You're gonna burn your eyes out.
- Alice. Alice. - Alice.
Damn you. Willful little...
- What's your trouble? - Empty tank.
- Where you headed? - Next town.
- Rush Springs? - If that's what it's called.
- You're not from here. - Saskatoon.
- Where is that now? - Canada.
- Far stretch from home. - It is. It is.
I can get you started. I always carry an extra gallon.
I don't want to put you out, friend.
I wouldn't have stopped if I didn't mean to help.
- Well, I thank you. - Christian thing to do.
- That your girl? - Yes, sir.
- What's she looking for up there? - Uh...
Alice, come here.
She can get moody.
I don't blame her.
Do not blame her one jot.
Well...
- That'll get you to rush Springs. - Do they have a gas station there?
A pump maybe. Not much else.
- Lawton, now that's a proper town. - How far is that?
Farther than a gallon.
I can't lie, mister. We got nothing.
No gas, no food, nor money to pay for either of them.
Well... I'd surely like to help all I can.
And not ask for much in return.
Alice. Alice.
The lord has sent this good man to rescue us. Go and thank him.
Hello, young lady.
Aren't you pretty?
And may god watch over us,
and help us live our days with thankful hearts and loving ways.
- Amen. - Amen.
Something on your mind, daughter?
Just wondering what the lord has in store.
Well, we'll know soon enough, won't we?
- Is it all right if I start eating? - Mmm-hmm.
Best keep up.
You get turned around in three paces out here,
and you wind up face down in a ditch.
You think I'm gonna shoot you?
The thought had crossed my mind.
Pack of coyotes out here. Lost a good dog and ten chickens.
You see something moving...
This was supposed to be the village for the Olympics.
Way the heck out here.
Whose idea was that?
Herman baggerly and Eric seidel.
Bought it up by the handful. Used a shell company.
Sunroot services.
Convinced themselves they'd make a killing. Look at it now.
How'd it end up in your hands?
What kind of man are you, Mr. Mason?
A piss-poor one, if I were to be honest.
I've been a drunkard, a liar and a thief.
Well, I can match you there, Mr. Hicks.
What about now?
Let's just say I'm trying to make up for it.
Sister Alice changed my life.
You won't hear a word against her from me.
- But? - The ledger you brought.
You understand what's in it?
Well, I know George gannon was rigging the numbers,
and I think seidel gave him the go-ahead.
But if you know what they were up to, I wish you'd tell me.
'Cause it would go a long way to redeeming a couple of old sinners.
What are you doing, Mr. Hicks?
Showing you what you came for.
Didn't ever think I'd get you all to myself. This must be my lucky night.
Miss Nina, all you had to do was ask.
Ain't so bad-looking out of that uniform.
You're looking pretty fine yourself.
Look at you, lying so smooth.
Feeling better these days?
Still got that stomach bug.
Too bad you ain't been well enough to get that file out of your desk.
- Thank you for fetching it. - Mmm-hmm.
Just so we clear,
my ofay sugar daddy downtown do anything keep this girl happy.
But that gets locked up again tomorrow.
Yes, ma'am. I hear you, miss Nina. I hear you.
Who you chasing after, anyways?
- Bad man with a badge. - Another cop?
Oh, baby, ain't you black and blue enough already?
I guess it's time to choose one or the other.
Go catch your bad man.
And maybe next time, we can meet up for real.
Now, miss Nina, I'm married. You know that.
I am too, baby.
But every dog gets let out in the yard now and then.
Go on now.
- Bye, baby. - Bye, miss Nina.
[Yeldsi
"'Father. Father, why have you forsaken me?'
as the centurions drove the nails into his bloody palms...
Into his blistered feet...
Was this his reward for healing the sick and raising the dead..."
Raising what, sister?
A record take-in for the collection box?
- Hey. - Out of the way.
- Move aside. Now. - What are you doing?
You can't be in here.
Well, folks, it seems the pharisees have found us in our very own kra studios.
Elder brown, you've misread your gospel.
The lord threw out the moneylenders, not the other way around.
- If you'd like to sit... - Someone's here to see you, sister.
The doors of the church are open to everybody, seven days a week.
Surely, you won't deny this man. It wasn't easy for him to get here.
You remember Robert, don't you, sister?
