The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox (2025) s01e07 Episode Script
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[tense music playing]
We're gonna beat this on appeal.
[Chris Mellas]
Yeah, it's gonna be a totally new trial.
I'm moving here full-time.
Yeah, so you'll always
have someone nearby.
Mignini believes
our sentence was too light.
And this time, he will argue for life.
[heavy metal music playing]
[typewriter keys clacking]
[heavy metal music continues playing]
[suspenseful music playing]
[typewriter keys clacking]
[typewriter knob clacking]
[people chattering]
[reporter] [on TV] Any minute now,
and the world will know the verdict
in Amanda Knox's appeal trial.
If found guilty, the 24-year-old
and her one-time Italian boyfriend
could spend life in prison.
Four years, two trials,
and it all comes down to this.
[sighs]
[sighs]
[keys jingling]
[suspenseful music playing]
[cell door clanking]
- [camera shutters clicking]
- [reporters shouting]
[suspenseful music continues playing]
- [bell jingling]
- [bailiff speaking Italian]
[people murmuring]
- [scattered groans]
- [people chattering]
[muffled sobbing]
[cameras clicking]
[continues sobbing]
[Edda Mellas] Oh, thank God!
[people clamoring]
[people continue chattering]
[cameras clicking]
[melancholic music playing]
[crowd inaudible]
- [reporters shouting]
- Raffa! Raffa!
[overlapping shouting]
Raffa! Raffa!
[melancholic music continues]
Okay?
Sì?
Ciao, Raffa.
[melancholic music continues playing]
Ciao, Amanda.
[overlapping shouting continues]
[engine rumbling]
[Giulia] Amanda, I know
this is very emotional,
but you have to hurry out of here.
Italy is not safe for you right now.
- [inmate] Amanda!
- The press will be after you,
and there is no telling
what other angry people
- will do if they find you.
- Sorry, who are you?
I've been helping your family.
We've made plans
to get you out of the country
as quickly as possible.
- Go get your belongings. Go.
- Okay.
- [inmate] Amanda!
- [inmates cheering]
[buzzer blaring]
- [keys jingling]
- [Amanda laughing]
[inmates continue cheering]
[triumphant music playing]
[inmates chanting]
Didn't I tell you?
Oh!
- [crying] I'm going home.
- So, go.
- Okay. Okay.
- Go!
[inmates continue chanting]
[Amanda Knox] 34,248 hours.
That was how much time
this place had stolen from me.
[cell door banging]
But even though I was exhilarated
to finally be free,
I didn't forget the old ritual,
to pass freedom onto someone else.
[inmates continue chanting in Italian]
Libertà! Libertà! Libertà! Libertà!
- [rousing dramatic music playing]
- Libertà! Libertà! Libertà! Libertà!
Libertà! Libertà! Libertà! Libertà!
Libertà! Libertà! Libertà! Libertà!
Amanda, you need to go.
Don't worry, the driver
will take you to your family.
Okay, just please, please tell
Don Saulo goodbye for me, okay?
- Yes. Go.
- Okay.
[inmates] Libertà! Libertà!
[muffled shouting]
[crowd shouting]
[reporters shouting "Amanda!"]
- [banging]
- [engine revving]
[tense music playing]
[banging continues]
[tires screeching]
[engine revving]
[tires screeching]
[tense music continues]
Where are we going?
[suspenseful music playing]
[tires screeching]
[engine revving]
[suspenseful music continues]
[vehicle approaching]
[car engine rumbling]
- [car door opens]
- What's What's going on?
- What's going on?
- [car door closes]
[muffled conversation in Italian]
[Amanda] Who the fuck is that?
- I What's going on?
- Amanda? I'm Steve Moore.
- I'm ex-FBI.
- Okay.
What's happening?
Tell me what's happening.
[Steve] Where is it?
- Mom! Mom!
- I know. I know.
- [sobbing]
- I know. It's over now.
- It's all over.
- [Amanda crying]
[car door opens and closes]
[Edda] God, it was hell getting to you.
Oh, my God, the courthouse was crazy.
We're at the safe house now.
- [Amanda] Okay. Okay.
- [Edda] Okay?
- [Steve] Listen, you two stay here.
- [Edda] Yeah.
I'm gonna go inside,
make sure everything's clear.
- [Amanda] Okay.
- [car engine starting]
[Steve] God, I hate not having a gun.
- He's ex-FBI.
- Okay.
He's gonna keep you safe
from any vigilante lunatics.
- [Amanda] This is so crazy.
- [Edda] I know, I know.
- [Amanda] This is so crazy.
- [Edda] Yeah, the media vultures
are out of their fucking minds.
One of them tried to, uh, ram us
from behind when we were following you.
- Are you okay? Is everyone okay?
- Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
- Okay.
- Are you? Yeah
[distant crashing]
[tense music playing]
Steve, are you okay in there?
- [Steve] Yeah.
- [Edda] St
Tripped on a frickin' door stopper.
- [Edda sighs]
- You're safe here tonight, ladies.
Tomorrow, you'll be home.
[soft music playing]
[soft music continues playing]
[reporter] We're standing outside
of 9821 Crane Street,
waiting for Amanda
and her family to arrive
- They're coming here.
- Yeah.
at this moment,
but it's still unclear.
This is probably her right now.
- [helicopter blades whirring]
- [reporters shouting]
- [tires screeching]
- [reporter] Amanda!
[reporters continue shouting]
[reporter] Amanda, what's it like
for you to be home?
- [overlapping shouting continues]
- [Steve] Get out of the way! Get back!
[cameras clicking]
[Steve] Stay close.
- [overlapping shouting continues]
- Come on, let's go.
[Edda] We need someone
to close the blinds.
Shit.
[Edda exhaling sharply]
What the hell?
[Amanda] After 15 hours on a plane
and two sleepless nights,
I made it to Seattle.
Amanda, get away from the door. Come on.
[Amanda] And all I wanted
was the quiet of home.
- [loud popping]
- [group] Surprise!
[cameras clicking]
Oh, my God, Amanda!
[overlapping chatter]
- [squealing]
- Hi!
All your friends and family,
just like you wanted.
[muffled overlapping chatter]
- Oh, you're back!
- Everybody, say cheese!
[all] Cheese!
[camera click thuds]
[birds chirping]
[distant lawn mower buzzing]
[distant dog barking]
[vehicles driving by]
[poignant music playing]
[Amanda] After being allowed
only three books at a time in my cell
a whole bookshelf felt absurd.
[wood creaking]
[machine beeping]
Oh!
- [beeping intensifies]
- [grunting]
[Amanda] Everything felt a bit strange
those early days of freedom,
like the ability to pass
from one room to another
without a guard present.
[poignant music continues playing]
[music stops abruptly]
[music resumes]
And all the choices.
Nothing was as I expected it to be,
including myself.
You do know her, Oma.
She wore the meat dress at the VMAs.
[Oma] So wasteful!
Could have fed us for a week.
[Chris] Yeah, but Oma,
that's the whole point of the thing.
- You're doing it again.
