1 00:00:36,002 --> 00:00:39,369 Live, until they drop dead... 2 00:00:40,273 --> 00:00:41,968 ...from the beautiful Carlou Theater... 3 00:00:42,175 --> 00:00:44,405 ...in the heart of sunny Miami Beach, Florida... 4 00:00:44,611 --> 00:00:47,546 ...it's the Veterans Day Polio Telethon! 5 00:00:47,747 --> 00:00:50,272 And now, please welcome your hosts... 6 00:00:50,483 --> 00:00:53,646 ...the beautiful, the talented, Lanny Morris... 7 00:00:53,853 --> 00:00:56,788 ...and Vince Collins! 8 00:01:16,142 --> 00:01:18,110 Do you realize we have to present ourselves... 9 00:01:18,311 --> 00:01:20,871 ...in front of these lovely people for the next three days? 10 00:01:21,081 --> 00:01:23,379 Hello, lovely people for the next three days. 11 00:01:23,583 --> 00:01:25,448 - Look at you. You're a disgrace. - What? 12 00:01:25,652 --> 00:01:29,281 Look, your hair's a mess, your shoes aren't shined, your shirt's not pressed. 13 00:01:29,489 --> 00:01:33,516 - Look at your tie. It's not even straight. - Look at yours. It doesn't even clip on. 14 00:01:35,862 --> 00:01:37,193 Now... 15 00:01:37,564 --> 00:01:39,122 ...l'm upset. 16 00:01:39,966 --> 00:01:42,025 You know what happens when I get upset. 17 00:01:42,235 --> 00:01:44,829 No, no, no. Please. Please don't hurt me, Vince. 18 00:01:45,038 --> 00:01:48,235 I've had a terrible day already. All sorts of bad things have happened. 19 00:01:48,441 --> 00:01:49,669 I don't wanna be hurt again. 20 00:01:49,876 --> 00:01:52,401 - You've been hurt already, have you? - Been hurt real bad. 21 00:01:52,612 --> 00:01:53,806 And what happened, pray tell? 22 00:01:54,013 --> 00:01:56,846 - Want me to pray or want me to tell? - I think you better pray. 23 00:01:57,183 --> 00:01:59,743 - I saw this stranger - I don't know whether you're... 24 00:01:59,953 --> 00:02:02,148 ...singing or speaking. - Leave my pad 25 00:02:02,355 --> 00:02:05,882 - One thing I do know... - And I said, "Baby... 26 00:02:06,092 --> 00:02:09,118 ...what explanation do you have?" - There's always a woman involved. 27 00:02:09,329 --> 00:02:11,695 And she said; 28 00:02:11,898 --> 00:02:13,695 - Next time? - Next time 29 00:02:13,900 --> 00:02:16,164 And I said, "There will be No next time" 30 00:02:16,369 --> 00:02:19,463 That's what you said last time, Lanny, and the time before that. 31 00:02:20,940 --> 00:02:24,933 You have to make sure there's no first time, then there can't be a next time. 32 00:02:25,712 --> 00:02:27,543 Or a last time. 33 00:02:27,747 --> 00:02:31,478 - That was the last time for me - Let's hope so, Lanny. 34 00:02:31,684 --> 00:02:33,549 Lanny Morris, ladies and gentlemen. 35 00:03:41,554 --> 00:03:44,489 My manager sent me over some of your work. 36 00:03:45,091 --> 00:03:47,992 It's funny how you're really in them a lot. 37 00:03:48,461 --> 00:03:50,986 Whenever I read these interviews where the writer says: 38 00:03:51,197 --> 00:03:54,189 "This is how I felt the morning I woke up to meet the pope"... 39 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,198 ..."how I felt when the pope greeted me, how he reminded me... 40 00:03:57,403 --> 00:03:58,802 ...so much of my friend Mike"... 41 00:03:59,005 --> 00:04:01,667 ...I always think, "Who the fuck is Mike?" 42 00:04:03,509 --> 00:04:05,136 So who are you? 43 00:04:06,479 --> 00:04:08,208 I was a young journalist... 44 00:04:08,414 --> 00:04:09,847 ...with a few awards... 45 00:04:10,617 --> 00:04:13,177 ...a couple of cover stories... 46 00:04:13,386 --> 00:04:16,355 ...and a desperate need to prove myself. 47 00:04:18,591 --> 00:04:21,526 If you look through my work, you'll see I try to present... 48 00:04:21,728 --> 00:04:24,492 ...a balanced view of my subjects. 49 00:04:24,697 --> 00:04:26,631 I leave the conclusions to the reader. 50 00:04:26,833 --> 00:04:28,130 I'm not sure we like balance. 51 00:04:28,334 --> 00:04:30,131 Or leaving the conclusions to the reader. 52 00:04:30,336 --> 00:04:32,201 I'm used to being publicized, not analyzed. 53 00:04:32,405 --> 00:04:33,838 It would be your words. 54 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,372 We'd publish it as a transcript: 55 00:04:36,576 --> 00:04:39,170 My questions, your answers. 56 00:04:40,046 --> 00:04:43,038 If you say it, I can use it. 57 00:04:43,249 --> 00:04:44,580 If you don't, I can't. 58 00:04:44,784 --> 00:04:46,684 And they're gonna pay me a million for this? 59 00:04:46,886 --> 00:04:49,252 An excerpt will be published in a magazine as a way... 60 00:04:49,455 --> 00:04:52,822 ...of amortizing the investment they'll be making in the book. 61 00:04:53,559 --> 00:04:55,720 They're looking for some... 62 00:04:57,030 --> 00:04:59,863 ...provocative stories for the first issue. 63 00:05:00,066 --> 00:05:04,332 Any thoughts on what these provocative stories might be about? 64 00:05:05,438 --> 00:05:09,033 The breakup. Why Lanny and you split. 65 00:05:13,212 --> 00:05:15,237 And the girl. 66 00:05:15,648 --> 00:05:17,275 Maureen. 67 00:05:19,018 --> 00:05:21,782 What happened to Maureen O'Flaherty. 68 00:05:23,656 --> 00:05:26,454 No one had ever been able to pin Lanny Morris... 69 00:05:26,659 --> 00:05:30,060 ...or Vince Collins to the girl's death. 70 00:05:30,263 --> 00:05:31,958 All that was clear... 71 00:05:32,165 --> 00:05:35,794 ...was that Maureen was found dead in their hotel suite. 72 00:05:37,103 --> 00:05:39,936 It was unthinkable to me that Lanny and Vince... 73 00:05:40,139 --> 00:05:43,006 ...could have had anything to do with it. 74 00:05:43,209 --> 00:05:45,143 They were my heroes. 75 00:05:45,445 --> 00:05:48,778 "The reason I consider myself to be a miracle girl... 76 00:05:48,981 --> 00:05:50,812 ...is because I had the good fortune... 77 00:05:51,017 --> 00:05:53,611 ...to meet Lanny and Vince when I was sick. 78 00:05:54,287 --> 00:05:57,484 Their love of life is what gave me hope... 79 00:05:57,690 --> 00:06:01,182 ...and it's hope that gives us the power to live." 80 00:06:02,095 --> 00:06:04,029 Thank you, Lanny. 81 00:06:04,230 --> 00:06:06,164 Thank you, Vince. 82 00:06:21,414 --> 00:06:23,746 Come on, let's hear it for her. 83 00:06:23,950 --> 00:06:27,283 Denise handled publicity for the polio foundation. 84 00:06:27,487 --> 00:06:30,854 And it was her idea to plug the girl's story on the telethon. 85 00:06:31,057 --> 00:06:36,085 The day before, it was my idea to plug Denise at the Miami Versailles Hotel. 86 00:06:39,365 --> 00:06:41,595 Don't stop! Don't stop! 87 00:06:44,237 --> 00:06:45,966 Don't stop! 88 00:06:58,050 --> 00:07:00,575 You can tell a lot about a woman by the way she acts... 89 00:07:00,787 --> 00:07:03,381 ...when you're having sex and room service comes in. 90 00:07:03,589 --> 00:07:05,648 Some girls will sit up and light a cigarette... 91 00:07:05,858 --> 00:07:09,726 ...like there's nothing funny in the world about her being naked. 92 00:07:09,929 --> 00:07:12,261 "It's obvious we were in the process of screwing... 93 00:07:12,465 --> 00:07:14,399 ...so why not let a stranger into the room?" 94 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:15,862 Come on in. 95 00:07:16,068 --> 00:07:18,536 Then there's the kind that will pull the sheets up... 96 00:07:18,738 --> 00:07:20,296 ...and act like they're asleep. 97 00:07:20,506 --> 00:07:22,497 Where would you like it, sir? 98 00:07:22,708 --> 00:07:24,471 Sweetheart, wherever you'd like it. 99 00:07:24,677 --> 00:07:27,305 Then, of course, there's the ones who scrunch real flat... 100 00:07:27,513 --> 00:07:30,414 ...thinking that the bed will look empty. 101 00:07:30,616 --> 00:07:34,177 With Denise, it was kind of hard to tell which way she'd go. 102 00:07:42,528 --> 00:07:44,689 Can I have your autograph, Mr. Morris? 103 00:07:45,231 --> 00:07:46,562 Sure. 104 00:07:46,766 --> 00:07:49,792 Should I make it out to Maureen? 105 00:07:53,105 --> 00:07:55,164 I mean, your autograph on the bill. 106 00:07:58,945 --> 00:08:00,310 Okay. 107 00:08:01,047 --> 00:08:03,277 I mean, I'd love to have your autograph. 108 00:08:04,383 --> 00:08:07,113 And maybe a few minutes of your time. 109 00:08:07,887 --> 00:08:10,151 I'm a huge fan and... 110 00:08:10,556 --> 00:08:13,582 ...well, I was thinking about... 111 00:08:13,793 --> 00:08:16,853 ...writing an article on you for my campus paper. 112 00:08:17,063 --> 00:08:18,496 I'm the editor. 113 00:08:18,698 --> 00:08:21,895 Any interview requests go through me, honey. 114 00:08:25,371 --> 00:08:28,033 You know, it's just a college paper. 115 00:08:39,719 --> 00:08:41,243 Thank you. 116 00:08:41,754 --> 00:08:43,745 No, thank you. 117 00:08:45,324 --> 00:08:46,518 Thank you, Maureen. 118 00:08:46,726 --> 00:08:49,456 I say goodbye to Maureen, knowing I'd see her again... 119 00:08:49,662 --> 00:08:51,926 ...close the door and then turn to look at Denise... 120 00:08:52,131 --> 00:08:56,090 ...thinking, "I know this girl from every college town we have ever played." 121 00:08:56,302 --> 00:08:57,701 They're called career girls. 122 00:08:57,904 --> 00:09:00,168 The absolute easiest lays... 123 00:09:00,373 --> 00:09:03,137 ...in this great nation of ours. 124 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:09,170 Since you're reading this, you'd be interested to know... 125 00:09:09,382 --> 00:09:11,646 ...that my favorite catches were the intellectuals. 126 00:09:11,851 --> 00:09:15,981 They'd be the ones in the straight black dresses, severe black hair. 127 00:09:16,188 --> 00:09:20,420 Your basic neurotic, eyeglasses, cool jazz, liberal... 128 00:09:20,626 --> 00:09:23,288 ..."I'll fuck any black guy as part of my personal apology... 129 00:09:23,496 --> 00:09:25,760 ...for racism in America" type. 130 00:09:27,233 --> 00:09:30,361 Anyhow, on this particular night, we're in a club in New Jersey... 131 00:09:30,570 --> 00:09:34,097 ...it's the '50s, and I'm mingling with the crowd. 132 00:09:34,607 --> 00:09:36,632 Now, when I say "mingling," what I mean is... 133 00:09:36,842 --> 00:09:38,867 ...I was scouting for who I would sleep with. 134 00:09:39,078 --> 00:09:41,171 Didn't matter if the girls came with dates. 135 00:09:41,380 --> 00:09:44,645 That was Reuben's job. Reuben is my valet. 136 00:09:44,850 --> 00:09:47,648 I never figured out how he helped them get rid of their dates... 137 00:09:47,853 --> 00:09:50,219 ...but they were always gone by the second show. 138 00:09:50,423 --> 00:09:52,516 Reuben could clean up any situation. 139 00:09:52,725 --> 00:09:54,625 Excuse me, miss. May I say that I think... 140 00:09:54,827 --> 00:09:57,990 ...you have the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. 141 00:09:58,197 --> 00:10:01,655 Notice I say, "I think you've got the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen." 142 00:10:01,867 --> 00:10:04,529 I haven't seen them yet. I've been staring at your cans. 143 00:10:04,737 --> 00:10:05,999 Now, Lanny. 144 00:10:06,539 --> 00:10:09,975 - I can't believe he just said that. - That is completely unacceptable. 145 00:10:10,176 --> 00:10:12,610 Madam, I apologize. I apologize, ladies and gentlemen... 146 00:10:12,812 --> 00:10:15,542 ...for my friend. You cannot speak that way to a stranger. 147 00:10:16,015 --> 00:10:18,074 Look, her husband's not offended. 148 00:10:18,284 --> 00:10:20,218 - He's not? - No, her husband's not offended. 149 00:10:20,419 --> 00:10:22,944 Her husband's not here. This lucky guy is her boyfriend. 150 00:10:23,155 --> 00:10:25,555 And even he's not offended, and do you know why? 151 00:10:25,758 --> 00:10:27,589 Well, I can certainly hazard a guess. 152 00:10:27,793 --> 00:10:30,660 What the hell is that? For chrissake, Vince, this is America. 153 00:10:30,863 --> 00:10:34,424 We don't say, "hazard a guess." We say "yes" or we say "no." 154 00:10:34,634 --> 00:10:36,295 Well, I say "no" to you, Morris. 155 00:10:36,502 --> 00:10:37,992 Excuse me? Could you repeat that? 156 00:10:38,204 --> 00:10:40,434 I don't think the entire audience heard you. 157 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,108 Go back to where you came from, bastard! 158 00:10:43,309 --> 00:10:46,142 I get hecklers all the time, but this schmuck came off personal. 159 00:10:46,345 --> 00:10:47,676 Where did he think I came from? 160 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,007 Bastard! Bastard! He called me a bastard. 161 00:10:50,216 --> 00:10:52,116 Now, it doesn't show from the front, Lanny. 162 00:10:52,318 --> 00:10:55,845 Now, please, would you kindly not mount me? It's very disagreeable. 163 00:10:56,055 --> 00:10:58,319 Vince plunges straight into quoting lines I wrote... 164 00:10:58,524 --> 00:11:00,515 ...from a song from our first motion picture. 165 00:11:00,726 --> 00:11:03,627 I happen to be honored to work with this jerk 166 00:11:03,829 --> 00:11:04,796 Is that a compliment? 167 00:11:04,997 --> 00:11:06,555 I never frown with this clown 168 00:11:06,766 --> 00:11:07,733 Never, never, never. 169 00:11:07,933 --> 00:11:09,195 I get a kick from this... 170 00:11:11,837 --> 00:11:13,429 ...friend of mine 171 00:11:13,639 --> 00:11:17,097 Fine, but don't give the mike to this kike. 172 00:11:20,980 --> 00:11:23,642 - Well... - Just relax. 173 00:11:24,216 --> 00:11:27,947 It's not often we get topped by a member of our audience, but... 174 00:11:28,154 --> 00:11:29,985 ...this gentleman has done the impossible. 175 00:11:30,189 --> 00:11:31,918 What is your name? 176 00:11:32,558 --> 00:11:34,549 - It's Joe. - Joe... 177 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,991 ...we were just wondering if you'd be a great sport... 178 00:11:38,197 --> 00:11:40,461 ...and help us out on stage. What do you say, folks? 