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Little hand's on the six,
big hand's on the 12.
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Good morning, Cicely. Chris in
the Morning heralding the dawn...
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on KBHR, 570
on your AM dial.
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The voice of the Borough
of Arrowhead County.
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Que pasa hoy?
Let's take a look.
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Tom Barker shot a seven-foot bull
moose near Lake Loon yesterday.
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He's offering tenderloins
to anybody with a backhoe...
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who can haul it to Holling's
freezer before it spoils.
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Tempus fugit. Got a little
lost and found happening.
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Who's ever missing a '66
Studebaker transmission...
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Mitch Coleman found one by
the road by his smoke house.
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Why don't you just give Mitch a call
or drop by and claim it yourself?
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A reminder, Cicely's book club
meets tonight 7:30 at the church.
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Maggie O'Connell is gonna be reading
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. BYOB.
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What can I do for you,
Officer Semanski?
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Christopher Danforth Stevens?
Yep. In the flesh.
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Are you aware there's an outstanding
warrant for your arrest...
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in the state
of West Virginia?
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Well, that would surprise me,
considering the only outstanding thing...
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I was ever cited for in West
Virginia was the ability...
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to open three beer bottles at
the same time with my teeth.
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Stand up, please.
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Right now?
Up.
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Turn around.
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Place your hands
behind your back.
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Under the provisions of the
Uniform Criminal Extradition Act...
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I'm placing you under arrest
for violating section 62-12-19...
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of the West Virginia Code.
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You have the right
to remain silent.
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You have the right to have an
attorney present during questioning.
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If you cannot afford an attorney,
the court will appoint one for you.
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Anything you say can
and will be used against you.
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I don't get it, Holling.
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Get what?
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Chris has been a marked man
since the day I got here.
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Now, why bust him today?
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Why not last week, or
last year for that matter?
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Well, the judge doesn't get up here
more than once every 15 months or so.
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The police follow the circuit,
like tending a trap line.
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You know, they don't set the snares until
a day or two before the judge arrives.
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Less holding costs
that way.
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Well, what are
we gonna do about it?
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About what?
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About Chris.
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What do you suggest?
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I don't know. I mean...
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we can't just let him be
shipped off to West Virginia.
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Why not?
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Because he's Chris.
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Holling, I mean, besides, didn't you
see Deliverance? "Squeal like a pig. "
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I mean, if that's what
they do on camping trips...
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think what life's gonna be
like for Chris in the big house.
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Hey, Chris.
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Bernard!
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Rod, reel, net, creel.
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I can't make it, bro.
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No? Why not?
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I'm under arrest.
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Arrest?
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Parole violation
in West Virginia.
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Extradition hearing's
tomorrow.
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Tomorrow?
Yeah.
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You have a lawyer?
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No, I don't need one.
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Why not?
Guilty.
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Guilty of what?
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That's an interesting
question.
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I'm referring
to the statutory angle.
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Oh. I skipped town without
telling my parole officer.
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Chris, you need
a lawyer.
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What, did you get
a new rod?
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Winston graphite.
Form fits the reel.
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Nice.
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I'm putting you on retainer
to represent Stevens, Mike.
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You've got
the wrong man, Maurice.
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Don't sell yourself
short, Monroe.
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I was
a corporate attorney.
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You were a litigator,
weren't you?
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Why not fly in some high-priced
criminal talent from the lower 48?
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Uh-uh. Don't have time.
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Judge'll be here pronto.
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Get a postponement.
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Mike, this is Alaska.
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The circus only comes to
town once every year or two.
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You can do it.
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Where'd you graduate from
law school? Yale? Harvard?
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University of lllinois.
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Oh.
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I don't know the first thing
about criminal procedure.
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I mean, extradition-
I need Stevens on the air.
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You need him.
The town needs him.
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We can't let Chris in the Morning
go down the tubes without a fight.
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Think about the loss
in on-air revenue.
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What kind of cologne
are you wearing, Maurice?
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Oh, come on, don't give me
that allergy crap.
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You owe me.
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What about that space suit?
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Where do you think you'd be in
this town without my generosity?
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Yes, and I
appreciate it, Maurice.
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I just don't think I'd do a
very good job on Chris' behalf.
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You were not
my first choice, either.
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But we're stuck
with each other, so...
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Look, let's
cut to the chase here.
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Maggie says that you need a new
air filtration unit in this place.
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How much?
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As far as I can tell,
an extradition hearing...
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is pretty cut and dried.
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All the judge has to do is determine
that the person standing before him...
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is the person named in the
warrant, and it's good night, Irene.
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I don't really see
any room to maneuver.
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Hey, Mike, what are you,
like, a 44 long?
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Forty-two.
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Want this vest?
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100% cotton?
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Levi's finest.
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This baby's flapped in the
breeze of 1,000 highways...
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and known the clutches
of some pretty nasty ladies.
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Chris, did you hear
what I just said?
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Yeah, Mike. I need a lawyer.
Right.
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But I don't have
a prayer, right?
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Right. Basically.
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What I don't understand is why
the State of West Virginia...
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is going to so much trouble. I mean,
what were you in for, originally?
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Grand theft auto.
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Joey King and I, we
ripped off a '71 Firebird.
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Holleys, headers, Hurst.
A real rocket.
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I wrapped around a telephone
pole up on 13th Street.
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I got 2-to-5.
I did 18 months.
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And the only illegal act
you've committed since then...
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is skipping town without
notifying your parole officer.
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As far as I know.
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What's that, the warrant?
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Yeah.
Let me see.
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"State of West Virginia, Wheeling
City building, section 62-12."
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Aha!
"Aha," what?
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Here's your answer,
right here. Teddy Miller.
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You know the Commissioner
of Corrections?
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Yeah, Millers have been jailing
Stevens since before the Civil War.
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Oh.
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See, Mike, my family was like
the James Gang of West Virginia...
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and the Millers were
like the Earps.
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My granddaddy once shot
a Miller in the neck.
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Oh, he didn't kill him.
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He just walked around
the rest of his life...
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like he was looking
at a painting in the Louvre.
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You know, like this.
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It's been us against them
ever since.
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I used to beat up Teddy Miller
in grade school. That was fun.
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This doesn't bode well.
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Well, it's karma, you
know, Mike? The wheel?
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What goes around
comes around.
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Hey, look at that ptarmigan. Where?
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Over there,
by that old log.
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Chris is dead meat.
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What?
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Look.
What?
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Over there, that lady?
That's the judge.
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What, that? That woman?
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Uh-huh.
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Too bad.
Yeah, I'll say.
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What?
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Dr. Fleischman,
she's a woman.
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So what?
Luck of the draw.
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Yeah.
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Listen to you people.
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I can't believe
the negative image you have...
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based purely on an erroneous,
fatuous sexual stereotyping.
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Back in my competitive days,
Dr. Fleischman...
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you could drop a baton...
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or mess up your statement
of personal goals...
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none of the men
would blink...
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as long as you smiled a lot and
displayed a well-rounded personality.
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But the women.
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Try wearing a lip gloss
they'd never seen before...
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or dare to...
Coming through.
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...squeeze your well-toned
buns into a size 4 swimsuit...
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they couldn't wear
on a bet...
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they'd mark you down all
over the place. It was brutal.
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Well, Shelly, I hate to minimize
your experience, but I hardly think...
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that a beauty contest and a
court of law are analogous.
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Well, maybe not. But
they're definitely the same.
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What was that
all about?
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It's just not clear.
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Okay. Maggie, who's nicer,
men or women?
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Oh, I get it.
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What?
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I'm supposed to say
women, right?
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And then with sarcasm dripping
from your lips like battery acid...
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you'd belittle me, and demean me,
and rip my opinion to shreds...
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with the precision of those
razor-sharp German tools...
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you like to lance boils
with, right, Fleischman?
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No. Wrong.
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Why should women
be nicer?
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Because men
are stronger?
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No, no, no, no. Those
days are behind us.
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We are no longer the
subservient class, Fleischman.
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You can't push us around with
impunity the way you used to.
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We have power, we have laws,
and we intend to use them.
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So don't expect the batting eyelash
routine around here anymore, Fleischman.
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From now on, you better be nicer to us.
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Chris is in big trouble.
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Yeah.
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All right, bailiff, I think
we're ready to proceed.
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Would you please call
the next case.
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Next case,
Christopher Stevens.
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Right here, Your Honor.
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I understand you have
representation, Mr. Stevens.
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Counselor?
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Michael Monroe,
for the defense, Your Honor.
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This is an extradition
matter, Your Honor.
