1
00:00:25,734 --> 00:00:29,321
And what's the plan?
It will only
confuse you.

2
00:00:29,363 --> 00:00:32,115
Listen, I can't be
any more confused
than I already am.

3
00:00:32,157 --> 00:00:34,993
Steve, I would
rather be prosecuting
than defending you.

4
00:00:35,035 --> 00:00:37,788
Why?
Because I think
you're guilty as hell.

5
00:00:37,829 --> 00:00:40,040
Well, maybe I should
get another lawyer then.

6
00:00:40,082 --> 00:00:43,210
Well, I'm not
looking forward to
twisting the Navy's arm.

7
00:00:43,252 --> 00:00:46,088
Why? What, are you
scared of the brass?
Worse.

8
00:00:46,129 --> 00:00:47,839
Respectful.

9
00:00:47,881 --> 00:00:49,841
You know, sometimes I think
the Navy's a master plan

10
00:00:49,883 --> 00:00:52,719
designed by geniuses
for execution by idiots.

11
00:00:52,761 --> 00:00:55,264
Where did you hear that?
I couldn't have just
made that up myself?

12
00:00:55,305 --> 00:00:57,391
Could have made up
the Gettysburg Address too.
Where'd you hear it?

13
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That's one of
Tom Keefer's wisecracks.
Oh.

14
00:00:59,726 --> 00:01:01,520
Thomas Keefer,
your novelist friend.
Yeah.

15
00:01:01,561 --> 00:01:03,855
He's got the sharpest mind
on the ship.
He's sharp, all right.

16
00:01:03,897 --> 00:01:05,691
He knows everything Queeg did.

17
00:01:06,316 --> 00:01:08,068
I'm sure he does.

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The trial counsel
will state the charge
and specification.

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Charge one, mutiny.

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Violation of Article 94,
Uniform Code
of Military Justice.

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Specification: In that
Lieutenant Stephen Maryk,

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while serving
as executive officer
aboard the USS   Caine,

23
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did on December 18th, 2022,
commit an act of mutiny.

24
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Lieutenant Maryk willfully,
and without proper authority,

25
00:01:41,935 --> 00:01:44,354
and without
justifiable cause

26
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did relieve from duty
Lieutenant Commander
Philip Francis Queeg,

27
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then serving
as the duly appointed
commanding officer

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of the USS   Caine,

29
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who was then
in lawful exercise
of his command.

30
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How do you plead?

31
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Not guilty.

32
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Defense will stipulate
that Lieutenant Maryk

33
00:02:00,203 --> 00:02:02,581
was serving
as executive officer
aboard the USS   Caine,

34
00:02:02,622 --> 00:02:04,333
18 December, 2022.

35
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Trial counsel,
you may call
your first witness.

36
00:02:09,004 --> 00:02:11,506
Call Lieutenant Commander Queeg.

37
00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:25,062
Do you solemnly swear
that the evidence you give
shall be the truth,

38
00:02:25,103 --> 00:02:27,481
the whole truth
and nothing but the truth,
so help you God?

39
00:02:27,522 --> 00:02:29,149
I do.

40
00:02:29,191 --> 00:02:30,650
Be seated.

41
00:02:36,531 --> 00:02:38,825
[prosecutor]
State your name, rank
and present position.

42
00:02:38,867 --> 00:02:42,496
Philip Francis Queeg,
Lieutenant Commander,
United States Navy,

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00:02:42,537 --> 00:02:46,333
currently attached
to Headquarters, Fifth Fleet,
awaiting reassignment.

44
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Do you recognize
the accused?

45
00:02:49,669 --> 00:02:51,588
[Queeg] Yes.

46
00:02:51,630 --> 00:02:54,132
Lieutenant Maryk,
US Navy.

47
00:02:54,174 --> 00:02:58,553
Commander Queeg,
on December 18th, 2022,

48
00:02:58,595 --> 00:03:00,472
were you in command
of the USS   Caine?

49
00:03:00,514 --> 00:03:02,015
Yes, I was.

50
00:03:02,516 --> 00:03:04,768
What type of vessel
is the   Caine?

51
00:03:04,810 --> 00:03:08,980
Well, her official
designation is an MCM--
mine countermeasures ship.

52
00:03:09,022 --> 00:03:11,066
And what is
her primary mission?

53
00:03:11,108 --> 00:03:14,486
Well, the   Caine
is designed to detect
and neutralize sea-based mines.

54
00:03:14,528 --> 00:03:16,071
We conduct
minesweeping operations

55
00:03:16,113 --> 00:03:18,198
as directed anywhere
in the Persian Gulf,

56
00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:20,450
with an emphasis
on the Straits of Hormuz.

57
00:03:20,492 --> 00:03:24,371
Commander,
on December 18th, 2022,

58
00:03:24,413 --> 00:03:26,873
were you relieved of command
of the   Caine?

59
00:03:26,915 --> 00:03:28,959
Yes.

60
00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:30,460
By whom?

61
00:03:30,502 --> 00:03:32,504
The accused,
Lieutenant Maryk.

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[prosecutor] Was this
a standard watch change?

63
00:03:35,924 --> 00:03:38,844
No, it was
totally irregular.

64
00:03:38,885 --> 00:03:40,720
How would you
describe it?
[scoffs]

65
00:03:40,762 --> 00:03:46,017
Well, the most charitable
description would be
that it was an incident,

66
00:03:46,059 --> 00:03:48,395
a regrettable incident
of the temporary

67
00:03:48,437 --> 00:03:50,981
and total collapse
of military discipline.

68
00:03:51,022 --> 00:03:55,152
Commander, please relate
all the facts that bear
on this unauthorized relief.

69
00:03:56,278 --> 00:03:58,321
Okay, well,

70
00:03:58,363 --> 00:04:01,741
the   Caine   sortied from Bahrain
on December 16th.

71
00:04:01,783 --> 00:04:05,454
Our mission was to sweep
for mines from the Persian Gulf
through the Straits of Hormuz.

72
00:04:05,495 --> 00:04:09,291
When a cyclone came along
the operation was canceled,

73
00:04:09,332 --> 00:04:11,626
and the boat
started to maneuver
to evade the storm.

74
00:04:11,668 --> 00:04:13,879
The storm
was traveling due west.

75
00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,715
[prosecutor]
What was the date and time
of that course change?

76
00:04:16,756 --> 00:04:20,051
Well, that would be
early morning
of the 18th, ma'am.

77
00:04:20,093 --> 00:04:22,762
And as I say, the storm was
pretty bad at that point.

78
00:04:22,804 --> 00:04:24,806
Visibility was almost zero.

79
00:04:24,848 --> 00:04:28,185
Couldn't see
any of the other ships
in the detachment.

80
00:04:28,226 --> 00:04:31,146
We were sailing blind through
the rain and the spray,

81
00:04:31,188 --> 00:04:32,981
and with the wind
and the sea and all,

82
00:04:33,023 --> 00:04:35,108
we had to maneuver
using engines and rudders

83
00:04:35,150 --> 00:04:37,110
to hold the evasion course
that had been ordered.

84
00:04:37,152 --> 00:04:39,446
But w-we were doing fine.

85
00:04:39,488 --> 00:04:43,116
My executive officer, however,
pretty early in the game,

86
00:04:43,158 --> 00:04:46,119
began to show
unusual symptoms
of nervousness.

87
00:04:46,161 --> 00:04:48,079
What were
these symptoms?

88
00:04:48,121 --> 00:04:50,248
Well, for example, he started
talking pretty early--

89
00:04:50,290 --> 00:04:53,960
Couldn't have been more
than half an hour after
the ship started running south--

90
00:04:54,002 --> 00:04:57,464
that we needed
to operate independently
and come around to the north.

91
00:04:57,506 --> 00:04:59,549
Why did he want
to do that?

92
00:04:59,591 --> 00:05:01,676
Well, to give you the picture,
the cyclone was coming at us
from the east.

93
00:05:01,718 --> 00:05:03,303
We were on
the western edge of it,

94
00:05:03,345 --> 00:05:06,264
which means where we were,
the wind was from due north.

95
00:05:06,306 --> 00:05:10,769
Now, the   Commodore,   of course,
was running south with the wind
to get out of the storm's path,

96
00:05:10,810 --> 00:05:14,105
which was in accordance with
all existing storm doctrine.

97
00:05:14,147 --> 00:05:18,401
My exec, however,
insisted that our ship
was on the verge of foundering

98
00:05:18,443 --> 00:05:20,403
and that we had better
turn into the wind,

99
00:05:20,445 --> 00:05:23,406
wh-which was the north,
if we were to survive.

100
00:05:23,448 --> 00:05:27,118
Now... [chuckles]
...of course, we weren't
in that bad of shape.

101
00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,204
And that's what
I mean by nervousness.

102
00:05:29,246 --> 00:05:31,122
What was your objection
to coming north,

103
00:05:31,164 --> 00:05:33,083
as your executive officer
suggested?

104
00:05:33,124 --> 00:05:35,669
Well, everything was wrong
with that idea
that could be wrong with it.

105
00:05:35,710 --> 00:05:39,881
I mean, in the first place,
my orders were to proceed south.

106
00:05:39,923 --> 00:05:42,425
My ship wasn't in danger.
It--

107
00:05:42,467 --> 00:05:44,761
It was functioning normally.

108
00:05:44,803 --> 00:05:48,598
Uh, to drop out of station
and act independently
under those circumstances

109
00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:50,141
is out of the question.

110
00:05:50,183 --> 00:05:52,018
And to come around north

111
00:05:52,060 --> 00:05:54,354
would be to head
the ship directly into
the heart of the cyclone.

112
00:05:54,396 --> 00:05:59,317
It was a senseless suggestion
and, under the circumstances,
almost suicidal.

113
00:05:59,359 --> 00:06:02,070
I have since checked
all of my decisions
of December 18th

114
00:06:02,112 --> 00:06:04,072
with the finest
ship handlers I know,

115
00:06:04,114 --> 00:06:06,116
ranking all the way up
to rear admiral,

116
00:06:06,157 --> 00:06:10,537
and unanimously they agree
that the only course
in that situation was south.

117
00:06:11,663 --> 00:06:14,916
[prosecutor]
Commander, your last remark
was hearsay.

118
00:06:14,958 --> 00:06:16,459
Oh, I'm-- I'm sorry.

119
00:06:16,501 --> 00:06:18,670
I'm not up
on these legal distinctions

120
00:06:18,712 --> 00:06:20,255
as well as I should be,
I guess.

121
00:06:20,297 --> 00:06:22,757
[prosecutor]
It's perfectly all right.

122
00:06:22,799 --> 00:06:25,885
Will defense counsel move
to strike out the part of
the testimony which was hearsay?

123
00:06:25,927 --> 00:06:27,095
All right, so move.

124
00:06:27,137 --> 00:06:28,972
[prosecutor]
Please continue.

125
00:06:29,014 --> 00:06:32,892
Well, i-it's just that Maryk's
insistence on us coming around

126
00:06:32,934 --> 00:06:36,771
became more and more strident
as the weather deteriorated.

127
00:06:36,813 --> 00:06:38,898
I finally became
concerned about him

128
00:06:38,940 --> 00:06:41,026
when suddenly
he moved towards me

129
00:06:41,067 --> 00:06:44,529
and out of the blue said
I was on the sick list
and that he was relieving me.

130
00:06:44,571 --> 00:06:47,657
I-I-- To be honest,
I couldn't believe my ears.

131
00:06:47,699 --> 00:06:49,743
Took me a moment
to catch on.

132
00:06:49,784 --> 00:06:52,495
It wasn't until
he started shouting orders
at the officer of the deck

133
00:06:52,537 --> 00:06:55,415
and started countermanding
my instructions

134
00:06:55,457 --> 00:06:59,753
that I-I did begin to
realize what was going on.

135
00:06:59,794 --> 00:07:01,504
Commander,
can you recall anything

136
00:07:01,546 --> 00:07:04,549
that could have provoked
your executive officer's act?

137
00:07:04,591 --> 00:07:06,509
Truthfully, no.

138
00:07:06,551 --> 00:07:09,429
I don't think
my bearing or manner
had anything to do with it.

139
00:07:09,471 --> 00:07:13,183
Look... it was
a pretty scary situation
in that wheelhouse.

140
00:07:13,224 --> 00:07:16,186
Winds were force ten to 12,
screeching and all,

141
00:07:16,227 --> 00:07:18,396
and the waves
were mountainous.

142
00:07:18,438 --> 00:07:21,524
The barometer had dropped
about as low as it's ever
been in US Navy history,

143
00:07:21,566 --> 00:07:24,027
and we took
a very bad roll.

144
00:07:24,069 --> 00:07:25,820
And I mean a very bad one.

145
00:07:25,862 --> 00:07:28,031
I've done a lot
of North Atlantic
rolling too.

146
00:07:28,073 --> 00:07:30,033
I just think that Maryk
simply went into a panic.

147
00:07:30,075 --> 00:07:31,743
[prosecutor]
Mmm.

148
00:07:31,785 --> 00:07:34,537
Was the   Caine
in grave danger
at that time?

149
00:07:34,579 --> 00:07:37,874
Well, I-I wouldn't say that,
no, ma'am.

150
00:07:37,916 --> 00:07:41,252
I-I thought
we righted ourselves very nicely
out of that bad roll.

151
00:07:41,294 --> 00:07:45,715
He repeatedly tried to
order me off the bridge,
but I stayed right where I was

152
00:07:45,757 --> 00:07:49,260
and gave him orders
only as I thought necessary
for the safety of the ship.

153
00:07:49,302 --> 00:07:52,972
I-In the situation,
I thought that the chief hazard

154
00:07:53,014 --> 00:07:55,975
would be any further
act of frenzy on his part.

155
00:07:56,017 --> 00:07:59,979
And to the extent that
the   Caine   did come through
that storm safely,

156
00:08:00,021 --> 00:08:04,943
despite the unprecedented...
[chuckles] ...running amok
of my executive officer,

157
00:08:04,984 --> 00:08:09,489
I believe that my handling
of the emergency
was the correct one.

158
00:08:09,531 --> 00:08:12,659
Did Maryk cite
any authority at all
when he relieved you?

159
00:08:12,701 --> 00:08:15,036
Oh, he mumbled something
about our Article 1108.

160
00:08:15,078 --> 00:08:17,080
I didn't even catch it
at the time.

161
00:08:17,122 --> 00:08:20,291
It wasn't till later
that he said his authority

162
00:08:20,333 --> 00:08:23,753
was Article 1108
of Navy Regulations.

163
00:08:23,795 --> 00:08:26,881
And were you familiar
with these articles?
Certainly.

164
00:08:26,923 --> 00:08:29,968
In substance,
what do they provide?

165
00:08:30,009 --> 00:08:33,138
Well, it's my understanding
that they make it possible

166
00:08:33,179 --> 00:08:38,727
for the executive officer
to relieve the captain
i-in an emergency,

167
00:08:38,768 --> 00:08:41,938
a highly unusual emergency
where-- where the captain is...

168
00:08:41,980 --> 00:08:43,898
[chuckles]

169
00:08:43,940 --> 00:08:48,319
Well, frankly,
where the captain
is absolutely unhinged.

170
00:08:48,361 --> 00:08:51,114
Were these articles
properly invoked
in your situation?

171
00:08:51,156 --> 00:08:54,325
Well, I'm sort of
an interested party here.

172
00:08:54,367 --> 00:08:56,578
But you don't have
to take my word for it.

173
00:08:56,619 --> 00:08:59,414
I was successfully
conning my ship
through that cyclone,

174
00:08:59,456 --> 00:09:02,208
and fortunately for me,
I have 130 witnesses
of that fact.

175
00:09:02,250 --> 00:09:04,127
Everybody aboard that ship.

176
00:09:04,169 --> 00:09:06,880
Uh, Commander, sorry,
there again, sir,

177
00:09:06,921 --> 00:09:09,132
you're testifying
to the conclusions
of others.

178
00:09:09,174 --> 00:09:11,634
Well, obviously I'm not
a legal expert. Sorry.

179
00:09:11,676 --> 00:09:14,929
Strike the witness's
last sentence
from the record.

180
00:09:14,971 --> 00:09:17,223
Have you ever been
mentally ill, sir?

181
00:09:17,599 --> 00:09:19,225
No.

182
00:09:19,267 --> 00:09:21,811
Were you ill in any way
when Mr. Maryk relieved you?

183
00:09:21,853 --> 00:09:23,772
I was not.

184
00:09:23,813 --> 00:09:25,565
Did you warn your
executive officer of
the consequences of his act?

185
00:09:25,607 --> 00:09:27,984
I told him he was performing
a mutinous act.

186
00:09:28,026 --> 00:09:29,944
[prosecutor]
And what was his reply?

187
00:09:29,986 --> 00:09:31,988
He expected to be
court-martialed.

188
00:09:32,030 --> 00:09:34,491
He was going
to retain command anyway.

189
00:09:36,075 --> 00:09:38,953
What was the attitude of
Lieutenant Junior Grade Keith,
the officer of the deck?

190
00:09:38,995 --> 00:09:42,290
Keith was in
a state of panic
as bad as Maryk's.

191
00:09:42,332 --> 00:09:43,875
[prosecutor]
What was the attitude
of the helmsman?

192
00:09:43,917 --> 00:09:46,377
Stilwell
was emotionally unbalanced
and for some reason

193
00:09:46,419 --> 00:09:48,963
very devoted to Mr. Keith.

194
00:09:49,005 --> 00:09:50,924
They both backed Maryk.

195
00:09:50,965 --> 00:09:53,635
Is there anything else,
Commander Queeg,
that you would care to state

196
00:09:53,676 --> 00:09:56,763
in connection with the events
of December 18th
aboard the   Caine?

197
00:09:56,805 --> 00:09:58,765
[exhales] Well, I just...

198
00:09:59,974 --> 00:10:02,435
I've thought a lot about
all of this, obviously.

199
00:10:02,477 --> 00:10:05,188
It's the gravest occurrence
in my career.

200
00:10:05,230 --> 00:10:08,274
The only questionable one
I-I'm aware of.

201
00:10:10,652 --> 00:10:13,029
I-I just think that
if the officer of the deck

202
00:10:13,071 --> 00:10:16,199
had been anyone
other than this
immature Mr. Keith

203
00:10:16,241 --> 00:10:18,409
and the helmsman
anyone other than Stilwell,

204
00:10:18,451 --> 00:10:20,286
then none of this
would have happened.

205
00:10:20,328 --> 00:10:25,458
I mean, a competent officer
would have repudiated
Maryk's orders

206
00:10:25,500 --> 00:10:28,086
and a normal sailor
at the helm

207
00:10:28,127 --> 00:10:31,881
would have disregarded
both of those officers
and obeyed me.

208
00:10:32,841 --> 00:10:36,302
It was just bad luck
that these three men,

209
00:10:36,344 --> 00:10:38,888
Maryk, Keith
and Stilwell,

210
00:10:38,930 --> 00:10:42,016
combined against me
at such a crucial time.

211
00:10:43,184 --> 00:10:44,769
Bad luck for me

212
00:10:44,811 --> 00:10:47,146
and I'm afraid
even worse luck for them.

213
00:10:47,188 --> 00:10:49,816
[officer] The court
would like to
question the witness.

214
00:10:51,192 --> 00:10:53,152
Commander Queeg,

215
00:10:53,194 --> 00:10:56,823
you've taken
all the prescribed physical
and mental examinations

216
00:10:56,865 --> 00:10:59,617
incident to entrance to
the academy, graduation,

217
00:10:59,659 --> 00:11:01,411
commissioning, promotion
and so forth?

218
00:11:01,452 --> 00:11:04,163
Yes, sir, for 21 years.

219
00:11:04,205 --> 00:11:08,167
Does your medical record
contain any history of illness,
mental or physical?

220
00:11:08,209 --> 00:11:10,128
No, sir, it does not.

221
00:11:10,169 --> 00:11:13,214
Have you ever had
an unsatisfactory fitness
report, Commander Queeg?

222
00:11:13,256 --> 00:11:15,675
Negative, sir.

223
00:11:15,717 --> 00:11:19,846
Commander, can you account for
Lieutenant Maryk's opinion
that you were mentally ill?

224
00:11:19,888 --> 00:11:22,098
[chuckles]
All I can say, sir,

225
00:11:22,140 --> 00:11:27,186
is that I assumed command
over an extremely...
disorganized and dirty ship,

226
00:11:27,228 --> 00:11:32,108
and that's not a reflection
on the officer that I relieved.

227
00:11:32,150 --> 00:11:34,527
The   Caine   had gone through
a year and a half
of arduous duty

228
00:11:34,569 --> 00:11:36,779
a-and it was understandable.

229
00:11:36,821 --> 00:11:42,785
But still, for the safety
of that ship and its crew,
it demanded to be shaped up,

230
00:11:42,827 --> 00:11:44,996
and I took a lot
of strong measures,

231
00:11:45,038 --> 00:11:48,708
a-and Lieutenant Maryk
did not see eye to eye
with me at all

232
00:11:48,750 --> 00:11:52,462
on this idea
of making the   Caine
a tight ship again.

233
00:11:54,464 --> 00:11:57,550
[chuckles]
Well, maybe--

234
00:11:57,592 --> 00:12:00,803
maybe he thought I was crazy
to keep trying.

235
00:12:00,845 --> 00:12:05,350
Anyway, that's
the picture of it, sir.

236
00:12:05,391 --> 00:12:08,144
[officer] Thank you.
[prosecutor]
Your witness.

237
00:12:08,186 --> 00:12:10,897
Commander Queeg,
I would like to ask you

238
00:12:10,939 --> 00:12:14,734
whether you have
ever heard the expression
"Old Yellowstain."

239
00:12:16,444 --> 00:12:18,863
In which connection?

240
00:12:18,905 --> 00:12:20,573
Old Yellowstain, sir.

241
00:12:22,909 --> 00:12:24,661
No, I have not.

242
00:12:24,702 --> 00:12:27,580
You weren't aware
that all the officers
of the   Caine

243
00:12:27,622 --> 00:12:30,333
habitually referred to you
as Old Yellowstain?

244
00:12:30,375 --> 00:12:33,419
I object to the question.
Impertinent badgering
of the witness.

245
00:12:33,461 --> 00:12:36,422
How does Defense Counsel
Greenwald justify
this line of questioning?

246
00:12:36,464 --> 00:12:38,257
Please the court,
the nickname Old Yellowstain,

247
00:12:38,299 --> 00:12:39,926
used by the officers
of the   Caine,

248
00:12:39,968 --> 00:12:43,096
will be relevant
to the issue
of mental competence.

249
00:12:43,137 --> 00:12:48,017
Before ruling, the court wishes
to caution defense counsel.

250
00:12:48,977 --> 00:12:52,438
This is a most unusual
and delicate case.

251
00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:54,440
The honor and career
of an officer

252
00:12:54,482 --> 00:12:59,445
with an unblemished
military record of 21 years
standing is involved.

253
00:12:59,487 --> 00:13:02,031
The defense counsel
will have to bear
full responsibility

254
00:13:02,073 --> 00:13:03,741
for the conduct
of this case.

255
00:13:06,577 --> 00:13:08,746
Subject to
the foregoing comment,

256
00:13:09,872 --> 00:13:12,458
the trial counsel's objection
is overruled.

257
00:13:13,376 --> 00:13:16,045
Court stenographer
will repeat the question.

258
00:13:16,087 --> 00:13:18,631
"You aren't aware, then,
that all the officers
of the   Caine

259
00:13:18,673 --> 00:13:21,259
have habitually
referred to you
as Old Yellowstain?"

260
00:13:25,179 --> 00:13:27,306
I was not aware of that.

261
00:13:27,348 --> 00:13:29,726
No further questions.

262
00:13:29,767 --> 00:13:31,310
For now.

263
00:13:31,352 --> 00:13:34,647
Commander Queeg will be called
as a witness for the defense.

264
00:13:35,314 --> 00:13:36,983
For the defense?

265
00:13:37,025 --> 00:13:38,735
Yes, sir.

266
00:13:40,361 --> 00:13:42,530
You're excused,
subject to recall.

267
00:13:43,322 --> 00:13:44,657
Thank you, sir.

268
00:13:44,699 --> 00:13:46,826
[prosecutor]
Call Lieutenant Thomas Keefer.

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00:13:51,664 --> 00:13:53,791
State your name, rank
and present station.

270
00:13:53,833 --> 00:13:55,835
Thomas Keefer, Lieutenant,
United States Navy,

271
00:13:55,877 --> 00:13:58,171
communication officer
of the USS   Caine.

272
00:13:58,212 --> 00:14:00,715
If you recognize
the accused,
state his name.

273
00:14:00,757 --> 00:14:04,010
Lieutenant Steve Maryk,
executive officer
of the   Caine.

274
00:14:04,052 --> 00:14:06,387
What is your occupation
in civilian life?

275
00:14:06,429 --> 00:14:08,306
I'm a writer.

276
00:14:08,347 --> 00:14:10,725
And has any of your work
been published?

277
00:14:10,767 --> 00:14:14,437
A number of short stories
have been published, yes, ma'am.

278
00:14:14,479 --> 00:14:18,733
Did you do any writing
in your spare time
while in service?

279
00:14:18,775 --> 00:14:21,611
Yes, I have completed
half a war novel.

280
00:14:21,652 --> 00:14:23,446
[chuckles]
And what's the title?

281
00:14:23,488 --> 00:14:25,740
Multitudes, Multitudes.