179 00:11:44,103 --> 00:11:45,297 Go on. 180 00:11:45,504 --> 00:11:48,564 Joe here is going to play a crazy high school professor... 181 00:11:48,774 --> 00:11:53,177 ...who's about to give Lanny and I our final high school exam. 182 00:11:53,379 --> 00:11:57,247 So if you'll just excuse us while we help Joe change into his... 183 00:11:57,450 --> 00:11:58,712 ...crazy-professor outfit. 184 00:11:58,918 --> 00:12:01,011 Lanny, a little costume-changing music... 185 00:12:01,220 --> 00:12:03,154 ...if you please. 186 00:12:14,133 --> 00:12:15,828 Step this way. 187 00:12:16,669 --> 00:12:18,034 I'll have a word with him... 188 00:12:18,237 --> 00:12:20,034 ...about the way he spoke to your wife. 189 00:12:20,239 --> 00:12:21,797 Completely unnecessary. 190 00:12:22,007 --> 00:12:23,668 Just this way. 191 00:12:40,626 --> 00:12:43,925 You call any Jew on this planet anything you like. 192 00:12:44,130 --> 00:12:48,794 But nobody calls my partner a kike. Do you understand? 193 00:13:05,785 --> 00:13:08,151 Boffing ladies and bashing gentlemen. 194 00:13:08,354 --> 00:13:10,948 I tell you, there was nothing under the sun... 195 00:13:11,157 --> 00:13:13,887 ...Vince and I wouldn't do for each other. 196 00:13:14,326 --> 00:13:15,987 Are you finished? 197 00:13:27,039 --> 00:13:28,939 Thank you, Mamie. 198 00:13:30,743 --> 00:13:33,075 I'm sorry about that, Miss O'Connor. 199 00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:36,476 We just needed to be sure you didn't take any notes. 200 00:13:36,682 --> 00:13:39,810 Lanny gave me very specific instructions on that point. 201 00:13:40,019 --> 00:13:43,420 I don't understand why he'd want me to read this. 202 00:13:44,156 --> 00:13:46,522 Why would he ever want anyone to see this side of him? 203 00:13:46,725 --> 00:13:49,387 When you contacted us about meeting Lanny for your book... 204 00:13:49,595 --> 00:13:53,395 ...it wasn't simply about letting you know he didn't want to speak with you. 205 00:13:53,933 --> 00:13:57,061 I believe my client wanted you to understand that he, in fact... 206 00:13:57,269 --> 00:13:59,737 ...was completing a book of his own which would serve... 207 00:13:59,939 --> 00:14:01,804 ...not only as his autobiography... 208 00:14:02,007 --> 00:14:05,943 ...but also as the definitive account of the joint careers of Morris and Collins. 209 00:14:06,145 --> 00:14:10,081 You've had, at first hand, a sample of Lanny's writing voice. 210 00:14:11,050 --> 00:14:12,449 Yes, I have. 211 00:14:12,651 --> 00:14:14,414 Such a book, Miss O'Connor... 212 00:14:14,620 --> 00:14:17,111 ...this raw, this honest... 213 00:14:17,323 --> 00:14:19,450 ...would make your own efforts look... 214 00:14:19,658 --> 00:14:21,023 There's been some very nice... 215 00:14:21,227 --> 00:14:23,718 ...translations of the Bible over the centuries... 216 00:14:23,929 --> 00:14:26,830 ...but they would run a very poor second in popularity... 217 00:14:27,032 --> 00:14:30,798 ...to the discovery of the actual Ten Commandments. 218 00:14:31,737 --> 00:14:34,467 Single best part about teaching grade two is the difference... 219 00:14:34,673 --> 00:14:37,437 ...between the bright ones and the dumb ones isn't so obvious. 220 00:14:37,643 --> 00:14:40,043 - What's so great about that? - The results of my work... 221 00:14:40,246 --> 00:14:41,804 ...as a teacher aren't so depressing. 222 00:14:42,014 --> 00:14:45,677 Also, there's no homework to correct in the evenings and... 223 00:14:45,885 --> 00:14:48,445 ...well, none of the kids know how to use drugs. 224 00:14:54,827 --> 00:14:57,660 Bonnie had come from New York to visit me that summer. 225 00:14:57,863 --> 00:15:00,423 We'd been best friends since kindergarten. 226 00:15:01,066 --> 00:15:03,534 At school we started the Lanny and Vince Fan Club... 227 00:15:03,736 --> 00:15:07,968 ...raising almost $200 for that year's telethon. 228 00:15:08,173 --> 00:15:10,038 All of you send in a bit of your allowance. 229 00:15:10,242 --> 00:15:13,370 Just a little bit. A dime, a nickel, a penny. 230 00:15:13,579 --> 00:15:16,104 Every bit helps. 231 00:15:17,016 --> 00:15:19,177 The goal of the telethon that year... 232 00:15:19,385 --> 00:15:23,685 ...was $3.9 million, which was a lot of dough at that time. 233 00:15:23,889 --> 00:15:27,655 Thank you, Tom. You're a prince among men. 234 00:15:27,860 --> 00:15:30,351 Whoa, Lanny. There are children watching! 235 00:15:30,562 --> 00:15:32,052 Where does he get his energy? 236 00:15:32,564 --> 00:15:34,031 To remind viewers of the goal... 237 00:15:34,233 --> 00:15:38,329 ...we agreed the telethon could run 39 hours nonstop. 238 00:15:39,405 --> 00:15:43,501 The show would begin at 9 p.m. On Friday and finish at noon on Sunday. 239 00:15:43,709 --> 00:15:46,041 We paced it so that Vince and I were together... 240 00:15:46,245 --> 00:15:48,338 ...for the kickoff, most of the day Saturday... 241 00:15:48,547 --> 00:15:52,039 ...then the big finale on Sunday with us bleary-eyed... 242 00:15:52,251 --> 00:15:55,186 ...and weeping as America got ready to go to church. 243 00:15:55,387 --> 00:15:58,754 Lanny, Lanny. What are you doing? 244 00:15:58,958 --> 00:16:01,324 I'm ordering a pizza. I'm starving. 245 00:16:01,527 --> 00:16:05,258 No anchovies on mine, Lanny. Hey, so who are you talking to? 246 00:16:05,464 --> 00:16:08,627 I'm talking to little Suzie from Whittier, California... 247 00:16:08,834 --> 00:16:12,326 ...and she is going to donate three weeks of allowance. 248 00:16:12,538 --> 00:16:15,701 - How about that, folks? - Suzie from Whittier, thank you. 249 00:16:15,908 --> 00:16:17,398 Three weeks of allowance. 250 00:16:17,609 --> 00:16:19,008 That's a challenge for all you... 251 00:16:19,211 --> 00:16:21,441 What you have to understand is that Vince and me... 252 00:16:21,647 --> 00:16:23,808 ...were essentially a boy-girl act. 253 00:16:24,016 --> 00:16:26,576 I was the tramp, ready for any sort of action... 254 00:16:26,819 --> 00:16:28,377 ...and Vince was the gentleman... 255 00:16:28,587 --> 00:16:30,714 ...always trying to make me behave myself. 256 00:16:30,923 --> 00:16:33,414 I was pleasure, and he was control. 257 00:16:33,759 --> 00:16:36,819 I was rock 'n' roll, and he was class. 258 00:16:37,029 --> 00:16:41,363 His presence gave America permission to like me. 259 00:16:43,802 --> 00:16:46,828 My deal with the publisher gave me first-class travel... 260 00:16:47,039 --> 00:16:48,563 ...a luxury I'd never enjoyed. 261 00:16:48,774 --> 00:16:51,174 Is there any chance of switching to a window seat? 262 00:16:51,377 --> 00:16:53,641 Sorry, we're completely booked in first. 263 00:16:53,846 --> 00:16:56,815 But these center seats are really wonderful. See... 264 00:16:57,016 --> 00:16:59,143 ...if you push here... Can I show you? 265 00:16:59,351 --> 00:17:01,080 Sure. 266 00:17:02,788 --> 00:17:05,416 The chair swivels to the left and the right. 267 00:17:05,624 --> 00:17:07,922 And this converts to a full-sized dining table... 268 00:17:08,127 --> 00:17:09,890 ...during our Pan Am platinum service... 269 00:17:10,095 --> 00:17:12,655 ...with damask linen and silverware by Fornari... 270 00:17:12,865 --> 00:17:15,095 ...so you don't have to eat off a tray. 271 00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:17,962 Again, that's only for these center seats. 272 00:17:18,937 --> 00:17:20,234 How does that sound? 273 00:17:20,606 --> 00:17:23,234 At that time, when you traveled first class... 274 00:17:23,442 --> 00:17:27,538 ...people would always ask you if you met someone famous on the flight. 275 00:17:27,746 --> 00:17:29,680 - Mr. Morris. - Thank you. 276 00:17:29,882 --> 00:17:31,042 You're welcome. 277 00:17:40,626 --> 00:17:44,960 Though he would later accuse me of engineering this, I didn't. 278 00:17:45,164 --> 00:17:46,529 It just... 279 00:17:46,732 --> 00:17:48,427 ...happened. 280 00:17:54,740 --> 00:17:57,800 Reuben. So they... They record these songs... 281 00:17:58,010 --> 00:17:59,739 ...in a studio that I am paying for. 282 00:17:59,945 --> 00:18:01,776 Songs that are recorded for me... 283 00:18:01,980 --> 00:18:03,675 ...that they are contracted to provide. 284 00:18:03,882 --> 00:18:05,850 - Are you with me here? - Yes, it's just that... 285 00:18:06,051 --> 00:18:09,248 No, it's just that nothing, Irv. Please, let me finish. They record... 286 00:18:09,455 --> 00:18:12,891 I read an interview where Lanny was given credit for insisting his butler... 287 00:18:13,092 --> 00:18:16,960 ...travel in the same class and stay at the same hotels as his boss. 288 00:18:17,563 --> 00:18:20,964 The valet's attentiveness was impressive. 289 00:18:21,934 --> 00:18:25,267 Looks like you'll be having dinner with Lanny Morris. 290 00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:31,070 - Hello. - Hi. 291 00:18:41,386 --> 00:18:44,184 We should get a waiter to slide a matchbook under the airplane. 292 00:18:45,357 --> 00:18:46,915 There we go. 293 00:18:47,126 --> 00:18:48,821 That should hold. 294 00:18:50,362 --> 00:18:51,556 This is my friend Reuben. 295 00:18:51,763 --> 00:18:52,991 - Hi. - Hi. 296 00:18:53,198 --> 00:18:55,758 And this is also my friend, technically speaking... 297 00:18:55,968 --> 00:18:57,936 ...and business manager, Irv. - Hi. 298 00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:01,436 My name is Lanny. 299 00:19:06,178 --> 00:19:07,736 And what's your name? 300 00:19:09,214 --> 00:19:11,375 Bonnie. Bonnie Trout. 301 00:19:11,583 --> 00:19:12,914 What do you do, Bonnie? 302 00:19:13,218 --> 00:19:14,685 I teach. 303 00:19:14,887 --> 00:19:16,514 And what do you teach? 304 00:19:16,722 --> 00:19:18,952 - Second grade. - Well, we have a lot in common. 305 00:19:19,158 --> 00:19:21,649 You teach second grade, I went to second grade. 306 00:19:21,860 --> 00:19:25,023 - Irv, you went to second grade too? - Many times. 307 00:19:25,230 --> 00:19:26,697 Tell me, Miss Trout... 308 00:19:26,899 --> 00:19:28,332 I don't mean to be impolite... 309 00:19:28,534 --> 00:19:30,092 ...but I was wondering... 310 00:19:30,302 --> 00:19:33,863 ...how a second-grade schoolteacher affords to fly first class. 311 00:19:36,008 --> 00:19:38,203 Well, I have a pass... 312 00:19:38,410 --> 00:19:41,868 ...that allows me free use of the subway on weekends... 313 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:45,243 ...and the hot lunches at school are only 50 cents. 314 00:19:46,652 --> 00:19:49,086 And I'm the mistress... 315 00:19:49,288 --> 00:19:50,755 ...of a wealthy married man... 316 00:19:50,956 --> 00:19:53,584 ...and when he and his wife go on vacation, he treats me... 317 00:19:53,792 --> 00:19:56,955 ...to a first-class trip in the opposite direction. 318 00:19:57,796 --> 00:20:02,233 But look at me, talking only about myself. What do you do for a living? 319 00:20:03,602 --> 00:20:06,093 I'm a French impressionist painter out of Tahiti, mainly. 320 00:20:06,305 --> 00:20:08,739 I'm doing that to pay the bills. My ambition is to be... 321 00:20:08,941 --> 00:20:11,000 ...a stockbroker in Paris. 322 00:20:11,310 --> 00:20:12,937 - I don't get it. - Paul Gauguin. 323 00:20:13,145 --> 00:20:15,113 He gave up being a successful stockbroker... 324 00:20:15,314 --> 00:20:17,748 ...to become a painter in the South Seas. 325 00:20:18,750 --> 00:20:20,615 You think the average person knows that? 326 00:20:20,819 --> 00:20:24,186 Well, we're not talking about the average person, Irv. 327 00:20:27,326 --> 00:20:28,793 In some ways... 328 00:20:28,994 --> 00:20:32,191 ...he had never stopped being a hero to me. 329 00:20:33,031 --> 00:20:37,161 That's why it was impossible to think he might also be a killer. 330 00:20:43,875 --> 00:20:45,433 Well, this has been great. 331 00:20:45,644 --> 00:20:47,771 I'm gonna see you inside your apartment. 332 00:20:47,980 --> 00:20:50,448 - There's really no need. - Don't be silly. 333 00:20:50,649 --> 00:20:52,480 I'm not gonna try to come in. 334 00:20:52,684 --> 00:20:54,208 Promise. 335 00:20:54,987 --> 00:20:57,581 You've been away from your apartment for how long now? 336 00:20:57,789 --> 00:20:59,450 - Ages. - You never know if somebody's... 337 00:20:59,658 --> 00:21:01,250 ...broken in while you were gone. 338 00:21:01,460 --> 00:21:04,122 I'll just see you inside your door. 339 00:21:04,830 --> 00:21:07,697 Believe me, I'm... I'm not trying to seduce you. 340 00:21:07,899 --> 00:21:09,867 I have to do the Today show at 7 a.m. 341 00:21:10,068 --> 00:21:12,468 They want me in Makeup at 6:15. 342 00:21:12,671 --> 00:21:14,935 Bonnie had moved to New York for the teaching job... 343 00:21:15,140 --> 00:21:17,108 ...a little over a year ago. 344 00:21:17,309 --> 00:21:21,336 I had never visited her and had no idea if this was the right place. 345 00:21:22,614 --> 00:21:24,047 Which floor? 346 00:21:24,650 --> 00:21:26,515 Why... 347 00:21:27,653 --> 00:21:28,881 - Four-D. - Forty? 348 00:21:29,421 --> 00:21:31,286 It only goes up to six. 349 00:21:33,792 --> 00:21:35,350 Four-D... 350 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:37,790 Four-D, the fourth floor. 351 00:22:00,786 --> 00:22:02,117 Which way? 352 00:22:03,121 --> 00:22:04,918 - Guess. - Why? 353 00:22:05,123 --> 00:22:06,385 It's a test. 354 00:22:06,591 --> 00:22:08,115 A test? 355 00:22:09,895 --> 00:22:11,487 Okay. 356 00:22:11,697 --> 00:22:13,096 This way. 357 00:22:16,735 --> 00:22:18,965 So why didn't we take this elevator? 358 00:22:19,171 --> 00:22:20,798 Doesn't work. 359 00:22:24,042 --> 00:22:25,475 Well... 360 00:22:26,345 --> 00:22:27,710 ...good night. 361 00:22:27,913 --> 00:22:29,881 No, I'm going to see you into your apartment. 362 00:22:30,082 --> 00:22:32,607 And then I'm gonna leave you alone until tomorrow. 