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[MEN LAUGHING]

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MAN 2:
That baby's going scared. Ha-ha-ha.

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MAN 1:
Whoo! Yeah!

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Hell, yeah!

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-Excited, yeah?
-Go, baby! Ooh!

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MAN 1:
Yeah!

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[MEN CHATTERING]

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I don't wanna do nothing--

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[TIRES SKIDDING AND MEN LAUGHING]

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We got her, bro. Here we go.

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BILLY RAY:
Give me one.

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Get them, get them, get them.

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Hey, boys!

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How y'all doing today?

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What are you looking at?
You wanna get shot?

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You wanna get shot? Woo-hoo!

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PETE:
Go, baby!

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-Got it!
-Pearl Harbor! Pearl Harbor!

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[PETE AND BILLY RAY LAUGHING]

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PETE:
Hey!

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And here's another one.

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Watch this, Billy Ray!

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Hundred points!

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Yeah!

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-It's a beautiful day, isn't it?
TONYA: Uh-huh.

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[BOTTLE BREAKS]
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-Bye, Tonya.
TONYA: Bye.

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BILLY RAY:
Clean up that mess, boy.

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-Pete, hungry?
-Huh?

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Hey. Ha-ha-ha.

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-Oh, you're not having anything?
-Yeah, I'm having them.

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Course, it's shit.

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JAKE: Bye, girls.
WOMAN & GIRL: Bye, Daddy.

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JAKE:
Let's go, Max.

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Get in the house, pup. Harry Rex.

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All those weekends, fishing,
drinking, lounging...

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...opportunities lost
to do-it-yourself house renovations.

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-Tragic, just tragic, Jake.
-Yeah.

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Makes Carla happy, my man.

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Spent four marriages trying to figure out
what makes women happy.

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You have spent four marriages...

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...trying to figure out what makes
you happy, who you kidding?

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Oh, yeah. Maybe that's it.

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Yeah, maybe.

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-Swiggy?
-Lord, please let my car be fixed today.

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HARRY REX:
Oh, dear.

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Hey, who's that?

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She looks a little young.

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-Hold this.
-What are you gonna do?

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You know how I say if they're old enough
to crawl, they're in the right position.

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What are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do? You crazy.

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PETE: Whoo! Yeah! Fifty points!
BILLY RAY: Ha-ha-ha.

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PETE:
Yeah, you good, boy.

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[TONYA SCREAMS]

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BILLY RAY:
Shut up!

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TONYA: Daddy!
BILLY RAY: Hey!

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-Shut up.
TONYA: Daddy!

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Shut up.

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-I'll kill you.
PETE: My turn.

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TONYA [CRYING]: Daddy!
PETE: Shut up.

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TONYA:
Daddy.

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[TONYA SCREAMS]

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PETE:
Yeah.

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CHILDREN:
Mom! Mama!

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Mom! Mama!

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Mom!

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Mama!

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Mom.

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[CHILDREN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

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-What is this?
CHILDREN [IN UNISON]: Groceries.

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-Y'all didn't see her?
CHILDREN: No, ma'am.

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Carl Lee! Stop!

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-You got a call from your wife!
-What? What?

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[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

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[JAKE HUMMING]

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JAKE: How many appointments
do we have today, Ethel?

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ETHEL:
Not a one.
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But it is the 1st of the month again
and guess what.

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The checks are pouring in and we have
enough money to pay all our past debts.

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That'll be your last drink.

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Just keep us no more than
one month behind on any vendor, please.

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Why, you have been drinking.

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Two months.

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Well, these are the most delinquent.

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The rent's in there.

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I appreciate the practice, capitán, I do,
but you could've left me a couple of clients.

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GWEN [CRYING]:
Baby, here's Daddy.

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Oh, no.

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I'm here, baby. Daddy's here.

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TONYA:
Daddy, I'm sorry I dropped the groceries.

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-That's all right, baby. It's all right, baby.
-I'm sorry, Daddy.

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CARL LEE:
That's all right.

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Look at this.

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SHERIFF:
Billy Ray?

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Sorry, sir, but we don't allow
no African-Americans in here. Ha, ha.

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Billy Ray Cobb, you and Mr. Willard
need to come with me.

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Hell, no. I ain't moving.

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-You know that little girl you took for a ride?
BILLY RAY: Mm.

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-What little girl?
-I got bad news for you. She didn't die.

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So unless there's another redneck asshole
got a souped-up yellow pickup...

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...with a Confederate flag
in the windshield--

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Blue gums, why don't you take your
black ass out of here and grab a branch.

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Unless you got an explanation for what
this was doing in the bed of your truck...

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...you're going to jail. Now, get up.

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You can go to hell, nigger.

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-Unh! Goddamn!
MAN: Hey!

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[BILLY RAY GRUNTING]

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Now, you earned
the right to remain silent.

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-Here you go, just the way you like them.
-Thank you.

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-Dell, sugar, today I'm gonna have--
DELL: Go to hell, Harry.

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On second thought,
I'm just gonna watch baby eat his.

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I am not the one
who handled her divorce.

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Can't she see
I'm shriveling away here?

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I'm shriveling.

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-Say, Jake?
-Yeah, what's up, Dwayne?
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Didn't you defend Billy Ray Cobb
few years back?

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What kind of case was it?

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Caught him selling dope.

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Spent time in Parchman.
Got out last year.

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No, I think some Memphis lawyer
handled that.

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Why do you ask?

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Well, we picked him up for rape.
Him and Pete Willard.

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Who'd they rape?

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You know Carl Lee Hailey?

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Sure, I defended his brother Lester.

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It was his little girl.

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Little Tonya?

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Yeah.

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How old is she?
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She's 10.

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Mr. Willard, I'm Sheriff Ozzie Walls.

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My mama voted for you.

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I seen you play for the Rams.

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Way I figure, a nigger sheriff's okay,
been on TV and all.

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No offense.

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SHERIFF:
What's your full name?

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James Lewis Willard.

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Four, which is a difference of 110.60.

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[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

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Who's there?

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Carl Lee.

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How is she?

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CARL LEE:
She holding on.
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Doctor says she ain't
out of the woods yet, though.

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They worked her over
something good, Jake.

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You remember them four white boys raped
that little black girl in the Delta last year?

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Yeah.

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They, uh....

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They got off, didn't they?

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Yeah.

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Jake....

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I was in a jam, you'd help me out,
wouldn't you?

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Sure, Carl Lee.

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What kind of jam you talking about?

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You got a daughter, Jake.

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What would you do?

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Dream some good dreams, baby girl.

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Good night, Daddy.

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[WHISPERS]
Night, baby.

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-Is she asleep?
-Yeah.

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-Is she the sweetest thing?
-Yeah, she is.

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Next to you.

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Tell you what, I look at her, though, and
I cannot help but think about little Tonya.

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Don't.

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Don't do that to yourself.

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Yeah.

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Something else wrong?

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Tonya's father...

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...Carl Lee Hailey...

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...came by the office today.

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Man's heart is torn wide open, baby.

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I don't know, but...

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...sounded to me
like he was thinking about doing something.

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Like what?

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Something like maybe
killing those two boys.

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Was he serious?

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I don't know. I don't know.

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It could've been just the hurt talking,
you know?

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But when you think that it's possible
that those two animals could...

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...go free...

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...and be walking the streets....

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I....

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I don't know.

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After what that man has been through,
he's probably capable of anything.
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Somebody should do something.

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You should call Sheriff Walls.

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Yeah.

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To release the owner from assessment.

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I hope I'm having a heart attack
because then I'd get to sue you.

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Don't stand on ceremony, come on in.

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What? No clients?

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Just waiting to pick yours up
on appeal, Harry.

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And you, are you on vacation?

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Fortunately for me, my lovely...

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...divorce doesn't go on vacation.

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However...

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...not even the richest,
most ridiculous settlement I ever bring in...

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...is gonna be as satisfying
as watching those two hyenas...

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...across the street
get what's coming to them.

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Oh, dear.

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00:16:58,434 --> 00:17:02,479
You know I'm a fool for those, um,
German-type convertibles.

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[CHUCKLES]

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Come on, lover boy, let's get to court.

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00:17:06,442 --> 00:17:09,361
Lucien thinks the two hyenas
just might get off.

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You saw Lucien?

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00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:12,906
When? Where?

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How is he?

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Has he been eating any better?

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Just curious.

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Um, Miss Ethel...

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...refresh my recollection, how long
were you and Lucien together for exactly?

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We were never together.

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I was his secretary for 20 years.

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Come on, old girl.

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-You can tell us, you know.
-He was your boyfriend.

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I am an upstanding, God-fearing,
respectable Southern woman...

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...with unimpeachable morals
who has been happily married for 27 years.

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And I have never had
or ever will have any boyfriend.

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And if I did...

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...it certainly would not be
that old pickled scoundrel Lucien Wilbanks.

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[DOOR SLAMS]

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She did him. Oh, yeah, a lot.

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DWAYNE:
All right, Billy Ray, step on back.

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Come on out. Willard.

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All right, boys, today's your big day.

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We're gonna take a trip
to the courthouse.

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The judge is gonna set your bail.

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Then we're gonna come back here,
all nice and peaceful-like.

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I get any trouble out of you,
I'm going to integrate this jail.

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[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

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HANNAH: Mama, Daddy's home!
Daddy's home!

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CARLA:
Hannah girl, let's go inside for a minute.

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Give Daddy some time to himself.

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-Let's-- Let's find a book, okay?
HANNAH: I wanna see Daddy.

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CARLA:
Honey?

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Jake? Jake? Are you hurt?
Jake, what happened to you?

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Jake, honey, are you okay?
What happened to you?
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What is this? What is going on with you?
What happened?

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Jake, baby.

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What happened?

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[SIRENS WAILING]

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[CRYING]
Okay, okay.

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See you, Gwen.

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WOMAN:
Is the sheriff gonna make a statement?

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00:22:06,826 --> 00:22:08,618
HASTINGS:
He might, he might not. I don't know.

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MAN: Is it first-degree murder?
HASTINGS: I'm not sure yet.

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WOMAN: What happened?
Can you tell us something?

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00:22:13,749 --> 00:22:16,960
MAN: Sheriff, will you give us a statement.
-I got no comment. No comment.

250
00:22:17,128 --> 00:22:20,088
Hey. Hey, Jake.
Hey, Jake, Carl Lee said you'd be coming.

251
00:22:20,256 --> 00:22:22,549
WOMAN: Sir, are you an attorney?
MAN: Are you an attorney?

252
00:22:22,717 --> 00:22:26,094
Now, I'll make a statement.
I want y'all to get these vans out of here.

253
00:22:26,262 --> 00:22:28,513
WOMAN: Sir, we've gotta get something
for our newscast.

254
00:22:39,692 --> 00:22:42,694
[DOOR LOCKING]

255
00:22:48,325 --> 00:22:50,118
Didn't think I'd do it, did you?

256
00:22:53,873 --> 00:22:55,707
How you holding up?

257
00:22:59,962 --> 00:23:03,465
I ain't had nothing against them boys
till they messed with my baby.

258
00:23:04,383 --> 00:23:08,595
And I feel sorry for their mamas
and their daddies, but...

259
00:23:09,305 --> 00:23:11,264
...I ain't sorry for what I done.

260
00:23:14,518 --> 00:23:15,643
How's Looney?

261
00:23:18,481 --> 00:23:20,273
You blew his knee right off his leg.

262
00:23:21,150 --> 00:23:23,485
Doctors are still with him.

263
00:23:27,448 --> 00:23:28,948
What's gonna happen to me now?

264
00:23:30,451 --> 00:23:32,744
There's gonna be a preliminary hearing.

265
00:23:32,912 --> 00:23:35,205
Probably tomorrow.

266
00:23:35,664 --> 00:23:37,832
After that, Buckley will push
for a fast trial.

267
00:23:38,834 --> 00:23:39,959
Who's Buckley?

268
00:23:40,127 --> 00:23:41,628
Rufus Buckley.

269
00:23:41,796 --> 00:23:42,837
District attorney.

270
00:23:43,005 --> 00:23:47,008
He's mean, he's ambitious, and he's
gonna eat this up because of the publicity.

271
00:23:47,176 --> 00:23:48,968
But you've done beat him, ain't you?

272
00:23:49,470 --> 00:23:51,137
Yeah.

273
00:23:51,514 --> 00:23:53,139
Not in a murder case.

274
00:23:57,019 --> 00:23:58,478
Think I can win?

275
00:23:59,355 --> 00:24:01,731
All depends on the jury, Carl Lee.

276
00:24:02,858 --> 00:24:04,734
Pick the right jury, and you walk.

277
00:24:06,195 --> 00:24:08,196
DA picks the jury...

278
00:24:08,364 --> 00:24:09,656
...and you get the gas.

279
00:24:13,202 --> 00:24:14,828
Well, how much--?

280
00:24:14,995 --> 00:24:16,996
How much a case like this cost?

281
00:24:20,042 --> 00:24:21,417
Probably 50 grand.

282
00:24:21,585 --> 00:24:23,503
[SIGHS]

283
00:24:23,671 --> 00:24:26,631
I can pay maybe 10.

284
00:24:28,551 --> 00:24:30,301
[CARL LEE SIGHS]

285
00:24:33,472 --> 00:24:38,560
Well, not a lot of white lawyers
would've took my brother Lester's case.

286
00:24:39,061 --> 00:24:41,563
You did and got him off.

287
00:24:42,398 --> 00:24:47,986
I figure there's a lot of people out there
tired of all the raping and killing.

288
00:24:48,154 --> 00:24:52,115
They'd be sympathetic to a man
who took the law into his own hands...

289
00:24:52,283 --> 00:24:53,992
...even if he is black.

290
00:25:01,250 --> 00:25:05,170
You said you'd help me out
if I was in a jam, Jake.

291
00:25:05,588 --> 00:25:08,214
Well, I'm in one now.

292
00:25:09,425 --> 00:25:10,550
What you say?

293
00:25:13,179 --> 00:25:16,222
MAN: What can you tell us, sheriff?
WOMAN: Can you tell us what happened?

294
00:25:16,390 --> 00:25:19,058
-Are you with the police department?
-No, I am a lawyer.

295
00:25:19,226 --> 00:25:21,019
Are you Carl Lee Hailey's attorney?

296
00:25:21,979 --> 00:25:24,439
Sir, are you Mr. Hailey's attorney?

297
00:25:24,607 --> 00:25:25,773
Yes, I am.

298
00:25:25,941 --> 00:25:28,193
-What's your name, sir?
-Brigance. Jake Brigance.

299
00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:29,694
That's with one G.

300
00:25:37,328 --> 00:25:38,786
MAN:
Hailey's hired an attorney.

301
00:25:39,496 --> 00:25:40,538
Jake Brigance.

302
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,333
[RUFUS CHUCKLING]

303
00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:46,502
And today ain't even my birthday.

304
00:25:46,670 --> 00:25:50,048
Brigance couldn't tie his own tie
without that old drunk Wilbanks.

305
00:25:50,216 --> 00:25:52,175
Telling the press
he never lost a murder case.

306
00:25:52,343 --> 00:25:54,469
Well, he's never tried one against me,
has he?

307
00:25:54,637 --> 00:25:57,138
-What time's the preliminary?
-Tomorrow at 3.

308
00:25:57,306 --> 00:25:59,098
Judge Omar Noose presiding.

309
00:25:59,725 --> 00:26:02,143
Oh, I was wrong. It is my birthday.

310
00:26:02,519 --> 00:26:06,105
All right. First things first,
Brigance will file for a change of venue.

311
00:26:06,273 --> 00:26:09,317
-Guy would be a fool if he didn't.
-Why's that?

312
00:26:09,818 --> 00:26:10,944
Why?

313
00:26:11,111 --> 00:26:13,446
Should we tell our young,
uninformed law clerk...

314
00:26:13,614 --> 00:26:15,782
...the reality of jurisprudence
in this county?

315
00:26:15,950 --> 00:26:20,078
Evelyn, get me the state file
on race statistics.

316
00:26:20,246 --> 00:26:21,871
You see, Taylor, it's quite simple.

317
00:26:22,039 --> 00:26:25,124
This county's 26-, 30-percent black,
give or take.

318
00:26:25,292 --> 00:26:29,420
Almost every other county is 40-, 45-,
in some cases 70-percent black.
319
00:26:29,588 --> 00:26:31,714
Blacks are more sympathetic
to other blacks.

320
00:26:31,882 --> 00:26:34,968
If he gets it moved, he has
a greater chance of color in the jury.

321
00:26:35,135 --> 00:26:36,219
We know what that means.

322
00:26:36,387 --> 00:26:39,555
But if the trial stays here,
it's an all-white jury for sure.

323
00:26:39,723 --> 00:26:41,349
Now, Taylor, this is for you...

324
00:26:41,850 --> 00:26:44,394
...to integrate your brain with
before 3:00 tomorrow.

325
00:26:44,561 --> 00:26:46,896
TAYLOR: Yes.
-He means without blacks on the jury...

326
00:26:47,064 --> 00:26:49,065
...Hailey hasn't got a chance in hell.

327
00:26:49,233 --> 00:26:52,360
RUFUS: All right, Noose is up for re-elect?
-Yeah, November.

328
00:26:52,528 --> 00:26:54,612
Reach out to our friends
in the legislature.

329
00:26:54,780 --> 00:26:58,408
Have them call on Noose. We're gonna
help him decide to keep this case in Canton.

330
00:26:58,575 --> 00:27:02,412
Also, send a case of whatever it is
he's drinking these days to Lucien Wilbanks.

331
00:27:02,579 --> 00:27:06,082
-I believe that's Dewars.
-Keep that old drunk on the sidelines.

332
00:27:06,250 --> 00:27:07,333
Yeah, get me Sam.

333
00:27:07,501 --> 00:27:09,252
RUFUS:
And, gentlemen?

334
00:27:10,546 --> 00:27:13,756
No mistakes.
This is the one we've been waiting for.

335
00:27:14,550 --> 00:27:17,385
LUCIEN:
Justifiable homicide will never hold up.

336
00:27:17,553 --> 00:27:20,179
JAKE: Then my only chance
is to find a shrink who'll testify...

337
00:27:20,347 --> 00:27:22,765
...Carl Lee was insane
at the time of the murders.

338
00:27:23,058 --> 00:27:27,228
Well, I might know a man
who owes me a favor.

339
00:27:27,896 --> 00:27:31,482
-You'll file for change of venue.
-Of course.

340
00:27:32,568 --> 00:27:35,236
Judge Noose denies it...

341
00:27:35,404 --> 00:27:38,906
...then you'll get an all-white jury
and you'll lose.

342
00:27:39,366 --> 00:27:40,825
Thank you for the encouragement.

343
00:27:40,993 --> 00:27:45,913
Well, bear in mind that Mr. Hailey
is as guilty as sin under our legal system.
344
00:27:46,081 --> 00:27:51,919
It does not permit vigilante violence,
and he took the law into his own hands.

345
00:27:52,087 --> 00:27:54,589
He murdered two people.

346
00:27:55,257 --> 00:27:59,635
Two people who had raped
his 10-year-old daughter.

347
00:28:01,764 --> 00:28:03,139
You know...

348
00:28:03,307 --> 00:28:05,558
...you can win this case...

349
00:28:05,726 --> 00:28:07,894
...and justice will prevail.

350
00:28:08,062 --> 00:28:09,645
But lose...

351
00:28:09,813 --> 00:28:14,192
...and justice will also prevail.
Now, that's a strange case.

352
00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:15,985
Yeah.

353
00:28:17,780 --> 00:28:19,989
I could use your help.

354
00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:25,411
The sons of bitches decertified me, Jake.

355
00:28:25,579 --> 00:28:28,956
I swore I will never
enter another courtroom ever.

356
00:28:29,124 --> 00:28:32,543
Lucien, you're the best lawyer
I've ever seen.

357
00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:35,713
Now, I know how much it hurt
when they took your license away...

358
00:28:35,881 --> 00:28:38,341
...but they can't take your mind
unless you let them.

359
00:28:39,635 --> 00:28:40,843
Good speech.

360
00:28:41,011 --> 00:28:43,137
Well, I had a good teacher.

361
00:28:43,305 --> 00:28:46,265
Now, you remember when I came to you
out of law school?

362
00:28:47,059 --> 00:28:48,851
In a ridiculous blue suit.

363
00:28:49,019 --> 00:28:50,395
Yeah.

364
00:28:50,562 --> 00:28:54,982
Now, you sat me down and you said to me,
"Young man, I cannot promise you riches.

365
00:28:55,317 --> 00:28:58,820
What I can offer you
is a chance to save the world...

366
00:28:58,987 --> 00:29:00,405
...one case at a time."

367
00:29:03,409 --> 00:29:06,661
Well, I'm saying the same words
back to you right now.

368
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,205
How about it, Lucien?

369
00:29:12,709 --> 00:29:15,503
MINISTER: The Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not want.

370
00:29:15,671 --> 00:29:18,798
He maketh me to lie down
in green pastures.

371
00:29:18,966 --> 00:29:21,509
He leadeth me beside still waters.

372
00:29:21,677 --> 00:29:25,346
Yea, though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death...

373
00:29:25,514 --> 00:29:29,851
...I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

374
00:29:30,018 --> 00:29:32,854
Thy rod and thy staff comfort me.

375
00:29:33,188 --> 00:29:36,399
Thou preparest a table before me....

376
00:29:36,567 --> 00:29:39,152
Sure am sorry about your brother,
Freddie.

377
00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:41,904
Old Willard too.

378
00:29:42,072 --> 00:29:44,407
Good boys, both.

379
00:29:49,163 --> 00:29:52,206
Ten years ago, that nigger would
be hanging by the end of a rope...

380
00:29:52,374 --> 00:29:54,292
...with his balls in his mouth.

381
00:29:54,460 --> 00:29:56,627
You tell me what's wrong
with this country.

382
00:29:57,379 --> 00:29:58,921
Klan would know what to do.

383
00:30:00,048 --> 00:30:02,008
My granddaddy, he was Klan.
384
00:30:03,093 --> 00:30:07,054
-Ain't no Klan around here for years.
-Oh, there's still some boys around.

