The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox (2025) s01e03 Episode Script

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- [siren wailing]
- [reporters shouting]
No!
- [ominous music playing]
- [reporters chattering]
Something about Amanda
that made Meredith uneasy.
She brought lots of men home.
[Amanda Knox] Patrick.
[overlapping shouting]
It It was Patrick!
Please, I made a mistake!
I've made it to Italy, baby.
Why aren't you picking up your phone?
The American girl killed the British one.
- She No.
- [bystander] Yes, she confessed.
[dramatic music playing]
[music stops]
[lively music playing]
[Giuliano Mignini speaking Italian]
[people chattering]
[chains clinking]
[mother speaking Italian]
[father speaking Italian]
[traditional Italian music playing]
- [tires screeching]
- [cars crashing]
[casket thuds]
[mourners sniffling, crying]
[mechanical music box plays]
[toy squeaking]
[mutoscope cranking]
[ominous music playing]
[heavy breathing]
[moaning]
[victims gasping, exclaiming]
- [gunshots]
- [glass shattering]
[dark, solemn music playing]
[moaning]
[characters on TV speaking Italian]
[inspiring music playing]
♪
[indistinct chatter]
[phone ringing]
[phone continues ringing]
[ominous music playing]
[camera clicking]
[camera clicking]
[camera clicking]
[dramatic music playing]
- What do you think?
- [pop music playing faintly]
[Meredith Kercher] It's gonna be so cute.
[Amanda] [laughing]
I'm talking about my earring.
- Does it look cool?
- Uh
Should I get more, like Laura,
like, up the ear?
I mean, she does have that whole, like,
cool girl, European thing going on.
- The bitch.
- [Meredith laughing]
Is it really me?
- But maybe it could be, you know?
- [chuckles]
Or what about the what's this one?
- The septum? [snorting]
- Mm, yeah,
I'm sure Raffaele would love that.
[chuckles] Yeah, you think I could
pull it off?
[laughing] Yeah, very sexy.
- Alright, where do you want it?
- [Amanda] I want it right here.
- Give it to me.
- [chuckles] Okay.
- Don't look.
- [Amanda] Okay.
I actually think Giacomo
would love a little nose ring
- Oh! [laughing]
- on you.
- I bet he would.
- [both giggle]
[Amanda]
Are you guys spending Halloween together?
Uh, I think Sophie's planning something.
Do you wanna do something with me?
We could go to Le Chic or something.
Yeah. Uh, that
Yeah, that might be fun.
- Um, we will see.
- Alright, cool.
Cool.
- [Amanda] Okay!
- [both gasp]
- [making chomping noises]
- Bite me! [laughing]
- Oh.
- Oh, a bit wet.
- [echoing] I've been infected!
- [both laughing]
- Ew!
- [Amanda mimics snarling and growling]
[Meredith continues laughing]
[ominous music playing]
[Amanda] Is this like
a witness protection facility?
No Nobody really told me
[Amanda] Ahhh.
[prisoners chattering in distance]
[PA announcement in Italian]
[Lupa] Okay.
Okay.
[cart rattling]
Okay.
[Amanda sighs]
Okay.
[underwear rustling]
[prisoner laughing in distance]
- [camera clicking]
- [Amanda groaning]
[camera clicking continues]
Uh
[camera clicking and beeping]
[prisoners chattering]
- [keys jingling]
- [PA announcement in Italian]
- I am the boss.
- [buzzer blaring]
- [prisoner shouting indistinctly]
- [loud banging]
- [prisoners speaking Italian]
- [TV playing indistinctly]
Um, I I I really need
to talk to my mom, please.
Oh, no
I I don't have lawyers.
Like, a witness to something.
But I I sent in, like, a retraction.
- No, no, no, no, no, no.
- Did the police say anything?
[speaking Italian]
- [keys jingling]
- [Amanda exhales sharply]
[cell door thuds]
What? What what do you mean?
- What? No, no!
- Si.
- Si.
- No, no, very N-no correct.
- Is that what they're
- Si.
Is that what they think?
No, no, that's not that's not true.
[sighing] Oh
- Okay?
- What's happening?
- Friends, okay?
- [whimpering]
[dramatic foreboding music playing]
[cell gate banging]
[cell door thuds]
[lock clicking]
[music intensifying]
- [PA announcement in Italian]
- [buzzer blaring]
[indistinct chatter]
- [lock clicking]
- [cell gate banging]
[TV playing in Italian]
- [reporters shouting on TV]
- [person on TV speaking Italian]
[officer and visitor speaking Italian]
I'm here to see my daughter,
Amanda Marie Knox.