363 00:22:49,968 --> 00:22:52,732 I never get which key goes in which lock the first time. 364 00:22:55,273 --> 00:22:57,571 Hey, looks like they fixed it. 365 00:23:08,954 --> 00:23:10,421 You okay? 366 00:23:10,622 --> 00:23:13,022 Maybe we should turn on a light. 367 00:23:26,772 --> 00:23:28,103 Well... 368 00:23:29,274 --> 00:23:30,832 I'm going to leave you now. 369 00:23:31,042 --> 00:23:34,375 I have Reuben and Irv waiting in the limousine downstairs... 370 00:23:34,813 --> 00:23:37,782 ...and I should get some sleep for the Today show. 371 00:23:40,018 --> 00:23:41,451 So... 372 00:23:46,224 --> 00:23:48,454 It was lovely to meet you, Bonnie. 373 00:24:07,879 --> 00:24:10,177 By the end of the telethon, we had no voices. 374 00:24:10,382 --> 00:24:13,977 Thirty-nine hours of nonstop entertainment. 375 00:24:14,186 --> 00:24:17,019 A telethon was a superhuman feat. 376 00:24:17,222 --> 00:24:20,680 We weren't just heroes, we were gods. 377 00:24:23,495 --> 00:24:26,293 A couple of the boys were there to make sure we got out alive... 378 00:24:26,498 --> 00:24:28,830 ...to make the flight to New York. 379 00:24:32,704 --> 00:24:35,639 Everyone. Listen. Listen. 380 00:24:35,841 --> 00:24:37,934 Gentlemen. Gentlemen, please. 381 00:24:38,343 --> 00:24:41,369 Gentlemen, if I could just have your attention. 382 00:24:41,746 --> 00:24:43,577 Everyone, Mr. Collins and Mr. Morris... 383 00:24:43,782 --> 00:24:46,046 ...will answer questions at the press conference... 384 00:24:46,251 --> 00:24:47,946 ...at the Palace Del Sol. 385 00:24:48,153 --> 00:24:50,121 Gentlemen, there will be plenty of time... 386 00:24:50,322 --> 00:24:53,780 ...to answer your questions at the Palace Del Sol. 387 00:24:53,992 --> 00:24:57,052 Thank you, we will answer your questions at the press conference. 388 00:24:57,262 --> 00:24:59,230 Thank you for coming. 389 00:25:05,237 --> 00:25:08,229 We had a full police escort, along with bodyguards who were there... 390 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,341 ...to protect us from any thoughts we might have of going AWOL... 391 00:25:11,543 --> 00:25:13,306 ...prior to this press conference. 392 00:25:13,512 --> 00:25:16,640 A pair of New Jersey's finest walked on either side of us... 393 00:25:16,848 --> 00:25:19,408 ...as we entered the lobby of the hotel. 394 00:25:19,618 --> 00:25:22,348 It was an indication of how legitimate the Mob had gone... 395 00:25:22,554 --> 00:25:24,749 ...that they could bring in the local police... 396 00:25:24,956 --> 00:25:27,424 ...to guard the fa�ade of their racket. 397 00:25:27,993 --> 00:25:32,123 The local chief was a man named Jack Scaglia. 398 00:25:32,330 --> 00:25:35,231 And of course, the two gentlemen on my right... 399 00:25:35,433 --> 00:25:38,732 ...who need no introduction, have come here directly... 400 00:25:38,937 --> 00:25:42,600 ...from their record-breaking polio telethon in Miami, Florida. 401 00:25:43,675 --> 00:25:47,133 So the first thing I'd like to announce is that Mr. Sanmarco... 402 00:25:47,612 --> 00:25:48,874 I wish I could tell you... 403 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,640 ...that Sally Sanmarco was a slim, 6-foot-6 guy... 404 00:25:51,850 --> 00:25:54,842 ...who looked like a prince and spoke with an English accent. 405 00:25:55,053 --> 00:25:57,419 Then I wouldn't be falling back on the stereotype. 406 00:25:57,722 --> 00:26:01,283 The trouble was, Sally was straight out of central casting. 407 00:26:02,127 --> 00:26:04,152 A gangster who looked and talked... 408 00:26:04,362 --> 00:26:06,990 ...just like you would expect from the movies. 409 00:26:07,198 --> 00:26:09,792 How did it feel to raise all that money for polio? 410 00:26:10,335 --> 00:26:12,530 It felt great. It felt really great. 411 00:26:12,737 --> 00:26:15,604 From a publicity angle, and in terms of giving him legitimacy... 412 00:26:15,807 --> 00:26:18,037 ...this was a huge coup for Sally. 413 00:26:18,243 --> 00:26:20,711 Like I said, we were gods. 414 00:26:22,013 --> 00:26:25,608 We'd only been in the New York area for an hour or so, during which time... 415 00:26:25,817 --> 00:26:28,581 ...we were constantly watched by police and reporters... 416 00:26:28,787 --> 00:26:31,517 ...which ended up being a good thing for us. 417 00:26:31,723 --> 00:26:34,157 We got you our best bridal suite. 418 00:26:34,659 --> 00:26:36,650 Fucking nice, huh? 419 00:26:37,796 --> 00:26:40,492 People talk about having fancy apartments and hotel rooms... 420 00:26:40,699 --> 00:26:42,792 ...on the West Side of Manhattan. What do they see? 421 00:26:43,001 --> 00:26:46,164 Fucking New Jersey. Here, you see New York City. 422 00:26:53,411 --> 00:26:55,845 Unfortunately, Vince and I were acquainted... 423 00:26:56,047 --> 00:27:00,347 ...with the dead girl in the bathroom of our hotel suite in New Jersey. 424 00:27:00,885 --> 00:27:04,116 Her last name was O'Flaherty. 425 00:27:04,556 --> 00:27:07,684 Her first name was Maureen. 426 00:27:07,926 --> 00:27:11,589 Karen, we decided to trade apartments, not identities. 427 00:27:11,796 --> 00:27:13,320 Why didn't you make up a name? 428 00:27:13,531 --> 00:27:16,056 Bonnie, I was looking at a five-hour flight. 429 00:27:16,267 --> 00:27:19,395 I didn't wanna make up a life story that wasn't attached to anything. 430 00:27:19,604 --> 00:27:23,096 Well, I returned the offense. I got to pretend I was you. 431 00:27:23,308 --> 00:27:24,866 - What? - You received a package. 432 00:27:25,076 --> 00:27:27,374 Messenger service. I signed your name. 433 00:27:27,579 --> 00:27:30,207 - Who's it from? - No address. Want me to open it? 434 00:27:30,415 --> 00:27:31,939 - Sure. - That's good. I already did. 435 00:27:32,150 --> 00:27:33,412 It's a manuscript. 436 00:27:33,618 --> 00:27:36,052 "Excerpt From the Memoirs of... 437 00:27:36,254 --> 00:27:38,017 ...Lanny Morris." 438 00:27:38,223 --> 00:27:42,216 Hey, all your dreams are coming true. He's writing you love letters already. 439 00:27:42,427 --> 00:27:44,395 Bonnie, I need to know what he's written. 440 00:27:44,596 --> 00:27:48,555 - Well, I'll send it to you. - Now. Before he calls me tomorrow. 441 00:27:50,802 --> 00:27:53,737 - Please? - All right. 442 00:27:55,140 --> 00:27:56,971 All right. 443 00:27:57,175 --> 00:27:58,608 Here we go. 444 00:28:00,979 --> 00:28:04,915 "Let me explain to you why two very famous guys just finishing... 445 00:28:05,116 --> 00:28:09,246 ...a nationally broadcast telethon ended up in New Jersey." 446 00:28:13,892 --> 00:28:19,091 For years, the Palace Del Sol was one of the centers of Mob prosperity. 447 00:28:19,297 --> 00:28:22,289 Needless to say, a major headliner in the showroom... 448 00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:25,663 ...helped legitimize the entire operation. 449 00:28:25,870 --> 00:28:27,599 Give her a kiss. Yeah, beautiful. 450 00:28:27,806 --> 00:28:30,832 One more, guys. That's it. That's great. Thank you. 451 00:28:31,042 --> 00:28:33,476 Vince and I needed help in keeping us up all the time... 452 00:28:33,678 --> 00:28:35,873 ...and in the way of thinking in the '50s... 453 00:28:36,081 --> 00:28:38,311 ...anything you didn't take with a needle was okay. 454 00:28:38,516 --> 00:28:42,179 It wasn't "serious" serious. It was like running a red light. 455 00:28:42,387 --> 00:28:47,256 Everyone used bennies. Vince added them to his morning coffee like sugar. 456 00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:54,289 Not that you could tell. 457 00:28:56,101 --> 00:28:58,092 When we did finally decide to flatten out... 458 00:28:58,303 --> 00:29:02,262 ...we'd take two or three Tuinals, or three or four "Threeinals." 459 00:29:02,474 --> 00:29:03,771 They were really good. 460 00:29:03,975 --> 00:29:06,273 Between the moment you took them and passing out... 461 00:29:06,478 --> 00:29:09,641 ...it felt really sexy. 462 00:29:45,216 --> 00:29:46,410 Sure. 463 00:29:46,618 --> 00:29:48,745 - Enjoyed the show. - Thank you. 464 00:29:53,591 --> 00:29:55,115 The walls of the Blue Grotto... 465 00:29:55,326 --> 00:29:57,988 ...were made of a mixture of plaster and Styrofoam. 466 00:29:58,196 --> 00:30:01,063 Flammable as all hell. But the boys had learned it was cheaper... 467 00:30:01,266 --> 00:30:04,724 ...to give the inspector 200 bucks and a ringside table to our show... 468 00:30:04,936 --> 00:30:08,167 ...than to spend thousands of dollars on fireproofing. 469 00:30:08,373 --> 00:30:11,604 Besides, it was always vital in a business enterprise of this sort... 470 00:30:11,810 --> 00:30:15,507 ...to have the option to torch the place at a moment's notice... 471 00:30:15,713 --> 00:30:18,079 ...should the need present itself. 472 00:30:20,218 --> 00:30:23,278 One night, after our show, we were taken to Sally's office. 473 00:30:23,488 --> 00:30:25,046 We wondered what we had done wrong... 474 00:30:25,256 --> 00:30:26,883 ...but what we had done was done good. 475 00:30:27,091 --> 00:30:29,355 Sally started going on about how much he liked us... 476 00:30:29,561 --> 00:30:32,325 ...how he thought we were a good fit with his crowd... 477 00:30:32,530 --> 00:30:35,260 ...meaning that we brought in an audience of heavy drinkers... 478 00:30:35,466 --> 00:30:37,331 ...adulterers and gamblers. 479 00:30:37,535 --> 00:30:40,026 So, what we want is for you boys to come back here... 480 00:30:40,238 --> 00:30:43,036 ...three months from now and open our new showroom for us. 481 00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:47,008 A two-week, exclusive limited engagement... 482 00:30:47,212 --> 00:30:50,113 ...that we want you to do for us for six weeks. 483 00:30:50,582 --> 00:30:53,244 God help you when a killer takes a shining to you. 484 00:30:53,451 --> 00:30:58,388 I looked at Vince and scratched my nose, which meant our strongest "no." 485 00:30:58,590 --> 00:31:00,319 That's a very great honor, Sally. 486 00:31:00,525 --> 00:31:02,993 - You're damn fucking right it is. - The thing is... 487 00:31:03,194 --> 00:31:06,254 ...we're just trying to cut down on the nightclub work at the moment. 488 00:31:06,464 --> 00:31:09,058 We turned down the Sands so we could do a TV special... 489 00:31:09,267 --> 00:31:13,294 ...and the only reason we still work the Versailles is out of friendship for you. 490 00:31:17,408 --> 00:31:20,343 - What dates were you thinking of? - We open November 15th. 491 00:31:20,545 --> 00:31:23,173 Sally, any other day we would be here in a flash... 492 00:31:23,381 --> 00:31:26,407 ...but, you know, that's the day right after the next polio telethon. 493 00:31:26,618 --> 00:31:29,678 I mean, we always take two weeks off right after that to recover. 494 00:31:29,888 --> 00:31:31,082 - Right, Vince? - At least. 495 00:31:31,289 --> 00:31:33,382 - I mean, we're tired. - That's the way I want you. 496 00:31:33,591 --> 00:31:37,220 After the fucking telethon, we fly you up from Miami... 497 00:31:37,428 --> 00:31:40,124 ...hold a press conference, all fucking exhausted... 498 00:31:40,331 --> 00:31:42,322 ...so people know what heroes you are. 499 00:31:43,368 --> 00:31:45,836 I'll keep a suite for you with the best hookers I got. 500 00:31:46,037 --> 00:31:48,130 Your own personal cathouse. 501 00:31:48,339 --> 00:31:49,806 And I'll have them send you up... 502 00:31:50,008 --> 00:31:51,942 ...a shipment of lobsters and stone crabs. 503 00:31:52,143 --> 00:31:54,577 - You like lobsters? - Love them. 504 00:31:54,779 --> 00:31:56,474 And a case of these... 505 00:31:56,681 --> 00:31:59,309 ...special grapefruits... 506 00:31:59,517 --> 00:32:02,350 ...that I get special down there. 507 00:32:02,787 --> 00:32:05,688 The most delicious thing you ever tasted in your life. 508 00:32:05,890 --> 00:32:08,154 Juicy, thin skin. 509 00:32:09,060 --> 00:32:12,723 Months later, on the night before the telethon in Miami... 510 00:32:12,931 --> 00:32:15,297 ...we got back to our room and found that Sally... 511 00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:18,697 ...had been more than good to his word. 512 00:32:20,505 --> 00:32:23,201 Laid out around the room were various crates... 513 00:32:23,408 --> 00:32:25,899 ...bearing the addresses of their destination; 514 00:32:26,110 --> 00:32:29,477 Our suite at the Palace Del Sol hotel in New Jersey. 515 00:32:29,681 --> 00:32:34,675 "You like lobsters? See you in New Jersey." 516 00:32:35,620 --> 00:32:38,919 "Thin skin, fucking most delicious fucking thing... 517 00:32:39,123 --> 00:32:40,784 ...you ever had in your fucking life." 518 00:32:40,992 --> 00:32:43,790 "What I thought was a box of beach balls turned out to be... 519 00:32:43,995 --> 00:32:46,259 ...the thinnest-skinned, dripping-wet grapefruits... 520 00:32:46,464 --> 00:32:48,056 ...l'd ever tasted in my life. 521 00:32:48,266 --> 00:32:50,860 The 6-foot crate was filled with fruits of the sea... 522 00:32:51,069 --> 00:32:53,902 ...slowly shifting over a bed of ice." 523 00:32:54,105 --> 00:32:57,700 Yeah, this is Lanny Morris. Send up three steaks, all right? 524 00:32:57,909 --> 00:32:59,240 Yeah. Make them rare this time. 525 00:32:59,444 --> 00:33:00,775 - Yeah, rare. - Like bloody. 526 00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:04,244 Bloody. And a couple of bottles of that champagne. 527 00:33:04,449 --> 00:33:06,417 - Make that three. - Three bottles of champagne. 528 00:33:06,617 --> 00:33:10,018 And can you make sure that Maureen delivers them? 529 00:33:10,221 --> 00:33:11,848 Yeah, Maureen. 530 00:33:12,357 --> 00:33:13,847 We called down for Maureen... 531 00:33:14,058 --> 00:33:15,889 ...the room-service girl I'd met earlier... 532 00:33:16,094 --> 00:33:18,585 ...who wanted the interview for her school paper. 