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Yeah!
Go, buddy, go!
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That baby's going scared.
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Whoo!
Yeah!
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Hell, yeah!
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Excited, yeah?
Go, baby!
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Yeah!
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I don't wanna do nothing...
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We got her, bro.
Here we go.
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Give me one.
10
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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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Go, baby!
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Got it!
Pearl Harbor! Pearl Harbor!
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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?
Uh-huh.
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Bye, Tonya.
Bye.
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Clean up that mess, boy.
25
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Pete, hungry?
Huh?
26
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Hey.
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Oh, you're not having anything?
Yeah, I'm having them.
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Course, it's shit.
29
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Bye, girls.
Bye, Daddy.
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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...
38
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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.
40
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Yeah, maybe.
41
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Swiggy?
42
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Lord, please let my car be...
43
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fixed today.
Oh, dear.
44
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Hey, who's that?
45
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She looks a little young.
46
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Hold this.
What are you gonna do?
47
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You know what I always say, if
they're old enough to crawl...
48
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they're in the right position.
49
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What are you gonna do?
You crazy.
50
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Whoo! Yeah!
Fifty points!
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Yeah, you good, boy.
52
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Shut up!
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Daddy!
Hey!
54
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Shut up.
Daddy!
55
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Shut up.
56
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I'll kill you.
My turn.
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Daddy!
Shut up.
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Daddy.
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Yeah.
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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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What is this?
Groceries.
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Y'all didn't see her?
No, ma'am.
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Carl Lee!
Stop!
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You got a call from your wife!
What? What?
69
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How many appointments do we
have today, Ethel?
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Not a one.
71
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But it is the 1st of the month
again, and guess what?
72
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The checks are pouring in, and
we have enough money...
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to pay all our past debts, and
then some.
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That'll be your last drink.
75
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Just keep us no more than one
month behind...
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on any vendor, please.
Why, you have been drinking.
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Two months.
78
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Well, these are the most
delinquent.
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The rent is in there.
80
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I appreciate the practice,
captain Connor, I do...
81
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but you could've left me
a couple of clients.
82
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Baby, here's Daddy.
83
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Oh, no.
84
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I'm here, baby.
Daddy's here.
85
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Daddy, I'm sorry I dropped
the groceries.
86
00:07:20,861 --> 00:07:23,469
That's all right, baby.
I'm sorry, Daddy.
87
00:07:23,609 --> 00:07:26,699
It's all right, baby.
That's all right.
88
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Look at this.
89
00:08:21,963 --> 00:08:23,047
Billy Ray?
90
00:08:23,882 --> 00:08:28,552
Sorry, sir, but we don't allow
no African-Americans in here.
91
00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,722
Billy Ray Cobb, you and Mr. Willard
need to come with me.
92
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Hell, no.
I ain't moving.
93
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You know that little girl you
took for a ride?
94
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What little girl?
95
00:08:38,758 --> 00:08:41,393
I got bad news for you, Billy Ray.
She didn't die.
96
00:08:41,428 --> 00:08:43,631
So, unless there's another
redneck asshole...
97
00:08:43,731 --> 00:08:45,321
got a souped-up yellow pickup...
98
00:08:45,362 --> 00:08:47,780
with a Confederate flag in the
windshield...
99
00:08:47,948 --> 00:08:50,907
Hey, blue gums, why don't you take
your cold black ass out of here...
100
00:08:50,994 --> 00:08:51,931
and grab a branch.
101
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Unless you got an explanation...
102
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for what this was doing in the
bed of your truck...
103
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you're going to jail.
Now, get up.
104
00:09:00,168 --> 00:09:02,128
You can go to hell, nigger.
105
00:09:02,295 --> 00:09:04,755
Goddamn!
Hey!
106
00:09:08,969 --> 00:09:11,887
Now, you earned the right to
remain silent.
107
00:09:12,347 --> 00:09:14,257
Here you go baby, just the way
you like them.
108
00:09:14,369 --> 00:09:15,543
Thank you.
109
00:09:15,678 --> 00:09:17,935
Adell, sugar, today I'm gonna have...
Go to hell, Harry.
110
00:09:18,103 --> 00:09:20,521
On a second thought, today I'm
just gonna watch "baby" eat his.
111
00:09:20,689 --> 00:09:22,732
I am not the one who handled
her ex-husband's divorce.
112
00:09:22,899 --> 00:09:24,817
Can't she see I'm shriveling
away, here?
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00:09:24,985 --> 00:09:26,444
I'm shriveling.
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00:09:26,611 --> 00:09:29,238
Say, Jake?
Yeah, what's up, Dwayne?
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00:09:29,906 --> 00:09:32,825
Didn't you defend Billy Ray Cobb,
few years back?
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What kind of case was it?
117
00:09:36,371 --> 00:09:37,830
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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00:09:43,587 --> 00:09:45,254
Why d'you ask?
121
00:09:45,422 --> 00:09:48,007
Well, we picked him up for rape.
Him and Pete Willard.
122
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Who'd they rape?
123
00:09:50,969 --> 00:09:52,511
You know Carl Lee Hailey?
124
00:09:52,888 --> 00:09:54,805
Sure, I defended his brother,
Lester.
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It was his little girl.
126
00:10:01,938 --> 00:10:03,063
Little Tonya?
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00:10:04,483 --> 00:10:06,233
Yeah.
128
00:10:08,528 --> 00:10:09,612
How old is she?
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00:10:11,281 --> 00:10:12,865
She's ten.
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00:10:55,450 --> 00:10:58,327
Mr. Willard, I'm Sheriff Ozzie
Walls.
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My mama voted for you.
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00:11:03,208 --> 00:11:05,251
I've seen you play for the Rams.
133
00:11:07,546 --> 00:11:11,298
Way I figure, a nigger sheriff's
okay, been on TV and all.
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00:11:14,219 --> 00:11:15,511
No offense.
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00:11:18,849 --> 00:11:20,349
What's your full name?
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00:11:20,517 --> 00:11:22,935
James Lewis Willard.
137
00:11:26,439 --> 00:11:30,025
Four, which is a difference
of 110.60.
138
00:11:33,446 --> 00:11:35,281
Who's there?
139
00:11:54,134 --> 00:11:55,968
Carl Lee.
140
00:12:01,433 --> 00:12:03,225
How is she?
141
00:12:04,185 --> 00:12:06,312
She holding on.
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00:12:07,314 --> 00:12:10,107
Doctor says she ain't out of
the woods yet, though.
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00:12:17,657 --> 00:12:20,367
They worked her over something
good, Jake.
144
00:12:27,834 --> 00:12:30,521
You remember them four white boys
raped that little black girl...
145
00:12:30,671 --> 00:12:33,145
in the Delta, last year?
146
00:12:34,758 --> 00:12:35,841
Yeah.
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00:12:36,009 --> 00:12:37,843
They, uh...
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00:12:38,011 --> 00:12:39,553
They got off, didn't they?
149
00:12:41,932 --> 00:12:43,432
Yeah.
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00:12:48,104 --> 00:12:50,064
Jake...
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00:12:50,523 --> 00:12:53,192
I was in a jam, you'd help me
out, wouldn't you?
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00:12:55,445 --> 00:12:57,363
Sure, Carl Lee.
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00:12:59,574 --> 00:13:01,408
What kind of jam you talking
about?
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00:13:02,452 --> 00:13:04,745
You got a daughter, Jake.
155
00:13:04,913 --> 00:13:06,789
What would you do?
156
00:13:17,467 --> 00:13:19,426
Dream some good dreams, baby
girl.
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00:13:19,761 --> 00:13:22,221
Good night, Daddy.
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00:13:22,514 --> 00:13:24,390
Night, baby.
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00:13:40,073 --> 00:13:42,116
Is she asleep?
Yeah.
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00:13:42,325 --> 00:13:45,035
Is she the sweetest thing?
Yeah, she is.
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00:13:45,203 --> 00:13:47,204
Next to you.
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00:13:47,547 --> 00:13:49,358
Tell you what, I look at her,
though...
163
00:13:49,458 --> 00:13:53,734
and I cannot help but think
about little Tonya.
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00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:55,587
Don't.
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00:13:58,425 --> 00:14:00,509
Don't do that to yourself.
166
00:14:01,261 --> 00:14:02,344
Yeah.
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00:14:06,558 --> 00:14:07,599
Something else wrong?
168
00:14:09,060 --> 00:14:11,020
Tonya's father...
169
00:14:11,187 --> 00:14:13,272
Carl Lee Hailey...
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00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:14,773
came by the office today.
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00:14:17,027 --> 00:14:19,778
Man's heart is torn wide open,
baby.
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00:14:19,946 --> 00:14:21,530
I don't know, but...
173
00:14:21,698 --> 00:14:24,533
sounded to me like he was
thinking about doing something.
174
00:14:24,701 --> 00:14:25,743
Like what?
175
00:14:27,454 --> 00:14:29,496
Something like maybe killing
those two boys.
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00:14:30,123 --> 00:14:31,457
Was he serious?
177
00:14:35,420 --> 00:14:37,629
I don't know.
I don't know.
178
00:14:37,797 --> 00:14:40,466
It could've been just the hurt
talking, you know?
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00:14:40,967 --> 00:14:42,389
But when you think that it's
possible...
180
00:14:42,489 --> 00:14:44,798
that those two animals could...
181
00:14:44,804 --> 00:14:46,680
go free...
182
00:14:47,599 --> 00:14:49,975
and be walking the streets...
183
00:14:52,479 --> 00:14:54,104
I...
184
00:14:54,856 --> 00:14:56,148
I don't know.
185
00:14:58,151 --> 00:15:00,127
Jake, honey, after what that
man has been through...
186
00:15:00,227 --> 00:15:03,125
he's probably capable of
anything.
187
00:15:03,323 --> 00:15:05,741
Somebody should do something.
188
00:15:06,326 --> 00:15:07,993
You should call Sheriff Walls.
189
00:15:09,579 --> 00:15:11,163
Yeah.
190
00:16:06,594 --> 00:16:09,763
To release the owner from
assessment.
191
00:16:13,143 --> 00:16:17,563
I hope I'm having a heart attack
because then I'd get to sue you.
192
00:16:17,730 --> 00:16:20,399
Don't stand on ceremony, come
on in.
193
00:16:20,567 --> 00:16:22,568
What?
No clients?
194
00:16:22,735 --> 00:16:25,571
Just waiting to pick yours up
on appeal, Harry.
195
00:16:25,738 --> 00:16:29,074
And you, are you on vacation?
196
00:16:29,659 --> 00:16:31,785
Fortunately for me, my lovely...
197
00:16:31,953 --> 00:16:34,246
divorce doesn't go on vacation.
198
00:16:34,622 --> 00:16:36,081
However...
199
00:16:36,249 --> 00:16:38,656
not even the richest, most
ridiculous settlement...
200
00:16:38,756 --> 00:16:40,216
I ever bring in...
201
00:16:40,316 --> 00:16:42,796
is gonna be as satisfying as
watching those two hyenas...
202
00:16:42,964 --> 00:16:46,466
across the street get what's
coming to them.
203
00:16:50,889 --> 00:16:52,139
Oh, dear.
204
00:16:54,934 --> 00:16:58,979
You know I'm a fool for those,
um, German-type convertibles.
205
00:17:00,732 --> 00:17:02,774
Come on, lover boy, let's get
to court.
206
00:17:02,942 --> 00:17:05,861
Lucien thinks the two hyenas
just might get off.
207
00:17:06,029 --> 00:17:07,613
You saw Lucien?
208
00:17:07,780 --> 00:17:09,406
When?
Where?
209
00:17:09,574 --> 00:17:10,657
How is he?
210
00:17:10,825 --> 00:17:12,701
Has he been eating any better?
211
00:17:15,580 --> 00:17:16,997
Just curious.
212
00:17:17,165 --> 00:17:19,499
Um, Miss Ethel...
213
00:17:19,667 --> 00:17:21,310
refresh my recollection...
214
00:17:21,451 --> 00:17:24,050
how long were you and Lucien
together for, exactly?
215
00:17:24,150 --> 00:17:25,255
We were never together.
216
00:17:25,423 --> 00:17:27,507
I was his secretary for twenty
years.
217
00:17:27,675 --> 00:17:29,468
Come on, old girl.
218
00:17:29,636 --> 00:17:32,137
You can tell us, you know.
He was your boyfriend.
219
00:17:32,305 --> 00:17:36,225
I am an upstanding, God-fearing,
respectable Southern woman...
220
00:17:36,392 --> 00:17:37,967
with unimpeachable morals...
221
00:17:38,067 --> 00:17:40,924
who has been happily married
for twenty-seven years.
222
00:17:41,024 --> 00:17:44,608
And I have never had, or ever
will have any boyfriend.
223
00:17:44,776 --> 00:17:46,276
And if I did...
224
00:17:46,444 --> 00:17:49,312
it certainly would not be that
old pickled scoundrel...
225
00:17:49,412 --> 00:17:52,070
Lucien Wilbanks!
226
00:17:55,912 --> 00:17:58,622
She did him.
Oh, yeah, a lot.
227
00:18:05,380 --> 00:18:07,673
All right Billy Ray, step on
back.
228
00:18:08,466 --> 00:18:10,759
Come on out.
Willard.
229
00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:15,681
All right, boys, today's your
big day.
230
00:18:15,848 --> 00:18:17,724
We're gonna take a trip to the
courthouse.
231
00:18:17,892 --> 00:18:19,559
The judge is gonna set your bail.
232
00:18:19,727 --> 00:18:22,521
Then we're gonna come back here,
all nice and peaceful-like.
233
00:18:22,689 --> 00:18:27,567
I get any trouble out of you, I'm
going to integrate this jail.
234
00:19:53,946 --> 00:19:57,366
Mama, Daddy's home!
Daddy's home!
235
00:19:58,034 --> 00:20:00,827
Hannah girl, let's go inside
for a minute.
236
00:20:00,995 --> 00:20:03,538
Give Daddy some time to himself.
237
00:20:03,706 --> 00:20:07,292
Let's... let's find a book, okay?
I wanna see Daddy.
238
00:20:07,460 --> 00:20:08,919
Honey?
239
00:20:38,408 --> 00:20:43,036
Jake? Jake? Are you hurt?
Jake, what happened to you?
240
00:20:43,204 --> 00:20:46,039
Jake, honey, are you okay?
What happened to you?
241
00:20:46,207 --> 00:20:49,501
What is this? What is going
on with you? What happened?
242
00:20:49,669 --> 00:20:51,545
Jake, baby.
243
00:20:52,547 --> 00:20:54,756
What happened?
244
00:21:27,915 --> 00:21:30,041
Okay, okay.
245
00:21:46,142 --> 00:21:47,184
See you, Gwen.
246
00:22:01,282 --> 00:22:03,158
Is the sheriff gonna make
a statement?
247
00:22:03,326 --> 00:22:05,118
He might, he might not.
I don't know.
248
00:22:05,286 --> 00:22:07,913
Is it first-degree murder?
I'm not sure yet.
249
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,081
What happened?
Can you tell us something?
250
00:22:10,249 --> 00:22:11,395
Sheriff, will you give us a
statement?
251
00:22:11,495 --> 00:22:13,601
I got no comment.
No comment, no comment.
252
00:22:13,628 --> 00:22:16,588
Hey. Hey, Jake. Hey, Jake,
Carl Lee said you'd be coming.
253
00:22:16,756 --> 00:22:18,949
Sir, are you an attorney?
Are you an attorney?
254
00:22:19,017 --> 00:22:20,638
Alright, now, I'll make you a
statement.
255
00:22:20,779 --> 00:22:22,789
I want y'all to get these vans
out of here.
256
00:22:22,924 --> 00:22:25,013
Sir, we've gotta get something
for our newscast.
257
00:22:44,825 --> 00:22:46,618
Didn't think I'd do it, did you?
258
00:22:50,373 --> 00:22:52,207
How you holding up?
259
00:22:56,462 --> 00:22:58,687
I ain't had nothing against
them boys...
260
00:22:58,787 --> 00:23:00,828
till they messed my baby.
261
00:23:00,883 --> 00:23:05,095
And I feel sorry for their mamas
and their daddies, but...
262
00:23:05,805 --> 00:23:07,764
I ain't sorry for what I done.
263
00:23:11,018 --> 00:23:12,143
How's Looney?
264
00:23:14,981 --> 00:23:16,773
You blew his knee right off
his leg.
265
00:23:17,650 --> 00:23:19,985
Doctors are still with him.
266
00:23:23,948 --> 00:23:25,448
What's gonna happen to me now?
267
00:23:26,951 --> 00:23:29,244
There's gonna be a preliminary
hearing.
268
00:23:29,412 --> 00:23:31,705
Probably tomorrow.
269
00:23:32,164 --> 00:23:34,332
After that, Buckley will push
for a fast trial.
270
00:23:35,334 --> 00:23:36,459
Who's Buckley?
271
00:23:36,627 --> 00:23:38,128
Rufus Buckley.
272
00:23:38,296 --> 00:23:39,337
District attorney.
273
00:23:39,505 --> 00:23:41,202
He's mean, he's ambitious...
274
00:23:41,325 --> 00:23:44,057
and he's gonna eat this up
because of the publicity.
275
00:23:44,192 --> 00:23:45,468
But you've done beat him,
ain't you?
276
00:23:45,970 --> 00:23:47,637
Yeah.
277
00:23:48,014 --> 00:23:49,639
Not in a murder case.
278
00:23:53,519 --> 00:23:54,978
Think I can win?
279
00:23:55,855 --> 00:23:58,231
All depends on the jury,
Carl Lee.
280
00:23:59,358 --> 00:24:01,234
Pick the right jury, and you
walk.
281
00:24:02,695 --> 00:24:04,696
D.A. picks the jury...
282
00:24:04,864 --> 00:24:06,156
and you get the gas.
283
00:24:09,702 --> 00:24:11,328
Well, how much...
284
00:24:11,495 --> 00:24:13,496
how much a case like this cost?
285
00:24:16,542 --> 00:24:17,917
Probably fifty grand.
286
00:24:20,171 --> 00:24:23,131
I can pay maybe ten.
287
00:24:29,972 --> 00:24:33,792
Well, not a lot of white lawyers
would've took my brother...
288
00:24:33,922 --> 00:24:35,908
Lester's case.
289
00:24:36,043 --> 00:24:38,063
You did, and got him off.
290
00:24:38,898 --> 00:24:40,936
I figure there's a lot of people
out there...
291
00:24:41,036 --> 00:24:44,569
tired of all the raping and
killing.
292
00:24:44,654 --> 00:24:46,329
They'd be sympathetic to a
man...
293
00:24:46,429 --> 00:24:51,408
who took the law into his own
hands, even if he is black.
294
00:24:57,750 --> 00:25:01,670
You said you'd help me out
if I was in a jam, Jake.
295
00:25:02,088 --> 00:25:04,714
Well, I'm in one now.
296
00:25:05,925 --> 00:25:07,050
What you say?
297
00:25:09,679 --> 00:25:12,722
What can you tell us, sheriff?
Can you tell us what happened?
298
00:25:12,890 --> 00:25:15,558
Are you with the police department?
No, I am a lawyer.
299
00:25:15,726 --> 00:25:17,519
Are you Carl Lee Hailey's
attorney?
300
00:25:18,479 --> 00:25:20,939
Sir, are you Mr. Hailey's
attorney?
301
00:25:21,107 --> 00:25:22,273
Yes, I am.
302
00:25:22,441 --> 00:25:24,693
What's your name, sir?
Brigance. Jake Brigance.
303
00:25:24,860 --> 00:25:26,194
That's with one G.
304
00:25:33,828 --> 00:25:35,286
Hailey's hired an attorney.
305
00:25:35,996 --> 00:25:37,038
Jake Brigance.
306
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,002
And today ain't even my birthday.
307
00:25:43,170 --> 00:25:46,548
Brigance couldn't tie his own tie
without that old drunk Wilbanks.
308
00:25:46,716 --> 00:25:48,675
Well, he's telling the press he
never lost a murder case.
309
00:25:48,843 --> 00:25:50,969
Well, he's never tried one
against me, has he?
310
00:25:51,137 --> 00:25:53,638
What time is the preliminary?
Tomorrow at 3.
311
00:25:53,806 --> 00:25:55,598
Judge Omar Noose, presiding.
312
00:25:56,225 --> 00:25:58,643
Oh, I was wrong.
It is my birthday.
313
00:25:59,019 --> 00:25:59,926
Alright.
314
00:26:00,058 --> 00:26:02,847
First things first, Brigance
will file for a change of venue.
315
00:26:02,982 --> 00:26:05,817
Guy would be a fool, if he didn't.
Why's that?
316
00:26:06,318 --> 00:26:07,444
Why?
317
00:26:07,611 --> 00:26:09,946
Should we tell our young,
uninformed law clerk...
318
00:26:10,114 --> 00:26:12,282
the reality of jurisprudence
in this county?
319
00:26:12,450 --> 00:26:16,578
Evelyn, get me the state file
on race statistics.
320
00:26:16,746 --> 00:26:18,371
You see, Taylor, it's quite
simple.
321
00:26:18,539 --> 00:26:21,624
This county's twenty six, thirty
percent black, give or take.
322
00:26:21,792 --> 00:26:24,224
Almost every other county is
forty, forty-five...
323
00:26:24,402 --> 00:26:26,207
in some cases seventy percent
black.
324
00:26:26,342 --> 00:26:28,214
Blacks are more sympathetic to
other blacks.
325
00:26:28,382 --> 00:26:30,886
If he gets it moved, he has
a greater chance of color...
326
00:26:31,016 --> 00:26:32,863
in the jury box, and we know
what that means.
327
00:26:32,887 --> 00:26:36,055
But if the trial stays here,
it's an all-white jury for sure.
328
00:26:36,223 --> 00:26:37,849
Now, Taylor, this is for you...
329
00:26:38,350 --> 00:26:40,894
to integrate your brain with,
before 3:00 tomorrow.
330
00:26:41,061 --> 00:26:42,072
Yes.
331
00:26:42,249 --> 00:26:43,773
He means without blacks on
the jury...
332
00:26:43,908 --> 00:26:45,565
Hailey hasn't got a chance in
hell.
333
00:26:45,733 --> 00:26:48,860
All right, Noose is up for re-elect?
Yeah, November.
334
00:26:49,028 --> 00:26:51,112
Good. Reach out to our friends
in the legislature.
335
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:52,604
Have them call on judge Noose.
336
00:26:52,704 --> 00:26:55,156
We're just gonna help him decide
to keep this case in Canton.
337
00:26:55,291 --> 00:26:57,874
Also, send a case of whatever
it is he's drinking these days...
338
00:26:58,024 --> 00:26:59,290
to Lucien Wilbanks.
339
00:26:59,325 --> 00:27:02,582
I believe that's Dewars.
Keep that old drunk on the sidelines.
