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00:01:26Thanks, I appreciate it.
00:01:30Your face looks pretty familiar.
00:01:33I think I have one of those faces.
00:01:36Appreciate it, thank you.
00:01:39Likewise.
00:01:40Don't take the turns too fast.
00:01:42Yeah.
00:01:43Yeah, you might tip over.
00:01:44All right.
00:01:4550 bucks.
00:01:56She had been a fraction of an inch from death,
00:02:03so naturally she had to entice and defend,
00:02:06to struggle and disarm.
00:02:09There was a moment when she clearly wrested the gun
00:02:12from his lucent grip,
00:02:13a split second when her brain had said,
00:02:15I have it now,
00:02:16and then the gun had gone off.
00:02:18But it hadn't just gone off.
00:02:21It hadn't fired by itself.
00:02:24Somehow she had squeezed the trigger,
00:02:25without ever actually willing to do so.
00:02:28It was as if she hadn't killed him.
00:02:30The gun had,
00:02:31and she had just happened to be holding it
00:02:32when it performed its deed.
00:02:34However absurdly self-exonerating those words
00:02:37may have sounded,
00:02:38she believed them to be true.
00:02:40Besides, what else could she have done?
00:02:43Leap back and point the gun at his heart?
00:02:45Threaten to shoot him?
00:02:47Order him to leave?
00:02:48Was there any likelihood he would have obeyed?
00:02:50Or would he almost certainly have sprung at her?
00:02:53Grabbed back the gun and shot her instead.
00:02:58In any case,
00:02:59the chance to change her mind was gone.
00:03:04She had driven past any red line of free will,
00:03:06both literally and figuratively.
00:03:11The die was cast.
00:03:12This day is the man's
00:03:37I don't know.
00:04:07I don't know.
00:04:37I don't know.
00:05:07I don't know.
00:05:37I don't know.
00:06:07I don't know.
00:06:15Hi.
00:06:16Hi.
00:06:17Vera Lachlan.
00:06:18Hi.
00:06:18Uh, Detective McCutcheon, NYPD.
00:06:20Do you mind if I come in?
00:06:22No.
00:06:22By all means, have a seat.
00:06:24Can I get you a coffee or water?
00:06:26Oh, coffee would be great.
00:06:29Where's your partner?
00:06:30Uh, take that Sinclair had a, uh, urgent personal emergency that he had to attend to.
00:06:38I hope it's nothing serious.
00:06:40Well, who knows?
00:06:42Bad things happen every five minutes, right?
00:06:43If bad things didn't happen, we wouldn't have a job.
00:06:45Right.
00:06:46There's a nice place you got.
00:06:48Do you live here alone?
00:06:49Yes, I do.
00:06:51Huh.
00:07:01Do you mind signing something for me?
00:07:04Signing what?
00:07:08Oh.
00:07:10No.
00:07:11No, no.
00:07:11I have a 15-year-old daughter, and you can guess what she wants to be.
00:07:16An actress.
00:07:17And when I told her I was coming to see Vera Lachman, she, like, spit her drink all over
00:07:22the kitchen.
00:07:22Of course.
00:07:23Happy to.
00:07:24What's your name?
00:07:25She jumped up and down.
00:07:25Uh, Crystal.
00:07:26With an I.
00:07:27Crystal.
00:07:28This is to Crystal and Christina.
00:07:30Okay.
00:07:31Her friend.
00:07:31Crystal and Christina.
00:07:33Christina.
00:07:34Very kind of you.
00:07:35My pleasure.
00:07:41She's going to freak out.
00:07:43That's great.
00:07:47Uh, this boyfriend, you have Sal Conforti?
00:07:52Had.
00:07:53Had?
00:07:54Had.
00:07:55We split up a while ago now.
00:07:57Oh.
00:07:58Uh, when was the last time that you saw him?
00:08:02Yesterday.
00:08:04Hmm.
00:08:05What were the circumstances?
00:08:09He'd been arrested and was released on bail.
00:08:13He came asking for money.
00:08:14I said no.
00:08:15Uh, and he left.
00:08:17Just like that.
00:08:20No, he carried on for a little.
00:08:21Who the f***?
00:08:22You know, but, yes.
00:08:25Did he threaten you?
00:08:26No.
00:08:27Did he become physical with you?
00:08:28No.
00:08:30No slapping?
00:08:32No choking?
00:08:33No.
00:08:34Nothing sexual?
00:08:35No, I've said nothing physical.
00:08:38No.
00:08:39This is strange.
00:08:40Why is it strange?
00:08:43Why is it strange?
00:08:43Because on the tapes, he sounds like he's becoming very physically aggressive with you.
00:08:47What tapes?
00:08:48The tapes of his phone calls.
00:08:51You've been recording him?
00:08:52Of course.
00:08:53For how long?
00:08:54That's confidential.
00:08:55And I'm on them?
00:08:57Of course you are.
00:08:59Well, you have nothing to worry about.
00:09:00I mean, they're not targeting you.
00:09:02Well, why should they be?
00:09:03I'm not saying that they should be or they shouldn't be, but they're not.
00:09:07Do I need a lawyer?
00:09:08That depends.
00:09:12Now, uh, what was the last time you saw him?
00:09:17Yesterday.
00:09:19Well, you said that, yeah.
00:09:20Yesterday.
00:09:26Detective Sinclair, he trailed Conforti to this building, presumably to meet with you.
00:09:32So, unfortunately, after he parked his car across the street, he was attacked by an urgent case of the runs.
00:09:39And after he'd solved that personal problem and he came back to his surveillance post, um, Conforti was gone.
00:09:48Um, how long was he up here?
00:09:54Not long.
00:09:55Um, not long.
00:09:59But he did leave.
00:10:00Of course he left.
00:10:06There's no chance that he's still up here right now.
00:10:10No, not at all.
00:10:12But feel free to look around if you want to.
00:10:15I appreciate that.
00:10:18Because if he is still hiding up here, he's doing a hell of a job, right?