533 00:33:18,796 --> 00:33:21,390 She brought up three steaks, one for her... 534 00:33:21,599 --> 00:33:24,432 ...as her last official delivery of the day. 535 00:33:24,635 --> 00:33:26,193 As much as I love lobster... 536 00:33:26,404 --> 00:33:29,464 ...seeing all that shellfish nestled on ice in the crate... 537 00:33:29,674 --> 00:33:33,633 ...put me in the mood for hooves, not claws. 538 00:33:51,262 --> 00:33:56,097 The interview for Maureen's campus paper went better than expected. 539 00:33:56,300 --> 00:33:58,530 Vince and I popped some Tuinals... 540 00:33:58,736 --> 00:34:01,034 ...to insure that we would sleep like babes... 541 00:34:01,239 --> 00:34:06,108 ...after we wore off the general horniness that the pills first give you. 542 00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:12,176 Vince bought insurance on his bet by having a few babes on hand. 543 00:34:12,383 --> 00:34:15,546 Well, not exactly on his hand. 544 00:34:15,753 --> 00:34:17,118 That wasn't his preference. 545 00:34:17,321 --> 00:34:20,722 "Not exactly on his hand. That wasn't his preference." 546 00:34:20,925 --> 00:34:26,056 "Not exactly on his hand"? "That wasn't his preference"? 547 00:34:27,098 --> 00:34:29,692 "The Tuinals, coupled with a nice amount of booze... 548 00:34:29,901 --> 00:34:32,426 ...guaranteed us the sleep of the dead. 549 00:34:32,637 --> 00:34:35,105 Late the next morning, Maureen was sent packing... 550 00:34:35,306 --> 00:34:41,245 ...and Vince and I prepared ourselves for that night's broadcast." 551 00:34:42,346 --> 00:34:45,804 Well, I guess this is one story my kids won't have to give a book report on. 552 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:50,451 Thanks. 553 00:34:50,655 --> 00:34:51,849 Must be weird to find out... 554 00:34:52,056 --> 00:34:55,787 ...that the object of all your adolescent fantasies is a pig. 555 00:34:57,128 --> 00:34:59,824 He's not like that. 556 00:35:00,031 --> 00:35:03,694 Oh, so it's just the way he describes himself. 557 00:35:04,535 --> 00:35:06,298 She was right. 558 00:35:06,504 --> 00:35:09,029 Which was the real Lanny? 559 00:35:09,574 --> 00:35:12,634 I'd find out later that the story of the hookers in the hotel suite... 560 00:35:12,844 --> 00:35:15,312 ...was a complete fabrication. 561 00:35:15,513 --> 00:35:18,243 That night, Maureen was alone. 562 00:35:46,210 --> 00:35:48,701 - Hello? - So how did you like the show? 563 00:35:48,913 --> 00:35:50,437 Lanny? 564 00:35:52,483 --> 00:35:54,280 The Today show. 565 00:35:54,485 --> 00:35:55,850 You did watch, didn't you? 566 00:35:56,654 --> 00:35:59,088 - The show. - You didn't watch. 567 00:35:59,290 --> 00:36:01,451 Wow, that's scary. 568 00:36:03,494 --> 00:36:06,224 You see, when you're a star... 569 00:36:06,430 --> 00:36:09,456 ...you live in terror, wondering if it's all over yet. 570 00:36:09,667 --> 00:36:11,498 You keep looking for the signs. 571 00:36:11,702 --> 00:36:14,762 You're shooting a scene from a movie on a New York street... 572 00:36:14,972 --> 00:36:16,166 ...and a crowd doesn't form. 573 00:36:16,374 --> 00:36:18,171 You meet a girl on a plane and tell her... 574 00:36:18,376 --> 00:36:21,038 ...that you're gonna be on the Today show the next morning... 575 00:36:21,245 --> 00:36:24,009 ...and she doesn't wake up early to watch. 576 00:36:24,215 --> 00:36:25,978 It's very scary. 577 00:36:26,417 --> 00:36:29,818 Hey, you know, I mentioned you on the air. 578 00:36:30,988 --> 00:36:33,889 - You did? - Yes, I proposed to you on the air. 579 00:36:34,091 --> 00:36:36,958 Your building is probably surrounded with photographers... 580 00:36:37,161 --> 00:36:39,857 ...at this very moment. - You're kidding. 581 00:36:40,064 --> 00:36:42,965 Yes, I'm kidding. 582 00:36:45,403 --> 00:36:46,893 So... 583 00:36:47,471 --> 00:36:49,268 ...what time would you like to meet? 584 00:37:13,464 --> 00:37:16,297 Stanley, this is Bonnie. Bonnie, Stanley. 585 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:17,990 Nice to meet you. 586 00:37:18,202 --> 00:37:19,567 Is the food almost ready, Stan? 587 00:37:19,770 --> 00:37:22,671 Yeah. I'll bring it right out, Mr. Lanny. 588 00:37:23,140 --> 00:37:26,769 I was very hungry, so I asked Stanley to prepare us something special. 589 00:37:26,978 --> 00:37:28,969 That sounds great. 590 00:37:30,881 --> 00:37:32,371 Tell me, what kind of a meeting... 591 00:37:32,583 --> 00:37:35,450 ...does a schoolteacher have to go to during the summer vacation? 592 00:37:35,653 --> 00:37:38,747 I'm exploring the possibility of another job. 593 00:37:38,956 --> 00:37:42,585 - Something in publishing. - How did it go? 594 00:37:42,793 --> 00:37:44,260 Okay. 595 00:37:44,762 --> 00:37:47,390 Have you ever thought about writing a book? 596 00:37:48,065 --> 00:37:51,125 - About what? - Your life. 597 00:37:51,335 --> 00:37:53,132 Sure. When I'm dead. 598 00:37:53,838 --> 00:37:55,169 No, seriously. 599 00:37:55,373 --> 00:37:57,500 It would have to be published after I died... 600 00:37:57,708 --> 00:38:00,609 ...when I wouldn't care what anybody thought about me. 601 00:38:01,045 --> 00:38:05,482 So, what would you write about, if you were going to tell the truth? 602 00:38:05,683 --> 00:38:07,378 In my book? 603 00:38:07,752 --> 00:38:11,210 Well, the truth is, I've met four presidents. 604 00:38:11,422 --> 00:38:13,185 They all seemed like they were out of it. 605 00:38:13,391 --> 00:38:15,325 Like they had no idea what was going on. 606 00:38:15,526 --> 00:38:18,825 Even J.F.K. Left me unimpressed. I felt like I was with the boss' son. 607 00:38:19,030 --> 00:38:20,588 You don't think you could say that? 608 00:38:20,798 --> 00:38:23,858 Not if I was planning on living in this country. No, no. 609 00:38:24,068 --> 00:38:27,003 I don't think that Judy Garland was such a great singer... 610 00:38:27,204 --> 00:38:28,603 ...after she turned 16. 611 00:38:28,806 --> 00:38:32,173 That quiver, you know, it was like she had no control over it. 612 00:38:32,376 --> 00:38:34,344 I would get killed for saying that. 613 00:38:34,545 --> 00:38:37,810 Or that Marilyn Monroe was no better an actress... 614 00:38:38,015 --> 00:38:41,507 ...after she studied with Lee Strasberg than before. 615 00:38:44,288 --> 00:38:46,654 I'm saying what really happened. 616 00:38:50,561 --> 00:38:52,620 Having to be a nice guy... 617 00:38:52,830 --> 00:38:55,128 ...is the toughest job in the world when you're not. 618 00:39:01,906 --> 00:39:04,397 This is a lamb in tea sauce. 619 00:39:04,608 --> 00:39:07,406 This is twice-cooked pork with shredded, pickled cabbage. 620 00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:10,280 Kung Pao chicken. 621 00:39:10,848 --> 00:39:13,043 And this is Kung Ping Loh Haa... 622 00:39:13,250 --> 00:39:17,846 ...lobster in tangerine peel for you and your lovely lady friend. 623 00:39:18,255 --> 00:39:20,223 You shouldn't have done that, Stanley. 624 00:39:20,424 --> 00:39:23,325 I don't eat lobster. I'm Jewish. 625 00:39:23,527 --> 00:39:24,755 But you eat pork. 626 00:39:25,096 --> 00:39:27,587 - Do you have a problem with that? - No, I just thought... 627 00:39:27,798 --> 00:39:31,666 No shrimp, no lobster. They're disgusting. Take it away. 628 00:39:31,869 --> 00:39:34,565 I will pay for the dish, but take it away, please. 629 00:39:35,005 --> 00:39:36,666 I'll change it. 630 00:39:38,342 --> 00:39:40,139 I'm sorry, I... 631 00:39:40,344 --> 00:39:42,676 I should have asked. Maybe you love lobster. 632 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:44,609 I'm fine. 633 00:39:45,816 --> 00:39:48,011 Have you ever had Szechwan cuisine before? 634 00:39:48,219 --> 00:39:50,744 It's from the northern part of China. 635 00:39:50,955 --> 00:39:53,321 It must be strange for you. 636 00:39:53,758 --> 00:39:59,094 If you complain to a waiter, you're not just some jerk at table five... 637 00:39:59,296 --> 00:40:00,490 ...you're Lanny Morris. 638 00:40:01,165 --> 00:40:04,157 I know that everyone dreams about being famous... 639 00:40:04,368 --> 00:40:06,131 ...but it would be interesting to know... 640 00:40:06,337 --> 00:40:08,305 ...what it's like to relinquish all anonymity. 641 00:40:13,043 --> 00:40:16,638 - Gets me a date. - Does that bother you? 642 00:40:16,847 --> 00:40:19,680 That people only wanna be with you because of who you are? 643 00:40:19,884 --> 00:40:22,978 - As opposed to? - Well... 644 00:40:23,187 --> 00:40:25,052 ...the real you. 645 00:40:26,490 --> 00:40:28,151 The real me. 646 00:40:30,261 --> 00:40:35,392 The real me was brought up as a nice middle-class kid... 647 00:40:35,599 --> 00:40:37,226 ...which is not the easiest thing... 648 00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:40,871 ...when you are extremely poor and living in a slum. 649 00:40:41,472 --> 00:40:46,307 The real me spent most of his time getting the shit kicked out of him... 650 00:40:46,510 --> 00:40:49,035 ...and dreaming about something better. 651 00:40:51,282 --> 00:40:53,648 Like being here with someone like you. 652 00:40:54,919 --> 00:40:58,946 Fifteen years ago, he had, for one brief moment... 653 00:40:59,156 --> 00:41:02,023 ...made me feel like the most special person in the world. 654 00:41:02,226 --> 00:41:06,629 "The miracle in my life is not that I survived polio... 655 00:41:06,831 --> 00:41:08,731 ...and am standing here today. 656 00:41:08,933 --> 00:41:12,960 No. The reason I consider myself to be a miracle girl... 657 00:41:13,170 --> 00:41:14,831 ...is because I had the good fortune... 658 00:41:15,039 --> 00:41:17,166 ...to meet Lanny and Vince when I was sick." 659 00:41:17,842 --> 00:41:21,437 It was a moment seen by millions of people... 660 00:41:21,645 --> 00:41:25,308 ...but felt only by me. 661 00:41:29,420 --> 00:41:33,254 That moment had changed my life. 662 00:41:36,527 --> 00:41:40,395 I was about to find my own way into Lanny's book... 663 00:41:41,031 --> 00:41:45,297 ...after he had found such a powerful way into mine. 664 00:42:59,743 --> 00:43:01,142 Checking out today? 665 00:43:18,462 --> 00:43:20,191 Is there a message for Bonnie Trout? 666 00:43:20,397 --> 00:43:22,797 - From one of our guests? - Yes, Lanny Morris. 667 00:43:26,070 --> 00:43:27,298 I'm afraid not. 668 00:43:27,571 --> 00:43:31,667 - Are you sure? - Oh, yes, I'm sure. 669 00:43:35,646 --> 00:43:37,011 Do you need a cab? 670 00:43:42,453 --> 00:43:46,116 I still don't understand why Vince Collins is willing... 671 00:43:46,323 --> 00:43:49,781 ...to be involved in such an expos� of himself. 672 00:43:49,994 --> 00:43:51,791 Vince is a realist. 673 00:43:51,996 --> 00:43:54,692 The days of his box-office power are drawing to a close. 674 00:43:55,099 --> 00:43:56,896 Given the amount of money we're offering... 675 00:43:57,101 --> 00:44:00,730 And it's because the investment in Mr. Collins is so large... 676 00:44:00,938 --> 00:44:06,877 ...l've compiled a list of questions we'd like the miracle girl to ask. 677 00:44:13,951 --> 00:44:17,443 I don't wanna look at your questions. I have my own approach. 678 00:44:17,655 --> 00:44:20,715 Ms. O'Connor, we're not paying a million dollars for your approach... 679 00:44:20,924 --> 00:44:23,085 ...we're paying for what Vince Collins has to say. 680 00:44:23,293 --> 00:44:26,456 To me. What he has to say to me. 681 00:44:27,297 --> 00:44:30,061 Greg, this is not as easy as it looks. 682 00:44:30,634 --> 00:44:33,398 If you go to Vince Collins and ask him a series of questions... 683 00:44:33,604 --> 00:44:35,868 ...you'll come back here with a 300-page press book. 684 00:44:36,073 --> 00:44:39,167 Well, as I've always understood this company's policy... 685 00:44:39,376 --> 00:44:41,401 ...while the book is being written... 686 00:44:41,612 --> 00:44:46,049 ...the relationship between the author and editor is sacrosanct. 687 00:44:47,117 --> 00:44:49,210 This isn't your typical book deal. 688 00:44:49,620 --> 00:44:53,579 We've really just leased an oil well called Vince Collins... 689 00:44:53,791 --> 00:44:57,124 ...and granted Ms. O'Connor the right to tap. 690 00:44:57,361 --> 00:45:00,819 I think we have a responsibility to... 691 00:45:01,298 --> 00:45:03,596 ...monitor the drilling. 692 00:45:26,824 --> 00:45:29,315 - Hello. - Mrs. O'Flaherty? 693 00:45:29,927 --> 00:45:31,417 Yes. 694 00:45:31,662 --> 00:45:35,291 My name's O'Connor. I'm the one writing the book. 695 00:45:48,412 --> 00:45:51,609 The book will be centered around Vince Collins. 696 00:45:51,815 --> 00:45:54,648 I'll be asking him a lot of questions. 697 00:45:54,852 --> 00:45:59,880 I wanted to know if there were any you'd like to have answered yourself. 698 00:46:03,794 --> 00:46:08,322 Maureen and I planted this tree on her fifth birthday. 699 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,236 Father did most of the digging, of course. 700 00:46:14,304 --> 00:46:16,465 She'd be 38. 701 00:46:17,341 --> 00:46:20,367 I'm 59 myself. 702 00:46:22,679 --> 00:46:25,239 If she were alive now... 703 00:46:26,650 --> 00:46:30,211 ...we'd be talking about things, back and forth... 704 00:46:30,420 --> 00:46:32,217 ...like two women. 705 00:46:32,890 --> 00:46:35,222 Like you and I are doing. 706 00:46:40,864 --> 00:46:43,059 And Maureen's father? 707 00:46:44,067 --> 00:46:46,592 Frank died six years ago. 708 00:46:47,237 --> 00:46:49,364 He took his own life. 709 00:46:49,973 --> 00:46:53,033 One night, just before he died... 710 00:46:53,243 --> 00:46:56,371 ...he dug up the earth around this tree... 711 00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,678 ...he took the urn with Maureen's ashes in it... 712 00:46:59,883 --> 00:47:02,613 ...and spread them around its roots. 713 00:47:04,521 --> 00:47:08,287 So this is my daughter. 