385
00:30:07,222 --> 00:30:09,515
Them skinheads who want to
blow up the government?

386
00:30:09,683 --> 00:30:12,810
No, sir. Good God-fearing Klan.

387
00:30:15,189 --> 00:30:17,607
I got a friend, used to be active.

388
00:30:17,774 --> 00:30:18,900
I could give him a call.

389
00:30:20,736 --> 00:30:22,778
You do that, Winston.

390
00:30:22,946 --> 00:30:25,823
You tell them boys we need
some Klan down here in Canton.

391
00:30:25,991 --> 00:30:28,034
I mean right quick.

392
00:30:31,413 --> 00:30:32,455
CARLA:
Hurry up, honey.

393
00:30:32,623 --> 00:30:34,123
JAKE:
Coming, coming, coming.

394
00:30:34,291 --> 00:30:37,418
MAN [ON TV]: Something you can tell us?
WOMAN [ON TV]: What did Carl Lee tell you?

395
00:30:37,586 --> 00:30:39,212
JAKE:
There's Ozzie.

396
00:30:40,589 --> 00:30:44,759
-To our family's television debut.
-To the big time.

397
00:30:45,385 --> 00:30:49,138
I cannot believe he didn't take you seriously
when you warned him.

398
00:30:49,306 --> 00:30:52,683
Well, baby, you know, some folks
think those boys got what they deserved.

399
00:30:52,851 --> 00:30:56,187
Here, sweet pea. Carl Lee Hailey
may very well spend his life in prison.

400
00:30:56,355 --> 00:30:58,147
That is nothing his family deserves.

401
00:30:58,315 --> 00:30:59,607
-Yeah.
-You did call Ozzie--

402
00:30:59,775 --> 00:31:02,443
-Lookit here. Look who's--
CARLA: Daddy's on TV.

403
00:31:02,611 --> 00:31:06,572
I intend to show the men and women of the
South to look past color and see the truth.

404
00:31:06,740 --> 00:31:11,160
That here in the South-- In the new South,
justice is and will be colorblind.

405
00:31:12,538 --> 00:31:13,579
[PHONE RINGING]

406
00:31:13,747 --> 00:31:16,290
-Impressive. Honey, that was really good.
-Hmm?

407
00:31:16,458 --> 00:31:18,834
-Isn't Daddy smart?
HANNAH: Mm-hm.

408
00:31:19,002 --> 00:31:20,461
Yeah. Brigance.
409
00:31:20,629 --> 00:31:21,796
-Mm-hm.
-That was great.

410
00:31:21,964 --> 00:31:24,048
Yeah. No, we just saw it.

411
00:31:24,216 --> 00:31:25,550
All right, Harry Rex. Yeah.

412
00:31:25,717 --> 00:31:26,926
Baby, I'm proud of you.

413
00:31:27,094 --> 00:31:28,135
[PHONE RINGS]

414
00:31:28,303 --> 00:31:29,637
-Good stuff, huh?
-Mm-hm.

415
00:31:29,805 --> 00:31:32,014
-You hear this?
-Put it on speakerphone.

416
00:31:32,182 --> 00:31:34,058
Don't be gross.

417
00:31:34,434 --> 00:31:37,562
-Ahem. F. Lee Bailey's office.
MAN [OVER PHONE]: Brigance.

418
00:31:37,729 --> 00:31:42,483
You nigger-loving son-of-a-bitch,
you won't live if the nigger walks.

419
00:31:42,651 --> 00:31:45,319
Hey, hey. Hey.

420
00:31:46,113 --> 00:31:48,155
WOMAN:
Do you have any sympathy for the defense?

421
00:31:48,323 --> 00:31:51,325
Well, of course I do, Stephanie.
You're a mother, I'm a father.
422
00:31:51,493 --> 00:31:54,287
We all have families. Who wouldn't?

423
00:31:54,454 --> 00:31:56,789
Don't presume the district attorney
is insensitive.

424
00:31:56,957 --> 00:31:59,000
But the people
of the state of Mississippi...

425
00:31:59,167 --> 00:32:01,752
...entrusted this office
to uphold the law of the land.

426
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,131
Our society cannot condone men
who take the law into their own hands.

427
00:32:05,299 --> 00:32:06,549
No matter the circumstance.

428
00:32:06,717 --> 00:32:09,385
If you get a conviction,
will you ask for the gas chamber?

429
00:32:09,553 --> 00:32:12,179
Yes, I will seek the death penalty
for Mr. Hailey.

430
00:32:12,347 --> 00:32:14,181
WOMAN:
What do you think of Mr. Brigance?

431
00:32:14,349 --> 00:32:16,392
Isn’t that boy still in law school?

432
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,644
Say hey to your husband for me, Kim.
That's all.

433
00:32:18,812 --> 00:32:21,188
[REPORTERS CHATTERING]

434
00:32:33,368 --> 00:32:36,203
Hey, Cora Mae, don't you worry.
Hey, Wayne, how are you?

435
00:32:36,371 --> 00:32:37,955
MAN:
Good luck.

436
00:32:39,541 --> 00:32:42,585
You plead him guilty today, I'll ask for life.
Otherwise, he dies.

437
00:32:42,753 --> 00:32:46,339
You drop your case now, and I won't
bury you before the entire county, Rufus.

438
00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:49,008
All rise.

439
00:32:50,844 --> 00:32:54,513
Court is in session.
The Honorable Omar Noose presiding.

440
00:32:54,681 --> 00:32:57,058
Good afternoon, citizens.

441
00:32:59,144 --> 00:33:00,728
Be seated.

442
00:33:00,896 --> 00:33:02,480
Counsel.

443
00:33:02,648 --> 00:33:04,231
And you, sir.

444
00:33:04,399 --> 00:33:06,901
-Are you Carl Lee Hailey?
-Yes, sir.

445
00:33:07,069 --> 00:33:11,072
Uh, Mr. Hailey, I am holding
a copy of an indictment returned...

446
00:33:11,239 --> 00:33:14,742
...by the grand jury of Mississippi
presenting that:

447
00:33:14,910 --> 00:33:19,622
"Carl Lee Hailey did murder Billy Ray Cobb,
a human being...

448
00:33:19,790 --> 00:33:22,625
...and James Lewis Willard,
a human being...

449
00:33:22,793 --> 00:33:26,837
...and did attempt to kill Dwayne Looney,
a peace officer...

450
00:33:27,005 --> 00:33:30,049
...against the peace and dignity
of the state of Mississippi."

451
00:33:30,467 --> 00:33:32,927
Now, do you understand
the charges against you?

452
00:33:33,387 --> 00:33:35,971
-Yes, sir.
-How do you wish to plead?

453
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:39,850
Not guilty, Your Honor.

454
00:33:41,061 --> 00:33:44,480
The defense enters a plea of not guilty
by reason of insanity, Your Honor.

455
00:33:44,648 --> 00:33:46,649
Your trial is set for July 22.

456
00:33:46,817 --> 00:33:51,112
All pretrial motions and matters
should be filed no later than July 8.

457
00:33:51,279 --> 00:33:52,738
-Is there anything further?
RUFUS: Yes.

458
00:33:52,906 --> 00:33:55,032
Your Honor,
in response to the insanity plea...

459
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,285
...the state requests the defendant
be examined by its own doctors.

460
00:33:58,453 --> 00:33:59,453
Request granted.

461
00:33:59,621 --> 00:34:02,748
Additionally,
the state opposes any request for bail.

462
00:34:02,916 --> 00:34:04,834
Your Honor,
we haven't yet asked for bail.

463
00:34:05,001 --> 00:34:07,962
Now, Governor Buckley cannot oppose
a request until one is made.

464
00:34:08,130 --> 00:34:10,005
He should've learned that in law school.

465
00:34:10,173 --> 00:34:13,759
Your Honor, even Mr. Brigance's
meager legal experience...

466
00:34:13,927 --> 00:34:18,097
...should've taught him two things.
One, I have not been elected governor yet.

467
00:34:18,265 --> 00:34:21,142
And number two,
he is required to request bail.

468
00:34:21,309 --> 00:34:22,935
The state opposes any such request.

469
00:34:23,103 --> 00:34:26,480
In the future, why don't we just wait
till he makes the request, huh?

470
00:34:26,732 --> 00:34:27,940
JAKE:
Thank you, Your Honor.

471
00:34:28,108 --> 00:34:30,651
-Your Honor, we would like to request bail.
-Denied.
472
00:34:31,778 --> 00:34:34,196
I have never allowed bail
in a capital-murder case...

473
00:34:34,364 --> 00:34:37,700
...and don't feel
that an exception is called for today.

474
00:34:37,868 --> 00:34:38,993
Good enough.

475
00:34:39,161 --> 00:34:41,245
We will be filing for a change of venue.

476
00:34:41,413 --> 00:34:42,830
I anticipated this.

477
00:34:42,998 --> 00:34:45,583
Let me save you some time,
Mr. Brigance.

478
00:34:45,751 --> 00:34:47,251
Your motion is denied.

479
00:34:47,419 --> 00:34:49,336
JAKE:
Your Honor, we have not yet filed.

480
00:34:49,504 --> 00:34:53,382
We are simply indicating
our intent to file in writing by letting you--

481
00:34:53,550 --> 00:34:55,843
I said, request denied.

482
00:34:56,553 --> 00:34:57,928
Your Honor...

483
00:34:58,096 --> 00:35:01,307
...how can you summarily deny
this request?

484
00:35:01,475 --> 00:35:04,810
It is quite clear that Carl Lee Hailey
cannot receive a fair trial here.
485
00:35:04,978 --> 00:35:07,438
-Now, we feel--
-That's enough. Sidebar.

486
00:35:07,606 --> 00:35:09,023
Your Honor, we have a right--

487
00:35:09,191 --> 00:35:12,067
Mr. Brigance.

488
00:35:12,235 --> 00:35:15,780
I will not tolerate grandstanding
in my courtroom.

489
00:35:23,789 --> 00:35:25,790
[QUIETLY]
Get back to work.

490
00:35:26,625 --> 00:35:29,543
Excellent technique, counselor.

491
00:35:41,515 --> 00:35:42,556
Your Honor.

492
00:35:42,808 --> 00:35:46,393
We feel it would be remiss not to tell you
that in State v. Johnson...

493
00:35:46,561 --> 00:35:48,187
...and State v. Fisher...

494
00:35:48,355 --> 00:35:50,189
...both in 1985...

495
00:35:50,357 --> 00:35:53,025
...failure to properly consider
a change of venue...

496
00:35:53,193 --> 00:35:56,612
...has been a reversible decision on appeal
to the state supreme court.

497
00:35:58,073 --> 00:36:02,952
No.... No trial judge
likes his rulings overturned.
498
00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:09,291
I guess you get to submit that brief after all.
Have it on my desk by Tuesday morning.

499
00:36:09,751 --> 00:36:12,419
Mr. Hailey, you are hereby ordered...

500
00:36:12,587 --> 00:36:17,675
...to remain in custody of
the Madison County sheriff until trial.

501
00:36:17,843 --> 00:36:18,884
Dismissed.

502
00:36:28,395 --> 00:36:31,146
Find me that state doctor.
What's his name? Rodeheaver.

503
00:36:31,314 --> 00:36:33,107
Get him down here to interview Hailey.

504
00:36:33,275 --> 00:36:37,111
Since he's not able to afford a real one,
find who Brigance is using for a shrink.

505
00:36:37,279 --> 00:36:40,281
-I want him discredited.
-You want professional or personal dirt?

506
00:36:40,448 --> 00:36:42,950
I don't wanna know how.
Get me enough to shatter him.

507
00:36:43,118 --> 00:36:44,994
We can do that. Taylor.

508
00:36:50,292 --> 00:36:54,336
This is $900, Carl Lee.
We said a thousand down.

509
00:36:54,504 --> 00:36:56,797
My kids gotta eat.

510
00:36:57,632 --> 00:36:59,383
Mine too.
511
00:37:01,845 --> 00:37:03,637
All right, when do I get the rest?

512
00:37:04,097 --> 00:37:07,349
Them folks over at the bank,
they won't loan me no money on my house.

513
00:37:07,517 --> 00:37:11,896
Why not? Your house is almost paid for.
You borrowed on it before for Lester's trial.

514
00:37:12,063 --> 00:37:13,647
Said I wasn't in jail before.

515
00:37:13,815 --> 00:37:16,525
Said to Gwen, how am I gonna pay
sitting on death row?

516
00:37:16,860 --> 00:37:19,194
And I lost my job at the mill.

517
00:37:19,362 --> 00:37:20,529
They called Gwen.

518
00:37:20,697 --> 00:37:24,783
Worked 20 years,
I'm out five days and they fired me.

519
00:37:27,162 --> 00:37:31,624
Carl Lee, I can't try
a capital-murder case for $900.

520
00:37:31,791 --> 00:37:33,584
Carl Lee, I need to live.

521
00:37:33,752 --> 00:37:35,502
Me too, Jake.

522
00:37:35,670 --> 00:37:37,254
I need to live too.

523
00:37:39,674 --> 00:37:42,551
[JAKE HUMMING]

524
00:37:46,973 --> 00:37:48,807
Nice night.

525
00:37:54,356 --> 00:37:57,524
Finder of precedents,
mystery woman of the courthouse.

526
00:37:57,692 --> 00:38:00,653
ELLEN:
Yup. Care for a beer?

527
00:38:03,406 --> 00:38:06,492
I assume that's the infamous
change-of-venue motion under your arm.

528
00:38:06,660 --> 00:38:08,327
Mm-hm.

529
00:38:08,495 --> 00:38:09,870
Ellen Roark. R-O-A-R-K.

530
00:38:10,038 --> 00:38:13,749
That's Roark in Boston,
but it seems to be Roark in Mississippi.

531
00:38:13,917 --> 00:38:16,210
-Boston, huh?
-Yup, I was born there.

532
00:38:16,378 --> 00:38:18,796
My father's the notorious Sheldon Roark.

533
00:38:18,964 --> 00:38:20,547
Attorney to the stars, yes.

534
00:38:20,715 --> 00:38:22,257
Duly impressed.

535
00:38:22,425 --> 00:38:25,511
What brings you to Mississippi, Roark?
Slumming?

536
00:38:25,679 --> 00:38:27,680
No, law school at Ole Miss.

537
00:38:27,847 --> 00:38:29,932
It's a.... It's a family tradition.
538
00:38:30,100 --> 00:38:34,228
Mom was a sweet little sorority girl there
till Dad-- Till Dad married her.

539
00:38:34,396 --> 00:38:37,731
I married a sweet little sorority girl
from Ole Miss myself.

540
00:38:37,899 --> 00:38:41,151
-Well, they have an excellent selection.
-Yes, they do.

541
00:38:41,319 --> 00:38:43,153
Now, really, what brings you to Canton?

542
00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:45,906
I'm not believing they don't have cars
to sit on on campus.

543
00:38:46,074 --> 00:38:47,449
Carl Lee Hailey.

544
00:38:49,995 --> 00:38:52,246
Really like to help you with the trial.

545
00:38:52,414 --> 00:38:54,289
Now, what makes you think I need help?

546
00:38:55,041 --> 00:38:57,292
You're trying one of the largest
murder cases...

547
00:38:57,460 --> 00:38:59,920
...these parts have seen
and you work alone.

548
00:39:00,088 --> 00:39:02,339
You have no paralegals,
no clerks, researchers...

549
00:39:02,507 --> 00:39:04,466
...nor can you afford to hire any...

550
00:39:04,634 --> 00:39:08,262
...so if Noose doesn't accept
that motion under your arm...

551
00:39:08,430 --> 00:39:13,017
...you go to trial in less than a month.
Trust me, you need help.

552
00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:16,937
-Now, how do you know this?
-Well, I'm an excellent researcher.

553
00:39:17,105 --> 00:39:19,148
-I see that.
-Look, I've played gofer...

554
00:39:19,315 --> 00:39:22,109
...for 7 capital-murder cases,
I've witnessed 2 executions...

555
00:39:22,277 --> 00:39:26,488
...I have written briefs for the ACLU,
I'm top 5 percent of my class...

556
00:39:26,656 --> 00:39:30,117
...editor of the law review,
I'm published, I'm young.

557
00:39:30,285 --> 00:39:31,410
And when I graduate...

558
00:39:31,578 --> 00:39:35,873
...I intend to spend a glorious career
stomping out the death penalty.

559
00:39:36,499 --> 00:39:39,752
Let's see, what else?
Oh, genius runs in my family.

560
00:39:39,919 --> 00:39:41,295
You'll get me on the way up...

561
00:39:41,463 --> 00:39:45,215
...and I really think, you know,
now is a good time to, you know, grab me.

562
00:39:45,383 --> 00:39:48,093
Mm-hm.
Is there anything else I should know?
563
00:39:48,261 --> 00:39:50,471
Uh, let's see, anything else?

564
00:39:50,638 --> 00:39:53,098
Oh, my father's filthy rich,
so I'll work for free.

565
00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:56,643
What do you think?

566
00:39:59,814 --> 00:40:02,649
I think I'll drop this brief off
in Noose's night slot.

567
00:40:03,234 --> 00:40:04,985
Go home and see my family.

568
00:40:05,153 --> 00:40:08,822
Thank you, Roark,
but I can handle the case myself.

569
00:40:10,992 --> 00:40:12,618
Uh....

570
00:40:12,786 --> 00:40:14,912
You might wanna
look at these precedents.

571
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,623
Look at State v. Cooper
and State v. Roundtree.

572
00:40:17,791 --> 00:40:20,209
Both revenge killers, both acquitted.

573
00:40:23,505 --> 00:40:25,130
You'll change your mind.

574
00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:28,884
See you.

575
00:40:35,266 --> 00:40:37,684
MAN:
Get out. Come on.
576
00:40:40,021 --> 00:40:41,021
Wait.

577
00:40:41,189 --> 00:40:42,731
Come on.

578
00:41:04,838 --> 00:41:10,008
Mr. Cobb, this is Stump Sisson,
grand dragon of Mississippi.

579
00:41:11,678 --> 00:41:14,012
He heard you were looking to see us.

580
00:41:14,889 --> 00:41:17,599
You were right to call us, Mr. Cobb.

581
00:41:18,726 --> 00:41:21,061
They say the Klan is dead.

582
00:41:22,647 --> 00:41:27,651
Klan don't show up for a few years
and people say the Klan is dead.

583
00:41:28,069 --> 00:41:30,779
Fact is, it just looks dead.

584
00:41:30,947 --> 00:41:34,158
The Klan has always been right there...

585
00:41:34,325 --> 00:41:36,493
...under the surface.

586
00:41:37,328 --> 00:41:41,874
Just waiting for the opportunity
to deliver God's justice.

587
00:41:42,917 --> 00:41:44,251
I wanna help.

588
00:41:44,419 --> 00:41:46,420
I wanna kill that nigger.

589
00:41:46,588 --> 00:41:50,299
Niggers got plenty
of protection nowadays.
590
00:41:51,134 --> 00:41:55,596
They got the NAACP and the ACLU.

591
00:41:55,763 --> 00:41:58,098
Even the federal government.

592
00:41:58,266 --> 00:41:59,892
Hell.

593
00:42:00,101 --> 00:42:02,978
White folks ain't got a chance.

594
00:42:04,022 --> 00:42:06,064
Except the Klan.

595
00:42:09,986 --> 00:42:11,570
I'm gonna tell you what.

596
00:42:13,489 --> 00:42:16,992
You get five or six of your friends
of similar thinking...

597
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:21,455
...and we'll initiate
the Madison County Klavern.

598
00:42:22,874 --> 00:42:24,791
Even make you leader.

599
00:42:27,253 --> 00:42:29,046
Now, you tell me...

600
00:42:29,380 --> 00:42:30,964
...who's that nigger's lawyer?

601
00:42:32,008 --> 00:42:33,217
Local boy.

602
00:42:33,384 --> 00:42:36,678
His name's Brigance.
He's got a pretty good reputation.

603
00:42:38,765 --> 00:42:40,098
He got family?
604
00:42:40,266 --> 00:42:44,019
Yes, sir. He....
He has a wife and a daughter.

605
00:42:46,981 --> 00:42:48,357
Good.

606
00:43:08,127 --> 00:43:09,878
OFFICER [OVER RADIO]:
Two, two.

607
00:43:29,899 --> 00:43:32,234
-What the hell is he doing here?
SHERIFF: Now, calm down.

608
00:43:32,402 --> 00:43:34,069
-No.
-Come on, calm down.

609
00:43:34,237 --> 00:43:38,115
-Calm down.
BOY: He has no right after what he did.

610
00:43:38,283 --> 00:43:40,075
No, he's got no right, sheriff.

611
00:43:40,243 --> 00:43:42,661
SHERIFF:
Don't get your mom upset now.

612
00:43:56,050 --> 00:43:57,759
Looney?

613
00:43:58,761 --> 00:44:00,012
Dwayne?

614
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,394
I made Ozzie bring me.

615
00:44:12,108 --> 00:44:14,026
Shit, Dwayne, we--

616
00:44:14,193 --> 00:44:16,236
We known each other
since we was kids.
617
00:44:21,534 --> 00:44:22,909
It's my fault.

618
00:44:24,037 --> 00:44:25,746
No matter what gets said in court...

619
00:44:27,206 --> 00:44:31,501
...I knew what I was doing,
and I sure didn't intend to hurt you...

620
00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:33,086
...but just them two boys.

621
00:44:38,593 --> 00:44:41,636
I know it don't mean much now...

622
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:43,889
...but I'm sorry.

623
00:44:52,023 --> 00:44:55,650
Some folks think that a black man
cannot receive a fair trial in the South.

624
00:44:56,110 --> 00:45:00,113
I intend to show the men and women of
the South will look past color and see truth.

625
00:45:00,281 --> 00:45:01,948
It sure is a nigger's world.

626
00:45:02,116 --> 00:45:03,575
Not for long.

627
00:45:05,787 --> 00:45:10,123
FREDDIE: Boys, I am very proud
to invite you to become soldiers...

628
00:45:10,291 --> 00:45:13,293
...in the war to protect
our Christian homes and families.

