- 12 years ago
Action (1999) 89 minutes ~ Color
A convicted felon is set free by the FBI to unknowingly take part in a political assassination.
Director: Stephen Goetsch
Writer: Stephen Goetsch
Stars: Justin Lauer, Heather Waters, David 'Dutch' Schultz
A convicted felon is set free by the FBI to unknowingly take part in a political assassination.
Director: Stephen Goetsch
Writer: Stephen Goetsch
Stars: Justin Lauer, Heather Waters, David 'Dutch' Schultz
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00:00:00And you kill this man for money, this money, and it make people respect you.
00:00:29Did it make people fear you?
00:00:37Did it make you a god?
00:00:42It might have done that, father.
00:00:48But I never got the chance to find out.
00:01:39You got a head up, or you're dying back here.
00:02:00What the hell's going on?
00:02:31I'm giving you freedom.
00:02:51Don't you forget that I'm giving you freedom.
00:03:10You don't find that money in two days, somebody might think you had something to do with this
00:03:17little accident.
00:03:18Who told you?
00:03:19You'll find out soon enough.
00:03:22It's been 15 years, I probably can't even find the spot.
00:03:25I'm betting that you can.
00:03:45How much do I keep?
00:03:46Enough to get you out of the country.
00:03:48And you got connections on that end?
00:03:50I got connections on every end.
00:04:06Find your way home.
00:04:07I'll meet you there in two days.
00:04:08This road goes north to Jackson Junction.
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00:05:29You headed to the junction?
00:05:45I could take as far as main street.
00:05:47Well, that'd help.
00:05:48I'm in.
00:05:49Hell of a walk.
00:05:51Yeah, your girlfriend threw me out of the car.
00:05:58Come on, let's go to the car.
00:06:28I'm going to be late.
00:06:30I'm going to be late.
00:07:00You are lost in time
00:07:05You can only help yesterday
00:07:13For you went away
00:07:18You want something?
00:07:23Got an extra table?
00:07:25Just for one?
00:07:30Yeah, a drink, then a waffle.
00:07:45You want a beer?
00:07:47Sounds good, beer and a burger.
00:08:00Now, in just two weeks before Election Day, Senator Stephen Colin is making a whirlwind tour through the state of Iowa, including stops in Ames, Des Moines, and Mason City, looking for some much-needed votes.
00:08:13The latest polls show the Kentucky Senator trailing Iowa's own native son, John Bryce, by a whopping 11 points.
00:08:20I'm getting word now that Senator Bryce is just getting underway, and we take you now live to Mason City.
00:08:26Farm Aid didn't, a state subsidy couldn't, a federal subsidy still has not.
00:08:33We look to the federal government for the aid we've been promised.
00:08:37If somehow it never arrives, the bureaucracy always gets its hands into the pot.
00:08:43Once again, we're blessed.
00:08:45You a little thirsty?
00:08:46She had a shit-fit of she-coffee, even one bottle not accounted for.
00:08:51Help yourself.
00:08:57God, I needed that.
00:09:00Here.
00:09:02Bring me another one.
00:09:10Mom and Joe still around?
00:09:12Not back.
00:09:17I say to you today, I make to you today this promise.
00:09:21I will not stand idly by.
00:09:23I say to you today this promise.
00:09:25I will not stand idly by and allow the bleeding of Iowa to continue.
00:09:31Good.
00:09:32Then Friday.
00:09:33Thanks, Joe.
00:09:34Get along.
00:09:35Bye.
00:09:49You need help bringing these in?
00:09:52That's a spirit.
00:09:54Straight out of the past, Mom and Joe.
00:09:57They named a state after you.
00:10:00That the one?
00:10:02The only one.
00:10:04Iowa!
00:10:06Iowa, Jim Jackson!
00:10:09Oh, you must have been around the whole damn world by now.
00:10:13Yeah, I seen it.
00:10:14But nothing the junction can't offer more of and better than.
00:10:17Would the county fix you up a plate of that fried chicken?
00:10:19Tryin' the burger.
00:10:20No, you don't want the burger.
