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(WATER FLOWING)
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GARY BETZNER: Death...
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it's inevitable.
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There's a hole
you're coming out of,
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and there's a hole
you're gonna go in.
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♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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And nothing on the outside
is gonna be here forever.
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The stars, the sun,
everything's gonna burn out.
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Tombstone's gonna sink
in the ground.
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You know, nobody's ever
gonna know you were here.
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But, you know,
being dead is a--
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It's a liberating experience.
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♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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INTERVIEWER: What arethe upsidesto being dead?
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(CHUCKLES)
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♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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I wouldn't even get up
in the morning
if I couldn't make a million.
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(AIRPLANE ENGINE REVVING)
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GARY: Pretty soon it wastwo million, and three million,
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and then we got one trip a week
that was four million.
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Being a crop duster,
I had a natural knack
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for feeling and knowing
what my airplane could do.
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I love smuggling more
than anything I've ever done.
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I felt like it was a holy thing,
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a service to mankind. (CHUCKLES)
That's what it always felt like.
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I enjoyed all kinds
of illegal drugs.
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(CHUCKLES) You know?
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-(POLICE SIRENS WAILING)
-We are no longer willing
to tolerate illegal drugs
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-or the sellers.
-REPORTER 1: So once again,
the drug smugglers
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attempting another avenue
to try and outsmart...
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REPORTER 2:
...to try to prove thatthe war on drugs is working.
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GARY: They had to be illegal,because they were liberating
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to the minds and hearts of man.
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DAVID HASSELHOFF:
Illegal drugs are bad news.
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-Don't mess with them.
-MR T: I just want to shake
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some sense into you kids
that are using drugs
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or thinking about using.
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Just say no.
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(POLICE SIREN WAILING)
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GARY: I just didn't feelthat anyone had a right
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to interfere with anybody's
right to self-determination.
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The only way you can change
a law, a bad law...
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is to break it.
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♪ ("THE INVISIBLE PILOT"
THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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♪ (THEME MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
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GARY: September the 18th,1977...
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I faked my suicide
by jumping off a bridge...
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and they looked for my body
for about two weeks.
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Sally put on such a good act.
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♪ (ENIGMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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You know, making it out
to the West Coast was
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a beautiful,
beautiful adventure.
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And from that point on,
my life changed.
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(INDISTINCT CLAMORING)
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(SIGHS, LAUGHS)
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(LAUGHS)
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Do you know who touched
this flower? (GIGGLES)
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The Lord of the Universe.
(LAUGHS)
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♪ The Lord of the Universe ♪
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♪ Has come to us this day... ♪
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GARY: I foundthe most incredible teacher,
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my guru, Srin Pa Sin Rawan,
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Maharaji.
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He only talked about one thing
and one thing only,
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and that's the experience
of knowledge of the self...
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to have true peace in your life.
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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GARY: Back in those days,they almost had, like, a cult.
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It was almost-- (EXHALES)
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Man, it was like a religion
type of something.
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It was real beautiful.
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I know there's something more
about what I was looking for.
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I didn't know
what I was looking for.
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But if I knew
what I was looking for,
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then I wouldn't need to know
what I was looking for.
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And that's
what Maharaji shows us.
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The inner self.
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"The God inside,
the heaven inside" they call it.
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MAHARAJI:
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GARY: I'm not evena spiritual person.
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What the fuck?
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I'm a process person. (CHUCKLES)
You know what I mean?
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That opened everything up
for me. I was doing enemas
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with salt water,
down at the beach at night,
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and fasting, and I found
a place that was full of fruit,
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and so I'd go up
and I'd steal fruit at night.
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Eating nothing but fruit
for months,
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I went down to 135 pounds.
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And just tripping on mushrooms,
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and smoking weed and hanging out
and living every day.
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Planted some marijuana,
had some small plants coming up.
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I didn't know
what I was doing, but...
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(CHUCKLES)
...I was getting started.
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If it were left up to me,
I'd have been perfectly happy
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just being a hippie,
smoking weed every day,
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and growing a few plants.
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(WATER PIPE BUBBLES)
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(INHALES) Mm-hmm.
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(EXHALES)
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SALLY: That duality of livingour double life,
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it could be uncomfortable.
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-(BIRDS SQUAWKING)
-(BELL TOLLING)
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But then again, it was a game.
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I liked playing it. It was fun.
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It's like being a secret agent.
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It's like you never knew
what's around the next curve.
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The Sheriff's department
would come to our house.
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You know, the first week,
it was pretty regular,
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and then the longer it was,
the less they would come.
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They would ask me
the same question,
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and I would tell them
the same answer,
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to the point where they
didn't bother to come back again
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because my story didn't change.
(CHUCKLES)
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We just bided our time.
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(TELEPHONE RINGING)
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(TELEPHONE RINGING)
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(TELEPHONE RECEIVER CLACKING)
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GARY: In Arkansas,outside of Carlisle,
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there's a telephone booth.
And I would call my wife
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on a certain day
at a certain time.
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(CHUCKLES) And it was so funny,
I called that payphone collect
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and she would accept
the collect call,
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and the phone company
never knew.
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We talked for hours
on their dime. (CHUCKLES)
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And we'd make plans
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to see each other,
wherever he was.
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I never once told the kids
that he was still alive.
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I couldn't trust them
not to tell 'em.
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You know, they were kids.
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It was Thanksgiving...
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and my whole family went down
to Sheridan, Arkansas,
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dropped the kids off.
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Told them that I was going
to New Orleans to see King Tut.
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First time in America.
I hauled ass from Sheridan
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to New Orleans in record time...
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to get to the airport,
and I flew to L.A.
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Of course, all the time not
knowing if I'm being watched.
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Gary picks me up at the airport,
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throws a piece
of acid in my mouth. (CHUCKLES)
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We get in this
Volkswagen bus of his
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and start going north
on Highway 1.
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And we're just thinking of names
that we're gonna have.
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My favorite name
was Lucas, Lucas Noel.
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So I gotta get a last name now,
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I gotta find a cool last name.
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SALLY: Then all of a sudden,our headlights went straight
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to Harmony, California.
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♪ (DREAMY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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I said, "That's perfect.
That's my name right there."
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And so I name myself Harmony.
Lucas Noel Harmony.
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Lucas is light,
Noel's peace, and Harmony.
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Light, peace, and harmony.
(CHUCKLES)
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That was my hippie name, right?
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(CAR ENGINE REVVING)
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Well, I only stayed with him
for that long weekend.
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I had to go back to Arkansas
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to be with the kids
and act normal.
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And I started
preparing to leave.
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♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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TRAVIS: One day, mom goes,"We're moving to Kansas."
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That's what she said.
"We're going to Kansas!"
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(AIRPLANE ENGINE HUMS)
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TRAVIS: So we all got ona plane and flew to Kansas.
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We got out of the airport,
took a taxi to a house.
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There were people in this house.
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I didn't know them.
We went through the house.
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Went out the backyard,
and got in a taxi,
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and went back to the airport.
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And then we flew somewhere else
with different clothes on.
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When we landed next,
they put flowers on us.
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You know, when you get
off the plane. Leis. You know?
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(SCOFFS) You get lei'd.
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That right there was a big sign
to me, "This ain't Kansas."
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♪ (DISTORTED HAWAIIAN
MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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TRAVIS: We're sitting thereon this bench, and...
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this guy comes up
with a skinny-- with this beard.
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Kind of Charles Manson-looking,
you know?
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And he grabbed us,
and he's like... (CACKLES)
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(CACKLES)
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(CACKLES) And I--
Instantly, my mind goes,
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"My mom just sold us
to this guy."
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I looked in his eyes,
and looked at him, and I go,
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"Dad!" And he goes,
"No, no, no, no.
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Lucas, I'm Lucas." And I--
My whole universe changed, man.
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♪ (EMOTIONAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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And I'm like, "Wow, he's alive."
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Sara Lee's like, "He's alive."
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"Wow! This is my-- Wow!
My dad's somebody else.
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He came back from heaven."
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He was so different.
You can see pictures of him.
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He was not Gary, he's nothing
like he is now. I mean, nothing.
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He didn't talk that way,
he was skinny, he was a hippie.
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He was like something
out of Cheech and Chong,
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but not that stupid.
You know what I mean?
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When I found out he was alive,
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that was more intense
than when he died.
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I loved it!
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Those were the happiest years
of my life. I don't think--
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If I've ever been happy,
that was it.
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SARA LEE: My dad died in 1977.
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Lucas Harmony is another person
that raised me.
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Same person,
but two different people,
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because he acted in Hazen.
He played the part.
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I remember skipping down
a mountain in Hawaii,
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you know,
skipping down a lava road.
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We were skipping so fast
that we were almost flying.
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It's, like, one of my favorite
moments of my dad.
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I was happy.
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What a perfect time
to be on the run.
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POLLY: After my dad's suicide,
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that's when
I couldn't go anywhere
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without a night light.
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♪ (GLOOMY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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We all thought he was dead,
and I wanted to sleep
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right next to my mom.