You healed him a few weeks back.
Brothers and sisters, the radiant hour of power will be taking a short...
Get your hands off...
Robert, why don't you lift yourself up
and thank sister for this miracle?
I can't.
The healing didn't take but a few hours. I was back in my chair the next day.
How do you explain that, sister?
- He... - Why did it fail?
It failed...
Because he lacked faith.
What was that? I don't think the listeners can hear you.
Because he lacked faith.
Without faith, it is impossible to please him.
For he that cometh to god must believe.
Robert, why have you lost faith?
You and I, standing up there, we all saw it...
- God is with you. - You could have given me some notice.
It's one thing to surprise the da, it's another to spring it on me.
You know what I know. What more do you want?
I just want some idea of where you think you're going with this.
I'm gonna use Hicks to set up seidel,
get baggerly to state that seidel brought him in on the olympic deal,
and hammer away at the $100,000 debt.
You mean, just forget about Barnes suborning perjury from the jail matron?
No, he wants me to chase that down a hole.
No. I'm gonna punch him in the nuts till he squeaks.
- Jesus. - What? Did I offend you?
Look. Just keep it simple with Hicks. Don't get tied down with numbers.
- We just need the jury to understand... - Where's the bag?
I had Hazel bring it up the back stairs. In case one of Barnes' men was watching.
Hey, I'm sorry. Can I get one from you?
- What? - I got all the biggest cases.
I got Eddie hickman. He murdered that 12-year-old.
I got Gordon northcott. He sawed off the Mexican's head.
I got Louise peete, the lady strangler.
The attic man. Ma'am, are you anyone important?
- Me? No. - Mr. Mason.
- Yeah? - Fuck you!
What is the business of sunroot services?
None.
It conducts no business of any kind?
It has no physical presence, it produces nothing,
- it employs no one. - Hmm.
And yet, the radiant assembly of god's accountant, George gannon,
often wrote checks to this shell of a company. Why?
So the church could claim an asset on its general ledger.
Mr. Gannon mailed the checks to himself.
He was stealing from the church?
The church was stealing from the church.
Could you, in the simplest terms possible, explain this...
Objection. What does any of this
have to do with Emily dodson?
Well, Mr. Hicks was the accountant prior to Mr. Gannon,
and since Mr. Gannon is no longer with us,
Mr. Hicks, I'm sure, can tell us of the stress, the great stress,
that Mr. Gannon was surely feeling prior to his kidnapping plot.
Proceed, Mr. Mason, and hurry the horse.
It's good Friday, and we all have families.
Mr. Hicks, why was the church engaged in such shady financial practices?
The radiant assembly of god
is the biggest house of worship west of the Mississippi.
It was built in less than two years. Takes a lot of fast money.
They took out a bank loan?
Several bank loans, with terms a mobster would blush at.
- Objection. - Sustained.
Maybe in less colorful terms, Mr. Hicks.
We got ourselves in a debt we could never pay back.
And what did the church elders do when they realized that the collection plates
wouldn't even cover the interest on the loan,
much less the loans themselves?
They bought a radio network at similar terms and rates.
Doubling down on an already unpayable debt?
If you were just looking at the numbers.
Well, what other way is there to look at it?
A national salvation of souls.
Sister Alice's voice in every living room in america.
- What's the price on that? - Yes. Yes.
And the church elders, seidel in particular,
knew that you had schemes that would keep their debt at bay?
The schemes were seidel's. I just knew how to put them on paper.
Can only spread it around so much, Eric.
That's not what you were saying a year ago, is it, Mr. Hicks?
"Do not worry yourself," you said.
And you said wait till she's on the radio.
Well, she's on the radio, and we're in it twice as deep.
- Fix it. Fix it. - I won't do it anymore.
And what happened when you told elder seidel
you could no longer hide their debt?
He brought in George gannon, had me show him what I was doing,
offered me a plot of land in girard for my silence.
Foryourshence?
For your silence. Thank you, Mr. Hicks. No further questions.
Mr. Hicks, did you know Emily dodson?
I spent more time than I should have in the counting room of the temple.
I do not recall ever meeting Mrs. Dodson.
And you left the church's employ prior to the crimes we're litigating here.
- Correct? - Yes.
