1 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,790 Good evening. 2 00:00:28,820 --> 00:00:31,960 This object, which looks like a gentleman 3 00:00:31,990 --> 00:00:36,160 who innocently wandered into a Red Cross bandaging class, 4 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,100 is a mummy. 5 00:00:38,130 --> 00:00:42,440 This particular one is an Egyptian pharaoh 6 00:00:42,470 --> 00:00:45,670 and was buried with all his wives. 7 00:00:45,710 --> 00:00:49,010 A rather extreme example of togetherness. 8 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:52,180 A few of his more progressive colleagues 9 00:00:52,210 --> 00:00:54,580 subscribed to this custom 10 00:00:54,620 --> 00:00:56,820 but with a difference-- 11 00:00:56,850 --> 00:00:59,850 they buried their wives first, 12 00:00:59,890 --> 00:01:03,530 promising to follow at their earliest convenience. 13 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:05,690 Appropriately enough, 14 00:01:05,730 --> 00:01:08,730 the title of tonight’s theater piece is 15 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:10,570 "Museum Piece." 16 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,400 First, however, we have an item with no title 17 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,300 but, perhaps after watching it, 18 00:01:16,340 --> 00:01:18,710 you can think of a name to call it. 19 00:01:35,660 --> 00:01:38,860 [man] As near as we can tell, this skull belonged to a civilization 20 00:01:38,890 --> 00:01:43,230 here in the Southwest that we call Proto-Pueblo. 21 00:01:43,260 --> 00:01:47,270 Now, one of its marks, as you see, is a flattening of the head at the rear, 22 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:50,710 caused by strapping the baby onto a cradle board 23 00:01:50,740 --> 00:01:53,810 before the skull was completely calcified. 24 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,110 Let’s compare him with a modern male Caucasian. 25 00:01:58,980 --> 00:02:03,820 You see, his head is not flattened in the back at all. 26 00:02:03,850 --> 00:02:06,920 Now, this is, essentially, a present-day American 27 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,820 -very much like you and I. -[laughter] 28 00:02:09,860 --> 00:02:12,360 -Grim thought, isn’t it? -[laughs] 29 00:02:12,390 --> 00:02:15,060 Well, that concludes the tour, ladies and gentlemen. 30 00:02:15,060 --> 00:02:18,470 It’s about time to close anyway. 31 00:02:18,500 --> 00:02:20,940 [chattering] 32 00:02:20,970 --> 00:02:23,070 -[guide] You’re welcome. -[man] Thank you, very much. 33 00:02:23,070 --> 00:02:26,540 Do come again, we’re getting in new things all the time. 34 00:02:26,570 --> 00:02:28,910 -[man] Excellent. -[guide] Good day. 35 00:02:28,940 --> 00:02:31,810 -[visitor] Thank you very much. -[guide] Thank you for coming. 36 00:02:58,470 --> 00:03:00,740 -Don’t let me keep you. -Not at all! 37 00:03:00,780 --> 00:03:03,480 -I’ll be leaving in a minute. -Take your time. 38 00:03:03,510 --> 00:03:06,780 These knives fascinate me. Obsidian, aren’t they? 39 00:03:06,820 --> 00:03:10,090 That’s right. Purely utilitarian, for skinning hides, 40 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,250 fleshing hides, so on, that kind of thing. 41 00:03:12,290 --> 00:03:15,390 But made by totally different men. 42 00:03:15,420 --> 00:03:18,230 This man was down-to-earth, practical. 43 00:03:18,260 --> 00:03:22,430 But this fellow was sensitive, an artist. 44 00:03:22,460 --> 00:03:25,430 But the two men are about a thousand years apart in time. 45 00:03:25,470 --> 00:03:27,740 [chuckles] Makes no difference. 46 00:03:27,770 --> 00:03:29,240 Men haven’t changed. 47 00:03:30,970 --> 00:03:34,910 In my field, we try to diagnose the psyche of ancient man 48 00:03:34,940 --> 00:03:36,440 from his possessions. 