1 00:00:07,638 --> 00:00:18,838 A Time To Kill - Thriller 1996 English 2 00:01:19,662 --> 00:01:21,455 [MAN 1] Yeah! Go, buddy, go! 3 00:01:21,623 --> 00:01:22,915 [MEN LAUGHING] 4 00:01:23,083 --> 00:01:25,834 [MAN 2] That baby's going scared. Ha-ha-ha. 5 00:01:27,003 --> 00:01:29,046 [MAN 1] Whoo! Yeah! 6 00:01:29,214 --> 00:01:31,256 Hell, yeah! 7 00:01:31,424 --> 00:01:33,926 - Excited, yeah? - Go, baby! Ooh! 8 00:01:34,094 --> 00:01:36,637 [MAN 1] Yeah! 9 00:01:38,098 --> 00:01:41,100 [MEN CHATTERING] 10 00:01:45,021 --> 00:01:46,355 I don't wanna do nothing... 11 00:01:46,523 --> 00:01:49,775 [TIRES SKIDDING AND MEN LAUGHING] 12 00:01:50,944 --> 00:01:52,694 We got her, bro. Here we go. 13 00:01:52,862 --> 00:01:54,238 [BILLY RAY] Give me one. 14 00:01:54,656 --> 00:01:55,989 Get them, get them, get them. 15 00:01:56,157 --> 00:01:57,366 Hey, boys! 16 00:01:57,534 --> 00:01:58,826 How y'all doing today? 17 00:01:58,993 --> 00:02:01,537 What are you looking at? You wanna get shot? 18 00:02:01,704 --> 00:02:03,831 You wanna get shot? Woo-hoo! 19 00:02:05,416 --> 00:02:07,334 [PETE] Go, baby! 20 00:02:08,253 --> 00:02:10,337 - Got it! - Pearl Harbor! Pearl Harbor! 21 00:02:15,927 --> 00:02:18,470 [PETE AND BILLY RAY LAUGHING] 22 00:02:19,389 --> 00:02:21,223 [PETE] Hey! 23 00:02:22,559 --> 00:02:24,226 And here's another one. 24 00:02:24,394 --> 00:02:25,978 Watch this, Billy Ray! 25 00:02:26,146 --> 00:02:27,187 Hundred points! 26 00:02:27,730 --> 00:02:29,731 Yeah! 27 00:02:38,741 --> 00:02:40,742 - It's a beautiful day, isn't it? - [TONYA] Uh-huh. 28 00:02:59,220 --> 00:03:00,929 [BOTTLE BREAKS] 29 00:03:06,644 --> 00:03:08,562 - Bye, Tonya. - [TONYA] Bye. 30 00:03:19,407 --> 00:03:21,158 [BILLY RAY] Clean up that mess, boy. 31 00:03:22,952 --> 00:03:24,453 - Pete, hungry? - Huh? 32 00:03:24,621 --> 00:03:27,164 Hey. Ha-ha-ha. 33 00:03:27,790 --> 00:03:30,876 - Oh, you're not having anything? - Yeah, I'm having them. 34 00:03:33,213 --> 00:03:34,963 Course, it's shit. 35 00:03:35,256 --> 00:03:37,096 [JAKE] Bye, girls. [WOMAN AND GIRL] Bye, Daddy. 36 00:03:37,133 --> 00:03:38,926 [JAKE] Let's go, Max. 37 00:03:41,429 --> 00:03:43,972 Get in the house, pup. Harry Rex. 38 00:03:44,140 --> 00:03:48,143 All those weekends, fishing, drinking, lounging 39 00:03:48,311 --> 00:03:51,813 opportunities lost to do-it-yourself house renovations. 40 00:03:51,981 --> 00:03:55,150 - Tragic, just tragic, Jake. - Yeah. 41 00:03:56,653 --> 00:03:58,528 Makes Carla happy, my man. 42 00:03:58,696 --> 00:04:01,740 Spent four marriages trying to figure out what makes women happy. 43 00:04:01,908 --> 00:04:03,367 You have spent four marriages 44 00:04:03,534 --> 00:04:06,411 trying to figure out what makes you happy, who you kidding? 45 00:04:06,579 --> 00:04:08,705 Oh, yeah. Maybe that's it. 46 00:04:08,873 --> 00:04:10,165 Yeah, maybe. 47 00:04:10,333 --> 00:04:13,126 - Swiggy? - Lord, please let my car be fixed today. 48 00:04:13,294 --> 00:04:15,128 [HARRY REX] Oh, dear. 49 00:04:30,603 --> 00:04:31,645 Hey, who's that? 50 00:04:34,691 --> 00:04:36,692 She looks a little young. 51 00:04:36,859 --> 00:04:38,902 - Hold this. - What are you gonna do? 52 00:04:39,070 --> 00:04:42,823 You know how I say if they're old enough to crawl, they're in the right position. 53 00:04:42,991 --> 00:04:45,492 What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? You crazy. 54 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,875 [PETE] Whoo! Yeah! Fifty points! [BILLY RAY] Ha-ha-ha. 55 00:04:54,043 --> 00:04:55,377 [PETE] Yeah, you good, boy. 56 00:04:55,545 --> 00:04:56,545 [TONYA SCREAMS] 57 00:04:56,713 --> 00:04:58,171 [BILLY RAY] Shut up! 58 00:04:58,589 --> 00:05:00,674 [TONYA] Daddy! [BILLY RAY] Hey! 59 00:05:03,970 --> 00:05:05,595 - Shut up. - [TONYA] Daddy! 60 00:05:05,763 --> 00:05:07,723 Shut up. 61 00:05:08,308 --> 00:05:09,766 - I'll kill you. - [PETE] My turn. 62 00:05:12,437 --> 00:05:14,730 [TONYA CRYING] Daddy! [PETE] Shut up. 63 00:05:15,064 --> 00:05:16,898 [TONYA] Daddy. 64 00:05:18,484 --> 00:05:19,651 [TONYA SCREAMS] 65 00:05:19,819 --> 00:05:21,194 [PETE] Yeah. 66 00:05:24,699 --> 00:05:25,866 [CHILDREN] Mom! Mama! 67 00:05:26,034 --> 00:05:28,660 Mom! Mama! 68 00:05:28,828 --> 00:05:30,579 Mom! 69 00:05:33,791 --> 00:05:35,667 Mama! 70 00:05:36,544 --> 00:05:38,086 Mom. 71 00:05:38,755 --> 00:05:40,255 [CHILDREN SPEAKING lNDISTINCTLY] 72 00:05:40,423 --> 00:05:42,632 - What is this? - CHILDREN [IN UNISON]: Groceries. 73 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,594 - Y'all didn't see her? - [CHILDREN] No, ma'am. 74 00:05:54,103 --> 00:05:55,645 Carl Lee! Stop! 75 00:05:55,813 --> 00:05:59,274 - You got a call from your wife! - What? What? 76 00:06:05,281 --> 00:06:08,283 [INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE] 77 00:06:22,423 --> 00:06:24,424 [JAKE HUMMING] 78 00:06:26,761 --> 00:06:28,845 [JAKE] How many appointments do we have today, Ethel? 79 00:06:29,013 --> 00:06:31,264 [ETHEL] Not a one. 80 00:06:31,641 --> 00:06:34,601 But it is the 1st of the month again and guess what. 81 00:06:34,769 --> 00:06:39,022 The checks are pouring in and we have enough money to pay all our past debts. 82 00:06:39,190 --> 00:06:41,608 That'll be your last drink. 83 00:06:41,776 --> 00:06:44,903 Just keep us no more than one month behind on any vendor, please. 84 00:06:45,071 --> 00:06:46,947 Why, you have been drinking. 85 00:06:47,115 --> 00:06:48,156 Two months. 86 00:06:48,324 --> 00:06:50,409 Well, these are the most delinquent. 87 00:06:50,576 --> 00:06:52,744 The rent's in there. 88 00:06:52,912 --> 00:06:58,208 I appreciate the practice, capitán, I do, but you could've left me a couple of clients. 89 00:07:05,508 --> 00:07:08,009 GWEN [CRYING]: Baby, here's Daddy. 90 00:07:12,181 --> 00:07:14,558 Oh, no. 91 00:07:16,978 --> 00:07:20,188 I'm here, baby. Daddy's here. 92 00:07:20,356 --> 00:07:24,192 [TONYA] Daddy, I'm sorry I dropped the groceries. 93 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,196 - That's all right, baby. It's all right, baby. - I'm sorry, Daddy. 94 00:07:28,364 --> 00:07:30,198 [CARL LEE] That's all right. 95 00:07:56,225 --> 00:07:57,809 Look at this. 96 00:08:25,463 --> 00:08:26,546 [SHERIFF] Billy Ray? 97 00:08:27,381 --> 00:08:32,052 Sorry, sir, but we don't allow no African-Americans in here. Ha, ha. 98 00:08:32,220 --> 00:08:35,222 Billy Ray Cobb, you and Mr. Willard need to come with me. 99 00:08:36,140 --> 00:08:37,599 Hell, no. I ain't moving. 100 00:08:37,767 --> 00:08:40,810 You know that little girl you took for a ride? [BILLY RAY] Mm. 101 00:08:40,978 --> 00:08:44,231 - What little girl? - I got bad news for you. She didn't die. 102 00:08:44,607 --> 00:08:48,693 So unless there's another redneck asshole got a souped-up yellow pickup 103 00:08:48,861 --> 00:08:51,279 with a Confederate flag in the windshield... 104 00:08:51,447 --> 00:08:54,908 Blue gums, why don't you take your black ass out of here and grab a branch. 105 00:08:55,076 --> 00:08:59,120 Unless you got an explanation for what this was doing in the bed of your truck 106 00:09:00,122 --> 00:09:02,624 you're going to jail. Now, get up. 107 00:09:03,668 --> 00:09:05,627 You can go to hell, nigger. 108 00:09:05,795 --> 00:09:08,255 - Unh! Goddamn! - [MAN] Hey! 109 00:09:08,422 --> 00:09:10,674 [BILLY RAY GRUNTING] 110 00:09:12,468 --> 00:09:15,387 Now, you earned the right to remain silent. 111 00:09:15,846 --> 00:09:18,598 - Here you go, just the way you like them. - Thank you. 112 00:09:18,766 --> 00:09:21,434 - Dell, sugar, today I'm gonna have... - DELL: Go to hell, Harry. 113 00:09:21,602 --> 00:09:24,020 On second thought, I'm just gonna watch baby eat his. 114 00:09:24,188 --> 00:09:26,231 I am not the one who handled her divorce. 115 00:09:26,399 --> 00:09:28,316 Can't she see I'm shrivelling away here? 116 00:09:28,484 --> 00:09:29,943 I'm shrivelling. 117 00:09:30,111 --> 00:09:32,737 - Say, Jake? - Yeah, what's up, Dwayne? 118 00:09:33,406 --> 00:09:36,324 Didn't you defend Billy Ray Cobb few years back? 119 00:09:37,660 --> 00:09:39,703 What kind of case was it? 120 00:09:39,870 --> 00:09:41,329 Caught him selling dope. 121 00:09:41,497 --> 00:09:43,665 Spent time in Parchman. Got out last year. 122 00:09:44,333 --> 00:09:46,918 No, I think some Memphis lawyer handled that. 123 00:09:47,086 --> 00:09:48,753 Why do you ask? 124 00:09:48,921 --> 00:09:51,506 Well, we picked him up for rape. Him and Pete Willard. 125 00:09:51,674 --> 00:09:52,841 Who'd they rape? 126 00:09:54,468 --> 00:09:56,011 You know Carl Lee Hailey? 127 00:09:56,387 --> 00:09:58,305 Sure, I defended his brother Lester. 128 00:10:00,558 --> 00:10:02,392 It was his little girl. 129 00:10:05,438 --> 00:10:06,563 Little Tonya? 130 00:10:07,982 --> 00:10:09,733 Yeah. 131 00:10:12,028 --> 00:10:13,111 How old is she? 132 00:10:14,780 --> 00:10:16,364 She's 10. 133 00:10:58,949 --> 00:11:01,826 Mr. Willard, I'm Sheriff Ozzie Walls. 134 00:11:02,536 --> 00:11:05,205 My mama voted for you. 135 00:11:06,707 --> 00:11:08,750 I seen you play for the Rams. 136 00:11:11,045 --> 00:11:14,798 Way I figure, a nigger sheriff's okay, been on TV and all. 137 00:11:17,718 --> 00:11:19,010 No of fence. 138 00:11:22,348 --> 00:11:23,848 [SHERIFF] What's your full name? 139 00:11:24,016 --> 00:11:26,434 James Lewis Willard. 140 00:11:29,939 --> 00:11:33,525 Four, which is a difference of 110.60. 141 00:11:33,693 --> 00:11:36,027 [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING] 142 00:11:36,946 --> 00:11:38,780 Who's there? 143 00:11:57,633 --> 00:11:59,467 Carl Lee. 144 00:12:04,932 --> 00:12:06,725 How is she? 145 00:12:07,685 --> 00:12:09,811 [CARL LEE] She holding on. 146 00:12:10,813 --> 00:12:13,606 Doctor says she ain't out of the woods yet, though. 147 00:12:21,157 --> 00:12:23,867 They worked her over something good, Jake. 148 00:12:31,333 --> 00:12:35,754 You remember them four white boys raped that little black girl in the Delta last year? 149 00:12:38,257 --> 00:12:39,340 Yeah. 150 00:12:39,508 --> 00:12:41,342 They, uh... 151 00:12:41,510 --> 00:12:43,052 They got off, didn't they? 152 00:12:45,431 --> 00:12:46,931 Yeah. 153 00:12:51,604 --> 00:12:53,563 Jake 154 00:12:54,023 --> 00:12:56,691 I was in a jam, you'd help me out, wouldn't you? 155 00:12:58,944 --> 00:13:00,862 Sure, Carl Lee. 156 00:13:03,073 --> 00:13:04,908 What kind of jam you talking about? 157 00:13:05,951 --> 00:13:08,244 You got a daughter, Jake. 158 00:13:08,412 --> 00:13:10,288 What would you do? 159 00:13:20,966 --> 00:13:22,926 Dream some good dreams, baby girl. 160 00:13:23,260 --> 00:13:25,720 Good night, Daddy. 161 00:13:26,013 --> 00:13:27,889 [WHISPERS] Night, baby. 162 00:13:43,572 --> 00:13:45,615 - Is she asleep? - Yeah. 163 00:13:45,825 --> 00:13:48,535 - Is she the sweetest thing? - Yeah, she is. 164 00:13:48,702 --> 00:13:50,703 Next to you. 165 00:13:51,247 --> 00:13:55,750 Tell you what, I look at her, though, and I cannot help but think about little Tonya. 166 00:13:57,419 --> 00:13:59,087 Don't. 167 00:14:01,924 --> 00:14:04,008 Don't do that to yourself. 168 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:05,844 Yeah. 169 00:14:10,057 --> 00:14:11,099 Something else wrong? 170 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:14,519 Tonya's father 171 00:14:14,687 --> 00:14:16,771 Carl Lee Hailey 172 00:14:16,939 --> 00:14:18,273 came by the office today. 173 00:14:20,526 --> 00:14:23,278 Man's heart is torn wide open, baby. 174 00:14:23,445 --> 00:14:25,029 I don't know, but 175 00:14:25,197 --> 00:14:28,032 sounded to me like he was thinking about doing something. 176 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:29,242 Like what? 177 00:14:30,953 --> 00:14:32,996 Something like maybe killing those two boys. 178 00:14:33,622 --> 00:14:34,956 Was he serious? 179 00:14:38,919 --> 00:14:41,129 I don't know. I don't know. 180 00:14:41,297 --> 00:14:43,965 It could've been just the hurt talking, you know? 181 00:14:44,466 --> 00:14:48,136 But when you think that it's possible that those two animals could 182 00:14:48,304 --> 00:14:50,179 go free, 183 00:14:51,098 --> 00:14:53,474 and be walking the streets... 184 00:14:55,978 --> 00:14:57,604 I. 185 00:14:58,355 --> 00:14:59,647 I don't know. 186 00:15:01,650 --> 00:15:05,528 After what that man has been through, he's probably capable of anything. 187 00:15:06,822 --> 00:15:09,240 Somebody should do something. 188 00:15:09,825 --> 00:15:11,492 You should call Sheriff Walls. 189 00:15:13,078 --> 00:15:14,662 Yeah. 190 00:16:10,094 --> 00:16:13,262 To release the owner from assessment. 191 00:16:16,642 --> 00:16:21,062 I hope I'm having a heart attack because then I'd get to sue you. 192 00:16:21,230 --> 00:16:23,898 Don't stand on ceremony, come on in. 193 00:16:24,066 --> 00:16:26,067 What? No clients? 194 00:16:26,235 --> 00:16:29,070 Just waiting to pick yours up on appeal, Harry. 195 00:16:29,238 --> 00:16:32,573 And you, are you on vacation? 196 00:16:33,158 --> 00:16:35,284 Fortunately for me, my lovely 197 00:16:35,452 --> 00:16:37,745 divorce doesn't go on vacation. 198 00:16:38,122 --> 00:16:39,580 However 199 00:16:39,748 --> 00:16:43,334 not even the richest, most ridiculous settlement I ever bring in 200 00:16:43,502 --> 00:16:46,295 is gonna be as satisfying as watching those two hyenas 201 00:16:46,463 --> 00:16:49,966 across the street get what's coming to them. 202 00:16:54,388 --> 00:16:55,638 Oh, dear. 203 00:16:58,434 --> 00:17:02,478 You know I'm a fool for those, um, German-type convertibles. 204 00:17:02,646 --> 00:17:04,063 [CHUCKLES] 205 00:17:04,231 --> 00:17:06,274 Come on, lover boy, let's get to court. 206 00:17:06,442 --> 00:17:09,360 Lucien thinks the two hyenas just might get off. 207 00:17:09,528 --> 00:17:11,112 You saw Lucien? 208 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:12,905 When? Where? 209 00:17:13,073 --> 00:17:14,157 How is he? 210 00:17:14,324 --> 00:17:16,200 Has he been eating any better? 211 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:20,496 Just curious. 212 00:17:20,664 --> 00:17:22,999 Um, Miss Ethel 213 00:17:23,167 --> 00:17:27,378 refresh my recollection, how long were you and Lucien together for exactly? 214 00:17:27,546 --> 00:17:28,755 We were never together. 215 00:17:28,922 --> 00:17:31,007 I was his secretary for 20 years. 216 00:17:31,175 --> 00:17:32,967 Come on, old girl. 217 00:17:33,135 --> 00:17:35,636 - You can tell us, you know. - He was your boyfriend. 218 00:17:35,804 --> 00:17:39,724 I am an upstanding, God-fearing, respectable Southern woman 219 00:17:39,892 --> 00:17:44,020 with unimpeachable morals who has been happily married for 27 years. 220 00:17:44,188 --> 00:17:48,107 And I have never had or ever will have any boyfriend. 221 00:17:48,275 --> 00:17:49,776 And if I did 222 00:17:49,943 --> 00:17:55,031 it certainly would not be that old pickled scoundrel Lucien Wilbanks. 223 00:17:57,826 --> 00:17:59,243 [DOOR SLAMS] 224 00:17:59,411 --> 00:18:02,121 She did him. Oh, yeah, a lot. 225 00:18:08,879 --> 00:18:11,172 [DWAYNE] All right, Billy Ray, step on back. 226 00:18:11,965 --> 00:18:14,258 Come on out. Willard. 227 00:18:17,179 --> 00:18:19,180 All right, boys, today's your big day. 228 00:18:19,348 --> 00:18:21,224 We're gonna take a trip to the courthouse. 229 00:18:21,391 --> 00:18:23,059 The judge is gonna set your bail. 230 00:18:23,227 --> 00:18:26,020 Then we're gonna come back here, all nice and peaceful-like. 231 00:18:26,188 --> 00:18:31,067 I get any trouble out of you, I'm going to integrate this jail. 232 00:19:00,639 --> 00:19:01,973 [INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE] 233 00:19:57,446 --> 00:20:00,865 [HANNAH] Mama, Daddy's home! Daddy's home! 234 00:20:01,533 --> 00:20:04,327 [CARLA] Hannah girl, let's go inside for a minute. 235 00:20:04,494 --> 00:20:07,038 Give Daddy some time to himself. 236 00:20:07,206 --> 00:20:10,791 - Let's, let's find a book, okay? - [HANNAH] I wanna see Daddy. 237 00:20:10,959 --> 00:20:12,418 [CARLA] Honey? 238 00:20:41,907 --> 00:20:46,535 Jake? Jake? Are you hurt? Jake, what happened to you? 239 00:20:46,703 --> 00:20:49,538 Jake, honey, are you okay? What happened to you? 240 00:20:49,706 --> 00:20:53,000 What is this? What is going on with you? What happened? 241 00:20:53,168 --> 00:20:55,044 Jake, baby. 242 00:20:56,046 --> 00:20:58,256 What happened? 243 00:20:58,423 --> 00:21:01,425 [SIRENS WAILING] 244 00:21:31,415 --> 00:21:33,541 [CRYING] Okay, okay. 245 00:21:49,641 --> 00:21:50,683 See you, Gwen. 246 00:22:04,781 --> 00:22:06,657 [WOMAN] Is the sheriff gonna make a statement? 247 00:22:06,825 --> 00:22:08,705 [HASTINGS] He might, he might not. I don't know. 248 00:22:08,785 --> 00:22:11,412 [MAN] Is it first-degree murder? [HASTINGS] I'm not sure yet. 249 00:22:11,580 --> 00:22:13,581 [WOMAN] What happened? Can you tell us something? 250 00:22:13,749 --> 00:22:16,959 - [MAN] Sheriff, will you give us a statement. - I got no comment. No comment. 251 00:22:17,127 --> 00:22:20,087 Hey. Hey, Jake. Hey, Jake, Carl Lee said you'd be coming. 252 00:22:20,255 --> 00:22:22,615 [WOMAN] Sir, are you an attorney? [MAN] Are you an attorney? 253 00:22:22,716 --> 00:22:26,093 Now, I'll make a statement. I want y'all to get these vans out of here. 254 00:22:26,261 --> 00:22:28,512 [WOMAN] Sir, we've gotta get something for our newscast. 255 00:22:39,691 --> 00:22:42,693 [DOOR LOCKING] 256 00:22:48,325 --> 00:22:50,117 Didn't think I'd do it, did you? 257 00:22:53,872 --> 00:22:55,706 How you holding up? 258 00:22:59,961 --> 00:23:03,464 I ain't had nothing against them boys till they messed with my baby. 259 00:23:04,383 --> 00:23:08,594 And I feel sorry for their mamas and their daddies, but 260 00:23:09,304 --> 00:23:11,263 I ain't sorry for what I done. 261 00:23:14,518 --> 00:23:15,643 How's Looney? 262 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,272 You blew his knee right off his leg. 263 00:23:21,149 --> 00:23:23,484 Doctors are still with him. 264 00:23:27,447 --> 00:23:28,948 What's gonna happen to me now? 265 00:23:30,450 --> 00:23:32,743 There's gonna be a preliminary hearing. 266 00:23:32,911 --> 00:23:35,204 Probably tomorrow. 267 00:23:35,664 --> 00:23:37,832 After that, Buckley will push for a fast trial. 268 00:23:38,834 --> 00:23:39,959 Who's Buckley? 269 00:23:40,127 --> 00:23:41,627 Rufus Buckley. 270 00:23:41,795 --> 00:23:42,837 District attorney. 271 00:23:43,004 --> 00:23:47,007 He's mean, he's ambitious, and he's gonna eat this up because of the publicity. 