All language subtitles for You Dont Know Jack CD2 2010

So here's your truth, Mr Thompson.

As sick as Hugh was,

I begged him not to make the call.

I begged him every
night for nine months.

And then before christmas,

I asked him what he wanted for a gift...

The last gift I'd ever give him...

And he said, "there's only one
thing you can get me, Sweetheart."

"It's an appointment with Dr Kevorkian."

I find no factual basis to proceed.

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Exonerated once again.

Jack, 15 - Thompson, Zilch.

Wow.
No wonder everyone's drinking at this show.

Is that Santa Claus stepping on a baby?

- Yes.
- Tell me about doc's christmases.

It looks quite morbid...

Well, except for the flower that is.

Thank God I'm not a shrink.

Our grandparents,
our aunts, our uncles,

the armenian holocaust was
the same as the jews.

Only our parents...
barely teenagers...

were able to flee.

Growing up, all we heard were those
terrible stories of all the bloodshed,

and it frightened Jack so.

It's all dealing with
the melancholy age-old struggle

between warmth of life,
the iciness of death.

Only I'm sure that theme
would be better served

had a real artist done it.

Many nights he would
just sit in his bed...

lights on a must...
you know,

clutching that little dog of ours
so tightly.

Wait a minute.
Wait a minute. He had a dog?

You're looking so intently.

- Yes.
- What are you feeling? That's what I'd like to know.

- Jack, it's, uh... It's...
- It's, uh...

- Hi.
- Hi.

- It's, um...
- I know what you're feeling.

You're feeling it's...
it's macabre.

It is macabre, my friend.

Yes, but you're looking at it
nonetheless.

It's like war.
War, you're drawn to it,

but after you've been through it,
you say, "oh, that was grotesque,"

"macabre, strange, ugly."

That's the feeling
I'm trying to convey.

- I'm sold.
- I heard "sold".

- How much, Jack?
- Whatever you think is fair.

- My patients thank you in advance.
- Good.

This is from my private collection.

Hello.

Dr Kevorkian, I'm afraid we have

some bad news regarding your sister.

It appears she had the heart attack

a couple of hours before
she called 9-1-1.

Perhaps she thought that whatever
it was, it would just pass.

I'm terribly sorry for your loss.

Wouldn't you like to see her?

No.

"By late, much too often deceived,"

"by too early a death now relieved"

"of the burden she bore,"

"my sis Margo gave more"

"to my life than she ever received".

The whole question
of death and dying

involves the most profound and
complex ethical questions

that we must decide as a society.

At no time have
the people of Michigan

or the Michigan legislature
granted Jack Kevorkian

or any other individual the sole right

to decide who lives or
dies in our state.

- Thank you.
- Thank you, governor. Congratulations.

Over here.
Just bring it right over here.

We're going to save some of that stuff.

We all support you, Jack.

Oh, thanks, fellas.
Thank you.

- Could I?
- Oh yeah.

Jimmy! Yeah, give me a hand here.

I'm signing autograph!

- Okay? Wait a minute.
- # gonna grab me a plane #

# that'll take me back
home to my folks... #

# maybe real soon... #

# just as soon as I get a
few dollars ahead... #

I got it in a settlement
a couple of years ago.

It beats the hell out of your apartment.

A lake.

Oh!

- Geese?
- Yeah.

Well, it is a bit
romantic for my taste.

Well, sue me for trying to put a
Goddamn roof over your head, Jack.

- Well...
- I'm not letting you live in some Y.M.C.A.

- Come on.
- Fine.

Only I haven't taken this yet.

And if I do,
I'm paying a rent.

No charity case.

Okay, I'll take it.

Okay. Geoff?

- Yeah?
- Let's go.

Let's go.
Don't you have work to get back to?

Like what?

"Like what?"

Like appealing the 15-month ban
that's tying my hands.

What's on your mind, Jack?

They made a law specifically
to stop me.

I want to challenge it.

I want to test it.

What is this?

Thomas Hyde, 30 years old,

Lou Gehrig's disease.

Oh.

Are you gonna go along
with me on this?

I'm with you, Jack.

Okay, don't strain too much.

Don't strain. Don't strain.

- Ah!
- He's gonna get a cramp here?

Does he? Yes. All right, that's
enough of the physical stuff, Tom.

No more physical. I just wanted you
to move a little for the record.

So now, Tom, tell me:

What is it you wish?

In plain english.

Bond is set for 50 000 $.
Are you gonna pay that today?

Oh, that is beyond egregious,
your honor.

That is no way I'm going to pay
a bond like that, your honor.

You can forget it.
You can forget it,

- Because this is the last time...
- Jack.

