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It's 52 degrees 3 00:00:23,573 --> 00:00:26,043 at nine o'clock this Tuesday, June 23rd, 4 00:00:26,244 --> 00:00:27,744 and here is our top story. 5 00:00:29,113 --> 00:00:31,048 Tragedy in Knoxville. 6 00:00:31,515 --> 00:00:34,986 Two days ago, Sunday morning, June 21st, 7 00:00:35,285 --> 00:00:36,553 a lone gunman entered 8 00:00:36,620 --> 00:00:38,890 the Knoxville Baptist University campus 9 00:00:39,123 --> 00:00:40,224 with rifle in hand. 10 00:00:40,657 --> 00:00:42,659 There, he climbed the clock tower 11 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,395 and began firing into the crowds below. 12 00:00:45,863 --> 00:00:49,466 Thirteen are reported dead, with 26 critically injured. 13 00:00:50,001 --> 00:00:52,103 President Reagan and the First Lady arrived 14 00:00:52,170 --> 00:00:53,436 in Knoxville this afternoon 15 00:00:53,603 --> 00:00:56,540 to console the grieving families of the fallen. 16 00:00:57,108 --> 00:00:59,442 Police have yet to release the identity of the shooter, 17 00:00:59,811 --> 00:01:01,478 but an anonymous source is reporting 18 00:01:01,545 --> 00:01:03,547 that the suspect in custody is 19 00:01:04,115 --> 00:01:05,783 a 17 year-old boy. 20 00:01:06,516 --> 00:01:08,585 We continue our coverage on the Knoxville killings 21 00:01:08,685 --> 00:01:10,154 with our very own Frank Hutchinson, 22 00:01:10,288 --> 00:01:11,856 who is live on the scene. 23 00:02:52,823 --> 00:02:56,093 Uh, this is a message for William DuKent. 24 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,163 Mr. DuKent. Um... 25 00:03:01,966 --> 00:03:03,433 This is Bruce Cogburn. 26 00:03:04,467 --> 00:03:05,947 I'm calling in response to the letters 27 00:03:06,003 --> 00:03:07,071 I've received from you. 28 00:03:08,205 --> 00:03:10,007 I'm not sure how you... you found me. 29 00:03:10,740 --> 00:03:14,577 Perhaps you... you got my PO box from an old agent or summit. 30 00:03:15,813 --> 00:03:18,316 If so, that information was never meant to be shared. 31 00:03:18,916 --> 00:03:23,354 Nevertheless, it seems from your letters, Mr. DuKent, 32 00:03:23,453 --> 00:03:24,855 you know quite a bit about me. 33 00:03:25,622 --> 00:03:27,024 So I can only assume 34 00:03:27,457 --> 00:03:29,360 you're aware of my sentiment when it comes to 35 00:03:29,492 --> 00:03:30,593 discussing my work. 36 00:03:30,861 --> 00:03:32,830 I don't do interviews. Never have. 37 00:03:33,663 --> 00:03:34,932 And I never will. 38 00:03:39,971 --> 00:03:41,072 Anyway, I... 39 00:03:41,806 --> 00:03:43,673 I want to wish you all the best with your book. 40 00:03:44,775 --> 00:03:47,544 The blank page can be a terrifying prospect at times, 41 00:03:47,778 --> 00:03:49,180 so good luck. 42 00:07:04,775 --> 00:07:05,876 Mr. DuKent, 43 00:07:06,010 --> 00:07:08,078 this is Bruce Cogburn calling you again. 44 00:07:08,512 --> 00:07:09,923 Every time I make one of these calls, 45 00:07:09,947 --> 00:07:12,049 I have to travel 14 miles to the nearest phone booth. 46 00:07:12,249 --> 00:07:14,752 Now, I feel I've been nothing but courteous 47 00:07:14,818 --> 00:07:15,858 when it comes to your book 48 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:17,898 and how I have no interest in helping you with it. 49 00:07:17,922 --> 00:07:19,990 But it seems I'm not making myself clear. 50 00:07:20,191 --> 00:07:21,192 So, piss off. 51 00:07:21,458 --> 00:07:24,395 Your letters are unsolicited and constitute harassment, 52 00:07:24,461 --> 00:07:25,863 so please, stop sending them. 53 00:07:25,930 --> 00:07:27,998 In the meantime, I'm going to get rid of my PO box 54 00:07:28,065 --> 00:07:29,465 so you can save yourself the bother. 55 00:07:31,402 --> 00:07:32,469 And one more thing. 56 00:07:33,170 --> 00:07:36,840 You keep asking me, why I never wrote a second book. 57 00:07:37,441 --> 00:07:40,844 21st June. 1981. Knoxville. 58 00:07:41,345 --> 00:07:42,413 But you know that. 59 00:09:12,771 --> 00:09:14,872 Fuck. 60 00:10:53,504 --> 00:10:54,981 A few days ago, 61 00:10:55,005 --> 00:10:56,673 I received a package on my doorstep. 62 00:10:58,008 --> 00:10:59,576 It was a box of ink ribbons 63 00:10:59,676 --> 00:11:01,311 for a very specific typewriter. 64 00:11:02,045 --> 00:11:03,815 The one I used when I wrote my book. 65 00:11:04,148 --> 00:11:05,949 I should tell you that some of the things 66 00:11:06,016 --> 00:11:07,496 that have been said about me are true. 67 00:11:09,686 --> 00:11:11,264 For instance, if I find anyone 68 00:11:11,288 --> 00:11:12,791 trespassing on my land... 69 00:11:14,358 --> 00:11:16,639 that person will be shot on sight. 70 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,696 That's not a threat. That's just a fact. 71 00:11:21,298 --> 00:11:24,001 So, stay away from me and my home 72 00:11:24,268 --> 00:11:27,104 and do not test the sincerity of my resolve. 73 00:11:28,105 --> 00:11:29,339 God bless America. 74 00:11:39,950 --> 00:11:41,418 Hello. How are you? 75 00:11:42,119 --> 00:11:44,955 I'll take two of those small bottles as well, thanks. 76 00:11:46,423 --> 00:11:47,491 Yeah. 77 00:12:07,678 --> 00:12:11,582 Zwei, funf, sechs, 78 00:12:12,015 --> 00:12:16,086 sechs, zwei, neun. 79 00:12:18,555 --> 00:12:23,193 Eins, eins, funf, eins. 80 00:14:23,747 --> 00:14:24,816 Saul. 81 00:14:26,450 --> 00:14:28,019 According to the Hebrew Bible, 82 00:14:28,218 --> 00:14:29,787 Saul was the first king of Israel. 83 00:14:30,822 --> 00:14:32,122 I bet you didn't know that. 84 00:14:37,594 --> 00:14:40,098 And then during the battle with the Philistines, 85 00:14:40,230 --> 00:14:42,299 King Saul threw himself on his own sword 86 00:14:42,399 --> 00:14:43,600 to avoid being captured. 87 00:14:49,107 --> 00:14:50,741 Hell of a way to go, if you ask me. 88 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:44,728 Saul. Saul! 89 00:15:57,809 --> 00:15:58,876 Are you Bruce Cogburn? 90 00:16:01,079 --> 00:16:03,380 Maybe. Who's that letter from? 91 00:16:05,149 --> 00:16:07,384 Uh... William DuKent. 92 00:16:13,223 --> 00:16:14,458 What if I don't want it? 93 00:16:16,326 --> 00:16:20,664 You could stop by the office, fill out a few forms? 94 00:16:21,199 --> 00:16:22,499 But I don't have any on me, so... 95 00:16:22,566 --> 00:16:23,806 Will you put it in that barrel? 96 00:16:27,237 --> 00:16:28,472 You can put them all in there. 97 00:16:30,208 --> 00:16:31,441 All of them? 98 00:16:31,909 --> 00:16:32,910 There'll be more. 99 00:16:38,783 --> 00:16:41,052 Bruce? Is that you? Jerry? 100 00:16:41,185 --> 00:16:43,921 How long has it been? 101 00:16:44,055 --> 00:16:45,495 Listen, who have you been talking to? 102 00:16:45,522 --> 00:16:46,991 Sorry? 103 00:16:47,290 --> 00:16:48,525 Who else knows where I live? 104 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:50,828 What are you talking about? 105 00:16:50,928 --> 00:16:52,629 Your accountant, your secretary. 106 00:16:52,997 --> 00:16:54,531 Bruce, I'm the only one 107 00:16:54,631 --> 00:16:57,001 who knows anything about you, okay? 108 00:16:57,235 --> 00:16:58,635 Like we agreed. 109 00:17:00,204 --> 00:17:01,471 Is everything all right? 110 00:17:01,906 --> 00:17:02,974 Yeah. 111 00:17:04,075 --> 00:17:06,210 - Bloody dandy. - Okay, good. 112 00:17:06,443 --> 00:17:07,821 Now, I know what you're going to say, 113 00:17:07,845 --> 00:17:09,147 but just hear me out. 114 00:17:09,814 --> 00:17:12,016 The publishers want to do a re-release. 115 00:17:12,449 --> 00:17:14,284 A special anniversary edition. 116 00:17:14,651 --> 00:17:16,921 And they're wondering if you would write a foreword. 117 00:17:17,155 --> 00:17:18,388 Just a few words. 118 00:17:18,688 --> 00:17:21,324 Enough to remind the world that you still exist. 119 00:17:21,591 --> 00:17:23,995 How many words? For the book. How many do you need? 120 00:17:24,427 --> 00:17:25,963 Enough to fill a few pages. 121 00:17:26,730 --> 00:17:28,900 I'll think about it. 122 00:19:12,236 --> 00:19:13,476 You might be 123 00:19:14,005 --> 00:19:16,374 the most persistent fucking person 124 00:19:16,439 --> 00:19:17,909 I've never even met. 125 00:19:20,144 --> 00:19:22,280 Ninety handwritten letters 126 00:19:23,114 --> 00:19:26,150 in this day and age is no small task. 127 00:19:27,084 --> 00:19:29,552 However, it has to stop. 128 00:19:30,487 --> 00:19:32,089 I was someone important once. 129 00:19:32,422 --> 00:19:34,959 But that seems to tell a lot of people 130 00:19:35,159 --> 00:19:36,660 that I am supposed to represent 131 00:19:36,794 --> 00:19:38,396 whatever their particular fantasy 132 00:19:38,528 --> 00:19:40,097 of a hero is supposed to be. 133 00:19:40,364 --> 00:19:41,766 But, Mr. DuKent? 134 00:19:45,468 --> 00:19:46,938 My opinions... 135 00:19:48,172 --> 00:19:50,740 are my own. Okay? 136 00:19:50,875 --> 00:19:54,577 So, I suggest you go out into the world... 137 00:19:57,048 --> 00:20:02,920 and you discover for yourself and you trust your own senses 138 00:20:03,154 --> 00:20:06,556 'cause I'm not here to be someone's fucking inspiration. 139 00:20:08,426 --> 00:20:09,927 Someone's fucking muse. 140 00:20:17,068 --> 00:20:18,135 Fuck. 141 00:20:31,648 --> 00:20:33,616 What do you suppose... 142 00:20:34,852 --> 00:20:35,953 might be the... 143 00:20:38,488 --> 00:20:41,725 the outstanding characteristic of humanity? 