282
00:14:25,782 --> 00:14:28,451
And has this novel,
though incomplete,

283
00:14:28,493 --> 00:14:30,953
recently been accepted
by a publisher?

284
00:14:30,995 --> 00:14:32,371
Yes.

285
00:14:33,581 --> 00:14:35,291
Now, Lieutenant Keefer,

286
00:14:35,333 --> 00:14:37,877
were you serving
aboard the   Caine
in your present capacity

287
00:14:37,919 --> 00:14:40,129
on December 18th,
2022?
Yes.

288
00:14:40,171 --> 00:14:42,381
Was Captain Queeg
relieved of his command
on that date?

289
00:14:42,423 --> 00:14:43,966
He was.
By whom?

290
00:14:44,008 --> 00:14:45,551
The executive officer.

291
00:14:45,593 --> 00:14:47,720
Describe how you learned
that the captain
had been relieved.

292
00:14:47,762 --> 00:14:52,350
Uh, well, Mr. Maryk
passed word for all officers
to come up to the wheelhouse.

293
00:14:52,391 --> 00:14:56,312
When we got there, he told us
that the captain was sick
and he had assumed command.

294
00:14:56,354 --> 00:15:00,316
Did Captain Queeg
show any external signs
of being sick?

295
00:15:00,358 --> 00:15:02,068
Look, at the height
of a cyclone--

296
00:15:02,110 --> 00:15:04,403
Was he raving,
or was he foaming, or--
No, no.

297
00:15:04,445 --> 00:15:07,240
Did he look any worse off
than, say, Lieutenant Keith?
No.

298
00:15:07,281 --> 00:15:08,699
Or Maryk?
No.

299
00:15:08,741 --> 00:15:12,245
W-We were all tired,
dripping and wiped out.

300
00:15:12,286 --> 00:15:15,123
Mr. Keefer,
did you make any effort
to persuade Mr. Maryk

301
00:15:15,164 --> 00:15:16,791
to restore Queeg
to command?

302
00:15:16,833 --> 00:15:18,584
No, I did not.

303
00:15:18,626 --> 00:15:20,461
Did you not feel
the seriousness
of the moment?

304
00:15:20,503 --> 00:15:21,754
I certainly did.

305
00:15:21,796 --> 00:15:23,798
Why did you take
no remedial action?

306
00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,968
I wasn't present
when the captain was relieved.

307
00:15:27,009 --> 00:15:29,846
Maryk was in full command.
The entire ship was
obeying his orders.

308
00:15:29,887 --> 00:15:32,390
I thought that,
for the safety of the ship,

309
00:15:32,431 --> 00:15:34,809
my best course was
to obey his orders.

310
00:15:34,851 --> 00:15:36,811
Mr. Keefer, were you
aboard the   Caine

311
00:15:36,853 --> 00:15:39,313
throughout the period
that Captain Queeg
was in command?

312
00:15:39,355 --> 00:15:43,067
Yes, I was.
Did you ever observe any
evidence of insanity in him?

313
00:15:43,109 --> 00:15:45,736
I don't--
I can't answer that question,
not being a psychiatrist.

314
00:15:45,778 --> 00:15:47,864
Did you ever think
he might be insane?

315
00:15:47,905 --> 00:15:49,782
Objection.

316
00:15:49,824 --> 00:15:53,119
Witness is not an expert
and matters of opinion
are not admissible evidence.

317
00:15:53,161 --> 00:15:54,704
I withdraw the question.

318
00:15:54,745 --> 00:15:58,124
Mr. Keefer,
at any time prior
to December 18th,

319
00:15:58,166 --> 00:16:01,544
were you informed
that Maryk suspected Queeg
of being mentally ill?

320
00:16:01,586 --> 00:16:04,297
Yes, I was.
Describe
how you learned this.

321
00:16:04,338 --> 00:16:05,756
Well, uh, let me see.

322
00:16:05,798 --> 00:16:08,509
Two-- Two weeks
before the cyclone,

323
00:16:08,551 --> 00:16:10,595
Maryk showed me
a medical log

324
00:16:10,636 --> 00:16:13,222
he had kept on
Captain Queeg's behavior.

325
00:16:13,264 --> 00:16:16,726
He asked me to come with him
to report the situation to--

326
00:16:16,767 --> 00:16:18,978
to Admiral Williams,
Commander Fifth Fleet.

327
00:16:19,020 --> 00:16:21,397
And did you consent
to go with him?

328
00:16:21,439 --> 00:16:23,024
Yes, I did.
Why?

329
00:16:23,065 --> 00:16:25,318
He was my superior officer
and also my close friend.

330
00:16:25,359 --> 00:16:29,155
Did you believe
that Maryk's log justified
the relief of Queeg?

331
00:16:29,197 --> 00:16:30,781
No. No.

332
00:16:30,823 --> 00:16:32,783
As soon as we got aboard
Admiral Williams's ship,

333
00:16:32,825 --> 00:16:35,870
I told him as forcibly
as I could that,
in my opinion,

334
00:16:35,912 --> 00:16:38,539
the log wouldn't
justify the action.

335
00:16:38,581 --> 00:16:42,293
What was his response?
After a lot of arguing,
he told me--

336
00:16:42,335 --> 00:16:46,797
[clears throat]
After a lot of arguing,
he-- he followed my advice.

337
00:16:46,839 --> 00:16:48,716
We returned to the   Caine.

338
00:16:48,758 --> 00:16:52,845
Were you surprised
two weeks later when he
relieved the captain?

339
00:16:53,888 --> 00:16:55,181
I was stunned.

340
00:16:56,057 --> 00:16:58,559
Were you good with that,
Mr. Keefer?

341
00:16:59,310 --> 00:17:01,103
I was badly disturbed.

342
00:17:01,145 --> 00:17:03,940
I thought that, at best,
he would be involved
in grave difficulties.

343
00:17:03,981 --> 00:17:07,777
I thought it was
a terrible situation
and an error on his part.

344
00:17:08,569 --> 00:17:10,112
No further questions.

345
00:17:10,154 --> 00:17:11,572
No questions.

346
00:17:11,614 --> 00:17:14,158
Does the defense intend
to recall this witness

347
00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:15,159
at a later time?

348
00:17:15,201 --> 00:17:16,786
No, sir.

349
00:17:16,827 --> 00:17:19,997
No cross-examination of this
highly material witness?

350
00:17:20,039 --> 00:17:21,123
No, sir.

351
00:17:22,959 --> 00:17:25,044
The court
will question the witness.

352
00:17:26,254 --> 00:17:27,505
Mr. Keefer--
[clears throat]

353
00:17:27,546 --> 00:17:30,925
Now, as to this
so-called medical log,

354
00:17:30,967 --> 00:17:33,844
the facts it contained
which convinced Lieutenant Maryk

355
00:17:33,886 --> 00:17:36,305
that he should
report the captain
to Admiral Williams

356
00:17:36,347 --> 00:17:37,640
didn't convince you.

357
00:17:37,682 --> 00:17:39,392
Is that right?
They did not, sir.

358
00:17:39,433 --> 00:17:41,185
Why not?

359
00:17:41,227 --> 00:17:44,105
Sir, it's not something a layman
can intelligently discuss.

360
00:17:44,146 --> 00:17:46,816
You've stated
you're a close friend
of Mr. Maryk.

361
00:17:46,857 --> 00:17:48,442
Yes, sir.

362
00:17:48,484 --> 00:17:51,237
Well, this court
is trying to find out,
among other things,

363
00:17:51,279 --> 00:17:54,573
any possible
extenuating circumstances
for his acts.

364
00:17:54,615 --> 00:17:56,575
Did this medical log
merely indicate to you

365
00:17:56,617 --> 00:17:59,745
that Captain Queeg
was a highly normal
and competent officer?

366
00:17:59,787 --> 00:18:01,998
Sir,
speaking from ignorance,

367
00:18:02,039 --> 00:18:06,794
it's always seemed to me
that mental disability
was a-- a relative thing.

368
00:18:06,836 --> 00:18:09,380
Captain Queeg was
a very strict disciplinarian

369
00:18:09,422 --> 00:18:12,550
and extremely meticulous
in hunting down
the smallest matters.

370
00:18:12,591 --> 00:18:16,512
He wasn't the easiest person
in the world to reason with.

371
00:18:16,554 --> 00:18:19,640
And there were several occasions
where I thought
he came down too hard

372
00:18:19,682 --> 00:18:22,393
and spent excessive time
on small matters.

373
00:18:22,435 --> 00:18:24,812
They were very unpleasant.

374
00:18:24,854 --> 00:18:28,899
But to jump from them
to the conclusion that
the captain was a maniac,

375
00:18:28,941 --> 00:18:31,485
no, no, I was compelled,
in all honesty,

376
00:18:31,527 --> 00:18:33,738
to warn Maryk
against doing that.

377
00:18:34,947 --> 00:18:37,408
[prosecutor] State your name,
rank and present station.

378
00:18:37,450 --> 00:18:39,035
[clears throat]

379
00:18:39,076 --> 00:18:42,538
Junius Urban,
Quartermaster Third Class,
US Navy

380
00:18:42,580 --> 00:18:44,582
of the USS   Caine.

381
00:18:46,542 --> 00:18:48,627
Do you recognize
the accused?

382
00:18:49,462 --> 00:18:50,713
Ma'am?

383
00:18:50,755 --> 00:18:52,965
Do you recognize
the accused?

384
00:18:54,508 --> 00:18:55,926
M-Ma'am?

385
00:18:57,094 --> 00:19:00,598
Do you recognize
the officer
at that table?

386
00:19:01,599 --> 00:19:04,226
[Urban]
Wh-Which one?
There are two.

387
00:19:04,268 --> 00:19:06,562
Name the one you recognize.

388
00:19:07,396 --> 00:19:09,106
Th-That's the exec.

389
00:19:09,148 --> 00:19:11,108
What's his name?

390
00:19:11,150 --> 00:19:12,651
M-Mr. Maryk.

391
00:19:12,693 --> 00:19:14,945
What is he
the exec of?

392
00:19:15,738 --> 00:19:16,989
The-- The ship.

393
00:19:17,031 --> 00:19:20,326
Name the ship.
The   Caine.

394
00:19:20,368 --> 00:19:22,953
Thank you.
Sorry.

395
00:19:22,995 --> 00:19:25,706
Urban,
on December 18th, 2022,

396
00:19:25,748 --> 00:19:27,958
were you serving
aboard the   Caine
in your present capacity?

397
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,252
Is that
the day it happened?

398
00:19:30,294 --> 00:19:32,421
The day
what happened?

399
00:19:32,463 --> 00:19:34,173
I don't know.

400
00:19:34,215 --> 00:19:36,967
That was the day
of the cyclone, yes.

401
00:19:37,009 --> 00:19:39,178
Sure.
I-- I was aboard.

402
00:19:40,346 --> 00:19:41,847
Were you
in the wheelhouse

403
00:19:41,889 --> 00:19:44,517
when Mr. Maryk
relieved Captain Queeg?

404
00:19:44,558 --> 00:19:46,060
Yes.

405
00:19:46,102 --> 00:19:48,104
Who else
was in the wheelhouse
at the time?

406
00:19:48,145 --> 00:19:53,734
Well, um, there was--
there was the captain
and M-Mr. Maryk.

407
00:19:54,568 --> 00:19:55,861
Yes?

408
00:19:55,903 --> 00:19:57,780
Th-Th-The helmsman.

409
00:19:57,822 --> 00:19:59,949
His name?
Stilwell.

410
00:19:59,990 --> 00:20:01,033
Who else?

411
00:20:01,075 --> 00:20:02,660
The officer of the day.
His name?

412
00:20:02,701 --> 00:20:03,994
Mr. Keith.

413
00:20:04,036 --> 00:20:06,414
What were you doing
in the wheelhouse?

414
00:20:06,455 --> 00:20:08,707
I had the watch.

415
00:20:08,749 --> 00:20:10,960
Urban,
describe in your own words

416
00:20:11,001 --> 00:20:13,712
how Lieutenant Maryk
relieved the captain.

417
00:20:16,340 --> 00:20:17,883
H-He said...

418
00:20:18,759 --> 00:20:21,554
"I relieve you," ma'am.

419
00:20:21,595 --> 00:20:23,889
What was happening
at the time?

420
00:20:23,931 --> 00:20:27,101
Well, the ship
was rolling very bad.
It was an ass-kicker storm.

421
00:20:28,102 --> 00:20:30,521
Urban, describe everything
that happened

422
00:20:30,563 --> 00:20:34,650
in the ten minutes
before Captain Queeg
was relieved.

423
00:20:34,692 --> 00:20:37,570
Well, li-like I say,

424
00:20:37,611 --> 00:20:40,072
the ship
was rolling very bad.

425
00:20:41,198 --> 00:20:42,741
That's all?

426
00:20:42,783 --> 00:20:45,703
Did the captain say anything?
Did the exec say anything?

427
00:20:45,744 --> 00:20:47,580
Did the officer of the day
say anything?

428
00:20:47,621 --> 00:20:50,249
Or did the ship
just roll in silence
for ten minutes?

429
00:20:50,291 --> 00:20:52,418
Well, ma'am,
it was a cyclone.

430
00:20:52,460 --> 00:20:57,047
Petty Officer Urban,
you are under oath.

431
00:20:57,089 --> 00:20:58,757
W-Well...

432
00:21:00,092 --> 00:21:03,679
I-I think the captain
wanted to come north,

433
00:21:03,721 --> 00:21:05,931
and the exec wanted
to come s-south.

434
00:21:05,973 --> 00:21:08,184
O-Or the other way around,
or something like that.

435
00:21:08,225 --> 00:21:10,394
[prosecutor]
Why did the captain
want to come south?

436
00:21:10,436 --> 00:21:12,396
I don't know.
Why did the exec
want to come north?

437
00:21:12,438 --> 00:21:15,191
Ma'am, I'm just
a third-class petty officer.

438
00:21:15,232 --> 00:21:18,027
Did the captain
act crazy?
No.

439
00:21:18,068 --> 00:21:19,695
Did the execs
seem scared?
N-No.

440
00:21:19,737 --> 00:21:21,280
Did the captain?
No.

441
00:21:21,322 --> 00:21:22,865
Did anyone?

442
00:21:23,949 --> 00:21:26,952
I-- I was goddamn scared.

443
00:21:27,661 --> 00:21:29,580
I-I beg your pardon, sir.

444
00:21:29,622 --> 00:21:33,417
But the captain
did not act crazy in any way
that morning, correct?

445
00:21:33,459 --> 00:21:36,253
The captain
was the same as always.
Crazy or sane, Urban?

446
00:21:36,295 --> 00:21:38,464
H-He was sane.

447
00:21:38,506 --> 00:21:40,799
S-S-S-So far as I knew.

448
00:21:40,841 --> 00:21:43,802
Petty Officer Urban,
how old are you?

449
00:21:43,844 --> 00:21:46,388
Twenty.
What schooling
have you had?

450
00:21:46,430 --> 00:21:49,517
[stammering] High school--
High school diploma.

451
00:21:49,558 --> 00:21:51,977
[officer]
Have you been telling
the whole truth here,

452
00:21:52,019 --> 00:21:53,729
or haven't you?

453
00:21:55,356 --> 00:22:00,194
Sir, a-an enlisted man
o-on watch

454
00:22:00,236 --> 00:22:03,948
isn't supposed to listen
to arguments between
the captain and the exec.

455
00:22:04,657 --> 00:22:06,200
Did you like the captain?

456
00:22:07,409 --> 00:22:09,036
S-Sure, I liked him, sir.

457
00:22:09,078 --> 00:22:11,539
Continue
your examination.

458
00:22:11,580 --> 00:22:13,290
No further questions.

459
00:22:13,332 --> 00:22:16,210
Petty Officer Urban,
were you aboard the   Caine

460
00:22:16,252 --> 00:22:18,337
when she cut
her own tow cable?

461
00:22:18,379 --> 00:22:20,130
Y-Yes-- Yes, sir.

462
00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:22,967
And what were you
doing at the time?
I was--

463
00:22:23,008 --> 00:22:27,012
Well, that is, the captain
was bawling me out
on the bridge, sir.

464
00:22:27,054 --> 00:22:29,348
What for?
My shirttail was out.

465
00:22:29,390 --> 00:22:32,518
Was the captain
very strict on the subject
of shirttails?

466
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,271
[chuckles] Yes, sir.
He was very strict
on shirttails, sir.

467
00:22:35,312 --> 00:22:37,189
And while he was
describing
your shirttail,

468
00:22:37,231 --> 00:22:39,191
the ship went around
in a full circle

469
00:22:39,233 --> 00:22:40,985
and steamed over
its own tow cable.

470
00:22:41,026 --> 00:22:43,195
Is that what happened?
I object to this
line of questioning.

471
00:22:43,237 --> 00:22:45,364
Counsel has
tricked the witness
with leading questions

472
00:22:45,406 --> 00:22:48,117
into asserting that the   Caine
cut its own tow line,

473
00:22:48,158 --> 00:22:51,203
a material point
that was not touched upon
in direct examination.

474
00:22:51,245 --> 00:22:53,205
Please the court,
the witness has stated

475
00:22:53,247 --> 00:22:55,165
that he's never
seen the captain
do anything crazy.

476
00:22:55,207 --> 00:22:57,543
I'm simply trying
to refute that statement.

477
00:22:57,585 --> 00:23:01,463
Defense counsel
will have the opportunity
to originate evidence later.

478
00:23:01,505 --> 00:23:03,424
Objection sustained.

479
00:23:03,465 --> 00:23:06,885
Cross-examination thus far
will be stricken
from the record.

480
00:23:08,220 --> 00:23:10,848
Urban, what is
a paranoid personality?

481
00:23:10,889 --> 00:23:12,433
Huh?
A paranoid personality.

482
00:23:12,474 --> 00:23:14,143
What is it?
Sir?

483
00:23:14,184 --> 00:23:16,520
Would you recognize
a psychotic person
if you saw one?

484
00:23:16,562 --> 00:23:17,896
Me?
It's okay.

485
00:23:17,938 --> 00:23:20,024
No further questions.
Thank you.

486
00:23:20,065 --> 00:23:22,234
Petty Officer Urban,

487
00:23:22,276 --> 00:23:25,821
you will not discuss
your testimony in this courtroom
with anybody, understand?

488
00:23:25,863 --> 00:23:28,240
Wh-Who, sir?
Me, sir?

489
00:23:28,657 --> 00:23:29,658
No, sir.

490
00:23:29,700 --> 00:23:31,452
Witness excused.

491
00:23:32,077 --> 00:23:33,579
Thank you, sir.

492
00:23:35,289 --> 00:23:37,333
[whispering]

493
00:23:37,374 --> 00:23:39,585
I see that,
uh, trial counsel
intends to call

494
00:23:39,627 --> 00:23:41,712
a dozen members
of the crew of the   Caine.

495
00:23:41,754 --> 00:23:43,213
Yeah?
Yeah, that's correct.

496
00:23:43,255 --> 00:23:45,215
And the purpose is to confirm
Urban's testimony

497
00:23:45,257 --> 00:23:47,343
no one ever
saw the captain
do anything crazy.

498
00:23:47,384 --> 00:23:49,928
That is the purpose.
Okay, I'll concede that.

499
00:23:49,970 --> 00:23:52,264
I'll concede
they'll all corroborate
Urban's testimony

500
00:23:52,306 --> 00:23:57,436
if you concede that none of them
know any more about a paranoid
than Urban does.

501
00:23:57,478 --> 00:23:59,897
Yeah, I'll gladly
accept that concession
on those terms, sir.

502
00:23:59,938 --> 00:24:02,316
Okay.
Lieutenant, that's
a weighty concession.

503
00:24:02,358 --> 00:24:05,402
And by your leave, sir,
I'll make that concession.

504
00:24:05,444 --> 00:24:07,279
Uh-- [exhales]

505
00:24:07,321 --> 00:24:10,783
Mr. Greenwald, I understand
that you were appointed
as defense counsel

506
00:24:10,824 --> 00:24:12,201
by the judge advocate.

507
00:24:12,242 --> 00:24:13,577
Yes, sir.

508
00:24:13,619 --> 00:24:15,996
When were you
appointed?
Four days ago, sir.

509
00:24:16,038 --> 00:24:19,208
Do you feel you've had enough
time to prepare your case?
Yes, sir.

510
00:24:19,249 --> 00:24:21,251
Did you undertake
the assignment
willingly?

511
00:24:21,293 --> 00:24:23,337
Uh, sir,
Lieutenant Greenwald
accepted the assignment

512
00:24:23,379 --> 00:24:25,589
at the request
of the judge advocate.

513
00:24:26,882 --> 00:24:30,386
[sighs] I see that
you're a naval aviator.
Yes, sir.

514
00:24:30,427 --> 00:24:33,389
What do you fly?
Primarily
the F/A-18 Super Hornet, sir.

515
00:24:33,430 --> 00:24:36,308
Why aren't you
flying now?
Medical leave, sir.

516
00:24:36,350 --> 00:24:39,228
Why?
Forced to eject
from a damaged aircraft.

517
00:24:39,269 --> 00:24:40,938
I see.

518
00:24:40,979 --> 00:24:44,191
Did you have a chance
to practice much law?
A little, sir.

519
00:24:45,609 --> 00:24:46,652
[sighs]

520
00:24:46,694 --> 00:24:48,445
Lieutenant Maryk.

521
00:24:48,487 --> 00:24:50,489
Yes, sir.

522
00:24:50,531 --> 00:24:52,908
I need to know if you're
happy with your counsel's
conduct of the defense.

523
00:24:52,950 --> 00:24:55,494
Sir, if he answers
that question,
he does on blind faith.

524
00:24:55,536 --> 00:24:57,955
Can I just have a moment
to speak to my client privately?

525
00:24:57,996 --> 00:25:00,249
[sighs]

526
00:25:00,958 --> 00:25:02,084
Two minutes.

527
00:25:02,126 --> 00:25:03,502
[Greenwald]
Come on.

528
00:25:03,961 --> 00:25:05,337
Thank you.

529
00:25:07,131 --> 00:25:09,425
So, do you want
to get rid of me?

530
00:25:10,467 --> 00:25:11,969
I don't know.

531
00:25:13,053 --> 00:25:15,347
I think I'm screwed
at this point.

532
00:25:15,389 --> 00:25:17,349
Fifteen years
in the brig?

533
00:25:17,391 --> 00:25:19,184
Mm-hmm.

534
00:25:20,728 --> 00:25:23,522
Tell me one thing.
Why didn't you
cross-examine Tom?

535
00:25:23,564 --> 00:25:25,858
I don't have time
to tell you everything.

536
00:25:25,899 --> 00:25:28,569
Tom Keefer knows everything
the captain did. Everything.
I'm sure he does.

537
00:25:28,610 --> 00:25:30,487
If he wouldn't talk,
it's up to you
to drag it out.

538
00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:32,614
Wasn't it?
You don't understand.

539
00:25:32,656 --> 00:25:34,408
No, I don't understand
what you're doing.
That's for sure.

540
00:25:34,450 --> 00:25:35,909
I want to fight
this case.
Why?

541
00:25:35,951 --> 00:25:37,619
Because
I want to win it.
Why?

542
00:25:37,661 --> 00:25:39,538
Is that not enough?

543
00:25:39,580 --> 00:25:41,248
Before you said you'd
rather be prosecuting
than defending me.

544
00:25:41,290 --> 00:25:43,000
So maybe this is
your bizarre way
of prosecuting.

545
00:25:43,041 --> 00:25:46,170
Steve, listen to me
very carefully.

546
00:25:46,211 --> 00:25:48,964
Implicating Keefer
harms you.
What?

547
00:25:49,006 --> 00:25:52,342
Two disgruntled bastards
instead of one heroic exec.

548
00:25:52,384 --> 00:25:55,637
I have a chance
with one heroic exec.

549
00:25:55,679 --> 00:25:58,974
Making that stick
is the only chance
for you to win.

550
00:26:05,063 --> 00:26:07,524
For the record,
the court asks the accused,

551
00:26:07,566 --> 00:26:09,985
are you satisfied
with your counsel?

552
00:26:11,653 --> 00:26:13,530
I'm satisfied, sir.

553
00:26:13,572 --> 00:26:16,408
Court will not
reopen this question.
I understand that, sir.

554
00:26:16,450 --> 00:26:19,077
I'm satisfied
with Lieutenant Greenwald.

555
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,705
Proceed with your case,
Commander Challee.

556
00:26:22,664 --> 00:26:24,249
Call Lieutenant Keith.

557
00:26:33,467 --> 00:26:35,427
State your name, rank
and present station.

558
00:26:35,469 --> 00:26:38,555
Willis Keith,
US Navy Junior Grade,

559
00:26:38,597 --> 00:26:40,682
assistant communications officer
on the USS   Caine.

560
00:26:40,724 --> 00:26:43,185
Mr. Keith, were you
officer of the deck of the   Caine

561
00:26:43,227 --> 00:26:45,395
on December 18th, 2022?

562
00:26:45,437 --> 00:26:46,814
I was.

563
00:26:46,855 --> 00:26:49,525
Was the captain relieved
of his command on that date?

564
00:26:49,566 --> 00:26:50,609
Yes, ma'am.

565
00:26:50,651 --> 00:26:52,194
Do you know why
the executive officer

566
00:26:52,236 --> 00:26:53,612
relieved the captain?
Yes.