629
00:45:13,461 --> 00:45:18,256
To resurrect our country
from the fires of racial degradation.
630
00:45:18,424 --> 00:45:24,179
And to make white people
the sole masters of our nation's destiny.

631
00:45:24,639 --> 00:45:26,932
What I'm saying, fellas...

632
00:45:27,642 --> 00:45:29,601
...it's time for the nigger to pay.

633
00:45:32,647 --> 00:45:36,691
-Something wrong with your telephone?
-No, we just had the number changed.

634
00:45:36,859 --> 00:45:38,568
That's what the operator said.

635
00:45:38,736 --> 00:45:40,862
-To an unlisted number.
-Yeah.

636
00:45:41,030 --> 00:45:43,156
I'm sorry you had to
come all the way up here.

637
00:45:43,324 --> 00:45:45,158
I should've called you, but this case--

638
00:45:45,326 --> 00:45:49,079
This case has us all worried sick
about you all, Jake.

639
00:45:49,247 --> 00:45:52,999
And you know this thing could get ugly.
And dangerous.

640
00:45:53,167 --> 00:45:56,461
Jake, he shot them in cold blood.

641
00:45:56,629 --> 00:46:00,590
They raped and almost murdered
his daughter, Sarah.

642
00:46:00,758 --> 00:46:02,884
What if the same thing
happened to Hannah?
643
00:46:03,052 --> 00:46:06,304
WOMAN 1:
Brigance! Mr. Brigance! Mr. Brigance!

644
00:46:06,472 --> 00:46:09,099
-May we ask a few questions?
WOMAN 2: Can we get a quote?

645
00:46:09,267 --> 00:46:10,851
-Mr. Brigance.
-Excuse me a second.

646
00:46:11,018 --> 00:46:13,019
I'm going to go take a few questions.

647
00:46:13,187 --> 00:46:16,064
-Jake, this isn't the time.
-This is really good for Carl Lee.

648
00:46:16,232 --> 00:46:17,858
I'll be right back.

649
00:46:19,235 --> 00:46:20,986
Thank y'all for coming.

650
00:46:21,154 --> 00:46:24,156
[REPORTERS CHATTERING]

651
00:46:25,867 --> 00:46:29,035
I guess we'll have to read about it
in the papers.

652
00:46:30,037 --> 00:46:33,039
[CHOIR SINGING GOSPEL SONG]

653
00:46:56,439 --> 00:46:58,440
[CHOIR STOPS SINGING]

654
00:47:26,177 --> 00:47:27,385
Praise Jesus!

655
00:47:27,553 --> 00:47:29,721
[CONGREGATION CHEERING]

656
00:47:43,110 --> 00:47:45,654
ISAIAH: Reverend Agee?
AGEE: Yes.

657
00:47:45,821 --> 00:47:47,322
I'm Isaiah Street.

658
00:47:47,490 --> 00:47:50,116
Well, it's an honor to meet you,
Reverend.

659
00:47:50,284 --> 00:47:52,369
I saw you march with Dr. King.

660
00:47:52,537 --> 00:47:58,542
Well, well. The struggle continues today
here in Canton.

661
00:47:59,126 --> 00:48:01,419
Carl Lee Hailey's on trial
because he's black.

662
00:48:01,587 --> 00:48:02,879
No other reason.

663
00:48:04,131 --> 00:48:07,467
-These people are with the NAACP.
-Oh?

664
00:48:07,885 --> 00:48:09,886
-Reverend Agee.
-How do you do?

665
00:48:10,054 --> 00:48:11,137
How do you do?

666
00:48:11,472 --> 00:48:17,811
Reverend Agee, the black community's
concerned that Mr. Hailey's attorney...

667
00:48:17,979 --> 00:48:20,855
...is not sensitive to the needs
of the movement.

668
00:48:21,816 --> 00:48:27,195
The NAACP wishes to provide him
with a new lawyer.
669
00:48:29,323 --> 00:48:33,743
We need to raise funds
to support Carl Lee Hailey.

670
00:48:34,829 --> 00:48:37,831
I don't know, Reverend.
Time's awfully tight here.

671
00:48:39,834 --> 00:48:44,045
Obviously, we would expect you
to take...

672
00:48:44,213 --> 00:48:48,216
...a modest administration fee
for your troubles.

673
00:49:14,368 --> 00:49:20,832
SISSON: Your loyalty has been forged
in a baptism of fire.

674
00:49:21,959 --> 00:49:26,379
Rise, knights of the Ku Klux Klan...

675
00:49:27,006 --> 00:49:31,676
...and let your brethren never regret...

676
00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:37,891
...they believed you worthy of fellowship.

677
00:49:43,230 --> 00:49:45,357
Welcome to the Klan.

678
00:49:57,328 --> 00:49:59,120
MAN:
I need to talk to Jake Brigance.

679
00:49:59,288 --> 00:50:01,581
He's not in. May I ask who's calling?

680
00:50:02,166 --> 00:50:05,085
MAN:
Uh, well--

681
00:50:05,294 --> 00:50:06,336
Mickey Mouse.
682
00:50:06,796 --> 00:50:08,713
-Who?
MAN [OVER PHONE]: Mickey Mouse.

683
00:50:09,507 --> 00:50:11,591
Get out right now.

684
00:50:11,759 --> 00:50:12,759
Who is this?

685
00:50:12,927 --> 00:50:15,679
MAN [OVER PHONE]: Get your daughter
out of the house right now.

686
00:50:16,847 --> 00:50:18,223
HANNAH:
Mommy!

687
00:50:18,391 --> 00:50:20,433
-Hannah?
HANNAH: Mommy!

688
00:50:20,601 --> 00:50:24,020
CARLA:
Hannah? What is it? Oh, my God!

689
00:50:24,188 --> 00:50:26,481
Max! Max, come on!

690
00:50:26,649 --> 00:50:28,024
Fire! Aah!

691
00:50:28,192 --> 00:50:29,901
[MAX BARKING]

692
00:50:30,069 --> 00:50:33,071
[FIREFIGHTERS CHATTERING]

693
00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:39,369
It's a good thing Hastings
was nearby and got here fast.

694
00:50:39,537 --> 00:50:41,955
The whole place could've burned down.
695
00:50:42,123 --> 00:50:44,708
-Yeah, I appreciate it.
-Take care, man.

696
00:50:44,875 --> 00:50:46,835
See you in the morning.

697
00:50:53,300 --> 00:50:55,301
She asleep, baby?

698
00:50:56,637 --> 00:50:59,889
The Ku Klux Klan
is burning crosses on our lawn, Jake.

699
00:51:00,057 --> 00:51:03,143
Baby, there's been
no Klan around here for years, okay?

700
00:51:03,310 --> 00:51:07,147
This is just a couple of dorks with too much
time on their hands and too many beers.

701
00:51:11,694 --> 00:51:13,945
-I'm sorry.
-About what?

702
00:51:15,489 --> 00:51:19,117
That you weren't home when someone
practically burned our house down?

703
00:51:19,285 --> 00:51:21,911
That you missed supper
and didn't even bother to call?

704
00:51:22,079 --> 00:51:25,165
That lately you've become more
interested in getting on the news...

705
00:51:25,332 --> 00:51:27,208
...than what's going on with your family?

706
00:51:27,376 --> 00:51:31,212
Or that Hannah comes home bawling
because of kids calling her a nigger-lover?

707
00:51:31,380 --> 00:51:34,466
What exactly are you sorry about, Jake?

708
00:51:42,850 --> 00:51:44,893
Remember the other night?

709
00:51:46,604 --> 00:51:49,147
I told you Carl Lee came by the office?

710
00:51:49,315 --> 00:51:51,691
Remember what we talked about then?

711
00:51:52,151 --> 00:51:54,152
About me calling Ozzie?

712
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,949
You never called him, did you?

713
00:52:00,951 --> 00:52:02,410
You never called Sheriff Walls?

714
00:52:03,412 --> 00:52:05,205
I didn't call him, baby.

715
00:52:06,415 --> 00:52:10,251
Lord have mercy, Jake,
you had a responsibility.

716
00:52:10,419 --> 00:52:12,378
Carl Lee chose you.

717
00:52:12,546 --> 00:52:15,715
He told you what he was thinking.

718
00:52:15,883 --> 00:52:18,301
He told me what he was thinking,
but I didn't know--

719
00:52:18,469 --> 00:52:22,764
Jake Tyler Brigance,
we agreed, you were gonna call the sheriff.

720
00:52:22,932 --> 00:52:25,350
Now look at everything
that has happened.

721
00:52:26,060 --> 00:52:29,896
I am sorry to tell you this, darling,
but those two boys are in the ground...

722
00:52:30,064 --> 00:52:33,066
...and you were in a position
to prevent every bit of this.

723
00:52:33,234 --> 00:52:34,484
HANNAH:
Mama?

724
00:52:35,945 --> 00:52:37,487
Are you and Daddy fighting?

725
00:52:39,031 --> 00:52:42,742
No, baby. Come here.
Come here, baby. Come here.

726
00:52:43,702 --> 00:52:47,288
Mommy's just upset because
some silly man played a real bad joke, okay?

727
00:52:47,456 --> 00:52:49,415
There's nothing to worry about.

728
00:52:49,834 --> 00:52:52,877
Nothing at all, okay?

729
00:52:58,509 --> 00:53:00,510
What that Memphis doctor say about her?

730
00:53:01,762 --> 00:53:03,388
She's doing good.

731
00:53:04,390 --> 00:53:05,932
Her jaw is healing.

732
00:53:06,100 --> 00:53:09,811
She can't run and jump yet,
but it won't be long.

733
00:53:11,105 --> 00:53:12,772
How about the other?

734
00:53:20,823 --> 00:53:23,658
There was too much damage.

735
00:53:24,827 --> 00:53:26,661
She ain't gonna never have kids.

736
00:53:35,129 --> 00:53:37,463
You know, I think about them two boys.

737
00:53:37,631 --> 00:53:39,215
Dead, buried...

738
00:53:39,383 --> 00:53:41,843
...probably starting to rot.

739
00:53:42,469 --> 00:53:45,305
And I remember them walking in court...

740
00:53:45,472 --> 00:53:47,390
...one proud, the other scared.

741
00:53:49,018 --> 00:53:51,102
I remember how they fell.

742
00:53:51,270 --> 00:53:56,316
One on top of the other, and screaming
and squirming and not going nowhere.

743
00:53:58,193 --> 00:54:00,862
God help me, Gwen, but...

744
00:54:02,573 --> 00:54:04,866
...that's the only thought
gives me comfort.

745
00:54:08,203 --> 00:54:11,289
They took up a collection for us
at church Sunday night.

746
00:54:12,041 --> 00:54:14,375
Some kind of defense fund.

747
00:54:15,127 --> 00:54:17,712
Reverend Agee gave a good service.

748
00:54:21,008 --> 00:54:27,347
We need some money around the house,
Carl Lee, for groceries and bills.

749
00:54:27,514 --> 00:54:28,806
How much you got?

750
00:54:28,974 --> 00:54:30,350
[SIGHS]

751
00:54:30,517 --> 00:54:31,684
Less than 50.

752
00:54:33,687 --> 00:54:35,146
I'll think of something.

753
00:54:38,776 --> 00:54:42,695
How you think you going to get
some money while you stuck here in jail?

754
00:54:42,863 --> 00:54:44,489
Trust me, Gwen.

755
00:54:49,662 --> 00:54:51,454
I just get scared.

756
00:54:53,374 --> 00:54:55,041
Look here.

757
00:54:55,376 --> 00:55:01,172
Tell me exactly what Reverend Agee said
when he passed around the collection plate.

758
00:55:01,340 --> 00:55:04,550
I don't care.
We are dealing with life and death here.

759
00:55:04,718 --> 00:55:08,680
-I'm gonna have to talk to my supervisor.
-Well, you go talk. Get out of here.

760
00:55:08,847 --> 00:55:11,599
JAKE: Morning, John.
How are things at the electric company?

761
00:55:11,767 --> 00:55:15,687
The electric company. That is the second
time this week I've had to hold him off.

762
00:55:15,854 --> 00:55:17,689
-How much do we owe?
-Two thousand dollars.

763
00:55:17,856 --> 00:55:20,817
-How much do we have?
-One hundred dollars.

764
00:55:20,985 --> 00:55:24,112
Now, look, this week nothing,
nothing has come in at all. Look.

765
00:55:24,279 --> 00:55:27,198
What about Buck Britt's retainer?
There's 2 grand.

766
00:55:27,366 --> 00:55:30,576
-That check bounced.
-What do you mean, bounced?

767
00:55:30,744 --> 00:55:32,495
It bounced, Jake.

768
00:55:32,663 --> 00:55:35,248
It's been sitting on your desk for a week.

769
00:55:35,416 --> 00:55:37,458
Not that you'd notice.

770
00:55:39,169 --> 00:55:42,672
Since you took this case, you--
You stopped talking to your clients...

771
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:44,632
...you don't take your calls, you--

772
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:48,678
You're obsessed. That's what you are.
You're obsessed, Jake.

773
00:55:49,179 --> 00:55:52,265
-Boy, your obsession is going to break us.
-Hey, hey, hey.

774
00:55:52,433 --> 00:55:55,101
What's wrong, girl?
We've been through hard times before.

775
00:55:55,269 --> 00:55:57,186
Oh, not like this, Jake.

776
00:55:57,354 --> 00:55:59,439
Not like this.

777
00:56:00,357 --> 00:56:02,358
We've been getting calls.

778
00:56:02,526 --> 00:56:03,693
At home.

779
00:56:03,861 --> 00:56:05,069
Threats.

780
00:56:06,447 --> 00:56:10,742
You know Bud has survived two strokes.
I don't think he would survive a third.

781
00:56:10,909 --> 00:56:12,118
Why didn't you tell me?

782
00:56:13,579 --> 00:56:15,455
Why, Jake?

783
00:56:15,622 --> 00:56:16,998
Would you drop the case?

784
00:56:18,042 --> 00:56:20,043
[PHONE RINGS]

785
00:56:22,838 --> 00:56:24,047
Jake Brigance's office.

786
00:56:24,214 --> 00:56:26,799
Until they cut the phones off.

787
00:56:27,634 --> 00:56:29,093
Oh, right.

788
00:56:29,845 --> 00:56:31,054
Okay.

789
00:56:31,221 --> 00:56:34,098
Right. That was Sheriff Walls.

790
00:56:34,266 --> 00:56:36,225
You better get down to that jail.

791
00:56:43,650 --> 00:56:45,818
What's going on here, Carl Lee?

792
00:56:45,986 --> 00:56:48,071
-I'm Isaiah Street.
-Jake Brigance.

793
00:56:48,238 --> 00:56:50,406
ISAIAH:
Uh-huh. Uh....

794
00:56:50,574 --> 00:56:52,658
-I believe you know Reverend Agee.
-Jake.

795
00:56:52,826 --> 00:56:54,994
-And this is--
-Norman Reinfield.

796
00:56:55,162 --> 00:56:57,413
I've seen your picture in the paper.

797
00:56:58,290 --> 00:57:01,000
I assume these boys carry your briefcase.

798
00:57:01,168 --> 00:57:03,836
Just a small part
of my legal defense team.

799
00:57:04,004 --> 00:57:05,379
Pleasure, Mr. Brigance.

800
00:57:05,547 --> 00:57:06,672
JAKE:
Mm-hm.

801
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,217
If this is a party, boys,
where's the chips and beer?

802
00:57:09,676 --> 00:57:13,888
Otherwise, you being here seems a bit
like illegal client solicitation.

803
00:57:14,056 --> 00:57:16,182
With Carl Lee already
having a lawyer and all.

804
00:57:16,350 --> 00:57:18,101
Well, now, just a minute, Jake.

805
00:57:18,268 --> 00:57:20,269
Carl Lee invited us here.

806
00:57:22,481 --> 00:57:24,357
ISAIAH:
Mr. Brigance...

807
00:57:24,525 --> 00:57:26,818
...let me be frank.

808
00:57:26,985 --> 00:57:30,363
Mr. Hailey's case
has far-reaching ramifications.

809
00:57:30,864 --> 00:57:33,199
Carl Lee's acquittal
for the killings of two white men...

810
00:57:33,367 --> 00:57:35,701
...would do more
for black people in Mississippi...

811
00:57:35,869 --> 00:57:39,247
...than any event since
we integrated the schools.

812
00:57:39,414 --> 00:57:42,583
His conviction, on the other hand,
will be a slap at us.

813
00:57:42,751 --> 00:57:44,877
A symbol of deep-seated racism.

814
00:57:45,045 --> 00:57:47,296
Perhaps enough to ignite a nation.

815
00:57:47,714 --> 00:57:49,882
See how important this case is?

816
00:57:50,050 --> 00:57:52,593
Enter Mr. Reinfield's death squad, right?

817
00:57:52,761 --> 00:57:56,639
It's an unfortunate nickname,
but apropos.

818
00:57:56,807 --> 00:58:00,226
My lawyers and I handle
only capital-murder cases, Mr. Hailey.

819
00:58:00,394 --> 00:58:03,729
Yeah, and of all your cases, Norman,
how many are supposed to be lost...

820
00:58:03,897 --> 00:58:06,524
-...so you can martyr the victim?
-Now, Mr. Brigance.

821
00:58:06,692 --> 00:58:11,571
How much a defense like that cost?

822
00:58:12,614 --> 00:58:14,157
Yeah.

823
00:58:15,033 --> 00:58:16,617
Would you say about 100,000?

824
00:58:16,785 --> 00:58:20,830
We are prepared to accept
7000 in litigation expenses.

825
00:58:20,998 --> 00:58:24,750
Well, Carl Lee doesn't have $7000.

826
00:58:24,918 --> 00:58:25,960
Do you, Carl Lee?

827
00:58:26,503 --> 00:58:32,091
The NAACP has raised $5000
for Carl Lee's legal defense fund.

828
00:58:32,259 --> 00:58:35,428
And we raised an additional
$2000 from the local churches.

829
00:58:35,596 --> 00:58:37,263
CARL LEE:
Let me ask you something, Reverend.

830
00:58:37,681 --> 00:58:40,641
How much of that cash
you offer my wife and kids?

831
00:58:40,809 --> 00:58:44,896
Well, that money is to go to pay
for lawyers' fees and stuff like that.

832
00:58:45,063 --> 00:58:47,190
That ain't what you told the church,
now, is it?

833
00:58:47,983 --> 00:58:49,859
You almost cried when you told them...

834
00:58:50,027 --> 00:58:54,238
...how my family might starve if they
didn't donate all they could, didn't you?

835
00:58:54,948 --> 00:58:57,658
Well, the money is for you
and your family, Carl Lee...

836
00:58:57,826 --> 00:59:00,786
...but we thought it'd be better spent
on your legal defense.

837
00:59:00,954 --> 00:59:03,623
Well, speaking of that defense fund...

838
00:59:03,790 --> 00:59:06,292
...can I use that for any lawyer I want?

839
00:59:06,460 --> 00:59:09,295
Well, it's not that simple, Carl Lee.

840
00:59:09,463 --> 00:59:12,340
Actually, it is that simple, Carl Lee.

841
00:59:12,507 --> 00:59:17,220
Unless the NAACP wants to go on record
as soliciting funds under false pretenses.

842
00:59:17,387 --> 00:59:20,598
ISAIAH:
Listen, Carl Lee, we raised that money...

843
00:59:20,766 --> 00:59:23,809
...for these men to get you out of here,
not for this cracker to--

844
00:59:23,977 --> 00:59:27,855
Now, hey, hey, hey.
Hold on. Hold on right there, now.

845
00:59:28,315 --> 00:59:31,901
Let me just get this straight here,
Reverend.

846
00:59:34,488 --> 00:59:37,907
If you don't give my wife that cash...

847
00:59:38,075 --> 00:59:41,953
...I'm gonna see to it everybody in this
town knows you're a lying crook.

848
00:59:42,621 --> 00:59:45,164
I'm sure your congregation
will be interested to know...

849
00:59:45,332 --> 00:59:48,542
...Gwen and the kids can't eat
because you want in with the NAACP.

850
00:59:48,710 --> 00:59:51,963
That's right.
By the time I get through with you...

851
00:59:52,130 --> 00:59:56,008
...you won't be able to collect 2 cents
in that collection plate on Sunday.

852
00:59:56,176 --> 01:00:00,346
We'll expect the check for the Hailey family
this afternoon, Reverend Agee.

853
01:00:01,306 --> 01:00:04,684
Reverend Street,
I sure do appreciate your fine work...

854
01:00:04,851 --> 01:00:07,061
...but I'm gonna take my chances
with Jake here.

855
01:00:09,231 --> 01:00:11,482
Thanks for coming down, Mr. Reinfield.

856
01:00:12,317 --> 01:00:15,820
Uh, and we'll be expecting that check
for Jake's legal services...

857
01:00:15,988 --> 01:00:17,989
...around the same time this afternoon.

858
01:00:22,119 --> 01:00:23,828
Good day, men.

859
01:00:30,627 --> 01:00:32,378
MAN:
Go.

860
01:00:35,882 --> 01:00:37,383
Go.

861
01:00:38,093 --> 01:00:39,677
Good.

862
01:00:41,972 --> 01:00:44,056
You set that whole thing up, didn't you?

863
01:00:44,224 --> 01:00:46,100
Couldn't have did it without you, Jake.

864
01:00:48,645 --> 01:00:50,521
Make one hell of a team, Carl Lee.

865
01:00:51,315 --> 01:00:54,400
You out there, Jake. I'm in here.
866
01:00:54,568 --> 01:00:55,901
We ain't no team.

867
01:01:20,594 --> 01:01:22,219
HARRY REX:
There's trouble.

868
01:01:23,764 --> 01:01:25,598
Oh, lookie there.

869
01:01:30,854 --> 01:01:32,646
No, here's trouble, Harry Rex.

870
01:01:35,984 --> 01:01:37,151
[SIGHS]

871
01:01:41,406 --> 01:01:43,157
Hi. You are...?

872
01:01:43,325 --> 01:01:45,034
JAKE:
Roark, meet Mr. Harry Rex Vonner...

873
01:01:45,202 --> 01:01:48,788
...the most effective, connected,
morally compromised lawyer in the country.

