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(Male voice) I`m very
honored to introduce

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our guest lecturer today.

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He graduated from here
about 15 years ago.

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He`s gone on to a fabulous career.

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I can `t think of a single
person who `s more qualified

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or more adept at the final procedures

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you`ve been studying lately.

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Now you`ve learned the science,

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now`s your chance to learn the art.

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Students, Mr. Bernie Tiede.

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Thank you, Professor.

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Thank you.

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It`s always an honor to be asked back

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and I do it gladly because I feel..

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if even one thing I
say or demonstrate today

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helps you in any way as
you embark on your careers,

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then everyone will have benefited.

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You, those who are grieving,

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and the deceased.

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The nails have to be clipped,

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shaped and brought back to life.

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And you must cast the
nails to the person.

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You wouldn`t want a mechanic

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to have the nails of a flight attendant.

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Would you?

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[blows quickly]

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[machine buzzing]

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It is very important to
remove any unwanted nasal,

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ear, or facial hair.

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We can never be too vigilant

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in the Iookout for that
one stray rogue hair.

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[blows]

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The eyes are often a minor problem

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because they usually want to stay open.

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It`s almost Iike they want one
Iast Iook at this miraculous world.

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But with some Super GIue..

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a Iittle dab will do you..

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and it`s no more peeking.

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Even though the features have
been set during the embalming,

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you have to reassess and readjust

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because of continuing
emaciation and dehydration.

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Perfect expression of the mouth

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would be relaxed, natural,
with a Iittle bit of a smile.

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Can`t have him Iooking
unhappy to be there.

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And we must always be on guard
for the mischievous lip drift.

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Even the slightest hint
of teeth can be disastrous.

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You cannot have grief
tragically become a comedy.

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Then, after a foundation

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mixed with massage cream
to prevent dehydration,

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even out coloration,

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then apply highlights.

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Do not over-cosmetize.

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Most of those who service the
deceased apply far too much blush.

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Just a note to always remember:

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too much color does not
make one Iook more alive.

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The last detail to be managed

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is the deceased`s body position.

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Left hand over the right,

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over the umbilicus,
in an attitude of ease,

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of repose, of retirement.

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The position of the
head is oh so important.

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Neither star gazing

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nor navel gazing,

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but perfectly centered,

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turned ever so slightly to the right..

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in greeting.

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He`s now been cosmetized,

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he`s ready to be dressed,

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and casketed.

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[lively music]

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(sings with male voice)
? Love Iifted me!?

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? Love Iifted me!?

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? Looove Iifted meee!?

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? I was sinking Deep in sin?

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? Off on the peaceful shore?

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? Buried deeply staying within?

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? sinking to rise no more?

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? But the master Of the sea?

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? Heard my despairing cry?

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Bernie was a very charismatic man.

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A Ioving person.

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And he had the ability to
make the world seem kind.

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? Love Iooked at me?

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? When nothing else Could help?

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? Love lifted me?

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? Love Iifted me?

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Real good with people,
a real people person,

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always had his hand
out, ready to shake it,

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never met a stranger, good with names,

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good with questions.

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He could remember if your
daughter was at Texas,

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and your son was at A&M.

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He`d remember that and he`d ask
you questions about those kids.

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Just made you feel real
good about yourself.

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? When nothing else could help now?

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? Love Iifted me?

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? Souls in danger Look above?

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? Jesus completely saves?

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? He will Iift you By his Iove?

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? Out of the angry ways?

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? He`s the master of the sea?

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If the people in Carthage were

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to make a Iist of those people

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that they thought would get to heaven,

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I am sure that Bernie would be
right at the top of the Iist.

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? Love Iifted me?

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? When nothing EIse could help?

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? Now Iove Iifted me?

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His personality was,
just, Iike, magnetic, okay?

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So people were drawn
to him all the time.

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And because of that, that personality,

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before too Iong, he was the
most popular man in Carthage.

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? Love Iifted me Love Iifted me?

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? Looove Iifted meee?

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[background country music]

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[background friendly chatter]

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(male voice) Carthage is in east Texas.

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And it`s totally different
from the rest of Texas,

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which could be five
different states, actually.

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You got your west T exas out
there with a bunch of flat ranches.

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Up north, you got them Dallas
snobs with their Mercedes,

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and then you got Houston,
the carcinogenic coast

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all the way up to Louisiana.

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Then down south, San Antonio, uh,

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that`s where the Tex meets the Mex.

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Like the food.

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And then in central Texas,

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you got the People`s Republic of Austin

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with a bunch of hairy-Iegged
women and Iiberal fruitcakes.

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Of course, I Ieft out the panhandle,
and a Iot of people do, but..

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Carthage..this is
where the south begins.

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This is Iife behind the pine curtain.

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And, and, and truth be
known, it`s a good place.

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Carthage has such a good reputation

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that it`s Iisted in The Best
small Towns of America, volume Two

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as the best small town in T exas.

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That`s right. Page 157.

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Oh, hell, most people Iive in
Carthage because they were born here.

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Carthage sits on what was once one of
the biggest gas fields in the world.

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Back in the gas boom of the 40s and 50s,

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a lot of people got rich around here.

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(male voice) Well, as I recall,

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we were gonna get a lot
of the older people in town

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Ieaving for the sweet hereafter,

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and we got a Iittle
backed up in the cold room,

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um..frankly, I was
Iooking for some help.

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Bernie must`ve seen an ad or something.

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He called from Louisiana and
I hired him over the phone,

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not fully knowing what to expect.

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These are our viewing rooms.

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Oh, Iook at that, you`ve
got these partitions.

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That`s so nice.

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So, you got your associate`s
degree in Mortuary Science at State?

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Yes, sir.

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PIay any ball over there?

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Uh, no no, sir.

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I wanted to concentrate on my studies,

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as much as I Ioved football and whatnot.

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Now here`s our sanctuary.

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It`II seat one twenty five.

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Look at these green
benches. I Iove them.

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Yeah, we changed those.

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We had them normal brown for so Iong

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and I was a Iittle worried
about this green. I don`t know.

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People don`t complain.

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I..I don`t either, I
think they`re great.

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Oh, I hit the jackpot with that guy.

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He`s the most qualified
young man I ever met.

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He was excellent at removals,

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an artist in the embalming room,

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could fix hair like
nobody in the business.

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Waited well on the families
in the morning parlor,

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could sing like a bird.

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He ran a funeral like a professional,

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any aspect of the funeral business:

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eulogizing, scripture reading,

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singing..man, he could do it.

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(male voice) But most of all,

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we `re gonna remember
Fred as our friend.

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Our..really..close..friend.

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[murmuring]

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[soft clear voice]? Amazing grace?

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? How sweet the sound?

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? That saved a wretch?

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? Like me?

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[singing continues in background]

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I`II walk you to your car.

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You poor thing.

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This is so hard.

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It`s just so hard.

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You`re very brave.

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Here now.

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(female voice) Oh, honey,

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he was a magician.

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He made all of us just Iook beautiful.

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I mean, he could make your
wrinkles all just go away,

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and he would, if, if you had a overbite,

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he`d fix it so it wouldn`t
be so sticky outie.

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And he would, um.. take a
bouquet of small white roses

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and put it in your hand.

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I mean, he just made
everybody Iook so beautiful.

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Except too bad you were dead.

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It seemed Iike no matter
what happened to us,

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whether it was car
wrecks or heart attacks

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or household poisons, or guns Ieft
Iocked and Ioaded around the house,

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or choking on a Iittle piece of meat,

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in the end, he always made us Iook good.

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Oh, you name the song, he`d sing it.

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If country folks came in requesting
an old gospel, he`d sing it.

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Or trailer trash came in
requesting Loretta Lynn,

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he`d sing that, too.

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But as great as Bernie was
at performing a service,

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he was even better at sales.

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If you pardon my reach, Mrs. Thompson,

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this is a memory drawer.

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It wasn`t bullshit, he really believed

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that all those little
touches were necessary.

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He even came up with this idea:

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for 150 extra..

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``Oh, that I had wings Iike a dove,

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I would fly away and be at rest.``

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At this moment, as the casket
descends into the ground,

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we now release a white dove

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symbolizing Mr. Callahan`s soul..

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passing on to the next world,

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to the mystery of the great beyond.

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[flat voice] Yes, I agree,

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that is a Iot of money
to put down in advance.

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But there`s a right way and
a wrong way to approach this.

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It was his idea to put up
more crosses on the wall

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and change the lighting,

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make it feel more like a
church or a sacred place,

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Iess like a business or an office.

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Were you thinking
interment or cremation?

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I beg your pardon?

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He means buried or burned.

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Buried. We already have the plots.

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I am so happy for you.

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Can I tell you, I am
not fond of cremations.

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I just don`t Iike the idea
of someone spending eternity

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in something the size
of a motel ice bucket.

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I`d just soon drop you in a ditch

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by the side of the road.

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Hey.

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I want to keep it simple.

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Yeah, this is..this is fine.

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- I see.
- Yeah.

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Now, these composite wood with
cloth we sell mostly to the county

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to bury the unclaimed, the indigent,

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and also no warranty, of course.

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Warranty?

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Oh, with our better caskets,

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we, uh, guarantee that your remains

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will be untouched by
rainwater, pesky insects,

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burrowing animals searching for food..

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00:13:32,978 --> 00:13:35,242
AIso, now tall are you, Mr. Eccles?

257
00:13:35,314 --> 00:13:36,338
About 6`2``.

258
00:13:36,415 --> 00:13:38,246
Oh, dear.

259
00:13:38,317 --> 00:13:40,751
These economy boxes are not very Iarge.

260
00:13:40,820 --> 00:13:43,414
We may have to make a Ieg
adjustment to get a proper fit.

261
00:13:43,489 --> 00:13:45,354
Leg adjustment?

262
00:13:45,424 --> 00:13:47,255
Well, not necessarily break
the Iegs but definitely

263
00:13:47,326 --> 00:13:49,089
- bend the feet..
- No! No,

264
00:13:49,161 --> 00:13:50,822
I..I won`t have it.

265
00:13:50,896 --> 00:13:53,763
Then may I suggest..

266
00:13:53,833 --> 00:13:55,266
the Corinthian.

267
00:13:55,334 --> 00:14:00,067
? Just as I am?

268
00:14:00,172 --> 00:14:02,197
? Without one?

269
00:14:02,241 --> 00:14:04,004
I`m pretty sure the first
time Bernie met Mrs. Nugent

270
00:14:04,076 --> 00:14:06,374
was at the time of Mr. Nugent`s funeral.

271
00:14:06,445 --> 00:14:10,438
? Was shared for me?

272
00:14:10,516 --> 00:14:14,714
? And that thou be come?

273
00:14:14,787 --> 00:14:16,618
Her husband, Dwayne,

274
00:14:16,689 --> 00:14:20,420
he was just a tough old typical old man.

275
00:14:20,492 --> 00:14:25,225
And he Iiked to do
business just a handshake,

276
00:14:25,297 --> 00:14:26,525
He would say things like..

277
00:14:26,599 --> 00:14:28,863
I`II
guaran-damn-tee yah..

278
00:14:28,934 --> 00:14:33,303
He was some kind of exploration
guy with a big oil company

279
00:14:33,372 --> 00:14:36,136
and he made a whole Iot
of money back in the 60s.

280
00:14:36,208 --> 00:14:38,369
He was too tight to spend any of it

281
00:14:38,444 --> 00:14:41,072
but he Iiked to invest his
money in everything he could.

282
00:14:41,146 --> 00:14:46,209
? T o thee who`s blood can cleanse?

283
00:14:46,285 --> 00:14:50,153
? Each spot o` Iand?

284
00:14:50,222 --> 00:14:53,658
As a matter of fact, he even
bought a bank here in town.

285
00:14:53,726 --> 00:14:57,162
I believe it was `87,
he bought the bank.

286
00:14:57,229 --> 00:15:00,323
He run that sucker with a hard fist.

287
00:15:00,432 --> 00:15:02,798
Just, I mean, he was kinda..

288
00:15:02,835 --> 00:15:05,269
abrupt, and the way..

289
00:15:05,337 --> 00:15:06,929
I appreciate it.

290
00:15:07,006 --> 00:15:09,133
the way he done business and stuff.

291
00:15:09,208 --> 00:15:11,335
Of course, then after he
died, well, then she took over

292
00:15:11,410 --> 00:15:16,006
and she started having
a position that he had

293
00:15:16,081 --> 00:15:18,174
and if it was said that he was kinda

294
00:15:18,250 --> 00:15:20,684
disliked in the way he did business,

295
00:15:20,753 --> 00:15:23,187
you`d have to say that
she was literally hated,

296
00:15:23,255 --> 00:15:24,916
`cause that old heifer,

297
00:15:24,990 --> 00:15:27,982
she turned down Ioans just for a hobby.

298
00:15:28,060 --> 00:15:33,862
She was just a mean old hateful bitch.

299
00:15:33,933 --> 00:15:37,528
Hey. There`s just no
other way to put it.

300
00:15:37,603 --> 00:15:39,195
She wasn`t friendly.

301
00:15:39,271 --> 00:15:41,330
She..she really wasn`t,

302
00:15:41,407 --> 00:15:44,808
and she probably.. there
are people in town, honey,

303
00:15:44,877 --> 00:15:48,210
that woulda shot her for
five dollars, ya know?

304
00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,214
I mean, when you Iive in a small town,

305
00:15:50,282 --> 00:15:52,546
you`ve got to be friendly
and nice to folks.

306
00:15:52,618 --> 00:15:55,348
She would chew your ass
at the drop of a hat.

307
00:15:55,421 --> 00:15:57,446
I mean, she`d rip you a brand new

308
00:15:57,556 --> 00:16:01,185
three bedroom two bath double
wide asshole. No problem.

309
00:16:01,226 --> 00:16:03,786
In the fourteenth chapter
of the book of John,

310
00:16:03,862 --> 00:16:06,660
Jesus said, ``Let not
your heart be troubled.``

311
00:16:06,732 --> 00:16:09,223
Well, I heard that she hadn`t talked

312
00:16:09,301 --> 00:16:11,826
to her sisters in over 20 years

313
00:16:11,904 --> 00:16:13,531
but when the mother died,

314
00:16:13,605 --> 00:16:15,573
she was right in there fightin ` them

315
00:16:15,641 --> 00:16:16,903
over quilts and chairs.

316
00:16:16,976 --> 00:16:19,376
Can you believe that?

317
00:16:19,445 --> 00:16:23,347
And one of the sisters even wanted
to donate land to the church,

318
00:16:23,415 --> 00:16:25,474
but she interfered

319
00:16:25,551 --> 00:16:27,519
because she didn `t want
the church to have it.

320
00:16:27,586 --> 00:16:29,577
She didn`t Iike that pastor.

321
00:16:29,655 --> 00:16:33,091
He wore Bermuda shorts on his day off.

322
00:16:33,158 --> 00:16:34,887
(pastor) Friends and Ioved ones..

323
00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,053
Everybody in town

324
00:16:37,129 --> 00:16:39,097
knew that Mr. and Mrs.
Nugent weren`t exactly friends

325
00:16:39,164 --> 00:16:41,428
with their son Dwayne
Junior and his family.

326
00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:44,060
He was a doctor out in Middleton,
almost never came to visit.

327
00:16:44,136 --> 00:16:46,502
One of his daughters had
actually sued her grandparents

328
00:16:46,572 --> 00:16:48,836
trying to get at the
money in that trust.

329
00:16:48,907 --> 00:16:52,104
That made her so mad she never
spoke to any of them again.

330
00:16:52,177 --> 00:16:54,077
Let us pray.

331
00:16:54,146 --> 00:16:58,549
Marjorie Nugent. she was..

332
00:16:58,650 --> 00:17:03,053
not a very nice Iady
and her nose was so high

333
00:17:03,088 --> 00:17:05,249
she`d drown in a rainstorm.

334
00:17:05,324 --> 00:17:08,919
Mrs. Margy, she was the kind of person

335
00:17:08,994 --> 00:17:11,895
that I believe she was born old.

336
00:17:11,964 --> 00:17:14,023
She was just born with this prune face.

337
00:17:14,099 --> 00:17:16,260
That`s pretty much the
impression people got from her.

338
00:17:16,335 --> 00:17:19,133
I got a buddy of mine, Louie.

339
00:17:19,204 --> 00:17:22,230
He`s a decent fellow I work for.

340
00:17:22,307 --> 00:17:24,639
Mrs. Nugent took a
broom to his ass one day.

341
00:17:24,710 --> 00:17:26,905
Would you Iike me to get
up and do the back in there?

342
00:17:26,979 --> 00:17:29,140
- Get out.
- Ooh.

343
00:17:29,214 --> 00:17:32,308
[inaudible]

344
00:17:32,384 --> 00:17:33,544
Oh.

345
00:17:36,889 --> 00:17:38,789
- Beautiful service.
- Thank you.

346
00:17:38,857 --> 00:17:41,917
- I`II see you on Sunday.
- Thank you very much.

347
00:17:41,994 --> 00:17:44,656
[deep sigh]

348
00:17:44,730 --> 00:17:46,789
He was great
with the D-L-O-Ls.

349
00:17:46,865 --> 00:17:49,390
That`s what we all called the
``dear little old ladies. ``

350
00:17:49,468 --> 00:17:51,993
All the widows in town
had crushes on Bernie.

351
00:17:52,071 --> 00:17:54,904
Just thought I `d bring you a hankie.

352
00:17:54,973 --> 00:17:56,736
Oh, yeah, old Bernie.

353
00:17:56,809 --> 00:17:59,573
H e Ioved to hug and
kiss on those older women.

354
00:17:59,678 --> 00:18:05,207
At his age now, they were Iucky
to get the time of day from him.

355
00:18:09,254 --> 00:18:14,419
[deep sigh]

356
00:18:14,493 --> 00:18:16,154
Hi.

357
00:18:16,228 --> 00:18:18,856
Hi, Mrs. Nugent, I just, uh..

358
00:18:18,931 --> 00:18:20,762
wanted you to know I
was thinking about you.

359
00:18:20,833 --> 00:18:23,927
- These times can be hard.
- Oh, thank you.

360
00:18:24,002 --> 00:18:25,594
Okay.

361
00:18:25,671 --> 00:18:27,195
I never asked him to do this and

362
00:18:27,272 --> 00:18:29,331
he wasn`t getting paid to do it,

363
00:18:29,408 --> 00:18:31,137
but he would always stop
by and check on the widows

364
00:18:31,210 --> 00:18:32,871
after he `d done their
husbands ` funerals.

365
00:18:32,945 --> 00:18:34,640
He just really cared about them.