567
00:26:53,654 --> 00:26:56,740
Captain Queeg
had lost control of himself

568
00:26:56,782 --> 00:26:59,535
and the ship
was in grave danger
of foundering.

569
00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:02,204
How many years
have you served at sea,
Lieutenant?

570
00:27:02,246 --> 00:27:04,164
One year, three months.

571
00:27:04,206 --> 00:27:06,208
Do you know how many years
Commander Queeg
has served at sea?

572
00:27:06,250 --> 00:27:08,168
I guess about 17 years.

573
00:27:08,210 --> 00:27:10,128
Which one of you is
better qualified to judge

574
00:27:10,170 --> 00:27:12,714
whether a ship
is foundering or not?

575
00:27:12,756 --> 00:27:14,758
Myself, ma'am,

576
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,344
if I'm in possession
of my faculties
and Commander Queeg isn't.

577
00:27:17,386 --> 00:27:19,221
Well, what makes you think
he wasn't in possession
of his faculties?

578
00:27:19,263 --> 00:27:21,473
He wasn't on the morning
of December 18th.

579
00:27:21,515 --> 00:27:24,643
Oh. Have you studied
medicine or psychiatry?
No.

580
00:27:24,685 --> 00:27:29,106
Did the captain foam or rave
or make insane gestures?

581
00:27:29,147 --> 00:27:32,901
No. No.
What he did do was just as bad.

582
00:27:32,943 --> 00:27:34,069
Clarify that, will you?

583
00:27:34,111 --> 00:27:36,321
His orders were vague.

584
00:27:36,363 --> 00:27:39,783
He insisted on going south
when we had a north wind
of 90 miles an hour behind us.

585
00:27:39,825 --> 00:27:42,536
With a stern wind that strong,
the ship couldn't be controlled.

586
00:27:42,578 --> 00:27:45,706
In your expert opinion
as ship handler, that is.

587
00:27:45,747 --> 00:27:49,126
Well, Steve Maryk thought so,
and he's an expert ship handler.

588
00:27:49,167 --> 00:27:53,797
Were you completely loyal
to your captain or not,
prior to 18 December?

589
00:27:53,839 --> 00:27:58,635
I was, uh, antagonistic
to Captain Queeg
at certain isolated times.

590
00:27:58,677 --> 00:28:00,679
At what isolated times
were you antagonistic?

591
00:28:00,721 --> 00:28:03,098
When the captain
mistreated his men,
I opposed him.

592
00:28:03,140 --> 00:28:04,808
When did the captain
ever mistreat his men?

593
00:28:04,850 --> 00:28:07,936
Well, for one thing,
he systematically persecuted

594
00:28:07,978 --> 00:28:09,855
Gunners Mate Second Class
Stilwell.

595
00:28:09,897 --> 00:28:11,982
In what way?

596
00:28:12,024 --> 00:28:15,068
First, he restricted him
to the ship for six months
for reading on watch.

597
00:28:15,110 --> 00:28:17,988
Refused to grant him leave
when we were back in the States
in December 2021.

598
00:28:18,030 --> 00:28:22,868
The man was getting
anonymous messages about
his wife's infidelity.

599
00:28:22,910 --> 00:28:26,038
[stammers, sighs]
Maryk gave Stilwell
a 72-hour emergency leave.

600
00:28:26,079 --> 00:28:27,873
He returned a few hours
over leave--

601
00:28:27,915 --> 00:28:31,793
Hold on. Hold on.
You say that Maryk
gave Stilwell leave.

602
00:28:33,503 --> 00:28:35,923
Did Maryk know that the captain
had denied Stilwell leave?

603
00:28:35,964 --> 00:28:37,799
Yes.

604
00:28:37,841 --> 00:28:41,178
Did Maryk check with the captain
before authorizing this leave?

605
00:28:41,219 --> 00:28:43,138
No, um...

606
00:28:43,180 --> 00:28:45,641
Are you testifying,
Mr. Keith,

607
00:28:45,682 --> 00:28:48,852
that Maryk
deliberately violated
his captain's orders?

608
00:28:50,938 --> 00:28:52,356
Uh...

609
00:28:53,732 --> 00:28:57,694
I-- I mean,
i-it was my fault, actually.

610
00:28:57,736 --> 00:28:59,696
'Cause I begged him to.
He was--

611
00:28:59,738 --> 00:29:01,990
Mr. Keith, we now
have your testimony

612
00:29:02,032 --> 00:29:03,992
that you and Stilwell
and Maryk

613
00:29:04,034 --> 00:29:06,870
conspired to circumvent
an express order by
your commanding officer

614
00:29:06,912 --> 00:29:10,332
a whole year
before the cyclone
of 18 December.

615
00:29:10,374 --> 00:29:12,834
Now, please tell the court

616
00:29:12,876 --> 00:29:16,588
any other instances
of mistreatment
that occur to you.

617
00:29:18,215 --> 00:29:20,092
He cut off Internet access
for six months

618
00:29:20,133 --> 00:29:22,803
'cause he wasn't invited
to a screening by mistake.

619
00:29:22,844 --> 00:29:26,056
Uh, he restricted water use
in the middle of a heat wave

620
00:29:26,098 --> 00:29:29,267
'cause he said the men
were using too much,
they had to be taught a lesson.

621
00:29:29,309 --> 00:29:34,356
Did the captain ever issue
any rules or punishments
not permitted by regulations?

622
00:29:35,565 --> 00:29:38,110
He never did anything
not allowed by regulations.

623
00:29:38,151 --> 00:29:40,529
You don't like the captain,
do you, Lieutenant?

624
00:29:40,570 --> 00:29:42,489
Oh, I did.
I did at first.

625
00:29:42,531 --> 00:29:44,241
Very much.
Mm-hmm.

626
00:29:44,282 --> 00:29:46,994
But I gradually
came to realize

627
00:29:47,035 --> 00:29:49,746
that he was a petty tyrant
and utterly incompetent.

628
00:29:49,788 --> 00:29:52,207
Did you think
he was insane, too?

629
00:29:52,249 --> 00:29:54,251
Not until the day
of the cyclone.

630
00:29:54,292 --> 00:29:57,045
Very well.
Come to the day of the storm.

631
00:29:57,087 --> 00:29:58,922
Was your decision
to obey Maryk

632
00:29:58,964 --> 00:30:01,591
based on your judgment that
the captain had gone mad?

633
00:30:01,633 --> 00:30:04,803
Or was it based
on your hatred
of Captain Queeg?

634
00:30:06,430 --> 00:30:11,476
I-- I just-- I don't remember
my state of mind at that time.

635
00:30:12,144 --> 00:30:13,729
No further questions.

636
00:30:13,770 --> 00:30:16,898
Mr. Keith, you stated
you disliked Captain Queeg, yes?

637
00:30:16,940 --> 00:30:18,900
I did dislike him.

638
00:30:18,942 --> 00:30:21,653
And did you state all
your reasons for disliking him?
Not at all.

639
00:30:21,695 --> 00:30:24,239
Okay, well, please,
state the rest
of those reasons now.

640
00:30:24,281 --> 00:30:27,242
Well, for one thing,
he extorted
a thousand bucks from me.

641
00:30:27,284 --> 00:30:29,327
Objection.

642
00:30:29,369 --> 00:30:31,955
The issue in this case
is not whether Captain Queeg
was a model officer,

643
00:30:31,997 --> 00:30:33,832
but whether he was insane
on 18 December.

644
00:30:33,874 --> 00:30:35,959
Defense counsel hasn't
even touched that issue.

645
00:30:36,001 --> 00:30:38,503
Well, please the court,
this bears directly
on the fitness

646
00:30:38,545 --> 00:30:40,672
of Captain Queeg
to command a naval vessel.

647
00:30:40,714 --> 00:30:43,050
And as evidence,
it is nothing but clarification

648
00:30:43,091 --> 00:30:45,385
of Keith's dislike
for his commanding officer,

649
00:30:45,427 --> 00:30:49,347
a fact brought out
by trial counsel,
at great pains, I might add,

650
00:30:49,389 --> 00:30:51,933
under direct examination.

651
00:30:53,393 --> 00:30:55,020
The objection is overruled.

652
00:30:56,563 --> 00:31:00,734
Mr. Keith,
could you please describe
this so-called extortion?

653
00:31:00,776 --> 00:31:04,571
Well, this was back
last December
in Port Doha, Qatar.

654
00:31:04,613 --> 00:31:07,741
Uh, the captain had this crate,

655
00:31:07,783 --> 00:31:11,036
this big crate
full of duty-free whiskey
that he wanted to sneak aboard.

656
00:31:11,078 --> 00:31:12,871
He appointed me boat officer,

657
00:31:12,913 --> 00:31:15,665
and a working party started
to load the crate in the gig.

658
00:31:15,707 --> 00:31:17,876
It was incredibly heavy,

659
00:31:17,918 --> 00:31:22,506
and Captain Queeg...
got excited

660
00:31:22,547 --> 00:31:25,801
and started screaming out
a whole bunch
of contradictory orders.

661
00:31:25,842 --> 00:31:28,136
Sailors got rattled,
they dropped the crate
in the water,

662
00:31:28,178 --> 00:31:31,556
it sank like a stone,
I was out a thousand bucks.

663
00:31:31,598 --> 00:31:33,642
No, you mean the captain
was out a thousand bucks.

664
00:31:33,683 --> 00:31:36,019
No, no, no, sir.
I was.

665
00:31:36,061 --> 00:31:38,188
Captain informed me
it was my responsibility,

666
00:31:38,230 --> 00:31:40,398
'cause I was boat officer
in charge of loading,

667
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,568
and he asked me
what I wanted to do about it.

668
00:31:43,610 --> 00:31:45,237
I was supposed to go
on leave the next day.

669
00:31:45,278 --> 00:31:48,573
My girlfriend had flown out
from New York to be with me,

670
00:31:48,615 --> 00:31:50,367
so I went to the captain,

671
00:31:50,408 --> 00:31:53,578
I apologized for my stupidity,

672
00:31:53,620 --> 00:31:56,206
and I offered to pay
for the crate.

673
00:31:56,248 --> 00:31:59,709
He took my money
and signed my leave papers.

674
00:32:00,961 --> 00:32:03,755
What other reasons do you have
for disliking Captain Queeg?

675
00:32:03,797 --> 00:32:05,465
Well, my chief reason
for disliking Captain Queeg

676
00:32:05,507 --> 00:32:07,759
was his cowardice
in dangerous situations.

677
00:32:07,801 --> 00:32:08,760
Objection!

678
00:32:08,802 --> 00:32:10,011
Counsel
is originating evidence

679
00:32:10,053 --> 00:32:12,305
beyond the scope
of direct examination.

680
00:32:12,347 --> 00:32:16,017
He is leading the witness
to irresponsible libel
of an officer of the Navy.

681
00:32:16,059 --> 00:32:18,895
Please the court,
the witness's dislike
of Captain Queeg

682
00:32:18,937 --> 00:32:21,398
was not only in the scope
of direct examination,

683
00:32:21,439 --> 00:32:23,733
it was the key fact
brought out.

684
00:32:23,775 --> 00:32:27,779
Now, the witness has confessed
an ignorance of psychiatry.

685
00:32:28,572 --> 00:32:30,198
Things Captain Queeg did

686
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,285
which forced the witness
in his ignorance
to dislike him

687
00:32:33,326 --> 00:32:36,079
may in fact have been
the helpless acts
of a sick man.

688
00:32:36,121 --> 00:32:39,207
I respectfully
urge my objection, sir.

689
00:32:39,249 --> 00:32:42,460
Let me remind everyone

690
00:32:42,502 --> 00:32:45,630
of the serious nature
of the issues
in this line of questioning

691
00:32:45,672 --> 00:32:47,883
and the implications
involved.

692
00:32:48,842 --> 00:32:51,303
From the earliest days
of our service,

693
00:32:51,344 --> 00:32:54,806
the worst charge
that can be leveled against
a naval service officer,

694
00:32:54,848 --> 00:32:57,642
especially
the commanding officer
of a vessel,

695
00:32:57,684 --> 00:33:02,647
is that he displays cowardice
or negligence in the face
of danger to his ship or crew.

696
00:33:03,815 --> 00:33:05,775
Counsel and the witness
are herewith cautioned

697
00:33:05,817 --> 00:33:09,821
that they are treading on
dangerous and unprecedented
grounds here.

698
00:33:11,031 --> 00:33:13,116
Court offers defense counsel
the opportunity

699
00:33:13,158 --> 00:33:15,452
to withdraw his question
from the record.

700
00:33:16,786 --> 00:33:19,206
My question stands, sir.

701
00:33:19,247 --> 00:33:21,291
Lieutenant Keith,

702
00:33:21,333 --> 00:33:24,711
you have the opportunity
to withdraw
or amend your answers.

703
00:33:24,753 --> 00:33:27,130
I stand by
what I said, sir.

704
00:33:27,881 --> 00:33:29,799
Very well.

705
00:33:29,841 --> 00:33:32,969
Court finds that the question
is within the scope
of direct examination

706
00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:35,931
and that the answer
is material.

707
00:33:35,972 --> 00:33:38,808
The objection
of the trial counsel
is overruled.

708
00:33:38,850 --> 00:33:41,019
Mr. Keith, can you describe
when and where

709
00:33:41,061 --> 00:33:44,189
the captain displayed
this aversion to danger?

710
00:33:44,231 --> 00:33:48,610
Uh, well,
I guess the worst time
was a mine-sweeping operation

711
00:33:48,652 --> 00:33:50,195
in the Straits of Hormuz.

712
00:33:50,237 --> 00:33:52,197
That's where
he got the nickname
Old Yellowstain.

713
00:33:52,239 --> 00:33:54,699
And this nickname,
Old Yellowstain,
what does it imply?

714
00:33:54,741 --> 00:33:56,868
Well, cowardice, of course.

715
00:33:56,910 --> 00:33:59,663
It refers to a yellow dye marker
he dropped over the side.

716
00:33:59,704 --> 00:34:02,832
Describe. Describe
this Yellowstain incident
for us, please.

717
00:34:02,874 --> 00:34:04,876
I wasn't on
the bridge at the time.

718
00:34:04,918 --> 00:34:07,003
I only heard
about it afterwards--
Oh! Objection.

719
00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:10,548
Does defense counsel
seriously expect to enter these
hearsay libels on the record?

720
00:34:10,590 --> 00:34:12,759
I withdraw the question,
okay?

721
00:34:12,801 --> 00:34:16,805
Defense will introduce
direct evidence
on the Yellowstain incident.

722
00:34:16,846 --> 00:34:19,599
Strike the question
and the answer
from the record.

723
00:34:19,641 --> 00:34:21,810
Describe incidents
of cowardice

724
00:34:21,851 --> 00:34:24,229
to which you were
an eyewitness,
Mr. Keith.

725
00:34:25,146 --> 00:34:28,066
Any time there was
a difficult situation,

726
00:34:28,108 --> 00:34:31,319
Captain Queeg was always
to be found on the side
of the bridge away from it all.

727
00:34:31,361 --> 00:34:35,407
I saw that a dozen times
when I was officer of the day.
Thank you.

728
00:34:35,448 --> 00:34:37,575
No further questions.

729
00:34:37,617 --> 00:34:40,870
Mr. Keith,
has Lieutenant Commander Queeg

730
00:34:40,912 --> 00:34:45,375
ever been investigated
or charged by higher authority

731
00:34:45,417 --> 00:34:49,421
for any of this alleged
unprofessional behavior
that you describe?

732
00:34:49,462 --> 00:34:50,839
No.

733
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,091
Can you cite
any official records

734
00:34:53,133 --> 00:34:56,386
that'll substantiate
any of these fantastic

735
00:34:56,428 --> 00:34:58,596
and libelous stories
that you've been telling

736
00:34:58,638 --> 00:35:00,598
under the guidance
of defense counsel?

737
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,309
Official records, no.

738
00:35:02,350 --> 00:35:04,853
Mr. Keith, do you
know for a fact

739
00:35:04,894 --> 00:35:08,231
that the crate that was lost
contained smuggled liquor?

740
00:35:08,273 --> 00:35:10,233
It's common knowledge.

741
00:35:10,275 --> 00:35:12,027
Common knowledge.

742
00:35:12,068 --> 00:35:14,571
Did you see the liquor
in the crate?
No.

743
00:35:14,612 --> 00:35:18,658
Can you name one person
who will testify that they
saw liquor in the crate?

744
00:35:18,700 --> 00:35:21,703
Naturally, he was pretty
careful about that.
Okay, not one person.

745
00:35:21,745 --> 00:35:25,081
I just-- I don't--
I don't know who would
have actually seen it.

746
00:35:25,874 --> 00:35:27,167
Mr. Keith,
you've testified

747
00:35:27,208 --> 00:35:29,294
that you don't like
Captain Queeg.

748
00:35:29,336 --> 00:35:32,297
You're reporting as fact
every evil rumor about him

749
00:35:32,339 --> 00:35:35,967
and you're making
wildly irresponsible charges
under oath.

750
00:35:36,009 --> 00:35:37,802
Isn't that the plain truth
of your testimony,
Mr. Keith?

751
00:35:37,844 --> 00:35:39,888
I haven't lied once.

752
00:35:39,929 --> 00:35:42,223
Mr. Keith, on the morning
that the captain was relieved,

753
00:35:42,265 --> 00:35:44,642
did you really think
he'd gone crazy?

754
00:35:45,602 --> 00:35:47,312
I said before,

755
00:35:47,354 --> 00:35:50,648
I can't say for sure
what my state of mind was,
or his.

756
00:35:51,691 --> 00:35:53,651
No more questions.

757
00:35:57,322 --> 00:35:58,990
Call Captain Southard.

758
00:36:04,287 --> 00:36:07,248
State your name, rank
and present station.

759
00:36:07,290 --> 00:36:08,833
Randolph Southard,

760
00:36:08,875 --> 00:36:12,128
Captain, US Navy
operations officer,
Fifth Fleet.

761
00:36:12,170 --> 00:36:13,838
You understand
that you've been called
as an expert witness

762
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:15,423
on Avenger-class
ship handling?

763
00:36:15,465 --> 00:36:16,800
I do.

764
00:36:16,841 --> 00:36:18,218
State your qualifications.

765
00:36:18,259 --> 00:36:20,720
Some 20 years
on smaller combatants,

766
00:36:20,762 --> 00:36:22,430
ten years
of commanding all types,

767
00:36:22,472 --> 00:36:25,433
including ships
ranging up to
guided missile destroyers.

768
00:36:25,475 --> 00:36:29,104
To clarify for the members,
will you use the map
marked "Exhibit A"

769
00:36:29,145 --> 00:36:32,816
to illustrate
the position of the   Caine
when she encountered the storm?

770
00:36:33,691 --> 00:36:37,570
The   Caine
was approximately here.

771
00:36:37,612 --> 00:36:41,699
The storm hit
from the northeast,
heading southwest.

772
00:36:41,741 --> 00:36:43,743
Vessels of the task force
steered south

773
00:36:43,785 --> 00:36:45,620
in an attempt
to outrun the weather.

774
00:36:45,662 --> 00:36:48,665
The   Caine,   in her spot
on the right flank
of the sweep pattern,

775
00:36:48,706 --> 00:36:50,166
caught the worst of it.

776
00:36:50,208 --> 00:36:52,877
Rather than steering
with the wind aft,

777
00:36:52,919 --> 00:36:56,714
she turned north
into the wind and seized.

778
00:36:56,756 --> 00:37:00,635
That was the situation
in the strait
on the day in question.

779
00:37:00,677 --> 00:37:02,637
Thank you, Captain.
You may be seated.

780
00:37:02,679 --> 00:37:04,639
Trial counsel,
you may proceed.

781
00:37:04,681 --> 00:37:06,141
Thank you.

782
00:37:07,308 --> 00:37:10,895
Captain, let's say that,
hypothetically,

783
00:37:10,937 --> 00:37:13,481
you're the one
who's in command
of the vessel.

784
00:37:13,523 --> 00:37:16,109
A cyclone blows up
without warning
traveling west

785
00:37:16,151 --> 00:37:18,236
and you're directly
in the path of it.

786
00:37:18,278 --> 00:37:19,988
The wind keeps increasing,

787
00:37:20,029 --> 00:37:22,532
its direction
holding steady from the north.

788
00:37:22,574 --> 00:37:26,786
Soon your wind
is force ten to 12
and your seas are mountainous.

789
00:37:26,828 --> 00:37:29,456
Under the circumstances,
what would you do?

790
00:37:29,497 --> 00:37:31,833
Well, I'd execute
the classic Navy maneuver

791
00:37:31,875 --> 00:37:34,210
known as getting
the hell out of there.

792
00:37:34,252 --> 00:37:36,087
And how would you go
about that, Captain?

793
00:37:36,129 --> 00:37:38,256
Well, it's almost
rule of thumb.

794
00:37:38,298 --> 00:37:40,425
You say the winds
from the north are 90 knots,

795
00:37:40,467 --> 00:37:43,595
center of the cyclone
coming at you from the west.

796
00:37:43,636 --> 00:37:45,430
The best course is south.

797
00:37:45,472 --> 00:37:48,349
You might have to head
a couple of points
one way or the other,

798
00:37:48,391 --> 00:37:49,934
depending on your seas,

799
00:37:49,976 --> 00:37:53,855
but there's only one way
out of that mess-- south.

800
00:37:53,897 --> 00:37:57,108
But then you have
a terribly strong stern wind,
don't you?

801
00:37:57,150 --> 00:37:58,943
What about it?

802
00:37:58,985 --> 00:38:02,489
Well, can a small vessel
ride safely going downwind
in such conditions?

803
00:38:02,530 --> 00:38:06,284
She'll ride just as well
going downwind as upwind.

804
00:38:06,326 --> 00:38:08,745
In fact,
with your high freeboard
going forward,

805
00:38:08,786 --> 00:38:10,663
a smaller vessel
tends to back in the wind.

806
00:38:10,705 --> 00:38:15,752
Other things being equal,
she'll do slightly
better going downwind.

807
00:38:15,793 --> 00:38:18,963
How about turning north
in those circumstances
and heading into the wind?

808
00:38:19,005 --> 00:38:24,469
Well, that would be
dubious and dangerous,
not to mention idiotic.

809
00:38:24,511 --> 00:38:26,596
Why, sir?

810
00:38:26,638 --> 00:38:29,599
Well, you're heading yourself
right back into the path
of the cyclone.

811
00:38:29,641 --> 00:38:33,228
Unless you're interested
in sinking,
that's not smart.

812
00:38:33,269 --> 00:38:34,979
That's all, sir.

813
00:38:35,021 --> 00:38:39,776
Captain, have you ever
conned a ship
at the center of a cyclone?

814
00:38:39,817 --> 00:38:41,694
Negative.

815
00:38:41,736 --> 00:38:45,114
Been on the fringes often,
but always managed
to avoid the center.

816
00:38:45,156 --> 00:38:49,035
And have you ever commanded
a mine countermeasures ship?
Negative.

817
00:38:49,077 --> 00:38:52,455
Okay, this trial, sir,
concerns an Avenger-class MCM

818
00:38:52,497 --> 00:38:54,874
at the center of
a very dangerous storm.

819
00:38:54,916 --> 00:38:56,834
I'm aware of that.

820
00:38:56,876 --> 00:39:00,338
I've had MCMs under my command,
and I've read the book on them.

821
00:39:00,380 --> 00:39:02,465
They don't differ
from smaller-class vessels

822
00:39:02,507 --> 00:39:06,928
in terms of characteristics
and handling in rough weather.

823
00:39:06,970 --> 00:39:09,138
I only ask these questions,
sir,

824
00:39:09,180 --> 00:39:11,641
because you are
the only expert
ship-handling witness,

825
00:39:11,683 --> 00:39:15,186
and I believe the extent
of your expert knowledge
should be clear to the court.

826
00:39:15,228 --> 00:39:17,272
Well,
I've handled these ships

827
00:39:17,313 --> 00:39:20,775
in almost
every conceivable situation
for the last ten years.

828
00:39:20,817 --> 00:39:23,945
Haven't handled
a mine countermeasures
at the center of a cyclone,

829
00:39:23,987 --> 00:39:27,115
but I don't know
who the hell has besides
the skipper of the   Caine.

830
00:39:27,156 --> 00:39:29,200
That's
a thousand-to-one shot.

831
00:39:29,242 --> 00:39:32,328
Then would you state,
without reservation,

832
00:39:32,370 --> 00:39:36,374
that the same rules hold
for an MCM
at the center of a cyclone?

833
00:39:36,416 --> 00:39:40,545
At the center of a cyclone,
there are no hard
and fast rules.

834
00:39:40,587 --> 00:39:43,298
That's one situation
where it's all up
to the commanding officer.

835
00:39:43,339 --> 00:39:45,508
Too many things
happen too fast.

836
00:39:45,550 --> 00:39:47,510
Mmm.

837
00:39:47,552 --> 00:39:50,722
You remember
the hypothetical question
put to you by trial counsel

838
00:39:50,763 --> 00:39:52,515
about the storm, yes?

839
00:39:52,557 --> 00:39:53,850
I do.

840
00:39:53,891 --> 00:39:55,977
I want you to assume
in that situation

841
00:39:56,019 --> 00:39:58,688
that the wind and the seas
become bigger.

842
00:39:58,730 --> 00:40:02,233
They become bigger
than anything-- anything
you have ever experienced.