00:10:21The chicken you get from Daddy's farm.
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00:16:00Son of a bitch.
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00:17:10What's that mean?
00:17:16It means I grew up out here.
00:17:18That house, this farm, all this land was my daddy's before it was yours.
00:17:25But like I said, it's not going to bother you any.
00:17:28I got what I came for.
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00:18:12You weren't planning on going somewhere, were you?
00:18:14I bought it up here.
00:18:16What happened to two days?
00:18:18I brought it back, your half of the bargain is next.
00:18:21Freedom.
00:18:22That's my part of the bargain and you got that.
00:18:26Shit.
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00:19:10Fuck.
00:19:13Not too bright.
00:19:23West Union High School, 10 a.m.
00:19:26He'll get you, Cher.
00:19:28You're going to be there?
00:19:30With bells on.
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00:20:33What the hell are you doing?
00:20:39Get out of there and start walking back.
00:20:50How much did you see back there?
00:20:56You going to walk back?
00:20:58It's my truck.
00:20:59Well, I need this truck.
00:21:01Well, I'm not going to just let you have it.
00:21:03And I can't just drop you off at your house and promise you I'll bring it back?
00:21:07I don't know you.
00:21:08How do I know you'd keep your word?
00:21:10Because I said I would.
00:21:11So what?
00:21:32My name's Iowa.
00:21:36Like the state?
00:21:38Like the big blue-skied one we're in right now.
00:21:40Yeah.
00:21:41You going to join me up front?
00:21:44You drive like shit.
00:21:46Yeah, well, it's been a while, all right?
00:21:49You going to join me up front?
00:22:02You drive like shit.
00:22:04Yeah, well, it's been a while, all right?
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00:22:50Fuck!
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00:23:08How'd you get that name?
00:23:21First tell me your name, I'll tell you how I got mine.
00:23:27Ellie.
00:23:33My daddy, back in 1962, candidate for the presidency of the United States.
00:23:38It was from that one.
00:23:40Only went up to that time.
00:23:43Guess he sort of did it out of pride for the state.
00:23:46You like that name?
00:23:48It is any name, is it?
00:23:52Now, am I going to be able to take you home?
00:23:56I don't want to have to see my dad.
00:23:58He'd go crazy asking me where I've been.
00:24:02He told me he was going to kick me out.
00:24:05But I told him I'd leave before he did that.
00:24:09Supposed to be in the right idea.
00:24:11What?
00:24:13Nothing.
00:24:18Still no joke.
00:24:20What?
00:24:22Nothing.
00:24:27Okay.
00:24:50I'm going to go buy a soda off you.
00:24:54Get your fridge.
00:25:06Ellie.
00:25:08What are you doing?
00:25:09What are you doing?
00:25:11Needed a drink, I'm on break.
00:25:16I need your help.
00:25:19I didn't figure you'd be stopping by to catch up on old times.
00:25:33I'm going to have to get out of town real soon.
00:25:36How much time?
00:25:39I'd say tonight, before sunup.
00:25:43Zed was going to make a run to Union Station this afternoon.
00:25:47I'll call and see if he'll call tonight.
00:25:49I appreciate that.
00:25:51Now you're going to do something for me.
00:25:53Whatever time I got left here is yours.
00:25:55I don't need anything from you, except the truth.
00:26:00Where you been?
00:26:02Last 15 years?
00:26:04You ain't been around the world.
00:26:06I can see that.
00:26:09So where you been?
00:26:14My ride out of here is contingent on this information.
00:26:18Free yourself.
00:26:41I got paid a lot of money to shoot a kid in the city.
00:26:46Son of a banker.
00:26:49This was 15 years ago.
00:26:54The money didn't do me any good because they brought me in.
00:27:02I was in for life too.
00:27:05Never going to see daylight as a free man again.
00:27:09But they put me in for a transfer to the state pen.
00:27:13This was happening today.
00:27:16One of these agents somehow found out that money was still out there.
00:27:20Just waiting for somebody to pick it up.
00:27:23Only he didn't know where it was.
00:27:27How much money is out there?
00:27:42$750,000.