366
00:18:34,713 --> 00:18:36,943
I mean, that guy was just a sweet guy,

367
00:18:37,015 --> 00:18:38,846
and they just Ioved him to death.

368
00:18:46,725 --> 00:18:47,623
[knocking]

369
00:18:48,894 --> 00:18:50,691
Room service.

370
00:18:50,762 --> 00:18:53,026
Hi, l`m just dropping
by again, Mrs. Nugent,

371
00:18:53,098 --> 00:18:54,292
to pay my respects.

372
00:18:54,366 --> 00:18:56,129
I brought you some soaps

373
00:18:56,201 --> 00:18:57,964
and a Iittle bubble bath
to soothe you in the tub,

374
00:18:58,070 --> 00:19:00,595
and some chocolate cupcakes
for a Iate night snack.

375
00:19:00,639 --> 00:19:02,129
Come in.

376
00:19:02,207 --> 00:19:04,801
Oh! That..would be my pleasure.

377
00:19:04,877 --> 00:19:07,505
[clears throat]

378
00:19:07,579 --> 00:19:08,841
[slurps]

379
00:19:08,914 --> 00:19:10,814
[classical music playing]

380
00:19:10,883 --> 00:19:12,578
In high school I wanted
to be an evangelist

381
00:19:12,651 --> 00:19:15,415
to save the souls of my fellow students.

382
00:19:15,487 --> 00:19:17,887
A Iot of them were
starting to drink and smoke

383
00:19:17,956 --> 00:19:20,151
and ride motorcycles

384
00:19:20,225 --> 00:19:23,058
and have premarital sexual
experiences and all that.

385
00:19:23,128 --> 00:19:24,652
- Oh, yes please!
- Here you go, Bernie.

386
00:19:24,730 --> 00:19:27,756
Thank you, Esmeralda.

387
00:19:27,833 --> 00:19:29,357
When.

388
00:19:29,434 --> 00:19:33,029
Miss Marjorie?

389
00:19:33,105 --> 00:19:35,539
[sigh]

390
00:19:35,607 --> 00:19:37,074
One time I got four teenagers

391
00:19:37,142 --> 00:19:39,736
to re-dedicate their Iives to Jesus,

392
00:19:39,811 --> 00:19:43,577
but eventually I realized I was meant
for other equally important things.

393
00:19:43,649 --> 00:19:45,412
Oh, please, Bernie,

394
00:19:45,484 --> 00:19:48,078
touching all those cold
bloated bodies. PIease!

395
00:19:48,153 --> 00:19:51,247
Don`t you think you were
meant to do something more?

396
00:19:51,323 --> 00:19:53,018
No, no, no, no, Mrs. Nugent.

397
00:19:53,091 --> 00:19:55,116
It isn`t bad at all.

398
00:19:55,194 --> 00:19:57,685
Their souls are already with the
Lord by the time I`m involved.

399
00:19:57,763 --> 00:19:59,458
It`s just my way to serve

400
00:19:59,531 --> 00:20:00,896
and show respect for the lives they led

401
00:20:00,966 --> 00:20:02,126
and comfort all the Ioved ones

402
00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:03,259
that they Ieave behind.

403
00:20:03,335 --> 00:20:07,465
[deep sigh] Well.

404
00:20:07,539 --> 00:20:10,770
And some day, if I`m Iucky,
many many years from now,

405
00:20:10,842 --> 00:20:13,811
I will give you such
a beautiful funeral..

406
00:20:13,879 --> 00:20:16,973
with all the roses in East Texas.

407
00:20:17,049 --> 00:20:21,486
I know it`II be the event
of the season in Carthage.

408
00:20:21,553 --> 00:20:23,885
You know, I think
that Bernie was the one

409
00:20:23,956 --> 00:20:29,485
that got Marjorie back to
church after her husband died.

410
00:20:29,561 --> 00:20:31,324
(female voice) Well,
I know the Bible says

411
00:20:31,396 --> 00:20:33,887
Jesus turned water into wine,

412
00:20:33,966 --> 00:20:37,299
but it didn`t say Iiquor store wine.

413
00:20:37,369 --> 00:20:41,100
It had to have been non-alcoholic wine,

414
00:20:41,173 --> 00:20:44,006
because it didn`t have time to ferment.

415
00:20:44,076 --> 00:20:46,340
If Jesus could walk on the water,

416
00:20:46,411 --> 00:20:49,778
he could make any kind
of wine he wanted to.

417
00:20:49,848 --> 00:20:51,281
Fermented or not.

418
00:20:51,350 --> 00:20:53,011
Right on the spot.

419
00:20:53,085 --> 00:20:54,177
(male voice) Morning, ladies.

420
00:20:54,253 --> 00:20:56,585
Sorry to interrupt.

421
00:20:56,655 --> 00:20:59,021
Mrs. Marjorie, it is so good to
have you with us this morning.

422
00:20:59,124 --> 00:21:01,718
I just want to put a
bug in your ear now.

423
00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,160
Many of you know we`re
hoping to start construction

424
00:21:04,229 --> 00:21:06,163
on our new prayer wing soon.

425
00:21:06,231 --> 00:21:08,199
[several] Mmm.

426
00:21:08,267 --> 00:21:09,859
Well, l`m hoping l can
count on a few of you

427
00:21:09,935 --> 00:21:12,369
to join the fundraising committee. Okay?

428
00:21:12,437 --> 00:21:14,302
Think about it, now. God bless you.

429
00:21:14,373 --> 00:21:18,833
[all singing]? This is
my story This is my song?

430
00:21:18,910 --> 00:21:23,176
? Praising my savior AII the day Iong?

431
00:21:23,248 --> 00:21:27,480
? This is my story This is my song?

432
00:21:27,552 --> 00:21:31,716
? Praising my savior AII the day Iong?

433
00:21:31,790 --> 00:21:36,727
[sings alone]? Perfect
submission Perfect delight?

434
00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:41,061
? Visions of rapture
Now burst on my sight?

435
00:21:41,133 --> 00:21:45,399
? Angels descending Bring from above?

436
00:21:45,470 --> 00:21:49,531
? Echoes of mercy Whispers of love?

437
00:21:49,608 --> 00:21:53,840
? This is my story This is my song?

438
00:21:53,912 --> 00:21:58,212
? Praising my savior AII the day Iong?

439
00:21:58,317 --> 00:22:01,445
(Mrs. Nugent) Uh-uh,
no, we `ll take my car.

440
00:22:01,486 --> 00:22:03,249
No, I insist.

441
00:22:03,322 --> 00:22:06,416
Don`t be silly, Bernie.

442
00:22:06,491 --> 00:22:08,152
Good, I`II see you Saturday afternoon.

443
00:22:08,226 --> 00:22:09,921
I`m..I`m Iooking forward to it, too.

444
00:22:09,995 --> 00:22:14,489
Okay, Mrs. Nugent, bye.

445
00:22:17,803 --> 00:22:21,204
Oh, so sweet.

446
00:22:21,273 --> 00:22:25,039
That was Bernie Tiede, the
assistant funeral director.

447
00:22:25,110 --> 00:22:28,204
He`s very sweet and very nice to me.

448
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:32,944
Can`t think of anyone who`s
been that nice to me in 50 years.

449
00:22:33,018 --> 00:22:34,952
Now, you!

450
00:22:35,020 --> 00:22:36,612
You`ve got two minutes to
explain these accounts to me.

451
00:22:36,688 --> 00:22:38,349
Or three minutes from now

452
00:22:38,423 --> 00:22:40,288
I just might get myself
another stockbroker.

453
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,589
I can explain everything, Miss Marjorie.

454
00:22:42,661 --> 00:22:44,720
It`s a very simple case of them
changing their accounting statements.

455
00:22:44,796 --> 00:22:48,027
They changed their
formatting, it`s re-formatted..

456
00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:49,761
in a different format.

457
00:22:49,835 --> 00:22:52,065
Hey, listen.

458
00:22:52,137 --> 00:22:55,072
I couldn`t help but hear
the end of that conversation.

459
00:22:55,140 --> 00:22:57,074
I gotta tell you, Bernie,

460
00:22:57,142 --> 00:22:58,734
you have got to be about
the bravest man in this town.

461
00:22:58,844 --> 00:23:01,142
She isn`t all that
mean Iike everyone says.

462
00:23:01,179 --> 00:23:02,646
Now you sure about that?

463
00:23:02,714 --> 00:23:04,477
Well, she doesn`t have anyone, Don.

464
00:23:04,549 --> 00:23:07,484
She`s a very Ionely
person. She needs someone.

465
00:23:07,552 --> 00:23:09,417
I`ve asked her to
accompany me this Saturday

466
00:23:09,488 --> 00:23:11,979
to the Van CIyburn Piano
Competition in Fort Worth.

467
00:23:12,057 --> 00:23:14,321
Well, have fun.

468
00:23:14,393 --> 00:23:16,793
Ain`t Iike she`s the
richest widow in town.

469
00:23:16,862 --> 00:23:18,762
Hell, maybe she`II
even pay for everything.

470
00:23:18,830 --> 00:23:20,923
- Don!
- Hey..

471
00:23:20,999 --> 00:23:23,661
And if she does offer
to pay for everything,

472
00:23:23,735 --> 00:23:26,465
order up a couple of them
bottles of Dom Perignon.

473
00:23:26,538 --> 00:23:28,005
You get her Iiquored up,

474
00:23:28,073 --> 00:23:29,097
[whispering] you might get Iucky.

475
00:23:29,174 --> 00:23:31,472
No, Don!

476
00:23:31,543 --> 00:23:34,774
He sincerely believed that..

477
00:23:34,846 --> 00:23:38,145
it was better to give than to receive.

478
00:23:38,216 --> 00:23:40,309
Well, Bernie had a problem with money.

479
00:23:40,385 --> 00:23:43,650
He was generous. some
folks say overly generous.

480
00:23:43,722 --> 00:23:46,247
What he was was a buy-aholic.

481
00:23:46,324 --> 00:23:48,849
And, uh..hell, he `d walk into a store,

482
00:23:48,927 --> 00:23:51,361
seen something he
Iiked, he`d buy the store

483
00:23:51,430 --> 00:23:53,523
out of every goddamn item he wanted

484
00:23:53,598 --> 00:23:55,031
and give the shit away.

485
00:23:55,100 --> 00:23:56,863
And that`s crazy.

486
00:23:56,935 --> 00:23:58,698
But that Bernie, he Iiked
to make people smile.

487
00:23:58,804 --> 00:24:00,396
He wanted friends.

488
00:24:00,439 --> 00:24:02,031
Acceptance, I guess,
is what you call it.

489
00:24:02,107 --> 00:24:04,769
And Bernie could do just about anything.

490
00:24:04,843 --> 00:24:08,301
I mean, he could hang
wallpaper in people`s houses,

491
00:24:08,380 --> 00:24:10,974
and I`ve never seen any man do this,

492
00:24:11,049 --> 00:24:13,313
but he could make curtains for people

493
00:24:13,385 --> 00:24:15,512
and he was the head honcho

494
00:24:15,587 --> 00:24:17,612
for the Chamber of Commerce

495
00:24:17,689 --> 00:24:19,782
Christmas decorating committee.

496
00:24:19,858 --> 00:24:22,622
That`s a big thing in
Carthage, too, a big thing.

497
00:24:22,694 --> 00:24:24,457
Bernie was really smart.

498
00:24:24,529 --> 00:24:27,123
H e helped people do their
tax returns, you know,

499
00:24:27,199 --> 00:24:29,030
financial counseling..

500
00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:30,965
Anything that you pay for on the job

501
00:24:31,036 --> 00:24:33,129
that the company, the oil company

502
00:24:33,205 --> 00:24:35,298
doesn`t reimburse you for,
that`s a tax deduction.

503
00:24:35,373 --> 00:24:38,399
So, for instance, Toby,
these work coveralls,

504
00:24:38,477 --> 00:24:39,910
did the company provide you with these?

505
00:24:39,978 --> 00:24:41,639
No, we got to buy our own.

506
00:24:41,713 --> 00:24:44,181
Bingo. That is a tax deduction.

507
00:24:44,249 --> 00:24:46,080
And how about your Iunch buckets

508
00:24:46,151 --> 00:24:47,709
and your steel toe workboots,
they give you those?

509
00:24:47,786 --> 00:24:49,754
- Why, hell no.
- That`s what I thought.

510
00:24:49,821 --> 00:24:51,413
- You kidding
me? - Uh-uh.

511
00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:53,253
That`s tax deduction
number two and three.

512
00:24:53,325 --> 00:24:55,350
(male voice) Thank
you, sheriff Huckabee.

513
00:24:55,427 --> 00:24:57,725
You`re listening to KGAs,
the heartbeat of East Texas.

514
00:24:57,829 --> 00:25:00,263
Now before we get to the
school cafeteria menu,

515
00:25:00,298 --> 00:25:02,892
and the wedding
anniversaries for the week,

516
00:25:02,968 --> 00:25:06,404
here`s Bernie Tiede from
Leggett Funeral Home.

517
00:25:06,471 --> 00:25:08,496
Thank you, Jerry.

518
00:25:08,573 --> 00:25:10,336
As some of you are already aware,

519
00:25:10,408 --> 00:25:12,273
Mr. Harvey Gunnolds Ieft
this world all too soon

520
00:25:12,344 --> 00:25:14,904
this past Wednesday after
a brief hospital stay.

521
00:25:14,980 --> 00:25:17,073
I used to Iove having him on the air.

522
00:25:17,148 --> 00:25:21,414
I mean, every Friday people
would tune in just to hear Bernie.

523
00:25:21,486 --> 00:25:23,681
And when he did the obituaries,

524
00:25:23,755 --> 00:25:27,191
it wasn`t Iike a so-and-so was
survived by so-and-so kind of thing.

525
00:25:27,259 --> 00:25:29,352
It was..Iet`s see if I can remember..

526
00:25:29,427 --> 00:25:32,726
Left in sorrow to mourn the
passing of the beloved Mr. Gunnolds

527
00:25:32,797 --> 00:25:35,265
are Mima Gunnolds, his mother, Georgia..

528
00:25:35,333 --> 00:25:39,030
And the way he would make
them ``Iook good`` in death,

529
00:25:39,104 --> 00:25:41,197
well, he`d make them sound good, too.

530
00:25:41,273 --> 00:25:43,764
Like Gunnolds was a drunk,

531
00:25:43,842 --> 00:25:45,969
always startin` shit wherever he went.

532
00:25:46,044 --> 00:25:48,808
He finally got himself
killed in a pool hall.

533
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,314
Now how do you say something
nice about somebody Iike that?

534
00:25:51,383 --> 00:25:54,648
Well, to Bernie, it
was, ``He was known..``

535
00:25:54,719 --> 00:25:56,584
..for his social engagements and his..

536
00:25:56,655 --> 00:25:58,145
conversational abilities..

537
00:25:58,256 --> 00:26:01,316
A kid would wrap his car around a tree

538
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,122
and with Bernie it was..

539
00:26:03,194 --> 00:26:05,822
..and yet, death slipped
up on young Mr. Shotwell,

540
00:26:05,897 --> 00:26:07,831
as gentle as a fallen mist.

541
00:26:07,899 --> 00:26:14,395
[crowd murmuring]

542
00:26:14,472 --> 00:26:16,599
(female voice) What happened?

543
00:26:16,675 --> 00:26:19,803
[inaudible dialog]

544
00:26:27,552 --> 00:26:30,350
I regret to inform you

545
00:26:30,422 --> 00:26:35,018
that four of your classmates
have just been killed.

546
00:26:35,093 --> 00:26:36,754
Now this is gonna happen to you

547
00:26:36,828 --> 00:26:40,286
if you drink and drive.

548
00:26:40,365 --> 00:26:43,801
Is this what you want to happen to you?

549
00:26:43,868 --> 00:26:46,860
(female voice) It didn`t
make no difference what it was

550
00:26:46,938 --> 00:26:49,532
or who ask it, if it was
good for the community,

551
00:26:49,608 --> 00:26:51,542
Bernie `d give it all he had.

552
00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:53,771
All the time.

553
00:26:53,845 --> 00:26:56,211
He was very serious about
his commitment to Carthage.

554
00:26:56,281 --> 00:26:58,215
Life is so beautiful,

555
00:26:58,316 --> 00:27:00,079
every moment a miracle,

556
00:27:00,118 --> 00:27:02,052
and yet in a blink it`s gone.

557
00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:04,850
T oo young. [inaudible]

558
00:27:04,923 --> 00:27:07,187
[shouts to crowd] T oo young!

559
00:27:07,258 --> 00:27:11,024
Oh, he really had a way of
bringing the community together.

560
00:27:11,096 --> 00:27:13,291
Not just at the funerals
and at the church,

561
00:27:13,365 --> 00:27:17,301
he organized a ``Beautify
Carthage`` campaign,

562
00:27:17,369 --> 00:27:20,395
and he put on the very first
East T exas art festival

563
00:27:20,472 --> 00:27:23,339
and invited artists from
all around the region

564
00:27:23,408 --> 00:27:25,638
to display their works.

565
00:27:37,389 --> 00:27:39,721
[inaudible]

566
00:27:39,791 --> 00:27:41,691
Are these all..?

567
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,057
I`m sorry to stop you, are
these all done with that..

568
00:27:43,128 --> 00:27:44,993
the, uh, what`s that called?

569
00:27:45,063 --> 00:27:46,257
It`s all chain saw.

570
00:27:46,331 --> 00:27:48,925
How do you do that?

571
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,332
I wake up in the morning with an idea

572
00:27:51,403 --> 00:27:53,598
and cut away everything
that ain`t that idea.

573
00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:55,162
Can I talk to you at some time?

574
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,037
- Do you have a card?
- Yeah.

575
00:27:57,108 --> 00:27:58,666
Because I have an idea I
would Iove to commission.

576
00:27:58,777 --> 00:28:00,540
I don`t know if you work that way, but..

577
00:28:00,578 --> 00:28:02,603
Look at that card, he
put it on a piece of wood.

578
00:28:02,681 --> 00:28:04,581
- I`m gonna call you.
- AIright.

579
00:28:04,649 --> 00:28:06,617
- You`re a gem.
- Thank you.

580
00:28:06,685 --> 00:28:07,913
Thank you. Okay.

581
00:28:07,986 --> 00:28:09,510
- See you Iater.
- Bye.

582
00:28:09,587 --> 00:28:11,282
Oh, yeah, Bernie took her everywhere.

583
00:28:11,356 --> 00:28:16,055
He took her to the Van
CIyburn Competition,

584
00:28:16,127 --> 00:28:17,958
took her up to the junior college

585
00:28:18,029 --> 00:28:20,361
to see some of the rehearsals of shows

586
00:28:20,432 --> 00:28:21,899
that he was working on.

