1 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:27,280 I need to see father! 2 00:01:44,690 --> 00:01:51,370 The really important thing is to make a thumb-sized hole in the middle of each 3 00:01:51,370 --> 00:01:53,170 cookie. Like this. 4 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:58,920 And you fill them with any kind of fruit preserve that you like the best. 5 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:01,940 For me, it's cherries from my alley. 6 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,660 Busy? Yes? I think you should sit down. 7 00:02:06,140 --> 00:02:08,860 No, I think I'd like to keep my hands busy. 8 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,800 And then you fill each cookie with a bit of fruit jam. 9 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:15,660 And it bakes off lovely. 10 00:02:19,340 --> 00:02:22,100 I'll just let these cool. 11 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,480 Everybody can have one or a few, as many as you. 12 00:02:33,700 --> 00:02:34,700 Lizzie. 13 00:02:36,860 --> 00:02:37,860 Sister. 14 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:15,219 Miss Gordon, stop. 15 00:03:15,220 --> 00:03:21,180 And you, you blotting, scheming, frowning, coarse pussy. 16 00:03:21,620 --> 00:03:23,380 Miss Gordon, ladies. 17 00:03:24,020 --> 00:03:26,640 I think you're under shock, Miss Gordon. 18 00:05:14,730 --> 00:05:15,750 Good day, Ms. Borden. 19 00:05:16,330 --> 00:05:19,270 I'm Ms. Mead. I'm the matron here at Taunton Jail. 20 00:05:19,830 --> 00:05:21,070 I'll be looking after you. 21 00:05:24,870 --> 00:05:25,870 Hello. 22 00:05:31,110 --> 00:05:32,530 Am I to change clothes? 23 00:05:33,030 --> 00:05:37,010 No. You can wear that if you'd like, but as you've not yet been convicted of any 24 00:05:37,010 --> 00:05:39,210 crime, you can wear what you'd like as your trial progresses. 25 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,320 How long will I be here? 26 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,120 You might be here a very long time indeed. 27 00:05:49,660 --> 00:05:54,720 But, Miss Borden, as you are a mistress of no little means, your stay here 28 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:55,720 needn't be too trying. 29 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:00,020 Your meals will be sent from the City Hotel and the Daily Newspaper forwarded 30 00:06:00,020 --> 00:06:01,020 to you. 31 00:06:39,380 --> 00:06:41,420 This is how I shall spend my days. 32 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:21,200 Good morning. 33 00:07:21,700 --> 00:07:23,160 How long have you been awake? 34 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:25,500 Since dawn. 35 00:07:31,060 --> 00:07:33,380 Fish hash today, as it's Friday. 36 00:07:35,020 --> 00:07:37,280 That's all right, Miss Mead. You enjoy it. 37 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:43,340 There's a red bird in that tree. 38 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:45,840 A cardinal. 39 00:07:46,860 --> 00:07:48,580 His song is always first. 40 00:07:51,630 --> 00:07:55,150 It sounds like he's saying, what cheer, what cheer? 41 00:08:01,510 --> 00:08:03,910 What a magnificent summer it's become. 42 00:08:06,590 --> 00:08:10,530 I wish I could be outside with my cherry trees. 43 00:08:19,750 --> 00:08:23,380 Has a Bridget called on me? 44 00:08:25,020 --> 00:08:26,020 Bridget Sullivan? 45 00:08:27,220 --> 00:08:28,900 She also goes by Maggie. 46 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:31,540 Or Margaret. 47 00:08:41,059 --> 00:08:42,059 No. 48 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:47,060 There is someone who has requested a visit. 49 00:09:37,230 --> 00:09:39,530 Ladies? I'm going to ask you one last time. 50 00:09:42,090 --> 00:09:43,090 Did you do it? 51 00:09:43,790 --> 00:09:45,550 Can we please speak of other things? 52 00:09:46,390 --> 00:09:49,390 Your story makes no sense, Lizzie. Answer me. 53 00:09:51,010 --> 00:09:52,010 Answer me! 54 00:09:54,470 --> 00:09:56,710 No, I didn't. 55 00:10:01,170 --> 00:10:03,270 I've arrived at a kind of impasse. 56 00:10:05,170 --> 00:10:08,290 Because when I hear your conversations, I simply don't believe you. 57 00:10:18,410 --> 00:10:20,050 There's something I never told you. 58 00:10:21,650 --> 00:10:25,710 When Mother was dying, I was called to her bedside. 59 00:10:27,030 --> 00:10:30,810 I made her a promise to protect you, Lizzie. 60 00:10:32,890 --> 00:10:36,470 And I am here to honor that promise, but Lizzie, you are making this very 61 00:10:36,470 --> 00:10:37,470 difficult. 