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[person breathing heavily]

[heartbeat pounding]

- [heavy breathing continues] - [heartbeat continues pounding]

[Edda Mellas] Amanda, I don't like this.

I don't like this at all.

Well, this is the plan. So, can you--

[Edda] I swear to God, Chris, if you tell me to relax--

I'm not telling you to relax.

I harbor a wish that you'd relax, but I'm not telling you to relax.

Just like we talked about. Don't move, don't make a sound.

Anyone sees you, they make a call.

If they make a call, then they're all hunting you inside of 10 minutes.

He's hunting her already.

He never stopped. Never will.

And here we are, just walking

- into the mouth of the wolf. - Mom, will you please?

- This is a trap. - [Amanda Knox] Please relax.

- It is not a trap. It's not. - This is a trap,

it's a trap that that monster has set for you,

and we are walking right into it.

[Chris Robinson] Okay, car accident. Lotta cops up ahead.

- Assassina. - [cameras clicking]

[infant crying]

- Aw, you're okay. - Hey, don't sit up.

I, I, I have to quiet her.

[Edda] Whole fucking country hates her.

Anyone could hand her over.

- Okay, we're comin' up on it now. - [Amanda] He's here.

[infant continues crying]

We should just turn back, Amanda.

Amanda, are you listening? I really think we should go back.

[crying stops]

There's no way we're going back.

[♪ lively music playing]

[Amanda narrating] Well, maybe we'll go back a little,

to where my often mis-told and madly twisted tale began.

[birds squawking]

On October 31, 1986, at 1:28 and 32 seconds,

a rebellious hooded crow leaves its formation

and flies into the window of a courthouse in Terni.

[loud thud]

[crow squawking]

At that exact moment inside his chambers,

a young Italian magistrate sees the crow's death as an omen.

His prayer turns to panic when his favorite book starts burning.

[blowing]

And at the very same time in the town of Coulsdon, South London,

a much-loved little girl takes her very first steps.

[attendee] Yeah, Meredith!

[♪ "Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles playing]

[Amanda] And at the exact same moment in Seattle, Washington...

♪ If you move too quick, oh-way-oh, they're falling down like a domino ♪

[Amanda] After walking like Egyptians...

a flapper and Billy the Kid lie down like the French.

- [couple giggling] - Your hat. Wait, right there. Oh.

[Amanda] And nine months later, a baby girl is born.

- [baby crying] - Me, Amanda Marie Knox.

[♪ upbeat twinkling music playing]

My father, Curt Knox, dislikes candid photos.

He likes posed pictures for future proof of family joy.

My mother, Edda, dislikes that my father fell for another woman.

I got a house just down the street.

[Edda] Yeah? Well, good for freakin' you!

[door slamming]

[Amanda] By the time I was six, I learned I disliked

fading into the background.

- [♪ lively music playing] - Freak.

[Amanda] I do like to live in my own imagination.

[toys cheering]

[crowd cheering]

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about, Foxy Knoxy!

[Amanda] My folks didn't interact much at all in those years.

- That's my daughter out there! - [♪ lively music continues]

- Amanda! - Yes!

[Amanda] But having two families taught me that there's more than one way to be.

More than one way to walk through life.

- [imitating elephant trumpeting] - Amanda, what are you doing?!

Fuckin' weirdo.

[Amanda] And more to the world than my small corner of it.

[bulletin board characters speaking various languages]

[poster] [whistles] Amanda. [speaking Italian]

[♪ lively music continues playing]

[Amanda] So, for the first time in 19 years,

I made my parents sit together

and pled the first high-stakes case of my very young life.

[Amanda] So, what do you think?

[Amanda and Edda laughing and cheering]

[Amanda] So, for my junior year of college, I would study abroad.

[♪ wistful, intriguing music playing]

[group chattering]

- [group] Aww. - [friend] It's for good luck.

Don't cry, stop. Don't cry.

- [babbling] - [laughter]

- What's so serious? - Don't bring on any attention, okay?

Okay.

I went to Spencer's and I got you something.

