(LINE RINGING)
(DISPATCHER SPEAKING)
(CALLER SPEAKING)
-(GUN FIRES) -(CALLER GASPS)
(LINE RINGING)
(DISPATCHER SPEAKING)
(LIESE ALLEN SPEAKING)
(DISPATCHER SPEAKING)
(LIESE SPEAKING)
(OFFICER SPEAKING)
-(WILLIAM SCOTT SPEAKING) -(OFFICER SPEAKING)
(SCOTT SPEAKING)
DERIC WALPOLE: The State is gonna say
Earl was angry at Scott, so he wanted to hurt him.
I'm saying, he was scared of Scott
because of what he knows about him.
EARL: We don't have any clue why he's knocking on my door
after what he did to my daughter.
My adrenaline just went through the roof,
so I went and got the shotgun.
-EARL: Leave! -(GUN FIRES)
EARL: If you have a daughter, you're gonna protect her.
You're gonna do everything you can.
WALPOLE: I know it's your daughter, but I'm trying to win your case.
Everybody gets to walk away, except for you.
EARL: To make that decision that I did that day,
it's like, "you stupid idiot."
My name's Deric Walpole.
I represent Earl Allen.
Earl is charged with aggravated assault
with a deadly weapon, which is a second-degree felony.
It's punishable by two to 20 years in prison.
At the time of this allegation,
Earl believed that his daughter, Rebecca Allen,
was in an abusive relationship with William Christopher Scott,
who's the alleged victim in this case.
So, it's December 27th.
It's daytime, and Rebecca's boyfriend
comes to Earl's residence.
He's bringing Rebecca to drop her off,
where he knows he's not welcome.
Rebecca goes and sits on the side of the house
and is moving back and forth between her dad,
who's at the back of the house,
and Scott, who's out on the street.
At some point, the victim approaches the house
and Earl sees who it is,
has a strong reaction to that
'cause he has no idea why he's there.
He just knows he's there, and that he's bad news.
William Christopher Scott, he's got a criminal history.
So, Earl gets a shotgun,
answers the door with the shotgun,
which doesn't seem to faze William at all.
Earl's just screaming at him the whole time, "Leave!"
And this guy just won't leave.
Earl fires a warning shot up in the air.
Then he stands in front of his car,
he continues to argue, continues to not leave.
Earl fires another shot into the door of his car.
Scott gets in his car,
starts to drive off very slowly.
Earl believes that he's not leaving fast enough.
And he fires the third shot that went through the car
and struck him in the neck.
There's no question that Earl shot the alleged victim
as he was in the process of leaving.
So, it's not a self-defense case.
The legal defense in this case
is the difference between whether he recklessly
caused a bodily injury,
which is, he knew Mr. Scott could be hit
with the projectiles,
and he didn't care. He disregarded it.
But I truly believe Earl's position,
that he didn't know
those bullets were gonna penetrate that car
and make it all the way to Scott's neck.
We get to the trial,
and one of the jurors sent out a note saying
you know, we had contact with one of the witnesses
out in the parking lot, and that witness ended up
being Earl's daughter, Rebecca, which caused a mistrial.
So we're back to square one.
The reason that Earl is in this situation at all
is because he loves his daughter very much
and he would do anything to protect her.
I can't walk away from this one.
I... Losing is not an option.
EARL: To be accused of something like this,
you know, the big picture kind of got destroyed in a way.
Okay, where am I going? You know, how's business doing?
So on and so forth.
But that became kind of irrelevant.
The charge is aggravated assault with a deadly weapon,
that I purposefully injured the guy
or hurt the guy, which is not true.
Rebecca, I haven't seen her now in a year and a half.
Can't email her, can't text her, nothing.
Absolutely no contact.
Rebecca's 35, She's never been married.
She doesn't have any children.
We are her family, you know,
and to take that away from her has always worried me sick.
You get to be my age and you're fairly successful.
You've lived your life good and done a good job.
And during the course of that,
you make thousands of decisions.
And then to make that decision that I did that day,
it's like, "You stupid idiot.
"What were you thinking?"
I really have thought about that so many times.
How nice would it be to go back
to the way things were then.
We're gonna make it through this, but... Man...
(SNIFFS) It's tough.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
WALPOLE: Earl's coming in today.
