1 00:01:17,411 --> 00:01:19,621 [narrator] They say it's a nation of laws. 2 00:01:20,539 --> 00:01:25,961 But, uh, what governs everything in the universe is the law of contradictions. 3 00:01:26,837 --> 00:01:31,675 It's how I, Huey P. Newton, was set free into a prison. 4 00:01:33,093 --> 00:01:35,053 It's how the image captured the man. 5 00:01:35,554 --> 00:01:41,476 Contradictions that would have me south of the border running for my life. 6 00:01:48,275 --> 00:01:52,446 The conditions of hate, forcing me to flee with true love. 7 00:01:52,446 --> 00:01:55,949 The Black Panther Party founder with two Hollywood producers. 8 00:01:58,035 --> 00:02:01,872 While the government of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness... 9 00:02:01,872 --> 00:02:02,789 - [grunts] - [bangs] 10 00:02:02,789 --> 00:02:06,710 [Huey] ...pursues us for exercising our rights based on their laws. 11 00:02:07,753 --> 00:02:12,883 Contradictions. Murderous feds posing as, uh, peaceful hippies. 12 00:02:12,883 --> 00:02:17,262 A war-mongering nation declaring us the greatest threat to its security. 13 00:02:18,514 --> 00:02:21,183 All power to the people! 14 00:02:23,644 --> 00:02:24,686 [federal officer] Huey! 15 00:02:25,187 --> 00:02:29,525 [Huey] Contradictions. When they stop, life ceases. 16 00:02:31,944 --> 00:02:36,532 And contrary to propagated belief, I'm not living to die. 17 00:02:37,324 --> 00:02:41,161 But I am refusing to live without liberation. 18 00:02:42,287 --> 00:02:43,372 [gunshot] 19 00:02:43,872 --> 00:02:46,250 The story I'm about to tell you is true. 20 00:02:46,792 --> 00:02:50,128 At least, uh, mostly true-- At least how I remember it. 21 00:02:50,128 --> 00:02:51,171 - [doorbell rings] - [knocks] 22 00:02:51,171 --> 00:02:53,340 {\an8}[Huey] But it is coming through the lens of Hollywood, 23 00:02:53,340 --> 00:02:56,718 {\an8}so let's see how much of my story they are really willing to show. 24 00:02:58,846 --> 00:02:59,680 [producer] Huey? 25 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:04,268 What's happening? Why are you dressed like that? 26 00:03:04,268 --> 00:03:08,397 [pants] The FBI is after me, say I killed some girl. Some bullshit. 27 00:03:08,397 --> 00:03:10,357 [breathes heavily] I gotta get off the street. 28 00:03:11,108 --> 00:03:12,234 Were you followed? 29 00:03:13,068 --> 00:03:14,069 I think we're clear. 30 00:03:14,069 --> 00:03:16,113 [producer] Hey, Jeffrey. Go out back, peek over the hedges, 31 00:03:16,113 --> 00:03:18,240 and see if anyone suspicious is parked on the street. 32 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:19,324 [Jeffrey] Sure, Dad. 33 00:03:19,324 --> 00:03:21,326 - What the fuck is going on? - They framed him. 34 00:03:21,952 --> 00:03:24,872 - You know the feds are watching me too. - What are you talking about? 35 00:03:24,872 --> 00:03:27,499 Since we got back from China, they've been tracking my movements. 36 00:03:27,499 --> 00:03:29,209 I got a copy of my FBI file. 37 00:03:29,209 --> 00:03:31,461 - You see? You see? - [partner] It's okay. 38 00:03:31,461 --> 00:03:33,922 [producer] By morning, you're gonna be number one on the most wanted list. 39 00:03:33,922 --> 00:03:35,757 The first place they're gonna look is right here. 40 00:03:35,757 --> 00:03:37,759 Right. Right. So where am I supposed to go? 41 00:03:37,759 --> 00:03:38,719 [doorbell rings] 42 00:03:38,719 --> 00:03:41,597 [Huey] Bert took Gwen and I to the dude who's been cleaning up his shit 43 00:03:41,597 --> 00:03:43,473 since they were five years old, 44 00:03:44,016 --> 00:03:46,143 his producing partner, Steve Blauner. 45 00:03:47,269 --> 00:03:49,104 I didn't know I was having company. 46 00:03:50,856 --> 00:03:51,857 Come on in. 47 00:03:59,198 --> 00:04:03,452 You can't have an accused killer in this house, Steve. I will leave you. 48 00:04:03,452 --> 00:04:06,371 Go back to your ex-wife if you wanna play fucking cops and robbers. 49 00:04:06,371 --> 00:04:07,748 Your brother stayed here for a month, 50 00:04:07,748 --> 00:04:09,958 - stunk up the place with flatulence-- - Oh, come on. Don't even. 51 00:04:09,958 --> 00:04:11,502 I had to throw that mattress away. 52 00:04:11,502 --> 00:04:14,421 - Listen. What Steve's trying to say-- - [spouse] Stay out of it Bert. You-- 53 00:04:14,421 --> 00:04:16,757 Do you know that he's got hemorrhoids because of you? 54 00:04:16,757 --> 00:04:18,716 - Jesus fucking Christ. - I cause hemorrhoids? 55 00:04:18,716 --> 00:04:20,344 [spouse] Oh, yeah. Stress. 56 00:04:20,344 --> 00:04:21,803 When a person gets stressed, 57 00:04:21,803 --> 00:04:25,015 they tighten up their sphincter and put pressure on the rectum. 58 00:04:25,015 --> 00:04:27,392 Steve's had hemorrhoids since he was seven. 59 00:04:27,392 --> 00:04:28,477 This is bullshit. 60 00:04:29,686 --> 00:04:32,147 I'll be in the john moisturizing my asshole. 61 00:04:35,567 --> 00:04:37,319 Okay. We're good. 62 00:04:39,613 --> 00:04:43,242 {\an8}A massive nationwide manhunt is now underway. 63 00:04:43,242 --> 00:04:47,412 Huey P. Newton, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party 64 00:04:47,412 --> 00:04:52,251 {\an8}is wanted in the shooting of a 17-year-old Bay Area prostitute. 65 00:04:52,251 --> 00:04:56,213 {\an8}Oakland police are searching for a burgundy '56 Pontiac 66 00:04:56,213 --> 00:04:58,632 with the license plate H7J... 67 00:05:01,009 --> 00:05:02,469 [sighs] 68 00:05:07,474 --> 00:05:10,227 - [grunts, breathes deeply] - It's all gonna be okay. 69 00:05:12,938 --> 00:05:15,148 It is all gonna be okay. 70 00:05:18,026 --> 00:05:20,028 - [breathes deeply] - Yeah. 71 00:05:21,655 --> 00:05:24,116 [inhales deeply, sighs] 72 00:05:24,116 --> 00:05:26,368 [Huey] This was not my first run-in with the law. 73 00:05:26,869 --> 00:05:29,872 {\an8}My family moved to Oakland from Louisiana when I was seven, 74 00:05:29,872 --> 00:05:31,665 {\an8}expecting it to be different. 75 00:05:32,249 --> 00:05:33,125 Within two hours 76 00:05:33,125 --> 00:05:36,962 the cops pulled my pops out of the car and roughed him up in front of us. 77 00:05:36,962 --> 00:05:38,005 - [crash] - [parent grunts] 78 00:05:38,005 --> 00:05:39,882 [Huey] Now you might see the police as protection, 79 00:05:39,882 --> 00:05:43,677 but to us they're an occupying army in our community. 80 00:05:43,677 --> 00:05:47,556 Now, fast-forward to 1967, and ain't nothing changed. 81 00:05:48,098 --> 00:05:51,351 [Huey] Police were still beating and killing Black people in the streets. 