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Excuse me. The State of West
Virginia has requested Christopher-
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I can read.
Thank you, Counselor.
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You plan to challenge
this warrant, Mr. Monroe?
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I do, Your Honor.
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On what grounds?
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Identity.
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Identity?
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Yes, Your Honor.
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Whose identity?
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His.
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The man to my immediate left.
The alleged Chris Stevens.
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Ladies and gentlemen.
Quiet.
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Thank you.
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Mr. Monroe, is this
some kind of a joke?
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Most assuredly not,
Your Honor.
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I submit that
this Chris Stevens...
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standing before you is not
the same Chris Stevens...
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named in the warrant.
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Ladies and gentlemen, quiet!
I will have order.
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One more outburst
and I will clear the court.
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Mr. Sizemore?
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There should be a photograph in
the extradition package, Your Honor.
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Actually, Judge, my defense,
it isn't based on a physical-
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Just a moment.
Just a moment.
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This is terrible.
I can't use this.
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Where are
the fingerprints?
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There weren't any.
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There weren't any?
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Obviously an oversight
on behalf of West Virginia.
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I didn't anticipate this,
Your-
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Mr. Sizemore,
get the prints.
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I am not about to
verify identification...
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on the basis of some
lousy, faxed photograph.
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Yes, Your Honor.
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You were saying,
Mr. Monroe?
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My challenge is based on a broader
interpretation of identity...
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than physical evidence,
Your Honor.
248
00:11:55,915 --> 00:11:59,407
Now, I hope to demonstrate,
with the court's permission...
249
00:11:59,485 --> 00:12:03,785
that my client has undergone
such a substantive change...
250
00:12:03,856 --> 00:12:07,087
in the very nature of his
character as to constitute...
251
00:12:07,159 --> 00:12:09,525
a separate
and unique identity...
252
00:12:09,595 --> 00:12:12,291
from the individual
named in the warrant.
253
00:12:12,364 --> 00:12:14,594
Simply stated...
254
00:12:14,667 --> 00:12:18,569
this man is not
the same individual...
255
00:12:18,637 --> 00:12:21,731
who skipped parole six
years ago in West Virginia!
256
00:12:21,807 --> 00:12:23,399
Objection! Your Honor-
257
00:12:23,476 --> 00:12:26,104
That's it. I will not
have my orders ignored.
258
00:12:26,178 --> 00:12:27,873
Bailiff, clear the court.
259
00:12:27,947 --> 00:12:31,178
All right, people, let's go.
Let's go. Come on.
260
00:12:31,250 --> 00:12:33,184
Counsel?
Move it.
261
00:12:33,252 --> 00:12:35,083
Counsel. Approach.
262
00:12:35,154 --> 00:12:37,088
Move it out.
263
00:12:37,757 --> 00:12:38,849
All right.
264
00:12:39,191 --> 00:12:43,252
Mr. Monroe, this is an extradition
hearing, not the Supreme Court.
265
00:12:43,329 --> 00:12:44,728
I realize that,
Your Honor.
266
00:12:44,797 --> 00:12:49,029
I am willing to postpone judgment
until the fingerprints arrive, but I-
267
00:12:49,101 --> 00:12:51,092
But at least hear
my argument, Your Honor.
268
00:12:51,170 --> 00:12:53,968
I mean, a young man's
freedom is at stake.
269
00:12:54,106 --> 00:12:58,008
Now, if I haven't convinced you
by the time the prints arrive...
270
00:12:58,577 --> 00:13:00,602
I'll abide
by your judgment.
271
00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:04,376
Mr. Monroe, you will abide
by my judgment in any case.
272
00:13:04,884 --> 00:13:06,408
Yes. Of course.
273
00:13:07,153 --> 00:13:09,053
I have nothing else
on my docket...
274
00:13:09,121 --> 00:13:13,285
and I am appalled at the
State's lack of preparation.
275
00:13:14,293 --> 00:13:18,923
All right, Mr. Monroe, I will hear
your argument after a one hour recess.
276
00:13:19,298 --> 00:13:21,425
I could use two,
Your Honor.
277
00:13:21,734 --> 00:13:23,861
We will resume
in one hour.
278
00:13:29,275 --> 00:13:31,072
About 4,000 years ago...
279
00:13:31,143 --> 00:13:33,202
Hammurabi,
the King of Babylonia...
280
00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:35,941
ordered 3,600 lines
of cuneiform...
281
00:13:36,015 --> 00:13:38,984
carved on a diorite column
in the ancient city of Susa.
282
00:13:39,051 --> 00:13:42,111
Now, it's the first known
record of a legal code.
283
00:13:42,488 --> 00:13:46,322
Yet, notwithstanding
all the centuries of effort...
284
00:13:46,392 --> 00:13:48,724
the law continues
to evolve. Why?
285
00:13:48,794 --> 00:13:51,820
Well, if based on
fixed principle alone...
286
00:13:51,897 --> 00:13:53,364
one would expect the law...
287
00:13:53,432 --> 00:13:56,128
to remain reasonably constant.
But it doesn't.
288
00:13:56,435 --> 00:14:01,270
Conclusion, well, being the work
of man, the law is an expression...
289
00:14:01,340 --> 00:14:04,241
of the socio-political
imperative of its time.
290
00:14:04,310 --> 00:14:06,471
And as we all know,
times change.
291
00:14:06,545 --> 00:14:08,740
Thus, despite
Hammurabi's efforts...
292
00:14:08,814 --> 00:14:11,214
the law is not so much
carved in stone...
293
00:14:11,684 --> 00:14:13,675
as it is written in water...
294
00:14:13,752 --> 00:14:15,777
flowing in and out
with the tide.
295
00:14:18,390 --> 00:14:19,982
Hey, that was good.
296
00:14:20,192 --> 00:14:21,819
Oh, thanks, Maurice.
No, no, I mean it.
297
00:14:21,894 --> 00:14:23,589
You sounded
just like Stevens.
298
00:14:23,662 --> 00:14:25,095
I am a Stevens.
299
00:14:25,164 --> 00:14:28,691
Well, keep up
the good work.
300
00:14:33,672 --> 00:14:34,639
Mike, I-
301
00:14:34,707 --> 00:14:38,700
Sorry, I'm having a formaldehyde
reaction. So much paperwork.
302
00:14:40,312 --> 00:14:44,646
You know, if I'm not the Chris Stevens
named in this warrant, who am I?
303
00:14:46,018 --> 00:14:47,542
You might want to
think about that.
304
00:14:47,620 --> 00:14:50,646
Right. All right.
305
00:14:54,493 --> 00:14:56,290
Mike.
Oh, Maggie. Maggie...
306
00:14:56,362 --> 00:14:57,954
I need your help.
307
00:14:58,030 --> 00:14:59,429
Really? Okay, how?
308
00:14:59,798 --> 00:15:02,130
Can you go to Anchorage?
What?
309
00:15:02,268 --> 00:15:05,897
Go to the law library? I
need precedents, case citings.
310
00:15:05,971 --> 00:15:07,871
Anything related
to identity.
311
00:15:07,973 --> 00:15:09,167
Okay.
312
00:15:09,241 --> 00:15:11,209
You will? You'll go?
313
00:15:11,277 --> 00:15:12,539
Sure.
314
00:15:12,878 --> 00:15:14,038
Thanks.
You're welcome.
315
00:15:14,113 --> 00:15:16,513
All right, identity?
Yes, identity.
316
00:15:17,349 --> 00:15:18,611
Thanks.
317
00:15:22,121 --> 00:15:23,213
May I help you?
318
00:15:23,289 --> 00:15:25,484
I'm just looking
for something to read.
319
00:15:25,557 --> 00:15:27,855
Fiction? Non-fiction?
Fiction.
320
00:15:28,627 --> 00:15:32,586
I have the latest Toni Morrison
in hardback beneath the counter.
321
00:15:32,831 --> 00:15:33,820
No.
322
00:15:33,899 --> 00:15:36,094
Anne Tyler?
Jane Smiley?
323
00:15:36,835 --> 00:15:39,668
I'm looking for something
a little lighter.
324
00:15:40,873 --> 00:15:42,966
I think I have
just what you want.
325
00:15:46,278 --> 00:15:48,746
Oh, I've read it.
Oh, darn.
326
00:15:48,814 --> 00:15:51,749
Do you have Danielle Steel's
latest, by any chance?
327
00:15:52,084 --> 00:15:53,881
I'm out. It's good.
328
00:15:53,953 --> 00:15:55,580
All of hers are good.