843
00:40:02,275 --> 00:40:03,943
You have lost control
of your ship, sir.

844
00:40:03,985 --> 00:40:06,237
You actually believe
she could sink.

845
00:40:06,279 --> 00:40:08,906
You are in
the worst-case scenario.

846
00:40:08,948 --> 00:40:12,368
Do you bring around north
into the wind,

847
00:40:12,410 --> 00:40:15,913
or do you continue south,
stern to the wind?

848
00:40:15,955 --> 00:40:17,749
You're getting
very extreme.

849
00:40:17,790 --> 00:40:20,001
Yes, sir, I am.
Would you prefer not
to answer the question?

850
00:40:20,043 --> 00:40:22,045
I'll answer it.
Please.

851
00:40:22,086 --> 00:40:24,255
In the worst-case scenario,

852
00:40:24,297 --> 00:40:27,592
I'd come around the north,
into the wind, if I could.

853
00:40:27,634 --> 00:40:31,054
But only
in the worst-case scenario.
Why?

854
00:40:31,095 --> 00:40:34,057
Because the engines
in your rudder have
the best chance that way.

855
00:40:34,098 --> 00:40:38,519
That's why.
It's your last chance
to keep control of your ship.

856
00:40:38,561 --> 00:40:42,273
But aren't you heading back
into the center of the storm?
First things first.

857
00:40:42,315 --> 00:40:43,983
If you're on
the verge of sinking,

858
00:40:44,025 --> 00:40:46,069
you about as bad off
as you can get.

859
00:40:46,110 --> 00:40:47,654
Mind you, you said
worst-case scenario.

860
00:40:47,695 --> 00:40:52,325
I did, sir.
Thank you very much.
No further questions.

861
00:40:52,367 --> 00:40:54,661
Captain,
who, in your opinion,
is the best judge

862
00:40:54,702 --> 00:40:57,580
as to whether a ship is in
the worst-case scenario?

863
00:40:57,622 --> 00:41:01,292
There's only one judge.
The commanding officer.

864
00:41:01,334 --> 00:41:03,169
Why, sir?

865
00:41:03,211 --> 00:41:06,506
The Navy made him captain
'cause his knowledge
of the sea and of ships

866
00:41:06,547 --> 00:41:09,384
is better than anyone else's
on the ship.

867
00:41:09,425 --> 00:41:14,138
It's very common
for some subordinate officers
to think the ship is sinking

868
00:41:14,180 --> 00:41:17,225
when all that's happening
is a little weather.

869
00:41:17,266 --> 00:41:20,061
Well, don't you think, sir,
that when his subordinates

870
00:41:20,103 --> 00:41:22,063
all agree that the ship
is going down

871
00:41:22,105 --> 00:41:23,815
that the captain ought
to listen to them?

872
00:41:23,856 --> 00:41:25,817
Negative.

873
00:41:25,858 --> 00:41:29,153
Panic is a common hazard
at sea.

874
00:41:29,195 --> 00:41:31,322
The highest function of command
is to override

875
00:41:31,364 --> 00:41:34,575
and listen to nothing
but the voice of his own
professional judgment.

876
00:41:35,868 --> 00:41:38,162
Call Dr. Joan Lundeen.

877
00:41:43,042 --> 00:41:45,169
State your name, rank
and present station.

878
00:41:45,211 --> 00:41:47,338
Lieutenant Commander
Joan Lundeen,

879
00:41:47,380 --> 00:41:49,966
Medical Corps, US Navy,
Head of Psychiatry,

880
00:41:50,007 --> 00:41:52,176
US Naval Hospital,
San Francisco.

881
00:41:52,218 --> 00:41:55,179
Were you the head of
the medical board that examined
Lieutenant Commander Queeg?

882
00:41:55,221 --> 00:41:56,556
I was.

883
00:41:56,597 --> 00:41:59,976
And how long
did your examination last,
Doctor?

884
00:42:00,017 --> 00:42:03,688
We had the commander
under constant observation
and testing for three weeks.

885
00:42:03,730 --> 00:42:05,773
[Challee]
And what was the finding
of the board?

886
00:42:05,815 --> 00:42:08,818
Commander Queeg was discharged
with a clean bill of health.

887
00:42:08,860 --> 00:42:13,573
Doctor, is it possible
that two months ago,
on December 18th,

888
00:42:13,614 --> 00:42:16,367
he was in such a state
of psychotic collapse

889
00:42:16,409 --> 00:42:19,495
that relieving him
from naval command
would be justified?

890
00:42:19,537 --> 00:42:20,788
No.

891
00:42:20,830 --> 00:42:22,665
Is it possible
for a sane man

892
00:42:22,707 --> 00:42:26,627
to perform offensive,
disagreeable,
foolish acts?

893
00:42:26,669 --> 00:42:28,379
It happens every day.

894
00:42:28,421 --> 00:42:31,007
We didn't find
that the commander
was a perfect officer.

895
00:42:31,048 --> 00:42:34,719
Yet, you still say
that to relieve him
from naval command

896
00:42:34,761 --> 00:42:37,889
because of mental illness
would be unjustified?

897
00:42:37,930 --> 00:42:41,058
Completely unjustified.

898
00:42:41,726 --> 00:42:43,269
Thank you.

899
00:42:43,770 --> 00:42:45,980
Dr. Lundeen,

900
00:42:46,022 --> 00:42:48,024
my background is legal,
not medical,

901
00:42:48,065 --> 00:42:51,569
so I hope you'll bear with me
as I try to clarify
some technical terms.

902
00:42:51,611 --> 00:42:53,321
Of course.

903
00:42:53,362 --> 00:42:57,366
I'm going to ask some
pretty elementary questions.
All right.

904
00:42:57,408 --> 00:43:00,077
Would you say Commander Queeg
is absolutely normal?

905
00:43:00,119 --> 00:43:01,913
[chuckles]

906
00:43:01,954 --> 00:43:05,291
Well, normality, you know,
is a fiction in psychiatry.
Mmm.

907
00:43:05,333 --> 00:43:08,669
No adult is without problems
except a happy imbecile.

908
00:43:08,711 --> 00:43:10,838
What are
Commander Queeg's problems?

909
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,509
You might say his
overall problem is one of
an inferiority complex

910
00:43:14,550 --> 00:43:16,636
generated
by an unhappy childhood

911
00:43:16,677 --> 00:43:19,972
and aggravated
by certain adult experiences.

912
00:43:20,014 --> 00:43:22,308
Unhappy childhood
in what way?

913
00:43:22,350 --> 00:43:26,562
Divorced parents,
financial trouble,

914
00:43:26,604 --> 00:43:28,105
problems at school.

915
00:43:28,147 --> 00:43:30,483
And the aggravating factors
in adult life?

916
00:43:31,776 --> 00:43:33,236
In his adult life,

917
00:43:33,277 --> 00:43:35,530
the commander is troubled
by his low standing

918
00:43:35,571 --> 00:43:37,907
in his academy class
and other such factors,

919
00:43:37,949 --> 00:43:39,784
but he has
become well-adjusted.

920
00:43:39,826 --> 00:43:42,912
Mmm. Can you describe
the nature of that adjustment?

921
00:43:42,954 --> 00:43:46,457
His identity as a naval officer
is the essential factor.

922
00:43:46,499 --> 00:43:48,918
It's the key
to his personal security.

923
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,463
Therefore,
he has a fixed anxiety
about protecting his standing.

924
00:43:52,505 --> 00:43:54,465
That would account
for his harshness.

925
00:43:54,507 --> 00:43:56,592
Would he be slow
to admit mistakes?

926
00:43:56,634 --> 00:43:59,303
Yes, of course.
There's nothing
unbalanced in that.

927
00:43:59,345 --> 00:44:02,515
Oh, really? I mean,
would he be a perfectionist?

928
00:44:02,557 --> 00:44:04,600
Such a personality
would be.

929
00:44:04,642 --> 00:44:06,310
Inclined to hound
his subordinates

930
00:44:06,352 --> 00:44:07,895
over the smallest
little details.

931
00:44:07,937 --> 00:44:11,440
Any mistake
of a subordinate
is intolerable

932
00:44:11,482 --> 00:44:13,526
because it might cause him harm.

933
00:44:13,568 --> 00:44:17,530
Yet he will not admit mistakes
that he makes himself.

934
00:44:17,572 --> 00:44:21,742
You might say
that he revises reality
in his own mind

935
00:44:21,784 --> 00:44:23,661
so he comes out blameless.

936
00:44:23,703 --> 00:44:27,456
Doctor, isn't
distortion of reality
a symptom of mental illness?

937
00:44:27,498 --> 00:44:30,251
It's a question of degree.

938
00:44:30,293 --> 00:44:32,628
Each one of us
has our own reality.

939
00:44:32,670 --> 00:44:37,008
Yes, Doctor, but doesn't
Commander Queeg distort reality
more, say, than you do?

940
00:44:37,049 --> 00:44:39,302
Yes, that's his weakness.

941
00:44:39,343 --> 00:44:41,262
Other people
have other weaknesses.

942
00:44:41,304 --> 00:44:43,431
It's definitely
not disabling.

943
00:44:43,472 --> 00:44:48,519
Well, if he's criticized,
would he think he was
being unjustly persecuted?

944
00:44:49,353 --> 00:44:51,272
It's all one pattern,

945
00:44:51,314 --> 00:44:55,109
all stemming
from one basic premise
that he must try to be perfect.

946
00:44:55,151 --> 00:44:56,819
Inclined to stubbornness, then.

947
00:44:56,861 --> 00:45:00,323
Well, you'll have
a certain rigidity
of personality

948
00:45:00,364 --> 00:45:02,366
in such an individual.

949
00:45:02,408 --> 00:45:04,702
His inner insecurity
stops him from admitting

950
00:45:04,744 --> 00:45:07,663
that those who differ
from him may be right.

951
00:45:07,705 --> 00:45:12,960
Doctor, you just testified that
the following symptoms exist
in Commander Queeg's behavior.

952
00:45:13,002 --> 00:45:14,670
We have rigidity
of personality.

953
00:45:14,712 --> 00:45:16,422
We have feelings
of persecution.

954
00:45:16,464 --> 00:45:18,507
We have
unreasonable suspicion.

955
00:45:18,549 --> 00:45:20,217
We have withdrawal
from reality.

956
00:45:20,259 --> 00:45:22,261
We have performance anxiety.

957
00:45:22,303 --> 00:45:24,805
We have an unreal basic premise

958
00:45:24,847 --> 00:45:27,683
and an obsessive sense
of self-righteousness.

959
00:45:27,725 --> 00:45:31,062
All mild, sir.
All well-compensated.

960
00:45:31,103 --> 00:45:33,105
Yes, Doctor, yes.

961
00:45:33,147 --> 00:45:37,276
But is there
an inclusive psychiatric term,
one label for this syndrome?

962
00:45:37,318 --> 00:45:40,154
Syndrome? Who said anything
about a syndrome?

963
00:45:40,196 --> 00:45:44,700
You're misusing a term.
There's no syndrome
because there's no disease.

964
00:45:44,742 --> 00:45:46,661
I'll rephrase it.

965
00:45:46,702 --> 00:45:48,871
Do these symptoms
fall into

966
00:45:48,913 --> 00:45:53,000
a single pattern
of neurotic disturbance,
a common psychiatric class?

967
00:45:53,042 --> 00:45:55,544
I know
what you're getting at.
Well?

968
00:45:55,586 --> 00:45:59,840
It's a paranoid personality,
but that is not
a disabling affliction.

969
00:45:59,882 --> 00:46:02,093
Doctor--
A what personality,
Doctor?

970
00:46:02,134 --> 00:46:04,011
Paranoid.

971
00:46:04,053 --> 00:46:07,181
A paranoid?
Yes, paranoid.

972
00:46:09,725 --> 00:46:12,728
Um, Doctor, in a--

973
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:17,942
in a paranoid personality,
like Commander Queeg's,

974
00:46:17,984 --> 00:46:19,860
would he-- I'm--

975
00:46:19,902 --> 00:46:22,071
I'm gonna put this to you
hypothetically.

976
00:46:22,113 --> 00:46:24,573
Can a man have
a paranoid personality

977
00:46:24,615 --> 00:46:27,159
that would not disable him
for subordinate duties,

978
00:46:27,201 --> 00:46:28,786
but would disable him
for command?

979
00:46:28,828 --> 00:46:30,955
It's conceivable.

980
00:46:30,997 --> 00:46:34,166
And is the disabling factor
likely to be detected
in a personal interview?

981
00:46:34,208 --> 00:46:36,210
With a skilled
psychiatrist, yes.

982
00:46:36,252 --> 00:46:38,963
Why? I mean,
why is a psychiatrist needed?

983
00:46:39,005 --> 00:46:41,966
Can't an educated, intelligent
person detect a paranoid?

984
00:46:42,008 --> 00:46:44,885
Well, you evidently
aren't too well acquainted
with the pattern.

985
00:46:44,927 --> 00:46:47,346
The distinguishing mark
of this neurosis

986
00:46:47,388 --> 00:46:51,809
is the extreme plausibility
and a most convincing normal
manner on the surface,

987
00:46:51,851 --> 00:46:54,311
particularly
in self-justification.

988
00:46:54,353 --> 00:46:56,272
Self-justification.

989
00:46:56,313 --> 00:46:57,982
Thank you, Doctor.

990
00:46:59,108 --> 00:47:00,484
No further questions.

991
00:47:00,526 --> 00:47:02,820
[officer] The court wishes
to clear up one point.

992
00:47:02,862 --> 00:47:07,575
Doctor, is...
is such a thing possible--

993
00:47:07,616 --> 00:47:10,286
Well, let me put it this way.

994
00:47:10,327 --> 00:47:12,163
Let's say that a man
with a mild condition

995
00:47:12,204 --> 00:47:16,083
is not disabled for all
the usual stresses of command.

996
00:47:16,125 --> 00:47:20,838
Now let's say those stresses
are multiplied manifold
by an extreme emergency.

997
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,799
Would there then be a tendency
to make erroneous judgments?

998
00:47:23,841 --> 00:47:25,551
There might be, sir.

999
00:47:25,593 --> 00:47:28,721
Of course, extreme stress
does that to almost anybody.

1000
00:47:28,763 --> 00:47:30,723
It's not supposed to do it
to commanding officers.

1001
00:47:30,765 --> 00:47:34,977
No, but practically speaking,
sir, they're human.

1002
00:47:38,564 --> 00:47:41,150
State your name, rank
and present station.

1003
00:47:41,192 --> 00:47:43,903
Allen Bird, MD,
US Navy Reserve.

1004
00:47:43,944 --> 00:47:46,906
I was called to serve on
the psychiatric evaluation team.

1005
00:47:46,947 --> 00:47:49,408
Was this the board that
was headed by Dr. Lundeen

1006
00:47:49,450 --> 00:47:52,745
which recently inquired into
the mental health of
Lieutenant Commander Queeg?

1007
00:47:52,787 --> 00:47:54,955
Yes.
And what was the finding
of the board?

1008
00:47:54,997 --> 00:47:58,125
We found that the commander
is mentally fit
for command now

1009
00:47:58,167 --> 00:48:00,544
and has never been unfit.

1010
00:48:00,586 --> 00:48:03,380
Did you find any indication
that Commander Queeg

1011
00:48:03,422 --> 00:48:06,717
had what is known
as a paranoid personality?

1012
00:48:06,759 --> 00:48:10,846
Well, I prefer to call it
obsessive personality
with paranoid features.

1013
00:48:10,888 --> 00:48:14,934
Right, but this did not
indicate mental unfitness.
No.

1014
00:48:14,975 --> 00:48:18,187
You agree, Doctor,
that Commander Queeg
is mentally fit now

1015
00:48:18,229 --> 00:48:20,981
and must have been
mentally fit
on December 18th

1016
00:48:21,023 --> 00:48:23,275
when he was relieved
on the grounds
of mental illness?

1017
00:48:23,317 --> 00:48:25,361
That was
our unanimous conclusion.

1018
00:48:25,402 --> 00:48:27,404
Thank you, Doctor.

1019
00:48:27,446 --> 00:48:29,240
[Greenwald]
Dr. Bird,

1020
00:48:29,281 --> 00:48:32,493
do you have any special training
in psychoanalysis?

1021
00:48:32,535 --> 00:48:34,370
Yes.

1022
00:48:34,411 --> 00:48:37,164
Okay, and in psychoanalysis,
is there such a thing
as mental illness?

1023
00:48:37,206 --> 00:48:39,917
There are disturbed people
and adjusted people.

1024
00:48:39,959 --> 00:48:41,919
But those terms,
"disturbed" and "adjusted,"

1025
00:48:41,961 --> 00:48:44,421
they correspond roughly
in layman's terms

1026
00:48:44,463 --> 00:48:46,507
to "sick" and "well,"
as we use them.

1027
00:48:46,549 --> 00:48:48,592
Very roughly, yes.

1028
00:48:48,634 --> 00:48:53,472
Would you say
Commander Queeg suffers
from an inferiority complex?

1029
00:48:53,514 --> 00:48:57,226
Yes, but it's...
well-compensated.

1030
00:48:57,268 --> 00:48:59,937
Is there a difference
between "compensated"
and "adjusted"?

1031
00:48:59,979 --> 00:49:01,147
Most definitely.

1032
00:49:01,188 --> 00:49:03,774
Okay, could you please
describe that for us?

1033
00:49:03,816 --> 00:49:06,193
Well, let's say
a man is suffering

1034
00:49:06,235 --> 00:49:09,864
from some deep-seated
psychological disturbance.

1035
00:49:09,905 --> 00:49:13,951
He can compensate
by finding outlets
for his peculiar drives.

1036
00:49:13,993 --> 00:49:19,165
Okay. So, has Commander Queeg
ever been psychoanalyzed?

1037
00:49:19,206 --> 00:49:21,834
No.
He's in your terms, then,
a disturbed person?

1038
00:49:21,876 --> 00:49:24,712
Yes, he is.
Not disabled, however,
by the disturbance.

1039
00:49:24,753 --> 00:49:26,964
Okay, how is he compensated?

1040
00:49:28,215 --> 00:49:29,925
Mainly two ways.

1041
00:49:29,967 --> 00:49:33,053
The paranoid pattern,
which is useless
and not desirable,

1042
00:49:33,095 --> 00:49:36,765
and his naval career,
which is extremely useful
and desirable.

1043
00:49:36,807 --> 00:49:39,643
Yes, Doctor, have you
noticed that little thing
he does with his hands?

1044
00:49:39,685 --> 00:49:41,395
You mean
rolling the steel balls?
Yes.

1045
00:49:41,437 --> 00:49:43,230
Could you describe
that for us, please?

1046
00:49:43,272 --> 00:49:45,816
It's an incessant rolling
of two marbles in his hand.

1047
00:49:45,858 --> 00:49:48,569
Mm-hmm.
Why does he do it?

1048
00:49:48,611 --> 00:49:51,280
Oh, uh, his hands tremble.

1049
00:49:51,322 --> 00:49:54,200
He does it to still his hands
and conceal the trembling.

1050
00:49:54,241 --> 00:49:55,492
Why do his hands tremble?

1051
00:49:55,534 --> 00:49:58,704
Inner tension.
It's a surface symptom.

1052
00:49:58,746 --> 00:50:01,207
Doctor, you've testified
that Commander Queeg

1053
00:50:01,248 --> 00:50:03,918
is a disturbed,
not an adjusted person, yes?

1054
00:50:03,959 --> 00:50:06,337
Yes.
So he is,
in layman's terms, sick.

1055
00:50:06,378 --> 00:50:08,672
Yes?

1056
00:50:08,714 --> 00:50:12,134
I remember agreeing to the
rough resemblance of the terms
"disturbed" and "sick,"

1057
00:50:12,176 --> 00:50:14,595
but by those terms
an awful lot of people
are sick.

1058
00:50:14,637 --> 00:50:17,640
Yes, Doctor, but this court
only has Commander Queeg's
sickness at issue.

1059
00:50:17,681 --> 00:50:21,435
If he is sick, how could
your board have given him
a clean bill of health?

1060
00:50:21,477 --> 00:50:24,939
Y-You're playing on words.
We found no disability.

1061
00:50:24,980 --> 00:50:27,358
Doctor, just suppose
for an instant

1062
00:50:27,399 --> 00:50:30,986
that the requirements of command
are way more severe
than you believe them to be.

1063
00:50:31,028 --> 00:50:34,198
Wouldn't even this mild sickness
be enough to disable him?

1064
00:50:34,240 --> 00:50:36,659
That's absurdly hypothetical,
because--
Oh, is it?

1065
00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:38,827
Have you ever had
sea duty, Doctor?
No.

1066
00:50:38,869 --> 00:50:41,872
No? How long have you been
in the service of the Navy?

1067
00:50:41,914 --> 00:50:43,207
Five months.
Five months?

1068
00:50:43,249 --> 00:50:45,876
Five--
Six months.
Six, I guess now.

1069
00:50:45,918 --> 00:50:47,920
Six months in the service
of the Navy.

1070
00:50:47,962 --> 00:50:51,382
Have you ever had any dealings
with ships' captains
prior to this case?

1071
00:50:51,423 --> 00:50:52,549
No.
No?

1072
00:50:52,591 --> 00:50:54,009
Then on what do you base

1073
00:50:54,051 --> 00:50:55,427
your estimate
of the requirements of command?

1074
00:50:55,469 --> 00:50:57,388
My general knowledge.

1075
00:50:57,429 --> 00:51:00,391
Would you say it takes somebody,
a person of exceptional ability,

1076
00:51:00,432 --> 00:51:03,310
highly gifted, highly skilled
to be a commander
of a naval vessel?

1077
00:51:03,352 --> 00:51:04,728
No.
No. Really?

1078
00:51:04,770 --> 00:51:07,147
Not highly gifted, no.
Then what?

1079
00:51:07,189 --> 00:51:09,692
Uh, reasonable responses.
"Reasonable"?

1080
00:51:09,733 --> 00:51:11,777
Uh, fairly good
intelligence.
"Fairly good"?

1081
00:51:11,819 --> 00:51:14,196
Sufficient training
and experience, but--

1082
00:51:14,238 --> 00:51:17,199
Is this enough equipment,
say, for a highly skilled
psychiatrist?

1083
00:51:17,241 --> 00:51:19,076
Not exactly.

1084
00:51:19,118 --> 00:51:21,328
So in other words,
it takes more ability
to be a psychiatrist

1085
00:51:21,370 --> 00:51:23,998
than it does to be
the commander of
a US naval vessel.

1086
00:51:24,039 --> 00:51:26,667
It takes-- That is,
uh, different abilities
are required.

1087
00:51:26,709 --> 00:51:28,919
You're making the comparison,
not I.

1088
00:51:28,961 --> 00:51:31,714
No, Doctor, you're the one
that said you don't think
Commander Queeg's sickness

1089
00:51:31,755 --> 00:51:34,049
should disable him for command.

1090
00:51:34,091 --> 00:51:37,553
I am suggesting that since
you evidently know little about
the requirements of command,

1091
00:51:37,594 --> 00:51:39,430
that you may be wrong
in your conclusion.

1092
00:51:39,471 --> 00:51:41,932
Well, I reject
your suggestion.
Oh, you do? Why?

1093
00:51:41,974 --> 00:51:44,226
Because you've deliberately
substituted the word "sick,"

1094
00:51:44,268 --> 00:51:46,854
which is a loose--
a polarizing--
Have I?

1095
00:51:46,895 --> 00:51:48,605
A what word, Doctor?
Polarizing.

1096
00:51:48,647 --> 00:51:50,441
A polarizing word.
I never said "sick."

1097
00:51:50,482 --> 00:51:53,277
My grasp of the requirements
of command is adequate,

1098
00:51:53,319 --> 00:51:56,071
or I would have
disqualified myself
from serving on the board.

1099
00:51:56,113 --> 00:51:57,781
Maybe you should
have disqualified yourself.

1100
00:51:57,823 --> 00:51:59,491
Objection!
The witness is being badgered!

1101
00:51:59,533 --> 00:52:01,618
I withdraw
my last statement.

1102
00:52:01,660 --> 00:52:03,537
No further questions.

1103
00:52:03,579 --> 00:52:06,206
Doctor, the defense counsel
has managed to put
words into your mouth

1104
00:52:06,248 --> 00:52:08,542
that I'm certain
you don't mean.

1105
00:52:08,584 --> 00:52:11,420
I'm not aware that
he succeeded in putting
any words into my mouth.

1106
00:52:11,462 --> 00:52:14,465
Doctor, he drew
the implication from you
that Captain Queeg is sick.

1107
00:52:14,506 --> 00:52:17,634
Surely you don't--
I'm careful in my use
of terminology.

1108
00:52:17,676 --> 00:52:20,846
I did not use the term "sick."

1109
00:52:20,888 --> 00:52:25,684
Captain Queeg is definitely
not disabled for command,
which is the only issue here.

1110
00:52:28,771 --> 00:52:30,314
Prosecution rests.

1111
00:52:32,024 --> 00:52:33,650
Defense,
present your case.

1112
00:52:34,860 --> 00:52:36,653
I call the accused.

1113
00:52:38,030 --> 00:52:41,742
Does the accused request that
he be permitted to testify?
Yes, sir.

1114
00:52:41,784 --> 00:52:43,786
You have the right
not to take the stand.