You people unjustly take away
from me my liberties.

- I need a moment with my client, your honor.
- The last time.

And I will not... hear me now...
I will not eat.

- Jack.
- Guaranteed.

- I apologize for my client.
- You are assisting in my suicide.

Please.
Jack Jack Jack, just come on.

Jack, this is better than I could've imagined.

Every paper is treating you as a victim.

Don't even think about paying my bond.

- Let'em convict me.
- You're not getting convicted on my watch.

Here, Jack.
Come on.

- Huh?
- Have a bazooka.

- Bazooka?
- No, it is not cheating.

It's just a little apple juice.

I put some vitamin drops in, that's all.

Go ahead.

- Vitamin drops?
- Yummy. There you go.

I've seen you before, haven't I?
What the hell is in there?

You've seen better days, Doc.
Just drink it down.

I sure have.

That's it.

That's sweet of you, Janet.

- Oh, my pleasure, Doc.
- Share some with me.

No no no, you have it.
I'm on the wagon.

"Because it's"...

"Because it's"...

What's this?
I know this.

I know this well.

Why can't I...

"Because it is my name."

"Because it is"...

"my soul".

"Because it"...

How could I not know that?

"Because it is my name.

"Because I cannot have"...

"Because I cannot have another in my...

"Because I cannot have another in
my life."

"Because it is my name."

"I have given you..."

"My life."

"I've given you my life."

"Because I would..."

"Because I would"...
no no no.

"because I... I cannot have"...

"Because I cannot have"...
let me not...

"I cannot... I cannot have
another in my life."

"How may I live without my name?"

"I've given you my soul."

Margo.

Margo.

You were right.

It's nicer.

It is nicer.

Oh.

"Because it is... Because it is..."

"Because it is my..."

"Because it is"...

It's been 19 days.

I'm granting Mr Fieger's request

to reduce your bond to 100 $.

Thank you, your honor.

If you want to fire me, go ahead.

So is there anything else

you wish to add, Tom,
or have Heidi tell us?

Or, Heidi, is there
anything you would add

before we conclude this discussion?

I'm sorry, honey.

That's all I wanted to say.

It's too much for us.

Jail Jack!
Jail Jack!

Jail Jack!
Jail Jack!

Jail Jack!
Jail Jack!

Jail Jack! Jail Jack!
Jail Jack!

Mr Thompson, what happened?

I remind Kevorkian this
"not guilty" verdict

does not change the fact that
we still have a ban in effect.

I think mankind took...

took an historic step today

out of the dark ages.

It makes me think of
the Nuremberg trials.

When a law is deemed immoral by you,

you must disobey it.
You must disobey it.

- Thank you.
- Dick.

The man's invincible.
So am I.

I just got word that the court of appeals is

gonna hear arguments on your ban!

Hell, I'm gonna win that too!

Why can't we have
clinics doing this stuff?

Every city should have a clinic
where someone can go to.

As a matter of fact, I just got an idea.
I'm gonna have one of my own.

How does it feel to be victorious?

Victorious?
I never feel victorious.

I just go ahead and do what I do.

This isn't a victory to me.
It's just common sense.

You don't need hardly nouhing.
The walls are good.

No, they're not.
You can't leave it white.

- What's wrong with white?
- You want something that's cream

or Robin's egg blue.
Something that's warm.

Something that's peaceful.

Should it be higher, you think?

Well, I don't have any window
nails on me right now, Doc.

Well, you know, Neal, it's
not like it's 500 lbs.

You just lift it up...
There it is.

That looks good.

It's not centered enough,
but who cares, right?

- There you go.
- I think it's perfect.

- Yup.
- No, I couldn't tell

Because I've got to go
outside and see it. Here.

Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah!

So if you're unconscious,
they have the right

To turn off the feeding tube
and let you die.

But if you're conscious, rational

and begging for assistance,

to be allowed to die,

we refuse.
We refuse.

Now how is it possible

that a mentally-competent adult

does not have the right to
look a doctor in the eye

and say "I've had enough"?

"I can't endure anymore pain".

"Help me".

"I've had enough".

Do we really want

the government making
those decisions for us?

No.

It can't be.

It just can't be.

In a rented storefront in Warren,

Kevorkian aided the death of
a Kanuas City, Missouri, woman

- who had been inflicted with Lou Gehrig's disease.
- Forget it. Forget it.

Are you trying to say you didn't know
who I was?

You didn't really think it was gonna
be an armenian bakery, did you?

You've got 24 hours to vacate.
Not a minute more.

If we can get into another
storage unit...

Not storage unit,
but another place,

We've got a place to move...

Move all the crap so
we don't have to...

