1 00:00:02,857 --> 00:00:07,624 Leaping about in time, I've found that there are some things in life that I can't change, 2 00:00:07,696 --> 00:00:10,597 and there are some things that I can. 3 00:00:10,665 --> 00:00:13,964 To save a life, to change a heart, 4 00:00:14,035 --> 00:00:15,969 to make the right choice. 5 00:00:16,037 --> 00:00:18,870 I guess that's what life's about... 6 00:00:18,940 --> 00:00:21,932 making the right choice at the right time. 7 00:00:37,291 --> 00:00:38,989 Leonard? 8 00:00:39,060 --> 00:00:42,029 We appreciate the dramatic pause, Leonard, 9 00:00:42,097 --> 00:00:44,258 but we're waitin' for your answer. 10 00:00:50,705 --> 00:00:54,163 - Would you mind repeating the question? 11 00:00:54,242 --> 00:00:56,904 Oh, for heaven's sakes, Leonard. 12 00:00:58,513 --> 00:01:02,449 Everybody in Twelve Oaks Parish knows the answer. 13 00:01:02,517 --> 00:01:04,985 All right, all right. 14 00:01:06,121 --> 00:01:09,022 Delilah Berry, you're accused of murdering... 15 00:01:09,090 --> 00:01:14,084 Houston Palmer Cotter on the 15th ofJune, 1957. 16 00:01:14,162 --> 00:01:18,861 - Murder? - How do you plead, guilty or not guilty? 17 00:01:23,305 --> 00:01:27,207 Leonard. Not guilty. 18 00:01:27,275 --> 00:01:30,369 What did that boy say? 19 00:01:30,445 --> 00:01:32,811 Leonard, we had a deal! 20 00:01:32,881 --> 00:01:35,543 Bo! Bo! Twenty years for second-degree murder. 21 00:01:35,617 --> 00:01:37,812 Order. Order in this court. 22 00:01:37,886 --> 00:01:41,287 Now I'm going after first-degree murder... 23 00:01:41,356 --> 00:01:43,347 and the electric chair. 24 00:03:05,706 --> 00:03:08,834 We had a deal, Judge. A deal! 25 00:03:10,378 --> 00:03:14,940 And Leonard just ups and throws it out the window. 26 00:03:15,016 --> 00:03:18,247 I'm certain Leonard has his reasons, Bo, 27 00:03:18,319 --> 00:03:22,119 and if you'll just hold your water, we'll find out what they are. 28 00:03:22,189 --> 00:03:24,180 Leonard? 29 00:03:29,397 --> 00:03:32,366 She's innocent. She signed a confession. 30 00:03:32,433 --> 00:03:34,924 Bo has a point there, Leonard. 31 00:03:36,404 --> 00:03:39,237 Please, God, let me say something legal. 32 00:03:40,574 --> 00:03:43,065 Miranda. Miranda? 33 00:03:43,144 --> 00:03:46,272 Yeah, uh, she wasn't read her Miranda rights at the time of her arrest. 34 00:03:46,347 --> 00:03:49,339 What the hell are Miranda rights? 35 00:03:49,417 --> 00:03:53,080 Oh, you know, the right to remain silent, the right to have your attorney present. 36 00:03:55,356 --> 00:03:57,290 But not until the '60s. 37 00:03:57,358 --> 00:04:00,293 Leonard Dancey, somebody's finally pulled the plug on you. 38 00:04:00,361 --> 00:04:02,329 Lookee here, Leonard. 39 00:04:02,396 --> 00:04:06,332 Lila has confessed to killing Houston. 40 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,496 So unless you got evidence to the contrary, 41 00:04:10,571 --> 00:04:15,031 I suggest you take Bo's generous offer and plead that gal guilty. 42 00:04:15,109 --> 00:04:19,409 Twenty years in prison is a far sight better than the electric chair. 43 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:21,345 - She's not guilty. - Damn! 44 00:04:21,415 --> 00:04:24,384 Calm down, Bo. Calm down. 45 00:04:24,452 --> 00:04:27,615 Leonard, did the captain know you intended... 46 00:04:27,688 --> 00:04:30,680 to plead Lila not guilty? 47 00:04:32,727 --> 00:04:36,527 - I don't think so. - Then why did you do it, son? 48 00:04:38,966 --> 00:04:44,063 Because... I don't believe she's guilty. 49 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,538 Leonard, 50 00:04:48,609 --> 00:04:52,375 Lila's a mighty attractive and warm-blooded woman. 51 00:04:55,850 --> 00:04:59,115 And I can see why any man would be tempted... 52 00:04:59,186 --> 00:05:03,782 to, uh, defend her in spite of the facts. 53 00:05:03,858 --> 00:05:05,792 But believe me, son, 54 00:05:05,860 --> 00:05:08,852 no matter how good it is, 55 00:05:08,929 --> 00:05:11,557 it ain't worth the mess you're making. 56 00:05:11,632 --> 00:05:13,623 Damn it, Leonard. She's guilty. 57 00:05:15,069 --> 00:05:18,129 You're gonna have to prove it. 58 00:05:23,377 --> 00:05:27,211 Since the defendant has pleaded not guilty, 59 00:05:27,281 --> 00:05:30,546 this court has no recourse but to try Delilah Berry... 60 00:05:30,618 --> 00:05:33,280 for the murder of Houston Cotter. 61 00:05:34,855 --> 00:05:37,847 This court is adjourned until 10:00 a.m. Monday. 62 00:05:40,861 --> 00:05:43,421 Why'd you do it? 63 00:05:43,497 --> 00:05:46,660 Because you're not guilty. I never said that. 64 00:05:46,734 --> 00:05:48,793 Your eyes did. 65 00:05:48,869 --> 00:05:51,429 Is that necessary? 66 00:05:51,505 --> 00:05:54,497 Ow. Just a minute, please. 67 00:05:54,575 --> 00:05:57,066 Excuse me. I'm not done talking with my client. 68 00:05:57,144 --> 00:06:01,080 You are, until visiting hours tomorrow morning. 69 00:06:01,148 --> 00:06:03,639 Captain. Captain. 70 00:06:07,688 --> 00:06:09,849 Leonard. 71 00:06:09,924 --> 00:06:13,724 Why don't I just give you a lift home, son? 72 00:06:13,794 --> 00:06:15,728 All right. 73 00:06:15,796 --> 00:06:20,460 Despite the warm voice and friendly smile, I didn't like him. 74 00:06:20,534 --> 00:06:23,025 I didn't like the way people parted before him... 75 00:06:23,104 --> 00:06:25,937 or the way they touched their hats and said "Captain" as he passed. 76 00:06:26,006 --> 00:06:29,601 But since he was obviously the man who ran this town, I had to learn all I could about him. 77 00:06:29,677 --> 00:06:32,669 Besides, I had no idea where I lived. 78 00:06:32,746 --> 00:06:36,409 You know, Leonard, your daddy and I were partners for a long time. 79 00:06:36,484 --> 00:06:38,714 A long time. 80 00:06:38,786 --> 00:06:41,983 That's why I feel I can speak frankly to you. 81 00:06:42,056 --> 00:06:45,548 I know that, uh, Houston's trial is your big opportunity, son. 82 00:06:45,626 --> 00:06:49,722 - You mean Lila's trial, don't you? - Lila's trial. 83 00:06:50,731 --> 00:06:54,633 Just shows you how pain and grief can addle a man's mind. 84 00:06:54,702 --> 00:06:56,636 Yeah. 85 00:06:56,704 --> 00:06:59,730 But I figure that's sort oflike what happened to you in court. 