Original subtitles

[Amanda Knox] I'm Amanda Knox, a college student from Seattle.

For my junior year, I would study abroad...

[plane tires screeching]

Ciao.

[narrating] ...where I met my roommate, Meredith.

We were inseparable at first, blissfully unaware

that something tragic was about to happen.

Hello?

[Meredith Kercher] [on voicemail] It's Meredith. Leave a message

- and have a beautiful day. Ciao. - [phone beeping]

[Amanda] This is fucked! Someone broke into my house.

Hey. Hey, Meredith, you in there?

[speaking Italian]

What's happening?

[camera clicking]

She brought lots of men home.

- We want you to come home. - No, I-- I can't.

With a killer on the loose there?

I'm-- I'm sure the police will protect me.

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[reporter speaking Italian]

[Amanda] [narrating] What the fuck happened?

Could I really have confessed to a murder I didn't commit?

[birds cawing]

I can try to explain,

but telling my own tale is a sticky, tricky thing.

Especially when I was a stranger to my story's true beginning.

[♪ ominous music playing]

[phone ringing]

[crow cawing]

[phone ringing]

[phone continues ringing]

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[slides clicking]

[slides clicking rapidly]

- [muffled voice speaking Italian] - [clicking stops]

[people chattering in other room]

[phone ringing]

- [♪ ominous music playing] - [people shouting]

[Amanda] There were players in my story who were unknown to me, too,

their roles enigmatic to my American sense of reason.

In Italy, public prosecutors not only try cases,

they also lead the entire police investigation.

- [siren wailing] - [cameras clicking]

[reporters shouting indistinctly]

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[♪ ominous music playing]

[camera clicking]

[camera beeping and clicking]

[camera beeping and clicking]

[camera clicking]

[distant siren wailing]

[camera clicking]

Mm-hmm.

[camera continues clicking]

[♪ ominous music continues]

Mm-hmm.

[camera clicking]

[camera clicking]

[♪ ominous music continues]

[camera clicking]

[camera clicking]

[softly gasps]

[camera continues clicking]

[♪ somber music playing]

[camera beeping and clicking]

[slides clicking]

[slides clicking rapidly]

- [clicking stops] - Huh?

[♪ ominous music playing]

No, no.

[glass shattering]

[cat yowling]

[♪ ominous music continues playing]

Ah!

[crowd shouting indistinctly]

[Amanda] I've often been accused of not playing to my audience.

That's nothing compared to the perils

of not knowing you have an audience at all.

[Edda Mellas] [on phone] Amanda, you there?

Do you hear that? That-- that clicking?

[Amanda] Hi, Mom. Yeah. You heard that, too?

I thought it was just my broken brain.

- [Edda] God, you sound terrible. - Wait, why are you up?

Isn't it the middle of the night there?

[Edda] Yeah, I can't sleep thinking about what you've been through.

Uh, M-Mom, I'm back at the Questura now,

- so I should-- I should go, okay? - [Edda] What, again?

Amanda, have you called the U.S. embassy for legal help?

Um, no. Why would I need any?

[Edda] Did you speak to Aunt Dolly? She understands how things

work over there. She insists that you call.

Mom, I asked them. I asked the cops

if I could go to Germany to see her, and they were like,

no, we have to wait three days to talk to the Pubblico Ministero.

[Edda] What? Who even is that?

I have no idea. I think the mayor?

[Edda] Well, I really think I should come there to make sure you're protected.

It's okay, Mom. Raffaele is taking care of me.

Mm.

[♪ ominous music playing]

I love you. I gotta go, okay?

[sighs]

[glass crunching]

I-- I'm-- I'm so sorry. What-- What exactly am I looking for?

Uh, did any of these men hang out downstairs with the boys?

I-- I don't know who he is.

Or him. I can't...

[Translator Vittoria Noce speaking Italian]

[Translator Noce] What about these ones?

[Translator Noce] Was Meredith scared of these men?

How am I supposed to know if she was scared of 'em

if I can't even see them? I can't even...

[Amanda] Look, I'm-- I'm sorry.

I-- I literally have not slept.

I was here 14 hours yesterday.

And already many hours today.

[Amanda] Why are you asking me these things?

