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(♪ dramatic music playing)

I hope she didn't suffer.

Of course she suffered. They slit her throat.

It-- it was Patrick!

-(banging on door) -(shouting in Italian)

So, then what? You-- You said-- You said Patrick?

Yes, and they made me, like, imagine I was seeing him.

(lawyer) You are going to have to stay in Capanne.

Wait what? What, for how long?

-Up to a year. -A year?

(♪ dramatic music playing)

(cutting and scraping sounds)

(kitchen items rattling)

(♪ tense music playing)

(knives clattering)

(echoing blade slicing)

(chair rolling)

(metal clinging)

(♪ tense music continues playing)

(metal cash box clanging)

(plastic blinds rattling)

(children chattering in distance)

Mama, mama!

(gasping breaths)

(children laughing and squealing in distance)

(line ringing)

(officer) (on phone) Polizia.

(officer on phone speaking Italian)

(officer on phone speaking Italian)

(officer on phone continues speaking Italian)

(♪ tense music playing)

(Amanda Knox) Story is a powerful thing.

(reporters chattering)

The shape of a story makes sense to us.

The path from the familiar to the unexpected.

-(reporters shouting) -(reporter) Mr. Knox! Mr. Knox!

(Amanda) The twists we know are coming,

even if we can't predict them.

The end, good or bad, justified by all that came before.

Mr. Knox, where exactly did your daughter learn to kill?

Did you know Amanda was seen thong shopping

as Meredith's body was going cold?

(Amanda) The problem is that reality,

as small, predictable, and painful as it can be,

often doesn't hold the same allure.

I am here to support my daughter Amanda...

-(cameras clicking) -...who is innocent.

Just like Meredith Kercher's family, all I want is for justice to be done

and to bring Amanda back home where she belongs.

Thank you very much.

(distant reporters shouting)

(Edda Mellas) He's just encouraging them.

(scoffs) What'd he do?

Made eye contact, for one.

You coming?

(knocking at door)

Welcome to Italy.

Yeah. I guess so.

-This is it, huh? -(Chris Mellas) Hey, Curt.

-Yeah. -(Curt Knox) How you doing, Chris?

Hm. Thought your handshake would be firmer.

-Chris. -(chuckles) I'm just messin' with ya.

(Edda clears throat)

All these years, I think this is our first actual handshake.

Is there a place where I can put

-my evening bags? -Yeah. Yeah.

-Anywhere, uh... -(Curt) Yeah?

(Edda) Chris is headed home tomorrow for work, so...

Could use a cocktail right now.

Uh, beer in the fridge.

-Yeah, he won't. -Wine on the rack.

-(Curt) I, uh-- -If it doesn't come from a blender...

(Curt) I only do "girly drinks."

According to my daughters, that is.

-(bag unzipping) -You know, I'd rather you not do that,

talk to those assholes out there.

I think that we actually have to, don't we?

I mean, I don't know if you've noticed, but they're saying

-some pretty bad stuff about our kid. -I-- I noticed.

-I talked to a PR firm. -PR firm?

-What for? -Yep, and they said the whole thing--

Why do we need that? She's got lawyers.

We have to tell tell the world that she is not some kind of monster.

That she's got a family that loves her and is gonna be here for her.

Yeah, we are here for her. We have been here for her.

We have to be her voice to the outside. If that doesn't happen,

then all they're gonna hear is those assholes out there.

Yeah, well, they are not reasonable people.

Then, we need to use them to reach

-the reasonable people! -Oh, well, I'm sorry if I've been too busy

caring for my traumatized daughter to give a shit.

(♪ soft tense music playing)

So, how is she?

You know Amanda.

Sunny, despite everything.

Hella bored, is what she is.

-Tore through every book I brought her. -Well, I'm glad she has books,

but does she have everything she needs?

Does she have food?

-Does she have clothes? -(Chris) Why?

You thinkin' of smuggling in some Hamburger Helper?

Holy crap. Guys, look, look.

(reporter) (on TV) ...a new assailant in the murder

of British student Meredith Kercher.

And while details are still emerging, police say that evidence

places Rudy Guede firmly at the scene of the crime.

-The new evidence... -Th-this is good, right?

Th--this is good. This is-- this is good for Amanda.

(reporter) ...believed to have fled Italy

shortly after Kercher's death on November 1st.