340
00:27:02,750 --> 00:27:03,833
Yeah, get me Sam.
341
00:27:04,001 --> 00:27:05,752
And, gentlemen?
342
00:27:07,046 --> 00:27:10,256
No mistakes. This is the one
we've been waiting for.
343
00:27:11,050 --> 00:27:13,885
Justifiable homicide will never
hold up.
344
00:27:14,053 --> 00:27:16,679
Then my only chance is to find
a shrink who'll testify...
345
00:27:16,847 --> 00:27:19,265
Carl Lee was insane at the time
of the murders.
346
00:27:19,558 --> 00:27:23,728
Well, I might know a man who
owes me a favor.
347
00:27:24,396 --> 00:27:27,982
You'll file for change of venue.
Of course.
348
00:27:29,068 --> 00:27:31,736
Judge Noose denies it...
349
00:27:31,904 --> 00:27:35,406
then you'll get an all-white
jury and you'll lose.
350
00:27:35,866 --> 00:27:37,325
Thank you for the encouragement.
351
00:27:37,493 --> 00:27:40,127
Well, bear in mind that Mr. Hailey
is as guilty as sin...
352
00:27:40,227 --> 00:27:41,934
under our legal system.
353
00:27:42,581 --> 00:27:46,228
It does not permit vigilante
violence, and he took the law...
354
00:27:46,386 --> 00:27:48,538
into his own hands.
355
00:27:48,673 --> 00:27:51,089
He murdered two people.
356
00:27:51,757 --> 00:27:56,135
Two people who had raped his
ten-year-old daughter.
357
00:27:58,264 --> 00:27:59,639
You know...
358
00:27:59,807 --> 00:28:02,058
you can win this case...
359
00:28:02,226 --> 00:28:04,394
and justice will prevail.
360
00:28:04,562 --> 00:28:06,145
But lose...
361
00:28:06,313 --> 00:28:10,692
and justice will also prevail.
Now, that's a strange case.
362
00:28:10,860 --> 00:28:12,485
Yeah.
363
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,489
I could use your help.
364
00:28:19,034 --> 00:28:21,911
The sons of bitches decertified
me, Jake.
365
00:28:22,079 --> 00:28:25,456
I swore I will never enter
another courtroom ever.
366
00:28:25,624 --> 00:28:29,043
Lucien, you're the best lawyer
I've ever seen.
367
00:28:29,211 --> 00:28:32,213
Now, I know how much it hurt when
they took your license away...
368
00:28:32,381 --> 00:28:34,841
but they can't take your mind,
unless you let them.
369
00:28:36,135 --> 00:28:37,343
Good speech.
370
00:28:37,511 --> 00:28:39,637
Well, I had a good teacher.
371
00:28:39,805 --> 00:28:42,765
Now, you remember when I came
to you out of law school?
372
00:28:43,559 --> 00:28:45,351
In a ridiculous blue suit.
373
00:28:45,519 --> 00:28:46,895
Yeah.
374
00:28:47,062 --> 00:28:49,486
Now, you sat me down and you
said to me:
375
00:28:49,586 --> 00:28:51,860
"Young man, I cannot promise
you riches.
376
00:28:51,895 --> 00:28:55,320
What I can offer you is a chance
to save the world...
377
00:28:55,487 --> 00:28:56,905
one case at a time."
378
00:28:59,909 --> 00:29:03,161
Well, I'm saying the same words
back to you, right now.
379
00:29:04,580 --> 00:29:05,705
How about it, Lucien?
380
00:29:09,209 --> 00:29:12,003
The Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not want.
381
00:29:12,171 --> 00:29:15,298
He maketh me to lie down in
green pastures.
382
00:29:15,466 --> 00:29:18,009
He leadeth me beside still
waters.
383
00:29:18,177 --> 00:29:21,846
Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death...
384
00:29:22,014 --> 00:29:26,351
I will fear no evil, for thou
art with me.
385
00:29:26,518 --> 00:29:29,354
Thy rod and thy staff comfort me.
386
00:29:29,688 --> 00:29:32,899
Thou preparest a table before me...
387
00:29:33,067 --> 00:29:35,652
Sure am sorry about your brother,
Freddie.
388
00:29:36,612 --> 00:29:38,404
Old Willard too.
389
00:29:38,572 --> 00:29:40,907
Good boys, both.
390
00:29:45,663 --> 00:29:48,706
Ten years ago, that nigger would
be hanging by the end of a rope...
391
00:29:48,874 --> 00:29:50,792
with his balls in his mouth.
392
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,127
You tell me what's wrong
with this country.
393
00:29:53,879 --> 00:29:55,421
Klan would know what to do.
394
00:29:56,548 --> 00:29:58,508
My granddaddy, he was Klan.
395
00:29:59,593 --> 00:30:01,367
Ain't no Klan around here, for
years.
396
00:30:01,467 --> 00:30:03,591
Oh, there's still some boys,
around.
397
00:30:03,722 --> 00:30:05,274
Well, you mean them skinheads?
398
00:30:05,374 --> 00:30:06,502
Who want to blow up the government?
399
00:30:06,637 --> 00:30:09,310
No, sir.
Good, God-fearing Klan.
400
00:30:11,689 --> 00:30:14,107
I got a friend, used to be
active.
401
00:30:14,274 --> 00:30:15,400
I could give him a call.
402
00:30:17,236 --> 00:30:19,278
You do that, Winston.
403
00:30:19,446 --> 00:30:22,323
You tell them boys we need some
Klan down here, in Canton.
404
00:30:22,491 --> 00:30:24,534
I mean, right quick.
405
00:30:27,913 --> 00:30:28,955
Hurry up, honey.
406
00:30:29,123 --> 00:30:30,623
Coming, coming, coming.
407
00:30:30,791 --> 00:30:33,918
Something you can tell us?
What did Carl Lee tell you?
408
00:30:34,086 --> 00:30:35,712
There's Ozzie.
409
00:30:37,089 --> 00:30:41,259
To our family's television debut.
To the big time.
410
00:30:41,885 --> 00:30:43,801
I cannot believe you didn't
take it seriously...
411
00:30:43,901 --> 00:30:45,499
when I warned you Carl Lee might
do some damage.
412
00:30:45,806 --> 00:30:47,459
Well, baby, you know, some folks
think those boys...
413
00:30:47,581 --> 00:30:49,888
got what they deserved.
Here, sweet pea.
414
00:30:49,988 --> 00:30:51,584
Carl Lee Hailey may very well
spend...
415
00:30:51,684 --> 00:30:52,897
the rest of his life in prison.
416
00:30:52,997 --> 00:30:54,647
That is nothing his family
deserves.
417
00:30:54,815 --> 00:30:56,107
Yeah.
You did call Ozzie...
418
00:30:56,275 --> 00:30:58,943
Lookit here. Look who's...
Daddy's on TV.
419
00:30:59,111 --> 00:31:01,591
I intend to show that the good
men and women of the South...
420
00:31:01,733 --> 00:31:03,274
will look past color and see
the truth.
421
00:31:03,409 --> 00:31:05,560
That here, in the South... in
the new South...
422
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,014
justice is, and will be,
colorblind.
423
00:31:10,247 --> 00:31:12,790
Impressive.
Honey, that was really good.
424
00:31:12,958 --> 00:31:15,334
Isn't Daddy smart?
425
00:31:15,502 --> 00:31:16,961
Yeah.
Brigance.
426
00:31:17,129 --> 00:31:18,296
Mm-hm.
That was great.
427
00:31:18,464 --> 00:31:20,548
Yeah.
No, we just saw it.
428
00:31:20,716 --> 00:31:22,050
All right, Harry Rex.
Yeah.
429
00:31:22,217 --> 00:31:23,426
Baby, I'm proud of you.
430
00:31:24,803 --> 00:31:26,137
Good stuff, huh?
Mm-hm.
431
00:31:26,305 --> 00:31:28,514
You hear this?
Put it on speakerphone.
432
00:31:28,682 --> 00:31:30,558
Don't be gross.
433
00:31:30,934 --> 00:31:34,062
Ahem. F. Lee Bailey's office.
Brigance.
434
00:31:34,229 --> 00:31:38,983
You nigger-loving son-of-a-bitch,
you won't live if the nigger walks.
435
00:31:39,151 --> 00:31:41,819
Hey, hey.
Hey!
436
00:31:42,613 --> 00:31:44,655
Do you have any sympathy for
the defense?
437
00:31:44,823 --> 00:31:47,825
Well, of course I do, Stephanie.
You're a mother, I'm a father.
438
00:31:47,993 --> 00:31:50,787
We all have families.
Who wouldn't?
439
00:31:50,954 --> 00:31:53,289
Don't presume the district
attorney is insensitive.
440
00:31:53,457 --> 00:31:55,500
But the people of the state
of Mississippi...
441
00:31:55,667 --> 00:31:58,252
entrusted this office to uphold
the law of the land.
442
00:31:58,420 --> 00:32:00,237
Our society cannot condone
men...
443
00:32:00,337 --> 00:32:01,724
who take the law into their own
hands...
444
00:32:01,824 --> 00:32:03,049
no matter what the circumstance.
445
00:32:03,217 --> 00:32:05,885
If you get a conviction, will
you ask for the gas chamber?
446
00:32:06,053 --> 00:32:08,679
Yes, I will seek the death penalty
for Mr. Hailey.
447
00:32:08,847 --> 00:32:10,681
What do you think of Mr. Brigance?
448
00:32:10,849 --> 00:32:12,892
Isn't that boy still in law
school?
449
00:32:13,060 --> 00:32:15,144
Say hey to your husband for
me, Kim. That's all.
450
00:32:29,868 --> 00:32:32,703
Hey, Cora Mae, don't you worry.
Hey, Wayne, how are you?
451
00:32:32,871 --> 00:32:34,455
Good luck.
452
00:32:36,041 --> 00:32:39,085
You plead him guilty today, I'll
ask for life. Otherwise, he dies.
453
00:32:39,253 --> 00:32:40,442
You drop your case now...
454
00:32:40,592 --> 00:32:43,595
and I won't bury you before
the entire county, Rufus.
455
00:32:44,299 --> 00:32:45,508
All rise.
456
00:32:47,344 --> 00:32:51,013
Court is in session. The Honorable
Omar Noose presiding.
457
00:32:51,181 --> 00:32:53,558
Good afternoon, citizens.
458
00:32:55,644 --> 00:32:57,228
Be seated.
459
00:32:57,396 --> 00:32:58,980
Counsel.
460
00:32:59,148 --> 00:33:00,731
And you, sir.
461
00:33:00,899 --> 00:33:03,401
Are you Carl Lee Hailey?
Yes, sir.
462
00:33:03,569 --> 00:33:07,572
Uh, Mr. Hailey, I am holding a
copy of an indictment returned...
463
00:33:07,739 --> 00:33:11,242
by the grand jury of Mississippi,
presenting that:
464
00:33:11,410 --> 00:33:16,122
"Carl Lee Hailey did murder
Billy Ray Cobb, a human being...
465
00:33:16,290 --> 00:33:19,125
and James Lewis Willard, a human
being...
466
00:33:19,293 --> 00:33:23,337
and did attempt to kill Dwayne
Looney, a peace officer...
467
00:33:23,505 --> 00:33:26,549
against the peace and dignity
of the state of Mississippi."
468
00:33:26,967 --> 00:33:29,427
Now, do you understand the
charges against you?
469
00:33:29,887 --> 00:33:32,471
Yes, sir.
How do you wish to plead?
470
00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:36,350
Not guilty, Your Honor.
471
00:33:37,561 --> 00:33:39,434
The defense enters a plea of
not guilty...
472
00:33:39,573 --> 00:33:41,378
by reason of insanity, Your
Honor.
473
00:33:41,513 --> 00:33:43,399
Your trial is set for July 22.
474
00:33:43,499 --> 00:33:45,572
All pre-trial motions and
matters...
475
00:33:45,672 --> 00:33:47,988
should be filed no later than
July 8.
476
00:33:48,123 --> 00:33:49,238
Is there anything further?
Yes.
477
00:33:49,406 --> 00:33:51,532
Your Honor, in response to the
insanity plea...
478
00:33:51,700 --> 00:33:54,785
the state requests the defendant
be examined by its own doctors.
479
00:33:54,953 --> 00:33:55,953
Request granted.
480
00:33:56,121 --> 00:33:59,248
Additionally, the state opposes
any request for bail.
481
00:33:59,416 --> 00:34:01,334
Your Honor, we haven't yet
asked for bail.
482
00:34:01,501 --> 00:34:03,859
Now, Governor Buckley cannot
oppose a request...
483
00:34:03,959 --> 00:34:06,505
until one is made. He should've
learned that in law school.
484
00:34:06,673 --> 00:34:10,546
Your Honor, even Mr. Brigance's
meager legal experience...
485
00:34:10,687 --> 00:34:11,740
should've taught him two things.
486
00:34:11,872 --> 00:34:15,009
Number one, I have not been
elected governor, yet.
487
00:34:15,109 --> 00:34:17,878
And number two, he is required
to request bail.
488
00:34:17,913 --> 00:34:19,435
The state opposes any such
request.
489
00:34:19,603 --> 00:34:20,481
In the future...
490
00:34:20,581 --> 00:34:23,321
why don't we just wait till he
makes the request, huh?
491
00:34:23,356 --> 00:34:24,440
Thank you, Your Honor.
492
00:34:24,608 --> 00:34:26,496
Your Honor, we would like to
request bail.
493
00:34:26,619 --> 00:34:28,074
Denied.
494
00:34:28,278 --> 00:34:30,696
Now, I have never allowed bail
in a capital-murder case...
495
00:34:30,864 --> 00:34:34,200
and don't feel that an exception
is called for, today.
496
00:34:34,368 --> 00:34:35,493
Good enough.
497
00:34:35,661 --> 00:34:37,745
Your owner, we will be filing
for a change of venue.
498
00:34:37,913 --> 00:34:39,330
Now, I anticipated this.
499
00:34:39,498 --> 00:34:42,083
Let me save you some time,
Mr. Brigance.
500
00:34:42,251 --> 00:34:43,751
Your motion is denied.
501
00:34:43,919 --> 00:34:45,836
If it pleases the court, your
Honor, we have not yet filed.
502
00:34:46,004 --> 00:34:48,536
We are simply indicating our
intent to file...
503
00:34:48,636 --> 00:34:52,669
in writing, by letting you...
I said, request denied.
504
00:34:53,053 --> 00:34:54,428
Your Honor...
505
00:34:54,596 --> 00:34:57,807
how can you summarily deny
this request?
506
00:34:57,975 --> 00:35:00,007
It is quite clear that Carl Lee
Hailey cannot receive...
507
00:35:00,107 --> 00:35:01,696
a fair trial here in Canton.
508
00:35:01,831 --> 00:35:03,938
Now, we feel...
That's enough. Sidebar.
509
00:35:04,106 --> 00:35:05,523
Your Honor, we have a right...
510
00:35:05,691 --> 00:35:08,567
Mr. Brigance...
511
00:35:08,735 --> 00:35:12,280
I will not tolerate grand-standing
in my courtroom.
512
00:35:20,289 --> 00:35:22,290
Get back to work.
513
00:35:23,125 --> 00:35:26,043
Excellent technique, counselor.
514
00:35:38,015 --> 00:35:39,056
Your Honor.
515
00:35:39,308 --> 00:35:42,893
We feel it would be remiss not to
tell you that in State vs Johnson...
516
00:35:43,061 --> 00:35:44,687
and State vs Fisher...
517
00:35:44,855 --> 00:35:46,689
both in 1985...
518
00:35:46,857 --> 00:35:49,525
failure to properly consider
a change of venue...
519
00:35:49,693 --> 00:35:53,112
has been a reversible decision on
appeal to the state supreme court.
520
00:35:54,573 --> 00:35:59,452
No... no trial judge likes his
rulings overturned.
521
00:35:59,619 --> 00:36:03,134
I guess you get to submit that
brief, after all.
522
00:36:03,234 --> 00:36:06,236
Have it on my desk by Tuesday
morning.
523
00:36:06,371 --> 00:36:08,919
Uh, Mr. Hailey, you are hereby
ordered...
524
00:36:09,087 --> 00:36:11,975
to remain in custody of the
Madison County sheriff...
525
00:36:12,075 --> 00:36:14,028
until trial.
526
00:36:14,343 --> 00:36:15,384
Dismissed.
527
00:36:24,895 --> 00:36:26,578
Find me that doctor, that state
doctor.
528
00:36:26,678 --> 00:36:27,925
What's his name, Rodeheaver?
529
00:36:28,060 --> 00:36:29,607
Get him down here, to interview
Hailey.
530
00:36:29,775 --> 00:36:31,274
Since he's not gonna be able to
afford a real one...
531
00:36:31,443 --> 00:36:33,635
I wanna find who Brigance is
using for a shrink.
532
00:36:33,735 --> 00:36:34,915
I want him discredited.
533
00:36:35,015 --> 00:36:36,956
You want professional conduct,
or personal dirt?
534
00:36:37,125 --> 00:36:38,047
I don't wanna know how you
do it.
535
00:36:38,147 --> 00:36:40,034
Just get me enough to shatter
him in court.
536
00:36:40,169 --> 00:36:41,494
We can do that.
Taylor?
537
00:36:46,792 --> 00:36:50,836
This is $900, Carl Lee.
We said a thousand down.
538
00:36:51,004 --> 00:36:53,297
My kids gotta eat.
539
00:36:54,132 --> 00:36:55,883
Mine too, man.
540
00:36:58,345 --> 00:37:00,137
All right, when do I get the
rest?
541
00:37:00,597 --> 00:37:01,686
Them folks over at the bank...
542
00:37:01,786 --> 00:37:04,097
they won't loan me no money
on my house.
543
00:37:04,232 --> 00:37:06,589
Why not? Your house is almost
paid for.
544
00:37:06,689 --> 00:37:08,733
You borrowed on it before,
for Lester's trial.
545
00:37:08,768 --> 00:37:10,147
Said I wasn't in jail, before.
546
00:37:10,315 --> 00:37:13,025
Said to Gwen, how am I gonna
pay sitting on death row?
547
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,694
And, I lost my job at the mill.
548
00:37:15,862 --> 00:37:17,029
They called Gwen.
549
00:37:17,197 --> 00:37:21,283
Worked twenty years, I'm out
five days and they fired me.
550
00:37:23,662 --> 00:37:28,124
Carl Lee, I can't trial a
capital-murder case for $900.
551
00:37:28,291 --> 00:37:30,084
Carl Lee, I need to live.
552
00:37:30,252 --> 00:37:32,002
Me too, Jake.
553
00:37:32,170 --> 00:37:33,754
I need to live, too.
554
00:37:43,473 --> 00:37:45,307
Nice night.
555
00:37:50,856 --> 00:37:54,024
Finder of precedents, mystery
woman of the courthouse.
556
00:37:54,192 --> 00:37:57,153
Yup.
Care for a beer?
557
00:37:59,906 --> 00:38:02,387
I assume that's the infamous
"Change of Venue" motion...
558
00:38:02,487 --> 00:38:04,827
under your arm.
Mm-hm.
559
00:38:04,995 --> 00:38:06,370
Ellen Roark.
R-O-A-R-K.
560
00:38:06,538 --> 00:38:10,249
That's Roark in Boston, but it
seems to be Roark in Mississippi.
561
00:38:10,417 --> 00:38:12,710
Boston, huh?
Yup, I was born there.
562
00:38:12,878 --> 00:38:15,296
My father's the notorious
Sheldon Roark.
563
00:38:15,464 --> 00:38:17,047
"Attorney to the Stars", yes.
564
00:38:17,215 --> 00:38:18,757
Duly impressed.
565
00:38:18,925 --> 00:38:22,011
What brings you to Mississippi,
Roark? Slumming?
566
00:38:22,179 --> 00:38:24,180
No, law school at Ole Miss.
567
00:38:24,347 --> 00:38:26,432
It's a... it's a family tradition.
568
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,579
Mom was a sweet little sorority
girl there...
569
00:38:28,682 --> 00:38:30,849
till Dad... till Dad married her.
570
00:38:30,896 --> 00:38:34,231
I married a sweet little sorority
girl from Ole Miss, myself.
571
00:38:34,399 --> 00:38:36,650
Well, they have an excellent
selection.
572
00:38:36,799 --> 00:38:38,122
Yes, they do.
573
00:38:38,157 --> 00:38:39,653
Now, really, what brings you
to Canton?
574
00:38:39,821 --> 00:38:42,406
I'm not believing they don't
have cars to sit on, on campus.
575
00:38:42,574 --> 00:38:43,949
Carl Lee Hailey.
576
00:38:46,495 --> 00:38:48,746
Really like to help you with
the trial.
577
00:38:48,914 --> 00:38:50,789
Now, what makes you think
I need help?
578
00:38:51,541 --> 00:38:53,792
You're trying one of the largest
murder cases...
579
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,420
these parts have seen and you
work alone.
580
00:38:56,588 --> 00:38:58,839
You have no paralegals, no
clerks, researchers...
581
00:38:59,007 --> 00:39:00,966
nor can you afford to hire any...
582
00:39:01,134 --> 00:39:04,762
so, if Noose doesn't accept
that motion under your arm...
583
00:39:04,930 --> 00:39:09,517
you go to trial in less than a
month. Trust me, you need help.
584
00:39:09,684 --> 00:39:13,437
Now, how do you know this?
Well, I'm an excellent researcher.
585
00:39:13,605 --> 00:39:15,648
I see that.
Look, I've played gofer...
586
00:39:15,815 --> 00:39:18,609
for seven capital-murder cases,
I've witnessed 2 executions...
587
00:39:18,777 --> 00:39:22,988
I have written briefs for the ACLU,
I'm top 5 percent of my class...
588
00:39:23,156 --> 00:39:26,617
editor of the law review, I'm
published, I'm young.
589
00:39:26,785 --> 00:39:27,910
And when I graduate...
590
00:39:28,078 --> 00:39:30,271
I intend to spend a glorious
career...
591
00:39:30,371 --> 00:39:33,176
stomping out the death penalty.
Um...
592
00:39:33,311 --> 00:39:36,252
Let's see, what else? Oh,
genius runs in my family.
593
00:39:36,419 --> 00:39:37,795
So, see, you'll be getting me
on the way up...
594
00:39:37,963 --> 00:39:40,812
and I really think, you know, now
is a good time to, you know...
595
00:39:40,912 --> 00:39:42,317
grab me.
596
00:39:42,452 --> 00:39:44,593
Mm-hm. Is there anything else
I should know?
597
00:39:44,761 --> 00:39:46,971
Uh, let's see, anything else?
598
00:39:47,138 --> 00:39:49,598
Oh, my father's filthy rich, so
I'll be working for free.
599
00:39:51,893 --> 00:39:53,143
What do you think?
