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[snorting]

[gasping
and breathing heavily]

[pilot] Metro tower,

this is Northwest Orient
flight 305

we have a situation.

[Rodney] Tina,
I'm gonna have to have you

sit up here now.

I don't wanna
see you get hurt.

I don't wanna see
anybody get hurt.

[sharply exhales]

[exhales]

[breathing heavily]

-[tense music playing]
-[door opening]

[co-pilot] Captain,
the aft door is open.

Oh, my God.

[breathing heavily]

♪

[quiet suspenseful
music playing]

[Rodney] My real name
is Rodney Lewis Bonnifield.

Born July 26, 1952.

I am D.B. Cooper.

♪ All these sparkling ♪

♪ Golden dollar days

♪ Will wash our normal
problems down the drain ♪

♪ I can offer you
a better today ♪

♪ I can give to you
a court with no judge ♪

♪ Look around you

♪ At everything
you don't has ♪

♪ Is all you really,
really need love? ♪

♪ I can offer you
a better right now ♪

♪ Lift away all of the weight
that won't budge ♪

♪ Picture your view ♪

♪ From your house
on the moon, baby ♪

♪ Saturn's got rings ♪

♪ And you
should be wearing them ♪

♪ Singing all these sparkly
golden dollar days ♪

♪ Will wash our normal
problems down the drain ♪

♪ Right down the drain ♪

[Rodney] Had a knife
on the drain board,

a big Bowie knife,

come around and they get me
right in the neck.

And so I just reached up

had a sheathing knife
about this big

because it--
it was for hunting, skinning.

I just reached up
and popped him one.

So, he dropped the knife

right in the shoulder,
right there.

-And so, he dropped the knife.
-[Clifford] Help me.

[phone line beeps]

[operator] 911,
what is your emergency?

[Clifford groans]
It's Clifford Rich.

Lady, goddamn it!

I've been stabbed!

Rodney fuckin' Bonnifield.

[guitar music playing]

[Rodney] No, I believe in God.
God and country, I do.

[interviewer]
Nothin' wrong with that.

[Rodney] No,
nothing wrong with that.

Least I know
where I'm going.

A lot of people
don't know where they're goin'.

Think there's a big force.
Well, guess what?

I'd rather know where I'm goin'
than not know where I'm goin'.

[Carlos] So,
I met Rod December of 2016.

Rodney had been arrested on
assault one,

uh, essentially a knife fight
and, uh, bailed him out.

[Mike] But people come
to bail companies

because
they're in a time of crisis.

So,
we facilitate individuals

who are arrested
and held.

We negotiate
with their friends and family

and contractually bind them
to attend their court hearings

and if they fail to appear,
then it's our job to go out

and find them
and bring them back.

[man] Sorry, I'm not trying
to be an asshole.

-No, no.
-Hey, we're not either.

-[man] I'm loaded.
-So are we.

[Mike] My name's Mike Rocha.

I'm a bondsman
for All City Bail Bonds.

I started doing
recovery work

when I turned
21-years-old.

So, a long time,
over 35 years.

The difference between us
and Dog the Bounty Hunter

is that we are authorized
and able to carry firearms.

We typically like
to work under the radar.

We will go out normally
in the cover of dark,

arrest the people
that we need to...

Full-auto.

...and do it
in a real quiet manner.

[gunfire]

My brother, Carlos,

is in the bail industry
as well.

I got introduced
to the business

with my brother 35 years ago
doing some recovery.

[gunshots]

I absolutely love it,
uh, everyday is interesting.

Interesting characters,
interesting scenarios,

stuff that you're, just,
not got gonna find

at a regular job for sure.

And I kissed the ground
when he came to help me,

that was it, I says,
"That guy there,

he's a man to come and get me
out of this mess."

And, so, I was out
for two and a half years.

I don't have any problem
with anybody else.

He wasn't fully funded on--
on the bond,

so people put up some money,
but he had to come back in

time after time after time
and make his payments

and he never missed
a payment.

Uh, and, again,
he could've taken off

and gone up into the hills

and he'd be a hard guy
to find.

I says,
"I'm not runnin' anywhere,

I'm not guilty
of this crime."

[Carlos]
He comes into the office

and first he gives me
his paperwork

stating
that he had taken a plea deal

on the knife fight scenario.

I returned his collateral,
which was,

uh, I think
four different vehicles.

[Rodney]
He gave me back my titles.

He says you--
you made it,

you did the right thing,
you didn't run.

And he goes, "Uh, I got
something else to run by you."

I says, uh,
"I'm D.B. Cooper.

"I been wanted
for a long time."

[news anchor]
When he got on a plane

in Portland, Oregon
last night,

he was just another passenger
who gave his name

as D.A. Cooper.

But today, after hijacking
a Northwest Airlines jet,

then making a getaway
by parachute,

the description
on one wire service:

master criminal.

I decided to come on out

and tell the truth
about everything.

So the people that have a right
to know who I am.

He seemed rather nice,

other than he wanted
certain things to be done.

We were honoring his requests
and, therefore,

we made no attempt
to impede his mission.

[narrator]
In the early '70s, a hijacker

calling himself D.B. Cooper

jumped from an airliner
in flight

carrying 200,000 bucks
in ransom cash

and disappeared in the woods
of the Pacific Northwest.

His fate remained unknown,
his true identity a mystery.

That is,
perhaps, until now.

The people got a right to know
who I am and what I am.

And, uh...

it was the time
of the Vietnam War...

it was a time--
it was a time of strife.

[rock music playing]

Everything was going down,
Martin Luther King got killed,

[indistinct] died,

Everything was going downhill.

All right, everyone throw in,
don't be cheap.

[man 1]
All right, raising two.

You guys, uh,
been following those protests

-in D.C.?
-[man 2] Yeah, oh yeah.

Hey, you guys hear about that?
Boys in blue?

They couldn't hold it down,

I mean, they had to send in
the fucking US Military.

Landing
every three minutes,

I mean, can you fucking believe
this shit?

[man 3]
That's government, man!

-Right? Come on!
-[man 2] Are you kidding me?

America
is the land of opportunity

and you can bet
your sweet ass

that if these guys
are taking from the pot,

then so am I!

[man 1] Cheers to that shit,
fuckin'-A man.

[young Rodney]
To the money, boys!

[Rodney] I don't know,
I liked the easy money.

I had money all the time.

The more money I made,
the happier I was.

I had some nice hotrods
in those days,

I mean,
I had cars worth $10,000

and I enjoyed myself.

And cocaine was coming in
from Panama.

Goddamn,
that shit is good, Rodney!

[young Rodney]
You like that?

I get that from Panama.

[Rodney] Had plenty of cocaine
if we wanted, but it was--

it was like, uh,
going out, dancing,

having fun with all the women
and enjoying yourselves.

I can't wait
to be in your arms again, babe.

[woman on phone]
Uh, I can't wait either.

[Rodney]
I had a way to talk to 'em.

I had a way
to communicate with women.

You have to have communication
with women

otherwise
you ain't gonna get 'em.

No communicate?
No woman.

And of course,
you know about what's her name

that did the song.

Well, hi, I'm Rita Coolidge
and I'm a singer,

I sing country music,
and, well,

I just put out a record
Anytime, Anywhere.

And sometimes I act on--
on screen as well.

[Rodney] Met her in Lake Tahoe,
she was singin' at a bar

and then we had an affair
for a couple days.

Well,
Rodney had this lone wolf

kinda mystery about him.

Like he had a secret
or somethin'.

You know, I was thinkin'...

"You should come
to Denver with me."

[interviewer] So, you said
she wrote a song for you?

[Rodney] Yeah, Run--
"Run, D.B., Run"

[interviewer] Can you sing
a little bit of it?

[Rodney] Uh, well,
I was in the, uh,

Hard Rock Café
in Lake Tahoe when the--

the song came out and it says,

♪ Run D.B. run
keep on running D.B. ♪

[Carlos] I mean,
he's not a flight risk

obviously.

I mean, he's--
he's not going anywhere.

Other than the fact that he--
I mean, he reoffended, uh--

[Mike] Doing what we do,

you're exposed to a lot of
different people.

And a lot of people
lie to you.

So, one of the things
that we pride ourself on

is being able to
cipher through people who lie

versus people who don't.

And when Carlos told me
this story, he was-- he was--

I could feel the excitement
within him

and by the time dinner
was halfway through,

my mouth was wide open
and I couldn't,

you know,
believe the detailed events

that were being described.

He's got
lots of crazy stories, um,

but as I tried
to vet them out,

they-- they all seem like
they're-- they're legit.

Him and Don have, uh, some,
uh, mining claims...

up in the mountains

and, uh, I've been able
to validate that.

We're gold miners too,
you know.

-[laughs]
-[cameraman] Oh, really?

Oh, yeah, we own a gold mine
in the mountains there.

Bazooka Gold Mining Company,
LLC.

[Carlos] Uh, I did my research,
he owned the claims,

he brought in the ore,
he brought in the, uh,

the geological assessment.

Here's our gold strike,
here's the vein.

This is how massive it is.

This is my great grandfather,
Sam Bonnifield.

This is Remington
that made the rifles.

And there's 2,600 pounds
of gold

and this is going
to Seattle.

And they surveyed all of Alaska
and I've got the map.

I have a Bonnifield Region
up there.

260 miles of that country
is ours.

[Carlos] They've been rich,
they've been broke,

they've been rich again,
they've been broke,

they've had
lots of adventures.

I mean I've been to the--
I've been to the farm.

[Mike]
He, for the last 35ish years

has lived on a dairy farm.

Incognito,
uh, with a friend of his.

[Rodney] We're, uh,
in Washington State

near the Skagit River.

The place is, uh,
peace and harmony,

good-willed men,
a good place to live.

We always come
ready to go here.

[barking]

[Rodney] Because you don't get
a second chance out here.

380.

Just like that.
Live with Don Lee at the farm.

Hell of a guy.

[Don] My great grandfather
actually homesteaded this farm.

Started milking cows
as a sophomore in high school.

We got this farm kinda
rockin' and rollin' for a while

and then all these people
that are poor come here

and mess things up.

There's crazy characters
that come and go.

It is absolutely,
100% certain

that he was in a knife fight
and stabbed a guy.

I do not, uh, have any problems
with anybody

that don't wanna
give me a problem.

They give me a problem,
I give 'em a problem back.

Knives or guns,
it don't matter.

[Clifford] Oh! Oh, fuck!

[groaning]

This Clifford Rich
was staying by my place there.

He was hanging around
Don Lee's house.

And I asked Cliff
if he wanted to help me

paint my house.

So, Rod said "He's a painter,
he's a good painter."

He was an evil sucker,
you know?

