0:00:02 > 0:00:10This programme contains very strong language
0:00:19 > 0:00:22'In the Ancient World, people placed heavy stones
0:00:22 > 0:00:25'on the graves of their dead so their souls would not wander
0:00:25 > 0:00:29'and afflict the living. I always thought this was simply the practice
0:00:29 > 0:00:32'of superstitious and primitive people.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35'But I was about to learn that the dead can hover
0:00:35 > 0:00:40'on the edge of our vision with the density and luminosity of mist.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43'And their claim on the earth can be as legitimate
0:00:43 > 0:00:47'and tenacious as our own.'
0:00:55 > 0:00:59I hope this poor girl was dead before he started carving on her.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02This poor girl didn't have a whole lot of good luck.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24'The murdered girl's name was Cherry LeBlanc.
0:01:24 > 0:01:28'Her father had disappeared after he was accused of molesting a black child in his neighbourhood.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31'I went to talk to her grandparents.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34'I learned little about her except she seemed to have been
0:01:34 > 0:01:37'an uneducated, hapless and fatally beautiful girl.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40'Busted for prostitution at 15,
0:01:40 > 0:01:42'dead at 19.'
0:01:43 > 0:01:45Mr Trajan.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49We've been over this three times now.
0:01:49 > 0:01:53Cherry's been working here off and on for the past few weeks.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56She had a night off, she's gonna show up anyhow to listen to "Hogman" Patin.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58That girl had a real thing for Hogman.
0:01:58 > 0:02:03Some time around one, she put her purse behind the bar and said she'd go outside for a while.
0:02:03 > 0:02:07- Did you know she'd been arrested for prostitution?- I didn't.- No?
0:02:07 > 0:02:08All right.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10OK.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14You hired her cos you thought she was an honours student at LSU.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17I can't say I care for the way you're talking to me, detective.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20If I find out you've been holding back information, Mr Trajan,
0:02:20 > 0:02:23I'm gonna come back here with a warrant, Mr Trajan,
0:02:23 > 0:02:25for your arrest.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49Did you know Cherry LeBlanc, little white girl, 19 years old?
0:02:49 > 0:02:51She worked here, didn't she?
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Do you know if she had a boyfriend at all?
0:02:54 > 0:02:57If that's what you wanna call it. She in the business.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Is Mr Trajan involved?
0:03:00 > 0:03:02- Ask him.- I don't think he was.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Otherwise you wouldn't be telling me these things.
0:03:05 > 0:03:06THUNDER RUMBLES
0:03:06 > 0:03:08She a sad girl.
0:03:08 > 0:03:13I told her a pretty white girl like you could have anything you want -
0:03:13 > 0:03:18school, a car, a husband working on one of them oil rigs.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22When that girl dress up, she look just like a movie star.
0:03:22 > 0:03:23Who was her pimp?
0:03:23 > 0:03:27They come here for her. When they want her, they come take her home.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30Do you know who they were, what their name was?
0:03:30 > 0:03:32They guys ain't got no names.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36They drive they big-ass cars up here when she get off work.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38The poor thing gets in.
0:03:42 > 0:03:43I don't know nothing else, me.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46She wasn't about to give the name
0:03:46 > 0:03:50of some rich white man to an old black woman.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52What rich white man?
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Some rich white man maybe...
0:03:57 > 0:04:00..get her out of the business of selling jelly roll.
0:04:02 > 0:04:07She said that just before somebody done them awful things to that young girl.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17'When I was hitting the bottle for months, I dreamt about a white wolf
0:04:17 > 0:04:21'who lived in a skeletal black tree on an infinite white landscape.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23'At the base of the tree was a nest of pups.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27'In the dream, the wolf would drop to the ground
0:04:27 > 0:04:29'and eat her young one by one.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32'I wondered what kind of dreams the killer of Cherry LeBlanc had.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34'Or maybe it was better not to know.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39ENGINE REVS, TYRES SCREECH
0:04:40 > 0:04:43SIREN WAILS
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Could I see your driver's licence, please?
0:05:08 > 0:05:10- My what? - Driver's licence.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14- Please take it out your billfold, hand it to me.- Oh, yeah, sure.
0:05:14 > 0:05:19Well... I was a little careless back there. I'm sorry about that.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22- You're Elrod T Sykes? - Yes, sir, that's who I am.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24Step out the car, Mr Sykes.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27Yes, sir. Anything you say, sir.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Mr Sykes, I think you've been drinking.
0:05:35 > 0:05:40I know you've been smoking marijuana. Your lady friend just ate the roach.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Ooh, well, that wouldn't be good now, would it?
0:05:42 > 0:05:44You're under arrest, Mr Sykes.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47I'm gonna take you just down here to the city jail.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49I'll send a car for Miss Drummond.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52Your car is gonna be towed to the pound.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55This is bad news. This is not on my agenda. We're just starting a movie.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58I enjoy all your films. Miss Drummond's, too.
0:05:58 > 0:06:03- Take your car keys out the ignition, please.- El, do something.
0:06:03 > 0:06:04Yeah, sure.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10I feel real bad about this.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Can he make a contribution
0:06:12 > 0:06:15to Mothers Against Drunk Driving or something like that?
0:06:15 > 0:06:17As an admirer of your work,
0:06:17 > 0:06:20I recommend you don't make any more mentions of contributions.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24You don't need to show me any identification. I really enjoyed Galaxy 9.
0:06:24 > 0:06:28Excuse me, but are you the prototypical macho shithead.
0:06:28 > 0:06:29Especially Part 2.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33You stay put. Deputy will be along in a while to take you home.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Allons.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51- You're not gonna get sick in my truck, are you?- No, I'm just fine.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57ELROD GROANS
0:07:01 > 0:07:04RETCHES
0:07:16 > 0:07:18I know where there's a dead body.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21What?
0:07:21 > 0:07:26Looks like a big pile of gristle and bone.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Where was this?
0:07:29 > 0:07:32Way the hell out in Atchafalaya Swamp.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36We had to pick up a scene near the old Indian reservation.
0:07:36 > 0:07:40I went to take a leak. I saw it sticking out of a sandbar.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45Get back in the truck.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49That swamp full of old Indian bones.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51GROANS
0:07:51 > 0:07:55- Sorry, I didn't catch your name. - Dave Robicheaux.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58Mr Robicheaux. Now, if that was an Indian I found,
0:07:58 > 0:08:02I was wondering what he was doing with a chain wrapped around him.
0:08:05 > 0:08:06Say that again.
0:08:06 > 0:08:11It's a rusted chain with links as big as my fist
0:08:11 > 0:08:14crisscrossed around his rib cage.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Can you find that sandbar again?
0:08:17 > 0:08:20Yes, sir, I believe I could.
0:08:25 > 0:08:29I'm gonna make a confession to you. DWIs are a pain in the butt.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33If I take you home, can I have your word you'll be in my office, 9.00 in the morning?
0:08:35 > 0:08:389am, you got it. Absolutely.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41Hey, I really appreciate this.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59Elrod Sykes and Kelly Drummond? I want to go to the set!
0:08:59 > 0:09:03- Sykes is a drunk.- Please! - His head glows in the dark.- Please?
0:09:03 > 0:09:06- Maybe we could get an autographed movie poster.- Yeah, please!
0:09:06 > 0:09:09Not for you, for the hurricane relief auction.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13- OK. Cool. Please, Dave? - Will you hush?
0:09:13 > 0:09:17I'll take her and look out for her, if it's all right with you.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21Maybe we could get Kelly Drummond to sign one, too, pay for somebody's roof.
0:09:21 > 0:09:23Please?
0:09:30 > 0:09:33I don't know if Mr Sykes told you he's taking a new prescription
0:09:33 > 0:09:37for his asthma, but evidently the medicine reacted with his system.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40- The studio also wishes... - What's your name again, sir? - Oliver Montrose.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43Mr Montrose, where's Sykes at right now?
0:09:43 > 0:09:45By this time, they're on location by Spanish Lake.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48Good. So one hour ought to be enough time for you to find Mr Elrod T Sykes
0:09:48 > 0:09:52and bring his young ass back here to this office, shouldn't it?
0:09:57 > 0:10:00I broke my word, I'm aware of that.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03But it cost 25 grand an hour and we have 100 guys standing around
0:10:03 > 0:10:05while a guy like me is trying to get out of trouble.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Let me explain something to you.
0:10:07 > 0:10:12Yesterday, somebody raped and murdered a 19-year-old girl on the south side of this parish.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14He cut her breasts off.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17He pulled the entrails out of her belly.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20He pushed a cypress branch up her vagina.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23Can you understand why I am not interested
0:10:23 > 0:10:27in your film company's awe-inspiring production problems?
0:10:33 > 0:10:38Did you ever hear talk of Confederate soldiers in the mist?
0:10:38 > 0:10:40No.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43About one guy in particular.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45Limps along with a crutch.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47I think maybe it's a general.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51Thought you were making a movie about the war between the states.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53You know that's not what it is.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38It's over yonder.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Hold on there, Mr Sykes. Best put some of this on.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44We used to have a lot of bats down here,
0:11:44 > 0:11:47but the mosquitoes ate 'em all.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50Boy's a long way from his Hollywood poontang, ain't he?
0:11:50 > 0:11:53This jackass is objectifying you, Mr Sykes, because he's had very little exposure
0:11:53 > 0:11:56to the outside world. Don't let it bother you.
0:11:59 > 0:12:03How do you reckon those bones got caught up in those roots?
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Hurricane Betsy blowing through here in '65
0:12:06 > 0:12:10- probably buried him and Katrina unearthed him.- Why '65?
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Hurricanes tear up this part of the country all the time.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15See that left shin bone?
0:12:15 > 0:12:19- Clipped in half.- That's where they shot him when he tried to run away.
0:12:19 > 0:12:24- You a psychic or something?- No, I saw it happen about a mile from here.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27You saying some white people lynched somebody around here?
0:12:27 > 0:12:30When we get back, you'll have to talk to your sheriff,
0:12:30 > 0:12:32get the coroner out here now.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36I don't know about y'all over in Iberia Parish, but, er,
0:12:36 > 0:12:40around here, ain't nobody gonna be interested in nigger trouble that's 40 years old.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42What you looking for, Mr Robicheaux?
0:12:42 > 0:12:45I don't see any remnants of a belt on his trousers...
0:12:45 > 0:12:48or any laces in his boots.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57That boy probably did his shopping at the Goodwill.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04GUNSHOT
0:13:06 > 0:13:10Back then, with no body, no missing persons report,
0:13:10 > 0:13:13that sheriff had no reason to believe me,
0:13:13 > 0:13:15much less get off his ass and go to work.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18You're not 17 years old any more.
0:13:18 > 0:13:22The trouble I have with you is getting you away from work.