49 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:37,910 You see, 50 00:03:37,950 --> 00:03:40,450 the thing you fellows overlook in your collecting 51 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:42,780 is the internal chemistry 52 00:03:42,820 --> 00:03:44,650 of the men who made these things. 53 00:03:44,690 --> 00:03:45,720 [rattle] 54 00:03:45,750 --> 00:03:48,160 What is your field, Mr... 55 00:03:48,190 --> 00:03:49,790 Clovis, Newton B. Clovis. 56 00:03:49,820 --> 00:03:51,390 I’m an archeo-psychologist. 57 00:03:51,430 --> 00:03:52,790 Dear me. 58 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:58,000 Even a man’s bones have something to say. 59 00:03:58,100 --> 00:03:59,600 What, for instance? 60 00:03:59,630 --> 00:04:01,940 Well, from the shape of this skull... 61 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:03,770 rather intelligent man, 62 00:04:03,810 --> 00:04:05,470 athletic at one time. 63 00:04:05,510 --> 00:04:08,480 -Athletic? -A skier. 64 00:04:08,510 --> 00:04:11,050 Break in the leg just above the ankle. 65 00:04:11,050 --> 00:04:12,380 Typical ski injury. 66 00:04:12,410 --> 00:04:14,580 [tap] 67 00:04:14,620 --> 00:04:17,350 -You too? -Double spiral fracture. 68 00:04:17,390 --> 00:04:19,590 Made my leg an inch and a half shorter. 69 00:04:19,620 --> 00:04:22,260 Oh, but this man was a football player. 70 00:04:22,290 --> 00:04:24,230 Just a guess, of course. 71 00:04:25,590 --> 00:04:27,130 You mean you knew him? 72 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,360 Yes, I did. Very well. 73 00:04:31,670 --> 00:04:34,170 Died not too old. 74 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:35,440 Many years ago? 75 00:04:35,470 --> 00:04:37,070 Many years ago. 76 00:04:38,810 --> 00:04:40,940 Modern medicine might have saved him. 77 00:04:40,980 --> 00:04:43,080 No. 78 00:04:43,110 --> 00:04:44,950 No medicine would have saved this man. 79 00:04:47,150 --> 00:04:48,780 Mr. Clovis, 80 00:04:48,820 --> 00:04:51,190 how’d you like to join me in a drink before dinner? 81 00:04:51,220 --> 00:04:53,220 Delighted. 82 00:04:53,250 --> 00:04:54,490 After you. 83 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,120 Thank you. 84 00:05:02,630 --> 00:05:06,430 You say you can diagnose ancient man from his possessions, Mr. Clovis, 85 00:05:06,470 --> 00:05:07,800 how about modern man? 86 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:09,170 Who would that be? 87 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:11,410 The man all these things belonged to. 88 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:13,640 There’s a bucket more of these in this pitcher. 89 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,240 -Cheers. -Cheers. 90 00:05:16,280 --> 00:05:18,580 Falco mexicanus, Prairie Falcon. 91 00:05:18,610 --> 00:05:21,380 He tried to gentle him, kept him in a cage. 92 00:05:21,420 --> 00:05:22,780 Wouldn’t do. 93 00:05:22,820 --> 00:05:25,350 Some things you can’t keep in a cage. 94 00:05:25,390 --> 00:05:27,360 Everything in this room was his? 95 00:05:27,390 --> 00:05:30,330 Just about. 96 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:31,560 Boy Scouts? 97 00:05:31,590 --> 00:05:32,830 Merit badges. 98 00:05:32,860 --> 00:05:34,600 Over 30 of them. 99 00:05:37,330 --> 00:05:38,970 Birds nests. 100 00:05:41,770 --> 00:05:43,100 But no eggs! 101 00:05:43,140 --> 00:05:44,870 He didn’t believe in collecting eggs. 102 00:05:44,910 --> 00:05:46,340 No heart for it. 103 00:05:46,370 --> 00:05:48,610 He could take the nests after the little ones were gone. 104 00:05:56,380 --> 00:05:57,490 Fox? 105 00:05:57,520 --> 00:05:59,390 Urocyon cinereoargenteus, 106 00:05:59,420 --> 00:06:02,020 Grey Fox. 107 00:06:02,020 --> 00:06:03,190 I call her Circe. 108 00:06:03,220 --> 00:06:04,890 Why Circe? 