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[America singing "Tin Man"]
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♪ Sometimes late
when things are real ♪
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♪ And people share the gift
of gab between themselves ♪
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♪ Some are quick
to take the bait ♪
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♪ And catch the perfect prize ♪
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♪ That waits among the shelves ♪
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♪ But Oz never
did give nothin' ♪
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Tell mama I'm goin' to play.
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You better be home before
the streetlights come on, girl.
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[girl laughs]
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♪ And cause never was ♪
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Fireflies turn into fairies
at the end of summer.
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Why fairies?
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'Cause, they do.
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You made that up.
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You never see fireflies
in the winter, right?
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In Brooklyn,
we never saw them ever.
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'Cause they turn
into fairies, that's why.
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Yeah? And go where?
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Their castle in the sky,
where nothing ever dies.
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- But not all fairies make it.
- Why not?
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'Cause the trolls catch 'em.
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Where do the fireflies
really go, Melanie?
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I don't know.
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My brother said when summer ends
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you won't play with me anymore.
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Why?
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'Cause you're white,
and I'm black.
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But we're best friends.
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- Forever?
- Forever and a day.
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Maybe when summer ends,
the fireflies go to heaven.
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Yeah, maybe.
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♪ ...Sir Galahad ♪
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♪ So please.. ♪♪
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[dogs barking]
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[indistinct chatter on radio]
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[indistinct yelling]
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Let's get forensics in here, see
if they can pick anything up.
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Lil'.
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Good morning, boss.
What do you got?
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You ever hear of a letter
arriving 31 years too late?
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Too late for what?
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To save the life
of a young girl.
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Former postman lived here?
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And he died last week.
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Refused to deliver mail to
blacks on his route back in '75.
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Welcome to
the US Postal Service.
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His family found bags of mail
stashed in the basement.
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The inspector's been
sifting for hours.
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This was in one of 'em.
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From an eight-year-old girl,
Melanie Campbell.
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Went missing in '75.
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Body never found.
Presumed homicide.
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'Postcard's addressed
to her best friend'
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'next door neighbor,
Cherise Pierce, black girl.'
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'Take a look.'
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"The trolls got me."
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Some kind of message?
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(Stillman)
'It was postmarked the day
Melanie disappeared.'
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'Cry for help.'
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Thirty one years too late
to save her.
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Well, maybe not too late
to catch her killer.
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[theme music]
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Melanie Campbell, age eight.
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Abducted from her bedroom.
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Night of October 23, 1975.
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Her bloody ballet shoe
found in a nearby park.
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Tender age search. Lot of time,
manpower on this one.
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Body never recovered.
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Theory was an intruder
came in through
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a broken basement window.
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A postcard was sent
to her neighbor, Cherise Pierce.
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- Never made it.
- These kids were tight.
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Best friends, hung out 24/7.
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Not the only Pierce in here.
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Prime suspect at the time
was Cherise's teenage brother
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'Terrell Pierce.'
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Based on what?
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Kid had no record,
straight-A student, Mr. Clean.
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Neighbor ID'd Terrell
in the Campbells' backyard
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night of the abduction.
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In these words,
"Saw that colored boy
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monkeying around
on the side of their house."
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That's credible.
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Lifted a partial palm print from
the Campbells' basement window.
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No match to Terrell.
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Didn't stop them from
interrogating him...six times.
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Her parents were questioned too,
but dismissed as suspects.
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'Cause once the black kid
was ID'd it was all about him.
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Brewerytown was
lilywhite back then.
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Pierces were the first
black family to move in.
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- That some kind of excuse?
- Not an excuse, the times.
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AKA white flight.
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Families hightailing it
to the burbs
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terrified that their
property values would tank.
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One way to spin it.
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At least one white family
stayed, the Campbells.
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Families of missin' kids
do that, refuse to move.
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Yeah, waiting for their child
to walk through the door.
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Lilly's gonna talk
to the parents.
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You wanna take
Cherise and Terrell?
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Sure.
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Could be Terrell
didn't deserve any of this.
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Neither did Melanie.
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"The trolls got me."
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It was addressed
to the girl next door
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Cherise Pierce.
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You think Melanie wrote that?
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Uh, possibly.
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Could the trolls
have meant something?
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Melanie was always going on
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about fairies
and trolls and fireflies.
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Quite an imagination.
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But it-it was just child's talk.
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Melanie did not write this.
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Well, how do you know?
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Well, she just started
the third grade
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and she didn't know cursive.
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Of course Melanie wrote that.
These are her words.
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But anyone who heard her playing
would've known them.
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Who wrote it, then?
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Maybe the person who took her.
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What kind of a monster
would do a thing like that?
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That's what I'm here
to find out, Mrs. Campbell.
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- So you'll find Melanie, too?
- Oh, Frances.
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She is alive.
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It's-it's been 31 years.
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I don't care if it's 131 years.
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Melanie is out there.
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Can I walk you out?
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Oh, well..
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We are prisoners in this house
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because my wife believes
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our daughter's gonna walk
through that front door.
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Just thought you should know
we're reopening the case.
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All I want is to bury my child.
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I understand.
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Then bring her home.
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It was a lifetime ago.
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I barely remember that girl.
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And you were best friends
back when blacks and whites
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didn't exactly mix.
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Take a look around.
Still don't.
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I know you probably
got an unfair shake in '75.
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Probably?
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Cops had me in the box
for 16 hours at a time.
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That's rough.
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Should've seen
the '50s and '60s
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you wanna talk rough.
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You were ID'd in the girl's yard
the night she disappeared.
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(Terrell)
By an old busybody
who thought
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blacks should
go back to Africa.
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(Miller)
So that was
a flat-out lie?
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Flat out.
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Talk about you and Melanie.
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Like I said,
it was a long time ago.
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The trolls
mean anyone in particular?
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Could be the difference between
finding Melanie's killer or not.
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Trolls were people
we didn't like.
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- Go on.
- 'We had codes for everything.'
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I'd say something like,
Alvina lights a spark.
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"Alvina lights a spark?"
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Code for, I left a note
on our clothesline.
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So who were the trolls?
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Almost everyone.
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Our friendship wasn't
looked on too kindly.
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By who?
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The whole neighborhood
had it out for us.
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- 'From the start.'
- Everyone except Melanie.
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[crowd chanting]
Leave! Leave! Leave!
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[chanting continues]
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Go back to where you came from!
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[chanting continues]
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Get out of here, critters.