587
00:28:21,966 --> 00:28:24,127
Oh, yeah, he always had Mrs. Nugent.

588
00:28:24,202 --> 00:28:29,697
? I`ve never Been in Iove before?

589
00:28:29,774 --> 00:28:33,107
? Now all at once it`s you?

590
00:28:33,178 --> 00:28:38,582
? It`s you forever more?

591
00:28:38,650 --> 00:28:43,713
? l`ve never been In love before?

592
00:28:43,788 --> 00:28:47,053
? I thought my Heart was safe?

593
00:28:47,125 --> 00:28:51,152
(female voice) He had come to
a production in a local theater,

594
00:28:51,229 --> 00:28:52,821
and he thought it could be better

595
00:28:52,897 --> 00:28:55,331
so he volunteered to help out

596
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:59,598
and pretty soon he was the
musical director for one show,

597
00:28:59,704 --> 00:29:01,467
a director in another one,

598
00:29:01,506 --> 00:29:04,100
and an actor in almost all of them.

599
00:29:04,175 --> 00:29:06,268
He just had a real knack for drama.

600
00:29:06,344 --> 00:29:12,180
? PIease forgive this
H elpless haze I `m in?

601
00:29:12,250 --> 00:29:15,583
? I `ve really never been?

602
00:29:15,653 --> 00:29:21,353
? In Iove before?

603
00:29:21,426 --> 00:29:26,989
??

604
00:29:27,065 --> 00:29:32,469
(girl singing)? l`ve
never been In love before?

605
00:29:32,537 --> 00:29:35,370
? Now all I want to be?

606
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,874
I saw them at a restaurant one time.

607
00:29:37,942 --> 00:29:40,604
They was out to Iunch together, and he
reached over and kissed her on the cheek.

608
00:29:40,678 --> 00:29:43,374
But it wasn`t a kiss Iike you
give your momma or your grandma.

609
00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:46,144
It was more of a romantic,
sexual kiss to me, you know?

610
00:29:46,217 --> 00:29:50,176
He had that graoning sound in the back
of his voice. It was kinda strange.

611
00:29:50,255 --> 00:29:52,189
It just didn`t Iook right to me.

612
00:29:52,257 --> 00:29:55,658
The word was it wasn`t
a week after the funeral

613
00:29:55,727 --> 00:30:01,393
Mrs. Nugent gave Bernie Mr.
Nugent`s $12,000 Rolex watch.

614
00:30:01,466 --> 00:30:05,334
Hell, for that kinda money,
I bet he did kiss her.

615
00:30:05,403 --> 00:30:08,531
In a small town, people will always

616
00:30:08,606 --> 00:30:11,006
suspect the worst of someone.

617
00:30:11,075 --> 00:30:13,873
But they`II also suspect the best.

618
00:30:13,945 --> 00:30:17,676
So we just thought they were companions.

619
00:30:17,749 --> 00:30:19,740
Look, it was widely assumed

620
00:30:19,818 --> 00:30:21,251
that Mrs. Nugent was paying Bernie

621
00:30:21,319 --> 00:30:24,720
to ``accompany her`` places.

622
00:30:24,789 --> 00:30:26,518
Oh, I`d estimate they spent

623
00:30:26,591 --> 00:30:28,320
nearly a hundred thousand
a year on vacations.

624
00:30:28,393 --> 00:30:31,191
They went to Russia,
Acapulco, New York City.

625
00:30:31,262 --> 00:30:33,492
They went to Europe on the Queen Mary,

626
00:30:33,565 --> 00:30:36,090
always first class, always some spa,

627
00:30:36,167 --> 00:30:38,761
some resort, some..sittin` in some

628
00:30:38,837 --> 00:30:42,933
hot spring mineral peeling water bath.

629
00:30:43,007 --> 00:30:47,000
[both humming]

630
00:30:47,078 --> 00:30:48,102
[chuckling]

631
00:30:48,179 --> 00:30:50,841
[humming playfully]

632
00:30:50,915 --> 00:30:55,181
[Wa-wa-wa-wa]

633
00:30:55,253 --> 00:30:58,120
[inaudible]

634
00:30:58,223 --> 00:31:01,056
(female voice) Margy
looked so much better.

635
00:31:01,092 --> 00:31:04,789
You see pictures of her
on these trips with Bernie.

636
00:31:04,863 --> 00:31:08,629
she had nice hair, she looked good,

637
00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:10,793
she seemed happy,

638
00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:16,569
and she had Bernie to thank for that.

639
00:31:16,641 --> 00:31:21,806
Marjorie realized she had
everything in front of her.

640
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,145
she could do anything
she wanted in her life,

641
00:31:25,216 --> 00:31:30,586
and she wanted to travel.

642
00:31:30,655 --> 00:31:33,783
[Marjorie, chuckling]

643
00:31:33,858 --> 00:31:36,588
Money was no object

644
00:31:36,661 --> 00:31:40,825
but unfortunately, she
had no friends or family

645
00:31:40,899 --> 00:31:44,596
that she wanted to travel with.

646
00:31:44,669 --> 00:31:48,503
Until she met Bernie.

647
00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:51,337
Hey, I `II tell you one thing for sure.

648
00:31:51,409 --> 00:31:53,104
On that trip to Belize,

649
00:31:53,177 --> 00:31:55,111
they stayed in the same room.

650
00:31:55,179 --> 00:31:56,669
And you know damn right well

651
00:31:56,748 --> 00:31:59,444
they saw each other in their underwear.

652
00:31:59,550 --> 00:32:01,677
And I know for sure

653
00:32:01,719 --> 00:32:04,279
that when she went to Shreveport,

654
00:32:04,355 --> 00:32:08,689
to get some sexy Iingerie
at Doris` Iingerie shop,

655
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,627
she got herself a see through nightgown

656
00:32:11,696 --> 00:32:15,154
that showed her breasts.

657
00:32:15,233 --> 00:32:17,463
I mean, give me a break.

658
00:32:17,535 --> 00:32:18,934
What is a woman her age

659
00:32:19,003 --> 00:32:20,436
wanting to do showing her boobs?

660
00:32:20,505 --> 00:32:22,666
Seriously.

661
00:32:22,740 --> 00:32:24,207
Disgusting.

662
00:32:29,714 --> 00:32:32,547
Bernie was a Iittle effeminate.

663
00:32:32,617 --> 00:32:35,051
I mean, an unmarried
man in his Iate 30s,

664
00:32:35,119 --> 00:32:40,853
going to all the musicals with
a bunch of old blue-hairs..

665
00:32:40,925 --> 00:32:44,486
Ah! You know, I heard that he was gay,

666
00:32:44,562 --> 00:32:47,827
but he was such a good Christian man,

667
00:32:47,899 --> 00:32:52,233
everybody thought, you
know, how could that be?

668
00:32:52,303 --> 00:32:54,737
That dog don`t hunt. Nah.

669
00:32:54,806 --> 00:32:56,296
There was always talk about Bernie being

670
00:32:56,374 --> 00:32:58,171
a Iittle Iight in the Ioafers but..

671
00:32:58,276 --> 00:33:00,540
I always thought he was celibate.

672
00:33:00,578 --> 00:33:02,512
He was a nice-Iooking man and there
were Iots of girls in the community

673
00:33:02,580 --> 00:33:04,810
who would`ve Ioved to
have a date with him,

674
00:33:04,882 --> 00:33:06,850
but he never seemed to
show much interest in that.

675
00:33:06,918 --> 00:33:09,580
He stayed busy all the
time and was working.

676
00:33:09,654 --> 00:33:11,679
He had a tendency to hold on

677
00:33:11,756 --> 00:33:16,090
to another man`s hands, touched
too Iong after shaking it,

678
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,856
and he had a subscription
to men`s fitness magazine.

679
00:33:18,930 --> 00:33:20,591
Now if you`ve ever seen Bernie
Tedie, you know darn well

680
00:33:20,665 --> 00:33:23,259
it wasn`t for the workout tips.

681
00:33:23,334 --> 00:33:25,325
And when you see him around town,

682
00:33:25,403 --> 00:33:27,598
if he wasn`t at the church or
at work in the funeral home,

683
00:33:27,672 --> 00:33:31,267
he would always be where we these
doggone hemmed, starched shorts.

684
00:33:31,342 --> 00:33:34,106
With his belt Iine.. above the navel.

685
00:33:34,178 --> 00:33:39,172
And the kicker is he
always wore sandals.

686
00:33:39,250 --> 00:33:41,411
Our Lord and Savior always wore sandals

687
00:33:41,486 --> 00:33:43,545
and he never married.

688
00:33:43,621 --> 00:33:46,283
And he had 12 disciples

689
00:33:46,357 --> 00:33:50,418
and I don`t think any
of them ever married.

690
00:33:50,495 --> 00:33:54,363
And the apostle Paul, he
was a Iifelong bachelor.

691
00:33:54,432 --> 00:33:56,957
And you never heard
anybody in the New Testament

692
00:33:57,035 --> 00:34:00,630
say that they was a bunch of queers.

693
00:34:00,738 --> 00:34:03,571
[pfft] No.

694
00:34:03,608 --> 00:34:07,476
No, he had homosexual relations.
I know that for a fact.

695
00:34:07,545 --> 00:34:09,410
This ain`t San Francisco,

696
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:13,314
so around here we got a Iot
of ``closet homosexuals.``

697
00:34:13,384 --> 00:34:16,217
And I know of at Ieast two men
that he had relationships with

698
00:34:16,287 --> 00:34:18,551
that were heterosexual.

699
00:34:18,623 --> 00:34:20,750
Were.

700
00:34:20,825 --> 00:34:24,454
Now one of the main things
and why I have this job,

701
00:34:24,529 --> 00:34:26,793
and why I feel like l`m good at it is,

702
00:34:26,864 --> 00:34:28,889
you see, l`m naturally suspicious.

703
00:34:28,966 --> 00:34:33,494
Sometimes I find myself waking
up in the middle of the night.

704
00:34:33,571 --> 00:34:35,300
I`II be staring off

705
00:34:35,373 --> 00:34:37,773
out through the backyard
into the woods and I..

706
00:34:37,842 --> 00:34:39,434
I`II be thinking about
all the crime and mayhem

707
00:34:39,510 --> 00:34:41,808
happening out there,

708
00:34:41,879 --> 00:34:45,940
and that`s..that`s when I start
putting it together in my mind.

709
00:34:46,017 --> 00:34:47,848
I stop the criminal.

710
00:34:47,919 --> 00:34:50,285
I wait, I watch,

711
00:34:50,354 --> 00:34:52,686
and I Iisten.

712
00:34:52,757 --> 00:34:55,123
When the time`s just right..

713
00:34:55,193 --> 00:34:58,492
[fftt] that`s when I pounce.

714
00:34:58,596 --> 00:35:00,393
Ain`t nothing I enjoy more

715
00:35:00,431 --> 00:35:02,262
than the sound of a criminal
that`s just wriggling

716
00:35:02,333 --> 00:35:04,130
on the end of my hook, hey, you know,

717
00:35:04,202 --> 00:35:07,000
and folks Iike to see the D.A. at work.

718
00:35:07,071 --> 00:35:09,437
But no county ain`t gonna hire a D.A.

719
00:35:09,507 --> 00:35:13,170
who doesn`t know that
this is a full time job.

720
00:35:13,244 --> 00:35:15,712
AII the time.

721
00:35:15,780 --> 00:35:19,773
One thing Danny Bucks is good at

722
00:35:19,851 --> 00:35:21,842
is getting Danny Buck re-elected.

723
00:35:21,919 --> 00:35:25,047
And he gets his Iittle
photo ops in the paper,

724
00:35:25,123 --> 00:35:27,990
busting up the copper
rings or the hub-cap rings,

725
00:35:28,059 --> 00:35:30,960
or the meth Iabs, but in slow times,

726
00:35:31,028 --> 00:35:33,690
Danny Buck be out digging up some shit.

727
00:35:33,764 --> 00:35:35,288
Let me show y`all something.

728
00:35:35,366 --> 00:35:38,130
You`re gonna Iove this.

729
00:35:38,202 --> 00:35:42,536
I call this my wheel of misfortune.

730
00:35:42,607 --> 00:35:45,041
Now what I`ve done is,
I`ve assigned numbers

731
00:35:45,109 --> 00:35:47,873
to all the suspected
drug dealers around here.

732
00:35:47,945 --> 00:35:55,579
If your number comes up,

733
00:35:55,653 --> 00:36:00,022
number eight, Danny Buck`s
come to get you first.

734
00:36:00,124 --> 00:36:03,719
And not one of you dope
pushers is gonna get away.

735
00:36:03,761 --> 00:36:06,059
Not one.

736
00:36:06,130 --> 00:36:08,155
The best trick I ever pulled

737
00:36:08,232 --> 00:36:10,723
is the time I arrested
five deadbeat dads

738
00:36:10,801 --> 00:36:13,269
all at the same time.

739
00:36:13,337 --> 00:36:15,828
You see, I was having
trouble finding them.

740
00:36:15,907 --> 00:36:18,740
Actually, what I did is I used the
annual hands on a hardbody contest

741
00:36:18,809 --> 00:36:21,607
the one at the Dodge dealership on 79?

742
00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:23,374
People were standing
around for days and days

743
00:36:23,447 --> 00:36:25,608
with their hands on the pick up truck,

744
00:36:25,683 --> 00:36:27,412
and the last one with their
hand on the truck wins it.

745
00:36:27,485 --> 00:36:30,045
What I did, is I got a rig

746
00:36:30,121 --> 00:36:33,454
where they invited these five dads
who aren`t paying child support.

747
00:36:33,524 --> 00:36:35,082
I figured the idea of a new truck

748
00:36:35,159 --> 00:36:37,024
might get `em to come out of hiding.

749
00:36:37,094 --> 00:36:41,690
Did it work?

750
00:36:41,766 --> 00:36:43,290
You bet your butt it did.

751
00:36:43,367 --> 00:36:45,494
[moaning]

752
00:36:48,839 --> 00:36:50,636
[shouts]

753
00:36:50,708 --> 00:36:52,767
((officer) Hey, get him!

754
00:36:57,982 --> 00:37:00,576
[chuckling]

755
00:37:00,651 --> 00:37:02,585
I think we`d Iike to move
some out of financials

756
00:37:02,653 --> 00:37:05,315
and into technologies,
maybe a Iittle more Apple.

757
00:37:05,389 --> 00:37:08,449
And we`d Iike to get a thousand
shares of Tommy Hilfiger.

758
00:37:08,526 --> 00:37:10,994
I got a sneak-a-peek at
the new Iine for the..

759
00:37:11,062 --> 00:37:13,963
What is this ``we`d
like to``part, Bernie?

760
00:37:14,031 --> 00:37:15,658
What do you know about
stocks and investing?

761
00:37:15,733 --> 00:37:18,167
Let me remind you: you bury people.

762
00:37:18,236 --> 00:37:21,672
You`re a mortician. You`re
not an investment advisor.

763
00:37:21,739 --> 00:37:24,003
No one uses the word
``mortician`` anymore, LIoyd.

764
00:37:24,075 --> 00:37:25,838
It`s ``funeral director.``

765
00:37:25,910 --> 00:37:28,310
Or in your case
assistantfuneral director.

766
00:37:28,379 --> 00:37:31,974
We just thought you were being a Iittle
conservative with Marjorie`s account.

767
00:37:32,049 --> 00:37:32,981
[beep]

768
00:37:33,050 --> 00:37:35,018
Hello? LIoyd?

769
00:37:35,086 --> 00:37:38,180
He hung up. Whoa.

770
00:37:38,256 --> 00:37:41,248
No.

771
00:37:41,325 --> 00:37:42,656
[groan]

772
00:37:42,727 --> 00:37:44,786
Something crawled up his butt.

773
00:37:44,862 --> 00:37:47,126
[ringing]

774
00:37:47,198 --> 00:37:49,325
[beep] This is LIoyd.

775
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:53,928
LIoyd! Don`t you ever, ever
speak to Bernie Iike that again,

776
00:37:54,005 --> 00:37:55,666
or I`II be moving my account.

777
00:37:55,740 --> 00:37:57,207
I`m sorry, I got a
Iittle frustrated and I..

778
00:37:57,275 --> 00:37:59,505
Don`t be sorry, just don`t do it.

779
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,648
Well.

780
00:38:04,715 --> 00:38:07,206
[dramatic stage music]

781
00:38:15,726 --> 00:38:18,024
(Mrs. Nugent, off) I have
a son and four grandchildren

782
00:38:18,095 --> 00:38:20,188
some of whom have threatened to sue me

783
00:38:20,264 --> 00:38:22,357
and have actually sued me

784
00:38:22,433 --> 00:38:25,368
and none of them visit or
appear to care about me.

785
00:38:25,436 --> 00:38:27,563
Also my son is a physician

786
00:38:27,638 --> 00:38:30,368
and amply provides for his family.

787
00:38:37,915 --> 00:38:40,179
For the reasons stated,

788
00:38:40,251 --> 00:38:45,382
I am not including them as
beneficiaries under my will.

789
00:38:45,456 --> 00:38:49,358
I give, devise and
bequeath my entire estate,

790
00:38:49,427 --> 00:38:52,191
real, personal and mixed,

791
00:38:52,263 --> 00:38:57,326
onto Bernhardt Tiede the
second, outright and simple.

792
00:39:14,085 --> 00:39:15,484
T o Iife.

793
00:39:17,488 --> 00:39:19,581
Oh, thank you, Crystal.

794
00:39:19,657 --> 00:39:20,919
H ere you go.

795
00:39:24,829 --> 00:39:25,693
Cheers.

796
00:39:30,301 --> 00:39:34,135
Give pills, give me my pills, Bernie.

797
00:39:34,205 --> 00:39:36,139
Pardon me?

798
00:39:36,207 --> 00:39:39,438
You know I have to take
my pills before eating.

799
00:39:39,510 --> 00:39:41,273
You were supposed to bring them,

800
00:39:41,345 --> 00:39:43,609
so where are they? Give them to me.

801
00:39:43,681 --> 00:39:46,946
I`m sorry, Marjorie, there must
have been a Iittle misunderstanding.

802
00:39:47,017 --> 00:39:48,814
I`d be happy to go to
your room and get them.

803
00:39:48,886 --> 00:39:51,753
Excellent!

804
00:39:51,822 --> 00:39:52,811
Okay.

805
00:39:52,890 --> 00:39:54,187
Okay.