1115
00:52:43,827 --> 00:52:46,663
If you don't take the stand,
that fact won't be
to your prejudice.

1116
00:52:46,705 --> 00:52:50,334
If you take the stand,
you may be subjected to
a rigorous cross-examination.

1117
00:52:50,376 --> 00:52:52,252
I understand that,
sir.

1118
00:52:52,294 --> 00:52:54,213
You may take the stand.

1119
00:52:57,383 --> 00:52:59,885
State your name, rank
and present position.

1120
00:52:59,927 --> 00:53:01,303
Steven Maryk,
Lieutenant, US Navy,

1121
00:53:01,345 --> 00:53:03,180
executive officer
of the USS   Caine.

1122
00:53:03,222 --> 00:53:05,724
Are you the accused
in this court-martial?
Yes, I am.

1123
00:53:05,766 --> 00:53:08,143
What was your occupation
in civilian life?

1124
00:53:08,185 --> 00:53:10,938
Helping my father
in his fishing business.
We own a couple boats.

1125
00:53:10,979 --> 00:53:12,898
Where?
San Francisco.

1126
00:53:12,940 --> 00:53:15,317
Then you were familiar
with the problems
of ocean-going ship handling

1127
00:53:15,359 --> 00:53:17,152
prior to joining the Navy?

1128
00:53:17,194 --> 00:53:19,655
Yes, I've been on boats
since I was 14.

1129
00:53:19,696 --> 00:53:23,325
Did you relieve
the commander of the USS   Caine
18th December, 2022?

1130
00:53:23,367 --> 00:53:25,411
Yes, I did.

1131
00:53:25,452 --> 00:53:27,996
Was the   Caine   in trouble
when you relieved its captain?
Yes, it was.

1132
00:53:28,038 --> 00:53:31,542
And on what facts
do you base that judgment?
Well, several things.

1133
00:53:31,583 --> 00:53:33,168
We couldn't hold course.

1134
00:53:33,210 --> 00:53:35,546
We broached three times
in an hour.
"Broached"?

1135
00:53:35,587 --> 00:53:39,174
Yes, wind and sea took charge
and tossed us sideways
ten minutes at a time.

1136
00:53:39,216 --> 00:53:42,052
We were rolling too steeply
for the inclinometer to record.

1137
00:53:42,094 --> 00:53:45,389
We were shipping water
out of the wheelhouse.
The generators were cutting out.

1138
00:53:45,431 --> 00:53:48,016
The ship was not responding
to emergency rudder
and engine settings.

1139
00:53:48,058 --> 00:53:49,518
We were lost
and out of control.

1140
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:51,645
And did you inform
your captain of this?
Yes.

1141
00:53:51,687 --> 00:53:55,732
Repeatedly for an hour.
I begged him
to come north into the wind.

1142
00:53:55,774 --> 00:53:57,234
What was his reply?

1143
00:53:57,276 --> 00:54:00,737
Well, mostly
just a glazed look
and no answer.

1144
00:54:01,655 --> 00:54:03,490
Mr. Maryk,

1145
00:54:03,532 --> 00:54:07,327
when did you start
keeping your medical log
on Commander Queeg?

1146
00:54:07,369 --> 00:54:09,705
Shortly after the incident
with the mines
in the Straits of Hormuz.

1147
00:54:09,746 --> 00:54:13,500
And why did you start it?
I began to think the captain
might be mentally ill.

1148
00:54:13,542 --> 00:54:16,128
Why?
Because of the yellow
dye marker business.

1149
00:54:16,170 --> 00:54:19,840
You mean the incident
where the commander acquired
the nickname Old Yellowstain?

1150
00:54:19,882 --> 00:54:21,091
Yes.

1151
00:54:21,133 --> 00:54:23,469
Were you an eyewitness
to this occurrence?

1152
00:54:23,510 --> 00:54:25,429
I was navigator.
I was right there
on the bridge.

1153
00:54:25,471 --> 00:54:28,056
Please describe
this Yellowstain incident.

1154
00:54:29,391 --> 00:54:32,352
It was the third day
of an assigned sweep
with two other MCMs.

1155
00:54:32,394 --> 00:54:33,896
Mm-hmm.

1156
00:54:33,937 --> 00:54:36,732
We had detected
a field of acoustic mines.

1157
00:54:36,773 --> 00:54:38,734
[speaking louder]
It was the third day

1158
00:54:38,775 --> 00:54:40,777
of an assigned sweep
with two other MCMs.

1159
00:54:40,819 --> 00:54:42,779
We detected a field
of acoustic mines

1160
00:54:42,821 --> 00:54:44,781
in the narrowest part
of the strait

1161
00:54:44,823 --> 00:54:46,950
and we'd been ordered
to destroy them in place
using high explosives.

1162
00:54:46,992 --> 00:54:50,287
And that's delicate business.
It's gotta be done just right.

1163
00:54:50,329 --> 00:54:52,956
We milled around out there
for a while.

1164
00:54:52,998 --> 00:54:56,043
Then the captain decided
not to set the charges.

1165
00:54:56,084 --> 00:54:58,086
He gave us some excuse
about faulty equipment.

1166
00:54:58,128 --> 00:55:00,797
I checked the gear.
It was in perfect working order.

1167
00:55:00,839 --> 00:55:02,716
And the captain
wouldn't hear it.

1168
00:55:02,758 --> 00:55:05,260
He said the tech was incompetent
and he knew better.

1169
00:55:05,302 --> 00:55:08,055
So we dropped
a yellow dye marker
over the side,

1170
00:55:08,096 --> 00:55:10,224
radioed to the other MCM
to destroy the mines.

1171
00:55:10,265 --> 00:55:14,102
They radioed back
to slow down, but we just--
we steamed right out of there.

1172
00:55:14,144 --> 00:55:15,479
[Greenwald] "Steamed."
Now, Mr. Maryk--

1173
00:55:15,521 --> 00:55:18,023
The court wishes to
question the witness.

1174
00:55:18,065 --> 00:55:21,777
Lieutenant, you say
the gear was in working order.
Did you check it personally?

1175
00:55:21,818 --> 00:55:24,363
Yes, sir, along with
the chief electronic tech
and the sonar men.

1176
00:55:24,404 --> 00:55:26,406
It was fine.
There was absolutely
nothing wrong with the gear.

1177
00:55:26,448 --> 00:55:29,076
And after you steamed away,
was there any danger
due to shock waves

1178
00:55:29,117 --> 00:55:30,702
from the underwater
detonations?

1179
00:55:30,744 --> 00:55:32,829
No.
No, there was not.

1180
00:55:32,871 --> 00:55:35,499
MCMs are designed to
withstand that kind of thing.
We do this all the time.

1181
00:55:35,541 --> 00:55:39,253
Now, you say these boats
signaled to you
to slow down.

1182
00:55:39,294 --> 00:55:41,922
Yes, sir.
Was the signal reported
to your captain?

1183
00:55:41,964 --> 00:55:43,674
I reported it to him myself.

1184
00:55:43,715 --> 00:55:45,467
Was he aware that
he was steaming away

1185
00:55:45,509 --> 00:55:47,928
from his assigned spot
in the sweep formation?

1186
00:55:47,970 --> 00:55:50,514
It was obvious to
everyone on the bridge.
I pointed it out.

1187
00:55:50,556 --> 00:55:52,683
I said we were breaking
the sweep pattern,

1188
00:55:52,724 --> 00:55:54,977
that the other vessels
would not know
where we'd found the mines.

1189
00:55:55,018 --> 00:55:59,439
And that is when he said,
"We'll drop a yellow dye marker
over the side then."

1190
00:55:59,481 --> 00:56:01,358
You may continue.

1191
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:04,736
Mr. Maryk, why didn't
you go immediately
to a higher authority

1192
00:56:04,778 --> 00:56:07,447
with your doubts
about Captain Queeg's
mental health?

1193
00:56:07,489 --> 00:56:10,325
I felt if I had a record,
I'd be on stronger ground.

1194
00:56:10,367 --> 00:56:12,411
That's when I decided
to keep the medical log.

1195
00:56:12,452 --> 00:56:15,872
If I was wrong,
I'd just burn it.
I kept it under lock and key.

1196
00:56:15,914 --> 00:56:17,791
And what,
in your opinion,

1197
00:56:17,833 --> 00:56:20,460
made an incident worthy
of keeping a record
in the medical log?

1198
00:56:20,502 --> 00:56:22,671
Any act that seemed
abnormal or strange.

1199
00:56:22,713 --> 00:56:24,715
Like what?
Like the coffee machine.

1200
00:56:24,756 --> 00:56:26,300
The coffee machine
business?
Yes.

1201
00:56:26,341 --> 00:56:28,135
Well, please describe
the coffee machine thing.

1202
00:56:28,176 --> 00:56:30,053
We had a new coffee machine
in the wardroom.

1203
00:56:30,095 --> 00:56:33,765
And, uh, Captain
really liked his coffee.
But you had to be careful.

1204
00:56:33,807 --> 00:56:36,310
You couldn't leave it
plugged in too long
or the thing would burn out.

1205
00:56:36,351 --> 00:56:38,520
That's exactly what happened.

1206
00:56:38,562 --> 00:56:40,814
One of the guys assigned
to the wardroom mess duty
forgot to unplug it

1207
00:56:40,856 --> 00:56:43,066
and the thing was--
it was just fried.

1208
00:56:43,108 --> 00:56:45,736
And none of them would admit
which one had done it.

1209
00:56:45,777 --> 00:56:49,406
So the captain ordered
all the officers of the ship
to sit as a trial of inquiry

1210
00:56:49,448 --> 00:56:51,366
to find out who'd burned out
the coffee machine.

1211
00:56:51,408 --> 00:56:55,037
Which-- Look, in itself,
it's a silly thing.

1212
00:56:55,078 --> 00:56:57,914
But this went on
for 36 hours.

1213
00:56:57,956 --> 00:56:59,249
[Greenwald whistles]

1214
00:56:59,291 --> 00:57:00,876
[Maryk]
All ship's work suspended.

1215
00:57:00,917 --> 00:57:03,295
And there we are, all of us,
we're in the wardroom.

1216
00:57:03,337 --> 00:57:06,048
We're dying for sleep,
we need showers,

1217
00:57:06,089 --> 00:57:08,634
and we're trying to figure out
which one of these poor bastards
burned out the coffee machine.

1218
00:57:08,675 --> 00:57:11,970
And they're so scared,
they think whoever did it
is gonna get shot.

1219
00:57:12,012 --> 00:57:13,847
They'd have sooner died
before they told us.

1220
00:57:13,889 --> 00:57:16,266
And so, finally,
I go to the captain

1221
00:57:16,308 --> 00:57:19,394
and I say all the officers
will admit that they're
incompetent investigators

1222
00:57:19,436 --> 00:57:21,855
and take the hit
on their fitness reports,

1223
00:57:21,897 --> 00:57:26,109
but we can't find out
who left the coffee machine
plugged in for too long.

1224
00:57:26,151 --> 00:57:29,279
And so he makes a mark
in his black book
and he calls off the inquiry.

1225
00:57:29,321 --> 00:57:32,115
It's things like that.
Or the water business.

1226
00:57:32,157 --> 00:57:33,367
The water business.
Yes.

1227
00:57:33,408 --> 00:57:35,744
Please describe
that water business.

1228
00:57:35,786 --> 00:57:39,915
Look, it's all in the log.
I know, but please describe
the water business.

1229
00:57:39,956 --> 00:57:42,709
The captain
restricted water use
from the entire crew

1230
00:57:42,751 --> 00:57:44,711
for two days
in the middle
of a dust storm

1231
00:57:44,753 --> 00:57:48,382
because he caught
one of the deck gang
taking a shower.

1232
00:57:48,423 --> 00:57:51,343
Or it's plain crazy things.
Cheese business.

1233
00:57:51,385 --> 00:57:52,928
The cheese business.
The strawberry-- Yes.

1234
00:57:52,969 --> 00:57:56,056
Cheese business?
I don't recall
any cheese business.

1235
00:57:56,098 --> 00:57:59,226
This was on the first ship
the captain was assigned to,
sir, as an ensign.

1236
00:57:59,267 --> 00:58:02,437
Cheese was going missing
from the ship's stores.

1237
00:58:02,479 --> 00:58:04,648
And the captain investigated
and he caught a sailor

1238
00:58:04,690 --> 00:58:08,318
who'd made a duplicate key
to the padlock
to the refrigerator.

1239
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:10,487
Now, for catching
this cheese thief,

1240
00:58:10,529 --> 00:58:12,698
he was given a letter
of commendation.

1241
00:58:12,739 --> 00:58:15,283
This is during peacetime,
so naturally
he's pretty proud of the thing.

1242
00:58:15,325 --> 00:58:19,246
So when the strawberry stuff
started, he insisted
it was the same thing.

1243
00:58:19,287 --> 00:58:20,831
And all we had to do
was find the guy

1244
00:58:20,872 --> 00:58:23,792
who had made a duplicate key
to the wardroom fridge.

1245
00:58:23,834 --> 00:58:25,919
But of course
that's ridiculous.

1246
00:58:25,961 --> 00:58:29,464
It was one of the guys assigned
to the wardroom mess again.

1247
00:58:29,506 --> 00:58:32,217
We all knew that they'd eaten
this quart of strawberries.

1248
00:58:32,259 --> 00:58:33,677
It was left over
from the wardroom mess.

1249
00:58:33,719 --> 00:58:35,762
They were entitled to it.
That was the custom.

1250
00:58:35,804 --> 00:58:37,723
But when the captain
started to freak out
about those strawberries,

1251
00:58:37,764 --> 00:58:39,599
they froze up,
said they didn't
know who'd eaten them.

1252
00:58:39,641 --> 00:58:42,394
And the captain's
so hot on his theory
he believes them.

1253
00:58:42,436 --> 00:58:44,563
So he ordered the search
for the key.
Yes, sir.

1254
00:58:44,604 --> 00:58:49,317
We have never seen Captain Queeg
so happy before or since.

1255
00:58:49,359 --> 00:58:52,237
He's living the cheese business
all over again.

1256
00:58:52,279 --> 00:58:54,865
He organized the search himself.

1257
00:58:54,906 --> 00:58:57,492
We collected every key
on that ship.

1258
00:58:57,534 --> 00:59:01,288
We had just boxes--
barrels of keys.

1259
00:59:01,329 --> 00:59:03,373
That's about 2,800 of them
all told,

1260
00:59:03,415 --> 00:59:05,625
each tagged
with the owner's name.

1261
00:59:05,667 --> 00:59:09,004
And just to be safe,
we searched that ship
from stem to stern,

1262
00:59:09,045 --> 00:59:11,673
from the radar mast
to the bilge.

1263
00:59:11,715 --> 00:59:13,091
We stripped the crew naked.

1264
00:59:13,133 --> 00:59:14,968
[Greenwald]
Naked?
Yes, sir. Naked.

1265
00:59:15,010 --> 00:59:17,429
Each one of them lined up,
stark naked,

1266
00:59:17,471 --> 00:59:19,723
and we shook out their clothes.

1267
00:59:19,765 --> 00:59:22,684
We searched their lockers.
We searched every hole,
every place on that ship.

1268
00:59:22,726 --> 00:59:25,353
We crawled under the bilge
and pulled out
the lead ballast blocks

1269
00:59:25,395 --> 00:59:27,105
that are 200 pounds apiece.

1270
00:59:27,147 --> 00:59:30,317
This went on for three days.

1271
00:59:30,358 --> 00:59:32,360
[Greenwald]
Three days?
[Maryk] Yes, sir.

1272
00:59:32,402 --> 00:59:36,531
All in the name of a key
that never existed.

1273
00:59:36,573 --> 00:59:41,286
So, when I saw the captain
sitting by the fridge,

1274
00:59:41,328 --> 00:59:43,205
pulling keys one by one
from a barrel

1275
00:59:43,246 --> 00:59:47,667
and trying them in a padlock
for hours on end
with a gleam in his eye,

1276
00:59:47,709 --> 00:59:49,795
I gave up.

1277
00:59:49,836 --> 00:59:53,590
And that is when
I showed the medical log
to Lieutenant Keefer.

1278
00:59:54,758 --> 00:59:56,510
Mr. Maryk,

1279
00:59:56,551 --> 00:59:58,762
when Lieutenant Keefer
finished reading
your medical log,

1280
00:59:58,804 --> 01:00:01,097
what was
his first comment?

1281
01:00:01,848 --> 01:00:03,517
Sir, I don't remember.

1282
01:00:03,558 --> 01:00:06,311
Did he encourage you
to go to Admiral Williams?

1283
01:00:06,353 --> 01:00:08,271
No, sir,
I did that on my own.

1284
01:00:08,313 --> 01:00:10,398
But he went with you
to the flagship.

1285
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:14,110
Yes, sir.
So, at first,
he didn't discourage you?

1286
01:00:15,654 --> 01:00:18,448
Once we were
aboard the flagship,
he discouraged me

1287
01:00:18,490 --> 01:00:20,951
and said we shouldn't
go through it and we didn't.

1288
01:00:20,992 --> 01:00:23,453
Would you say his testimony
on the subject was
substantially correct?

1289
01:00:23,495 --> 01:00:25,956
Yes, sir.
This was all my doing, sir.

1290
01:00:25,997 --> 01:00:27,457
Continue your examination.

1291
01:00:27,499 --> 01:00:29,876
Mr. Maryk,
when the cyclone was over,

1292
01:00:29,918 --> 01:00:32,796
did Commander Queeg
make an attempt
to regain command?

1293
01:00:32,838 --> 01:00:34,589
Yes.

1294
01:00:34,631 --> 01:00:36,967
On the morning of the 19th,
after the storm had blown out.

1295
01:00:37,008 --> 01:00:38,468
What happened?

1296
01:00:39,845 --> 01:00:42,097
Well, I was in the chart house
writing up a dispatch.

1297
01:00:42,138 --> 01:00:44,975
And?
I was reporting the relief
to Admiral Williams.

1298
01:00:45,016 --> 01:00:47,352
And?

1299
01:00:47,394 --> 01:00:50,355
Captain Queeg came and asked
if I would go to his cabin
and speak to him

1300
01:00:50,397 --> 01:00:52,315
before I sent the dispatch.

1301
01:00:52,357 --> 01:00:55,277
So I went below
and we talked.

1302
01:00:55,318 --> 01:00:57,237
And what happened?

1303
01:00:58,530 --> 01:01:02,325
It was the same as before,
uh, at first.

1304
01:01:02,367 --> 01:01:04,202
He said I'd be
court-martialed for mutiny.

1305
01:01:04,244 --> 01:01:08,290
And then he went
on this long thing about
how much he loved the Navy,

1306
01:01:08,331 --> 01:01:10,208
that he has no other interests,

1307
01:01:10,250 --> 01:01:13,503
and even if
he was cleared of this
that his record would be ruined.

1308
01:01:13,545 --> 01:01:16,256
And I told him
I felt sorry for him.

1309
01:01:16,298 --> 01:01:18,174
And I-- I really did.

1310
01:01:19,885 --> 01:01:22,971
And that's when
he came out with
his proposal.

1311
01:01:23,013 --> 01:01:24,431
Which?

1312
01:01:25,807 --> 01:01:28,184
He said he wouldn't
write me up and report me,

1313
01:01:28,226 --> 01:01:30,145
that he would resume
command of the ship

1314
01:01:30,186 --> 01:01:33,315
and that the whole thing would
be written off and forgotten.

1315
01:01:33,356 --> 01:01:35,859
And what was your reply
to his proposal?

1316
01:01:35,901 --> 01:01:37,777
I was amazed.

1317
01:01:37,819 --> 01:01:40,864
I said, Captain,
the whole ship knows about it.
[Greenwald] Yes.

1318
01:01:40,906 --> 01:01:43,158
It's written up
in the quartermaster's log.

1319
01:01:43,199 --> 01:01:45,368
It's written up
in the officer
of the deck's log.

1320
01:01:45,410 --> 01:01:48,914
And, uh--
And he hemmed and hawed.

1321
01:01:48,955 --> 01:01:51,166
[Greenwald]
And?

1322
01:01:51,207 --> 01:01:53,043
What happened next?

1323
01:01:53,084 --> 01:01:55,211
Finally, he said
it wouldn't be
the first time

1324
01:01:55,253 --> 01:01:58,173
that a rough log
had been corrected
and fixed up after the fact.

1325
01:01:58,214 --> 01:02:00,842
Did you remind him
that the alteration of logs
is strictly forbidden?

1326
01:02:00,884 --> 01:02:03,428
Yes, I did.
And he kind of laughed.

1327
01:02:03,470 --> 01:02:05,931
He said it was either that
or a court-martial
for mutiny for me

1328
01:02:05,972 --> 01:02:08,767
and a black mark
on his record which he felt
he did not deserve.

1329
01:02:08,808 --> 01:02:10,018
And what followed?

1330
01:02:10,060 --> 01:02:11,978
He begged and he pleaded.

1331
01:02:12,020 --> 01:02:16,608
And, uh, at one point he cried
and eventually got very angry

1332
01:02:16,650 --> 01:02:18,360
and he ordered me out
of his cabin.

1333
01:02:18,401 --> 01:02:20,695
That is when
I sent the dispatch.

1334
01:02:20,737 --> 01:02:25,200
Then you had the opportunity,
less than 24 hours later,

1335
01:02:25,241 --> 01:02:28,912
to expunge this whole event
from the official records

1336
01:02:28,954 --> 01:02:31,915
with your captain's
knowledge and approval.

1337
01:02:31,957 --> 01:02:33,583
Yes, sir.

1338
01:02:33,625 --> 01:02:36,753
Mr. Maryk,
were you panicky at all
during the storm?

1339
01:02:36,795 --> 01:02:38,546
No, I was not.

1340
01:02:38,588 --> 01:02:42,592
Lieutenant, you are charged
with relieving
your captain willfully,

1341
01:02:42,634 --> 01:02:47,430
without authority
and without justifiable cause.

1342
01:02:47,472 --> 01:02:49,432
Did you relieve
Commander Queeg willfully?

1343
01:02:49,474 --> 01:02:52,435
Yes.
I knew what I was doing.

1344
01:02:52,477 --> 01:02:54,729
Did you relieve him
without authority?

1345
01:02:54,771 --> 01:02:57,607
No, my authority is Chapter 11
of Navy Regulations.

1346
01:02:57,649 --> 01:03:00,944
Did you relieve
without justifiable cause?
No.

1347
01:03:00,986 --> 01:03:03,488
My justifiable cause was
the captain's mental breakdown

1348
01:03:03,530 --> 01:03:05,532
at a time when the ship
was in danger.

1349
01:03:05,573 --> 01:03:08,451
Thank you.
No further questions.

1350
01:03:10,078 --> 01:03:13,832
Mr. Maryk,
this amazing interview

1351
01:03:13,873 --> 01:03:17,669
in which the captain offered
to falsify official records,

1352
01:03:17,711 --> 01:03:19,754
were there
any witnesses to it?

1353
01:03:20,630 --> 01:03:22,799
We were alone in his cabin.
No.

1354
01:03:22,841 --> 01:03:25,844
This incident with the mines.
Did anyone else
see these records?

1355
01:03:25,885 --> 01:03:27,971
Which, according to you,
indicated that the   Caine

1356
01:03:28,013 --> 01:03:29,931
had departed
her assigned sweep formation?

1357
01:03:29,973 --> 01:03:32,809
Was there anything
in the records
of the ship's movements

1358
01:03:32,851 --> 01:03:35,395
that would verify
that departure?

1359
01:03:35,437 --> 01:03:37,313
Well, about an hour
after it happened,

1360
01:03:37,355 --> 01:03:40,066
the captain asked
to see the chart,
he took it to his cabin,

1361
01:03:40,108 --> 01:03:42,777
and when I got the log back,
there was no mention
of the incident.

1362
01:03:42,819 --> 01:03:46,239
Right. Then you have
no corroboration
of this story.

1363
01:03:46,281 --> 01:03:48,575
No.
[clears throat]

1364
01:03:48,616 --> 01:03:52,662
Mr. Maryk, who coined
the nickname Old Yellowstain?

1365
01:03:52,704 --> 01:03:55,165
That just sprung
into existence.

1366
01:03:55,206 --> 01:03:57,959
Throughout the ship
or just among
the officers?

1367
01:03:58,001 --> 01:03:59,335
Just among the officers.

1368
01:03:59,377 --> 01:04:01,713
You sure you didn't
coin it yourself?

1369
01:04:01,755 --> 01:04:03,006
I didn't.

1370
01:04:03,882 --> 01:04:08,803
What kind of rating
would you give yourself
for loyalty to your captain?

1371
01:04:08,845 --> 01:04:11,306
I'd say
I was a loyal officer.

1372
01:04:12,265 --> 01:04:15,477
Did you issue
a 72-hour liberty

1373
01:04:15,518 --> 01:04:18,563
to Petty Officer Stilwell
in December

1374
01:04:18,605 --> 01:04:21,649
against your captain's
express instructions?

1375
01:04:21,691 --> 01:04:23,735
Yes.
You call that
a loyal act?

1376
01:04:23,777 --> 01:04:24,819
No.

1377
01:04:24,861 --> 01:04:27,572
Then you admit to
a disloyal act

1378
01:04:27,614 --> 01:04:30,116
in your first days
as executive officer.

1379
01:04:30,158 --> 01:04:31,576
Yes.

1380
01:04:31,618 --> 01:04:35,538
Mr. Maryk, where did you
get your schooling?