86 00:06:59,807 --> 00:07:03,208 All that excitement. The whole town watching you. 87 00:07:03,277 --> 00:07:06,713 I reckon you just got carried away, huh? 88 00:07:06,780 --> 00:07:09,340 Like a pup on his first hunt. I'm not a pup. 89 00:07:09,416 --> 00:07:12,317 She murdered my boy, Leonard. 90 00:07:13,721 --> 00:07:16,212 But... 91 00:07:16,290 --> 00:07:18,690 I gotta think about Houston's mama. 92 00:07:19,793 --> 00:07:21,727 She blames herself. 93 00:07:21,795 --> 00:07:26,630 She felt sorry for Lila from the minute she set eyes on her. 94 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:28,691 Took her in, kept her on, 95 00:07:28,769 --> 00:07:31,829 when I could see it was leadin' to nothin' but trouble. 96 00:07:31,906 --> 00:07:36,036 Now, that's why I agreed to lower the charge to second-degree murder... 97 00:07:36,110 --> 00:07:39,739 to get this over with as soon as possible, for Sadie's sake. 98 00:07:39,813 --> 00:07:42,646 You agreed? So did you. 99 00:07:42,716 --> 00:07:45,184 Yeah, well, I-I changed my mind. Why? 100 00:07:45,252 --> 00:07:47,812 Because she's not guilty. 101 00:07:47,888 --> 00:07:50,379 Leonard, that nigger murdered my only son. 102 00:07:50,457 --> 00:07:54,257 First of all... we don't know it was murder. 103 00:07:54,328 --> 00:07:57,161 And second of all, you can call her black, colored or Negro, 104 00:07:57,231 --> 00:07:59,392 but don't you ever ca... 105 00:07:59,466 --> 00:08:03,402 Don't you ever use that word in front of me again. 106 00:08:07,474 --> 00:08:11,467 Well, you never were much of a lady's man, Leonard. 107 00:08:11,545 --> 00:08:13,536 She rubbin' up against you, son? 108 00:08:13,614 --> 00:08:17,607 Bendin'over so you can see down her dress, huh? 109 00:08:18,686 --> 00:08:22,918 I used to watch her scrubbin' the floors on her knees, 110 00:08:22,990 --> 00:08:25,015 barefoot, 111 00:08:25,092 --> 00:08:27,458 her skirt hitched up in her belt. 112 00:08:29,597 --> 00:08:31,622 I understand, Leonard. 113 00:08:31,699 --> 00:08:34,065 I truly do. 114 00:08:34,134 --> 00:08:36,125 No, you don't. 115 00:08:43,143 --> 00:08:45,475 What? You're home. 116 00:08:47,381 --> 00:08:50,077 Oh. Leonard? 117 00:08:51,385 --> 00:08:55,719 I want you to spend tonight thinking about what's best for everybody. 118 00:08:55,789 --> 00:08:58,815 For Sadie, for your, uh, client... 119 00:08:58,892 --> 00:09:00,792 and for you. 120 00:09:04,865 --> 00:09:07,299 Especially for you, Leonard. 121 00:09:11,572 --> 00:09:14,507 Thanks for the ride, 122 00:09:14,575 --> 00:09:16,566 Captain. 123 00:09:20,214 --> 00:09:23,308 Was that Captain Cotter I saw dropping you off? 124 00:09:23,384 --> 00:09:26,217 Yeah, I-I guess so. Oh! 125 00:09:26,287 --> 00:09:28,221 Oh! 126 00:09:28,289 --> 00:09:32,919 The whole town is talkin' about what you did in court. 127 00:09:32,993 --> 00:09:36,394 Now, I must admit, when you agreed to defendin' that colored whore, 128 00:09:36,463 --> 00:09:40,456 which everybody knows Houston took to his bed when she was just 14, 129 00:09:40,534 --> 00:09:42,468 I was appalled. 130 00:09:42,536 --> 00:09:47,030 I thought, "Lord help me, we will never get into the Twelve Oaks Country Club." 131 00:09:48,609 --> 00:09:50,941 But when I came out just now... 132 00:09:51,011 --> 00:09:55,243 and saw Captain Cotter in his new Cadillac, 133 00:09:55,316 --> 00:09:58,285 driving you right up to our house... 134 00:09:58,352 --> 00:10:00,616 our house... 135 00:10:00,688 --> 00:10:03,486 I said to myself, "Sugee, 136 00:10:03,557 --> 00:10:06,219 we are gonna be famous." 137 00:10:08,896 --> 00:10:11,558 Honey? Hmm? 138 00:10:11,632 --> 00:10:15,033 I am gonna bake you... 139 00:10:15,102 --> 00:10:17,832 a pecan pie. 140 00:10:17,905 --> 00:10:19,896 Hmm. 141 00:10:23,744 --> 00:10:26,736 And let you play Rhett Butler tonight. 142 00:10:35,656 --> 00:10:38,386 Fiddle dee dee. Hmm! 143 00:10:50,537 --> 00:10:53,870 It was 3:¡00 in the morning when I finished reading Leonard's briefs on the trial. 144 00:10:53,941 --> 00:10:55,875 Even then, I couldn't sleep, 145 00:10:55,943 --> 00:10:58,104 partly to avoid Scarlett O'Hara, 146 00:10:58,178 --> 00:11:01,807 but mostly because I was frightened for anyone who had me as their lawyer. 147 00:11:01,882 --> 00:11:05,374 All I knew about the law I got from watching a TVshow... 148 00:11:05,452 --> 00:11:07,943 whose name I couldn't even remember. 149 00:11:08,021 --> 00:11:10,182 Well, if it isn't Perry Mason! That's it! 150 00:11:10,257 --> 00:11:13,158 What's it? Never mind, never mind. Where have you been? 151 00:11:13,227 --> 00:11:16,390 I've been sitting up all night with you. No, I mean with Leonard. 152 00:11:16,463 --> 00:11:18,397 What a wimp. 153 00:11:18,465 --> 00:11:22,128 He spends half the morning in the fetal position, and it took another six hours to get him to talk. 154 00:11:22,202 --> 00:11:26,104 What'd he say? He says, "I'm a lawyer. Take me to your leader." 155 00:11:26,173 --> 00:11:28,107 That's a terrifying prospect. 156 00:11:28,175 --> 00:11:31,542 The first alien contact on Earth, and it's a lawyer. 157 00:11:31,612 --> 00:11:33,603 What does Ziggy say? 158 00:11:33,680 --> 00:11:38,242 Uh, well, considering that Leonard won't talk, you probably know more than we do. 159 00:11:38,318 --> 00:11:42,220 But best Ziggy could come up with is you're here to play. 160 00:11:42,289 --> 00:11:44,985 Oh, play Rhett Butler. No. No way. 161 00:11:45,058 --> 00:11:49,722 Tell Ziggy to shove that. Listen, I'm here to save Delilah Berry from the electric chair. 162 00:11:49,797 --> 00:11:52,459 We already ran that scenario. There's no problem. 163 00:11:52,533 --> 00:11:55,229 No? No, she pleads guilty to a lesser charge, 164 00:11:55,302 --> 00:11:58,465 then she gets 20 years instead of the chair. 165 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:04,134 Uh... that's probably before I... 166 00:12:04,211 --> 00:12:07,044 pleaded her not guilty. 167 00:12:07,114 --> 00:12:10,675 What'd you do that for? 'Cause she's not guilty! 168 00:12:10,751 --> 00:12:13,447 Did Lila tell you that? 169 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,819 Well, not in so many words, but her eyes did. 170 00:12:16,890 --> 00:12:21,054 Al, you wouldn't have believed the hatred and bigotry in that courtroom yesterday. 171 00:12:21,128 --> 00:12:23,460 I-I wanted to throw up. 172 00:12:23,530 --> 00:12:26,465 Women politely referred to her as a colored whore. Men just called her a... 173 00:12:26,533 --> 00:12:28,467 All right. I get the picture. 