American Crime Story (2016–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - The Dream Team - full transcript

It's great that you guys won, I'm just saying
you should pass more.
I think that... I don't think I should pass...
I wanna make the goals.
[kids arguing]
It's import-- Oh, man.
Hey, guys, guys. Are you sure you don't wanna eat somewhere else?
- No, Chin Chin! - Chin Chin, we love Chin Chin!
All right, it's just it's Father's Day,
so it's a bit crowded.
Excuse me, come on.
[crowd chattering]
Excuse me...
I'm sorry. How long would it be for a party of five?
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
- You're Richard Kardovian. - My God, you're the 0.J. guy.
Um, I'm Robert Kardashian.
- Yes, I knew it. - No way, no way.
This is so cool. Come this way.
- You can have whatever table you want. -[Robert] Oh.
What? Whoa.
We don't even have to wait.
Let's go.
[waitress] Right this way.
What do you say, kids?
-[kids] Thank you! - Thank you so much.
Oh, my God, you're Richard Kardovian. I knew it, I knew it.
Okay, okay.
- Four years. -[kids chatting]
Dad, do you think O.J. did it?
No, of course not.
You know Uncle Juice, you know he would never hurt anyone.
Well, Mom says he did.
Look, your mother... Your mother is very emotional right now.
And I understand that.
She lost Nicole.
We all lost Nicole.
But she shouldn't be talking to you about these things.
Why? The entire universe is talking about it.
And people ask me about it all day.
I mean, he is my godfather.
That's right, he is. And your Uncle Juice...
Your Uncle Juice is a good man.
In fact, I'm gonna tell the whole world exactly that on TV.
Barbara Walters called me.
- Barbara Walters? - Yeah.
- She knows you? - She talked to Mom and Bruce too.
Bruce is famous. He won the Olympics.
Bruce and Mom sell Thighmasters on TV, so that means they're both famous.
- Dad, why are you famous? - I'm not.
Listen, guys. Listen to me.
Look, you know your grandparents.
You know me and what I try to pass on to you.
We are Kardashians.
And in this family, being a good person and a loyal friend
is more important than being famous.
Fame is fleeting. It's hollow.
It means nothing at all without a virtuous heart.
["Said I Loved You" playing]
R 'Cause love could never ever Feel so wrong 4'
Give me two of those.
Don't. I'm not fighting over that...
- You want one, Dad? - Yes.
[woman] This feels like the story of the year.
We all agree the mugshot is our cover?
[man] But it'll be in every daily.
So by the time we hit the stands, this shot will be old news
so we need to jazz it up, we need something dramatic.
Okay-.
All right, try something like noir, intrigue.
Mmm.
I could add a bit of chiaroscuro.
Heavy shadow, like Rembrandt.
- My God, that's great. - Yeah. That pops.
He really looks trapped.
[woman] Haunted. The falling of an idol.
[cameras clicking]
Good afternoon.
I'm Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark.
And what I will outline for you today are my office's charges
against Mr. Orenthal James Simpson
in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson
and Mr. Ronald Lyle Goldman on the evening of June 12, 1994.
[Marcia] I think the facts speak for themselves.
Simpson's blood was found at Bundy.
Nicole's blood was found at Rockingham.
And both Nicole and Ronald's blood were found in the Bronco.
Simpson will he charged with the premeditated deaths of both victims
and that is precisely what we will prove.
[reporter] What about the Bronco chase?
Do you think he was escaping to Mexico?
Are there plans to charge anyone else?
Mr. Simpson is charged alone
because he is the sole murderer.
Is death penalty on the table?
I'd say everything is on the table.
[Marcia] Any other questions?
- Greatjob, Marcia. -[laughs]
Congratulations.
- A star is born. - Thank you.
But with this kind of physical evidence and a run for the border
he practically did my job for me.
Oh. [laughs]
Can I have your autograph?
Oh, shut up.
You love all this.
Just think, a year ago you wouldn't even have been here,
you were a supervisor.
Gil said I must be the first civil servant
to ever ask for a demotion.
So back to the courtroom.
- Trial junkie. -It's better than sex.
Mmm.
Mmm. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.
Linda.
Get me F. Lee Bailey on the phone.