144 00:20:42,093 --> 00:20:44,095 A, language? 145 00:20:44,594 --> 00:20:46,831 B, tool-making? 146 00:20:47,264 --> 00:20:49,733 Or C, obedience? 147 00:20:50,935 --> 00:20:53,570 'Cause I think it might be obedience. 148 00:20:53,703 --> 00:20:56,040 We're a fucking social animal, don't you agree? 149 00:20:56,107 --> 00:20:57,942 We've evolved to get on with each other. 150 00:20:58,009 --> 00:21:00,244 To agree with each other, for the most part. 151 00:21:00,378 --> 00:21:03,014 However, we're the only fucking creature 152 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:04,482 who displays arrogance 153 00:21:04,614 --> 00:21:07,684 when it comes to our obedience. 154 00:21:07,885 --> 00:21:09,519 Don't you agree? Don't you agree? 155 00:21:11,822 --> 00:21:14,557 Here's one for you. To agree with the flat-Earthers. 156 00:21:14,691 --> 00:21:15,960 The Flat Earth Society. 157 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:20,364 Straight off the top of my head. Evidence might point to the fact 158 00:21:20,498 --> 00:21:21,766 of a spherical Earth. 159 00:21:21,899 --> 00:21:24,368 But... but, that doesn't fucking mean 160 00:21:24,502 --> 00:21:26,270 the Earth is round. Right? 161 00:21:26,470 --> 00:21:28,705 I mean if you think about it, most people 162 00:21:28,839 --> 00:21:32,843 have only ever seen the Earth round in a photograph. 163 00:21:32,977 --> 00:21:34,544 Okay? You, me, 164 00:21:34,677 --> 00:21:38,816 experiences our Earth every day as flat. 165 00:21:38,983 --> 00:21:40,051 Flat. Flat. 166 00:21:40,518 --> 00:21:42,286 Well, actually it's a bit hilly. 167 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,890 So, maybe I need to stand for the Hilly Earth Society. 168 00:21:48,459 --> 00:21:50,027 I don't think those flat-Earthers 169 00:21:50,161 --> 00:21:52,430 have taken it far enough if you ask me. 170 00:21:52,562 --> 00:21:59,270 Clearly it's flat and round and hilly 171 00:21:59,403 --> 00:22:01,205 and all the other shapes as well. 172 00:22:11,614 --> 00:22:12,649 This is Bruce Cogburn 173 00:22:12,817 --> 00:22:14,952 calling again about the last call. 174 00:22:15,585 --> 00:22:17,254 You need to stop writing... 175 00:22:17,455 --> 00:22:19,589 You need to stop writing to me, okay? 176 00:22:51,422 --> 00:22:52,655 Morning. 177 00:23:08,806 --> 00:23:11,017 There's a few meetings in town I could point you towards, 178 00:23:11,041 --> 00:23:12,843 Mr. Cogburn, if you're interested. 179 00:23:16,646 --> 00:23:17,948 No? Okay. 180 00:23:19,383 --> 00:23:20,650 Okay. 181 00:23:26,857 --> 00:23:28,959 I don't have to bring you home, you do realize that? 182 00:23:29,059 --> 00:23:31,195 We can just as easy go down to the station 183 00:23:31,262 --> 00:23:32,363 and straighten this out. 184 00:23:33,297 --> 00:23:34,341 What would I be charged with? 185 00:23:34,365 --> 00:23:35,432 Public intoxication. 186 00:23:36,333 --> 00:23:37,501 I was in the telephone box. 187 00:23:37,568 --> 00:23:39,036 On public property you were. 188 00:23:42,773 --> 00:23:45,943 I've heard your name somewhere before, Mr. Cogburn. 189 00:23:47,677 --> 00:23:48,979 Are you famous? 190 00:23:49,580 --> 00:23:52,149 You're that writer of The Infernal Machine. 191 00:23:52,483 --> 00:23:55,386 'Cause I remember in high school them pulling it off the shelves 192 00:23:55,619 --> 00:23:56,719 'cause of Knoxville. 193 00:23:57,388 --> 00:24:00,624 That's you, huh? Cogburn. 194 00:24:00,690 --> 00:24:04,195 In my car. In my car. 195 00:24:05,229 --> 00:24:06,263 That's cool. 196 00:24:08,499 --> 00:24:09,767 That's cool. 197 00:24:11,969 --> 00:24:13,504 Didn't Manson blame all his murders 198 00:24:13,571 --> 00:24:14,605 on the Rolling Stones? 199 00:24:14,772 --> 00:24:16,373 - The Beatles. - What? 200 00:24:17,141 --> 00:24:19,052 It wasn't the Rolling Stones. It was the Beatles. 201 00:24:19,076 --> 00:24:20,743 Right, right. "Helter Skelter." 202 00:24:20,878 --> 00:24:24,481 Fucking nutjob. That guy's a fucking nutjob. 203 00:24:24,714 --> 00:24:26,026 Crazy's always looking for an excuse 204 00:24:26,050 --> 00:24:27,250 to be crazy I guess, you know? 205 00:24:27,451 --> 00:24:32,056 If it's like a... a song, a talking dog, you know? 206 00:24:32,456 --> 00:24:33,524 A book. 207 00:24:34,525 --> 00:24:40,598 Funf, vier, eins, eins. 208 00:24:40,664 --> 00:24:44,068 Sechs, eins, zehn. 209 00:24:46,337 --> 00:24:51,342 Zwei, eins, eins, eins. 210 00:24:55,512 --> 00:24:56,914 You like stock car racing? 211 00:24:58,249 --> 00:24:59,416 Not particularly, no. 212 00:24:59,550 --> 00:25:00,618 Same, same. 213 00:25:00,818 --> 00:25:04,021 My brother? He's hardcore. 214 00:25:05,389 --> 00:25:07,825 Ten years back, he had a job cutting tires 215 00:25:07,925 --> 00:25:09,660 for a race team outside Carson City. 216 00:25:09,793 --> 00:25:11,371 You know? They called him the Dirt Whisperer 217 00:25:11,395 --> 00:25:12,906 'cause, you know, he could just look at a track 218 00:25:12,930 --> 00:25:14,898 and know exactly how to set those tires up. 219 00:25:15,933 --> 00:25:17,077 Last race of the season, you know, 220 00:25:17,101 --> 00:25:18,636 championship points on the line, 221 00:25:19,136 --> 00:25:20,671 the track is just beyond muddy. 222 00:25:21,272 --> 00:25:22,940 Cars are sliding all over the place, 223 00:25:23,007 --> 00:25:24,475 and my brother calls his 224 00:25:25,009 --> 00:25:26,810 driver in to switch out the tires. 225 00:25:27,278 --> 00:25:32,216 And like a dozen laps later, the back tire blows. 226 00:25:32,683 --> 00:25:34,151 Driver loses control, that's it. 227 00:25:34,218 --> 00:25:36,920 Hits a car, that car hits another car. So on, so on. 228 00:25:37,021 --> 00:25:39,323 Next thing you know, four drivers, dead. 229 00:25:40,424 --> 00:25:41,935 So, you know, they do their investigation, 230 00:25:41,959 --> 00:25:44,395 and they find nothing wrong with that tire. 231 00:25:44,662 --> 00:25:45,963 It just blew. 232 00:25:48,699 --> 00:25:50,401 Sometimes that just happens in racing. 233 00:25:51,969 --> 00:25:54,571 - What happened to your brother? - He quit racing. 234 00:25:55,205 --> 00:25:58,008 Spent a few years bouncing from rehab to rehab. 235 00:25:59,410 --> 00:26:01,145 Now, he's a night manager at Walmart. 236 00:26:02,746 --> 00:26:04,114 Which is a shame 'cause... 237 00:26:05,482 --> 00:26:06,583 he loved racing. 238 00:27:23,727 --> 00:27:24,928 Who... 239 00:27:25,896 --> 00:27:28,098 am I? 240 00:27:28,899 --> 00:27:30,267 Who am I, really? 241 00:27:35,305 --> 00:27:38,075 That's the question that every protagonist needs to answer 242 00:27:38,142 --> 00:27:42,579 by the end of their story. 243 00:27:42,679 --> 00:27:44,148 If your hero hasn't reached 244 00:27:44,248 --> 00:27:47,584 some sort of cathartic realization about who they are 245 00:27:47,651 --> 00:27:50,211 or what they believe in by the last page... 246 00:27:50,454 --> 00:27:52,857 ...then I'm sorry to inform you, ladies and gents, 247 00:27:53,123 --> 00:27:54,425 you have failed your reader. 248 00:28:02,399 --> 00:28:04,635 What if I don't have anything to say? 249 00:28:06,136 --> 00:28:08,238 Then you're not digging deep enough. 250 00:28:12,976 --> 00:28:14,244 Dig deep. 251 00:28:15,780 --> 00:28:17,214 The road you construct 252 00:28:17,347 --> 00:28:19,483 for your characters to travel along, 253 00:28:19,983 --> 00:28:22,119 it shouldn't be paved, shouldn't be easy. 254 00:28:23,654 --> 00:28:25,322 Because finding out who you are 255 00:28:26,957 --> 00:28:28,225 never is. 256 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,596 I'm of two minds 257 00:28:32,663 --> 00:28:34,198 when it comes to apologizing. 258 00:28:34,965 --> 00:28:36,033 On the one hand, 259 00:28:36,099 --> 00:28:37,836 life's best lived looking forward 260 00:28:37,936 --> 00:28:39,670 and not crying over spilled milk. 261 00:28:41,271 --> 00:28:44,041 And on the other hand, it does strengthen 262 00:28:44,107 --> 00:28:46,945 a certain kind of integrity to own up to one's mistakes. 263 00:28:47,744 --> 00:28:51,215 So, on that note, I'm sorry I told you I'd kill you. 264 00:28:51,615 --> 00:28:53,375 Now, I know I didn't use those words exactly, 265 00:28:53,417 --> 00:28:55,419 but the insinuation was certainly there, so. 266 00:28:57,054 --> 00:28:58,121 That being said, 267 00:28:58,622 --> 00:29:01,992 I'd like to offer this gift in the spirit of contrition. 268 00:29:02,961 --> 00:29:04,695 It's a little blurb for your book. 269 00:29:05,696 --> 00:29:06,730 Quote. 270 00:29:07,164 --> 00:29:10,234 "William DuKent is a right royal pain in the ass. 271 00:29:11,535 --> 00:29:13,337 But he does have a lot of backbone, 272 00:29:14,271 --> 00:29:16,440 which is more than I can say for the rest of the world. 273 00:29:18,509 --> 00:29:19,543 Bruce Cogburn." 274 00:29:20,310 --> 00:29:21,378 End quote. 275 00:29:23,915 --> 00:29:25,195 And merry Christmas too if you... 276 00:29:25,582 --> 00:29:27,184 if you believe in that sort of thing. 277 00:29:29,319 --> 00:29:31,522 Listen, if you fancy a drive, 278 00:29:32,656 --> 00:29:35,726 there's a small café around here called the Casa Segura. 279 00:29:35,860 --> 00:29:37,261 It's just off the 62. 