174 00:12:28,535 --> 00:12:32,096 Look, the point is, if she really murdered the son of the most powerful man in this town, 175 00:12:32,172 --> 00:12:34,663 a town where prejudice is as rampant as it is, 176 00:12:34,741 --> 00:12:37,232 do you really think they'd let her plea-bargain for her life? 177 00:12:37,311 --> 00:12:41,372 They're hiding something, Al, and when I find out what it is, I'm gonna prove Lila's innocent. 178 00:12:49,822 --> 00:12:52,814 I was just getting used to the idea of spending the rest of my life... 179 00:12:52,892 --> 00:12:55,087 in a prison cell. 180 00:12:56,162 --> 00:12:58,153 Suppose I'll get used to dying. 181 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:03,992 I'm here to see that that doesn't happen. 182 00:13:04,070 --> 00:13:06,265 Chivalry is not dead. 183 00:13:06,339 --> 00:13:08,273 Just waning in the wings. 184 00:13:11,077 --> 00:13:15,104 You know, you... you shouldn't do that. 185 00:13:15,181 --> 00:13:18,344 What they gonna do? Shorten my life? 186 00:13:23,623 --> 00:13:26,990 Why did you sign the confession? What difference does it make? 187 00:13:27,059 --> 00:13:29,687 Innocent people don't sign confessions. 188 00:13:29,762 --> 00:13:33,596 I ain't been innocent since the day I moved into the captain's house. 189 00:13:34,901 --> 00:13:36,926 I'm Delilah, 190 00:13:37,003 --> 00:13:39,369 the harlot temptress of the Philistines, 191 00:13:39,439 --> 00:13:42,567 who bewitched the golden boy of Twelve Oaks... 192 00:13:42,642 --> 00:13:45,304 and murdered him when he scorned her love. 193 00:13:45,378 --> 00:13:48,643 I'm lucky they're not burning me at the stake. 194 00:13:50,383 --> 00:13:53,511 I suppose the electric chair's... 195 00:13:54,887 --> 00:13:57,515 kind of a modern-day stake... 196 00:13:57,590 --> 00:13:59,524 for a modern-day witch. 197 00:13:59,592 --> 00:14:03,392 Lila, you're not a witch or a murderer. 198 00:14:03,463 --> 00:14:06,057 But I am. 199 00:14:06,132 --> 00:14:09,397 I killed Houston. 200 00:14:12,805 --> 00:14:14,739 I killed him. 201 00:14:14,807 --> 00:14:16,798 Lila, 202 00:14:16,876 --> 00:14:21,813 if it was an act of passion o-or self-defense, I can help you, 203 00:14:21,881 --> 00:14:23,815 but you gotta tell me what happened. 204 00:14:23,883 --> 00:14:26,647 - I want to go back to my cell now. - Lila, please. 205 00:14:26,719 --> 00:14:28,949 I killed him, all right? 206 00:14:29,021 --> 00:14:33,014 How many times you gonna make me say it? I killed him! 207 00:14:33,092 --> 00:14:35,583 Chigger! I want out of here. 208 00:14:37,196 --> 00:14:40,632 I was right here, Lila. No reason to yell. 209 00:14:40,700 --> 00:14:43,191 I know right where you are. 210 00:14:43,269 --> 00:14:45,760 I know right where everybody is. 211 00:14:51,577 --> 00:14:54,603 What do you want to see her confession for? 212 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,308 Because I'm her defense attorney. 213 00:14:57,383 --> 00:15:00,113 I want to see everything pertaining to this case. 214 00:15:00,186 --> 00:15:03,087 I want to see her confession, 215 00:15:03,155 --> 00:15:05,646 the coroner's report, your investigation... 216 00:15:05,725 --> 00:15:09,456 Oh, Leonard, we're all really impressed you wanna do a good job, 217 00:15:09,529 --> 00:15:11,463 but enough's enough. 218 00:15:11,531 --> 00:15:15,524 Not if Lila goes to the electric chair. Now, whose fault is that? 219 00:15:20,506 --> 00:15:22,838 I want to see that confession, 220 00:15:22,909 --> 00:15:26,072 the police report, the coroner's report, 221 00:15:26,145 --> 00:15:28,204 everything on this case. 222 00:15:28,281 --> 00:15:30,875 Now, I don't know if you have the right to do that. 223 00:15:30,950 --> 00:15:33,942 I'm her defense counsel! Of course I have the right. 224 00:15:34,020 --> 00:15:36,011 I have to ask Bo. 225 00:15:37,423 --> 00:15:39,414 I'll wait. 226 00:15:51,904 --> 00:15:54,805 Never figured you had this kind of gumption, Leonard. 227 00:15:54,874 --> 00:15:57,365 Neither did I. 228 00:16:00,646 --> 00:16:03,114 Course, defending a woman like Lila... 229 00:16:03,182 --> 00:16:05,548 probably gets a man all "het" up. 230 00:16:05,618 --> 00:16:09,452 Bo! Dix. Wouldn't miss it for the world. 231 00:16:09,522 --> 00:16:13,151 Yeah, Mabel's fixin' a honey ham. Her mama's gonna bake a key lime pie. 232 00:16:13,225 --> 00:16:15,159 Yeah. 233 00:16:15,227 --> 00:16:17,889 Oh, yeah, sure. Uh, you gonna drive? 234 00:16:17,964 --> 00:16:20,592 I could pick you up after church. 235 00:16:20,666 --> 00:16:23,658 - Uh-huh. - She said that? 236 00:16:23,736 --> 00:16:26,534 Sheriff. Uh... Bo. 237 00:16:26,606 --> 00:16:31,600 Reason I called is Leonard is down here. 238 00:16:31,677 --> 00:16:34,339 Yeah. 239 00:16:34,413 --> 00:16:36,677 Yeah, ain't that the truth? 240 00:16:36,749 --> 00:16:40,480 Uh, he wants to see Lila's confession. 241 00:16:40,553 --> 00:16:44,182 That's what I told him. Look, you take care. I'll see you Sunday. 242 00:16:44,256 --> 00:16:46,747 Bo, I'm defending a woman accused of murder. 243 00:16:46,826 --> 00:16:49,488 Now, if you and Sheriff Lobo don't start cooperating with me, 244 00:16:49,562 --> 00:16:54,431 I'm gonna get a U.S. district judge to subpoena your files and charge you both with obstructing justice! 245 00:17:02,875 --> 00:17:04,866 You're the boss. 246 00:17:12,418 --> 00:17:15,410 Thank you, Perry Mason. 247 00:17:16,555 --> 00:17:20,355 Lila's confession read like something out of a soap opera. 248 00:17:20,426 --> 00:17:24,089 If it were true, she had thrown herself at Houston for years, 249 00:17:24,163 --> 00:17:28,759 and when he could no longer tolerate her wild sexual advances, he dismissed her. 250 00:17:28,834 --> 00:17:32,770 Enraged by the rejection, she waited for him to come home that night... 251 00:17:32,838 --> 00:17:35,170 and blew his head off with a shotgun. 252 00:17:35,241 --> 00:17:39,234 Leonard Dancey! Is that you? 253 00:17:39,311 --> 00:17:42,678 My, but you have grown. 254 00:17:42,748 --> 00:17:46,149 Well, I haven't seen you since... 255 00:17:46,218 --> 00:17:49,619 you and Houston had that fight in high school. 256 00:17:49,689 --> 00:17:51,589 Well, it's been a while. 