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I think I'm gonna die.

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You wanted a birthday party.

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What's that old expression?

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Never mix bourbon
with champagne?

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No.

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Jews can't drink.

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Honey, how about I take
the boys to school?

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Bless you.

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Where we going? Daddy's office!
Daddy's office!

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Who wants Daddy's briefcase?
Me, me, me!

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Run to the car.
Run to the car.

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Run to the car.
Oh! Watch yourself.

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Wait.

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Bye, Mommy.
I love you!

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Say bye to Mommy.
Bye, Mommy!

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Bye. Be good, boys.

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Love you.

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I love you, too.

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Okay.
Let's go to work.

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Get in there.

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Get in that car.
Get in that car.

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You get in that car.

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Okay. Sit down, boys.
Here we go.

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Daddy's office!

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Bye! See you home after this!

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Hey.

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Hey, Mr. Kramer.

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Daddy's office! Daddy's office!
Daddy's office!

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Everybody out.

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Close that door.
Attaboy.

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Okay. Everybody in.
Let's go.

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Do we have to go in there?

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You gotta go all the way.

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All the way.

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Hey, big stinky earplug!
Hey, big stinky man!

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Who is it?

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So far, all that's been
recovered are the bodies

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of two small children,
their identity unknown.

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The service is now completed.

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Goddamn you!
You're murderers!

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You're filthy murderers!
And you know it!

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You're murderers, all of you!
You're murderers!

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Tell us why you did it.

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You killed my boys!

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You murderer!
You filthy murderer!

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You killed my boys, Cayhall!

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Have you lost your mind?

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No, I'm very serious.
I want the Cayhall case.

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What do you know about the
death penalty, Mr. Hall?

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I've read everything there is.

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Then you know nothing.

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I know that you took
Sam Cayhall pro bono,

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and you've kept him
alive all these years.

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And I also know that he just
won the right to fire you.

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Do you mind telling me
how you know that?

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I made it my business.

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And do you know the
reason why he fired me?

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He hates lawyers.

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Then why in the world
would he hire you?

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Go back to your
office, Mr. Hall.

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We both have
better things to do.

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Sam Cayhall is my grandfather.

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Wow.

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You have a relationship with
Williams and Cook in Jackson.

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I could work out of that office.

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I also know you have great
contacts at Parchman Prison.

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A word from you
wouldn't hurt there, either.

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I take it Hall is not
your real name, then.

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My parents changed it from
Cayhall after the murders.

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Do you still have
family down there?

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I have an aunt in Jackson. I told
her I might be down on business.

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Does she know
what this business is?

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I'll tell her when I get there.

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You Cayhalls are big on secrets.

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Did you ever actually
meet your grandfather?

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No.

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Did they even
tell you he existed?

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I found out at my
father's funeral.

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When was that?
1980.

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Same year Sam was
sentenced to die.

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Yes, sir.

82
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Your father must have
been a very young man.

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Thirty-five years,
four months, six days.

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Perhaps I shouldn't have asked.

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It's not a big deal.

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I was 52 years old the first
time I handled a death row case.

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I didn't sleep for
a week afterwards.

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I don't sleep as it is.

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You open up passions no one wants
uncovered, and you are not welcomed.

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For one brief terrible moment,

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Sam Cayhall is gonna be the most
talked-about man in the country.

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Mr. Goodman, I've been
living with this case,

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one way or another,
my whole life.

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To do so officially
might actually be a relief.

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The odds of winning are a joke.

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You don't have a chance in hell.

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I'm going, Mr. Goodman,
with or without your help.

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Call me from Jackson.
Don't thank me.

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I have not done you a favor.

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Did he do it?

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Oh, he did it. There's no
question that he did it.

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Your attention please.

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The Mississippi Scenic Cruiser
for downtown Jackson

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is now boarding
in the blue zone.

105
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Good afternoon, sir. Good
to see you, sir. Thanks.

106
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You look like
a mendicant Indian.

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Where is your luggage?
Jesse, help Mr. Hall with...

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You know, actually, I'm gonna
stay at a hotel near the courts.

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I'm gonna be up all night,
working long hours, so...

110
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Uh-huh. Oh, well, honey. Whatever you like.
I love you, you hear?

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Now you go freshen up
and hurry down.

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I have the mothers of the only 12
remaining virgins in all of Jackson

113
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just panting to meet you.

114
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I really don't think I'm gonna have
too much time for socializing.

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You must regale us all with tales
of what it is that brings you here.

116
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I'm guessing it's to use
your lawyerly charms

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to separate our local fat cats
from their ill-gotten fortunes.

118
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You should start with
my cranky old husband.

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He deserves a good comeuppance.

120
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Lee.
Yes.

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I'm here to defend your father.

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Look, I understand that...

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You understand nothing.

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Don't you utter
one word to anyone.

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Lee.
Not one word.

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You hear?

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Good night.
Call me tomorrow.

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I will.
All right. Bye.

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Lovely party, dear.
Oh, thank you.

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Don't forget we have
the museum on Thursday.

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Uh-huh.

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Good night, Adam.

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Good night.

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Good luck.

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Phelps lives in town.
Oh, it's okay.

136
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We have a very
active romantic life.

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Just not with each other.

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Why stay married?

139
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Good for a banker to have someone
acceptable for social occasions.

140
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And it's good for you
to have a banker.

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Done pretty well
for poor white trash.

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Don't you think?

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Not bad.
Not bad at all.

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Of course, how
acceptable I'm gonna be

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when the world finds out I'm Hitler's
daughter is another question.

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It's all right.
It's under control.

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Nobody knows?

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00:12:04,432 --> 00:12:06,515
Well, I was speaking
of my drinking.

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But, no.
No one knows.

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I left home when I was 18, changed
my name, met Phelps, eloped.

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We told his family
my father was dead.

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Soon that won't be a lie.

153
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You talk about Sam like
he means nothing to you.

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Well, occasionally,
if I'm having a good day

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and the sun is shining,
I might think of him

156
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and remember some small, pleasant
moment from my earliest days.

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The way he'd call me
sweet baby girl.

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But mostly I remember how he
destroyed absolutely everyone

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who made the mistake
of getting close to him.

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He'll do it to you,
too, you know.

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Be very careful
dredging the past, Adam.

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You might not like
what comes up.

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I'm here to see Sam Cayhall.

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Briefcase.

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Oh.

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00:14:30,703 --> 00:14:32,615
Spread your legs, please.

167
00:14:37,126 --> 00:14:39,038
Sergeant Packer.
Adam Hall.

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This way, please.

169
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Not a good day to see Sam.
Why is that?

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Prison attorney just called. Judge ruled.
He dies in 28 days.

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I'll get Sam.

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This way.

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Catch up.

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I'm gonna lock this door.
Sam'll be in in a minute.

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Right.

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Move on.

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Get out.

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00:16:04,714 --> 00:16:06,330
Who the hell are you?

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00:16:06,424 --> 00:16:10,259
Adam Hall. I'm a lawyer with
Kravitz and Bane, Chicago.

180
00:16:10,344 --> 00:16:12,131
You Jew boys never quit, do you?

181
00:16:12,930 --> 00:16:14,796
I'm not Jewish.

182
00:16:15,391 --> 00:16:17,804
How can you work
for Kravitz and Bane?

183
00:16:17,894 --> 00:16:19,806
Well, we're an equal
opportunity employer.

184
00:16:19,896 --> 00:16:20,896
Really?

185
00:16:22,565 --> 00:16:25,353
I know you got about
150 partners up there.

186
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How many of them are women?

187
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I don't really know.
Maybe a dozen.

188
00:16:30,740 --> 00:16:33,699
Oh, so you got
less than 10% women.

189
00:16:34,577 --> 00:16:36,409
How many nigger
partners you got?

190
00:16:37,830 --> 00:16:39,822
We have four
African-American partners.

191
00:16:39,916 --> 00:16:41,373
Well, that's nice.

192
00:16:41,459 --> 00:16:43,701
How many Jewish-American
partners you got?

193
00:16:43,711 --> 00:16:44,952
About 80%?

194
00:16:45,087 --> 00:16:47,420
You know, I don't really know. It
doesn't make a difference to me.

195
00:16:47,423 --> 00:16:48,775
Well, it makes a big
difference to me.

196
00:16:48,799 --> 00:16:52,418
I was always embarrassed to be
represented by such blatant bigots.

197
00:16:53,304 --> 00:16:57,139
Yeah. Well, I think a lot of people
would probably find it appropriate.

198
00:16:57,225 --> 00:16:58,682
Why are you so nervous?

199
00:16:58,726 --> 00:16:59,726
I'm not nervous.

200
00:16:59,728 --> 00:17:02,515
You afraid I'm gonna come through
that screen and get you?

201
00:17:03,231 --> 00:17:05,689
How many death penalty
cases have you handled?

202
00:17:06,651 --> 00:17:08,108
This is my first.

203
00:17:08,194 --> 00:17:12,689
Oh, great. The Jew bastards
sent a greenhorn to save me.

204
00:17:13,699 --> 00:17:17,158
I killed some of their people,
and now they wanna kill me.

205
00:17:17,245 --> 00:17:19,202
I always expected it.

206
00:17:19,580 --> 00:17:21,492
So you admit that you
killed the Kramer kids?

207
00:17:21,624 --> 00:17:24,833
Who the hell are you to ask
me a question like that?

208
00:17:25,127 --> 00:17:26,618
The jury said I did it.

209
00:17:26,837 --> 00:17:30,001
The appeals court said the jury was right.
That's all that matters.

210
00:17:32,718 --> 00:17:34,550
How old are you,
there, Mr. Hall?

211
00:17:35,721 --> 00:17:36,721
Twenty-six.

212
00:17:37,098 --> 00:17:38,700
I'd like to go over
your legal position...

213
00:17:38,724 --> 00:17:40,932
Born in '69.
That's correct.

214
00:17:41,018 --> 00:17:42,538
Looking at your legal position,
I've come up with...

215
00:17:42,562 --> 00:17:44,349
Where?
In Memphis.

216
00:17:44,730 --> 00:17:46,437
Listen, I'd prefer
to stick to the...

217
00:17:46,524 --> 00:17:47,685
You grew up there, did you?

218
00:17:47,733 --> 00:17:50,146
I grew up in a lot of places,
mainly southern California.

219
00:17:50,486 --> 00:17:52,694
Mmm-hmm. Your
family still there?

220
00:17:54,532 --> 00:17:56,444
My mom's remarried,
and she lives in Portland.

221
00:17:58,035 --> 00:17:59,742
And your sister.

222
00:18:00,454 --> 00:18:02,946
I believe her name
would be Carmen.

223
00:18:08,004 --> 00:18:09,916
College. Berkeley.

224
00:18:18,598 --> 00:18:19,714
How did you know?

225
00:18:21,601 --> 00:18:25,015
The voice. You sound
just like your daddy.

226
00:18:26,814 --> 00:18:28,476
Why'd you come here?

227
00:18:29,108 --> 00:18:30,690
He sent me.

228
00:18:31,694 --> 00:18:33,526
I don't have a choice.

229
00:18:34,071 --> 00:18:35,687
But I am gonna save you.

230
00:18:35,823 --> 00:18:37,985
Save me?
Yeah.

231
00:18:38,075 --> 00:18:40,658
This from the son of a man
that blew his own brains out?

232
00:18:41,537 --> 00:18:43,745
Go to hell,
you little piece of shit.

233
00:18:43,831 --> 00:18:46,699
You know who you're
talking to? Save me?

234
00:18:46,709 --> 00:18:49,702
Why, shit. You don't look like you
could save a turkey from Thanksgiving.

235
00:18:50,463 --> 00:18:51,999
Go on, get the hell out of here.

236
00:18:52,256 --> 00:18:53,713
Try to save your own sorry ass.

237
00:18:54,383 --> 00:18:57,717
I am the only person on this earth that
gives a damn whether you live or die.

238
00:18:57,803 --> 00:19:00,716
Now, you are gonna sign this
contract agreeing to be my client,

239
00:19:00,723 --> 00:19:03,557
or you will be dead in 28 days.

240
00:19:11,275 --> 00:19:14,985
We're all a bit taken aback at how
huge this case has suddenly become.

241
00:19:15,821 --> 00:19:18,108
Uh... What's so
huge about it?

242
00:19:18,199 --> 00:19:21,692
Oh, I know the Clarion-Ledger
is not the Chicago Tribune,

243
00:19:21,702 --> 00:19:25,321
but in our small pond,
it's everything.

244
00:19:26,707 --> 00:19:28,448
Uh... I'm lost.

245
00:19:29,377 --> 00:19:31,994
Certainly you've
seen today's paper.

246
00:19:43,683 --> 00:19:45,595
Thanks very much.
This'll be just fine.

247
00:19:45,685 --> 00:19:48,177
You let us know if we can
do anything more for you.

248
00:20:04,620 --> 00:20:05,736
Why do you want
the right to terminate

249
00:20:05,746 --> 00:20:07,112
my representation
without a fight?

250
00:20:07,164 --> 00:20:11,283
It took me a long time to fire
those Jew bastards last time.

251
00:20:11,877 --> 00:20:14,244
I won't go through that again.

252
00:20:14,714 --> 00:20:15,921
All right, that's reasonable.

253
00:20:16,006 --> 00:20:18,419
I don't care if you think
it's reasonable or not.

254
00:20:19,969 --> 00:20:23,007
It's in the agreement,
and it's nonnegotiable.

255
00:20:24,974 --> 00:20:26,715
Moving right along.

256
00:20:26,767 --> 00:20:29,259
Well, this is ridiculous.
"No clemency."

257
00:20:29,353 --> 00:20:30,969
Okay. If the appeals
process fails,

258
00:20:31,063 --> 00:20:33,375
we're gonna have to go to Governor
McAllister as a last resort,

259
00:20:33,399 --> 00:20:36,142
so to preclude clemency at
that point would be suicidal.

260
00:20:36,193 --> 00:20:39,777
If I could take David McAllister
into the chamber with me,

261
00:20:40,114 --> 00:20:42,697
I'd die with a smile.