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[chanting continues]
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What does critters
mean, Terrell?
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Dad told you
to go inside, Cherise.
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[chanting continues]
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Critters means bugs and stuff.
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Oh.
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Wanna see my fireflies?
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Are those bugs?
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Their booties light up at night.
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[laughs]
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They do. Like magic.
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I mean, if you believe
in that stuff.
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[chanting continues]
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Quit talking to that girl.
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Go home, Melanie.
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You're not the boss
of me, Mr. Wilson.
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I told you to go home. Now.
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Leave! Leave! Leave!
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[chanting continues]
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My mom said you can
come over after dinner.
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I live right here.
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We can catch fireflies
when it gets dark.
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- Okay.
- See you later, alligator.
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After a while, crocodile.
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(Jeffries)
'Quite a welcoming committee.'
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Courtesy of Hank Wilson.
Head of the civic club.
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Civic club?
More like a lynch mob.
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Racists parading around
as neighborhood associations.
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Who was this bozo?
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He owned the local
hardware store.
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To him, the only thing
worse than us
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were whites who didn't go along.
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Like Melanie.
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Our friendship might
have cost her her life.
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It was our neighborhood,
not theirs.
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Your family was there
for 30 years
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then, here come the coloreds.
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And to make matters worse
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little Melanie Campbell gets all
buddy-buddy with the black girl.
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Could make a die hard racist
like you blow a gasket.
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Whoa, hold on there.
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When Melanie disappeared
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all the white people
got spooked, moved out.
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Had to sell my house at a loss.
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Boohoo.
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We were working people.
House was all we had.
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Beat up your own kid regular
for looking at you funny.
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What's that got to do
with anything?
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Maybe you let the fists fly
with Melanie.
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Lippy little kid
must have pissed you off.
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I was workin' at the hardware
store the night she disappeared.
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- We'll check that.
- Go ahead.
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While you're at it, check out a
guy by the name of Wes Floyd.
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- Who's he?
- Real estate scumbag
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That was creepin' around
the neighborhood back then.
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Tried to scare all
the white folks into moving.
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Why? So he could clean up?
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Type like that would do
anything for a buck.
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[The O'Jays singing
"Love Train"]
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(male #1)
'You hear about that break-in'
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'the other day?
Right down the street.'
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(Frances)
'Thank goodness
no one was hurt.'
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Imagine what would happen
if that family was home?
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- That's terrifying.
- Known fact.
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Blacks move in, crime goes up.
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(both)
...six, seven, eight,
nine, ten..
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Bad things happen
to decent people.
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Well, we all know
one another here.
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Oh, for now, sure,
but once the dam breaks
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no stoppin' who comes in.
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You don't wanna be
the last to leave, do you?
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I guess not, but--
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Place like Genessee Creek
offers a safe environment
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for families like yours.
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State of the art kitchens.
A big yard.
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A pool.
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This heat, a pool would be nice.
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Huh?
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Don't you fall for it, Frances.
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Get out of here.
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I know what you're doin'.
256
00:12:33,836 --> 00:12:35,171
Just doin' business.
257
00:12:35,212 --> 00:12:37,006
Showin' the nice lady
the homes I have for sale.
258
00:12:37,047 --> 00:12:40,551
You're trying to scare whites
out of this neighborhood.
259
00:12:40,593 --> 00:12:42,261
But nobody here's leavin'.
260
00:12:42,303 --> 00:12:44,722
Except the spooks over there.
261
00:12:44,764 --> 00:12:47,099
'It's our neighborhood.'
262
00:12:48,184 --> 00:12:50,227
Sure it is.
263
00:12:52,188 --> 00:12:55,065
My husband would never agree.
264
00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:01,947
♪ Tell all the folks in Egypt
and Israel too ♪
265
00:13:01,989 --> 00:13:04,533
Neighborhood's gonna
tip one day soon
266
00:13:04,575 --> 00:13:06,911
and you'll be the last
white face around.
267
00:13:06,952 --> 00:13:09,371
Not if I can help it.
268
00:13:09,413 --> 00:13:13,042
And if one bad thing happens
to some nice little white kid?
269
00:13:13,083 --> 00:13:15,920
♪ I feel sorry
Sorry for you.. ♪♪
270
00:13:15,961 --> 00:13:18,547
Won't be up to you.
271
00:13:23,260 --> 00:13:27,056
His houses in the suburbs
weren't sellin' worth squat.
272
00:13:27,097 --> 00:13:30,601
Then Melanie disappears
and he makes a killin'.
273
00:13:30,643 --> 00:13:33,896
Neighborhood tipped in,
like, eight seconds.
274
00:13:33,938 --> 00:13:35,147
Thanks for sharin'.
275
00:13:35,189 --> 00:13:38,025
Now get before I
dropkick you out of here.
276
00:13:43,447 --> 00:13:44,865
Genessee Creek.
277
00:13:44,907 --> 00:13:48,035
It's that Tony Subdivision
over near Abington.
278
00:13:48,077 --> 00:13:50,496
Lot of people made a killing
off of white flight.
279
00:13:50,538 --> 00:13:54,250
Sounds like this Wes Floyd guy
was one of 'em.
280
00:14:05,135 --> 00:14:08,722
I see your real estate ads
all over the place, Wes.
281
00:14:08,764 --> 00:14:10,933
Bus stops, billboards.
282
00:14:10,975 --> 00:14:11,976
I do well.
283
00:14:12,017 --> 00:14:14,770
And to think it all started
with Genessee Creek
284
00:14:14,812 --> 00:14:17,648
and the abduction
and murder of a little girl.
285
00:14:19,567 --> 00:14:21,527
I'm a businessman,
not a killer.
286
00:14:21,569 --> 00:14:24,321
You made out like a bandit after
Melanie Campbell disappeared.
287
00:14:24,363 --> 00:14:26,824
(Jeffries)
'Sold 12 homes in one week.'
288
00:14:26,866 --> 00:14:28,951
They say you make your own luck.
289
00:14:28,993 --> 00:14:31,412
Maybe you made yours.
290
00:14:31,453 --> 00:14:35,624
The timing was fortuitous,
so arrest me.
291
00:14:35,666 --> 00:14:37,209
Already have a record, Wes?
292
00:14:37,251 --> 00:14:38,586
Silly trespassing charges
293
00:14:38,627 --> 00:14:40,838
for putting a few sold signs
in people's yards.
294
00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,507
To make it look like people were
moving when they weren't.
