1 00:00:58,458 --> 00:01:01,395 [♪♪♪] 2 00:01:08,570 --> 00:01:10,838 KYA: Marsh is not swamp. 3 00:01:12,574 --> 00:01:14,909 Marsh is a space of light... 4 00:01:17,612 --> 00:01:19,279 where grass grows in water... 5 00:01:20,748 --> 00:01:22,951 and water flows into the sky. 6 00:01:24,786 --> 00:01:26,621 [BIRD CALLING] 7 00:02:07,028 --> 00:02:09,964 Then within the marsh, here and there... 8 00:02:12,066 --> 00:02:13,501 true swamp. 9 00:02:53,541 --> 00:02:56,878 A swamp knows all about death... 10 00:02:56,911 --> 00:02:59,279 and doesn't necessarily define it as tragedy. 11 00:03:00,380 --> 00:03:02,050 Certainly not a sin. 12 00:03:04,451 --> 00:03:07,922 I thought Chase Andrews would have more common sense. 13 00:03:07,955 --> 00:03:10,024 Best quarterback this town ever had. 14 00:03:13,728 --> 00:03:16,531 Boys, are these your footprints here? 15 00:03:16,564 --> 00:03:18,132 BENJI: Yes, sir. STEVEN: Yes, sir. 16 00:03:20,034 --> 00:03:22,570 [♪♪♪] 17 00:03:24,706 --> 00:03:26,641 JACKSON: Where's his footprints? 18 00:03:33,748 --> 00:03:37,018 PERDUE: Yeah, some kids just get crazy ideas in their heads 19 00:03:37,051 --> 00:03:40,353 and drink and think they're invincible. 20 00:03:40,387 --> 00:03:43,091 That Chase Andrews was no kid. 21 00:03:49,731 --> 00:03:51,431 [PANTING SOFTLY] 22 00:03:55,603 --> 00:03:58,072 Hey. Look at this. 23 00:04:07,247 --> 00:04:08,916 JACKSON: He open the grate himself? 24 00:04:08,950 --> 00:04:11,119 Could've been an accident, all the same. 25 00:04:11,152 --> 00:04:14,555 CONE: Time of death, between midnight and 2 a.m. 26 00:04:14,589 --> 00:04:19,060 Cause of death, sudden impact from the 63-foot drop. 27 00:04:19,093 --> 00:04:23,231 Since you found that blood and hair on the support beam, 28 00:04:23,263 --> 00:04:27,235 I would deduce that was the cause of the primary injury. 29 00:04:27,267 --> 00:04:29,003 Laymen's terms, 30 00:04:29,036 --> 00:04:31,672 he banged the back of his head on the way down. 31 00:04:31,706 --> 00:04:33,574 To hit the back of his head on the beam, 32 00:04:33,608 --> 00:04:35,910 he would've needed to fall backwards, is that right? 33 00:04:35,943 --> 00:04:38,980 I'd say yes. So he might have been pushed. 34 00:04:39,013 --> 00:04:41,949 There's no fingerprints on the railing, the grates, nothing. 35 00:04:41,983 --> 00:04:45,186 No fingerprints? Not from Chase either? 36 00:04:46,621 --> 00:04:48,823 No fingerprints, no tracks. 37 00:04:48,856 --> 00:04:53,628 We do have those red fibers found on the jacket. 38 00:04:53,661 --> 00:04:56,998 I just got the lab report back from Atlanta. 39 00:04:57,031 --> 00:05:00,433 They did not come from any of his other clothing. 40 00:05:00,467 --> 00:05:04,972 Wool, it says. That could be a sweater, scarf. 41 00:05:05,006 --> 00:05:08,109 Hell, it could be anything. And we gotta find it. 42 00:05:08,142 --> 00:05:10,511 MOSELY: A beautiful wife, good family. 43 00:05:10,545 --> 00:05:12,312 Can't think of anyone who'd want to kill Chase. 44 00:05:12,345 --> 00:05:14,115 Come on. You know how Chase was. 45 00:05:14,148 --> 00:05:16,951 Tomcattin', ruttin' around like a penned-up bull let out. 46 00:05:16,984 --> 00:05:18,485 Don't speak ill of the dead, Frank. 47 00:05:18,519 --> 00:05:19,887 Heh, I'm just saying 48 00:05:19,921 --> 00:05:21,989 I could think of a few guys up to it. 49 00:05:22,023 --> 00:05:23,958 Mr. Milton. Hi, Sandy. 50 00:05:23,991 --> 00:05:25,993 The usual? Brunswick stew? How'd you guess. 51 00:05:26,027 --> 00:05:27,394 [CHUCKLES] 52 00:05:27,427 --> 00:05:30,064 What do you make of the Chase Andrews case, Tom? 53 00:05:30,097 --> 00:05:33,000 Oh, I'm retired. That's none of my business anymore. 54 00:05:33,034 --> 00:05:34,302 Fair enough. 55 00:05:34,334 --> 00:05:35,837 Could've been that woman in the marsh. 56 00:05:35,870 --> 00:05:37,404 She's crazy enough for the loony bin. 57 00:05:37,437 --> 00:05:39,207 I bet she'd be up to something like this. 58 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,876 My brother's told me that Marsh Girl's the missing link. 59 00:05:41,909 --> 00:05:43,343 You know poor Chase Andrews 60 00:05:43,376 --> 00:05:44,912 had something going on down in that marsh. 61 00:05:44,946 --> 00:05:46,514 SANDY: Chase Andrews and the Marsh Girl? 62 00:05:46,547 --> 00:05:48,583 Now if that ain't asking for trouble. 63 00:05:51,085 --> 00:05:53,087 MOSELY: What do you think really happened, Frank? 64 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,022 You think that Marsh Girl killed Chase? 65 00:05:55,056 --> 00:05:57,558 LANE: Hell, I don't know. Truth will come out. 66 00:05:59,794 --> 00:06:01,162 [VEHICLE PULLS UP] 67 00:06:01,195 --> 00:06:02,597 [CAR DOOR CLOSES] 68 00:06:02,630 --> 00:06:04,599 [INSECTS CHIRPING] 69 00:06:04,632 --> 00:06:07,535 [♪♪♪] 70 00:06:21,448 --> 00:06:25,353 Look at all these feathers and whatnot. 71 00:06:25,385 --> 00:06:26,587 [KNOCKING] 72 00:06:26,621 --> 00:06:28,122 She a scientist 73 00:06:28,155 --> 00:06:29,757 or a witch? 74 00:06:29,790 --> 00:06:31,158 [TWIG SNAPS] 75 00:06:32,894 --> 00:06:34,562 JACKSON: Miss Clark? 76 00:06:38,099 --> 00:06:40,301 Sheriff's Department. Sheriff. 77 00:06:41,969 --> 00:06:43,403 Look. 78 00:06:43,436 --> 00:06:45,606 Could get a warrant. 79 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:48,075 Plain view. Probable cause, sheriff. 80 00:06:50,645 --> 00:06:52,880 Bet that door isn't even locked. 81 00:06:52,914 --> 00:06:54,348 [KNOB TURNS] 82 00:07:18,205 --> 00:07:19,674 [CAR DOORS CLOSE] 83 00:07:19,707 --> 00:07:21,275 [ENGINE STARTS] 84 00:07:24,011 --> 00:07:26,781 [TAKING SHUDDERING BREATHS] 85 00:07:30,551 --> 00:07:33,120 [♪♪♪] 86 00:07:43,297 --> 00:07:46,000 There she is. [ENGINE ACCELERATES] 87 00:07:46,033 --> 00:07:48,202 PERDUE: This is the Sheriff's Department. 88 00:07:48,235 --> 00:07:50,371 Shut down your engine. [SIREN WAILING] 89 00:07:57,745 --> 00:08:00,548 Go straight, go straight. Follow her in! 90 00:08:33,381 --> 00:08:34,682 [GRUNTING] 91 00:08:37,585 --> 00:08:39,854 [SIREN WAILING] 92 00:08:39,887 --> 00:08:41,856 WOMAN 1: You're guilty! MAN 1: You killed Chase Andrews! 93 00:08:41,889 --> 00:08:43,090 WOMAN 2: You'll pay for this, Marsh Girl! 94 00:08:43,124 --> 00:08:44,058 MAN 2: Rot in jail! 95 00:08:51,132 --> 00:08:53,701 [♪♪♪] 96 00:08:55,970 --> 00:08:57,438 [CAT MEOWS] 97 00:09:00,574 --> 00:09:02,043 [PURRING] 98 00:09:02,076 --> 00:09:03,844 JACOB: Sunday Justice. 99 00:09:03,878 --> 00:09:05,246 Where you gone, kitty? 100 00:09:06,447 --> 00:09:08,049 [SOFTLY] Please stay. 101 00:09:08,082 --> 00:09:09,583 JACOB: Here, kitty, kitty. 102 00:09:14,989 --> 00:09:16,323 [LOCK CLICKS] 103 00:09:18,292 --> 00:09:19,727 [DOOR CREAKS OPEN] 104 00:09:22,396 --> 00:09:24,398 [DOOR CLOSES, THEN LOCK CLICKS] 105 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:27,768 Miss Clark? 106 00:09:29,670 --> 00:09:31,605 I'm Tom Milton. 107 00:09:31,639 --> 00:09:34,275 I'm a lawyer. May I come in? 108 00:09:40,247 --> 00:09:41,782 Thank you, Mr. Frazier. 109 00:09:41,816 --> 00:09:43,617 You probably know 110 00:09:43,651 --> 00:09:47,088 that you're being held for the murder of Chase Andrews. 111 00:09:47,121 --> 00:09:49,290 And I have taken the liberty 112 00:09:49,323 --> 00:09:51,560 of putting myself forward to defend you. 113 00:09:51,592 --> 00:09:53,994 I know you've never been in trouble before, 114 00:09:54,028 --> 00:09:57,331 so I can explain the courtroom and the trial 115 00:09:57,364 --> 00:09:59,333 and who is who and whatnot. 116 00:10:02,837 --> 00:10:06,607 Uh, do you have family that you might want to come be with you? 117 00:10:09,110 --> 00:10:10,478 Uh... 118 00:10:13,948 --> 00:10:18,719 Miss Clark, I don't quite know how to put this, but, uh... 119 00:10:20,321 --> 00:10:22,623 [STAMMERING] Well, I know you 120 00:10:22,656 --> 00:10:24,758 as Catherine Danielle Clark, 121 00:10:24,792 --> 00:10:28,629 but here in Barkley Cove they don't call you by that name. 122 00:10:28,662 --> 00:10:31,332 They call you Marsh Girl. 123 00:10:31,365 --> 00:10:34,301 And when you stand trial, 124 00:10:34,335 --> 00:10:37,037 you will be judged by a jury of your peers 125 00:10:37,071 --> 00:10:40,207 from Barkley Cove, who only know you as such. 126 00:10:40,241 --> 00:10:44,411 They are going to judge you whether they know you or not. 127 00:10:46,213 --> 00:10:51,719 But I can't help you unless I know you. 128 00:10:51,752 --> 00:10:54,054 Even just a little bit. 129 00:10:58,058 --> 00:10:59,660 Well, all right, then. Um... 130 00:11:01,095 --> 00:11:02,997 I'll come back in a while 131 00:11:03,030 --> 00:11:05,232 when you've had time to consider. 132 00:11:07,268 --> 00:11:11,540 Oh, and I brought you this just in the meantime. 133 00:11:14,576 --> 00:11:16,076 [CLEARS THROAT] 134 00:11:19,013 --> 00:11:20,414 Mr. Frazier. 135 00:11:21,949 --> 00:11:23,017 [CHAIR SCRAPES] 136 00:11:24,785 --> 00:11:28,122 People forget about the creatures who live in shells. 137 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:33,093 I had a family once. 138 00:11:35,462 --> 00:11:37,064 They called me Kya. 139 00:11:37,097 --> 00:11:39,634 [♪♪♪] 140 00:11:43,538 --> 00:11:44,872 MA: Kya! 141 00:11:44,905 --> 00:11:47,841 Kya! You'd better not get too far out. 142 00:11:47,875 --> 00:11:49,611 [CHILDREN GIGGLING] 143 00:11:49,644 --> 00:11:51,045 MISSY: Get it, get it! 144 00:11:59,820 --> 00:12:01,222 [CHUCKLES SOFTLY] 145 00:12:07,662 --> 00:12:09,631 MA: Now this little piggy went to market. 146 00:12:09,664 --> 00:12:11,165 [KYA GIGGLING] Now you hold still. 147 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,604 This little piggy stayed home. 148 00:12:15,637 --> 00:12:18,607 This little piggy ate roast beef. 149 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,075 This little piggy had none. 150 00:12:21,108 --> 00:12:23,911 And this little piggy 151 00:12:23,944 --> 00:12:27,114 went wee-wee-wee-wee all the way home. 152 00:12:31,085 --> 00:12:33,254 That's my special girl. 153 00:12:36,757 --> 00:12:38,693 [CHILDREN LAUGHING] TATE: Hey, Jodie! 154 00:12:40,528 --> 00:12:41,996 Hey, Tate! 155 00:12:42,029 --> 00:12:44,031 Wanna come fishing? 156 00:12:45,799 --> 00:12:48,769 I ain't got too much time. MA: "Ain't" isn't a real word. 157 00:12:50,804 --> 00:12:54,643 Hey, how many times I told you not to mess in my goddamn boat?! 158 00:12:56,645 --> 00:12:58,946 Get in the house! Are you stupid?! 159 00:13:01,549 --> 00:13:05,520 Come here! Now you've done it. [WHIMPERING] 160 00:13:05,553 --> 00:13:07,488 You gotta learn respect. You hear me? 161 00:13:09,223 --> 00:13:12,026 Stop it! You're hurting her! Hey, you leave my pa alone! 162 00:13:12,059 --> 00:13:14,361 Come back on my land, I'll shoot you! You hear me?! 163 00:13:14,395 --> 00:13:16,598 Calm down now. Shut up! 164 00:13:16,631 --> 00:13:18,165 [GROANS] [GASPS] 165 00:13:18,198 --> 00:13:19,701 Shut up! 166 00:13:19,734 --> 00:13:21,969 [♪♪♪] 167 00:13:22,002 --> 00:13:23,337 [GLASS SHATTERS] 168 00:13:23,370 --> 00:13:24,838 MA: Leave me alone! PA: I'll show you! 169 00:13:24,872 --> 00:13:26,106 MA: Please just stop! 170 00:13:26,140 --> 00:13:28,075 [CLATTERING] [GASPS] 171 00:13:29,711 --> 00:13:31,646 [MA SOBBING] 172 00:13:38,252 --> 00:13:39,887 [SCREEN DOOR CLOSES] 173 00:13:51,865 --> 00:13:53,934 [BREATHING SHAKILY] 174 00:14:05,079 --> 00:14:06,548 Ma! 175 00:14:08,849 --> 00:14:10,050 Ma? 176 00:14:19,927 --> 00:14:21,061 KYA: Ma never came back. 177 00:14:23,364 --> 00:14:26,701 And everybody else was quick to get out the same way. 178 00:14:26,735 --> 00:14:28,703 Murph was the first to leave. 179 00:14:30,538 --> 00:14:33,708 A few months later, Mandy and Missy. 180 00:14:36,711 --> 00:14:40,214 Then, finally, Jodie. 181 00:14:40,247 --> 00:14:41,281 Kya. 182 00:14:42,883 --> 00:14:44,885 Kya, listen. 183 00:14:44,918 --> 00:14:46,688 I have to go, Kya. 184 00:14:46,721 --> 00:14:48,288 I can't live here no longer. 185 00:14:48,322 --> 00:14:49,724 [SNIFFLING] 186 00:14:51,125 --> 00:14:53,595 Kya, you be careful, hear? [PA COUGHING] 187 00:14:53,628 --> 00:14:54,895 If you're in trouble, 188 00:14:54,928 --> 00:14:56,731 run and hide deep in the marsh 189 00:14:56,765 --> 00:14:58,465 way out where the crawdads sing. 190 00:15:00,134 --> 00:15:01,503 Like Ma always says. 191 00:15:19,119 --> 00:15:20,555 [CLATTERING IN HOUSE] 192 00:15:20,588 --> 00:15:21,656 [SOFTLY] Run! 193 00:15:23,090 --> 00:15:24,925 PA: Jodie! 194 00:15:24,958 --> 00:15:27,762 KYA: I learned from the mistakes of the others 195 00:15:27,796 --> 00:15:28,830 how to live with him. 196 00:15:28,863 --> 00:15:31,965 [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING] 197 00:15:31,999 --> 00:15:33,267 Just keep out of the way. 198 00:15:33,300 --> 00:15:34,334 [DOOR CREAKS, CLOSES] 199 00:15:34,368 --> 00:15:36,571 Don't let him see you. 200 00:15:36,604 --> 00:15:37,872 Fend for yourself. 201 00:15:41,543 --> 00:15:44,111 [♪♪♪] 202 00:15:53,721 --> 00:15:55,657 [BIRDS CHIRPING] 203 00:16:05,299 --> 00:16:06,901 [GIGGLES] 204 00:16:20,682 --> 00:16:22,049 [ENGINE SHUTS OFF] 205 00:16:30,357 --> 00:16:33,227 I had been out in the marsh plenty of times with Jodie, 206 00:16:33,260 --> 00:16:34,729 but never alone. 207 00:16:36,263 --> 00:16:38,465 I didn't know which way was home. 208 00:16:38,499 --> 00:16:41,401 Damn you for leaving me here, Jodie! 209 00:16:43,505 --> 00:16:44,739 Damn you. 210 00:16:54,883 --> 00:16:56,551 You okay? 211 00:16:59,086 --> 00:17:01,388 You're Jodie Clark's sister. 212 00:17:01,421 --> 00:17:03,625 Used to be. He's gone. 213 00:17:06,761 --> 00:17:08,195 You know your way home? 214 00:17:08,228 --> 00:17:09,463 Yeah. 215 00:17:16,370 --> 00:17:19,072 It's okay. I get lost all the time. 216 00:17:19,106 --> 00:17:22,042 [♪♪♪] 217 00:17:28,783 --> 00:17:31,586 My name's Tate, in case you see me again. 