00:10:22Right.
00:10:23Well, if we find him, we'll let you know.
00:10:25And if you hear anything, you'll get in touch with us.
00:10:28Absolutely.
00:10:29Can I count on you for that?
00:10:30Yes.
00:10:31Okay.
00:10:32Okay.
00:10:33Um, anything else?
00:10:37Well, you forgot the, uh, autograph.
00:10:43You don't have a daughter, do you?
00:10:46And the, uh, detective with the runs, I take it that was you as well?
00:10:49Well, no, I don't have a daughter.
00:10:54And there is no detective, period.
00:10:57There was nobody outside your apartment watching you.
00:11:02You're very good.
00:11:04Ha.
00:11:04Well, if ever you decide to give up acting, you could be a police officer.
00:11:09Well, if you ever think about getting into acting, I would recommend it.
00:11:13Pretty convincing.
00:11:15Well, thank you for your, uh, cooperation.
00:11:20Anytime.
00:11:20Uh, one more thing.
00:11:36I'm so sorry.
00:11:52No, I'm sorry.
00:11:54Uh, it's just that when you called 911 and you asked for the police to come and then you
00:11:58hung up and then when they called you back to find out what happened, you said it was
00:12:03an accident.
00:12:04Why did you do that?
00:12:09Come on.
00:12:10Come here.
00:12:11I think I'm done.
00:12:12You're done.
00:12:13I'm done.
00:12:16Wow, you guys are everywhere.
00:12:21Well, if I were you, I would assume, yes, we are everywhere.
00:12:27So, what's the answer?
00:12:29Why did you say it was an accident?
00:12:36This is going to sound so absurd.
00:12:40I've been, like, super high strung and really, really dealing with some serious anxiety.
00:12:52So, within the context of that, picking up the phone and calling the police, it's not.
00:12:56Uh, what's the word I'm looking for?
00:13:00It's not, um, remarkable.
00:13:03Noteworthy.
00:13:03Exactly.
00:13:04Either or both.
00:13:06It's an either or.
00:13:07Yeah.
00:13:08Well, thank you for your cooperation.
00:13:11Well, thank you for your cooperation.
00:13:42Thank you for your support.
00:13:44CHOIR SINGS
00:14:14CHOIR SINGS
00:14:44CHOIR SINGS
00:14:49CHOIR SINGS
00:14:51CHOIR SINGS
00:14:56I'm sorry, it was a false alarm.
00:15:26Dear sister, can you help me live?
00:15:56I've told the truth so many years, but no one seems to want to hear that I'm not someone else inside.
00:16:09I've been along this lonely road, looks like I'm not coming home, but I don't mind.
00:16:21Please don't cry.
00:16:27Dear sister, can you help me live?
00:16:39I've told the truth so many years, but no one seems to want to hear that I'm not someone else inside.
00:16:51I've been along this lonely road, looks like I'm not coming home, but I don't mind.
00:17:05Her head was now clear, but to what avail?
00:17:17What good to awaken from a nightmare when the nightmare turned out to be real?
00:17:23Worse even than the nightmare that had tormented her sleep.
00:17:27Especially when there seemed to be no solution to the nightmare.
00:17:32At least no solution which didn't threaten the creation of even greater danger.
00:17:39Havoc and fear without limit or end.
00:17:44The
00:18:04As
00:18:07As
00:18:14Um, fine, I mean, yes, I'm okay, I'm, I'm, how are you? How's grandpa?
00:18:25Oh, I see. I thought they were gonna start him on that new medication.
00:18:33Yes, but if...
00:18:37I know, I understand.
00:18:40Okay. Okay, listen, I have to take care of something, but I should be back by 7.30 or 8.
00:18:46Would that be too late for you and grandpa to come for dinner?
00:18:50Wonderful.
00:18:53No, I would love that. Great.
00:18:55Perfect. Okay, I'll see you, let's say 8.30 to be safe.
00:18:59Love you. Okay, bye.
00:19:07Hello?
00:19:08It's Leon.
00:19:10You know, now's not a good time, Leon.
00:19:12I finished my thesis.
00:19:17Hold on.
00:19:23Hey.
00:19:25Hi.
00:19:27Hi.
00:19:30What's going on?
00:19:32Nothing.
00:19:33Nothing.
00:19:36Nothing?
00:19:38No.
00:19:40Well, maybe that's the problem. Maybe you just need to go back to work.
00:19:44Yeah, you know, when something worthwhile comes along, I think I will. I think that's probably a good idea.
00:19:48Okay, you know, look, I also think that all the time and energy I had to put into doing my thesis, it just, it broke the rhythm of what we were just starting to establish in our relationship, and I, I take blame.
00:19:58Uh-huh.
00:20:00Don't you agree?
00:20:04What?
00:20:05Do you agree?
00:20:06I'm sorry with what you just said. I wasn't, I wasn't concentrating.
00:20:13Would you like to hear some of my thesis? I still have time to make some tweaks, and I would love to get your spontaneous response.
00:20:19Well, my spontaneous response would be the same now as it was when you first brought it up, which is that if you're, you know, if you're gonna write a thesis on murder between Dostoevsky and Dickens, then why not expand it to include Shakespeare and Marlowe and Webster and Turner and Poe and...
00:20:34What?
00:20:35Well, that would be my spontaneous response.
00:20:37But why, when I've already finished my thesis on Dickens and Dostoevsky and have to hand it in next week, would you be suggesting a complete renovation?
00:20:46Well, no, I suggested it when you first brought it up to me.
00:20:49No, you didn't.
00:20:50Well, maybe you misunderstood, or maybe I didn't, you know, articulate myself clearly enough, but I did.
00:20:54What, what, what you said, actually, what, what you asked me was, why Dostoevsky and Dickens? Why not Dostoevsky and Shakespeare or Dostoevsky and Marlowe?
00:21:02But you never said anything about a whole pack of writers. I really don't want to argue about it, Leanne, because I'm sure that your thesis is great.
