow.
870
01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:01,688
David... this is bad.
871
01:14:01,813 --> 01:14:05,859
It looks bad. I've met with you
five times now, and all of a sudden...
872
01:14:05,984 --> 01:14:08,194
No, it's not sudden.
873
01:14:08,319 --> 01:14:12,699
I think I always knew, but I became
convinced by staring at pictures of her.
874
01:14:15,910 --> 01:14:20,290
We can't use your affidavit unless
it's truthful. Are you sure this time?
875
01:14:20,415 --> 01:14:24,586
I swear... on the body
and soul of my mother.
876
01:14:25,628 --> 01:14:27,839
Poor woman.
877
01:14:30,049 --> 01:14:34,512
Put in this change, and make him
go over every word of the affidavit.
878
01:14:34,637 --> 01:14:37,515
Uh... can I use your men's room?
879
01:14:48,568 --> 01:14:51,863
- More money?
- Can you get more?
880
01:14:57,076 --> 01:15:01,039
If Claus had injected her, he would've
thrown away the needle, right?
881
01:15:01,164 --> 01:15:05,210
Sure. If he threw away the insulin,
why keep the needle?
882
01:15:05,335 --> 01:15:09,881
- Claus is strange, but he ain't stupid.
- He is arrogant.
883
01:15:10,006 --> 01:15:12,342
- Is that a crime?
- Sometimes.
884
01:15:12,467 --> 01:15:16,513
Why are we even discussing this?
It's obvious: the kids framed him.
885
01:15:16,638 --> 01:15:19,390
Whoa! You changed your tune.
886
01:15:21,893 --> 01:15:27,816
A frame-up doesn't mean he's innocent.
The kids could've framed the guilty man.
887
01:15:27,941 --> 01:15:29,984
Dersh! Telephone!
888
01:15:34,030 --> 01:15:36,324
It's Peter Macintosh.
889
01:15:36,449 --> 01:15:38,493
Yeah.
890
01:15:43,122 --> 01:15:45,250
Do you know what it is?
891
01:15:47,210 --> 01:15:49,045
OK.
892
01:15:52,757 --> 01:15:57,679
Word in Rhode Island is that the state
can't lose. Got an ace up their sleeve.
893
01:15:57,804 --> 01:15:59,848
What is it?
894
01:16:01,808 --> 01:16:03,935
He's gonna try to find out.
895
01:16:05,937 --> 01:16:08,481
- All right, my friend.
- Friend? I like that.
896
01:16:08,606 --> 01:16:10,441
Nothing personal.
897
01:16:10,567 --> 01:16:14,946
OK, no students, no witnesses.
Second coma: let's hear it.
898
01:16:15,071 --> 01:16:18,199
Strange as it may seem now,
in retrospect...
899
01:16:18,324 --> 01:16:22,412
OK, Claus, cut the bullshit.
December 20, 1980.
900
01:16:24,622 --> 01:16:30,170
Sunny was unwell.
We'd been arguing all afternoon.
901
01:16:30,295 --> 01:16:33,256
I'd been offered a new position
in the oil business,
902
01:16:33,381 --> 01:16:36,759
which would've meant
my spending some time in Europe.
903
01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:45,351
The discussion must've escalated
because I went to talk to the children.
904
01:16:47,061 --> 01:16:52,025
This will bring 50,000 gold florin
from any rebels worth the name.
905
01:16:52,150 --> 01:16:55,570
- 50,000 florin?
- That's a pretty good take.
906
01:16:55,695 --> 01:17:02,619
- Let's vote on it! All those in favor...
- If you'll forgive my interruption...
907
01:17:05,455 --> 01:17:08,666
I... I've something to tell you both.
908
01:17:08,791 --> 01:17:11,503
We're heading for
the best pirate days ever.
909
01:17:11,628 --> 01:17:14,047
I...
910
01:17:17,842 --> 01:17:24,390
It looks as if... as though Mummy
and I are going to have to split up,
911
01:17:26,059 --> 01:17:29,145
because my work is something
she cannot tolerate.
912
01:17:29,270 --> 01:17:34,317
Mummy says things like that,
but she always gets over it.
913
01:17:34,442 --> 01:17:38,154
Yes, but this has been
going on for too long.
914
01:17:45,119 --> 01:17:51,334
I'm going to Europe in the new year.
This will probably lead to a split.
915
01:17:51,459 --> 01:17:53,711
Oh.
916
01:17:53,837 --> 01:17:56,548
It's all right. She'll get over it.
917
01:17:59,092 --> 01:18:01,511
Alex says you said that the next day.