62 00:10:37,710 --> 00:10:41,150 I have met with your lawyers, and your case is terrible. Your inquest was a 63 00:10:41,150 --> 00:10:44,770 disaster. Your lawyers can't even begin to craft a narrative from it. Why? 64 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,480 Because each time you told the story, it was different. 65 00:10:49,340 --> 00:10:52,640 I heard a moan, and I ran downstairs. 66 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:54,600 But you said you were up back. 67 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:55,920 Yes. 68 00:10:56,320 --> 00:11:00,920 I was vomiting all morning. We all were. I couldn't keep a thing down. 69 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,040 So you picked some fruit? 70 00:11:05,660 --> 00:11:08,380 Yes. And you stayed out in the heat to eat it? 71 00:11:11,140 --> 00:11:14,100 Yes. Except for when... 72 00:11:14,490 --> 00:11:20,090 I went out back to look for some sinkers. I think I... I mentioned that 73 00:11:20,090 --> 00:11:25,870 before. For a fishing trip for which you had no fishing line. You just thought 74 00:11:25,870 --> 00:11:27,670 you'd look for some sinkers. 75 00:11:30,630 --> 00:11:31,630 Yes. 76 00:11:32,810 --> 00:11:36,210 Just say it was that McDyke and I'll give you an alibi that will save your 77 00:11:36,210 --> 00:11:37,210 life. 78 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:45,440 I need something to hold on to. 79 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:48,520 Just say that it was her and we'll be free. 80 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:53,680 It wasn't me. 81 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:56,780 And it wasn't her. 82 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,500 How do you know? If it wasn't you, then it could have been her. 83 00:12:01,300 --> 00:12:02,880 Just say that it was. No. 84 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:04,700 I won't move one inch. 85 00:12:05,940 --> 00:12:06,940 Never. 86 00:12:18,730 --> 00:12:23,090 You're going to regret this if it's the last thing I do you're going to live to 87 00:12:23,090 --> 00:12:24,090 regret this 88 00:13:12,910 --> 00:13:13,910 I don't understand. 89 00:13:14,450 --> 00:13:18,950 Because you're notorious, Lucy, there's an incentive for anyone overhearing your 90 00:13:18,950 --> 00:13:21,030 conversations to forward them to the newspapers. 91 00:13:22,130 --> 00:13:26,990 So, I spoke to the judge and he agreed you could meet your lawyer someplace 92 00:13:26,990 --> 00:13:27,990 more private. 93 00:13:34,750 --> 00:13:35,750 Thank you. 94 00:13:38,510 --> 00:13:40,910 Anyone with eyes can see you're innocent. 95 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,280 Ms. Warren, your lawyers will be here within the hour. 96 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:36,360 Good day to you all. 97 00:16:36,620 --> 00:16:37,620 Look, 98 00:16:38,460 --> 00:16:41,160 tis pity she's a whore. 99 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,100 I think not. 100 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:54,160 Thank you, officer. 101 00:17:09,739 --> 00:17:13,680 The top of page two, that's the... 102 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,740 Nance? 103 00:17:20,940 --> 00:17:22,079 These are my lawyers. 104 00:17:24,540 --> 00:17:25,900 Hello. Hello, ma'am. 105 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,420 Gentlemen, I'm sure you already know, but this is Nance O'Neil. 106 00:17:34,630 --> 00:17:38,570 Gentlemen, I wonder if you might allow Mr. Warden and I some privacy? 107 00:17:40,810 --> 00:17:41,810 Certainly. 108 00:17:43,830 --> 00:17:45,150 We'll continue tomorrow. 109 00:17:48,090 --> 00:17:49,090 Lizzie? 110 00:17:50,290 --> 00:17:51,290 Good day, ma'am. 111 00:18:05,930 --> 00:18:09,110 Are these cuttings from a cherry tree? 112 00:18:09,950 --> 00:18:10,950 Yes. 113 00:18:11,710 --> 00:18:16,250 My spiteful sister chopped them down, but I'm forcing the buds. 114 00:18:17,550 --> 00:18:18,550 I'll save them. 115 00:18:31,530 --> 00:18:32,710 We need to talk. 116 00:18:48,060 --> 00:18:51,320 Lizzie, I know more than you might imagine about your case. 117 00:18:53,100 --> 00:18:55,860 How? I fucked the bailiff. 118 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,320 Lizzie, you're in trouble. Your inquest was insane. 