00:21:06Okay, it's just a little weird that you would be suggesting this now when it's biologically impossible to affect the changes.
00:21:11You know what, this really is not, this is not a good time for me. It's just not a good time.
00:21:13It's just weird that you would be bringing this up right now at the last possible moment.
00:21:16I really don't want to argue about your thesis, Leanne, I'm sure it's great.
00:21:19Okay, but this is not a good time for me and for us and for this. It's just not a good time.
00:21:25What?
00:21:26Right now.
00:21:27What a good time? What is, wait, this doesn't make any sense.
00:21:29Talk about your thesis.
00:21:30What are you talking about? What's going on?
00:21:33It's me.
00:22:00What's going on?
00:22:09In some of her dreams, the sense of reality was so overwhelming that she could hear her voice saying this is not a dream.
00:22:17You may have been thinking it's a dream, but it isn't.
00:22:21It's happening right now and you will never awaken from it.
00:22:26Because you are already awake.
00:22:38Hello?
00:22:39Hey Vera, it's Franklin. I'm on my way to the airport. Can I come up?
00:22:45Hold on.
00:22:54Hi.
00:22:55Hi.
00:22:56I hope you don't mind having me.
00:22:58Cool.
00:22:59I'm glad you came. You want some breakfast?
00:23:06So you're leaving now?
00:23:08I'm leaving now. I'll be heading for the airport for 15, 20 minutes.
00:23:13I came because, to be honest, I was concerned about you.
00:23:18I detected in your voice... voices.
00:23:23You seemed kind of fractured and I... you were...
00:23:27I just felt you didn't sound yourself and I... is everything okay?
00:23:31I don't know. Um...
00:23:35No, I think if I was really honest that I was, you know, I'd just, like, feel very, uh, uneasy.
00:23:46You know what that half-empty bottle says to me?
00:23:48There's a void in your soul.
00:23:51A big gaping hole.
00:23:52I don't mean this to be in any way offensive, or even too aggressive, but I've always assumed that you and I have never hidden anything from each other.
00:24:03But now I'm wondering, have you been leading a secret life?
00:24:10Sexually, I mean...
00:24:13Because I was thinking, maybe you have a whole separate lurid existence on the side about which nobody, myself included, has had a clue.
00:24:25And I mean that as a compliment.
00:24:28I've never known anyone who can make everything believable.
00:24:33And about whom anything that was said would be believable.
00:24:39I think that may be why you're so effective in each role you play.
00:24:45You seem to be capable of anything.
00:24:49Anything.
00:24:55What about work? Do you have anything in mind?
00:24:58No, I mean, I'm trying to write and struggling a little bit with what that is.
00:25:04And work-wise, you know, I'm supposed to be reading scripts and I just, but I can't really feel inspired.
00:25:11For some reason I'm, like, hitting walls and maybe that's part of it, that I haven't worked for a long time.
00:25:20You know what? I should write something for you, which we could do together.
00:25:26I guess, like, if there was something that was really exciting, then I would probably feel inspired, but I haven't found that.
00:25:35I think it's more just like a lack of focus or something.
00:25:40For some reason, everything is just like, uh...
00:25:44Like I can't sort of sit still or, like, be with something, or...
00:25:48You mentioned writing. What are you writing?
00:25:53Right now, it's just a...
00:25:55It's like a little jumbled, you know, collection of, yeah, like a stream of consciousness, I guess.
00:26:04And sometimes it feels great and sometimes it makes sense and then other times it's just like a mess.
00:26:09And, you know, it's...
00:26:12I feel like if there was a sense of, like, peace and balance, then I would be able to have a perspective on it that I can't seem to find.
00:26:23I'm just restless, you know.
00:26:26Are you writing the first person or the third?
00:26:29Third, right now.
00:26:31Fiction or non-fiction?
00:26:33I'm not sure.
00:26:35Sometimes it's hard to know where one ends and the other begins.
00:26:40You know about madness.
00:26:42You got your demons too.
00:26:43I'm curious because when I write, I almost feel I'm a medium and that I am, um...
00:26:51The voices are invading my brain and I'm trying to shut a couple of them out and let one voice speak.
00:26:57Solid gold.
00:26:58Because otherwise I have three or four voices in my head all the time, which is why I'm this step away from snapping.
00:27:04You shared some beautiful moments right here together in this room.
00:27:07You ever hear voices in your head?
00:27:09How many fucking hours of pleasure did I give you?
00:27:16No.
00:27:18Um...
00:27:20It's like you're talking about like schizophrenia or something.
00:27:24No.
00:27:25It is.
00:27:26Well, you know, I've had bouts and one of the reasons that I've always loved talking to you was that you seem to be a tremendously empathetic person, so I feel I'm being understood when I talk to you.
00:27:36I'm not trying to impose my own psychological intricacies on you, but...
00:27:44This all sounds really abstract and I, you know, and I appreciate you coming around here and being concerned.
00:27:51I don't know that I need concern, I just, like something just kind of blew up and I have to, you know, figure out how to get out of whatever I'm feeling.
00:28:04Like a collision of, uh, ideas and frustration and, uh, like a turning point kind of in my life and dealing with family and relationships and, you know, you've been there.
00:28:23What about the guy Sal? Do you still have anything to do with him?
00:28:27No. That's done. A long time ago. He's just a crazy person.
00:28:32And how about the new guy, the, uh, graduate student slash lecturer?
00:28:36Leon, yeah. He, uh, he's like killing time, I guess.
00:28:42I don't know. I don't know. It's not, it's not that headline.
00:28:47Do you feel that, um, or hope that there will be one person that comes into your life and that's it and you have a family and that changes your life?
00:28:57Yeah, I, uh, yes, I guess. So?
00:29:07Do you think much about death?
00:29:10Yes.
00:29:12Are you, are you afraid of it or are you ready to die?
00:29:17I don't think that I would be feeling this kind of unrest if I was ready to die. So?