329
00:15:55,721 --> 00:15:58,451
I thought Letter From Nam
was a stretch.
330
00:15:58,757 --> 00:16:01,055
Now, here's one
you might like.
331
00:16:01,860 --> 00:16:03,418
Susan Crosland?
332
00:16:03,495 --> 00:16:06,191
The Sleetmute Sentinel
calls her...
333
00:16:06,265 --> 00:16:09,166
"The thinking woman's
Jackie Collins. "
334
00:16:09,802 --> 00:16:13,465
"Jock Liddon, Washington's
most powerful lobbyist...
335
00:16:13,539 --> 00:16:17,236
"and his beautiful, amoral
associate, Lisa Tabor...
336
00:16:17,676 --> 00:16:20,941
"for them, no tactics are
out of bounds...
337
00:16:21,013 --> 00:16:23,447
"in boardrooms or bedrooms. "
338
00:16:23,515 --> 00:16:25,881
I'll take it.
Good. Enjoy.
339
00:16:27,252 --> 00:16:28,810
I'm Elizabeth Percy.
340
00:16:28,887 --> 00:16:30,184
Ruth-Anne Miller.
341
00:16:30,255 --> 00:16:34,453
Ruth-Anne, I need a birthday
present for my grandson. He's eight.
342
00:16:34,526 --> 00:16:38,485
Hmm. My junior armaments
section is over there.
343
00:16:38,630 --> 00:16:41,497
Slingshots, bazooka,
water pistol.
344
00:16:41,567 --> 00:16:42,693
Perfect.
345
00:16:45,738 --> 00:16:47,205
Look at her.
346
00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,670
She does have an appetite,
doesn't she?
347
00:16:50,743 --> 00:16:54,179
That woman rends the social
fabric of an entire town...
348
00:16:54,246 --> 00:16:57,807
then sits down to a mid-afternoon
feed like nothing happened.
349
00:16:57,883 --> 00:17:01,614
Well, Maurice, now, she's
obliged to uphold the law.
350
00:17:01,954 --> 00:17:04,787
Yeah, they used
that argument in Nuremberg.
351
00:17:05,090 --> 00:17:08,457
Didn't hold water then,
and it doesn't hold water now.
352
00:17:09,294 --> 00:17:11,785
The woman has
no conscience.
353
00:17:12,564 --> 00:17:14,623
Mooseburger, medium well.
354
00:17:15,267 --> 00:17:16,632
Thanks, Shelly.
355
00:17:16,702 --> 00:17:19,102
But I think I've
lost my appetite.
356
00:17:19,772 --> 00:17:21,637
Thinking about Chris, huh?
357
00:17:21,707 --> 00:17:26,542
Well, actually I was thinking about me and
all the bad things I've done in my life.
358
00:17:26,845 --> 00:17:27,903
Like what?
359
00:17:27,980 --> 00:17:29,174
Well...
360
00:17:29,415 --> 00:17:32,714
like me and Dan Richmond used
to go down to Mosquito Lake...
361
00:17:32,785 --> 00:17:35,015
and drop boat anchors
on frogs.
362
00:17:35,821 --> 00:17:36,913
Why?
363
00:17:37,389 --> 00:17:39,721
It was fun.
Yuck.
364
00:17:40,492 --> 00:17:42,460
Do Indians believe in sin?
365
00:17:43,429 --> 00:17:44,726
What do you mean?
366
00:17:44,797 --> 00:17:47,960
You know, original,
venial, mortal.
367
00:17:48,834 --> 00:17:53,294
See, if you were Catholic, you could just
say a bunch of Hail Marys and Our Fathers...
368
00:17:53,372 --> 00:17:55,363
and the slate would be
wiped totally clean.
369
00:17:55,808 --> 00:17:57,742
Oh, really?
Uh-huh.
370
00:17:58,343 --> 00:18:00,277
And then you don't get
punished or anything?
371
00:18:00,446 --> 00:18:01,470
Uh-uh.
372
00:18:02,448 --> 00:18:03,745
Oh, wow.
373
00:18:05,284 --> 00:18:06,376
What about the frogs?
374
00:18:06,452 --> 00:18:07,885
What about them?
375
00:18:09,121 --> 00:18:11,487
Well, they're still dead.
376
00:18:12,124 --> 00:18:15,651
Well, that's true. But, if
they were good, little frogs...
377
00:18:15,727 --> 00:18:17,194
they're in froggy heaven.
378
00:18:18,263 --> 00:18:19,252
Oh.
379
00:18:25,337 --> 00:18:28,431
You see, Holling bought me
this satellite dish...
380
00:18:28,507 --> 00:18:31,806
and I was zoning out on it
morning, noon and night.
381
00:18:31,910 --> 00:18:34,037
I couldn't tear myself away.
382
00:18:34,113 --> 00:18:38,777
Well, it was really weirding
me out, so I went to Chris.
383
00:18:39,184 --> 00:18:41,084
He heard my confession.
384
00:18:41,820 --> 00:18:43,981
After that,
everything was cool.
385
00:18:44,356 --> 00:18:46,620
Especially when the dish
blew down in a storm.
386
00:18:46,692 --> 00:18:50,560
Excuse me, did you say
he heard your confession?
387
00:18:50,629 --> 00:18:52,426
Oh, Chris is a priest.
388
00:18:52,498 --> 00:18:55,695
Minister, Your Honor. Worldwide
Church of Truth and Beauty.
389
00:18:55,767 --> 00:18:58,099
I answered an ad
on the back of Rolling Stone.
390
00:18:58,504 --> 00:18:59,596
I see.
391
00:18:59,671 --> 00:19:03,402
Chris does all the major gigs
in Cicely. Funerals, weddings.
392
00:19:03,709 --> 00:19:05,506
He almost married
me and Holling.
393
00:19:05,577 --> 00:19:09,138
And he did divorce me and
Wayne, which was totally cool.
394
00:19:09,214 --> 00:19:12,149
Turned out that due to a
slight oversight on my part...
395
00:19:12,217 --> 00:19:15,584
I'd neglected to pay my
income taxes for 33 years.
396
00:19:15,787 --> 00:19:19,279
I needed $9,000,
and Chris bailed me out.
397
00:19:20,159 --> 00:19:22,491
Bought a half interest
in The Brick.
398
00:19:22,561 --> 00:19:26,122
Turned things around. Soon we
were making money hand over fist.
399
00:19:26,365 --> 00:19:28,060
Only Chris wasn't happy.
400
00:19:28,367 --> 00:19:31,700
You see, Your Honor, he said there are
two types of people in this world...
401
00:19:32,304 --> 00:19:35,569
owners and renters, and he
found out he was a renter.
402
00:19:35,807 --> 00:19:39,334
So he turned his investment
into an indefinite loan.
403
00:19:40,179 --> 00:19:42,511
That's the kind
of friend he is.
404
00:19:42,781 --> 00:19:44,772
That's the kind
of man he is.
405
00:19:45,951 --> 00:19:47,248
I see.
406
00:19:49,488 --> 00:19:51,012
Proceed, Mr. Monroe.
407
00:19:51,690 --> 00:19:54,090
Dr. Fleischman,
which area of the brain...
408
00:19:54,159 --> 00:19:56,821
is responsible
for personal identity?
409
00:19:57,696 --> 00:19:58,958
No one can say, exactly.
410
00:19:59,031 --> 00:20:00,396
No?
Nope.
411
00:20:00,465 --> 00:20:01,796
Why not?
412
00:20:02,367 --> 00:20:07,361
We're talking about hundreds of billions
of neurons wrapped up inside a package...
413
00:20:07,439 --> 00:20:09,236
smaller than a breadbox.
414
00:20:09,308 --> 00:20:11,902
Now, scientists are just beginning
to understand how it works.
415
00:20:11,977 --> 00:20:14,241
There are some researchers
that claim that when they do...
416
00:20:14,313 --> 00:20:16,008
we're going to have
to give up the idea...
417
00:20:16,081 --> 00:20:17,946
of personal identity
altogether...
418
00:20:18,016 --> 00:20:22,112
or at least a personally-
directed consciousness.
419
00:20:22,287 --> 00:20:24,152
Ghost in the machine.
420
00:20:24,923 --> 00:20:27,448
You wish to add something,
Mr. Stevens?
421
00:20:27,526 --> 00:20:30,723
Ren� Descartes, Your Honor, a 17th
century philosopher, postulated...
422
00:20:30,796 --> 00:20:35,426
that the mind and body are two separate
entities, a theory known as dualism.
423
00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:38,594
And over time, the dualists were
challenged by the materialists...