And, in fact, other than your personal interpretation of this one ledger,
you have no evidence to support your wild claims
about financial misconduct at the church, do you?
- I have the books and records. - You...
Excuse me?
The original books and records when I was the accountant for the church.
I gave them to Mr. Mason.
You stole the original books and records?
I copied them out of precaution...
So that when it all came out, I wouldn't be blamed.
Thank you.
They're right here, Mr. Barnes, should you wish to look at them.
- No further questions. - Redirect, your honor?
- Yes. - Thank you.
Mr. Hicks...
Are these the financial records
for the radiant assembly from 1925 to 1930,
records that would prove the church was in severe financial distress
at the time you left?
Yes.
And if looked at closely by a professional eye,
how much debt would these records say the church was carrying?
Just over $100,000.
$100,000.
Thank you, Mr. Hicks. No further questions.
- Go. - I got ennis in Denver.
Breaking heads for Colorado fuel and iron in 1914.
I got nowak there, same time, samejob. Nice work, huh?
I mean, it's not flattering to compliment yourself...
And I got something else. Eric seidel.
Chief financial officer, Colorado fuel and iron, in Denver, in 1914.
He's going on the stand.
I am gonna tie him, ennis and the two polacks in a knot
so Barnes can fuck himself trying to untangle them.
You are gonna keep an eye on him until I can get him served.
Keep him in a closet if you have to.
You want me to watch this guy all weekend?
- Yeah. - I just spent three days in Denver.
And now you're back. What's the problem?
What?
- What's that smell? - Someone threw garbage on me.
The fuck's going on in this town?
Do not let seidel out of your sight. Do you understand me?
Hey.
You almost look like a lawyer up there.
And demanding a $100,000 ransom payment. Is that correct?
The kidnappers made it clear to my son that if we wanted to see Charlie alive,
the police should not be involved.
And when you say "my son," you mean Matthew dodson,
whose paternity you denied until it was revealed in the press?
- Badgering, your honor. - You damned impertinent...
Consider yourselfwarned, Mr. Mason.
Herman, isn't it true you used to be the main benefactor
for the radiant assembly of god?
I am no longer associated with that church.
But when you were a member,
you knew that George gannon was the church accountant. Correct?
I had no business with Mr. Gannon. My dealings were with elder seidel.
So Eric seidel is the person in charge of all the church's finances?
Objection. Again, it's not clear what the church's finances have to do
with Charlie dodson's murder.
And it's not clear what this photograph has to do with your objection.
The witness will answer the question.
I'm afraid I've forgotten what that was.
Mr. Baggerly, is Eric seidel the person who oversees the assembly's finances?
Yes.
He relied on you for money when the church was running deficits. Yes?
I made donations. A few investments.
Investments like that worthless piece of land comprising woodland acres?
The land is not worthless.
And yet, you cut all funding to the assembly
when that investment failed.
- You must have been pretty fed up. - Your honor.
Mr. Mason, you will cease your editorializing immediately.
Just to be absolutely clear, Herman,
when was the last time Eric seidel asked you for a donation?
- Sometime after Thanksgiving. - And the amount requested?
- I don't recall. - Did you give him the money?
I did not.
Early December, 1931, the single biggest source for a church $100,000 in debt...
Snaps the lock on the vault.
Three weeks later, Charlie dodson, Herman baggerly's grandchild,
is kidnapped, ransomed and murdered for an attempted extortion of $100,000.
- Objection. - I have no further questions.
Your witness, Mr. Barnes.
Mr. Baggerly, to be clear, you did not know George...
What got screwed in the Bible gets screwed again!
- Was you there, Charlie? - Go bruins!
Order!
- Get out of here. - Bailiff!
Get out of the way!
I'm just asking for a little more time.
Given the outstanding payments on the existing loans,
extending additional coverage for your organization is just...
It's simply not something that we can arrange. I am sorry.
Extra, extra! New developments in the dodson case!
Emily. Just a minute. Please.
You heard the testimony today.
I just want you to consider the possibility
that the radiant assembly might not have your best interests at heart.
No one there has ever hurt me.
I'm not sure that's true. And come this Sunday...
Come this Sunday, Mr. Mason, this will all be over.
And everyone in that courtroom, everyone in this city,
will beg me to forgive them.
But I don't know if I can.