806
00:39:58,529 --> 00:40:01,555
(male voice) she put his
name on all her bank accounts,

807
00:40:01,632 --> 00:40:03,600
and then she gave him
a power of attorney,

808
00:40:03,667 --> 00:40:08,263
which meant he could spend
her money any way he wanted to.

809
00:40:08,339 --> 00:40:10,330
And he did.

810
00:40:10,408 --> 00:40:13,866
[airplane motor running]

811
00:40:37,601 --> 00:40:39,501
Been on the Iine for a while.

812
00:40:39,570 --> 00:40:42,630
Won`t Iet go.

813
00:40:42,706 --> 00:40:45,038
Hello, Marjorie, I..

814
00:40:45,109 --> 00:40:47,202
I`m sorry, I`m sorry,
I thought I told you

815
00:40:47,278 --> 00:40:49,678
what I was doing this morning.

816
00:40:49,747 --> 00:40:51,214
Well, I don`t have my phone on

817
00:40:51,282 --> 00:40:54,046
while I am up there. You know that.

818
00:40:54,118 --> 00:40:55,847
I`m sure we won`t be Iate for Iunch,

819
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,184
but I`m on my way.

820
00:40:58,289 --> 00:41:01,156
Okay. Bye-bye.

821
00:41:01,192 --> 00:41:03,490
- This is my Iife.
- Okay.

822
00:41:03,561 --> 00:41:04,721
[groan]

823
00:41:04,795 --> 00:41:07,025
Somewhere along the way,

824
00:41:07,097 --> 00:41:09,725
Mrs. Nugent convinced Bernie to
go to part time at the funeral home

825
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,392
and go working full-time for her.

826
00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:13,403
She got rid of all the usual help

827
00:41:13,471 --> 00:41:15,200
and it was just Bernie.

828
00:41:15,272 --> 00:41:17,297
He was her business
manager, travel companion,

829
00:41:17,374 --> 00:41:18,272
her servant.

830
00:41:26,050 --> 00:41:29,349
[sigh]

831
00:41:29,420 --> 00:41:30,910
[deep sigh]

832
00:41:30,988 --> 00:41:34,185
[door opens]

833
00:41:34,258 --> 00:41:37,250
Bernie! You should`ve
been here hours ago!

834
00:41:37,328 --> 00:41:40,354
But we still have time. We`II
be there on time, Marjorie.

835
00:41:40,431 --> 00:41:42,092
I need you to go by the
cleaners and pick up my dress.

836
00:41:42,166 --> 00:41:44,259
Now I`ve got to wear something else.

837
00:41:44,335 --> 00:41:47,361
You fooling around with those
damn planes all the time, Bernie.

838
00:41:47,438 --> 00:41:49,201
I told you I was going to be..

839
00:41:49,273 --> 00:41:51,036
Okay, you told me. What
good does that do me?

840
00:41:51,108 --> 00:41:53,099
Things change and I needed you here.

841
00:41:53,177 --> 00:41:56,271
And because you never Ieave
your cell phone on all the time,

842
00:41:56,347 --> 00:41:58,406
this is a pager.

843
00:41:58,516 --> 00:42:00,780
You`re going to wear it on your
person at all times, correct?

844
00:42:00,818 --> 00:42:02,615
- Correct.
- Go get me a dress.

845
00:42:02,686 --> 00:42:04,017
- Okay.
- Hurry. Hurry.

846
00:42:04,088 --> 00:42:05,453
Hurry, hurry. Hurry, hurry.

847
00:42:05,523 --> 00:42:06,683
Ugh.

848
00:42:19,537 --> 00:42:23,633
Marjorie, please.

849
00:42:23,707 --> 00:42:26,039
I can understand chewing
each bite of some food

850
00:42:26,110 --> 00:42:28,874
25 times Iike chicken fried steak,

851
00:42:28,946 --> 00:42:30,573
but I don`t think you have to chew

852
00:42:30,648 --> 00:42:33,811
your refried beans that many times.

853
00:42:33,884 --> 00:42:36,216
It doesn`t really make sense.

854
00:42:36,287 --> 00:42:39,120
It`s unnecessary additional
work for your jaws.

855
00:42:39,189 --> 00:42:41,089
Think of your poor TMJ muscle.

856
00:42:41,158 --> 00:42:42,318
It can`t be good for it.

857
00:42:42,393 --> 00:42:45,089
[sigh]

858
00:42:45,162 --> 00:42:48,154
It`s inefficient. Think about it.

859
00:42:48,232 --> 00:42:51,395
You this drives me crazy. PIease stop.

860
00:42:51,468 --> 00:42:53,333
This is Iike nails on a chalkboard.

861
00:42:53,404 --> 00:42:56,168
Okay, go ahead, chew Iike
that, chew Iike that all day.

862
00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:58,674
[deep sigh] Ah!

863
00:42:58,776 --> 00:43:00,835
Well, Bernie was so nice,

864
00:43:00,878 --> 00:43:04,314
so accommodating,

865
00:43:04,381 --> 00:43:11,014
so willing to keep from
hurting other people`s feelings,

866
00:43:11,088 --> 00:43:15,081
he just couldn`t tell
anybody to piss off.

867
00:43:26,937 --> 00:43:29,770
(Mrs. Nugent, distant)
Bernie, l`m still waiting.

868
00:44:24,628 --> 00:44:27,654
Would you rather hear
``Drama in Real Life? ``

869
00:44:27,731 --> 00:44:29,699
``Tips for Better
Summer T omatoes`` or..

870
00:44:29,767 --> 00:44:31,928
Tips for Better Summer T omatoes.

871
00:44:32,002 --> 00:44:33,731
``The best summer tomatoes..

872
00:44:33,804 --> 00:44:35,931
she was demanding,

873
00:44:36,006 --> 00:44:38,270
condescending,

874
00:44:38,342 --> 00:44:40,333
even conniving.

875
00:44:40,411 --> 00:44:45,041
And she had intentionally put
him in a dependent position.

876
00:44:45,115 --> 00:44:48,016
She was jealous of his time,

877
00:44:48,085 --> 00:44:51,919
envious of his community status,

878
00:44:51,989 --> 00:44:55,015
and..overly generous to him.

879
00:44:55,092 --> 00:44:58,061
So as to make him stick around.

880
00:44:58,162 --> 00:45:01,620
(Bernie) so you just show
people around the boat?

881
00:45:01,665 --> 00:45:02,962
All around the boat?

882
00:45:03,033 --> 00:45:04,625
Yeah, I give tours.

883
00:45:04,702 --> 00:45:06,465
And I bartend in the captain`s cabin.

884
00:45:06,537 --> 00:45:08,300
- Oh, you have a Iot of jobs.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

885
00:45:08,372 --> 00:45:09,862
You`re a jack of all trades.

886
00:45:09,940 --> 00:45:11,635
It`s good though. The money`s good.

887
00:45:11,709 --> 00:45:13,472
Not bad. And you get
to see the world, right?

888
00:45:13,544 --> 00:45:15,409
- Yeah, we do.
- That`s cool.

889
00:45:15,479 --> 00:45:16,776
- Yeah.
- Marjorie?

890
00:45:16,847 --> 00:45:18,314
This is Kevin who works here.

891
00:45:18,382 --> 00:45:19,974
Hello, Mrs. Nugent.

892
00:45:20,050 --> 00:45:21,984
Bernie, we`re scheduled to be there now.

893
00:45:22,052 --> 00:45:24,646
- I`m ready. Okay.
- Be still.

894
00:45:24,722 --> 00:45:26,383
Okay. Do you want me to get this?

895
00:45:26,457 --> 00:45:27,719
- Stop asking questions.
- Okay, you got it.

896
00:45:27,791 --> 00:45:29,258
- Thank you.
- Good, good.

897
00:45:29,326 --> 00:45:31,226
- Let`s go.
- Thank you.

898
00:45:31,295 --> 00:45:32,922
- Let`s go, Iet`s go, Iet`s go.
- Nice talking to you.

899
00:45:32,996 --> 00:45:33,928
- See you, Bernie. -
Yeah. Okay, bye-bye.

900
00:45:33,997 --> 00:45:34,827
[inaudible]

901
00:45:37,835 --> 00:45:39,325
(female photographer) Okay, you
want to Iook right down the Iens

902
00:45:39,403 --> 00:45:40,995
and say ``Egypt. ``

903
00:45:41,071 --> 00:45:42,470
((both) Egypt.

904
00:45:42,539 --> 00:45:44,006
[shutter clicks]

905
00:45:44,074 --> 00:45:45,336
[sigh]

906
00:45:45,409 --> 00:45:47,070
Okay.

907
00:45:57,421 --> 00:46:01,084
Okay, everybody, Iet`s work on the
arrival of the Wells Fargo Wagon.

908
00:46:01,158 --> 00:46:02,989
This wagon has all of
our instruments on it

909
00:46:03,060 --> 00:46:04,425
so we`re very excited about it..

910
00:46:04,495 --> 00:46:06,156
[pager buzzing] Uh-oh, hold on.

911
00:46:06,230 --> 00:46:08,858
Grrr. So I want to have
a pulse on each beat,

912
00:46:08,932 --> 00:46:11,093
and I want to have everybody`s
eyeline on the horizon

913
00:46:11,168 --> 00:46:12,692
going Iike this and I
want some people to do this

914
00:46:12,770 --> 00:46:14,328
because everyone`s doing this right now.

915
00:46:14,404 --> 00:46:15,837
It`s Iooking a Iittle too uniform, okay?

916
00:46:15,906 --> 00:46:19,034
One, two, three, four and oh!

917
00:46:19,109 --> 00:46:22,169
And ho! That`s it. Okay.

918
00:46:22,246 --> 00:46:23,770
Very good, relax the pose.

919
00:46:23,847 --> 00:46:26,145
This is only going to take a second.

920
00:46:26,216 --> 00:46:29,879
If I don`t call her, she
will give me Iiving hell.

921
00:46:29,953 --> 00:46:33,286
Hello, Marjorie, how are you?

922
00:46:33,357 --> 00:46:36,121
Mm-hm. Can I bring you anything?

923
00:46:36,193 --> 00:46:37,660
Can it wait till right after rehearsal?

924
00:46:37,728 --> 00:46:39,389
We got another 40..

925
00:46:39,463 --> 00:46:41,397
Okay, right away. I`II be there.

926
00:46:41,465 --> 00:46:43,365
Bye-bye. [deep sigh]

927
00:46:43,433 --> 00:46:45,162
Can you clean this up?

928
00:46:45,235 --> 00:46:46,497
I have to go right away. Thank you.

929
00:46:46,570 --> 00:46:48,970
[deep sigh]

930
00:46:57,381 --> 00:46:58,905
((Bernie) How`s it going, Carl?

931
00:46:59,016 --> 00:47:00,779
OId Mrs. Nugent just fired me.

932
00:47:00,818 --> 00:47:03,548
What happened?

933
00:47:03,620 --> 00:47:06,088
She said I stole a Iawn mower.

934
00:47:06,156 --> 00:47:08,590
Snuck it out to my place in Niggertown.

935
00:47:08,659 --> 00:47:10,752
What?

936
00:47:10,828 --> 00:47:12,193
Why does she think that?

937
00:47:12,262 --> 00:47:14,890
Oh, she saw me Ieave with it,

938
00:47:14,965 --> 00:47:17,229
I was taking it to get it fixed.

939
00:47:17,301 --> 00:47:19,166
Let me talk to her, okay Carl?

940
00:47:19,236 --> 00:47:20,863
Don`t go getting a new job just yet.

941
00:47:20,938 --> 00:47:25,705
Okay. But I ain`t going back up there.

942
00:47:25,776 --> 00:47:27,266
Not today anyway.

943
00:47:27,344 --> 00:47:29,437
I don`t blame you.

944
00:47:29,513 --> 00:47:32,448
I will get to the bottom of it
and I will call you back. Okay?

945
00:47:32,516 --> 00:47:33,949
So sorry about this.

946
00:47:34,017 --> 00:47:35,177
AIright.

947
00:47:39,690 --> 00:47:44,059
Oh, you just pop up whenever
it`s convenient for you!

948
00:47:44,127 --> 00:47:46,925
Just when you think it`s fine for you,

949
00:47:46,997 --> 00:47:49,295
you come! Well, fine fine, fine, fine!

950
00:47:49,366 --> 00:47:51,061
What happened with Carl?

951
00:47:51,134 --> 00:47:53,295
I got rid of him! I
caught him red handed!

952
00:47:53,370 --> 00:47:55,804
God knows what else he`s
been stealing from me, Bernie!

953
00:47:55,873 --> 00:47:57,738
He says he was gonna get it fixed.

954
00:47:57,841 --> 00:47:59,570
- That`s what he says.
- Well, I don`t think Carl..

955
00:47:59,610 --> 00:48:02,773
And those flowers he`s
supposedly planted,

956
00:48:02,846 --> 00:48:04,905
they were supposed to
bloom two weeks ago.

957
00:48:04,982 --> 00:48:07,951
He`s a Iazy good fer nothin`.
The man`s never done anything!

958
00:48:08,018 --> 00:48:10,919
I don`t think that he would
ever do anything Iike..

959
00:48:10,988 --> 00:48:13,320
Why are you stickin` up for his kind?

960
00:48:13,390 --> 00:48:16,621
Marjorie, you`re making it
very hard to be your friend.

961
00:48:16,693 --> 00:48:18,126
I`m gonna come back some other time.

962
00:48:18,195 --> 00:48:20,288
Oh, just go ahead, desert me.

963
00:48:20,364 --> 00:48:22,298
Just Iike everybody else, go
ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.

964
00:48:22,366 --> 00:48:24,266
Go, go, go! You hate me!

965
00:48:24,334 --> 00:48:26,825
Marjorie, I am not going to take part

966
00:48:26,904 --> 00:48:29,099
in this argument. You know [inaudible].

967
00:48:29,172 --> 00:48:31,470
- I know you hate me!
- No!

968
00:48:31,541 --> 00:48:33,338
Like everybody else!

969
00:48:33,410 --> 00:48:34,434
[tires screeching]

970
00:48:34,511 --> 00:48:38,311
[whimpering]

971
00:48:38,382 --> 00:48:39,679
[click]

972
00:48:44,588 --> 00:48:45,577
Oh.

973
00:48:52,429 --> 00:48:55,660
Basically, it was like
Bernie became her property.

974
00:48:55,732 --> 00:49:00,260
You`II never Ieave me. Never.

975
00:49:00,370 --> 00:49:03,533
He was her sole source of entertainment,

976
00:49:03,573 --> 00:49:05,700
had to do everything for her.

977
00:49:05,776 --> 00:49:08,540
I truly believe the guy felt
he was smothered, choked,

978
00:49:08,612 --> 00:49:10,273
unable to get his wind.

979
00:49:10,347 --> 00:49:14,374
I don`t know how the guy stood it. Well.

980
00:49:14,451 --> 00:49:16,385
Come on, just pull the damn trigger.

981
00:49:16,453 --> 00:49:18,387
I don`t think I can. It
doesn`t feel aimed right.

982
00:49:18,455 --> 00:49:19,888
Look, Iook, all I want

983
00:49:19,957 --> 00:49:21,390
is for you to shoot that armadillo

984
00:49:21,458 --> 00:49:23,483
that is digging up my garden, okay?

985
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:25,289
I mean, is that too much for me to ask,

986
00:49:25,362 --> 00:49:27,728
for you to be a man
for once in your Iife?

987
00:49:27,798 --> 00:49:29,732
[shout]

988
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:31,893
Fine.

989
00:49:31,969 --> 00:49:34,164
Now I`m holding you responsible

990
00:49:34,237 --> 00:49:37,866
for anything getting
dug up in my garden.

991
00:49:37,941 --> 00:49:41,001
Okay? You go out and
fix those holes yourself.

992
00:49:41,078 --> 00:49:44,707
Dig one you can fit in.

993
00:49:44,781 --> 00:49:48,080
Let me see.

994
00:49:48,151 --> 00:49:50,381
Did you go by the cleaners
to pick up my dress?

995
00:49:50,454 --> 00:49:51,921
Yes, earlier.

996
00:49:51,989 --> 00:49:53,422
Did you Iysol my kitchen counters?

997
00:49:53,490 --> 00:49:55,424
Mm-hm.

998
00:49:55,492 --> 00:49:56,925
Did you pick up the
Preparation H from the pharmacy?

999
00:49:56,994 --> 00:49:59,155
No, but I figured we`d go by there

1000
00:49:59,229 --> 00:50:00,594
on the way to Iunch. Do you still
want to go to Jalape? o Treat?

1001
00:50:00,664 --> 00:50:03,997
- I guess.
- Okay, hold still.

1002
00:50:04,067 --> 00:50:05,329
Jeez.

1003
00:50:05,402 --> 00:50:06,733
Will you be attending

1004
00:50:06,803 --> 00:50:09,499
our dress rehearsal tonight?

1005
00:50:09,573 --> 00:50:10,767
No.

1006
00:50:38,702 --> 00:50:40,135
[gunshot]

1007
00:51:01,558 --> 00:51:04,288
Marjorie?

1008
00:51:04,361 --> 00:51:06,659
Marjorie, are you okay?

1009
00:51:06,730 --> 00:51:08,493
Marjorie, say something to me.

1010
00:51:08,565 --> 00:51:10,328
Marjorie, can you talk to me?

1011
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:11,662
Marjorie, can you say something?

1012
00:51:11,735 --> 00:51:13,293
Oh no, no, no, no, no!

1013
00:51:13,370 --> 00:51:17,602
Oh, Jesus, no, no, no, what have I done?

1014
00:51:17,674 --> 00:51:22,270
Oh, God! What have I done?

1015
00:51:22,345 --> 00:51:23,835
PIease tell me what to do!

1016
00:51:23,914 --> 00:51:26,576
I`II do whatever you want me to do!

1017
00:51:41,264 --> 00:51:44,995
? Seventy six trombones
Led the big parade?

1018
00:51:45,068 --> 00:51:48,526
? With a hundred and ten
Cornets close at hand?

1019
00:51:48,605 --> 00:51:52,541
? They were followed by Rows and
rows of the Finest virtuosos?

1020
00:51:52,609 --> 00:51:56,136
? So is the cream Of every famous band?

1021
00:51:56,213 --> 00:51:59,046
??

1022
00:52:10,594 --> 00:52:13,995
? Seventy six trombones
Hit the counterpoint?

1023
00:52:14,064 --> 00:52:17,625
? While a hundred and ten
Cornets blazed the way?

1024
00:52:17,701 --> 00:52:19,726
? To the rhythm Of
march! march! march!?

1025
00:52:19,803 --> 00:52:21,532
? AII the kids began to march?