[Linda] It's ringing.
Lee. It's Bob.
Well, I've been better.
No, I am not crawling.
I-m inquiring-
How soon can you get out here?
Lee...
I can't tell you how much I appreciate
your dropping everything and flying out here.
It means the world to me.
What, and miss the party?
Lousy.
You're sure up a creek of high-grade manure.
How are the boys? How is Linell?
Everyone's good, bad...
I don't know, I can't think.
There's a streak of blood going from the murder scene
right to 0.J.'s carpet in his bedroom.
And then there's the gloves. And then he runs.
He gets into that stupid Bronco and he runs.
Yeah, I caught that on the news.
You know, my most famous client ran. Sam Sheppard.
He ran because he was innocent.
Everyone pre-judged him, but I got him off.
I know, I saw the movie, Lee.
But this is what I'm looking at, watch this.
Every channel, doesn't matter.
We never seen a more obvious case of guilt.
If Simpson is innocent, Geraldo--
Alan Dershowitz, in all your years,
have you ever seen a sensational,
tragic case like this?
In a short word, Larry, no.
The evidence against Simpson is overwhelming.
All right, Alan, what about a plea deal?
Could that be in the cards?
Larry, settling is Robert Shapiro's specialty.
Much more than actually trying cases in a courtroom.
But with a vicious double murder, then Simpson attempting escape? No.
OJ. Simpson is gonna stand trial for two counts of murder one.
Maybe special circumstances--
Oh, go to hell, Dershowitz.
Do you see what I'm up against here?
They've got me down as the schmuck
that'll walk 0.J. to the gas chamber.
And then the most famous lawyer in the whole country
is gonna dictate and narrate it on Larry King Live.
You think Alan is the most famous lawyer in the country?
Thank God he's so photogenic.
How do I shut him up?
How do you shut Dershowitz up?
I like Alan, but he's a smug son of a bitch.
Every 15th word is Harvard.
Look...
There's only one way to shut up Dershowitz.
Hire him.
Oh, trust me, he'll be better here.
But he killed them five minutes from the Santa Monica courthouse.
Yeah, I know, I know,
but we can't ask them to move the trial to Santa Monica.
They're way behind fixing the earthquake damage,
the media room's dinky. It's downtown.
There'll be room for everybody. That way, we can handle the press.
We have our offices and resources down here.
Plus, the optics are a million times better.
The optics?
- What's an optic? - Marcia...
I have a black voting base and I can't risk getting all white jury.
I don't want to hear the words Rodney King or Simi Valley ever again.
I don't know. Doesn't Simpson deserve a jury of his peers?
You know, rich, middle-aged white men?
- Marcia. - I'm kidding.
It's the truth.
But I'm kidding.
Anyhow, downtown is fine by me.
I've won 19 out of 20 homicide trials here.
That's great.
This office tries tens of thousands of cases,
people only pay attention to a couple of the loud ones.
We have a winning hand.
Let's make everyone look good.
Here he is. Alan.
- Come in. - Bob! How are ya?
- Lee, long time. - Alan.
- Oh, and... - Robert Kardashian.
Right.
Glad to meet you.
Everyone, this is Barry Scheck.
Best DNA mind in the business.
Ooh, DNA. To be 30 again.
New guard meet old guard.
This is Pat McKenna, our lead investigator.
He can go down and dirty. He's dug for the best.
All right, enough of the intros. Alan,
I made a reservation for lunch at Spago's.
Yeah, do you mind terribly if we skip lunch
and just work through the afternoon?
I got a lot to cover and I'm on a 5:30 back to Boston.
Oh, really?
Yeah, that's how this is gonna work.
I'll come out often, but my manpower is back at Harvard.
Harvard.
So, then the first week
culminates with Simpson deciding to make a run for it
-while under your supervision. -[Bob] Careful.
Leaving behind a letter that sounds like an admission of guilt
that you guys, for some mystifying reason,
read aloud on television.
- Bob thought it was a good idea. - No, no, no, wait, wait.
Why did you say that?
You don't know what it was like that day, you weren't there.
Of course, and I'm here to help, not to judge.
Oh, you're here to judge.
What was that? What was all that?
Bob, you have to move fast.
