1 00:00:14,318 --> 00:00:16,799 So what do we do now? 2 00:00:16,799 --> 00:00:18,105 We wait. 3 00:00:18,105 --> 00:00:20,759 If we see a duck, shoot. 4 00:00:20,759 --> 00:00:24,024 We'’re just going to hang out in an igloo all day and wait? 5 00:00:24,024 --> 00:00:26,156 It isn'’t an igloo, it'’s a blind. 6 00:00:26,156 --> 00:00:27,418 And, Tommy, quite frankly, 7 00:00:27,418 --> 00:00:30,117 for somebody who begged to come along, 8 00:00:30,117 --> 00:00:32,249 you'’ve done nothing but complain. 9 00:00:32,249 --> 00:00:33,250 I'’ve got good reason to complain. 10 00:00:33,250 --> 00:00:34,773 I'’m freezing my balls off. 11 00:00:34,773 --> 00:00:37,428 Oh, please. You should be happy there'’s no snow. 12 00:00:37,428 --> 00:00:40,170 [gasps] What the hell?! 13 00:00:40,170 --> 00:00:42,129 Look! 14 00:00:42,129 --> 00:00:44,870 HARRY: Oh, my God, it'’s a tiger. 15 00:00:44,870 --> 00:00:46,959 [gunshot]Hey! 16 00:00:46,959 --> 00:00:50,398 That I want on my wall.For God'’s sake, you can'’t shoot at that! 17 00:00:50,398 --> 00:00:52,661 Why the hell not? We'’re hunting. Tommy! 18 00:00:52,661 --> 00:00:55,533 Did you hit him?No. 19 00:00:55,533 --> 00:00:57,492 Tommy, you can'’t shoot the damn tiger. 20 00:00:57,492 --> 00:00:59,929 That thing probably escaped from that zoo or something. 21 00:00:59,929 --> 00:01:01,496 I thought they got them all. 22 00:01:01,496 --> 00:01:03,585 Well, clearly they didn'’t.[tiger snarls] 23 00:01:03,585 --> 00:01:06,675 No! 24 00:01:06,675 --> 00:01:09,112 I don'’t even see him anymore. He run off? 25 00:01:09,112 --> 00:01:10,809 He'’s probably in the bushes. 26 00:01:10,809 --> 00:01:12,115 Look, I'’m not going to hang out 27 00:01:12,115 --> 00:01:13,464 in an igloo all day, with frozen balls-- 28 00:01:13,464 --> 00:01:15,640 Come on, we got to go report this. 29 00:01:28,305 --> 00:01:30,873 You see the size of him, Harry? 30 00:01:30,873 --> 00:01:34,877 So majestic, so beautiful, so... 31 00:01:34,877 --> 00:01:37,532 Could you imagine the joy of slaying a beast like that? 32 00:01:37,532 --> 00:01:39,403 I'’ll take the duck. 33 00:01:39,403 --> 00:01:41,318 Put your safety on, cowboy. 34 00:01:43,581 --> 00:01:45,496 [knocking] 35 00:01:49,239 --> 00:01:50,458 Farmer'’s daughter? 36 00:01:50,458 --> 00:01:52,808 Can I help you?We'’re the hunters 37 00:01:52,808 --> 00:01:54,244 who leased your land through Hardy'’s. 38 00:01:54,244 --> 00:01:55,680 I imagine you heard the shots. 39 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,726 You know you got a tiger running loose out there? 40 00:01:57,726 --> 00:01:59,119 There'’s-- there'’s a tiger out there? 41 00:01:59,119 --> 00:02:00,424 Yeah, he'’s big. 42 00:02:00,424 --> 00:02:02,383 And he'’s not hawking frosted flakes. 43 00:02:02,383 --> 00:02:04,950 He'’s probably one of the escapees we'’ve been reading about, 44 00:02:04,950 --> 00:02:06,952 but he'’s a lot less dead than reported. 45 00:02:15,309 --> 00:02:17,311 It was about 11:30 or so. 46 00:02:17,311 --> 00:02:19,704 I'’d just gone to bed, when I heard a noise. 47 00:02:19,704 --> 00:02:21,010 And what happened next, Mr. Gerson? 48 00:02:21,010 --> 00:02:22,925 At first I thought maybe a raccoon 49 00:02:22,925 --> 00:02:25,536 had got into the kitchen through the doggie door. 50 00:02:25,536 --> 00:02:27,277 But it was no raccoon. 51 00:02:27,277 --> 00:02:28,931 It was a woman dressed in a costume. 52 00:02:28,931 --> 00:02:31,586 Do you see that woman in the courtroom today? 53 00:02:31,586 --> 00:02:33,022 I do. The defendant. 54 00:02:33,022 --> 00:02:35,807 Did she say what she was doing in your home? 55 00:02:35,807 --> 00:02:38,245 She didn'’t have to.I'’m calling the police. 56 00:02:43,598 --> 00:02:46,166 When I regained consciousness, I was in the hospital. 57 00:02:46,166 --> 00:02:50,170 Broken nose, broken jaw, fractured skull, broken ribs. 58 00:02:50,170 --> 00:02:53,173 And Mr. Gerson, are you absolutely sure 59 00:02:53,173 --> 00:02:55,610 that the woman who assaulted you in your home that evening 60 00:02:55,610 --> 00:02:59,179 is this woman sitting right here?I'’m absolutely sure. 61 00:02:59,179 --> 00:03:01,093 Thank you, sir. 62 00:03:08,318 --> 00:03:10,364 That'’s your wife?My ex-wife, yeah. 63 00:03:11,930 --> 00:03:13,454 This is before you beat her up? 64 00:03:15,325 --> 00:03:17,371 [murmuring] 65 00:03:18,633 --> 00:03:20,156 After. 66 00:03:22,027 --> 00:03:23,899 I dispute having done that. 67 00:03:23,899 --> 00:03:26,815 You were arrested for doing it.No. The charges were dropped. 68 00:03:26,815 --> 00:03:28,773 Because your wife refused to testify. 69 00:03:28,773 --> 00:03:31,080 Primarily because she was too afraid you'’d do it again. 70 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:32,429 Objection.JUDGE: Sustained. 71 00:03:32,429 --> 00:03:34,997 Look, I got into an argument with my ex-wife. 72 00:03:34,997 --> 00:03:37,434 It got physical. But I never did that. 73 00:03:37,434 --> 00:03:39,871 As far as I know she did it to herself to get me in trouble. 74 00:03:39,871 --> 00:03:41,786 She did that to herself? 75 00:03:44,136 --> 00:03:47,357 Got it. 76 00:04:02,154 --> 00:04:03,852 Excuse me. 77 00:04:03,852 --> 00:04:06,898 I don'’t mean to intrude, but aren'’t you a lawyer? 78 00:04:06,898 --> 00:04:09,336 Is it that obvious? 79 00:04:09,336 --> 00:04:10,772 Oh, I'’ve just seen you on television. 80 00:04:10,772 --> 00:04:12,295 What about me? 81 00:04:12,295 --> 00:04:13,905 Tommy Jefferson. 82 00:04:13,905 --> 00:04:15,864 Can I talk to you for a second? 83 00:04:15,864 --> 00:04:19,389 Um, actually, I'’m just here to shoot ducks. 84 00:04:19,389 --> 00:04:20,738 Please. 85 00:04:20,738 --> 00:04:22,610 It'’s really important. 86 00:04:23,654 --> 00:04:26,614 Oh, balls. 87 00:04:26,614 --> 00:04:30,922 I could be technically guilty, slightly, of kidnapping. 88 00:04:30,922 --> 00:04:33,360 Perhaps false imprisonment. 89 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,101 "Slightly kidnapping"? "False imprisonment"? 90 00:04:36,101 --> 00:04:38,539 Well, the truth is, he came to me. 91 00:04:38,539 --> 00:04:40,932 I just... I took him in. 92 00:04:43,152 --> 00:04:46,329 Okay... 93 00:04:46,329 --> 00:04:47,852 We'’ll go in. 94 00:04:47,852 --> 00:04:49,724 I'’ll close the door. 95 00:04:49,724 --> 00:04:51,334 You know, just in case. 96 00:04:51,334 --> 00:04:53,118 I-- I don'’t want to... 97 00:04:57,993 --> 00:05:00,648 This is kind of, um, 98 00:05:00,648 --> 00:05:02,389 a safe room. I don'’t normally... 99 00:05:04,695 --> 00:05:06,175 Hey, Wenty? 100 00:05:08,699 --> 00:05:11,485 Wenty, are you in there? 101 00:05:11,485 --> 00:05:12,529 [toilet flushing] 102 00:05:13,661 --> 00:05:15,489 He'’ll be right out. 103 00:05:19,188 --> 00:05:21,408 Hi, sweetie.HARRY: What the...? 104 00:05:21,408 --> 00:05:22,496 [gun cocking] 105 00:05:22,496 --> 00:05:25,934 [grunting] 106 00:05:25,934 --> 00:05:30,025 This is Harry and this is Tommy. 107 00:05:30,025 --> 00:05:32,462 Meet Wentworth Beaumont the Third. 108 00:05:32,462 --> 00:05:36,118 He'’s perfectly docile. I'’ve had him since... 