874
01:01:48,955 --> 01:01:52,249
-Oh. Ellen Roark, brilliant law student.
-Do with me as you will.

875
01:01:52,417 --> 01:01:54,460
-Looking forward to it.
-Okay.

876
01:01:54,961 --> 01:01:57,797
Um, well,
thought this might interest you.

877
01:01:57,964 --> 01:02:02,343
In all murder trials, it seems the insanity
plea only makes up 1 percent overall.

878
01:02:02,511 --> 01:02:05,179
And of the 1 percent of that
that resulted in acquittal...
879
01:02:05,347 --> 01:02:07,306
...success rested almost wholly on the--

880
01:02:07,474 --> 01:02:11,852
On the defending psychiatrist regardless of
the quality of the psychological testimony.

881
01:02:12,020 --> 01:02:13,562
-Yeah.
-Shazam.

882
01:02:13,730 --> 01:02:14,772
She is brilliant.

883
01:02:14,940 --> 01:02:17,024
"She." That would be me?

884
01:02:17,192 --> 01:02:19,485
-Now, who else would she be?
-So she would be me.

885
01:02:19,653 --> 01:02:22,363
She is saying that
if I take this plea to trial...

886
01:02:22,531 --> 01:02:26,158
...the verdict is going to hinge on whose
shrink the jury finds more credible.

887
01:02:26,660 --> 01:02:28,077
She would be correct.

888
01:02:28,662 --> 01:02:30,079
She would.

889
01:02:30,789 --> 01:02:32,706
So are you sure you don't need any help?

890
01:02:32,874 --> 01:02:36,335
I do. I'm hiring. Right now. Me.

891
01:02:36,837 --> 01:02:40,923
Roark, I am sure that I don't need any help.
Thank you, though.
892
01:02:41,091 --> 01:02:43,008
Okay.

893
01:02:43,176 --> 01:02:46,429
I guess that would just have
to be your loss, then, huh?

894
01:02:48,223 --> 01:02:50,599
Nice to meet you, Morally Compromised.

895
01:02:50,767 --> 01:02:51,976
Pleasure's all mine.

896
01:02:52,144 --> 01:02:53,686
She.

897
01:02:57,149 --> 01:03:00,609
Got to love the Lord
for making things like that.

898
01:03:00,777 --> 01:03:03,362
Sure you don't wanna at least
take a peak at her résumé?

899
01:03:03,530 --> 01:03:05,823
Not like you couldn't use the help.

900
01:03:05,991 --> 01:03:10,035
No, I don't want to look at her résumé,
Harry Rex, because I have you.

901
01:03:10,203 --> 01:03:12,288
-You do?
-Yeah, buddy.

902
01:03:12,456 --> 01:03:15,833
This is your chance to put aside
your shady sources, back-alley deals...

903
01:03:16,001 --> 01:03:19,545
...your greedy divorcées,
and do some real law for a change.

904
01:03:19,713 --> 01:03:21,172
[CHUCKLES]
905
01:03:21,339 --> 01:03:23,090
Mr. Vonner, in short...

906
01:03:23,258 --> 01:03:26,886
...you now have the opportunity
to work on a case that matters.

907
01:03:27,721 --> 01:03:29,096
Let me get this straight.

908
01:03:29,264 --> 01:03:33,893
You want me to put aside my empty,
soulless, shady...

909
01:03:34,060 --> 01:03:36,687
...astonishingly lucrative,
divorcée practice...

910
01:03:36,855 --> 01:03:40,900
...come work with you on an unwinnable,
bleeding-heart, lose-all-my-friends...

911
01:03:41,067 --> 01:03:43,569
...straight-to-the-gas-chamber case
because it matters?

912
01:03:43,737 --> 01:03:45,070
That is a novel idea, I know.

913
01:03:45,238 --> 01:03:47,490
No way, never,
presumptuous little shit.

914
01:03:47,657 --> 01:03:49,074
[BELL RINGS]

915
01:03:50,243 --> 01:03:51,577
Good night, y'all.

916
01:03:56,500 --> 01:03:58,709
WOMAN [OVER PHONE]: Hello?
MAN: I need the sheriff.

917
01:03:58,877 --> 01:04:02,213
WOMAN: He's sleeping now.
MAN: Well, get him up.
918
01:04:02,380 --> 01:04:06,091
WOMAN: Who is this?
MAN: Someone's gonna die tonight.

919
01:04:28,698 --> 01:04:30,991
MAN: Unh!
SHERIFF: I got him!

920
01:04:31,826 --> 01:04:34,119
JAKE: Get his ass, Ozzie!
SHERIFF: What's in the case?

921
01:04:34,287 --> 01:04:36,080
[MAN GRUNTING]

922
01:04:44,339 --> 01:04:46,590
JAKE: This thing's ticking.
-What's in the case?

923
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:49,093
I ain't saying, nigger.

924
01:04:49,261 --> 01:04:52,846
[YELLING]

925
01:04:53,098 --> 01:04:55,182
-Family out of the house?
-Yeah.

926
01:04:57,018 --> 01:04:58,269
It's locked.

927
01:05:03,191 --> 01:05:04,483
Now I want you to open that.

928
01:05:07,904 --> 01:05:10,322
[YELLING]

929
01:05:17,330 --> 01:05:18,372
Oh, man....

930
01:05:20,750 --> 01:05:21,792
Defuse it.

931
01:05:22,335 --> 01:05:26,839
I'm gonna take you
and this nigger-lover to hell with--

932
01:05:28,008 --> 01:05:31,176
Ain't nothing more dangerous
in this world than a fool with a cause.

933
01:05:31,344 --> 01:05:34,263
Lay that thing back down there.
Let's get the hell out of here.

934
01:05:34,431 --> 01:05:36,682
JAKE:
Carla loves this house.

935
01:05:36,850 --> 01:05:38,142
[ALARM RINGING]

936
01:05:38,643 --> 01:05:39,768
[JAKE GRUNTS]

937
01:05:41,646 --> 01:05:44,648
[MAX BARKING]

938
01:05:55,869 --> 01:05:58,537
MAN 1: How you doing, Stan?
MAN 2: Hey, how you doing?

939
01:05:59,456 --> 01:06:00,497
JAKE:
Come here, girl.

940
01:06:01,708 --> 01:06:03,584
Mwah.

941
01:06:04,336 --> 01:06:06,712
HANNAH:
Daddy, are you coming to Grandpa's too?

942
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:09,882
Mm-mm. Not this time, baby.
Daddy's gotta stay here and work.

943
01:06:10,050 --> 01:06:11,967
You and your mama
have a good time, okay?
944
01:06:12,135 --> 01:06:14,595
-All right.
-All right. You be good.

945
01:06:14,929 --> 01:06:16,263
Go get your stuff down there.

946
01:06:17,515 --> 01:06:19,808
You said you'd withdraw
if it got too dangerous.

947
01:06:19,976 --> 01:06:21,060
I know.

948
01:06:21,227 --> 01:06:23,771
But I can't quit now, you know that.

949
01:06:24,314 --> 01:06:27,941
Carl Lee Hailey's facing the gas chamber,
baby. The man is counting on me.

950
01:06:28,985 --> 01:06:31,195
I understand that, Jake.

951
01:06:31,363 --> 01:06:33,864
I want you to remember
that we're counting on you too.

952
01:06:34,032 --> 01:06:36,367
What if something happens to you?

953
01:06:36,534 --> 01:06:39,411
Nothing's gonna happen to me, baby.
Come here.

954
01:06:39,871 --> 01:06:41,580
Give me a hug? Hmm?

955
01:06:42,290 --> 01:06:43,791
Everything's gonna be all right.

956
01:06:43,958 --> 01:06:46,669
I'm gonna be fine,
you're gonna be fine. Okay?
957
01:06:46,836 --> 01:06:48,504
Okay, babe?

958
01:06:49,714 --> 01:06:50,756
I promise.

959
01:06:53,051 --> 01:06:56,261
Watch you don't make your wife promises
you can't keep.

960
01:06:58,765 --> 01:07:00,099
Hannah?

961
01:07:00,266 --> 01:07:01,934
-You ready?
HANNAH: Uh-huh.

962
01:07:02,102 --> 01:07:04,645
WOMAN [OVER PA]:
Last boarding call.

963
01:07:14,614 --> 01:07:16,073
MAID: Good afternoon.
JAKE: Good afternoon.

964
01:07:16,241 --> 01:07:17,950
MAID:
Come in.

965
01:07:18,493 --> 01:07:19,952
BUTLER: Good afternoon.
JAKE: Good afternoon.

966
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:22,538
BUTLER: You may come this way.
The judge is upstairs.

967
01:07:22,706 --> 01:07:24,373
JAKE:
Thank you, sir.

968
01:07:32,882 --> 01:07:34,466
Judge Noose.

969
01:07:35,635 --> 01:07:37,636
Thanks for coming.
970
01:07:39,097 --> 01:07:41,849
-Heard you had a little trouble last night.
-Yes, sir.

971
01:07:42,016 --> 01:07:45,060
Makes you wonder about
the sensibleness of taking this case.

972
01:07:45,228 --> 01:07:48,439
This is a beautiful place
you have here, judge.

973
01:07:48,606 --> 01:07:50,149
I'll get to the point.

974
01:07:50,316 --> 01:07:56,155
I've thoroughly reviewed
your brief request in that change of venue.

975
01:07:56,322 --> 01:08:01,410
And I agree with you. I think it's impossible
to find a fair and impartial jury in Canton.

976
01:08:01,578 --> 01:08:06,498
In fact, I think it's impossible to find a fair
and impartial jury anywhere in Mississippi.

977
01:08:06,666 --> 01:08:08,041
And as such...

978
01:08:08,209 --> 01:08:10,627
...a jury here would be...

979
01:08:10,795 --> 01:08:13,756
...as fair as a jury anywhere else.

980
01:08:13,923 --> 01:08:18,343
So I've decided to deny your request
for a change of venue.

981
01:08:18,845 --> 01:08:19,845
[CLEARS THROAT]

982
01:08:20,013 --> 01:08:21,638
Well, I guess that...
983
01:08:21,806 --> 01:08:23,390
...gives me something to appeal.

984
01:08:23,558 --> 01:08:26,185
Uh, actually, no.

985
01:08:26,352 --> 01:08:28,687
I spoke to Judge Dent...

986
01:08:28,855 --> 01:08:33,025
...and he led me to believe that the
supreme court would uphold my ruling.

987
01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:36,445
You certainly have
covered your bases, judge.

988
01:08:38,406 --> 01:08:42,117
Jake, you're a good lawyer.

989
01:08:42,786 --> 01:08:46,330
You're bright and ambitious. Talented.
You could be somebody around here.

990
01:08:46,498 --> 01:08:50,584
You sure you wanna be known
as the man that defended that murderer?

991
01:08:51,127 --> 01:08:53,587
Could be very unpopular.

992
01:08:54,339 --> 01:08:56,215
Talk to your client.

993
01:08:56,841 --> 01:08:58,217
He pleads guilty...

994
01:08:58,384 --> 01:09:00,928
...I'll recommend Buckley
accept a plea of manslaughter.

995
01:09:01,095 --> 01:09:02,346
He'd be out in 20.

996
01:09:03,139 --> 01:09:06,099
Yeah. And how's his wife supposed
to raise his family alone?

997
01:09:06,935 --> 01:09:08,602
Better than being a widow.

998
01:09:10,605 --> 01:09:12,231
Think about it.

999
01:09:12,398 --> 01:09:16,276
Why toss away a promising career, hmm?

1000
01:09:19,113 --> 01:09:21,657
-Good day, judge.
-Thanks for coming.

1001
01:09:26,246 --> 01:09:29,832
JAKE: All right, Lucien.
Where the hell is this guy?

1002
01:09:29,999 --> 01:09:31,917
LUCIEN:
Born alcoholic.

1003
01:09:32,085 --> 01:09:34,670
But the man cannot hold his liquor.

1004
01:09:34,838 --> 01:09:40,759
Jake, allow me to present
Dr. Willard Tyrell Bass.

1005
01:09:40,927 --> 01:09:43,262
Expert witness for the defense.

1006
01:09:43,429 --> 01:09:48,183
W.T., this is Jake Brigance, my protégé.

1007
01:09:52,772 --> 01:09:54,606
Dr. Bass.

1008
01:09:58,903 --> 01:10:01,738
-Are you kidding me?
-No, relax.

1009
01:10:01,906 --> 01:10:04,408
When he's sober, he's terrific.

1010
01:10:05,285 --> 01:10:09,746
He has his license,
his credentials are impeccable.

1011
01:10:13,585 --> 01:10:16,003
-Well?
-I need a drink.

1012
01:10:16,170 --> 01:10:17,963
Three in the afternoon?

1013
01:10:18,131 --> 01:10:21,925
-My, oh, my. What would your wife say?
-I am my own man, Lucien.

1014
01:10:22,093 --> 01:10:24,469
-I drink when I want.
-When did she leave town?

1015
01:10:24,637 --> 01:10:26,889
JAKE: This morning.
LUCIEN: Ha-ha-ha.

1016
01:10:34,898 --> 01:10:37,482
[DOG BARKING]

1017
01:10:45,700 --> 01:10:47,326
BUD:
God! Unh!

1018
01:10:48,286 --> 01:10:51,580
[MEN GRUNTING]

1019
01:10:51,748 --> 01:10:52,915
ETHEL:
Bud?

1020
01:10:54,834 --> 01:10:58,253
[ETHEL YELLING AND GRUNTING]

1021
01:10:59,505 --> 01:11:01,048
Oh, my--

1022
01:11:02,300 --> 01:11:03,342
FREDDIE:
That's enough.

1023
01:11:06,971 --> 01:11:09,389
[ETHEL WHIMPERING]

1024
01:11:09,807 --> 01:11:11,516
Now, you tell your boss...

1025
01:11:11,684 --> 01:11:14,603
...next time people are gonna die.

1026
01:11:18,358 --> 01:11:20,067
ETHEL:
Oh, Bud.

1027
01:11:21,152 --> 01:11:23,070
Oh, Bud.

1028
01:11:23,363 --> 01:11:26,239
[DOORBELL BUZZING]

1029
01:11:46,719 --> 01:11:48,261
ELLEN:
Hi.

1030
01:11:48,429 --> 01:11:49,471
Morning.

1031
01:11:49,639 --> 01:11:50,764
[GROANS]

1032
01:11:53,226 --> 01:11:55,227
Nice parking job. Late night?

1033
01:12:02,235 --> 01:12:04,820
-Yeah.
-Hmm.

1034
01:12:04,988 --> 01:12:06,989
So, um, here.

1035
01:12:07,156 --> 01:12:11,076
-Oh, thank you.
-Your wife lets you sleep at the office?
1036
01:12:11,577 --> 01:12:13,286
My wife left town.

1037
01:12:13,454 --> 01:12:15,580
That's too bad.

1038
01:12:16,082 --> 01:12:19,918
So listen, I heard that Judge Noose
turned down your change of venue.

1039
01:12:20,336 --> 01:12:22,004
Yeah.

1040
01:12:23,339 --> 01:12:25,882
I think it's time you let me
take you out to breakfast.

1041
01:12:28,928 --> 01:12:30,012
Lunch.

1042
01:12:32,223 --> 01:12:35,434
CLAUDE: Quit playing with that food.
But, ladies, y'all come back.

1043
01:12:35,601 --> 01:12:38,645
-You need to finish that before Christmas.
-Thank you, treasure.

1044
01:12:38,813 --> 01:12:42,107
Now, the other night, you said
you're opposed to the death penalty.

1045
01:12:42,275 --> 01:12:44,484
-Yes, sir.
-Why?

1046
01:12:44,652 --> 01:12:45,986
-You're not?
-Mm-mm.

1047
01:12:46,154 --> 01:12:47,988
Actually, I'm very much in favor of it.

1048
01:12:48,156 --> 01:12:51,033
I'd like to go back to hangings
on the court lawn if we could.
1049
01:12:51,868 --> 01:12:53,744
-You're kidding, right?
-No.

1050
01:12:53,911 --> 01:12:57,873
The only problem with the death penalty,
Roark, is that we do not use it enough.

1051
01:13:01,044 --> 01:13:03,670
Well, have you told
your client Carl Lee Hailey this?

1052
01:13:03,838 --> 01:13:05,964
Carl Lee does not
deserve the death penalty.

1053
01:13:06,132 --> 01:13:09,134
-The two men who raped his daughter did.
-How do you decide...

1054
01:13:09,302 --> 01:13:10,635
...who dies and who doesn't?

1055
01:13:10,803 --> 01:13:15,766
Well, simple. Okay, you take the crime
and you take the criminal.

1056
01:13:15,933 --> 01:13:20,062
Now, say a crack dealer
guns down an undercover cop.

1057
01:13:20,229 --> 01:13:22,981
Well, you strap his ass to the chair,
flip the switch.

1058
01:13:23,149 --> 01:13:25,317
For some reason,
I thought you were a liberal.

1059
01:13:25,860 --> 01:13:27,652
Well, I am a liberal, Roark.

1060
01:13:27,820 --> 01:13:31,698
What I am not
is a card-carrying ACLU radical.
1061
01:13:32,075 --> 01:13:34,618
I do not believe in forgiveness,
nor in rehabilitation.

1062
01:13:34,786 --> 01:13:38,705
I believe in safety. I believe in justice.

1063
01:13:40,166 --> 01:13:43,335
I see. Well, let me ask you something.

1064
01:13:43,503 --> 01:13:45,253
Have you ever seen a man executed?

1065
01:13:46,756 --> 01:13:49,132
-Not that I recall.
-Then what I suggest you do...

1066
01:13:49,300 --> 01:13:51,009
...is you go watch a man be executed.

1067
01:13:51,177 --> 01:13:54,971
You watch him die, watch him beg, watch
him kick and spit the life out of him...

1068
01:13:55,139 --> 01:13:57,849
...until he pisses and shits in his pants,
until he's gone.

1069
01:13:58,017 --> 01:14:01,103
Then you come back here
and sing this crap to me about justice--

1070
01:14:01,270 --> 01:14:04,314
Roark, spare me your Northern,
liberal, cry-me-a-river...

1071
01:14:04,482 --> 01:14:07,526
...we-are-the-only-enlightened-ones
bullshit.

1072
01:14:07,693 --> 01:14:10,362
I'm so sorry, yes, you are the enlightened.
Yes, you are.

1073
01:14:10,530 --> 01:14:14,407
And that's why you brought me to this
black diner in this black neighborhood.

1074
01:14:14,575 --> 01:14:18,745
So you can convince me you're
this JFK-meets-Jesus-Christ white boy.

1075
01:14:18,913 --> 01:14:20,038
Is that what it is?

1076
01:14:20,206 --> 01:14:23,083
Or because you're another repressed,
hypocritical provincial...

1077
01:14:23,251 --> 01:14:26,711
...who maybe didn't want to be seen
around town with a woman like myself?

1078
01:14:27,296 --> 01:14:29,548
Yes, you sure are enlightened.
You know what?

1079
01:14:29,715 --> 01:14:33,552
I'm terribly sorry, I've made a mistake.
I thought you were one of the good guys.

1080
01:14:33,719 --> 01:14:36,721
Thank you very much for your time,
Mr. Brigance.

1081
01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:53,321
WOMAN:
Do it.

1082
01:14:53,489 --> 01:14:55,699
ELLEN:
I get a little worked up.

1083
01:14:56,784 --> 01:14:59,578
Guess that's not the best way
to apply for a job, huh?

1084
01:15:02,498 --> 01:15:06,918
I don't want the jury to see those pictures
of the dead rapists. Can we keep them out?

1085
01:15:07,378 --> 01:15:08,420
No.
1086
01:15:09,338 --> 01:15:12,424
It is vital that I admit the rape.
I want the jury to know details.

1087
01:15:12,592 --> 01:15:14,801
I'm gonna need briefs on both.

1088
01:15:14,969 --> 01:15:17,804
I don't like your politics, Roark,
but you do have passion...

1089
01:15:17,972 --> 01:15:20,307
...and that's something
Carl Lee needs right now...

1090
01:15:20,474 --> 01:15:22,434
...and maybe so do I.

1091
01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:25,604
Are you getting this?

1092
01:15:25,771 --> 01:15:27,939
I'm writing it down.

1093
01:15:28,482 --> 01:15:30,609
RUFUS:
All right, here's what we got. It's official.

1094
01:15:30,776 --> 01:15:33,945
The trial of Carl Lee Hailey
will be held in Canton.

1095
01:15:34,113 --> 01:15:38,783
Today, presiding Judge Noose issued
150 summonses for potential jurors...

1096
01:15:38,951 --> 01:15:40,368
...in a sealed envelope.

1097
01:15:42,622 --> 01:15:44,456
Now, to prevent tampering...

1098
01:15:44,624 --> 01:15:48,793
...that list will be kept strictly confidential
until jury selection begins on Wednesday.
1099
01:15:48,961 --> 01:15:51,963
No one,
not even Mr. Brigance or myself...

1100
01:15:52,131 --> 01:15:55,592
...will know the identities
of the potential jurors in this case.

1101
01:16:14,362 --> 01:16:18,615
[CHANTING] Free Carl Lee!
Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee!

1102
01:16:18,783 --> 01:16:21,243
Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee!

1103
01:16:21,410 --> 01:16:24,329
Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee!
Free Carl Lee!

1104
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:30,377
LUCIEN:
Beautiful day, isn't it?

1105
01:16:30,544 --> 01:16:32,379
There he is.

1106
01:16:34,048 --> 01:16:36,508
-Any word on Bud?
-Ethel's still with him.

1107
01:16:36,676 --> 01:16:38,009
Thank you for coming, sir.

1108
01:16:39,220 --> 01:16:40,929
Well, well, well.

1109
01:16:41,097 --> 01:16:43,390
The Pillsbury Doughboy.

1110
01:16:43,557 --> 01:16:45,725
Still practicing exploitative law?

1111
01:16:45,893 --> 01:16:47,018
Thought you were dead.
1112
01:16:47,186 --> 01:16:49,396
I'm trying. Who do we have here?