00:27:54Damn it.
00:27:57Jesus, boy.
00:27:59What the hell were you thinking?
00:28:02And here you come, walking back into my diner after 15 goddamn years.
00:28:07Telling me that you killed somebody for the money you got taped to your chest right in front of me.
00:28:12Jesus, boy, what the hell were you thinking?
00:28:14If somebody would have given me another chance, I would have taken it.
00:28:19I'd work.
00:28:20I'd do the work the right way if I had a chance.
00:28:24I did something really wrong.
00:28:27And to tell you the truth, I can't remember half of why I did it.
00:28:31But I was young and stupid.
00:28:35And I did a lot of growing up since then.
00:28:38I just want a chance to see the sun come up over the cornfields in the morning and see it go down again at night.
00:28:47All this money isn't worth what I did for it.
00:28:51But it can give me that freedom again.
00:28:55So you're going to leave the country?
00:28:57Where to?
00:29:00You're going to take all that money and you think he's going to let you live?
00:29:05You think he's not going to find you or track you down like a dog?
00:29:10If he finds me now, I've got nothing left.
00:29:17I ain't going back.
00:29:19That's for sure.
00:29:21I'm not going to give it back.
00:29:24This here is a sign.
00:29:26Somebody's given me a chance to start over again and I'm taking it.
00:29:32Oh, I...
00:29:46You know, I went to your mom and dad's funeral.
00:29:51What was it like?
00:29:55A lot of people came.
00:29:59A lot of people came.
00:30:03The junction closed for the day.
00:30:06Just about the whole assembly came down from the capital.
00:30:12Seemed more like a military funeral than just a poor corn farmer from Iowa.
00:30:20A lot of people respected your father.
00:30:25Guess I've got to get used to never knowing what that's like.
00:30:36I'm going to make that call.
00:30:42You don't think he's cute?
00:30:45I mean, when he first came into the diner, those tight jeans, arms.
00:30:51God, Ellie, I think he's sexy.
00:30:54You want another one?
00:30:58Are you all right?
00:31:01I'm fine.
00:31:03Come on, Ellie.
00:31:05Come on.
00:31:07Come on.
00:31:09Come on.
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00:31:13Come on.
00:31:16Come on.
00:31:18Come on.
00:31:20Come on.
00:31:22Come on.
00:31:24Oh, shit.
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00:32:51This thing better be able to move faster than this.
00:33:13This is the way for the word.
00:33:20Watch the road.
00:33:21Does it have to be the road?
00:33:22Is it going to blow up my tires if it gets any closer?
00:33:24Well, what would you suggest?
00:33:50I don't know.
00:34:11You know where you're going?
00:34:22Away from the bad guy?
00:34:23No way he could have followed us.
00:34:46You alright?
00:34:47Yeah.
00:34:48You know where we are?
00:35:13Border between Zandy's farm and Squire's.
00:35:37North.
00:35:38You sure about that?
00:35:40You know where the Palms Dairy is?
00:35:41Cross Cameron's Field?
00:35:42I surely do.
00:35:43Well, that's where we need to go.
00:35:44911, what is your emergency?
00:35:45Hello?
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00:37:22I don't know.
00:37:38I can tell you're from around here, but you haven't been back for a while.
00:38:02Grew up in Ellie's house.
00:38:03Of course, they weren't living there a dozen years ago.
00:38:06My dad owned all that land.
00:38:10How come you went away?
00:38:13Wanted to see a little bit of the world.
00:38:17Came back.
00:38:18Parents had passed on.
00:38:19I was hoping for them.
00:38:20I'm gonna find Ellie.
00:38:21You should be heading out.
00:38:22You should really get out of here.
00:38:43No telling what's gonna happen.
00:38:47I heard you talking to Mama Jo inside the diner.
00:39:00That bother you any?
00:39:01No.
00:39:02I was real young, like you, I guess.
00:39:14But I was stupid, too.
00:39:15Not like you.
00:39:16I thought it was gonna mean something.
00:39:31All I wanna do now is walk in a yard with grass and trees.
00:39:36Not have somebody watching you every step you take.