109 00:06:04,930 --> 00:06:06,660 You’re supposed to divine these things, aren’t you? 110 00:06:06,700 --> 00:06:09,030 Drink up. 111 00:06:09,060 --> 00:06:10,170 Yes, Circe. 112 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,030 Circe the Temptress. 113 00:06:13,030 --> 00:06:15,540 What do you make of the man? 114 00:06:15,570 --> 00:06:17,670 Gentle. 115 00:06:17,710 --> 00:06:19,440 Probably full of idealism. 116 00:06:19,470 --> 00:06:23,040 Obviously loved the outdoors. 117 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,350 -Compassionate. -Bravo! 118 00:06:26,850 --> 00:06:30,190 -You were close to him? -Yes. 119 00:06:30,220 --> 00:06:31,420 He was my son. 120 00:06:33,090 --> 00:06:34,860 Was? 121 00:06:34,890 --> 00:06:37,230 That’s where Circe comes in. 122 00:06:37,260 --> 00:06:40,600 Circe the Temptress. 123 00:06:40,630 --> 00:06:43,770 I call her Circe because she led him to his doom. 124 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,670 Worked her wiles on him, brazenly let him track her. 125 00:06:46,700 --> 00:06:50,410 Almost as if she knew what lay in wait for him. 126 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,070 He never hunted for sport, 127 00:06:52,070 --> 00:06:54,980 but once in a while he collected an animal. 128 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,510 In this case, he had his heart set on Circe. 129 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:03,150 She’d been raiding hen houses in the neighborhood. 130 00:07:03,180 --> 00:07:06,420 Sooner or later some farmer would trap her or shoot her anyway, 131 00:07:06,450 --> 00:07:10,660 so Ben decided to take her for his collection. 132 00:07:10,690 --> 00:07:13,900 He spent several days and nights learning her habits. 133 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,500 He discovered her latest port of call was an old barn 134 00:07:18,530 --> 00:07:21,270 just over the property line. 135 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:24,210 He’d invented a foolproof gadget for night shooting, 136 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:27,540 a spotlight mounted on his .22 in such a way 137 00:07:27,580 --> 00:07:31,650 that his shot would strike the exact center of the circle of light. 138 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,670 -[barn door opens] -[whispers] What was that? 139 00:07:51,700 --> 00:07:53,800 -Mice. -It’s your father. 140 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,270 Don’t be silly, you know he’s at a lodge meeting. 141 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:01,110 [noises] 142 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,050 -[whispering] See that? -I told you. 143 00:08:12,050 --> 00:08:13,050 [gunshot] 144 00:08:29,740 --> 00:08:31,570 What do you think you’re doing here? 145 00:08:31,610 --> 00:08:33,910 -Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t... -Hollister! 146 00:08:33,940 --> 00:08:36,810 [chuckles] Nature boy Hollister. 147 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:39,450 I didn’t know anybody else was around here. 148 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:40,880 You saw the sign outside. 149 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:42,280 Yeah, but I didn’t think your father would mind. 150 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:43,590 You’re a liar! 151 00:08:43,620 --> 00:08:46,590 Stealing pigeons! That’s what he’s up to. 152 00:08:46,620 --> 00:08:48,160 I wasn’t stealing anything, all I wanted was-- 153 00:08:48,190 --> 00:08:49,860 You’re a liar! 154 00:08:52,230 --> 00:08:54,960 I’m sorry, Tim. 155 00:08:55,060 --> 00:08:57,600 Now, if you’ll excuse me. 156 00:08:57,630 --> 00:08:59,070 You’re a coward, too. 157 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,110 If you wanna step outside, I’d be very happy 158 00:09:04,140 --> 00:09:06,370 to soak your head in the watering trough. 