-(buzzer blaring) -(lock clicking)

(PA announcement in Italian)

Amanda, do you know a man named Rudy Guede?

Mm, Ru-- no.

Why? Who is that?

Black, tall, likely a drug dealer.

Nickname, "The Baron."

Uh...

No, I don't. W-Why? What's going on?

(Luciano chuckles)

His prints and DNA are all over the murder scene.

They found the killer?

Oh, my God!

Wait, am I-- am I free?

-Well, he's not in custody yet, so... -Not yet.

It's fantastic, uh... (speaking Italian)

-News. News. -News. It's fantastic news.

-Eh? -It's fantastic news.

(phone ringing)

(train clattering)

(♪ dramatic tense music playing)

(♪ dramatic music intensifying)

(train station PA announcement in Italian)

(♪ tense music playing)

(people chattering in Italian)

(Curt) (on phone) It seems like this guy is on the run.

So, we gotta hope it's just a matter of time till they nab him.

(Edda) (on phone) Then we're on the first friggin' flight outta here.

God, I have this weird feeling like maybe-- maybe I do know him.

(Edda) The murderer?

(♪ tense music continues playing)

(indistinct radio chatter)

(Amanda) I-- I know, just the more I look at his face,

he might have played basketball with the guys downstairs?

I-- I never knew his name, but...

(Edda) God, I hate thinking what could've happened to you.

I hate all this shit.

(Curt) Well, soon they're gonna catch him, and this will all be over.

(Amanda) I love you guys.

(♪ tense music continues playing)

-(child wailing) -Do the elephant with me.

(imitating elephant noises)

(buzzer blaring)

(Amanda trumpeting)

(children chattering)

(Amanda) Children born to my fellow prisoners...

serving time with their moms until they were weaned.

Ciao!

-(Gregora speaking indistinctly) -Bella Mena!

(Amanda narrating) Their innocence was so obvious.

Soon, mine would be, too.

Soon, I would be free.

-(door opens) -(VC Banti) Kuh-nox!

(VC Banti speaking Italian)

Ciao, Mena.

(Gregora speaking Italian)

-(cameras clicking) -(reporters shouting)

-(reporter 1) Patrick! -(shouting continues)

(reporter 2) Patrick, Patrick, Patrick! Is Amanda being released?

(reporter 3) Is Patrick gonna make a statement now?

-No shit. I cannot-- -Just-- just-- shush.

Finally! Now me.

(cameras clicking)

(camera clicking)

(camera clicking)

-(reporters shouting) -(cameras clicking)

(reporter) (on TV) If Patrick is innocent, what happens next for this investigation?

(Edda exhales sharply)

Niente.

(Edda) No.

(Raffaele scoffs)

No, no, no.

Fuck.

(♪ suspenseful music playing)

(♪ distorted music playing)

-(♪ rock music continues playing) -(people chattering)

-(laughing) -(knocking at door)

-(chuckling) Hello. -Ciao!

-(all) Ciao! -Can we come in?

No, no. No, we, uh... (snapping fingers) smelled you were home.

(group) Ahh.

(laughing) Um...

-Sì. -(laughing)

(Giacomo and Meredith speaking Italian)

(group laughing)

Ciao.

(♪ loud rock music continues playing on stereo)

Ciao.

(people chattering and laughing)

-Ciao. -(clicks tongue) Ciao.

I don't... no capito.

(Meredith Kercher) I will. She'll be very grateful.

-(Amanda chuckles) -(item clatters)

-Ohh. Sorry. -You got it?

-Thank you. -Cool.

-Good night. See ya. -(group) Ciao.

Ciao, ciao, grazie!

Grazie, grazie!

(♪ rock music playing on stereo)

(sighs)

(group speaking Italian)

(party goer) Boo!

(laughter)

(♪ "1234" by Feist playing)

♪ Old teenage hopes are right at your door ♪

♪ Left you with nothing ♪

♪ But they want some more ♪

♪ Oh, oh-oh, you're changing your heart ♪

(mimicking rooster crowing)

(excited chattering)

-(smacking leg) -(Amanda) Oh!

I didn't get all of that, but I feel like we're being used?

We do it for the wine and the pasta.

-Filo. Filo! -Wine and the pasta.

-(chanting) Wine and the pasta. -(overlapping chatter)

(laughter)

♪ One, two, three, four... ♪

(Amanda) Mm!