272 00:23:47,175 --> 00:23:48,968 But you've done beat him, ain't you? 273 00:23:49,469 --> 00:23:51,137 Yeah. 274 00:23:51,513 --> 00:23:53,139 Not in a murder case. 275 00:23:57,018 --> 00:23:58,477 Think I can win? 276 00:23:59,354 --> 00:24:01,730 All depends on the jury, Carl Lee. 277 00:24:02,858 --> 00:24:04,733 Pick the right jury, and you walk. 278 00:24:06,194 --> 00:24:08,195 DA picks the jury, 279 00:24:08,363 --> 00:24:09,655 and you get the gas. 280 00:24:13,201 --> 00:24:14,827 Well, how much...? 281 00:24:14,995 --> 00:24:16,996 How much a case like this cost? 282 00:24:20,041 --> 00:24:21,417 Probably 50 grand. 283 00:24:21,585 --> 00:24:23,502 [SIGHS] 284 00:24:23,670 --> 00:24:26,630 I can pay maybe 10. 285 00:24:28,550 --> 00:24:30,301 [CARL LEE SIGHS] 286 00:24:33,472 --> 00:24:38,559 Well, not a lot of white lawyers would've took my brother Lester's case. 287 00:24:39,060 --> 00:24:41,562 You did and got him off. 288 00:24:42,397 --> 00:24:47,985 I figure there's a lot of people out there tired of all the raping and killing. 289 00:24:48,153 --> 00:24:52,114 They'd be sympathetic to a man who took the law into his own hands 290 00:24:52,282 --> 00:24:53,991 even if he is black. 291 00:25:01,249 --> 00:25:05,169 You said you'd help me out if I was in a jam, Jake. 292 00:25:05,587 --> 00:25:08,214 Well, I'm in one now. 293 00:25:09,424 --> 00:25:10,549 What you say? 294 00:25:13,178 --> 00:25:16,222 [MAN] What can you tell us, sheriff? [WOMAN] Can you tell us what happened? 295 00:25:16,389 --> 00:25:19,058 - Are you with the police department? - No, I am a lawyer. 296 00:25:19,226 --> 00:25:21,018 Are you Carl Lee Hailey's attorney? 297 00:25:21,978 --> 00:25:24,438 Sir, are you Mr. Hailey's attorney? 298 00:25:24,606 --> 00:25:25,773 Yes, I am. 299 00:25:25,941 --> 00:25:28,192 - What's your name, sir? - Brigance. Jake Brigance. 300 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:29,693 That's with one G. 301 00:25:37,327 --> 00:25:38,786 [MAN] Hailey's hired an attorney. 302 00:25:39,496 --> 00:25:40,538 Jake Brigance. 303 00:25:41,039 --> 00:25:43,332 [RUFUS CHUCKLING] 304 00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:46,502 And today ain't even my birthday. 305 00:25:46,670 --> 00:25:50,047 Brigance couldn't tie his own tie without that old drunk Wilbanks. 306 00:25:50,215 --> 00:25:52,174 Telling the press he never lost a murder case. 307 00:25:52,342 --> 00:25:54,468 Well, he's never tried one against me, has he? 308 00:25:54,636 --> 00:25:57,137 - What time's the preliminary? - Tomorrow at 3. 309 00:25:57,305 --> 00:25:59,098 Judge Omar Noose presiding. 310 00:25:59,724 --> 00:26:02,142 Oh, I was wrong. It is my birthday. 311 00:26:02,519 --> 00:26:06,105 All right. First things first, Brigance will file for a change of venue. 312 00:26:06,273 --> 00:26:09,316 - Guy would be a fool if he didn't. - Why's that? 313 00:26:09,818 --> 00:26:10,943 Why? 314 00:26:11,111 --> 00:26:13,445 Should we tell our young, uninformed law clerk 315 00:26:13,613 --> 00:26:15,781 the reality of jurisprudence in this county? 316 00:26:15,949 --> 00:26:20,077 Evelyn, get me the state file on race statistics. 317 00:26:20,245 --> 00:26:21,870 You see, Taylor, it's quite simple. 318 00:26:22,038 --> 00:26:25,124 This county's 26-, 30-percent black, give or take. 319 00:26:25,292 --> 00:26:29,420 Almost every other county is 40-, 45-, in some cases 70-percent black. 320 00:26:29,588 --> 00:26:31,714 Blacks are more sympathetic to other blacks. 321 00:26:31,881 --> 00:26:34,967 If he gets it moved, he has a greater chance of colour in the jury. 322 00:26:35,135 --> 00:26:36,218 We know what that means. 323 00:26:36,386 --> 00:26:39,555 But if the trial stays here, it's an all-white jury for sure. 324 00:26:39,723 --> 00:26:41,348 Now, Taylor, this is for you 325 00:26:41,850 --> 00:26:44,393 to integrate your brain with before 3:00 tomorrow. 326 00:26:44,561 --> 00:26:46,895 - [TAYLOR] Yes. - He means without blacks on the jury 327 00:26:47,063 --> 00:26:49,064 Hailey hasn't got a chance in hell. 328 00:26:49,232 --> 00:26:52,359 - [RUFUS] All right, Noose is up for re-elect? - Yeah, November. 329 00:26:52,527 --> 00:26:54,612 Reach out to our friends in the legislature. 330 00:26:54,779 --> 00:26:58,407 Have them call on Noose. We're gonna help him decide to keep this case in Canton. 331 00:26:58,575 --> 00:27:02,411 Also, send a case of whatever it is he's drinking these days to Lucien Wilbanks. 332 00:27:02,579 --> 00:27:06,081 - I believe that's Dewars. - Keep that old drunk on the sidelines. 333 00:27:06,249 --> 00:27:07,333 Yeah, get me Sam. 334 00:27:07,500 --> 00:27:09,251 [RUFUS] And, gentlemen? 335 00:27:10,545 --> 00:27:13,756 No mistakes. This is the one we've been waiting for. 336 00:27:14,549 --> 00:27:17,384 [LUCIEN] Justifiable homicide will never hold up. 337 00:27:17,552 --> 00:27:20,179 [JAKE] Then my only chance is to find a shrink who'll testify 338 00:27:20,347 --> 00:27:22,765 Carl Lee was insane at the time of the murders. 339 00:27:23,058 --> 00:27:27,227 Well, I might know a man who owes me a favour. 340 00:27:27,896 --> 00:27:31,482 - You'll file for change of venue. - Of course. 341 00:27:32,567 --> 00:27:35,235 Judge Noose denies it 342 00:27:35,403 --> 00:27:38,906 then you'll get an all-white jury and you'll lose. 343 00:27:39,366 --> 00:27:40,824 Thank you for the encouragement. 344 00:27:40,992 --> 00:27:45,913 Well, bear in mind that Mr. Hailey is as guilty as sin under our legal system. 345 00:27:46,081 --> 00:27:51,919 It does not permit vigilante violence, and he took the law into his own hands. 346 00:27:52,087 --> 00:27:54,588 He murdered two people. 347 00:27:55,256 --> 00:27:59,635 Two people who had raped his 10-year-old daughter. 348 00:28:01,763 --> 00:28:03,138 You know 349 00:28:03,306 --> 00:28:05,557 you can win this case, 350 00:28:05,725 --> 00:28:07,893 and justice will prevail. 351 00:28:08,061 --> 00:28:09,645 But lose, 352 00:28:09,813 --> 00:28:14,191 and justice will also prevail. Now, that's a strange case. 353 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:15,984 Yeah. 354 00:28:17,779 --> 00:28:19,988 I could use your help. 355 00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:25,411 The sons of bitches decertified me, Jake. 356 00:28:25,578 --> 00:28:28,956 I swore I will never enter another courtroom ever. 357 00:28:29,124 --> 00:28:32,543 Lucien, you're the best lawyer I've ever seen. 358 00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:35,713 Now, I know how much it hurt when they took your license away, 359 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,340 but they can't take your mind unless you let them. 360 00:28:39,634 --> 00:28:40,843 Good speech. 361 00:28:41,010 --> 00:28:43,137 Well, I had a good teacher. 362 00:28:43,304 --> 00:28:46,265 Now, you remember when I came to you out of law school? 363 00:28:47,058 --> 00:28:48,851 In a ridiculous blue suit. 364 00:28:49,018 --> 00:28:50,394 Yeah. 365 00:28:50,562 --> 00:28:54,982 Now, you sat me down and you said to me, Young man, I cannot promise you riches. 366 00:28:55,316 --> 00:28:58,819 What I can offer you is a chance to save the world 367 00:28:58,987 --> 00:29:00,404 one case at a time. 368 00:29:03,408 --> 00:29:06,660 Well, I'm saying the same words back to you right now. 369 00:29:08,079 --> 00:29:09,204 How about it, Lucien? 370 00:29:12,709 --> 00:29:15,502 [MINISTER] The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. 371 00:29:15,670 --> 00:29:18,797 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. 372 00:29:18,965 --> 00:29:21,508 He leadeth me beside still waters. 373 00:29:21,676 --> 00:29:25,345 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death 374 00:29:25,513 --> 00:29:29,850 I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. 375 00:29:30,018 --> 00:29:32,853 Thy rod and thy staff comfort me. 376 00:29:33,188 --> 00:29:36,398 Thou preparest a table before me... 377 00:29:36,566 --> 00:29:39,151 Sure am sorry about your brother, Freddie. 378 00:29:40,111 --> 00:29:41,904 Old Willard too. 379 00:29:42,071 --> 00:29:44,406 Good boys, both. 380 00:29:49,162 --> 00:29:52,206 Ten years ago, that nigger would be hanging by the end of a rope 381 00:29:52,373 --> 00:29:54,291 with his balls in his mouth. 382 00:29:54,459 --> 00:29:56,627 You tell me what's wrong with this country. 383 00:29:57,378 --> 00:29:58,921 Klan would know what to do. 384 00:30:00,048 --> 00:30:02,007 My granddaddy, he was Klan. 385 00:30:03,092 --> 00:30:07,054 - Ain't no Klan around here for years. - Oh, there's still some boys around. 386 00:30:07,222 --> 00:30:09,515 Them skinheads who want to blow up the government? 387 00:30:09,682 --> 00:30:12,810 No, sir. Good God-fearing Klan. 388 00:30:15,188 --> 00:30:17,606 I got a friend, used to be active. 389 00:30:17,774 --> 00:30:18,899 I could give him a call. 390 00:30:20,735 --> 00:30:22,778 You do that, Winston. 391 00:30:22,946 --> 00:30:25,823 You tell them boys we need some Klan down here in Canton. 392 00:30:25,990 --> 00:30:28,033 I mean right quick. 393 00:30:31,412 --> 00:30:32,454 [CARLA] Hurry up, honey. 394 00:30:32,622 --> 00:30:34,122 [JAKE] Coming, coming, coming. 395 00:30:34,290 --> 00:30:37,530 [MAN ON TV] Something you can tell us? [WOMAN ON TV] What did Carl Lee tell you? 396 00:30:37,585 --> 00:30:39,211 [JAKE] There's Ozzie. 397 00:30:40,588 --> 00:30:44,758 - To our family's television debut. - To the big time. 398 00:30:45,385 --> 00:30:49,137 I cannot believe he didn't take you seriously when you warned him. 399 00:30:49,305 --> 00:30:52,683 Well, baby, you know, some folks think those boys got what they deserved. 400 00:30:52,851 --> 00:30:56,186 Here, sweet pea. Carl Lee Hailey may very well spend his life in prison. 401 00:30:56,354 --> 00:30:58,146 That is nothing his family deserves. 402 00:30:58,314 --> 00:30:59,606 - Yeah. - You did call Ozzie... 403 00:30:59,774 --> 00:31:02,442 - Look it here. Look who's... - [CARLA] Daddy's on TV. 404 00:31:02,610 --> 00:31:06,572 I intend to show the men and women of the South to look past colour and see the truth. 405 00:31:06,739 --> 00:31:11,159 That here in the South... In the new South, justice is and will be colour-blind. 406 00:31:12,537 --> 00:31:13,579 [PHONE RINGING] 407 00:31:13,746 --> 00:31:16,290 - Impressive. Honey, that was really good. - Hmm? 408 00:31:16,457 --> 00:31:18,834 - Isn't Daddy smart? - [HANNAH] Mm-hm. 409 00:31:19,002 --> 00:31:20,460 Yeah. Brigance. 410 00:31:20,628 --> 00:31:21,795 - Mm-hm. - That was great. 411 00:31:21,963 --> 00:31:24,047 Yeah. No, we just saw it. 412 00:31:24,215 --> 00:31:25,549 All right, Harry Rex. Yeah. 413 00:31:25,717 --> 00:31:26,925 Baby, I'm proud of you. 414 00:31:27,093 --> 00:31:28,135 [PHONE RINGS] 415 00:31:28,303 --> 00:31:29,636 - Good stuff, huh? - Mm-hm. 416 00:31:29,804 --> 00:31:32,014 - You hear this? - Put it on speaker phone. 417 00:31:32,181 --> 00:31:34,057 Don't be gross. 418 00:31:34,434 --> 00:31:37,561 - Ahem. F. Lee Bailey's office. - [MAN OVER PHONE] Brigance. 419 00:31:37,729 --> 00:31:42,482 You nigger-loving son-of-a-bitch, you won't live if the nigger walks. 420 00:31:42,650 --> 00:31:45,319 Hey, hey. Hey. 421 00:31:46,112 --> 00:31:48,155 [WOMAN] Do you have any sympathy for the defence? 422 00:31:48,323 --> 00:31:51,325 Well, of course I do, Stephanie. You're a mother, I'm a father. 423 00:31:51,492 --> 00:31:54,286 We all have families. Who wouldn't? 424 00:31:54,454 --> 00:31:56,788 Don't presume the district attorney is insensitive. 425 00:31:56,956 --> 00:31:58,999 But the people of the state of Mississippi 426 00:31:59,167 --> 00:32:01,752 entrusted this office to uphold the law of the land. 427 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,130 Our society cannot condone men who take the law into their own hands. 428 00:32:05,298 --> 00:32:06,548 No matter the circumstance. 429 00:32:06,716 --> 00:32:09,384 If you get a conviction, will you ask for the gas chamber? 430 00:32:09,552 --> 00:32:12,179 Yes, I will seek the death penalty for Mr. Hailey. 431 00:32:12,347 --> 00:32:14,181 [WOMAN] What do you think of Mr. Brigance? 432 00:32:14,349 --> 00:32:16,391 Isn't that boy still in law school? 433 00:32:16,559 --> 00:32:18,644 Say hey to your husband for me, Kim. That's all. 434 00:32:18,811 --> 00:32:21,188 [REPORTERS CHATTERING] 435 00:32:33,368 --> 00:32:36,203 Hey, Cora Mae, don't you worry. Hey, Wayne, how are you? 436 00:32:36,371 --> 00:32:37,955 [MAN] Good luck. 437 00:32:39,540 --> 00:32:42,584 You plead him guilty today, I'll ask for life. Otherwise, he dies. 438 00:32:42,752 --> 00:32:46,338 You drop your case now, and I won't bury you before the entire county, Rufus. 439 00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:49,007 All rise. 440 00:32:50,843 --> 00:32:54,513 Court is in session. The Honourable Omar Noose presiding. 441 00:32:54,681 --> 00:32:57,057 Good afternoon, citizens. 442 00:32:59,143 --> 00:33:00,727 Be seated. 443 00:33:00,895 --> 00:33:02,479 Counsel. 444 00:33:02,647 --> 00:33:04,231 And you, sir. 445 00:33:04,399 --> 00:33:06,900 - Are you Carl Lee Hailey? - Yes, sir. 446 00:33:07,068 --> 00:33:11,071 Uh, Mr. Hailey, I am holding a copy of an indictment returned 447 00:33:11,239 --> 00:33:14,741 by the grand jury of Mississippi presenting that: 448 00:33:14,909 --> 00:33:19,621 Carl Lee Hailey did murder Billy Ray Cobb, a human being, 449 00:33:19,789 --> 00:33:22,624 and James Lewis Willard, a human being, 450 00:33:22,792 --> 00:33:26,837 and did attempt to kill Dwayne Looney, a peace officer 451 00:33:27,005 --> 00:33:30,048 against the peace and dignity of the state of Mississippi. 452 00:33:30,466 --> 00:33:32,926 Now, do you understand the charges against you? 453 00:33:33,386 --> 00:33:35,971 - Yes, sir. - How do you wish to plead? 454 00:33:38,599 --> 00:33:39,850 Not guilty, Your Honour. 455 00:33:41,060 --> 00:33:44,479 The defence enters a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, Your Honour. 456 00:33:44,647 --> 00:33:46,648 Your trial is set for July 22. 457 00:33:46,816 --> 00:33:51,111 All pretrial motions and matters should be filed no later than July 8. 458 00:33:51,279 --> 00:33:52,881 - Is there anything further? - [RUFUS] Yes. 459 00:33:52,905 --> 00:33:55,032 Your Honour, in response to the insanity plea 460 00:33:55,199 --> 00:33:58,285 the state requests the defendant be examined by its own doctors. 461 00:33:58,453 --> 00:33:59,453 Request granted. 462 00:33:59,620 --> 00:34:02,748 Additionally, the state opposes any request for bail. 463 00:34:02,915 --> 00:34:04,833 Your Honour, we haven't yet asked for bail. 464 00:34:05,001 --> 00:34:07,961 Now, Governor Buckley cannot oppose a request until one is made. 465 00:34:08,129 --> 00:34:10,005 He should've learned that in law school. 466 00:34:10,173 --> 00:34:13,759 Your Honour, even Mr. Brigance's meager legal experience 467 00:34:13,926 --> 00:34:18,096 should've taught him two things. One, I have not been elected governor yet. 468 00:34:18,264 --> 00:34:21,141 And number two, he is required to request bail. 469 00:34:21,309 --> 00:34:22,934 The state opposes any such request. 470 00:34:23,102 --> 00:34:26,480 In the future, why don't we just wait till he makes the request, huh? 471 00:34:26,731 --> 00:34:27,939 [JAKE] Thank you, Your Honour. 472 00:34:28,107 --> 00:34:30,650 - Your Honour, we would like to request bail. - Denied. 473 00:34:31,778 --> 00:34:34,196 I have never allowed bail in a capital-murder case, 474 00:34:34,363 --> 00:34:37,699 and don't feel that an exception is called for today. 475 00:34:37,867 --> 00:34:38,992 Good enough. 476 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,244 We will be filing for a change of venue. 477 00:34:41,412 --> 00:34:42,829 I anticipated this. 478 00:34:42,997 --> 00:34:45,582 Let me save you some time, Mr. Brigance. 479 00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:47,250 Your motion is denied. 480 00:34:47,418 --> 00:34:49,336 [JAKE] Your Honour, we have not yet filed. 481 00:34:49,504 --> 00:34:53,381 We are simply indicating our intent to file in writing by letting you 482 00:34:53,549 --> 00:34:55,842 I said, request denied. 483 00:34:56,552 --> 00:34:57,928 Your Honour 484 00:34:58,096 --> 00:35:01,306 how can you summarily deny this request? 485 00:35:01,474 --> 00:35:04,810 It is quite clear that Carl Lee Hailey cannot receive a fair trial here. 486 00:35:04,977 --> 00:35:07,437 - Now, we feel... - That's enough. Sidebar. 487 00:35:07,605 --> 00:35:09,022 Your Honour, we have a right 488 00:35:09,190 --> 00:35:12,067 Mr. Brigance. 489 00:35:12,235 --> 00:35:15,779 I will not tolerate grandstanding in my courtroom. 490 00:35:23,788 --> 00:35:25,789 [QUIETLY] Get back to work. 491 00:35:26,624 --> 00:35:29,543 Excellent technique, counsellor. 492 00:35:41,514 --> 00:35:42,556 Your Honour. 493 00:35:42,807 --> 00:35:46,393 We feel it would be remiss not to tell you that in State v. Johnson, 494 00:35:46,561 --> 00:35:48,186 and State v. Fisher 495 00:35:48,354 --> 00:35:50,188 both in 1985 496 00:35:50,356 --> 00:35:53,024 failure to properly consider a change of venue 497 00:35:53,192 --> 00:35:56,611 has been a reversible decision on appeal to the state supreme court. 498 00:35:58,072 --> 00:36:02,951 No... No trial judge likes his rulings overturned. 499 00:36:03,119 --> 00:36:09,291 I guess you get to submit that brief after all. Have it on my desk by Tuesday morning. 500 00:36:09,750 --> 00:36:12,419 Mr. Hailey, you are hereby ordered 501 00:36:12,587 --> 00:36:17,674 to remain in custody of the Madison County sheriff until trial. 502 00:36:17,842 --> 00:36:18,884 Dismissed. 503 00:36:28,394 --> 00:36:31,146 Find me that state doctor. What's his name? Rodeheaver. 504 00:36:31,314 --> 00:36:33,106 Get him down here to interview Hailey. 505 00:36:33,274 --> 00:36:37,110 Since he's not able to afford a real one, find who Brigance is using for a shrink. 506 00:36:37,278 --> 00:36:40,280 - I want him discredited. - You want professional or personal dirt? 507 00:36:40,448 --> 00:36:42,949 I don't wanna know how. Get me enough to shatter him. 508 00:36:43,117 --> 00:36:44,993 We can do that. Taylor. 509 00:36:50,291 --> 00:36:54,336 This is $900, Carl Lee. We said a thousand down. 510 00:36:54,503 --> 00:36:56,796 My kids gotta eat. 511 00:36:57,632 --> 00:36:59,382 Mine too. 512 00:37:01,844 --> 00:37:03,637 All right, when do I get the rest? 513 00:37:04,096 --> 00:37:07,349 Them folks over at the bank, they won't loan me no money on my house. 514 00:37:07,516 --> 00:37:11,895 Why not? Your house is almost paid for. You borrowed on it before for Lester's trial. 515 00:37:12,063 --> 00:37:13,647 Said I wasn't in jail before. 516 00:37:13,814 --> 00:37:16,524 Said to Gwen, how am I gonna pay sitting on death row? 517 00:37:16,859 --> 00:37:19,194 And I lost my job at the mill. 518 00:37:19,362 --> 00:37:20,528 They called Gwen. 519 00:37:20,696 --> 00:37:24,783 Worked 20 years, I'm out five days and they fired me. 520 00:37:27,161 --> 00:37:31,623 Carl Lee, I can't try a capital-murder case for $900. 