1 00:01:32,996 --> 00:01:33,985 Hi. 2 00:01:35,032 --> 00:01:38,024 Okay, here she is, folks. Kitty Dean. 3 00:04:22,868 --> 00:04:24,130 That a girl, Kitty. 4 00:05:27,767 --> 00:05:32,136 It's 38 degrees in New York this morning. The time is 10:49. 5 00:06:04,972 --> 00:06:07,941 Should I call and get our table for lunch? 6 00:06:10,644 --> 00:06:12,134 Goodie-good. 7 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,847 And Big Mama? Bring lots of gossip. 8 00:06:16,784 --> 00:06:19,548 Everything about him is designed to rivet: 9 00:06:21,088 --> 00:06:24,751 The appearance, the demeanor, and, of course, the voice. 10 00:06:25,860 --> 00:06:26,986 The voice? 11 00:06:28,529 --> 00:06:31,498 To the lucky person who has never heard it... 12 00:06:31,999 --> 00:06:38,336 ...I can only say imagine what a Brussels sprout would sound like... 13 00:06:38,506 --> 00:06:41,532 ...if a Brussels sprout could talk. 14 00:06:41,709 --> 00:06:43,006 He's so magical... 15 00:06:44,278 --> 00:06:48,442 ...you soon forget the most unforgettable sound in the world. 16 00:06:49,016 --> 00:06:52,248 Here's a word I loathe: Eccentric. 17 00:06:52,420 --> 00:06:57,824 Eccentric is a word that boring people use to describe someone I think of as interesting. 18 00:06:57,993 --> 00:07:01,019 A great many people think of me as eccentric simply because... 19 00:07:01,196 --> 00:07:04,859 ...when I have my shoes polished I have the entire shoe polished... 20 00:07:05,033 --> 00:07:07,024 ...top, sides and soles. 21 00:07:07,869 --> 00:07:09,302 Some people think it eccentric... 22 00:07:09,471 --> 00:07:12,668 ...that every morning I have my maid iron my money. 23 00:07:13,642 --> 00:07:17,237 When I told Truman I had my maid iron my money, do you know what he said? 24 00:07:17,412 --> 00:07:20,142 Here's what he didn't say, "How eccentric." 25 00:07:20,315 --> 00:07:23,876 Here's what he did say, "How wonderful!" 26 00:07:25,387 --> 00:07:28,550 You can forgive a person a lot who really enjoys you. 27 00:07:29,324 --> 00:07:30,791 He's loads of fun wherever you go. 28 00:07:32,561 --> 00:07:37,521 He's the rarest thing in the world, a good talker who is also a good listener. 29 00:07:37,799 --> 00:07:40,700 How could Leland have been bored with you? 30 00:07:40,869 --> 00:07:43,929 Even someone who doesn't speak English can look at you. 31 00:07:44,105 --> 00:07:47,734 He listened to me the way you'd listen to announcements in a train station... 32 00:07:47,909 --> 00:07:50,605 ...just enough to hear if there's an emergency. 33 00:07:51,947 --> 00:07:56,247 Oh, well. He's with Pamela, and I need to move on. 34 00:07:56,418 --> 00:07:57,749 Maybe you can... 35 00:07:57,919 --> 00:08:01,685 ...but tout New York is dividing into the Slim or Pamela camps. 36 00:08:01,857 --> 00:08:03,849 Babe and I are the head Slimites. 37 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,050 Tru Heart. 38 00:08:07,730 --> 00:08:09,220 Oh, have you heard about Tracy? 39 00:08:09,398 --> 00:08:11,457 Yeah. Having her eyes done, I know. 40 00:08:11,634 --> 00:08:16,128 Well, a little more than that. She's gone off to have an abortion. 41 00:08:16,372 --> 00:08:19,364 Oh, who's the father? I presume not Dick. 42 00:08:19,976 --> 00:08:22,274 Chas Fitzgerald. 43 00:08:22,445 --> 00:08:24,379 Oh, perfect. Does Dick know? 44 00:08:24,547 --> 00:08:26,879 I think she should just tell Dick it's his. 45 00:08:27,049 --> 00:08:29,483 - She can't. Dick's infertile. - What? 46 00:08:29,986 --> 00:08:34,389 - Everybody knows that. - Well, I'm sure they do now. 47 00:08:34,557 --> 00:08:36,047 Did you see the paper? 48 00:08:36,225 --> 00:08:41,128 Yes. There's a story that's stuck in my teeth like a little piece of pull candy. 49 00:08:41,297 --> 00:08:42,559 What is it? 50 00:08:43,833 --> 00:08:47,234 Well, these well-to-do farm people out in Kansas... 51 00:08:47,403 --> 00:08:52,272 ...were murdered in the middle of the night in the most gruesome way imaginable. 52 00:08:52,441 --> 00:08:55,740 - Do they have any idea who did it? - No idea. 53 00:08:55,912 --> 00:08:58,608 But that won't affect the piece I want to write for you. 54 00:08:58,781 --> 00:09:01,909 I want to explore how a crime like this affects a town... 55 00:09:02,084 --> 00:09:04,518 ...where everyone trusts each other. 56 00:09:04,687 --> 00:09:07,747 It may be preferable that we don't know the identity of the killers. 57 00:09:07,924 --> 00:09:12,486 Exactly. Because what I imagine everyone is now afraid of is: 58 00:09:12,662 --> 00:09:15,655 "Who among us did this horrible thing?" 59 00:09:15,832 --> 00:09:20,769 It used to be you'd look at someone and think, "There's old Mr. Busybody." 60 00:09:21,004 --> 00:09:22,494 Now you think... 61 00:09:22,673 --> 00:09:24,300 ..."Did you do it?" 62 00:09:24,474 --> 00:09:27,500 Oh, I can't bear the thought of you going to Kansas. 63 00:09:27,678 --> 00:09:29,703 Whom will I talk to? 64 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,008 Oh, that reminds me. Did you hear about Tracy? 65 00:09:33,183 --> 00:09:35,845 - The eyes? - More. 66 00:09:36,019 --> 00:09:37,509 Abortion. 67 00:09:37,688 --> 00:09:41,124 Oh, I just saw her at Sotheby's. She bought an adorable Degas. 68 00:09:41,291 --> 00:09:42,986 I wanted it for the guest bath... 69 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:47,187 ...but Bill wants to put the little Giacometti man we have in the hall there. 70 00:09:47,364 --> 00:09:51,198 Tell him nobody wants to go to the bathroom and find a little man in there. 71 00:09:51,368 --> 00:09:55,998 - I know it from bitter personal experience. - T-Bone. 72 00:09:56,173 --> 00:09:58,698 How did you find out about Tracy? 73 00:09:58,875 --> 00:10:02,743 Slim. But I'm absolutely sworn to secrecy. 74 00:10:02,913 --> 00:10:07,316 I'm only telling you because you're my dearest friend. 75 00:10:07,818 --> 00:10:13,256 Nelle, as my oldest and dearest friend, do you think the Kansas thing is good? 76 00:10:13,423 --> 00:10:14,754 Are you joking? 77 00:10:14,925 --> 00:10:18,725 That small town stuff, that suspicion, that gossip? 78 00:10:18,895 --> 00:10:21,989 That is your world as much as this, maybe even more. 79 00:10:23,166 --> 00:10:26,068 - How were they killed? - Shotgun. 80 00:10:26,404 --> 00:10:29,896 But there's a caretaker not a hundred yards from the house. 81 00:10:30,074 --> 00:10:33,510 How could he not hear four gunshots in the dead of night? 82 00:10:33,678 --> 00:10:36,738 Maybe he did it. Did you consider that? 83 00:10:36,914 --> 00:10:39,747 Maybe. Though the victims were bound and gagged... 84 00:10:39,917 --> 00:10:42,943 ...which suggests at least two in the killing party... 85 00:10:43,121 --> 00:10:45,715 ...one with the gun to make them cooperate... 86 00:10:45,890 --> 00:10:50,020 ...and one to tie them up and make them sorry they cooperated. 87 00:10:50,762 --> 00:10:53,094 The father and boy were shot in the basement... 88 00:10:53,264 --> 00:10:55,562 ...the mother and girl in their beds. 89 00:10:55,867 --> 00:10:59,598 - How do you know all this? - I called the D.A. 90 00:10:59,937 --> 00:11:01,802 May I tell him who's calling, please? 91 00:11:01,973 --> 00:11:04,305 Yes, dear. This is Truman Capote. 92 00:11:04,475 --> 00:11:07,808 I'm sorry. The district attorney doesn't take calls from strange women. 93 00:11:10,615 --> 00:11:12,207 And what did you say? 94 00:11:12,750 --> 00:11:15,082 Who says I'm strange? 95 00:11:17,221 --> 00:11:21,555 They can judge for themselves soon enough. I'm going down there in a week. 96 00:11:22,226 --> 00:11:25,059 Which of your pillbox hats do you think they'll like best? 97 00:11:27,165 --> 00:11:31,465 Why didn't Jack come tonight? If he's your fella, he's always welcome. 98 00:11:32,270 --> 00:11:33,601 Truman and I... 99 00:11:35,074 --> 00:11:38,134 ...had a taste for one another's company above all others... 100 00:11:38,444 --> 00:11:42,813 ...but we weren't a together-wherever-we-go couple. He's very social. 101 00:11:43,582 --> 00:11:44,913 I'm not... 102 00:11:46,151 --> 00:11:49,518 ...especially with that crowd. 103 00:11:49,688 --> 00:11:51,519 Jack didn't... 104 00:11:52,257 --> 00:11:53,918 ...approve of us. 105 00:11:54,093 --> 00:11:57,426 He has the social graces of a syringe. 106 00:11:57,596 --> 00:12:01,828 Jack is just so iron, you know, he's so, "That's that." 107 00:12:02,935 --> 00:12:04,527 Before he knew Truman... 108 00:12:04,703 --> 00:12:08,833 ...he was married to a darling actress named Joan McCracken. 109 00:12:09,007 --> 00:12:13,501 They were dancers together in Oklahoma! And he was mad for her. 110 00:12:14,446 --> 00:12:17,506 And then the war came, and he went away and he came back. 111 00:12:17,683 --> 00:12:20,675 And she told him that she'd had an affair. 112 00:12:20,853 --> 00:12:23,686 Well, he was so humiliated... 113 00:12:23,856 --> 00:12:27,314 ...that not only did he end their marriage that night... 114 00:12:27,493 --> 00:12:31,793 ...but he stopped sleeping with women altogether and he switched to men. 115 00:12:32,064 --> 00:12:33,361 Can you imagine? 116 00:12:33,532 --> 00:12:38,060 Curing your distaste for infidelity by turning to men? 117 00:12:40,672 --> 00:12:43,641 What if one of the people you interview is the killer? 118 00:12:43,809 --> 00:12:45,572 And what if he thinks you know? 119 00:12:45,744 --> 00:12:48,543 He's already committed four murders, you think he'll spare you? 120 00:12:48,715 --> 00:12:52,378 Honey, is this your funny way of saying you're worried about me? 121 00:12:52,552 --> 00:12:55,146 - Doesn't it seem dangerous? - Come with me, then. 122 00:12:55,321 --> 00:12:57,915 I can't. I'm trying to write my book. 123 00:12:58,091 --> 00:13:00,559 Well, then it's o sole mio, off I go! 124 00:13:01,761 --> 00:13:05,925 - I don't want anything to happen to you. - Honey, I'm indestructible. 125 00:13:06,699 --> 00:13:10,726 - Much to everyone's regret. - Not mine. 126 00:13:12,405 --> 00:13:14,771 Come with me. Your book's all done. 127 00:13:14,941 --> 00:13:16,272 Well, I am intrigued... 128 00:13:16,442 --> 00:13:20,173 ...but I want to get started on my new book before Mockingbird comes out. 129 00:13:22,282 --> 00:13:25,410 How near did you say the caretaker lived to the main house? 130 00:13:27,020 --> 00:13:28,385 Nelle grew up with him in Alabama. 131 00:13:29,455 --> 00:13:33,255 She based the other little boy in To Kill Mockingbird on Truman. 132 00:13:33,426 --> 00:13:36,452 Aptly enough, she named the child Dill. 133 00:13:36,629 --> 00:13:38,927 People always mention his effervescence... 134 00:13:40,967 --> 00:13:45,028 ...but one must remember that at the center of any bright flame... 135 00:13:45,205 --> 00:13:48,902 ...there's always that little touch of blue. 136 00:13:51,277 --> 00:13:54,041 Truman's parents deserted him at an early age... 137 00:13:54,214 --> 00:13:57,776 ...leaving him with elderly relations in my town. 138 00:13:58,152 --> 00:14:02,248 And Truman always disguised his shame over the absence of his parents... 139 00:14:02,423 --> 00:14:06,621 ...with grand tales of adventure and glory. 140 00:14:08,229 --> 00:14:11,221 "My daddy can't be here, he's an aviator." 141 00:14:11,832 --> 00:14:15,563 "My mother's a photographic subject, but they're coming for me"... 142 00:14:15,736 --> 00:14:18,500 ...he would always say. "They're coming for me." 143 00:14:19,607 --> 00:14:22,132 Every year at Christmas... 144 00:14:22,309 --> 00:14:26,143 ...our elementary school did a pageant through the center of town. 145 00:14:26,313 --> 00:14:31,250 And one year, Truman wrote his parents that he was the star of the pageant... 146 00:14:31,752 --> 00:14:34,812 ...though he was only a snowflake like me. 147 00:14:35,522 --> 00:14:37,990 But, no matter, it worked. 148 00:14:39,126 --> 00:14:42,653 They wired him to say they'd take the train from New orleans... 149 00:14:42,830 --> 00:14:46,596 ...and get there just in time for the pageant. They even said... 150 00:14:46,767 --> 00:14:50,430 ...they'd stand right by the cannon in the square so they could cheer him on. 151 00:14:51,005 --> 00:14:57,001 Well, we marched through town and as we got closer to that cannon... 152 00:14:57,177 --> 00:15:01,113 ...I could see him straining to see his parents. 153 00:15:01,882 --> 00:15:05,943 When we got to that cannon, he stopped... 154 00:15:06,620 --> 00:15:10,785 ...forgetting we were supposed to be marching in time to the music. 155 00:15:10,959 --> 00:15:13,519 He stopped and he stared. 156 00:15:18,199 --> 00:15:19,962 They had not come. 157 00:15:24,873 --> 00:15:27,637 I thought for a minute he might break. 158 00:15:30,578 --> 00:15:35,174 And then he threw his arms up in the air... 159 00:15:35,383 --> 00:15:38,147 ...and twirled himself all the way over. 160 00:15:42,924 --> 00:15:44,721 A cartwheel. 161 00:15:46,995 --> 00:15:49,828 And then again. And again... 