424
00:20:38,670 --> 00:20:40,797
who believed that the mind was
simply part of the body.
425
00:20:40,872 --> 00:20:45,206
And in I949 Gilbert Ryle scored a
major victory for the materialists...
426
00:20:45,344 --> 00:20:49,405
when he ridiculed Descartes' concept
of the mind as "ghost in the machine. "
427
00:20:50,415 --> 00:20:53,043
Actually, that's
a very good summary...
428
00:20:53,118 --> 00:20:55,882
but even if we accept
the materialists' notion...
429
00:20:56,021 --> 00:20:59,752
of a mind as nothing more than
a very sophisticated machine...
430
00:21:00,125 --> 00:21:04,061
no one has been able to
explain exactly what...
431
00:21:04,296 --> 00:21:06,526
makes it run or how.
432
00:21:06,798 --> 00:21:09,699
So, if I'm hearing you
correctly, Dr. Fleischman...
433
00:21:09,835 --> 00:21:13,828
from a medical perspective,
no one can say for certain...
434
00:21:13,905 --> 00:21:17,363
what constitutes personal
identity. Correct.
435
00:21:17,609 --> 00:21:20,772
Which also means that no
one can say how or why...
436
00:21:20,846 --> 00:21:24,304
a person's identity
might change over time.
437
00:21:24,383 --> 00:21:28,581
With the exception of trauma cases
where there's actual tissue damage?
438
00:21:28,654 --> 00:21:31,350
Yes, I would say
that that is right.
439
00:21:31,723 --> 00:21:34,658
Thank you, Dr. Fleischman.
You may step down.
440
00:21:36,161 --> 00:21:39,961
Your Honor, we now turn
to the classic question...
441
00:21:40,032 --> 00:21:41,795
nature or nurture?
442
00:21:42,367 --> 00:21:47,134
Which is most responsible for the
development of the human personality?
443
00:21:47,639 --> 00:21:50,301
Mr. Monroe, the court is
indulgent to a point...
444
00:21:50,375 --> 00:21:53,776
but I draw the line at
a lecture in Psychology 101.
445
00:21:53,845 --> 00:21:56,871
Your Honor-
You are vamping, Mr. Monroe.
446
00:21:56,948 --> 00:21:59,007
A little. But I do
have a point.
447
00:21:59,084 --> 00:22:00,517
Then make it.
448
00:22:00,852 --> 00:22:03,616
It is my contention
that the accused is not...
449
00:22:03,689 --> 00:22:05,850
the same person
that he was before.
450
00:22:06,325 --> 00:22:10,125
To demonstrate that, I must
first establish who he was...
451
00:22:10,195 --> 00:22:14,256
charting the forces that
formed young Chris Stevens.
452
00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:17,894
If you would examine the photograph
in front of you, Your Honor...
453
00:22:18,170 --> 00:22:21,367
I'd like to transport you
back in time...
454
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,135
to where it was taken.
455
00:22:23,342 --> 00:22:27,472
Wheeling, West Virginia,
I97l.
456
00:22:28,180 --> 00:22:30,512
Chris Stevens, 8 years old.
457
00:22:30,582 --> 00:22:32,482
A happy domestic scene?
458
00:22:32,551 --> 00:22:33,950
Not exactly.
459
00:22:34,186 --> 00:22:36,780
That's not allowance money
in the youngster's hand.
460
00:22:36,855 --> 00:22:39,346
It's the take
from the Union 76 station...
461
00:22:39,424 --> 00:22:41,392
at the corner of Western
and Grand.
462
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:45,129
The men are Chris's uncles.
The woman is his mother.
463
00:22:45,497 --> 00:22:48,489
Together, they were known
as the Stevens Gang.
464
00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:50,634
This was no ordinary family.
465
00:22:50,702 --> 00:22:53,296
The Stevens' boys prided
themselves on never working...
466
00:22:53,372 --> 00:22:55,340
a legitimate day
in their lives.
467
00:22:55,407 --> 00:22:58,001
An ethos passed on
to young Chris.
468
00:22:59,578 --> 00:23:03,378
Big Daddy, Jack Stevens,
was a salesman, seldom home...
469
00:23:03,682 --> 00:23:06,742
supposedly on the road
selling greeting cards.
470
00:23:07,452 --> 00:23:10,012
Actually, he was raising
a second family...
471
00:23:10,088 --> 00:23:12,682
with a second job
in a second state.
472
00:23:12,758 --> 00:23:17,320
Suffice it to say young Chris did not grow
up with a healthy respect for authority.
473
00:23:18,163 --> 00:23:19,824
It was at
the state penitentiary...
474
00:23:19,898 --> 00:23:22,958
that Chris Stevens embraced
his mentor Walt Whitman...
475
00:23:23,101 --> 00:23:26,332
and took up a personal vow
never to stick up Shop Easys...
476
00:23:26,405 --> 00:23:30,068
steal cars, or violate
the homes of others again.
477
00:23:30,709 --> 00:23:32,802
He would become an artist.
478
00:23:34,579 --> 00:23:36,706
His debt to society paid...
479
00:23:36,882 --> 00:23:40,784
he left the state pen
with $23, a used Harley...
480
00:23:40,852 --> 00:23:42,820
and a sense of destiny.
481
00:23:44,022 --> 00:23:48,857
And so young Chris Stevens disappeared
into the margins of his criminal past...
482
00:23:49,161 --> 00:23:52,756
and from the ashes, a new
Chris Stevens emerged...
483
00:23:52,831 --> 00:23:55,959
to be reborn beyond
the West Virginia horizon...
484
00:23:56,034 --> 00:23:58,832
under Alaskan skies.
485
00:24:03,341 --> 00:24:05,241
Where are those prints?
486
00:24:05,544 --> 00:24:08,536
Your Honor, I don't
understand it.
487
00:24:09,448 --> 00:24:13,680
In view of the hour, court
is adjourned until tomorrow.
488
00:24:13,752 --> 00:24:15,583
Oh, I'm not done,
Your Honor.
489
00:24:15,654 --> 00:24:17,246
Well, I am.
490
00:24:17,322 --> 00:24:19,847
Court is adjourned
until 10:00 a. m.
491
00:24:19,925 --> 00:24:22,758
You may conclude
at that time, Mr. Monroe.
492
00:24:24,362 --> 00:24:25,989
There's a lot
of legal precedents...
493
00:24:26,064 --> 00:24:27,531
on multiple personality
disorders...
494
00:24:27,599 --> 00:24:30,864
but I couldn't find any legal
precedents on multiple identities.
495
00:24:30,936 --> 00:24:33,803
Oh, man, maybe I just didn't look
in the right place, or something.
496
00:24:33,872 --> 00:24:35,897
No, no, no,
you did fine.
497
00:24:35,974 --> 00:24:39,774
It's just that I don't have a
legal leg to stand on, that's all.
498
00:24:42,981 --> 00:24:45,745
Gee, I gotta get away
from all this paper.
499
00:24:45,817 --> 00:24:48,251
You know, what about this
Massachusetts decision?
500
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:52,723
The court ruled out using DNA fingerprinting
as evidence because, listen to this...
501
00:24:53,325 --> 00:24:55,793
"There was disagreement within
the scientific community...
502
00:24:55,861 --> 00:24:58,056
"regarding the validity
of the database. "
503
00:24:58,129 --> 00:24:59,426
It's interesting.
504
00:24:59,498 --> 00:25:03,161
But it doesn't challenge the
principle of physical identification...
505
00:25:03,235 --> 00:25:04,827
only the methodology.
506
00:25:05,804 --> 00:25:07,931
Oh.
It's hopeless.
507
00:25:08,006 --> 00:25:09,496
Chris is a goner.
508
00:25:11,009 --> 00:25:14,137
You look tired, Mike.
You should get some sleep.
509
00:25:14,713 --> 00:25:16,146
Hey, Mike.
510
00:25:18,049 --> 00:25:19,414
You're doing your best.
511
00:25:22,754 --> 00:25:26,121
Hell of a farewell party,
Chris. Good luck in the joint.
512
00:25:26,191 --> 00:25:27,852
Thanks, J.D.
513
00:25:27,926 --> 00:25:29,621
Can I sweeten up
your drink?
514
00:25:29,694 --> 00:25:31,662
Yeah, yeah. Sure.
Thanks, Holling.
515
00:25:31,730 --> 00:25:34,164
I want to tell you how much I
appreciate this party and all.
516
00:25:34,232 --> 00:25:36,223
Well, it was all
Shelly's idea.