159 00:09:06,410 --> 00:09:08,240 That’s not a bad deal, Tim. 160 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:10,580 I’ll be giving away 15 pounds. 161 00:09:17,020 --> 00:09:18,220 -[gunshot] -[scream] 162 00:09:31,630 --> 00:09:32,770 Tim. 163 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,600 -Tim! -Murderer. 164 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:37,040 Murderer! 165 00:09:47,450 --> 00:09:50,220 You don’t have to explain my duties to me, Mr. Hollister. 166 00:09:50,250 --> 00:09:52,420 They’re spelled out very clearly in the oath of office 167 00:09:52,450 --> 00:09:53,760 a district attorney takes. 168 00:09:53,790 --> 00:09:55,520 It wouldn’t hurt you to look it over 169 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:57,290 once in a while, Mr. Henshaw. 170 00:09:57,330 --> 00:09:58,930 There’s no need to be impertinent. 171 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,260 You’ll have to excuse me, sir, but my boy’s life is at stake. 172 00:10:02,300 --> 00:10:03,730 He’ll have his day in court. 173 00:10:03,770 --> 00:10:06,200 The law guarantees him a fair and impartial trial. 174 00:10:06,230 --> 00:10:07,540 That’s just the point! 175 00:10:07,570 --> 00:10:09,670 He’s being tried right now in the papers! 176 00:10:09,700 --> 00:10:11,540 You call that fair and impartial? 177 00:10:11,570 --> 00:10:13,070 I didn’t give out that interview. 178 00:10:13,110 --> 00:10:14,410 The reporters checked it with you! 179 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:16,280 You didn’t deny it, you let them print it! 180 00:10:16,310 --> 00:10:18,010 Take it up with the publisher! I’m not responsible-- 181 00:10:18,050 --> 00:10:19,580 A statement from you could’ve stopped it! 182 00:10:19,610 --> 00:10:21,820 They’re saying he killed the McCaffrey boy on purpose! 183 00:10:21,850 --> 00:10:23,690 Like he’d kill a specimen for his collection! 184 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:25,150 You know that isn’t true! 185 00:10:25,190 --> 00:10:28,060 Look, Mr. Henshaw, this town is ready to lynch him. 186 00:10:28,090 --> 00:10:30,230 -They won’t lynch him. -He is innocent and you know it. 187 00:10:30,260 --> 00:10:33,060 All right, if he’s innocent, he’ll go free. It’s up to the jury. 188 00:10:33,090 --> 00:10:35,160 But what chance has he with this sort of trash 189 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,930 setting the town on fire? And with your approval. 190 00:10:45,610 --> 00:10:47,180 You probably thought it up. 191 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:49,880 You want to kill him. 192 00:10:49,910 --> 00:10:51,910 Old man McCaffrey put you in office, 193 00:10:51,950 --> 00:10:53,820 and now you’re gonna deliver for him. 194 00:10:53,850 --> 00:10:58,350 -That’s right, isn’t it? -Mr. Hollister. 195 00:10:58,390 --> 00:11:02,060 I happen to take my responsibilities very seriously. 196 00:11:02,090 --> 00:11:05,890 They are not primarily to convict, but to see justice is done. 197 00:11:05,930 --> 00:11:08,400 I intend to do everything in my power to achieve that end 198 00:11:08,430 --> 00:11:11,600 in this and every other case in which I am involved. 199 00:11:11,630 --> 00:11:14,500 And that is all I intend to say on this subject. 200 00:11:14,540 --> 00:11:15,940 Good day, sir. 201 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:21,780 Would you try to reach the Major again, please? 202 00:11:21,810 --> 00:11:24,410 Thank you. 203 00:11:24,450 --> 00:11:27,680 You’ll excuse me, Mr. Hollister. 