521 00:37:31,791 --> 00:37:33,583 Carl Lee, I need to live. 522 00:37:33,751 --> 00:37:35,502 Me too, Jake. 523 00:37:35,670 --> 00:37:37,254 I need to live too. 524 00:37:39,674 --> 00:37:42,550 [JAKE HUMMING] 525 00:37:46,973 --> 00:37:48,807 Nice night. 526 00:37:54,355 --> 00:37:57,524 Finder of precedents, mystery woman of the courthouse. 527 00:37:57,692 --> 00:38:00,652 [ELLEN] Yup. Care for a beer? 528 00:38:03,406 --> 00:38:06,491 I assume that's the infamous change-of-venue motion under your arm. 529 00:38:06,659 --> 00:38:08,326 Mm-hm. 530 00:38:08,494 --> 00:38:09,869 Ellen Roark. R-O-A-R-K. 531 00:38:10,037 --> 00:38:13,748 That's Roark in Boston, but it seems to be Roark in Mississippi. 532 00:38:13,916 --> 00:38:16,209 - Boston, huh? - Yup, I was born there. 533 00:38:16,377 --> 00:38:18,795 My father's the notorious Sheldon Roark. 534 00:38:18,963 --> 00:38:20,547 Attorney to the stars, yes. 535 00:38:20,715 --> 00:38:22,257 Duly impressed. 536 00:38:22,425 --> 00:38:25,510 What brings you to Mississippi, Roark? Slumming? 537 00:38:25,678 --> 00:38:27,679 No, law school at Ole Miss. 538 00:38:27,847 --> 00:38:29,931 It's a... It's a family tradition. 539 00:38:30,099 --> 00:38:34,227 Mom was a sweet little sorority girl there till Dad... Till Dad married her. 540 00:38:34,395 --> 00:38:37,731 I married a sweet little sorority girl from Ole Miss myself. 541 00:38:37,898 --> 00:38:41,151 - Well, they have an excellent selection. - Yes, they do. 542 00:38:41,319 --> 00:38:43,153 Now, really, what brings you to Canton? 543 00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:45,905 I'm not believing they don't have cars to sit on on campus. 544 00:38:46,073 --> 00:38:47,449 Carl Lee Hailey. 545 00:38:49,994 --> 00:38:52,245 Really like to help you with the trial. 546 00:38:52,413 --> 00:38:54,289 Now, what makes you think I need help? 547 00:38:55,041 --> 00:38:57,292 You're trying one of the largest murder cases 548 00:38:57,460 --> 00:38:59,919 these parts have seen and you work alone. 549 00:39:00,087 --> 00:39:02,339 You have no paralegals, no clerks, researchers, 550 00:39:02,506 --> 00:39:04,466 nor can you afford to hire any, 551 00:39:04,633 --> 00:39:08,261 so if Noose doesn't accept that motion under your arm 552 00:39:08,429 --> 00:39:13,016 you go to trial in less than a month. Trust me, you need help. 553 00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:16,936 - Now, how do you know this? - Well, I'm an excellent researcher. 554 00:39:17,104 --> 00:39:19,147 - I see that. - Look, I've played gofer, 555 00:39:19,315 --> 00:39:22,108 for 7 capital-murder cases, I've witnessed 2 executions 556 00:39:22,276 --> 00:39:26,488 I have written briefs for the ACLU, I'm top 5 percent of my class 557 00:39:26,655 --> 00:39:30,116 editor of the law review, I'm published, I'm young. 558 00:39:30,284 --> 00:39:31,409 And when I graduate 559 00:39:31,577 --> 00:39:35,872 I intend to spend a glorious career stomping out the death penalty. 560 00:39:36,499 --> 00:39:39,751 Let's see, what else? Oh, genius runs in my family. 561 00:39:39,919 --> 00:39:41,294 You'll get me on the way up, 562 00:39:41,462 --> 00:39:45,215 and I really think, you know, now is a good time to, you know, grab me. 563 00:39:45,383 --> 00:39:48,093 Mm-hm. Is there anything else I should know? 564 00:39:48,260 --> 00:39:50,470 Uh, let's see, anything else? 565 00:39:50,638 --> 00:39:53,098 Oh, my father's filthy rich, so I'll work for free. 566 00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:56,643 What do you think? 567 00:39:59,814 --> 00:40:02,649 I think I'll drop this brief off in Noose's night slot. 568 00:40:03,234 --> 00:40:04,984 Go home and see my family. 569 00:40:05,152 --> 00:40:08,822 Thank you, Roark, but I can handle the case myself. 570 00:40:10,991 --> 00:40:12,617 Uh... 571 00:40:12,785 --> 00:40:14,911 You might wanna look at these precedents. 572 00:40:15,079 --> 00:40:17,622 Look at State v Cooper and State v Round tree. 573 00:40:17,790 --> 00:40:20,208 Both revenge killers, both acquitted. 574 00:40:23,504 --> 00:40:25,130 You'll change your mind. 575 00:40:27,299 --> 00:40:28,883 See you. 576 00:40:35,266 --> 00:40:37,684 [MAN] Get out. Come on. 577 00:40:40,020 --> 00:40:41,020 Wait. 578 00:40:41,188 --> 00:40:42,730 Come on. 579 00:41:04,837 --> 00:41:10,008 Mr. Cobb, this is Stump Sisson, grand dragon of Mississippi. 580 00:41:11,677 --> 00:41:14,012 He heard you were looking to see us. 581 00:41:14,889 --> 00:41:17,599 You were right to call us, Mr. Cobb. 582 00:41:18,726 --> 00:41:21,060 They say the Klan is dead. 583 00:41:22,646 --> 00:41:27,650 Klan don't show up for a few years and people say the Klan is dead. 584 00:41:28,068 --> 00:41:30,778 Fact is, it just looks dead. 585 00:41:30,946 --> 00:41:34,157 The Klan has always been right there 586 00:41:34,325 --> 00:41:36,493 under the surface. 587 00:41:37,328 --> 00:41:41,873 Just waiting for the opportunity to deliver God's justice. 588 00:41:42,917 --> 00:41:44,250 I wanna help. 589 00:41:44,418 --> 00:41:46,419 I wanna kill that nigger. 590 00:41:46,587 --> 00:41:50,298 Niggers got plenty of protection nowadays. 591 00:41:51,133 --> 00:41:55,595 They got the NAACP and the ACLU. 592 00:41:55,763 --> 00:41:58,097 Even the federal government. 593 00:41:58,265 --> 00:41:59,891 Hell. 594 00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:02,977 White folks ain't got a chance. 595 00:42:04,021 --> 00:42:06,064 Except the Klan. 596 00:42:09,985 --> 00:42:11,569 I'm gonna tell you what. 597 00:42:13,489 --> 00:42:16,991 You get five or six of your friends of similar thinking, 598 00:42:17,159 --> 00:42:21,454 and we'll initiate the Madison County Klavern. 599 00:42:22,873 --> 00:42:24,791 Even make you leader. 600 00:42:27,253 --> 00:42:29,045 Now, you tell me 601 00:42:29,380 --> 00:42:30,964 who's that nigger's lawyer? 602 00:42:32,007 --> 00:42:33,216 Local boy. 603 00:42:33,384 --> 00:42:36,678 His name's Brigance. He's got a pretty good reputation. 604 00:42:38,764 --> 00:42:40,098 He got family? 605 00:42:40,266 --> 00:42:44,018 Yes, sir. He... He has a wife and a daughter. 606 00:42:46,981 --> 00:42:48,356 Good. 607 00:43:08,127 --> 00:43:09,877 [OFFICER OVER RADIO] Two, two. 608 00:43:29,898 --> 00:43:32,298 - What the hell is he doing here? - [SHERIFF] Now, calm down. 609 00:43:32,401 --> 00:43:34,068 - No. - Come on, calm down. 610 00:43:34,236 --> 00:43:38,114 - Calm down. - BOY: He has no right after what he did. 611 00:43:38,282 --> 00:43:40,074 No, he's got no right, sheriff. 612 00:43:40,242 --> 00:43:42,660 [SHERIFF] Don't get your mom upset now. 613 00:43:56,050 --> 00:43:57,759 Looney? 614 00:43:58,761 --> 00:44:00,011 Dwayne? 615 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,393 I made Ozzie bring me. 616 00:44:12,107 --> 00:44:14,025 Shit, Dwayne, we... 617 00:44:14,193 --> 00:44:16,235 We known each other since we was kids. 618 00:44:21,533 --> 00:44:22,909 It's my fault. 619 00:44:24,036 --> 00:44:25,745 No matter what gets said in court 620 00:44:27,206 --> 00:44:31,501 I knew what I was doing, and I sure didn't intend to hurt you, 621 00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:33,086 but just them two boys. 622 00:44:38,592 --> 00:44:41,636 I know it don't mean much now, 623 00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:43,888 but I'm sorry. 624 00:44:52,022 --> 00:44:55,650 Some folks think that a black man cannot receive a fair trial in the South. 625 00:44:56,110 --> 00:45:00,113 I intend to show the men and women of the South will look past colour and see truth. 626 00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:01,948 It sure is a nigger's world. 627 00:45:02,116 --> 00:45:03,574 Not for long. 628 00:45:05,786 --> 00:45:10,123 [FREDDIE] Boys, I am very proud to invite you to become soldiers 629 00:45:10,290 --> 00:45:13,292 in the war to protect our Christian homes and families. 630 00:45:13,460 --> 00:45:18,256 To resurrect our country from the fires of racial degradation. 631 00:45:18,424 --> 00:45:24,178 And to make white people the sole masters of our nation's destiny. 632 00:45:24,638 --> 00:45:26,931 What I'm saying, fellas 633 00:45:27,641 --> 00:45:29,600 it's time for the nigger to pay. 634 00:45:32,646 --> 00:45:36,691 - Something wrong with your telephone? - No, we just had the number changed. 635 00:45:36,859 --> 00:45:38,568 That's what the operator said. 636 00:45:38,736 --> 00:45:40,862 - To an unlisted number. - Yeah. 637 00:45:41,029 --> 00:45:43,156 I'm sorry you had to come all the way up here. 638 00:45:43,323 --> 00:45:45,158 I should've called you, but this case... 639 00:45:45,325 --> 00:45:49,078 This case has us all worried sick about you all, Jake. 640 00:45:49,246 --> 00:45:52,999 And you know this thing could get ugly. And dangerous. 641 00:45:53,167 --> 00:45:56,461 Jake, he shot them in cold blood. 642 00:45:56,628 --> 00:46:00,590 They raped and almost murdered his daughter, Sarah. 643 00:46:00,758 --> 00:46:02,884 What if the same thing happened to Hannah? 644 00:46:03,051 --> 00:46:06,304 [WOMAN 1] Brigance! Mr. Brigance! Mr. Brigance! 645 00:46:06,472 --> 00:46:09,098 - May we ask a few questions? - [WOMAN 2] Can we get a quote? 646 00:46:09,266 --> 00:46:10,850 - Mr. Brigance. - Excuse me a second. 647 00:46:11,018 --> 00:46:13,019 I'm going to go take a few questions. 648 00:46:13,187 --> 00:46:16,063 - Jake, this isn't the time. - This is really good for Carl Lee. 649 00:46:16,231 --> 00:46:17,857 I'll be right back. 650 00:46:19,234 --> 00:46:20,985 Thank y'all for coming. 651 00:46:21,153 --> 00:46:24,155 [REPORTERS CHATTERING] 652 00:46:25,866 --> 00:46:29,035 I guess we'll have to read about it in the papers. 653 00:46:30,037 --> 00:46:33,039 [CHOIR SINGING GOSPEL SONG] 654 00:46:56,438 --> 00:46:58,439 [CHOIR STOPS SINGING] 655 00:47:26,176 --> 00:47:27,385 Praise Jesus! 656 00:47:27,553 --> 00:47:29,720 [CONGREGATION CHEERING] 657 00:47:43,110 --> 00:47:45,653 [ISAIAH] Reverend Agee? AGEE: Yes. 658 00:47:45,821 --> 00:47:47,321 I'm Isaiah Street. 659 00:47:47,489 --> 00:47:50,116 Well, it's an hon our to meet you, Reverend. 660 00:47:50,284 --> 00:47:52,368 I saw you march with Dr. King. 661 00:47:52,536 --> 00:47:58,541 Well, well. The struggle continues today here in Canton. 662 00:47:59,126 --> 00:48:01,419 Carl Lee Hailey's on trial because he's black. 663 00:48:01,587 --> 00:48:02,879 No other reason. 664 00:48:04,131 --> 00:48:07,466 - These people are with the NAACP. - Oh? 665 00:48:07,885 --> 00:48:09,886 - Reverend Agee. - How do you do? 666 00:48:10,053 --> 00:48:11,137 How do you do? 667 00:48:11,471 --> 00:48:17,810 Reverend Agee, the black community's concerned that Mr. Hailey's attorney 668 00:48:17,978 --> 00:48:20,855 is not sensitive to the needs of the movement. 669 00:48:21,815 --> 00:48:27,194 The NAACP wishes to provide him with a new lawyer. 670 00:48:29,323 --> 00:48:33,743 We need to raise funds to support Carl Lee Hailey. 671 00:48:34,828 --> 00:48:37,830 I don't know, Reverend. Time's awfully tight here. 672 00:48:39,833 --> 00:48:44,045 Obviously, we would expect you to take 673 00:48:44,212 --> 00:48:48,215 a modest administration fee for your troubles. 674 00:49:14,368 --> 00:49:20,831 [SISSON] Your loyalty has been forged in a baptism of fire. 675 00:49:21,959 --> 00:49:26,379 Rise, knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 676 00:49:27,005 --> 00:49:31,676 and let your brethren never regret 677 00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:37,890 they believed you worthy of fellowship. 678 00:49:43,230 --> 00:49:45,356 Welcome to the Klan. 679 00:49:57,327 --> 00:49:59,120 [MAN] I need to talk to Jake Brigance. 680 00:49:59,287 --> 00:50:01,580 He's not in. May I ask who's calling? 681 00:50:02,165 --> 00:50:05,084 [MAN] Uh, well 682 00:50:05,293 --> 00:50:06,335 Mickey Mouse. 683 00:50:06,795 --> 00:50:08,713 - Who? - [MAN OVER PHONE] Mickey Mouse. 684 00:50:09,506 --> 00:50:11,590 Get out right now. 685 00:50:11,758 --> 00:50:12,758 Who is this? 686 00:50:12,926 --> 00:50:15,678 MAN [OVER PHONE]: Get your daughter out of the house right now. 687 00:50:16,847 --> 00:50:18,222 [HANNAH] Mommy! 688 00:50:18,390 --> 00:50:20,433 - Hannah? - [HANNAH] Mommy! 689 00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:24,020 [CARLA] Hannah? What is it? Oh, my God! 690 00:50:24,187 --> 00:50:26,480 Max! Max, come on! 691 00:50:26,648 --> 00:50:28,024 Fire! Aah! 692 00:50:28,191 --> 00:50:29,900 [MAX BARKING] 693 00:50:30,068 --> 00:50:33,070 [FIREFIGHTERS CHATTERING] 694 00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:39,368 It's a good thing Hastings was nearby and got here fast. 695 00:50:39,536 --> 00:50:41,954 The whole place could've burned down. 696 00:50:42,122 --> 00:50:44,707 - Yeah, I appreciate it. - Take care, man. 697 00:50:44,875 --> 00:50:46,834 See you in the morning. 698 00:50:53,300 --> 00:50:55,301 She asleep, baby? 699 00:50:56,636 --> 00:50:59,889 The Ku Klux Klan is burning crosses on our lawn, Jake. 700 00:51:00,057 --> 00:51:03,142 Baby, there's been no Klan around here for years, okay? 701 00:51:03,310 --> 00:51:07,146 This is just a couple of dorks with too much time on their hands and too many beers. 702 00:51:11,693 --> 00:51:13,944 - I'm sorry. - About what? 703 00:51:15,489 --> 00:51:19,116 That you weren't home when someone practically burned our house down? 704 00:51:19,284 --> 00:51:21,911 That you missed supper and didn't even bother to call? 705 00:51:22,079 --> 00:51:25,164 That lately you've become more interested in getting on the news 706 00:51:25,332 --> 00:51:27,208 than what's going on with your family? 707 00:51:27,375 --> 00:51:31,212 Or that Hannah comes home bawling because of kids calling her a nigger-lover? 708 00:51:31,379 --> 00:51:34,465 What exactly are you sorry about, Jake? 709 00:51:42,849 --> 00:51:44,892 Remember the other night? 710 00:51:46,603 --> 00:51:49,146 I told you Carl Lee came by the office? 711 00:51:49,314 --> 00:51:51,690 Remember what we talked about then? 712 00:51:52,150 --> 00:51:54,151 About me calling Ozzie? 713 00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,949 You never called him, did you? 714 00:52:00,951 --> 00:52:02,409 You never called Sheriff Walls? 715 00:52:03,411 --> 00:52:05,204 I didn't call him, baby. 716 00:52:06,414 --> 00:52:10,251 Lord have mercy, Jake, you had a responsibility. 717 00:52:10,418 --> 00:52:12,378 Carl Lee chose you. 718 00:52:12,546 --> 00:52:15,714 He told you what he was thinking. 719 00:52:15,882 --> 00:52:18,300 He told me what he was thinking, but I didn't know 720 00:52:18,468 --> 00:52:22,763 Jake Tyler Brigance, we agreed, you were gonna call the sheriff. 721 00:52:22,931 --> 00:52:25,349 Now look at everything that has happened. 722 00:52:26,059 --> 00:52:29,895 I am sorry to tell you this, darling, but those two boys are in the ground, 723 00:52:30,063 --> 00:52:33,065 and you were in a position to prevent every bit of this. 724 00:52:33,233 --> 00:52:34,483 [HANNAH] Mama? 725 00:52:35,944 --> 00:52:37,486 Are you and Daddy fighting? 726 00:52:39,030 --> 00:52:42,741 No, baby. Come here. Come here, baby. Come here. 727 00:52:43,702 --> 00:52:47,288 Mommy's just upset because some silly man played a real bad joke, okay? 728 00:52:47,455 --> 00:52:49,415 There's nothing to worry about. 729 00:52:49,833 --> 00:52:52,877 Nothing at all, okay? 730 00:52:58,508 --> 00:53:00,509 What that Memphis doctor say about her? 731 00:53:01,761 --> 00:53:03,387 She's doing good. 732 00:53:04,389 --> 00:53:05,931 Her jaw is healing. 733 00:53:06,099 --> 00:53:09,810 She can't run and jump yet, but it won't be long. 734 00:53:11,104 --> 00:53:12,771 How about the other? 735 00:53:20,822 --> 00:53:23,657 There was too much damage. 736 00:53:24,826 --> 00:53:26,660 She ain't gonna never have kids. 737 00:53:35,128 --> 00:53:37,463 You know, I think about them two boys. 738 00:53:37,631 --> 00:53:39,215 Dead, buried 739 00:53:39,382 --> 00:53:41,842 probably starting to rot. 740 00:53:42,469 --> 00:53:45,304 And I remember them walking in court 741 00:53:45,472 --> 00:53:47,389 one proud, the other scared. 742 00:53:49,017 --> 00:53:51,101 I remember how they fell. 743 00:53:51,269 --> 00:53:56,315 One on top of the other, and screaming and squirming and not going nowhere. 744 00:53:58,193 --> 00:54:00,861 God help me, Gwen, but 745 00:54:02,572 --> 00:54:04,865 that's the only thought gives me comfort. 746 00:54:08,203 --> 00:54:11,288 They took up a collection for us at church Sunday night. 747 00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,375 Some kind of defence fund. 748 00:54:15,126 --> 00:54:17,711 Reverend Agee gave a good service. 749 00:54:21,007 --> 00:54:27,346 We need some money around the house, Carl Lee, for groceries and bills. 750 00:54:27,514 --> 00:54:28,806 How much you got? 751 00:54:28,974 --> 00:54:30,349 [SIGHS] 752 00:54:30,517 --> 00:54:31,684 Less than 50. 753 00:54:33,687 --> 00:54:35,145 I'll think of something. 754 00:54:38,775 --> 00:54:42,695 How you think you going to get some money while you stuck here in jail? 755 00:54:42,862 --> 00:54:44,488 Trust me, Gwen. 756 00:54:49,661 --> 00:54:51,453 I just get scared. 757 00:54:53,373 --> 00:54:55,040 Look here. 758 00:54:55,375 --> 00:55:01,171 Tell me exactly what Reverend Agee said when he passed around the collection plate. 759 00:55:01,339 --> 00:55:04,550 I don't care. We are dealing with life and death here. 760 00:55:04,718 --> 00:55:08,679 - I'm gonna have to talk to my supervisor. - Well, you go talk. Get out of here. 761 00:55:08,847 --> 00:55:11,598 [JAKE] Morning, John. How are things at the electric company? 762 00:55:11,766 --> 00:55:15,686 The electric company. That is the second time this week I've had to hold him off. 763 00:55:15,854 --> 00:55:17,688 - How much do we owe? - Two thousand dollars. 764 00:55:17,856 --> 00:55:20,816 - How much do we have? - One hundred dollars. 765 00:55:20,984 --> 00:55:24,111 Now, look, this week nothing, nothing has come in at all. Look. 766 00:55:24,279 --> 00:55:27,197 What about Buck Britt's retainer? There's 2 grand. 767 00:55:27,365 --> 00:55:30,576 - That check bounced. - What do you mean, bounced? 768 00:55:30,744 --> 00:55:32,494 It bounced, Jake. 769 00:55:32,662 --> 00:55:35,247 It's been sitting on your desk for a week. 770 00:55:35,415 --> 00:55:37,458 Not that you'd notice. 