We've already been in trial once,
mistrial, going back to trial again.
Earl has already testified under oath.
We do need to make sure he's not gonna say something different
when we get in that courtroom.
All right, man, you ready for round two?
Not really, but...
It's coming. Yeah.
...what are you gonna do?
You're charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon,
which is a second-degree felony.
So, on top of the felony conviction,
your exposure is two to 20 years in prison,
and up to a $10,000 fine.
It's just as serious as it was the first time.
I just want to hear it again, starting from the beginning.
Rebecca, she had an interview the next day.
She was there to get cleaned up to spend the night.
And I was trying to get her to straighten up.
And I actually had made her sit in a chair outside the window,
and I wouldn't let her in the house.
And Rebecca's boyfriend
was parked in front of our house.
How long had he been out there at this point?
Close to an hour, 45 minutes, at least.
So, Becca and I were talking in the back,
finally I go, you know, "Go tell him to leave. I don't want him here."
So she did.
Well, when you tell somebody that, you're kind of, like,
poking them in the arm, saying, "I don't like you.
"I want you to leave. I don't want you on my property."
So, I wasn't...
I wasn't totally surprised when he knocked on the door.
WALPOLE: Did you know where Rebecca was at at the time?
EARL: No, I did not know. No.
When I opened the blind, his face is right there
against the door, against the window.
So as soon as I saw him, I went and got the shotgun.
I mean, my adrenaline just went through the roof.
When you made the decision to go get that shotgun,
what did you know about William Christopher Scott?
I thought that he had been abusing my daughter.
I don't know. The conditions they were living in at the time,
they were living in a shed with no plumbing,
no water, no electricity.
They were having to use a five gallon bucket,
for, you know, a restroom.
And to me, that seemed like
he was treating her like that on purpose.
I don't know. I don't know all the... I'd never talked to the guy.
So he's there. You get the shotgun. What happens next?
I tried to get him to leave and he wouldn't leave.
And then he backed up about six feet and I shot the warning shot.
And that gets a little bit foggy, okay?
He moved to the front of his car and stopped and stood there.
That's when I shot the car.
"Okay, I'm serious. You need to get in the car and leave."
And then he got in.
Uh, I thought he moved up about 10 feet and stopped.
And then I... I mean, I mean, I remember very clearly,
I thought, "What the hell?" and shot again.
When I saw him get out of the car, he was hurt and bleeding.
I just sat down.
I got sick in my stomach, because I didn't... I didn't intend to hurt him.
WALPOLE: The State's argument, as you know,
is gonna be that you're pissed at him, and that's why you shot him.
Our position is that
you fired because you're afraid of him.
Self-defense doesn't apply to you pulling the trigger when he's leaving, right?
What it does apply to is why you picked up a gun in the first place.
Okay. Thank you very much.
-Yeah. Thanks for coming in. -Okay.
WALPOLE: I believe in the case.
I believe Earl was protecting his daughter,
who he loves very much.
He's looking at two to 20,
which is a life-sentence for someone in Earl's position.
I'm gonna do everything in my power
to make sure that man does not go to prison.
-Okay, so this was when we got engaged. -Mmm-hmm.
EARL: Where were these pictures taken?
LIESE: That was in your apartment.
-Oh, it was? -Mmm-hmm.
You had invited me over for dinner.
EARL: Oh, my God. Time flies by so fast.
LIESE: We've been married for 38 years.
We were never really separated until this past year.
-Were we? -Right, right.
We're always together.
-We always did everything together. -Yeah.
EARL: Because they were witnesses,
I was not allowed
to have any contact with them.
It feels like you've had a death.
And you wake up in the morning crying,
and you go to sleep, crying.
I wish I could see Becca.
I think we should get credit
for all the time we spent apart. (CHUCKLES)
-(LAUGHS) -Time served.
It's almost like... It was almost like...
-Yeah, like being in jail. -Yeah, like being in jail.
LIESE: Mmm-hmm.
-Hey, David. -Hey, Deric.
-How are you? -Doing well.
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
-Hey, Earl. -Hey.
-How are you? -How's it going? Good.
WALPOLE: This case comes down
to what was going on in your brain
-when you pulled that trigger... -EARL: Yes.
-...and why you grabbed a shotgun in the first place? -Right.