600
00:39:56,314 --> 00:39:59,149
I think I'll drop this brief
off in Noose's night slot.
601
00:39:59,734 --> 00:40:01,485
Go home and see my family.
602
00:40:01,653 --> 00:40:05,322
Thank you, Roark, but I can
handle the case myself.
603
00:40:07,492 --> 00:40:09,118
Uh...
604
00:40:09,286 --> 00:40:11,412
you might wanna look at these
precedents.
605
00:40:11,580 --> 00:40:14,123
Look at State vs Cooper and
State vs Roundtree.
606
00:40:14,291 --> 00:40:16,709
They are both revenge killers,
both acquitted.
607
00:40:20,005 --> 00:40:21,630
You'll change your mind.
608
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:25,384
See you.
609
00:40:31,766 --> 00:40:34,184
Get out.
Come on.
610
00:40:36,521 --> 00:40:37,521
Wait.
611
00:40:37,689 --> 00:40:39,231
Come on.
612
00:41:01,338 --> 00:41:06,508
Mr. Cobb, this is Stump Sisson,
"Grand Dragon" of Mississippi.
613
00:41:08,178 --> 00:41:10,512
He heard you were looking to
see us.
614
00:41:11,389 --> 00:41:14,099
You were right to call us,
Mr. Cobb.
615
00:41:15,226 --> 00:41:17,561
They say the Klan is dead.
616
00:41:19,147 --> 00:41:21,125
Klan don't show up for a few
years...
617
00:41:21,225 --> 00:41:24,499
and people say the Klan is
dead.
618
00:41:24,569 --> 00:41:27,279
Fact is, it just looks dead.
619
00:41:27,447 --> 00:41:30,658
The Klan has always been
right there...
620
00:41:30,825 --> 00:41:32,993
under the surface.
621
00:41:33,828 --> 00:41:38,374
Just waiting for the opportunity
to deliver God's justice.
622
00:41:39,417 --> 00:41:40,751
I wanna help.
623
00:41:40,919 --> 00:41:42,920
I wanna kill that nigger.
624
00:41:43,088 --> 00:41:46,799
Niggers got plenty of protection,
nowadays.
625
00:41:47,634 --> 00:41:52,096
They got the NAACP, and the ACLU.
626
00:41:52,263 --> 00:41:54,598
Even the federal government.
627
00:41:54,766 --> 00:41:56,392
Hell.
628
00:41:56,601 --> 00:41:59,478
White folks ain't got a chance.
629
00:42:00,522 --> 00:42:02,564
Except the Klan.
630
00:42:06,486 --> 00:42:08,070
I'm gonna tell you what.
631
00:42:09,989 --> 00:42:13,492
You get five or six of your
friends of similar thinking...
632
00:42:13,660 --> 00:42:17,955
and we'll initiate the Madison
County Klavern.
633
00:42:19,374 --> 00:42:21,291
Even make you leader.
634
00:42:23,753 --> 00:42:25,546
Now, you tell me...
635
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:27,464
who's that nigger's lawyer?
636
00:42:28,508 --> 00:42:29,717
Local boy.
637
00:42:29,884 --> 00:42:33,178
His name's Brigance. He's got
a pretty good reputation.
638
00:42:35,265 --> 00:42:36,598
He got family?
639
00:42:36,766 --> 00:42:40,519
Yes, sir. He... he has a wife
and a daughter.
640
00:42:43,481 --> 00:42:44,857
Good.
641
00:43:04,627 --> 00:43:06,378
Two, two.
642
00:43:26,399 --> 00:43:28,734
What the hell is he doing here?
Now, calm down.
643
00:43:28,902 --> 00:43:30,569
No.
Come on, calm down.
644
00:43:30,737 --> 00:43:34,615
Calm down.
He has no right, after what he did.
645
00:43:34,783 --> 00:43:36,575
No, he's got no right, sheriff.
646
00:43:36,743 --> 00:43:39,161
Don't get your mom upset, now.
647
00:43:52,550 --> 00:43:54,259
Looney?
648
00:43:55,261 --> 00:43:56,512
Dwayne?
649
00:44:01,100 --> 00:44:03,894
I made Ozzie bring me.
650
00:44:08,608 --> 00:44:10,526
Shit, Dwayne, we...
651
00:44:10,693 --> 00:44:12,736
We known each other since we
was kids.
652
00:44:18,034 --> 00:44:19,409
It's my fault.
653
00:44:20,537 --> 00:44:22,246
No matter what gets said in
court...
654
00:44:23,706 --> 00:44:28,001
I knew what I was doing, and I
sure didn't intend to hurt you...
655
00:44:28,169 --> 00:44:29,586
but just them two boys.
656
00:44:35,093 --> 00:44:38,136
I know it don't mean much now,
but...
657
00:44:39,180 --> 00:44:40,389
I'm sorry.
658
00:44:48,523 --> 00:44:51,349
Some folks think that a black
man cannot receive a fair trial...
659
00:44:51,449 --> 00:44:52,766
in the South.
660
00:44:52,801 --> 00:44:54,958
I intend to show that the good
men and women of the South...
661
00:44:55,058 --> 00:44:56,883
will look past color, and see
the truth.
662
00:44:56,918 --> 00:44:58,448
It sure is a nigger's world.
663
00:44:58,616 --> 00:45:00,075
Not for long.
664
00:45:02,287 --> 00:45:06,623
Boys, I am very proud to invite
you to become soldiers...
665
00:45:06,791 --> 00:45:09,793
in the war to protect our
Christian homes and families.
666
00:45:09,961 --> 00:45:14,756
To resurrect our country from the
fires of racial degradation.
667
00:45:14,924 --> 00:45:20,679
And to make white people the sole
masters of our nation's destiny.
668
00:45:21,139 --> 00:45:23,432
What I'm saying, fellas...
669
00:45:24,142 --> 00:45:26,101
it's time for the nigger to pay.
670
00:45:29,147 --> 00:45:33,191
Something wrong with your telephone?
No, we just had the number changed.
671
00:45:33,359 --> 00:45:35,068
That's what the operator said.
672
00:45:35,236 --> 00:45:37,362
To an unlisted number.
Yeah.
673
00:45:37,530 --> 00:45:39,656
I'm sorry you had to come all
the way up here.
674
00:45:39,824 --> 00:45:41,658
I should've called you, but
this case...
675
00:45:41,826 --> 00:45:45,579
This case has us all worried
sick about you all, Jake.
676
00:45:45,747 --> 00:45:49,499
And you know this thing could
get ugly. And dangerous.
677
00:45:49,667 --> 00:45:52,961
Jake, he shot them in cold blood.
678
00:45:53,129 --> 00:45:57,090
They raped and almost murdered
his daughter, Sarah.
679
00:45:57,258 --> 00:45:59,384
What if the same thing happened
to Hannah?
680
00:45:59,552 --> 00:46:02,804
Brigance! Mr. Brigance!
Mr. Brigance!
681
00:46:02,972 --> 00:46:05,599
May we ask a few questions?
Can we get a quote?
682
00:46:05,767 --> 00:46:07,351
Mr. Brigance.
Excuse me a second.
683
00:46:07,518 --> 00:46:09,519
I'm going to go take a few
questions.
684
00:46:09,687 --> 00:46:12,564
Jake, honey, this isn't the time.
This is really good for Carl Lee.
685
00:46:12,732 --> 00:46:14,358
I'll be right back.
686
00:46:15,735 --> 00:46:17,486
Thank y'all for coming.
687
00:46:22,367 --> 00:46:25,535
I guess we'll have to read about
it in the papers.
688
00:47:22,677 --> 00:47:23,885
Praise Jesus!
689
00:47:39,610 --> 00:47:42,154
Reverend Agee?
Yes.
690
00:47:42,321 --> 00:47:43,822
I'm Isaiah Street.
691
00:47:43,990 --> 00:47:46,616
Well, it's an honor to meet
you, Reverend.
692
00:47:46,784 --> 00:47:48,869
I saw you march with Dr. King.
693
00:47:49,037 --> 00:47:50,818
Yeah, well...
694
00:47:50,918 --> 00:47:55,790
the struggle continues today,
here in Canton.
695
00:47:55,825 --> 00:47:57,919
Carl Lee Hailey's on trial
because he's black.
696
00:47:58,087 --> 00:47:59,379
No other reason.
697
00:48:00,631 --> 00:48:03,967
These people are with the NAACP.
Oh?
698
00:48:04,385 --> 00:48:06,386
Reverend Agee.
How do you do?
699
00:48:06,554 --> 00:48:07,637
How do you do?
700
00:48:07,972 --> 00:48:11,858
Reverend Agee, the black
community's concerned that...
701
00:48:11,998 --> 00:48:14,482
Mr. Hailey's attorney is...
702
00:48:14,617 --> 00:48:17,355
not sensitive to the needs
of the movement.
703
00:48:18,316 --> 00:48:23,695
The NAACP wishes to provide him
with a new lawyer.
704
00:48:25,823 --> 00:48:30,243
We need to raise funds to
support Carl Lee Hailey.
705
00:48:31,329 --> 00:48:34,331
I don't know, Reverend.
Time's awfully tight here.
706
00:48:36,334 --> 00:48:40,545
Obviously, we would expect you
to take...
707
00:48:40,713 --> 00:48:44,716
a modest administration fee
for your troubles.
708
00:49:10,868 --> 00:49:16,151
Your loyalty has been forged
in a baptism of fire.
709
00:49:18,459 --> 00:49:22,879
Rise, knights of the Ku Klux
Klan...
710
00:49:23,506 --> 00:49:28,176
and let your brethren never
regret...
711
00:49:29,220 --> 00:49:34,391
they believed you worthy of
fellowship.
712
00:49:39,730 --> 00:49:41,857
Welcome to the Klan.
713
00:49:53,828 --> 00:49:55,620
I need to talk to Jake Brigance.
714
00:49:55,788 --> 00:49:58,081
He's not in.
May I ask who's calling?
715
00:49:58,666 --> 00:50:01,585
Uh, well...
716
00:50:01,794 --> 00:50:02,836
Mickey Mouse.
717
00:50:03,296 --> 00:50:05,213
Who?
Mickey Mouse.
718
00:50:06,007 --> 00:50:08,091
Get out, right now.
719
00:50:08,259 --> 00:50:09,259
Who is this?
720
00:50:09,427 --> 00:50:12,179
Get your daughter out of the
house, right now.
721
00:50:13,347 --> 00:50:14,723
Mommy!
722
00:50:14,891 --> 00:50:16,933
Hannah?
Mommy!
723
00:50:17,101 --> 00:50:20,520
Hannah? What is it?
Oh, my God!
724
00:50:20,688 --> 00:50:22,981
Max!
Max, come on!
725
00:50:23,149 --> 00:50:24,524
Fire!
726
00:50:32,533 --> 00:50:35,869
It's a good thing Hastings was
nearby and got here fast.
727
00:50:36,037 --> 00:50:38,455
The whole place could've
burned down.
728
00:50:38,623 --> 00:50:41,208
Yeah, I appreciate it.
Take care, man.
729
00:50:41,375 --> 00:50:43,335
See you in the morning.
730
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:51,801
She asleep, baby?
731
00:50:53,137 --> 00:50:56,389
The Ku Klux Klan is burning
crosses on our lawn, Jake.
732
00:50:56,557 --> 00:50:59,643
Baby, there's been no Klan
around here for years, okay?
733
00:50:59,810 --> 00:51:01,365
This is just a couple of dorks...
734
00:51:01,513 --> 00:51:04,673
with too much time on their hands
and too many beers, alright?
735
00:51:08,194 --> 00:51:10,445
I'm sorry.
About what?
736
00:51:11,989 --> 00:51:12,729
That you weren't home...
737
00:51:12,829 --> 00:51:15,027
when someone practically burned
our house down?
738
00:51:15,785 --> 00:51:18,411
That you missed supper and
didn't even bother to call?
739
00:51:18,579 --> 00:51:21,665
That lately you've become more
interested in getting on the news...
740
00:51:21,832 --> 00:51:23,708
than what's going on with your
family?
741
00:51:23,876 --> 00:51:25,698
Or that Hannah comes home every
day bawling...
742
00:51:25,829 --> 00:51:28,233
because of other kids calling
her a nigger-lover?
743
00:51:28,368 --> 00:51:30,966
What exactly are you sorry
about, Jake?
744
00:51:39,350 --> 00:51:41,393
Remember the other night?
745
00:51:43,104 --> 00:51:45,647
I told you Carl Lee came by
the office?
746
00:51:45,815 --> 00:51:48,191
Remember what we talked about,
then?
747
00:51:48,651 --> 00:51:50,652
About me calling Ozzie?
748
00:51:53,739 --> 00:51:56,449
You never called him, did you?
749
00:51:57,451 --> 00:51:58,910
You never called Sheriff Walls?
750
00:51:59,912 --> 00:52:01,705
I didn't call him, baby.
751
00:52:02,915 --> 00:52:06,751
Lord have mercy, Jake, you had
a responsibility.
752
00:52:06,919 --> 00:52:08,878
Carl Lee chose you.
753
00:52:09,046 --> 00:52:12,215
He told you what he was thinking.
754
00:52:12,383 --> 00:52:14,801
He told me what he was thinking,
but I didn't know...
755
00:52:14,969 --> 00:52:19,264
Jake Tyler Brigance, we agreed,
you were gonna call the sheriff.
756
00:52:19,432 --> 00:52:21,850
Now look at everything that
has happened.
757
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:24,951
I am sorry to tell you this,
darling...
758
00:52:25,091 --> 00:52:26,770
but those two boys are in the
ground...
759
00:52:26,805 --> 00:52:29,566
and you were in a position to
prevent every bit of this.
760
00:52:29,734 --> 00:52:30,984
Mama?
761
00:52:32,445 --> 00:52:33,987
Are you and Daddy fighting?
762
00:52:35,531 --> 00:52:39,242
No, baby. Come here.
Come here, baby. Come here.
763
00:52:40,202 --> 00:52:42,253
Mommy's just upset because some
silly man played a real...
764
00:52:42,353 --> 00:52:44,427
bad joke, okay?
765
00:52:44,562 --> 00:52:45,915
There's nothing to worry about.
766
00:52:46,334 --> 00:52:49,377
Nothing at all, okay?
767
00:52:55,009 --> 00:52:57,010
What that Memphis doctor say
about her?
768
00:52:58,262 --> 00:52:59,888
She's doing good.
769
00:53:00,890 --> 00:53:02,432
Her jaw is healing.
770
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:06,311
She can't run and jump yet, but
it won't be long.
771
00:53:07,605 --> 00:53:09,272
How about the other?
772
00:53:17,323 --> 00:53:20,158
There was too much damage.
773
00:53:21,327 --> 00:53:23,161
She ain't gonna never have kids.
774
00:53:31,629 --> 00:53:33,963
You know, I think about them
two boys.
775
00:53:34,131 --> 00:53:35,715
Dead, buried...
776
00:53:35,883 --> 00:53:38,343
probably starting to rot.
777
00:53:38,969 --> 00:53:41,805
And I remember them walking
in court...
778
00:53:41,972 --> 00:53:43,890
one proud, the other scared.
779
00:53:45,518 --> 00:53:47,602
I remember how they fell.
780
00:53:47,770 --> 00:53:51,038
One on top of the other, and
screaming and squirming...
781
00:53:51,138 --> 00:53:53,593
and not going nowhere.
782
00:53:54,693 --> 00:53:57,362
God help me, Gwen, but...
783
00:53:59,073 --> 00:54:01,366
that's the only thought gives
me comfort.
784
00:54:04,703 --> 00:54:07,789
They took up a collection for
us at church Sunday night.
785
00:54:08,541 --> 00:54:10,875
Some kind of defense fund.
786
00:54:11,627 --> 00:54:14,212
Reverend Agee gave a good
service.
787
00:54:17,508 --> 00:54:20,693
We need some money around the
house, Carl Lee...
788
00:54:20,793 --> 00:54:24,062
for... for groceries and bills.
789
00:54:24,097 --> 00:54:25,306
How much you got?
790
00:54:27,017 --> 00:54:28,184
Less than 50.
791
00:54:30,187 --> 00:54:31,646
I'll think of something.
792
00:54:35,276 --> 00:54:36,866
How you think you going to get
some money...
793
00:54:36,966 --> 00:54:39,333
while you stuck here in jail?
794
00:54:39,363 --> 00:54:40,989
Trust me, Gwen.
795
00:54:46,162 --> 00:54:47,954
I just get scared.
796
00:54:49,874 --> 00:54:51,541
Look here.
797
00:54:51,876 --> 00:54:55,110
Tell me exactly what Reverend
Agee said...
798
00:54:55,188 --> 00:54:58,115
when he passed around the
collection plate.
799
00:54:58,250 --> 00:54:59,258
I don't care what your record
says.
800
00:54:59,416 --> 00:55:01,175
We are dealing with life and
death, here.
801
00:55:01,244 --> 00:55:02,671
Well, I'm gonna have to talk
to my supervisor.
802
00:55:02,771 --> 00:55:06,106
Well, you go talk to your supervisor.
Get out of here.
803
00:55:06,241 --> 00:55:07,605
Morning, John. How are things
with the electric company?
804
00:55:07,705 --> 00:55:09,232
Yes, Jake.
The electric company.
805
00:55:09,332 --> 00:55:12,325
That is the second time this
week I've had to hold him off.
806
00:55:12,354 --> 00:55:14,189
How much do we owe?
Two thousand dollars.
807
00:55:14,356 --> 00:55:17,317
How much do we have?
One hundred dollars.
808
00:55:17,485 --> 00:55:20,612
Now, look, this week nothing,
nothing has come in at all.
809
00:55:20,779 --> 00:55:23,698
What about Buck Britt's retainer?
There's 2 grand.
810
00:55:23,866 --> 00:55:27,076
That check bounced.
What do you mean, bounced?
811
00:55:27,244 --> 00:55:28,995
It bounced, Jake.
812
00:55:29,163 --> 00:55:31,748
It's been sitting on your desk
for a week.
813
00:55:31,916 --> 00:55:33,958
Not that you'd notice.
814
00:55:35,669 --> 00:55:37,282
Since you took this case, you...
815
00:55:37,382 --> 00:55:39,564
you stopped talking to your
clients...
816
00:55:39,599 --> 00:55:41,132
you don't take your calls, you...
817
00:55:41,300 --> 00:55:45,178
You're obsessed. That's what
you are. You're obsessed, Jake.
818
00:55:45,679 --> 00:55:47,564
Boy, your obsession is going
to break us.
819
00:55:47,660 --> 00:55:49,162
Hey, hey, hey.
820
00:55:49,297 --> 00:55:51,601
What's wrong, old girl? We've
been through hard times before.
821
00:55:51,769 --> 00:55:53,686
Oh, not like this, Jake.
822
00:55:53,854 --> 00:55:55,939
Not like this.
823
00:55:56,857 --> 00:55:58,858
We've been getting calls.
824
00:55:59,026 --> 00:56:00,193
At home.
825
00:56:00,361 --> 00:56:01,569
Threats.
826
00:56:02,947 --> 00:56:05,139
You know that Bud has survived
two strokes.
827
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:07,574
I don't think he would survive
a third.
828
00:56:07,609 --> 00:56:08,618
Why didn't you tell me?
829
00:56:10,079 --> 00:56:11,955
Why, Jake?
830
00:56:12,122 --> 00:56:13,498
Would you drop the case?
831
00:56:19,338 --> 00:56:20,547
Jake Brigance's office.
832
00:56:20,714 --> 00:56:23,299
Until they cut the phones off.
833
00:56:24,134 --> 00:56:25,593
Oh, right.
834
00:56:26,345 --> 00:56:27,554
Okay.
835
00:56:27,721 --> 00:56:30,598
Right.
That was Sheriff Walls.
836
00:56:30,766 --> 00:56:32,725
You better get down to that
jail.
837
00:56:40,150 --> 00:56:42,318
What's going on here, Carl Lee?
838
00:56:42,486 --> 00:56:44,571
I'm Isaiah Street.
Jake Brigance.
839
00:56:44,738 --> 00:56:46,906
Uh-huh.
Uh...
840
00:56:47,074 --> 00:56:49,158
I believe you know Reverend Agee.
Jake.
841
00:56:49,326 --> 00:56:51,494
And this is, uh...
Norman Reinfield.
842
00:56:51,662 --> 00:56:53,913
I've seen your picture in the
paper.
843
00:56:54,790 --> 00:56:57,500
I assume these boys carry your
briefcase.
844
00:56:57,668 --> 00:57:00,336
Just a small part of my legal
defense team.
845
00:57:00,504 --> 00:57:01,879
Pleasure, Mr. Brigance.
846
00:57:02,047 --> 00:57:03,172
Mm-hm.
847
00:57:03,340 --> 00:57:05,717
If this is a party, boys, where's
the chips and beer?
848
00:57:06,176 --> 00:57:07,245
Otherwise, you being here...
849
00:57:07,345 --> 00:57:10,251
seems a bit like illegal client
solicitation...
850
00:57:10,556 --> 00:57:12,682
with Carl Lee already having
a lawyer, and all.
851
00:57:12,850 --> 00:57:14,601
Well now, just a minute, Jake.
852
00:57:14,768 --> 00:57:16,769
Carl Lee invited us here.
853
00:57:18,981 --> 00:57:20,857
Mr. Brigance...
854
00:57:21,025 --> 00:57:23,318
let me be frank.
855
00:57:23,485 --> 00:57:26,863
Mr. Hailey's case has far-reaching
ramifications.
856
00:57:27,364 --> 00:57:29,699
Carl Lee's acquittal for the
killings of two white men...
857
00:57:29,867 --> 00:57:32,201
would do more for the black
people in Mississippi...
858
00:57:32,369 --> 00:57:35,747
than any event since we integrated
the schools.
859
00:57:35,914 --> 00:57:39,083
His conviction, on the other
hand, will be a slap at us.
860
00:57:39,251 --> 00:57:41,377
A symbol of deep-seated racism.
861
00:57:41,545 --> 00:57:43,796
Perhaps enough to ignite a
nation.
862
00:57:44,214 --> 00:57:46,382
See how important this case is?
863
00:57:46,550 --> 00:57:49,093
Enter Mr. Reinfield's death
squad, right?
864
00:57:49,261 --> 00:57:53,139
It's an unfortunate nickname,
but apropos...
865
00:57:53,307 --> 00:57:56,726
my lawyers and I handle only
capital-murder cases, Mr. Hailey.
866
00:57:56,894 --> 00:57:59,024
Yeah, and of all your cases,
Norman...
867
00:57:59,124 --> 00:58:00,580
how many are supposed to be
lost...
868
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:03,024
so you can martyr the victim?
Now, Mr. Brigance.
869
00:58:03,192 --> 00:58:08,071
How much a defense like that
cost?
870
00:58:09,114 --> 00:58:10,657
Yeah.