262
00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:46,694
I was tried. I was retried.
I got a hung jury both times.

263
00:20:46,704 --> 00:20:49,287
I was free. I was a
free man for 12 years.

264
00:20:50,416 --> 00:20:53,454
And then that sleazy
son of a bitch McAllister

265
00:20:53,544 --> 00:20:56,457
used me to get hisself elected.

266
00:20:58,799 --> 00:21:00,711
No deals with the Governor.

267
00:21:02,386 --> 00:21:03,718
Fine.

268
00:21:14,023 --> 00:21:16,936
All right. Why did
you become a Klansman?

269
00:21:18,819 --> 00:21:20,731
Because my daddy
was in the Klan.

270
00:21:20,821 --> 00:21:22,687
Why did your daddy
become a Klansman?

271
00:21:22,740 --> 00:21:24,527
His daddy was in the Klan.

272
00:21:24,742 --> 00:21:27,200
Great. We got three
generations, huh?

273
00:21:27,244 --> 00:21:28,244
No. Four.

274
00:21:28,370 --> 00:21:32,705
Colonel Jacob Cayhall fought with
Nathan Bedford Forrest in the war.

275
00:21:32,750 --> 00:21:36,790
And family legend has it that he was
one of the first members of the Klan.

276
00:21:36,879 --> 00:21:39,121
So let me see.
I guess that'd make him

277
00:21:39,173 --> 00:21:42,041
your great-great-
great-granddaddy.

278
00:21:43,344 --> 00:21:45,506
Do you expect me
to feel proud about that?

279
00:21:45,596 --> 00:21:47,679
I don't give a damn
how you feel.

280
00:21:47,723 --> 00:21:49,430
I'm just telling
you who you are.

281
00:21:49,517 --> 00:21:50,678
Isn't that why you're here?

282
00:21:54,522 --> 00:21:56,855
All right, the Kramer twins
was the fifth bombing.

283
00:21:56,941 --> 00:21:59,729
What about the real estate
office in Jackson?

284
00:21:59,819 --> 00:22:02,152
Well, I lost my
virginity on that one.

285
00:22:02,238 --> 00:22:04,638
It was a crude little thing with
just some sticks and a fuse.

286
00:22:04,698 --> 00:22:06,234
The newspaper office?

287
00:22:06,283 --> 00:22:07,490
A real fireball.

288
00:22:07,535 --> 00:22:09,697
The Hirsch Temple?
Best one yet.

289
00:22:09,912 --> 00:22:11,699
The Kramer office?

290
00:22:14,667 --> 00:22:18,126
It was a good bomb. But I
never meant to kill anybody.

291
00:22:18,170 --> 00:22:19,251
Really?

292
00:22:19,338 --> 00:22:21,125
You bombed the Pinder house
at 4:00 in the morning

293
00:22:21,131 --> 00:22:22,651
and there were six
people sleeping there.

294
00:22:22,675 --> 00:22:25,759
But nobody got hurt, 'cause I
planted the bomb in the garage.

295
00:22:26,345 --> 00:22:29,634
I don't make fancy bombs. They're
just simple little things.

296
00:22:29,723 --> 00:22:30,867
But I know where to put them.

297
00:22:30,891 --> 00:22:33,053
Like I told you, I never
meant to kill anybody.

298
00:22:33,686 --> 00:22:34,927
And the twins?

299
00:22:40,276 --> 00:22:41,892
Casualties of war.

300
00:22:41,986 --> 00:22:44,569
The father losing his legs?
Killing himself?

301
00:22:45,030 --> 00:22:46,441
I don't wanna talk about this.

302
00:22:46,532 --> 00:22:50,196
Are you hiding something from me?
I wouldn't advise it.

303
00:22:50,411 --> 00:22:52,118
I got nothing to hide.

304
00:22:52,204 --> 00:22:55,038
I did what I had to do.
The Klan was at war.

305
00:22:55,624 --> 00:22:58,207
We would've won, too, but we
started bombing the Jews,

306
00:22:58,294 --> 00:23:02,288
and with all their money, they
got the FBI, and they beat us.

307
00:23:02,381 --> 00:23:04,919
We should've just stayed to
whipping up on the niggers.

308
00:23:05,175 --> 00:23:07,087
The world would've been
a different place.

309
00:23:07,177 --> 00:23:09,840
Yeah, you can pretend
you're all offended by this.

310
00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:11,721
But deep down inside,

311
00:23:11,724 --> 00:23:15,513
we both know that there's a
part of you agrees with me.

312
00:23:15,728 --> 00:23:17,469
That's bullshit.

313
00:23:17,730 --> 00:23:20,814
Why you getting so touchy?
What're you hiding?

314
00:23:21,233 --> 00:23:22,565
I'm not hiding a thing.

315
00:23:22,651 --> 00:23:23,767
Like hell you're not.

316
00:23:23,861 --> 00:23:27,650
You're driving your car and some
drunk jungle bunny cuts you off,

317
00:23:27,698 --> 00:23:29,690
his ghetto music blasting.

318
00:23:29,742 --> 00:23:31,483
What do you think?

319
00:23:31,577 --> 00:23:34,695
"Why you darn
African-American." No.

320
00:23:34,705 --> 00:23:37,413
You think, "Nigger."

321
00:23:38,709 --> 00:23:40,450
If you had any guts,
you'd say so.

322
00:23:47,843 --> 00:23:49,800
I'm gonna come back tomorrow.

323
00:23:50,721 --> 00:23:53,338
I hurt your little
feelings, have I? Huh?

324
00:23:55,225 --> 00:23:58,468
What'd you expect to find here?
Ol' Grandpa Do-Good?

325
00:23:58,812 --> 00:24:01,475
Expect me to go all blubbery
and kiss your behind

326
00:24:01,565 --> 00:24:03,397
and sing psalms of forgiveness?

327
00:24:03,484 --> 00:24:05,100
I don't know what I expected.

328
00:24:05,194 --> 00:24:08,028
Sure, you did, Grandson.

329
00:24:26,465 --> 00:24:29,253
Hi. I'm Nora Stark,
Attorney Hall.

330
00:24:29,343 --> 00:24:31,676
I kind of clean up after
Governor McAllister.

331
00:24:32,137 --> 00:24:33,298
Adam, please.

332
00:24:33,722 --> 00:24:35,304
Well, Adam it shall be.

333
00:24:35,391 --> 00:24:37,599
I'm very curious, Adam.

334
00:24:37,685 --> 00:24:39,722
Are you aware that the
identical points raised

335
00:24:39,770 --> 00:24:41,682
in the pending ineffective
counsel petition

336
00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:43,722
were turned down by
Texas just last month?

337
00:24:44,191 --> 00:24:46,683
Actually, I am.
It's my opinion, though,

338
00:24:46,694 --> 00:24:48,606
that Texas is miles
ahead of Mississippi

339
00:24:48,696 --> 00:24:50,153
in many things,
including stupidity.

340
00:24:50,948 --> 00:24:53,110
I'm optimistic.
Morning, counsel.

341
00:24:53,701 --> 00:24:56,239
Good morning, Your Honor.
Good morning.

342
00:24:57,997 --> 00:24:59,954
This is serious business.

343
00:25:00,499 --> 00:25:05,711
Ultimate, irreversible
punishment of a fellow human.

344
00:25:06,130 --> 00:25:10,750
And time is the purest gold. When
do you plan to file an appeal?

345
00:25:14,722 --> 00:25:18,056
Oddly, I had planned on waiting
for the court to issue a ruling

346
00:25:18,142 --> 00:25:19,929
before appealing it,

347
00:25:20,602 --> 00:25:21,763
Your Honor.

348
00:25:22,730 --> 00:25:27,191
However, if,
as expected, Thursday.

349
00:25:29,945 --> 00:25:32,483
And the state's response?
We agree.

350
00:25:33,407 --> 00:25:36,866
Assuming young counsel opposite
will not be introducing

351
00:25:36,952 --> 00:25:39,660
additional issues on this appeal.
Obviously not.

352
00:25:39,997 --> 00:25:41,488
Friday morning.

353
00:25:43,709 --> 00:25:45,917
You'll have my decision Friday.

354
00:25:47,713 --> 00:25:50,547
Can the court expect
additional filings?

355
00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:53,792
Are you asking me my legal
strategy, Your Honor?

356
00:25:55,054 --> 00:25:57,011
Not at all, sir.

357
00:25:57,097 --> 00:26:00,090
But I'm thrilled
to know you have one.

358
00:26:00,934 --> 00:26:02,641
You're all dismissed. Now.

359
00:26:08,442 --> 00:26:11,150
Adam. Clemency?

360
00:26:12,029 --> 00:26:15,238
I'm contractually bound not to ask.
You haven't.

361
00:26:15,449 --> 00:26:19,318
But you will. You see, the
Governor's a very open minded man.

362
00:26:19,536 --> 00:26:21,573
He's not precluding anything.

363
00:26:22,247 --> 00:26:24,284
You becoming a lawyer
must've made Sam proud.

364
00:26:24,458 --> 00:26:27,917
Well, Governor, you of all people should be
familiar with his view of the profession.

365
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,788
However, I'd just as soon keep
this discussion on the issue

366
00:26:30,881 --> 00:26:32,543
and, as agreed, off the record.

367
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,166
I understand
you're reconsidering

368
00:26:34,259 --> 00:26:36,592
the state-sanctioned
murder of my client.

369
00:26:37,054 --> 00:26:38,795
Adam, would you mind?

370
00:26:39,264 --> 00:26:40,846
No, sir.

371
00:26:40,933 --> 00:26:42,390
Adam, I obviously
worked very hard

372
00:26:42,476 --> 00:26:44,559
and am extremely proud
to have won a conviction

373
00:26:44,686 --> 00:26:47,303
where two previous
prosecutors have failed.

374
00:26:47,397 --> 00:26:51,061
However, while I have no doubt Sam
Cayhall is guilty as charged,

375
00:26:51,151 --> 00:26:53,985
I have always found it very difficult
to believe he acted alone.

376
00:26:54,071 --> 00:26:57,906
And as you know, he's never been
inclined to help himself in that regard.

377
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,989
What exactly are you saying? Is there
something specific you know about?

378
00:27:02,329 --> 00:27:04,571
No. Certainly not.

379
00:27:04,665 --> 00:27:07,248
I just wanna make sure
justice is served.

380
00:27:08,460 --> 00:27:09,917
I see.

381
00:27:10,921 --> 00:27:13,538
So if I should somehow learn...

382
00:27:13,632 --> 00:27:15,919
Adam, I take my power to decide

383
00:27:15,926 --> 00:27:19,920
whether a fellow human should
live or die very seriously.

384
00:27:19,930 --> 00:27:23,014
Now, if I could somehow be convinced
your client felt the same way...

385
00:27:24,184 --> 00:27:27,928
I'm sorry to rush. Nora, please help
out Mr. Hall in every way we can.

386
00:27:27,938 --> 00:27:29,895
It was lovely to meet you.

387
00:27:30,274 --> 00:27:31,435
Nice to meet you.

388
00:27:34,903 --> 00:27:38,317
Let me guess. You're not
convinced he's sincere.

389
00:27:38,407 --> 00:27:40,490
Allow me a touch
of healthy skepticism.

390
00:27:40,576 --> 00:27:41,783
But of course.

391
00:27:41,869 --> 00:27:43,906
However, off the record
and on the issue,

392
00:27:43,912 --> 00:27:46,905
you've been given the opportunity
to provide the Governor with cover.

393
00:27:48,041 --> 00:27:49,248
Love politics.

394
00:27:49,334 --> 00:27:51,747
Because if he stays the
execution without a reason,

395
00:27:51,837 --> 00:27:53,920
he looks to the left like
a friend of the old guard.

396
00:27:53,922 --> 00:27:56,084
He looks to the right
like he's soft on crime.

397
00:27:56,175 --> 00:27:57,962
And given it was he
who personally won

398
00:27:58,051 --> 00:27:59,362
the conviction
in the first place,

399
00:27:59,386 --> 00:28:01,469
he looks to the world
like a big flip-flop.

400
00:28:01,722 --> 00:28:03,133
But if I come up
with new information,

401
00:28:03,140 --> 00:28:05,020
it gives him an excuse
to follow his conscience.

402
00:28:05,058 --> 00:28:06,970
Let's just say
it expands his options.

403
00:28:07,603 --> 00:28:10,083
So to facilitate that, you've
been assigned my new best friend.

404
00:28:10,230 --> 00:28:11,471
Something like that.

405
00:28:11,899 --> 00:28:14,391
Well, pal, I plan on winning
this one in the courts.

406
00:28:14,484 --> 00:28:16,396
Even better. It's not
getting to the Governor.

407
00:28:16,820 --> 00:28:19,608
Now you're talking. If you
need any help at all,

408
00:28:19,656 --> 00:28:22,114
that's home, that's office.

409
00:28:22,201 --> 00:28:24,033
Call me.

410
00:29:10,916 --> 00:29:13,533
I found this in my
motel room last night.

411
00:29:14,419 --> 00:29:17,753
"Welcome to Dixie. Please try and
leave everything as you found it."

412
00:29:22,261 --> 00:29:23,877
Sounds like good manners to me.

413
00:29:23,929 --> 00:29:26,091
It was attached to the
timer of a fake bomb.

414
00:29:30,269 --> 00:29:31,851
What?

415
00:29:34,940 --> 00:29:36,852
What do you think
I should do about it?

416
00:29:37,150 --> 00:29:38,711
I don't give a damn
what you do about it.

417
00:29:38,735 --> 00:29:41,615
Right now I'm thinking about how that
gas they're gonna force me to sniff

418
00:29:41,655 --> 00:29:43,897
makes your lungs explode and
come flying out your mouth.

419
00:29:49,413 --> 00:29:51,826
What motions you
planning to file?

420
00:29:55,544 --> 00:29:57,661
We're gonna pursue
cruel and unusual.

421
00:29:58,171 --> 00:30:01,539
Three years at Michigan Law, and
that sorry idea's the best you got?