- Doing what?
[Edda scoffs]
- [TV playing indistinctly]
- [Chris chuckles]
[chuckles]
Hey, I'm worried.
Huh?
I keep catching Amanda doing things
like she's still in prison.
- Like what?
- Like
Like washing her underwear
in the sink, for one.
- Huh.
- A supporter from the Facebook group
said she could be suffering from PTSD.
I mean, don't don't you think
we should get her some therapy or?
Oh, why?
So we can spend a bunch more money
for her to relive all that bad shit?
- No. Shouldn't we
- She just needs more normal times.
We all do.
[TV continues playing indistinctly]
I'll get Madison to come over.
Maybe having an old friend around
will remind her who she was.
Yeah. There ya go.
Yeah.
I'm tired, do you wanna come to bed?
I think I'll watch a little longer.
Still jet-lagged.
Okay, well, don't fall asleep down here.
I won't.
[TV continues playing]
[sighs]
[people chattering]
- [reporter 1] Here we go.
- [reporter 2] Uh, here we go.
Hey, how's the, uh, homecoming been?
It's fantastic.
[reporter]
How does it feel to have her home?
So, when are we gonna hear
Amanda's side of things?
Well, right now,
we're focused on her well-being.
Well, you must be having money problems.
All those legal fees.
The longer you wait,
the less her story's gonna be worth.
She's not gonna be such a hot property
in interview terms.
We do not think of our daughter
as a "hot property."
[solemn music playing]
[Amanda] So, MySpace is just gone?
- It's gone?
- Yes, it's gone.
- [typing]
- Gotta let it go.
Okay, current city.
- [in deep voice] Seattle, baby.
- What do I even use
for my profile picture?
Everything recent is paparazzi.
[Madison] Eh, I'll take a new one of you.
Uh, okay. And education?
Uh, half a study-abroad program,
and then I went to prison.
- [laughing]
- Stop! [laughing]
- Okay, School of Hard Knox.
- [laughing] Ew.
- [goofy laughter]
- It felt right. Don't put that.
- Whoa!
- Okay. What?
- Liz got into grad school? No fair.
- Oh.
Why? You wanna study
post-colonial architecture?
I I mean, I wanna do something.
I missed the last four years of my life.
[melancholy music playing]
Edda, I was able to save your mail
from the throng out there.
Oh, goodie. Bills and more bills.
Steve's turning us into Big Brother.
Oh yeah?
Full perimeter surveillance.
New alarm, flood lights, motion sensors.
- Wow.
- The whole shebang.
Oh, this is great.
[Steve] Should keep the crazies away.
- [Curt Knox] Yeah.
- [Chris] Cabron!
- Hey, bud.
- [chuckles] You staying for dinner?
- Yeah, if you're grilling, I am.
- Absolutely.
Hey, Edda?
They're actually digging
through your trash out there.
Well, they are like roaches.
You kill one, you get two more.
Oprah called the other day.
Well, she didn't wanna do it.
[Deanna Knox] Well, how do you know
she's not calling about me?
I mean, everyone's just dying to know
how the poor sister's been affected.
Edda, if she can sit down
with somebody respectable like Oprah,
then that may make
all this nonsense go away.
- Diane Sawyer's pretty hot.
- [sighs] Can she just
Can she just breathe?
She's been home a couple of weeks.
Her acquittal
hasn't even been validated yet.
[Amanda] Validated?
What are you talking about?
[Curt sighing]
Oh, just, uh
the the Supreme Court of Italy
needs to basically say
that you're that they agree
with the acquittal, that's all.
Or what?
[Curt] You don't You don't need
to worry about this, Amanda.
Carlo has already said
that he feels confident
that this is gonna swing our way.
Okay, and if it doesn't?
The case could get kicked down
to the lower courts
and our nightmare
would start all over again.
What do you mean? Like another trial?
- No. No. No.
- Amanda, your lawyers do not think
- that's gonna happen.
- But it's possible?
- No. No
- Well, they're pretty sure
- that it's not gonna go that way.
- Real convincing, guys.
Hey, hey, why don't you
tell them what your idea is?
- You were telling me?
- Oh, about the plans
for a future I might not have anymore?
- [Madison] You we're excited about it.
- [Edda] Come on, honey.
- Come on, honey. Tell us.
- Be positive.
[Edda] Come on, honey, tell us.
Okay, I Well, if I'm not back
in court or in prison again,
I would like to go to school.
[Madison] Yeah. And
And I thought I'd move in with Madison.
[Madison] Yep.
Yeah, I I have a really cool place
in the International District.
- [Amanda] Yeah, and
- Oh.
- And
- And, um, her
[Amanda speaking Italian]
What is the word for the person
you live with?
- Roommate?
- [Amanda] Y-Yes, roommate, yeah.
- Her she's moving out, so
- It's it's just, uh,
it's a little soon, don't you think?
Yeah, I mean,
I I just got you back, honey.
I I'm not ready
to let you go just yet.
It's 15 minutes away, Mom.
- It's not Italy.
- Well, I
Chris, can you please tell them
they're being ridiculous?
Those reporters won't let you
walk two feet
without crawling up your ass
and telling the world
- what you had for dinner.
- [Curt] Amanda, sweetheart,
just give it a little bit of time, okay?
The press will get bored,
they'll move on,
and then you can just get back
to living your life.
- Steve, am I right?
- Absolutely.
Thanks, Steve.
[Amanda sighing]
[magazine drops]
[dramatic music playing]
[reporters chattering faintly]
[reporters continue chattering]
[suspenseful music playing]
[people chattering and laughing]
- [gasps] [squealing] Dude!
- [Amanda giggling]
Did the vultures see you?
Okay, I heard myself that time.
- Okay.
- I did.
Whoa. What are you supposed to be?
God, wow.
You're really so behind, you're cute.
- [chuckles]
- Just go.
Um, we have to get your costume now.
I know.
Do you have, like, eyeliner or something?
I think so. Hi!
[dark ominous music playing]
[muffled screaming]
[inaudible]
[dark ominous music continues]
[Edda sighs]
[foreboding music playing]
Chris? Anyone! Come here!
- What is it?
- Wait, where's your sister?
I don't know.
[phone ringing]
[muffled dance music playing]
["Turn Me On" by David Guetta playing]
[people chattering]
Come on and turn me on ♪
I'm too young to die,
come on and turn me on ♪
Turn me on, turn me on ♪
[Madison] Hey.
- I've been looking for you.
- [door closes]
Hello. [chuckles]
[Amanda chuckles softly]
So, here we are.
- Here we are.
- No.
I don't know what happened. [chuckles]
Everyone was just looking at me,
and I felt all, like,
sweaty and weird, and
- No, no, no, no. No.
- Um, yeah.
[sighing] Hey.
You were in prison.
[chuckles softly]
[muttering] It's crazy. Yeah.
You are allowed to be weird
for, like, a year.
Seriously.
[muffled dance music
continues playing]
Th These were all the people
that knew me before,
and I thought they would,
like, see me as the same girl.