[prison guard speaking Italian]
[TV continues playing faintly]
I ca I can't understand you.
Nome, my my name.
Okay, so what are you saying?
You say Uh, because I brought the
[tapping] That's why
My daughter and I have
different last names.
Me, Mellas. Her, Knox.
Her father and I, well,
we di divorced when
[TV continues playing faintly]
[inmates and visitors
chattering in distance]
What? Is this gonna be a problem? I'm
I'm gonna get to see her, right?
[indistinct chatter continues]
[foreboding music playing]
- Mum.
- Hmm?
It's time.
[somber music playing]
[sighs]
[Stephanie Kercher] Dad.
[somber music continues]
[Arline breathing heavily]
[Coroner Luca Lalli] I'm so sorry.
[John breathing heavily]
I'm sorry, I No, I can't yet.
Not yet. Not yet.
[John sobbing]
[Coroner Lalli] Prego.
[doors thudding]
[somber music continues playing]
[Arline softly gasping]
- [Arline whimpering]
- [Stephanie gasps]
[sobbing]
[sobbing continues]
[dramatic music playing]
[church bell tolling]
[engine purring]
- [keys jingling]
- [engine shuts off]
[reporters shouting]
- [Kenzie Vidal] Dr. Mignini!
- [overlapping shouting]
[reporters clamoring]
- [people chattering]
- [station phones ringing]
[staff applauding]
[Bruno clearing throat]
Mm. Bene. Poi?
[sighs]
[sighs]
[foreboding music playing]
- [PA announcement in Italian]
- [prisoners shouting]
- [Amanda] Excuse me.
- [banging]
Excuse me!
- [banging]
- Plea Excuse me.
Please, please. [speaking Italian]
[crying]
[continues speaking Italian]
- Can you help me, please? Hey!
- [banging]
- Hi! Hi.
- [banging]
Can you help me, please?
Please, I need to
I need to talk to my mom.
N-no No, grazie.
I'm an atheist.
Uh, no religioso. Please.
[Amanda sighing heavily]
[dark solemn music playing]
[prisoners shouting in distance]
[sighs]
[Amanda]
Last year, I went camping in the woods
with my boyfriend, DJ.
We survived off of protein bars.
We made do with so little
and found beauty in the smallest things.
[buzzer blaring]
I must do that here.
[prisoners continue shouting]
[loud clacking, thudding]
[overlapping shouting continues]
[gentle music playing]
[crickets chirping]
[inhales deeply]
[exhales sharply]
[gentle music continues]
[crickets continue chirping]
[cell door clanks loudly]
[TV playing faintly in Italian]
[Amanda] Oh. Grazie.
Eh?
[both chuckle]
Huh?
[Amanda] Uh
Oh.
- Hmm? Hey. [snapping]
- I'm please.
Um
Sorry, sorry.
[sniffs]
I just want my mom.
- [keys jingle]
- [lock clicking]
[prisoners chattering in distance]
[gate lock clicking]
- [door thudding]
- [lock clicks]
[prisoners chattering]
[Edda breathing shakily]
- [buzzer blaring]
- [door whirring open]
[muffled buzzer blares]
- [Edda Mellas] Hey.
- [Amanda] Hi!
- Oh, Mom!
- Come here.
- [Amanda] Hi!
- Oh, honey, I know.
I know, it's scary.
- [Amanda] I know.
- Are you okay?
[Amanda] Hi.
- [sobbing]
- [Edda chuckles, sniffles]
- Hi.
- [banging on glass]
- [Edda] Jesus.
- They're motioning for us to sit.
- What, we have to sit?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We should sit, come on.
- I've been asking for you and asking
- I know.
- for, like, days.
- I know, I know. How are
- Are they treating you okay in here?
- I mean, the female guards are okay.
It was the police who were mean.
That's why I said
all those things about
Patrick, because
because they were
they were with Raffaele,
they were interrogating him,
and and I don't know why,
but he he changed what he said.
Yeah, so they they're
they were questioning him too,
and and he said that you weren't
- with him at at his apartment.
- Yeah, yeah, he said
- we weren't together that night.
- Why
And then, the police came back to me, and
they were like, "We know you're lying.
