1 00:00:58,080 --> 00:00:59,039 Hi. 2 00:01:00,036 --> 00:01:02,913 Okay, here she is, folks. Kitty Dean. 3 00:03:40,992 --> 00:03:42,181 That a girl, Kitty. 4 00:04:43,211 --> 00:04:47,392 It's 38 degrees in New York this morning. The time is 10:49. 5 00:05:18,885 --> 00:05:21,724 Should I call and get our table for lunch? 6 00:05:24,332 --> 00:05:25,751 Goodie-good. 7 00:05:26,097 --> 00:05:29,319 And Big Mama? Bring lots of gossip. 8 00:05:30,239 --> 00:05:32,886 Everything about him is designed to rivet: 9 00:05:34,344 --> 00:05:37,873 The appearance, the demeanor, and, of course, the voice. 10 00:05:38,909 --> 00:05:40,021 The voice? 11 00:05:41,479 --> 00:05:44,317 To the lucky person who has never heard it... 12 00:05:44,816 --> 00:05:50,877 I can only say imagine what a Brussels sprout would sound like... 13 00:05:51,068 --> 00:05:53,945 if a Brussels sprout could talk. 14 00:05:54,137 --> 00:05:55,365 He's so magical... 15 00:05:56,592 --> 00:06:00,582 you soon forget the most unforgettable sound in the world. 16 00:06:01,119 --> 00:06:04,226 Here's a word I loathe: eccentric. 17 00:06:04,379 --> 00:06:09,558 Eccentric is a word that boring people use to describe someone I think of as interesting. 18 00:06:09,749 --> 00:06:12,626 A great many people think of me as eccentric simply because... 19 00:06:12,818 --> 00:06:16,309 when I have my shoes polished I have the entire shoe polished... 20 00:06:16,501 --> 00:06:18,380 top, sides and soles. 21 00:06:19,224 --> 00:06:20,567 Some people think it eccentric... 22 00:06:20,759 --> 00:06:23,827 that every morning I have my maid iron my money. 23 00:06:24,748 --> 00:06:28,200 When I told Truman I had my maid iron my money, do you know what he said? 24 00:06:28,354 --> 00:06:30,962 Here's what he didn't say, "How eccentric." 25 00:06:31,154 --> 00:06:34,568 Here's what he did say, "How wonderful!" 26 00:06:36,026 --> 00:06:39,056 You can forgive a person a lot who really enjoys you. 27 00:06:39,785 --> 00:06:41,204 He's loads of fun wherever you go. 28 00:06:42,892 --> 00:06:47,648 He's the rarest thing in the world, a good talker who is also a good listener. 29 00:06:47,917 --> 00:06:50,679 How could Leland have been bored with you? 30 00:06:50,871 --> 00:06:53,786 Even someone who doesn't speak English can look at you. 31 00:06:53,978 --> 00:06:57,430 He listened to me the way you'd listen to announcements in a train station... 32 00:06:57,622 --> 00:07:00,192 just enough to hear if there's an emergency. 33 00:07:01,496 --> 00:07:05,601 Oh, well. He's with Pamela, and I need to move on. 34 00:07:05,754 --> 00:07:07,058 Maybe you can... 35 00:07:07,212 --> 00:07:10,818 but tout New York is dividing into the Slim or Pamela camps. 36 00:07:10,971 --> 00:07:12,889 Babe and I are the head Slimites. 37 00:07:13,579 --> 00:07:14,999 Tru Heart. 38 00:07:16,610 --> 00:07:18,029 Oh, have you heard about Tracy? 39 00:07:18,221 --> 00:07:20,177 Yeah. Having her eyes done, I know. 40 00:07:20,369 --> 00:07:24,665 Well, a little more than that. She's gone off to have an abortion. 41 00:07:24,895 --> 00:07:27,772 Oh, who's the father? I presume not Dick. 42 00:07:28,348 --> 00:07:30,573 Chas Fitzgerald. 43 00:07:30,726 --> 00:07:32,567 Oh, perfect. Does Dick know? 44 00:07:32,759 --> 00:07:34,984 I think she should just tell Dick it's his. 45 00:07:35,137 --> 00:07:37,477 - She can't. Dick's infertile. - What? 46 00:07:37,976 --> 00:07:42,195 - Everybody knows that. - Well, I'm sure they do now. 47 00:07:42,349 --> 00:07:43,768 Did you see the paper? 48 00:07:43,922 --> 00:07:48,640 Yes. There's a story that's stuck in my teeth like a little piece of pull candy. 49 00:07:48,793 --> 00:07:50,021 What is it? 50 00:07:51,248 --> 00:07:54,509 Well, these well-to-do farm people out in Kansas... 51 00:07:54,662 --> 00:07:59,342 were murdered in the middle of the night in the most gruesome way imaginable. 52 00:07:59,495 --> 00:08:02,641 - Do they have any idea who did it? - No idea. 53 00:08:02,833 --> 00:08:05,403 But that won't affect the piece I want to write for you. 54 00:08:05,556 --> 00:08:08,587 I want to explore how a crime like this affects a town... 55 00:08:08,740 --> 00:08:11,080 where everyone trusts each other. 56 00:08:11,233 --> 00:08:14,187 It may be preferable that we don't know the identity of the killers. 57 00:08:14,341 --> 00:08:18,714 Exactly. Because what I imagine everyone is now afraid of is: 58 00:08:18,867 --> 00:08:21,744 "Who among us did this horrible thing?" 59 00:08:21,936 --> 00:08:26,654 It used to be you'd look at someone and think, "There's old Mr. Busybody." 60 00:08:26,884 --> 00:08:28,303 Now you think... 61 00:08:28,495 --> 00:08:30,030 "Did you do it?" 62 00:08:30,221 --> 00:08:33,098 Oh, I can't bear the thought of you going to Kansas. 63 00:08:33,290 --> 00:08:35,208 Whom will I talk to? 64 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,392 Oh, that reminds me. Did you hear about Tracy? 65 00:08:38,545 --> 00:08:41,115 - The eyes? - More. 66 00:08:41,269 --> 00:08:42,726 Abortion. 67 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:46,179 Oh, I just saw her at Sotheby's. She bought an adorable Degas. 68 00:08:46,332 --> 00:08:47,982 I wanted it for the guest bath... 69 00:08:48,135 --> 00:08:52,009 but Bill wants to put the little Giacometti man we have in the hall there. 70 00:08:52,163 --> 00:08:55,845 Tell him nobody wants to go to the bathroom and find a little man in there. 71 00:08:55,999 --> 00:09:00,448 - I know it from bitter personal experience. - T-Bone. 72 00:09:00,602 --> 00:09:03,019 How did you find out about Tracy? 73 00:09:03,210 --> 00:09:06,893 Slim. But I'm absolutely sworn to secrecy. 74 00:09:07,085 --> 00:09:11,304 I'm only telling you because you're my dearest friend. 75 00:09:11,764 --> 00:09:16,981 Nelle, as my oldest and dearest friend, do you think the Kansas thing is good? 76 00:09:17,135 --> 00:09:18,439 Are you joking? 77 00:09:18,592 --> 00:09:22,237 That small town stuff, that suspicion, that gossip? 78 00:09:22,390 --> 00:09:25,382 That is your world as much as this, maybe even more. 79 00:09:26,494 --> 00:09:29,295 - How were they killed? - Shotgun. 80 00:09:29,602 --> 00:09:32,939 But there's a caretaker not a hundred yards from the house. 81 00:09:33,131 --> 00:09:36,430 How could he not hear four gunshots in the dead of night? 82 00:09:36,583 --> 00:09:39,498 Maybe he did it. Did you consider that? 83 00:09:39,690 --> 00:09:42,375 Maybe. Though the victims were bound and gagged... 84 00:09:42,567 --> 00:09:45,444 which suggests at least two in the killing party... 85 00:09:45,636 --> 00:09:48,129 one with the gun to make them cooperate... 86 00:09:48,283 --> 00:09:52,234 and one to tie them up and make them sorry they cooperated. 87 00:09:52,962 --> 00:09:55,187 The father and boy were shot in the basement... 88 00:09:55,341 --> 00:09:57,565 the mother and girl in their beds. 89 00:09:57,872 --> 00:10:01,440 - How do you know all this? - I called the D.A. 90 00:10:01,747 --> 00:10:03,550 May I tell him who's calling, please? 91 00:10:03,703 --> 00:10:05,928 Yes, dear. This is Truman Capote. 92 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,303 I'm sorry. The district attorney doesn't take calls from strange women. 93 00:10:11,989 --> 00:10:13,523 And what did you say? 94 00:10:14,060 --> 00:10:16,285 Who says I'm strange? 95 00:10:18,318 --> 00:10:22,499 They can judge for themselves soon enough. I'm going down there in a week. 96 00:10:23,113 --> 00:10:25,836 Which of your pillbox hats do you think they'll like best? 97 00:10:27,869 --> 00:10:31,974 Why didn't Jack come tonight? If he's your fella, he's always welcome. 98 00:10:32,779 --> 00:10:34,045 Truman and I... 99 00:10:35,464 --> 00:10:38,380 had a taste for one another's company above all others... 100 00:10:38,687 --> 00:10:42,868 but we weren't a together-wherever-we-go couple. He's very social. 101 00:10:43,597 --> 00:10:44,901 I'm not... 102 00:10:46,090 --> 00:10:49,312 especially with that crowd. 103 00:10:49,466 --> 00:10:51,230 Jack didn't... 104 00:10:51,921 --> 00:10:53,532 approve of us. 105 00:10:53,685 --> 00:10:56,869 He has the social graces of a syringe. 106 00:10:57,061 --> 00:11:01,089 Jack is just so iron, you know, he's so, "That's that." 107 00:11:02,163 --> 00:11:03,697 Before he knew Truman... 108 00:11:03,850 --> 00:11:07,840 he was married to a darling actress named Joan McCracken. 109 00:11:07,993 --> 00:11:12,289 They were dancers together in Oklahoma! and he was mad for her. 110 00:11:13,210 --> 00:11:16,125 And then the war came, and he went away and he came back. 111 00:11:16,317 --> 00:11:19,194 And she told him that she'd had an affair. 112 00:11:19,348 --> 00:11:22,071 Well, he was so humiliated... 113 00:11:22,225 --> 00:11:25,562 that not only did he end their marriage that night... 114 00:11:25,715 --> 00:11:29,858 but he stopped sleeping with women altogether and he switched to men. 115 00:11:30,088 --> 00:11:31,354 Can you imagine? 116 00:11:31,507 --> 00:11:35,842 Curing your distaste for infidelity by turning to men? 117 00:11:38,374 --> 00:11:41,212 What if one of the people you interview is the killer? 118 00:11:41,366 --> 00:11:43,054 And what if he thinks you know? 119 00:11:43,207 --> 00:11:45,892 He's already committed four murders, you think he'll spare you? 120 00:11:46,084 --> 00:11:49,575 Honey, is this your funny way of saying you're worried about me? 121 00:11:49,766 --> 00:11:52,221 - Doesn't it seem dangerous? - Come with me, then. 122 00:11:52,413 --> 00:11:54,907 I can't. I'm trying to write my book. 123 00:11:55,060 --> 00:11:57,438 Well, then it's O sole mio, off I go! 124 00:11:58,589 --> 00:12:02,579 - I don't want anything to happen to you. - Honey, I'm indestructible. 125 00:12:03,307 --> 00:12:07,182 - Much to everyone's regret. - Not mine. 126 00:12:08,793 --> 00:12:11,056 Come with me. Your book's all done. 127 00:12:11,209 --> 00:12:12,514 Well, I am intrigued... 128 00:12:12,667 --> 00:12:16,234 but I want to get started on my new book before Mockingbird comes out. 129 00:12:18,267 --> 00:12:21,260 How near did you say the caretaker lived to the main house? 130 00:12:22,794 --> 00:12:24,099 Nelle grew up with him in Alabama. 131 00:12:25,134 --> 00:12:28,778 She based the other little boy in To Kill Mockingbird on Truman. 132 00:12:28,931 --> 00:12:31,847 Aptly enough, she named the child Dill. 133 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,225 People always mention his effervescence... 134 00:12:36,181 --> 00:12:40,056 but one must remember that at the center of any bright flame... 135 00:12:40,247 --> 00:12:43,776 there's always that little touch of blue. 136 00:12:46,078 --> 00:12:48,725 Truman's parents deserted him at an early age... 137 00:12:48,878 --> 00:12:52,292 leaving him with elderly relations in my town. 138 00:12:52,676 --> 00:12:56,588 And Truman always disguised his shame over the absence of his parents... 139 00:12:56,742 --> 00:13:00,770 with grand tales of adventure and glory. 140 00:13:02,304 --> 00:13:05,181 "My daddy can't be here, he's an aviator." 141 00:13:05,795 --> 00:13:09,362 "My mother's a photographic subject, but they're coming for me"... 142 00:13:09,516 --> 00:13:12,162 he would always say. "They're coming for me." 143 00:13:13,236 --> 00:13:15,653 Every year at Christmas... 144 00:13:15,806 --> 00:13:19,489 our elementary school did a pageant through the center of town. 145 00:13:19,681 --> 00:13:24,399 And one year, Truman wrote his parents that he was the star of the pageant... 146 00:13:24,898 --> 00:13:27,813 though he was only a snowflake like me. 147 00:13:28,503 --> 00:13:30,843 But, no matter, it worked. 148 00:13:31,956 --> 00:13:35,331 They wired him to say they'd take the train from New Orleans... 149 00:13:35,523 --> 00:13:39,129 and get there just in time for the pageant. They even said... 150 00:13:39,282 --> 00:13:42,811 they'd stand right by the cannon in the square so they could cheer him on. 151 00:13:43,348 --> 00:13:49,102 Well, we marched through town and as we got closer to that cannon... 152 00:13:49,256 --> 00:13:53,053 I could see him straining to see his parents. 153 00:13:53,782 --> 00:13:57,656 When we got to that cannon, he stopped... 154 00:13:58,309 --> 00:14:02,298 forgetting we were supposed to be marching in time to the music. 155 00:14:02,490 --> 00:14:04,945 He stopped and he stared. 156 00:14:09,433 --> 00:14:11,121 They had not come. 157 00:14:15,839 --> 00:14:18,486 I thought for a minute he might break. 158 00:14:21,286 --> 00:14:25,697 And then he threw his arms up in the air... 159 00:14:25,889 --> 00:14:28,536 and twirled himself all the way over. 160 00:14:33,139 --> 00:14:34,865 A cartwheel. 161 00:14:37,051 --> 00:14:39,737 And then again. And again... 162 00:14:40,734 --> 00:14:42,844 all the way down the street... 