109 00:05:37,293 --> 00:05:39,251 He just waved "hello," by the way. 110 00:05:39,251 --> 00:05:42,298 He knows some sign language and so do I. 111 00:05:42,298 --> 00:05:44,387 I'’m a speech pathologist by trade. 112 00:05:44,387 --> 00:05:46,520 He escaped with the other animals, 113 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,260 and it'’s been on the news 114 00:05:48,260 --> 00:05:50,045 that they'’re still looking for the gorilla. 115 00:05:50,045 --> 00:05:51,960 That would be him. 116 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,572 Oh, what'’s he doing?He'’s going to rub your palm. 117 00:05:55,572 --> 00:05:59,054 That'’s his way of introducing himself. 118 00:06:04,451 --> 00:06:06,757 Oh, gee. 119 00:06:06,757 --> 00:06:08,933 Okay, now you rub his. 120 00:06:08,933 --> 00:06:10,979 Really? 121 00:06:10,979 --> 00:06:14,112 I'’m so scared. 122 00:06:14,112 --> 00:06:15,592 He'’s an ape. 123 00:06:16,637 --> 00:06:18,334 Okay, here you go. 124 00:06:18,334 --> 00:06:20,423 He likes you. 125 00:06:20,423 --> 00:06:21,685 Oh, yeah. 126 00:06:23,252 --> 00:06:25,167 Oh, he says you'’re scared. 127 00:06:25,167 --> 00:06:28,257 Huh. He'’s a perceptive ape. 128 00:06:28,257 --> 00:06:31,086 Natalie, what is your end game here? 129 00:06:31,086 --> 00:06:34,611 This is a gorilla. 130 00:06:34,611 --> 00:06:38,702 Well, I'’m... I'’m not really sure. 131 00:06:38,702 --> 00:06:42,967 I think that my endgame is... is custody. 132 00:06:42,967 --> 00:06:45,143 Custody? 133 00:06:45,143 --> 00:06:48,233 I want him to go to a wildlife sanctuary, but in order for me 134 00:06:48,233 --> 00:06:50,148 to have any say, I need guardianship. 135 00:06:50,148 --> 00:06:53,021 And that'’s where I need you. 136 00:06:53,021 --> 00:06:56,633 I want you to help me adopt him. 137 00:07:05,903 --> 00:07:07,339 The ape doesn'’t belong to you. 138 00:07:07,339 --> 00:07:09,994 Well, the word "belong," that suggests property. 139 00:07:09,994 --> 00:07:11,822 And what I would want to do is establish 140 00:07:11,822 --> 00:07:14,521 personhood for him.Beg pardon? 141 00:07:14,521 --> 00:07:17,437 Many people-- anthropologists, legal scholars alike, 142 00:07:17,437 --> 00:07:20,091 they say that great apes should be given personhood. 143 00:07:20,091 --> 00:07:21,832 I'’ve done the research, 144 00:07:21,832 --> 00:07:24,356 and several European countries, they'’ve already done so. 145 00:07:24,356 --> 00:07:26,489 Yeah, but that'’s Europe. 146 00:07:26,489 --> 00:07:29,274 This is the United States of America. 147 00:07:29,274 --> 00:07:33,453 We'’re not as evolved as either Europe or, in some states, apes. 148 00:07:33,453 --> 00:07:37,369 He'’s actually been living here a month?In-In the barn. 149 00:07:37,369 --> 00:07:38,893 He just comes here during the day. 150 00:07:38,893 --> 00:07:42,331 Which is not ideal...This is a dangerous animal. 151 00:07:42,331 --> 00:07:44,333 You'’re risking your life here. 152 00:07:51,166 --> 00:07:53,864 I reported him to the police. 153 00:07:53,864 --> 00:07:55,431 They would supposedly arrest him, 154 00:07:55,431 --> 00:07:57,172 but then he'’d be out again, 155 00:07:57,172 --> 00:07:59,043 and he would just show up at my house. 156 00:07:59,043 --> 00:08:00,218 Your ex-husband. 157 00:08:00,218 --> 00:08:02,699 You people couldn'’t do anything. 158 00:08:02,699 --> 00:08:05,528 And at some point you contacted the defendant? 159 00:08:05,528 --> 00:08:08,400 Yes. She had a Web site I'’d heard about. 160 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,838 If the police couldn'’t help, she claimed she could. 161 00:08:10,838 --> 00:08:12,404 She called herself 162 00:08:12,404 --> 00:08:13,710 Wonder Woman. 163 00:08:13,710 --> 00:08:15,495 And I decided to meet with her. 164 00:08:17,279 --> 00:08:20,064 And what happened at that meeting? 165 00:08:20,064 --> 00:08:23,067 Well, basically, she told me she took care of abusive husbands. 166 00:08:23,067 --> 00:08:25,287 She gave me a cell number. 167 00:08:25,287 --> 00:08:27,724 When my ex-husband showed up one night 168 00:08:27,724 --> 00:08:30,205 like he would do when he was drunk, 169 00:08:30,205 --> 00:08:33,774 I called the police and I called her. 170 00:08:33,774 --> 00:08:35,340 She got there first. 171 00:08:35,340 --> 00:08:36,907 And what happened? 172 00:08:36,907 --> 00:08:38,779 She broke both his legs. 173 00:08:38,779 --> 00:08:41,912 Then she took his arm and she snapped that, too. 174 00:08:41,912 --> 00:08:44,349 I told him, next time, it would be his neck. 175 00:08:53,924 --> 00:08:56,536 Okay, turns out it'’s not as crazy as we might have thought. 176 00:08:56,536 --> 00:08:57,928 Some countries in Europe 177 00:08:57,928 --> 00:08:59,756 do allow personhood status for apes. 178 00:08:59,756 --> 00:09:01,802 Though I doubt it would fly here. 179 00:09:01,802 --> 00:09:04,108 What about this thing knowing sign language 180 00:09:04,108 --> 00:09:06,197 or using remotes to watch television? 181 00:09:06,197 --> 00:09:08,199 It'’s not uncommon. Some orangutans use iPads 182 00:09:08,199 --> 00:09:09,897 to video chat with orangutans in other zoos. 183 00:09:09,897 --> 00:09:12,073 Come on. Harry, they got an IQ of almost 90. 184 00:09:12,073 --> 00:09:15,293 I'’m not saying you can win, but you got a chance.Harry, you want to see me? 185 00:09:15,293 --> 00:09:19,254 See what else you can find in the way of legal precedents, could you? 186 00:09:19,254 --> 00:09:22,866 Cassie tells me your girl may even be more out there 187 00:09:22,866 --> 00:09:26,435 than advertized.At least she walks upright, as opposed to your client. 188 00:09:26,435 --> 00:09:28,176 Cute. She also mentioned 189 00:09:28,176 --> 00:09:30,047 that you'’re particularly close to this woman. 190 00:09:30,047 --> 00:09:32,180 Old friends. 191 00:09:32,180 --> 00:09:35,357 Uh-huh. If you can'’t see straight on this, 192 00:09:35,357 --> 00:09:37,402 maybe Cassie should first chair.I'’m seeing straight. 193 00:09:37,402 --> 00:09:38,882 I know what I'’m dealing with. 194 00:09:38,882 --> 00:09:41,189 Really? Really. 195 00:09:41,189 --> 00:09:44,496 Be careful, okay?Will do. 196 00:09:51,721 --> 00:09:53,767 A third of the women who are murdered, 197 00:09:53,767 --> 00:09:55,638 are murdered by an intimate partner. 198 00:09:55,638 --> 00:09:57,379 One in every four women 199 00:09:57,379 --> 00:10:00,295 will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. 200 00:10:00,295 --> 00:10:01,905 You'’ve researched this? Yes. 201 00:10:01,905 --> 00:10:04,168 And most DV incidents aren'’t reported. 202 00:10:04,168 --> 00:10:05,692 In fact, it'’s probably 203 00:10:05,692 --> 00:10:07,041 the most chronically under-reported crime. 204 00:10:07,041 --> 00:10:08,346 Why is that? 205 00:10:08,346 --> 00:10:09,652 Women are scared. 206 00:10:09,652 --> 00:10:11,872 And with good reason. 207 00:10:11,872 --> 00:10:15,223 It is incredibly difficult to get convictions. 208 00:10:15,223 --> 00:10:18,008 Most cases are dismissed before they ever get to trial. 209 00:10:18,008 --> 00:10:20,010 The victims are blamed. 