422
00:30:01,925 --> 00:30:03,917
In 1984, the Mississippi
legislature

423
00:30:04,011 --> 00:30:05,738
passed a law changing
the method of execution

424
00:30:05,762 --> 00:30:07,674
from the gas chamber
to lethal injection.

425
00:30:07,764 --> 00:30:11,883
And that law only applies to
folks sentenced after 1984.

426
00:30:12,728 --> 00:30:15,141
I was sent up here in 1980.

427
00:30:15,647 --> 00:30:17,388
Now, what the hell's your point?

428
00:30:17,482 --> 00:30:19,202
I see that you're up
on the law, aren't you?

429
00:30:19,401 --> 00:30:22,894
I read all the decisions by all
the dead judges. Same as you.

430
00:30:23,864 --> 00:30:25,901
I write some writs
for guys on the row.

431
00:30:25,907 --> 00:30:27,114
You gotten any stays yet?

432
00:30:27,909 --> 00:30:30,430
Then I ask you to keep your matchbook
law school advice to yourself,

433
00:30:30,454 --> 00:30:31,740
and let me do my job.

434
00:30:31,788 --> 00:30:33,908
By changing to lethal injection,
a more humane method,

435
00:30:34,041 --> 00:30:35,202
the state admitted de facto

436
00:30:35,292 --> 00:30:37,875
that the gas chamber is a
cruel method of execution.

437
00:30:37,919 --> 00:30:40,753
May I remind counsel,
speaking as the gasee,

438
00:30:40,964 --> 00:30:43,502
I'll be just as dead
one way as the other?

439
00:30:43,592 --> 00:30:46,551
Sooner or later, yeah. But
I'll take later as a win.

440
00:30:46,636 --> 00:30:50,926
I'm bursting with confidence! I been losing
better appeals than this for 16 years.

441
00:30:50,932 --> 00:30:54,096
I feel like those white guys who always
lose to the nigger Globetrotters.

442
00:30:57,939 --> 00:31:00,431
You know, why didn't my dad
get infected with this crap?

443
00:31:00,525 --> 00:31:03,893
We're gonna have our Eddie talk now, huh?
Is that it? I'd be careful.

444
00:31:03,904 --> 00:31:06,507
Well, you destroyed him. I mean, you
must feel pretty good about that.

445
00:31:06,531 --> 00:31:09,899
I destroyed nothing. He never
tried to understand the Klan.

446
00:31:10,619 --> 00:31:11,905
We were right.

447
00:31:12,037 --> 00:31:13,403
Oh, you still think
you were right?

448
00:31:13,455 --> 00:31:16,914
Look what you got now: AIDS and
drugs and bastard children.

449
00:31:16,917 --> 00:31:17,917
Killer bees?

450
00:31:17,919 --> 00:31:19,478
Well, they come
from Africa, don't they?

451
00:31:19,544 --> 00:31:21,456
South America. But that's
probably close enough for you.

452
00:31:21,463 --> 00:31:22,829
Why're you doing this?

453
00:31:23,715 --> 00:31:26,110
'Cause my life would be a lot
easier if I could just hate you.

454
00:31:26,134 --> 00:31:28,922
But you can't, can you?
'Cause I'm just too lovable.

455
00:31:28,929 --> 00:31:30,921
Well, I'm working on it.

456
00:31:30,931 --> 00:31:33,924
Christ, your father kills himself in
front of you when you're 10 years old,

457
00:31:34,017 --> 00:31:36,537
and then you go to the funeral and
find out Grandpa's still alive.

458
00:31:36,561 --> 00:31:39,850
Great! Except for the fact that
he's a racist, scumbag baby-killer!

459
00:31:40,190 --> 00:31:41,397
Why is that not comforting?

460
00:31:41,483 --> 00:31:43,896
Oh, stop.
You're breaking my heart.

461
00:31:46,321 --> 00:31:48,529
It was your hate that drove
him away, wasn't it?

462
00:31:50,909 --> 00:31:52,901
Eddie was weak.

463
00:31:54,413 --> 00:31:55,824
I never laid a hand on him.

464
00:31:57,332 --> 00:31:58,823
Never got after him.

465
00:31:59,918 --> 00:32:02,956
Never cared who his friends were.
Not even Quince.

466
00:32:03,713 --> 00:32:04,794
Who?

467
00:32:06,258 --> 00:32:09,672
Quince Lincoln, a nigger kid
Eddie used to play with.

468
00:32:10,303 --> 00:32:12,044
Wait a second. I've
heard that name before.

469
00:32:12,139 --> 00:32:13,346
It don't mean nothing.

470
00:32:13,432 --> 00:32:15,344
No, no. Quince Lincoln.
He used to mention that name.

471
00:32:15,350 --> 00:32:16,431
He'd have these spells.

472
00:32:16,518 --> 00:32:17,884
He'd be in his room for two,
three days at a time...

473
00:32:17,894 --> 00:32:19,226
Sergeant Packer!...He'd
start mumbling some story,

474
00:32:19,229 --> 00:32:20,390
and it was about Quince Lincoln.

475
00:32:20,397 --> 00:32:22,889
I just thought he made it up. It don't
mean nothing. Shut up about it.

476
00:32:22,899 --> 00:32:23,899
No. Who's Quince...

477
00:32:23,901 --> 00:32:26,142
It don't mean nothing!
Shut up about it!

478
00:32:28,738 --> 00:32:30,445
Let's go, Sam.

479
00:32:34,369 --> 00:32:35,530
Come on.

480
00:32:40,917 --> 00:32:42,909
Yeah.
Were you asleep?

481
00:32:43,670 --> 00:32:45,081
No, I'm up.

482
00:32:45,172 --> 00:32:46,538
Don't ask me how I know,

483
00:32:46,715 --> 00:32:48,923
but the court's going to
reject ineffective counsel.

484
00:32:49,885 --> 00:32:51,797
Yeah, I expected that.

485
00:32:51,887 --> 00:32:55,176
Well, I'll be ready to file
the appeal in New Orleans

486
00:32:55,265 --> 00:32:56,551
the minute the court here rules.

487
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,934
I'll expect your first draft
in the morning. Good night.

488
00:33:17,913 --> 00:33:18,994
Hello.

489
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:20,912
Nora.

490
00:33:21,374 --> 00:33:22,615
Hi.

491
00:33:22,709 --> 00:33:24,450
Does the offer
to help still stand?

492
00:33:24,836 --> 00:33:25,952
Sure.

493
00:33:26,838 --> 00:33:30,548
I need to track down the FBI agent
who was in charge of Sam's case.

494
00:33:33,220 --> 00:33:35,963
Sam was of no concern
to us, you understand?

495
00:33:36,097 --> 00:33:38,259
He wasn't active in
the really nasty stuff,

496
00:33:38,350 --> 00:33:40,433
so we weren't keeping
close track of him.

497
00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:41,976
When did that change?

498
00:33:43,563 --> 00:33:47,898
When the civil rights workers disappeared,
Hoover sent us in with a fury.

499
00:33:47,901 --> 00:33:49,984
We spread money
all over the place.

500
00:33:50,862 --> 00:33:54,822
Those people were basically just ignorant
rednecks, you know. Didn't have a dime.

501
00:33:55,033 --> 00:33:57,195
So we preyed on
their craving for money.

502
00:33:57,536 --> 00:33:58,902
Uh-huh?

503
00:33:58,912 --> 00:33:59,993
Go on.

504
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,912
Hey. There's some things
I can talk about

505
00:34:01,998 --> 00:34:04,081
and there's some things
I can't talk about.

506
00:34:04,167 --> 00:34:06,204
And there's some things
I won't talk about,

507
00:34:06,294 --> 00:34:08,911
because I don't like you
lawyers twisting the truth,

508
00:34:09,005 --> 00:34:11,964
getting killers off
on some legal technicality.

509
00:34:12,008 --> 00:34:13,544
That's bullshit.

510
00:34:14,553 --> 00:34:17,011
Besides, it's too late
for new information, kid.

511
00:34:17,097 --> 00:34:19,931
The courts won't hear it.
You know that.

512
00:34:19,975 --> 00:34:22,763
The courts don't have
the final say in this case.

513
00:34:23,061 --> 00:34:25,895
Besides, you say he wasn't involved
in the really nasty stuff.

514
00:34:25,897 --> 00:34:27,513
I mean, there's no way
he meant to kill.

515
00:34:27,607 --> 00:34:29,815
Of course he meant to kill.

516
00:34:30,235 --> 00:34:33,148
Marvin Kramer was
a creature of habit.

517
00:34:33,238 --> 00:34:36,777
He was in that office
every morning before 8:00.

518
00:34:36,866 --> 00:34:39,404
The bomb went off
straight up at 8:00.

519
00:34:39,494 --> 00:34:41,406
The timer
was set for 8:00.

520
00:34:42,622 --> 00:34:44,534
That was never
introduced at trial.

521
00:34:44,624 --> 00:34:47,019
Hey, I can't help it if the damn
lawyers didn't make use of it.

522
00:34:47,043 --> 00:34:48,329
It was in our report.

523
00:34:49,462 --> 00:34:51,579
Well, I'd like
to see that report.

524
00:34:51,673 --> 00:34:55,257
Well, I can't help you there, pal.
I'm just a fisherman now,

525
00:34:55,343 --> 00:34:57,380
who'd just as soon
see him gassed.

526
00:34:58,888 --> 00:35:02,131
I've been around those
violent assholes all my life.

527
00:35:02,225 --> 00:35:04,933
Let them taste the
other end of violence.

528
00:35:04,978 --> 00:35:07,971
See how brave they are
without their hoods.

529
00:35:10,150 --> 00:35:11,891
You know what I'm talking about.

530
00:35:15,864 --> 00:35:19,448
Why would our FBI friend not want to tell
us something about a 30-year-old case?

531
00:35:19,534 --> 00:35:22,572
'Cause you're in Mississippi now.
Land of the secrets.

532
00:35:22,621 --> 00:35:25,238
There are bodies
buried everywhere.

533
00:35:25,332 --> 00:35:27,073
But no one's trying to hide
anything about Sam.

534
00:35:27,083 --> 00:35:29,370
They don't have to.
He did it.

535
00:35:30,086 --> 00:35:32,203
They just don't want you
sifting through the ashes,

536
00:35:32,297 --> 00:35:34,505
'cause they're not sure
what else you might turn up.

537
00:35:34,591 --> 00:35:36,002
Who is "they"?

538
00:35:36,676 --> 00:35:37,837
Everyone.

539
00:35:37,927 --> 00:35:39,668
No one. What difference
does it make?

540
00:35:40,096 --> 00:35:42,008
Well, maybe a lot.

541
00:35:42,932 --> 00:35:44,343
I mean, take you, for instance.

542
00:35:45,268 --> 00:35:46,975
Are you really here to help me?

543
00:35:47,604 --> 00:35:49,721
Or did they assign
you to spy on me?

544
00:35:56,071 --> 00:35:58,028
You ever heard of the
Sovereignty Commission?

545
00:35:59,407 --> 00:36:00,443
Vaguely.

546
00:36:00,533 --> 00:36:02,195
Well, it doesn't exist anymore.

547
00:36:02,285 --> 00:36:03,821
They started it in the '50s.

548
00:36:03,912 --> 00:36:06,529
It was an official state agency
dedicated to states' rights,

549
00:36:06,623 --> 00:36:09,036
i.e. fighting
civil rights.

550
00:36:09,125 --> 00:36:10,925
Some people think it was
actually coordinating

551
00:36:11,002 --> 00:36:12,493
all of the white
citizens' councils.

552
00:36:12,671 --> 00:36:13,707
What were those?

553
00:36:13,713 --> 00:36:14,794
Every town had one.

554
00:36:15,048 --> 00:36:18,382
A local group of
respectable white people.

555
00:36:18,468 --> 00:36:21,802
Professional types,
pillars of their community,

556
00:36:22,389 --> 00:36:24,301
who told the Klan what to do.

557
00:36:26,017 --> 00:36:28,725
So somebody like Sam
wasn't even making decisions.

558
00:36:28,770 --> 00:36:31,808
Like our FBI friend said,

559
00:36:31,898 --> 00:36:36,768
they were poor, uneducated bigots who
couldn't find their butts with a map.

560
00:36:36,861 --> 00:36:39,899
The citizens' councils used
them to do their dirty work.

561
00:36:39,989 --> 00:36:41,400
And the Sovereignty Commission?

562
00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:43,032
They kept the records.

563
00:36:46,287 --> 00:36:47,573
Sam, please sign this.

564
00:36:47,747 --> 00:36:49,158
I ain't signing nothing.

565
00:36:49,249 --> 00:36:51,049
The files are sealed
by the state legislature.

566
00:36:51,126 --> 00:36:52,412
Now, as a defendant
on death row,

567
00:36:52,502 --> 00:36:54,619
you and only you can apply
to have your files opened.

568
00:36:55,714 --> 00:36:58,422
You're set to die in 20 days,
all right. This might help.

569
00:36:58,717 --> 00:37:01,505
Help him, maybe. Not me.
Help who?

570
00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:04,212
The Governor, you dumb ass.
Can't you see it?

571
00:37:04,305 --> 00:37:05,887
He can't open the files hisself,

572
00:37:05,932 --> 00:37:07,218
so he gets you to do it for him.

573
00:37:07,267 --> 00:37:08,883
Why? To help me?

574
00:37:09,352 --> 00:37:10,684
He put me here.

575
00:37:11,020 --> 00:37:13,854
Nah. He's just fishing for
what every politician wants,

576
00:37:13,940 --> 00:37:15,602
dirt on their enemies.

577
00:37:16,693 --> 00:37:18,309
What's in those files, Sam?

578
00:37:19,863 --> 00:37:22,150
Nothing for you. No, it's
just stuff they'd use

579
00:37:22,198 --> 00:37:23,939
to twist around
and hurt my people.

580
00:37:24,033 --> 00:37:26,195
I'm your people.

581
00:37:27,036 --> 00:37:28,902
Don't you get it? I am.

582
00:37:28,997 --> 00:37:32,661
You ain't my real people. You
ain't never met my real people.