0:13:22 > 0:13:23You've done everything that you can.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26You have no good reason to beat yourself up.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28Now drink your milk and come to bed.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30I'm horny.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37The sheriff over in St Clair Parish said thanks a lot
0:13:37 > 0:13:40for that pile of bones you found out in Atchafalaya yesterday.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42They really appreciate the extra work.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45He need to find a new line of work, he don't like them bones.
0:13:45 > 0:13:50He said you're welcome to come over on days off, run an investigation.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54Their coroner's got them bones now waitin' on ya.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Autopsy report came in on that LeBlanc girl.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04Looks like we're talking about a psychopath,
0:14:04 > 0:14:08somebody wired to the eyes on crack or meth.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11Maybe. I think she knew him.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13- So, you don't think it was a John? - No.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16She left her purse at the bar with all her condoms in it.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20Cherry LeBlanc was a working girl with ambition.
0:14:20 > 0:14:24Maybe she misjudged a business opportunity here.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27Who's a girl like that gonna be in business with?
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Erm...Baby Feet?
0:14:31 > 0:14:32Maybe Baby Feet.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44- Cholo. I thought you was in the pen. - No, man.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47Katrina done rinsed my hands clean.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49The whole damn crime lab washed off down the river.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52Ain't got nothing on me in New Orleans. Doing fine, bro.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56They ain't even got enough money to lobotomize guys like me no more.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58What's going on, Dave?
0:14:58 > 0:15:03- I'm investigating a murder, Julie. - No kidding.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Y'all worried about me, Dave?
0:15:05 > 0:15:08Hell, yeah. How many guys would burn down
0:15:08 > 0:15:11their own father's nightclub with their father still in it?
0:15:14 > 0:15:16You got to forgive me if I get a little upset
0:15:16 > 0:15:21by these kinds of attitudes, Dave. I come home to this shithole.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25I'm a prominent man in the entertainment business.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28I talk on the phone every day to people in California
0:15:28 > 0:15:31you read about in Entertainment Weekly.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34They ought to have "Welcome Back Balboni Day".
0:15:34 > 0:15:37Instead, I get treated like sewer gas by you.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41You understand what I'm saying, Dave. It hurts me.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Sit down while I take a whiz. Cholo,
0:15:43 > 0:15:47where's your hospitality? Get the man a drink.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01Here, Lieutenant.
0:16:01 > 0:16:06Julie was telling me about the time that nigger almost popped you with a .38.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08Said he saved your life.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13Weren't you and Julie baseball buddies in school?
0:16:13 > 0:16:18Take the hint, Cholo. This guy's not a conversationalist.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23You working on that Cherry LeBlanc deal?
0:16:24 > 0:16:27- What do you know about that? - All over today's paper, man.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Julie and me were just talking about it.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Sounds like you got one sick fuck on the loose.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39SIGHS
0:16:41 > 0:16:45My meter's running. I want to talk about that murdered girl we found.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47- Which girl is that? - Cherry LeBlanc.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50I guess I ain't heard about it.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53- You don't read the newspapers? - I've been busy.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55I can see that.
0:16:55 > 0:16:59We used to be friends, Dave. I even maybe did you a favour once.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01So, I'll line it out for you
0:17:01 > 0:17:04and any locals who wanna get the wax out their ears.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07Louisiana's flat-ass broke. New Orleans is a mortuary.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10And the bottom of a toilet's got more appeal than this shithole.
0:17:10 > 0:17:14So, they best wake up to the fact we are dropping close to 40 million
0:17:14 > 0:17:18in Iberia Parish. They don't like the name Balboni around here?
0:17:18 > 0:17:20We'll move the whole fuckin' movie to Mississippi.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23See how that floats with those jack-offs in the Chamber of Commerce.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26- You're in the movie business now? - Yeah.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30I'm producing White Doves with Michael Goldman.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34- What you think about that?- I'm sure everybody wishes you success, Julie.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38I'm gonna do a baseball movie next. You want a part in it?
0:17:56 > 0:17:57You can go on in.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00You recognize me, Dave?
0:18:00 > 0:18:02It's Doucet, isn't it?
0:18:02 > 0:18:05- Yes, sir, Murphy Doucet. You got a good memory.- Mmm-hmm.
0:18:05 > 0:18:09Was with Jefferson Parish's Sheriff Department when you were with NOPD.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Looks like you're in the movie business now.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Yeah. I own half of a security service now,
0:18:15 > 0:18:18and I'm still with the Teamsters out of Lafayette.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21So I'm kind of doing double duty here. There some kind of trouble?
0:18:21 > 0:18:26- Where can I find Mr Goldman?- Right on the other side of them trees.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29- I'll let him know you're coming. - It's all right. I'll find him.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34So, you're investigating a crime.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36Seen any crime around here?
0:18:36 > 0:18:39Only crime I'm aware of is the air conditioning in my trailer.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42You could fry an egg on the toilet seat in there.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46Then, I've got a lead actor digging up skeletons in sandbars,
0:18:46 > 0:18:48exactly what I need while I'm shooting a picture.
0:18:48 > 0:18:53Mr Goldman, is Mr Julius Balboni producing this film?
0:18:53 > 0:18:55- Producing?- Yeah.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58I must've really fucked up in my previous incarnation. Maybe...
0:18:58 > 0:19:03Maybe I sunk the Titanic, or, er, assassinated Archduke Ferdinand.
0:19:03 > 0:19:07- I am the only producer. - So, Mr Balboni's lying.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10Mr Balboni is investing some of his money
0:19:10 > 0:19:13in a motion picture. Is that illegal?
0:19:13 > 0:19:16Congratulations. You in business with the man
0:19:16 > 0:19:20that hung Fulvio Raneri's cousin up by his colon on a meat hook.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23Do you recognise this girl, Cherry LeBlanc?
0:20:27 > 0:20:31'Hogman Patin had murdered, with a cane knife and in broad daylight,
0:20:31 > 0:20:35'a white burial insurance collector who was sleeping with his wife.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39'He served 17 years in Angola, had a bunch of knife fights,
0:20:39 > 0:20:42'was punished on ant hills and in cast-iron sweat boxes
0:20:42 > 0:20:47'and was brought to salvation by a Baptist preacher in Baton Rouge.
0:20:47 > 0:20:48'I liked Hogman.'
0:20:50 > 0:20:54I don't like to have nothing to do with white folks' business...
0:20:54 > 0:20:58but it bothers me what somebody do to that girl.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01I spoke to her about two hours before she left the juke.
0:21:01 > 0:21:05She said, "Hogman, in my next life, me and you gonna get married."
0:21:07 > 0:21:11I said, "Darling, don't let those men misuse you for no chicken."
0:21:11 > 0:21:14She said, "I'm gonna have my townhouse on Lake Pontchartrain."
0:21:14 > 0:21:17She hooked up with somebody from New Orleans?
0:21:17 > 0:21:22Probably some white-trash pimp told her she's special, she's pretty.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25But she done got herself killed instead.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28PLAYS CHORDS
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Are you mixed up with that skeleton they found over in Atchafalaya?
0:21:31 > 0:21:33How do you know about that?
0:21:33 > 0:21:37When somebody find a dead black man, black people knows about it.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41I'm listening.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44A blue jay don't sit on a mockingbird's nest.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47The mockingbird will whoop the blue jay's ass every time.
0:21:47 > 0:21:51- What are we talking about here, Sam? - I'm talking about a black man.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54No, that ain't right. This is a nigger I'm talking about.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58He was carrying on with a white woman who husband he worked for.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02- I think them was his bones you dug in that sandbar.- What was his name?
0:22:02 > 0:22:05Who care what's his name? Maybe he got what he asked for.
0:22:05 > 0:22:10- I say, "Past is past, and don't be messin' in it."- You warning me?
0:22:16 > 0:22:18What was that white woman's name?
0:22:20 > 0:22:22I got to go start my beans now.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36'Hogman, who feared very little in the world, looked worried and frightened.
0:22:36 > 0:22:40'He had cautioned me because of the discovery of the lynched man.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44'To him, those events were still alive with an unforgiven and collective shame.
0:22:44 > 0:22:48'And the participants were alive too and could hurt him.'
0:22:54 > 0:22:58Alafair, you got to keep this raccoon out of my fried pie.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02Next time, I'm gonna swat him with my broom.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05Don't you dare hurt him. Tripod didn't do anything wrong.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09- Why don't you try keeping the smell of cigars out of the yard?- Alafair.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11You shouldn't talk to Batist like that.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14But he threatened Tripod with menacing violence.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18Tripod's a raccoon, baby. Apologise to Batist.
0:23:18 > 0:23:22Sorry for what I said. And I'm saying it cos Dave made me.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28That's a beautiful child, Dave.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31By the time she's 18 years old,
0:23:31 > 0:23:33your hair's gonna be solid white,
0:23:33 > 0:23:35if there's any of it left.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37HORN BLARES
0:23:42 > 0:23:45Oh, wow!
0:23:51 > 0:23:53This is great!
0:23:54 > 0:23:56How you doing, Mr Robicheaux?
0:23:56 > 0:24:01Hope you don't mind us coming by. We want to have dinner with y'all tonight.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04My wife's already cooking supper. I'm on my way over there.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07Hurry, we got reservations at Clementine's, everybody.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10The family has plans for this evening, Mr Sykes.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12This is embarrassing, El.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14I have a reservation, but...
0:24:16 > 0:24:18Hey, I don't want to cause any problems.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22We'll just pick up our liquids at your store and hit the road, OK?
0:24:22 > 0:24:24Mr Sykes...
0:24:25 > 0:24:29..you've been driving drunk, and you've come to a cop's house to buy more booze.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Why don't you hand those keys to Miss Drummond?
0:24:38 > 0:24:40Where's that beer at?
0:24:44 > 0:24:45Hey...
0:24:46 > 0:24:49You're a good man.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52Y'all need to be real careful.
0:24:53 > 0:24:57Elrod's a shitbird, but I love him.
0:25:00 > 0:25:01It's all right.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Um...
0:25:03 > 0:25:06We'll settle up. We'll settle up later, yeah?
0:25:06 > 0:25:08All right.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11- Other side.- Ah!
0:25:14 > 0:25:16Come here.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20- Elrod!- What?
0:25:28 > 0:25:30He just fell in the Bayou.
0:25:42 > 0:25:43Check me out.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48- Some more? Made 'em myself. - Oh, thank you.
0:25:51 > 0:25:55- Elrod's wearing Dave's jersey. Can you believe it? - Mm-hm. Now, go do your homework.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58- Something to drink?- Mmm.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01- How about a beer? - I think we're out.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05I'm sure there's one in there somewhere.
0:26:08 > 0:26:12- I'm gonna go feed Alafair's rabbits. You care to join me?- Yeah, sure.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20Is Alafair your daughter?
0:26:20 > 0:26:22She's from El Salvador.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26Dave pulled her out of an airplane wreck and adopted her.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28Do you have kids?