295
00:14:43,549 --> 00:14:45,009
Smashed a few windows, too.
296
00:14:45,050 --> 00:14:47,511
Made people think
crime was going up.
297
00:14:47,553 --> 00:14:51,098
Scare them out of Brewerytown
into your white suburb.
298
00:14:51,140 --> 00:14:52,558
It was business.
299
00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,436
And it was the neighbors that
had it out for Melanie, not me.
300
00:14:55,477 --> 00:14:58,480
- Neighbors like who?
- The kids on that block.
301
00:14:58,522 --> 00:15:02,067
Saw the troubles myself
at the bus stop.
302
00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,365
Fairies like sweet stuff.
303
00:15:08,407 --> 00:15:09,909
Like honey?
304
00:15:09,950 --> 00:15:12,536
What if we put
some in a jar?
305
00:15:12,578 --> 00:15:13,829
Yeah, and if
they like it..
306
00:15:13,871 --> 00:15:15,456
First day of school
and Melanie's already
307
00:15:15,497 --> 00:15:16,749
got a show-and-tell.
308
00:15:16,790 --> 00:15:18,918
[laughter]
309
00:15:18,959 --> 00:15:21,003
You gonna talk jive for us, huh?
310
00:15:21,045 --> 00:15:23,255
- Dy-no-mite.
- Shut up, Dale.
311
00:15:23,297 --> 00:15:25,841
Come on, Mel, we don't
got to listen to him.
312
00:15:25,883 --> 00:15:27,968
What'd you say, darkie?
313
00:15:28,010 --> 00:15:30,512
Um...nothing.
314
00:15:30,554 --> 00:15:32,598
Then say you're sorry.
315
00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:34,558
Or I'm gonna smack you.
316
00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,727
Like your daddy smacks you?
317
00:15:36,769 --> 00:15:39,605
[laughter]
318
00:15:39,647 --> 00:15:40,898
Second thought..
319
00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:43,567
...maybe Melanie should get
in the first lick.
320
00:15:43,609 --> 00:15:45,027
- Hit her.
- No.
321
00:15:45,069 --> 00:15:46,612
- Hit her.
- Stop it.
322
00:15:46,654 --> 00:15:49,406
- Hit her.
- I said stop.
323
00:15:49,448 --> 00:15:51,492
[all exclaim]
324
00:15:52,534 --> 00:15:53,911
Little bitch.
325
00:15:53,953 --> 00:15:55,913
Come on.
326
00:15:58,374 --> 00:16:00,501
Stupid troll.
327
00:16:07,257 --> 00:16:10,719
Saw that kid picking on
the little ones all the time.
328
00:16:10,761 --> 00:16:11,929
You know his name?
329
00:16:11,971 --> 00:16:13,973
Dale Wilson.
Hank Wilson's son.
330
00:16:14,014 --> 00:16:17,601
- Runt-of-the-litter type.
- Humiliated by a little girl.
331
00:16:17,643 --> 00:16:19,144
In front
of the other kids.
332
00:16:19,186 --> 00:16:21,271
And if Dale
was anything like his pops
333
00:16:21,313 --> 00:16:24,525
not exactly the forgiving
and forgetting type.
334
00:16:30,864 --> 00:16:32,324
(Stillman)
'How'd it make
you feel, Dale?'
335
00:16:32,366 --> 00:16:34,326
(Valens)
Getting popped by
Melanie Campbell
336
00:16:34,368 --> 00:16:35,619
in front
of everybody.
337
00:16:35,661 --> 00:16:37,413
(Stillman)
'Not long after,
she goes missing.'
338
00:16:37,454 --> 00:16:39,707
I was just young, dumb.
339
00:16:39,748 --> 00:16:41,333
Can't argue there.
340
00:16:41,375 --> 00:16:42,418
Held back twice.
341
00:16:42,459 --> 00:16:43,794
So? That don't mean nothing.
342
00:16:43,836 --> 00:16:45,170
Your old man was damn near
343
00:16:45,212 --> 00:16:47,423
burning crosses
on lawns back then.
344
00:16:47,464 --> 00:16:49,091
You telling me
you didn't get even?
345
00:16:49,133 --> 00:16:50,259
I'm not my father.
346
00:16:50,300 --> 00:16:53,804
You sure acted like him
at that bus stop.
347
00:16:53,846 --> 00:16:56,432
And I felt bad about it.
348
00:16:56,473 --> 00:16:58,225
No one knew better than me
349
00:16:58,267 --> 00:17:01,020
what it's like getting picked on
by someone twice your size.
350
00:17:01,061 --> 00:17:03,230
Oh, so you just
let it pass, then?
351
00:17:03,272 --> 00:17:05,566
Let bygones be bygones.
352
00:17:07,109 --> 00:17:10,112
I went to Melanie's house
the next day.
353
00:17:12,823 --> 00:17:14,742
To even the score?
354
00:17:14,783 --> 00:17:16,618
To apologize.
355
00:17:16,660 --> 00:17:19,955
[Gladys Knight & The Pips
singing "The Best Thing
That Ever Happened To Me"]
356
00:17:19,997 --> 00:17:23,375
♪ I've had my share ♪
357
00:17:24,460 --> 00:17:28,130
We can leave notes
to each other here from now on.
358
00:17:28,172 --> 00:17:29,173
Where no one'll see 'em.
359
00:17:29,214 --> 00:17:31,133
- 'In the storm pipe?'
- Yeah.
360
00:17:31,175 --> 00:17:32,760
(Dale)
'What are you doing?'
361
00:17:32,801 --> 00:17:34,678
Get away from us, Dale.
362
00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,680
I'm sorry
for what I did, okay?
363
00:17:36,722 --> 00:17:39,016
Sorry to both of us?
364
00:17:39,516 --> 00:17:40,684
Yeah.
365
00:17:40,726 --> 00:17:42,811
Now get down from there
before you hurt yourself.
366
00:17:42,853 --> 00:17:46,356
♪ I guess you could say ♪
367
00:17:46,398 --> 00:17:48,567
Why are you crying?
368
00:17:48,609 --> 00:17:50,277
My mom took down
the clothesline.
369
00:17:50,319 --> 00:17:52,237
She said we can't play
together anymore.
370
00:17:52,279 --> 00:17:56,366
Her mom said they're
going to move, too.
371
00:17:56,408 --> 00:17:57,284
Why?
372
00:17:57,326 --> 00:17:59,203
'Cause the neighbors
don't like fireflies
373
00:17:59,244 --> 00:18:00,788
and bugs and stuff.