And I I don't I can't tell
what they think of me,
and it just
Everything just feels off.
Everything is just, like, off.
Like, I can't even handle
having a conversation with Sarah,
who I've known since the second grade,
but my dad just got a call
that Oprah wants to talk to me?
- And I
- [whispering] Dude.
[whispering] I know.
[laughing] It's crazy.
What if Oprah did the interview,
- like, right here?
- [chuckles]
Like Like when she went
to the set of Friends?
That's a really good idea, actually.
[both laughing]
- Probably pays, too.
- Yeah.
I think my parents
are having money problems.
[Madison] I know.
You know? What What do you know?
[sighs]
Yeah, I Jennie said that her dad
said that your dad
- had to remortgage his house.
- What?
To pay for the lawyers,
or something like that.
His whole house?
Yeah.
And your grandma's.
Don't quote me.
[Madison sighs]
- [chuckles]
- My God, I've had that on the whole time?
Yes, it looks adorable.
- [both laughing]
- No, it does
- Can you get me a tissue, please?
- [laughing] Yes, I will.
But I think it looks good,
for the record.
No wonder was everyone looking at me.
[laughing]
- [alarm blaring]
- Fuck.
[keypad beeping]
[Deanna] Mom, she's in here.
What's the code?
- You have to answer your phone, okay?
- I was with Madison, oh my God.
- Yeah, Steve, we got her. She's here.
- You have to answer your phone!
Jesus! I am 24 years old.
- Can I not leave the house without
- [alarm stopping]
- [Curt] Thank you.
- Mommy and Daddy calling
the freakin' FBI? [sighs]
Jesus.
[Deanna] Seriously, guys?
Oh, my God, Mom, just show her.
Show me what?
What?
- What
- We've been getting one
or two of those a week.
This one's worse.
[Chris] A lot of freaks out there.
[Curt] [sighs]
Steve is gonna file an FBI report,
but he said that without
a "concrete plan of harm,"
that there's not much else he can do.
[Edda] Oh, so he's hamstrung until
she's in the back of this guy's van?
Can you stop talking about me
like I'm not standing right here?
We're just trying to
protect you, dumbass.
I'm not a dumbass, Chris.
Okay. I'm just trying to remind you,
you used to be fun.
I know.
[sobbing] I know that.
[sniffling]
I didn't have you guys there.
[sniffles]
I didn't have you guys
for the last four years
to protect me.
I had to figure shit out by myself.
I had to protect myself
and keep myself safe, and
[sniffling] be aware of the violence,
and and the guards to stay away from,
and the inmates I could trust,
all of it!
Constantly on my mind!
[sniffling] And I'm not
I'm just not a kid anymore.
I fucking wish I was. [sobbing]
I can handle things.
[sighs, sniffles]
[sniffling] Dad, how much
How much do you owe?
[sniffles]
What? Owe? What do you?
You You remortgaged your house,
and I want to pay you back.
Just Just tell me the number.
Sweetheart, I I don't, um,
I don't I don't know
what that number is.
[sniffling] You do.
[chuckles and sniffles]
You're just not gonna tell me.
[melancholic music playing]
- [door closes]
- "You used to be fun"?
What the fuck, Chris?
[bottles rattling]
[dramatic music playing]
[rustling]
[knocking] Amanda, are you okay?
- Did you see it?
- [Edda] Can I come in?
Yeah, fuck them. They don't know you.
Did you read the comments?
Everyone hates me.
Even the people who think I'm innocent,
think I deserve to suffer
because I'm off.
[Amanda]
There were reporters on my lawn
a Supreme Court in Italy,
thousands of internet trolls,
and a psycho with a red letter
all trying to tell me who I was.
Please, honey, can I come in?
How much do you owe the lawyers, Mom?
[computer keys clacking]
[dramatic music playing]
[Amanda] It was time I spoke for myself.
[light, dramatic music playing]
[Amanda] While across the world,
my lawyers fought for my freedom
in the Italian Supreme Court,
I tried to press play
on a new Amanda Knox.
My memoir was about to come out.
I was coming out of hiding
to promote it.
And I hoped
it would change things for me.
I hoped, I hoped.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
It's It's you.
Did you do it?
[somber music playing]
[phone ringing]
[Amanda] Ciao, Carlo. What is it?
[car horns honking]
[Carlo Dalla Vedova] Amanda, hi.
I'm with Luciano.
We just got back from the
Supreme Court hearing.
Okay?
Um, unfortunately,
it didn't go as expected.
They They overturned your acquittal.
What?
Oh, my God.
[tense dramatic music playing]
[sighs] Okay, okay.
What do we What do we do now?
What do we do?
Uh, well, they are sending the case
to Florence for a new trial.
Another one?
Yeah. Well, uh, look,
at least this time, you stay home.
We will mount your defense in absentia.
No, no, no.
No. No, no, no. No.
I have a book coming out.
I have I have to do interviews, Carlo.
I I signed a contract, okay?
The the people
who are expecting me for press,
they're gonna skewer me
if I suddenly back out.
[somber music playing]
[people chattering]
[softly] Thanks.
[crew continues chattering]
[crew member] Camera's good, guys.
A lot of makeup on you.
- [Amanda chuckles softly]
- They do it to me, too.
[chuckles]
Hey, listen.
I want you to be on your toes.
I'm going to ask some tough questions,
but only so you can
confront them head-on.
- Okay.
- Put all these doubts about you to rest,
especially with this new trial underway.
This'll be good for you.
- Promise.
- [crew member] Standby, guys.
[sighs deeply] Okay.
[crew member]
Ready to roll tape and record.
Hey.
Focus on me.
[bell ringing]
[crew member 1]
Straightaway, guys, hold the talking.
- We're rolling!
- [crew member 2] Rolling!
Five, four
[Chris Cuomo] Amanda Knox, welcome.
You laid out your story in your new book,
Waiting to Be Heard.
There are reactions, there are doubts.
How do you explain it?
Uh, it's hard.
It's It's hard to prove
that you're innocent,
that you didn't do something.
The prosecution did not give
a satisfactory answer,
and I've been held responsible.
[Chris Cuomo] Why not some man?
Why is the prosecution targeting you?
I definitely acted
a little differently than others.
Uh, I'm the type of person,
when there's pressure on me
to react, I freeze.
I I would much rather
suppress my emotions
than seem insincere.
Prosecutors believe this happened
because you were a sexual deviant.
This is their theory.
That you went in there for some kind
of freaky sexual activity
that went wrong,
and your roommate wound up dying.
- Fair?
- That's what they say.
That's what it is. Forget the headlines.
That's the truth of the proposition,
isn't it?
Is there truth to that proposition?
Were you into deviant sex?
Insensitive question, but hey,
we've gotta get to what it is.
- This fuels the doubt.
- No.
[tense music playing]
[Chris Cuomo] Did Meredith
suspect you were into that stuff?
- [softly] No.
- And you resented her
because she was judging you?
None of that?
No, absolutely not.
And [scoffs]
there's absolutely no evidence. None.