1026
00:52:21,605 --> 00:52:25,803
? And their marching
Still right today?

1027
00:52:28,979 --> 00:52:30,708
Great job, everyone.

1028
00:52:30,780 --> 00:52:32,680
It seemed Iike the
flags were a Iittle Iate,

1029
00:52:32,749 --> 00:52:36,344
also I want to make sure
that those fleahops are right.

1030
00:52:36,419 --> 00:52:38,319
Now I got off that time

1031
00:52:38,388 --> 00:52:39,753
but I feel Iike I got off
because one of you got off.

1032
00:52:39,823 --> 00:52:41,688
But it was a really great job.

1033
00:52:41,758 --> 00:52:43,919
Take five, we`re gonna
take it again from the top.

1034
00:52:43,994 --> 00:52:45,689
I don`t think too many of us

1035
00:52:45,762 --> 00:52:48,162
ever asked very many questions

1036
00:52:48,231 --> 00:52:50,995
about Mrs. Nugent, and if we did,

1037
00:52:51,067 --> 00:52:53,934
he would always have a
very plausible explanation.

1038
00:52:54,004 --> 00:52:56,336
Hello, Billy, this is Bernie Tiede

1039
00:52:56,406 --> 00:52:59,239
calling on behalf of Mrs. Nugent.

1040
00:52:59,342 --> 00:53:02,573
Yes, yes, she missed her
holiday haircut appointment

1041
00:53:02,612 --> 00:53:06,844
but she`s asked me to tell you
that she won`t be coming back in.

1042
00:53:06,917 --> 00:53:11,081
She wants to try someone else.

1043
00:53:11,154 --> 00:53:13,179
Well, I`m sorry to say this

1044
00:53:13,256 --> 00:53:18,057
but she says that you take
too Iong and charge too much.

1045
00:53:18,128 --> 00:53:21,063
Billy, I`m sorry, but
I`m just the messenger.

1046
00:53:21,131 --> 00:53:24,567
I was rather devastated at the very idea

1047
00:53:24,634 --> 00:53:27,432
that she was not coming
anymore after 30 years

1048
00:53:27,504 --> 00:53:30,701
of being her friend, hairdresser,

1049
00:53:30,774 --> 00:53:34,232
confidante sometimes,

1050
00:53:34,311 --> 00:53:37,303
and she just was gonna vanish.

1051
00:53:37,380 --> 00:53:40,042
(male voice) It was easy
for her to disappear.

1052
00:53:40,116 --> 00:53:41,708
Nobody was looking for her.

1053
00:53:41,785 --> 00:53:44,481
Not her son, not her two sisters.

1054
00:53:44,554 --> 00:53:46,317
One of them lived here in Carthage.

1055
00:53:46,389 --> 00:53:48,323
They hadn `t spoken in about 10 years.

1056
00:53:48,391 --> 00:53:50,825
You want to sign this for Mrs. Nugent,

1057
00:53:50,894 --> 00:53:52,657
our generous benefactor?

1058
00:53:52,729 --> 00:53:54,321
Only person Iooking for
her was her stockbroker.

1059
00:53:54,397 --> 00:53:57,264
[phone rings]

1060
00:53:57,334 --> 00:54:00,497
Oh, God.

1061
00:54:00,604 --> 00:54:01,662
Hello?

1062
00:54:01,705 --> 00:54:03,332
Bernie? Bernie!

1063
00:54:03,406 --> 00:54:05,237
Wh..where`s Marjorie?

1064
00:54:05,308 --> 00:54:06,502
I..I..I haven`t spoken
to her in over five weeks,

1065
00:54:06,576 --> 00:54:08,840
I`ve Ieft 11 messages.

1066
00:54:08,912 --> 00:54:10,846
She`s with me right now, LIoyd,

1067
00:54:10,914 --> 00:54:12,506
and I`m sorry I
couldn`t tell you earlier

1068
00:54:12,582 --> 00:54:14,675
but she`s had a series of small strokes.

1069
00:54:14,751 --> 00:54:17,686
I`ve been meaning to call you
and Iet you know her situation.

1070
00:54:17,754 --> 00:54:22,987
Mm-hm. No, she should not
be attempting to talk. No.

1071
00:54:23,059 --> 00:54:25,289
No, you can`t talk. The doctor said..

1072
00:54:25,362 --> 00:54:29,492
She`s indicating for me
to tell you hi from her.

1073
00:54:29,566 --> 00:54:31,431
He sends you all his best.

1074
00:54:31,501 --> 00:54:33,332
[sighs] Okay, well,

1075
00:54:33,403 --> 00:54:35,530
we`II be in touch when
she`s feeling better.

1076
00:54:35,605 --> 00:54:37,163
In the meantime, Iet me know

1077
00:54:37,240 --> 00:54:39,174
if I can help you with anything. Okay.

1078
00:54:39,242 --> 00:54:43,008
Okay, bye-bye.

1079
00:54:43,079 --> 00:54:45,877
Bernie knew better
than touch my accounts.

1080
00:54:45,949 --> 00:54:49,009
But he was going after what
would go into her bank accounts

1081
00:54:49,085 --> 00:54:50,882
because that`s where all
the royalty checks went.

1082
00:54:50,954 --> 00:54:54,481
It`s usually 50,000 a month.

1083
00:54:54,557 --> 00:54:57,048
Now he really started being generous.

1084
00:54:57,127 --> 00:55:01,996
He paid 5,000 dollars for the Shreveport
orchestra to come over play the Messiah.

1085
00:55:02,065 --> 00:55:06,502
He bought a high dollar
harpsichord for school.

1086
00:55:06,569 --> 00:55:09,561
He paid for the choir to go to Russia.

1087
00:55:09,639 --> 00:55:12,699
Well, yeah, he hired
me back for more money,

1088
00:55:12,776 --> 00:55:15,244
which is fine with me.

1089
00:55:15,312 --> 00:55:17,542
Oh, he bought jet skis,

1090
00:55:17,614 --> 00:55:19,912
he bought nine cars,

1091
00:55:19,983 --> 00:55:22,178
he bought struggling businesses,

1092
00:55:22,252 --> 00:55:25,915
he paid 40,000 dollars
for Carthage Awards.

1093
00:55:25,989 --> 00:55:27,854
That`s a trophy shop.

1094
00:55:27,924 --> 00:55:30,893
He loaned the money to
the Yokums over here,

1095
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,155
that opened up Boot
scootin Western Wear.

1096
00:55:33,229 --> 00:55:36,596
I guess that was Carthage
`s answer to Neiman `s.

1097
00:55:36,666 --> 00:55:39,863
Bernie just told everybody to
pay him back when they could.

1098
00:55:39,936 --> 00:55:41,597
You know, pay me when you can.

1099
00:55:41,671 --> 00:55:43,502
But they never did.

1100
00:55:43,573 --> 00:55:45,598
Bernie knew my twin girls`
birthday was coming up,

1101
00:55:45,675 --> 00:55:47,199
and he thought they should have

1102
00:55:47,277 --> 00:55:50,110
a big nice playhouse, you know?

1103
00:55:50,180 --> 00:55:52,273
Little girls.

1104
00:55:52,349 --> 00:55:56,445
Bernie bought this
playhouse for my girls.

1105
00:55:59,289 --> 00:56:04,556
Oh. [chuckling]

1106
00:56:04,627 --> 00:56:06,424
Thank you.

1107
00:56:06,496 --> 00:56:08,589
Thank you.

1108
00:56:08,665 --> 00:56:11,395
I just feel Iike I need to say,
Bernie Tiede, God bless you, son.

1109
00:56:11,468 --> 00:56:14,369
You`ve done more to transform the
town of Carthage than anyone else.

1110
00:56:14,437 --> 00:56:20,307
- Oh, thank you.
- God bless you, Bernie.

1111
00:56:20,377 --> 00:56:23,813
Bernie could`ve bought a mansion
for himself with the money.

1112
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:26,474
But he kept that little house

1113
00:56:26,549 --> 00:56:28,813
worth, maybe, 50, 000.

1114
00:56:28,885 --> 00:56:32,480
Now he bought cars for
folks that needed it.

1115
00:56:32,555 --> 00:56:35,149
And he paid cash for those.

1116
00:56:35,225 --> 00:56:38,661
But that old Lincoln he was drivin`?

1117
00:56:38,728 --> 00:56:40,491
He had it financed.

1118
00:56:40,563 --> 00:56:44,260
And he was usually
behind on his payments.

1119
00:56:44,334 --> 00:56:47,132
No, there really
wasn`t any greed in him.

1120
00:56:47,203 --> 00:56:50,070
AImost everything he
got from Mrs. Nugent,

1121
00:56:50,140 --> 00:56:52,836
he gave to somebody else.

1122
00:57:02,652 --> 00:57:06,315
LIoyd seems to be pretty concerned.

1123
00:57:06,389 --> 00:57:08,323
He thinks the family
should get involved.

1124
00:57:08,391 --> 00:57:11,417
Oh, good Iord, you gotta be kidding me.

1125
00:57:11,494 --> 00:57:14,190
I don`t know why LIoyd is so paranoid.

1126
00:57:14,264 --> 00:57:16,129
It`s Iike I told him.

1127
00:57:16,199 --> 00:57:18,360
She`s at the Scott White
Nursing Home in Temple.

1128
00:57:18,435 --> 00:57:21,370
She didn`t want everyone to know,

1129
00:57:21,438 --> 00:57:23,702
`cause she`s afraid
the family would come in

1130
00:57:23,773 --> 00:57:25,297
and try to take over her affairs.

1131
00:57:25,375 --> 00:57:28,037
That sounds just Iike Marjorie.

1132
00:57:28,111 --> 00:57:30,477
Mm-hm. That`s Marjorie alright.

1133
00:57:30,547 --> 00:57:32,811
- Mm-hm. - One
hundred percent.

1134
00:57:32,882 --> 00:57:36,215
You know, Bernie, she`s my sister,

1135
00:57:36,286 --> 00:57:38,618
and I guess that I should Iove her.

1136
00:57:38,688 --> 00:57:40,155
But she`s just mean.

1137
00:57:40,223 --> 00:57:42,691
She`s just hard down mean.

1138
00:57:42,759 --> 00:57:45,489
Mm. Well, there`s some
goodness in there, too.

1139
00:57:45,562 --> 00:57:47,530
She used to tear up my toys,

1140
00:57:47,597 --> 00:57:50,065
she pulled the heads off my dolls,

1141
00:57:50,133 --> 00:57:53,227
she used to tear up my homework.

1142
00:57:53,303 --> 00:58:03,338
And next up is Mrs. Ida Parker.

1143
00:58:03,413 --> 00:58:06,905
Ida says she does not
Iike knitting, crocheting,

1144
00:58:06,983 --> 00:58:09,315
gardening, cooking fancy food,

1145
00:58:09,385 --> 00:58:12,411
excessive housework, or artsy hobbies.

1146
00:58:12,489 --> 00:58:15,424
She`s planning on doing these
things when she gets old.

1147
00:58:15,492 --> 00:58:17,084
[audience Iaughs]

1148
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,891
? Beautiful dreamer?

1149
00:58:20,964 --> 00:58:23,660
? Queen of my song?

1150
00:58:23,733 --> 00:58:26,827
? List while I woo thee?

1151
00:58:26,903 --> 00:58:32,933
? With soft melody?

1152
00:58:33,009 --> 00:58:36,740
? Gone are the cares of?

1153
00:58:36,813 --> 00:58:40,271
? Life`s busy throng?

1154
00:58:40,350 --> 00:58:42,682
? Beautiful dreamer?

1155
00:58:42,752 --> 00:58:47,587
? Awake to my song?

1156
00:58:47,657 --> 00:58:50,251
? Beautiful dreamer?

1157
00:58:50,326 --> 00:58:55,059
? Awake unto me?

1158
00:58:55,131 --> 00:58:56,792
??

1159
00:58:56,866 --> 00:59:01,303
? Beautiful dreamer?

1160
00:59:01,371 --> 00:59:08,277
? Awaken to me?

1161
00:59:08,344 --> 00:59:10,642
??

1162
00:59:10,713 --> 00:59:11,645
[audience claps]

1163
00:59:11,714 --> 00:59:12,806
Thank you.

1164
00:59:15,552 --> 00:59:17,247
Thank you.

1165
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:20,118
So you saw Mrs. Nugent
in April of this year?

1166
00:59:20,189 --> 00:59:22,157
You know, I believe it was April.

1167
00:59:22,225 --> 00:59:24,785
With your own eyes?

1168
00:59:24,861 --> 00:59:28,388
Well, you know, I didn`t
actually..see her that day, I..

1169
00:59:28,464 --> 00:59:31,991
I came to her house to get
her to sign some documents.

1170
00:59:32,068 --> 00:59:34,969
Bernie comes to the door,
says she`s feeling poorly.

1171
00:59:35,038 --> 00:59:38,007
Just then, he takes the
documents back and she signs them.

1172
00:59:38,074 --> 00:59:39,837
I go on about my business.

1173
00:59:39,909 --> 00:59:43,675
Okay. It confirms a pattern.

1174
00:59:43,746 --> 00:59:45,145
I appreciate it.

1175
00:59:46,883 --> 00:59:49,010
Well, it sounds Iike LIoyd Hornbuckle

1176
00:59:49,085 --> 00:59:50,848
called Wayne Junior up in Amarillo,

1177
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:52,478
and got him all riled up.

1178
00:59:52,555 --> 00:59:54,682
Oh, boy.

1179
00:59:54,757 --> 00:59:56,622
You know, I think LIoyd`s just upset

1180
00:59:56,693 --> 00:59:58,661
because he`s Iosing
commissions during her illness.

1181
00:59:58,728 --> 01:00:00,696
He can`t move Mrs. Nugent`s money around

1182
01:00:00,763 --> 01:00:03,357
and keep taking his commissions
the way he`s used to, so..

1183
01:00:03,433 --> 01:00:05,697
It may be so, but Dwayne
Junior says his money

1184
01:00:05,768 --> 01:00:09,295
comes in every year for his
kids from his dad`s will.

1185
01:00:09,372 --> 01:00:11,306
It hadn`t come in this year.

1186
01:00:11,374 --> 01:00:12,864
And it won`t until Mrs.
Nugent`s in better condition

1187
01:00:12,942 --> 01:00:14,307
to take care of such things.

1188
01:00:14,377 --> 01:00:15,708
The poor Iady`s in the hospital

1189
01:00:15,778 --> 01:00:17,336
having suffered a major stroke.

1190
01:00:17,413 --> 01:00:19,313
She simply doesn`t want to be disturbed.

1191
01:00:19,382 --> 01:00:21,543
Tell everyone for heaven`s sake,

1192
01:00:21,618 --> 01:00:23,210
to please have a Iittle more patience.

1193
01:00:23,286 --> 01:00:24,810
Well, that`s fine with me.

1194
01:00:24,887 --> 01:00:26,184
I don`t want her disturbing me,

1195
01:00:26,255 --> 01:00:30,316
if you wanna know the truth.

1196
01:00:30,393 --> 01:00:32,554
I`m sorry you had to get
wrapped up in all this.

1197
01:00:32,629 --> 01:00:35,894
Oh, forget about it, LIoyd
Hornbuckle`s just a busybody.

1198
01:00:35,965 --> 01:00:38,593
- I`II see you Iater, Bernie.
- Thank you, Sheriff.

1199
01:00:40,970 --> 01:00:42,232
[cell ringing]

1200
01:00:51,247 --> 01:00:52,874
Hello.

1201
01:00:52,949 --> 01:00:55,577
((LIoyd) You are Iiving
in a wold of guilt.

1202
01:00:55,652 --> 01:00:59,645
AII the police have to do
is find one shred of evidence

1203
01:00:59,756 --> 01:01:03,192
and it`s off to hell you go.

1204
01:01:03,226 --> 01:01:05,319
LIoyd, is that you?

1205
01:01:05,395 --> 01:01:08,364
LIoyd? Hello..

1206
01:01:08,431 --> 01:01:12,333
[sigh]

1207
01:01:12,402 --> 01:01:13,869
Bernie, are you okay?

1208
01:01:13,936 --> 01:01:17,838
Hm? Yeah, I just, uh..

1209
01:01:17,907 --> 01:01:19,602
[deep sigh]

1210
01:01:19,676 --> 01:01:21,075
Can I ask you something?

1211
01:01:21,144 --> 01:01:22,611
Of course.

1212
01:01:22,679 --> 01:01:26,206
It`s so strange.

1213
01:01:26,282 --> 01:01:31,777
Do you believe a person
could be capable of..

1214
01:01:31,854 --> 01:01:34,118
an action..

1215
01:01:34,190 --> 01:01:35,555
and yet to them it feels Iike

1216
01:01:35,625 --> 01:01:36,922
it`s not even them doing it.

1217
01:01:36,993 --> 01:01:41,794
AImost Iike Jekyll and Hyde?

1218
01:01:41,864 --> 01:01:46,233
Bernie, stop worrying, it`s okay.

1219
01:01:46,302 --> 01:01:51,296
someone`s personal proclivities
are nobody`s else `s business.

1220
01:01:51,374 --> 01:01:57,802
We all Iove you Iike you
are, Bernie, no matter what.

1221
01:01:57,914 --> 01:02:04,251
? Shackled by a heavy burden?

1222
01:02:04,287 --> 01:02:09,816
? B`neath the Ioad Of guilt and shame?

1223
01:02:09,892 --> 01:02:15,159
? Then the hand Of Jesus touched me?

1224
01:02:15,231 --> 01:02:21,101
? And now I am No Ionger the same?

1225
01:02:21,170 --> 01:02:24,333
? He touched me, Oh he touched me?

1226
01:02:24,407 --> 01:02:28,639
- God bless you, Bernie.
- God bless you, Mr. Brown.

1227
01:02:28,711 --> 01:02:31,145
- That was beautiful.
- Thank you.

1228
01:02:31,214 --> 01:02:33,978
- You have a blessed weekend.
- God bless you too.

1229
01:02:34,050 --> 01:02:35,574
Thank you.

1230
01:02:35,651 --> 01:02:37,084
As always, Bernie, I Iove the songs.

1231
01:02:37,153 --> 01:02:38,984
- Thank you.
- My sympathies.

1232
01:02:39,055 --> 01:02:40,647
Thank you, MariBelle, it`s
always great to see you.

1233
01:02:40,723 --> 01:02:42,520
I`m so sorry Marjorie didn`t hear that,

1234
01:02:42,592 --> 01:02:44,958
I hear she`s doing better.

1235
01:02:45,027 --> 01:02:49,623
Yes, some days it seems she`s
starting to feel better but, um..