Your client, his goodwill,
all of his popularity and accomplishments.
It's a depreciating asset.
What do you mean?
Right now, he's sort of like this
handsome, gifted Greek god laid low.
It's a tragedy, but he's still a Greek god.
The longer he sits in that cell,
the more the public sees him in a jumpsuit and cuffs,
the more mortal he becomes.
That's the clock we're fighting.
Excuse me, he's never gonna stop being The Juice.
You know what, time is short,
so let's get to your biggest obstacle, the overwhelming physical evidence.
All of which seems to support the conclusion
-that O.J. did it. - Look, we understand that.
So why don't you tell us something we don't know?
Why don't you suggest something?
Barf!!-
Well, how much do you gentlemen know about DNA evidence?
Pretend not much.
That's okay, not a lot of people do
but it is on the verge of revolutionizing criminal law.
In couple of years, it will be at the crux of
any case of violence without eye witnesses.
Okay. Can you see DNA through a microscope?
No, no. A DNA molecule is about two nanometers in width
whereas a human hair is about 80,000 nanometers.
So, it presents representationally
with electrons and scanning tunneling,
-atomic force microscope-- - Okay.
Okay, okay, okay. Cut to the... Cut to the quick.
Can you use DNA to show that it's someone else?
Not at all, I mean, the chances of
one individual's DNA profile
matching another person's is extremely small.
-It's roughly one in a billion. - Great, we're screwed.
- What's your contribution here? - Hold on, hold on.
- Why are you here? - Bob, you're so emotional.
-[Bob] Oh, come on, come on... - Barry, Barry, Barry.
Clarify your strategy.
Okay-.
I'm not going to contest the DNA matches,
I'm going to keep them out of court entirely.
If it can be shown that there may have been errors
in the collection or the handling of the samples
used for the prosecution's DNA analysis,
we can contest the validity of the evidence itself.
At best, we get some of it thrown out.
At worst, we get the jury to question it, the very idea.
You will attack every assumption,
question every single molecule of evidence,
every aspect of how that molecule was gathered, handled and analyzed.
We will disrupt their presentation of physical evidence at every turn.
We will hack at them.
Make every piece of evidence presented either thrown out,
untrustworthy or confusing. No quarter.
Oh, boy. I better get going.
I never thought I'd say this, but I like the nerd science guy.
But he's esoteric and
we also have to think about things in the physical world.
Things we can see with our own eyeballs.
What do you got, Pat?
So far nothing I can sink my teeth into.
All I've seen is LAPD is acting like they're 0.J.'s butler.
Would you like a police escort home?
We can get you some juice, Juice.
I do know one of the detectives a little.
Worked with him once doing security for Johnny Carson.
Mark Fuhrman.
Total prick.
Really unpleasant.
Johnny never asked him back.
Really? Johnny never asked him back?
That's interesting.
- What, Foreman? - Mark Fuhrman.
Fuhrman, yeah.
Dig deep. Let me know what happens.
Dream Team, give me a break.
Bob Shapiro is a settler.
Gets the big fee. Cuts the deal.
Doesn't go to trial. And when was the last time Lee Bailey
won more than a drinking game?
[everyone laughing]
Did you know Shapiro represented Bailey
in the longest drunk driving trial in American history?
It's true, 11 days.
Dershowitz, appeals expert,
which tells you they're assuming conviction.
Kardashian... I literally did not realize he was a lawyer.
It's really sad.
The most famous collection of expensive lawyers in the world
trying to buy 0.J. out of trouble.
And everyone's jumping on the gravy train.
Look at this one.
"O.J.'s golf caddy has insight
into his state of mind the day of the murders."
If this moron shows up on the witness list,
one of you gets fired.
I'm serious.
If they sell their story before they testify
they've got zero credibility on the stand.
We can't have cash for trash.
Come on, Marcia, these are just honest, hard working folks
trying to profit from the brutal murder of two innocent people.
It's vile, but they're welcome to it after I'm done with them.
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? 1 thought the sun I
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...that is where we will...
That is where we will find the truth.
- Hey! - Hey.
What are you doing?
I'm getting ready for that NBC thing.
You know they're calling me the senior 0.J. analyst?
[laughing] But, Johnnie, you are on your feet.