(Amanda laughing)

(group chattering in Italian)

(group continues chattering in Italian)

(♪ music continues playing faintly)

(distant dog barking)

-(♪ tense music playing) -(shutters banging)

(shutters creaking and banging)

(♪ tense music continues)

(shutter banging)

(Amanda) Though the prosecution cast me,

Raffaele, and Rudy as co-conspirators in Meredith's murder,

Rudy admitted to only partial guilt, opted for a speedy trial,

was tried before we were, and separately.

(Amanda) With his fast-track trial, he got a lighter sentence

and was removed from the public eye.

No audience to review him, no media to ravage him,

and the prosecution could then focus on their real targets:

me and Raffaele.

Awaiting a trial where Rudy Guede

would not be so much as cross-examined,

Raffaele and I rotted in jail for almost a year

while our defense teams did what they could to prepare.

(Curt) "Whore," "harlot," "slut."

Particularly colorful work from this fuck-face Mark Fontana.

I understand it's hard to see this, but it's-- it's nothing, it's noise.

These are-- Uh, no, it's not nothing. It's not noise.

These are names that they're calling our daughter, and that's just the names.

We haven't even gotten to the theories yet.

-Listen to this-- -Mr. Knox, Mrs. Mellas--

"Mignini says Kercher was killed in a sect-like ritual

"when the three suspects plotted a drug-fueled orgy

-"inspired by Halloween... -(Edda sighs)

...Marilyn Manson, and Japanese comics."

-Are you fucking kidding me? -It's fantasy. It is--

Why are we even here?! Huh?!

I'm-- Rudy Guede's DNA

-was all over that poor girl. -His blood.

-His fingerprints. -It was all over the goddamn room!

He's got a history of burglary, drug use,

aggression towards women.

Why are they still going after our daughter?

Well, because she named herself

-and-- and Patrick. -Under duress.

-She retracted an hour later. -(overlapping shouting)

Look, the theories are far-fetched.

The story is fantastical, and the press have been taking them

from the prosecution and feeding them to the public,

which is why we need to...

We are inviting them in.

To where?

-To court? -(Carlo Dalla Vedova) Yes.

(Edda) Are you kidding me? Why would you do that?

I understand your concern, but it's been-- it's been over a year.

It's been over a year, one year, one year,

and the press have yet to interact with Amanda face-to-face.

The police entrapped her in that interrogation

and they intentionally did not record it

because they knew it would look very bad for them.

We want to try this in open court so that can't happen again.

We will fight with facts.

(Luciano Ghirga) Ah.

And it's a fight we can win.

But the public must bear witness.

(car turning off)

(car door closes)

(both chuckle)

-(church bell tolling) -(people chattering)

(♪ tense music playing)

(indistinct chatter)

(lock clicking)

(guard speaking Italian)

(♪ tense music continues playing)

(engine idling)

(doors thudding shut)

(guards speaking Italian)

-(engine rumbling) -(siren wailing)

(van rattling)

(♪ tense music continues playing)

-(crowd clamoring) -(cameras clicking)

(clamoring continues)

(onlooker shrieks)

(overlapping shouting)

-(cameras continue clicking) -(crowd clamoring)

-Amanda! Amanda, we're here! -Amanda!

(overlapping shouting continues)

-(Deanna Knox) We're here! -(Amanda) No wait! No wait!

-Wait, please. Please. -(Edda) We love you! We love you!

-(♪ tense music continues) -(clamoring continues)

-(cameras clicking) -(reporters shouting)

(♪ tense music continues playing)

(indistinct chatter)

(Edda) Okay? You okay?

We're gonna make it. We're gonna make it.

-(bell ringing) -(bailiff speaking Italian)

(Carlo) Stand up. Please stand up. Yeah.

(Amanda) At this point some clarification may be necessary.

Because as we will see, an Italian murder trial

is quite unique.

-(♪ quirky accordion music playing) -For starters, up here on the dais,

there are at least two judges-- head and attendant.

Not sure what his sidekick does.

Then, there are the six lay judges, aka the jury members.

These are regular people, volunteers,

who, unlike in high-profile American trials...

(reporter) Knox... (speaking Italian)

(Amanda) ...are not sequestered during the trial, and watch the same news

-as everybody else. -(kettle whistling)

The most important difference though,

is that the criminal trial against me would take place

with a civil trial folded inside of it.