280 00:29:38,395 --> 00:29:40,163 If you happen to be there on Friday morning, 281 00:29:40,230 --> 00:29:42,266 say eleven o'clock, 282 00:29:42,733 --> 00:29:44,067 I might just be there too. 283 00:29:44,903 --> 00:29:46,136 Okay. 284 00:29:51,275 --> 00:29:54,044 To save this message, press one. 285 00:29:57,916 --> 00:29:59,383 Message saved. 286 00:30:14,899 --> 00:30:16,133 Refill? 287 00:30:16,633 --> 00:30:17,769 Yeah, thanks. 288 00:31:40,150 --> 00:31:41,385 There you are. 289 00:31:42,285 --> 00:31:43,553 Sorry, I'm late. 290 00:31:52,496 --> 00:31:54,932 I won't lie to you. 291 00:31:55,099 --> 00:31:57,135 I had every intention of standing you up. 292 00:31:57,567 --> 00:31:59,767 And then, of course, the day rolls around and I thought, 293 00:31:59,971 --> 00:32:01,973 sod it, I may as well get this over and done with. 294 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:03,216 So, you can imagine my surprise 295 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:04,720 when you were the one who stood me up. 296 00:32:05,777 --> 00:32:07,788 I've not received any letters from you in this past week, 297 00:32:07,812 --> 00:32:09,713 so I'm glad my messages have got through. 298 00:32:11,314 --> 00:32:13,314 Time for you to start pestering another victim, eh? 299 00:32:13,684 --> 00:32:15,920 Oh, and you can keep the blurb for your book. 300 00:32:16,754 --> 00:32:17,789 You earned that. 301 00:32:21,191 --> 00:32:23,360 Well, I guess this is goodbye, Mr. DuKent. 302 00:32:25,262 --> 00:32:27,597 Goodbye. 303 00:33:04,468 --> 00:33:05,837 Like I was telling you, sir, 304 00:33:06,137 --> 00:33:07,905 we pick up and deliver same day. 305 00:33:08,572 --> 00:33:11,341 You need a package delivered to San Diego by day's end... 306 00:33:11,408 --> 00:33:13,643 Thank you, Corina. Well, we can do that. 307 00:33:13,845 --> 00:33:14,845 So, you do pickup then? 308 00:33:14,912 --> 00:33:16,790 It's more convenient for our customers that way. 309 00:33:16,814 --> 00:33:18,454 Because I need to know where this envelope 310 00:33:18,482 --> 00:33:19,516 has been picked up from. 311 00:33:19,851 --> 00:33:22,252 Well, you have used us before. How was the service? 312 00:33:22,385 --> 00:33:23,988 When you're done. Relentless. 313 00:33:24,122 --> 00:33:26,356 Yeah? Well, what's the return address? 314 00:33:26,523 --> 00:33:28,658 It's Aspen, Colorado. 315 00:33:28,893 --> 00:33:30,128 Aspen, Colorado? 316 00:33:30,194 --> 00:33:32,063 Well, we definitely don't go out that far. 317 00:33:33,030 --> 00:33:34,707 Well, it's obviously being picked up from somewhere. 318 00:33:34,731 --> 00:33:36,834 Yeah, that's usually how it works, sir. 319 00:33:37,601 --> 00:33:39,736 There must be some address that you can give to me. 320 00:33:41,438 --> 00:33:42,940 With all due respect, sir, 321 00:33:43,473 --> 00:33:46,309 we are very protective of our clientele's privacy. 322 00:33:46,676 --> 00:33:48,980 Company policy. I'm sure you can understand. 323 00:33:49,847 --> 00:33:50,948 No way, dude. 324 00:33:53,217 --> 00:33:55,452 Correct, but don't forget about the invoice. 325 00:33:55,787 --> 00:33:57,054 Okay? Thank you. 326 00:33:58,756 --> 00:33:59,824 I understand. 327 00:34:02,226 --> 00:34:03,527 But I need that address. 328 00:34:26,217 --> 00:34:27,497 I'm not finding anything. 329 00:34:28,351 --> 00:34:30,254 No pickups, no deliveries, nothing. 330 00:34:30,420 --> 00:34:32,023 There must be some kind of mistake. 331 00:34:33,623 --> 00:34:35,223 Where did you get this from again? 332 00:34:35,559 --> 00:34:38,562 From your driver. I have 100 of these at my house. 333 00:34:39,563 --> 00:34:41,407 One of our drivers delivered this to you? 334 00:34:41,431 --> 00:34:43,633 Yes. He drives a red hatchback. 335 00:34:44,668 --> 00:34:46,070 Like I was telling you, sir, 336 00:34:47,704 --> 00:34:50,107 these are the only vehicles our drivers use. 337 00:34:58,983 --> 00:35:01,986 Whole time? Fucking asshole! Uninvited! 338 00:35:02,119 --> 00:35:03,855 Bloody car! 339 00:35:14,832 --> 00:35:16,033 Mr. Cogburn? 340 00:35:18,368 --> 00:35:19,603 Are you all right? 341 00:35:22,372 --> 00:35:24,008 And did you catch the plates at all? 342 00:35:24,842 --> 00:35:25,877 No. 343 00:35:26,676 --> 00:35:29,479 You know, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, they all look different. 344 00:35:29,546 --> 00:35:30,781 I didn't see them. 345 00:35:31,782 --> 00:35:34,684 And was he a big guy? Skinny? Short? Tall? I don't know. 346 00:35:34,852 --> 00:35:37,097 Oh, come on. You gotta remember something. Well, I fucking don't, okay? 347 00:35:37,121 --> 00:35:38,923 I didn't get a good enough look at him, so... 348 00:35:40,557 --> 00:35:42,360 Okay, so I don't need this shit today. 349 00:35:42,459 --> 00:35:43,693 This is actually my day off. 350 00:35:43,794 --> 00:35:45,371 So why don't you just come by the station. 351 00:35:45,395 --> 00:35:47,198 I... I think he had long hair. Like... 352 00:35:47,765 --> 00:35:49,699 a sort of mousy color, I think. 353 00:35:50,034 --> 00:35:51,802 What about these letters? What do they say? 354 00:35:51,903 --> 00:35:53,579 Nothing. It's just a wannabe writer. 355 00:35:53,603 --> 00:35:57,074 Oh, okay. So, they're more fan mail-ish than death threats? 356 00:35:57,174 --> 00:35:58,675 He's bloody well been to my house. 357 00:35:59,010 --> 00:36:02,179 You know, how about the guy who read your book? 358 00:36:02,545 --> 00:36:04,315 The shooter from Knoxville. No, it's not him. 359 00:36:04,782 --> 00:36:05,982 Are you sure about that? 360 00:36:06,050 --> 00:36:08,252 He's rotting away in... in a supermax prison 361 00:36:08,319 --> 00:36:10,620 somewhere in New Mexico for a long time, it's not him. 362 00:36:10,821 --> 00:36:12,455 - Can we go home now? - We can. 363 00:36:13,090 --> 00:36:15,725 I'm gonna stop by the station and run this Colorado address. 364 00:36:15,793 --> 00:36:17,527 I'm also going to go by some motor lodges 365 00:36:17,627 --> 00:36:20,563 and just see if anyone's checked in with a red hatchback. 366 00:36:20,898 --> 00:36:21,933 Okay. 367 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:23,733 Can I ask you a question? 368 00:36:24,434 --> 00:36:26,103 Is there anybody out there who might have 369 00:36:26,170 --> 00:36:27,637 a score to settle with you? 370 00:36:30,674 --> 00:36:34,078 No. Okay. All right. Okay, let's do it. 371 00:36:36,479 --> 00:36:38,215 You call me if anything changes. 372 00:36:39,183 --> 00:36:40,918 Take it easy, Mr. Cogburn. 373 00:36:42,787 --> 00:36:44,231 Are we still getting ice cream? - No. 374 00:36:44,255 --> 00:36:46,424 We're going to get some fish, uncooked. 375 00:36:46,556 --> 00:36:47,590 Like, raw fish. 376 00:36:47,724 --> 00:36:49,827 Ew. No. I want ice cream. 377 00:37:23,761 --> 00:37:25,072 That's right, the fire marshal 378 00:37:25,096 --> 00:37:27,765 revealed there is evidence that someone intentionally set 379 00:37:27,832 --> 00:37:29,733 this suburban Aspen home on fire. 380 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,702 Neighbors tell me the home has been abandoned for decades, 381 00:37:32,803 --> 00:37:35,605 but the evil, as they call it, that once lived here 382 00:37:35,672 --> 00:37:36,874 at 53 Highland Avenue 383 00:37:36,941 --> 00:37:39,276 was once the center of a national tragedy. 384 00:37:40,643 --> 00:37:43,680 In June of 1981, 17-year-old Dwight Tufford 385 00:37:43,747 --> 00:37:44,748 left his Aspen home 386 00:37:44,982 --> 00:37:47,550 to drive 23 hours to Knoxville, Tennessee. 387 00:37:47,852 --> 00:37:49,987 Once there, he did the unthinkable, 388 00:37:50,054 --> 00:37:53,723 killing 13 people and injuring nearly two dozen more 389 00:37:53,824 --> 00:37:55,292 in just a matter of minutes. 390 00:37:55,725 --> 00:37:58,329 From the top of the tower in the middle of campus, 391 00:37:58,661 --> 00:38:00,563 Tufford took aim at the crowd below 392 00:38:00,630 --> 00:38:02,066 with a high-powered rifle. 393 00:38:02,532 --> 00:38:04,468 During the trial, Tufford told the judge 394 00:38:04,534 --> 00:38:06,203 he was innocent, and testified 395 00:38:06,270 --> 00:38:08,705 he was brainwashed into committing the killings 396 00:38:08,806 --> 00:38:10,841 after reading the controversial novel, 397 00:38:10,941 --> 00:38:12,421 The Infernal Mach... 398 00:39:10,234 --> 00:39:13,204 You're a fucking coward. You hear me? A fucking coward. 399 00:39:13,404 --> 00:39:14,737 I know what you look like, DuKent. 400 00:39:14,805 --> 00:39:16,605 And if I find you, I'm gonna fucking kill you. 401 00:39:16,774 --> 00:39:18,843 You understand? I'm gonna fucking kill you! 402 00:39:22,980 --> 00:39:24,048 Fuck! 403 00:40:04,622 --> 00:40:06,656 Hey. Saul? 404 00:40:51,168 --> 00:40:52,203 What the fuck? 405 00:40:52,970 --> 00:40:54,939 You have one new message. 406 00:40:59,343 --> 00:41:02,846 To listen to your messages, press one. 407 00:41:07,384 --> 00:41:09,029 You're a fucking coward. 408 00:41:09,053 --> 00:41:10,387 Hear me? A fucking coward. 409 00:41:10,621 --> 00:41:11,932 I know what you look like, DuKent. 410 00:41:11,956 --> 00:41:13,756 And if I find you, I'm gonna fucking kill you. 411 00:41:13,924 --> 00:41:16,093 You understand? I'm gonna fucking kill you! 412 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,869 To save this message, press one. 413 00:41:43,554 --> 00:41:46,290 To save this message, press one. 414 00:41:56,467 --> 00:41:59,136 To save this message, press one. 415 00:42:13,584 --> 00:42:14,985 Message saved. 