871
00:58:11,533 --> 00:58:13,117
Would you say about 100,000?
872
00:58:13,285 --> 00:58:17,330
We are prepared to accept 7.000
in litigation expenses.
873
00:58:17,498 --> 00:58:21,250
Well, Carl Lee doesn't have
$7000.
874
00:58:21,418 --> 00:58:22,460
Do you, Carl Lee?
875
00:58:23,003 --> 00:58:28,591
The NAACP has raised $5000 for
Carl Lee's legal defense fund.
876
00:58:28,759 --> 00:58:31,928
And we raised an additional
$2000 from the local churches.
877
00:58:32,096 --> 00:58:33,763
Well, let me ask you something,
Reverend.
878
00:58:34,181 --> 00:58:37,141
How much of that cash you offer
my wife and kids?
879
00:58:37,309 --> 00:58:40,570
Oh, that money is to go to pay
for lawyers' fees...
880
00:58:40,670 --> 00:58:41,733
and stuff like that.
881
00:58:41,868 --> 00:58:43,690
That ain't what you told the
church, now, is it?
882
00:58:44,483 --> 00:58:46,723
You almost cried when you
told them people...
883
00:58:46,854 --> 00:58:48,451
how my family might starve...
884
00:58:48,590 --> 00:58:51,321
if they didn't donate all they
could, didn't you?
885
00:58:51,448 --> 00:58:54,158
Well, the money is for you
and your family, Carl Lee...
886
00:58:54,326 --> 00:58:57,286
but we thought it'd be better
spent on your legal defense.
887
00:58:57,454 --> 00:59:00,123
Well, speaking of that defense
fund...
888
00:59:00,290 --> 00:59:02,792
can I use that for any lawyer
I want?
889
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:05,795
Well, it's not that simple,
Carl Lee.
890
00:59:05,963 --> 00:59:08,840
Actually, it is that simple,
Carl Lee.
891
00:59:09,007 --> 00:59:12,181
Unless the NAACP wants to go
on record as soliciting funds...
892
00:59:12,338 --> 00:59:14,197
under false pretenses.
893
00:59:14,332 --> 00:59:17,098
Listen, Carl Lee, we raised
that money...
894
00:59:17,266 --> 00:59:20,309
for these men to get you out of
here, not for this cracker to...
895
00:59:20,477 --> 00:59:24,355
Now, hey, hey, hey, now. Hold on.
Hold on right there, now.
896
00:59:24,815 --> 00:59:28,401
Let me just get this straight
here, Reverend.
897
00:59:30,988 --> 00:59:34,407
If you don't give my wife
that cash...
898
00:59:34,575 --> 00:59:36,505
I'm gonna see to it everybody
in this town...
899
00:59:36,684 --> 00:59:39,236
knows you're a lying crook.
900
00:59:39,371 --> 00:59:41,664
I'm sure your congregation will
be interested to know that...
901
00:59:41,832 --> 00:59:43,821
Gwen and the kids can't eat
because you want to get in bed...
902
00:59:43,922 --> 00:59:45,635
with the NAACP.
903
00:59:45,770 --> 00:59:48,463
That's right. By the time I get
through with you...
904
00:59:48,630 --> 00:59:50,164
you won't be able to collect
two cents...
905
00:59:50,303 --> 00:59:52,742
in that collection plate,
on Sunday.
906
00:59:52,842 --> 00:59:54,940
We'll expect the check for the
Hailey family this afternoon...
907
00:59:55,070 --> 00:59:57,507
Reverend Agee.
908
00:59:57,806 --> 01:00:01,184
Reverend Street, I sure do
appreciate your fine work...
909
01:00:01,351 --> 01:00:03,561
but I'm gonna take my chances
with Jake, here.
910
01:00:05,731 --> 01:00:07,982
Thanks for coming down,
Mr. Reinfield.
911
01:00:08,817 --> 01:00:12,320
Uh, and we'll be expecting that
check for Jake's legal services...
912
01:00:12,488 --> 01:00:14,489
around the same time, this
afternoon.
913
01:00:18,619 --> 01:00:20,328
Good day, men.
914
01:00:27,127 --> 01:00:28,878
Go.
915
01:00:32,382 --> 01:00:33,883
Go.
916
01:00:34,593 --> 01:00:36,177
Good.
917
01:00:38,472 --> 01:00:40,556
You set that whole thing up,
didn't you?
918
01:00:40,724 --> 01:00:42,600
Couldn't have did it without
you, Jake.
919
01:00:45,145 --> 01:00:47,021
Make one hell of a team, Carl Lee.
920
01:00:47,815 --> 01:00:50,900
You out there, Jake.
I'm in here.
921
01:00:51,068 --> 01:00:52,401
We ain't no team.
922
01:01:17,094 --> 01:01:18,719
There's trouble.
923
01:01:20,264 --> 01:01:22,098
Oh, lookie there.
924
01:01:27,354 --> 01:01:29,146
No, here's trouble, Harry Rex.
925
01:01:37,906 --> 01:01:39,657
Hi.
You are...
926
01:01:39,825 --> 01:01:41,534
Roark, meet Mr. Harry Rex
Vonner...
927
01:01:41,702 --> 01:01:44,450
the most effective, connected,
morally compromised lawyer...
928
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:45,489
in the country.
929
01:01:45,524 --> 01:01:47,519
Oh. Ellen Roark, brilliant
law student.
930
01:01:47,677 --> 01:01:48,945
Do with me as you will.
931
01:01:48,980 --> 01:01:50,960
Looking forward to it.
Okay.
932
01:01:51,461 --> 01:01:54,297
Um, well, thought this might
interest you.
933
01:01:54,464 --> 01:01:55,746
In accessing all murder trials...
934
01:01:55,846 --> 01:01:57,506
it seems that the insanity plea
only makes up...
935
01:01:57,641 --> 01:01:59,277
one percent, overall.
936
01:01:59,312 --> 01:02:01,679
And of the one percent of that
that resulted in acquittal...
937
01:02:01,847 --> 01:02:03,806
success, rested almost wholly
on the...
938
01:02:03,974 --> 01:02:05,487
On the defending psychiatrist...
939
01:02:05,665 --> 01:02:08,634
regardless of the quality of
the psychological testimony.
940
01:02:08,769 --> 01:02:10,062
Yeah.
Shazam!
941
01:02:10,230 --> 01:02:11,272
She is brilliant.
942
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:13,524
"She..." that would be me?
943
01:02:13,692 --> 01:02:15,985
Now, who else would "she" be?
So, "she" would be me.
944
01:02:16,153 --> 01:02:18,863
"She" is saying that if I take
this plea to trial...
945
01:02:19,031 --> 01:02:21,522
the verdict is going to hinge
on whose shrink...
946
01:02:21,653 --> 01:02:23,467
the jury finds more credible.
947
01:02:23,602 --> 01:02:24,577
"She," would be correct.
948
01:02:25,162 --> 01:02:26,579
"She," would.
949
01:02:27,289 --> 01:02:29,206
So, are you sure you don't need
any help?
950
01:02:29,374 --> 01:02:32,835
I do. I'm hiring.
Right now. Me.
951
01:02:33,337 --> 01:02:36,401
Roark, I am sure that I don't
need any help.
952
01:02:36,532 --> 01:02:39,354
Thank you, though.
Okay.
953
01:02:39,676 --> 01:02:42,929
I guess that would just have
to be your loss then, huh?
954
01:02:44,723 --> 01:02:47,099
Nice to meet you, "Morally
Compromised."
955
01:02:47,267 --> 01:02:50,318
Pleasure's all mine, "She".
956
01:02:53,649 --> 01:02:57,109
Got to love the Lord for making
things like that.
957
01:02:57,277 --> 01:02:58,350
Sure you don't wanna at least
take a peak...
958
01:02:58,450 --> 01:02:59,804
at her resume, there, Lone Ranger?
959
01:03:00,030 --> 01:03:02,323
Not like you couldn't use the
help.
960
01:03:02,491 --> 01:03:04,711
No, I don't want to look at
her resume, Harry Rex...
961
01:03:04,816 --> 01:03:06,544
because I have you.
962
01:03:06,703 --> 01:03:08,788
You do?
Yeah, buddy.
963
01:03:08,956 --> 01:03:11,391
This is your chance to put
aside your shady sources...
964
01:03:11,551 --> 01:03:12,623
your back-alley deals...
965
01:03:12,758 --> 01:03:16,045
your greedy divorcees, and do
some real law, for a change.
966
01:03:17,839 --> 01:03:19,590
Mr. Vonner, in short...
967
01:03:19,758 --> 01:03:23,386
you now have the opportunity to
work on a case that matters.
968
01:03:24,221 --> 01:03:25,596
Let me get this straight.
969
01:03:25,764 --> 01:03:30,393
You want me to put aside my
empty, soulless, shady...
970
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:33,187
astonishingly lucrative, divorcee
practice...
971
01:03:33,355 --> 01:03:36,613
come work with you on an
unwinnable, bleeding-heart...
972
01:03:36,713 --> 01:03:37,757
lose-all-my-friends...
973
01:03:37,857 --> 01:03:39,843
straight-to-the-gas-chamber case,
cause it matters?
974
01:03:39,943 --> 01:03:41,570
That is a novel idea, I know.
975
01:03:41,738 --> 01:03:43,990
No way, never, presumptuous
little shit.
976
01:03:46,743 --> 01:03:48,077
Good night, y'all.
977
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:55,209
Hello?
I need the sheriff.
978
01:03:55,377 --> 01:03:58,713
He's sleeping now.
Well, get him up.
979
01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:02,591
Who is this?
Someone's gonna die tonight.
980
01:04:25,198 --> 01:04:27,491
I got him!
981
01:04:28,326 --> 01:04:30,619
Get his ass, Ozzie!
What's in the case?
982
01:04:40,839 --> 01:04:43,090
This thing's ticking.
What's in the case?
983
01:04:43,300 --> 01:04:45,593
I ain't saying, nigger.
984
01:04:49,598 --> 01:04:51,682
Family out of the house?
Yeah.
985
01:04:53,518 --> 01:04:54,769
It's locked.
986
01:04:59,691 --> 01:05:00,983
Now I want you to open that.
987
01:05:13,830 --> 01:05:14,872
Oh, man...
988
01:05:17,250 --> 01:05:18,292
Defuse it.
989
01:05:18,835 --> 01:05:23,339
I'm gonna take you and this
nigger-lover to hell with...
990
01:05:24,508 --> 01:05:26,298
Ain't nothing more dangerous
in this world...
991
01:05:26,448 --> 01:05:27,379
than a fool with a cause.
992
01:05:27,509 --> 01:05:28,917
Jake, just lay that thing back
down there...
993
01:05:29,255 --> 01:05:31,032
and let's get the hell out
of here.
994
01:05:31,167 --> 01:05:33,182
Carla loves this house.
995
01:05:52,369 --> 01:05:55,037
How you doing, Stan?
Hey, how you doing?
996
01:05:55,956 --> 01:05:56,997
Come here, girl.
997
01:06:00,836 --> 01:06:03,212
Daddy, are you coming to
Grandpa's too?
998
01:06:03,380 --> 01:06:06,382
Mm-mm. Not this time, baby.
Daddy's gotta stay here and work.
999
01:06:06,550 --> 01:06:08,467
You and your mama have a good
time though, okay?
1000
01:06:08,635 --> 01:06:11,095
All right.
All right. You be good.
1001
01:06:11,429 --> 01:06:12,763
Go get your stuff down there.
1002
01:06:14,015 --> 01:06:16,308
You said you'd withdraw, if
it got too dangerous.
1003
01:06:16,476 --> 01:06:17,560
I know.
1004
01:06:17,727 --> 01:06:20,271
But I can't quit now, you
know that.
1005
01:06:20,814 --> 01:06:22,800
Carl Lee Hailey's facing the
gas chamber, baby.
1006
01:06:22,900 --> 01:06:25,461
The man is counting on me.
1007
01:06:25,485 --> 01:06:27,695
I understand that, Jake.
1008
01:06:27,863 --> 01:06:30,364
I want you to remember that
we're counting on you too.
1009
01:06:30,532 --> 01:06:32,867
What if something happens
to you?
1010
01:06:33,034 --> 01:06:35,911
Nothing's gonna happen to
me, baby. Come here.
1011
01:06:36,371 --> 01:06:38,080
Give me a hug?
Hmm?
1012
01:06:38,790 --> 01:06:40,291
Everything's gonna be all right.
1013
01:06:40,458 --> 01:06:43,169
I'm gonna be fine, you're
gonna be fine. Okay?
1014
01:06:43,336 --> 01:06:45,004
Okay, babe?
1015
01:06:46,214 --> 01:06:47,256
I promise.
1016
01:06:49,551 --> 01:06:52,761
Watch you don't make your wife
promises you can't keep.
1017
01:06:55,265 --> 01:06:56,599
Hannah?
1018
01:06:56,766 --> 01:06:58,434
You ready?
Uh-huh.
1019
01:06:58,602 --> 01:07:01,145
Last boarding call.
1020
01:07:11,114 --> 01:07:12,573
Good afternoon.
Good afternoon.
1021
01:07:12,741 --> 01:07:14,450
Come in.
1022
01:07:14,993 --> 01:07:16,452
Good afternoon.
Good afternoon.
1023
01:07:16,620 --> 01:07:19,038
You may come this way.
The judge is upstairs.
1024
01:07:19,206 --> 01:07:20,873
Thank you, sir.
1025
01:07:29,382 --> 01:07:30,966
Judge Noose.
1026
01:07:32,135 --> 01:07:34,136
Thanks for coming.
1027
01:07:35,597 --> 01:07:37,340
Heard you had a little trouble
last night.
1028
01:07:37,498 --> 01:07:38,611
Yes, sir.
1029
01:07:38,746 --> 01:07:40,785
Makes you wonder about the
sensibleness of taking this case...
1030
01:07:40,885 --> 01:07:41,990
don't it, Jake?
1031
01:07:42,125 --> 01:07:44,939
This is a beautiful place you
have here, judge.
1032
01:07:45,106 --> 01:07:46,649
I'll get to the point.
1033
01:07:46,816 --> 01:07:50,327
I've thoroughly reviewed your
brief request...
1034
01:07:50,427 --> 01:07:52,550
in that, uh, change of venue...
1035
01:07:52,822 --> 01:07:55,638
and I agree with you. I think
it's impossible to find...
1036
01:07:55,788 --> 01:07:58,220
a fair and impartial jury here
in Canton.
1037
01:07:58,255 --> 01:08:01,590
In fact, I think it's impossible
to find a fair and impartial jury...
1038
01:08:01,739 --> 01:08:03,279
anywhere in Mississippi.
1039
01:08:03,314 --> 01:08:04,541
And as such...
1040
01:08:04,709 --> 01:08:07,127
a jury here would be...
1041
01:08:07,295 --> 01:08:10,256
as fair as a jury anywhere else.
1042
01:08:10,423 --> 01:08:14,843
So, I've decided to deny your
request for a change of venue.
1043
01:08:16,513 --> 01:08:18,138
Well, I guess that...
1044
01:08:18,306 --> 01:08:19,890
gives me something to appeal.
1045
01:08:20,058 --> 01:08:22,685
Uh, actually, no.
1046
01:08:22,852 --> 01:08:25,187
I spoke to Judge Dent...
1047
01:08:25,355 --> 01:08:27,093
and he led me to believe...
1048
01:08:27,253 --> 01:08:30,190
that the supreme court would
uphold my ruling.
1049
01:08:30,860 --> 01:08:32,945
You certainly have covered
your bases, judge.
1050
01:08:34,906 --> 01:08:38,617
Jake, you're a good lawyer.
1051
01:08:39,286 --> 01:08:41,610
You're bright and ambitious.
Talented.
1052
01:08:41,750 --> 01:08:43,189
You could be somebody, around
here.
1053
01:08:43,324 --> 01:08:46,218
You sure you wanna be known as
the man that defended that...
1054
01:08:46,318 --> 01:08:47,965
murderer?
1055
01:08:48,100 --> 01:08:50,087
Could be very unpopular.
1056
01:08:50,839 --> 01:08:52,715
Talk to your client.
1057
01:08:53,341 --> 01:08:54,717
He pleads guilty...
1058
01:08:54,884 --> 01:08:57,428
I'll recommend Buckley accept
a plea of manslaughter.
1059
01:08:57,595 --> 01:09:00,510
He'd be out in twenty.
Yeah.
1060
01:09:00,645 --> 01:09:02,599
And how's his wife supposed
to raise his family alone?
1061
01:09:03,435 --> 01:09:05,102
Better than being a widow.
1062
01:09:07,105 --> 01:09:08,731
Think about it.
1063
01:09:08,898 --> 01:09:12,776
Why toss away a promising
career, hmm?
1064
01:09:15,613 --> 01:09:18,157
Good day, judge.
Thanks for coming.
1065
01:09:22,746 --> 01:09:26,332
All right, Lucien.
Where the hell is this guy?
1066
01:09:26,499 --> 01:09:28,417
Born alcoholic.
1067
01:09:28,585 --> 01:09:31,170
But the man cannot hold his
liquor.
1068
01:09:31,338 --> 01:09:37,259
Jake, allow me to present
Dr. Willard Tyrell Bass.
1069
01:09:37,427 --> 01:09:39,762
Expert witness for the defense.
1070
01:09:39,929 --> 01:09:44,683
W.T., this is Jake Brigance, my
protege.
1071
01:09:49,272 --> 01:09:51,106
Dr. Bass.
1072
01:09:55,403 --> 01:09:58,238
Are you kidding me?
No, relax.
1073
01:09:58,406 --> 01:10:00,908
When he's sober, he's terrific.
1074
01:10:01,785 --> 01:10:06,246
He has his license, his
credentials are impeccable.
1075
01:10:10,085 --> 01:10:12,503
Well?
I need a drink.
1076
01:10:12,670 --> 01:10:14,463
Three in the afternoon?
1077
01:10:14,631 --> 01:10:17,420
My, oh, my.
What would your wife say?
1078
01:10:17,578 --> 01:10:19,975
I am my own man, Lucien.
I drink when I want to.
1079
01:10:20,075 --> 01:10:23,106
When did she leave town?
This morning.
1080
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:43,826
God!
1081
01:10:48,248 --> 01:10:49,415
Bud?
1082
01:10:56,005 --> 01:10:57,548
Oh, my...
1083
01:10:58,800 --> 01:10:59,842
That's enough.
1084
01:11:06,307 --> 01:11:08,016
Now, you tell your boss...
1085
01:11:08,184 --> 01:11:11,103
next time people are gonna die.
1086
01:11:14,858 --> 01:11:16,567
Oh, Bud.
1087
01:11:17,652 --> 01:11:19,570
Oh, Bud.
1088
01:11:43,219 --> 01:11:44,761
Hi.
1089
01:11:44,929 --> 01:11:45,971
Morning.
1090
01:11:49,726 --> 01:11:51,727
Nice parking job.
Late night?
1091
01:11:58,735 --> 01:12:01,320
Yeah.
1092
01:12:01,488 --> 01:12:03,489
So, um... here.
1093
01:12:03,656 --> 01:12:05,733
Oh, thank you.
1094
01:12:05,833 --> 01:12:08,012
Your wife lets you sleep at
the office?
1095
01:12:08,077 --> 01:12:09,786
My wife left town.
1096
01:12:09,954 --> 01:12:12,080
That's too bad.
1097
01:12:12,582 --> 01:12:14,351
So, listen, I heard that, uh...
1098
01:12:14,451 --> 01:12:17,264
Judge Noose turned down your
change of venue.
1099
01:12:17,399 --> 01:12:18,504
Yeah.
1100
01:12:19,839 --> 01:12:22,382
I think it's time you let me
take you out to breakfast.
1101
01:12:25,428 --> 01:12:26,512
Lunch.
1102
01:12:28,723 --> 01:12:31,934
Quit playing with that food.
But, ladies, y'all come back.
1103
01:12:32,101 --> 01:12:33,608
You need to finish that
before Christmas.
1104
01:12:33,953 --> 01:12:35,638
Thank you, treasure.
1105
01:12:35,773 --> 01:12:38,607
Now, the other night, you said
you're opposed to the death penalty.
1106
01:12:38,775 --> 01:12:40,984
Yes, sir.
Why?
1107
01:12:41,152 --> 01:12:42,486
You're not?
Mm-mm.
1108
01:12:42,654 --> 01:12:44,488
Actually, I'm very much in
favor of it.
1109
01:12:44,656 --> 01:12:46,511
I'd like to go back to hangings
on the courthouse lawn...
1110
01:12:46,611 --> 01:12:47,891
if we could.
1111
01:12:48,368 --> 01:12:50,244
You're kidding, right?
No.
1112
01:12:50,411 --> 01:12:52,498
The only problem with the death
penalty, Roark...
1113
01:12:52,646 --> 01:12:54,712
is that we do not use it enough.
1114
01:12:57,544 --> 01:13:00,170
Well, have you told your client,
Carl Lee Hailey, this?
1115
01:13:00,338 --> 01:13:02,464
Carl Lee Hailey does not deserve
the death penalty.
1116
01:13:02,632 --> 01:13:04,595
Now, the two men who raped his
daughter did.
1117
01:13:04,695 --> 01:13:07,135
Okay, so how do you decide who
dies and who doesn't?
1118
01:13:07,303 --> 01:13:12,266
Well, simple. Okay, you take the
crime and you take the criminal.
1119
01:13:12,433 --> 01:13:16,562
Now, say a crack dealer guns
down an undercover cop.
1120
01:13:16,729 --> 01:13:19,481
Well, you strap his ass to
the chair, flip the switch.
1121
01:13:19,649 --> 01:13:21,817
For some reason, I thought
you were a liberal.
1122
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:24,152
Well, I am a liberal, Roark.
1123
01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:28,198
What I am not, is a card-carrying
ACLU radical.
1124
01:13:28,575 --> 01:13:31,118
I do not believe in forgiveness,
nor in rehabilitation.
1125
01:13:31,286 --> 01:13:35,205
I believe in safety.
I believe in justice.
1126
01:13:36,666 --> 01:13:39,835
I see.
Well, let me ask you something.
1127
01:13:40,003 --> 01:13:41,753
Have you ever seen a man
executed?
1128
01:13:43,256 --> 01:13:45,632
Not that I recall.
Then what I suggest you do...
1129
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:47,320
is you go watch a man be
executed.
1130
01:13:47,420 --> 01:13:48,802
You watch him die, you watch
him beg...
1131
01:13:48,902 --> 01:13:51,762
you watch him kick and spit
the life out of him...
1132
01:13:51,897 --> 01:13:54,100
until he pisses and shits in
his pants, until he's gone.
1133
01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:55,774
Then, you know what?
Then you come back here...
1134
01:13:55,874 --> 01:13:57,603
and you sing this crap to me
about justice...