163 00:14:44,647 --> 00:14:46,680 till his tears were gone. 164 00:14:47,293 --> 00:14:49,096 Truman adored Nelle. 165 00:14:49,250 --> 00:14:53,239 She and Jack were just about his only non-society friends. 166 00:14:53,853 --> 00:14:56,922 I will say it stung him when she won the Pulitzer. 167 00:14:57,190 --> 00:15:01,908 He might not have minded her winning one, but only if he'd already won two. 168 00:15:02,330 --> 00:15:04,824 I've always been interested in crime. 169 00:15:05,131 --> 00:15:08,007 Daddy was a lawyer, and sister too. 170 00:15:08,161 --> 00:15:10,309 I studied the law as well... 171 00:15:10,654 --> 00:15:15,411 but I either lost my nerve or came to my senses before taking the bar. 172 00:15:15,794 --> 00:15:18,671 But when Truman asked me to go to Kansas... 173 00:15:19,515 --> 00:15:21,932 it was deep calling to deep. 174 00:15:58,105 --> 00:15:59,869 Detective Dewey! 175 00:16:00,023 --> 00:16:02,593 - Do you have any leads yet? - Nothing I can discuss. 176 00:16:02,746 --> 00:16:04,396 - Detective Dewey! - Jimmy. 177 00:16:04,549 --> 00:16:06,544 Yeah. Will you confirm that there is more than one killer? 178 00:16:06,736 --> 00:16:07,541 I will not. 179 00:16:07,733 --> 00:16:11,032 Well, of course there was more than one, unless the killer was a hypnotist. 180 00:16:11,224 --> 00:16:12,720 Beg your pardon, ma'am? 181 00:16:13,218 --> 00:16:16,786 It's illogical to suppose there's only one killer. 182 00:16:16,978 --> 00:16:19,241 The Clutters were tied up. To tie them up... 183 00:16:19,509 --> 00:16:20,852 he'd have to put his gun down. 184 00:16:21,044 --> 00:16:24,534 Once he put the gun down, the Clutters would run for the hills. 185 00:16:24,726 --> 00:16:27,756 - I don't believe I know who you are. - Or what. 186 00:16:29,444 --> 00:16:31,439 I'm from out of town. 187 00:16:31,592 --> 00:16:34,700 - What's your paper? - Ladies Home Journal? 188 00:16:34,853 --> 00:16:38,114 Oh, I'm not a reporter. I'm a writer. 189 00:16:39,763 --> 00:16:41,336 May I see your press card? 190 00:16:41,527 --> 00:16:44,404 Good heavens, I don't carry any such thing. 191 00:16:44,711 --> 00:16:48,049 But I do have a passport back at my hotel room. 192 00:16:48,317 --> 00:16:51,041 Would you like to come back and look at my little picture? 193 00:16:53,342 --> 00:16:55,567 I'll need not only the facts of the case... 194 00:16:55,759 --> 00:16:59,365 but how this terrible crime has eaten away at the foundation of trust... 195 00:16:59,518 --> 00:17:01,052 that makes up your community. 196 00:17:01,206 --> 00:17:03,891 - I see. No. - And I... What? 197 00:17:04,083 --> 00:17:06,538 No reporter has special access. 198 00:17:06,730 --> 00:17:11,026 Sir, I'm not writing a news story. I'm from The New Yorker magazine. 199 00:17:11,218 --> 00:17:14,171 I'm writing a psychological study of a village... 200 00:17:14,325 --> 00:17:17,278 and how that place is affected by a vicious crime. 201 00:17:17,432 --> 00:17:20,079 I will not be careless in my depiction. 202 00:17:20,232 --> 00:17:23,147 I shall labor over every word, every sound. 203 00:17:23,301 --> 00:17:25,449 The final result must be just so... 204 00:17:25,602 --> 00:17:28,326 as dazzling and unique as a Fabergé egg. 205 00:17:28,479 --> 00:17:30,090 Right. And I got a crime to solve. 206 00:17:30,244 --> 00:17:32,852 But I don't care whether the crime is solved or not. 207 00:17:33,044 --> 00:17:34,540 I sure as hell care. 208 00:17:34,732 --> 00:17:38,338 The Clutters went to our church. They were friends of my family's. 209 00:17:38,491 --> 00:17:40,025 No access. 210 00:17:41,521 --> 00:17:44,360 Oh, you are very, very foxy. 211 00:17:44,667 --> 00:17:47,352 I can see I'm gonna have to work extra hard... 212 00:17:47,506 --> 00:17:50,382 to get around that foxy manner of yours. 213 00:17:50,574 --> 00:17:54,142 Isn't he foxy? But don't you worry, I... 214 00:17:57,172 --> 00:18:00,164 It was lovely how you didn't care whether or not the murder was solved. 215 00:18:00,318 --> 00:18:01,698 - Lovely. - Quiet. 216 00:18:01,852 --> 00:18:03,578 Would you folks care for a cocktail? 217 00:18:03,732 --> 00:18:05,189 Yes, a gin and tonic, please. 218 00:18:05,343 --> 00:18:06,762 I'll have J/B on the rocks... 219 00:18:06,915 --> 00:18:10,138 with a tiny curl of lemon and a splash and a half of water. 220 00:18:10,636 --> 00:18:13,091 A what, on the rocks? 221 00:18:13,283 --> 00:18:14,702 J/B. 222 00:18:15,086 --> 00:18:17,387 It's a type of Scotch, dear. 223 00:18:18,730 --> 00:18:20,955 You want me to see if we've got any? 224 00:18:21,223 --> 00:18:23,256 That would be a wonderful beginning. 225 00:18:23,410 --> 00:18:24,484 Yes, ma'am. 226 00:18:27,207 --> 00:18:30,621 I think we need to come in a little under the radar here. 227 00:18:30,775 --> 00:18:32,386 I know where you are headed... 228 00:18:32,539 --> 00:18:36,260 but you of all people know how impossible it is for me to modify myself. 229 00:18:36,414 --> 00:18:38,869 I'm not saying get married and have kids... 230 00:18:39,022 --> 00:18:41,477 but maybe come in on little cat's paws. 231 00:18:41,631 --> 00:18:45,812 It's no use. This cat has long, noisy nails. 232 00:18:45,965 --> 00:18:46,809 Anyway... 233 00:18:46,962 --> 00:18:50,453 I'll call Dewey's office in the morning and request a proper interview. 234 00:18:50,607 --> 00:18:52,678 - It might better suit his vanity. - Thank you. 235 00:18:52,831 --> 00:18:55,056 - Let's start talking... - Thank you. Thank you. 236 00:18:55,210 --> 00:18:56,322 Thank you. 237 00:18:56,514 --> 00:18:58,700 In the meantime, let's start talking to people. 238 00:18:58,892 --> 00:19:00,657 We don't need his blessing for that. 239 00:19:00,810 --> 00:19:03,265 I think we should just speak to people on the street. 240 00:19:03,419 --> 00:19:07,561 Yes, and in our nicest way, the way that would most put people at ease, say... 241 00:19:07,715 --> 00:19:08,866 Madam! 242 00:19:09,671 --> 00:19:13,737 May we ask you about the gruesome murders out at the Clutter home? 243 00:19:20,373 --> 00:19:23,097 Maybe you should drop the word "gruesome." 244 00:19:26,933 --> 00:19:28,084 Sir! 245 00:19:28,429 --> 00:19:29,618 Sir! 246 00:19:31,728 --> 00:19:33,492 Excuse me, sir. 247 00:19:33,646 --> 00:19:38,402 My friend and I would like to talk to you about the tragic events of November 15th. 248 00:19:38,748 --> 00:19:40,052 Sorry, ladies. 249 00:19:42,814 --> 00:19:45,767 Do you think everyone keeps calling me "lady" to be mean... 250 00:19:45,959 --> 00:19:48,222 or can they honestly not tell? 251 00:19:48,874 --> 00:19:53,247 I know I'm not Charles Atlas, but even Ethel Merman doesn't have this. 252 00:19:53,439 --> 00:19:55,395 No. Hers is thicker. 253 00:20:02,684 --> 00:20:04,180 Mr. Capote. 254 00:20:06,827 --> 00:20:08,975 Is this all? No messages? 255 00:20:09,780 --> 00:20:10,931 No, sir. 256 00:20:11,890 --> 00:20:16,225 I simply don't understand why Alvin Dewey won't return my calls. 257 00:20:16,416 --> 00:20:18,795 I've telephoned three times. 258 00:20:27,886 --> 00:20:29,152 Nelle! 259 00:20:29,305 --> 00:20:31,530 Care package from Babe! 260 00:20:31,722 --> 00:20:33,601 It's beluga! 261 00:20:36,708 --> 00:20:39,279 Let's get some Ritz crackers and eat it right now. 262 00:20:39,432 --> 00:20:42,501 Let's. And you know what I think you should do tomorrow? 263 00:20:42,693 --> 00:20:44,572 Go see the Clutter place. 264 00:20:44,726 --> 00:20:48,868 Honey, if Alvin Dewey won't return my calls, I'll never see the house. 265 00:20:49,060 --> 00:20:51,630 You know everybody on the planet. Call somebody. 266 00:20:52,743 --> 00:20:56,885 And please tell the duke and duchess I am sick to miss the dance. 267 00:20:57,806 --> 00:20:59,225 I will. 268 00:20:59,494 --> 00:21:03,138 Bennett hears wonderful things about your book. 269 00:21:03,752 --> 00:21:05,708 I almost don't care what the critics say... 270 00:21:05,862 --> 00:21:08,163 as long as I can be allowed to write another. 271 00:21:08,355 --> 00:21:12,881 Your dream of being the Jane Austen of Alabama will come true. 272 00:21:13,303 --> 00:21:16,180 Anyway, Bennett knows the head of Kansas University... 273 00:21:16,334 --> 00:21:18,750 who knows the Clutters' lawyer. 274 00:21:44,988 --> 00:21:46,753 The killers came in this way. 275 00:23:32,011 --> 00:23:33,507 Any messages? 276 00:23:35,847 --> 00:23:37,841 Princess Margaret... 277 00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:40,373 and Noël Coward. 278 00:23:42,943 --> 00:23:45,206 No Dewey. Again. 279 00:23:46,817 --> 00:23:48,697 They're in both ways over there. 280 00:23:48,889 --> 00:23:51,842 Right, but this particular form goes under last name. 281 00:23:51,996 --> 00:23:54,451 - That whole stack? - That's the one, yeah. 282 00:24:01,509 --> 00:24:03,273 Is this a good time? 283 00:24:03,772 --> 00:24:05,920 Yeah. Come on in. 284 00:24:09,718 --> 00:24:10,830 Ma'am. 285 00:24:12,250 --> 00:24:14,167 What can I do for you folks? 286 00:24:14,321 --> 00:24:15,280 Well... 287 00:24:16,277 --> 00:24:20,267 you can begin by serving me a large slice of humble pie. 288 00:24:20,689 --> 00:24:24,103 I've come to apologize for acting too big for my britches. 289 00:24:24,409 --> 00:24:27,248 As you see, I even got new britches. 290 00:24:28,054 --> 00:24:30,470 Yeah, well, no harm done. Real nice of you. 291 00:24:31,659 --> 00:24:34,038 I wanted to explain myself. 292 00:24:34,191 --> 00:24:36,838 I'm trying to create a new kind of reportage. 293 00:24:36,991 --> 00:24:39,485 Have you read my book The Muses Are Heard? 294 00:24:41,901 --> 00:24:44,203 Well, it was very well received. 295 00:24:44,356 --> 00:24:49,074 It's about an American opera company going to Moscow to perform Porgy and Bess. 296 00:24:49,228 --> 00:24:53,562 Now, if I relied only on what the press managers told me... 297 00:24:53,716 --> 00:24:57,092 it would have been no different than a newspaper article. 298 00:24:57,245 --> 00:25:01,771 But I treated the people with the emotional and psychological detail of a novel. 299 00:25:01,925 --> 00:25:05,531 I see, so you're doing something different than a regular reporter. 300 00:25:05,684 --> 00:25:06,796 Yes. 301 00:25:06,950 --> 00:25:09,904 And I can't really know how people feel without your help. 302 00:25:10,057 --> 00:25:12,589 Oh, well, I can tell you how they feel. Terrible. 303 00:25:12,742 --> 00:25:14,852 They'll feel better when this is solved. 304 00:25:15,005 --> 00:25:16,425 Yes. I agree. And that's... 305 00:25:16,616 --> 00:25:20,452 Look, I wish you well with your project. But no access. 306 00:25:22,370 --> 00:25:26,053 I'm sorry, but Nelle and I will have to stay for Christmas. 307 00:25:27,165 --> 00:25:28,393 Why? 308 00:25:28,546 --> 00:25:31,155 Because no one will talk to me. 309 00:25:31,423 --> 00:25:35,643 I've got to stay until they forget about me and can open up. 310 00:25:35,796 --> 00:25:38,059 No one forgets about you. 311 00:25:38,481 --> 00:25:40,284 What will you do for Christmas? 312 00:25:40,438 --> 00:25:42,931 Of course, everything will be closed... 313 00:25:43,123 --> 00:25:46,997 so I thought before I'd go to the market and get a nice cheese... 314 00:25:47,189 --> 00:25:48,493 some ham and olives. 315 00:25:48,646 --> 00:25:51,447 Slim sent a wonderful Burgundy. 316 00:25:51,639 --> 00:25:54,362 Nelle and I can make a picnic at the hotel. 317 00:25:54,554 --> 00:25:56,127 VELVEETA 318 00:26:01,267 --> 00:26:02,571 Excuse me? 319 00:26:03,185 --> 00:26:07,327 - Could this be all the cheese? - Well, how much do you need? 320 00:26:07,481 --> 00:26:10,933 Mine is a matter of quality, dear, not quantity. 321 00:26:11,125 --> 00:26:15,498 Oh, you mean other types of cheese. Goodness, no. Not here. 322 00:26:18,183 --> 00:26:21,904 - Are you staying for Christmas? - Yes, we are. 323 00:26:22,057 --> 00:26:24,858 What will you and Mrs. Capote do for your Christmas supper? 324 00:26:25,011 --> 00:26:29,729 If this is the only cheese I find, Mrs. Capote and I might try cyanide. 325 00:26:31,340 --> 00:26:33,872 Would you like to come to our house for Christmas supper? 326 00:26:34,064 --> 00:26:36,135 Really? Like for a party? 327 00:26:36,327 --> 00:26:39,204 It's just not right you don't have Christmas supper in a home. 328 00:26:39,358 --> 00:26:41,391 That is so kind of you. 329 00:26:41,582 --> 00:26:44,421 Nelle will be thrilled. May I ask your name? 330 00:26:54,701 --> 00:26:55,737 Hi. 331 00:26:56,888 --> 00:26:57,962 Hi. 332 00:27:00,302 --> 00:27:01,337 What? 333 00:27:01,721 --> 00:27:05,250 We are spending Christmas with the Deweys. 334 00:27:11,004 --> 00:27:12,385 This just isn't right. 335 00:27:12,538 --> 00:27:16,144 What isn't right is for two people to spend Christmas alone. 336 00:27:16,336 --> 00:27:18,446 If there's two of them, they won't be alone. 