162 00:15:50,832 --> 00:15:53,062 ...all the way down the street... 163 00:15:54,936 --> 00:15:57,063 ...till his tears were gone. 164 00:15:57,706 --> 00:15:59,571 Truman adored Nelle. 165 00:15:59,741 --> 00:16:03,871 She and Jack were just about his only non-society friends. 166 00:16:04,546 --> 00:16:07,743 I will say it stung him when she won the Pulitzer. 167 00:16:08,016 --> 00:16:12,919 He might not have minded her winning one, but only if he'd already won two. 168 00:16:13,355 --> 00:16:15,983 I've always been interested in crime. 169 00:16:16,291 --> 00:16:19,284 Daddy was a lawyer, and sister too. 170 00:16:19,462 --> 00:16:21,692 I studied the law as well... 171 00:16:22,064 --> 00:16:27,001 ...but I either lost my nerve or came to my senses before taking the bar. 172 00:16:27,403 --> 00:16:30,395 But when Truman asked me to go to Kansas... 173 00:16:31,307 --> 00:16:33,798 ...it was deep calling to deep. 174 00:17:11,547 --> 00:17:13,378 Detective Dewey! 175 00:17:13,549 --> 00:17:16,211 - Do you have any leads yet? - Nothing I can discuss. 176 00:17:16,385 --> 00:17:18,080 - Detective Dewey! - Jimmy. 177 00:17:18,254 --> 00:17:20,347 Yeah. Will you confirm that there is more than one killer? 178 00:17:20,523 --> 00:17:21,387 I will not. 179 00:17:21,557 --> 00:17:25,015 Well, of course there was more than one, unless the killer was a hypnotist. 180 00:17:25,194 --> 00:17:26,752 Beg your pardon, ma'am? 181 00:17:27,296 --> 00:17:31,028 It's illogical to suppose there's only one killer. 182 00:17:31,201 --> 00:17:33,567 The Clutters were tied up. To tie them up... 183 00:17:33,837 --> 00:17:35,270 ...he'd have to put his gun down. 184 00:17:35,439 --> 00:17:39,102 Once he put the gun down, the Clutters would run for the hills. 185 00:17:39,276 --> 00:17:42,439 - I don't believe I know who you are. - Or what. 186 00:17:44,214 --> 00:17:46,273 I'm from out of town. 187 00:17:46,450 --> 00:17:49,681 - What's your paper? - Ladies Home Journal? 188 00:17:49,853 --> 00:17:53,254 Oh, I'm not a reporter. I'm a writer. 189 00:17:54,991 --> 00:17:56,618 May I see your press card? 190 00:17:56,793 --> 00:17:59,819 Good heavens, I don't carry any such thing. 191 00:18:00,130 --> 00:18:03,622 But I do have a passport back at my hotel room. 192 00:18:03,900 --> 00:18:06,733 Would you like to come back and look at my little picture? 193 00:18:09,139 --> 00:18:11,471 I'll need not only the facts of the case... 194 00:18:11,641 --> 00:18:15,407 ...but how this terrible crime has eaten away at the foundation of trust... 195 00:18:15,579 --> 00:18:17,171 ...that makes up your community. 196 00:18:17,347 --> 00:18:20,145 - I see. No. - And l... What? 197 00:18:20,317 --> 00:18:22,911 No reporter has special access. 198 00:18:23,086 --> 00:18:27,580 Sir, I'm not writing a news story. I'm from The New Yorker magazine. 199 00:18:27,757 --> 00:18:30,851 I'm writing a psychological study of a village... 200 00:18:31,027 --> 00:18:34,087 ...and how that place is affected by a vicious crime. 201 00:18:34,264 --> 00:18:36,994 I will not be careless in my depiction. 202 00:18:37,167 --> 00:18:40,194 I shall labor over every word, every sound. 203 00:18:40,371 --> 00:18:42,601 The final result must be just so... 204 00:18:42,773 --> 00:18:45,606 ...as dazzling and unique as a Faberg� egg. 205 00:18:45,776 --> 00:18:47,437 Right. And I got a crime to solve. 206 00:18:47,612 --> 00:18:50,342 But I don't care whether the crime is solved or not. 207 00:18:50,515 --> 00:18:52,107 I sure as hell care. 208 00:18:52,283 --> 00:18:56,049 The Clutters went to our church. They were friends of my family's. 209 00:18:56,220 --> 00:18:57,812 No access. 210 00:18:59,357 --> 00:19:02,326 Oh, you are very, very foxy. 211 00:19:02,660 --> 00:19:05,458 I can see I'm gonna have to work extra hard... 212 00:19:05,630 --> 00:19:08,622 ...to get around that foxy manner of yours. 213 00:19:08,799 --> 00:19:12,530 Isn't he foxy? But don't you worry, I... 214 00:19:15,706 --> 00:19:18,800 It was lovely how you didn't care whether or not the murder was solved. 215 00:19:18,976 --> 00:19:20,409 - Lovely. - Quiet. 216 00:19:20,578 --> 00:19:22,375 Would you folks care for a cocktail? 217 00:19:22,547 --> 00:19:24,037 Yes, a gin and tonic, please. 218 00:19:24,215 --> 00:19:25,682 I'll have J&B on the rocks... 219 00:19:25,850 --> 00:19:29,217 ...with a tiny curl of lemon and a splash and a half of water. 220 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,314 A what, on the rocks? 221 00:19:32,490 --> 00:19:33,980 J&B. 222 00:19:34,392 --> 00:19:36,758 It's a type of Scotch, dear. 223 00:19:38,162 --> 00:19:40,494 You want me to see if we've got any? 224 00:19:40,765 --> 00:19:42,892 That would be a wonderful beginning. 225 00:19:43,067 --> 00:19:44,193 Yes, ma'am. 226 00:19:47,004 --> 00:19:50,565 I think we need to come in a little under the radar here. 227 00:19:50,741 --> 00:19:52,403 I know where you are headed... 228 00:19:52,578 --> 00:19:56,446 ...but you of all people know how impossible it is for me to modify myself. 229 00:19:56,615 --> 00:19:59,175 I'm not saying get married and have kids... 230 00:19:59,351 --> 00:20:01,876 ...but maybe come in on little cat's paws. 231 00:20:02,054 --> 00:20:06,423 It's no use. This cat has long, noisy nails. 232 00:20:06,592 --> 00:20:07,456 Anyway... 233 00:20:07,626 --> 00:20:11,255 ...l'll call Dewey's office in the morning and request a proper interview. 234 00:20:11,430 --> 00:20:13,557 - It might better suit his vanity. - Thank you. 235 00:20:13,732 --> 00:20:16,064 - Let's start talking... - Thank you. Thank you. 236 00:20:16,234 --> 00:20:17,394 Thank you. 237 00:20:17,569 --> 00:20:19,867 In the meantime, let's start talking to people. 238 00:20:20,038 --> 00:20:21,903 We don't need his blessing for that. 239 00:20:22,074 --> 00:20:24,599 I think we should just speak to people on the street. 240 00:20:24,776 --> 00:20:29,076 Yes, and in our nicest way, the way that would most put people at ease, say... 241 00:20:29,247 --> 00:20:30,441 Madam! 242 00:20:31,283 --> 00:20:35,549 May we ask you about the gruesome murders out at the Clutter home? 243 00:20:42,461 --> 00:20:45,294 Maybe you should drop the word "gruesome." 244 00:20:49,301 --> 00:20:50,495 Sir! 245 00:20:50,836 --> 00:20:52,098 Sir! 246 00:20:54,306 --> 00:20:56,137 Excuse me, sir. 247 00:20:56,308 --> 00:21:01,245 My friend and I would like to talk to you about the tragic events of November 15th. 248 00:21:01,613 --> 00:21:02,979 Sorry, ladies. 249 00:21:05,852 --> 00:21:08,946 Do you think everyone keeps calling me "lady" to be mean... 250 00:21:09,122 --> 00:21:11,488 ...or can they honestly not tell? 251 00:21:12,158 --> 00:21:16,754 I know I'm not Charles Atlas, but even Ethel Merman doesn't have this. 252 00:21:16,929 --> 00:21:18,988 No. Hers is thicker. 253 00:21:26,572 --> 00:21:28,130 Mr. Capote. 254 00:21:30,877 --> 00:21:33,141 Is this all? No messages? 255 00:21:33,980 --> 00:21:35,174 No, sir. 256 00:21:36,182 --> 00:21:40,710 I simply don't understand why Alvin Dewey won't return my calls. 257 00:21:40,887 --> 00:21:43,378 I've telephoned three times. 258 00:21:52,865 --> 00:21:54,162 Nelle! 259 00:21:54,333 --> 00:21:56,665 Care package from Babe! 260 00:21:56,836 --> 00:21:58,827 It's beluga! 261 00:22:02,075 --> 00:22:04,737 Let's get some Ritz crackers and eat it right now. 262 00:22:04,911 --> 00:22:08,108 Let's. And you know what I think you should do tomorrow? 263 00:22:08,281 --> 00:22:10,249 Go see the Clutter place. 264 00:22:10,416 --> 00:22:14,751 Honey, if Alvin Dewey won't return my calls, I'll never see the house. 265 00:22:14,922 --> 00:22:17,618 You know everybody on the planet. Call somebody. 266 00:22:18,759 --> 00:22:23,093 And please tell the duke and duchess I am sick to miss the dance. 267 00:22:24,064 --> 00:22:25,554 I will. 268 00:22:25,799 --> 00:22:29,599 Bennett hears wonderful things about your book. 269 00:22:30,270 --> 00:22:32,295 I almost don't care what the critics say... 270 00:22:32,473 --> 00:22:34,873 ...as long as I can be allowed to write another. 271 00:22:35,042 --> 00:22:39,775 Your dream of being the Jane Austen of Alabama will come true. 272 00:22:40,214 --> 00:22:43,206 Anyway, Bennett knows the head of Kansas University... 273 00:22:43,383 --> 00:22:45,908 ...who knows the Clutters' lawyer. 274 00:23:13,247 --> 00:23:15,078 The killers came in this way. 275 00:25:04,860 --> 00:25:06,418 Any messages? 276 00:25:08,864 --> 00:25:10,923 Princess Margaret... 277 00:25:11,533 --> 00:25:13,592 ...and No�l Coward. 278 00:25:16,272 --> 00:25:18,604 No Dewey. Again. 279 00:25:20,309 --> 00:25:22,277 They're in both ways over there. 280 00:25:22,444 --> 00:25:25,538 Right, but this particular form goes under last name. 281 00:25:25,714 --> 00:25:28,274 - That whole stack? - That's the one, yeah. 282 00:25:35,624 --> 00:25:37,455 Is this a good time? 283 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,224 Yeah. Come on in. 284 00:25:44,166 --> 00:25:45,327 Ma'am. 285 00:25:46,836 --> 00:25:48,804 What can I do for you folks? 286 00:25:48,972 --> 00:25:49,996 Well... 287 00:25:51,007 --> 00:25:55,171 ...you can begin by serving me a large slice of humble pie. 288 00:25:55,612 --> 00:25:59,173 I've come to apologize for acting too big for my britches. 289 00:25:59,482 --> 00:26:02,474 As you see, I even got new britches. 290 00:26:03,286 --> 00:26:05,811 Yeah, well, no harm done. Real nice of you. 291 00:26:07,057 --> 00:26:09,525 I wanted to explain myself. 292 00:26:09,693 --> 00:26:12,457 I'm trying to create a new kind of reportage. 293 00:26:12,629 --> 00:26:15,223 Have you read my book The Muses Are Heard? 294 00:26:17,734 --> 00:26:20,134 Well, it was very well received. 295 00:26:20,303 --> 00:26:25,206 It's about an American opera company going to Moscow to perform Porgy and Bess. 296 00:26:25,375 --> 00:26:29,903 Now, if I relied only on what the press managers told me... 297 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,572 ...it would have been no different than a newspaper article. 298 00:26:33,750 --> 00:26:38,449 But I treated the people with the emotional and psychological detail of a novel. 299 00:26:38,621 --> 00:26:42,387 I see, so you're doing something different than a regular reporter. 300 00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:43,685 Yes. 301 00:26:43,860 --> 00:26:46,920 And I can't really know how people feel without your help. 302 00:26:47,097 --> 00:26:49,725 Oh, well, I can tell you how they feel. Terrible. 303 00:26:49,899 --> 00:26:52,094 They'll feel better when this is solved. 304 00:26:52,268 --> 00:26:53,758 Yes. I agree. And that's... 305 00:26:53,937 --> 00:26:57,931 Look, I wish you well with your project. But no access. 306 00:26:59,944 --> 00:27:03,778 I'm sorry, but Nelle and I will have to stay for Christmas. 307 00:27:04,949 --> 00:27:06,211 Why? 308 00:27:06,384 --> 00:27:09,114 Because no one will talk to me. 309 00:27:09,387 --> 00:27:13,790 I've got to stay until they forget about me and can open up. 310 00:27:13,958 --> 00:27:16,290 No one forgets about you. 311 00:27:16,727 --> 00:27:18,627 What will you do for Christmas? 312 00:27:18,796 --> 00:27:21,390 Of course, everything will be closed... 313 00:27:21,565 --> 00:27:25,626 ...so I thought before I'd go to the market and get a nice cheese... 314 00:27:25,803 --> 00:27:27,168 ...some ham and olives. 315 00:27:27,338 --> 00:27:30,273 Slim sent a wonderful Burgundy. 316 00:27:30,441 --> 00:27:33,308 Nelle and I can make a picnic at the hotel. 317 00:27:33,511 --> 00:27:35,138 VELvEETA 318 00:27:40,484 --> 00:27:41,849 Excuse me? 319 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,820 - Could this be all the cheese? - Well, how much do you need? 320 00:27:46,991 --> 00:27:50,586 Mine is a matter of quality, dear, not quantity. 321 00:27:50,761 --> 00:27:55,323 Oh, you mean other types of cheese. Goodness, no. Not here. 322 00:27:58,135 --> 00:28:02,003 - Are you staying for Christmas? - Yes, we are. 323 00:28:02,173 --> 00:28:05,108 What will you and Mrs. Capote do for your Christmas supper? 324 00:28:05,276 --> 00:28:10,180 If this is the only cheese I find, Mrs. Capote and I might try cyanide. 325 00:28:11,850 --> 00:28:14,512 Would you like to come to our house for Christmas supper? 326 00:28:14,686 --> 00:28:16,881 Really? Like for a party? 327 00:28:17,055 --> 00:28:20,047 It's just not right you don't have Christmas supper in a home. 328 00:28:20,225 --> 00:28:22,352 That is so kind of you. 329 00:28:22,527 --> 00:28:25,519 Nelle will be thrilled. May I ask your name? 330 00:28:36,208 --> 00:28:37,300 Hi. 331 00:28:38,510 --> 00:28:39,636 Hi. 332 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,138 What? 333 00:28:43,548 --> 00:28:47,211 We are spending Christmas with the Deweys. 334 00:28:53,225 --> 00:28:54,658 This just isn't right. 