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REPORTER 1: (ON RADIO)
You got a cloudy Monday ahead today...
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...here in the nation's capital.
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Chance of rain showers and a likely
chance of some drizzle that continues...
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REPORTER 2: With President Nixon
facing an uncertain re-election,
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...candidates for the Democratic Party
are accusing him...
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...of failing to end
American involvement in Vietnam.
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REPORTER 3: Members of the Committee
to re-elect the President...
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...were in Jacksonville today
on their campaign trip through Florida.
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And for a report on that,
here's Georgia Wilson.
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GEORGIA WILSON: Wife of the Attorney
General, Mrs. Richard Kleindienst.
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MAN: (ON RADIO)
This is the final weekend...
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...of our month-long extravaganza sale.
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All sizes all on sale!
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REPORTER 2: In Washington,
yet another public demonstration...
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...by some citizens
opposed to the Vietnam War.
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Reporter Alan Witten.
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ALAN WITTEN: It was festive
as the crowd turned to Capitol Hill.
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In an hour's time,
several thousand people had joined hands...
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...to form a complete circle of war protest
around the US Capitol.
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(INDISTINCT ADVERTISEMENT OVER RADIO)
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WOMAN: (ON RADIO) Clean and Shine
to the rescue! Cleans up stains,
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...only the shine remains. No rubbing.
No trimming, no foul smells.
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REPORTER 2: A sharp recession
has shaken economic confidence.
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As a result, a large field of
Democratic challengers has emerged...
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...and would beat Nixon
if the election were held today.
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- MAN: (ON RADIO) Five different flavors!
- WOMAN: (ON RADIO) Five different meals!
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TOGETHER: One happy family!
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(CROWD CHANTING)
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One, two, three, four!
We don't want your fucking war!
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One, two, three, four!
We don't want your fucking war!
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- (INTERCOM BUZZES)
- SECRETARY: (OVER INTERCOM) Mark Felt.
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Gentlemen. Mr. Dean.
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Goddamn Russian revolution out there.
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Why aren't we arresting anybody?
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Because that isn't a crime.
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Right now the president
needs your advice.
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Yeah, Hoover's run the FBI,
what, 40 years?
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- Fifty.
- Fifty goddamn years.
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You know, Johnson and Kennedy
wanted to fire him, don't you?
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But they didn't have the balls.
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If the president were to ask
Mr. Hoover to step aside,
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...how would you suggest he do it?
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We know you to be a friend
to this administration.
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We like to see our friends
get what they deserve.
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- You're next in line.
- There is no line, Mr. Mitchell.
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The president is asking.
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Mr. Hoover would want to keep
his bullet-proof car.
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(LAUGHS)
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You're a real politician, Felt.
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Then thanks for popping by.
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If I may.
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There is one thing Mr. Hoover knows
that's been on all your minds.
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Whenever the FBI hears
a piece of gossip or information,
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...such as "I saw so-and-so out
with another woman, not his wife,"
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...or a man, not his wife,
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...we're supposed
to write everything down, and we do.
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We write it all down in memos.
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These memos come to me,
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...and I decide what information
Mr. Hoover needs to know,
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...and send that up to Mr. Hoover.
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And Mr. Hoover puts it all away
in his private files,
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...to be kept safe,
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...out of the hands of people
without discretion,
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...people who could do harm should that
information be leaked, for instance,
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...and put before
the court of public opinion.
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And then sometimes Mr. Hoover
will go, for instance,
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...to the president's closest aides
and say,
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Mr. Ehrlichman or Mr. Mitchell,
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"I want you to know
that we received that report..."
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"...about you and that other woman,"
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"...and I want to tell you
that there is absolutely no reason..."
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"...for us to take any further action."
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"There is no violation."
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"You're safe."
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"We, the FBI..."
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"All your secrets are safe with us."
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How long have you been in the FBI, Felt?
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Thirty years.
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JOHN DEAN: Thirty years.
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That's a lot of information,
a lot of files.
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Thank you, Mr. Felt.
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Thank you, gentlemen. Mr. Dean.
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- (LAUGHING)
- Choke on your Manhattan.
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ED MILLER: Have a little something.
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- AUDREY: Hello, darling.
- MARK: Hey, sweetie.
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I give you the chief dragon slayer
and guardian of the American dream.
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Oh, come on, Mark.
Crack a smile, at least!
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Eddie, let me go.
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Eddie, leave her alone.
She's the best. Come here, you.
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- PAT MILLER: Did you hear that?
- I need a drink.
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- I am the best.
- I heard that.
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- PAT: Hi, hon.
- MARK: Hi, sweetie.
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- Look what I've done.
- Look what you're doing.
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What were you doing?
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(PAT LAUGHING)
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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Yes, sir.
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(TANGO MUSIC PLAYING)
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PAT: Keep the hips down.
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Look at your feet.
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Come on, attitude.
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Eddie, they're elegant!
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(PAT LAUGHING)
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(SALSA MUSIC PLAYING)
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- MARK: Good morning.
- Good morning.
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- Is the director in?
- Not yet.
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Here's that Weather Underground file.
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- How many bombings now?
- Couple dozen.
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Precise numbers, Mr. Miller.
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Twenty-nine.
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Nails and ball bearings.
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These kids aren't messing around.
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They're embarrassing the FBI.
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Get the New York office.
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He's dead.
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Who?
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Mr. Hoover's dead.
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His housekeeper found him on the floor.
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He wasn't breathing.
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It looks like a stroke.
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Put everything into motion.
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No mistakes, gentlemen. Not one.
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Good morning, Felt.
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The assistant Attorney General.
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Pat Gray.
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Complicated morning for all of us.
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Indeed. Mr. Miller, here, will be
handling the funeral arrangements.
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I have the Attorney General's
instructions on seating and protocol.
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The funeral will be handled by the FBI.
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The Attorney General
will sit beside the vice president.
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Handled by the FBI
in its own way, Mr. Gray.
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I also have instructions
on Mr. Hoover's files.
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I am to take possession of them
and bring them to the White House.
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What files?
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Mr. Hoover's secret files.
The Personal and Confidentials.
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(WHISPERS INAUDIBLY)
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Official and Confidentials.
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There are no secret files.
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MAN: We thank thee this day
with arms open for J. Edgar Hoover,
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...for his lifelong trust in thee,
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...his steadfast devotion to the nation,
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...his elevated patriotism,
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...his commitment to justice
and peace in the nation.
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We ask that we may be as strong,
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- ...brave as he was brave...
- Excuse me.
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- MAN: Loyal as he was loyal...
- Pardon me.
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Serve as he sewed,
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...love the nation as he loved it.
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MAN: Felt!
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ED: Jesus. Bill Sullivan.
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I'd like a word with you.
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Bill Sullivan and Mark Felt,
together again.
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Who would have thought it?
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I think I was the one
who recommended you to the old man...
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...for your first big promotion.
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- MARK: You know you were.
- That's right. Mark Felt never forgets.
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That's why everyone likes you.
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Hell, I even like you.
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And I don't like anybody.
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What do you want?
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I had 30 years in the bureau.
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Same as you.
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- You were the director's bag man.
- Oh, yeah?
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You taped Martin Luther King
with other women...
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...and sent the pictures to his wife.
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Do you need me to actually say it?
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Those days were gone. You had to go.
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You could be you, Mark,
only because I was who I was.
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You and I were an ecosystem.
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That's how nature works.
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Keeps everything in a balance.
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Now, the king is dead.
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Long live the king.
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- Are you the new king?
- You tell me.
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You're the president's new best friend.
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Mark Felt.
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Integrity, bravery, fidelity.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the G-man's G-man.
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You want to know what everybody
really thinks of you? Do you?
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Competent, reliable, loyal.
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- What's wrong with that?
- Nothing.
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If you're a golden retriever.
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Hoover's gone.
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You're alone now,
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...holding the end of your own leash.
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(TELEPHONE RINGING)
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SECRETARY: (OVER INTERCOM)
Attorney General, line one.
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Dick.
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Yes.
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Well, I have enjoyed every day of it.
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The FBI has been home to me
and my family for 30 years and...
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Yes.
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"A new day."
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Yes, a fresh start.
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It's what I would do.
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Who do you have in mind?
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I'm sorry. Could you repeat that? Who?
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- Welcome to the FBI.
- A friendly face.
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Gentlemen.
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Now, Mr. Gray.
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I know the bureau
has its closets and skeletons.
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You can count on me
to keep those doors shut.
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I'll be candid with you.
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I was a submarine commander in the navy.
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I was father, confessor and friend
to 18-year-olds.
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Did you know that?
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I'm not a suspicious man by nature.
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That probably makes me
a strange choice to run the FBI.
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In fact,
when the president called my wife...
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...she begged me to turn him down, but...
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But the president wasn't asking,
if you know what I mean.
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Now, let me be candid with you,
Mr. Gray.
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The FBI is the most respected
institution in the world.
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It is one of the two cockpits
that fly America,
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...and it is what it is because no one
from the outside ever got inside.
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Mr. Hoover has been old, a long time.