0:26:30 > 0:26:31No.
0:26:41 > 0:26:45- You ever see lights in the cypress trees at night?- That's swamp gas.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48It'll ignite and roll out across the waters like ball lightning.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51No, sir, that's not what it is. It's these guys out by the lake.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55They have lanterns hanging from some of their ambulances.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58A lot of those soldiers had maggots in their wounds.
0:26:58 > 0:27:02That's the only reason they lived. The maggots ate out the infection.
0:27:02 > 0:27:06You've been drunk a long time. Soon, all the trees will be talking to you.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09A wild orchid sang a song to me one time.
0:27:09 > 0:27:13- She had the prettiest voice. - Yeah, I wasn't drunk.- Mmm-hmm.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16This guy, the general, he's standing on a crutch by the water,
0:27:16 > 0:27:21and he said to me, "You and your friend, the law man, must repel them."
0:27:21 > 0:27:22I think you're delusional.
0:27:22 > 0:27:27You might wanna think about going to an AA meeting with me one time.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Maybe I was a little drunk.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33I hope you have his adjutant's pistol.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35To do what?
0:27:35 > 0:27:41The general said, "Your friend has the revolver of my adjutant,
0:27:41 > 0:27:43"Major John Moss."
0:27:53 > 0:27:56- What is the matter with you? - Come here.
0:28:02 > 0:28:03Look at that.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07- It says CSA.- No, right there.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11J Moss.
0:28:11 > 0:28:12It says J Moss.
0:28:15 > 0:28:16So what?
0:28:18 > 0:28:20PAGER BEEPS
0:28:51 > 0:28:54- Thanks for the call, Lou. - When I saw that electrical tape
0:28:54 > 0:28:56round her hands and feet, or what's left of 'em,
0:28:56 > 0:28:59I thought about that LeBlanc case you got going.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01Where's she at now?
0:29:01 > 0:29:03She's right there, still in that barrel.
0:29:03 > 0:29:07She got about 15 big blue crabs on her.
0:29:07 > 0:29:12Coroner says, we move her, she's coming out in pieces.
0:29:14 > 0:29:19We'll have a rough time getting an ID, maybe... Maybe by her teeth.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22That's the poor bastard who found her.
0:29:22 > 0:29:25When did you first notice that barrel?
0:29:25 > 0:29:28About four or three weeks back.
0:29:28 > 0:29:32Did you see anyone else out there, on that levee?
0:29:32 > 0:29:37Yeah. About a month ago, in the evening, I seen a dark-coloured car.
0:29:37 > 0:29:41I remember thinkin'... It was brand new, you know?
0:29:41 > 0:29:43Why would anybody want to bring their new car down
0:29:43 > 0:29:47- on that dirt road full of holes? - Remember what kind of car it was?
0:29:47 > 0:29:49No, sir. I'm sorry.
0:29:49 > 0:29:52I just wish I hadn't been the one to find that poor woman.
0:29:52 > 0:29:57- That'll do. Thank you. The officer will take you home.- Thank you.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03Jesus Christ, Dave!
0:30:04 > 0:30:06That's right.
0:30:21 > 0:30:23I need a tow truck to haul off a limousine.
0:30:23 > 0:30:27Can't miss it. Right in front of Chez Narcisse. Right now.
0:30:27 > 0:30:29'Copy that.'
0:31:05 > 0:31:09JULIE: You get the Roman Army down here.
0:31:09 > 0:31:12One division could've knocked off these squirrel hunters,
0:31:12 > 0:31:15had the Civil War over in one year. Maybe we'll do a Bible movie next.
0:31:15 > 0:31:20Yeah, but how do you fight a war with sandals? That's...stupid.
0:31:20 > 0:31:23How did they win wars with sandals, hmm?
0:31:40 > 0:31:44- What's going on, Dave? - I had a long night last night.
0:31:44 > 0:31:47Found a girl in a barrel down in south St Martin Parish.
0:31:47 > 0:31:50She covered up in blue crabs.
0:31:50 > 0:31:54- You ought to run her again. We'll have gumbo. - LAUGHTER
0:31:54 > 0:31:56You here for breakfast?
0:31:56 > 0:31:58RUMBLING
0:32:03 > 0:32:04Sit down.
0:32:10 > 0:32:12You're pissed off, so you have my car towed.
0:32:12 > 0:32:15- Quit parking in front of fireplugs. - Fireplugs?
0:32:15 > 0:32:18- I'm getting this shit because of fireplugs?- No, Julie.
0:32:18 > 0:32:22I wanna know what you have to do with a hooker named Cherry LeBlanc.
0:32:22 > 0:32:25- Who the fuck is Cherry LeBlanc? - You know.
0:32:25 > 0:32:28You and Cholo were talking about her before I got to the Holiday Inn.
0:32:28 > 0:32:33- Calling me a liar?- You're a mother- fuckin' lying piece of dog shit!
0:32:33 > 0:32:37I think this sweet little town's starting to rub off on you.
0:32:37 > 0:32:42- Gentlemen, could you please not use that language... - Get the fuck away from my table!
0:32:42 > 0:32:46- It's OK, Mr Meaux. I'll be gone in a second.- Oh, sad to hear that(!)
0:32:46 > 0:32:49I don't know none of these girls.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52I don't have nothing to do with your business.
0:32:54 > 0:32:58You said some ugly things about me, Dave, and I'm gonna let it slide.
0:32:58 > 0:33:02I'll call a couple of cabs, I'll pay the fine on my car,
0:33:02 > 0:33:04I'll buy some new tyres...
0:33:04 > 0:33:07and I'll forget everything you've been saying to me,
0:33:07 > 0:33:10because I got a business to run.
0:33:10 > 0:33:15- Everybody's been pretty polite here. - Keep it simple, stupid.
0:33:15 > 0:33:19It's time for you to let people alone, Mr Robicheaux.
0:33:23 > 0:33:27Ease off, Lieutenant. This ain't good for nobody.
0:33:37 > 0:33:41You're losing it, Dave. You need to get yourself some better tranqs.
0:33:43 > 0:33:48- What did he do?- Put his hand on my shoulder, I started tearing him apart.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51It was like being in a drunk dream.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54Balboni family'll make their movie, then they'll go away.
0:33:54 > 0:33:57Balbonis are the pesticides all around South Louisiana.
0:33:57 > 0:34:02Sister Mariah got 100,000 out of Balboni for the Hurricane recovery fund.
0:34:02 > 0:34:03How'd she do that?
0:34:03 > 0:34:04Shame and guilt.
0:34:04 > 0:34:07Those nuns are really good at it.
0:34:07 > 0:34:09Baby Feet don't wanna go to hell.
0:34:36 > 0:34:41# I'm, I'm coming home
0:34:43 > 0:34:48# Cos I feel you don't feel so all alone
0:34:48 > 0:34:52# I'm coming back home
0:34:52 > 0:34:53# And meet my... #
0:34:53 > 0:34:57Want some, er, cappuccino mix? Cops like coffee, right? Or-or a stereo?
0:34:57 > 0:35:00You know anybody been recruiting girls out the parishes?
0:35:00 > 0:35:05Try the bus depot, for starters. But who's gonna recruit?
0:35:05 > 0:35:09Ever since Katrina, there's cash on the hoof all over this town.
0:35:09 > 0:35:11Maybe this guy does more than just pimp.
0:35:11 > 0:35:13Maybe he likes to hurt these girls.
0:35:15 > 0:35:18Been two of 'em killed already, maybe more.
0:35:18 > 0:35:22Talking about somebody that operates at the bottom of the food chain.
0:35:22 > 0:35:26You think Baby Feets Balboni might have something to do this?
0:35:30 > 0:35:33You're using the names of local personalities now.
0:35:33 > 0:35:36It stays with me, Jimmie.
0:35:36 > 0:35:39- You looking for a guy who likes to kill hookers?- Mmm-hmm.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43Don't sound like Baby Feet.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45His outfit's running girls, all right, but...
0:35:45 > 0:35:48they're not worth nothing to him if they're dead.
0:35:48 > 0:35:50Try the bus station.
0:35:53 > 0:35:57Three or four of these entrepreneurs work at the bus depot.
0:35:57 > 0:36:00One of 'em sticks out like shit in an ice-cream factory.
0:36:00 > 0:36:02Nothing against coloured people.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04What's his name?
0:36:04 > 0:36:06Brown.
0:36:17 > 0:36:20You, er, ladies seem lost.
0:36:20 > 0:36:23You're not from around here, are you?
0:36:25 > 0:36:29'The inside of the bus depot reeked of cigar butts
0:36:29 > 0:36:33'and the diesel exhaust that blew through the doors to the boarding area.
0:36:33 > 0:36:34'And I was feeling empty.
0:36:34 > 0:36:36'Used up after the long night.
0:36:36 > 0:36:40'wired with too many voices, too many people on the hustle.
0:36:40 > 0:36:43'Too many people who bought and sold other people.
0:36:44 > 0:36:46- 'Or killed.'- Split it.
0:36:51 > 0:36:55I want you to make a public service announcement for me, chere.
0:36:55 > 0:36:58I know what it's like to run away. Praise Jesus...
0:36:58 > 0:37:04'There's a call for Mr Adonis Brown at the public restroom pay phone.'
0:37:07 > 0:37:12'There's a call for Mr Adonis Brown at the public restroom pay phone.'
0:37:15 > 0:37:18This is Adonis. What's up?
0:37:18 > 0:37:19Hello?
0:37:24 > 0:37:25What you want, man? (GROANS)
0:37:27 > 0:37:29Don't do that. I ain't no threat to you.
0:37:29 > 0:37:32Look, I ain't got a gun. I ain't no trouble.
0:37:32 > 0:37:35I want to know who you been delivering these girls to.
0:37:35 > 0:37:39- This room's occupied, by the way. - I ain't bringing nobody to nobody...
0:37:39 > 0:37:43- You know the guy I'm talking about. - Don't do this to me, man.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48Tell me his name. This guy likes to hurt people.
0:37:48 > 0:37:51Tell me his name, this'll all be over with.
0:37:51 > 0:37:56There's a...bald-headed, squirrel-faced white guy.
0:37:56 > 0:37:59Er... He carries a gun, too.
0:38:00 > 0:38:02Nobody fucks with him. Is that guy you're talking about?
0:38:05 > 0:38:07You tell me.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10He's got juice. That's all I know.
0:38:10 > 0:38:14- I don't know his fuckin' name, man! - He connected?
0:38:14 > 0:38:17With the cops or the mob.
0:38:17 > 0:38:21He's got to be to stay in business. That's all I know.
0:38:24 > 0:38:25Why you doing this to me, man?
0:38:28 > 0:38:30God.
0:38:31 > 0:38:33I shit my pants.
0:38:34 > 0:38:38- I can't go back out there.- You ain't ever gonna go back out there.
0:38:38 > 0:38:41You're gonna treat that bus station like it's downtown Baghdad.