257 00:17:51,657 --> 00:17:55,616 I never thought he was right with that, Leonard. I told him so. 258 00:17:55,695 --> 00:17:59,597 Thank you. I suppose you're here to see the captain. 259 00:17:59,665 --> 00:18:03,032 Well, no, not exactly. I'd like to speak with Myrtle. 260 00:18:03,102 --> 00:18:06,094 Myrtle? Well, why would you want... 261 00:18:06,172 --> 00:18:08,663 Never mind. That's none of my business. 262 00:18:08,741 --> 00:18:12,575 She's probably sittin' out back on the summer porch. Usually does after supper. 263 00:18:12,645 --> 00:18:14,442 Thank you, ma'am. You take care, now. 264 00:18:14,513 --> 00:18:17,209 Don't you step on my calla lilies like you used to. 265 00:18:17,283 --> 00:18:20,741 No, ma'am. They're dyin', Leonard. 266 00:18:20,820 --> 00:18:24,813 This heat... just killin' every one of'em. 267 00:18:24,890 --> 00:18:27,552 I'm sure they'll come back just soon as the weather changes. 268 00:18:29,195 --> 00:18:32,392 Sometimes I get a feeling they're never comin' back. 269 00:18:49,215 --> 00:18:52,309 We all appreciate what you're doin'for Lila. 270 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,616 I'm not so sure most people feel that way. 271 00:18:57,690 --> 00:19:00,181 I said we all do. 272 00:19:09,235 --> 00:19:11,294 Myrtle, uh, 273 00:19:11,370 --> 00:19:16,205 according to the police report, you're the closest thing we got to an eyewitness. 274 00:19:16,275 --> 00:19:18,971 - I don't know nothin'. - But you were here when it happened. 275 00:19:19,044 --> 00:19:22,309 - I was in the kitchen. - And? 276 00:19:24,016 --> 00:19:29,010 And... Houston came back from huntin', 277 00:19:29,088 --> 00:19:32,387 and they started fightin' again. 278 00:19:32,458 --> 00:19:35,723 It seems to me they had been fightin' most of the day. 279 00:19:35,795 --> 00:19:38,923 - They fought a lot? - Like possums in heat. 280 00:19:38,998 --> 00:19:41,660 'Bout what? 281 00:19:41,734 --> 00:19:45,693 Well, as usual, she was leavin', and he didn't want her to go. 282 00:19:45,771 --> 00:19:47,295 She was leaving? 283 00:19:47,373 --> 00:19:50,672 I suppose love no longer could soften... 284 00:19:50,743 --> 00:19:52,802 the back of his hand. 285 00:19:54,780 --> 00:19:58,910 - She loved him? - Not at first. 286 00:19:58,984 --> 00:20:01,646 But he took her when she was 14. 287 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,746 It's funny how the mind... 288 00:20:04,824 --> 00:20:08,225 can turn things around and make it seem right. 289 00:20:08,294 --> 00:20:10,228 Wait a minute. 290 00:20:10,296 --> 00:20:13,663 He beat and raped her, and she thought it was love? 291 00:20:13,732 --> 00:20:15,723 It was love. 292 00:20:17,469 --> 00:20:21,371 Least ways, the only kind Lila ever knew from a man. 293 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:26,173 Myrtle, this is important. Did Houston beat Lila the night that she shot him? 294 00:20:26,245 --> 00:20:30,011 - Now, I don't know. I wasn't in the room. - Did you hear him beat her? 295 00:20:30,082 --> 00:20:34,678 All I heard was a lot of yelling a-and things breaking, 296 00:20:34,753 --> 00:20:39,452 and all of a sudden that gunshot went off, and Lila screamed. 297 00:20:39,525 --> 00:20:42,926 And then Lila opened the door, 298 00:20:42,995 --> 00:20:46,021 and there was Houston. 299 00:20:46,098 --> 00:20:49,033 He was laying on Miss Sadie's... 300 00:20:49,101 --> 00:20:52,229 imported rug... 301 00:20:53,239 --> 00:20:55,230 with no face. 302 00:20:55,307 --> 00:20:57,298 Oh, my God. 303 00:20:59,245 --> 00:21:01,736 He had no face! 304 00:21:17,997 --> 00:21:19,988 Your telling me this... 305 00:21:20,065 --> 00:21:24,126 it means that Lila shot Houston in self-defense or by accident, 306 00:21:24,203 --> 00:21:26,137 but without premeditation. 307 00:21:26,205 --> 00:21:30,574 When a jury hears that, there's no way they can send her to the electric chair. 308 00:21:30,643 --> 00:21:34,135 I can't be no witness. 309 00:21:34,213 --> 00:21:36,204 What? 310 00:21:37,349 --> 00:21:39,681 I can't swear on no Bible! 311 00:21:39,752 --> 00:21:42,346 Who are you afraid of, the captain? 312 00:21:42,421 --> 00:21:44,981 I'm not afraid of any man, 313 00:21:45,057 --> 00:21:47,753 white nor colored. 314 00:21:47,826 --> 00:21:50,488 Then why won't you testify? Lila's life depends on it. 315 00:21:50,562 --> 00:21:53,554 I can't be no witness. 316 00:21:55,935 --> 00:21:57,926 Myrtle. 317 00:22:00,339 --> 00:22:03,035 All rise. 318 00:22:03,108 --> 00:22:05,338 Twelve Oaks Parish Court is now in session. 319 00:22:05,411 --> 00:22:08,073 I know what happened between you and Houston. 320 00:22:08,147 --> 00:22:10,308 Be seated. 321 00:22:14,954 --> 00:22:18,515 Myrtle told me. He was beating you that night, wasn't he? 322 00:22:20,192 --> 00:22:23,218 Lila, I can't help you if you don't help yourself. 323 00:22:23,295 --> 00:22:27,231 - Is the prosecution ready? - We are, Your Honor. 324 00:22:27,299 --> 00:22:29,597 Leonard? 325 00:22:39,111 --> 00:22:41,602 Oh, God. Help me. 326 00:22:49,889 --> 00:22:53,620 Leonard, is the defense ready? 327 00:22:53,693 --> 00:22:56,491 No. 328 00:22:58,998 --> 00:23:02,729 - No? - I can't go on. 329 00:23:03,803 --> 00:23:06,772 - Yes, you can, Sam. - Al! 330 00:23:06,839 --> 00:23:11,799 - Al? - Ask if you can approach the bench. 331 00:23:11,878 --> 00:23:14,176 I'd like to approach the bench. Your Honor. 332 00:23:15,581 --> 00:23:17,913 Both counsels may approach the bench. 333 00:23:24,924 --> 00:23:27,859 Now, ask Your, uh, Your Worship here... 334 00:23:27,927 --> 00:23:30,555 if you can have a few minutes alone in his chambers. 335 00:23:30,630 --> 00:23:33,121 Your Worship... Uh, Your Honor, 336 00:23:33,199 --> 00:23:35,793 I'd like to use your chambers for a few minutes. 337 00:23:35,868 --> 00:23:39,634 We can talk here, Leonard. Oh, no. I mean alone. 338 00:23:39,705 --> 00:23:42,105 Alone? Well... 339 00:23:42,175 --> 00:23:45,167 Tell him your fly's open. My fly's open? My fly's open. 340 00:23:45,244 --> 00:23:49,237 Your zipper's stuck. My zipper's stuck, and I need a few minutes in private to fix it. 341 00:23:49,315 --> 00:23:52,216 I object! 342 00:23:52,285 --> 00:23:56,346 You can't expect a man to plead a case with his fly open, Bo. 343 00:23:58,157 --> 00:24:00,648 You have three minutes, Leonard. 344 00:24:00,726 --> 00:24:03,024 I trust it'll be enough. 345 00:24:03,095 --> 00:24:05,928 Oh, yes. Thank you, Your Honor. 