0 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Support dengan like & share :) 1 00:00:35,921 --> 00:00:39,288 Live, until they drop dead... 2 00:00:40,192 --> 00:00:41,887 ... from the beautiful Carlou Theater... 3 00:00:42,094 --> 00:00:44,324 ... in the heart of sunny Miami Beach, Florida... 4 00:00:44,530 --> 00:00:47,465 ... it's the Veterans Day Polio Telethon! 5 00:00:47,666 --> 00:00:50,191 And now, please welcome your hosts... 6 00:00:50,402 --> 00:00:53,565 ... the beautiful, the talented, Lanny Morris... 7 00:00:53,773 --> 00:00:56,708 ... and Vince Collins! 8 00:01:16,061 --> 00:01:18,029 Do you realize we have to present ourselves... 9 00:01:18,230 --> 00:01:20,790 ...in front of these lovely people for the next three days? 10 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,298 Hello, lovely people for the next three days. 11 00:01:23,502 --> 00:01:25,367 - Look at you. You're a disgrace. - What? 12 00:01:25,571 --> 00:01:29,200 Look, your hair's a mess, your shoes aren't shined, your shirt's not pressed. 13 00:01:29,408 --> 00:01:33,435 - Look at your tie. It's not even straight. - Look at yours. It doesn't even clip on. 14 00:01:35,781 --> 00:01:37,112 Now... 15 00:01:37,483 --> 00:01:39,041 ...I�m upset. 16 00:01:39,885 --> 00:01:41,944 You know what happens when I get upset. 17 00:01:42,154 --> 00:01:44,748 No, no, no. Please. Please don't hurt me, Vince. 18 00:01:44,957 --> 00:01:48,154 I've had a terrible day already. All sorts of bad things have happened. 19 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:49,588 I don't wanna be hurt again. 20 00:01:49,795 --> 00:01:52,320 - You've been hurt already, have you? - Been hurt real bad. 21 00:01:52,531 --> 00:01:53,725 And what happened, pray tell? 22 00:01:53,933 --> 00:01:56,766 - Want me to pray or want me to tell? - I think you better pray. 23 00:01:57,102 --> 00:01:59,662 - I saw this stranger - I don't know whether you're... 24 00:01:59,872 --> 00:02:02,067 ...singing or speaking. - Leave my pad 25 00:02:02,274 --> 00:02:05,801 - One thing I do know... - And I said, "Baby... 26 00:02:06,011 --> 00:02:09,037 - ... what explanation do you have?" - There's always a woman involved. 27 00:02:09,248 --> 00:02:11,614 And she said: 28 00:02:11,817 --> 00:02:13,614 - Next time? - Next time 29 00:02:13,819 --> 00:02:16,083 And I said, "There will be No next time" 30 00:02:16,288 --> 00:02:19,382 That's what you said last time, Lanny, and the time before that. 31 00:02:20,860 --> 00:02:24,853 You have to make sure there's no first time, then there can't be a next time. 32 00:02:25,631 --> 00:02:27,462 Or a last time. 33 00:02:27,666 --> 00:02:31,397 - That was the last time for me - Let's hope so, Lanny. 34 00:02:31,604 --> 00:02:33,469 Lanny Morris, ladies and gentlemen. 35 00:03:41,473 --> 00:03:44,408 My manager sent me over some of your work. 36 00:03:45,010 --> 00:03:47,911 It's funny how you're really in them a lot. 37 00:03:48,380 --> 00:03:50,905 Whenever I read these interviews where the writer says: 38 00:03:51,116 --> 00:03:54,108 "This is how I felt the morning I woke up to meet the pope"... 39 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,118 ..."how I felt when the pope greeted me, how he reminded me... 40 00:03:57,323 --> 00:03:58,722 ...so much of my friend Mike"... 41 00:03:58,924 --> 00:04:01,586 ...I always think, "Who the fuck is Mike?" 42 00:04:03,429 --> 00:04:05,056 So who are you? 43 00:04:06,398 --> 00:04:08,127 I was a young journalist... 44 00:04:08,334 --> 00:04:09,767 ... with a few awards... 45 00:04:10,536 --> 00:04:13,096 ... a couple of cover stories... 46 00:04:13,305 --> 00:04:16,274 ... and a desperate need to prove myself. 47 00:04:18,510 --> 00:04:21,445 If you look through my work, you'll see I try to present... 48 00:04:21,647 --> 00:04:24,411 ...a balanced view of my subjects. 49 00:04:24,616 --> 00:04:26,550 I leave the conclusions to the reader. 50 00:04:26,752 --> 00:04:28,049 I'm not sure we like balance. 51 00:04:28,253 --> 00:04:30,050 Or leaving the conclusions to the reader. 52 00:04:30,255 --> 00:04:32,120 I'm used to being publicized, not analyzed. 53 00:04:32,324 --> 00:04:33,757 It would be your words. 54 00:04:33,959 --> 00:04:36,291 We'd publish it as a transcript: 55 00:04:36,495 --> 00:04:39,089 My questions, your answers. 56 00:04:39,965 --> 00:04:42,957 If you say it, I can use it. 57 00:04:43,168 --> 00:04:44,499 If you don't, I can't. 58 00:04:44,703 --> 00:04:46,603 And they're gonna pay me a million for this? 59 00:04:46,805 --> 00:04:49,171 An excerpt will be published in a magazine as a way... 60 00:04:49,375 --> 00:04:52,742 ...of amortizing the investment they'll be making in the book. 61 00:04:53,479 --> 00:04:55,640 They're looking for some... 62 00:04:56,949 --> 00:04:59,782 ...provocative stories for the first issue. 63 00:04:59,985 --> 00:05:04,251 Any thoughts on what these provocative stories might be about? 64 00:05:05,357 --> 00:05:08,952 The breakup. Why Lanny and you split. 65 00:05:13,132 --> 00:05:15,157 And the girl. 66 00:05:15,567 --> 00:05:17,194 Maureen. 67 00:05:18,937 --> 00:05:21,701 What happened to Maureen O'Flaherty. 68 00:05:23,575 --> 00:05:26,373 No one had ever been able to pin Lanny Morris... 69 00:05:26,578 --> 00:05:29,979 ... or Vince Collins to the girl's death. 70 00:05:30,182 --> 00:05:31,877 All that was clear... 71 00:05:32,084 --> 00:05:35,713 ... was that Maureen was found dead in their hotel suite. 72 00:05:37,022 --> 00:05:39,855 It was unthinkable to me that Lanny and Vince... 73 00:05:40,059 --> 00:05:42,926 ... could have had anything to do with it. 74 00:05:43,128 --> 00:05:45,062 They were my heroes. 75 00:05:45,364 --> 00:05:48,697 "The reason I consider myself to be a miracle girl... 76 00:05:48,901 --> 00:05:50,732 ...is because I had the good fortune... 77 00:05:50,936 --> 00:05:53,530 ...to meet Lanny and Vince when I was sick. 78 00:05:54,206 --> 00:05:57,403 Their love of life is what gave me hope... 79 00:05:57,609 --> 00:06:01,101 ...and it's hope that gives us the power to live." 80 00:06:02,014 --> 00:06:03,948 Thank you, Lanny. 81 00:06:04,149 --> 00:06:06,083 Thank you, Vince. 82 00:06:21,333 --> 00:06:23,665 Come on, let's hear it for her. 83 00:06:23,869 --> 00:06:27,202 Denise handled publicity for the polio foundation. 84 00:06:27,406 --> 00:06:30,773 And it was her idea to plug the girl's story on the telethon. 85 00:06:30,976 --> 00:06:36,004 The day before, it was my idea to plug Denise at the Miami Versailles Hotel. 86 00:06:39,284 --> 00:06:41,514 Don't stop! Don't stop! 87 00:06:44,156 --> 00:06:45,885 Don't stop! 88 00:06:49,370 --> 00:06:51,895 You can tell a lot about a woman by the way she acts... 89 00:06:52,106 --> 00:06:54,700 ... when you're having sex and room service comes in. 90 00:06:54,909 --> 00:06:56,968 Some girls will sit up and light a cigarette... 91 00:06:57,177 --> 00:07:01,045 ... like there's nothing funny in the world about her being naked. 92 00:07:01,248 --> 00:07:03,580 "It's obvious we were in the process of screwing... 93 00:07:03,784 --> 00:07:05,718 ... so why not let a stranger into the room?" 94 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:07,182 Come on in. 95 00:07:07,388 --> 00:07:09,856 Then there's the kind that will pull the sheets up... 96 00:07:10,057 --> 00:07:11,615 ... and act like they're asleep. 97 00:07:11,825 --> 00:07:13,816 Where would you like it, sir? 98 00:07:14,028 --> 00:07:15,791 Sweetheart, wherever you'd like it. 99 00:07:15,996 --> 00:07:18,624 Then, of course, there's the ones who scrunch real flat... 100 00:07:18,832 --> 00:07:21,733 ... thinking that the bed will look empty. 101 00:07:21,936 --> 00:07:25,497 With Denise, it was kind of hard to tell which way she'd go. 102 00:07:33,847 --> 00:07:36,008 Can I have your autograph, Mr. Morris? 103 00:07:36,550 --> 00:07:37,881 Sure. 104 00:07:38,085 --> 00:07:41,111 Should I make it out to Maureen? 105 00:07:44,425 --> 00:07:46,484 I mean, your autograph on the bill. 106 00:07:50,264 --> 00:07:51,629 Okay. 107 00:07:52,366 --> 00:07:54,596 I mean, I'd love to have your autograph. 108 00:07:55,703 --> 00:07:58,433 And maybe a few minutes of your time. 109 00:07:59,206 --> 00:08:01,470 I'm a huge fan and... 110 00:08:01,875 --> 00:08:04,901 ...well, I was thinking about... 111 00:08:05,112 --> 00:08:08,172 ...writing an article on you for my campus paper. 112 00:08:08,382 --> 00:08:09,815 I'm the editor. 113 00:08:10,017 --> 00:08:13,214 Any interview requests go through me, honey. 114 00:08:16,690 --> 00:08:19,352 You know, it's just a college paper. 115 00:08:31,038 --> 00:08:32,562 Thank you. 116 00:08:33,073 --> 00:08:35,064 No, thank you. 117 00:08:36,644 --> 00:08:37,838 Thank you, Maureen. 118 00:08:38,045 --> 00:08:40,775 I say goodbye to Maureen, knowing I'd see her again... 119 00:08:40,981 --> 00:08:43,245 ... close the door and then turn to look at Denise... 120 00:08:43,450 --> 00:08:47,409 ... thinking, "I know this girl from every college town we have ever played. " 121 00:08:47,621 --> 00:08:49,020 They're called career girls. 122 00:08:49,223 --> 00:08:51,487 The absolute easiest lays... 123 00:08:51,692 --> 00:08:54,456 ... in this great nation of ours. 124 00:08:57,998 --> 00:09:00,489 Since you're reading this, you'd be interested to know... 125 00:09:00,701 --> 00:09:02,965 ... that my favorite catches were the intellectuals. 126 00:09:03,170 --> 00:09:07,300 They'd be the ones in the straight black dresses, severe black hair. 127 00:09:07,508 --> 00:09:11,740 Your basic neurotic, eyeglasses, cool jazz, liberal... 128 00:09:11,945 --> 00:09:14,607 ..."I'll fuck any black guy as part of my personal apology... 129 00:09:14,815 --> 00:09:17,079 ... for racism in America" type. 130 00:09:18,552 --> 00:09:21,680 Anyhow, on this particular night, we're in a club in New Jersey... 131 00:09:21,889 --> 00:09:25,416 ... it's the '50s, and I'm mingling with the crowd. 132 00:09:25,926 --> 00:09:27,951 Now, when I say "mingling," what I mean is... 133 00:09:28,162 --> 00:09:30,187 ... I was scouting for who I would sleep with. 134 00:09:30,397 --> 00:09:32,490 Didn't matter if the girls came with dates. 135 00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:35,965 That was Reuben's job. Reuben is my valet. 136 00:09:36,170 --> 00:09:38,968 I never figured out how he helped them get rid of their dates... 137 00:09:39,173 --> 00:09:41,539 ... but they were always gone by the second show. 138 00:09:41,742 --> 00:09:43,835 Reuben could clean up any situation. 139 00:09:44,044 --> 00:09:45,944 Excuse me, miss. May I say that I think... 140 00:09:46,146 --> 00:09:49,309 ...you have the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. 141 00:09:49,516 --> 00:09:52,974 Notice I say, "I think you've got the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen." 142 00:09:53,187 --> 00:09:55,849 I haven't seen them yet. I've been staring at your cans. 143 00:09:56,056 --> 00:09:57,318 Now, Lanny. 144 00:09:57,858 --> 00:10:01,294 - I can't believe he just said that. - That is completely unacceptable. 145 00:10:01,495 --> 00:10:03,929 Madam, I apologize. I apologize, ladies and gentlemen... 146 00:10:04,131 --> 00:10:06,861 ...for my friend. You cannot speak that way to a stranger. 147 00:10:07,334 --> 00:10:09,393 Look, her husband's not offended. 148 00:10:09,603 --> 00:10:11,537 - He's not? - No, her husband's not offended. 149 00:10:11,739 --> 00:10:14,264 Her husband's not here. This lucky guy is her boyfriend. 150 00:10:14,475 --> 00:10:16,875 And even he's not offended, and do you know why? 151 00:10:17,077 --> 00:10:18,908 Well, I can certainly hazard a guess. 152 00:10:19,113 --> 00:10:21,980 What the hell is that? For chrissake, Vince, this is America. 153 00:10:22,182 --> 00:10:25,743 We don't say, "hazard a guess." We say "yes" or we say "no." 154 00:10:25,953 --> 00:10:27,614 Well, I say "no" to you, Morris. 155 00:10:27,821 --> 00:10:29,311 Excuse me? Could you repeat that? 156 00:10:29,523 --> 00:10:31,753 I don't think the entire audience heard you. 157 00:10:31,959 --> 00:10:34,427 Go back to where you came from, bastard! 158 00:10:34,628 --> 00:10:37,461 I get hecklers all the time, but this schmuck came off personal. 159 00:10:37,664 --> 00:10:38,995 Where did he think I came from? 160 00:10:39,199 --> 00:10:41,326 Bastard! Bastard! He called me a bastard. 161 00:10:41,535 --> 00:10:43,435 Now, it doesn't show from the front, Lanny. 162 00:10:43,637 --> 00:10:47,164 Now, please, would you kindly not mount me? It's very disagreeable. 163 00:10:47,374 --> 00:10:49,638 Vince plunges straight into quoting lines I wrote... 164 00:10:49,843 --> 00:10:51,834 ... from a song from our first motion picture. 165 00:10:52,045 --> 00:10:54,946 I happen to be honored to work with this jerk 166 00:10:55,149 --> 00:10:56,116 Is that a compliment? 167 00:10:56,316 --> 00:10:57,874 I never frown with this clown 168 00:10:58,085 --> 00:10:59,052 Never, never, never. 169 00:10:59,253 --> 00:11:00,515 I get a kick from this... 170 00:11:03,157 --> 00:11:04,749 ... friend of mine 171 00:11:04,958 --> 00:11:08,416 Fine, but don't give the mike to this kike. 172 00:11:12,299 --> 00:11:14,961 - Well... - Just relax. 173 00:11:15,536 --> 00:11:19,267 It's not often we get topped by a member of our audience, but... 174 00:11:19,473 --> 00:11:21,304 ...this gentleman has done the impossible. 175 00:11:21,508 --> 00:11:23,237 What is your name? 176 00:11:23,877 --> 00:11:25,868 - It's Joe. - Joe... 177 00:11:26,079 --> 00:11:29,310 ...we were just wondering if you'd be a great sport... 