210 00:10:20,010 --> 00:10:22,665 What'’s more, many of the women feel so hopeless, 211 00:10:22,665 --> 00:10:24,188 that they just take the abuse. 212 00:10:24,188 --> 00:10:26,451 This is why the law has been so anemic 213 00:10:26,451 --> 00:10:28,453 in dealing with the problem. 214 00:10:28,453 --> 00:10:29,629 So you decided to get involved. 215 00:10:29,629 --> 00:10:31,326 Yes. 216 00:10:31,326 --> 00:10:32,806 I decided to fill a void. 217 00:10:32,806 --> 00:10:35,896 You'’re a vigilante.Okay. 218 00:10:35,896 --> 00:10:38,376 And why Wonder Woman, Annie? 219 00:10:38,376 --> 00:10:40,422 It'’s a persona I retreat into 220 00:10:40,422 --> 00:10:44,339 that allows me to fight for the justice that needs fighting for. 221 00:10:44,339 --> 00:10:46,907 You realize that vigilantism is illegal. 222 00:10:46,907 --> 00:10:48,865 You can'’t just run around beating up people, 223 00:10:48,865 --> 00:10:50,388 even the bad ones. 224 00:10:50,388 --> 00:10:52,782 There are exceptions. Defense of others being one, 225 00:10:52,782 --> 00:10:54,741 necessity being another. 226 00:10:54,741 --> 00:10:57,221 It'’s either I beat the bad husbands, 227 00:10:57,221 --> 00:10:58,919 or they beat their wives. 228 00:10:58,919 --> 00:11:01,486 I would argue that I accomplish the lesser of the two evils. 229 00:11:01,486 --> 00:11:03,837 Okay. 230 00:11:03,837 --> 00:11:06,056 And what occasioned you to go into this line of work, 231 00:11:06,056 --> 00:11:07,579 if I may ask? 232 00:11:09,756 --> 00:11:12,323 We all have reasons for our various careers. 233 00:11:12,323 --> 00:11:13,455 Yeah. 234 00:11:13,455 --> 00:11:15,413 I'’m asking, what was yours? 235 00:11:19,940 --> 00:11:20,897 Ever married, Annie? 236 00:11:25,206 --> 00:11:28,035 Ms. Bilson... please answer the question. 237 00:11:28,035 --> 00:11:31,342 ADAM: Were you ever married? 238 00:11:31,342 --> 00:11:32,692 A while ago. 239 00:11:32,692 --> 00:11:35,825 It ended. 240 00:11:35,825 --> 00:11:37,348 Do you recall 241 00:11:37,348 --> 00:11:39,873 why it ended? 242 00:11:39,873 --> 00:11:42,092 Annie, why did your marriage end? 243 00:11:45,182 --> 00:11:46,793 He raped me. 244 00:11:46,793 --> 00:11:48,664 ADAM: Your husband raped you. 245 00:11:48,664 --> 00:11:50,666 He raped you once? 246 00:11:50,666 --> 00:11:52,668 No. 247 00:11:54,191 --> 00:11:56,150 Over and over. 248 00:12:05,333 --> 00:12:07,161 I told you not to go into that! 249 00:12:07,161 --> 00:12:08,597 I had to go into it. No! 250 00:12:08,597 --> 00:12:11,252 Annie, I need to present every legal defense. 251 00:12:11,252 --> 00:12:12,775 I am not a victim, Adam. 252 00:12:12,775 --> 00:12:14,124 And Wonder Woman...Yes, you are. 253 00:12:14,124 --> 00:12:15,865 No, I am not! Yes, you are! 254 00:12:15,865 --> 00:12:17,911 No, I am not! 255 00:12:17,911 --> 00:12:19,739 Okay, let'’s play nice here. 256 00:12:20,696 --> 00:12:22,480 Drinks later? 257 00:12:25,701 --> 00:12:27,007 You sure? 258 00:12:27,007 --> 00:12:28,356 She can totally take you. 259 00:12:34,318 --> 00:12:36,320 [sighs] 260 00:12:37,191 --> 00:12:39,889 Annie, you'’re ill. 261 00:12:39,889 --> 00:12:41,761 I'’m not ill. 262 00:12:43,066 --> 00:12:46,069 I protect people. 263 00:12:46,069 --> 00:12:47,505 CASSIE: You'’re looking at prison. 264 00:12:47,505 --> 00:12:49,812 We have to present all of your defense options. 265 00:12:49,812 --> 00:12:51,422 You have to let us do what we do. 266 00:12:53,424 --> 00:12:55,426 Let us be your lawyers here. 267 00:12:55,426 --> 00:12:58,690 Don'’t make us fight with our hands tied behind our backs. 268 00:13:14,968 --> 00:13:17,187 If you could'’ve seen her in high school... 269 00:13:17,187 --> 00:13:19,973 Annie Bilson was the one who had it all together. 270 00:13:19,973 --> 00:13:23,715 Beautiful, smart, star athlete, funny. 271 00:13:26,327 --> 00:13:28,111 She was... Wonder Woman. 272 00:13:31,941 --> 00:13:34,596 Guardianship of a gorilla? Are you serious? 273 00:13:34,596 --> 00:13:35,684 HORACE: A gorilla she stole. 274 00:13:35,684 --> 00:13:37,120 She did not steal him. 275 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:38,992 He escaped from a local zoo, 276 00:13:38,992 --> 00:13:41,603 he ventured onto her property, perhaps intuitively, 277 00:13:41,603 --> 00:13:43,605 since he...Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You are...? 278 00:13:43,605 --> 00:13:45,215 I'’m Mike Horace, Your Honor. 279 00:13:45,215 --> 00:13:48,131 I represent the Cincinnati Presbyterian Good Fellows Zoo. 280 00:13:48,131 --> 00:13:49,654 That'’s a lot of names. 281 00:13:49,654 --> 00:13:51,700 Well, my client owns this animal, 282 00:13:51,700 --> 00:13:54,398 and I would ask...That presumes the animal is capable of being owned. 283 00:13:54,398 --> 00:13:58,489 I would ask Your Honor to afford the gorilla 284 00:13:58,489 --> 00:14:00,709 the status of personhood for the sake of this proceeding. 285 00:14:03,451 --> 00:14:05,148 I'’m... is this a joke? 286 00:14:05,148 --> 00:14:08,848 Your Honor, I'’ve looked into this creature'’s eyes. 287 00:14:08,848 --> 00:14:11,502 Apes are a lot less inhuman than we would like to think. 288 00:14:11,502 --> 00:14:14,462 Our DNA and theirs is 98% a match. 289 00:14:14,462 --> 00:14:17,987 The gorilla we'’re talking about today uses in iPad. 290 00:14:17,987 --> 00:14:19,684 He knows sign language. 291 00:14:19,684 --> 00:14:22,209 He thinks. He reasons. He communicates... 292 00:14:22,209 --> 00:14:24,515 Counsel, counsel-- has any court in this country 293 00:14:24,515 --> 00:14:26,517 granted personhood status to an ape? 294 00:14:26,517 --> 00:14:28,519 No. But other countries have. 295 00:14:28,519 --> 00:14:30,434 And here at home, the Great Ape Protection Act 296 00:14:30,434 --> 00:14:33,263 was reintroduced to Congress in 2011. 297 00:14:33,263 --> 00:14:35,613 The day is coming, Your Honor. 298 00:14:35,613 --> 00:14:37,006 There'’s a qualitative shift happening 299 00:14:37,006 --> 00:14:39,617 in the way we view the animal world, 300 00:14:39,617 --> 00:14:41,706 especially when it comes to apes. 301 00:14:45,058 --> 00:14:49,323 Your Honor, I, too, looked into the eyes of this beast, 302 00:14:49,323 --> 00:14:51,107 and I felt a kinship. 303 00:14:52,674 --> 00:14:54,328 How about you hear from our client, Natalie Dupree, 304 00:14:54,328 --> 00:14:57,157 who'’s been living with this beast for the last month. 305 00:14:57,157 --> 00:14:58,680 Ms. Dupree does not have any 306 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:00,116 standing to assert... HARRY: She has foundation. 307 00:15:00,116 --> 00:15:02,336 She studied primatology in college, 308 00:15:02,336 --> 00:15:05,078 she'’s been the primary caretaker of this gorilla. 309 00:15:05,078 --> 00:15:06,862 If we'’re to consider the best interest of the ape, 310 00:15:06,862 --> 00:15:08,429 which I would submit we should, 311 00:15:08,429 --> 00:15:10,692 Natalie is uniquely qualified to bear witness on that. 312 00:15:10,692 --> 00:15:12,433 This woman committed a theft. 