00:39:39Not have somebody telling you what food you gotta eat, what clothes you gotta wear.
00:39:44How did you stay in there?
00:39:49I don't know.
00:39:50Just day to day.
00:39:53Wake up one day, wait till it passed so you can wake up the next.
00:39:57They ever gonna let you out?
00:39:59They never would have, no.
00:40:12Not like that anymore.
00:40:31I don't wanna go back.
00:40:34I don't even know if I'm gonna make it out of this.
00:40:37You don't need to be taking a chance like that, and I don't want that on my conscience
00:40:41as well.
00:40:42This is perfect, though.
00:40:43I mean, I keep telling my dad I'm leaving and I'm not coming back.
00:40:49This is the best chance I got at getting out.
00:40:53What about your mom?
00:41:03I stay here much longer.
00:41:05I might end up like you.
00:41:06Maybe something I might regret for a long time.
00:42:06The money.
00:42:31You don't have it.
00:42:32I'm not playing games here.
00:42:34I'm not giving it up.
00:42:58You're gonna die.
00:43:00That was all part of the plan, anyway, right?
00:43:03You'd do the same.
00:43:04Maybe.
00:43:05Give him the truck.
00:43:30How the hell can you keep following me?
00:43:44Where are we going to go?
00:43:45What's this?
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00:43:59What's this?
00:44:00What's this?
00:44:01What's this?
00:44:02What's this?
00:44:03What's this?
00:44:04What's this?
00:44:05What's this?
00:44:06What's this?
00:44:07What's this?
00:44:08What's this?
00:44:09What's this?
00:44:10What's this?
00:44:11What's this?
00:44:12What's this?
00:44:13What's this?
00:44:14What's this?
00:44:15Shit!
00:44:27What the hell?
00:44:45Son of a bitch!
00:45:15Son of a bitch!
00:45:45Shit!
00:45:57They're in a blue pickup truck heading west.
00:45:59He's got the money.
00:46:01Just stop them!
00:46:06Years ago, sentenced to life in prison,
00:46:09it is believed Jackson was a drug dealer.
00:46:12Years ago, sentenced to life in prison,
00:46:14it is believed Jackson is...
00:46:17I don't think you should do this tomorrow.
00:46:22This debate might very well decide my future in this state.
00:46:26Not gonna bloody miss it because some convict's on the loose in the area.
00:46:29That's why those goons stand outside my door.
00:46:32That's why they follow me into the john when I want to take a piss.
00:46:36We will proceed.
00:46:38Am I understood?
00:46:40Yes, Senator, of course.
00:47:10Kelly.
00:47:12Jesus, Val.
00:47:26We need clothes.
00:47:28Clothes.
00:47:30It's a long story.
00:47:34I'm sorry.
00:47:36I'm sorry.
00:47:38I'm sorry.
00:47:43I'll swipe some of my dad's.
00:47:46Stay here.
00:47:53You think your dad's clothes will fit me?
00:47:56They should be close.
00:48:02What are you doing?
00:48:04Stay here.
00:48:09Escape convict Iowa Jim Jackson is now a fugitive at large in this community.
00:48:14Son of former state representative Paul Jackson
00:48:16was convicted on first-degree murder charges 14 years ago.
00:48:20Sentenced to life in prison, it is believed Jackson escaped
00:48:23while being transferred to the state penitentiary,
00:48:25killing at least two federal agents.
00:48:28Senator Bryce has issued a statement saying he will not be canceling his...
00:48:35Where is he?
00:48:38...today the city council...
00:49:00Come on, let's go.
00:49:08We need your keys.
00:49:09What? No way.
00:49:10Come on, Kelly, we need them.
00:49:13Step away from the window, Kelly.
00:49:15Come on, Kelly, I'll bring it back. Don't worry.
00:49:17I said step away from the window, Kelly.
00:49:20Shit.
00:49:39Are you sure this is what you want?
00:49:53Maybe we could keep driving.
00:49:57Your friend would never forgive us.
00:49:59She'd understand.
00:50:02I don't think so.
00:50:06She'd understand.