178 00:11:29,516 --> 00:11:31,780 ...and help us out on stage. What do you say, folks? 179 00:11:35,422 --> 00:11:36,616 Go on. 180 00:11:36,824 --> 00:11:39,884 Joe here is going to play a crazy high school professor... 181 00:11:40,093 --> 00:11:44,496 ...who's about to give Lanny and I our final high school exam. 182 00:11:44,698 --> 00:11:48,566 So if you'll just excuse us while we help Joe change into his... 183 00:11:48,769 --> 00:11:50,031 ...crazy-professor outfit. 184 00:11:50,237 --> 00:11:52,330 Lanny, a little costume-changing music... 185 00:11:52,539 --> 00:11:54,473 ...if you please. 186 00:12:05,452 --> 00:12:07,147 Step this way. 187 00:12:07,988 --> 00:12:09,353 I'll have a word with him... 188 00:12:09,556 --> 00:12:11,353 ...about the way he spoke to your wife. 189 00:12:11,558 --> 00:12:13,116 Completely unnecessary. 190 00:12:13,327 --> 00:12:14,988 Just this way. 191 00:12:31,945 --> 00:12:35,244 You call any Jew on this planet anything you like. 192 00:12:35,449 --> 00:12:40,113 But nobody calls my partner a kike. Do you understand? 193 00:12:57,104 --> 00:12:59,470 Boffing ladies and bashing gentlemen. 194 00:12:59,673 --> 00:13:02,267 I tell you, there was nothing under the sun... 195 00:13:02,476 --> 00:13:05,206 ... Vince and I wouldn't do for each other. 196 00:13:05,646 --> 00:13:07,307 Are you finished? 197 00:13:18,358 --> 00:13:20,258 Thank you, Mamie. 198 00:13:22,062 --> 00:13:24,394 I'm sorry about that, Miss O'Connor. 199 00:13:24,598 --> 00:13:27,795 We just needed to be sure you didn't take any notes. 200 00:13:28,001 --> 00:13:31,129 Lanny gave me very specific instructions on that point. 201 00:13:31,338 --> 00:13:34,739 I don't understand why he'd want me to read this. 202 00:13:35,475 --> 00:13:37,841 Why would he ever want anyone to see this side of him? 203 00:13:38,045 --> 00:13:40,707 When you contacted us about meeting Lanny for your book... 204 00:13:40,914 --> 00:13:44,714 ...it wasn't simply about letting you know he didn't want to speak with you. 205 00:13:45,252 --> 00:13:48,380 I believe my client wanted you to understand that he, in fact... 206 00:13:48,589 --> 00:13:51,057 ...was completing a book of his own which would serve... 207 00:13:51,258 --> 00:13:53,123 ...not only as his autobiography... 208 00:13:53,327 --> 00:13:57,263 ...but also as the definitive account of the joint careers of Morris and Collins. 209 00:13:57,464 --> 00:14:01,400 You've had, at first hand, a sample of Lanny's writing voice. 210 00:14:02,369 --> 00:14:03,768 Yes, I have. 211 00:14:03,971 --> 00:14:05,734 Such a book, Miss O'Connor... 212 00:14:05,939 --> 00:14:08,430 ...this raw, this honest... 213 00:14:08,642 --> 00:14:10,769 ...would make your own efforts look... 214 00:14:10,978 --> 00:14:12,343 There's been some very nice... 215 00:14:12,546 --> 00:14:15,037 ...translations of the Bible over the centuries... 216 00:14:15,248 --> 00:14:18,149 ...but they would run a very poor second in popularity... 217 00:14:18,352 --> 00:14:22,118 ...to the discovery of the actual Ten Commandments. 218 00:14:23,056 --> 00:14:25,786 Single best part about teaching grade two is the difference... 219 00:14:25,993 --> 00:14:28,757 ...between the bright ones and the dumb ones isn't so obvious. 220 00:14:28,962 --> 00:14:31,362 - What's so great about that? - The results of my work... 221 00:14:31,565 --> 00:14:33,123 ...as a teacher aren't so depressing. 222 00:14:33,333 --> 00:14:36,996 Also, there's no homework to correct in the evenings and... 223 00:14:37,204 --> 00:14:39,764 ...well, none of the kids know how to use drugs. 224 00:14:46,146 --> 00:14:48,979 Bonnie had come from New York to visit me that summer. 225 00:14:49,182 --> 00:14:51,742 We'd been best friends since kindergarten. 226 00:14:52,386 --> 00:14:54,854 At school we started the Lanny and Vince Fan Club... 227 00:14:55,055 --> 00:14:59,287 ... raising almost $200 for that year's telethon. 228 00:14:59,493 --> 00:15:01,358 All of you send in a bit of your allowance. 229 00:15:01,561 --> 00:15:04,689 Just a little bit. A dime, a nickel, a penny. 230 00:15:04,898 --> 00:15:07,423 Every bit helps. 231 00:15:08,335 --> 00:15:10,496 The goal of the telethon that year... 232 00:15:10,704 --> 00:15:15,004 ... was $3.9 million, which was a lot of dough at that time. 233 00:15:15,208 --> 00:15:18,974 Thank you, Tom. You're a prince among men. 234 00:15:19,179 --> 00:15:21,670 Whoa, Lanny. There are children watching! 235 00:15:21,882 --> 00:15:23,372 Where does he get his energy? 236 00:15:23,884 --> 00:15:25,351 To remind viewers of the goal... 237 00:15:25,552 --> 00:15:29,648 ... we agreed the telethon could run 39 hours nonstop. 238 00:15:30,724 --> 00:15:34,820 The show would begin at 9 p.m. On Friday and finish at noon on Sunday. 239 00:15:35,028 --> 00:15:37,360 We paced it so that Vince and I were together... 240 00:15:37,564 --> 00:15:39,657 ... for the kickoff, most of the day Saturday... 241 00:15:39,866 --> 00:15:43,358 ... then the big finale on Sunday with us bleary-eyed... 242 00:15:43,570 --> 00:15:46,505 ... and weeping as America got ready to go to church. 243 00:15:46,706 --> 00:15:50,073 Lanny, Lanny. What are you doing? 244 00:15:50,277 --> 00:15:52,643 I'm ordering a pizza. I'm starving. 245 00:15:52,846 --> 00:15:56,577 No anchovies on mine, Lanny. Hey, so who are you talking to? 246 00:15:56,783 --> 00:15:59,946 I'm talking to little Suzie from Whittier, California... 247 00:16:00,153 --> 00:16:03,645 ...and she is going to donate three weeks of allowance. 248 00:16:03,857 --> 00:16:07,020 - How about that, folks? - Suzie from Whittier, thank you. 249 00:16:07,227 --> 00:16:08,717 Three weeks of allowance. 250 00:16:08,929 --> 00:16:10,328 That's a challenge for all you... 251 00:16:10,530 --> 00:16:12,760 What you have to understand is that Vince and me... 252 00:16:12,966 --> 00:16:15,127 ... were essentially a boy-girl act. 253 00:16:15,335 --> 00:16:17,895 I was the tramp, ready for any sort of action... 254 00:16:18,138 --> 00:16:19,696 ... and Vince was the gentleman... 255 00:16:19,906 --> 00:16:22,033 ... always trying to make me behave myself. 256 00:16:22,242 --> 00:16:24,733 I was pleasure, and he was control. 257 00:16:25,078 --> 00:16:28,138 I was rock 'n' roll, and he was class. 258 00:16:28,348 --> 00:16:32,682 His presence gave America permission to like me. 259 00:16:35,122 --> 00:16:38,148 My deal with the publisher gave me first-class travel... 260 00:16:38,358 --> 00:16:39,882 ... a luxury I'd never enjoyed. 261 00:16:40,093 --> 00:16:42,493 Is there any chance of switching to a window seat? 262 00:16:42,696 --> 00:16:44,960 Sorry, we're completely booked in first. 263 00:16:45,165 --> 00:16:48,134 But these center seats are really wonderful. See... 264 00:16:48,335 --> 00:16:50,462 ...if you push here... Can I show you? 265 00:16:50,670 --> 00:16:52,399 Sure. 266 00:16:54,107 --> 00:16:56,735 The chair swivels to the left and the right. 267 00:16:56,943 --> 00:16:59,241 And this converts to a full-sized dining table... 268 00:16:59,446 --> 00:17:01,209 ...during our Pan Am platinum service... 269 00:17:01,414 --> 00:17:03,974 ...with damask linen and silverware by Fornari... 270 00:17:04,184 --> 00:17:06,414 ...so you don't have to eat off a tray. 271 00:17:06,620 --> 00:17:09,282 Again, that's only for these center seats. 272 00:17:10,257 --> 00:17:11,554 How does that sound? 273 00:17:11,925 --> 00:17:14,553 At that time, when you traveled first class... 274 00:17:14,761 --> 00:17:18,857 ... people would always ask you if you met someone famous on the flight. 275 00:17:19,065 --> 00:17:20,999 - Mr. Morris. - Thank you. 276 00:17:21,201 --> 00:17:22,361 You're welcome. 277 00:17:31,945 --> 00:17:36,279 Though he would later accuse me of engineering this, I didn't. 278 00:17:36,483 --> 00:17:37,848 It just... 279 00:17:38,051 --> 00:17:39,746 ... happened. 280 00:17:46,059 --> 00:17:49,119 Reuben. So they... They record these songs... 281 00:17:49,329 --> 00:17:51,058 ...in a studio that I am paying for. 282 00:17:51,264 --> 00:17:53,095 Songs that are recorded for me... 283 00:17:53,300 --> 00:17:54,995 ...that they are contracted to provide. 284 00:17:55,202 --> 00:17:57,170 - Are you with me here? - Yes, it's just that... 285 00:17:57,370 --> 00:18:00,567 No, it's just that nothing, Irv. Please, let me finish. They record... 286 00:18:00,774 --> 00:18:04,210 I read an interview where Lanny was given credit for insisting his butler... 287 00:18:04,411 --> 00:18:08,279 ... travel in the same class and stay at the same hotels as his boss. 288 00:18:08,882 --> 00:18:12,283 The valet's attentiveness was impressive. 289 00:18:13,253 --> 00:18:16,586 Looks like you'll be having dinner with Lanny Morris. 290 00:18:19,659 --> 00:18:22,389 - Hello. - Hi. 291 00:18:32,706 --> 00:18:35,504 We should get a waiter to slide a matchbook under the airplane. 292 00:18:36,676 --> 00:18:38,234 There we go. 293 00:18:38,445 --> 00:18:40,140 That should hold. 294 00:18:41,681 --> 00:18:42,875 This is my friend Reuben. 295 00:18:43,083 --> 00:18:44,311 - Hi. - Hi. 296 00:18:44,517 --> 00:18:47,077 And this is also my friend, technically speaking... 297 00:18:47,287 --> 00:18:49,255 ...and business manager, Irv. - Hi. 298 00:18:51,458 --> 00:18:52,755 My name is Lanny. 299 00:18:57,497 --> 00:18:59,055 And what's your name? 300 00:19:00,533 --> 00:19:02,694 Bonnie. Bonnie Trout. 301 00:19:02,903 --> 00:19:04,234 What do you do, Bonnie? 302 00:19:04,537 --> 00:19:06,004 I teach. 303 00:19:06,206 --> 00:19:07,833 And what do you teach? 304 00:19:08,041 --> 00:19:10,271 - Second grade. - Well, we have a lot in common. 305 00:19:10,477 --> 00:19:12,968 You teach second grade, I went to second grade. 306 00:19:13,179 --> 00:19:16,342 - Irv, you went to second grade too? - Many times. 307 00:19:16,549 --> 00:19:18,016 Tell me, Miss Trout... 308 00:19:18,218 --> 00:19:19,651 I don't mean to be impolite... 309 00:19:19,853 --> 00:19:21,411 ...but I was wondering... 310 00:19:21,621 --> 00:19:25,182 ...how a second-grade schoolteacher affords to fly first class. 311 00:19:27,327 --> 00:19:29,522 Well, I have a pass... 312 00:19:29,729 --> 00:19:33,187 ...that allows me free use of the subway on weekends... 313 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,563 ...and the hot lunches at school are only 50 cents. 314 00:19:37,971 --> 00:19:40,405 And I'm the mistress... 315 00:19:40,607 --> 00:19:42,074 ...of a wealthy married man... 316 00:19:42,275 --> 00:19:44,903 ...and when he and his wife go on vacation, he treats me... 317 00:19:45,111 --> 00:19:48,274 ...to a first-class trip in the opposite direction. 318 00:19:49,115 --> 00:19:53,552 But look at me, talking only about myself. What do you do for a living? 319 00:19:54,921 --> 00:19:57,412 I'm a French impressionist painter out of Tahiti, mainly. 320 00:19:57,624 --> 00:20:00,058 I'm doing that to pay the bills. My ambition is to be... 321 00:20:00,260 --> 00:20:02,319 ...a stockbroker in Paris. 322 00:20:02,629 --> 00:20:04,256 - I don't get it. - Paul Gauguin. 323 00:20:04,464 --> 00:20:06,432 He gave up being a successful stockbroker... 324 00:20:06,633 --> 00:20:09,067 ...to become a painter in the South Seas. 325 00:20:10,070 --> 00:20:11,935 You think the average person knows that? 326 00:20:12,138 --> 00:20:15,505 Well, we're not talking about the average person, Irv. 327 00:20:18,645 --> 00:20:20,112 In some ways... 328 00:20:20,313 --> 00:20:23,510 ... he had never stopped being a hero to me. 329 00:20:24,351 --> 00:20:28,481 That's why it was impossible to think he might also be a killer. 330 00:20:35,195 --> 00:20:36,753 Well, this has been great. 331 00:20:36,963 --> 00:20:39,090 I'm gonna see you inside your apartment. 332 00:20:39,299 --> 00:20:41,767 - There's really no need. - Don't be silly. 333 00:20:41,968 --> 00:20:43,799 I'm not gonna try to come in. 334 00:20:44,003 --> 00:20:45,527 Promise. 335 00:20:46,306 --> 00:20:48,900 You've been away from your apartment for how long now? 336 00:20:49,109 --> 00:20:50,770 - Ages. - You never know if somebody's... 337 00:20:50,977 --> 00:20:52,569 ...broken in while you were gone. 338 00:20:52,779 --> 00:20:55,441 I'll just see you inside your door. 339 00:20:56,149 --> 00:20:59,016 Believe me, I'm... I'm not trying to seduce you. 340 00:20:59,219 --> 00:21:01,187 I have to do the Today show at 7 a.m. 341 00:21:01,388 --> 00:21:03,788 They want me in Makeup at 6:15. 342 00:21:03,990 --> 00:21:06,254 Bonnie had moved to New York for the teaching job... 343 00:21:06,459 --> 00:21:08,427 ... a little over a year ago. 344 00:21:08,628 --> 00:21:12,655 I had never visited her and had no idea if this was the right place. 345 00:21:13,933 --> 00:21:15,366 Which floor? 346 00:21:15,969 --> 00:21:17,834 Why... 347 00:21:18,972 --> 00:21:20,200 - Four-D. - Forty? 348 00:21:20,740 --> 00:21:22,605 It only goes up to six. 349 00:21:25,111 --> 00:21:26,669 Four-D... 350 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,110 Four-D, the fourth floor. 351 00:21:52,105 --> 00:21:53,436 Which way? 352 00:21:54,441 --> 00:21:56,238 - Guess. - Why? 353 00:21:56,443 --> 00:21:57,705 It's a test. 354 00:21:57,911 --> 00:21:59,435 A test? 355 00:22:01,214 --> 00:22:02,806 Okay. 356 00:22:03,016 --> 00:22:04,415 This way. 357 00:22:08,054 --> 00:22:10,284 So why didn't we take this elevator? 358 00:22:10,490 --> 00:22:12,117 Doesn't work. 359 00:22:15,361 --> 00:22:16,794 Well... 360 00:22:17,664 --> 00:22:19,029 ...good night. 361 00:22:19,232 --> 00:22:21,200 No, I'm going to see you into your apartment. 