918
01:18:01,636 --> 01:18:05,723
Is anything more absurd than announcing
your intention to divorce a woman
919
01:18:05,849 --> 01:18:07,892
who's just fallen into a coma?
920
01:18:08,017 --> 01:18:13,439
No. That evening everything
seemed normal enough.
921
01:18:13,565 --> 01:18:19,154
Not cheerful. But then, we didn't
usually giggle at mealtimes.
922
01:18:19,279 --> 01:18:22,157
Despite her doctor's warnings
about sweets,
923
01:18:22,282 --> 01:18:26,161
the only thing Sunny consumed
was a sundae.
924
01:18:37,046 --> 01:18:42,093
After supper, I went to finish off
some work in my study.
925
01:18:42,218 --> 01:18:45,763
The others decided to
chat in the living room.
926
01:18:45,889 --> 01:18:51,394
That would be lovely, but first
I need to go to my room for just a minute.
927
01:19:05,408 --> 01:19:08,745
After about an hour, I dropped in on them.
928
01:19:12,499 --> 01:19:15,043
Darling, would you care for anything?
929
01:19:16,127 --> 01:19:18,546
Mm...
930
01:19:18,671 --> 01:19:23,718
lf... there's some...
chicken bouillon left.
931
01:19:27,847 --> 01:19:29,891
I'll look.
932
01:19:44,197 --> 01:19:46,491
There you are, darling.
933
01:19:55,583 --> 01:19:57,794
Thank you.
934
01:20:04,884 --> 01:20:07,178
How is your work coming?
935
01:20:07,303 --> 01:20:12,559
I'm totally flummoxed. I can't
get the figures to make any sense.
936
01:20:13,977 --> 01:20:20,358
- Why don't you call your friend Deborah?
- I doubt she'd be in Saturday night.
937
01:20:23,319 --> 01:20:27,490
So, Deborah, I think you'll agree
that's 7-2-8. Right. Now...
938
01:20:27,615 --> 01:20:32,453
But Deborah was home,
and we did talk for some time, until...
939
01:20:32,579 --> 01:20:35,540
Claus, come quick. Mummy's not well.
940
01:20:35,665 --> 01:20:38,585
Deborah, can I call you back
in the morning? Thanks.
941
01:20:38,710 --> 01:20:42,839
Her voice got very weak, and she
almost fell down. I had to help her.
942
01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:55,018
Somebody open a window.
943
01:20:57,937 --> 01:21:00,523
I find the chill reassuring.
944
01:21:04,777 --> 01:21:06,529
Now I must speak with Claus.
945
01:21:06,654 --> 01:21:09,532
- Good night, Mummy.
- Good night.
946
01:21:12,952 --> 01:21:14,996
Good night, darling.
947
01:21:17,165 --> 01:21:19,209
Good night, Alex.
948
01:21:29,719 --> 01:21:32,013
That is, if Claus has time to talk.
949
01:21:32,639 --> 01:21:38,520
Or are you going to work every spare
moment right through Christmas?
950
01:21:39,729 --> 01:21:43,399
Is your work so fascinating?
Or are you trying to drive me away?
951
01:21:43,525 --> 01:21:47,779
Because if you are, you're succeeding,
because I don't want this.
952
01:21:47,904 --> 01:21:51,533
I didn't marry you for this.
I could've had anybody.
953
01:21:51,658 --> 01:21:53,827
With my money? Anybody!
954
01:21:54,828 --> 01:21:58,373
Well? Say something!
955
01:22:00,375 --> 01:22:04,212
Do something! Be a man!
956
01:22:05,672 --> 01:22:07,715
I already have a butler.
957
01:22:12,095 --> 01:22:15,890
Do something! I don't want this!
958
01:22:16,015 --> 01:22:19,060
I don't! I don't want this!
959
01:22:19,185 --> 01:22:22,438
I don't... I don't want this!
960
01:22:23,606 --> 01:22:28,361
The same conversation as the previous
year, only this time with greater venom.
961
01:22:28,486 --> 01:22:32,282
You've always been afraid of me.
It's not because of my money.
962
01:22:32,407 --> 01:22:35,118
It's basically because you're a coward.
963
01:22:35,243 --> 01:22:39,497
Your pitiful masculinity is so fragile,
you can't stand confrontation,
964
01:22:39,622 --> 01:22:42,000
so you go off with Miss Botsky.
965
01:22:42,125 --> 01:22:44,377
Good night.
966
01:23:01,311 --> 01:23:04,814
As was usual,
I was awakened before dawn.