82 00:05:51,351 --> 00:05:53,353 But Bobby and I decided to do something about it. 83 00:05:54,021 --> 00:05:58,775 So, what California statute says it's illegal to shoot a whale 84 00:05:58,775 --> 00:06:01,862 from a moving car or a-- a crop duster? 85 00:06:01,862 --> 00:06:02,779 A crop duster? Nah, man. 86 00:06:02,779 --> 00:06:05,908 It's illegal to shoot any game or marine mammal from a car, 87 00:06:05,908 --> 00:06:07,117 unless it's a whale. 88 00:06:07,659 --> 00:06:09,328 It's 3002. 89 00:06:09,328 --> 00:06:13,457 Goddamn. [laughs] Now, why did they do that? 90 00:06:13,457 --> 00:06:15,334 A better question, how you know that? 91 00:06:15,334 --> 00:06:17,628 - Got my head in the books, man. - [scoffs] 92 00:06:18,420 --> 00:06:21,131 Say, what you, uh-- What you think about 93 00:06:21,131 --> 00:06:23,842 Black Panther Party For Revolutionary Action? 94 00:06:24,676 --> 00:06:27,387 I don't know, brother. That's a whole lot of words. 95 00:06:28,388 --> 00:06:29,431 [chuckles] 96 00:06:30,641 --> 00:06:32,226 Hey, brother, we getting low on gas, man. 97 00:06:32,226 --> 00:06:34,603 - How much longer do you wanna do this? - Whoa. Right there. 98 00:06:36,730 --> 00:06:39,191 [police radio chatter] 99 00:06:57,709 --> 00:06:59,211 That's Lil Bobby from the center. 100 00:07:06,552 --> 00:07:07,636 [officer] The fuck is this? 101 00:07:09,221 --> 00:07:10,973 Who the hell do you think you are? 102 00:07:10,973 --> 00:07:13,433 - The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. - The what? 103 00:07:15,519 --> 00:07:17,354 - You heard me. - Drop your weapons. 104 00:07:17,354 --> 00:07:19,147 - [scoffs] - [cocks gun] 105 00:07:20,482 --> 00:07:23,277 We here to make sure that this citizen's rights are not being violated. 106 00:07:23,277 --> 00:07:25,195 You have no basis in law to take my weapon. 107 00:07:25,195 --> 00:07:27,406 California code 119.2 says 108 00:07:27,406 --> 00:07:30,075 I have the right to carry this weapon on public property, 109 00:07:30,075 --> 00:07:33,537 so long as it is not being concealed or brandished in a threatening manner. 110 00:07:35,831 --> 00:07:36,874 Call for backup. 111 00:07:36,874 --> 00:07:39,751 [Huey] Man, the cops did not like this. 112 00:07:40,878 --> 00:07:42,546 But the community did. 113 00:07:42,546 --> 00:07:44,298 And the party took off. 114 00:07:45,215 --> 00:07:48,719 You know, I was thinking, I get my own gun. 115 00:07:48,719 --> 00:07:51,096 And be out there with you and Bobby, patrolling the police. 116 00:07:51,096 --> 00:07:52,723 You know, that's where it's at. 117 00:07:52,723 --> 00:07:55,809 [chuckles] 118 00:07:55,809 --> 00:07:58,478 Slow down, young blood. Your time will come. 119 00:08:00,606 --> 00:08:03,358 Dig it, man. The party is, uh-- is an organization, right? 120 00:08:04,234 --> 00:08:07,613 And organizations have structures. Members have, uh, positions. 121 00:08:08,614 --> 00:08:10,532 And everybody's gotta contribute in their own way. 122 00:08:11,742 --> 00:08:14,703 Now, your, uh-- your mama tells me that you, uh, pretty good at math? 123 00:08:15,412 --> 00:08:16,788 Sound like a treasurer to me. 124 00:08:16,788 --> 00:08:21,752 Well, I can be a treasurer if you want, but that's not revolutionary. You know? 125 00:08:22,586 --> 00:08:24,505 I wanna be out in the streets too. 126 00:08:24,505 --> 00:08:27,591 Yeah, see... Che? 127 00:08:29,176 --> 00:08:31,303 Che was a revolutionary and a doctor. 128 00:08:32,304 --> 00:08:35,057 Fanon was a revolutionary and a psychiatrist. 129 00:08:35,057 --> 00:08:39,394 And now, Lil Bobby can be a revolutionary and a treasurer. You dig? 130 00:08:40,854 --> 00:08:43,398 Tell me, man. What, uh-- What is that's got you so, uh-- 131 00:08:43,398 --> 00:08:45,317 so fired up to go out there and risk your life? 132 00:08:45,901 --> 00:08:49,613 I-- I'm sick of white people treating us like three-fifths a person. 133 00:08:50,113 --> 00:08:53,158 I'm sick of police hitting us in the back of the head. 134 00:08:53,158 --> 00:08:55,577 And I'm tired of the mold in my apartment. 135 00:08:56,870 --> 00:08:58,038 I wanna change it all. 136 00:08:59,748 --> 00:09:02,251 What do you think? Is that possible? 137 00:09:04,002 --> 00:09:08,006 I think-- I think that if we can organize the people, 138 00:09:09,132 --> 00:09:10,759 I think that if we can, uh, listen to the people 139 00:09:10,759 --> 00:09:12,386 and if we can fight for the people-- 140 00:09:12,386 --> 00:09:15,180 and if young cats like you, right, get out there and carry the baton, 141 00:09:15,180 --> 00:09:17,766 man, I don't think there's anything we can't accomplish. You dig? 142 00:09:18,350 --> 00:09:19,518 - Yeah. - Yeah. 143 00:09:20,727 --> 00:09:24,106 [Huey] Folks joined from all over. Kids like Lil Bobby. 144 00:09:24,815 --> 00:09:29,152 But when white folks saw Black people with guns, Ronald Reagan flipped out. 145 00:09:29,152 --> 00:09:31,989 I see no reason why, on the street today, 146 00:09:31,989 --> 00:09:35,075 a citizen should be carrying a loaded weapon. 147 00:09:35,075 --> 00:09:38,036 [Huey] We went to the State Capitol to, uh, debate the bill. 148 00:09:38,036 --> 00:09:40,163 And we believe this racist law was designed 149 00:09:40,163 --> 00:09:43,125 to keep Black people unarmed against the fascist police 150 00:09:43,125 --> 00:09:45,919 who continue to brutalize us on a daily basis. 151 00:09:45,919 --> 00:09:49,923 [Huey] But the NRA and GOP teamed up to pass gun control. 152 00:09:51,049 --> 00:09:53,385 Mm-hmm. Contradictions. 153 00:09:54,219 --> 00:09:58,015 When Malcolm X's widow arrived on the anniversary of her husband's death, 154 00:09:58,015 --> 00:10:00,684 we showed up at the airport to provide escort. 155 00:10:02,102 --> 00:10:04,229 That's when Eldridge Cleaver became a Panther. 156 00:10:04,229 --> 00:10:06,940 And I became a symbol of the party, 157 00:10:06,940 --> 00:10:11,028 {\an8}which put me in the crosshairs of every cop in the country. 158 00:10:11,028 --> 00:10:12,696 {\an8}[siren wailing] 159 00:10:16,241 --> 00:10:20,454 - [car doors open, close] - [Panther] This shit again. 160 00:10:20,954 --> 00:10:22,122 Cowardly motherfucker. 161 00:10:22,623 --> 00:10:24,625 [police radio chatter] 162 00:10:26,585 --> 00:10:30,839 Well, well. The great Huey P. Newton. Step out of the car. 163 00:10:31,590 --> 00:10:35,260 - Why? I'm not stepping out of my car, man. - Get out of the car. 164 00:10:35,260 --> 00:10:38,013 What's the cause for getting me out of my car? Did I break any laws? 165 00:10:38,013 --> 00:10:39,473 Step out of the car. 166 00:10:39,973 --> 00:10:41,767 Be cool, man. Be cool, be cool. 167 00:10:44,853 --> 00:10:46,772 - Right there's fine. - Why you hassling me, man? 168 00:10:46,772 --> 00:10:49,316 - You go right there. - Man, why you hassling me? 169 00:10:49,316 --> 00:10:51,527 - Excuse me? What did you say to me? - Am I under arrest? 