374
00:18:00,829 --> 00:18:03,082
- Who doesn't?
- Them.
375
00:18:03,123 --> 00:18:05,501
♪ If anyone ♪
376
00:18:05,542 --> 00:18:08,212
♪ Should ever write ♪
377
00:18:08,253 --> 00:18:10,089
That isn't about your fireflies.
378
00:18:10,130 --> 00:18:11,757
It isn't?
379
00:18:13,008 --> 00:18:15,803
It's about Cherise.
380
00:18:15,844 --> 00:18:17,930
She's the critter, stupid.
381
00:18:17,971 --> 00:18:20,099
- I'm a bug?
- No, not a bug.
382
00:18:20,140 --> 00:18:21,558
A critter's like--
383
00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:23,227
Like what?
384
00:18:23,268 --> 00:18:25,604
Like not us.
385
00:18:25,646 --> 00:18:27,981
A critter's
like...not a person.
386
00:18:28,023 --> 00:18:31,276
- But I'm a person.
- Yeah.
387
00:18:31,318 --> 00:18:32,736
Look, you don't see
horses and chickens
388
00:18:32,778 --> 00:18:33,904
playing together, do you?
389
00:18:33,946 --> 00:18:35,155
I like horses and chickens.
390
00:18:35,197 --> 00:18:38,117
But they don't play together,
do they?
391
00:18:38,158 --> 00:18:41,787
♪ That ever happened to me.. ♪♪
392
00:18:45,791 --> 00:18:48,293
That's a hell of a thing
to tell a kid.
393
00:18:50,546 --> 00:18:53,257
That's the way the world was.
394
00:18:53,298 --> 00:18:55,050
I was just the messenger.
395
00:18:55,092 --> 00:18:57,261
Someone vandalized
their house?
396
00:18:57,302 --> 00:18:59,763
That's, uh,
the story, anyway.
397
00:18:59,805 --> 00:19:02,266
What, you disputing it, Dale?
398
00:19:02,307 --> 00:19:03,392
All I know..
399
00:19:03,433 --> 00:19:06,103
...Mrs. Campbell came
into my dad's hardware store
400
00:19:06,145 --> 00:19:07,604
asking about paint removers.
401
00:19:07,646 --> 00:19:09,857
To get rid of the graffiti.
So what?
402
00:19:09,898 --> 00:19:13,527
So that was two days before
her house got vandalized.
403
00:19:14,444 --> 00:19:16,989
Are you saying Mrs. Campbell
knew it was gonna happen?
404
00:19:17,030 --> 00:19:21,910
I'm saying...she wrote
those words herself.
405
00:19:29,126 --> 00:19:31,587
Melanie and Cherise
were best friends.
406
00:19:31,628 --> 00:19:33,630
- That's right.
- It concern you at all?
407
00:19:33,672 --> 00:19:36,425
Your daughter hanging
with a black girl?
408
00:19:36,466 --> 00:19:38,886
No.
Why are you asking?
409
00:19:38,927 --> 00:19:41,054
"Critter lovers."
Remember that?
410
00:19:41,096 --> 00:19:44,099
Someone spray painted
those words on our house.
411
00:19:45,601 --> 00:19:47,561
Never reported it.
412
00:19:49,771 --> 00:19:51,565
Wonder why.
413
00:19:51,607 --> 00:19:55,152
It was nothing, it was just
a couple of pranksters.
414
00:19:55,194 --> 00:19:56,570
'Why stir up more trouble?'
415
00:19:56,612 --> 00:19:59,239
We know about the visit to the
hardware store, Mrs. Campbell.
416
00:19:59,281 --> 00:20:02,409
- What are you talking about?
- Things were heating up.
417
00:20:02,451 --> 00:20:05,495
You wanted to get out
of the neighborhood.
418
00:20:05,537 --> 00:20:06,830
Get to Genessee Creek.
419
00:20:06,872 --> 00:20:09,458
That's why you vandalized
your own home.
420
00:20:14,630 --> 00:20:16,715
People were so angry.
421
00:20:16,757 --> 00:20:20,010
Hank, all the rest.
I was afraid.
422
00:20:20,052 --> 00:20:22,554
- Of what they'd do to you.
- Not me. Melanie.
423
00:20:22,596 --> 00:20:26,183
There was
so much hatred.
424
00:20:26,225 --> 00:20:27,184
Ugliness.
425
00:20:27,226 --> 00:20:29,770
You wanted to shield her
from all that.
426
00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:37,402
So I...told her not
to play with Cherise anymore.
427
00:20:39,238 --> 00:20:41,990
That sometimes it's best
to stick with your own.
428
00:20:42,032 --> 00:20:43,992
Aw, for God's sake, Frances.
429
00:20:44,034 --> 00:20:46,286
You refused to leave.
I didn't have a choice.
430
00:20:46,328 --> 00:20:51,166
They were decent, hard-working
people just like us.
431
00:20:51,208 --> 00:20:52,751
I know.
432
00:20:54,253 --> 00:20:56,630
I was just trying
to protect my little girl.
433
00:20:56,672 --> 00:21:00,801
I had no idea
what damage it would cause.
434
00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,431
Dale?
435
00:21:06,473 --> 00:21:08,058
Dale?
436
00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:10,978
- What happened?
- It's nothing.
437
00:21:11,019 --> 00:21:14,022
Who hit you?
T-tell me.
438
00:21:14,064 --> 00:21:15,774
My dad.
439
00:21:15,816 --> 00:21:17,651
Heard about that
critter lover.
440
00:21:17,693 --> 00:21:20,570
Said it was my fault all
the white people are moving out.
441
00:21:22,781 --> 00:21:25,075
Crazy, huh, Mrs. C?
442
00:21:27,619 --> 00:21:30,831
Be sure and get an ice pack
from the school nurse.
443
00:21:35,043 --> 00:21:37,337
Alvina lights a spark.
444
00:21:38,130 --> 00:21:40,382
Mel, you hear me?
445
00:21:40,424 --> 00:21:42,009
Alvina lights a spark.
446
00:21:42,050 --> 00:21:43,969
I'm not playing
that anymore.
447
00:21:44,011 --> 00:21:46,638
It's little kids' stuff.
448
00:21:48,265 --> 00:21:50,767
You don't wanna see
the fireflies?
449
00:21:52,686 --> 00:21:54,062
No.