967
01:23:10,487 --> 01:23:13,323
I let the dogs out, as was customary.
968
01:23:17,494 --> 01:23:22,874
I went back through the bedroom
to my study as quietly as possible.
969
01:23:27,795 --> 01:23:30,465
I did not notice if my wife was in bed.
970
01:23:30,590 --> 01:23:34,219
I did not notice if the light was on
under the bathroom door.
971
01:23:34,344 --> 01:23:37,931
Had it been on, I wouldn't
have given it a thought.
972
01:23:38,056 --> 01:23:43,186
I did my exercises, showered,
and then I called Deborah Knowles.
973
01:23:43,311 --> 01:23:46,231
Well, I mean, it's stable and it's profitable.
974
01:23:46,940 --> 01:23:50,777
Can anyone really believe,
if I was trying to murder my wife,
975
01:23:50,902 --> 01:23:56,115
that I would spend an hour
going over a tedious set of figures?
976
01:23:56,241 --> 01:24:00,328
After the call, I passed through
the bedroom again. It was freezing.
977
01:24:00,453 --> 01:24:03,206
By this time, Sunny
was certainly not in bed.
978
01:24:03,331 --> 01:24:06,918
And I heard water
running in the bathroom.
979
01:24:09,003 --> 01:24:12,549
I had breakfast, walked the dogs,
980
01:24:12,674 --> 01:24:17,178
and, on my return,
asked the children where Mummy was.
981
01:24:17,303 --> 01:24:19,639
Has Mummy had breakfast yet?
982
01:24:19,764 --> 01:24:21,808
We haven't seen her.
983
01:24:25,603 --> 01:24:27,647
Sunny?
984
01:24:28,606 --> 01:24:30,984
Her bathroom was
her private sanctuary.
985
01:24:31,109 --> 01:24:35,905
No one entered it. Except the maid,
of course, to clean up.
986
01:24:36,030 --> 01:24:39,409
Sometimes she stayed there
for hours, or so it seemed.
987
01:24:39,534 --> 01:24:43,204
One can only speculate
what goes on behind a closed door.
988
01:24:43,329 --> 01:24:45,665
Sunny, are you there?
989
01:24:46,374 --> 01:24:49,043
I hesitated even to knock.
990
01:24:51,296 --> 01:24:53,339
Darling?
991
01:25:08,688 --> 01:25:10,732
Sunny?
992
01:25:12,275 --> 01:25:14,319
Oh, God.
993
01:25:15,069 --> 01:25:19,324
Once I'd ascertained she was breathing,
I went to fetch Alexander.
994
01:25:19,991 --> 01:25:24,287
- Why not call an ambulance first?
- Panic, Alan, panic.
995
01:25:24,412 --> 01:25:26,498
I mean, I...
996
01:25:26,623 --> 01:25:29,584
I needed to talk to somebody.
997
01:25:29,709 --> 01:25:36,799
I wasn't worried if she was breathing
normally. It wasn't like the year before.
998
01:25:36,925 --> 01:25:41,387
In retrospect it seems absurd,
but I looked at her upper lip.
999
01:25:41,513 --> 01:25:46,893
She had blood on it. I thought she'd
broken a tooth. That was my concern.
1000
01:25:47,018 --> 01:25:52,524
And that's really all I can...
that's really all I can say.
1001
01:25:54,818 --> 01:25:57,779
- But is it the truth?
- Of course.
1002
01:25:57,904 --> 01:26:02,242
- But not the whole truth.
- I don't know the whole truth.
1003
01:26:02,367 --> 01:26:06,996
- I don't know what happened to her.
- I wish I didn't believe you.
1004
01:26:07,121 --> 01:26:11,417
It's very hard to trust someone
you don't understand.
1005
01:26:12,710 --> 01:26:14,879
You're a very strange man.
1006
01:26:15,964 --> 01:26:18,424
You have no idea.
1007
01:26:26,224 --> 01:26:29,686
- Everybody here?
- Macintosh says he's got bad news.
1008
01:26:32,147 --> 01:26:34,357
There he is.
1009
01:26:46,619 --> 01:26:48,621
Well?
1010
01:26:48,746 --> 01:26:53,251
I found out what the state has.
Their ace in the hole.
1011
01:26:53,376 --> 01:26:55,461
It's you.
1012
01:26:56,588 --> 01:26:57,881
It's me?
1013
01:26:58,006 --> 01:27:01,843
David Marriott taped
all his conversations with you.
1014
01:27:01,968 --> 01:27:04,095
Oh, great.