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We all know it's been you
running the FBI, Felt.
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- Your reputation is stellar.
- Let me finish.
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You have no law enforcement experience.
You're an outsider.
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That is your battle to fight,
but I'm going to help you.
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- Well, I appreciate that.
- Don't...
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It's not an act of generosity.
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This is about this building
and what goes on in here...
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...and what it means to the country.
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That is all I care about.
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As long as you keep the FBI first,
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...you'll be able to count on me.
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This is your office.
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(DOOR OPENS)
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I thought the job was yours.
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What did I miss?
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You and Mr. Hoover.
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Don't you remember
why he said he liked you so much?
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He always said
you and he had the same enemies.
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That's why.
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Thirty years.
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Thirteen transfers.
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Thirteen homes to leave.
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Thirteen homes to make.
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I left behind every friend I ever made.
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And I kept my mouth shut,
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...like the perfect little FBI wife.
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Until one day you wake up...
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...and you're so different
than you used to be...
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...you can't even remember
what the point was in the first place.
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Till there's just one thing
left in my head.
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The one idea left in my head is,
at least Mark's going to get that job.
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- And that will make up for everything.
- Audrey.
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They don't deserve you.
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They don't deserve us.
251
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You need to resign.
252
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When the bureau is in better hands,
253
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...then, I'll go.
254
00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:24,849
(TELEPHONE RINGS)
255
00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:34,647
- What is it?
- This is getting complicated.
256
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You better get down here.
257
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REPORTER: Five men wearing white gloves
and carrying cameras...
258
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...were caught early today
in the headquarters...
259
00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,690
...of the Democratic National Committee,
in Washington.
260
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:46,000
They apparently were unarmed...
261
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:49,323
...and nobody knows yet
why they were even there.
262
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MARK: Mr. Kunkel.
263
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:12,969
Straight into the Democrat offices
in the Watergate.
264
00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:16,010
Who's our spy?
265
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ROBERT KUNKEL: Baldwin, Alfred C.
266
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:19,922
Checked in six weeks ago.
267
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Says he was more than just the lookout.
268
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,080
He says he was supposed
to listen for "girlie stuff."
269
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,601
Guess the Dems are having
a lot of trouble with their wives.
270
00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,364
He say where he got his instructions?
271
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Baldwin is one of ours.
272
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EX-FBI.
273
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He worked under Bill Sullivan.
274
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,601
When he was in the bureau,
was he in Mr. Sullivan's group?
275
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KUNKEL: We think so.
276
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MARK: What about CIA connections?
277
00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:43,651
No idea. Why?
278
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,488
Because 30 minutes ago
four of those burglars told a judge...
279
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,562
...they are ex-CIA.
280
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,123
What the hell is this?
281
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:56,881
REPORTER: One of the most fascinating
and exotic stories...
282
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,803
...ever to come out of Washington, DC,
283
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,962
...was the talk of the capital today.
284
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,088
Robert Endicott covered the story.
285
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,726
Democratic officials today
held a series of meetings...
286
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,404
...to talk about tighter security...
287
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,016
...at the national headquarters
here in Washington.
288
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,256
REPORTER 2: The White House
has so far offered no official comment,
289
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,887
...but a close adviser to the president,
seen here visiting China last month,
290
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,456
...has said the president
is most concerned about the break-in...
291
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,609
...and will be keeping
a very close eye on the investigation.
292
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,444
Now, turning to other news...
293
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,570
Mr. Lano is running street on this.
294
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,449
2:15, Sunday morning,
295
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:32,002
Metro finds our perps inside the
Democratic National Committee office.
296
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,449
We lD'd the lead. He's a pro.
297
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,922
Five years in the FBI, 19 in the CIA.
298
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,128
Then he left the CIA to run security
for the Attorney General.
299
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,881
Then he ran security for the White House...
300
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,800
...for the Committee
to Re-elect the President.
301
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:49,296
CHARLIE BATES:
The lead burglar ran security...
302
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:50,656
...for the Committee
to Re-elect the President?
303
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,684
- Is that what you said?
- MARK: That's what he said. Keep going.
304
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,000
Yeah, it gets weirder.
305
00:23:55,120 --> 00:23:57,600
The lookout in here, three years FBI.
306
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:01,287
Then the Attorney General recruits him
to be his wife's personal bodyguard.
307
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:07,400
Just keep going.
308
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,166
ANGELO LANO: The lookout makes
a Howard Hunt the ringleader.
309
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,164
Hunt's also ex-CIA.
310
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:13,241
But get this,
311
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,256
...a year ago we were asked to do
a background check...
312
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:16,496
...on Hunt for a government job.
313
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:18,648
- Did we clear him?
- LANO: Yeah.
314
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,848
For a job at the White House...
315
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,720
...as a "consultant on highly sensitive,
confidential matters."
316
00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:27,486
That's a job title?
317
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,965
White House, Justice and the CIA
318
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,646
...are gonna want to know
everything we know.
319
00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:42,566
But we aren't going to tell them.
Anything.
320
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,609
The Attorney General already called.
321
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,723
Nobody talks to the Attorney General.
322
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,644
- We answer to the Attorney General.
- You answer to me.
323
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,849
What about the director?
324
00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:55,327
I'll take care of the director.
325
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,816
REPORTER: There is still no explanation
why the Watergate suspects...
326
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,320
...might have attempted
to bug Democratic headquarters.
327
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,767
A spokesman for the Attorney General
said yesterday...
328
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,763
...that the FBI is already investigating.
329
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:09,242
Their report will be turned over to the
criminal division for appropriate...
330
00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:10,521
(ELEVATOR DINGS)
331
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,925
John Dean, the president's counsel,
just went into the director's office.
332
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,486
- Let me know when he comes out.
- Yes, Mr. Felt.
333
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:52,920
SECRETARY: (OVER INTERCOM)
Mr. Dean has left.
334
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,082
The director's leaving in a bit
to play golf.
335
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,926
(TELEPHONES RINGING)
336
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,451
What's John Dean
doing here in this building?
337
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,121
This is a remarkable amount
of information...
338
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,005
...about the break-in.
339
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,209
We're still gathering string.
This is just the beginning.
340
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,170
Okay.
341
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,926
First of all,
there are no more interviews...
342
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,249
...with White House or CIA people
without permission.
343
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:28,765
- What?
- Whose permission?
344
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:33,565
Give us a minute.
345
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,409
Get out.
346
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,768
The FBI is an independent body.
347
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:45,881
I'm aware of that.
348
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,765
Are you also aware that means
we don't need permission...
349
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,922
...to do anything from anybody?
350
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,287
You give that up just one time,
you don't ever get it back. Ever.
351
00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:57,376
Let's not get dramatic.
We don't even know what this is.
352
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,323
That's right. We don't.
353
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,051
But we're going to find out.
That's what we do.
354
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:04,922
You don't work for them.
355
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,571
You're the director of the FBI now.
356
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,364
Forty-eight hours.
357
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,562
We put the investigation to bed
and get on with the rest of our lives...
358
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,610
...in two days.
359
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,602
You've got 48 hours.
360
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:34,651
Thank you.
361
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:20,564
Nice to see you.
362
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,404
What brings you back?
363
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:24,925
Two words.
364
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:27,764
Re... Venge.
365
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:09,976
WAITRESS:
Was everything all right, Daniel?
366
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,206
DANIEL: It's great as always.
367
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,561
WAITRESS:
Your total's going to be $47.70.
368
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:14,880
DANIEL: Thanks, darlin'.
369
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,016
WAITRESS: There you go.
I'll see you next time.
370
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,485
DANIEL: Say hi to your mama.
371
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,290
(INDISTINCT CHATTER ON RADIO)
372
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,529
You look like hell.
373
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,720
Have some food.
374
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,007
- WAITRESS: How are you, sir?
- Just coffee, thanks.
375
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,324
So, what does this look like
to you, Sandy,
376
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,129
...and your pals at Time magazine?
377
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:45,929
Oh, the Watergate thing?
378
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:49,486
Honestly, I...
379
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,044
No one at Time magazine or any newspaper
I know can figure it out.
380
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,770
Ex-spooks get caught planting bugs?
381
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:06,887
Does have a particular
odor to it though.
382
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,440
I bet your old pal Bill Sullivan
sure misses the FBI.
383
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:27,405
Because I heard the White House
gave him some bullshit job,
384
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:28,891
...waiting for Hoover to kick off.
385
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:31,848
Sullivan wants back in.
386
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,322
The president wants him back in
to run the FBI their way.
387
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,442
Nixon and Sullivan.
388
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:43,810
Those two were made for each other.
389
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,005
WAITRESS: Here you go.
390
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,364
Could we have some pie, please?
391
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,166
WAITRESS: What kind?
We have apple, blueberry...
392
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:58,366
You pick.
393
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,362
What are we doing out here, Mark?
394
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,889
I was given 48 hours.
395
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,211
To do what?
396
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,247
Wrap up the Watergate investigation.
397
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:16,561
BY Who?
398
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,125
Gray?