[laughing]

- What is it? - It's for your--

- [device vibrating loudly] - Instead of--

- Stop! - [both laughing]

- [Amanda] A vibrator? - No, you need this.

[Amanda] So full of hope, curiosity,

and the naivete of youth,

I embarked on my romantic Italian adventure.

[airplane tires screeching]

[♪ wistful, intriguing Italian music playing]

- Ciao. [laughing] - [wind whooshing]

[Amanda] Of course, I'd need a place to live.

[wind whooshing]

[♪ wistful, intriguing Italian music continues]

- [♪ ominous tone playing] - [people chattering]

- [dog barking] - [chattering continues]

- [engine rumbling] - [birds chirping]

[♪ "Mandinka" by Sinéad O'Connor playing]

[Amanda] These are my roommates.

Laura is cool. She smokes joints

- and has a ton of piercings in her ears. - [both laughing and chattering]

- Close the door! - Okay, okay, okay!

[Amanda] And this is Filomena.

She's a bit neurotic.

[Filomena speaking Italian]

[Amanda] She likes watching soap operas

and brewing homemade digestive tea.

- Hey, Amanda. - ♪ See how the black moon fades ♪

I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Scuza.

[Amanda] And then, there's Meredith.

She's an exchange student from England.

She likes to dance, and sunbathe, and read mystery novels.

[Amanda and Meredith laughing]

We were inseparable at first.

That buzzy feeling of new friendship,

fellow traveler in a foreign land.

♪ I can't see the flame ♪

[people chattering]

Ciao. Come stai?

♪ I do know Man-din-ka ♪

[Amanda] Then, we tried to share our world,

but her British friends didn't take to me, for some reason.

[Meredith Kercher] Amanda!

- [Amanda] A year older and wiser... - Wait!

...Meredith looked out for me.

Are you snogging Daniele?

How did you know that?

You have protection, yeah?

Yes, yes, I'll use it.

Amanda, oi!

- Oi! - What?

[softly] For us.

Yes, please!

- [squealing and laughing] - Grazie!

Yeah, have fun. Have fun, kids. Ciao.

[distant bell tolling]

[Amanda] We were just getting to know our young selves

in this charmed ancient city,

blissfully unaware that something tragic

was about to happen to poor Meredith,

and that my every quirk would be used to brand me a monster.

[♪ tense, ominous music playing]

- [distant bell tolling] - [water dripping]

[person snoring]

[person continues snoring]

[sniffing]

- Whoa! - [laughing]

- Good morning. - [groaning]

Oh, why you wake me?

- [imitating snoring] - [Raffaele chuckling]

- For truth? - Yes. No, seriously.

You couldn't get, um, couldn't get...

[Raffaele sighs]

You should say...

[both repeating Italian]

You were boring? [laughing]

[Amanda] Okay, no. You, you were boring.

I was bored.

- Beautiful and bored. - [shyly] Mm-mm.

[whispering] What do you want, Amanda?

Today we go to Gubbio for the weekend.

- Yeah. - We're going to have truffles

and hikes that are taking breath--

Oh... Breathtaking.

So close.

No.

[laughing] No, no.

No, no.

- No, no, no. - Yes, come on.

- Where are you going? - We have to go.

No, where you go, where you go, where you...

- Si. Si. - No. No, no, where you go?

- Where you go? Where you go? - No, no.

- [laughing] - Where you go, where you go, where you go?

[Raffaele Sollecito] Why?

You can bathe here with me.

Si?

What?

Ciao.

[sighs deeply]

- [door closes] - Oh!

- [people chattering] - [birdsong]

Amanda! Mwah!

- [Raffaele speaking Italian] - Mwah!

[chuckles]

[singing faintly] ♪ Faster than a roller coaster ♪

♪ Love like yours will surely come my way ♪

♪ A-hey, hey, things are getting faster ♪

[♪ tense music playing]

- [distant cars honking] - [Amanda humming]

[continues singing faintly] ♪ ...a roller coaster ♪

[people laughing]

[continues humming]

- [horn blaring] - [Vespa revving]

[♪ tense music playing]

Hello?