1135
01:13:57,770 --> 01:14:00,814
Roark, spare me your Northern,
liberal, "Cry me a river...
1136
01:14:00,982 --> 01:14:02,390
we are the only enlightened
ones...
1137
01:14:02,490 --> 01:14:04,185
in the northern hemispere",
bullshit.
1138
01:14:04,320 --> 01:14:05,887
I'm so sorry, yes, you are
the enlightened.
1139
01:14:05,987 --> 01:14:07,185
Yes, you are the enlightened.
1140
01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:09,462
And that's why you brought me
to this black diner...
1141
01:14:09,630 --> 01:14:11,446
in this black neighborhood,
right? Right...
1142
01:14:11,581 --> 01:14:14,368
so you can convince me you're
this "JFK meets Jesus Christ..."
1143
01:14:14,468 --> 01:14:16,538
white boy.
Is that... is that what it is?
1144
01:14:16,706 --> 01:14:19,093
Or is it because you're another
repressed, hypocritical...
1145
01:14:19,193 --> 01:14:19,924
souther provincial...
1146
01:14:20,024 --> 01:14:22,148
who maybe didn't want to be seen
around town...
1147
01:14:22,248 --> 01:14:24,003
with a woman like myself?
1148
01:14:24,138 --> 01:14:26,048
Yes, you sure are enlightened.
Well, you know what?
1149
01:14:26,215 --> 01:14:28,127
I'm terribly sorry, I've made
a mistake.
1150
01:14:28,487 --> 01:14:30,431
I thought you were one of the
good guys.
1151
01:14:30,566 --> 01:14:33,221
Thank you very much for your
time, Mr. Brigance.
1152
01:14:48,780 --> 01:14:49,821
Do it.
1153
01:14:49,989 --> 01:14:52,199
I get a little worked up.
1154
01:14:53,284 --> 01:14:56,078
Guess that's not the best way
to apply for a job, huh?
1155
01:14:58,998 --> 01:15:00,632
I don't want the jury to see
those pictures...
1156
01:15:00,732 --> 01:15:03,927
of the dead rapists. Can we
keep them out of court?
1157
01:15:03,962 --> 01:15:04,920
No.
1158
01:15:05,838 --> 01:15:07,600
Also, it is vital that I admit
the rape.
1159
01:15:07,700 --> 01:15:11,301
I want the jury to know details.
I'm gonna need briefs on both.
1160
01:15:11,469 --> 01:15:14,304
I don't like your politics,
Roark, but you do have passion...
1161
01:15:14,472 --> 01:15:16,807
and that's something Carl Lee
needs right now...
1162
01:15:16,974 --> 01:15:18,934
and maybe so do I.
1163
01:15:21,020 --> 01:15:22,104
Are you getting this?
1164
01:15:22,271 --> 01:15:24,439
I'm writing it down.
1165
01:15:24,982 --> 01:15:27,109
All right, here's what we got.
It's official.
1166
01:15:27,276 --> 01:15:30,445
The trial of Carl Lee Hailey
will be held in Canton.
1167
01:15:30,613 --> 01:15:33,891
Today, presiding Judge Noose
issued 150 summonses...
1168
01:15:33,991 --> 01:15:36,837
for potential jurors, in a
sealed envelope.
1169
01:15:39,122 --> 01:15:40,956
Now, to prevent tampering...
1170
01:15:41,124 --> 01:15:43,309
that list will be kept strictly
confidential...
1171
01:15:43,409 --> 01:15:45,492
until jury selection begins
on Wednesday.
1172
01:15:45,527 --> 01:15:48,463
No one, not even Mr. Brigance,
or myself...
1173
01:15:48,631 --> 01:15:52,092
will know the identities of the
potential jurors in this case.
1174
01:16:10,862 --> 01:16:15,115
Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee!
Free Carl Lee!
1175
01:16:15,283 --> 01:16:17,743
Free Carl Lee!
Free Carl Lee!
1176
01:16:17,910 --> 01:16:20,829
Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee!
Free Carl Lee!
1177
01:16:24,500 --> 01:16:26,877
Beautiful day, isn't it?
1178
01:16:27,044 --> 01:16:28,879
There he is.
1179
01:16:30,548 --> 01:16:33,008
Any word on Bud?
Ethel's still with him.
1180
01:16:33,176 --> 01:16:34,509
Thank you for coming, sir.
1181
01:16:35,720 --> 01:16:37,429
Well, well, well.
1182
01:16:37,597 --> 01:16:39,890
The Pillsbury Doughboy.
1183
01:16:40,057 --> 01:16:42,225
Still practicing exploitative
law?
1184
01:16:42,393 --> 01:16:43,518
Thought you were dead.
1185
01:16:43,686 --> 01:16:45,896
Well, I'm trying.
Who do we have here?
1186
01:16:46,063 --> 01:16:48,231
Miss Roark, I would like to
introduce to you...
1187
01:16:48,399 --> 01:16:52,194
Lucien Wilbanks, third white man
in Mississippi to join the NAACP...
1188
01:16:52,361 --> 01:16:55,155
permanently disbarred by the
superior court...
1189
01:16:55,323 --> 01:16:56,813
um... for attacking police...
1190
01:16:56,913 --> 01:16:59,834
who busted a picket line in the
EPSO oil strike.
1191
01:16:59,969 --> 01:17:01,995
It is a pleasure, Ms. Ark.
1192
01:17:03,664 --> 01:17:06,875
All right, everybody, jury
selection begins this afternoon.
1193
01:17:07,043 --> 01:17:09,119
Now, to win this case, we need a
sympathetic jury...
1194
01:17:09,219 --> 01:17:10,725
jury willing to acquit...
1195
01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:12,203
and a jury that can use the
insanity plea...
1196
01:17:12,303 --> 01:17:15,008
as an excuse to do so.
I'm gonna need a drink.
1197
01:17:15,384 --> 01:17:16,718
No drinking.
1198
01:17:16,886 --> 01:17:19,429
What do you mean, no drinking?
It's my building...
1199
01:17:19,597 --> 01:17:22,766
built by my grandfather, leased
to you for a reasonable rent...
1200
01:17:22,934 --> 01:17:24,059
and I want a drink.
1201
01:17:24,227 --> 01:17:27,646
Ms. Ark, I have all the respect
in the world for you.
1202
01:17:27,814 --> 01:17:29,788
I believe in your right to equal
pay for equal work...
1203
01:17:29,888 --> 01:17:32,146
your right to bear a child, or
to abort one.
1204
01:17:32,352 --> 01:17:35,111
I think you should be treated
just like a man.
1205
01:17:35,279 --> 01:17:37,078
And since you are a law clerk...
1206
01:17:37,365 --> 01:17:38,990
genderless in my eyes...
1207
01:17:39,158 --> 01:17:41,868
I think you should be the one
to go buy the beer.
1208
01:17:42,036 --> 01:17:44,328
Yeah. ERA she-woman, that would
be an excellent activity...
1209
01:17:44,428 --> 01:17:46,741
for you, this afternoon.
1210
01:17:46,776 --> 01:17:49,626
Hey, no drinking.
Not today.
1211
01:17:53,297 --> 01:17:56,424
Now, Noose selects this panel
at random.
1212
01:17:56,592 --> 01:17:58,885
If we get too many bad candidates,
we're sunk.
1213
01:17:59,178 --> 01:18:00,637
Luck of the draw.
1214
01:18:00,805 --> 01:18:01,930
What you need...
1215
01:18:02,098 --> 01:18:04,933
is young fathers who wanna do
what Carl Lee Hailey did.
1216
01:18:05,101 --> 01:18:08,103
Agreed. I think we need young
men with families here.
1217
01:18:08,271 --> 01:18:09,997
Now, I would prefer no one
over fifty.
1218
01:18:10,097 --> 01:18:11,996
Less bigotry, as a rule, with
youth.
1219
01:18:12,096 --> 01:18:15,193
So, we stay away from women,
rednecks and old men.
1220
01:18:15,486 --> 01:18:17,529
Uh, citizens, thank you.
1221
01:18:17,697 --> 01:18:20,740
Now, counsel, you each have
twelve challenges. Let's begin.
1222
01:18:22,952 --> 01:18:26,980
Your Honor, the state challenges
Jurors Number 6, 10...
1223
01:18:28,093 --> 01:18:29,514
and 32.
1224
01:18:29,549 --> 01:18:34,296
Your Honor, the defense strikes
Jurors 1, 4, 8 and 2.
1225
01:18:42,930 --> 01:18:47,559
Twenty-six, 27, 28 and 31.
1226
01:18:47,852 --> 01:18:51,688
Your Honor, the defense also
strikes Jurors 22 and 29.
1227
01:18:57,403 --> 01:19:00,327
Now that's it, then. Mr. Brigance,
you're all out of challenges.
1228
01:19:00,427 --> 01:19:02,358
We're done.
1229
01:19:05,786 --> 01:19:10,040
Jurors, you will be sequestered,
starting tonight.
1230
01:19:10,207 --> 01:19:12,000
Opening statements begin
tomorrow morning.
1231
01:19:13,836 --> 01:19:16,880
That's a jury of my peers?
1232
01:19:17,673 --> 01:19:19,507
God bless America.
1233
01:19:21,344 --> 01:19:23,303
My name is Stump Sisson...
1234
01:19:23,471 --> 01:19:26,765
and I'm proud to be a "Grand
Dragon..."
1235
01:19:26,933 --> 01:19:30,685
for the Invisible Empire of the
Ku Klux Klan.
1236
01:19:33,564 --> 01:19:34,940
What the hell?
1237
01:19:35,107 --> 01:19:37,780
And I'm here to say that the
law-abiding...
1238
01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:39,435
white folks of Mississippi...
1239
01:19:39,528 --> 01:19:44,691
are sick and tired of niggers
stealing, raping, killing...
1240
01:19:44,791 --> 01:19:46,697
and getting away with it!
1241
01:19:46,832 --> 01:19:48,411
Ozzie, let's get them out of
here.
1242
01:19:49,455 --> 01:19:50,830
We demand justice.
1243
01:19:50,998 --> 01:19:54,250
We demand this nigger be convicted...
1244
01:19:54,418 --> 01:19:59,255
and his black ass sent to the
gas chamber.
1245
01:19:59,423 --> 01:20:00,632
Who you calling nigger?
1246
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:03,029
You pointy-headed, white-faced,
no-good...
1247
01:20:03,129 --> 01:20:05,197
wife-beating son of a whore!
1248
01:20:05,221 --> 01:20:06,805
Shut up, you wild animal!
1249
01:20:06,973 --> 01:20:09,975
Animal? You're the damn animal!
I'll drag your ass out of here!
1250
01:20:10,142 --> 01:20:11,851
You're the damn animal!
Unh!
1251
01:20:16,357 --> 01:20:17,524
Come on!
1252
01:20:18,067 --> 01:20:19,651
Come on!
1253
01:20:25,324 --> 01:20:27,117
Come here, come here!
1254
01:20:38,087 --> 01:20:39,337
That's right, go on!
1255
01:20:52,226 --> 01:20:55,687
Hastings!
Hastings!
1256
01:21:08,409 --> 01:21:10,160
What's going on?
1257
01:21:19,670 --> 01:21:21,379
This is for Billy Ray.
1258
01:21:26,260 --> 01:21:28,928
Open! Open the gate!
Open the gate!
1259
01:21:42,068 --> 01:21:43,651
Turn around.
1260
01:21:49,075 --> 01:21:51,326
You know, I can't get to this.
Just take off your pants.
1261
01:21:51,494 --> 01:21:53,536
Come on, Roark, do I look
that easy?
1262
01:21:53,913 --> 01:21:56,247
Are you afraid I'm gonna see you
in your underwear?
1263
01:21:56,415 --> 01:21:59,834
With Carla gone, the laundry's
piling up. I'm not wearing any.
1264
01:22:00,002 --> 01:22:02,670
It's all right, I haven't worn
any in years.
1265
01:22:03,672 --> 01:22:06,841
Look, I'm not gonna watch, I
promise. Now strip, please.
1266
01:22:08,052 --> 01:22:10,136
All right, fine.
Batter up.
1267
01:22:11,764 --> 01:22:14,766
What I need from you, Roark...
Do tell.
1268
01:22:14,934 --> 01:22:18,478
Is a way to discredit the state's
shrink, Dr. Rodeheaver.
1269
01:22:18,646 --> 01:22:20,814
Unless you discredit the shrink...
1270
01:22:20,981 --> 01:22:23,316
Carl Lee does not have a chance.
1271
01:22:23,484 --> 01:22:24,526
Mm.
1272
01:22:24,693 --> 01:22:26,528
Sorry.
Sissy.
1273
01:22:28,030 --> 01:22:29,781
I think he's got a very good
chance.
1274
01:22:31,158 --> 01:22:33,535
There you go. I think you're
gonna live. All right.
1275
01:22:33,702 --> 01:22:35,411
Thanks.
Whoo.
1276
01:22:35,704 --> 01:22:37,455
Good butt.
1277
01:22:40,459 --> 01:22:42,585
Ugh.
So, uh...
1278
01:22:42,878 --> 01:22:45,296
What do you folks do around
here to blow off steam...
1279
01:22:45,464 --> 01:22:47,387
besides trying to kill each other
in town's square?
1280
01:22:47,487 --> 01:22:49,068
You got discos, or...
1281
01:22:49,596 --> 01:22:54,639
strip bars, or malls, or anything,
to go to?
1282
01:23:03,524 --> 01:23:04,607
Stump's dead.
1283
01:23:08,737 --> 01:23:09,946
He's dead, Freddie.
1284
01:23:12,366 --> 01:23:14,701
Come on, Freddie.
Let's go on home.
1285
01:23:14,869 --> 01:23:16,703
It's all over.
1286
01:23:18,539 --> 01:23:20,707
It ain't near over.
1287
01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:23,418
How you doing? Good to see you.
Excuse me.
1288
01:23:23,586 --> 01:23:25,086
Hey, I'll be right back.
1289
01:23:25,254 --> 01:23:26,921
Here are your mud bugs.
Mm-hm.
1290
01:23:27,089 --> 01:23:28,339
There you go, darling.
1291
01:23:28,507 --> 01:23:31,092
Anything else?
Yeah, a couple of dinner specials...
1292
01:23:31,260 --> 01:23:33,178
and some fried dill pickles.
1293
01:23:33,345 --> 01:23:35,555
You got it, honey.
Thank you, Sugar.
1294
01:23:36,473 --> 01:23:39,350
That wasn't sexist at all. Really,
I never order my own food.
1295
01:23:40,269 --> 01:23:41,644
I can't do another shot.
1296
01:23:42,271 --> 01:23:44,018
All right, fine, I'll take
another shot.
1297
01:23:44,095 --> 01:23:46,941
Just a splash.
Just a splash.
1298
01:23:48,027 --> 01:23:49,068
All right.
1299
01:23:49,236 --> 01:23:51,154
To...
To...
1300
01:23:51,572 --> 01:23:52,614
Carl Lee Hailey.
1301
01:23:52,781 --> 01:23:55,533
May our jury find that man loony
as a proverbial fruitcake.
1302
01:23:55,701 --> 01:23:57,285
Hear, hear.
1303
01:23:59,705 --> 01:24:00,997
No more.
1304
01:24:03,125 --> 01:24:04,834
So, um...
1305
01:24:06,212 --> 01:24:08,171
Do you think he was crazy
when he did it?
1306
01:24:09,548 --> 01:24:11,799
No, he wasn't crazy.
1307
01:24:11,967 --> 01:24:13,760
He told me he was gonna do it.
1308
01:24:16,972 --> 01:24:20,308
I tried to tell myself he
wasn't serious.
1309
01:24:24,021 --> 01:24:26,481
I think I really wanted him
to do it.
1310
01:24:28,776 --> 01:24:31,819
I came home that night and I was
looking at Hannah laying there...
1311
01:24:31,987 --> 01:24:33,863
looking how tender she is.
1312
01:24:34,657 --> 01:24:37,575
All I could think about was
all the monsters out there...
1313
01:24:37,743 --> 01:24:40,954
and any one of them can come
steal her innocence.
1314
01:24:44,708 --> 01:24:46,668
Take her life, if they wanted.
1315
01:24:54,301 --> 01:24:58,388
Yeah, I wanted those boys dead.
You're goddamn right I did.
1316
01:25:05,479 --> 01:25:07,188
I guess I helped killed them.
1317
01:25:11,151 --> 01:25:13,695
So, tomorrow, when we get in
court...
1318
01:25:15,531 --> 01:25:18,157
it's not just Carl Lee I'm
trying to get off.
1319
01:25:37,052 --> 01:25:38,303
Burn in hell, Brigance!
1320
01:25:51,734 --> 01:25:53,735
Good job.
1321
01:25:56,613 --> 01:25:57,839
Nice place.
1322
01:25:57,939 --> 01:25:59,586
How is it that you'll drive an
hour and half...
1323
01:25:59,616 --> 01:26:02,260
outside of town to take me to
dinner, but...
1324
01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:06,247
you have no problem walking me
into my motel room?
1325
01:26:06,415 --> 01:26:08,416
Well, with everything that's
going on...
1326
01:26:08,584 --> 01:26:10,918
I don't think we can be too
careful.
1327
01:26:11,086 --> 01:26:13,629
Just wanna make sure it's all
safe in here.
1328
01:26:13,797 --> 01:26:15,340
I'm not scared.
1329
01:26:15,507 --> 01:26:18,509
Oh, yes, I am.
Of what?
1330
01:26:19,053 --> 01:26:21,387
Of what's going to
happen tomorrow.
1331
01:26:21,722 --> 01:26:24,891
All the other cases I've worked on
have only been paper defendants.
1332
01:26:25,059 --> 01:26:27,289
It's just I never knew the
towns...
1333
01:26:27,389 --> 01:26:29,797
and I never touched their lives,
or anything.
1334
01:26:29,932 --> 01:26:31,814
So, I don't know what it's like.
1335
01:26:38,113 --> 01:26:40,114
Tomorrow morning...
1336
01:26:40,282 --> 01:26:43,868
Buckley will try to kill
Carl Lee Hailey.
1337
01:26:44,453 --> 01:26:46,871
Now, it's on us to stop him.
1338
01:26:47,039 --> 01:26:48,790
Mm-hm.
1339
01:26:49,583 --> 01:26:51,626
So, tonight, go over the battle
in your mind.
1340
01:26:51,794 --> 01:26:54,796
Argument, rebuttal, examination
and cross. All of it.
1341
01:26:55,005 --> 01:26:56,172
Mm-hm.
1342
01:26:56,673 --> 01:26:58,800
Remember something.
Hmm.
1343
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:03,471
You are one of the good guys.
Okay.
1344
01:27:03,972 --> 01:27:07,642
And good guy has got the spicy
on her lip...
1345
01:27:07,810 --> 01:27:10,395
Spicy?
but still one of the good guys.
1346
01:27:23,450 --> 01:27:25,410
I'm going home.
1347
01:27:25,828 --> 01:27:29,580
Lock the door behind me, Roark.
I'll see you in the morning.
1348
01:27:43,137 --> 01:27:45,179
It's gonna blow, sheriff.
It's gonna blow.
1349
01:27:49,017 --> 01:27:51,310
Oz is right over there!
1350
01:27:55,941 --> 01:27:58,109
Wait. Wait. Hold it, Jake.
Hold it, Jake.
1351
01:27:58,277 --> 01:27:59,485
My dog's in there.
Jake...
1352
01:27:59,653 --> 01:28:01,112
My dog's in there!
1353
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:02,321
Max!
1354
01:28:02,489 --> 01:28:04,532
Come on.
Come on.
1355
01:28:04,700 --> 01:28:06,534
Max!
1356
01:28:08,620 --> 01:28:10,246
Max!
1357
01:28:16,044 --> 01:28:17,879
It's too late.
1358
01:28:38,484 --> 01:28:40,818
Move, move, move.
1359
01:29:18,607 --> 01:29:20,191
Hey, buddy.
1360
01:29:21,318 --> 01:29:22,652
Seen my dog?
1361
01:29:23,111 --> 01:29:24,570
Looking for my dog.
1362
01:29:24,738 --> 01:29:28,699
Max, come here, boy! Let's go!
Come on, Max!
1363
01:29:30,452 --> 01:29:36,332
I booked you on the 9:15 to
Gulf port. Economy, of course.
1364
01:29:36,625 --> 01:29:38,334
Go see your wife and daughter,
Jake.
1365
01:29:40,587 --> 01:29:43,005
What'd you do that for, Harry
Rex?
1366
01:29:43,215 --> 01:29:45,132
We got trial in less than
three hours.
1367
01:29:45,467 --> 01:29:46,509
Oh, come on.
1368
01:29:46,677 --> 01:29:49,053
Noose would give you a
continuance, in a flash.
1369
01:29:49,221 --> 01:29:53,182
NAACP boys be down here before
lunch. Drooling.
1370
01:29:53,934 --> 01:29:56,978
Max, let's go, boy!
Come on!
1371
01:29:57,854 --> 01:29:59,689
Jake, listen to me.
1372
01:30:00,232 --> 01:30:03,568
Your marriage is on the rocks,
you're about to have an affair.
1373
01:30:03,735 --> 01:30:04,877
Your career's in ruins if you're
lucky...
1374
01:30:04,977 --> 01:30:07,425
and if you're not, you're dead.
1375
01:30:08,782 --> 01:30:10,283
Don't get me wrong, my friend.
1376
01:30:11,243 --> 01:30:14,161
What you've put into this case,
you even inspired me, and I'm...
1377
01:30:14,329 --> 01:30:16,372
I'm uninspirable.
1378
01:30:16,540 --> 01:30:18,249
Do everyone a favor, though.
1379
01:30:18,417 --> 01:30:20,501
Drop the case.
1380
01:30:23,839 --> 01:30:26,173
No, I can't.
1381
01:30:26,800 --> 01:30:29,343
I won't.
I'm not gonna quit.
1382
01:30:30,304 --> 01:30:32,763
I quit now, and all this is
for nothing. No.
1383
01:30:36,351 --> 01:30:39,103
Max, come on now. Max, where
are you? Come on, Max!
1384
01:30:39,271 --> 01:30:41,647
Max is dead, and you're next.
1385
01:30:42,733 --> 01:30:44,609
Walk away.
1386
01:30:54,369 --> 01:30:56,996
Max.
Come here, boy.
1387
01:30:57,873 --> 01:30:59,790
Come here. Come here, boy.
Ha-ha-ha.
1388
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:01,500
Come here.
Come here.
1389
01:31:01,668 --> 01:31:03,878
Who's got the goods, huh?
Huh?
1390
01:31:06,423 --> 01:31:09,050
Pre-trial strategy at my office in
less than two hours, Harry Rex...
1391
01:31:09,217 --> 01:31:11,886
and I expect to see your ass
there.
1392
01:31:12,262 --> 01:31:15,181
Free Carl Lee!