450
00:21:54,104 --> 00:21:56,481
They're gonna leave,
turn to fairies.
451
00:21:56,523 --> 00:21:59,276
Fireflies aren't
fairies, okay.
452
00:21:59,318 --> 00:22:00,444
But you said--
453
00:22:00,485 --> 00:22:02,446
And horses and chickens
don't play together.
454
00:22:02,487 --> 00:22:04,865
You said
we'd be friends forever.
455
00:22:04,906 --> 00:22:07,492
No such thing as forever.
456
00:22:20,297 --> 00:22:23,508
That night
my little girl was gone.
457
00:22:28,638 --> 00:22:31,558
I thought our child
was in danger.
458
00:22:34,353 --> 00:22:35,937
And she was.
459
00:22:38,106 --> 00:22:39,649
"Alvina lights a spark."
460
00:22:39,691 --> 00:22:41,526
That meant Cherise
left a note for Melanie.
461
00:22:41,568 --> 00:22:44,321
But the clothesline was down.
462
00:22:44,363 --> 00:22:47,908
So they were leaving them
in the storm pipe, right?
463
00:22:49,409 --> 00:22:52,204
The note never turned up.
464
00:22:54,706 --> 00:22:59,294
Uh...that's a reach.
Need some leverage.
465
00:22:59,336 --> 00:23:03,423
Same basement window
the doer used in '75.
466
00:23:03,465 --> 00:23:08,387
Lifted a partial palm print
off of that ledge.
467
00:23:08,428 --> 00:23:11,890
It wasn't a hand print
on the ledge.
468
00:23:11,932 --> 00:23:14,476
It was a foot.
469
00:23:25,028 --> 00:23:28,240
Neighbor spotted you
in the Campbells' yard
470
00:23:28,281 --> 00:23:29,658
night Melanie disappeared.
471
00:23:29,699 --> 00:23:31,118
Already told you..
472
00:23:31,159 --> 00:23:33,745
...racist old bat made that up.
473
00:23:35,622 --> 00:23:38,708
Got a print
off that window ledge.
474
00:23:38,750 --> 00:23:40,836
From a heel.
475
00:23:45,549 --> 00:23:48,718
Tell me it's not gonna
match yours, Terrell.
476
00:23:51,304 --> 00:23:53,140
I didn't hurt that white girl.
477
00:23:53,181 --> 00:23:54,724
I said..
478
00:23:54,766 --> 00:23:57,394
...tell me it's not
gonna match yours.
479
00:24:00,313 --> 00:24:01,690
[scoffs]
480
00:24:02,858 --> 00:24:04,401
You made me a fool.
481
00:24:04,443 --> 00:24:07,863
I defended you to my boss,
believed in you.
482
00:24:07,904 --> 00:24:10,323
Maybe you shouldn't have.
483
00:24:19,708 --> 00:24:21,168
What were
you doing in her yard?
484
00:24:21,209 --> 00:24:22,627
Getting the note back
for my sister.
485
00:24:22,669 --> 00:24:23,837
Then why not say that?
486
00:24:23,879 --> 00:24:25,547
A black boy
in a white girl's yard
487
00:24:25,589 --> 00:24:26,840
same night she goes missing?
488
00:24:26,882 --> 00:24:27,966
'No one's gonna believe me.'
489
00:24:28,008 --> 00:24:30,719
- I would.
- You're the police.
490
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,722
I learned 31 years ago
what that means.
491
00:24:33,763 --> 00:24:36,224
Guilty till proven innocent.
492
00:24:36,266 --> 00:24:38,977
They treated me
like I wasn't even human.
493
00:24:39,853 --> 00:24:41,938
Times change, Terrell.
494
00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:43,482
Not so much.
495
00:24:43,523 --> 00:24:47,819
I just wanted
to protect my little sister.
496
00:24:47,861 --> 00:24:50,530
I did what I had
to do that night.
497
00:24:50,572 --> 00:24:52,157
Go on.
498
00:24:52,782 --> 00:24:55,202
I told Cherise the truth.
499
00:24:56,036 --> 00:24:59,331
[Cherise sobbing]
500
00:25:05,629 --> 00:25:09,090
Heard about what went down
at the bus stop today.
501
00:25:09,132 --> 00:25:10,133
Sorry.
502
00:25:10,175 --> 00:25:12,552
I left a note for her
in the storm pipe.
503
00:25:12,594 --> 00:25:15,555
- For Melanie?
- Maybe she'll find it.
504
00:25:15,597 --> 00:25:17,098
And want to be friends again?
505
00:25:17,140 --> 00:25:18,600
Cherise..
506
00:25:21,228 --> 00:25:23,146
...she's never gonna
be your friend.
507
00:25:23,188 --> 00:25:24,731
You see, white people
508
00:25:24,773 --> 00:25:28,276
they look at us,
and they see ugliness.
509
00:25:28,318 --> 00:25:29,528
They do?
510
00:25:29,569 --> 00:25:31,530
They don't see
how pretty you are
511
00:25:31,571 --> 00:25:35,242
or how smart or how cool.
512
00:25:35,283 --> 00:25:36,868
But I do.
513
00:25:36,910 --> 00:25:39,746
And you gotta see that, too.
514
00:25:39,788 --> 00:25:41,957
Melanie thinks I'm cool.
515
00:25:41,998 --> 00:25:45,752
You can't trust 'em.
Not even Melanie.
516
00:25:45,794 --> 00:25:46,962
I can't?
517
00:25:47,003 --> 00:25:49,339
Emmett Till learned that
the hard way.
518
00:25:49,381 --> 00:25:50,423
Who's Emmett Till?
519
00:25:50,465 --> 00:25:53,009
Boy who whistled
at a white girl.
520
00:25:53,051 --> 00:25:55,929
After, these dudes
dragged him out of bed
521
00:25:55,971 --> 00:25:59,432
in the middle of
the night, shot him.
522
00:25:59,474 --> 00:26:01,351
He wasn't even
that much older than you.
523
00:26:01,393 --> 00:26:05,105
Now I'm not trying to give you
nightmares or anything, Cherise.
524
00:26:05,146 --> 00:26:07,816
I'm just lookin' out
for my little sis.
525
00:26:11,611 --> 00:26:14,072
Will you get
the note back for me?
526
00:26:15,740 --> 00:26:17,200
Please?
527
00:26:18,910 --> 00:26:20,954
Sure thing.
528
00:26:23,707 --> 00:26:26,918
Now, go to bed, okay?