313 00:15:12,433 --> 00:15:15,827 And-and we'’re to reward her by giving her a day in court? 314 00:15:15,827 --> 00:15:17,612 This isn'’t about her. It'’s about the ape. 315 00:15:17,612 --> 00:15:20,267 All right. Where is this animal now? 316 00:15:20,267 --> 00:15:22,269 At my client'’s farm.That'’s not gonna fly. 317 00:15:22,269 --> 00:15:24,445 I'’m gonna hear from your witness, but in the meantime, 318 00:15:24,445 --> 00:15:26,055 the gorilla goes back to the zoo. 319 00:15:26,055 --> 00:15:27,622 That'’s all. 320 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:33,933 Are you Wonder Woman, Ms. Bilson? 321 00:15:35,891 --> 00:15:37,327 Did you not hear my question? 322 00:15:37,327 --> 00:15:39,590 Are you Wonder Woman? 323 00:15:39,590 --> 00:15:42,550 Wonder Woman is an alter-ego I assume to fight for justice. 324 00:15:42,550 --> 00:15:44,813 And once I assume that persona, 325 00:15:44,813 --> 00:15:46,336 I am her, yes. 326 00:15:46,336 --> 00:15:47,729 RADAN: You are her. 327 00:15:47,729 --> 00:15:50,427 You know, I grew up watching Wonder Woman. 328 00:15:50,427 --> 00:15:53,256 In fact, she was probably my favorite superhero. 329 00:15:53,256 --> 00:15:55,302 I used to love the way 330 00:15:55,302 --> 00:15:57,260 that she would stop bullets with those silver bracelets. 331 00:15:57,260 --> 00:15:58,261 Can you do that? 332 00:15:58,261 --> 00:16:00,524 No, I cannot stop bullets. 333 00:16:00,524 --> 00:16:01,786 How about the lasso of truth? 334 00:16:01,786 --> 00:16:03,832 Do you have one of those lasso thingies? 335 00:16:03,832 --> 00:16:05,225 No. 336 00:16:05,225 --> 00:16:07,357 Fly around in an invisible plane? 337 00:16:08,968 --> 00:16:13,102 I will admit, you do look a bit like her. 338 00:16:13,102 --> 00:16:15,322 In fact, in the costume, from the pictures I'’ve seen, 339 00:16:15,322 --> 00:16:17,411 you look fantastic. And that'’s the point, 340 00:16:17,411 --> 00:16:19,413 isn'’t it, Ms. Bilson? You look so great, 341 00:16:19,413 --> 00:16:22,590 you'’re kind of fun; you'’re like a folk hero of sorts. 342 00:16:22,590 --> 00:16:24,635 One can almost lose sight of the fact 343 00:16:24,635 --> 00:16:28,248 that you are a barbaric vigilante who tortures people. 344 00:16:28,248 --> 00:16:29,510 I fight for justice. 345 00:16:29,510 --> 00:16:31,338 Justice. 346 00:16:36,952 --> 00:16:38,649 RADAN: Wow. 347 00:16:38,649 --> 00:16:40,869 New face of justice, is it? 348 00:16:42,349 --> 00:16:45,004 There is a Good Samaritan Act in Ohio, which... 349 00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:46,266 RADAN: ...which requires people 350 00:16:46,266 --> 00:16:49,008 to sometimes report an ongoing crime... 351 00:16:49,008 --> 00:16:50,748 Domestic abuse is an ongoing crime....but not right it. 352 00:16:50,748 --> 00:16:52,011 And typically, it'’s chronic. 353 00:16:52,011 --> 00:16:53,403 A citizen does not have the right to use 354 00:16:53,403 --> 00:16:55,101 deadly violence to prevent future crimes. 355 00:16:55,101 --> 00:16:57,668 So who saves these victimized women, then? You? The police? 356 00:16:57,668 --> 00:16:59,496 '’Cause you'’re certainly doing a lousy job of it. 357 00:16:59,496 --> 00:17:00,671 So people should just get the right 358 00:17:00,671 --> 00:17:02,369 to dress up as superheroes? 359 00:17:02,369 --> 00:17:04,327 You think domestic violence only happens in the ghettos, 360 00:17:04,327 --> 00:17:06,851 or with rednecks, or felons. It happens everywhere. 361 00:17:06,851 --> 00:17:09,202 To CEOs, even. It is a widespread, 362 00:17:09,202 --> 00:17:10,420 pervasive problem.Ms. Bilson... 363 00:17:10,420 --> 00:17:12,118 I'’m talking. It happens in secret, 364 00:17:12,118 --> 00:17:14,424 which makes it so difficult to root out. 365 00:17:14,424 --> 00:17:16,078 And that is why I am here today.Counsel... 366 00:17:16,078 --> 00:17:17,471 Annie! I'’m talking! 367 00:17:17,471 --> 00:17:19,647 Ms. Bilson, I'’m going to ask you, please, 368 00:17:19,647 --> 00:17:20,952 to contain yourself. 369 00:17:20,952 --> 00:17:22,954 Can you do that? 370 00:17:24,173 --> 00:17:26,132 [sighs] 371 00:17:29,004 --> 00:17:32,312 Hundreds of thousands of women are battered, 372 00:17:32,312 --> 00:17:34,792 afraid to come forward. 373 00:17:34,792 --> 00:17:36,272 And that'’s why I... 374 00:17:40,537 --> 00:17:43,497 ...weneed Wonder Woman. 375 00:18:00,644 --> 00:18:04,083 It'’s just going to be for a short time, Wentworth. 376 00:18:04,083 --> 00:18:06,433 Okay? We'’re going to get you out. 377 00:18:06,433 --> 00:18:10,132 But you need to go back, just for a short time. 378 00:18:10,132 --> 00:18:12,003 Okay? 379 00:18:24,755 --> 00:18:27,889 Everything will be okay. 380 00:18:27,889 --> 00:18:29,891 It'’s gonna be okay. 381 00:18:29,891 --> 00:18:31,371 We'’re gonna fight for you. We'’re gonna... 382 00:18:32,676 --> 00:18:37,028 Fight. And everything'’ll be... okay. 383 00:18:43,905 --> 00:18:45,254 [grunts softly] 384 00:18:47,865 --> 00:18:48,910 [grunts] 385 00:18:51,739 --> 00:18:53,175 [groans] 386 00:18:59,442 --> 00:19:01,401 [grunts] 387 00:19:16,459 --> 00:19:18,418 How so? Well... 388 00:19:18,418 --> 00:19:21,334 she knows she can'’t fly around and stop bullets. 389 00:19:21,334 --> 00:19:24,163 She knows she'’s not some immortal Amazon, 390 00:19:24,163 --> 00:19:26,121 born and raised on an all-woman island. 391 00:19:26,121 --> 00:19:28,297 It'’s as if she'’s chosen 392 00:19:28,297 --> 00:19:30,778 to retreat into this persona. 393 00:19:30,778 --> 00:19:32,954 And once in it, she takes on... 394 00:19:32,954 --> 00:19:34,912 [sighs] 395 00:19:34,912 --> 00:19:37,480 Well... truthfully, I'’ve never seen anything quite like it. 396 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:39,352 Let'’s cut to the chase. 397 00:19:39,352 --> 00:19:41,615 Do you think that she voluntarily committed 398 00:19:41,615 --> 00:19:42,616 these acts against men? 399 00:19:42,616 --> 00:19:45,488 Not truly voluntarily, no. 400 00:19:45,488 --> 00:19:48,404 I think she'’s driven by an intense need 401 00:19:48,404 --> 00:19:49,840 to fight for these victims. 402 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,191 Annie Bilson has a tremendous amount of rage 403 00:19:52,191 --> 00:19:54,193 inside her, because of her own history. 404 00:19:54,193 --> 00:19:59,372 She processes her anger through this superhero persona. 405 00:19:59,372 --> 00:20:01,678 It'’s a way she empowers herself. 406 00:20:01,678 --> 00:20:04,028 For the first few years she got free of her husband, 407 00:20:04,028 --> 00:20:05,508 she was completely dysfunctional. 408 00:20:05,508 --> 00:20:07,945 She couldn'’t work, couldn'’t much sleep. 409 00:20:07,945 --> 00:20:10,687 The idea of intimacy was... 410 00:20:10,687 --> 00:20:13,473 Once she started taking on the attributes of Wonder Woman, 411 00:20:13,473 --> 00:20:16,824 she now has a high-level job at a software company, 412 00:20:16,824 --> 00:20:18,956 she enjoys successful social relationships. 413 00:20:18,956 --> 00:20:21,524 She also has her sense of humor back. It'’s been... 414 00:20:21,524 --> 00:20:23,657 incredible. 