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I mean, I was six.
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What I thought is,
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"Well, why didn't he want
to stay around for me?"
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Like, what was wrong with me?
Why did he want to kill himself?
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Did I do something wrong?
Was I not pretty enough?
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Was I not good enough?
Was I not smart enough?
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Like, what was wrong with me?
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It put a hole in my heart
of, like, "Who am I?"
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Was I not worth anything?
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You know, I just wanted,
like, my dad.
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SALLY: When we lived in Hawaii,the kids couldn't tell anybody,
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even any of their friends,
that we were from Arkansas.
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You know,
tell them we're from Texas,
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'cause you couldn't hide
the Southern accent.
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TRAVIS: We ate everythingoff the land,
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we ran around naked
all the time.
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It was awesome! It was like
I literally lived in paradise.
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It was the most magical thing
in the world.
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♪ (TROPICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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SALLY: We had been growing pot.
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We had these strings hanging up,
maybe four or five of them,
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with these big, long buds.
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At six o'clock, one morning,
I heard the door knock,
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I looked out and saw the cops.
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We had a sign on our property.
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It was like,
"Take off your clothes
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and come in."
Because we were nudists.
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They came in, and they said,
"Come down, come down."
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So I just said, "Okay."
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I came down those stairs,
naked as a jaybird. (CHUCKLES)
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Naked as a jaybird.
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Naked as a jaybird
and as proud as a princess.
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(CHUCKLES) In front
of all those Hawaiian cops.
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I was not gonna let them
intimidate me.
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And she walked out there,
and she says,
with her hands on her hips,
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"Well? Now,
what do you boys want?"
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"Well, we got information
that you are growing marijuana
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up here, ma'am,
on this property."
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(CHUCKLES) They allowed me
to get my clothes on
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before they put the handcuffs
on me. (CHUCKLES)
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♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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GARY: So, they took us to town,
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they booked us
and fingerprinted us.
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The cop walked in, he said,
"What's this right here?"
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These guys didn't just fall off
a turnip truck.
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They knew about acid.
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I just reached over
and picked one up, and--
(SMACKS LIPS)
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Picked another one up.
(SMACKS LIPS)
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Picked another one up. (LAUGHS)
I got 'em out of his hand
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and put all three
in my mouth like that.
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He said...
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He looked at me. He knew
what I'd done, you know?
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He says. "Whoa!" (LAUGHS)
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I didn't know
if they were going to...
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get those fingerprints
and find out who I was,
you know?
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I decided, "Well,
we better leave here."
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You know,
"We can't take a chance."
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SALLY:
And it was just a misdemeanor,
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but he was on the run.
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So we had to leave
the island then.
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TRAVIS: It was a real bummerwhen we had to leave, for me.
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I just wanted to stay there.
I mean, shit,
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I wanted to grow up and learn
how to surf or something,
like you said, you know?
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I was like, "Yeah!"
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GARY: So I said,"Look, you go back to Arkansas.
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The kids need to go to school."
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They hadn't been home in years.
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"And I'm gonna go
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and do whatever I got to do
to get it together
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for you and the kids
to come back."
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I'm broke, I don't have a penny.
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But then Maharaji just called
and said, "They want you to come
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to Miami
and work on his airplane."
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Holy shit.
You know? I mean, really?
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So, anyway, I went to work
rebuilding a 707.
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I think I got paid, like,
a hundred dollars a week.
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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I was following Maharaji,
all over Europe, South America,
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United States.
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Lucas and I met
at Miami International.
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He came and asked me if I knew
anybody who needed a pilot
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to fly on a mission.
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And I said, "Well, yeah,
I think I do." (CHUCKLES)
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(AIRPLANE ENGINE HUMS)
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RAVEN: I put him in touchwith a couple of friends,
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and from that point,
I flew with Luke.
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♪ (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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GARY: My first tripwas associated
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with these entrepreneurs
from Atlanta, Georgia.
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Just kids in their twenties.
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GARY: I did several other tripsafter that.
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(AIRPLANE ENGINES HUMMING)
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That's when I decided I would do
whatever I could
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to make sure
that drugs were available
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to anybody who wanted it.
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RAVEN: Gary flies like a dragon.I don't recall one single time
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where there weren't spins
or rolls.
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(CHUCKLES)
We were all over the sky.
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GARY: Being inthe smuggling business,
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to me, it was a very
satisfying service.
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It wasn't because of the money
I was making.
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It was because of what
I was doing.
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(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
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The DEA was everywhere.
They always have been.
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-(POLICE SIREN WAILING)
-(OFFICERS SHOUTING
INDISTINCTLY)
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We've got a real invasion.
It's active, it's every day,
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and we need to stop them.
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GARY: I never really worriedabout getting caught.
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I guess that's typical.
Most criminals,
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they don't think
they're ever gonna get caught.
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Being a crop duster
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was the best training
in the world for that work.
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Carrying heavy loads
over unimproved air strips,
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in all kinds
of weather conditions.
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Plus, I did four years
in the Navy.
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I knew just about everything
there was about radar,
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and how to evade a radar.
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I even built
a little radar detector
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I could hold in my hand,
and find out where the radar
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is the strongest
so you can navigate through it.
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We'd be flying and you would see
DEA just looking, physically.
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GARY: I always couldget right on the water.
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And I know they can't see
down on the water,
like I get on the water.
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And now you fucked them all up,
and they got to start all over
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because you didn't go
where they expected you to go.
(CHUCKLES)
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-(AIRPLANE ENGINE HUMS)
-(POLICE SIREN WAILING)
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00:18:02,959 --> 00:18:05,000
RONALD REAGAN:
What kind of people are we
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if we continue
to tolerate in our midst
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an invisible, lawless empire?
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00:18:10,542 --> 00:18:12,959
REPORTER: President Reaganis promising to open a new front
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-in the on war on drugs.
-...took in its war on drugs.
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...the war on drugs.
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If you are gonna have a war,
you have to have opposition.
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(CASH REGISTER DINGS)
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-(POLICE SIREN WAILING)
-(DOGS BARKING)
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I was on the other side.
That's the way I looked at it.
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(AIRPLANE ENGINE HUMS)
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♪ (ROCK MUSIC FADES) ♪
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SALLY: After living in Hawaii,going back to Hazen,
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I just was in
a totally different world.
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♪ (GLOOMY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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I just told everybody
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that I was trying
to live somewhere else,
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and start
a new life there and...
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Just didn't work out.
(CHUCKLES)
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Hazen was not the place
I wanted to be, ever.
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Then you always felt, you know,
they look at you different.
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You know, it was a dual life
for a long time.
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Normal life with the kids
and the school, and then
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be in love with a smuggler.
It gets complicated,
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and your mind
has to switch gears.
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I learned to lie
at an early age.
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It could be him
faking his death,
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and then me being told
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not to crack
or tell anyone he's alive.
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I mean, 'cause think about it.
As a five-year-old,
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grasping that if I told people
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my dad was alive,
we were gonna get taken away
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and go to prison, you know?
I was going to be taken
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from my parents
and they would go to prison
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if I told them somebody
he was alive.
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That's some heavy shit
to lay on a little kid.
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But I liked it. Like it's some
kind of espionage, you know?
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It felt good to
not tell anybody he was alive,
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and I knew it
and nobody else knew it.
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It was something I had
over everyone else.
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He was my secret. My power.
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GARY: Most peoplethat become drug smugglers
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make one or two trips,
make enough cash
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to get in business,
and go do something else.
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But I'd lost my family.
I'd lost-- Actually, I was dead.
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And I didn't have responsibility
to anybody,
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so it didn't bother me
to, you know, go every day.
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♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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00:20:23,083 --> 00:20:24,209
(AIRPLANE ENGINE HUMS)
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Luke pushes the envelope
beyond anybody's way
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of doing it
that I have ever known.
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I had 20 or 30 hours
of private flying experience
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when Luke and I met.
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Then I really learned to fly.
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(AIRPLANE ENGINE HUMS)
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RAVEN: As a co-pilot,
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I had to toss
the bales out into the ocean
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where our boat people would come
and swoop 'em up.
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GARY: I really love weed.
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'Cause the more weed
I can bring in,
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00:21:00,375 --> 00:21:02,334
the more the possibility
of enlightenment
403
00:21:02,417 --> 00:21:04,125
and peace on Earth, you know?
(CHUCKLES)
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00:21:04,209 --> 00:21:07,292
That was
my spiritual contribution.
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00:21:07,375 --> 00:21:10,167
I would have continued
to be in the marijuana business,
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00:21:10,250 --> 00:21:13,000
but the DEA screwed that up.
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00:21:13,083 --> 00:21:16,500
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
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ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM SMITH:
Today, I am announcing
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the most successful
international marijuana
interdiction effort to date,
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codenamed Operation Tiburon.
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Operation Tiburon busted
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practically all the weed
in Colombia.
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REPORTER: Federal officialstoday talked up
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their latest big drug bust...
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ATTORNEY GENERAL SMITH:
One of the mostimportant steps ever taken
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against the narcotics problem.