362 00:22:21,401 --> 00:22:23,926 And then I'm gonna leave you alone until tomorrow. 363 00:22:41,287 --> 00:22:44,051 I never get which key goes in which lock the first time. 364 00:22:46,593 --> 00:22:48,891 Hey, looks like they fixed it. 365 00:23:00,273 --> 00:23:01,740 You okay? 366 00:23:01,941 --> 00:23:04,341 Maybe we should turn on a light. 367 00:23:18,091 --> 00:23:19,422 Well... 368 00:23:20,593 --> 00:23:22,151 I'm going to leave you now. 369 00:23:22,362 --> 00:23:25,695 I have Reuben and Irv waiting in the limousine downstairs... 370 00:23:26,132 --> 00:23:29,101 ...and I should get some sleep for the Today show. 371 00:23:31,337 --> 00:23:32,770 So... 372 00:23:37,544 --> 00:23:39,774 It was lovely to meet you, Bonnie. 373 00:23:59,199 --> 00:24:01,497 By the end of the telethon, we had no voices. 374 00:24:01,701 --> 00:24:05,296 Thirty-nine hours of nonstop entertainment. 375 00:24:05,505 --> 00:24:08,338 A telethon was a superhuman feat. 376 00:24:08,541 --> 00:24:11,999 We weren't just heroes, we were gods. 377 00:24:14,814 --> 00:24:17,612 A couple of the boys were there to make sure we got out alive... 378 00:24:17,817 --> 00:24:20,149 ... to make the flight to New York. 379 00:24:24,023 --> 00:24:26,958 Everyone. Listen. Listen. 380 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,253 Gentlemen. Gentlemen, please. 381 00:24:29,662 --> 00:24:32,688 Gentlemen, if I could just have your attention. 382 00:24:33,066 --> 00:24:34,897 Everyone, Mr. Collins and Mr. Morris... 383 00:24:35,101 --> 00:24:37,365 ...will answer questions at the press conference... 384 00:24:37,570 --> 00:24:39,265 ...at the Palace Del Sol. 385 00:24:39,472 --> 00:24:41,440 Gentlemen, there will be plenty of time... 386 00:24:41,641 --> 00:24:45,099 ...to answer your questions at the Palace Del Sol. 387 00:24:45,311 --> 00:24:48,371 Thank you, we will answer your questions at the press conference. 388 00:24:48,581 --> 00:24:50,549 Thank you for coming. 389 00:24:56,556 --> 00:24:59,548 We had a full police escort, along with bodyguards who were there... 390 00:24:59,759 --> 00:25:02,660 ... to protect us from any thoughts we might have of going AWOI... 391 00:25:02,862 --> 00:25:04,625 ... prior to this press conference. 392 00:25:04,831 --> 00:25:07,959 A pair of New Jersey's finest walked on either side of us... 393 00:25:08,167 --> 00:25:10,727 ... as we entered the lobby of the hotel. 394 00:25:10,937 --> 00:25:13,667 It was an indication of how legitimate the Mob had gone... 395 00:25:13,873 --> 00:25:16,068 ... that they could bring in the local police... 396 00:25:16,276 --> 00:25:18,744 ... to guard the fa�ade of their racket. 397 00:25:19,312 --> 00:25:23,442 The local chief was a man named Jack Scaglia. 398 00:25:23,650 --> 00:25:26,551 And of course, the two gentlemen on my right... 399 00:25:26,753 --> 00:25:30,052 ...who need no introduction, have come here directly... 400 00:25:30,256 --> 00:25:33,919 ...from their record-breaking polio telethon in Miami, Florida. 401 00:25:34,994 --> 00:25:38,452 So the first thing I'd like to announce is that Mr. Sanmarco... 402 00:25:38,931 --> 00:25:40,193 I wish I could tell you... 403 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,960 ... that Sally Sanmarco was a slim, 6-foot-6 guy... 404 00:25:43,169 --> 00:25:46,161 ... who looked like a prince and spoke with an English accent. 405 00:25:46,372 --> 00:25:48,738 Then I wouldn't be falling back on the stereotype. 406 00:25:49,042 --> 00:25:52,603 The trouble was, Sally was straight out of central casting. 407 00:25:53,446 --> 00:25:55,471 A gangster who looked and talked... 408 00:25:55,682 --> 00:25:58,310 ... just like you would expect from the movies. 409 00:25:58,518 --> 00:26:01,112 How did it feel to raise all that money for polio? 410 00:26:01,654 --> 00:26:03,849 It felt great. It felt really great. 411 00:26:04,057 --> 00:26:06,924 From a publicity angle, and in terms of giving him legitimacy... 412 00:26:07,126 --> 00:26:09,356 ... this was a huge coup for Sally. 413 00:26:09,562 --> 00:26:12,030 Like I said, we were gods. 414 00:26:13,333 --> 00:26:16,928 We'd only been in the New York area for an hour or so, during which time... 415 00:26:17,136 --> 00:26:19,900 ... we were constantly watched by police and reporters... 416 00:26:20,106 --> 00:26:22,836 ... which ended up being a good thing for us. 417 00:26:23,042 --> 00:26:25,476 We got you our best bridal suite. 418 00:26:25,978 --> 00:26:27,969 Fucking nice, huh? 419 00:26:29,115 --> 00:26:31,811 People talk about having fancy apartments and hotel rooms... 420 00:26:32,018 --> 00:26:34,111 ...on the West Side of Manhattan. What do they see? 421 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,483 Fucking New Jersey. Here, you see New York City. 422 00:26:44,731 --> 00:26:47,165 Unfortunately, Vince and I were acquainted... 423 00:26:47,366 --> 00:26:51,666 ... with the dead girl in the bathroom of our hotel suite in New Jersey. 424 00:26:52,205 --> 00:26:55,436 Her last name was O'Flaherty. 425 00:26:55,875 --> 00:26:59,003 Her first name was Maureen. 426 00:26:59,245 --> 00:27:02,908 Karen, we decided to trade apartments, not identities. 427 00:27:03,116 --> 00:27:04,640 Why didn't you make up a name? 428 00:27:04,851 --> 00:27:07,376 Bonnie, I was looking at a five-hour flight. 429 00:27:07,587 --> 00:27:10,715 I didn't wanna make up a life story that wasn't attached to anything. 430 00:27:10,923 --> 00:27:14,415 Well, I returned the offense. I got to pretend I was you. 431 00:27:14,627 --> 00:27:16,185 - What? - You received a package. 432 00:27:16,395 --> 00:27:18,693 Messenger service. I signed your name. 433 00:27:18,898 --> 00:27:21,526 - Who's it from? - No address. Want me to open it? 434 00:27:21,734 --> 00:27:23,258 - Sure. - That's good. I already did. 435 00:27:23,469 --> 00:27:24,731 It's a manuscript. 436 00:27:24,937 --> 00:27:27,371 "Excerpt From the Memoirs of... 437 00:27:27,573 --> 00:27:29,336 ...Lanny Morris." 438 00:27:29,542 --> 00:27:33,535 Hey, all your dreams are coming true. He's writing you love letters already. 439 00:27:33,746 --> 00:27:35,714 Bonnie, I need to know what he's written. 440 00:27:35,915 --> 00:27:39,874 - Well, I'll send it to you. - Now. Before he calls me tomorrow. 441 00:27:42,121 --> 00:27:45,056 - Please? - All right. 442 00:27:46,459 --> 00:27:48,290 All right. 443 00:27:48,494 --> 00:27:49,927 Here we go. 444 00:27:52,298 --> 00:27:56,234 "Let me explain to you why two very famous guys just finishing... 445 00:27:56,435 --> 00:28:00,565 ...a nationally broadcast telethon ended up in New Jersey." 446 00:28:05,211 --> 00:28:10,410 For years, the Palace Del Sol was one of the centers of Mob prosperity. 447 00:28:10,616 --> 00:28:13,608 Needless to say, a major headliner in the showroom... 448 00:28:13,820 --> 00:28:16,983 ... helped legitimize the entire operation. 449 00:28:17,190 --> 00:28:18,919 Give her a kiss. Yeah, beautiful. 450 00:28:19,125 --> 00:28:22,151 One more, guys. That's it. That's great. Thank you. 451 00:28:22,361 --> 00:28:24,795 Vince and I needed help in keeping us up all the time... 452 00:28:24,997 --> 00:28:27,192 ... and in the way of thinking in the '50s... 453 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,630 ... anything you didn't take with a needle was okay. 454 00:28:29,836 --> 00:28:33,499 It wasn't "serious" serious. It was like running a red light. 455 00:28:33,706 --> 00:28:38,575 Everyone used bennies. Vince added them to his morning coffee like sugar. 456 00:28:43,549 --> 00:28:45,608 Not that you could tell. 457 00:28:47,420 --> 00:28:49,411 When we did finally decide to flatten out... 458 00:28:49,622 --> 00:28:53,581 ... we'd take two or three Tuinals, or three or four "Threeinals." 459 00:28:53,793 --> 00:28:55,090 They were really good. 460 00:28:55,294 --> 00:28:57,592 Between the moment you took them and passing out... 461 00:28:57,797 --> 00:29:00,960 ... it felt really sexy. 462 00:29:36,536 --> 00:29:37,730 Sure. 463 00:29:37,937 --> 00:29:40,064 - Enjoyed the show. - Thank you. 464 00:29:44,911 --> 00:29:46,435 The walls of the Blue Grotto... 465 00:29:46,646 --> 00:29:49,308 ... were made of a mixture of plaster and Styrofoam. 466 00:29:49,515 --> 00:29:52,382 Flammable as all hell. But the boys had learned it was cheaper... 467 00:29:52,585 --> 00:29:56,043 ... to give the inspector 200 bucks and a ringside table to our show... 468 00:29:56,255 --> 00:29:59,486 ... than to spend thousands of dollars on fireproofing. 469 00:29:59,692 --> 00:30:02,923 Besides, it was always vital in a business enterprise of this sort... 470 00:30:03,129 --> 00:30:06,826 ... to have the option to torch the place at a moment's notice... 471 00:30:07,033 --> 00:30:09,399 ... should the need present itself. 472 00:30:11,537 --> 00:30:14,597 One night, after our show, we were taken to Sally's office. 473 00:30:14,807 --> 00:30:16,365 We wondered what we had done wrong... 474 00:30:16,576 --> 00:30:18,203 ... but what we had done was done good. 475 00:30:18,411 --> 00:30:20,675 Sally started going on about how much he liked us... 476 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,644 ... how he thought we were a good fit with his crowd... 477 00:30:23,849 --> 00:30:26,579 ... meaning that we brought in an audience of heavy drinkers... 478 00:30:26,786 --> 00:30:28,651 ... adulterers and gamblers. 479 00:30:28,854 --> 00:30:31,345 So, what we want is for you boys to come back here... 480 00:30:31,557 --> 00:30:34,355 ...three months from now and open our new showroom for us. 481 00:30:34,994 --> 00:30:38,327 A two-week, exclusive limited engagement... 482 00:30:38,531 --> 00:30:41,432 ...that we want you to do for us for six weeks. 483 00:30:41,901 --> 00:30:44,563 God help you when a killer takes a shining to you. 484 00:30:44,770 --> 00:30:49,707 I looked at Vince and scratched my nose, which meant our strongest "no." 485 00:30:49,909 --> 00:30:51,638 That's a very great honor, Sally. 486 00:30:51,844 --> 00:30:54,312 - You're damn fucking right it is. - The thing is... 487 00:30:54,513 --> 00:30:57,573 ...we're just trying to cut down on the nightclub work at the moment. 488 00:30:57,783 --> 00:31:00,377 We turned down the Sands so we could do a TV special... 489 00:31:00,586 --> 00:31:04,613 ...and the only reason we still work the Versailles is out of friendship for you. 490 00:31:08,728 --> 00:31:11,663 - What dates were you thinking of? - We open November 15th. 491 00:31:11,864 --> 00:31:14,492 Sally, any other day we would be here in a flash... 492 00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:17,726 ...but, you know, that's the day right after the next polio telethon. 493 00:31:17,937 --> 00:31:20,997 I mean, we always take two weeks off right after that to recover. 494 00:31:21,207 --> 00:31:22,401 - Right, Vince? - At least. 495 00:31:22,608 --> 00:31:24,701 - I mean, we're tired. - That's the way I want you. 496 00:31:24,910 --> 00:31:28,539 After the fucking telethon, we fly you up from Miami... 497 00:31:28,748 --> 00:31:31,444 ...hold a press conference, all fucking exhausted... 498 00:31:31,651 --> 00:31:33,642 ...so people know what heroes you are. 499 00:31:34,687 --> 00:31:37,155 I'll keep a suite for you with the best hookers I got. 500 00:31:37,356 --> 00:31:39,449 Your own personal cathouse. 501 00:31:39,659 --> 00:31:41,126 And I'll have them send you up... 502 00:31:41,327 --> 00:31:43,261 ...a shipment of lobsters and stone crabs. 503 00:31:43,462 --> 00:31:45,896 - You like lobsters? - Love them. 504 00:31:46,098 --> 00:31:47,793 And a case of these... 505 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,628 ...special grapefruits... 506 00:31:50,836 --> 00:31:53,669 ...that I get special down there. 507 00:31:54,106 --> 00:31:57,007 The most delicious thing you ever tasted in your life. 508 00:31:57,209 --> 00:31:59,473 Juicy, thin skin. 509 00:32:00,379 --> 00:32:04,042 Months later, on the night before the telethon in Miami... 510 00:32:04,250 --> 00:32:06,616 ... we got back to our room and found that Sally... 511 00:32:06,819 --> 00:32:10,016 ... had been more than good to his word. 512 00:32:11,824 --> 00:32:14,520 Laid out around the room were various crates... 513 00:32:14,727 --> 00:32:17,218 ... bearing the addresses of their destination: 514 00:32:17,430 --> 00:32:20,797 Our suite at the Palace Del Sol hotel in New Jersey. 515 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,994 "You like lobsters? See you in New Jersey." 516 00:32:26,939 --> 00:32:30,238 "Thin skin, fucking most delicious fucking thing... 517 00:32:30,443 --> 00:32:32,104 ...you ever had in your fucking life." 518 00:32:32,311 --> 00:32:35,109 "What I thought was a box of beach balls turned out to be... 519 00:32:35,314 --> 00:32:37,578 ...the thinnest-skinned, dripping-wet grapefruits... 520 00:32:37,783 --> 00:32:39,375 ...I�d ever tasted in my life. 521 00:32:39,585 --> 00:32:42,179 The 6-foot crate was filled with fruits of the sea... 522 00:32:42,388 --> 00:32:45,221 ...slowly shifting over a bed of ice." 523 00:32:45,424 --> 00:32:49,019 Yeah, this is Lanny Morris. Send up three steaks, all right? 524 00:32:49,228 --> 00:32:50,559 Yeah. Make them rare this time. 525 00:32:50,763 --> 00:32:52,094 - Yeah, rare. - Like bloody. 526 00:32:52,298 --> 00:32:55,563 Bloody. And a couple of bottles of that champagne. 527 00:32:55,768 --> 00:32:57,736 - Make that three. - Three bottles of champagne. 528 00:32:57,937 --> 00:33:01,338 And can you make sure that Maureen delivers them? 529 00:33:01,540 --> 00:33:03,167 Yeah, Maureen. 