399
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,649
Pat Gray, the director of the FBI,
400
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,330
...ordered the FBI
to stop its own investigation?
401
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,402
There are calls
we are not allowed to make...
402
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,370
...and phone and bank records
we can't go near.
403
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,442
(WAITRESS APPROACHING)
404
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:42,450
MARK: Thank you.
405
00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:01,008
In all the years I've known you,
you've never given up a single,
406
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:02,929
...real secret.
407
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,049
Nothing but the company line.
408
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,366
These are uncharted waters for you.
409
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,842
So, one more time. What are we doing?
410
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,008
You looking for a little help?
411
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:28,087
Payback?
412
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,571
I want the FBI left alone to do its job.
413
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,009
That's all I want.
414
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,011
And you want me to light a fire
around the edges...
415
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:41,041
...with a story.
416
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,647
Well, I can see why
they didn't give you the job.
417
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,242
They must be terrified of you.
418
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:21,250
(LINE RINGING)
419
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,926
- Come on, come on.
- WOMAN: Washington Post.
420
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,051
I miss you.
I know I'm not supposed to say that.
421
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,927
- MARK: It's okay to say that.
- No.
422
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:09,650
It's too touchy-feely.
423
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,688
I need you too much.
424
00:34:14,720 --> 00:34:16,563
Where were you tonight?
425
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,081
The switchboard said
they didn't know where you were.
426
00:34:19,720 --> 00:34:22,166
Because I didn't tell them.
427
00:34:22,240 --> 00:34:24,083
Well, what about Mrs. Tschudy?
428
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,091
She didn't know either.
429
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,444
But you taught her
to always say that, didn't you?
430
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,441
MARK: Have you been making the calls
about Joan?
431
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,570
AUDREY: I've called all her friends.
432
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,971
They haven't heard from her
in nearly a year.
433
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:50,727
(SIGHS)
434
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:55,845
Are you looking for her?
435
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,641
Is the most powerful
law enforcement agency...
436
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:01,449
...in the world looking for her?
437
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,010
I can't do that.
438
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:04,921
Oh.
439
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:07,729
It's against the rules?
440
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,286
We don't know what they will find.
441
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:17,881
Do we?
442
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:15,167
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
443
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,082
Where the hell did they get that?
444
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:49,406
Mr. Bates.
445
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,927
This Washington Post story says
we know who the Watergate ringleader is.
446
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,766
Then, this morning,
our Time magazine pal, Sandy Smith,
447
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,401
...called the acting director
to say that he is prepping a story...
448
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,960
...that the FBI is plotting a whitewash.
449
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:08,728
He said the director has put
a 48-hour cap on the investigation.
450
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:10,770
- What's your point?
- Is that true?
451
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,965
Someone in this office
is talking to the press.
452
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:15,405
The point, Mr. Lano,
453
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,448
...is that leaks kill investigations.
454
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,682
- Whoa, whoa. Okay.
- Take it down, Angie.
455
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:23,003
You want to conduct
a leak investigation, be my guest.
456
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,368
But you got 200 field agents from
here to LA all chasing down leads,
457
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:28,280
...so you're gonna have to
ask them all, too.
458
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,049
Tone, in front of Mr. Felt.
459
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,886
I can guarantee it wasn't me
or any of the guys in this room.
460
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,480
Donald H. Segretti.
461
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,127
You pulled that name
from Howard Hunt's phone records.
462
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:40,964
He called Hunt a few dozen times, yeah.
463
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,647
This says Segretti used to be a lawyer
in the Treasury Department,
464
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,087
...paid out of the account
that funded the Watergate.
465
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,443
An account belonging to
the Committee to Re-elect the President.
466
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,536
- Who is the head of the committee?
- John Mitchell.
467
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,370
Former Attorney General, John Mitchell.
468
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,611
The best we can make out is
Segretti's some kind of prankster.
469
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,526
You know, like he's spying on the Dems,
sending their wives dirty pictures.
470
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,922
- It's all bottom-feeder, frat boy stuff.
- Indictable under election laws.
471
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,809
Forget the plot of the story,
Mr. Kunkel.
472
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,042
What's the theme? What's it saying?
What does it mean?
473
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,964
Like Angie, like Mr. Lano said,
we are still vetting the leads.
474
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,931
All the ugly politics,
all the dirty money, all the sleaze.
475
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:20,044
(SHOUTING) It means the goddamn punks
are running the country!
476
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:29,326
Keep going.
477
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,690
LANO: You might want to talk to
the White House about those leaks.
478
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,409
- Why?
- 'Cause whenever I'm lucky enough...
479
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,528
...to get someone over there
to actually talk to me,
480
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:44,800
...they know what I'm gonna ask
before I ask it.
481
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,608
It's like they already know
what I want to know.
482
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,802
Mr. Felt, I have the White House
on the phone. Mr. John Dean.
483
00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:21,926
MARK: Put him through.
484
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:26,806
Mr. Dean.
485
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,366
DEAN: The White House is concerned
about these press leaks.
486
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:33,330
Of course.
487
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,643
We think the source
must be someone in the FBI.
488
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:44,882
Why FBI?
489
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,287
DEAN: That's where the information is.
490
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,370
MARK: Those stories could have come
from someone in the White House.
491
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,041
(EXHALES)
492
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,081
We want you to do something
about it, Mr. Felt.
493
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,401
- MARK: Okay.
- Now.
494
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:01,245
Fine.
495
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:02,845
But I don't understand.
496
00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:06,971
- Which part?
- The part about you calling me.
497
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,529
The White House
has no authority over the FBI.
498
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,889
- We can...
- At all, Mr. Dean.
499
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,325
But we can suggest...
500
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,922
I'm afraid the White House
has nothing to suggest to the FBI.
501
00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:32,803
- Thank you, Mr. Felt.
- Thank you, Mr. Dean.
502
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:49,601
(CLEARS THROAT)
503
00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:53,926
(FLUSHES TOILET)
504
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:05,205
I want you to disappear
our investigation on these two names.
505
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,568
Get them off the interview list.
506
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,244
I don't get it. They're nobody.
507
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:10,771
Just do it.
508
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:14,645
(FLUSHES TOILET)
509
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:18,801
Then make sure you say you did it
in Monday's memo for the director.
510
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:27,126
Thank you.
511
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,287
Your daily Watergate briefing.
512
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,689
Thanks, Charlie. May I call you Charlie?
513
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,762
How much of what we are getting
on Watergate am I actually seeing?
514
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,168
Mr. Felt gives me the headlines.
I type them up.
515
00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:49,811
I give Mr. Felt the original
and bring you a copy.
516
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,931
Mr. Felt doesn't want
to waste your time with details.
517
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:02,401
Okay.
518
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:05,211
Okay, Mr. Gray.
519
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:15,968
(SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE)
520
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:19,205
Mr. Kunkel!
521
00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:23,296
Director Gray wanted you to know
he understands you and your boys...
522
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:24,765
...are doing a hell of a job.
523
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,682
Well, thank Mr. Gray, and not to worry.
We'll gather the whole ball of yarn.
524
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,444
Mr. Gray also wanted you to know...
525
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:34,650
...that there was gonna be a small change
in procedure in the information flow.
526
00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:38,803
How and, more precisely, where it flows.
527
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,010
Not just the headlines,
but the story itself.
528
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,482
The details, as it were.
529
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,202
Does Mr. Felt know?
530
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:50,965
Of course.
531
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,562
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
532
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,407
Angie Lano called me last night.
533
00:43:49,720 --> 00:43:51,440
He told me
that he called the White House...
534
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:53,448
...to set up a round of interviews.
535
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,087
Half hour later
the White House called back...
536
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:59,084
...to tell me that we can't talk
to two of the guys...
537
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,960
...because their names
were taken off the list.
538
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,405
The two names you told me.
539
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,762
How would the White House know?
540
00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:10,768
I guess somebody told them.
541
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,885
The only people who knew
were me and you.
542
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:17,690
And Mr. Gray.
543
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:20,925
And Mr. Gray.
544
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:25,888
BATES:
We need to find out what Gray has,
545
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:28,884
...and how he's getting it.
546
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:34,962
Did I do something wrong?
547
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:36,610
Mr. Bates tells me...
548
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:41,406
...you've been giving Mr. Gray everything
we're collecting on Watergate.
549
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,607
All our interviews, all of our files.
550
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,491
Did Mr. Gray tell you to bypass me?
551
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:51,688
Well, he didn't say
it was a secret or anything.
552
00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:56,962
But he said that you knew.
553
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,764
How often did you give him our files?
554
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:03,524
- Every day.
- Why?
555
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:07,082
We know why.
556
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:15,127
Did you give the Attorney General
any information about our investigation?
557
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,680
- I don't talk to the Attorney General.
- Did you, Mr. Bates?
558
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:20,530
Mr. Miller?
559
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:27,962
The Attorney General
called me this morning...
560
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,488
...about something
he could only have heard from the FBI.
561
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:40,688
He's putting a box around Watergate.
562
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:45,484
We can't touch anything
before the break-in.