"You're a liar. We're gonna put you in
prison for 30 years if you don't tell us.
We know you were at the house.
We know you met somebody."
Okay, so so then then what?
You you said you said Patrick?
Yeah, yeah, I just totally spazzed out,
and I I couldn't understand
half of what they were saying.
And they made me, like,
imagine I was seeing him.
- What? They made imagine
- And I feel horrible about it
because he's stuck in jail now,
and it's all my fault,
- and I didn't mean for this to happen.
- Okay, okay, okay. Okay.
[Amanda sighs]
You w you weren't
you weren't there?
No.
And you don't know who killed Meredith?
No, Mom, I have no clue. I have no clue.
- Patrick had nothing to do with it?
- No, he had nothing to do with it.
- And Raffaele?
- No, we were together all night.
Doing drugs. Doing drugs?
Mom, we smoked a joint.
- We smoked marijuana.
- Okay, okay, okay, okay.
- Uh, that's okay.
- And then he lied to the police about it,
and I can't understand why
Raffaele would do that.
- They probably hit him too.
- They They hit you?
- They hit you?!
- It's okay. It's okay. I'm okay.
It's just fu fuck those police.
It's bullshit.
It it sounds like I'm mad. I'm not
mad, I'm just frustrated because
because I know they were
just trying to do their job,
and I was just trying to help,
but it it just [sighs]
Mm, I'm sorry. [exclaiming]
I haven't spoken English to anybody
- in like five days.
- Oh, okay, okay.
Look, we are gonna clear this up.
- Okay.
- Okay? And we're gonna get you out.
- Okay.
- I got you lawyers.
They seem really on it.
They they say there's this
there's a hearing in in a few days.
- To get me outta here?
- Yep. Well, to
[sighs] Where they decide
if your arrest was l-legitimate.
- But it isn't. It isn't.
- Okay, your your lawyers
your lawyers think
because of your statement,
that your arrest will be validated.
- Okay, but but look
- What does what does that mean?
- What does that mean?
- Listen, th They are
The good news is they're optimistic
about house arrest, okay?
So, we will all be under
the same roof together
- while we sort everything out, okay?
- [sighs]
The embassy got us this huge villa.
Amanda, please.
- You sweating?
- [sniffling]
[solemn music playing]
When I get outta here, the police
are gonna owe me a huge apology.
[Edda] Yeah.
[Amanda] [over speakers]
Like, all this evidence
they have against me, it's not true.
- [keyboard clacking]
- And they're gonna
- Like, they're gonna feel really bad.
- [phone ringing]
'Cause it's like, you guys fucked with me
and fucked with my life.
Like, I am
[Valentina Greco speaking Italian
on phone]
[Greco speaking Italian]
[disconnect tone beeping]
[Edda] [on speakers]
Really. And press is gonna be sorry, too.
[Amanda] Wait, what is the press saying?
[Edda] Well, they're hounding the family
at home, questioning your friends.
[Amanda]
They're talking to my friends now?
- [window banging]
- Why?
- What?
- What?
- Already? What?
- No, no, no.
Uh, look, your dad's gonna come over
as soon as he can.
- Okay.
- Okay, Chris is already on his way.
And, uh uh, well, they confiscated
half the things I brought you.
- I got you a warm coat, and puffy
- When will I see you next?
I don't know. Okay? I don't know.
[breathing shakily] M
[Amanda] Okay, it's okay.
- I'm not gonna be in here long, so
- [softly] Yes.
And I'm I'm lucky.
I'm so lucky.
I told Raffaele, if it wasn't for him,
if if I wasn't at his house that
night, I I could be dead right now.
You're alive. You're alive.
- Yeah. [sniffling]
- [window knocking]
[whispering] These guards. Jesus.
They're giving me crap about
having a different last name than you.
- What?
- They weren't even gonna let me see you.
That's cra it's like,
"I got remarried. Get over it."
- [Edda chuckles]
- Jesus. [chuckles]
They were being really rude about me
not speaking any Italian. [chuckles]
Okay. Okay, Mom, th this is
this what you're gonna say, okay?
You're gonna say
No, Amanda, that's that's too long.
Okay. Then just "Amanda Knox
[speaking Italian] è mia figlia."
- [buzzer blaring]
- Amanda Knox
[speaking Italian] è mia figlia.
That's really good.
That's really good, Mom.
Okay. I love you so much.
- I love you, too.
- I'll see you soon, okay?