170 00:10:51,527 --> 00:10:53,737 - Am I under arrest? - Where's your gun, Huey? 171 00:10:53,737 --> 00:10:55,989 - I thought you had a gun. - Nobody said nothing about no gun. 172 00:10:55,989 --> 00:10:58,534 - You the motherfucker with a gun. - Thought you fuckers carried guns. 173 00:10:58,534 --> 00:11:01,078 This racist-ass motherfucker talking about a gun? 174 00:11:01,078 --> 00:11:04,122 If I did have a gun, pig, I have a right to carry a gun. 175 00:11:04,122 --> 00:11:06,166 - Article one, section one... - Fuck is this? 176 00:11:06,166 --> 00:11:07,501 ...of the California constitution 177 00:11:07,501 --> 00:11:11,505 guarantees my right to, uh, defend myself, my life, and my liberty. 178 00:11:11,505 --> 00:11:13,674 I don't give a fuck about your life and your liberty. 179 00:11:13,674 --> 00:11:16,301 - I will do so under the second amendment-- - This nigger's got a gun. 180 00:11:16,301 --> 00:11:18,887 - You a fucking racist-ass pig. - You got a gun. This nigger's got a gun. 181 00:11:18,887 --> 00:11:21,557 - Nigger? Are you saying "nigger"? - Yeah, you got a-- 182 00:11:22,766 --> 00:11:23,934 - [gunfire] - [grunts] 183 00:11:25,269 --> 00:11:27,396 [gunfire] 184 00:11:29,606 --> 00:11:32,150 [Huey] They said I had a gun. But I didn't. 185 00:11:33,235 --> 00:11:34,987 They said I killed a cop. 186 00:11:36,029 --> 00:11:39,116 Lot of bullets was flying that night, but none was mine. 187 00:11:40,284 --> 00:11:43,078 - Didn't matter. - [buzzer sounds] 188 00:11:44,413 --> 00:11:45,998 [grunting] 189 00:11:45,998 --> 00:11:47,499 [Huey] Threw me in the soul breaker. 190 00:11:47,499 --> 00:11:48,584 [grunts] 191 00:11:49,668 --> 00:11:52,129 [grunts] Fuck you, pig. [sighs] 192 00:11:52,129 --> 00:11:55,382 [Huey] Three years in solitary for a murder I didn't commit. 193 00:11:55,382 --> 00:11:58,677 [breathing shakily] 194 00:11:59,469 --> 00:12:03,140 [Huey] My mind was, uh... [sighs] ...torn apart. 195 00:12:04,183 --> 00:12:08,604 Everything I did wrong, every regret, every fear. 196 00:12:08,604 --> 00:12:11,732 [crying] 197 00:12:12,232 --> 00:12:14,735 [grunting, shouting] 198 00:12:17,821 --> 00:12:20,115 [Huey] Then I heard what happened to Lil Bobby. 199 00:12:21,283 --> 00:12:23,285 They wanted to see me destroyed. 200 00:12:23,285 --> 00:12:26,914 [sobs] Our freedom for our political prisoners. Our Black-- [mumbles] 201 00:12:26,914 --> 00:12:28,957 We want the end of police brutality-- [screams] 202 00:12:29,666 --> 00:12:31,543 End of police brutality. [breathes shakily] 203 00:12:31,543 --> 00:12:33,045 [Huey] I couldn't give 'em that. 204 00:12:33,795 --> 00:12:37,174 Yet somewhere deep inside, I knew I had to fight. 205 00:12:37,174 --> 00:12:40,135 For him and for everyone who needed us. 206 00:12:44,014 --> 00:12:48,268 Somehow the message, the, uh, ideas, they brought me back. 207 00:12:48,268 --> 00:12:49,394 [breathing heavily] 208 00:12:49,394 --> 00:12:52,648 [Huey] They tried to break me but they couldn't do it. 209 00:12:52,648 --> 00:12:54,566 I-I got-- I got my mind right. 210 00:12:54,566 --> 00:12:56,693 [keys jingling] 211 00:12:56,693 --> 00:12:59,238 [Huey] Then my conviction was overturned, so they did what they did, 212 00:12:59,238 --> 00:13:00,239 what they had to do. 213 00:13:01,073 --> 00:13:02,908 Cleaned me up, and said I was free to go. 214 00:13:04,451 --> 00:13:06,703 Free? [scoffs] Yeah, right. 215 00:13:07,204 --> 00:13:11,834 I was set free a marked man, and worse, a goddamn idol. 216 00:13:15,754 --> 00:13:19,258 [supporters chanting] Free Huey! Free Huey! 217 00:13:21,844 --> 00:13:22,928 {\an8}[supporters cheering] 218 00:13:22,928 --> 00:13:25,222 {\an8}["Give the People What They Want" playing] 219 00:13:40,988 --> 00:13:44,074 {\an8}Power to the people! Whoo-hoo! 220 00:13:51,790 --> 00:13:53,000 More power to the people! 221 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:56,503 [Steve] Let's just do what we gotta do. 222 00:13:56,503 --> 00:13:59,923 - Bert, studio wants to stunt cast this. - [producer] They want Monte Landis. 223 00:13:59,923 --> 00:14:02,676 - I think we should think about Rock. - [producer] Hudson? 224 00:14:02,676 --> 00:14:04,011 [Steve] No, the Rock of Gibraltar. 225 00:14:04,011 --> 00:14:06,972 [Huey] "Celebrity" is its own kind of prison. 226 00:14:06,972 --> 00:14:07,973 [shushes] 227 00:14:07,973 --> 00:14:09,933 [Huey] But that's how these producers took notice. 228 00:14:09,933 --> 00:14:12,895 - Bert Schneider and, uh, Steve Blauner. - I am free! 229 00:14:13,687 --> 00:14:15,314 [Huey] See, Bert's dad ran Columbia. 230 00:14:15,314 --> 00:14:18,400 {\an8}He scored his pops a-a cash-cow with the Monkees, 231 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,069 {\an8}but wanted to kill the golden goose to make a biker pic. 232 00:14:21,778 --> 00:14:25,782 With all you have, and all the meshugas in this world, 233 00:14:26,408 --> 00:14:28,493 can't you just leave it alone and enjoy your life? 234 00:14:30,495 --> 00:14:31,788 Like you did, Pop? 235 00:14:32,372 --> 00:14:35,709 [Huey] Bert's father remained silent during the McCarthy trials. 236 00:14:35,709 --> 00:14:38,420 Some of us can't just sit on the side. 237 00:14:39,838 --> 00:14:40,839 [scoffs] 238 00:14:42,966 --> 00:14:46,553 I'll distribute the stupid biker thing, but I'm not paying for it. 239 00:14:46,553 --> 00:14:48,305 It's your money, your bet. 240 00:14:49,306 --> 00:14:51,517 Mine is, you're gonna lose your shirt. 241 00:14:52,768 --> 00:14:56,146 Bullshit. There's gonna be lines around the block. 242 00:14:56,730 --> 00:14:59,566 [Huey] That stupid biker thing turned out to be Easy Rider. 243 00:14:59,566 --> 00:15:01,985 And there were indeed lines around the block. 244 00:15:01,985 --> 00:15:03,445 [supporters cheering] 245 00:15:03,445 --> 00:15:06,865 Talk about a star. That guy's a fucking star. 246 00:15:07,658 --> 00:15:08,575 Here we go. 247 00:15:09,618 --> 00:15:11,828 [Huey] Bert was tired of cultural revolutionaries, 248 00:15:11,828 --> 00:15:14,998 and when he saw me he saw cinema verité. 