You've got to store it

or they're gonna throw
it out on the street.

Oh, shoot.

- Ray boy.
- They shut us down, Ray.

They just shut us down.

You know, the same kind of thing,

Spurred the '67 riots, you know.

You remember? Of course you remember.
You were there.

You were a captain, weren't you?

What's the matter?

- Ooh.
- Hey, Jan.

- Janny?
- Hmm?

- What's going on?
- I've got the cancer,

Pancreatic.

They diagnosed me this morning.

They've given me six months,

but I'm not rolling over like that.

Here, make yourself useful.
Put that in the oven.

- Here.
- Oh, what you got,

- pecan sandies here?
- No, it's chocolate chip.

- Here, here's another one.
- Yeah

So what's new with you?

They shut us down,

so we're gonna have to,

you know, find another place.

We will.
We'll find another place.

Don't worry.

Hey, Jack.

Hey, Geoff.

They don't want to eat today.

I'm sorry to hear about Janet.

Here.

The court of appeals' ruling just came in

and they ruled in our favor.

They said that the law was so poorly worded

that it could not be upheld.

Oh.
Well, I'm glad to hear

there's still some smart people
in power left.

That was the good news.

They also ruled that there's
no constitutional right to commit suicide...

I take back what I just said.

And that aiding in one falls under

an old common-law definition of murder.

Common law?
What the hell is that?

We're gonna retry him on Sherry Miller

And Marjorie Wantz.
Those two weren't terminal

and it's my job to see
they get justice.

- Are you really certain that...
- I've got him in my crosshairs now.

The public doesn't want another trial.

From all I hear,
they're ready to turn the page.

I stopped worrying about public perception
a long time ago, David.

- Public Crusadres or attention-grabbing egotist?
- Okay, Jack?

- I'm okay.
- You be the judge as Dr Jack Kevorkian

appears at the courthouse

locked in an old-fashioned
wooden pillory.

Prosecutor Dick Thompson can only hope
his roll of the dice

finally muzzles
the maverick physician.

Top defense lawyer mayer
Morgan Roth has his money on Jack.

- Why the stocks?
- This is a clear manifestation

of the existence

of the inquisition in the state.

Medieval punishment for a medieval concept.

- This is not a trial.
- Your honor, please.

What law have I broken? Tell me.
What law he I broken?

Some antiquated common laws.
Common law.

- Do you know that it's a crime...
- You honor...

To convert from christianity to islam?

- Did you know that was a common law?
- May I continue please?

Also, it's a crime not to believe
in the bible.

That's a common law.
This is not a trial.

- Your honor...
- This is not a trial. It's a lynching,

and I'm not gonna participate
in my own lynching.

Can we all presume...
just for the hell of it...

- that we are really in a courtroom, okay?
- No, I will not presume.

- That there's a judge, a jury...
- I refuse to presume.

And real witnesses.
Can we presume that this is a real trial?

No, we can't, because there is no law here.

- Am I wrong?
- You're wrong!

Prove it.
Cite to me one...

Common-law case of assisted suicide.

- One. Go ahead. I'm listening.
- I will ask the questions, sir.

- We're all waiting. Cite one.
- Are you gonna answer my question?

- Smartass. Go ahead and do it.
- Your honor.

Dr Kevorkian, I'm warning you.

You know, your honor, you may
cite me for contempt,

but I am finished with this farce.

I'm not gonna be a part of it.
I just can't.

I'm so sick and tired...

- of this fusion...
- Resume the stand, Dr Kevorkian.

of religious dogma and medicine!

Can I ask for a recess, please?
Just a couple of minutes, your honor.

- Recess.
- Thank you, your honor. Thank you.

Can't...
There's nothing anybody can do

for me and there's certainly no step...

Time to give it up, Dick.

Or I would not be here.

Go on. Go on.

Jack.

Jack.

I told you those videotapes were
going to be our golden ticket.

We have to take this
to the supreme court, Geoff.

We have to do it.

We've still got to get a law

- legalizing assisted suicide, no?
- Congratulations.

Hey, Jack. Come on.
You won. Enjoy yourself.

Morgan Roth is right, Jack.
You'll never see another courtroom again.

The house of cards is falling

and Engler's going down with it.

- Ladies and gentlemen!
- Come on.

Please please,
I have an important announcement.

I have decided to run for governor.

Hear hear!

- Whoo!
- Fieger for governor!

Feiger's your finest!

Next stop... Lansing!

David Gorcyca,
Oakland county prosecutor.

It has a nice ring to it.

You know, you owe me after the way
I demolished Thompson for you.

And I know you'll stay out of Jack's hair.