Okay.
[somber music playing]
- [door closes]
- [lock clicking]
[sniffling and sobbing]
[dramatic music playing]
[music softens]
Isn't that the mayor?
[Judge Claudia Matteini] Buongiorno.
That is your prosecutor.
[Judge Matteini speaking Italian]
I'm sorry, who who are you?
We are your lawyers.
And listen, uh, you're gonna hear a lot
of things about yourself today.
- Okay.
- No matter what, don't say anything.
- Okay? Shh.
- 'Kay.
[recorder button clicking]
I can't
[whispering] It's okay, it's okay.
[whispering] Don't react.
[voices overlapping, echoing]
[translator] The session is adjourned.
Uh, what what just happened?
The judge will deliberate.
- Okay.
- There is not much hard evidence.
And no murder weapon,
so, hold on to hope, okay?
[somber music playing]
[reporter on TV speaking Italian]
[prisoners chattering and whistling]
[dramatic foreboding music playing]
[reporter on TV speaking Italian]
[prisoners continue chattering]
Hmm?
No, no! No.
[weakly] No, no, no.
- [door thudding]
- What does that say? What
- [lock clicking]
- Please. Please.
[dramatic music playing]
[buzzer blaring]
[Carlo Dalla Vedova] Is there something
you want to tell us, Amanda?
[Amanda] No, no, I I swear to God,
I have no idea how
this could've happened.
I mean, unless Raffaele
got up in the middle of the night
and grabbed a kitchen knife
and went to my house,
used it to kill Meredith,
and then came back
and rubbed my fingerprints on it,
and then got back into bed with me,
all without my realizing.
I mean, it it's
it's completely fucking insane.
Are you accusing Raffaele?
N-no! No, I'm just I'm trying
to make sense of it myself, and I can't,
because it does not make any sense.
Listen [clearing throat]
we cannot do our jobs
unless you are honest with us.
I'm innocent.
I'm I'm sorry.
Are you guys even taking this seriously?
This is my life, you understand?
- We underst
- This is my life we're talking about.
We understand. We understand
I I don't think you do.
I don't even know your names.
Maybe we did start on the wrong foot.
We start again, okay?
I'm Carlo. Carlo Dalla Vedova.
I usually work in Rome.
And he's Luciano.
Luciano Ghirga from Perugia.
He may look like a bit of a,
how you say, bumpkin,
but he understands the town,
and he's well-liked.
[Carlo] We do care, Amanda.
We have kids. We understand.
Now, we do have some news.
Judge Matteini validated
the prosecutor's story in a report:
sex orgy, drugs,
and you as the ringleader.
Okay. What What
What about house arrest? [sniffles]
The judge deemed you a flight risk.
- What?
- [Carlo] You are going
- to have to stay in Capanne.
- Wait. What?
- What? For how long?
- While the police investigate.
- Okay. For how long?
- [Carlo] And
- Up to a year.
- A year?
A year in here?! No.
Fuck. [crying]
Oh, fuck.
God. [whimpering]
[journalists chattering]
[journalist 1] Signora Knox! Hey!
[car horn honking]
- [overlapping shouting]
- [cameras clicking]
[journalist 2] Mrs. Knox,
will your daughter plead guilty?
- [shouting continues]
- [cameras continue clicking]
Excuse me.
- Excuse me.
- Mrs. Knox,
- will your daughter plead guilty?
- No comment.
Have you spoken
to Meredith's mother at all?
Your daughter's DNA
is on the murder weapon.
- Care to comment?
- Has there been any attempt
to reach the family of the murdered girl
who was your daughter's friend?
- [overlapping shouting continues]
- [cameras continue clicking]
- [panting]
- [locks clicking]
[somber music playing]
- [protesters chanting in Italian]
- [drums thumping]
[protesters cheering]
[protesters jeering]
[TV shuts off]
[Greco] Mm-hmm.
[Bruno clearing throat]
- [newspaper slaps]
- [chair clunks]
Okay.
[protesters chanting on TV]
[files thud]
[foreboding music playing]
What? Sorry.
[doctor] HIV, before AIDS.
What?
M-me?
Wait. No, no, no.
- Uh, uh, n-no.
- [speaking Italian]
A mistake. That That's not
That can't be true.
- No, no! I
- [lock clicking]
[somber music playing]
[Amanda] I thought of everyone
I'd ever been with since I was 18
through Raffaele at 20.