337 00:27:19,213 --> 00:27:20,632 Hi. We're here. 338 00:27:20,786 --> 00:27:23,317 - Merry Christmas. - Merry Christmas. 339 00:27:24,276 --> 00:27:26,194 I know you said not to bring anything... 340 00:27:26,348 --> 00:27:30,030 but my daddy would kill me if I showed up for company empty-handed. 341 00:27:30,222 --> 00:27:31,603 We brought you fruitcake. 342 00:27:31,756 --> 00:27:33,828 And she doesn't mean me. 343 00:27:35,822 --> 00:27:37,510 My wife, Delores. 344 00:27:37,664 --> 00:27:39,467 - Truman. - Foxy. 345 00:27:39,658 --> 00:27:41,308 - Thank you. - My wife, Delores. 346 00:27:41,461 --> 00:27:42,765 And here is our son, Paul. 347 00:27:42,957 --> 00:27:45,067 Hello, Paul. Merry Christmas. 348 00:27:55,769 --> 00:27:57,189 You gonna watch the game? 349 00:27:57,687 --> 00:27:59,682 I got $25 on it. 350 00:28:04,554 --> 00:28:06,088 Truman, you like football? 351 00:28:07,239 --> 00:28:08,735 Not much. 352 00:28:09,233 --> 00:28:12,417 Though I must admit it always sends shivers up my spine... 353 00:28:12,571 --> 00:28:15,870 when the men get inside that little huddle and whisper. 354 00:28:26,994 --> 00:28:28,068 We have treats. 355 00:28:28,912 --> 00:28:31,367 I have kind of a party question. 356 00:28:31,789 --> 00:28:34,244 I hope it's not too awful or mean. 357 00:28:34,435 --> 00:28:36,238 That sounds fun. Let's play. 358 00:28:36,392 --> 00:28:39,230 Paul Dewey. Don't you wanna come in here and sit with the grownups? 359 00:28:39,384 --> 00:28:40,343 Since it's Christmas... 360 00:28:40,496 --> 00:28:46,787 I thought we could all take turns telling what is the worst present you ever got. 361 00:28:48,091 --> 00:28:52,733 Mine was a shawl from an elderly neighbor lady. I'm not a shawl lover. 362 00:28:52,886 --> 00:28:54,843 - Me neither. - They're never warm enough. 363 00:28:54,996 --> 00:28:57,336 Are my ears working properly? 364 00:28:57,489 --> 00:29:00,788 Am I the only one here who loves shawls? 365 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:04,854 Don't look at me. 366 00:29:05,008 --> 00:29:07,424 My goodness, I love shawls. 367 00:29:07,616 --> 00:29:09,304 I have several. 368 00:29:09,496 --> 00:29:12,373 I think the prettiest one is the one Jennifer Jones gave me. 369 00:29:13,140 --> 00:29:15,864 Jennifer Jones? The movie star? 370 00:29:16,017 --> 00:29:20,006 Yes. We were in Rome making a picture called Beat the Devil... 371 00:29:20,198 --> 00:29:22,845 and I was struggling to write a scene for Bogie... 372 00:29:22,998 --> 00:29:26,105 when I began to feel the most inhuman pain. 373 00:29:26,259 --> 00:29:28,100 Bogie? You mean Humphrey Bogart? 374 00:29:28,752 --> 00:29:32,166 I mean Mr. Lauren Bacall, yes. 375 00:29:32,358 --> 00:29:35,005 I was trying to write a scene for him and Peter in which they both... 376 00:29:35,158 --> 00:29:36,961 Wait a minute. Who's Peter? 377 00:29:37,153 --> 00:29:38,534 Peter Lorre. 378 00:29:39,992 --> 00:29:43,521 But I had a terrible impacted tooth, and so John... 379 00:29:43,712 --> 00:29:44,940 - Wayne? - Garfield? 380 00:29:45,093 --> 00:29:46,129 Kennedy? 381 00:29:46,282 --> 00:29:47,702 Huston? 382 00:29:47,855 --> 00:29:50,080 John Huston, the director? 383 00:29:53,954 --> 00:29:57,944 John told me he didn't care if we had to shut the movie down... 384 00:29:58,097 --> 00:30:00,322 I was going to the hospital. 385 00:30:01,128 --> 00:30:02,432 So I thought: 386 00:30:02,585 --> 00:30:07,227 "Well, if I have to be in a Roman hospital for God knows what length of time... 387 00:30:07,380 --> 00:30:11,216 I may as well have something with me to make me feel good." 388 00:30:11,369 --> 00:30:15,666 So I wore the beautiful Balmain shawl that Jennifer gave me... 389 00:30:15,819 --> 00:30:17,852 and, if I do say so myself... 390 00:30:18,044 --> 00:30:21,496 I felt and looked dreamy. 391 00:30:28,017 --> 00:30:30,971 - Did you meet Humphrey Bogart? - Meet? 392 00:30:31,163 --> 00:30:34,193 My dear, every night we had drinks and dinner... 393 00:30:34,347 --> 00:30:35,804 and, once, poker! 394 00:30:36,993 --> 00:30:40,254 You played poker with Humphrey Bogart? 395 00:30:40,407 --> 00:30:41,942 I had a disadvantage in that... 396 00:30:42,095 --> 00:30:44,896 I didn't know the game in the way that Bogie or Frank did. 397 00:30:45,087 --> 00:30:45,854 Frank?! 398 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:47,427 Sinatra. 399 00:30:48,770 --> 00:30:50,266 Experience had taught them things... 400 00:30:50,419 --> 00:30:53,603 a relative novice such as myself may not know, like, well... 401 00:30:53,795 --> 00:30:56,633 did you know that three of a kind beats a pair? 402 00:30:58,820 --> 00:31:03,500 So, I did not defeat Mr. Humphrey Bogart at cards... 403 00:31:03,653 --> 00:31:08,410 but you may be interested to know I soundly beat him at something else. 404 00:31:16,158 --> 00:31:18,038 Arm wrestling. 405 00:31:19,035 --> 00:31:20,455 Hold on now. 406 00:31:21,183 --> 00:31:23,754 You expect us to believe... 407 00:31:23,907 --> 00:31:26,784 that you beat Humphrey Bogart at arm wrestling? 408 00:31:31,502 --> 00:31:33,113 Twice. 409 00:31:40,632 --> 00:31:41,744 You're good. 410 00:31:41,897 --> 00:31:44,122 Good match, sir. Thank you. 411 00:31:45,235 --> 00:31:47,766 Hey. I just beat the guy who could beat Humphrey Bogart. 412 00:31:47,958 --> 00:31:50,106 Cool. You wanna come over and see what I got? 413 00:31:50,260 --> 00:31:52,600 You didn't beat Humphrey Bogart, did you? 414 00:31:54,863 --> 00:31:59,006 You don't think I'd defeat your child on a Christmas afternoon... 415 00:31:59,198 --> 00:32:01,729 with everyone here thinking what they do about me? 416 00:32:02,573 --> 00:32:05,450 That would be a gift of switches and ash. 417 00:32:08,059 --> 00:32:10,974 But you didn't beat Humphrey Bogart, did you? 418 00:32:11,779 --> 00:32:14,503 All right. Roll up your sleeve. 419 00:32:14,656 --> 00:32:16,152 No, no, no. 420 00:32:16,804 --> 00:32:18,224 Scared? 421 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,526 Well, I'll be. 422 00:32:34,795 --> 00:32:38,708 Listen, Foxy. When you're tiny you have to be tough. 423 00:32:39,206 --> 00:32:42,198 This world isn't kind to little things. 424 00:33:14,190 --> 00:33:15,801 So glad you could make it. 425 00:33:15,993 --> 00:33:18,678 - Hope you'll come back. Thank you. - Thank you. Merry Christmas. 426 00:33:18,870 --> 00:33:21,210 - Merry Christmas. Good night. - Come on. 427 00:33:21,363 --> 00:33:22,476 Bye-bye. 428 00:33:22,629 --> 00:33:25,237 Foxy, check under the tree. 429 00:33:25,659 --> 00:33:26,312 Hello? 430 00:33:28,268 --> 00:33:30,646 No, they just left. 431 00:33:30,838 --> 00:33:34,520 Well, I know it, but the time flew. Guess what? 432 00:33:34,712 --> 00:33:36,784 He knows Ava Gardner. 433 00:33:37,397 --> 00:33:39,469 And Humphrey Bogart. 434 00:33:39,699 --> 00:33:42,998 And Betty Bacall. That's Lauren Bacall. 435 00:33:45,031 --> 00:33:49,097 And she got right into the kitchen and helped. They are so sweet. 436 00:33:56,232 --> 00:33:57,728 Anything good? 437 00:33:57,881 --> 00:34:00,298 Merry Christmas from the queen mother. 438 00:34:00,451 --> 00:34:02,139 She loves me. 439 00:34:03,443 --> 00:34:04,709 Babe. 440 00:34:05,208 --> 00:34:06,397 Slim. 441 00:34:09,351 --> 00:34:10,617 Who's this? 442 00:34:10,770 --> 00:34:13,877 "Mrs. John Stimmell called to invite you and your friend to dinner." 443 00:34:14,069 --> 00:34:15,335 Who's that? 444 00:34:15,488 --> 00:34:17,598 It says she's a friend of the Deweys. 445 00:34:18,058 --> 00:34:19,209 How nice. 446 00:34:19,362 --> 00:34:22,776 Look, here's another. "Please call Mrs. Dorn about dinner. 447 00:34:22,930 --> 00:34:24,426 Friend of the Deweys." 448 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:27,303 Well, that sounds lovely. 449 00:34:28,722 --> 00:34:29,988 Nelle. 450 00:34:31,254 --> 00:34:33,709 These are all invitations! 451 00:34:38,235 --> 00:34:39,501 Then Ava said: 452 00:34:39,655 --> 00:34:43,951 "I'm not afraid of the police. It's Frank who scares me!" 453 00:34:44,871 --> 00:34:48,477 And Marilyn said, "Better sorry than safe!" 454 00:34:50,357 --> 00:34:51,968 Marilyn Monroe. 455 00:34:52,428 --> 00:34:55,305 Bonnie Clutter is such a dear and I... 456 00:34:57,875 --> 00:34:59,793 Was such a dear. 457 00:34:59,985 --> 00:35:01,443 Oh, goodness. 458 00:35:01,826 --> 00:35:04,933 It's hard to put a friend in the past tense. 459 00:35:05,701 --> 00:35:10,457 It seems so sad, especially since Bonnie wasn't well at that time. 460 00:35:11,570 --> 00:35:13,219 What was the matter? 461 00:35:14,792 --> 00:35:16,748 Oh, well, I shouldn't say. 462 00:35:16,978 --> 00:35:21,083 I just don't think she liked to be with folks so much. 463 00:35:21,735 --> 00:35:25,302 But if you ever did see her, if you ever did... 464 00:35:25,532 --> 00:35:28,716 oh, she was always good old Bonnie. 465 00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:31,747 She was going through the change of life. 466 00:35:31,938 --> 00:35:33,281 That's all? 467 00:35:33,434 --> 00:35:35,928 You try it. It's enough. 468 00:35:39,303 --> 00:35:43,254 Well, there were four of us went to the house to clean up... 469 00:35:44,712 --> 00:35:45,786 clean up... 470 00:35:49,315 --> 00:35:51,808 all the damage and the mess. 471 00:35:53,803 --> 00:35:56,757 We used to go out to Herb's to hunt pheasant. 472 00:35:58,598 --> 00:36:02,511 It was strange driving out there knowing what was waiting for us. 473 00:36:03,661 --> 00:36:05,656 The couch where the boy had been. 474 00:36:05,810 --> 00:36:10,144 It was just, I mean the bodies were gone, but... 475 00:36:11,448 --> 00:36:13,827 good Lord, just seeing that couch. 476 00:36:14,824 --> 00:36:18,008 Or the mattress box where Herb had been. 477 00:36:19,466 --> 00:36:21,422 There was so much blood. 478 00:36:22,726 --> 00:36:27,981 There was so much blood. Sometimes in big, wide pools. 479 00:36:28,135 --> 00:36:31,702 Sometimes in little spatters. I was going up the stairs... 480 00:36:31,856 --> 00:36:34,617 and then I saw a big spot on the banister... 481 00:36:35,883 --> 00:36:37,264 and I almost... 482 00:36:37,955 --> 00:36:39,336 I swear... 483 00:36:40,525 --> 00:36:43,862 well, that was worse than the big stuff on the floor. Because I thought: 484 00:36:44,015 --> 00:36:46,164 "It made it all the way up here?" 485 00:36:48,772 --> 00:36:51,342 I can only say I was a Marine... 486 00:36:51,726 --> 00:36:54,219 and nothing ever got to me the way this did. 487 00:36:56,866 --> 00:37:00,241 Herb was one of the most respected ranchers in this state. 488 00:37:00,395 --> 00:37:03,425 If there was a list that told you how to succeed with honor... 489 00:37:03,617 --> 00:37:05,765 well, he just did everything on it. 490 00:37:06,149 --> 00:37:09,601 You see, he worked hard, he took care of his family... 491 00:37:10,100 --> 00:37:13,859 and when he went to church, he just didn't get his time card punched. 492 00:37:14,012 --> 00:37:16,237 No, he went in and he listened. 493 00:37:17,081 --> 00:37:21,608 And I've always believed that whenever you do something right... 494 00:37:21,761 --> 00:37:24,024 it gives you a little bit of weight... 495 00:37:24,178 --> 00:37:28,896 so that you come to feel rooted to this earth, you know? Solid. Secure. 496 00:37:31,044 --> 00:37:33,384 Now what scares me is that... 497 00:37:34,151 --> 00:37:37,373 well, sometimes, out of nowhere... 498 00:37:37,603 --> 00:37:39,752 a bad wind blows up. 499 00:37:40,557 --> 00:37:45,314 Now it could be cancer, could be drink... 500 00:37:45,927 --> 00:37:49,763 could be some woman that don't belong to you. 501 00:37:50,799 --> 00:37:54,290 And despite the weight that's holding you to the ground... 502 00:37:54,750 --> 00:37:59,468 when that wind comes, it picks you up light as a leaf... 503 00:38:01,463 --> 00:38:03,880 and it takes you where it wants. 504 00:38:07,063 --> 00:38:09,595 We're in control until we're not. 505 00:38:10,631 --> 00:38:12,319 Then we're helpless. 506 00:38:16,845 --> 00:38:20,988 "If you ever saw her, she was always good old Bonnie." 507 00:38:21,141 --> 00:38:24,862 No, no. She said, "If you ever did see her, if you ever did, she..." 508 00:38:25,016 --> 00:38:25,821 That's right. 509 00:38:26,013 --> 00:38:28,084 "...she was always good old Bonnie." 510 00:38:28,238 --> 00:38:29,197 Good ear. 511 00:38:32,227 --> 00:38:33,301 Drink? 512 00:38:35,258 --> 00:38:37,981 Well, obviously the mother wasn't right. 513 00:38:38,441 --> 00:38:41,625 Oh, I don't know. It just sounds like menopause. 514 00:38:41,817 --> 00:38:45,806 I hope not. That's a little grubby for my novel. 515 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:47,379 Your novel? 516 00:38:48,108 --> 00:38:49,681 What are you talking about? 517 00:38:50,294 --> 00:38:55,128 I think this story is bigger than an article. I think it's a book. 518 00:38:55,319 --> 00:38:58,158 I can see that. But non-fiction, right? 