529
00:26:31,089 --> 00:26:32,507
Terrell?
530
00:26:33,049 --> 00:26:34,217
Yeah?
531
00:26:34,259 --> 00:26:36,553
Did Emmett go to heaven?
532
00:26:38,513 --> 00:26:40,890
All kids go to heaven.
533
00:26:50,775 --> 00:26:52,819
I never forgot
the look in her eyes
534
00:26:52,861 --> 00:26:54,279
when I told her that.
535
00:26:54,321 --> 00:26:56,781
She grew up faster
than she should have.
536
00:26:56,823 --> 00:26:59,242
Sounds like you both did.
537
00:27:03,580 --> 00:27:04,914
So..
538
00:27:07,125 --> 00:27:09,544
...you got the note?
539
00:27:11,254 --> 00:27:12,631
It was gone
when I got there.
540
00:27:12,672 --> 00:27:16,551
Gone?
Who took it?
541
00:27:16,593 --> 00:27:18,887
I guess Melanie.
542
00:27:18,928 --> 00:27:21,556
- You tell Cherise that?
- Yeah.
543
00:27:21,598 --> 00:27:24,017
Do you know what the note said?
544
00:27:25,727 --> 00:27:27,771
You gotta make
this right, Terrell.
545
00:27:27,812 --> 00:27:29,397
By me.
546
00:27:30,607 --> 00:27:32,275
Cherise just wanted
her friend back.
547
00:27:32,317 --> 00:27:34,611
What'd the note say?
548
00:27:35,862 --> 00:27:39,908
"Meet me in the woods..
549
00:27:39,949 --> 00:27:41,701
...tonight."
550
00:27:46,623 --> 00:27:48,667
So Melanie went into
the woods that night.
551
00:27:48,708 --> 00:27:51,002
And so did Cherise.
552
00:27:58,718 --> 00:28:00,762
(Vera)
'Melanie wasn't abducted
from her bedroom.'
553
00:28:00,804 --> 00:28:02,722
She went to
the woods that night.
554
00:28:02,764 --> 00:28:04,015
The woods?
555
00:28:04,057 --> 00:28:06,267
You asked her to meet you there,
Cherise, in your note.
556
00:28:06,309 --> 00:28:08,478
That's ridiculous.
557
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:09,854
"Alvina lights a spark."
558
00:28:09,896 --> 00:28:13,024
Your secret code.
Meant you left her a note.
559
00:28:13,066 --> 00:28:14,859
"Meet me
in the woods tonight."
560
00:28:14,901 --> 00:28:16,903
'You were waiting
for her there.'
561
00:28:16,945 --> 00:28:20,865
We were best friends.
For forever and a day.
562
00:28:20,907 --> 00:28:23,535
But Melanie didn't believe
in forever anymore.
563
00:28:23,576 --> 00:28:25,203
The bus stop.
She abandoned you.
564
00:28:25,245 --> 00:28:27,080
- Quite a betrayal.
- It was.
565
00:28:27,122 --> 00:28:29,457
What happened
in the woods that night?
566
00:28:29,499 --> 00:28:31,543
I spent my whole life
trying to forget.
567
00:28:31,584 --> 00:28:33,628
But you couldn't.
568
00:28:34,546 --> 00:28:37,549
We moved to
an all black neighborhood
569
00:28:37,590 --> 00:28:39,551
a world away from Brewerytown.
570
00:28:39,592 --> 00:28:43,138
And it just got easier to
pretend like it never happened.
571
00:28:43,179 --> 00:28:45,181
What never happened?
572
00:28:46,349 --> 00:28:48,143
I should have listened
to Terrell.
573
00:28:48,184 --> 00:28:49,644
Black and white,
never meant to be.
574
00:28:49,686 --> 00:28:52,063
And I have spent my entire life
living like that.
575
00:28:52,105 --> 00:28:55,650
Never trusting
another white person.
576
00:28:55,692 --> 00:28:58,653
We believed fireflies
were fairies
577
00:28:58,695 --> 00:29:01,072
and friendships lasted forever.
578
00:29:04,075 --> 00:29:06,411
But we were wrong.
579
00:29:09,205 --> 00:29:12,208
[instrumental music]
580
00:29:17,964 --> 00:29:20,300
Look, fairies.
581
00:29:20,341 --> 00:29:21,634
Last of the season.
582
00:29:21,676 --> 00:29:23,303
Thought you didn't believe
in fairies.
583
00:29:23,344 --> 00:29:25,430
I'm sorry I was mean
to you at the bus stop.
584
00:29:25,472 --> 00:29:26,598
Why'd you do that?
585
00:29:26,639 --> 00:29:29,309
My mom said it was better
to stick with your own.
586
00:29:29,350 --> 00:29:30,685
Terrell said that, too.
587
00:29:30,727 --> 00:29:32,687
But I don't want
to stick with my own.
588
00:29:32,729 --> 00:29:34,564
I want to be with you, Cherise.
589
00:29:34,606 --> 00:29:35,899
Me, too, Mel.
590
00:29:35,940 --> 00:29:37,817
You're my best friend.
591
00:29:37,859 --> 00:29:38,985
Forever?
592
00:29:39,027 --> 00:29:40,653
And a day.
593
00:29:43,698 --> 00:29:46,159
[rustling]
594
00:29:49,162 --> 00:29:51,206
Can't keep away
from that critter, can you?
595
00:29:51,247 --> 00:29:52,499
What do you want, Dale?
596
00:29:52,540 --> 00:29:54,459
I drive to this critter's house
to scare her
597
00:29:54,501 --> 00:29:56,795
and what do I see?
598
00:29:56,836 --> 00:29:58,963
This one trying
to sneak off.
599
00:29:59,005 --> 00:30:01,382
Thought you could get away, huh?
600
00:30:02,801 --> 00:30:06,095
I got beat because my dad thinks
that I spray painted your house.
601
00:30:06,137 --> 00:30:08,056
- Did you?
- No.
602
00:30:08,097 --> 00:30:09,599
And now the whole neighborhood's
gonna move out
603
00:30:09,641 --> 00:30:12,268
and he says it's 'cause of me.
604
00:30:15,772 --> 00:30:17,982
He hates me.
605
00:30:18,024 --> 00:30:19,400
You're scaring us.
606
00:30:19,442 --> 00:30:22,278
None of this would've happened
if you hadn't moved here.
607
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,572
I wanna go home.
608
00:30:25,490 --> 00:30:27,116
Melanie, run!