1381
01:04:35,580 --> 01:04:37,290
Public schools,
San Francisco.
Okay.

1382
01:04:37,332 --> 01:04:38,958
And San Francisco
State University.

1383
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:41,544
And how were your grades
in elementary school?

1384
01:04:41,586 --> 01:04:43,463
[scoffs]
They were okay.

1385
01:04:43,505 --> 01:04:46,841
Average? Above average?
Below average?

1386
01:04:46,883 --> 01:04:47,884
Average.

1387
01:04:47,926 --> 01:04:50,220
How about your
high school grades?

1388
01:04:50,261 --> 01:04:53,890
Well, I didn't do
so good there.
Uh, below average.

1389
01:04:54,849 --> 01:04:57,227
What kind of courses
did you take in college?

1390
01:04:57,268 --> 01:04:58,394
Business courses.

1391
01:04:58,436 --> 01:05:00,063
Any pre-medical courses?
No.

1392
01:05:00,105 --> 01:05:03,399
Any psychology?
Any psychiatry courses?
No.

1393
01:05:03,441 --> 01:05:05,360
How were your grades
in college?
They--

1394
01:05:05,401 --> 01:05:08,530
I got by.
Below average?

1395
01:05:09,155 --> 01:05:11,282
[Maryk]
Yes.

1396
01:05:11,324 --> 01:05:14,828
[Challee] Where did you
get these ideas
about paranoia?

1397
01:05:14,869 --> 01:05:18,331
Prob-- Well, books.
And, uh... [clears throat]
...a lot of research online.

1398
01:05:18,373 --> 01:05:20,750
Books? What books?
Name the titles.
Which websites?

1399
01:05:20,792 --> 01:05:23,336
They're medical type books
about mental illness,

1400
01:05:23,378 --> 01:05:26,214
and I-I don't remember
the exact names of the sites.

1401
01:05:26,256 --> 01:05:29,676
Oh. Was this
your intellectual hobby,
reading about psychiatry?

1402
01:05:29,717 --> 01:05:31,970
No.
Well, then where did
you get these books?

1403
01:05:32,011 --> 01:05:35,056
Fr-- I borrowed them
from, uh, ships' doctors
here and there.

1404
01:05:35,098 --> 01:05:39,227
[chuckles]
And with your background,
your scholastic record,

1405
01:05:39,269 --> 01:05:43,189
you imagine that you understood
these highly technical
and scientific works?

1406
01:05:43,231 --> 01:05:45,108
I got something out of them.

1407
01:05:45,150 --> 01:05:47,402
What is
a conditioned reflex?

1408
01:05:47,443 --> 01:05:48,945
I don't know.

1409
01:05:48,987 --> 01:05:50,905
What is schizophrenia?

1410
01:05:50,947 --> 01:05:53,074
Uh, I think it's--
it's a mental illness.

1411
01:05:53,116 --> 01:05:54,409
You think so?
Yes.

1412
01:05:54,450 --> 01:05:56,911
What are its symptoms?
I don't know.

1413
01:05:56,953 --> 01:06:00,540
In fact, you don't know
what you're talking about
when you discuss mental illness.

1414
01:06:00,582 --> 01:06:03,877
Is that right?
Well, you know, I never said
I knew much about it.

1415
01:06:03,918 --> 01:06:04,919
[chuckles]

1416
01:06:04,961 --> 01:06:06,504
Have you ever heard
the expression

1417
01:06:06,546 --> 01:06:08,548
that a little learning
is a dangerous thing?

1418
01:06:08,965 --> 01:06:10,592
Yes.

1419
01:06:10,633 --> 01:06:12,719
You had a head full of terms
you didn't understand,

1420
01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:15,263
and on that basis
felt you had the right

1421
01:06:15,305 --> 01:06:17,640
to depose
a commanding officer

1422
01:06:17,682 --> 01:06:19,767
on the grounds
of mental illness.

1423
01:06:19,809 --> 01:06:22,520
Is that right?
I didn't relieve Captain Queeg
because what the book said.

1424
01:06:22,562 --> 01:06:26,816
I relieved him because the ship
was in danger of sinking.
No, never mind the ship.

1425
01:06:26,858 --> 01:06:29,569
We are discussing
your grasp of psychiatry.
Mm-hmm.

1426
01:06:29,611 --> 01:06:34,324
Did you hear the diagnosis
of the qualified psychiatrist
who examined your captain?

1427
01:06:34,365 --> 01:06:36,159
Yes.
And what was
their diagnosis?

1428
01:06:36,201 --> 01:06:38,995
Was he crazy or wasn't he
on December 18th?

1429
01:06:39,037 --> 01:06:40,663
They say he wasn't.

1430
01:06:40,705 --> 01:06:43,249
But you,
with your whining gripes
of strawberries

1431
01:06:43,291 --> 01:06:46,419
and coffee makers,
know better.

1432
01:06:46,461 --> 01:06:50,173
Mr. Maryk, who was
the third ranking officer
on your ship?

1433
01:06:50,215 --> 01:06:51,674
Lieutenant Keefer.

1434
01:06:51,716 --> 01:06:53,760
Was he
a good officer?
Yes.

1435
01:06:53,801 --> 01:06:56,512
Do you consider his mind
as good as yours?

1436
01:06:56,554 --> 01:06:58,932
Yes. Uh, better.
Better.

1437
01:06:58,973 --> 01:07:02,101
Did you show
your medical log to him?
Yes.

1438
01:07:02,143 --> 01:07:05,605
Was he convinced by it
that the captain
was mentally ill?

1439
01:07:06,189 --> 01:07:08,066
No.

1440
01:07:08,107 --> 01:07:10,944
He talked to you
out of trying to have
the captain relieved.

1441
01:07:10,985 --> 01:07:12,028
Yes.

1442
01:07:12,070 --> 01:07:14,030
And yet two weeks later,

1443
01:07:14,072 --> 01:07:17,283
despite the whole weight
of naval discipline,

1444
01:07:17,325 --> 01:07:20,453
despite the arguments
of the next officer
in rank to you,

1445
01:07:20,495 --> 01:07:22,455
a superior intellect,

1446
01:07:22,497 --> 01:07:24,374
despite all this,

1447
01:07:24,415 --> 01:07:27,919
you went ahead
and seized command
of your ship?

1448
01:07:29,337 --> 01:07:31,047
I relieved Captain Queeg

1449
01:07:31,089 --> 01:07:32,966
because he definitely
seemed sick

1450
01:07:33,007 --> 01:07:35,385
on the morning
of the cyclone.

1451
01:07:35,426 --> 01:07:38,680
You still believe
that your diagnosis
of Captain Queeg

1452
01:07:38,721 --> 01:07:40,765
is superior
to the doctors'?

1453
01:07:40,807 --> 01:07:44,060
J-- O-Only about Queeg
on the morning
of the cyclone.

1454
01:07:46,312 --> 01:07:48,064
No more questions.

1455
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:51,943
No re-examination.

1456
01:07:53,319 --> 01:07:54,904
You may step down,
Lieutenant.

1457
01:08:02,787 --> 01:08:05,540
Call
Lieutenant Commander Queeg.

1458
01:08:14,924 --> 01:08:18,469
Commander, you are reminded
that you are still under oath.

1459
01:08:18,511 --> 01:08:20,888
Yes, sir.
Be seated.

1460
01:08:23,349 --> 01:08:25,685
Commander, on the morning
of the 19th December,

1461
01:08:25,727 --> 01:08:28,730
did you have an interview
in your room
with Lieutenant Maryk?

1462
01:08:28,771 --> 01:08:30,106
Well, let's see.

1463
01:08:30,148 --> 01:08:33,026
The 19th,
the day after the storm.

1464
01:08:33,067 --> 01:08:34,319
Yes. Yes, I did.

1465
01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:36,946
Was the interview
at your request?
Yes.

1466
01:08:36,988 --> 01:08:38,948
What was the substance
of the interview?

1467
01:08:38,990 --> 01:08:41,367
Well, as I say,
I felt sorry for him.

1468
01:08:41,409 --> 01:08:43,786
Hated to see him
ruining his life

1469
01:08:43,828 --> 01:08:46,289
over one panicky mistake,

1470
01:08:46,331 --> 01:08:50,543
particularly knowing
that it was his ambition
to make the Navy a career.

1471
01:08:50,585 --> 01:08:53,629
I tried as hard as I could
to show him
what a mistake he had made,

1472
01:08:53,671 --> 01:08:56,090
suggested
he relinquish command
back to me

1473
01:08:56,132 --> 01:08:58,593
and offered to be
as lenient as possible

1474
01:08:58,634 --> 01:09:00,428
when reporting
what had happened.

1475
01:09:00,470 --> 01:09:03,306
You never offered
not to report the incident?
How could I?

1476
01:09:03,348 --> 01:09:06,476
It had already been
recorded in the logs.
Yes.

1477
01:09:06,517 --> 01:09:09,103
Those logs,
were they handwritten,
typed, or what?

1478
01:09:09,145 --> 01:09:10,938
It wouldn't have
made a difference.

1479
01:09:10,980 --> 01:09:13,858
Were they handwritten,
Commander?
Well, probably.

1480
01:09:13,900 --> 01:09:16,069
Quartermasters log, OOD.

1481
01:09:16,110 --> 01:09:18,196
Rough logs
are usually handwritten.

1482
01:09:18,237 --> 01:09:21,574
I can't imagine
that the yeoman had time
to type out smooth logs,

1483
01:09:21,616 --> 01:09:23,409
given all the excitement.

1484
01:09:23,451 --> 01:09:26,120
Did you offer
to alter the logs
and not report the incident?

1485
01:09:26,162 --> 01:09:28,414
No, I did not.
Alterations are not permitted.

1486
01:09:28,456 --> 01:09:30,500
Lieutenant Maryk
testified under oath,
Commander,

1487
01:09:30,541 --> 01:09:32,585
that you made
such an offer.

1488
01:09:32,627 --> 01:09:36,381
Not only that, but you
begged and pleaded with him
to alter the logs,

1489
01:09:36,422 --> 01:09:39,842
in return for which
you promised to hush up
the story completely

1490
01:09:39,884 --> 01:09:41,511
and make no report.

1491
01:09:41,552 --> 01:09:43,221
Well, that's just
not the truth.

1492
01:09:43,262 --> 01:09:45,640
There isn't any truth
in it at all?

1493
01:09:45,681 --> 01:09:48,726
It's a complete distortion
of what I've said.
My version is the exact truth.

1494
01:09:48,768 --> 01:09:51,687
You deny the proposal
to alter the logs
and hush up the story.

1495
01:09:51,729 --> 01:09:53,648
Yes. I deny it completely.

1496
01:09:53,689 --> 01:09:56,484
Th-That's the part
that he's made up,
the crying and the pleading.

1497
01:09:56,526 --> 01:09:57,819
It's fantastic.

1498
01:09:57,860 --> 01:09:59,654
You're accusing Mr. Maryk
of perjury.

1499
01:09:59,695 --> 01:10:01,447
I-I'm not accusing him--

1500
01:10:01,489 --> 01:10:02,824
[laughs]

1501
01:10:02,865 --> 01:10:04,951
He's accused of enough
as it stands.

1502
01:10:04,992 --> 01:10:07,787
I'm just saying you'll hear
a lot of strange things
about me from Maryk.

1503
01:10:07,829 --> 01:10:10,206
Th-That's all I'm saying.

1504
01:10:10,248 --> 01:10:13,543
Isn't it obvious, Commander,
that one of you is not telling
the truth about this meeting?

1505
01:10:13,584 --> 01:10:16,629
Well, it appears so.
Can you prove that
it isn't you?

1506
01:10:16,671 --> 01:10:20,216
Only by citing
a clean record of 21 years
as a naval officer

1507
01:10:20,258 --> 01:10:24,053
over the word of
a man standing trial
for a mutinous act.

1508
01:10:25,763 --> 01:10:30,560
Commander, did you ever
receive $1,000 from
Lieutenant Junior Grade Keith?

1509
01:10:30,601 --> 01:10:32,854
Uh, I don't recall offhand.

1510
01:10:32,895 --> 01:10:35,398
He testified you did.
I did?
On what occasion?

1511
01:10:35,440 --> 01:10:38,901
On the occasion of the loss
of a crate of yours
in the Port of Oman.

1512
01:10:38,943 --> 01:10:41,195
Oh, y-yes. Okay.
[chuckling] I remember that.

1513
01:10:41,237 --> 01:10:43,906
That's over a year ago,
December thereabouts.

1514
01:10:43,948 --> 01:10:46,576
He was responsible
for the loss.

1515
01:10:46,617 --> 01:10:50,246
Well, insisted
on paying for it,
a-a-and so he did.

1516
01:10:50,288 --> 01:10:53,291
And what was in this crate
that cost $1,000?

1517
01:10:53,332 --> 01:10:56,043
Well, uniforms, books,

1518
01:10:56,085 --> 01:10:59,088
n-navigating instruments,
the usual things.

1519
01:10:59,130 --> 01:11:00,923
How was Keith responsible?

1520
01:11:00,965 --> 01:11:03,217
Well, he was the boat officer.
He was responsible for loading.

1521
01:11:03,259 --> 01:11:06,596
He issued foolish,
contradictory orders
that rattled the men.

1522
01:11:06,637 --> 01:11:08,681
They dropped the crate
into the water and it sank.

1523
01:11:08,723 --> 01:11:11,893
A wooden crate,
full of clothes, sank.

1524
01:11:11,934 --> 01:11:14,270
It had other things in it.

1525
01:11:14,312 --> 01:11:16,564
Souvenir coral rocks,
for example.
[chuckles]

1526
01:11:16,606 --> 01:11:20,443
Commander, wasn't the--
the crate entirely full
of bottles of booze?

1527
01:11:20,485 --> 01:11:22,612
Certainly not.

1528
01:11:22,653 --> 01:11:26,782
Lieutenant Keith testified
that he paid you $1,000
for a crate full of liquor.

1529
01:11:26,824 --> 01:11:30,411
Well, you'll hear a lot of
strange distortions from Keith.
A-And from Maryk.

1530
01:11:30,453 --> 01:11:33,789
They're the two culprits here.
They're apt to make all kinds
of strange statements.

1531
01:11:33,831 --> 01:11:35,583
You make this crate
yourself?

1532
01:11:35,625 --> 01:11:38,127
No, a man
from the engine room did.
What's his name?

1533
01:11:38,169 --> 01:11:40,213
I don't recall. It'll be
in the personnel records.

1534
01:11:40,254 --> 01:11:43,049
He's been gone from the ship
for quite some time.
Okay, where is he now?

1535
01:11:43,925 --> 01:11:45,718
Uh, I-I don't know.

1536
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:49,138
Because you don't know
what his name is?
No.

1537
01:11:49,180 --> 01:11:54,185
Was it Engineman Second Class
Otis F. Langhorn, sir?

1538
01:11:54,227 --> 01:11:56,521
L... Langhorn?

1539
01:11:56,562 --> 01:11:57,897
Yes.

1540
01:11:58,523 --> 01:11:59,774
Langhorn, yeah.

1541
01:11:59,815 --> 01:12:01,984
Well, th-that
sounds about right.

1542
01:12:02,026 --> 01:12:06,906
There's an Otis F. Langhorn,
engineman first class,
in transit right now.

1543
01:12:06,948 --> 01:12:09,575
Defense has arranged to
subpoena him if necessary.

1544
01:12:09,617 --> 01:12:11,786
Are you sure
it's the same one?

1545
01:12:11,827 --> 01:12:14,872
Well, it says 20 months
aboard the   Caine.
It's got your signature upon it.

1546
01:12:14,914 --> 01:12:16,749
Would it be useful
to have him called, sir?

1547
01:12:16,791 --> 01:12:19,877
Objection
to this entire irrelevancy
about the crate

1548
01:12:19,919 --> 01:12:22,004
and request it be stricken
from the record.

1549
01:12:22,046 --> 01:12:24,173
The witness's credibility
is being established.

1550
01:12:24,215 --> 01:12:27,760
I put it to the court, sir,
that nothing could be
more relevant to this trial.

1551
01:12:28,719 --> 01:12:30,179
Overruled.

1552
01:12:30,221 --> 01:12:32,598
Court stenographer
will repeat the question.

1553
01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:35,518
[stenographer]
"Would it be useful to
have him subpoenaed, sir?"

1554
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:39,188
Well, the real question is,
which crate
did Langhorn nail up?

1555
01:12:39,230 --> 01:12:41,482
I-I now recall
having two crates.

1556
01:12:41,524 --> 01:12:45,444
Oh, well,
this is new information
not mentioned by Keith.

1557
01:12:45,486 --> 01:12:47,613
Did Langhorn nail up
both crates, sir?

1558
01:12:47,655 --> 01:12:51,492
I-I can't-- I can't recall
if I had two crates
on th-that occasion

1559
01:12:51,534 --> 01:12:54,036
or two crates
on two separate occasions.

1560
01:12:54,078 --> 01:12:58,374
It's been a long time
and I've had a strenuous year
of command from ports of storm.

1561
01:12:58,416 --> 01:13:00,876
I-- I just--
I can't be clear.

1562
01:13:00,918 --> 01:13:04,297
Commander,
there are a number of issues
in this trial

1563
01:13:04,338 --> 01:13:06,257
which turn on
the issue of credibility

1564
01:13:06,299 --> 01:13:08,384
between yourself
and other officers.

1565
01:13:08,426 --> 01:13:11,137
If you wish,
I can request a quick
little five-minute recess

1566
01:13:11,178 --> 01:13:14,432
while you clear your mind
as best you can about
the matter of this crate.

1567
01:13:14,473 --> 01:13:17,518
No, no, that won't be necessary.
Just give me some time to think.

1568
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:19,395
Please.
Please.

1569
01:13:22,148 --> 01:13:23,733
Uh...

1570
01:13:24,775 --> 01:13:26,444
Um...

1571
01:13:27,194 --> 01:13:28,904
Uh...

1572
01:13:29,947 --> 01:13:33,200
Ah, o-okay.
I-I've got it straight now.

1573
01:13:33,242 --> 01:13:35,536
Mm-hmm.
I misspoke.

1574
01:13:35,578 --> 01:13:40,166
Uh, San Diego, 2014,
I lost a crate
in similar circumstances.

1575
01:13:40,207 --> 01:13:42,209
That was the crate
with the clothes in it

1576
01:13:42,251 --> 01:13:46,005
and the crate that Keith lost
did contain liquor.

1577
01:13:46,047 --> 01:13:49,091
Entirely full of liquor.
Well, I suppose so.

1578
01:13:49,133 --> 01:13:51,886
You transported this
on your ship.

1579
01:13:51,927 --> 01:13:53,346
You are aware of
Navy Regulations, sir.

1580
01:13:53,387 --> 01:13:55,431
Of course I'm aware
of regulations.

1581
01:13:55,473 --> 01:13:57,600
Th-The crate was sealed
before I got under way.

1582
01:13:57,642 --> 01:13:59,769
I gave it
the same locked stowage
that I did

1583
01:13:59,810 --> 01:14:02,271
the medicinal brandy,
three years' steady duty.

1584
01:14:02,313 --> 01:14:07,109
I gave myself this leeway
as the captain of the   Caine,
which was a common practice.

1585
01:14:07,151 --> 01:14:11,656
I do believe that rank
has its privileges,
as they say, and, well, uh--

1586
01:14:11,697 --> 01:14:14,575
I-I didn't mean to
conceal it from the court.

1587
01:14:14,617 --> 01:14:16,452
It's not something
I'm ashamed of.

1588
01:14:16,494 --> 01:14:18,996
I just got the two crates
mixed up in my mind.

1589
01:14:19,038 --> 01:14:20,581
Lieutenant Maryk
also testified, sir,

1590
01:14:20,623 --> 01:14:22,458
that you gave
all the orders
to the boat crew

1591
01:14:22,500 --> 01:14:24,251
which resulted
in the loss of the crate.

1592
01:14:24,293 --> 01:14:26,420
[chuckles]
Well, that's a lie.

1593
01:14:26,462 --> 01:14:29,173
And that you refused
to sign his leave papers
until he paid you for that loss.

1594
01:14:29,215 --> 01:14:31,300
[Queeg]
And that is another lie.

1595
01:14:32,760 --> 01:14:35,888
Commander, during the period
when the   Caine
was sweeping for mines

1596
01:14:35,930 --> 01:14:37,640
off the Straits of Hormuz,

1597
01:14:37,682 --> 01:14:39,892
did you steam over
and cut your own tow line?

1598
01:14:39,934 --> 01:14:41,394
[Challee]
Objection!

1599
01:14:41,435 --> 01:14:43,729
This tow line business
is the last straw.

1600
01:14:43,771 --> 01:14:45,981
The tactics
of the defense counsel
are an outrage

1601
01:14:46,023 --> 01:14:47,817
on the dignity
of these proceedings.

1602
01:14:47,858 --> 01:14:49,652
He is systematically
turning this trial

1603
01:14:49,694 --> 01:14:51,737
into a court-martial
of Commander Queeg.

1604
01:14:51,779 --> 01:14:53,322
[Greenwald]
Please the court,

1605
01:14:53,364 --> 01:14:55,324
the trial counsel believes
she has a prima facie case

1606
01:14:55,366 --> 01:14:57,952
based on the report
of two psychiatrists.

1607
01:14:57,993 --> 01:14:59,620
Now, I believe it is
up to the court

1608
01:14:59,662 --> 01:15:02,164
and not
two shore-bound doctors,
however brilliant,

1609
01:15:02,206 --> 01:15:05,418
to decide whether
the captain of the   Caine
was mentally well enough

1610
01:15:05,459 --> 01:15:10,047
to retain his self-control
and his post during a cyclone.

1611
01:15:10,089 --> 01:15:12,049
The objection is overruled.

1612
01:15:12,091 --> 01:15:14,051
The witness
will answer the question.

1613
01:15:14,093 --> 01:15:18,013
Okay, well, here's the story
on that particular slander.

1614
01:15:19,014 --> 01:15:20,808
Stilwell
was a-a-at the helm,

1615
01:15:20,850 --> 01:15:23,269
a dreamy, unreliable man

1616
01:15:23,310 --> 01:15:26,814
who failed to warn me
that we were coming around
the full 360 degrees.

1617
01:15:26,856 --> 01:15:30,109
I was the one who recognized
what was happening,
reversed course immediately.

1618
01:15:30,151 --> 01:15:34,071
We did not go over the tow line.
I-It parted in the tight turn.

1619
01:15:34,113 --> 01:15:37,408
Weren't you reprimanding
a petty officer named Urban
at length

1620
01:15:37,450 --> 01:15:42,496
for having his shirttail out
while your ship was
turning 360 degrees, sir?

1621
01:15:42,538 --> 01:15:44,540
Who told you that?
Keith again?
Answer the question, please.

1622
01:15:44,582 --> 01:15:46,000
It's a malicious lie,
of course.

1623
01:15:46,041 --> 01:15:48,043
Was Urban on the bridge?
Yes.

1624
01:15:48,085 --> 01:15:50,838
Was his shirttail out?
Yes, and I reprimanded him.
Took all of two seconds.

1625
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:52,840
It's not like I dwell
on these sort of things.

1626
01:15:52,882 --> 01:15:54,967
But now that you've brought
the shirttail thing up,

1627
01:15:55,009 --> 01:15:58,888
I'd like to point out
that Ensign Keith,
a department head,

1628
01:15:58,929 --> 01:16:01,557
was responsible
for enforcing
uniform regulations

1629
01:16:01,599 --> 01:16:03,851
and completely screwed
the whole job up.

1630
01:16:03,893 --> 01:16:06,854
When I took over the ship,
it was like some
third-world navy,

1631
01:16:06,896 --> 01:16:09,899
and I bored down on Keith
to look out for things
like shirttails.

1632
01:16:09,940 --> 01:16:13,277
And, well, maybe
that's one of the reasons
that he hates me so much

1633
01:16:13,319 --> 01:16:18,407
and insists on circulating
this nonsense about me
cutting the tow line.

1634
01:16:18,449 --> 01:16:21,202
Did you drop a yellow dye marker
off the Straits of Hormuz?

1635
01:16:21,243 --> 01:16:23,454
No, I, uh-- Maybe.
I-I don't recall.

1636
01:16:23,496 --> 01:16:25,581
Do you recall
what your first mission was?

1637
01:16:25,623 --> 01:16:29,752
Well, uh, to detect
and destroy mines
in the Straits of Hormuz.

1638
01:16:29,794 --> 01:16:31,879
And did you fulfill
that mission?
Yes.

1639
01:16:31,921 --> 01:16:34,340
So why did you drop
the dye marker?
I'm not saying that I did.

1640
01:16:34,381 --> 01:16:37,343
But if I had,
it would have been to mark
a mine that we had detected.

1641
01:16:37,384 --> 01:16:41,388
Commander,
didn't you drop the marker
and retire at high speed,

1642
01:16:41,430 --> 01:16:44,225
taking the   Caine
out of its assigned
sweep pattern?

1643
01:16:44,266 --> 01:16:48,604
Now, didn't you do this
to avoid contact with
a dangerous underwater mine

1644
01:16:48,646 --> 01:16:50,356
and leave it
for another ship
to handle?

1645
01:16:50,397 --> 01:16:52,441
The question is abusive
and flagrantly leading.

1646
01:16:52,483 --> 01:16:56,362
I withdraw my last question
on account of
the witness's dim memory.