He was out raping
kids and women,

I says, "I don't want nothing
to do with you no more."

I found out about it,
I says,

"I don't want nothing
to do with you anymore."

So, I told Don,
"Get him out of the house."

There are several stories
about what happened

between Rodney
and Clifford, but apparently

Clifford went after Rodney
with a machete.

It was one just like this
except it's all black.

[Rodney]
Well, I took him out anyway.

[Carlos]
From the criminal perspective,

you know, it's legit.

He spoke of being a teamster,
which, at one time,

he was a teamster,
I know that for a fact,

but he said
he was very connected

with the mob,

did a lot of
strong-arm stuff,

you know,
on behalf of the union.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Rodney]
I was working the docks

with the teamsters.

And then Jimmy Hoffa
got murdered

and then they called me up
said we need a favor.

We'll meet you
at Magnolia Bluff.

We met out, we need to strike
this waterfront, it's 1972.

They picked me...

to help 'em do it.

And this is, uh,
John Fitzsimmons.

-[young Rodney] Fitzsimmons?
-How you doin'?

[young Rodney] All right.

All right,
every Thursday at 3:00 p.m.,

a 48-foot sea vessel
by the name of Lucy docks here.

You will process
all drop offs from Lucy

under the name
John Alexander.

Once complete,
you will phone me directly.

-Is that clear?
-Crystal.

Your assistance
will not be forgotten.

I suppose
we'll be in touch then.

That is a fact.

[interviewer] So,
what do you have to say

to the people that are--

that-- that might think
that you aren't D.B. Cooper.

Well, I could care less,
I did the job.

There've been a lot of people
over the years

who've claimed
to be D.B. Cooper.

Probably the most recognizable
would be Mr. Rackshaw,

but he can't fill in the blanks
like Rodney.

In fact,
none of the people

who've claimed to be
D.B. Cooper

can fill in the slots
like Rodney can.

There's-- there's, just,
too much minutia there

for this to be in his head
and not be real.

[Rodney] I came right down
the Columbia River

at Tena Bar

and there's a cove in there
and I looked at the cove

when I was comin' down,
I landed right in the sands.

I left $5,880 on the beach

and I took $300 more out

and that leaves
$193,000 left

somewhat, in dollars.

It's on that beach right now.

So, if I find the rock,
we're gonna dig it up

and we'll get that money.

And the only reason
I thought it had credibility

enough to at least pursue
a little bit,

do some research
and then bring Mike in

was the fact that he was gonna
bring the money to me.

He was gonna set the money
on the desk

and then from there
he wanted me to do something

with the cash.

My plan is probably
to go underground,

sell some of the money,
you know?

But, that's business.

Why not? It's my money.
I took it.

And, uh, if I get somebody
to help me sell it,

then fine, dandy,
I get it sold.

[Carlos] So,
Rod had an idea

of what the value
of the money was

and it was an inflated amount
based off the fact

that a kid had been camping
down on the river,

actually found some money,

and then selling the money
at a much higher value

than what the actual face is.

[interviewer] So, did you bury
the $5,800 immediately?

Yes.

The reason why,
I always leave a tip.

So that they thought
I'd gone in the river.

I put the money there,
in all 20s,

I put 'em in a stack.

[interviewer]
Why that amount of money?

[Rodney] I don't know,
I just reached in the bag

and grabbed whatever I had,
and counted it,

it was $5,880 and I went,
"Okay, that's--

somebody will find this,
some fisherman

or some hiker or--

well, they didn't find it
for nine more years.

[news anchor]
Then the Dwayne Ingrum family

entered the picture
last February.

I was gonna build a fire

and I had some wood
in my arm

and I got ready
to set it down

and my son ran up and said,
"Wait a minute, Daddy."

So, he raked a place
out in the sand

and there it was, it kinda
tumbled up on the top.

[news anchor]
What his young son found

was part of Cooper's loot.

Badly decomposed,
in bundles,

still in the same order
when packed nine years ago.

[Mike] The Columbia River
is a massive river.

And it's an ever-changing
riverbank.

This is where large
shipping vessels come through

and bring product
to and from other countries

and distribute it
around the world.

So, they have to
continually dredge it

and make sure that it's clear
for the shipping lanes.

[man] Dredging is done
in a lot of major waterways

and that's to keep
the waterway open

for commerce

because it's not that deep

and they have to dig out
that waterway year after year.

Rodney described his burying
of the $5,800

to be in a very shallow area
because he did it very hastily

and scientists
in 2020 determined

that there was algae
found on the money

that could've only been there
during a spring bloom.

So, it's--
it's possible that the money,

having been buried
in a shallow area,

later on, after a dredging,
was exposed to the water,

thus exposing it to the algae
that only blooms in the spring.

[man] That's key,

because it means
the ransom money

entered the water
months after Cooper jumped.

For instance,
Kay says it scuttles

the FBI's original theory
in the 1980s

that the ransom money
flowed from rivers

in the suspected drop zone
near Lake Merwin

down through
the Washougal River

to the Columbia.

The so-called
"Washougal Wash Down Theory."

The money was not floating
in the water for a year,

otherwise
we would've seen diatoms

from the full range
of the year.

We only saw them
from the spring--

springtime bloom.

So this puts
a very narrow range

on when the money got wet

and was subsequently
buried on Tena Bar.

Rodney knew
all kinds of specifics

about--
about the hijacking.

[interviewer]
What were you wearing that day?

I wore a sports jacket,
penny loafers,

black tie,
which belonged to my dad.

The one piece
of physical evidence

that really yielded
something substantial

was the fact that the tie
was analyzed at the time

and throughout the years
continued to be analyzed

as technology got better

and titanium
was one of the major alloys

found on it.

[newsman] The periodical table
of clues, say scientists,

suggests Cooper had access
to a manufacturing company

that made airplanes,
like the one he jumped from.

Perhaps a company
with a connection to Boeing.

Rodney did identify the fact
that that tie was his father's

and that he did work
at Boeing.

Uh, he had the--

the times
down to specifics.

Exact time frame, uh,

that lines up with--
with what, um,

the authorities have.

[Rodney]
Left Portland about 4:30,

it was getting kinda dark,
it was during the winter.

And then we got up
in the air and it was raining.

They seated me in 18E
in the back

near the stewardess.

He knew the type of cigarettes
that were smoked.

[interviewer]
Did they allow you to smoke

-back in the day on airplanes?
-[Rodney] Yes, they did.

I smoked about eight Raleigh's,
but I just barely smoked them.

I was nervous.

The-- the cocktails
that were ordered--

[Rodney] I ordered me a bourbon
and they brought me a double.

[stewardess]
Can I get you anything?

[young Rodney] Uh, yes.

I'll take a bourbon
on the rocks

and if you could
keep those coming

until the plane lands
or I jump out of it,

that'd be great.

I'll make it a double,
how 'bout that?

[Carlos]
And the more I looked into it,

the more I thought,
"Well, he's either

the most well-versed
D.B. Cooper fanatic

that I've ever met
or even heard of,

um, or he's D.B. Cooper."

It's hard to look somebody
in the eye

who is so sincere about their
story

and discount it or,

um, call them a liar.

The guy's a character,

and he's just enough
of a character

to have jumped out
of an airplane, uh,

being suicidal
with nothing to lose and--

and, you know,
pulling it off.

I'm inclined to believe
that-- that he's the guy.

I wanna believe
he's the guy.

[Mike] Reintroducing it
to myself, you know,

I-- I start to realize
some of the details

that were out there.

And when he added
to those details,

it--
it was very convincing.

He's either convinced himself
that it's real

or it's real.

So, with that, it's--

it's worth coming
to take a look.

[Carlos] So,
after some deliberation,

Mike and I decided that
maybe we should go down

and dig up this money.

[Mike] We're going
on an exploratory mission here

to see if he is the guy
to confirm or not

whether he's the person
who hijacked an airplane in,

you know, in 1971,
a long time ago.

So,
there's a lot of questions

and there's a lot of mystery
around it.

If I'm not mistaken,
it's the only unsolved

hijacking
in the history of the world.

Uh, and-- and that has to have
some interest.

There's some
sex appeal to that.

I mean, it's almost
like treasure hunting.

I think everybody has
a little kid inside of them

that loves the idea
of going and finding

some buried treasure,

and that's exactly
what we're gonna try to do.

I mean, I think
he's getting to the--

to the end of life
and he wants people to know.

And he might not have
the opportunity

to tell this story 'cause
we're within two weeks

of him potentially
going to prison, so

the time is growing short.

Uh, 9:30 tomorrow, I'm supposed
to have a court date,

I'm not gonna show up.

And on May 9th,
my mom's birthday,

my brother's birthday,

and my daughter's birthday
is May 9th.

I'm not going to court
to get sentenced on May 9.

He's been going to court

and the prosecutor
wants to put him away

for something
that he should be given

an award for.

And the fact is,
he is a life-long criminal.

I mean, he lives
and thinks like a criminal.

that's the way he's wired.

Uh, now he's calmed down,
he's trying to find peace

in his-- his--
his later years.

And you ask about
his bad upbringing,

he didn't have
a bad upbringing,

he told you
he was born a criminal.

[interviewer]
So when you were a kid

you always wanted
to be a-- a--

-a gangster?
-Yeah. I was born one.

My mom's given me birth
at Chief Seattle Statue

rushed me
to the West Seattle Hospital,

and that's where I was born.

[mom]
He was a very busy little boy.

He was always into
many different things.

He was an asshole.

[interviewer]
Can you take us back

to your first experience
with criminal activity?

[Rodney] Okay, I go
into an ice cream parlor,

I was five
and a half years old,

I didn't have the money
to pay for the ice cream,

so while she went out
to use the restroom,

I got the two ice creams
and I took the till

and opened it up and got
all the money out the till

and walked right out.

♪

[employee] Hey!
What're you doing!

Kid! Hey!

He--

he thought of lots of ways to,
um, make money.

He was a thief.

♪ Come on,
gimme a reason ♪

♪ To make me stay ♪

♪ And if you come beggin' ♪

[Rodney] I robbed
my first beer truck

when I was 13.

[indistinct] way,
and I robbed it.

Took the kegs off it,
me and this other kid.

♪

Jackpot!

-He was a little entrepreneur.
-A little bastard.

[Rodney]
And the 18 and 19 year olds

would buy my beer
from me back then

so I had money
all the time.

Welcome!
Ten bucks a keg, you hounds.

Come on, cough it up.

It's a good day
to be in the beer business,

suckers.

[female interviewer]
When did you notice a change

in Rodney?

-I--
-Uh--

I don't wanna talk about--
Can we just--

I think we need to move on
to a different question.

Rodney.
Take your pills and go to bed.