519 00:38:58,311 --> 00:39:00,498 Yes, of course it will all be true, but... 520 00:39:00,651 --> 00:39:04,411 - But what? Either it is or it isn't. - You're not understanding. 521 00:39:04,564 --> 00:39:08,362 I wanna to bring fictional techniques to a non-fiction story. 522 00:39:08,515 --> 00:39:11,622 What fictional techniques? The ones where you make stuff up? 523 00:39:11,776 --> 00:39:16,033 Excuse me, if I were gonna make stuff up you think I'd bother taking all these notes? 524 00:39:16,187 --> 00:39:20,176 You obviously plan to turn Bonnie Clutter into some faux poetic recluse... 525 00:39:20,330 --> 00:39:23,667 when what it sounds like is that she was just thrown off by her menopause. 526 00:39:23,820 --> 00:39:26,199 What is your stupid fucking point? 527 00:39:26,352 --> 00:39:28,999 That you shouldn't be doing what you're doing. 528 00:39:29,498 --> 00:39:31,339 The truth is enough! 529 00:39:31,531 --> 00:39:34,791 I must say I don't appreciate this lecture from you of all people. 530 00:39:34,945 --> 00:39:38,244 Mockingbird was based on true things, and you sure improved that. 531 00:39:38,397 --> 00:39:40,315 Right. It's a novel! 532 00:39:40,967 --> 00:39:44,266 Reportage means re-creating, not creating. 533 00:39:44,419 --> 00:39:47,258 This is a new kind of reportage! 534 00:39:48,063 --> 00:39:49,483 I'll say. 535 00:40:10,312 --> 00:40:12,805 Okay. "But if you ever did see her, if you ever..." 536 00:40:12,959 --> 00:40:15,222 - I remember. - Fine. 537 00:40:17,523 --> 00:40:19,902 - It's your book. - Yes. 538 00:40:20,209 --> 00:40:21,820 My seventh. 539 00:40:28,456 --> 00:40:31,256 - Okay, okay. - How's your book coming? 540 00:40:31,716 --> 00:40:34,517 It'll take me a long time to shape, but... 541 00:40:34,708 --> 00:40:37,355 thanks to Nelle, who's been a gift from heaven... 542 00:40:37,624 --> 00:40:39,120 and you all... 543 00:40:39,312 --> 00:40:41,268 we'll probably only need a week more here. 544 00:40:41,460 --> 00:40:45,449 - Well, I'm gonna miss your Kansas steaks. - Well, we'll be sorry to see you go. 545 00:40:45,602 --> 00:40:49,822 Is there any news? You know I can't give you special access. 546 00:40:49,975 --> 00:40:51,050 We got them. 547 00:40:51,203 --> 00:40:53,121 - What? - What? 548 00:40:53,274 --> 00:40:55,346 We caught them. Just like you said, there were two of them. 549 00:40:55,499 --> 00:40:58,376 The killers? We caught the killers? 550 00:40:58,530 --> 00:41:00,601 Who are they? Are they in jail right now? Can...? 551 00:41:00,793 --> 00:41:02,864 They're in Las Vegas. I got to get right out there. 552 00:41:03,056 --> 00:41:05,703 - Can I come? Oh, please, Foxy?! - Not this time, partner. 553 00:41:05,856 --> 00:41:09,002 Well, there isn't gonna be another time. How many times you gonna arrest them? 554 00:41:09,155 --> 00:41:10,229 I'm sorry. 555 00:41:11,188 --> 00:41:12,723 Honestly, Marie... 556 00:41:13,144 --> 00:41:16,021 how can you stay married to such a mule? 557 00:41:17,057 --> 00:41:19,627 Maybe now you'll get a whole night's sleep. 558 00:41:29,524 --> 00:41:32,017 Congratulations, Foxy. 559 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,659 This kind of changes your book. 560 00:41:36,851 --> 00:41:38,462 You're telling me. 561 00:41:38,615 --> 00:41:41,876 Of course, if I thought it was hard getting the townspeople to open up... 562 00:41:42,029 --> 00:41:45,059 how in heaven's name will I ever get the killers to talk? 563 00:41:45,213 --> 00:41:46,632 Look, look. They're here. 564 00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,596 Pardon me. Pardon me. Pardon me. Excuse me. 565 00:42:21,999 --> 00:42:24,148 I can't see the other one. 566 00:42:25,490 --> 00:42:26,871 There he is. 567 00:42:42,713 --> 00:42:45,590 No way. No press inside the prison. 568 00:42:45,744 --> 00:42:47,815 I have many connections in government. 569 00:42:48,007 --> 00:42:51,037 Perhaps I could have someone call, explain what I'm doing? 570 00:42:51,191 --> 00:42:54,183 You'd pretty much have to know the president of the United States... 571 00:42:54,336 --> 00:42:56,561 before I'd let you visit these boys. 572 00:43:01,241 --> 00:43:03,466 Suck my cock, you cocksucker! 573 00:43:03,658 --> 00:43:04,808 I never snack. 574 00:43:04,962 --> 00:43:06,650 You want to kiss my asshole, bitch? 575 00:43:06,803 --> 00:43:08,875 I'd prefer it to your face. 576 00:43:10,102 --> 00:43:12,557 You want to write a book about me? 577 00:43:13,209 --> 00:43:16,892 If my jackass teachers could hear you say that! 578 00:43:17,275 --> 00:43:19,845 - Did you ever write a book? - Certainly. 579 00:43:20,037 --> 00:43:23,835 My first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was heralded by critics... 580 00:43:23,988 --> 00:43:26,558 as the most exciting literary debut since... 581 00:43:26,712 --> 00:43:28,169 Yeah, okay. 582 00:43:28,783 --> 00:43:31,391 - You a queer? - Yes. 583 00:43:31,545 --> 00:43:32,964 Because I'd let you suck me. 584 00:43:33,156 --> 00:43:36,110 I'm not a queer, but letting you suck my dick don't make me queer. 585 00:43:36,301 --> 00:43:39,907 It makes you queer. A mouth's a mouth. 586 00:43:41,672 --> 00:43:45,699 Well, thanks, I guess, but no. 587 00:43:45,853 --> 00:43:49,190 - So then what's in it for me? - Money. 588 00:43:49,881 --> 00:43:53,141 I'd give you a share of my royalties. 589 00:44:00,851 --> 00:44:03,613 I got two kids by my first marriage. 590 00:44:04,726 --> 00:44:09,559 Maybe I can give the money to Lacy, my ex. Would you help me write her a letter? 591 00:44:11,132 --> 00:44:12,858 I'd be glad to. 592 00:44:14,814 --> 00:44:17,998 Okay, I'll do it. The Clutter deal was my idea. 593 00:44:18,151 --> 00:44:21,067 I shared a cell with a piece of rat shit called Floyd Wells... 594 00:44:21,259 --> 00:44:25,056 who told me old man Clutter had a safe with $ 10,000. 595 00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:30,158 Dick says you first heard about the Clutter safe from his cellmate... 596 00:44:30,311 --> 00:44:31,846 Floyd Wells. 597 00:44:34,109 --> 00:44:37,676 - Is that right? - Well, he told you, didn't he? 598 00:44:37,830 --> 00:44:40,323 Yes, but can I trust him? 599 00:44:41,819 --> 00:44:43,277 He's in jail. 600 00:44:44,389 --> 00:44:46,115 I wouldn't trust him. 601 00:44:47,918 --> 00:44:52,560 You don't want the only perception people have of you to come from Dick. 602 00:44:52,828 --> 00:44:56,818 - I can help get your side out. - Don't bullshit me. 603 00:44:57,777 --> 00:44:59,656 You don't care about my side. 604 00:44:59,848 --> 00:45:03,607 - You're not trying to help me. - Well, this would be helpful. 605 00:45:03,953 --> 00:45:07,290 You'd be entitled to a share of the royalties. 606 00:45:07,443 --> 00:45:10,589 And what would I do with royalties in here? 607 00:45:11,164 --> 00:45:13,811 - You might get out, and you could use... - We're not getting out! 608 00:45:16,534 --> 00:45:19,488 I said no bullshit and you gave me more bullshit. 609 00:45:22,902 --> 00:45:24,245 Go away. 610 00:45:25,626 --> 00:45:28,733 He'll loosen up. How's Dick? 611 00:45:28,886 --> 00:45:32,645 Dick? He just goes on and on and on. 612 00:45:32,837 --> 00:45:36,826 Perry probably shot the Clutters just to get Dick to be quiet. 613 00:45:37,210 --> 00:45:40,240 I have to have both sides. 614 00:45:41,046 --> 00:45:44,191 How do you get your New York lady friends to tell you everything? 615 00:45:44,383 --> 00:45:45,764 My swans? 616 00:45:46,416 --> 00:45:48,564 I figure out what they need. 617 00:45:48,718 --> 00:45:52,247 Gossip. Comfort. And I give it to them. 618 00:45:52,822 --> 00:45:57,234 So find out what Perry needs. In the meantime, get all you can from Dick. 619 00:45:57,387 --> 00:45:59,880 Surely he'll shed some light on Perry, hm? 620 00:46:00,571 --> 00:46:02,681 The man and the boy we took to the basement. 621 00:46:02,834 --> 00:46:04,368 Now, here's something. 622 00:46:04,867 --> 00:46:09,509 When I wanted to enjoy myself on the girl, you know, knock her box out... 623 00:46:09,777 --> 00:46:12,002 Perry says for me not to touch her. 624 00:46:12,270 --> 00:46:17,027 But then, when he's tying up that boy, he put a pillow under his head. 625 00:46:17,794 --> 00:46:20,671 And told the old man to lay on a mattress box... 626 00:46:20,825 --> 00:46:23,049 because he said the floor was cold. 627 00:46:23,433 --> 00:46:25,658 Too cold to get shot on? 628 00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:27,691 Why do you think he did that? 629 00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:33,598 And I said, "You losing your nerve? 'Cause we can't leave no witnesses." 630 00:46:36,130 --> 00:46:39,429 And he said, "No," but I thought, "Are you a faggot?" 631 00:46:40,081 --> 00:46:44,339 Putting that pillow for the boy, telling me not to crack the girl. 632 00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:48,712 But other times he's okay. 633 00:46:50,323 --> 00:46:53,775 Didn't seem like a faggot when he splattered their hair on the wall. 634 00:46:57,343 --> 00:46:59,222 No, we didn't want to kill them. 635 00:46:59,376 --> 00:47:02,253 We wanted to get in and get out without a trace! 636 00:47:02,675 --> 00:47:05,168 Perry wanted us to get stockings for our faces. 637 00:47:05,628 --> 00:47:08,889 But that shit-ass store where we got the gloves only had light-colored ones. 638 00:47:09,042 --> 00:47:12,571 You could see my eyes through them. Pick me up out of a lineup. That was no go. 639 00:47:12,725 --> 00:47:17,213 So Perry says we should go to the hospital and buy black ones off the nuns. 640 00:47:17,405 --> 00:47:19,629 And I thought that was a damn crazy idea... 641 00:47:19,783 --> 00:47:21,701 but I didn't feel like fighting with him... 642 00:47:21,854 --> 00:47:24,731 so I went and huddled behind the door, and I came out and said: 643 00:47:24,885 --> 00:47:27,225 "Catholic bitches wouldn't sell me none." 644 00:47:28,030 --> 00:47:29,948 And what did Perry say? 645 00:47:30,332 --> 00:47:31,751 He said: 646 00:47:32,403 --> 00:47:33,554 "Any. 647 00:47:34,168 --> 00:47:36,392 Catholic bitches won't sell you any." 648 00:47:36,546 --> 00:47:37,620 Really? 649 00:47:38,579 --> 00:47:41,571 - He corrected your grammar? - Listen, sugar. 650 00:47:43,067 --> 00:47:44,640 Perry Smith... 651 00:47:45,138 --> 00:47:47,939 fancies himself an artiste. 652 00:47:53,884 --> 00:47:57,528 Hey, baby. You wanna suck my dick through the bars? 653 00:47:58,181 --> 00:48:00,904 Yours couldn't reach through the bars. 654 00:48:03,397 --> 00:48:07,157 The only way to deal with vulgarity is to rise above it. 655 00:48:08,921 --> 00:48:13,064 I had a similar experience with my friend, Tennessee Williams. 656 00:48:13,563 --> 00:48:15,711 The artist and intellectual? 657 00:48:18,051 --> 00:48:19,585 Never mind. 658 00:48:19,930 --> 00:48:22,654 Nobody here likes this kind of thing. 659 00:48:24,188 --> 00:48:25,339 I do. 660 00:48:28,254 --> 00:48:29,789 I'd like to hear it. 661 00:48:33,893 --> 00:48:36,578 Well, Tennessee and I were in this bar once... 662 00:48:36,732 --> 00:48:39,762 when this very drunk woman came up to me and said: 663 00:48:39,954 --> 00:48:43,636 "May I have your autograph?" I said, "Why, yes, dear." 664 00:48:44,058 --> 00:48:46,820 She said she didn't have a piece of paper. 665 00:48:46,974 --> 00:48:49,851 So she pulled up her shirt, pointed to her bellybutton... 666 00:48:50,042 --> 00:48:51,922 and asked me to autograph that. 667 00:48:53,034 --> 00:48:55,221 So then she hands me an eyebrow pencil... 668 00:48:55,374 --> 00:48:59,862 and I write my name all the way around her navel like a sundial. 669 00:49:00,054 --> 00:49:05,463 All of the sudden appears her angry and very drunk husband who says: 670 00:49:05,655 --> 00:49:10,334 "Since you're in the mood for signing things, why don't you sign this?" 671 00:49:10,488 --> 00:49:14,976 And with that, he unzipped his fly and hauled out his manhood. 672 00:49:15,129 --> 00:49:16,434 Well, what'd you do? 673 00:49:16,587 --> 00:49:19,464 Well, the room was graveyard silent. 674 00:49:20,116 --> 00:49:23,799 I looked him up and down and said, calm as I could: 675 00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:31,087 "Well, I don't know if I could autograph it, but perhaps I could initial it." 676 00:49:34,271 --> 00:49:38,030 What kind of stuff does Tennessee Williams write? 677 00:49:38,490 --> 00:49:41,712 I know his name, I just can't think what are his books. 678 00:49:41,866 --> 00:49:45,011 He's a dramatist. He wrote A Streetcar Named Desire. 679 00:49:45,165 --> 00:49:47,159 - That Brando was in? - The very same. 680 00:49:47,351 --> 00:49:50,190 Marlon Brando is the fucking king! 681 00:49:50,765 --> 00:49:52,913 Now, he's one of my two favorite actors. 