1113
01:16:49,563 --> 01:16:51,731
Miss Roark, I would like
to introduce to you--

1114
01:16:51,899 --> 01:16:55,694
Lucien Wilbanks, third white man
in Mississippi to join the NAACP...

1115
01:16:55,861 --> 01:16:58,655
...permanently disbarred
by the superior court...

1116
01:16:58,823 --> 01:17:03,034
...for attacking police who busted
a picket line in the EPSO oil strike.

1117
01:17:03,202 --> 01:17:05,495
It is a pleasure, Ms. Ark.

1118
01:17:07,164 --> 01:17:10,375
All right, everybody,
jury selection begins this afternoon.

1119
01:17:10,543 --> 01:17:13,962
Now, to win this case, we need
a sympathetic jury willing to acquit...

1120
01:17:14,130 --> 01:17:17,215
...and a jury that can use
the insanity plea as an excuse to do so.

1121
01:17:17,383 --> 01:17:18,508
I'm gonna need a drink.

1122
01:17:18,884 --> 01:17:20,218
No drinking.

1123
01:17:20,386 --> 01:17:22,929
What do you mean, no drinking?
It's my building...

1124
01:17:23,097 --> 01:17:26,266
...built by my grandfather,
leased to you for a reasonable rent...

1125
01:17:26,434 --> 01:17:27,559
...and I want a drink.

1126
01:17:27,727 --> 01:17:31,146
Ms. Ark, I have all the respect
in the world for you.

1127
01:17:31,314 --> 01:17:34,482
I believe in your right to equal pay,
equal work, to bear a child...

1128
01:17:34,650 --> 01:17:38,611
...or to abort one. I think you
should be treated just like a man.

1129
01:17:38,779 --> 01:17:40,697
And since you are a law clerk...

1130
01:17:40,865 --> 01:17:42,490
...genderless in my eyes...

1131
01:17:42,658 --> 01:17:45,368
...I think you should be
the one to go buy the beer.

1132
01:17:45,536 --> 01:17:50,040
ERA she-woman, that would be
an excellent activity for you this afternoon.

1133
01:17:50,207 --> 01:17:53,126
Hey. No drinking. Not today.

1134
01:17:56,797 --> 01:17:59,924
Now, ahem, Noose selects
this panel at random.

1135
01:18:00,092 --> 01:18:02,385
If we get too many bad candidates,
we're sunk.

1136
01:18:02,678 --> 01:18:04,137
Luck of the draw.

1137
01:18:04,305 --> 01:18:05,430
What you need...

1138
01:18:05,598 --> 01:18:08,433
...is young fathers who wanna do
what Carl Lee Hailey did.

1139
01:18:08,601 --> 01:18:11,603
Agreed. I think we need young men
with families here.

1140
01:18:11,771 --> 01:18:15,106
Now, I would prefer no one over 50.
Less bigotry, as a rule, with youth.

1141
01:18:15,274 --> 01:18:18,693
So we stay away from women,
rednecks and old men.

1142
01:18:18,986 --> 01:18:21,029
NOOSE:
Uh, citizens, thank you.

1143
01:18:21,197 --> 01:18:24,240
Now, counsel, you each have
12 challenges. Let's begin.

1144
01:18:26,452 --> 01:18:32,624
Your Honor, the state challenges
Jurors Number 6, 10 and 32.

1145
01:18:32,792 --> 01:18:37,796
Your Honor,
the defense strikes Jurors 1, 4, 8 and 2.

1146
01:18:46,430 --> 01:18:51,059
Twenty-six, 27, 28 and 31.

1147
01:18:51,352 --> 01:18:55,188
Your Honor, the defense
also strikes Jurors 22 and 29.

1148
01:19:00,903 --> 01:19:04,614
Now that's it, then. Mr. Brigance,
you're all out of challenges. We're done.

1149
01:19:09,286 --> 01:19:13,540
NOOSE: Jurors, you will be sequestered
starting tonight.

1150
01:19:13,707 --> 01:19:15,500
Opening statements begin
tomorrow morning.

1151
01:19:15,668 --> 01:19:17,043
[GAVEL BANGS]

1152
01:19:17,336 --> 01:19:20,380
That's a jury of my peers?

1153
01:19:21,173 --> 01:19:23,007
God bless America.

1154
01:19:24,844 --> 01:19:26,803
My name is Stump Sisson...

1155
01:19:26,971 --> 01:19:30,265
...and I'm proud to be a grand dragon...

1156
01:19:30,433 --> 01:19:34,185
...for the Invisible Empire
of the Ku Klux Klan.

1157
01:19:34,353 --> 01:19:36,855
[KLAN CHEERING
AND CROWD YELLING]

1158
01:19:37,064 --> 01:19:38,440
What the hell?

1159
01:19:38,607 --> 01:19:42,861
SISSON: And I'm here to say that
the law-abiding white folks of Mississippi...

1160
01:19:43,028 --> 01:19:49,534
...are sick and tired of niggers stealing,
raping, killing and getting away with it.

1161
01:19:49,827 --> 01:19:51,911
Ozzie, let's get them out of here.

1162
01:19:52,955 --> 01:19:54,330
SISSON:
We demand justice.
1163
01:19:54,498 --> 01:19:57,750
We demand this nigger be convicted...

1164
01:19:57,918 --> 01:20:02,755
...and his black ass
sent to the gas chamber.

1165
01:20:02,923 --> 01:20:04,132
Who you calling nigger?

1166
01:20:04,300 --> 01:20:08,553
You pointy-headed, white-faced,
no-good, wife-beating son of a whore!

1167
01:20:08,721 --> 01:20:10,305
SISSON:
Shut up, you wild animal!

1168
01:20:10,473 --> 01:20:13,475
WOMAN: Animal? You're the damn animal!
SHERIFF: I'll drag your ass out of here!

1169
01:20:13,642 --> 01:20:15,351
WOMAN: You're the damn animal!
-Unh!

1170
01:20:15,519 --> 01:20:19,230
[CROWD YELLING]

1171
01:20:19,857 --> 01:20:21,024
MAN:
Come on!

1172
01:20:21,567 --> 01:20:23,151
Come on!

1173
01:20:28,824 --> 01:20:30,617
Come here, come here!

1174
01:20:41,587 --> 01:20:42,837
SISSON:
That's right, go on!

1175
01:20:44,006 --> 01:20:45,798
[SCREAMING]
1176
01:20:55,726 --> 01:20:59,187
SHERIFF:
Hastings! Hastings! Hastings!

1177
01:21:11,909 --> 01:21:13,660
MAN:
What's going on?

1178
01:21:23,170 --> 01:21:24,879
This is for Billy Ray.

1179
01:21:25,631 --> 01:21:27,966
[JAKE YELLS]

1180
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:32,428
ELLEN: Open! Open the gate!
HARRY REX: Open the gate!

1181
01:21:45,568 --> 01:21:47,151
ELLEN:
Turn around.

1182
01:21:47,611 --> 01:21:49,153
[ELLEN CLEARS THROAT]

1183
01:21:52,575 --> 01:21:54,826
I can't get to this.
Just take off your pants.

1184
01:21:54,994 --> 01:21:57,036
Come on, Roark, do I look that easy?

1185
01:21:57,413 --> 01:21:59,747
Are you afraid
I'm gonna see you in your underwear?

1186
01:21:59,915 --> 01:22:03,334
With Carla gone, the laundry's piling up.
I'm not wearing any.

1187
01:22:03,502 --> 01:22:06,170
It's all right, I haven't worn any in years.

1188
01:22:07,172 --> 01:22:10,341
Look, I'm not gonna watch, I promise.
Now strip, please.

1189
01:22:11,552 --> 01:22:13,636
All right. Fine. Batter up.

1190
01:22:15,264 --> 01:22:18,266
-What I need from you, Roark--
-Do tell.

1191
01:22:18,434 --> 01:22:21,978
--is a way to discredit the state's shrink,
Dr. Rodeheaver.

1192
01:22:22,146 --> 01:22:24,314
Unless you discredit the shrink....

1193
01:22:24,481 --> 01:22:26,816
Carl Lee does not have a chance. Ow.

1194
01:22:26,984 --> 01:22:28,026
Mm.

1195
01:22:28,193 --> 01:22:30,028
Sorry. Sissy.

1196
01:22:31,530 --> 01:22:33,281
I think he's got a very good chance.

1197
01:22:34,658 --> 01:22:37,035
There you go. I think you're gonna live.
All right.

1198
01:22:37,202 --> 01:22:38,911
Thanks. Whoo.

1199
01:22:39,204 --> 01:22:40,955
Good butt.

1200
01:22:42,374 --> 01:22:43,791
[JAKE CLEARS THROAT]

1201
01:22:43,959 --> 01:22:46,085
Ugh. So, uh....

1202
01:22:46,378 --> 01:22:48,796
What do you folks do around here
to blow off steam...

1203
01:22:48,964 --> 01:22:51,174
...besides trying to kill each other?

1204
01:22:51,342 --> 01:22:57,430
You got discos or strip bars
or malls or anything to go to?

1205
01:23:07,024 --> 01:23:08,107
Stump's dead.

1206
01:23:12,237 --> 01:23:13,446
He's dead, Freddie.

1207
01:23:15,866 --> 01:23:18,201
Come on, Freddie. Let's go on home.

1208
01:23:18,369 --> 01:23:20,203
It's all over.

1209
01:23:22,039 --> 01:23:24,207
It ain't near over.

1210
01:23:24,500 --> 01:23:26,918
How you doing? Good to see you.
Excuse me.

1211
01:23:27,086 --> 01:23:28,586
Hey, I'll be right back.

1212
01:23:28,754 --> 01:23:30,421
-Here are your mud bugs.
JAKE: Mm-hm.

1213
01:23:30,589 --> 01:23:31,839
WAITRESS:
There you go, darling.

1214
01:23:32,007 --> 01:23:34,592
-Anything else?
-Yeah, a couple of dinner specials...

1215
01:23:34,760 --> 01:23:36,678
...and some fried dill pickles.
1216
01:23:36,845 --> 01:23:39,055
WAITRESS: You got it, honey.
-Thank you, Sugar.

1217
01:23:39,973 --> 01:23:42,850
That wasn't sexist at all.
Really, I never order my own food.

1218
01:23:43,769 --> 01:23:45,144
I can't do another shot.

1219
01:23:45,771 --> 01:23:48,398
-All right, fine, I'll take another shot.
-Just a splash.

1220
01:23:48,565 --> 01:23:50,441
Just a splash.

1221
01:23:51,527 --> 01:23:52,568
All right.

1222
01:23:52,736 --> 01:23:54,654
-To....
-To....

1223
01:23:55,072 --> 01:23:56,114
Carl Lee Hailey.

1224
01:23:56,281 --> 01:23:59,033
May our jury find that man loony
as a proverbial fruitcake.

1225
01:23:59,201 --> 01:24:00,785
Hear, hear.

1226
01:24:03,205 --> 01:24:04,497
No more.

1227
01:24:06,625 --> 01:24:08,334
So, um....

1228
01:24:09,712 --> 01:24:11,671
Do you think he was crazy
when he did it?
1229
01:24:13,048 --> 01:24:15,299
No, he wasn't crazy.

1230
01:24:15,467 --> 01:24:17,260
He told me he was gonna do it.

1231
01:24:20,472 --> 01:24:23,808
I tried to tell myself he wasn't serious.

1232
01:24:27,521 --> 01:24:29,981
I think I really wanted him to do it.

1233
01:24:32,276 --> 01:24:35,319
I came home that night and I was looking
at Hannah laying there...

1234
01:24:35,487 --> 01:24:37,363
...looking how tender she is.

1235
01:24:38,157 --> 01:24:41,075
All I could think about
was all the monsters out there...

1236
01:24:41,243 --> 01:24:44,454
...and any one of them can come steal
her innocence.

1237
01:24:48,208 --> 01:24:50,168
Take her life, if they wanted.

1238
01:24:57,801 --> 01:25:01,888
Yeah, I wanted those boys dead.
You're goddamn right I did.

1239
01:25:08,979 --> 01:25:10,688
I guess I helped killed them.

1240
01:25:14,651 --> 01:25:17,195
So tomorrow, when we get in court...

1241
01:25:19,031 --> 01:25:21,657
...it's not just Carl Lee
I'm trying to get off.

1242
01:25:24,953 --> 01:25:27,955
[MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

1243
01:25:32,544 --> 01:25:35,546
[MAX BARKING]

1244
01:25:40,552 --> 01:25:41,803
FREDDIE:
Burn in hell, Brigance!

1245
01:25:41,970 --> 01:25:44,388
[KLANSMEN CHEER]

1246
01:25:55,234 --> 01:25:57,235
ELLEN:
Good job.

1247
01:25:57,736 --> 01:25:59,946
[ELLEN SIGHS]

1248
01:26:00,113 --> 01:26:02,949
JAKE: Nice place--
-How is it you'll drive an hour and half...

1249
01:26:03,116 --> 01:26:07,161
...outside of town to take me to dinner,
but you have no problem...

1250
01:26:07,329 --> 01:26:09,747
...walking me into my motel room?

1251
01:26:09,915 --> 01:26:11,916
Well, with everything that's going on...

1252
01:26:12,084 --> 01:26:14,418
...I don't think we can be too careful.

1253
01:26:14,586 --> 01:26:17,129
Just wanna make sure
it's all safe in here.

1254
01:26:17,297 --> 01:26:18,840
ELLEN:
I'm not scared.

1255
01:26:19,007 --> 01:26:22,009
-Oh, yes, I am.
-Of what?

1256
01:26:22,553 --> 01:26:24,887
Of what's going to happen tomorrow.

1257
01:26:25,222 --> 01:26:28,391
All the other cases I've worked on
have only been paper defendants.

1258
01:26:28,559 --> 01:26:33,020
It's just I never knew the towns,
and I never touched the lives or anything.

1259
01:26:33,188 --> 01:26:35,314
So I don't know what it's like.

1260
01:26:37,442 --> 01:26:39,443
[JAKE SIGHS]

1261
01:26:41,613 --> 01:26:43,614
Tomorrow morning...

1262
01:26:43,782 --> 01:26:47,368
...Buckley will try to kill Carl Lee Hailey.

1263
01:26:47,953 --> 01:26:50,371
Now, it's on us to stop him.

1264
01:26:50,539 --> 01:26:52,290
Mm-hm.

1265
01:26:53,083 --> 01:26:55,126
So tonight,
go over the battle in your mind.

1266
01:26:55,294 --> 01:26:58,296
Argument, rebuttal,
examination and cross. All of it.

1267
01:26:58,505 --> 01:26:59,672
Mm-hm.

1268
01:27:00,173 --> 01:27:02,300
-Remember something.
-Hmm.
1269
01:27:03,260 --> 01:27:06,971
-You are one of the good guys.
-Okay.

1270
01:27:07,472 --> 01:27:11,142
-And good guy has the spicy on her lip.
-Spicy.

1271
01:27:11,310 --> 01:27:13,895
But still one of the good guys.

1272
01:27:26,950 --> 01:27:28,910
I'm going home.

1273
01:27:29,328 --> 01:27:33,080
Lock the door behind me, Roark.
I'll see you in the morning.

1274
01:27:38,045 --> 01:27:39,211
[DOOR CLOSES]

1275
01:27:46,637 --> 01:27:48,679
OFFICER 1:
It's gonna blow, sheriff. It's gonna blow.

1276
01:27:48,847 --> 01:27:50,514
[SIRENS WAILING]

1277
01:27:50,682 --> 01:27:52,350
[OFFICERS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
OVER RADIO]

1278
01:27:52,517 --> 01:27:54,810
OFFICER 2:
Oz is right over there!

1279
01:27:59,441 --> 01:28:01,609
SHERIFF:
Wait. Wait. Hold it, Jake. Hold it, Jake.

1280
01:28:01,777 --> 01:28:02,985
JAKE: My dog's in there.
-Jake--

1281
01:28:03,153 --> 01:28:04,612
My dog's in there!
1282
01:28:04,780 --> 01:28:05,821
Max!

1283
01:28:05,989 --> 01:28:08,032
SHERIFF:
Come on. Come on.

1284
01:28:08,200 --> 01:28:10,034
Max!

1285
01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:13,746
Max!

1286
01:28:19,544 --> 01:28:21,379
It's too late.

1287
01:28:25,175 --> 01:28:28,177
[OFFICERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

1288
01:28:41,984 --> 01:28:44,318
SOLDIERS [IN UNISON]:
Move, move, move.

1289
01:29:22,107 --> 01:29:23,691
Hey, buddy.

1290
01:29:24,818 --> 01:29:26,152
Seen my dog?

1291
01:29:26,611 --> 01:29:28,070
Looking for my dog.

1292
01:29:28,238 --> 01:29:32,199
Max, come here, boy! Let's go!
Come on, Max!

1293
01:29:33,952 --> 01:29:39,832
I booked you on the 9:15 to Gulfport.
Economy, of course.

1294
01:29:40,125 --> 01:29:41,834
Go see your wife and daughter, Jake.

1295
01:29:44,087 --> 01:29:46,505
What'd you do that for, Harry Rex?

1296
01:29:46,715 --> 01:29:48,632
We got trial in less than three hours.

1297
01:29:48,967 --> 01:29:50,009
Oh, come on.

1298
01:29:50,177 --> 01:29:52,553
Noose would give you a continuance
in a flash.

1299
01:29:52,721 --> 01:29:56,682
NAACP boys be down here before lunch.
Drooling.

1300
01:29:57,434 --> 01:30:00,478
Max, let's go, boy! Come on!

1301
01:30:01,354 --> 01:30:03,189
Jake, listen to me.

1302
01:30:03,732 --> 01:30:07,068
Your marriage is on the rocks,
you're about to have an affair.

1303
01:30:07,235 --> 01:30:10,738
Your career's in ruins if you're lucky,
and if you're not, you're dead.

1304
01:30:12,282 --> 01:30:13,783
Don't get me wrong, my friend.

1305
01:30:14,743 --> 01:30:17,661
What you've put into this case,
you even inspired me, and I'm--

1306
01:30:17,829 --> 01:30:19,872
I'm uninspirable.

1307
01:30:20,040 --> 01:30:21,749
Do everyone a favor, though.

1308
01:30:21,917 --> 01:30:24,001
Drop the case.
1309
01:30:27,339 --> 01:30:29,673
No, I can't.

1310
01:30:30,300 --> 01:30:32,843
I won't. I'm not gonna quit.

1311
01:30:33,804 --> 01:30:36,263
I quit now, and all this is for nothing. No.

1312
01:30:39,851 --> 01:30:42,603
Max, come on now.
Max, where are you? Come on, Max!

1313
01:30:42,771 --> 01:30:45,147
Max is dead, and you're next.

1314
01:30:46,233 --> 01:30:48,109
Walk away.

1315
01:30:54,282 --> 01:30:56,158
[MAX BARKING]

1316
01:30:57,869 --> 01:31:00,496
Max. Come here, boy.

1317
01:31:01,373 --> 01:31:03,290
Come here. Come here, boy. Ha-ha-ha.

1318
01:31:03,500 --> 01:31:05,000
Come here. Come here.

1319
01:31:05,168 --> 01:31:07,378
Who's got the goods, huh? Huh?

1320
01:31:09,923 --> 01:31:12,550
Pretrial strategy at my office
in less than two hours...

1321
01:31:12,717 --> 01:31:15,386
...and I expect to see your ass there.

1322
01:31:15,762 --> 01:31:18,681
CROWD [CHANTING]: Free Carl Lee!
Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee!
1323
01:31:18,849 --> 01:31:22,184
Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee!
Free Carl Lee!

1324
01:31:30,152 --> 01:31:32,153
WOMAN:
Fry Carl Lee.

1325
01:31:33,530 --> 01:31:34,780
CROWD [CHANTING]:
Free Carl Lee!

1326
01:31:36,491 --> 01:31:38,868
KLAN [CHANTING]:
Fry Carl Lee! Fry Carl Lee! Fry Carl Lee!

1327
01:31:39,035 --> 01:31:40,244
CROWD:
Free Carl Lee!

1328
01:31:43,165 --> 01:31:45,499
Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee!

1329
01:31:49,546 --> 01:31:53,174
KLAN [CHANTING]:
Fry Carl Lee! Fry Carl Lee! Fry Carl Lee!

1330
01:31:53,341 --> 01:31:57,803
Fry Carl Lee! Fry Carl Lee! Fry Carl Lee!

1331
01:32:05,020 --> 01:32:08,397
NOOSE:
Now, Mr. Buckley, you may begin.

1332
01:32:08,565 --> 01:32:10,441
Thank you, Your Honor.

1333
01:32:13,278 --> 01:32:15,905
-Good morning.
-Good morning.

1334
01:32:17,824 --> 01:32:22,494
You are Cora Mae Cobb, the mother of
Billy Ray Cobb the deceased, are you not?

1335
01:32:22,662 --> 01:32:24,121
Yes, sir.

1336
01:32:24,289 --> 01:32:26,707
And where were you
when your son was murdered?

1337
01:32:27,000 --> 01:32:30,211
I was right outside that door right there.

1338
01:32:30,378 --> 01:32:33,172
Me and Freddie was waiting
for his hearing.

1339
01:32:33,673 --> 01:32:35,674
He was walking up the stairs...

1340
01:32:35,842 --> 01:32:37,635
...in handcuffs.

1341
01:32:37,928 --> 01:32:41,513
Can you tell us how old your son was
at the time of his death?

1342
01:32:42,891 --> 01:32:43,974
Twenty-three.

1343
01:32:45,852 --> 01:32:48,020
JAKE:
You say your son was 23 when he died?

1344
01:32:48,438 --> 01:32:49,480
Yes.

1345
01:32:49,648 --> 01:32:52,566
In those 23 years, Mrs. Cobb...

1346
01:32:52,734 --> 01:32:54,860
...how many other children
did your son kidnap?

1347
01:32:55,028 --> 01:32:56,820
Objection, Your Honor! Objection!

1348
01:32:56,988 --> 01:33:00,616
Sustained. You--
You are out of order, Mr. Brigance.
1349
01:33:00,784 --> 01:33:03,452
-Withdraw the question.
-The jury will disregard...