1015
01:27:04,220 --> 01:27:08,892
The scuttlebutt is,
if we win the case, you go to prison.
1016
01:27:09,893 --> 01:27:11,936
What did I say?
1017
01:27:12,061 --> 01:27:15,148
Good old corrupt Rhode Island.
A friend got me an excerpt.
1018
01:27:15,273 --> 01:27:19,652
The reason I'm here...
My affidavit is inaccurate.
1019
01:27:19,777 --> 01:27:24,240
David, this is bad. It looks bad.
What do you want? More money?
1020
01:27:24,365 --> 01:27:26,534
Can you get more?
1021
01:27:26,659 --> 01:27:28,661
Yeah.
1022
01:27:28,786 --> 01:27:31,498
- That is not what I said.
- It's on tape, Alan.
1023
01:27:31,623 --> 01:27:34,125
I don't care. That's not what I said.
1024
01:27:34,250 --> 01:27:36,461
- What do we do?
- I don't know.
1025
01:27:40,131 --> 01:27:42,133
I'll tell you what we do. We ignore it.
1026
01:27:42,258 --> 01:27:45,386
Alan, with that tape,
it's your whole career.
1027
01:27:46,971 --> 01:27:49,140
I now believe Claus is innocent,
1028
01:27:49,265 --> 01:27:53,436
so we've decided:
no tricks, no technicalities.
1029
01:27:53,561 --> 01:27:59,025
We are going to base our appeal directly
and explicitly on Claus's innocence.
1030
01:27:59,150 --> 01:28:04,322
- Appeals must be based on judicial error.
- The judge should've thrown out the case.
1031
01:28:04,447 --> 01:28:07,867
You can't say there wasn't
sufficient evidence. He was convicted.
1032
01:28:07,992 --> 01:28:10,328
- Good point.
- That's what we are saying.
1033
01:28:10,453 --> 01:28:13,248
If the rules don't work, you change them.
1034
01:28:13,373 --> 01:28:17,252
Red Auerbach changed the jump-ball rule
when the Celtics had a short team.
1035
01:28:17,377 --> 01:28:21,089
But it's dangerous politically.
If the judges feel insulted...
1036
01:28:21,214 --> 01:28:27,470
Wait. State supreme court shouldn't even
look at an appeal based on new evidence.
1037
01:28:27,595 --> 01:28:33,434
Hey, guys. I'll take care of that, OK?
You just leave it to me.
1038
01:28:34,435 --> 01:28:38,982
Look, I know you're all exhausted.
We got four days left.
1039
01:28:39,107 --> 01:28:42,610
What we do now will decide this thing.
Do you wanna win or not?
1040
01:28:42,735 --> 01:28:46,948
- Alan! We've got something.
- We've hit the jackpot.
1041
01:28:47,073 --> 01:28:49,993
Our needles that had
amobarbital and Valium...
1042
01:28:50,118 --> 01:28:51,119
But no insulin.
1043
01:28:51,244 --> 01:28:55,957
Both came back with
false-positive readings for insulin.
1044
01:28:56,457 --> 01:28:58,501
One was 93, the other 282.
1045
01:28:58,626 --> 01:29:02,463
We've knocked out every piece
of their medical case.
1046
01:29:04,883 --> 01:29:09,012
OK, now all they've got left is my neck.
1047
01:29:09,137 --> 01:29:11,931
Anybody know anything
about editing audio tapes?
1048
01:29:21,149 --> 01:29:24,652
Defense! Defense! Come on.
1049
01:29:24,777 --> 01:29:27,197
Come on, baby! Come on, baby!
1050
01:29:34,537 --> 01:29:37,999
- All right, Alan.
- Come on!
1051
01:29:39,834 --> 01:29:41,920
Pass it, Alan.
1052
01:29:42,045 --> 01:29:44,631
Wait a minute. I got it. Where's Raj?
1053
01:29:44,756 --> 01:29:46,925
- He's upstairs.
- Where are you going?
1054
01:29:48,551 --> 01:29:51,471
Raj. Raj, I got it.
1055
01:29:51,596 --> 01:29:53,640
I got it. Remember Maria?
1056
01:29:54,432 --> 01:29:56,267
She could have said it like this:
1057
01:29:56,392 --> 01:30:01,189
Insulin? For what, insulin?
1058
01:30:02,899 --> 01:30:05,193
My lady is not diabetic.
1059
01:30:05,318 --> 01:30:08,947
You see? "My lady is not diabetic."
1060
01:30:09,072 --> 01:30:12,283
She is assuming that the bag is Sunny's.