Hello? Is anybody home?

Meredith?

Filomena? Laura?

Okay.

[lock thumping, clicking]

[keys jingling]

[continues singing faintly] ♪ Everyday, it's a-gettin' closer ♪

[clanging]

[water running]

[fingernails scratching]

[faucet squeaking off]

[shower running]

[handle squeaking off]

[bathmat squishing]

- Ew... - [water trickling]

[♪ tense music playing]

[sighs] Fuck.

[door closes]

[hair dryer loudly whirring]

[hair dryer stops]

[humming]

- [gasps] - [hair dryer clattering]

- Hello? - [locks clicking]

- [scratching] - [squeaking, squishing]

- [loudly whirring] - [gasping]

[♪ tense music playing]

- [keys jingling] - [door locking]

[dog barking]

[phone line ringing]

[voicemail] It's Meredith. Leave a message and have a beautiful day.

Ciao.

- [tires screeching] - [truck horn blaring]

[footsteps crunching]

[birdsong]

[door unlocking]

- Oh! - Jesus!

- Don't do that. - [winces] I'm joking, I'm joking.

- I'm here. You're safe with me. - It's not funny.

Si, come.

No, come on.

Wait, wait.

- Jesus. - I mean, the house looks okay.

Everything is here, no?

Yeah, I mean, everything and...

- uh, blood and a pile of shit, yeah. - Did you check your room before?

Yes, I told you, I changed in there.

- What? - It's very messy.

Yeah, hi, I'm a slob. Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you. - Let's check Laura's room.

- Okay. Everything looks good. - Oh.

- It's perfect in there. - Is she in military?

- Look at this bed. It's so tight. - What about Filomena?

Holy shit.

[Raffaele] What?

- Raffaele. - What?

- [Amanda] [whispering] Oh, my God. - Okay, this is fuck.

Yeah, this is fuck. Someone broke into my house!

Wait, her laptop. Why is her laptop here?

- [phone ringing] - And her camera?

- Someone's calling me. - This thief must be very stupid

- to have come and... - Someone's calling me.

Filomena. Filomena.

Ransacked, completely--

Okay, okay. See you soon. Ciao.

- [Raffaele] What? - She's coming. She's coming back.

Okay, so she-she'll, she'll look through her things.

- Fuck. - Yeah.

Wait, Meredith.

- Meredith? - [door handle jiggling]

Why is it locked? [knocking]

Hey. Hey, Meredith, are you in there?

- Meredith, are you sleeping? - No, she--

- Hey! [knocking] - She's sleeping through this?

Well, maybe she has headphones on.

Most possible she spend night at British friends, no?

- Hey, Meredith! - Okay, Amanda.

- What the fuck? - Okay, call her.

[voicemail] It's Meredith.

Leave a message and have a beautiful day. Ciao.

[phone beeps]

Um, uh, ta-- take-- keep-- keep calling her.

- I'll be right back. - Uh, where, where you going?

I'm checking the downstairs apartment.

[Raffaele] Hey, what are you doing?

She might have slept at Giacomo's.

But you said the guys are on holiday.

Well, maybe they came back.

[♪ tense music playing]

Amanda.

Come on, just keep calling.

Fuck, I-- I can't, I can't see anything. Can you see anything?

Anything?

I see a brown purse on the bed.

What? What, her purse is in there?

- I can break the door. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, do that.

- Oh, really? - Yes, yes. Go.

Oh, okay.

- [door thudding] - Jesus.

- [thudding] - [Raffaele groaning]

Now, this is a very strong door.

- It's okay. - I doubt she's in there.

- I-- I call my sister. - Yeah, yeah.

I'm gonna call my mom, just...

[Raffaele] My sister is police. She will know what to do.

Oh, my God. Raffaele, the shit is gone.

It is completely gone. That means the thief was in the house

when I was here...

or he came back after I left. That's fucking crazy.

[Raffaele] Uh, that was Carabinieri.

It's like-- This is like your state police,

and they're going to send someone now.

Amanda, you hear me?