218 00:17:31,619 --> 00:17:32,620 KYA: Tate. 219 00:17:34,154 --> 00:17:36,189 There was something about that boy 220 00:17:36,223 --> 00:17:38,593 that eased the tightness in my chest. 221 00:17:38,626 --> 00:17:41,563 For the first time since Ma and Jodie left, 222 00:17:41,596 --> 00:17:43,565 I felt something other than hurt. 223 00:17:46,166 --> 00:17:47,635 I felt brave. 224 00:17:50,070 --> 00:17:51,271 I'm hungry. 225 00:17:55,075 --> 00:17:57,144 [♪♪♪] 226 00:18:02,182 --> 00:18:04,819 [JUMPIN' SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY] 227 00:18:04,852 --> 00:18:07,956 Morning, Mr. Clark. How you doing? 228 00:18:07,989 --> 00:18:09,724 Well, Jumpin', 229 00:18:09,757 --> 00:18:11,993 I woke up on the right side of dirt. 230 00:18:13,695 --> 00:18:17,431 Oh, this is my daughter, Miss Kya Clark. 231 00:18:17,464 --> 00:18:20,668 Well, I'm mighty proud to know you, Miss Kya. 232 00:18:20,702 --> 00:18:24,005 Oh, don't mind her. I tell her stay away from everybody. 233 00:18:24,038 --> 00:18:25,640 It's a dangerous world, isn't it? 234 00:18:25,673 --> 00:18:27,742 It is. But the fishing's good. 235 00:18:27,775 --> 00:18:29,911 PA: Could I get a bag of grits? 236 00:18:29,944 --> 00:18:32,981 And, um, some of that Jim Beam? 237 00:18:33,014 --> 00:18:34,649 And maybe you fill her up for me? 238 00:18:34,682 --> 00:18:36,517 JUMPIN': It's okay. 239 00:18:36,551 --> 00:18:37,518 Mabel. 240 00:18:37,552 --> 00:18:38,953 Mm-hm. 241 00:18:42,023 --> 00:18:43,891 You wait for our change, you hear? 242 00:18:46,794 --> 00:18:49,831 Helping out your pa while your ma's gone, huh? 243 00:18:49,864 --> 00:18:52,967 I ain't seen her in a while. 244 00:18:53,001 --> 00:18:54,869 She's doing chores at home. 245 00:18:54,902 --> 00:18:56,370 Mm-hm. 246 00:18:59,974 --> 00:19:01,509 Grits ain't much to go on. 247 00:19:04,512 --> 00:19:06,179 All right. Let's see here. 248 00:19:06,213 --> 00:19:08,783 Your pa left $2 here. 249 00:19:08,816 --> 00:19:14,689 And the bill is $1.50. 250 00:19:14,722 --> 00:19:16,591 How much does that leave for gas? 251 00:19:22,864 --> 00:19:24,132 Don't worry about that. 252 00:19:24,164 --> 00:19:26,701 I got another question for you. 253 00:19:26,734 --> 00:19:28,435 You go to school, honey? 254 00:19:30,672 --> 00:19:33,007 Do you know that they publish the school lunch menu 255 00:19:33,041 --> 00:19:34,307 in the paper? 256 00:19:34,341 --> 00:19:35,777 Today's is... 257 00:19:37,177 --> 00:19:38,913 Salisbury steak. 258 00:19:38,946 --> 00:19:43,316 You could get a nice, hot meal, make some friends. 259 00:19:43,350 --> 00:19:46,219 Plenty of kids go to school without shoes. 260 00:19:46,253 --> 00:19:49,157 But you will need a skirt. 261 00:19:49,189 --> 00:19:51,491 Ask your mama for one. 262 00:19:51,526 --> 00:19:53,226 There you go. 263 00:19:53,260 --> 00:19:56,531 And the change is 50 cents. 264 00:20:17,118 --> 00:20:19,654 [♪♪♪] 265 00:20:36,137 --> 00:20:38,072 [PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY] 266 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:41,776 [BIKE BELL DINGS] [GASPS] 267 00:20:41,809 --> 00:20:43,477 Boys! Chase Andrews, 268 00:20:43,511 --> 00:20:45,113 what you got to say for yourself? 269 00:20:45,146 --> 00:20:46,748 CHASE: Sorry, Miss Pansy. 270 00:20:46,781 --> 00:20:49,684 We didn't see you 'cause that girl got in the way. 271 00:20:51,451 --> 00:20:52,520 Hello there. 272 00:20:53,755 --> 00:20:55,123 I think you've got yourself 273 00:20:55,156 --> 00:20:57,257 turned around the wrong way, little lady. 274 00:20:57,290 --> 00:20:58,993 Isn't school that way? 275 00:20:59,026 --> 00:21:00,161 GIRL 1: So dirty. GIRL 2: Gross. 276 00:21:01,963 --> 00:21:04,331 You have just as much of a right to be there. 277 00:21:04,364 --> 00:21:07,135 Go along now. It's all right. 278 00:21:12,106 --> 00:21:15,109 ARIEL: Miss Catherine Danielle Clark, 279 00:21:15,143 --> 00:21:17,178 are you reading and writing already? 280 00:21:17,211 --> 00:21:19,614 [STUDENTS WHISPERING] 281 00:21:19,647 --> 00:21:21,448 Can you spell "dog," honey? 282 00:21:25,787 --> 00:21:27,522 [SOFTLY] Who is that? 283 00:21:27,555 --> 00:21:30,158 G-O-D. 284 00:21:30,191 --> 00:21:33,460 [STUDENTS LAUGHING] 285 00:21:33,493 --> 00:21:36,429 Well, we can all use practice, can't we? 286 00:21:36,463 --> 00:21:40,367 You can go ahead and sit down, Miss Catherine Danielle Clark. 287 00:21:42,837 --> 00:21:44,437 Where you been, marsh hen? 288 00:21:44,471 --> 00:21:46,541 Where's your hat, swamp rat? [STUDENTS LAUGH] 289 00:21:46,574 --> 00:21:50,978 Now, boys and girls, settle down. Just an hour until lunch. 290 00:21:51,012 --> 00:21:53,480 Please, try to pay attention to our lesson. 291 00:21:53,514 --> 00:21:56,684 Who can tell me a word that has a long vowel sound? 292 00:21:56,717 --> 00:21:58,519 PEARL: She probably lives in the mud. 293 00:21:58,553 --> 00:21:59,854 TINA: Someone's got cooties. 294 00:22:01,055 --> 00:22:02,690 PEARL: That stink in the room. 295 00:22:02,723 --> 00:22:03,691 [STUDENTS LAUGHING] 296 00:22:03,724 --> 00:22:04,792 ARIEL: Excuse me. 297 00:22:04,826 --> 00:22:07,128 [♪♪♪] 298 00:22:07,161 --> 00:22:10,497 KYA: That was the only day I ever spent in school. 299 00:22:10,531 --> 00:22:12,834 Reckoned I was better off learning from the wild. 300 00:22:15,536 --> 00:22:18,673 Hi, Tate! [PA SUCKS TEETH] 301 00:22:18,706 --> 00:22:20,107 Mm-mm. 302 00:22:33,688 --> 00:22:36,757 Need you to be careful out here. You hear me? 303 00:22:36,791 --> 00:22:39,392 Mm-hm. You can't trust nobody. 304 00:22:39,426 --> 00:22:41,295 You protect yourself. 305 00:22:46,399 --> 00:22:47,969 [ENGINE SHUTS OFF] 306 00:22:57,078 --> 00:22:58,913 Great horned owl, probably. 307 00:23:00,915 --> 00:23:03,618 For a while, Pa was good to me. 308 00:23:03,651 --> 00:23:06,587 [♪♪♪] 309 00:23:11,092 --> 00:23:12,360 [CLEARS THROAT] 310 00:23:12,392 --> 00:23:14,461 I thought you could use this 311 00:23:14,494 --> 00:23:17,031 for your feathers, bird nests. 312 00:23:17,064 --> 00:23:18,733 Other stuff you collect. 313 00:23:21,636 --> 00:23:23,604 Oh, thank you. Yeah. 314 00:23:26,073 --> 00:23:28,109 [VEHICLE APPROACHING] 315 00:23:29,777 --> 00:23:30,778 [HORN HONKING] 316 00:23:30,811 --> 00:23:32,813 It was my old Army-- Mail! 317 00:23:34,282 --> 00:23:36,083 It's my old Army knapsack. 318 00:23:44,091 --> 00:23:47,094 It's from Ma! It's from Ma! 319 00:23:47,128 --> 00:23:49,163 It's Ma's handwriting! 320 00:23:49,196 --> 00:23:52,166 Ma's alive! Give it to me. 321 00:23:52,199 --> 00:23:53,267 Give it to me. 322 00:23:59,472 --> 00:24:02,109 When's she coming home? Wait. 323 00:24:02,143 --> 00:24:03,511 What does she say? 324 00:24:07,515 --> 00:24:08,481 No! 325 00:24:08,516 --> 00:24:09,784 Quiet. 326 00:24:09,817 --> 00:24:12,286 Pa! Pa, stop! 327 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,022 Stop it! Stop that! 328 00:24:15,056 --> 00:24:16,857 Stop! Quiet. Quiet! 329 00:24:18,292 --> 00:24:19,393 [SOBS] Ma. 330 00:24:20,528 --> 00:24:22,430 Now you listen to me. 331 00:24:22,462 --> 00:24:24,966 She ain't never coming back. 332 00:24:24,999 --> 00:24:26,334 You hear me? 333 00:24:26,367 --> 00:24:28,135 [SOBBING] 334 00:24:33,574 --> 00:24:35,176 That isn't true. 335 00:24:38,379 --> 00:24:40,381 "Ain't" isn't even a real word! 336 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,094 PA: Goddamn bitch! 337 00:24:54,528 --> 00:24:55,529 [GRUNTS] 338 00:24:56,831 --> 00:24:58,532 Useless. 339 00:24:58,566 --> 00:25:02,169 Pa took to burning any trace of Ma. 340 00:25:02,203 --> 00:25:04,372 Get your shit out of my house. 341 00:25:08,943 --> 00:25:10,211 And then one day... 342 00:25:11,445 --> 00:25:12,947 he was gone. 343 00:25:15,182 --> 00:25:17,084 Wasn't like the pain when Ma left. 344 00:25:17,118 --> 00:25:19,153 But being completely alone 345 00:25:19,186 --> 00:25:22,089 was a feeling so vast, it echoed. 346 00:25:42,610 --> 00:25:45,746 And there was the small matter of surviving. 347 00:25:49,083 --> 00:25:51,685 I didn't know how to do life without grits. 348 00:25:51,719 --> 00:25:54,622 [♪♪♪] 349 00:26:20,247 --> 00:26:21,816 Well, hello, Miss Kya. 350 00:26:21,849 --> 00:26:23,084 Uh-- 351 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:28,089 You want something? 352 00:26:28,122 --> 00:26:29,356 Mr. Jumpin'... 353 00:26:30,825 --> 00:26:33,794 I hear tell y'all buy mussels. 354 00:26:33,828 --> 00:26:35,329 I got some here. 355 00:26:35,362 --> 00:26:37,398 [STAMMERS] 356 00:26:37,431 --> 00:26:40,101 They fresh? Dug them before dawn. 357 00:26:40,134 --> 00:26:41,669 Just now. 358 00:26:41,702 --> 00:26:44,105 MABEL: Your pa sent you out with these? 359 00:26:49,310 --> 00:26:50,644 Look, I tell you what, 360 00:26:50,678 --> 00:26:52,947 I'll give you 50 cent for the one bag 361 00:26:52,980 --> 00:26:54,949 and a full tank of gas for the other. 362 00:26:54,982 --> 00:26:57,118 How many bags y'all need a week? 363 00:26:57,151 --> 00:26:58,819 Are we striking up a business deal? 364 00:26:58,853 --> 00:27:01,355 [CHUCKLES, STAMMERS] 365 00:27:01,388 --> 00:27:05,527 I buy about 40 pound every two, three days. 366 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,161 Mind you, others bring them too. 367 00:27:07,194 --> 00:27:10,297 So if you bring them, and I already got some, 368 00:27:10,331 --> 00:27:12,166 why, you'd just be out. 369 00:27:12,199 --> 00:27:15,636 It's first come, first served. Ain't no other way of doing it. 370 00:27:15,669 --> 00:27:18,305 That's fine. Thank you. 371 00:27:20,509 --> 00:27:21,675 Can I, uh...? 372 00:27:22,810 --> 00:27:24,311 [CHUCKLING] Oh, yeah. 373 00:27:36,223 --> 00:27:39,393 You sure are growing up fast, huh? 374 00:27:39,426 --> 00:27:42,163 Why don't you come by next week, I'll measure your feet. 375 00:27:42,196 --> 00:27:44,633 I got some shoes in the church donation bin 376 00:27:44,665 --> 00:27:46,467 just collecting dust. 377 00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:48,503 Thank you, ma'am. Sure. 378 00:27:58,613 --> 00:28:00,047 [DOOR CLOSES] 379 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,383 Poor child. 380 00:28:02,416 --> 00:28:03,817 Her ma's gone, 381 00:28:03,851 --> 00:28:07,321 and now her pa's gone too, I bet. 382 00:28:07,354 --> 00:28:08,489 What? 383 00:28:08,523 --> 00:28:10,090 We ought to be careful, 384 00:28:10,124 --> 00:28:11,892 messing in folk business. 385 00:28:11,926 --> 00:28:13,827 It don't say that in the Bible. 386 00:28:13,861 --> 00:28:15,896 "Be careful." 387 00:28:15,930 --> 00:28:19,333 "And the King shall answer and say unto them, 388 00:28:19,366 --> 00:28:21,101 verily I say unto thee, 389 00:28:21,135 --> 00:28:23,572 inasmuch as ye hath done it 390 00:28:23,605 --> 00:28:26,240 unto the least of these, my brethren, 391 00:28:26,273 --> 00:28:27,609 ye have done it unto me." 392 00:28:27,642 --> 00:28:28,742 All right, Mabel. 393 00:28:29,877 --> 00:28:31,345 Don't say about "be careful." 394 00:28:31,378 --> 00:28:33,914 [♪♪♪] 395 00:28:44,391 --> 00:28:45,859 Let's see. 396 00:28:45,893 --> 00:28:46,961 [GIGGLES] 397 00:28:50,297 --> 00:28:52,333 One, two, three. That's all. 398 00:29:07,582 --> 00:29:09,684 JACOB: They're from Miss Mabel. 399 00:29:22,997 --> 00:29:27,167 SIMS: Catherine Danielle Clark, of Barkley County, North Carolina, 400 00:29:27,201 --> 00:29:30,004 is charged with the murder in the first degree 401 00:29:30,037 --> 00:29:32,439 of Chase Lawrence Andrews, 402 00:29:32,473 --> 00:29:34,908 formerly of Barkley Cove. 403 00:29:34,942 --> 00:29:36,944 In such cases, the State is allowed 404 00:29:36,977 --> 00:29:38,647 to seek the death penalty. 405 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,148 The prosecution has announced it will do so 406 00:29:41,181 --> 00:29:44,151 if the defendant is found guilty. 407 00:29:44,184 --> 00:29:46,086 MAN 1: Guilty! We all know she's guilty. 408 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,256 MAN 2: She's guilty. [GAVEL BANGING] 409 00:29:49,290 --> 00:29:51,358 SIMS: We will now begin jury selection. 410 00:29:51,392 --> 00:29:53,628 Will our prospective jurors in the first two rows... 411 00:29:53,662 --> 00:29:58,999 There is an option. It's what's called a plea bargain. 412 00:29:59,033 --> 00:30:02,604 And it means that if you are willing to say 413 00:30:02,637 --> 00:30:05,472 that you did go to the tower that night 414 00:30:05,507 --> 00:30:08,275 and met Chase Andrews there 415 00:30:08,309 --> 00:30:13,013 and you had a disagreement, and in a horrible accident 416 00:30:13,047 --> 00:30:15,182 he stepped backwards through the grate. 417 00:30:15,215 --> 00:30:19,153 You'd get 10 years, but you'd be out in six. 418 00:30:19,186 --> 00:30:20,988 No. 419 00:30:21,021 --> 00:30:23,157 If we lose, we lose big. 420 00:30:23,190 --> 00:30:26,661 It's life in prison, or the other. 421 00:30:26,695 --> 00:30:29,564 Mr. Milton, I won't say anything that implies guilt. 422 00:30:31,065 --> 00:30:32,866 I will not go to prison. 423 00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:34,234 Please call me Tom. 424 00:30:34,268 --> 00:30:36,638 And promise me that you will think about this. 425 00:30:36,671 --> 00:30:38,072 I have to get out of here. 426 00:30:39,373 --> 00:30:41,208 One way... 427 00:30:41,241 --> 00:30:42,577 or the other. 428 00:30:42,610 --> 00:30:44,845 CHASTAIN: Between midnight and 2 a.m. 429 00:30:44,878 --> 00:30:47,314 on October 30th... 430 00:30:47,348 --> 00:30:51,185 the defendant lured Chase Andrews to the tower 431 00:30:51,218 --> 00:30:53,220 and pushed him to his death. 432 00:30:53,253 --> 00:30:55,590 She then covered up her tracks and fingerprints. 433 00:30:55,623 --> 00:30:57,759 Now, you're gonna hear she had the time, 434 00:30:57,792 --> 00:31:00,861 she had the motivation, but most importantly... 