-No more magazines!
-[door clicks shut]

-That kid.
-What's he doin' now?

He won't stop
with the magazines.

What kinda mag--
are they Playboys?

I'm missing some Playboys.

[Mom] Oh, I don't know.
I never thought of that.

I-- I guess it's better
than Playgirl.

[Mom] Oh, gosh, I don't wanna
have to worry about that.

You know, uh...

I got another call
from the principal today.

[Mom] No--

They're thinking
about kicking Rod out.

I told you

that he is not taking
his medicine

and when he doesn't take
his medicine,

he goes bonkers.

I don't like
when he takes that medicine--

I know--

He doesn't need anything
to calm him down.

I don't know what else to do.

[Dad] Military school?

If you can convince him.

[Dad] I don't think
we should give him a gun.

[Mike] We've got things

that we may
or may not need tomorrow.

Um, we've got guns

just to make sure
that we're safe

and that everybody's safe
'cause we have no idea,

really,
what we're up against.

This guy claims to be
a life-long criminal,

so we have no idea
what he's capable of

or who
his affiliations are.

So,
he could have people out there

waiting for us to bring it back
to the hotel,

people that track us
to the dig site.

And if this money,
um, is there,

uh, I-- I really feel like

we can't let him
just walk away.

There's no option there.

I mean, if--
if we don't turn the money in

then we're liaisons...

-We're criminals--
-...to the crime.

He thinks
he has this thing lined up.

[Mike] We're gonna set up camp
in Woodland,

that's where the hotels
are gonna be

that we're gonna work out of
and then the--

the bar that the money
was found

is down southwest
of that area.

So, geographically,
it's not too far away.

Just outside of town.

We're gonna rally
at 5:00 a.m.

and we're gonna drive down
the highway

and, um,
go after the money.

Just basically--
just go right at it.

Picked the boys up,
they're ready to roll.

[Rodney] Let's go down
and unbury that money.

[Mike] All right,
let's get her done.

[Rodney]
All right, all right.

You can ask me
any questions you want.

[interviewer] Did you ever
conceive of this plan

beforehand
or thought, like,"Oh,

you know, I might be able
to hijack a plane,

get some ransom money,

-and jump out of it?"
-Never.

I call it skyjacking,
but never.

[interviewer]
How did you even know

how to jump out
of a commercial airplane?

It seems like
you would have to

know something about aviation.

A friend of mine,
Roger Gackle was a flight--

he organized the flights

coming in and out
of the airport.

He invited me in
with Rick Gackle,

so I knew the whole layout
before I did it.

[interviewer] Okay,
so Roger Gackle

was kind of like this guy
that taught you

the inner workings
of what aviation is.

He just [indistinct].

♪

[man] Let's go Rod!

[bowling pins clatter]

-[man] Yeah!
-[men cheering]

That's how it's done, fellas!

-Hey, where's Gackle?
-He went back to the airport.

[young Rodney grunts]

Gackle gave me
a tour of that 727 last week.

-Have you been on that thing?
-Nah.

[sighs] He showed me
every switch and lever.

That bird can do
some serious action.

This guy's been hot
on airplanes ever since

he jumped off the roof
when he was seven.

[all laughing]

-Hey! What's up, you goons?
-[Marty] Hey, buddy boy.

We goin'
to the loop on Friday?

[all] Oh, the loop!

Oh, the loop! Yeah!

South of the
Washington-Oregon border.

A little
Portland hideout, fun-out.

And when Rodney showed up...

[guitar riff plays]

...that's when
the party lifted off.

[young Rodney]
Hey, how you doin'?

[Marty] Hey, what's up, Rod?

How you doing, brother?

-Hey, Rod.
-Hey, baby.

[Rodney] Oh, the loop is
where we used to gang fight,

race cars,
and monkey around

with wild women
down there, okay?

[Marty] Here's the loop.
Fast cars.

Yeah, dude,
it looks like you need

a new radiator hose.

[Marty] Lotta women.
Lotta drugs.

Goddamn this shit is good.

[Marty] Lotta people

havin' a good time
mixing 'em all together.

Gotcha! [laughs]

Do me next,
but I like it a little slower!

Fuck you, Larry.

Well, look who decides
to show his cock to the party!

Welcome, baby.

Let's have
a good time. [laughs]

[Marty] It was everything
we were about.

We lived it.

That's one of
my favorite memories.

I remember one time Rodney,
was waving around a gun.

I think he-- I don't know
what drug he was on.

You never really knew.

I probably helped him with it.

He was just
waving around a gun,

wanting to fight.

I can't even remember,
he was ready

to fight anyone, even me.

-You see Stacy's cousin?
-[Rodney] Wayne Shannon,

I fought him
twice out in Gutterway.

First time was a draw.
Second time I beat him.

Who didn't see
Stacy's cousin.

-Fuck! Goddamn.
-[all laugh]

Yeah, I seem to remember
Stacy's cousin

because I think it was around
her 19th birthday.

We had a pretty
good time together.

[laughs] Yeah, and I bet
she enjoyed all three seconds.

[all laughing]

Excuse me?

You heard me.
I mean, girls talk.

And they need
someone to lay the pipe.

And we know that's not you.
I mean, let's be honest.

[scattered laughter]

You know what? Forget you.

Bring your skinny dick over
here and say that to my face.

[man] Whoa, whoa, whoa!

-[ominous music playing]
-[all yelling in panic]

-[gun cocking]
-Come on, Rodney, come on, man.

Now, if anyone else
wants to piss me off

and get on my nerves,
let's have a discussion

right now, right here,
in my office.

Anybody got
a problem with that?

[Wayne] No, man.
We're cool, we're cool.

[interviewer]
I mean, you have to be

a pretty crazed lunatic

in order to hijack
a commercial airline flight.

Well, I was--
I was up for four days.

I had a bag
of criss-cross speed

-and I'd pop 'em and get up.
-[Interviewer] So like stuff,

-like, Johnny Cash used to do?
-[Rodney] Yeah, same stuff.

Not the black beauties,
but the-- the,

you know,
the white criss-cross speed.

It was all over the place
in the old days.

We'd always take the uppers
when we went drinkin'

and-- and carousing
and stuff so--

Rodney always had a plan,

no matter what it was.

-[young Rodney whistling]
-[Marty vocalizing]

[young Rodney] Knock-knock,

Christmas came early,
my friend.

Ooh, is that
the shit Cash is using?

[young Rodney laughs]
Make no mistake,

these are not black beauties.

No, sir, this is criss-cross.

This stuff, my friend,
will sell.

Oh! It's like
the first snow in winter.

-What a beaut!
-That'll knock the pins down.

Care to ski the slopes,
my friend?

[Marty] I'd been a supplier
of drugs for a long time

so I could ignite the fun,

but hi-- hi-- his--
his plans were

how can we make
money and have some fun too?

[sniffing]

-[both moaning in pleasure]
-I will criss-cross this

all across the county.

[Rodney exhales audibly]
Tic-tac-toe.

Across the states we go,
my friend.

But we gotta be quick
about this, pal.

Dude,
I have never let you down, Rod.

You've never
let me down, buddy.

[both clicking tongue
and sniffing]

[interviewer]
How're you feeling, sir?

[Mike] I'm feeling great.

Hungry, about to eat.

I'm excited about the fact
that he's an old honcho

that just is excited
and ready to roll.

Everything he's told us
is stuff we haven't heard

in the news, or most of it,

and only one person would know
all these details.

So, our optimism is rising.

You gotta mind, uh...
[clears throat]

...when I took the jump,

I had a pair of
penny loafers on.

So, uh, I lost one of my
penny loafers on the way down.

[laughs]

So I ended
up buying

a pair of tennis shoes
on the way out. [laughs]

I had to walk to the road,
go to Woodland

to get the tennis shoes
[indistinct].

Piggly Wiggly,
just closing up

at ten o'clock at night.

I had to beg
and plead with the lady

to get the tennis shoes,
but then I had shoes.

And so then I took a--
I went to a payphone to call

a cab and I took the cab back
to Portland to get my car.

57 Chevy.

Two door hardtop
with that--

[Will] Like, the stuff
that he's talking about

is so detailed.

He's like Jesus,
he's either a psychopath,

liar, narcissist,
or it's true.

-It's crazy.
-[man] What is your-- what--

what are you thinking
right now?

-What do you think?
-Honestly, after that?

After that I'm kind of
convinced--

It would just--
he would be going

to such great lengths...

all for, like, a lie, which,
again, is possible,

but I'm starting to--

I'm starting to be convinced.

[Mike] What are
your thoughts now that

you've seen
the confidence he has?

[Tyler] I mean,
I'm pretty, like,

like Will was saying,
he's just, like,

he's either a crazed lunatic

or, you know, or he's telling
the complete truth

and this is all real,
you know?

I mean, there's only two ways
to spin it.

What did you compare him to?
Jesus?

[Mike]
Right, but-- but don't--

don't you always
come back to the fact

that he actually
is going to take us there

and what does he expect
to have happened

if we don't find it.

It-- that's what confuses me.
What is his end game?

[Rodney] I said
I would never go dig it up

until the timing was right.

Well,
now the time is right.

I have every FBI agent

in the United States
looking for me...

because they gotta prove
their point,

they gotta get that man.

They got the rest of 'em.

Killed Pretty Boy Floyd,

Dillinger,
and Baby Face Nell.

They got 'em all.

You don't think
they won't get me too?

Well, that's
the way it looks to me.

-I am not stupid.
-[interviewer] But Why did--

Why did you resort
to a life of crime?

I don't know.

I-- I robbed Safeway stores,
I used to get

30-40,000
a whack out of them,

but, you know, I was a young--
I was a gangster.

I was running around
with a bunch of tough kids.

[Interviewer] And these were
armed robberies?

[Rodney] Yeah, I committed
20 or 30 armed robberies.

And I was with McDonald
on about ten of 'em.

[exhaling audibly]
Where are we headed?

[sighs]
As far as we can, Marty.

As far as we can.

[laughs]

Robbery was involved
and I can't say

I wanted to do it
most of the time,

but he's a seller of fun
and a seller of, uh, crazy.

[Young Rodney] Empty that safe
into that bag right now!

-Do it! Every last dime!
-[Cashier] That's all of it!

-That's all we got!
-[young Rodney] Oh, come on,

you stupid ass hippy,
fill that thing up!

We happy, buddy?

[breathing heavily]

I want you to remember
this face.

You're gonna be reading
about it for a long, long time.

Let's move out, sunshine.

♪ Uh huh ♪

[young Rodney whooping]

♪ We gonna tear this
motherfucker up ♪

♪ And burn this
motherfucker down ♪

[young Rodney] Yes!