583
00:37:36,337 --> 00:37:38,454
I don't know
how they got the story.

584
00:37:38,548 --> 00:37:41,211
It's only a matter of time
before they get around to me.

585
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,843
Well, I am sorry.
But, listen,

586
00:37:43,928 --> 00:37:45,248
I think I might
be onto something.

587
00:37:45,305 --> 00:37:46,741
I'm following some
leads from way back.

588
00:37:46,765 --> 00:37:48,802
For God's sake, Adam,
leave it alone.

589
00:37:49,142 --> 00:37:51,225
Lee, I really think
I can save him.

590
00:37:53,062 --> 00:37:55,679
Ever occur to you he might
not be worth saving?

591
00:37:55,690 --> 00:37:58,933
You can't mean that.
All right, Adam.

592
00:37:59,527 --> 00:38:01,689
You wanna know about the past?

593
00:38:03,156 --> 00:38:05,443
I'll tell you about the past.

594
00:39:18,857 --> 00:39:20,689
This was my tree.

595
00:39:27,740 --> 00:39:30,699
My own laurel tree.

596
00:39:33,997 --> 00:39:35,704
I was up there.

597
00:39:41,754 --> 00:39:45,418
Your father was there,
with Quince.

598
00:39:47,260 --> 00:39:49,172
They were eight.
Maybe they were nine.

599
00:39:49,721 --> 00:39:51,428
And they were best friends.

600
00:39:57,061 --> 00:40:01,055
They were fighting and kicking, and
they made so much noise Daddy heard

601
00:40:01,149 --> 00:40:03,732
and come out to see
what all the ruckus was.

602
00:40:03,818 --> 00:40:06,686
You hear me?
Go on. Go on.

603
00:40:06,696 --> 00:40:07,982
Get on home!

604
00:40:08,072 --> 00:40:11,236
Quince's father did
day work for Daddy.

605
00:40:11,326 --> 00:40:12,942
His name was Joe.

606
00:40:13,036 --> 00:40:16,279
Daddy never was very handy, you
know, with mechanical things,

607
00:40:16,331 --> 00:40:18,323
so Joe fixed things for us.
He made things.

608
00:40:18,791 --> 00:40:21,158
He was here all the time.

609
00:40:21,210 --> 00:40:25,500
So then Quince came
back with his father.

610
00:40:26,549 --> 00:40:28,711
My boy, Quince, said you
been beating on him.

611
00:40:28,801 --> 00:40:32,215
They fought
so hard. Like animals.

612
00:40:32,305 --> 00:40:35,173
At one point,
Daddy grabbed the rake.

613
00:40:35,934 --> 00:40:37,675
And things got out of hand.

614
00:40:39,395 --> 00:40:41,808
He knocked Joe over.
Joe fell to the ground.

615
00:40:42,398 --> 00:40:44,685
And he yelled for Quince
to run and get his shotgun.

616
00:40:44,734 --> 00:40:46,521
Quince, go get my shotgun!

617
00:40:46,694 --> 00:40:49,983
Sam told Eddie to go
get his. Eddie froze.

618
00:40:50,531 --> 00:40:51,897
But Daddy made him go.

619
00:40:53,618 --> 00:40:56,076
Joe was here.

620
00:40:58,706 --> 00:41:00,072
Daddy was there.

621
00:41:00,166 --> 00:41:01,623
Get in the house.
Go on.

622
00:41:01,709 --> 00:41:04,167
Joe waited for his gun.

623
00:41:04,337 --> 00:41:06,124
He kept looking around.

624
00:41:06,673 --> 00:41:08,505
Sam had his.

625
00:41:09,509 --> 00:41:12,673
And then my dear,
sweet father...

626
00:41:35,743 --> 00:41:38,702
This was Mississippi

627
00:41:39,747 --> 00:41:42,114
in the early '50s.

628
00:41:45,044 --> 00:41:47,206
Daddy said self-defense.

629
00:41:48,089 --> 00:41:50,832
He was never even
so much as arrested.

630
00:41:51,843 --> 00:41:54,256
What were my dad
and Quince fighting about?

631
00:42:00,685 --> 00:42:02,176
A toy soldier.

632
00:42:02,687 --> 00:42:05,680
Eddie thought
Quince had stolen it.

633
00:42:06,107 --> 00:42:08,269
That night he found it
under his bed.

634
00:42:09,986 --> 00:42:13,696
He took the weight of the
world on his shoulders.

635
00:42:14,699 --> 00:42:16,565
And then he said.

636
00:42:17,201 --> 00:42:20,865
I had killed Joe Lincoln, too.

637
00:42:27,462 --> 00:42:30,955
He said if I had cried
out for Daddy to stop,

638
00:42:32,717 --> 00:42:35,004
no way would he have fired.

639
00:42:35,970 --> 00:42:38,713
Not with his sweet
baby girl watching.

640
00:42:43,102 --> 00:42:45,014
Of course, he was right.

641
00:42:49,525 --> 00:42:51,858
It was my fault, too.

642
00:43:05,208 --> 00:43:06,289
It's mine!

643
00:43:06,417 --> 00:43:09,160
Making so much
noise Daddy heard.

644
00:43:09,712 --> 00:43:11,419
Get on home!

645
00:43:11,756 --> 00:43:14,043
Quince! Quince!

646
00:43:22,266 --> 00:43:23,882
Help me, Quince.

647
00:43:24,268 --> 00:43:26,681
Get my shotgun!

648
00:43:31,692 --> 00:43:35,527
Daddy never was very handy, you
know, with mechanical things.

649
00:43:36,948 --> 00:43:38,610
Jesus!

650
00:43:42,370 --> 00:43:46,284
The superintendent asked if you've
been thinking about your last meal.

651
00:43:47,708 --> 00:43:49,825
Special requests can take time.

652
00:43:50,670 --> 00:43:52,502
Yeah, I want

653
00:43:53,089 --> 00:43:56,582
a bowl of Eskimo Pies
and French Market coffee.

654
00:43:56,717 --> 00:43:59,004
It shall be done.

655
00:43:59,095 --> 00:44:01,337
There's been five executions
since you been here, Sam.

656
00:44:01,430 --> 00:44:03,550
You know anything about
any problems with any of them?

657
00:44:04,058 --> 00:44:05,720
Come on.

658
00:44:06,435 --> 00:44:08,973
They all died
within 50 feet of me.

659
00:44:09,397 --> 00:44:11,980
Everybody on the row knows
everything about every killing.

660
00:44:12,441 --> 00:44:13,977
Tell me about Teddy Meeks, then.

661
00:44:14,068 --> 00:44:15,275
I want to hear every detail.

662
00:44:17,488 --> 00:44:20,151
They didn't know
what they were doing.

663
00:44:20,241 --> 00:44:21,948
Everything went wrong.

664
00:44:22,785 --> 00:44:24,697
Have you seen the chamber?

665
00:44:25,288 --> 00:44:26,449
Not yet.

666
00:44:26,539 --> 00:44:27,850
Well, there's a little
room off to one side

667
00:44:27,874 --> 00:44:32,665
where the executioner goes to mix
up his solution of sulfuric acid.

668
00:44:33,129 --> 00:44:36,543
With Meeks, the
executioner was drunk.

669
00:44:37,258 --> 00:44:38,419
Come on.

670
00:44:38,509 --> 00:44:39,625
He was drunk.

671
00:44:41,053 --> 00:44:42,635
Anyway.

672
00:44:45,641 --> 00:44:48,349
His first batch
of brew didn't work.

673
00:44:48,769 --> 00:44:51,978
And Meeks held his breath
for as long as he could.

674
00:44:52,064 --> 00:44:54,397
Then he inhaled
and nothing happened.

675
00:44:55,234 --> 00:44:56,691
So they waited.

676
00:44:56,694 --> 00:44:59,061
Meeks waited.
The witnesses waited.

677
00:44:59,155 --> 00:45:02,193
And slowly, they turned
toward the executioner,

678
00:45:02,283 --> 00:45:04,195
who's waiting and cussing.

679
00:45:04,285 --> 00:45:06,527
He finally goes back
to his little room

680
00:45:06,621 --> 00:45:09,785
and he mixes up another batch of
sulfuric acid and pulls the lever.

681
00:45:09,874 --> 00:45:12,787
This time the sulfuric acid drops
down where it's supposed to.

682
00:45:12,877 --> 00:45:14,869
Pulls the second lever,

683
00:45:15,463 --> 00:45:17,375
dropping the cyanide pellets.

684
00:45:17,465 --> 00:45:21,880
Sure enough, this gas
starts drifting upward

685
00:45:21,969 --> 00:45:26,464
to where old Teddy is
holding his breath again.

686
00:45:28,976 --> 00:45:32,765
So finally he sucks in
a whole nose full of it

687
00:45:32,855 --> 00:45:35,689
and starts shaking and jerking.

688
00:45:35,691 --> 00:45:40,686
Well, for some reason or
other there's a metal pole

689
00:45:40,696 --> 00:45:43,109
that runs from the top of the
chamber down to the bottom,

690
00:45:43,199 --> 00:45:46,067
and it's right directly
behind the chair.

691
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:47,776
And...

692
00:45:54,877 --> 00:45:58,120
And just about the time
Meeks got real still

693
00:45:58,172 --> 00:46:00,585
and everybody thought
he was dead,

694
00:46:00,675 --> 00:46:03,713
his head starts banging back
and forth against that pole.

695
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:06,928
Just beating the hell
out of it like that.

696
00:46:08,057 --> 00:46:10,140
His eyes rolled up in his head,

697
00:46:10,226 --> 00:46:12,092
and his lips
opened up real wide.

698
00:46:12,186 --> 00:46:15,179
And he was foaming at the mouth.

699
00:46:15,273 --> 00:46:17,185
And there he was,

700
00:46:18,693 --> 00:46:22,277
just banging the back of his
head against that pole.

701
00:46:25,366 --> 00:46:27,278
It was sick.

702
00:46:28,786 --> 00:46:30,698
How long did it take
them to kill him?

703
00:46:31,664 --> 00:46:33,155
According to the prison doctor,

704
00:46:33,249 --> 00:46:36,333
death was instant and painless.

705
00:46:36,419 --> 00:46:39,503
Packer told me it was the longest
five minutes of his life.

706
00:46:40,256 --> 00:46:45,251
The guy convulsed and heaved and
pounded his skull for so long

707
00:46:45,344 --> 00:46:48,712
that pieces of his brain was
flying out the top of his head.

708
00:47:03,529 --> 00:47:06,021
How does this lever they pull
activate the cyanide canister?

709
00:47:07,533 --> 00:47:08,569
What?

710
00:47:08,659 --> 00:47:11,179
The lever. Does it work with hinges
or springs? How does it work?

711
00:47:11,203 --> 00:47:12,284
I don't know.

712
00:47:12,330 --> 00:47:14,057
Well, is it just gravity
that's forcing it down?

713
00:47:14,081 --> 00:47:15,993
Well, how in the hell
would I know that?

714
00:47:16,709 --> 00:47:18,687
Just thought you had an aptitude
for this sort of thing.

715
00:47:18,711 --> 00:47:22,045
Well, sue me.
I'm not mechanical.

716
00:47:22,798 --> 00:47:24,664
That's what Lee said.

717
00:47:24,717 --> 00:47:27,710
But you were handy enough to build
a bomb to kill the Kramer twins.

718
00:47:27,803 --> 00:47:30,216
Son of a bitch. Is that
what this is all about?

719
00:47:31,724 --> 00:47:34,592
You must've stayed up all
night thinking of this one.

720
00:47:34,894 --> 00:47:38,183
Sorry, bubba.
I hate to disappoint you,

721
00:47:38,272 --> 00:47:40,980
but bombs ain't
that complicated.

722
00:47:41,067 --> 00:47:42,854
Well, they couldn't
be that easy.

723
00:47:42,943 --> 00:47:44,104
I wouldn't know how to do it.

724
00:47:44,362 --> 00:47:46,274
That's 'cause
you're not motivated.

725
00:47:46,364 --> 00:47:49,198
By the time I did Kramer,
I had it down real simple.

726
00:47:49,283 --> 00:47:51,696
So you expect me to believe that
just because you're an anti-Semite,

727
00:47:51,702 --> 00:47:52,862
you know how to build a bomb,

728
00:47:52,912 --> 00:47:55,015
strategically place it on the
second story of a building,

729
00:47:55,039 --> 00:47:57,577
light a fuse and then get out of
there without any risk to yourself?

730
00:47:57,583 --> 00:47:59,415
Plenty of risk.
Not much glory.

731
00:47:59,835 --> 00:48:04,705
And it was the first floor. The bomb went
off below them. Check the FBI report.

732
00:48:05,049 --> 00:48:06,790
I did.
What did it say?

733
00:48:07,635 --> 00:48:09,092
Bomb went off below them.

734
00:48:10,429 --> 00:48:13,718
Thank you very much. Anything
else I can help you with?

735
00:48:13,724 --> 00:48:14,760
How long was the fuse?

736
00:48:14,809 --> 00:48:16,471
For Pete's sake.

737
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,724
You know, it happened a long time ago.
I'm an old man.

738
00:48:19,814 --> 00:48:22,431
My memory isn't that perfect. Get
off my back, here. Will you?

739
00:48:22,691 --> 00:48:24,978
Oh, I'm sure you can remember
killing two little children.

740
00:48:25,694 --> 00:48:28,186
Long enough for me to get the
hell out of there. Okay?

741
00:48:28,697 --> 00:48:32,737
Except for one thing. The bomb
didn't have a fuse. It had a timer.

742
00:48:33,452 --> 00:48:35,114
What are you saying?

743
00:48:35,204 --> 00:48:37,696
I'm saying you weren't alone.
There was somebody else.

744
00:48:38,249 --> 00:48:41,492
There's not a chance in hell you could
have built a timing device by yourself.

745
00:48:41,585 --> 00:48:44,703
The FBI, they searched your house,
your garage, your premises.

746
00:48:44,713 --> 00:48:47,877
They didn't find a single
trace of explosives anywhere.

747
00:48:48,008 --> 00:48:50,000
Well, maybe they're stupid.