682 00:49:53,105 --> 00:49:55,713 - Who's the other? - Humphrey Bogart. 683 00:50:11,939 --> 00:50:13,551 I beat Humphrey Bogart. 684 00:50:13,704 --> 00:50:15,545 And Alvin Dewey too. 685 00:50:17,348 --> 00:50:20,992 This is the most black-hearted thing you have ever done, Nelle Harper Lee... 686 00:50:21,146 --> 00:50:22,949 and I will never forgive you. 687 00:50:23,102 --> 00:50:27,782 Oh, hush your silliness. You're all set now. Perry's ready to talk. 688 00:50:28,549 --> 00:50:30,199 I need my life back. 689 00:50:31,119 --> 00:50:33,804 There are a few fires I need to rekindle. 690 00:50:33,958 --> 00:50:36,873 Well, goodbye. I hate you! 691 00:50:37,065 --> 00:50:39,597 Thank you. You too. 692 00:51:01,039 --> 00:51:03,993 - How's the vanquisher of Bogart? - Okay. 693 00:51:05,374 --> 00:51:06,793 Tell me more about him. 694 00:51:09,210 --> 00:51:11,895 Well, I think we should talk about some other things first. 695 00:51:12,202 --> 00:51:13,161 Like what? 696 00:51:13,698 --> 00:51:18,109 Nothing. I just don't have a lot more about Bogie. 697 00:51:21,945 --> 00:51:26,318 I do have a very amusing story about Marlon Brando. 698 00:51:26,548 --> 00:51:30,921 I once spent an entire evening with him, just the two of us... 699 00:51:31,113 --> 00:51:35,486 and he told me all about his life before he became a star. 700 00:51:35,755 --> 00:51:37,097 Are you guys friends? 701 00:51:37,289 --> 00:51:41,087 Well, I wouldn't say that. He's told people he wants to kill me. 702 00:51:41,240 --> 00:51:42,199 What for? 703 00:51:43,426 --> 00:51:46,649 He didn't like the way I portrayed him in my article. 704 00:51:46,802 --> 00:51:50,216 He claims he told me certain things off the record. 705 00:51:50,408 --> 00:51:52,364 Well, you couldn't just check your notes? 706 00:51:53,323 --> 00:51:55,088 I never take notes. 707 00:51:55,241 --> 00:51:59,998 I employ a memory technique that gives me almost a hundred percent retention. 708 00:52:00,151 --> 00:52:02,261 Well, "almost" is the key fucking word. 709 00:52:02,414 --> 00:52:04,524 I may miss a word, but never a meaning. 710 00:52:04,716 --> 00:52:07,056 If you miss the right word, you will. 711 00:52:08,398 --> 00:52:09,933 You've got a hell of a fucking nerve. 712 00:52:10,125 --> 00:52:12,580 What are you trying to bother a great actor like Brando for? 713 00:52:12,733 --> 00:52:13,615 You misunderst... 714 00:52:13,769 --> 00:52:15,955 See, this is why I don't wanna to talk to you! 715 00:52:16,109 --> 00:52:18,602 If you want to make me look like some asshole, you will. 716 00:52:18,794 --> 00:52:21,019 Perry, I never judge my characters. 717 00:52:24,049 --> 00:52:28,499 Well, here's something for you to remember all 100 percent of... 718 00:52:29,304 --> 00:52:32,104 I am not a character. 719 00:52:32,296 --> 00:52:34,598 I'm a human-fucking-being. 720 00:52:34,790 --> 00:52:37,053 - Guard! - Perry Edward Smith! 721 00:52:37,206 --> 00:52:40,582 I am writing this book with or without you. 722 00:52:40,774 --> 00:52:44,571 You can get involved, so I can make you a three-dimensional human being... 723 00:52:44,763 --> 00:52:46,719 or you can continue this foolishness... 724 00:52:46,911 --> 00:52:50,018 and I will head straight back to New York and write what I want! 725 00:52:59,224 --> 00:53:00,567 Is this my party? 726 00:53:00,720 --> 00:53:02,140 Truman! 727 00:53:02,984 --> 00:53:06,014 Welcome home, my darling. We missed you so much. 728 00:53:15,374 --> 00:53:18,174 I don't believe I've ever said this: 729 00:53:18,327 --> 00:53:20,667 Tell us about the killers. 730 00:53:22,969 --> 00:53:26,498 Well, their names are Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. 731 00:53:26,651 --> 00:53:28,493 - Have you met them? - Met them? 732 00:53:28,646 --> 00:53:30,986 My dear, I've been in their cells. 733 00:53:31,139 --> 00:53:32,367 I have goose flesh. 734 00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:36,011 When you're talking to them, they seem like perfectly nice boys. 735 00:53:36,165 --> 00:53:40,384 To be frank, I'm much more concerned for my safety around Norman Mailer. 736 00:53:43,721 --> 00:53:47,519 Dick speaks about what happened without any sense that it was wrong. 737 00:53:47,672 --> 00:53:50,818 - It was just something that happened. - What about Terry? 738 00:53:51,201 --> 00:53:53,963 No, it's Perry. As in Antoinette. 739 00:53:54,692 --> 00:53:56,495 He's an enigma. 740 00:53:56,648 --> 00:54:00,216 You know, before he killed the Clutter boy he put a pillow under his head. 741 00:54:00,561 --> 00:54:02,863 And he wouldn't let Dick rape the girl. 742 00:54:03,016 --> 00:54:05,318 - He's not all kind. - Jack's right. 743 00:54:05,509 --> 00:54:09,499 After these demonstrations of gentility, he did shoot them dead. 744 00:54:09,729 --> 00:54:11,609 And cut the old man's throat. 745 00:54:11,762 --> 00:54:13,105 There's something... 746 00:54:13,488 --> 00:54:16,212 I can't quite put my finger on it. 747 00:54:16,365 --> 00:54:19,204 It seems insane to say that he's tender... 748 00:54:20,009 --> 00:54:24,689 but he does have the tender and the terrible side by side inside him. 749 00:54:27,566 --> 00:54:29,100 He's very... 750 00:54:39,266 --> 00:54:40,416 He's very? 751 00:54:46,937 --> 00:54:49,508 Never mind that. Let's go around the table... 752 00:54:49,699 --> 00:54:53,113 and you can all tell me whom you're having affairs with. 753 00:54:54,264 --> 00:54:54,955 Oh, goody. 754 00:54:55,875 --> 00:54:56,949 Bennett? 755 00:55:00,824 --> 00:55:06,309 In his letters, Tru Heart always says: "What's the new thing that everyone loves?" 756 00:55:06,462 --> 00:55:08,419 And, as any of us with children know... 757 00:55:08,610 --> 00:55:12,638 the big new thing is not on Broadway or even on CBS. 758 00:55:12,830 --> 00:55:14,633 Sorry, darling. 759 00:55:15,093 --> 00:55:17,625 - It's this. - And you see your child bring it home... 760 00:55:17,778 --> 00:55:21,001 and you think, "I am simply gonna have to slit my wrists." 761 00:55:21,691 --> 00:55:23,110 And five minutes later... 762 00:55:23,264 --> 00:55:24,338 you're doing it. 763 00:55:24,491 --> 00:55:28,059 Doors closed, of course, but you just can't resist it. 764 00:55:28,250 --> 00:55:29,248 I did. 765 00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:31,703 Well, assholes aren't much for dancing. 766 00:55:33,391 --> 00:55:34,503 Oh, dear. 767 00:55:36,383 --> 00:55:38,607 How's your writing coming, Jack? 768 00:55:40,641 --> 00:55:41,983 Well, let's hear it. 769 00:55:42,175 --> 00:55:45,205 Well, when Babe told me anyone could learn it... 770 00:55:45,359 --> 00:55:49,540 I bet her $ 100 she couldn't teach me, and I now owe her $ 100. 771 00:55:50,921 --> 00:55:55,908 Slim and I will show you how it's done, and then we hope you'll jump right in. 772 00:55:56,061 --> 00:55:58,478 - You, especially. - Needle's on. 773 00:56:00,856 --> 00:56:02,390 Oh, my word. 774 00:56:06,955 --> 00:56:09,448 - Come on, my protégé. - All right, teacher. 775 00:56:12,862 --> 00:56:15,049 When she taught me, I said, "What are the other steps?" 776 00:56:15,202 --> 00:56:16,852 She said, "There are no other steps." 777 00:56:18,424 --> 00:56:20,573 - Who's next? - Who else? 778 00:56:25,137 --> 00:56:26,480 No, how do I? 779 00:56:29,357 --> 00:56:31,390 That's what I said. It's not a dance. 780 00:56:31,543 --> 00:56:34,267 - You're putting the cigarette out. - Oh, putting the cigarette out. 781 00:56:34,459 --> 00:56:35,379 Truman? 782 00:56:40,711 --> 00:56:43,013 - Just put your foot out there. - Oh, wonderful. 783 00:56:44,087 --> 00:56:45,775 What are you doing there? 784 00:56:46,580 --> 00:56:48,690 You're doing something with your arms. 785 00:56:48,882 --> 00:56:52,411 - Then we go down. - Oh, my word. What is that, flamenco? 786 00:56:52,986 --> 00:56:57,743 I'm so sorry about Jack. I almost fainted when he insulted Bill. 787 00:56:59,776 --> 00:57:01,732 Bill can take it, believe me. 788 00:57:01,886 --> 00:57:04,571 Jack has a moral certainty that's so oppressive. 789 00:57:04,762 --> 00:57:06,450 Moral in what way? 790 00:57:07,256 --> 00:57:11,053 Just that anything fun is a crime against my art... 791 00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:13,930 certainly not moral in a personal way. 792 00:57:14,084 --> 00:57:16,961 We have an understanding that if we need something sexual... 793 00:57:17,114 --> 00:57:19,684 and the other isn't there to provide it, that... 794 00:57:19,838 --> 00:57:21,487 I understand. 795 00:57:22,216 --> 00:57:24,901 I hardly ever wander, but he does. 796 00:57:25,055 --> 00:57:29,006 We don't discuss it. I can allow it more if I know less about it. 797 00:57:29,734 --> 00:57:35,373 But doesn't even the idea upset you? I mean, how can you bear to think of... 798 00:57:36,102 --> 00:57:39,631 or keep yourself from picturing...? 799 00:57:41,626 --> 00:57:43,199 Honey, what is it? 800 00:57:45,845 --> 00:57:47,687 Bill is having an affair. 801 00:57:48,415 --> 00:57:49,911 Babaling, no. 802 00:57:50,103 --> 00:57:53,172 Please, you absolutely must not breathe a word of this to anyone. 803 00:57:53,364 --> 00:57:55,167 It will die inside me. 804 00:57:56,471 --> 00:57:57,890 How did you find out? 805 00:58:00,153 --> 00:58:02,685 Our bed sheets were stained. 806 00:58:03,145 --> 00:58:06,905 - Okay, well, now I could vomit. - Of course, he couldn't give it to the maid. 807 00:58:07,058 --> 00:58:08,477 Well, no. 808 00:58:08,631 --> 00:58:12,735 So, he got on his hands and knees in front of the tub, and he scrubbed them. 809 00:58:13,924 --> 00:58:15,651 But it didn't quite come out. 810 00:58:15,957 --> 00:58:19,525 And when I got back I noticed this odd outline on the sheets. 811 00:58:19,678 --> 00:58:24,166 And I said, like a fool, I mean, not even suspecting, I said... 812 00:58:26,238 --> 00:58:27,657 I said: 813 00:58:29,115 --> 00:58:31,033 "What on earth is that?" 814 00:58:31,378 --> 00:58:34,063 I thought Mary Lee had bleached them. 815 00:58:34,753 --> 00:58:37,208 But then I looked at Bill and there was that... 816 00:58:39,242 --> 00:58:43,193 that look on his face. And I thought: 817 00:58:44,151 --> 00:58:47,834 "Thank heavens he is such a bad liar... 818 00:58:47,987 --> 00:58:51,018 or I would have been most unjust to Mary Lee." 819 00:58:51,670 --> 00:58:55,199 It doesn't seem possible that a man who owns a television network... 820 00:58:55,352 --> 00:58:57,155 can be such a bad liar. 821 00:58:57,309 --> 00:58:59,687 It seems so essential to his success. 822 00:59:03,024 --> 00:59:04,866 What am I gonna do? 823 00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:09,315 You are going to call me whenever you need me... 824 00:59:09,469 --> 00:59:12,269 even if it's 3 in the morning and war has broken out... 825 00:59:12,422 --> 00:59:17,179 between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I'll come over the bridge, bullets flying... 826 00:59:17,332 --> 00:59:20,478 to let you know you have a lifelong friend in me. 827 00:59:21,475 --> 00:59:24,275 T-bone, you are so dear. 828 00:59:24,851 --> 00:59:28,303 I can't picture Bill Paley washing sheets! 829 00:59:28,495 --> 00:59:30,796 He must have been frantic. 830 00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:34,210 - Poor Babe. - I know, I know. Bless her. 831 00:59:35,054 --> 00:59:36,282 Check. 832 00:59:37,624 --> 00:59:39,964 Will you come while I find a newsstand? 833 00:59:40,118 --> 00:59:44,683 I'm trying to bribe Perry into liking me so I'm sending Dick and him dirty magazines. 834 00:59:45,411 --> 00:59:46,600 Sure. 835 00:59:48,825 --> 00:59:53,275 Oh, I wish I'd find a man like you. Sex and the money, I wouldn't care. 836 00:59:53,428 --> 00:59:55,385 We could always have fun like this. 837 00:59:55,538 --> 00:59:59,489 - Oh, thank you, Big Mama. I love you. - I love you too. 838 00:59:59,643 --> 01:00:03,210 - Do you? - Well, how can you even ask? 839 01:00:03,402 --> 01:00:07,084 - You never confide in me. - No, I don't darling. You're right. 840 01:00:07,276 --> 01:00:08,273 Why don't you? 841 01:00:08,427 --> 01:00:13,452 - It's very simple. I can't trust you. - What? I'm speechless. 842 01:00:14,104 --> 01:00:15,869 Paralyzed and speechless. 843 01:00:16,022 --> 01:00:16,981 Good afternoon. 844 01:00:17,134 --> 01:00:20,970 I need two copies of Playboy, Party Doll, Stag Night... 845 01:00:21,316 --> 01:00:25,612 Baby Doll, Hotsy Totsy, French Flip, Pink Lace, Busty and Juggle. 846 01:00:26,264 --> 01:00:27,376 Jiggle. 847 01:00:27,530 --> 01:00:29,294 Why on earth can you not trust me? 848 01:00:29,486 --> 01:00:33,782 Well, you know why. Because someday you'll use it. 849 01:00:33,936 --> 01:00:35,815 That will never be true. 850 01:00:35,969 --> 01:00:39,383 I may not be a monk, but I certainly have a moral code. 851 01:00:39,536 --> 01:00:43,717 Good heavens! Look at this! This is revolting. 