- [Chris Cuomo] But it's their theory.
- [Amanda] It's a theory.
"Knox is into some
freaky sexual things."
Where are they getting it from?
I talk about all my sexual experiences
in my book.
I haven't needed to talk about the
details because they're not deviant.
I was not strapping on leather
and bearing a whip.
I've never done that.
No group activities?
- [Edda] Oh, my God, what?
- I've never taken part in an orgy, ever.
Your roommates
wouldn't have told prosecutors this?
Or maybe you're not telling the truth
and they got this idea
from somewhere else.
[Amanda] They literally got it
from the prosecution.
These are fantasies.
- Where did they get it?
- They didn't get it from me,
and they didn't get it
from the witnesses.
I I just don't understand it,
except for the fact
that I'm a young woman
There's a lot of young women.
Why do people
have this impression of you?
I was no different than any of the other
women in my house, I I wasn't.
So then, that means in your mind,
you spent four years of your life in jail
because of a perverted prosecutor?
- That's gotta make you angry.
- I am angry.
And this retrial, you're shocked?
Yes.
- [Chris Cuomo] Why?
- Because there's no evidence.
Nothing links me to this murder.
I am not present at the crime scene.
I'm just not. So
people can talk about my behavior
and sex life all they want,
but it's irrelevant.
Do you think you come off
too "I can't prove it,"
and not enough "I didn't do it"?
Do you understand how that sounds cagey?
I mean, I professed
from the very beginning
I didn't do it, and no one believed me.
It's like I'm having to prove my
innocence instead of just saying it.
You must be scared that the
United States will send you back.
[breathes deeply]
I mean, I had a panic attack
two days ago. [chuckles]
[Chris Cuomo] You getting help for that?
Um
I keep thinking
that I'm dealing with it.
I keep thinking that I'm going on
with my life.
And then, there there are
these moments where I just can't.
[Edda] Oh, good.
You're just where I left you.
- [keys dropping]
- At least that's something I can rely on.
[TV playing indistinctly]
- Didn't go well?
- No. It didn't go well.
He fucking lied to her.
He said it would be good for her,
and then he put her in the chair
and he verbally molested her
in front of millions of people
while I sat there and watched.
- I failed her.
- No, you didn't.
- I I did.
- No.
Please don't say I didn't,
because I did.
I failed her then,
and I'm failing her now.
Letting man after man after man
say to her and to me,
"Do it this way, it's for your own good.
It'll work out. Just trust me."
I'm tired of it.
I'm I'm tired.
Are you including me in this?
In all those men who steered you wrong?
Because the last time I checked,
I moved my life for her.
Well, you didn't hate being there.
[sighs heavily]
[somber music playing]
I'm going to, uh,
go finish up some work.
Chris.
- [under breath] Fuck.
- [door closes]
[Amanda] So, yeah, it happened.
On January 30th 2014,
a judge in the Florence Supreme Court
found me and Raffaele guilty,
confirming the verdict
from five years prior,
falsely naming us murderers once again,
as if all of our fighting
and eventually winning never happened.
So, what now?
Well [sniffing] the case goes back
- to the Supreme Court
- [sighs]
where they will either
validate it or they won't.
They won't try and extradite her
unless they confirm it.
We've We've been here before,
and we will fight it.
[Chris] Some supporters
reached out to help.
Uh, there's a bunker in Canada.
[Edda] Flee the country?
That's a felony.
[Amanda]
For a second, I did consider running,
changing my name,
living somewhere quietly and alone,
thousands of miles from the people
I loved and who loved me,
and nothing to do but eat, read,
- live small and lay low.
- [cell doors slamming]
[prison buzzer blaring]
[people chattering, echoing]
[echoing overlapping chatter]
[Amanda's voice, echoing] No! No! No!
[Edda] [voice muffled]
Amanda, are you okay?
Amanda?
- Are you okay, honey?
- [bell tolling]
[Amanda] Maybe there was no free for me.
[solemn music playing]
[Edda] [on phone] Hey, it's Mom.
How's the new place?
[calendar dates ticking]
Amanda, honey, why aren't you
picking up your phone?
Honey, I'm getting worried.
Why aren't you picking up your phone?
- [suspenseful music playing]
- [dates ticking rapidly]
[clock ticking normally]
[knocking at door]
[knocking continues]
[Edda] Amanda, can I come in?
- [knocking]
- Amanda!
[door creaking]
Oh.
[under breath] God.
- Okay.
- What are you doing?
- Come on, get up.
- Mom.
- Girls' trip.
- God, no, I don't wanna go anywhere.
Tough shit. You've been holed up here
for weeks living like a ghost. Here.
Come on, get up.
Car's parked in the red.
[Amanda sighs]
[people chattering]
Mom, what is this?
It's It's a conference
for people like you,
- for exonerees.
- No, Mom.
No, I think I think
it's gonna really help
- Mom!
- to talk to someone.
I'm not an exoneree.
I just got reconvicted, okay?
- I do not belong here.
- Yes, you do belong here.
- You're innocent.
- Well, I am tired of explaining that
over and over again, okay?
Okay, just, will you give it 20 minutes?
Please.
[whispering] Come on.
[people chattering]
[melancholic music playing]
You don't have to explain
a thing, little sister.
We know.
[melancholic music continues playing]
Hello. Welcome to the Innocence Network.
My name is Antoine Day,
and like many of you,
I was wrongfully convicted
of a crime that I did not commit.
I spent ten years of my life
in prison for a murder that happened
[Amanda] In this one room,
there were at least 100 people
who, like me, had lost years to prison
for crimes they didn't commit.
They already knew my story
because they'd lived it
for a lot longer than I had
and with a lot less attention.
Altogether, these people had spent
a staggering 1,749 years in prison.
What had happened to them mattered.
The truth mattered.
My freedom mattered.
And I was going to make the most of it
as long I had it.
Nice to meet you. [chuckles]
[melancholic music continues]
[mouthing] Thank you.
[soft music playing]
["Maybe Not" by Cat Power
playing over earbuds]
A dream that I see,
don't kill it, it's free ♪
You're just a man,
you get what you can ♪
We all do what we can ♪
So, we can do just one more thing ♪
[eerie music playing]
[Amanda] Then, reality struck again
[reporters chattering]
threatening to rip everything away.
[sirens wailing]
- [sirens continue wailing]
- [people shouting]
[newscaster] [on TV]
We now go live to one of our reporters
as the police there prepare
for a possible arrest.
- Julie?
- Anything?
- [Edda] No.
- [Julie] [on TV] Yes, Bill, I'm here
on the scene, where it is clear
from what we are seeing
- that they intend to place him
- Oh, my God,
they're they're waiting outside
to arrest Raffaele.
There's no There's no cops.
It's just the vultures.
[Julie] [on TV] Back to you.
[newscaster] Italy's Supreme Court
is set to rule today
on whether to uphold
the latest guilty verdict
against Amanda Knox
and Raffaele Sollecito.
If the verdict is confirmed,
Knox could face extradition.