0:38:41 > 0:38:44- Not a good place for you to be. - Who the fuck are you, man?
0:38:44 > 0:38:48You don't want to know. What you wanna do is quit doing wrong.
0:38:48 > 0:38:51I'll kill you, Adonis. I'll blow your goddamn head off
0:38:51 > 0:38:54if you don't find an honest line of work.
0:38:56 > 0:38:58It's called the Home of Hope.
0:38:58 > 0:39:01Don't worry, they won't ask you any questions.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03You just ask for Sister Mariah.
0:39:11 > 0:39:14Look here, this is all the money I got on me right now.
0:40:11 > 0:40:13You stay gone most of the night.
0:40:14 > 0:40:16You don't call.
0:40:16 > 0:40:18I'm sorry.
0:40:20 > 0:40:24- I don't deserve to be afraid you've been hurt.- No. You don't.
0:40:26 > 0:40:29But I'm not gonna nag you.
0:40:47 > 0:40:50No, sir, I wouldn't exactly call it a dead end.
0:40:50 > 0:40:52If you have a seat, I'll be right with you.
0:40:52 > 0:40:54Thank you.
0:40:55 > 0:40:57It's a 100 million contract.
0:40:57 > 0:41:00He must have pocketed 60-70 million.
0:41:00 > 0:41:03False load slips, bogus waybills.
0:41:03 > 0:41:07Balboni Trucking hauled just about enough debris to fill a Dixie cup.
0:41:09 > 0:41:11Yes, sir, we are trying. Thank you.
0:41:13 > 0:41:15- Can I help you with something? - I hope so.
0:41:15 > 0:41:17This is my office.
0:41:17 > 0:41:19Oh, my God, I'm sorry.
0:41:19 > 0:41:22A call came in for me on your extension, and I just...
0:41:22 > 0:41:26I'm Special Agent Rosa Gomez. Everyone calls me Rosie.
0:41:26 > 0:41:29- So call me Rosie.- It's nice to meet you, Special Agent Rosie.
0:41:35 > 0:41:40"Your detective's investigative missteps will hurt you in November."
0:41:40 > 0:41:44That's courtesy of that prick Bubba Broussard at city council.
0:41:44 > 0:41:45So you called the FBI.
0:41:45 > 0:41:50The FBI's been trying to nail Balboni for over a year now on a FEMA scam.
0:41:50 > 0:41:53And they still have precisely nothing on him.
0:41:53 > 0:41:58That's why I think they're hoping there's more to that Cherry LeBlanc case
0:41:58 > 0:42:03Course, now that they're here, that gives Broussard somebody else to blame.
0:42:03 > 0:42:09Now, Balboni is throwing a birthday bash for Mr Michael Goldman this evening.
0:42:11 > 0:42:13I think you should attend.
0:42:16 > 0:42:18I think Cherry LeBlanc knew her killer.
0:42:18 > 0:42:23- What about the Jane Doe in the barrel?- She knew him too.
0:42:23 > 0:42:28There's 17 unsolved homicides in Louisiana that share some similarities with this case.
0:42:28 > 0:42:31And ten of them share multiple common denominators.
0:42:31 > 0:42:34All show marks from being bound, all young, all working class.
0:42:34 > 0:42:38One was a high school girl, two were waitresses. Three had been runaways. And four were prostitutes.
0:42:40 > 0:42:45The FBI has an informational advantage over Iberia Parish.
0:42:47 > 0:42:50- How do you like that catfish court bouillon?- Er, it's interesting.
0:42:50 > 0:42:52Thank you.
0:42:55 > 0:42:58If you found the remains of a black man, and he had no belt,
0:42:58 > 0:43:01no laces in his boot, what speculation would you make about him?
0:43:01 > 0:43:05Obviously he'd been in jail, a parish, or city holding tank,
0:43:05 > 0:43:08- some place they were afraid he'd harm himself.- That's what I think.
0:43:08 > 0:43:11# You're damn right I've got the blues
0:43:11 > 0:43:14# From my head down to my shoes... #
0:43:16 > 0:43:18MUSIC CONTINUES
0:43:26 > 0:43:27Get outta here!
0:43:27 > 0:43:30'Baby Feet was having a ball.
0:43:30 > 0:43:33'Trying to understand how somebody like him thinks is as productive
0:43:33 > 0:43:37'as placing your head inside a microwave oven to study the nature of electricity.
0:43:43 > 0:43:44Oh, what?
0:43:44 > 0:43:45Your name?
0:43:45 > 0:43:47Balboni.
0:43:47 > 0:43:50With a B.
0:43:50 > 0:43:55As in bumbling, journalistic butt wipe for one bum fuck idiot.
0:43:59 > 0:44:01Hey, Dave.
0:44:01 > 0:44:05- Gotta get yourself some food, it's free.- Thanks, I've already eaten.
0:44:07 > 0:44:09See that mad bird dog?
0:44:09 > 0:44:12Twinky Hebert LeMoyne.
0:44:12 > 0:44:14That's the other half of my security service.
0:44:14 > 0:44:17- What's he doing here? - He's an investor in the movie
0:44:17 > 0:44:19and he's trying to get laid.
0:44:21 > 0:44:24You like doing business with Twinky LeMoyne?
0:44:24 > 0:44:26It's good for me. For him it's no big deal, really.
0:44:26 > 0:44:29If there's a business around here making money,
0:44:29 > 0:44:31you can be sure he's got a piece of it.
0:44:31 > 0:44:34Oh, God, that man knows how to make money.
0:44:48 > 0:44:53Looks like Mr Twinky LeMoyne's feeling ambitious and dedicated today.
0:44:53 > 0:44:56I worked for Mr Twinky 28 years ago.
0:44:56 > 0:44:58Back then, you breathed...
0:44:58 > 0:45:01'I tried to speak with Hogman and failed.
0:45:01 > 0:45:04'He was evasive, there were too many people.
0:45:04 > 0:45:08'The waiter handed me a frosted glass filled with Dr Pepper.
0:45:08 > 0:45:11'I took the cup off the tray and drank it.'
0:45:11 > 0:45:13I didn't order that.
0:45:15 > 0:45:17'The ice was so cold it made my throat ache.'
0:48:41 > 0:48:45I'm General John Bell Hood, Commander of the Texas Brigade.
0:48:45 > 0:48:48Commander of the 4th Texas Cavalry,
0:48:48 > 0:48:50the 5th Texas Cavalry
0:48:50 > 0:48:53and the 17th Texas Infantry.
0:48:54 > 0:48:55How do you do?
0:48:59 > 0:49:01Do you object to shaking hands?
0:49:01 > 0:49:02Am I dead?
0:49:02 > 0:49:04You don't look like it to me.
0:49:04 > 0:49:07- You were at Gettysburg. The war's over.- It's never over.
0:49:07 > 0:49:09I would think you'd know that.
0:49:09 > 0:49:13You were a lieutenant in the United States Army, weren't you?
0:49:13 > 0:49:15My head hurts. My head, it...
0:49:16 > 0:49:23- Sure does hurt.- Venal and evil people are destroying the world you were born in.
0:49:23 > 0:49:26It's us against them, my good friend.
0:49:26 > 0:49:28It's gonna be bad, isn't it?
0:49:28 > 0:49:30You've survived worse.
0:49:31 > 0:49:33Don't compromise your principles.
0:49:33 > 0:49:35Or abandon your cause.
0:49:35 > 0:49:38Do you know what's waiting for me on down the road?
0:49:38 > 0:49:40For one reason or another...
0:49:41 > 0:49:45..I find I have more insight into the past than the future.
0:49:45 > 0:49:47Try to keep this in mind.
0:49:47 > 0:49:51It's just like when they load the cannon with horseshoes and log chain.
0:49:51 > 0:49:55You think the barrage would last for ever,
0:49:55 > 0:50:00then all of a sudden there's a silence louder than the cannon fire.
0:50:00 > 0:50:04Please don't be alarmed by the severity of my comparison.
0:50:06 > 0:50:09Have a good night, Lieutenant.
0:50:31 > 0:50:34Paramedics who brought you in said you were talking about
0:50:34 > 0:50:36Confederate soldiers out in the swamp.
0:50:36 > 0:50:39It was an unusual night.
0:50:39 > 0:50:42Is it possible one of the Hollywood characters laced your Dr Pepper?
0:50:42 > 0:50:46- Do what?- The tox screen came back positive for LSD.
0:50:46 > 0:50:49HE GROANS I-I...
0:50:49 > 0:50:53- I need to talk to the sheriff. - The sheriff was here this morning.
0:50:53 > 0:50:55You talked to him for half an hour.
0:50:57 > 0:50:58What'd I say?
0:51:01 > 0:51:06- What'd I say? - Nothing that made any sense to me.
0:51:06 > 0:51:08BIRDS CHIRP
0:51:08 > 0:51:10- What's that?- A salamander.
0:51:10 > 0:51:15When you reel him in through the water, his little legs and tail
0:51:15 > 0:51:16wiggle like he was swimming.
0:51:17 > 0:51:19Makes the black bass hungry.
0:51:24 > 0:51:28How would you define the idea of understanding?
0:51:33 > 0:51:39Well, it's knowing something and knowing what it means.
0:51:40 > 0:51:44I think there's two ways of looking at the idea of understanding.
0:51:44 > 0:51:47One is, if you don't look, you never will see.
0:51:47 > 0:51:50The other is, if you look a little less,
0:51:50 > 0:51:51you might see a hell of a lot more.
0:51:55 > 0:51:58You might not be over those drugs they put in your drink.
0:52:02 > 0:52:05Do you think that wad of rubber latex that conceals a fish hook
0:52:05 > 0:52:09understands that it's really a salamander?
0:52:11 > 0:52:14Or do you think that salamander understands
0:52:14 > 0:52:19that it's nothing more than a wad of rubber latex
0:52:19 > 0:52:20concealing a fish hook?
0:52:23 > 0:52:27Jesus, I don't know. Ask a black bass.
0:52:29 > 0:52:31I know General John Bell Hood of the Texas Calvary
0:52:31 > 0:52:34just like he was my own grandfather.
0:52:40 > 0:52:42The general had spoken of a venal and evil man
0:52:42 > 0:52:44that would destroy the world I was born in.
0:52:44 > 0:52:49Was he referring to the 1965 killers, to the murder of Cherry LeBlanc?
0:52:49 > 0:52:50Or to Julie Balboni?
0:52:50 > 0:52:53I was somehow convinced Baby Feet was mixed up with Cherry LeBlanc
0:52:53 > 0:52:56and as Twinky LeMoyne had business ties with him
0:52:56 > 0:52:58that made him fair game.
0:53:04 > 0:53:08Are you accusing me of working with the mafia?
0:53:08 > 0:53:11When you do business with a man like Balboni, you create curiosity.