We think the wisest thing for you to do this weekend
is stay as far away from the cemetery as possible.
For your own safety.
You saw yourself what people are willing to do.
I'm not gonna lose him twice.
We could have her committed.
- How quickly? - I was joking.
I think.
- Support your families. - Fuck.
We understand that you deserve not only the compensation,
but also the eternal gratitude of your country.
I need to talk to you about something.
Okay. Cut me some slack.
I've had a tough day.
You know what happens when you don't pay your property taxes five years in a row?
No, no, no.
There were a lot of bidders in that auction.
I didn't think I'd get it, but I beat them all.
You bought my house?
It was gonna be sold one way or another.
You bought my house?
I bought it two weeks ago. Title got transferred today.
- When were you gonna tell me? - I'm telling you now.
You could've said something. You could've been straight with me.
I said it like 50 times.
"I'm gonna buy your house, I'm gonna knock it down,
and I'm gonna turn it into an airstrip."
Didn't you hear me?
That's not how you treat...
- You and me, we were... - A couple?
- It's never good to lie to yourself. - I knew what we were.
I just didn't think you were fucking me so you could fuck me.
- You're a snake. - I'm a businesswoman, papi.
I'll give you a month.
And I promise, I'll leave your folks where they are.
Well, isn't that fucking generous?
- You're gonna thank me for this. - Not a fucking chance.
Every star above knows the one I love
sweet sue
just you
no one else, it seems...
That is astrakhan caviar, you know.
Sorry. Between the smoke bombs and the raising of the dead,
I'm not very hungry.
Has it occurred to you that you're too wrapped up in this?
How wrapped up should I be?
Enough to wanna see your client go free.
Not so much that you lose a night's sleep if she doesn't.
That's how you do it?
- Well, I'd never take this case. - Why not?
'Cause the defendant is just the sort of person you'd love to see hanged.
If that's how you feel, why did you help Perry?
You asked me to.
So if you're not gonna eat this...
I need a court order to stop the resurrection on Sunday.
On what grounds?
On the grounds that it's gonna get Emily dodson convicted.
Disturbing the peace, public nuisance, incitement to riot...
You can come up with something. Please, ham.
Like I said, iwouldn't take the case.
What'd be interesting, though,
would be poking into the finances of the radiant assembly.
I bet there's a nice little scandal there, just waiting to be unearthed.
So you can run for da next year?
- Have we decided on an entree, sir? - Oh. Uh...
I'll have sweetbread virginienne,
and my fiancee would like the chicken sous cloche.
- Very good, Mr. Burger. - Thank you.
What do you think?
I think you wouldn't like the headline if you got caught.
Besides, isn't he a little young?
- Oh, how old is Hazel again? - A gentleman would never ask.
Is that what I am?
Hmm.
Della, you are the only person in this town that I can be honest with.
I'll be satisfied
so make the most of fun and laughter
that's what I always say
I don't know what to tell you.
- Tell me you fucked up. - I went up and down every block.
Every bar, every goddamn hotel lobby.
I even went to the church, staked out his house...
- But you fucked up. - I brought you the lead.
I connected gannon to the books. Seidel to ennis.
- I helped you steal a corpse. - And now you fucked up. Just say it.
Yes. Yes, I fucked up. I fucked up, like you never done 100 times,
and I covered your sorry ass.
Pete, iwasn't defending someone on a murder rap then.
I don't get a second chance.
I don't get to stand up in court and say to the judge,
"do you mind waiting another week?" I... I needed that guy.
I trusted you to box him in, and you... you lost him.
But what does it matter? Just make it up on your next big capital case.
Read me another chapter of fucking lipstick girl.
- The fuck's happening to you? - I am fighting for a woman's life!
That's what's fucking happening!
I can't lose, Pete. I can't... I can't fuck this up like... fuck.
You're right.
You should put dinge Tracy on this.
- What? - Officer Drake. You should...
Pay me out...
Let him swallow your shit.
'Cause I just did it one time too many, Perry.
Excuse me. Do you know where the manager is?
There's no one there. Maybe you could help me.
I'm looking for these men. These...
- Do you remember seeing them? - We're all booked up.
- I'm just looking for some information. - About what?
These men. Do you recognize them? They stayed here around Christmas.