119 00:19:07,100 --> 00:19:12,020 My insatiable bailiff, Beau, told me all about it. He told me everything I wanted 120 00:19:12,020 --> 00:19:13,020 to know. 121 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:14,640 Needed to know. 122 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:21,860 If you were upstairs when your father returned, you would have walked past 123 00:19:21,860 --> 00:19:26,560 your dead mother. I didn't see her because I was downstairs in the kitchen. 124 00:19:26,860 --> 00:19:31,360 But you said you came downstairs when you heard your father come in. 125 00:19:32,620 --> 00:19:33,620 Yes. 126 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,400 So, you were upstairs. 127 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,600 No, I was downstairs. 128 00:19:40,020 --> 00:19:44,200 Well, I was very confused. I had been drugged to calm my nerves. 129 00:19:44,890 --> 00:19:49,470 I had just walked in on my father and stepmother murdering... Don't lie to me, 130 00:19:49,550 --> 00:19:50,550 Lizzie. 131 00:19:51,770 --> 00:19:56,570 You may have been drugged, but you weren't confused. 132 00:19:59,110 --> 00:20:00,690 You're just a bad actor. 133 00:20:01,830 --> 00:20:03,290 What on earth do you mean? 134 00:20:03,970 --> 00:20:06,170 See? Not buying it. 135 00:20:07,270 --> 00:20:08,650 I know you did it. 136 00:20:10,370 --> 00:20:12,650 And I know you had your reasons. 137 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:16,660 I saw how they treated you. 138 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:20,140 Your beast of a stepmother. 139 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:28,360 Your alcoholic of a father. And that was reason enough as far as I'm concerned. 140 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:38,400 I sensed your rage the moment I laid eyes on you. It's what drew me 141 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:39,400 to you. 142 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:47,440 Do you know who I based my most recent triumph on when I slayed them as Lady M 143 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,440 in the great Scottish play? 144 00:20:50,740 --> 00:20:54,400 Do you know who I based my performance on? 145 00:20:56,260 --> 00:20:57,260 You. 146 00:20:59,020 --> 00:21:03,860 Mine was a Lady M of quiet, burning, indignant anger. 147 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,620 She can't help but push her husband to act. 148 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:17,320 She is so stifled as a woman in a world of men. She herself is desperate 149 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:18,800 to murder. 150 00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:32,900 If I don't teach you a few tricks, you're going to burn. 151 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:37,240 I don't want that for you. 152 00:21:44,910 --> 00:21:50,370 You are the most famous woman in the world, and I intend to be just as 153 00:21:50,370 --> 00:21:51,370 famous. 154 00:21:53,310 --> 00:21:56,950 If I save you, will you help me do that? 155 00:21:58,470 --> 00:21:59,650 Be my patron? 156 00:22:01,030 --> 00:22:02,230 My benefactor? 157 00:22:08,890 --> 00:22:09,890 Yes. 158 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:22,500 Lesson one. 159 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,420 You must learn to make an entrance. 160 00:22:27,180 --> 00:22:32,780 As you walk into the room, as the trial of the century begins, 161 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,160 let them see a lady. 162 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:44,100 You don't deserve to be here, but you're glad as it is your opportunity to show 163 00:22:44,100 --> 00:22:50,540 every man, woman, and child what a great lady looks like. 164 00:22:57,060 --> 00:22:58,420 Begin. Again. 165 00:23:06,140 --> 00:23:07,260 Guilty. Boo. 166 00:23:07,660 --> 00:23:08,660 Again. 167 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:10,960 Back in character, please. 168 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:18,720 A vision of mourning that you find the courage to carry on. 169 00:23:19,180 --> 00:23:20,400 Better. Again. 170 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,040 Head down. 171 00:24:12,110 --> 00:24:13,150 Better, Lizzie. 172 00:24:13,870 --> 00:24:14,870 Better. 173 00:24:16,130 --> 00:24:20,770 When you take your seat, it's as if you are alighting onto a throne. 174 00:24:22,090 --> 00:24:23,510 Back straight. 175 00:24:28,570 --> 00:24:31,150 Legs crossed and tucked. 176 00:24:33,530 --> 00:24:35,470 Show a little ankle. 177 00:24:55,310 --> 00:25:00,250 And once you are seated, look to nobody. 178 00:25:00,870 --> 00:25:04,750 Not to the gallery, not to the judge. 