530 00:33:03,676 --> 00:33:05,166 We called down for Maureen... 531 00:33:05,377 --> 00:33:07,208 ... the room-service girl I'd met earlier... 532 00:33:07,413 --> 00:33:09,904 ... who wanted the interview for her school paper. 533 00:33:10,116 --> 00:33:12,710 She brought up three steaks, one for her... 534 00:33:12,918 --> 00:33:15,751 ... as her last official delivery of the day. 535 00:33:15,955 --> 00:33:17,513 As much as I love lobster... 536 00:33:17,723 --> 00:33:20,783 ... seeing all that shellfish nestled on ice in the crate... 537 00:33:20,993 --> 00:33:24,952 ... put me in the mood for hooves, not claws. 538 00:33:34,381 --> 00:33:39,216 The interview for Maureen's campus paper went better than expected. 539 00:33:39,420 --> 00:33:41,650 Vince and I popped some Tuinals... 540 00:33:41,855 --> 00:33:44,153 ... to insure that we would sleep like babes... 541 00:33:44,358 --> 00:33:49,227 ... after we wore off the general horniness that the pills first give you. 542 00:33:50,164 --> 00:33:55,295 Vince bought insurance on his bet by having a few babes on hand. 543 00:33:55,502 --> 00:33:58,665 Well, not exactly on his hand. 544 00:33:58,872 --> 00:34:00,237 That wasn't his preference. 545 00:34:00,441 --> 00:34:03,842 "Not exactly on his hand. That wasn't his preference." 546 00:34:04,044 --> 00:34:09,175 "Not exactly on his hand"? "That wasn't his preference"? 547 00:34:10,217 --> 00:34:12,811 "The Tuinals, coupled with a nice amount of booze... 548 00:34:13,020 --> 00:34:15,545 ...guaranteed us the sleep of the dead. 549 00:34:15,756 --> 00:34:18,224 Late the next morning, Maureen was sent packing... 550 00:34:18,425 --> 00:34:24,364 ...and Vince and I prepared ourselves for that night's broadcast." 551 00:34:25,466 --> 00:34:28,924 Well, I guess this is one story my kids won't have to give a book report on. 552 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:33,570 Thanks. 553 00:34:33,774 --> 00:34:34,968 Must be weird to find out... 554 00:34:35,175 --> 00:34:38,906 ...that the object of all your adolescent fantasies is a pig. 555 00:34:40,247 --> 00:34:42,943 He's not like that. 556 00:34:43,150 --> 00:34:46,813 Oh, so it's just the way he describes himself. 557 00:34:47,655 --> 00:34:49,418 She was right. 558 00:34:49,623 --> 00:34:52,148 Which was the real Lanny? 559 00:34:52,693 --> 00:34:55,753 I'd find out later that the story of the hookers in the hotel suite... 560 00:34:55,963 --> 00:34:58,431 ... was a complete fabrication. 561 00:34:58,632 --> 00:35:01,362 That night, Maureen was alone. 562 00:35:29,329 --> 00:35:31,820 - Hello? - So how did you like the show? 563 00:35:32,032 --> 00:35:33,556 Lanny? 564 00:35:35,602 --> 00:35:37,399 The Today show. 565 00:35:37,604 --> 00:35:38,969 You did watch, didn't you? 566 00:35:39,773 --> 00:35:42,207 - The show. - You didn't watch. 567 00:35:42,409 --> 00:35:44,570 Wow, that's scary. 568 00:35:46,613 --> 00:35:49,343 You see, when you're a star... 569 00:35:49,550 --> 00:35:52,576 ...you live in terror, wondering if it's all over yet. 570 00:35:52,786 --> 00:35:54,617 You keep looking for the signs. 571 00:35:54,822 --> 00:35:57,882 You're shooting a scene from a movie on a New York street... 572 00:35:58,092 --> 00:35:59,286 ...and a crowd doesn't form. 573 00:35:59,493 --> 00:36:01,290 You meet a girl on a plane and tell her... 574 00:36:01,495 --> 00:36:04,157 ...that you're gonna be on the Today show the next morning... 575 00:36:04,364 --> 00:36:07,128 ...and she doesn't wake up early to watch. 576 00:36:07,334 --> 00:36:09,097 It's very scary. 577 00:36:09,536 --> 00:36:12,937 Hey, you know, I mentioned you on the air. 578 00:36:14,108 --> 00:36:17,009 - You did? - Yes, I proposed to you on the air. 579 00:36:17,211 --> 00:36:20,078 Your building is probably surrounded with photographers... 580 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,976 - ... at this very moment. - You're kidding. 581 00:36:23,183 --> 00:36:26,084 Yes, I'm kidding. 582 00:36:28,522 --> 00:36:30,012 So... 583 00:36:30,591 --> 00:36:32,388 ...what time would you like to meet? 584 00:36:56,583 --> 00:36:59,416 Stanley, this is Bonnie. Bonnie, Stanley. 585 00:36:59,620 --> 00:37:01,110 Nice to meet you. 586 00:37:01,321 --> 00:37:02,686 Is the food almost ready, Stan? 587 00:37:02,890 --> 00:37:05,791 Yeah. I'll bring it right out, Mr. Lanny. 588 00:37:06,260 --> 00:37:09,889 I was very hungry, so I asked Stanley to prepare us something special. 589 00:37:10,097 --> 00:37:12,088 That sounds great. 590 00:37:14,001 --> 00:37:15,491 Tell me, what kind of a meeting... 591 00:37:15,702 --> 00:37:18,569 ...does a schoolteacher have to go to during the summer vacation? 592 00:37:18,772 --> 00:37:21,866 I'm exploring the possibility of another job. 593 00:37:22,075 --> 00:37:25,704 - Something in publishing. - How did it go? 594 00:37:25,913 --> 00:37:27,380 Okay. 595 00:37:27,881 --> 00:37:30,509 Have you ever thought about writing a book? 596 00:37:31,185 --> 00:37:34,245 - About what? - Your life. 597 00:37:34,454 --> 00:37:36,251 Sure. When I'm dead. 598 00:37:36,957 --> 00:37:38,288 No, seriously. 599 00:37:38,492 --> 00:37:40,619 It would have to be published after I died... 600 00:37:40,827 --> 00:37:43,728 ...when I wouldn't care what anybody thought about me. 601 00:37:44,164 --> 00:37:48,601 So, what would you write about, if you were going to tell the truth? 602 00:37:48,802 --> 00:37:50,497 In my book? 603 00:37:50,871 --> 00:37:54,329 Well, the truth is, I've met four presidents. 604 00:37:54,541 --> 00:37:56,304 They all seemed like they were out of it. 605 00:37:56,510 --> 00:37:58,444 Like they had no idea what was going on. 606 00:37:58,645 --> 00:38:01,944 Even J.F.K. Left me unimpressed. I felt like I was with the boss' son. 607 00:38:02,149 --> 00:38:03,707 You don't think you could say that? 608 00:38:03,917 --> 00:38:06,977 Not if I was planning on living in this country. No, no. 609 00:38:07,187 --> 00:38:10,122 I don't think that Judy Garland was such a great singer... 610 00:38:10,324 --> 00:38:11,723 ...after she turned 16. 611 00:38:11,925 --> 00:38:15,292 That quiver, you know, it was like she had no control over it. 612 00:38:15,495 --> 00:38:17,463 I would get killed for saying that. 613 00:38:17,664 --> 00:38:20,929 Or that Marilyn Monroe was no better an actress... 614 00:38:21,134 --> 00:38:24,626 ...after she studied with Lee Strasberg than before. 615 00:38:27,407 --> 00:38:29,773 I'm saying what really happened. 616 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:35,739 Having to be a nice guy... 617 00:38:35,949 --> 00:38:38,247 ...is the toughest job in the world when you're not. 618 00:38:45,025 --> 00:38:47,516 This is a lamb in tea sauce. 619 00:38:47,728 --> 00:38:50,526 This is twice-cooked pork with shredded, pickled cabbage. 620 00:38:51,465 --> 00:38:53,399 Kung Pao chicken. 621 00:38:53,967 --> 00:38:56,162 And this is Kung Ping Loh Haa... 622 00:38:56,370 --> 00:39:00,966 ...lobster in tangerine peel for you and your lovely lady friend. 623 00:39:01,375 --> 00:39:03,343 You shouldn't have done that, Stanley. 624 00:39:03,543 --> 00:39:06,444 I don't eat lobster. I'm Jewish. 625 00:39:06,647 --> 00:39:07,875 But you eat pork. 626 00:39:08,215 --> 00:39:10,706 - Do you have a problem with that? - No, I just thought... 627 00:39:10,917 --> 00:39:14,785 No shrimp, no lobster. They're disgusting. Take it away. 628 00:39:14,988 --> 00:39:17,684 I will pay for the dish, but take it away, please. 629 00:39:18,125 --> 00:39:19,786 I'll change it. 630 00:39:21,461 --> 00:39:23,258 I'm sorry, I... 631 00:39:23,463 --> 00:39:25,795 I should have asked. Maybe you love lobster. 632 00:39:25,999 --> 00:39:27,728 I'm fine. 633 00:39:28,935 --> 00:39:31,130 Have you ever had Szechwan cuisine before? 634 00:39:31,338 --> 00:39:33,863 It's from the northern part of China. 635 00:39:34,074 --> 00:39:36,440 It must be strange for you. 636 00:39:36,877 --> 00:39:42,213 If you complain to a waiter, you're not just some jerk at table five... 637 00:39:42,416 --> 00:39:43,610 ...you're Lanny Morris. 638 00:39:44,284 --> 00:39:47,276 I know that everyone dreams about being famous... 639 00:39:47,487 --> 00:39:49,250 ...but it would be interesting to know... 640 00:39:49,456 --> 00:39:51,424 ...what it's like to relinquish all anonymity. 641 00:39:56,163 --> 00:39:59,758 - Gets me a date. - Does that bother you? 642 00:39:59,966 --> 00:40:02,799 That people only wanna be with you because of who you are? 643 00:40:03,003 --> 00:40:06,097 - As opposed to? - Well... 644 00:40:06,306 --> 00:40:08,171 ...the real you. 645 00:40:09,609 --> 00:40:11,270 The real me. 646 00:40:13,380 --> 00:40:18,511 The real me was brought up as a nice middle-class kid... 647 00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:20,346 ...which is not the easiest thing... 648 00:40:20,554 --> 00:40:23,990 ...when you are extremely poor and living in a slum. 649 00:40:24,591 --> 00:40:29,426 The real me spent most of his time getting the shit kicked out of him... 650 00:40:29,629 --> 00:40:32,154 ...and dreaming about something better. 651 00:40:34,401 --> 00:40:36,767 Like being here with someone like you. 652 00:40:38,038 --> 00:40:42,065 Fifteen years ago, he had, for one brief moment... 653 00:40:42,275 --> 00:40:45,142 ... made me feel like the most special person in the world. 654 00:40:45,345 --> 00:40:49,748 "The miracle in my life is not that I survived polio... 655 00:40:49,950 --> 00:40:51,850 ...and am standing here today. 656 00:40:52,052 --> 00:40:56,079 No. The reason I consider myself to be a miracle girl... 657 00:40:56,289 --> 00:40:57,950 ...is because I had the good fortune... 658 00:40:58,158 --> 00:41:00,285 ...to meet Lanny and Vince when I was sick." 659 00:41:00,961 --> 00:41:04,556 It was a moment seen by millions of people... 660 00:41:04,765 --> 00:41:08,428 ... but felt only by me. 661 00:41:12,539 --> 00:41:16,373 That moment had changed my life. 662 00:41:19,646 --> 00:41:23,514 I was about to find my own way into Lanny's book... 663 00:41:24,151 --> 00:41:28,417 ... after he had found such a powerful way into mine. 664 00:42:42,863 --> 00:42:44,262 Checking out today? 665 00:43:01,581 --> 00:43:03,310 Is there a message for Bonnie Trout? 666 00:43:03,517 --> 00:43:05,917 - From one of our guests? - Yes, Lanny Morris. 667 00:43:09,189 --> 00:43:10,417 I'm afraid not. 668 00:43:10,690 --> 00:43:14,786 - Are you sure? - Oh, yes, I'm sure. 669 00:43:18,765 --> 00:43:20,130 Do you need a cab? 670 00:43:25,572 --> 00:43:29,235 I still don't understand why Vince Collins is willing... 671 00:43:29,442 --> 00:43:32,900 ...to be involved in such an expos� of himself. 672 00:43:33,113 --> 00:43:34,910 Vince is a realist. 673 00:43:35,115 --> 00:43:37,811 The days of his box-office power are drawing to a close. 674 00:43:38,218 --> 00:43:40,015 Given the amount of money we're offering... 675 00:43:40,220 --> 00:43:43,849 And it's because the investment in Mr. Collins is so large... 676 00:43:44,057 --> 00:43:49,996 ...I�ve compiled a list of questions we'd like the miracle girl to ask. 677 00:43:57,070 --> 00:44:00,562 I don't wanna look at your questions. I have my own approach. 678 00:44:00,774 --> 00:44:03,834 Ms. O'Connor, we're not paying a million dollars for your approach... 679 00:44:04,044 --> 00:44:06,205 ...we're paying for what Vince Collins has to say. 680 00:44:06,413 --> 00:44:09,576 To me. What he has to say to me. 681 00:44:10,417 --> 00:44:13,181 Greg, this is not as easy as it looks. 682 00:44:13,753 --> 00:44:16,517 If you go to Vince Collins and ask him a series of questions... 683 00:44:16,723 --> 00:44:18,987 ...you'll come back here with a 300-page press book. 684 00:44:19,192 --> 00:44:22,286 Well, as I've always understood this company's policy... 685 00:44:22,495 --> 00:44:24,520 ...while the book is being written... 686 00:44:24,731 --> 00:44:29,168 ...the relationship between the author and editor is sacrosanct. 687 00:44:30,236 --> 00:44:32,329 This isn't your typical book deal. 688 00:44:32,739 --> 00:44:36,698 We've really just leased an oil well called Vince Collins... 689 00:44:36,910 --> 00:44:40,243 ...and granted Ms. O'Connor the right to tap. 690 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,938 I think we have a responsibility to... 691 00:44:44,417 --> 00:44:46,715 ...monitor the drilling. 692 00:45:09,943 --> 00:45:12,434 - Hello. - Mrs. O'Flaherty? 693 00:45:13,046 --> 00:45:14,536 Yes. 694 00:45:14,781 --> 00:45:18,410 My name's O'Connor. I'm the one writing the book. 695 00:45:31,531 --> 00:45:34,728 The book will be centered around Vince Collins. 696 00:45:34,934 --> 00:45:37,767 I'll be asking him a lot of questions. 697 00:45:37,971 --> 00:45:42,999 I wanted to know if there were any you'd like to have answered yourself. 698 00:45:46,913 --> 00:45:51,441 Maureen and I planted this tree on her fifth birthday. 699 00:45:52,919 --> 00:45:56,355 Father did most of the digging, of course. 700 00:45:57,424 --> 00:45:59,585 She'd be 38. 701 00:46:00,460 --> 00:46:03,486 I'm 59 myself. 702 00:46:05,799 --> 00:46:08,359 If she were alive now... 703 00:46:09,769 --> 00:46:13,330 ...we'd be talking about things, back and forth... 704 00:46:13,540 --> 00:46:15,337 ...like two women. 705 00:46:16,009 --> 00:46:18,341 Like you and I are doing. 706 00:46:23,983 --> 00:46:26,178 And Maureen's father? 707 00:46:27,187 --> 00:46:29,712 Frank died six years ago. 708 00:46:30,356 --> 00:46:32,483 He took his own life. 709 00:46:33,093 --> 00:46:36,153 One night, just before he died... 710 00:46:36,363 --> 00:46:39,491 ...he dug up the earth around this tree... 711 00:46:39,999 --> 00:46:42,797 ...he took the urn with Maureen's ashes in it... 712 00:46:43,002 --> 00:46:45,732 ...and spread them around its roots. 