[Marty] Drugs, guns,
whatever was involved.

I was ready for the ride.

I hope you like Chinese food,

buddy, 'cause we're gonna get
our feast on tonight.

What're you talkin' about?
What-- what Chinese food?

♪ A lot of stories ♪

♪ Uh-huh, yeah, uh-huh ♪

Not The Dragon, man,
I eat here twice a week!

Marty...

[laughing] I thought you
wanted to be a gangster!

Rod, have you had
the kung pao here?

Best in town.

And if we do this,

-I can't eat here anymore!
-No,

I haven't had
the kung pao here, Marty.

And who the fuck cares?

Ah, Rod, seriously,
I eat here all the time!

It's sweet, Yuki
will probably recognize me!

Man,
I've been trying to ask her out

the last couple weeks,
man.

Marty, put the mask on,
disguise your voice,

and then next week you can
take out

sweet Yuki on a
wonderful date

with all the money
that you rob from her tonight.

[inhales audibly]
If you had had the kung pao,

we wouldn't be doin' this
right now, man.

Shut the fuck up, Marty.

[rock music playing]

All right,
hands in the air, sweetheart!

Now, I want you to go back
to that register,

and take every last dollar,
and put it inside this bag.

If you try any funny stuff,
things are gonna get

un-fucking-funny,

real fuckin' quick!

And don't skimp on
those fortune cookies either.

[Marty] Come on, Yuki.

We're not gonna hurt you,
we just need the money.

Marty?

Marty!

♪

[music stops]

I saved
the best for last.

No clerks, no bullshit.

Just good old-fashioned
American takin' stuff.

And you know
how much I love takin' stuff!

[Marty] What if someone comes
in there while we're there?

Oh, fuck, Marty!

These rich fucks only
come here in the summertime!

The rest of the year,
this house is barren,

it's just ready
to get picked off!

Don't you think
we should just quit

while we're ahead?

I will tell you

when we are ahead,
you stupid bitch!

[breathing heavily]
These fucks are ahead.

Now...

picking off two places
in one night is child's play!

But you pick off
three places...

That's a spree, buddy.

That's a spree.

Four-- three places?

[Rodney] Here's a-- here's
thing on me, right here.

November 24, 1971,
a man called himself

Dan Cooper. Yeah, I did.

The name came
from Jackie Cooper,

the first-- last name.

And the front name
was my cousin, Dan.

[interviewer]
Who's Jackie Cooper?

Movie star.

Played in, uh, Frank James in,

uh, one of the Ford brothers
in a-- in a movie.

Every single question
we asked Rodney

about the crime,
he had an answer for.

And he didn't have to stutter
or stammer or think about it.

It came out very naturally,
like it was the truth.

We just elevated up.

I handed her the note
and then she says,

"I can't go out with you."

I says,
"You better read the note."

[Carlos] She-- she thought
you were asking her for a date?

[Rodney]
Asking her for a date, yeah.

[chuckles]
Not very picky, are you?

-I'm flattered, but married.
-[Rodney laughs]

[Carlos]
What did the note say?

Uh, it says I have,

uh, a briefcase
full of dynamite,

explosives,
and if I don't get

what I want,
I'll blow the plane up.

[Carlos]
And how did she react?

She says, "Oh, my God."

She just ran right up there
as fast as she could.

Not run,
but briskly went up there.

[Carlos]
Up to the cockpit?

-Yeah.
-[Carlos] Yeah.

And then, uh,
that's when I had trouble.

Lawrence Finegold.

[Carlos] One of the things

that-- that I found
interesting,

uh, as Rodney was filling in
the details of the incident

was an interaction
with a young attorney

out of Seattle
named Finegold.

He started coming back
at me and I came right up to

him and said, "You better
sit down and shut up.

No funny stuff.
He goes, "What is this?"

I says, "Your toupee's not--
not straight on your head.

I acted, like,
a little bit crazy but--

I would sit down
and I would straighten out

that fuckin' toupee
if I were you.

No funny stuff.

[Mike] Rodney told him to,
you know, sit down

and that his hairpiece
was slightly ajar,

which it-- it appears

that maybe he was wearing
a hairpiece.

So, to me, I thought
that was a very,

very specific detail,
and later,

it turns out
that Finegold acknowledged

his interaction with Rodney.

My 25th anniversary
I called him on the phone

from Seattle and said
I'm DB Cooper and he goes,

"Okay, if you're DB Cooper,
tell me what--

what I wanna hear."

and I said, "What
do you wanna hear and he goes,

"You know
what you told me."

and so I told him
the same thing

and he says, "Oh, my God,
you're still alive."

-[Mike] And they're all 20's!
-I got

193,000 something dollars
buried on the beach.

[Carlos chuckles]
And we're about to go find it.

By a big,
black onyx rock.

So the beauty is gonna be us
going from this point

right now,
from these interviews,

to the site where he was
at that time and,

um, hopefully putting
a bow on his story.

Right now we need
to button up

and get it together and go out
and-- and track it down.

All right,
let's go dig it up!

[Mike]
Are you feeling confident?

I'm confident. Yeah.

Well, the old Chinamen say,
"Can you dig it?"

And then you're digging it!

So we're going treasure hunting
and just dig it up!

[Mike] How 'bout you?
Stressed?

[Wes]
This shit is super crazy.

I'm excited and he's got
some details that are just--

I mean, he told-- he told
the lawyer

your toupee is crooked.
[laughs]

Like, that's a detail
and a half if it's real.

No, you don't wanna marry
an outlaw,

we have trouble,
we have to hide

and everything,
you don't need that.

Well, now I'm gonna
have to really hide

when I find the money.

[Wes] So if we do find it,
do you think

your son would be excited
to hear that you found it?

Well,
he's my flesh and blood.

Anybody that's related to me
wants some of the money.

That's the way it works,
I guess.

It's too bad that
the mother did that to me and--

[interviewer] Were there
any particular women

in your life at this time?

Romana Lisa Capps.

I met her through, uh,
high school.

I think there was just
something in me that was scared

of how lawless he was,
but that loved it too.

Goddamn it, I love pancakes!

If you love 'em so much,

why'd you give me
the last piece?

Because
I might kind of like you.

Wow!
Everybody hear that?

Romana Lisa Capps likes me.

-She loves me!
-Oh my--

[Romana] Are you surprised
that someone

in the Capps family
actually likes you?

Yeah, I am.
It's a huge accomplishment.

Maybe.
No, I definitely am.

But, um, I gotta ask you
something.

I heard a rumor,
um--

I heard your dad wrapped
the family car around a tree

last week on 21st street,
is that true?

Yeah. I mean,
I guess everybody knows

he's the town drunk now.

No one thinks
your dad's the town drunk.

He made a mistake,

we all make mistakes,
you know?

Life goes on. Who cares?

Plus, think of the upside.

At least now,
the whole town knows

that at the Capps house,

the liquor cabinet
is well-stocked.

-[Romana laughs]
-Huh?

Hmm.

Well maybe his liquor cabinet
should be our next destination.

Uh-oh.
You getting a bad idea?

Well, this one hearkens back
to the greats

and it's called
the ol' dine and dash.

Oh,
you're gonna pull this one off?

-[Romana] Mm-hmm.
-The big heist?

Ooh!
What the hell was that?

I just treated you
to the best pancakes

-of your goddamn life.
-[Rodney laughs]

That may be so,
but if you keep this shit up,

you're going to end up
a criminal, missy.

Oh,
has this little escapade

-reminded you of someone?
-Yeah, it did--

♪ You got my attention,
baby ♪

Come on, we have a
liquor cabinet to raid.

[Rodney] She didn't like
who I am or what I am,

but she just pushed
it aside

that I'm a little wilder
than most people.

Always been wild.

[Romana]
Have some of this.

[both laugh]

Hair of the dog,
what've we got?

Ooh! Number seven,
now we're talkin'.

-[Romana laughs]
-[young Rodney] Hmm.

Ah!

Thank you, Mr. Capps.
[sighs]

You got shit on your mind,
don't you?

Yeah.

Your pops?

Yeah. It's just--

It's just hard to talk about
my father or my family.

I understand.

But I feel
really free with you.

That's good.

-[Romana laughs]
-That's real good.

-I'm a free guy.
-[Romana laughs]

Look, forget about your dad.

Forget about
what the town is sayin'.

They're not sayin' shit.
They don't know anything.

No one knows the ins
and outs of a person's home

or how they run it.

No one knows your family,
I don't know your family.

All right,
think about it like this.

This is gonna sound
real corny.

-In the car of life-- okay?
-Okay.

Every past version of us
is in the car,

and what I mean by that
is people screw up,

and hopefully they
learn from that shit.

The key
that no one tells you...

is that when you're
driving in this car of life

down the highway of life...

all those past versions
of yourself...

they're in the car
with you.

And the key, the secret...

is to not let
any of 'em drive.

Does that mean
I'm with a safe driver?

[young Rodney exhales audibly]

You're with a safe driver,
I can assure you that.

[Rodney] And we were goin' out
and we loved each other.

Her dad told me
to marry her,

or I'd get
shotgunned to death

and we had a baby
on the way

so I took his advice and
married her.

Anyway, I loved her.

♪ You were made for love

♪ And we fell into

♪ Back when
the stars began to shine ♪

You have
any idea where we are?

No. Rod, you know
I don't like surprises!

[young Rodney]
It's a good surprise,

no bad surprise, okay?

-You ready?
-[Romana] Okay, yes, I'm ready.

-Are you ready?
-Yes, yes, yes.

Okay. Three, two, One.

Oh, my God, Rod!
[gasping]

[young Rodney]
I know, it's a gourmet meal!

[Romana laughs]
This is beautiful!

Well, the old
man did have one thing right.

Will you marry me?

Oh, my God,
I can't wait to be

-Mrs. Rodney Bonnifield!
-Yes?

-[Romana] Yes!
-Yes?

[Romana] Yes!

[music fades]

Oh, man, when Rodney
and Romana got together,

it was a great thing.

It was a great
thing for Rodney.

I never seen him that happy.

Marty McFerguson
up to the t-box.

Averaging 350 yards
per drive.

[young Rodney]
You're a little pink

around the edges,
aren't you, Marty?

[Marty] Keeps me goin'.

You take your vitamins today,
Marty?

-[Marty] Everyday.
-Good. [laughs]

Doesn't get
much better than this, buddy.

-[young Rodney sighs]
-Look at this!

[young Rodney]
Normally, on any given day,

Marty,
I'd agree with you.

But today is not a
normal day, my friend.

I got some good news.

-[Marty] What?
-You're gonna be an uncle.

I-- I'm gonna get adopted?

No, Marty.

I'm gonna be a father!