[♪ ominous music playing]

[police radio chirping]

[hand thuds]

[sighing] No.

[♪ ominous music playing]

So, you know the apartment well? You have the keys to come and go?

What, keys to their apartment? No. No.

- [Translator Noce speaking Italian] - [Amanda] No. Never.

Do you know if Meredith had a set?

To-- No, no. Nobody had keys to each other's places.

We just hung out sometimes.

We played guitar, we... ate food.

- Did you smoke some pot? - Pot?

You cannot tell the cops we smoke pot.

No.

No, we-- we did not smoke pot.

[Translator Noce speaking Italian]

Huh.

[Officer Valentina Greco laughing]

Huh.

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[Amanda] The Baron?

No, I've never heard of him.

But again, I-- I don't know

every guy that Meredith knew.

Meredith never mentioned an African man...

who played basketball with Giacomo?

[Translator Noce] She never met him?

Uh, she might have. Yeah, she...

I-- I don't know.

She walked by those basketball courts every day, so...

So do I, to go to school and...

- ...to work. - [Translator Noce speaking Italian]

Shit, what-- what day is it? I'm supposed to go to work. Fuck.

Thank you. Grazie. Thank you.

[Translator Noce] Stay close.

Okay.

[door slamming]

[reporters chattering]

- [youth shouting in Italian] - Geez!

[Amanda panting]

[dog barking]

- [person whistling] - [distant scooter revving]

[people chattering]

[scooter revving]

Patrick!

- Oh, Amanda. - Ciao.

I know .

[Amanda] Mm.

- [youth laughing] - [Amanda] Jesus.

[exhales sharply]

[softly] Si.

Um...

The-- the bar, Patrick.

[laughs, snorts] Ha, ha.

[beer pouring]

I can't be alone in the night, in the crowds.

[people chattering]

Grazie.

[people chattering]

[players chattering]

[net chains rattling]

- [speaking Italian] - [laughter]

- Um, no. - No.

[players] No.

- [coins clinking] - [vending machine beeping]

[machine whirring]

[banging]

[whirring continues]

[♪ curious music playing]

[phone ringing]

[Giuliano Mignini speaking on phone]

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[reporters shouting]

- [reporters shouting] - [cameras clicking]

[Amanda] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Wait, what are we-- what are we doing?

[reporters shouting]

We just need you to look at a few things.

No, no, I don't-- I-- Please, please, I don't...

I can't. I don't-- I don't wanna go in there.

I'm sorry.

[♪ dramatic music playing]

- [cameras clicking] - [reporters chattering]

[Greco speaking Italian]

[♪ ominous music playing]

[whispering Italian]

Oh.

[sniffs]

Ta-da!

[♪ ominous music continues]

[reporters shouting]

[♪ ominous music continues]

[sighs] Uh, what-- what do you want me to do?

Open the knives drawer.

[♪ ominous music continues playing]

[Amanda breathing heavily]

[sighs]

- Okay. - [Translator Noce] The third one.

[Amanda clearing throat]

[♪ ominous music continues]

[sighs]

[Translator Noce] Is anything missing?

Uh...

[Amanda crying]

- [sobbing] - [Translator Noce] Amanda?

[Amanda] Oh, God.

- Amanda, you okay? - [continues sobbing]

Have a seat, come on. Come with me, please.

[continues sobbing]

Just-- just sit here. Yes.

Good. Okay.

Do-- Do you need a doctor, Amanda?

[Amanda] I don't know. I don't know.

[Amanda continues sobbing]

[gasping sob]

Oh, God!

[sobbing]

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[continues sobbing]

[♪ dramatic music continues]

[sobbing]

Today was really bad.

She-- she went back to the house...

- [Amanda muttering] - ...you know, very emotional.

Here she is.

Uh, your phone rings and rings.

It's your mom, she's coming.

- What? Mom? - Yeah.

[Edda] It's gonna take me three planes

and four trains, but there is no talking me out of this.

- Deanna, can you give me a hand, please? - [Deanna Knox] She's crazy to stay there.

- That's helpful. - You're crazy to stay there!

[Edda] Okay, I'm leaving for the airport now.

- Chris! - [Chris Mellas] Right here, babe.