- Might've had a baby with them. - Says who?
Says a call to the Los Angeles police department from a witness.
You're a cop?
I couldn't tell you who stayed here three months ago.
- Can I see your guest register? - There isn't one.
You don't register your guests?
I just look them over and use my judgment.
I bet you do, ma'am.
Those men, I remember them.
- Hey. - Anyone see you?
No. I got off the red line at Ethel and walked.
- Smart boy. - Yeah.
I can't get on the stand. Mason will tear me apart.
He got into our records.
- He knows. - He can't call you if he can't find you.
Here, take this.
Bus to San Diego, train from there. You got cash?
- Yeah. - So you're sitting pretty.
- My house. I mean, everything I own... - It's not going anywhere.
Let them stake it out until they get fed up.
Meanwhile, you're sipping juleps on the Crescent line.
What we did to that baby...
Yeah, no one wanted that.
- We were just trying to help. - Yeah.
Hop in. I'll drop you at the depot.
Come on. You know you're gonna do it.
Okay.
Hey, Joe, thanks for...
Am I interrupting?
The one thing that my father took to the grave was that we owned this.
His last ten acres of San Fernando dirt.
I'm trying to figure out how I tell him that I managed to lose it.
And then, I thought, what does he care? 'Cause he's been dead for 12 years.
The only person it matters to now is me.
My father owned two pairs of overalls
and a Liberty bond he split with his brother.
You wanna hear what I found?
- Sure. - Nowak and sarecki.
They were holed up at a motor court outside of newhall, end of December.
- Alone? - Not alone. They had a kid with them.
Wouldn't stop crying. Everybody heard it.
- Who saw the kid? - Nobody.
But a third man shows up with his wife.
- What? - His Chinese wife. Then no more crying.
Just happy baby noises.
- Ennis? - Maybe.
- And the wife? - She had a lot going on upstairs.
What do you mean? Like, she was a math professor?
And where would ennis find a Chinese woman with special skills?
Madam Jin's.
Here's how I think we should go at this.
You show them your badge, we brace them,
they cough up whichever girl we need to talk to.
- I ain't doing this under the badge. - Why not?
'Cause I got no legal authority here, and neither do you.
They don't know that.
We pull some shit, they call ennis, and we're screwed.
Is that what you want?
Paul, let me tell you how I operate...
I know how you operate. It's not how I operate.
All right, let's start this conversation again.
Here's what I think should happen.
You show your badge, we brace them, they cough up...
Yes. What you looking for? Pretty silk for wife?
We're here to get laid.
White man only.
- Okay. - Okay.
You pick one already.
Thing is, I'm looking for something very, very special.
What type? Young? Old?
Uh, do you have this? Milkmaids?
Jacklin.
Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, we'll have fun.
Sorry.
No, no, no, no. You don't have to do that.
I just wanna talk to you.
Talk to you.
Do you know a policeman named ennis?
Policeman. Policeman.
Nasty, beady-eyed policeman.
I know.
Okay. Thank you. Did he take you on a trip?
Trip?
Um, did he drive you somewhere? There was a baby.
Not me.
Someone else? Someone you know?
Tang yin.
I can't... I don't... I can't... Can you say it in English?
Tang yin.
- Is that a name? - He take her away.
One week, she gone. He come back, then...
- She uses heroin? - She use.
We all use.
Where is she? Can I talk to her?
I can help her. I can make her safe.
He come here other night.
She die.
You mean ennis killed her?
You not here to have fun.
Tell me again about how you operate.
Let's go.
Who's there?
I was smoking. I'm sorry. I know you don't like it.
- Who told you that? - Your mother.
Give me one.
I won't tell if you don't tell.
- You wanna know a secret? - Yes.
Old gold tobacco offered me $5,000
to endorse their cigarettes on our radio show.
- Are you gonna take it? - Mother thinks we should.
Then we can move on to face cream and toothpaste.
Who knows what else? We'd be rolling in it then, wouldn't we?
Aren't you rich already?
You tell me a secret.
I know you have one.
- I don't think you're gonna like it. - Try me.
The night they took Charlie, I was on the phone with George,
and he was telling me how much he loved me,
how much he missed me...
And how much he loved Charlie.
Like he was his own.
And it felt like coming back to life.
Felt like a miracle.