346 00:24:05,998 --> 00:24:07,989 Your Honor. 347 00:24:26,686 --> 00:24:29,621 Boy, am I glad to see you. 348 00:24:29,689 --> 00:24:31,680 Thought you might be. 349 00:24:31,757 --> 00:24:33,748 Al. 350 00:24:35,328 --> 00:24:37,592 Am I a lawyer? Was I a lawyer? 351 00:24:37,663 --> 00:24:41,394 No. Not one of your six degrees was in the law. 352 00:24:41,467 --> 00:24:43,526 But don't worry, Sam. 353 00:24:43,603 --> 00:24:47,835 Ziggy and I have got the entire history of law right here under my fingertips. 354 00:24:47,907 --> 00:24:52,742 This is not a computer game! Lila's life is on the line, and... it's my fault. 355 00:24:55,047 --> 00:24:59,541 Oh. I thought so too, but then I remembered what you said about her eyes. 356 00:25:01,153 --> 00:25:03,212 'Bout losing myself in them? 357 00:25:03,289 --> 00:25:05,985 Well, no. Me, maybe. You, never. 358 00:25:06,058 --> 00:25:08,049 But you saw the truth there. 359 00:25:08,127 --> 00:25:12,029 That's probably why you got this job. 360 00:25:12,098 --> 00:25:15,761 Uh, yeah. Uh, I'll be right out. 361 00:25:17,069 --> 00:25:19,697 So... you really think we can save her? 362 00:25:19,772 --> 00:25:21,797 Of course we can save her. 363 00:25:21,874 --> 00:25:25,037 Ziggy and I have researched a dozen similar cases to this, 364 00:25:25,111 --> 00:25:28,137 and we're gonna mount a hell of a defense, starting with the jury. 365 00:25:28,214 --> 00:25:30,148 Okay. 366 00:25:31,217 --> 00:25:33,151 The jury? 367 00:25:33,219 --> 00:25:36,188 What is wrong with the jury? 368 00:25:36,255 --> 00:25:39,383 None of them are black. You mean Negro? 369 00:25:39,458 --> 00:25:41,585 Uh, yes, sir. 370 00:25:41,661 --> 00:25:43,720 And since my client... 371 00:25:43,796 --> 00:25:47,562 is... a Negro, 372 00:25:47,633 --> 00:25:51,262 it only seems fair that there be Negroes on the jury. 373 00:25:51,337 --> 00:25:53,271 I object. 374 00:25:53,339 --> 00:25:58,106 There's never been a Negro impaneled on a jury in Louisiana. 375 00:25:58,177 --> 00:25:59,906 Overruled. 376 00:25:59,979 --> 00:26:02,243 I told you so, Sam. 377 00:26:02,315 --> 00:26:06,684 - Leonard, there's only one problem. - Uh-oh. 378 00:26:06,752 --> 00:26:11,451 In order to serve on a jury, you have to be a registered voter. 379 00:26:11,524 --> 00:26:15,119 And since there aren't any Negroes... 380 00:26:15,194 --> 00:26:18,322 registered in this parish, 381 00:26:18,397 --> 00:26:21,764 I just don't see how you're gonna put one on thatjury. 382 00:26:24,604 --> 00:26:27,664 Well, 383 00:26:27,740 --> 00:26:30,231 that being the case, Your Honor, 384 00:26:32,745 --> 00:26:37,239 since the law requires a trial by jury of one's peers, 385 00:26:37,316 --> 00:26:39,944 we have no choice but to... 386 00:26:40,019 --> 00:26:43,045 reluctantly accept these white jurors... 387 00:26:43,122 --> 00:26:45,113 as Lila's equals. 388 00:26:45,191 --> 00:26:47,318 What? Equals? 389 00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:57,463 Sam, that was beautiful! 390 00:26:57,536 --> 00:27:01,870 The pellets entered the back of Houston's head about, uh, here. 391 00:27:01,941 --> 00:27:06,002 The entry wound was approximately three inches in diameter. 392 00:27:06,078 --> 00:27:08,410 And the exit wound? Blew his face off. 393 00:27:10,783 --> 00:27:14,378 Bo's case was coming together like a carefully orchestrated play. 394 00:27:14,453 --> 00:27:18,116 Everyone was telling the same story, using the same words. 395 00:27:18,190 --> 00:27:21,159 Trouble is, not much of the story resembled Myrtle's. 396 00:27:21,227 --> 00:27:24,060 It was as if they had seen the same play... 397 00:27:24,130 --> 00:27:26,223 put on by a different director. 398 00:27:26,298 --> 00:27:28,789 After a while, when I touched his shoulder... 399 00:27:28,868 --> 00:27:30,859 Is that the confession? 400 00:27:30,936 --> 00:27:34,099 Mmm, yes, sir. I recognize that signature. 401 00:27:34,173 --> 00:27:37,540 And, uh, if you'll notice, the letter "R" is crooked. 402 00:27:37,610 --> 00:27:41,011 I can't get the town council to authorize fixin' that typewriter. 403 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,878 That's tellin' 'em, Sheriff. 404 00:27:43,949 --> 00:27:47,749 Your Honor, I'd like to have this entered into the record... 405 00:27:47,820 --> 00:27:51,449 as Exhibit "B" for the prosecution... 406 00:27:51,524 --> 00:27:53,754 and read into the record. 407 00:27:53,826 --> 00:27:56,761 Object. Object! Object! Uh, I object. 408 00:27:56,829 --> 00:28:00,356 On what grounds? It was obtained under duress. 409 00:28:00,433 --> 00:28:03,231 Miss Berry signed that confession under duress. 410 00:28:03,302 --> 00:28:07,398 - Is that true, Lila? - He can't ask her anything until she's placed... 411 00:28:07,473 --> 00:28:09,464 - Under oath. - What? 412 00:28:09,542 --> 00:28:13,444 Uh, Your Honor, my client can't be questioned unless she's under oath. 413 00:28:13,512 --> 00:28:15,639 Well, then swear her in. 414 00:28:15,715 --> 00:28:18,548 I ain't swearin' on no Bible. 415 00:28:18,617 --> 00:28:20,551 Lila, you have to. 416 00:28:20,619 --> 00:28:23,952 I ain't takin' no oath, and I ain't gettin' on no witness stand. 417 00:28:27,727 --> 00:28:31,720 Sam, at least have her read it and make sure that it's her words and her signature. 418 00:28:31,797 --> 00:28:35,631 Your Honor, I think we can settle this without having Miss Berry take the stand, 419 00:28:35,701 --> 00:28:37,692 uh, if we could see the confession. 420 00:28:37,770 --> 00:28:40,000 Alleged! Alleged confession. 421 00:28:40,072 --> 00:28:43,166 Give it to him, Bo. 422 00:28:43,242 --> 00:28:45,710 Yes, sir, Your Honor. 423 00:28:50,015 --> 00:28:52,506 Is this your confession? 424 00:28:52,585 --> 00:28:55,213 Looks like it. 425 00:28:55,287 --> 00:28:58,279 Well... just read it to be sure. 426 00:29:00,993 --> 00:29:02,927 I can't. 427 00:29:02,995 --> 00:29:06,158 What do you mean, you can't? 428 00:29:06,232 --> 00:29:08,223 I can't read. 429 00:29:13,806 --> 00:29:16,570 We were great, Sam! We knocked their socks off. 430 00:29:16,642 --> 00:29:19,440 We did nothing. Nothing? What do you mean, nothing? 431 00:29:19,512 --> 00:29:22,675 We got the judge to delay his ruling on the confession... 432 00:29:22,748 --> 00:29:24,739 until after lunch. 