Thomson blew away too many taxpayer dollars

on these prosecutions.

I've no intention to
waste one more nickel.

As long as Kevorkian stays in line,

he can assist as many patients
as he damn well pleases.

No worries. Jack's learned to
listen to everything I say.

You know, I'm only operating

by the grace of this prosecutor.

Go ahead.
"You can go do your thing"

"in some dark little
corner of the universe,"

"but do it quietly". You know?

Oh, the lingering of death.

What a business.

Keep death alive.

Hospitals don't make money otherwise.

Drug companies either.

If you're rich and
you have the money,

you can pay to die.

But the poor,
they can only afford

to stick it out and suffer.

They say complacency is a virtue.

Oh, stop whining.
You make me more nauseous than my chemo.

You have full reign.
Just deal with it.

Yeah.

I think the biggest mistake of my life

was not getting married.

- Excuse me?
- I could've, you know,

Procreated.

Kept the family name alive.

- Why not?
- Procreate?

You would've made that big a sacrifice

to keep the family name alive?
You would've done that?

Well, sometimes, you've got to
get your hands a little dirty.

Well, could you have loved though, Doc?

That's the bigger question.

Could you have loved?

You didn't put sugar in here again.

Ah. Don't get up.

We need to have a conversation.

You know I'm not lugging

this thing around just 'cause
it's sexy.

And you're the only doctor
in my neighborhood

that practices euthanasia.

Oh, we're not there yet.

You've got plenty of time.

Fieger! Fieger! Fieger!

Okay okay,
let's keep these signs up.

Let's keep 'em up there.
Oh, don't drop that.

Did you get a t-shirt?

Get those buttons out there.

Buttons! Buttons!

What is your official stance

on the assisted suicide issue?

I give my word to the people of Michigan

that I will not be supporting
doctor-assisted suicide.

Even with your history
with Dr Kevorkian?

What I've always said is I support

the individual's right to choose.

But I repeat...

I will not be supporting
doctor-assisted suicide.

There you have it, folks.

Now back to you, John.

This is Megan from Channel 4 news.

There's something happening here, people.

And if you don't know what
it is, it's Geoffrey Fieger.

The 47-year-old Fieger's flare
for the dramatic

has enlivened a campaign
that most analysts

said would be dishwater dull.

No longer advocating
for Kevorkian,

Fieger is now advocating for himself

and campaigning with Michigan voters,

Billing himself as the anti-politician.

Governor Engler is dumber
than Dan Quayle

and twice as ugly.

He's a racist and he's a liar.

It's the acerbic tongue
of Geoffrey Fieger's

that republicans say
they'll make the major issue

of this upcoming race.

God had his chance to come take me.

I'll go to him instead.

Are you gonna look at me, Doc?

Or is it an armenian thing?

- Is what?
- You know, keeping it all inside,

Just keep it going.
Is that an armenian thing?

- Oh, I don't know.
- Actually, how could it be an armenian thing?

Margo was just as armenian as
you are and she talked my ear off.

She told me everything.

She could share.
You don't share.

What do you want me to share?

Anything.
Everything.

- I'm afraid...
- I know. I know.

- No, you don't.
- Yes, I do.

I'm not afraid for myself, you dope.

I'm afraid for you.

Your little band of Kevorkians
is shrinking into nothing.

Will you come closer?
I can't see you right there.

Here.

- Right here.
- Yes. Okay.

See, you know
Margo and I were the only two

that could tell you to shut up.

Look. You need more
people in your corner,

not less.

People that you can trust.

And the only way people
trust each other

is if they know each other.

And nobody knows you.

Nobody.

How did it feel

when your mother was dying?

You were a doctor, a healer,

and you were helpless.
How did that feel?

You know, I failed her.

I failed my mother.

And?

She once said to me

"Imagine, Jack,"

"The worst toothache in the world."

"Now imagine that toothache"

"Being in every bone in your body."

That's...

That's what was happening to her.

She was my mother.
I devoted my life to her.

So...

Eh...

So how did...
How did you feel?

I remember...

I remember being in
this little hospital room...

This chilly little room,

a lone window in the red brick wall...

That's what it faced...

And all these doctors
circling around my mother

trying to keep her alive.

And I was helpless.

I was powerless,

helpless and ineffectual.

And I felt

lost.

I was lost.

That's how I felt.

Thanks, Doc.

Thanks.

- Ray and the kids...
- Yeah.

Give my love to Margo.

Yes.

Hey, guys.

Okay.

Your little band of Kevorkians

is shrinking into nothing.

Jack! Jack! Dr Kevorkian!

Dr Kevorkian! Jack, over here!

I'm afraid for you.