[Amanda] [whispering] Okay.

Who's that?

It can't be the cops. You just hung up with them.

What?

No. No, some-someone, someone... [speaking Italian]

My roommate's door, it's, it's locked.

It's... [speaking Italian] We can't get in.

- Yeah. - Please tell...

[Raffaele] Um...

Hey.

Raffaele, what-what's happening? What are they saying...

They are, they are not Carabinieri. They're, like, local tech crimes police.

He's saying one of the phones belongs to Filomena.

Filomena is my housemate. She is my housemate.

But that, that-- it can't be her phone because I just spoke to her.

Okay?

Meredith, my other roommate, we cannot find her.

Can you please, please just look inside for her?

[softly] Why aren't they doing anything?

[door handle jiggling]

Meredith?

[knocking] Mere-- Meredith!

Meredith!

Amanda? Does Meredith always lock the door?

Um, y-yeah, a few times

after she showered, you know, to change clothes.

[overlapping chatter]

[chatter muffling]

[door thuds]

What's happening?

[phone ringing]

[cameras clicking]

[Amanda] Why won't they tell us what's happening?

When they rushed us out, I heard the Postale guy say "corpo."

- Jesus. - What?

Corpo means "body."

- No, no. - Yes, it means body.

Well, I, I heard Filomena say "piede."

- That's "foot," no? - Si.

- Okay, so, and then Luca said "armadio." - Okay, it's "closet."

They found a dismembered foot in the closet?

[siren wailing]

[Filomena wailing in Italian]

[sobbing]

Stop. Stop. You, you don't know anything.

We don't know anything, okay?

We don't know what that means. It was her room, Raffaele.

This-- She's probably crying, "Poor Meredith,"

'cause bad stuff happened in her room.

I-I-I go in and I ask what they see.

- Okay. - [crowd chattering]

[♪ tense music playing]

[Amanda] I've heard of the concept of universal truth.

But from this day forward, I'd learn that, unfortunately,

truth is quite personal.

It reminds me of that saying, "If a tree falls in the woods

and there's no one there to hear it..."

Well, does truth actually exist if no one believes it?

[♪ soft music playing]

[softly] There is a body under the blanket.

And they think it's Meredith.

[♪ gentle music playing]

What? [softly chuckles]

- [indistinct radio chatter] - [cameras clicking]

I have to...

Excuse me? Excuse me, Officer? Hi.

I-- I forgot to tell the Polizia Postale

that I think whoever did this was there when I was there.

- Can you tell her? - Si, si, si.

Uh, because when I came home,

- there was, uh, poop in the toilet. - [Raffaele translating]

And then when I came back, it was flushed.

- [Raffaele] They're-- They have a look-- - Yes, yeah.

They're gonna have a look about

- what you are saying. - No, that's why I'm telling you

because... a-and the mop.

- [Raffaele continues translating] - Fuck, the mop. I-I...

I took the mop to my boyfriend's this morning, and I brought it back.

I put it back. I...

I really hope that didn't mess with anything,

like crime-- finger--

[Officer Valentina Greco speaking Italian]

[Amanda] In the haze of tragedy,

I was a deer in the headlights,

unaware that my hunter was about to arrive.

[siren wailing]

[reporter] Signor Mignini!

[reporters shouting]

[overlapping shouting]

[♪ tense music playing]

[softly] I feel like that policewoman hates me.

[softly] Don't look at them, look at me.

[camera clicking]

[♪ tense music continues]

[camera clicks]

[Edda] They're still out for your blood here, Amanda.

Just handing them another shot at throwing her back in prison.

They're gonna wave us right through.

- They'll wave us right through. - Okay.

[infant crying]

- [infant continues crying] - You're okay. Here's Mr. Fats.

Hey, baby.

Look! It's Mr. Fats.

[infant continues crying]

- They're stopping us, shit. - Oh, sweet Jesus.

- Ready, Mama? - Yeah.

[police radio chatter]

[Chris] It's okay. Stay calm.

- [♪ tense music playing] - [infant continues crying]

Okay, here he comes. Stay down.

