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00:35:52,793 --> 00:35:54,336 That is very old-fashioned. 808 00:35:54,337 --> 00:35:56,338 I'm merely going to ask you a few questions. 809 00:35:56,339 --> 00:35:57,421 Oh, thank you. 810 00:35:57,422 --> 00:35:59,174 Now, Mr. Williams, are you aware 811 00:35:59,175 --> 00:36:01,092 of what's going to happen to you tomorrow? 812 00:36:01,093 --> 00:36:02,177 They're gonna hang me. 813 00:36:02,178 --> 00:36:03,677 And how do you feel about that? 814 00:36:03,678 --> 00:36:05,055 Well, to tell the truth, 815 00:36:05,056 --> 00:36:08,400 I'll be glad to get out of that cell. It's so drafty. 816 00:36:09,310 --> 00:36:11,519 See? I told you. He's 100 percent sane. 817 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,855 It says here that you are, by profession, a baker. 818 00:36:14,856 --> 00:36:17,525 That's right. I'm... I'm a specialty baker. 819 00:36:17,526 --> 00:36:20,403 You know, uh, pretzels and breadsticks and bagels. 820 00:36:20,404 --> 00:36:22,822 You know, I worked for the same place for five years, 821 00:36:22,823 --> 00:36:24,532 and then one day they just fired me. 822 00:36:24,533 --> 00:36:25,617 What was the reason? 823 00:36:25,618 --> 00:36:27,701 'Cause I put those things in the fortune cookies. 824 00:36:27,702 --> 00:36:28,702 What things? 825 00:36:28,703 --> 00:36:30,413 Free Sacco and Vanzetti. 826 00:36:30,414 --> 00:36:32,082 Pretty sneaky, those Bolsheviks. 827 00:36:32,083 --> 00:36:33,208 Who's a Bolshevik? 828 00:36:33,209 --> 00:36:36,544 According to this, you were arrested in 1925 829 00:36:36,545 --> 00:36:38,546 for illegal possession of explosives. 830 00:36:38,547 --> 00:36:40,215 Oh, yes. Well, I don't know 831 00:36:40,216 --> 00:36:42,550 how you feel about Wall Street, Doctor, 832 00:36:42,551 --> 00:36:45,387 but I mailed this shoebox to JP Morgan 833 00:36:45,388 --> 00:36:46,762 with a time bomb in it. 834 00:36:46,763 --> 00:36:50,684 And it came back because of insufficient postage. 835 00:36:50,685 --> 00:36:53,654 Blew the whole roof off my boarding house. 836 00:36:54,479 --> 00:36:56,690 We should send them all back where they came from. 837 00:36:56,691 --> 00:36:59,159 I come from Fargo, North Dakota. 838 00:37:01,778 --> 00:37:05,115 Tell me, Mr. Williams, were you unhappy as a child? 839 00:37:05,116 --> 00:37:06,241 Not really. 840 00:37:06,242 --> 00:37:08,285 I had a perfectly normal childhood. 841 00:37:08,286 --> 00:37:10,245 I see. You wanted to kill your father 842 00:37:10,246 --> 00:37:12,079 and sleep with your mother. 843 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:13,665 If he's gonna talk dirty... 844 00:37:13,666 --> 00:37:15,542 When you were in grammar school, 845 00:37:15,543 --> 00:37:17,711 did you practice self-abuse? 846 00:37:17,712 --> 00:37:19,462 No, sir. I don't believe in it. 847 00:37:19,463 --> 00:37:22,257 I would never abuse myself or anybody else. 848 00:37:22,258 --> 00:37:24,759 I love people, I love all people. 849 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,520 I suppose that cop committed suicide. 850 00:37:28,431 --> 00:37:30,724 Let us get back to masturbation. 851 00:37:30,725 --> 00:37:33,861 Did your father ever catch you in the act? 852 00:37:34,020 --> 00:37:35,936 Oh, my father was... was never home. 853 00:37:35,937 --> 00:37:38,991 He was a conductor on the Chicago-Northwestern. 854 00:37:39,649 --> 00:37:41,026 Very significant. 855 00:37:41,027 --> 00:37:43,819 Your father wore a uniform just like that policeman. 856 00:37:43,820 --> 00:37:46,990 And when he pulled out the gun, an obvious phallic symbol, 857 00:37:46,991 --> 00:37:48,450 you thought he was your father 858 00:37:48,451 --> 00:37:51,544 and was going to use it to hurt your mother. 859 00:37:51,953 --> 00:37:53,330 He's crazy. 860 00:37:53,331 --> 00:37:56,291 Let us then try to reconstruct your thought process 861 00:37:56,292 --> 00:37:58,469 at the time of the crime. 862 00:37:58,753 --> 00:38:00,712 May I borrow your gun, please? 863 00:38:00,713 --> 00:38:02,589 Oh, sure thing. 864 00:38:02,590 --> 00:38:04,724 Get up, Mr. Williams. 865 00:38:04,966 --> 00:38:07,968 All right, you are standing on that corner with those leaflets, 866 00:38:07,969 --> 00:38:11,306 I am the policeman. I come up to you and tell you to move along. 867 00:38:11,307 --> 00:38:13,849 You refuse, I draw my gun. 868 00:38:13,850 --> 00:38:18,822 Now, I want you to tell me exactly what you thought 869 00:38:19,231 --> 00:38:22,243 and show me exactly what you did. 870 00:38:24,654 --> 00:38:26,205 Exactly? 871 00:38:26,781 --> 00:38:29,990 Gee, I get that lonesome feeling 872 00:38:29,991 --> 00:38:33,577 When I hear those church bells chime 873 00:38:33,578 --> 00:38:36,881 Those wedding bells are breaking up 874 00:38:38,501 --> 00:38:39,875 What the hell is that? 875 00:38:39,876 --> 00:38:42,263 Maybe somebody else is throwing a party. 876 00:38:43,214 --> 00:38:45,765 Must be a riot or a jailbreak. 877 00:38:51,806 --> 00:38:53,515 Hey, Jacobi, what's the matter? 878 00:38:5