With Romana?

No, with your mother--
yes, with Romana!

-Romana Lisa Capps!
-Rod, man! Look at you!

-We're having a family!
-[Marty] Oh!

-Man!
-[young Rodney laughs]

The new man Rodney Bonnifield
family man.

-Yes!
-[sighs] I'll take that.

-A new man.
-[young Rodney laughs]

[Marty] So what's next
for the family man?

[young Rodney] Well,
I gotta clean up my act.

I can't be doin'
what I've been doing up here

and Washington's
pretty much tapped out.

So, I'm gonna be working

down in California
for a little bit.

♪

[Rodney] The Boins
was lettin' everybody go.

No jobs here,
so we went down there,

worked at Carol's Cabinets.

♪ And it's hard
to call it home ♪

♪ When it's raining
all day long ♪

♪ And you know
it's all been done ♪

♪ And you can't get you
no sun ♪

♪ No, no, see,
I got bigger plans ♪

♪ Something to hold
in my hands... ♪

You here for castle tickets?

If you're selling magic
I'm buying.

♪ Going where
the sun shines ♪

What is this?

This is magic
that's gonna send your ass

over the fuckin' moon.

-How much?
-For you?

-$100.
-100 bucks?

I can get this much
back up in Seattle for $40!

Look around, does it look like
we're in Seattle?

You got palm
trees in fuckin' Seattle?

Does Marlon Brando live
in Seattle?

100 bucks.

Take it or beat it.

That's all I got-

Hey! Where's a guy go to have
a good time around here?

Excuse me, do I know you?

♪ Where the sunshine
gon' get me high ♪

[exhales audibly]

♪ I'm goin' where the sunshine
gon' get me high ♪

[exhales audibly]

[Romana] He started just doin'

a lot of drugs
and-- and drinking a lot

and, uh, would disappear
for days on end and--

I'm-- I'm not gonna raise

my kid
how my parents raised me.

[phone ringing]

[Romana] Ooh.

[ringing continues]

-Hello?
-[young Rodney] Hi!

I'm calling
for the most gorgeous woman

in the entire world.

Is that one of your
brother's pick up lines?

[Young Rodney] Ouch, Romana.

I'd say
we're well beyond that.

I mean,
I thought we were,

but someone doesn't know
how to pick up the phone.

[Young Rodney] I'm here
working for you, babe.

For the both of you.

-How's little Rod?
-[Ramona] He's kicking.

I cannot wait to feel that.

I'm so excited
for you to get here.

I just know
that this kid is gonna have

your eyes and,
Lord willing,

he doesn't have my ears,
and I think he'll be okay.

-Hm.
-[Young Rodney] But seriously.

Being in your arms again
will be absolute Heaven

and I sure cannot wait.

Oh. Now?

Now you miss me?

Come on, babe.
What do you want from me?

I'm just trying to do
right by ya.

[Ramona]
It's late, Rod.

I need to go.

I have
an early flight tomorrow.

Love you.

[phone clicks]

You all right?

Yeah.

It's about time
you let him know.

-I know.
-He needs to know.

When things
started getting fucked up

with Rodney and I, uh,
he heard from my brother

at the mechanic shop
and started coming around more

and maybe the truth is that--

I didn't know for a while,
but I had a suspicion

that it was
actually Wayne Shannon's.

♪

Hey!

-You're here!
-Hi, Rod.

I can't stay long.

What're you talking about,
you just got into town.

Yeah, I wanted to talk
to you in person.

Do you wanna have a seat?

-Yeah--
-Okay.

-[Romana] Chat?
-Yeah. Sure, what--

What's up, babe?

You're always drinking
God knows how much,

staying out 'til
the wee hours of the morning,

barely
remembering to call me.

I am pregnant, Rod.

I know you're pregnant.

And that's why I'm down here
trying to earn a living for us.

[Romana] Yeah, and drink half
of it away while you're at it?

We are not in love, Rod.
We got married for the baby.

-[young Rodney] Romana--
-And I'll be damned

if I spend
the rest of my life unhappy

just because I got pregnant.

Oh, hon, I'm trying to do
the right thing here.

I made an honest woman
out of you.

Yes, I got you pregnant,
but you're down here

and we're gonna be
a family together.

I don't even know
if it's yours, Rod.

[young Rodney] Oh.

[sighs] Okay.

I know what this is about.
This is about Wayne Shannon.

You're fucking
Wayne Shannon.

[Romana]
It's none of your business.

I think
it is my business!

-It's about us!
-There is no us!

I am done, Rod. I am done.

-Do you hear that?
-Romana,

I moved my ass
all the way to LA for this.

For you.

For the goddamn baby.

And this is what you do?

[Rodney] She thought
she could talk to me about

having sex with a guy.

Well, you don't talk to me

when you have sex
with somebody else.

I flipped out.

I took a chair
and threw it right through

the-- right through
the side window.

I was, uh, very upset.

I thought
that she loved me,

but then she left me
because of my temper.

[Kevin]
What the fuck, Rodney?

I told you no more bullshit!

-You're gone!
-Fuck you, Kevin!

That's the worst pain
I've ever felt

in my life,
is losing her.

Absolutely pain
that you wouldn't believe.

'Cause I loved her.

♪ I been walking, oh, oh ♪

♪ Down this lonely road ♪

♪ Trying to find my way, mmm

♪ Find my way back home ♪

♪ Sleepless nights, yeah

♪ Cryin' 'bout my bare side

♪ Oh, trying to get my mind

♪ Off of your love, mmm

♪ Sweet baby, take me back ♪

♪ Oh, take me back ♪

♪ To the good times ♪

♪ Where my heart belongs ♪

♪ Oh, on the open road

♪ Night can be so cold
on this journey ♪

♪ Going up this open road ♪

[music fades]

[Rodney] So I got back
to Federal Way in Washington.

I was not very right
in the mind at the time.

She knew
I was looking for her.

They didn't do
a damn thing in those days

with somebody
stealin' your kid.

So, be honest.

How'd you like the movie?

Well,
Eastwood was dreamy

and I like a little violence.

The baby doesn't
really like the violence.

[Wayne] Oh, honey.
You seem cold.

♪

And about the violence.

Just like Dirty Harry,

I'm gonna keep you...

and this baby safe forever.

Don't you worry.

I love you, Wayne Shannon.

[Wayne] I love you,
Romana Lisa Capps.

Wayne Shannon,
you're a dead man.

They tried to talk to me,
my cousins and stuff,

and I just couldn't take it.

I was just-- madly in love
with this woman.

Had a baby by her.

And, uh, we split up.

His, uh,
wife at the time had left him

and then had actually stated

that the child
that they had together,

or that he assumed
they had together,

probably wasn't his.

And I think that at that time,
he-- he lost his mind,

the wheels came off
at that point.

-[young Rodney snorts]
-[Marty] Hey, I couldn't find

your car, man--
Holy shit.

-[young Rodney coughs]
-You all right, man?

[young Rodney] Oh-- yeah.

What the fuck's goin' on?

[young Rodney]
Well, Romana came down.

And, uh,
she's leavin' me.

Sneaking around
with Wayne Shannon.

Yeah.

[exhales] So... [chuckles]

...I have devised a plan
and with your help

it's gonna work
and I'll get her back.

Honestly. Let it go.

I've never heard
of a broad changing her mind

after stepping out
with a new man.

[snorting]

[Marty] Maybe you're hitting
that shit too hard, man.

Oh, wow.

Says my drug dealer.

What, overnight
you grew a conscience?

Huh? You grew a fuckin' pair
of balls?

Fuck you, Marty.
Get down here.

-Have some of this with me.
-I'm good.

[young Rodney]
Oh, you're good? Yeah.

You know,
I fuckin' had your back

-through it all.
-[Rodney mumbles]

I've fuckin'
been there for you.

But I'm not fuckin'
doin' this shit

and I'm not goin' down
this fuckin' road with you.

What fuckin' road?

This fuckin' road with me

and the woman I love,
Romana?

It's not fuckin'
about Romana!

It's never been about Romana,
it's about these fuckin' drugs.

That are killing you!

And I'm not gonna be here
to see that.

You're not there
for much, are you, Marty?

Chicken shit.

Your chicken shit ideas,

and you're
a chicken shit lackey.

So, by all means, go fuck off.

Out the front door.
And go home.

All right.

Call me if you need me.

You know where the fuck I am.
Been there the last 20 years.

-Uh-huh. Mmm.
-For you.

See you at
Thanksgiving, asshole!

[door slams shut]

[snorting & coughing]

[Marty]
After the Romana split,

I'd never seen him like that.

He-- he wasn't Rodney anymore.

He wasn't the Rodney I know.

And that dude's
the craziest guy,

so to be at that point, for me,

I didn't even know
how to have his back.

I didn't know how
to support him.

So, at that moment
in time...

Rodney could've done anything.

Anything was possible.

[ominous music plays]

[Rodney] I was up for four days
on criss-cross speed.

Uh, had suicidal, uh,
tendencies,

I had the suitcase

with the flares,
like, dynamite.

I was gonna force her
to go with me,

no matter which way
you look at it.

♪

[interviewer] What were you
wearing that day?

[Rodney]
I wore a sports jacket,

penny loafers, black tie,

a tie clasp
with a round stone in it.

[interviewer]
Why were you wearing a suit?

[Rodney]
I wanted to impress my, uh,

wife when I picked her up.

♪

I drove over
to her mother's house

and asked her
where she was at

and she said that
she just left in her Javelin

to go down
to Portland at the mall

and I figured, well,
I'd just go ahead

try to catch her at the mall
so I could talk to her and,

uh, drove from Seattle
Federal Way to-- to Portland.

I parked my car in the loop.

[interviewer] So, you're saying
that you were suicidal,

so you went
to go take her hostage?

[Rodney] Yes, I did.
I was gonna do it.

[interviewer] And that was
a very serious thought

-in your mind?
-[Rodney] Yes.

♪

[Rodney] I took a taxi
from there to the mall.

Jameson Beach mall,
and step on it already.

[Rodney] But she wasn't there,
missed her by 20 minutes.

Plan B was
to get ahead of her,

so I'd take an airplane back.

Right away I was worried,
I just left the car,

took a cab from the air--

from there, the mall,
to the airport.

Got to the airport,
I asked him how much

it'd be to ride coach
to Seattle and they said $20.

I signed my name Dan Cooper.

[Mike] Anytime y-- you start
digging into something

that happened in the past,

there are a lot of
different things

that could or couldn't
have happened,

and as time grows, you-- you--

those facts are more difficult
to uncover.

Sometimes it-- it-- it's
left with a question mark.