433 00:29:24,817 --> 00:29:28,548 If Lila doesn't get on the stand and deny it, Bo's gonna read it into the record. 434 00:29:28,621 --> 00:29:31,988 Leonard! I have honey-coated chicken... 435 00:29:32,057 --> 00:29:36,050 and your favorite potato salad! 436 00:29:36,128 --> 00:29:40,155 I have never been so mortified in my entire life! 437 00:29:40,232 --> 00:29:42,462 If Papa were alive, he'd die. 438 00:29:42,535 --> 00:29:46,130 How could you say that colored whore was equal to a white person? 439 00:29:46,205 --> 00:29:49,197 Her name is Lila or Miss Berry, 440 00:29:49,275 --> 00:29:52,438 and you will refer to her as that in my presence, 441 00:29:52,511 --> 00:29:55,139 and even if you're not in my presence. 442 00:29:55,214 --> 00:29:58,672 Leonard Dancey, have you taken leave of your senses? 443 00:29:58,751 --> 00:30:01,379 Why, I'm not saying anything that you haven't said. 444 00:30:03,823 --> 00:30:06,656 Well, I was wrong. 445 00:30:09,361 --> 00:30:12,228 What are you doing? Taking Lila some lunch. 446 00:30:12,298 --> 00:30:14,562 You are going to give that colored... 447 00:30:16,135 --> 00:30:18,695 colored girl my chicken? 448 00:30:18,771 --> 00:30:22,764 - If she'll have it. - Well, well, well, Miss Sugee. 449 00:30:22,842 --> 00:30:25,402 Oh! Look at you. 450 00:30:25,477 --> 00:30:28,640 I swear, Leonard, your little lady is like the fruit in the tree. 451 00:30:28,714 --> 00:30:33,708 She just gets sweeter with time. Oh, Captain Cotter, you are such a flirt! 452 00:30:33,786 --> 00:30:37,779 That was quite a show you put on there, Leonard. 453 00:30:37,857 --> 00:30:39,791 Mmm! Mmm. 454 00:30:39,859 --> 00:30:41,793 I was very impressed. 455 00:30:41,861 --> 00:30:44,523 Shame to see talent like that leave Twelve Oaks. 456 00:30:44,597 --> 00:30:47,430 Oh, well, we aren't goin' anywhere, Captain. 457 00:30:47,499 --> 00:30:51,435 Oh! Why, I didn't realize you all had enough money to retire. 458 00:30:51,503 --> 00:30:54,438 Why don't you get to the point, Captain? Leonard. 459 00:30:54,506 --> 00:30:56,701 All right, Leonard, I will. 460 00:30:56,775 --> 00:31:01,007 Now, most of the legal work done in this parish is done for me or for my associates. 461 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,016 Now, if you persist in pursuing this course of action, 462 00:31:05,084 --> 00:31:09,453 the only legal work you gonna do, son, is gonna be pro bono. 463 00:31:12,758 --> 00:31:15,955 That means for free, Sugee. Mmm, my, my. 464 00:31:22,034 --> 00:31:25,265 He threatened you. Leonard, what are you going to do? 465 00:31:27,039 --> 00:31:29,030 Take Lila her lunch. 466 00:31:37,082 --> 00:31:40,279 Now I know how the Christians felt. 467 00:31:41,287 --> 00:31:44,779 No one's gonna throw you to the lions. 468 00:31:50,596 --> 00:31:52,587 Myrtle tells me that, uh... 469 00:31:54,733 --> 00:31:58,032 Houston raped you when you were 14. 470 00:31:58,103 --> 00:32:00,037 Myrtle talks too much. 471 00:32:00,105 --> 00:32:02,096 Did he rape you? 472 00:32:04,043 --> 00:32:07,342 Some would say so. Some not. 473 00:32:07,413 --> 00:32:09,711 What would you say? 474 00:32:11,083 --> 00:32:13,017 Me and my mama... 475 00:32:13,085 --> 00:32:15,679 buried seven brothers and sisters in that bayou... 476 00:32:15,754 --> 00:32:18,655 that Miss Sadie took me out of. 477 00:32:18,724 --> 00:32:22,251 I wasn't givin'no one no reason to send me back. 478 00:32:23,495 --> 00:32:25,429 So I let him. 479 00:32:25,497 --> 00:32:27,488 Is that rape? 480 00:32:27,566 --> 00:32:29,500 Yes. 481 00:32:29,568 --> 00:32:33,004 Well, if it was, it was only that first time. 482 00:32:33,072 --> 00:32:35,199 After that, 483 00:32:35,274 --> 00:32:37,674 Houston was in love with me. 484 00:32:37,743 --> 00:32:40,541 That doesn't make what he did to you right. 485 00:32:40,612 --> 00:32:44,241 There ain't a whole lot in this world that is right, Leonard. 486 00:32:48,854 --> 00:32:51,186 Looks like the picnic's over. 487 00:32:53,158 --> 00:32:55,149 Lila, 488 00:32:56,895 --> 00:32:58,829 you have got to deny this confession. 489 00:32:58,897 --> 00:33:02,128 I ain't gettin' on no witness stand. It's gonna send you to the electric chair! 490 00:33:02,201 --> 00:33:04,260 Do you understand what it says? 491 00:33:04,336 --> 00:33:08,033 That Houston put up with your sexual advances until they became intolerable to him, 492 00:33:08,107 --> 00:33:11,338 that he fired you, and because of that you waited for him that night in the parlor with a shotgun, 493 00:33:11,410 --> 00:33:14,345 and although he begged you in the name ofJesus not to shoot him... 494 00:33:14,413 --> 00:33:17,871 In the name ofJesus? How can they say he did that? 495 00:33:17,950 --> 00:33:20,783 They can say it because you won't defend yourself. 496 00:33:21,820 --> 00:33:23,811 But it's a lie. 497 00:33:26,425 --> 00:33:28,359 It's a lie. 498 00:33:28,427 --> 00:33:30,361 It's all a lie, isn't it? 499 00:33:30,429 --> 00:33:33,364 Isn't it? This whole damn confession is a lie, isn't it? 500 00:33:33,432 --> 00:33:35,832 Isn't it? 501 00:33:35,901 --> 00:33:38,369 Yes. 502 00:33:38,437 --> 00:33:40,371 Yes. 503 00:33:41,607 --> 00:33:43,598 Yes! 504 00:33:47,513 --> 00:33:50,038 Oh, God! 505 00:33:51,850 --> 00:33:54,375 Oh, Leonard! 506 00:34:03,695 --> 00:34:05,629 Leonard, 507 00:34:05,697 --> 00:34:07,631 does your client have anything to say... 508 00:34:07,699 --> 00:34:11,135 before I rule on the admissibility of her confession? 509 00:34:11,203 --> 00:34:13,501 Yes, uh, Your Honor, she does. 510 00:34:14,706 --> 00:34:16,640 Lila, let's take the stand. 511 00:34:16,708 --> 00:34:18,699 No. 512 00:34:20,312 --> 00:34:23,247 You told me that confession's a lie. You have to tell them. 513 00:34:23,315 --> 00:34:25,977 I ain't testifyin'. Lila, we... 514 00:34:26,051 --> 00:34:27,985 I ain't testifyin', Your Honor. 515 00:34:28,053 --> 00:34:29,987 Very well. 516 00:34:30,055 --> 00:34:31,852 I rule... 517 00:34:31,924 --> 00:34:35,917 that the confession of Delilah Berry be accepted as admissible. 518 00:34:35,994 --> 00:34:38,189 You may read it to the jury, Bo. 519 00:34:38,263 --> 00:34:40,197 Thank you, Your Honor. 520 00:34:48,774 --> 00:34:51,299 "I, Delilah Berry, swear... 521 00:34:51,376 --> 00:34:56,040 "that the following is a true and valid confession. 