435 00:31:03,063 --> 00:31:05,165 she has the weakness of character 436 00:31:05,199 --> 00:31:07,267 to murder Chase Andrews. 437 00:31:07,301 --> 00:31:09,704 [PEOPLE MURMURING] 438 00:31:12,906 --> 00:31:16,243 Ladies and gentlemen, the State is going to throw 439 00:31:16,276 --> 00:31:18,278 a lot of words at you 440 00:31:18,312 --> 00:31:21,281 about Miss Catherine Danielle Clark. 441 00:31:22,817 --> 00:31:24,753 But I am asking you 442 00:31:24,786 --> 00:31:27,555 to look at the evidence that the State will be offering 443 00:31:27,589 --> 00:31:30,257 to back up those words. 444 00:31:30,290 --> 00:31:32,794 You'll find that there is none. 445 00:31:32,827 --> 00:31:36,029 Furthermore, you are going to hear that there's a good chance 446 00:31:36,063 --> 00:31:38,600 no one murdered Chase Andrews 447 00:31:38,633 --> 00:31:43,070 and that the defendant, Miss Clark, finds herself here 448 00:31:43,103 --> 00:31:46,940 because it is easier to lay blame on an outsider 449 00:31:46,974 --> 00:31:50,310 than it is to rely on facts. 450 00:31:50,344 --> 00:31:53,080 And although she was born 451 00:31:53,113 --> 00:31:57,251 and grew up not five miles from this courtroom, 452 00:31:57,284 --> 00:31:59,253 Miss Clark is an outsider. 453 00:31:59,286 --> 00:32:02,189 [♪♪♪] 454 00:32:20,809 --> 00:32:22,877 [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING] 455 00:32:32,319 --> 00:32:34,221 [PANTING] 456 00:32:41,962 --> 00:32:43,865 [♪♪♪] 457 00:33:52,567 --> 00:33:53,535 Oh. 458 00:33:59,373 --> 00:34:00,708 Hi. 459 00:34:00,742 --> 00:34:02,911 It's me. Tate. 460 00:34:24,464 --> 00:34:25,600 [CHUCKLES] 461 00:34:25,633 --> 00:34:26,768 Tundra swan. 462 00:34:28,302 --> 00:34:29,537 How do you know birds? 463 00:34:29,571 --> 00:34:31,639 My ma liked birds. 464 00:34:35,743 --> 00:34:37,277 I can't read your note. 465 00:34:41,849 --> 00:34:44,384 Oh, all I said was I'd seen you 466 00:34:44,418 --> 00:34:46,253 a couple times when I was out fishing, 467 00:34:46,286 --> 00:34:49,057 and it got me thinking that maybe you could use some seeds 468 00:34:49,089 --> 00:34:51,258 and a spark plug. I had extra. 469 00:34:51,291 --> 00:34:54,596 Thought it might save you a trip to town. 470 00:34:54,629 --> 00:34:58,365 And, uh, I don't know, I figured you'd like the feathers. 471 00:35:02,102 --> 00:35:03,470 All right, then. 472 00:35:08,042 --> 00:35:09,176 All right, then. 473 00:35:14,114 --> 00:35:16,483 Well, I better be going, so... 474 00:35:23,891 --> 00:35:25,359 I could teach you to read. 475 00:35:29,631 --> 00:35:32,265 I thought you may as well learn to write at the same time. 476 00:35:32,299 --> 00:35:33,968 Oh, yeah. 477 00:35:34,002 --> 00:35:37,772 Good. Okay, so we start with A. 478 00:35:37,805 --> 00:35:40,307 Just go ahead and draw that shape right there. 479 00:35:51,318 --> 00:35:53,121 Don't tell me. 480 00:35:53,153 --> 00:35:54,354 You're getting there. 481 00:35:54,388 --> 00:35:57,457 Don't help me. Sure. I got all day. 482 00:35:57,491 --> 00:36:02,396 "There are some who can live 483 00:36:02,429 --> 00:36:07,167 without wild things, comma, 484 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,904 and some who cannot." 485 00:36:10,938 --> 00:36:12,740 Oh. 486 00:36:12,774 --> 00:36:14,575 That's what I'm talking about, Kya. 487 00:36:14,609 --> 00:36:15,910 Whoo! [LAUGHS] 488 00:36:15,943 --> 00:36:17,679 And there will never be a time again 489 00:36:17,712 --> 00:36:19,013 when you can't read, ever. 490 00:36:19,047 --> 00:36:21,749 I didn't know words could hold so much. 491 00:36:21,783 --> 00:36:23,350 Not all words hold that much. 492 00:36:23,383 --> 00:36:24,284 [CHUCKLES] 493 00:36:28,455 --> 00:36:30,390 We could read at my house sometime. 494 00:36:55,415 --> 00:36:56,918 [CHUCKLES SOFTLY] 495 00:37:01,388 --> 00:37:03,725 We went through the whole library. 496 00:37:03,758 --> 00:37:06,961 Three times a week, summer into fall. 497 00:37:09,664 --> 00:37:12,100 Read how plants and animals change over time 498 00:37:12,133 --> 00:37:14,301 to adjust to the ever-shifting earth. 499 00:37:17,105 --> 00:37:18,906 How birds sing mostly at dawn 500 00:37:18,940 --> 00:37:21,142 because the cool, moist air of morning 501 00:37:21,175 --> 00:37:23,911 carries their songs and their meanings much farther. 502 00:37:27,081 --> 00:37:29,117 How some cells divide 503 00:37:29,150 --> 00:37:32,452 and specialize into lungs or hearts 504 00:37:32,486 --> 00:37:35,288 while others remain uncommitted as stem cells 505 00:37:35,322 --> 00:37:36,991 in case they're needed later. 506 00:37:38,659 --> 00:37:40,795 Within all the worlds of biology... 507 00:37:42,163 --> 00:37:43,765 I searched for an explanation 508 00:37:43,798 --> 00:37:45,967 of why a mother would leave her offspring. 509 00:37:50,772 --> 00:37:53,241 "Mr. Jackson Henry Clark 510 00:37:53,273 --> 00:38:00,114 married Miss Julienne Maria Jacques, June 12, 1933." 511 00:38:00,148 --> 00:38:01,816 That means 512 00:38:01,849 --> 00:38:04,252 these are my parents. [CHUCKLES] 513 00:38:04,284 --> 00:38:07,955 "Master Jeremy Andrew Clark, January 2." 514 00:38:07,989 --> 00:38:09,924 That's Jodie. 515 00:38:09,957 --> 00:38:15,495 "Master Napier Murphy Clark, Miss Mary Helen Clark, 516 00:38:15,530 --> 00:38:17,899 Miss Catherine Danielle Clark." 517 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:27,108 I miss them. 518 00:38:27,141 --> 00:38:28,176 [CHUCKLES SOFTLY] 519 00:38:30,244 --> 00:38:31,478 I had, um... 520 00:38:33,748 --> 00:38:35,482 I had forgot how much... 521 00:38:36,851 --> 00:38:38,653 I feel them not here. 522 00:38:41,522 --> 00:38:42,723 [SIGHS] But, um... 523 00:38:44,025 --> 00:38:46,393 I feel them not here right now. 524 00:38:46,426 --> 00:38:47,829 I mean... 525 00:38:50,665 --> 00:38:52,867 Sometimes I feel so invisible... 526 00:38:54,434 --> 00:38:56,070 I wonder if I'm here at all. 527 00:38:57,437 --> 00:38:58,706 You are. 528 00:39:09,717 --> 00:39:11,719 [OPERA MUSIC PLAYS ON RADIO] Sorry I'm late. 529 00:39:11,752 --> 00:39:14,021 Come on. Give me a hand. 530 00:39:14,055 --> 00:39:17,325 Son, you know I don't listen to idle talk. 531 00:39:17,357 --> 00:39:20,261 But there is a regular riptide of gossip going around 532 00:39:20,294 --> 00:39:22,263 you got something going on with that Marsh Girl. 533 00:39:24,098 --> 00:39:26,601 Hey, you know you can tell me anything. 534 00:39:26,634 --> 00:39:28,669 She your girlfriend? She's my friend. 535 00:39:28,703 --> 00:39:30,905 I bring her books 'cause people are so nasty to her, 536 00:39:30,938 --> 00:39:32,773 she can't go to school. 537 00:39:32,807 --> 00:39:34,242 She doesn't have any family. 538 00:39:36,077 --> 00:39:41,115 Hey. Come on. There's no need to be huffy. 539 00:39:41,148 --> 00:39:42,750 It's my job to say all the things 540 00:39:42,783 --> 00:39:44,218 that we don't like to talk about, 541 00:39:44,252 --> 00:39:45,953 and I can't give you a lot of things 542 00:39:45,987 --> 00:39:47,788 those other dads can give their sons. 543 00:39:47,822 --> 00:39:49,924 So I'm asking you. 544 00:39:49,957 --> 00:39:51,792 Just be careful. 545 00:39:51,826 --> 00:39:53,761 Everything you've worked so hard for, 546 00:39:53,794 --> 00:39:56,264 your dreams of going to Chapel Hill... 547 00:39:56,297 --> 00:39:58,099 Life can change in a second. 548 00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:01,969 You understand that? 549 00:40:02,003 --> 00:40:03,371 Yeah. 550 00:40:03,403 --> 00:40:07,108 Now turn up my music, would you? Come on. 551 00:40:08,843 --> 00:40:10,144 [VOLUME INCREASES] 552 00:40:10,177 --> 00:40:12,313 It's Puccini, in case you're wondering. 553 00:40:12,346 --> 00:40:15,349 [PUCCINI'S "VISSI D'ARTE" PLAYING] 554 00:40:24,525 --> 00:40:25,760 [SNIFFS] 555 00:40:32,300 --> 00:40:34,735 A young girl living on her own like that 556 00:40:34,769 --> 00:40:36,837 looks immoral, don't you think? 557 00:40:36,871 --> 00:40:39,840 No, sir. I don't. Think, that is. 558 00:40:39,874 --> 00:40:42,475 At least not enough. Heh, just ask my wife. 559 00:40:44,545 --> 00:40:46,981 There are some fine group homes 560 00:40:47,014 --> 00:40:49,684 that would help keep a young woman out of trouble. 561 00:40:49,717 --> 00:40:51,484 Hm. 562 00:40:51,519 --> 00:40:53,821 They say she comes in here from time to time. 563 00:40:53,854 --> 00:40:57,024 I do see her from time to time. 564 00:40:57,058 --> 00:40:59,527 She's not alone. She's got her father with her. 565 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:03,463 Well, I've never seen anybody home all the times I've been by. 566 00:41:03,496 --> 00:41:05,465 When does she usually come around? 567 00:41:05,498 --> 00:41:08,703 I never know just when she'll boat in here. 568 00:41:08,736 --> 00:41:11,405 Have her call me next time she comes in. 569 00:41:12,974 --> 00:41:14,875 Mm-hm. 570 00:41:14,909 --> 00:41:18,045 You don't have any reason to lie to me, do you, boy? 571 00:41:18,079 --> 00:41:20,247 [SCOFFS] No reason at all, sir. 572 00:41:29,724 --> 00:41:32,426 [DOOR OPENS, CLOSES] 573 00:41:33,728 --> 00:41:34,862 [EXHALES DEEPLY] 574 00:41:36,697 --> 00:41:39,667 We gotta meet somewhere else. Hi, Kya. Good to see you too. 575 00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:41,669 Social Services are looking for me again. 576 00:41:41,702 --> 00:41:43,971 They're gonna pull me in, put me in some group home. 577 00:41:44,005 --> 00:41:45,940 It's polite to greet people when you see them. 578 00:41:52,413 --> 00:41:56,517 You know, a group home might not be the worst thing. 579 00:41:56,550 --> 00:41:59,553 What? No, no. You'd have someone cooking you warm meals. 580 00:41:59,587 --> 00:42:02,556 Real bed. I got a real bed. 581 00:42:02,590 --> 00:42:04,191 'Sides, I'd never leave the marsh 582 00:42:04,225 --> 00:42:06,027 to go live with a bunch of strangers. 583 00:42:06,060 --> 00:42:09,196 It's "besides," not "'sides." 584 00:42:09,230 --> 00:42:11,232 And you can't live alone in the marsh forever. 585 00:42:11,265 --> 00:42:12,400 Watch me. 586 00:42:13,634 --> 00:42:14,935 All right. 587 00:42:30,785 --> 00:42:31,819 Tate. 588 00:42:33,154 --> 00:42:34,288 I, um... 589 00:42:36,791 --> 00:42:39,960 I appreciate you teaching me to read 590 00:42:39,994 --> 00:42:42,730 and all the things you gave me. 591 00:42:43,798 --> 00:42:45,900 But why do you do it? 592 00:42:45,933 --> 00:42:49,538 Don't you have a girlfriend or something? 593 00:42:49,570 --> 00:42:51,572 Sometimes I do. 594 00:42:51,605 --> 00:42:52,940 Sometimes? 595 00:42:52,973 --> 00:42:56,511 [STAMMERS] I mean, I've had one. 596 00:42:58,112 --> 00:42:59,914 Uh, but not now... 597 00:42:59,947 --> 00:43:02,517 I don't, so... 598 00:43:07,788 --> 00:43:08,923 All right. 599 00:43:08,956 --> 00:43:09,990 I, uh... 600 00:43:11,526 --> 00:43:14,295 I saw you on your pa's boat the other day. 601 00:43:16,263 --> 00:43:17,631 He seems real nice, your dad. 602 00:43:17,665 --> 00:43:20,167 Yeah. Yeah, he is. 603 00:43:20,201 --> 00:43:22,770 You never talk about your ma. 604 00:43:24,638 --> 00:43:25,973 What's she like? 605 00:43:31,479 --> 00:43:32,947 Uh-- 606 00:43:32,980 --> 00:43:35,116 You don't have to say nothing. 607 00:43:35,149 --> 00:43:37,918 My mother and little sister died in a car wreck 608 00:43:37,952 --> 00:43:39,887 over in Asheville. 609 00:43:43,190 --> 00:43:45,527 My little sister's name was Carianne. 610 00:43:48,530 --> 00:43:50,030 It was, uh... 611 00:43:55,302 --> 00:43:56,403 What, Tate? 612 00:43:57,972 --> 00:44:00,007 You can say anything to me. 613 00:44:05,580 --> 00:44:08,583 I think they went to Asheville to buy me my birthday present. 614 00:44:10,484 --> 00:44:13,053 There was this bike I wanted, 615 00:44:13,087 --> 00:44:15,689 and Western Auto didn't carry it... 616 00:44:17,825 --> 00:44:19,326 so I think they went into Asheville 617 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:20,828 to get that bike for me. 618 00:44:20,861 --> 00:44:23,664 [♪♪♪] 619 00:44:23,697 --> 00:44:26,100 And I don't even remember what kind of bike it was. 620 00:44:30,505 --> 00:44:32,173 It wasn't your fault. 621 00:44:39,046 --> 00:44:41,715 [WIND WHISTLING SOFTLY] 622 00:44:43,585 --> 00:44:44,752 Oh! [CHUCKLING] 623 00:44:44,785 --> 00:44:45,853 [CHUCKLES] 624 00:44:47,388 --> 00:44:49,524 Oh, my gosh! 625 00:44:49,558 --> 00:44:50,724 [EXCLAIMS BREATHLESSLY] 626 00:44:54,195 --> 00:44:56,130 [BOTH CHUCKLING] 627 00:45:12,246 --> 00:45:13,781 Am I your girlfriend now? 628 00:45:13,814 --> 00:45:15,082 Do you wanna be? 629 00:45:16,283 --> 00:45:17,586 I know feathers. 630 00:45:19,153 --> 00:45:21,388 Bet the other girls don't know feathers. 631 00:45:23,390 --> 00:45:24,425 All right, then. 632 00:45:24,458 --> 00:45:25,759 [CHUCKLES] 633 00:45:25,793 --> 00:45:26,994 All right, then. 634 00:45:28,162 --> 00:45:30,731 [♪♪♪] 635 00:45:45,346 --> 00:45:46,780 [GIGGLES] 636 00:46:00,127 --> 00:46:02,196 Whoo! 637 00:46:39,500 --> 00:46:41,168 I've never been out this way. 638 00:46:41,201 --> 00:46:43,638 It's worth the trip. You'll see. 639 00:46:43,672 --> 00:46:45,039 [TATE CHUCKLES] 640 00:46:45,072 --> 00:46:46,140 Happy birthday, Kya. 641 00:46:46,173 --> 00:46:47,642 [GASPS] 642 00:46:47,676 --> 00:46:49,343 [STAMMERS] 643 00:46:49,376 --> 00:46:51,011 How'd you know it was my birthday? 644 00:46:51,045 --> 00:46:52,580 Oh, I read it in your Bible. 645 00:46:55,316 --> 00:46:57,084 Did you know it was your birthday? 646 00:46:58,352 --> 00:46:59,654 Don't have a calendar. 647 00:47:03,424 --> 00:47:05,459 Oh, um, not my name. 648 00:47:05,492 --> 00:47:06,628 Don't cut my name. 649 00:47:06,661 --> 00:47:07,928 Yes, ma'am. 650 00:47:19,607 --> 00:47:20,575 Mm. 651 00:47:20,608 --> 00:47:21,576 Pretty good, huh? 652 00:47:21,609 --> 00:47:24,078 [BIRDS CALLING] 653 00:47:24,111 --> 00:47:25,112 What's that? 654 00:47:26,380 --> 00:47:27,881 Here they come. 655 00:47:29,383 --> 00:47:31,919 [♪♪♪] 656 00:47:36,957 --> 00:47:38,626 [CHUCKLES] Oh, wow! 657 00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:41,228 Snow geese. 