335 00:28:54,826 --> 00:28:58,592 What isn't right is for two people to spend Christmas alone. 336 00:28:58,763 --> 00:29:00,993 If there's two of them, they won't be alone. 337 00:29:01,766 --> 00:29:03,256 Hi. We're here. 338 00:29:03,435 --> 00:29:06,063 - Merry Christmas. - Merry Christmas. 339 00:29:07,072 --> 00:29:09,063 I know you said not to bring anything... 340 00:29:09,241 --> 00:29:13,075 ...but my daddy would kill me if I showed up for company empty-handed. 341 00:29:13,245 --> 00:29:14,712 We brought you fruitcake. 342 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,007 And she doesn't mean me. 343 00:29:19,085 --> 00:29:20,848 My wife, Delores. 344 00:29:21,020 --> 00:29:22,920 - Truman. - Foxy. 345 00:29:23,089 --> 00:29:24,818 - Thank you. - My wife, Delores. 346 00:29:24,991 --> 00:29:26,356 And here is our son, Paul. 347 00:29:26,526 --> 00:29:28,756 Hello, Paul. Merry Christmas. 348 00:29:39,906 --> 00:29:41,396 You gonna watch the game? 349 00:29:41,908 --> 00:29:44,001 I got $25 on it. 350 00:29:49,048 --> 00:29:50,675 Truman, you like football? 351 00:29:51,851 --> 00:29:53,409 Not much. 352 00:29:53,953 --> 00:29:57,252 Though I must admit it always sends shivers up my spine... 353 00:29:57,423 --> 00:30:00,881 ...when the men get inside that little huddle and whisper. 354 00:30:12,471 --> 00:30:13,597 We have treats. 355 00:30:14,473 --> 00:30:17,033 I have kind of a party question. 356 00:30:17,476 --> 00:30:20,036 I hope it's not too awful or mean. 357 00:30:20,213 --> 00:30:22,113 That sounds fun. Let's play. 358 00:30:22,281 --> 00:30:25,216 Paul Dewey. Don't you wanna come in here and sit with the grownups? 359 00:30:25,384 --> 00:30:26,373 Since it's Christmas... 360 00:30:26,552 --> 00:30:33,117 ...I thought we could all take turns telling what is the worst present you ever got. 361 00:30:34,461 --> 00:30:39,296 Mine was a shawl from an elderly neighbor lady. I'm not a shawl lover. 362 00:30:39,466 --> 00:30:41,491 - Me neither. - They're never warm enough. 363 00:30:41,668 --> 00:30:44,102 Are my ears working properly? 364 00:30:44,271 --> 00:30:47,707 Am I the only one here who loves shawls? 365 00:30:50,344 --> 00:30:51,936 Don't look at me. 366 00:30:52,112 --> 00:30:54,637 My goodness, I love shawls. 367 00:30:54,815 --> 00:30:56,578 I have several. 368 00:30:56,783 --> 00:30:59,775 I think the prettiest one is the one Jennifer Jones gave me. 369 00:31:00,587 --> 00:31:03,420 Jennifer Jones? The movie star? 370 00:31:03,590 --> 00:31:07,754 Yes. We were in Rome making a picture called Beat the Devil... 371 00:31:07,928 --> 00:31:10,692 ...and I was struggling to write a scene for Bogie... 372 00:31:10,864 --> 00:31:14,095 ...when I began to feel the most inhuman pain. 373 00:31:14,268 --> 00:31:16,202 Bogie? You mean Humphrey Bogart? 374 00:31:16,870 --> 00:31:20,431 I mean Mr. Lauren Bacall, yes. 375 00:31:20,607 --> 00:31:23,371 I was trying to write a scene for him and Peter in which they both... 376 00:31:23,543 --> 00:31:25,443 Wait a minute. Who's Peter? 377 00:31:25,612 --> 00:31:27,079 Peter Lorre. 378 00:31:28,582 --> 00:31:32,279 But I had a terrible impacted tooth, and so John... 379 00:31:32,452 --> 00:31:33,749 - Wayne? - Garfield? 380 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:34,978 Kennedy? 381 00:31:35,155 --> 00:31:36,622 Huston? 382 00:31:36,790 --> 00:31:39,122 John Huston, the director? 383 00:31:43,131 --> 00:31:47,295 John told me he didn't care if we had to shut the movie down... 384 00:31:47,468 --> 00:31:49,800 ...I was going to the hospital. 385 00:31:50,638 --> 00:31:51,969 So I thought: 386 00:31:52,140 --> 00:31:56,975 "Well, if I have to be in a Roman hospital for God knows what length of time... 387 00:31:57,145 --> 00:32:01,138 ...I may as well have something with me to make me feel good." 388 00:32:01,316 --> 00:32:05,776 So I wore the beautiful Balmain shawl that Jennifer gave me... 389 00:32:05,953 --> 00:32:08,080 ...and, if I do say so myself... 390 00:32:08,256 --> 00:32:11,851 ...I felt and looked dreamy. 391 00:32:18,666 --> 00:32:21,760 - Did you meet Humphrey Bogart? - Meet? 392 00:32:21,936 --> 00:32:25,099 My dear, every night we had drinks and dinner... 393 00:32:25,273 --> 00:32:26,797 ...and, once, poker! 394 00:32:28,009 --> 00:32:31,410 You played poker with Humphrey Bogart? 395 00:32:31,579 --> 00:32:33,171 I had a disadvantage in that... 396 00:32:33,348 --> 00:32:36,283 ...I didn't know the game in the way that Bogie or Frank did. 397 00:32:36,451 --> 00:32:37,247 Frank?! 398 00:32:37,618 --> 00:32:38,915 Sinatra. 399 00:32:40,288 --> 00:32:41,846 Experience had taught them things... 400 00:32:42,023 --> 00:32:45,356 ...a relative novice such as myself may not know, like, well... 401 00:32:45,526 --> 00:32:48,518 ...did you know that three of a kind beats a pair? 402 00:32:50,766 --> 00:32:55,669 So, I did not defeat Mr. Humphrey Bogart at cards... 403 00:32:55,838 --> 00:33:00,775 ...but you may be interested to know I soundly beat him at something else. 404 00:33:08,884 --> 00:33:10,818 Arm wrestling. 405 00:33:11,854 --> 00:33:13,344 Hold on now. 406 00:33:14,123 --> 00:33:16,785 You expect us to believe... 407 00:33:16,959 --> 00:33:19,951 ...that you beat Humphrey Bogart at arm wrestling? 408 00:33:24,867 --> 00:33:26,562 Twice. 409 00:33:34,376 --> 00:33:35,536 You're good. 410 00:33:35,711 --> 00:33:38,043 Good match, sir. Thank you. 411 00:33:39,181 --> 00:33:41,843 Hey. I just beat the guy who could beat Humphrey Bogart. 412 00:33:42,017 --> 00:33:44,247 Cool. You wanna come over and see what I got? 413 00:33:44,420 --> 00:33:46,854 You didn't beat Humphrey Bogart, did you? 414 00:33:49,224 --> 00:33:53,558 You don't think I'd defeat your child on a Christmas afternoon... 415 00:33:53,729 --> 00:33:56,391 ...with everyone here thinking what they do about me? 416 00:33:57,266 --> 00:34:00,258 That would be a gift of switches and ash. 417 00:34:03,006 --> 00:34:06,032 But you didn't beat Humphrey Bogart, did you? 418 00:34:06,876 --> 00:34:09,709 All right. Roll up your sleeve. 419 00:34:09,879 --> 00:34:11,437 No, no, no. 420 00:34:12,115 --> 00:34:13,582 Scared? 421 00:34:28,798 --> 00:34:30,595 Well, I'll be. 422 00:34:30,867 --> 00:34:34,928 Listen, Foxy. When you're tiny you have to be tough. 423 00:34:35,472 --> 00:34:38,600 This world isn't kind to little things. 424 00:35:11,942 --> 00:35:13,637 So glad you could make it. 425 00:35:13,811 --> 00:35:16,644 - Hope you'll come back. Thank you. - Thank you. Merry Christmas. 426 00:35:16,814 --> 00:35:19,248 - Merry Christmas. Good night. - Come on. 427 00:35:19,416 --> 00:35:20,576 Bye-bye. 428 00:35:20,751 --> 00:35:23,481 Foxy, check under the tree. 429 00:35:23,921 --> 00:35:24,580 Hello? 430 00:35:26,624 --> 00:35:29,115 No, they just left. 431 00:35:29,293 --> 00:35:33,161 Well, I know it, but the time flew. Guess what? 432 00:35:33,330 --> 00:35:35,525 He knows Ava Gardner. 433 00:35:36,166 --> 00:35:38,293 And Humphrey Bogart. 434 00:35:38,536 --> 00:35:41,994 And Betty Bacall. That's Lauren Bacall. 435 00:35:44,108 --> 00:35:48,340 And she got right into the kitchen and helped. They are so sweet. 436 00:35:55,786 --> 00:35:57,344 Anything good? 437 00:35:57,521 --> 00:36:00,012 Merry Christmas from the queen mother. 438 00:36:00,190 --> 00:36:01,953 She loves me. 439 00:36:03,327 --> 00:36:04,624 Babe. 440 00:36:05,162 --> 00:36:06,390 Slim. 441 00:36:09,466 --> 00:36:10,797 Who's this? 442 00:36:10,968 --> 00:36:14,199 "Mrs. John Stimmell called to invite you and your friend to dinner." 443 00:36:14,371 --> 00:36:15,702 Who's that? 444 00:36:15,873 --> 00:36:18,068 It says she's a friend of the Deweys. 445 00:36:18,542 --> 00:36:19,736 How nice. 446 00:36:19,910 --> 00:36:23,472 Look, here's another. "Please call Mrs. Dorn about dinner. 447 00:36:23,648 --> 00:36:25,206 Friend of the Deweys." 448 00:36:26,318 --> 00:36:28,183 Well, that sounds lovely. 449 00:36:29,688 --> 00:36:30,985 Nelle. 450 00:36:32,324 --> 00:36:34,884 These are all invitations! 451 00:36:39,598 --> 00:36:40,895 Then Ava said: 452 00:36:41,066 --> 00:36:45,560 "I'm not afraid of the police. It's Frank who scares me!" 453 00:36:46,504 --> 00:36:50,270 And Marilyn said, "Better sorry than safe!" 454 00:36:52,243 --> 00:36:53,904 Marilyn Monroe. 455 00:36:54,379 --> 00:36:57,405 Bonnie Clutter is such a dear and l... 456 00:37:00,085 --> 00:37:02,076 Was such a dear. 457 00:37:02,253 --> 00:37:03,777 Oh, goodness. 458 00:37:04,189 --> 00:37:07,420 It's hard to put a friend in the past tense. 459 00:37:08,259 --> 00:37:13,196 It seems so sad, especially since Bonnie wasn't well at that time. 460 00:37:14,366 --> 00:37:16,095 What was the matter? 461 00:37:17,769 --> 00:37:19,794 Oh, well, I shouldn't say. 462 00:37:19,971 --> 00:37:24,271 I just don't think she liked to be with folks so much. 463 00:37:24,943 --> 00:37:28,709 But if you ever did see her, if you ever did... 464 00:37:28,947 --> 00:37:32,212 ...oh, she was always good old Bonnie. 465 00:37:32,651 --> 00:37:35,416 She was going through the change of life. 466 00:37:35,588 --> 00:37:36,987 That's all? 467 00:37:37,156 --> 00:37:39,750 You try it. It's enough. 468 00:37:43,262 --> 00:37:47,392 Well, there were four of us went to the house to clean up... 469 00:37:48,901 --> 00:37:50,061 ...clean up... 470 00:37:53,739 --> 00:37:56,299 ...all the damage and the mess. 471 00:37:58,411 --> 00:38:01,505 We used to go out to Herb's to hunt pheasant. 472 00:38:03,449 --> 00:38:07,510 It was strange driving out there knowing what was waiting for us. 473 00:38:08,688 --> 00:38:10,781 The couch where the boy had been. 474 00:38:10,956 --> 00:38:15,484 It was just, I mean the bodies were gone, but... 475 00:38:16,829 --> 00:38:19,297 ...good Lord, just seeing that couch. 476 00:38:20,299 --> 00:38:23,666 Or the mattress box where Herb had been. 477 00:38:25,171 --> 00:38:27,230 There was so much blood. 478 00:38:28,607 --> 00:38:34,068 There was so much blood. Sometimes in big, wide pools. 479 00:38:34,246 --> 00:38:37,943 Sometimes in little spatters. I was going up the stairs... 480 00:38:38,117 --> 00:38:40,984 ...and then I saw a big spot on the banister... 481 00:38:42,321 --> 00:38:43,754 ...and I almost... 482 00:38:44,491 --> 00:38:45,924 I swear... 483 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,618 ...well, that was worse than the big stuff on the floor. Because I thought: 484 00:38:50,797 --> 00:38:53,027 "It made it all the way up here?" 485 00:38:55,769 --> 00:38:58,431 I can only say I was a Marine... 486 00:38:58,839 --> 00:39:01,433 ...and nothing ever got to me the way this did. 487 00:39:04,177 --> 00:39:07,704 Herb was one of the most respected ranchers in this state. 488 00:39:07,881 --> 00:39:11,044 If there was a list that told you how to succeed with honor... 489 00:39:11,218 --> 00:39:13,482 ...well, he just did everything on it. 490 00:39:13,887 --> 00:39:17,482 You see, he worked hard, he took care of his family... 491 00:39:17,991 --> 00:39:21,893 ...and when he went to church, he just didn't get his time card punched. 492 00:39:22,062 --> 00:39:24,394 No, he went in and he listened. 493 00:39:25,265 --> 00:39:29,998 And I've always believed that whenever you do something right... 494 00:39:30,170 --> 00:39:32,502 ...it gives you a little bit of weight... 495 00:39:32,672 --> 00:39:37,575 ...so that you come to feel rooted to this earth, you know? Solid. Secure. 496 00:39:39,846 --> 00:39:42,280 Now what scares me is that... 497 00:39:43,083 --> 00:39:46,416 ...well, sometimes, out of nowhere... 498 00:39:46,686 --> 00:39:48,916 ...a bad wind blows up. 499 00:39:49,756 --> 00:39:54,693 Now it could be cancer, could be drink... 500 00:39:55,363 --> 00:39:59,356 ...could be some woman that don't belong to you. 501 00:40:00,434 --> 00:40:04,063 And despite the weight that's holding you to the ground... 502 00:40:04,572 --> 00:40:09,475 ...when that wind comes, it picks you up light as a leaf... 503 00:40:11,546 --> 00:40:14,071 ...and it takes you where it wants. 504 00:40:17,385 --> 00:40:20,047 We're in control until we're not. 505 00:40:21,122 --> 00:40:22,885 Then we're helpless. 506 00:40:27,595 --> 00:40:31,895 "If you ever saw her, she was always good old Bonnie." 507 00:40:32,066 --> 00:40:35,934 No, no. She said, "If you ever did see her, if you ever did, she..." 508 00:40:36,103 --> 00:40:36,967 That's right. 509 00:40:37,138 --> 00:40:39,299 "...she was always good old Bonnie." 510 00:40:39,473 --> 00:40:40,462 Good ear. 511 00:40:43,644 --> 00:40:44,736 Drink? 512 00:40:46,781 --> 00:40:49,614 Well, obviously the mother wasn't right. 513 00:40:50,117 --> 00:40:53,450 Oh, I don't know. It just sounds like menopause. 514 00:40:53,621 --> 00:40:57,785 I hope not. That's a little grubby for my novel. 515 00:40:57,959 --> 00:40:59,426 Your novel? 516 00:41:00,194 --> 00:41:01,821 What are you talking about? 