1350
01:33:03,620 --> 01:33:05,788
...the last question from Mr. Brigance.

1351
01:33:06,665 --> 01:33:10,084
Mrs. Cobb, in your son's 23 years...

1352
01:33:10,252 --> 01:33:12,294
...how many other children did he rape?

1353
01:33:12,462 --> 01:33:15,089
Mr. Brigance. In my chambers.

1354
01:33:16,174 --> 01:33:17,508
Court will recess for lunch.

1355
01:33:17,676 --> 01:33:19,009
[GAVEL BANGS]

1356
01:33:20,345 --> 01:33:22,930
I don't get it.
Why is he antagonizing the judge?

1357
01:33:23,098 --> 01:33:25,349
He should've known
Noose'd pull him into chambers.

1358
01:33:25,517 --> 01:33:29,770
Of course he knew. Jake got to draw first
blood and he knows that's more important.

1359
01:33:30,897 --> 01:33:32,773
-Hello, Harry.
-Hi, Rufie.

1360
01:33:32,941 --> 01:33:36,819
-Sweetheart, come play on a winning team.
-How's that impotence thing, Rufus?

1361
01:33:40,240 --> 01:33:43,033
You're not being paid
for the work you're doing, are you?
1362
01:33:43,201 --> 01:33:44,285
No, sir.

1363
01:33:45,704 --> 01:33:48,122
Well, I guess Jake's paying you
in other ways, then, isn't he?

1364
01:33:48,290 --> 01:33:50,124
[LAUGHS]

1365
01:33:50,292 --> 01:33:51,375
Impotence?

1366
01:33:51,543 --> 01:33:53,168
Yep. Girls talk.

1367
01:33:53,336 --> 01:33:58,173
Sheriff, if you would,
will you please identify this weapon?

1368
01:33:58,341 --> 01:33:59,925
It's the weapon found
at the scene.

1369
01:34:00,635 --> 01:34:04,638
And were you able to identify
any of the fingerprints found on this gun?

1370
01:34:04,889 --> 01:34:08,100
Yes. The prints on the gun
matched those of Carl Lee Hailey.

1371
01:34:08,268 --> 01:34:09,727
RUFUS:
You're sure?

1372
01:34:10,228 --> 01:34:11,562
SHERIFF:
Yes.

1373
01:34:11,730 --> 01:34:15,941
Your Honor, I'd like to enter this
into evidence as Exhibit S18.

1374
01:34:16,109 --> 01:34:18,360
We have no further use of this witness.

1375
01:34:22,490 --> 01:34:24,491
JAKE:
Sheriff Walls.

1376
01:34:25,869 --> 01:34:27,786
Did you arrest Cobb and Willard?

1377
01:34:27,954 --> 01:34:29,455
Yes, I did.

1378
01:34:29,622 --> 01:34:31,665
I arrested them for the rape...

1379
01:34:31,833 --> 01:34:35,753
...and attempted murder
of 10-year-old Tonya Hailey.

1380
01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:37,546
JAKE:
And is it true that Pete Willard...

1381
01:34:37,714 --> 01:34:39,506
...signed a written confession...

1382
01:34:39,674 --> 01:34:43,344
...saying that he and Billy Ray Cobb
did rape Tonya Hailey?

1383
01:34:43,511 --> 01:34:46,430
Objection. That's inadmissible,
and Mr. Brigance knows it.

1384
01:34:46,598 --> 01:34:49,433
NOOSE: Mr. Brigance,
I've spoken to you before.

1385
01:34:49,601 --> 01:34:52,436
We are not trying the rape
of Miss Hailey today...

1386
01:34:52,604 --> 01:34:57,274
...but the murder of two young men,
and if you continue in this performance...

1387
01:34:58,109 --> 01:34:59,735
...I'll hold you in contempt.

1388
01:34:59,986 --> 01:35:01,487
Now, is that understood?

1389
01:35:02,489 --> 01:35:04,031
Yes, sir.

1390
01:35:05,367 --> 01:35:07,618
I have no further questions,
Your Honor.

1391
01:35:07,786 --> 01:35:09,453
Yes.

1392
01:35:10,622 --> 01:35:12,581
You say something, sheriff?

1393
01:35:14,459 --> 01:35:17,628
-Yes, he did sign a confession.
-Objection, Your Honor!

1394
01:35:18,046 --> 01:35:23,050
NOOSE: Jurors, you will disregard
the last remark of Sheriff Walls.

1395
01:35:23,218 --> 01:35:27,179
Court is adjourned
till tomorrow morning 9:00.

1396
01:35:48,159 --> 01:35:50,369
I'm taking Bud back to Oxford.

1397
01:35:51,955 --> 01:35:54,248
He always missed Oxford.

1398
01:36:11,141 --> 01:36:13,600
I don't know what to say,
Ethel, I don't know.

1399
01:36:13,768 --> 01:36:16,270
There's nothing you can say.

1400
01:36:17,522 --> 01:36:20,691
I know you didn't want
any of this to happen...

1401
01:36:20,859 --> 01:36:22,776
...but it happened all the same.

1402
01:36:24,696 --> 01:36:28,115
You wagered all our lives on this.

1403
01:36:28,575 --> 01:36:33,203
You just went ahead and did what you
felt you had to do, no matter what the cost.

1404
01:36:35,540 --> 01:36:38,500
Some folks think that's brave.

1405
01:36:39,377 --> 01:36:41,503
Not me, Jake.

1406
01:36:42,422 --> 01:36:44,339
Now, you may win...

1407
01:36:44,966 --> 01:36:47,843
...but I think we've all lost here.

1408
01:36:54,559 --> 01:37:00,397
-Would you help an old lady to her car?
-You don't need any help, Ethel...

1409
01:37:00,565 --> 01:37:05,027
...but it would be my honor
to escort you to your automobile.

1410
01:37:16,873 --> 01:37:18,415
[ELLEN GRUNTS]

1411
01:37:19,501 --> 01:37:21,460
Didn't like that one?

1412
01:37:21,878 --> 01:37:23,837
Buckley is presenting
his shrink tomorrow.

1413
01:37:24,005 --> 01:37:27,132
I can't come up with one way
to bring him down. Not one.
1414
01:37:27,300 --> 01:37:31,553
I keep asking myself, "What would
Jake do? What would my father do?

1415
01:37:31,721 --> 01:37:32,763
What would Lucien do?"

1416
01:37:32,931 --> 01:37:35,224
That's your problem right there.

1417
01:37:35,391 --> 01:37:39,269
What you gotta ask yourself is,
"What would Harry Rex do?"

1418
01:37:39,437 --> 01:37:41,021
What would Harry Rex do?

1419
01:37:41,189 --> 01:37:42,523
Cheat.

1420
01:37:42,690 --> 01:37:44,107
Cheat like crazy.

1421
01:37:48,613 --> 01:37:49,613
MAN 1:
Yeah. Yeah, I did.

1422
01:37:49,781 --> 01:37:52,616
I'll bring her around the side.

1423
01:37:55,370 --> 01:37:56,703
Uh-huh.

1424
01:37:56,871 --> 01:37:58,372
MAN 2: Hey, Cheryl.
-Hi.

1425
01:38:00,166 --> 01:38:01,667
[WHISPERING]
So we gotta talk about it.

1426
01:38:02,252 --> 01:38:03,544
[WHISPERING]
Now, wait a minute.

1427
01:38:03,711 --> 01:38:06,588
The judge said absolutely
not to discuss this case.

1428
01:38:06,756 --> 01:38:09,299
That judge ain't stuck here
away from his wife and kids.

1429
01:38:09,467 --> 01:38:13,345
The sooner we start talking about it,
the sooner we can get home.

1430
01:38:13,513 --> 01:38:15,973
I wanna get out of here
just as much as anybody else.

1431
01:38:16,140 --> 01:38:17,975
FOREMAN:
Let's get on with it.

1432
01:38:19,978 --> 01:38:21,395
Undecided?

1433
01:38:24,732 --> 01:38:26,233
Four.

1434
01:38:26,401 --> 01:38:28,277
Guilty?

1435
01:38:32,991 --> 01:38:34,825
Seven.

1436
01:38:35,493 --> 01:38:36,535
Not guilty?

1437
01:38:41,165 --> 01:38:43,500
That nigger's dead, y'all.

1438
01:39:01,686 --> 01:39:05,188
ELLEN: I know, I know. Folks in town
just can't get enough of this trial.

1439
01:39:05,356 --> 01:39:09,526
And that's why my editor said I needed
to come down and interview Rodeheaver.

1440
01:39:10,069 --> 01:39:12,446
I'm afraid
Dr. Rodeheaver's in court today.

1441
01:39:12,989 --> 01:39:14,031
Oh.

1442
01:39:14,574 --> 01:39:17,034
If a pretty girl like you
wants to be a reporter...

1443
01:39:17,201 --> 01:39:19,202
...maybe she should do
some better research?

1444
01:39:19,370 --> 01:39:20,412
Yeah. Ha.

1445
01:39:20,580 --> 01:39:23,874
Well, um, you know what?
I don't-- I don't mind waiting...

1446
01:39:24,042 --> 01:39:26,543
...because my paper really wants
this interview...

1447
01:39:26,711 --> 01:39:28,962
...so is he still in Room 369?
I'll just go there.

1448
01:39:29,130 --> 01:39:33,342
No, dear. Wrong again. He's in 128.
But he's gone all day.

1449
01:39:33,509 --> 01:39:35,010
You can't see him today.

1450
01:39:35,178 --> 01:39:38,889
You wanna come back to my office
and we can schedule an appointment?

1451
01:39:39,057 --> 01:39:41,183
You know what?
I'll come back another time...

1452
01:39:41,351 --> 01:39:44,102
...when he's got time to talk,
when things kind of die down.

1453
01:39:44,270 --> 01:39:46,813
-I appreciate it. Thank you.
-You can call me any time.

1454
01:39:46,981 --> 01:39:48,815
Okay. Bye-bye.

1455
01:39:52,070 --> 01:39:55,822
Your Honor,
the state calls Deputy Dwayne Looney.

1456
01:39:59,661 --> 01:40:01,244
[JAKE CLEARS THROAT]

1457
01:40:31,776 --> 01:40:33,276
RUFUS: Good morning.
DWAYNE: Good morning.

1458
01:40:33,444 --> 01:40:36,405
RUFUS: Would you please state
your name for the record?

1459
01:40:36,572 --> 01:40:39,783
DWAYNE:
Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney.

1460
01:40:39,951 --> 01:40:41,743
RUFUS:
Thank you, Deputy Looney.

1461
01:40:41,911 --> 01:40:44,538
You were present at the murders
of Billy Ray Cobb...

1462
01:40:44,706 --> 01:40:46,957
...and James Lewis Willard,
were you not?

1463
01:40:47,125 --> 01:40:48,709
DWAYNE:
Yes, sir. I was.

1464
01:40:48,876 --> 01:40:50,752
RUFUS:
If you can remember...
1465
01:40:50,920 --> 01:40:55,132
...describe how you were wounded
for the members of the jury.

1466
01:40:55,299 --> 01:40:58,802
I think bullets bounced off the floor,
caught me in the knee.

1467
01:40:58,970 --> 01:41:00,887
And what happened to your leg?

1468
01:41:02,265 --> 01:41:03,557
Doc cut it off.

1469
01:41:04,892 --> 01:41:09,938
And after the loss of your right leg,
Detective Looney...

1470
01:41:10,898 --> 01:41:13,275
...are you still able
to serve as a police officer?

1471
01:41:15,194 --> 01:41:17,529
I'm able to perform....

1472
01:41:21,159 --> 01:41:24,661
I'm able to perform a number of services.

1473
01:41:24,829 --> 01:41:27,456
Did you get a good look at the man
with the gun?

1474
01:41:27,623 --> 01:41:28,665
No, sir.

1475
01:41:29,667 --> 01:41:34,838
However, Mr. Hailey did personally
apologize for his shooting me.

1476
01:41:36,966 --> 01:41:38,383
Oh.

1477
01:41:40,136 --> 01:41:43,305
So Mr. Hailey admitted shooting you.
1478
01:41:43,890 --> 01:41:44,931
Yes, sir.

1479
01:41:45,099 --> 01:41:46,975
RUFUS:
I have no further questions, Your Honor.

1480
01:41:47,143 --> 01:41:49,060
-Mr. Brigance.
-No questions, Your Honor.

1481
01:41:49,228 --> 01:41:50,687
Wait a minute.

1482
01:41:50,855 --> 01:41:53,356
-Uh, Mr. Buckley?
-Yes, Your Honor.

1483
01:41:53,524 --> 01:41:54,900
The state would like to call--

1484
01:41:55,067 --> 01:41:57,027
Give me a moment
to speak with my client.

1485
01:41:57,195 --> 01:41:58,361
Take your time.

1486
01:42:00,323 --> 01:42:02,574
Ask him if he thinks I ought to go to jail.

1487
01:42:02,867 --> 01:42:05,827
Carl Lee, they amputated his leg
because you shot him.

1488
01:42:05,995 --> 01:42:07,788
He's a witness for the prosecution.

1489
01:42:07,955 --> 01:42:10,040
-You're my lawyer, ain't you?
-Yeah.

1490
01:42:10,583 --> 01:42:12,459
Ask him.

1491
01:42:18,758 --> 01:42:22,886
-Your Honor, one question.
-Make up your mind, Mr. Brigance.

1492
01:42:27,141 --> 01:42:28,183
Deputy Looney.

1493
01:42:29,769 --> 01:42:32,896
Do you think Carl Lee
shooting you was intentional?

1494
01:42:33,064 --> 01:42:34,481
DWAYNE:
No, sir.

1495
01:42:34,649 --> 01:42:35,982
It was an accident.

1496
01:42:40,404 --> 01:42:41,446
[MOUTHS]
Ask him.

1497
01:42:48,538 --> 01:42:51,498
Do you think he should be punished
for shooting you?

1498
01:42:52,291 --> 01:42:54,042
No, sir.

1499
01:42:54,210 --> 01:42:57,838
I hold no ill will toward the man.

1500
01:42:58,256 --> 01:43:00,090
He did what I would've done.

1501
01:43:00,258 --> 01:43:02,175
What do you mean by that,
Deputy Looney?

1502
01:43:02,343 --> 01:43:04,803
I mean I don't blame him
for what he did.

1503
01:43:04,971 --> 01:43:06,805
Those boys raped his little girl.

1504
01:43:06,973 --> 01:43:11,476
Objection, Your Honor. The witness's
opinion on this matter is irrelevant.

1505
01:43:11,644 --> 01:43:17,357
Your Honor, I believe Deputy Looney
has earned the right to speak here today.

1506
01:43:18,901 --> 01:43:20,068
Overruled.

1507
01:43:21,279 --> 01:43:22,904
Continue.

1508
01:43:25,658 --> 01:43:26,867
Go ahead, Dwayne.

1509
01:43:28,077 --> 01:43:30,328
I got a little girl.

1510
01:43:32,206 --> 01:43:34,875
Somebody rapes her, he's a dead dog.

1511
01:43:35,042 --> 01:43:37,252
I'll blow him away just like Carl Lee did.

1512
01:43:37,420 --> 01:43:38,628
Objection, Your Honor!

1513
01:43:38,796 --> 01:43:40,964
Do you think the jury
should convict Carl Lee?

1514
01:43:41,132 --> 01:43:43,425
Don't answer that question, deputy.

1515
01:43:43,593 --> 01:43:45,719
He's a hero. You turn him loose.

1516
01:43:45,887 --> 01:43:47,971
NOOSE:
Jury will disregard.

1517
01:43:48,139 --> 01:43:49,389
Turn him loose!
1518
01:43:49,807 --> 01:43:52,058
Your Honor, you silence that witness!

1519
01:43:52,226 --> 01:43:54,227
Turn him loose!

1520
01:43:54,395 --> 01:43:57,397
[PEOPLE SHOUTING
AND GAVEL BANGING]

1521
01:43:58,649 --> 01:43:59,774
WOMAN:
No!

1522
01:44:01,652 --> 01:44:04,863
People say whatever the hell
they want in this courtroom!

1523
01:44:05,197 --> 01:44:06,740
Quiet!

1524
01:44:09,452 --> 01:44:11,828
Any more of that nonsense...

1525
01:44:11,996 --> 01:44:13,622
...and you're all out of here.

1526
01:44:15,917 --> 01:44:18,752
NOOSE:
Now, Mr. Buckley, you may begin.

1527
01:44:18,920 --> 01:44:20,962
RUFUS:
Thank you, Your Honor.

1528
01:44:21,589 --> 01:44:26,217
Would you please state your name and
occupation for the members of the jury.

1529
01:44:26,385 --> 01:44:30,639
My name is Dr. Wilbert Rodeheaver,
chair of Psychiatry...

1530
01:44:30,806 --> 01:44:32,515
...at Mississippi State University...
1531
01:44:32,683 --> 01:44:36,811
...and clinical director of the Whitfield
Facility for the Criminally Insane.

1532
01:44:38,147 --> 01:44:41,066
Thank you, doctor.
Your credentials speak for themselves.

1533
01:44:41,233 --> 01:44:45,528
Now, doctor, can you please explain,
as you do so eloquently in your book...

1534
01:44:45,696 --> 01:44:47,864
...the McNaughton Rule for the jury?

1535
01:44:48,032 --> 01:44:49,115
RODEHEAVER:
Certainly.

1536
01:44:49,283 --> 01:44:50,659
The McNaughton Rule states...

1537
01:44:50,826 --> 01:44:54,996
...that a person must be
unable to tell right from wrong...

1538
01:44:55,164 --> 01:44:59,376
...and/or be unaware
of the consequences of his actions...

1539
01:44:59,543 --> 01:45:01,753
...to be termed legally insane.

1540
01:45:01,921 --> 01:45:03,838
Now, did you examine Mr. Hailey?

1541
01:45:04,006 --> 01:45:07,634
Yes. Mr. Hailey and I spoke
about his childhood, his family...

1542
01:45:07,802 --> 01:45:10,220
...his experiences during the war.

1543
01:45:10,388 --> 01:45:12,138
And the rape of his daughter?
1544
01:45:12,306 --> 01:45:17,602
RODEHEAVER: Yes, we spoke at length
about the brutal rape of his daughter Tonya.

1545
01:45:17,770 --> 01:45:21,356
RUFUS: What is your diagnosis
of Mr. Hailey's mental condition...

1546
01:45:21,524 --> 01:45:26,194
...on the day that he shot
Billy Ray Cobb and James Lewis Willard?

1547
01:45:26,362 --> 01:45:28,697
At the time of the murders,
his mental condition...

1548
01:45:28,864 --> 01:45:31,074
...was without any defects of any nature.

1549
01:45:31,242 --> 01:45:33,076
Mr. Hailey was sane.

1550
01:45:33,244 --> 01:45:35,662
But wait a minute, doctor.
The defense contends--

1551
01:45:35,830 --> 01:45:38,915
Why, Mr. Brigance has gone to great effort
to prove to this jury...

1552
01:45:39,083 --> 01:45:42,377
...that Mr. Hailey is a nutball.

1553
01:45:42,586 --> 01:45:44,587
Is a slow coach.

1554
01:45:44,755 --> 01:45:48,216
Or what's the clinical definition?

1555
01:45:48,384 --> 01:45:49,926
Insane.

1556
01:45:51,846 --> 01:45:54,097
-Do you disagree?
RODEHEAVER: Yes.
1557
01:45:54,265 --> 01:45:57,142
Carl Lee Hailey knew very well
what he was doing.

1558
01:45:57,309 --> 01:45:59,811
He slaughtered those men in cold blood.

1559
01:46:00,855 --> 01:46:01,938
Thank you, doctor.

1560
01:46:02,106 --> 01:46:05,150
I have no further questions, Your Honor.

1561
01:46:06,110 --> 01:46:09,571
-Buddy, where the hell is Roark?
-I got no clue.

1562
01:46:09,739 --> 01:46:11,990
Cross-examination, Mr. Brigance?

1563
01:46:13,117 --> 01:46:17,037
Your Honor,
we would request a recess until--

1564
01:46:19,331 --> 01:46:22,417
No, we will not need a recess,
Your Honor, but just a few moments.

1565
01:46:29,008 --> 01:46:30,592
NOOSE:
Mr. Brigance?

1566
01:46:30,760 --> 01:46:33,970
When you and Lois Lane are ready....

1567
01:46:34,138 --> 01:46:36,139
[WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]

1568
01:46:37,308 --> 01:46:39,684
Just a few questions, Your Honor.

1569
01:46:42,521 --> 01:46:44,189
Doctor, who do you work for?

1570
01:46:44,356 --> 01:46:45,982
State of Mississippi.

1571
01:46:46,150 --> 01:46:47,358
In your 11 years...

1572
01:46:47,526 --> 01:46:51,154
...how many times have you testified
where the insanity defense was used?

1573
01:46:51,322 --> 01:46:53,490
This is my 46th trial.

1574
01:46:53,657 --> 01:46:55,325
Forty-sixth trial.

1575
01:46:55,493 --> 01:46:56,743
Well, of those 46 trials...

1576
01:46:56,911 --> 01:47:00,997
...how many times have you testified
that the defendant was legally insane?

1577
01:47:01,165 --> 01:47:03,792
Objection, Your Honor!
The good doctor cannot be asked...

1578
01:47:03,959 --> 01:47:08,129
...to recall all of his testimony
at these previous trials. It's absurd.

1579
01:47:08,297 --> 01:47:09,589
Overruled.

1580
01:47:10,591 --> 01:47:12,509
Thank you, Your Honor.

1581
01:47:13,052 --> 01:47:14,511
I can't remember.

1582
01:47:14,678 --> 01:47:17,222
Could it be, doctor, the reason
you can't remember...

1583
01:47:17,389 --> 01:47:20,391
...is that in 11 years and 46 trials...
1584
01:47:20,559 --> 01:47:23,770
...you never have seen a defendant
whom you have found insane?

1585
01:47:24,105 --> 01:47:26,231
I can't recall at this time.

1586
01:47:27,691 --> 01:47:30,235
Can you recall testifying
at the trial of one Dan Baker?

