American Horror Story (2011–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Spooky Little Girl - full transcript

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[news anchor] Today in trial 0.J.,
lawyers argued

over whether the former Heisman winner

is an arthritic cripple
incapable of murder.

He has bad knees, arthritis,
and limited mobility.

He may look like Tarzan, but he moves
like Tarzan's grandfather.

[news anchor] After that, the jury got
a peek at an exercise video,

Simpson taped just two weeks
before the murder.

[0.J.] Bring it all the way down.

Feel it in the knees.

[phone ringing]

Love that intensity.



[Laura] Hello?

- Is this Laura Hart McKinney?
- Yes. How may I help you?

The Laura Hart McKinney who used
to live in Los Angeles

who has tapes of LAPD
Officer Mark Fuhrman?

How did you find me?

I'm an investigator working
for O.J. Simpson.

We believe our client is innocent.
And your tapes could really help him.

Well, I don't want to help him.

Look. I was just writing a screenplay,

about the LAPD. I met Mark
and I interviewed him for research.

So there are tapes. What does he say?

How inflammatory is it?

I never asked to be a part of this.

[hung up]



So on the night of the murders,

you were in an alleyway
behind Bundy Drive

and you heard a commotion near
Nicole Brown Simpson's condominium?

Yes. I heard two men arguing.

The first man said, "Hey, hey, hey!"

And the second man yelled at him.

He was hard to understand.

Did the second voice sound as if it
was older, more mature than the-

Grounds for speculation, Your Honor.

Sustained. Foundational.

All right then.

The second voice you heard, it sounded
like a black man. Is that correct?

- Object to, Your Honor. I object.
- Sustained.

- This is ridiculous.
- Sustained.

Mr. Darden,
where are you going with this?

Your Honor,
I was asking in good faith.

We know that the witness told
the friend that he heard

an angry yell of an older man,
who sounded black.

I resent that statement, Your Honor.

You cannot tell by somebody's
voice whether they are black.

That is a racist statement.

And entirely inappropriate.

I am offended, that in America,

in 1995 that we have
to endure this kind of thinking.

All right. I didn't make
the statement. The witness did.

Oh, please, Mr. Darden.

If this is the witness' statement
then he is the racist, not me.

But that is what you're suggesting.

-[Johnnie] I suggested nothing.
- Well, yes, you did.

Don't put words in my mouth.

You have created a lot of problems
for myself and for my family.

You continually make statements
about me and race, Mr. Cochran.

Wait. Stop it both of you.
This is all improper.

And I'm so mad at both of you
right now

I'm about to hold the two
of you in contempt.

Let's take a recess
so you can cool off.

And we'll resume in fifteen.

[gavel banging]

What was that?

He is so cynical.

I mean, of course, there is such
a thing as a black voice.

There are accents, speech patterns.

I know that. But look what happened.

His witness was failing so
Johnnie threw a racial stink bomb

to deflect attention.
That guy saw a Bronco near Bundy.

He heard two men arguing
outside the condo,

but now the jury has completely
forgotten that.

Is it true?

Yeah. The tapes exist.

And they're really ugly.

They have phrases like...

Stuff like...

Get niggers. Frame niggers.

Plant evidence.

Jesus Christ. Can we confirm
the authenticity?

I've asked around.
Her lawyers have shot

the tapes to London papers,
TV tabloids.

They've heard snippets.

Supposedly there's an offer
on the table

for two hundred and fifty grand.

Why didn't she sell?

[Bob] That's the strange part.

She doesn't actually care
about the money.

She'd rather sell her screenplay.

Hmmm.

She's a screenwriter. Or, well,
a wannabe screenwriter.

She was living in LA.

She couldn't make a living so she
moved to North Carolina

to teach screenwriting.

I don't understand.
How can you teach screenwriting

if you can't sell a script?

[indistinct chatter]

Gentlemen, you are missing the point.

I don't care who she is
or what she does.

What matters are these tapes.
We must get them.