416 00:42:26,830 --> 00:42:28,932 This is the model of the shooting. 417 00:42:29,633 --> 00:42:30,634 Knoxville. 418 00:42:30,834 --> 00:42:32,202 Yeah. 419 00:42:32,569 --> 00:42:34,038 That's it. So what will you do now? 420 00:42:35,005 --> 00:42:37,574 Well, nothing, really. I mean, technically, we're trespassing. 421 00:42:38,042 --> 00:42:41,111 - Trespassing? Fuck off. - Relax, I'm on your side. 422 00:42:42,346 --> 00:42:43,514 What's on that tape? 423 00:42:45,549 --> 00:42:46,817 I don't know. 424 00:43:04,401 --> 00:43:06,112 We've got a credit card receipt 425 00:43:06,136 --> 00:43:08,005 for a high-powered rifle with your name on it. 426 00:43:08,238 --> 00:43:10,407 Dozens of witnesses place you at the scene. 427 00:43:11,942 --> 00:43:13,210 I didn't do it. 428 00:43:14,211 --> 00:43:16,347 Didn't do what, Mr. Tufford? 429 00:43:18,615 --> 00:43:20,250 I didn't do those things. 430 00:43:21,151 --> 00:43:24,054 Dwight. Can I call you Dwight? 431 00:43:25,489 --> 00:43:27,624 Listen. We can't help you 432 00:43:28,025 --> 00:43:30,361 unless you help us, you understand? 433 00:43:31,628 --> 00:43:36,300 The rifle. The one that we found in your car, is that yours? 434 00:43:38,369 --> 00:43:39,370 Yes. 435 00:43:40,070 --> 00:43:42,606 Did you go up into the bell tower 436 00:43:42,706 --> 00:43:43,941 with that rifle? 437 00:43:44,843 --> 00:43:45,844 Yes. 438 00:43:46,443 --> 00:43:48,254 I know the next part isn't going to be easy, 439 00:43:48,278 --> 00:43:50,314 but I need to hear you say it, all right? 440 00:43:51,783 --> 00:43:54,551 I... 441 00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,956 I, uh... 442 00:44:03,494 --> 00:44:05,062 I didn't have a choice. 443 00:44:07,598 --> 00:44:09,099 He had to be punished. 444 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:11,720 Who had to be punished, Dwight? 445 00:44:12,903 --> 00:44:14,138 God. 446 00:44:15,339 --> 00:44:19,209 You see, we're just a row of dominos to Him. 447 00:44:20,177 --> 00:44:24,715 And once you and I tip over, we're no longer relevant. 448 00:44:25,082 --> 00:44:27,317 That's why he made us mortal, you know? 449 00:44:28,018 --> 00:44:31,054 So we can fade to dust. Disappear. 450 00:44:32,022 --> 00:44:33,858 But if we can find the dominos, 451 00:44:34,024 --> 00:44:36,126 the ones that haven't tipped over yet... 452 00:44:37,327 --> 00:44:39,596 well maybe there's a chance to stop this. 453 00:44:41,565 --> 00:44:42,633 Stop what? 454 00:44:43,434 --> 00:44:44,501 His plan. 455 00:44:46,370 --> 00:44:48,172 I didn't kill anyone this morning. 456 00:44:49,473 --> 00:44:52,075 I just stole a few of God's dominos. 457 00:44:53,110 --> 00:44:54,578 And maybe, if I'm lucky, 458 00:44:55,145 --> 00:44:57,181 maybe they haven't tipped over just yet. 459 00:44:58,148 --> 00:44:59,550 You a religious man? 460 00:45:00,017 --> 00:45:02,719 A member of some sort of cult? No. 461 00:45:03,020 --> 00:45:04,130 Then where the hell did an idea 462 00:45:04,154 --> 00:45:05,389 like this come from? 463 00:45:06,657 --> 00:45:08,025 The Infernal Machine. 464 00:45:08,793 --> 00:45:10,093 You should read it. 465 00:45:11,028 --> 00:45:12,463 You should all read it. 466 00:45:13,130 --> 00:45:15,566 Then you'll understand how insignificant 467 00:45:15,767 --> 00:45:17,034 we all are to Him. 468 00:45:22,206 --> 00:45:24,107 I'm not afraid of you anymore. 469 00:45:25,042 --> 00:45:26,276 You hear me? 470 00:45:30,147 --> 00:45:31,783 You hear me? 471 00:45:32,082 --> 00:45:34,117 You can't stop it now, you sick fuck! 472 00:45:34,251 --> 00:45:36,053 Sit down. I know my purpose! 473 00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:38,440 Get back in the chair. I know my purpose! 474 00:45:38,489 --> 00:45:40,424 I know my purpose! 475 00:45:41,258 --> 00:45:42,778 I'm just going to have a smoke. 476 00:46:29,306 --> 00:46:31,050 You mind telling me what that book of yours 477 00:46:31,074 --> 00:46:32,276 is all about? 478 00:46:33,477 --> 00:46:35,512 Uh, it's about a priest who finds God. 479 00:46:37,180 --> 00:46:38,515 Metaphorically, or? 480 00:46:38,950 --> 00:46:41,552 No, no. Uh, actually. 481 00:46:42,820 --> 00:46:44,121 What do they talk about? 482 00:46:45,255 --> 00:46:47,825 Um... the... the priest wants to know 483 00:46:47,926 --> 00:46:49,660 what his purpose is in life, so God... 484 00:46:51,061 --> 00:46:53,163 tells him, explains to him, that when he was 12, 485 00:46:53,230 --> 00:46:55,499 he... he got him to walk across the road to... 486 00:46:58,502 --> 00:46:59,503 slow down a car. 487 00:47:01,738 --> 00:47:03,173 So, who was in the car? 488 00:47:05,108 --> 00:47:06,887 It's not... it's not relevant who was in the car. 489 00:47:06,911 --> 00:47:08,412 He just needed it to be slowed down. 490 00:47:11,081 --> 00:47:12,282 That's it? 491 00:47:17,087 --> 00:47:19,122 Yeah. That's it. 492 00:47:24,161 --> 00:47:26,263 And then, in the end, the priest gets his revenge. 493 00:47:28,599 --> 00:47:29,801 What, on God? 494 00:47:32,636 --> 00:47:33,805 O... on everybody. 495 00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:37,041 I'm going to go home. 496 00:47:37,374 --> 00:47:39,676 There's just this one thing I want you to see inside. 497 00:47:45,382 --> 00:47:46,894 Every time I make one of these calls, 498 00:47:46,918 --> 00:47:49,252 I have to travel 14 miles to the nearest phone booth. 499 00:47:49,419 --> 00:47:51,459 I don't need to listen to these. I know what I said. 500 00:47:51,521 --> 00:47:53,190 It's not yours you need to listen to. 501 00:47:54,591 --> 00:47:57,294 This call will be recorded and monitored. 502 00:47:58,062 --> 00:47:59,764 You have a collect call from... 503 00:48:00,263 --> 00:48:01,933 Dwight Tufford. 504 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:03,242 ...an inmate at 505 00:48:03,266 --> 00:48:05,469 the Federal Penitentiary of New Mexico. 506 00:48:05,937 --> 00:48:08,271 To accept this call, press one. 507 00:48:11,141 --> 00:48:14,078 Message saved. Next message. 508 00:48:14,411 --> 00:48:17,247 This call will be recorded and monitored. 509 00:48:17,681 --> 00:48:20,550 - You have a collect call from... - Elijah? 510 00:48:21,819 --> 00:48:22,920 Are you here? 511 00:48:24,989 --> 00:48:26,024 You all right? 512 00:48:45,043 --> 00:48:47,723 Officer Higgins. BRUCE: It's Bruce. 513 00:48:48,012 --> 00:48:49,147 Uh... listen. 514 00:48:49,579 --> 00:48:51,381 You wouldn't know anyone over at the supermax 515 00:48:51,448 --> 00:48:53,283 in New Mexico, would you? 516 00:48:54,484 --> 00:48:57,088 I know a few guards there. Why? 517 00:48:57,587 --> 00:48:59,507 I think I might need a favor. 518 00:49:31,254 --> 00:49:33,374 You've got ten minutes. 519 00:49:48,271 --> 00:49:49,573 I don't smoke. 520 00:49:55,679 --> 00:49:56,713 Do I know you? 521 00:49:57,647 --> 00:49:58,682 No. 522 00:50:00,650 --> 00:50:02,519 You don't look like a "Smith." 523 00:50:04,188 --> 00:50:05,622 I would have gone with an O'Hara 524 00:50:05,689 --> 00:50:07,759 or a Campbell, personally, but 525 00:50:08,358 --> 00:50:09,927 hey, it's a free country, right? 526 00:50:12,362 --> 00:50:13,630 You a writer? 527 00:50:14,498 --> 00:50:17,267 Why do you ask that? Folks coming here are either 528 00:50:17,601 --> 00:50:20,270 A, writers, or B, shrinks. 529 00:50:21,738 --> 00:50:22,807 I'm neither. 530 00:50:24,776 --> 00:50:25,843 Good. 531 00:50:26,376 --> 00:50:27,912 Then we're off to a great start. 532 00:50:28,445 --> 00:50:31,348 So just who the fuck are you then? 533 00:50:33,918 --> 00:50:35,019 Nobody important. 534 00:50:38,555 --> 00:50:40,290 I... I'm just here to talk. 535 00:50:41,826 --> 00:50:42,827 Okay. 536 00:50:45,797 --> 00:50:46,998 About William DuKent. 537 00:50:50,734 --> 00:50:52,369 You a cop? No. 538 00:50:53,204 --> 00:50:54,872 Hey, fellas? You know the rules. 539 00:50:54,939 --> 00:50:57,741 My lawyer has gotta be present if this guy is a cop. 540 00:50:57,809 --> 00:50:58,843 I'm not a cop. 541 00:51:00,077 --> 00:51:04,548 But I know that you've spoken with DuKent recently. 542 00:51:06,349 --> 00:51:08,052 You're not very good at poker, are you? 543 00:51:09,187 --> 00:51:11,354 That question, right out the gate. 544 00:51:12,757 --> 00:51:13,991 Way too specific. 545 00:51:14,624 --> 00:51:16,393 There's no gray area to work with. 546 00:51:16,794 --> 00:51:19,329 Now, if you had replaced the word "spoken" 547 00:51:19,396 --> 00:51:20,798 with "communicated,"... 548 00:51:21,866 --> 00:51:24,734 then I wouldn't have known what you know, you know? 549 00:51:25,937 --> 00:51:27,772 But you said "spoken," 550 00:51:27,905 --> 00:51:29,506 which tells me that... 551 00:51:30,407 --> 00:51:33,343 you don't know shit. 552 00:51:34,511 --> 00:51:37,747 Words, if you don't know how to play them, 553 00:51:38,682 --> 00:51:40,450 they'll sure as hell play you. 554 00:51:41,585 --> 00:51:43,553 So, what do you want with William DuKent? 555 00:51:44,621 --> 00:51:47,859 I'll answer that after you tell me what he wanted from you. 556 00:51:48,391 --> 00:51:50,694 My opinion. Your opinion about what? 557 00:51:51,661 --> 00:51:55,199 A book. The Infernal Machine. You ever read it? 558 00:51:55,833 --> 00:51:59,971 No. Good. Don't. That book will fuck you up. 559 00:52:01,605 --> 00:52:04,441 The right combination of words will make a man do... 560 00:52:06,376 --> 00:52:07,711 just about anything. 