179 00:25:05,750 --> 00:25:09,910 Look only to the jury. 180 00:25:13,830 --> 00:25:16,170 You're famous, Lizzie. 181 00:25:17,410 --> 00:25:21,710 You're not like them, and they know it. 182 00:25:24,170 --> 00:25:29,710 Show them it is your pleasure as a goddess to delight amongst mortal men. 183 00:25:32,590 --> 00:25:33,610 Turn to them. 184 00:25:37,490 --> 00:25:38,490 Smile. 185 00:25:44,350 --> 00:25:45,490 Now turn away. 186 00:25:49,930 --> 00:25:51,170 Don't regard them again. 187 00:25:52,190 --> 00:25:53,710 They have a job to do. 188 00:26:05,399 --> 00:26:06,480 Lesson two. 189 00:26:07,380 --> 00:26:12,900 Lizzie, they are preparing the skulls of your father and stepmother as evidence. 190 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:20,120 My bailiff told me they have been stripped of flesh and gore to show the 191 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:22,720 violence of the axe wounds. 192 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:34,760 Lizzie, when you see the skulls, you must fate. 193 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:52,840 It's the most sympathetic and vulnerable thing that a woman can do. 194 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:57,100 It suggests to the jury that you are innocent. 195 00:26:57,460 --> 00:27:02,260 If you can't stand the sight of it now, how could you have done it then? 196 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:06,080 How could you have kept chopping? 197 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,200 No! Too theatrical. 198 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,440 It must look real. 199 00:27:35,900 --> 00:27:42,780 When one faints, one's whole 200 00:27:42,780 --> 00:27:45,720 organism goes limp. 201 00:27:46,420 --> 00:27:47,620 Again. 202 00:27:55,050 --> 00:28:00,890 loose at the knees like a puppet whose strings have been cut and BOOM! 203 00:28:01,910 --> 00:28:02,910 Better. 204 00:28:03,470 --> 00:28:04,470 How? 205 00:28:09,910 --> 00:28:12,250 Yes, that's the- 206 00:28:24,590 --> 00:28:26,870 I must apologize for what you're about to see. 207 00:28:27,810 --> 00:28:32,850 But I assure you, the spectacle is an utmost necessity to my case. 208 00:28:35,590 --> 00:28:42,590 Gentlemen of the jury, this 209 00:28:42,590 --> 00:28:44,810 is what she did. 210 00:28:53,450 --> 00:28:54,530 She is a murderer. 211 00:28:56,690 --> 00:29:00,850 Lizzie Borden is a liar. I ask that you send her to her death. 212 00:29:02,150 --> 00:29:05,930 This woman should not be allowed to roam free to murder again. 213 00:29:06,630 --> 00:29:11,590 We have proven without a shadow of a doubt that Lizzie Borden murdered her 214 00:29:11,590 --> 00:29:15,250 parents in her... Sir, 215 00:29:19,050 --> 00:29:20,150 I'm sorry. 216 00:29:20,510 --> 00:29:22,010 This woman is a liar. 217 00:29:28,940 --> 00:29:33,200 Third, Lizzie, and this is important, 218 00:29:33,740 --> 00:29:37,420 you can't take the stand. 219 00:29:38,300 --> 00:29:45,160 So you must show them just once that you are flesh and 220 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:46,160 blood. 221 00:29:48,180 --> 00:29:50,360 You must cry, Lizzie. 222 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:55,440 Right, of course. 223 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:02,720 No! 224 00:30:04,100 --> 00:30:10,560 Someone has taken an axe and cleaved you open! 225 00:30:11,620 --> 00:30:17,960 Start low, like a great golden goose dipped 226 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,580 into a lake. 227 00:30:23,820 --> 00:30:28,140 Prosecution calls Emma Borden to the stand. 228 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:42,980 Miss Borden, you are estranged from your sister, are you not? 229 00:30:56,460 --> 00:31:00,820 Ms. Borden, are you not? 230 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:33,340 Ms. Boyle, are you not estranged from your 231 00:31:33,340 --> 00:31:34,340 sister? 232 00:31:58,760 --> 00:31:59,760 Fairly untrue. 233 00:32:00,460 --> 00:32:02,920 There is no one closer to my sister than I. 234 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,400 And she is innocent. 235 00:32:07,700 --> 00:32:08,700 Your Honor. 236 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,700 Order! She couldn't have killed our father and Mrs. Borden. May I have a 237 00:32:12,700 --> 00:32:16,280 moment with my client? I saw a man try to break into our house the week before 238 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,760 the murder. A terrifying, pale man with an axe. 239 00:32:20,140 --> 00:32:23,140 And two little children saw this man the day of the murder. 