1061
01:30:12,408 --> 01:30:16,704
Her first reaction, not part of
a legal strategy devised later,
1062
01:30:16,830 --> 01:30:19,999
is that the stuff in the black bag
belonged to Sunny, not Claus.
1063
01:30:20,124 --> 01:30:24,045
Who'd know better than she?
Start writing.
1064
01:30:24,170 --> 01:30:27,340
You are not God! You are a prosecutor!
1065
01:30:27,465 --> 01:30:31,636
Alabama can't execute those Johnson
kids before the Supreme Court rules!
1066
01:30:31,761 --> 01:30:33,388
You heard me right.
1067
01:30:33,513 --> 01:30:37,350
- You got two hours to make Rhode Island.
- You want me to speed?
1068
01:30:37,475 --> 01:30:40,395
No. They'll stop you
and you won't make the deadline.
1069
01:30:40,520 --> 01:30:44,190
I'm telling you right now,
those kids fry, you're next!
1070
01:30:44,315 --> 01:30:45,775
You're damn right!
1071
01:30:46,359 --> 01:30:49,362
Some startling developments
in the von Bulow case.
1072
01:30:49,487 --> 01:30:54,617
Professor Alan Dershowitz had been
accused of paying for falsified testimony,
1073
01:30:54,742 --> 01:30:58,580
but those accusations were discredited
today by the attorney general,
1074
01:30:58,705 --> 01:31:01,541
who announced that
David Marriott's tape was doctored
1075
01:31:01,666 --> 01:31:04,502
and that Marriott is not a reliable witness.
1076
01:31:04,627 --> 01:31:08,131
So, what was he up to, Alan?
Who was he working for?
1077
01:31:08,256 --> 01:31:10,508
Damned if I know.
1078
01:31:13,428 --> 01:31:15,471
Hope they don't think he worked for you.
1079
01:31:15,597 --> 01:31:19,767
- No one's going to...
- Look, I don't think you did it, OK?
1080
01:31:19,893 --> 01:31:23,354
But at the Chinese restaurant,
you did duck the big question.
1081
01:31:23,480 --> 01:31:26,191
Chuck is our Alexandra Isles expert.
1082
01:31:27,400 --> 01:31:32,572
Sunny's aspirin overdose.
Why did she take so many?
1083
01:31:33,531 --> 01:31:36,910
What happened? Sunny had a headache?
1084
01:31:38,995 --> 01:31:42,999
The headache was Alexandra, right?
1085
01:31:47,545 --> 01:31:49,631
Let's hear it, Claus.
1086
01:31:51,382 --> 01:31:53,676
Alexandra was spiteful.
1087
01:31:54,802 --> 01:31:59,933
On the day of Sunny's aspirin overdose,
1088
01:32:00,058 --> 01:32:05,522
she returned some presents
I'd given her, some photographs.
1089
01:32:05,647 --> 01:32:08,525
Love letters.
1090
01:32:08,650 --> 01:32:11,069
She dropped them off in a shopping bag.
1091
01:32:12,195 --> 01:32:14,239
Did Sunny see them?
1092
01:32:14,364 --> 01:32:17,909
Sunny was home. I was not.
1093
01:32:19,077 --> 01:32:23,373
Alexandra neglected
to address the package to me.
1094
01:32:23,498 --> 01:32:27,335
I wanna be left alone with
all those beautiful letters.
1095
01:32:27,460 --> 01:32:31,381
What did you do with those letters?
Why did you write those letters?
1096
01:32:32,966 --> 01:32:36,845
There's a big difference
between knowing about an affair
1097
01:32:36,970 --> 01:32:40,348
and having love letters
crammed down your throat.
1098
01:32:42,142 --> 01:32:46,312
It seems that Sunny did care
about your affair. She cared a lot.
1099
01:32:50,024 --> 01:32:52,569
Why didn't you tell us?
1100
01:32:52,694 --> 01:32:54,737
Everything was open-book.
1101
01:32:55,947 --> 01:33:00,160
"Get the best experts."
"I'm not afraid of the truth."
1102
01:33:04,455 --> 01:33:08,543
Looks to me like Alexandra
tried to force Sunny into suicide.
1103
01:33:10,712 --> 01:33:12,839
Or they plotted it together.
1104
01:33:14,132 --> 01:33:17,844
Either way, he's protecting Alexandra
because he still loves her.
1105
01:33:17,969 --> 01:33:20,638
And why not? Hey, she's a babe.
1106
01:33:23,516 --> 01:33:25,852
Of course I still love her.