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00:21:46,209 --> 00:21:48,709
REAGAN: The results of ourtask force have been dramatic.
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Drug-related arrests are up
over 40 percent.
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The amount of marijuana seized
is up about 80 percent.
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RUDY GIULIANI:
This program will allow us,for the very first time
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in the history of the Drug
Enforcement Administration,
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to increase the number
of agents, federal agents,
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who actually do drug work.
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00:22:04,918 --> 00:22:08,209
GARY: Ten ships,and 50 airplanes and 500 people.
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00:22:08,292 --> 00:22:10,000
Everything got shut down
in Colombia.
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REAGAN:
We're hurting the traffickers.
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00:22:12,250 --> 00:22:14,459
It's true that when
we close off one place,
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they can move somewhere else.
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00:22:16,334 --> 00:22:18,334
But one thing is different now.
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00:22:18,417 --> 00:22:20,125
We're going to be waiting
for them.
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♪ (TENSE MUSIC FADES) ♪
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(BALE THUDS)
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♪ (PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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RAVEN: At times,we would fly out,
435
00:22:32,083 --> 00:22:34,709
and then come back
into the islands,
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00:22:34,792 --> 00:22:39,125
and things wouldn't be
as we had "anticipated."
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00:22:40,751 --> 00:22:45,667
So we would have to land
somewhere else and deal with it.
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00:22:47,709 --> 00:22:50,375
GARY:
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00:22:50,459 --> 00:22:51,876
(AIRPLANE ENGINE SPUTTERING)
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00:22:55,292 --> 00:22:57,292
But if you're 500 miles
out there,
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00:22:57,375 --> 00:22:59,083
you're probably
not gonna survive.
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00:22:59,167 --> 00:23:00,500
(ENGINE STRUGGLING)
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00:23:00,584 --> 00:23:04,209
GARY:
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00:23:06,042 --> 00:23:08,500
You become really,
really focused in the moment.
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00:23:09,542 --> 00:23:11,292
Everything becomes real still.
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00:23:12,792 --> 00:23:14,876
I said, "Fuck it, man."
I pulled the nose up,
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00:23:14,959 --> 00:23:17,792
I full-throttled it.
(IMITATES ENGINE HUM)
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00:23:17,876 --> 00:23:20,125
Turned over like this, you know,
and I pull the power off,
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00:23:20,209 --> 00:23:21,709
and I dive for the ground.
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00:23:21,792 --> 00:23:23,375
I mean, I was coming in
just like this.
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00:23:23,459 --> 00:23:26,459
And just when I had enough
air speed, I sucked it back...
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(IMITATES TIRES SCREECHING)
Right on into the runway.
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♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
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GARY:
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00:23:41,584 --> 00:23:42,834
That's when I met George.
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00:23:44,542 --> 00:23:46,876
George Morales.
He's from Bogotá.
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00:23:46,959 --> 00:23:48,959
He became, like,
the world's champion
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00:23:49,042 --> 00:23:50,959
offshore boat racer.
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00:23:51,042 --> 00:23:53,209
(SPEEDBOAT ENGINE ROARING)
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00:23:53,292 --> 00:23:54,667
REPORTER:
Two-time world champion
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and Miami-New York
record holder, George Morales.
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00:23:57,584 --> 00:23:58,667
(CROWD CHEERING)
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00:23:58,751 --> 00:24:01,918
We have a 90 percent chance
that we're going back,
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00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,292
racing again to just lay down
another record.
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GARY: He drove a Mercedes,he wore fancy jewelry,
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00:24:11,375 --> 00:24:14,626
very expensive clothes.
He was a straight-up criminal.
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00:24:15,626 --> 00:24:17,042
I had a lot of respect for him.
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00:24:17,125 --> 00:24:19,709
He was dealing cocaine
big-time, marijuana big-time.
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00:24:19,792 --> 00:24:22,417
(CHUCKLES) And smuggling, too.
You know what I mean?
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00:24:22,500 --> 00:24:25,876
He took me over to his house,
and we hit it off pretty good.
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00:24:25,959 --> 00:24:29,500
I told him, "I lost my load here
and I'd like to get it back,
if you could help me."
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00:24:29,584 --> 00:24:31,417
Said he couldn't.
It was already gone,
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00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:34,500
nothing he could do about it.
And he asked if I, uh...
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00:24:34,584 --> 00:24:36,584
wanted to fly for him.
I said, "For sure."
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00:24:46,209 --> 00:24:47,584
That was a lot of cocaine.
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00:24:47,667 --> 00:24:49,584
Just for George himself,
probably 50 trips.
477
00:24:50,500 --> 00:24:51,959
A good policy is...
478
00:24:53,375 --> 00:24:55,000
learn how to become invisible.
479
00:24:56,709 --> 00:24:59,417
I had five passports
in different lock boxes
480
00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:01,000
-in different banks.
-(SIRENS WAILING)
481
00:25:01,083 --> 00:25:02,709
If I'd get a bunch
of speeding tickets
482
00:25:02,792 --> 00:25:05,000
and, you know, have a lot
of problems, I'd just
483
00:25:05,083 --> 00:25:06,751
put one of them back
in the lockbox
484
00:25:06,834 --> 00:25:07,918
and get a new one out,
485
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,709
and whoever I had
in my pocket, that's who I was.
486
00:25:12,751 --> 00:25:15,292
Bernie Tomlinson
from Lonoke, Arkansas.
487
00:25:15,375 --> 00:25:18,417
He was my best friend.
He got killed in a plane crash,
488
00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:21,584
and his wife gave me
his birth certificate.
489
00:25:21,667 --> 00:25:24,417
And then my brother-in-law,
Travis Leander Mathews,
490
00:25:24,500 --> 00:25:28,292
he passed away, so I assumed
his identity and passport.
491
00:25:28,375 --> 00:25:30,626
Henderson.
I think it was Jeff Henderson.
492
00:25:30,709 --> 00:25:33,500
Not many people knew me
under that name.
493
00:25:33,584 --> 00:25:36,834
Steven Gregory Pope,
he was a chiropractor.
494
00:25:38,125 --> 00:25:41,042
(BONES CRACKING)
495
00:25:41,125 --> 00:25:43,334
INTERVIEWER: How'd you become
a chiropractor?
496
00:25:43,417 --> 00:25:45,500
-Practice.
-(INTERVIEWER CHUCKLES)
497
00:25:45,959 --> 00:25:47,042
(NECK CRACKS)
498
00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:52,292
GARY: I rather enjoyedthe cocaine smuggling.
499
00:25:52,375 --> 00:25:55,709
You can make so much more money
without making that much effort.
500
00:25:56,417 --> 00:25:58,209
We got paid 4,000 a kilo,
501
00:25:58,292 --> 00:25:59,626
and with
that particular airplane,
502
00:25:59,709 --> 00:26:00,834
I'd bring up 300 kilos,
503
00:26:00,918 --> 00:26:03,334
so that's one and a quarter
million dollars.
504
00:26:03,417 --> 00:26:05,667
I went to a bigger plane
that hauled 500 kilos,
505
00:26:05,751 --> 00:26:09,250
and so we'd make two million
dollars on a trip. (CHUCKLES)
506
00:26:09,334 --> 00:26:11,459
So I set up this trust fund.
507
00:26:11,542 --> 00:26:13,751
I thought if I died
that this trust fund
508
00:26:13,834 --> 00:26:15,125
would be there for my kids.
509
00:26:17,959 --> 00:26:22,417
I started working for Lucas
about 1981.
510
00:26:22,500 --> 00:26:24,500
INTERVIEWER: You don't
really know him as Gary.
511
00:26:24,584 --> 00:26:26,250
ED BERRY: No,I don't know him as Gary.
512
00:26:26,334 --> 00:26:27,918
I met him as Lucas Harmony.
513
00:26:29,709 --> 00:26:32,959
All of us were smoking dope.
And he would say to me, "Ed,
514
00:26:33,042 --> 00:26:34,584
you're one of
the few guys I know
515
00:26:34,667 --> 00:26:37,042
that can get stoned
and still get something done."
516
00:26:37,125 --> 00:26:38,751
He goes,
"Ed, I want to hire you."
517
00:26:39,542 --> 00:26:40,667
I did everything.
518
00:26:40,751 --> 00:26:43,209
I kept his refrigerators full,
paid all the bills,
519
00:26:43,292 --> 00:26:44,876
washed his cars,
I did the yard work.
520
00:26:44,959 --> 00:26:47,083
Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday, I made him
521
00:26:47,167 --> 00:26:50,459
four quarts of carrot juice
and two quarts of apple juice.
522
00:26:50,542 --> 00:26:52,292
They'd hire maids,
but they liked
523
00:26:52,375 --> 00:26:53,834
how I vacuumed the carpets.
524
00:26:53,918 --> 00:26:56,417
I was basically
an estate manager for him,
525
00:26:56,500 --> 00:26:58,626
but I knew what was going on.
526
00:26:58,709 --> 00:27:02,375
And, uh...
it was rather interesting.