713 00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:51,406 So this is my daughter. 714 00:46:53,046 --> 00:46:55,640 This is what I have of her. 715 00:47:02,622 --> 00:47:05,352 - Are you Catholic? - My... My mother was. 716 00:47:06,126 --> 00:47:08,651 Then you will understand my dilemma. 717 00:47:08,862 --> 00:47:12,559 Our faith offers an afterlife. 718 00:47:13,767 --> 00:47:16,099 A daughter needs her mother. 719 00:47:17,203 --> 00:47:23,199 So I have to live out this life as far from sin as I can manage. 720 00:47:26,146 --> 00:47:28,774 I'll never see my husband again. 721 00:47:29,315 --> 00:47:31,715 He's consigned himself to hell. 722 00:47:34,154 --> 00:47:37,612 But what if Maureen killed herself too? 723 00:47:41,327 --> 00:47:43,955 She's in hell, with my husband. 724 00:47:44,164 --> 00:47:48,294 The life I'm trying to lead will bring me to heaven's grace... 725 00:47:49,369 --> 00:47:52,736 ...only to hear their screams of torment. 726 00:47:54,274 --> 00:47:56,504 Chief Scaglia, you were in the hotel room... 727 00:47:56,709 --> 00:47:59,872 ... when they found Maureen's body in the tub. 728 00:48:00,313 --> 00:48:04,215 So was Sally, so was Lanny, so was Vince. 729 00:48:05,685 --> 00:48:09,849 And there was also a PR lady there from the hotel. 730 00:48:10,256 --> 00:48:11,814 How do you think she died? 731 00:48:12,492 --> 00:48:15,552 She died in an auto accident two weeks later. It was terrible. 732 00:48:19,032 --> 00:48:20,226 No, Maureen. 733 00:48:20,433 --> 00:48:23,095 - How did Maureen die? - She drowned. 734 00:48:23,303 --> 00:48:25,100 - Why? - What do you mean, why? 735 00:48:25,305 --> 00:48:27,830 You and I take baths all the time. We don't drown in them. 736 00:48:28,041 --> 00:48:31,067 You and I do not mix sleeping pills with booze. 737 00:48:31,277 --> 00:48:34,212 - She committed suicide? - Overdose is the official story. 738 00:48:34,414 --> 00:48:38,248 What's the official story on the fact that the staff of the hotel in Miami... 739 00:48:38,451 --> 00:48:41,511 ... all seemed to know she delivered room service to the boys' suite... 740 00:48:41,721 --> 00:48:44,554 ...three days before and was never seen alive again? 741 00:48:44,757 --> 00:48:46,088 What happened to her? 742 00:48:46,292 --> 00:48:48,760 How did she end up in a hotel room in New Jersey? 743 00:48:48,962 --> 00:48:52,830 Sally never had any problem moving girls around. Okay? 744 00:48:53,032 --> 00:48:54,226 He had two hotels. 745 00:48:54,434 --> 00:48:56,425 - So Sally arranged it? - No, I don't think so. 746 00:48:56,636 --> 00:48:59,503 You see, she was brought up there as a reward for the boys... 747 00:48:59,706 --> 00:49:02,368 ...and I think she started to party just a little too early. 748 00:49:02,575 --> 00:49:05,066 She was a student. This was a summer job. 749 00:49:05,278 --> 00:49:06,540 Listen to me... 750 00:49:06,980 --> 00:49:12,919 ...the Palace Del Sol was very important to Sally, okay? 751 00:49:13,119 --> 00:49:16,282 He launched his new wing... 752 00:49:16,489 --> 00:49:19,788 ...with a push from Lanny and Vince... 753 00:49:19,993 --> 00:49:25,625 ...and this stupid girl shows up dead. 754 00:49:25,932 --> 00:49:30,460 She's not gonna come back. We do the best thing for all of us. 755 00:49:30,670 --> 00:49:35,130 We speed up the investigation and we cremate her. Okay? 756 00:49:35,341 --> 00:49:37,536 End of story. 757 00:49:40,346 --> 00:49:43,941 - Here you are. - Here's your lobster. 758 00:49:44,150 --> 00:49:47,085 - Enjoy. - Looks great. 759 00:49:48,521 --> 00:49:52,287 "Sally said, 'I'll have them send you up your own shipment of lobsters. 760 00:49:52,492 --> 00:49:54,517 You like lobster?"' 761 00:49:55,094 --> 00:49:58,393 We said we did because we really did. 762 00:49:59,165 --> 00:50:02,066 You shouldn't have done that, Stanley. I don't eat lobster. 763 00:50:05,004 --> 00:50:07,404 Were there any signs of violence on her body? 764 00:50:07,607 --> 00:50:11,907 No, no. There were some small scratches on the torso. 765 00:50:13,813 --> 00:50:19,183 Why did my daughter die? Did she kill herself? 766 00:50:20,086 --> 00:50:23,647 What had they done to her that would make her do that? 767 00:50:26,259 --> 00:50:28,489 What had they done? 768 00:50:33,433 --> 00:50:35,697 Once upon a time... 769 00:50:35,902 --> 00:50:39,565 ... when terrible things happened to people... 770 00:50:39,772 --> 00:50:42,332 ... they were left as a mystery. 771 00:50:44,510 --> 00:50:47,741 Even the tabloids kept a distance. 772 00:50:53,152 --> 00:50:58,920 Some things were allowed to be left just the way they were. 773 00:51:07,734 --> 00:51:09,565 Any trouble with the directions I gave you? 774 00:51:09,769 --> 00:51:13,205 - Only the parts where I had to turn. - Sorry. 775 00:51:14,107 --> 00:51:16,507 It's the price of seclusion. 776 00:51:21,581 --> 00:51:23,572 You haven't switched over to cassette? 777 00:51:23,783 --> 00:51:27,651 - Actually, it's my dad's. - And what does he do? 778 00:51:29,022 --> 00:51:31,149 He was a journalist too. 779 00:51:32,225 --> 00:51:34,557 He did a big story on you once. 780 00:51:34,761 --> 00:51:37,423 Followed a little girl who had polio. 781 00:51:37,764 --> 00:51:40,028 You took her under your wing... 782 00:51:41,167 --> 00:51:43,499 ...and now she's interviewing you. 783 00:51:47,073 --> 00:51:50,304 He must be proud that his daughter's making such a name for herself. 784 00:51:50,843 --> 00:51:52,936 I'd like to think so. 785 00:51:54,147 --> 00:51:57,742 - He died last year. - Sorry to hear that. 786 00:51:59,385 --> 00:52:03,014 - Would you like some coffee? - Sure. 787 00:52:10,096 --> 00:52:11,961 Are you alone here? 788 00:52:12,165 --> 00:52:16,192 Yes. The thought of having live-in help is a little poisonous to me. 789 00:52:16,402 --> 00:52:17,801 Why's that? 790 00:52:18,004 --> 00:52:19,904 Well, I'd have to talk to them... 791 00:52:20,106 --> 00:52:22,540 ...ask them how their family was doing... 792 00:52:22,742 --> 00:52:25,370 ...hear about this and that, introduce them to the guests... 793 00:52:25,578 --> 00:52:28,240 ...and tell them how their family was doing. 794 00:52:28,448 --> 00:52:32,145 All so that I would seem to be a nice guy... 795 00:52:32,351 --> 00:52:33,943 ...which is an awful lot of work... 796 00:52:34,153 --> 00:52:36,587 ...considering what I cherish most in life these days... 797 00:52:36,789 --> 00:52:38,848 ...is not to have to be Vince Collins. 798 00:52:39,058 --> 00:52:40,491 No Reuben in your life? 799 00:52:41,794 --> 00:52:43,785 How do you know about Reuben? 800 00:52:44,163 --> 00:52:47,690 He was in a lot of the material I've been looking at. 801 00:52:47,900 --> 00:52:49,367 No, I never had a Reuben. 802 00:52:49,569 --> 00:52:51,935 Lanny always paid him directly. He was Lanny's man. 803 00:52:52,138 --> 00:52:53,605 Right. 804 00:52:56,008 --> 00:52:58,067 You know, what I like is to... 805 00:52:58,277 --> 00:52:59,869 ...read... 806 00:53:00,980 --> 00:53:02,379 ...think. 807 00:53:02,582 --> 00:53:04,777 It's to have the freedom... 808 00:53:04,984 --> 00:53:07,475 ...to get up and leave without telling anyone about it... 809 00:53:07,687 --> 00:53:09,587 ...any time of day. 810 00:53:11,591 --> 00:53:13,923 Or even having to say goodbye. 811 00:53:16,129 --> 00:53:20,088 To be backstage, surrounded by acrobats, actors, magicians... 812 00:53:20,299 --> 00:53:22,164 ...it was intoxicating. 813 00:53:22,368 --> 00:53:24,199 You know, I was only 12 years old. 814 00:53:24,403 --> 00:53:26,030 That's a... 815 00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:27,763 That's a pretty impressionable age. 816 00:53:27,974 --> 00:53:31,034 - To hear all these stories of touring... - My father always told me... 817 00:53:31,244 --> 00:53:34,736 ... that nothing had meaning unless it could be put on the record. 818 00:53:36,215 --> 00:53:38,240 Yet things had changed. 819 00:53:39,385 --> 00:53:41,478 As Vince had pointed out at our first meeting... 820 00:53:41,687 --> 00:53:45,987 ... it had become fashionable to put yourself into the story. 821 00:53:46,659 --> 00:53:49,992 The question became how far you were prepared to go. 822 00:54:13,286 --> 00:54:17,620 - Excuse me. That's not mine. - Oh, I'm sorry. 823 00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:22,755 Aren't you Miss Trout? 824 00:54:22,962 --> 00:54:25,590 We've met, on the plane to New York. 825 00:54:25,798 --> 00:54:26,992 - Reuben. - Excuse me, sir. 826 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,964 Can I leave you for just a second, please? 827 00:54:33,739 --> 00:54:36,469 I'm so deeply sorry, Miss Trout, the way you were treated. 828 00:54:36,676 --> 00:54:40,703 - He could have left a note. - Of course. 829 00:54:41,981 --> 00:54:45,542 Miss Trout, I would like you to understand something. 830 00:54:46,385 --> 00:54:51,118 I have a great loyalty to Mr. Morris. He's treated me very well. 831 00:54:51,324 --> 00:54:53,019 I'm very grateful. 832 00:54:54,427 --> 00:54:57,453 He has done wonderful things for many people... 833 00:54:57,663 --> 00:55:02,623 ...and I have been privileged to work for him. 834 00:55:04,203 --> 00:55:06,501 But I do have certain principles... 835 00:55:06,706 --> 00:55:10,938 ...especially about how women are to be treated and respected. 836 00:55:11,344 --> 00:55:16,748 Mr. Morris can be very attentive, but once he has a woman... 837 00:55:17,917 --> 00:55:20,715 Oh, God, I think it's almost a sickness. 838 00:55:22,722 --> 00:55:24,553 When he left you that morning... 839 00:55:24,757 --> 00:55:27,385 ...you may have felt bad, but believe me, Miss Trout... 840 00:55:27,593 --> 00:55:29,424 ...to have him out of your life... 841 00:55:29,629 --> 00:55:32,325 ...is the best thing that could have happened to you. 842 00:55:33,399 --> 00:55:37,062 At that point, you may have felt your life was wounded. 843 00:55:38,604 --> 00:55:40,435 It wasn't. 844 00:55:41,307 --> 00:55:42,569 It was saved. 845 00:55:51,684 --> 00:55:54,050 Vince, I was very clear about this from the beginning. 846 00:55:54,253 --> 00:55:55,845 I'm not out to play games with you. 847 00:55:56,055 --> 00:55:58,421 This is why you're being paid a huge amount of money. 848 00:55:59,425 --> 00:56:01,256 This isn't entirely about money, you know. 849 00:56:01,460 --> 00:56:04,020 A million dollars is more than the gross of your last film. 850 00:56:05,331 --> 00:56:07,595 I was somehow under the impression that my life... 851 00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,769 ...might have been of more than passing interest. 852 00:56:10,970 --> 00:56:13,962 But if my fleeting encounter with a girl named Maureen O'Flaherty... 853 00:56:14,173 --> 00:56:17,108 ...is all you really want to talk about, then that's what we'll do. 854 00:56:18,611 --> 00:56:20,909 I have to make an appearance at the clinic tomorrow. 855 00:56:21,113 --> 00:56:23,240 We can come back and talk after that. 856 00:56:24,283 --> 00:56:26,012 It's Wonderland. 857 00:56:26,218 --> 00:56:27,810 I imagine you might remember that. 858 00:56:42,001 --> 00:56:46,131 He was right. I did remember Wonderland. 859 00:56:47,006 --> 00:56:48,735 - You ready? - Ready. 860 00:56:48,941 --> 00:56:54,208 When I was a girl, the entire hospital was devoted to children with polio. 861 00:56:55,881 --> 00:56:59,078 Since that time, it had become a clinic for kids... 862 00:56:59,285 --> 00:57:02,516 ... with a variety of different physical handicaps. 863 00:57:06,125 --> 00:57:09,492 Once a year, the children would put on a pageant... 864 00:57:09,695 --> 00:57:13,028 ... playing different characters from Alice in Wonderland. 865 00:57:14,033 --> 00:57:16,467 Vince, in his continuing support of the hospital... 866 00:57:16,669 --> 00:57:19,160 ... had hired a band and a singer. 867 00:57:26,645 --> 00:57:28,340 Who is that? 868 00:57:28,547 --> 00:57:32,381 I don't know. She's good, whoever she is. 869 00:57:43,829 --> 00:57:47,060 Karen, do you mind if we start this conversation tomorrow? 870 00:57:47,266 --> 00:57:50,895 I'm just... I'm not feeling all that well. 871 00:57:51,570 --> 00:57:53,060 - Vince... - In fact, it won't make... 872 00:57:53,272 --> 00:57:55,536 ...any difference over there. The office is closed. 873 00:57:55,741 --> 00:57:56,935 They've been working late. 874 00:57:57,143 --> 00:57:59,134 Then they've been working much too hard. 875 00:58:00,479 --> 00:58:03,107 First thing tomorrow. First thing. 876 00:58:10,089 --> 00:58:12,489 I hope your editors were reasonable. 877 00:58:12,691 --> 00:58:15,660 Reasonable? No, they weren't. 878 00:58:15,861 --> 00:58:17,920 We can go as late as you like. 879 00:58:18,130 --> 00:58:19,392 That's good. 880 00:58:19,598 --> 00:58:21,031 It might take us into the evening. 881 00:58:21,233 --> 00:58:23,201 I had a feeling that might be the case. 882 00:58:23,702 --> 00:58:26,364 So I've ordered a hot and cold smorgasbord to be brought in. 883 00:58:26,572 --> 00:58:28,039 We can work through dinner. 884 00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:30,435 - We'll be having company? - Yes. 885 00:58:31,911 --> 00:58:33,435 I have... 886 00:58:33,646 --> 00:58:35,341 ...a surprise for you. 887 00:58:36,282 --> 00:58:39,046 Actually, this is a fairly big deal for me as well. 888 00:58:40,252 --> 00:58:42,652 I've asked Lanny to join us today. 889 00:58:43,956 --> 00:58:44,980 Lanny? 