1587
01:47:30,402 --> 01:47:33,738
Objection! Your Honor, this has nothing
to do with the proceedings here.

1588
01:47:33,906 --> 01:47:35,323
NOOSE:
Overruled.

1589
01:47:35,491 --> 01:47:39,577
-This.... This better be good, Mr. Brigance.
-Thank you, Your Honor.

1590
01:47:40,371 --> 01:47:44,833
I'll ask again. Can you recall
testifying the trial of one Dan Baker?

1591
01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:49,838
It's a rather brutal double homicide where
you found the defendant legally sane?

1592
01:47:50,589 --> 01:47:51,840
Yes.

1593
01:47:52,007 --> 01:47:54,592
A dissenting psychiatrist
disagreed with you, doctor.

1594
01:47:54,760 --> 01:47:58,263
And Mr. Baker was found insane
and institutionalized.

1595
01:47:58,430 --> 01:48:00,056
Where is he currently, doctor?

1596
01:48:00,224 --> 01:48:01,266
At Whitfield.

1597
01:48:01,433 --> 01:48:03,560
Who is the chief psychiatrist
at Whitfield?

1598
01:48:03,727 --> 01:48:06,146
-I am.
-You are.

1599
01:48:07,398 --> 01:48:10,233
Dr. Rodeheaver is the chief psychiatrist
at Whitfield.

1600
01:48:10,776 --> 01:48:13,570
Now, help me make this clear
to the jury, doctor.

1601
01:48:13,737 --> 01:48:18,867
In 1985, you testified that Dan Baker
was legally sane.

1602
01:48:19,034 --> 01:48:21,119
The jury disagreed with you.

1603
01:48:21,287 --> 01:48:24,706
And Mr. Baker was found not guilty
by reason of insanity.

1604
01:48:24,874 --> 01:48:28,334
Since that time, he has been a patient
in your hospital, under your care...

1605
01:48:28,502 --> 01:48:31,087
...as a paranoid schizophrenic.
Is that correct, doctor?

1606
01:48:31,255 --> 01:48:32,338
Yes.

1607
01:48:32,506 --> 01:48:34,299
Do you normally admit patients...

1608
01:48:34,466 --> 01:48:37,927
...keep and treat them for 10 years
if they're of sound mind and body?
1609
01:48:38,095 --> 01:48:39,429
Of course not.

1610
01:48:39,597 --> 01:48:41,973
Then it would be fair to say...

1611
01:48:42,141 --> 01:48:45,602
...that you find insane people sane
for the purposes of trial?

1612
01:48:45,769 --> 01:48:48,813
Objection, Your Honor!
This is argumentative!

1613
01:48:48,981 --> 01:48:53,401
Withdraw the question, Your Honor.
No further questions.

1614
01:48:57,907 --> 01:48:59,282
[QUIETLY]
Genius, Roark.

1615
01:49:11,629 --> 01:49:14,047
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

1616
01:49:14,215 --> 01:49:18,593
WOMAN: Mr. Brigance! Mr. Brigance!
JAKE: Yes. Yes.

1617
01:49:18,761 --> 01:49:21,512
WOMAN: How do you expect
to get a fair trial in Mississippi?

1618
01:49:21,680 --> 01:49:24,265
[GUNSHOT THEN PEOPLE
SCREAMING AND SHOUTING]

1619
01:49:25,059 --> 01:49:26,809
JAKE:
Get him!

1620
01:49:27,853 --> 01:49:30,772
-Get an ambulance, get, get!
MAN: Come on.

1621
01:49:43,160 --> 01:49:45,662
ELLEN: So is there any news
on the guard who was shot?

1622
01:49:46,580 --> 01:49:48,748
Ozzie says he's probably paralyzed.

1623
01:49:50,209 --> 01:49:51,793
[SIGHS]

1624
01:49:53,170 --> 01:49:55,046
Some stranger...

1625
01:49:55,214 --> 01:49:57,548
...somebody's husband...

1626
01:49:57,841 --> 01:50:00,009
...somebody's son...

1627
01:50:00,511 --> 01:50:03,263
...put himself in harm's way...

1628
01:50:05,015 --> 01:50:06,724
...for me.

1629
01:50:07,768 --> 01:50:10,270
When I saw the blood...

1630
01:50:10,896 --> 01:50:13,690
...I got so scared
because I thought that was you.

1631
01:50:16,277 --> 01:50:17,902
[SIGHS]

1632
01:50:22,866 --> 01:50:24,492
Do you want me to stay?

1633
01:50:27,871 --> 01:50:29,455
Yeah.

1634
01:50:30,374 --> 01:50:32,542
I want you to stay.

1635
01:50:36,964 --> 01:50:39,215
So you better go.
1636
01:50:42,803 --> 01:50:44,679
Okay.

1637
01:50:52,646 --> 01:50:56,107
[POLICE SIREN WAILING]

1638
01:51:01,238 --> 01:51:03,239
[ELLEN MUTTERS INDISTINCTLY]

1639
01:51:04,742 --> 01:51:06,617
ELLEN:
Oh, shit.

1640
01:51:13,000 --> 01:51:16,419
HASTINGS:
Speed limit's 45, not 70, ma'am.

1641
01:51:16,587 --> 01:51:19,255
-Haven't been drinking, have you?
-I guess I just wasn't--

1642
01:51:19,423 --> 01:51:21,299
Let me ask you
to get out of the car.

1643
01:51:21,467 --> 01:51:24,635
-Is that really necessary?
-Just get out of the car.

1644
01:51:25,262 --> 01:51:28,681
Isn’t it usually customary to ask
for a license and registration?

1645
01:51:28,849 --> 01:51:29,891
[ELLEN SCREAMING]

1646
01:51:30,059 --> 01:51:32,268
WINSTON: You bitch.
ELLEN: No!

1647
01:51:32,519 --> 01:51:34,604
HASTINGS:
Get her in the car.

1648
01:51:34,772 --> 01:51:36,856
[ELLEN GRUNTING AND GROANING]

1649
01:51:37,024 --> 01:51:39,609
ELLEN: No! No!
WINSTON: Come on.

1650
01:51:39,777 --> 01:51:41,527
Get in there.

1651
01:51:43,280 --> 01:51:45,156
Shut up!

1652
01:52:05,636 --> 01:52:08,638
[ELLEN GROANING
AND WHIMPERING]

1653
01:52:42,005 --> 01:52:44,924
You can't blame a nigger
for being a nigger...

1654
01:52:45,092 --> 01:52:48,511
...no more than you can blame
a dog for being a dog.

1655
01:52:50,180 --> 01:52:52,765
But a whore like you...

1656
01:52:53,392 --> 01:52:56,394
...co-mingling with mongrels,
betraying your own...

1657
01:52:56,562 --> 01:52:59,021
...that makes you worse
than being a nigger.

1658
01:52:59,189 --> 01:53:01,482
So I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.

1659
01:53:02,192 --> 01:53:04,610
I'm gonna leave you tied up here naked.

1660
01:53:05,571 --> 01:53:08,156
First it'll just be the bugs eating at you.

1661
01:53:08,323 --> 01:53:10,032
One day, maybe two.
1662
01:53:10,200 --> 01:53:12,618
That sun's gonna be cooking you.

1663
01:53:12,870 --> 01:53:14,829
But them animals?

1664
01:53:16,290 --> 01:53:18,875
They're gonna pick up your stink.

1665
01:53:21,587 --> 01:53:24,213
They're gonna come looking
for something to eat.

1666
01:53:25,257 --> 01:53:28,843
Carl Lee Hailey should've shot you too.

1667
01:53:35,017 --> 01:53:37,268
Come on, boys. Let's go.

1668
01:53:56,872 --> 01:53:58,873
[CAR APPROACHING]

1669
01:54:05,589 --> 01:54:07,006
[WHIMPERS]

1670
01:54:12,012 --> 01:54:14,597
[WHIMPERING]
No. No. No.

1671
01:54:14,765 --> 01:54:17,058
No. No.

1672
01:54:18,727 --> 01:54:21,729
[MAN GRUNTING]

1673
01:54:24,983 --> 01:54:27,068
Shh. It's okay.

1674
01:54:27,236 --> 01:54:29,237
[ELLEN PANTING]

1675
01:54:34,826 --> 01:54:35,910
It's okay.
1676
01:54:36,078 --> 01:54:37,620
It's okay now.

1677
01:54:37,788 --> 01:54:39,622
It's okay.

1678
01:54:43,043 --> 01:54:46,379
NOOSE: Mr. Brigance,
you may call your first witness.

1679
01:54:46,547 --> 01:54:51,259
JAKE: Yes, Your Honor.
Defense calls Dr. Willard Tyrell Bass.

1680
01:54:55,973 --> 01:54:58,432
-[WHISPERS] Buddy, have you seen Roark?
-Not yet.

1681
01:55:03,230 --> 01:55:05,898
JAKE:
Doctor, would you explain to the jury...

1682
01:55:06,066 --> 01:55:09,860
...the effect his daughter's rape
had on Mr. Hailey's condition?

1683
01:55:10,279 --> 01:55:12,405
Tonya's rape caused a relapse...

1684
01:55:12,573 --> 01:55:14,740
...a temporary break with reality.

1685
01:55:15,409 --> 01:55:18,452
JAKE:
But yesterday, a Dr. Rodeheaver...

1686
01:55:18,620 --> 01:55:21,664
...suggested that Mr. Hailey's
act of calculation was...

1687
01:55:21,832 --> 01:55:23,583
...the very definition of sanity.

1688
01:55:23,750 --> 01:55:25,835
That's ridiculous.
1689
01:55:26,003 --> 01:55:29,839
Many of the most famous
schizophrenics are calculating.

1690
01:55:30,007 --> 01:55:31,841
John Hinckley, for example.

1691
01:55:32,009 --> 01:55:33,050
Calculating.

1692
01:55:33,218 --> 01:55:34,719
And legally insane.

1693
01:55:35,053 --> 01:55:37,888
All right, so, Dr. Bass,
how would you diagnose Mr. Hailey...

1694
01:55:38,056 --> 01:55:39,390
...at the time of the murder?

1695
01:55:39,558 --> 01:55:43,853
Mr. Hailey experienced a recurrence
of a dissociative condition...

1696
01:55:44,021 --> 01:55:47,898
...as a result of the trauma
caused by the rape of his daughter.

1697
01:55:48,317 --> 01:55:51,861
Now, since Mr. Hailey was unaware
of the reality of his actions...

1698
01:55:52,029 --> 01:55:54,405
...he could not tell right from wrong.

1699
01:55:54,573 --> 01:55:57,908
Nor could he understand
the consequences of his actions.

1700
01:55:58,076 --> 01:56:01,287
He was, therefore, legally insane.

1701
01:56:02,873 --> 01:56:04,457
Could not tell right from wrong...

1702
01:56:04,625 --> 01:56:07,501
...nor understand the consequences
of his actions.

1703
01:56:08,045 --> 01:56:11,005
Therefore, legally, insane.

1704
01:56:11,673 --> 01:56:15,551
Thank you, Dr. Bass.
Your Honor, I have no further questions.

1705
01:56:16,136 --> 01:56:17,303
Mr. Buckley?

1706
01:56:19,097 --> 01:56:21,349
-Mr. Buckley.
-Yes?

1707
01:56:21,975 --> 01:56:23,225
Your witness.

1708
01:56:24,186 --> 01:56:27,021
Oh. I'm sorry, excuse me.
Thank you, Your Honor.

1709
01:56:28,732 --> 01:56:31,150
-Good morning.
BASS: Good morning.

1710
01:56:31,318 --> 01:56:36,072
Dr. Bass, could you please
state for the record your full name?

1711
01:56:36,239 --> 01:56:38,574
Willard Tyrell Bass.

1712
01:56:38,742 --> 01:56:41,952
Tyrell Bass. That's a very unique name.

1713
01:56:42,579 --> 01:56:47,500
Now, doctor,
have you ever been convicted of a felony?

1714
01:56:47,668 --> 01:56:48,959
No, of course not.

1715
01:56:49,127 --> 01:56:51,295
-You're certain?
-Yes.

1716
01:56:51,463 --> 01:56:56,092
RUFUS: As certain of that as you are of the
testimony you've just given before this jury?

1717
01:56:56,259 --> 01:56:57,259
BASS:
Of course.

1718
01:56:57,427 --> 01:56:59,845
So let me understand this now...

1719
01:57:00,013 --> 01:57:02,390
...since you are under oath.

1720
01:57:02,933 --> 01:57:07,478
You're telling me, and this jury,
that on October 17th, 1960...

1721
01:57:07,646 --> 01:57:09,980
...you were not
convicted of statutory rape?

1722
01:57:10,148 --> 01:57:11,482
Objection, Your Honor!

1723
01:57:13,527 --> 01:57:14,944
Dr. Bass is not on trial here.

1724
01:57:15,112 --> 01:57:17,822
This goes to the heart
of the credibility of the witness.

1725
01:57:17,989 --> 01:57:21,450
-Overruled. Continue, Mr. Buckley.
RUFUS: Thank you.

1726
01:57:21,618 --> 01:57:23,577
Now, doctor...

1727
01:57:24,788 --> 01:57:26,914
...were you convicted of statutory rape?

1728
01:57:27,457 --> 01:57:29,208
You got the wrong man.

1729
01:57:29,376 --> 01:57:30,584
Really?

1730
01:57:30,752 --> 01:57:33,129
I have some mighty interesting
photographs of you...

1731
01:57:33,296 --> 01:57:35,715
...taken with a female underage...

1732
01:57:35,882 --> 01:57:39,969
...in a motel by the Dallas Police Department
on September 11th, 1960.

1733
01:57:40,137 --> 01:57:45,099
Would you like to look at these images
and see if they refresh your memory?

1734
01:57:47,769 --> 01:57:49,103
No, I didn't think so.

1735
01:57:49,271 --> 01:57:53,065
Your Honor, we would like to enter into
evidence these court and police records...

1736
01:57:53,233 --> 01:57:59,029
...showing that on September 15th, 1960,
this man, one Tyrell Bass...

1737
01:57:59,197 --> 01:58:02,742
...pled guilty to statutory rape.

1738
01:58:02,909 --> 01:58:05,536
Now, doctor,
I'm gonna ask you one last time...

1739
01:58:05,704 --> 01:58:10,416
...were you or were you not
convicted of statutory rape?

1740
01:58:11,042 --> 01:58:14,044
-Well, I can explain--
RUFUS: Not interested in your explanation.
1741
01:58:14,212 --> 01:58:15,921
Answer the question, yes or no.

1742
01:58:18,300 --> 01:58:19,675
Yes. Yes, I was.

1743
01:58:19,843 --> 01:58:22,928
[CROWD MURMURING]

1744
01:58:25,974 --> 01:58:27,558
That's enough.

1745
01:58:27,726 --> 01:58:30,019
I have nothing further.

1746
01:58:33,815 --> 01:58:35,858
Redirect, Mr. Brigance?

1747
01:58:38,278 --> 01:58:39,361
None, Your Honor.

1748
01:58:39,529 --> 01:58:42,406
Court will recess one hour for lunch.

1749
01:58:42,699 --> 01:58:45,201
You told me you knew him,
he was a credible witness.

1750
01:58:45,368 --> 01:58:47,369
I didn't know. The record was expunged.

1751
01:58:47,537 --> 01:58:49,663
Buckley really outdid himself this time.

1752
01:58:49,831 --> 01:58:52,416
Damn. Lucien, I was counting on you.

1753
01:58:52,584 --> 01:58:54,668
-And I can't win--
-You wanted this case.

1754
01:58:54,836 --> 01:58:55,878
Well, you got it.

1755
01:58:56,046 --> 01:58:59,715
It isn't easy saving the world
one case at a time, but you stick with it.

1756
01:58:59,883 --> 01:59:03,093
You might just have a knack for it.
Don't do what I did. Don't quit.

1757
01:59:03,261 --> 01:59:05,095
What are you talking about, quit?

1758
01:59:05,263 --> 01:59:07,932
-You're a hero, Lucien.
-Oh, hero, my ass.

1759
01:59:08,099 --> 01:59:11,560
Do you think the world needed me
beating cops' heads on that picket line?

1760
01:59:11,728 --> 01:59:15,648
I was needed here, in that courtroom.

1761
01:59:15,982 --> 01:59:17,066
And I let them push me.

1762
01:59:17,234 --> 01:59:19,443
I gave them an excuse to kick me out...

1763
01:59:19,611 --> 01:59:22,446
...and now I can never
plead a case in there again.

1764
01:59:22,614 --> 01:59:24,073
But you can.

1765
01:59:24,241 --> 01:59:25,574
You're an attorney.

1766
01:59:25,742 --> 01:59:27,076
Be proud.

1767
01:59:27,244 --> 01:59:31,372
Your job is to find justice, no matter
how well she may hide herself from you.

1768
01:59:32,874 --> 01:59:34,834
So you go on in there...

1769
01:59:35,001 --> 01:59:36,418
...and you do your job.

1770
01:59:37,921 --> 01:59:39,380
Hurry up, now.

1771
01:59:39,548 --> 01:59:41,841
They'll be starting without you.

1772
01:59:46,429 --> 01:59:47,596
Come with me.

1773
01:59:49,432 --> 01:59:50,724
I can't, Jake.

1774
01:59:52,561 --> 01:59:54,270
I love you...

1775
01:59:54,437 --> 01:59:55,563
...but I can't.

1776
01:59:56,106 --> 01:59:57,147
You know that.

1777
01:59:57,315 --> 02:00:00,317
I'll never go in another courtroom again.

1778
02:00:01,027 --> 02:00:02,486
And I can't be you, Lucien.

1779
02:00:03,738 --> 02:00:05,948
Don't be me.

1780
02:00:06,116 --> 02:00:08,450
Be better than me.

1781
02:00:10,745 --> 02:00:14,206
BAILIFF: All rise
for the Honorable Judge Omar Noose.

1782
02:00:24,092 --> 02:00:26,343
And how did you feel?
1783
02:00:27,012 --> 02:00:29,388
I felt, um....

1784
02:00:32,017 --> 02:00:34,101
I don't know.

1785
02:00:35,687 --> 02:00:38,272
It was like I was outside myself...

1786
02:00:38,440 --> 02:00:40,733
...watching myself.

1787
02:00:41,693 --> 02:00:45,779
All the while I kept hearing my baby say:

1788
02:00:46,281 --> 02:00:48,824
"I called for you, Daddy.

1789
02:00:48,992 --> 02:00:55,497
When them men was hurting me,
I called for you over and over...

1790
02:00:55,665 --> 02:00:58,000
...but you didn't never come."

1791
02:01:04,174 --> 02:01:06,175
Thank you, Mr. Hailey.

1792
02:01:06,968 --> 02:01:09,678
I have no further questions, Your Honor.

1793
02:01:11,181 --> 02:01:12,723
You have an emergency phone call.

1794
02:01:12,891 --> 02:01:13,933
NOOSE:
Mr. Buckley.

1795
02:01:22,317 --> 02:01:24,193
Mr. Hailey...

1796
02:01:25,362 --> 02:01:30,199
...before you stepped outside yourself
to watch yourself shoot Willard and Cobb...
1797
02:01:30,367 --> 02:01:34,870
...were you aware that if convicted
they might be freed in only 10 years?

1798
02:01:35,038 --> 02:01:36,997
Yes, I heard people say that. Yes, sir.

1799
02:01:37,165 --> 02:01:40,125
Do you think men who kidnap
a child should be free in 10 years?

1800
02:01:40,293 --> 02:01:43,671
-No.
-Think men who rape a child should be free?

1801
02:01:43,838 --> 02:01:44,880
CARL LEE:
No, sir.

1802
02:01:45,048 --> 02:01:48,050
Do you think two men who hang a child
should be free in 10 years?

1803
02:01:48,218 --> 02:01:50,511
-No.
-What should happen? What would be fair?

1804
02:01:50,679 --> 02:01:53,138
-Objection.
-Do you think they deserve to die?

1805
02:01:53,306 --> 02:01:55,724
-Now, Mr. Buckley--
-Carl Lee don't answer that!

1806
02:01:55,892 --> 02:01:58,852
Yes, they deserved to die
and I hope they burn in hell!

1807
02:01:59,020 --> 02:02:02,231
[CROWD SHOUTING]

1808
02:02:04,067 --> 02:02:07,486
[GAVEL BANGING]

1809
02:02:15,078 --> 02:02:17,830
I have nothing further, Your Honor.

1810
02:02:21,459 --> 02:02:24,294
NOOSE:
Summations begin tomorrow.

1811
02:02:26,006 --> 02:02:27,715
Court adjourned.

1812
02:02:34,597 --> 02:02:37,641
Jake, they found Roark.

1813
02:02:59,330 --> 02:03:00,956
-[WHISPERING] Ellen....
-Hmm.

1814
02:03:07,380 --> 02:03:08,881
Ellen.

1815
02:03:10,467 --> 02:03:12,384
So...

1816
02:03:13,511 --> 02:03:16,180
...this is what I had to do
to get you to call me "Ellen"?

1817
02:03:18,808 --> 02:03:20,017
I'm so sorry.

1818
02:03:20,185 --> 02:03:21,977
This is all my fault.

1819
02:03:22,145 --> 02:03:23,479
No.

1820
02:03:23,646 --> 02:03:26,273
Don't sweat it, really.

1821
02:03:27,275 --> 02:03:30,027
They didn't--
They didn't hurt anything that won't heal.

1822
02:03:30,195 --> 02:03:31,862
Nothing.

1823
02:03:33,323 --> 02:03:36,450
Besides, um, Dr., uh...

1824
02:03:37,660 --> 02:03:40,454
...What's-His-Name
said I'll be out in a couple days...

1825
02:03:40,622 --> 02:03:41,747
...so I'm fine.

1826
02:03:45,835 --> 02:03:47,127
How'd we do?

1827
02:03:49,047 --> 02:03:51,965
Bass turned out to be a felon.

1828
02:03:52,759 --> 02:03:56,470
Carl Lee got trapped on the stand
by Buckley.

1829
02:03:59,349 --> 02:04:02,101
People been terrorized, Roark.

1830
02:04:02,268 --> 02:04:04,019
Beaten.