517
00:25:36,301 --> 00:25:39,896
Hey, it's not every day we have one
of our own sent COD to the slammer.
518
00:25:39,971 --> 00:25:41,666
Well...
519
00:25:41,740 --> 00:25:42,707
Hey, Marilyn.
520
00:25:42,774 --> 00:25:44,139
I brought burritos.
521
00:25:44,209 --> 00:25:47,042
All right. These are gonna
go great with the meatballs.
522
00:25:47,112 --> 00:25:49,012
Hey, Marilyn. What's up?
523
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:50,479
Hey, Chris.
524
00:25:52,584 --> 00:25:54,552
You want my autograph?
Uh-huh.
525
00:25:56,721 --> 00:26:00,714
Wow. Never had anybody ask
for my autograph before.
526
00:26:02,761 --> 00:26:03,921
Thanks.
527
00:26:03,995 --> 00:26:05,292
You're welcome.
528
00:26:06,264 --> 00:26:07,356
Bye.
529
00:26:07,532 --> 00:26:08,794
Adi�s.
530
00:26:20,111 --> 00:26:22,875
Not a whole lot of faith
being expressed here, huh?
531
00:26:22,948 --> 00:26:25,382
Oh, Joel, on the contrary,
this is...
532
00:26:25,450 --> 00:26:28,146
an outpouring of faith
in our legal system.
533
00:26:28,219 --> 00:26:32,417
You know, "The guilty must be punished
for the good of the state. " Billy Budd.
534
00:26:32,490 --> 00:26:33,616
Who?
535
00:26:33,825 --> 00:26:35,793
It's a short story
by Melville.
536
00:26:35,860 --> 00:26:38,420
Billy Budd was
a saintly foretopman.
537
00:26:38,496 --> 00:26:39,827
He was beloved
by his shipmates.
538
00:26:39,898 --> 00:26:42,696
He unintentionally kills evil
petty officer John Claggart.
539
00:26:42,767 --> 00:26:46,294
Anguished Captain Vere has no choice
but to hang Billy to maintain order.
540
00:26:47,439 --> 00:26:48,906
End of story.
541
00:26:49,441 --> 00:26:51,966
That's so depressing.
542
00:26:52,410 --> 00:26:55,038
Yeah. But you play,
you pay, right?
543
00:26:59,684 --> 00:27:01,049
Here, let me
pour that for you.
544
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:02,780
Oh, thank you, Maurice.
545
00:27:02,854 --> 00:27:05,448
Nice party, huh?
Very enjoyable.
546
00:27:05,523 --> 00:27:07,889
Yeah, this is a nice town.
547
00:27:07,959 --> 00:27:12,259
It's the kind of town you could,
settle down, carve yourself out a home.
548
00:27:12,330 --> 00:27:15,697
Listen, Stevens, I'm not
gonna mince words.
549
00:27:16,067 --> 00:27:19,195
After your brother gets
sent up the river...
550
00:27:19,738 --> 00:27:23,697
there's gonna be a certain job opportunity
opening up that I want to speak to you about.
551
00:27:24,776 --> 00:27:26,403
You want me
to replace Chris?
552
00:27:26,478 --> 00:27:29,003
There's no point
in broadcasting it.
553
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,412
Look, you showed me
something today, Stevens.
554
00:27:31,483 --> 00:27:36,147
You showed me a man who is ready and
willing to pick up the fallen standard...
555
00:27:36,221 --> 00:27:37,552
and continue the charge.
556
00:27:37,622 --> 00:27:39,715
You've got a way
with words, son.
557
00:27:39,791 --> 00:27:41,759
You've got the Stevens'
way with words.
558
00:27:41,826 --> 00:27:44,624
And on top of that,
you don't sound black.
559
00:27:44,696 --> 00:27:49,463
Truth is, Bernard, if I close my
eyes, you sound as white as Casper.
560
00:27:49,968 --> 00:27:52,596
You know something, Maurice?
I like you. I do.
561
00:27:52,971 --> 00:27:54,268
And it troubles me.
562
00:27:54,339 --> 00:27:55,306
Troubles you?
563
00:27:55,373 --> 00:27:57,432
Yeah. This may come as a
shock, but you're a bigot.
564
00:27:57,509 --> 00:27:59,272
Bigot?
Yeah, and a racist.
565
00:27:59,377 --> 00:28:04,144
Wait a minute. Because you don't
sound black, I'm a bigot and a racist?
566
00:28:05,016 --> 00:28:08,747
Look, Stevens, I know black people.
I've been around black people.
567
00:28:08,820 --> 00:28:12,620
I know how they talk. They say,
"thang" instead of "thing"...
568
00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:16,684
and they say, "ax. " "I ax you
this, brother. I ax you that. "
569
00:28:16,761 --> 00:28:18,922
Now, you don't say "ax. "
570
00:28:18,997 --> 00:28:23,434
Neither does Colin Powell
or that Denzel fella.
571
00:28:23,501 --> 00:28:24,832
You know
what's interesting?
572
00:28:24,903 --> 00:28:28,430
It is the linkage of King's
English and superior breeding...
573
00:28:28,506 --> 00:28:32,203
and the further linkage of
superior breeding with being white.
574
00:28:32,277 --> 00:28:35,769
Now, rather than saying, "There's a
black person speaking King's English... "
575
00:28:35,847 --> 00:28:37,644
we say, "There's a black
person speaking white. "
576
00:28:37,716 --> 00:28:38,740
What's wrong with that?
577
00:28:38,817 --> 00:28:41,980
Well, for a long time
it hung me up.
578
00:28:42,554 --> 00:28:45,819
I mean, I tried to talk ghetto
in high school, and it wasn't me.
579
00:28:46,224 --> 00:28:47,486
Very unsettling.
580
00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:50,528
Well, what's your point?
My point?
581
00:28:50,595 --> 00:28:54,929
Well, I'm not exactly sure. Although
admittedly you're a racist...
582
00:28:54,999 --> 00:28:59,436
and what you said makes me uncomfortable,
there's a kernel of truth to it.
583
00:28:59,504 --> 00:29:02,871
Though I suspect it has more to do with
intellectual and cultural standards...
584
00:29:02,941 --> 00:29:04,670
than it does
with racial distinctions.
585
00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:07,974
Why is it that when I say
something like that...
586
00:29:08,046 --> 00:29:12,107
I'm a racist, and when you say something
like that, you're just being thoughtful?
587
00:29:12,183 --> 00:29:14,674
Oh, no, Maurice,
I'm a racist, too.
588
00:29:15,019 --> 00:29:17,920
For a long time I didn't like
being around white people.
589
00:29:17,989 --> 00:29:21,447
But once I realized that
imperialism, slavery and genocide...
590
00:29:21,526 --> 00:29:24,962
weren't exclusively white institutions,
it helped me loosen up a bit.
591
00:29:25,029 --> 00:29:26,257
Huh.
592
00:29:26,865 --> 00:29:28,856
Well, what about the job?
593
00:29:29,134 --> 00:29:30,863
I'll give it some thought.
594
00:29:32,237 --> 00:29:33,204
Pull!
595
00:29:36,741 --> 00:29:38,333
Good shot.
Thanks.
596
00:29:38,843 --> 00:29:40,743
How about two, Ed?
597
00:29:41,146 --> 00:29:42,841
I just gotta run
and get more blue rock.
598
00:29:42,914 --> 00:29:44,074
Okay.
599
00:29:44,749 --> 00:29:47,240
Nice young man.
Oh, Ed's a gem.
600
00:29:47,685 --> 00:29:49,482
You have children,
Ruth-Anne? Mmm-hmm.
601
00:29:49,554 --> 00:29:51,647
Two sons and two grandsons.
602
00:29:51,890 --> 00:29:53,482
How about you?
The same.
603
00:29:53,558 --> 00:29:54,525
Ah.
604
00:29:54,592 --> 00:29:56,492
My younger son's
about Ed's age.
605
00:29:56,561 --> 00:29:58,620
He dropped out
of college last year.
606
00:29:58,696 --> 00:30:00,391
Living on his own now.
607
00:30:00,465 --> 00:30:04,128
Doesn't talk to me much. I don't think
he liked having a judge for a mother.
608
00:30:04,202 --> 00:30:05,226
Oh.
609
00:30:05,303 --> 00:30:08,033
Or maybe it was having
a mother for a judge.
610
00:30:08,106 --> 00:30:10,370
Boys are hard.
So are judges.
611
00:30:11,176 --> 00:30:14,475
I wouldn't want your job for
anything. I don't know how you do it.