1107
01:33:27,979 --> 01:33:30,023
And hate her.
1108
01:33:31,399 --> 01:33:35,612
Alexandra, Sunny, Andrea...
1109
01:33:38,531 --> 01:33:40,658
I love them all.
1110
01:33:47,999 --> 01:33:50,919
Being a human being
is very literal.
1111
01:33:51,044 --> 01:33:56,216
You're trapped. Time moves
in only one direction: forward.
1112
01:33:56,341 --> 01:34:00,220
It's stupid and boring
and results in a lot of silliness.
1113
01:34:00,345 --> 01:34:03,181
Example: the legal process.
1114
01:34:04,724 --> 01:34:10,104
In this particular case, a vast amount
of time, effort and money was spent
1115
01:34:10,230 --> 01:34:15,401
trying to determine what happened on
those two nights so close to Christmas,
1116
01:34:15,527 --> 01:34:21,157
December 26, 1979, December 20, 1980.
1117
01:34:21,991 --> 01:34:24,035
Happened right here.
1118
01:34:25,411 --> 01:34:32,669
Even now, it all looks the same,
feels the same, smells the same.
1119
01:34:33,711 --> 01:34:39,259
If you could just go back in time
and take a peek, you'd know.
1120
01:34:40,510 --> 01:34:42,971
And all this would be unnecessary.
1121
01:34:43,096 --> 01:34:45,140
All rise!
1122
01:34:48,393 --> 01:34:52,397
Hear ye, hear ye. All persons having
business before the Supreme Court
1123
01:34:52,522 --> 01:34:57,694
holding in province within and for the
State of Rhode Island may now draw near.
1124
01:34:57,819 --> 01:35:01,656
Then again, everyone enjoys a circus.
1125
01:35:03,324 --> 01:35:05,368
Be seated.
1126
01:35:06,995 --> 01:35:11,124
If the appellant is ready,
you may proceed.
1127
01:35:11,249 --> 01:35:13,459
Oral argument will be made
1128
01:35:13,585 --> 01:35:17,547
by out-of-state counsel,
Professor Alan Dershowitz.
1129
01:35:26,848 --> 01:35:31,311
Your Honors, you may not
like Claus von Bulow.
1130
01:35:31,436 --> 01:35:36,900
You may think he is guilty of something.
But I am here to tell you he is innocent.
1131
01:35:37,025 --> 01:35:39,486
- Our new evidence...
- Professor.
1132
01:35:39,611 --> 01:35:44,491
You know there is no case which allows
you to introduce new evidence on appeal.
1133
01:35:44,616 --> 01:35:51,080
There is one, Your Honor.
And you wrote it: Derek.
1134
01:35:51,206 --> 01:35:55,001
In Derek, you yourself said
1135
01:35:55,126 --> 01:35:59,714
that a case based on
circumstantial theory rather than fact
1136
01:35:59,839 --> 01:36:03,676
only stands up if no other theory
makes sense.
1137
01:36:03,801 --> 01:36:07,430
The only way to show a better theory
is to present it.
1138
01:36:13,728 --> 01:36:16,940
Get on with it, counselor.
1139
01:36:17,065 --> 01:36:20,109
The first issue is the encrusted needle.
1140
01:36:20,944 --> 01:36:23,863
I hope you will have the courage
to free an innocent man
1141
01:36:23,988 --> 01:36:26,533
and remedy a grave injustice.
1142
01:36:26,658 --> 01:36:30,787
This will never work.
Too smart for his own good.
1143
01:36:30,912 --> 01:36:36,376
Alan says it will work.
If the prosecutor takes the bait.
1144
01:36:36,501 --> 01:36:38,962
What do you mean, "bait"?
1145
01:36:39,087 --> 01:36:41,631
Argues the evidence.
1146
01:36:41,756 --> 01:36:46,594
Your Honors, introduction
of new evidence on appeal
1147
01:36:46,719 --> 01:36:52,225
violates every principle of
jurisprudence, every statute,
1148
01:36:52,350 --> 01:36:55,061
every precedent, every rule of ethics.
1149
01:36:55,186 --> 01:36:56,855
He's nailing us.
1150
01:36:56,980 --> 01:37:02,235
I am not going to stand before you
and argue Mr. von Bulow's guilt.
1151
01:37:03,945 --> 01:37:09,868
However, I have no choice but to address
Mr. Dershowitz's arguments one by one.
1152
01:37:10,910 --> 01:37:15,331
- Bingo.
- First, the encrusted needle.
1153
01:37:16,332 --> 01:37:20,837
So, now it's up to the judges.