Because of all the aggressive acts
that were of that evening, yours were the most aggressive.
What I wanna do is recreate what happened that day.
EARL: Okay. So, when he knocked on the door,
the blinds were closed. I had to go like this and saw that it was him.
I kind of knew what he looked like.
I didn't hesitate. I didn't think
"I wonder what he wants." No, this is not good.
-I immediately went there and got that gun. -WALPOLE: Right.
Came back, opened the door
and immediately told him to leave.
All right, so he's standing at the front.
Eventually, I guess I got to here
and fired that first warning shot up in the air, in which I was thinking,
"How did I keep from hitting the roof right there?"
CONKLIN: All right, so where is he standing when you do that?
A little bit further back, right about there.
LIESE: As Earl's telling him to leave,
leave, leave, he just continued to argue with him.
-WALPOLE: All right. -Then it gets... Gets kind of fuzzy.
I don't remember exactly why or when
he went to the front of his car.
And then from... From this point right here,
I think I shot the side of his car,
the door, on purpose, didn't want to hit him.
-He's standing right here? -Yeah.
Is this where the car was when you fired the second shot?
EARL: Correct. Yes. Right at the door.
-Aimed at... -Two-door... Two-door vehicle, right in the middle of the door.
And then he finally got in the car
and drove off about 10, 15 feet,
and that's when I shot the back of the car
that ended up hurting him.
WALPOLE: This is shot three? EARL: About right there.
Right. Right there.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
At what point did you make the 911 call?
And why did you make the 911 call?
Because Earl told me to go call 911.
-And that's... -WALPOLE: When did he tell you to do that?
I believe that's when he had gotten out of the car
-and we saw blood on his shoulder. -WALPOLE: All right.
So, this is what we've got to do now.
Earl has been very specific about what he did,
where he's standing.
And in a way that, you know, it's his memory.
This is what he thinks, and this is what he's gonna testify to.
I need to make sure that what Earl is saying
-is consistent with the evidence. -CONKLIN: Right.
WALPOLE: It's rare that I have a case these days
where there's not some sort of video evidence,
and it does a pretty good job
of showing what happened that day.
There's another surveillance video
that doesn't show anything, but it has audio.
So we wanted to take the audio and video and overlay them,
so we have a surveillance video with sound.
-Hey, man. -Oh, hey, David.
-How are you? -Good.
CONKLIN: Good to see you
WALPOLE: All right. That's Earl opening the front door.
CONKLIN: At this point, it couldn't be more clear
that Earl wants him to go.
-Yeah. Yeah. -You can hear Earl's voice clearly.
That tells you how loud and adamant Earl was
that he needed to leave.
WALPOLE: Now, you see Rebecca
coming around from the side of the house.
William Christopher Scott, who's the alleged victim,
he says he's there to make sure
she's not passed out on the side of the house.
-Right? -Right.
-Clearly not passed out at the side of the house. -No.
(GUN FIRES)
WALPOLE: Okay, that's kind of shot number one.
Earl said it was a warning shot that he fired up in the air
when the first shot goes off.
That gun is not pointed up at a 45 degree angle.
It's pointed directly at that car.
Watch the barrel, man.
-You can see the recoil. -(GUN FIRES)
You can see the distortion.
That's a little bit of a problem.
Yeah, and at this point he's had a gun stuck in his face.
He's... A gunshot's gone off,
and he's still sticking around and arguing with this man.
-(GUN FIRES) -WALPOLE: Shot number two.
Third shot, right as...
-another car passes through the line of fire. -Right.
Not my favorite part of the case.
All right. Now, here's Rebecca.
And the car comes to a rest at the end of the street,
you see Scott get out of the car.
He got shot.
He got hit with 12 projectiles out of the shotgun.
Our theory of the case
is he negligently injured Mr. Scott.
They're saying he recklessly injured Mr. Scott.
They're gonna point out as many instances
of recklessness as they possibly can.
Fight or flight response.
I mean, he's hyper-focused on what's directly in front of him.
WALPOLE: But now we can clearly see
a bigger problem with the first shot.
He clearly isn't pointing
that gun up at a 45 degree angle,
and he's pointing right at that car,
and that car's got
three groups of shots in it.
That's what happened.
We need to reflect on what this shows
relative to what he said at the last trial,
because they can't be different.