612
00:30:14,546 --> 00:30:16,980
I've always been a judge,
Ruth-Anne.
613
00:30:17,048 --> 00:30:20,711
Even as a kid, people always seemed to
be on their best behavior around me...
614
00:30:20,785 --> 00:30:24,243
like they sensed some kind
of innate judiciousness.
615
00:30:25,957 --> 00:30:30,553
You know, when somebody comes in and
tells me they want five pounds of apples...
616
00:30:30,628 --> 00:30:33,859
at 40 cents a pound,
I can tell them that's $2.
617
00:30:33,965 --> 00:30:36,593
But you have to look
someone in the eye and say...
618
00:30:36,668 --> 00:30:40,001
"What you did is going to
cost you three years in jail. "
619
00:30:40,071 --> 00:30:41,333
And that's different.
620
00:30:41,406 --> 00:30:44,500
I'm not judging people,
I'm judging their actions.
621
00:30:45,310 --> 00:30:50,043
It's the same type of distinction that
I try to apply to myself, to judge...
622
00:30:50,381 --> 00:30:52,212
but not be judgmental.
623
00:30:52,550 --> 00:30:54,211
I don't know.
624
00:30:54,285 --> 00:30:56,583
Sounds like a lot
of hooey to me.
625
00:30:58,122 --> 00:31:03,025
Dealing with my boys, all I had,
most of the time, to go on was my gut.
626
00:31:03,695 --> 00:31:05,322
And I was glad
to have that.
627
00:31:06,764 --> 00:31:10,393
You consider the facts,
you sift the evidence.
628
00:31:11,469 --> 00:31:13,835
Oh, I don't know,
Ruth-Anne, sometimes...
629
00:31:14,739 --> 00:31:17,902
I think that it's all a game
I play with myself...
630
00:31:17,976 --> 00:31:20,809
to avoid feeling responsible
for what I do.
631
00:31:21,446 --> 00:31:23,243
So, you have doubts?
632
00:31:23,848 --> 00:31:26,146
An old judge told me
that the trick...
633
00:31:26,217 --> 00:31:30,916
is to act 100% certain
when you only feel 51% right.
634
00:31:31,489 --> 00:31:33,821
All set.
Pull!
635
00:31:36,527 --> 00:31:39,291
I don't know, guys, I really
feel like I let you down.
636
00:31:39,364 --> 00:31:40,831
Hey, Mike,
don't be bummed.
637
00:31:40,899 --> 00:31:42,867
You know, you're doing
a great job. Everybody's-
638
00:31:42,934 --> 00:31:45,164
Oh, no, thanks. Everybody's
having a good time.
639
00:31:45,236 --> 00:31:47,329
We're all learning
something here.
640
00:31:47,872 --> 00:31:51,364
Chris, I may have to
put you on the stand.
641
00:31:51,509 --> 00:31:52,498
Cool.
642
00:31:52,577 --> 00:31:55,341
Well, maybe.
It could be risky.
643
00:31:55,413 --> 00:31:59,611
Do you have any idea what's gonna come out
of your mouth from one minute to the next?
644
00:31:59,684 --> 00:32:01,948
Well, usually
I just let it happen.
645
00:32:02,020 --> 00:32:03,954
That's what I was
afraid of.
646
00:32:04,022 --> 00:32:05,956
Why, Mike? You want me
to tell the truth, right?
647
00:32:06,024 --> 00:32:07,548
Absolutely.
648
00:32:07,625 --> 00:32:10,287
But there are different ways
of telling the truth.
649
00:32:10,361 --> 00:32:14,957
What I think Mike is getting at is that
most defendants rehearse their testimony...
650
00:32:15,033 --> 00:32:16,432
before taking the stand.
651
00:32:16,501 --> 00:32:18,093
Really?
Uh-huh.
652
00:32:18,169 --> 00:32:19,932
That kind of takes
the fun out of it, yeah?
653
00:32:20,004 --> 00:32:23,906
Well, the object of a trial isn't
to have fun, Chris. It's to win.
654
00:32:24,475 --> 00:32:27,672
Right, to win. What do you
want me to say?
655
00:32:27,745 --> 00:32:31,875
Well, I had Maggie draw up a
few sample questions and answers.
656
00:32:33,551 --> 00:32:34,745
Well, what if
I don't agree?
657
00:32:34,819 --> 00:32:36,946
Well, you can put it
in your own words.
658
00:32:37,021 --> 00:32:40,115
No, I mean, what if
it's not the way I feel?
659
00:32:40,191 --> 00:32:44,093
Chris, you did agree to the basic
framework of your defense, right?
660
00:32:44,662 --> 00:32:45,754
No.
661
00:32:46,965 --> 00:32:49,024
It happened so quickly.
662
00:32:50,034 --> 00:32:52,798
But you do like
how it's been going, right?
663
00:32:52,870 --> 00:32:55,703
Oh, yes, Mike.
Totally. Absolutely.
664
00:32:55,773 --> 00:32:58,401
Well, these answers,
they fit right in.
665
00:32:58,943 --> 00:33:00,774
You guys want me to lie?
666
00:33:01,546 --> 00:33:04,037
Oh, no, no, Chris. No
one's asking you to lie.
667
00:33:04,115 --> 00:33:07,312
It's a question of putting
your best foot forward.
668
00:33:07,685 --> 00:33:09,175
Oh, man.
669
00:33:10,521 --> 00:33:13,183
Attorneys and clients confer
all the time, Chris.
670
00:33:13,257 --> 00:33:14,952
It's standard procedure.
671
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,660
Is this the American
thing to do?
672
00:33:17,729 --> 00:33:20,960
Is this what the framers of
our Constitution had in mind...
673
00:33:21,032 --> 00:33:23,125
when they talked
about due process?
674
00:33:23,201 --> 00:33:26,227
You know, manipulation,
deception, sophistry?
675
00:33:26,304 --> 00:33:27,999
If you can't live
with this, Chris...
676
00:33:28,072 --> 00:33:30,802
I mean, if you think it's
a betrayal of principle...
677
00:33:30,875 --> 00:33:32,900
we can just drop
the whole thing.
678
00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:35,605
Right. See you in
two, three years.
679
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:36,977
Whenever you get out.
Whatever.
680
00:33:37,048 --> 00:33:39,312
I wouldn't count
on any leniency.
681
00:33:39,384 --> 00:33:43,411
If you go in, they're gonna make you
serve out the whole term this time.
682
00:33:45,056 --> 00:33:48,992
Well, in that case, boys,
let's give it a shot.
683
00:33:53,131 --> 00:33:55,395
Well, mother came to
tell me that she and dad...
684
00:33:55,466 --> 00:33:59,368
were getting divorced, you know,
and then my house burned down.
685
00:33:59,437 --> 00:34:03,703
And there was my mother babbling
away and me completely miserable.
686
00:34:04,909 --> 00:34:06,740
And then Chris came around.
687
00:34:06,944 --> 00:34:09,310
He was looking
for something to fling.
688
00:34:09,380 --> 00:34:10,642
Fling?
689
00:34:11,015 --> 00:34:13,575
Yeah, well, he built
this giant catapult.
690
00:34:13,651 --> 00:34:16,142
A trebuchet.
A medieval siege weapon.
691
00:34:16,220 --> 00:34:19,986
Right. Anyway, he was
going to fling a cow...
692
00:34:20,258 --> 00:34:22,886
and then he decided that,
well, since it had been done...
693
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:27,158
he would actually like to fling
something else, and he chose my piano.
694
00:34:27,231 --> 00:34:29,893
He flung your piano
instead of a cow?
695
00:34:30,368 --> 00:34:32,598
It was incredible.
696
00:34:33,204 --> 00:34:36,901
I mean, you couldn't believe the
G-forces that could develop on this thing.
697
00:34:36,974 --> 00:34:39,875
I mean, it could make the human
body implode before impact.
698
00:34:39,944 --> 00:34:44,313
My piano went supersonic,
and for this brief moment...
699
00:34:44,816 --> 00:34:49,014
this instrument that I had sat
at and sung to and wept over...
700
00:34:49,387 --> 00:34:51,355
just slipped the bonds
of gravity.
701
00:34:51,422 --> 00:34:56,086
It soared to its own unimaginable
crescendo, as if it would never come down.
702
00:34:56,794 --> 00:34:59,126
And then, boom!
703
00:35:01,199 --> 00:35:03,724
I mean, it was so moving.
704
00:35:05,837 --> 00:35:08,169
I don't know
how to describe it, really.
705
00:35:09,373 --> 00:35:13,002
But I forgot all about
my house and my mother...