Tell me what you really think.
1154
01:37:20,962 --> 01:37:25,300
I think it's easier to love somebody
than to live with them.
1155
01:37:26,926 --> 01:37:30,388
Love is fantasy. Living is work.
1156
01:37:30,513 --> 01:37:33,933
I'll say. And those people
don't like to work.
1157
01:37:34,058 --> 01:37:38,730
But if you don't do the work, the love dies,
and nobody wants to deal with that one.
1158
01:37:38,855 --> 01:37:41,107
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
1159
01:37:41,232 --> 01:37:47,363
The love died, Sunny couldn't accept it...
so Claus tried to kill her?
1160
01:37:47,489 --> 01:37:49,574
- Maybe.
- I don't agree.
1161
01:37:50,742 --> 01:37:54,287
Face it. All we had to do was
prove the state made a lousy case.
1162
01:37:54,412 --> 01:37:58,374
We didn't prove Claus was innocent.
We couldn't, and he probably isn't.
1163
01:37:58,500 --> 01:38:02,212
- You mean you think?
- So he didn't inject Sunny with insulin.
1164
01:38:02,337 --> 01:38:04,923
So what? First coma, no problem.
1165
01:38:05,048 --> 01:38:10,553
The attending doctor thought it was
caused by hypoglycemia. All right.
1166
01:38:10,678 --> 01:38:14,766
But what about the second coma?
I mean, why does Claus act so guilty?
1167
01:38:14,891 --> 01:38:18,478
Wouldn't any man feel guilty
if his wife was suicidal?
1168
01:38:18,603 --> 01:38:24,067
Yeah. So maybe she took the sleeping
pills with the intention of killing herself.
1169
01:38:24,192 --> 01:38:27,570
But how did she end up
lying on a marble floor
1170
01:38:27,695 --> 01:38:30,490
in a freezing bathroom
with her head under the toilet?
1171
01:38:30,615 --> 01:38:32,659
How about this?
1172
01:39:20,123 --> 01:39:22,792
Sunny wakes up miserable.
1173
01:39:27,338 --> 01:39:31,467
Second marriage is over,
children are leaving home.
1174
01:39:31,593 --> 01:39:33,636
What's to live for?
1175
01:41:46,019 --> 01:41:49,397
But when she was found, her nightgown
was hiked over her waist.
1176
01:41:49,522 --> 01:41:52,525
Exactly. How did it get there?
1177
01:41:53,443 --> 01:41:57,530
OK, let's say she's standing
at the sink. She has to pee.
1178
01:41:57,655 --> 01:42:01,034
At exactly the same instant,
the drugs hit,
1179
01:42:01,159 --> 01:42:04,621
her body convulses,
she grabs the nightgown.
1180
01:42:09,125 --> 01:42:11,878
- I don't buy that.
- It does seem far-fetched.
1181
01:42:12,629 --> 01:42:14,506
- So is the truth sometimes.
- Bull!
1182
01:42:14,631 --> 01:42:20,261
I think she took the drugs the previous
night. Maybe he saw her take them.
1183
01:42:20,386 --> 01:42:23,765
Or she told him she was going to
before they fell asleep.
1184
01:42:32,440 --> 01:42:36,152
This time, he wants her to succeed.
1185
01:42:45,620 --> 01:42:47,664
Sunny?
1186
01:43:14,023 --> 01:43:17,235
Maybe there's some way
he can help her along.
1187
01:43:17,360 --> 01:43:20,697
Of course. The open window.
1188
01:43:21,614 --> 01:43:24,159
Zero degrees.
1189
01:43:24,284 --> 01:43:27,328
But somebody might see her there.
1190
01:43:27,453 --> 01:43:32,167
The action of dragging her would
naturally pull up the nightgown.
1191
01:44:01,154 --> 01:44:04,657
In this cold, how long
could she survive?
1192
01:44:24,636 --> 01:44:27,263
Remember what Sunny said?
1193
01:44:27,388 --> 01:44:32,060
"I would've been better off.
You would've been better off. "
1194
01:44:36,648 --> 01:44:39,150
...because the law is a blunt instrument.
1195
01:44:39,275 --> 01:44:43,029
It is not a rapier. It is a cudgel.
1196
01:44:43,154 --> 01:44:47,325
Tomorrow, death penalty. Which
reminds me of the comedian who said
1197
01:44:47,450 --> 01:44:52,038
"Why do they call it the death penalty?
It's no penalty. You're out of the game!"
1198
01:45:00,922 --> 01:45:03,174
- Good news.