Oh. Okay, and I will call you

- when I get there, okay? - Okay, okay.

Yeah. I'll meet you at the Perugia train station.

- Just let me know. - [phone clicking]

- Amanda, you there? - Mom?

- [static and clicking] - [Edda] Are you-- are you there, Amanda?

[Amanda] Sorry, it's that weird clicking sound again.

[Edda] Oh.

'Sup, dummy?

- Hi, Chris. - Okay, and we will get a nice hotel room.

No, no, no. Mom, don't spend the money, that's crazy.

[Edda] Well, sweetheart, your apartment's a crime scene.

Not sharing Raffaele's bed with the two of you, okay?

Well, I'm currently wearing his boxers, so a lot--

[laughing and snorts] A lot of lines have been crossed.

Hey, Mom, thank you for not listening to me

- when I said you shouldn't come. - [Edda] Well... [sighs]

Look, I will see you in 24 hours, okay?

- Okay. I love you, Mommy. - [phone clicking]

- Ciao. - I love you too.

- [♪ ominous music playing] - [call ends]

[laughing] Stop!

[phone ringing]

[phone hanging up]

[Raffaele Sollecito speaking Italian]

[sighs]

[Amanda] What?

[Raffaele] The police want me to come in.

What, right now?

So, you're leaving me alone?

Hold on. I'm-- I'm coming with you.

- [Raffaele] You sure? - Yes.

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[sighs]

[moans]

[book drops]

No.

[chuckles]

[chuckles]

Um...

[both chuckle]

Okay.

[chuckles]

Tree.

[Amanda] Toesies.

Si?

[shoes squeaking]

[officer laughing]

[♪ ominous music playing]

[Amanda] Si.

Wait, wait? More questions? Seriously?

Si.

[Amanda] Shit.

[lights click]

Can I put...

[Amanda exhaling sharply]

[softly] Fuck.

Get anyone in trouble.

- My... - [Rocco De Luca] What you did...

Yeah, okay. Si, uh, yeah.

Uh... well...

There's a pipe that burst under the sink.

Oh.

Uh...

A little hazy, and...

Hmm? Close your eyes. Focus.

Um, times, times, times.

Um...

We-- we watched Amélie...

What?

...more than once.

[♪ ominous music playing]

[phone ringing]

Uh...

Um, yeah. Sorry. It-- it was... it was Thursday, the--

the day after Halloween.

She had slept late because--

[♪ ominous music continues]

Um...

[shakily] Okay.

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[muffled conversation in Italian]

[overlapping voices speaking Italian]

[indistinct conversation muffled and echoing]

[sighing] Oh, thank God!

Your phone records, uh, show that, uh, your mobile

was turned off while Meredith was murdered.

Do-- sorry, do-- do I need a-- a lawyer right now?

Amanda.

[Translator Noce] Do you often turn off your phone?

I mean, yeah, when I'm trying to save battery,

or if I wanna be left alone, yes.

[Translator Noce] And that time, was it to left alone, or to save battery?

No, I-- I turned it off be-- Okay.

I-- I turned my phone off because my boss had texted me

saying that I didn't have to come to work.

- [Translator Noce translating in Italian] - And I was very happy

because I was so tired

and I wanted to stay home with my boyfriend.

So, I-- I turned it off,

because if my boss changed his mind, I didn't want him to be able to reach me.

I'm not a very good employee.

[Translator Noce] Why did Raffaele also turn off his phone?

His dad calls him every night, and we-- we wanted to be left alone.

[Amanda] Um...

I-- I have my period.

Can I, um, use the bathroom, please?

Just quickly. Please.

[♪ ominous music playing]

Uh...

They have hard evidence that you were at your house

- the night of the murder. - What-- what do you mean?

What evidence? You have evidence that I was home?

[Translator Noce] Who's this Patrick on your phone?

Patrick is my boss from Le Chic.

[Translator Noce] You met the night of November 1st?

No, no, I didn't. I-- I swear, no.

What's this text you sent to him?

Yeah. Um...

Ah! [chuckles]

So, you had plans to meet him?

No. What-- what is happening?

No, I-- I said, "Okay, see you later. Have a good evening."

[Translator Noce] "See you later." That's plans.