00:29:26Have you thought at all, has it crossed your mind, um, about committing suicide?
00:29:32Do you feel rage at the core of your being?
00:29:47Uh, I don't know. I don't know. Do you feel rage?
00:29:53I feel that my rage is always so close to the surface that it takes...
00:29:58Why are you doing this to me?
00:29:59...almost nothing to set it off. And then when I express it, I feel as if it's taken possession of me in a way that I had no control over.
00:30:07So I try to avoid letting it...
00:30:09I sold to a narc.
00:30:10...break through the surface because then it's too late.
00:30:12A hundred thousand bail.
00:30:13You've never felt that?
00:30:15No.
00:30:16It's, um, purgative in some ways for me. I, I actually sometimes am very glad that it happened.
00:30:25I'm saying it because I sense it a bit in you. I sense it at this point in you. Um, and, uh...
00:30:32Just give me the money.
00:30:34I, I've made, um, something of a mess of my life. And, um, I've used my work to cover it up.
00:30:43And I've hoped that, uh, I haven't damaged too many people that I care about.
00:30:48Um, I feel I've done the right thing for some. And I hope that they feel that way.
00:30:54I feel I've hurt people I love, which is the greatest sin.
00:30:59I know that hasn't happened yet, or I hope it hasn't happened in your life.
00:31:03But it's the thing that bothers me the most as time goes by.
00:31:08That's, I'm sorry, I don't mean to be confessional here. I came actually to see if I could be of any service to you.
00:31:19And I feel as if I'm asking you to help me in some way.
00:31:23Because you're the only person I feel who understands me the way I understand myself.
00:31:29I really wish we could spend more time together because I'm getting choked up here.
00:31:38I came here to... This is embarrassing. I came here to, uh...
00:31:43You don't need to be embarrassed.
00:31:45Well, I'm sorry. I, I, I feel maybe it was a mistake for me to have come over and, uh...
00:31:50No, it's not that, it's not, it was not a mistake. It's just like...
00:31:53You know, the, the point is, is that there, there, there's no, like, solution right now.
00:32:00Like, whatever it is that I'm supposed to be doing, I'm like doing it, you know, like I'm trying.
00:32:07And it's just like being, you know, a grown-up, I guess.
00:32:13Or trying to be a grown-up or something.
00:32:24But, like, it'll be all right, you know.
00:32:31I think you should worry about yourself.
00:32:34Maybe more than you are me.
00:32:43Maybe.
00:33:13Oh, my God.
00:33:43Oh, my God.
00:34:13Oh, my God.
00:34:14What's up?
00:34:15You need some help with that?
00:34:16Oh, I'm all right.
00:34:18Nah, nah.
00:34:19Honestly, it's...
00:34:20I got it.
00:34:21Trust me, baby.
00:34:22It's always our pleasure to help out a beautiful lady.
00:34:24No problem.
00:34:25Okay?
00:34:26Thank you so much.
00:34:27Damn.
00:34:28Thanks.
00:34:29That shit is heavy.
00:34:30Yeah.
00:34:31What you got in here?
00:34:32Balls of gold or something?
00:34:34I wish.
00:34:35Thanks.
00:34:36I appreciate it.
00:34:38Thanks.
00:34:39I appreciate it.
00:34:41Your face looks pretty familiar.
00:34:44I think I have one of those faces.
00:34:47All right.
00:34:48Appreciate it.
00:34:50Likewise.
00:34:51Don't take the turns too fast.
00:34:52Yeah.
00:34:53Appreciate that.
00:34:54I'm gonna cry.
00:34:55Let me walk.
00:34:56Let me walk.
00:34:57Come on.
00:34:58Come on.
00:34:59Come on.
00:35:00Come on.
00:35:01Come on.
00:35:02Come on.
00:35:03Come on.
00:35:04Come on.
00:35:34She didn't question her impulse to withdraw her call to the police.
00:35:58She would have been an immediate suspect, even if she had told the truth in precise detail.
00:36:04Of course she could have claimed innocence, she was simply trying to prevent herself from
00:36:10being murdered by someone in the grip of desperation.
00:36:14She had been a fraction of an inch from death, so naturally she had to entice and defend,
00:36:20to struggle and disarm.
00:36:24There was a moment when she'd clearly wrested the gun from his lucent grip, a split second
00:36:28when her brain had said, I have it now, and then the gun had gone off.
00:36:32But it hadn't just gone off, it hadn't fired by itself.
00:36:38Somehow she had squeezed the trigger without ever actually willing to do so.
00:36:42It was as if she hadn't killed him, the gun had, and she had just happened to be holding
00:36:46it when it performed its deed.
00:36:48However absurdly self-exonerating those words may have sounded, she believed them to be true.
00:36:54Besides, what else could she have done?
00:36:57Leap back and point the gun at his heart?
00:37:00Threaten to shoot him?
00:37:01Order him to leave?
00:37:02Was there any likelihood he would have obeyed?
00:37:04Or would he almost certainly have sprung at her, grabbed back the gun and shot her instead?
00:37:11In any case, the chance to change her mind was gone.
00:37:18She had driven past any red line of free will, both literally and figuratively.
00:37:25The die was cast.
00:37:55No!
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00:38:07Let's go.
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00:42:49I'm like, wanna talk, and sometimes I don't wanna talk.
00:42:51I just don't wanna be fuckin' scrutinized
00:42:53and analyzed and asked.
00:42:55I just wanna, like, go through it
00:42:57without being fuckin' watched the way
00:42:59that you're just, like, staring.
00:43:01It's frustrating to me.
00:43:19Hello?
00:43:21Vera Lachman?
00:43:22Yes?
00:43:23Detective McCutcheon, narcotics.
00:43:26Yes?
00:43:28I'm here with my partner, Detective Sinclair.
00:43:30We'd like to ask you some questions
00:43:32about Salvatore Conforti.
00:43:35Yes?
00:43:37Do you mind if we come up?
00:43:39Just a second.