522 00:34:56,115 --> 00:35:00,814 "On the night of the 15th ofJune, 1957, 523 00:35:00,886 --> 00:35:03,218 "I did willfully... 524 00:35:03,288 --> 00:35:05,449 "and with premeditation... 525 00:35:05,524 --> 00:35:07,458 "murder... 526 00:35:07,526 --> 00:35:10,518 Houston Palmer Cotter. " 527 00:35:35,420 --> 00:35:37,411 Looking for inspiration? 528 00:35:40,792 --> 00:35:44,284 Why do you have to take an oath on a Bible before testifying? 529 00:35:45,564 --> 00:35:47,498 So you tell the truth. Uh-huh. 530 00:35:47,566 --> 00:35:50,000 Lot of good it does with some people today. 531 00:35:50,068 --> 00:35:53,435 Unless you're a God-fearing person like Lila. 532 00:35:53,505 --> 00:35:59,102 If she swore to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God, she would. 533 00:35:59,178 --> 00:36:02,113 Yes, she would, even if it incriminated her. 534 00:36:02,181 --> 00:36:06,379 No, no. See, not her, Al. Someone else. 535 00:36:06,451 --> 00:36:09,716 Someone more important to her than her own life. 536 00:36:09,788 --> 00:36:11,779 Mr. Dancey? 537 00:36:12,858 --> 00:36:15,349 I'm sorry to disturb your prayin'. 538 00:36:18,964 --> 00:36:21,899 I was praying for some way to help Lila. 539 00:36:21,967 --> 00:36:23,901 Oh, you can save her? 540 00:36:23,969 --> 00:36:25,903 I need your help, Myrtle. 541 00:36:25,971 --> 00:36:28,405 I told you. I can't be no witness! 542 00:36:28,473 --> 00:36:31,408 You told me you were afraid of no man, colored or white. 543 00:36:31,476 --> 00:36:34,411 He made me swear... swear on the Bible... 544 00:36:34,479 --> 00:36:37,414 that if I told a soul what happened, 545 00:36:37,482 --> 00:36:39,473 I would go to hell. 546 00:36:40,686 --> 00:36:43,154 The captain? 547 00:36:43,222 --> 00:36:45,156 Sam. Galatians. 548 00:36:45,224 --> 00:36:48,057 Galatians? Yeah. It's at the back. 549 00:36:48,126 --> 00:36:50,720 Chapter five, 550 00:36:50,796 --> 00:36:53,492 verses... seven through ten. 551 00:36:53,565 --> 00:36:55,556 Read it to her. 552 00:36:56,635 --> 00:36:59,570 "Who hindered you from following the truth, 553 00:36:59,638 --> 00:37:01,572 "whatever persuasion he used, 554 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,608 it did not come from God." 555 00:37:03,675 --> 00:37:06,007 Read the next part. 556 00:37:07,446 --> 00:37:10,381 "I am confident you will not take the wrong view, 557 00:37:10,449 --> 00:37:14,249 "but the man who is unsettling your mind, whoever he may be, 558 00:37:14,319 --> 00:37:16,310 must bear God's judgment." 559 00:37:29,701 --> 00:37:31,669 Lila, where's Leonard? 560 00:37:31,737 --> 00:37:34,069 I don't know, Judge. 561 00:37:35,073 --> 00:37:37,940 Your Honor, 562 00:37:39,144 --> 00:37:43,808 this is obviously an attempt on the part of the defense to delay the inevitable. 563 00:37:43,882 --> 00:37:46,316 Oh, I don't know about that, Bo. 564 00:37:46,385 --> 00:37:50,651 But whatever it is, this court has no intention of postponing this trial. 565 00:37:52,324 --> 00:37:54,622 Lila, since your counsel... 566 00:37:54,693 --> 00:37:57,890 seems unwilling to appear on your behalf... 567 00:37:57,963 --> 00:38:00,864 I'm here, Your Honor. 568 00:38:02,367 --> 00:38:05,097 My apologies to the court for being late. 569 00:38:05,170 --> 00:38:07,104 I don't abide tardiness. 570 00:38:07,172 --> 00:38:09,697 No, sir... Uh, no, Your Honor. It won't happen again. 571 00:38:09,775 --> 00:38:11,709 I was afraid you weren't comin'. 572 00:38:11,777 --> 00:38:13,711 Thought I gave up on you, did ya? 573 00:38:13,779 --> 00:38:16,839 This court is now in session. 574 00:38:16,915 --> 00:38:21,113 Now that you've graciously decided to join us, Leonard, 575 00:38:21,186 --> 00:38:23,677 would you please call your first witness. 576 00:38:26,558 --> 00:38:28,492 Yes, Your Honor. 577 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,495 The defense would like to call to the stand Mrs. Sadie Cotter. 578 00:38:31,563 --> 00:38:33,895 No! 579 00:38:33,965 --> 00:38:36,229 Leonard, you have gone too damn far! 580 00:38:36,301 --> 00:38:38,326 Order. Order in the court. 581 00:38:38,403 --> 00:38:43,204 Leonard, I have no intention of allowing you to call a grieving mother to the stand. 582 00:38:43,275 --> 00:38:46,711 I had a feeling you might say something like that, Your Honor. 583 00:38:46,778 --> 00:38:50,805 So I went to Baton Rouge to obtain a subpoena and a federal marshal. 584 00:38:50,882 --> 00:38:54,716 Eugene, now you put a stop to this! Now! 585 00:38:56,521 --> 00:38:59,581 Well, this is a federal subpoena, Captain. 586 00:38:59,658 --> 00:39:01,592 I don't care if it came from God. 587 00:39:01,660 --> 00:39:04,595 I will not have Sadie subjected to any more pain! 588 00:39:04,663 --> 00:39:07,962 For heaven's sake, Colbert! What are you shoutin'about? 589 00:39:08,033 --> 00:39:10,297 Sadie. 590 00:39:12,070 --> 00:39:14,163 You shouldn't be here. 591 00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,867 Oh, but Lila needs my help. 592 00:39:16,942 --> 00:39:19,376 But you're not well, honey. 593 00:39:19,444 --> 00:39:22,777 I'm as fit as any woman has a right to be. 594 00:39:25,951 --> 00:39:27,942 Thank you, Leonard. 595 00:39:41,199 --> 00:39:45,158 You sure you wanna do this, Sadie? I want to help Lila. 596 00:39:45,237 --> 00:39:48,297 Don't do this to her. She's not well. 597 00:39:48,373 --> 00:39:50,671 You shot him in self-defense, didn't you? 598 00:39:50,742 --> 00:39:53,233 It was an accident. 599 00:39:53,311 --> 00:39:55,245 The gun went off by accident. 600 00:39:55,313 --> 00:39:59,181 But Mrs. Cotter was there, wasn't she? She saw Houston beating you. 601 00:39:59,251 --> 00:40:01,583 She saw it happen. Yes. 602 00:40:01,653 --> 00:40:04,417 Now will you take her off the stand? 603 00:40:04,489 --> 00:40:06,423 Please raise your right hand. 604 00:40:06,491 --> 00:40:08,425 I can't, Lila. 605 00:40:08,493 --> 00:40:11,621 After the jury heard your confession, there's no way they're gonna believe you. 606 00:40:11,696 --> 00:40:13,755 Sadie Cotter. 607 00:40:14,866 --> 00:40:16,959 But they'll believe her. 608 00:40:20,939 --> 00:40:23,635 Leonard? Your witness. 609 00:40:29,381 --> 00:40:31,315 Mrs. Cotter. 610 00:40:31,383 --> 00:40:34,784 Leonard. You look a mite haggard. 