(lawyers whispering in Italian)

(Amanda) Which meant my lawyers would be facing off

against the prosecution

who hoped to put Raffaele and me in prison for murder,

simultaneously facing off with Patrick's lawyers,

the Kercher family's lawyers,

and the lawyer for the owner of Via Della Pergola 7...

(nasal spray hissing)

...all of whom were seeking financial compensation for their losses.

Oh, and one other thing.

Remember those statements I made while being psychologically tortured

without the presence of a lawyer,

saying I was at the house that night and...

It-- it was Patrick!

(Amanda) Stop. What did this mean?

It meant the jury who was hearing the murder and slander cases simultaneously,

was expected to hear that I confessed

to involvement in Meredith's murder with one ear...

-but not the other. -(ear popping)

Maybe if I had understood all this when it was happening,

I would have had a better sense of what we were up against.

And maybe I would have realized that this was terrible advice.

(whispering) Just be yourself.

(♪ soft music playing)

-(quiet chattering) -(person clears throat)

(lawyers whispering in Italian)

(people laughing)

(buzzer blaring)

(guards speaking Italian)

(lock clicking)

Raffaele?

(Raffaele Sollecito) Hey, I'm here.

(softly crying)

(Amanda) Why is this happening to us?

It doesn't make any sense. Why do the police hate us so much?

(Raffaele) Because they are assholes.

(guard shushing)

Amanda, the night that they separated us,

they were so-- so hard with me,

and I was so s-scared,

-and terrified, and confused. -I know.

-And I'm supposed to taking care of you. -Raffaele, I know. I know.

(Raffaele crying)

(♪ gentle music playing)

(Amanda) I'm right here.

(♪ solemn music playing)

(people murmuring)

Were you and Meredith close?

No, it's okay, it's-- it's just a bit awkward, sorry, um...

Was I close with Meredith?

Very.

Yeah, for the three months that I knew her,

we were quite close, yeah.

I would say it was good, but there were things

that bothered Meredith.

She didn't clean the toilet with the brush after she did a number two.

(people laughing and murmuring)

Why does it matter? (whispering) Why does it matter?

Amanda was loud to my taste, and she was strange.

She wasn't like Meredith at all.

And in the Questura, our best friend had just died,

and Amanda, she was... unfeeling.

(Sophie Purton) Yeah, rather cool. And she-- she was cold.

(♪ tense music playing)

Here, I have your depositions, Ms. Purton,

from November 2nd, 3rd and 5th.

These sentiments against Amanda were not expressed

until after she was accused and detained.

So, is it possible that when learning about Amanda on the news,

about this horrible act that she was accused of,

that you looked back at things with a different lens...

...what was a traumatized reaction from her,

was to you, through a tainted view, suddenly "cool and unfeeling"?

No, it rubbed me wrong then, and it rubs me wrong now.

Amanda was quite open about her sex life.

Um, and she also left a clear plastic beauty case out

in the bathroom that they shared with a pink vibrator and condoms in it.

It made her uncomfortable.

(Amanda) Another unique feature of Italian court,

spontaneous declarations by the accused.

(whispering) I'd... I'd like to speak.

(whispering) Are you sure?

It's going to be the first time they gonna hear from you.

Uh...

(people murmuring)

Wow. Um...

(laughter)

(Carlo sighs)

(♪ solemn music playing)

(people murmuring)

Friends close to Meredith lined up to testify

to Amanda Knox's cold-hearted demeanor.

Meredith's closest friend asserting that she and Foxy Knoxy

were in conflict over personal matters, the crass American

refusing to clean her own feces in the bathroom they shared.

"...Meredith was made deeply uncomfortable by Knox's promiscuity."

No, change that to, "Foxy Knoxy brazenly flaunted condoms and sex toys..."

(Manuela Comodi speaking Italian)

(church bell ringing)

(♪ tense music playing)

-(Laura yelling and laughing) -(Filomena gasps)

(distant scooter revving)

(scoffs)

(sighs)

(footsteps receding)

(Amanda sighs)

(chuckles)

(Amanda softly chuckles)

Huh?

-(reporters shouting) -(cameras clicking)

(♪ upbeat music playing)

(reporters continue shouting)

(reporters shouting "Amanda!")

(♪ upbeat music continues playing)

Hey, you fucking psychopath!

(cameras clicking)

Psychopath, this way!

(♪ dramatic tense music playing)

Wearing that t-shirt and all of that, it's just really embarrassing.