00:43:49Hi.
00:43:50Hi.
00:43:51Vera Lachman.
00:43:52Hi.
00:43:53Uh, Detective McCutcheon, NYPD.
00:43:55Do you mind if I come in?
00:43:56No.
00:43:57By all means, have a seat.
00:43:58Can I get you a coffee or water or...?
00:44:00Oh, coffee would be great, thank you.
00:44:03Where's your partner?
00:44:05Uh...
00:44:07Detective Sinclair had a, uh...
00:44:10urgent personal emergency that he had to attend to.
00:44:12I hope it's nothing serious.
00:44:14Well, who knows?
00:44:16Bad things happen every five minutes, right?
00:44:18If bad things didn't happen, we wouldn't have a job.
00:44:20Right.
00:44:21It's a nice place you got.
00:44:22You live here alone?
00:44:23Yes, I do.
00:44:25Huh.
00:44:35Do you mind...
00:44:37signing something for me?
00:44:39Signing what?
00:44:42Oh!
00:44:44No.
00:44:45No, no.
00:44:46I have a 15-year-old daughter, and you can guess what she wants to be.
00:44:50An actress?
00:44:51And when I told her I was coming to see Vera Lachman, she, like, spit her drink all over the kitchen.
00:44:56Of course.
00:44:57Happy to.
00:44:58What's your name?
00:44:59She jumped up and down.
00:45:00Crystal.
00:45:01With an I.
00:45:02Crystal.
00:45:03This is to Crystal and Christina.
00:45:04Okay.
00:45:05Her friend.
00:45:06Crystal and Christina.
00:45:07Christina.
00:45:08Very kind of you.
00:45:09Pleasure.
00:45:15She's gonna freak out.
00:45:18That's great.
00:45:24This boyfriend, you have Sal Conforti?
00:45:26Had.
00:45:27Had?
00:45:28Had.
00:45:29We split up a while ago now.
00:45:31Oh.
00:45:32Uh, when was the last time that you saw him?
00:45:37Yesterday.
00:45:38Hm.
00:45:39What about the circumstances?
00:45:44He'd been arrested and was released on bail.
00:45:47He came asking for money.
00:45:48I said no.
00:45:49Uh, and he left.
00:45:52Just like that?
00:45:53No, he carried on for a little...
00:45:55Who the fuck are you?
00:45:56See?
00:45:57You know, but...
00:45:58Yes.
00:45:59Did he threaten you?
00:46:00No.
00:46:01Did he become physical with you?
00:46:03No.
00:46:05No...
00:46:06Slapping?
00:46:07No choking?
00:46:08No.
00:46:09Nothing sexual?
00:46:10No, I've said nothing physical.
00:46:12No.
00:46:13This is strange.
00:46:16Why is it strange?
00:46:17Well, because on the tapes, he sounds like he's becoming very physically aggressive with you.
00:46:21What tapes?
00:46:22The tapes of his phone calls.
00:46:25You've been recording him?
00:46:26Of course.
00:46:27For how long?
00:46:28That's confidential.
00:46:30And I'm on them?
00:46:31Of course you are.
00:46:32Well, you have nothing to worry about.
00:46:34I mean, they're not targeting you.
00:46:36Well, why should they be?
00:46:37I'm not saying that they should be or they shouldn't be, but they're... they're not.
00:46:41Do I need a lawyer?
00:46:43It depends.
00:46:46Now, uh, what was the last time you saw him?
00:46:51Yesterday.
00:46:52Yesterday?
00:46:53Well, you said that, yeah.
00:46:55Yesterday.
00:47:04Detective Sinclair, he trailed Conforti to this building, presumably to meet with you.
00:47:10Unfortunately, after he parked his car across the street, he was attacked by an urgent case of the runs.
00:47:16And after he'd solved that personal problem and he came back to his surveillance post, um, Conforti was gone.
00:47:24Um, how long was he up here?
00:47:31Not long.
00:47:33Um, not long.
00:47:36But he did leave.
00:47:39Of course he left.
00:47:41There's no chance that he's still up here right now.
00:47:47No.
00:47:48Not at all.
00:47:49But feel free to look around if you want to.
00:47:53I appreciate that.
00:47:55Because if he is still hiding up here, he's doing a hell of a job, right?
00:47:59Right.
00:48:01Well, if we find him, we'll let you know.
00:48:03And if you hear anything, you'll get in touch with us.
00:48:06Absolutely.
00:48:07Can I count on you for that?
00:48:08Yes.
00:48:09Okay, thank you.
00:48:10Okay.
00:48:11Um...
00:48:13Anything else?
00:48:15Well, you forgot the, uh, autograph.
00:48:21You don't have a daughter, do you?
00:48:24And the, uh, detective with the runs, I take it that was you as well?
00:48:29No.
00:48:30I don't have a daughter.
00:48:31And there is no detective, period.
00:48:34There was nobody outside your apartment watching you.
00:48:40You're very good.
00:48:41Ha.
00:48:43If ever you decide to give up acting, you could be a police officer.
00:48:47Well, if you ever think about getting into acting, I would recommend it.
00:48:51Very convincing.
00:48:53Oh.
00:48:55Thank you for your, uh, cooperation.
00:48:58Anytime.
00:49:04Uh, one more thing.
00:49:05I'm so sorry.
00:49:06Okay.
00:49:07I'm sorry.
00:49:08Uh, it's just that when you called 9-1-1 and you asked for the police to come and then you hung up.
00:49:13And then, when they called you back to find out what happened, you said it was an accident.
00:49:19Why did you do that?
00:49:20One more thing, I'm so sorry, I'm sorry, it's just that when you called 9-1-1 and you asked
00:49:35for the police to come and then you hung up and then when they called you back to find
00:49:39out what happened, you said it was an accident, why did you do that?
00:49:45Come here, come here.
00:49:52Wow, you guys are everywhere.
00:49:57Well, if I were you, I would assume yes, we are everywhere.
00:50:04So, what's the answer?