Get niggers? Frame niggers?
That takes my breath away.

These tapes will allow Mr. Simpson
to walk free.

Let's not get too cocky.
I mean, we haven't heard them.

Look, lucky breaks don't
just fall from the sky.

Yes, they do, Mr. Scheck.

God brought us these tapes.

There is something much
larger at play here.

This is manna from heaven.

What is the defense doing?

They got Ito
to sign a subpoena for what?

Thirteen hours of tape
in North Carolina.

I don't follow. Who is this woman?

It just makes no sense
why Fuhrman would blab

to an unemployed screenwriter.

Why would Fuhrman do anything?

I'm not going to pretend
like I'm surprised.

Whatever's on these tapes scares me.

Maybe it's meritless. Fiction.

Just Fuhrman
and his writer playacting.

Hmmm.

The defense has been obsessed with
creating stories for the jury

and lawyers resort to stories
to distract from the fact-

You know, Marcia, people like stories.
It helps them make sense of things.

Shit.

I don't like the book Chosen.

Now who can deny there isn't a higher
power watching over us.

[all applauding]

I spent my life fighting for a cause

and then in the biggest case
of all time,

with the whole world watching,

a magical piece of paper appears.

We still need to get a judge

in North Carolina
to enforce the subpoena.

A small technicality. I will
venture forth

to secure our bounty.

Well. Obviously I will accompany you.

I mean, I discovered Fuhrman,
for God's sake. I invented him.

Hang on, Bob.
I won every Fuhrman motion.

Gentlemen, we still have a case
here in LA.

I don't understand. Why do more than
two people have to get on the plane?

Then it should be me. I have a winning
record in that jurisdiction.

I've tried
over two hundred cases there.

Two hundred? Really? When?

Seems like yesterday.

But understand this. Things change
really slowly down south

and I know the Carolinas

like I know the caramel color
in a single barrel apple brandy

sipped over the blush
of the morning sunrise.

Oh, come on. Really?
I hired all of you.

You know, whatever. I don't grovel.

Make sure you put my name
on the brief.

Thank you, Bob.

[airplane engine revving]

[birds chirping]

- This is it.
- All right, let's go.

Here are the transcripts.

The judge'll see you
gentlemen shortly.

Thank you.

- My friend, I can taste victory.
- Yes. Yes.

- Shall we?
- Yes.

[slow music]

It's unbelievable. It's horrible.

Horrible we can sell.
Look the bastard is nailed. Dead.

He directly contradicts the trap
I laid when he testified.

Lee, it's more than that. It's evil.

But this is what black people
have always known.

And now, it's right here.
For everyone to hear.

Your Honor, it would be a travesty

if these tapes were not allowed
into the 0.J. Simpson trial.

These tapes are tangible evidence

of the Los Angeles Police Department's
racism.

They are a revelation of truth.

- May I approach the bench, Your Honor?
- No, you cannot.

Your Honor, with all due respect,
we ask you to enforce the subpoena

and compel Ms. McKinney to turn over
the tapes. It is important.

It is imperative.

It is indispensable
that we return them to California.

Thank you, Your Honor.

Mr. Cochran, there are no TV cameras
in my courtroom.

There is no need for
gratuitous alliteration.

Your request is denied. These tapes
are not material to your case.

[gavel banging]

Who is that man to say
that they're not relevant?

Those tapes are proof of the
systematic civil rights violations,

what black people have always known

and what white people
have never understood.

Johnnie, calm down. We'll just file
an emergency appeal.

And this time, let me do the talking.

What?

Mr. Cochran, take a good look
where you're standing.

We're in the south.

Haven't you noticed the smell

of mint julep
and condescension in the air?

Right behind you there's a statue of
a confederate soldier holding a rifle.

With all due respect, I don't know
if you play as well in Dixie.

[sighs]

Your Honors, may I say what a great
pleasure it is be practicing law,

once again in the great
state of North Carolina.

My heart gladdens
with the promise of justice

when I stand in one
of the original thirteen colonies.