1236
01:02:49,699 --> 01:02:51,530
I`m still afraid..

1237
01:02:51,601 --> 01:02:53,193
I`m gonna Iose her soon.

1238
01:02:53,269 --> 01:02:55,203
[cooing sounds]

1239
01:03:00,409 --> 01:03:02,536
(Lloyd, off) Finally.

1240
01:03:02,612 --> 01:03:05,877
Nine months since I had last
laid eyes on Mrs. Nugent,

1241
01:03:05,948 --> 01:03:07,643
we got into her house.

1242
01:03:07,717 --> 01:03:08,684
Grandma?

1243
01:03:16,125 --> 01:03:17,456
Mrs. Nugent?

1244
01:03:19,796 --> 01:03:20,694
Grandma?

1245
01:03:28,971 --> 01:03:29,699
Nothing.

1246
01:03:29,772 --> 01:03:30,796
Hm.

1247
01:03:44,654 --> 01:03:46,121
((LIoyd) There`s nothing.

1248
01:04:22,024 --> 01:04:25,790
Why would she tape her freezer shut?

1249
01:04:46,482 --> 01:04:49,474
Oh, my God.

1250
01:04:49,552 --> 01:04:51,110
[shouting] sheriff!

1251
01:04:51,187 --> 01:04:56,955
[excited chatter]

1252
01:04:57,026 --> 01:04:59,654
((lady reporter) Sir, I`m
a reporter for KCM channel.

1253
01:04:59,762 --> 01:05:01,957
Ma`am, hold on.

1254
01:05:01,998 --> 01:05:03,226
Would you care to make a
statement about what`s going on?

1255
01:05:03,299 --> 01:05:04,664
- Sheriff?
- Hey, Danny.

1256
01:05:04,734 --> 01:05:07,328
- In the freezer?
- Yeah.

1257
01:05:07,403 --> 01:05:09,428
AII in one piece or chopped up?

1258
01:05:09,505 --> 01:05:12,065
- AII in one piece.
- Holy shit.

1259
01:05:12,141 --> 01:05:14,336
Frozen Iike a Popsicle.

1260
01:05:14,410 --> 01:05:15,672
[weeping]

1261
01:05:22,985 --> 01:05:24,111
Be careful.

1262
01:05:24,186 --> 01:05:25,778
[groaning]

1263
01:05:25,855 --> 01:05:27,379
[soft chatter]

1264
01:05:48,210 --> 01:05:49,802
AIright, get rolling,

1265
01:05:49,879 --> 01:05:51,972
straight to Dallas,
no stopping for coffee.

1266
01:05:52,048 --> 01:05:54,278
- AIright.
- No sir, we ain`t stoppin`.

1267
01:06:01,857 --> 01:06:05,054
(Danny) We had loaded up the
freezer with its contents intact

1268
01:06:05,127 --> 01:06:08,528
for transport to the Dallas
Medical Examiner`s office

1269
01:06:08,597 --> 01:06:10,326
where the forensic experts over there

1270
01:06:10,399 --> 01:06:12,230
are gonna study it.

1271
01:06:12,301 --> 01:06:14,997
At this time, are there
any suspects in the murder?

1272
01:06:15,071 --> 01:06:16,834
Oh, there`s one man in
particular I can think of

1273
01:06:16,906 --> 01:06:19,067
I sure would Iike to talk to.

1274
01:06:19,141 --> 01:06:20,870
Hey, Sheriff, did you
actually find him yet?

1275
01:06:20,943 --> 01:06:22,342
We`re still Iooking for him.

1276
01:06:22,411 --> 01:06:23,708
He wasn`t at Carthage aviation,

1277
01:06:23,779 --> 01:06:25,041
Carthage Awards or his house.

1278
01:06:25,114 --> 01:06:27,207
AIright, Iook..

1279
01:06:27,283 --> 01:06:29,843
we`re gonna throw a net over
the entire tri-county area

1280
01:06:29,919 --> 01:06:31,978
to find our number one suspect.

1281
01:06:32,054 --> 01:06:33,578
We might be dealing with a madman here,

1282
01:06:33,656 --> 01:06:35,180
a bonafide deranged killer.

1283
01:06:35,257 --> 01:06:38,420
Achieving goals, mastering skills,

1284
01:06:38,494 --> 01:06:39,893
the opponent isn`t the other team,

1285
01:06:39,962 --> 01:06:41,657
it`s really just yourself.

1286
01:06:41,731 --> 01:06:43,255
And if you`ve worked hard,

1287
01:06:43,332 --> 01:06:44,924
and done the absolute best that you can,

1288
01:06:45,001 --> 01:06:46,935
then no matter what the scoreboard says,

1289
01:06:47,003 --> 01:06:49,665
you are the winner in the game of Iife.

1290
01:06:49,739 --> 01:06:51,331
You can hold your head high..

1291
01:06:51,407 --> 01:06:54,069
Mr. Tiede, may we have a word with you?

1292
01:06:54,143 --> 01:06:56,543
Of course. Right now?

1293
01:06:56,612 --> 01:06:58,204
Sure.

1294
01:06:58,314 --> 01:07:00,805
I`m gonna go talk to the police.

1295
01:07:00,850 --> 01:07:03,114
Gentlemen, you have earned yourself..

1296
01:07:03,185 --> 01:07:06,450
a great dessert. Go, Rattlers.

1297
01:07:06,522 --> 01:07:08,285
I`m so proud of you. [clears throat]

1298
01:07:08,357 --> 01:07:10,518
This way.

1299
01:07:13,129 --> 01:07:16,292
(male voice) How long you been
thinking about killing her, Bernie?

1300
01:07:16,365 --> 01:07:20,233
I never thought of me
killing Mrs. Nugent.

1301
01:07:20,302 --> 01:07:24,932
I`d..I guess I fantasized
about her death,

1302
01:07:25,007 --> 01:07:28,636
but I was never the
one responsible for it.

1303
01:07:28,711 --> 01:07:31,578
She always died accidentally Iike..

1304
01:07:31,647 --> 01:07:36,949
in a car accident or falling down
the escalator at the mall in Longview.

1305
01:07:37,019 --> 01:07:40,546
I was always the one
weeping by her open casket.

1306
01:07:40,623 --> 01:07:44,491
Comforting others,
being comforted myself.

1307
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:47,825
Why`d you want her dead, Bernie?

1308
01:07:47,897 --> 01:07:52,459
Mm, she had become so
mean and possessive of me.

1309
01:07:52,535 --> 01:07:55,629
I..I couldn`t face being
around her any Ionger.

1310
01:07:55,704 --> 01:07:57,797
And then it just..happened.

1311
01:07:57,907 --> 01:08:00,603
I don`t know. I shot her!

1312
01:08:00,643 --> 01:08:04,340
I shot poor Mrs. Nugent four times.

1313
01:08:04,413 --> 01:08:09,112
With the armadillo gun.

1314
01:08:09,185 --> 01:08:10,550
Then what?

1315
01:08:15,224 --> 01:08:19,183
Well, then the Lord called her Home.

1316
01:08:19,261 --> 01:08:25,530
I know I done wrong and I
must atone for my sins. Oh!

1317
01:08:25,601 --> 01:08:33,804
[Ioud sobs]

1318
01:08:33,876 --> 01:08:38,609
EIizabeth, I just heard Bernie
killed your sister Margy.

1319
01:08:38,681 --> 01:08:40,808
Oh, honey, no.

1320
01:08:40,883 --> 01:08:43,215
Marjorie`s in a nursing
home over in Timble.

1321
01:08:43,285 --> 01:08:47,654
No, no, she is in a deep
freeze going to Dallas.

1322
01:08:47,723 --> 01:08:50,283
Nobody in a million years

1323
01:08:50,359 --> 01:08:52,884
could`ve imagined that
that could`ve happened.

1324
01:08:52,962 --> 01:08:57,899
Shock! I could not
believe Bernie did this.

1325
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,093
No way.

1326
01:09:00,136 --> 01:09:03,731
Well, it was fucking unbelievable.
Nobody could believe it.

1327
01:09:03,806 --> 01:09:06,741
You know, I could see somebody
wantin` to do that to her,

1328
01:09:06,809 --> 01:09:09,710
but Bernie Tiede`s the Iast
person I woulda thought done it.

1329
01:09:09,778 --> 01:09:13,407
I mean, we were just shocked,
just shocked. Just disbelief.

1330
01:09:13,482 --> 01:09:16,383
The Bernie I knew was
somewhat of a sissy.

1331
01:09:16,452 --> 01:09:18,249
And it just ain`t no way

1332
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:20,254
I can see him ever killing anybody.

1333
01:09:20,322 --> 01:09:21,846
I thought they`d made a mistake.

1334
01:09:21,924 --> 01:09:24,893
You got this sweet guy, you got Bernie,

1335
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:26,484
who`s just the nicest
fella I`d ever met,

1336
01:09:26,562 --> 01:09:27,927
and I`ve known him for a Iittle while,

1337
01:09:27,997 --> 01:09:29,760
and then you got..Mrs. Nugent

1338
01:09:29,832 --> 01:09:32,266
who is not nice,

1339
01:09:32,334 --> 01:09:34,734
not nice to a Iarge degree, just evil.

1340
01:09:34,803 --> 01:09:37,067
So you got this sweetness
and you got this evil,

1341
01:09:37,139 --> 01:09:39,767
and they`re kinda
battlin` each other, uh..

1342
01:09:39,842 --> 01:09:42,003
and you know that something
at some point`s gotta give,

1343
01:09:42,077 --> 01:09:44,011
something`s gotta break

1344
01:09:44,079 --> 01:09:46,411
and she was justs more evil
than he was nice, I guess,

1345
01:09:46,482 --> 01:09:48,040
and he just exploded.

1346
01:09:48,117 --> 01:09:51,609
We`re all capable of that dark moment.

1347
01:09:51,687 --> 01:09:55,282
If we ever get angry enough.

1348
01:09:55,357 --> 01:09:57,621
He must`ve wanted to get caught.

1349
01:09:57,693 --> 01:09:59,558
AII he had to do was put her body

1350
01:09:59,628 --> 01:10:01,357
in one of his airplanes,

1351
01:10:01,430 --> 01:10:04,024
fly her out over the Gulf
and push her right out.

1352
01:10:04,099 --> 01:10:07,091
No body, no arrest.

1353
01:10:07,169 --> 01:10:09,296
A woman Iike that with a bad heart..

1354
01:10:09,371 --> 01:10:12,135
he shoulda just shoved the
pillow right over her face.

1355
01:10:12,208 --> 01:10:14,642
Then they probably wouldn`t
even done an autopsy.

1356
01:10:14,710 --> 01:10:16,940
A few days Iater, he`d
be doing her funeral.

1357
01:10:17,012 --> 01:10:19,071
Oh, I just started shaking my head

1358
01:10:19,148 --> 01:10:21,582
going, ``Oh Bernie,
Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.``

1359
01:10:21,650 --> 01:10:24,744
Who in their right mind
would kill their meal ticket?

1360
01:10:24,820 --> 01:10:26,651
It was crazy around here.

1361
01:10:26,722 --> 01:10:30,488
People were on Danny Buck
Iike ticks on a coon dog.

1362
01:10:30,559 --> 01:10:32,493
Yeah, Danny Buck, you
know Bernie didn`t know

1363
01:10:32,561 --> 01:10:33,994
anything about shooting a rifle.

1364
01:10:34,063 --> 01:10:35,792
He didn`t go huntin`,

1365
01:10:35,864 --> 01:10:37,764
he wouldn`t know a deer
blind from an outhouse.

1366
01:10:37,833 --> 01:10:39,630
That he wouldn`t.

1367
01:10:39,702 --> 01:10:41,260
There are not enough
nice men in this town.

1368
01:10:41,337 --> 01:10:42,998
Leave poor Bernie alone, Danny Buck.

1369
01:10:43,072 --> 01:10:44,562
We don`t even think he did it.

1370
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:46,574
He confessed.

1371
01:10:46,642 --> 01:10:48,405
Danny Buck,

1372
01:10:48,477 --> 01:10:50,968
you knew Mrs. Nugent as
well as any of us did.

1373
01:10:51,046 --> 01:10:52,343
Did you ever stop to think

1374
01:10:52,414 --> 01:10:54,974
maybe, just maybe

1375
01:10:55,050 --> 01:10:57,610
Bernie did it in self defense.

1376
01:10:57,720 --> 01:10:59,187
Self defense.

1377
01:10:59,221 --> 01:11:00,620
Maybe it was a forced confession.

1378
01:11:00,689 --> 01:11:02,350
They could`ve beat it out of him.

1379
01:11:02,424 --> 01:11:04,016
He`s too sweet to stand
up under interrogation.

1380
01:11:04,093 --> 01:11:05,856
Look, there was no interrogation.

1381
01:11:05,928 --> 01:11:09,091
He walked in, sat down
and told us everything.

1382
01:11:09,164 --> 01:11:11,029
Simple as that.

1383
01:11:11,100 --> 01:11:12,692
Well, hell.

1384
01:11:12,768 --> 01:11:14,292
Even if he did do it,

1385
01:11:14,370 --> 01:11:15,701
she was so mean and ornery,

1386
01:11:15,771 --> 01:11:17,466
she had it coming to her.

1387
01:11:17,539 --> 01:11:19,769
It`s not as bad as people say it is.

1388
01:11:19,842 --> 01:11:22,868
He only shot her four times, not five.

1389
01:11:22,945 --> 01:11:24,378
You know what?

1390
01:11:24,446 --> 01:11:26,346
You people are as crazy as a coot.

1391
01:11:26,415 --> 01:11:28,940
I Iike Bernie Tiede as much as you do.

1392
01:11:29,018 --> 01:11:32,351
He did shoot her though!

1393
01:11:32,421 --> 01:11:34,389
I tell you what.

1394
01:11:34,456 --> 01:11:35,980
I don`t claim to know what Bernie did

1395
01:11:36,058 --> 01:11:37,821
or did not do.

1396
01:11:37,893 --> 01:11:40,191
I figure that`s between
him and God AImighty.

1397
01:11:40,262 --> 01:11:42,890
Mm-hm. And the way I figure it,

1398
01:11:42,965 --> 01:11:45,798
that`s where it should stay.

1399
01:11:45,868 --> 01:11:49,895
Man, I hope I`m on that jury.

1400
01:11:49,972 --> 01:11:53,908
Yes, we need to be able to forgive
someone who`s done something wrong.

1401
01:11:53,976 --> 01:11:56,342
And no matter what the truth is,

1402
01:11:56,412 --> 01:12:00,576
Bernie is going to need our prayers.

1403
01:12:00,683 --> 01:12:03,083
so, folks, we need to understand

1404
01:12:03,118 --> 01:12:07,384
that tragedies are
simply tests of our faith.

1405
01:12:07,456 --> 01:12:09,549
And right now, Bernie needs to know,

1406
01:12:09,625 --> 01:12:14,187
especially during this
testing of his faith,

1407
01:12:14,263 --> 01:12:18,165
that God and this congregation

1408
01:12:18,233 --> 01:12:21,896
have not abandoned him.

1409
01:12:21,970 --> 01:12:23,733
[Buck clears throat]

1410
01:12:23,806 --> 01:12:25,034
(pastor) Good to see
you, thanks for coming.

1411
01:12:25,107 --> 01:12:26,438
Good to see you.

1412
01:12:26,508 --> 01:12:28,066
God bless you for everything.

1413
01:12:28,143 --> 01:12:30,077
Reverend. Now Iisten,

1414
01:12:30,145 --> 01:12:34,275
I understand you going all
New Testament on him but uh..

1415
01:12:34,350 --> 01:12:36,409
you got to at Ieast take
him off the prayer Iist.

1416
01:12:36,485 --> 01:12:40,114
Hey, I gotta stay neutral,
everybody needs a preacher.

1417
01:12:40,189 --> 01:12:42,214
Neutral?

1418
01:12:42,291 --> 01:12:45,226
Reverend, basically you were
supporting a criminal act.

1419
01:12:45,294 --> 01:12:47,558
You know, all I hear is poor Bernie.

1420
01:12:47,629 --> 01:12:49,290
Nobody`s talking about poor Marjorie.

1421
01:12:49,365 --> 01:12:51,595
Hell, everyone seems to be forgetting

1422
01:12:51,667 --> 01:12:54,261
that there`s a Iady, a
member of this congregation,

1423
01:12:54,336 --> 01:12:55,894
shot in the back four times

1424
01:12:55,971 --> 01:12:57,461
and put in the freezer.

1425
01:12:57,573 --> 01:12:59,268
Danny, the Bernie you`re talking about

1426
01:12:59,308 --> 01:13:01,572
is not the Bernie this church knows.

1427
01:13:01,643 --> 01:13:03,702
The heck it isn`t.

1428
01:13:03,779 --> 01:13:05,872
It sounds Iike the only Bernie
you`re choosing to remember

1429
01:13:05,948 --> 01:13:08,940
is the one that donated 100,000
dollars to your church. Reverend.

1430
01:13:09,017 --> 01:13:11,315
Danny, Iook, I`m sorry you feel that..

1431
01:13:11,387 --> 01:13:14,481
It`s been hard on everyone.

1432
01:13:14,556 --> 01:13:16,490
AIright, kiddos.

1433
01:13:16,558 --> 01:13:18,150
AII the good that Bernie
had done for everybody,

1434
01:13:18,227 --> 01:13:20,889
or for us around here, it just..

1435
01:13:20,963 --> 01:13:22,988
they come in, and then
it was gonna get all

1436
01:13:23,065 --> 01:13:26,125
Mrs. Nugent`s money back
that Bernie had spent.

1437
01:13:26,201 --> 01:13:28,135
We Iost our airport,

1438
01:13:28,203 --> 01:13:31,331
we lost our best store,

1439
01:13:31,407 --> 01:13:35,400
cars, some people lost their houses,

1440
01:13:35,477 --> 01:13:38,344
jet skis.

1441
01:13:38,414 --> 01:13:41,508
He spent 600, 000 dollars
of Mrs. Nugent`s money.

1442
01:13:51,427 --> 01:13:52,860
No paperwork, anything?

1443
01:13:52,928 --> 01:13:55,021
A receipt [inaudible]?

1444
01:13:55,097 --> 01:13:56,928
I don`t know, I mean..

1445
01:13:56,999 --> 01:13:59,490
he just gave it to me,
said I could have it.

1446
01:14:03,539 --> 01:14:05,268
Well, you know, at
least they could`ve left

1447
01:14:05,340 --> 01:14:06,534
some money for the church.

1448
01:14:06,608 --> 01:14:10,044
Hell, [unintelligible].