After being presented
with what he gave us,

we're convinced enough
to at least move forward

with this because, whether the
story is true or not,

it-- it's an adventure.

And we went
on a treasure hunt.

[Wes] We're gonna pass,
like, some sort of,

like, industrial area,
which is where,

on some YouTube video,
they dropped a pin that said

"DB money found," like,
around that area.

[man] That's what
I'm saying Tena Bar is--

[Wes] Right, right.

[Mike] Yeah, it's called
Tena Bar,

and it-- it's located
on several maps

so we're trying to, uh,
convert,

you know, screenshots
over to an actual GPS map

and, uh, figured out
where it was.

[Wes] DB was talkin' about
a little cove

that he buried the money at

and we think
that's the cove right there.

[man]
Outside the cove.

So we'll be able
to park on the road

or maybe even closer,
pop down, and...

theoretically get it.

[Mike] This is, um,
a geographic area

that is--
it's very, very, rural.

Flat and open and it has
a lot of growth,

there's no malls out there.

[Rodney] Road closed.
-[man] Well, this is us.

[Carlos] As we pull up
to the end of the road,

we have the anticipation,
as you're starting,

that you might
actually dig up,

you know, $190,000.

You know,
a 48 year mystery solved,

you know,
in a handful of hours.

[interviewer]
How're you feeling?

I'm optimistic, but still--

I have to be a realist.
If it's there, though.

He says he can find it,
so we're gonna give it a go.

The money they
did find right down there--

Yeah. We're looking at
the cove that he had identified

as a landmark to where he--

[man] How far is it away?

[man 2] Like, 900 feet,
it's close.

[Mike] Well, let's gear up,
let's get all the stuff

we need for, uh,
hoofing here

and anything we need
to dig it out.

I mean, let's do it.

If it's there, we're
gonna find it right now.

Carry the money out there.

[Mike] When they were
getting out of the vehicle,

they grabbed a duffel bag

and then
a backpack that was empty,

not one single thing in it
and I could hear them

talkin', sayin', "We'll
just put the money in this."

Why would they do that
unless they really felt

there was money out there?

Because we had backpacks,

we could've easily
carried it out.

But instead they had
an empty backpack,

so that was part of the--
one of the times

when I thought,
"Well, this-- this is real

and we might find
this money."

So, are you
guys armed right now?

Are you guys carryin'?

[Rodney] Don. Don was--

Are you guys
carrying a weapon?

Well, I don't think
we need it out here, do we?

No, we don't,
I was just makin' sure

that we're all safe
and we're all on the same page.

Oh, yeah.

He gets on a shootin' spree,
he might not quit.

Well, I only brought
one clip--

Cameramen are next!

[chattering
& laughter continues]

Let's go get the money!

[interviewer]
How're you feelin' right now?

Real good.
I'm gonna go dig my money up.

The main thing is
I didn't harm nobody.

I just got the money.
I never was gonna harm nobody.

A little dynamite don't scare
anybody, does it?

[Rodney cackles] It does.

When you're way up
in the air.

[interviewer]
What was your intention

getting on that plane?

[Rodney] Getting on
that plane was to,

uh-- uh,
get ahead of her.

Well, things escalated.

I said I might as well
get some cash

and do a quick robbery

and, uh,
that's when I realized

that I had
the suitcase anyway,

that I would go ahead
and use that suitcase

as a bomb threat
and take the plane over.

Ladies and gentlemen,
my name is Tina

and I'm your chief
flight attendant.

We go back and forth
up the coast,

I-- it was just like
any normal flight.

Done it 1,000 times.

[Tina over PA]
I'd like to welcome you aboard

Northwest Orient 727
nonstop service

from Portland to Seattle.

At this time,
we'd like to ask you to...

-[stewardess] Here you go.
-[Young Rodney] Thank you.

Is everything all right?

Yeah, uh, I lost my wife.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

[young Rodney]
But, you know what, Flo,

I think that everything
is gonna be all right.

You just keep those drinks
comin'... [chuckles]

...and at the end
of this flight

I'm gonna have a nice,
big tip for ya.

-Oh, okay.
-[Tina] Flo came and got me

and said that there was a--

disturbing passenger in 18E.

I thought
I'd go by and take a look.

Excuse me.

Oh, did you want me
to give this to Flo?

I know you've
been hot on her tail.

[laughing] No, no, no.
Um, that's quite all right.

That's-- that's for you.

[Tina] Oh,
you're not very picky, are you?

I'm flattered, but married.

I think
you'd better take a good,

-long look at that note.
-[Tina] Okay.

[Rodney] She read the note
and then I went and flashed

the suitcase in front of her
and kinda looked at me

and stuttered all the way up
to the-- fast as she could.

[pilot 1]
Auto coming on. Okay.

Is everything all right?

"$200,000 in negotiable

American currency
and-- four parachutes

or this plane blows.
[chuckles]

Too bad it's Thanksgiving
and not April Fools. [chuckles]

-[Pilot] Yeah, right?
-Who put you up to this?

The passenger in 18E.

This isn't a joke, sir.

Let me see that thing.

It smells like whiskey.

You know,
I'll tell you what.

Here,
you tell 007 back there

if he wants to earn
his wings,

he can come up here
and ask me next time, okay?

He showed me the bomb,
captain.

I think
this is really happening.

[Pilot] Oh, shit.

Who the hell hijacks a plane
on a 30-minute flight?

That's the craziest
thing I've ever heard.

All right,
punch in the Squawk Code

and, uh, make the call.

Metro tower, this is

Northwest Orient flight 305.

We have a-- situation.

[Pilot] Yeah, we do.

All right, auto coming off.

Okay, everybody,
could we settle down, please?

Please, quiet,
we-- we don't have

a lot of time here, guys,
so we're on limited time.

Thank you.
Um, first question.

[reporter 1]
Was there ever any attempt

to dissuade him
or refuse his orders?

[Co-pilot clears throat]

The safety
of the crew is paramount

in a situation like that.

We were honoring
his requests

and therefore
made no attempt

to impede his mission,
per se.

[Rodney]
Well, I went up to the pilot,

he was telling me, uh, what--
what they were gonna do.

They'll have the money.

And I said,
for a good gesture,

I'll let everybody
off the plane.

And, uh, meanwhile,
I'm talking

to the sheriff's department
and they said,

uh, they got two 'chutes
from McCord airport base

and they got two
from somewhere else.

One's for green,
one's for brown.

So, I took the green one
because I knew

that the air force packed 'em
and I wasn't gonna die.

I didn't wanna harm anybody.

I didn't have any dynamite
in that suitcase,

it was all flares
and-- and an alarm clock.

[laughs]
I didn't mean anybody harm,

but it was too late
to back out.

After we secured
the money and the parachute,

we took off from Seattle
and then he asked us to lower

our airspeed and our altitude,
which we did.

[young Rodney]
All right, fellas,

I'm gonna need you
to take this thing down

to about 10,000 feet

and slow it down
to about 100 knots.

But, sir,
it's inclement weather here.

Just-- just--
I know what this bird can do,

just, please,
follow my request.

Tina. Sweet Tina.

I'm gonna have to
have you stay up here now.

I don't wanna see
you get hurt.

I don't wanna see
anybody get hurt.

[reporter 2]
And what was he like?

How was his demeanor
during the ordeal?

Well,
he was rather nice.

Other than he wanted
certain things done.

He was never cruel or nasty.

He even ordered
a second bourbon

and paid his drink tab.

He even tried to tip me.
[chuckles]

♪ He's the leader
of the band ♪

♪ Takes strides
against his enemies ♪

♪ Down coke-filled hallways ♪

♪ Against
what his mother said ♪

♪ Blonde hair, blue eyed

♪ An angel in the daylight

♪ Come night,
he's three tabs deep ♪

♪ And senseless ♪

♪ Against
the face of violence... ♪

[reporter 3] Given
the conditions of the jump,

do you think
he could've survived?

Um... [chuckles]

...without any training?

Uh, I think his chances
were between slim and none.

♪ Oh,
I see myself free falling ♪

♪ Being
the woman to his addiction ♪

♪

[Rodney] I went right
down on the Columbia River.

I left $5,880 on the beach
and I took 300 more out

and I went forth and buried
the other part on the way out.

♪

♪ Oh, baby, baby,
baby, baby, baby ♪

♪ Hold me, hold me,
hold me, hold me, baby ♪

[young Rodney grunting
& log thudding]

♪ Oh, no, no, no, no, no ♪

[laughing]

[music fades]

[Mike] When we got out there,
you know,

it's a matter of-- kind of
getting, uh, a feel

of the geographic area
and then following his lead

by where he described
the money being buried.

And so from the gate's location
is it to the south?

[Rodney] Wherever that money
that I buried the first time--

I go from there,
down to the cove,

there's a great
big black onyx rock.

That's where
I buried the money.

Just off to the main track
where they ride motorcycles?

-[Rodney] Yeah.
-[Mike] Okay.

[Mike] He was all on board
and knew that it was there.

That wasn't a question,
it was--

it's there
and we just need to find it.

Holy shit,
it's all grown-in

48 years later.

We're comin'
straight through the woods.

[Rodney] Where I put
the first money was down there

and I climbed over
a barbed-wire fence

and cut my pants
and came over on a hill.

Then I followed it out
this way toward Woodland.

-[Mike] Right, right.
-[Rodney] The lights

[Mike]
He came up over a berm.

And then there was
a dirt road--

a sandy dirt road.

So, if this is that dirt road,
we gotta be close

because that bay
is right over there.

All this new growth
can cover up something

that's five,
six feet tall, easily.

[man over radio]
Where are you?

Give me
a little bit of reference.

-[walkie-talkie beeps]
-Well, we're moving faster

than you we-- we're moving
south on the road.

If you guys get up north
on that little area over here--

[interviewer] How you feelin'?

Uh, he's just kind of
dialing it in.

I-- I feel optimistic
right now.

Walked up further,
went further north,

and he insists
that it's way above

the flood stage and-- and--
and tidal influence.

And found, what I thought,
was a really good

potential target area.

There's a really cool
area up here

where it does have a high berm
and it definitely would be

probably above flood stage
and tide stage.

So, check out-- you know,
'cause he said

there was a distinctive berm.

-Look how this comes up.
-[Mike] Yeah.

It's all sand
but when you get up on there

it's full of, uh, old,

uh, RV
or off-road vehicle tracks.

-Yeah.
-With access

right here to the road.

[Mike] It does fit
the description of the area.

And then he did say
he followed it out.

-[Carlos] Yeah.
-So he buried it

and then saw...

tracks, motorcycle--
whatever that came back out.

So this could
be where he came out.

[Rodney]
If I follow those tracks out,

I should be
able to get to a road

and I did, I walked out
and got to the main road

and then
this cowboy picks me up.