527
00:27:02,459 --> 00:27:04,834
(BIRDS CALLING)
528
00:27:06,209 --> 00:27:08,751
ED: Lucas bought a housein Coconut Grove.
529
00:27:08,834 --> 00:27:13,709
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
530
00:27:13,792 --> 00:27:15,709
ED: It wasn't anything fancy,
531
00:27:15,792 --> 00:27:18,375
it was just kind of
a regular house.
532
00:27:18,459 --> 00:27:21,751
But because so much money
was being made by Lucas
533
00:27:21,834 --> 00:27:25,542
and so much cocaine
was going through,
534
00:27:25,626 --> 00:27:28,542
he wanted
some secret hiding places.
535
00:27:28,626 --> 00:27:32,375
There would be money in there,
there could be cocaine in there.
536
00:27:32,459 --> 00:27:36,167
In the living room, I found
20,000 dollars in 20s.
537
00:27:36,250 --> 00:27:37,959
He probably
never would've noticed
538
00:27:38,042 --> 00:27:40,709
he lost 20,000 dollars.
539
00:27:40,792 --> 00:27:44,125
GARY: We'd count money untilour hands were just filthy.
540
00:27:44,209 --> 00:27:46,751
You know?
Ch-ch-ch-ch. (CHUCKLES)
541
00:27:46,834 --> 00:27:49,125
Just filthy, from the money.
542
00:27:49,709 --> 00:27:50,792
(INHALES)
543
00:27:52,417 --> 00:27:53,626
GARY: I tell you what.
544
00:27:53,709 --> 00:27:55,542
I think money is harder
to hold on to
545
00:27:55,626 --> 00:27:57,500
than most people realize.
546
00:27:57,584 --> 00:28:00,250
A lot of people make money.
It's easy to make money.
547
00:28:00,334 --> 00:28:02,250
But it's hard to hold on to.
548
00:28:02,334 --> 00:28:05,250
-(CROWD LAUGHING)
-(SNIFFING)
549
00:28:07,125 --> 00:28:10,751
He had a lot of sex,
and I-- in my opinion,
550
00:28:10,834 --> 00:28:14,209
I think Lucas had a lot
of sex because, you know,
551
00:28:14,292 --> 00:28:18,125
once you cum,
it puts you in a euphoric state.
552
00:28:18,209 --> 00:28:20,584
I was sitting there one time
at 2:00 in the morning,
553
00:28:20,667 --> 00:28:23,042
and this guy comes down.
554
00:28:23,125 --> 00:28:25,083
The only thing he was wearing
was a bandana
555
00:28:25,167 --> 00:28:27,667
with a big feather
sticking out of the bandana.
556
00:28:27,751 --> 00:28:30,292
And he says,
"I'm from the dog star, Sirius."
557
00:28:30,375 --> 00:28:31,542
(CHUCKLES)
558
00:28:31,626 --> 00:28:34,167
He goes, "Oh, by the way,
Lucas wants to talk to you."
559
00:28:34,250 --> 00:28:37,459
So I go up to the second floor,
where there were some bedrooms.
560
00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:41,125
And this guy's wife
is riding Lucas
561
00:28:41,209 --> 00:28:44,125
and they're having anal sex,
and Lucas goes,
562
00:28:44,209 --> 00:28:46,417
"I need you to go
to the store and get this."
563
00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:49,250
And the woman
that was riding him
564
00:28:49,334 --> 00:28:51,209
turns around and goes,
"Hi, I'm Susan."
565
00:28:53,083 --> 00:28:54,417
A couple of years later,
566
00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:58,000
she ended up being
my mother-in-law. (LAUGHS)
567
00:29:01,167 --> 00:29:02,417
RAVEN: When the shift came,
568
00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:04,459
and they were gonna start
carrying powder,
569
00:29:04,542 --> 00:29:06,792
I said, "Nope.
I've seen this movie,
570
00:29:06,876 --> 00:29:09,000
and I'm not in it." (LAUGHS)
571
00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:14,250
When you start dealing
with that kind of money,
572
00:29:14,334 --> 00:29:17,167
you add six zeros
to everything
573
00:29:17,250 --> 00:29:20,083
that we were involved with
carrying the herb.
574
00:29:20,167 --> 00:29:21,417
People act different.
575
00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:25,459
They carry guns,
and they do stupid, stupid shit.
576
00:29:28,626 --> 00:29:30,834
GARY: Raven Walkeris a special type of person,
577
00:29:30,918 --> 00:29:32,626
and I love him dearly.
578
00:29:33,459 --> 00:29:35,042
He went with me
in places that...
579
00:29:36,042 --> 00:29:37,626
no one else would ever go.
580
00:29:38,834 --> 00:29:41,626
It was a sad day
when Raven quit,
581
00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:44,167
but I respected his decision.
582
00:29:45,584 --> 00:29:48,751
He knew what was at stake.
583
00:29:48,834 --> 00:29:52,751
Most everyone that was involved
with carrying cocaine
584
00:29:52,834 --> 00:29:55,125
either wound up dead
or in prison.
585
00:29:56,209 --> 00:29:58,375
GARY: I only didtwo trips myself,
586
00:29:58,459 --> 00:30:00,250
and then I hired a copilot.
587
00:30:01,459 --> 00:30:02,709
Richard Heely.
588
00:30:02,792 --> 00:30:05,876
Richard was a heavyset guy,
weighed about 300 pounds.
589
00:30:05,959 --> 00:30:08,542
It was a small airplane.
And he'd get in that airplane,
590
00:30:08,626 --> 00:30:12,667
and he'd fill up
the whole front seat. (LAUGHS)
591
00:30:12,751 --> 00:30:15,167
And he could never pull
the yoke back very far
592
00:30:15,250 --> 00:30:16,459
'cause his belly way out here,
593
00:30:16,542 --> 00:30:18,292
he'd have to scoot
the seat way back.
594
00:30:18,375 --> 00:30:20,209
But he was a good pilot,
really was.
595
00:30:23,876 --> 00:30:26,417
CRAIG HODGES: Gary becamean international drug smuggler,
596
00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:29,209
and he had made
millions and millions
and millions of dollars.
597
00:30:30,876 --> 00:30:33,751
But his daughter Polly
and his ex-wife
598
00:30:33,834 --> 00:30:35,834
thought he was dead
the whole time.
599
00:30:38,959 --> 00:30:40,959
POLLY: My mom was a widow.My dad was dead.
600
00:30:41,042 --> 00:30:44,042
She was a single mom.
She would pick me up from school
601
00:30:44,125 --> 00:30:47,375
and we'd go to Wendy's
like two or three days a week.
602
00:30:47,459 --> 00:30:49,751
Ordered our single cheeseburger,
just mustard,
603
00:30:49,834 --> 00:30:52,125
'cause that's what
I always get at Wendy's.
604
00:30:52,209 --> 00:30:54,417
And these guys
were sitting next to us,
605
00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:56,626
they were dressed, like,
in suits at Wendy's.
606
00:30:57,959 --> 00:31:00,959
They struck up a conversation
'cause I was coughing.
607
00:31:01,042 --> 00:31:03,125
"Oh, how long has
your daughter been sick?"
608
00:31:03,209 --> 00:31:04,459
"Oh, is your daughter okay?"
609
00:31:04,542 --> 00:31:06,042
And they just kept
asking questions.
610
00:31:06,125 --> 00:31:07,250
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
611
00:31:07,334 --> 00:31:09,292
And I was like,
"I'm gonna be okay."
612
00:31:09,375 --> 00:31:11,125
I just thought it was
some, like, nice people
613
00:31:11,209 --> 00:31:14,834
worried about this poor sick kid
at Wendy's, you know?
614
00:31:14,918 --> 00:31:18,375
Back then, I was like, "Well,
they look different," you know?
615
00:31:21,667 --> 00:31:22,751
(SLURPING)
616
00:31:22,834 --> 00:31:24,792
Well, now I know
they looked Colombian.
617
00:31:24,876 --> 00:31:29,292
(COMMENTATOR SPEAKING SPANISH
OVER LOUDSPEAKER)
618
00:31:29,375 --> 00:31:32,626
GARY: I met Pablo Escobardown in Colombia.
619
00:31:32,709 --> 00:31:35,626
He used to be the one who'd
be there in the helicopter
620
00:31:35,709 --> 00:31:37,751
while I was loading my plane.
621
00:31:37,834 --> 00:31:39,250
We liked each other right away,
622
00:31:39,334 --> 00:31:42,417
and we struck up
a friendly bond.
623
00:31:43,375 --> 00:31:46,751
(IN SPANISH)
624
00:31:46,834 --> 00:31:48,000
-Muchas gracias.
-(CROWD APPLAUDS)
625
00:31:48,083 --> 00:31:49,918
GARY: He's a legend,and rightly so.
626
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,250
I would hope that his praises,
not only as a smuggler,
627
00:31:53,334 --> 00:31:54,417
but as a human being,
628
00:31:54,500 --> 00:31:56,459
would be sung, you know?