561 00:52:09,579 --> 00:52:11,299 Five minutes. 562 00:52:12,917 --> 00:52:14,886 You ever heard of number stations before? 563 00:52:17,587 --> 00:52:19,757 During the Cold War, there was these 564 00:52:20,057 --> 00:52:21,658 short-wave radio broadcasts 565 00:52:21,725 --> 00:52:24,962 that sent out these cryptic messages across the airwaves. 566 00:52:25,897 --> 00:52:26,898 Usually, a woman's voice 567 00:52:26,964 --> 00:52:29,100 spouting out numbers and shit in German. 568 00:52:30,768 --> 00:52:32,408 And to the general public, it sounded like 569 00:52:32,502 --> 00:52:34,537 a bunch of nonsense, when in actual fact, 570 00:52:34,604 --> 00:52:37,074 it was a complex cipher. 571 00:52:37,540 --> 00:52:40,811 The beauty of this was, instead of marking X on a window 572 00:52:40,878 --> 00:52:43,647 or hiding microfilm in a hollow tooth, 573 00:52:43,948 --> 00:52:46,150 these sons of bitches had the audacity 574 00:52:46,250 --> 00:52:48,352 to send their top-secret transmission 575 00:52:48,886 --> 00:52:52,089 right out into the open for the whole world to hear. 576 00:52:52,290 --> 00:52:54,610 What, are you saying there's a hidden message in that book? 577 00:52:54,825 --> 00:52:56,060 Something like that. 578 00:52:58,329 --> 00:53:01,232 And what is it? Well, you didn't read it, now did you? 579 00:53:01,631 --> 00:53:03,234 So it would be like trying to describe 580 00:53:03,301 --> 00:53:05,169 the color turquoise to a blind man. 581 00:53:06,003 --> 00:53:07,138 So, I'm a blind man now? 582 00:53:07,939 --> 00:53:08,973 You all are. 583 00:53:10,841 --> 00:53:12,742 That's funny. I thought we were all dominos. 584 00:53:16,314 --> 00:53:18,015 I'm done talking here. Hold on. 585 00:53:18,416 --> 00:53:21,584 It's so easy to sit on that side of the world 586 00:53:21,651 --> 00:53:23,187 and judge me, isn't it? 587 00:53:23,254 --> 00:53:24,855 Why did DuKent want your opinion? 588 00:53:24,956 --> 00:53:25,957 Ask him yourself. 589 00:53:27,124 --> 00:53:28,125 Guard. 590 00:53:28,426 --> 00:53:29,994 Please, just tell me now. 591 00:53:30,761 --> 00:53:32,229 He wanted to know if I saw 592 00:53:32,296 --> 00:53:33,965 the same things in the book as he did. 593 00:53:34,932 --> 00:53:37,567 But in the end, he turned out to be 594 00:53:37,634 --> 00:53:39,536 just a fucking liar, like everyone else. 595 00:53:39,602 --> 00:53:41,172 Why? What did he lie about? 596 00:53:42,006 --> 00:53:45,542 He told me that if I was honest with him, 597 00:53:46,643 --> 00:53:49,280 then he'd show up. That he would? DuKent? 598 00:53:49,546 --> 00:53:51,983 No. The motherfucker that put me in here. 599 00:53:53,117 --> 00:53:54,151 Bruce Cogburn. 600 00:53:57,955 --> 00:54:00,858 Sechs, zwei, neun. 601 00:55:58,309 --> 00:56:00,220 We're sorry. 602 00:56:00,244 --> 00:56:02,079 Your call cannot be completed and dialed. 603 00:56:02,279 --> 00:56:04,081 Please, check the number and dial again. 604 00:56:04,381 --> 00:56:06,526 We're sorry. 605 00:56:06,550 --> 00:56:08,285 Your call cannot be completed and dialed. 606 00:56:08,618 --> 00:56:10,254 Please, check the number and dial again. 607 00:56:10,454 --> 00:56:12,532 We're sorry. 608 00:56:12,556 --> 00:56:14,425 Your call cannot be completed and dialed. 609 00:56:14,592 --> 00:56:16,293 Please, check the number and dial again. 610 00:56:16,460 --> 00:56:18,271 We're sorry. 611 00:56:18,295 --> 00:56:20,331 Your call cannot be completed and dialed... 612 00:57:04,608 --> 00:57:05,643 Bruce. Jerry. 613 00:57:05,943 --> 00:57:07,411 I'm not sure what you've been told, 614 00:57:07,645 --> 00:57:08,855 or who you've been talking to... 615 00:57:08,879 --> 00:57:11,582 We got the manuscript. It's brilliant. 616 00:57:11,849 --> 00:57:14,418 - What? - Anonymous? Oh, come on. 617 00:57:14,585 --> 00:57:16,420 There's nobody that writes like you. 618 00:57:17,021 --> 00:57:18,198 I'm not sure how we're going to spin 619 00:57:18,222 --> 00:57:20,524 this whole subject matter and all. 620 00:57:20,758 --> 00:57:22,035 Makes perfect sense why you're going 621 00:57:22,059 --> 00:57:23,561 with the whole "anonymous" angle. 622 00:57:23,661 --> 00:57:24,741 What are you talking about? 623 00:57:25,062 --> 00:57:26,463 It's just, your protagonist 624 00:57:26,530 --> 00:57:27,565 sounds a lot like you. 625 00:57:27,831 --> 00:57:30,201 But I gotta tell ya, this William DuKent, 626 00:57:30,334 --> 00:57:31,769 he is something else. 627 00:57:32,236 --> 00:57:33,103 What did you say? 628 00:57:33,170 --> 00:57:35,372 William DuKent. Am I saying it right? 629 00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:37,551 When can we get the rest of the manuscript? 630 00:57:37,575 --> 00:57:39,176 - Send it! Send it to me! - What? 631 00:57:39,243 --> 00:57:40,554 Bruce, what the hell are you talking about? 632 00:57:40,578 --> 00:57:42,179 Send me the fucking manuscript, Jerry! 633 00:58:24,188 --> 00:58:25,799 I'm calling in response to the letters 634 00:58:25,823 --> 00:58:26,824 I've received from you. 635 00:58:27,157 --> 00:58:29,126 I'm not sure how you found me. 636 00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:32,763 Maybe you got my PO box from an old agent or summit. 637 00:58:33,831 --> 00:58:36,233 Saul. According to the Hebrew Bible, 638 00:58:36,367 --> 00:58:38,335 Saul was the first king of Israel. 639 00:58:39,603 --> 00:58:40,938 I bet you didn't know that. 640 00:58:43,407 --> 00:58:45,009 Your letters are unsolicited 641 00:58:45,109 --> 00:58:46,176 and constitute harassment, 642 00:58:46,310 --> 00:58:48,579 so please, stop sending them. You hear me? 643 00:58:48,712 --> 00:58:51,715 'Cause I'm not here to be someone's fucking inspiration. 644 00:58:51,815 --> 00:58:53,017 Someone's fucking muse. 645 00:58:53,217 --> 00:58:55,328 I've heard your name somewhere. Are you famous? 646 00:58:55,352 --> 00:58:56,963 - Who the fuck are you? - Nobody important. 647 00:58:56,987 --> 00:58:59,590 - You're that writer. - 21st June. 1981. 648 00:58:59,758 --> 00:59:01,292 Knoxville. That book will fuck you up. 649 00:59:01,358 --> 00:59:03,203 Crazy's always looking for an excuse to be crazy, 650 00:59:03,227 --> 00:59:04,971 - I guess, you know? - He had to be punished. 651 00:59:04,995 --> 00:59:06,773 Who had to be punished? DWIGHT: God. 652 00:59:06,797 --> 00:59:08,108 It's about a priest who finds God. 653 00:59:08,132 --> 00:59:10,000 - Metaphorically? - No, actually. 654 00:59:10,134 --> 00:59:12,045 The right combination of words will make a man do... 655 00:59:12,069 --> 00:59:14,714 We're just a row of dominoes to him. BRUCE: ...just about anything. 656 00:59:14,738 --> 00:59:17,574 You saying there's a hidden message in that book? 657 00:59:18,008 --> 00:59:19,619 Fucking nutjob. That guy's a fucking... 658 00:59:19,643 --> 00:59:21,621 I don't need to listen to these. I know what I said. 659 00:59:21,645 --> 00:59:22,922 Fade to dust. Disappear. 660 00:59:22,946 --> 00:59:24,148 You gotta remember... 661 00:59:24,248 --> 00:59:25,892 You don't know shit. 662 00:59:25,916 --> 00:59:27,196 Stop writing to me, okay? 663 00:59:27,251 --> 00:59:28,919 - What do they say? - Nothing. 664 00:59:29,420 --> 00:59:30,721 Words... 665 00:59:30,921 --> 00:59:32,361 if you don't know how to play them... 666 00:59:33,324 --> 00:59:35,235 - If I find you... - ...they'll sure as hell 667 00:59:35,259 --> 00:59:37,328 - play you. - You understand? 668 00:59:37,394 --> 00:59:39,234 - I'm gonna fucking kill you! - Mr. Cogburn? 669 00:59:42,966 --> 00:59:44,234 These just came in for you. 670 01:00:07,224 --> 01:00:08,827 We got the manuscript. 671 01:00:08,892 --> 01:00:10,494 It's brilliant. 672 01:00:11,161 --> 01:00:12,831 Anonymous? Oh, come on. 673 01:00:13,397 --> 01:00:15,399 There's nobody that writes like you. 674 01:02:12,716 --> 01:02:16,353 I know where we are, Mr. DuKent. I know exactly where we are. 675 01:02:16,487 --> 01:02:18,388 We're at the end of act two, aren't we? 676 01:02:19,423 --> 01:02:21,992 That's where the protagonist reaches their limits. 677 01:02:22,827 --> 01:02:23,962 Questions their worth. 678 01:02:24,328 --> 01:02:25,964 Their sanity. Everything. 679 01:02:26,530 --> 01:02:28,933 Because they know the path traveled 680 01:02:28,999 --> 01:02:30,902 pales in comparison to what lies ahead. 681 01:02:31,502 --> 01:02:34,004 And it's in this moment, Mr. DuKent, 682 01:02:34,772 --> 01:02:36,373 that a decision must be made. 683 01:02:37,708 --> 01:02:39,009 Do they carry on, 684 01:02:39,676 --> 01:02:41,745 or do they stop and go back? 685 01:02:42,947 --> 01:02:45,182 But only they can make that choice. 686 01:02:45,315 --> 01:02:48,519 And that, Mr. DuKent, is where you fucked up. 687 01:02:49,553 --> 01:02:51,121 Because your protagonist 688 01:02:51,188 --> 01:02:53,390 is too aware of your narrative now, 689 01:02:53,690 --> 01:02:56,260 and to make matters worse, he's also a writer. 690 01:02:56,393 --> 01:02:58,595 So he knows exactly what a good story needs, 691 01:02:58,729 --> 01:03:00,497 and also how to sabotage one. 692 01:03:02,232 --> 01:03:05,536 What's the greatest sin a writer can commit? 