658 00:47:44,932 --> 00:47:46,634 [BOTH CHUCKLING] 659 00:48:13,894 --> 00:48:14,995 Kya. 660 00:48:16,130 --> 00:48:17,064 Kya, look at me. 661 00:48:19,299 --> 00:48:22,236 [♪♪♪] 662 00:49:05,979 --> 00:49:06,980 Kya. 663 00:49:08,182 --> 00:49:10,350 Kya, I'm sorry. 664 00:49:10,384 --> 00:49:12,019 I'm sorry. 665 00:49:13,621 --> 00:49:14,823 Jeez. 666 00:49:17,357 --> 00:49:19,460 No, Tate, I want to. 667 00:49:20,895 --> 00:49:22,062 Why not? 668 00:49:23,297 --> 00:49:24,465 Because I... 669 00:49:26,300 --> 00:49:27,902 I care about you too much. 670 00:49:29,303 --> 00:49:31,673 Look, Kya. I want you more than anything, 671 00:49:31,706 --> 00:49:34,809 but I can't be damaged as easily. 672 00:49:34,843 --> 00:49:37,579 It's more dangerous for you. You understand? 673 00:49:44,318 --> 00:49:47,221 [♪♪♪] 674 00:49:50,758 --> 00:49:53,393 Fall gave way to winter. 675 00:49:53,427 --> 00:49:55,797 Winter to spring. 676 00:49:55,830 --> 00:49:59,299 The only constant in nature is change. 677 00:49:59,333 --> 00:50:01,301 Dad, I got in! 678 00:50:01,335 --> 00:50:02,670 [EXCLAIMS] 679 00:50:23,190 --> 00:50:24,559 Why are you quiet? 680 00:50:26,393 --> 00:50:28,997 You know I'm going away soon. 681 00:50:29,029 --> 00:50:30,130 To college. 682 00:50:32,399 --> 00:50:33,801 You talked about it. 683 00:50:35,637 --> 00:50:36,704 When? 684 00:50:37,872 --> 00:50:39,439 Not right away. 685 00:50:42,109 --> 00:50:43,143 Soon. 686 00:50:44,478 --> 00:50:46,714 I got a job at the biology lab. 687 00:50:46,748 --> 00:50:48,917 Starts next week, so... 688 00:51:00,595 --> 00:51:02,530 Stay here. 689 00:51:02,564 --> 00:51:03,731 And do what? 690 00:51:07,401 --> 00:51:09,771 No, look. I just mean there's no work for me here. 691 00:51:09,804 --> 00:51:13,240 What am I gonna do? I don't want to be a shrimper like my dad. 692 00:51:13,273 --> 00:51:15,309 I'm going to get a degree and be something, Kya. 693 00:51:15,342 --> 00:51:17,645 So could you. What do you want me to be? 694 00:51:19,013 --> 00:51:20,213 That's not what I meant. 695 00:51:20,247 --> 00:51:21,749 You're never gonna come back. 696 00:51:21,783 --> 00:51:24,886 Yes, I will. I won't leave you, Kya. I promise. 697 00:51:24,919 --> 00:51:26,721 I'm gonna come back to you. 698 00:51:26,754 --> 00:51:29,256 Kya! Kya, stop! 699 00:51:31,124 --> 00:51:33,493 You can't run away from every whipstitch! 700 00:51:36,664 --> 00:51:39,667 [BOAT MOTOR PUTTERING, THEN SHUTS OFF] 701 00:51:43,771 --> 00:51:45,506 [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING] 702 00:51:54,348 --> 00:51:55,783 One more night. 703 00:51:55,817 --> 00:51:57,284 One more night. 704 00:52:00,021 --> 00:52:02,957 [♪♪♪] 705 00:52:22,076 --> 00:52:23,210 What's this? 706 00:52:25,312 --> 00:52:28,348 It's a list of publishers. 707 00:52:28,382 --> 00:52:30,183 For all your drawings and notes. 708 00:52:30,217 --> 00:52:32,820 There's nothing like them out there, Kya. 709 00:52:32,854 --> 00:52:34,689 There's enough for a book. 710 00:52:34,722 --> 00:52:36,057 Lots of books. 711 00:52:37,825 --> 00:52:40,695 And, you know, you wouldn't have to leave home. 712 00:52:40,728 --> 00:52:43,831 You could just mail your samples into a publisher. 713 00:52:43,865 --> 00:52:45,432 You know, bring some money in. 714 00:52:46,934 --> 00:52:50,038 You know, probably not a huge amount... 715 00:52:50,071 --> 00:52:52,140 but maybe you wouldn't have to dig mussels 716 00:52:52,172 --> 00:52:53,340 the rest of your life. 717 00:52:55,076 --> 00:52:56,209 Just give it a try, Kya. 718 00:52:58,579 --> 00:53:00,247 Come on. What can it hurt? 719 00:53:03,618 --> 00:53:05,520 You're gonna forget about me. 720 00:53:07,789 --> 00:53:10,490 When you get busy with all that college stuff, 721 00:53:10,525 --> 00:53:11,859 all those pretty girls. 722 00:53:11,893 --> 00:53:14,529 I could never forget you, Kya. 723 00:53:14,562 --> 00:53:15,630 Ever. 724 00:53:17,965 --> 00:53:19,834 I'll be home in a month. I promise. 725 00:53:19,867 --> 00:53:21,936 For the Fourth of July. Okay? 726 00:53:23,705 --> 00:53:25,673 I'll be back before you know it. 727 00:53:25,707 --> 00:53:28,543 We'll meet on your beach and watch fireworks together. 728 00:53:28,576 --> 00:53:31,244 Just write those publishers, all right? 729 00:53:36,751 --> 00:53:39,486 [♪♪♪] 730 00:53:52,734 --> 00:53:54,802 Goodbye, Kya. 731 00:53:54,836 --> 00:53:56,336 [WHISPERS] Goodbye, Tate. 732 00:54:21,596 --> 00:54:22,964 [CAWING] 733 00:54:24,297 --> 00:54:26,366 Seabirds of the Eastern Seaboard. 734 00:54:27,769 --> 00:54:29,537 Starring you, Big Red. 735 00:55:13,681 --> 00:55:16,584 [♪♪♪] 736 00:56:30,725 --> 00:56:31,926 [SOFTLY] No. 737 00:56:36,230 --> 00:56:37,231 No. 738 00:56:37,265 --> 00:56:39,066 [SNIFFLES] 739 00:56:39,100 --> 00:56:40,433 No, Tate. 740 00:56:43,971 --> 00:56:45,539 No, no. 741 00:56:45,573 --> 00:56:46,641 No. 742 00:56:48,809 --> 00:56:50,011 No. 743 00:56:52,445 --> 00:56:54,315 No. 744 00:56:54,348 --> 00:56:56,784 No, no, no. 745 00:56:56,817 --> 00:56:59,253 [SOBBING] 746 00:57:11,599 --> 00:57:14,835 Tate and life and love had been the same thing. 747 00:57:16,203 --> 00:57:18,506 They were all gone. 748 00:57:18,539 --> 00:57:21,008 [BIRD CHIRPING] 749 00:57:21,042 --> 00:57:22,777 And then... 750 00:57:22,810 --> 00:57:25,346 [♪♪♪] 751 00:57:44,699 --> 00:57:48,569 Whenever I stumbled, the marsh caught me. 752 00:57:56,177 --> 00:57:57,878 At some unclaimed moment, 753 00:57:57,912 --> 00:58:00,448 at last, the heart pain seeped away, 754 00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,482 like water into sand. 755 00:58:02,516 --> 00:58:04,552 Still there, but deep. 756 00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,656 JACKSON: There were no footprints around the body 757 00:58:08,689 --> 00:58:10,191 or on the fire tower. 758 00:58:10,224 --> 00:58:12,059 And no fresh fingerprints either. 759 00:58:12,093 --> 00:58:14,862 Not even on the grate, which somebody had to open. 760 00:58:14,895 --> 00:58:17,565 All this indicated that someone had destroyed evidence. 761 00:58:17,598 --> 00:58:19,033 No more questions. 762 00:58:20,267 --> 00:58:21,836 Your witness. 763 00:58:28,409 --> 00:58:32,079 TOM: Sheriff, I'm handing you the tide table 764 00:58:32,113 --> 00:58:36,917 for the night of October 29 and the morning of October 30. 765 00:58:36,951 --> 00:58:42,323 Now, this shows here that low tide was around midnight. 766 00:58:42,356 --> 00:58:46,827 So at the time Chase Andrews arrived at the tower 767 00:58:46,861 --> 00:58:48,195 and walked to the steps, 768 00:58:48,229 --> 00:58:50,831 he would have made tracks in the wet mud. 769 00:58:50,865 --> 00:58:53,534 And then as the groundwater rose, 770 00:58:53,567 --> 00:58:56,037 those tracks would have been wiped out. 771 00:58:56,070 --> 00:58:57,738 Do you agree that this is possible? 772 00:58:57,772 --> 00:58:59,073 Well... 773 00:58:59,106 --> 00:59:00,408 And then you'd agree 774 00:59:00,441 --> 00:59:02,710 that if he had any friends with him, 775 00:59:02,743 --> 00:59:05,746 their footprints would be washed away as well. 776 00:59:05,780 --> 00:59:08,115 Under these circumstances, 777 00:59:08,149 --> 00:59:10,351 the absence of footprints 778 00:59:10,384 --> 00:59:14,789 in and of itself does not suggest a crime. 779 00:59:14,822 --> 00:59:16,223 Correct? 780 00:59:18,826 --> 00:59:19,760 Sheriff? 781 00:59:22,463 --> 00:59:25,032 The absence of footprints does not, 782 00:59:25,066 --> 00:59:27,368 by itself, prove there was a crime. 783 00:59:27,401 --> 00:59:30,471 You also testified that there were no fingerprints 784 00:59:30,505 --> 00:59:32,740 found anywhere in the fire tower, 785 00:59:32,773 --> 00:59:35,409 including on the open grate. 786 00:59:35,443 --> 00:59:37,978 So this led you to conclude that 787 00:59:38,012 --> 00:59:40,714 someone must have opened the grate 788 00:59:40,748 --> 00:59:43,217 and wiped away their fingerprints afterwards. 789 00:59:43,250 --> 00:59:45,286 Correct. 790 00:59:45,319 --> 00:59:47,822 Now, in fact, isn't it true 791 00:59:47,855 --> 00:59:49,990 that these grates were left open 792 00:59:50,024 --> 00:59:52,793 so often and considered so dangerous 793 00:59:52,827 --> 00:59:55,496 that your office submitted a written request 794 00:59:55,530 --> 00:59:57,231 to the U.S. Forest Service 795 00:59:57,264 --> 01:00:03,037 to remedy the situation on July 18 of last year? 796 01:00:05,306 --> 01:00:08,909 This is a copy of that request. 797 01:00:08,943 --> 01:00:11,178 Who wrote this, sheriff? 798 01:00:12,813 --> 01:00:13,914 I did it myself. 799 01:00:13,948 --> 01:00:15,416 Would you read to the court 800 01:00:15,449 --> 01:00:17,685 the last sentence of this document 801 01:00:17,718 --> 01:00:20,421 that you sent to the Forest Service? 802 01:00:20,454 --> 01:00:22,756 Just the last sentence. 803 01:00:22,790 --> 01:00:25,626 "I must repeat, these grates are very dangerous, 804 01:00:25,659 --> 01:00:27,461 and if action is not taken... 805 01:00:30,565 --> 01:00:32,933 if action is not taken, a serious injury 806 01:00:32,967 --> 01:00:34,268 or death will occur." 807 01:00:34,301 --> 01:00:36,470 [PEOPLE MURMURING] 808 01:00:36,505 --> 01:00:38,005 Thank you, sheriff. 809 01:00:43,144 --> 01:00:46,046 [♪♪♪] 810 01:00:50,217 --> 01:00:53,888 [GIRLS GIGGLING, PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY] 811 01:01:12,406 --> 01:01:15,142 [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING] 812 01:01:15,176 --> 01:01:16,511 [GASPS] 813 01:01:25,186 --> 01:01:27,656 Somebody's been taking pictures round my house. 814 01:01:27,688 --> 01:01:30,224 What do you think they want? 815 01:01:30,257 --> 01:01:32,226 Developers. 816 01:01:32,259 --> 01:01:35,329 They've been all up and down the marsh last few weeks, 817 01:01:35,362 --> 01:01:38,232 wanting to drain the "murky swamp." Build hotels. 818 01:01:38,265 --> 01:01:40,334 Yeah, I saw them last year. 819 01:01:40,367 --> 01:01:43,938 Cutting oak and digging channels down the way. 820 01:01:43,971 --> 01:01:45,005 They want my house? 821 01:01:45,039 --> 01:01:46,608 Maybe not the house, 822 01:01:46,641 --> 01:01:48,842 but I bet they offer you a heap of money for that land. 823 01:01:48,876 --> 01:01:50,211 Jumpin'! There ain't nothing wrong 824 01:01:50,244 --> 01:01:52,213 with some money going to Kya. 825 01:01:54,982 --> 01:01:58,319 You do own that land, don't you? You own that house? 826 01:02:01,155 --> 01:02:02,524 Pa said so. 827 01:02:02,557 --> 01:02:05,059 Well, you're gonna need some proof. 828 01:02:05,092 --> 01:02:07,328 A deed, title. 829 01:02:11,432 --> 01:02:12,466 CHASE: Hey. 830 01:02:12,499 --> 01:02:14,101 Sorry to startle you. 831 01:02:14,134 --> 01:02:15,936 Can I carry that for ya? 832 01:02:15,970 --> 01:02:18,906 I got it. Please. Let me get it. 833 01:02:20,407 --> 01:02:22,009 Oh, I'm Chase Andrews. 834 01:02:23,344 --> 01:02:24,912 Your name's Kya, right? 835 01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:28,717 Yeah. Yeah. It's a nice name. I like it. 836 01:02:28,749 --> 01:02:30,484 It's different but nice. 837 01:02:33,087 --> 01:02:34,288 This is yours right here. 838 01:02:36,323 --> 01:02:37,424 There we go. 839 01:02:40,261 --> 01:02:43,030 You wanna go for a picnic in my boat this Sunday? 840 01:02:49,003 --> 01:02:50,938 Okay. I'll pick you up at noon 841 01:02:50,971 --> 01:02:52,873 from Point Beach. Does that work? 842 01:02:54,174 --> 01:02:56,443 All right. Well, I'll see ya, Kya. 843 01:02:59,380 --> 01:03:01,015 [ENGINE STARTS] 844 01:03:07,555 --> 01:03:09,023 CLERK: Well, here we are. 845 01:03:09,056 --> 01:03:13,827 Mr. Napier Clark, looks like, bought it in 1897. 846 01:03:13,861 --> 01:03:16,964 Yeah, that's my grandpa. 847 01:03:16,997 --> 01:03:18,767 Yes, ma'am. 848 01:03:18,799 --> 01:03:21,435 It's never been sold, so, 849 01:03:21,468 --> 01:03:24,371 yes sirree, I reckon it belongs to you. 850 01:03:24,405 --> 01:03:26,775 Looks like you gotta pay some back taxes 851 01:03:26,807 --> 01:03:28,643 if you wanna keep it, Miss Clark. 852 01:03:28,677 --> 01:03:31,045 In fact, ma'am, the way the law reads, 853 01:03:31,078 --> 01:03:34,783 whoever comes along and pays those back taxes owns the land, 854 01:03:34,815 --> 01:03:37,318 even if they don't got no deed. 855 01:03:37,351 --> 01:03:38,653 Well, how much? 856 01:03:38,687 --> 01:03:40,421 Looks like about... 857 01:03:45,025 --> 01:03:46,827 Eight hundred dollars total. 858 01:03:48,395 --> 01:03:50,931 [♪♪♪] 859 01:04:04,244 --> 01:04:05,714 KYA: Five years. 860 01:04:07,047 --> 01:04:08,550 It had been five years 861 01:04:08,583 --> 01:04:11,085 since Tate showed me this path. 862 01:04:11,118 --> 01:04:13,688 Dear Sir or Madam, 863 01:04:13,722 --> 01:04:16,423 I am sending you the following pages 864 01:04:16,457 --> 01:04:19,026 on the shells of the Carolina marsh 865 01:04:19,059 --> 01:04:20,562 for your consideration. 866 01:04:23,464 --> 01:04:26,835 Five years for my heart to open its shell again. 867 01:04:26,867 --> 01:04:29,036 [CHASE PLAYING HARMONICA] 868 01:04:37,545 --> 01:04:40,381 How's it feel to bask in the presence of musical genius? 869 01:04:40,414 --> 01:04:41,783 [CHUCKLES SOFTLY] 870 01:04:47,488 --> 01:04:48,956 Hey, look. 871 01:04:51,258 --> 01:04:52,527 Oh! 872 01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:55,195 Oh! That's an ornate scallop. 873 01:04:55,229 --> 01:04:56,531 Pecten ornatus. 874 01:04:56,564 --> 01:04:57,665 All right. 