517 00:41:02,463 --> 00:41:07,527 I think this story is bigger than an article. I think it's a book. 518 00:41:07,703 --> 00:41:10,672 I can see that. But non-fiction, right? 519 00:41:10,839 --> 00:41:13,103 Yes, of course it will all be true, but... 520 00:41:13,275 --> 00:41:17,177 - But what? Either it is or it isn't. - You're not understanding. 521 00:41:17,346 --> 00:41:21,305 I wanna to bring fictional techniques to a non-fiction story. 522 00:41:21,483 --> 00:41:24,714 What fictional techniques? The ones where you make stuff up? 523 00:41:24,887 --> 00:41:29,324 Excuse me, if I were gonna make stuff up you think I'd bother taking all these notes? 524 00:41:29,491 --> 00:41:33,621 You obviously plan to turn Bonnie Clutter into some faux poetic recluse... 525 00:41:33,795 --> 00:41:37,253 ...when what it sounds like is that she was just thrown off by her menopause. 526 00:41:37,432 --> 00:41:39,900 What is your stupid fucking point? 527 00:41:40,068 --> 00:41:42,832 That you shouldn't be doing what you're doing. 528 00:41:43,372 --> 00:41:45,272 The truth is enough! 529 00:41:45,474 --> 00:41:48,875 I must say I don't appreciate this lecture from you of all people. 530 00:41:49,044 --> 00:41:52,480 Mockingbird was based on true things, and you sure improved that. 531 00:41:52,648 --> 00:41:54,639 Right. It's a novel! 532 00:41:55,317 --> 00:41:58,753 Reportage means re-creating, not creating. 533 00:41:58,921 --> 00:42:01,890 This is a new kind of reportage! 534 00:42:02,724 --> 00:42:04,191 I'll say. 535 00:42:25,915 --> 00:42:28,509 Okay. "But if you ever did see her, if you ever..." 536 00:42:28,685 --> 00:42:31,017 - I remember. - Fine. 537 00:42:33,423 --> 00:42:35,914 - It's your book. - Yes. 538 00:42:36,225 --> 00:42:37,920 My seventh. 539 00:42:44,834 --> 00:42:47,735 - Okay, okay. - How's your book coming? 540 00:42:48,237 --> 00:42:51,172 Lt'll take me a long time to shape, but... 541 00:42:51,341 --> 00:42:54,105 ...thanks to Nelle, who's been a gift from heaven... 542 00:42:54,410 --> 00:42:55,968 ...and you all... 543 00:42:56,145 --> 00:42:58,204 ...we'll probably only need a week more here. 544 00:42:58,381 --> 00:43:02,545 - Well, I'm gonna miss your Kansas steaks. - Well, we'll be sorry to see you go. 545 00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:07,122 Is there any news? You know I can't give you special access. 546 00:43:07,290 --> 00:43:08,382 We got them. 547 00:43:08,558 --> 00:43:10,549 - What? - What? 548 00:43:10,727 --> 00:43:12,854 We caught them. Just like you said, there were two of them. 549 00:43:13,029 --> 00:43:16,021 The killers? We caught the killers? 550 00:43:16,199 --> 00:43:18,360 Who are they? Are they in jail right now? Can...? 551 00:43:18,534 --> 00:43:20,729 They're in Las vegas. I got to get right out there. 552 00:43:20,903 --> 00:43:23,667 - Can I come? Oh, please, Foxy?! - Not this time, partner. 553 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:27,105 Well, there isn't gonna be another time. How many times you gonna arrest them? 554 00:43:27,276 --> 00:43:28,403 I'm sorry. 555 00:43:29,380 --> 00:43:31,007 Honestly, Marie... 556 00:43:31,448 --> 00:43:34,440 ...how can you stay married to such a mule? 557 00:43:35,519 --> 00:43:38,181 Maybe now you'll get a whole night's sleep. 558 00:43:48,532 --> 00:43:51,126 Congratulations, Foxy. 559 00:43:53,470 --> 00:43:55,961 This kind of changes your book. 560 00:43:56,140 --> 00:43:57,835 You're telling me. 561 00:43:58,008 --> 00:44:01,375 Of course, if I thought it was hard getting the townspeople to open up... 562 00:44:01,545 --> 00:44:04,708 ...how in heaven's name will I ever get the killers to talk? 563 00:44:04,882 --> 00:44:06,372 Look, look. They're here. 564 00:44:32,509 --> 00:44:35,501 Pardon me. Pardon me. Pardon me. Excuse me. 565 00:44:43,254 --> 00:44:45,484 I can't see the other one. 566 00:44:46,858 --> 00:44:48,325 There he is. 567 00:45:04,843 --> 00:45:07,835 No way. No press inside the prison. 568 00:45:08,012 --> 00:45:10,173 I have many connections in government. 569 00:45:10,348 --> 00:45:13,511 Perhaps I could have someone call, explain what I'm doing? 570 00:45:13,685 --> 00:45:16,779 You'd pretty much have to know the president of the United States... 571 00:45:16,955 --> 00:45:19,287 ...before I'd let you visit these boys. 572 00:45:24,162 --> 00:45:26,494 Suck my cock, you cocksucker! 573 00:45:26,664 --> 00:45:27,858 I never snack. 574 00:45:28,032 --> 00:45:29,795 You want to kiss my asshole, bitch? 575 00:45:29,968 --> 00:45:32,129 I'd prefer it to your face. 576 00:45:33,404 --> 00:45:35,964 You want to write a book about me? 577 00:45:36,641 --> 00:45:40,475 If my jackass teachers could hear you say that! 578 00:45:40,879 --> 00:45:43,575 - Did you ever write a book? - Certainly. 579 00:45:43,748 --> 00:45:47,707 My first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was heralded by critics... 580 00:45:47,886 --> 00:45:50,549 ...as the most exciting literary debut since... 581 00:45:50,723 --> 00:45:52,247 Yeah, okay. 582 00:45:52,858 --> 00:45:55,588 - You a queer? - Yes. 583 00:45:55,761 --> 00:45:57,251 Because I'd let you suck me. 584 00:45:57,429 --> 00:46:00,523 I'm not a queer, but letting you suck my dick don't make me queer. 585 00:46:00,699 --> 00:46:04,465 It makes you queer. A mouth's a mouth. 586 00:46:06,305 --> 00:46:10,503 Well, thanks, I guess, but no. 587 00:46:10,676 --> 00:46:14,168 - So then what's in it for me? - Money. 588 00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:18,281 I'd give you a share of my royalties. 589 00:46:26,325 --> 00:46:29,192 I got two kids by my first marriage. 590 00:46:30,362 --> 00:46:35,390 Maybe I can give the money to Lacy, my ex. Would you help me write her a letter? 591 00:46:37,036 --> 00:46:38,833 I'd be glad to. 592 00:46:40,873 --> 00:46:44,206 Okay, I'll do it. The Clutter deal was my idea. 593 00:46:44,376 --> 00:46:47,402 I shared a cell with a piece of rat shit called Floyd Wells... 594 00:46:47,580 --> 00:46:51,573 ...who told me old man Clutter had a safe with $ 10,000. 595 00:46:52,918 --> 00:46:56,877 Dick says you first heard about the Clutter safe from his cellmate... 596 00:46:57,056 --> 00:46:58,648 ...Floyd Wells. 597 00:47:00,994 --> 00:47:04,725 - Is that right? - Well, he told you, didn't he? 598 00:47:04,898 --> 00:47:07,492 Yes, but can I trust him? 599 00:47:09,035 --> 00:47:10,559 He's in jail. 600 00:47:11,705 --> 00:47:13,502 I wouldn't trust him. 601 00:47:15,408 --> 00:47:20,243 You don't want the only perception people have of you to come from Dick. 602 00:47:20,513 --> 00:47:24,677 - I can help get your side out. - Don't bullshit me. 603 00:47:25,685 --> 00:47:27,653 You don't care about my side. 604 00:47:27,821 --> 00:47:31,757 - You're not trying to help me. - Well, this would be helpful. 605 00:47:32,125 --> 00:47:35,583 You'd be entitled to a share of the royalties. 606 00:47:35,762 --> 00:47:39,027 And what would I do with royalties in here? 607 00:47:39,633 --> 00:47:42,397 - You might get out, and you could use... - We're not getting out! 608 00:47:45,238 --> 00:47:48,298 I said no bullshit and you gave me more bullshit. 609 00:47:51,878 --> 00:47:53,277 Go away. 610 00:47:54,714 --> 00:47:57,945 He'll loosen up. How's Dick? 611 00:47:58,118 --> 00:48:02,054 Dick? He just goes on and on and on. 612 00:48:02,222 --> 00:48:06,386 Perry probably shot the Clutters just to get Dick to be quiet. 613 00:48:06,793 --> 00:48:09,956 I have to have both sides. 614 00:48:10,797 --> 00:48:14,097 How do you get your New York lady friends to tell you everything? 615 00:48:14,268 --> 00:48:15,735 My swans? 616 00:48:16,404 --> 00:48:18,634 I figure out what they need. 617 00:48:18,806 --> 00:48:22,469 Gossip. Comfort. And I give it to them. 618 00:48:23,077 --> 00:48:27,673 So find out what Perry needs. In the meantime, get all you can from Dick. 619 00:48:27,848 --> 00:48:30,442 Surely he'll shed some light on Perry, hm? 620 00:48:31,152 --> 00:48:33,347 The man and the boy we took to the basement. 621 00:48:33,521 --> 00:48:35,113 Now, here's something. 622 00:48:35,656 --> 00:48:40,491 When I wanted to enjoy myself on the girl, you know, knock her box out... 623 00:48:40,761 --> 00:48:43,093 ...Perry says for me not to touch her. 624 00:48:43,364 --> 00:48:48,301 But then, when he's tying up that boy, he put a pillow under his head. 625 00:48:49,136 --> 00:48:52,105 And told the old man to lay on a mattress box... 626 00:48:52,273 --> 00:48:54,605 ...because he said the floor was cold. 627 00:48:55,009 --> 00:48:57,307 Too cold to get shot on? 628 00:48:57,778 --> 00:48:59,439 Why do you think he did that? 629 00:49:00,681 --> 00:49:05,618 And I said, "You losing your nerve? 'Cause we can't leave no witnesses." 630 00:49:08,222 --> 00:49:11,680 And he said, "No," but I thought, "Are you a faggot?" 631 00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:16,797 Putting that pillow for the boy, telling me not to crack the girl. 632 00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:21,361 But other times he's okay. 633 00:49:23,038 --> 00:49:26,633 Didn't seem like a faggot when he splattered their hair on the wall. 634 00:49:30,379 --> 00:49:32,313 No, we didn't want to kill them. 635 00:49:32,481 --> 00:49:35,473 We wanted to get in and get out without a trace! 636 00:49:35,917 --> 00:49:38,511 Perry wanted us to get stockings for our faces. 637 00:49:38,987 --> 00:49:42,388 But that shit-ass store where we got the gloves only had light-colored ones. 638 00:49:42,557 --> 00:49:46,220 You could see my eyes through them. Pick me up out of a lineup. That was no go. 639 00:49:46,395 --> 00:49:51,094 So Perry says we should go to the hospital and buy black ones off the nuns. 640 00:49:51,266 --> 00:49:53,598 And I thought that was a damn crazy idea... 641 00:49:53,769 --> 00:49:55,760 ...but I didn't feel like fighting with him... 642 00:49:55,937 --> 00:49:58,906 ...so I went and huddled behind the door, and I came out and said: 643 00:49:59,074 --> 00:50:01,508 "Catholic bitches wouldn't sell me none." 644 00:50:02,344 --> 00:50:04,369 And what did Perry say? 645 00:50:04,746 --> 00:50:06,236 He said: 646 00:50:06,915 --> 00:50:08,109 "Any. 647 00:50:08,750 --> 00:50:11,082 Catholic bitches won't sell you any." 648 00:50:11,253 --> 00:50:12,345 Really? 649 00:50:13,355 --> 00:50:16,483 - He corrected your grammar? - Listen, sugar. 650 00:50:18,026 --> 00:50:19,687 Perry Smith... 651 00:50:20,195 --> 00:50:23,130 ...fancies himself an artiste. 652 00:50:29,337 --> 00:50:33,138 Hey, baby. You wanna suck my dick through the bars? 653 00:50:33,810 --> 00:50:36,643 Yours couldn't reach through the bars. 654 00:50:39,248 --> 00:50:43,150 The only way to deal with vulgarity is to rise above it. 655 00:50:44,987 --> 00:50:49,321 I had a similar experience with my friend, Tennessee Williams. 656 00:50:49,826 --> 00:50:52,090 The artist and intellectual? 657 00:50:54,530 --> 00:50:56,122 Never mind. 658 00:50:56,499 --> 00:50:59,332 Nobody here likes this kind of thing. 659 00:51:00,937 --> 00:51:02,131 I do. 660 00:51:05,174 --> 00:51:06,766 I'd like to hear it. 661 00:51:11,047 --> 00:51:13,845 Well, Tennessee and I were in this bar once... 662 00:51:14,016 --> 00:51:17,179 ...when this very drunk woman came up to me and said: 663 00:51:17,353 --> 00:51:21,187 "May I have your autograph?" I said, "Why, yes, dear." 664 00:51:21,657 --> 00:51:24,524 She said she didn't have a piece of paper. 665 00:51:24,694 --> 00:51:27,686 So she pulled up her shirt, pointed to her bellybutton... 666 00:51:27,864 --> 00:51:29,855 ...and asked me to autograph that. 667 00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,264 So then she hands me an eyebrow pencil... 668 00:51:33,436 --> 00:51:38,135 ...and I write my name all the way around her navel like a sundial. 669 00:51:38,307 --> 00:51:43,974 All of the sudden appears her angry and very drunk husband who says: 670 00:51:44,147 --> 00:51:49,050 "Since you're in the mood for signing things, why don't you sign this?" 671 00:51:49,219 --> 00:51:53,883 And with that, he unzipped his fly and hauled out his manhood. 672 00:51:54,057 --> 00:51:55,388 Well, what'd you do? 673 00:51:55,559 --> 00:51:58,551 Well, the room was graveyard silent. 674 00:51:59,229 --> 00:52:03,063 I looked him up and down and said, calm as I could: 675 00:52:04,034 --> 00:52:10,667 "Well, I don't know if I could autograph it, but perhaps I could initial it." 676 00:52:14,011 --> 00:52:17,913 What kind of stuff does Tennessee Williams write? 677 00:52:18,415 --> 00:52:21,748 I know his name, I just can't think what are his books. 678 00:52:21,919 --> 00:52:25,184 He's a dramatist. He wrote A Streetcar Named Desire. 679 00:52:25,355 --> 00:52:27,448 - That Brando was in? - The very same. 680 00:52:27,624 --> 00:52:30,616 Marlon Brando is the fucking king! 681 00:52:31,194 --> 00:52:33,458 Now, he's one of my two favorite actors. 