890 00:58:46,358 --> 00:58:48,485 Well, this is something. 891 00:58:49,361 --> 00:58:52,387 Neuman and Newberry will certainly be getting their money's worth. 892 00:58:52,965 --> 00:58:55,263 I thought that if I was going to discuss something... 893 00:58:55,468 --> 00:58:57,265 ...that had such an impact on our lives... 894 00:58:57,470 --> 00:59:00,064 ...it would be fair for Lanny to hear what I had to say. 895 00:59:00,773 --> 00:59:02,468 Given that we've never talked about it. 896 00:59:02,675 --> 00:59:05,337 I'm sure I'll have lots to ask him. When is he coming? 897 00:59:05,544 --> 00:59:07,478 He should be here any minute now. 898 00:59:08,047 --> 00:59:09,878 This is very exciting. 899 00:59:10,449 --> 00:59:12,246 Shit. 900 00:59:26,899 --> 00:59:29,129 - Yes? - Bonnie, I have to talk fast. 901 00:59:29,335 --> 00:59:32,395 I need you to do exactly as I tell you and I can't tell you why, okay? 902 00:59:32,605 --> 00:59:33,833 Sure. 903 00:59:34,573 --> 00:59:36,939 Excuse me, that might actually be him now. 904 00:59:37,977 --> 00:59:39,672 Yes, hello? 905 00:59:52,057 --> 00:59:53,615 Yes, thank you. 906 00:59:55,361 --> 00:59:56,692 That was my office. 907 00:59:56,896 --> 00:59:59,364 There's a woman... A friend, a relative of yours? 908 00:59:59,565 --> 01:00:01,965 She said she called on a number you gave her. 909 01:00:02,635 --> 01:00:04,535 She's gonna call back. 910 01:00:11,010 --> 01:00:13,137 - Yes? - Hi, kiddo. 911 01:00:13,345 --> 01:00:16,473 Listen, your brother Clifford has just been rushed to the hospital. 912 01:00:16,682 --> 01:00:18,445 He was doing construction when a thing... 913 01:00:18,651 --> 01:00:20,448 - A steel girder? - That's it. 914 01:00:20,653 --> 01:00:23,144 You better come to the city and make your peace with him. 915 01:00:23,355 --> 01:00:25,516 You're booked on the next flight to San Francisco. 916 01:00:25,724 --> 01:00:27,885 I'm waiting here for you in front of the terminal. 917 01:00:28,394 --> 01:00:30,794 They reserved me a seat on the next flight to San Francisco. 918 01:00:30,996 --> 01:00:32,293 - I'll drive you there. - No, no. 919 01:00:32,498 --> 01:00:35,558 Sharon is waiting at the airport for me. You can't stand Lanny up. 920 01:00:35,768 --> 01:00:38,202 Please give him my deepest apologies. 921 01:00:47,246 --> 01:00:50,443 - Hey. - Please, I can explain. 922 01:00:51,283 --> 01:00:53,547 You've broken the law, Bonnie-fucking-Trout. 923 01:00:53,752 --> 01:00:55,583 You've assumed another person's identity... 924 01:00:55,788 --> 01:00:58,154 ...to get information from a business competitor. 925 01:00:58,357 --> 01:01:01,019 Obviously I lied about who I was. I'm sorry. 926 01:01:01,227 --> 01:01:03,422 It was a huge untruth. It wasn't planned. 927 01:01:03,629 --> 01:01:08,157 I was just freaked out about suddenly being on the plane with... 928 01:01:09,201 --> 01:01:10,566 With you... 929 01:01:10,769 --> 01:01:13,067 How did you get the seat behind me on the plane? 930 01:01:13,272 --> 01:01:14,899 - It was pure coincidence. - Bullshit! 931 01:01:15,107 --> 01:01:16,540 It's true. 932 01:01:20,579 --> 01:01:24,310 How could you..? How could you have just left me at the hotel like that? 933 01:01:24,717 --> 01:01:25,911 You were asleep. 934 01:01:26,118 --> 01:01:29,315 Reuben woke me to say I had to be a substitute performer... 935 01:01:29,521 --> 01:01:33,753 ...at a charity concert at the Hollywood Bowl. I had to get the first flight out. 936 01:01:33,959 --> 01:01:35,517 You could have left a note or called. 937 01:01:35,728 --> 01:01:37,787 - I did leave you a note. - Where? 938 01:01:39,632 --> 01:01:43,227 I don't know why we're even talking about this. I don't like you. 939 01:01:43,435 --> 01:01:46,370 All right? I wish we had never met. 940 01:01:52,244 --> 01:01:53,438 Hello, Vince. 941 01:01:54,213 --> 01:01:55,908 What the fuck's going on? 942 01:01:57,850 --> 01:02:00,512 Vince, a few days after we first met... 943 01:02:00,719 --> 01:02:03,552 ...I found myself next to Lanny on a flight to New York. 944 01:02:03,756 --> 01:02:05,383 It was a complete coincidence. 945 01:02:05,591 --> 01:02:07,252 - He asked my name... - And she lied. 946 01:02:07,459 --> 01:02:10,724 I had just finished reading the first chapter of Lanny's own biography. 947 01:02:10,929 --> 01:02:14,330 His lawyers had let me see it in the hope of discouraging our own project. 948 01:02:14,533 --> 01:02:17,058 As a reflex, since I knew he would view me as the enemy... 949 01:02:17,269 --> 01:02:18,896 ...I gave him the name of a friend... 950 01:02:19,104 --> 01:02:21,197 ...whose apartment I was staying at in Manhattan. 951 01:02:21,407 --> 01:02:24,706 I thought I just had to get through the awkwardness of the flight itself... 952 01:02:24,910 --> 01:02:26,901 ...but the trouble is... - You slept with him. 953 01:02:28,781 --> 01:02:32,148 - Vince... - You slept with my ex-partner. 954 01:02:33,619 --> 01:02:34,847 Technically. 955 01:02:36,855 --> 01:02:39,449 Doesn't sound like things were particularly technical. 956 01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:03,271 Now, you listen to me, sweetheart. 957 01:03:04,083 --> 01:03:07,985 Vince doesn't always do what's best for Vince. 958 01:03:08,187 --> 01:03:10,781 That's why he needed me here today. 959 01:03:11,490 --> 01:03:15,449 The story of this girl is the most painful thing in his life. 960 01:03:15,661 --> 01:03:17,822 What happened to her, Lanny? 961 01:03:18,997 --> 01:03:20,897 Well, you're not gonna find out. 962 01:03:21,834 --> 01:03:23,392 Not now. 963 01:03:24,136 --> 01:03:26,297 Not after what you've done to him. 964 01:03:35,681 --> 01:03:37,308 Vince. 965 01:03:37,516 --> 01:03:38,813 Oh, shit. 966 01:03:40,753 --> 01:03:42,812 Vince... 967 01:03:43,021 --> 01:03:44,989 ...I made a terrible mistake in New York. 968 01:03:45,190 --> 01:03:48,557 I apologize to you more than I know how to say. 969 01:03:48,761 --> 01:03:50,991 I'm so sorry. 970 01:04:00,806 --> 01:04:04,105 Vince, the realization of your life story... 971 01:04:04,309 --> 01:04:06,937 ...shouldn't be threatened because of my failings. 972 01:04:09,148 --> 01:04:11,878 Please let me continue to work with you again. 973 01:04:13,085 --> 01:04:15,417 I'll help you tell your story right. 974 01:04:18,023 --> 01:04:19,957 Come back tonight. 975 01:04:22,027 --> 01:04:23,688 Let me think about it. 976 01:04:36,341 --> 01:04:40,209 - How do you like the wine? - It's magnificent. What is it? 977 01:04:40,412 --> 01:04:42,903 1961 Haut-Brion. 978 01:04:43,115 --> 01:04:44,844 People make a big deal of 1959... 979 01:04:45,050 --> 01:04:48,383 ...but I don't think there'll be a year as special as 1961. 980 01:04:49,021 --> 01:04:51,785 It was a great year for French wines. 981 01:04:55,127 --> 01:04:57,061 Will you join me? 982 01:04:57,896 --> 01:04:59,488 What are they? 983 01:05:00,032 --> 01:05:04,196 They're like very mild-mannered Quaaludes. 984 01:05:04,436 --> 01:05:06,529 Must've done a few of those in your time, right? 985 01:05:08,006 --> 01:05:09,735 Are you sure they're okay with alcohol? 986 01:05:09,942 --> 01:05:13,469 Oh, they're even better with alcohol. Believe me, I'd know. 987 01:05:19,685 --> 01:05:21,778 Come on in, honey. The water's fine. 988 01:05:22,855 --> 01:05:27,690 All my life, I've had this idea that I could always be in control. 989 01:05:28,293 --> 01:05:30,227 Ever since I was sick, I had this sense... 990 01:05:30,429 --> 01:05:33,592 ... that I could make my body do anything I wanted. 991 01:05:33,799 --> 01:05:35,460 If I could will my polio away... 992 01:05:35,667 --> 01:05:39,125 ... I'd certainly be able to will away the effect of any drug. 993 01:05:52,885 --> 01:05:56,548 Do you mind if I close the drapes? The sun's in my eyes. 994 01:05:58,323 --> 01:06:00,188 It's moonlight. 995 01:06:01,627 --> 01:06:03,151 Go ahead. 996 01:07:05,090 --> 01:07:07,149 I remember you. 997 01:07:07,759 --> 01:07:09,488 You're Alice. 998 01:07:10,128 --> 01:07:12,289 In Wonderland. 999 01:07:12,998 --> 01:07:15,193 Oh, I don't know. 1000 01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:17,800 I'm really stoned out of my head already. 1001 01:07:19,104 --> 01:07:20,662 Is it good? 1002 01:07:26,211 --> 01:07:30,307 Jesus, Vince. It's like monster grass. 1003 01:07:30,515 --> 01:07:32,779 Do you get this stuff all the time? 1004 01:07:32,985 --> 01:07:34,976 All the time. 1005 01:07:44,329 --> 01:07:46,763 You're Alice. 1006 01:07:49,601 --> 01:07:51,262 You're so beautiful. 1007 01:08:20,298 --> 01:08:22,198 She's ours. 1008 01:08:22,901 --> 01:08:24,892 Isn't that so, Alice? 1009 01:08:26,405 --> 01:08:28,270 I'm yours. 1010 01:08:52,573 --> 01:08:54,404 I like you. 1011 01:09:07,054 --> 01:09:10,319 I had always been fascinated by how some women could cross the line... 1012 01:09:10,524 --> 01:09:15,154 ... between who they were and who they would let themselves become. 1013 01:09:15,863 --> 01:09:17,558 Maureen... 1014 01:09:18,299 --> 01:09:20,130 ... Alice... 1015 01:09:20,801 --> 01:09:22,359 ... and now... 1016 01:09:22,570 --> 01:09:24,128 ... me. 1017 01:09:30,644 --> 01:09:31,975 Morning. 1018 01:09:32,179 --> 01:09:35,478 That was not a Quaalude you gave me. I've had Quaaludes. 1019 01:09:36,784 --> 01:09:38,115 I said it was like a Quaalude. 1020 01:09:38,319 --> 01:09:40,685 And you didn't take one yourself. You palmed the pill. 1021 01:09:40,888 --> 01:09:42,879 Somebody had to drive. 1022 01:09:43,858 --> 01:09:45,655 Don't worry, you won't get pregnant. 1023 01:09:45,860 --> 01:09:47,691 Not from Alice, and certainly not from me. 1024 01:09:47,895 --> 01:09:50,455 I never took off my pants, as you may or may not remember. 1025 01:09:50,664 --> 01:09:52,325 There are laws against drugging people. 1026 01:09:52,533 --> 01:09:56,526 Oh, please. You took it voluntarily. Nobody slipped it into your drink. 1027 01:09:58,105 --> 01:10:01,506 And you chased it with one of the most expensive wines in the world. 1028 01:10:01,709 --> 01:10:05,110 You're just in a dither because you've discovered you can swing both ways. 1029 01:10:07,414 --> 01:10:09,245 You see... 1030 01:10:10,317 --> 01:10:12,182 ...I needed to get something on you. 1031 01:10:12,386 --> 01:10:15,651 Of course, your behavior with Lanny might have been even better than this. 1032 01:10:15,856 --> 01:10:17,619 But I'd already set the wheels in motion. 1033 01:10:17,825 --> 01:10:21,818 And as I was dying to see you and Alice get it on... 1034 01:10:22,296 --> 01:10:24,423 Well, these are just a sample. 1035 01:10:32,039 --> 01:10:34,872 Why would she agree to do this? Doesn't she want a career? 1036 01:10:35,075 --> 01:10:37,339 Well, it's your career I'm worried about. 1037 01:10:37,912 --> 01:10:40,244 You're a journalist playing loose with the rules. 1038 01:10:40,648 --> 01:10:43,173 She's just a vulnerable young singer you seduced. 1039 01:10:43,384 --> 01:10:46,410 A promising... Oh, good heavens. 1040 01:10:46,787 --> 01:10:49,517 Promising artist that I happen to manage. 1041 01:10:49,723 --> 01:10:51,520 You met her through me... 1042 01:10:51,725 --> 01:10:53,625 ...and had your way with her. 1043 01:10:58,332 --> 01:10:59,959 What do you want from me? 1044 01:11:02,937 --> 01:11:05,269 You're going to continue writing the book. 1045 01:11:05,472 --> 01:11:09,374 I'm going to continue telling you juicy stories, funny stories... 1046 01:11:09,577 --> 01:11:11,670 ...heart-tugging stories. 1047 01:11:11,912 --> 01:11:14,142 And you're not going to ask me a single question... 1048 01:11:14,348 --> 01:11:16,578 ...about what happened to the girl in New Jersey. 1049 01:11:17,685 --> 01:11:20,711 You're going to go to your publisher, say you tried every angle... 1050 01:11:20,921 --> 01:11:23,856 ...but you could find nothing odd or suspicious in what I told you. 1051 01:11:30,664 --> 01:11:33,565 I'll even try to spice it up a little, talk about how... 1052 01:11:33,767 --> 01:11:36,736 ...the night before the telethon, I wanted to sleep like a babe... 1053 01:11:36,937 --> 01:11:39,201 ...so to cover my bets, I kept a few babes on hand. 1054 01:11:40,174 --> 01:11:41,732 Well, not exactly on my hand... 1055 01:11:41,942 --> 01:11:45,309 ...and that's not my preference, as you might have gathered by now. 1056 01:11:54,888 --> 01:11:58,790 So you get your bestseller, I get my million. 1057 01:11:58,993 --> 01:12:00,255 Everyone goes home happy. 1058 01:12:00,461 --> 01:12:03,692 You've dreaded talking about Maureen O'Flaherty since we met. 1059 01:12:03,897 --> 01:12:06,058 If it's something you're so desperate to avoid... 1060 01:12:06,267 --> 01:12:08,258 ...why would you ever agree to do this book? 1061 01:12:08,969 --> 01:12:10,630 I need the money. 1062 01:12:10,838 --> 01:12:14,239 Vince, anything you say in my presence is mine to use. 1063 01:12:15,242 --> 01:12:18,143 Everything you said last night and everything you've just told me. 1064 01:12:18,345 --> 01:12:21,075 And since I'm also allowed to include contextual background... 1065 01:12:21,282 --> 01:12:23,307 ...I can write about how you set me up... 1066 01:12:23,517 --> 01:12:26,884 ...how you tried to blackmail me. I'll even include those Polaroids. 1067 01:12:27,087 --> 01:12:30,420 It's your word against mine. We have a contract. Everything's in my words. 1068 01:12:30,624 --> 01:12:33,923 We've agreed to your answers, but there's nothing to stop me... 1069 01:12:34,128 --> 01:12:38,827 ...from putting any information I want into a question I ask. 1070 01:12:39,900 --> 01:12:42,869 Information that I'd like to be public knowledge... 