204 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:28,950 Good day! 205 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:50,470 [Henshaw] The badger, the coyote, 206 00:11:50,510 --> 00:11:53,410 the bobcat, the fox. 207 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:55,010 Shot in the eye. 208 00:11:55,110 --> 00:11:58,780 In each case, finesse, precision. 209 00:11:58,810 --> 00:12:01,050 A mathematically calculated shot 210 00:12:01,050 --> 00:12:03,050 in a spot where it would kill immediately, 211 00:12:03,050 --> 00:12:06,490 yet do no harm whatsoever to the specimen. 212 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,090 I ask you, ladies and gentlemen, 213 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,160 do you think this man’s act was unintentional? 214 00:12:10,190 --> 00:12:11,390 Stop it. 215 00:12:11,430 --> 00:12:13,130 I tell you it was an accident. 216 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:14,460 He threw the pitchfork-- 217 00:12:14,500 --> 00:12:15,830 Ben! That won’t do any good. 218 00:12:15,860 --> 00:12:17,630 But he’s lying! I’m not a murderer. 219 00:12:17,670 --> 00:12:19,070 I’m not a killer, I-- 220 00:12:19,070 --> 00:12:20,300 I didn’t mean it. 221 00:12:20,340 --> 00:12:23,640 [chattering] 222 00:12:23,670 --> 00:12:25,570 [pounding gavel] 223 00:12:25,610 --> 00:12:29,680 [judge] Order. Order. Or I’ll clear the courtroom. 224 00:12:29,710 --> 00:12:31,910 A man is on trial for his life. 225 00:12:31,950 --> 00:12:34,080 Please conduct yourselves accordingly. 226 00:12:35,650 --> 00:12:37,250 Proceed, Mr. Henshaw. 227 00:12:38,690 --> 00:12:40,990 I don’t have to repeat the medical testimony. 228 00:12:41,090 --> 00:12:43,430 Five brain shots. 229 00:12:43,460 --> 00:12:47,360 Each of them precisely in the middle of an eye socket. 230 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:49,130 The last one, a human being. 231 00:12:52,100 --> 00:12:54,700 I ask you, ladies and gentlemen, 232 00:12:54,740 --> 00:12:57,810 to reflect on the odds against the defendant’s contention 233 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:02,080 that this last shot was accidental. 234 00:13:02,110 --> 00:13:05,750 He threw up the riffle in self-defense, he says. 235 00:13:05,780 --> 00:13:09,750 The shot struck the precise center of Tim McCaffrey’s left eye. 236 00:13:09,780 --> 00:13:11,120 What are the odds? 237 00:13:11,150 --> 00:13:14,120 One in a million? A billion? 238 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:15,360 Think about that. 239 00:13:17,460 --> 00:13:19,860 Isn’t the other explanation far more plausible? 240 00:13:21,260 --> 00:13:24,700 That Tim McCaffrey caught him trespassing? 241 00:13:24,730 --> 00:13:26,770 Ordered him off the property? 242 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:28,700 That he walked off into the darkness, 243 00:13:28,740 --> 00:13:31,340 thought about it. 244 00:13:31,370 --> 00:13:33,880 That a cold rage took possession of him? 245 00:13:33,910 --> 00:13:36,210 That he hefted the riffle in his hand, 246 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:38,910 and then, with calculating precision, 247 00:13:38,950 --> 00:13:41,080 he turned, and aimed, and-- 248 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,920 I didn’t. I didn’t do it. 249 00:13:43,950 --> 00:13:45,990 -[chattering] -[pounding gavel] 250 00:13:49,460 --> 00:13:52,730 I’m demanding that you do your duty as citizens of this state. 251 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:56,730 I demand the death penalty in the case of the People versus Benjamin Hollister. 252 00:14:05,070 --> 00:14:07,080 Benjamin Hollister, would you please rise? 253 00:14:18,090 --> 00:14:23,090 Benjamin Hollister, you have been found guilty of murder in the first degree. 