You're not the best spokesperson
for the cause, really.

We have to take this to
the supreme court, Geoff,

'cause I don't have forever.

Your little band of Kevorkians
is shrinking

Into nothing, disappearing.

Dr Kevorkian, a question!

Dr Jack Kevorkian was
among the who's who on hand

to celebrate "Time" magazine's
75th anniversary gala

at Radio City Music hall.

The big night was attended
by many of the faces

who have appeared on "Time"'s covers
over the decades.

You need more
people in your corner.

I'm afraid for you.

Joe Dimaggio to Jerry Falwell

to Raquel Welch
to Henry Kissinger.

I'm afraid for you.

Your little band of Kevorkians
is shrinking into nothing.

I don't have forever.
We have to take this

to the supreme court, Geoff.

Jack, I'm dealing
with the religious right.

- My condolences.
- And the disability group... I mean,

They think you want to kill
the whole lot of them.

So?
What have we accomplished?

No law has been passed.
I mean, this is the prelude.

This is the beginning.
The battle of Concord,

- the battle of Lexington...
- What are you thinking?

I'm thinking of the supreme court!

I'm thinking of going all the way.

If they want to silence me,
let them prosecute me,

convict me,
send me to jail

like Martin Luther King,

- Galileo or...
- The supreme court has already said

that the states do have the right
to outlaw doctor-assisted suicide!

See? You don't listen.
You don't listen! They also said

that they would hear a case
if the right one came along.

If it was for a particularly
suffering individual,

they would hear it.
You don't listen.

Okay, Tom, so have you discussed

Your wishes with your wife and family?

Do they want you to go on?

Yes,

They understand

Why.

It's my decision.

He's saying, "It's my decision".

Okay.

Now, Tom,

I will be administering
direct lethal injection,

What's called "Active Euthanasia."

You don't want to
wait a month or so?

No, I do not.

How about two weeks?
Two weeks?

No.

A week?
Can you wait a week?

Yeah.

Okay. Okay,
we'll stretch it out another week.

You're doing the deed yourself?

This is really crossing
into uncharted territory.

Well, so I set sail.

Rudderless, I admit,

But that's the way it goes.

This is gonna allow me to do
direct lethal injection.

I'm all alone, Neal,

and I'm running out of time.

That first day 35 years ago

you came down to the basement lab

and talked to all us med techs.

You were the only doctor
in our whole hospital

we didn't think was a
pompous son of a bitch.

Well, that was your first mistake.

I let you stick needles in me,

transfuse cadaver blood.

Shit, you weren't the only one
that got hepatitis, Jack.

Hell, we had some good times.

you had purpose, Jack.

You had purpose and
I guess I needed some too.

And I know that
this is your decision,

but if you decide to pull the
plug on somebody yourself,

you're gonna be flying solo.

- Yes.
- This is Melody Youk.

I'm... I'm sorry to call so late,

But it's Tom.

He can't wait any longer.

He's terrified.

Oh, okay.
Okay.

I'm on my way.

Just say your goodbyes then, Melody,

Because I don't want anyone to
be there when I do this thing.

I'm on my way.

- Jack.
- Hey, Jack.

Look what I got.

I want a national debate on this,

because once that happens,
they have to charge me.

- They have no choice, right?
- With murder, maybe.

I want to put euthanasia on trial.

Let the people decide
if it's murder or not.

You want to sacrifice yourself?

Because you'd go to prison
for the rest of your life.

You know I know Barbara Walte.

She likes me,

But I want a bigger audience.

You know Mike Wallace, don't you?

No, I under... yeah.

I mean if...

If you put him on the air,

will you be dealing with
a rational human being?

Well, I can't promise rational
with Kevorkian, Mike.

But if you're asking if he's sane,

I'd say yes.

He knows exactly what he's doing.

Dr Jack Kevorkian, who has acknowledged

helping more than 130 patients
kill themselves,

tonight reveals that two months ago

he killed one of his patients himself

and recorded it on video tape.

Tom you led an active life.

He restored and raced vintage cars.

But two years ago at age 50,

he was diagnosed with
Lou Gehrig's disease,

A devastating incurable illness

that destroyed his muscles.

He lost the us of his
legs and then his arms.

His family says he was
in terrible pain,

had trouble breathing
and swallowing,

and was choking on his own saliva.

And we're ready to inject.

We're going to inject
your right arm. Okay?

First the doctor gave him
Seconal

to put him to sleep quickly.

Sleepy, Tom?
Tom, are you asleep?

Are you asleep?
He's asleep.

Then he injected a muscle relaxant

to stop his breathing.

- And this?
- Paralyzes the muscles.