609
00:30:28,034 --> 00:30:29,244
[jar shatters]
610
00:30:29,285 --> 00:30:30,537
[gunshots]
611
00:30:30,578 --> 00:30:32,038
[screaming]
612
00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:38,002
I heard the gunshots,
and I knew
613
00:30:38,044 --> 00:30:39,420
and I did nothing.
614
00:30:39,462 --> 00:30:41,422
Just kept running.
615
00:30:41,464 --> 00:30:43,466
Anyone would have.
616
00:30:43,508 --> 00:30:46,553
It's my fault
we were in the woods.
617
00:30:49,389 --> 00:30:52,016
It's my fault she died.
618
00:30:52,058 --> 00:30:54,561
You weren't
the one with the gun.
619
00:30:54,602 --> 00:30:57,772
Every night
I would dream about him
620
00:30:57,814 --> 00:31:00,358
coming into my room
and taking me.
621
00:31:01,818 --> 00:31:06,656
And then
the dreams finally stopped.
622
00:31:06,698 --> 00:31:08,032
Until now.
623
00:31:08,074 --> 00:31:10,285
The postcard.
624
00:31:11,369 --> 00:31:14,664
Just the other night
I had a dream.
625
00:31:14,706 --> 00:31:18,001
Melanie was with the fireflies.
626
00:31:18,042 --> 00:31:20,545
In a better place.
627
00:31:21,504 --> 00:31:22,881
Heaven.
628
00:31:26,509 --> 00:31:27,844
Oh.
629
00:31:33,182 --> 00:31:36,769
(Stillman)
We got an eyewitness
who saw you shoot Melanie.
630
00:31:36,811 --> 00:31:38,187
That's crazy.
631
00:31:38,229 --> 00:31:39,105
Is it?
632
00:31:39,147 --> 00:31:41,774
Cherise didn't
see me shoot nobody.
633
00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:50,033
Never said it
was Cherise, Dale.
634
00:31:50,074 --> 00:31:51,200
You sent the postcard
635
00:31:51,242 --> 00:31:52,994
insurance,
to keep Cherise quiet.
636
00:31:53,036 --> 00:31:54,370
Your old man beat
the crap outta you.
637
00:31:54,412 --> 00:31:55,747
'You were lookin'
to get even.'
638
00:31:55,788 --> 00:31:57,707
You followed Cherise
into the woods that night
639
00:31:57,749 --> 00:32:00,501
with your father's gun.
640
00:32:04,088 --> 00:32:05,340
I never meant to hurt--
641
00:32:05,381 --> 00:32:06,549
Oh, cut the bull.
642
00:32:06,591 --> 00:32:09,886
- You shot at Cherise.
- To scare her.
643
00:32:14,390 --> 00:32:18,978
But then...she screamed..
644
00:32:19,020 --> 00:32:20,813
...and I thought..
645
00:32:20,855 --> 00:32:24,233
...I thought I killed her.
And I panicked.
646
00:32:24,275 --> 00:32:26,903
So you had to kill Melanie, too.
She was a witness.
647
00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:28,821
Point of no return.
648
00:32:28,863 --> 00:32:34,285
My dad beat me every night
for that critter-lover thing.
649
00:32:35,954 --> 00:32:39,290
If he found out about this..
650
00:32:39,332 --> 00:32:40,792
...he'd kill me.
651
00:32:40,833 --> 00:32:44,879
So I did what I had to do.
652
00:32:44,921 --> 00:32:46,547
What, Dale?
653
00:32:48,257 --> 00:32:52,470
I put her in the car and drove.
654
00:32:52,512 --> 00:32:53,763
For hours.
655
00:32:53,805 --> 00:32:57,141
Till we got to
the West Virginia state line.
656
00:32:57,183 --> 00:32:58,434
Then what happened?
657
00:32:58,476 --> 00:33:00,895
Then I pulled off the road.
658
00:33:02,313 --> 00:33:06,401
It was dark
and there was no one around.
659
00:33:09,696 --> 00:33:11,239
Just us.
660
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,671
Stop.
661
00:33:26,713 --> 00:33:28,339
Right here.
662
00:33:29,507 --> 00:33:32,635
Why'd you have to be friends
with that critter?
663
00:33:32,677 --> 00:33:34,137
[sobbing]
664
00:33:39,017 --> 00:33:40,643
Why?
665
00:33:40,685 --> 00:33:43,187
I just want to go home.
666
00:33:46,024 --> 00:33:47,775
This is all your fault,
you hear me.
667
00:33:47,817 --> 00:33:51,112
'Cause you had
to be friends with her.
668
00:33:51,154 --> 00:33:52,530
Please.
669
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,325
Close your eyes.
670
00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:03,499
I want my mommy.
671
00:34:05,209 --> 00:34:08,046
You can't tell on me.
672
00:34:08,087 --> 00:34:10,173
Please.
673
00:34:10,214 --> 00:34:12,133
Not anymore.
674
00:34:13,926 --> 00:34:15,386
[gunshot]
675
00:34:17,930 --> 00:34:21,893
And then I just..
676
00:34:21,934 --> 00:34:23,936
...drove away.
677
00:34:37,700 --> 00:34:40,411
No unidentified
child murder victims
678
00:34:40,453 --> 00:34:43,790
that age in West Virginia,
in 1975.
679
00:34:43,831 --> 00:34:45,541
(Rush)
Doesn't make sense.
680
00:34:45,583 --> 00:34:48,628
(Vera)
Rural area. Animals could've
carried her off.
681
00:34:48,669 --> 00:34:50,088
Or the body
was never found.
682
00:34:50,129 --> 00:34:52,006
Interstate files are a joke.
683
00:34:52,048 --> 00:34:54,675
No national database
on missing kids back then.
684
00:34:54,717 --> 00:34:58,096
Kid crossed state lines,
easy to fall through the cracks.
685
00:34:58,137 --> 00:35:00,640
So even if the body was found
686
00:35:00,681 --> 00:35:02,975
no way to connect it
to our missing Philly girl.
687
00:35:03,017 --> 00:35:04,977
Yeah, needle in a haystack.
688
00:35:05,019 --> 00:35:07,563
Police report, West Virginia,
October '75.
689
00:35:07,605 --> 00:35:10,358
State trooper found
a girl just off Route 1.
690
00:35:10,399 --> 00:35:13,361
She was shot but alive.
Head injury.