875 01:04:59,099 --> 01:05:01,636 Well, it's unusual to find one here. 876 01:05:01,669 --> 01:05:03,470 Really? Yeah. 877 01:05:03,505 --> 01:05:06,373 This particular species usually inhabits regions south of here 878 01:05:06,407 --> 01:05:09,076 'cause these waters are too cool for them. 879 01:05:09,109 --> 01:05:11,378 [CHUCKLES] 880 01:05:11,412 --> 01:05:13,046 What? 881 01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:14,783 Oh, no, it's just, uh, 882 01:05:14,816 --> 01:05:17,819 the Marsh Girl knows the Latin name for shells 883 01:05:17,852 --> 01:05:20,454 and where they inhabit and why, for chrissakes. 884 01:05:22,022 --> 01:05:23,357 Here. You keep it. 885 01:05:26,126 --> 01:05:27,327 Thank you. 886 01:05:32,266 --> 01:05:34,201 You're something else, ain't ya? 887 01:05:58,125 --> 01:05:59,460 I know you think I'm trash, 888 01:05:59,493 --> 01:06:00,862 but I'm worth more than a picnic. 889 01:06:00,895 --> 01:06:02,262 Oh, no, Kya. Come on. 890 01:06:02,296 --> 01:06:03,665 I'm sorry. No. Hey, come on. 891 01:06:03,698 --> 01:06:05,867 I've never thought you were trash. 892 01:06:05,900 --> 01:06:07,702 Please. I'm sorry. 893 01:06:07,735 --> 01:06:10,638 I understand if you wanna go, but you can't walk from here. 894 01:06:10,672 --> 01:06:12,206 It's too far. 895 01:06:12,239 --> 01:06:13,842 Can I make it up to you? 896 01:06:16,243 --> 01:06:18,312 Please, can I make it up to you? 897 01:06:20,815 --> 01:06:23,183 I can't believe you never been up the fire tower. 898 01:06:23,217 --> 01:06:26,320 Come here when my family's all in my business. You know? 899 01:06:28,055 --> 01:06:30,491 It's a great way to see the whole marsh from above. 900 01:06:32,326 --> 01:06:34,228 [PANTING] 901 01:06:35,996 --> 01:06:37,264 Here. 902 01:06:58,418 --> 01:07:01,355 [♪♪♪] 903 01:07:02,422 --> 01:07:03,691 What is it? 904 01:07:05,259 --> 01:07:07,427 You can tell me. I won't laugh at you. 905 01:07:08,897 --> 01:07:12,000 It's like having a friend your whole life 906 01:07:12,032 --> 01:07:13,868 but you never saw their full face. 907 01:07:16,270 --> 01:07:17,204 Now I see it. 908 01:07:23,377 --> 01:07:25,479 Your house is over there, ain't it? 909 01:07:29,584 --> 01:07:31,184 Take me there. 910 01:07:31,218 --> 01:07:33,521 Oh, um... 911 01:07:33,555 --> 01:07:35,957 It's far. Hey, I like far. 912 01:07:37,457 --> 01:07:38,860 I don't care what it's like, 913 01:07:38,893 --> 01:07:40,762 if that's what you're worried about. 914 01:07:47,100 --> 01:07:48,435 Is this it right here? 915 01:07:51,506 --> 01:07:54,308 How long you lived out here by yourself? 916 01:07:54,341 --> 01:07:56,476 About 10 years, I think. 917 01:07:56,511 --> 01:07:58,145 Neat. 918 01:07:58,178 --> 01:08:00,815 Living out here with no parents telling you what to do? 919 01:08:03,450 --> 01:08:05,687 There's really nothing to see inside. 920 01:08:08,856 --> 01:08:11,458 Wow, what you got on the porch? What? 921 01:08:11,491 --> 01:08:13,493 Oh, um, nothing. 922 01:08:24,271 --> 01:08:25,607 What is all this? 923 01:08:26,808 --> 01:08:27,809 Nothing. 924 01:08:34,381 --> 01:08:36,884 What, you writing a book or something? 925 01:08:38,352 --> 01:08:39,954 Sort of. 926 01:08:39,988 --> 01:08:43,156 These look straight out of an encyclopedia. 927 01:08:46,159 --> 01:08:47,729 You're the real deal, ain't ya? 928 01:08:51,398 --> 01:08:53,101 Ah, swanee. 929 01:08:53,133 --> 01:08:54,836 You got a water pump. 930 01:08:56,804 --> 01:08:58,271 I wasn't ready for guests. 931 01:08:58,305 --> 01:08:59,674 Hey, don't worry. 932 01:09:03,011 --> 01:09:04,378 Hey, there's nobody I know 933 01:09:04,411 --> 01:09:06,881 who could live out here alone like this. 934 01:09:06,914 --> 01:09:09,249 I mean, most guys would be too scared. 935 01:09:12,553 --> 01:09:13,721 What do you want with me? 936 01:09:18,826 --> 01:09:22,295 Okay. Look, I'm real sorry I came on like that. 937 01:09:22,329 --> 01:09:25,033 I wanna get to know you better. All right? 938 01:09:25,066 --> 01:09:26,534 I think you're gorgeous. 939 01:09:28,002 --> 01:09:30,805 I do. I think you're free as a dang gale 940 01:09:30,838 --> 01:09:32,006 and smart as a whip. 941 01:09:33,941 --> 01:09:36,176 But I won't do anything unless you want me to. 942 01:09:37,578 --> 01:09:38,913 How's that? 943 01:09:41,916 --> 01:09:43,017 That's fine. 944 01:09:44,552 --> 01:09:45,753 All right. Heh. 945 01:09:45,787 --> 01:09:47,387 [CHUCKLES] 946 01:09:49,189 --> 01:09:51,092 [CHASE PLAYING HARMONICA] 947 01:09:57,065 --> 01:10:00,500 I didn't know exactly how I felt about Chase. 948 01:10:00,535 --> 01:10:03,104 But I was no longer lonely. 949 01:10:03,137 --> 01:10:04,404 That seemed enough. 950 01:10:06,641 --> 01:10:09,010 Is that for your book? 951 01:10:09,043 --> 01:10:10,912 Yeah. 952 01:10:10,945 --> 01:10:13,915 Anyway, who knows if anyone will read it. 953 01:10:13,948 --> 01:10:14,882 I will. 954 01:10:16,216 --> 01:10:17,952 The marsh was our secret. 955 01:10:19,620 --> 01:10:21,689 [PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY] 956 01:10:21,723 --> 01:10:23,490 [ALL CHUCKLING] 957 01:10:28,096 --> 01:10:29,362 KYA: Tell me about your friends. 958 01:10:29,396 --> 01:10:31,899 Oh, I don't really have any friends. 959 01:10:33,901 --> 01:10:35,803 You always seem to be having a good time 960 01:10:35,837 --> 01:10:38,338 when you're with them. You spying on me? 961 01:10:43,443 --> 01:10:45,079 It's funny. My dad told me once, 962 01:10:45,113 --> 01:10:48,916 he'd had something to drink and a fight with my mom. 963 01:10:50,317 --> 01:10:52,587 He told me if my friends really knew me, 964 01:10:52,620 --> 01:10:54,188 they wouldn't be my friends. 965 01:10:55,823 --> 01:10:57,725 I don't know if anyone really knows me, 966 01:10:57,759 --> 01:11:01,294 is what I'm saying, I guess. 967 01:11:05,833 --> 01:11:07,635 I wonder what makes the sky blue. 968 01:11:09,637 --> 01:11:11,773 Blue and violet wavelengths from sunlight. 969 01:11:13,440 --> 01:11:16,844 They bounce off the gas particles in the atmosphere 970 01:11:16,878 --> 01:11:18,179 and scatter. 971 01:11:18,212 --> 01:11:19,514 [CHUCKLES] 972 01:11:25,620 --> 01:11:27,054 Is it okay if I... 973 01:11:28,355 --> 01:11:29,791 kiss you now? 974 01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:35,495 [♪♪♪] 975 01:11:41,301 --> 01:11:43,503 CHASTAIN: Let's turn to the red wool fibers 976 01:11:43,538 --> 01:11:45,773 found on Chase Andrews' denim jacket 977 01:11:45,807 --> 01:11:47,975 the night he died. 978 01:11:48,009 --> 01:11:51,279 Did you compare those samples to this red ski cap? 979 01:11:51,311 --> 01:11:52,880 Exhibit C. Yes. 980 01:11:52,914 --> 01:11:56,383 The fibers from the cap and the jacket matched exactly. 981 01:11:56,416 --> 01:11:58,318 CHASTAIN: And where was that cap found? 982 01:11:58,351 --> 01:12:00,788 CONE: It was found in Miss Clark's residence. 983 01:12:00,822 --> 01:12:02,657 [PEOPLE MURMURING] 984 01:12:02,690 --> 01:12:04,826 TOM: Now, about these red fibers, 985 01:12:04,859 --> 01:12:06,794 is there any way, doctor, to determine 986 01:12:06,828 --> 01:12:09,197 how long the fibers had been on the jacket? 987 01:12:09,230 --> 01:12:12,900 CONE: No. We can tell where they came from, not when. 988 01:12:12,934 --> 01:12:15,136 TOM: And if someone wore this hat often, 989 01:12:15,169 --> 01:12:17,672 is it possible the fibers would be in their hair 990 01:12:17,705 --> 01:12:19,707 and on their clothes? CONE: Yes. 991 01:12:19,740 --> 01:12:22,176 I would suppose they could. 992 01:12:22,210 --> 01:12:25,880 So would you agree that at any time during the years 993 01:12:25,913 --> 01:12:28,583 that the defendant, Miss Clark, knew Chase Andrews, 994 01:12:28,616 --> 01:12:31,152 the fibers of the hat could have been transferred 995 01:12:31,185 --> 01:12:32,320 onto Chase's jacket? 996 01:12:32,352 --> 01:12:34,922 From what I've seen, yes. 997 01:12:34,956 --> 01:12:38,993 At any time they met. Yes. 998 01:12:39,026 --> 01:12:41,929 [♪♪♪] 999 01:12:54,075 --> 01:12:58,713 "Dear Miss Clark, we were fascinated by your manuscript. 1000 01:12:58,746 --> 01:13:02,449 If, as you say, your materials are already complete, 1001 01:13:02,482 --> 01:13:05,653 we hope to edit and publish in record time." 1002 01:13:11,424 --> 01:13:15,263 Hey. You're looking at the new manager of Western Auto. 1003 01:13:16,931 --> 01:13:18,966 Oh, Chase. 1004 01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:20,201 That's great news. 1005 01:13:20,234 --> 01:13:21,936 Come on. Let's celebrate. 1006 01:13:33,347 --> 01:13:37,218 So they're gonna pay you for those drawings? 1007 01:13:37,251 --> 01:13:39,253 Yeah. 1008 01:13:39,287 --> 01:13:41,155 [EXCLAIMS SOFTLY] 1009 01:13:41,188 --> 01:13:42,455 [BOTH CHUCKLE] 1010 01:13:44,158 --> 01:13:46,294 Just don't get too full of yourself, I guess. 1011 01:13:47,528 --> 01:13:48,796 I wouldn't. 1012 01:13:52,633 --> 01:13:54,936 I know people have disappointed you. 1013 01:13:56,270 --> 01:13:57,772 And I'm sorry for that. 1014 01:13:59,273 --> 01:14:01,309 Getting left by your own family. I mean... 1015 01:14:02,643 --> 01:14:04,312 God, my family's a pain in the ass, 1016 01:14:04,345 --> 01:14:06,747 but I don't think I could take that. 1017 01:14:06,781 --> 01:14:11,018 But I want you to know that I'm gonna take care of you. 1018 01:14:11,052 --> 01:14:12,586 Now I've been promoted, 1019 01:14:12,620 --> 01:14:14,487 I can get you a nice house when we're married. 1020 01:14:14,522 --> 01:14:16,624 "Married"? Yeah. 1021 01:14:16,657 --> 01:14:19,894 A nice two-story on the beach with a wraparound veranda. 1022 01:14:21,162 --> 01:14:22,296 Yeah. 1023 01:14:22,330 --> 01:14:23,798 [BOTH CHUCKLE] 1024 01:14:25,666 --> 01:14:27,335 What about your parents? 1025 01:14:27,368 --> 01:14:29,437 Have you told them about me? 1026 01:14:29,469 --> 01:14:31,439 What you gotta understand about my folks 1027 01:14:31,471 --> 01:14:34,942 is that if I say you're my choice, that'd be that. 1028 01:14:34,976 --> 01:14:37,712 They'll fall in love with you when they get to know ya. 1029 01:14:41,849 --> 01:14:43,150 Come here. 1030 01:14:49,190 --> 01:14:53,828 Oh, by the way, I have to drive over to Asheville in a few days 1031 01:14:53,861 --> 01:14:55,896 to buy goods for my dad's store. 1032 01:14:55,930 --> 01:14:58,532 I was thinking you could come. 1033 01:14:58,566 --> 01:15:00,234 Celebrate your book and all. 1034 01:15:01,736 --> 01:15:03,871 There'd be lots of people. It doesn't matter. 1035 01:15:03,904 --> 01:15:06,474 You'd be with me. I know everything. 1036 01:15:06,507 --> 01:15:10,077 Hell, you don't have to talk to one soul if you don't want to. 1037 01:15:10,111 --> 01:15:11,645 Come on. If we're gonna get married, 1038 01:15:11,679 --> 01:15:14,548 you need to get out in the world a bit. 1039 01:15:14,582 --> 01:15:16,584 Spread those long wings of yours. 1040 01:15:19,053 --> 01:15:20,955 Come on. It'll be fun. 1041 01:15:28,896 --> 01:15:32,767 It's a two-day job, so we'll stay the night. 1042 01:15:35,703 --> 01:15:37,705 [THE YARDBIRDS' "SMILE ON ME" PLAYING ON RADIO] 1043 01:15:37,738 --> 01:15:39,640 CHASE: ♪ ...hold my head up high ♪ 1044 01:15:41,609 --> 01:15:43,144 Incredible, huh? 1045 01:16:02,897 --> 01:16:05,332 Hey. It's an adventure. Come on. 1046 01:16:26,654 --> 01:16:28,322 [BOTH CHUCKLING] 1047 01:16:38,533 --> 01:16:40,101 [ZIPPER UNZIPS] 1048 01:16:56,283 --> 01:16:58,520 [MOANING SOFTLY] 1049 01:17:03,958 --> 01:17:05,359 [SIGHS] 1050 01:17:13,467 --> 01:17:14,702 [ZIPPER ZIPS] 1051 01:17:28,215 --> 01:17:32,820 It'll feel better for you later, the more you do it. 1052 01:17:34,188 --> 01:17:35,422 Oh. 1053 01:17:41,428 --> 01:17:43,330 Hey, I never wanna lose you. 1054 01:17:47,168 --> 01:17:49,571 Yeah? Yeah. 1055 01:17:49,604 --> 01:17:51,739 I think about it a lot. 1056 01:17:53,274 --> 01:17:55,743 Sneaking out at night to come see you. 1057 01:17:57,579 --> 01:17:58,513 My Marsh Girl. 1058 01:18:02,551 --> 01:18:05,554 ♪ Nobody knows ♪ 1059 01:18:05,587 --> 01:18:08,189 ♪ Nobody sees ♪ 1060 01:18:08,222 --> 01:18:10,958 ♪ Nobody knows but me ♪ 1061 01:18:14,428 --> 01:18:16,997 Hey, you don't have to prove yourself to anyone. 1062 01:18:17,031 --> 01:18:18,365 You understand? 1063 01:18:19,767 --> 01:18:21,368 You have me, and I love you. 1064 01:18:25,239 --> 01:18:26,807 I made you something. 1065 01:18:37,218 --> 01:18:38,385 Oh. 1066 01:18:41,422 --> 01:18:44,458 PATTI: It was a single shell, hung on a piece of rawhide, 1067 01:18:44,491 --> 01:18:46,961 tied in a tight knot, and it was missing. 1068 01:18:46,994 --> 01:18:49,196 CHASTAIN: So to be clear, what you're saying 1069 01:18:49,230 --> 01:18:51,398 is that the shell necklace 1070 01:18:51,432 --> 01:18:55,469 that Chase wore every day was missing from these items 1071 01:18:55,502 --> 01:18:57,905 that law enforcement recovered from his body 1072 01:18:57,938 --> 01:18:59,940 the day that he was found. 1073 01:18:59,974 --> 01:19:01,275 Is that correct? 1074 01:19:01,308 --> 01:19:04,411 I think it's important. Yes. 1075 01:19:04,445 --> 01:19:07,616 He had that necklace on when he had dinner with us that night. 1076 01:19:08,983 --> 01:19:11,752 And it was gone from his body. 1077 01:19:13,187 --> 01:19:15,657 And what I'm saying is he never took it off. 1078 01:19:15,690 --> 01:19:17,791 Whoever killed him took it. 1079 01:19:17,825 --> 01:19:20,995 Objection, Your Honor. It's speculation. 1080 01:19:21,028 --> 01:19:22,631 Sustained. 1081 01:19:22,664 --> 01:19:24,265 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, 1082 01:19:24,298 --> 01:19:28,102 you will disregard that last remark by Mrs. Andrews. 1083 01:19:28,135 --> 01:19:32,641 CHASTAIN: Mrs. Andrews, where did Chase get this necklace? 1084 01:19:32,674 --> 01:19:36,443 PATTI: It's from that Marsh Girl. Miss Clark. 1085 01:19:36,477 --> 01:19:39,880 I didn't even know her name or if she even had one. 1086 01:19:41,382 --> 01:19:43,350 I can't see why Chase... 1087 01:19:43,384 --> 01:19:45,986 But what I'm saying is, 1088 01:19:46,020 --> 01:19:48,657 she's the only one who'd have any interest 1089 01:19:48,690 --> 01:19:50,257 in taking the thing. 