249 00:15:15,624 --> 00:15:17,668 - [chuckles] Real revolution. - Right on! 250 00:15:17,668 --> 00:15:20,754 [Huey] Ho Chi Minh in the home land. [chuckles] 251 00:15:20,754 --> 00:15:22,714 And he-- And he could never turn that off. 252 00:15:26,635 --> 00:15:29,596 {\an8}Say, man, who-- who are all these people, man? 253 00:15:29,596 --> 00:15:31,974 {\an8}I don't know who half these people are. Where--Where's Gwen? 254 00:15:31,974 --> 00:15:34,476 {\an8}Gwen's with the kids, but it's good to have you back, brother. 255 00:15:34,476 --> 00:15:36,854 {\an8}Ain't out the woods yet, man. Still got another trial. 256 00:15:36,854 --> 00:15:38,647 Another expensive trial. 257 00:15:38,647 --> 00:15:43,026 Between you, Ericka, George Jackson, the Siete de la Raza, it all adds up. 258 00:15:44,069 --> 00:15:45,654 [Panther] Hell, we need gas. 259 00:15:45,654 --> 00:15:48,198 Help get folks up to see our comrades in prison. 260 00:15:48,198 --> 00:15:49,241 I hear that, sister. 261 00:15:49,241 --> 00:15:51,201 I know y'all hear that, but are you listening? 262 00:15:51,201 --> 00:15:52,744 We're running on empty. 263 00:15:53,412 --> 00:15:59,293 I got somebody to help lighten the load on legal fees, gas, you name it. 264 00:15:59,293 --> 00:16:00,669 Anything else you might need. 265 00:16:00,669 --> 00:16:03,630 [Huey] Teressa was a rising star within the party. 266 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:06,383 [Huey] Who the hell is Berton Jerome? 267 00:16:06,383 --> 00:16:08,552 Bert Schneider. A friend of Elaine's. 268 00:16:08,552 --> 00:16:11,180 - Wonderbread? - Whole lot of bread. 269 00:16:11,180 --> 00:16:14,516 Produces movies. Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces. 270 00:16:14,516 --> 00:16:17,311 Got one coming out later this fall, uh, Last Picture Show. 271 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,860 The party could use Bert's money to support the survival programs. 272 00:16:24,860 --> 00:16:27,738 Hollywood is the fast track to capitalist co-optation. 273 00:16:27,738 --> 00:16:29,281 [Panther 2] You got that right. 274 00:16:29,781 --> 00:16:31,033 [Panther 3] You disagree? 275 00:16:31,033 --> 00:16:33,869 He wants in. He's willing to do whatever it takes. 276 00:16:33,869 --> 00:16:36,788 White mother country radicals already in the movement, brother. 277 00:16:37,331 --> 00:16:39,750 Look at the Freedom Riders, Young Patriots. 278 00:16:39,750 --> 00:16:41,960 They got a role to play if they willing to play. 279 00:16:42,794 --> 00:16:44,838 Sounds like something to consider, Brother Huey. 280 00:16:48,342 --> 00:16:49,801 Let me explain something to you. 281 00:16:51,512 --> 00:16:54,264 All right. Them Appalachian white folks. 282 00:16:54,264 --> 00:16:55,933 Them, uh, working class thugs. 283 00:16:57,100 --> 00:17:01,980 They ain't Hollywood. They poor folks just like us. You dig? 284 00:17:02,689 --> 00:17:04,525 The police whoop their ass, just like us. 285 00:17:04,525 --> 00:17:09,070 They got rats in their walls and-- and cockroaches in their cereal, just like us. 286 00:17:09,070 --> 00:17:12,199 They don't want in the movement, brother. You understand? 287 00:17:13,534 --> 00:17:15,117 They don't want in the movement. 288 00:17:15,117 --> 00:17:16,537 What they want is to survive. 289 00:17:17,412 --> 00:17:19,705 And they can dig that the Black Panther Party will help them 290 00:17:19,705 --> 00:17:23,252 more than any white police officer, any white politician ever would. 291 00:17:23,836 --> 00:17:24,752 [Panther 4] Right on. 292 00:17:26,296 --> 00:17:27,548 So, Brother David is right. 293 00:17:28,882 --> 00:17:30,175 We gotta find another way. 294 00:17:31,927 --> 00:17:34,179 I don't want us getting mixed up in no Hollywood. 295 00:17:43,939 --> 00:17:45,399 Tell your pops he's all paid up. 296 00:17:45,983 --> 00:17:46,984 - All right. - All right. 297 00:17:49,736 --> 00:17:53,699 [Teressa] Are you crazy? Out here on your own. No protection. 298 00:17:54,449 --> 00:17:56,994 Can't be scared to be on the streets with our own people, Teressa. 299 00:17:56,994 --> 00:17:58,078 Yeah. 300 00:17:58,579 --> 00:18:01,290 - [supporter] All power to the people. - All power to the people, brother. 301 00:18:03,834 --> 00:18:08,922 You know, my pops, uh, worked harder than anybody I've ever seen, his whole life. 302 00:18:09,464 --> 00:18:12,092 - It's good to have you home, brother. - Thank you, sis. 303 00:18:12,092 --> 00:18:15,596 He had two, three jobs at a time, always paid his bills... 304 00:18:16,221 --> 00:18:19,349 [scoffs] ...never got in trouble with the law. Never, uh-- 305 00:18:19,349 --> 00:18:21,685 - See you at the rally next week. - [Huey] All right. 306 00:18:24,438 --> 00:18:25,355 [Teressa chuckles] 307 00:18:25,355 --> 00:18:28,650 Never got ahead either. You know, always a half step better than broke. 308 00:18:29,568 --> 00:18:32,738 You get money for your programs, you can change all that. 309 00:18:33,363 --> 00:18:35,532 - Brother Larry-- - Hey, Brother Larry's a sucker. 310 00:18:35,532 --> 00:18:38,118 He talks a good game, but he ain't never been in no fight. 311 00:18:38,118 --> 00:18:40,954 - It ain't always about fighting. - It is about fighting, Teressa. 312 00:18:41,830 --> 00:18:44,708 My father always said, "Always look 'em in the eye. Always advance." 313 00:18:44,708 --> 00:18:48,754 I can tell you everything you need to know about a man by what he does in a fight. 314 00:18:48,754 --> 00:18:52,508 Well, I'll tell you this, for what you wanna do, you should check out Bert. 315 00:18:53,467 --> 00:18:54,885 Did you give him some, Teressa? 316 00:18:56,595 --> 00:18:59,556 Oh, shit. You did, didn't you? 317 00:19:00,557 --> 00:19:03,018 [scoffs] Guess you got that $100,000 thing, huh? 318 00:19:03,018 --> 00:19:06,313 Well, you should know. Can't put a price tag on perfect. 319 00:19:06,313 --> 00:19:08,190 [laughs] But no. 320 00:19:10,651 --> 00:19:16,615 Huey, my daddy didn't struggle like yours did. He split. 321 00:19:17,366 --> 00:19:21,745 And my mom had it twice as hard raising us on top of all those jobs. 322 00:19:21,745 --> 00:19:24,873 I think about all she did to get me here. 323 00:19:25,749 --> 00:19:30,087 And how much it would have meant to lighten the load just a little bit. 324 00:19:30,838 --> 00:19:32,256 Just give him a shot, Huey. 325 00:19:38,262 --> 00:19:39,805 You did give him some, didn't you? 326 00:19:41,098 --> 00:19:42,474 I ain't saying nothing. 327 00:19:42,474 --> 00:19:44,476 ["Jumpin' Jack Flash" playing] 328 00:19:48,564 --> 00:19:50,566 [people chattering, laughing] 329 00:19:54,611 --> 00:19:57,072 I heard somebody say Jack Nicholson was gonna be in here. 330 00:19:58,490 --> 00:20:03,203 Oh, shit. Brando! I gotta thank him for what he said at my thing. 