714 00:47:09,927 --> 00:47:12,521 This is what I have of her. 715 00:47:19,503 --> 00:47:22,233 - Are you Catholic? - My... My mother was. 716 00:47:23,006 --> 00:47:25,531 Then you will understand my dilemma. 717 00:47:25,742 --> 00:47:29,439 Our faith offers an afterlife. 718 00:47:30,647 --> 00:47:32,979 A daughter needs her mother. 719 00:47:34,084 --> 00:47:40,080 So I have to live out this life as far from sin as I can manage. 720 00:47:43,026 --> 00:47:45,654 I'll never see my husband again. 721 00:47:46,196 --> 00:47:48,596 He's consigned himself to hell. 722 00:47:51,034 --> 00:47:54,492 But what if Maureen killed herself too? 723 00:47:58,208 --> 00:48:00,836 She's in hell, with my husband. 724 00:48:01,044 --> 00:48:05,174 The life I'm trying to lead will bring me to heaven's grace... 725 00:48:06,250 --> 00:48:09,617 ...only to hear their screams of torment. 726 00:48:11,154 --> 00:48:13,384 Chief Scaglia, you were in the hotel room... 727 00:48:13,590 --> 00:48:16,753 ...when they found Maureen's body in the tub. 728 00:48:17,194 --> 00:48:21,096 So was Sally, so was Lanny, so was Vince. 729 00:48:22,566 --> 00:48:26,730 And there was also a PR lady there from the hotel. 730 00:48:27,137 --> 00:48:28,695 How do you think she died? 731 00:48:29,373 --> 00:48:32,433 She died in an auto accident two weeks later. It was terrible. 732 00:48:35,913 --> 00:48:37,107 No, Maureen. 733 00:48:37,314 --> 00:48:39,976 - How did Maureen die? - She drowned. 734 00:48:40,183 --> 00:48:41,980 - Why? - What do you mean, why? 735 00:48:42,185 --> 00:48:44,710 You and I take baths all the time. We don't drown in them. 736 00:48:44,922 --> 00:48:47,948 You and I do not mix sleeping pills with booze. 737 00:48:48,158 --> 00:48:51,093 - She committed suicide? - Overdose is the official story. 738 00:48:51,295 --> 00:48:55,129 What's the official story on the fact that the staff of the hotel in Miami... 739 00:48:55,332 --> 00:48:58,392 ...all seemed to know she delivered room service to the boys' suite... 740 00:48:58,602 --> 00:49:01,435 ...three days before and was never seen alive again? 741 00:49:01,638 --> 00:49:02,969 What happened to her? 742 00:49:03,173 --> 00:49:05,641 How did she end up in a hotel room in New Jersey? 743 00:49:05,842 --> 00:49:09,710 Sally never had any problem moving girls around. Okay? 744 00:49:09,913 --> 00:49:11,107 He had two hotels. 745 00:49:11,315 --> 00:49:13,306 - So Sally arranged it? - No, I don't think so. 746 00:49:13,517 --> 00:49:16,384 You see, she was brought up there as a reward for the boys... 747 00:49:16,586 --> 00:49:19,248 ...and I think she started to party just a little too early. 748 00:49:19,456 --> 00:49:21,947 She was a student. This was a summer job. 749 00:49:22,159 --> 00:49:23,421 Listen to me... 750 00:49:23,860 --> 00:49:29,799 ...the Palace Del Sol was very important to Sally, okay? 751 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:33,163 He launched his new wing... 752 00:49:33,370 --> 00:49:36,669 ...with a push from Lanny and Vince... 753 00:49:36,873 --> 00:49:42,505 ...and this stupid girl shows up dead. 754 00:49:42,813 --> 00:49:47,341 She's not gonna come back. We do the best thing for all of us. 755 00:49:47,551 --> 00:49:52,011 We speed up the investigation and we cremate her. Okay? 756 00:49:52,222 --> 00:49:54,417 End of story. 757 00:49:57,227 --> 00:50:00,822 - Here you are. - Here's your lobster. 758 00:50:01,031 --> 00:50:03,966 - Enjoy. - Looks great. 759 00:50:05,402 --> 00:50:09,168 "Sally said, 'I'll have them send you up your own shipment of lobsters. 760 00:50:09,373 --> 00:50:11,398 You like lobster?"' 761 00:50:11,975 --> 00:50:15,274 We said we did because we really did. 762 00:50:16,046 --> 00:50:18,947 You shouldn't have done that, Stanley. I don't eat lobster. 763 00:50:21,885 --> 00:50:24,285 Were there any signs of violence on her body? 764 00:50:24,488 --> 00:50:28,788 No, no. There were some small scratches on the torso. 765 00:50:30,694 --> 00:50:36,064 Why did my daughter die? Did she kill herself? 766 00:50:36,967 --> 00:50:40,528 What had they done to her that would make her do that? 767 00:50:43,140 --> 00:50:45,370 What had they done? 768 00:50:50,313 --> 00:50:52,577 Once upon a time... 769 00:50:52,783 --> 00:50:56,446 ...when terrible things happened to people... 770 00:50:56,653 --> 00:50:59,213 ...they were left as a mystery. 771 00:51:01,391 --> 00:51:04,622 Even the tabloids kept a distance. 772 00:51:10,033 --> 00:51:15,801 Some things were allowed to be left just the way they were. 773 00:51:24,614 --> 00:51:26,445 Any trouble with the directions I gave you? 774 00:51:26,650 --> 00:51:30,086 - Only the parts where I had to turn. - Sorry. 775 00:51:30,987 --> 00:51:33,387 It's the price of seclusion. 776 00:51:38,462 --> 00:51:40,453 You haven't switched over to cassette? 777 00:51:40,664 --> 00:51:44,532 - Actually, it's my dad's. - And what does he do? 778 00:51:45,902 --> 00:51:48,029 He was a journalist too. 779 00:51:49,106 --> 00:51:51,438 He did a big story on you once. 780 00:51:51,641 --> 00:51:54,303 Followed a little girl who had polio. 781 00:51:54,644 --> 00:51:56,908 You took her under your wing... 782 00:51:58,048 --> 00:52:00,380 ...and now she's interviewing you. 783 00:52:03,954 --> 00:52:07,185 He must be proud that his daughter's making such a name for herself. 784 00:52:07,724 --> 00:52:09,817 I'd like to think so. 785 00:52:11,027 --> 00:52:14,622 - He died last year. - Sorry to hear that. 786 00:52:16,266 --> 00:52:19,895 - Would you like some coffee? - Sure. 787 00:52:26,977 --> 00:52:28,842 Are you alone here? 788 00:52:29,045 --> 00:52:33,072 Yes. The thought of having live-in help is a little poisonous to me. 789 00:52:33,283 --> 00:52:34,682 Why's that? 790 00:52:34,885 --> 00:52:36,785 Well, I'd have to talk to them... 791 00:52:36,987 --> 00:52:39,421 ...ask them how their family was doing... 792 00:52:39,623 --> 00:52:42,251 ...hear about this and that, introduce them to the guests... 793 00:52:42,459 --> 00:52:45,121 ...and tell them how their family was doing. 794 00:52:45,328 --> 00:52:49,025 All so that I would seem to be a nice guy... 795 00:52:49,232 --> 00:52:50,824 ...which is an awful lot of work... 796 00:52:51,034 --> 00:52:53,468 ...considering what I cherish most in life these days... 797 00:52:53,670 --> 00:52:55,729 ...is not to have to be Vince Collins. 798 00:52:55,939 --> 00:52:57,372 No Reuben in your life? 799 00:52:58,675 --> 00:53:00,666 How do you know about Reuben? 800 00:53:01,044 --> 00:53:04,571 He was in a lot of the material I've been looking at. 801 00:53:04,781 --> 00:53:06,248 No, I never had a Reuben. 802 00:53:06,449 --> 00:53:08,815 Lanny always paid him directly. He was Lanny's man. 803 00:53:09,019 --> 00:53:10,486 Right. 804 00:53:12,889 --> 00:53:14,948 You know, what I like is to... 805 00:53:15,158 --> 00:53:16,750 ...read... 806 00:53:17,861 --> 00:53:19,260 ...think. 807 00:53:19,462 --> 00:53:21,657 It's to have the freedom... 808 00:53:21,865 --> 00:53:24,356 ...to get up and leave without telling anyone about it... 809 00:53:24,568 --> 00:53:26,468 ...any time of day. 810 00:53:28,471 --> 00:53:30,803 Or even having to say goodbye. 811 00:53:33,009 --> 00:53:36,968 To be backstage, surrounded by acrobats, actors, magicians... 812 00:53:37,180 --> 00:53:39,045 ...it was intoxicating. 813 00:53:39,249 --> 00:53:41,080 You know, I was only 12 years old. 814 00:53:41,284 --> 00:53:42,911 That's a... 815 00:53:43,119 --> 00:53:44,643 That's a pretty impressionable age. 816 00:53:44,854 --> 00:53:47,914 - To hear all these stories of touring... - My father always told me... 817 00:53:48,124 --> 00:53:51,616 ...that nothing had meaning unless it could be put on the record. 818 00:53:53,096 --> 00:53:55,121 Yet things had changed. 819 00:53:56,266 --> 00:53:58,359 As Vince had pointed out at our first meeting... 820 00:53:58,568 --> 00:54:02,868 ...it had become fashionable to put yourself into the story. 821 00:54:03,540 --> 00:54:06,873 The question became how far you were prepared to go. 822 00:54:30,166 --> 00:54:34,500 - Excuse me. That's not mine. - Oh, I'm sorry. 823 00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,635 Aren't you Miss Trout? 824 00:54:39,843 --> 00:54:42,471 We've met, on the plane to New York. 825 00:54:42,679 --> 00:54:43,873 - Reuben. - Excuse me, sir. 826 00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,844 Can I leave you for just a second, please? 827 00:54:50,620 --> 00:54:53,350 I'm so deeply sorry, Miss Trout, the way you were treated. 828 00:54:53,556 --> 00:54:57,583 - He could have left a note. - Of course. 829 00:54:58,862 --> 00:55:02,423 Miss Trout, I would like you to understand something. 830 00:55:03,266 --> 00:55:07,999 I have a great loyalty to Mr. Morris. He's treated me very well. 831 00:55:08,204 --> 00:55:09,899 I'm very grateful. 832 00:55:11,308 --> 00:55:14,334 He has done wonderful things for many people... 833 00:55:14,544 --> 00:55:19,504 ...and I have been privileged to work for him. 834 00:55:21,084 --> 00:55:23,382 But I do have certain principles... 835 00:55:23,586 --> 00:55:27,818 ...especially about how women are to be treated and respected. 836 00:55:28,224 --> 00:55:33,628 Mr. Morris can be very attentive, but once he has a woman... 837 00:55:34,798 --> 00:55:37,596 Oh, God, I think it's almost a sickness. 838 00:55:39,602 --> 00:55:41,433 When he left you that morning... 839 00:55:41,638 --> 00:55:44,266 ...you may have felt bad, but believe me, Miss Trout... 840 00:55:44,474 --> 00:55:46,305 ...to have him out of your life... 841 00:55:46,509 --> 00:55:49,205 ...is the best thing that could have happened to you. 842 00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:53,943 At that point, you may have felt your life was wounded. 843 00:55:55,485 --> 00:55:57,316 It wasn't. 844 00:55:58,188 --> 00:55:59,450 It was saved. 845 00:56:08,565 --> 00:56:10,931 Vince, I was very clear about this from the beginning. 846 00:56:11,134 --> 00:56:12,726 I'm not out to play games with you. 847 00:56:12,936 --> 00:56:15,302 This is why you're being paid a huge amount of money. 848 00:56:16,306 --> 00:56:18,137 This isn't entirely about money, you know. 849 00:56:18,341 --> 00:56:20,901 A million dollars is more than the gross of your last film. 850 00:56:22,212 --> 00:56:24,476 I was somehow under the impression that my life... 851 00:56:24,681 --> 00:56:27,650 ...might have been of more than passing interest. 852 00:56:27,851 --> 00:56:30,843 But if my fleeting encounter with a girl named Maureen O'Flaherty... 853 00:56:31,054 --> 00:56:33,989 ...is all you really want to talk about, then that's what we'll do. 854 00:56:35,492 --> 00:56:37,790 I have to make an appearance at the clinic tomorrow. 855 00:56:37,994 --> 00:56:40,121 We can come back and talk after that. 856 00:56:41,164 --> 00:56:42,893 It's Wonderland. 857 00:56:43,099 --> 00:56:44,691 I imagine you might remember that. 858 00:56:58,882 --> 00:57:03,012 He was right. I did remember Wonderland. 859 00:57:03,887 --> 00:57:05,616 - You ready? - Ready. 860 00:57:05,822 --> 00:57:11,089 When I was a girl, the entire hospital was devoted to children with polio. 861 00:57:12,762 --> 00:57:15,959 Since that time, it had become a clinic for kids... 862 00:57:16,166 --> 00:57:19,397 ...with a variety of different physical handicaps. 863 00:57:23,006 --> 00:57:26,373 Once a year, the children would put on a pageant... 864 00:57:26,576 --> 00:57:29,909 ...playing different characters from Alice in Wonderland. 865 00:57:30,914 --> 00:57:33,348 Vince, in his continuing support of the hospital... 866 00:57:33,550 --> 00:57:36,041 ...had hired a band and a singer. 867 00:57:43,526 --> 00:57:45,221 Who is that? 868 00:57:45,428 --> 00:57:49,262 I don't know. She's good, whoever she is. 869 00:58:00,710 --> 00:58:03,941 Karen, do you mind if we start this conversation tomorrow? 870 00:58:04,147 --> 00:58:07,776 I'm just... I'm not feeling all that well. 871 00:58:08,451 --> 00:58:09,941 - Vince... - In fact, it won't make... 872 00:58:10,153 --> 00:58:12,417 ...any difference over there. The office is closed. 873 00:58:12,622 --> 00:58:13,816 They've been working late. 874 00:58:14,023 --> 00:58:16,014 Then they've been working much too hard. 875 00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:19,988 First thing tomorrow. First thing. 876 00:58:26,970 --> 00:58:29,370 I hope your editors were reasonable. 877 00:58:29,572 --> 00:58:32,541 Reasonable? No, they weren't. 878 00:58:32,742 --> 00:58:34,801 We can go as late as you like. 879 00:58:35,011 --> 00:58:36,273 That's good. 880 00:58:36,479 --> 00:58:37,912 It might take us into the evening. 881 00:58:38,114 --> 00:58:40,082 I had a feeling that might be the case. 882 00:58:40,583 --> 00:58:43,245 So I've ordered a hot and cold smorgasbord to be brought in. 883 00:58:43,453 --> 00:58:44,920 We can work through dinner. 884 00:58:45,121 --> 00:58:47,316 - We'll be having company? - Yes. 885 00:58:48,791 --> 00:58:50,315 I have... 886 00:58:50,527 --> 00:58:52,222 ...a surprise for you. 887 00:58:53,162 --> 00:58:55,926 Actually, this is a fairly big deal for me as well. 888 00:58:57,133 --> 00:58:59,533 I've asked Lanny to join us today. 889 00:59:00,837 --> 00:59:01,861 Lanny? 890 00:59:03,239 --> 00:59:05,366 Well, this is something. 891 00:59:06,242 --> 00:59:09,268 Neuman and Newberry will certainly be getting their money's worth. 892 00:59:09,846 --> 00:59:12,144 I thought that if I was going to discuss something... 893 00:59:12,348 --> 00:59:14,145 ...that had such an impact on our lives... 