True Story

- He's gonna plead innocent. 393 00:31:16,472 --> 00:31:18,941 How do you know? 394 00:31:19,041 --> 00:31:22,144 - He told me. - You spoke to him? 395 00:31:22,244 --> 00:31:25,514 - I met him. - Why? 396 00:31:25,648 --> 00:31:27,851 I wanted to hear his side of the story. 397 00:31:29,518 --> 00:31:33,290 I'm not sure Christian Longo deserves to have his story heard. 398 00:31:36,192 --> 00:31:38,662 Everybody deserves to have their story heard. 399 00:31:44,033 --> 00:31:46,035 Mommy! 400 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:13,395 <i>I know you did it.</i> 401 00:32:13,495 --> 00:32:16,031 <i>You know you did it.</i> 402 00:32:17,066 --> 00:32:20,263 <i>We don't need the how or why, just three little words.</i> 403 00:32:20,363 --> 00:32:22,251 <i>They can be spoken real quick.</i> 404 00:32:26,976 --> 00:32:29,511 <i>I just can't right now.</i> 405 00:32:29,611 --> 00:32:31,647 <i>I'm sorry.</i> 406 00:32:45,101 --> 00:32:48,330 Chris, your letter was an extraordinary thing. 407 00:32:49,131 --> 00:32:52,668 But this story between the two of us, it's... 408 00:32:52,768 --> 00:32:54,774 it's not an article I can write. 409 00:32:58,457 --> 00:33:00,959 But it could be a book. 410 00:33:01,477 --> 00:33:02,512 Really? 411 00:33:02,612 --> 00:33:05,615 But if we're gonna write something like that together, 412 00:33:05,715 --> 00:33:08,818 it's what you tell me, not how, that's important. 413 00:33:09,618 --> 00:33:12,421 I know. It's just that... 414 00:33:12,521 --> 00:33:16,258 you speak so beautifully, you have such a mastery of words, 415 00:33:16,358 --> 00:33:18,761 and I want that. 416 00:33:19,161 --> 00:33:23,765 It inspires me. I... I need it. 417 00:33:25,301 --> 00:33:27,436 Okay. 418 00:33:27,536 --> 00:33:29,805 Let's make a trade. 419 00:33:29,905 --> 00:33:32,242 I give you a note, you answer a question. 420 00:33:36,545 --> 00:33:39,758 - Okay. - All right. 421 00:33:41,050 --> 00:33:42,983 All right, so on page 23 you write, 422 00:33:43,083 --> 00:33:46,523 "When I lost my position at the realtor's, MaryJane thought I'd tried to get fired, 423 00:33:46,623 --> 00:33:49,292 "but I never said it was a job I didn't want." 424 00:33:49,392 --> 00:33:52,717 So that's a double negative, "never said I didn't want." 425 00:33:54,996 --> 00:33:58,367 - Okay. - It's weak, a double negative. 426 00:33:58,467 --> 00:34:01,471 In good journalism, we would write, "It was a job I wanted." 427 00:34:02,071 --> 00:34:05,475 I get it. Two negatives don't make a positive. 428 00:34:05,575 --> 00:34:07,610 Okay. 429 00:34:08,377 --> 00:34:10,612 My turn. 430 00:34:12,181 --> 00:34:14,150 Okay. 431 00:34:14,250 --> 00:34:17,820 Why did you hook up with that German girl in Mexico? 432 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,541 - How'd you know about that? - I spoke to her. 433 00:34:31,100 --> 00:34:33,435 I don't know. 434 00:34:35,237 --> 00:34:40,276 I was... I was grieving so much, 435 00:34:40,376 --> 00:34:45,515 it was as if the old Chris Longo was dead. 436 00:34:46,682 --> 00:34:48,952 But you slept with her on the first night. 437 00:34:51,353 --> 00:34:53,255 I don't know. 438 00:34:53,355 --> 00:34:55,858 That's what she says. 439 00:34:56,225 --> 00:35:00,662 Chris, did you do what you're accused of doing? 440 00:35:16,745 --> 00:35:19,948 I loved my family. 441 00:35:21,884 --> 00:35:25,487 I only wanted what was best for them. 442 00:35:32,394 --> 00:35:35,531 I'm really sorry, Mike. I can't do this right now. 443 00:35:35,631 --> 00:35:37,766 Do what? 444 00:35:40,502 --> 00:35:42,939 I can't tell you what really happened. 445 00:35:46,108 --> 00:35:48,144 Okay. 446 00:35:50,446 --> 00:35:52,314 Okay. Then... 447 00:35:52,414 --> 00:35:56,085 Then why flee to Mexico right after they were found? 448 00:35:56,185 --> 00:36:00,072 I mean, you have to understand, that makes you look incredibly guilty. 449 00:36:00,656 --> 00:36:02,658 Sometimes, 450 00:36:04,259 --> 00:36:07,863 you have to accept looking one way... 451 00:36:07,963 --> 00:36:11,456 in order to protect something more important. 452 00:36:12,634 --> 00:36:17,189 Chris, if you're hiding something from me, I will find out. 453 00:36:17,289 --> 00:36:21,210 That's what I do. I look everywhere. 454 00:36:30,686 --> 00:36:33,121 Why did you kill them? 455 00:36:45,434 --> 00:36:47,252 I didn't kill them. 456 00:37:45,527 --> 00:37:48,380 <i>It's part true crime, but it's part </i> mea culpa. 457 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:49,999 It's really about writing itself. 458 00:37:50,099 --> 00:37:52,002 <i>And you're sure it's a full book and not an article?</i> 459 00:37:52,102 --> 00:37:55,239 - <i>You really feel that there's enough there?</i> - It's a book, it is a book. 460 00:37:55,839 --> 00:37:58,464 <i>We're not gonna find out late