Perry Mason (2020) s01e07 Episode Script

1
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.
"'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.
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.
For your silence?
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, same job. 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 yourself warned, 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!
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, 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, I wouldn'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 entrée, sir?
- Oh. Uh
I'll have Sweetbread Virginienne,
and my fiancée 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, I wasn'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?
No.
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, I will.
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 don't care anymore.
I don't care anymore.
I wanna be with my baby.
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.
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.