1090 01:19:50,291 --> 01:19:51,959 Mrs. Andrews... 1091 01:19:54,061 --> 01:19:57,031 were Chase and Miss Clark romantically involved? 1092 01:19:57,064 --> 01:20:00,100 PATTI: You could say. I saw him sneaking out at night. 1093 01:20:00,134 --> 01:20:02,537 When I finally asked him where he was going, 1094 01:20:02,570 --> 01:20:05,005 he told me the truth. 1095 01:20:05,039 --> 01:20:08,809 I thought: What would people say? 1096 01:20:08,842 --> 01:20:13,380 I was a silly woman to be worried about that next to... 1097 01:20:18,586 --> 01:20:23,023 [VOICE BREAKING] But he told me he broke it off with her. 1098 01:20:23,057 --> 01:20:26,795 She knew she couldn't have him anymore, so she killed him 1099 01:20:26,860 --> 01:20:30,397 and took back her ugly necklace! TOM: Objection, Your Honor. 1100 01:20:30,431 --> 01:20:32,399 [GAVEL POUNDING] 1101 01:20:32,433 --> 01:20:33,702 SIMS: Sustained. 1102 01:20:33,735 --> 01:20:35,502 No further questions, Your Honor. 1103 01:20:38,372 --> 01:20:40,040 [SIGHS, STAMMERS] 1104 01:20:40,074 --> 01:20:43,344 Mrs. Andrews, you have my deepest sympathy for your loss. 1105 01:20:43,377 --> 01:20:46,046 With all due respect, 1106 01:20:46,080 --> 01:20:51,720 you are aware that Miss Clark's house was thoroughly searched. 1107 01:20:51,753 --> 01:20:55,422 And that the police did not find the necklace there. 1108 01:20:55,456 --> 01:20:57,925 Did they? No. 1109 01:20:57,958 --> 01:20:59,927 [PEOPLE MURMURING] 1110 01:20:59,960 --> 01:21:02,896 [♪♪♪] 1111 01:21:07,901 --> 01:21:10,739 [KYA LAUGHING] 1112 01:21:20,147 --> 01:21:22,049 CHASE: Hey. 1113 01:21:22,082 --> 01:21:24,251 KYA: I got it. 1114 01:21:24,284 --> 01:21:27,020 CHASE: Almost got you. KYA: Almost knocked me out. 1115 01:21:27,054 --> 01:21:28,956 Just trying to show off. [CHASE LAUGHS] 1116 01:21:30,558 --> 01:21:32,627 BRIAN: What's that Marsh Girl like in bed, man? 1117 01:21:32,660 --> 01:21:34,629 Is she an animal? CHASE: Wild as a bobcat 1118 01:21:34,662 --> 01:21:36,631 and worth every bit of the gas money. 1119 01:21:36,664 --> 01:21:38,533 Tell me her eyes glow. [CHUCKLES] 1120 01:21:38,566 --> 01:21:40,300 Only for me and only when I make them. 1121 01:21:40,334 --> 01:21:42,403 Hey, don't talk about her like that. 1122 01:21:42,436 --> 01:21:43,705 What's that? 1123 01:21:43,738 --> 01:21:45,774 I said don't talk about her like that. 1124 01:21:45,807 --> 01:21:47,675 Oh, the college boy. 1125 01:21:49,744 --> 01:21:51,880 He taught the Marsh Girl her ABCs. 1126 01:21:51,912 --> 01:21:52,980 Oh. Mm. 1127 01:21:53,013 --> 01:21:54,148 You're a waste of her time. 1128 01:21:56,183 --> 01:21:58,419 Go ahead, college boy. What you gonna do? 1129 01:21:58,452 --> 01:22:01,756 Come on, you're tough, right? Come on, let's do something. 1130 01:22:01,790 --> 01:22:05,125 You wanna hit me? Hey, y'all settle down now. 1131 01:22:05,159 --> 01:22:06,360 That's enough. 1132 01:22:08,262 --> 01:22:11,231 Settle down before someone get hurt. 1133 01:22:11,265 --> 01:22:12,667 There's better ways than this. 1134 01:22:18,105 --> 01:22:20,007 [BOAT APPROACHING] 1135 01:22:22,109 --> 01:22:23,678 [ENGINE SHUTS OFF] 1136 01:22:33,020 --> 01:22:34,923 Hey, Kya. 1137 01:22:34,955 --> 01:22:37,024 [GRUNTING] 1138 01:22:37,057 --> 01:22:38,860 Hey, what the hell? 1139 01:22:38,893 --> 01:22:41,028 Wait! Kya, wait! Please. 1140 01:22:41,061 --> 01:22:42,329 Look, I just wanna talk. 1141 01:22:42,362 --> 01:22:44,198 Get out of my lagoon, you dirty creep! 1142 01:22:44,231 --> 01:22:46,099 Kya, please! I just need to talk to you! 1143 01:22:46,133 --> 01:22:48,435 I don't care what you want! 1144 01:22:48,469 --> 01:22:51,104 I never wanna see you again. Ever. 1145 01:22:51,138 --> 01:22:53,106 Kya, I need to talk to you about Chase, okay? 1146 01:22:53,140 --> 01:22:55,844 About Chase? He's not good enough for you. 1147 01:22:57,545 --> 01:23:00,481 You're the one who left me. 1148 01:23:02,182 --> 01:23:04,351 Who didn't come back when you promised. 1149 01:23:04,384 --> 01:23:06,955 Who never came back. 1150 01:23:06,987 --> 01:23:10,725 [SCOFFS] You didn't even write to explain 1151 01:23:10,758 --> 01:23:12,727 or even to say if you were alive or dead. 1152 01:23:12,760 --> 01:23:14,027 You just disappeared. 1153 01:23:14,061 --> 01:23:16,230 I know. And I'm so sorry, Kya, 1154 01:23:16,263 --> 01:23:17,464 you have no idea. 1155 01:23:17,498 --> 01:23:20,869 You weren't man enough to face me. 1156 01:23:22,169 --> 01:23:23,270 You're right, Kya. 1157 01:23:24,572 --> 01:23:27,040 Everything you say is true. 1158 01:23:27,074 --> 01:23:29,577 Leaving you like that was the worst thing I've ever done, 1159 01:23:29,611 --> 01:23:31,980 the worst thing I'll ever do in my life. 1160 01:23:32,012 --> 01:23:33,882 I knew how badly I'd hurt you, 1161 01:23:33,915 --> 01:23:36,250 and I couldn't face you, like you said. 1162 01:23:39,019 --> 01:23:41,923 I thought you wouldn't be able to leave the marsh 1163 01:23:41,956 --> 01:23:44,424 and live in any other world. 1164 01:23:44,458 --> 01:23:47,327 You know, I thought I had to choose between you 1165 01:23:47,361 --> 01:23:48,563 and everything else. 1166 01:23:48,596 --> 01:23:49,831 But the truth is, Kya, 1167 01:23:49,864 --> 01:23:51,331 everything else that I thought mattered, 1168 01:23:51,365 --> 01:23:53,233 the scholarships, the grants, the jobs, 1169 01:23:53,267 --> 01:23:55,235 it means nothing without you. 1170 01:23:57,137 --> 01:23:59,373 I was so wrong. 1171 01:23:59,406 --> 01:24:01,074 I've been sorry for years. 1172 01:24:03,578 --> 01:24:05,813 And I'll be sorry for the rest of my life. 1173 01:24:16,658 --> 01:24:17,592 You look... 1174 01:24:30,004 --> 01:24:31,673 I brought you something. 1175 01:24:49,256 --> 01:24:52,492 You know, I'm working at the new lab near town. 1176 01:24:54,194 --> 01:24:55,663 You'd love it, Kya. 1177 01:24:55,697 --> 01:24:58,465 I get to study all this under a microscope. 1178 01:25:00,935 --> 01:25:02,369 So I'm here now. 1179 01:25:04,471 --> 01:25:05,940 I'm back for good. 1180 01:25:15,650 --> 01:25:18,019 Kya, I would do anything to-- 1181 01:25:20,855 --> 01:25:23,357 I would've done so many things differently. 1182 01:25:31,733 --> 01:25:33,701 What do you want now, Tate? 1183 01:25:33,735 --> 01:25:36,804 Is there any way that you could possibly forgive me, Kya? 1184 01:25:38,840 --> 01:25:40,008 Please? 1185 01:25:42,910 --> 01:25:44,646 [SOFTLY] I don't know how. 1186 01:26:07,568 --> 01:26:11,706 TOM: Kya, I trust you would tell me if you knew of anyone else 1187 01:26:11,739 --> 01:26:14,374 who had reason to harm Chase Andrews. 1188 01:26:19,013 --> 01:26:21,481 Well, all right, then. 1189 01:26:21,516 --> 01:26:23,017 Try and get some rest. 1190 01:26:23,051 --> 01:26:24,619 [LOCK CLICKS] 1191 01:26:29,456 --> 01:26:31,224 Oh. Hi. 1192 01:26:31,258 --> 01:26:33,427 Hey. What you doing in town? 1193 01:26:33,460 --> 01:26:35,863 I had some good news from the publisher, 1194 01:26:35,897 --> 01:26:37,865 so I thought we could celebrate. 1195 01:26:37,899 --> 01:26:40,400 I was gonna make-- PEARL: There he is. 1196 01:26:46,908 --> 01:26:49,711 Kya, you know Brian, Tina, Pearl. 1197 01:26:49,744 --> 01:26:52,947 You guys know Kya. Sure, yeah, the Marsh Girl. 1198 01:26:52,980 --> 01:26:54,782 Pleased to meet you, Kya. 1199 01:26:54,816 --> 01:26:57,552 I'm Chase's fiancée. 1200 01:26:59,486 --> 01:27:01,789 All right. Well, I'll see you around, Kya. 1201 01:27:10,497 --> 01:27:12,967 [PANTING] 1202 01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:15,937 [♪♪♪] 1203 01:27:20,742 --> 01:27:22,643 [BOAT APPROACHING] 1204 01:27:42,597 --> 01:27:43,664 Kya! 1205 01:27:44,866 --> 01:27:46,768 Hey, Kya. I can explain. 1206 01:27:49,670 --> 01:27:50,938 Are you in there? 1207 01:27:52,840 --> 01:27:54,374 Hey, I just wanna talk. 1208 01:27:55,943 --> 01:27:57,344 Kya! 1209 01:28:00,480 --> 01:28:01,816 I know you're here, damn it! 1210 01:28:03,518 --> 01:28:05,153 [FURNITURE CLATTERS] 1211 01:28:07,855 --> 01:28:09,322 Kya! 1212 01:28:09,356 --> 01:28:11,192 [CLATTERING] 1213 01:28:11,225 --> 01:28:14,162 [♪♪♪] 1214 01:28:19,567 --> 01:28:21,501 [ENGINE STARTS] 1215 01:28:24,404 --> 01:28:27,340 [♪♪♪] 1216 01:28:35,750 --> 01:28:37,985 [SCREAMS] 1217 01:28:38,019 --> 01:28:39,887 [SNIFFLES, THEN PANTING] 1218 01:29:03,611 --> 01:29:05,613 KYA: I had to do life alone. 1219 01:29:07,582 --> 01:29:08,883 But I knew that. 1220 01:29:10,383 --> 01:29:12,352 I'd known for a long time. 1221 01:29:14,222 --> 01:29:15,756 People don't stay. 1222 01:29:27,869 --> 01:29:29,537 "Dear Miss Clark, 1223 01:29:29,570 --> 01:29:33,074 enclosed is the final copy of your beautiful book, 1224 01:29:33,107 --> 01:29:35,509 along with the initial check for delivery, 1225 01:29:35,543 --> 01:29:38,679 with royalties to follow, I'm sure. 1226 01:29:38,713 --> 01:29:41,249 I'm attending a conference in Greenville next month 1227 01:29:41,282 --> 01:29:42,917 and would love for you to join us 1228 01:29:42,950 --> 01:29:45,219 and celebrate this great accomplishment." 1229 01:29:45,253 --> 01:29:47,788 [♪♪♪] 1230 01:29:53,160 --> 01:29:55,963 "A full deed for Catherine Danielle Clark 1231 01:29:55,997 --> 01:30:01,869 for 310 acres of lagoons, marsh, oak forests and beach. 1232 01:30:01,903 --> 01:30:05,306 Wasteland category: murky swamp." 1233 01:30:15,516 --> 01:30:17,450 [CAR APPROACHING] 1234 01:30:19,186 --> 01:30:20,588 [CAR DOOR CLOSES] 1235 01:30:26,493 --> 01:30:29,096 Jodie? JODIE: There I am in Asheville, 1236 01:30:29,130 --> 01:30:31,565 and I see your book in a shop: 1237 01:30:31,599 --> 01:30:33,167 Catherine Danielle Clark. 1238 01:30:33,200 --> 01:30:37,972 And my heart just broke and leapt for joy all at once. 1239 01:30:38,005 --> 01:30:40,508 I knew I had to find you. 1240 01:30:40,541 --> 01:30:42,442 I just didn't think you'd still be here. 1241 01:30:43,544 --> 01:30:45,680 What about the others? 1242 01:30:45,713 --> 01:30:48,249 I don't know a thing about Murph, Mandy or Missy. 1243 01:30:48,282 --> 01:30:51,285 I wouldn't know them if I passed them in the street. 1244 01:30:51,319 --> 01:30:52,853 And, um... 1245 01:30:54,855 --> 01:30:56,357 what about Ma? 1246 01:30:59,060 --> 01:31:00,962 Ma passed, Kya. 1247 01:31:09,236 --> 01:31:11,639 Ma had a sister, Rosemary. 1248 01:31:11,672 --> 01:31:14,608 She found me in the Army and told me what happened. 1249 01:31:14,642 --> 01:31:17,878 Showed up at Rosemary's door in her alligator shoes. 1250 01:31:17,912 --> 01:31:20,614 Rosemary said she didn't talk for months. 1251 01:31:20,648 --> 01:31:24,051 And then about a year later, she remembered she had children. 1252 01:31:24,085 --> 01:31:25,720 Rosemary helped her write a letter to Pa, 1253 01:31:25,753 --> 01:31:28,522 asking if she could come get us. 1254 01:31:28,556 --> 01:31:31,392 And he told her if she ever so much as contacted us again, 1255 01:31:31,425 --> 01:31:32,994 he'd beat us unrecognizable. 1256 01:31:34,562 --> 01:31:36,163 Yeah, sounds like Pa. 1257 01:31:36,197 --> 01:31:38,666 She saved up for lawyers and everything, 1258 01:31:38,699 --> 01:31:40,901 but then she got sick. 1259 01:31:40,935 --> 01:31:42,837 Leukemia. 1260 01:31:42,870 --> 01:31:43,904 She tried, but-- 1261 01:31:43,938 --> 01:31:45,573 She never had a chance. 1262 01:31:48,609 --> 01:31:50,644 I've been waiting... 1263 01:31:50,678 --> 01:31:53,180 all these years for her to walk down the lane. 1264 01:31:54,915 --> 01:31:58,152 You didn't have a family your whole life, 1265 01:31:58,185 --> 01:32:01,522 and there's nothing I can do to give you that back. 1266 01:32:01,555 --> 01:32:05,626 But I'd like to come see you as much as I can get up here. 1267 01:32:10,531 --> 01:32:12,066 Yeah, I'd like that. 1268 01:32:45,633 --> 01:32:49,270 [BLUES MUSIC PLAYING SOFTLY] 1269 01:32:49,303 --> 01:32:50,971 JUMPIN': Mabel's gonna be so proud. 1270 01:32:51,005 --> 01:32:52,640 Just one more thing. 1271 01:32:55,076 --> 01:32:56,911 I'll be sure he gets it. 1272 01:32:58,145 --> 01:32:59,480 Thank you, Jumpin'. 1273 01:33:04,318 --> 01:33:05,619 How y'all doing? 1274 01:33:05,653 --> 01:33:08,557 One pack of your finest, please, sir. 1275 01:33:08,589 --> 01:33:10,124 And give me some matches. 1276 01:33:10,157 --> 01:33:12,226 JUMPIN': Sure thing. BRIAN: "Sure thing." 1277 01:33:12,259 --> 01:33:13,661 [BOYS SNICKERING] 1278 01:33:13,694 --> 01:33:15,429 CHASE: Kya Clark. 1279 01:33:15,463 --> 01:33:17,798 Miss Catherine Danielle Clark. 1280 01:33:17,832 --> 01:33:19,767 You wrote a damn book. Come here. 1281 01:33:19,800 --> 01:33:21,769 Wait, wait, wait. I wanna talk to you. 1282 01:33:21,802 --> 01:33:24,573 Don't act like that. Come on. 1283 01:33:24,605 --> 01:33:26,006 Leave me alone. 1284 01:33:28,510 --> 01:33:31,479 BRIAN: Damn, the Marsh Girl thinks she's too good for you now. 1285 01:33:31,513 --> 01:33:33,080 [LAUGHING] Shut up! 1286 01:33:33,114 --> 01:33:35,349 Here you go, sir. It's on the house. 1287 01:33:44,859 --> 01:33:46,494 Thought I might find you here. 1288 01:33:47,828 --> 01:33:49,263 I told you to leave me alone. 1289 01:33:49,296 --> 01:33:50,764 No, I know, but I just-- 1290 01:33:50,798 --> 01:33:52,766 Listen, I wanted to say I'm sorry. 1291 01:33:52,800 --> 01:33:57,204 Really. I feel bad about how things turned out. 1292 01:33:57,238 --> 01:33:58,873 "How things turned out"? 1293 01:34:00,341 --> 01:34:02,009 What, you mean how it turned out 1294 01:34:02,042 --> 01:34:05,379 you were engaged the whole time we were together? 1295 01:34:05,412 --> 01:34:09,049 How it turned out that you lie to everybody? 