331 00:20:06,957 --> 00:20:09,126 - I'ma go find Bert. - All right. 332 00:20:25,893 --> 00:20:29,146 Damn. Huey motherfucking Newton. 333 00:20:29,146 --> 00:20:31,148 - Richard Pryor. - What's happening? 334 00:20:31,982 --> 00:20:33,442 Bert trying to get down with the Panthers? 335 00:20:33,442 --> 00:20:36,570 - [scoffs] Yeah, he's trying, brother. - Oh, far fucking out. 336 00:20:37,196 --> 00:20:39,948 Say, man, what do you think about these white folk? 337 00:20:39,948 --> 00:20:42,993 Oh, this here is a special breed of honky. 338 00:20:43,660 --> 00:20:46,163 One that, deep in their genes, they got a lot of guilt. 339 00:20:46,163 --> 00:20:47,080 [scoffs] 340 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,208 They willing to pay a steep price for absolution. 341 00:20:51,043 --> 00:20:54,004 Now here come the best argument yet for segregation. 342 00:20:55,005 --> 00:20:56,423 Bert, dig. 343 00:20:56,423 --> 00:20:59,843 Richard Pryor as Huey P. Newton in The Huey Newton Story. 344 00:21:00,385 --> 00:21:01,595 Well, don't we look alike? 345 00:21:04,097 --> 00:21:06,099 - Not really. [laughs] - Oh, damn. 346 00:21:06,725 --> 00:21:10,395 The one time I need a white guy who can't tell us apart, I get the pasty Panther. 347 00:21:10,395 --> 00:21:11,313 [laughs] 348 00:21:11,313 --> 00:21:13,273 Now he'll probably get Warren Beatty or somebody. 349 00:21:13,273 --> 00:21:16,568 Put some shoe polish on his face and have him play you. Ain't that right? 350 00:21:17,319 --> 00:21:18,862 I'ma let y'all talk y'all business. 351 00:21:19,363 --> 00:21:20,989 I'ma tell all my people I met you tonight. 352 00:21:20,989 --> 00:21:22,574 - They gonna shit. - Same, brother. 353 00:21:23,242 --> 00:21:24,243 Play nice. 354 00:21:26,203 --> 00:21:27,371 - Be cool. - I'm cool. 355 00:21:30,082 --> 00:21:31,083 Let me show you around. 356 00:21:31,083 --> 00:21:32,501 I think I get it. 357 00:21:32,501 --> 00:21:35,671 [stammers] There's really nothing to get. Could all burn tomorrow. 358 00:21:35,671 --> 00:21:38,507 I don't know, man. Look like to me you got it made in the shade. 359 00:21:39,842 --> 00:21:41,385 Why you wanna mess around with us? 360 00:21:41,385 --> 00:21:42,845 Ah, well, who says I'm messing? 361 00:21:42,845 --> 00:21:44,137 Can't be no other way. 362 00:21:45,138 --> 00:21:48,016 Revolution's survival to me. It's optional to you. 363 00:21:48,016 --> 00:21:49,852 That's exactly why I gotta do it. 364 00:21:56,024 --> 00:21:57,317 Look, America's not Cuba. 365 00:21:57,317 --> 00:22:01,154 You're not gonna overthrow the government with 42 people hanging out in the jungle. 366 00:22:01,780 --> 00:22:03,949 You have to change the way that people think. 367 00:22:03,949 --> 00:22:06,201 Yeah, that's cool for you down here. 368 00:22:06,201 --> 00:22:09,162 But in Oakland, we're fighting a low-grade guerrilla war every day. 369 00:22:11,582 --> 00:22:13,542 [Bert] Look at that thing in-in Algeria. 370 00:22:13,542 --> 00:22:14,626 Look at Algeria. 371 00:22:14,626 --> 00:22:16,461 People fought, and they didn't let go. 372 00:22:16,461 --> 00:22:19,047 Okay, no, I'm talking about The Battle of Algiers. 373 00:22:19,047 --> 00:22:20,382 - The movie. - Right. Right. 374 00:22:20,382 --> 00:22:23,427 That-That's the cri de coeur for all those kids out in the streets. 375 00:22:24,178 --> 00:22:25,179 All right. 376 00:22:25,179 --> 00:22:28,640 Yeah, a lot of kids saw it, and it got 'em high on revolution. 377 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,017 That movie minted fighters. 378 00:22:30,017 --> 00:22:31,935 That's the power of the silver screen. 379 00:22:31,935 --> 00:22:34,229 Hollywood's always been late to the party, 380 00:22:34,229 --> 00:22:36,315 but these people are trying to change all that. 381 00:22:36,315 --> 00:22:38,609 You're looking at the world's best storytellers, 382 00:22:38,609 --> 00:22:40,235 and there's no politics without a story. 383 00:22:40,235 --> 00:22:43,572 Yeah, but what story you trying to tell? And why should you tell it? 384 00:22:43,572 --> 00:22:44,781 No, not tell it. 385 00:22:45,741 --> 00:22:47,034 Just make it possible. 386 00:22:48,243 --> 00:22:50,037 I wanna finance the revolution. 387 00:22:52,331 --> 00:22:54,583 [sniffing] 388 00:22:55,709 --> 00:22:58,420 - In order for people to survive, right... - Yeah. 389 00:22:58,420 --> 00:23:00,964 ...they have to understand how to survive in this racist system. 390 00:23:00,964 --> 00:23:02,424 But it's all about consciousness. 391 00:23:02,424 --> 00:23:04,551 - Gotta raise it. - Then the people will pick up the gun. 392 00:23:04,551 --> 00:23:07,012 - Nah, I'm putting the gun aside. - Go after the superstructure. 393 00:23:07,012 --> 00:23:09,014 - Capitalism is the cornerstone. - Gotta knock out that block. 394 00:23:09,014 --> 00:23:10,349 We're doing it block to block. 395 00:23:10,349 --> 00:23:12,976 Up in Oakland, right, we're-- we're, uh, educating our own. 396 00:23:12,976 --> 00:23:15,521 We're feeding our own, clothing, shelter, and health care. 397 00:23:15,521 --> 00:23:16,939 So you nationalize the community. 398 00:23:16,939 --> 00:23:19,858 Show the lumpenproletariat that they can do better than the imperialists. 399 00:23:19,858 --> 00:23:20,943 So you do it up there, 400 00:23:20,943 --> 00:23:22,986 and then other communities will see what's possible. 401 00:23:22,986 --> 00:23:25,405 Fire is lit. The revolution starts to spread. 402 00:23:25,405 --> 00:23:27,115 This is a-- This is a dangerous idea. 403 00:23:28,408 --> 00:23:30,827 You're gonna be the most dangerous man in America. 404 00:23:30,827 --> 00:23:33,956 You ask J. Edgar Hoover, I already am. 405 00:23:35,332 --> 00:23:36,959 ["Changes" playing] 406 00:23:36,959 --> 00:23:38,043 Smoke this. 407 00:23:58,647 --> 00:24:01,692 You know, I'm-- I'm not trying to control your message. 408 00:24:01,692 --> 00:24:03,443 I'll do whatever the party needs. 409 00:24:03,443 --> 00:24:04,903 Propaganda for the people. 410 00:24:06,405 --> 00:24:08,156 And what happens when the law comes knocking 411 00:24:08,156 --> 00:24:10,075 or these studios stop taking your call? 412 00:24:10,075 --> 00:24:12,578 Well, I have a saying when we pick projects. 413 00:24:12,578 --> 00:24:15,247 "If it's not worth risking everything to do, it's not worth doing." 