415 00:20:23,657 --> 00:20:26,355 It'’s... it'’s been extremely healthy. 416 00:20:26,355 --> 00:20:29,184 At least... for her. 417 00:20:29,184 --> 00:20:32,056 But she knowingly retreats into this persona. 418 00:20:32,056 --> 00:20:34,058 Right? That'’s hard to tell. 419 00:20:34,058 --> 00:20:35,799 Well, you testified she makes a choice. 420 00:20:35,799 --> 00:20:38,454 She'’s a bit on autopilot. She dissociates. 421 00:20:38,454 --> 00:20:40,978 It'’s an out-of-body experience. 422 00:20:40,978 --> 00:20:43,198 In the moment that she confronts these wife-beaters, 423 00:20:43,198 --> 00:20:46,680 she is acting out her own uncontrollable rage. 424 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:48,551 And you'’ve told her this during your treatment? 425 00:20:48,551 --> 00:20:49,900 I have. 426 00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:51,728 Have you suggested, perhaps, some medication 427 00:20:51,728 --> 00:20:53,164 that could prevent her from 428 00:20:53,164 --> 00:20:55,254 going into what you call autopilot? 429 00:20:55,254 --> 00:20:56,733 I have. She doesn'’t want it. 430 00:20:56,733 --> 00:20:58,431 And this refusal to take medication-- 431 00:20:58,431 --> 00:21:01,390 that would be a voluntary choice she'’s made? 432 00:21:01,390 --> 00:21:04,393 That decision would be voluntary, yes. 433 00:21:04,393 --> 00:21:05,829 RADAN: Huh. 434 00:21:05,829 --> 00:21:08,832 Thank you, Doctor. 435 00:21:13,794 --> 00:21:16,753 Well, I had just come home from work. 436 00:21:16,753 --> 00:21:19,626 I had some groceries in my hand, 437 00:21:19,626 --> 00:21:23,456 and I got this feeling, like I was being watched. 438 00:21:23,456 --> 00:21:25,109 And I looked over at the hedges 439 00:21:25,109 --> 00:21:27,024 and there were these big eyes 440 00:21:27,024 --> 00:21:30,071 sort of peering out at me. 441 00:21:30,071 --> 00:21:31,246 Were you frightened? 442 00:21:31,246 --> 00:21:32,726 Of course I was. 443 00:21:32,726 --> 00:21:33,727 There was a gorilla in the bushes. 444 00:21:33,727 --> 00:21:35,903 I was scared to death. 445 00:21:35,903 --> 00:21:36,947 And then... 446 00:21:36,947 --> 00:21:38,601 he came walking out. 447 00:21:38,601 --> 00:21:42,039 TOMMY: At you? Very tentatively. 448 00:21:42,039 --> 00:21:44,694 I could see that either he was afraid himself, 449 00:21:44,694 --> 00:21:47,915 or that he somehow was sensitive to my fear. 450 00:21:47,915 --> 00:21:50,047 That'’s what I remember being struck by first, 451 00:21:50,047 --> 00:21:54,400 was his powers of perception, if not empathy. 452 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,228 So then what happened-- after he came out of the bushes? 453 00:21:57,228 --> 00:22:00,014 Well, he kept walking forward. 454 00:22:00,014 --> 00:22:03,496 And from his body language, I could tell that, 455 00:22:03,496 --> 00:22:06,325 like I said earlier, that somehow he sensed I was afraid. 456 00:22:06,325 --> 00:22:09,415 And so he took my hand, 457 00:22:09,415 --> 00:22:14,115 ever so gently, and he caressed my palm, 458 00:22:14,115 --> 00:22:17,553 like what he did with you and Harry. 459 00:22:18,728 --> 00:22:20,426 And then... 460 00:22:20,426 --> 00:22:22,732 then he signed "hello." 461 00:22:22,732 --> 00:22:25,387 I think I gasped. 462 00:22:25,387 --> 00:22:26,649 This was-- this was like 463 00:22:26,649 --> 00:22:28,608 straight out of a Disney movie. 464 00:22:28,608 --> 00:22:33,177 So Ms. Dupree, where did you think this ape had come from? 465 00:22:33,177 --> 00:22:35,963 I'’d seen the reports on the news about the zoo escape, 466 00:22:35,963 --> 00:22:38,139 so I knew that his name was Wentworth, 467 00:22:38,139 --> 00:22:40,010 that he was very docile. 468 00:22:40,010 --> 00:22:42,448 TOMMY: Now I understand you brought along some video. 469 00:22:42,448 --> 00:22:44,406 Yeah, I did. Just a little footage, 470 00:22:44,406 --> 00:22:46,887 just to give you an idea.I'’m going to roll it, 471 00:22:46,887 --> 00:22:49,411 and then you can tell us what we'’re seeing.Okay. 472 00:22:49,411 --> 00:22:51,587 So I brought him an iPad 473 00:22:51,587 --> 00:22:55,025 '’cause I'’d read the chimpanzees and orangutans were using them. 474 00:22:55,025 --> 00:22:57,724 [loud snap]And that'’s what he did to the first one. 475 00:22:57,724 --> 00:22:58,986 [growls] 476 00:22:58,986 --> 00:23:00,335 But then, a day later... 477 00:23:00,335 --> 00:23:03,599 he'’s doing puzzles and finger painting. 478 00:23:05,993 --> 00:23:06,994 Ms. Dupree, you haven'’t manipulated 479 00:23:06,994 --> 00:23:08,256 this footage in any way? 480 00:23:08,256 --> 00:23:10,084 Judge, orangutans are using these things 481 00:23:10,084 --> 00:23:13,827 to video chat with other orangutans 482 00:23:13,827 --> 00:23:14,697 in different zoos. 483 00:23:14,697 --> 00:23:18,527 Oh, he likes opera. 484 00:23:18,527 --> 00:23:21,617 How smart, in human terms, would you say he is? 485 00:23:21,617 --> 00:23:23,619 I would say he'’s the equivalent 486 00:23:23,619 --> 00:23:26,448 to a two or three-year-old child. 487 00:23:26,448 --> 00:23:29,756 Oh, and I-- I probably should'’ve edited this out, 488 00:23:29,756 --> 00:23:31,888 but it gives you a sense. 489 00:23:31,888 --> 00:23:34,064 He wasn'’t toilet trained at the zoo, by the way. 490 00:23:34,064 --> 00:23:35,762 He learned that in two days. 491 00:23:36,632 --> 00:23:38,678 Peoplemagazine. 492 00:23:40,462 --> 00:23:44,988 You have reason to think he'’s been mistreated at the zoo? 493 00:23:44,988 --> 00:23:48,078 Yes. Yes, he'’s the only gorilla there. 494 00:23:48,078 --> 00:23:49,297 That'’s mistreatment? 495 00:23:49,297 --> 00:23:52,082 In the wild, gorillas lead 496 00:23:52,082 --> 00:23:53,432 extremely social lives. 497 00:23:53,432 --> 00:23:54,911 They have friends, they have family. 498 00:23:54,911 --> 00:23:57,740 They love, they laugh, and they'’re active. 499 00:23:57,740 --> 00:23:59,002 In your zoo, 500 00:23:59,002 --> 00:24:01,309 he sits alone all day and does nothing. 501 00:24:01,309 --> 00:24:03,877 But he could never be set free. 502 00:24:03,877 --> 00:24:05,487 He doesn'’t have the skill set 503 00:24:05,487 --> 00:24:08,272 to survive in the wild. 504 00:24:08,272 --> 00:24:10,013 Yeah, but there are sanctuaries, 505 00:24:10,013 --> 00:24:12,102 there are other zoos where there'’s other gorillas. 506 00:24:12,102 --> 00:24:14,888 At least he'’d have some sort of social and emotional life. 507 00:24:14,888 --> 00:24:16,846 I'’m sorry, but it'’s cruel 508 00:24:16,846 --> 00:24:19,501 to stick him in isolated captivity 509 00:24:19,501 --> 00:24:21,198 in Cincinnati Presbyterian. 510 00:24:21,198 --> 00:24:23,157 Because he can use an iPad? 511 00:24:23,157 --> 00:24:25,202 No, because it'’s inhumane. 512 00:24:25,202 --> 00:24:28,249 He has an IQ of almost 90, for God'’s sake. 513 00:24:28,249 --> 00:24:32,732 But where do we draw the line? Dogs-- especially service dogs-- 514 00:24:32,732 --> 00:24:34,081 have displayed extraordinary intelligence. 515 00:24:34,081 --> 00:24:36,736 Should we grant them personhood status? 