From the great Smoky Mountains,
to the Pimlico Sound

I know that fair consideration
will be offered to all

who set foot in a Tar Heel tribunal.

As the Bible tells us,
seek and ye shall find.

And I thank the Lord for helping us

to find
these terribly troubling tapes.

The court has received
the tapes and transcripts.

I will arrange for my clerk
to make you copies.

I presume it will take you
a good amount of time

to wade through the materials,

and decide how much, if any,
you want to introduce.

We'll want to introduce plenty,
Your Honor, maybe all of them.

You Honor, we will fight that.

Mark Fuhrman consulting
on a screenplay

has no bearing on a murder trial.

This is just the defense throwing
conspiracy mud at the wall

and seeing what sticks.

Oh, it'll stick. It'll stick with
the jury. It'll stick with the public.

The public? What do they have
to do with this?

The truth, Marcia.
They have a right to know.

This isn't a smoking gun
in the Simpson case.

This is a smoking gun
for the United States.

Your Honor, I anticipate that this
will be just a pro forma request?

Actually, Mr. Cochran,
I wouldn't jump to any conclusions.

I need to review precedent
and make a determination.

Until then, you and your assistants
may review the tapes.

But other than that, they are to
remain sealed. You understand? Sealed.

[suspenseful music]

[Mark] See, if you did it like
they teach you in the academy,

you'd never get a fucking thing done.

If the suspect doesn't talk,
you give him

a shot in the stomach with your stick

and you say, “Listen, boy,
I'm talking to you."

Or you grab him by the hair and keep
punching him till they go down.

See, people don't want
niggers in their town.

People don't want Mexicans.

They don't want anybody
but good people.

And any way you can do
to get them out, that's fine.

We have no niggers where I grew up.

[Laura]
Do you still use the choke hold?

[Mark] No. We had to eliminate it
because a bunch of niggers

down in the south of LA complained.

These niggers started
a bunch of organizations

because all the niggers
got choked out and killed.

The longer this trial goes,
the lower your numbers drop.

We get to the March primary and people
are still talking about 0.J. Simpson.

There's something seriously wrong
with this world.

[knocking on window]

God. I think my numbers
are about to fall even lower.

Excuse me for a second.

All right. What?

[door closes]

-[Gil] Has Ito ruled on the tapes?
- Not yet.

And we're fighting to keep them out,
but while we were reviewing them,

we heard something... Unexpected.

You should sit. This is bad.

No, I know. He hates Mexicans, he uses
the N word. He's a sexist pig.

He utters every racial slur
known to man.

Yes. That is all true, but there's
sort of an 0. Henry twist.

Somebody he hates
that none of us saw coming.

[sighs]

Okay-.

[Mark] I hate this woman.
You know the type, dyed blond,

one inch roots, sloped shoulders,
a pouch big enough to hide cats in?

She's the only marsupial
on the police force.

- Peggy barely worked...
- Wait.

Peggy? Is he talking about Peggy York,
Ito's wife?

[Mark] It sickens me she's a captain.
I refuse to take orders from her.

She's as far from a policeman
as I've seen.

Hell, she's as far from a woman
as I've seen.

She just sucked and fucked-

[sighs]

What did he just say?

- He says that she sucked-
- He's saying that...

I cannot believe this.

Jesus.

Our star witness insulting
the judge's wife.

Yes. Not only
does Fuhrman hate blacks,

he hates Peggy York,
the highest ranking woman in the LAPD.

Didn't she sign the affidavit?

Sure.

When Ito was assigned to the case,

Peggy claimed
she had no dealings with Fuhrman.

Which seems hard to believe

since we learned
she reprimanded him for

writing KKK
on a Martin Luther King poster.

Oh God. Oh God. Oh God.

So which means she can be
called as a material witness

in which case Ito has
to disqualify himself

which means
we're looking at a mistrial.

Six million dollars of taxpayer money.
one year of work.