771 00:55:39,169 --> 00:55:42,671 Since you took this case, you... You stopped talking to your clients 772 00:55:42,839 --> 00:55:44,631 you don't take your calls, you... 773 00:55:44,799 --> 00:55:48,677 You're obsessed. That's what you are. You're obsessed, Jake. 774 00:55:49,179 --> 00:55:52,264 - Boy, your obsession is going to break us. - Hey, hey, hey. 775 00:55:52,432 --> 00:55:55,100 What's wrong, girl? We've been through hard times before. 776 00:55:55,268 --> 00:55:57,186 Oh, not like this, Jake. 777 00:55:57,354 --> 00:55:59,438 Not like this. 778 00:56:00,357 --> 00:56:02,358 We've been getting calls. 779 00:56:02,525 --> 00:56:03,692 At home. 780 00:56:03,860 --> 00:56:05,069 Threats. 781 00:56:06,446 --> 00:56:10,741 You know Bud has survived two strokes. I don't think he would survive a third. 782 00:56:10,909 --> 00:56:12,117 Why didn't you tell me? 783 00:56:13,578 --> 00:56:15,454 Why, Jake? 784 00:56:15,622 --> 00:56:16,997 Would you drop the case? 785 00:56:18,041 --> 00:56:20,042 [PHONE RINGS] 786 00:56:22,837 --> 00:56:24,046 Jake Brigance's office. 787 00:56:24,214 --> 00:56:26,799 Until they cut the phones off. 788 00:56:27,634 --> 00:56:29,093 Oh, right. 789 00:56:29,844 --> 00:56:31,053 Okay. 790 00:56:31,221 --> 00:56:34,098 Right. That was Sheriff Walls. 791 00:56:34,265 --> 00:56:36,225 You better get down to that jail. 792 00:56:43,650 --> 00:56:45,818 What's going on here, Carl Lee? 793 00:56:45,985 --> 00:56:48,070 - I'm Isaiah Street. - Jake Brigance. 794 00:56:48,238 --> 00:56:50,406 [ISAIAH] Uh-huh. Uh 795 00:56:50,573 --> 00:56:52,658 - I believe you know Reverend Agee. - Jake. 796 00:56:52,826 --> 00:56:54,993 - And this is... - Norman Reinfield. 797 00:56:55,161 --> 00:56:57,413 I've seen your picture in the paper. 798 00:56:58,289 --> 00:57:00,999 I assume these boys carry your briefcase. 799 00:57:01,167 --> 00:57:03,836 Just a small part of my legal defence team. 800 00:57:04,003 --> 00:57:05,379 Pleasure, Mr. Brigance. 801 00:57:05,547 --> 00:57:06,672 [JAKE] Mm-hm. 802 00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,216 If this is a party, boys, where's the chips and beer? 803 00:57:09,676 --> 00:57:13,887 Otherwise, you being here seems a bit like illegal client solicitation. 804 00:57:14,055 --> 00:57:16,181 With Carl Lee already having a lawyer and all. 805 00:57:16,349 --> 00:57:18,100 Well, now, just a minute, Jake. 806 00:57:18,268 --> 00:57:20,269 Carl Lee invited us here. 807 00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:24,356 [ISAIAH] Mr. Brigance 808 00:57:24,524 --> 00:57:26,817 let me be frank. 809 00:57:26,985 --> 00:57:30,362 Mr. Hailey's case has far-reaching ramifications. 810 00:57:30,864 --> 00:57:33,198 Carl Lee's acquittal for the killings of two white men 811 00:57:33,366 --> 00:57:35,701 would do more for black people in Mississippi 812 00:57:35,869 --> 00:57:39,246 than any event since we integrated the schools. 813 00:57:39,414 --> 00:57:42,583 His conviction, on the other hand, will be a slap at us. 814 00:57:42,750 --> 00:57:44,877 A symbol of deep-seated racism. 815 00:57:45,044 --> 00:57:47,296 Perhaps enough to ignite a nation. 816 00:57:47,714 --> 00:57:49,882 See how important this case is? 817 00:57:50,049 --> 00:57:52,593 Enter Mr. Reinfield's death squad, right? 818 00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:56,638 It's an unfortunate nickname, but apropos. 819 00:57:56,806 --> 00:58:00,225 My lawyers and I handle only capital-murder cases, Mr. Hailey. 820 00:58:00,393 --> 00:58:03,729 Yeah, and of all your cases, Norman, how many are supposed to be lost, 821 00:58:03,897 --> 00:58:06,523 - so you can martyr the victim? - Now, Mr. Brigance. 822 00:58:06,691 --> 00:58:11,570 How much a defence like that cost? 823 00:58:12,614 --> 00:58:14,156 Yeah. 824 00:58:15,033 --> 00:58:16,617 Would you say about 100,000? 825 00:58:16,784 --> 00:58:20,829 We are prepared to accept 7000 in litigation expenses. 826 00:58:20,997 --> 00:58:24,750 Well, Carl Lee doesn't have $7000. 827 00:58:24,918 --> 00:58:25,959 Do you, Carl Lee? 828 00:58:26,503 --> 00:58:32,090 The NAACP has raised $5000 for Carl Lee's legal defence fund. 829 00:58:32,258 --> 00:58:35,427 And we raised an additional $2000 from the local churches. 830 00:58:35,595 --> 00:58:37,395 [CARL LEE] Let me ask you something, Reverend. 831 00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:40,641 How much of that cash you offer my wife and kids? 832 00:58:40,808 --> 00:58:44,895 Well, that money is to go to pay for lawyers' fees and stuff like that. 833 00:58:45,063 --> 00:58:47,189 That ain't what you told the church, now, is it? 834 00:58:47,982 --> 00:58:49,858 You almost cried when you told them 835 00:58:50,026 --> 00:58:54,238 how my family might starve if they didn't donate all they could, didn't you? 836 00:58:54,948 --> 00:58:57,658 Well, the money is for you and your family, Carl Lee, 837 00:58:57,825 --> 00:59:00,786 but we thought it'd be better spent on your legal defence. 838 00:59:00,954 --> 00:59:03,622 Well, speaking of that defence fund 839 00:59:03,790 --> 00:59:06,291 can I use that for any lawyer I want? 840 00:59:06,459 --> 00:59:09,294 Well, it's not that simple, Carl Lee. 841 00:59:09,462 --> 00:59:12,339 Actually, it is that simple, Carl Lee. 842 00:59:12,507 --> 00:59:17,219 Unless the NAACP wants to go on record as soliciting funds under false pretences. 843 00:59:17,387 --> 00:59:20,597 [ISAIAH] Listen, Carl Lee, we raised that money, 844 00:59:20,765 --> 00:59:23,809 for these men to get you out of here, not for this cracker to... 845 00:59:23,977 --> 00:59:27,854 Now, hey, hey, hey. Hold on. Hold on right there, now. 846 00:59:28,314 --> 00:59:31,900 Let me just get this straight here, Reverend. 847 00:59:34,487 --> 00:59:37,906 If you don't give my wife that cash 848 00:59:38,074 --> 00:59:41,952 I'm gonna see to it everybody in this town knows you're a lying crook. 849 00:59:42,620 --> 00:59:45,163 I'm sure your congregation will be interested to know 850 00:59:45,331 --> 00:59:48,542 Gwen and the kids can't eat because you want in with the NAACP. 851 00:59:48,710 --> 00:59:51,962 That's right. By the time I get through with you 852 00:59:52,130 --> 00:59:56,008 you won't be able to collect 2 cents in that collection plate on Sunday. 853 00:59:56,175 --> 01:00:00,345 We'll expect the check for the Hailey family this afternoon, Reverend Agee. 854 01:00:01,306 --> 01:00:04,683 Reverend Street, I sure do appreciate your fine work, 855 01:00:04,851 --> 01:00:07,060 but I'm gonna take my chances with Jake here. 856 01:00:09,230 --> 01:00:11,481 Thanks for coming down, Mr. Reinfield. 857 01:00:12,317 --> 01:00:15,819 Uh, and we'll be expecting that check for Jake's legal services 858 01:00:15,987 --> 01:00:17,988 around the same time this afternoon. 859 01:00:22,118 --> 01:00:23,827 Good day, men. 860 01:00:30,627 --> 01:00:32,377 [MAN] Go. 861 01:00:35,882 --> 01:00:37,382 Go. 862 01:00:38,092 --> 01:00:39,676 Good. 863 01:00:41,971 --> 01:00:44,056 You set that whole thing up, didn't you? 864 01:00:44,223 --> 01:00:46,099 Couldn't have did it without you, Jake. 865 01:00:48,645 --> 01:00:50,520 Make one hell of a team, Carl Lee. 866 01:00:51,314 --> 01:00:54,399 You out there, Jake. I'm in here. 867 01:00:54,567 --> 01:00:55,901 We ain't no team. 868 01:01:20,593 --> 01:01:22,219 [HARRY REX] There's trouble. 869 01:01:23,763 --> 01:01:25,597 Oh, lookie there. 870 01:01:30,853 --> 01:01:32,646 No, here's trouble, Harry Rex. 871 01:01:35,983 --> 01:01:37,150 [SIGHS] 872 01:01:41,406 --> 01:01:43,156 Hi. You are...? 873 01:01:43,324 --> 01:01:45,033 [JAKE] Roark, meet Mr. Harry Rex Vonner 874 01:01:45,201 --> 01:01:48,787 the most effective, connected, morally compromised lawyer in the country. 875 01:01:48,955 --> 01:01:52,249 - Oh. Ellen Roark, brilliant law student. - Do with me as you will. 876 01:01:52,417 --> 01:01:54,459 - Looking forward to it. - Okay. 877 01:01:54,961 --> 01:01:57,796 Um, well, thought this might interest you. 878 01:01:57,964 --> 01:02:02,342 In all murder trials, it seems the insanity plea only makes up 1 percent overall. 879 01:02:02,510 --> 01:02:05,178 And of the 1 percent of that that resulted in acquittal 880 01:02:05,346 --> 01:02:07,305 success rested almost wholly on the... 881 01:02:07,473 --> 01:02:11,852 On the defending psychiatrist regardless of the quality of the psychological testimony. 882 01:02:12,019 --> 01:02:13,562 - Yeah. - Shazam. 883 01:02:13,730 --> 01:02:14,771 She is brilliant. 884 01:02:14,939 --> 01:02:17,023 She. That would be me? 885 01:02:17,191 --> 01:02:19,484 - Now, who else would she be? - So she would be me. 886 01:02:19,652 --> 01:02:22,362 She is saying that if I take this plea to trial 887 01:02:22,530 --> 01:02:26,158 the verdict is going to hinge on whose shrink the jury finds more credible. 888 01:02:26,659 --> 01:02:28,076 She would be correct. 889 01:02:28,661 --> 01:02:30,078 She would. 890 01:02:30,788 --> 01:02:32,706 So are you sure you don't need any help? 891 01:02:32,874 --> 01:02:36,334 I do. I'm hiring. Right now. Me. 892 01:02:36,836 --> 01:02:40,922 Roark, I am sure that I don't need any help. Thank you, though. 893 01:02:41,090 --> 01:02:43,008 Okay. 894 01:02:43,176 --> 01:02:46,428 I guess that would just have to be your loss, then, huh? 895 01:02:48,222 --> 01:02:50,599 Nice to meet you, Morally Compromised. 896 01:02:50,767 --> 01:02:51,975 Pleasure's all mine. 897 01:02:52,143 --> 01:02:53,685 She. 898 01:02:57,148 --> 01:03:00,609 Got to love the Lord for making things like that. 899 01:03:00,777 --> 01:03:03,361 Sure you don't wanna at least take a peak at her résumé? 900 01:03:03,529 --> 01:03:05,822 Not like you couldn't use the help. 901 01:03:05,990 --> 01:03:10,035 No, I don't want to look at her résumé, Harry Rex, because I have you. 902 01:03:10,203 --> 01:03:12,287 - You do? - Yeah, buddy. 903 01:03:12,455 --> 01:03:15,832 This is your chance to put aside your shady sources, back-alley deals 904 01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:19,544 your greedy divorcées, and do some real law for a change. 905 01:03:19,712 --> 01:03:21,171 [CHUCKLES] 906 01:03:21,339 --> 01:03:23,089 Mr. Vonner, in short 907 01:03:23,257 --> 01:03:26,885 you now have the opportunity to work on a case that matters. 908 01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:29,095 Let me get this straight. 909 01:03:29,263 --> 01:03:33,892 You want me to put aside my empty, soulless, shady 910 01:03:34,060 --> 01:03:36,686 astonishingly lucrative, divorcée practice 911 01:03:36,854 --> 01:03:40,899 come work with you on an unwinnable, bleeding-heart, lose-all-my-friends 912 01:03:41,067 --> 01:03:43,568 straight-to-the-gas-chamber case because it matters? 913 01:03:43,736 --> 01:03:45,070 That is a novel idea, I know. 914 01:03:45,238 --> 01:03:47,489 No way, never, presumptuous little shit. 915 01:03:47,657 --> 01:03:49,074 [BELL RINGS] 916 01:03:50,243 --> 01:03:51,576 Good night, y'all. 917 01:03:56,499 --> 01:03:58,708 [WOMAN OVER PHONE] Hello? [MAN] I need the sheriff. 918 01:03:58,876 --> 01:04:02,212 [WOMAN] He's sleeping now. [MAN] Well, get him up. 919 01:04:02,380 --> 01:04:06,091 [WOMAN] Who is this? [MAN] Someone's gonna die tonight. 920 01:04:28,698 --> 01:04:30,991 [MAN] Unh! [SHERIFF] I got him! 921 01:04:31,826 --> 01:04:34,119 [JAKE] Get his ass, Ozzie! [SHERIFF] What's in the case? 922 01:04:34,287 --> 01:04:36,079 [MAN GRUNTING] 923 01:04:44,338 --> 01:04:46,590 - [JAKE] This thing's ticking. - What's in the case? 924 01:04:46,799 --> 01:04:49,092 I ain't saying, nigger. 925 01:04:49,260 --> 01:04:52,846 [YELLING] 926 01:04:53,097 --> 01:04:55,181 - Family out of the house? - Yeah. 927 01:04:57,018 --> 01:04:58,268 It's locked. 928 01:05:03,190 --> 01:05:04,482 Now I want you to open that. 929 01:05:07,904 --> 01:05:10,322 [YELLING] 930 01:05:17,330 --> 01:05:18,371 Oh, man... 931 01:05:20,750 --> 01:05:21,791 Defuse it. 932 01:05:22,335 --> 01:05:26,838 I'm gonna take you and this nigger-lover to hell with... 933 01:05:28,007 --> 01:05:31,176 Ain't nothing more dangerous in this world than a fool with a cause. 934 01:05:31,344 --> 01:05:34,262 Lay that thing back down there. Let's get the hell out of here. 935 01:05:34,430 --> 01:05:36,681 [JAKE] Carla loves this house. 936 01:05:36,849 --> 01:05:38,141 [ALARM RINGING] 937 01:05:38,643 --> 01:05:39,768 [JAKE GRUNTS] 938 01:05:41,646 --> 01:05:44,648 [MAX BARKING] 939 01:05:55,868 --> 01:05:58,536 [MAN 1] How you doing, Stan? [MAN 2] Hey, how you doing? 940 01:05:59,455 --> 01:06:00,497 [JAKE] Come here, girl. 941 01:06:01,707 --> 01:06:03,583 Mwah. 942 01:06:04,335 --> 01:06:06,711 [HANNAH] Daddy, are you coming to Grandpa's too? 943 01:06:06,879 --> 01:06:09,881 Mm-mm. Not this time, baby. Daddy's gotta stay here and work. 944 01:06:10,049 --> 01:06:11,967 You and your mama have a good time, okay? 945 01:06:12,134 --> 01:06:14,594 - All right. - All right. You be good. 946 01:06:14,929 --> 01:06:16,262 Go get your stuff down there. 947 01:06:17,515 --> 01:06:19,808 You said you'd withdraw if it got too dangerous. 948 01:06:19,976 --> 01:06:21,059 I know. 949 01:06:21,227 --> 01:06:23,770 But I can't quit now, you know that. 950 01:06:24,313 --> 01:06:27,941 Carl Lee Hailey's facing the gas chamber, baby. The man is counting on me. 951 01:06:28,985 --> 01:06:31,194 I understand that, Jake. 952 01:06:31,362 --> 01:06:33,863 I want you to remember that we're counting on you too. 953 01:06:34,031 --> 01:06:36,366 What if something happens to you? 954 01:06:36,534 --> 01:06:39,411 Nothing's gonna happen to me, baby. Come here. 955 01:06:39,870 --> 01:06:41,579 Give me a hug? Hmm? 956 01:06:42,289 --> 01:06:43,790 Everything's gonna be all right. 957 01:06:43,958 --> 01:06:46,668 I'm gonna be fine, you're gonna be fine. Okay? 958 01:06:46,836 --> 01:06:48,503 Okay, babe? 959 01:06:49,714 --> 01:06:50,755 I promise. 960 01:06:53,050 --> 01:06:56,261 Watch you don't make your wife promises you can't keep. 961 01:06:58,764 --> 01:07:00,098 Hannah? 962 01:07:00,266 --> 01:07:01,933 - You ready? - [HANNAH] Uh-huh. 963 01:07:02,101 --> 01:07:04,644 [WOMAN OVER PA] Last boarding call. 964 01:07:14,613 --> 01:07:16,216 [MAID] Good afternoon. [JAKE] Good afternoon. 965 01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:17,949 [MAID] Come in. 966 01:07:18,492 --> 01:07:20,095 [BUTLER] Good afternoon. [JAKE] Good afternoon. 967 01:07:20,119 --> 01:07:22,537 [BUTLER] You may come this way. The judge is upstairs. 968 01:07:22,705 --> 01:07:24,372 [JAKE] Thank you, sir. 969 01:07:32,882 --> 01:07:34,466 Judge Noose. 970 01:07:35,634 --> 01:07:37,635 Thanks for coming. 971 01:07:39,096 --> 01:07:41,848 - Heard you had a little trouble last night. - Yes, sir. 972 01:07:42,016 --> 01:07:45,060 Makes you wonder about the sensibleness of taking this case. 973 01:07:45,227 --> 01:07:48,438 This is a beautiful place you have here, judge. 974 01:07:48,606 --> 01:07:50,148 I'll get to the point. 975 01:07:50,316 --> 01:07:56,154 I've thoroughly reviewed your brief request in that change of venue. 976 01:07:56,322 --> 01:08:01,409 And I agree with you. I think it's impossible to find a fair and impartial jury in Canton. 977 01:08:01,577 --> 01:08:06,498 In fact, I think it's impossible to find a fair and impartial jury anywhere in Mississippi. 978 01:08:06,665 --> 01:08:08,041 And as such 979 01:08:08,209 --> 01:08:10,627 a jury here would be 980 01:08:10,795 --> 01:08:13,755 as fair as a jury anywhere else. 981 01:08:13,923 --> 01:08:18,343 So I've decided to deny your request for a change of venue. 982 01:08:18,844 --> 01:08:19,844 [CLEARS THROAT] 983 01:08:20,012 --> 01:08:21,638 Well, I guess that 984 01:08:21,806 --> 01:08:23,389 gives me something to appeal. 985 01:08:23,557 --> 01:08:26,184 Uh, actually, no. 986 01:08:26,352 --> 01:08:28,686 I spoke to Judge Dent, 987 01:08:28,854 --> 01:08:33,024 and he led me to believe that the supreme court would uphold my ruling. 988 01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:36,444 You certainly have covered your bases, judge. 989 01:08:38,405 --> 01:08:42,117 Jake, you're a good lawyer. 990 01:08:42,785 --> 01:08:46,329 You're bright and ambitious. Talented. You could be somebody around here. 991 01:08:46,497 --> 01:08:50,583 You sure you wanna be known as the man that defended that murderer? 992 01:08:51,127 --> 01:08:53,586 Could be very unpopular. 993 01:08:54,338 --> 01:08:56,214 Talk to your client. 994 01:08:56,841 --> 01:08:58,216 He pleads guilty 995 01:08:58,384 --> 01:09:00,927 I'll recommend Buckley accept a plea of manslaughter. 996 01:09:01,095 --> 01:09:02,345 He'd be out in 20. 997 01:09:03,139 --> 01:09:06,099 Yeah. And how's his wife supposed to raise his family alone? 998 01:09:06,934 --> 01:09:08,601 Better than being a widow. 999 01:09:10,604 --> 01:09:12,230 Think about it. 1000 01:09:12,398 --> 01:09:16,276 Why toss away a promising career, hmm? 1001 01:09:19,113 --> 01:09:21,656 - Good day, judge. - Thanks for coming. 1002 01:09:26,245 --> 01:09:29,831 [JAKE] All right, Lucien. Where the hell is this guy? 1003 01:09:29,999 --> 01:09:31,916 [LUCIEN] Born alcoholic. 1004 01:09:32,084 --> 01:09:34,669 But the man cannot hold his liquor. 1005 01:09:34,837 --> 01:09:40,758 Jake, allow me to present Dr. Willard Tyrell Bass. 1006 01:09:40,926 --> 01:09:43,261 Expert witness for the defence. 1007 01:09:43,429 --> 01:09:48,183 W.T., this is Jake Brigance, my protégé. 1008 01:09:52,771 --> 01:09:54,606 Dr. Bass. 1009 01:09:58,903 --> 01:10:01,738 - Are you kidding me? - No, relax. 1010 01:10:01,906 --> 01:10:04,407 When he's sober, he's terrific. 1011 01:10:05,284 --> 01:10:09,746 He has his license, his credentials are impeccable. 1012 01:10:13,584 --> 01:10:16,002 - Well? - I need a drink. 1013 01:10:16,170 --> 01:10:17,962 Three in the afternoon? 1014 01:10:18,130 --> 01:10:21,925 - My, oh, my. What would your wife say? - I am my own man, Lucien. 1015 01:10:22,092 --> 01:10:24,469 - I drink when I want. - When did she leave town? 1016 01:10:24,637 --> 01:10:26,888 [JAKE] This morning. [LUCIEN] Ha-ha-ha. 1017 01:10:34,897 --> 01:10:37,482 [DOG BARKING] 1018 01:10:45,699 --> 01:10:47,325 [BUD] God! Unh! 1019 01:10:48,285 --> 01:10:51,579 [MEN GRUNTING] 1020 01:10:51,747 --> 01:10:52,914 [ETHEL] Bud? 1021 01:10:54,833 --> 01:10:58,253 [ETHEL YELLING AND GRUNTING] 1022 01:10:59,505 --> 01:11:01,047 Oh, my... 1023 01:11:02,299 --> 01:11:03,341 [FREDDIE] That's enough. 1024 01:11:06,971 --> 01:11:09,389 [ETHEL WHIMPERING] 1025 01:11:09,807 --> 01:11:11,516 Now, you tell your boss 1026 01:11:11,684 --> 01:11:14,602 next time people are gonna die. 1027 01:11:18,357 --> 01:11:20,066 [ETHEL] Oh, Bud. 1028 01:11:21,151 --> 01:11:23,069 Oh, Bud. 1029 01:11:23,362 --> 01:11:26,239 [DOORBELL BUZZING] 1030 01:11:46,719 --> 01:11:48,261 [ELLEN] Hi. 1031 01:11:48,429 --> 01:11:49,470 Morning. 