Take it in a room, putting the jury
in a bookcase over there, like you do.
Oh, hell no.
I'm on the sidelines.
They're gonna lose. I don't wanna be a part of all that
-when that happens. - Mmm.
Of course not.
But...
How would you feel
if someone else
got him off.
? Ever I saw X
[sighs] That wouldn't feel good.
? Your face a'
? Your face a'
Pretty crazy, huh?
They made him blacker.
This image plays to the perception
that a darker black man
is a more dangerous black man.
They're assuming he's guilty. Darker is guiltier,
-black is bad and it's racist-- - Hold on, there, hold on.
Isn't your interpretation of the cover just as racist'?
- Such journalist irresponsibility... - Oh, come on, that's overstated.
...since Dateline staged that car explosion.
If you take a picture of Simpson in a dark room, are you being racist?
of course, it's racially insensitive.
But the real injustice is the way police officers
view blacks in Los Angeles.
Even after the riots,
even after the Christopher Commission,
the LAPD culture
has not changed.
You have to understand
that this is a city where four white--
Went down into the County Court's records.
Found file after file on Detective Mark Fuhrman.
Guy's worse than I remembered.
Actually sued the city.
- He's a plaintiff? - Hang on,
that's not the mind blowing part.
He sued the city basically claiming
that his duties as an LAPD officer
-made him into a bigot. - What?
Sewing as a cop gave him violent fantasies.
Come on.
He describes beating up and attacking black people.
Okay, let me get this straight, you're saying
that the homicide detective
that discovered all the evidence on O.J. Simpson
hates black people?
The cop who found the glove at Rockingham.
This is...
This is a gift.
Imagine...
Imagine...
That 0.J. Simpson
was set up by the cops
because he was a black man.
And because
the LAPD has a systemic racism problem.
Bob, there's a reporter from
The New Yorker magazine here to see you.
Is that on the schedule?
No, he just showed up.
Well, tell him it doesn't work that way.
Tell him I'm very busy.
Linda, I want to see him.
Don't let him go.
Thanks for taking the time to see me.
Now, you're New York magazine or New Yorker?
- New Yorker. - New Yorker.
Alan Dershowitz told me to look you up.
Ah.
I'm doing a piece on cash for trash stories,
witnesses selling their testimony. The O.J. Simpson trial seemed like a--
No, no, no. It's inconsequential.
It's window dressing.
It's not the best use of your time with me.
It's the story I am out here to cover.
I know it is. But wouldn't you rather ask me
why a man like me would take a case like this?
You might be surprised.
I might be surprised, but I am surprised.
Okay. Tell me.
Because of its far reaching implications.
I've never seen anything like it.
And I couldn't stand by and let it happen. Please.
Let what happen, exactly?
The systematic railroading of O.J. Simpson
by a racist LAPD
because he's a black man.
Wait, what?
The LAPD history is a shameful history.
And everybody knows it. It's no secret.
And this cop, Mark Fuhrman, who discovered everything.
He's an admitted racist.
Any evidence he touches is questionable.
So, I want to be clear,
you're saying this policeman set up 0.J. Simpson?
Maybe. Maybe Mark Fuhrman, maybe others, in a conspiracy.
Wait, okay, wait, so, all the blood evidence,
somehow these cops, a cabal of racist police officers,
planted it.
From the murder scene to the Bronco to Rockingham.
Who else could have? Take a step back.
I mean, doesn't it seem odd that this glove
just happened to be at Rockingham at the same time
that Detective Fuhrman just happened to find it?
It isn't odd if Simpson dropped it after he climbed the wall
to avoid being seen by the limo driver.
Jeff, you look like a smart kid.
Don't rush to judgment.
We will show that it is impossible
for a black man to get a fair shake with the LAPD.
We will prove this.
So you're gonna say this case is all about race?
Yes. Because it is.
I'm just simply shedding a light on it.
[kid vrooming]
Sweetie, what are you doing?
Uh, nothing.
[laughing] Yeah.
Oh, no, no, no, no. Travis, come on.
- I can do it. - Not with that, you can't.
But it's not plugged in.
It's still not safe. Here, use that.
This isn't fun.
Yeah, well, that way, you'll hold on to your fingers.