748
00:48:50,845 --> 00:48:53,713
Maybe I was just real careful
and didn't leave a trail.

749
00:48:54,974 --> 00:48:57,261
Yeah. And maybe someone
else planted the bomb.

750
00:49:03,858 --> 00:49:05,770
You have no idea
what you're doing.

751
00:49:09,697 --> 00:49:10,983
Just hear me out.

752
00:49:11,073 --> 00:49:12,939
Sam couldn't construct
a timer if he wanted to.

753
00:49:13,033 --> 00:49:15,366
His bombs were simple, crude little things.
They had fuses.

754
00:49:15,411 --> 00:49:17,403
This one was different.
It was complex for back then.

755
00:49:17,413 --> 00:49:19,700
It was timed.
It was timed to kill.

756
00:49:19,707 --> 00:49:20,743
Okay. Wait a minute.

757
00:49:20,833 --> 00:49:23,041
Sam did not plant that bomb.
He did not kill those kids.

758
00:49:23,419 --> 00:49:24,705
Wait!

759
00:49:28,007 --> 00:49:30,124
If the Sovereignty Commission
has a file on Sam,

760
00:49:30,217 --> 00:49:31,903
it might also tell us
who else was involved,

761
00:49:31,927 --> 00:49:33,793
who was pulling the strings,
making decisions!

762
00:49:33,888 --> 00:49:35,629
Adam, just stop
this. Okay?

763
00:49:35,723 --> 00:49:37,715
Those files are sealed
by the state legislature.

764
00:49:37,725 --> 00:49:40,889
If your client won't sign, you cannot
move the court to unseal them.

765
00:49:40,978 --> 00:49:42,719
I bet you know a way we
could take a peek at them.

766
00:49:42,730 --> 00:49:43,811
No.

767
00:49:43,898 --> 00:49:45,818
You said you wanted to help me.
I am helping you.

768
00:49:45,900 --> 00:49:47,436
Well, maybe you need to do more.

769
00:49:47,526 --> 00:49:48,687
Well, maybe I can't do more.

770
00:49:49,153 --> 00:49:53,022
Nora, if there's others, and you're
involved in protecting them...

771
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:57,696
Are you threatening me?

772
00:49:57,703 --> 00:50:00,411
I am pursuing the truth
by any means necessary!

773
00:50:05,961 --> 00:50:09,705
Which includes politely
asking for your help.

774
00:50:16,931 --> 00:50:19,765
In addition to appealing cruel and
unusual, I wanna file a new motion.

775
00:50:20,684 --> 00:50:22,471
About time you focused
on the law, bubba.

776
00:50:22,561 --> 00:50:24,769
I never stopped focusing
on the law, bubba!

777
00:50:24,855 --> 00:50:27,689
But there is nothing that I will
not pursue in order to get a stay,

778
00:50:27,775 --> 00:50:29,687
including proving
that you're insane.

779
00:50:30,444 --> 00:50:31,855
I'm insane?
That's right.

780
00:50:31,946 --> 00:50:34,984
I'm gonna argue that as a product of
three generations of Klan mentality,

781
00:50:35,115 --> 00:50:37,152
your preconscious
indoctrination into a world

782
00:50:37,243 --> 00:50:39,701
of hate and distortion
born of irrational fear

783
00:50:39,703 --> 00:50:43,117
has resulted in diminished mental
capacity to determine right from wrong.

784
00:50:43,207 --> 00:50:45,244
Oh. You're gonna
argue I'm insane

785
00:50:45,334 --> 00:50:47,872
because I held different
political beliefs

786
00:50:47,962 --> 00:50:49,874
than you and your father

787
00:50:49,964 --> 00:50:53,423
and this naive, nigger-loving,
bleeding-heart bullshit!

788
00:50:54,093 --> 00:50:56,836
Well, I probably won't use
those exact words in my brief.

789
00:50:57,721 --> 00:50:59,838
I'll just wait and see
the psychiatrist's report.

790
00:50:59,932 --> 00:51:02,515
Oh, I'm gonna see
a psychiatrist, am I?

791
00:51:02,601 --> 00:51:03,717
That's right.

792
00:51:03,727 --> 00:51:04,934
Hmm. That's insane.

793
00:51:05,020 --> 00:51:07,262
Killing two 5-year-olds 'cause
their father was working

794
00:51:07,356 --> 00:51:08,688
for civil rights is insane.

795
00:51:10,401 --> 00:51:11,983
Never meant to kill those kids.

796
00:51:12,069 --> 00:51:14,652
Well, that's fine.
But it just happens to be the crime

797
00:51:14,697 --> 00:51:17,360
which you're scheduled to be
executed for in exactly 14 days.

798
00:51:22,705 --> 00:51:24,037
Okay.

799
00:51:25,624 --> 00:51:27,035
Good.

800
00:51:29,837 --> 00:51:32,545
I need to go over some more
family background with you.

801
00:51:32,923 --> 00:51:35,791
I got some stuff from Lee, but
there's a lot of holes in it.

802
00:51:53,569 --> 00:51:56,232
She's going through
a tough time right now.

803
00:51:57,698 --> 00:52:00,031
I tried to call her when I saw
this, but she didn't answer.

804
00:52:04,371 --> 00:52:06,613
I think she's drinking again.

805
00:52:08,709 --> 00:52:10,621
Did you know she's an alcoholic?

806
00:52:17,593 --> 00:52:21,507
Have you ever felt feelings of
remorse for any of your crimes?

807
00:52:21,722 --> 00:52:23,714
No.

808
00:52:24,975 --> 00:52:28,059
Have you ever apologized
to your victims' family?

809
00:52:31,607 --> 00:52:33,519
No, what would be the point?

810
00:52:35,361 --> 00:52:37,068
What do you think
would be the point?

811
00:52:38,864 --> 00:52:40,571
No point.

812
00:53:08,852 --> 00:53:10,468
Packer.

813
00:53:12,314 --> 00:53:15,478
I want you to know that when
I talk about your people,

814
00:53:15,567 --> 00:53:17,274
I...

815
00:53:18,487 --> 00:53:19,694
Well...

816
00:53:22,700 --> 00:53:23,816
I hear you, Sam.

817
00:54:44,072 --> 00:54:46,405
In your professional opinion,
then, does Sam Cayhall

818
00:54:46,450 --> 00:54:48,942
have anything that might even
remotely be called a conscience?

819
00:54:49,661 --> 00:54:51,573
I found no evidence of one.

820
00:54:51,663 --> 00:54:55,031
Dr. Biddows, in your opinion, is
Sam Cayhall in touch with reality?

821
00:54:55,125 --> 00:54:56,707
No, he is not.

822
00:54:57,252 --> 00:54:59,118
Thank you, Dr. Biddows.

823
00:54:59,171 --> 00:55:01,413
No further questions,
Your Honor.

824
00:55:03,634 --> 00:55:04,966
What saith the state?

825
00:55:05,010 --> 00:55:07,502
The state calls
Sergeant Clyde Packer.

826
00:55:11,308 --> 00:55:14,267
Sergeant Packer, would you
inform this court how long

827
00:55:14,394 --> 00:55:16,681
you have held your present
position, please?

828
00:55:16,688 --> 00:55:19,146
Been running the row
for 15 years, sir,

829
00:55:19,233 --> 00:55:20,940
and Sam's been with me
the whole time.

830
00:55:21,443 --> 00:55:24,527
And during this time, have you
ever observed Mr. Cayhall

831
00:55:24,613 --> 00:55:26,696
demonstrate he might
have a conscience?

832
00:55:27,199 --> 00:55:29,782
Cared about other
people's feelings?

833
00:55:29,868 --> 00:55:31,359
Oh, yes, sir.

834
00:55:31,662 --> 00:55:34,700
Everybody knows that Sam has a real
bad attitude toward black folk.

835
00:55:34,790 --> 00:55:37,203
But just the other night
he told me to my face,

836
00:55:37,251 --> 00:55:38,867
when he says stuff like that...

837
00:55:38,961 --> 00:55:41,248
Let's just say
he tried to apologize.

838
00:55:41,338 --> 00:55:42,704
And he didn't even
get it all out.

839
00:55:43,090 --> 00:55:47,630
And it sure don't make him no saint,
but for Sam, that's a big deal.

840
00:55:48,053 --> 00:55:50,716
He most certainly do has a conscience.
Yes, sir.

841
00:55:50,889 --> 00:55:55,008
And during all this time that you been
observing Mr. Cayhall so closely,

842
00:55:55,102 --> 00:55:58,641
would you say he knows
what's going on around him?

843
00:55:58,689 --> 00:56:01,557
Would you say he's out
of touch with reality?

844
00:56:03,694 --> 00:56:06,687
A couple of nights back, I was
walking past, and he said, "Clyde."

845
00:56:06,697 --> 00:56:10,111
He never called me that before,
so I knew it was important.

846
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,567
Could I help?
"With what, Sam?"

847
00:56:12,661 --> 00:56:15,699
And he said, "I wanna die alone."

848
00:56:15,706 --> 00:56:17,368
"And I wanna die
in decent clothes."

849
00:56:18,041 --> 00:56:20,249
"I wanna eat an Eskimo Pie."

850
00:56:20,335 --> 00:56:22,418
"And could
I see a sunrise?"

851
00:56:22,504 --> 00:56:26,043
I said,
"Last one's on me, Sam."

852
00:56:26,758 --> 00:56:30,297
So I snuck him out,
gave him a hour alone.

853
00:56:30,387 --> 00:56:32,174
I watched through the inside.

854
00:56:32,264 --> 00:56:34,631
I thought he might lose it
once the sun started coming.

855
00:56:35,058 --> 00:56:39,769
See, it's been 15 or 16 years
since Sam last saw dawn break.

856
00:56:40,522 --> 00:56:42,309
But he held together just fine.

857
00:56:42,357 --> 00:56:45,145
In your opinion,
based on your observations,

858
00:56:45,694 --> 00:56:48,687
is Sam Cayhall
in touch with reality?

859
00:56:48,780 --> 00:56:51,238
Sam? You betcha.

860
00:56:52,159 --> 00:56:53,695
Thank you, Sergeant Packer.

861
00:56:53,702 --> 00:56:55,193
Thank you.

862
00:56:55,287 --> 00:56:57,119
Tender the witness, Your Honor.

863
00:57:00,626 --> 00:57:02,492
What's happening
in the Fifth Circuit?

864
00:57:02,502 --> 00:57:05,540
Thumbs down on insanity
later today. Hi.

865
00:57:05,631 --> 00:57:06,963
Hi.
There you are.

866
00:57:07,049 --> 00:57:08,585
What's young
Mr. Hall been up to?

867
00:57:08,675 --> 00:57:09,711
No change.

868
00:57:09,718 --> 00:57:11,550
Try again. What has he
been working on?

869
00:57:11,637 --> 00:57:13,720
He's looking everywhere
for new information.

870
00:57:13,722 --> 00:57:15,384
What kind of information?

871
00:57:15,474 --> 00:57:16,760
Nora?

872
00:57:16,808 --> 00:57:18,174
Sir?

873
00:57:21,396 --> 00:57:23,558
You're not sleeping
with him, are you?

874
00:57:23,649 --> 00:57:25,106
No.

875
00:57:25,192 --> 00:57:26,558
Then what kind of information?

876
00:57:27,402 --> 00:57:29,689
Anything, everything.
He's desperate.

877
00:57:29,696 --> 00:57:30,857
Where is he looking?

878
00:57:32,783 --> 00:57:34,820
I don't know.
Well, find out.

879
00:57:34,910 --> 00:57:37,323
Desperate people are dangerous.

880
00:57:38,288 --> 00:57:42,123
Maybe you ought to be
sleeping with him.

881
00:57:47,172 --> 00:57:48,253
Hey.

882
00:57:48,799 --> 00:57:49,835
Can we talk?

883
00:57:50,050 --> 00:57:51,050
Sure.

884
00:57:53,428 --> 00:57:54,714
Tammy?

885
00:58:03,689 --> 00:58:05,726
The Sovereignty Commission
files, the originals,

886
00:58:05,816 --> 00:58:08,274
under lock and key
in the Hall of Records.

887
00:58:08,694 --> 00:58:11,528
Why can't zoning reports
wait for tomorrow?

888
00:58:11,947 --> 00:58:14,906
You ask the Governor. I like my job.
Nora.

889
00:58:15,993 --> 00:58:18,110
Nora, Nora.

890
00:58:18,203 --> 00:58:19,694
It's you that I'm scared of.

891
00:58:20,580 --> 00:58:23,573
Bink, please. I've gotta
get this done tonight.

892
00:58:23,667 --> 00:58:25,704
I'll lock up for you.

893
00:58:30,090 --> 00:58:31,331
Our little secret.

894
00:58:32,175 --> 00:58:33,416
You and me.

895
00:58:33,593 --> 00:58:34,800
Have a good evening.

896
00:58:34,886 --> 00:58:35,886
Uh-huh.

897
00:58:57,701 --> 00:58:58,987
This way.

898
00:59:49,711 --> 00:59:51,703
Sovereignty Commissions.

899
01:00:13,568 --> 01:00:15,685
"White Citizen's
Council, Indianola."

900
01:00:20,534 --> 01:00:21,695
Go back.

901
01:00:34,548 --> 01:00:36,540
"M.K. situation should
be followed through."

902
01:00:36,591 --> 01:00:37,923
Marvin Kramer.

903
01:00:38,009 --> 01:00:39,125
Or Martin King.

904
01:00:40,095 --> 01:00:42,087
"Law office, March 18."
It's Marvin Kramer.

905
01:00:42,180 --> 01:00:43,180
When was the bombing?

906
01:00:43,390 --> 01:00:45,302
April 28.

907
01:00:48,812 --> 01:00:51,520
"Action agreed September 2." I
thought you said it was in April.

908
01:00:51,606 --> 01:00:54,314
That's not a date.
That's nine to two.

909
01:00:54,401 --> 01:00:56,609
Jesus Christ, they took a vote.
Oh, my God.

910
01:00:56,695 --> 01:00:58,027
"Commission assigned S.C."