1296 01:34:09,083 --> 01:34:11,652 Kya, I have to do things I don't wanna do. You know that. 1297 01:34:11,685 --> 01:34:14,822 No, I have to get married to someone like Pearl. I had to. 1298 01:34:14,855 --> 01:34:16,757 But you're the one I really want. 1299 01:34:20,995 --> 01:34:23,998 You know any other man would have tried to change you? 1300 01:34:24,031 --> 01:34:25,332 To fix you? 1301 01:34:26,500 --> 01:34:27,935 I never did. 1302 01:34:29,203 --> 01:34:30,671 No, no. Please, please, wait. 1303 01:34:30,704 --> 01:34:33,474 I need you. I really need you. 1304 01:34:33,508 --> 01:34:36,076 Don't leave me all alone in that place. 1305 01:34:36,110 --> 01:34:37,711 You know, nobody else knows me. 1306 01:34:37,745 --> 01:34:39,246 [GRUNTS SOFTLY] 1307 01:34:42,216 --> 01:34:44,251 You know, I feel sorry for you. 1308 01:34:46,220 --> 01:34:48,355 But I want nothing to do with any of that. 1309 01:34:59,733 --> 01:35:00,801 [SPITS] 1310 01:35:02,604 --> 01:35:03,971 Wilder than ever. 1311 01:35:07,942 --> 01:35:09,511 I know you want this too. 1312 01:35:09,544 --> 01:35:11,745 Stop! I know you want this too. 1313 01:35:11,779 --> 01:35:13,147 [EARS RINGING] 1314 01:35:17,151 --> 01:35:19,186 [DISTORTED] You're mine, Kya. You belong to me. 1315 01:35:19,220 --> 01:35:20,988 I'm not letting you go this time. 1316 01:35:39,608 --> 01:35:41,108 [COUGHS WEAKLY] 1317 01:35:41,141 --> 01:35:43,310 Leave me alone, you bastard! 1318 01:35:44,679 --> 01:35:48,449 You bother me again and I'll kill you! 1319 01:35:48,482 --> 01:35:50,652 RODNEY: She shouted it real loud, sir. 1320 01:35:50,685 --> 01:35:52,786 I heard a commotion, and I come closer, 1321 01:35:52,820 --> 01:35:55,990 see if anybody was in trouble, and there she was. 1322 01:35:56,023 --> 01:35:58,759 And do you recognize the woman? 1323 01:35:58,792 --> 01:36:02,329 Is she in the courtroom today? 1324 01:36:02,363 --> 01:36:04,733 Yes, that one there. The defendant. 1325 01:36:04,765 --> 01:36:07,134 [PEOPLE MURMURING] The one folks call Marsh Girl. 1326 01:36:07,167 --> 01:36:08,135 [GAVEL BANGING] 1327 01:36:12,674 --> 01:36:15,476 KYA: I finally understood why Ma had to leave. 1328 01:36:15,510 --> 01:36:16,611 [TWIG SNAPS] [GASPS] 1329 01:36:16,645 --> 01:36:19,146 [♪♪♪] 1330 01:36:31,825 --> 01:36:33,327 [BIRD CALLING] [GASPS] 1331 01:37:00,154 --> 01:37:03,057 [BOAT ENGINE DRONING IN DISTANCE] 1332 01:37:22,343 --> 01:37:24,646 One thing I learned from Pa, 1333 01:37:24,679 --> 01:37:27,181 these men have to have the last punch. 1334 01:37:54,809 --> 01:37:57,712 Being isolated was one thing. 1335 01:37:57,746 --> 01:38:00,881 Living in fear, quite another. 1336 01:38:02,650 --> 01:38:05,754 I will never live like that. 1337 01:38:05,787 --> 01:38:09,758 A life wondering when the next fist will fall. 1338 01:38:09,791 --> 01:38:11,726 [BOAT APPROACHING] [GASPS] 1339 01:38:31,679 --> 01:38:33,548 Tate, you can't be here. 1340 01:38:33,581 --> 01:38:35,149 I just wanted to check on you. 1341 01:38:35,182 --> 01:38:36,483 Jumpin' said he hadn't seen you since-- 1342 01:38:36,518 --> 01:38:37,585 Not now. 1343 01:38:39,286 --> 01:38:41,623 Kya, what happened to your face? 1344 01:38:41,656 --> 01:38:44,224 Was it Chase? Tell me, Kya. Did he do this? 1345 01:38:44,258 --> 01:38:45,926 I need you to stay out of it. 1346 01:38:45,959 --> 01:38:48,061 That son of a bitch. 1347 01:38:48,095 --> 01:38:50,899 That son of a bitch. Tate, I need you to go. 1348 01:38:50,931 --> 01:38:52,132 Kya. 1349 01:38:58,773 --> 01:39:01,275 You know, I was gonna go to Greenville next week. 1350 01:39:04,111 --> 01:39:05,814 Finally meet my publishers. 1351 01:39:07,948 --> 01:39:10,117 Talk about the next book. 1352 01:39:10,150 --> 01:39:11,952 I was feeling brave enough. 1353 01:39:11,985 --> 01:39:13,655 Well, you can still go. 1354 01:39:13,688 --> 01:39:15,322 Looking like this? 1355 01:39:15,355 --> 01:39:18,192 Don't let him ruin this for you. 1356 01:39:18,225 --> 01:39:20,294 Go to Greenville. 1357 01:39:20,327 --> 01:39:21,995 Okay? There's a bus. 1358 01:39:22,029 --> 01:39:24,666 It's easy. Jumpin's got the schedule. 1359 01:39:24,699 --> 01:39:27,134 Let them put you up in a nice hotel, 1360 01:39:27,167 --> 01:39:29,436 eat some hot restaurant food you didn't have to make. 1361 01:39:29,470 --> 01:39:32,306 Stay a week, if you can. 1362 01:39:32,339 --> 01:39:36,210 And I'll come see you when you're back. Okay? 1363 01:39:36,243 --> 01:39:38,847 Hear how it all went with the publishers. 1364 01:39:38,880 --> 01:39:40,314 [SOFTLY] All right. 1365 01:39:47,555 --> 01:39:48,756 Hey, you cold? 1366 01:39:50,357 --> 01:39:53,327 I'm fine. I don't need you to take care of me. 1367 01:39:53,360 --> 01:39:55,295 I know, but just take my hat. 1368 01:39:55,329 --> 01:39:58,065 I said I don't need your help. Just take it. 1369 01:40:00,434 --> 01:40:02,402 [PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY] 1370 01:40:02,436 --> 01:40:03,872 [DOOR CREAKS] 1371 01:40:26,861 --> 01:40:29,363 JUMPIN': You wanna tell me what happened to your eye? 1372 01:40:30,732 --> 01:40:32,867 I need to write down the bus schedule. 1373 01:40:32,901 --> 01:40:34,702 You have a copy, right? 1374 01:40:39,874 --> 01:40:42,610 It was that Chase, wasn't it? 1375 01:40:45,212 --> 01:40:46,581 Kya, look at me. 1376 01:40:49,617 --> 01:40:51,485 Now you tell me what he did. 1377 01:40:53,821 --> 01:40:55,088 [WHISPERS] I can't say it. 1378 01:40:56,724 --> 01:40:58,560 It's over now. 1379 01:40:58,593 --> 01:41:00,427 I just want it out of my life. 1380 01:41:00,460 --> 01:41:03,598 And how you know he ain't coming after you again? 1381 01:41:03,631 --> 01:41:05,465 You're all by your lonesome out there. 1382 01:41:05,499 --> 01:41:06,834 Jumpin', please. 1383 01:41:08,002 --> 01:41:09,871 You can't tell anybody. 1384 01:41:09,904 --> 01:41:11,706 You know how it is. 1385 01:41:11,739 --> 01:41:14,408 They'd drag me into the sheriff's office 1386 01:41:14,441 --> 01:41:18,145 and make me describe it to a bunch of men. 1387 01:41:18,178 --> 01:41:20,113 And then write me up in the papers, 1388 01:41:20,147 --> 01:41:22,482 accusing me of whoring. 1389 01:41:22,517 --> 01:41:25,620 Or trying to get money out of his parents. 1390 01:41:25,653 --> 01:41:27,387 Okay? They'd do nothing about it. 1391 01:41:27,421 --> 01:41:28,422 You're right, Kya. 1392 01:41:31,025 --> 01:41:33,828 And I ain't gonna do anything to make this thing worse. 1393 01:41:35,763 --> 01:41:39,067 But you let me know when you're coming and going. 1394 01:41:39,099 --> 01:41:40,935 You hear? 1395 01:41:40,969 --> 01:41:43,004 I gotta know if you're out of town. 1396 01:41:46,273 --> 01:41:49,376 'Cause if I don't see you for a while... 1397 01:41:54,716 --> 01:41:56,050 [SOFTLY] Thank you, Jumpin'. 1398 01:41:57,217 --> 01:41:59,020 I'm leaving in a few days. 1399 01:42:00,387 --> 01:42:02,189 I'll come see you as soon as I'm back. 1400 01:42:04,559 --> 01:42:06,661 Okay, that's good. 1401 01:42:06,694 --> 01:42:08,029 That's good. 1402 01:42:11,398 --> 01:42:13,101 TOM: Miss Price, would you tell us 1403 01:42:13,133 --> 01:42:15,870 what you saw on the morning of October 29? 1404 01:42:15,903 --> 01:42:17,939 I saw the Marsh Girl... 1405 01:42:17,972 --> 01:42:20,808 Miss Clark, that is. Pardon me. ...get on the 9:00 bus. 1406 01:42:20,842 --> 01:42:22,810 TOM: Well, you've got quite a good memory. 1407 01:42:22,844 --> 01:42:23,945 We all talked about it. 1408 01:42:23,978 --> 01:42:25,046 We'd never seen her 1409 01:42:25,079 --> 01:42:26,480 all cleaned up like that. 1410 01:42:26,514 --> 01:42:28,650 Hair combed, makeup. 1411 01:42:28,683 --> 01:42:33,054 TOM: Just to be clear, on the morning of October 29, 1412 01:42:33,087 --> 01:42:36,289 you and several others saw Miss Clark 1413 01:42:36,323 --> 01:42:39,861 board the 9 a.m. bus and leave Barkley Cove. 1414 01:42:39,894 --> 01:42:41,896 Yes, that's right. Thank you, Miss Price. 1415 01:42:41,929 --> 01:42:43,631 No further questions, Your Honor. 1416 01:42:43,665 --> 01:42:46,400 CHASTAIN: Miss Price, is the Piggly Wiggly open 1417 01:42:46,433 --> 01:42:48,201 at 1:30 in the morning? 1418 01:42:48,235 --> 01:42:49,904 No, sir. 1419 01:42:51,039 --> 01:42:53,206 Well, the reason I ask is, 1420 01:42:53,240 --> 01:42:54,909 you couldn't have seen who got off 1421 01:42:54,942 --> 01:42:56,911 the night bus from Greenville, 1422 01:42:56,944 --> 01:42:59,714 nor could you have seen who got on the 2:30 a.m. bus 1423 01:42:59,747 --> 01:43:03,350 from Barkley Cove back to Greenville, could you? 1424 01:43:03,383 --> 01:43:05,086 Well, no. Of course not. 1425 01:43:05,119 --> 01:43:07,689 So after you saw Miss Clark 1426 01:43:07,722 --> 01:43:10,124 board that morning bus to Greenville... 1427 01:43:11,759 --> 01:43:14,562 she could have returned to Barkley Cove that night 1428 01:43:14,595 --> 01:43:16,698 and been back in Greenville for breakfast, 1429 01:43:16,731 --> 01:43:19,266 all without you taking notice. 1430 01:43:19,299 --> 01:43:21,002 My name is Robert Foster. 1431 01:43:21,035 --> 01:43:24,172 I'm a senior editor at Harrison Morris Publishing Company 1432 01:43:24,204 --> 01:43:27,075 in Boston, Massachusetts. TOM: Mr. Foster, you sat down 1433 01:43:27,108 --> 01:43:29,711 for dinner with Miss Clark at 7 p.m. 1434 01:43:29,744 --> 01:43:31,846 on the night of October 29. 1435 01:43:31,879 --> 01:43:33,213 Correct? Yes. 1436 01:43:33,246 --> 01:43:35,282 What was your first impression of her? 1437 01:43:35,315 --> 01:43:36,684 [CHUCKLES] 1438 01:43:36,718 --> 01:43:38,052 My first impression was 1439 01:43:38,086 --> 01:43:43,057 that she was very shy, very gentle, very smart. 1440 01:43:43,091 --> 01:43:45,193 I knew that she was something of a recluse, 1441 01:43:45,225 --> 01:43:48,129 but I also knew that she was a gifted naturalist. 1442 01:43:48,162 --> 01:43:49,764 TOM: How long did that dinner go on? 1443 01:43:49,797 --> 01:43:51,199 ROBERT: At least a few hours. 1444 01:43:51,231 --> 01:43:52,967 KYA: Some female insects do eat their mates. 1445 01:43:53,000 --> 01:43:56,269 Fireflies, in fact, have two different light signals. 1446 01:43:56,303 --> 01:43:57,471 One for mating, 1447 01:43:57,504 --> 01:43:58,806 and one to attract a male 1448 01:43:58,840 --> 01:44:00,575 in order to make him her next meal. 1449 01:44:00,608 --> 01:44:02,309 MAN: So she eats him? WOMAN: How gruesome. 1450 01:44:02,342 --> 01:44:03,477 Oh, dear. 1451 01:44:03,511 --> 01:44:05,278 I must spend less time with insects. 1452 01:44:05,312 --> 01:44:07,582 It's quite amoral. WOMAN: Amoral, indeed. 1453 01:44:07,615 --> 01:44:10,017 I don't know if there is a dark side to nature. 1454 01:44:11,686 --> 01:44:14,555 Just inventive ways to endure. 1455 01:44:14,589 --> 01:44:16,090 Against all odds. 1456 01:44:16,124 --> 01:44:18,159 TOM: And when you met with Miss Clark 1457 01:44:18,192 --> 01:44:20,595 the following morning, October 30th, 1458 01:44:20,628 --> 01:44:24,632 was there anything unusual about her appearance or her demeanor? 1459 01:44:24,665 --> 01:44:26,433 Not at all. 1460 01:44:26,466 --> 01:44:28,236 TOM: No further questions, Your Honor. 1461 01:44:28,268 --> 01:44:31,773 Mr. Foster, did Miss Clark stay at the same hotel 1462 01:44:31,806 --> 01:44:33,440 as you and your colleagues? 1463 01:44:33,473 --> 01:44:36,144 No. She preferred a smaller hotel. 1464 01:44:36,177 --> 01:44:38,780 The, um, Mountain something. 1465 01:44:38,813 --> 01:44:42,116 Could you look at this map of Greenville for me, please? 1466 01:44:42,150 --> 01:44:44,852 I think you'll see The Piedmont, 1467 01:44:44,886 --> 01:44:46,788 where you and your colleagues stayed, 1468 01:44:46,821 --> 01:44:50,858 and then The Three Mountains Hotel, where Miss Clark stayed. 1469 01:44:50,892 --> 01:44:54,361 Could you tell me which one is closest to the bus station? 1470 01:44:56,063 --> 01:44:58,533 The Three Mountains Hotel is closer. 1471 01:44:58,566 --> 01:45:02,270 In fact, The Three Mountains is the closest hotel 1472 01:45:02,302 --> 01:45:05,673 to the Greenville bus station. Is that correct? 1473 01:45:05,706 --> 01:45:08,543 Looks that way. No further questions. 1474 01:45:08,576 --> 01:45:11,311 TOM: I don't think a good lawyer 1475 01:45:11,344 --> 01:45:13,047 ever puts their client on the stand, 1476 01:45:13,080 --> 01:45:15,348 but this might help you. 1477 01:45:15,382 --> 01:45:19,587 For the jury to be able to hear from you, directly. 1478 01:45:20,922 --> 01:45:23,925 For them to be able to see you... 1479 01:45:25,526 --> 01:45:27,995 as the kind and thoughtful person you truly are. 1480 01:45:28,029 --> 01:45:29,831 They're never gonna see me like that. 1481 01:45:29,864 --> 01:45:32,200 Listen. I know you have a world of reasons 1482 01:45:32,233 --> 01:45:34,735 to hate these people-- No, I never hated them. 1483 01:45:34,769 --> 01:45:36,237 They hated me. 1484 01:45:37,605 --> 01:45:41,341 They laughed at me. They left me. 1485 01:45:41,374 --> 01:45:43,811 They harassed me. They attacked me. 1486 01:45:43,845 --> 01:45:47,315 You want me to beg for my life? 1487 01:45:47,347 --> 01:45:49,150 I don't have it in me. 1488 01:45:49,183 --> 01:45:50,718 I won't. 1489 01:45:52,553 --> 01:45:55,189 I will not offer myself up. 1490 01:45:55,223 --> 01:45:56,891 They can make their decision. 1491 01:45:59,227 --> 01:46:03,097 But they're not deciding anything about me. 1492 01:46:04,866 --> 01:46:06,200 It's them. 1493 01:46:07,802 --> 01:46:09,570 They're judging themselves. 1494 01:46:12,039 --> 01:46:13,307 All right, then. 1495 01:46:14,542 --> 01:46:15,710 Mm. 1496 01:46:17,645 --> 01:46:18,913 [SIGHS] 1497 01:46:20,548 --> 01:46:23,651 Mr. Milton, you have always been kind to me. 1498 01:46:25,219 --> 01:46:26,587 Even as a child. 1499 01:46:28,256 --> 01:46:29,724 I never forgot. 1500 01:46:32,894 --> 01:46:35,296 [PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY] 1501 01:46:39,634 --> 01:46:43,403 CHASTAIN: His life was cut short by the jilted lover 1502 01:46:43,436 --> 01:46:47,141 who could not accept that he had returned to the fold. 1503 01:46:47,174 --> 01:46:51,712 A witness saw Miss Clark and Chase in the marsh. 