Free Carl Lee!
1393
01:31:15,349 --> 01:31:18,684
Free Carl Lee!
Free Carl Lee!
1394
01:31:26,652 --> 01:31:28,653
Fry Carl Lee.
1395
01:31:30,030 --> 01:31:31,280
Free Carl Lee!
1396
01:31:32,991 --> 01:31:35,368
Fry Carl Lee!
Fry Carl Lee!
1397
01:31:35,535 --> 01:31:36,744
Free Carl Lee!
1398
01:31:39,665 --> 01:31:41,999
Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee!
1399
01:31:46,046 --> 01:31:49,674
Fry Carl Lee!
Fry Carl Lee!
1400
01:31:49,841 --> 01:31:54,303
Fry Carl Lee!
Fry Carl Lee!
1401
01:32:01,520 --> 01:32:04,897
Now, Mr. Buckley, you may begin.
1402
01:32:05,065 --> 01:32:06,941
Thank you, Your Honor.
1403
01:32:09,778 --> 01:32:12,405
Good morning.
Good morning.
1404
01:32:14,324 --> 01:32:17,440
You are Cora Mae Cobb, the
mother of Billy Ray Cobb...
1405
01:32:17,592 --> 01:32:19,416
the deceased, are you not?
1406
01:32:19,551 --> 01:32:20,621
Yes, sir.
1407
01:32:20,789 --> 01:32:23,207
And where were you when your
son was murdered?
1408
01:32:23,500 --> 01:32:26,711
I was right outside that door
right there.
1409
01:32:26,878 --> 01:32:29,672
Me and Freddie was waiting
for his hearing.
1410
01:32:30,173 --> 01:32:32,174
He was walking up the stairs...
1411
01:32:32,342 --> 01:32:34,135
in handcuffs.
1412
01:32:34,428 --> 01:32:38,013
Can you tell us how old your son
was at the time of his death?
1413
01:32:39,391 --> 01:32:40,474
Twenty-three.
1414
01:32:42,352 --> 01:32:44,520
You say your son was twenty-three
when he died?
1415
01:32:44,938 --> 01:32:45,980
Yes.
1416
01:32:46,148 --> 01:32:49,066
In those twenty-three years,
Mrs. Cobb...
1417
01:32:49,234 --> 01:32:51,360
how many other children did
your son kidnap?
1418
01:32:51,528 --> 01:32:53,320
Objection, Your Honor!
Objection!
1419
01:32:53,488 --> 01:32:57,116
Sustained. You... you are out
of order, Mr. Brigance.
1420
01:32:57,284 --> 01:32:59,952
Withdraw the question.
The jury will disregard...
1421
01:33:00,120 --> 01:33:02,288
the last question from Mr. Brigance.
1422
01:33:03,165 --> 01:33:06,584
Mrs. Cobb, in your son's twenty
three years...
1423
01:33:06,752 --> 01:33:08,794
how many other children did
he rape?
1424
01:33:08,962 --> 01:33:11,589
Mr. Brigance!
In my chambers.
1425
01:33:12,674 --> 01:33:14,008
Court will recess for lunch.
1426
01:33:16,845 --> 01:33:19,430
I don't get it. Why is he
antagonizing the judge?
1427
01:33:19,598 --> 01:33:21,849
He should've known Noose'd
pull him into chambers.
1428
01:33:22,017 --> 01:33:22,794
Of course he knew.
1429
01:33:22,894 --> 01:33:24,384
But Jake's got to draw first
blood, and he knows...
1430
01:33:24,543 --> 01:33:27,125
that's more important, to get
Noose a little sweaty.
1431
01:33:27,397 --> 01:33:29,255
Hello, Harry.
Hi, Rufie.
1432
01:33:29,355 --> 01:33:31,273
Hey sweetheart, you wanna
come play on a winning team?
1433
01:33:31,404 --> 01:33:34,153
How's that impotence thing,
Rufus?
1434
01:33:36,740 --> 01:33:38,235
You're not being paid for the
work you're doing with...
1435
01:33:38,335 --> 01:33:41,226
Mr. Brigance, are you?
No, sir.
1436
01:33:42,204 --> 01:33:44,622
Well, I guess Jake's paying you
in other ways, then, isn't he?
1437
01:33:46,792 --> 01:33:47,875
Impotence?
1438
01:33:48,043 --> 01:33:49,668
Yep.
Girls talk.
1439
01:33:49,836 --> 01:33:54,673
Sheriff, if you would, will you
please identify this weapon?
1440
01:33:54,841 --> 01:33:56,425
It's the weapon found
at the scene.
1441
01:33:57,135 --> 01:33:59,412
And were you able to identify
any of the fingerprints...
1442
01:33:59,512 --> 01:34:01,159
found on this gun?
1443
01:34:01,389 --> 01:34:04,600
Yes. The prints on the gun matched
those of Carl Lee Hailey.
1444
01:34:04,768 --> 01:34:06,227
You're sure?
1445
01:34:06,728 --> 01:34:08,062
Yes.
1446
01:34:08,230 --> 01:34:12,441
Your Honor, I'd like to enter this
into evidence as Exhibit S-18.
1447
01:34:12,609 --> 01:34:14,860
We have no further use of this
witness.
1448
01:34:18,990 --> 01:34:20,991
Sheriff Walls.
1449
01:34:22,366 --> 01:34:24,286
Did you arrest Billy Ray Cobb
and Pete Willard?
1450
01:34:24,454 --> 01:34:25,955
Yes, I did.
1451
01:34:26,122 --> 01:34:28,165
I arrested them for the rape...
1452
01:34:28,333 --> 01:34:32,253
and attempted murder of
ten-year-old Tonya Hailey.
1453
01:34:32,420 --> 01:34:34,046
And is it true that Pete
Willard...
1454
01:34:34,214 --> 01:34:36,006
signed a written confession...
1455
01:34:36,174 --> 01:34:39,844
saying that he and Billy Ray
Cobb did rape Tonya Hailey?
1456
01:34:40,011 --> 01:34:42,930
Objection. That's inadmissible,
and Mr. Brigance knows it.
1457
01:34:43,098 --> 01:34:45,933
Mr. Brigance, I've spoken to
you before.
1458
01:34:46,101 --> 01:34:48,936
We are not trying the rape
of Miss Hailey today...
1459
01:34:49,104 --> 01:34:51,554
but the murder of two young
men...
1460
01:34:51,654 --> 01:34:54,131
and if you continue in this
performance...
1461
01:34:54,609 --> 01:34:56,235
I'll hold you in contempt.
1462
01:34:56,486 --> 01:34:57,987
Now, is that understood?
1463
01:34:58,989 --> 01:35:00,531
Yes, sir.
1464
01:35:01,867 --> 01:35:04,118
I have no further questions,
Your Honor.
1465
01:35:04,286 --> 01:35:05,953
Yes.
1466
01:35:07,122 --> 01:35:09,081
You say something, sheriff?
1467
01:35:10,959 --> 01:35:14,128
Yes, he did sign a confession.
Objection, Your Honor!
1468
01:35:14,546 --> 01:35:19,550
Jurors, you will disregard the
last remark of Sheriff Walls.
1469
01:35:19,718 --> 01:35:23,679
Court is adjourned till tomorrow
morning, 9:00.
1470
01:35:44,659 --> 01:35:46,869
I'm taking Bud back to Oxford.
1471
01:35:48,455 --> 01:35:50,748
He always missed Oxford.
1472
01:36:07,641 --> 01:36:10,100
I don't know what to say, Ethel,
I don't know.
1473
01:36:10,268 --> 01:36:12,770
There's nothing you can say.
1474
01:36:14,022 --> 01:36:17,191
I know you didn't want any of
this to happen...
1475
01:36:17,359 --> 01:36:19,276
but it happened all the same.
1476
01:36:21,196 --> 01:36:24,615
You wagered all our lives on
this.
1477
01:36:25,075 --> 01:36:27,952
You just went ahead and did
what you felt you had to do...
1478
01:36:28,052 --> 01:36:31,028
no matter what the cost.
1479
01:36:32,040 --> 01:36:35,000
Some folks think that's brave.
1480
01:36:35,877 --> 01:36:38,003
Not me, Jake.
1481
01:36:38,922 --> 01:36:40,839
Now, you may win...
1482
01:36:41,466 --> 01:36:44,343
but I think we've all lost here.
1483
01:36:50,759 --> 01:36:53,629
Would you help an old lady to
her car?
1484
01:36:53,729 --> 01:36:56,552
You don't need any help, Ethel...
1485
01:36:57,065 --> 01:37:01,527
but it would be my honor to
escort you to your automobile.
1486
01:37:16,001 --> 01:37:17,960
Didn't like that one?
1487
01:37:18,378 --> 01:37:20,694
Buckley is presenting his shrink
tomorrow, and I can't come up...
1488
01:37:20,816 --> 01:37:22,731
with one way to bring him
down. Not one.
1489
01:37:23,800 --> 01:37:26,552
I keep asking myself, okay,
what would Jake do?
1490
01:37:26,652 --> 01:37:28,351
What would my father do?
1491
01:37:28,386 --> 01:37:29,263
What would Lucien do?
1492
01:37:29,431 --> 01:37:31,724
That's your problem, right there.
1493
01:37:31,891 --> 01:37:35,769
What you gotta ask yourself is,
"What would Harry Rex do?"
1494
01:37:35,937 --> 01:37:37,521
What would Harry Rex do?
1495
01:37:37,689 --> 01:37:39,023
Cheat.
1496
01:37:39,190 --> 01:37:40,607
Cheat like crazy.
1497
01:37:45,113 --> 01:37:46,113
Yeah.
Yeah, I did.
1498
01:37:46,281 --> 01:37:49,116
I'll bring her around the side.
1499
01:37:51,870 --> 01:37:53,203
Uh-huh.
1500
01:37:53,371 --> 01:37:54,872
Hey, Cheryl.
Hi.
1501
01:37:56,666 --> 01:37:58,167
So, we gotta talk about it.
1502
01:37:58,752 --> 01:38:00,044
Now, wait a minute.
1503
01:38:00,211 --> 01:38:03,088
The judge said absolutely not
to discuss this case.
1504
01:38:03,256 --> 01:38:05,799
That judge ain't stuck here
away from his wife and kids.
1505
01:38:05,967 --> 01:38:09,845
The sooner we start talking about
it, the sooner we can get home.
1506
01:38:10,013 --> 01:38:12,473
I wanna get out of here just
as much as anybody else.
1507
01:38:12,640 --> 01:38:14,475
Let's get on with it.
1508
01:38:16,478 --> 01:38:17,895
Undecided?
1509
01:38:21,232 --> 01:38:22,733
Four.
1510
01:38:22,901 --> 01:38:24,777
Guilty?
1511
01:38:29,491 --> 01:38:31,325
Seven.
1512
01:38:31,993 --> 01:38:33,035
Not guilty?
1513
01:38:37,665 --> 01:38:40,000
That nigger's dead, y'all.
1514
01:38:57,986 --> 01:38:58,855
I know, I know.
1515
01:38:58,955 --> 01:39:01,763
Folks in town just can't get
enough of this Hailey trial.
1516
01:39:01,856 --> 01:39:03,151
And that's why, see, the editor...
1517
01:39:03,251 --> 01:39:04,582
said I needed to come right on
down...
1518
01:39:04,717 --> 01:39:06,600
and get an interview with
Dr. Rodeheaver.
1519
01:39:06,735 --> 01:39:08,946
I'm afraid Dr. Rodeheaver's
in court, today.
1520
01:39:09,489 --> 01:39:10,531
Oh.
1521
01:39:11,074 --> 01:39:13,534
You know, if a pretty girl like
you wants to be a reporter...
1522
01:39:13,701 --> 01:39:15,702
maybe she should do some better
research?
1523
01:39:15,870 --> 01:39:16,912
Yeah...
1524
01:39:17,080 --> 01:39:20,374
Well, um, you know what?
I don't... I don't mind waiting...
1525
01:39:20,542 --> 01:39:23,043
cause my paper really wants
this interview...
1526
01:39:23,211 --> 01:39:25,462
so, is he still in Room 369?
I'll just go there.
1527
01:39:25,630 --> 01:39:29,842
No, dear. Wrong again. He's
in 128. But he's gone all day.
1528
01:39:30,009 --> 01:39:31,510
You can't see him today.
1529
01:39:31,678 --> 01:39:35,389
You wanna come back to my office
and we can schedule an appointment?
1530
01:39:35,557 --> 01:39:37,683
You know what?
I'll come back another time...
1531
01:39:37,851 --> 01:39:40,434
when he's, you know, got time to
talk, when things kind of die down.
1532
01:39:40,534 --> 01:39:42,048
But I really appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
1533
01:39:42,148 --> 01:39:43,443
Well, you can call me any time.
1534
01:39:43,578 --> 01:39:45,315
Okay.
Bye-bye.
1535
01:39:48,570 --> 01:39:52,322
Your Honor, the state calls
Deputy Dwayne Looney.
1536
01:40:28,276 --> 01:40:29,776
Good morning.
Good morning.
1537
01:40:29,944 --> 01:40:32,905
Would you please state your
name for the record?
1538
01:40:33,072 --> 01:40:36,283
Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney.
1539
01:40:36,451 --> 01:40:38,243
Thank you, Deputy Looney.
1540
01:40:38,411 --> 01:40:41,038
You were present at the murders
of Billy Ray Cobb...
1541
01:40:41,206 --> 01:40:43,457
and James Lewis Willard, were
you not?
1542
01:40:43,625 --> 01:40:45,209
Yes, sir.
I was.
1543
01:40:45,376 --> 01:40:47,252
If you can remember...
1544
01:40:47,420 --> 01:40:51,632
describe how you were wounded
for the members of the jury.
1545
01:40:51,799 --> 01:40:55,302
I think bullets bounced off the
floor, caught me in the knee.
1546
01:40:55,470 --> 01:40:57,387
And what happened to your leg?
1547
01:40:58,765 --> 01:41:00,057
Doc cut it off.
1548
01:41:01,392 --> 01:41:06,438
And after the loss of your right
leg, Detective Looney...
1549
01:41:07,398 --> 01:41:09,775
are you still able to serve
as a police officer?
1550
01:41:11,694 --> 01:41:14,029
I'm able to perform...
1551
01:41:17,659 --> 01:41:21,161
I'm able to perform a number
of services.
1552
01:41:21,329 --> 01:41:23,956
Did you get a good look at the
man with the gun?
1553
01:41:24,123 --> 01:41:25,165
No, sir.
1554
01:41:26,167 --> 01:41:31,338
However, Mr. Hailey did personally
apologize for his shooting me.
1555
01:41:33,466 --> 01:41:34,883
Oh.
1556
01:41:36,636 --> 01:41:39,805
So, Mr. Hailey admitted
shooting you.
1557
01:41:40,390 --> 01:41:41,431
Yes, sir.
1558
01:41:41,599 --> 01:41:43,475
I have no further questions,
Your Honor.
1559
01:41:43,643 --> 01:41:45,560
Mr. Brigance.
No questions, Your Honor.
1560
01:41:45,728 --> 01:41:47,187
Wait a minute.
1561
01:41:47,355 --> 01:41:49,856
Uh, Mr. Buckley?
Yes, Your Honor.
1562
01:41:50,024 --> 01:41:51,400
The state would like to call...
1563
01:41:51,567 --> 01:41:53,527
Your owner, can you give me a
moment to speak with my client?
1564
01:41:53,695 --> 01:41:54,861
Take your time.
1565
01:41:56,823 --> 01:41:59,074
Ask him if he thinks I ought
to go to jail.
1566
01:41:59,367 --> 01:42:02,327
Carl Lee, they amputated his
leg because you shot him.
1567
01:42:02,495 --> 01:42:04,288
He's a witness for the prosecution.
1568
01:42:04,455 --> 01:42:06,540
You're my lawyer, ain't you?
Yeah.
1569
01:42:07,083 --> 01:42:08,959
Ask him.
1570
01:42:15,258 --> 01:42:19,386
Your Honor, one question.
Make up your mind, Mr. Brigance.
1571
01:42:23,641 --> 01:42:24,683
Deputy Looney.
1572
01:42:26,269 --> 01:42:29,396
Do you think Carl Lee shooting
you was intentional?
1573
01:42:29,564 --> 01:42:30,981
No, sir.
1574
01:42:31,149 --> 01:42:32,482
It was an accident.
1575
01:42:36,904 --> 01:42:37,946
Ask him.
1576
01:42:45,038 --> 01:42:47,998
Do you think he should be
punished for shooting you?
1577
01:42:48,791 --> 01:42:50,542
No, sir.
1578
01:42:50,710 --> 01:42:54,338
I hold no ill will toward the
man.
1579
01:42:54,756 --> 01:42:56,590
He did what I would've done.
1580
01:42:56,758 --> 01:42:58,675
What do you mean by that,
Deputy Looney?
1581
01:42:58,843 --> 01:43:01,303
I mean, I don't blame him for
what he did.
1582
01:43:01,471 --> 01:43:03,305
Those boys raped his little girl.
1583
01:43:03,473 --> 01:43:04,595
Objection, Your Honor!
1584
01:43:04,695 --> 01:43:08,177
The witness's opinion on this
matter is irrelevant.
1585
01:43:08,312 --> 01:43:10,674
Your Honor, I believe Deputy
Looney...
1586
01:43:10,835 --> 01:43:14,725
has earned the right to speak
here, today.
1587
01:43:15,401 --> 01:43:16,568
Overruled.
1588
01:43:17,779 --> 01:43:19,404
Continue.
1589
01:43:22,158 --> 01:43:23,367
Go ahead, Dwayne.
1590
01:43:24,577 --> 01:43:26,828
I got a little girl.
1591
01:43:28,706 --> 01:43:31,375
Somebody rapes her, he's a
dead dog.
1592
01:43:31,542 --> 01:43:33,752
I'll blow him away, just like
Carl Lee did.
1593
01:43:33,920 --> 01:43:35,128
Objection, Your Honor!
1594
01:43:35,296 --> 01:43:37,464
Do you think the jury should
convict Carl Lee Hailey?
1595
01:43:37,632 --> 01:43:39,925
Don't answer that question,
deputy.
1596
01:43:40,093 --> 01:43:42,219
He's a hero.
You turn him loose.
1597
01:43:42,387 --> 01:43:44,471
Jury will disregard.
1598
01:43:44,639 --> 01:43:45,889
You turn him loose!
1599
01:43:46,307 --> 01:43:48,558
Your Honor, you silence that
witness!
1600
01:43:48,726 --> 01:43:50,727
Turn him loose!
1601
01:43:55,149 --> 01:43:56,274
No!
1602
01:43:58,152 --> 01:44:01,363
People say whatever the hell
they want in this courtroom!
1603
01:44:01,697 --> 01:44:03,240
Quiet!
1604
01:44:05,952 --> 01:44:08,328
Any more of that nonsense...
1605
01:44:08,496 --> 01:44:10,122
and you're all out of here.
1606
01:44:12,417 --> 01:44:15,252
Now, Mr. Buckley, you may begin.
1607
01:44:15,420 --> 01:44:17,462
Thank you, Your Honor.
1608
01:44:18,089 --> 01:44:20,111
Would you please state your
name and occupation...
1609
01:44:20,270 --> 01:44:23,004
for the members of the jury,
if you will?
1610
01:44:23,139 --> 01:44:27,139
My name is Dr. Wilbert Rodeheaver,
chair of Psychiatry...
1611
01:44:27,306 --> 01:44:29,015
at Mississippi State University...
1612
01:44:29,183 --> 01:44:31,663
and clinical director of the
Whitfield Facility...
1613
01:44:31,763 --> 01:44:34,377
for the Criminally Insane.
1614
01:44:34,647 --> 01:44:37,566
Thank you, doctor. Your credentials
speak for themselves.
1615
01:44:37,733 --> 01:44:39,629
Now, doctor, can you please
explain...
1616
01:44:39,729 --> 01:44:42,060
as you do so eloquently in your
book...
1617
01:44:42,196 --> 01:44:44,364
the McNaughton Rule, for the
jury?
1618
01:44:44,532 --> 01:44:45,615
Certainly.
1619
01:44:45,783 --> 01:44:47,159
The McNaughton Rule states...
1620
01:44:47,326 --> 01:44:51,496
that a person must be unable to
tell right from wrong...
1621
01:44:51,664 --> 01:44:55,876
and, or, be unaware of the
consequences of his actions...
1622
01:44:56,043 --> 01:44:58,253
to be termed legally insane.
1623
01:44:58,421 --> 01:45:00,338
Now, did you examine Mr. Hailey?
1624
01:45:00,506 --> 01:45:04,134
Yes. Mr. Hailey and I spoke about
his childhood, his family...
1625
01:45:04,302 --> 01:45:06,720
his experiences during the war.
1626
01:45:06,888 --> 01:45:08,638
And the rape of his daughter?
1627
01:45:08,806 --> 01:45:12,406
Yes, we, uh, we spoke at length
about the brutal rape...
1628
01:45:12,506 --> 01:45:14,567
of his daughter, Tonya.
1629
01:45:14,702 --> 01:45:17,856
What is your diagnosis of
Mr. Hailey's mental condition...
1630
01:45:18,024 --> 01:45:22,694
on the day that he shot Billy Ray
Cobb and James Lewis Willard?
1631
01:45:22,862 --> 01:45:25,197
At the time of the murders, his
mental condition...
1632
01:45:25,364 --> 01:45:27,574
was without any defects of any
nature.
1633
01:45:27,742 --> 01:45:29,576
Mr. Hailey was sane.
1634
01:45:29,744 --> 01:45:32,162
But wait a minute, doctor.
The defense contends...
1635
01:45:32,330 --> 01:45:35,415
Why, Mr. Brigance has gone to great
effort to prove to this jury...
1636
01:45:35,583 --> 01:45:38,877
that Mr. Hailey is a nutball.
1637
01:45:39,086 --> 01:45:41,087
Is a slow coach.
1638
01:45:41,255 --> 01:45:44,716
Or... what's the clinical
definition?
1639
01:45:44,884 --> 01:45:46,426
Insane.
1640
01:45:48,346 --> 01:45:50,597
Do you disagree?
Yes.
1641
01:45:50,765 --> 01:45:53,642
Carl Lee Hailey knew very well
what he was doing.
1642
01:45:53,809 --> 01:45:56,311
He slaughtered those men in
cold blood.
1643
01:45:57,355 --> 01:45:58,438
Thank you, doctor.
1644
01:45:58,606 --> 01:46:01,650
I have no further questions,
Your Honor.
1645
01:46:02,610 --> 01:46:06,071
Buddy, where the hell is Roark?
I got no clue.
1646
01:46:06,239 --> 01:46:08,490
Cross-examination, Mr. Brigance?
1647
01:46:09,617 --> 01:46:13,537
Your Honor, we would request
a recess until...