706
00:35:14,479 --> 00:35:17,277
and it was Chris
who turned all that around.
707
00:35:18,749 --> 00:35:19,943
Well...
708
00:35:20,017 --> 00:35:23,646
no one could figure out who
was ripping off all the radios.
709
00:35:24,655 --> 00:35:26,555
And then I got my break.
710
00:35:26,624 --> 00:35:28,182
I saw Chris...
711
00:35:28,693 --> 00:35:32,823
taking a tape deck out of Gary
McClellan's flatbed truck...
712
00:35:32,897 --> 00:35:34,558
and I had my man.
713
00:35:35,032 --> 00:35:38,092
And when I asked him
why he'd done it, he said...
714
00:35:38,169 --> 00:35:42,435
"People gotta be reminded that the
world is an unpredictable place...
715
00:35:43,374 --> 00:35:46,104
"and that chaos
is always there...
716
00:35:46,611 --> 00:35:49,580
"lurking just beyond
the horizon. "
717
00:35:51,249 --> 00:35:53,615
And then he told me something
I'll never forget.
718
00:35:53,684 --> 00:35:55,242
He said, "Ed...
719
00:35:56,354 --> 00:35:59,448
"sometimes, you gotta
do something bad...
720
00:35:59,824 --> 00:36:01,451
"just to know
you're alive. "
721
00:36:07,798 --> 00:36:09,163
I like him.
722
00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:10,392
Very good, Marilyn.
723
00:36:10,601 --> 00:36:13,570
Now, will you please tell
the court why you like him?
724
00:36:14,005 --> 00:36:17,736
What is it about Chris Stevens
that makes him so special?
725
00:36:20,645 --> 00:36:24,308
Anything. Use your own words.
Say anything you'd like.
726
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,515
Is there anything
you'd like to add?
727
00:36:32,089 --> 00:36:33,283
No.
728
00:36:36,093 --> 00:36:38,960
Well, then, thank you.
You may step down.
729
00:36:42,900 --> 00:36:45,130
Your next witness,
Mr. Monroe?
730
00:36:45,436 --> 00:36:48,667
I have the prints, Your Honor!
They're an exact match.
731
00:36:48,739 --> 00:36:52,266
Mr. Sizemore, I won't have you
interrupting my courtroom.
732
00:36:52,376 --> 00:36:53,809
Yes, Your Honor. I-
733
00:36:53,878 --> 00:36:56,312
Look at that. Look, all the
whorls, every smudge, every-
734
00:36:56,380 --> 00:36:58,780
Yes, could you give them
to me. Yes, Your Honor.
735
00:37:03,087 --> 00:37:06,147
Well, Mr. Monroe, it appears that
you have run out of bullets...
736
00:37:06,224 --> 00:37:08,590
and we have run out of time,
so, if you-
737
00:37:08,659 --> 00:37:10,217
Your Honor...
738
00:37:11,095 --> 00:37:15,725
I would like to call to the stand
Christopher Danforth Stevens.
739
00:37:20,605 --> 00:37:21,867
Raise your right hand.
740
00:37:21,939 --> 00:37:23,873
Do you swear to tell
the truth, the whole truth...
741
00:37:23,941 --> 00:37:25,909
and nothing but the truth,
so help you God?
742
00:37:27,511 --> 00:37:29,706
Mr. Stevens,
is there a problem?
743
00:37:29,780 --> 00:37:32,772
Well, Your Honor, I may have
a conflict of interest here.
744
00:37:32,850 --> 00:37:34,977
Would you care to elaborate?
745
00:37:35,553 --> 00:37:37,987
I can't swear to tell
the whole truth. I mean...
746
00:37:38,055 --> 00:37:41,024
when push comes to shove, I'd
just as soon not go to jail...
747
00:37:41,092 --> 00:37:44,118
and I don't think I can keep that
from influencing my testimony...
748
00:37:44,195 --> 00:37:45,958
if only at the subconscious
level. You see...
749
00:37:46,030 --> 00:37:49,227
Mike and I, we've been over what I'm
supposed to say, and I gotta tell you...
750
00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:52,098
it's pretty persuasive stuff.
But is it the whole truth?
751
00:37:52,169 --> 00:37:55,297
It's a slice of truth.
A morsel, a refraction.
752
00:37:55,373 --> 00:37:58,831
It's a piece of the pie. Certainly not
the whole enchilada. And now that...
753
00:37:59,143 --> 00:38:03,443
I'm thinking about it, I don't think I
could tell the whole truth about anything.
754
00:38:03,514 --> 00:38:07,917
That's a pretty heavy burden, because we
all just see the world through this little...
755
00:38:07,985 --> 00:38:10,215
distorted piece
of Coke bottle.
756
00:38:10,288 --> 00:38:14,122
Is there such a thing
as objective truth?
757
00:38:14,358 --> 00:38:16,189
I wonder. Don't you?
758
00:38:16,327 --> 00:38:18,921
It is a conundrum,
Mr. Stevens.
759
00:38:20,097 --> 00:38:23,294
But it does not help us
with the problem at hand.
760
00:38:23,434 --> 00:38:26,335
Well, maybe I can just,
you know, get up there...
761
00:38:26,404 --> 00:38:28,235
and say the thing
without the oath.
762
00:38:28,306 --> 00:38:30,604
No, I'm afraid
I can't do that.
763
00:38:31,542 --> 00:38:34,739
Well, I guess
I can't testify, then.
764
00:38:38,215 --> 00:38:43,175
Mr. Stevens, in view of
your extraordinary candor...
765
00:38:44,755 --> 00:38:47,280
I am going to break
with tradition here...
766
00:38:47,591 --> 00:38:52,085
and grant you the opportunity to make
a brief statement in your own defense.
767
00:38:52,163 --> 00:38:55,394
It won't go on the official
record, of course...
768
00:38:55,666 --> 00:38:57,998
but I think you've earned
that much.
769
00:39:00,838 --> 00:39:03,739
Well, I think Carl Jung
put it best, Your Honor.
770
00:39:03,808 --> 00:39:07,005
"We should not pretend to understand
the world only by intellect.
771
00:39:07,078 --> 00:39:09,308
"We apprehend it
just as much by feeling.
772
00:39:09,380 --> 00:39:12,941
"Therefore, the judgment of the intellect
is, at best, only the half of truth...
773
00:39:13,017 --> 00:39:17,078
"and must, if it be honest, come to an
understanding of its own inadequacy. "
774
00:39:18,589 --> 00:39:19,886
Thanks.
775
00:39:21,559 --> 00:39:23,527
Thank you, Mr. Stevens.
776
00:39:23,828 --> 00:39:28,390
The court will take a 20-minute
recess to review the physical evidence.
777
00:39:32,370 --> 00:39:34,338
Caller number two,
you're on the air.
778
00:39:34,405 --> 00:39:36,999
Hi. This is Debbie,
from Salmon Point.
779
00:39:37,074 --> 00:39:38,302
Go ahead, Debbie.
780
00:39:38,376 --> 00:39:41,937
Well, first, I want to agree with caller
one that Judge Percy had no right...
781
00:39:42,012 --> 00:39:44,378
to keep we, the people
from watching Chris's trial.
782
00:39:44,448 --> 00:39:45,972
Duly noted.
Here-here.
783
00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:49,281
And second, I was wondering,
if Chris is really two people...
784
00:39:49,353 --> 00:39:51,480
the old Chris and the new
Chris, well, why couldn't...
785
00:39:51,555 --> 00:39:54,956
the old Chris go back to West
Virginia, and the new Chris stay here?
786
00:39:55,025 --> 00:39:57,016
Interesting point,
metaphysically, Debbie.
787
00:39:57,094 --> 00:39:59,619
Well, Debbie, I think
on the corporeal plane...
788
00:39:59,697 --> 00:40:01,665
that the state of
West Virginia has first dibs.
789
00:40:01,732 --> 00:40:04,792
Shall we discuss the philosophical
question raised here, Chris?
790
00:40:04,869 --> 00:40:07,736
The state of sin versus
the state of grace? Mmm-hmm.
791
00:40:07,805 --> 00:40:09,670
Does redemption actually
remake a man...
792
00:40:09,740 --> 00:40:12,470
or simply return him to
some sort of core being, hmm?
793
00:40:12,610 --> 00:40:13,577
Precisely.
794
00:40:13,644 --> 00:40:17,375
Is the reformed sinner truly
a different person than he was?
795
00:40:17,515 --> 00:40:20,643
Well, speaking for Western tradition,
Bernard, I'd have to say no.