00:50:08Why did you say it was an accident?
00:50:13Well, this is going to sound so absurd.
00:50:18I have been like super high strung and really, really dealing with some serious anxiety.
00:50:30So within the context of that, picking up the phone and calling the police, it's not,
00:50:35uh, what's the word I'm looking for, it's not, um, remarkable.
00:50:40Noteworthy.
00:50:41Exactly.
00:50:42Either or both.
00:50:43It's an either or, yeah.
00:50:45Well, thank you for your cooperation.
00:51:05Do you feel lucky?
00:51:17Yes.
00:51:18Incredibly.
00:51:20I do too.
00:51:22I feel, I feel, um, you know, that somehow I've gotten away with something my whole life.
00:51:29Do you feel you're getting away with something?
00:51:33I don't feel like I'm running from anything to get away from.
00:51:36I'm just, like, existing on a very, uh, like a surface level.
00:51:41But I can feel in my psyche that there's all sorts of unrest and maybe this is, those are the questions I need to ask that I, but I, but I, you know, I can't, um, find any sort of answers.
00:51:54And so it's just, like, frustrating, constantly frustrated and, and I guess talking about it is helpful, you know, to sort of try to unravel whatever it is that's happening.
00:52:07But, um, at the same time it also, like, brings up anxiety because these are exactly the things that I can't, like, put a finger on or figure out or, um, so just, like, right even now just talking about it, it just, like, kicks it all up, you know, maybe.
00:52:23Like, I want to run away or something.
00:52:28How is, um, everything with, with your family?
00:52:32How, how are your mother and grandfather doing?
00:52:35She's all right.
00:52:36You know, he's not great, but mostly happy.
00:52:42I think she's worried about him and, um, yeah, I guess when that starts to happen, you're just sort of in a place where, you know, it's so unknown and almost the fact that he's aware of it is worse than, you know, where it'll end up.
00:53:02But, um, right now, you know, he's frustrated, and I guess that's hard, harder.
00:53:27Who owns this restaurant?
00:53:32It's not a restaurant, Pops.
00:53:33This is my apartment.
00:53:37Who are you, darling?
00:53:39I'm your granddaughter, Vera.
00:53:43You say?
00:53:44See, see what, Pop?
00:53:59I, I, I, I still don't understand why the two of you could sit here getting drunk and, and I can only drink bubble water.
00:54:08Have, have, have, have I been a bad boy?
00:54:10No.
00:54:11No.
00:54:12You've been just great.
00:54:13But you can't have alcohol while you're on three of your medications, Pop.
00:54:17Well, throw out the, the medications.
00:54:19I'd rather get plastered.
00:54:21Maybe tomorrow.
00:54:24Who says I'll be around tomorrow?
00:54:26You want to put that in writing, that I'll be around tomorrow?
00:54:31Well, let's see how you feel.
00:54:33I know how I feel.
00:54:35Confused.
00:54:37Are you confused too, darling?
00:54:44Constantly.
00:54:46Don't worry, the wine will take care of it.
00:54:49That's why I want alcohol, to clear up my confusion.
00:54:52I left word for Carl Icahn to stop by this evening.
00:55:02Who are you, by the way?
00:55:04I'm Vera, your granddaughter.
00:55:06I just wish someone would tell me where my mother is.
00:55:19You see?
00:55:21You see what, Pop?
00:55:23Her.
00:55:25You're a very beautiful young woman.
00:55:32And you're a very handsome man.
00:55:34You know it.
00:55:43You should have seen me when I was 24.
00:55:45I'll bet.
00:55:47How old am I now?
00:55:4985.
00:55:5085.
00:55:51Liar.
00:55:55What's your opinion?
00:55:5785.
00:55:58Two liars.
00:55:59What's so funny?
00:56:00Who owns this restaurant?
00:56:12This is my apartment.
00:56:13This is not a restaurant.
00:56:14I live here.
00:56:15Prove it.
00:56:16I have documents.
00:56:17You want to see?
00:56:18Worthless.
00:56:19I can still come and take it away from you whenever they want.
00:56:22Who can?
00:56:23The police.
00:56:24I'm going to remember that.
00:56:25That's what they all say.
00:56:31Do you have a husband?
00:56:33No.
00:56:34Keep it that way.
00:56:35Most men you can't trust them, believe me.
00:56:50I should know.
00:56:52My daughter Elaine, you're my daughter.
00:56:54Granddaughter.
00:56:55You're my daughter, is that correct?
00:56:56Yes.
00:56:57What's your opinion about that?
00:56:58That's the reason they have.
00:57:00Yes.
00:57:01What's your opinion?
00:57:03She's your daughter.
00:57:04This is Elaine, your daughter.
00:57:06My daughter, Elaine, she got married to an old good son of a bitch bastard whose name
00:57:09I wouldn't mention even if I could remember, which I can't.
00:57:12This selfish rotten deadbeat.
00:57:18Do you have a husband?
00:57:20Nope.
00:57:23She'd have seen me when I was 24.
00:57:30How old am I now?
00:57:3385.
00:57:3585.
00:57:37Who are you, darling?
00:57:39I am your granddaughter, Vera.
00:57:41I'm not surprised you look like her.
00:57:44Same hair, same smile.
00:57:46I just wish someone would tell me where Mother is.
00:58:05Well, my mother is right here.
00:58:09She's not my mother, she's my wife.
00:58:11No, no, no.
00:58:12This is your daughter, Elaine?
00:58:13I'm your daughter.
00:58:14I'm your granddaughter, Vera.
00:58:15But you know you weren't even born.
00:58:17I'm tired of being lied to you.
00:58:18I want to know where my mother is.
00:58:22She's dead, Grandpa.
00:58:27Who's dead?
00:58:28Your mother, Sylvia, my great-grandmother.
00:58:33You're sure?
00:58:36She was 88, though.
00:58:38She had a really happy life.
00:58:46Why wasn't I told?
00:58:48Why wasn't I told?