516 00:24:36,736 --> 00:24:38,259 What about ducks? 517 00:24:38,259 --> 00:24:39,956 I'’ve been told ducks are smart. 518 00:24:39,956 --> 00:24:42,742 You lease your property out to shoot ducks, right? 519 00:24:42,742 --> 00:24:47,094 Isn'’t that how you first met Ms. Korn, and Mr. Jefferson? 520 00:24:47,094 --> 00:24:49,662 Look, I'’m not an animal activist. 521 00:24:49,662 --> 00:24:53,187 I eat meat, I wear leather and yes, 522 00:24:53,187 --> 00:24:54,754 yes, I make a little money 523 00:24:54,754 --> 00:24:56,886 leasing my land out to duck hunters. 524 00:24:56,886 --> 00:24:58,888 But this case 525 00:24:58,888 --> 00:25:01,891 is about great apes. They'’re different. 526 00:25:01,891 --> 00:25:05,199 We use apes for biomedical research. 527 00:25:05,199 --> 00:25:07,984 Are you against that?100%. 528 00:25:07,984 --> 00:25:09,508 Children dying of leukemia-- 529 00:25:09,508 --> 00:25:11,248 this research could cure them. 530 00:25:11,248 --> 00:25:14,643 But you say, no, better the ape be happy. 531 00:25:15,514 --> 00:25:16,863 Mr. Horace, if you want 532 00:25:16,863 --> 00:25:19,866 to make the argument that sacrificing an ape 533 00:25:19,866 --> 00:25:23,739 is worth saving a child, then go on ahead, 534 00:25:23,739 --> 00:25:26,046 but that'’s not what we'’re talking about, 535 00:25:26,046 --> 00:25:28,091 are we? 536 00:25:28,091 --> 00:25:30,920 We'’re talking about the cruel and abusive treatment 537 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,748 of sticking an intelligent being 538 00:25:32,748 --> 00:25:35,185 in a zoo and charging people admission 539 00:25:35,185 --> 00:25:37,013 for entertainment. 540 00:25:37,013 --> 00:25:41,235 And last time I checked, that did not cure leukemia. 541 00:25:41,235 --> 00:25:42,584 But it'’s an animal, 542 00:25:42,584 --> 00:25:44,020 and you'’ve come into this court 543 00:25:44,020 --> 00:25:47,763 asking the court to treat him as a person. 544 00:25:47,763 --> 00:25:50,026 Now if we actually do that, what do we say 545 00:25:50,026 --> 00:25:51,854 to the next guy out there 546 00:25:51,854 --> 00:25:54,553 who happens to love dolphins? 547 00:26:02,648 --> 00:26:05,346 She severely beat three men. 548 00:26:05,346 --> 00:26:07,957 Almost killed a fourth. 549 00:26:07,957 --> 00:26:11,352 Broken bones, fractured skulls, 550 00:26:11,352 --> 00:26:13,572 serious bodily injuries. 551 00:26:13,572 --> 00:26:17,576 In the movies, we love vigilantes-- 552 00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:20,448 Batman, Wonder Woman. 553 00:26:20,448 --> 00:26:22,798 Buford Pusser in Walking Tall-- 554 00:26:22,798 --> 00:26:25,758 I think he was my favorite. 555 00:26:25,758 --> 00:26:29,283 He would take his home-made bat to the heads of very bad people. 556 00:26:29,283 --> 00:26:30,632 It was visceral. 557 00:26:30,632 --> 00:26:32,678 It was vengeance. 558 00:26:32,678 --> 00:26:34,680 It was justice. 559 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:40,686 In real life, vigilantism is against the law. 560 00:26:40,686 --> 00:26:42,992 No matter how hot you look in the outfit. 561 00:26:42,992 --> 00:26:45,125 And even if we were to believe the doctor 562 00:26:45,125 --> 00:26:49,085 who said the defendant would lose herself in this superhero, 563 00:26:49,085 --> 00:26:51,827 the fact is, she knew she was prone to doing it. 564 00:26:51,827 --> 00:26:54,613 She refused medication 565 00:26:54,613 --> 00:26:58,094 and willfully, voluntarily kept doing it. 566 00:26:58,094 --> 00:26:59,966 That'’s the same as knowingly taking a pill 567 00:26:59,966 --> 00:27:01,750 that makes your crazy homicidal. 568 00:27:01,750 --> 00:27:05,798 She made a sane, conscious choice 569 00:27:05,798 --> 00:27:07,451 to become this deadly character. 570 00:27:07,451 --> 00:27:10,280 And that is reckless disregard for human life. 571 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,327 And diminished capacity is no defense. 572 00:27:15,416 --> 00:27:18,549 I feel for Annie Bilson. 573 00:27:18,549 --> 00:27:22,379 She was a victim of horrible domestic violence. 574 00:27:22,379 --> 00:27:25,208 Rape. 575 00:27:25,208 --> 00:27:28,124 And God knows it is an underreported epidemic 576 00:27:28,124 --> 00:27:31,867 that happens in every town, in every state. 577 00:27:31,867 --> 00:27:35,915 I'’d love to pick up Buford Pusser'’s bat myself... 578 00:27:37,525 --> 00:27:39,396 ...but I don'’t. 579 00:27:39,396 --> 00:27:45,228 Because our best defense against these crimes and others 580 00:27:45,228 --> 00:27:47,666 is to cling to the notion-- 581 00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:49,319 our most cherished principle, in fact-- 582 00:27:49,319 --> 00:27:54,063 that we are a nation of law and order. 583 00:27:57,545 --> 00:27:59,982 ADAM: I knew Annie Bilson in high school. 584 00:27:59,982 --> 00:28:04,900 Outgoing, bright, a smile for everybody. 585 00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:07,947 A generous, charitable heart. 586 00:28:07,947 --> 00:28:10,123 [chuckling]: I had the biggest crush on her. 587 00:28:15,041 --> 00:28:16,869 [voice breaking]: Then something happened to her. 588 00:28:16,869 --> 00:28:20,916 Sorry. [clearing throat] 589 00:28:20,916 --> 00:28:23,005 I didn'’t see that coming. 590 00:28:23,005 --> 00:28:25,312 Uh, she was raped. 591 00:28:25,312 --> 00:28:27,880 Repeatedly. 592 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,013 Beaten by the man she married 593 00:28:31,013 --> 00:28:33,059 and loved. 594 00:28:34,756 --> 00:28:36,845 It left her... 595 00:28:36,845 --> 00:28:39,239 Well, I'’d say, "you can imagine," 596 00:28:39,239 --> 00:28:41,589 but you probably cannot. 597 00:28:41,589 --> 00:28:46,159 After being rendered dysfunctional for a few years, 598 00:28:46,159 --> 00:28:48,596 emotionally lobotomized, 599 00:28:48,596 --> 00:28:50,293 she finally decided to seek haven 600 00:28:50,293 --> 00:28:53,209 inside the persona of a childhood role model. 601 00:28:53,209 --> 00:28:55,472 And she opted to process her anger in a way 602 00:28:55,472 --> 00:28:56,865 that might help other victims. 603 00:28:56,865 --> 00:28:58,649 As the District Attorney states, 604 00:28:58,649 --> 00:29:01,043 domestic violence is epidemic. 605 00:29:01,043 --> 00:29:03,959 One-third of all female homicide victims are murdered 606 00:29:03,959 --> 00:29:06,570 by an intimate partner-- a third. 607 00:29:06,570 --> 00:29:09,791 One in every four women are victims of domestic violence. 608 00:29:09,791 --> 00:29:10,923 That'’s hard to fathom. 609 00:29:10,923 --> 00:29:12,402 And we can'’t seem to stop it. 610 00:29:14,013 --> 00:29:17,190 Annie was raped. She didn'’t leave. 611 00:29:17,190 --> 00:29:21,237 She was raped again. She didn'’t leave. 612 00:29:21,237 --> 00:29:24,893 Ms. Radan showed you pictures of the men she attacked. 613 00:29:24,893 --> 00:29:26,677 Have you seen the pictures of Annie? 614 00:29:40,213 --> 00:29:41,867 Her husband did that. 615 00:29:46,654 --> 00:29:49,309 I realize we can'’t have people running around pretending 616 00:29:49,309 --> 00:29:50,614 to be superheroes. 