240 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:34,260 trip was my idea. 241 00:32:34,660 --> 00:32:38,720 I told Lizzie that she and I should go fishing that very week. 242 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:40,760 I did. 243 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:45,680 And would she please do me the favor of trying to find these sinkers that I knew 244 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:46,599 were outside? 245 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:47,600 No! 246 00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:54,320 This contradicts your sister's sworn inquest. My sister was drugged. 247 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:56,520 Morphine gave that inquest. 248 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:03,800 Moment! 249 00:33:56,639 --> 00:33:58,380 Well, we heard both sides. 250 00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:00,660 Let's get an idea of where we stand. 251 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,660 Who votes to convict? 252 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:07,480 To acquit. 253 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,280 There's just no way a woman could have done that. 254 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,460 I think it was a Portuguese. 255 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,000 Had to be. 256 00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:16,760 When can we get alcohol again? 257 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:23,120 Well, I feel we can't just call the judge right back in. 258 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:29,820 Let's sally forth and continue playing men for an hour 259 00:34:29,820 --> 00:34:48,460 As 260 00:34:48,460 --> 00:34:51,020 the jury reached a verdict 261 00:34:55,340 --> 00:34:56,380 We have, Your Honor. 262 00:35:01,380 --> 00:35:06,520 And when they read out the verdict, do exactly as I say. 263 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:09,580 Miss Borden, please stand. 264 00:35:23,020 --> 00:35:27,240 In the case of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts versus Lizzie Andrew 265 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:33,360 Borden, how does the jury find the defendant? 266 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:43,820 Let the winds of 267 00:35:43,820 --> 00:35:50,020 victory fill your sails and blow away every mote of resentment. 268 00:35:51,340 --> 00:35:55,300 You must be gracious and grandiose. 269 00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:58,440 We find the defendant. 270 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,040 Not guilty. 271 00:36:50,830 --> 00:36:57,070 And to the jury, make sure you vary the inflection. 272 00:36:58,130 --> 00:36:59,750 I wish you well. 273 00:37:00,790 --> 00:37:02,810 I wish you well. 274 00:37:09,430 --> 00:37:11,470 I wish you well. 275 00:37:13,290 --> 00:37:15,050 I wish you well. 276 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:22,140 I wish you well I wish you well 277 00:37:22,140 --> 00:37:25,920 I 278 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:33,840 wish 279 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,920 you well I wish you well 280 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:50,800 How will I ever repay you? 281 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,100 Just repay me. 282 00:38:13,780 --> 00:38:15,780 His court is adjourned. 283 00:38:58,410 --> 00:39:00,610 What is this? Flash powder. Those are photographs. 284 00:39:01,770 --> 00:39:02,770 For me? 285 00:39:03,250 --> 00:39:04,250 Yes. 286 00:39:05,010 --> 00:39:09,370 Miss Borden has time for just a few questions. How did it feel? What will 287 00:39:09,370 --> 00:39:10,370 you do now? 288 00:39:17,590 --> 00:39:20,010 I want to say thank you to you all. 289 00:39:21,690 --> 00:39:25,430 I'm relieved and heartened to see that justice was done today. 290 00:39:26,670 --> 00:39:30,030 The tragedy done into my family can never be undone. 291 00:39:31,310 --> 00:39:37,150 But perhaps now my sister and I can usher in a season of healing and 292 00:39:37,150 --> 00:39:40,410 kindness for people and for animals. 293 00:39:44,290 --> 00:39:46,090 That's what I'd like to do now. 294 00:39:47,190 --> 00:39:52,730 To begin the project of making my heart and soul and home a place where no 295 00:39:52,730 --> 00:39:54,630 living creature need feel fear. 296 00:40:03,370 --> 00:40:04,370 Thank you all. 297 00:41:03,660 --> 00:41:04,660 Lizzie!