894 00:59:14,350 --> 00:59:16,944 ...it would be fair for Lanny to hear what I had to say. 895 00:59:17,654 --> 00:59:19,349 Given that we've never talked about it. 896 00:59:19,556 --> 00:59:22,218 I'm sure I'll have lots to ask him. When is he coming? 897 00:59:22,425 --> 00:59:24,359 He should be here any minute now. 898 00:59:24,928 --> 00:59:26,759 This is very exciting. 899 00:59:27,330 --> 00:59:29,127 Shit. 900 00:59:43,780 --> 00:59:46,010 - Yes? - Bonnie, I have to talk fast. 901 00:59:46,215 --> 00:59:49,275 I need you to do exactly as I tell you and I can't tell you why, okay? 902 00:59:49,485 --> 00:59:50,713 Sure. 903 00:59:51,454 --> 00:59:53,820 Excuse me, that might actually be him now. 904 00:59:54,857 --> 00:59:56,552 Yes, hello? 905 01:00:08,938 --> 01:00:10,496 Yes, thank you. 906 01:00:12,241 --> 01:00:13,572 That was my office. 907 01:00:13,776 --> 01:00:16,244 There's a woman... A friend, a relative of yours? 908 01:00:16,446 --> 01:00:18,846 She said she called on a number you gave her. 909 01:00:19,515 --> 01:00:21,415 She's gonna call back. 910 01:00:27,890 --> 01:00:30,017 - Yes? - Hi, kiddo. 911 01:00:30,226 --> 01:00:33,354 Listen, your brother Clifford has just been rushed to the hospital. 912 01:00:33,563 --> 01:00:35,326 He was doing construction when a thing... 913 01:00:35,531 --> 01:00:37,328 - A steel girder? - That's it. 914 01:00:37,533 --> 01:00:40,024 You better come to the city and make your peace with him. 915 01:00:40,236 --> 01:00:42,397 You're booked on the next flight to San Francisco. 916 01:00:42,605 --> 01:00:44,766 I'm waiting here for you in front of the terminal. 917 01:00:45,274 --> 01:00:47,674 They reserved me a seat on the next flight to San Francisco. 918 01:00:47,877 --> 01:00:49,174 - I'll drive you there. - No, no. 919 01:00:49,379 --> 01:00:52,439 Sharon is waiting at the airport for me. You can't stand Lanny up. 920 01:00:52,649 --> 01:00:55,083 Please give him my deepest apologies. 921 01:01:04,127 --> 01:01:07,324 - Hey. - Please, I can explain. 922 01:01:08,164 --> 01:01:10,428 You've broken the law, Bonnie-fucking-Trout. 923 01:01:10,633 --> 01:01:12,464 You've assumed another person's identity... 924 01:01:12,669 --> 01:01:15,035 ...to get information from a business competitor. 925 01:01:15,238 --> 01:01:17,900 Obviously I lied about who I was. I'm sorry. 926 01:01:18,107 --> 01:01:20,302 It was a huge untruth. It wasn't planned. 927 01:01:20,510 --> 01:01:25,038 I was just freaked out about suddenly being on the plane with... 928 01:01:26,082 --> 01:01:27,447 With you... 929 01:01:27,650 --> 01:01:29,948 How did you get the seat behind me on the plane? 930 01:01:30,153 --> 01:01:31,780 - It was pure coincidence. - Bullshit! 931 01:01:31,988 --> 01:01:33,421 It's true. 932 01:01:37,460 --> 01:01:41,191 How could you...? How could you have just left me at the hotel like that? 933 01:01:41,597 --> 01:01:42,791 You were asleep. 934 01:01:42,999 --> 01:01:46,196 Reuben woke me to say I had to be a substitute performer... 935 01:01:46,402 --> 01:01:50,634 ...at a charity concert at the Hollywood Bowl. I had to get the first flight out. 936 01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:52,398 You could have left a note or called. 937 01:01:52,608 --> 01:01:54,667 - I did leave you a note. - Where? 938 01:01:56,512 --> 01:02:00,107 I don't know why we're even talking about this. I don't like you. 939 01:02:00,316 --> 01:02:03,251 All right? I wish we had never met. 940 01:02:09,125 --> 01:02:10,319 Hello, Vince. 941 01:02:11,094 --> 01:02:12,789 What the fuck's going on? 942 01:02:14,731 --> 01:02:17,393 Vince, a few days after we first met... 943 01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:20,433 ...I found myself next to Lanny on a flight to New York. 944 01:02:20,636 --> 01:02:22,263 It was a complete coincidence. 945 01:02:22,472 --> 01:02:24,133 - He asked my name... - And she lied. 946 01:02:24,340 --> 01:02:27,605 I had just finished reading the first chapter of Lanny's own biography. 947 01:02:27,810 --> 01:02:31,211 His lawyers had let me see it in the hope of discouraging our own project. 948 01:02:31,414 --> 01:02:33,939 As a reflex, since I knew he would view me as the enemy... 949 01:02:34,150 --> 01:02:35,777 ...I gave him the name of a friend... 950 01:02:35,985 --> 01:02:38,078 ...whose apartment I was staying at in Manhattan. 951 01:02:38,287 --> 01:02:41,586 I thought I just had to get through the awkwardness of the flight itself... 952 01:02:41,791 --> 01:02:43,782 ...but the trouble is... - You slept with him. 953 01:02:45,661 --> 01:02:49,028 - Vince... - You slept with my ex-partner. 954 01:02:50,500 --> 01:02:51,728 Technically. 955 01:02:53,736 --> 01:02:56,330 Doesn't sound like things were particularly technical. 956 01:03:18,161 --> 01:03:20,152 Now, you listen to me, sweetheart. 957 01:03:20,963 --> 01:03:24,865 Vince doesn't always do what's best for Vince. 958 01:03:25,067 --> 01:03:27,661 That's why he needed me here today. 959 01:03:28,371 --> 01:03:32,330 The story of this girl is the most painful thing in his life. 960 01:03:32,542 --> 01:03:34,703 What happened to her, Lanny? 961 01:03:35,878 --> 01:03:37,778 Well, you're not gonna find out. 962 01:03:38,714 --> 01:03:40,272 Not now. 963 01:03:41,017 --> 01:03:43,178 Not after what you've done to him. 964 01:03:52,562 --> 01:03:54,189 Vince. 965 01:03:54,397 --> 01:03:55,694 Oh, shit. 966 01:03:57,633 --> 01:03:59,692 Vince... 967 01:03:59,902 --> 01:04:01,870 ...I made a terrible mistake in New York. 968 01:04:02,071 --> 01:04:05,438 I apologize to you more than I know how to say. 969 01:04:05,641 --> 01:04:07,871 I'm so sorry. 970 01:04:17,687 --> 01:04:20,986 Vince, the realization of your life story... 971 01:04:21,190 --> 01:04:23,818 ...shouldn't be threatened because of my failings. 972 01:04:26,028 --> 01:04:28,758 Please let me continue to work with you again. 973 01:04:29,966 --> 01:04:32,298 I'll help you tell your story right. 974 01:04:34,904 --> 01:04:36,838 Come back tonight. 975 01:04:38,908 --> 01:04:40,569 Let me think about it. 976 01:04:53,222 --> 01:04:57,090 - How do you like the wine? - It's magnificent. What is it? 977 01:04:57,293 --> 01:04:59,784 1961 Haut-Brion. 978 01:04:59,996 --> 01:05:01,725 People make a big deal of 1959... 979 01:05:01,931 --> 01:05:05,264 ...but I don't think there'll be a year as special as 1961. 980 01:05:05,902 --> 01:05:08,666 It was a great year for French wines. 981 01:05:12,008 --> 01:05:13,942 Will you join me? 982 01:05:14,777 --> 01:05:16,369 What are they? 983 01:05:16,913 --> 01:05:21,077 They're like very mild-mannered Quaaludes. 984 01:05:21,317 --> 01:05:23,410 Must've done a few of those in your time, right? 985 01:05:24,887 --> 01:05:26,616 Are you sure they're okay with alcohol? 986 01:05:26,822 --> 01:05:30,349 Oh, they're even better with alcohol. Believe me, I'd know. 987 01:05:36,565 --> 01:05:38,658 Come on in, honey. The water's fine. 988 01:05:39,735 --> 01:05:44,570 All my life, I've had this idea that I could always be in control. 989 01:05:45,174 --> 01:05:47,108 Ever since I was sick, I had this sense... 990 01:05:47,310 --> 01:05:50,473 ...that I could make my body do anything I wanted. 991 01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:52,341 If I could will my polio away... 992 01:05:52,548 --> 01:05:56,006 ...l'd certainly be able to will away the effect of any drug. 993 01:06:09,765 --> 01:06:13,428 Do you mind if I close the drapes? The sun's in my eyes. 994 01:06:15,204 --> 01:06:17,069 It's moonlight. 995 01:06:18,507 --> 01:06:20,031 Go ahead. 996 01:07:21,971 --> 01:07:24,030 I remember you. 997 01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:26,369 You're Alice. 998 01:07:27,009 --> 01:07:29,170 In Wonderland. 999 01:07:29,879 --> 01:07:32,074 Oh, I don't know. 1000 01:07:32,281 --> 01:07:34,681 I'm really stoned out of my head already. 1001 01:07:35,985 --> 01:07:37,543 Is it good? 1002 01:07:43,092 --> 01:07:47,188 Jesus, Vince. It's like monster grass. 1003 01:07:47,396 --> 01:07:49,660 Do you get this stuff all the time? 1004 01:07:49,865 --> 01:07:51,856 All the time. 1005 01:08:01,210 --> 01:08:03,644 You're Alice. 1006 01:08:06,482 --> 01:08:08,143 You're so beautiful. 1007 01:08:37,179 --> 01:08:39,079 She's ours. 1008 01:08:39,782 --> 01:08:41,773 Isn't that so, Alice? 1009 01:08:43,285 --> 01:08:45,150 I'm yours. 1010 01:09:18,454 --> 01:09:20,285 I like you. 1011 01:09:32,935 --> 01:09:36,200 I had always been fascinated by how some women could cross the line... 1012 01:09:36,405 --> 01:09:41,035 ...between who they were and who they would let themselves become. 1013 01:09:41,744 --> 01:09:43,439 Maureen... 1014 01:09:44,180 --> 01:09:46,011 ...Alice... 1015 01:09:46,682 --> 01:09:48,240 ...and now... 1016 01:09:48,450 --> 01:09:50,008 ...me. 1017 01:09:56,525 --> 01:09:57,856 Morning. 1018 01:09:58,060 --> 01:10:01,359 That was not a Quaalude you gave me. I've had Quaaludes. 1019 01:10:02,665 --> 01:10:03,996 I said it was like a Quaalude. 1020 01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:06,566 And you didn't take one yourself. You palmed the pill. 1021 01:10:06,769 --> 01:10:08,760 Somebody had to drive. 1022 01:10:09,738 --> 01:10:11,535 Don't worry, you won't get pregnant. 1023 01:10:11,740 --> 01:10:13,571 Not from Alice, and certainly not from me. 1024 01:10:13,776 --> 01:10:16,336 I never took off my pants, as you may or may not remember. 1025 01:10:16,545 --> 01:10:18,206 There are laws against drugging people. 1026 01:10:18,414 --> 01:10:22,407 Oh, please. You took it voluntarily. Nobody slipped it into your drink. 1027 01:10:23,986 --> 01:10:27,387 And you chased it with one of the most expensive wines in the world. 1028 01:10:27,590 --> 01:10:30,991 You're just in a dither because you've discovered you can swing both ways. 1029 01:10:33,295 --> 01:10:35,126 You see... 1030 01:10:36,198 --> 01:10:38,063 ...I needed to get something on you. 1031 01:10:38,267 --> 01:10:41,532 Of course, your behavior with Lanny might have been even better than this. 1032 01:10:41,737 --> 01:10:43,500 But I'd already set the wheels in motion. 1033 01:10:43,706 --> 01:10:47,699 And as I was dying to see you and Alice get it on... 1034 01:10:48,177 --> 01:10:50,304 Well, these are just a sample. 1035 01:10:57,920 --> 01:11:00,753 Why would she agree to do this? Doesn't she want a career? 1036 01:11:00,956 --> 01:11:03,220 Well, it's your career I'm worried about. 1037 01:11:03,792 --> 01:11:06,124 You're a journalist playing loose with the rules. 1038 01:11:06,528 --> 01:11:09,053 She's just a vulnerable young singer you seduced. 1039 01:11:09,265 --> 01:11:12,291 A promising... Oh, good heavens. 1040 01:11:12,668 --> 01:11:15,398 Promising artist that I happen to manage. 1041 01:11:15,604 --> 01:11:17,401 You met her through me... 1042 01:11:17,606 --> 01:11:19,506 ...and had your way with her. 1043 01:11:24,213 --> 01:11:25,840 What do you want from me? 1044 01:11:28,817 --> 01:11:31,149 You're going to continue writing the book. 1045 01:11:31,353 --> 01:11:35,255 I'm going to continue telling you juicy stories, funny stories... 1046 01:11:35,457 --> 01:11:37,550 ...heart-tugging stories. 1047 01:11:37,793 --> 01:11:40,023 And you're not going to ask me a single question... 1048 01:11:40,229 --> 01:11:42,459 ...about what happened to the girl in New Jersey. 1049 01:11:43,565 --> 01:11:46,591 You're going to go to your publisher, say you tried every angle... 1050 01:11:46,802 --> 01:11:49,737 ...but you could find nothing odd or suspicious in what I told you. 1051 01:11:56,545 --> 01:11:59,446 I'll even try to spice it up a little, talk about how... 1052 01:11:59,648 --> 01:12:02,617 ...the night before the telethon, I wanted to sleep like a babe... 1053 01:12:02,818 --> 01:12:05,082 ...so to cover my bets, I kept a few babes on hand. 1054 01:12:06,055 --> 01:12:07,613 Well, not exactly on my hand... 1055 01:12:07,823 --> 01:12:11,190 ...and that's not my preference, as you might have gathered by now. 1056 01:12:20,769 --> 01:12:24,671 So you get your bestseller, I get my million. 1057 01:12:24,873 --> 01:12:26,135 Everyone goes home happy. 1058 01:12:26,342 --> 01:12:29,573 You've dreaded talking about Maureen O'Flaherty since we met. 1059 01:12:29,778 --> 01:12:31,939 If it's something you're so desperate to avoid... 1060 01:12:32,147 --> 01:12:34,138 ...why would you ever agree to do this book? 1061 01:12:34,850 --> 01:12:36,511 I need the money. 1062 01:12:36,719 --> 01:12:40,120 Vince, anything you say in my presence is mine to use. 1063 01:12:41,123 --> 01:12:44,024 Everything you said last night and everything you've just told me. 1064 01:12:44,226 --> 01:12:46,956 And since I'm also allowed to include contextual background... 1065 01:12:47,162 --> 01:12:49,187 ...I can write about how you set me up... 1066 01:12:49,398 --> 01:12:52,765 ...how you tried to blackmail me. I'll even include those Polaroids. 1067 01:12:52,968 --> 01:12:56,301 It's your word against mine. We have a contract. Everything's in my words. 1068 01:12:56,505 --> 01:12:59,804 We've agreed to your answers, but there's nothing to stop me... 1069 01:13:00,008 --> 01:13:04,707 ...from putting any information I want into a question I ask. 1070 01:13:05,781 --> 01:13:08,750 Information that I'd like to be public knowledge... 1071 01:13:09,685 --> 01:13:12,153 ...or that the police might wanna look into. 1072 01:13:16,792 --> 01:13:21,126 Would you like me to fire one of my loaded questions, on the record? 1073 01:13:21,997 --> 01:13:23,760 Sure. 1074 01:13:30,839 --> 01:13:32,830 Vince... 1075 01:13:33,342 --> 01:13:36,778 ...in your suite at the Versailles Hotel in Miami... 