Come on, Mom.
[woman on TV] In the dark, I could see it was O.J. Simpson.
[man] And how would you describe his expression?
[woman] O.J'.s face was like a mask of rage.
I was terrified.
I hope I don't have nightmares for the rest of my life.
Shively's out. I'm not putting her on the stand.
- Marcia. - She lied.
She's your only eyewitness. She ties him to the crime.
She lost all credibility.
The jury won't believe her.
The defense will portray her as a media whore, which she is.
They'll say shejust made it all up to score some quick money.
It's just a sleazy news show.
They paid her five grand.
It's a slippery slope from Hard Copy to the National Enquirer
to the Weekly World News.
- We need to set a tone. - Is that what this is about?
We've used witnesses before who did interviews for money.
[Marcia] Gil.
If we don't keep control, then the press can hijack all of it.
We'll end up spending our time responding to them
instead of focusing on things that matter.
Come on, guys.
We have all the aces.
Let's hold the high ground.
[door buzzes]
Where's Craig? Why hasn't he come and see me yet?
Or any of the other guys from the golf club?
I'm losing it in here, guys.
They won't even let me shower.
I got dirt on my elbows.
Have your people looked into Faye Resnick yet?
Her drugs?
Underworld drug connections?
I hear a lot of coke moves through Mezzaluna.
- Cocaine connections? - Yeah.
Sure. We'll put an investigator on it.
But we have something more pressing to discuss with you.
We need to add a litigator to the team.
One who fits the...
Well, the particular developing circumstances
in the downtown venue.
What are you saying, Bob?
I was thinking someone along the lines of Johnnie Cochran.
What? No, no, no. That's all wrong.
Just hear him out, Juice.
We need someone who can communicate to the downtown jury.
Look, it's just the conditions on our football field.
That's all.
You wanna make this a black thing.
That's why you want Cochran.
Well, I'm not black.
I'm O.J.
What is that there?
Okay, well, I filed the motion petition.
Come on, Carl, I'm trying to work with this.
I'll tell you what, why don't we go back to this section here?
Okay, what do you got? What do you got?
-It's what I wanna do- -[through phone] Mr. Cochran?
0.J. Simpson is sailing for you.
Let me have the room.
Carl, let me have the room.
[door opens and closes]
Diane.
Patch him through.
[phone ringing]
Johnnie Cochran.
[man] Johnnie? Johnnie, this is O.J.
I need you. I'm calling you from jail.
I keep telling everyone
Johnnie Cochran is the man I need to speak to.
Well, I appreciate that.
I keep telling everyone I'm innocent.
t need the best lawyer in the world to get me out of this jam.
You gotta help me, man.
0.J., I'm glad you called me.
You've made a smart decision.
I sure did 'cause I killed her.
[laughing]
I killed her good. Oh, yeah.
Diane.
Next time, screen the damn call.
[Kato] It's weird. I was always so tight with the Simpsons,
now they say they need their guest house back.
Dude, it's not a problem.
You can stay on my couch as long as you want.
You, my friend, are a total pussy magnet.
It's crazy, ever since this stuff, you know,
my beeper's going off 50 times a day.
TV shows, girls...
Agents, managers. It's crazy.
You gonna get auditions?
You must be getting offered a ton of parts, right?
Well, not really, but I don't wanna blow this opportunity.
I have to update my reel.
I only have that Coke commercial from '86.
Oh, yeah?
[girls screaming] Kato!
We love you!
[honking and whooping]
Oh, look.
They're so friendly.
You've got the life.
- Hey, Kato! - Hey, asshole!
Go straight to hell with O.J., murderer.
Thing's complicated.
[phone ringing]
ADA Darden, Special Investigations Division.
Actually, this office is in charge of investigating all LAPD officers.
How can I help you?
Uh-huh.
Yeah, right, okay.
What's the name of that detective, again?
[elevator dings]
Get the passenger manifest for both Chicago flights.
See if anyone can attest to Simpson's demeanor.
Yes. That is fine. He can sign it.
And please close the door on your way out, Lisa. Thank you.
Knock, knock. Hey, big time.
[Marcia] Darden.
Sorry, I can't offer you a chair. What's up?
I got a call.