693 01:03:10,008 --> 01:03:11,341 Do you know? 694 01:03:12,844 --> 01:03:14,144 Being dull. 695 01:03:15,212 --> 01:03:16,824 And that's exactly what I'm going to give you, 696 01:03:16,848 --> 01:03:18,148 you stupid fucking cunt. 697 01:03:18,448 --> 01:03:22,553 A long, drawn-out, uneventful, boring ending. 698 01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:26,925 Because nobody gives a damn about an inspired second act 699 01:03:27,090 --> 01:03:29,293 if your finale is a big pile of shit. 700 01:03:32,563 --> 01:03:33,564 Wouldn't you agree? 701 01:03:35,666 --> 01:03:40,604 Zwei, sechs, sechs, zwei. 702 01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:51,448 Without a doubt. 703 01:04:29,988 --> 01:04:30,989 Who is it? 704 01:04:31,321 --> 01:04:33,457 United States federal marshals, Mr. Cogburn. 705 01:04:34,157 --> 01:04:35,860 Ah, we've gone federal now, have we? 706 01:04:36,693 --> 01:04:38,128 Can you step outside, please? 707 01:04:39,864 --> 01:04:42,867 I suppose you've got some convincing ID printed up? 708 01:04:50,674 --> 01:04:52,542 Everything all right there, Mr. Cogburn? 709 01:04:53,111 --> 01:04:54,378 Everything all right with you? 710 01:04:55,445 --> 01:04:57,280 Were you in New Mexico a few days back? 711 01:04:57,849 --> 01:04:59,149 I don't know, you tell me. 712 01:05:00,118 --> 01:05:01,753 Mind telling us the reason for the trip? 713 01:05:02,020 --> 01:05:03,220 I was visiting someone. 714 01:05:03,755 --> 01:05:05,422 Was that someone Dwight Tufford? 715 01:05:06,356 --> 01:05:07,636 Well, that's not a crime, is it? 716 01:05:07,959 --> 01:05:10,962 That's not a crime, sir, but signing in as Richard Smith 717 01:05:11,062 --> 01:05:12,238 at the front desk, that's a crime. 718 01:05:12,262 --> 01:05:13,563 Where'd you get this from? 719 01:05:16,533 --> 01:05:18,578 We're aware of the history between you two, all right? 720 01:05:18,602 --> 01:05:19,679 We're just trying to figure out 721 01:05:19,703 --> 01:05:21,303 why you would want to go and see him now. 722 01:05:21,973 --> 01:05:23,206 Closure, I guess. 723 01:05:24,341 --> 01:05:27,011 Has Dwight Tufford contacted you in the last 24 hours? 724 01:05:27,411 --> 01:05:28,913 No. Why would he do that? 725 01:05:29,613 --> 01:05:31,213 You been watching TV this morning? 726 01:05:31,515 --> 01:05:33,885 I don't have a television. I'm not that kind of person. 727 01:05:36,054 --> 01:05:37,088 Why? 728 01:05:38,056 --> 01:05:39,599 The FBI's manhunt is focusing 729 01:05:39,623 --> 01:05:42,259 its search on Dwight Tufford in the Los Alamos area 730 01:05:42,325 --> 01:05:43,493 of New Mexico. 731 01:05:43,895 --> 01:05:46,496 Despite being held in a maximum-security prison, 732 01:05:46,596 --> 01:05:48,933 Tufford somehow slipped past the guards last night, 733 01:05:49,232 --> 01:05:50,835 sparking a nationwide panic. 734 01:05:58,542 --> 01:05:59,844 In 1981, Tufford arrived 735 01:06:00,011 --> 01:06:03,047 at the Knoxville Baptist University campus with a rifle. 736 01:06:03,547 --> 01:06:05,749 Taking aim, he pointed his gun at the crowd below 737 01:06:05,883 --> 01:06:06,951 and he shot dozens. 738 01:06:08,285 --> 01:06:10,454 Thirteen students and faculty members died. 739 01:06:11,321 --> 01:06:13,356 He is responsible for the deadliest shooting 740 01:06:13,423 --> 01:06:14,658 in Tennessee history. 741 01:06:15,592 --> 01:06:18,261 One witness described it as mass chaos. 742 01:06:19,030 --> 01:06:21,065 No one knew where the bullets were coming from, 743 01:06:21,364 --> 01:06:22,599 or where to run. 744 01:07:12,415 --> 01:07:14,852 But so was Orwell's 1984 745 01:07:14,952 --> 01:07:17,922 or Joyce's Ulysses when first published. 746 01:07:18,688 --> 01:07:21,591 The only crime Mr. Cogburn ever committed 747 01:07:21,826 --> 01:07:23,426 was writing one book. 748 01:07:23,795 --> 01:07:25,839 So it begins with the author's intent? 749 01:07:25,863 --> 01:07:28,374 That's fair to say. MALE INTERVIEWER: So, what is the intent 750 01:07:28,398 --> 01:07:29,432 of The Infernal machine? 751 01:07:29,767 --> 01:07:31,334 I believe only Mr. Cogburn 752 01:07:31,434 --> 01:07:32,669 can answer that question. 753 01:07:55,525 --> 01:07:57,028 Take it easy, Mr. Cogburn. 754 01:07:57,727 --> 01:07:59,039 Are we still getting ice cream? 755 01:07:59,063 --> 01:08:01,531 No. We're going to get some fish, uncooked. 756 01:08:01,799 --> 01:08:02,666 Like, raw fish. 757 01:08:02,767 --> 01:08:04,668 Ew. No. I want ice cream. 758 01:08:43,975 --> 01:08:46,143 Just give her five minutes, then the stage is yours. 759 01:08:47,677 --> 01:08:49,046 Show's not till 7 tomorrow, 760 01:08:49,180 --> 01:08:51,260 so I assume you should have plenty of time to set up? 761 01:08:52,083 --> 01:08:53,117 Okay, sure. 762 01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:58,856 A year ago, I couldn't even get her to sing in the car. 763 01:09:02,392 --> 01:09:03,627 She's your daughter? 764 01:09:04,328 --> 01:09:05,562 Yeah. 765 01:09:06,563 --> 01:09:08,833 She booked her first TV job last week. 766 01:09:09,100 --> 01:09:10,201 I mean, nothing much. 767 01:09:11,002 --> 01:09:13,905 A walk-on on one of those hidden camera shows? But she loved it. 768 01:09:13,971 --> 01:09:15,006 What was the show? 769 01:09:15,273 --> 01:09:16,606 They never tell you that. 770 01:09:17,341 --> 01:09:19,210 They had her playing in the park or something? 771 01:09:19,576 --> 01:09:21,444 The casting director, she was lovely. 772 01:09:22,113 --> 01:09:24,115 She was great, great with kids. 773 01:09:24,748 --> 01:09:26,449 Do you have kids? Should take them there. 774 01:09:27,785 --> 01:09:30,121 Bishop and Rook. I mean, amazing. 775 01:09:30,354 --> 01:09:31,621 It's so good. Bishop and Rook? 776 01:09:31,756 --> 01:09:34,191 Yeah, she's great with kids, yeah. 777 01:09:35,259 --> 01:09:37,061 Can't wait for her to book another job. 778 01:11:20,464 --> 01:11:21,698 Reservation? 779 01:12:32,837 --> 01:12:35,339 Mister? You forgot something. 780 01:12:44,714 --> 01:12:45,715 Oh! 781 01:12:45,983 --> 01:12:48,986 Oh! 782 01:12:57,561 --> 01:12:58,896 Don't fucking move. 783 01:13:00,131 --> 01:13:02,199 Umm... I'll have another vodka tonic, actually. 784 01:13:02,266 --> 01:13:05,803 And my associate here, a whiskey, I believe? 785 01:13:09,440 --> 01:13:10,908 Stand up. We're not doing this here. 786 01:13:11,008 --> 01:13:12,610 Well, I believe we are. What, you think 787 01:13:12,742 --> 01:13:14,711 that revolver is going to convince me otherwise? 788 01:13:15,312 --> 01:13:16,392 Why don't you give it a go? 789 01:13:16,881 --> 01:13:18,715 I'm not sure you'll have much luck, though, 790 01:13:18,782 --> 01:13:20,782 considering we took all the bullets out of the gun. 791 01:13:24,555 --> 01:13:25,589 Bullshit. 792 01:13:25,688 --> 01:13:27,358 Well, there's only one way to find out. 793 01:13:30,828 --> 01:13:34,098 Right. So, I think we are going to do this, 794 01:13:34,331 --> 01:13:35,491 so why don't you take a seat? 795 01:13:44,942 --> 01:13:48,112 What do you want? From you? Nothing. 796 01:13:48,745 --> 01:13:49,813 Then who are you? 797 01:13:50,181 --> 01:13:51,782 Say a young couple wants to get married. 798 01:13:51,849 --> 01:13:53,369 They find themselves a wedding planner. 799 01:13:53,417 --> 01:13:55,519 Or if you want to host a fancy dinner party, 800 01:13:55,819 --> 01:13:57,154 you hire a chef. 801 01:13:57,354 --> 01:13:59,957 But if you need to turn someone's world upside down, 802 01:14:00,324 --> 01:14:01,392 then you hire me. 803 01:14:02,059 --> 01:14:03,270 And that's what you think you're doing? 804 01:14:03,294 --> 01:14:06,063 No, it's what I've done. The proof of that is you 805 01:14:06,630 --> 01:14:08,165 sitting right opposite me. Thank you. 806 01:14:09,200 --> 01:14:10,680 The reason I'm sitting opposite you is 807 01:14:10,733 --> 01:14:12,269 because I found your fake daughter. 808 01:14:13,204 --> 01:14:15,039 You're a sicko, endangering a kid like that. 809 01:14:15,206 --> 01:14:17,875 Endangered? That's a bit dramatic, isn't it? 810 01:14:18,342 --> 01:14:20,710 That little angel went home with 300 dollars in her pocket. 811 01:14:20,945 --> 01:14:22,022 All she had to do was pretend to be 812 01:14:22,046 --> 01:14:23,380 someone else for a few hours. 813 01:14:24,148 --> 01:14:27,184 Isn't that what you've been doing the last 25 years? 814 01:14:28,752 --> 01:14:31,488 Do you know, the difference between you and I 815 01:14:32,423 --> 01:14:33,757 is that I know what I am. 816 01:14:34,724 --> 01:14:37,428 I'm a liar. And I'm fucking good at it. 817 01:14:38,495 --> 01:14:39,739 I can be anything you want me to be. 818 01:14:39,763 --> 01:14:41,899 Could be a person, a company, a scenario. 819 01:14:42,099 --> 01:14:44,301 Usually, the marks are sort of politicians and CEOs. 820 01:14:44,368 --> 01:14:46,637 They're always boring. They're always forgettable. 821 01:14:46,870 --> 01:14:48,248 And that's what separates you from them. 822 01:14:48,272 --> 01:14:51,041 What, because I'm not boring? Oh no, you're very boring. 823 01:14:51,342 --> 01:14:52,476 But you're not forgettable. 824 01:14:52,843 --> 01:14:54,378 And that's why I took this assignment. 825 01:14:54,712 --> 01:14:58,082 Because history is going to remember you, Bruce. 