617 00:29:50,614 --> 00:29:53,008 And Annie needs to stop. 618 00:29:53,008 --> 00:29:56,055 But the goal today should not be so much 619 00:29:56,055 --> 00:29:58,840 to punish her, as to get her help. 620 00:30:02,670 --> 00:30:07,240 I, uh, I admit I'’m biased here. 621 00:30:10,591 --> 00:30:11,984 I asked her to the prom. 622 00:30:11,984 --> 00:30:13,333 She, uh... 623 00:30:19,992 --> 00:30:22,342 I wish you knew her like I... 624 00:30:25,388 --> 00:30:28,957 She got a little lost helping defenseless women 625 00:30:28,957 --> 00:30:32,047 who so desperately needed help. 626 00:30:32,047 --> 00:30:35,050 Today, uh... 627 00:30:35,050 --> 00:30:37,836 I guess she needs a little help from you. 628 00:30:56,811 --> 00:31:00,728 The DA has offered three years at Summit. 629 00:31:00,728 --> 00:31:03,078 You wouldn'’t even have to go to prison. 630 00:31:03,078 --> 00:31:04,601 A psych ward?! 631 00:31:04,601 --> 00:31:06,603 We think you should take it. 632 00:31:06,603 --> 00:31:09,345 Well, talk about a fall from grace. 633 00:31:09,345 --> 00:31:11,957 Going from Wonder Woman to mentally ill. 634 00:31:14,568 --> 00:31:16,352 Annie, you are ill. 635 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:18,964 We don'’t want to risk prison. 636 00:31:18,964 --> 00:31:22,097 And you don'’t think I might be acquitted? 637 00:31:22,097 --> 00:31:25,753 You might be, but under the law... 638 00:31:25,753 --> 00:31:27,755 We don'’t want to risk it. 639 00:31:27,755 --> 00:31:30,192 You could be looking at six years of hard time 640 00:31:30,192 --> 00:31:32,151 with no promise of treatment, which... 641 00:31:34,327 --> 00:31:36,111 Just take the deal. 642 00:31:40,855 --> 00:31:43,466 And I would have to give up being Wonder Woman? 643 00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:49,081 Look, with the doctors'’ help, 644 00:31:49,081 --> 00:31:51,822 you can get back to being Annie Bilson full-time. 645 00:31:51,822 --> 00:31:54,564 Let'’s take the deal. 646 00:31:54,564 --> 00:31:56,915 We need to, honey. 647 00:31:56,915 --> 00:31:59,613 Prison is... 648 00:31:59,613 --> 00:32:01,310 We don'’t want to risk that. 649 00:32:15,890 --> 00:32:19,589 Look, uh, my client, too, loves this animal. 650 00:32:19,589 --> 00:32:22,679 And not just because people pay admission to see him. 651 00:32:22,679 --> 00:32:24,203 But he is an animal. 652 00:32:24,203 --> 00:32:26,248 To somehow call him a person, 653 00:32:26,248 --> 00:32:28,642 even for the sake of a legal proceeding... 654 00:32:28,642 --> 00:32:30,470 why? 655 00:32:30,470 --> 00:32:33,386 Because, uh, he'’s pretty smart? 656 00:32:33,386 --> 00:32:34,865 A lot of animals are. 657 00:32:34,865 --> 00:32:36,867 Dolphins, dogs. 658 00:32:36,867 --> 00:32:38,695 Because it feels emotions? 659 00:32:38,695 --> 00:32:40,697 Well, so do elephants. 660 00:32:40,697 --> 00:32:44,614 Elephants will mourn the loss of family members for years. 661 00:32:44,614 --> 00:32:46,965 Like it or not, we do 662 00:32:46,965 --> 00:32:48,923 practice speciesism. 663 00:32:48,923 --> 00:32:51,795 We eat animals because they taste good. 664 00:32:51,795 --> 00:32:55,756 We kill them for clothing, sometimes vanity. 665 00:32:55,756 --> 00:32:57,497 We use them for medical testing. 666 00:32:57,497 --> 00:32:58,802 We whip their behinds 667 00:32:58,802 --> 00:33:01,153 coming down the home stretch. 668 00:33:01,153 --> 00:33:04,112 We coop them up, and we own them. 669 00:33:04,112 --> 00:33:05,418 We own them. 670 00:33:05,418 --> 00:33:06,810 Under the law, 671 00:33:06,810 --> 00:33:09,161 these animals are considered property, 672 00:33:09,161 --> 00:33:11,598 Under the law, this animal is the property 673 00:33:11,598 --> 00:33:14,775 of the Cincinnati Presbyterian Good Fellows Zoo. 674 00:33:14,775 --> 00:33:18,126 It'’s as simple as that. 675 00:33:18,126 --> 00:33:19,954 HARRY: Well, I'’m glad you 676 00:33:19,954 --> 00:33:22,435 called it for what it is: speciesism. 677 00:33:22,435 --> 00:33:24,219 '’Cause that'’s what it is. 678 00:33:25,351 --> 00:33:27,483 Following Mr. Horace'’s logic-- 679 00:33:27,483 --> 00:33:30,269 suppose a being from another planet showed up, 680 00:33:30,269 --> 00:33:32,314 IQ of 300, 681 00:33:32,314 --> 00:33:34,882 had the wherewithal to reverse climate change 682 00:33:34,882 --> 00:33:36,971 and told really funny jokes. 683 00:33:36,971 --> 00:33:39,843 I mean, he'’d get no rights here '’cause he'’s nonhuman? 684 00:33:39,843 --> 00:33:41,149 We could just 685 00:33:41,149 --> 00:33:42,933 throw him in a zoo and charge admission? 686 00:33:42,933 --> 00:33:44,109 I don'’t think that'’s 687 00:33:44,109 --> 00:33:45,110 what any of us want. 688 00:33:45,110 --> 00:33:46,676 And yet, 689 00:33:46,676 --> 00:33:49,027 under Mr. Horace'’s argument, the law is the law. 690 00:33:50,289 --> 00:33:53,118 Your Honor, the law evolves as we learn. 691 00:33:53,118 --> 00:33:55,381 Always has. 692 00:33:55,381 --> 00:33:57,992 I understand there'’s a slippery slope problem. 693 00:33:57,992 --> 00:34:01,169 Today it'’s a gorilla; next it'’s a dolphin. 694 00:34:01,169 --> 00:34:02,997 Soon people will be trying to stop me 695 00:34:02,997 --> 00:34:04,172 from shooting a lousy duck. 696 00:34:04,172 --> 00:34:05,478 Which I look forward to. 697 00:34:05,478 --> 00:34:06,609 I like shooting ducks. 698 00:34:08,655 --> 00:34:11,353 I don'’t know where we draw the line here. 699 00:34:11,353 --> 00:34:15,749 But if we have a being of real intelligence, 700 00:34:15,749 --> 00:34:17,968 capable of showing compassion, 701 00:34:17,968 --> 00:34:19,970 one that possesses 702 00:34:19,970 --> 00:34:21,320 self-awareness, 703 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,409 has language skills, 704 00:34:23,409 --> 00:34:27,239 a being that lives a social and emotional life, 705 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,590 I have no problem drawing the line there. 706 00:34:30,590 --> 00:34:32,200 And as I said at the beginning, 707 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,333 I'’ve looked into this gorilla'’s eyes. 708 00:34:34,333 --> 00:34:37,336 I challenge anybody here to do the same 709 00:34:37,336 --> 00:34:40,121 and not see something a little human. 710 00:34:41,340 --> 00:34:43,168 But in the end, it'’s not about 711 00:34:43,168 --> 00:34:45,126 the ape'’s humanity, is it? 712 00:34:45,126 --> 00:34:47,172 It'’s about ours. 713 00:34:48,869 --> 00:34:50,610 How do we, 714 00:34:50,610 --> 00:34:55,397 as a species capable of feeling and crying and caring, 715 00:34:55,397 --> 00:34:58,835 how do we lock up another being that... 716 00:35:01,838 --> 00:35:03,884 This ape laughs. 717 00:35:03,884 --> 00:35:05,886 He learns. 718 00:35:05,886 --> 00:35:07,627 He reasons. 719 00:35:07,627 --> 00:35:09,368 He plays jokes. 720 00:35:09,368 --> 00:35:11,544 He grieves. 721 00:35:11,544 --> 00:35:13,372 He worries. 