You're doubting me.
- No, no. - Why wouldn't you?
I'm promising you something that hasn't happened in 2,000 years.
And who am I?
- You're sister Alice. You're the church. - But do you think I can talk to god?
Do you think I can hear his voice?
Do you think I can reach into the ground and bring a baby back from the dead?
What do you know about me at all?
Say it.
Sister...
Are you lying to me?
I swear...
After tomorrow, nothing will be the same.
Why do I even let you in here?
Because in your heart, you wanna do good.
No, in my heart, I want you to leave me alone.
After this, iwill.
Okay. If this one turns up in a bowling alley wearing a party hat,
I'm gonna pry open your skull with a claw hammer.
The way things are going, I will let you.
Jane Doe, working girl. Came in last night at 8:52.
No, wait. No, two nights ago.
How do you know she's a working girl?
Gross evidence of gonorrhea and chlamydia.
Needle marks all down her arm. Aside from that, just guessing.
Verge, what happens to an infant nursing from a junked-up mother?
- Why are you asking me that? - What happens?
Please, verge.
He'd suffocate.
Come on. Let's go. Police.
Hey. Come on. Get out of the way. Get out of here. Get out of here.
Hey, hey, hey. Get out of here. Hey, hey, hey. No vehicles past here.
I'm Emily dodson's lawyer.
I don't care if you're Clara bow's lingerie.
Now turn this thing around.
Hey, guys, come on. Hey, back up.
Murderer!
Rot in hell, you blaspheming...
Emily, can I talk... Emily? Emily, can I talk to you?
Can we stop this?
- Sister Alice? Can we... - Resurrection and the life.
Whoever believes in me...
Will get a free set of dishes and a year's supply of ovaltine.
Excuse me. Excuse me.
Hey. I don't like the feel of this.
- I've got to talk to Emily. - She won't hear a word you say.
They brought in one of madam Jin's girls as a wet nurse for Charlie.
A hophead. He overdosed on her milk. They were fucked.
- This isn't the time... - It's got to be ennis.
It's got to be. He connects it all.
If I can put him on the stand, I can break him. I know I can.
Before this mumbo-jumbo scotches everything. Excuse me. Excuse me.
Don't do this. Don't do this.
If you care about Emily,
if her acquittal matters to you, walk away right now.
Just walk away. Right now! Walk away!
Come back to me. Please come back to me.
Come back to us. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes, you are here. Yes.
She can't even open it.
Yes. Yes.
Let the baby out. Come on.
Yes. Yes.
Order on order. Order on order, line on line.
A little here, a little there.
It's all lies!
You're a liar! Liar! Liar!
- Alice! - Just put me in there.
Just put me in there. I don't care anymore.
- We need to get out of here. - Alice!
Go! Go!
I don't care anymore.
I wanna be with my baby.
I just wanna be with my baby. I wanna be with my baby.
Alice! Alice! Alice!
Come on. Go.
- Did you hit anyone? - I don't know.
- Jesus Christ. - Drive faster.
You okay?
Alice, look at me. Look at me. Okay. It's just a bloody nose.
Okay? That's all. I'll make it better.
Take a right at Virgil.
Shouldn't we follow the motorcycles, ma'am?
Do as I say.
Listen. We can survive this.
There's always a different story to tell.
But you have to trust me. Will you do that? Hmm?
- Okay? Alice? - Ma'am?
There's something in the road.
This is where we're meant to be.
You wait. You watch.
Is it okay?
Charlie dodson.
I'm birdy mckeegan. And this is Charlie dodson.
Charlie dodson lives. This is a miracle child.
Charlie dodson lives.
Do you understand? Charlie dodson lives.
Write it down. Write it down now.
Alice, this is you.
This is your miracle. This is you. You did this.
Alice, hold him. Hold him. He's yours.
I know what you're trying to do.
And what you think you want, but it's not gonna work.
It's not gonna happen. There's too much at stake.
There's nothing else out there. Nothing above, below or in between.
It's just you and me, Alice. Okay? It's just you and me.
Do you understand that, Alice? It's just you and me.
Charlie dodson lives. Alice. Alice.
Alice! Alice! Alice!
Charlie dodson lives.
Delivered from god. Don't you understand?
Yes. This is a miracle baby.