414 00:24:15,247 --> 00:24:16,874 Right. What about your life? 415 00:24:18,125 --> 00:24:19,668 What would you die for, Bert? 416 00:24:19,668 --> 00:24:22,713 Well, I-- I think what you're really asking is, 417 00:24:22,713 --> 00:24:24,006 how full of shit am I? 418 00:24:25,841 --> 00:24:30,387 Seems like I'm always measuring my actions against my convictions 419 00:24:31,221 --> 00:24:32,222 and coming up short. 420 00:24:35,517 --> 00:24:37,853 If I take this money, who-who am I accountable to? 421 00:24:38,437 --> 00:24:39,771 Nobody. 422 00:24:40,355 --> 00:24:41,607 That's not how I work. 423 00:24:41,607 --> 00:24:44,860 I hire the best artists, and I give them free rein. 424 00:24:44,860 --> 00:24:47,070 Jack, isn't that right? 425 00:24:47,070 --> 00:24:50,199 He writes the checks and stays away. [chuckles] 426 00:24:50,199 --> 00:24:52,201 [Bert] I let the talent tell the story. 427 00:24:52,201 --> 00:24:53,285 Right. 428 00:24:53,952 --> 00:24:56,705 - Right. And who do you see as the talent? - Well, I think that's obvious. 429 00:24:57,831 --> 00:25:00,000 The face of the revolution has to be you. 430 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,044 And, uh, by me, you mean, uh-- 431 00:25:03,587 --> 00:25:06,089 You mean the guy in the chair with the-- with the rifle and spear. 432 00:25:07,174 --> 00:25:09,301 Yeah. 433 00:25:09,843 --> 00:25:11,637 The baddest motherfucker on the planet. 434 00:25:18,393 --> 00:25:19,394 Think about it. 435 00:25:21,605 --> 00:25:23,190 [Bert] What is it? Did I say something wrong? 436 00:25:23,774 --> 00:25:27,819 [Teressa] No. He just doesn't feel it's the right direction for the party. 437 00:25:27,819 --> 00:25:29,863 What direction? I throw money his direction. 438 00:25:29,863 --> 00:25:31,114 He can do whatever he wants. 439 00:25:31,698 --> 00:25:33,534 He doesn't wanna get in bed with Hollywood. 440 00:25:33,534 --> 00:25:35,911 Let me come up there and meet with him again. 441 00:25:35,911 --> 00:25:38,789 - Five minutes, he owes me that. - Owes you? 442 00:25:39,540 --> 00:25:40,791 Bert, he doesn't want to. 443 00:25:40,791 --> 00:25:44,211 Everybody wants to meet with me, I'm Bert fucking Schneider. 444 00:25:47,589 --> 00:25:50,217 Once we get in there I need you to handle it, all right? 445 00:25:51,093 --> 00:25:53,637 [Bert] Huey! Huey. 446 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:55,806 Man, are you tailing me? 447 00:25:57,015 --> 00:25:58,016 No. 448 00:25:58,517 --> 00:25:59,518 Well, kinda. 449 00:26:00,519 --> 00:26:02,563 Can you please just give me five minutes? 450 00:26:02,563 --> 00:26:04,022 I wanna help, that's all. 451 00:26:04,022 --> 00:26:05,732 I can help you finish building the houses. 452 00:26:05,732 --> 00:26:08,527 I can help build the schools. I can help build the clinics. 453 00:26:08,527 --> 00:26:09,987 Right. Right. And then what? 454 00:26:09,987 --> 00:26:11,488 Then you wanna put your name over the door? 455 00:26:12,197 --> 00:26:13,198 Of course not. 456 00:26:14,074 --> 00:26:15,075 [chuckles] 457 00:26:15,909 --> 00:26:17,744 Yeah, you say that now, 458 00:26:17,744 --> 00:26:20,622 but, once you write that check, you gonna want something for it. 459 00:26:20,622 --> 00:26:21,707 Like what? 460 00:26:22,499 --> 00:26:24,793 Well, you gonna want people to know. 461 00:26:25,335 --> 00:26:26,503 Not my style. 462 00:26:27,504 --> 00:26:31,175 Look, I know you mean well, but see, the thing is, uh, 463 00:26:31,175 --> 00:26:33,510 we got money coming in from our own people now. 464 00:26:34,052 --> 00:26:36,388 So, uh, there just ain't no place in the movement 465 00:26:36,388 --> 00:26:38,515 for a Hollywood white boy, you dig? 466 00:26:41,935 --> 00:26:43,103 [scoffs] 467 00:26:43,103 --> 00:26:45,189 - Huey, he-- - Don't start with me, Teressa. 468 00:26:45,189 --> 00:26:46,315 I ain't saying nothing. 469 00:26:46,315 --> 00:26:47,399 Hey. Hey, listen. 470 00:26:49,318 --> 00:26:52,613 Only the people can transform society, Teressa. Not stars. 471 00:26:53,155 --> 00:26:55,616 Now, I don't want Hollywood sidetracking us. 472 00:26:55,616 --> 00:26:57,159 That's not protecting the party. 473 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,288 You worried about them sidetracking the movement or sidetracking you? 474 00:27:01,872 --> 00:27:03,081 Same thing. 475 00:27:04,291 --> 00:27:09,630 [siren blares] 476 00:27:14,343 --> 00:27:15,886 Got a report of loitering. 477 00:27:15,886 --> 00:27:17,638 What you guys doing, huh? 478 00:27:17,638 --> 00:27:20,140 - Penal code 647H PC... - Penal code. 479 00:27:20,140 --> 00:27:22,601 ...makes it a crime for a person to loiter on someone's property-- 480 00:27:22,601 --> 00:27:24,728 - [officer] Who the fuck-- - [member] You motherfu-- 481 00:27:24,728 --> 00:27:25,812 [officer] Watch my mouth? 482 00:27:25,812 --> 00:27:27,105 - You call me a cracker? - Yeah, pig. 483 00:27:27,105 --> 00:27:28,899 - Yeah, I did. Fuck you, cracker. - Be cool. 484 00:27:28,899 --> 00:27:30,150 Are you out of your head... 485 00:27:30,150 --> 00:27:31,485 Get your fucking hands off her. 486 00:27:31,485 --> 00:27:34,154 Why y'all always fucking with us? Huh? Why you always fucking with us? 487 00:27:34,154 --> 00:27:36,406 What are you two doing? Are you crazy? We'll run you in. 488 00:27:36,406 --> 00:27:37,658 - Get the fuck out of here. - Fucker. 489 00:27:37,658 --> 00:27:39,701 [officer 2] Fuck you and all the niggers that follow you. 490 00:27:39,701 --> 00:27:42,829 [Black Panthers, police officers clamoring] 491 00:27:43,413 --> 00:27:45,624 Hey, whoa, whoa! Officer! Officer! Officer! 492 00:27:45,624 --> 00:27:47,751 - They weren't doing anything. - [Panther] Get away from me. 493 00:27:49,002 --> 00:27:50,462 - Back up! - I'm Bert Schneider. 494 00:27:50,462 --> 00:27:51,588 I'm here from Los Angeles. 495 00:27:52,089 --> 00:27:53,841 Back the fuck up! I don't give a shit! 496 00:27:53,841 --> 00:27:56,051 Hey, you get your hands off me. Don't you touch me! 497 00:27:56,051 --> 00:27:57,177 Fuck you! 498 00:27:57,678 --> 00:27:59,888 [Black Panthers, officers clamoring] 499 00:28:00,472 --> 00:28:02,558 - [grunts] - [grunts] 500 00:28:02,558 --> 00:28:04,977 - You got him. You don't need... - Back up! Back up! 501 00:28:09,273 --> 00:28:12,276 ["I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" playing] 502 00:28:18,782 --> 00:28:20,158 This is bullshit. 503 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,985 {\an8}A massive nationwide manhunt is now underway. 504 00:28:54,985 --> 00:29:00,657 {\an8}Huey P. Newton is wanted in the shooting of a 17-year-old Bay Area prostitute. 