1032 01:11:49,638 --> 01:11:50,763 [GROANS] 1033 01:11:53,225 --> 01:11:55,226 Nice parking job. Late night? 1034 01:12:02,234 --> 01:12:04,819 - Yeah. - Hmm. 1035 01:12:04,987 --> 01:12:06,988 So, um, here. 1036 01:12:07,156 --> 01:12:11,075 - Oh, thank you. - Your wife lets you sleep at the office? 1037 01:12:11,577 --> 01:12:13,286 My wife left town. 1038 01:12:13,454 --> 01:12:15,580 That's too bad. 1039 01:12:16,081 --> 01:12:19,917 So listen, I heard that Judge Noose turned down your change of venue. 1040 01:12:20,336 --> 01:12:22,003 Yeah. 1041 01:12:23,339 --> 01:12:25,882 I think it's time you let me take you out to breakfast. 1042 01:12:28,927 --> 01:12:30,011 Lunch. 1043 01:12:32,222 --> 01:12:35,433 [CLAUDE] Quit playing with that food. But, ladies, y'all come back. 1044 01:12:35,601 --> 01:12:38,644 - You need to finish that before Christmas. - Thank you, treasure. 1045 01:12:38,812 --> 01:12:42,106 Now, the other night, you said you're opposed to the death penalty. 1046 01:12:42,274 --> 01:12:44,484 - Yes, sir. - Why? 1047 01:12:44,651 --> 01:12:45,985 - You're not? - Mm-mm. 1048 01:12:46,153 --> 01:12:47,987 Actually, I'm very much in favour of it. 1049 01:12:48,155 --> 01:12:51,032 I'd like to go back to hangings on the court lawn if we could. 1050 01:12:51,867 --> 01:12:53,743 - You're kidding, right? - No. 1051 01:12:53,911 --> 01:12:57,872 The only problem with the death penalty, Roark, is that we do not use it enough. 1052 01:13:01,043 --> 01:13:03,669 Well, have you told your client Carl Lee Hailey this? 1053 01:13:03,837 --> 01:13:05,963 Carl Lee does not deserve the death penalty. 1054 01:13:06,131 --> 01:13:09,133 - The two men who raped his daughter did. - How do you decide 1055 01:13:09,301 --> 01:13:10,635 who dies and who doesn't? 1056 01:13:10,803 --> 01:13:15,765 Well, simple. Okay, you take the crime and you take the criminal. 1057 01:13:15,933 --> 01:13:20,061 Now, say a crack dealer guns down an undercover cop. 1058 01:13:20,229 --> 01:13:22,980 Well, you strap his ass to the chair, flip the switch. 1059 01:13:23,148 --> 01:13:25,316 For some reason, I thought you were a liberal. 1060 01:13:25,859 --> 01:13:27,652 Well, I am a liberal, Roark. 1061 01:13:27,820 --> 01:13:31,697 What I am not is a card-carrying ACLU radical. 1062 01:13:32,074 --> 01:13:34,617 I do not believe in forgiveness, nor in rehabilitation. 1063 01:13:34,785 --> 01:13:38,704 I believe in safety. I believe in justice. 1064 01:13:40,165 --> 01:13:43,334 I see. Well, let me ask you something. 1065 01:13:43,502 --> 01:13:45,253 Have you ever seen a man executed? 1066 01:13:46,755 --> 01:13:49,132 - Not that I recall. - Then what I suggest you do 1067 01:13:49,299 --> 01:13:51,008 is you go watch a man be executed. 1068 01:13:51,176 --> 01:13:54,971 You watch him die, watch him beg, watch him kick and spit the life out of him 1069 01:13:55,139 --> 01:13:57,849 until he pisses and shits in his pants, until he's gone. 1070 01:13:58,016 --> 01:14:01,102 Then you come back here and sing this crap to me about justice... 1071 01:14:01,270 --> 01:14:04,313 Roark, spare me your Northern, liberal, cry-me-a-river 1072 01:14:04,481 --> 01:14:07,525 we-are-the-only-enlightened-ones bullshit. 1073 01:14:07,693 --> 01:14:10,361 I'm so sorry, yes, you are the enlightened. Yes, you are. 1074 01:14:10,529 --> 01:14:14,407 And that's why you brought me to this black diner in this black neighbourhood. 1075 01:14:14,575 --> 01:14:18,744 So you can convince me you're this JFK-meets-Jesus-Christ white boy. 1076 01:14:18,912 --> 01:14:20,037 Is that what it is? 1077 01:14:20,205 --> 01:14:23,082 Or because you're another repressed, hypocritical provincial 1078 01:14:23,250 --> 01:14:26,711 who maybe didn't want to be seen around town with a woman like myself? 1079 01:14:27,296 --> 01:14:29,547 Yes, you sure are enlightened. You know what? 1080 01:14:29,715 --> 01:14:33,551 I'm terribly sorry, I've made a mistake. I thought you were one of the good guys. 1081 01:14:33,719 --> 01:14:36,721 Thank you very much for your time, Mr. Brigance. 1082 01:14:52,279 --> 01:14:53,321 [WOMAN] Do it. 1083 01:14:53,489 --> 01:14:55,698 [ELLEN] I get a little worked up. 1084 01:14:56,783 --> 01:14:59,577 Guess that's not the best way to apply for a job, huh? 1085 01:15:02,498 --> 01:15:06,918 I don't want the jury to see those pictures of the dead rapists. Can we keep them out? 1086 01:15:07,377 --> 01:15:08,419 No. 1087 01:15:09,338 --> 01:15:12,423 It is vital that I admit the rape. I want the jury to know details. 1088 01:15:12,591 --> 01:15:14,800 I'm gonna need briefs on both. 1089 01:15:14,968 --> 01:15:17,803 I don't like your politics, Roark, but you do have passion, 1090 01:15:17,971 --> 01:15:20,306 and that's something Carl Lee needs right now, 1091 01:15:20,474 --> 01:15:22,433 and maybe so do I. 1092 01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:25,603 Are you getting this? 1093 01:15:25,771 --> 01:15:27,939 I'm writing it down. 1094 01:15:28,482 --> 01:15:30,608 [RUFUS] All right, here's what we got. It's official. 1095 01:15:30,776 --> 01:15:33,945 The trial of Carl Lee Hailey will be held in Canton. 1096 01:15:34,112 --> 01:15:38,783 Today, presiding Judge Noose issued 150 summonses for potential jurors 1097 01:15:38,951 --> 01:15:40,368 in a sealed envelope. 1098 01:15:42,621 --> 01:15:44,455 Now, to prevent tampering 1099 01:15:44,623 --> 01:15:48,793 that list will be kept strictly confidential until jury selection begins on Wednesday. 1100 01:15:48,961 --> 01:15:51,963 No one, not even Mr. Brigance or myself 1101 01:15:52,130 --> 01:15:55,591 will know the identities of the potential jurors in this case. 1102 01:16:14,361 --> 01:16:18,614 [CHANTING] Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee! 1103 01:16:18,782 --> 01:16:21,242 Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee! 1104 01:16:21,410 --> 01:16:24,328 Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee! 1105 01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:30,376 [LUCIEN] Beautiful day, isn't it? 1106 01:16:30,544 --> 01:16:32,378 There he is. 1107 01:16:34,047 --> 01:16:36,507 - Any word on Bud? - Ethel's still with him. 1108 01:16:36,675 --> 01:16:38,009 Thank you for coming, sir. 1109 01:16:39,219 --> 01:16:40,928 Well, well, well. 1110 01:16:41,096 --> 01:16:43,389 The Pillsbury Doughboy. 1111 01:16:43,557 --> 01:16:45,725 Still practising exploitative law? 1112 01:16:45,892 --> 01:16:47,018 Thought you were dead. 1113 01:16:47,185 --> 01:16:49,395 I'm trying. Who do we have here? 1114 01:16:49,563 --> 01:16:51,731 Miss Roark, I would like to introduce to you... 1115 01:16:51,898 --> 01:16:55,693 Lucien Wilbanks, third white man in Mississippi to join the NAACP 1116 01:16:55,861 --> 01:16:58,654 permanently disbarred by the superior court, 1117 01:16:58,822 --> 01:17:03,034 for attacking police who busted a picket line in the EPSO oil strike. 1118 01:17:03,201 --> 01:17:05,494 It is a pleasure, Ms. Ark. 1119 01:17:07,164 --> 01:17:10,374 All right, everybody, jury selection begins this afternoon. 1120 01:17:10,542 --> 01:17:13,961 Now, to win this case, we need a sympathetic jury willing to acquit, 1121 01:17:14,129 --> 01:17:17,214 and a jury that can use the insanity plea as an excuse to do so. 1122 01:17:17,382 --> 01:17:18,507 I'm gonna need a drink. 1123 01:17:18,884 --> 01:17:20,217 No drinking. 1124 01:17:20,385 --> 01:17:22,928 What do you mean, no drinking? It's my building 1125 01:17:23,096 --> 01:17:26,265 built by my grandfather, leased to you for a reasonable rent, 1126 01:17:26,433 --> 01:17:27,558 and I want a drink. 1127 01:17:27,726 --> 01:17:31,145 Ms. Ark, I have all the respect in the world for you. 1128 01:17:31,313 --> 01:17:34,482 I believe in your right to equal pay, equal work, to bear a child, 1129 01:17:34,650 --> 01:17:38,611 or to abort one. I think you should be treated just like a man. 1130 01:17:38,779 --> 01:17:40,696 And since you are a law clerk 1131 01:17:40,864 --> 01:17:42,490 gender less in my eyes 1132 01:17:42,658 --> 01:17:45,368 I think you should be the one to go buy the beer. 1133 01:17:45,535 --> 01:17:50,039 ERA she-woman, that would be an excellent activity for you this afternoon. 1134 01:17:50,207 --> 01:17:53,125 Hey. No drinking. Not today. 1135 01:17:56,797 --> 01:17:59,924 Now, ahem, Noose selects this panel at random. 1136 01:18:00,092 --> 01:18:02,385 If we get too many bad candidates, we're sunk. 1137 01:18:02,678 --> 01:18:04,136 Luck of the draw. 1138 01:18:04,304 --> 01:18:05,429 What you need 1139 01:18:05,597 --> 01:18:08,432 is young fathers who wanna do what Carl Lee Hailey did. 1140 01:18:08,600 --> 01:18:11,602 Agreed. I think we need young men with families here. 1141 01:18:11,770 --> 01:18:15,106 Now, I would prefer no one over 50. Less bigotry, as a rule, with youth. 1142 01:18:15,273 --> 01:18:18,693 So we stay away from women, rednecks and old men. 1143 01:18:18,985 --> 01:18:21,028 [NOOSE] Uh, citizens, thank you. 1144 01:18:21,196 --> 01:18:24,240 Now, counsel, you each have 12 challenges. Let's begin. 1145 01:18:26,451 --> 01:18:32,623 Your Honour, the state challenges Jurors Number 6, 10 and 32. 1146 01:18:32,791 --> 01:18:37,795 Your Honour, the defence strikes Jurors 1, 4, 8 and 2. 1147 01:18:46,430 --> 01:18:51,058 Twenty-six, 27, 28 and 31. 1148 01:18:51,351 --> 01:18:55,187 Your Honour, the defence also strikes Jurors 22 and 29. 1149 01:19:00,902 --> 01:19:04,613 Now that's it, then. Mr. Brigance, you're all out of challenges. We're done. 1150 01:19:09,286 --> 01:19:13,539 [NOOSE] Jurors, you will be sequestered starting tonight. 1151 01:19:13,707 --> 01:19:15,499 Opening statements begin tomorrow morning. 1152 01:19:15,667 --> 01:19:17,042 [GAVEL BANGS] 1153 01:19:17,335 --> 01:19:20,379 That's a jury of my peers? 1154 01:19:21,173 --> 01:19:23,007 God bless America. 1155 01:19:24,843 --> 01:19:26,802 My name is Stump Sisson, 1156 01:19:26,970 --> 01:19:30,264 and I'm proud to be a grand dragon, 1157 01:19:30,432 --> 01:19:34,185 for the invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan. 1158 01:19:34,352 --> 01:19:36,854 [KLAN CHEERING AND CROWD YELLING] 1159 01:19:37,063 --> 01:19:38,439 What the hell? 1160 01:19:38,607 --> 01:19:42,860 [SISSON] And I'm here to say that the law-abiding white folks of Mississippi 1161 01:19:43,028 --> 01:19:49,533 are sick and tired of niggers stealing, raping, killing and getting away with it. 1162 01:19:49,826 --> 01:19:51,911 Ozzie, let's get them out of here. 1163 01:19:52,954 --> 01:19:54,330 [SISSON] We demand justice. 1164 01:19:54,498 --> 01:19:57,750 We demand this nigger be convicted, 1165 01:19:57,918 --> 01:20:02,755 and his black ass sent to the gas chamber. 1166 01:20:02,923 --> 01:20:04,131 Who you calling nigger? 1167 01:20:04,299 --> 01:20:08,552 You pointy-headed, white-faced, no-good, wife-beating son of a whore! 1168 01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:10,304 [SISSON] Shut up, you wild animal! 1169 01:20:10,472 --> 01:20:13,618 [WOMAN] Animal? You're the damn animal! [SHERIFF] I'll drag your ass out of here! 1170 01:20:13,642 --> 01:20:15,351 - [WOMAN] You're the damn animal! - Unh! 1171 01:20:15,519 --> 01:20:19,230 [CROWD YELLING] 1172 01:20:19,856 --> 01:20:21,023 [MAN] Come on! 1173 01:20:21,566 --> 01:20:23,150 Come on! 1174 01:20:28,824 --> 01:20:30,616 Come here, come here! 1175 01:20:41,586 --> 01:20:42,837 [SISSON] That's right, go on! 1176 01:20:44,005 --> 01:20:45,798 [SCREAMING] 1177 01:20:55,725 --> 01:20:59,186 [SHERIFF] Hastings! Hastings! Hastings! 1178 01:21:11,908 --> 01:21:13,659 [MAN] What's going on? 1179 01:21:23,169 --> 01:21:24,879 This is for Billy Ray. 1180 01:21:25,630 --> 01:21:27,965 [JAKE YELLS] 1181 01:21:29,759 --> 01:21:32,428 [ELLEN] Open! Open the gate! [HARRY REX] Open the gate! 1182 01:21:45,567 --> 01:21:47,151 [ELLEN] Turn around. 1183 01:21:47,611 --> 01:21:49,153 [ELLEN CLEARS THROAT] 1184 01:21:52,574 --> 01:21:54,825 I can't get to this. Just take off your pants. 1185 01:21:54,993 --> 01:21:57,036 Come on, Roark, do I look that easy? 1186 01:21:57,412 --> 01:21:59,747 Are you afraid I'm gonna see you in your underwear? 1187 01:21:59,915 --> 01:22:03,334 With Carla gone, the laundry's piling up. I'm not wearing any. 1188 01:22:03,501 --> 01:22:06,170 It's all right, I haven't worn any in years. 1189 01:22:07,172 --> 01:22:10,341 Look, I'm not gonna watch, I promise. Now strip, please. 1190 01:22:11,551 --> 01:22:13,636 All right. Fine. Batter up. 1191 01:22:15,263 --> 01:22:18,265 - What I need from you, Roark... - Do tell. 1192 01:22:18,433 --> 01:22:21,977 Is a way to discredit the state's shrink, Dr. Rodeheaver. 1193 01:22:22,145 --> 01:22:24,313 Unless you discredit the shrink 1194 01:22:24,481 --> 01:22:26,815 Carl Lee does not have a chance. Ow. 1195 01:22:26,983 --> 01:22:28,025 Mm. 1196 01:22:28,193 --> 01:22:30,027 Sorry. Sissy. 1197 01:22:31,529 --> 01:22:33,280 I think he's got a very good chance. 1198 01:22:34,658 --> 01:22:37,034 There you go. I think you're gonna live. All right. 1199 01:22:37,202 --> 01:22:38,911 Thanks. Whoo. 1200 01:22:39,204 --> 01:22:40,955 Good butt. 1201 01:22:42,374 --> 01:22:43,791 [JAKE CLEARS THROAT] 1202 01:22:43,959 --> 01:22:46,085 Ugh. So, uh... 1203 01:22:46,378 --> 01:22:48,796 What do you folks do around here to blow off steam 1204 01:22:48,964 --> 01:22:51,173 besides trying to kill each other? 1205 01:22:51,341 --> 01:22:57,429 You got discos or strip bars or malls or anything to go to? 1206 01:23:07,023 --> 01:23:08,107 Stump's dead. 1207 01:23:12,237 --> 01:23:13,445 He's dead, Freddie. 1208 01:23:15,865 --> 01:23:18,200 Come on, Freddie. Let's go on home. 1209 01:23:18,368 --> 01:23:20,202 It's all over. 1210 01:23:22,038 --> 01:23:24,206 It ain't near over. 1211 01:23:24,499 --> 01:23:26,917 How you doing? Good to see you. Excuse me. 1212 01:23:27,085 --> 01:23:28,585 Hey, I'll be right back. 1213 01:23:28,753 --> 01:23:30,421 - Here are your mud bugs. - [JAKE] Mm-hm. 1214 01:23:30,588 --> 01:23:31,868 [WAITRESS] There you go, darling. 1215 01:23:32,007 --> 01:23:34,591 - Anything else? - Yeah, a couple of dinner specials, 1216 01:23:34,759 --> 01:23:36,677 and some fried dill pickles. 1217 01:23:36,845 --> 01:23:39,054 - [WAITRESS] You got it, honey. - Thank you, Sugar. 1218 01:23:39,973 --> 01:23:42,850 That wasn't sexist at all. Really, I never order my own food. 1219 01:23:43,768 --> 01:23:45,144 I can't do another shot. 1220 01:23:45,770 --> 01:23:48,397 - All right, fine, I'll take another shot. - Just a splash. 1221 01:23:48,565 --> 01:23:50,441 Just a splash. 1222 01:23:51,526 --> 01:23:52,568 All right. 1223 01:23:52,736 --> 01:23:54,653 - To... - To 1224 01:23:55,071 --> 01:23:56,113 Carl Lee Hailey. 1225 01:23:56,281 --> 01:23:59,033 May our jury find that man loony as a proverbial fruitcake. 1226 01:23:59,200 --> 01:24:00,784 Hear, hear. 1227 01:24:03,204 --> 01:24:04,496 No more. 1228 01:24:06,624 --> 01:24:08,333 So, um... 1229 01:24:09,711 --> 01:24:11,670 Do you think he was crazy when he did it? 1230 01:24:13,048 --> 01:24:15,299 No, he wasn't crazy. 1231 01:24:15,467 --> 01:24:17,259 He told me he was gonna do it. 1232 01:24:20,472 --> 01:24:23,807 I tried to tell myself he wasn't serious. 1233 01:24:27,520 --> 01:24:29,980 I think I really wanted him to do it. 1234 01:24:32,275 --> 01:24:35,319 I came home that night and I was looking at Hannah laying there 1235 01:24:35,487 --> 01:24:37,362 looking how tender she is. 1236 01:24:38,156 --> 01:24:41,075 All I could think about was all the monsters out there, 1237 01:24:41,242 --> 01:24:44,453 and any one of them can come steal her innocence. 1238 01:24:48,208 --> 01:24:50,167 Take her life, if they wanted. 1239 01:24:57,801 --> 01:25:01,887 Yeah, I wanted those boys dead. You're god damn right I did. 1240 01:25:08,978 --> 01:25:10,687 I guess I helped killed them. 1241 01:25:14,651 --> 01:25:17,194 So tomorrow, when we get in court 1242 01:25:19,030 --> 01:25:21,657 it's not just Carl Lee I'm trying to get off. 1243 01:25:24,953 --> 01:25:27,955 [MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY] 1244 01:25:32,544 --> 01:25:35,546 [MAX BARKING] 1245 01:25:40,552 --> 01:25:41,832 [FREDDIE] Burn in hell, Brigance! 1246 01:25:41,970 --> 01:25:44,388 [KLANSMEN CHEER] 1247 01:25:55,233 --> 01:25:57,234 [ELLEN] Good job. 1248 01:25:57,735 --> 01:25:59,945 [ELLEN SIGHS] 1249 01:26:00,113 --> 01:26:02,948 - [JAKE] Nice place... - How is it you'll drive an hour and half 1250 01:26:03,116 --> 01:26:07,161 outside of town to take me to dinner, but you have no problem 1251 01:26:07,328 --> 01:26:09,746 walking me into my motel room? 1252 01:26:09,914 --> 01:26:11,915 Well, with everything that's going on 1253 01:26:12,083 --> 01:26:14,418 I don't think we can be too careful. 1254 01:26:14,586 --> 01:26:17,129 Just wanna make sure it's all safe in here. 1255 01:26:17,297 --> 01:26:18,839 [ELLEN] I'm not scared. 1256 01:26:19,007 --> 01:26:22,009 - Oh, yes, I am. - Of what? 1257 01:26:22,552 --> 01:26:24,887 Of what's going to happen tomorrow. 1258 01:26:25,221 --> 01:26:28,390 All the other cases I've worked on have only been paper defendants. 1259 01:26:28,558 --> 01:26:33,020 It's just I never knew the towns, and I never touched the lives or anything. 1260 01:26:33,188 --> 01:26:35,314 So I don't know what it's like. 1261 01:26:37,442 --> 01:26:39,443 [JAKE SIGHS] 1262 01:26:41,613 --> 01:26:43,614 Tomorrow morning 1263 01:26:43,781 --> 01:26:47,367 Buckley will try to kill Carl Lee Hailey. 1264 01:26:47,952 --> 01:26:50,370 Now, it's on us to stop him. 1265 01:26:50,538 --> 01:26:52,289 Mm-hm. 1266 01:26:53,082 --> 01:26:55,125 So tonight, go over the battle in your mind. 1267 01:26:55,293 --> 01:26:58,295 Argument, rebuttal, examination and cross. All of it. 1268 01:26:58,504 --> 01:26:59,671 Mm-hm. 1269 01:27:00,173 --> 01:27:02,299 - Remember something. - Hmm. 1270 01:27:03,259 --> 01:27:06,970 - You are one of the good guys. - Okay. 1271 01:27:07,472 --> 01:27:11,141 - And good guy has the spicy on her lip. - Spicy. 1272 01:27:11,309 --> 01:27:13,894 But still one of the good guys. 1273 01:27:26,950 --> 01:27:28,909 I'm going home. 1274 01:27:29,327 --> 01:27:33,080 Lock the door behind me, Roark. I'll see you in the morning. 1275 01:27:38,044 --> 01:27:39,211 [DOOR CLOSES] 1276 01:27:46,636 --> 01:27:48,756 [OFFICER1] It's gonna blow, sheriff. It's gonna blow. 1277 01:27:48,846 --> 01:27:50,514 [SIRENS WAILING] 1278 01:27:50,682 --> 01:27:52,362 [OFFICERS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO] 1279 01:27:52,517 --> 01:27:54,810 [OFFICER 2] Oz is right over there! 1280 01:27:59,440 --> 01:28:01,608 [SHERIFF] Wait. Wait. Hold it, Jake. Hold it, Jake. 1281 01:28:01,776 --> 01:28:03,128 - [JAKE] My dog's in there. - Jake... 1282 01:28:03,152 --> 01:28:04,611 My dog's in there! 