852 01:00:43,871 --> 01:00:47,016 Women look much better in clothes, much, much, better. 853 01:00:47,170 --> 01:00:49,778 Goodness gracious, look at this messy thing. 854 01:00:49,932 --> 01:00:51,389 I'm glad to see you've recovered. 855 01:01:01,094 --> 01:01:02,667 How are things coming? 856 01:01:03,357 --> 01:01:06,426 I found a superb structure, going back and forth... 857 01:01:06,580 --> 01:01:09,802 between the Clutters and Dick and Perry drawing near. 858 01:01:09,955 --> 01:01:14,098 But if I don't find some emotional depth it's just another police drama. 859 01:01:14,252 --> 01:01:15,556 Who needs it? 860 01:01:16,668 --> 01:01:19,046 Well, face it, without Perry, you're dead. 861 01:01:19,583 --> 01:01:22,652 - I'd cut your losses. - Nelle! 862 01:01:23,688 --> 01:01:24,954 Here's your mail. 863 01:01:26,565 --> 01:01:28,790 Something from The New Yorker. 864 01:01:30,746 --> 01:01:34,275 Something that looks like invitations, and something... 865 01:01:35,157 --> 01:01:38,495 Do you know anyone at the Kansas State Penitentiary? 866 01:01:40,297 --> 01:01:44,095 He must be writing to thank me for that revolting pornography. 867 01:01:53,186 --> 01:01:57,329 Well, you won't believe this. 868 01:01:57,482 --> 01:01:58,441 What? 869 01:02:00,129 --> 01:02:01,894 Dear Mr. Capote... 870 01:02:02,277 --> 01:02:05,653 it was extremely solicitous of you to send me those periodicals. 871 01:02:05,883 --> 01:02:07,801 He reads the dictionary. 872 01:02:07,955 --> 01:02:11,906 But I regret to inform you that the reading material was repellent. 873 01:02:12,634 --> 01:02:14,476 My future will soon be determined. 874 01:02:14,629 --> 01:02:18,734 But there are only two outcomes: life in prison or death. 875 01:02:19,347 --> 01:02:22,991 So, whether I have a short time remaining or a long time to come... 876 01:02:23,145 --> 01:02:27,671 I owe it to my mind to fill it with things of beauty and intelligence. 877 01:02:28,132 --> 01:02:29,858 And how about that handwriting? 878 01:02:30,932 --> 01:02:33,885 Well, if he wants beauty and intelligence... 879 01:02:34,269 --> 01:02:35,803 you're his man. 880 01:02:45,738 --> 01:02:48,731 I waited so we could open it together. 881 01:02:52,912 --> 01:02:56,287 Dear Mr. Capote: Thank you for the reading material. 882 01:02:56,479 --> 01:02:59,970 It was much more intellectual than the pussy pictures you sent before. 883 01:03:00,392 --> 01:03:01,351 However... 884 01:03:01,504 --> 01:03:02,808 However? 885 01:03:03,154 --> 01:03:04,803 Though the stories are told well... 886 01:03:04,995 --> 01:03:10,212 I, ultimately, did not like them, because I thought the writing lacked kindness. 887 01:03:10,365 --> 01:03:11,976 I have never! 888 01:03:12,322 --> 01:03:15,007 Maybe you should go back to sending him porn. 889 01:03:15,544 --> 01:03:20,262 Imagine being told your work lacked kindness by a four-time killer! 890 01:03:20,837 --> 01:03:24,788 My writing is dispassionate and unsentimental... 891 01:03:24,942 --> 01:03:27,128 but I wouldn't say it's unkind. 892 01:03:27,282 --> 01:03:30,427 I've never thought about it in those terms exactly. 893 01:03:30,734 --> 01:03:33,879 - What a thing to say. - Yes. 894 01:03:44,620 --> 01:03:48,418 I came all this way back, three days on the train... 895 01:03:48,801 --> 01:03:51,333 because there's something I want you to know. 896 01:03:52,637 --> 01:03:55,476 I have given my whole life to one effort... 897 01:03:55,668 --> 01:03:58,123 the creation of a great work of art. 898 01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:01,115 Please don't laugh at me. 899 01:04:02,304 --> 01:04:03,800 My whole life... 900 01:04:04,874 --> 01:04:07,827 all I've wanted was to create a work of art. 901 01:04:09,093 --> 01:04:11,510 I sang, nobody listened. 902 01:04:12,431 --> 01:04:15,346 I painted, nobody looked. 903 01:04:16,573 --> 01:04:19,911 Now, Dick and me, we murder four people. 904 01:04:20,639 --> 01:04:22,481 And what's gonna come out of it? 905 01:04:23,785 --> 01:04:25,358 A work of art. 906 01:04:28,311 --> 01:04:29,884 I'm laughing at me. 907 01:04:31,610 --> 01:04:35,293 You want me to open up, but I don't think you can understand me. 908 01:04:35,446 --> 01:04:38,361 - Why not? - It was your books. 909 01:04:39,052 --> 01:04:42,734 I thought you looked down on the people you were writing about... 910 01:04:42,888 --> 01:04:44,691 like you were sneering at them. 911 01:04:45,151 --> 01:04:48,181 I would never sneer at my characters. 912 01:04:48,412 --> 01:04:50,560 If I'm gonna put my heart in front of you... 913 01:04:50,752 --> 01:04:54,166 I need to know I'm doing it with someone who will listen to it... 914 01:04:54,434 --> 01:04:58,769 and not make a joke out of it like you did with Holly Go-fucking-lightly. 915 01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:02,988 You can't write my story... 916 01:05:03,448 --> 01:05:06,517 because your idea of suffering is so far from mine. 917 01:05:06,709 --> 01:05:09,816 It's not. I promise. 918 01:05:12,962 --> 01:05:13,997 Goodbye. 919 01:05:50,477 --> 01:05:51,858 Okay. 920 01:05:54,697 --> 01:05:58,149 The reason this is hard for me to say is that... 921 01:05:59,990 --> 01:06:02,292 I've never said it out loud before. 922 01:06:03,826 --> 01:06:06,933 He told everyone she was sick, but... 923 01:06:12,956 --> 01:06:15,142 my mother committed suicide. 924 01:06:18,594 --> 01:06:19,899 - Is this a trick? - No! 925 01:06:20,052 --> 01:06:22,047 - Are you bullshitting me? - No! 926 01:06:22,967 --> 01:06:24,809 Have you been talking to Dick? 927 01:06:24,962 --> 01:06:25,921 No. 928 01:06:30,678 --> 01:06:32,058 What happened? 929 01:06:36,470 --> 01:06:37,812 Why'd she do it? 930 01:06:41,035 --> 01:06:43,374 All my mother ever wanted... 931 01:06:43,796 --> 01:06:46,865 was to be a Park Avenue lady... 932 01:06:49,435 --> 01:06:53,233 which isn't easy when you're in Alabama with no money. 933 01:06:53,425 --> 01:06:56,800 So she married my father to get out. 934 01:06:56,954 --> 01:07:00,444 But before they could go, I came. 935 01:07:01,096 --> 01:07:03,014 So she deserted me... 936 01:07:03,590 --> 01:07:05,968 leaving me with my aunts. 937 01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:10,149 And when my father failed to deliver her to Park Avenue... 938 01:07:10,801 --> 01:07:13,026 she deserted him too. 939 01:07:14,024 --> 01:07:16,210 Because she was beautiful... 940 01:07:24,074 --> 01:07:25,915 so beautiful. 941 01:07:27,986 --> 01:07:31,515 She married again, this time to Joe Capote. 942 01:07:31,669 --> 01:07:33,664 He had a job in New York... 943 01:07:33,970 --> 01:07:37,423 and worked all hours until her dream came true. 944 01:07:37,768 --> 01:07:42,985 We moved to 1060 Park Avenue. Mother was thrilled. 945 01:07:43,752 --> 01:07:47,972 It seemed to extinguish some sort of anxiety in her. 946 01:07:50,580 --> 01:07:53,725 But the way Joe got us there couldn't keep us there. 947 01:07:54,493 --> 01:07:56,794 He'd embezzled the money... 948 01:07:57,331 --> 01:07:59,825 a hundred thousand dollars. 949 01:08:01,551 --> 01:08:06,039 He was fired and tainted. He told Mother we'd have to move. 950 01:08:06,192 --> 01:08:08,877 But not to a smaller place on Park Avenue... 951 01:08:09,069 --> 01:08:11,754 but to a cold-water flat in the Bronx. 952 01:08:15,437 --> 01:08:17,355 She couldn't take it. 953 01:08:22,226 --> 01:08:26,983 She frantically tried to save money in any way so they could stay... 954 01:08:27,175 --> 01:08:30,666 eating less, not buying lipstick. 955 01:08:33,888 --> 01:08:38,606 She'd stopped drinking when they moved to 1060, but now she stopped stopping. 956 01:08:39,181 --> 01:08:42,825 And when that failed to restore a sense of calm... 957 01:08:44,398 --> 01:08:47,313 she swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. 958 01:09:00,624 --> 01:09:02,696 I'm sorry about before. 959 01:09:04,460 --> 01:09:06,531 I thought you were trying to trick me. 960 01:09:08,641 --> 01:09:10,137 Trick you? 961 01:09:10,636 --> 01:09:12,746 My mother killed herself too. 962 01:09:15,277 --> 01:09:16,313 How? 963 01:09:16,467 --> 01:09:19,343 The slow way. Drank herself to death. 964 01:09:21,108 --> 01:09:22,297 Drinking. 965 01:09:22,834 --> 01:09:25,481 Suicide for the faint of heart. 966 01:09:26,402 --> 01:09:29,394 My brother couldn't wait. He killed himself too. 967 01:09:29,739 --> 01:09:30,928 My God. 968 01:09:32,002 --> 01:09:34,457 - So you're all alone? - No. 969 01:09:35,953 --> 01:09:37,564 I have a sister. 970 01:09:38,677 --> 01:09:40,901 You want to know what I think about her? 971 01:09:41,592 --> 01:09:44,392 I think she's one evil bastard. 972 01:09:45,888 --> 01:09:48,650 You want to see the ball-busting letter she sent me? 973 01:10:02,191 --> 01:10:03,572 Pay attention. 974 01:10:05,490 --> 01:10:07,638 This could be good for our book. 975 01:10:19,376 --> 01:10:20,642 I don't feel like talking. 976 01:10:20,833 --> 01:10:23,749 I thought we were off to a good start. 977 01:10:24,094 --> 01:10:26,741 After you left, that asshole next door said: 978 01:10:26,894 --> 01:10:30,155 "Hey, Smith, how come your mother and brother never visit?" He'd heard. 979 01:10:30,308 --> 01:10:31,497 Fuck him, who cares? 980 01:10:31,689 --> 01:10:34,489 You see, when I'm talking to you, I forget other people are gonna read it. 981 01:10:34,566 --> 01:10:36,715 And then I think abut how you stabbed Brando in the back. 982 01:10:36,829 --> 01:10:40,167 Perry, what I'm gonna write about you will help people think more of you. 983 01:10:40,358 --> 01:10:42,737 You're not thinking clearly. How can you? 984 01:10:42,890 --> 01:10:45,767 You're under the most unimaginable pressure. 985 01:10:45,920 --> 01:10:48,030 Aw, doesn't wittle Perry wike it here? 986 01:10:48,184 --> 01:10:51,099 - Shut the fuck up, Andrews! - Hush now. 987 01:10:52,135 --> 01:10:53,631 Be above him. 988 01:10:56,623 --> 01:10:57,850 Come. 989 01:11:08,668 --> 01:11:11,353 This can be our little tree house. 990 01:11:13,117 --> 01:11:15,611 How come y'all are so quiet? 991 01:11:17,222 --> 01:11:18,564 Now... 992 01:11:20,597 --> 01:11:22,899 I want you to relax. 993 01:11:23,359 --> 01:11:26,083 I can't. Not here. Not with him. 994 01:11:26,236 --> 01:11:29,957 I may be wrong, but there was something in your letter... 995 01:11:30,149 --> 01:11:33,256 that made me think you have the soul of an artist. 996 01:11:34,215 --> 01:11:37,974 Artists have the power, through our imagination... 997 01:11:38,166 --> 01:11:42,884 to escape a degenerate world and create a better one. 998 01:11:44,035 --> 01:11:45,071 How? 999 01:11:45,569 --> 01:11:49,022 - Close your eyes. - Why? 1000 01:11:51,016 --> 01:11:52,474 Trust me. 1001 01:11:54,852 --> 01:11:59,340 Now I want you to picture the most serene... 1002 01:11:59,647 --> 01:12:02,524 and relaxing place you know. 1003 01:12:02,946 --> 01:12:04,289 Mexico. 1004 01:12:04,480 --> 01:12:08,623 I know it well. Water like liquid turquoise. 1005 01:12:10,464 --> 01:12:14,377 Feel that hot sun beating down on you... 1006 01:12:15,758 --> 01:12:19,210 warming all the tension out of you. 1007 01:12:19,978 --> 01:12:23,507 Feel the heat soaking into you. 1008 01:12:25,425 --> 01:12:26,499 And then... 1009 01:12:27,764 --> 01:12:31,332 gentle as a feather falling past your cheek... 1010 01:12:32,866 --> 01:12:34,861 there's a breeze. 1011 01:12:38,006 --> 01:12:39,387 Close them. 1012 01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:42,072 Good. 1013 01:12:43,262 --> 01:12:45,410 Feel the breeze... 1014 01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:51,432 that sensual breath from heaven. 1015 01:12:53,580 --> 01:12:55,613 Just let go... 1016 01:12:56,572 --> 01:12:59,027 relax every muscle. 1017 01:13:11,302 --> 01:13:12,568 I'm ready. 1018 01:13:15,905 --> 01:13:19,895 When I was a boy, we were always moving around. 1019 01:13:20,087 --> 01:13:23,424 His parents were rodeo performers. 1020 01:13:23,616 --> 01:13:26,454 It was a hard life in lots of ways... 1021 01:13:26,838 --> 01:13:29,370 but it sure looked good once we lost it. 1022 01:13:30,482 --> 01:13:32,860 Mom and Dad had to quit. 1023 01:13:33,627 --> 01:13:36,888 That kind of riding wears your bones out. 1024 01:13:37,502 --> 01:13:40,992 But that's what they were: riders. 1025 01:13:41,951 --> 01:13:44,023 So, when that went away... 1026 01:13:45,020 --> 01:13:46,593 everything went with it. 1027 01:13:47,667 --> 01:13:49,623 Jesus, Flo. 1028 01:13:49,815 --> 01:13:51,388 Fuck off! It's just beer. 1029 01:13:52,539 --> 01:13:53,651 Fucking asshole! 1030 01:13:55,339 --> 01:13:59,597 So Mom left him, and she took me and my brother and sister with her. 1031 01:14:05,005 --> 01:14:07,384 I dreamed Dad would rescue me. 1032 01:14:07,767 --> 01:14:09,493 How funny. 