563
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:48,450
We have to stay away
from all the White House corruption.
564
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:53,521
In other words,
the crimes that matter don't matter.
565
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,523
For the first time in its history,
the FBI
566
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,682
...has been quarantined.
567
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:04,731
Crimes that it knows about
will go uninvestigated.
568
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,811
- Mr. Felt...
- Thank you, Mr. Kunkel.
569
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:28,243
So, with everything we have right now,
570
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:31,922
...if we could get indictments,
571
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:37,242
...in your opinion, who would we get?
572
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:39,651
How high?
573
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:44,769
Maybe Attorney General.
574
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,005
What about the president?
575
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:56,769
What about the president?
576
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:59,807
If the president's lying...
577
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,410
...ls the president lying?
578
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,164
They're all lying.
579
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:09,086
Then, yes.
580
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:13,245
Maybe the president.
581
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,248
RICHARD NIXON:
As the investigations went forward,
582
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:22,087
I repeatedly asked
those conducting the investigation...
583
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,801
...whether there was any reason to believe...
584
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:28,965
...that members of my administration
were in any way involved.
585
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:34,124
I received repeated assurances
that there were none.
586
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:36,681
I discounted the stories in the press.
587
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,565
DICK CAVETT: Who do you think gave
the orders to bug the Watergate?
588
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,043
RICHARD KLEINDIENST: Well,
the persons who the grand jury indicted...
589
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:44,770
...in Washington, DC, last week,
590
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:46,490
...gave the orders to do it.
591
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:48,216
You don't think
they were following orders, then?
592
00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:49,969
- No, I do not.
- There's nobody higher?
593
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:52,176
There has been no evidence
presented that anybody did that.
594
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,885
I think the opposition is disappointed...
595
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,691
...that after such a thorough,
intensive investigation...
596
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,240
...that just seven persons were indicted.
597
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,846
NEWS ANCHOR: The Watergate break-in
took a dramatic turn...
598
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:04,126
...when one of the defendants,
599
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,487
...former White House consultant
E. Howard Hunt,
600
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:07,846
...changed his plea to guilty.
601
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,844
REPORTER: The judge accepted
the guilty pleas of the four Miami men...
602
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,161
...on the condition
that they answer his questions...
603
00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:15,527
...on who else was involved in Watergate.
604
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:19,764
With the crucial questions
of who, and what, were behind it all...
605
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:20,966
...still unanswered.
606
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:24,648
GRAY: I got a call
from across the river.
607
00:48:25,720 --> 00:48:28,405
- MARK: Which river is that?
- GRAY: The Potomac.
608
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:29,971
The CIA.
609
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,440
The CIA is telling us
we need to taper off.
610
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:35,249
Taper off?
611
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,686
- GRAY: We're getting too close.
- MARK: Too close to what?
612
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:39,921
I can't tell you.
613
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,048
You can't, or you won't?
614
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,122
It's a matter of national security.
615
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:48,604
NIXON: We are doing everything that
we can to investigate this incident.
616
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:52,441
No one on the White House staff,
no one in this administration...
617
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:56,241
...was involved in this
very bizarre incident.
618
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,531
GRAY: The CIA is telling us
we need to taper off.
619
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:02,362
MAN: Disappointed. Disappointed.
620
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:04,488
NIXON: No one in this administration...
621
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:07,882
GRAY: We're getting too close.
It's a matter of national security.
622
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,402
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
623
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,245
NEWS ANCHOR: A bomb exploded
early this morning in the Pentagon...
624
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:16,527
...and left-wing terrorists
telephoned newspapers...
625
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,005
...to say they were responsible.
626
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,376
People calling themselves members
of the Weather Underground...
627
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:22,840
- Yes?
- GRAY: Are you watching this?
628
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:24,120
I see it.
629
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,376
- GRAY: What about the White House?
- It's at the top of their list.
630
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,004
I told you that three months ago.
631
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:33,688
- GRAY: But can they really hit it?
- They just hit the Pentagon.
632
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,089
I want us to open files on every member...
633
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,851
...of every counterculture organization
in the country.
634
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,446
Hunt them to exhaustion.
No holds barred.
635
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,440
The president is fighting
for the White House.
636
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,290
That's not my job.
637
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:47,965
The president needs order.
638
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,566
I promised the president
he'd have order.
639
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:53,561
(SIGHS)
640
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:56,325
GRAY: Which brings me
to my next point, Felt.
641
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,121
I spoke to the Attorney General.
642
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,604
The Attorney General
is going to officially announce...
643
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:08,082
...we have found nothing
connecting the president on Watergate.
644
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,640
What? But that's not real.
645
00:50:10,720 --> 00:50:15,601
I know. And the president knows
you are still pursuing it.
646
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,208
You're never going to find
what you're chasing.
647
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:22,931
I want it to end.
It's time to finish it.
648
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:24,690
Shut it down.
649
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:30,124
I hear you and your wife
are registered Democrats, Mark.
650
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:32,842
I hope you're not going
to let that get in the way.
651
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,160
MARK: The Weather Underground,
they're combining.
652
00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:42,004
They're multiplying.
653
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:43,650
We'll never get warrants. Not now.
654
00:50:43,720 --> 00:50:44,721
Warrants?
655
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:48,010
We're not talking about the kids
sleeping out there in the parks.
656
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:51,971
We're talking about people who would
burn your children alive in their beds.
657
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:54,202
People die because we stick
to the letter of the law,
658
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:56,482
...we lose everything, including the law.
659
00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:58,641
We're taking off the gloves.
660
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:01,727
Entries, taps, nothing on paper.
661
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:03,609
No warrants.
662
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:05,523
Mr. Miller's people
report to Mr. Miller.
663
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:06,761
Mr. Miller reports to me.
664
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:08,444
Just like the bad old days.
665
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:10,683
Where's Bill Sullivan when you need him?
666
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:12,330
He's over at the White House,
667
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:16,086
...protecting the nation by spying
on senators and their mistresses...
668
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,961
...while we're here just trying to
keep all this goddamn mess together.
669
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:28,080
Hey, look.
670
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:31,330
We're on your side here.
671
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,928
All I'm saying is,
all that was behind us.
672
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:35,810
Even Hoover knew
the dirty stuff was over.
673
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:37,291
That's why Bill's gone.
674
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:41,170
All I'm saying is, everyone is watching.
675
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,046
How many more kids do we have to lose?
676
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:47,130
How many more
do we let just vanish into eternity?
677
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:49,729
I am not Bill Sullivan.
678
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:52,966
This is still the goddamn FBI.
679
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:16,925
I don't want to intrude.
680
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:19,446
Then don't.
681
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:25,161
You heard from her?
682
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:28,046
Joan.
683
00:52:31,240 --> 00:52:33,561
You think she's involved with all this?
684
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:35,920
The Underground?
685
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:38,931
How could she?
686
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:41,927
She's just like me. Exactly like me.
687
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:43,240
She worships you.
688
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:50,727
She's okay.
689
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:54,120
I can feel it, Mark.
690
00:52:57,240 --> 00:52:59,811
There's a price to pay for what we do,
Mr. Miller.
691
00:52:59,920 --> 00:53:02,161
There's a price to pay
for what we become.
692
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:06,407
We all pay it, one way or another.
693
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,136
RICHARD KLEINDIENST: Watergate was the most intensive,
694
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:14,562
...objective and thorough investigation...
695
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:19,602
...in the history of the
US Attorney's office and the FBI.
696
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,723
The Justice Department has now completed...
697
00:53:24,240 --> 00:53:26,811
...its criminal investigation...
698
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:29,963
...without implicating any present official...
699
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:32,164
...of either the White House...
700
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:35,729
...or the Committee
to Re-elect the President.
701
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:37,416
- Completed?
- KLEINDIENST: Any questions?
702
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:38,680
What the hell, man?
703
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:40,565
Get me Felt on the phone.
704
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:42,576
- DEAN: As to the White House?
- Hold on, hold on. Wait a second.
705
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:47,527
I understand the FBi's Watergate
investigation is in a state of repose...
706
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:49,602
...and unlikely to be reopened.
707
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,682
Anybody tell us this was over yet?
708
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,090
Get me Felt on the phone! Or Bates!
709
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:57,765
God damn it, get me Felt!
710
00:53:57,880 --> 00:53:59,245
- She can't.
- Why the hell not?
711
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:00,845
'Cause he's right there.
712
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:04,447
And now, let's return to the press
conference of the US Attorney General.
713
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:52,486
Maybe she's dead.
714
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:58,250
Maybe she just gave up.
715
00:54:59,240 --> 00:55:01,004
Didn't think anybody cared.
716
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:06,367
Maybe she's right out there watching us.
717
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:09,608
To see what a man like you does...
718
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:11,921
...when your daughter
just vanishes one night...
719
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:13,490
...for no good reason.
720
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:15,085
Joan had a reason for everything.
721
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:17,246
You hated her.
722
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:25,009
Mothers don't hate their daughters.
723
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:29,001
It's just not always easy being one.