What about that cold sore? I mean, she's obviously--

They're calling her a puttana here in Italy, you know what I mean?

(on TV) Like, where'd you think she got that?

(interviewees speaking Italian)

(Carlo) We are lawyers, we are not media strategists or PR people.

She told me that you guys had told her to be herself.

A weirdo like Amanda, could you be any dumber?

(Edda) Geez, Chris, come on.

-Did I just hurt his feelings? -Is-- is no one telling Amanda

how to behave in court?

No? What-- What to wear, what not to say?

We did not think to instruct her on those things.

But also, we have never experienced such a level

of media interest, or sensationalism,

or-- or vicious public opinion against a client.

-Never. Never. -(Curt scoffing)

I don't know-- Uh, personally, I don't know a lawyer

who has, in all of Italy--

No, you said that we should let them in.

We thought it was the best thing to do at that time.

(Deanna) She's never gonna see it.

The way you all want her to see things?

The way the world sees things? She's not going to, she's stubborn.

Sunshine and rainbows when it's all a pile of shit.

How do you think she's getting through this?

(♪ soft music playing)

(Edda sighs)

(softly) Oh shit.

(people chattering)

(♪ tense music playing)

Is she-- she a witness against me?

(whispering) Yes. It's normal. It's normal.

No. That's my friend. That's my--

I know. I know.

(♪ tense music playing)

(♪ music stops abruptly)

(whispering) This is ridiculous.

It's okay.

-But she's my friend. -I know.

(overlapping chatter)

Foxy Knoxy...

(Laura yelling and laughing)

(people murmuring)

(Filomena sniffles)

(people murmuring)

(Judge Massei) Prego, Signorina Knox.

Grazie, Signor Presidente.

(people quietly murmuring)

(♪ solemn music playing)

(sniffles)

Um...

(buzzer blaring)

I thought-- I thought Deanna was coming.

(Edda) I told her to, uh...

I just told her to wait in the car. I wanted to ask you something alone.

(prisoners chattering in distance)

Look, I know this isn't really your thing.

Okay? But I really...

I mean, we-- we need to change how people see you.

-If you-- -I'm-- I'm an atheist, Mom.

That would-- So that would be a lie.

You don't think they'd tear me apart for that?

(♪ solemn music continues)

I'm... I'm not that.

I'm not-- I'm not any of the things that they're saying.

I don't know-- I don't know how to be.

I don't know what you want--

What do-- What do you want me to be? What do you want me to do?

-Honey, I'm-- -My own friend got up there

in front of everybody, and if she can think

that I can do that, then what-- what hope do I have?

(Amanda crying)

-(cameras clicking) -(reporters chattering)

-I just want to tell her story, you know? -(Edda) Hey!

Get away from her, you piece of shit!

What, destroying one of my girls isn't enough?!

Huh?

You haven't made enough fuckin' money off my flesh?

(reporters continue chattering)

Ma'am, your daughter is on trial for murder.

It's my job to tell the stories that people are interested in.

No. No, you decide.

You decide what people are interested in and you feed it to 'em.

Pretty girls, and sex, and death.

What about the guy who actually killed Meredith?

Why the fuck aren't you talking about him?!

(door slams shut)

(Amanda) Rudy Guede had a history of burglary.

Only his DNA was on Meredith and in that room.

How could people not be open to the possibility

that he did all of it alone?

(glass breaking)

(dogs barking)

(♪ dramatic, tense music playing)

(glass crunching)

(items rustling)

(drawers rattling)

(distant dogs barking)

(sighs)

(chess piece scraping)

(soft banging)

(shutters creaking and banging)

(♪ dramatic, tense music continues)

(shutter banging)

(shutter banging)

(breathing heavily)

(toilet water splashing)

(keys jingling)

-(door lock clicking) -(Rudy gasping)

(switch clicking)

(pants zippering, belt rattling)

(footsteps approaching)

-(door creaking) -(switch clicking)

(♪ dramatic music intensifying)

(♪ music stops)

(water running)

(sighs)

(♪ tense music playing)

(panting)

(gate banging)

(♪ tense music continues playing)

(breathing heavily)

(echoing breaths)

(phones thudding)

(♪ soft, tense music playing)

(♪ music swells)

(♪ music fades out)

-(typewriter clacking) -(bell dings)

(rooster crowing)

(♪ fanfare playing)