Reporter from The New Yorker asking about Mark Fuhrman.
I know he's a key witness for you,
so I just thought you should know.
I sand bagged him. Told him it'll take a week to get the file.
Nice.
Would you do me a favor and shut the door? I need a break.
You mind?
No.
[lighting cigarette]
What do you think about the case?
It's pretty bulletproof.
Strong.
Though it's interesting.
A lot of black people think 0.J. didn't do it.
What?
- Really? - Yeah.
Guess they just don't want it to be true.
Good looking, charming, talented black kid from the street
makes it all the way to the top
then gets pushed off his pedestal
and thrown into jail like black men do.
Oh, come on.
It's not like O.J. was a pillar of the black community.
Mmm.
Well, even if he were, would it matter?
It would still be the same evidence, the same history, the same facts.
- He obviously did it. - I hear you.
But right now, it's an emotional thing,
not a rational one.
It might be hard for you to understand.
Since you never get emotional about your cases.
[Darden chuckles]
[bell rings]
[Rob] Dad's here.
[Kim] Come on, I need to find my coat.
[Rob] I can't find my shoes.
Hey, how are you?
Wait here. I'll get them.
Whoa, what's wrong?
You guys have a movie to get to.
I don't really want to get into this right now.
What? No. Come on.
No, we don't let stuff go like that.
No, we don't. You're right.
Jesus. How do you expect me to act when you're standing by him?
He's my best friend, Kris. I don't turn my back on people.
You're turning your back on Nicole.
He butchered her, Robert.
- He murdered her. - Okay.
Look, come on.
Come on... I'm... I'm devastated
about Nicole. You know that.
I think it's... It's horrible.
But he had nothing to do with that. I know that.
Bullshit.
You can tell yourself that. But you do not know that.
Would you at least please not tell the kids that their uncle is a killer?
Pretend uncle, Robert.
Everything about him is pretend.
[door opens]
[Kris] Guys, your father is here.
[door closes]
- You all right? - Yeah. Come on in.
- Hypothetical question. - Hm.
What do you think about A.C. Cowlings aiding and abetting?
- Really? - Mm-hmm.
It's complicated.
On one hand, he was a driver in what looked like Simpson's getaway attempt.
His passports, fake beard, $8,700 in cash.
Refused to stop the vehicle for police when ordered.
On the other hand, Simpson was holding the gun to his own head.
He may have pointed it at Cowlings.
I guess it comes down to establishing what the situation was
inside that vehicle. Why?
Because we're thinking about pressing charges.
I've known you forever and I think you're the one to run with it.
- You do? - Mm-hmm.
Wow.
- Huh. - You should do it.
You'll have fun.
Marcia, I haven't been in a courtroom in a long time.
Quit hiding in the basement, Chris.
I know you can do it.
- Is that right, big time? - Yeah, you should trust me.
Look, I know it doesn't seem like much now,
but it could turn out to be crucial to proving 0.J.'s intent and guilt.
And that would be all yours.
Big time.
Well...
I guess I'm all yours, Marcia.
Good. [chuckles]
Because I can use all the help I can get.
-[knocking] Marcia. - Yeah?
You gotta come out and see this.
[911] Okay, what does he look like?
[Nicole] He's O.J. Simpson, I think you know his record.
Could you just send somebody over here?
What is he doing there?
Are these the 911 tapes?
Yeah. The media made a request and some idiot at County released them.
[Nicole] First of all, he broke the back door down to get in.
[911] Wait a minute, what is he doing? Is he threatening you?
[Nicole, crying] He's fucking going nuts.
[911] Okay, just stay on the line.
[Nicole] I don't want to. He's gonna beat the shit out of me.
-[911] Wait a minute... - Oh, my God.
...so we can know what's going on till the police gets there.
[911 operator] Just a moment, does he have any weapons?
[Nicole] I don't know.
-[911] Has he hit you today? -[Nicole] No.
[911] Okay, you don't need paramedics or anything?
[Nicole] Uh-uh.
[0.J.] Stop. Stop calling.
-[911] Is he inside right now? -[Nicole] Yeah.
[911] Okay, just a moment.
This is exactly what I feared.
The tail wagging the dog.
My witnesses are on TV. My evidence is on TV.