826 01:14:58,649 --> 01:15:00,150 And that really bothers me. 827 01:15:01,452 --> 01:15:04,655 Because you dress in your sort of Sam Shepard clothes, 828 01:15:04,855 --> 01:15:06,924 and you drink like Capote and live like Thompson, 829 01:15:07,291 --> 01:15:09,727 all so the world will know there's artistic genius, 830 01:15:09,793 --> 01:15:11,593 but you and I know there's no artistic genius. 831 01:15:11,662 --> 01:15:12,782 There's no mystique. Shut it. 832 01:15:12,830 --> 01:15:13,831 You got lucky. 833 01:15:14,098 --> 01:15:16,109 You built your ivory tower brick by brick with lies. 834 01:15:16,133 --> 01:15:17,701 Shut your fucking mouth. And I'm here 835 01:15:18,035 --> 01:15:19,903 to make sure you burn in it. 836 01:15:21,472 --> 01:15:24,174 'Cause you see, it's pride that's the Achilles' heel 837 01:15:24,375 --> 01:15:25,576 of mediocre men. 838 01:15:25,709 --> 01:15:27,020 Shut it with your fucking pride talk. 839 01:15:27,044 --> 01:15:28,188 That's not the reason why I'm here. 840 01:15:28,212 --> 01:15:30,514 Right. Sorry. Yes, of course. My bad. So... 841 01:15:31,882 --> 01:15:34,151 that little girl, I so carelessly endangered. 842 01:15:34,852 --> 01:15:36,987 Okay, total hypothetical here, what if, just what if, 843 01:15:37,154 --> 01:15:40,090 I wanted you to find the girl, her mother, my office, 844 01:15:40,291 --> 01:15:41,801 the stack of receipts, all of it? Right. 845 01:15:41,825 --> 01:15:43,794 Right, well, that would make you a fucking genius, 846 01:15:43,861 --> 01:15:46,096 and I don't think you are. No. 847 01:15:48,499 --> 01:15:49,533 Probably not. 848 01:16:07,685 --> 01:16:09,386 Mister? Mister? 849 01:16:10,521 --> 01:16:11,522 You forgot something. 850 01:16:12,456 --> 01:16:16,260 Mister? Mister? You forgot something. 851 01:16:17,127 --> 01:16:18,062 Wait... 852 01:16:18,128 --> 01:16:19,563 Oh! 853 01:16:20,431 --> 01:16:21,465 Wait. 854 01:16:21,999 --> 01:16:23,877 I'm not sure you'll have much luck, though, 855 01:16:23,901 --> 01:16:25,901 considering we took all the bullets out of the gun. 856 01:16:26,837 --> 01:16:29,082 Bullshit. There's only one way to find out. 857 01:16:29,106 --> 01:16:30,407 There's only one way to find out. 858 01:16:33,610 --> 01:16:36,213 Wait. Hold on. 859 01:16:37,381 --> 01:16:38,582 Listen, I don't know... 860 01:16:50,060 --> 01:16:52,262 Who are you? Oh, nobody important. 861 01:16:52,863 --> 01:16:54,198 I'm just the messenger. 862 01:16:56,266 --> 01:16:58,435 Then who's sending the fucking messages? 863 01:16:59,503 --> 01:17:02,373 Don't worry, Bruce. You'll see him soon enough. 864 01:17:21,892 --> 01:17:23,127 You all right? 865 01:17:24,528 --> 01:17:26,263 I've got a steak in the fridge if you like. 866 01:17:27,331 --> 01:17:28,332 Come on. 867 01:17:36,073 --> 01:17:38,575 Saul? 868 01:17:38,942 --> 01:17:40,377 Saul? 869 01:17:40,744 --> 01:17:42,679 Saul! Hey! Hey! 870 01:17:43,247 --> 01:17:44,281 Saul! 871 01:17:47,451 --> 01:17:48,585 Saul! 872 01:18:03,835 --> 01:18:05,035 Fuck. 873 01:18:07,872 --> 01:18:09,106 Saul! 874 01:18:54,618 --> 01:18:55,686 Hello? 875 01:18:57,488 --> 01:18:58,522 Bruce? 876 01:19:05,295 --> 01:19:08,732 That dog of yours has got a lot of spirit. 877 01:19:11,936 --> 01:19:13,576 Do you want to come out and talk about it? 878 01:19:16,440 --> 01:19:17,541 No? 879 01:19:21,645 --> 01:19:22,679 Okay. 880 01:19:25,382 --> 01:19:27,684 Hell of a gun you got yourself here, Bruce. 881 01:19:29,119 --> 01:19:31,321 If I would have had one of these on the day, 882 01:19:33,190 --> 01:19:35,760 I would have gotten a lot more than 13, I'll tell you that. 883 01:19:37,261 --> 01:19:39,129 Like shooting fish in a barrel. 884 01:19:41,164 --> 01:19:42,666 The first eight I killed, 885 01:19:43,467 --> 01:19:44,535 they were easy. 886 01:19:44,969 --> 01:19:46,236 They just stood there. 887 01:19:47,005 --> 01:19:48,205 Emotionless. 888 01:19:49,007 --> 01:19:50,274 Confused. 889 01:19:51,308 --> 01:19:53,243 Like they couldn't make sense of any of it. 890 01:20:01,618 --> 01:20:03,821 'Cause you can't make sense out of madness now... 891 01:20:05,757 --> 01:20:06,758 can you, Bruce? 892 01:20:09,059 --> 01:20:10,561 No. You can't. 893 01:20:11,829 --> 01:20:13,497 But you killed 13, not eight. 894 01:20:14,832 --> 01:20:16,333 What were the other five guilty of? 895 01:20:21,204 --> 01:20:22,739 Running in straight lines, I guess. 896 01:20:25,309 --> 01:20:26,309 Ah. 897 01:20:26,343 --> 01:20:28,012 I really wish that you and I had met 898 01:20:28,111 --> 01:20:29,746 under different circumstances. 899 01:20:30,547 --> 01:20:31,892 Because I've got a lot of questions 900 01:20:31,916 --> 01:20:33,017 about that book of yours. 901 01:20:45,128 --> 01:20:47,865 Shh! Shh! 902 01:20:49,333 --> 01:20:50,667 Don't worry, Bruce. 903 01:20:52,336 --> 01:20:55,439 I ain't letting you die, I'll make sure of that. 904 01:20:56,106 --> 01:20:57,174 You see, 905 01:20:57,741 --> 01:21:02,546 I gave 20 years of my fucking life for that book of yours. 906 01:21:04,214 --> 01:21:06,283 And now I'm going to need some answers. 907 01:21:07,785 --> 01:21:09,219 Eight hundred pages' worth. 908 01:21:09,453 --> 01:21:12,890 And there is nothing, and I mean nothing, 909 01:21:13,024 --> 01:21:15,192 that I'm not willing to do. 910 01:21:16,094 --> 01:21:18,295 "There they go. 911 01:21:18,695 --> 01:21:21,131 One by one, two by two, 912 01:21:22,265 --> 01:21:23,300 that long line 913 01:21:23,634 --> 01:21:25,837 crawling its way up the sidewalk. 914 01:21:26,637 --> 01:21:27,671 Builders. 915 01:21:28,505 --> 01:21:29,573 Doctors. 916 01:21:30,008 --> 01:21:32,010 Farmers. Plumbers. Thieves. 917 01:21:32,376 --> 01:21:35,046 All entering God's house like ants 918 01:21:35,345 --> 01:21:37,782 walking across a picnic blanket." 919 01:21:40,651 --> 01:21:42,754 God, you've got a way with words, Bruce. 920 01:21:43,888 --> 01:21:45,322 "Then the priest thought..." 921 01:21:47,457 --> 01:21:49,961 "...why don't they join me out here on the grass? 922 01:21:50,527 --> 01:21:53,397 That way, the ones who want sun, get it, 923 01:21:53,597 --> 01:21:56,134 and the ones that don't, don't. 924 01:21:56,533 --> 01:21:59,003 This way, I can tell them the truth. 925 01:21:59,469 --> 01:22:01,538 That it's 95 degrees. 926 01:22:02,339 --> 01:22:03,841 That's all I know for certain. 927 01:22:07,411 --> 01:22:10,514 The rest is up for interpretation." 928 01:22:30,134 --> 01:22:31,368 The book... 929 01:22:33,236 --> 01:22:34,271 What does it all mean? 930 01:22:38,943 --> 01:22:40,444 Pl... Please... 931 01:22:44,949 --> 01:22:46,249 Well, I would like to tell you... 932 01:22:50,154 --> 01:22:51,521 but the truth is... 933 01:22:55,059 --> 01:22:56,326 I didn't write it. 934 01:24:14,172 --> 01:24:15,292 Professor. 935 01:24:16,073 --> 01:24:20,978 Elijah's been on life support for the past two weeks. 936 01:24:22,847 --> 01:24:26,349 Even if he woke up, he'd never be the same. 937 01:24:27,317 --> 01:24:29,719 My wife and I agree that... 938 01:24:31,388 --> 01:24:33,925 we need to end his suffering. 939 01:25:23,540 --> 01:25:24,909 What would I write about? 940 01:25:26,576 --> 01:25:29,412 Anything. Anything you want. 941 01:25:29,881 --> 01:25:31,048 It's about a priest. 942 01:25:32,716 --> 01:25:34,018 Does it have a title? 943 01:25:34,451 --> 01:25:36,087 No, not yet. 944 01:27:27,164 --> 01:27:32,370 Two, six, six, two. 945 01:27:36,107 --> 01:27:38,943 Two, two, six, 946 01:27:39,243 --> 01:27:41,779 six, two, nine. 947 01:27:42,712 --> 01:27:48,085 One, one, five, one, four, nine. 948 01:27:48,953 --> 01:27:54,591 Two, two, six, six, two, nine. 949 01:28:41,939 --> 01:28:44,842 Two, two, six, 950 01:28:45,209 --> 01:28:47,778 six, two, nine. 951 01:28:52,283 --> 01:28:56,787 One, one, five, one, ten. 952 01:29:13,137 --> 01:29:15,506 Two, two, 953 01:29:15,940 --> 01:29:21,112 six, six, two, nine. 954 01:29:41,565 --> 01:29:42,900 One. 955 01:29:44,335 --> 01:29:45,668 One. 956 01:29:47,505 --> 01:29:48,873 Six. 957 01:29:50,274 --> 01:29:51,308 One. 958 01:29:53,110 --> 01:29:54,111 Seven. 959 01:29:55,913 --> 01:29:56,947 Two. 960 01:29:58,616 --> 01:29:59,682 Nine. 961 01:30:16,901 --> 01:30:21,105 "There they go. One by one, two by two, 962 01:30:21,238 --> 01:30:24,074 that long line crawling its way up the sidewalk. 963 01:30:24,875 --> 01:30:29,380 Builders, doctors, teachers, farmers, plumbers, thieves. 964 01:30:30,014 --> 01:30:32,783 All entering God's house like ants 965 01:30:33,584 --> 01:30:35,685 marching across a picnic blanket. 966 01:30:46,297 --> 01:30:47,331 Elijah? 967 01:30:57,141 --> 01:30:58,209 How did you find me? 968 01:31:02,446 --> 01:31:07,284 W... with lots and lots... 969 01:31:08,752 --> 01:31:12,156 of patience. 970 01:31:28,339 --> 01:31:29,473 How long have you been here? 971 01:31:30,507 --> 01:31:34,044 Almost five years, Professor. 972 01:31:35,312 --> 01:31:36,447 Oh, God. 973 01:31:52,363 --> 01:31:54,798 Cause and effect. 974 01:31:55,666 --> 01:31:57,735 Action and reaction. 975 01:31:57,935 --> 01:32:01,605 If you know the physical properties of something, 976 01:32:02,206 --> 01:32:05,909 you can make it do almost anything you... 977 01:32:07,011 --> 01:32:08,045 want. 978 01:32:09,413 --> 01:32:11,915 Human beings are no different. 