An acquittal by the Court of Cassation
would send Knox and Sollecito's case
back to a lower court.
Meredith Kercher's family
has made their wishes clear.
They are convinced of Amanda's guilt,
and would like to see her imprisoned
back where this began, in Italy.
[overlapping shouting]
We've just gotten word
that the verdict is coming in.
[reporter] Cameras are not allowed
inside the courtroom.
That means we won't see
the decision handed down
- Fuck this.
- in real time, but
Where are you going?
[Amanda]
Getting Italian news, it'll be faster.
What the hell is she doing?
[reporter] This is a case
that has seen reversals, appeal.
[reporter speaking Italian]
[somber music playing]
[reporter] Raffaele Sollecito
e Amanda Knox
[reporter continues speaking Italian]
- [Edda] What What's happening?
- Assolti.
[Chris]
"Assolti," that means, uh, acquitted.
- Acquitted?
- Assolti.
- [Edda] You're sure?
- So, I'm free.
- Amanda, you're sure?
- I'm free. I think it's over.
- Are you dead serious?!
- [all cheering]
[all cheering]
- Oh, my God!
- [relieved laughter]
[sobbing] It's over.
[speaking Italian]
- God!
- [cheering continues]
[Amanda]
I need to I need to call Raffaele.
- Raffaele!
- [Raffaele] [on phone] Amanda.
- [Amanda] It's crazy.
- [laughing] Can Can you believe it?
[Amanda] I know, we're free, Raffaele!
- [overlapping chatter]
- We're free! See!
Congratulations!
[Knox/Mellas family clapping]
[all] Congratulations!
[cheering over phone]
- [phone ringing]
- Ciao. Ciao.
[Edda] Oh, shh! Hello?
Hey, it's Carlo. It's Carlo.
- It's Carlo?
- Yeah.
Carlo? Carlo, is this real?
Is this happening?
- Is it really over?
- Amanda, this is unprecedented.
- Is it?
- I'm shaking.
They are not even kicking it back
to a lower court to re-adjudicate.
- You are done. You are done.
- Congratulations, Amanda.
[sobbing] Oh, my God!
[Carlo] The court cited a complete lack
of biological evidence
and quote, "stunning flaws
in Mignini's investigation."
It's the best possible outcome.
[sobbing] Oh, my God, thank you.
The only issue is that
they left open the possibility
that you were inside the house.
As a witness.
[dramatic music playing]
What?
They They still say I was there?
[Carlo] It doesn't matter.
You are never going to have
to face another trial ever again.
- [Carlo] Are you happy?
- [Luciano Ghirga] Eh?
[dramatic music continues]
[muffled indistinct chatter]
[Amanda] But it did matter,
much as I didn't want it to.
Them maintaining the lie
that I was there that night
marked me the liar,
somehow still complicit.
It denied that I'd been wronged,
that I'd been hurt,
and people wanted me to hurt.
[phone dings]
[computer chiming]
[notifications chiming and whooshing]
[computer keys clacking]
[chiming and whooshing continues]
[Amanda] My prison would always be
the false stories spun about me,
all born out of the first fiction
created in those early days
of November 2007.
I was never going to be free
until I was free of that story.
[chiming continues]
The story of me, the monster.
Until I understood
why it was written in the first place.
[chiming and whooshing stop abruptly]
[dramatic music playing]
There was only one thing
I could think to do.
[dramatic music continues playing]
I had to go to the author.
[suspenseful music playing]
[solemn music playing]
[music swells]
[music fades out]
- [typewriter clacking]
- [bell dings]
[rooster crowing]
[fanfare playing]
[tense music playing]
We're gonna beat this on appeal.
[Chris Mellas]
Yeah, it's gonna be a totally new trial.
I'm moving here full-time.
Yeah, so you'll always
have someone nearby.
Mignini believes
our sentence was too light.
And this time, he will argue for life.
[heavy metal music playing]
[typewriter keys clacking]
[heavy metal music continues playing]
[suspenseful music playing]
[typewriter keys clacking]
[typewriter knob clacking]
[people chattering]
[reporter] [on TV] Any minute now,
and the world will know the verdict
in Amanda Knox's appeal trial.
If found guilty, the 24-year-old
and her one-time Italian boyfriend
could spend life in prison.
Four years, two trials,
and it all comes down to this.
[sighs]
[sighs]
[keys jingling]
[suspenseful music playing]
[cell door clanking]
- [camera shutters clicking]
- [reporters shouting]
[suspenseful music continues playing]
- [bell jingling]
- [bailiff speaking Italian]
[people murmuring]
- [scattered groans]
- [people chattering]
[muffled sobbing]
[cameras clicking]
[continues sobbing]
[Edda Mellas] Oh, thank God!
[people clamoring]
[people continue chattering]
[cameras clicking]
[melancholic music playing]
[crowd inaudible]
- [reporters shouting]
- Raffa! Raffa!
[overlapping shouting]
Raffa! Raffa!
[melancholic music continues]
Okay?
Sì?
Ciao, Raffa.
[melancholic music continues playing]
Ciao, Amanda.
[overlapping shouting continues]
[engine rumbling]
[Giulia] Amanda, I know
this is very emotional,
but you have to hurry out of here.
Italy is not safe for you right now.
- [inmate] Amanda!
- The press will be after you,
and there is no telling
what other angry people
- will do if they find you.
- Sorry, who are you?
I've been helping your family.
We've made plans
to get you out of the country
as quickly as possible.
- Go get your belongings. Go.
- Okay.
- [inmate] Amanda!
- [inmates cheering]
[buzzer blaring]
- [keys jingling]
- [Amanda laughing]
[inmates continue cheering]
[triumphant music playing]
[inmates chanting]
Didn't I tell you?
Oh!
- [crying] I'm going home.
- So, go.
- Okay. Okay.
- Go!
[inmates continue chanting]
[Amanda Knox] 34,248 hours.
That was how much time
this place had stolen from me.
[cell door banging]
But even though I was exhilarated
to finally be free,
I didn't forget the old ritual,
to pass freedom onto someone else.
[inmates continue chanting in Italian]
Libertà! Libertà! Libertà! Libertà!
- [rousing dramatic music playing]
- Libertà! Libertà! Libertà! Libertà!
Libertà! Libertà! Libertà! Libertà!
Libertà! Libertà! Libertà! Libertà!
Amanda, you need to go.
Don't worry, the driver
will take you to your family.
Okay, just please, please tell
Don Saulo goodbye for me, okay?
- Yes. Go.
- Okay.
[inmates] Libertà! Libertà!
[muffled shouting]
[crowd shouting]
[reporters shouting "Amanda!"]
- [banging]
- [engine revving]
[tense music playing]
[banging continues]
[tires screeching]
[engine revving]
[tires screeching]
[tense music continues]
Where are we going?
[suspenseful music playing]
[tires screeching]
[engine revving]
[suspenseful music continues]
[vehicle approaching]
[car engine rumbling]
- [car door opens]
- What's What's going on?
- What's going on?