1647
01:16:56,403 --> 01:16:58,531
I'll proceed
to more recent events.

1648
01:16:58,572 --> 01:17:01,075
[officer] Court desires
to question the witness.

1649
01:17:01,116 --> 01:17:02,952
Commander Queeg,

1650
01:17:02,993 --> 01:17:05,538
in view of the implications
in this line of testimony,

1651
01:17:05,579 --> 01:17:07,957
I urge you
to search your memory
for correct answers.

1652
01:17:07,998 --> 01:17:10,334
Well, I certainly
am trying, sir.

1653
01:17:10,376 --> 01:17:13,921
These are very fine points,
and I've had a number of arduous
missions since that storm.

1654
01:17:13,963 --> 01:17:17,049
And th-then there's,
well, all of this business.

1655
01:17:17,091 --> 01:17:18,717
I appreciate that.

1656
01:17:18,759 --> 01:17:21,554
But it will facilitate justice
if you can remember enough

1657
01:17:21,595 --> 01:17:24,306
to give a few definite answers
on points of fact.

1658
01:17:24,348 --> 01:17:29,019
First of all, did you depart
your assigned sector
due to equipment problems?

1659
01:17:31,063 --> 01:17:33,482
Yes. Yes.
Okay-- Okay, I-I remember.

1660
01:17:33,524 --> 01:17:35,776
Yes,
that was the case here.

1661
01:17:35,818 --> 01:17:39,822
So you departed the pattern
rather than try to repair
or troubleshoot the equipment?

1662
01:17:39,864 --> 01:17:42,992
But... [scoffs]
...an active mine
had been detected.

1663
01:17:43,033 --> 01:17:47,079
Is that why you dropped
the dye marker?
There was a safety factor.

1664
01:17:47,121 --> 01:17:51,250
Uh, it didn't make sense to me
to try and detonate mines
using defective gear.

1665
01:17:51,292 --> 01:17:54,837
But I wanted every vessel
in the area to know exactly
where that mine was,

1666
01:17:54,879 --> 01:17:56,839
s-so I marked it.

1667
01:17:56,881 --> 01:17:59,341
Now, if I erred on the side
of being overcautious,
well, I-I'm sorry.

1668
01:17:59,383 --> 01:18:03,137
But then again, sir,
I don't think you can err
on the side of safety.

1669
01:18:03,178 --> 01:18:05,055
Did you have the conn?
Well, no.

1670
01:18:05,097 --> 01:18:07,725
A-As I recall,
Maryk was on the conn.

1671
01:18:07,766 --> 01:18:11,186
And I also recall
warning him not to stray
too far out of formation.

1672
01:18:11,228 --> 01:18:16,775
But we did need to leave room
for other ships to come in
and deal with that mine.

1673
01:18:16,817 --> 01:18:19,069
Well, how much room?
I don't remember exactly.

1674
01:18:19,111 --> 01:18:22,740
I-I just know that
we had strayed outside
of our assigned sector,

1675
01:18:22,781 --> 01:18:26,035
and then, well,
I pulled him aside
and admonished him.

1676
01:18:26,076 --> 01:18:29,204
Didn't you direct him
to return to station
immediately?

1677
01:18:29,246 --> 01:18:30,831
Sir, everything
was happening very fast.

1678
01:18:30,873 --> 01:18:33,375
We had to mark the area
and then get out of there

1679
01:18:33,417 --> 01:18:36,337
and make room for other ships
to come into the area,
as I said.

1680
01:18:36,378 --> 01:18:39,089
These are your factual
recollections, Commander?

1681
01:18:39,131 --> 01:18:41,383
Those are the facts, sir.

1682
01:18:43,052 --> 01:18:44,428
Resume your examination.

1683
01:18:44,470 --> 01:18:46,096
Commander,
did you make it a practice

1684
01:18:46,138 --> 01:18:48,807
to retire to your room
during minesweeping operations?

1685
01:18:48,849 --> 01:18:51,727
Well, that's
an insulting question.
The answer is no.

1686
01:18:51,769 --> 01:18:54,104
I had to be on
every side of that bridge
at all times.

1687
01:18:54,146 --> 01:18:59,026
I-I had Maryk as a navigator
and Keith as an officer of
the deck at general quarters.

1688
01:18:59,068 --> 01:19:01,737
Invariably, they'd squirrel
over to the same side
of the bridge

1689
01:19:01,779 --> 01:19:05,157
and I'd have to be captain,
navigator and officer of
the deck all rolled up into one.

1690
01:19:05,199 --> 01:19:07,952
That's why I had to go
from one side of the bridge
to the other all the time.

1691
01:19:07,993 --> 01:19:10,162
And that's the truth.

1692
01:19:10,204 --> 01:19:12,748
I don't care how many damn lies
have been told about me
in this courtroom.

1693
01:19:12,790 --> 01:19:14,959
The court
will question the witness.

1694
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:18,837
Sir, the witness
is obviously and understandably
agitated by this ordeal

1695
01:19:18,879 --> 01:19:21,590
and I request a recess
to give him
a breathing space.

1696
01:19:21,632 --> 01:19:23,884
I'm not agitated
in the least.

1697
01:19:23,926 --> 01:19:26,095
I'm glad to answer
any and all questions.

1698
01:19:26,136 --> 01:19:28,055
[marbles clacking]

1699
01:19:28,097 --> 01:19:31,100
In fact,
I-I demand the opportunity
to set the record straight

1700
01:19:31,141 --> 01:19:35,646
for any derogatory statements
made about me in testimony
that's gone before.

1701
01:19:35,688 --> 01:19:39,233
I didn't make a single mistake
in the 15 months
I was aboard the   Caine,

1702
01:19:39,274 --> 01:19:41,193
and I-I can prove it.

1703
01:19:41,235 --> 01:19:43,529
I've had a spotless record
up until now

1704
01:19:43,570 --> 01:19:45,656
and I don't want it
being discredited

1705
01:19:45,698 --> 01:19:49,451
by these lies and distortions
told by these disloyal officers.

1706
01:19:49,493 --> 01:19:52,663
Commander,
would you like a recess?

1707
01:19:52,705 --> 01:19:53,747
Certainly not.

1708
01:19:53,789 --> 01:19:56,667
In fact, if I had
any say in this,

1709
01:19:56,709 --> 01:19:58,961
I would ask
there be no recess.

1710
01:19:59,003 --> 01:20:02,131
[marbles continue clacking]
[officer]
Very well.

1711
01:20:03,048 --> 01:20:05,175
I simply want to ask,

1712
01:20:05,217 --> 01:20:08,554
if the performance
of these two officers
was so unspeakably bad,

1713
01:20:08,595 --> 01:20:10,389
why did you tolerate it?

1714
01:20:10,431 --> 01:20:13,475
Why didn't you beach them
or rotate them
out of your command?

1715
01:20:15,853 --> 01:20:19,982
Well, this is gonna sound
strange to you, sir, but,

1716
01:20:20,024 --> 01:20:24,778
well, the truth is
I'm-I'm a softhearted man

1717
01:20:24,820 --> 01:20:26,822
and not many people
know that.

1718
01:20:26,864 --> 01:20:29,491
But I wanted to keep
them under-- under eye

1719
01:20:29,533 --> 01:20:32,619
to try and train them up,
make them good officers.

1720
01:20:32,661 --> 01:20:36,665
L-Last thing I wanted to do
was wreck their careers.

1721
01:20:36,707 --> 01:20:41,253
A concern they certainly
didn't share for me.
E-Either one of them.

1722
01:20:44,214 --> 01:20:46,508
Commander, on the morning
of the 18th of December,

1723
01:20:46,550 --> 01:20:48,385
the exact moment
you were relieved of command,

1724
01:20:48,427 --> 01:20:50,012
was the   Caine
in the last extremity?

1725
01:20:50,054 --> 01:20:52,806
Certainly not.
Was it in grave danger
at that moment?

1726
01:20:52,848 --> 01:20:55,517
Absolutely not.
I was in complete control
of the ship.

1727
01:20:55,559 --> 01:20:58,020
And did you inform
any of your other officers
of your intention

1728
01:20:58,062 --> 01:21:00,355
to change course,
come north at ten o'clock,

1729
01:21:00,397 --> 01:21:02,858
15 minutes
after Lieutenant Maryk
relieved you of command?

1730
01:21:02,900 --> 01:21:05,569
Yes, yes.
I made that statement
and that was my intention.

1731
01:21:05,611 --> 01:21:09,448
Then Lieutenant Maryk's decision
to come north was not
a panicky, irrational blunder.

1732
01:21:09,490 --> 01:21:11,950
His panicky blunder
was relieving me.

1733
01:21:11,992 --> 01:21:14,536
I kept him from making
any disastrous mistakes
thereafter.

1734
01:21:14,578 --> 01:21:16,705
I wasn't trying
to vindicate myself.

1735
01:21:16,747 --> 01:21:20,334
Commander, have you seen
Lieutenant Maryk's medical log?

1736
01:21:20,375 --> 01:21:22,377
Yes. [chuckles]

1737
01:21:22,419 --> 01:21:26,006
Yes, I've read
that interesting document.
Yes, sir, I have.

1738
01:21:26,048 --> 01:21:29,051
Biggest conglomeration
of lies and distortions
and half-truths

1739
01:21:29,093 --> 01:21:30,636
I've ever seen.

1740
01:21:30,677 --> 01:21:32,346
But I'm extremely glad
that you've asked

1741
01:21:32,387 --> 01:21:35,182
'cause I wanna
get my side of it
all on the record.

1742
01:21:35,224 --> 01:21:36,642
Please.

1743
01:21:36,683 --> 01:21:39,061
Please give us your version
of any comments

1744
01:21:39,103 --> 01:21:41,063
factually related
to episodes in the log.

1745
01:21:41,105 --> 01:21:43,732
Okay, well,
starting right with
that strawberry business.

1746
01:21:43,774 --> 01:21:45,901
The real truth
is that I was betrayed,

1747
01:21:45,943 --> 01:21:48,028
d-double-crossed
by my executive officer

1748
01:21:48,070 --> 01:21:50,614
and this precious gentleman,
Mr. Keith,

1749
01:21:50,656 --> 01:21:52,574
who between them
corrupted my wardroom

1750
01:21:52,616 --> 01:21:54,618
so I was one man
against the whole ship.

1751
01:21:54,660 --> 01:21:56,578
No support
from my officers, okay?

1752
01:21:56,620 --> 01:21:59,039
[chuckles] Now, you take
that strawberry business.

1753
01:21:59,081 --> 01:22:03,460
Why, if that wasn't a case of
outright conspiracy to protect
a malefactor from justice.

1754
01:22:03,502 --> 01:22:05,712
Maryk carefully leaves out
the little fact

1755
01:22:05,754 --> 01:22:09,216
that I had conclusively proved
by a process of elimination

1756
01:22:09,258 --> 01:22:11,093
that someone
had a key to the fridge.

1757
01:22:11,135 --> 01:22:14,596
Now, he says the messmen
ate the strawberries.

1758
01:22:14,638 --> 01:22:16,598
But if I wanted
to take the trouble,

1759
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:19,476
I could prove to this court
categorically
that they couldn't have.

1760
01:22:19,518 --> 01:22:21,436
I-It's the water business
all over again.

1761
01:22:21,478 --> 01:22:24,439
Like when the crew
was taking showers
seven times a day

1762
01:22:24,481 --> 01:22:28,235
and I tried to initiate
the simplest principles
of water conservation.

1763
01:22:28,277 --> 01:22:30,779
But, oh, no, Mr. Maryk,
the hero of the crew,

1764
01:22:30,821 --> 01:22:33,365
wanted to go right on
coddling them.

1765
01:22:33,407 --> 01:22:36,118
Well, you take
that coffee business.

1766
01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:37,953
Well-- No.

1767
01:22:37,995 --> 01:22:39,788
[laughs]
No. Excuse me.

1768
01:22:39,830 --> 01:22:42,249
Sorry, sir.

1769
01:22:42,291 --> 01:22:44,960
Strawberry thing first.
Okay.

1770
01:22:46,253 --> 01:22:48,463
Everything hinged
on a thorough search
for the key,

1771
01:22:48,505 --> 01:22:52,134
and that's when Maryk
and, as usual, with help
from Mr. Keith, fudged it.

1772
01:22:52,176 --> 01:22:54,845
Went through
a lot of phony motions,
didn't prove anything.

1773
01:22:54,887 --> 01:22:57,514
Like thinking
that the burning out
of the coffee makers,

1774
01:22:57,556 --> 01:22:59,433
which were government property,

1775
01:22:59,474 --> 01:23:01,435
was some kind of joke.

1776
01:23:01,476 --> 01:23:03,979
And that was
the attitude of everybody
from Maryk on down.

1777
01:23:04,021 --> 01:23:06,565
No-- No sense
of responsibility.

1778
01:23:06,607 --> 01:23:09,234
And I kept emphasizing
over and over

1779
01:23:09,276 --> 01:23:12,654
that all of these things
were gonna have to be
accounted for.

1780
01:23:12,696 --> 01:23:14,823
[groans]
It was a constant battle.

1781
01:23:14,865 --> 01:23:16,575
Always--
Always the same thing.

1782
01:23:16,617 --> 01:23:19,369
Maryk and Keith
undermining my authority,
always arguing.

1783
01:23:19,411 --> 01:23:23,832
Now, I wanted--
I wanted to train Keith up
to be a good officer,

1784
01:23:23,874 --> 01:23:26,501
but I was stabbed
in the back by--

1785
01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:31,423
Well...

1786
01:23:32,299 --> 01:23:34,009
[chuckles]

1787
01:23:34,051 --> 01:23:39,014
Well, I-- I think I've covered
that strawberry business.

1788
01:23:39,056 --> 01:23:41,141
And, oh, yes,
the mess account business.

1789
01:23:41,183 --> 01:23:44,811
Well, I had to
watch them like a hawk,
and believe me, I did.

1790
01:23:44,853 --> 01:23:47,356
[chuckles] Didn't sneak
any fast ones by me.

1791
01:23:47,397 --> 01:23:49,358
It wasn't for
a lack of trying.

1792
01:23:49,399 --> 01:23:51,985
Instead of paying attention
to their accounts
and their inventories,

1793
01:23:52,027 --> 01:23:53,862
which I would have to go
over again and again--

1794
01:23:53,904 --> 01:23:56,698
Always a few pennies short
or a couple dollars over.

1795
01:23:56,740 --> 01:24:01,578
But what do they care about
keeping accurate records?
Let the captain worry about it.

1796
01:24:01,620 --> 01:24:03,872
Well, by God, I did.

1797
01:24:03,914 --> 01:24:08,585
I-I defy anyone to find
a single wardroom mess statement
or ship service inventory

1798
01:24:08,627 --> 01:24:11,171
filed aboard the USS   Caine
while I was captain

1799
01:24:11,213 --> 01:24:13,632
that had a mistake
of a single, solitary cent.

1800
01:24:13,674 --> 01:24:18,136
And by that, I mean, I defy
a certified public accountant
to do it. Okay?

1801
01:24:18,178 --> 01:24:19,805
Well, what else?

1802
01:24:19,846 --> 01:24:21,974
[muttering]
There's so much bullshit

1803
01:24:22,015 --> 01:24:25,018
in that precious log
of Mr. Maryk's.

1804
01:24:25,060 --> 01:24:28,522
Oh, yes! [laughs]
Th-The movie business.

1805
01:24:28,563 --> 01:24:30,983
Okay,
no respect for command.

1806
01:24:31,024 --> 01:24:33,443
Th-That was the whole trouble
with that ship.

1807
01:24:33,485 --> 01:24:37,322
The movie operator, who had
a disrespectful manner anyways,

1808
01:24:37,364 --> 01:24:41,410
started the movie
without waiting for the arrival
of the commanding officer.

1809
01:24:41,451 --> 01:24:43,912
Out of that whole ship's crew,
officers and men,

1810
01:24:43,954 --> 01:24:48,750
did one person stand up
and call a halt or even notice
that the captain wasn't present?

1811
01:24:48,792 --> 01:24:51,920
I missed those movies
more than they did.

1812
01:24:52,963 --> 01:24:55,757
I banned them,
and, by God, I'd do it again.

1813
01:24:55,799 --> 01:24:59,344
Wh-What was I supposed to do,
start issuing them all
letters of commendation

1814
01:24:59,386 --> 01:25:02,931
for this gratuitous insult
to the commanding officer?

1815
01:25:02,973 --> 01:25:04,099
[laughs]

1816
01:25:04,141 --> 01:25:06,601
It's not like
I took it personal.

1817
01:25:06,643 --> 01:25:10,105
Uh, it's the principle.
The principle of respect
for the command.

1818
01:25:10,147 --> 01:25:13,942
That principle was dead
when I came aboard that ship
and I brought it to life.

1819
01:25:13,984 --> 01:25:15,986
And I nagged and I bitched
and I hollered,

1820
01:25:16,028 --> 01:25:18,613
and, by God, I made it stick
while I was captain!

1821
01:25:20,157 --> 01:25:22,492
Uh, and as I-- as I say,

1822
01:25:22,534 --> 01:25:24,786
it wasn't
just the coffee makers.

1823
01:25:24,828 --> 01:25:26,496
It was a matter of respect.

1824
01:25:26,538 --> 01:25:29,082
When I ask a sailor a question,
I want a straight answer.

1825
01:25:29,124 --> 01:25:31,335
Nobody's gonna get away
with this shifty evasion,

1826
01:25:31,376 --> 01:25:34,421
if I have to hold
a court of inquiry
for a week.

1827
01:25:34,463 --> 01:25:37,215
What do I care
about strawberries?
It's a question of principle.

1828
01:25:37,257 --> 01:25:39,176
Stealing is stealing.

1829
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:41,636
And on my ship--

1830
01:25:45,682 --> 01:25:49,644
Well, it's not like we got
a lot of nice treats anyway.

1831
01:25:49,686 --> 01:25:53,815
Uh... if we ever did
get something pleasant
once in a blue moon,

1832
01:25:53,857 --> 01:25:55,984
like--
like strawberries, well,

1833
01:25:56,026 --> 01:25:59,071
it was outrageous that
I couldn't have a second helping
if I felt like it.

1834
01:25:59,112 --> 01:26:01,490
I wasn't gonna let them
get away with it, and I didn't.

1835
01:26:01,531 --> 01:26:05,494
By God, I never
let anything like that
happen on that ship again!

1836
01:26:14,336 --> 01:26:16,338
[mutters]

1837
01:26:16,380 --> 01:26:18,215
As I say, I--

1838
01:26:18,256 --> 01:26:19,466
Okay, um...

1839
01:26:20,384 --> 01:26:23,678
H-How many of these things
have I covered?

1840
01:26:23,720 --> 01:26:27,224
I-- I can only roughly
do this by memory.

1841
01:26:27,265 --> 01:26:29,976
If you ask me
specific questions,
I'll--

1842
01:26:30,018 --> 01:26:33,230
I'll tackle those
one by one by one.

1843
01:26:34,439 --> 01:26:36,858
That won't be necessary, sir.

1844
01:26:37,984 --> 01:26:39,986
That was very thorough.

1845
01:26:41,029 --> 01:26:42,531
Thank you.

1846
01:26:47,327 --> 01:26:51,206
I draw
the court's attention
to Exhibit 12.

1847
01:26:54,084 --> 01:26:56,211
Commander, I show you
an authenticated copy

1848
01:26:56,253 --> 01:26:59,131
of a fitness report
that you wrote
for Lieutenant Maryk

1849
01:26:59,172 --> 01:27:01,466
July 1, 2022.

1850
01:27:01,508 --> 01:27:03,885
Do you recognize it
as such?

1851
01:27:06,346 --> 01:27:08,014
Y-Yes.

1852
01:27:08,056 --> 01:27:10,851
And by this time
had the following events
occurred--

1853
01:27:10,892 --> 01:27:14,813
the water shortage,
the coffee maker
investigation,

1854
01:27:14,855 --> 01:27:17,649
the banning of the movies,
the Internet

1855
01:27:17,691 --> 01:27:19,734
and other events?

1856
01:27:21,528 --> 01:27:23,655
Yes, I believe so.

1857
01:27:23,697 --> 01:27:28,910
Please read your comments
on Lieutenant Maryk, July 1.

1858
01:27:29,744 --> 01:27:32,122
Well, n-not being vindictive,

1859
01:27:32,164 --> 01:27:36,460
I-I don't write down
every single, solitary instance.

1860
01:27:36,501 --> 01:27:39,045
A fitness report
goes into a man's record,

1861
01:27:39,087 --> 01:27:42,924
and, well, I've always
tried to go easy on them.

1862
01:27:42,966 --> 01:27:44,968
A-Always have, always will.

1863
01:27:45,010 --> 01:27:46,720
I appreciate that, sir.

1864
01:27:46,761 --> 01:27:48,722
Please read the comments.

1865
01:27:54,603 --> 01:27:56,771
"This officer has,
if anything,

1866
01:27:56,813 --> 01:27:59,941
improved in
his performance of duty

1867
01:27:59,983 --> 01:28:02,944
since the last fitness report.

1868
01:28:03,904 --> 01:28:07,199
He is consistently loyal,
unflagging,

1869
01:28:07,240 --> 01:28:11,620
thorough, courageous
and efficient.

1870
01:28:12,871 --> 01:28:15,207
He is considered at present

1871
01:28:15,248 --> 01:28:19,628
fully qualified for command
of a 1,200-ton MCM.

1872
01:28:21,087 --> 01:28:26,384
His professional determination
and integrity set him apart

1873
01:28:26,426 --> 01:28:30,388
as an outstanding example
for other officers,

1874
01:28:30,430 --> 01:28:32,807
reserve and regular alike.

1875
01:28:37,187 --> 01:28:39,940
He cannot be
too highly commended."

1876
01:28:45,320 --> 01:28:46,863
Thank you.

1877
01:28:48,740 --> 01:28:50,450
No further questions.

1878
01:28:54,829 --> 01:28:56,790
No cross-examination.

1879
01:29:01,127 --> 01:29:03,004
You're excused,
Commander.

1880
01:29:09,135 --> 01:29:10,679
Yes, sir.

1881
01:29:30,198 --> 01:29:32,117
Defense rests.

1882
01:29:34,369 --> 01:29:36,997
Is the trial counsel
ready for summation?

1883
01:29:38,331 --> 01:29:41,001
No summary, sir.
Prosecution rests.

1884
01:29:42,419 --> 01:29:44,212
No argument at all?

1885
01:29:49,968 --> 01:29:52,178
If it please
the court,

1886
01:29:57,434 --> 01:29:59,644
I'm-- I'm at a loss

1887
01:29:59,686 --> 01:30:02,522
to discuss the case
the defense has presented.

1888
01:30:03,565 --> 01:30:05,483
I have nothing to refute.

1889
01:30:05,525 --> 01:30:06,901
It's no case at all.

1890
01:30:06,943 --> 01:30:08,528
It has nothing to do

1891
01:30:08,570 --> 01:30:11,239
with the charge
or the specification.

1892
01:30:13,033 --> 01:30:16,411
The defense counsel's
very first question
in this trial

1893
01:30:17,621 --> 01:30:20,498
was, "Commander, have you
ever heard the expression,

1894
01:30:20,540 --> 01:30:22,917
Old Yellowstain?"

1895
01:30:22,959 --> 01:30:27,047
That was the key
to his entire strategy,

1896
01:30:27,088 --> 01:30:30,008
which was simply to twist
the proceedings around

1897
01:30:30,050 --> 01:30:34,262
so that the accused
would become not Maryk,
but Commander Queeg.

1898
01:30:34,304 --> 01:30:38,016
He has dragged out
every possible vicious

1899
01:30:38,058 --> 01:30:41,936
and malicious criticism
of the commander
from the other witnesses

1900
01:30:41,978 --> 01:30:46,733
and forced Captain Queeg
to defend himself against them
in open court,

1901
01:30:46,775 --> 01:30:48,610
on the spur of the moment,

1902
01:30:48,652 --> 01:30:50,570
without advice of counsel,

1903
01:30:50,612 --> 01:30:53,239
without any
of the normal privileges
and safeguards

1904
01:30:53,281 --> 01:30:56,326
of an accused man
under naval law.

1905
01:30:56,368 --> 01:30:59,788
Can this court possibly
endorse the precedent

1906
01:30:59,829 --> 01:31:04,584
that a captain who doesn't
please his underlings
can be deposed by them?

1907
01:31:04,626 --> 01:31:06,920
And then that the captain's
only recourse afterward

1908
01:31:06,961 --> 01:31:11,800
is to be placed
at a witness stand
in a general court-martial

1909
01:31:11,841 --> 01:31:13,968
to answer
every petty gripe

1910
01:31:14,010 --> 01:31:16,262
and justify
all his command decisions

1911
01:31:16,304 --> 01:31:20,725
to a hostile lawyer
taking the part of
his insubordinate inferiors?

1912
01:31:20,767 --> 01:31:24,646
Such a precedent is nothing
but a blank check for mutiny.

1913
01:31:24,688 --> 01:31:28,233
It is the absolute destruction
of the chain of command.

1914
01:31:30,985 --> 01:31:34,155
However,
all this doesn't worry me.

1915
01:31:35,031 --> 01:31:36,991
I am confident

1916
01:31:37,033 --> 01:31:40,620
that this court
hasn't been impressed
by such aggressive tactics.