682 00:52:33,630 --> 00:52:36,360 - Who's the other? - Humphrey Bogart. 683 00:52:53,283 --> 00:52:54,945 I beat Humphrey Bogart. 684 00:52:55,119 --> 00:52:57,053 And Alvin Dewey too. 685 00:52:58,923 --> 00:53:02,723 This is the most black-hearted thing you have ever done, Nelle Harper Lee... 686 00:53:02,894 --> 00:53:04,759 ...and I will never forgive you. 687 00:53:04,929 --> 00:53:09,798 Oh, hush your silliness. You're all set now. Perry's ready to talk. 688 00:53:10,602 --> 00:53:12,331 I need my life back. 689 00:53:13,271 --> 00:53:16,069 There are a few fires I need to rekindle. 690 00:53:16,240 --> 00:53:19,300 Well, goodbye. I hate you! 691 00:53:19,477 --> 00:53:22,139 Thank you. You too. 692 00:53:44,502 --> 00:53:47,562 - How's the vanquisher of Bogart? - Okay. 693 00:53:49,007 --> 00:53:50,497 Tell me more about him. 694 00:53:53,011 --> 00:53:55,809 Well, I think we should talk about some other things first. 695 00:53:56,114 --> 00:53:57,103 Like what? 696 00:53:57,682 --> 00:54:02,278 Nothing. I just don't have a lot more about Bogie. 697 00:54:06,288 --> 00:54:10,850 I do have a very amusing story about Marlon Brando. 698 00:54:11,093 --> 00:54:15,655 I once spent an entire evening with him, just the two of us... 699 00:54:15,831 --> 00:54:20,393 ...and he told me all about his life before he became a star. 700 00:54:20,669 --> 00:54:22,102 Are you guys friends? 701 00:54:22,271 --> 00:54:26,230 Well, I wouldn't say that. He's told people he wants to kill me. 702 00:54:26,408 --> 00:54:27,397 What for? 703 00:54:28,677 --> 00:54:32,044 He didn't like the way I portrayed him in my article. 704 00:54:32,214 --> 00:54:35,775 He claims he told me certain things off the record. 705 00:54:35,951 --> 00:54:38,010 Well, you couldn't just check your notes? 706 00:54:38,987 --> 00:54:40,852 I never take notes. 707 00:54:41,023 --> 00:54:45,960 I employ a memory technique that gives me almost a hundred percent retention. 708 00:54:46,128 --> 00:54:48,323 Well, "almost" is the key fucking word. 709 00:54:48,497 --> 00:54:50,692 I may miss a word, but never a meaning. 710 00:54:50,866 --> 00:54:53,334 If you miss the right word, you will. 711 00:54:54,737 --> 00:54:56,329 You've got a hell of a fucking nerve. 712 00:54:56,505 --> 00:54:59,065 What are you trying to bother a great actor like Brando for? 713 00:54:59,241 --> 00:55:00,173 You misunderst... 714 00:55:00,342 --> 00:55:02,606 See, this is why I don't wanna to talk to you! 715 00:55:02,778 --> 00:55:05,372 If you want to make me look like some asshole, you will. 716 00:55:05,547 --> 00:55:07,879 Perry, I never judge my characters. 717 00:55:11,053 --> 00:55:15,683 Well, here's something for you to remember all 100 percent of... 718 00:55:16,526 --> 00:55:19,427 ...I am not a character. 719 00:55:19,629 --> 00:55:22,063 I'm a human-fucking-being. 720 00:55:22,232 --> 00:55:24,598 - Guard! - Perry Edward Smith! 721 00:55:24,768 --> 00:55:28,295 I am writing this book with or without you. 722 00:55:28,471 --> 00:55:32,464 You can get involved, so I can make you a three-dimensional human being... 723 00:55:32,642 --> 00:55:34,701 ...or you can continue this foolishness... 724 00:55:34,878 --> 00:55:38,109 ...and I will head straight back to New York and write what I want! 725 00:55:47,724 --> 00:55:49,123 Is this my party? 726 00:55:49,292 --> 00:55:50,782 Truman! 727 00:55:51,661 --> 00:55:54,824 Welcome home, my darling. We missed you so much. 728 00:56:04,574 --> 00:56:07,475 I don't believe I've ever said this: 729 00:56:07,644 --> 00:56:10,078 Tell us about the killers. 730 00:56:12,482 --> 00:56:16,145 Well, their names are Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. 731 00:56:16,319 --> 00:56:18,253 - Have you met them? - Met them? 732 00:56:18,421 --> 00:56:20,855 My dear, I've been in their cells. 733 00:56:21,024 --> 00:56:22,286 I have goose flesh. 734 00:56:22,459 --> 00:56:26,088 When you're talking to them, they seem like perfectly nice boys. 735 00:56:26,262 --> 00:56:30,632 To be frank, I'm much more concerned for my safety around Norman Mailer. 736 00:56:34,138 --> 00:56:38,074 Dick speaks about what happened without any sense that it was wrong. 737 00:56:38,242 --> 00:56:41,507 - It was just something that happened. - What about Terry? 738 00:56:41,912 --> 00:56:44,813 No, it's Perry. As in Antoinette. 739 00:56:45,583 --> 00:56:47,448 He's an enigma. 740 00:56:47,618 --> 00:56:51,315 You know, before he killed the Clutter boy he put a pillow under his head. 741 00:56:51,689 --> 00:56:54,089 And he wouldn't let Dick rape the girl. 742 00:56:54,258 --> 00:56:56,658 - He's not all kind. - Jack's right. 743 00:56:56,827 --> 00:57:01,025 After these demonstrations of gentility, he did shoot them dead. 744 00:57:01,265 --> 00:57:03,199 And cut the old man's throat. 745 00:57:03,367 --> 00:57:04,766 There's something... 746 00:57:05,169 --> 00:57:08,002 ...I can't quite put my finger on it. 747 00:57:08,172 --> 00:57:11,107 It seems insane to say that he's tender... 748 00:57:11,976 --> 00:57:16,845 ...but he does have the tender and the terrible side by side inside him. 749 00:57:19,850 --> 00:57:21,442 He's very... 750 00:57:32,029 --> 00:57:33,257 He's very? 751 00:57:40,038 --> 00:57:42,734 Never mind that. Let's go around the table... 752 00:57:42,908 --> 00:57:46,503 ...and you can all tell me whom you're having affairs with. 753 00:57:47,679 --> 00:57:48,407 Oh, goody. 754 00:57:49,381 --> 00:57:50,507 Bennett? 755 00:57:54,519 --> 00:58:00,253 In his letters, Tru Heart always says: "What's the new thing that everyone loves?" 756 00:58:00,425 --> 00:58:02,450 And, as any of us with children know... 757 00:58:02,627 --> 00:58:06,859 ...the big new thing is not on Broadway or even on CBS. 758 00:58:07,032 --> 00:58:08,932 Sorry, darling. 759 00:58:09,401 --> 00:58:12,029 - It's this. - And you see your child bring it home... 760 00:58:12,203 --> 00:58:15,570 ...and you think, "I am simply gonna have to slit my wrists." 761 00:58:16,274 --> 00:58:17,764 And five minutes later... 762 00:58:17,943 --> 00:58:19,035 ...you're doing it. 763 00:58:19,210 --> 00:58:22,941 Doors closed, of course, but you just can't resist it. 764 00:58:23,114 --> 00:58:24,172 I did. 765 00:58:24,349 --> 00:58:26,715 Well, assholes aren't much for dancing. 766 00:58:28,486 --> 00:58:29,646 Oh, dear. 767 00:58:31,623 --> 00:58:33,921 How's your writing coming, Jack? 768 00:58:36,061 --> 00:58:37,460 Well, let's hear it. 769 00:58:37,629 --> 00:58:40,792 Well, when Babe told me anyone could learn it... 770 00:58:40,966 --> 00:58:45,335 ...I bet her $ 100 she couldn't teach me, and I now owe her $ 100. 771 00:58:46,771 --> 00:58:51,971 Slim and I will show you how it's done, and then we hope you'll jump right in. 772 00:58:52,144 --> 00:58:54,635 - You, especially. - Needle's on. 773 00:58:57,116 --> 00:58:58,743 Oh, my word. 774 00:59:03,489 --> 00:59:06,083 - Come on, my prot�g�. - All right, teacher. 775 00:59:09,662 --> 00:59:11,926 When she taught me, I said, "What are the other steps?" 776 00:59:12,098 --> 00:59:13,827 She said, "There are no other steps." 777 00:59:15,434 --> 00:59:17,698 - Who's next? - Who else? 778 00:59:22,441 --> 00:59:23,840 No, how do I? 779 00:59:26,846 --> 00:59:28,973 That's what I said. It's not a dance. 780 00:59:29,148 --> 00:59:31,981 - You're putting the cigarette out. - Oh, putting the cigarette out. 781 00:59:32,151 --> 00:59:33,140 Truman? 782 00:59:38,691 --> 00:59:41,091 - Just put your foot out there. - Oh, wonderful. 783 00:59:42,194 --> 00:59:43,957 What are you doing there? 784 00:59:44,797 --> 00:59:47,027 You're doing something with your arms. 785 00:59:47,199 --> 00:59:50,896 - Then we go down. - Oh, my word. What is that, flamenco? 786 00:59:51,504 --> 00:59:56,441 I'm so sorry about Jack. I almost fainted when he insulted Bill. 787 00:59:58,577 --> 01:00:00,603 Bill can take it, believe me. 788 01:00:00,781 --> 01:00:03,579 Jack has a moral certainty that's so oppressive. 789 01:00:03,750 --> 01:00:05,547 Moral in what way? 790 01:00:06,353 --> 01:00:10,312 Just that anything fun is a crime against my art... 791 01:00:10,657 --> 01:00:13,319 ...certainly not moral in a personal way. 792 01:00:13,493 --> 01:00:16,485 We have an understanding that if we need something sexual... 793 01:00:16,663 --> 01:00:19,325 ...and the other isn't there to provide it, that... 794 01:00:19,499 --> 01:00:21,194 I understand. 795 01:00:21,968 --> 01:00:24,766 I hardly ever wander, but he does. 796 01:00:24,938 --> 01:00:29,068 We don't discuss it. I can allow it more if I know less about it. 797 01:00:29,810 --> 01:00:35,680 But doesn't even the idea upset you? I mean, how can you bear to think of... 798 01:00:36,450 --> 01:00:40,113 ...or keep yourself from picturing...? 799 01:00:42,222 --> 01:00:43,849 Honey, what is it? 800 01:00:46,626 --> 01:00:48,526 Bill is having an affair. 801 01:00:49,296 --> 01:00:50,854 Babaling, no. 802 01:00:51,031 --> 01:00:54,262 Please, you absolutely must not breathe a word of this to anyone. 803 01:00:54,434 --> 01:00:56,334 It will die inside me. 804 01:00:57,704 --> 01:00:59,171 How did you find out? 805 01:01:01,541 --> 01:01:04,169 Our bed sheets were stained. 806 01:01:04,644 --> 01:01:08,580 - Okay, well, now I could vomit. - Of course, he couldn't give it to the maid. 807 01:01:08,749 --> 01:01:10,217 Well, no. 808 01:01:10,384 --> 01:01:14,650 So, he got on his hands and knees in front of the tub, and he scrubbed them. 809 01:01:15,890 --> 01:01:17,687 But it didn't quite come out. 810 01:01:17,992 --> 01:01:21,723 And when I got back I noticed this odd outline on the sheets. 811 01:01:21,896 --> 01:01:26,560 And I said, like a fool, I mean, not even suspecting, I said... 812 01:01:28,736 --> 01:01:30,203 I said: 813 01:01:31,739 --> 01:01:33,730 "What on earth is that?" 814 01:01:34,108 --> 01:01:36,906 I thought Mary Lee had bleached them. 815 01:01:37,612 --> 01:01:40,172 But then I looked at Bill and there was that... 816 01:01:42,283 --> 01:01:46,413 ...that look on his face. And I thought: 817 01:01:47,421 --> 01:01:51,255 "Thank heavens he is such a bad liar... 818 01:01:51,425 --> 01:01:54,553 ...or I would have been most unjust to Mary Lee." 819 01:01:55,263 --> 01:01:58,926 It doesn't seem possible that a man who owns a television network... 820 01:01:59,100 --> 01:02:00,965 ...can be such a bad liar. 821 01:02:01,135 --> 01:02:03,603 It seems so essential to his success. 822 01:02:07,108 --> 01:02:09,008 What am I gonna do? 823 01:02:10,611 --> 01:02:13,637 You are going to call me whenever you need me... 824 01:02:13,815 --> 01:02:16,716 ...even if it's 3 in the morning and war has broken out... 825 01:02:16,884 --> 01:02:21,845 ...between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I'll come over the bridge, bullets flying... 826 01:02:22,024 --> 01:02:25,289 ...to let you know you have a lifelong friend in me. 827 01:02:26,328 --> 01:02:29,263 T-bone, you are so dear. 828 01:02:29,865 --> 01:02:33,460 I can't picture Bill Paley washing sheets! 829 01:02:33,635 --> 01:02:36,035 He must have been frantic. 830 01:02:36,939 --> 01:02:39,601 - Poor Babe. - I know, I know. Bless her. 831 01:02:40,509 --> 01:02:41,771 Check. 832 01:02:43,178 --> 01:02:45,612 Will you come while I find a newsstand? 833 01:02:45,781 --> 01:02:50,514 I'm trying to bribe Perry into liking me so I'm sending Dick and him dirty magazines. 834 01:02:51,286 --> 01:02:52,548 Sure. 835 01:02:54,857 --> 01:02:59,487 Oh, I wish I'd find a man like you. Sex and the money, I wouldn't care. 836 01:02:59,661 --> 01:03:01,686 We could always have fun like this. 837 01:03:01,864 --> 01:03:05,960 - Oh, thank you, Big Mama. I love you. - I love you too. 838 01:03:06,134 --> 01:03:09,865 - Do you? - Well, how can you even ask? 839 01:03:10,038 --> 01:03:13,906 - You never confide in me. - No, I don't darling. You're right. 840 01:03:14,076 --> 01:03:15,134 Why don't you? 841 01:03:15,310 --> 01:03:20,543 - It's very simple. I can't trust you. - What? I'm speechless. 842 01:03:21,216 --> 01:03:23,047 Paralyzed and speechless. 843 01:03:23,218 --> 01:03:24,207 Good afternoon. 844 01:03:24,386 --> 01:03:28,379 I need two copies of Playboy, Party Doll, Stag Night... 845 01:03:28,724 --> 01:03:33,219 ... Baby Doll, Hotsy Totsy, French Flip, Pink Lace, Busty and Juggle. 846 01:03:33,897 --> 01:03:35,057 Jiggle. 847 01:03:35,231 --> 01:03:37,062 Why on earth can you not trust me? 848 01:03:37,233 --> 01:03:41,727 Well, you know why. Because someday you'll use it. 849 01:03:41,905 --> 01:03:43,839 That will never be true. 850 01:03:44,007 --> 01:03:47,568 I may not be a monk, but I certainly have a moral code. 851 01:03:47,744 --> 01:03:52,078 Good heavens! Look at this! This is revolting. 