It's got to be the same.
He told the jury, he told the police,
"I fired a warning shot up into the air."
That's not what happened.
Earl has to be credible.
The jury has to believe he's telling the truth.
The threat from the prosecution is that they'll use that
to prove to the jury that he's not credible.
It's a problem.
WALPOLE: Earl, what I want to go over today
is the video,
now that we've got a better copy of it
and we've synced it up with the audio.
Your previous testimony,
and your statement to the police
was that you fired a warning shot,
up and to the left.
All right. Now, there's Rebecca coming round
-from the side of the house. -Okay.
EARL: Leave!
(GUN FIRES)
WALPOLE: Now, right there...
-The gun is pointed level... -WALPOLE: At the car.
(GUN FIRES)
But that... What that shows is that I'm right here...
roughly right here and that I'm shooting more like this.
I... I couldn't have done this because it would have
went in, into the... Into the roof
and there would still be holes there. I thought I was here.
And that shot over there would not have hit the house.
WALPOLE: You agree with me that you weren't, though?
-This looks like you... -Yeah, it shows that I'm right here.
Now, what's the prosecutors going to do with this?
Prosecutors are going to say that you are a liar.
Until we saw this video, I...
I still would have never believed that
I shot out there like that.
It's just your memory, you know, it's like,
if I fired three times,
two times for sure, I did not intend on hitting him.
Let me back you up a little bit.
That was never your intent on any shot.
Yeah, on any shot. True. I... Yeah.
-Okay... -It's clear that it wasn't.
-That's what I mean. -That's the kind of stuff...
That's the kind of stuff you can't say
when you're sitting up on the stand.
I'm not going to. I'm saying it to you.
We're talking about it now.
But if you say, "I didn't mean to hit him
"the first two times I fired the shot."
-We lose. -That means the third time I was guilty.
-We lose. -Yeah, I understand.
It... It's a little bit unsettling
that it's not the way I remembered it...
exactly.
So that's a little bit worrisome.
And you know, you just have to be careful
how you answer when you're testifying.
He was surprised, but he accepts that
he remembers it incorrectly.
So, today was a good warm-up for,
"Hey, man, you're gonna get pressed on these things.
"I'm pressing on you now, and I'm doing it nicely
"because they're gonna tell you you're a liar."
LIESE: Let me show you how we've got things set up
so she can come and get stuff quickly.
EARL: She's never had her own home.
She's very seldom had her own apartment.
This is almost everything she has.
So, really what you're seeing here is
this is Becca's life.
But she always wants to get these broke down guys...
LIESE: Yeah, 'cause she wants to try to fix them.
EARL: Yeah, and I told her one time,
I said, "Just stop treating these guys like I treat my old trucks."
You know, I buy these old trucks and they're broke down.
I think I can fix them up. Don't treat men like that.
LIESE: Well, this is her master's degree.
The path she's on now
is as good as it's been in a very long time.
Because I laid awake too many nights
knowing what he was doing to her.
In the last three months before the incident happened...
-(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) -...it was increasingly getting worse.
Yeah, it was definitely getting worse.
LIESE: It's just heartbreaking
when they know they have a way out.
She knows she has a way out to live with us.
EARL: If you have a daughter, you're gonna protect her.
You're gonna do everything you can to... To help her get through life.
One of my tasks for today is to try to figure out
what I can use from William Scott's history.
The reason is because it explains
why Earl felt the need to pick up a shotgun and why he was in fear.
This is every case that he's posted bond on.
All right. We've got charges here
ranging from possession of marijuana,
from 12 years ago, all the way to 2021,
assault, family violence, and prohibited weapon.
The prohibited weapon's charge, it's important that the jury hear about it
because it adds to Earl's perception of his dangerousness
because he did know about that charge
at the time he pulled the trigger.
At the last trial, we were able to get in
that he was on bond for two assault family violence cases,
but I wasn't allowed to go into the fact
that the complaining witness was Rebecca Allen.
This is the stuff that I need the jury to hear.
This is one of two filed cases,
punishable by up to a year in jail, a $4,000 fine.
It's a serious charge.
He's got two of them.
I need to get this in.
And look, it's... It's a volatile relationship.
The police have been called out to their place, mostly on him,
sometimes on her. I mean, you know,
she's bringing some...