1076 01:13:37,446 --> 01:13:39,812 ...was it your or Lanny's idea... 1077 01:13:40,015 --> 01:13:43,348 ...to put Maureen's body into the case containing shellfish and ice... 1078 01:13:43,552 --> 01:13:45,213 ...and have it shipped to New Jersey? 1079 01:13:50,092 --> 01:13:52,959 No answer, Mr. Collins? So noted. 1080 01:13:53,595 --> 01:13:56,462 Oh, and incidentally, by not answering... 1081 01:13:56,665 --> 01:13:59,259 ...you're in violation of your contract. 1082 01:13:59,868 --> 01:14:03,065 What a shame. I understood you needed that money. 1083 01:14:17,786 --> 01:14:19,947 Oh, no. Oh, God. 1084 01:14:20,155 --> 01:14:23,852 Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God! 1085 01:14:32,634 --> 01:14:34,397 Was that how you murdered Maureen? 1086 01:14:47,850 --> 01:14:49,681 Ask Lanny. 1087 01:14:52,454 --> 01:14:54,479 He's the one who knows. 1088 01:15:12,975 --> 01:15:16,672 It wasn't that hard for him to get the suite he wanted. 1089 01:15:16,879 --> 01:15:20,872 The Versailles was still one of the fanciest of the hotels along the beach. 1090 01:15:21,083 --> 01:15:23,745 But by then, its era had passed. 1091 01:15:25,153 --> 01:15:26,745 Thank you, sir. 1092 01:15:36,198 --> 01:15:38,530 All the furniture was new. 1093 01:15:38,767 --> 01:15:41,099 It had been 15 years... 1094 01:15:41,803 --> 01:15:43,794 ...but the floor plan... 1095 01:15:44,006 --> 01:15:46,167 ...was still the same. 1096 01:15:46,975 --> 01:15:49,205 In that spot... 1097 01:15:49,545 --> 01:15:52,446 ...that was where the truth had come out. 1098 01:15:53,515 --> 01:15:56,279 That was why she had to die. 1099 01:16:07,129 --> 01:16:09,689 Are you Japanese or Chinese? 1100 01:16:10,933 --> 01:16:12,628 Vietnamese. 1101 01:16:13,101 --> 01:16:16,366 The kitchen tell me you famous person. 1102 01:16:16,572 --> 01:16:18,506 Why you famous? 1103 01:16:18,874 --> 01:16:21,001 They didn't tell you my name? 1104 01:16:21,209 --> 01:16:22,403 No. 1105 01:16:22,611 --> 01:16:24,306 What is it? 1106 01:16:26,715 --> 01:16:28,444 Lanny Morris. 1107 01:16:29,184 --> 01:16:30,845 It's a Jewish name... 1108 01:16:31,053 --> 01:16:32,520 ...but I'm a nebbish. 1109 01:16:33,789 --> 01:16:36,223 You ordered three bottle of champagne. 1110 01:16:36,425 --> 01:16:37,687 You want me to open one now? 1111 01:16:38,393 --> 01:16:40,418 Or wait until friend come? 1112 01:16:41,530 --> 01:16:43,054 Open all three. 1113 01:16:44,700 --> 01:16:46,998 Are you really famous, Mr. Morris? 1114 01:16:48,236 --> 01:16:49,863 In my day. 1115 01:16:50,305 --> 01:16:52,364 Before your time, I suppose. 1116 01:16:53,375 --> 01:16:55,935 I come from the north of Vietnam. 1117 01:16:56,144 --> 01:16:58,476 In my town, there is no television. 1118 01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:02,980 She explained that American movies had been banned where she grew up. 1119 01:17:08,223 --> 01:17:10,885 She got better tips pretending she was Madame Butterfly... 1120 01:17:11,093 --> 01:17:14,153 ...than by telling people where she was really from. 1121 01:17:15,297 --> 01:17:17,390 What did you do, Mr. Morris? 1122 01:17:18,467 --> 01:17:20,992 I made Vince Collins' life... 1123 01:17:21,436 --> 01:17:23,529 ...very difficult. 1124 01:17:23,739 --> 01:17:26,936 She didn't understand, but her policy was not to linger in the rooms... 1125 01:17:27,142 --> 01:17:29,076 ...of solitary gentlemen. 1126 01:17:30,479 --> 01:17:34,779 He signed the room-service check under Lanny's name. 1127 01:17:37,019 --> 01:17:38,543 Thank you. 1128 01:18:01,610 --> 01:18:03,874 There was no ice or water left in the buckets... 1129 01:18:04,079 --> 01:18:06,877 ...when his body was discovered the next morning. 1130 01:18:08,150 --> 01:18:11,881 He had dumped the ice into the bathtub and died in it. 1131 01:18:13,121 --> 01:18:16,215 He must have felt there was some poetry in it. 1132 01:18:19,628 --> 01:18:21,994 His plan was to drink enough champagne... 1133 01:18:22,197 --> 01:18:23,596 ...with enough sleeping pills... 1134 01:18:23,799 --> 01:18:27,701 ...so that ending things would become an acceptable idea. 1135 01:18:28,437 --> 01:18:30,337 He could manage that. 1136 01:18:31,139 --> 01:18:34,472 He knew for certain he couldn't manage anything else. 1137 01:18:38,046 --> 01:18:39,604 Hi. 1138 01:18:41,883 --> 01:18:44,579 I thought you were gonna be out all afternoon. 1139 01:18:49,324 --> 01:18:51,087 I'm sorry. 1140 01:18:51,526 --> 01:18:53,391 It's okay. 1141 01:18:54,362 --> 01:18:56,387 This was under the door. 1142 01:19:03,972 --> 01:19:05,234 What is it? 1143 01:19:06,875 --> 01:19:09,002 Chapter three. 1144 01:19:10,779 --> 01:19:15,079 John, as my lawyer, I want you to know that this next chapter... 1145 01:19:15,283 --> 01:19:18,252 ...is to be read after Vince and my death... 1146 01:19:18,453 --> 01:19:23,117 ...and is only to be used under the most extreme of circumstances. 1147 01:19:24,826 --> 01:19:26,919 We knew we wanted to make an early night of it... 1148 01:19:27,129 --> 01:19:30,565 ...with the telethon starting the next day, so Vince suggested we dine in... 1149 01:19:30,766 --> 01:19:33,758 ...so Maureen could do the interview for her campus paper. 1150 01:19:33,969 --> 01:19:38,963 This is a gift for us from the audience... 1151 01:19:39,608 --> 01:19:43,544 ...from the people, the people that are out there. 1152 01:19:44,412 --> 01:19:48,644 Sooner or later you gotta say, "We wanna give something back." 1153 01:19:48,917 --> 01:19:50,509 I think that's really important. 1154 01:19:50,719 --> 01:19:55,019 Not many people would take the time out to do that. Thank you. 1155 01:19:55,223 --> 01:19:57,953 She actually hid her tape recorder in the room-service cart... 1156 01:19:58,160 --> 01:20:00,924 ...because she didn't want the hotel to find out. 1157 01:20:08,737 --> 01:20:11,968 We finished the interview and then asked her to stay. 1158 01:20:15,043 --> 01:20:19,104 To help us get into the mood, I did a Tuinal... 1159 01:20:19,314 --> 01:20:20,941 ...then she did one... 1160 01:20:21,149 --> 01:20:25,279 ...and Vince, he did two, because he was always doing two. 1161 01:20:26,154 --> 01:20:30,113 We got into the second of the three bottles of Mo�t we'd ordered. 1162 01:20:30,325 --> 01:20:35,490 We thought it would be better to keep the action to neutral territory. 1163 01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:40,365 God... 1164 01:20:40,669 --> 01:20:42,364 ...she was beautiful. 1165 01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:47,270 I chain-locked the front door to the living room... 1166 01:20:47,475 --> 01:20:51,002 ...to make sure that housekeeping, eager to turn down our beds... 1167 01:20:51,213 --> 01:20:53,773 ...didn't walk in on an employee having a m�nage � trois... 1168 01:20:53,982 --> 01:20:56,075 ...with the hotel's headliners. 1169 01:20:56,284 --> 01:20:59,117 Then I went to chain-lock the door to Vince's room. 1170 01:20:59,321 --> 01:21:02,654 I took a quick shower, I put on my robe... 1171 01:21:02,858 --> 01:21:07,090 ...and brought a robe for Maureen, in case she felt a little bashful. 1172 01:21:10,699 --> 01:21:12,997 So much for bashful. 1173 01:21:13,702 --> 01:21:16,830 I threw the robe on the bed and moved into the room... 1174 01:21:17,038 --> 01:21:20,030 ...half-worried that they would finish without me. 1175 01:21:26,781 --> 01:21:29,944 I've always preferred the missionary position. 1176 01:21:30,151 --> 01:21:33,814 I have to see their faces, look into their eyes. 1177 01:21:34,022 --> 01:21:38,220 Unless they're acting, and I'd like to think I can tell the difference... 1178 01:21:38,426 --> 01:21:40,485 ...there comes that moment... 1179 01:21:40,695 --> 01:21:42,720 ...when, if you're looking... 1180 01:21:42,931 --> 01:21:45,399 ...if you're really looking... 1181 01:21:45,600 --> 01:21:48,933 ...you'll see exactly who she is. 1182 01:21:50,205 --> 01:21:52,002 This was different. 1183 01:21:52,207 --> 01:21:55,973 It was like she saw exactly who I was. 1184 01:22:14,396 --> 01:22:16,762 Watch it there, compadre. 1185 01:22:17,565 --> 01:22:20,329 It's a little hard to tell who's who, under the circumstances. 1186 01:22:20,535 --> 01:22:23,936 I'm the one that's more than a little hard, you dumb fucking limey. 1187 01:22:24,406 --> 01:22:28,172 Well, I'm... I'm the one with a foreskin. Don't you forget that. 1188 01:22:31,746 --> 01:22:33,646 Watch it. You got the end zone there, Vince. 1189 01:22:33,848 --> 01:22:36,840 - Come on, come on. Fuck. - You're gonna like it. 1190 01:22:37,052 --> 01:22:39,145 It's like from another planet when you come. 1191 01:22:39,354 --> 01:22:41,151 - Get the fuck off me. - I'd never hurt you. 1192 01:22:41,356 --> 01:22:43,187 - I'd never hurt you. - Get the fuck off me! 1193 01:22:43,391 --> 01:22:46,622 - No, trust me. It's like double the sex... - Get the fuck off me! 1194 01:22:46,828 --> 01:22:49,319 We don't fuck, Vince! 1195 01:22:49,931 --> 01:22:53,059 We're buddies, we're pals, we're partners, we're a duo. 1196 01:22:53,268 --> 01:22:56,499 We love each other, but we don't fuck! 1197 01:22:57,339 --> 01:22:59,569 We're fucking stars! 1198 01:22:59,774 --> 01:23:01,173 - We can travel together. - Okay. 1199 01:23:01,376 --> 01:23:06,177 We can hang out together, we can live together, but we can't be queers! 1200 01:23:06,381 --> 01:23:09,373 It's not funny! 1201 01:23:32,240 --> 01:23:34,367 I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. 1202 01:23:34,576 --> 01:23:36,043 About? 1203 01:23:38,246 --> 01:23:40,271 About your nose. 1204 01:23:42,684 --> 01:23:44,652 It's not broken, is it? 1205 01:23:47,288 --> 01:23:48,778 It's how I am. 1206 01:23:48,990 --> 01:23:52,721 Guess the question is, who's gonna pay me? 1207 01:23:52,927 --> 01:23:55,054 This surprised me. 1208 01:23:55,263 --> 01:23:57,663 The girl was not a hooker. 1209 01:24:08,109 --> 01:24:10,839 My wallet was on top of my robe. 1210 01:24:11,312 --> 01:24:13,303 I took out some money. 1211 01:24:13,715 --> 01:24:15,876 I don't remember how much. 1212 01:24:32,500 --> 01:24:33,933 I don't think so. 1213 01:24:35,236 --> 01:24:37,864 That's more than you would make in a month of tips. 1214 01:24:38,073 --> 01:24:40,371 I'm not looking for a tip. 1215 01:24:41,443 --> 01:24:43,070 What the hell are you saying? 1216 01:24:43,278 --> 01:24:45,644 Honey, I'm in my last year of college. 1217 01:24:45,847 --> 01:24:48,543 This is a summer job. 1218 01:24:51,686 --> 01:24:53,654 I wanna write. 1219 01:24:53,855 --> 01:24:56,415 I wanna be a journalist. 1220 01:25:00,862 --> 01:25:03,956 So I could either use this information... 1221 01:25:05,133 --> 01:25:06,691 ...or I could use a lot of money. 1222 01:25:09,070 --> 01:25:11,868 I promise you this will only cost you once. 1223 01:25:15,076 --> 01:25:18,375 I'm so tired, I don't even think I'm going home. 1224 01:25:19,380 --> 01:25:21,041 I think it's the Tuinals. 1225 01:25:23,418 --> 01:25:26,615 Hey, Lanny, don't take it personally. 1226 01:25:26,821 --> 01:25:29,187 You were a great lover. 1227 01:25:29,390 --> 01:25:32,826 You have got the cutest little butt. 1228 01:25:37,398 --> 01:25:40,094 I guess Vince thinks so too. 1229 01:25:45,106 --> 01:25:46,971 Night, Lanny. 1230 01:25:49,010 --> 01:25:52,502 I would never see her alive again. 1231 01:25:54,983 --> 01:25:57,315 I put a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my door... 1232 01:25:57,519 --> 01:26:00,716 ...fastened the chain lock, in case the maid didn't read. 1233 01:26:00,922 --> 01:26:02,856 I left a wake-up call for 8... 1234 01:26:03,057 --> 01:26:05,491 ...and went to sleep knowing that a telethon... 1235 01:26:05,693 --> 01:26:09,686 ...was the least of the ordeals I was going to have to face in the morning. 1236 01:26:14,736 --> 01:26:16,533 The Tuinals had really conked me out... 1237 01:26:16,738 --> 01:26:19,866 ...and I slept through my wake-up call that morning. 1238 01:26:20,074 --> 01:26:22,201 The operator had called Reuben down the hall... 1239 01:26:22,410 --> 01:26:24,105 ...to see if he could wake me... 1240 01:26:24,312 --> 01:26:27,509 ...but he couldn't get in because we had chain-locked all the doors. 1241 01:26:28,650 --> 01:26:30,413 Reuben! 1242 01:26:30,618 --> 01:26:33,485 I yelled for Reuben to wake up Vince while I worked on Maureen... 1243 01:26:33,688 --> 01:26:37,488 ...trying to make myself believe that she was still sleeping. 1244 01:26:40,161 --> 01:26:41,594 Fuck. 1245 01:26:42,030 --> 01:26:43,657 No, no. Fuck. 1246 01:26:43,865 --> 01:26:47,357 The autopsy revealed the drugs and alcohol in her body... 1247 01:26:47,569 --> 01:26:50,265 ...but I knew it wasn't enough to kill her. 1248 01:26:54,475 --> 01:26:56,238 All three doors to the suite... 1249 01:26:56,444 --> 01:27:00,005 ...were chain-locked from the inside when I found her. 1250 01:27:00,582 --> 01:27:01,879 I hadn't touched her. 1251 01:27:02,083 --> 01:27:08,181 That's how I know that my former partner and friend, Vince Collins... 1252 01:27:08,389 --> 01:27:11,620 ...murdered Maureen O'Flaherty. 1253 01:27:15,630 --> 01:27:18,827 You must have guessed by now that Vince and I had found a way... 1254 01:27:19,033 --> 01:27:22,025 ...to relocate Maureen's body to New Jersey. 1255 01:27:22,237 --> 01:27:25,764 This is the one criminal act the both of us committed... 1256 01:27:25,974 --> 01:27:30,536 ...but we were in a panic and needed to create an ironclad alibi. 1257 01:27:30,745 --> 01:27:33,236 The crates were delivered to our room. 1258 01:27:33,448 --> 01:27:36,144 The publicist had opened the crates for a photo op. 1259 01:27:36,351 --> 01:27:37,875 But the official story became... 