629
00:31:56,542 --> 00:32:00,000
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-(CROWD APPLAUDING)
630
00:32:00,083 --> 00:32:02,167
GARY: I even bought an airplaneone time for him.
631
00:32:04,417 --> 00:32:06,792
One day he just looked at me,
and he says...
632
00:32:06,876 --> 00:32:10,000
he knew where I was from,
my children,
633
00:32:10,792 --> 00:32:12,250
that I committed suicide.
634
00:32:13,292 --> 00:32:14,459
INTERVIEWER:
635
00:32:14,542 --> 00:32:16,500
GARY: No, I didn't tell himanything, I mean...
636
00:32:16,584 --> 00:32:19,209
apparently he had hired
somebody up here
637
00:32:19,292 --> 00:32:20,334
to investigate who I was.
638
00:32:20,417 --> 00:32:22,292
-(CROWD CHEERING)
-GARY: It's like insurance.
639
00:32:22,375 --> 00:32:25,083
I mean, you buy insurance
to cover your ass, right?
640
00:32:25,167 --> 00:32:26,459
So he knew my family,
641
00:32:26,542 --> 00:32:30,417
and he very definitely knew
about Sally and Claudia.
642
00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:31,918
If he didn't know
everything about you,
643
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,125
there was no way
you were gonna know him.
644
00:32:35,667 --> 00:32:38,125
-POLLY: A week after Wendy's...
-(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
645
00:32:38,209 --> 00:32:39,959
...the Colombians showed up
at our house.
646
00:32:42,250 --> 00:32:44,417
One time somebody came
and knocked on our door
647
00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:46,667
and wanted to take a picture
of me and Polly.
648
00:32:46,751 --> 00:32:48,167
POLLY:
My mom was standing, like,
649
00:32:48,250 --> 00:32:50,459
looking at these guys,
like, "Who are you?"
650
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,626
Right after that is when
she started sleeping with a gun
651
00:32:54,709 --> 00:32:55,834
under her pillow.
652
00:32:57,459 --> 00:33:00,250
GARY: I know that Pablochecked on my family
653
00:33:00,334 --> 00:33:02,292
because they took pictures
654
00:33:02,375 --> 00:33:03,918
and brought the photographs
back to me.
655
00:33:05,250 --> 00:33:06,292
I got the message.
656
00:33:07,584 --> 00:33:09,042
It was necessary for him to know
657
00:33:09,125 --> 00:33:11,167
what I had in the world
that I valued.
658
00:33:12,542 --> 00:33:13,751
I was totally okay with that
659
00:33:13,834 --> 00:33:16,959
because there was no way
I was ever gonna cross him.
660
00:33:17,042 --> 00:33:20,292
(REPORTERS CLAMORING IN SPANISH)
661
00:33:22,542 --> 00:33:25,584
(BIRDS TWITTERING)
662
00:33:25,667 --> 00:33:28,000
I wanted to move over here
to Florida.
663
00:33:30,167 --> 00:33:32,584
My dad had a house
in Coconut Grove here,
664
00:33:32,667 --> 00:33:33,792
a really nice house.
665
00:33:34,709 --> 00:33:36,334
A lot of weird stuff
happened there.
666
00:33:40,250 --> 00:33:42,667
One summer, we spent
the whole summer with him
667
00:33:42,751 --> 00:33:45,000
in Florida.
668
00:33:45,083 --> 00:33:48,834
He lived like,
as I remember, as Scarface.
669
00:33:48,918 --> 00:33:51,083
You walk in, it's white carpet,
you walk downstairs,
670
00:33:51,167 --> 00:33:54,083
it's this huge room
with a couch, all white.
671
00:33:54,167 --> 00:33:57,751
All white. TV screens so you
could see who was outside.
672
00:33:57,834 --> 00:33:59,375
And my dad
hands me carrot juice.
673
00:33:59,459 --> 00:34:01,876
Said, "Don't spill it."
(LAUGHS)
674
00:34:01,959 --> 00:34:03,167
He was happy as fuck,
675
00:34:03,250 --> 00:34:05,167
but he was high as hell,
you know?
676
00:34:07,792 --> 00:34:11,959
SALLY: Gary met this chick,and he was all in for,
677
00:34:12,042 --> 00:34:14,542
"It's gonna be a threesome,
and we're gonna be in love,
678
00:34:14,626 --> 00:34:16,584
and it's gonna be
a wonderful life."
679
00:34:17,292 --> 00:34:18,792
Being in love with Gary,
680
00:34:18,876 --> 00:34:21,334
I said, "Okay,
I'll go along with this."
681
00:34:21,417 --> 00:34:24,792
I thought the whole family
was gonna be together,
682
00:34:24,876 --> 00:34:28,083
but he was with this queen bee.
683
00:34:28,167 --> 00:34:30,751
And they got the master suite,
684
00:34:30,834 --> 00:34:35,000
and the kids and I
got the lower, small bedrooms.
685
00:34:35,083 --> 00:34:37,375
(LAUGHING) I'm going,
"You son of a gun."
686
00:34:37,459 --> 00:34:40,918
(LAUGHS) "Thank you so much."
687
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,626
He was such a-- oh, my God,
so full of himself then.
688
00:34:49,375 --> 00:34:51,083
From then, on it was...
689
00:34:53,459 --> 00:34:55,500
I-- I-- He left.
690
00:34:55,584 --> 00:34:57,083
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
691
00:34:59,083 --> 00:35:01,167
SALLY:
He's just pissing away money,
692
00:35:01,250 --> 00:35:02,584
flying all over.
693
00:35:03,709 --> 00:35:05,375
GARY: I was in New Yorkat Tiffany's.
694
00:35:05,459 --> 00:35:08,417
I bought a gold Rolex,
cost like 12,000.
695
00:35:08,500 --> 00:35:09,918
One time, we went to Paris.
696
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,459
We took like
a quarter million over with us.
697
00:35:11,542 --> 00:35:13,000
We had to spend it
before we came back.
698
00:35:13,083 --> 00:35:14,834
Hundred thousand dollars' worth
of Bulgari.
699
00:35:14,918 --> 00:35:17,792
I played a card game
with Graham Nash
700
00:35:17,876 --> 00:35:19,375
from Crosby, Stills & Nash.
701
00:35:19,459 --> 00:35:21,209
Thirty million will buy
a lot of friends.
702
00:35:22,042 --> 00:35:23,709
(CHUCKLES)
You know what I mean?
703
00:35:26,459 --> 00:35:30,626
He just left me right there,
took off on an adventure,
704
00:35:30,709 --> 00:35:34,876
met all these people,
and I'm home with two kids.
705
00:35:37,584 --> 00:35:39,250
TRAVIS: I worried about him,man, you know?
706
00:35:39,334 --> 00:35:40,959
Because Lucas...
707
00:35:42,292 --> 00:35:43,334
um...
708
00:35:43,417 --> 00:35:45,334
he was real coked up a lot,
you know?
709
00:35:46,542 --> 00:35:48,083
I guess I was a little
disappointed with Lucas.
710
00:35:48,167 --> 00:35:50,876
But Lucas was also--
Lucas deteriorated,
711
00:35:50,959 --> 00:35:53,083
and I think he kinda died
in Florida.
712
00:35:57,250 --> 00:36:00,000
GARY: Well, a few monthsafter I met George,
713
00:36:00,083 --> 00:36:02,083
George called me
and I went over to the hangar.
714
00:36:04,375 --> 00:36:06,542
Richard, my copilot, was there.
715
00:36:09,918 --> 00:36:11,834
There was this guy standing
at the hangar.
716
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,417
And he called me by my name,
my real name.
717
00:36:19,375 --> 00:36:22,083
No one knew my real name,
I never, never used that.
718
00:36:24,334 --> 00:36:26,334
He said, "Hey,
Gary Betzner, huh?"
719
00:36:28,167 --> 00:36:29,292
It was scary as hell.
720
00:36:30,626 --> 00:36:32,876
He knew information
about my whole life
721
00:36:32,959 --> 00:36:34,876
that I never given anybody.
722
00:36:34,959 --> 00:36:37,834
Where I came from, what I did,
and what kind of citizen I was.
723
00:36:37,918 --> 00:36:41,542
Somehow they must've gotten
my prints and run it.
724
00:36:41,626 --> 00:36:45,000
He said I was looking at being
in prison for a long time.
725
00:36:45,083 --> 00:36:48,042
When that happened,
I confronted him right there.
726
00:36:48,125 --> 00:36:49,918
I confronted him right there
in front of Richard.
727
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,125
"Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa,"
you know?
728
00:36:53,375 --> 00:36:54,334
What the fuck?
729
00:36:54,417 --> 00:36:56,876
I mean, they showed me
credentials. (CHUCKLES)
730
00:36:57,876 --> 00:36:59,542
CIA.
731
00:36:59,626 --> 00:37:01,959
And he said, "You're gonna work
for us from now on."
732
00:37:02,042 --> 00:37:03,626
I couldn't very well walk off
and say,
733
00:37:03,709 --> 00:37:05,125
"Hey, fuck you,"
you know what I mean?