722 00:35:13,372 --> 00:35:15,939 And right now, he'’s worried sick 723 00:35:15,939 --> 00:35:17,985 about having to stay 724 00:35:17,985 --> 00:35:21,075 at the Cincinnati Presbyterian Good Fellows Zoo. 725 00:35:33,740 --> 00:35:36,264 The law is evolving on this, 726 00:35:36,264 --> 00:35:38,397 and we'’re seeing the legal rights of animals 727 00:35:38,397 --> 00:35:40,138 expanded by the day. 728 00:35:40,138 --> 00:35:43,837 But the problem with granting actual personhood status is: 729 00:35:43,837 --> 00:35:45,665 What'’s the test? 730 00:35:45,665 --> 00:35:47,362 Can'’t be IQ. 731 00:35:47,362 --> 00:35:49,799 As we'’ve seen, certain animals have more intelligence 732 00:35:49,799 --> 00:35:51,540 than some humans. 733 00:35:51,540 --> 00:35:52,976 Emotion? 734 00:35:52,976 --> 00:35:54,413 Well, how do you measure that? 735 00:35:54,413 --> 00:35:57,024 Maybe it'’s the empathy chip. 736 00:35:57,024 --> 00:35:59,200 But most of our successful CEOs are missing that one. 737 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,116 This is why speciesism 738 00:36:02,116 --> 00:36:04,336 has always been very pragmatic, 739 00:36:04,336 --> 00:36:06,338 at least from a... a legal standpoint. 740 00:36:06,338 --> 00:36:09,341 I completely support, even cheer, 741 00:36:09,341 --> 00:36:12,082 the continued expansion of legal rights for animals, 742 00:36:12,082 --> 00:36:15,085 especially when it comes to the great apes. 743 00:36:15,085 --> 00:36:19,046 But looking at where the law stands today, 744 00:36:19,046 --> 00:36:24,138 animals, even the great apes, are considered property. 745 00:36:24,138 --> 00:36:28,273 And the property in question belongs to the zoo. 746 00:36:28,273 --> 00:36:31,101 The motion for legal guardianship is denied. 747 00:36:31,101 --> 00:36:32,146 Thank you. 748 00:36:32,146 --> 00:36:33,147 [gavel bangs] 749 00:37:01,697 --> 00:37:02,785 Hey. 750 00:37:02,785 --> 00:37:04,004 Hey. 751 00:37:04,004 --> 00:37:06,572 Check out the new wardrobe. 752 00:37:06,572 --> 00:37:07,790 [laughs] 753 00:37:07,790 --> 00:37:09,139 Hey, Cassie. 754 00:37:09,139 --> 00:37:10,924 Hey. 755 00:37:10,924 --> 00:37:11,925 First, the good news. 756 00:37:11,925 --> 00:37:13,579 I had my first meal. 757 00:37:13,579 --> 00:37:15,929 It was only the second-worst one I'’ve ever had. 758 00:37:15,929 --> 00:37:17,104 That'’s good. 759 00:37:17,104 --> 00:37:19,106 I'’ve gotten two proposals, 760 00:37:19,106 --> 00:37:21,587 three basic conjugal offers, 761 00:37:21,587 --> 00:37:22,718 and an invitation 762 00:37:22,718 --> 00:37:23,937 to knit moose-hunting sweaters 763 00:37:23,937 --> 00:37:25,330 from a sweet lady who claims 764 00:37:25,330 --> 00:37:27,462 she can see Russia from her window. 765 00:37:27,462 --> 00:37:30,248 Well, you'’re keeping your sense of humor, anyway. 766 00:37:30,248 --> 00:37:32,162 Keeping that. 767 00:37:32,162 --> 00:37:34,556 But they'’ve confiscated the costume. 768 00:37:34,556 --> 00:37:35,905 Just as well. 769 00:37:35,905 --> 00:37:37,646 It would only result in more conjugal offers. 770 00:37:37,646 --> 00:37:39,822 [laughs] 771 00:37:40,867 --> 00:37:42,477 You okay? 772 00:37:42,477 --> 00:37:45,350 I'’m okay. 773 00:37:47,003 --> 00:37:48,527 Listen, thank you. 774 00:37:48,527 --> 00:37:49,702 Both of you. 775 00:37:51,356 --> 00:37:54,489 I know this is the best we could'’ve really hoped for. 776 00:37:54,489 --> 00:37:56,535 You just get better, and you'’ll get out of here. 777 00:37:56,535 --> 00:37:58,580 Yeah. 778 00:37:58,580 --> 00:37:59,973 Thanks. 779 00:37:59,973 --> 00:38:02,541 Hey, Adam... 780 00:38:04,630 --> 00:38:06,022 ...I got you a little gift. 781 00:38:07,894 --> 00:38:09,939 In lieu of a fee, I guess. 782 00:38:09,939 --> 00:38:11,941 I love presents. 783 00:38:17,251 --> 00:38:19,297 Wow. 784 00:38:19,297 --> 00:38:21,037 I can have it? 785 00:38:21,037 --> 00:38:22,561 Ican'’t. 786 00:38:22,561 --> 00:38:24,563 Hospital rules. 787 00:38:24,563 --> 00:38:28,262 And, yes... I want you to have it. 788 00:38:29,307 --> 00:38:30,569 ADAM: Thanks. 789 00:38:30,569 --> 00:38:32,397 Don'’t even think about it. 790 00:38:32,397 --> 00:38:33,702 [laughs] 791 00:38:35,965 --> 00:38:37,227 Get well, Annie. 792 00:38:37,227 --> 00:38:38,316 We'’re cheering for you. 793 00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:40,405 I know. 794 00:38:40,405 --> 00:38:43,886 And when I am well, 795 00:38:43,886 --> 00:38:46,149 assuming you'’re still a single man... 796 00:38:47,890 --> 00:38:49,370 ...how about you ask me out? 797 00:38:50,980 --> 00:38:53,896 I won'’t blow it this time. 798 00:39:16,005 --> 00:39:18,225 WOMAN: He'’s been a little grumpy today. 799 00:39:18,225 --> 00:39:19,574 HARRY: Tell me about it. 800 00:39:19,574 --> 00:39:21,010 Hey, where'’s that tiger I shot at? 801 00:39:21,010 --> 00:39:22,229 You got him here? 802 00:39:22,229 --> 00:39:25,145 Would you get over the stupid tiger. 803 00:39:25,145 --> 00:39:28,017 Hey, Wenty? 804 00:39:28,017 --> 00:39:29,584 Oh, 805 00:39:29,584 --> 00:39:31,238 he can sulk with the best of them. 806 00:39:31,238 --> 00:39:33,283 Oh, yeah, I'’ve seen it. 807 00:39:33,283 --> 00:39:35,111 Hey, Wenty. 808 00:39:37,418 --> 00:39:38,854 Will you come over here, please? 809 00:39:38,854 --> 00:39:40,552 [snorts] 810 00:39:40,552 --> 00:39:41,857 Hey, 811 00:39:41,857 --> 00:39:44,164 stop being childish. 812 00:39:44,164 --> 00:39:46,122 I want to talk to you for a second. 813 00:39:47,863 --> 00:39:50,257 Show him your ass, Harry, that'’ll get him over. 814 00:39:50,257 --> 00:39:51,606 Show him yours. 815 00:39:57,569 --> 00:40:00,180 [grunts quietly] 816 00:40:00,180 --> 00:40:02,182 Hey, honey. 817 00:40:02,182 --> 00:40:04,097 Hey. 818 00:40:04,097 --> 00:40:05,751 We'’re gonna try to get you out 819 00:40:05,751 --> 00:40:07,492 of the zoo, okay? 820 00:40:09,624 --> 00:40:12,148 We tried very hard, 821 00:40:12,148 --> 00:40:14,977 and we'’re gonna still try. 822 00:40:16,631 --> 00:40:18,024 But you just... you have 823 00:40:18,024 --> 00:40:21,201 to live here just a little bit longer. 824 00:40:26,206 --> 00:40:28,904 [low grunting] 825 00:40:31,951 --> 00:40:33,822 What she said. 826 00:40:35,476 --> 00:40:36,825 Do you think he knows 827 00:40:36,825 --> 00:40:38,087 we'’re really trying? 828 00:40:39,393 --> 00:40:41,134 Wenty? 829 00:40:41,134 --> 00:40:43,179 Wenty? 830 00:40:43,179 --> 00:40:46,095 We'’re gonna get you out somehow. 831 00:40:46,095 --> 00:40:47,880 All right? 832 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:49,838 We'’ll-we'’ll get you out. 833 00:40:56,802 --> 00:40:58,499 What was that? 834 00:40:59,979 --> 00:41:02,503 He, um... 835 00:41:04,940 --> 00:41:08,596 I miss you, too. 836 00:41:14,863 --> 00:41:16,909 I really think we should go home. 837 00:41:16,909 --> 00:41:18,867 I don'’t want him to see me cry. 838 00:41:24,786 --> 00:41:26,571 Bye, Wenty. 839 00:41:28,877 --> 00:41:30,879 We'’ll be back. 840 00:41:30,879 --> 00:41:32,751 Okay? 841 00:41:32,751 --> 00:41:36,145 I'’ll be back. 842 00:41:58,341 --> 00:42:00,343 ♪ ♪ 843 00:42:16,882 --> 00:42:18,840 Captioning sponsored by WARNER BROS. 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