852 01:03:52,248 --> 01:03:55,513 Women look much better in clothes, much, much, better. 853 01:03:55,685 --> 01:03:58,415 Goodness gracious, look at this messy thing. 854 01:03:58,588 --> 01:04:00,112 I'm glad to see you've recovered. 855 01:04:10,199 --> 01:04:11,860 How are things coming? 856 01:04:12,568 --> 01:04:15,765 I found a superb structure, going back and forth... 857 01:04:15,939 --> 01:04:19,272 ...between the Clutters and Dick and Perry drawing near. 858 01:04:19,442 --> 01:04:23,776 But if I don't find some emotional depth it's just another police drama. 859 01:04:23,947 --> 01:04:25,278 Who needs it? 860 01:04:26,449 --> 01:04:28,940 Well, face it, without Perry, you're dead. 861 01:04:29,485 --> 01:04:32,682 - I'd cut your losses. - Nelle! 862 01:04:33,756 --> 01:04:35,087 Here's your mail. 863 01:04:36,759 --> 01:04:39,091 Something from The New Yorker. 864 01:04:41,130 --> 01:04:44,794 Something that looks like invitations, and something... 865 01:04:45,736 --> 01:04:49,228 Do you know anyone at the Kansas State Penitentiary? 866 01:04:51,108 --> 01:04:55,044 He must be writing to thank me for that revolting pornography. 867 01:05:04,521 --> 01:05:08,855 Well, you won't believe this. 868 01:05:09,026 --> 01:05:10,015 What? 869 01:05:11,762 --> 01:05:13,593 Dear Mr. Capote... 870 01:05:13,998 --> 01:05:17,525 ...it was extremely solicitous of you to send me those periodicals. 871 01:05:17,768 --> 01:05:19,759 He reads the dictionary. 872 01:05:19,937 --> 01:05:24,067 But I regret to inform you that the reading material was repellent. 873 01:05:24,808 --> 01:05:26,742 My future will soon be determined. 874 01:05:26,910 --> 01:05:31,176 But there are only two outcomes: Life in prison or death. 875 01:05:31,815 --> 01:05:35,615 So, whether I have a short time remaining or a long time to come... 876 01:05:35,786 --> 01:05:40,485 ...I owe it to my mind to fill it with things of beauty and intelligence. 877 01:05:40,958 --> 01:05:42,789 And how about that handwriting? 878 01:05:43,894 --> 01:05:46,954 Well, if he wants beauty and intelligence... 879 01:05:47,364 --> 01:05:48,956 ...you're his man. 880 01:05:59,344 --> 01:06:02,472 I waited so we could open it together. 881 01:06:06,818 --> 01:06:10,345 Dear Mr. Capote: Thank you for the reading material. 882 01:06:10,522 --> 01:06:14,185 It was much more intellectual than the pussy pictures you sent before. 883 01:06:14,626 --> 01:06:15,615 However... 884 01:06:15,794 --> 01:06:17,125 However? 885 01:06:17,495 --> 01:06:19,224 Though the stories are told well... 886 01:06:19,397 --> 01:06:24,835 ...l, ultimately, did not like them, because I thought the writing lacked kindness. 887 01:06:25,003 --> 01:06:26,698 I have never! 888 01:06:27,072 --> 01:06:29,836 Maybe you should go back to sending him porn. 889 01:06:30,408 --> 01:06:35,345 Imagine being told your work lacked kindness by a four-time killer! 890 01:06:35,914 --> 01:06:40,044 My writing is dispassionate and unsentimental... 891 01:06:40,218 --> 01:06:42,482 ...but I wouldn't say it's unkind. 892 01:06:42,654 --> 01:06:45,919 I've never thought about it in those terms exactly. 893 01:06:46,257 --> 01:06:49,522 - What a thing to say. - Yes. 894 01:07:00,738 --> 01:07:04,698 I came all this way back, three days on the train... 895 01:07:05,111 --> 01:07:07,739 ...because there's something I want you to know. 896 01:07:09,081 --> 01:07:12,073 I have given my whole life to one effort... 897 01:07:12,251 --> 01:07:14,811 ...the creation of a great work of art. 898 01:07:15,855 --> 01:07:17,948 Please don't laugh at me. 899 01:07:19,191 --> 01:07:20,749 My whole life... 900 01:07:21,861 --> 01:07:24,921 ...all I've wanted was to create a work of art. 901 01:07:26,265 --> 01:07:28,756 I sang, nobody listened. 902 01:07:29,735 --> 01:07:32,761 I painted, nobody looked. 903 01:07:34,039 --> 01:07:37,531 Now, Dick and me, we murder four people. 904 01:07:38,277 --> 01:07:40,211 And what's gonna come out of it? 905 01:07:41,580 --> 01:07:43,207 A work of art. 906 01:07:46,285 --> 01:07:47,946 I'm laughing at me. 907 01:07:49,722 --> 01:07:53,556 You want me to open up, but I don't think you can understand me. 908 01:07:53,726 --> 01:07:56,786 - Why not? - It was your books. 909 01:07:57,496 --> 01:08:01,330 I thought you looked down on the people you were writing about... 910 01:08:01,500 --> 01:08:03,365 ...like you were sneering at them. 911 01:08:03,836 --> 01:08:07,033 I would never sneer at my characters. 912 01:08:07,273 --> 01:08:09,503 If I'm gonna put my heart in front of you... 913 01:08:09,675 --> 01:08:13,270 ...I need to know I'm doing it with someone who will listen to it... 914 01:08:13,546 --> 01:08:18,041 ...and not make a joke out of it like you did with Holly Go-fucking-lightly. 915 01:08:20,220 --> 01:08:22,450 You can't write my story... 916 01:08:22,923 --> 01:08:26,154 ...because your idea of suffering is so far from mine. 917 01:08:26,326 --> 01:08:29,591 It's not. I promise. 918 01:08:32,866 --> 01:08:33,924 Goodbye. 919 01:09:11,972 --> 01:09:13,405 Okay. 920 01:09:16,376 --> 01:09:19,971 The reason this is hard for me to say is that... 921 01:09:21,881 --> 01:09:24,315 ...l've never said it out loud before. 922 01:09:25,886 --> 01:09:29,151 He told everyone she was sick, but... 923 01:09:35,429 --> 01:09:37,693 ...my mother committed suicide. 924 01:09:41,302 --> 01:09:42,667 - Is this a trick? - No! 925 01:09:42,837 --> 01:09:44,896 - Are you bullshitting me? - No! 926 01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:47,774 Have you been talking to Dick? 927 01:09:47,942 --> 01:09:48,931 No. 928 01:09:53,914 --> 01:09:55,347 What happened? 929 01:09:59,920 --> 01:10:01,353 Why'd she do it? 930 01:10:04,692 --> 01:10:07,126 All my mother ever wanted... 931 01:10:07,561 --> 01:10:10,758 ...was to be a Park Avenue lady... 932 01:10:13,467 --> 01:10:17,426 ...which isn't easy when you're in Alabama with no money. 933 01:10:17,605 --> 01:10:21,132 So she married my father to get out. 934 01:10:21,309 --> 01:10:24,938 But before they could go, I came. 935 01:10:25,613 --> 01:10:27,604 So she deserted me... 936 01:10:28,215 --> 01:10:30,706 ...leaving me with my aunts. 937 01:10:30,885 --> 01:10:35,049 And when my father failed to deliver her to Park Avenue... 938 01:10:35,723 --> 01:10:38,056 ...she deserted him too. 939 01:10:39,094 --> 01:10:41,392 Because she was beautiful... 940 01:10:49,571 --> 01:10:51,505 ...so beautiful. 941 01:10:53,642 --> 01:10:57,339 She married again, this time to Joe Capote. 942 01:10:57,512 --> 01:10:59,571 He had a job in New York... 943 01:10:59,915 --> 01:11:03,510 ...and worked all hours until her dream came true. 944 01:11:03,852 --> 01:11:09,290 We moved to 1060 Park Avenue. Mother was thrilled. 945 01:11:10,092 --> 01:11:14,495 It seemed to extinguish some sort of anxiety in her. 946 01:11:17,199 --> 01:11:20,498 But the way Joe got us there couldn't keep us there. 947 01:11:21,303 --> 01:11:23,703 He'd embezzled the money... 948 01:11:24,272 --> 01:11:26,866 ...a hundred thousand dollars. 949 01:11:28,677 --> 01:11:33,341 He was fired and tainted. He told Mother we'd have to move. 950 01:11:33,515 --> 01:11:36,313 But not to a smaller place on Park Avenue... 951 01:11:36,485 --> 01:11:39,318 ...but to a cold-water flat in the Bronx. 952 01:11:43,158 --> 01:11:45,149 She couldn't take it. 953 01:11:50,233 --> 01:11:55,170 She frantically tried to save money in any way so they could stay... 954 01:11:55,371 --> 01:11:59,034 ...eating less, not buying lipstick. 955 01:12:02,378 --> 01:12:07,315 She'd stopped drinking when they moved to 1060, but now she stopped stopping. 956 01:12:07,917 --> 01:12:11,717 And when that failed to restore a sense of calm... 957 01:12:13,322 --> 01:12:16,382 ...she swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. 958 01:12:30,239 --> 01:12:32,400 I'm sorry about before. 959 01:12:34,243 --> 01:12:36,438 I thought you were trying to trick me. 960 01:12:38,614 --> 01:12:40,172 Trick you? 961 01:12:40,716 --> 01:12:42,911 My mother killed herself too. 962 01:12:45,521 --> 01:12:46,613 How? 963 01:12:46,789 --> 01:12:49,781 The slow way. Drank herself to death. 964 01:12:51,627 --> 01:12:52,855 Drinking. 965 01:12:53,429 --> 01:12:56,193 Suicide for the faint of heart. 966 01:12:57,133 --> 01:13:00,262 My brother couldn't wait. He killed himself too. 967 01:13:00,604 --> 01:13:01,866 My God. 968 01:13:02,973 --> 01:13:05,533 - So you're all alone? - No. 969 01:13:07,110 --> 01:13:08,771 I have a sister. 970 01:13:09,947 --> 01:13:12,279 You want to know what I think about her? 971 01:13:12,983 --> 01:13:15,884 I think she's one evil bastard. 972 01:13:17,454 --> 01:13:20,321 You want to see the ball-busting letter she sent me? 973 01:13:34,471 --> 01:13:35,904 Pay attention. 974 01:13:37,908 --> 01:13:40,138 This could be good for our book. 975 01:13:52,389 --> 01:13:53,720 I don't feel like talking. 976 01:13:53,891 --> 01:13:56,951 I thought we were off to a good start. 977 01:13:57,294 --> 01:14:00,058 After you left, that asshole next door said: 978 01:14:00,230 --> 01:14:03,631 "Hey, Smith, how come your mother and brother never visit?" He'd heard. 979 01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:05,028 Fuck him, who cares? 980 01:14:05,202 --> 01:14:08,035 You see, when I'm talking to you, I forget other people are gonna read it. 981 01:14:08,205 --> 01:14:10,401 And then I think abut how you stabbed Brando in the back. 982 01:14:10,575 --> 01:14:14,067 Perry, what I'm gonna write about you will help people think more of you. 983 01:14:14,245 --> 01:14:16,736 You're not thinking clearly. How can you? 984 01:14:16,915 --> 01:14:19,884 You're under the most unimaginable pressure. 985 01:14:20,051 --> 01:14:22,246 Aw, doesn't wittle Perry wike it here? 986 01:14:22,420 --> 01:14:25,480 - Shut the fuck up, Andrews! - Hush now. 987 01:14:26,524 --> 01:14:28,082 Be above him. 988 01:14:31,229 --> 01:14:32,491 Come. 989 01:14:43,775 --> 01:14:46,573 This can be our little tree house. 990 01:14:48,413 --> 01:14:51,041 How come y'all are so quiet? 991 01:14:52,717 --> 01:14:54,082 Now... 992 01:14:56,220 --> 01:14:58,620 ...I want you to relax. 993 01:14:59,090 --> 01:15:01,923 I can't. Not here. Not with him. 994 01:15:02,093 --> 01:15:05,995 I may be wrong, but there was something in your letter... 995 01:15:06,164 --> 01:15:09,429 ...that made me think you have the soul of an artist. 996 01:15:10,401 --> 01:15:14,360 Artists have the power, through our imagination... 997 01:15:14,539 --> 01:15:19,442 ...to escape a degenerate world and create a better one. 998 01:15:20,646 --> 01:15:21,738 How? 999 01:15:22,247 --> 01:15:25,876 - Close your eyes. - Why? 1000 01:15:27,953 --> 01:15:29,477 Trust me. 1001 01:15:31,957 --> 01:15:36,621 Now I want you to picture the most serene... 1002 01:15:36,929 --> 01:15:39,955 ...and relaxing place you know. 1003 01:15:40,399 --> 01:15:41,798 Mexico. 1004 01:15:41,967 --> 01:15:46,301 I know it well. Water like liquid turquoise. 1005 01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:52,301 Feel that hot sun beating down on you... 1006 01:15:53,746 --> 01:15:57,341 ...warming all the tension out of you. 1007 01:15:58,150 --> 01:16:01,813 Feel the heat soaking into you. 1008 01:16:03,822 --> 01:16:04,948 And then... 1009 01:16:06,258 --> 01:16:09,989 ...gentle as a feather falling past your cheek... 1010 01:16:11,597 --> 01:16:13,656 ...there's a breeze. 1011 01:16:16,935 --> 01:16:18,368 Close them. 1012 01:16:20,005 --> 01:16:21,199 Good. 1013 01:16:22,441 --> 01:16:24,671 Feel the breeze... 1014 01:16:27,846 --> 01:16:30,941 ...that sensual breath from heaven. 1015 01:16:33,186 --> 01:16:35,313 Just let go... 1016 01:16:36,289 --> 01:16:38,849 ...relax every muscle. 1017 01:16:51,671 --> 01:16:53,002 I'm ready. 1018 01:16:56,476 --> 01:17:00,640 When I was a boy, we were always moving around. 1019 01:17:00,814 --> 01:17:04,306 His parents were rodeo performers. 1020 01:17:04,484 --> 01:17:07,453 It was a hard life in lots of ways... 1021 01:17:07,854 --> 01:17:10,516 ... but it sure looked good once we lost it. 1022 01:17:11,658 --> 01:17:14,149 Mom and Dad had to quit. 1023 01:17:14,961 --> 01:17:18,328 That kind of riding wears your bones out. 1024 01:17:18,998 --> 01:17:22,627 But that's what they were: Riders. 1025 01:17:23,636 --> 01:17:25,797 So, when that went away... 1026 01:17:26,840 --> 01:17:28,467 ...everything went with it. 1027 01:17:29,576 --> 01:17:31,635 Jesus, Flo. 1028 01:17:31,811 --> 01:17:33,472 Fuck off! It's just beer. 1029 01:17:34,681 --> 01:17:35,807 Fucking asshole! 1030 01:17:37,584 --> 01:17:42,022 So Mom left him, and she took me and my brother and sister with her. 1031 01:17:47,661 --> 01:17:50,152 I dreamed Dad would rescue me. 1032 01:17:50,564 --> 01:17:52,327 How funny. 