505 00:29:00,657 --> 00:29:03,202 {\an8}[Huey] So that's how I ended up here, 506 00:29:03,202 --> 00:29:06,914 hiding out in a little girl's bedroom in a mansion in Bel Air. 507 00:29:08,665 --> 00:29:09,958 It's all gonna be okay. 508 00:29:10,459 --> 00:29:13,378 Bert's gonna get you that fancy white lawyer. 509 00:29:13,962 --> 00:29:17,132 We were in his house for five minutes, and he shoved us out the door. 510 00:29:17,633 --> 00:29:20,302 You know you couldn't get rid of Bert if you tried. 511 00:29:21,011 --> 00:29:22,429 He'll come through for us. 512 00:29:24,181 --> 00:29:26,558 [lawyer] They sound extremely confident. 513 00:29:26,558 --> 00:29:30,437 The state says they have shell casings, forensics, eyewitnesses. 514 00:29:30,437 --> 00:29:31,647 It's a frame-up, Bill. 515 00:29:31,647 --> 00:29:33,982 You know, their eyewitness is a streetwalker. 516 00:29:33,982 --> 00:29:37,194 [chuckles] Probably coercing her six ways to Sunday. 517 00:29:37,194 --> 00:29:38,695 Huey didn't kill that girl. 518 00:29:38,695 --> 00:29:40,072 This is a setup. 519 00:29:40,572 --> 00:29:42,908 You should get as far away from this as possible. 520 00:29:42,908 --> 00:29:44,618 You're harboring a fugitive. 521 00:29:44,618 --> 00:29:46,328 If you destroy evidence... 522 00:29:48,914 --> 00:29:51,041 You're not destroying evidence, are you? 523 00:29:53,252 --> 00:29:55,629 [Bert] You've never heard the words "Huey" or "Newton". 524 00:29:55,629 --> 00:29:58,048 - We need the car in the hole. - Shut the fuck up. You're robbing me. 525 00:29:58,048 --> 00:29:59,216 Fucking sold! 526 00:30:00,717 --> 00:30:01,760 - Of course not. - No. 527 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:03,971 - Why would we do that? - Little offended at the suggestion. 528 00:30:04,763 --> 00:30:05,764 Good. 529 00:30:08,433 --> 00:30:11,728 Huey's only chance right now is to turn himself in. 530 00:30:12,980 --> 00:30:14,189 You're out of your fucking tree. 531 00:30:14,189 --> 00:30:17,901 I can't look at their evidence and start to fight till after he's in custody. 532 00:30:17,901 --> 00:30:20,737 He was in solitary for 34 months. He'd die sooner. 533 00:30:20,737 --> 00:30:22,364 Then you probably all will. 534 00:30:22,364 --> 00:30:23,991 Wait, I'm-- I'm sorry. What? 535 00:30:24,491 --> 00:30:27,119 If he keeps running, they will find him. 536 00:30:27,119 --> 00:30:29,371 They will kill him and anyone he's with. 537 00:30:32,416 --> 00:30:36,003 They created SWAT specifically to raid Panthers. 538 00:30:36,587 --> 00:30:39,131 This isn't a movie, Bert. There won't be any knock at the door. 539 00:30:39,131 --> 00:30:41,175 - There won't be a warrant. They'll just-- - [click] 540 00:30:41,175 --> 00:30:42,176 [shushes] 541 00:30:42,676 --> 00:30:44,803 - [boots shuffling] - [Bill] Did you hear that? 542 00:30:49,683 --> 00:30:50,893 What? Do you hear that? 543 00:30:50,893 --> 00:30:52,019 Let's go. 544 00:30:52,019 --> 00:30:53,270 [Bert] What was that? 545 00:30:53,896 --> 00:30:55,022 Bert, let's just go. 546 00:30:55,606 --> 00:30:57,608 - [Steve] We should go. - Oh, shit. 547 00:30:58,358 --> 00:31:01,570 - [gunshots] - [Steve screams] 548 00:31:01,570 --> 00:31:03,572 - [SWAT leader] Move! Move! Move! - [Steve] Fuck! Oh, shit! 549 00:31:04,823 --> 00:31:07,868 - [screams] - Shit! [screaming] 550 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,580 [screaming] 551 00:31:21,381 --> 00:31:23,175 It'll go something like that. 552 00:31:28,514 --> 00:31:31,600 If you love Huey, don't let him martyr himself. 553 00:31:32,643 --> 00:31:33,685 Get him to come in. 554 00:31:37,105 --> 00:31:40,067 [Richard] I mean, I can dig this. You out here hiding in plain sight, huh? 555 00:31:40,067 --> 00:31:42,486 Figure that's the last place they'd think to look for me. 556 00:31:47,866 --> 00:31:49,243 That shit I got from Big Bob. 557 00:31:51,453 --> 00:31:53,539 You know I met his scary ass in an alley? 558 00:31:54,122 --> 00:31:57,167 That is one morose motherfucker right there, man. 559 00:31:57,668 --> 00:32:00,546 I mean he ain't crack nary a smile, you dig? 560 00:32:01,296 --> 00:32:03,674 Consider that my contribution to the revolution. 561 00:32:05,551 --> 00:32:06,635 Thank you, brother. 562 00:32:10,556 --> 00:32:11,557 Scared? 563 00:32:13,225 --> 00:32:15,686 Shit, I get nervous just going up telling jokes sometimes. 564 00:32:15,686 --> 00:32:18,564 I mean, I can't imagine what you're going through. 565 00:32:19,648 --> 00:32:21,483 After Malcolm and Martin. 566 00:32:21,483 --> 00:32:25,320 Man, I always, uh-- I always knew I was living on borrowed time, man. 567 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,031 I always knew I was gonna die for the revolution. 568 00:32:30,659 --> 00:32:32,077 That don't mean I ain't scared. 569 00:32:33,078 --> 00:32:35,122 That's the definition of courage right there. 570 00:32:35,122 --> 00:32:36,206 Doing it anyway. 571 00:32:36,915 --> 00:32:38,542 That or insanity. 572 00:32:39,251 --> 00:32:42,129 Shit. I mean, I can't keep the two straight. 573 00:32:43,380 --> 00:32:44,381 Me neither, man. 574 00:32:47,509 --> 00:32:48,510 Uh-oh. 575 00:32:48,510 --> 00:32:51,013 [grunts, chuckles] Too slow. 576 00:32:51,013 --> 00:32:52,931 [grunts] No. No, no. [chuckles] 577 00:32:52,931 --> 00:32:55,058 - Okay. You got me. - Oh, hey. There's my guys. 578 00:32:55,058 --> 00:32:56,727 - I love this duo, huh? - [Huey chuckles] 579 00:32:56,727 --> 00:33:00,105 All right. Hey, Mike, what-- Let's let, uh, Uncle Bert and Huey talk, okay? 580 00:33:00,105 --> 00:33:01,064 Come on. 581 00:33:01,565 --> 00:33:03,442 - Fine. - All right, fine. 582 00:33:03,442 --> 00:33:05,277 - Bye, Huey. - Give me five. 583 00:33:06,737 --> 00:33:08,739 - All right. - [Steve] Don't let me catch you. C'mon. 584 00:33:12,409 --> 00:33:14,453 How's, uh-- How's Kunstler? 585 00:33:14,453 --> 00:33:15,954 He all fired up for a fight? 586 00:33:19,958 --> 00:33:21,752 He thinks you should turn yourself in. 587 00:33:23,212 --> 00:33:24,213 [chuckles] 588 00:33:25,255 --> 00:33:27,341 And did you tell him to go fuck himself? 589 00:33:34,264 --> 00:33:35,849 Oh, I see how it is. 590 00:33:39,311 --> 00:33:40,312 After all that? 591 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,316 "I always wanna be down with the movement", but when the-- 592 00:33:44,316 --> 00:33:46,985 when the rubber meets the road, suddenly you a pedestrian? 593 00:33:48,070 --> 00:33:49,071 Gwen. 594 00:33:51,031 --> 00:33:52,032 Gwen! We leaving! 