254 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,360 Therefore you will, on the 22nd day of this month, 255 00:14:26,390 --> 00:14:29,060 be removed to the Penitentiary of Glenville 256 00:14:29,060 --> 00:14:32,870 and there be incarcerated for the rest of your natural life. 257 00:14:34,170 --> 00:14:35,470 [pounds gavel once] 258 00:14:50,950 --> 00:14:51,950 [sobs] 259 00:14:55,590 --> 00:14:57,860 [Hollister] It’s an old pioneer ranch on Alamo Creek. 260 00:14:57,890 --> 00:14:59,590 Big adobe ranch house, 261 00:14:59,630 --> 00:15:01,760 Apache bullet pocks in the walls, 262 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,100 even has its own well in the courtyard. 263 00:15:04,130 --> 00:15:05,800 Fourteen rooms. 264 00:15:07,670 --> 00:15:09,040 Fourteen rooms? 265 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,470 I’m going to turn it into a private museum, 266 00:15:11,510 --> 00:15:13,680 put a sign on the highway, charge admission, 267 00:15:13,710 --> 00:15:16,640 make this collecting bug pay off after all these years. 268 00:15:18,410 --> 00:15:20,050 I wish... 269 00:15:21,650 --> 00:15:22,780 I could help you. 270 00:15:22,820 --> 00:15:25,620 Well, you can. 271 00:15:25,650 --> 00:15:28,760 I’ve got room plotted out for your things. 272 00:15:28,790 --> 00:15:30,190 Now, here, 273 00:15:30,230 --> 00:15:32,530 here’s an east window and there’s the door. 274 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:34,200 Now, you do the rest. 275 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:37,800 Do what? 276 00:15:37,830 --> 00:15:39,300 Design the inside. 277 00:15:39,330 --> 00:15:40,900 Cases for your books, 278 00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:43,870 drawers for your mounted specimens, display cases... 279 00:15:43,910 --> 00:15:45,370 I’ll fix it any way you want it. 280 00:15:47,780 --> 00:15:48,910 You do it. 281 00:15:48,940 --> 00:15:50,980 I want it to be yours, Ben. 282 00:15:55,220 --> 00:15:57,290 You kidding? 283 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:00,360 I know what you’re gonna say, Dad. 284 00:16:00,390 --> 00:16:02,020 You gotta have hope. 285 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:04,490 Something to hang on to. 286 00:16:07,860 --> 00:16:09,760 -I’m sorry. -But... 287 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:13,500 It’s no good, Dad. 288 00:16:17,340 --> 00:16:19,240 But we’ve got 15 minutes. 289 00:16:27,180 --> 00:16:28,320 Goodbye, Dad. 290 00:16:31,790 --> 00:16:33,490 Goodbye, Boy. 291 00:16:37,460 --> 00:16:38,760 I’ll see you next month. 292 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:43,730 He don’t belong here. 293 00:16:47,140 --> 00:16:48,540 If he’d only eat. 294 00:16:48,570 --> 00:16:50,870 That’s the trouble, he won’t eat. 295 00:16:53,110 --> 00:16:55,180 [Henshaw] It’s out of the question. 296 00:16:55,210 --> 00:16:59,380 He’s been examined by a board of psychiatrists and found perfectly normal. 297 00:16:59,410 --> 00:17:00,820 Medically, he’s a 100%. 298 00:17:00,850 --> 00:17:03,150 Except that he’ll die inside of a year 299 00:17:03,180 --> 00:17:04,620 if you leave him where he is. 300 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,690 Mr. Hollister, would you care to read the medical report? 301 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:11,790 I’m not talking about his blood pressure 302 00:17:11,830 --> 00:17:15,460 or his respiration or his metabolism, Mr. Henshaw. 303 00:17:15,500 --> 00:17:18,570 I’m talking about his soul. That boy is dying right now. 304 00:17:19,930 --> 00:17:21,700 Mr. Hollister, I understand your concern-- 305 00:17:21,740 --> 00:17:23,610 But it’s out of your hands, that I know. 306 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,410 I’m only telling you that your signature on a petition 307 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:29,040 would probably get him a parole. 