- And more good news.
1199
01:45:03,299 --> 01:45:06,052
- The decision came?
- They just announced it.
1200
01:45:06,177 --> 01:45:08,429
- Five-zip.
- We murdered 'em.
1201
01:45:08,555 --> 01:45:11,057
- Grounds?
- They got the Brillhoffer notes.
1202
01:45:11,182 --> 01:45:13,977
And that guilty-man's argument,
search and seizure.
1203
01:45:14,102 --> 01:45:16,396
- Federal or state?
- Both.
1204
01:45:16,521 --> 01:45:21,609
If it's federal, they could appeal, but
as it's Rhode Island, they can't. We win.
1205
01:45:21,734 --> 01:45:24,529
Don't get too excited till
we see Brillhoffer's notes.
1206
01:45:24,654 --> 01:45:29,951
We destroyed their medical case, but their
witnesses still carry emotional weight.
1207
01:45:30,076 --> 01:45:35,039
Unless the Brillhoffer notes show
that they've changed their stories.
1208
01:45:35,665 --> 01:45:37,709
Good afternoon, sir.
1209
01:45:39,169 --> 01:45:41,754
- Let me get that for you.
- Thank you.
1210
01:45:55,685 --> 01:45:58,396
- You have Brillhoffer's notes?
- Yes.
1211
01:45:58,521 --> 01:46:00,565
- Well?
- They're not what we hoped.
1212
01:46:00,690 --> 01:46:02,775
I knew it.
1213
01:46:05,153 --> 01:46:07,197
They're much better.
1214
01:46:08,656 --> 01:46:12,160
No one mentioned insulin
when they first talked to Brillhoffer.
1215
01:46:12,285 --> 01:46:17,832
Plus, Maria told him that, when
she supposedly first saw insulin,
1216
01:46:17,957 --> 01:46:22,086
she couldn't even read any of the
labels. They were all scraped off.
1217
01:46:22,212 --> 01:46:24,506
- What does this mean?
- It means...
1218
01:46:24,631 --> 01:46:27,967
that if there is a second trial,
we can be confident.
1219
01:46:28,092 --> 01:46:31,679
Both the medical case and
their witnesses are now highly suspect.
1220
01:46:31,805 --> 01:46:33,681
Ah!
1221
01:46:54,244 --> 01:46:57,914
Darling, this is Alan Dershowitz.
1222
01:46:58,039 --> 01:46:59,833
Yes, I know. Hello.
1223
01:46:59,958 --> 01:47:03,795
Alan tells me...
Well, things look very hopeful.
1224
01:47:05,505 --> 01:47:09,300
I knew it would come out all right.
Thank you.
1225
01:47:12,470 --> 01:47:15,306
Yes, Alan, thank you.
I am eternally grateful.
1226
01:47:15,431 --> 01:47:19,561
Hey, this means we'll be getting back
your bail. A million dollars.
1227
01:47:19,686 --> 01:47:22,480
I know I still owe you, Alan.
1228
01:47:23,439 --> 01:47:26,276
Please send me your bill.
1229
01:47:26,401 --> 01:47:32,532
And maybe when you're in New York
we can meet for lunch. I'd enjoy that.
1230
01:47:33,783 --> 01:47:38,121
One thing, Claus. Legally,
this was an important victory.
1231
01:47:38,246 --> 01:47:40,748
Morally, you're on your own.
1232
01:47:52,969 --> 01:47:59,684
Claus von Bulow was given a
second trial and acquitted on both counts.
1233
01:48:00,602 --> 01:48:05,440
This is all you can know,
all you can be told.
1234
01:48:06,774 --> 01:48:11,321
When you get where I am,
you will know the rest.
1235
01:48:13,907 --> 01:48:22,165
Claus von Bulow is still
married to Sunny von Bulow.
He is presently living
and working in London.
1236
01:48:22,290 --> 01:48:26,252
The Johnson brothers
remain on death row.
1237
01:48:26,377 --> 01:48:31,674
Sunny von Bulow has not spoken
since she fell into her final coma.
1238
01:48:31,800 --> 01:48:43,895
This film is based upon Alan Dershowitz's
book Reversal Of Fortune
and public records.
Dialogue and certain events
and characters contained in the film
were created for
the purpose of dramatization.
1239
01:48:44,020 --> 01:48:46,272
Two packs of Vantage, please.
1240
01:48:54,113 --> 01:48:58,284
- Anything else?
- Yes, a vial of insulin.
1241
01:49:05,583 --> 01:49:07,627
Just kidding.
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