1283 01:28:04,779 --> 01:28:05,821 Max! 1284 01:28:05,989 --> 01:28:08,031 [SHERIFF] Come on. Come on. 1285 01:28:08,199 --> 01:28:13,745 Max! 1286 01:28:19,544 --> 01:28:21,378 It's too late. 1287 01:28:25,174 --> 01:28:28,176 [OFFICERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY] 1288 01:28:41,983 --> 01:28:44,318 [SOLDIERS IN UNISON] Move, move, move. 1289 01:29:22,106 --> 01:29:23,690 Hey, buddy. 1290 01:29:24,817 --> 01:29:26,151 Seen my dog? 1291 01:29:26,611 --> 01:29:28,070 Looking for my dog. 1292 01:29:28,237 --> 01:29:32,199 Max, come here, boy! Let's go! Come on, Max! 1293 01:29:33,951 --> 01:29:39,831 I booked you on the 9:15 to Gulfport. Economy, of course. 1294 01:29:40,124 --> 01:29:41,833 Go see your wife and daughter, Jake. 1295 01:29:44,087 --> 01:29:46,505 What'd you do that for, Harry Rex? 1296 01:29:46,714 --> 01:29:48,632 We got trial in less than three hours. 1297 01:29:48,966 --> 01:29:50,008 Oh, come on. 1298 01:29:50,176 --> 01:29:52,552 Noose would give you a continuance in a flash. 1299 01:29:52,720 --> 01:29:56,681 NAACP boys be down here before lunch. Drooling. 1300 01:29:57,433 --> 01:30:00,477 Max, let's go, boy! Come on! 1301 01:30:01,354 --> 01:30:03,188 Jake, listen to me. 1302 01:30:03,731 --> 01:30:07,067 Your marriage is on the rocks, you're about to have an affair. 1303 01:30:07,235 --> 01:30:10,737 Your career's in ruins if you're lucky, and if you're not, you're dead. 1304 01:30:12,281 --> 01:30:13,782 Don't get me wrong, my friend. 1305 01:30:14,742 --> 01:30:17,661 What you've put into this case, you even inspired me, and I'm 1306 01:30:17,829 --> 01:30:19,871 I'm uninspirable. 1307 01:30:20,039 --> 01:30:21,748 Do everyone a favour, though. 1308 01:30:21,916 --> 01:30:24,000 Drop the case. 1309 01:30:27,338 --> 01:30:29,673 No, I can't. 1310 01:30:30,299 --> 01:30:32,843 I won't. I'm not gonna quit. 1311 01:30:33,803 --> 01:30:36,263 I quit now, and all this is for nothing. No. 1312 01:30:39,851 --> 01:30:42,602 Max, come on now. Max, where are you? Come on, Max! 1313 01:30:42,770 --> 01:30:45,147 Max is dead, and you're next. 1314 01:30:46,232 --> 01:30:48,108 Walk away. 1315 01:30:54,282 --> 01:30:56,158 [MAX BARKING] 1316 01:30:57,869 --> 01:31:00,495 Max. Come here, boy. 1317 01:31:01,372 --> 01:31:03,290 Come here. Come here, boy. Ha-ha-ha. 1318 01:31:03,499 --> 01:31:05,000 Come here. Come here. 1319 01:31:05,168 --> 01:31:07,377 Who's got the goods, huh? Huh? 1320 01:31:09,922 --> 01:31:12,549 Pretrial strategy at my office in less than two hours, 1321 01:31:12,717 --> 01:31:15,385 and I expect to see your ass there. 1322 01:31:15,761 --> 01:31:18,680 [CROWD CHANTING] Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee! 1323 01:31:18,848 --> 01:31:22,184 Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee! 1324 01:31:30,151 --> 01:31:32,152 [WOMAN] Fry Carl Lee. 1325 01:31:33,529 --> 01:31:34,779 [CROWD CHANTING] Free Carl Lee! 1326 01:31:36,491 --> 01:31:38,867 [KLAN CHANTING] Fry Carl Lee! Fry Carl Lee! Fry Carl Lee! 1327 01:31:39,035 --> 01:31:40,243 [CROWD] Free Carl Lee! 1328 01:31:43,164 --> 01:31:45,499 Free Carl Lee! Free Carl Lee! 1329 01:31:49,545 --> 01:31:53,173 [KLAN CHANTING] Fry Carl Lee! Fry Carl Lee! Fry Carl Lee! 1330 01:31:53,341 --> 01:31:57,802 Fry Carl Lee! Fry Carl Lee! Fry Carl Lee! 1331 01:32:05,019 --> 01:32:08,396 [NOOSE] Now, Mr. Buckley, you may begin. 1332 01:32:08,564 --> 01:32:10,440 Thank you, Your Honour. 1333 01:32:13,277 --> 01:32:15,904 - Good morning. - Good morning. 1334 01:32:17,823 --> 01:32:22,494 You are Cora Mae Cobb, the mother of Billy Ray Cobb the deceased, are you not? 1335 01:32:22,662 --> 01:32:24,120 Yes, sir. 1336 01:32:24,288 --> 01:32:26,706 And where were you when your son was murdered? 1337 01:32:26,999 --> 01:32:30,210 I was right outside that door right there. 1338 01:32:30,378 --> 01:32:33,171 Me and Freddie was waiting for his hearing. 1339 01:32:33,673 --> 01:32:35,674 He was walking up the stairs 1340 01:32:35,841 --> 01:32:37,634 in handcuffs. 1341 01:32:37,927 --> 01:32:41,513 Can you tell us how old your son was at the time of his death? 1342 01:32:42,890 --> 01:32:43,974 Twenty-three. 1343 01:32:45,851 --> 01:32:48,019 [JAKE] You say your son was 23 when he died? 1344 01:32:48,437 --> 01:32:49,479 Yes. 1345 01:32:49,647 --> 01:32:52,566 In those 23 years, Mrs. Cobb 1346 01:32:52,733 --> 01:32:54,859 how many other children did your son kidnap? 1347 01:32:55,027 --> 01:32:56,820 Objection, Your Honour! Objection! 1348 01:32:56,988 --> 01:33:00,615 Sustained. You... You are out of order, Mr. Brigance. 1349 01:33:00,783 --> 01:33:03,451 - Withdraw the question. - The jury will disregard 1350 01:33:03,619 --> 01:33:05,787 the last question from Mr. Brigance. 1351 01:33:06,664 --> 01:33:10,083 Mrs. Cobb, in your son's 23 years 1352 01:33:10,251 --> 01:33:12,294 how many other children did he rape? 1353 01:33:12,461 --> 01:33:15,088 Mr. Brigance. In my chambers. 1354 01:33:16,173 --> 01:33:17,507 Court will recess for lunch. 1355 01:33:17,675 --> 01:33:19,009 [GAVEL BANGS] 1356 01:33:20,344 --> 01:33:22,929 I don't get it. Why is he antagonizing the judge? 1357 01:33:23,097 --> 01:33:25,348 He should've known Noose'd pull him into chambers. 1358 01:33:25,516 --> 01:33:29,769 Of course he knew. Jake got to draw first blood and he knows that's more important. 1359 01:33:30,896 --> 01:33:32,772 - Hello, Harry. - Hi, Rufie. 1360 01:33:32,940 --> 01:33:36,818 - Sweetheart, come play on a winning team. - How's that impotence thing, Rufus? 1361 01:33:40,239 --> 01:33:43,033 You're not being paid for the work you're doing, are you? 1362 01:33:43,200 --> 01:33:44,284 No, sir. 1363 01:33:45,703 --> 01:33:48,143 Well, I guess Jake's paying you in other ways, then, isn't he? 1364 01:33:48,289 --> 01:33:50,123 [LAUGHS] 1365 01:33:50,291 --> 01:33:51,374 Impotence? 1366 01:33:51,542 --> 01:33:53,168 Yep. Girls talk. 1367 01:33:53,336 --> 01:33:58,173 Sheriff, if you would, will you please identify this weapon? 1368 01:33:58,341 --> 01:33:59,924 It's the weapon found at the scene. 1369 01:34:00,635 --> 01:34:04,638 And were you able to identify any of the fingerprints found on this gun? 1370 01:34:04,889 --> 01:34:08,099 Yes. The prints on the gun matched those of Carl Lee Hailey. 1371 01:34:08,267 --> 01:34:09,726 [RUFUS] You're sure? 1372 01:34:10,227 --> 01:34:11,561 [SHERIFF] Yes. 1373 01:34:11,729 --> 01:34:15,940 Your Honour, I'd like to enter this into evidence as Exhibit S1 8. 1374 01:34:16,108 --> 01:34:18,360 We have no further use of this witness. 1375 01:34:22,490 --> 01:34:24,491 [JAKE] Sheriff Walls. 1376 01:34:25,868 --> 01:34:27,786 Did you arrest Cobb and Willard? 1377 01:34:27,953 --> 01:34:29,454 Yes, I did. 1378 01:34:29,622 --> 01:34:31,665 I arrested them for the rape, 1379 01:34:31,832 --> 01:34:35,752 and attempted murder of 10-year-old Tonya Hailey. 1380 01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:37,545 [JAKE] And is it true that Pete Willard 1381 01:34:37,713 --> 01:34:39,506 signed a written confession 1382 01:34:39,674 --> 01:34:43,343 saying that he and Billy Ray Cobb did rape Tonya Hailey? 1383 01:34:43,511 --> 01:34:46,429 Objection. That's inadmissible, and Mr. Brigance knows it. 1384 01:34:46,597 --> 01:34:49,432 [NOOSE] Mr. Brigance, I've spoken to you before. 1385 01:34:49,600 --> 01:34:52,435 We are not trying the rape of Miss Hailey today, 1386 01:34:52,603 --> 01:34:57,273 but the murder of two young men, and if you continue in this performance 1387 01:34:58,109 --> 01:34:59,734 I'll hold you in contempt. 1388 01:34:59,985 --> 01:35:01,486 Now, is that understood? 1389 01:35:02,488 --> 01:35:04,030 Yes, sir. 1390 01:35:05,366 --> 01:35:07,617 I have no further questions, Your Honour. 1391 01:35:07,785 --> 01:35:09,452 Yes. 1392 01:35:10,621 --> 01:35:12,580 You say something, sheriff? 1393 01:35:14,458 --> 01:35:17,627 - Yes, he did sign a confession. - Objection, Your Honour! 1394 01:35:18,045 --> 01:35:23,049 [NOOSE] Jurors, you will disregard the last remark of Sheriff Walls. 1395 01:35:23,217 --> 01:35:27,178 Court is adjourned till tomorrow morning 9:00. 1396 01:35:48,159 --> 01:35:50,368 I'm taking Bud back to Oxford. 1397 01:35:51,954 --> 01:35:54,247 He always missed Oxford. 1398 01:36:11,140 --> 01:36:13,600 I don't know what to say, Ethel, I don't know. 1399 01:36:13,768 --> 01:36:16,269 There's nothing you can say. 1400 01:36:17,521 --> 01:36:20,690 I know you didn't want any of this to happen, 1401 01:36:20,858 --> 01:36:22,776 but it happened all the same. 1402 01:36:24,695 --> 01:36:28,114 You wagered all our lives on this. 1403 01:36:28,574 --> 01:36:33,203 You just went ahead and did what you felt you had to do, no matter what the cost. 1404 01:36:35,539 --> 01:36:38,500 Some folks think that's brave. 1405 01:36:39,376 --> 01:36:41,503 Not me, Jake. 1406 01:36:42,421 --> 01:36:44,339 Now, you may win, 1407 01:36:44,965 --> 01:36:47,842 but I think we've all lost here. 1408 01:36:54,558 --> 01:37:00,396 - Would you help an old lady to her car? - You don't need any help, Ethel, 1409 01:37:00,564 --> 01:37:05,026 but it would be my hon our to escort you to your auto mobile. 1410 01:37:16,872 --> 01:37:18,414 [ELLEN GRUNTS] 1411 01:37:19,500 --> 01:37:21,459 Didn't like that one? 1412 01:37:21,877 --> 01:37:23,837 Buckley is presenting his shrink tomorrow. 1413 01:37:24,004 --> 01:37:27,131 I can't come up with one way to bring him down. Not one. 1414 01:37:27,299 --> 01:37:31,553 I keep asking myself, What would Jake do? What would my father do? 1415 01:37:31,720 --> 01:37:32,762 What would Lucien do? 1416 01:37:32,930 --> 01:37:35,223 That's your problem right there. 1417 01:37:35,391 --> 01:37:39,269 What you gotta ask yourself is, What would Harry Rex do? 1418 01:37:39,436 --> 01:37:41,020 What would Harry Rex do? 1419 01:37:41,188 --> 01:37:42,522 Cheat. 1420 01:37:42,690 --> 01:37:44,107 Cheat like crazy. 1421 01:37:48,612 --> 01:37:49,612 [MAN 1] Yeah. Yeah, I did. 1422 01:37:49,780 --> 01:37:52,615 I'll bring her around the side. 1423 01:37:55,369 --> 01:37:56,703 Uh-huh. 1424 01:37:56,871 --> 01:37:58,371 - [MAN 2] Hey, Cheryl. - Hi. 1425 01:38:00,165 --> 01:38:01,685 [WHISPERING] So we gotta talk about it. 1426 01:38:02,251 --> 01:38:03,543 [WHISPERING] Now, wait a minute. 1427 01:38:03,711 --> 01:38:06,588 The judge said absolutely not to discuss this case. 1428 01:38:06,755 --> 01:38:09,299 That judge ain't stuck here away from his wife and kids. 1429 01:38:09,466 --> 01:38:13,344 The sooner we start talking about it, the sooner we can get home. 1430 01:38:13,512 --> 01:38:15,972 I wanna get out of here just as much as anybody else. 1431 01:38:16,140 --> 01:38:17,974 [FOREMAN] Let's get on with it. 1432 01:38:19,977 --> 01:38:21,394 Undecided? 1433 01:38:24,732 --> 01:38:26,232 Four. 1434 01:38:26,400 --> 01:38:28,276 Guilty? 1435 01:38:32,990 --> 01:38:34,824 Seven. 1436 01:38:35,492 --> 01:38:36,534 Not guilty? 1437 01:38:41,165 --> 01:38:43,499 That nigger's dead, y'all. 1438 01:39:01,685 --> 01:39:05,188 [ELLEN] I know, I know. Folks in town just can't get enough of this trial. 1439 01:39:05,356 --> 01:39:09,525 And that's why my editor said I needed to come down and interview Rodeheaver. 1440 01:39:10,069 --> 01:39:12,445 I'm afraid Dr. Rodeheaver's in court today. 1441 01:39:12,988 --> 01:39:14,030 Oh. 1442 01:39:14,573 --> 01:39:17,033 If a pretty girl like you wants to be a reporter 1443 01:39:17,201 --> 01:39:19,202 maybe she should do some better research? 1444 01:39:19,370 --> 01:39:20,411 Yeah. Ha. 1445 01:39:20,579 --> 01:39:23,873 Well, um, you know what? I don't... I don't mind waiting 1446 01:39:24,041 --> 01:39:26,542 because my paper really wants this interview, 1447 01:39:26,710 --> 01:39:28,962 so is he still in Room 369? I'll just go there. 1448 01:39:29,129 --> 01:39:33,341 No, dear. Wrong again. He's in 128. But he's gone all day. 1449 01:39:33,509 --> 01:39:35,009 You can't see him today. 1450 01:39:35,177 --> 01:39:38,888 You wanna come back to my office and we can schedule an appointment? 1451 01:39:39,056 --> 01:39:41,182 You know what? I'll come back another time 1452 01:39:41,350 --> 01:39:44,102 when he's got time to talk, when things kind of die down. 1453 01:39:44,269 --> 01:39:46,813 - I appreciate it. Thank you. - You can call me any time. 1454 01:39:46,981 --> 01:39:48,815 Okay. Bye-bye. 1455 01:39:52,069 --> 01:39:55,822 Your Honour, the state calls Deputy Dwayne Looney. 1456 01:39:59,660 --> 01:40:01,244 [JAKE CLEARS THROAT] 1457 01:40:31,775 --> 01:40:33,420 [RUFUS] Good morning. [DWAYNE] Good morning. 1458 01:40:33,444 --> 01:40:36,404 [RUFUS] Would you please state your name for the record? 1459 01:40:36,572 --> 01:40:39,782 [DWAYNE] Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney. 1460 01:40:39,950 --> 01:40:41,743 [RUFUS] Thank you, Deputy Looney. 1461 01:40:41,910 --> 01:40:44,537 You were present at the murders of Billy Ray Cobb, 1462 01:40:44,705 --> 01:40:46,956 and James Lewis Willard, were you not? 1463 01:40:47,124 --> 01:40:48,708 [DWAYNE] Yes, sir. I was. 1464 01:40:48,876 --> 01:40:50,752 [RUFUS] If you can remember 1465 01:40:50,919 --> 01:40:55,131 describe how you were wounded for the members of the jury. 1466 01:40:55,299 --> 01:40:58,801 I think bullets bounced off the floor, caught me in the knee. 1467 01:40:58,969 --> 01:41:00,887 And what happened to your leg? 1468 01:41:02,264 --> 01:41:03,556 Doc cut it off. 1469 01:41:04,892 --> 01:41:09,937 And after the loss of your right leg, Detective Looney 1470 01:41:10,898 --> 01:41:13,274 are you still able to serve as a police officer? 1471 01:41:15,194 --> 01:41:17,528 I'm able to perform 1472 01:41:21,158 --> 01:41:24,660 I'm able to perform a number of services. 1473 01:41:24,828 --> 01:41:27,455 Did you get a good look at the man with the gun? 1474 01:41:27,623 --> 01:41:28,664 No, sir. 1475 01:41:29,666 --> 01:41:34,837 However, Mr. Hailey did personally apologize for his shooting me. 1476 01:41:36,965 --> 01:41:38,382 Oh. 1477 01:41:40,135 --> 01:41:43,304 So Mr. Hailey admitted shooting you. 1478 01:41:43,889 --> 01:41:44,931 Yes, sir. 1479 01:41:45,099 --> 01:41:47,019 [RUFUS] I have no further questions, Your Honour. 1480 01:41:47,142 --> 01:41:49,060 - Mr. Brigance. - No questions, Your Honour. 1481 01:41:49,228 --> 01:41:50,686 Wait a minute. 1482 01:41:50,854 --> 01:41:53,356 - Uh, Mr. Buckley? - Yes, Your Honour. 1483 01:41:53,524 --> 01:41:54,899 The state would like to call... 1484 01:41:55,067 --> 01:41:57,026 Give me a moment to speak with my client. 1485 01:41:57,194 --> 01:41:58,361 Take your time. 1486 01:42:00,322 --> 01:42:02,573 Ask him if he thinks I ought to go to jail. 1487 01:42:02,866 --> 01:42:05,827 Carl Lee, they amputated his leg because you shot him. 1488 01:42:05,994 --> 01:42:07,787 He's a witness for the prosecution. 1489 01:42:07,955 --> 01:42:10,039 - You're my lawyer, ain't you? - Yeah. 1490 01:42:10,582 --> 01:42:12,458 Ask him. 1491 01:42:18,757 --> 01:42:22,885 - Your Honour, one question. - Make up your mind, Mr. Brigance. 1492 01:42:27,141 --> 01:42:28,182 Deputy Looney. 1493 01:42:29,768 --> 01:42:32,895 Do you think Carl Lee shooting you was intentional? 1494 01:42:33,063 --> 01:42:34,480 [DWAYNE] No, sir. 1495 01:42:34,648 --> 01:42:35,982 It was an accident. 1496 01:42:40,404 --> 01:42:41,445 [MOUTHS] Ask him. 1497 01:42:48,537 --> 01:42:51,497 Do you think he should be punished for shooting you? 1498 01:42:52,291 --> 01:42:54,041 No, sir. 1499 01:42:54,209 --> 01:42:57,837 I hold no ill will toward the man. 1500 01:42:58,255 --> 01:43:00,089 He did what I would've done. 1501 01:43:00,257 --> 01:43:02,175 What do you mean by that, Deputy Looney? 1502 01:43:02,342 --> 01:43:04,802 I mean I don't blame him for what he did. 1503 01:43:04,970 --> 01:43:06,804 Those boys raped his little girl. 1504 01:43:06,972 --> 01:43:11,475 Objection, Your Honour. The witness's opinion on this matter is irrelevant. 1505 01:43:11,643 --> 01:43:17,356 Your Honour, I believe Deputy Looney has earned the right to speak here today. 1506 01:43:18,901 --> 01:43:20,067 Overruled. 1507 01:43:21,278 --> 01:43:22,904 Continue. 1508 01:43:25,657 --> 01:43:26,866 Go ahead, Dwayne. 1509 01:43:28,076 --> 01:43:30,328 I got a little girl. 1510 01:43:32,206 --> 01:43:34,874 Somebody rapes her, he's a dead dog. 1511 01:43:35,042 --> 01:43:37,251 I'll blow him away just like Carl Lee did. 1512 01:43:37,419 --> 01:43:38,628 Objection, Your Honour! 1513 01:43:38,795 --> 01:43:40,963 Do you think the jury should convict Carl Lee? 1514 01:43:41,131 --> 01:43:43,424 Don't answer that question, deputy. 1515 01:43:43,592 --> 01:43:45,718 He's a hero. You turn him loose. 1516 01:43:45,886 --> 01:43:47,970 [NOOSE] Jury will disregard. 1517 01:43:48,138 --> 01:43:49,388 Turn him loose! 1518 01:43:49,806 --> 01:43:52,058 Your Honour, you silence that witness! 1519 01:43:52,226 --> 01:43:54,227 Turn him loose! 1520 01:43:54,394 --> 01:43:57,396 [PEOPLE SHOUTING AND GAVEL BANGING] 1521 01:43:58,649 --> 01:43:59,774 [WOMAN] No! 1522 01:44:01,652 --> 01:44:04,862 People say whatever the hell they want in this courtroom! 1523 01:44:05,197 --> 01:44:06,739 Quiet! 1524 01:44:09,451 --> 01:44:11,827 Any more of that nonsense, 1525 01:44:11,995 --> 01:44:13,621 and you're all out of here. 1526 01:44:15,916 --> 01:44:18,751 [NOOSE] Now, Mr. Buckley, you may begin. 1527 01:44:18,919 --> 01:44:20,962 [RUFUS] Thank you, Your Honour. 1528 01:44:21,588 --> 01:44:26,217 Would you please state your name and occupation for the members of the jury. 1529 01:44:26,385 --> 01:44:30,638 My name is Dr. Wilbert Rodeheaver, chair of Psychiatry 1530 01:44:30,806 --> 01:44:32,515 at Mississippi State University, 1531 01:44:32,683 --> 01:44:36,811 and clinical director of the Whitfield Facility for the Criminally Insane. 1532 01:44:38,146 --> 01:44:41,065 Thank you, doctor. Your credentials speak for themselves. 1533 01:44:41,233 --> 01:44:45,528 Now, doctor, can you please explain, as you do so eloquently in your book 1534 01:44:45,696 --> 01:44:47,863 the McNaughton Rule for the jury? 1535 01:44:48,031 --> 01:44:49,115 [RODEHEAVER] Certainly. 1536 01:44:49,283 --> 01:44:50,658 The McNaughton Rule states 1537 01:44:50,826 --> 01:44:54,996 that a person must be unable to tell right from wrong 1538 01:44:55,163 --> 01:44:59,375 and/or be unaware of the consequences of his actions 1539 01:44:59,543 --> 01:45:01,752 to be termed legally insane. 1540 01:45:01,920 --> 01:45:03,838 Now, did you examine Mr. Hailey? 1541 01:45:04,006 --> 01:45:07,633 Yes. Mr. Hailey and I spoke about his childhood, his family 1542 01:45:07,801 --> 01:45:10,219 his experiences during the war. 1543 01:45:10,387 --> 01:45:12,138 And the rape of his daughter? 