979 01:32:19,923 --> 01:32:21,258 So, you knew I was coming? 980 01:32:21,492 --> 01:32:23,827 I was hoping for that 981 01:32:24,528 --> 01:32:26,096 conclusion, yes. 982 01:32:27,231 --> 01:32:30,067 I'm not a fortune teller, I'm just a... 983 01:32:31,402 --> 01:32:32,870 just a writer. 984 01:32:34,605 --> 01:32:37,007 You see, all I did was 985 01:32:37,141 --> 01:32:42,179 place a few obstacles in your path, and then I... 986 01:32:43,280 --> 01:32:46,350 waited to see what you would do. 987 01:32:47,718 --> 01:32:51,555 And I must confess that the dog... 988 01:32:55,893 --> 01:32:57,561 was a nice touch. 989 01:32:59,263 --> 01:33:04,568 How is Saul doing by the way, hm? 990 01:33:05,903 --> 01:33:07,271 He'll live. 991 01:33:09,006 --> 01:33:11,942 Will Mr. Tufford be joining us today? 992 01:33:14,545 --> 01:33:16,747 I see. 993 01:33:17,214 --> 01:33:20,584 That's good. I never was very... 994 01:33:20,884 --> 01:33:23,654 very fond of that ending anyway. 995 01:33:24,021 --> 01:33:25,289 What ending is that? 996 01:33:27,424 --> 01:33:29,259 Every story 997 01:33:29,626 --> 01:33:32,296 ends in one of two ways. 998 01:33:33,263 --> 01:33:37,901 Either the hero faces his fears and is reborn, 999 01:33:39,069 --> 01:33:41,038 or he is punished 1000 01:33:41,840 --> 01:33:44,274 for failing to change. 1001 01:33:44,776 --> 01:33:49,079 And I'm really curious, Professor. 1002 01:33:50,849 --> 01:33:52,416 Which one are you? 1003 01:33:54,885 --> 01:33:56,186 Don't you lecture me. 1004 01:33:57,789 --> 01:33:59,056 What was I supposed to do? 1005 01:34:00,090 --> 01:34:02,192 Your father told me, he was gonna 1006 01:34:02,259 --> 01:34:04,027 turn your fucking machine off. 1007 01:34:04,595 --> 01:34:07,030 And that book was too important 1008 01:34:07,097 --> 01:34:08,800 to just sit on the fucking shelf! 1009 01:34:09,233 --> 01:34:10,501 What do you want from me? 1010 01:34:10,701 --> 01:34:11,803 What do you want from me? 1011 01:34:11,969 --> 01:34:15,339 I only wish to take 1012 01:34:15,973 --> 01:34:17,941 what you're willing to give me. 1013 01:34:29,286 --> 01:34:30,387 All right. 1014 01:34:34,024 --> 01:34:37,762 Right. 1015 01:34:38,362 --> 01:34:40,164 And the point to all of this is... 1016 01:34:42,399 --> 01:34:43,500 ...is punishment? 1017 01:34:44,668 --> 01:34:47,371 Justice? Retribution? Atonement? 1018 01:34:47,906 --> 01:34:50,207 That's the point, is it? 1019 01:34:50,374 --> 01:34:52,443 Writer's block. 1020 01:34:58,482 --> 01:35:00,551 Since you stole... 1021 01:35:02,085 --> 01:35:04,388 my first book, Bruce, I... 1022 01:35:05,088 --> 01:35:06,290 I thought you... 1023 01:35:06,657 --> 01:35:11,061 you wouldn't mind helping me... 1024 01:35:12,931 --> 01:35:15,065 write my second book. 1025 01:35:19,570 --> 01:35:20,637 But then... 1026 01:35:21,705 --> 01:35:23,307 the more I wrote, 1027 01:35:24,843 --> 01:35:27,077 the more I realized, 1028 01:35:28,145 --> 01:35:30,514 "This is not my story." 1029 01:35:34,051 --> 01:35:38,155 I know you... you didn't write it. 1030 01:35:39,590 --> 01:35:43,727 But you lived it. 1031 01:35:44,963 --> 01:35:49,132 Every page, every line, every word. 1032 01:35:55,138 --> 01:35:57,341 Don't worry, Professor. 1033 01:35:58,675 --> 01:36:00,110 This is a... 1034 01:36:00,677 --> 01:36:02,079 a happy ending. 1035 01:36:14,458 --> 01:36:16,493 For 25 years, 1036 01:36:16,627 --> 01:36:20,564 the world has waited for 1037 01:36:20,999 --> 01:36:26,036 Bruce Cogburn's next masterpiece. 1038 01:36:26,771 --> 01:36:28,138 And today, 1039 01:36:29,139 --> 01:36:31,408 today is the day 1040 01:36:31,708 --> 01:36:33,744 that we give it to them. 1041 01:36:39,349 --> 01:36:40,584 Why are you doing this? 1042 01:36:41,652 --> 01:36:47,291 I need to know that I am more than a book... 1043 01:36:50,028 --> 01:36:51,662 full of rage. 1044 01:36:57,568 --> 01:36:59,771 I truly believed that you had died. 1045 01:37:03,007 --> 01:37:04,341 I was dead. 1046 01:37:06,911 --> 01:37:09,479 For 19 minutes. 1047 01:37:11,883 --> 01:37:15,954 Would you like to know what I found on the other side? 1048 01:37:18,388 --> 01:37:24,328 I... I found... 1049 01:37:26,530 --> 01:37:27,631 nothing. 1050 01:37:29,266 --> 01:37:31,769 My whole life, I... 1051 01:37:31,970 --> 01:37:36,506 I blamed God for everything that was 1052 01:37:37,708 --> 01:37:39,443 wrong with me, and I... 1053 01:37:40,277 --> 01:37:42,914 wanted so much for the world to... 1054 01:37:43,081 --> 01:37:46,818 to know Him the way that I knew Him as a... 1055 01:37:49,720 --> 01:37:51,588 a child, 1056 01:37:53,156 --> 01:37:55,659 a cruel child with a... 1057 01:37:56,727 --> 01:37:58,562 with a magnifying glass. 1058 01:37:58,695 --> 01:38:02,499 And we are just the ants that He plays with. 1059 01:38:05,837 --> 01:38:06,838 But then... 1060 01:38:08,605 --> 01:38:09,740 I died. 1061 01:38:12,076 --> 01:38:14,645 And I realized... 1062 01:38:18,181 --> 01:38:20,651 there is no child. 1063 01:38:22,252 --> 01:38:25,890 There is no magnifying glass. 1064 01:38:28,659 --> 01:38:30,928 There is only us ants. 1065 01:38:33,463 --> 01:38:36,500 And we are the ones who 1066 01:38:37,835 --> 01:38:39,302 started the fire. 1067 01:38:41,139 --> 01:38:44,075 All those misguided gods, 1068 01:38:44,241 --> 01:38:46,209 all those beliefs... 1069 01:38:46,343 --> 01:38:51,181 ...all bullshit. 1070 01:39:30,353 --> 01:39:31,823 Oh, what is that? 1071 01:39:34,926 --> 01:39:39,931 It's a letter. Who is that 1072 01:39:43,734 --> 01:39:44,802 To my agent. 1073 01:39:56,480 --> 01:39:58,615 I'm done playing this part. 1074 01:40:00,717 --> 01:40:04,354 What did you put in that letter, Bruce? 1075 01:40:09,761 --> 01:40:10,828 Bruce? 1076 01:40:12,230 --> 01:40:13,430 Professor? 1077 01:40:14,397 --> 01:40:17,235 Professor! 1078 01:40:20,403 --> 01:40:22,472 What's in that letter? 1079 01:40:24,976 --> 01:40:27,011 The truth, Elijah. 1080 01:40:28,212 --> 01:40:29,446 It's the truth. 1081 01:42:24,795 --> 01:42:25,796 Elijah? 1082 01:42:27,564 --> 01:42:30,667 This is incredible writing. 1083 01:42:31,468 --> 01:42:32,770 Thank you, Professor. 1084 01:42:33,237 --> 01:42:34,437 It's exquisite. 1085 01:42:34,571 --> 01:42:37,407 Now, bugger off. Yes. Thank you. 1086 01:42:40,311 --> 01:42:44,748 I'm serious, Elijah. Everything I read of yours, 1087 01:42:44,982 --> 01:42:47,985 it's so surprising to me. It's unpredictable. 1088 01:42:48,685 --> 01:42:51,322 You need to be a professional writer. 1089 01:42:51,688 --> 01:42:54,892 What if I don't have anything to say? 1090 01:42:56,693 --> 01:42:58,528 Then you're not digging deep enough. 1091 01:43:00,097 --> 01:43:01,132 Dig deep. 1092 01:43:02,465 --> 01:43:03,667 Elijah? 1093 01:43:06,370 --> 01:43:08,205 What do you think, Professor? 1094 01:43:09,073 --> 01:43:10,440 I can't wait to read it. 1095 01:43:11,508 --> 01:43:14,378 Dig deep. Dig deep. 1096 01:43:14,511 --> 01:43:17,714 What's that? Dig deep. 1097 01:43:19,250 --> 01:43:23,154 I don't think I could have dug any deeper than this, Professor. 1098 01:43:26,290 --> 01:43:28,192 He's gonna be so mad at me. 1099 01:43:28,392 --> 01:43:31,395 I'm... I'm supposed to wait. 1100 01:43:31,963 --> 01:43:34,865 I don't know if I can wait. Wait for what? 1101 01:43:37,368 --> 01:43:38,601 Wait for what, Elijah? 1102 01:43:44,175 --> 01:43:46,509 To see the look on God's face. 1103 01:43:51,015 --> 01:43:52,149 No! 1104 01:43:54,752 --> 01:43:57,088 My wife and I agree that 1105 01:43:57,288 --> 01:43:59,656 we need to end his suffering. 1106 01:44:00,224 --> 01:44:03,794 Thank you for everything you've done for our boy. 1107 01:44:04,462 --> 01:44:06,663 I have to go. I'm so sorry. 1108 01:44:07,530 --> 01:44:09,233 I appreciate you telling me. 1109 01:44:46,470 --> 01:44:47,670 Who... 1110 01:44:48,506 --> 01:44:50,775 am I? 1111 01:44:54,478 --> 01:44:55,813 Who am I, really? 1112 01:45:00,650 --> 01:45:02,552 That's the question that every protagonist 1113 01:45:02,685 --> 01:45:05,956 needs to answer by the end of their story. 1114 01:45:07,590 --> 01:45:09,726 If your hero hasn't reached 1115 01:45:10,027 --> 01:45:13,097 some sort of cathartic realization about who they are 1116 01:45:13,164 --> 01:45:16,633 or what they believe in by the last page, 1117 01:45:17,034 --> 01:45:19,569 then I'm sorry to inform you, ladies and gents, 1118 01:45:19,804 --> 01:45:21,172 you have failed your reader. 1119 01:45:23,740 --> 01:45:26,977 Professor. Thank you for everything. 1120 01:45:28,813 --> 01:45:32,116 You are a really good teacher. 1121 01:45:33,184 --> 01:45:34,218 Did you know that? 1122 01:45:37,455 --> 01:45:39,290 You're the only person that gets me. 1123 01:45:42,159 --> 01:45:43,260 You made me a... 1124 01:45:44,962 --> 01:45:49,233 a better writer. You made me... you made me better. 1125 01:45:52,069 --> 01:45:54,238 I couldn't have done this without you. 1126 01:45:55,005 --> 01:45:57,141 The road you construct 1127 01:45:57,208 --> 01:45:59,510 for your characters to travel along, 1128 01:46:00,144 --> 01:46:02,612 it shouldn't be paved, shouldn't be easy. 1129 01:46:04,582 --> 01:46:06,217 Because finding out who you are 1130 01:46:09,120 --> 01:46:10,187 never is. 1130 01:46:11,305 --> 01:47:11,731 Please rate this subtitle at www.osdb.link/apb73 Help other users to choose the best subtitles