911
01:00:58,113 --> 01:01:00,275
Sam Cayhall.
What's R.W.?

912
01:01:02,242 --> 01:01:04,074
You mean, who's R.W.

913
01:01:18,508 --> 01:01:20,500
Hi. Thanks.

914
01:01:28,602 --> 01:01:30,434
Truth time, Sam.
Five days.

915
01:01:30,604 --> 01:01:33,267
We're firing everything we have
up to the Supreme Court, but.

916
01:01:36,318 --> 01:01:37,854
I need to know
who R.W. is.

917
01:01:43,825 --> 01:01:46,283
Sam, I saw the
Commission's files.

918
01:01:46,369 --> 01:01:48,486
You were with
someone named R.W.

919
01:01:48,496 --> 01:01:50,658
The two of you were assigned
to bomb the Kramer office.

920
01:01:50,665 --> 01:01:54,124
Assigned by the same people who took no
responsibility for the death of those kids

921
01:01:54,211 --> 01:01:56,498
and, as far as I can see, are
gonna take no responsibility

922
01:01:56,504 --> 01:01:58,496
for what's about
to happen to you.

923
01:01:59,341 --> 01:02:01,833
I believe you call
these people cowards.

924
01:02:02,636 --> 01:02:06,255
Why in God's name you feel compelled
to protect them is beyond me.

925
01:02:09,100 --> 01:02:11,012
First of all,

926
01:02:12,562 --> 01:02:15,270
you sniveling little
son of a bitch,

927
01:02:15,357 --> 01:02:16,834
if you ever speak to me
like this again,

928
01:02:16,858 --> 01:02:19,316
I'll rip your heart out
and shove it up your butt.

929
01:02:20,487 --> 01:02:23,730
Second, if you spent half as much
time learning to be a lawyer

930
01:02:23,823 --> 01:02:26,110
instead of playing Dick Tracy,

931
01:02:26,576 --> 01:02:29,410
I might stand a chance of not
being dead in five days.

932
01:02:30,705 --> 01:02:34,449
As it stands right now,
everything you tried has failed.

933
01:02:35,710 --> 01:02:37,667
You've failed!

934
01:02:38,338 --> 01:02:40,876
Now I have to pay the price.

935
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:45,043
You're a failure! Just like
your pathetic father was.

936
01:02:45,512 --> 01:02:48,129
That son of a bitch didn't
have the balls to live.

937
01:02:48,223 --> 01:02:50,510
He was a loser and a quitter.

938
01:02:50,725 --> 01:02:53,012
And he just gave his life away.

939
01:02:53,853 --> 01:02:55,936
How dare he?

940
01:02:57,190 --> 01:02:59,102
What right did he
have to do that?

941
01:02:59,192 --> 01:03:02,981
It wasn't his to give! I gave it to him!
Hey, hey, Sam!

942
01:03:03,029 --> 01:03:05,146
His mama gave it to him!
It was God's!

943
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:08,859
He had no right! He just
gave it away, God damn it!

944
01:03:08,952 --> 01:03:12,741
He gave it away! You hear me?
He gave it away!

945
01:03:12,831 --> 01:03:14,868
- Why'd he do that?
- Come on.

946
01:03:15,417 --> 01:03:16,749
He gave it away!

947
01:03:29,055 --> 01:03:30,671
Hi. Is she home?

948
01:03:31,016 --> 01:03:33,724
Miss Lee's upstairs resting.
She can't see you now.

949
01:03:35,186 --> 01:03:36,597
Lee?

950
01:03:39,065 --> 01:03:40,897
Where are you, Lee?

951
01:03:41,693 --> 01:03:43,104
Lee?

952
01:03:45,113 --> 01:03:46,274
Lee?

953
01:03:49,367 --> 01:03:50,733
Lee?

954
01:03:59,002 --> 01:04:00,368
Oh, Jesus.

955
01:04:14,309 --> 01:04:16,266
Lucky little nephew.

956
01:04:21,900 --> 01:04:24,688
Did I ever show you

957
01:04:24,694 --> 01:04:27,903
my favorite old family picture?

958
01:04:31,201 --> 01:04:32,692
Come on.

959
01:04:33,411 --> 01:04:35,323
I'm coming.

960
01:04:40,001 --> 01:04:43,335
I never kept
an actual photo album.

961
01:04:44,381 --> 01:04:47,715
Mostly because I never
kept any actual photos.

962
01:04:48,635 --> 01:04:50,752
Here. Come here.

963
01:04:57,394 --> 01:04:59,932
Here. Now, there.

964
01:05:01,356 --> 01:05:02,437
See?

965
01:05:03,608 --> 01:05:06,146
He was a cute little
thing, wasn't he?

966
01:05:08,279 --> 01:05:09,861
The problem is

967
01:05:11,241 --> 01:05:13,779
he was raised to be a monster.

968
01:05:18,206 --> 01:05:20,698
Trained from birth.

969
01:05:27,090 --> 01:05:31,255
We come from a long
line of hate, Adam.

970
01:05:32,971 --> 01:05:35,054
That's why I drink.

971
01:05:36,391 --> 01:05:38,474
Make it all go away.

972
01:05:39,727 --> 01:05:41,684
Now you're here,

973
01:05:42,689 --> 01:05:45,397
and it won't go away anymore.

974
01:05:50,697 --> 01:05:52,063
Go home.

975
01:06:08,715 --> 01:06:10,707
I've got three things
to say to you.

976
01:06:10,717 --> 01:06:12,709
Number one. I'm your
lawyer until you fire me.

977
01:06:12,802 --> 01:06:14,964
I'm not quitting.
Number two.

978
01:06:15,054 --> 01:06:16,590
The day you killed Joe Lincoln,

979
01:06:16,681 --> 01:06:19,424
your sweet little 7-year-old
daughter was in the laurel tree.

980
01:06:19,517 --> 01:06:22,681
She watched her daddy murder a
defenseless man in cold blood.

981
01:06:22,687 --> 01:06:25,680
And three. Quince Lincoln
never stole a thing.

982
01:06:25,690 --> 01:06:27,727
My father found that toy
soldier underneath his bed,

983
01:06:27,734 --> 01:06:29,691
but he was too
terrified to tell you.

984
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:33,188
He had to live with that
for the rest of his sad life.

985
01:06:34,491 --> 01:06:38,030
Maybe you didn't have the balls to
put a stop to this, Sam. But I do.

986
01:06:38,661 --> 01:06:42,200
It ends with me.
We got four days left.

987
01:06:42,248 --> 01:06:45,707
This is our last appeal, and it's
called mitigating circumstances.

988
01:06:45,793 --> 01:06:47,375
Talk to me.

989
01:06:49,881 --> 01:06:51,713
Talk to me, Sam!

990
01:06:54,177 --> 01:06:56,089
I'm tired of talking.

991
01:06:58,723 --> 01:07:02,216
I'm tired of waking up every morning
knowing I'm one day closer to dying.

992
01:07:03,603 --> 01:07:05,014
I'm tired of living in a cage,

993
01:07:05,104 --> 01:07:07,517
tired of these
crappy cigarettes,

994
01:07:07,607 --> 01:07:10,975
just praying I'll die of
cancer before they gas me.

995
01:07:14,405 --> 01:07:16,692
But mostly I'm just
tired of waiting.

996
01:07:23,706 --> 01:07:25,072
Just let me rest.

997
01:07:25,708 --> 01:07:29,327
I'm really touched you feel close enough
to share your feelings with me, Sam.

998
01:07:29,420 --> 01:07:31,412
But at the moment,
I don't really give a damn.

999
01:07:32,507 --> 01:07:34,965
I'm too busy
trying to win my case.

1000
01:07:35,593 --> 01:07:37,710
Now, start talking!

1001
01:07:39,764 --> 01:07:41,676
Here are some
synonyms for "mitigating."

1002
01:07:42,141 --> 01:07:44,804
"Glossing over, sugarcoating,"

1003
01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:46,852
"prettifying."

1004
01:07:47,522 --> 01:07:50,481
There's nothing pretty about
twin boys being blown to bits.

1005
01:07:50,567 --> 01:07:52,934
There's no glossing over
the suicide of their father.

1006
01:07:53,027 --> 01:07:55,690
And there's no
sugarcoating this fact.

1007
01:07:55,697 --> 01:07:59,111
My client is guilty, and he
deserves to be punished.

1008
01:08:01,995 --> 01:08:05,363
"Mens rea,
to do the thing."

1009
01:08:05,456 --> 01:08:07,698
Sam Cayhall did the thing.

1010
01:08:07,709 --> 01:08:09,996
But he does not
deserve to be murdered,

1011
01:08:10,044 --> 01:08:13,128
because he was taught from birth
that he had to do the thing.

1012
01:08:13,214 --> 01:08:16,173
That is what this court
must come to understand.

1013
01:08:16,259 --> 01:08:21,300
He never knew he had any other recourse
but hatred and bigotry and violence.

1014
01:08:21,389 --> 01:08:23,722
His uncles were Klansmen,
his brothers were Klansmen,

1015
01:08:23,725 --> 01:08:26,308
his father was a Klansman,
even his grandfather.

1016
01:08:26,394 --> 01:08:28,852
His great-grandfather was one
of the cofounding members

1017
01:08:28,980 --> 01:08:30,687
of that hateful organization.

1018
01:08:30,690 --> 01:08:34,309
I recently saw a photograph
of him at a lynching.

1019
01:08:34,402 --> 01:08:36,689
He was 10, and it was his third.

1020
01:08:38,990 --> 01:08:41,607
Of course this is awful.
It's evil.

1021
01:08:42,076 --> 01:08:45,490
But blood and death were
served with Sunday breakfast.

1022
01:08:46,914 --> 01:08:50,407
His father was murdered at a funeral.
My client saw it.

1023
01:08:52,879 --> 01:08:54,461
As the court is no doubt aware,

1024
01:08:54,547 --> 01:08:56,709
my client is also
my grandfather.

1025
01:08:56,716 --> 01:09:01,427
I'd like now to tell you some warm and
wonderful stories about our family.

1026
01:09:01,804 --> 01:09:03,761
Except I don't know any.

1027
01:09:04,849 --> 01:09:08,763
In fact, I don't find my grandfather
even remotely wonderful.

1028
01:09:10,438 --> 01:09:11,770
But I know this.

1029
01:09:12,690 --> 01:09:14,898
The very things that
make him so monstrous

1030
01:09:14,984 --> 01:09:18,443
are the very reasons that mitigate
against this state murdering him.

1031
01:09:18,488 --> 01:09:23,404
He was raised by his family and by this
state to become the man that he became.

1032
01:09:23,493 --> 01:09:26,327
By the time he was old enough to
choose, he didn't have a choice.

1033
01:09:27,747 --> 01:09:30,080
This is the tragedy
of Sam Cayhall.

1034
01:09:32,210 --> 01:09:36,705
It's a tragedy that has
destroyed three lives already.

1035
01:09:38,466 --> 01:09:40,628
In the name of mercy,

1036
01:09:41,260 --> 01:09:45,379
let it not murder what
little is left of his life.

1037
01:10:03,366 --> 01:10:05,278
Thank you for seeing
me like this.

1038
01:10:05,785 --> 01:10:07,242
Why are you here?

1039
01:10:09,831 --> 01:10:12,323
I'm hoping you'll ask the
Governor to show some mercy.

1040
01:10:13,918 --> 01:10:16,285
Tell him that you don't
want my client to die.

1041
01:10:16,337 --> 01:10:18,670
I don't want him to die.

1042
01:10:18,756 --> 01:10:22,170
I don't want him to.
But I fear he must.

1043
01:10:23,302 --> 01:10:25,294
See, that's not true.
It isn't.

1044
01:10:25,847 --> 01:10:28,134
Your word would carry a lot
of weight with the Governor,

1045
01:10:28,182 --> 01:10:31,300
and no one knows more than you that
there's already been enough suffering.

1046
01:10:32,061 --> 01:10:34,269
It could all end
right here. Right now.

1047
01:10:36,899 --> 01:10:40,939
I didn't take them to nursery school
that morning because I was sick.

1048
01:10:41,696 --> 01:10:45,736
So I waved goodbye
from my bedroom window

1049
01:10:45,825 --> 01:10:48,943
and watched them leapfrog
off to their death.

1050
01:10:49,036 --> 01:10:51,494
Bye, Mommy!
I love you!

1051
01:10:51,581 --> 01:10:53,698
You see, the whole
thing was my fault.

1052
01:10:54,292 --> 01:10:55,373
Be good!

1053
01:10:58,713 --> 01:11:01,171
Adam.
Ma'am?

1054
01:11:01,591 --> 01:11:03,708
Why are you really here?

1055
01:11:12,602 --> 01:11:14,594
I came home one day and found
my father on the floor

1056
01:11:14,604 --> 01:11:17,267
in my bedroom with
a gun in his hand.

1057
01:11:18,024 --> 01:11:21,643
And I remember wondering, "What are
all those towels doing there?"

1058
01:11:24,071 --> 01:11:28,816
And then I realized that he had
arranged the towels in a circle

1059
01:11:30,203 --> 01:11:33,787
and then very carefully laid
down in the center of them

1060
01:11:33,873 --> 01:11:35,205
so that he wouldn't make a mess.

1061
01:11:37,376 --> 01:11:40,494
In his note, he said
that he loved me,

1062
01:11:40,505 --> 01:11:42,497
and he was sorry,

1063
01:11:43,508 --> 01:11:45,841
and he hoped that
one day I'd understand.

1064
01:11:46,803 --> 01:11:49,762
He told me I'd have to take
care of my mom and my sister.

1065
01:11:51,432 --> 01:11:54,516
There was a plastic garbage bag that
was also on the floor next to him,

1066
01:11:54,602 --> 01:11:56,559
and I was supposed to put
the towels in the bag,

1067
01:11:56,646 --> 01:11:58,638
clean up the mess
and call the police.

1068
01:11:59,273 --> 01:12:01,686
"Don't touch the gun," he said.

1069
01:12:01,776 --> 01:12:03,984
"Hurry up before
the girls get home."