- [car door closes]
[muffled conversation in Italian]
[Amanda] Who the fuck is that?
- I What's going on?
- Amanda? I'm Steve Moore.
- I'm ex-FBI.
- Okay.
What's happening?
Tell me what's happening.
[Steve] Where is it?
- Mom! Mom!
- I know. I know.
- [sobbing]
- I know. It's over now.
- It's all over.
- [Amanda crying]
[car door opens and closes]
[Edda] God, it was hell getting to you.
Oh, my God, the courthouse was crazy.
We're at the safe house now.
- [Amanda] Okay. Okay.
- [Edda] Okay?
- [Steve] Listen, you two stay here.
- [Edda] Yeah.
I'm gonna go inside,
make sure everything's clear.
- [Amanda] Okay.
- [car engine starting]
[Steve] God, I hate not having a gun.
- He's ex-FBI.
- Okay.
He's gonna keep you safe
from any vigilante lunatics.
- [Amanda] This is so crazy.
- [Edda] I know, I know.
- [Amanda] This is so crazy.
- [Edda] Yeah, the media vultures
are out of their fucking minds.
One of them tried to, uh, ram us
from behind when we were following you.
- Are you okay? Is everyone okay?
- Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
- Okay.
- Are you? Yeah
[distant crashing]
[tense music playing]
Steve, are you okay in there?
- [Steve] Yeah.
- [Edda] St
Tripped on a frickin' door stopper.
- [Edda sighs]
- You're safe here tonight, ladies.
Tomorrow, you'll be home.
[soft music playing]
[soft music continues playing]
[reporter] We're standing outside
of 9821 Crane Street,
waiting for Amanda
and her family to arrive
- They're coming here.
- Yeah.
at this moment,
but it's still unclear.
This is probably her right now.
- [helicopter blades whirring]
- [reporters shouting]
- [tires screeching]
- [reporter] Amanda!
[reporters continue shouting]
[reporter] Amanda, what's it like
for you to be home?
- [overlapping shouting continues]
- [Steve] Get out of the way! Get back!
[cameras clicking]
[Steve] Stay close.
- [overlapping shouting continues]
- Come on, let's go.
[Edda] We need someone
to close the blinds.
Shit.
[Edda exhaling sharply]
What the hell?
[Amanda] After 15 hours on a plane
and two sleepless nights,
I made it to Seattle.
Amanda, get away from the door. Come on.
[Amanda] And all I wanted
was the quiet of home.
- [loud popping]
- [group] Surprise!
[cameras clicking]
Oh, my God, Amanda!
[overlapping chatter]
- [squealing]
- Hi!
All your friends and family,
just like you wanted.
[muffled overlapping chatter]
- Oh, you're back!
- Everybody, say cheese!
[all] Cheese!
[camera click thuds]
[birds chirping]
[distant lawn mower buzzing]
[distant dog barking]
[vehicles driving by]
[poignant music playing]
[Amanda] After being allowed
only three books at a time in my cell
a whole bookshelf felt absurd.
[wood creaking]
[machine beeping]
Oh!
- [beeping intensifies]
- [grunting]
[Amanda] Everything felt a bit strange
those early days of freedom,
like the ability to pass
from one room to another
without a guard present.
[poignant music continues playing]
[music stops abruptly]
[music resumes]
And all the choices.
Nothing was as I expected it to be,
including myself.
You do know her, Oma.
She wore the meat dress at the VMAs.
[Oma] So wasteful!
Could have fed us for a week.
[Chris] Yeah, but Oma,
that's the whole point of the thing.
- You're doing it again.
- Doing what?
[Edda scoffs]
- [TV playing indistinctly]
- [Chris chuckles]
[chuckles]
Hey, I'm worried.
Huh?
I keep catching Amanda doing things
like she's still in prison.
- Like what?
- Like
Like washing her underwear
in the sink, for one.
- Huh.
- A supporter from the Facebook group
said she could be suffering from PTSD.
I mean, don't don't you think
we should get her some therapy or?
Oh, why?
So we can spend a bunch more money
for her to relive all that bad shit?
- No. Shouldn't we
- She just needs more normal times.
We all do.
[TV continues playing indistinctly]
I'll get Madison to come over.
Maybe having an old friend around
will remind her who she was.
Yeah. There ya go.
Yeah.
I'm tired, do you wanna come to bed?
I think I'll watch a little longer.
Still jet-lagged.
Okay, well, don't fall asleep down here.
I won't.
[TV continues playing]
[sighs]
[people chattering]
- [reporter 1] Here we go.
- [reporter 2] Uh, here we go.
Hey, how's the, uh, homecoming been?
It's fantastic.
[reporter]
How does it feel to have her home?
So, when are we gonna hear
Amanda's side of things?
Well, right now,
we're focused on her well-being.
Well, you must be having money problems.
All those legal fees.
The longer you wait,
the less her story's gonna be worth.
She's not gonna be such a hot property
in interview terms.
We do not think of our daughter
as a "hot property."
[solemn music playing]
[Amanda] So, MySpace is just gone?
- It's gone?
- Yes, it's gone.
- [typing]
- Gotta let it go.
Okay, current city.
- [in deep voice] Seattle, baby.
- What do I even use
for my profile picture?
Everything recent is paparazzi.
[Madison] Eh, I'll take a new one of you.
Uh, okay. And education?
Uh, half a study-abroad program,
and then I went to prison.
- [laughing]
- Stop! [laughing]
- Okay, School of Hard Knox.
- [laughing] Ew.
- [goofy laughter]
- It felt right. Don't put that.
- Whoa!
- Okay. What?
- Liz got into grad school? No fair.
- Oh.
Why? You wanna study
post-colonial architecture?
I I mean, I wanna do something.
I missed the last four years of my life.
[melancholy music playing]
Edda, I was able to save your mail
from the throng out there.
Oh, goodie. Bills and more bills.
Steve's turning us into Big Brother.
Oh yeah?
Full perimeter surveillance.
New alarm, flood lights, motion sensors.
- Wow.
- The whole shebang.
Oh, this is great.
[Steve] Should keep the crazies away.
- [Curt Knox] Yeah.
- [Chris] Cabron!
- Hey, bud.
- [chuckles] You staying for dinner?
- Yeah, if you're grilling, I am.
- Absolutely.
Hey, Edda?
They're actually digging
through your trash out there.
Well, they are like roaches.
You kill one, you get two more.
Oprah called the other day.
Well, she didn't wanna do it.
[Deanna Knox] Well, how do you know
she's not calling about me?
I mean, everyone's just dying to know
how the poor sister's been affected.
Edda, if she can sit down
with somebody respectable like Oprah,
then that may make
all this nonsense go away.
- Diane Sawyer's pretty hot.
- [sighs] Can she just
Can she just breathe?
She's been home a couple of weeks.
Her acquittal
hasn't even been validated yet.
[Amanda] Validated?
What are you talking about?
[Curt sighing]
Oh, just, uh
the the Supreme Court of Italy
needs to basically say
that you're that they agree
with the acquittal, that's all.
Or what?