Some problems, into this situation.
The only reason I would wanna call her
is to establish the history of abuse.
I think I run a risk by putting her on.
But if I can get in the prior history,
it's worth the risk.
It's part of the story that the jury needs to hear,
and if they do hear it this time,
I think it easily triples our odds of winning.
We're definitely going in front of a different judge
than we tried the case in front of last time.
I'm happy about that.
I think that we're more likely to be able
to get into the stuff that we need to get into.
Whether or not evidence gets in
is almost completely discretionary with the judge.
If we're allowed to get into the abuse, at that point,
we need to call Rebecca to testify.
So, how do you feel about calling Rebecca as a witness?
EARL: To tell you the truth, I just don't know what she's gonna say.
WALPOLE: I don't think she's ever gonna say,
"You know what, my dad said
'I'm gonna shoot that son of a bitch because I don't like him.'"
-Right. -She's not ever gonna say anything,
other than what happened.
But I don't have the ability to control questions the prosecutor asks.
They will cross-examine her,
and I think that's when we're gonna run into difficulty.
Well, are they gonna try to make it her fault?
-The abuse was not her fault. -WALPOLE: No.
The reason you're sitting here talking to me
-is her fault. -True, to some level. I understand.
You can't leave her out, because then why did I do what I did?
Because of my daughter and what she was going through.
That's the truth. It was to me.
WALPOLE: I know it's your daughter, but I'm trying to win your case.
Everybody gets to walk away except for you.
If we get into this trial,
the abuse between Rebecca and Mr. Scott,
I will call her.
If I can't, I'm not...
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
We're currently headed out to the courthouse.
Trial's on Monday.
And we're gonna do a mock trial.
Harrison is gonna meet us there.
He's a former prosecutor. He's a defense attorney now.
He's gonna play the role of the prosecutor to see how Earl does
and see what we need to tighten up.
You've been through this before, right?
You've been through it for real.
I wanna go through it again
and see what we can do differently.
(GUN FIRES)
(EARL SPEAKING)
You could see on that video, Mr. Allen,
that at no point
is that gun ever pointed above and to the left of Scott.
Is that right?
That's correct.
Obviously, that directly contradicts the statement
that you gave to investigators four hours after the shooting,
when this should have been fresh in your mind, right?
Uh, yes.
So you're telling the truth, but the video is lying?
No, I don't think it was... I don't think that's a lie.
I think it's just, you know, a misstatement.
-I was just wrong. -Okay.
I just remembered it incorrectly.
What does the word "recklessly" mean to you, Mr. Allen?
To me, it... It means that I didn't care what happened.
You know, you thought you shot above and to the left,
we can clearly see on video that you were lying
and that you fired three shots
directly in the area of Scott
and directly in the area of that car.
Is that fair to say now?
Well, my intentions were to make him leave, not to hurt him.
Where was Scott when you took the third shot?
He was in the driver's seat of the car.
-He was in the vehicle, driving away, right? -Yes.
And you don't think that was reckless?
If reckless means that I intended to hurt him,
no, it was negligible. It was... It was negligence.
It was not recklessness.
Is that a word that your attorney taught you?
-No, I know those words. -Okay.
And did you disregard that risk
when you fired that last shot into Scott's vehicle?
Possibly.
WALPOLE: No, dude, that's not gonna work.
That's a guilty verdict.
Did you know there was a chance he would get hurt?
You just said, "possibly."
And that's... That's it. We're done, man.
Okay. Right. I understand that now.
-Everybody now knows that it's reckless. -Yeah.
-It was, right? -Yeah.
"At the time I did not think he was gonna get hurt
-"or I wouldn't have pulled the trigger." -Yeah.
EARL: I'm worried that the prosecution
could trip me up on my intentions.
You know, all along I've said,
"I didn't intend on hurting the guy."
But they... They... They wanna make it look like I did.
WALPOLE: That's the prosecution's biggest strength,
is that... That, you know, the guy did get hurt,
and their belief that they can get Earl to say,
"Yeah, it was... It was reckless."
What matters is what he thought at the time,
not what he thinks about it now.
If that had happened in front of the jury, we lose.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
It's day one of the trial.
I still don't know whether or not
Scott's priors are getting in.
It's pretty crucial.
Earl's a good man.
That's what I need to sell to the jury,
and I will.