734
00:37:05,209 --> 00:37:08,125
Because they already had me.
George knew him,
735
00:37:08,209 --> 00:37:10,417
so that's how I got involved
in it, I guess.
736
00:37:11,834 --> 00:37:14,542
It was a no-win deal
that you had to make.
737
00:37:14,626 --> 00:37:17,918
And that's when I went to George
and I was kind of scared.
738
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,584
And he said, "Oh, no, no, no.
Everything will be okay."
739
00:37:25,834 --> 00:37:28,292
I said, "Okay, what is it?"
740
00:37:30,334 --> 00:37:32,500
He gave me a long package,
a round package
741
00:37:32,584 --> 00:37:33,834
with a map in it.
742
00:37:33,918 --> 00:37:36,500
He gave us orders to go
to Boca Chica Naval Air Station
743
00:37:36,584 --> 00:37:38,000
in the Keys.
744
00:37:38,083 --> 00:37:39,500
"Someone will meet you there,
745
00:37:39,584 --> 00:37:42,167
and then they'll tell you what
you're supposed to do."
746
00:37:48,083 --> 00:37:50,000
You don't go landing
on military bases
747
00:37:50,083 --> 00:37:51,626
without authorization.
748
00:37:51,709 --> 00:37:54,083
-I was pretty impressed by that.
-(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT
ON LOUDSPEAKER)
749
00:37:54,167 --> 00:37:56,042
GARY: Richard and I went there,and I met the guy.
750
00:37:56,125 --> 00:37:58,167
Loaded the plane
with a couple of boxes
751
00:37:58,250 --> 00:37:59,876
and stacked them up front,
752
00:37:59,959 --> 00:38:01,792
put the cargo nets on them
and everything.
753
00:38:03,751 --> 00:38:07,584
Most pilots never even gave it
a second thought, you know?
754
00:38:07,667 --> 00:38:09,918
But I alwayschecked my load. (CHUCKLES)
755
00:38:11,667 --> 00:38:13,584
I had five ship mines
756
00:38:13,667 --> 00:38:16,292
and probably
a hundred grenade launchers.
757
00:38:21,334 --> 00:38:23,292
We took off,
and on the way down there,
758
00:38:23,375 --> 00:38:25,042
I took the map out,
I looked at it.
759
00:38:25,125 --> 00:38:27,042
It was a harbor in Nicaragua.
760
00:38:28,918 --> 00:38:30,542
REPORTER: The fightingin Nicaragua,
761
00:38:30,626 --> 00:38:32,918
is it counter-revolution,
civil war?
762
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,876
The current fighting
in Nicaragua,
763
00:38:34,959 --> 00:38:36,834
who's doing it,
and who's supporting it?
764
00:38:36,918 --> 00:38:38,751
REAGAN: Soviet military hardware
765
00:38:38,834 --> 00:38:40,375
has made its way
to Central America.
766
00:38:40,459 --> 00:38:45,459
Our security is based on being
prepared to meet all threats.
767
00:38:48,584 --> 00:38:52,167
GARY: US military trucks cameand unloaded everything.
768
00:38:52,250 --> 00:38:55,000
Richard and I
just stayed out of the way.
769
00:38:55,083 --> 00:38:57,125
They wanted us
to come to the hotel.
770
00:38:57,209 --> 00:39:01,209
I said, "Nah, we'll just stay
out here with the airplane,
give it some gas." (LAUGHS)
771
00:39:01,292 --> 00:39:02,834
(AIRPLANE ENGINE HUMMING)
772
00:39:02,918 --> 00:39:05,500
GARY: We didn't say a wordto anybody, we just took off.
773
00:39:07,167 --> 00:39:09,751
The next morning,
we had breakfast at Denny's.
774
00:39:09,834 --> 00:39:12,751
I parked my car out there
and left the keys in the car,
775
00:39:12,834 --> 00:39:14,500
that's what they told me to do.
776
00:39:16,083 --> 00:39:17,834
We finished breakfast
and went out there.
777
00:39:19,667 --> 00:39:22,125
Richard and I,
we had 300,000 in the trunk.
778
00:39:26,959 --> 00:39:30,751
About a year later,
George was having trouble.
779
00:39:30,834 --> 00:39:35,584
And he asked me
if I would... help him out.
780
00:39:35,667 --> 00:39:38,459
I always loved
and trusted George.
781
00:39:38,542 --> 00:39:40,834
In that business,
it means everything.
782
00:39:42,334 --> 00:39:45,834
He said, "I need you to take
this down to Costa Rica.
783
00:39:45,918 --> 00:39:47,751
I don't have anybody else
I trust."
784
00:39:47,834 --> 00:39:49,959
I said, "No problem, George,"
you know.
785
00:39:50,042 --> 00:39:51,542
"You always paid me
what you owed me
786
00:39:51,626 --> 00:39:53,417
and never beat me
out of a nickel."
787
00:39:55,709 --> 00:39:58,459
The airplane was loaded
over in Fort Lauderdale,
788
00:39:58,542 --> 00:40:00,709
sitting right out on the tarmac.
789
00:40:00,792 --> 00:40:04,584
And I looked back, and I had
2,000 pounds of guns and shit
on it, right?
790
00:40:08,334 --> 00:40:11,167
I told Richard, I said,
"Oh my God,
look what we're doing."
791
00:40:11,250 --> 00:40:12,918
We were both
real concerned about it.
792
00:40:15,125 --> 00:40:16,834
About what's really going on.
793
00:40:19,167 --> 00:40:21,500
You have to go down
a pretty good ways
794
00:40:21,584 --> 00:40:22,959
to pass Nicaragua
795
00:40:23,042 --> 00:40:25,167
to come across
Costa Rican territory.
796
00:40:26,918 --> 00:40:29,834
And God, it's beautiful there,
it looks like the Alps.
797
00:40:31,083 --> 00:40:33,417
I mean, really,
really beautiful place.
798
00:40:33,500 --> 00:40:35,542
This place was down
in the valley,
799
00:40:35,626 --> 00:40:38,042
and it's flat land
all the way to the sea.
800
00:40:38,125 --> 00:40:40,292
(AIRPLANE ENGINE RUMBLING)
801
00:40:40,375 --> 00:40:42,125
I come, slide in there, land it,
802
00:40:42,209 --> 00:40:44,667
went down the other lane,
pulled off the runway.
803
00:40:44,751 --> 00:40:46,918
Just park it,
no motors running or anything.
804
00:40:48,542 --> 00:40:50,292
I just walked up to him,
put my hand out,
805
00:40:50,375 --> 00:40:52,500
and he put his hand out.
I shook his hand.
806
00:40:54,667 --> 00:40:56,125
That's the first time I met him.
807
00:40:58,542 --> 00:40:59,626
John Hull.
808
00:40:59,709 --> 00:41:01,709
-John Hull.
-John Hull.
809
00:41:03,459 --> 00:41:07,250
John Hull was a patriotic
American, anti-communist,
810
00:41:07,334 --> 00:41:10,000
and was doing anything he could
to help out the effort
811
00:41:10,083 --> 00:41:13,918
to keep the communists
from coming all up to America.
812
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,918
There is a good deal
of confusion tonight
813
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,334
about Soviet ships in Nicaragua
and what they may be carrying.
814
00:41:19,417 --> 00:41:21,209
REAGAN: For 20 years,the Soviet Union
815
00:41:21,292 --> 00:41:24,000
has been accumulating
enormous military might.
816
00:41:24,083 --> 00:41:26,334
The duty to protect
and strengthen the peace
817
00:41:26,417 --> 00:41:28,375
to make America strong again.
818
00:41:29,792 --> 00:41:31,667
GARY: When I was with John Hull,
819
00:41:31,751 --> 00:41:33,292
I said, "You need help
unloading these?"
820
00:41:33,375 --> 00:41:36,042
He said, "No,
I'll take care of it."
Unload the guns and stuff.
821
00:41:36,125 --> 00:41:38,667
You know, like M16s
and grenade launchers,
822
00:41:38,751 --> 00:41:40,667
all kinds of military equipment.
823
00:41:40,751 --> 00:41:43,667
MODERATOR: The last few months,
it has seemed more and more
824
00:41:43,751 --> 00:41:45,667
that your policies
in Central America
825
00:41:45,751 --> 00:41:47,167
were beginning to work.
826
00:41:47,250 --> 00:41:49,167
Yet just at this moment,
we are confronted
827
00:41:49,250 --> 00:41:53,292
with the extraordinary story
of a CIA guerrilla manual
828
00:41:53,375 --> 00:41:56,709
for the anti-Sandinista Contras,
whom we are backing,
829
00:41:56,792 --> 00:41:59,876
which advocates assassinations
of Sandinistas.
830
00:41:59,959 --> 00:42:04,125
Is this not, in effect, our own
state-supported terrorism?
831
00:42:05,042 --> 00:42:06,876
No, and I'm glad
you asked that question,
832
00:42:06,959 --> 00:42:08,834
because I know
it's on many people's minds.