1831
02:04:05,939 --> 02:04:08,315
Killed. It--

1832
02:04:08,900 --> 02:04:10,651
It's not worth it. It's not.

1833
02:04:13,238 --> 02:04:16,907
It's only not worth it
if Carl Lee goes to the gas chamber.

1834
02:04:20,453 --> 02:04:23,580
Listen, this case is not over
until the summation.

1835
02:04:23,748 --> 02:04:25,791
Remember that.

1836
02:04:26,167 --> 02:04:27,709
Okay?
1837
02:04:29,003 --> 02:04:32,881
And you've got one big fat chance...

1838
02:04:33,800 --> 02:04:34,967
...to reinvent yourself.

1839
02:04:35,844 --> 02:04:41,140
To make that jury see this whole case--
This whole case through your eyes.

1840
02:04:47,897 --> 02:04:49,273
And they're good eyes.

1841
02:04:54,737 --> 02:04:57,030
Now, get out of here, go to work.

1842
02:04:59,159 --> 02:05:00,617
I'll keep in touch with you.

1843
02:05:01,035 --> 02:05:02,369
No, you won't.

1844
02:05:02,537 --> 02:05:04,079
Big liar.

1845
02:05:13,965 --> 02:05:16,425
Win or lose, Roark...

1846
02:05:17,802 --> 02:05:19,678
...we make one hell of a team.

1847
02:05:21,055 --> 02:05:23,182
We might have.

1848
02:05:24,267 --> 02:05:26,226
We really might have.

1849
02:05:30,523 --> 02:05:33,400
You really want to kiss me right now,
don't you?

1850
02:05:34,986 --> 02:05:37,112
Yes, I do.

1851
02:05:58,968 --> 02:06:00,093
Undecided?

1852
02:06:02,722 --> 02:06:04,348
Guilty?

1853
02:06:24,410 --> 02:06:25,452
[MAX GROWLS]

1854
02:06:32,460 --> 02:06:35,462
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

1855
02:06:42,720 --> 02:06:45,514
CARLA:
Hey, Max. Hey.

1856
02:06:52,689 --> 02:06:53,814
Where's Hannah?

1857
02:06:53,982 --> 02:06:56,608
I left her at Mother and Daddy's.

1858
02:06:58,236 --> 02:06:59,403
How did you get here?

1859
02:07:00,029 --> 02:07:01,405
Drove.

1860
02:07:02,031 --> 02:07:03,532
In the storm?

1861
02:07:05,868 --> 02:07:09,204
Got something to say,
it needs to be said in person.

1862
02:07:13,918 --> 02:07:17,504
The truth is, I've been blaming you
for all that's happened.

1863
02:07:20,425 --> 02:07:23,343
But it's not your fault.
You didn't kill those boys.

1864
02:07:28,850 --> 02:07:30,851
You were trying to make things right.
1865
02:07:33,021 --> 02:07:35,063
I know that now.

1866
02:07:40,820 --> 02:07:43,613
I thought you took this case
because you wanted to prove...

1867
02:07:43,781 --> 02:07:46,408
...what a bigtime lawyer you were.

1868
02:07:47,201 --> 02:07:49,286
But I was wrong.

1869
02:07:52,915 --> 02:07:55,751
You took this case because...

1870
02:07:55,918 --> 02:07:58,128
...if those boys...

1871
02:08:00,506 --> 02:08:05,302
...had hurt Hannah
the way that they hurt Tonya...

1872
02:08:05,470 --> 02:08:07,387
...you would've killed them yourself.

1873
02:08:10,433 --> 02:08:12,142
[MOUTHS]
Baby.

1874
02:08:14,562 --> 02:08:17,356
Baby, come here.

1875
02:08:17,523 --> 02:08:19,358
Come here.

1876
02:08:21,819 --> 02:08:24,154
I love you, Jake.

1877
02:08:25,573 --> 02:08:27,949
JAKE:
I thought I was gonna lose you.

1878
02:08:50,723 --> 02:08:52,432
[JAKE CLEARS THROAT]
1879
02:08:52,600 --> 02:08:55,310
We're gonna lose this case, Carl Lee.

1880
02:08:57,855 --> 02:09:01,983
There are no points of law to argue here.
I wanna cop a plea.

1881
02:09:03,986 --> 02:09:05,904
Maybe Buckley will cop us...

1882
02:09:06,072 --> 02:09:09,449
...a second-degree murder
and we can get you just life in prison.

1883
02:09:11,285 --> 02:09:14,996
Jake, I-- I can't do no life in prison.

1884
02:09:15,164 --> 02:09:17,582
You gotta get me off.
Man, if it was you on trial--

1885
02:09:17,750 --> 02:09:19,418
It's not me.

1886
02:09:20,336 --> 02:09:21,711
We're not the same, Carl Lee.

1887
02:09:24,632 --> 02:09:27,884
The jury has to identify
with the defendant.

1888
02:09:28,052 --> 02:09:29,803
They see you, they see a yard worker.

1889
02:09:29,971 --> 02:09:33,974
They see me, they see an attorney.
I live in town. You live on the hill.

1890
02:09:34,142 --> 02:09:37,185
Oh, you white and I'm black.

1891
02:09:39,647 --> 02:09:41,356
See, Jake?

1892
02:09:41,732 --> 02:09:43,942
You think just like them.

1893
02:09:45,027 --> 02:09:47,404
That's why I picked you.

1894
02:09:48,406 --> 02:09:51,074
You're one of them, don't you see?

1895
02:09:51,242 --> 02:09:53,577
You think you ain't,
because you eat in Claude's...

1896
02:09:53,744 --> 02:09:58,457
...and you're out there trying to get me off
on TV, talking about black and white.

1897
02:09:58,624 --> 02:10:00,584
But the fact is...

1898
02:10:00,751 --> 02:10:03,462
...you're just like all the rest of them.

1899
02:10:03,629 --> 02:10:06,590
When you look at me,
you don't see a man.

1900
02:10:06,757 --> 02:10:08,675
You see a black man.

1901
02:10:09,510 --> 02:10:12,929
Carl Lee, I am your friend.

1902
02:10:13,097 --> 02:10:14,848
We ain't no friends, Jake.

1903
02:10:16,142 --> 02:10:19,144
We're on different sides of the line.

1904
02:10:19,312 --> 02:10:23,732
I ain't never seen you in my part of town.
I bet you don't even know where I live.

1905
02:10:25,526 --> 02:10:28,570
Our daughters, Jake,
they ain't never gonna play together.
1906
02:10:28,738 --> 02:10:31,114
Now, what are you talking about?

1907
02:10:33,367 --> 02:10:36,578
America is a war...

1908
02:10:36,746 --> 02:10:39,039
...and you are on the other side.

1909
02:10:40,791 --> 02:10:43,627
How a black man
ever gonna get a fair trial...

1910
02:10:43,794 --> 02:10:46,796
...with the enemy on the bench
and the jury box?

1911
02:10:46,964 --> 02:10:50,425
My life in white hands.

1912
02:10:50,676 --> 02:10:51,760
You, Jake.

1913
02:10:52,470 --> 02:10:54,387
That's how.

1914
02:10:54,555 --> 02:10:58,767
You my secret weapon
because you're one of the bad guys.

1915
02:10:58,935 --> 02:11:01,811
You don't mean to be, but you are.

1916
02:11:01,979 --> 02:11:04,272
It's how you was raised.

1917
02:11:04,440 --> 02:11:08,777
Nigger, Negro, black, African-American.

1918
02:11:08,945 --> 02:11:11,071
No matter how you see me...

1919
02:11:11,239 --> 02:11:13,949
...you see me as different.
1920
02:11:14,116 --> 02:11:17,452
You see me like that jury sees me.

1921
02:11:17,620 --> 02:11:19,412
You are them.

1922
02:11:20,206 --> 02:11:23,208
Now, throw out your points of law, Jake.

1923
02:11:24,043 --> 02:11:28,296
If you was on that jury...

1924
02:11:28,464 --> 02:11:33,093
...what would it take
to convince you to set me free?

1925
02:11:35,513 --> 02:11:38,473
That's how you'll save my ass.

1926
02:11:39,058 --> 02:11:41,226
That's how you'll save us both.

1927
02:11:45,773 --> 02:11:50,277
RUFUS:
Is Carl Lee Hailey insane?

1928
02:11:51,153 --> 02:11:53,572
It's a notion so outrageous...

1929
02:11:53,739 --> 02:11:58,076
...the only witness
the defense could produce to support it...

1930
02:11:58,244 --> 02:12:00,245
...was a convicted felon.

1931
02:12:00,997 --> 02:12:03,623
No. Carl Lee Hailey is not insane.

1932
02:12:03,791 --> 02:12:07,043
This is a man
who is a confessed murderer.

1933
02:12:08,296 --> 02:12:13,133
This is a man who admitted
on this stand...

1934
02:12:13,301 --> 02:12:16,511
...to carrying out the sentences
he believed the alleged rapists...

1935
02:12:16,679 --> 02:12:18,680
...of his daughter deserved.

1936
02:12:18,848 --> 02:12:21,182
He's taken justice out of your hands.

1937
02:12:23,936 --> 02:12:25,270
And put it in his own.

1938
02:12:26,105 --> 02:12:30,775
And with those hands,
he took the lives of two young men.

1939
02:12:32,361 --> 02:12:33,403
[GUN CLATTERS]

1940
02:12:33,863 --> 02:12:36,990
We feel terrible
over what happened to his daughter.

1941
02:12:37,491 --> 02:12:39,242
But feeling terrible...

1942
02:12:39,410 --> 02:12:43,788
...and knowing something is wrong
does not give any of us...

1943
02:12:44,290 --> 02:12:45,915
...a right to kill.

1944
02:12:47,543 --> 02:12:49,753
Ladies and gentlemen, your duty is clear.

1945
02:12:52,840 --> 02:12:55,550
All in this courtroom know the truth.

1946
02:12:55,968 --> 02:12:59,012
All in this state know the truth.
1947
02:12:59,930 --> 02:13:04,851
Now you need only find the courage
to speak the words:

1948
02:13:05,227 --> 02:13:08,897
"Carl Lee Hailey is guilty."

1949
02:13:09,899 --> 02:13:12,609
Guilty. Guilty.

1950
02:13:14,904 --> 02:13:17,280
State rests, Your Honor.

1951
02:13:33,089 --> 02:13:36,883
Now, I had a great summation
all worked out...

1952
02:13:37,093 --> 02:13:39,636
...full of some sharp lawyering.

1953
02:13:40,888 --> 02:13:42,222
But I'm not going to read it.

1954
02:13:43,641 --> 02:13:45,308
I'm here to apologize.

1955
02:13:45,476 --> 02:13:48,937
I am young, and I am inexperienced.

1956
02:13:49,563 --> 02:13:54,526
But you cannot
hold Carl Lee Hailey responsible...

1957
02:13:54,985 --> 02:13:56,528
...for my shortcomings.

1958
02:13:57,738 --> 02:14:00,407
But you see,
in all this legal maneuvering...

1959
02:14:00,574 --> 02:14:02,951
...something has gotten lost.

1960
02:14:03,119 --> 02:14:05,829
And that something is the truth.
1961
02:14:09,625 --> 02:14:14,129
Now, it is incumbent upon us lawyers
not to just talk about the truth...

1962
02:14:14,296 --> 02:14:18,049
...but to actually seek it,
to find it, to live it.

1963
02:14:19,760 --> 02:14:21,261
My teacher taught me that.

1964
02:14:23,681 --> 02:14:25,640
Let's take Dr. Bass, for example.

1965
02:14:26,267 --> 02:14:29,644
Obviously, I would've never knowingly
put a convicted felon on the stand.

1966
02:14:29,812 --> 02:14:31,229
I hope you can believe that.

1967
02:14:31,689 --> 02:14:33,148
But what is the truth?

1968
02:14:33,315 --> 02:14:36,234
That-- That he's a disgraced liar?

1969
02:14:36,402 --> 02:14:38,319
What if I told you...

1970
02:14:38,487 --> 02:14:42,157
...that the woman he was accused
of raping was 17, he was 23...

1971
02:14:42,324 --> 02:14:45,201
...that she later became his wife,
bore his child...

1972
02:14:45,369 --> 02:14:46,995
...and is still married to the man?

1973
02:14:47,163 --> 02:14:51,166
Does that make his testimony
more or less true?
1974
02:14:55,463 --> 02:14:57,255
What is it in us that seeks the truth?

1975
02:14:58,841 --> 02:15:00,759
Is it our minds?

1976
02:15:01,385 --> 02:15:02,886
Or is it our hearts?

1977
02:15:06,766 --> 02:15:10,143
I set out to prove a black man
could receive a fair trial in the South...

1978
02:15:10,311 --> 02:15:13,480
...that we are all equal
in the eyes of the law.

1979
02:15:15,191 --> 02:15:16,775
That's not the truth.

1980
02:15:16,942 --> 02:15:19,194
Because the eyes of the law
are human eyes...

1981
02:15:19,361 --> 02:15:23,323
...yours and mine,
and until we can see each other as equals...

1982
02:15:23,491 --> 02:15:25,825
...justice is never going to be
evenhanded.

1983
02:15:25,993 --> 02:15:29,829
It will remain nothing more than
a reflection of our own prejudices.

1984
02:15:30,122 --> 02:15:32,540
So until that day...

1985
02:15:32,708 --> 02:15:35,960
...we have a duty under God
to seek the truth...

1986
02:15:37,838 --> 02:15:39,964
...not with our eyes,
and not with our minds...
1987
02:15:40,132 --> 02:15:43,718
...where fear and hate turn
commonality into prejudice...

1988
02:15:43,886 --> 02:15:46,095
...but with our hearts...

1989
02:15:46,388 --> 02:15:48,723
...where we don't know better.

1990
02:15:53,062 --> 02:15:55,480
I wanna tell you a story.

1991
02:15:57,233 --> 02:15:59,943
And I ask you all to close your eyes...

1992
02:16:01,570 --> 02:16:03,822
...while I tell you this story.

1993
02:16:07,284 --> 02:16:11,162
I want you to listen to me.
I want you to listen to yourselves.

1994
02:16:15,209 --> 02:16:18,127
Go ahead. Close your eyes, please.

1995
02:16:23,300 --> 02:16:26,094
This is a story about a little girl...

1996
02:16:27,012 --> 02:16:30,765
...walking home from the grocery store
one sunny afternoon.

1997
02:16:32,101 --> 02:16:34,185
I want you to picture this little girl.

1998
02:16:37,606 --> 02:16:40,024
Suddenly, a truck races up.

1999
02:16:41,777 --> 02:16:43,361
Two men jump out and grab her.

2000
02:16:45,990 --> 02:16:49,117
Drag her into a nearby field...
2001
02:16:51,996 --> 02:16:53,371
...and they tie her up.

2002
02:16:57,251 --> 02:16:59,252
And they rip her clothes from her body.

2003
02:17:02,089 --> 02:17:04,382
Now they climb on.

2004
02:17:05,259 --> 02:17:07,468
First one, then the other.

2005
02:17:09,471 --> 02:17:10,555
Raping her.

2006
02:17:15,519 --> 02:17:20,481
Shattering everything innocent and pure
with a vicious thrust...

2007
02:17:21,483 --> 02:17:24,861
...in a fog of drunken breath and sweat.

2008
02:17:28,782 --> 02:17:30,700
And when they're done...

2009
02:17:31,827 --> 02:17:34,913
...after they've killed her tiny womb...

2010
02:17:37,082 --> 02:17:40,376
...murdered any chance
for her to bear children...

2011
02:17:40,544 --> 02:17:43,212
...to have life beyond her own...

2012
02:17:46,675 --> 02:17:48,801
...they decide to use her
for target practice.

2013
02:17:51,680 --> 02:17:54,849
So they start throwing
full beer cans at her.

2014
02:17:56,852 --> 02:17:59,187
They throw them so hard...

2015
02:17:59,855 --> 02:18:03,316
...that it tears the flesh
all the way to her bones.

2016
02:18:09,490 --> 02:18:11,115
Then they urinate on her.

2017
02:18:15,871 --> 02:18:17,246
Now comes the hanging.

2018
02:18:22,419 --> 02:18:24,253
They have a rope.

2019
02:18:25,547 --> 02:18:27,382
They tie a noose.

2020
02:18:28,550 --> 02:18:31,886
Imagine the noose coiling
tight around her neck...

2021
02:18:32,429 --> 02:18:35,056
...and a sudden blinding jerk.

2022
02:18:36,141 --> 02:18:39,018
She's pulled into the air
and her feet and legs go kicking....

2023
02:18:39,186 --> 02:18:40,937
They don't find the ground.

2024
02:18:43,107 --> 02:18:44,983
The hanging branch...

2025
02:18:45,150 --> 02:18:47,110
...isn't strong enough.

2026
02:18:48,779 --> 02:18:51,406
It snaps and she falls...

2027
02:18:51,782 --> 02:18:53,116
...back to the earth.

2028
02:18:57,121 --> 02:18:59,122
So they pick her up...

2029
02:19:00,249 --> 02:19:02,583
...throw her in the back of the truck...

2030
02:19:04,420 --> 02:19:07,588
...drive out to Foggy Creek Bridge...

2031
02:19:08,424 --> 02:19:09,799
...pitch her over the edge.

2032
02:19:13,012 --> 02:19:17,890
And she drops some 30 feet
down to the creek bottom below.

2033
02:19:25,399 --> 02:19:27,275
Can you see her?

2034
02:19:31,071 --> 02:19:32,739
Her raped...

2035
02:19:32,906 --> 02:19:34,657
...beaten...

2036
02:19:34,825 --> 02:19:37,035
...broken body...

2037
02:19:40,122 --> 02:19:42,498
...soaked in their urine...

2038
02:19:43,125 --> 02:19:45,460
...soaked in their semen...

2039
02:19:47,463 --> 02:19:49,297
...soaked in her blood.

2040
02:19:50,299 --> 02:19:52,175
Left to die.

2041
02:19:55,179 --> 02:19:57,055
Can you see her?

2042
02:20:01,060 --> 02:20:03,311
I want you to picture...
2043
02:20:05,105 --> 02:20:07,023
...that little girl.

2044
02:20:25,751 --> 02:20:27,585
Now imagine she's white.

2045
02:20:49,733 --> 02:20:51,526
The defense rests, Your Honor.

2046
02:21:21,890 --> 02:21:23,474
Innocent! He's innocent!

2047
02:21:23,642 --> 02:21:25,226
Innocent! He's innocent!

2048
02:21:25,394 --> 02:21:26,561
Hailey's innocent!

2049
02:21:26,728 --> 02:21:27,770
[CROWD CHEERING]

2050
02:21:27,938 --> 02:21:30,273
[KLAN JEERING]

2051
02:21:34,236 --> 02:21:35,361
He's innocent!

2052
02:21:45,873 --> 02:21:47,707
NURSE:
We won! We won!

2053
02:21:47,875 --> 02:21:50,126
Ellen, we won! Aren't you happy?

2054
02:21:50,294 --> 02:21:56,132
Oh, my God, Ellen, you have to be happy.
He's innocent. Carl Lee is innocent.

2055
02:21:57,509 --> 02:21:58,843
GWEN:
He's coming home.

2056
02:21:59,011 --> 02:22:00,303
CARL LEE:
Jake.
2057
02:22:01,597 --> 02:22:03,431
That was....

2058
02:22:04,141 --> 02:22:05,975
That was....

2059
02:22:07,186 --> 02:22:09,520
Hey, I'm one of the bad guys, remember?

2060
02:22:12,149 --> 02:22:15,443
-Thank you.
-Thanks.

2061
02:22:20,157 --> 02:22:22,617
[CROWD CHATTERING]

2062
02:22:25,162 --> 02:22:27,413
SHERIFF:
Freddie Lee Cobb!

2063
02:22:30,125 --> 02:22:32,543
We got something to talk about.

2064
02:22:32,711 --> 02:22:34,253
Hastings...

2065
02:22:34,421 --> 02:22:37,006
...you belong over there with them.

2066
02:22:38,634 --> 02:22:40,468
Get over.

2067
02:22:52,147 --> 02:22:54,023
Congratulations, counselor.

2068
02:22:54,191 --> 02:22:55,816
Thank you.

2069
02:23:01,573 --> 02:23:04,450
[REPORTERS TALKING INDISTINCTLY]

2070
02:23:17,256 --> 02:23:19,548
MAN:
You must be overwhelmed right now.
2071
02:23:48,704 --> 02:23:50,788
MAN: Give me--
-After you--

2072
02:23:50,956 --> 02:23:52,331
Yeah.

2073
02:23:52,499 --> 02:23:54,834
[CHATTERING]

2074
02:23:55,127 --> 02:23:57,253
-Was I good or what?
WOMAN: All right.

2075
02:23:57,421 --> 02:24:00,548
GWEN:
Oh. Ha-ha-ha.

2076
02:24:08,098 --> 02:24:09,432
Here you go.

2077
02:24:09,599 --> 02:24:13,144
-Carl Lee. Look.
CARL LEE: What?

2078
02:24:37,044 --> 02:24:38,544
Well.

2079
02:24:38,712 --> 02:24:39,754
Hello.

2080
02:24:39,921 --> 02:24:41,005
CARLA: Hi.
JAKE: Hi there.

2081
02:24:41,173 --> 02:24:42,590
Hannah, this is Miss Hailey.

2082
02:24:42,758 --> 02:24:43,799
-This is Hannah.
-Hi.

2083
02:24:43,967 --> 02:24:46,927
GWEN: Hi, Hannah. Ain't she so pretty.
CARLA: Thank you.
2084
02:24:47,095 --> 02:24:49,722
-Brought you some peach cobbler.
GWEN: Oh, thank you.

2085
02:24:49,890 --> 02:24:51,766
Come on in. Come in.

2086
02:24:53,560 --> 02:24:55,186
Howdy.

2087
02:25:04,946 --> 02:25:07,365
Hannah, this is my daughter, Tonya.

2088
02:25:07,532 --> 02:25:10,701
-Hi, Tonya.
-Hi, nice to meet you, Hannah.

2089
02:25:14,247 --> 02:25:16,332
Just thought our kids
could play together.