1070
01:12:05,446 --> 01:12:09,235
See, he had picked a day when he
knew I'd be the first one home.

1071
01:12:11,077 --> 01:12:12,943
I was 10.

1072
01:12:14,121 --> 01:12:16,613
I would dearly love
to help you, Adam.

1073
01:12:17,124 --> 01:12:18,786
Please know this.

1074
01:12:20,044 --> 01:12:22,286
Sam Cayhall destroyed
both our families.

1075
01:12:22,296 --> 01:12:24,663
Mine just died first.

1076
01:12:25,967 --> 01:12:28,926
And I'm sorry,
but he has to die.

1077
01:12:29,929 --> 01:12:30,965
Why?

1078
01:12:32,515 --> 01:12:36,680
He has to die because I had
champagne at my birthday party.

1079
01:12:37,478 --> 01:12:41,313
He has to die because a
story needs an ending.

1080
01:12:43,484 --> 01:12:48,024
He has to die because I don't
care if he had no choice.

1081
01:12:48,406 --> 01:12:51,240
He chose to bomb that building.

1082
01:12:51,826 --> 01:12:53,738
And my family died.

1083
01:13:00,459 --> 01:13:02,371
You know, they were
your age then.

1084
01:13:04,964 --> 01:13:08,503
And they would've
been your age now.

1085
01:13:42,501 --> 01:13:44,367
Haven't given up, have you?

1086
01:13:47,590 --> 01:13:51,584
Sometimes I just like to see
if I still have what it takes.

1087
01:13:52,345 --> 01:13:54,507
Jesus. What are you doing here?

1088
01:13:54,513 --> 01:13:55,754
I've been watching you, kid.

1089
01:13:56,349 --> 01:13:58,011
You deserve the facts.

1090
01:13:59,518 --> 01:14:04,434
Back in '67, I found an old drunk.
He was a dishwasher.

1091
01:14:05,232 --> 01:14:07,019
Claimed the night before
the Kramer bombing,

1092
01:14:07,109 --> 01:14:09,146
he saw Sam in a diner
with another guy.

1093
01:14:09,654 --> 01:14:11,862
I need a name.

1094
01:14:11,948 --> 01:14:15,441
The description matched a guy
that we always suspected, but...

1095
01:14:15,952 --> 01:14:17,159
R.W.

1096
01:14:18,412 --> 01:14:20,699
Hey! Rollie Wedge.

1097
01:14:25,211 --> 01:14:27,624
He was a real hater.
But smart.

1098
01:14:27,713 --> 01:14:29,170
And we could never
tie him to anything.

1099
01:14:29,173 --> 01:14:30,630
Where is he now?

1100
01:14:30,716 --> 01:14:31,957
They've gathered.

1101
01:14:32,051 --> 01:14:33,963
You know, sort of
like a reunion.

1102
01:14:34,053 --> 01:14:37,296
The night before the big
execution and all that.

1103
01:14:37,390 --> 01:14:40,508
I figure, if he's
here, he's there.

1104
01:15:11,007 --> 01:15:13,624
Slapped the hell out of him.

1105
01:15:16,137 --> 01:15:18,049
Don't let the door
hit you in the ass...

1106
01:15:18,139 --> 01:15:19,425
Hey!

1107
01:15:19,473 --> 01:15:20,759
He wasn't able to make it.

1108
01:15:42,663 --> 01:15:45,030
Outside! Get off of me! Shut up!

1109
01:16:24,705 --> 01:16:27,243
Come on.
Get him out of here.

1110
01:16:33,506 --> 01:16:35,122
Go on, fucker!

1111
01:16:35,216 --> 01:16:36,673
Get out of here! Yeah!

1112
01:16:36,759 --> 01:16:37,875
Yeah!

1113
01:16:40,888 --> 01:16:42,845
Get away from that boy.

1114
01:16:43,766 --> 01:16:45,849
Let's git!

1115
01:16:47,478 --> 01:16:50,061
Thank you. Oh, God.

1116
01:16:52,566 --> 01:16:53,682
Thank you.

1117
01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:55,692
I appreciate it.

1118
01:16:57,279 --> 01:16:58,395
You do?

1119
01:17:05,788 --> 01:17:07,074
Rollie Wedge.

1120
01:17:07,164 --> 01:17:09,326
One of the many names
I've been called.

1121
01:17:10,459 --> 01:17:12,746
What do you think
you're doing here?

1122
01:17:13,379 --> 01:17:15,291
You planted the bomb
that killed those kids.

1123
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:18,503
Were you planning
a citizen's arrest?

1124
01:17:19,135 --> 01:17:21,092
I just want to
hear you admit it.

1125
01:17:21,971 --> 01:17:25,510
Delusion, Mr. Hall. You're
looking for a clean yes,

1126
01:17:25,850 --> 01:17:31,221
so you can identify, quantify,
organize the concept of evil.

1127
01:17:31,605 --> 01:17:34,473
If I did it, then I'm the evil,

1128
01:17:34,900 --> 01:17:37,267
and I can be culled
from the flock.

1129
01:17:37,653 --> 01:17:40,270
Removed, separated, destroyed.

1130
01:17:40,698 --> 01:17:42,815
Evil can be destroyed.

1131
01:17:42,908 --> 01:17:48,028
And all you good people can feel
safe in the cocoon of your denial.

1132
01:17:48,622 --> 01:17:50,079
Sam says you're his people.

1133
01:17:50,166 --> 01:17:51,498
We are one.

1134
01:17:51,959 --> 01:17:53,916
Is this how you
treat your people?

1135
01:17:54,503 --> 01:17:55,503
Huh?

1136
01:17:55,505 --> 01:17:56,745
Let them take the fall for you?

1137
01:17:58,424 --> 01:18:01,917
What about loyalty? Huh?
What about the truth?

1138
01:18:08,893 --> 01:18:13,058
The truth, based on your
laws, Attorney Hall,

1139
01:18:13,689 --> 01:18:17,478
is that Sam Cayhall is guilty and
has been sentenced to death.

1140
01:18:17,985 --> 01:18:21,023
Perhaps it's time for you
to show some loyalty,

1141
01:18:21,113 --> 01:18:23,321
and let justice be served.

1142
01:18:24,033 --> 01:18:25,820
And after it is,

1143
01:18:27,077 --> 01:18:29,490
always look behind you.

1144
01:18:30,497 --> 01:18:32,079
Always.

1145
01:18:47,056 --> 01:18:49,016
- He's probably still there.
- Uh-huh.

1146
01:18:49,975 --> 01:18:51,056
And?

1147
01:18:51,143 --> 01:18:53,038
Look, if Sam were being tried
as an accomplice right now

1148
01:18:53,062 --> 01:18:54,473
the most he would
get is 20 years.

1149
01:18:54,480 --> 01:18:56,392
Now, you said you
wanted new information.

1150
01:18:56,482 --> 01:18:58,314
With all due respect,

1151
01:18:58,484 --> 01:19:01,977
this is hardly compelling
evidence of anything.

1152
01:19:02,363 --> 01:19:04,355
Grant a stay.
Give me more time.

1153
01:19:06,909 --> 01:19:09,777
All right, men. Listen up.
It's now 0800 hours.

1154
01:19:10,246 --> 01:19:12,829
I'm hereby activating the
emergency operations center

1155
01:19:12,915 --> 01:19:15,453
and placing this institution
on lockdown status.

1156
01:19:15,626 --> 01:19:18,869
And I expect each of you to
discharge your duty accordingly.

1157
01:19:19,505 --> 01:19:21,792
No second-guessing,
no improvising.

1158
01:19:21,882 --> 01:19:24,966
This execution will
take place in 16 hours.

1159
01:20:24,862 --> 01:20:26,979
What you did to those babies

1160
01:20:29,533 --> 01:20:32,116
no one could ever
forgive you for.

1161
01:20:34,496 --> 01:20:37,364
But what you did to me

1162
01:20:39,585 --> 01:20:41,326
and Eddie,

1163
01:20:44,340 --> 01:20:46,252
I've got to.

1164
01:20:55,559 --> 01:20:57,471
Not for you, old man.

1165
01:21:02,149 --> 01:21:03,640
For me.

1166
01:21:24,171 --> 01:21:25,753
Eddie said

1167
01:21:29,510 --> 01:21:31,797
you'd never have
shot Joe Lincoln

1168
01:21:33,931 --> 01:21:36,799
if I'd have cried out
for you not to.

1169
01:21:39,019 --> 01:21:40,931
Is that why you came here?

1170
01:21:45,609 --> 01:21:47,271
No.

1171
01:21:56,078 --> 01:21:57,694
Would you still have shot him?

1172
01:22:02,126 --> 01:22:04,038
Yeah. Yeah.

1173
01:22:33,490 --> 01:22:35,402
The Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals

1174
01:22:35,492 --> 01:22:37,529
denied Sam Cayhall's
last appeal.

1175
01:22:37,703 --> 01:22:40,537
The U.S. Supreme Court will
rule later today on his fate.

1176
01:22:40,747 --> 01:22:44,866
If they deny, Governor David
McAllister will be his last chance.

1177
01:22:44,918 --> 01:22:47,831
The execution is set
for 12:01 tomorrow morning.

1178
01:22:48,130 --> 01:22:50,918
Stephanie Bell Flynt, WLBT News.

1179
01:22:58,265 --> 01:22:59,722
You got a light, yeah?

1180
01:23:17,409 --> 01:23:18,741
Sam.

1181
01:23:22,956 --> 01:23:25,414
Met some of your
real people last night.

1182
01:23:27,461 --> 01:23:30,499
Real interesting group,
your real people.

1183
01:23:34,510 --> 01:23:35,751
Especially Rollie Wedge.

1184
01:23:38,388 --> 01:23:39,845
Rollie Wedge.

1185
01:23:42,518 --> 01:23:44,475
He was real interesting.

1186
01:24:02,538 --> 01:24:04,495
I have to talk to the guards.

1187
01:24:05,249 --> 01:24:06,535
Rack out Sam.

1188
01:24:17,261 --> 01:24:19,628
You look a lot like
your brother, Mr. Cayhall.

1189
01:24:54,464 --> 01:24:56,672
I came to pay my respects, Sam.

1190
01:24:58,510 --> 01:25:00,467
Say goodbye.

1191
01:25:01,513 --> 01:25:03,926
Make sure you're still strong.

1192
01:25:10,230 --> 01:25:12,347
I saw those two little kids.

1193
01:25:14,276 --> 01:25:15,642
They was in the window.

1194
01:25:17,863 --> 01:25:19,855
That was a mistake.

1195
01:25:21,325 --> 01:25:25,069
We kept two little Jews from
growing up into big Jews.

1196
01:25:25,787 --> 01:25:28,279
When their nigger-loving
father killed hisself,

1197
01:25:28,373 --> 01:25:31,491
it was like dropping a little
hook-nosed pebble in a pond.

1198
01:25:33,837 --> 01:25:37,581
The ripples went out with a
message for all the world to see.

1199
01:25:39,509 --> 01:25:41,626
A Jew is weak.

1200
01:25:43,180 --> 01:25:45,092
How do you figure
that for a mistake?

1201
01:25:45,766 --> 01:25:47,678
Wasn't supposed
to be no killing.

1202
01:25:48,268 --> 01:25:50,385
Don't go soft, Sam.

1203
01:25:50,729 --> 01:25:52,470
The day is coming.

1204
01:25:55,901 --> 01:25:59,440
I wish you could stick around
to see it, buddy. It's coming.

1205
01:26:00,405 --> 01:26:03,113
Every day more and more
people are opening their eyes

1206
01:26:03,200 --> 01:26:05,658
to see the only thing
wrong with this country

1207
01:26:05,744 --> 01:26:08,703
is we've gone against
the laws of nature.

1208
01:26:09,206 --> 01:26:10,572
God's law.

1209
01:26:13,335 --> 01:26:17,625
Only the strong
have a right to survive.

1210
01:26:18,590 --> 01:26:20,456
And now, finally,

1211
01:26:21,677 --> 01:26:23,134
those not worthy,

1212
01:26:23,470 --> 01:26:25,883
the Jew, the African,

1213
01:26:26,807 --> 01:26:28,719
he who lies with another man,

1214
01:26:28,809 --> 01:26:31,472
they're all digging
their own graves.

1215
01:26:31,937 --> 01:26:34,145
And when we pile them in there,

1216
01:26:34,231 --> 01:26:36,473
I'll drink a toast to you, Sam.

1217
01:26:36,817 --> 01:26:39,525
And I'll piss it out
on their dead faces.

1218
01:26:40,153 --> 01:26:41,485
No.

1219
01:26:41,488 --> 01:26:44,322
You've been a good
and loyal soldier, Sam.

1220
01:26:44,491 --> 01:26:47,450
Go with the dignity
that is yours.

1221
01:26:47,494 --> 01:26:50,487
Don't be confused
by that little boy!

1222
01:26:50,497 --> 01:26:53,490
He's got his daddy's
weak blood in him.

1223
01:26:53,500 --> 01:26:56,493
He ain't pure.
He ain't us.

1224
01:26:56,962 --> 01:27:00,501
No. You son of a bitch, you.
You son of a bitch.

1225
01:27:02,008 --> 01:27:05,501
I ain't you.
I ain't you!

1226
01:27:05,762 --> 01:27:09,176
You touch my kid,
and I'm gonna kill you!

1227
01:27:09,307 --> 01:27:13,142
Rip your head off! I'll kill
you, you goddamn son of a bitch.

1228
01:27:13,186 --> 01:27:14,472
You know who this is?

1229
01:27:14,479 --> 01:27:15,479
Your brother.

1230
01:27:15,481 --> 01:27:18,473
Oh, no, he ain't my brother!
You ain't my brother!

1231
01:27:18,483 --> 01:27:19,769
Better get out of here.

1232
01:27:19,860 --> 01:27:21,021
I'll be praying for you, Sam.

1233
01:27:21,403 --> 01:27:24,487
You go to hell, you son of a bitch, you!
Go to hell!

1234
01:27:24,489 --> 01:27:25,900
I'll be praying for you.