00:50:10Yeah.
00:50:18We just head south,
00:50:21hit Texas and cross the border.
00:50:24I still have all the money
00:50:26to take a plane to somewhere from down there.
00:50:29I wouldn't be able to come back to this country.
00:50:32Not to Iowa, that's for sure.
00:50:35I'd be giving up a home.
00:50:41Of course, it hasn't been much of a home to me in a long time.
00:50:45But you got a home and a family you have a hole in your heart for.
00:50:52You want some time to think about that?
00:50:55You don't have time.
00:51:03Come on.
00:51:15I want you to think about it.
00:51:33With me, I'm not ever coming back.
00:51:37Once I leave here,
00:51:41that's it.
00:51:45I don't want to come back.
00:51:48God help Mama Joseph.
00:51:51I was supposed to be locked away in a goddamn cage for the rest of my life.
00:51:56I didn't ask for any of this.
00:52:03I'd miss my mama, I think.
00:52:09My daddy, he...
00:52:13Well, he just...
00:52:16probably wouldn't bother him none.
00:52:19He'd be out in the fields the next day.
00:52:22Can't stop working just because she's gone.
00:52:26Corn's not going to harvest itself.
00:52:33I don't know your daddy, but my dad, well...
00:52:37Everybody told me he was a great man.
00:52:41Mr. Iowa always had time for the people of this great state.
00:52:47That's all I'd ever hear, you know.
00:52:50You must be so proud of your daddy.
00:52:54But you know what I wanted?
00:52:59I just wanted him to be proud of me.
00:53:08Maybe your dad just has trouble saying that.
00:53:25When I got a taste of being out in the open again,
00:53:28I kind of felt like an animal.
00:53:31Been in a cage all this life,
00:53:33and he finally gets a chance to be free,
00:53:35and he doesn't know what to do, how to act.
00:53:38Once I got that taste in my mouth,
00:53:40I can't get it out.
00:53:43I can't go back to living in a cage.
00:53:48I can't go back to being a man.
00:53:51I can't go back to living in a cage.
00:53:55I'd kill myself.
00:53:57So I'm going to keep running,
00:53:59and maybe I'll make it.
00:54:02Because that's all I got right now.
00:54:04All I got is taped to my chest.
00:54:08What I'm trying to say, I guess,
00:54:10is that I've been alone all my life,
00:54:12and I'm used to it.
00:54:15And I'll be all right by myself.
00:54:17I got you thinking you got to do it for me.
00:54:20So I'll drop you off,
00:54:22and no one will ever know you're running around with me.
00:54:28You don't have to go through what I did.
00:54:33You said it's my choice.
00:54:36It is.
00:54:47It is.
00:54:49It is.
00:55:15No!
00:55:19Damn.
00:55:31What the hell does that mean?
00:55:33Couldn't possibly have not run it.
00:55:36Shit!
00:55:44Don't move!
00:55:46Get out of the car!
00:55:48Get him up!
00:55:50Shit!
00:55:52Shit!
00:56:02Just stay put.
00:56:04Get out of the Jeep.
00:56:08The girl can stay.
00:56:19To the shoulder.
00:56:42A little more of a challenge than I thought you'd be.
00:56:48Oh!
00:56:58Take off your shirt.
00:57:18Come on.
00:57:29So much for your part of the bargain, huh?
00:57:32Quite the contrary.
00:57:34Oh!
00:57:46I'm giving you freedom.
00:57:48Don't you forget that I'm giving you freedom.
00:58:04Oh!
00:58:06Oh!
00:58:10Oh!
00:58:12Oh!
00:58:14Oh!
00:58:35Oh!
00:58:40That was stupid.
00:58:42Yeah, it did.
00:58:49Jesus Christ, I'm confused.
00:58:52Driving down the road.
00:58:55It could have hit us.
00:58:58The cop could have shot us, but he didn't.
00:59:01The FBI could have killed us, but they didn't either.
00:59:06We should get out of here.
00:59:25What the hell?
00:59:31Can we get out of here?
01:00:02Farm aid didn't.
01:00:04Estate subsidy couldn't.