[indistinct radio chatter]

- [infant crying] - It's okay, baby. It's okay.

[Edda] Shh. Quiet now.

- Oh, no! No! No! - [officer speaking Italian]

- [cell door clanging] - [officer continues speaking Italian]

- [infant crying] - [knocking]

[radio chatter]

Wait. You wait, okay?

[officer speaking indistinctly]

- [♪ tense music continues] - [infant continues crying]

- [♪ tense music continues playing] - [softly] Get down.

[officer speaking Italian]

One second, please.

[speaking Italian]

Okay. [speaking Italian]

Grazie mille.

- [whispering] Oh, Jesus Christ. - [infant continues crying]

[people chattering]

- Amanda Knox? - Yes?

What, what, what's happening? What's happening?

She needs your declaration.

- In, in Italian? - Yeah.

Okay. Yeah, I can, I can try.

Yes.

- [people chattering] - [indistinct radio chatter]

No, no, no, no.

Yeah.

...what I did.

...certain...

Ah.

I don't know.

I don't, I don't comprendere anything you're saying to me.

[camera clicking]

[camera clicking]

[Translator Vittoria Noce] So, you saw the blood,

and then took a shower.

No. No, I showered, and then I saw the bathmat.

[Translator Noce speaking Italian]

[Inspector Ginevra Ferrari speaking Italian]

And the blood didn't distress you?

No, no. To be honest,

I just thought Meredith got her period, and...

[Translator Noce speaking Italian]

...I don't know, maybe rushed out to get products,

which would've accounted for the open front door.

[Translator Noce continues speaking Italian]

[Ferrari speaking Italian]

So, you thought it was menstrual blood...

- [Ferrari speaking Italian] - ...and did not clean it up?

[chuckling] Someone else's period blood?

No, that's pretty gross. I didn't want to...

[speaking Italian]

[Translator Noce] But the feces, that scared you?

Yes. Yes.

Because that's hard to...

My housemates are very, very strict about that stuff, like, cleanliness.

[Translator Noce speaking Italian]

So, everything up until that point was explainable to myself.

[speaking Italian]

Like, when I saw the poop, that was the first thing

that pointed to a stranger's presence in the house.

[camera clicking]

[Amy Frost] Why would anyone want to hurt Mez?

I keep playing the night over in my mind.

If I would've just walked her all the way to her door.

[people chattering]

[crying] Filomena. Filomena!

[Ferrari speaking Italian]

Uh, Raffaele Sollecito is your fiancé, correct?

[laughing] Fiancé? No, no.

I have, I have only known him eight days.

I'm, I'm so sorry, my fault.

Um, fidanzato--"fiancé" in Italian,

is the same as American boyfriend.

- Ah. - Sorry.

[Ferrari speaking Italian]

[Translator Noce] And you were with him last night?

Yes, yes.

Uh, as I said, we, we spent a quiet night at his apartment.

We ate dinner. We watched a movie.

[Translator Noce and Ferrari speaking Italian]

And what movie?

Oh, Amelie, the French film.

It's my favorite.

- [Translator Noce] Um, do you need water? - I'm actually pretty hungry.

I haven't eaten in nine hours.

[Translator Noce speaking Italian]

[Ferrari speaking Italian]

Uh-huh. Um, she's getting candy from the machine.

I don't love sweets.

[Translator Noce speaking Italian]

[scoffs]

Um, you can break now.

Come with me.

[people chattering]

- Did you hear? - Geez, sorry.

- Sorry, yeah. - [Translator Noce] You can break.

Can I, can I ask you something?

I-I just-- I've been around

Italian-speaking people all day, and it feels like I've been given

a thousand different puzzle pieces from, like, a thousand different puzzles.

[chuckles] Um...

Are-Are they sure that the body they found

was really Meredith's?

[♪ dramatic music playing]

How? How?

How did she die?

[speaking Italian]

Slaughtered.

[♪ dramatic music continues]

[voice muffled, echoing] Oh, Amanda.

[sniffling] How are you?

Are you alright?