00:58:49You were told, Pop.
00:58:50It was 30 years ago, Pop.
00:58:51You arranged the funeral.
00:58:52You gave the eulogy.
00:58:55You spoke beautifully.
00:58:57She's at peace now.
00:59:06Will you reach her on the phone?
00:59:07No.
00:59:08No.
00:59:09No, but we can talk about her, and we can think about her, and we can remember her, and it makes her happy to know that we're thinking about her, and it makes us feel good to remember her, okay?
00:59:20No.
00:59:26Sorry.
00:59:27I'm sorry, Grandpa.
00:59:30I don't like what's happening to me.
00:59:31I don't like what's happening to me!
00:59:33No!
00:59:34Don't like what's happening to me!
00:59:35what's happening to me!
00:59:36I don't like what's happening to me!
00:59:50I don't like what's happening to me!
00:59:58What's happening to me?
01:00:00Where are you going, Grandpa?
01:00:07Somewhere.
01:00:09Somewhere where I could just kill myself in peace.
01:00:12Just let me go.
01:00:13No, hey, hey.
01:00:14Can I ask you something first?
01:00:16What?
01:00:17Can I dance with you?
01:00:19It's a little forward, don't you think?
01:00:22I'm a modern woman.
01:00:23Come on.
01:00:24Modern woman.
01:00:25Come on.
01:00:26Oh, boy.
01:00:27Careful.
01:00:28Oh, boy.
01:00:29Modern woman.
01:00:30Get ready.
01:00:31Get those dancing shoes on, Grandpa.
01:00:32Oh, boy.
01:00:33Ready?
01:00:34Please say you want me to be your lord.
01:00:46I have always wanted you in my heart.
01:00:54When there's stars up in the sky.
01:00:59You will lie.
01:01:02Then you will realize.
01:01:07You belong to me.
01:01:13You know what I think about when I get upset?
01:01:15I remember that time where you and me and Mom first went to Europe and Dad had just left.
01:01:25And we stayed at the Excelsior Hotel on the Lido in Venice.
01:01:28And when we first arrived, we went straight onto the beach and we were all holding hands.
01:01:33You were on my left.
01:01:34And Mom was on my right and we went straight into the sea.
01:01:39And we just walked and walked for hours.
01:01:42It felt like hours and days.
01:01:44And the sea was just up to our knees.
01:01:47And we walked and walked.
01:01:49And then finally we were fully immersed.
01:01:52And it was so salty that we were just floating.
01:01:55And we looked back at the hotel.
01:01:59It was just blurring.
01:02:01And we left.
01:02:03And we left and loved.
01:02:05And you cared for me.
01:02:15If you cared for me Then I'll stop this crying over you
01:02:22I have always wanted you To win the Lord
01:02:30I have cried so much for you
01:02:38I hope you do desire
01:02:43You belong
01:02:47To me
01:02:56Mama?
01:03:02Yes?
01:03:04If I ask you a question, will you answer it with complete honesty?
01:03:08Of course.
01:03:11When I was little, did you think that there was something, um...
01:03:18I don't know, like, odd about me or...
01:03:22Odd? Of course not.
01:03:25The opposite.
01:03:27It was easy to figure out that you were a very, very special child.
01:03:33But was I, like...
01:03:36I don't know, did I ever, like...
01:03:39Was I ever violent or aggressive or...?
01:03:42Violent?
01:03:44Well, you certainly weren't, uh, ordinary. You were never ordinary. So I guess in that sense of the word, uh...
01:03:52We could stretch it out to saying you were odd. Is that what you mean? Certainly not violent. You were not violent. You've never had a violent bone in your body.
01:04:01I've always been a loving, caring, and compassionate person. I love you so much.
01:04:07I love you, Mama.
01:04:09I love you.
01:04:11In fact, even when you would get really angry sometimes, which is surprising, because I know I can get physical. You were never physical. Never.
01:04:26Why are we talking about this? I don't know. This is...
01:04:30Why would you even think about something like this?
01:04:34Hi.
01:04:44Hi.
01:04:45I'm Carl Icahn.
01:04:47I know.
01:04:48And, uh, you do. Well, your grandfather asked me to come up. Was he around?
01:04:52No, I mean, they just left five minutes ago.
01:04:54Your grandfather's off the lock.
01:04:55Yes, I'm Vera, his granddad.
01:04:57Oh, he just left?
01:04:58He left with my mother.
01:04:59He asked me to come up.
01:05:00Yeah.
01:05:01I was going to mention, but I didn't believe that he... Anyway, would you... Why don't you come in? You want a drink or something?
01:05:05Why didn't you believe it?
01:05:06Sometimes, you know, he gets a little forgetful.
01:05:09Can I get you a drink of something?
01:05:12Okay with me.
01:05:13You want wine or water or... I'm having wine.
01:05:17I'll have a little wine. Fine. Fine. Thank you.
01:05:21I'm sorry you missed him.
01:05:24Take a seat on the couch.
01:05:27This whole day has just been... Ugh.
01:05:30I mean, it's nice to meet you. I'm just sorry that you missed my grandfather.
01:05:35I didn't even know...
01:05:36Oh, thank you. Yeah.
01:05:37You guys are friends.
01:05:38Well, I'm sorry to hear about that.
01:05:39Yeah.
01:05:40Well, I wouldn't call us exactly friends.
01:05:43I haven't talked to him or seen him since I'm 15 years old.
01:05:47And, um, he did me a great favor.
01:05:51I came up from a pretty tough school.
01:05:55And the high school we went to, Far Rockway High School,
01:05:58a bunch of these kids from reform school were there and all that.
01:06:01And maybe my first week, there were these tough kids from Auburn,
01:06:05this place called Auburn, really tough kids.
01:06:08I happened to be in the gym.
01:06:10I was playing a little basketball.
01:06:11And this guy comes over.
01:06:13I'll never forget.
01:06:14This is from Alvin Bly, his name was.