1071 01:12:43,804 --> 01:12:46,272 ...or that the police might wanna look into. 1072 01:12:50,911 --> 01:12:55,245 Would you like me to fire one of my loaded questions, on the record? 1073 01:12:56,116 --> 01:12:57,879 Sure. 1074 01:13:04,958 --> 01:13:06,949 Vince... 1075 01:13:07,461 --> 01:13:10,897 ...in your suite at the Versailles Hotel in Miami... 1076 01:13:11,565 --> 01:13:13,931 ...was it your or Lanny's idea... 1077 01:13:14,134 --> 01:13:17,467 ...to put Maureen's body into the case containing shellfish and ice... 1078 01:13:17,671 --> 01:13:19,332 ...and have it shipped to New Jersey? 1079 01:13:24,211 --> 01:13:27,078 No answer, Mr. Collins? So noted. 1080 01:13:27,715 --> 01:13:30,582 Oh, and incidentally, by not answering... 1081 01:13:30,784 --> 01:13:33,378 ...you're in violation of your contract. 1082 01:13:33,988 --> 01:13:37,185 What a shame. I understood you needed that money. 1083 01:13:51,905 --> 01:13:54,066 Oh, no. Oh, God. 1084 01:13:54,274 --> 01:13:57,971 Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God! 1085 01:14:06,754 --> 01:14:08,517 Was that how you murdered Maureen? 1086 01:14:21,969 --> 01:14:23,800 Ask Lanny. 1087 01:14:26,573 --> 01:14:28,598 He's the one who knows. 1088 01:14:47,094 --> 01:14:50,791 It wasn't that hard for him to get the suite he wanted. 1089 01:14:50,998 --> 01:14:54,991 The Versailles was still one of the fanciest of the hotels along the beach. 1090 01:14:55,202 --> 01:14:57,864 But by then, its era had passed. 1091 01:14:59,273 --> 01:15:00,865 Thank you, sir. 1092 01:15:10,317 --> 01:15:12,649 All the furniture was new. 1093 01:15:12,886 --> 01:15:15,218 It had been 15 years... 1094 01:15:15,923 --> 01:15:17,914 ... but the floor plan... 1095 01:15:18,125 --> 01:15:20,286 ... was still the same. 1096 01:15:21,095 --> 01:15:23,325 In that spot... 1097 01:15:23,664 --> 01:15:26,565 ... that was where the truth had come out. 1098 01:15:27,634 --> 01:15:30,398 That was why she had to die. 1099 01:15:41,248 --> 01:15:43,808 Are you Japanese or Chinese? 1100 01:15:45,052 --> 01:15:46,747 Vietnamese. 1101 01:15:47,221 --> 01:15:50,486 The kitchen tell me you famous person. 1102 01:15:50,691 --> 01:15:52,625 Why you famous? 1103 01:15:52,993 --> 01:15:55,120 They didn't tell you my name? 1104 01:15:55,329 --> 01:15:56,523 No. 1105 01:15:56,730 --> 01:15:58,425 What is it? 1106 01:16:00,834 --> 01:16:02,563 Lanny Morris. 1107 01:16:03,303 --> 01:16:04,964 It's a Jewish name... 1108 01:16:05,172 --> 01:16:06,639 ...but I'm a nebbish. 1109 01:16:07,908 --> 01:16:10,342 You ordered three bottle of champagne. 1110 01:16:10,544 --> 01:16:11,806 You want me to open one now? 1111 01:16:12,513 --> 01:16:14,538 Or wait until friend come? 1112 01:16:15,649 --> 01:16:17,173 Open all three. 1113 01:16:18,819 --> 01:16:21,117 Are you really famous, Mr. Morris? 1114 01:16:22,356 --> 01:16:23,983 In my day. 1115 01:16:24,424 --> 01:16:26,483 Before your time, I suppose. 1116 01:16:27,494 --> 01:16:30,054 I come from the north of Vietnam. 1117 01:16:30,264 --> 01:16:32,596 In my town, there is no television. 1118 01:16:32,799 --> 01:16:37,099 She explained that American movies had been banned where she grew up. 1119 01:16:42,342 --> 01:16:45,004 She got better tips pretending she was Madame Butterfly... 1120 01:16:45,212 --> 01:16:48,272 ... than by telling people where she was really from. 1121 01:16:49,416 --> 01:16:51,509 What did you do, Mr. Morris? 1122 01:16:52,586 --> 01:16:55,111 I made Vince Collins' life... 1123 01:16:55,556 --> 01:16:57,649 ...very difficult. 1124 01:16:57,858 --> 01:17:01,055 She didn't understand, but her policy was not to linger in the rooms... 1125 01:17:01,261 --> 01:17:03,195 ... of solitary gentlemen. 1126 01:17:04,598 --> 01:17:08,898 He signed the room-service check under Lanny's name. 1127 01:17:11,138 --> 01:17:12,662 Thank you. 1128 01:17:35,729 --> 01:17:37,993 There was no ice or water left in the buckets... 1129 01:17:38,198 --> 01:17:40,996 ... when his body was discovered the next morning. 1130 01:17:42,269 --> 01:17:46,000 He had dumped the ice into the bathtub and died in it. 1131 01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:50,334 He must have felt there was some poetry in it. 1132 01:17:53,747 --> 01:17:56,113 His plan was to drink enough champagne... 1133 01:17:56,316 --> 01:17:57,715 ... with enough sleeping pills... 1134 01:17:57,918 --> 01:18:01,820 ... so that ending things would become an acceptable idea. 1135 01:18:02,556 --> 01:18:04,456 He could manage that. 1136 01:18:05,258 --> 01:18:08,591 He knew for certain he couldn't manage anything else. 1137 01:18:12,165 --> 01:18:13,723 Hi. 1138 01:18:16,003 --> 01:18:18,699 I thought you were gonna be out all afternoon. 1139 01:18:23,443 --> 01:18:25,206 I'm sorry. 1140 01:18:25,646 --> 01:18:27,511 It's okay. 1141 01:18:28,482 --> 01:18:30,507 This was under the door. 1142 01:18:38,091 --> 01:18:39,353 What is it? 1143 01:18:40,994 --> 01:18:43,121 Chapter three. 1144 01:18:44,898 --> 01:18:49,198 John, as my lawyer, I want you to know that this next chapter... 1145 01:18:49,403 --> 01:18:52,372 ... is to be read after Vince and my death... 1146 01:18:52,572 --> 01:18:57,236 ... and is only to be used under the most extreme of circumstances. 1147 01:18:58,945 --> 01:19:01,038 We knew we wanted to make an early night of it... 1148 01:19:01,248 --> 01:19:04,684 ... with the telethon starting the next day, so Vince suggested we dine in... 1149 01:19:04,885 --> 01:19:07,877 ... so Maureen could do the interview for her campus paper. 1150 01:19:08,088 --> 01:19:13,082 This is a gift for us from the audience... 1151 01:19:13,727 --> 01:19:17,663 ...from the people, the people that are out there. 1152 01:19:18,532 --> 01:19:22,764 Sooner or later you gotta say, "We wanna give something back." 1153 01:19:23,036 --> 01:19:24,628 I think that's really important. 1154 01:19:24,838 --> 01:19:29,138 Not many people would take the time out to do that. Thank you. 1155 01:19:29,342 --> 01:19:32,072 She actually hid her tape recorder in the room-service cart... 1156 01:19:32,279 --> 01:19:35,043 ... because she didn't want the hotel to find out. 1157 01:19:42,856 --> 01:19:46,087 We finished the interview and then asked her to stay. 1158 01:19:49,162 --> 01:19:53,223 To help us get into the mood, I did a Tuinal... 1159 01:19:53,433 --> 01:19:55,060 ... then she did one... 1160 01:19:55,268 --> 01:19:59,398 ... and Vince, he did two, because he was always doing two. 1161 01:20:00,273 --> 01:20:04,232 We got into the second of the three bottles of Mo�t we'd ordered. 1162 01:20:04,444 --> 01:20:09,609 We thought it would be better to keep the action to neutral territory. 1163 01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:14,485 God... 1164 01:20:14,788 --> 01:20:16,483 ... she was beautiful. 1165 01:20:19,159 --> 01:20:21,389 I chain-locked the front door to the living room... 1166 01:20:21,595 --> 01:20:25,122 ... to make sure that housekeeping, eager to turn down our beds... 1167 01:20:25,332 --> 01:20:27,892 ... didn't walk in on an employee having a m�nage � trois... 1168 01:20:28,101 --> 01:20:30,194 ... with the hotel's headliners. 1169 01:20:30,404 --> 01:20:33,237 Then I went to chain-lock the door to Vince's room. 1170 01:20:33,440 --> 01:20:36,773 I took a quick shower, I put on my robe... 1171 01:20:36,977 --> 01:20:41,209 ... and brought a robe for Maureen, in case she felt a little bashful. 1172 01:20:44,818 --> 01:20:47,116 So much for bashful. 1173 01:20:47,821 --> 01:20:50,949 I threw the robe on the bed and moved into the room... 1174 01:20:51,158 --> 01:20:54,150 ... half-worried that they would finish without me. 1175 01:21:15,015 --> 01:21:17,381 Watch it there, compadre. 1176 01:21:18,185 --> 01:21:20,949 It's a little hard to tell who's who, under the circumstances. 1177 01:21:21,154 --> 01:21:24,555 I'm the one that's more than a little hard, you dumb fucking limey. 1178 01:21:25,025 --> 01:21:28,791 Well, I'm... I'm the one with a foreskin. Don't you forget that. 1179 01:21:32,366 --> 01:21:34,266 Watch it. You got the end zone there, Vince. 1180 01:21:34,468 --> 01:21:37,460 - Come on, come on. Fuck. - You're gonna like it. 1181 01:21:37,671 --> 01:21:39,764 It's like from another planet when you come. 1182 01:21:39,973 --> 01:21:41,770 - Get the fuck off me. - I'd never hurt you. 1183 01:21:41,975 --> 01:21:43,806 - I'd never hurt you. - Get the fuck off me! 1184 01:21:44,011 --> 01:21:47,242 - No, trust me. It's like double the sex... - Get the fuck off me! 1185 01:21:47,447 --> 01:21:49,938 We don't fuck, Vince! 1186 01:21:50,550 --> 01:21:53,678 We're buddies, we're pals, we're partners, we're a duo. 1187 01:21:53,887 --> 01:21:57,118 We love each other, but we don't fuck! 1188 01:21:57,958 --> 01:22:00,188 We're fucking stars! 1189 01:22:00,394 --> 01:22:01,793 - We can travel together. - Okay. 1190 01:22:01,995 --> 01:22:06,796 We can hang out together, we can live together, but we can't be queers! 1191 01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:09,992 It's not funny! 1192 01:22:32,859 --> 01:22:34,986 I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. 1193 01:22:35,195 --> 01:22:36,662 About? 1194 01:22:38,865 --> 01:22:40,890 About your nose. 1195 01:22:43,303 --> 01:22:45,271 It's not broken, is it? 1196 01:22:47,908 --> 01:22:49,398 It's how I am. 1197 01:22:49,609 --> 01:22:53,340 Guess the question is, who's gonna pay me? 1198 01:22:53,547 --> 01:22:55,674 This surprised me. 1199 01:22:55,882 --> 01:22:58,282 The girl was not a hooker. 1200 01:23:08,728 --> 01:23:11,458 My wallet was on top of my robe. 1201 01:23:11,932 --> 01:23:13,923 I took out some money. 1202 01:23:14,334 --> 01:23:16,495 I don't remember how much. 1203 01:23:33,119 --> 01:23:34,552 I don't think so. 1204 01:23:35,856 --> 01:23:38,484 That's more than you would make in a month of tips. 1205 01:23:38,692 --> 01:23:40,990 I'm not looking for a tip. 1206 01:23:42,062 --> 01:23:43,689 What the hell are you saying? 1207 01:23:43,897 --> 01:23:46,263 Honey, I'm in my last year of college. 1208 01:23:46,466 --> 01:23:49,162 This is a summer job. 1209 01:23:52,305 --> 01:23:54,273 I wanna write. 1210 01:23:54,474 --> 01:23:57,034 I wanna be a journalist. 1211 01:24:01,481 --> 01:24:04,575 So I could either use this information... 1212 01:24:05,752 --> 01:24:07,310 ...or I could use a lot of money. 1213 01:24:09,689 --> 01:24:12,487 I promise you this will only cost you once. 1214 01:24:15,695 --> 01:24:18,994 I'm so tired, I don't even think I'm going home. 1215 01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:21,661 I think it's the Tuinals. 1216 01:24:24,037 --> 01:24:27,234 Hey, Lanny, don't take it personally. 1217 01:24:27,440 --> 01:24:29,806 You were a great lover. 1218 01:24:30,010 --> 01:24:33,446 You have got the cutest little butt. 1219 01:24:38,018 --> 01:24:40,714 I guess Vince thinks so too. 1220 01:24:45,725 --> 01:24:47,590 Night, Lanny. 1221 01:24:49,629 --> 01:24:53,121 I would never see her alive again. 1222 01:24:55,602 --> 01:24:57,934 I put a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my door... 1223 01:24:58,138 --> 01:25:01,335 ... fastened the chain lock, in case the maid didn't read. 1224 01:25:01,541 --> 01:25:03,475 I left a wake-up call for 8... 1225 01:25:03,677 --> 01:25:06,111 ... and went to sleep knowing that a telethon... 1226 01:25:06,313 --> 01:25:10,306 ... was the least of the ordeals I was going to have to face in the morning. 1227 01:25:15,355 --> 01:25:17,152 The Tuinals had really conked me out... 1228 01:25:17,357 --> 01:25:20,485 ... and I slept through my wake-up call that morning. 1229 01:25:20,694 --> 01:25:22,821 The operator had called Reuben down the hall... 1230 01:25:23,029 --> 01:25:24,724 ... to see if he could wake me... 1231 01:25:24,931 --> 01:25:28,128 ... but he couldn't get in because we had chain-locked all the doors. 1232 01:25:29,269 --> 01:25:31,032 Reuben! 1233 01:25:31,238 --> 01:25:34,105 I yelled for Reuben to wake up Vince while I worked on Maureen... 1234 01:25:34,307 --> 01:25:38,107 ... trying to make myself believe that she was still sleeping. 1235 01:25:40,780 --> 01:25:42,213 Fuck. 1236 01:25:42,649 --> 01:25:44,276 No, no. Fuck. 1237 01:25:44,484 --> 01:25:47,976 The autopsy revealed the drugs and alcohol in her body... 1238 01:25:48,188 --> 01:25:50,884 ... but I knew it wasn't enough to kill her. 1239 01:25:55,095 --> 01:25:56,858 All three doors to the suite... 1240 01:25:57,063 --> 01:26:00,624 ... were chain-locked from the inside when I found her. 1241 01:26:01,201 --> 01:26:02,498 I hadn't touched her. 1242 01:26:02,702 --> 01:26:08,800 That's how I know that my former partner and friend, Vince Collins... 1243 01:26:09,009 --> 01:26:12,240 ... murdered Maureen O'Flaherty. 1244 01:26:16,249 --> 01:26:19,446 You must have guessed by now that Vince and I had found a way... 1245 01:26:19,653 --> 01:26:22,645 ... to relocate Maureen's body to New Jersey. 1246 01:26:22,856 --> 01:26:26,383 This is the one criminal act the both of us committed... 1247 01:26:26,593 --> 01:26:31,155 ... but we were in a panic and needed to create an ironclad alibi. 1248 01:26:31,364 --> 01:26:33,855 The crates were delivered to our room. 1249 01:26:34,067 --> 01:26:36,763 The publicist had opened the crates for a photo op. 1250 01:26:36,970 --> 01:26:38,494 But the official story became... 1251 01:26:38,705 --> 01:26:41,367 ... that she found Maureen's overdosed body in the tub. 1252 01:26:41,574 --> 01:26:45,567 A police officer called Scaglia was there to witness the whole thing. 