1544 01:45:12,306 --> 01:45:17,601 [RODEHEAVER] Yes, we spoke at length about the brutal rape of his daughter Tonya. 1545 01:45:17,769 --> 01:45:21,355 [RUFUS] What is your diagnosis of Mr. Hailey's mental condition 1546 01:45:21,523 --> 01:45:26,193 on the day that he shot Billy Ray Cobb and James Lewis Willard? 1547 01:45:26,361 --> 01:45:28,696 At the time of the murders, his mental condition 1548 01:45:28,864 --> 01:45:31,073 was without any defects of any nature. 1549 01:45:31,241 --> 01:45:33,075 Mr. Hailey was sane. 1550 01:45:33,243 --> 01:45:35,661 But wait a minute, doctor. The defence contends... 1551 01:45:35,829 --> 01:45:38,914 Why, Mr. Brigance has gone to great effort to prove to this jury 1552 01:45:39,082 --> 01:45:42,376 that Mr. Hailey is a nutball. 1553 01:45:42,586 --> 01:45:44,587 Is a slow coach. 1554 01:45:44,755 --> 01:45:48,215 Or what's the clinical definition? 1555 01:45:48,383 --> 01:45:49,925 Insane. 1556 01:45:51,845 --> 01:45:54,096 - Do you disagree? - [RODEHEAVER] Yes. 1557 01:45:54,264 --> 01:45:57,141 Carl Lee Hailey knew very well what he was doing. 1558 01:45:57,309 --> 01:45:59,810 He slaughtered those men in cold blood. 1559 01:46:00,854 --> 01:46:01,937 Thank you, doctor. 1560 01:46:02,105 --> 01:46:05,149 I have no further questions, Your Honour. 1561 01:46:06,109 --> 01:46:09,570 - Buddy, where the hell is Roark? - I got no clue. 1562 01:46:09,738 --> 01:46:11,989 Cross-examination, Mr. Brigance? 1563 01:46:13,116 --> 01:46:17,036 Your Honour, we would request a recess until... 1564 01:46:19,331 --> 01:46:22,416 No, we will not need a recess, Your Honour, but just a few moments. 1565 01:46:29,007 --> 01:46:30,591 [NOOSE] Mr. Brigance? 1566 01:46:30,759 --> 01:46:33,969 When you and Lois Lane are ready... 1567 01:46:34,137 --> 01:46:36,138 [WHISPERING lNDISTINCTLY] 1568 01:46:37,307 --> 01:46:39,683 Just a few questions, Your Honour. 1569 01:46:42,521 --> 01:46:44,188 Doctor, who do you work for? 1570 01:46:44,356 --> 01:46:45,981 State of Mississippi. 1571 01:46:46,149 --> 01:46:47,358 In your 11 years 1572 01:46:47,526 --> 01:46:51,153 how many times have you testified where the insanity defence was used? 1573 01:46:51,321 --> 01:46:53,489 This is my 46th trial. 1574 01:46:53,657 --> 01:46:55,324 Forty-sixth trial. 1575 01:46:55,492 --> 01:46:56,742 Well, of those 46 trials 1576 01:46:56,910 --> 01:47:00,996 how many times have you testified that the defendant was legally insane? 1577 01:47:01,164 --> 01:47:03,791 Objection, Your Honour! The good doctor cannot be asked 1578 01:47:03,959 --> 01:47:08,129 to recall all of his testimony at these previous trials. It's absurd. 1579 01:47:08,296 --> 01:47:09,588 Overruled. 1580 01:47:10,590 --> 01:47:12,508 Thank you, Your Honour. 1581 01:47:13,051 --> 01:47:14,510 I can't remember. 1582 01:47:14,678 --> 01:47:17,221 Could it be, doctor, the reason you can't remember 1583 01:47:17,389 --> 01:47:20,391 is that in 11 years and 46 trials 1584 01:47:20,559 --> 01:47:23,769 you never have seen a defendant whom you have found insane? 1585 01:47:24,104 --> 01:47:26,230 I can't recall at this time. 1586 01:47:27,691 --> 01:47:30,234 Can you recall testifying at the trial of one Dan Baker? 1587 01:47:30,402 --> 01:47:33,737 Objection! Your Honour, this has nothing to do with the proceedings here. 1588 01:47:33,905 --> 01:47:35,322 [NOOSE] Overruled. 1589 01:47:35,490 --> 01:47:39,577 - This... This better be good, Mr. Brigance. - Thank you, Your Honour. 1590 01:47:40,370 --> 01:47:44,832 I'll ask again. Can you recall testifying the trial of one Dan Baker? 1591 01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:49,837 It's a rather brutal double homicide where you found the defendant legally sane? 1592 01:47:50,589 --> 01:47:51,839 Yes. 1593 01:47:52,007 --> 01:47:54,592 A dissenting psychiatrist disagreed with you, doctor. 1594 01:47:54,759 --> 01:47:58,262 And Mr. Baker was found insane and institutionalized. 1595 01:47:58,430 --> 01:48:00,055 Where is he currently, doctor? 1596 01:48:00,223 --> 01:48:01,265 At Whitfield. 1597 01:48:01,433 --> 01:48:03,559 Who is the chief psychiatrist at Whitfield? 1598 01:48:03,727 --> 01:48:06,145 - I am. - You are. 1599 01:48:07,397 --> 01:48:10,232 Dr. Rodeheaver is the chief psychiatrist at Whitfield. 1600 01:48:10,775 --> 01:48:13,569 Now, help me make this clear to the jury, doctor. 1601 01:48:13,737 --> 01:48:18,866 In 1985, you testified that Dan Baker was legally sane. 1602 01:48:19,034 --> 01:48:21,118 The jury disagreed with you. 1603 01:48:21,286 --> 01:48:24,705 And Mr. Baker was found not guilty by reason of insanity. 1604 01:48:24,873 --> 01:48:28,334 Since that time, he has been a patient in your hospital, under your care 1605 01:48:28,502 --> 01:48:31,086 as a paranoid schizophrenic. Is that correct, doctor? 1606 01:48:31,254 --> 01:48:32,338 Yes. 1607 01:48:32,506 --> 01:48:34,298 Do you normally admit patients 1608 01:48:34,466 --> 01:48:37,927 keep and treat them for 10 years if they're of sound mind and body? 1609 01:48:38,094 --> 01:48:39,428 Of course not. 1610 01:48:39,596 --> 01:48:41,972 Then it would be fair to say 1611 01:48:42,140 --> 01:48:45,601 that you find insane people sane for the purposes of trial? 1612 01:48:45,769 --> 01:48:48,812 Objection, Your Honour! This is argumentative! 1613 01:48:48,980 --> 01:48:53,400 Withdraw the question, Your Honour. No further questions. 1614 01:48:57,906 --> 01:48:59,281 [QUIETLY] Genius, Roark. 1615 01:49:11,628 --> 01:49:14,046 [PEOPLE CHATTERING] 1616 01:49:14,214 --> 01:49:18,592 [WOMAN] Mr. Brigance! Mr. Brigance! [JAKE] Yes. Yes. 1617 01:49:18,760 --> 01:49:21,512 [WOMAN] How do you expect to get a fair trial in Mississippi? 1618 01:49:21,680 --> 01:49:24,265 [GUNSHOT THEN PEOPLE SCREAMING AND SHOUTING] 1619 01:49:25,058 --> 01:49:26,809 [JAKE] Get him! 1620 01:49:27,852 --> 01:49:30,771 - Get an ambulance, get, get! - [MAN] Come on. 1621 01:49:43,159 --> 01:49:45,661 [ELLEN] So is there any news on the guard who was shot? 1622 01:49:46,580 --> 01:49:48,747 Ozzie says he's probably paralysed. 1623 01:49:50,208 --> 01:49:51,792 [SIGHS] 1624 01:49:53,169 --> 01:49:55,045 Some stranger 1625 01:49:55,213 --> 01:49:57,548 somebody's husband 1626 01:49:57,841 --> 01:50:00,009 somebody's son 1627 01:50:00,510 --> 01:50:03,262 put himself in harm's way, 1628 01:50:05,015 --> 01:50:06,724 for me. 1629 01:50:07,767 --> 01:50:10,269 When I saw the blood 1630 01:50:10,895 --> 01:50:13,689 I got so scared because I thought that was you. 1631 01:50:16,276 --> 01:50:17,901 [SIGHS] 1632 01:50:22,866 --> 01:50:24,491 Do you want me to stay? 1633 01:50:27,871 --> 01:50:29,455 Yeah. 1634 01:50:30,373 --> 01:50:32,541 I want you to stay. 1635 01:50:36,963 --> 01:50:39,214 So you better go. 1636 01:50:42,802 --> 01:50:44,678 Okay. 1637 01:50:52,646 --> 01:50:56,106 [POLICE SIREN WAILING] 1638 01:51:01,237 --> 01:51:03,238 [ELLEN MUTTERS lNDISTINCTLY] 1639 01:51:04,741 --> 01:51:06,617 [ELLEN] Oh, shit. 1640 01:51:12,999 --> 01:51:16,418 [HASTINGS] Speed limit's 45, not 70, ma'am. 1641 01:51:16,586 --> 01:51:19,254 - Haven't been drinking, have you? - I guess I just wasn't... 1642 01:51:19,422 --> 01:51:21,298 Let me ask you to get out of the car. 1643 01:51:21,466 --> 01:51:24,635 - Is that really necessary? - Just get out of the car. 1644 01:51:25,261 --> 01:51:28,681 Isn't it usually customary to ask for a license and registration? 1645 01:51:28,848 --> 01:51:29,890 [ELLEN SCREAMING] 1646 01:51:30,058 --> 01:51:32,267 [WINSTON] You bitch. [ELLEN] No! 1647 01:51:32,519 --> 01:51:34,603 [HASTINGS] Get her in the car. 1648 01:51:34,771 --> 01:51:36,855 [ELLEN GRUNTING AND GROANING] 1649 01:51:37,023 --> 01:51:39,608 [ELLEN] No! No! [WINSTON] Come on. 1650 01:51:39,776 --> 01:51:41,527 Get in there. 1651 01:51:43,279 --> 01:51:45,155 Shut up! 1652 01:52:05,635 --> 01:52:08,637 [ELLEN GROANING AND WHIMPERING] 1653 01:52:42,005 --> 01:52:44,923 You can't blame a nigger for being a nigger 1654 01:52:45,091 --> 01:52:48,510 no more than you can blame a dog for being a dog. 1655 01:52:50,180 --> 01:52:52,765 But a whore like you 1656 01:52:53,391 --> 01:52:56,393 co-mingling with mongrels, betraying your own 1657 01:52:56,561 --> 01:52:59,021 that makes you worse than being a nigger. 1658 01:52:59,189 --> 01:53:01,482 So I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. 1659 01:53:02,192 --> 01:53:04,610 I'm gonna leave you tied up here naked. 1660 01:53:05,570 --> 01:53:08,155 First it'll just be the bugs eating at you. 1661 01:53:08,323 --> 01:53:10,032 One day, maybe two. 1662 01:53:10,200 --> 01:53:12,618 That sun's gonna be cooking you. 1663 01:53:12,869 --> 01:53:14,828 But them animals? 1664 01:53:16,289 --> 01:53:18,874 They're gonna pick up your stink. 1665 01:53:21,586 --> 01:53:24,213 They're gonna come looking for something to eat. 1666 01:53:25,256 --> 01:53:28,842 Carl Lee Hailey should've shot you too. 1667 01:53:35,016 --> 01:53:37,267 Come on, boys. Let's go. 1668 01:53:56,871 --> 01:53:58,872 [CAR APPROACHING] 1669 01:54:05,588 --> 01:54:07,005 [WHIMPERS] 1670 01:54:12,011 --> 01:54:14,596 [WHIMPERING] No. No. No. 1671 01:54:14,764 --> 01:54:17,057 No. No. 1672 01:54:18,726 --> 01:54:21,728 [MAN GRUNTING] 1673 01:54:24,983 --> 01:54:27,067 Shh. It's okay. 1674 01:54:27,235 --> 01:54:29,236 [ELLEN PANTING] 1675 01:54:34,826 --> 01:54:35,909 It's okay. 1676 01:54:36,077 --> 01:54:37,619 It's okay now. 1677 01:54:37,787 --> 01:54:39,621 It's okay. 1678 01:54:43,042 --> 01:54:46,378 [NOOSE] Mr. Brigance, you may call your first witness. 1679 01:54:46,546 --> 01:54:51,258 [JAKE] Yes, Your Honour. Defence calls Dr. Willard Tyrell Bass. 1680 01:54:55,972 --> 01:54:58,432 - [WHISPERS] Buddy, have you seen Roark? - Not yet. 1681 01:55:03,229 --> 01:55:05,898 [JAKE] Doctor, would you explain to the jury 1682 01:55:06,065 --> 01:55:09,860 the effect his daughter's rape had on Mr. Hailey's condition? 1683 01:55:10,278 --> 01:55:12,404 Tonya's rape caused a relapse 1684 01:55:12,572 --> 01:55:14,740 a temporary break with reality. 1685 01:55:15,408 --> 01:55:18,452 [JAKE] But yesterday, a Dr. Rodeheaver 1686 01:55:18,620 --> 01:55:21,663 suggested that Mr. Hailey's act of calculation was 1687 01:55:21,831 --> 01:55:23,582 the very definition of sanity. 1688 01:55:23,750 --> 01:55:25,834 That's ridiculous. 1689 01:55:26,002 --> 01:55:29,838 Many of the most famous schizophrenics are calculating. 1690 01:55:30,006 --> 01:55:31,840 John Hinckley, for example. 1691 01:55:32,008 --> 01:55:33,050 Calculating. 1692 01:55:33,217 --> 01:55:34,718 And legally insane. 1693 01:55:35,053 --> 01:55:37,888 All right, so, Dr. Bass, how would you diagnose Mr. Hailey 1694 01:55:38,056 --> 01:55:39,389 at the time of the murder? 1695 01:55:39,557 --> 01:55:43,852 Mr. Hailey experienced a recurrence of a dissociative condition 1696 01:55:44,020 --> 01:55:47,898 as a result of the trauma caused by the rape of his daughter. 1697 01:55:48,316 --> 01:55:51,860 Now, since Mr. Hailey was unaware of the reality of his actions 1698 01:55:52,028 --> 01:55:54,404 he could not tell right from wrong. 1699 01:55:54,572 --> 01:55:57,908 Nor could he understand the consequences of his actions. 1700 01:55:58,076 --> 01:56:01,286 He was, therefore, legally insane. 1701 01:56:02,872 --> 01:56:04,456 Could not tell right from wrong, 1702 01:56:04,624 --> 01:56:07,501 nor understand the consequences of his actions. 1703 01:56:08,044 --> 01:56:11,004 Therefore, legally, insane. 1704 01:56:11,673 --> 01:56:15,550 Thank you, Dr. Bass. Your Honour, I have no further questions. 1705 01:56:16,135 --> 01:56:17,302 Mr. Buckley? 1706 01:56:19,097 --> 01:56:21,348 - Mr. Buckley. - Yes? 1707 01:56:21,975 --> 01:56:23,225 Your witness. 1708 01:56:24,185 --> 01:56:27,020 Oh. I'm sorry, excuse me. Thank you, Your Honour. 1709 01:56:28,731 --> 01:56:31,149 - Good morning. - [BASS] Good morning. 1710 01:56:31,317 --> 01:56:36,071 Dr. Bass, could you please state for the record your full name? 1711 01:56:36,239 --> 01:56:38,573 Willard Tyrell Bass. 1712 01:56:38,741 --> 01:56:41,952 Tyrell Bass. That's a very unique name. 1713 01:56:42,578 --> 01:56:47,499 Now, doctor, have you ever been convicted of a felony? 1714 01:56:47,667 --> 01:56:48,959 No, of course not. 1715 01:56:49,127 --> 01:56:51,294 - You're certain? - Yes. 1716 01:56:51,462 --> 01:56:56,091 [RUFUS] As certain of that as you are of the testimony you've just given before this jury? 1717 01:56:56,259 --> 01:56:57,259 [BASS] Of course. 1718 01:56:57,427 --> 01:56:59,845 So let me understand this now 1719 01:57:00,013 --> 01:57:02,389 since you are under oath. 1720 01:57:02,932 --> 01:57:07,477 You're telling me, and this jury, that on October 17th, 1960 1721 01:57:07,645 --> 01:57:09,980 you were not convicted of statutory rape? 1722 01:57:10,148 --> 01:57:11,481 Objection, Your Honour! 1723 01:57:13,526 --> 01:57:14,943 Dr. Bass is not on trial here. 1724 01:57:15,111 --> 01:57:17,821 This goes to the heart of the credibility of the witness. 1725 01:57:17,989 --> 01:57:21,450 - Overruled. Continue, Mr. Buckley. - [RUFUS] Thank you. 1726 01:57:21,617 --> 01:57:23,577 Now, doctor 1727 01:57:24,787 --> 01:57:26,913 were you convicted of statutory rape? 1728 01:57:27,457 --> 01:57:29,207 You got the wrong man. 1729 01:57:29,375 --> 01:57:30,584 Really? 1730 01:57:30,752 --> 01:57:33,128 I have some mighty interesting photographs of you 1731 01:57:33,296 --> 01:57:35,714 taken with a female underage 1732 01:57:35,882 --> 01:57:39,968 in a motel by the Dallas Police Department on September 11th, 1960. 1733 01:57:40,136 --> 01:57:45,098 Would you like to look at these images and see if they refresh your memory? 1734 01:57:47,769 --> 01:57:49,102 No, I didn't think so. 1735 01:57:49,270 --> 01:57:53,065 Your Honour, we would like to enter into evidence these court and police records 1736 01:57:53,232 --> 01:57:59,029 showing that on September 15th, 1960, this man, one Tyrell Bass 1737 01:57:59,197 --> 01:58:02,741 pled guilty to statutory rape. 1738 01:58:02,909 --> 01:58:05,535 Now, doctor, I'm gonna ask you one last time 1739 01:58:05,703 --> 01:58:10,415 were you or were you not convicted of statutory rape? 1740 01:58:11,042 --> 01:58:14,044 - Well, I can explain... - [RUFUS] Not interested in your explanation. 1741 01:58:14,212 --> 01:58:15,921 Answer the question, yes or no. 1742 01:58:18,299 --> 01:58:19,674 Yes. Yes, I was. 1743 01:58:19,842 --> 01:58:22,928 [CROWD MURMURING] 1744 01:58:25,973 --> 01:58:27,557 That's enough. 1745 01:58:27,725 --> 01:58:30,018 I have nothing further. 1746 01:58:33,815 --> 01:58:35,857 Redirect, Mr. Brigance? 1747 01:58:38,277 --> 01:58:39,361 None, Your Honour. 1748 01:58:39,529 --> 01:58:42,405 Court will recess one hour for lunch. 1749 01:58:42,698 --> 01:58:45,200 You told me you knew him, he was a credible witness. 1750 01:58:45,368 --> 01:58:47,369 I didn't know. The record was expunged. 1751 01:58:47,537 --> 01:58:49,663 Buckley really outdid himself this time. 1752 01:58:49,831 --> 01:58:52,415 Damn. Lucien, I was counting on you. 1753 01:58:52,583 --> 01:58:54,668 - And I can't win... - You wanted this case. 1754 01:58:54,836 --> 01:58:55,877 Well, you got it. 1755 01:58:56,045 --> 01:58:59,714 It isn't easy saving the world one case at a time, but you stick with it. 1756 01:58:59,882 --> 01:59:03,093 You might just have a knack for it. Don't do what I did. Don't quit. 1757 01:59:03,261 --> 01:59:05,095 What are you talking about, quit? 1758 01:59:05,263 --> 01:59:07,931 - You're a hero, Lucien. - Oh, hero, my ass. 1759 01:59:08,099 --> 01:59:11,560 Do you think the world needed me beating cops' heads on that picket line? 1760 01:59:11,727 --> 01:59:15,647 I was needed here, in that courtroom. 1761 01:59:15,982 --> 01:59:17,065 And I let them push me. 1762 01:59:17,233 --> 01:59:19,442 I gave them an excuse to kick me out, 1763 01:59:19,610 --> 01:59:22,445 and now I can never plead a case in there again. 1764 01:59:22,613 --> 01:59:24,072 But you can. 1765 01:59:24,240 --> 01:59:25,574 You're an attorney. 1766 01:59:25,741 --> 01:59:27,075 Be proud. 1767 01:59:27,243 --> 01:59:31,371 Your job is to find justice, no matter how well she may hide herself from you. 1768 01:59:32,874 --> 01:59:34,833 So you go on in there, 1769 01:59:35,001 --> 01:59:36,418 and you do your job. 1770 01:59:37,920 --> 01:59:39,379 Hurry up, now. 1771 01:59:39,547 --> 01:59:41,840 They'll be starting without you. 1772 01:59:46,429 --> 01:59:47,596 Come with me. 1773 01:59:49,432 --> 01:59:50,724 I can't, Jake. 1774 01:59:52,560 --> 01:59:54,269 I love you, 1775 01:59:54,437 --> 01:59:55,562 but I can't. 1776 01:59:56,105 --> 01:59:57,147 You know that. 1777 01:59:57,315 --> 02:00:00,317 I'll never go in another courtroom again. 1778 02:00:01,027 --> 02:00:02,485 And I can't be you, Lucien. 1779 02:00:03,738 --> 02:00:05,947 Don't be me. 1780 02:00:06,115 --> 02:00:08,450 Be better than me. 1781 02:00:10,745 --> 02:00:14,206 BAILIFF: All rise for the Honourable Judge Omar Noose. 1782 02:00:24,091 --> 02:00:26,343 And how did you feel? 1783 02:00:27,011 --> 02:00:29,387 I felt, um 1784 02:00:32,016 --> 02:00:34,100 I don't know. 1785 02:00:35,686 --> 02:00:38,271 It was like I was outside myself 1786 02:00:38,439 --> 02:00:40,732 watching myself. 1787 02:00:41,692 --> 02:00:45,779 All the while I kept hearing my baby say: 1788 02:00:46,280 --> 02:00:48,823 I called for you, Daddy. 1789 02:00:48,991 --> 02:00:55,497 When them men was hurting me, I called for you over and over, 1790 02:00:55,665 --> 02:00:57,999 but you didn't never come. 1791 02:01:04,173 --> 02:01:06,174 Thank you, Mr. Hailey. 1792 02:01:06,968 --> 02:01:09,678 I have no further questions, Your Honour. 1793 02:01:11,180 --> 02:01:12,722 You have an emergency phone call. 1794 02:01:12,890 --> 02:01:13,932 [NOOSE] Mr. Buckley. 1795 02:01:22,316 --> 02:01:24,192 Mr. Hailey 1796 02:01:25,361 --> 02:01:30,198 before you stepped outside yourself to watch yourself shoot Willard and Cobb 1797 02:01:30,366 --> 02:01:34,869 were you aware that if convicted they might be freed in only 10 years? 1798 02:01:35,037 --> 02:01:36,997 Yes, I heard people say that. Yes, sir. 1799 02:01:37,164 --> 02:01:40,125 Do you think men who kidnap a child should be free in 10 years? 1800 02:01:40,293 --> 02:01:43,670 - No. - Think men who rape a child should be free? 1801 02:01:43,838 --> 02:01:44,879 [CARL LEE] No, sir. 1802 02:01:45,047 --> 02:01:48,049 Do you think two men who hang a child should be free in 10 years? 