We're looking at a mistrial? Shit,
the constituents will freak out.

This screams gross incompetence.

Marcia, let's take a deep breath here.

Do we want a mistrial?

Let's start over.
Learn from our mistakes.

Do it without Fuhrman.

[music intensifies]

We are in perilous waters.

The prosecution can
manipulate this situation.

Marcia and Chris are in trouble.
Their case is dying.

Suddenly they get thrown
a life preserver. Peggy on tape.

So they game it. Ito gets tossed for
the conflict. They get a new trial.

Jesus. A complete do-over.

Well, wait a minute.
Try the case again?

We can't.
We can't live through this again.

They could move the trial back to
Santa Monica and get a white jury.

And this time they don't call Fuhrman.

The LAPD doesn't get tarnished
and the tapes

never get played.

The scenario is unthinkable.

We are this close
to them being admitted.

Does Ito even know yet?

- My wife is mentioned on these tapes?
- Yes, Your Honor.

And it's quite derogatory.

Terrible things.

It's a delicate situation
for all of us.

Delicate how?

The interactions Fuhrman described,
given their explosive vocabulary,

would seem to make it hard
for Peggy to forget him.

So the implication is that Peggy lied
so that I could be on this case.

This whole situation is toxic.

[clears throat]

All right.

I don't want there to be
any insinuation

that we tried
to keep this contained, so

this conversation should continue
in open court.

Thank you. If you will excuse me.

Your Honor.

[door closes]

A concern has been raised

regarding the court's ability
to be fair and impartial.

It could be argued
that the court would not

want the court's wife
to be embarrassed.

And what's unfortunate,

is that things are said about people
all the time.

Things that are not accurate,
not kind.

Disparaging-

I love my wife dearly.

And I am...

Wounded by criticism of her
as any spouse would be.

And...

I think it would be reasonable
to assume that

that could have some impact.

Women who work in male dominated

professions, I think,
are tougher than most.

And if they are successful, they are
almost always

targets for this kind of treatment.

There is also an argument that

this court in ruling might be
motivated to punish Detective Fuhrman

for making these statements
about his wife.

So it cuts both ways.

This may be a conflict for me
which could trigger a mistrial, so

I think anotherjudge has to determine
whether or not this case can remain,

before this court.

[indistinct chatter]

This is insane. You couldn't get away
with this plot twist

in an airport paperback.

So. What should we do?

Chris, I've been thinking
about this constantly.

The problem is, it's too risky.

If it's perceived
we pushed for mistrial,

it would trigger double jeopardy

and in that version, O.J. walks.

Can you imagine the public reaction?

What?
You think I wouldn't want a do over?

I would like to do over
all of my mistakes.

Do over my life. Do over my marriage.

We have to plow forward.

Your Honor, we don't
want to leave our court.

We fought to get the tapes.

They are hard evidence.

The District Attorney's star witness
was caught lying under oath.

He committed perjury.

Now, the part that relates
to the judge's wife

is very very small.

And because we don't want a mistrial,
we propose

that the tapes be given to Judge Ito

with that part redacted.

[Judge] Well...

I'm going to require time to review
this constellation of tapes,

and transcripts and records.

Only after I have a comprehensive
understanding can I make a decision.

[elevator dings]

We gotta wait for this judge to get a
comprehensive understanding. How long?

Things cannot be left to whim.

Cochran, you have to trust the system.

- We need to turn up the pressure.
- Pressure?

You want to turn up the pressure?
This city is about to explode.

We have enough pressure.

[music intensifies]

I told you not to use Fuhrman.

Now how many times did I say it?

He's damaged goods and I said it
and I said it,

but you just didn't take me seriously.

You know?

You put me on this trial because you
wanted a black face,

but the truth is, you never
wanted a black voice.

[sighs]

Good afternoon. I would like to
introduce members of our coalition.

Miss Geraldine Washington,
president of the local NAACP.

Mr. John Mack,
head of the Urban League.

Mr. Danny Bakeweil,
of the Brotherhood Crusade.