0:53:11 > 0:53:15I don't do business with him. I don't do anything with him!
0:53:15 > 0:53:18I'm a member of a group of investors
0:53:18 > 0:53:22that have put money into a movie production in New Iberia.
0:53:22 > 0:53:26Investing in the local economy, that's all.
0:53:26 > 0:53:28Are your employees union people?
0:53:28 > 0:53:31No, they certainly are not.
0:53:31 > 0:53:35- You own half of a security service, don't you?- I certainly do!
0:53:35 > 0:53:39And your partner is a Teamster steward over in Lafayette.
0:53:39 > 0:53:43I think you're involved in some strange contradictions, Mr LeMoyne.
0:53:43 > 0:53:47You'll have to excuse me, Detective. I've got to lock up now.
0:53:47 > 0:53:50I have a lot of people I take care of, you know?
0:53:51 > 0:53:54Would you like to have Julie Balboni for a neighbour?
0:53:54 > 0:53:58Would you like to have your granddaughter working for him?
0:53:58 > 0:54:03Mr Robicheaux, I can't express to you how offensive you are.
0:54:03 > 0:54:07Did you get that blonde-haired girl to lick your leg the other night?
0:54:08 > 0:54:11There's my business card. Thank you for your time.
0:54:28 > 0:54:32Here you go, Dave. Still 1965, July, September, November.
0:54:32 > 0:54:34- Thank you, chere. - You're welcome.
0:54:34 > 0:54:37- How's Alafair? - Bien bonne.- Great.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51A nigger, you say?
0:54:51 > 0:54:55DeWitt Prejean. Black man, name of DeWitt Prejean.
0:54:57 > 0:55:00Yeah, I know that son of a bitch. What about him?
0:55:02 > 0:55:05Were you on duty the night somebody broke him out of jail?
0:55:06 > 0:55:08I... I was the jailer.
0:55:08 > 0:55:11Jailers don't work nights. They hire a man for that.
0:55:13 > 0:55:15Do you remember what he was charged with?
0:55:15 > 0:55:18He wasn't charged with nothin'.
0:55:18 > 0:55:20Never got to that. They busted him out of the tank.
0:55:20 > 0:55:22Not according to the newspaper.
0:55:22 > 0:55:26Lot of people wipe their asses with newspaper.
0:55:26 > 0:55:30Newspaper said he broke into a white woman's house with a butcher knife.
0:55:30 > 0:55:31Was DeWitt Prejean a rapist?
0:55:35 > 0:55:38He couldn't keep his prick in his pants, if that's what you mean.
0:55:38 > 0:55:41Is it all right if I sit down here?
0:55:53 > 0:55:55You think her husband broke him out of jail?
0:55:57 > 0:55:59He might have if he could have.
0:55:59 > 0:56:02He was a crippled man. Got shot up in a war.
0:56:02 > 0:56:04Where's he at now?
0:56:05 > 0:56:08In the cemetery out by the tracks, east of town.
0:56:12 > 0:56:13What about the woman?
0:56:15 > 0:56:17She moved away, up north somewhere. Er...
0:56:20 > 0:56:23W... What's your interest in this 40-year-old nigger trouble?
0:56:23 > 0:56:26I think I saw him killed.
0:56:26 > 0:56:28Where's the man who was on duty the night of the jailbreak?
0:56:30 > 0:56:35Oh, he... He got drunk, you know, got his self run over by a train.
0:56:37 > 0:56:39Wait a minute.
0:56:39 > 0:56:42What'd you say? You saw what?
0:56:44 > 0:56:47What you think I saw, Mr Hebert?
0:57:01 > 0:57:05I really need your help, Dave. I really need help.
0:57:05 > 0:57:09Go ahead. You go ahead and drown yourself, man. I don't care.
0:57:09 > 0:57:12Dave, I planned this all week.
0:57:12 > 0:57:15The guy already charged me for the boat, man.
0:57:15 > 0:57:17- Elrod... - It's going to rain like hell.
0:57:17 > 0:57:19Why don't you wait until it quits, and you can go fishing
0:57:19 > 0:57:23for black bass and perch and bream out here in the bayou.
0:57:23 > 0:57:26- When did you last catch freshwater fish after it rained?- Suit yourself.
0:57:26 > 0:57:30- Want to leave that beer cooler here with me?- It came with the boat, dude.
0:57:35 > 0:57:38- Sure you don't want to come? - Miss Drummond,
0:57:38 > 0:57:40you need to get off of that boat right now.
0:57:40 > 0:57:42Please, it's Kelly.
0:57:45 > 0:57:49Watch the bend in the channel. It's about three miles south.
0:57:49 > 0:57:52The water's been low and gill nets are on the left
0:57:52 > 0:57:55floating on Clorox bottles.
0:58:22 > 0:58:24PHONE RINGS
0:58:30 > 0:58:32Hello?
0:58:34 > 0:58:36How far down the bayou?
0:58:38 > 0:58:41Well, that's that bend Batist warned you about.
0:58:41 > 0:58:45Oh... What you asking me, Elrod?
0:58:47 > 0:58:49Yeah, I'll come help you out.
0:58:49 > 0:58:52But I am also going to bill you for my time.
0:58:52 > 0:58:54I'll see you in a few.
0:58:56 > 0:58:58Dude, I don't want to tell you what to do,
0:58:58 > 0:59:03but there's people that's always going to be asking for something.
0:59:03 > 0:59:07It don't matter how much you give. It ain't never going to be enough.
0:59:38 > 0:59:40I got it.
0:59:42 > 0:59:44How'd you hit the gill net?
0:59:44 > 0:59:48- Didn't you see the Clorox bottles? - Oh, man...
0:59:48 > 0:59:50I'm an idiot, right?
1:00:23 > 1:00:28- I'm sorry. Want me to get down in the water?- Yeah.
1:00:28 > 1:00:30Get down by the bow
1:00:30 > 1:00:33and be ready to push when I put the motors in reverse.
1:00:35 > 1:00:39- Hey, are there any alligators around here?- Oh, hell, yeah!
1:00:39 > 1:00:41They're not hungry, though.
1:00:41 > 1:00:43All right.
1:00:50 > 1:00:55- Put on a lifejacket, El. - I swam the Trinity River once"
1:00:56 > 1:00:58Watch out for water moccasins.
1:00:58 > 1:00:59What?!
1:01:05 > 1:01:07Don't worry about him. That water's not very deep.
1:01:07 > 1:01:10I've got to give him a lifejacket. He'd drown in a bathroom sink.
1:01:16 > 1:01:19Nothing personal, Miss Kelly,
1:01:19 > 1:01:23but I think you're a very fine, beautiful young woman.
1:01:25 > 1:01:27I'm already soaked!
1:01:32 > 1:01:35DISTORTED GUNSHOT
1:01:52 > 1:01:55SHE SINGS IN FRENCH
1:01:58 > 1:02:01Hey, Mom. What are you doing? Can I help?
1:02:01 > 1:02:05Yeah. You can weed that row over there, if you want to.
1:02:08 > 1:02:10RESUMES SINGING
1:02:27 > 1:02:29'An act of charity,
1:02:29 > 1:02:32'one as simple as giving a person my raincoat,
1:02:32 > 1:02:37'with a hood that obscured her face, had resulted in her death.
1:02:41 > 1:02:44'I knew a 19-year-old helicopter pilot from Galveston
1:02:44 > 1:02:46'who flew missions over the Macon.
1:02:46 > 1:02:48'He called himself "the giver of death".
1:02:48 > 1:02:52'Now I wondered if I had not taken on that role for myself.'
1:02:54 > 1:02:57I was burdened greatly by the deaths of those around me, Lieutenant.
1:02:59 > 1:03:03But incorporating their suffering into our own lives
1:03:03 > 1:03:06does not change the way of the world.
1:03:59 > 1:04:02'The tragic death of Kelly Drummond, long-time companion of Elrod Sykes
1:04:02 > 1:04:05'and star of the popular TV series River Valley,
1:04:05 > 1:04:08'now appears certain to have been a case of mistaken identity.
1:04:08 > 1:04:10'Sources within...'
1:04:10 > 1:04:12PHONE RINGS
1:04:16 > 1:04:19- Hello?- 'You're a hard man to catch.'
1:04:19 > 1:04:20Who's this?
1:04:20 > 1:04:23'Sugar, it's Amber. Don't you remember me? Don't hurt my feelings.'
1:04:23 > 1:04:27No, I'm sorry, I don't remember who you are. What can I do for you?
1:04:27 > 1:04:29'It's me who's going to do you a big favour, darlin'.
1:04:29 > 1:04:32'I'm going to give you the guy you want.'
1:04:32 > 1:04:33What guy are we talking about?
1:04:33 > 1:04:37'The nasty old pimp who's been leavin' dead girls around.
1:04:37 > 1:04:40'Meet me at Club Leon in an hour.'
1:04:50 > 1:04:53MUSIC PLAYS
1:05:06 > 1:05:09Hey, I'm sorry about that actress, man.
1:05:09 > 1:05:11Thanks for coming out, Lou.
1:05:11 > 1:05:14So who is it you're supposed to be meeting up with here?
1:05:14 > 1:05:16- Said her name was Amber. - Well, there's a hooker around
1:05:16 > 1:05:19who calls herself Amber. What are we doing tonight?
1:05:19 > 1:05:21I'd like you to be here to cover my back.
1:05:21 > 1:05:25It ain't no big deal, I just don't want to walk into a set-up.
1:05:25 > 1:05:27This is a weird fucking place for a set-up.
1:05:27 > 1:05:30When'd you start needing back-up for bullshit like this?
1:05:30 > 1:05:32Somebody's been shooting at me, man.
1:05:37 > 1:05:40LOUD MUSIC PLAYS
1:05:53 > 1:05:55- What are you havin'?- Amber been in?
1:05:55 > 1:05:59- Amber Martinez, short skinny Puerto Rican girl, maybe weighs 100 pounds soaking wet?- Yeah.
1:05:59 > 1:06:02No, she ain't been in. What you drinking?
1:06:02 > 1:06:04- Dr Pepper.- Dr Pepper. Yes sir.
1:06:07 > 1:06:11I could call someone who might know where she's at.
1:06:11 > 1:06:13Why don't you do that?
1:06:13 > 1:06:15Yes sir, right away.
1:06:19 > 1:06:21Hey, Momma T. Amber there?
1:06:48 > 1:06:50No word from Amber?
1:06:50 > 1:06:52No, man, not a word.
1:06:53 > 1:06:56MUSIC PLAYS
1:07:10 > 1:07:11GUNSHOT
1:07:17 > 1:07:19Get back in there!
1:07:21 > 1:07:25Dave! The fuck's going on?
1:07:26 > 1:07:27Shooter fired at me twice.
1:07:27 > 1:07:31I put eight rounds in that Buick, I think he's still in there.
1:07:41 > 1:07:43Looks like she took one right in the face.