308 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:30,280 -Mr. Hollister... -Please. 309 00:17:30,310 --> 00:17:31,850 Please, hear me out, Mr. Henshaw. 310 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:33,420 The election’s come and gone. 311 00:17:33,450 --> 00:17:35,950 You’re secure in your job. You’ve got nothing to lose. 312 00:17:36,050 --> 00:17:38,420 Old man McCaffrey can’t touch you now. 313 00:17:38,450 --> 00:17:39,790 Please. 314 00:17:39,820 --> 00:17:42,390 Please, look into your heart, Mr. Henshaw 315 00:17:42,420 --> 00:17:45,730 and ask yourself if you really believe that boy belongs in prison, 316 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:48,100 if he really is a menace to society. 317 00:17:49,830 --> 00:17:51,870 I’ll forgive you everything, Mr. Henshaw. 318 00:17:51,900 --> 00:17:54,370 I-I know you’re under enormous political pressures 319 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:56,740 and have to give in to them sometimes. 320 00:17:56,770 --> 00:17:58,370 I’ll forgive you everything 321 00:17:58,410 --> 00:18:01,780 if only you will try to do that boy justice now. 322 00:18:01,810 --> 00:18:03,650 He can’t live in prison. 323 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,080 He’s like a hawk in a cage. 324 00:18:06,110 --> 00:18:07,520 [sobbing] He won’t eat. 325 00:18:07,550 --> 00:18:10,120 He’s just withering away. 326 00:18:10,150 --> 00:18:12,650 Calm now, Mr. Hollister, get hold of yourself. 327 00:18:28,940 --> 00:18:30,640 Two months later he was dead. 328 00:18:32,710 --> 00:18:33,940 He’d lost interest in life. 329 00:18:36,950 --> 00:18:38,610 That was years ago. 330 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:41,420 It’s all here, 331 00:18:41,450 --> 00:18:43,180 all in this room. 332 00:18:43,220 --> 00:18:44,750 What he had, 333 00:18:44,790 --> 00:18:46,250 what he did, 334 00:18:46,290 --> 00:18:48,420 what he was. 335 00:18:48,460 --> 00:18:51,060 How many years? 336 00:18:51,060 --> 00:18:53,660 I don’t like to count them. 337 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:56,060 I doesn’t matter, anyway. 338 00:18:56,100 --> 00:18:57,630 I have him here with me. 339 00:18:57,670 --> 00:19:00,000 I can feel his presence in this room 340 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,640 from his books, from his things. 341 00:19:03,670 --> 00:19:06,140 Nothing on this earth is permanent, Mr. Clovis. 342 00:19:06,170 --> 00:19:08,010 We aren’t given title to anything, you know? 343 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:09,380 Just a lease. 344 00:19:09,410 --> 00:19:12,850 His was short, mine’s longer. 345 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,820 At least he was not the one to be left behind to grieve. 346 00:19:16,850 --> 00:19:18,650 That’s some consolation, isn’t it? 347 00:19:20,090 --> 00:19:21,860 I suppose so. 348 00:19:21,890 --> 00:19:23,530 So perhaps you can understand now 349 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,460 why I was a little amused at your archeo-psychology. 350 00:19:26,490 --> 00:19:29,260 There’s only so much of a man imprisoned in his possessions 351 00:19:29,300 --> 00:19:32,470 and the things he makes with his hands. So much and no more. 352 00:19:32,500 --> 00:19:35,040 Ben’s spirit hangs above this room, 353 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,040 but you can’t sense it from these cold, inanimate things. 354 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,540 Not unless you knew Ben. 355 00:19:41,580 --> 00:19:43,950 Well, I better lock the back door. 356 00:19:44,050 --> 00:19:46,310 -If you’ll excuse me. -Of course. 357 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,780 Satisfied, Mr. Clovis? 358 00:20:51,810 --> 00:20:54,820 Now I am, yes. 359 00:20:54,850 --> 00:20:57,550 I ought to tell you that I’m not an archeo-psychologist. 