1449
01:14:10,112 --> 01:14:11,636
(female voice) Here they come!

1450
01:14:11,713 --> 01:14:14,011
[cheering]

1451
01:14:14,082 --> 01:14:16,676
(female reporter, off) Although
rumors have been circulating

1452
01:14:16,752 --> 01:14:18,481
about a possible plea bargain

1453
01:14:18,554 --> 01:14:20,818
to lesser charges or
a probated sentence,

1454
01:14:20,889 --> 01:14:22,982
District A ttorney Danny Buck Davidson

1455
01:14:23,058 --> 01:14:25,185
has shocked East Texas

1456
01:14:25,260 --> 01:14:27,558
by filing first degree
murder charges against Tiede,

1457
01:14:27,629 --> 01:14:30,063
which could result in a life sentence.

1458
01:14:30,132 --> 01:14:32,123
[shouting]

1459
01:14:32,201 --> 01:14:34,169
Clearly, the tiny town
of Carthage is buzzing

1460
01:14:34,236 --> 01:14:36,170
with opinions over the murder.

1461
01:14:36,238 --> 01:14:39,139
He didn`t shoot Mrs. Nugent in the back.

1462
01:14:39,208 --> 01:14:40,573
He didn`t do it.

1463
01:14:40,642 --> 01:14:44,134
Bernhardt Tiede ain`t no monster.

1464
01:14:44,213 --> 01:14:47,740
Ain`t no jury gonna convict
Bernie of first degree murder.

1465
01:14:47,816 --> 01:14:49,716
In fact, I don`t know

1466
01:14:49,785 --> 01:14:52,253
if a jury`s gonna
convict him of anything

1467
01:14:52,321 --> 01:14:54,516
and I `II say this, if
a jury as to convict him,

1468
01:14:54,590 --> 01:14:56,353
they`II probably gonna
give him probation.

1469
01:14:56,425 --> 01:14:58,222
They ain`t gonna send
him to the penitentiary.

1470
01:14:58,327 --> 01:15:00,557
In the meantime, Bernie
sits in the county jail

1471
01:15:00,596 --> 01:15:02,530
where he`s reportedly already become

1472
01:15:02,598 --> 01:15:04,190
a popular inmate

1473
01:15:04,266 --> 01:15:06,200
Ieading a Bible study group

1474
01:15:06,268 --> 01:15:08,259
and cooking meals for the staff.

1475
01:15:08,337 --> 01:15:10,202
(Bernie) Now, we are
going to line the bottom

1476
01:15:10,272 --> 01:15:12,206
of the pie dish with cheese

1477
01:15:12,274 --> 01:15:14,572
to provide a barrier between
the Iiquid and the crust.

1478
01:15:14,643 --> 01:15:16,907
Now a Iot of people use grated cheese,

1479
01:15:16,979 --> 01:15:19,447
but I found that if you cut it
in Iittle quarter inch cubes,

1480
01:15:19,515 --> 01:15:22,382
it does a better job of keeping
the crust from getting soggy.

1481
01:15:22,451 --> 01:15:28,583
Now, we are going to saut� the
broccoli Iightly in olive oil

1482
01:15:28,657 --> 01:15:30,784
till it`s just bright green.

1483
01:15:30,859 --> 01:15:32,588
That keeps the flavor in.

1484
01:15:32,661 --> 01:15:34,595
If you put it in raw,
it`s completely flavorless.

1485
01:15:34,663 --> 01:15:38,793
I`m not saying we want
the case totally dropped,

1486
01:15:38,867 --> 01:15:42,303
but isn`t there some way to keep
Bernie from getting punished too much?

1487
01:15:42,371 --> 01:15:44,931
That`s $14.74.

1488
01:15:45,007 --> 01:15:46,975
So Iet me ask you something, Mrs. Beck.

1489
01:15:47,042 --> 01:15:50,205
If someone came along and shot
you in the back four times,

1490
01:15:50,279 --> 01:15:54,238
would you still be fine with me not
Ietting them get punished too much?

1491
01:15:54,316 --> 01:15:56,409
If I`m on that jury, Danny Buck,

1492
01:15:56,485 --> 01:15:58,976
I`m votin` to acquit.

1493
01:16:03,725 --> 01:16:06,387
As far as convicting Bernie,

1494
01:16:06,461 --> 01:16:09,658
I feed you straight. I mean, even
with the confession in my pocket,

1495
01:16:09,731 --> 01:16:11,995
I was a bit trepidacious.

1496
01:16:12,067 --> 01:16:15,833
I mean, it`s Iike he cast a
spell over the entire area.

1497
01:16:15,904 --> 01:16:18,270
AII the Iittle old Iadies,

1498
01:16:18,340 --> 01:16:20,331
Methodist church people,

1499
01:16:20,409 --> 01:16:22,468
anybody he`d ever given anything to.

1500
01:16:22,544 --> 01:16:24,842
With Mrs. Nugent`s money.

1501
01:16:24,913 --> 01:16:27,438
AII the closet homosexuals. Everybody.

1502
01:16:27,516 --> 01:16:29,279
Everybody thought he was gonna get off.

1503
01:16:29,351 --> 01:16:33,014
But I had one card left to play.

1504
01:16:33,088 --> 01:16:35,181
And I went all in.

1505
01:16:35,257 --> 01:16:38,749
Trials are generally moved
when the judge determines

1506
01:16:38,827 --> 01:16:42,763
that the defendant can`t
get a fair trial Iocally.

1507
01:16:42,831 --> 01:16:48,997
And that`s usually because the crime
is so egregious and so well known

1508
01:16:49,071 --> 01:16:51,130
that everybody in the
community has already convicted

1509
01:16:51,206 --> 01:16:54,369
the poor son of a bitch accused of it.

1510
01:16:54,443 --> 01:16:58,038
But in all the years I`ve
been doing this for a Iiving,

1511
01:16:58,146 --> 01:17:00,740
I have never heard of the state

1512
01:17:00,782 --> 01:17:02,647
seeking a change of venue

1513
01:17:02,718 --> 01:17:05,209
because the defendant was so well Iiked

1514
01:17:05,287 --> 01:17:07,687
that they couldn`t get a conviction.

1515
01:17:07,756 --> 01:17:13,058
So when I heard that the judge had
actually agreed to move the trial,

1516
01:17:13,128 --> 01:17:18,122
giving in to Danny Buck`s
harebrained request,

1517
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:21,795
my first thought was, ``Oh, shit.

1518
01:17:21,870 --> 01:17:24,202
Our donkey`s in a ditch.``

1519
01:17:24,272 --> 01:17:27,070
??

1520
01:17:27,142 --> 01:17:28,700
Bring in the freezer.

1521
01:17:31,246 --> 01:17:33,874
Let the jury be able to see

1522
01:17:33,949 --> 01:17:39,910
where Mrs. Nugent spent the first
nine months of her afterlife.

1523
01:17:39,988 --> 01:17:42,252
A poor excuse for a casket.

1524
01:17:42,324 --> 01:17:45,259
Boys, make sure it opens up to the jury.

1525
01:17:45,327 --> 01:17:48,922
There `s some wild shit on
both sides of the courtroom.

1526
01:17:48,997 --> 01:17:51,591
But, you know, this was the big stage

1527
01:17:51,667 --> 01:17:55,068
the big town, the big show
they`d been waiting for

1528
01:17:55,137 --> 01:17:56,832
and they pulled out all the stops.

1529
01:17:56,905 --> 01:18:00,602
They wheeled in the actual deep freeze.

1530
01:18:00,709 --> 01:18:06,579
Mm-hm.

1531
01:18:06,615 --> 01:18:12,053
They projected pictures
of frozen dead Mrs. Nugent.

1532
01:18:12,120 --> 01:18:16,284
And then they started bringing
out the crying weeping relatives.

1533
01:18:16,358 --> 01:18:18,883
And then I went to the freezer.

1534
01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:20,450
And I saw

1535
01:18:20,529 --> 01:18:24,465
underneath her corn and her steak and..

1536
01:18:24,533 --> 01:18:27,229
her pot pies was..

1537
01:18:27,302 --> 01:18:31,466
the top of her head.

1538
01:18:31,540 --> 01:18:33,007
It was so horrible.

1539
01:18:37,713 --> 01:18:39,374
No further questions, Your Honor.

1540
01:18:43,051 --> 01:18:45,815
When was the Iast time you
talked to your grandmother?

1541
01:18:45,887 --> 01:18:49,482
Um, I don`t remember.

1542
01:18:49,558 --> 01:18:51,219
Isn`t it true that you and your brother

1543
01:18:51,293 --> 01:18:55,821
sued your grandmother
almost four years ago?

1544
01:18:55,897 --> 01:18:58,297
We were advised to by a Iawyer.

1545
01:18:58,400 --> 01:19:00,300
A Iawyer?

1546
01:19:00,335 --> 01:19:05,102
You mean, just some old
boy come in off the street?

1547
01:19:05,173 --> 01:19:08,233
Or are we talking about your Iawyer?

1548
01:19:08,310 --> 01:19:11,006
I guess he was working for us.

1549
01:19:11,079 --> 01:19:13,604
I`II say he was working for you.

1550
01:19:13,682 --> 01:19:17,015
He was trying to get your
grandmother`s money, wasn`t he?

1551
01:19:20,822 --> 01:19:25,191
Did you ever speak to her after that?

1552
01:19:25,260 --> 01:19:26,488
I don`t think so.

1553
01:19:26,561 --> 01:19:28,085
Oh, you don`t think so.

1554
01:19:28,163 --> 01:19:30,654
Well, you know you didn`t.

1555
01:19:30,732 --> 01:19:33,667
But you told us earlier that you
were real close to your grandmother.

1556
01:19:33,735 --> 01:19:37,000
Now was that the same woman
you were suing for money?

1557
01:19:37,072 --> 01:19:39,199
Is that the same woman

1558
01:19:39,274 --> 01:19:43,210
that you have not
spoken to in four years?

1559
01:19:43,278 --> 01:19:46,805
I felt in our hearts
we were still close.

1560
01:19:46,882 --> 01:19:49,373
[scoffs]

1561
01:19:49,451 --> 01:19:50,816
I knew he was in trouble

1562
01:19:50,886 --> 01:19:53,286
when I saw that jury.

1563
01:19:53,355 --> 01:19:56,847
And Bernie was just gonna have to
get up there and explain himself

1564
01:19:56,925 --> 01:20:01,453
to a bunch of Saint Augustine
cousin-countin` rednecks over there.

1565
01:20:01,530 --> 01:20:04,624
I mean, they got more tattoos than teeth

1566
01:20:04,699 --> 01:20:07,566
and there ain`t no brain
in the whole dozen of `em,

1567
01:20:07,636 --> 01:20:09,729
and they`re supposed to decide

1568
01:20:09,805 --> 01:20:12,296
big things Iike this?

1569
01:20:12,374 --> 01:20:16,902
I mean, shoot, I wouldn`t
Iet `em work on my car.

1570
01:20:16,978 --> 01:20:19,412
Now, Bernie,

1571
01:20:19,481 --> 01:20:22,507
after you were arrested you
gave a confession, correct?

1572
01:20:22,584 --> 01:20:25,576
Yes, sir.

1573
01:20:25,654 --> 01:20:29,385
How did you feel about Marjorie Nugent?

1574
01:20:29,457 --> 01:20:32,051
I cared for Marjorie deeply.

1575
01:20:32,127 --> 01:20:34,391
I Ioved her very much.

1576
01:20:34,462 --> 01:20:36,225
And I`ve sent Ietters
from jail to her family

1577
01:20:36,298 --> 01:20:40,598
asking their forgiveness
for ruining Margy`s Iife

1578
01:20:40,669 --> 01:20:43,934
and the pain I`ve caused.

1579
01:20:44,005 --> 01:20:46,337
Well, if you cared for her,

1580
01:20:46,408 --> 01:20:49,104
even Ioved her,

1581
01:20:49,177 --> 01:20:52,112
why do you reckon you killed her?

1582
01:20:52,180 --> 01:20:54,011
[deep sigh]

1583
01:20:54,082 --> 01:20:55,515
I could probably describe
it Iike being in prison

1584
01:20:55,584 --> 01:20:58,576
to some degree.

1585
01:20:58,687 --> 01:21:00,587
She wouldn`t allow me
to have any friends,

1586
01:21:00,622 --> 01:21:03,750
and I`m a people person.
I got to have my friends.

1587
01:21:03,825 --> 01:21:05,554
[sigh]

1588
01:21:05,627 --> 01:21:10,428
She was very jealous and
possessive of my time.

1589
01:21:10,498 --> 01:21:14,798
She had become so hateful.

1590
01:21:14,870 --> 01:21:17,634
I don`t even remember
picking up the gun that day.

1591
01:21:17,706 --> 01:21:20,641
It was Iike someone else was doing it.

1592
01:21:20,709 --> 01:21:23,143
so why did you leave the body there?

1593
01:21:23,211 --> 01:21:25,145
It would seem to me that

1594
01:21:25,213 --> 01:21:27,147
if you didn`t want to get caught,

1595
01:21:27,215 --> 01:21:29,445
you`d find some way to dispose of it.

1596
01:21:29,517 --> 01:21:30,814
Oh no, no, no.

1597
01:21:30,886 --> 01:21:33,150
I could never do that.

1598
01:21:33,221 --> 01:21:34,950
That was never my intention.

1599
01:21:35,023 --> 01:21:37,321
Everyone deserves a proper burial.

1600
01:21:37,392 --> 01:21:39,724
And I was..

1601
01:21:39,794 --> 01:21:42,991
I was just waiting for
my chance to give her one.

1602
01:21:51,973 --> 01:21:53,998
Thank you, Bernie.

1603
01:21:54,075 --> 01:21:57,408
I`II pass the witness.

1604
01:21:57,479 --> 01:22:00,937
So help me out here, Bernie.

1605
01:22:01,016 --> 01:22:06,511
On this trip with Mrs.
Nugent to New York City,

1606
01:22:06,588 --> 01:22:11,491
did you fly first class?

1607
01:22:11,559 --> 01:22:14,027
Yes, I believe we did.

1608
01:22:14,095 --> 01:22:16,529
Tell us the difference between
like the first class seats

1609
01:22:16,598 --> 01:22:18,691
and the regular old seats
in the back of the plane.

1610
01:22:18,767 --> 01:22:21,702
I..I`ve never been up there.

1611
01:22:21,770 --> 01:22:24,534
I`d say the seats are
a Iittle Iarger maybe.

1612
01:22:24,606 --> 01:22:26,699
More comfortable.

1613
01:22:26,775 --> 01:22:29,266
Don`t they have people waiting`
on you and stuff too, you know?

1614
01:22:29,344 --> 01:22:31,710
I mean, people bringing you fancy food,

1615
01:22:31,780 --> 01:22:35,978
and serving you whatever you
want to drink and stuff like that?

1616
01:22:36,051 --> 01:22:39,316
Yes, the service is
probably a Iittle better.

1617
01:22:39,387 --> 01:22:41,685
Oh, so you Iike the
first class treatment.

1618
01:22:41,756 --> 01:22:47,456
First class Iifestyle, the
best that money can buy.

1619
01:22:47,529 --> 01:22:49,394
I was accompanying Mrs. Nugent

1620
01:22:49,464 --> 01:22:51,455
who usually preferred these
things when she traveled.

1621
01:22:51,533 --> 01:22:53,524
- Mm-hm.
- So.

1622
01:22:53,601 --> 01:22:56,900
Now, on that New York City trip,

1623
01:22:56,972 --> 01:22:58,735
it says here that you and Mrs. Nugent

1624
01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:04,403
stayed at the.. the Ritz Carlton?

1625
01:23:04,446 --> 01:23:08,075
That`s a fancy hotel near
Central Park, isn`t it?

1626
01:23:08,149 --> 01:23:11,084
Yes, I believe that is where we stayed.

1627
01:23:11,152 --> 01:23:14,019
It also says here that while
you were in New York City,

1628
01:23:14,089 --> 01:23:16,387
you saw an opera.

1629
01:23:16,458 --> 01:23:18,323
And a Broadway play.

1630
01:23:18,393 --> 01:23:21,419
I think it`s called ``Les Miserables. ``

1631
01:23:21,496 --> 01:23:26,763
[French accent] Les Miserable.

1632
01:23:26,835 --> 01:23:30,430
That`s impressive.

1633
01:23:30,505 --> 01:23:31,995
What?

1634
01:23:32,073 --> 01:23:35,770
So culture is important to you.

1635
01:23:35,844 --> 01:23:37,744
In what way?

1636
01:23:37,812 --> 01:23:40,576
Well, you seem to know all
these fancy words and such.

1637
01:23:40,648 --> 01:23:42,775
Well, that one`s not very difficult.

1638
01:23:42,851 --> 01:23:47,117
[Iaughter]

1639
01:23:47,188 --> 01:23:52,592
Not for you.

1640
01:23:52,660 --> 01:23:56,756
You know all about the
high class Iife, don`t you?

1641
01:23:56,831 --> 01:24:01,632
I..what..Iike what?

1642
01:24:01,703 --> 01:24:05,036
Like, I don`t know,
say for instance what..

1643
01:24:05,106 --> 01:24:09,805
what kind of wine are you
supposed to have with fish?

1644
01:24:09,878 --> 01:24:12,904
No, I don`t.. white usually.

1645
01:24:12,981 --> 01:24:17,315
Mm-hm. That takes a Iot of money

1646
01:24:17,385 --> 01:24:19,478
to have so much culture, don`t it?

1647
01:24:19,554 --> 01:24:22,114
To..to enjoy the finer things in Iife

1648
01:24:22,190 --> 01:24:24,215
that you Iove so much.

1649
01:24:24,292 --> 01:24:27,955
The ritzy hotels, first class
flying off to the big cities.

1650
01:24:28,029 --> 01:24:30,088
I mean, it takes a Iot of money

1651
01:24:30,165 --> 01:24:31,655
to Iive that way, don`t it?

1652
01:24:31,733 --> 01:24:33,667
No, I..Ieft to my own devices,

1653
01:24:33,735 --> 01:24:35,635
I would not have been
traveling in such an expensive..

1654
01:24:35,703 --> 01:24:38,001
But Ieft to someone
else`s devices, you were!

1655
01:24:38,073 --> 01:24:40,564
And after you killed Mrs. Nugent,

1656
01:24:40,642 --> 01:24:42,473
you kept on spending
her money, didn`t you?

1657
01:24:42,544 --> 01:24:44,478
A Iot of it!

1658
01:24:44,546 --> 01:24:46,446
And if you wouldn`t a been caught,

1659
01:24:46,514 --> 01:24:49,005
you`d still be spending her money today.