1033 01:14:11,450 --> 01:14:12,716 Me too. 1034 01:14:15,899 --> 01:14:20,042 Every day I waited for him, but he never came. 1035 01:14:20,196 --> 01:14:22,612 And then one day I was walking to school... 1036 01:14:30,016 --> 01:14:32,087 Please be real. Please be real. 1037 01:14:32,432 --> 01:14:34,235 Please be real. 1038 01:14:37,304 --> 01:14:38,416 Dad. 1039 01:14:41,370 --> 01:14:43,173 Are you here to take me with you? 1040 01:14:43,326 --> 01:14:46,625 I wish I could, but I can't. 1041 01:14:48,313 --> 01:14:50,384 I don't know how to take care of you. 1042 01:14:53,683 --> 01:14:56,445 I came to tell you to be the best boy you can be. 1043 01:14:57,711 --> 01:14:59,552 And he made me get down. 1044 01:15:00,588 --> 01:15:04,270 He hated his old lady. Never forgave her. 1045 01:15:04,424 --> 01:15:06,764 She took his daddy away. 1046 01:15:07,186 --> 01:15:08,797 A boy needs his daddy. 1047 01:15:09,372 --> 01:15:11,367 And did he hate the father too? 1048 01:15:11,789 --> 01:15:16,622 He always said he hated his old man, but he used to do this thing... 1049 01:15:16,814 --> 01:15:21,340 this excruciatingly poignant thing. 1050 01:15:22,069 --> 01:15:26,634 Dick says that sometimes when I'd be sleeping... 1051 01:15:28,399 --> 01:15:29,511 Dad! 1052 01:15:32,503 --> 01:15:33,730 Dad! 1053 01:15:35,111 --> 01:15:36,416 Where you been? 1054 01:15:38,180 --> 01:15:40,136 I've been looking everywhere for you. 1055 01:15:41,978 --> 01:15:44,548 Years later, after the Army... 1056 01:15:44,701 --> 01:15:48,269 I got a letter from Dad saying he had an idea to make money. 1057 01:15:48,460 --> 01:15:50,225 Wanted me to come help him. 1058 01:15:51,491 --> 01:15:56,132 And I'd be lying to you if I told you I wasn't pretty jazzed up when I got his letter. 1059 01:15:56,286 --> 01:15:58,204 He finally had a place for me. 1060 01:15:59,009 --> 01:16:02,538 I was gonna sing and play my guitar in the bar. 1061 01:16:03,190 --> 01:16:07,333 I painted all the pictures. I even painted the sign. 1062 01:16:07,487 --> 01:16:09,098 Nobody's coming here! 1063 01:16:11,438 --> 01:16:12,857 Nobody! 1064 01:16:13,701 --> 01:16:15,159 Know why? 1065 01:16:15,657 --> 01:16:19,762 It's because of you, you useless piece of shit! 1066 01:16:19,915 --> 01:16:21,833 Your fucking sign is no good! 1067 01:16:22,025 --> 01:16:25,017 I said, "Buy a neon sign"... 1068 01:16:25,209 --> 01:16:27,625 and you said, "I'll paint us a good one." 1069 01:16:27,817 --> 01:16:29,083 Fucking sissy. 1070 01:16:36,908 --> 01:16:37,829 Come on. 1071 01:16:38,481 --> 01:16:40,591 He killed me, this guy. 1072 01:16:41,013 --> 01:16:45,731 Over and over my whole life, the things he said and did to me. 1073 01:16:47,917 --> 01:16:50,603 It was always like having a knife in me. 1074 01:16:50,833 --> 01:16:55,436 So I decided to kill him right then, in cold blood. 1075 01:16:57,737 --> 01:16:59,502 Sissy. 1076 01:16:59,732 --> 01:17:00,960 But I couldn't do it. 1077 01:17:02,225 --> 01:17:06,291 And all this stuff about Dad and everything... 1078 01:17:08,286 --> 01:17:10,933 it's gonna make me look like a fucking crybaby. 1079 01:17:11,086 --> 01:17:15,114 No! It will help people see you as a complete person... 1080 01:17:15,344 --> 01:17:19,794 not just as someone who has caused suffering, but as someone who has suffered. 1081 01:17:21,559 --> 01:17:23,668 Can I see what you've written so far? 1082 01:17:23,822 --> 01:17:27,351 Not till it's perfect. But I promise, it's sympathetic. 1083 01:17:28,118 --> 01:17:30,726 No one's ever treated me like you have. 1084 01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:34,025 Is it just to get me to tell you stuff? 1085 01:17:34,486 --> 01:17:35,521 No. 1086 01:17:36,135 --> 01:17:38,360 It's because I respect you. 1087 01:17:40,239 --> 01:17:42,771 All right. Time's up. 1088 01:17:53,397 --> 01:17:57,655 - Thanks for that beautiful thing you said. - What beautiful thing? 1089 01:17:58,805 --> 01:18:00,340 About respect. 1090 01:18:31,411 --> 01:18:33,674 So, I'm sympathetic, am I? 1091 01:18:34,480 --> 01:18:36,973 You been looking out for me, have you? 1092 01:18:37,702 --> 01:18:42,420 What's the title of your book? The "sympathetic" one about me? 1093 01:18:44,722 --> 01:18:49,478 I know the title. The fucking guard told me, and it's not sympathetic. 1094 01:18:51,281 --> 01:18:54,273 It's called In Cold Blood, isn't it? 1095 01:18:54,887 --> 01:18:58,991 It is, isn't it? It's called In Cold Fucking Blood! 1096 01:18:59,145 --> 01:19:00,986 You sold me out, you shit... 1097 01:19:01,139 --> 01:19:04,093 after I opened myself up and gave you everything. 1098 01:19:04,515 --> 01:19:06,625 Well, you're not gonna get away with it. 1099 01:19:08,006 --> 01:19:09,732 One sound out of you... 1100 01:19:10,767 --> 01:19:13,683 and you'll join the Clutters in hell. 1101 01:19:14,757 --> 01:19:15,677 Okay? 1102 01:19:22,160 --> 01:19:23,848 Open your mouth! 1103 01:19:25,459 --> 01:19:27,646 Open your mouth! 1104 01:19:28,489 --> 01:19:31,520 Open your fucking lying mouth! 1105 01:19:32,862 --> 01:19:35,394 You're gonna pay for that title now. 1106 01:19:36,353 --> 01:19:39,767 You fucked me, so now I'm gonna fuck you. 1107 01:20:15,787 --> 01:20:17,935 I'm not gonna rape you... 1108 01:20:18,625 --> 01:20:22,001 because you can trust me. 1109 01:20:23,573 --> 01:20:24,993 But look. 1110 01:20:26,144 --> 01:20:27,524 Look 1111 01:20:30,401 --> 01:20:35,005 That's how your fucking title made me feel. 1112 01:20:56,332 --> 01:20:57,828 Don't let him in. 1113 01:20:58,787 --> 01:21:00,552 I need to talk to you, please. 1114 01:21:00,705 --> 01:21:01,933 From there. 1115 01:21:05,078 --> 01:21:07,035 Can we have some privacy? 1116 01:21:13,402 --> 01:21:18,082 In Cold Blood is the title of my book, but it's not exactly what you think. 1117 01:21:19,540 --> 01:21:21,765 You boys did a monstrous thing. 1118 01:21:21,918 --> 01:21:25,370 And the public and their prosecutors are calling for your blood. 1119 01:21:25,562 --> 01:21:28,171 If they get what they want, they will kill you... 1120 01:21:28,324 --> 01:21:33,004 not in a senseless moment of passion, but with scrupulous premeditation. 1121 01:21:33,157 --> 01:21:36,418 That is the legal definition of "in cold blood." 1122 01:21:36,610 --> 01:21:39,793 This title is a condemnation of their plans. 1123 01:21:39,947 --> 01:21:41,980 But not only their plans. 1124 01:21:42,172 --> 01:21:45,010 No. No, not only. 1125 01:21:46,008 --> 01:21:49,920 Look, you did a terrible thing. You're not innocent. 1126 01:21:50,956 --> 01:21:55,444 That doesn't mean you're not a human being. I want people to see that. 1127 01:21:55,597 --> 01:21:58,896 I'm not talking to you until I've read what you've written. 1128 01:22:12,322 --> 01:22:14,240 It's tough to read the family stuff. 1129 01:22:15,928 --> 01:22:19,419 - But you told it to me. - Not my family. 1130 01:22:20,569 --> 01:22:21,989 The Clutters. 1131 01:22:26,937 --> 01:22:30,121 There better be more than this in this house, or you'll sure be sorry. 1132 01:22:31,924 --> 01:22:33,113 Get him to the basement. 1133 01:22:33,535 --> 01:22:35,108 I'll get the old man. 1134 01:22:36,028 --> 01:22:40,516 You don't think about it if someone has a boyfriend, or is in 4-H. 1135 01:22:40,670 --> 01:22:44,314 Why don't you put some clothes on? It's gonna be cold down there. 1136 01:22:45,119 --> 01:22:46,270 Yes, sir. 1137 01:22:46,462 --> 01:22:48,725 We didn't know anything about them. 1138 01:22:52,408 --> 01:22:54,479 Except that they had a safe. 1139 01:22:55,131 --> 01:22:57,663 But I don't have a safe. 1140 01:22:58,085 --> 01:23:02,189 How old are you, baby? Well, now don't be scared. 1141 01:23:02,956 --> 01:23:06,831 - Let me help you down with these covers. - Hey! Out here, now. 1142 01:23:07,214 --> 01:23:08,327 Now! 1143 01:23:10,053 --> 01:23:13,429 - You touch her, and I'll kill you. - You can ride her when I'm done. 1144 01:23:13,620 --> 01:23:16,497 Let's just go. There's no safe. You fucking blew that! 1145 01:23:16,689 --> 01:23:20,295 We're not leaving, baby. They've seen us plain. 1146 01:23:20,448 --> 01:23:23,709 Get down to the basement so we can take care of that. I'll be there soon. 1147 01:23:23,862 --> 01:23:25,358 I'm not leaving you here. 1148 01:23:26,279 --> 01:23:28,197 Fuck you, then! 1149 01:23:29,309 --> 01:23:30,614 Let's go. 1150 01:24:15,993 --> 01:24:17,987 I know this is crazy... 1151 01:24:18,946 --> 01:24:21,900 but when I looked in his eyes, I was thinking: 1152 01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:24,700 "Too bad we couldn't be friends." 1153 01:24:26,004 --> 01:24:28,881 He had 4-H stuff in his room. 1154 01:24:29,227 --> 01:24:32,295 And, I could have told him about my folks and the rodeo. 1155 01:24:37,551 --> 01:24:40,466 - Why don't you kiss him? - Fuck off! 1156 01:24:40,658 --> 01:24:42,461 You never like anything to do with girls. 1157 01:24:42,614 --> 01:24:44,148 - You never want a whore. - Shut up! 1158 01:24:44,340 --> 01:24:46,181 You won't even watch me when I'm on one. 1159 01:24:46,335 --> 01:24:47,792 - You like boys better? - Shut up! 1160 01:24:47,984 --> 01:24:50,478 - Go ahead. Then I can break his sister's box! - Shut up! 1161 01:24:50,631 --> 01:24:52,549 Go ahead, sugar, kiss him. 1162 01:24:53,738 --> 01:24:55,886 Or would you rather kiss his daddy? 1163 01:25:06,627 --> 01:25:08,928 Shit, Perry! His hand came free! 1164 01:25:30,947 --> 01:25:33,670 Now, now you kill the women. 1165 01:25:57,683 --> 01:25:59,678 I wish I could have saved them... 1166 01:26:01,519 --> 01:26:02,938 but at least... 1167 01:26:04,895 --> 01:26:07,196 I knew what he wanted to do to that girl. 1168 01:26:12,797 --> 01:26:14,791 Least I spared her that. 1169 01:26:27,335 --> 01:26:31,401 About the best example I can give you of his split nature is this. 1170 01:26:31,593 --> 01:26:34,431 He told me what he thought of Herb Clutter. 1171 01:26:34,585 --> 01:26:39,111 He said, "Right before I cut his throat I was thinking how nice he was." 1172 01:26:39,265 --> 01:26:41,681 "He was a nice soft-spoken gentleman. 1173 01:26:41,835 --> 01:26:44,673 I thought that right before I cut his throat." 1174 01:26:45,095 --> 01:26:48,356 "I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. 1175 01:26:48,893 --> 01:26:52,652 I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat." 1176 01:26:52,844 --> 01:26:54,800 What an extraordinary thing to say. 1177 01:26:54,992 --> 01:26:56,373 Extraordinary. 1178 01:27:12,139 --> 01:27:13,481 So how's the book? 1179 01:27:13,673 --> 01:27:17,624 Well, it's coming. I have to leave in a couple days for their trial. 1180 01:27:17,777 --> 01:27:20,769 That's all pro forma, right? They're not contesting anything, are they? 1181 01:27:20,961 --> 01:27:23,416 No, they hope for life, not death. 1182 01:27:23,570 --> 01:27:25,641 Death would be better for the book. 1183 01:27:25,833 --> 01:27:29,784 It would satisfy the readers more, and it would make the title work too. 1184 01:27:31,433 --> 01:27:35,231 Honey, I've worked harder on this than anything my whole life. 1185 01:27:35,384 --> 01:27:39,527 I don't want it ruined just because a jury makes a dumb decision. 1186 01:27:40,486 --> 01:27:42,980 Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict? 1187 01:27:43,171 --> 01:27:44,437 We have, Your Honor. 1188 01:27:45,051 --> 01:27:47,468 Will the clerk please bring the verdict up? 1189 01:27:53,835 --> 01:27:57,364 We, the jury, find the defendant, Perry Edward Smith... 1190 01:27:57,940 --> 01:28:01,008 guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree. 1191 01:28:01,737 --> 01:28:02,965 And the punishment... 1192 01:28:06,954 --> 01:28:08,834 is death. 1193 01:28:12,401 --> 01:28:15,240 - Will you appeal? - Dick wants to. 1194 01:28:16,007 --> 01:28:18,884 But we'll hang. We should. 1195 01:28:20,380 --> 01:28:22,605 You think hanging is fair? 1196 01:28:22,873 --> 01:28:25,712 It's funny. Last night I was laying awake... 1197 01:28:26,172 --> 01:28:29,624 and thinking: "What is punishment?" 1198 01:28:30,698 --> 01:28:34,611 Being in jail isn't punishment, if you didn't like it on the outside. 1199 01:28:35,417 --> 01:28:38,946 And neither is death, if it was painful to live. 1200 01:28:41,669 --> 01:28:43,894 I'll tell you what punishment is for me. 1201 01:28:44,393 --> 01:28:45,428 What? 1202 01:28:46,119 --> 01:28:49,495 It's hoping there's someone for you. 1203 01:28:51,144 --> 01:28:57,013 And after years of no one you find him and you can't have him. 1204 01:29:11,283 --> 01:29:15,579 - We really connected, didn't we? - Of course, we did. 1205 01:29:15,732 --> 01:29:18,456 You weren't being nice to me just for the book, were you? 1206 01:29:18,609 --> 01:29:21,601 No! I think about you all the time. 1207 01:29:21,793 --> 01:29:25,169 - Dick too? - Only for the book. 1208 01:29:26,626 --> 01:29:29,350 You're the only person I ever feel real around. 