[Curt] You don't You don't need
to worry about this, Amanda.
Carlo has already said
that he feels confident
that this is gonna swing our way.
Okay, and if it doesn't?
The case could get kicked down
to the lower courts
and our nightmare
would start all over again.
What do you mean? Like another trial?
- No. No. No.
- Amanda, your lawyers do not think
- that's gonna happen.
- But it's possible?
- No. No
- Well, they're pretty sure
- that it's not gonna go that way.
- Real convincing, guys.
Hey, hey, why don't you
tell them what your idea is?
- You were telling me?
- Oh, about the plans
for a future I might not have anymore?
- [Madison] You we're excited about it.
- [Edda] Come on, honey.
- Come on, honey. Tell us.
- Be positive.
[Edda] Come on, honey, tell us.
Okay, I Well, if I'm not back
in court or in prison again,
I would like to go to school.
[Madison] Yeah. And
And I thought I'd move in with Madison.
[Madison] Yep.
Yeah, I I have a really cool place
in the International District.
- [Amanda] Yeah, and
- Oh.
- And
- And, um, her
[Amanda speaking Italian]
What is the word for the person
you live with?
- Roommate?
- [Amanda] Y-Yes, roommate, yeah.
- Her she's moving out, so
- It's it's just, uh,
it's a little soon, don't you think?
Yeah, I mean,
I I just got you back, honey.
I I'm not ready
to let you go just yet.
It's 15 minutes away, Mom.
- It's not Italy.
- Well, I
Chris, can you please tell them
they're being ridiculous?
Those reporters won't let you
walk two feet
without crawling up your ass
and telling the world
- what you had for dinner.
- [Curt] Amanda, sweetheart,
just give it a little bit of time, okay?
The press will get bored,
they'll move on,
and then you can just get back
to living your life.
- Steve, am I right?
- Absolutely.
Thanks, Steve.
[Amanda sighing]
[magazine drops]
[dramatic music playing]
[reporters chattering faintly]
[reporters continue chattering]
[suspenseful music playing]
[people chattering and laughing]
- [gasps] [squealing] Dude!
- [Amanda giggling]
Did the vultures see you?
Okay, I heard myself that time.
- Okay.
- I did.
Whoa. What are you supposed to be?
God, wow.
You're really so behind, you're cute.
- [chuckles]
- Just go.
Um, we have to get your costume now.
I know.
Do you have, like, eyeliner or something?
I think so. Hi!
[dark ominous music playing]
[muffled screaming]
[inaudible]
[dark ominous music continues]
[Edda sighs]
[foreboding music playing]
Chris? Anyone! Come here!
- What is it?
- Wait, where's your sister?
I don't know.
[phone ringing]
[muffled dance music playing]
["Turn Me On" by David Guetta playing]
[people chattering]
Come on and turn me on ♪
I'm too young to die,
come on and turn me on ♪
Turn me on, turn me on ♪
[Madison] Hey.
- I've been looking for you.
- [door closes]
Hello. [chuckles]
[Amanda chuckles softly]
So, here we are.
- Here we are.
- No.
I don't know what happened. [chuckles]
Everyone was just looking at me,
and I felt all, like,
sweaty and weird, and
- No, no, no, no. No.
- Um, yeah.
[sighing] Hey.
You were in prison.
[chuckles softly]
[muttering] It's crazy. Yeah.
You are allowed to be weird
for, like, a year.
Seriously.
[muffled dance music
continues playing]
Th These were all the people
that knew me before,
and I thought they would,
like, see me as the same girl.
And I I don't I can't tell
what they think of me,
and it just
Everything just feels off.
Everything is just, like, off.
Like, I can't even handle
having a conversation with Sarah,
who I've known since the second grade,
but my dad just got a call
that Oprah wants to talk to me?
- And I
- [whispering] Dude.
[whispering] I know.
[laughing] It's crazy.
What if Oprah did the interview,
- like, right here?
- [chuckles]
Like Like when she went
to the set of Friends?
That's a really good idea, actually.
[both laughing]
- Probably pays, too.
- Yeah.
I think my parents
are having money problems.
[Madison] I know.
You know? What What do you know?
[sighs]
Yeah, I Jennie said that her dad
said that your dad
- had to remortgage his house.
- What?
To pay for the lawyers,
or something like that.
His whole house?
Yeah.
And your grandma's.
Don't quote me.
[Madison sighs]
- [chuckles]
- My God, I've had that on the whole time?
Yes, it looks adorable.
- [both laughing]
- No, it does
- Can you get me a tissue, please?
- [laughing] Yes, I will.
But I think it looks good,
for the record.
No wonder was everyone looking at me.
[laughing]
- [alarm blaring]
- Fuck.
[keypad beeping]
[Deanna] Mom, she's in here.
What's the code?
- You have to answer your phone, okay?
- I was with Madison, oh my God.
- Yeah, Steve, we got her. She's here.
- You have to answer your phone!
Jesus! I am 24 years old.
- Can I not leave the house without
- [alarm stopping]
- [Curt] Thank you.
- Mommy and Daddy calling
the freakin' FBI? [sighs]
Jesus.
[Deanna] Seriously, guys?
Oh, my God, Mom, just show her.
Show me what?
What?
- What
- We've been getting one
or two of those a week.
This one's worse.
[Chris] A lot of freaks out there.
[Curt] [sighs]
Steve is gonna file an FBI report,
but he said that without
a "concrete plan of harm,"
that there's not much else he can do.
[Edda] Oh, so he's hamstrung until
she's in the back of this guy's van?
Can you stop talking about me
like I'm not standing right here?
We're just trying to
protect you, dumbass.
I'm not a dumbass, Chris.
Okay. I'm just trying to remind you,
you used to be fun.
I know.
[sobbing] I know that.
[sniffling]
I didn't have you guys there.
[sniffles]
I didn't have you guys
for the last four years
to protect me.
I had to figure shit out by myself.
I had to protect myself
and keep myself safe, and
[sniffling] be aware of the violence,
and and the guards to stay away from,
and the inmates I could trust,
all of it!
Constantly on my mind!
[sniffling] And I'm not
I'm just not a kid anymore.
I fucking wish I was. [sobbing]
I can handle things.
[sighs, sniffles]
[sniffling] Dad, how much
How much do you owe?
[sniffles]
What? Owe? What do you?
You You remortgaged your house,
and I want to pay you back.
Just Just tell me the number.
Sweetheart, I I don't, um,
I don't I don't know
what that number is.
[sniffling] You do.
[chuckles and sniffles]
You're just not gonna tell me.
[melancholic music playing]
- [door closes]
- "You used to be fun"?
What the fuck, Chris?
[bottles rattling]
[dramatic music playing]
[rustling]
[knocking] Amanda, are you okay?
- Did you see it?
- [Edda] Can I come in?
Yeah, fuck them. They don't know you.
Did you read the comments?
Everyone hates me.
Even the people who think I'm innocent,
think I deserve to suffer
because I'm off.