01:00:06A federal subsidy still has not.
01:00:09We look to the federal government for the aid we've been promised,
01:00:13yet somehow it never arrives,
01:00:16and once again we're left searching for other alternatives.
01:00:20Well, I say it is time to stop searching for other alternatives
01:00:24and time to start making the government pay its share!
01:00:29How long are we going to allow the government and politicians
01:00:34to directly hinder the quality of our lives?
01:00:37You grow the food they put into their mouths every day,
01:00:40yet little do they realize that to take away from you
01:00:44is to take away from themselves.
01:00:47I make to you today this promise.
01:00:49I will not stand idly by and allow the bleeding of Iowa to continue!
01:00:55Senator Bryce, from his speech earlier this evening in Mason City,
01:00:59rival candidate and current Kentucky Senator Stephen Colwin,
01:01:03a formerly ordained Catholic priest,
01:01:05will be in West Union tomorrow morning as well
01:01:08for a debate session scheduled to last two hours.
01:01:24I figure we've got another three hours before we've got to hit the road,
01:01:28if we want to make it to West Union by ten.
01:01:31Do we really have to go?
01:01:33Without that money, I've got no future.
01:01:36We have no future.
01:01:39I'm staring out from behind the same rusty bars when I'm 80.
01:01:43I wouldn't make it that long.
01:01:47You can still get out of here.
01:01:51You can sleep or stay awake.
01:01:53I'm going to stay up as I feel awake.
01:02:01I don't feel tired right now.
01:02:10I'm going to stay up as I feel awake.
01:02:20They say the Senator's up in the polls by 35%.
01:02:25That's a pretty big margin.
01:02:27I don't think the other guy can come back from that.
01:02:30You think so?
01:02:32I don't know much about it.
01:02:36I try to catch it every election year.
01:02:39It's kind of hard sometimes to get to a radio,
01:02:42to get on the right station without someone wanting to change it.
01:02:47But I always found out.
01:02:52When my dad was still alive,
01:02:54he'd be running his campaign right through that radio.
01:02:59It was kind of eerie.
01:03:01I could still hear his voice.
01:03:04I could still hear him preaching,
01:03:07even though I didn't ever get to see him.
01:03:16I used to go to the Capitol with my dad when I was real young.
01:03:22There were flags everywhere.
01:03:26Red, white, and blue.
01:03:28The Ohio State flag side by side.
01:03:32I guess I was a patriot back then.
01:03:35A little patriot,
01:03:37running around barefoot in the halls of the Capitol building.
01:03:41On his lunch breaks, my dad used to take me to the cafeteria.
01:03:45All these other senators,
01:03:47assemblymen, lobbyists, all these important people.
01:03:52I didn't know what they did, but I knew I sure wanted to be like them.
01:03:56Having important lunches,
01:03:58dressing up in nice clothes,
01:04:01and going to work at that Capitol building.
01:04:07I think I would have made a good representative.
01:04:12People would trust me, I think, because I'm one of them.
01:04:16Not these politicians.
01:04:19They don't understand how people like your dad and your mom get by.
01:04:23How all of us live.
01:04:26But I do.
01:04:30I think people would respond to that.
01:04:33I know they would.
01:04:35Yeah.
01:04:37Of course, I've just got to outlive my life's sins.
01:06:08Jesus!
01:06:10We already paid.
01:06:12I saw you on TV this morning. Is that right?
01:06:15I don't think so. I wouldn't be on TV.
01:06:18This jeep here, they gave a description.
01:06:22It wasn't me. It wasn't this jeep.
01:06:25It was a man.
01:06:27I don't know who he is.
01:06:29I don't know who he is.
01:06:31I don't know who he is.
01:06:33I don't know who he is.
01:06:35It wasn't me. It wasn't this jeep.
01:06:38Go back to your wife.
01:06:41I think it was you.
01:06:50I've got to go. The manager recognized me.
01:06:53I must have had my picture on the news or something.
01:06:58Okay, let's go.
01:07:00Here, you drive.
01:07:05Let's go.