EARL: It's time to deal with this.
I want it to be over, you know.
Let's let these 12 people decide,
and I'm okay with that.
WALPOLE: The only person that testified today was Detective Gentry.
But one thing that concerns me
is we're actually getting less in
-about Scott's criminal history than we did the last time. -EARL: Right.
We're never gonna be able to explain why I did what I did.
We're not done yet, man.
-We're not done. -Yeah.
The jury knows there's something that they're not hearing.
And it explains why you picked up a gun.
We'll get the point across one way or the other.
WALPOLE: We're getting ready to start day two of testimony.
The State's gonna call the victim, William Christopher Scott today.
The strategy is to just keep trying
to get in the prior history of violence
between Scott and Rebecca.
And the more the prosecution objects,
the more they know it's important.
An unintended consequence of my attempts is gonna be,
the jury knows that something's being kept from them.
EARL: It wasn't really a lot of emotion about seeing him.
I mean, I don't like the guy.
But not being able to tell the whole truth
where things are excluded on purpose
and then presented to the jury,
as if that's the whole truth, and it's not.
I'm sworn to tell the whole truth.
Why isn't everybody else?
That's not fair. That's not justice.
WALPOLE: Day two has come and gone.
The EMT testified today
that his injuries were not life-threatening.
That was super-positive.
And then Scott testified.
I mean, it was just... It was a show.
It was an act, from beginning to end.
But there is no real evidence about
what Earl's mental state was at the time
he pulled the trigger, which is our defense.
Day three of testimony.
The State's gonna be turning the case over to me today,
and I get to call my witnesses.
I'm gonna call Liese, have her state her case.
I'm hoping to finish up with Earl.
He knows he can't say that he was reckless at the time,
but can reflect back now that he shouldn't have done it.
Prosecutor's gonna try to jam him up.
So, you know, let him try.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
EARL: Last night was a long night.
I woke up at 4:00, couldn't go back to sleep.
I'm still a little bit worried about
the cross examination by Porter.
But I'm just gonna...
keep quiet, not cause any trouble.
Yes or no.
That's my strategy.
EARL: Being on the stand was pretty brutal, you know.
It was uncomfortable, to say the least.
Deric didn't say a whole lot, which I was kind of counting on.
You know, I was looking at the jury the whole time.
It's hard to read these people, but I think it's gonna be
a real battle in the jury room to reach an agreement.
So, I'm worried about that.
WALPOLE: You know, Earl seems to be feeling the same way he's always felt.
You know, "We're here. We got to get this thing done.
You know, "It's time to face the music."
All right. Be seated.
WALPOLE: I'm surprised. I thought we were gonna win.
I thought we should have won.
I firmly believe that the jury knowing more about
why Earl was in the state of mind
than he was in, would have made a difference.
(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
EARL: Two to 20 years is what the punishment is.
You have to stop and think about going to prison,
I can't do it. I can't let myself go there.
JUDGE BUTLER: We're now going into the punishment phase.
The jury having found the defendant guilty of aggravated assault
causing bodily injury with a deadly weapon,
"We, the jury, assess his punishment
"at five years of confinement in the Texas Department
"of Criminal Justice Institutions Division.
"We the jury, recommend to the court
"that he be granted community supervision in this cause."
If the defendant would please rise,
and you've been found guilty.
That sentence has been probated for a period of five years.
WALPOLE: I would have liked to have won.
I understand how the jury came to their verdict.
And again, surprising but not shocking.
He got probation.
They were offering prison time.
You know, I did the best I could do.
(SENTIMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(REBECCA SOBBING)
Oh, Daddy.
-Calm down, Rebecca... -Oh, God!
I love you so much.
You look so great today.
You look a little bit older.
It's been a while.
Oh, thank God.
I'm just gonna have to wait a little while to process this
and, you know...
REBECCA: Oh, Mama...
Oh, my earring.
-LIESE: (LAUGHS) God. -Yep.
I'm not letting go.
I can't get it.
It's an earring. She got me.
You know, even though it's still probation,
it's... It's not...
-EARL: Better than going to be locked up. -Yeah.
For five years
and being... caged.
Ultimately, this is a win.
(SNIFFLES)
-(CRYING) I love you so much. -I love you, too, Papa.
(SNIFFLES)