But he's still alive at...

He's still alive,
but that's why...

Now you see... Now this lack of
oxygen is getting to him now.

But he's unconscious, deeply,
so it doesn't matter.

- Is he dead now?
- He's dying now,

Because his oxygen's cut off,
he can't breath.

So I'll now quickly inject

the potassium chloride
to stop the heart.

Now there's a straight line.

- He's dead.
- Yeah.

- The heart has stopped.
- I'm shocked that it's come to this,

That in the '90s

We have to make such an
issue out of something

a person should be in control of...

Their own life and death.

And those who say that Jack Kevorkian,

Dr Death, is a fanatic?

Zealot.
I'm fighting for me, Mike,

For me.
Because this is a right I want.

I might wind up being
terribly suffering.

I'd like to know there's
a colleague out there

who will come to me in my time of need.

Now that might sound
selfish, and maybe it is,

but if it helps everybody else,

then so be it.

This whole thing's making
me sick to my stomach.

Well, he admits on national tv
that he's a killer.

50 million homes heard him
say "fuck you" to us.

I want that whole interview

and I want him convicted.

Let's make it happen, John.

He's gone too far.

I'm gonna represent myself.

What?
What, you're firing me?

Finally I get to say
what I want to say.

No lawyer, not even you,

Can address a jury the way I can.

Ho! Skedaddle!

Migrate, will you?!

Jack, you don't know shit about law.

Okay?
They'll hurt you.

No, I'm gonna hurt them,

Because if I lose, I hurt them;
if I win, I hurt them.

Well, you're lucky you're in Michigan,

'cause if you were in some other
state, they'd fry your ass.

Here they'll just toss you in a cell
and throw away the key forever.

- This is not a game.
- No, it's a game.

It's a game that if I lose, I win,

because I go to the supreme court.

I get this debate in front of
the people where it belongs.

That's an assumption.
What if you're wrong?

- Never been wrong.
- Are you willing to set back the legalization

- of assisted suicide for God knows how long?!
- I'm not gonna start now.

- Migrate, will you?!
- Jack, Jack, would you forget the geese?

Migrate! Look at you,
hiding behind the boat.

You know,
I never minded feeding them,

but look at this.
All over there's poop!

Watch where you're stepping.
Look at this.

Geoff.

- Yeah?
- Your problem...

You don't see the big picture.

My problem is that
you're a stubborn fool.

For a brilliant man,
you show an alarming lack of judgment

- when it counts the most.
- I don't care what happens to me,

and I'm not afraid because I'm right.

Thank you very much!

A grateful John Engler enjoys
the thrill of his victory

for a third term as
Michigan's governor.

He trounced his democratic opponent.

Geoffrey Fieger has to feel
somewhat humiliated today.

This is a man who is not used to losing...

Not used to losing
the big ones, certainly,

the voters of Michigan have
pretty resoundingly said,

"Geoffrey, we might hire you
if we had a legal case",

"but we don't want you
to be our governor".

Death is not welcome here!
Death is not...

Pretrial hearings get underway today

On the people of the state of Michigan
versus Jack Kevorkian.

Now this is following that
controversial broadcast

of the videotape showing
Dr Jack Kevorkian

giving a fatal dose of
chemicals to Thomas Youk

on the news program "60 minutes".

A wide array of protest groups
have amassed

here outside the Oakland County Court house,

contentiously voicing both
their opposition and support.

One way or another,
this is Dr Jack Kevorkian's fifth trial

and it very well may be his last.

I've looked at all the motions, gentlemen.

Mr Gorosh,
I'm denying your motions

to quash all the charges against
Dr Kevorkian.

There is no basis to dismiss.

But I do think there is an argument here

that murder and assisted suicide are

incompatible charges by definition.

Well, that may be something to be
debated in a law school class,

but not in my courtroom.

And, Mr Skrzynski,
I'm granting your motion

to limit testimony
on the murder charge

but not on assisted suicide.

A person's pain and
suffering is very relevant

when defending an assisted suicide charge.

The trial starts in five days.

Okay, thank you.

It just occurred to me...

Why don't we drop the assisted
suicide charge altogether?

What are you saying?

I'm saying that what proved lethal

in all our other cases was

the family members testifying,

juries hearing about the
conditions of the victims,

how much pain they were in

and all that bullshit.

So if we drop the charge,

make it all or nothing on murder,

the widow, the brother...

they won't get to testify.

Precisely.

Just take all that sympathy
out of the courtroom.

Do you understand, Dr Kevorkian,

That you are charged with
first-degree murder

and delivery of a controlled substance

and that the assisted suicide charge

- has been dropped?
- I do. Yes.