691
00:35:13,402 --> 00:35:15,613
No memory of who she was
or where she came from.
692
00:35:15,655 --> 00:35:19,534
Transported to the County
Hospital in critical condition.
693
00:35:19,575 --> 00:35:21,327
Then put in foster care.
694
00:35:21,369 --> 00:35:23,579
Melanie's still alive?
695
00:35:29,043 --> 00:35:31,003
(Rush)
'Excuse me?'
696
00:35:32,505 --> 00:35:34,215
(Rush)
'Are you Jennifer Robinson?'
697
00:35:34,257 --> 00:35:38,219
- Yeah.
- Philadelphia PD.
698
00:35:38,261 --> 00:35:39,387
Okay.
699
00:35:39,428 --> 00:35:42,557
You were
a gunshot victim in '75.
700
00:35:42,598 --> 00:35:45,101
Ain't you folks
a little late to the party?
701
00:35:45,143 --> 00:35:46,686
You don't remember
the shooting?
702
00:35:46,727 --> 00:35:49,105
Or where you're from?
703
00:35:49,147 --> 00:35:51,023
Couldn't have been good, right?
704
00:35:51,065 --> 00:35:54,318
Family was probably the reason
I was in those woods.
705
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:55,903
You're wrong.
706
00:35:55,945 --> 00:35:58,489
Your mom and dad never
stopped looking for you.
707
00:35:58,531 --> 00:36:03,619
Never stopped hoping you'd...
walk through their door again.
708
00:36:03,661 --> 00:36:04,662
Is that right?
709
00:36:04,704 --> 00:36:07,748
Their names are Norman
and Frances Campbell.
710
00:36:07,790 --> 00:36:10,501
Good people.
711
00:36:10,543 --> 00:36:13,379
I don't remember. Sorry.
712
00:36:15,173 --> 00:36:17,633
They never forgot you, Melanie.
713
00:36:21,345 --> 00:36:22,430
Is that my name?
714
00:36:22,471 --> 00:36:24,557
And your best friend
was a girl named Cherise.
715
00:36:24,599 --> 00:36:27,393
She was with you that night,
in the woods.
716
00:36:30,396 --> 00:36:32,607
A lot of people still waitin'..
717
00:36:32,648 --> 00:36:34,984
...for you to come home.
718
00:36:35,943 --> 00:36:37,695
I should get back to work.
719
00:36:37,737 --> 00:36:40,198
You and Cherise
left notes for each other
720
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,534
on the...on the clothesline.
721
00:36:43,576 --> 00:36:47,705
You believed
in fireflies and fairies.
722
00:36:47,747 --> 00:36:49,707
Please. Stop.
723
00:36:49,749 --> 00:36:52,043
That's why he brought you
into the woods
724
00:36:52,084 --> 00:36:55,046
'because you were brave.'
725
00:36:55,087 --> 00:36:57,381
In a world that wasn't.
726
00:37:01,844 --> 00:37:03,679
I remember..
727
00:37:05,973 --> 00:37:08,768
...I wasn't alone.
728
00:37:08,809 --> 00:37:10,645
In the woods.
729
00:37:10,686 --> 00:37:14,523
Because the fireflies
were there..
730
00:37:14,565 --> 00:37:18,194
...telling me heaven
had to wait.
731
00:37:18,236 --> 00:37:20,655
'Cause I had to live.
732
00:37:23,074 --> 00:37:26,160
[instrumental music]
733
00:38:01,529 --> 00:38:04,699
[Fleetwood Mac
singing "Landslide"]
734
00:38:14,250 --> 00:38:18,129
♪ I took my love
I took it down ♪
735
00:38:20,131 --> 00:38:24,510
♪ Climbed a mountain
and then turned around ♪
736
00:38:24,552 --> 00:38:31,142
♪ And I saw my reflection
in the snow-covered hills ♪
737
00:38:31,183 --> 00:38:36,772
♪ Till the landslide
brought me down ♪
738
00:38:36,814 --> 00:38:42,695
♪ Oh mirror in the sky
what is love ♪
739
00:38:42,737 --> 00:38:48,701
♪ Can the child
within my heart rise above ♪
740
00:38:48,743 --> 00:38:55,041
♪ Can I sail through
the changing ocean tides ♪
741
00:38:55,082 --> 00:38:58,586
♪ Can I handle the seasons ♪
742
00:38:58,627 --> 00:39:05,926
♪ Of my life ♪
743
00:39:08,971 --> 00:39:11,640
♪ Mmm mm mm ♪
744
00:39:13,059 --> 00:39:18,314
♪ Well I've been afraid
of changing ♪
745
00:39:18,356 --> 00:39:25,112
♪ 'Cause I've built
my life around you ♪
746
00:39:25,154 --> 00:39:28,282
♪ But time makes you bolder ♪
747
00:39:28,324 --> 00:39:31,577
♪ Even children get older ♪
748
00:39:31,619 --> 00:39:36,749
♪ And I'm getting older too ♪
749
00:40:01,065 --> 00:40:06,237
♪ Well I've been
afraid of changing ♪
750
00:40:06,278 --> 00:40:13,327
♪ 'Cause I've built
my life around you ♪
751
00:40:13,369 --> 00:40:16,330
♪ But time makes you bolder ♪
752
00:40:16,372 --> 00:40:19,625
♪ Even children get older ♪
753
00:40:19,667 --> 00:40:25,339
♪ And I'm getting older too ♪
754
00:40:25,381 --> 00:40:31,470
♪ Oh I'm getting older too ♪
755
00:40:31,512 --> 00:40:36,600
♪ I take my love
take it down ♪
756
00:40:37,518 --> 00:40:43,065
♪ I climb a mountain
and turn around ♪
757
00:40:43,107 --> 00:40:49,989
♪ And if you see my reflection
in the snow-covered hills ♪
758
00:40:50,030 --> 00:40:55,578
♪ Will the landslide
bring you down ♪
759
00:40:55,619 --> 00:40:58,706
♪ And if you see my reflection ♪
760
00:40:58,747 --> 00:41:03,461
♪ In the snow-covered hills ♪
761
00:41:03,502 --> 00:41:08,090
♪ Oh will the landslide
bring it down ♪
762
00:41:08,132 --> 00:41:15,222
♪ Oh-h the landslide
bring it down ♪♪
763
00:41:17,433 --> 00:41:18,601
(Rush)
Stay tuned for scenes
from our next episode.
764
00:41:18,642 --> 00:41:21,270
[theme music]
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