The Imposter

462 00:36:08,885 --> 00:36:16,173 So now the problem was that they had the sister and the embassy official 463 00:36:16,218 --> 00:36:19,250 that were swearing that I was Nicholas Barclay 464 00:36:19,300 --> 00:36:22,382 and there was the police and the prosecutor 465 00:36:22,425 --> 00:36:25,375 and the judge who were not convinced at all. 466 00:36:25,425 --> 00:36:27,795 The judge insisted on separate interviews 467 00:36:27,841 --> 00:36:35,166 and part of the evidence that was in those interviews was a family photo album. 468 00:36:36,632 --> 00:36:39,880 And the judge said, "Listen, the only way for you to prove 469 00:36:39,923 --> 00:36:43,042 that you're really Nicholas is we got pictures here 470 00:36:43,092 --> 00:36:44,963 that you've never seen before. 471 00:36:48,258 --> 00:36:50,331 I'm gonna show you five of them." 472 00:36:51,716 --> 00:36:53,790 Number one, OK. 473 00:36:54,299 --> 00:36:55,957 Number two, OK. 474 00:36:56,007 --> 00:36:57,630 Number three, OK. 475 00:36:57,674 --> 00:36:59,379 Number four, OK. 476 00:36:59,423 --> 00:37:00,834 On the five one I made a mistake, 477 00:37:03,758 --> 00:37:05,131 but it was too late. 478 00:37:05,173 --> 00:37:07,544 She was already convinced I was Nicholas Barclay. 479 00:37:08,258 --> 00:37:09,798 (Speaks Spanish) 480 00:37:14,342 --> 00:37:20,088 At that point I didn't see how I could not document him as a US citizen. 481 00:37:24,673 --> 00:37:29,830 I would not have been able to do anything if Carey didn't show me those pictures. 482 00:37:32,091 --> 00:37:36,249 They took picture of me, with no hat, with nothing. 483 00:37:36,506 --> 00:37:39,042 Which was, you know, they saw my eyes. 484 00:37:39,965 --> 00:37:44,706 Erm, the constitution of the United States. I swear to be a US citizen. 485 00:37:45,632 --> 00:37:48,415 You know, it wasn't real but I did it. 486 00:38:13,256 --> 00:38:17,663 CAREY: We didn't do a whole lot of talking the night before we got on the plane. 487 00:38:18,714 --> 00:38:22,659 Not uncomfortable, just silence, and it was almost like a peaceful silence. 488 00:38:26,504 --> 00:38:32,206 You know, I could hear him breathing and I just felt pretty peaceful. 489 00:38:39,506 --> 00:38:43,002 I'd been thinking about running away even before I met her. 490 00:38:50,047 --> 00:38:55,167 All I got to do was take a taxi cab and, going to a train station, 491 00:38:55,213 --> 00:38:57,122 buy myself a ticket out of Spain. 492 00:38:58,632 --> 00:39:00,752 I could have done that in a couple of minutes. 493 00:39:01,630 --> 00:39:04,082 Nothing was stopping me, nothing. 494 00:39:04,129 --> 00:39:06,798 I went down a few times in the hallway, 495 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:11,246 always wondering if I was doing the right thing, the wrong thing. 496 00:39:14,839 --> 00:39:17,623 Should I go, shouldn't I go, should I go, shouldn't I go? 497 00:39:20,712 --> 00:39:22,786 (Distant shouting) 498 00:39:26,797 --> 00:39:31,915 When I was born, I don't think there was much love. 499 00:39:34,462 --> 00:39:39,535 My mother was very, very young at the time and she was, she was only 17 years old, 500 00:39:39,589 --> 00:39:44,658 met er...older man, which was my father, from Algeria. 501 00:39:47,170 --> 00:39:50,666 My grandfather was a very racist person 502 00:39:50,712 --> 00:39:55,336 and knowing that the man my mother spent the night with is an Algerian, 503 00:39:55,381 --> 00:39:58,959 he wanted absolutely my mother to have an abortion. 504 00:39:59,005 --> 00:40:02,167 Er, to get rid of me even before I was born. 505 00:40:04,504 --> 00:40:08,332 For him an Arab should be dealt with a nuclear weapon 506 00:40:08,379 --> 00:40:10,452 and a black man is a monkey. 507 00:40:11,628 --> 00:40:14,958 Before I was born, I definitely I had the wrong identity. 508 00:40:15,211 --> 00:40:20,994 Er, I already didn't know...I was already prepared not to know who I really was. 509 00:40:24,505 --> 00:40:29,077 A new identity with a real passport, an American passport. 510 00:40:29,128 --> 00:40:31,331 I could go to the US, go to school there. 511 00:40:32,045 --> 00:40:35,624 Live with that family and just being someone. 512 00:40:35,670 --> 00:40:40,410 And don't have never again to worry about being identified. 513 00:40:41,545 --> 00:40:43,619 I saw the opportunity. 514 00:40:45,711 --> 00:40:52,205 A woman that could go through so much to get me with her back in a family 515 00:40:52,252 --> 00:40:56,413 which got kids, which seem a fam... a loving family, 516 00:40:57,128 --> 00:40:59,082 gotta be some...somebody good, 517 00:41:00,252 --> 00:41:03,701 You know, I had conflicting rules inside my own head. 518 00:41:31,001 --> 00:41:34,119 Carey want me to be Nicholas but what about the others? 519 00:41:34,169 --> 00:41:36,