796
00:40:20,718 --> 00:40:22,117
Pray tell why,
my brother?
797
00:40:22,186 --> 00:40:26,646
Well, I think most born-again
fundamentalists would disagree...
798
00:40:26,724 --> 00:40:29,750
and most Judeo-Christian
theologians would have to argue...
799
00:40:29,827 --> 00:40:32,819
that the reformed sinner simply
discovered a divine spark...
800
00:40:32,897 --> 00:40:35,058
that had always
laid within, anyway.
801
00:40:35,132 --> 00:40:36,394
Answer your question,
Debbie?
802
00:40:36,467 --> 00:40:38,128
I guess.
803
00:40:39,003 --> 00:40:40,061
Thank you, Debbie.
804
00:40:41,305 --> 00:40:44,103
Caller number three, this is
Mea Culpa. You're on the air.
805
00:40:44,642 --> 00:40:45,734
Chris Stevens.
806
00:40:45,810 --> 00:40:48,904
This Chris Stevens sitting
before you today...
807
00:40:49,246 --> 00:40:52,374
bears only coincidental
resemblance to the Chris Stevens...
808
00:40:52,450 --> 00:40:55,544
being sought by the state
of West Virginia.
809
00:40:55,619 --> 00:41:00,181
To find that Chris Stevens, you'll
have to look in the pages of history.
810
00:41:01,492 --> 00:41:05,223
Yes, there's evidence that may
appear to make the two men one.
811
00:41:06,430 --> 00:41:10,526
May I remind you of the words of the
illustrious Supreme Court Justice...
812
00:41:10,601 --> 00:41:12,796
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
813
00:41:12,870 --> 00:41:16,897
"Certitude is not
the test of certainty. "
814
00:41:18,476 --> 00:41:19,909
Can you be certain,
Your Honor...
815
00:41:19,977 --> 00:41:23,344
that this is the same man
named in the warrant? If not...
816
00:41:23,948 --> 00:41:28,351
if even the slightest wisp of a doubt
casts its shadow upon your deliberations...
817
00:41:28,586 --> 00:41:31,316
then you must find
for the defendant...
818
00:41:31,455 --> 00:41:33,218
and set him free.
819
00:41:39,263 --> 00:41:42,232
Well, this has been
an interesting couple of days.
820
00:41:42,900 --> 00:41:46,734
My compliments, Mr. Monroe,
on a spirited...
821
00:41:46,804 --> 00:41:48,829
and imaginative defense.
822
00:41:48,906 --> 00:41:49,998
Thank you.
823
00:41:50,140 --> 00:41:53,007
As I indicated, however,
when this hearing began...
824
00:41:53,077 --> 00:41:56,205
it is beyond the scope of this
court to rule on anything...
825
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,272
other than the physical
evidence presented before it.
826
00:41:59,683 --> 00:42:03,779
And while the state may have failed
to make its case in a timely fashion...
827
00:42:03,854 --> 00:42:06,414
it did ultimately
deliver the goods.
828
00:42:07,324 --> 00:42:12,193
The fingerprints irrefutably prove
that the defendant is, in fact...
829
00:42:12,263 --> 00:42:15,232
the Christopher Stevens
named in the warrant...
830
00:42:15,299 --> 00:42:18,325
and leave me no choice but to order
him turned over to the custody...
831
00:42:18,402 --> 00:42:20,427
of the State
of West Virginia.
832
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:26,804
God bless Captain Vere, Your
Honor! Justice has been served!
833
00:42:26,877 --> 00:42:29,971
Mr. Stevens, please sit down.
I'm not through.
834
00:42:30,214 --> 00:42:35,208
Now, while the court may have no
latitude in rendering its decision...
835
00:42:35,319 --> 00:42:39,380
this is not true as to how its
orders are to be carried out.
836
00:42:39,924 --> 00:42:43,621
In special circumstances where
the court deems that the removal...
837
00:42:43,861 --> 00:42:48,230
of a certain individual would place an
undue burden upon his or her community...
838
00:42:48,299 --> 00:42:52,963
it is accepted practice to
delay execution of sentence.
839
00:42:54,338 --> 00:42:58,934
After careful review, it is my
opinion that the defendant...
840
00:42:59,810 --> 00:43:04,304
by virtue of what I can only
call his "Chrisness"...
841
00:43:05,015 --> 00:43:07,882
has a vital impact
upon the life of Cicely...
842
00:43:07,952 --> 00:43:12,787
and to summarily remove him would
place an undue hardship on the town...
843
00:43:12,957 --> 00:43:15,755
exceeding the caliber
of his own offense.
844
00:43:17,127 --> 00:43:21,154
Thus, I order Mr. Stevens...
845
00:43:21,231 --> 00:43:25,565
free on his own recognizance for a
period not to exceed three years...
846
00:43:25,836 --> 00:43:29,932
during which time the town of
Cicely is to hire another disk jockey
847
00:43:30,007 --> 00:43:33,374
who can perform the same
services as Mr. Stevens.
848
00:43:33,978 --> 00:43:36,503
If at the end of
this three-year period...
849
00:43:36,580 --> 00:43:39,413
the town has failed
to hire another DJ...
850
00:43:39,483 --> 00:43:44,386
Mr. Stevens will be turned over to
the authorities of West Virginia...
851
00:43:44,455 --> 00:43:45,922
regardless.
852
00:43:46,690 --> 00:43:48,920
Should they show up.
853
00:43:53,497 --> 00:43:55,226
That's it,
ladies and gentlemen.
854
00:43:55,299 --> 00:43:57,096
Court is adjourned.
855
00:43:59,937 --> 00:44:01,029
What happened, Mike?
856
00:44:01,105 --> 00:44:02,902
Well, we won, kind of.
857
00:44:02,973 --> 00:44:05,168
Yeah? Hey!
Yeah.
858
00:44:07,311 --> 00:44:08,744
Excuse me.
859
00:44:08,812 --> 00:44:10,803
Faced the music?
Hey! Great show.
860
00:44:12,249 --> 00:44:14,774
Out of the way, gang way,
move over.
861
00:44:14,852 --> 00:44:17,582
Congratulations, son.
I was with you all the way.
862
00:44:17,655 --> 00:44:19,054
I know you were, Maurice.
863
00:44:35,472 --> 00:44:36,803
Hey.
Hey!
864
00:44:36,874 --> 00:44:39,968
Congrats. You did great.
865
00:44:40,244 --> 00:44:41,233
Yeah?
866
00:44:41,545 --> 00:44:43,672
What, you kidding me?
Mike says you killed her.
867
00:44:43,747 --> 00:44:44,907
Shrewd defense.
868
00:44:44,982 --> 00:44:46,347
What defense?
869
00:44:46,417 --> 00:44:48,009
The "no defense" defense.
870
00:44:48,085 --> 00:44:49,074
Oh.
871
00:44:49,887 --> 00:44:52,651
Whatever happened in there, I just
- I want you guys to know...
872
00:44:52,723 --> 00:44:55,248
I really, really appreciate
what you said about me.
873
00:44:55,325 --> 00:44:57,418
It's kind of like being
at my own funeral.
874
00:44:57,494 --> 00:44:59,018
I dug it.
875
00:45:00,931 --> 00:45:03,456
Who is Chris Stevens?
Who are any of us?
876
00:45:03,534 --> 00:45:05,934
Are we one person
fixed at birth?
877
00:45:06,170 --> 00:45:09,469
Do we grow like a snowball tumbling
down the mountainside of life...
878
00:45:09,540 --> 00:45:11,940
or can we change,
shed our skin?
879
00:45:12,009 --> 00:45:13,772
The caterpillar
becomes the butterfly...
880
00:45:13,844 --> 00:45:16,836
leaving the remains of
his former self behind.
881
00:45:17,214 --> 00:45:20,308
I look at my yearbook photo, Wheeling
Central Catholic High School...
882
00:45:20,384 --> 00:45:23,615
class of '81, and I wonder
who that stranger is.
883
00:45:23,821 --> 00:45:25,584
Damned if I know.
Maybe that's the point.
884
00:45:25,656 --> 00:45:27,055
Maybe we're not
supposed to know.
885
00:45:27,124 --> 00:45:30,218
Maybe that's what this
earthly joy ride's all about.
886
00:45:30,294 --> 00:45:32,455
Like Robert Frost said...
887
00:45:32,529 --> 00:45:34,622
"We dance around in a ring
and suppose...
888
00:45:34,698 --> 00:45:37,166
"but the secret sits
in the middle and knows. "
889
00:45:37,216 --> 00:45:41,766
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