833
00:42:10,209 --> 00:42:12,626
We're not in the habit
of assigning guilt
834
00:42:12,709 --> 00:42:15,250
before there has been
proper evidence produced
835
00:42:15,334 --> 00:42:17,500
and proof of that guilt.
836
00:42:17,584 --> 00:42:21,167
Another truck came up
and put the cocaine
in duffel bags on the plane.
837
00:42:21,250 --> 00:42:22,918
Secured the load and took off.
838
00:42:24,292 --> 00:42:27,542
I had a transponder code
I turned on,
839
00:42:27,626 --> 00:42:29,417
coming back
into the United States.
840
00:42:29,918 --> 00:42:31,000
INTERVIEWER:
841
00:42:36,709 --> 00:42:39,459
GARY: I landedat Opa Locka Airport in Miami.
842
00:42:43,125 --> 00:42:46,584
In broad daylight, I taxied up
to Aviation Activities
843
00:42:46,667 --> 00:42:48,709
with 500 kilos of cocaine.
844
00:42:48,792 --> 00:42:50,375
Wasn't my cocaine.
845
00:42:50,459 --> 00:42:52,334
Wasn't George's cocaine.
(CHUCKLES)
846
00:42:52,417 --> 00:42:54,542
I saw the people
standing around
847
00:42:54,626 --> 00:42:58,292
when I pulled up the plane,
you know, the agents, cops.
848
00:42:58,375 --> 00:42:59,918
Never looked at me
or said a word,
849
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,834
they just kinda
turned their back.
850
00:43:01,918 --> 00:43:04,417
When I got out of the airplane,
I took 20 kilos with me
851
00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:06,709
and put it in my Honda
and drove off.
852
00:43:07,751 --> 00:43:08,792
(CHUCKLES)
853
00:43:12,876 --> 00:43:16,334
SALLY: After the summerwhen we went to Florida,
854
00:43:17,375 --> 00:43:18,375
it...
855
00:43:19,792 --> 00:43:22,459
just never was the same
after that.
856
00:43:24,459 --> 00:43:27,626
He lived a life
that he wanted to.
857
00:43:28,375 --> 00:43:30,459
A Fast and Furious of the '80s.
858
00:43:32,542 --> 00:43:35,000
And I had had enough.
859
00:43:35,083 --> 00:43:38,375
I left him. I just...
I'm going, "I can't do this."
860
00:43:39,792 --> 00:43:41,792
I was in love,
he was the love of my life,
861
00:43:41,876 --> 00:43:44,876
still is the love of my life,
I just can't live with him.
862
00:43:44,959 --> 00:43:46,459
(LAUGHS)
863
00:43:46,542 --> 00:43:50,792
He's too crazy, even for me.
You know, after a person--
864
00:43:50,876 --> 00:43:54,250
He's got about
seven personalities.
865
00:43:56,250 --> 00:43:59,667
Two or three who are fantastic,
and the rest of 'em is like
866
00:43:59,751 --> 00:44:02,000
you really don't want
to spend much time with.
867
00:44:03,083 --> 00:44:04,709
He'd be walking
that way, talking,
868
00:44:04,792 --> 00:44:07,250
and you can tell
before he turns around
869
00:44:07,334 --> 00:44:09,083
that he's switched.
870
00:44:10,375 --> 00:44:11,959
Finally, I just surrendered.
871
00:44:14,042 --> 00:44:17,667
That was our... (SIGHS) ...fate.
872
00:44:18,709 --> 00:44:20,334
INTERVIEWER:
873
00:44:20,417 --> 00:44:22,375
No, I believe in eventuality.
874
00:44:22,459 --> 00:44:24,834
Dad taught me this.
Eventuality is when
875
00:44:24,918 --> 00:44:26,667
eventually,
something's gonna happen.
876
00:44:26,751 --> 00:44:28,250
If you take the same route
to work every day,
877
00:44:28,334 --> 00:44:30,542
you're more than likely to get
hit by a bolt of lightning
878
00:44:30,626 --> 00:44:31,959
or something.
Eventuality happens.
879
00:44:32,042 --> 00:44:33,334
When life looks
like easy street,
880
00:44:33,417 --> 00:44:34,792
there's danger at your door.
881
00:44:35,792 --> 00:44:39,751
(CAR ENGINE RUMBLING)
882
00:44:39,834 --> 00:44:42,751
GARY: Richard and I,we were down in Santa Marta,
883
00:44:42,834 --> 00:44:44,709
in Colombia, to pick up a load.
884
00:44:48,751 --> 00:44:50,792
Colombian Cartel
from Santa Marta.
885
00:44:50,876 --> 00:44:54,709
He got his cocaine from Pablo,
and Pablo fronted to him.
886
00:44:56,876 --> 00:44:58,709
We were waiting
for the load to arrive,
887
00:44:58,792 --> 00:44:59,959
to load the plane.
888
00:45:01,209 --> 00:45:04,042
And he had an atrium, you know,
full of tropical flowers,
889
00:45:04,125 --> 00:45:05,417
his wife did.
890
00:45:05,500 --> 00:45:08,250
Richard was, you know,
in the garden with her and...
891
00:45:09,959 --> 00:45:12,709
And I guess
employees said that...
892
00:45:12,792 --> 00:45:14,959
Richard was flirting
with his wife.
893
00:45:15,042 --> 00:45:17,250
Being a big badass leader...
894
00:45:18,042 --> 00:45:19,209
(GUN COCKING)
895
00:45:19,292 --> 00:45:20,751
(GUNSHOT)
896
00:45:23,375 --> 00:45:25,751
GARY: Pulled his .45 outand shot him in the heart.
897
00:45:28,375 --> 00:45:29,751
He was standing right beside me.
898
00:45:31,125 --> 00:45:35,083
(SNIFFLES, CLICKS TONGUE)
Turned the gun on me, too.
899
00:45:35,167 --> 00:45:37,167
And I just looked over there
and put my hand out
900
00:45:37,250 --> 00:45:38,584
and like pushed the gun
out of the way
901
00:45:38,667 --> 00:45:41,584
and I said, "Hey, man,
what the fuck?
902
00:45:41,667 --> 00:45:43,083
What'd you do that for?"
903
00:45:43,167 --> 00:45:44,876
I got PTSD from that.
904
00:45:46,083 --> 00:45:47,167
I'll tell you that.
905
00:45:47,250 --> 00:45:48,918
You know, I said,
"He's a friend of mine."
906
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,375
I said, "Give him a good burial,
Christian burial.
907
00:45:51,459 --> 00:45:54,459
Take care of everything.
Promise me you'll do that.
908
00:45:54,542 --> 00:45:56,751
And this is the end of it.
I'm gone."
909
00:45:58,334 --> 00:46:00,500
So I stepped over him
and worked my way around
910
00:46:00,584 --> 00:46:02,000
and got in the plane took off.
911
00:46:02,083 --> 00:46:04,751
(AIRPLANE ENGINE HUMMING)
912
00:46:08,709 --> 00:46:12,584
GARY: I cried all the way home.I couldn't contain myself.
913
00:46:14,918 --> 00:46:15,918
You know, I...
914
00:46:18,042 --> 00:46:21,209
I-- I felt responsible
in some ways.
915
00:46:22,375 --> 00:46:25,042
And it was a big blow.
916
00:46:26,250 --> 00:46:30,792
You know? Everybody thinks
Richard drowned in a crash.
917
00:46:30,876 --> 00:46:34,500
And his family, his son,
his daughter or whatever,
918
00:46:34,584 --> 00:46:38,000
and his wife,
they never knew the truth.
919
00:46:41,626 --> 00:46:43,709
Seeing somebody get killed,
that was probably...
920
00:46:44,918 --> 00:46:47,209
the most devastating...
921
00:46:47,292 --> 00:46:50,334
of anything that ever happened
to me in my life, you know?
922
00:46:51,125 --> 00:46:52,500
That's when I decided to quit.
923
00:46:56,417 --> 00:46:58,667
Reorient and reevaluate.
924
00:47:00,042 --> 00:47:01,751
That's what I've learned
to do in my life,
925
00:47:01,834 --> 00:47:03,542
is just keep going forward.
926
00:47:05,250 --> 00:47:08,459
I had 300 kilos of cocaine
in the back of my plane.
927
00:47:08,542 --> 00:47:12,000
And if that cocaine had just
belonged to this drug dealer,
928
00:47:12,083 --> 00:47:13,959
I would have kept his shit.
929
00:47:14,042 --> 00:47:16,000
But it belonged to Pablo.
930
00:47:16,083 --> 00:47:17,876
I said, "Now I've gotta go
do this job."
931
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,209
This last thing.
932
00:47:26,417 --> 00:47:27,876
I landed in Lake City.
933
00:47:31,709 --> 00:47:34,375
Been out for two days,
no sleep.
934
00:47:35,834 --> 00:47:38,667
My people were there
to offload the coke.