And the esteemed
Reverend Frank Higgins,

of the Baptist Ministers' Conference.

Can we give them all
a round of applause

as our speaker of the hour
comes to the podium?

[all applauding]

We demand an immediate federal and
state investigation of these tapes.

We demand full disclosure to calm

a community unsettled by
the reports of their content.

It goes way beyond 0..l.

People are angry that these tapes
confirm what we've always known.

Racist officers unjustly imprison,

beat and kill African Americans
and other people of color.

God. This is terrible.

I tried to stop them.

I want our leaders to listen

and to listen very carefully.

Release these tapes...

Because this community
is a powder keg,

capable of repeating
the actions of 1992.

Release the tapes.

[clamoring in support]

Jesus. Johnnie is threatening
another riot.

- Release the tapes. Release the tapes.
- Release the tapes. Release the tapes.

Release the tapes. Release the tapes.

[all]
0.J. O.J. 0.J. 0.J...

[man] In the O.J. Simpson trial,
the court handed down a decision

that Judge Ito will be able to rule
on the Mark Fuhrman tapes.

A hearing is scheduled for today
and a ruling is expected soon

on the highly controversial
and incendiary tapes.

Your Honor.

This issue can be decided
with dispatch.

We will present portions
of that transcript

that are relevant to the credibility
of Detective Fuhrman.

Thirty occasions in which he used
the word nigger

in a racially offensive context

and which directly contradict
the testimony he presented under oath.

We will also present

an additional seventeen extracts

where Detective Furhman speaks with
personal experience

about police misconduct,

planting of evidence,

commission of perjury,

and the presentation of cover ups

and false testimony
in court proceedings.

This is the hardest thing I've ever
had to do as a prosecutor.

I don't want to be in the position
of defending Mark Fuhrman.

My job is to defend Ron and Nicole.

The victims.

But the bottom line is not Fuhrman.

It's the concrete evidence.

The defense just wants to inflame

the jury
so they forget about the facts

and vote emotionally.

I hope this very cynical view
will be proven wrong

and the jury will rise to
the occasion and say no,

we are going to look at the evidence,

because the rest of this stuff
is irrelevant.

I submit these cases,

numerous cases, where racial epithets
were deemed immaterial.

I beg of you, Your Honor.
Act on precedent.

Do not let the jurors
hear these tapes.

I am begging you from my soul.

[Mark] Any nigger driving a Porsche

who doesn't have a 300 dollar suit on,
you can always stop.

Anything out of a nigger's mouth,
the first five sentences is a lie.

They don't want Mexicans.

They don't want anybody
but good people...

Doesn't Ito have an impossible
decision on his hands?

The Judge has no choice, he has
to play the tapes. They exist.

I don't envy the guy.
Pardon my French,

but he's screwed either way.

All rise.
Courtroom 103 is now in session.

The Honorable Lance A. Ito presiding.

Good morning.

Over the recess,

I've had the opportunity to
contemplate the issues at hand.

Now, I have not yet decided what tape

excerpts are appropriate
for the jury to hear,

however,

I think that there is an overriding
public interest

in the defense's offer.

And I don't want there to be
any impression

that the court would ever
suppress any information.

These tapes

have become a matter
of national concern.

Many entities have asked
that they become public,

so what I'm going to suggest

is that the defense
play its presentation

to the court in its entirety.

National concern?

This is a double homicide, Your Honor,
not Iran-Contra.

Miss Clark, the court, in its wisdom,
has made a determination.

Why do we have to broadcast it?

Truth, Miss Clark, the truth.

The court hides nothing
from the people. Nothing.

You have presented a defense

that is based completely
on lies and deceptions.

This teasing the public, the media,

by throwing them bits of the tapes,

inflaming the public's passions
in an attempt

to exert political pressure
over His Honor,

in an attempt to pressure the court
into admitting in the Fuhrman tapes.

- Mr. Darden-
- No. This case is a circus

and the defense has made
into a circus.