360 00:20:57,590 --> 00:20:59,190 I sort of invented that. 361 00:20:59,220 --> 00:21:01,320 You’re from the district attorney’s office. 362 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:05,330 That’s right. A murder case never goes out of date. 363 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:08,300 You know, it took almost a year to put him there. 364 00:21:08,330 --> 00:21:10,600 I remember the excitement of the manhunt, 365 00:21:10,630 --> 00:21:12,470 the most dangerous game. 366 00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:14,500 Not a game, murder. 367 00:21:14,540 --> 00:21:16,910 Disagree. 368 00:21:16,940 --> 00:21:18,810 It was neither. 369 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,810 It was an execution. 370 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:22,610 The execution of Henshaw, 371 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,610 the man who murdered my son. 372 00:21:25,650 --> 00:21:30,420 I don’t think the law will look at it in quite that light. 373 00:21:30,450 --> 00:21:32,950 Tell me, how did you do it? 374 00:21:32,990 --> 00:21:35,360 Did you lie and wait for him outside his house? 375 00:21:35,390 --> 00:21:36,390 Or did you-- 376 00:21:36,420 --> 00:21:39,090 [grunts] 377 00:21:39,130 --> 00:21:41,300 [gasps] 378 00:21:48,370 --> 00:21:50,940 [Hollister] As near as we can tell, this skull belonged 379 00:21:50,970 --> 00:21:55,010 to a civilization here in the Southwest that we call Proto-Pueblo. 380 00:21:55,110 --> 00:21:58,610 One of its marks, as you see, is a flattening in the rear of the head, 381 00:21:58,650 --> 00:22:01,920 caused by strapping the baby onto a cradle board 382 00:22:01,950 --> 00:22:05,050 before the skull was completely calcified. 383 00:22:05,050 --> 00:22:08,690 Let’s compare him with a modern male Caucasian. 384 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:13,260 You see, his head is not flattened in the back at all. 385 00:22:13,290 --> 00:22:14,560 Notice... 386 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,430 how an injury left a mark on the bone. 387 00:22:19,670 --> 00:22:21,200 The same thing here, 388 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,570 another male Caucasian about 45 years old, 389 00:22:24,610 --> 00:22:28,140 I’d say from the degree of calcification in certain areas. 390 00:22:28,180 --> 00:22:29,880 Athletic type, 391 00:22:29,910 --> 00:22:32,250 double spiral fracture. 392 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,350 Typical ski injury, 393 00:22:34,380 --> 00:22:37,890 leaving one leg about an inch and a half shorter than the other. 394 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:53,100 Unfortunately, the police took a dim view of the old curator, 395 00:22:53,130 --> 00:22:56,810 personally adding a new exhibit for the museum. 396 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,880 Sometimes I find the attitude of the authorities puzzling. 397 00:23:00,910 --> 00:23:04,180 They seem bent on stifling initiative. 398 00:23:04,210 --> 00:23:05,680 But enough of that. 399 00:23:05,710 --> 00:23:08,580 Now we shall watch while my sponsor 400 00:23:08,620 --> 00:23:11,350 makes an exhibition of himself. 401 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,460 That is all until next week 402 00:23:16,490 --> 00:23:19,390 when we return with another story. 403 00:23:19,430 --> 00:23:22,600 Perhaps we shall put our gift-wrapped friend 404 00:23:22,630 --> 00:23:24,270 back in his box. 405 00:23:30,470 --> 00:23:31,770 His last will? 406 00:23:33,510 --> 00:23:34,480 No. 407 00:23:36,310 --> 00:23:38,480 "Listen for dial tone 408 00:23:38,510 --> 00:23:41,650 before depositing money." 409 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:44,490 Goodnight.