No, it's-- fuck, please, please understand.

In English, "See you later" is very casual.

It's like ciao or bye-bye.

- It's not-- it's not plans. It's nothing. - [translating in Italian]

Pl-- Please help me.

Please help her understand it's not plans.

So, where's Patrick text to you?

The one where he tells you not to go to work?

I-- I must have erased it.

I-- I erase a lot of texts. They take up my data.

But-- but he said, "Don't come in."

And I said, "Okay. See you later."

[door opens]

[Amanda] What?

Raffaele said that you weren't at his house,

that you asked him to lie for you.

He's taken away your alibi.

What?

No.

[Ginevra Ferrari] [voice distorted] Amanda.

[Ferrari speaking Italian]

[Translator Noce] Where did you go the night of Meredith's murder?

What did you do? Did you meet up with Patrick?

[Ferrari speaking Italian]

[Translator Noce] Where did you meet? What did you do?

Where did you meet? What did you do? What does he look like?

He's tall with-- with braids.

- [Ferrari speaking Italian] - [Translator Noce] Did he know Meredith?

Um, a little bit. She came into the bar, yeah.

- [Translator Noce] Did he like her? - Um, they got along, yeah.

[Bruno Ricci speaking Italian]

[Translator Noce] Did he think Meredith was pretty?

Everyone thought Meredith was pretty. She was-- she was really pretty.

[Inspector Giordano speaking Italian]

[Translator Noce] When did you leave to meet up with him?

No, I-- I didn't leave. I stayed in.

[Translator Noce] This message says that you were going to meet him.

No, no, no, it doesn't.

It doesn't-- it doesn't say that. That's not...

"See you later."

Yes, but I-- I didn't, I stayed in. I-- I-- I stayed home.

- You're a liar. - No, I'm not.

I-- I never left Raffaele's apartment.

[Translator Noce] No, you left. Raffaele said you left,

and then you messaged Patrick telling him to meet him later. Just admit it.

[Translator Noce] Where did you meet up with Patrick? At your house?

I-- I did not leave, I stayed in.

Who are you protecting, Amanda?

- Why do you keep lying? There's no need. - I'm not lying.

I'm not-- I'm not lying.

[Translator Noce] You better start talking.

[Translator Noce] Yes, maybe you don't remember. It's possible.

[voice echoing] It happened to me once.

I had a horrible car accident and it was traumatizing,

and then I woke up, and I didn't recall it.

[voice distorted and echoing] Trauma does funny things to the mind.

Maybe that's why you can't remember times very well.

[Translator Noce] Maybe you saw something horrible,

[echoing] something so bad that your brain wants you to forget.

But we'll need you to remember.

I don't understand what the fuck is happening right now, I really don't!

No, I didn't! No, I didn't!

- Why are you hitting me? - [punch thuds]

[overlapping shouting]

Why are you doing that?

[♪ tense music playing]

[muffled] Maybe you went through something yourself.

[voices slowly clarifying]

[all speaking Italian]

[Translator Noce] And you know that you did.

You met up with someone, the intentions were good.

Then everything changed. Something happened.

I-- I don't remember leaving.

- Yes, you remember. - Um...

No, no, I-- I stayed home with Raffaele.

Where did you go? To your house?

I-- I don't remember!

[Amanda] I don't-- I don't remember that, no.

[Amanda] I-- I don't remember!

- Is that where you met Patrick? - I don't remember!

[all speaking Italian]

No, I don't know!

- I don't-- I... - [Translator Noce] You're lying!

- [Amanda speaking Italian] - [overlapping shouting]

- [Amanda] It was Patrick. - [overlapping shouting]

Patrick, it was Patrick!

- [overlapping shouting continues] - It was Patrick!

[shouting stops]

[Amanda breathing shakily]

- [Amanda sobbing] - [officer sighs]

[voices muffled, echoing]

[whispering] Patrick Lumumba.

[Amanda gasping]

[Mignini clearing throat]

[Amanda gasps]

[chair scraping]

[weakly] Okay.

[Translator Noce] He needs you to, uh, be clear.

[Translator Noce] Where were you in the house

while Patrick killed Meredith?

Um...