1648
01:46:15,831 --> 01:46:18,917
No, we will not need a recess, Your
Honor, but just a few moments.
1649
01:46:25,508 --> 01:46:27,092
Mr. Brigance?
1650
01:46:27,260 --> 01:46:30,470
When you and Lois Lane are ready...
1651
01:46:33,808 --> 01:46:36,184
Just a few questions, Your Honor.
1652
01:46:39,021 --> 01:46:40,689
Doctor, who do you work for?
1653
01:46:40,856 --> 01:46:42,482
State of Mississippi.
1654
01:46:42,650 --> 01:46:43,858
In your eleven years...
1655
01:46:44,026 --> 01:46:45,989
how many times have you testified
to trials...
1656
01:46:46,130 --> 01:46:47,945
where the insanity defense
was used?
1657
01:46:48,080 --> 01:46:49,990
This is my forty-sixth trial.
1658
01:46:50,157 --> 01:46:51,825
Forty-sixth trial.
1659
01:46:51,993 --> 01:46:53,243
Well, of those forty-six trials...
1660
01:46:53,411 --> 01:46:54,609
how many times have you testified...
1661
01:46:54,709 --> 01:46:57,878
that the defendant was legally
insane?
1662
01:46:58,013 --> 01:47:00,292
Objection, Your Honor! The
good doctor cannot be asked...
1663
01:47:00,459 --> 01:47:04,629
to recall all of his testimony at
these previous trials. It's absurd.
1664
01:47:04,797 --> 01:47:06,089
Overruled.
1665
01:47:07,091 --> 01:47:09,009
Thank you, Your Honor.
1666
01:47:09,552 --> 01:47:11,011
I can't remember.
1667
01:47:11,178 --> 01:47:13,722
Could it be, doctor, the reason
you can't remember...
1668
01:47:13,889 --> 01:47:16,891
is that in eleven years and
forty-six trials...
1669
01:47:17,059 --> 01:47:20,270
you never have seen a defendant
whom you have found insane?
1670
01:47:20,605 --> 01:47:22,731
I can't recall at this time.
1671
01:47:24,191 --> 01:47:26,735
Can you recall testifying at
the trial of one Dan Baker?
1672
01:47:26,902 --> 01:47:27,706
Objection!
Your Honor...
1673
01:47:27,806 --> 01:47:29,896
this has nothing to do with
the proceedings, here.
1674
01:47:29,996 --> 01:47:31,823
Overruled.
1675
01:47:31,991 --> 01:47:34,886
This... this better be good,
Mr. Brigance.
1676
01:47:34,986 --> 01:47:37,809
Thank you, Your Honor.
I'll ask again.
1677
01:47:37,909 --> 01:47:41,333
Can you recall testifying the
trial of one Dan Baker?
1678
01:47:41,500 --> 01:47:43,552
It's a rather brutal double
homicide...
1679
01:47:43,652 --> 01:47:46,959
where you found the defendant
legally sane?
1680
01:47:47,089 --> 01:47:48,340
Yes.
1681
01:47:48,507 --> 01:47:51,092
A dissenting psychiatrist
disagreed with you, doctor.
1682
01:47:51,260 --> 01:47:54,763
And Mr. Baker was found insane,
and institutionalized.
1683
01:47:54,930 --> 01:47:56,556
Where is he currently, doctor?
1684
01:47:56,724 --> 01:47:57,766
At Whitfield.
1685
01:47:57,933 --> 01:48:00,060
And who is the chief psychiatrist
at Whitfield?
1686
01:48:00,227 --> 01:48:02,646
I am.
You are.
1687
01:48:03,898 --> 01:48:06,733
Dr. Rodeheaver is the chief
psychiatrist at Whitfield.
1688
01:48:07,276 --> 01:48:10,070
Now, help me make this clear
to the jury, doctor.
1689
01:48:10,237 --> 01:48:15,367
In 1985, you testified that
Dan Baker was legally sane.
1690
01:48:15,534 --> 01:48:17,619
The jury disagreed with you.
1691
01:48:17,787 --> 01:48:21,206
And Mr. Baker was found not
guilty, by reason of insanity.
1692
01:48:21,374 --> 01:48:24,008
Since that time, he has been
a patient in your hospital...
1693
01:48:24,108 --> 01:48:25,112
under your care...
1694
01:48:25,247 --> 01:48:27,587
as a paranoid schizophrenic.
Is that correct, doctor?
1695
01:48:27,755 --> 01:48:28,838
Yes.
1696
01:48:29,006 --> 01:48:30,799
Do you normally admit patients...
1697
01:48:30,966 --> 01:48:34,427
keep and treat them for ten years,
if they're of sound mind and body?
1698
01:48:34,595 --> 01:48:35,929
Of course not.
1699
01:48:36,097 --> 01:48:38,473
Then it would be fair to say...
1700
01:48:38,641 --> 01:48:42,102
that you find insane people sane,
for the purposes of trial?
1701
01:48:42,269 --> 01:48:45,313
Objection, Your Honor!
This is argumentative!
1702
01:48:45,481 --> 01:48:49,901
Withdraw the question, Your
Honor. No further questions.
1703
01:48:54,407 --> 01:48:55,782
Genius, Roark.
1704
01:49:10,715 --> 01:49:15,093
Mr. Brigance! Mr. Brigance!
Yes. Yes.
1705
01:49:15,261 --> 01:49:18,012
How do you expect to get a fair
trial in Mississippi?
1706
01:49:21,559 --> 01:49:23,309
Get him!
1707
01:49:24,353 --> 01:49:27,272
Get an ambulance, get, get!
Come on.
1708
01:49:39,660 --> 01:49:42,162
So, is there any news on the
guard who was shot?
1709
01:49:43,080 --> 01:49:45,248
Ozzie says he's probably
paralyzed.
1710
01:49:49,670 --> 01:49:51,546
Some stranger...
1711
01:49:51,714 --> 01:49:54,048
somebody's husband...
1712
01:49:54,341 --> 01:49:56,509
somebody's son...
1713
01:49:57,011 --> 01:49:59,763
put himself in harm's way...
1714
01:50:01,515 --> 01:50:03,224
for me.
1715
01:50:04,268 --> 01:50:06,770
When I saw the blood...
1716
01:50:07,396 --> 01:50:10,190
I got so scared, because I
thought that was you.
1717
01:50:19,366 --> 01:50:20,992
Do you want me to stay?
1718
01:50:24,371 --> 01:50:25,955
Yeah.
1719
01:50:26,874 --> 01:50:29,042
I want you to stay.
1720
01:50:33,464 --> 01:50:35,715
So, you better go.
1721
01:50:39,303 --> 01:50:41,179
Okay.
1722
01:51:01,242 --> 01:51:03,117
Oh, shit.
1723
01:51:09,500 --> 01:51:12,919
Speed limit's 45, not 70, ma'am.
1724
01:51:13,087 --> 01:51:15,755
Haven't been drinking, have you?
I guess I just wasn't...
1725
01:51:15,923 --> 01:51:17,799
Let me ask you to get out of
the car, for just a minute.
1726
01:51:17,967 --> 01:51:21,135
Is that really necessary?
Just get out of the car.
1727
01:51:21,762 --> 01:51:25,181
Isn't it usually customary to ask
for a license and registration?
1728
01:51:26,559 --> 01:51:28,768
You bitch.
No!
1729
01:51:29,019 --> 01:51:31,104
Get her in the car.
1730
01:51:33,524 --> 01:51:36,109
No! No!
Come on.
1731
01:51:36,277 --> 01:51:38,027
Get in there.
1732
01:51:39,780 --> 01:51:41,656
Shut up!
1733
01:52:38,505 --> 01:52:41,424
You can't blame a nigger for
being a nigger...
1734
01:52:41,592 --> 01:52:45,011
no more than you can blame a
dog for being a dog.
1735
01:52:46,680 --> 01:52:49,265
But a whore like you...
1736
01:52:49,892 --> 01:52:52,894
co-mingling with mongrels,
betraying your own...
1737
01:52:53,062 --> 01:52:55,521
that makes you worse than being
a nigger.
1738
01:52:55,689 --> 01:52:57,982
So I'll tell you what I'm gonna
do.
1739
01:52:58,692 --> 01:53:01,110
I'm gonna leave you tied up
here naked.
1740
01:53:02,071 --> 01:53:04,656
First it'll just be the bugs
eating at you.
1741
01:53:04,823 --> 01:53:06,532
One day, maybe two.
1742
01:53:06,700 --> 01:53:09,118
That sun's gonna be cooking you.
1743
01:53:09,370 --> 01:53:11,329
But them animals?
1744
01:53:12,790 --> 01:53:15,375
They're gonna pick up your
stink.
1745
01:53:18,087 --> 01:53:20,713
They're gonna come looking for
something to eat.
1746
01:53:21,757 --> 01:53:25,343
Carl Lee Hailey should've shot
you, too.
1747
01:53:31,517 --> 01:53:33,768
Come on, boys.
Let's go.
1748
01:54:08,512 --> 01:54:11,097
No... no... no.
1749
01:54:11,265 --> 01:54:13,558
No... no.
1750
01:54:21,483 --> 01:54:23,568
Shh.
It's okay.
1751
01:54:31,326 --> 01:54:32,410
It's okay.
1752
01:54:32,578 --> 01:54:34,120
It's okay, now.
1753
01:54:34,288 --> 01:54:36,122
It's okay.
1754
01:54:39,543 --> 01:54:42,879
Mr. Brigance, you may call
your first witness.
1755
01:54:43,047 --> 01:54:47,759
Yes, Your Honor. Defense calls
Dr. Willard Tyrell Bass.
1756
01:54:52,473 --> 01:54:54,932
Buddy, have you seen Roark?
Not yet.
1757
01:54:59,730 --> 01:55:02,398
Doctor, would you explain to
the jury...
1758
01:55:02,566 --> 01:55:06,360
the effect his daughter's rape
had on Mr. Hailey's condition?
1759
01:55:06,779 --> 01:55:08,905
Tonya's rape caused a relapse...
1760
01:55:09,073 --> 01:55:11,240
a temporary break with reality.
1761
01:55:11,909 --> 01:55:14,952
But yesterday, a Dr. Rodeheaver...
1762
01:55:15,120 --> 01:55:18,164
suggested that Mr. Hailey's
act of calculation was...
1763
01:55:18,332 --> 01:55:20,083
the very definition of sanity.
1764
01:55:20,250 --> 01:55:22,335
That's ridiculous.
1765
01:55:22,503 --> 01:55:26,339
Many of the most famous
schizophrenics are calculating.
1766
01:55:26,507 --> 01:55:28,341
John Hinckley, for example.
1767
01:55:28,509 --> 01:55:29,550
Calculating.
1768
01:55:29,718 --> 01:55:31,219
And legally insane.
1769
01:55:31,553 --> 01:55:34,388
All right, so, Dr. Bass, how
would you diagnose Mr. Hailey...
1770
01:55:34,556 --> 01:55:35,890
at the time of the murder?
1771
01:55:36,058 --> 01:55:40,353
Mr. Hailey experienced a recurrence
of a dissociative condition...
1772
01:55:40,521 --> 01:55:44,398
as a result of the trauma caused
by the rape of his daughter.
1773
01:55:44,817 --> 01:55:48,361
Now, since Mr. Hailey was unaware
of the reality of his actions...
1774
01:55:48,529 --> 01:55:50,905
he could not tell right from
wrong.
1775
01:55:51,073 --> 01:55:54,408
Nor could he understand the
consequences of his actions.
1776
01:55:54,576 --> 01:55:57,787
He was, therefore, legally
insane.
1777
01:55:59,373 --> 01:56:00,957
Could not tell right from wrong...
1778
01:56:01,125 --> 01:56:04,001
nor understand the consequences
of his actions.
1779
01:56:04,545 --> 01:56:07,505
Therefore, legally, insane.
1780
01:56:08,173 --> 01:56:12,051
Thank you, Dr. Bass. Your Honor,
I have no further questions.
1781
01:56:12,636 --> 01:56:13,803
Mr. Buckley?
1782
01:56:15,597 --> 01:56:17,849
Mr. Buckley.
Yes?
1783
01:56:18,475 --> 01:56:19,725
Your witness.
1784
01:56:20,686 --> 01:56:23,521
Oh. I'm sorry, excuse me.
Thank you, Your Honor.
1785
01:56:25,232 --> 01:56:27,650
Good morning.
Good morning.
1786
01:56:27,818 --> 01:56:32,572
Dr. Bass, could you please state
for the record your full name?
1787
01:56:32,739 --> 01:56:35,074
Willard Tyrell Bass.
1788
01:56:35,242 --> 01:56:38,452
Tyrell Bass.
That's a very unique name.
1789
01:56:39,079 --> 01:56:44,000
Now, doctor, have you ever
been convicted of a felony?
1790
01:56:44,168 --> 01:56:45,459
No, of course not.
1791
01:56:45,627 --> 01:56:47,795
You're certain?
Yes.
1792
01:56:47,963 --> 01:56:50,086
As certain of that as you are
of the testimony you've just...
1793
01:56:50,186 --> 01:56:52,495
given before this jury?
1794
01:56:52,759 --> 01:56:53,759
Of course.
1795
01:56:53,927 --> 01:56:56,345
So, let me understand this,
now...
1796
01:56:56,513 --> 01:56:58,890
since you are under oath.
1797
01:56:59,433 --> 01:57:03,978
You're telling me, and this jury,
that on October 17th, 1960...
1798
01:57:04,146 --> 01:57:06,480
you were not convicted of
statutory rape?
1799
01:57:06,648 --> 01:57:07,982
Objection, Your Honor!
1800
01:57:10,027 --> 01:57:11,444
Dr. Bass is not on trial here.
1801
01:57:11,612 --> 01:57:14,322
This goes to the heart of the
credibility of the witness.
1802
01:57:14,489 --> 01:57:17,950
Overruled. Continue, Mr. Buckley.
Thank you.
1803
01:57:18,118 --> 01:57:20,077
Now, doctor...
1804
01:57:21,288 --> 01:57:23,414
were you convicted of statutory
rape?
1805
01:57:23,957 --> 01:57:25,708
You've got the wrong man.
1806
01:57:25,876 --> 01:57:27,084
Really?
1807
01:57:27,252 --> 01:57:29,629
I have some mighty interesting
photographs of you...
1808
01:57:29,796 --> 01:57:32,215
taken with a female under-age...
1809
01:57:32,382 --> 01:57:33,907
in a motel, by the Dallas
Police Department...
1810
01:57:34,095 --> 01:57:36,347
on September 11th, 1960.
1811
01:57:36,447 --> 01:57:39,117
Would you like to look at these
visual images...
1812
01:57:39,217 --> 01:57:42,438
and see if they refresh your
memory?
1813
01:57:44,269 --> 01:57:45,603
No, I didn't think so.
1814
01:57:45,771 --> 01:57:47,464
Your Honor, we would like to
enter into evidence...
1815
01:57:47,564 --> 01:57:49,622
these court and police records...
1816
01:57:49,733 --> 01:57:55,529
showing that on September 15th,
1960, this man, one Tyrell Bass...
1817
01:57:55,697 --> 01:57:59,242
pled guilty to statutory rape.
1818
01:57:59,409 --> 01:58:02,036
Now, doctor, I'm gonna ask you
one last time...
1819
01:58:02,204 --> 01:58:06,916
were you, or were you not,
convicted of statutory rape?
1820
01:58:07,542 --> 01:58:08,729
Well, I can explain...
1821
01:58:08,829 --> 01:58:10,276
I'm not interested in your
explanation, doctor.
1822
01:58:10,376 --> 01:58:12,421
Just answer the question,
yes or no.
1823
01:58:14,800 --> 01:58:16,175
Yes.
Yes, I was.
1824
01:58:22,474 --> 01:58:24,058
That's enough.
1825
01:58:24,226 --> 01:58:26,519
I have nothing further, your
Honor.
1826
01:58:30,315 --> 01:58:32,358
Redirect, Mr. Brigance?
1827
01:58:34,778 --> 01:58:35,861
None, Your Honor.
1828
01:58:36,029 --> 01:58:38,906
Court will recess one hour
for lunch.
1829
01:58:39,199 --> 01:58:41,701
You told me you knew him, he
was a credible witness.
1830
01:58:41,868 --> 01:58:43,869
I didn't know about the conviction.
The record was expunged.
1831
01:58:44,037 --> 01:58:46,163
Buckley really outdid himself
this time.
1832
01:58:46,331 --> 01:58:48,916
Damn.
Lucien, I was counting on you.
1833
01:58:49,084 --> 01:58:51,168
And I can't win...
You wanted this case.
1834
01:58:51,336 --> 01:58:52,378
Well, you got it.
1835
01:58:52,546 --> 01:58:54,551
It isn't easy saving the world
one case at a time...
1836
01:58:54,651 --> 01:58:56,055
but you stick with it.
1837
01:58:56,383 --> 01:58:57,623
You might just have a knack
for it.
1838
01:58:57,723 --> 01:58:59,709
Don't do what I did.
Don't quit.
1839
01:58:59,761 --> 01:59:01,595
What are you talking
about, quit?
1840
01:59:01,763 --> 01:59:04,432
You're a hero, Lucien.
Oh, hero, my ass.
1841
01:59:04,599 --> 01:59:06,462
D'you think the world needed me
beating cops' heads...
1842
01:59:06,562 --> 01:59:07,819
on that picket line?
1843
01:59:08,228 --> 01:59:12,148
I was needed here, in that
courtroom.
1844
01:59:12,482 --> 01:59:13,566
And I let them push me.
1845
01:59:13,734 --> 01:59:15,943
I gave them an excuse to kick
me out...
1846
01:59:16,111 --> 01:59:18,946
and now I can never plead a
case in there, again.
1847
01:59:19,114 --> 01:59:20,573
But you can.
1848
01:59:20,741 --> 01:59:22,074
You're an attorney.
1849
01:59:22,242 --> 01:59:23,576
Be proud.
1850
01:59:23,744 --> 01:59:25,335
Your job is to find justice...
1851
01:59:25,435 --> 01:59:28,339
no matter how well she may
hide herself from you.
1852
01:59:29,374 --> 01:59:31,334
So, you go on in there...
1853
01:59:31,501 --> 01:59:32,918
and you do your job.
1854
01:59:34,421 --> 01:59:35,880
Hurry up, now.
1855
01:59:36,048 --> 01:59:38,341
They'll be starting without
you.
1856
01:59:42,929 --> 01:59:44,096
Come with me.
1857
01:59:45,932 --> 01:59:47,224
I can't, Jake.
1858
01:59:49,061 --> 01:59:50,770
I love you...
1859
01:59:50,937 --> 01:59:52,063
but I can't.
1860
01:59:52,606 --> 01:59:53,647
You know that.
1861
01:59:53,815 --> 01:59:56,817
I'll never go in another
courtroom again.
1862
01:59:57,527 --> 01:59:58,986
And I can't be you, Lucien.
1863
02:00:00,238 --> 02:00:02,448
Don't be me.
1864
02:00:02,616 --> 02:00:04,950
Be better than me.
1865
02:00:07,245 --> 02:00:10,706
All rise for the Honorable
Judge Omar Noose.
1866
02:00:20,592 --> 02:00:22,843
And how did you feel?
1867
02:00:23,512 --> 02:00:25,888
I felt, um...
1868
02:00:28,517 --> 02:00:30,601
I don't know.
1869
02:00:32,187 --> 02:00:34,772
It was like I was outside
myself...
1870
02:00:34,940 --> 02:00:37,233
watching myself.
1871
02:00:38,193 --> 02:00:42,279
And all the while I kept hearing
my baby say:
1872
02:00:42,781 --> 02:00:45,324
"I called for you, Daddy.
1873
02:00:45,492 --> 02:00:47,372
When them men was hurting me...
1874
02:00:47,541 --> 02:00:51,867
I called for you over and over,
but...
1875
02:00:52,165 --> 02:00:54,500
"you didn't never come."
1876
02:01:00,674 --> 02:01:02,675
Thank you, Mr. Hailey.
1877
02:01:03,468 --> 02:01:06,178
I have no further questions,
Your Honor.
1878
02:01:07,681 --> 02:01:09,223
You have an emergency phone call.
1879
02:01:09,391 --> 02:01:10,433
Mr. Buckley?
1880
02:01:18,817 --> 02:01:20,693
Mr. Hailey...
1881
02:01:21,862 --> 02:01:23,389
before you stepped outside of
yourself...
1882
02:01:23,489 --> 02:01:25,964
to watch yourself shoot Mr. Willard
and Mr. Cobb...
1883
02:01:26,814 --> 02:01:29,070
were you aware that if convicted...
1884
02:01:29,170 --> 02:01:31,479
they might be freed in only ten
years?
1885
02:01:31,614 --> 02:01:33,497
Yes, I heard people say that.
Yes, sir.
1886
02:01:33,665 --> 02:01:35,183
Do you think men who kidnap
a child...
1887
02:01:35,283 --> 02:01:37,434
should be free in ten years?
No, sir.
1888
02:01:37,559 --> 02:01:38,935
Do you think two men who rape
a child...
1889
02:01:39,035 --> 02:01:40,961
should be free in ten years?
No, sir.
1890
02:01:41,061 --> 02:01:42,488
Do you think two men who hang
a child...
1891
02:01:42,588 --> 02:01:45,194
should be free in ten years?
No.
1892
02:01:45,229 --> 02:01:46,199
Well, what do you think should
happen to them?
1893
02:01:46,299 --> 02:01:47,266
What would be a fair sentence?
1894
02:01:47,301 --> 02:01:48,099
Objection, your Honor!
Do you think they...
1895
02:01:48,199 --> 02:01:49,484
deserve to die, Mr. Hailey?
Your honor?
1896
02:01:49,584 --> 02:01:50,385
Answer the question.
Now, Mr. Buckley...
1897
02:01:50,485 --> 02:01:51,298
Carl Lee, don't answer...
Do you think...
1898
02:01:51,398 --> 02:01:52,373
that question!
they deserved to die?
1899
02:01:52,508 --> 02:01:55,352
Yes, they deserved to die, and
I hope they burn in hell!
1900
02:02:11,578 --> 02:02:14,330
I have nothing further, Your
Honor.
1901
02:02:17,959 --> 02:02:20,794
Summations begin tomorrow.
1902
02:02:22,506 --> 02:02:24,215
Court adjourned.
1903
02:02:31,097 --> 02:02:34,141
Jake, they found Roark.
1904
02:02:55,830 --> 02:02:57,456
Ellen...
Hmm.
1905
02:03:03,880 --> 02:03:05,381
Ellen.
1906
02:03:06,967 --> 02:03:08,884
So...
1907
02:03:10,011 --> 02:03:12,680
this is what I had to do to
get you to call me "Ellen"?
1908
02:03:15,308 --> 02:03:16,517
I'm so sorry.