[country music plays]

[cowboy] Ooh-ooh-ooh!
You just party out there, man?

[young Rodney]
Somethin' like that.

[cowboy] Well, hop in, huh?

[Rodney] And if it wasn't
for that cowboy

that picked me up
drinkin' alcohol,

headin' to a bar in Woodland,
I would've never made it,

I don't think.

You have no idea
how much I appreciate this.

Here. For the trouble.

[cowboy] Hey, appreciate!
See you down the road, hoss.

[Rodney] Rode me up
to Piggly Wiggly's,

he says,
"Hurry up, get in there,

you get your shoes 'cause they
close at ten."

And I went across
the street and down

this alley 'cause there's
a phone booth right there.

Called a taxi to bring me back
to Portland, Oregon.

♪ You help me baby ♪

♪ Said you got
your misgivings ♪

♪ But I'm out here
day to day ♪

♪ Working hard
just for my living ♪

♪ And that's the truth, baby

[interviewer] You pretty much
made it clear.

You-- you're free and clear,
pretty much.

[Rodney]
I'm free. I'm goin' home.

I said, "I'm goin' home."

There's nothin-- no--
nobody knows who I am.

Driving home
across the bridge,

got into Oregon and I got up
towards Olympia

and I saw the-- state patrol.

There must've been ten cars
coming down the other side

with the army, a bunch of 'em,
and these big trucks

are goin' down the road
and I'm goin',

"Uh-oh, might be for me."
You know?

So, I turn the transistor
radio on, it says a manhunt.

[radio newscaster]
Police believe he left

the 727 in the flatlands

of Oregon or Washington,
but they are still looking

in four states,
even around the airport.

[Rodney] November 25th
at my mom's house

to get my dinner--
turkey dinner.

I ate there then went
downstairs and went to bed.

Slept 'til about two or three
in the afternoon

and my dad said,
"You had a rough night,

must've been out
with some girls with him

or something,
always with those girls."

And my mom said,
"Oh, let him go,

it's Thanksgiving."

You know, and everything.

♪ Whoa,
she was my little machine ♪

I got home
and then I sat there

and then Joe McDonald
came over, the neighbor,

and said, "Oh,
you gotta turn the TV on."

So then
I turn the TV on and my--

my dad's sitting there
and he goes, "Betty!

This looks like Rod!

But how could it be Rod?
He's sittin' right here."

That's what he said
to my mother.

Well, that's another
good lookin' Irish kid,

isn't it?

-What, half Irish?
-[young Rodney laughing]

I give the Lions
plus three.

You always bet on the Lions,
the Lions never win.

I pick the Lions
on Thanksgiving,

that's the way it is.

No smoking in the house.

My second family!
My home away from home!

[Jack and Babs]
Happy Thanksgiving, McDonald.

McDonald, how many times
do I have to tell you

to keep your fuckin' feet
off my fuckin' table?

Senior, these are bitchin'
Italian leather.

I don't care if they came
straight off the feet

of Elvis Aaron Presley
himself.

Off the table
or in your ass.

-You pick.
-Sorry, sorry.

You know, McDonald,
actin' like that,

you're never gonna get yourself
a babe like my Babs here.

You two make me sick.

Piss off, Rodney.

[young Rodney]
Piss off, Barbara.

Hey, piss off, Rod.

Piss off, Jack.
You got a muzzle for her?

-[Babs] I can hold my own.
-[young Rodney scoffs]

You know that
from experience.

That's 'cause
you wear the pants

in the relationship.

Oh, Rod,
you know that's not true.

[Mom]
Hey, hey, guys, cut it out!

When can a mother
just have a nice,

peaceful holiday

with her two lovely boys
and her dapper husband?

Oh, I wish my family
was this well-behaved.

Hell, I just came here
to get away from their asses.

Oh, and see if you guys
watched the news!

Some guy hijacked a plane
in Portland last night

and then jumped from it!

It's like some
James Bond movie, man!

Ooh, I love James Bond!

Turn it on, Senior!

[news anchor]
When he got on a plane

in Portland, Oregon
last night,

he was just another passenger

who gave his name
as D.A. Cooper.

But today,
after hijacking a--

A plane heist?
In our backyard?

Oh, dear Lord!

This guy got away with it
though.

-Betty.
-[Mom] Yeah?

This looks a lot like Rod.

How can it be Rod?
He's sitting right here!

[news anchor] ...left aboard
four crew members

and the hijacker.

[Dad] I guess
it's just another

good-looking Irish kid.

[all]
No smoking in the house!

[news anchor]
...with the full ransom

collected from
the Seattle banks

and four parachutes
aboard...

[Rodney] My dad didn't know,
I didn't tell my dad and mom

for ten years
after I did it.

[interviewer]
So, did you tell anyone

right after
you committed the crime?

My brother.
My brother's known all along.

[Jack] Golly!

Brigitte Bardot's
hot as a pistol!

[young Rodney] Oh, yeah?

You got
the Brigitte Bardot edition?

-Let me take a look.
-Hands off the merchandise.

Sorry, it's not like
I need to see it,

I've seen it
a thousand times.

I got Brigitte Bardot
stored away up here

for very special occasions
in the future.

Yeah?

Like the time
you got busted by mom

-looking for face lotion?
-[young Rodney laughs]

No, and I would prefer
that we forget about that,

thank you very much.

Lotta good memories
in this house.

Do you remember
when we used to raid

dad's old movie cabinet

and we'd put on Public Enemy
over and over and over again?

And I would play
John Dillinger

and you'd play
Pretty Boy Floyd?

Yeah, yeah.

Or how 'bout that kid
across the street?

With the headgear?

What'd we call him?
What'd we used to call him?

Uh--

[both] Brace-face Nelson!

[laughing] What an idiot.

Gangster films...

I have a feeling
I'm about to put

all those gangsters
in the cinema to shame.

Keep dreamin', bud.

No, I'm not kidding.

Last night on the news,

the guy that jumped
outta the plane, you remember?

-Yeah.
-[laughs]

You're sitting with him.
It was me.

-[Jack] Full of shit.
-[laughing]

I'm not full of shit.

I really did it.
Look, come on.

If I didn't do it,
how did I get these?

Rod,
if you were that guy,

we'd be on our way to paradise
with $200,000.

You really don't believe me.
I jumped out of the plane!

I landed and about a quarter
mile from where I landed

I buried all this money

next to this big black
onyx rock!

I need you to come help me
dig it up.

You're serious?

[young Rodney scoffs]
As a heart attack.

Okay, let's just say,

hypothetically,
you were that guy.

Those bills
would definitely be marked...

and if you got caught
you'd be goin' to Walla Walla

for the rest
of your goddamn life.

Bro, I need you
to believe me on this.

Rod...

if you're that guy...
don't go back there.

[announcer]
The Army Corps of Engineers

had dredged the Columbia River
here in 1974.

[Mike] And the original money
was found just south of here.

So, this, uh, probably

is the cove
that he encountered.

And then he moved inland
from there.

Have him come
take a look at this.

[announcer]
And now on shore,

where FBI agents comb the sand
like archaeologists.

All they found was $5,800
and no sign of D.B. Cooper.

Oh, yeah, it's here.

It's right on this--
we're right in the right area.

It's gotta be here somewhere.

[intriguing music playing]

[worker indistinct]

[Rodney] And they're digging
right by the flat rock, right?

[man] Yeah.

[Mike] To me, that whole
group of rocks right there--

Yeah, and that is--
he says that's black onyx.

And, yeah, there's several
up in this area too,

so that's the only
concentration of that.

[announcer]
Crews continue to dig

but found very little

of Cooper's green treasure
today,

even though
the discovery site

is looking
like a very scientific

archaeological excavation.

Shovels gave way
to backhoes,

the FBI and geologists

scooping out a test-trench
up the beach.

What they're trying to tell,

how long had D.B.'s money
been here?

They knew certain levels
were laid down on the beach

in 1974, but they found
no money below that point.

[man 2 whistling]

-[Mike] We got a whistle.
-[both] What's up?

[Carlos] Heard a whistle,

blood starts pumping,
and I think, "Okay,

maybe somebody's found
something of interest.

[man 2] Is anybody
in the woods?

There's a body.

[Carlos] I thought
I heard somebody say,

"I found a body."

[Mike] [indistinct] body.

[man 3] Yeah, we might wanna
go up there and check it out.

[man 4] Well,
I will just take this.

[Mike] And then uh--

and then I hear something
about a warrant.

...somebody hollerin'.

We don't know
if it's a sheriff

or an officer
or who it could be.

We're just out for a day hike
and shooting some of the...

[Mike]
I mean, we knew going in

that we probably
shouldn't be there.

[Carlos indistinct]

[Scott] Kids walk
from the bus everyday

'cause I live down here.

That sign
is pretty highly posted

-on that gate.
-Yeah.

So is this all private property
from the gate back?

-[Scott] Yessir.
-Yeah.

[Scott] Sorry, I'm not trying
to be an ass.

-[Carlos] No, no.
-[Mike] And we're not either.

-[Scott] I'm loaded.
-So are we.

You have the complete right
to-- yeah.

[Scott]
My name's Scott. Is that on?

-Do you want it to be on?
-[Scott] No.

-[both laughing]
-[cameraman] It's not on you.

-Yeah.
-[Scott] It's recording.

What're you guys recovering?

You said you guys
were down here

with a recovery agent?

What're you looking for?

[all laughing]

[Scott] Hey,
you're on my property,

what're you looking for?

Is that
your specific property?

-[Scott] Yeah!
-I-- I thought

this was private property-

[Scott] No, no, it says
it all over the gate.

[interviewer] Why didn't
you go back and get the money?

[Rodney] Pandora's box.

You open that box...

it's gonna happen
all over again.

138 kidnapping cases
plus the pilots,

another four, five of them.

That's--
you'd never get out of prison,

you'd never see
the light of day.

I knew
that I was still wanted.

It was, like,
I was wanted all the time,

walking around and I thought
maybe sooner or later

somebody'd recognize me,
but that wasn't the case.

So I decided
to go on the run for a while,

I went to Whitefish, Montana,
went to, uh, Lake Tahoe,

I went to Reno,
I went to Vegas.

[interviewer]
I-- so-- you just-- you knew

you had done something
so crazy

and you knew
you would go to prison forever

so there's no way
that you'd have ever bragged?

No.

But I did brag
to Rita Coolidge.

I met her in Lake Tahoe,
she's singing at a bar,

and she says,
"Well, you know I did a movie

with Kris Kristofferson,
Billy the Kid."

And she says,
"You're more famous

than Billy the Kid."

She said, "I'd like to do
a movie with you."