1504 01:46:51,746 --> 01:46:55,049 Heard her say the words "I'll kill you." 1505 01:46:55,082 --> 01:46:56,449 And what's more, 1506 01:46:56,483 --> 01:46:58,485 is there's physical evidence 1507 01:46:58,519 --> 01:47:00,821 from that night connecting them. 1508 01:47:00,855 --> 01:47:04,825 Fibers from her red wool cap 1509 01:47:04,859 --> 01:47:06,794 left on his denim jacket. 1510 01:47:06,827 --> 01:47:08,663 Dad, I'm going over to deal with it. 1511 01:47:08,696 --> 01:47:11,699 Who else would have motive to take that shell necklace? 1512 01:47:13,500 --> 01:47:16,070 You can, and you must, 1513 01:47:16,103 --> 01:47:21,108 find that the defendant is guilty of first-degree murder. 1514 01:47:30,483 --> 01:47:31,819 Mr. Milton. 1515 01:47:42,495 --> 01:47:44,065 [CLEARS THROAT] 1516 01:47:47,368 --> 01:47:52,673 I have lived in Barkley Cove my whole life. 1517 01:47:52,707 --> 01:47:56,811 And like you, I heard the tall tales 1518 01:47:56,844 --> 01:47:59,280 told about the Marsh Girl. 1519 01:47:59,313 --> 01:48:01,649 That she was part wolf. 1520 01:48:01,682 --> 01:48:05,820 A missing link between ape and man. 1521 01:48:05,853 --> 01:48:08,255 That her eyes glowed in the dark. 1522 01:48:10,057 --> 01:48:12,827 Well, here she is. 1523 01:48:12,860 --> 01:48:17,631 The reality is that she was an abandoned child. 1524 01:48:17,665 --> 01:48:22,203 A little girl surviving out there in the marsh on her own, 1525 01:48:22,236 --> 01:48:24,772 reviled and shunned. 1526 01:48:27,842 --> 01:48:31,312 Mr. James Madison and his wife, Mabel, 1527 01:48:31,345 --> 01:48:33,647 they are sitting here in the courtroom today. 1528 01:48:33,681 --> 01:48:35,850 They're about the only people in this town 1529 01:48:35,883 --> 01:48:37,651 who showed her any care. 1530 01:48:37,685 --> 01:48:39,220 The rest of us... 1531 01:48:41,522 --> 01:48:43,290 Well, I'm ashamed to say 1532 01:48:44,625 --> 01:48:47,094 that we labeled her and rejected her 1533 01:48:47,128 --> 01:48:50,831 because we thought she was different. 1534 01:48:50,865 --> 01:48:52,299 And now... 1535 01:48:54,068 --> 01:48:57,872 the job of judging this shy and rejected young woman 1536 01:48:57,905 --> 01:49:00,541 has fallen on your shoulders. 1537 01:49:00,574 --> 01:49:02,877 But you must base your judgment 1538 01:49:02,910 --> 01:49:06,047 on the facts presented in this courtroom, 1539 01:49:06,080 --> 01:49:09,750 and not on the rumors and feelings 1540 01:49:09,784 --> 01:49:12,219 from the past 25 years. 1541 01:49:12,253 --> 01:49:15,222 Miss Clark has a solid alibi. 1542 01:49:15,256 --> 01:49:18,626 She was in Greenville the night Chase Andrews died. 1543 01:49:18,659 --> 01:49:23,731 And what facts, exactly, stand against her? 1544 01:49:25,332 --> 01:49:27,201 The State has not proven 1545 01:49:27,234 --> 01:49:30,371 that this incident was indeed a murder, 1546 01:49:30,404 --> 01:49:34,375 and not just some tragic accident. 1547 01:49:34,408 --> 01:49:36,610 The State wants you to believe 1548 01:49:36,644 --> 01:49:38,245 that at 11:30 at night, 1549 01:49:38,279 --> 01:49:40,881 without a single witness seeing her, 1550 01:49:40,915 --> 01:49:44,318 she caught the last bus from Greenville to Barkley Cove, 1551 01:49:44,351 --> 01:49:47,054 and rode that bus disguised, 1552 01:49:47,088 --> 01:49:49,256 since neither of the bus drivers that night 1553 01:49:49,290 --> 01:49:51,492 could identify her as a passenger, 1554 01:49:51,526 --> 01:49:53,661 all the way back to Barkley Cove. 1555 01:49:53,694 --> 01:49:57,532 And then, in less than an hour... 1556 01:49:59,266 --> 01:50:02,069 she tracks down Chase Andrews in the middle of the night, 1557 01:50:02,103 --> 01:50:04,638 lures him to the tower, murders him, 1558 01:50:04,672 --> 01:50:06,807 wipes away all physical evidence, 1559 01:50:06,841 --> 01:50:11,779 and somehow catches the 2:30 a.m. bus back to Greenville. 1560 01:50:11,812 --> 01:50:14,348 Again, without a single witness seeing her. 1561 01:50:14,381 --> 01:50:16,951 And after doing all that, 1562 01:50:18,652 --> 01:50:22,591 she meets with her publishers the next morning, unruffled. 1563 01:50:22,623 --> 01:50:24,925 Now, these are not facts. 1564 01:50:24,959 --> 01:50:27,828 These are just more of the rumors 1565 01:50:27,862 --> 01:50:30,131 and tall tales that we have been spreading 1566 01:50:30,164 --> 01:50:34,034 about Miss Clark her entire life. 1567 01:50:34,068 --> 01:50:38,105 I believe you will come to a judgment based on the facts, 1568 01:50:38,139 --> 01:50:41,475 and not the gossip that you have heard for years. 1569 01:50:42,544 --> 01:50:45,880 It's time, at last, 1570 01:50:45,913 --> 01:50:50,151 for all of us to be fair to the Marsh Girl. 1571 01:50:52,219 --> 01:50:54,523 TOM: Maybe you should go home and do your waiting there. 1572 01:50:54,556 --> 01:50:57,191 Six hours already. How long do you think they'll take? 1573 01:50:57,224 --> 01:50:59,660 Well, let's hope they take a good long while. 1574 01:50:59,693 --> 01:51:03,532 If a few jurors have doubts, we got a chance. 1575 01:51:18,279 --> 01:51:22,149 SIMS: Mr. Foreman, is it correct that the jury has reached a verdict? 1576 01:51:22,183 --> 01:51:23,552 We have, Your Honor. 1577 01:51:28,389 --> 01:51:30,925 [♪♪♪] 1578 01:51:37,599 --> 01:51:41,769 The defendant will please rise for the reading of the verdict. 1579 01:51:46,541 --> 01:51:47,741 [SOFTLY] Stand up. 1580 01:51:57,586 --> 01:52:00,020 "We, the jury, find the defendant, 1581 01:52:00,054 --> 01:52:03,190 Catherine Danielle Clark... 1582 01:52:03,224 --> 01:52:06,595 not guilty of first-degree murder 1583 01:52:06,628 --> 01:52:08,697 of Mr. Chase Andrews." 1584 01:52:08,729 --> 01:52:10,297 [PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY] 1585 01:52:10,331 --> 01:52:11,899 [GAVEL POUNDING] 1586 01:52:14,902 --> 01:52:17,304 Miss Clark, you are free to go. 1587 01:52:17,338 --> 01:52:19,541 And I apologize, on behalf of the State, 1588 01:52:19,574 --> 01:52:21,308 for the time that you have served. 1589 01:52:21,342 --> 01:52:23,077 This court is dismissed. 1590 01:52:27,348 --> 01:52:28,650 Thank you. 1591 01:52:34,522 --> 01:52:35,557 Come here. 1592 01:52:35,590 --> 01:52:37,992 [BOTH LAUGHING] 1593 01:52:38,025 --> 01:52:41,395 You're okay. You're all right. 1594 01:52:41,428 --> 01:52:43,998 ROBERT: You just forget about this nonsense. 1595 01:52:44,031 --> 01:52:46,166 We're looking forward to the next book. 1596 01:52:46,200 --> 01:52:47,768 [SNIFFLES] 1597 01:53:01,015 --> 01:53:02,617 Can you take me home? 1598 01:53:50,732 --> 01:53:52,667 KYA: Now I can finally admit. 1599 01:53:53,834 --> 01:53:56,170 All the months in isolation, 1600 01:53:56,203 --> 01:53:58,839 yearning to be back in the marsh, 1601 01:53:58,872 --> 01:54:02,644 it was knowing how much was left to explore, 1602 01:54:02,677 --> 01:54:05,179 how much life to uncover in the wild, 1603 01:54:05,212 --> 01:54:06,347 that kept me going. 1604 01:54:08,616 --> 01:54:10,685 And the hope, 1605 01:54:10,719 --> 01:54:12,186 always that hope... 1606 01:54:13,688 --> 01:54:15,724 that one day I could share it... 1607 01:54:18,025 --> 01:54:20,961 with the only person I had ever truly loved. 1608 01:54:22,896 --> 01:54:25,800 [♪♪♪] 1609 01:54:47,388 --> 01:54:49,289 [BOAT APPROACHING] 1610 01:54:51,492 --> 01:54:52,727 Kya! 1611 01:54:54,128 --> 01:54:55,262 Kya. 1612 01:55:01,935 --> 01:55:04,839 [♪♪♪] 1613 01:55:10,944 --> 01:55:12,614 Hey. 1614 01:55:12,647 --> 01:55:14,348 You know I love you, right? 1615 01:56:12,172 --> 01:56:13,741 [LAUGHING] 1616 01:56:17,645 --> 01:56:18,680 [CHUCKLES] 1617 01:56:18,713 --> 01:56:20,380 What? 1618 01:56:20,414 --> 01:56:21,448 Will you, uh--? 1619 01:56:21,482 --> 01:56:23,317 Sorry. I'm sorry. 1620 01:56:26,053 --> 01:56:27,488 Will you marry me? 1621 01:56:28,890 --> 01:56:30,558 I mean, do you want to? 1622 01:56:33,862 --> 01:56:35,395 Well, aren't we already? 1623 01:56:37,030 --> 01:56:38,332 Like geese? 1624 01:56:41,168 --> 01:56:43,638 I can live with that, I guess. 1625 01:56:43,671 --> 01:56:45,472 [BOTH LAUGH] 1626 01:56:45,506 --> 01:56:46,473 Come here. 1627 01:56:46,508 --> 01:56:49,376 [♪♪♪] 1628 01:56:58,620 --> 01:57:00,688 Oh, here we go. 1629 01:57:00,722 --> 01:57:01,689 Hey. 1630 01:57:01,723 --> 01:57:03,725 Hey, you. Hi, there. 1631 01:57:09,797 --> 01:57:11,398 Come here, baby girl. 1632 01:57:11,431 --> 01:57:13,400 [SNIFFLING] 1633 01:57:13,433 --> 01:57:15,637 He loved you so much. 1634 01:57:25,947 --> 01:57:27,916 Kya. Look at that. 1635 01:57:27,949 --> 01:57:30,585 You see that up there? On the elbow of that branch? 1636 01:57:32,587 --> 01:57:35,757 When's the last time we saw one of those? 1637 01:57:35,790 --> 01:57:37,224 I know. 1638 01:57:41,328 --> 01:57:42,630 This book's pretty good. 1639 01:57:42,664 --> 01:57:44,331 This guy's still talking about... 1640 01:57:58,412 --> 01:58:00,480 KYA: I hope when it is time for me to leave, 1641 01:58:00,515 --> 01:58:03,651 I will go quick and easy, without making too much noise. 1642 01:58:24,639 --> 01:58:26,306 Ma! 1643 01:58:26,340 --> 01:58:27,609 Ma. 1644 01:58:32,379 --> 01:58:33,514 Ma. 1645 01:58:35,282 --> 01:58:36,918 TATE: Kya? 1646 01:58:36,951 --> 01:58:38,151 Kya! 1647 01:58:38,185 --> 01:58:41,856 [♪♪♪] 1648 01:58:41,889 --> 01:58:43,825 [GASPS, EXCLAIMS SOFTLY] 1649 01:58:47,895 --> 01:58:49,831 [SOBBING] 1650 01:59:16,024 --> 01:59:18,626 KYA: It has always been enough... 1651 01:59:18,660 --> 01:59:21,428 to be part of the natural sequence of things. 1652 01:59:22,864 --> 01:59:24,966 Sure as the tides. 1653 01:59:24,999 --> 01:59:26,567 Nature my guide. 1654 01:59:31,105 --> 01:59:33,373 The marsh knows all about death... 1655 01:59:36,044 --> 01:59:39,179 and doesn't necessarily define it as tragedy. 1656 01:59:39,212 --> 01:59:41,281 Certainly not a sin. 1657 01:59:43,017 --> 01:59:45,019 It understands that every creature 1658 01:59:45,053 --> 01:59:47,254 does what it must to survive. 1659 01:59:49,724 --> 01:59:54,028 And that sometimes, for prey to live... 1660 01:59:54,062 --> 01:59:55,897 its predator must die. 1661 01:59:55,930 --> 01:59:58,432 [♪♪♪] 1662 02:00:24,058 --> 02:00:25,626 I am the marsh now. 1663 02:00:27,562 --> 02:00:29,797 I am the feather of an egret. 1664 02:00:29,831 --> 02:00:33,233 I am every shell washed upon the shore. 1665 02:00:36,738 --> 02:00:38,639 I am a firefly. 1666 02:00:38,673 --> 02:00:40,440 You'll see hundreds 1667 02:00:40,474 --> 02:00:43,578 beckoning far into the dark reaches of the marsh. 1668 02:00:43,611 --> 02:00:46,914 And that's where you will always find me. 1669 02:00:46,948 --> 02:00:48,916 Way out yonder. 1670 02:00:48,950 --> 02:00:50,818 Where the crawdads sing. 1671 02:00:58,926 --> 02:01:03,330 ♪ Oh, Carolina creeks ♪ 1672 02:01:03,363 --> 02:01:07,501 ♪ Running through my veins ♪ 1673 02:01:07,535 --> 02:01:11,806 ♪ Lost I was born Lonesome I came ♪ 1674 02:01:11,839 --> 02:01:15,943 ♪ Lonesome I'll always stay ♪ 1675 02:01:15,977 --> 02:01:20,581 ♪ Carolina knows why ♪ 1676 02:01:20,615 --> 02:01:24,317 ♪ For years, I roam ♪ 1677 02:01:24,351 --> 02:01:28,321 ♪ Free as these birds Light as whispers ♪ 1678 02:01:28,355 --> 02:01:33,293 ♪ Carolina knows ♪ 1679 02:01:33,326 --> 02:01:37,031 ♪ And you didn't see me here ♪ 1680 02:01:37,064 --> 02:01:41,169 ♪ No, they never did See me here ♪ 1681 02:01:41,202 --> 02:01:47,008 ♪ And she's in my dreams ♪ 1682 02:01:47,041 --> 02:01:51,979 ♪ Into the mist Into the clouds ♪ 1683 02:01:52,013 --> 02:01:55,348 ♪ Don't leave ♪ 1684 02:01:55,382 --> 02:01:59,287 ♪ I make a fist I'll make it count ♪ 1685 02:01:59,319 --> 02:02:01,522 ♪ And there are places ♪ 1686 02:02:01,556 --> 02:02:07,161 ♪ I will never, ever go ♪ 1687 02:02:07,195 --> 02:02:12,233 ♪ And things That only Carolina ♪ 1688 02:02:13,768 --> 02:02:17,605 ♪ Will ever know ♪ 1689 02:02:30,350 --> 02:02:34,421 ♪ Carolina stains ♪ 1690 02:02:34,454 --> 02:02:38,526 ♪ On the dress she left ♪ 1691 02:02:38,559 --> 02:02:42,830 ♪ Indelible scars Pivotal marks ♪ 1692 02:02:42,864 --> 02:02:47,001 ♪ Blue as the life she fled ♪ 1693 02:02:47,034 --> 02:02:51,072 ♪ Carolina pines ♪ 1694 02:02:51,105 --> 02:02:55,176 ♪ Won't you cover me? ♪ 1695 02:02:55,209 --> 02:02:59,513 ♪ Hide me like robes Down the back road ♪ 1696 02:02:59,547 --> 02:03:04,352 ♪ Muddy these webs we weave ♪ 1697 02:03:04,384 --> 02:03:08,189 ♪ And you didn't see me here ♪ 1698 02:03:08,222 --> 02:03:12,392 ♪ Oh, they never did see me ♪ 1699 02:03:12,425 --> 02:03:18,065 ♪ And she's in my dreams ♪ 1700 02:03:18,099 --> 02:03:23,104 ♪ Into the mist Into the clouds ♪ 1701 02:03:23,137 --> 02:03:26,207 ♪ Don't leave ♪ 1702 02:03:26,240 --> 02:03:30,311 ♪ I make a fist I'll make it count ♪ 1703 02:03:30,344 --> 02:03:32,613 ♪ And there are places ♪ 1704 02:03:32,647 --> 02:03:38,451 ♪ I will never, ever go ♪ 1705 02:03:38,485 --> 02:03:43,423 ♪ And things That only Carolina ♪ 1706 02:03:44,491 --> 02:03:51,365 ♪ Will ever know ♪ 1707 02:03:54,434 --> 02:03:57,605 [VOCALIZING] 1708 02:04:23,230 --> 02:04:26,934 ♪ And you didn't see me here ♪ 1709 02:04:26,968 --> 02:04:30,871 ♪ They never did see me here ♪ 1710 02:04:30,905 --> 02:04:35,209 ♪ No, you didn't see me here ♪ 1711 02:04:35,242 --> 02:04:38,713 ♪ They never saw me ♪ 1712 02:04:42,416 --> 02:04:47,021 ♪ Oh, Carolina knows ♪ 1713 02:04:47,054 --> 02:04:51,058 ♪ Why for years they've said ♪ 1714 02:04:51,092 --> 02:04:55,162 ♪ That I was guilty as sin ♪ 1715 02:04:55,196 --> 02:04:59,467 ♪ And sleep in a liar's bed ♪ 1716 02:04:59,499 --> 02:05:03,537 ♪ But the sleep comes fast ♪ 1717 02:05:03,571 --> 02:05:07,842 ♪ And I'll meet no ghosts ♪ 1718 02:05:07,875 --> 02:05:12,013 ♪ It's between me The sand and the sea ♪ 1719 02:05:12,046 --> 02:05:17,451 ♪ Carolina knows ♪