1033 01:17:54,368 --> 01:17:55,699 Me too. 1034 01:17:59,039 --> 01:18:03,339 Every day I waited for him, but he never came. 1035 01:18:03,511 --> 01:18:06,036 And then one day I was walking to school... 1036 01:18:13,754 --> 01:18:15,915 Please be real. Please be real. 1037 01:18:16,257 --> 01:18:18,157 Please be real. 1038 01:18:21,362 --> 01:18:22,522 Dad. 1039 01:18:25,566 --> 01:18:27,466 Are you here to take me with you? 1040 01:18:27,635 --> 01:18:31,071 I wish I could, but I can't. 1041 01:18:32,807 --> 01:18:34,968 I don't know how to take care of you. 1042 01:18:38,412 --> 01:18:41,313 I came to tell you to be the best boy you can be. 1043 01:18:42,616 --> 01:18:44,550 And he made me get down. 1044 01:18:45,619 --> 01:18:49,453 He hated his old lady. Never forgave her. 1045 01:18:49,623 --> 01:18:52,057 She took his daddy away. 1046 01:18:52,493 --> 01:18:54,189 A boy needs his daddy. 1047 01:18:54,796 --> 01:18:56,855 And did he hate the father too? 1048 01:18:57,299 --> 01:19:02,362 He always said he hated his old man, but he used to do this thing... 1049 01:19:02,537 --> 01:19:07,270 ...this excruciatingly poignant thing. 1050 01:19:08,043 --> 01:19:12,776 Dick says that sometimes when I'd be sleeping... 1051 01:19:14,616 --> 01:19:15,776 Dad! 1052 01:19:18,887 --> 01:19:20,184 Dad! 1053 01:19:21,623 --> 01:19:22,988 Where you been? 1054 01:19:24,826 --> 01:19:26,851 I've been looking everywhere for you. 1055 01:19:28,797 --> 01:19:31,459 Years later, after the Army... 1056 01:19:31,633 --> 01:19:35,364 ... I got a letter from Dad saying he had an idea to make money. 1057 01:19:35,537 --> 01:19:37,368 Wanted me to come help him. 1058 01:19:38,707 --> 01:19:43,542 And I'd be lying to you if I told you I wasn't pretty jazzed up when I got his letter. 1059 01:19:43,712 --> 01:19:45,703 He finally had a place for me. 1060 01:19:46,548 --> 01:19:50,211 I was gonna sing and play my guitar in the bar. 1061 01:19:50,886 --> 01:19:55,220 I painted all the pictures. I even painted the sign. 1062 01:19:55,390 --> 01:19:57,085 Nobody's coming here! 1063 01:19:59,494 --> 01:20:00,984 Nobody! 1064 01:20:01,863 --> 01:20:03,388 Know why? 1065 01:20:03,900 --> 01:20:08,166 It's because of you, you useless piece of shit! 1066 01:20:08,337 --> 01:20:10,362 Your fucking sign is no good! 1067 01:20:10,539 --> 01:20:13,667 I said, "Buy a neon sign"... 1068 01:20:13,876 --> 01:20:16,401 ...and you said, "I'll paint us a good one." 1069 01:20:16,579 --> 01:20:17,910 Fucking sissy. 1070 01:20:26,055 --> 01:20:27,044 Come on. 1071 01:20:27,723 --> 01:20:29,918 He killed me, this guy. 1072 01:20:30,359 --> 01:20:35,262 Over and over my whole life, the things he said and did to me. 1073 01:20:37,566 --> 01:20:40,364 It was always like having a knife in me. 1074 01:20:40,603 --> 01:20:45,370 So I decided to kill him right then, in cold blood. 1075 01:20:47,777 --> 01:20:49,608 Sissy. 1076 01:20:49,879 --> 01:20:51,141 But I couldn't do it. 1077 01:20:52,448 --> 01:20:56,714 And all this stuff about Dad and everything... 1078 01:20:58,788 --> 01:21:01,552 ...it's gonna make me look like a fucking crybaby. 1079 01:21:01,724 --> 01:21:05,888 No! It will help people see you as a complete person... 1080 01:21:06,128 --> 01:21:10,792 ...not just as someone who has caused suffering, but as someone who has suffered. 1081 01:21:12,635 --> 01:21:14,831 Can I see what you've written so far? 1082 01:21:15,005 --> 01:21:18,668 Not till it's perfect. But I promise, it's sympathetic. 1083 01:21:19,476 --> 01:21:22,172 No one's ever treated me like you have. 1084 01:21:23,313 --> 01:21:25,645 Is it just to get me to tell you stuff? 1085 01:21:26,116 --> 01:21:27,174 No. 1086 01:21:27,818 --> 01:21:30,150 It's because I respect you. 1087 01:21:32,089 --> 01:21:34,751 All right. Time's up. 1088 01:21:45,836 --> 01:21:50,273 - Thanks for that beautiful thing you said. - What beautiful thing? 1089 01:21:51,475 --> 01:21:53,067 About respect. 1090 01:22:25,476 --> 01:22:27,842 So, I'm sympathetic, am I? 1091 01:22:28,679 --> 01:22:31,273 You been looking out for me, have you? 1092 01:22:32,016 --> 01:22:36,953 What's the title of your book? The "sympathetic" one about me? 1093 01:22:39,357 --> 01:22:44,294 I know the title. The fucking guard told me, and it's not sympathetic. 1094 01:22:46,197 --> 01:22:49,291 It's called In Cold Blood, isn't it? 1095 01:22:49,967 --> 01:22:54,233 It is, isn't it? It's called In Cold Fucking Blood! 1096 01:22:54,405 --> 01:22:56,305 You sold me out, you shit... 1097 01:22:56,474 --> 01:22:59,534 ...after I opened myself up and gave you everything. 1098 01:22:59,977 --> 01:23:02,207 Well, you're not gonna get away with it. 1099 01:23:03,648 --> 01:23:05,411 One sound out of you... 1100 01:23:06,517 --> 01:23:09,543 ...and you'll join the Clutters in hell. 1101 01:23:10,655 --> 01:23:11,644 Okay? 1102 01:23:18,396 --> 01:23:20,159 Open your mouth! 1103 01:23:21,833 --> 01:23:24,097 Open your mouth! 1104 01:23:25,002 --> 01:23:28,165 Open your fucking lying mouth! 1105 01:23:29,540 --> 01:23:32,168 You're gonna pay for that title now. 1106 01:23:33,177 --> 01:23:36,739 You fucked me, so now I'm gonna fuck you. 1107 01:24:14,319 --> 01:24:16,549 I'm not gonna rape you... 1108 01:24:17,256 --> 01:24:20,783 ...because you can trust me. 1109 01:24:22,427 --> 01:24:23,894 But look. 1110 01:24:25,097 --> 01:24:26,530 Look 1111 01:24:29,568 --> 01:24:34,335 That's how your fucking title made me feel. 1112 01:24:56,596 --> 01:24:58,154 Don't let him in. 1113 01:24:59,165 --> 01:25:00,996 I need to talk to you, please. 1114 01:25:01,167 --> 01:25:02,429 From there. 1115 01:25:05,705 --> 01:25:07,764 Can we have some privacy? 1116 01:25:14,380 --> 01:25:19,283 In Cold Blood is the title of my book, but it's not exactly what you think. 1117 01:25:20,787 --> 01:25:23,119 You boys did a monstrous thing. 1118 01:25:23,289 --> 01:25:26,884 And the public and their prosecutors are calling for your blood. 1119 01:25:27,060 --> 01:25:29,790 If they get what they want, they will kill you... 1120 01:25:29,963 --> 01:25:34,832 ...not in a senseless moment of passion, but with scrupulous premeditation. 1121 01:25:35,001 --> 01:25:38,402 That is the legal definition of "in cold blood." 1122 01:25:38,571 --> 01:25:41,904 This title is a condemnation of their plans. 1123 01:25:42,075 --> 01:25:44,202 But not only their plans. 1124 01:25:44,377 --> 01:25:47,369 No. No, not only. 1125 01:25:48,381 --> 01:25:52,477 Look, you did a terrible thing. You're not innocent. 1126 01:25:53,553 --> 01:25:58,218 That doesn't mean you're not a human being. I want people to see that. 1127 01:25:58,392 --> 01:26:01,850 I'm not talking to you until I've read what you've written. 1128 01:26:15,843 --> 01:26:17,834 It's tough to read the family stuff. 1129 01:26:19,580 --> 01:26:23,243 - But you told it to me. - Not my family. 1130 01:26:24,418 --> 01:26:25,908 The Clutters. 1131 01:26:31,091 --> 01:26:34,390 There better be more than this in this house, or you'll sure be sorry. 1132 01:26:36,263 --> 01:26:37,525 Get him to the basement. 1133 01:26:37,931 --> 01:26:39,592 I'll get the old man. 1134 01:26:40,567 --> 01:26:45,231 You don't think about it if someone has a boyfriend, or is in 4-H. 1135 01:26:45,406 --> 01:26:49,206 Why don't you put some clothes on? It's gonna be cold down there. 1136 01:26:50,044 --> 01:26:51,238 Yes, sir. 1137 01:26:51,412 --> 01:26:53,778 We didn't know anything about them. 1138 01:26:57,618 --> 01:26:59,779 Except that they had a safe. 1139 01:27:00,487 --> 01:27:03,115 But I don't have a safe. 1140 01:27:03,557 --> 01:27:07,823 How old are you, baby? Well, now don't be scared. 1141 01:27:08,630 --> 01:27:12,691 - Let me help you down with these covers. - Hey! Out here, now. 1142 01:27:13,068 --> 01:27:14,228 Now! 1143 01:27:16,037 --> 01:27:19,564 - You touch her, and I'll kill you. - You can ride her when I'm done. 1144 01:27:19,741 --> 01:27:22,767 Let's just go. There's no safe. You fucking blew that! 1145 01:27:22,944 --> 01:27:26,710 We're not leaving, baby. They've seen us plain. 1146 01:27:26,881 --> 01:27:30,282 Get down to the basement so we can take care of that. I'll be there soon. 1147 01:27:30,452 --> 01:27:31,976 I'm not leaving you here. 1148 01:27:32,954 --> 01:27:34,945 Fuck you, then! 1149 01:27:36,124 --> 01:27:37,455 Let's go. 1150 01:28:24,774 --> 01:28:26,867 I know this is crazy... 1151 01:28:27,877 --> 01:28:30,937 ...but when I looked in his eyes, I was thinking: 1152 01:28:31,414 --> 01:28:33,882 "Too bad we couldn't be friends." 1153 01:28:35,251 --> 01:28:38,220 He had 4-H stuff in his room. 1154 01:28:38,587 --> 01:28:41,784 And, I could have told him about my folks and the rodeo. 1155 01:28:47,263 --> 01:28:50,323 - Why don't you kiss him? - Fuck off! 1156 01:28:50,499 --> 01:28:52,399 You never like anything to do with girls. 1157 01:28:52,568 --> 01:28:54,160 - You never want a whore. - Shut up! 1158 01:28:54,336 --> 01:28:56,270 You won't even watch me when I'm on one. 1159 01:28:56,439 --> 01:28:57,963 - You like boys better? - Shut up! 1160 01:28:58,140 --> 01:29:00,734 - Go ahead. Then I can break his sister's box! - Shut up! 1161 01:29:00,910 --> 01:29:02,901 Go ahead, sugar, kiss him. 1162 01:29:04,146 --> 01:29:06,410 Or would you rather kiss his daddy? 1163 01:29:17,593 --> 01:29:19,993 Shit, Perry! His hand came free! 1164 01:29:42,953 --> 01:29:45,786 Now, now you kill the women. 1165 01:30:10,847 --> 01:30:12,906 I wish I could have saved them... 1166 01:30:14,818 --> 01:30:16,308 ...but at least... 1167 01:30:18,355 --> 01:30:20,755 I knew what he wanted to do to that girl. 1168 01:30:26,596 --> 01:30:28,689 Least I spared her that. 1169 01:30:41,746 --> 01:30:46,012 About the best example I can give you of his split nature is this. 1170 01:30:46,183 --> 01:30:49,152 He told me what he thought of Herb Clutter. 1171 01:30:49,320 --> 01:30:54,019 He said, "Right before I cut his throat I was thinking how nice he was." 1172 01:30:54,191 --> 01:30:56,716 "He was a nice soft-spoken gentleman. 1173 01:30:56,894 --> 01:30:59,829 I thought that right before I cut his throat." 1174 01:31:00,264 --> 01:31:03,665 "I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. 1175 01:31:04,235 --> 01:31:08,171 I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat." 1176 01:31:08,339 --> 01:31:10,398 What an extraordinary thing to say. 1177 01:31:10,575 --> 01:31:12,042 Extraordinary. 1178 01:31:28,492 --> 01:31:29,891 So how's the book? 1179 01:31:30,061 --> 01:31:34,191 Well, it's coming. I have to leave in a couple days for their trial. 1180 01:31:34,365 --> 01:31:37,493 That's all pro forma, right? They're not contesting anything, are they? 1181 01:31:37,668 --> 01:31:40,228 No, they hope for life, not death. 1182 01:31:40,404 --> 01:31:42,565 Death would be better for the book. 1183 01:31:42,740 --> 01:31:46,870 It would satisfy the readers more, and it would make the title work too. 1184 01:31:48,579 --> 01:31:52,539 Honey, I've worked harder on this than anything my whole life. 1185 01:31:52,718 --> 01:31:57,018 I don't want it ruined just because a jury makes a dumb decision. 1186 01:31:58,056 --> 01:32:00,650 Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict? 1187 01:32:00,826 --> 01:32:02,157 We have, Your Honor. 1188 01:32:02,794 --> 01:32:05,319 Will the clerk please bring the verdict up? 1189 01:32:11,970 --> 01:32:15,633 We, the jury, find the defendant, Perry Edward Smith... 1190 01:32:16,241 --> 01:32:19,438 ...guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree. 1191 01:32:20,178 --> 01:32:21,475 And the punishment... 1192 01:32:25,617 --> 01:32:27,585 ...is death. 1193 01:32:31,323 --> 01:32:34,292 - Will you appeal? - Dick wants to. 1194 01:32:35,060 --> 01:32:38,086 But we'll hang. We should. 1195 01:32:39,631 --> 01:32:41,963 You think hanging is fair? 1196 01:32:42,234 --> 01:32:45,203 It's funny. Last night I was laying awake... 1197 01:32:45,671 --> 01:32:49,266 ...and thinking: "What is punishment?" 1198 01:32:50,409 --> 01:32:54,470 Being in jail isn't punishment, if you didn't like it on the outside. 1199 01:32:55,313 --> 01:32:59,010 And neither is death, if it was painful to live. 1200 01:33:01,820 --> 01:33:04,153 I'll tell you what punishment is for me. 1201 01:33:04,657 --> 01:33:05,749 What? 1202 01:33:06,459 --> 01:33:09,986 It's hoping there's someone for you. 1203 01:33:11,698 --> 01:33:17,830 And after years of no one you find him and you can't have him. 1204 01:33:32,719 --> 01:33:37,179 - We really connected, didn't we? - Of course, we did. 1205 01:33:37,356 --> 01:33:40,189 You weren't being nice to me just for the book, were you? 1206 01:33:40,359 --> 01:33:43,487 No! I think about you all the time. 1207 01:33:43,663 --> 01:33:47,190 - Dick too? - Only for the book. 1208 01:33:48,701 --> 01:33:51,568 You're the only person I ever feel real around. 