And so,
she took her shoes off

and kept rubbing her feet
on my knee and, uh,

getting close to this
and I says,

"Well, she must like me
a whole bunch."

I just made a movie
with Kris

called Billy the Kid...

and things had gotten,
well...

[sighs] out of hand.

I was heartbroken at the time,
you know,

and drinkin' more
than I shoulda been.

♪ All I was was patient

♪ All I was was kind ♪

♪ But you found
the burnt pieces ♪

♪ Of the love
we left behind ♪

♪ The love we left behind ♪

♪ Oh, the love we left

♪ Behind

♪ Mm ♪

[applause]

-Hey, Stan.
-[Stan] Hey!

Can I get a Macallan
on the rocks?

You know how I like it.

Now a lady who knows
how to order whiskey...

that, I like.

Well,
I been drinkin' long enough

to know what I like.

Well,
that makes two of us.

And, I love that song
that you sang tonight.

Who writes something
like that?

That's incredible,
I could really, you know,

hear all the pain
coming out of you on that one.

[laughs]

Yeah.

Heartbreak is a funny thing.

There's always that one

that leaves
with a piece of you.

And the only way I seem to cope
is on a stage...

or with a few of these.

I'm sorry,
I didn't catch your name.

Rodney Bonnifield.
Pleasure to meet you.

Rita Coolidge.

Just like the town
in Colorado.

[young Rodney] Oh, yeah?

It's actually
named after my family.

Now,
that is funny because...

-I also have a long history--
-Oh, wait, wait, wait.

I wanna hear this.

-Stan, turn it up.
-[Stan] You got it.

[news anchor]
In other news,

it's been two years since
the D.B. Cooper hijacking

and still no sign
of a suspect.

Oh, my gosh.

I'm fascinated by this guy.

It takes a real man
to carry out a plan like that

and not harm a soul.

Now,
that I will agree with you on.

Yeah.

You know, he's probably
on some beach somewhere

sippin' piña coladas

while I'm here
in this bar

singin' songs to the same
ten people every night.

[laughs] Well,
I can certainly see why!

You know,
this D.B. Cooper fella,

he's probably on some
white sandy beach somewhere

tossin' back a piña colada.

Or...

he's right here
in this bar...

havin' drinks with you,
miss.

[guitar music playing]

♪ Woke up this morning
I was a thousand miles away ♪

♪ Didn't know
just where I stand ♪

♪ Nothing on me
but this beat up suitcase ♪

♪ And I know I got a plan ♪

♪ And I'll be runnin' now ♪

♪ 'Fore my feet
ever hit the ground ♪

♪ I'll be runnin' now

♪ 'Fore my feet
ever hit the ground ♪

♪ And I'm running
out of my head ♪

♪ Nobody's gonna
bring me down ♪

You know, I was thinkin'...

you should come
to Denver with me.

I got a couple gigs there.

[young Rodney sighs]

I can't go
to Colorado with you.

I've had
a fantastic time with you...

But the whole
outlaw on the run thing...

kinda gets in the way.

I understand.

I've had a melody in my head
all morning.

♪ Run, D.B., run

♪ Mm

♪ Run, D.B., run

♪ But for how long?

♪ 'Cause eventually

♪ You're gonna have to find
somebody ♪

♪ To hold onto ♪

[interviewer]
Um, what do you--

where do you think
we go from here?

In this process?

Well,
where we go from here?

First, we have some details
that we have to vet out

and there are--
there are a few specific things

that may indicate,
um, that,

still there's a chance
that he is D.B. Cooper.

If we debunk those, then--

then I think
our options do shrink.

And if you analyze
the facts

and his commitment
to this dig,

um, you think,
"Yes, it's true. It's real.

This individual
is D.B. Cooper.

You know, we were disappointed
at the end of the day

because in three hours
we didn't solve a mystery

that had been going on
for 48 years.

So we felt negligent.

But in reality,
you know, we went out there

and gave it, you know,
a good effort and, uh, again,

it doesn't mean
that it's not there.

It just means
we didn't find it.

So we, right now,
today, don't know.

So what we need to do
is fall back

and do some fact checking
on some of the things

-that he's told us.
-[man on phone] Hey.

Hey, um, we're doing
some fact checking...

and does he have
his brother's number?

Does Rod have
his brother's number

or any phone numbers?

-[man] 360.
-Yep.

-[man] 387.
-Yep.

[man] But he is, again,
recouping from, uh,

prostate surgery

and he wants to recoup
a little bit.

Okay, that's fair.
We'll call him first.

[phone line rings]

And this is his brother,
Jack,

who just got out of
prostate surgery two days ago.

So if he's all hopped up,

he might be telling us
the truth.

-[Babs] Hello?
-Hey, is Jack available?

[Babs] Uh, no he's not,
who's this?

Uh, my name is Mike Rocha

we're doing some research

on the D.B. Cooper hijacking
back in 1971.

-Are you familiar with that?
-[Babs] Uh-huh.

-We're talking to Rod and...
-[Babs] Oh.

...Rod claims
to be D.B. Cooper.

[Babs]
Oh, no he's not.

Do you have any--
I mean-- is he--

has he had this manifestation
in his mind for a while?

[Babs]
Yeah, yeah, for a long time.

Right. Do you-- I mean,
do you guys have facts about,

the-- where he was the day
that it happened or anything?

[Babs] No,
but he's definitely not.

Uh, yeah, I mean,

we've spent
the last couple days with him,

trying to, you know,
corroborate his story.

What is the family's view
on this?

[Babs] The family's view
is that he's nuts. [laughing]

I mean-- what--
has he always been crazy

-or, um--
-[Babs] Uh, no.

He was in a car wreck
when he was about 18...

-Right.
-...years old.

[Babs]
And, uh, he...

uh, he went forward
in the backseat

and then
when he went backwards

he hit his head real bad.

[Babs indistinct]

[Mike] We got a hold
of his sister-in-law.

And she described an accident
that Rodney was in

and he sustained
a brain injury.

Which really sheds
some light

on our view of him.

Now it's possible
he is a little bit delusional.

[interviewer]
You're so detailed

with everything
and that's why I'm just--

I'm so interested

as why some of
your family members

might not believe
that you are

or some people might not
believe that you are.

Well, my brother's wife,
Barbara Bonnifield,

wants to protect
their name.

They're Christians,
they have a Christian--

they go to church,

my mom and dad
went to church there and stuff.

She's known all along
that I'm D.B. Cooper.

I had called her

about three months
before this episode happened.

I said,
"I'm goin' down there

and digging my money
up by the river."

Before I even met you guys.

And-- and that's--
that's what I told her.

She never answered me,
she just is kinda like,

"Okay, protect the family.

Protect the family name,
you know."

[interviewer]
She said that, uh,

the reason why you're claiming
to be all this

is because
of your car wreck.

No, that's not true.

Car wreck happened
in 9th grade,

going from 9th grade
on Military Road,

we got hit sideways
with a woman that was driving,

her mother was there.

And his name was Johnson.
Uh, her name was Johnson.

She ran a stop sign.

-[tires squeaking]
-[glass shattering]

My fault.
The accident was my fault.

It was an accident.
Accidents are accidents.

[Rodney] [echoing]
I got hit in my head and, uh,

I was dizzy for, like,
a couple years after that

taking Dilaudid pills.

Pandora's box.

You open that box,
it'll happen all over again.

[driver] [echoing]
Please calm down! Okay?

I know your gal left you,
I'm so sorry.

What the fuck, Rodney!
I told you no more bullshit!

You're gone!

[Rodney] 138 kidnapping cases,

you'll never
get out of prison.

You wouldn't even see
the light of day.

[young Rodney] I'd sit
your ass down if I were you

and fix that crooked-ass
toupee while you're at it.

[pilot 1] It was at that point,
we believe,

that with the money
strapped to his chest,

he then jumped
from the aircraft.

Appreciate it!
See you down the road, boss!

Come away with me, Rodney.

[hyperventilating]

I love you,
Rodney Bonnifield.

-[Rodney indistinct]
-[tense music playing]

That's it.
48 years of runnin'.

Now the FBI will look for me
and they will look hard.

And I ain't goin' easy.

Run D.B., run.

Run D.B., run.

Run D.B., run.

Run D.B., run.

Run D.B., run.

♪ Runnin' down the road
got the wind in my hair ♪

♪ Got enough fuel for Reno,
babe I'll meet you there ♪

♪ Tell you most people
wouldn't get this high ♪

♪ And I'm tailin'
down the highway ♪

♪ Got this gleam
in my eye ♪

♪ Run, run,
run, run, run, run ♪

♪ D.B., D.B. run ♪

♪ Run, run,
run, run, run, run ♪

♪ D.B., D.B. run ♪

♪ Run, oh keep runnin'
won't ever get caught ♪

♪ I'm gonna keep runnin'
'til the wheels come off ♪

♪ I'm heading straight west,
baby, into the sun ♪

♪ I'm on the freeway
inside of a car ♪

♪ Run, run,
run, run, run, run ♪

♪ D.B., D.B. run ♪

♪ Run, run,
run, run, run, run ♪

♪ D.B., D.B. run ♪

♪ Well my mama
she done told me ♪

♪ I was born to lose ♪

♪ All throughout
my lonely life ♪

♪ Damn, my woman
singing the lonely blues ♪

♪ Run, run,
run, run, run, run ♪

♪ D.B., D.B. run ♪

♪ Run, run,
run, run, run, run ♪

♪ D.B., D.B. run ♪

♪ Whoo,
keep running, boy ♪

♪ Got that look in your eye

♪ Run, run, baby

♪ Run, run, run ♪

♪ Run, run, run

♪ Run, run, run ♪

♪ Run, run, run ♪

♪ Run, run, run

♪ Run, run,
run, run, run, run ♪

♪ D.B., D.B. run ♪

♪ I've got a plan baby,
make things right ♪

♪ Finding out who
grabbed my case of dynamite ♪

♪ Criss-crossing baby,
jumping out of my seat ♪

♪ Skyjacking baby
going down for the win ♪

♪ Run, run,
run, run, run, run ♪

♪ D.B., D.B. run ♪

♪ Run, run,
run, run, run, run ♪

♪ D.B., D.B. run ♪

♪ Well my mama
she done told me ♪

♪ I was born to lose ♪

♪ All throughout my life

♪ Damn, my woman
singing the lonely blues ♪

♪ Run, run
run, run, run, run ♪

♪ D.B., D.B. run ♪

♪ Run, run
run, run, run, run ♪

♪ D.B., D.B. run ♪

♪ Run, run, run
D.B., D.B. run ♪

♪ Run, run,
run, run, run, run ♪

♪ D.B., D.B. run ♪