You understand that you could spend

the rest of your life in prison?

Whatever is left of it, sure.

You understand what prison is?

Did you see "the Shawshank Redemption," sir?

No.

Do you understand you may not
disrupt or inconvenience the court

in any way, shape or form?

I will act like the guest that I am.

You're no guest.
You're the defendant.

What do you think of
Dr Jack Kevorkian

actually helping people
kill themselves?

Well, my grandma's very sick

and everyday she asks me

"bring me Jack Kevorkian".

Doctors are supposed to uphold

the hippocratic oath,
though, save lives.

Some people are dying

and they should be dying
gracefully with dignity and honor.

But I don't think we ought to put
them out to pasture this way.

I think he rocks.
He gives people a choice

of whether or not they want to suffer

throughout terminal illnesses or not.

Dr Jack Kevorkian is one
of the most audacious

serial killers this
country has ever known.

Let's say your mother
wanted his help,

wanted to kill herself.

What would you think of that?

Well, if she was mentally competent,

I would ask her what she wanted

and support her.

The names of dozens of other people

who have died with the
help of Jack Kevorkian

laid out on the courthouse
lawn to make a point.

Conviction is important,
cause Jack Kevorkian is

the most public symbol of the euthanasia
movement and we need to stop him.

Please tell us, Dr Dragovic,

Did Mr Youk's A.L.S.
contribute to his death at all?

- No.
- Then how did he die?

He was poisoned
by intravenously-injected substances.

Is homicide always murder, doctor?

- No, sir.
- When is it not murder?

Objection.
That's a legal question.

Sir, you may question him in
regard to his autopsy report,

but nothing further that's legal.

- But why? Look, I...
- If you had consulted

Your attorney,
he'd tell you why.

Uh, okay.

- Is euthanasia always murder?
- Objection.

Always homicide?

- Yes, sir.
- Yes, it's always homicide.

And you stated that homicide

is not necessarily always murder.

Therefore...

Out of pure logic,
wouldn't you say

that euthanasia is not always murder?

Objection.
Calls for a legal conclusion.

No, it calls for simple logic.

It's... it's...
It's a syllogism.

It calls for nothing
but syllogism.

Again, you're asking him to
make a legal conclusion.

No, but this is a
mathematical conclusion.

It's simple arithmetic.

I don't know shit
about the law either,

but I know when I'm watching
a train wreck.

Yeah, well,
I told him gorosh is a putz.

It can't possibly be a fair fight.

You gotta do something, Geoff.
Anything.

- Dr Kevorkian.
- Oh.

Tom's brother's flight from France

got delayed,
but he will be here soon.

Okay, don't worry.

We're gonna get you both
on the stand to testify.

I know you want to call Melody Youk
as your first witness,

but what is it that
she's going to testify to?

Well, she's going to
testify about my intent,

what she observed and
our discussions...

Dr Kevorkian,
that has no relevance here.

I assumed your counsel would've
advised you about this,

that once the assisted
suicide charge was dropped,

you could no longer put these
witnesses before the jury.

Yeah, but I'm talking about what went on,

you know, as to my intent.

Your feeling compelled
to help Mr Youk

is not a legal defense,

and you're already aware
that a person's condition

has no bearing in a murder case.

But that I didn't kill her husband, you see.

- This is relevant.
- Okay. Okay.

We'll make a special record

outside the presence of the jury.

I will rule on that.

- Okay.
- All right?

- Can I... okay. Thank you.
- Thank you.

Melody, did you tell me

It was your intention

or Tom's intention

- That I kill him?
- Oh, no no no no.

That was not our intent.

And when I met you,
I felt it was not your intent.

It was never your intent
or our intent that Tom...

There it is.
There it is. You see?

Other than released from suffering.

So the word "kill", did it ever crop up?
Or "murder"?

No.
No.

Ugly words.

Ugly ugly words.

You're talking about mercy killing.

And her statements can't show

your state of mind.
They only show hers.

Therefore, I cannot allow her to
testify before the jury.

But wait. I want to say something...

That... I have so much I want to say.

I have been waiting for four Goddamn
months for this opportunity!

You may call it mercy killing.

I call it something else.

I call it a medical service

for an agonized, incurably
suffering patient.

That's what I call it.
All right?

Why don't... what difference
does it make what you call it?

When you have these fine
stipulations of law

standing in the way of a
dedicated physician...

and I am a dedicated physician.

I mean, my integrity
would be destroyed

if I turned my back on that patient.

I would rather be dead.

It... it's far worse.

You could... you could take my life.
It would be worse.

This was a service.
This was a service.