Well, I hope she didn't suffer.

Of course, she suffered. They slit her throat.

[♪ dramatic music continues]

- Where am I going? - Just this way.

[birdsong]

[Chris] You okay?

[Amanda] I don't know what I am. Nervous as fuck.

[Chris] Babe, you sure this is the place?

Uh, no, I'm not sure. I've never been here before.

Didn't he send you a photo?

Of this secret back staircase? No, Chris, he didn't.

- [Chris] Okay. - [Amanda] I'm sorry.

[speaker] Amanda.

[Amanda] Oh! Don Saulo.

Ciao. Ciao.

- [Don Saulo speaking Italian] - [Amanda laughing]

Chris.

I-I'm just gonna stay here on, on this bench.

I don't wanna see that man's face ever again.

- I'll be right here. - Okay.

- Okay? - Okay.

- [whispering] I love you. - I love you.

I love you. Bye, sweetie.

- Go. - Okay.

Okay. Okay.

[♪ tense music playing]

[distant police sirens approaching]

Oh, no. Oh, no. No.

[sirens approaching]

[sirens blaring]

[crowd clamoring]

[cameras clicking]

We can read Harry Potter when we get back home.

Yes, Harry Potter.

[Raffaele laughs] Yes!

[Sophie Purton] I don't know what the fuck they're doing.

Mm...

[Sophie] Amanda wasn't tidy.

- They maybe talked about that once. - [Translator Noce speaking Italian]

There was something, though.

Something about Amanda that made Meredith uneasy.

[Translator Noce speaking Italian]

[Greco speaking Italian]

And what was it?

- She brought lots of men home. - [Translator Noce speaking Italian]

[pen clicking]

- [laughing] I told you. - [Amanda snorting]

Mm. [kissing]

[muttering]

Ah.

[Amanda] We're gonna live here forever.

- [Raffaele] No. - No?

[Amanda sighs wearily]

[Laura Mezzetti] Hey.

[Amanda] Oh, Ciao, Laura.

How you doing, love?

[sputtering] I don't know. I guess okay.

You?

Mm, terrible.

Then fine, then terrible.

Come sit.

Listen, you cannot tell the cops we smoke pot.

If you tell them we smoke in the house,

we could all get in trouble,

and we will for sure lose our jobs.

- [♪ tense music playing] - [muffled] Mm-hm.

[Translator Noce] Okay. [speaking Italian]

Listen up.

Silenzi, Bonassi, Luciani, Romanelli, Mezzetti,

uh, Purton, Frost, Rodenhurst, Sollecito, and Knox.

[speaking Italian] You're all free to go.

[group sighing]

I'm getting the first flight home.

- [Raffaele] [sighs] Oh. - [Sophie] I'm so happy.

- Knox! - Yes?

We need you back at 11:00.

- 11:00? 11 a.m.? - Yes.

[Raffaele] Are you kidding me?

That gives her just a few hours to eat and to sleep.

Look, it is brutal, I know, but you have to understand

that every minute that passes that we don't have the killer

is another minute he has to get further away.

You were the closest one to Meredith. You're our most important witness.

I will be here at 11:00.

[phone ringing]

Hi. Hi, Mom.

- How are you, honey? - [Amanda] [over phone] Um...

I'm okay. I'm okay. Uh, it was a really rough night,

but they're letting me go home for a nap, so...

Wait, what, you're still at the precinct?

I'm leaving right now, yeah.

[Edda] Your stepdad and I, we bought you a ticket.

Okay? We want you to come home.

N-No, I, I can't.

What do you mean, you can't? Did they tell you you can't?

Kind of. They, they said that,

that they really need my help

and that I'm, I'm like their most important witness.

So, I, I think I have to stay, Mom.

With a killer on the loose there?

I'm, I'm sure the police will protect me.

Look, I think they...

Okay?

[translating call into Italian]

[sirens blaring]

[sirens continue blaring]

[♪ tense music playing]

[gate creaking and clicking]

[footsteps approaching, echoing]

[♪ tense music continues playing]

[♪ fanfare playing]