1:07:43 > 1:07:44What do you mean, she?
1:07:44 > 1:07:47You just popped Amber Martinez.
1:07:49 > 1:07:51There's no fucking gun.
1:07:51 > 1:07:54I saw the muzzle flashes, I heard the shot.
1:08:04 > 1:08:06There's no gun, man.
1:08:12 > 1:08:14I got this throw-down.
1:08:15 > 1:08:17Do you want me to do it?
1:08:17 > 1:08:19SIRENS APPROACH
1:08:23 > 1:08:27Why would Amber Martinez be sitting in the passenger seat of her own car?
1:08:28 > 1:08:31What did the homicide investigator have to say last night?
1:08:31 > 1:08:33He told me I'm a hell of a shot.
1:08:33 > 1:08:36Everybody thinks I killed an unarmed woman.
1:08:36 > 1:08:38There's not any bullet holes anywhere, there's no casings,
1:08:38 > 1:08:40and there's no gun.
1:08:41 > 1:08:43It was a set-up, Dave.
1:08:56 > 1:08:59What y'all doing out here? You can't be messing around a crime scene.
1:08:59 > 1:09:01I heard you were suspended.
1:09:01 > 1:09:04- Indefinitely, without pay. - I'm really just an observer here.
1:09:04 > 1:09:06Who's she?
1:09:06 > 1:09:09Special Agent Gomez. This is part of an FBI investigation.
1:09:09 > 1:09:11Do you have a problem with that?
1:09:12 > 1:09:15Why piss people off, Robicheaux?
1:09:15 > 1:09:17St Martin Parish ain't going to indict you over this,
1:09:17 > 1:09:20but if I were you, I wouldn't hang around here.
1:09:20 > 1:09:21It might piss me off.
1:09:41 > 1:09:44I opened up on that Buick too soon.
1:09:44 > 1:09:48You thought your life was at risk, Lieutenant.
1:09:50 > 1:09:52- I hope you don't mind my being here. - No.
1:09:56 > 1:09:57You shouldn't have remorse.
1:09:57 > 1:10:01The desire to live doesn't mean you lack humanity.
1:10:01 > 1:10:04Somebody's trying to drive me crazy.
1:10:04 > 1:10:06I can't believe what I see or hear any more.
1:10:09 > 1:10:11They say I killed an unarmed woman.
1:10:13 > 1:10:16I think that would probably bother me too.
1:10:16 > 1:10:20If you'd seen that woman, back of her head,
1:10:20 > 1:10:24her hair glued down to the carpet with her own blood...
1:10:24 > 1:10:26Think about what you just said.
1:10:26 > 1:10:28You're an intelligent man.
1:10:28 > 1:10:31What does your eye tell you?
1:10:33 > 1:10:34I need help.
1:10:37 > 1:10:41The wind's out of the south. There'll be thunder by afternoon.
1:10:42 > 1:10:45It'll sound like Yankee cannonfire.
1:10:45 > 1:10:46But it'll only be thunder.
1:10:48 > 1:10:49General?
1:10:54 > 1:10:56What time is it?
1:10:57 > 1:10:59What time is it?
1:11:08 > 1:11:11'People go to AA meetings because they're drunks,
1:11:11 > 1:11:15'but they also go there because it's the last stop on the line
1:11:15 > 1:11:17'and the only place they'll find a kindred spirit.
1:11:19 > 1:11:21'That evening, I was waiting with Lou Girard for Elrod
1:11:21 > 1:11:24'in front of the AA meeting, and I was worried about him
1:11:24 > 1:11:26'because I thought the guy had melted his head.'
1:11:26 > 1:11:28Julie! Julie!
1:11:28 > 1:11:33You thug! You gangster! You mafia piece of shit, open up! Open up!
1:11:33 > 1:11:34Open up!
1:11:37 > 1:11:38Oh.
1:11:40 > 1:11:44Balboni! You no-talent murderer, get out here!
1:11:46 > 1:11:47Come on, man.
1:11:47 > 1:11:51If I find out you had anything to do with what happened to Kelly...
1:11:51 > 1:11:54I'll shove a shotgun up your ass!
1:11:57 > 1:12:00You're a lucky little piece of fruit, Elrod.
1:12:00 > 1:12:02You're valuable to my business.
1:12:07 > 1:12:09See that?
1:12:10 > 1:12:11Fuck you mean, no talent?
1:12:14 > 1:12:17If I can vacuum the Buick, what are we looking for?
1:12:19 > 1:12:21I saw muzzle flashes coming out that Buick.
1:12:21 > 1:12:24I didn't see no bullet holes in that wall.
1:12:24 > 1:12:26See what you can find out.
1:12:29 > 1:12:32I don't think your friend's going to make it. What do you say we go on in?
1:12:32 > 1:12:34- Ah, bon.- OK.
1:12:35 > 1:12:38Thank you, Henry. Anyone else got something to share?
1:12:40 > 1:12:43My name's Dave, and I'm an alcoholic.
1:12:43 > 1:12:45ALL: Hi, Dave.
1:13:02 > 1:13:04'I felt close to Elrod Sykes.
1:13:04 > 1:13:08'He and I had found a strange kind of bond
1:13:08 > 1:13:11'in the General and the death of Kelly Drummond.'
1:13:11 > 1:13:14'It wasn't a bond I necessarily wanted,
1:13:14 > 1:13:17'but we don't get to vote when the dead decide to direct our lives.'
1:13:19 > 1:13:21I'm going to miss her, Dave.
1:13:23 > 1:13:24GROANS
1:13:30 > 1:13:32- You want him to stay here? - Guy's in bad shape.
1:13:32 > 1:13:36- This is our home!- Mr Sykes just did the rainbow yawn again.
1:13:36 > 1:13:38Go to bed. SHE SIGHS
1:13:39 > 1:13:43The guy needs an AA friend, or he's not going to make it.
1:13:43 > 1:13:45So what? I don't care.
1:13:45 > 1:13:49Tell you what, I'll make you a deal. First time he takes a drink,
1:13:49 > 1:13:53he gets 86ed right straight back to his movie star trailer house.
1:13:53 > 1:13:56He pays for his share of food. He does not tie up the bathroom.
1:13:56 > 1:13:57He does not come in late.
1:13:59 > 1:14:01OK. But only for a few days.
1:14:01 > 1:14:05I can't stand that bullshit about his visions any longer than that.
1:14:18 > 1:14:21Do you ever carry anything but a .45?
1:14:21 > 1:14:23No, same .45 I brought back from Vietnam.
1:14:23 > 1:14:27Well, from the size of the wound and the impact of the round,
1:14:27 > 1:14:29I'd say a .45 killed her.
1:14:29 > 1:14:32How many people know you only use that caliber?
1:14:32 > 1:14:33Not many, mostly cops.
1:14:33 > 1:14:36Well, that part would worry me, if I was you.
1:14:37 > 1:14:39What about her head?
1:14:39 > 1:14:41She was a pretty girl.
1:14:41 > 1:14:44I only use hollow-point ammunition, Sollie.
1:14:47 > 1:14:52Ain't no hollow-point passed through this girl's head.
1:14:52 > 1:14:55Her hair was stuck to the carpet, the blood already dried.
1:14:55 > 1:14:59Did she die in that car, you want to ask me?
1:15:04 > 1:15:07Her blood lividity tells me she was dead
1:15:07 > 1:15:10before she ever got into that car.
1:15:17 > 1:15:20- Foul ball! - Looked right down the line to me.
1:15:20 > 1:15:24You never were too good on rules and regulations, boundaries and shit like that.
1:15:24 > 1:15:26What counts is the final score, my man.
1:15:26 > 1:15:28There's another glove in the bag.
1:15:28 > 1:15:30Hear you've been pretty busy out at that movie set.
1:15:30 > 1:15:32That boy do something to hurt you?
1:15:32 > 1:15:34What's your stake in this, Dave?
1:15:34 > 1:15:36- Elrod Sykes staying in my house. - That's good, Dave.
1:15:36 > 1:15:40Why would I want to trouble the star of my picture? I'm not in this to lose money.
1:15:40 > 1:15:45Come on, Julie, even when we were kids you never could let an injury or an insult pass.
1:15:45 > 1:15:46You always had to get even.
1:15:46 > 1:15:48What are you talking about?
1:15:49 > 1:15:51Save the hand-job, dude.
1:15:51 > 1:15:55I knew you when your daddy used to beat you with a garden hose.
1:15:55 > 1:15:58You talking about my family, I don't like that.
1:15:58 > 1:16:00I was proud of my old man.
1:16:00 > 1:16:02People ran this town back then
1:16:02 > 1:16:05weren't worth the sweat off his balls.
1:16:05 > 1:16:09In New Iberia, we was always wops, dagos, ginnies.
1:16:09 > 1:16:14Because you coon-asses was too fuckin' stupid to know what the Roman empire was.
1:16:19 > 1:16:22You couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle, baby.
1:16:51 > 1:16:52You hear that?
1:16:52 > 1:16:58It's General Banks's artillery firing from down on Bayou Teche.
1:16:58 > 1:17:01He's targeted the wrong area, though.
1:17:01 > 1:17:04There's a community of darkies under those cannonballs.
1:17:05 > 1:17:08Did you see things like that in your war?
1:17:08 > 1:17:10I was in the Mekong.
1:17:10 > 1:17:14There was a family of people that got caught out in the rice field.
1:17:14 > 1:17:18When we buried them their faces were burned off.
1:17:18 > 1:17:20They all looked alike.
1:17:20 > 1:17:22Then you know it's the innocent
1:17:22 > 1:17:26about whom we need to be most concerned.
1:17:32 > 1:17:34Hey.
1:17:35 > 1:17:37We just going to leave him here?
1:17:37 > 1:17:39He don't look good.
1:17:39 > 1:17:42Leave him alone. He's got diarrhoea of the mouth -
1:17:42 > 1:17:43maybe he learned a lesson.
1:17:43 > 1:17:46That don't mean we can't drop off the guy at the hospital. It ain't right.
1:17:46 > 1:17:49You want to start signing your own paycheques?
1:17:49 > 1:17:51Is that what you're saying?
1:17:52 > 1:17:55I didn't say that. Just wipe this off the locals.
1:17:55 > 1:17:57Isn't that what you're always saying?
1:18:37 > 1:18:39It was a starter pistol.
1:18:39 > 1:18:42We found traces of paper wadding in the upholstery,
1:18:42 > 1:18:46the kind they use to seal blank cartidges in a starter pistol.
1:18:47 > 1:18:49I owe you a fishing trip, man.
1:18:49 > 1:18:52Red fish, off Pecan Island.
1:18:52 > 1:18:56Cherry LeBlanc got nailed for a prostitution charge
1:18:56 > 1:18:59in Lafayette when she was 16 years old.