01:07:35Don't ask me again if I want to do this.
01:08:04I won't.
01:08:35I don't care what the son of a bitch has to say.
01:08:38I just want first and last words, and I won't have it any other way.
01:08:41Now, we already went over this extensively, Bill,
01:08:43and you assured me it was being worked out.
01:08:45It is being worked out.
01:08:47Well, here we are, 20 minutes from a nationally televised debate with Senator No-Nuts,
01:08:50and I don't know a good goddamn about what's gonna happen when I get up there on that stand.
01:08:53It will be straightened out, Senator.
01:08:55That's how they see it, Bill, the stand.
01:08:57I'm up there on trial in front of millions of people all across this country,
01:09:00and they expect me to be prepared.
01:09:03You gotta pay more attention to Derek over there and his staff.
01:09:06They've got a harder job, and by God, they do it better.
01:09:10Security's in place, Senator.
01:09:12We can make the final approach whenever you're ready.
01:09:16The fate of a presidency lies on the shoulders of a group of people,
01:09:2075% of whom never graduated high school.
01:09:25Let's head in.
01:09:33Come on.
01:09:59Wait. Wait down there.
01:10:03Wait.
01:10:25People of West Union and the surrounding counties,
01:10:27thank you for coming today and being a part of history,
01:10:30a part of the history of this great state.
01:10:32You're gathered here today because you've taken an interest in future leadership,
01:10:36not just of our state, but of our country.
01:10:43Don't move. Put your hands up, please.
01:10:47One of the men before you on the stage today
01:10:50will be the 43rd president of the United States.
01:10:55Without further delay, I introduce to you a very familiar face,
01:10:59Senator Bryce, your senator here in Iowa now for four years.
01:11:03And from the great state of Kentucky,
01:11:05Senator Steve Polz.
01:11:13They're underway.
01:11:15And from the great state of Kentucky, Senator Steve Pollard.
01:11:31They're underway.
01:11:37The people here have had to endure the bleeding of their state by a bureaucracy based in Washington
01:11:43Good to see you again, Iowa.
01:12:14Likewise, I'm sure.
01:12:17Always a catch, huh?
01:12:20A price to pay for freedom.
01:12:22I can't be responsible for putting a felon on the streets.
01:12:26Maybe you paid your dues the last 15 years, but that's not for me to decide.
01:12:31So what do I gotta do?
01:12:33Assuming this whole time you never planned on killing me or letting me go.
01:12:38An old acquaintance of yours would like to see you again.
01:12:41Of course, that'll have to wait until after you've killed the Senator.
01:12:44Oh, my God.
01:12:45Son of a bitch.
01:12:47Don't worry.
01:12:48You won't have to pull the trigger.
01:12:50Nothing less like that.
01:12:52You'll just have to take the fall.
01:12:55So this was the plan, huh?
01:12:58You breaking me out?
01:13:00It wasn't just about the money.
01:13:03It's never just about the money, Iowa.
01:13:05It's so much more.
01:13:08It's politics and bureaucracy and the games that governments play.
01:13:12There are some people that are simply not going to allow another Senator from Iowa
01:13:17to hold the presidency of this country.
01:13:21It has nothing to do with you personally.
01:13:25Well, maybe on my side now it does.
01:13:28But I assure you, there's nobody else that feels that way.
01:13:31What if I won't do it?
01:13:35The evidence needed to incriminate you has already been collected.
01:13:40All you have to do now is sit back and enjoy the show.
01:13:47We're ready.
01:13:54We've got to bring her out.
01:13:58Watch the girl.
01:14:01Stop her!
01:14:04We've got a red light.
01:14:06I repeat, we've got a red light.
01:14:08Do not proceed.
01:14:27Move!
01:14:47Spread out.
01:14:49Move!
01:14:50Push them out of here.
01:15:06Go!
01:15:17...their actions have on the general populace.
01:15:20Surely even you must be able to see that.
01:15:22These people, in particular farm workers, need the federal government's help.
01:15:28They're not receiving it.
01:15:29All they get are excuses.
01:15:31While the average price of a bushel of corn continues to fall
01:15:34and the average cost of operating their farms continues to rise.