1253 01:26:45,779 --> 01:26:47,804 Live, until they drop dead... 1254 01:26:48,014 --> 01:26:49,379 During the telethon... 1255 01:26:49,582 --> 01:26:53,609 ... I kept telling myself that I could forgive Vince for two reasons. 1256 01:26:53,820 --> 01:26:56,721 First of all, I don't think he could have known what he was doing. 1257 01:26:56,923 --> 01:27:00,256 He was completely out of it, even more than usual. 1258 01:27:00,460 --> 01:27:02,325 The second is that he was terrified... 1259 01:27:02,529 --> 01:27:05,657 ... that this incident would become public knowledge. 1260 01:27:05,865 --> 01:27:09,528 In those days, the slightest hint that he could swing both ways... 1261 01:27:09,736 --> 01:27:13,297 ... would destroy his show-business career in an instant. 1262 01:27:14,174 --> 01:27:17,075 As it was, it was only to destroy us. 1263 01:27:17,677 --> 01:27:19,736 We completed the telethon... 1264 01:27:19,946 --> 01:27:22,540 ... but we both knew we were finished. 1265 01:27:23,316 --> 01:27:24,749 The marriage... 1266 01:27:25,218 --> 01:27:26,947 ... was over. 1267 01:27:28,421 --> 01:27:31,151 There was a moment in the middle of the telethon... 1268 01:27:31,357 --> 01:27:33,951 ... where I actually broke down. 1269 01:27:34,160 --> 01:27:37,323 I just couldn't control myself. 1270 01:27:37,530 --> 01:27:40,021 I remember I mumbled something... 1271 01:27:40,233 --> 01:27:44,727 ... to a little girl who was recounting her experiences with the disease. 1272 01:27:45,338 --> 01:27:47,772 I don't remember what I said... 1273 01:27:48,241 --> 01:27:51,074 ... but I do remember feeling worthless. 1274 01:27:52,746 --> 01:27:55,510 Everyone thought that my tears were for her. 1275 01:27:55,882 --> 01:27:59,215 It made for a great picture in the papers the next day. 1276 01:28:01,554 --> 01:28:03,419 Mr. Morris will see you now. 1277 01:28:27,847 --> 01:28:31,010 I expected to see you at Vince's funeral. 1278 01:28:32,419 --> 01:28:36,685 Kind of heartless of you not to show up, don't you think, Karen? 1279 01:28:37,624 --> 01:28:40,252 Considering you're probably the one that... 1280 01:28:41,828 --> 01:28:43,693 ...drove him to it. 1281 01:28:45,265 --> 01:28:46,857 I won't answer that. 1282 01:28:49,502 --> 01:28:51,231 So don't. 1283 01:28:51,571 --> 01:28:53,402 So get the fuck out of my office. 1284 01:28:54,107 --> 01:28:58,840 Lanny, I have interview material with Vince up until the moment he met you. 1285 01:28:59,045 --> 01:29:01,206 It would be great if this... 1286 01:29:01,548 --> 01:29:04,108 ...warm, funny side of Vince could reach the public. 1287 01:29:04,317 --> 01:29:07,878 And what the fuck do you know about Vince's warm and funny side? 1288 01:29:10,256 --> 01:29:12,781 What about the warm and funny fact that he killed himself? 1289 01:29:13,226 --> 01:29:16,457 - Why would he do that? - I don't know. 1290 01:29:18,097 --> 01:29:20,327 That's the answer I'm giving you... 1291 01:29:20,533 --> 01:29:22,626 ...and anyone else that asks. 1292 01:29:23,336 --> 01:29:25,896 - "I don't know." - But you do know, don't you, Lanny? 1293 01:29:26,105 --> 01:29:28,164 Whatever I know, sweetheart... 1294 01:29:28,374 --> 01:29:29,671 ...I�m writing in my book. 1295 01:29:30,777 --> 01:29:34,110 Except you're never going to finish your book. 1296 01:29:34,547 --> 01:29:36,139 You don't have to. 1297 01:29:37,217 --> 01:29:39,185 The person who needed your book is dead. 1298 01:29:40,854 --> 01:29:42,822 You always wrote the material for your shows. 1299 01:29:43,022 --> 01:29:44,853 Every single word was rehearsed. 1300 01:29:45,058 --> 01:29:47,526 The book was a manual, a set of notes... 1301 01:29:47,727 --> 01:29:50,560 ...so Vince would get every detail of the official story. 1302 01:29:51,731 --> 01:29:54,359 "A couple of extra babes for him to sleep with that night. 1303 01:29:54,567 --> 01:29:56,535 A few of them on hand. 1304 01:29:56,736 --> 01:29:59,500 Well, not exactly on his hand. That wasn't his preference." 1305 01:30:01,174 --> 01:30:04,234 - So, what's your point? - He quoted that very line to me. 1306 01:30:04,444 --> 01:30:08,642 Quoted it from your manuscript as if he were saying it for the first time. 1307 01:30:10,850 --> 01:30:13,216 You wrote it because you loved him. 1308 01:30:17,123 --> 01:30:19,250 And feared for him. 1309 01:30:22,095 --> 01:30:23,687 And feared for yourself. 1310 01:30:28,601 --> 01:30:30,535 And then you wrote this: 1311 01:30:36,109 --> 01:30:37,576 Where the fuck did you get that? 1312 01:30:37,777 --> 01:30:40,302 - Delivered to my room. - Bullshit. You stole it. 1313 01:30:40,513 --> 01:30:44,813 Maureen O'Flaherty was killed in the Versailles Hotel, in your room... 1314 01:30:45,018 --> 01:30:47,578 ...the night before the telethon. 1315 01:30:49,989 --> 01:30:52,355 The night before we met. 1316 01:30:58,831 --> 01:31:00,924 Get out of my office. 1317 01:31:49,415 --> 01:31:51,212 Miss Trout? 1318 01:31:52,352 --> 01:31:55,412 We walked through the deserted backlot of the studio... 1319 01:31:55,622 --> 01:31:59,888 ... and I confessed that I wasn't Bonnie Trout. 1320 01:32:00,093 --> 01:32:02,186 That I was writing a book about Vince Collins. 1321 01:32:02,395 --> 01:32:04,522 And that I was trying to uncover the secret... 1322 01:32:04,731 --> 01:32:07,063 ... behind what happened to Maureen O'Flaherty. 1323 01:32:07,533 --> 01:32:10,024 I told him what I found out. 1324 01:32:10,236 --> 01:32:11,863 He prayed that he would be forgiven... 1325 01:32:12,071 --> 01:32:14,369 ... for having been there as the murder was concealed. 1326 01:32:14,574 --> 01:32:16,269 Miss O'Connor... 1327 01:32:16,576 --> 01:32:20,535 ...I have a tape recording of the night Miss O'Flaherty was killed. 1328 01:32:21,180 --> 01:32:24,343 She had brought a machine. 1329 01:32:26,486 --> 01:32:28,477 - For the interview. - Yes. 1330 01:32:28,688 --> 01:32:31,782 I found it as I was getting rid of her things. 1331 01:32:33,526 --> 01:32:36,188 She kept it on? 1332 01:32:37,997 --> 01:32:40,989 Could you use this tape for your book? 1333 01:32:45,171 --> 01:32:46,798 Of course. 1334 01:32:47,440 --> 01:32:49,101 Miss O'Connor... 1335 01:32:50,043 --> 01:32:51,874 ...is it something? 1336 01:32:53,179 --> 01:32:54,578 Oh, my. 1337 01:32:54,781 --> 01:32:56,806 Is it something I could sell? 1338 01:32:57,850 --> 01:33:00,944 Reuben, I can't speak on behalf of my publishers... 1339 01:33:01,154 --> 01:33:03,714 ...but I'm sure that we can settle on a price. 1340 01:33:03,923 --> 01:33:06,289 Oh, thank you, Miss O'Connor. 1341 01:33:10,063 --> 01:33:12,623 I'll even spice it up a little, talk about how... 1342 01:33:12,832 --> 01:33:15,858 ... the night before the telethon, I wanted to sleep like a babe. 1343 01:33:16,069 --> 01:33:18,799 So to cover my bets, I kept a few babes on hand. 1344 01:33:19,372 --> 01:33:21,203 Well, not exactly on my hand. 1345 01:33:21,407 --> 01:33:24,706 That's not my preference, as you may have gathered by now. 1346 01:33:26,846 --> 01:33:28,575 I need the money. 1347 01:33:30,483 --> 01:33:33,179 Did you have a figure in mind? 1348 01:33:35,288 --> 01:33:38,416 Would you think a million dollars would be too much? 1349 01:33:39,358 --> 01:33:43,226 Vince was being paid a million dollars for his life. 1350 01:33:43,429 --> 01:33:44,726 This is one night. 1351 01:33:45,698 --> 01:33:47,723 The most important night. 1352 01:33:49,168 --> 01:33:51,159 You could have left me a note or called me. 1353 01:33:51,370 --> 01:33:54,066 - I did leave you a note. - Where? 1354 01:34:03,816 --> 01:34:06,080 Lanny left this for me at my apartment. 1355 01:34:07,186 --> 01:34:09,848 It's his version of what happened that night. 1356 01:34:11,190 --> 01:34:14,921 On its own, it's absolutely useless to me. 1357 01:34:15,128 --> 01:34:17,494 I could have typed it myself. 1358 01:34:20,900 --> 01:34:25,428 But if it matched what's recorded on your tape... 1359 01:34:28,241 --> 01:34:29,970 ...it would make it priceless. 1360 01:34:34,914 --> 01:34:36,814 Which is why you sent it to me. 1361 01:34:39,752 --> 01:34:42,880 You just said Mr. Morris left it at your apartment. 1362 01:34:43,089 --> 01:34:45,523 He was surprised I had it. 1363 01:34:47,693 --> 01:34:51,220 Like he was surprised I hadn't found the note he left for me at the hotel. 1364 01:34:51,430 --> 01:34:54,160 The note you must've disposed of as you were tidying the room. 1365 01:34:54,367 --> 01:34:56,494 I told you how he deals with women. I was afraid. 1366 01:34:56,702 --> 01:34:58,465 Really afraid of what he might do to you. 1367 01:34:58,671 --> 01:35:00,798 Maybe you were afraid of what I'd... 1368 01:35:01,007 --> 01:35:03,498 I'd do to him. And to you. 1369 01:35:03,709 --> 01:35:07,611 Why would I be afraid of a schoolteacher called Bonnie Trout? 1370 01:35:07,814 --> 01:35:10,374 Because you knew I was Karen O'Connor. 1371 01:35:10,583 --> 01:35:13,313 When I woke up, you folded my clothes... 1372 01:35:13,519 --> 01:35:15,419 ...and placed my pocketbook on the bed. 1373 01:35:15,621 --> 01:35:19,614 The pocketbook that had my name and the letter from my publisher. 1374 01:35:21,327 --> 01:35:24,626 I was writing about the one thing you wanted to have total control over: 1375 01:35:24,830 --> 01:35:26,821 Collins and Morris. 1376 01:35:28,334 --> 01:35:32,430 You made me abandon any thought of trying to contact Lanny. 1377 01:35:33,039 --> 01:35:35,439 You made me feel like I was less than nothing to him... 1378 01:35:35,641 --> 01:35:37,802 ...because you were playing your own complex game. 1379 01:35:38,010 --> 01:35:43,710 And what exactly was this complex game I was playing, Miss O'Connor? 1380 01:36:02,335 --> 01:36:03,996 You were in the room. 1381 01:36:05,338 --> 01:36:07,067 That night. 1382 01:36:07,807 --> 01:36:10,503 Lanny had a robe. He dropped it on the bed. 1383 01:36:10,710 --> 01:36:13,304 After Maureen asked for money... 1384 01:36:13,512 --> 01:36:15,480 ...the wallet was on top. It had been folded. 1385 01:36:15,681 --> 01:36:19,173 Well, I always, always arranged Mr. Morris' things. 1386 01:36:19,385 --> 01:36:22,650 After he went to bed. You were there before. 1387 01:36:22,855 --> 01:36:26,052 How would I get out? All three doors were chain-locked. 1388 01:36:44,377 --> 01:36:46,572 Through Vince's room. 1389 01:36:48,014 --> 01:36:49,572 Then, the next morning... 1390 01:36:49,782 --> 01:36:53,081 ... you must have chain-locked the door before you went to wake him up. 1391 01:36:57,189 --> 01:36:59,316 Fuck! 1392 01:37:02,395 --> 01:37:04,795 Lanny let me read the first chapter. 1393 01:37:04,997 --> 01:37:07,329 Vince sent me the second. 1394 01:37:09,936 --> 01:37:11,801 And you stole this. 1395 01:37:12,004 --> 01:37:13,403 To whet my appetite. 1396 01:37:37,930 --> 01:37:39,659 I wanna write. 1397 01:37:39,865 --> 01:37:41,765 I wanna be a journalist. 1398 01:37:42,401 --> 01:37:45,461 So I could either use this information... 1399 01:37:46,305 --> 01:37:48,296 ... or I could use a lot of money. 1400 01:37:48,507 --> 01:37:50,873 Is that why you killed her? 1401 01:37:52,144 --> 01:37:53,406 To protect them? 1402 01:38:00,753 --> 01:38:04,621 For 15 years... 1403 01:38:04,824 --> 01:38:07,884 ... he tormented Vince and Lanny. 1404 01:38:11,464 --> 01:38:15,161 He could never blackmail Vince while Sally Sanmarco was alive... 1405 01:38:16,068 --> 01:38:20,437 ... so he waited until Sally died to activate his retirement plan: 1406 01:38:23,042 --> 01:38:26,102 A million dollars from Vince. 1407 01:38:26,879 --> 01:38:31,213 A million dollars for the same tape he offered to me. 1408 01:38:36,122 --> 01:38:39,990 He would never get his money, and I would never see him again. 1409 01:38:46,031 --> 01:38:48,659 He had taken her life... 1410 01:38:48,868 --> 01:38:51,632 ... and with it her mother's heart... 1411 01:38:52,304 --> 01:38:54,602 ... and her father's mind. 1412 01:38:56,242 --> 01:38:57,732 And now... 1413 01:38:57,943 --> 01:39:01,174 ... all that remained of Maureen O'Flaherty... 1414 01:39:01,380 --> 01:39:05,407 ... was a tree in her mother's garden. 1415 01:39:20,166 --> 01:39:23,397 Your daughter learned something about Vince Collins... 1416 01:39:23,602 --> 01:39:26,230 ...that he didn't want anyone to know. 1417 01:39:26,505 --> 01:39:28,200 Because of that... 1418 01:39:28,407 --> 01:39:29,965 ...she was killed. 1419 01:39:30,176 --> 01:39:33,339 If it's of any small comfort, she probably didn't suffer. 1420 01:39:33,946 --> 01:39:37,541 I want people to know about this man. 1421 01:39:38,150 --> 01:39:40,948 I want them to know why he killed her. 1422 01:39:46,292 --> 01:39:48,453 There is someone in all this... 1423 01:39:48,661 --> 01:39:50,754 ...who is totally innocent of any involvement... 1424 01:39:50,963 --> 01:39:52,863 ...in the events of that night... 1425 01:39:53,065 --> 01:39:57,900 ...but whose life will be made infinitely worse if I tell the truth at this time. 1426 01:39:58,938 --> 01:40:02,465 I wanna protect this person from any further pain. 1427 01:40:05,511 --> 01:40:07,479 I promise you... 1428 01:40:08,047 --> 01:40:11,539 I promise you I will write down the truth that I've learned... 1429 01:40:11,750 --> 01:40:14,742 ...but I have to let matters lie until this person has died... 1430 01:40:14,954 --> 01:40:17,149 ...and the truth can no longer touch them. 1431 01:40:22,361 --> 01:40:25,455 I saw no indication on her face... 1432 01:40:25,664 --> 01:40:28,224 ... that she knew I was talking about her. 1433 01:41:02,001 --> 01:41:04,595 You're a very special girl. 1434 01:41:12,745 --> 01:41:15,213 Forgive me. 1435 01:43:15,214 --> 01:43:18,014 Ripped by: SkyFury