724
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:31,568
You dressed her up like a doll,
725
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:34,761
...until she got old enough
to look just like you.
726
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:35,841
Mark.
727
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,571
You kept telling her to get out
until one day she listened to you.
728
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:40,085
Listen to me.
729
00:55:41,240 --> 00:55:42,651
I had no mother.
730
00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:44,210
But she did.
731
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:45,486
Yes.
732
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:47,441
She did.
733
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:49,811
My father just left.
734
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:53,682
So, yes, she gave me up...
735
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:56,444
...to foster homes,
736
00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:58,689
...then the orphanage.
737
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,328
- But you know all about that, don't you?
- Yeah.
738
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,089
Then I made my own way.
739
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:15,731
Until you.
740
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:18,125
My White knight.
741
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:24,169
Our homes are the only homes
I've ever known.
742
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,483
You were both mine.
743
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:39,201
GRAY: How's home, Mark?
744
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:44,006
Why are you asking?
745
00:56:44,720 --> 00:56:46,484
That daughter of yours, Jill?
746
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:49,281
Joan.
747
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:51,810
Well, I hear she's terrific.
748
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:56,044
Fulbright scholar,
first girl in the country.
749
00:56:57,840 --> 00:56:59,410
A chip off the old block.
750
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:09,602
I want you to be the first
to hear my statement to the press.
751
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:16,889
"No pressure has been put on me..."
752
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:21,088
"...or any of my special agents
in the FBI's investigation..."
753
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:24,607
"...and that it strains..." I thought
I would just nip this in the bud.
754
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:27,766
"It strains credulity
that President Nixon..."
755
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:30,281
"...could have done a con job
on the whole American people."
756
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:34,291
What do you think?
757
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:38,645
It's just fine.
758
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:46,405
KUNKEL: The Democrats
have issued a statement this morning.
759
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:52,011
"The FBI's Watergate investigation
is a whitewash."
760
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:58,844
"What is involved here is not only
the political life of this nation..."
761
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:03,771
"...but the very morality of our leaders..."
762
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:08,681
"...at a time when the United States
desperately needs to revitalize..."
763
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:10,967
"...its moral standards."
764
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:17,287
"The FBI's Watergate investigation..."
765
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:21,245
"...is a whitewash."
766
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:26,886
That's it.
767
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:34,884
Well, gentlemen.
768
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:36,485
Here's what we know.
769
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:40,246
We know what we've heard
out of the Department of Justice...
770
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:42,209
...the past two days is bullshit.
771
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:47,729
We know the men
who broke into the Watergate...
772
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:49,484
...are not the end of this thing,
773
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:52,605
...but the beginning.
774
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:55,289
We know this is the latest link...
775
00:58:55,360 --> 00:59:00,400
...in a chain of illegal,
covert intelligence operations...
776
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:02,848
...by the president's re-election campaign.
777
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:07,282
We know we are facing obstruction
from multiple fronts.
778
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:08,771
From the White House.
779
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:10,650
From the CIA.
780
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:14,366
From the Attorney General
of the United States,
781
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:17,125
...who is our boss, by the way.
782
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:21,767
It is not our job to speculate
on the involvement of the president.
783
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:26,607
It is our job
to follow the bread crumbs.
784
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:31,287
But those bread crumbs
appear to be taking us...
785
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:33,886
...on a tour of the West Wing
of the White House,
786
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:38,565
...and in the general direction
of the Oval Office.
787
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:44,888
We also know we've been ordered
to shut down our pursuit of all this...
788
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:46,405
...as of today.
789
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:50,850
And we know that except
for the 30 men in this room,
790
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:55,967
...no one in the entire country
knows any of this...
791
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:58,566
...and may never know any of this.
792
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:06,247
No one can stop the driving force
of an FBI investigation.
793
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:08,922
Not even the FBI.
794
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:39,086
MARK: Segretti.
795
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:18,844
I'm going to give you the name of a man...
796
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:21,321
...who was asked to work
for the Nixon administration...
797
01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:23,730
...in an unusual way.
798
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:25,720
What are you talking about?
799
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,889
There's only one way to understand
what Watergate really means,
800
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:31,166
...and this is it.
801
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:34,287
The name...
802
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:38,968
...is Alex Shipley.
803
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:40,087
Shipley.
804
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:43,083
He lives in Nashville.
805
01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:46,801
The man who approached him
was a lawyer out of LA
806
01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:48,370
...named Donald Segretti.
807
01:01:48,880 --> 01:01:49,881
Segretti.
808
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:54,321
Shipley can tell you everything
you need to know.
809
01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:56,291
Will Shipley talk?
810
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:00,126
I guess you're going
to have to find that out.
811
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:01,807
One more thing.
812
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:06,405
This comes from classified FBI files.
813
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:09,730
The Department of Justice has it,
the White House has it,
814
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:12,525
...and, now, you have it.
815
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:18,801
REPORTER 1: Let's just get on
with the election and stop this nonsense...
816
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:21,176
...about there having been
a political espionage campaign...
817
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:22,201
...against the Democrats.
818
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:24,816
REPORTER 2: Here's what's making
the news at the top of the hour.
819
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:28,970
North Vietnamese military attempts
to break through South Vietnamese lines...
820
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:32,840
...have been met with an intense
bombing attack by a US aircraft.
821
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:36,481
General Creighton Abrams,
the United States commander in Vietnam,
822
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:38,642
...ordered every available B-52
823
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:40,563
...into the northern sector
of South Vietnam.
824
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:42,449
REPORTER 3:
Though baseball season is over,
825
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:45,922
...the Philadelphia Phils went to
the Ozarks for a new manager today.
826
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:49,083
Los Angeles coach Danny Ozark
was the surprise choice...
827
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:51,885
...of Phils' general manager, Paul Owens.
828
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:55,203
Ozark has had no big league
managerial experience...
829
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:40,720
MARK: Mr. Woodward.
830
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:44,685
The story isn't moving.
831
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:47,689
Everyone stopped listening to you.
832
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:49,404
This isn't the same as before.
833
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:54,091
We're lost in detail.
834
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:57,204
That's their plan.
835
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:00,726
They want everyone confused.
836
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:03,443
Confusion is control.
837
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:12,684
The truth could ruin the administration.
838
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:16,807
How high?
839
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:19,251
How high does it go?
840
01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:30,481
MARK: You still don't understand
what I'm giving you.
841
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:37,690
This is dangerous stuff
you're playing with.
842
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:41,725
Especially, if it's known
before November 7th.
843
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:45,089
That's election day.
844
01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:48,050
You put out the right story,
the public will scream.
845
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:51,647
The Attorney General
will have to let me keep going.
846
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:17,525
My editors know
that I'm talking to somebody,
847
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:18,880
...but not who.
848
01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:20,200
They don't ask.
849
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:28,649
No one understands
how one person knows so much.
850
01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:31,121
No one can possibly know
how much I know.
851
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:36,330
With all this mystery,
852
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:39,807
...there's a nickname for you at the paper.
853
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:44,602
- Deep Throat.
- What?
854
01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:47,008
They didn't know what else to call you.
855
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:49,127
That's just...
856
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:53,002
They shouldn't have to call me anything.
857
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:05,207
Take out your notebook. There's more.
858
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:22,084
AUDREY: "FBI agents have established
Watergate bugging incident,"
859
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:25,807
"...massive campaign
of political spying and sabotage."
860
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:28,160
"'There is some
very powerful information,'"
861
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:29,964
"...said one federal official,"
862
01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:31,456
"...especially if it's known
before election day."
863
01:06:31,480 --> 01:06:32,896
REPORTER: The White House
is vigorously denouncing a story...
864
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:34,376
...in The Washington Post this morning...
865
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:38,007
...accusing the administration
of engaging in a secret political war.
866
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:41,056
REPORTER 2: White House Press Secretary
Ron Ziegler is calling the story...
867
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:43,287
...a pack of scurrilous lies and innuendo.
868
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:45,801
REPORTER 1: Based on baseless,
cowardly sources...
869
01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:47,320
...inside the Department of Justice.
870
01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:54,927
GRAY: He's here, Mark. He has to be.
871
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:56,889
There's a spy in the FBI.
872
01:06:57,320 --> 01:06:59,322
"FBI agents have established..."
873
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:01,323
"One federal investigative
official said..."
874
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:03,243
"According to FBI reports..."
875
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:04,810
That's us, God damn it.
876
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:11,768
There is information in here
that the bureau only got 72 hours ago.
877
01:07:11,960 --> 01:07:13,883
Are you goddamn joking?
878
01:07:15,560 --> 01:07:18,370
Mr. Felt,
you had something you wanted to say.
879
01:07:23,400 --> 01:07:25,607
The last few days,
I've heard various people...
880
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:28,160
...accuse Mr. Lano of leaking to the press.
881
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:29,730
- You've got to be kidding me!
- Him?
882
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:32,967
And that he
and certain newspaper reporters...
883
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:35,416
- ...have been seen together.
- I'm going to be sick.
884
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:38,284
I wanted to say to you, Mr. Lano,
in front of everyone here...