01:06:16He walks over and he says,
01:06:20Hey, Jew boy, look over here at me.
01:06:25And he spit in my face.
01:06:27I didn't know what the hell to do.
01:06:30He and his friends were there, or at least the people that he knew,
01:06:33maybe five, six, seven of these guys.
01:06:36They kept chanting stairwell, stairwell,
01:06:39which meant they go to the stairwell and that's where you have the fight.
01:06:42And I went to the stairwell and I figured the only thing I could do to save it
01:06:46because sooner or later they were all going to get me,
01:06:49I grabbed the guy by the head and I kept banging it against the stairwell.
01:06:54And he started to bleed.
01:06:57And I thought the other guys would jump on me, but they really did.
01:07:00They just pulled me off of them.
01:07:02They were going to expel me and bring me up on juvenile charges.
01:07:06Now where did your father, grandfather come in?
01:07:09Well, he was there in the stairwell.
01:07:12And four of the kids, which sort of restored my faith in human nature.
01:07:18I never had much faith.
01:07:19I still don't say restored as the right word, I guess.
01:07:23But it makes me think there was a good side, a good side to people.
01:07:27And I think that, with some people anyway.
01:07:30All four of them told the dean that I was completely innocent.
01:07:35This guy had spit in my face and what could I do?
01:07:38And then they even made up some stuff about how when I went to the stairwell,
01:07:42he started smacking me, which really didn't happen because I jumped him.
01:07:45And the dean had no choice but to let me go and say, okay.
01:07:50And it sort of changed my life in a strange way.
01:07:53Well, first of all, I had more faith in certain people.
01:07:56But it also, I was a smart kid in school.
01:08:00You know, Princeton, Yale, and Harvard were looking for a guy like me, a Jewish kid,
01:08:04at the worst high school in America, New York.
01:08:07Right.
01:08:08And I got into these colleges.
01:08:09I never would have got in if I had been charged.
01:08:11So, but when I saw these guys leave, and they weren't even talking to me, just left.
01:08:17I went over to him, and I said to him, I owe you a favor.
01:08:26And one day, one day, whenever you want, you can call on that favor.
01:08:32I said, all of you are going to call on this one day.
01:08:36And I never saw your grandfather again, but three of them called the favorite.
01:08:44And I lived up to it.
01:08:47And I helped them.
01:08:49And they all did well.
01:08:50And I never heard from your grandfather.
01:08:52Until now?
01:08:53Until now.
01:08:54Tonight.
01:08:55What did he want?
01:08:57He didn't say.
01:09:00He said to come up and see him.
01:09:02He said he needed help.
01:09:05I don't know.
01:09:06Do you know what he wanted?
01:09:07He said, I need help.
01:09:09No.
01:09:10And I'm calling you.
01:09:12Interestingly, he remembered it.
01:09:15Because he did say, you said you owe me a favor.
01:09:21So, going back, Jesus, I feel older than I always felt, you know?
01:09:27Think about it, 65 years.
01:09:31My God.
01:09:34Makes me feel emotional about it.
01:09:37Yeah.
01:09:38Feel bad.
01:09:39They never called.
01:09:42Well, tell me about yourself as a loser here.
01:09:46Well, I don't really know where to begin.
01:09:52I've had such a strange night, you know?
01:09:55You had a strange night, you know?
01:09:57I'm an old poker player.
01:09:58It sounds like you've got some problems.
01:10:00I don't even know where to start.
01:10:02Maybe I'm being forward.
01:10:03Maybe I'm being forward.
01:10:04But it sounds like you've got a few problems.
01:10:05I could share some things with you.
01:10:08How dark are you?
01:10:34Her sense of existing outside herself by connecting to other people had always been tenuous.
01:10:40And it extended only rarely and briefly beyond the two people who had always been there.
01:10:45Now even that fragile aspect of her being was receding without remorse.
01:10:50But she was determined to hold on.
01:11:04To be continued...
01:11:34Suddenly, inexplicably, the violent churning in her stomach, which had seized her immediately
01:11:46after the killing, disappeared, replaced by a thoroughly irrational calm, a near-beatific
01:11:52felicity.
01:11:54It hardly disturbed her that she accepted so quickly what she had done.
01:11:59Manslaughter, accidental homicide, murder.
01:12:02It was a killing no matter the word.
01:12:06The path ahead was clear.
01:12:09She would follow her most urgent reaction to each moment in her life and confront the consequences
01:12:14as they emerged.
01:12:16Maybe she could even, through her words, help to stir some understanding in people she would
01:12:21never meet.
01:12:23If she could somehow manage to shape her own turmoil into ideas and stories which would
01:12:27reach them as she has been reached, and even transformed by creators she had never met.
01:12:33People who had given her a sense of meaning and purpose, however tenuous and fragmented.
01:12:40Any other path would lead to chaos and madness, to the annihilation of the self without which
01:12:46no life worth living was possible.
01:12:47Perhaps then her mercilessly demanding brain would be appeased, and she might have a chance
01:12:56to savour and exult in the marvellous, irresistible uncertainty of the future.
01:13:02Rebellion of the exult in the marvellous, irresistible safely, as well as ''Gl hack and
01:13:06suicide of the self without choice.
01:13:07Indeed I find another unscarsely cuma home, even, in none of the ngay relationships
01:13:11as the craft has the art of freedom and our temptations and amends im Jane.
01:13:13It awsomeone in the life of your courage.
01:13:14Just whatever reason I want it in the communityивается, it's어�ourt for action.
01:13:15The Children have never heard sashim over cuz that hi there it is us.
01:13:20There's nothing instead of newchos or won last at the end and half my heart.
01:13:21TheA being and the family are the most important i need be able to look for.
01:13:23often no precisa to face or injury but forefront used as a encounter with other things that I personally
01:13:26may not see orally not join and in決pack.
01:13:27This is not a dream.
01:13:49It's happening right now, and you will never awaken from it.
01:13:54Because you are already awake.
01:13:57This is not a dream.
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