1:18:59 > 1:19:00Now, that means the court
1:19:00 > 1:19:03gave somebody a lot of control over her life.
1:19:03 > 1:19:07Now, what if a probation or a parole officer
1:19:07 > 1:19:10had her selling out of her pants?
1:19:10 > 1:19:14You saw the second victim. This guy wasn't born, he come out a furnace.
1:19:14 > 1:19:17Just the same, I'm going to find out for you
1:19:17 > 1:19:19if her PO or social worker's still around.
1:19:28 > 1:19:29Why don't you give it up, Lou?
1:19:30 > 1:19:32She gon' spend the night.
1:19:33 > 1:19:35Easy enough for you to say.
1:19:39 > 1:19:41Your wife ain't no dyke.
1:19:43 > 1:19:45DOG BARKS
1:19:59 > 1:20:02Do you like being a movie star?
1:20:03 > 1:20:06- It's just a job, honey.- Really?
1:20:06 > 1:20:12Yeah. It's like Dave. You think he enjoys enforcing the law,
1:20:12 > 1:20:14catching the bad guys, making the good people feel safe?
1:20:14 > 1:20:16- Yeah.- Yeah, well...
1:20:18 > 1:20:20I like my job.
1:20:20 > 1:20:23But you don't catch bad guys.
1:20:23 > 1:20:24No, I don't.
1:20:24 > 1:20:28But I guess people need to laugh and cry at the movies
1:20:28 > 1:20:30just as much as they need to feel safe.
1:20:30 > 1:20:33I'd rather be safe.
1:20:33 > 1:20:35Well, I'd rather you be safe.
1:20:38 > 1:20:40I'm sorry about Kelly.
1:20:43 > 1:20:46Me too, honey.
1:20:51 > 1:20:55We have 50 posters here from Tears and Diamonds.
1:20:55 > 1:20:57I hate that movie.
1:21:00 > 1:21:07Well, 50 movie posters from Tears and Diamonds signed by Elrod Sykes
1:21:07 > 1:21:10will fetch about 25,000.
1:21:10 > 1:21:12That's four roofs, eight with volunteer labour.
1:21:12 > 1:21:16- Here's your felt-tip pen. - Mmm.
1:21:19 > 1:21:21BEEPING
1:21:24 > 1:21:27'It was a call from the sheriff of St Martin Parish.
1:21:27 > 1:21:30'Lou Girard had killed himself with a dog-leg .20 gauge
1:21:30 > 1:21:33'in the seedy motel where he was living alone
1:21:33 > 1:21:35'after his wife left him.
1:21:35 > 1:21:39'I was hoping he had found peace among the dead palm trees.'
1:21:48 > 1:21:51There's a half empty bottle of Bourbon here on the dresser,
1:21:51 > 1:21:55spilled bottle of Diazepam there on the coffee table.
1:21:57 > 1:21:59You're writing that off as a suicide?
1:21:59 > 1:22:01Well, that's the way it looks to me.
1:22:02 > 1:22:04He was in bad shape.
1:22:04 > 1:22:08Mattress is covered in piss stains. The sink is full of raw garbage.
1:22:08 > 1:22:11- Where's the gun at? - By the bedside.
1:22:11 > 1:22:16If Lou wanted to kill his self, how come he didn't use that .357?
1:22:16 > 1:22:19Cos he was drunk on his ass?
1:22:19 > 1:22:21Not an unusual condition for him.
1:22:21 > 1:22:23He was helping me on a case, Doobie.
1:22:24 > 1:22:28- And?- Maybe he found out something somebody did not want him to know.
1:22:31 > 1:22:34He was trembling, eatin' pills every morning,
1:22:34 > 1:22:39in front of everybody. There's no big mystery to what happened here.
1:22:39 > 1:22:41He was a good cop.
1:22:42 > 1:22:44He was a sorry-ass drunk.
1:22:48 > 1:22:52If you want to look at anything else, hurry up. I'm going to seal the place.
1:22:52 > 1:22:55I'd appreciate you waiting outside just for a moment.
1:22:55 > 1:22:59In fact, I'd appreciate you staying as far away from me as you can get.
1:24:16 > 1:24:19- Why you leaving? - It's my foolishness, son.
1:24:19 > 1:24:22Like you, I grieve over what I can't change.
1:24:22 > 1:24:24Care for your own, though, don't emulate me.
1:24:24 > 1:24:27We were always honourable,
1:24:27 > 1:24:31but we served venal men in a vile enterprise.
1:24:31 > 1:24:33Wind's getting up. You need to stay here.
1:24:33 > 1:24:35Well said. Absolutely right.
1:24:35 > 1:24:38Say, I want you to have your photo taken with us.
1:24:38 > 1:24:41Gentlemen, let's be about this business.
1:24:50 > 1:24:51Are we ready, boys?
1:24:51 > 1:24:53Atten-tion!
1:24:59 > 1:25:02Always amazed at what the sciences are producing these days.
1:25:02 > 1:25:06You won't tell me what's at hand, sir?
1:25:06 > 1:25:09What does it matter, as long as you stay true to your principles?
1:25:09 > 1:25:13Even the saints might take issue with that statement, General.
1:25:13 > 1:25:15Ah, the admonition of a veteran.
1:25:15 > 1:25:17Be of good heart, sir.
1:25:38 > 1:25:42'The afternoon air was like a bronze bow and dark broad-wing birds that made no sound
1:25:42 > 1:25:44'drifted across it.
1:25:44 > 1:25:48'Hogman had learned about the death of Lou Girard and wanted to talk.'
1:25:56 > 1:25:59I started to think about when I was in the pen.
1:25:59 > 1:26:02And your daddy, he brought my mother food
1:26:02 > 1:26:07and paid for her medicine up at the store when she was sick.
1:26:07 > 1:26:10You got something to say to me, Sam?
1:26:12 > 1:26:16- What was the name of that nigger you dug up?- DeWitt Prejean.
1:26:17 > 1:26:21He was fuckin' a white man's wife. Ask what he doing for a living,
1:26:21 > 1:26:25and you'll find the people been causing you all of this grief.
1:26:25 > 1:26:27Who's the man I'm looking for?
1:26:29 > 1:26:34I said all I can say. This still the state of Louisiana.
1:26:34 > 1:26:36I'm in the movie with Elrod!
1:26:36 > 1:26:40We're walking down a road with plantation burning behind us
1:26:40 > 1:26:42- and the...- She's a natural.
1:26:42 > 1:26:44I'm not kidding.
1:26:44 > 1:26:46Mickey said the same thing.
1:26:46 > 1:26:48Hey, some great work this morning.
1:26:50 > 1:26:53QUIETLY: I've been talking to that general.
1:27:04 > 1:27:06Why you keep botherin' me?
1:27:06 > 1:27:09I need to know what kind of work DeWitt Prejean did.
1:27:09 > 1:27:12He done nigger work. You know, he cut lawns,
1:27:12 > 1:27:16cleaned out grease traps, got dead rats out from under people's houses.
1:27:16 > 1:27:20- What the fuck you think he did? - Don't sound right to me.
1:27:20 > 1:27:23I think he did some other kind of work, too.
1:27:23 > 1:27:25You leave me alone.
1:27:25 > 1:27:27You're a good judge of character.
1:27:27 > 1:27:30Do I look like somebody that's going to go away?
1:27:32 > 1:27:37- Hmm?- It was better back then. You know it was.
1:27:37 > 1:27:40What kind of work he do, Ben?
1:27:40 > 1:27:42- Drove a truck.- Who for?
1:27:44 > 1:27:46It was over in Jeanerette.
1:27:49 > 1:27:53I brung her out here cos she works for me,
1:27:53 > 1:27:56cos I can't get in and out of the car good by myself.
1:28:01 > 1:28:05He worked seasonal for a white man, owned some big sugar mill.
1:28:05 > 1:28:08I don't know nothing about him except...
1:28:08 > 1:28:11he was a brother of that crippled fella.
1:28:11 > 1:28:13That's all I know and nothing more.
1:28:13 > 1:28:16You saying I do, then you're a goddamn liar.
1:28:17 > 1:28:19Something else you want to say?
1:28:21 > 1:28:24- You got a fish on your line.- Oh.
1:28:28 > 1:28:30Batist?
1:28:30 > 1:28:34- Yo.- How many sugar mills they got over there in Jeanerette?
1:28:34 > 1:28:36- Just one.- Mmm-hmm.
1:28:47 > 1:28:49- Hey.- Come on in.
1:28:50 > 1:28:53Stopped by to say goodbye, give you a going-away present.
1:28:53 > 1:28:59- Where you headed, Cholo? - Thought I might go to Florida,
1:28:59 > 1:29:01maybe open a business like you got here.
1:29:01 > 1:29:05What you doing with all that lawn furniture in the back end of your pick-up?
1:29:05 > 1:29:10Oh, erm... guy at the Holiday Inn wanted me to take it
1:29:10 > 1:29:12when I checked out. Said, er,...
1:29:12 > 1:29:16I'd kind of be doing him a favour, you know...
1:29:16 > 1:29:19- giving him a write-off.- Uh-huh.
1:29:19 > 1:29:21You had some trouble with Baby Feet.
1:29:22 > 1:29:24Yeah.
1:29:28 > 1:29:32I told him he was a douchebag and I wouldn't work for him again.
1:29:32 > 1:29:35That Cherry LeBlanc girl was right when she called him a needle-dick.
1:29:35 > 1:29:38That's when the son of a bitch...
1:29:38 > 1:29:42Wait, wait, wait. What's this about Cherry LeBlanc?
1:29:45 > 1:29:49If he tells you he never knew her, ask him about this.
1:29:55 > 1:29:59Julie forgot he told me to take some pictures in Biloxi last year.
1:30:00 > 1:30:01Is that her or not?
1:30:07 > 1:30:09Did Baby Feets kill this girl?
1:30:09 > 1:30:11LAUGHS
1:30:11 > 1:30:14Come on, Lieutenant. You know how it works.
1:30:14 > 1:30:16A guy like Julie don't do hits.
1:30:16 > 1:30:19He says something to somebody, then he forgets it.
1:30:19 > 1:30:23If it's a special kind of job, maybe somebody calls up a geek.
1:30:23 > 1:30:24Did Baby Feets make that call?
1:30:26 > 1:30:28Start a photo album, Lieutenant.
1:30:28 > 1:30:30Make up your own mind.
1:30:33 > 1:30:36What's Murphy Doucet doing in this picture?
1:30:38 > 1:30:42What's the deal? Lou Girard was looking at her file last week.
1:30:42 > 1:30:44Who busted her on the prostitution charge?
1:30:44 > 1:30:49- There wouldn't be one officer. No, it was a state police raid on a bar...- Who sent the arrest report?
1:30:49 > 1:30:52- Sergeant Murphy Doucet. - Murphy Doucet.
1:31:05 > 1:31:08- What's wrong, Dave? - Got a loose ignition wire.