1660
01:24:49,084 --> 01:24:50,483
Wouldn `t you?

1661
01:24:50,552 --> 01:24:53,749
Wouldn`t you?

1662
01:24:53,822 --> 01:24:57,189
[thud with hand]

1663
01:24:57,258 --> 01:24:59,749
Ladies and gentlemen,

1664
01:24:59,861 --> 01:25:02,728
after Iistening to all the evidence,

1665
01:25:02,764 --> 01:25:05,096
I`m sure that you will agree

1666
01:25:05,166 --> 01:25:10,001
that the defendant is a Iiar, a coward

1667
01:25:10,071 --> 01:25:14,030
and a backshooter.

1668
01:25:14,109 --> 01:25:16,703
Now, come on.

1669
01:25:16,778 --> 01:25:18,609
That`s got to be about the Iowest thing

1670
01:25:18,680 --> 01:25:22,616
a man could ever do, ain`t it?

1671
01:25:22,684 --> 01:25:25,881
shoot a little old lady in the back?

1672
01:25:25,954 --> 01:25:29,481
Four times.

1673
01:25:29,557 --> 01:25:32,117
There is no doubt in my mind

1674
01:25:32,193 --> 01:25:37,130
Bernie Tiede is a
calculating evil actor.

1675
01:25:37,198 --> 01:25:39,666
He fooled a whole town

1676
01:25:39,734 --> 01:25:42,294
for nine months.

1677
01:25:42,370 --> 01:25:44,304
Now if he can do that,

1678
01:25:44,372 --> 01:25:45,862
there ain`t no telling what he`II do

1679
01:25:45,940 --> 01:25:48,067
if you Iet him back on the streets.

1680
01:25:52,447 --> 01:25:58,579
That poor woman stayed frozen
stiff for nine whole months.

1681
01:25:58,686 --> 01:26:02,349
In a freezer.

1682
01:26:02,390 --> 01:26:06,588
It took two days to thaw her out.

1683
01:26:06,661 --> 01:26:10,688
Just so they could
perform a proper autopsy.

1684
01:26:10,765 --> 01:26:16,101
No. No, no, no, no, no.

1685
01:26:16,171 --> 01:26:17,729
I`m sorry.

1686
01:26:21,342 --> 01:26:27,076
Your honor, counsel, Iadies
and gentlemen of the jury,

1687
01:26:27,148 --> 01:26:30,083
all Danny Buck Davidson
wants to do in this trial

1688
01:26:30,151 --> 01:26:33,917
is get you to believe that
Bernie is some kind of monster.

1689
01:26:33,988 --> 01:26:38,925
That he is something other
than a fellow human being.

1690
01:26:38,993 --> 01:26:40,858
Look at him, Iadies and gentlemen.

1691
01:26:40,929 --> 01:26:45,025
There is not one hint of
premeditation in this case.

1692
01:26:45,099 --> 01:26:48,125
If there was, he`d have
done it a Iot differently.

1693
01:26:48,203 --> 01:26:50,364
He mighta gotten away with it.

1694
01:26:50,438 --> 01:26:54,465
Did he try to poison her slowly? No.

1695
01:26:54,542 --> 01:26:56,635
Did he burn down the house?

1696
01:26:56,711 --> 01:27:00,272
Say it was an accidental fire? No.

1697
01:27:00,381 --> 01:27:01,905
He still knew he done wrong.

1698
01:27:01,950 --> 01:27:03,417
He knew he was gonna get found out.

1699
01:27:03,484 --> 01:27:05,213
He just didn`t have the courage

1700
01:27:05,286 --> 01:27:07,151
to tell on himself.

1701
01:27:07,222 --> 01:27:09,281
But Iike a good funeral director,

1702
01:27:09,357 --> 01:27:14,454
he preserved the body so that
she could have a proper burial.

1703
01:27:14,529 --> 01:27:20,764
And in the meantime he did a
lot of good for a lot of people.

1704
01:27:20,835 --> 01:27:25,932
Till he finally got caught.

1705
01:27:26,007 --> 01:27:30,341
He just doesn`t sound Iike any
kind of monster I`ve ever heard of.

1706
01:27:30,411 --> 01:27:32,641
Thank you.

1707
01:27:32,714 --> 01:27:34,079
[Iively chatter]

1708
01:27:43,157 --> 01:27:46,024
(Danny) That doesn`t excuse
the crime that was committed.

1709
01:27:46,094 --> 01:27:49,120
Now Iook, everybody`s describing
Bernie Tiede as such a great guy.

1710
01:27:49,197 --> 01:27:51,859
``Oh, he`s so wonderful.
He`s an angel.``

1711
01:27:51,933 --> 01:27:53,696
Let me tell you, he`s an angel alright.

1712
01:27:53,768 --> 01:27:57,363
An angel of death.

1713
01:27:57,438 --> 01:27:58,905
Thank you.

1714
01:28:30,705 --> 01:28:38,168
(male voice) Bernie Tiede, please rise.

1715
01:28:38,246 --> 01:28:41,044
Mr. Foreman, it is my understanding

1716
01:28:41,115 --> 01:28:43,481
that the jury has reached a verdict.

1717
01:28:43,551 --> 01:28:46,247
Yes, sir, we have, Your Honor.

1718
01:28:46,321 --> 01:28:48,380
Is it unanimous?

1719
01:28:48,456 --> 01:28:49,889
Yes, sir.

1720
01:28:49,957 --> 01:28:56,157
Would you please read the verdict?

1721
01:28:56,230 --> 01:28:59,597
[clears throat]

1722
01:28:59,701 --> 01:29:01,293
We, the jury,

1723
01:29:01,336 --> 01:29:03,896
find the defendant Bernie Tiede,

1724
01:29:03,971 --> 01:29:06,439
guilty of murder as charged.

1725
01:29:06,507 --> 01:29:07,599
[gasping]

1726
01:29:40,441 --> 01:29:42,466
(Bernie) They gave me life.

1727
01:29:42,543 --> 01:29:48,243
I won`t even be up for
parole for 50 years.

1728
01:29:48,316 --> 01:29:50,011
I`ll be 89 years old.

1729
01:29:52,720 --> 01:29:54,654
Danny Buck, you gotta hand it to him.

1730
01:29:54,722 --> 01:29:58,419
What he did, is two groups, you know.

1731
01:29:58,493 --> 01:30:00,984
It was the high-falutin
` first class livin `

1732
01:30:01,062 --> 01:30:03,155
Bernies of the world,

1733
01:30:03,231 --> 01:30:05,290
and then there was the, you know,

1734
01:30:05,366 --> 01:30:09,598
Iet`s dig a hole in the backyard
and cook something, you know?

1735
01:30:09,670 --> 01:30:14,164
Put another tire on the
fire, George. I`m cold.

1736
01:30:14,242 --> 01:30:16,233
It was just two different
worlds he created there

1737
01:30:16,310 --> 01:30:20,804
and Bernie wasn`t of their world.

1738
01:30:20,882 --> 01:30:26,843
[soft murmuring]

1739
01:30:26,921 --> 01:30:28,684
(Bernie) lt`s not as bad as you think.

1740
01:30:28,756 --> 01:30:33,523
I`m the choir director,
teaching four classes.

1741
01:30:33,594 --> 01:30:36,256
I`m in the craft shop most of the day.

1742
01:30:36,330 --> 01:30:37,524
I miss my freedom.

1743
01:30:37,598 --> 01:30:39,828
Well, sure you do, hon.

1744
01:30:39,901 --> 01:30:41,528
I`m making the best of it.

1745
01:30:41,602 --> 01:30:43,194
Got a Iot to Iive for.

1746
01:30:43,271 --> 01:30:45,432
You do. You do.

1747
01:30:45,506 --> 01:30:46,837
I wanna help people here.

1748
01:30:46,908 --> 01:30:48,876
[shouting]

1749
01:30:48,943 --> 01:30:51,468
Hm, well, I have to
tell you what I`ve done.

1750
01:30:51,546 --> 01:30:53,480
I wrote the warden a Ietter.

1751
01:30:53,548 --> 01:30:55,345
Yeah, I did.

1752
01:30:55,416 --> 01:30:57,475
I told him that he had
to give you a work release

1753
01:30:57,585 --> 01:30:59,485
or something Iike that

1754
01:30:59,520 --> 01:31:01,818
so that you could sing at my funeral.

1755
01:31:01,889 --> 01:31:04,380
Now, I`m not sick or
anything, but now Bernie,

1756
01:31:04,459 --> 01:31:07,326
you promised me that you would do that.

1757
01:31:07,395 --> 01:31:10,228
And I totally mean wear
those chains or whatever

1758
01:31:10,298 --> 01:31:12,732
if it made them feel better so..

1759
01:31:12,800 --> 01:31:15,166
That is awful sweet, Lenora.

1760
01:31:15,236 --> 01:31:18,034
And it would be an honor
but don`t count on it.

1761
01:31:18,105 --> 01:31:19,333
I don`t think they`re Ietting
me out of here for nothing.

1762
01:31:19,407 --> 01:31:21,534
Oh! [pfft]

1763
01:31:21,609 --> 01:31:24,077
Sure they will. I told him that
you went temporarily insane.

1764
01:31:24,145 --> 01:31:26,841
And we`re all going
insane sooner or Iater.

1765
01:31:26,914 --> 01:31:29,405
I mean, that`s the way I Iook at it.

1766
01:31:29,484 --> 01:31:33,921
Uh-oh. He`s telling me our time is up.

1767
01:31:33,988 --> 01:31:35,819
I cannot tell you how
much it means to me

1768
01:31:35,890 --> 01:31:37,915
that I`m still in your prayers.

1769
01:31:37,992 --> 01:31:39,516
And that I`II always be with you.

1770
01:31:39,594 --> 01:31:42,427
Yes. And you know how much we Iove you.

1771
01:31:42,497 --> 01:31:44,590
And I will tell you, I Iook around here.

1772
01:31:44,665 --> 01:31:46,098
You need to take care of yourself

1773
01:31:46,167 --> 01:31:47,759
and be real careful because I think

1774
01:31:47,835 --> 01:31:49,598
this could be a dangerous place.

1775
01:31:49,670 --> 01:31:51,661
- You think?
- I do.

1776
01:31:51,739 --> 01:31:53,604
And we`II come back
in a couple of weeks.

1777
01:31:53,674 --> 01:31:54,766
Take care. I Iove you.

1778
01:31:54,842 --> 01:31:58,209
I Iove you, baby.

1779
01:31:58,312 --> 01:31:59,711
You take care of him.

1780
01:32:07,188 --> 01:32:11,056
I don`t care what he did.

1781
01:32:11,125 --> 01:32:13,616
Yes, I do care.

1782
01:32:13,694 --> 01:32:17,061
It was wrong.

1783
01:32:17,131 --> 01:32:22,933
But I believed that if Bernie
were truly sorry for what he did,

1784
01:32:23,004 --> 01:32:25,632
and would ask God`s forgiveness,

1785
01:32:25,706 --> 01:32:30,075
God would forgive him.

1786
01:32:30,144 --> 01:32:36,708
And after all, that`s
all that really matters.

1787
01:32:36,784 --> 01:32:39,582
I will miss him.

1788
01:32:39,654 --> 01:32:41,246
AII of us will.

1789
01:32:41,322 --> 01:32:43,950
[slow sad violin music]

1790
01:33:12,320 --> 01:33:14,754
[violin music continues]

1791
01:34:07,608 --> 01:34:09,473
[fast music]

1792
01:35:53,080 --> 01:35:54,445
I`II never believe

1793
01:35:54,515 --> 01:35:56,107
till the day God calls me home

1794
01:35:56,183 --> 01:35:58,515
that Bernie Tiede killed Mrs. Nugent.

1795
01:35:58,619 --> 01:36:00,519
And..and that`s just the way I feel.

1796
01:36:00,554 --> 01:36:02,681
And my husband told me,
``Daisy, when you go up there,

1797
01:36:02,757 --> 01:36:04,987
``you don`t change your mind
if you see some of those people

1798
01:36:05,059 --> 01:36:07,357
``standing out there in the
courthouse that you Iove,

1799
01:36:07,428 --> 01:36:09,362
``that`s your friends too.``

1800
01:36:09,430 --> 01:36:13,526
I said, ``Hey, I don`t think
Jesus could change my mind.``

1801
01:36:13,601 --> 01:36:16,126
That`s just the way I feel from day one.

1802
01:36:16,203 --> 01:36:18,034
And I will always feel that way.

1803
01:36:18,105 --> 01:36:19,629
Bernie was a good man.

1804
01:36:19,707 --> 01:36:21,265
Bernie had a great heart.

1805
01:36:21,342 --> 01:36:23,674
We need more Bernies in this world.

1806
01:36:23,744 --> 01:36:26,542
Murderers come along once
in a blue moon over here

1807
01:36:26,614 --> 01:36:29,549
and typically, they`re family related,

1808
01:36:29,617 --> 01:36:31,608
I mean, it`s just how it works out,

1809
01:36:31,685 --> 01:36:33,516
we don`t have strange killings,

1810
01:36:33,587 --> 01:36:35,350
it`s just some family member
got upset with the other

1811
01:36:35,422 --> 01:36:36,684
and shot him, killed him dead,

1812
01:36:36,757 --> 01:36:38,054
and they know they gonna go

1813
01:36:38,125 --> 01:36:39,717
to penitentiary for a while.

1814
01:36:39,794 --> 01:36:42,194
Now we even have Iess murder trials

1815
01:36:42,263 --> 01:36:43,992
`cause most of `em plead out.

1816
01:36:44,064 --> 01:36:46,396
So this thing becomes a media circus,

1817
01:36:46,467 --> 01:36:49,300
we got people coming in from
all across the United States.

1818
01:36:49,370 --> 01:36:52,737
OId Danny Buck, we caught
him with a stiff neck,

1819
01:36:52,807 --> 01:36:54,832
he..he got kind of stiff neck,

1820
01:36:54,909 --> 01:36:56,638
kinda get your neck a Iittle stiff,

1821
01:36:56,710 --> 01:36:58,177
he got a stiff neck, he
was Iike a pig in shit

1822
01:36:58,279 --> 01:37:00,110
when all this was going up.

1823
01:37:00,147 --> 01:37:03,412
Talking about what
wine to drink with fish,

1824
01:37:03,484 --> 01:37:07,215
I mean, those people drink
warm beer with fried mudcat

1825
01:37:07,288 --> 01:37:09,813
and he`s trying to say..

1826
01:37:09,890 --> 01:37:13,690
I took one Iook at the
jury and I said, Uh-oh.

1827
01:37:13,761 --> 01:37:15,695
[chuckles]

1828
01:37:15,763 --> 01:37:17,822
Scrappy, you ain`t gonna do it, buddy.

1829
01:37:17,898 --> 01:37:19,559
I mean, you ain`t gonna do it.

1830
01:37:19,633 --> 01:37:21,567
You don`t have enough equipment to bring

1831
01:37:21,635 --> 01:37:24,433
these people outta their
dang hovels over there.

1832
01:37:24,505 --> 01:37:27,201
Jesus, he`s my daddy, he`s my cousin.

1833
01:37:27,274 --> 01:37:29,606
It`s Iike, some of them people

1834
01:37:29,677 --> 01:37:31,577
shouldn`t be allowed out of the county

1835
01:37:31,645 --> 01:37:33,943
and we took the whole damn
trial over there, you know?

1836
01:37:34,014 --> 01:37:36,107
What are they asking
for? I don`t get it.

1837
01:37:36,183 --> 01:37:38,242
I don`t get the Iegal system.

1838
01:37:38,319 --> 01:37:41,777
? He put her in the freezer?

1839
01:37:41,856 --> 01:37:45,189
? And pulled down the Iid?

1840
01:37:45,259 --> 01:37:47,523
? Didn`t even move it?

1841
01:37:47,595 --> 01:37:51,361
? Just made sure It was plugged in?

1842
01:37:51,432 --> 01:37:54,424
? He gave a Iot of parties?

1843
01:37:54,501 --> 01:37:57,129
? Kept her packed on ice?

1844
01:37:57,204 --> 01:37:59,934
? No one suspected anything?

1845
01:38:00,040 --> 01:38:04,500
? `Cause Bernie Was so nice?

1846
01:38:04,545 --> 01:38:07,309
? Oh, Bernie, oh, Bernie,?

1847
01:38:07,381 --> 01:38:10,475
? What have you done?

1848
01:38:10,551 --> 01:38:13,714
? You killed poor Mrs. Nugent?

1849
01:38:13,787 --> 01:38:16,312
? You never even ran?

1850
01:38:16,390 --> 01:38:19,484
? Oh, Bernie, Oh, Bernie?

1851
01:38:19,560 --> 01:38:22,120
? What have you done?

1852
01:38:22,196 --> 01:38:25,165
? You killed poor Mrs. Nugent?

1853
01:38:25,232 --> 01:38:29,168
? You never even run?

1854
01:38:29,236 --> 01:38:31,932
? After all those months?

1855
01:38:32,006 --> 01:38:35,169
? No one had seen her face?

1856
01:38:35,242 --> 01:38:37,767
? The Iocal Iaw decided?

1857
01:38:37,845 --> 01:38:40,939
? They should Search the place?

1858
01:38:41,015 --> 01:38:43,916
? And when the search That ended?

1859
01:38:43,984 --> 01:38:46,646
? To everyone`s surprise?

1860
01:38:46,720 --> 01:38:49,621
? They found her Shot and frozen?

1861
01:38:49,690 --> 01:38:53,786
? As Bernie took her Iife?

1862
01:38:53,861 --> 01:38:57,024
? Oh, Bernie, Oh, Bernie?

1863
01:38:57,097 --> 01:38:59,793
? What have you done?

1864
01:38:59,900 --> 01:39:02,334
? You killed poor Mrs. Nugent?

1865
01:39:02,369 --> 01:39:05,463
? You never even run?

1866
01:39:05,539 --> 01:39:08,474
? Oh, Bernie, Oh, Bernie?

1867
01:39:08,542 --> 01:39:11,204
? What have you done?

1868
01:39:11,278 --> 01:39:13,872
? You killed poor Mrs. Nugent?

1869
01:39:13,948 --> 01:39:16,883
? And never even run?

1870
01:39:16,951 --> 01:39:19,613
? You killed poor Mrs. Nugent?

1871
01:39:19,687 --> 01:39:25,557
? And you Never even run?

1872
01:39:27,728 --> 01:39:29,127
[Iight applause]

1873
01:39:29,196 --> 01:39:31,391
I ran out of air on that one.