Well, I'm not... I'm not sure that he did.

[Translator Noce] You said you were at the house, right?

[Amanda] Yes. Yes, I did. But...

[Translator Noce] Were you in the bedroom...

- No. - [Translator Noce] ...while he killed her?

No, no, no! [sniffles] No.

- [Translator Noce] Where were you? - I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.

- I don't know what's going on. - [Translator Noce] Where were you?

[Amanda] I don't know! I don't know!

[sobbing] I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know.

[Translator Noce] Are you having a flashback to Meredith's murder

like yesterday in the kitchen?

[Translator Noce] Can you hear her from the kitchen?

[Amanda] I don't hear anything, no.

[sobbing]

[phone ringing]

Ple-- I'm begging you. Can I please answer this, it's my mom.

[Translator Noce] Your phone is evidence now.

[Amanda sobbing]

[Amanda continues sobbing, whimpering]

[door opens]

[door closes]

[sobbing]

[Edda] [on phone] Hey, it's Mom.

The connecting flight to Rome was canceled,

and they rerouted me through freakin' Zurich.

But I'm getting closer.

I can't wait to see you. Amanda, honey,

- why are you not picking up your phone? - [phone disconnects]

- [Raffaele] Mm. - [Amanda] [chuckles] You're crazy.

[Amanda speaking Italian]

[♪ Italian music softly playing]

Mm-hmm. [blowing]

- [Raffaele coughing] - [phone buzzing]

[Amanda] Oh, no. Are you actually okay?

Ow, fuck! Hold this.

- [phone continues buzzing] - [Raffaele] No!

[coughing]

[Amanda chuckles]

- Oh, fuck, yes! - What?

- Oh, my God. - What, are you--

I don't have to work tonight!

- Oh! - God.

- [Amanda speaking Italian] - [whispering] This sounds very cool.

[laughing, speaking Italian]

- [Raffaele moans lightly] - [Amanda speaking Italian]

Oh, thank God.

- Mine off too. - Yours is off?

Yes.

[♪ ominous music playing]

[knocking on door]

[Amanda] No, no, no. Please, wait, excuse me!

Can somebody let me out? Somebody. I need to talk to somebody.

No, no, no. No, no, please, I made a mistake.

Mistake.

It was wrong!

I made a mistake. I was confused.

I was really confused, but I'm not anymore.

Please, I'm just-- I'm just trying to be helpful.

Can you-- can you get the mayor back here?

He went home already?

[Ferrari] Mm-hmm.

[Amanda] Oh no.

Um...

[Amanda] I needed to set the story straight.

The story I supposedly told couldn't have been my story

because I didn't really tell it.

They told it to themselves, then fed it to me,

and starved for sanity, I took it as my own.

As I retracted my statements,

finally putting my name on something resembling the truth...

[reporters shouting]

...the police proclaimed victory based on a fiction.

- [reporters shouting] - [cameras clicking]

[pounding on door]

[reporters continue shouting]

[reporters continue shouting]

[Amanda] Once they had my so-called confession,

but there was no forensic evidence of me,

Raffaele, or Patrick in the downstairs apartment,

the police maintained that all the blood found there

came from the cat.

And the notion of a second crime scene was completely abandoned...

along with any hope it might yield further proof of my innocence.

[cameras clicking]

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[phone beeping]

[beeping continues]

[Amanda] [on recording] It's Amanda. Please leave a message.

- Buona giornata. - [Edda] Hey, Amanda, it's Mom.

I made it to Italy, baby. Why aren't you picking up your phone?

[people chattering]

S-S-Sorry. Oh.

Sorry. Sorry.

[reporter speaking Italian]

W-What's he-- what's he saying?

- What is he... - No, sorry.

[Edda] English?

[all speaking Italian]

[people chattering]

Whoa. What's-- what's happening? English?

- Does anyone speak Eng-- English? - [bystander] Yes.

The American girl killed the British one.

She... No. No.

- No. - Yes. She confessed.

[♪ ominous music playing]

[softly] What? [breathing heavily]

No.

[♪ solemn music playing]

[♪ music swells]

[♪ music fades out]

- [typewriter clacking] - [bell dings]

[rooster crowing]

[♪ fanfare playing]