It had nothing to do
with "kill" or "murder"

or wh... it was a service.

It was a medical service
that was being done.

I can't be clearer.

I can't be clearer than that, your honor.

I see the emotion,

I understand it,
but it's not relevant.

Please step down, Mrs Youk.

Jessica Cooper has already ruled
that Dr Kevorkian's side

can't put into evidence that
there was suffering here

by the victim.
Does that make any sense?

No, 'cause, see,
I think it's an improper ruling

both in terms of the
nature of this trial

and criminal defenses in general.

You're entitled to put forward
any plausible defense

to explain the context of your act,

and she's already limited
him from doing that.

It's like watching
a man hang himself.

I've been watching the television.

Once you knew they were dropping
the assisted suicide charge,

- what was your plan?
- He doesn't let me help him.

- Hey, what am I supposed to do?
- You're supposed to

Get creative,
that's what you're supposed to do.

Why didn't you argue that
Youk's wife and brother

were eyewitnesses to the event

that the prosecutor's calling a murder?

Then judge Cooper would've had
to have let them testify.

But that window's closed now.

Did you ever pass the fucking bar exam?

Dave.

There are those who would say
about Dr Jack Kevorkian,

"right message, wrong messenger".

And who is the right messenger?

Uh...

Now I'm confused about this,
Dr Kevorkian.

You said you had another witness.

I'm not allowing his testimony

on the same grounds I
didn't allow Mrs Youk's.

I'm sorry you flew all this way,
Mr Youk.

Would you like to take the stand

in your own defense, Dr Kevorkian?

I'm sorry.

Sir, would you like to take the stand

- in your own defense?
- Oh, I heard you.

I did.

You know, I don't lie

And I... I...
I don't exaggerate.

And, um, you know,
you never said why.

You accuse me
of these heinous things,

But you never said why.
Did you?

No, just saying.
I'm just saying.

You know, just so you know.

Sir, let's keep to the relevance here.

Oh, this is...
Oh, it's not relevant?

I guess it's not.

It's not relevant.

I will ask you again.

Would you like to take the stand
in your own defense, sir?

It's now or never.

Never.

No.
No.

The defense... rests.

Not since Ruby killed Oswald

did we see a murder on television.

Jack Kevorkian came like
a hit man in the night

with a bag of poison to do his job.

What would happen if he got his way

And made the state policy
euthanasia?

What could go wrong?

Well, there are 11 million
souls buried in Europe...

- Oh!
- That can tell you that when you make

euthanasia a state policy

some catastrophic things can evolve

- from opening up that box.
- How dare you?!

- How dare you...
- Dr Kevorkian!

Compare euthanasia with the genocide?!

- How dare you!
- You have crossed the line!

- Where is your decency and respect?
- Order in the court.

Order in this court.

We will take a brief recess.

Do you see a criminal?

Do you see a murderer?

If you do,

then you... you must convict.

And then take the harsh
judgment of history

and the even harsher
judgment of your children

and their children
if they should ever come

to need this choise in their lives.

I just ask you to think about that.

Guilty of the lesser charge
of second-degree murder.

Yes.

And with regard to count two,

What is your verdict?

Guilty of delivery of a controlled substance.

He's out of time. Yes.

You invited yourself here
to make a final stand.

You invited yourself
to the wrong forum.

Our nation tolerates
differences of opinions

because we have a civilized
and non-violent way

of resolving our conflicts.

We have the means and methods

to protest laws with
which we disagree.

You can criticize the law,

lecture about the law,

speak to the media
or petition voters,

but you must always stay

within the limits
provided by the law.

You may not break the law

or take the law into
your own hands.

No one's unmindful

of the controversy and
emotion that exists

over end-of-life issues
and pain control.

I assume the debate
will continue

in a calm and reasoned forum
long after this trial

and your activities have faded
from the public memory.

But this trial was not
about that controversy.

This trial was about you, sir.

You've ignored and challenged

the legislature and
the supreme court.

Moreover, you've defied your
own medical profession.

This trial was about lawlessness,

about your disregard for a society

that exists and flourishes

because of the strength
of our legal system.

No one is above the law.

You had the audacity to go
on national television,

show the world what you did,

and dare the legal
system to stop you.

You publicly and repeatedly
announced your intentions

to disregard the laws of Michigan.

Because of this, I am imposing

the maximum sentence of 10 to 25 years.

You may now, sir,

consider yourself stopped.

Yeah, doc! Yeah, doc!

You the man, Jack!
You the man!

Hey, Jack!

"Jack served eight and a half years in prison"

"He was released in 2007"

"He was released in 2007"
"He was 79 years old"

"The United States supreme court
refused to hear the case"

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