1917
01:31:40,662 --> 01:31:43,081
I know that the court
is going to reject

1918
01:31:43,123 --> 01:31:45,333
this cynical play
on its emotions,

1919
01:31:45,375 --> 01:31:50,171
this... insult
to its intelligence,

1920
01:31:50,213 --> 01:31:53,383
and find the specification
proven by the facts.

1921
01:31:55,385 --> 01:31:57,387
I've only this to say.

1922
01:31:58,388 --> 01:32:00,682
Whatever the verdict
on the accused, I--

1923
01:32:01,766 --> 01:32:04,352
I formally recommend
that Defense Counsel Greenwald

1924
01:32:04,394 --> 01:32:06,187
be censured by this court

1925
01:32:06,229 --> 01:32:08,398
for conduct unbecoming
an officer of the Navy

1926
01:32:08,440 --> 01:32:11,568
and that this reprimand
be made part of his record.

1927
01:32:17,532 --> 01:32:20,577
Defense counsel.
Closing argument?

1928
01:32:25,874 --> 01:32:27,208
Please the court,

1929
01:32:28,543 --> 01:32:32,797
I undertook
the defense of the accused
very reluctantly

1930
01:32:32,839 --> 01:32:37,594
and only at the urging of
the judge advocate that no other
defense counsel was available.

1931
01:32:38,553 --> 01:32:40,388
I was reluctant

1932
01:32:40,430 --> 01:32:43,808
because I knew
that the only possible
form of defense

1933
01:32:43,850 --> 01:32:47,812
was to prove
the mental incompetence
of an officer of the Navy.

1934
01:32:47,854 --> 01:32:53,318
It has been
the most unpleasant duty
I have ever had to perform.

1935
01:32:54,319 --> 01:32:57,363
However,
once having undertaken it,

1936
01:32:57,405 --> 01:32:59,532
I have done my best
to win an acquittal.

1937
01:32:59,574 --> 01:33:03,369
I thought this was my duty,
both as defense counsel
appointed by the Navy

1938
01:33:03,411 --> 01:33:06,206
and as a member of the bar.

1939
01:33:07,457 --> 01:33:09,292
Let me make one thing clear.

1940
01:33:09,334 --> 01:33:12,045
It is not the contention
of the defense

1941
01:33:12,086 --> 01:33:14,214
that Commander Queeg
is a coward

1942
01:33:14,255 --> 01:33:19,969
and that therefore,
if he commits questionable acts
under intense fire,

1943
01:33:20,011 --> 01:33:22,889
the explanation
must lie elsewhere.

1944
01:33:22,931 --> 01:33:26,559
The court saw
Commander Queeg's bearing
on the stand.

1945
01:33:26,601 --> 01:33:30,063
The court can imagine
what his bearing
must have been like

1946
01:33:30,104 --> 01:33:32,273
at the height
of the storm.

1947
01:33:32,315 --> 01:33:34,192
And on that basis,

1948
01:33:35,235 --> 01:33:38,446
the court can decide
the fate of the accused.

1949
01:33:44,619 --> 01:33:46,538
[exhales]

1950
01:33:47,622 --> 01:33:49,874
Before recessing,

1951
01:33:49,916 --> 01:33:52,460
the court will rule
on the recommendation
to censure you.

1952
01:33:56,673 --> 01:33:58,132
Yes, sir.

1953
01:34:00,635 --> 01:34:04,597
This has been a strange
and tragic trial.

1954
01:34:05,682 --> 01:34:08,268
In the 248-year history
of the Navy,

1955
01:34:08,309 --> 01:34:11,479
there has been only
one other attempted mutiny.

1956
01:34:13,356 --> 01:34:16,776
You have conducted your case
with striking ingenuity.

1957
01:34:18,570 --> 01:34:20,321
But your conduct
has been puzzling

1958
01:34:20,363 --> 01:34:22,490
and it does raise questions.

1959
01:34:23,491 --> 01:34:25,743
Has your conduct here
been responsible,

1960
01:34:25,785 --> 01:34:27,495
Lieutenant Greenwald?

1961
01:34:28,788 --> 01:34:30,415
[sighs]

1962
01:34:30,456 --> 01:34:33,209
The reprimand,
if there is to be one,

1963
01:34:33,251 --> 01:34:36,379
must come
from your own conscience.

1964
01:34:38,506 --> 01:34:42,343
Court finds defense counsel
has not been in contempt.

1965
01:34:42,385 --> 01:34:45,305
Recommendation to reprimand
denied.

1966
01:34:45,346 --> 01:34:48,141
Court stands in recess
until further notice.

1967
01:34:48,182 --> 01:34:49,851
[gavel raps]

1968
01:34:54,480 --> 01:34:57,692
What happens now?
Well, that's
the ball game.

1969
01:34:58,818 --> 01:35:00,194
And when do we find out?

1970
01:35:00,236 --> 01:35:02,030
If it's an acquittal,
soon.

1971
01:35:02,071 --> 01:35:05,533
If not, well,
they won't publish
their findings for weeks.

1972
01:35:05,575 --> 01:35:07,035
Okay.

1973
01:35:08,036 --> 01:35:09,787
You were terrific.

1974
01:35:09,829 --> 01:35:11,664
Thanks.

1975
01:35:14,125 --> 01:35:16,377
You murdered Queeg
up there.

1976
01:35:16,961 --> 01:35:19,255
Yes, I murdered him.

1977
01:35:24,010 --> 01:35:27,680
I'm grateful to you,
win or lose.

1978
01:35:32,477 --> 01:35:33,770
Okay.

1979
01:35:36,522 --> 01:35:38,524
What's wrong?
Not a thing.

1980
01:35:38,566 --> 01:35:41,152
Well, look, I need to
ask you something.

1981
01:35:41,194 --> 01:35:43,279
What now? Hmm?

1982
01:35:44,948 --> 01:35:47,742
Tom Keefer's having a party
tonight at the hotel.

1983
01:35:47,784 --> 01:35:50,745
This morning
he got a $10,000 advance
on his novel.

1984
01:35:50,787 --> 01:35:53,081
Well, I hope he sells
a million copies,

1985
01:35:53,122 --> 01:35:56,417
wins the Nobel Prize,
the Pulitzer Prize,
the Medal of Honor.

1986
01:35:56,459 --> 01:35:59,087
Wrap this whole thing up
in a nice, pink ribbon.

1987
01:35:59,128 --> 01:36:00,838
We're both invited.

1988
01:36:03,216 --> 01:36:04,759
What?

1989
01:36:05,843 --> 01:36:08,471
Look, I know what
you probably think.

1990
01:36:08,513 --> 01:36:11,182
But one way or another,
it's over.

1991
01:36:11,224 --> 01:36:14,268
I don't know
what I would have done
in Tom's place.

1992
01:36:14,310 --> 01:36:16,437
You'd go
to Keefer's party.

1993
01:36:17,605 --> 01:36:20,775
I'll go if you will,
if you think we should.

1994
01:36:33,204 --> 01:36:37,750
[pop music
playing on speakers]

1995
01:36:43,131 --> 01:36:45,758
Oh!
[cheering]

1996
01:36:53,307 --> 01:36:55,601
All right, quiet, quiet!

1997
01:36:55,643 --> 01:36:56,728
[whistles]

1998
01:36:56,769 --> 01:36:59,731
Quiet, you drunken bums
of the   Caine!

1999
01:36:59,772 --> 01:37:03,901
Here he is,
the guest of honor,
our courageous hero.

2000
01:37:03,943 --> 01:37:05,069
Hey!
Whoo!

2001
01:37:05,111 --> 01:37:07,113
Speech!
Speech, speech, speech!

2002
01:37:07,155 --> 01:37:10,450
[all chanting]
Speech! Speech! Speech!
No, no, no, no.

2003
01:37:10,491 --> 01:37:13,828
No, no, no, no, no, no!
Come on, Barney!

2004
01:37:13,870 --> 01:37:16,873
No, I-I-I'm drunker
than any of you guys.
[laughing]

2005
01:37:16,914 --> 01:37:19,042
I've been out
with the trial counsel,

2006
01:37:19,083 --> 01:37:22,045
trying to get her to take back
some of the dirty names
she called me.

2007
01:37:22,086 --> 01:37:24,338
[all chuckle]

2008
01:37:24,380 --> 01:37:27,842
I finally got her to shake hands
on the third bourbon and soda,
maybe the fourth.

2009
01:37:27,884 --> 01:37:30,928
That's good. That's good.
I had to talk loud and fast,
Steve.

2010
01:37:30,970 --> 01:37:34,307
I played some pretty
dirty pool in court.
Well...

2011
01:37:34,348 --> 01:37:36,100
Poor Katherine Challee, huh?
Yeah.

2012
01:37:36,142 --> 01:37:38,352
Mmm. So what's this?

2013
01:37:38,394 --> 01:37:40,396
[Maryk] Oh, it's
a double celebration.

2014
01:37:40,438 --> 01:37:41,981
[Greenwald]
A cake baked like a book.

2015
01:37:42,023 --> 01:37:44,233
$10,000
came in the mail today.
Advance on my novel.

2016
01:37:44,275 --> 01:37:46,235
[all cheering]

2017
01:37:46,277 --> 01:37:48,446
Very nice.
Very nice.

2018
01:37:48,488 --> 01:37:49,906
I got something
in the mail today too.

2019
01:37:49,947 --> 01:37:52,617
What's that, Barney?
Medical clearance.

2020
01:37:52,658 --> 01:37:55,203
Orders back to my ship.
Leaving tomorrow.

2021
01:37:55,244 --> 01:37:56,370
[all cheering]

2022
01:37:56,412 --> 01:37:58,956
Good.
Hey, that's great.

2023
01:38:01,084 --> 01:38:02,376
Ten thousand bucks,
huh?

2024
01:38:02,418 --> 01:38:04,420
[whistles]

2025
01:38:05,588 --> 01:38:07,006
You know,
maybe I should

2026
01:38:07,048 --> 01:38:09,592
return
the celebrated author's
toast.

2027
01:38:09,634 --> 01:38:11,260
Yes!
A little, little speech.

2028
01:38:11,302 --> 01:38:13,888
All right, all right, all right.
Here we go, here we go.

2029
01:38:13,930 --> 01:38:15,515
Okay.
[chuckles]

2030
01:38:15,556 --> 01:38:18,017
Uh, war novel, isn't it?
That's right.

2031
01:38:18,059 --> 01:38:20,937
I assume you gave the Navy
a good screwing, yeah?

2032
01:38:20,978 --> 01:38:22,980
Yeah?
[all laughing]

2033
01:38:23,022 --> 01:38:25,358
I don't think
that Navy Public Affairs
would approve it at any rate.

2034
01:38:25,399 --> 01:38:28,569
Well, somebody
should show up these stupid,
stuffy old pricks, huh?

2035
01:38:28,611 --> 01:38:31,155
Yeah!
Who's the hero, you?

2036
01:38:31,197 --> 01:38:34,158
If there's any similarities,
it is purely coincidental.

2037
01:38:34,200 --> 01:38:36,369
[crowd chuckles]

2038
01:38:36,410 --> 01:38:39,372
Okay, I'm warped
and I'm drunk.

2039
01:38:40,790 --> 01:38:43,751
But it suddenly seems to me,
if I wrote a war novel,

2040
01:38:43,793 --> 01:38:46,587
I would try to make a hero
out of Old Yellowstain.

2041
01:38:46,629 --> 01:38:48,506
Mmm.
Oh, come on.

2042
01:38:48,548 --> 01:38:49,966
That's right, I would.
No. No.

2043
01:38:50,007 --> 01:38:52,426
No, I would.
And I'll tell you why.

2044
01:38:53,636 --> 01:38:56,305
You see, Mr. Keefer,
while I was studying law

2045
01:38:56,347 --> 01:38:58,015
and you were
writing short stories,

2046
01:38:58,057 --> 01:39:00,768
and Willie Keith
was playing on the fields
of Princeton,

2047
01:39:00,810 --> 01:39:04,021
why, all that time,
these--

2048
01:39:04,063 --> 01:39:06,899
these old birds
we call regulars,
these stupid, stuffy pricks,

2049
01:39:06,941 --> 01:39:08,693
were standing guard

2050
01:39:08,734 --> 01:39:12,947
on our fat, dumb
and happy country.

2051
01:39:13,948 --> 01:39:16,450
Of course, they were
doing it for dough.

2052
01:39:16,492 --> 01:39:18,452
Same as anybody does anything.

2053
01:39:19,453 --> 01:39:23,082
But the question is,
in the last analysis...

2054
01:39:24,208 --> 01:39:26,669
I mean,
what do you do for dough?
You and me.

2055
01:39:26,711 --> 01:39:30,464
We're advancing
our free little careers.

2056
01:39:31,924 --> 01:39:36,220
So when 9/11 happened
and so many of us
rushed to join up

2057
01:39:36,262 --> 01:39:40,600
to fight those assholes
that crashed those planes
into the Twin Towers...

2058
01:39:42,351 --> 01:39:45,396
You couldn't fight them
with a law book,
so I-- I went active.

2059
01:39:45,438 --> 01:39:47,023
I joined the Navy.

2060
01:39:48,357 --> 01:39:50,109
Maybe I'd fly over
the Middle East

2061
01:39:50,151 --> 01:39:52,153
and bomb the shit
out of some terrorists,
right?

2062
01:39:52,195 --> 01:39:54,363
Whoo!
[crowd chuckling]

2063
01:39:54,405 --> 01:39:58,951
But there were already
a lot of guys
ready to do that.

2064
01:40:00,286 --> 01:40:02,580
And it wasn't me.
Not yet.

2065
01:40:02,622 --> 01:40:05,082
Wasn't Tom Keefer,
still in school,

2066
01:40:05,124 --> 01:40:07,793
or Willie Keith
in midshipman training,

2067
01:40:07,835 --> 01:40:11,714
but Old Yellowstain
and guys like him.

2068
01:40:12,798 --> 01:40:15,384
They were already on station,
ready to go.

2069
01:40:16,552 --> 01:40:18,346
And they're a lot smarter
than any of us.

2070
01:40:18,387 --> 01:40:21,015
I mean, let's-- Come on.
Let's not kid ourselves.

2071
01:40:21,057 --> 01:40:25,436
I mean, you don't get anywhere
in the all-volunteer,
upwardly mobile American Navy

2072
01:40:25,478 --> 01:40:27,271
unless you're goddamn good.

2073
01:40:28,814 --> 01:40:31,859
And these old-line pros,
they may not be up
on the latest video game,

2074
01:40:31,901 --> 01:40:34,362
but they know how
to get a tough job done.

2075
01:40:35,488 --> 01:40:39,158
And they were standing by,
and they were ready to do it,

2076
01:40:39,200 --> 01:40:41,744
while the rest of us
were still trying to
know shit from Shinola.

2077
01:40:41,786 --> 01:40:44,705
Barney. Hey, Barney.
It's over.

2078
01:40:44,747 --> 01:40:46,707
All right? Come on.
Let's just enjoy dinner.

2079
01:40:46,749 --> 01:40:49,210
Dinner's a sham, Steve.
You're guilty.

2080
01:40:50,753 --> 01:40:53,381
Of course,
you're only half guilty.

2081
01:40:53,422 --> 01:40:56,884
I mean, there was someone else
standing very neatly
out of the picture,

2082
01:40:57,802 --> 01:40:59,720
the guy who started
the whole idea

2083
01:40:59,762 --> 01:41:01,514
that Queeg's
a dangerous paranoiac,

2084
01:41:01,555 --> 01:41:04,058
who argued you into it
for six months,

2085
01:41:04,100 --> 01:41:06,727
who coined the nickname
Old Yellowstain,

2086
01:41:06,769 --> 01:41:10,815
who pointed out the psychiatry
books and Article 1108
and kept hammering it at you.

2087
01:41:10,856 --> 01:41:12,358
All right,
wait a minute here.

2088
01:41:12,400 --> 01:41:15,528
Oh, yeah, yeah, Mr. Keefer.
That's right, yeah.

2089
01:41:16,362 --> 01:41:18,489
I had to drag it
out of Steve.

2090
01:41:18,531 --> 01:41:21,701
Big dumb Polack
tried to tell me
it was all his own idea.

2091
01:41:21,742 --> 01:41:25,663
He wouldn't know a paranoid
from an anthropoid.
But you knew, didn't you?

2092
01:41:25,705 --> 01:41:31,252
You told him his medical log
was a clinical picture
of a paranoid.

2093
01:41:31,294 --> 01:41:34,588
You advised him
to go to Admiral Williams.
You offered to go with him.

2094
01:41:34,630 --> 01:41:39,093
You didn't get cold feet
until you stood on Williams's
quarterdeck in Bahrain.

2095
01:41:39,135 --> 01:41:41,721
Yeah, and then you ducked,
and you've been ducking
ever since.

2096
01:41:41,762 --> 01:41:43,597
I don't know
where you're
getting all this.

2097
01:41:43,639 --> 01:41:45,725
Biggest favor
you could have done Steve,

2098
01:41:45,766 --> 01:41:47,727
as far as winning
an acquittal went,

2099
01:41:47,768 --> 01:41:49,729
though I doubt
you realize it.

2100
01:41:51,939 --> 01:41:54,859
But if there is
a guilty party,
it's you.

2101
01:41:56,319 --> 01:41:59,780
If you hadn't filled
Steve Maryk's thick head

2102
01:41:59,822 --> 01:42:01,449
full of paranoia
and Article 1108,

2103
01:42:01,490 --> 01:42:05,286
why, he'd have--
he'd have got Queeg
to come north.

2104
01:42:05,328 --> 01:42:08,956
Or he'd have helped him
pull through to the south.

2105
01:42:10,291 --> 01:42:12,960
And the   Caine   wouldn't have
been yanked out of action.

2106
01:42:13,002 --> 01:42:14,754
And that--

2107
01:42:14,795 --> 01:42:17,631
that is your contribution

2108
01:42:17,673 --> 01:42:19,967
to the good old USA,
my friend--

2109
01:42:20,009 --> 01:42:23,471
pulling a minesweeper
out of the Persian Gulf
when it was most needed.

2110
01:42:23,512 --> 01:42:26,265
That-- That...
[laughs] ...and fucking
Multitudes, Multitudes.

2111
01:42:26,307 --> 01:42:27,475
You're drunk.

2112
01:42:27,516 --> 01:42:29,226
You know, excuse me, okay?

2113
01:42:29,268 --> 01:42:30,728
I'm all done.

2114
01:42:31,645 --> 01:42:33,564
You know, here's to you.

2115
01:42:33,606 --> 01:42:36,484
You bowled a perfect score.
You went after Queeg,
and you got him.

2116
01:42:36,525 --> 01:42:39,320
You kept your own whites
all starchy,

2117
01:42:39,362 --> 01:42:41,781
and you wrote your novel
proving the Navy sucks,

2118
01:42:41,822 --> 01:42:45,326
and you'll say, oh, you know,
you'll make a million dollars,
marry a movie star.

2119
01:42:45,368 --> 01:42:47,745
And so you won't mind
a little verbal reprimand
from me.

2120
01:42:47,787 --> 01:42:49,705
What does it all mean?
Hmm?

2121
01:42:50,539 --> 01:42:52,166
You know,
I-I defended Steve Maryk

2122
01:42:52,208 --> 01:42:56,670
because I realized
the wrong guy was on trial.

2123
01:42:56,712 --> 01:42:59,673
And the only way
I could defend him
was to murder Queeg for you.

2124
01:42:59,715 --> 01:43:04,595
And I'm pissed off
that I was put in that position.
I'm ashamed of what I did.

2125
01:43:05,513 --> 01:43:07,681
And that's why I'm drunk.

2126
01:43:08,891 --> 01:43:10,893
Queeg deserved better.

2127
01:43:14,271 --> 01:43:16,982
He served this country
for 21 years.

2128
01:43:20,111 --> 01:43:22,822
So I'm not gonna
eat your dinner,

2129
01:43:23,823 --> 01:43:25,699
drink your wine.

2130
01:43:27,159 --> 01:43:29,578
I'll make my toast
and go.

2131
01:43:32,581 --> 01:43:33,958
So here's to you.

2132
01:43:33,999 --> 01:43:36,210
Here's to   Caine's
favorite author.

2133
01:43:37,586 --> 01:43:39,255
Here's to your book.

2134
01:43:43,175 --> 01:43:45,594
[all gasping]

2135
01:43:47,430 --> 01:43:50,724
["Lowdown" playing]

2136
01:44:13,539 --> 01:44:17,835
Baby's into runnin' round
Hangin' with the crowd

2137
01:44:17,877 --> 01:44:19,837
Puttin' your business
In the street

2138
01:44:19,879 --> 01:44:21,881
Talkin' out loud

2139
01:44:21,922 --> 01:44:24,133
Sayin' you bought her
This and that

2140
01:44:24,175 --> 01:44:26,135
And how much you done spent

2141
01:44:26,177 --> 01:44:30,139
I swear she must believe
It's all heaven sent

2142
01:44:30,181 --> 01:44:31,932
Hey, boy

2143
01:44:31,974 --> 01:44:34,518
You better bring
Your chick around

2144
01:44:34,560 --> 01:44:36,604
To the sad, sad truth

2145
01:44:36,645 --> 01:44:38,772
The dirty lowdown

2146
01:44:38,814 --> 01:44:42,443
[backup singers vocalizing]

2147
01:44:42,485 --> 01:44:46,113
I wonder, wonder
Wonder, wonder who

2148
01:44:46,155 --> 01:44:48,866
Taught her how
To talk like that

2149
01:44:50,493 --> 01:44:53,621
I wonder, wonder
Wonder, wonder who

2150
01:44:53,662 --> 01:44:56,123
Gave her that big idea

2151
01:45:03,589 --> 01:45:07,760
Nothin' you can't handle
Nothin' you ain't got

2152
01:45:07,801 --> 01:45:11,972
Put your money on the table
And drive it off the lot

2153
01:45:12,014 --> 01:45:13,891
Turn on that old love light

2154
01:45:13,933 --> 01:45:16,143
And turn a "Maybe"
To a "Yes"

2155
01:45:16,185 --> 01:45:19,730
Same old schoolboy game
Got you into this mess

2156
01:45:19,772 --> 01:45:22,107
Hey, son

2157
01:45:22,149 --> 01:45:24,193
Better get on back to town

2158
01:45:24,235 --> 01:45:26,654
Face the sad old truth

2159
01:45:26,695 --> 01:45:29,031
The dirty lowdown

2160
01:45:29,073 --> 01:45:32,368
[backup singers vocalizing]

2161
01:45:32,409 --> 01:45:35,871
I wonder, wonder
Wonder, wonder who

2162
01:45:35,913 --> 01:45:38,832
Put those ideas
In your head

2163
01:45:40,876 --> 01:45:44,713
I wonder, wonder
Wonder, wonder who

2164
01:45:54,890 --> 01:45:56,934
Well

2165
01:46:03,065 --> 01:46:06,026
Come on back down
Little son

2166
01:46:06,068 --> 01:46:12,116
Dig the low, low
Low, low, lowdown

2167
01:46:26,589 --> 01:46:30,843
You ain't got to be so bad
Got to be so cold

2168
01:46:30,884 --> 01:46:35,180
This dog eat dog existence
Sure is getting old

2169
01:46:35,222 --> 01:46:39,184
Gotta have a jones for this
Jones for that

2170
01:46:39,226 --> 01:46:41,103
This runnin'
With the Joneses

2171
01:46:41,145 --> 01:46:44,982
Boy, just ain't
Where it's at, no, no

2172
01:46:45,024 --> 01:46:47,318
You gonna come back around

2173
01:46:47,359 --> 01:46:49,820
To the sad, sad truth

2174
01:46:49,862 --> 01:46:52,156
The dirty lowdown

2175
01:46:52,197 --> 01:46:55,409
[backup singers vocalizing]

2176
01:46:55,451 --> 01:46:58,829
I wonder, wonder
Wonder, wonder who

2177
01:46:58,871 --> 01:47:01,999
Got you thinking
Like that, boy

2178
01:47:03,626 --> 01:47:08,047
I wonder, wonder
Wonder, wonder who

2179
01:47:24,355 --> 01:47:28,317
I wonder, wonder
Wonder, wonder who

2180
01:47:28,359 --> 01:47:32,321
Said I wonder, wonder
Wonder, wonder who

2181
01:47:33,364 --> 01:47:37,034
Oh, look out
For that lowdown

2182
01:47:37,076 --> 01:47:39,036
I wonder, wonder
Wonder, wonder who

2183
01:47:39,078 --> 01:47:43,582
That dirty, dirty
Dirty, dirty lowdown

2184
01:47:45,084 --> 01:47:49,588
I wonder, wonder
Wonder, wonder who

2185
01:47:49,630 --> 01:47:53,092
[vocalizing]

2186
01:47:53,133 --> 01:47:56,804
I wonder, wonder
Wonder, wonder who

2187
01:47:56,845 --> 01:47:58,972
Got you thinkin' like that

2188
01:47:59,014 --> 01:48:02,309
Got you thinkin'
By yourself

2189
01:48:02,351 --> 01:48:04,770
Lookin' that girl
In the face

2190
01:48:04,812 --> 01:48:06,939
It's a sad affair

2191
01:48:06,980 --> 01:48:09,608
Ashamed of yourself

2192
01:48:09,650 --> 01:48:14,071
I wonder, wonder
Wonder, wonder who