1909
02:03:16,685 --> 02:03:18,477
This is all my fault.
1910
02:03:18,645 --> 02:03:19,979
No.
1911
02:03:20,146 --> 02:03:22,773
Don't sweat it, really.
1912
02:03:23,775 --> 02:03:26,527
They didn't... they didn't hurt
anything that won't heal.
1913
02:03:26,695 --> 02:03:28,362
Nothing.
1914
02:03:29,823 --> 02:03:32,950
Besides, um, Dr., uh...
1915
02:03:34,160 --> 02:03:36,954
what's-his-name said I'll be
out in a couple days...
1916
02:03:37,122 --> 02:03:38,247
so, I'm fine.
1917
02:03:42,335 --> 02:03:43,627
How'd we do?
1918
02:03:45,547 --> 02:03:48,465
Bass turned out to be a felon.
1919
02:03:49,259 --> 02:03:52,970
Carl Lee got trapped on the
stand by Buckley.
1920
02:03:55,849 --> 02:03:58,601
People been terrorized, Roark.
1921
02:03:58,768 --> 02:04:00,519
Beaten.
1922
02:04:02,439 --> 02:04:04,815
Killed.
It...
1923
02:04:05,400 --> 02:04:07,151
it's not worth it.
It's not.
1924
02:04:09,738 --> 02:04:13,407
It's only not worth it if Carl
Lee goes to the gas chamber.
1925
02:04:16,953 --> 02:04:20,080
Listen, this case is not over
until the summation.
1926
02:04:20,248 --> 02:04:22,291
Remember that.
1927
02:04:22,667 --> 02:04:24,209
Okay?
1928
02:04:25,503 --> 02:04:29,381
And you've got one big fat
chance...
1929
02:04:30,300 --> 02:04:31,467
to reinvent yourself.
1930
02:04:32,344 --> 02:04:34,289
To make that jury see this whole
case...
1931
02:04:34,389 --> 02:04:37,732
this whole case through your
eyes.
1932
02:04:44,397 --> 02:04:45,773
And they're good eyes.
1933
02:04:51,237 --> 02:04:53,530
Now, get out of here, go to
work.
1934
02:04:55,659 --> 02:04:57,117
I'll keep in touch with you.
1935
02:04:57,535 --> 02:04:58,869
No, you won't.
1936
02:04:59,037 --> 02:05:00,579
Big liar.
1937
02:05:10,465 --> 02:05:12,925
Win or lose, Roark...
1938
02:05:14,302 --> 02:05:16,178
we make one hell of a team.
1939
02:05:17,555 --> 02:05:19,682
We might have.
1940
02:05:20,767 --> 02:05:22,726
We really might have.
1941
02:05:27,023 --> 02:05:29,900
You really want to kiss me
right now, don't you?
1942
02:05:31,486 --> 02:05:33,612
Yes, I do.
1943
02:05:55,468 --> 02:05:56,593
Undecided?
1944
02:05:59,222 --> 02:06:00,848
Guilty?
1945
02:06:39,220 --> 02:06:42,014
Hey, Max.
Hey.
1946
02:06:49,189 --> 02:06:50,314
Where's Hannah?
1947
02:06:50,482 --> 02:06:53,108
I left her at mother and daddy's.
1948
02:06:54,736 --> 02:06:55,903
How did you get here?
1949
02:06:56,529 --> 02:06:57,905
Drove.
1950
02:06:58,531 --> 02:07:00,032
In the storm?
1951
02:07:02,368 --> 02:07:05,704
Got something to say, it needs
to be said in person.
1952
02:07:10,418 --> 02:07:14,004
The truth is, I've been blaming
you for all that's happened.
1953
02:07:16,925 --> 02:07:19,843
But it's not your fault.
You didn't kill those boys.
1954
02:07:25,350 --> 02:07:27,351
You were trying to make things
right.
1955
02:07:29,521 --> 02:07:31,563
I know that now.
1956
02:07:37,320 --> 02:07:40,113
I thought you took this case
because you wanted to prove...
1957
02:07:40,281 --> 02:07:42,908
what a bigtime lawyer you were.
1958
02:07:43,701 --> 02:07:45,786
But I was wrong.
1959
02:07:49,415 --> 02:07:52,251
You took this case because...
1960
02:07:52,418 --> 02:07:54,628
if those boys...
1961
02:07:57,006 --> 02:08:01,802
had hurt Hannah the way that
they hurt Tonya...
1962
02:08:01,970 --> 02:08:03,887
you would've killed
them yourself.
1963
02:08:06,933 --> 02:08:08,642
Baby.
1964
02:08:11,062 --> 02:08:13,856
Baby, come here.
1965
02:08:14,023 --> 02:08:15,858
Come here.
1966
02:08:18,319 --> 02:08:20,654
I love you, Jake.
1967
02:08:22,073 --> 02:08:24,449
I thought I was gonna lose you.
1968
02:08:49,100 --> 02:08:51,810
We're gonna lose this case,
Carl Lee.
1969
02:08:54,355 --> 02:08:56,562
There are no more points of
law to argue, here.
1970
02:08:56,662 --> 02:08:58,687
I wanna cop a plea.
1971
02:09:00,486 --> 02:09:02,404
Maybe Buckley will cop us...
1972
02:09:02,572 --> 02:09:05,949
a second-degree murder and we
can get you just life in prison.
1973
02:09:07,785 --> 02:09:11,496
Jake, I... I can't do no life
in prison.
1974
02:09:11,664 --> 02:09:14,082
You gotta get me off.
Man, if it was you on trial...
1975
02:09:14,250 --> 02:09:15,918
It's not me.
1976
02:09:16,836 --> 02:09:18,211
We're not the same, Carl Lee.
1977
02:09:21,132 --> 02:09:24,384
The jury has to identify with
the defendant.
1978
02:09:24,552 --> 02:09:26,303
They see you, they see
a yard worker.
1979
02:09:26,471 --> 02:09:28,666
They see me, they see an attorney.
1980
02:09:28,766 --> 02:09:30,916
I live in town, you live on the
hill.
1981
02:09:31,051 --> 02:09:33,685
Oh, you white and I'm black.
1982
02:09:36,147 --> 02:09:37,856
See, Jake?
1983
02:09:38,232 --> 02:09:40,442
You think just like them.
1984
02:09:41,527 --> 02:09:43,904
That's why I picked you.
1985
02:09:44,906 --> 02:09:47,574
You're one of them, don't you
see?
1986
02:09:47,742 --> 02:09:50,077
You think you ain't, because
you eat in Claude's...
1987
02:09:50,244 --> 02:09:52,520
and you're out there trying
to get me off on TV...
1988
02:09:52,620 --> 02:09:54,758
talking about black and white.
1989
02:09:55,124 --> 02:09:57,084
But the fact is...
1990
02:09:57,251 --> 02:09:59,962
you're just like all the rest
of them.
1991
02:10:00,129 --> 02:10:03,090
When you look at me, you don't
see a man.
1992
02:10:03,257 --> 02:10:05,175
You see a black man.
1993
02:10:06,010 --> 02:10:09,429
Carl Lee, I am your friend.
1994
02:10:09,597 --> 02:10:11,348
We ain't no friends, Jake.
1995
02:10:12,642 --> 02:10:15,644
We're on different sides of
the line.
1996
02:10:15,812 --> 02:10:18,319
I ain't never seen you in my
part of town.
1997
02:10:18,419 --> 02:10:21,303
I bet you don't even know
where I live.
1998
02:10:22,026 --> 02:10:25,070
Our daughters, Jake, they ain't
never gonna play together.
1999
02:10:25,238 --> 02:10:27,614
Now, what are you talking about?
2000
02:10:29,867 --> 02:10:33,078
America is a war...
2001
02:10:33,246 --> 02:10:35,539
and you are on the other side.
2002
02:10:37,291 --> 02:10:40,127
How a black man ever gonna get
a fair trial...
2003
02:10:40,294 --> 02:10:43,296
with the enemy on the bench
and the jury box?
2004
02:10:43,464 --> 02:10:46,925
My life in white hands.
2005
02:10:47,176 --> 02:10:48,260
You, Jake.
2006
02:10:48,970 --> 02:10:50,887
That's how.
2007
02:10:51,055 --> 02:10:55,267
You my secret weapon because
you're one of the bad guys.
2008
02:10:55,435 --> 02:10:58,311
You don't mean to be, but
you are.
2009
02:10:58,479 --> 02:11:00,772
It's how you was raised.
2010
02:11:00,940 --> 02:11:05,277
Nigger, negro, black, African
American.
2011
02:11:05,445 --> 02:11:07,571
No matter how you see me...
2012
02:11:07,739 --> 02:11:10,449
you see me as different.
2013
02:11:10,616 --> 02:11:13,952
You see me like that jury
sees me.
2014
02:11:14,120 --> 02:11:15,912
You are them.
2015
02:11:16,706 --> 02:11:19,708
Now, throw out your points of
law, Jake.
2016
02:11:20,543 --> 02:11:24,796
If you was on that jury...
2017
02:11:24,964 --> 02:11:29,593
what would it take to convince
you to set me free?
2018
02:11:32,013 --> 02:11:34,973
That's how you'll save my ass.
2019
02:11:35,558 --> 02:11:37,726
That's how you'll save us both.
2020
02:11:42,273 --> 02:11:46,777
Is Carl Lee Hailey insane?
2021
02:11:47,653 --> 02:11:50,072
It's a notion so outrageous...
2022
02:11:50,239 --> 02:11:54,576
the only witness the defense
could produce to support it...
2023
02:11:54,744 --> 02:11:56,745
was a convicted felon.
2024
02:11:57,497 --> 02:12:00,123
No. Carl Lee Hailey is
not insane.
2025
02:12:00,291 --> 02:12:03,543
This is a man who is a
confessed murderer.
2026
02:12:04,796 --> 02:12:09,633
This is a man who admitted
on this stand...
2027
02:12:09,801 --> 02:12:13,011
to carrying out the sentences he
believed the alleged rapists...
2028
02:12:13,179 --> 02:12:15,180
of his daughter deserved.
2029
02:12:15,348 --> 02:12:17,682
He's taken justice out of
your hands.
2030
02:12:20,436 --> 02:12:21,770
And put it in his own.
2031
02:12:22,605 --> 02:12:27,275
And with those hands, he took
the lives of two young men.
2032
02:12:30,363 --> 02:12:33,490
We feel terrible over what
happened to his daughter.
2033
02:12:33,991 --> 02:12:35,742
But feeling terrible...
2034
02:12:35,910 --> 02:12:40,288
and knowing something is wrong
does not give any of us...
2035
02:12:40,790 --> 02:12:42,415
a right to kill.
2036
02:12:44,043 --> 02:12:46,253
Ladies and gentlemen, your
duty is clear.
2037
02:12:49,340 --> 02:12:52,050
All in this courtroom know
the truth.
2038
02:12:52,468 --> 02:12:55,512
All in this state know the
truth.
2039
02:12:56,430 --> 02:13:01,351
Now you need only find the
courage to speak the words:
2040
02:13:01,727 --> 02:13:05,397
"Carl Lee Hailey is guilty."
2041
02:13:06,399 --> 02:13:09,109
Guilty!
Guilty!
2042
02:13:11,404 --> 02:13:13,780
The State rests, Your Honor.
2043
02:13:29,589 --> 02:13:33,383
Now, I had a great summation
all worked out...
2044
02:13:33,593 --> 02:13:36,136
full of some sharp lawyering.
2045
02:13:37,388 --> 02:13:38,722
But I'm not going to read it.
2046
02:13:40,141 --> 02:13:41,808
I'm here to apologize.
2047
02:13:41,976 --> 02:13:45,437
I am young, and I am inexperienced.
2048
02:13:46,063 --> 02:13:51,026
But you cannot hold Carl Lee
Hailey responsible...
2049
02:13:51,485 --> 02:13:53,028
for my shortcomings.
2050
02:13:54,238 --> 02:13:56,907
But you see, in all this
legal maneuvering...
2051
02:13:57,074 --> 02:13:59,451
something has gotten lost.
2052
02:13:59,619 --> 02:14:02,329
And that something is the truth.
2053
02:14:06,125 --> 02:14:08,296
Now, it is incumbent upon us
lawyers...
2054
02:14:08,396 --> 02:14:10,450
not to just talk about the
truth...
2055
02:14:10,796 --> 02:14:14,549
but to actually seek it, to
find it, to live it.
2056
02:14:16,260 --> 02:14:17,761
My teacher taught me that.
2057
02:14:20,181 --> 02:14:22,140
Let's take Dr. Bass, for example.
2058
02:14:22,767 --> 02:14:24,240
Obviously, I would've never
knowingly...
2059
02:14:24,340 --> 02:14:25,913
put a convicted felon on the
stand.
2060
02:14:26,013 --> 02:14:27,729
I hope you can believe that.
2061
02:14:28,189 --> 02:14:29,648
But what is the truth?
2062
02:14:29,815 --> 02:14:32,734
That... that he's a disgraced
liar?
2063
02:14:32,902 --> 02:14:34,819
What if I told you...
2064
02:14:34,987 --> 02:14:37,354
that the woman he was accused
of raping was seventeen...
2065
02:14:37,454 --> 02:14:38,804
he was twenty-three...
2066
02:14:38,939 --> 02:14:41,701
that she later became his wife,
bore his child...
2067
02:14:41,869 --> 02:14:43,495
and is still married to the
man, today?
2068
02:14:43,663 --> 02:14:47,666
Does that make his testimony
more, or less true?
2069
02:14:51,963 --> 02:14:53,755
What is it in us that seeks
the truth?
2070
02:14:55,341 --> 02:14:57,259
Is it our minds?
2071
02:14:57,885 --> 02:14:59,386
Or is it our hearts?
2072
02:15:03,266 --> 02:15:04,434
I set out to prove a black man...
2073
02:15:04,534 --> 02:15:06,509
could receive a fair trial in the
South...
2074
02:15:06,609 --> 02:15:09,980
that we are all equal in the
eyes of the law.
2075
02:15:11,691 --> 02:15:13,275
That's not the truth.
2076
02:15:13,442 --> 02:15:15,694
Because the eyes of the law
are human eyes...
2077
02:15:15,861 --> 02:15:19,823
yours and mine, and until we
can see each other as equals...
2078
02:15:19,991 --> 02:15:22,325
justice is never going to be
even-handed.
2079
02:15:22,493 --> 02:15:23,599
It will remain nothing more...
2080
02:15:23,699 --> 02:15:26,546
than a reflection of our own
prejudices.
2081
02:15:26,646 --> 02:15:29,040
So, until that day...
2082
02:15:29,208 --> 02:15:32,460
we have a duty under God to
seek the truth...
2083
02:15:34,338 --> 02:15:36,464
not with our eyes, and not
with our minds...
2084
02:15:36,632 --> 02:15:40,218
where fear and hate turn
commonality into prejudice...
2085
02:15:40,386 --> 02:15:42,595
but with our hearts.
2086
02:15:42,888 --> 02:15:45,223
Where we don't know better.
2087
02:15:49,562 --> 02:15:51,980
Now, I wanna tell you a story.
2088
02:15:53,733 --> 02:15:56,443
And I ask you all to close
your eyes...
2089
02:15:58,070 --> 02:16:00,322
while I tell you this story.
2090
02:16:03,784 --> 02:16:04,868
I want you to listen to me.
2091
02:16:04,968 --> 02:16:07,680
And I want you to listen to
yourselves.
2092
02:16:11,709 --> 02:16:14,627
Go ahead.
Close your eyes, please.
2093
02:16:19,800 --> 02:16:22,594
This is a story about a little
girl...
2094
02:16:23,512 --> 02:16:27,265
walking home from the grocery
store, one sunny afternoon.
2095
02:16:28,601 --> 02:16:30,685
I want you to picture this
little girl.
2096
02:16:34,106 --> 02:16:36,524
Suddenly, a truck races up.
2097
02:16:38,277 --> 02:16:39,861
Two men jump out and grab her.
2098
02:16:42,490 --> 02:16:45,617
Drag her into a nearby field...
2099
02:16:48,496 --> 02:16:49,871
and they tie her up.
2100
02:16:53,751 --> 02:16:55,752
And they rip her clothes from
her body.
2101
02:16:58,589 --> 02:17:00,882
Now they climb on.
2102
02:17:01,759 --> 02:17:03,968
First one, then the other.
2103
02:17:05,971 --> 02:17:07,055
Raping her.
2104
02:17:12,019 --> 02:17:16,981
Shattering everything innocent
and pure with a vicious thrust...
2105
02:17:17,983 --> 02:17:21,361
in a fog of drunken breath
and sweat.
2106
02:17:25,282 --> 02:17:27,200
And when they're done...
2107
02:17:28,327 --> 02:17:31,413
after they've killed her tiny
womb...
2108
02:17:33,582 --> 02:17:36,876
murdered any chance for her
to bear children...
2109
02:17:37,044 --> 02:17:39,712
to have life beyond her own...
2110
02:17:43,175 --> 02:17:45,301
they decide to use her for
target practice.
2111
02:17:48,180 --> 02:17:51,349
So, they start throwing full
beer cans at her.
2112
02:17:53,352 --> 02:17:55,687
They throw them so hard...
2113
02:17:56,355 --> 02:17:59,816
that it tears the flesh, all
the way to her bones.
2114
02:18:05,990 --> 02:18:07,615
Then they urinate on her.
2115
02:18:12,371 --> 02:18:13,746
Now comes the hanging.
2116
02:18:18,719 --> 02:18:20,753
They have a rope.
2117
02:18:21,357 --> 02:18:23,882
They tie a noose.
2118
02:18:25,050 --> 02:18:28,386
Imagine the noose coiling tight
around her neck...
2119
02:18:28,929 --> 02:18:31,556
and a sudden blinding jerk.
2120
02:18:32,641 --> 02:18:35,518
She's pulled into the air and
her feet and legs go kicking...
2121
02:18:35,686 --> 02:18:37,437
they don't find the ground.
2122
02:18:39,607 --> 02:18:41,483
The hanging branch...
2123
02:18:41,650 --> 02:18:43,610
isn't strong enough.
2124
02:18:45,279 --> 02:18:47,906
It snaps and she falls...
2125
02:18:48,282 --> 02:18:49,616
back to the earth.
2126
02:18:53,621 --> 02:18:55,622
So, they pick her up...
2127
02:18:56,749 --> 02:18:59,083
throw her in the back of the
truck...
2128
02:19:00,920 --> 02:19:04,088
drive out to Foggy Creek Bridge...
2129
02:19:04,924 --> 02:19:06,299
pitch her over the edge.
2130
02:19:09,512 --> 02:19:14,390
And she drops some 30 feet down
to the creek bottom, below.
2131
02:19:21,899 --> 02:19:23,775
Can you see her?
2132
02:19:27,571 --> 02:19:29,239
Her raped...
2133
02:19:29,406 --> 02:19:31,157
beaten...
2134
02:19:31,325 --> 02:19:33,535
broken body...
2135
02:19:36,622 --> 02:19:38,998
soaked in their urine...
2136
02:19:39,625 --> 02:19:41,960
soaked in their semen...
2137
02:19:43,963 --> 02:19:45,797
soaked in her blood.
2138
02:19:46,799 --> 02:19:48,675
Left to die.
2139
02:19:51,679 --> 02:19:53,555
Can you see her?
2140
02:19:57,560 --> 02:19:59,811
I want you to picture...
2141
02:20:01,605 --> 02:20:03,523
that little girl.
2142
02:20:22,251 --> 02:20:24,085
Now imagine she's white.
2143
02:20:46,233 --> 02:20:48,026
The defense rests, Your Honor.
2144
02:21:18,390 --> 02:21:19,974
Innocent!
He's innocent!
2145
02:21:20,142 --> 02:21:21,726
Innocent!
He's innocent!
2146
02:21:21,894 --> 02:21:23,061
Hailey's innocent!
2147
02:21:30,736 --> 02:21:31,861
He's innocent!
2148
02:21:42,373 --> 02:21:44,207
We won!
We won!
2149
02:21:44,375 --> 02:21:46,626
Ellen, we won!
Aren't you happy?
2150
02:21:46,794 --> 02:21:49,390
Oh, my God, Ellen, you have
to be happy.
2151
02:21:49,458 --> 02:21:52,579
He's innocent.
Carl Lee is innocent.
2152
02:21:54,009 --> 02:21:55,343
He's coming home.
2153
02:21:55,511 --> 02:21:56,803
Jake.
2154
02:21:58,097 --> 02:21:59,931
That was...
2155
02:22:00,641 --> 02:22:02,475
that was...
2156
02:22:03,686 --> 02:22:06,020
Hey, I'm one of the bad guys,
remember?
2157
02:22:08,649 --> 02:22:11,943
Thank you.
Thanks.
2158
02:22:21,662 --> 02:22:23,913
Freddie Lee Cobb!
2159
02:22:26,625 --> 02:22:29,043
We got something to talk about.
2160
02:22:29,211 --> 02:22:30,753
Hastings...
2161
02:22:30,921 --> 02:22:33,506
you belong over there with
them.
2162
02:22:35,134 --> 02:22:36,968
Get over.
2163
02:22:48,647 --> 02:22:50,523
Congratulations, counselor.
2164
02:22:50,691 --> 02:22:52,316
Thank you.
2165
02:23:13,756 --> 02:23:16,048
You must be overwhelmed right
now.
2166
02:23:45,204 --> 02:23:47,288
Give me...
After you...
2167
02:23:47,456 --> 02:23:48,831
Yeah.
2168
02:23:51,627 --> 02:23:53,753
Was I good or what?
All right.
2169
02:24:04,598 --> 02:24:05,932
Here you go, girl.
2170
02:24:06,099 --> 02:24:09,644
Carl Lee... look.
What?
2171
02:24:33,544 --> 02:24:35,044
Well.
2172
02:24:35,212 --> 02:24:36,254
Hello.
2173
02:24:36,421 --> 02:24:37,505
Hi.
Hi there.
2174
02:24:37,673 --> 02:24:39,090
Hannah, this is Miss Hailey.
2175
02:24:39,258 --> 02:24:40,299
This is Hannah.
Hi.
2176
02:24:40,467 --> 02:24:43,427
Hi, Hannah. Ain't she so pretty?
Thank you.
2177
02:24:43,595 --> 02:24:46,222
Brought you some peach cobbler.
Oh, thank you.
2178
02:24:46,390 --> 02:24:48,266
Come on in.
Come in.
2179
02:24:50,060 --> 02:24:51,686
Howdy.
2180
02:25:01,446 --> 02:25:03,865
Hannah, this is my daughter,
Tonya.
2181
02:25:04,032 --> 02:25:07,201
Hi, Tonya.
Hi, nice to meet you, Hannah.
2182
02:25:10,747 --> 02:25:12,832
Just thought our kids could
play together.
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