Now sure I'd be dead before I turned 21.
[sobbing]
[Italian opera music playing on radio]
Uh, I didn't know, uh,
who to go to, but I
She's dead. Meredith's dead, and
I don't know. I can't
I can't feel my legs.
[Amanda crying]
- It's alright.
- No, I'm [crying]
It's alright, okay? It's alright.
I did that. I did that to somebody.
But I did not hurt Meredith.
I did not kill her,
and nobody will believe me.
[crying]
[sniffling]
[sobbing]
I need to go home. I need to go home.
I need to go home.
The prosecutor guy,
I need to talk to him.
I need to talk to him.
[Coroner Lalli speaking Italian]
[Coroner Lalli] Giuliano!
[dramatic music playing]
[Carlo] If you don't remember
the answer to a question,
just say three words:
"I don't know," okay?
[Amanda] The reason they arrested me
in the first place
is because I named Patrick.
And this Mignini guy
has built his whole story
about me and Raffaele on that,
so I'm alert now.
I have a real alibi,
and I know Patrick is innocent.
And I wanna speak in English.
I'm gonna have a translator, right?
Yeah, sure, sure.
I'm not gonna get tripped up
like last time. [chuckles]
Amanda Marie Knox.
made against you?
Not guilty.
[Mignini speaking Italian]
Do you use drugs?
Uh, marijuana.
- [Mignini speaking Italian]
- Nothing else?
No.
[Mignini speaking Italian]
When was it the last time you used it?
- November 1st?
- Yes.
[Amanda] Yes.
- [pen scribbling]
- [Mignini speaking Italian]
- [translator] How much did you take?
- [Amanda] We split a joint.
[translator speaking Italian]
[translator] What were you doing?
Yeah, I I spent the night
at Raffaele's apartment.
We read to each other,
Harry Potter in German.
And then, we watched a movie, Amélie.
Yes, I Um, I was I was mistaken.
[translator and Mignini speaking Italian]
[translator] When were you mistaken?
Then or now?
I was confused before,
but I am I am not now.
- [translator speaking Italian]
- [Carlo] [whispering] Good.
[translator]
then how did your DNA end up
- on a knife with Meredith's?
- I, uh
Because Because I was
very confused and scared.
I had I had been with
the police for hours,
and I thought they were protecting me,
but they were actually threatening me
and and pressuring me
You You were telling me these things.
- Why did Patrick come into it?
- Because of my cell phone,
because I had sent a text
that said, "See you later,"
which, in English,
does not mean an appointment.
It means, it's it's like "Ciao."
Because I sometimes erase messages.
Oh, because I
I didn't remember at that time.
Um, the police were
were screaming his name at me,
and they were suggesting
that that it was him.
Um, because of the messages.
Because because I was really scared.
[Amanda crying]
Just one second.
Um, sorry.
The the police the police
were insisting that I remember.
They were insisting that
Well, please, can I
can I please just explain myself?
Can you just look at me for one second?
Because I thought it could have been him!
[overlapping chatter]
- No, no, no, wait. I'm not I'm not done.
- It's gonna It's gonna be fine.
- It's gonna be fine.
- [crosstalk]
He's not listening to me.
[Amanda] What happened to my cell?
[prisoners chattering]
- [cell door closing]
- [lock clicking]
[solemn, foreboding music playing]
[sobbing]
[tense music playing]
- [mattress bangs]
- Hey!
Hey, where the fuck are my journals?!
Oh, what the fuck?
[breathing heavily]
[tense music continues playing]
[paper rustling]
[interviewee] [on TV]
I think it's disgusting, isn't it?
I think it's truly disgusting.
[friend] [on TV]
Are you excited to see David?
David? Who's David?
- [friend] The statue of David.
- [Amanda] Oh!
Wouldn't be the first time
I've seen a naked David.
[reporter on TV
continues speaking Italian]
[broadcast playing on multiple TVs]
[tense music intensifying]
[reporter] [on TV]
Studying abroad? Think again.
Sex-crazed American
college student Foxy Knoxy
puppeteered an orgy that led to the death
of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy.
[anchor] Foxy Knoxy's
erratic behavior culminated
[reporters overlapping]
[overlapping reporter chatter continues]
[tense music continues]
[dramatic, foreboding music playing]
[solemn music playing]
[music swells]
- [typewriter clacking]
- [bell dings]
[rooster crowing]
[fanfare playing]