And the court has allowed them
to walk all over-

Mr. Darden, you are close
to being held in contempt.

- Well. I should be held in contempt.
- Jesus!

[laughing]

There is nothing funny here.

Mr. Darden?

Chris, calm down.

Don't.

Mr. Darden?

Mr. Darden?

I am warning you.

A good piece of advice.

Take three deep breaths then

contemplate what you are
about to say next.

I would like counsel, Your Honor.

All right, Mr. Darden,
you can have counsel.

Do you wish to call your counsel
at this time Mr. Darden?

I would like to be heard on behalf
of Mr. Darden, Your Honor.

Miss Clark, do you represent
Mr. Darden in this matter?

I don't know
if I'm legally entitled to,

but I would like to be heard.

Mr. Darden is simply responding to

the unfair events that have occurred
in this courtroom today

and other days.

The court has been exploited
by counsel for cross purposes.

Miss Clark, I think perhaps you need
to take ten deep breaths

for you also are about to be
held in contempt.

Shall I take off
my watch and jewelery?

Your Honor?

Perhaps some of my comments
may have been

somewhat inappropriate.

I apologize to the court.

I meant no disrespect.

All right, Mr. Darden,
I accept your apology.

I apologize to you
for my reaction as well.

You and I have known each other
for a number of years

and I know that your response
was out of character, so thank you.

Thank you, Your Honor.

[all] No justice. No peace.
No justice. No peace.

No justice. No peace.

After you.

No justice. No peace.

Thank you for coming.

No justice. No peace.

[gavel banging]

[Mark] I had sixty-six allegations
of brutality,

but two of my buddies were shot
and ambushed.

I was first unit on the scene.

Four suspects ran into an apartment
in the projects.

We kicked the door down. I grabbed
a girl that lived there.

Grabbed her by the hair,
stuck a gun to her head,

and used her as a barricade.

I walked up and said,
“I've got this girl

I'll blow her fucking brains out
if you come out with a gun."

I held her and then I threw
the bitch down the stairs.

[Laura] Can we use that in the story?

[Mark] It hasn't been seven years.
Statute of limitations.

I have MiG-something pages
of internal affairs investigation

just on that one incident.

We basically tortured those guys.

We broke their bones
until their faces were mush.

There was blood
all the way to the ceiling

and finger marks like they were
trying to crawl out.

It was unbelievable.
There was blood everywhere.

How do you intellectualize when you
punch the hell out of a nigger?

He either deserves it or he doesn't.

Falsifying a report? Whatever.
That's putting a criminal in jail.

That's being a policeman.

Does that police station have
the smell of niggers?

They've been beaten and killed
in there for thirty years.

Immediately after we beat those guys,
we found a garden hose in the back.

We had blood all over us.

With a dark blue uniform,
you don't see it.

But we had to wash our hands.
Looked like red paint.

We cleaned our badges.
We cleaned our faces.

Then we went out to direct traffic.

[Fred Goldman]
What happened in there...

This is now the Fuhrman trial.

This is not a trial

about the man

that murdered my son.

We came to this court...

months ago...

You know I just realized something.

- What's that?
- Mark Fuhrman's initials are M.F.

I guess that's funny.

But I don't feel like laughing.

[sighs]

It seems like...

Like it's all over.

Ito could save our asses.

He could decide it's all irrelevant
and not let the jurors hear anything.

Come on, Marcia. They'll hear.

A couple of conjugal visits
is all it takes.

...about the fact that he is
a bad police officer.

I'm so sorry I didn't listen to you.

You deserved better.

I know I'm too stubborn.

I always refuse to back down.

It's a problem.

[chuckles]

I shouldn't have bet on Fuhrman.

Well, if we're apologizing...

Then I'm sorry as shit
about those gloves.

Guess we should have listened
to each other.

I got some work to do.

These tapes expose
the ugly reality of the LAPD.

It can never again be denied.

We only hope and pray
that Chief Williams

[knocking on door]

Follows through
on his promise of change.