1260 01:27:38,086 --> 01:27:40,748 ...that she found Maureen's overdosed body in the tub. 1261 01:27:40,955 --> 01:27:44,948 A police officer called Scaglia was there to witness the whole thing. 1262 01:27:45,159 --> 01:27:47,184 Live, until they drop dead... 1263 01:27:47,395 --> 01:27:48,760 During the telethon... 1264 01:27:48,963 --> 01:27:52,990 ...I kept telling myself that I could forgive Vince for two reasons. 1265 01:27:53,201 --> 01:27:56,102 First of all, I don't think he could have known what he was doing. 1266 01:27:56,304 --> 01:27:59,637 He was completely out of it, even more than usual. 1267 01:27:59,841 --> 01:28:01,706 The second is that he was terrified... 1268 01:28:01,909 --> 01:28:05,037 ...that this incident would become public knowledge. 1269 01:28:05,246 --> 01:28:08,909 In those days, the slightest hint that he could swing both ways... 1270 01:28:09,117 --> 01:28:12,678 ...would destroy his show-business career in an instant. 1271 01:28:13,554 --> 01:28:16,455 As it was, it was only to destroy us. 1272 01:28:17,058 --> 01:28:19,117 We completed the telethon... 1273 01:28:19,327 --> 01:28:21,921 ...but we both knew we were finished. 1274 01:28:22,697 --> 01:28:24,130 The marriage... 1275 01:28:24,599 --> 01:28:26,328 ...was over. 1276 01:28:27,802 --> 01:28:30,532 There was a moment in the middle of the telethon... 1277 01:28:30,738 --> 01:28:33,332 ...where I actually broke down. 1278 01:28:33,541 --> 01:28:36,704 I just couldn't control myself. 1279 01:28:36,911 --> 01:28:39,402 I remember I mumbled something... 1280 01:28:39,614 --> 01:28:44,108 ...to a little girl who was recounting her experiences with the disease. 1281 01:28:44,719 --> 01:28:47,153 I don't remember what I said... 1282 01:28:47,622 --> 01:28:50,455 ...but I do remember feeling worthless. 1283 01:28:52,126 --> 01:28:54,890 Everyone thought that my tears were for her. 1284 01:28:55,263 --> 01:28:58,596 It made for a great picture in the papers the next day. 1285 01:29:00,935 --> 01:29:02,800 Mr. Morris will see you now. 1286 01:29:27,228 --> 01:29:30,391 I expected to see you at Vince's funeral. 1287 01:29:31,799 --> 01:29:36,065 Kind of heartless of you not to show up, don't you think, Karen? 1288 01:29:37,004 --> 01:29:39,632 Considering you're probably the one that... 1289 01:29:41,209 --> 01:29:43,074 ...drove him to it. 1290 01:29:44,645 --> 01:29:46,237 I won't answer that. 1291 01:29:48,883 --> 01:29:50,612 So don't. 1292 01:29:50,952 --> 01:29:52,783 So get the fuck out of my office. 1293 01:29:53,488 --> 01:29:58,221 Lanny, I have interview material with Vince up until the moment he met you. 1294 01:29:58,426 --> 01:30:00,587 It would be great if this... 1295 01:30:00,928 --> 01:30:03,488 ...warm, funny side of Vince could reach the public. 1296 01:30:03,698 --> 01:30:07,259 And what the fuck do you know about Vince's warm and funny side? 1297 01:30:09,637 --> 01:30:12,162 What about the warm and funny fact that he killed himself? 1298 01:30:12,607 --> 01:30:15,838 - Why would he do that? - I don't know. 1299 01:30:17,478 --> 01:30:19,708 That's the answer I'm giving you... 1300 01:30:19,914 --> 01:30:22,007 ...and anyone else that asks. 1301 01:30:22,717 --> 01:30:25,277 - "I don't know." - But you do know, don't you, Lanny? 1302 01:30:25,486 --> 01:30:27,545 Whatever I know, sweetheart... 1303 01:30:27,755 --> 01:30:29,052 ...l'm writing in my book. 1304 01:30:30,158 --> 01:30:33,491 Except you're never going to finish your book. 1305 01:30:33,928 --> 01:30:35,520 You don't have to. 1306 01:30:36,597 --> 01:30:38,565 The person who needed your book is dead. 1307 01:30:40,234 --> 01:30:42,202 You always wrote the material for your shows. 1308 01:30:42,403 --> 01:30:44,234 Every single word was rehearsed. 1309 01:30:44,439 --> 01:30:46,907 The book was a manual, a set of notes... 1310 01:30:47,108 --> 01:30:49,941 ...so Vince would get every detail of the official story. 1311 01:30:51,112 --> 01:30:53,740 "A couple of extra babes for him to sleep with that night. 1312 01:30:53,948 --> 01:30:55,916 A few of them on hand. 1313 01:30:56,117 --> 01:30:58,881 Well, not exactly on his hand. That wasn't his preference." 1314 01:31:00,555 --> 01:31:03,615 - So, what's your point? - He quoted that very line to me. 1315 01:31:03,825 --> 01:31:08,023 Quoted it from your manuscript as if he were saying it for the first time. 1316 01:31:10,231 --> 01:31:12,597 You wrote it because you loved him. 1317 01:31:16,504 --> 01:31:18,631 And feared for him. 1318 01:31:21,476 --> 01:31:23,068 And feared for yourself. 1319 01:31:27,982 --> 01:31:29,916 And then you wrote this: 1320 01:31:35,490 --> 01:31:36,957 Where the fuck did you get that? 1321 01:31:37,158 --> 01:31:39,683 - Delivered to my room. - Bullshit. You stole it. 1322 01:31:39,894 --> 01:31:44,194 Maureen O'Flaherty was killed in the Versailles Hotel, in your room... 1323 01:31:44,398 --> 01:31:46,958 ...the night before the telethon. 1324 01:31:49,370 --> 01:31:51,736 The night before we met. 1325 01:31:58,212 --> 01:32:00,305 Get out of my office. 1326 01:32:48,796 --> 01:32:50,593 Miss Trout? 1327 01:32:51,732 --> 01:32:54,792 We walked through the deserted backlot of the studio... 1328 01:32:55,002 --> 01:32:59,268 ...and I confessed that I wasn't Bonnie Trout. 1329 01:32:59,473 --> 01:33:01,566 That I was writing a book about Vince Collins. 1330 01:33:01,776 --> 01:33:03,903 And that I was trying to uncover the secret... 1331 01:33:04,111 --> 01:33:06,443 ...behind what happened to Maureen O'Flaherty. 1332 01:33:06,914 --> 01:33:09,405 I told him what I found out. 1333 01:33:09,617 --> 01:33:11,244 He prayed that he would be forgiven... 1334 01:33:11,452 --> 01:33:13,750 ...for having been there as the murder was concealed. 1335 01:33:13,955 --> 01:33:15,650 Miss O'Connor... 1336 01:33:15,957 --> 01:33:19,916 ...I have a tape recording of the night Miss O'Flaherty was killed. 1337 01:33:20,561 --> 01:33:23,724 She had brought a machine. 1338 01:33:25,866 --> 01:33:27,857 - For the interview. - Yes. 1339 01:33:28,069 --> 01:33:31,163 I found it as I was getting rid of her things. 1340 01:33:32,907 --> 01:33:35,569 She kept it on? 1341 01:33:37,378 --> 01:33:40,370 Could you use this tape for your book? 1342 01:33:44,552 --> 01:33:46,179 Of course. 1343 01:33:46,821 --> 01:33:48,482 Miss O'Connor... 1344 01:33:49,423 --> 01:33:51,254 ...is it something...? 1345 01:33:52,560 --> 01:33:53,959 Oh, my. 1346 01:33:54,161 --> 01:33:56,186 Is it something I could sell? 1347 01:33:57,231 --> 01:34:00,325 Reuben, I can't speak on behalf of my publishers... 1348 01:34:00,534 --> 01:34:03,094 ...but I'm sure that we can settle on a price. 1349 01:34:03,304 --> 01:34:05,670 Oh, thank you, Miss O'Connor. 1350 01:34:09,443 --> 01:34:12,003 I'll even spice it up a little, talk about how... 1351 01:34:12,213 --> 01:34:15,239 ...the night before the telethon, I wanted to sleep like a babe. 1352 01:34:15,449 --> 01:34:18,179 So to cover my bets, I kept a few babes on hand. 1353 01:34:18,753 --> 01:34:20,584 Well, not exactly on my hand. 1354 01:34:20,788 --> 01:34:24,087 That's not my preference, as you may have gathered by now. 1355 01:34:26,227 --> 01:34:27,956 I need the money. 1356 01:34:29,864 --> 01:34:32,560 Did you have a figure in mind? 1357 01:34:34,669 --> 01:34:37,797 Would you think a million dollars would be too much? 1358 01:34:38,739 --> 01:34:42,607 Vince was being paid a million dollars for his life. 1359 01:34:42,810 --> 01:34:44,107 This is one night. 1360 01:34:45,079 --> 01:34:47,104 The most important night. 1361 01:34:48,549 --> 01:34:50,540 You could have left me a note or called me. 1362 01:34:50,751 --> 01:34:53,447 - I did leave you a note. - Where? 1363 01:35:03,197 --> 01:35:05,461 Lanny left this for me at my apartment. 1364 01:35:06,567 --> 01:35:09,229 It's his version of what happened that night. 1365 01:35:10,571 --> 01:35:14,302 On its own, it's absolutely useless to me. 1366 01:35:14,508 --> 01:35:16,874 I could have typed it myself. 1367 01:35:20,281 --> 01:35:24,809 But if it matched what's recorded on your tape... 1368 01:35:27,621 --> 01:35:29,350 ...it would make it priceless. 1369 01:35:34,295 --> 01:35:36,195 Which is why you sent it to me. 1370 01:35:39,133 --> 01:35:42,261 You just said Mr. Morris left it at your apartment. 1371 01:35:42,470 --> 01:35:44,904 He was surprised I had it. 1372 01:35:47,074 --> 01:35:50,601 Like he was surprised I hadn't found the note he left for me at the hotel. 1373 01:35:50,811 --> 01:35:53,541 The note you must've disposed of as you were tidying the room. 1374 01:35:53,748 --> 01:35:55,875 I told you how he deals with women. I was afraid. 1375 01:35:56,083 --> 01:35:57,846 Really afraid of what he might do to you. 1376 01:35:58,052 --> 01:36:00,179 Maybe you were afraid of what I'd... 1377 01:36:00,387 --> 01:36:02,878 I'd do to him. And to you. 1378 01:36:03,090 --> 01:36:06,992 Why would I be afraid of a schoolteacher called Bonnie Trout? 1379 01:36:07,194 --> 01:36:09,754 Because you knew I was Karen O'Connor. 1380 01:36:09,964 --> 01:36:12,694 When I woke up, you folded my clothes... 1381 01:36:12,900 --> 01:36:14,800 ...and placed my pocketbook on the bed. 1382 01:36:15,002 --> 01:36:18,995 The pocketbook that had my name and the letter from my publisher. 1383 01:36:20,708 --> 01:36:24,007 I was writing about the one thing you wanted to have total control over: 1384 01:36:24,211 --> 01:36:26,202 Collins and Morris. 1385 01:36:27,715 --> 01:36:31,811 You made me abandon any thought of trying to contact Lanny. 1386 01:36:32,419 --> 01:36:34,819 You made me feel like I was less than nothing to him... 1387 01:36:35,022 --> 01:36:37,183 ...because you were playing your own complex game. 1388 01:36:37,391 --> 01:36:43,091 And what exactly was this complex game I was playing, Miss O'Connor? 1389 01:37:01,715 --> 01:37:03,376 You were in the room. 1390 01:37:04,718 --> 01:37:06,447 That night. 1391 01:37:07,188 --> 01:37:09,884 Lanny had a robe. He dropped it on the bed. 1392 01:37:10,090 --> 01:37:12,684 After Maureen asked for money... 1393 01:37:12,893 --> 01:37:14,861 ...the wallet was on top. It had been folded. 1394 01:37:15,062 --> 01:37:18,554 Well, I always, always arranged Mr. Morris' things. 1395 01:37:18,766 --> 01:37:22,031 After he went to bed. You were there before. 1396 01:37:22,236 --> 01:37:25,433 How would I get out? All three doors were chain-locked. 1397 01:37:43,757 --> 01:37:45,952 Through Vince's room. 1398 01:37:47,394 --> 01:37:48,952 Then, the next morning... 1399 01:37:49,163 --> 01:37:52,462 ...you must have chain-locked the door before you went to wake him up. 1400 01:37:56,570 --> 01:37:58,697 Fuck! 1401 01:38:01,775 --> 01:38:04,175 Lanny let me read the first chapter. 1402 01:38:04,378 --> 01:38:06,710 Vince sent me the second. 1403 01:38:09,316 --> 01:38:11,181 And you stole this. 1404 01:38:11,385 --> 01:38:12,784 To whet my appetite. 1405 01:38:37,311 --> 01:38:39,040 I wanna write. 1406 01:38:39,246 --> 01:38:41,146 I wanna be a journalist. 1407 01:38:41,782 --> 01:38:44,842 So I could either use this information... 1408 01:38:45,686 --> 01:38:47,677 ...or I could use a lot of money. 1409 01:38:47,888 --> 01:38:50,254 Is that why you killed her? 1410 01:38:51,525 --> 01:38:52,787 To protect them? 1411 01:39:00,134 --> 01:39:04,002 For 15 years... 1412 01:39:04,204 --> 01:39:07,264 ...he tormented Vince and Lanny. 1413 01:39:10,844 --> 01:39:14,541 He could never blackmail Vince while Sally Sanmarco was alive... 1414 01:39:15,449 --> 01:39:19,818 ...so he waited until Sally died to activate his retirement plan; 1415 01:39:22,423 --> 01:39:25,483 A million dollars from Vince. 1416 01:39:26,260 --> 01:39:30,594 A million dollars for the same tape he offered to me. 1417 01:39:35,502 --> 01:39:39,370 He would never get his money, and I would never see him again. 1418 01:39:45,412 --> 01:39:48,040 He had taken her life... 1419 01:39:48,248 --> 01:39:51,012 ...and with it her mother's heart... 1420 01:39:51,685 --> 01:39:53,983 ...and her father's mind. 1421 01:39:55,622 --> 01:39:57,112 And now... 1422 01:39:57,324 --> 01:40:00,555 ...all that remained of Maureen O'Flaherty... 1423 01:40:00,761 --> 01:40:04,788 ...was a tree in her mother's garden. 1424 01:40:19,546 --> 01:40:22,777 Your daughter learned something about Vince Collins... 1425 01:40:22,983 --> 01:40:25,611 ...that he didn't want anyone to know. 1426 01:40:25,886 --> 01:40:27,581 Because of that... 1427 01:40:27,788 --> 01:40:29,346 ...she was killed. 1428 01:40:29,556 --> 01:40:32,719 If it's of any small comfort, she probably didn't suffer. 1429 01:40:33,327 --> 01:40:36,922 I want people to know about this man. 1430 01:40:37,531 --> 01:40:40,329 I want them to know why he killed her. 1431 01:40:45,672 --> 01:40:47,833 There is someone in all this... 1432 01:40:48,042 --> 01:40:50,135 ...who is totally innocent of any involvement... 1433 01:40:50,344 --> 01:40:52,244 ...in the events of that night... 1434 01:40:52,446 --> 01:40:57,281 ...but whose life will be made infinitely worse if I tell the truth at this time. 1435 01:40:58,318 --> 01:41:01,845 I wanna protect this person from any further pain. 1436 01:41:04,892 --> 01:41:06,860 I promise you... 1437 01:41:07,428 --> 01:41:10,920 I promise you I will write down the truth that I've learned... 1438 01:41:11,131 --> 01:41:14,123 ...but I have to let matters lie until this person has died... 1439 01:41:14,334 --> 01:41:16,529 ...and the truth can no longer touch them. 1440 01:41:21,742 --> 01:41:24,836 I saw no indication on her face... 1441 01:41:25,045 --> 01:41:27,605 ...that she knew I was talking about her. 1442 01:42:01,381 --> 01:42:03,975 You're a very special girl. 1443 01:42:12,126 --> 01:42:14,594 Forgive me.