595 00:33:54,701 --> 00:33:57,913 Look, nobody wants to see you in prison, and nobody wants to see you dead either. 596 00:33:57,913 --> 00:34:00,415 Actually, a lot of people wanna see me dead, Bert. 597 00:34:00,415 --> 00:34:02,668 You think cops don't kill niggas in the pen? 598 00:34:04,503 --> 00:34:06,922 "I'll do whatever it takes to be down with the movement, Huey." 599 00:34:06,922 --> 00:34:08,549 Those were your words. 600 00:34:10,092 --> 00:34:11,760 Knew it was jive when you said it. 601 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,388 How's it help the movement if you're dead? 602 00:34:14,388 --> 00:34:17,224 There's nowhere in the country you can hide where they won't find you. 603 00:34:17,224 --> 00:34:18,725 That's why I'm leaving the country. 604 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,400 [chuckles] This isn't gonna work. 605 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:28,485 And tell me why not. 606 00:34:29,194 --> 00:34:30,195 [Bert sighs] 607 00:34:30,195 --> 00:34:31,280 Hmm? 608 00:34:32,739 --> 00:34:35,033 Th-- They're expecting you at every crossing. 609 00:34:35,033 --> 00:34:38,495 You're gonna need disguises, transportation, a whole ton of shit. 610 00:34:38,495 --> 00:34:40,205 Where you gonna stay when you get where you're going? 611 00:34:40,205 --> 00:34:42,583 How are we gonna keep you from being extradited? 612 00:34:42,583 --> 00:34:45,502 - It's logistically impossible. - Yeah. Well, I will figure it out, Bert. 613 00:34:45,502 --> 00:34:47,379 Ah, it's not that simple. 614 00:34:47,963 --> 00:34:50,757 You're the hotshot producer, man. You wanna produce something? Produce this. 615 00:34:56,847 --> 00:34:58,932 [Bert] How about we put you in a car to Canada-- 616 00:34:58,932 --> 00:35:01,768 No. Man, they'd hunt me down like the Weathermen. 617 00:35:01,768 --> 00:35:04,980 Well, we can't do Mexico, either. Not with those fascists in power. 618 00:35:04,980 --> 00:35:07,107 You gotta be dry-humping me this is what's happening. 619 00:35:07,107 --> 00:35:09,693 - Hush. This is good. - Oh, I'm sorry, is this not my house? 620 00:35:09,693 --> 00:35:11,570 [Bert] Gotta be a place with no extradition. 621 00:35:11,570 --> 00:35:13,822 - It's gotta be communist. Tanzania or-- - China? 622 00:35:14,573 --> 00:35:15,407 Algeria. 623 00:35:15,407 --> 00:35:17,910 - No. Hell no. That's where Eldridge is. - [Gwen] Mm-mmm. 624 00:35:19,411 --> 00:35:20,412 Cuba. 625 00:35:22,789 --> 00:35:23,999 Cuba. 626 00:35:25,167 --> 00:35:27,169 [agent] Believe the suspect is at the house. 627 00:35:27,169 --> 00:35:30,255 He's believed to be armed and dangerous. All units proceed with caution. 628 00:35:34,051 --> 00:35:35,969 Ninety miles off the coast of Florida. 629 00:35:35,969 --> 00:35:38,972 - Castro would welcome you with open arms. - Wait a second. 630 00:35:38,972 --> 00:35:41,225 You're not actually considering this, are you? 631 00:35:41,225 --> 00:35:42,309 Bert, what's he gonna do? 632 00:35:42,309 --> 00:35:44,269 No, please, tell me, Huey, what are you gonna do? 633 00:35:44,269 --> 00:35:46,146 You gonna skyjack a plane? Is that what's on the menu? 634 00:35:46,146 --> 00:35:49,566 No, that's déclassé for a revolutionary of his stature. 635 00:35:49,566 --> 00:35:50,776 We'll find another way. 636 00:35:50,776 --> 00:35:52,402 I don't know how yet. 637 00:35:52,402 --> 00:35:54,154 Doesn't matter. It's plot, execution. 638 00:35:54,154 --> 00:35:56,240 It's not execution. We're gonna get executed. 639 00:35:56,240 --> 00:35:57,574 Cuba could work. [chuckles] 640 00:35:57,574 --> 00:36:00,118 [Steve] It's not gonna work, Bert. Not with the Feds watching us here. 641 00:36:00,118 --> 00:36:01,495 What we do is-- Check it out. 642 00:36:01,495 --> 00:36:04,414 What we do is, we make it look like it's-- like it's one of your movies. 643 00:36:04,414 --> 00:36:05,332 [bang] 644 00:36:05,332 --> 00:36:07,125 [Huey] It's just some cats doing a production. 645 00:36:07,125 --> 00:36:10,003 Exactly. It's a location shoot as far as the Feds are concerned. 646 00:36:10,003 --> 00:36:14,716 We got hair, makeup, wardrobe, travel, a star. [chuckles] 647 00:36:16,051 --> 00:36:16,969 Call Karen Carpenter. 648 00:36:16,969 --> 00:36:18,262 - We're gonna need some cash. - No. 649 00:36:18,262 --> 00:36:20,347 No, no, no we gonna keep the circle small, man. 650 00:36:20,347 --> 00:36:21,807 [Steve] No. You-- No. 651 00:36:21,807 --> 00:36:23,141 Gentlemen, stop. 652 00:36:24,059 --> 00:36:25,143 [SWAT leader] Move! Move! Move! 653 00:36:25,143 --> 00:36:26,937 [Steve] You heard Kunstler, okay? 654 00:36:26,937 --> 00:36:28,021 This is not a movie. 655 00:36:28,021 --> 00:36:31,066 Those bullets are real. They go inside you, the end. 656 00:36:34,194 --> 00:36:36,280 - [Bert] Steve. - [Steve] Don't-- Don't "Steve" me. C'mon. 657 00:36:36,864 --> 00:36:38,115 - Don't look at him. - Steve. 658 00:36:38,115 --> 00:36:40,033 This is me, baby. Come on. Come on. 659 00:36:40,033 --> 00:36:41,952 Bert, bring your brain back from lunch. 660 00:36:41,952 --> 00:36:43,036 - Steve. - Buddy, come on. 661 00:36:43,036 --> 00:36:44,872 Let's just go back to our projects, right? 662 00:36:44,872 --> 00:36:47,833 - Let's just go find the next big picture. - Steve, it's over. 663 00:36:48,333 --> 00:36:49,418 I don't care anymore. 664 00:36:49,418 --> 00:36:51,920 We revolutionized movies, big fucking deal. 665 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:55,674 This, Huey's fight, this is real life. 666 00:36:55,674 --> 00:36:58,635 - Something worth risking everything to do. - [Steve scoffs] 667 00:36:59,219 --> 00:37:00,888 This is our next big picture. 668 00:37:07,060 --> 00:37:08,145 [officer grunts] 669 00:37:09,354 --> 00:37:10,439 Check those doors. 670 00:37:11,148 --> 00:37:12,608 Let's get this motherfucker. 671 00:37:20,073 --> 00:37:22,826 [teenager] What did we do? We were just in a school play. 672 00:37:22,826 --> 00:37:25,204 [agent] The fuck are Schneider and Newton? 673 00:37:25,204 --> 00:37:27,789 You've gotta be fucking kidding me. 674 00:37:28,290 --> 00:37:31,919 [Huey] That's right, y'all remember that hippie Fed who was hunting me down? 675 00:37:32,503 --> 00:37:37,716 And yes, the FBI really did raid Bert's house and a theater-school toga party. 676 00:37:38,342 --> 00:37:39,343 [agent] Fuck! 677 00:37:45,849 --> 00:37:46,934 To Cuba. 678 00:37:46,934 --> 00:37:48,435 - To Cuba. - To Cuba. 679 00:37:48,435 --> 00:37:50,437 Hasta la Victoria, siempre. 680 00:37:50,437 --> 00:37:53,524 ["I Just Want to Celebrate" playing]