1803 02:01:48,217 --> 02:01:50,510 - No. - What should happen? What would be fair? 1804 02:01:50,678 --> 02:01:53,138 - Objection. - Do you think they deserve to die? 1805 02:01:53,306 --> 02:01:55,724 - Now, Mr. Buckley... - Carl Lee don't answer that! 1806 02:01:55,891 --> 02:01:58,852 Yes, they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell! 1807 02:01:59,020 --> 02:02:02,230 [CROWD SHOUTING] 1808 02:02:04,066 --> 02:02:07,485 [GAVEL BANGING] 1809 02:02:15,077 --> 02:02:17,829 I have nothing further, Your Honour. 1810 02:02:21,459 --> 02:02:24,294 [NOOSE] Summations begin tomorrow. 1811 02:02:26,005 --> 02:02:27,714 Court adjourned. 1812 02:02:34,597 --> 02:02:37,640 Jake, they found Roark. 1813 02:02:59,330 --> 02:03:00,955 - [WHISPERING] Ellen... - Hmm. 1814 02:03:07,380 --> 02:03:08,880 Ellen. 1815 02:03:10,466 --> 02:03:12,384 So 1816 02:03:13,511 --> 02:03:16,179 This is what I had to do to get you to call me Ellen? 1817 02:03:18,808 --> 02:03:20,016 I'm so sorry. 1818 02:03:20,184 --> 02:03:21,976 This is all my fault. 1819 02:03:22,144 --> 02:03:23,478 No. 1820 02:03:23,646 --> 02:03:26,272 Don't sweat it, really. 1821 02:03:27,274 --> 02:03:30,026 They didn't... They didn't hurt anything that won't heal. 1822 02:03:30,194 --> 02:03:31,861 Nothing. 1823 02:03:33,322 --> 02:03:36,449 Besides, um, Dr., uh 1824 02:03:37,660 --> 02:03:40,453 What's-His-Name said I'll be out in a couple days, 1825 02:03:40,621 --> 02:03:41,746 so I'm fine. 1826 02:03:45,835 --> 02:03:47,127 How'd we do? 1827 02:03:49,046 --> 02:03:51,965 Bass turned out to be a felon. 1828 02:03:52,758 --> 02:03:56,469 Carl Lee got trapped on the stand by Buckley. 1829 02:03:59,348 --> 02:04:02,100 People been terrorized, Roark. 1830 02:04:02,268 --> 02:04:04,018 Beaten. 1831 02:04:05,938 --> 02:04:08,314 Killed. It... 1832 02:04:08,899 --> 02:04:10,650 It's not worth it. It's not. 1833 02:04:13,237 --> 02:04:16,906 It's only not worth it if Carl Lee goes to the gas chamber. 1834 02:04:20,453 --> 02:04:23,580 Listen, this case is not over until the summation. 1835 02:04:23,747 --> 02:04:25,790 Remember that. 1836 02:04:26,167 --> 02:04:27,709 Okay? 1837 02:04:29,003 --> 02:04:32,881 And you've got one big fat chance 1838 02:04:33,799 --> 02:04:34,966 to reinvent yourself. 1839 02:04:35,843 --> 02:04:41,139 To make that jury see this whole case... This whole case through your eyes. 1840 02:04:47,897 --> 02:04:49,272 And they're good eyes. 1841 02:04:54,737 --> 02:04:57,030 Now, get out of here, go to work. 1842 02:04:59,158 --> 02:05:00,617 I'll keep in touch with you. 1843 02:05:01,035 --> 02:05:02,368 No, you won't. 1844 02:05:02,536 --> 02:05:04,078 Big liar. 1845 02:05:13,964 --> 02:05:16,424 Win or lose, Roark 1846 02:05:17,801 --> 02:05:19,677 we make one hell of a team. 1847 02:05:21,055 --> 02:05:23,181 We might have. 1848 02:05:24,266 --> 02:05:26,226 We really might have. 1849 02:05:30,523 --> 02:05:33,399 You really want to kiss me right now, don't you? 1850 02:05:34,985 --> 02:05:37,111 Yes, I do. 1851 02:05:58,968 --> 02:06:00,093 Undecided? 1852 02:06:02,721 --> 02:06:04,347 Guilty? 1853 02:06:24,410 --> 02:06:25,451 [MAX GROWLS] 1854 02:06:32,459 --> 02:06:35,461 [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING] 1855 02:06:42,720 --> 02:06:45,513 [CARLA] Hey, Max. Hey. 1856 02:06:52,688 --> 02:06:53,813 Where's Hannah? 1857 02:06:53,981 --> 02:06:56,608 I left her at Mother and Daddy's. 1858 02:06:58,235 --> 02:06:59,402 How did you get here? 1859 02:07:00,029 --> 02:07:01,404 Drove. 1860 02:07:02,031 --> 02:07:03,531 In the storm? 1861 02:07:05,868 --> 02:07:09,203 Got something to say, it needs to be said in person. 1862 02:07:13,917 --> 02:07:17,503 The truth is, I've been blaming you for all that's happened. 1863 02:07:20,424 --> 02:07:23,343 But it's not your fault. You didn't kill those boys. 1864 02:07:28,849 --> 02:07:30,850 You were trying to make things right. 1865 02:07:33,020 --> 02:07:35,063 I know that now. 1866 02:07:40,819 --> 02:07:43,613 I thought you took this case because you wanted to prove 1867 02:07:43,781 --> 02:07:46,407 what a big time lawyer you were. 1868 02:07:47,201 --> 02:07:49,285 But I was wrong. 1869 02:07:52,915 --> 02:07:55,750 You took this case because 1870 02:07:55,918 --> 02:07:58,127 if those boys 1871 02:08:00,506 --> 02:08:05,301 had hurt Hannah the way that they hurt Tonya 1872 02:08:05,469 --> 02:08:07,387 you would've killed them yourself. 1873 02:08:10,432 --> 02:08:12,141 [MOUTHS] Baby. 1874 02:08:14,561 --> 02:08:17,355 Baby, come here. 1875 02:08:17,523 --> 02:08:19,357 Come here. 1876 02:08:21,819 --> 02:08:24,153 I love you, Jake. 1877 02:08:25,572 --> 02:08:27,949 [JAKE] I thought I was gonna lose you. 1878 02:08:50,723 --> 02:08:52,432 [JAKE CLEARS THROAT] 1879 02:08:52,599 --> 02:08:55,309 We're gonna lose this case, Carl Lee. 1880 02:08:57,855 --> 02:09:01,983 There are no points of law to argue here. I wanna cop a plea. 1881 02:09:03,986 --> 02:09:05,903 Maybe Buckley will cop us 1882 02:09:06,071 --> 02:09:09,449 a second-degree murder and we can get you just life in prison. 1883 02:09:11,285 --> 02:09:14,996 Jake, I... I can't do no life in prison. 1884 02:09:15,164 --> 02:09:17,582 You gotta get me off. Man, if it was you on trial... 1885 02:09:17,750 --> 02:09:19,417 It's not me. 1886 02:09:20,335 --> 02:09:21,711 We're not the same, Carl Lee. 1887 02:09:24,631 --> 02:09:27,884 The jury has to identify with the defendant. 1888 02:09:28,051 --> 02:09:29,802 They see you, they see a yard worker. 1889 02:09:29,970 --> 02:09:33,973 They see me, they see an attorney. I live in town. You live on the hill. 1890 02:09:34,141 --> 02:09:37,185 Oh, you white and I'm black. 1891 02:09:39,646 --> 02:09:41,355 See, Jake? 1892 02:09:41,732 --> 02:09:43,941 You think just like them. 1893 02:09:45,027 --> 02:09:47,403 That's why I picked you. 1894 02:09:48,405 --> 02:09:51,073 You're one of them, don't you see? 1895 02:09:51,241 --> 02:09:53,576 You think you ain't, because you eat in Claude's, 1896 02:09:53,744 --> 02:09:58,456 and you're out there trying to get me off on TV, talking about black and white. 1897 02:09:58,624 --> 02:10:00,583 But the fact is 1898 02:10:00,751 --> 02:10:03,461 you're just like all the rest of them. 1899 02:10:03,629 --> 02:10:06,589 When you look at me, you don't see a man. 1900 02:10:06,757 --> 02:10:08,674 You see a black man. 1901 02:10:09,510 --> 02:10:12,929 Carl Lee, I am your friend. 1902 02:10:13,096 --> 02:10:14,847 We ain't no friends, Jake. 1903 02:10:16,141 --> 02:10:19,143 We're on different sides of the line. 1904 02:10:19,311 --> 02:10:23,731 I ain't never seen you in my part of town. I bet you don't even know where I live. 1905 02:10:25,526 --> 02:10:28,569 Our daughters, Jake, they ain't never gonna play together. 1906 02:10:28,737 --> 02:10:31,113 Now, what are you talking about? 1907 02:10:33,367 --> 02:10:36,577 America is a war, 1908 02:10:36,745 --> 02:10:39,038 and you are on the other side. 1909 02:10:40,791 --> 02:10:43,626 How a black man ever gonna get a fair trial 1910 02:10:43,794 --> 02:10:46,796 with the enemy on the bench and the jury box? 1911 02:10:46,964 --> 02:10:50,424 My life in white hands. 1912 02:10:50,676 --> 02:10:51,759 You, Jake. 1913 02:10:52,469 --> 02:10:54,387 That's how. 1914 02:10:54,555 --> 02:10:58,766 You my secret weapon because you're one of the bad guys. 1915 02:10:58,934 --> 02:11:01,811 You don't mean to be, but you are. 1916 02:11:01,979 --> 02:11:04,272 It's how you was raised. 1917 02:11:04,439 --> 02:11:08,776 Nigger, Negro, black, African-American. 1918 02:11:08,944 --> 02:11:11,070 No matter how you see me 1919 02:11:11,238 --> 02:11:13,948 you see me as different. 1920 02:11:14,116 --> 02:11:17,451 You see me like that jury sees me. 1921 02:11:17,619 --> 02:11:19,412 You are them. 1922 02:11:20,205 --> 02:11:23,207 Now, throw out your points of law, Jake. 1923 02:11:24,042 --> 02:11:28,296 If you was on that jury 1924 02:11:28,463 --> 02:11:33,092 what would it take to convince you to set me free? 1925 02:11:35,512 --> 02:11:38,472 That's how you'll save my ass. 1926 02:11:39,057 --> 02:11:41,225 That's how you'll save us both. 1927 02:11:45,772 --> 02:11:50,276 [RUFUS] Is Carl Lee Hailey insane? 1928 02:11:51,153 --> 02:11:53,571 It's a notion so outrageous 1929 02:11:53,739 --> 02:11:58,075 the only witness the defence could produce to support it 1930 02:11:58,243 --> 02:12:00,244 was a convicted felon. 1931 02:12:00,996 --> 02:12:03,623 No. Carl Lee Hailey is not insane. 1932 02:12:03,790 --> 02:12:07,043 This is a man who is a confessed murderer. 1933 02:12:08,295 --> 02:12:13,132 This is a man who admitted on this stand 1934 02:12:13,300 --> 02:12:16,510 to carrying out the sentences he believed the alleged rapists 1935 02:12:16,678 --> 02:12:18,679 of his daughter deserved. 1936 02:12:18,847 --> 02:12:21,182 He's taken justice out of your hands. 1937 02:12:23,936 --> 02:12:25,269 And put it in his own. 1938 02:12:26,104 --> 02:12:30,775 And with those hands, he took the lives of two young men. 1939 02:12:32,361 --> 02:12:33,402 [GUN CLATTERS] 1940 02:12:33,862 --> 02:12:36,989 We feel terrible over what happened to his daughter. 1941 02:12:37,491 --> 02:12:39,241 But feeling terrible, 1942 02:12:39,409 --> 02:12:43,788 and knowing something is wrong does not give any of us 1943 02:12:44,289 --> 02:12:45,915 a right to kill. 1944 02:12:47,542 --> 02:12:49,752 Ladies and gentlemen, your duty is clear. 1945 02:12:52,839 --> 02:12:55,549 All in this courtroom know the truth. 1946 02:12:55,968 --> 02:12:59,011 All in this state know the truth. 1947 02:12:59,930 --> 02:13:04,850 Now you need only find the courage to speak the words: 1948 02:13:05,227 --> 02:13:08,896 Carl Lee Hailey is guilty. 1949 02:13:09,898 --> 02:13:12,608 Guilty. Guilty. 1950 02:13:14,903 --> 02:13:17,279 State rests, Your Honour. 1951 02:13:33,088 --> 02:13:36,882 Now, I had a great summation all worked out 1952 02:13:37,092 --> 02:13:39,635 full of some sharp lawyering. 1953 02:13:40,887 --> 02:13:42,221 But I'm not going to read it. 1954 02:13:43,640 --> 02:13:45,307 I'm here to apologize. 1955 02:13:45,475 --> 02:13:48,936 I am young, and I am inexperienced. 1956 02:13:49,563 --> 02:13:54,525 But you cannot hold Carl Lee Hailey responsible, 1957 02:13:54,985 --> 02:13:56,527 for my shortcomings. 1958 02:13:57,738 --> 02:14:00,406 But you see, in all this legal maneuvering 1959 02:14:00,574 --> 02:14:02,950 something has gotten lost. 1960 02:14:03,118 --> 02:14:05,828 And that something is the truth. 1961 02:14:09,624 --> 02:14:14,128 Now, it is incumbent upon us lawyers not to just talk about the truth, 1962 02:14:14,296 --> 02:14:18,049 but to actually seek it, to find it, to live it. 1963 02:14:19,760 --> 02:14:21,260 My teacher taught me that. 1964 02:14:23,680 --> 02:14:25,639 Let's take Dr. Bass, for example. 1965 02:14:26,266 --> 02:14:29,643 Obviously, I would've never knowingly put a convicted felon on the stand. 1966 02:14:29,811 --> 02:14:31,228 I hope you can believe that. 1967 02:14:31,688 --> 02:14:33,147 But what is the truth? 1968 02:14:33,315 --> 02:14:36,233 That... That he's a disgraced liar? 1969 02:14:36,401 --> 02:14:38,319 What if I told you 1970 02:14:38,487 --> 02:14:42,156 that the woman he was accused of raping was 17, he was 23 1971 02:14:42,324 --> 02:14:45,201 that she later became his wife, bore his child, 1972 02:14:45,368 --> 02:14:46,994 and is still married to the man? 1973 02:14:47,162 --> 02:14:51,165 Does that make his testimony more or less true? 1974 02:14:55,462 --> 02:14:57,254 What is it in us that seeks the truth? 1975 02:14:58,840 --> 02:15:00,758 Is it our minds? 1976 02:15:01,384 --> 02:15:02,885 Or is it our hearts? 1977 02:15:06,765 --> 02:15:10,142 I set out to prove a black man could receive a fair trial in the South 1978 02:15:10,310 --> 02:15:13,479 that we are all equal in the eyes of the law. 1979 02:15:15,190 --> 02:15:16,774 That's not the truth. 1980 02:15:16,942 --> 02:15:19,193 Because the eyes of the law are human eyes 1981 02:15:19,361 --> 02:15:23,322 yours and mine, and until we can see each other as equals 1982 02:15:23,490 --> 02:15:25,825 justice is never going to be even handed. 1983 02:15:25,992 --> 02:15:29,829 It will remain nothing more than a reflection of our own prejudices. 1984 02:15:30,122 --> 02:15:32,540 So until that day 1985 02:15:32,707 --> 02:15:35,960 we have a duty under God to seek the truth 1986 02:15:37,838 --> 02:15:39,964 not with our eyes, and not with our minds 1987 02:15:40,132 --> 02:15:43,717 where fear and hate turn commonality into prejudice, 1988 02:15:43,885 --> 02:15:46,095 but with our hearts 1989 02:15:46,388 --> 02:15:48,722 where we don't know better. 1990 02:15:53,061 --> 02:15:55,479 I wanna tell you a story. 1991 02:15:57,232 --> 02:15:59,942 And I ask you all to close your eyes 1992 02:16:01,570 --> 02:16:03,821 while I tell you this story. 1993 02:16:07,284 --> 02:16:11,162 I want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to yourselves. 1994 02:16:15,208 --> 02:16:18,127 Go ahead. Close your eyes, please. 1995 02:16:23,300 --> 02:16:26,093 This is a story about a little girl 1996 02:16:27,012 --> 02:16:30,764 walking home from the grocery store one sunny afternoon. 1997 02:16:32,100 --> 02:16:34,185 I want you to picture this little girl. 1998 02:16:37,606 --> 02:16:40,024 Suddenly, a truck races up. 1999 02:16:41,776 --> 02:16:43,360 Two men jump out and grab her. 2000 02:16:45,989 --> 02:16:49,116 Drag her into a nearby field, 2001 02:16:51,995 --> 02:16:53,370 and they tie her up. 2002 02:16:57,250 --> 02:16:59,251 And they rip her clothes from her body. 2003 02:17:02,088 --> 02:17:04,381 Now they climb on. 2004 02:17:05,258 --> 02:17:07,468 First one, then the other. 2005 02:17:09,471 --> 02:17:10,554 Raping her. 2006 02:17:15,518 --> 02:17:20,481 Shattering everything innocent and pure with a vicious thrust 2007 02:17:21,483 --> 02:17:24,860 in a fog of drunken breath and sweat. 2008 02:17:28,782 --> 02:17:30,699 And when they're done 2009 02:17:31,826 --> 02:17:34,912 after they've killed her tiny womb 2010 02:17:37,082 --> 02:17:40,376 murdered any chance for her to bear children 2011 02:17:40,543 --> 02:17:43,212 to have life beyond her own 2012 02:17:46,675 --> 02:17:48,801 they decide to use her for target practice. 2013 02:17:51,680 --> 02:17:54,848 So they start throwing full beer cans at her. 2014 02:17:56,851 --> 02:17:59,186 They throw them so hard 2015 02:17:59,854 --> 02:18:03,315 that it tears the flesh all the way to her bones. 2016 02:18:09,489 --> 02:18:11,115 Then they urinate on her. 2017 02:18:15,870 --> 02:18:17,246 Now comes the hanging. 2018 02:18:22,419 --> 02:18:24,253 They have a rope. 2019 02:18:25,547 --> 02:18:27,381 They tie a noose. 2020 02:18:28,550 --> 02:18:31,885 Imagine the noose coiling tight around her neck, 2021 02:18:32,429 --> 02:18:35,055 and a sudden blinding jerk. 2022 02:18:36,141 --> 02:18:39,018 She's pulled into the air and her feet and legs go kicking... 2023 02:18:39,185 --> 02:18:40,936 They don't find the ground. 2024 02:18:43,106 --> 02:18:44,982 The hanging branch 2025 02:18:45,150 --> 02:18:47,109 isn't strong enough. 2026 02:18:48,778 --> 02:18:51,405 It snaps and she falls 2027 02:18:51,781 --> 02:18:53,115 back to the earth. 2028 02:18:57,120 --> 02:18:59,121 So they pick her up 2029 02:19:00,248 --> 02:19:02,583 throw her in the back of the truck 2030 02:19:04,419 --> 02:19:07,588 drive out to Foggy Creek Bridge 2031 02:19:08,423 --> 02:19:09,798 pitch her over the edge. 2032 02:19:13,011 --> 02:19:17,890 And she drops some 30 feet down to the creek bottom below. 2033 02:19:25,398 --> 02:19:27,274 Can you see her? 2034 02:19:31,071 --> 02:19:32,738 Her raped 2035 02:19:32,906 --> 02:19:34,656 beaten 2036 02:19:34,824 --> 02:19:37,034 broken body 2037 02:19:40,121 --> 02:19:42,498 soaked in their urine 2038 02:19:43,124 --> 02:19:45,459 soaked in their semen 2039 02:19:47,462 --> 02:19:49,296 soaked in her blood. 2040 02:19:50,298 --> 02:19:52,174 Left to die. 2041 02:19:55,178 --> 02:19:57,054 Can you see her? 2042 02:20:01,059 --> 02:20:03,310 I want you to picture 2043 02:20:05,105 --> 02:20:07,022 that little girl. 2044 02:20:25,750 --> 02:20:27,584 Now imagine she's white. 2045 02:20:49,732 --> 02:20:51,525 The defence rests, Your Honour. 2046 02:21:21,890 --> 02:21:25,225 Innocent! He's innocent! 2047 02:21:25,393 --> 02:21:26,560 Hailey's innocent! 2048 02:21:26,728 --> 02:21:27,769 [CROWD CHEERING] 2049 02:21:27,937 --> 02:21:30,272 [KLAN JEERING] 2050 02:21:34,235 --> 02:21:35,360 He's innocent! 2051 02:21:45,872 --> 02:21:47,706 [NURSE] We won! We won! 2052 02:21:47,874 --> 02:21:50,125 Ellen, we won! Aren't you happy? 2053 02:21:50,293 --> 02:21:56,131 Oh, my God, Ellen, you have to be happy. He's innocent. Carl Lee is innocent. 2054 02:21:57,509 --> 02:21:58,842 [GWEN] He's coming home. 2055 02:21:59,010 --> 02:22:00,302 [CARL LEE] Jake. 2056 02:22:01,596 --> 02:22:05,974 That was... 2057 02:22:07,185 --> 02:22:09,520 Hey, I'm one of the bad guys, remember? 2058 02:22:12,148 --> 02:22:15,442 - Thank you. - Thanks. 2059 02:22:20,156 --> 02:22:22,616 [CROWD CHATTERING] 2060 02:22:25,161 --> 02:22:27,412 [SHERIFF] Freddie Lee Cobb! 2061 02:22:30,124 --> 02:22:32,543 We got something to talk about. 2062 02:22:32,710 --> 02:22:34,253 Hastings 2063 02:22:34,420 --> 02:22:37,005 you belong over there with them. 2064 02:22:38,633 --> 02:22:40,467 Get over. 2065 02:22:52,146 --> 02:22:54,022 Congratulations, counsellor. 2066 02:22:54,190 --> 02:22:55,816 Thank you. 2067 02:23:01,573 --> 02:23:04,449 [REPORTERS TALKING INDISTINCTLY] 2068 02:23:17,255 --> 02:23:19,548 [MAN] You must be overwhelmed right now. 2069 02:23:48,703 --> 02:23:50,787 - [MAN] Give me... - After you... 2070 02:23:50,955 --> 02:23:52,331 Yeah. 2071 02:23:52,498 --> 02:23:54,833 [CHATTERING] 2072 02:23:55,126 --> 02:23:57,252 - Was I good or what? - [WOMAN] All right. 2073 02:23:57,420 --> 02:24:00,547 [GWEN] Oh. Ha-ha-ha. 2074 02:24:08,097 --> 02:24:09,431 Here you go. 2075 02:24:09,599 --> 02:24:13,143 - Carl Lee. Look. - [CARL LEE] What? 2076 02:24:37,043 --> 02:24:38,543 Well. 2077 02:24:38,711 --> 02:24:39,753 Hello. 2078 02:24:39,921 --> 02:24:41,004 [CARLA] Hi. [JAKE] Hi there. 2079 02:24:41,172 --> 02:24:42,589 Hannah, this is Miss Hailey. 2080 02:24:42,757 --> 02:24:43,799 - This is Hannah. - Hi. 2081 02:24:43,966 --> 02:24:46,927 [GWEN] Hi, Hannah. Ain't she so pretty. [CARLA] Thank you. 2082 02:24:47,095 --> 02:24:49,721 - Brought you some peach cobbler. - [GWEN] Oh, thank you. 2083 02:24:49,889 --> 02:24:51,765 Come on in. Come in. 2084 02:24:53,559 --> 02:24:55,185 Howdy. 2085 02:25:04,946 --> 02:25:07,364 Hannah, this is my daughter, Tonya. 2086 02:25:07,532 --> 02:25:10,701 - Hi, Tonya. - Hi, nice to meet you, Hannah. 2087 02:25:14,247 --> 02:25:16,331 Just thought our kids could play together.