885
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:41,884
...that I know these are
vicious lies by jealous agents.
886
01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:46,207
You're doing a fine job,
and no matter what,
887
01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:47,840
...the director and I will support you.
888
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:50,011
Mr. Gray.
889
01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:54,684
GRAY: I may not be an FBI lifer
like some of you.
890
01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:57,523
I'm certainly no Mark Felt.
891
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:01,243
Since I arrived here,
I have put up with paranoia,
892
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:04,007
...insubordination, second-guessing.
893
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:06,048
Gentlemen, it's come to Jesus time.
894
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:12,801
Whoever the leaker is,
whoever is the Judas among you,
895
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:16,487
...betraying me,
the other good men in this room,
896
01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:18,130
...his family, God,
897
01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:21,329
...not to mention the bureau
and the legacy of J. Edgar Hoover,
898
01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:22,447
...step forward.
899
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:27,404
Right here, right now.
900
01:08:52,160 --> 01:08:56,165
Charlie, we got an office pool
on who the leak is.
901
01:08:56,960 --> 01:08:58,689
My money's on you.
902
01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:21,520
KUNKEL: It's just one big game, Charlie.
903
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:25,726
We're all just chess pieces.
You gotta remember that.
904
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:29,969
What's the body count?
905
01:09:31,040 --> 01:09:32,690
Eight, so far.
906
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:36,562
You, me, a few guys on my team.
907
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:42,651
- Where are they sending you?
- St. Louis.
908
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:46,888
But I don't know
how much more I have left in me.
909
01:09:48,560 --> 01:09:49,641
You?
910
01:09:50,680 --> 01:09:51,920
San Francisco.
911
01:09:53,040 --> 01:09:54,371
Well, at least, it's Frisco.
912
01:09:55,240 --> 01:09:56,287
Yeah.
913
01:09:58,600 --> 01:09:59,647
Great.
914
01:10:01,680 --> 01:10:03,762
How many years you put in here, Charlie?
915
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:12,047
The whole run.
916
01:10:13,320 --> 01:10:14,845
My kids were born here.
917
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:23,127
REPORTER 1: Whatever Watergate was,
whatever it wasn't,
918
01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:26,204
...the American people don't seem
to understand, nor care,
919
01:10:26,440 --> 01:10:29,284
...as Nixon has won in a landslide.
920
01:10:39,720 --> 01:10:41,927
I appreciate you taking the time,
Mr. Felt.
921
01:10:42,560 --> 01:10:45,769
I always take care of my people,
Mr. Bates.
922
01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:50,760
In fact, my father always said to me,
923
01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:57,162
"Mark, whatever we do,
we have to make our lives vectors."
924
01:10:57,480 --> 01:11:01,849
Lines with force and direction.
925
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:11,931
You have to destroy anything
that is sick beyond repair...
926
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:15,049
...to rescue it from its agony.
927
01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:16,201
Mark.
928
01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:18,361
And...
929
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:23,125
And the agony it causes everyone else,
Mr. Bates.
930
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:35,009
REPORTER 1: It was thought that he might
have a little bit of difficulty.
931
01:11:49,440 --> 01:11:51,727
- Mr. Felt.
- What are you doing, Charlie?
932
01:11:57,280 --> 01:11:59,362
What is it, Mr. Bates?
933
01:12:11,480 --> 01:12:13,881
Here's to you. Bravo.
934
01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:27,806
(CHEERING ON TV)
935
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:29,887
Genesis commune.
936
01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:31,769
Ben Lomond, California.
937
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:33,526
Check it thoroughly.
938
01:13:56,520 --> 01:13:59,364
These leaks
are driving the White House crazy.
939
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:02,883
The White House
thinks it knows who it is.
940
01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:06,131
Your name came up.
941
01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:15,408
Do you have any idea
what that would mean?
942
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:17,285
Treason, for one.
943
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:21,004
Betrayal of everything
the FBI stands for, for another.
944
01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:22,844
Everything you stand for.
945
01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:25,364
So, why would I do it?
946
01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:27,201
I don't know.
947
01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:30,528
I can't imagine their thinking.
948
01:14:33,760 --> 01:14:35,683
Why don't they fire me then?
949
01:14:36,400 --> 01:14:37,811
You know everything.
950
01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:42,890
To them, the only thing worse
than keeping you is firing you.
951
01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:49,009
Dean did say something strange.
952
01:14:49,440 --> 01:14:52,284
Apparently, they know everything
going on inside our shop.
953
01:14:52,800 --> 01:14:55,929
- They have a source.
- Inside the FBI?
954
01:14:56,480 --> 01:15:01,725
He said they hear everything.
955
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:24,041
We just swept your office for bugs,
Mr. Felt.
956
01:15:24,120 --> 01:15:25,531
Do it again!
957
01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:44,646
The knives are out.
958
01:15:45,600 --> 01:15:47,011
More than you know.
959
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:49,326
MARK: Am I safe?
960
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:51,007
AGENCY MAN: No One is.
961
01:15:52,200 --> 01:15:55,249
The White House
is gonna sanitize the entire town.
962
01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:59,007
The director of Central Intelligence
will be gone by morning.
963
01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:00,206
MARK: Why?
964
01:16:00,280 --> 01:16:03,602
Apparently, he couldn't
smoke you out fast enough.
965
01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:06,286
The source...
966
01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:09,290
...of all those stories.
967
01:16:11,840 --> 01:16:13,490
Where does the CIA stand?
968
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:16,922
AGENCY MAN: The CIA is building a wall.
969
01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:19,406
We'll stay out of your way,
970
01:16:19,480 --> 01:16:21,403
...but if we're forced
to protect ourselves,
971
01:16:21,880 --> 01:16:22,881
...we will.
972
01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:27,322
The FBI will
never reach the CIA on this.
973
01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:28,686
And the White House?
974
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:32,051
Presidents come and go,
975
01:16:32,160 --> 01:16:33,650
...but the CIA stays.
976
01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:35,645
The FBI stays.
977
01:16:37,880 --> 01:16:39,370
We are the constants.
978
01:16:41,080 --> 01:16:42,366
I almost forgot.
979
01:16:43,720 --> 01:16:47,361
Time magazine's person of the year
is going to be Richard Nixon.
980
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:52,806
I thought you'd like to know.
981
01:16:55,880 --> 01:16:56,927
Happy holidays.
982
01:17:16,840 --> 01:17:17,841
(BELLS JINGLING)
983
01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:39,285
GRAY: The president told me
the unthinkable has happened.
984
01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:41,969
He actually misses Hoover.
985
01:17:43,200 --> 01:17:45,362
"Hoover would have gotten
the dogs off him," he said.
986
01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:48,242
"He'd have everyone scared to death."
987
01:17:57,520 --> 01:18:00,683
The White House is going
to make me director permanently.
988
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:03,006
Congratulations.
989
01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:09,768
GRAY: Bill Sullivan
will be my number two.
990
01:18:20,920 --> 01:18:22,809
You know what the president
said to me today?
991
01:18:22,920 --> 01:18:26,766
He said, "The Germans had the right idea
during World War ll."
992
01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:32,051
"If they went through a town and one
of their soldiers got hit by a sniper,"
993
01:18:32,120 --> 01:18:35,488
"...they'd line up the whole goddamn town
and kill everyone."
994
01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:42,165
He said,
"It's time to clean out the FBI."
995
01:18:47,600 --> 01:18:49,648
You know what that will mean for me.
996
01:18:49,720 --> 01:18:51,324
Remember, they're afraid of you.
997
01:18:57,920 --> 01:19:00,969
Mark, if you did know something,
you could come to me.
998
01:19:01,440 --> 01:19:04,160
We'd be able to work it out together.
We could do something about it.
999
01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:08,249
I can't protect you anymore.
1000
01:19:11,440 --> 01:19:12,965
Just give 'em what they want.
1001
01:19:14,720 --> 01:19:16,563
The traitor's head on a platter.
1002
01:19:34,920 --> 01:19:36,126
(DOOR CLOSES)
1003
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:07,482
SULLIVAN: So, the president asked me
what he should do.
1004
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:11,281
And, I tell him, get rid of everyone
in the interest of the nation.
1005
01:20:11,880 --> 01:20:13,484
I didn't mean me, of course.
1006
01:20:13,640 --> 01:20:14,971
(CHUCKLES)
1007
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:20,403
You don't have many friends left,
you know.
1008
01:20:21,280 --> 01:20:24,648
A bunch of your FBI pals
told me to cut your nuts off.
1009
01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:30,322
Think they'll let you keep your badge?
1010
01:20:31,400 --> 01:20:33,243
You got a lot of people worried
in Washington.
1011
01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:35,440
They think
you're gonna unwrap everything.
1012
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:37,650
Everything from all the years.
1013
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:42,688
Everything we, you and I, know.
1014
01:20:42,960 --> 01:20:44,530
Is that what you want to know, Bill?
1015
01:20:46,120 --> 01:20:48,646
This your last little errand?
1016
01:20:50,760 --> 01:20:52,444
To help the president sleep at night.