01:15:38No one is disputing the obvious fact that something different needs to occur,
01:15:42and you've made that clear.
01:15:44However, you still have not offered any solutions.
01:15:48What do you propose the government do?
01:15:51What is your plan, Senator?
01:15:53Do you have one?
01:15:57I'll tell you what my plan is, Senator,
01:15:59though everyone here knows what that plan is.
01:16:03I will not allow the bleeding of Iowa to continue.
01:16:09I don't mean to be pushy,
01:16:11but I'm coming up on a halfway mark here,
01:16:14in case anybody's paying attention.
01:16:17Just fucking hold.
01:16:19If you do anything stupid in the next 15 minutes,
01:16:21I'll rip off your fucking head.
01:16:23That's a copy.
01:16:35Out now!
01:16:39Fuck.
01:16:44Son of a bitch.
01:16:46All right, Iowa.
01:16:47My time is very valuable now.
01:16:49I do not have time for these games.
01:17:08Fuck.
01:17:36Captain, excuse me.
01:17:37What was that question again?
01:17:43I'm not going back.
01:17:45You think I want to live if I'm staring out behind bars?
01:17:48For anybody or anything.
01:17:51So whatever way this is going to end,
01:17:53Keep that in mind.
01:18:07Come on.
01:18:09I need confirmation here.
01:18:11Somebody talk to me.
01:18:13Five minutes before they're off the stage.
01:18:20You think anyone's going to believe you now?
01:18:22I just killed the security guard.
01:18:24You're not going to make it.
01:18:26If I don't make it, then neither will you.
01:18:29Move!
01:18:32Back off.
01:18:34Back off!
01:18:49Yes, yes.
01:18:52You have a green light.
01:18:54This is a confirmation.
01:18:55You have a green light to proceed.
01:18:59Take him downstairs.
01:19:29Shit.
01:19:40You killed me.
01:19:43Consider yourself lucky.
01:19:44You don't have enough time to spare.
01:19:51It couldn't be helped.
01:19:52It couldn't be helped?
01:19:53How about a little goddamn preparation?
01:19:54I'm out there making up answers,
01:19:55Doing as much skirting of the issues as bright.
01:19:57These people think I'm a moron.
01:19:59Well, it's done.
01:20:01Let's worry about finishing this.
01:20:17You can leave us now.
01:20:19Take the girl with you.
01:20:49This be enough to pay off your people?
01:20:51That was the deal.
01:20:52It'll have to be enough.
01:21:02It's been a while since your last confession, Mr. Jackson.
01:21:06You're wondering how Derek here could have known about the money.
01:21:12Well, I told him about you.
01:21:16I guess some men of the cloth have less faith than others.
01:21:24Divide up the money.
01:21:25We'll send them out in five minutes.
01:21:45Get out of here!
01:22:05That was very stupid.
01:22:08Get out!
01:22:14Don't let them get outside!
01:22:36Shit!
01:22:49They're all part of this!
01:22:50Goddamn senators are part of this!
01:22:54You scared the hell out of me.
01:22:56Don't worry.
01:23:11Son of a bitch!
01:23:26Here.
01:23:36We gotta go.
01:23:44It's all my fault.
01:23:45No.
01:23:46No!
01:23:47You could have stayed back.
01:23:48I brought you here.
01:23:49I...
01:23:50You could have...
01:23:51That's what I wanted.
01:24:15I don't want behind!
01:24:43I don't want behind!
01:25:11I don't want behind!
01:25:40I don't want behind!
01:26:07I'll be damned.
01:26:38Following the words of political analyst Peter North of the Hoover presidency,
01:26:46they said that Iowa bled that day.
01:26:50And its blood gave birth to a thing called freedom.
01:26:58That freedom had a price to pay.
01:27:02And the ground turned red and took it away.
01:27:06Truly tragic end to the political career of one of the finest and most beloved candidates this state has ever produced.
01:27:17This is Phil Blackman, MBS News.
01:27:21God bless.
01:27:22Stay divine.
01:28:20God bless.
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