1:31:08 > 1:31:12- You got a knife I could use? - Yeah, I ought to have something.
1:31:20 > 1:31:23This should do.
1:31:23 > 1:31:26Some Mexican pulled this on me in Lake Charles.
1:31:28 > 1:31:30I didn't know you were a cop there.
1:31:30 > 1:31:35I wasn't. I was working highway for the state police.
1:31:35 > 1:31:39- I retired last year.- That when you got into business with Twinky?
1:31:39 > 1:31:42No, we go back way further.
1:31:42 > 1:31:46Thanks for the knife. I'll just be a second.
1:31:53 > 1:31:55'All my instincts had been good,
1:31:55 > 1:31:58'I just hadn't connected the elements together.
1:31:58 > 1:32:01'I was looking for somebody connected to the mob, or prostitution
1:32:01 > 1:32:03'or the police.
1:32:04 > 1:32:06'Maybe Doucet was all three.
1:32:06 > 1:32:09'I had to stop him.'
1:33:12 > 1:33:14What do you think y'all gonna find?
1:33:14 > 1:33:17You don't know, Murphy? You were a cop.
1:33:17 > 1:33:19People get careless sometimes, maybe even forget
1:33:19 > 1:33:22they had their picture taken with one of the victims.
1:33:22 > 1:33:24What are you talking about?
1:33:24 > 1:33:26If I'd been you, I wouldn't have let Cholo take my picture
1:33:26 > 1:33:30with Cherry Leblanc over there in Biloxi.
1:33:30 > 1:33:32It is a nice photo of you though.
1:33:37 > 1:33:39Why the hell are you all here?
1:33:39 > 1:33:41We're here because of you, Mr Doucet.
1:33:41 > 1:33:43We've been checking all the unsolved murders of females in areas
1:33:43 > 1:33:45surrounding highways during the time
1:33:45 > 1:33:47you were working for the state police.
1:33:47 > 1:33:51We're gonna talk about Kelly Drummond, yeah? Or Linda Martinis.
1:33:51 > 1:33:54- Or Lucy Roy. - What do you think you're doing?
1:33:54 > 1:33:58Rosie, I think we just found the knife that he used on Cherry LeBlanc.
1:33:58 > 1:34:00That knife wasn't there!
1:34:00 > 1:34:04I'll say it was and I'll say your fingerprints are all over it.
1:34:04 > 1:34:05Oh, I see...
1:34:05 > 1:34:10You and this bitch are in on it together.
1:34:10 > 1:34:11No, Murphy.
1:34:11 > 1:34:14I'm fucking you all by myself.
1:34:14 > 1:34:17Get your hands up! Now! Do you understand?
1:34:17 > 1:34:18Get against that wall!
1:34:18 > 1:34:20He's setting me up and I don't even know what this is about.
1:34:20 > 1:34:23Think about it, think hard.
1:34:23 > 1:34:27Think about 1965 just before that hurricane hit.
1:34:27 > 1:34:28Remember?
1:34:31 > 1:34:35Your mate DeWitt Prejean with that chain locked around his chest,
1:34:35 > 1:34:37shot his leg out from underneath him.
1:34:38 > 1:34:40You didn't notice the boy that was watching you
1:34:40 > 1:34:43from across the swamp though, did you?
1:35:09 > 1:35:12I don't know how you did it, but you planted that knife.
1:35:12 > 1:35:14Time is always on the bad guy's side, Rosie,
1:35:14 > 1:35:18we wait for warrants while they sit on their ass.
1:35:20 > 1:35:21I didn't hear what you said.
1:35:31 > 1:35:34Jesus, you tore this place to pieces.
1:35:34 > 1:35:37You wanna stay behind and clean it up?
1:35:37 > 1:35:39I wanna be nowhere around here when that guy gets home.
1:35:39 > 1:35:41You heard he's out on bond?
1:35:41 > 1:35:43Screw that, he could be here any minute.
1:35:47 > 1:35:49We got nothing.
1:35:50 > 1:35:53(MOBILE BEEPS)
1:35:54 > 1:35:56Alfie?
1:35:56 > 1:35:59(DOUCET) 'You know where your little girl's at?
1:35:59 > 1:36:01'She's right here on my knee.
1:36:05 > 1:36:07'You sound speechless.'
1:36:07 > 1:36:10Turn her loose, Doucet, you don't wanna do this.
1:36:10 > 1:36:12'I'll make it simple for both of us,
1:36:12 > 1:36:14'you take that knife out of the evidence locker
1:36:14 > 1:36:17'and you put it in a zip lock bag.
1:36:17 > 1:36:19'At eight o'clock tomorrow morning you leave the bag
1:36:19 > 1:36:24'in a trash can on the corner of Royal and St Anne in New Orleans.'
1:36:24 > 1:36:26You listen to me, Doucet, think about this, you're a cop,
1:36:26 > 1:36:30you can skate on us, we've been jacking you around the whole time.
1:36:30 > 1:36:31'You lyin' son of a bitch.
1:36:31 > 1:36:34'You won't rest till you fuck me up every way you can.
1:36:34 > 1:36:36'You said only one thing right today,
1:36:36 > 1:36:41'I'm gonna skate and you're gonna help me.'
1:37:12 > 1:37:18(LOUD MUSIC PLAYS)
1:37:22 > 1:37:23(TURNS OFF MUSIC)
1:37:23 > 1:37:25Finally lost your mind, Dave?
1:37:25 > 1:37:28Young lady, you need to stay away from this man.
1:37:28 > 1:37:31Come on, let's go, get out of here. Come on, let's go.
1:37:31 > 1:37:33Now!
1:37:33 > 1:37:35Nothing good on TV tonight, Dave?
1:37:36 > 1:37:38Murphy Doucet has my daughter.
1:37:41 > 1:37:43You hear what I said?
1:37:43 > 1:37:46That's too bad, I don't like to hear stuff like that, it upsets me.
1:37:49 > 1:37:53Hey, maybe you can her face on one of them milk cartons?
1:37:53 > 1:37:54(SWITCHES MUSIC ON)
1:37:59 > 1:38:01Where's my daughter, Julie?
1:38:08 > 1:38:10Oh...
1:38:10 > 1:38:12(GROANS)
1:38:24 > 1:38:27- Where's Alafair at? - I cut Doucet loose.
1:38:27 > 1:38:30I got nothing to do with what he does.
1:38:30 > 1:38:34You get off my fucking back, or I swear to God, I'll square this.
1:38:34 > 1:38:37Cop or not, I'll put out an open contract.
1:38:37 > 1:38:40- I'll cowboy your whole fuckin' family!- (FIRES GUN)- Argh!
1:38:42 > 1:38:45Your window of opportunity's closing down. Where's my baby girl?
1:38:45 > 1:38:48I'm telling the truth! I got nothing to do with what he does!
1:38:48 > 1:38:51He's a geek! I don't hire geeks! I run 'em off!
1:38:51 > 1:38:54(COCKS GUN / FIRES) (GLASS SHATTERS)
1:38:56 > 1:38:58Last by God chance.
1:39:00 > 1:39:05He's got a camp out by Bayou Vista, almost at Atchafalaya Basin.
1:39:06 > 1:39:09The deed's not in his name. Nobody knows about it.
1:39:10 > 1:39:14It's at the end of the dirt road, by the salt marsh.
1:39:14 > 1:39:16(COUGHS)
1:39:16 > 1:39:18Alafair there?
1:39:19 > 1:39:21I hope to God she's not.
1:40:03 > 1:40:05If we find the wrong thing,
1:40:05 > 1:40:09if Alafair's not OK, it's not because of anything you did.
1:40:11 > 1:40:12Thank you.
1:42:32 > 1:42:35(ALARM BLARES)
1:42:35 > 1:42:37(RAPID GUNFIRE)
1:42:46 > 1:42:48(KNOCKING)
1:42:51 > 1:42:53Alfie!
1:43:00 > 1:43:03Come here. Did he hurt you, baby?
1:43:03 > 1:43:04I told him he'd better not.
1:43:07 > 1:43:10I just shot a man armed with a rolled-up magazine.
1:43:10 > 1:43:15No, no. He had a gun on him. You just don't remember it yet.
1:43:18 > 1:43:20Are you OK?
1:43:49 > 1:43:51(DOOR OPENS /CLOSES)
1:43:51 > 1:43:54(FOOTSTEPS)
1:43:56 > 1:43:58Should I call my lawyer?
1:43:59 > 1:44:02Mr LeMoyne,
1:44:02 > 1:44:05I saw you and Murphy Doucet...
1:44:06 > 1:44:10..kill DeWitt Prejean out on the Atchafalaya.
1:44:11 > 1:44:13I watched it from across the swamp.
1:44:15 > 1:44:18(SIGHS) Am I under arrest?
1:44:18 > 1:44:22I think Doucet's been blackmailing you with it all these years.
1:44:23 > 1:44:27A lot of bad things happened back in that era between the races.
1:44:27 > 1:44:32But we're not the same people we were then, are we?
1:44:32 > 1:44:35I think we are.
1:44:35 > 1:44:40You seem unable to let the past rest.
1:44:40 > 1:44:44It's been my experience that you let go of the past by addressing it.
1:44:45 > 1:44:49- Please, leave.- It won't make any difference if I leave.
1:44:49 > 1:44:53You're gonna drag this one around with you all day long every day,
1:44:53 > 1:44:57like a log chain, for the rest of your life.
1:44:59 > 1:45:01Have you no mercy, sir?
1:45:01 > 1:45:03No, sir.
1:45:05 > 1:45:08No, sir, I don't.
1:45:09 > 1:45:11(MELODRAMATIC INCIDENTAL MUSIC)
1:45:20 > 1:45:23'Outside, the evening air smelled of wet trees
1:45:23 > 1:45:24'and night blooming flowers.
1:45:26 > 1:45:29'I saw a figure standing by a stagnant reed-choked pond.
1:45:30 > 1:45:33'He held himself erect in the wind with his single crutch.
1:45:34 > 1:45:37'His words in distant thunder.
1:45:38 > 1:45:41'I thought in the morning mists that curled around the Bayou
1:45:41 > 1:45:44'I might again see General John Bell Hood,
1:45:44 > 1:45:47'just a glimpse, perhaps, a doff of his hat,
1:45:47 > 1:45:48'the kindness of his smile,
1:45:48 > 1:45:53'the beleaguered affection that always seemed to linger in his face.
1:46:03 > 1:46:05'Then, as the days passed, and I began to let go
1:46:05 > 1:46:07of all that summer's violent events,
1:46:07 > 1:46:11I came to accept that the General, as Bootsie had said,
1:46:11 > 1:46:13was only a figment of my imagination,
1:46:13 > 1:46:16there to remind me out of the distant past
1:46:16 > 1:46:19that the contest is never quite over,
1:46:19 > 1:46:23the field never quite ours.'