1017
01:20:54,560 --> 01:20:56,642
I'm just sayin', you open those scabs,
1018
01:20:58,400 --> 01:20:59,765
...a lot of things underneath.
1019
01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:02,610
Just remember, no one likes informers.
1020
01:21:03,640 --> 01:21:05,483
They only remember you as a rat,
1021
01:21:05,800 --> 01:21:09,122
...even if you were their...
Even if you were their rat!
1022
01:21:16,320 --> 01:21:19,881
Mr. Felt, Mr. Miller's on the phone.
He needs to speak with you.
1023
01:21:37,920 --> 01:21:40,400
- This is Special Agent Clark.
- I don't want to know his name.
1024
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:43,284
Tell him what you told Mr. Bates and me.
1025
01:21:44,080 --> 01:21:46,320
I don't think you have anything
to worry about, Mr. Felt.
1026
01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:49,245
You don't think.
1027
01:21:49,320 --> 01:21:50,401
Specific.
1028
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:56,446
(BREATH ES DEEPLY)
1029
01:21:56,520 --> 01:21:59,444
The commune where the subject,
Joan Felt...
1030
01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:00,925
Do not say her name.
1031
01:22:06,040 --> 01:22:07,087
Where the target is...
1032
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:10,923
Definitely some people
of interest in there.
1033
01:22:12,960 --> 01:22:15,201
- Maybe some with the Underground.
- But the target?
1034
01:22:18,480 --> 01:22:19,925
If you ask me,
1035
01:22:21,240 --> 01:22:23,368
...just someone's kid
looking for a way home.
1036
01:22:34,800 --> 01:22:36,962
We never spoke. No paper.
1037
01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:38,201
You don't know anything.
1038
01:23:08,320 --> 01:23:10,049
Do you know your physics, Sandy?
1039
01:23:12,320 --> 01:23:13,845
If you tap repeatedly...
1040
01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:17,604
...on the post of a building,
and the tapping is relentless,
1041
01:23:20,120 --> 01:23:21,360
...it creates a rhythm.
1042
01:23:22,800 --> 01:23:26,247
If you do that long enough
and steadily enough, it will feed back.
1043
01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:28,448
The frequencies will align,
1044
01:23:28,520 --> 01:23:30,488
...the molecules will scramble,
1045
01:23:30,560 --> 01:23:35,441
...and the whole thing, the whole building
will come apart from the inside...
1046
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:37,164
...and collapse in on itself,
1047
01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:39,328
...and all come tumbling down.
1048
01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:42,842
The molecules are beginning to scramble.
1049
01:23:42,920 --> 01:23:45,969
The FBI is coming apart.
Do you know where that takes us?
1050
01:23:46,280 --> 01:23:49,443
Do you want a country
this big, this angry, this confused...
1051
01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:51,124
...without a police department?
1052
01:23:56,440 --> 01:23:57,771
Get out your notebook.
1053
01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:02,851
May, 1969 and February, 1971.
1054
01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:06,606
Mark, are you sure about this?
1055
01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:09,769
Between those dates,
White House employees were wiretapped.
1056
01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:12,684
Many of them aides
to the Secretary of State...
1057
01:24:12,920 --> 01:24:15,605
...and five reporters,
including The New York Times.
1058
01:24:17,080 --> 01:24:18,411
You're kidding.
1059
01:24:22,800 --> 01:24:25,451
- This is hard for you.
- What part?
1060
01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:29,564
All this truth.
1061
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:34,885
The truth is hard for you.
1062
01:24:42,280 --> 01:24:46,604
The FBI illegally,
unconstitutionally and reprehensibly...
1063
01:24:46,680 --> 01:24:49,126
...bugged and taped...
1064
01:24:49,200 --> 01:24:51,567
...and secretly photographed
and memorialized...
1065
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:53,802
...every move that those people made.
1066
01:24:54,640 --> 01:24:58,042
Them and their wives and
their mistresses and homosexual lovers.
1067
01:25:01,320 --> 01:25:03,163
- Who did the wiretaps?
- Bill Sullivan.
1068
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:05,761
It became a rogue FBI operation.
1069
01:25:06,360 --> 01:25:09,364
Sullivan drove it. Sullivan and
the White House by themselves.
1070
01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:12,686
How 'bout you?
1071
01:25:14,640 --> 01:25:15,880
What do you know?
1072
01:25:15,960 --> 01:25:20,602
About everything else,
I knew every sordid little detail.
1073
01:25:20,680 --> 01:25:22,011
But not this.
1074
01:25:22,840 --> 01:25:24,520
They knew
they couldn't tell me about this.
1075
01:25:25,480 --> 01:25:26,845
Yeah, they couldn't count on you.
1076
01:25:28,400 --> 01:25:32,724
The White House is packing
all its crimes in separate little boxes.
1077
01:25:32,800 --> 01:25:36,122
Watergate, the spying,
the ugliness, the rot.
1078
01:25:36,600 --> 01:25:39,570
Each thing in a different box,
so that no one can put it together,
1079
01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:41,927
...so that no one sees it's all connected.
1080
01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:45,800
And no one will care.
But it's all the same big thing.
1081
01:25:49,440 --> 01:25:52,489
And Watergate? Just the gateway.
1082
01:25:58,520 --> 01:26:01,171
Can you get the story out
before Gray's confirmation hearing?
1083
01:26:02,600 --> 01:26:03,965
What you're doing...
1084
01:26:05,480 --> 01:26:08,006
...will bring down
the whole house of cards.
1085
01:26:10,680 --> 01:26:13,126
But then, you already knew that.
1086
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:18,729
SANDY: Gray is ready to fall now.
1087
01:26:19,240 --> 01:26:20,810
Watch where it leads.
1088
01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:38,803
Any last-minute advice?
1089
01:26:40,960 --> 01:26:42,485
We've gone over everything.
1090
01:26:43,680 --> 01:26:45,284
They'll go easy-
1091
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:48,002
You're the president's man.
1092
01:26:50,640 --> 01:26:52,881
Mr. Gray. What about this?
1093
01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:56,688
I don't know what my position should be.
1094
01:26:58,280 --> 01:26:59,964
MARK: It was before your time.
1095
01:27:01,760 --> 01:27:03,205
Tell the truth.
1096
01:27:04,440 --> 01:27:06,090
No one can argue with the truth.
1097
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:11,684
SENATOR: Mr. Gray, this Time magazine
article by Sandy Smith...
1098
01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:15,651
...contains information on alleged wiretaps
requested by the White House...
1099
01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:17,484
...installed by the FBI.
1100
01:27:17,560 --> 01:27:19,085
How do you respond to these charges?
1101
01:27:20,280 --> 01:27:22,044
It was before my time, Senator.
1102
01:27:24,960 --> 01:27:27,611
What about the assertion in this article...
1103
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:31,083
...that a White House aide
slipped Donald Segretti,
1104
01:27:31,160 --> 01:27:34,004
...a target of the bureau's
Watergate investigation,
1105
01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:36,003
...copies of what the FBI had?
1106
01:27:36,600 --> 01:27:37,931
We didn't look into that.
1107
01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:40,321
- Why on Earth not?
- I'll have to look into that.
1108
01:27:40,440 --> 01:27:43,330
SENATOR: Did you know that the White
House had your confidential file?
1109
01:27:45,360 --> 01:27:46,964
I did. Yes, Senator.
1110
01:27:56,560 --> 01:27:58,449
Let me tell you
how that might have happened.
1111
01:27:58,520 --> 01:27:59,726
SENATOR: Please do.
1112
01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:02,326
GRAY: White House counsel
John Dean told me...
1113
01:28:02,400 --> 01:28:06,325
...the White House wanted everything
the FBI had on Watergate...
1114
01:28:06,400 --> 01:28:08,482
...to help with its own investigation.
1115
01:28:09,440 --> 01:28:11,681
Mr. Dean took all those FBI files.
1116
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:14,531
SENATOR: How many Bureau reports
are we talking about?
1117
01:28:14,760 --> 01:28:17,809
How many reports did you give Mr. Dean?
1118
01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:20,364
I believe it was 82.
1119
01:28:21,320 --> 01:28:25,609
As the acting director of the FBI,
why on Earth would you do that?
1120
01:28:25,760 --> 01:28:28,001
- Because I was told to.
- SENATOR: By who?
1121
01:28:28,080 --> 01:28:29,730
Who would have ordered that?
1122
01:28:30,280 --> 01:28:31,566
(CLEARS THROAT)
1123
01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:39,207
- The president.
- (ALL CHATTERING)
1124
01:28:41,720 --> 01:28:44,963
NIXON: One of the most difficult
decisions of my presidency,
1125
01:28:45,040 --> 01:28:46,610
I accepted the resignations...
1126
01:28:46,680 --> 01:28:50,002
...of two of my closest associates
in the White House,
1127
01:28:50,080 --> 01:28:52,731
Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.
1128
01:28:52,800 --> 01:28:57,601
The counsel to the president,
John Dean, has also resigned.