1235
01:27:39,254 --> 01:27:41,496
Rack Sam.

1236
01:27:45,969 --> 01:27:47,505
No word from the courts.

1237
01:28:03,069 --> 01:28:06,403
I'd like you to mail these
for me, if you would.

1238
01:28:09,701 --> 01:28:11,988
I don't have the addresses.

1239
01:28:26,510 --> 01:28:27,626
Don't give up, Sam.

1240
01:28:28,094 --> 01:28:29,380
Mmm-hmm.

1241
01:28:33,225 --> 01:28:35,137
There is one other thing.

1242
01:28:46,947 --> 01:28:48,483
Take that.

1243
01:28:55,330 --> 01:28:56,491
Rack Sam.

1244
01:29:04,506 --> 01:29:06,498
It's the Supreme Court.

1245
01:29:06,508 --> 01:29:08,750
Coffee's French Market,
just like you asked.

1246
01:29:09,511 --> 01:29:10,752
Thank you.

1247
01:29:15,559 --> 01:29:16,925
Rack back.

1248
01:29:23,066 --> 01:29:24,227
Adam Hall.

1249
01:29:30,699 --> 01:29:32,486
Yeah. Okay.

1250
01:29:43,795 --> 01:29:45,752
It ain't over, Sam.

1251
01:29:46,423 --> 01:29:47,709
It ain't over.

1252
01:30:01,813 --> 01:30:04,305
The United States
Supreme Court has denied

1253
01:30:04,357 --> 01:30:07,600
a flurry of last-minute appeals
on behalf of Sam Cayhall.

1254
01:30:20,498 --> 01:30:21,739
Gas his ass!
Gas his ass!

1255
01:30:21,833 --> 01:30:23,324
Gas his ass!
Gas his ass!

1256
01:30:30,508 --> 01:30:32,500
Hurry, hurry. Let's go. Here.

1257
01:30:32,510 --> 01:30:34,251
Go! Come on.

1258
01:30:35,555 --> 01:30:37,217
Cayhall signed the request.

1259
01:30:37,807 --> 01:30:41,471
Goodman's in court right now, asking to
open up the Sovereignty Commission files.

1260
01:30:41,561 --> 01:30:44,224
What should we do?
Do?

1261
01:30:44,314 --> 01:30:47,478
I don't recall being asked to do anything.
Let's just see what's in there.

1262
01:30:47,525 --> 01:30:50,563
It suggests an accomplice to
the Kramer bombing, for one.

1263
01:30:51,279 --> 01:30:53,487
Some far-right crazy
named Rollie Wedge.

1264
01:30:53,490 --> 01:30:55,857
How the hell do you know that?

1265
01:31:00,497 --> 01:31:03,865
We'll discuss it later.
Now, if you'll excuse us.

1266
01:31:04,584 --> 01:31:05,916
What were you saying?

1267
01:31:05,961 --> 01:31:08,248
I'm just saying I don't think
it's gonna work, that's all.

1268
01:31:08,338 --> 01:31:11,502
There are other names.
Some familiar.

1269
01:31:12,801 --> 01:31:15,259
Knowing in advance
might be very useful.

1270
01:31:32,862 --> 01:31:34,478
It's the Governor, sir.

1271
01:31:36,032 --> 01:31:37,568
Hello, Governor.
Senator.

1272
01:31:37,909 --> 01:31:41,493
Sam Cayhall's attorneys are trying to
get some Sovereignty files released

1273
01:31:41,538 --> 01:31:44,406
that you and some of your
colleagues might not appreciate.

1274
01:31:44,457 --> 01:31:47,541
I got a proposition for y'all,
but you have to act fast.

1275
01:31:48,461 --> 01:31:50,669
Can't go home
if you're going by the mill

1276
01:31:50,755 --> 01:31:52,915
'Cause the bridge washed out
at the bottom of the hill.

1277
01:31:53,049 --> 01:31:54,929
The big creek's up
and the little creek's level.

1278
01:31:55,301 --> 01:31:57,463
Plow my corn
with the double shovel.

1279
01:31:57,470 --> 01:31:59,678
Stay all night
Stay a little longer.

1280
01:31:59,764 --> 01:32:01,471
Dance all night
Dance a little longer.

1281
01:32:01,474 --> 01:32:03,466
These are for you, Cayhall.

1282
01:32:10,483 --> 01:32:13,567
I can offer you
a sedative if you'd like.

1283
01:32:16,448 --> 01:32:17,484
All right.

1284
01:32:19,951 --> 01:32:23,490
Then you'd best start changing.
I'll be back in 30 minutes.

1285
01:32:23,913 --> 01:32:25,245
Don't be late.

1286
01:32:34,758 --> 01:32:36,841
Pull off your coat
Throw it in the corner.

1287
01:32:36,926 --> 01:32:39,213
Don't see why you don't
stay a little longer.

1288
01:32:41,139 --> 01:32:44,348
Oh, the mule and the
grasshopper eating ice cream.

1289
01:33:12,879 --> 01:33:16,418
Gas his ass! Gas his ass!
Gas his ass! Gas his ass!

1290
01:33:27,477 --> 01:33:29,139
Rack up Cayhall.

1291
01:34:00,802 --> 01:34:02,338
It's all right.

1292
01:34:09,477 --> 01:34:12,094
Appeal's on the 28th,
now, don't forget.

1293
01:34:12,188 --> 01:34:14,771
I left your papers with
Barry in the law library.

1294
01:34:15,233 --> 01:34:16,394
Thanks, Sam.

1295
01:34:17,026 --> 01:34:18,312
Ladies and gentlemen,

1296
01:34:18,403 --> 01:34:20,486
the governor of the great
state of Mississippi,

1297
01:34:20,488 --> 01:34:23,856
the honorable
David Allen McAllister.

1298
01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:32,747
Tonight,

1299
01:34:33,293 --> 01:34:36,331
the Supreme Court
of the United States

1300
01:34:36,421 --> 01:34:41,507
rejected all appeals filed
on behalf of Sam Cayhall.

1301
01:34:44,512 --> 01:34:48,222
So at this moment of truth,

1302
01:34:48,308 --> 01:34:51,472
I must face the terrible
burden of this office

1303
01:34:51,519 --> 01:34:54,728
that is mine and mine alone.

1304
01:34:55,398 --> 01:34:58,061
The question for me tonight is,

1305
01:34:58,151 --> 01:35:01,735
who is David Allen McAllister

1306
01:35:02,238 --> 01:35:05,481
to imagine in his finest hour...
See you, J.B.

1307
01:35:05,491 --> 01:35:08,484
he could ever prove wiser than
the jury... See you soon, Sam.

1308
01:35:08,536 --> 01:35:11,950
And the 47 judges... Spit in
their eye, Sam. Spit in their eye.

1309
01:35:11,998 --> 01:35:14,035
Who have reviewed this case...
Praying for you, Sam.

1310
01:35:14,042 --> 01:35:17,251
Over the last 16 years?
Hey, Sam.

1311
01:35:17,337 --> 01:35:19,377
The answer is clear. Remember,
the Lord is with you.

1312
01:35:20,340 --> 01:35:24,300
In the matter of life and
death, none among us

1313
01:35:24,385 --> 01:35:28,129
are more knowing
than our system of justice.

1314
01:35:28,598 --> 01:35:30,134
Tonight, however,

1315
01:35:30,516 --> 01:35:33,350
information has come
to us suggesting.

1316
01:35:33,436 --> 01:35:37,225
Mr. Cayhall may not have acted
alone in this heinous crime.

1317
01:35:37,482 --> 01:35:41,476
Now, if these allegations
prove to be true,

1318
01:35:41,486 --> 01:35:45,321
rest assured,
anyone found to be involved

1319
01:35:45,406 --> 01:35:49,241
will be prosecuted to the
fullest extent of the law.

1320
01:35:49,327 --> 01:35:51,444
However...
Freeze! Hands up!

1321
01:35:51,496 --> 01:35:56,082
No matter how many additional people
may be implicated in the future,

1322
01:35:56,167 --> 01:35:57,954
it does not change

1323
01:35:58,544 --> 01:36:00,331
a fundamental fact.

1324
01:36:01,381 --> 01:36:04,294
Sam Cayhall is
guilty as charged,

1325
01:36:04,384 --> 01:36:07,422
and Sam Cayhall
must pay the price.

1326
01:36:14,727 --> 01:36:16,639
So it...

1327
01:36:16,729 --> 01:36:20,723
It is with the greatest humility

1328
01:36:21,567 --> 01:36:26,232
that I bow in deference
to that great lady, Justice.

1329
01:36:27,657 --> 01:36:30,149
At one minute past midnight,

1330
01:36:30,493 --> 01:36:32,985
Sam Cayhall will meet his maker.

1331
01:36:33,496 --> 01:36:36,580
The final judgment
will truly be his.

1332
01:36:41,754 --> 01:36:45,589
To the family of
the victims, we say

1333
01:36:46,259 --> 01:36:50,424
nothing can replace your
great and terrible loss.

1334
01:36:50,513 --> 01:36:53,472
Revenge will never lessen

1335
01:36:53,516 --> 01:36:57,851
the unfillable void
left by those now gone.

1336
01:36:58,479 --> 01:37:00,766
We pray with you

1337
01:37:01,733 --> 01:37:05,773
that God may grant us
the strength and the courage

1338
01:37:05,903 --> 01:37:10,238
to prevent crimes
like this from ever again

1339
01:37:10,325 --> 01:37:14,114
darkening our soil with the
blood of the innocent.

1340
01:37:17,457 --> 01:37:18,538
Good night.

1341
01:37:18,624 --> 01:37:21,492
And God bless America.

1342
01:37:26,257 --> 01:37:30,001
Kid, don't. Don't try
to save me anymore.

1343
01:37:31,429 --> 01:37:33,011
I know someplace inside of you,

1344
01:37:33,097 --> 01:37:35,305
you're trying to stir up
some kind of miracle.

1345
01:37:45,485 --> 01:37:47,772
We can't forget
who Sam Cayhall is

1346
01:37:47,820 --> 01:37:50,654
or the kind of
thinking he represents.

1347
01:37:50,823 --> 01:37:52,530
I'm sure you haven't.

1348
01:37:53,409 --> 01:37:54,490
And the other names?

1349
01:37:54,494 --> 01:37:55,905
Very useful information.

1350
01:37:55,995 --> 01:37:58,612
It'll help us effect some
real change next session.

1351
01:37:58,998 --> 01:38:00,830
Isn't that why
we're doing this job?

1352
01:38:01,417 --> 01:38:04,910
All progress is
a negotiation, Nora.

1353
01:39:03,855 --> 01:39:07,064
Of all the people and things
I hated my whole life,

1354
01:39:07,650 --> 01:39:12,020
the one I hated most was me.

1355
01:39:14,449 --> 01:39:18,159
I was given free entry into this world
to make of it whatever I could.

1356
01:39:18,536 --> 01:39:20,778
Been sitting here for 16 years.

1357
01:39:22,498 --> 01:39:26,538
I was thinking I never
did anybody any good.

1358
01:39:32,508 --> 01:39:34,500
Till you came down.

1359
01:39:42,351 --> 01:39:43,933
You see, if I'm gonna
be proud of you,

1360
01:39:44,020 --> 01:39:46,433
I gotta be proud of your daddy.

1361
01:39:47,023 --> 01:39:50,312
He wasn't weak.
He was strong.

1362
01:39:53,070 --> 01:39:55,562
Strong enough to get away.

1363
01:39:56,824 --> 01:39:59,817
Strong enough to give you
whatever it is that you got.

1364
01:40:04,415 --> 01:40:06,498
If he was able to
give that to you,

1365
01:40:06,501 --> 01:40:10,495
I reckon this old man must've
passed on something good to him.

1366
01:40:16,636 --> 01:40:18,298
I didn't know that.

1367
01:40:35,780 --> 01:40:37,487
I'm ready.

1368
01:40:47,917 --> 01:40:50,500
You come on in.
We been waiting for you.

1369
01:41:03,057 --> 01:41:04,514
You know where you're going?

1370
01:42:19,800 --> 01:42:21,712
Moving right along.

1371
01:43:47,388 --> 01:43:48,629
Come on, man!

1372
01:43:48,723 --> 01:43:50,680
What the fuck's going on?

1373
01:44:47,656 --> 01:44:49,443
Sam, this is your death warrant.

1374
01:44:49,492 --> 01:44:51,529
You know I'm required
by law to read it to you.

1375
01:44:52,203 --> 01:44:55,537
"We, the jury, find unanimously
and beyond a reasonable doubt

1376
01:44:55,623 --> 01:44:57,706
"the following aggravating
circumstances.

1377
01:44:57,792 --> 01:45:00,375
"The capital murder was committed
while the defendant was engaged

1378
01:45:00,461 --> 01:45:01,952
"in the commission of a felony.

1379
01:45:02,046 --> 01:45:05,505
"The capital murder was especially
heinous, atrocious and cruel.

1380
01:45:06,008 --> 01:45:08,250
"We, the jury, find
unanimously, from the evidence

1381
01:45:08,344 --> 01:45:10,381
"and beyond a reasonable
doubt, the defendant,"

1382
01:45:10,471 --> 01:45:12,258
"Sam Cayhall,
should be put to death"

1383
01:45:12,348 --> 01:45:14,965
"by lethal gas at the Mississippi
State Penitentiary,."

1384
01:45:15,059 --> 01:45:19,269
"Parchman, Mississippi,
the 13th day of April, 1996."

1385
01:45:22,525 --> 01:45:24,187
And no stays.

1386
01:45:24,276 --> 01:45:26,984
Is there any reason why this
execution should not proceed?

1387
01:45:27,071 --> 01:45:28,482
None.

1388
01:45:30,199 --> 01:45:32,191
Any final words,
Mr. Cayhall?

1389
01:48:09,483 --> 01:48:12,191
Maybe the ghosts are gone, Lee.

1390
01:48:16,782 --> 01:48:17,818
Maybe.

1391
01:48:23,706 --> 01:48:25,698
Thank you, Adam