1209 01:29:29,695 --> 01:29:30,769 Me too. 1210 01:29:30,999 --> 01:29:35,142 I don't have to act like a little wind-up toy with you. 1211 01:29:44,387 --> 01:29:45,538 Perry... 1212 01:29:47,571 --> 01:29:49,910 I don't want you to die. 1213 01:30:32,719 --> 01:30:35,290 Look, Ron and Nancy Reagan we're not. 1214 01:30:37,745 --> 01:30:42,271 We're apart for long times. We know we have to have sex. 1215 01:30:44,381 --> 01:30:50,518 But we're men. We can have sex just to release the desire to have sex. 1216 01:30:51,017 --> 01:30:53,625 What's not allowed is falling in love. 1217 01:31:02,525 --> 01:31:04,750 You see, that would be a betrayal. 1218 01:31:07,933 --> 01:31:11,156 A terrible breach of a very mature... 1219 01:31:12,268 --> 01:31:15,068 and very sensible arrangement. 1220 01:31:15,260 --> 01:31:19,518 After the verdicts, Truman buried himself in the book. 1221 01:31:19,710 --> 01:31:22,241 By mid-'63 it was done. 1222 01:31:22,395 --> 01:31:26,691 Perfect as a diamond, as tough, as multi-faceted... 1223 01:31:27,113 --> 01:31:28,724 only this time... 1224 01:31:28,878 --> 01:31:30,757 it had kindness. 1225 01:31:31,754 --> 01:31:35,284 But we couldn't publish it until it had an ending... 1226 01:31:35,437 --> 01:31:38,621 until something had been settled about the boys. 1227 01:31:38,813 --> 01:31:41,613 There were four appeals, all the way to the Supreme Court. 1228 01:31:41,766 --> 01:31:44,183 It took five full years for a final judgment. 1229 01:31:44,375 --> 01:31:49,438 That was hard on the killers, which doesn't make a dime's difference to me. But... 1230 01:32:00,869 --> 01:32:04,168 Do you have any word yet about when the book is coming out? 1231 01:32:04,322 --> 01:32:05,549 I don't know. 1232 01:32:08,695 --> 01:32:12,070 You simply cannot conceive of the agony. 1233 01:32:15,292 --> 01:32:19,550 I've worked on this book ceaselessly for four years... 1234 01:32:20,471 --> 01:32:25,189 pouring the whole of myself into it, head and heart. 1235 01:32:25,534 --> 01:32:28,181 And then to be waiting like this... 1236 01:32:28,334 --> 01:32:31,672 unable to publish what I've done until they're hanged. 1237 01:32:32,285 --> 01:32:33,935 I can hardly wait. 1238 01:32:34,932 --> 01:32:39,229 Do you feel that your book is worth a human life? 1239 01:32:39,382 --> 01:32:43,256 - Well, it's certainly worth Dick's. - What about the other man? 1240 01:32:43,832 --> 01:32:46,785 His name is Perry. 1241 01:32:47,668 --> 01:32:50,506 I mean, it's just an intolerable position. 1242 01:32:51,734 --> 01:32:55,493 Because to get an ending for the book means an end for... 1243 01:33:04,162 --> 01:33:07,499 On death row, you may only write two letters a week. 1244 01:33:08,842 --> 01:33:11,719 Every week, for five years... 1245 01:33:13,905 --> 01:33:16,015 Perry wrote both letters to Truman. 1246 01:33:16,207 --> 01:33:19,352 Friend Truman, cold in Kansas today... 1247 01:33:19,621 --> 01:33:23,073 though not as frigid as I imagine it is in Switzerland. 1248 01:33:23,534 --> 01:33:25,068 How big are those Alps? 1249 01:33:25,260 --> 01:33:28,942 Friend Truman, do you know the song "Gold Mine in the Sky"? 1250 01:33:29,671 --> 01:33:31,244 It was Dad's favorite. 1251 01:33:32,548 --> 01:33:35,809 Maybe you could use your influence with the authorities in this shithole... 1252 01:33:35,962 --> 01:33:38,455 and get me a tape recorder so I could sing it for you. 1253 01:33:38,609 --> 01:33:40,527 Not much to say today. 1254 01:33:41,025 --> 01:33:42,598 Awful blue. 1255 01:33:43,672 --> 01:33:46,779 God, I miss you. Please write soon. 1256 01:33:46,933 --> 01:33:49,963 You can't imagine what it does to me when they bring the mail... 1257 01:33:50,155 --> 01:33:51,804 and there's something from you. 1258 01:33:51,958 --> 01:33:53,262 Friend Truman: 1259 01:33:54,259 --> 01:33:55,870 It's all over. 1260 01:33:56,868 --> 01:33:59,169 Our last appeal has been denied. 1261 01:33:59,323 --> 01:34:02,430 Dick and I are allowed to have a witness at the hanging. 1262 01:34:02,583 --> 01:34:05,575 We both pick you. 1263 01:34:05,767 --> 01:34:09,066 - You have to come with me. - I can't. 1264 01:34:09,258 --> 01:34:14,014 I'm getting desperate about my new book. It's not coming together. 1265 01:34:21,763 --> 01:34:24,103 Anyway, I thought this was what you wanted. 1266 01:34:24,256 --> 01:34:26,251 I know I said that... 1267 01:34:26,788 --> 01:34:28,783 but to see him killed? 1268 01:34:31,123 --> 01:34:33,002 It's too much. 1269 01:34:33,808 --> 01:34:36,109 - I don't suppose Jack would? - No. 1270 01:34:37,874 --> 01:34:39,523 He wouldn't anyway, but... 1271 01:34:40,214 --> 01:34:44,050 for some reason, he gets funny about Perry. 1272 01:34:45,584 --> 01:34:47,847 It's like he's jealous. 1273 01:34:52,796 --> 01:34:53,946 Truman... 1274 01:34:57,360 --> 01:34:58,818 are you and Perry? 1275 01:34:58,972 --> 01:35:00,698 Please, Nelle. 1276 01:35:02,616 --> 01:35:04,534 I'm begging you. 1277 01:35:07,257 --> 01:35:08,676 But I couldn't. 1278 01:35:09,827 --> 01:35:11,247 And I wouldn't. 1279 01:35:14,315 --> 01:35:17,537 I'm sorry, he can't take the call. 1280 01:35:20,414 --> 01:35:21,795 It was the boys again. 1281 01:35:22,179 --> 01:35:23,905 They want me to help... 1282 01:35:24,864 --> 01:35:26,283 but I can't help them. 1283 01:35:27,281 --> 01:35:30,541 Maybe they want you for comfort. 1284 01:35:35,068 --> 01:35:36,640 Rain is good. 1285 01:35:38,789 --> 01:35:41,282 I hope he apologizes. 1286 01:35:43,852 --> 01:35:46,499 That would really make him sympathetic. 1287 01:35:56,856 --> 01:35:59,733 Hey, Truman. Where you been? 1288 01:36:02,610 --> 01:36:04,604 I thought you were gonna spend the whole day with us. 1289 01:36:04,719 --> 01:36:09,476 I couldn't get here earlier. I was making calls on your behalf. 1290 01:36:13,695 --> 01:36:15,345 It's just so late now. 1291 01:36:15,498 --> 01:36:18,759 - Hickock, let's get ready. - We have some time. 1292 01:36:20,217 --> 01:36:22,326 I have something I want to tell you. 1293 01:36:23,439 --> 01:36:28,195 They're gonna ask if you have anything to say, and you must apologize. 1294 01:36:29,998 --> 01:36:36,251 - That won't bring them back. - No. It restores your humanity to you. 1295 01:36:52,132 --> 01:36:53,512 It's time. 1296 01:36:55,085 --> 01:36:58,154 Anyone saying goodbye needs to say it here. 1297 01:37:05,366 --> 01:37:06,708 Bye, Truman. 1298 01:37:07,782 --> 01:37:09,086 Thanks for it. 1299 01:37:31,757 --> 01:37:33,560 Did he say anything to you? 1300 01:37:35,861 --> 01:37:39,007 He said he loved me... 1301 01:37:39,467 --> 01:37:41,615 and he always had. 1302 01:38:24,616 --> 01:38:28,950 Richard Eugene Hickock. Do you have anything to say? 1303 01:38:32,633 --> 01:38:34,973 Just that I hold no hard feelings. 1304 01:38:36,469 --> 01:38:38,003 You people are... 1305 01:38:38,809 --> 01:38:42,300 sending me to a better world than this one ever was. 1306 01:39:05,353 --> 01:39:09,189 "The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. 1307 01:39:10,494 --> 01:39:13,677 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. 1308 01:39:13,831 --> 01:39:15,902 He restoreth my soul. 1309 01:39:16,478 --> 01:39:20,505 He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. 1310 01:39:21,618 --> 01:39:24,265 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death... 1311 01:39:25,761 --> 01:39:29,558 I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me." 1312 01:39:54,722 --> 01:39:55,911 Not dead yet. 1313 01:40:23,185 --> 01:40:24,565 I still hear breathing. 1314 01:40:56,058 --> 01:40:57,209 Okay, he's ready. 1315 01:41:43,509 --> 01:41:47,575 Perry Edward Smith. Do you have anything to say? 1316 01:41:50,644 --> 01:41:52,063 Friend Truman... 1317 01:41:53,367 --> 01:41:56,935 I don't know what you did, but the tape recorder arrived. 1318 01:41:59,543 --> 01:42:05,335 There's a gold mine in the sky Far away 1319 01:42:07,177 --> 01:42:13,276 We will find it You and I, some sweet day 1320 01:42:14,849 --> 01:42:20,526 There'll be a clover just for you Down the line 1321 01:42:22,482 --> 01:42:28,466 Where the skies are always blue Pal of mine 1322 01:42:30,806 --> 01:42:33,299 Far away 1323 01:42:35,754 --> 01:42:38,056 Far away 1324 01:42:39,667 --> 01:42:45,881 We will find that long lost gold mine Some sweet day 1325 01:42:47,339 --> 01:42:52,824 And we'll say hello to friends Who said goodbye 1326 01:42:54,742 --> 01:42:59,192 When we find that long lost gold mine 1327 01:43:00,266 --> 01:43:01,954 In the... 1328 01:43:03,718 --> 01:43:04,677 sky 1329 01:43:05,214 --> 01:43:09,165 "The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. 1330 01:43:09,434 --> 01:43:10,393 He maketh me..." 1331 01:43:21,287 --> 01:43:23,243 Was he able to speak? 1332 01:43:23,435 --> 01:43:24,854 Yes, he spoke. 1333 01:43:25,583 --> 01:43:26,887 What did he say? 1334 01:43:27,923 --> 01:43:29,726 Smith did not speak. 1335 01:43:29,879 --> 01:43:32,143 He apologized. 1336 01:43:32,603 --> 01:43:34,559 Just chewed his gum. 1337 01:43:35,978 --> 01:43:40,045 You saw those two men hanged. It must be... 1338 01:43:42,576 --> 01:43:44,418 Isn't it painful for you? 1339 01:43:49,212 --> 01:43:53,048 Babaling, life is painful. 1340 01:43:53,470 --> 01:43:57,613 It's the one experience that unites rich and poor. 1341 01:43:58,572 --> 01:44:02,370 I suppose I'm able to endure it... 1342 01:44:02,523 --> 01:44:06,666 because I can alchemize what wounds me into art. 1343 01:44:07,625 --> 01:44:08,622 Yes, but... 1344 01:44:12,727 --> 01:44:14,568 at what cost? 1345 01:44:16,601 --> 01:44:21,242 It made him the most famous author in America and very, very rich. 1346 01:44:21,396 --> 01:44:24,043 He moved to Manhattan where, oddly... 1347 01:44:24,196 --> 01:44:28,761 he had a very good view of the place he had left. 1348 01:44:39,386 --> 01:44:42,225 Who ever knows what our hearts will want? 1349 01:44:43,529 --> 01:44:44,718 Who can... 1350 01:44:47,020 --> 01:44:49,206 defend themselves from it? 1351 01:44:55,919 --> 01:44:58,489 Seeing what's happened to him since... 1352 01:44:58,758 --> 01:45:03,016 well, despite the bravado that only appears to be confidence... 1353 01:45:04,473 --> 01:45:09,652 I have come to feel with great heart-sickness... 1354 01:45:13,181 --> 01:45:16,940 that there were three deaths on the gallows that night. 1355 01:45:17,631 --> 01:45:19,971 He never wrote anything big again. 1356 01:45:20,277 --> 01:45:24,267 Just collections, fragments pulled together. 1357 01:45:25,418 --> 01:45:30,558 God knows he didn't have to write, not after all that money on In Cold Blood. 1358 01:45:32,130 --> 01:45:33,665 It's funny. 1359 01:45:33,895 --> 01:45:37,501 It made him, and it ruined him. 1360 01:45:37,923 --> 01:45:39,457 You know, in his will... 1361 01:45:41,490 --> 01:45:43,907 Perry left everything to Truman. 1362 01:45:51,425 --> 01:45:55,721 America is not a country where the small gesture goes noticed. 1363 01:45:56,796 --> 01:45:59,596 We're not a country like France... 1364 01:46:00,555 --> 01:46:04,736 where charm, something light or effervescent... 1365 01:46:04,889 --> 01:46:06,500 can survive. 1366 01:46:07,459 --> 01:46:09,492 We want everything you have... 1367 01:46:09,608 --> 01:46:13,022 and we want it as fast as you can turn it out. 1368 01:46:54,450 --> 01:46:55,831 friend TRUMAN 1369 01:47:01,700 --> 01:47:04,576 I read an interview with Frank Sinatra... 1370 01:47:04,768 --> 01:47:07,453 in which he said about Judy Garland: 1371 01:47:07,684 --> 01:47:12,172 "Every time she sings, she dies a little." 1372 01:47:14,051 --> 01:47:16,391 That's how much she gave. 1373 01:47:19,652 --> 01:47:21,877 It's true for writers, too... 1374 01:47:23,066 --> 01:47:25,789 who hope to create something lasting. 1375 01:47:27,285 --> 01:47:29,855 They die a little getting it right. 1376 01:47:31,581 --> 01:47:34,113 And then the book comes out... 1377 01:47:36,031 --> 01:47:37,872 and there's a dinner. 1378 01:47:39,023 --> 01:47:41,248 Maybe they give you a prize. 1379 01:47:42,821 --> 01:47:46,772 And then comes the inevitable and very American question: 1380 01:47:46,963 --> 01:47:48,498 What's next? 1381 01:47:52,602 --> 01:47:54,866 But the next thing can be... 1382 01:47:58,433 --> 01:48:00,197 so hard... 1383 01:48:03,611 --> 01:48:06,220 because now you know what it demands. 1384 01:48:08,445 --> 01:48:09,902 Hi, Nelle. 1385 01:48:10,056 --> 01:48:14,122 I just began my novel and I had such a good morning writing... 1386 01:48:14,275 --> 01:48:16,270 that I want to celebrate. 1387 01:48:16,423 --> 01:48:18,265 Want to come to lunch? 1388 01:48:21,218 --> 01:48:24,441 No, honey, I don't care where. 1389 01:48:27,164 --> 01:48:30,348 Just someplace pretty where we can have fun... 1390 01:48:31,000 --> 01:48:32,880 and be ourselves.