1129
01:28:58,040 --> 01:29:00,336
REPORTER: The nation tonight
is in the midst of what may be...
1130
01:29:00,360 --> 01:29:04,001
...the most critical constitutional crisis
in its history.
1131
01:29:04,080 --> 01:29:08,483
As a result of the president's action,
the Attorney General has resigned.
1132
01:29:09,720 --> 01:29:13,042
REPORTER 2: L. Patrick Gray,
head of the FBI for nearly a year,
1133
01:29:13,160 --> 01:29:17,085
...will now never take the chair
occupied by J. Edgar Hoover.
1134
01:29:17,160 --> 01:29:19,176
REPORTER 3: John Dean told me,
during a conversation,
1135
01:29:19,200 --> 01:29:21,328
...that the White House
masterminded a cover-up.
1136
01:29:21,400 --> 01:29:22,936
DEAN: I began by telling the president...
1137
01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:25,247
...that there was a cancer growing
on the presidency,
1138
01:29:25,320 --> 01:29:28,369
...that it was important this cancer
be removed immediately...
1139
01:29:28,440 --> 01:29:30,920
...because it was growing
more deadly every day.
1140
01:29:40,600 --> 01:29:41,931
MARK: I found Joan.
1141
01:29:43,120 --> 01:29:44,645
Let's go get her.
1142
01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:03,611
Oh, my God. It's my parents.
1143
01:30:13,720 --> 01:30:15,688
It's all right. I know.
1144
01:30:24,280 --> 01:30:25,645
Mark?
1145
01:30:36,240 --> 01:30:37,651
Dad.
1146
01:30:53,680 --> 01:30:55,045
This is your grandson.
1147
01:30:58,280 --> 01:31:00,169
Come here, sweetheart.
1148
01:31:00,800 --> 01:31:01,801
There we go.
1149
01:31:13,440 --> 01:31:14,726
(SIGHS)
1150
01:31:15,760 --> 01:31:17,524
I had this feeling when I was little,
1151
01:31:21,480 --> 01:31:23,084
...that I couldn't see into his eyes,
1152
01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:30,085
...that he didn't approve of me.
1153
01:31:33,800 --> 01:31:38,169
That he was holding me up
to some impossible standard.
1154
01:31:42,680 --> 01:31:43,920
That was me.
1155
01:31:49,080 --> 01:31:50,764
When you were sick and you were little,
1156
01:31:50,840 --> 01:31:52,968
...it was your father
who climbed into bed with you...
1157
01:31:53,920 --> 01:31:55,445
...in his shoes,
1158
01:31:56,640 --> 01:31:58,130
...his holster, his suit.
1159
01:32:00,960 --> 01:32:05,045
He'd sit with you for hours
and rock you till you fell back asleep.
1160
01:32:58,160 --> 01:33:01,881
MARK: Oh!
Look at that big baby. (CHUCKLES)
1161
01:33:05,800 --> 01:33:07,564
(CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)
1162
01:33:12,760 --> 01:33:13,807
Thank you.
1163
01:33:16,880 --> 01:33:19,326
- MAN: Mr. Director? We're ready.
- Mr. Felt.
1164
01:33:26,000 --> 01:33:27,684
- Mark.
- Mr. Ruckelshaus.
1165
01:33:31,720 --> 01:33:33,006
Thank you.
1166
01:33:34,160 --> 01:33:37,243
Mr. Felt, thank you
for 31 years of service...
1167
01:33:37,320 --> 01:33:39,129
...to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
1168
01:33:39,720 --> 01:33:41,370
- Thank you.
- ALL: Hear, hear!
1169
01:33:41,480 --> 01:33:43,084
(SCATTERED APPLAUSE)
1170
01:33:51,360 --> 01:33:52,600
Congratulations.
1171
01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:17,040
(APPLAUSE)
1172
01:34:26,480 --> 01:34:28,576
- MAN 2: Hey, congratulations.
- MAN 3: Good luck, Mark.
1173
01:34:28,600 --> 01:34:29,806
WOMAN: Well done, Mark.
1174
01:34:33,080 --> 01:34:34,256
WOMAN 2: Congratulations, sir.
1175
01:34:34,280 --> 01:34:36,601
NIXON: I have never been a quitter.
1176
01:34:37,200 --> 01:34:39,806
To leave office
before my term is completed...
1177
01:34:39,880 --> 01:34:42,611
...is abhorrent to
every instinct in my body.
1178
01:34:44,800 --> 01:34:46,245
But as president,
1179
01:34:46,600 --> 01:34:49,729
I must put
the interests of America first.
1180
01:34:56,600 --> 01:34:57,647
Therefore,
1181
01:34:58,800 --> 01:35:02,407
I shall resign the presidency
effective at noon tomorrow.
1182
01:35:03,360 --> 01:35:07,445
Vice President Ford,
will be sworn in as president...
1183
01:35:07,760 --> 01:35:10,445
...at that hour, in this office.
1184
01:35:20,400 --> 01:35:22,528
STAN POTTINGER: Counterespionage expert.
1185
01:35:22,600 --> 01:35:23,761
Nazi hunter.
1186
01:35:25,520 --> 01:35:27,966
You, Mr. Felt, are the G-man's G-man,
1187
01:35:28,920 --> 01:35:30,126
...a hero and a patriot,
1188
01:35:31,240 --> 01:35:33,083
...and we are a grateful nation.
1189
01:35:34,320 --> 01:35:37,369
Ladies and gentlemen,
for the past few weeks...
1190
01:35:37,480 --> 01:35:40,370
...you've heard through testimony
the sounds of the bombs...
1191
01:35:40,440 --> 01:35:43,842
...of the PLO and the Weather Underground
ringing in your ears.
1192
01:35:43,920 --> 01:35:45,570
People died.
1193
01:35:45,640 --> 01:35:48,291
We were a nation at war
at home and abroad.
1194
01:35:49,120 --> 01:35:50,485
We don't dispute that.
1195
01:35:51,440 --> 01:35:54,250
Now, we ask you to listen
for the sound of the Constitution.
1196
01:35:56,680 --> 01:35:57,727
You hear that?
1197
01:35:59,200 --> 01:36:01,360
It doesn't make quite as much noise
as a bomb, does it?
1198
01:36:02,920 --> 01:36:05,810
It just sits there, silent,
like our conscience,
1199
01:36:05,880 --> 01:36:09,601
...just as it's done
for the last 200 years.
1200
01:36:10,320 --> 01:36:11,560
Mr. Felt.
1201
01:36:13,160 --> 01:36:14,969
On September 8th, 1972,
1202
01:36:15,080 --> 01:36:19,085
...did you order 143 FBI agents
across the country...
1203
01:36:19,160 --> 01:36:20,736
...to break into the homes of relatives...
1204
01:36:20,760 --> 01:36:22,728
...of alleged members
of the Weather Underground,
1205
01:36:22,800 --> 01:36:24,723
...to wiretap their phones
and bug their homes?
1206
01:36:24,840 --> 01:36:26,490
- Yes.
- Who else?
1207
01:36:26,800 --> 01:36:27,847
Who else what?
1208
01:36:27,920 --> 01:36:29,968
Who else participated
in giving those orders?
1209
01:36:33,320 --> 01:36:36,130
- Assistant Director Edward Miller?
- I gave the order.
1210
01:36:36,200 --> 01:36:38,806
Acting Director
L. Patrick Gray the third?
1211
01:36:38,880 --> 01:36:40,484
MARK: I gave the order.
1212
01:36:40,960 --> 01:36:41,961
Charles Bates?
1213
01:36:47,440 --> 01:36:49,124
You're really gonna
sit there and do that?
1214
01:36:50,800 --> 01:36:53,531
You're really gonna take that on
for everybody?
1215
01:36:54,640 --> 01:36:55,971
I gave the order.
1216
01:36:56,840 --> 01:36:59,446
POTTINGER: Mr. Felt, you stated that you...
1217
01:36:59,520 --> 01:37:01,921
...frequently briefed
the Nixon White House on the case.
1218
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:06,210
Maybe you could just give us
a quick snapshot on how that all worked.
1219
01:37:07,360 --> 01:37:11,763
I was in constant contact
with the White House on many matters.
1220
01:37:14,440 --> 01:37:17,125
In fact, I was in the
Oval Office so often,
1221
01:37:18,120 --> 01:37:21,169
...people used to say
I had to be Deep Throat.
1222
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:29,684
What did you just say?
1223
01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:34,369
I said I was with the White House,
Dean and so forth, so often,
1224
01:37:34,440 --> 01:37:38,650
...people thought I was The Washington
Post's source for Watergate.
1225
01:37:38,960 --> 01:37:41,008
The person they called, "Deep Throat."
1226
01:37:49,640 --> 01:37:51,324
Before the witness is excused,
1227
01:37:53,160 --> 01:37:54,810
...are there any questions from the jury?
1228
01:37:58,400 --> 01:38:00,289
JUROR: Well, were you?
1229
01:38:01,440 --> 01:38:05,126
- Was I what?
- JUROR: Were you Deep Throat?