1209 01:33:51,904 --> 01:33:53,030 Me too. 1210 01:33:53,272 --> 01:33:57,606 I don't have to act like a little wind-up toy with you. 1211 01:34:07,220 --> 01:34:08,448 Perry... 1212 01:34:10,556 --> 01:34:12,990 ...I don't want you to die. 1213 01:34:57,638 --> 01:35:00,334 Look, Ron and Nancy Reagan we're not. 1214 01:35:02,876 --> 01:35:07,609 We're apart for long times. We know we have to have sex. 1215 01:35:09,783 --> 01:35:16,188 But we're men. We can have sex just to release the desire to have sex. 1216 01:35:16,723 --> 01:35:19,453 What's not allowed is falling in love. 1217 01:35:28,703 --> 01:35:31,035 You see, that would be a betrayal. 1218 01:35:34,342 --> 01:35:37,709 A terrible breach of a very mature... 1219 01:35:38,880 --> 01:35:41,815 ...and very sensible arrangement. 1220 01:35:41,983 --> 01:35:46,443 After the verdicts, Truman buried himself in the book. 1221 01:35:46,621 --> 01:35:49,283 By mid-'63 it was done. 1222 01:35:49,457 --> 01:35:53,917 Perfect as a diamond, as tough, as multi-faceted... 1223 01:35:54,362 --> 01:35:56,023 ...only this time... 1224 01:35:56,197 --> 01:35:58,165 ...it had kindness. 1225 01:35:59,200 --> 01:36:02,863 But we couldn't publish it until it had an ending... 1226 01:36:03,037 --> 01:36:06,370 ...until something had been settled about the boys. 1227 01:36:06,574 --> 01:36:09,475 There were four appeals, all the way to the Supreme Court. 1228 01:36:09,644 --> 01:36:12,169 It took five full years for a final judgment. 1229 01:36:12,347 --> 01:36:17,649 That was hard on the killers, which doesn't make a dime's difference to me. But... 1230 01:36:29,564 --> 01:36:33,000 Do you have any word yet about when the book is coming out? 1231 01:36:33,167 --> 01:36:34,429 I don't know. 1232 01:36:37,706 --> 01:36:41,233 You simply cannot conceive of the agony. 1233 01:36:44,613 --> 01:36:49,050 I've worked on this book ceaselessly for four years... 1234 01:36:50,019 --> 01:36:54,922 ...pouring the whole of myself into it, head and heart. 1235 01:36:55,291 --> 01:36:58,021 And then to be waiting like this... 1236 01:36:58,193 --> 01:37:01,685 ...unable to publish what I've done until they're hanged. 1237 01:37:02,331 --> 01:37:04,060 I can hardly wait. 1238 01:37:05,100 --> 01:37:09,560 Do you feel that your book is worth a human life? 1239 01:37:09,738 --> 01:37:13,765 - Well, it's certainly worth Dick's. - What about the other man? 1240 01:37:14,343 --> 01:37:17,437 His name is Perry. 1241 01:37:18,347 --> 01:37:21,339 I mean, it's just an intolerable position. 1242 01:37:22,584 --> 01:37:26,520 Because to get an ending for the book means an end for... 1243 01:37:35,564 --> 01:37:39,056 on death row, you may only write two letters a week. 1244 01:37:40,436 --> 01:37:43,428 Every week, for five years... 1245 01:37:45,708 --> 01:37:47,939 ...Perry wrote both letters to Truman. 1246 01:37:48,111 --> 01:37:51,410 Friend Truman, cold in Kansas today... 1247 01:37:51,681 --> 01:37:55,276 ...though not as frigid as I imagine it is in Switzerland. 1248 01:37:55,752 --> 01:37:57,379 How big are those Alps? 1249 01:37:57,554 --> 01:38:01,388 Friend Truman, do you know the song "Gold Mine in the Sky"? 1250 01:38:02,158 --> 01:38:03,785 It was Dad's favorite. 1251 01:38:05,161 --> 01:38:08,562 Maybe you could use your influence with the authorities in this shithole... 1252 01:38:08,732 --> 01:38:11,326 ... and get me a tape recorder so I could sing it for you. 1253 01:38:11,501 --> 01:38:13,469 Not much to say today. 1254 01:38:14,004 --> 01:38:15,631 Awful blue. 1255 01:38:16,773 --> 01:38:20,004 God, I miss you. Please write soon. 1256 01:38:20,176 --> 01:38:23,339 You can't imagine what it does to me when they bring the mail... 1257 01:38:23,513 --> 01:38:25,242 ... and there's something from you. 1258 01:38:25,415 --> 01:38:26,746 Friend Truman: 1259 01:38:27,817 --> 01:38:29,478 It's all over. 1260 01:38:30,520 --> 01:38:32,920 Our last appeal has been denied. 1261 01:38:33,089 --> 01:38:36,320 Dick and I are allowed to have a witness at the hanging. 1262 01:38:36,493 --> 01:38:39,587 We both pick you. 1263 01:38:39,796 --> 01:38:43,254 - You have to come with me. - I can't. 1264 01:38:43,433 --> 01:38:48,393 I'm getting desperate about my new book. It's not coming together. 1265 01:38:56,479 --> 01:38:58,914 Anyway, I thought this was what you wanted. 1266 01:38:59,083 --> 01:39:01,176 I know I said that... 1267 01:39:01,719 --> 01:39:03,812 ...but to see him killed? 1268 01:39:06,223 --> 01:39:08,214 It's too much. 1269 01:39:09,060 --> 01:39:11,426 - I don't suppose Jack would? - No. 1270 01:39:13,264 --> 01:39:14,993 He wouldn't anyway, but... 1271 01:39:15,733 --> 01:39:19,726 ...for some reason, he gets funny about Perry. 1272 01:39:21,338 --> 01:39:23,670 It's like he's jealous. 1273 01:39:28,846 --> 01:39:30,040 Truman... 1274 01:39:33,584 --> 01:39:35,108 ...are you and Perry? 1275 01:39:35,286 --> 01:39:37,083 Please, Nelle. 1276 01:39:39,090 --> 01:39:41,081 I'm begging you. 1277 01:39:43,928 --> 01:39:45,418 But I couldn't. 1278 01:39:46,597 --> 01:39:48,087 And I wouldn't. 1279 01:39:51,268 --> 01:39:54,635 I'm sorry, he can't take the call. 1280 01:39:57,641 --> 01:39:59,074 It was the boys again. 1281 01:39:59,477 --> 01:40:01,274 They want me to help... 1282 01:40:02,279 --> 01:40:03,769 ...but I can't help them. 1283 01:40:04,815 --> 01:40:08,217 Maybe they want you for comfort. 1284 01:40:12,924 --> 01:40:14,551 Rain is good. 1285 01:40:16,795 --> 01:40:19,389 I hope he apologizes. 1286 01:40:22,100 --> 01:40:24,830 That would really make him sympathetic. 1287 01:40:35,647 --> 01:40:38,639 Hey, Truman. Where you been? 1288 01:40:41,653 --> 01:40:43,678 I thought you were gonna spend the whole day with us. 1289 01:40:43,855 --> 01:40:48,792 I couldn't get here earlier. I was making calls on your behalf. 1290 01:40:53,198 --> 01:40:54,927 It's just so late now. 1291 01:40:55,100 --> 01:40:58,501 - Hickock, let's get ready. - We have some time. 1292 01:41:00,005 --> 01:41:02,200 I have something I want to tell you. 1293 01:41:03,375 --> 01:41:08,312 They're gonna ask if you have anything to say, and you must apologize. 1294 01:41:10,215 --> 01:41:16,711 - That won't bring them back. - No. It restores your humanity to you. 1295 01:41:33,272 --> 01:41:34,739 It's time. 1296 01:41:36,375 --> 01:41:39,572 Anyone saying goodbye needs to say it here. 1297 01:41:47,086 --> 01:41:48,485 Bye, Truman. 1298 01:41:49,622 --> 01:41:50,953 Thanks for it. 1299 01:42:14,614 --> 01:42:16,479 Did he say anything to you? 1300 01:42:18,884 --> 01:42:22,183 He said he loved me... 1301 01:42:22,655 --> 01:42:24,885 ...and he always had. 1302 01:43:09,736 --> 01:43:14,230 Richard Eugene Hickock. Do you have anything to say? 1303 01:43:18,078 --> 01:43:20,512 Just that I hold no hard feelings. 1304 01:43:22,082 --> 01:43:23,674 You people are... 1305 01:43:24,518 --> 01:43:28,181 ...sending me to a better world than this one ever was. 1306 01:43:52,213 --> 01:43:56,206 "The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. 1307 01:43:57,585 --> 01:44:00,884 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. 1308 01:44:01,055 --> 01:44:03,216 He restoreth my soul. 1309 01:44:03,791 --> 01:44:07,989 He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. 1310 01:44:09,163 --> 01:44:11,927 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death... 1311 01:44:13,468 --> 01:44:17,427 ...I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me." 1312 01:44:43,698 --> 01:44:44,926 Not dead yet. 1313 01:45:13,362 --> 01:45:14,795 I still hear breathing. 1314 01:45:47,663 --> 01:45:48,857 Okay, he's ready. 1315 01:46:37,146 --> 01:46:41,378 Perry Edward Smith. Do you have anything to say? 1316 01:46:44,554 --> 01:46:46,044 Friend Truman... 1317 01:46:47,423 --> 01:46:51,120 ... I don't know what you did, but the tape recorder arrived. 1318 01:46:53,830 --> 01:46:59,894 There's a gold mine in the sky Far away 1319 01:47:01,804 --> 01:47:08,175 We will find it You and I, some sweet day 1320 01:47:09,812 --> 01:47:15,718 There'll be a clover just for you Down the line 1321 01:47:17,755 --> 01:47:23,990 Where the skies are always blue Pal of mine 1322 01:47:26,430 --> 01:47:29,058 Far away 1323 01:47:31,602 --> 01:47:34,002 Far away 1324 01:47:35,673 --> 01:47:42,169 We will find that long lost gold mine Some sweet day 1325 01:47:43,681 --> 01:47:49,415 And we'll say hello to friends Who said goodbye 1326 01:47:51,422 --> 01:47:56,052 When we find that long lost gold mine 1327 01:47:57,161 --> 01:47:58,924 In the... 1328 01:48:00,764 --> 01:48:01,753 ... sky 1329 01:48:02,333 --> 01:48:06,429 "The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. 1330 01:48:06,737 --> 01:48:07,726 He maketh me..." 1331 01:48:19,083 --> 01:48:21,142 Was he able to speak? 1332 01:48:21,318 --> 01:48:22,808 Yes, he spoke. 1333 01:48:23,555 --> 01:48:24,920 What did he say? 1334 01:48:25,991 --> 01:48:27,891 Smith did not speak. 1335 01:48:28,059 --> 01:48:30,425 He apologized. 1336 01:48:30,895 --> 01:48:32,920 Just chewed his gum. 1337 01:48:34,399 --> 01:48:38,665 You saw those two men hanged. It must be... 1338 01:48:41,272 --> 01:48:43,206 Isn't it painful for you? 1339 01:48:48,213 --> 01:48:52,206 Babaling, life is painful. 1340 01:48:52,651 --> 01:48:56,951 It's the one experience that unites rich and poor. 1341 01:48:57,956 --> 01:49:01,915 I suppose I'm able to endure it... 1342 01:49:02,093 --> 01:49:06,393 ...because I can alchemize what wounds me into art. 1343 01:49:07,399 --> 01:49:08,457 Yes, but... 1344 01:49:12,737 --> 01:49:14,637 ...at what cost? 1345 01:49:16,775 --> 01:49:21,610 It made him the most famous author in America and very, very rich. 1346 01:49:21,780 --> 01:49:24,510 He moved to Manhattan where, oddly... 1347 01:49:24,683 --> 01:49:29,450 ...he had a very good view of the place he had left. 1348 01:49:40,533 --> 01:49:43,502 Who ever knows what our hearts will want? 1349 01:49:44,837 --> 01:49:46,099 Who can... 1350 01:49:48,474 --> 01:49:50,772 ...defend themselves from it? 1351 01:49:57,783 --> 01:50:00,445 Seeing what's happened to him since... 1352 01:50:00,720 --> 01:50:05,180 ...well, despite the bravado that only appears to be confidence... 1353 01:50:06,692 --> 01:50:12,096 ...I have come to feel with great heart-sickness... 1354 01:50:15,768 --> 01:50:19,704 ...that there were three deaths on the gallows that night. 1355 01:50:20,406 --> 01:50:22,840 He never wrote anything big again. 1356 01:50:23,175 --> 01:50:27,339 Just collections, fragments pulled together. 1357 01:50:28,514 --> 01:50:33,884 God knows he didn't have to write, not after all that money on In Cold Blood. 1358 01:50:35,521 --> 01:50:37,113 It's funny. 1359 01:50:37,356 --> 01:50:41,122 It made him, and it ruined him. 1360 01:50:41,560 --> 01:50:43,187 You know, in his will... 1361 01:50:45,298 --> 01:50:47,823 ...Perry left everything to Truman. 1362 01:50:55,642 --> 01:51:00,136 America is not a country where the small gesture goes noticed. 1363 01:51:01,248 --> 01:51:04,183 We're not a country like France... 1364 01:51:05,185 --> 01:51:09,519 ...where charm, something light or effervescent... 1365 01:51:09,689 --> 01:51:11,384 ...can survive. 1366 01:51:12,392 --> 01:51:14,485 We want everything you have... 1367 01:51:14,661 --> 01:51:18,153 ...and we want it as fast as you can turn it out. 1368 01:52:01,409 --> 01:52:02,808 Friend TRUMAN 1369 01:52:08,983 --> 01:52:11,975 I read an interview with Frank Sinatra... 1370 01:52:12,153 --> 01:52:14,986 ...in which he said about Judy Garland: 1371 01:52:15,156 --> 01:52:19,889 "Every time she sings, she dies a little." 1372 01:52:21,863 --> 01:52:24,297 That's how much she gave. 1373 01:52:27,702 --> 01:52:30,000 It's true for writers, too... 1374 01:52:31,272 --> 01:52:34,105 ...who hope to create something lasting. 1375 01:52:35,643 --> 01:52:38,339 They die a little getting it right. 1376 01:52:40,147 --> 01:52:42,775 And then the book comes out... 1377 01:52:44,785 --> 01:52:46,685 ... and there's a dinner. 1378 01:52:47,889 --> 01:52:50,221 Maybe they give you a prize. 1379 01:52:51,859 --> 01:52:55,989 And then comes the inevitable and very American question: 1380 01:52:56,163 --> 01:52:57,790 What's next? 1381 01:53:02,069 --> 01:53:04,401 But the next thing can be... 1382 01:53:08,143 --> 01:53:09,974 ...so hard... 1383 01:53:13,515 --> 01:53:16,245 ...because now you know what it demands. 1384 01:53:18,587 --> 01:53:20,077 Hi, Nelle. 1385 01:53:20,255 --> 01:53:24,487 I just began my novel and I had such a good morning writing... 1386 01:53:24,660 --> 01:53:26,719 ...that I want to celebrate. 1387 01:53:26,895 --> 01:53:28,829 Want to come to lunch? 1388 01:53:31,900 --> 01:53:35,267 No, honey, I don't care where. 1389 01:53:38,106 --> 01:53:41,405 Just someplace pretty where we can have fun... 1390 01:53:42,077 --> 01:53:44,068 ...and be ourselves. 1391 01:58:29,134 --> 01:58:31,125 [ENGLISH] synced by boso