Maybe we should invite Bernard Shaw over to rifle through my files.
Marcia, we'll come through.
We have enough evidence to win five times over.
When Shapiro sees what we've got,
he's gonna roll over and play dead.
Thank you, sir.
[inhales deeply]
I hear a sound.
The sound
of metal orbs clanging against one another.
Come on, Lee.
Oh, my God.
It's coming from your pants, Bob.
Balls.
Big brass balls.
God love you.
We are back in this thing.
Thank you, thank you.
How do we get rid of those 911 tapes?
I know.
Those tapes are today.
In a week, they're flotsam over the stern.
If they had to come out, I'm glad they were followed with this.
What you've laid out here, this,
is an entire case strategy.
Spectacular.
This is masterful.
Bob, you had a car that flew off a cliff.
It's missing two tires, leaking oil
and flung into a ravine, yet somehow,
you drove us back up the hill.
We're highway ready again and back in the race.
What is it with this case?
Every time I think I get my bearings...
It's crazy. They're going racial.
You know, I think this could stick.
No way, nobody is gonna buy into this.
It's desperate. Transparent.
They're coming from Brentwood Bob Shapiro.
I know a lot of people who would believe it.
Darden is right.
This move may be sleazy and cynical, but it could work.
They're trying to take down the LAPD.
We have to stop looking at this case as a slam dunk.
This article...
It's a declaration of war.
Then Dershowitz says, "Once I decide to take a case
I have only one agenda, I want to win.
I will try by every fair and legal means to get my client off
without regard to the consequences."
So they're saying
that this racist cop framed me
just because I'm black.
It could explain a lot, Juice.
I mean, this Fuhrman cop and the glove?
And why not do everything we can to get you out of here
if you're not supposed to be here?
I just wanna go home, be with my children.
Do everything that I can to help find the killer, you know?
0.J., these 911 tapes that have been circulating,
they've been playing day and night on all the channels,
it's an audio recording
in which the world can hear you beating your wife.
Bob, we were just, you know, tussling.
I can, I can fix this.
No, no, no. You can't. You can't clear that.
You can't put the genie back in the bottle. Now, there's hope.
But you have to listen and you have to listen very carefully.
This race defense is the crux of our case.
We need to bring in Johnnie Cochran and we need to do it now.
- No. - Yes, we do.
His angle is the only angle
that you will ever see daylight again, do you hear me?
Do you hear me?
He's right, Juice.
[phone ringing]
[phone continues to ring]
Johnnie Cochran.
- Let me say this. - Mm.
I have always admired you and wanted to work with you for years.
Thank you, Bob. That's kind of you.
I feel a strong emotional connection to this case.
I'm so glad you feel this way. It's excellent.
But I feel that I owe you the utmost clarity on one issue.
And that is, I will remain lead counsel.
Mm.
This case could accomplish
-a lot of important things. - I'm so excited.
- For you, for us, it's big-- - Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, hang on.
- Before I come aboard. - Yes?
- Yeah? - I have to look into 0.J'.s eyes.
I have to look into his eyes. I need to believe him.
[alarm buzzes and door opens]
[door closes]
[alarm buzzes and door opens]
You all right, my brother?
No, Johnnie, no.
COMO OH, COMO Oh, COME Oh.
Talk to me.
Whatever you decide to do,
whether you're with me or not,
you've gotta know this.
I loved her.
I loved Nicole more than you can possibly imagine.
She's the mother of my children.
But,
I didn't do it, Johnnie.
I didn't... I didn't... I couldn't have done it, I swear.
There's no way I could've killed her. No way.
Nicole was the center of my world, man.
Come on, come on, come on. Head up, come on, head up.
Just gotta believe me, Johnnie, you just gotta believe me.
Of course.
I believe you.
Now, I'm gonna get you out of here.
But I need you to stay strong. Come on.
I want to see that strength that I know that's in you.
If it's not enough,
then you have some of mine.
You know what I am saying? [claps]
- That means a lot to me. - Good.
Good.
Listen to me. Listen.
We get one black juror,
just one,
and I'll give you a hung jury.
When I give you a hung jury,
you are going home.
You're going home.
Cochran. [scoffs]
Motherfucker.
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