I trust that's enough for
your story and thank you.

Ito is releasing the decision.

Come on. Come on. Come on.

Give it. Give it to me.

No. No. No. It's a nightmare.

Ito shafted us.

He's disallowing all the beatings,
all the manufacture of evidence.

My God.
He's allowing only two sentences.

"We had no niggers where I grew up,"
and "That's where the niggers live."

All Ito cares about is the perjury.

Fuhrman testified
he didn't say the word,

so two sentences prove otherwise.

What about the other thirteen hours?

"Their value
is ovenuhelmingly outweighed

by the danger of undue prejudice."

Prejudice,
that's a hell of a word to use.

Bring the whole team down here and
call up every network.

Shawn, dry them tears, girl. Let's go.

[intense music]

Thirteen hours of tapes
down to two sentences.

In the history of
American jurisprudence-

No, Johnnie, stop. You're turning
this into a referendum.

Now, granted, it's a mixed decision,

but Ito has given us enough
to work with.

Bob, you're blind. He's knocked out
the manufacturing of evidence.

That's what get us
to the planted glove.

I appreciate your passion, but we've
been hired to defend a client,

not to burn down the city.

Now I'm sorry that
you're disappointed. I understand-

No, you don't. It's impossible.

There is no way you can understand
what this is like, Bob.

It's one of the cruelest, unfairest
decisions ever rendered.

It lends credence to all those who say

the criminal justice system
is corrupt.

Now, Judge Ito is misleading
this jury.

Now all the world knows
who Mark Fuhrman really is,

except our jury.

0urjury will be left in the dark.

0.J. Simpson has been wrongly accused
and framed.

And the cover up continues.

Now. I know that many people
share in our anger,

but the citizens of Los Angeles
should remain calm.

- Here, baby.
- Thank you.

I'm still trembling.

I had hoped to accomplish so much.

Johnnie.

You have.

Johnnie, you have.

Those two lines say plenty.

I feel like I failed.

All those hours of tape

and the jury will only hear
twelve words.

But the world,
they heard the whole truth.

The hell with 0.J. Simpson.

He is an imperfect vessel,
but you, you...

Got your message out there.

I'm proud of you, Johnnie.

[clamoring]

[banging and shouting]

[shouting]

We call Detective Mark Fuhrman
to resume the witness stand.

It's hard to be hated by both sides.

It takes a man of certain character.

- Very good afternoon, Detective.
- Good afternoon, Your Honor.

You are reminded, Detective,
that you are still under oath.

- Mr. Cochran, you may proceed
- Thank you, Your Honor.

Detective Furhman, was the testimony
you gave at the preliminary hearing

in this case completely truthful?

I wish to assert my fifth
amendment privilege.

Detective Fuhrman, have you ever
falsified a police report?

I wish to assert my fifth
amendment privilege.

Detective Fuhrman,
is it your intention

to assert
your fifth amendment privilege

with respect to all questions
I may ask?

Yes.

- Your Honor, may I have a moment?
- Of course.

Your Honor, can we curtail
this performance piece?

The witness has already made clear

he will not answer
any further questions.

Actually, Your Honor, may I ask
just one last question?

Thank you.

Detective Fuhrman, did you plant or
manufacture any evidence in this case?

I assert my fifth amendment privilege.

[audience exclaims]

[clears throat]

No further questions, Your Honor.

Thank you.

[laughing]

Johnnie is a genius. Did you see
what happened in there?

Uallghing] Oh man.

Fuhrman framed me. He framed me.

That was something, huh?

It was a real success for the defense.

Well, I won't be wearing
these much longer.

Man, that was magical.

Johnnie's got charisma, man.

That was something.

Ohhh.

[chuckling]

Bobby, have a good night.

Wow.

Marcia, I've been looking for you.

- The ruling just came in.
- The ruling?

What did Ito do now?

Ito? No, the ruling on your divorce.

I got primary custody.

So you got everything.

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