935
00:47:39,542 --> 00:47:41,500
I put the coke in the car,
936
00:47:41,584 --> 00:47:43,542
and I couldn't
get it all in there,
937
00:47:43,626 --> 00:47:45,709
and so they left
to go to the hotel.
938
00:47:45,792 --> 00:47:48,834
And I saw down the highway,
they got pulled over.
939
00:47:48,918 --> 00:47:50,959
(POLICE SIREN WAILING)
940
00:47:51,834 --> 00:47:53,209
GARY: DEA.
941
00:47:53,292 --> 00:47:54,709
Cops jumped out
and had machine guns
942
00:47:54,792 --> 00:47:55,918
and stuff went everywhere.
943
00:47:58,209 --> 00:47:59,500
So I went across the road.
944
00:48:01,500 --> 00:48:04,667
I went by this clothesline,
so I got me a shirt.
945
00:48:04,751 --> 00:48:06,834
I found a pickup truck
that had the keys in it.
946
00:48:08,542 --> 00:48:09,626
And I drove off.
947
00:48:11,292 --> 00:48:13,459
Went down to the hotel
and got a room.
948
00:48:13,542 --> 00:48:16,042
Hadn't been in there, like,
20 minutes or so,
949
00:48:16,125 --> 00:48:19,792
-and I heard something outside.
-(CAR PULLING UP)
950
00:48:19,876 --> 00:48:22,209
-(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
-(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
951
00:48:24,626 --> 00:48:25,834
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
952
00:48:25,918 --> 00:48:27,584
GARY:
Then this voice came over...
953
00:48:29,417 --> 00:48:31,167
and called out my name.
954
00:48:31,250 --> 00:48:34,042
Three or four different names,
and then he said my real name.
955
00:48:37,500 --> 00:48:38,959
I thought I could get out
of anything,
956
00:48:39,042 --> 00:48:40,709
because at this time
my ego was so big,
957
00:48:40,792 --> 00:48:43,751
and I was a fugitive,
and I had five different IDs.
958
00:48:43,834 --> 00:48:45,667
I had outwitted the cops
on every level
959
00:48:45,751 --> 00:48:48,500
and flown under their noses
and made millions of dollars.
960
00:48:48,584 --> 00:48:50,167
And I had everything going.
961
00:48:50,250 --> 00:48:54,042
But it's impossible to do
what I did and get away with it
962
00:48:54,125 --> 00:48:57,876
because the eventuality factor
is so intense.
963
00:49:00,667 --> 00:49:02,626
SARA LEE: I remember goinginto the grocery store,
964
00:49:02,709 --> 00:49:04,918
and I looked over
at the newspaper stand.
965
00:49:05,918 --> 00:49:07,083
And it said...
966
00:49:10,083 --> 00:49:13,209
It said, um,
"Gary Betzner found in Miami."
967
00:49:18,459 --> 00:49:19,584
Right there, you know?
968
00:49:19,667 --> 00:49:21,459
And I looked at my mom
and was like, "Mom!"
969
00:49:21,542 --> 00:49:22,834
I was in Hazen,
970
00:49:23,792 --> 00:49:26,334
but I saw it happening
971
00:49:26,417 --> 00:49:30,834
in my psychic abilities
or whatever.
972
00:49:30,918 --> 00:49:34,459
He-- We are so connected
973
00:49:34,542 --> 00:49:38,042
with our communication,
our souls.
974
00:49:38,125 --> 00:49:41,083
I felt the terror,
I felt the, "Oh my God,
975
00:49:41,167 --> 00:49:42,709
this isn't happening."
976
00:49:42,792 --> 00:49:46,334
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
977
00:49:46,417 --> 00:49:49,500
REPORTER: It's a storyof international drug smugglingand gun running.
978
00:49:49,584 --> 00:49:51,209
Forty-five-year-old Gary Betzner
979
00:49:51,292 --> 00:49:53,334
is now in prison
in Miami, Florida.
980
00:49:53,417 --> 00:49:55,792
TRAVIS: I was tellingall of them my dad was dead.
981
00:49:55,876 --> 00:49:58,167
But then one day
he was on the news.
982
00:49:58,250 --> 00:50:00,626
I was like, "Oh, he's alive,
he's alive!" (LAUGHS)
983
00:50:00,709 --> 00:50:03,167
You know,
literally I was good at it.
984
00:50:03,250 --> 00:50:04,709
I never cracked.
985
00:50:04,792 --> 00:50:06,167
His dad was on television.
986
00:50:07,834 --> 00:50:08,876
INTERVIEWER: Doing what?
987
00:50:10,375 --> 00:50:12,876
Getting arrested.
But very much alive.
988
00:50:14,792 --> 00:50:16,751
REPORTER: The one thingthat everyone remembers
989
00:50:16,834 --> 00:50:19,250
about Gary Betzner
is the night he disappeared.
990
00:50:19,334 --> 00:50:21,584
Reports from September of 1977
991
00:50:21,667 --> 00:50:24,375
say he committed suicide.
That report was treated
992
00:50:24,459 --> 00:50:26,250
with some skepticism
at the time,
993
00:50:26,334 --> 00:50:29,500
but was considered true
for some ten years.
994
00:50:29,584 --> 00:50:32,375
TRUDY JOHNSON: That wasall the talk at the coffee shopand everywhere.
995
00:50:32,459 --> 00:50:35,209
And it was hard to believe
that it was somebody you knew.
996
00:50:35,792 --> 00:50:37,751
BURKE SIMS:
997
00:50:42,042 --> 00:50:45,167
MIKE GRADY: People very quicklylost respect for her.
998
00:50:46,500 --> 00:50:48,876
SALLY: Get over there
and let me take
a picture of you.
999
00:50:50,042 --> 00:50:51,292
SARA LEE: Oh, just mockery.
1000
00:50:51,375 --> 00:50:54,083
I got pulled over once
by the police department.
1001
00:50:54,167 --> 00:50:56,334
And, um... they were like...
1002
00:50:56,417 --> 00:50:59,375
one of them said,
"Why don't you call your dad?"
and started laughing.
1003
00:50:59,459 --> 00:51:02,584
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
1004
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,792
GARY: Feeling of vulnerabilityreally gets intense
1005
00:51:06,876 --> 00:51:10,375
when they put
the handcuffs on you.
1006
00:51:10,459 --> 00:51:13,375
There's no getting away.
It's over with.
1007
00:51:14,125 --> 00:51:16,876
(INDISTINCT VOICES ECHOING)
1008
00:51:18,500 --> 00:51:20,083
GARY: I felt despondent.
1009
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,459
I felt helpless, I felt trapped.
1010
00:51:27,542 --> 00:51:29,834
But then I started
putting things together.
1011
00:51:31,709 --> 00:51:33,250
REPORTER 1:
In Nicaragua tonight,
1012
00:51:33,334 --> 00:51:35,918
the Sandinista government
is claiming the ports there
are under siege.
1013
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:37,417
REPORTER 2:
Growing tension this morning
1014
00:51:37,500 --> 00:51:39,250
between Nicaragua
and the United States
1015
00:51:39,334 --> 00:51:42,125
over charges
that the CIA-backed rebels
1016
00:51:42,209 --> 00:51:44,792
are mining Nicaraguan harbors.
1017
00:51:44,876 --> 00:51:47,292
I was the one that carried
the ship mines down
1018
00:51:47,375 --> 00:51:49,125
that they put
in the harbor in Nicaragua.
1019
00:51:51,876 --> 00:51:53,751
(CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING)
1020
00:51:55,375 --> 00:51:56,918
(GUNSHOTS)
1021
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:59,000
GARY:
I took the guns to Costa Rica.
1022
00:52:02,626 --> 00:52:04,292
-(GUNSHOTS)
-(EXPLOSION)
1023
00:52:04,375 --> 00:52:06,334
Put the cocaine on,
and I came back.
1024
00:52:07,334 --> 00:52:09,709
And the military's
running everything.
1025
00:52:09,792 --> 00:52:12,667
REAGAN: We have a gentlemandown in Nicaragua
1026
00:52:12,751 --> 00:52:15,667
who is on contract to the CIA
1027
00:52:15,751 --> 00:52:20,292
advising,
supposedly on military tactics,
the Contras.
1028
00:52:20,375 --> 00:52:22,792
Mr. President,
you're implying then
1029
00:52:22,876 --> 00:52:26,584
that the CIA in Nicaragua
is directing the Contras there.
1030
00:52:27,751 --> 00:52:30,334
I'm afraid I misspoke
when I said
1031
00:52:30,417 --> 00:52:31,834
a CIA head in Nicaragua.
1032
00:52:31,918 --> 00:52:34,083
There's not someone there
directing all of this.
1033
00:52:38,417 --> 00:52:39,584
GARY: I had no idea...
1034
00:52:40,542 --> 00:52:42,375
how big this was
or how high it went.
1035
00:52:42,459 --> 00:52:44,167
However, I did know...
1036
00:52:44,250 --> 00:52:47,167
that I was privy
to quite a bit of information.
1037
00:52:49,083 --> 00:52:51,918
I was worth something. (LAUGHS)
1038
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,500
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