611 00:40:34,853 --> 00:40:37,253 Yes, ma'am. 612 00:40:38,457 --> 00:40:41,824 I know this isn't easy for you. 613 00:40:41,893 --> 00:40:46,455 No one wants to air their family laundry in public, but... 614 00:40:46,531 --> 00:40:48,863 if it will help Lila... 615 00:40:48,934 --> 00:40:50,959 You, um... You care about Lila? 616 00:40:51,036 --> 00:40:53,971 Oh, my, yes. She's a sweet child. 617 00:40:54,039 --> 00:40:56,872 I know what they say about her, 618 00:40:56,942 --> 00:40:59,740 but those that don't know the truth shouldn't talk. 619 00:40:59,811 --> 00:41:02,803 That's why I subpoenaed you, Mrs. Cotter... to hear the truth. 620 00:41:02,881 --> 00:41:04,849 I don't know how to speak any other way. 621 00:41:04,916 --> 00:41:06,816 Mrs. Cotter, 622 00:41:07,819 --> 00:41:10,413 did your son, Houston, beat Lila? 623 00:41:10,489 --> 00:41:13,856 I object! Houston's not on trial here, Your Honor. Lila is. 624 00:41:13,925 --> 00:41:17,884 Now, hush up, Bo. The milk is spilt. Let's just get it over with. 625 00:41:18,964 --> 00:41:20,659 Overruled. 626 00:41:22,501 --> 00:41:24,867 Sometimes, if you love someone... 627 00:41:24,936 --> 00:41:26,870 and you don't wanna love 'em, 628 00:41:26,938 --> 00:41:28,997 you get to hatin' 'em. 629 00:41:29,074 --> 00:41:31,008 Well, Houston loved Lila so much... 630 00:41:31,076 --> 00:41:33,340 he wanted to marry her. 631 00:41:33,411 --> 00:41:36,039 But her bein'colored, of course, he couldn't. 632 00:41:39,951 --> 00:41:42,010 Did Houston beat Lila? 633 00:41:43,121 --> 00:41:45,112 Yes. 634 00:41:46,458 --> 00:41:49,393 Although he never dared strike her in front of me... 635 00:41:49,461 --> 00:41:51,759 until that night. 636 00:41:58,603 --> 00:42:01,595 Tell us about that night, Mrs. Cotter. 637 00:42:05,410 --> 00:42:07,970 It was my fault. 638 00:42:08,046 --> 00:42:13,279 I gave Lila the money so she could get away, start a new life. 639 00:42:14,386 --> 00:42:17,321 She and I were dawdlin' over our good-byes... 640 00:42:17,389 --> 00:42:19,584 when Houston came home from huntin'. 641 00:42:21,459 --> 00:42:23,654 He saw that valise in her hand, 642 00:42:23,728 --> 00:42:26,219 and he threw it clean across the room. 643 00:42:27,232 --> 00:42:30,497 Broke that big Chinese vase the captain brought back from England. 644 00:42:32,704 --> 00:42:35,696 That's when Lila slapped him. 645 00:42:36,908 --> 00:42:39,672 Oh, Houston went wild. 646 00:42:39,744 --> 00:42:43,111 He hit her so hard, she fell into the chifforobe. 647 00:42:44,115 --> 00:42:47,482 I tried to stop him, but he pushed me away. 648 00:42:48,553 --> 00:42:50,748 Just kept hittin'her over and over. 649 00:42:50,822 --> 00:42:54,815 I begged for him to stop before he killed her, 650 00:42:56,227 --> 00:42:58,218 but he wouldn't. 651 00:43:00,999 --> 00:43:03,934 That's when I picked up the shotgun. 652 00:43:04,002 --> 00:43:07,165 It was an accident! 653 00:43:07,238 --> 00:43:09,172 Order! Order! 654 00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:12,676 It was so loud, made my ears ring. 655 00:43:12,744 --> 00:43:15,941 And then Lila started screamin'. 656 00:43:16,014 --> 00:43:18,778 Lord, child, can you scream. 657 00:43:18,850 --> 00:43:21,216 It was an accident. 658 00:43:21,286 --> 00:43:23,777 She was tryin' to save my life. 659 00:43:23,855 --> 00:43:27,951 All she was tryin' to do was save my life. 660 00:43:28,026 --> 00:43:30,153 So you see, Eugene, 661 00:43:30,228 --> 00:43:33,823 Lila didn't steal the money... I gave it to her. 662 00:43:33,898 --> 00:43:37,834 And I'll see that Houston tells you the truth of that, 663 00:43:37,902 --> 00:43:40,837 soon as he comes home from huntin'. 664 00:44:16,941 --> 00:44:19,205 Hello. Mr. Dancey. 665 00:44:19,277 --> 00:44:22,576 What you doin' out here? I came by to see you off. 666 00:44:22,647 --> 00:44:25,548 You don't have to worry about me. Not anymore. 667 00:44:26,918 --> 00:44:28,886 Well, I've kinda gotten used to it. 668 00:44:28,953 --> 00:44:30,887 Where you goin'? 669 00:44:30,955 --> 00:44:33,719 Wherever a hundred dollars will take me. 670 00:44:33,792 --> 00:44:37,694 I heard you got a story and your picture in the Baton Rouge paper. 671 00:44:37,762 --> 00:44:40,856 Yeah, and an offer from a very big law firm there. 672 00:44:40,932 --> 00:44:43,332 Well, what does Miss Sugee think of that? 673 00:44:43,401 --> 00:44:46,837 Well, a country club membership comes along with the job. 674 00:44:46,905 --> 00:44:49,305 She would take to that. 675 00:44:50,542 --> 00:44:52,476 Lila... 676 00:44:52,544 --> 00:44:54,478 what are you going to do? 677 00:44:54,546 --> 00:44:57,310 It doesn't matter. 678 00:44:57,882 --> 00:44:59,773 I'm free. 679 00:45:00,585 --> 00:45:02,644 Miss Sadie saved my life. 680 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:04,911 Twice. 681 00:45:05,957 --> 00:45:08,152 I hope she never remembers what happened. 682 00:45:09,794 --> 00:45:11,785 So do I. 683 00:45:13,164 --> 00:45:15,098 Well... 684 00:45:15,166 --> 00:45:18,101 Oh, I intend to send you some money as soon as I get a job. 685 00:45:18,169 --> 00:45:21,605 Now, it may not be much, but I'll keep sendin' it until you tell me it's enough. 686 00:45:21,673 --> 00:45:24,608 Although, Lord knows, whatever it is it'll never be enough. 687 00:45:24,676 --> 00:45:27,611 I don't want you to send me anything. But I gotta pay you. 688 00:45:27,679 --> 00:45:29,670 Just make me a promise. 689 00:45:29,748 --> 00:45:32,308 What is it? It's a reader. 690 00:45:34,619 --> 00:45:37,679 If you want to pay me back, learn how to read. 691 00:45:37,756 --> 00:45:41,954 Lila, if you can read, you can do anything you want. 692 00:45:59,344 --> 00:46:01,335 Good-bye. 693 00:46:08,386 --> 00:46:10,547 Oh. Uh... 694 00:46:13,691 --> 00:46:16,182 - Promise? - Promise. 695 00:46:16,261 --> 00:46:18,422 So help me God. 696 00:46:33,945 --> 00:46:35,845 One minute! Places! 697 00:46:35,914 --> 00:46:38,644 Stop screaming! I am not screaming! 698 00:46:38,716 --> 00:46:41,412 He is on in 50 seconds! 699 00:46:41,486 --> 00:46:43,784 O-On? What... 700 00:46:43,855 --> 00:46:45,789 Forty-seven! 701 00:46:45,857 --> 00:46:49,293 Don't do this, Charlie! We're not launching any rockets! It's just a musical! 702 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,294 Forty-eight! 703 00:46:51,362 --> 00:46:53,557 Break a leg, Ray! 704 00:46:54,632 --> 00:46:57,897 Four, three, two, one. 705 00:47:07,278 --> 00:47:09,610 Oh, boy.