[Amanda]
There were reporters on my lawn
a Supreme Court in Italy,
thousands of internet trolls,
and a psycho with a red letter
all trying to tell me who I was.
Please, honey, can I come in?
How much do you owe the lawyers, Mom?
[computer keys clacking]
[dramatic music playing]
[Amanda] It was time I spoke for myself.
[light, dramatic music playing]
[Amanda] While across the world,
my lawyers fought for my freedom
in the Italian Supreme Court,
I tried to press play
on a new Amanda Knox.
My memoir was about to come out.
I was coming out of hiding
to promote it.
And I hoped
it would change things for me.
I hoped, I hoped.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
It's It's you.
Did you do it?
[somber music playing]
[phone ringing]
[Amanda] Ciao, Carlo. What is it?
[car horns honking]
[Carlo Dalla Vedova] Amanda, hi.
I'm with Luciano.
We just got back from the
Supreme Court hearing.
Okay?
Um, unfortunately,
it didn't go as expected.
They They overturned your acquittal.
What?
Oh, my God.
[tense dramatic music playing]
[sighs] Okay, okay.
What do we What do we do now?
What do we do?
Uh, well, they are sending the case
to Florence for a new trial.
Another one?
Yeah. Well, uh, look,
at least this time, you stay home.
We will mount your defense in absentia.
No, no, no.
No. No, no, no. No.
I have a book coming out.
I have I have to do interviews, Carlo.
I I signed a contract, okay?
The the people
who are expecting me for press,
they're gonna skewer me
if I suddenly back out.
[somber music playing]
[people chattering]
[softly] Thanks.
[crew continues chattering]
[crew member] Camera's good, guys.
A lot of makeup on you.
- [Amanda chuckles softly]
- They do it to me, too.
[chuckles]
Hey, listen.
I want you to be on your toes.
I'm going to ask some tough questions,
but only so you can
confront them head-on.
- Okay.
- Put all these doubts about you to rest,
especially with this new trial underway.
This'll be good for you.
- Promise.
- [crew member] Standby, guys.
[sighs deeply] Okay.
[crew member]
Ready to roll tape and record.
Hey.
Focus on me.
[bell ringing]
[crew member 1]
Straightaway, guys, hold the talking.
- We're rolling!
- [crew member 2] Rolling!
Five, four
[Chris Cuomo] Amanda Knox, welcome.
You laid out your story in your new book,
Waiting to Be Heard.
There are reactions, there are doubts.
How do you explain it?
Uh, it's hard.
It's It's hard to prove
that you're innocent,
that you didn't do something.
The prosecution did not give
a satisfactory answer,
and I've been held responsible.
[Chris Cuomo] Why not some man?
Why is the prosecution targeting you?
I definitely acted
a little differently than others.
Uh, I'm the type of person,
when there's pressure on me
to react, I freeze.
I I would much rather
suppress my emotions
than seem insincere.
Prosecutors believe this happened
because you were a sexual deviant.
This is their theory.
That you went in there for some kind
of freaky sexual activity
that went wrong,
and your roommate wound up dying.
- Fair?
- That's what they say.
That's what it is. Forget the headlines.
That's the truth of the proposition,
isn't it?
Is there truth to that proposition?
Were you into deviant sex?
Insensitive question, but hey,
we've gotta get to what it is.
- This fuels the doubt.
- No.
[tense music playing]
[Chris Cuomo] Did Meredith
suspect you were into that stuff?
- [softly] No.
- And you resented her
because she was judging you?
None of that?
No, absolutely not.
And [scoffs]
there's absolutely no evidence. None.
- [Chris Cuomo] But it's their theory.
- [Amanda] It's a theory.
"Knox is into some
freaky sexual things."
Where are they getting it from?
I talk about all my sexual experiences
in my book.
I haven't needed to talk about the
details because they're not deviant.
I was not strapping on leather
and bearing a whip.
I've never done that.
No group activities?
- [Edda] Oh, my God, what?
- I've never taken part in an orgy, ever.
Your roommates
wouldn't have told prosecutors this?
Or maybe you're not telling the truth
and they got this idea
from somewhere else.
[Amanda] They literally got it
from the prosecution.
These are fantasies.
- Where did they get it?
- They didn't get it from me,
and they didn't get it
from the witnesses.
I I just don't understand it,
except for the fact
that I'm a young woman
There's a lot of young women.
Why do people
have this impression of you?
I was no different than any of the other
women in my house, I I wasn't.
So then, that means in your mind,
you spent four years of your life in jail
because of a perverted prosecutor?
- That's gotta make you angry.
- I am angry.
And this retrial, you're shocked?
Yes.
- [Chris Cuomo] Why?
- Because there's no evidence.
Nothing links me to this murder.
I am not present at the crime scene.
I'm just not. So
people can talk about my behavior
and sex life all they want,
but it's irrelevant.
Do you think you come off
too "I can't prove it,"
and not enough "I didn't do it"?
Do you understand how that sounds cagey?
I mean, I professed
from the very beginning
I didn't do it, and no one believed me.
It's like I'm having to prove my
innocence instead of just saying it.
You must be scared that the
United States will send you back.
[breathes deeply]
I mean, I had a panic attack
two days ago. [chuckles]
[Chris Cuomo] You getting help for that?
Um
I keep thinking
that I'm dealing with it.
I keep thinking that I'm going on
with my life.
And then, there there are
these moments where I just can't.
[Edda] Oh, good.
You're just where I left you.
- [keys dropping]
- At least that's something I can rely on.
[TV playing indistinctly]
- Didn't go well?
- No. It didn't go well.
He fucking lied to her.
He said it would be good for her,
and then he put her in the chair
and he verbally molested her
in front of millions of people
while I sat there and watched.
- I failed her.
- No, you didn't.
- I I did.
- No.
Please don't say I didn't,
because I did.
I failed her then,
and I'm failing her now.
Letting man after man after man
say to her and to me,
"Do it this way, it's for your own good.
It'll work out. Just trust me."
I'm tired of it.
I'm I'm tired.
Are you including me in this?
In all those men who steered you wrong?
Because the last time I checked,
I moved my life for her.
Well, you didn't hate being there.
[sighs heavily]
[somber music playing]
I'm going to, uh,
go finish up some work.
Chris.
- [under breath] Fuck.
- [door closes]
[Amanda] So, yeah, it happened.
On January 30th 2014,
a judge in the Florence Supreme Court
found me and Raffaele guilty,
confirming the verdict
from five years prior,
falsely naming us murderers once again,
as if all of our fighting
and eventually winning never happened.
So, what now?
Well [sniffing] the case goes back
- to the Supreme Court
- [sighs]
where they will either
validate it or they won't.
They won't try and extradite her
unless they confirm it.
We've We've been here before,
and we will fight it.
[Chris] Some supporters
reached out to help.
Uh, there's a bunker in Canada.
[Edda] Flee the country?
That's a felony.
[Amanda]
For a second, I did consider running,
changing my name,
living somewhere quietly and alone,
thousands of miles from the people
I loved and who loved me,
and nothing to do but eat, read,
- live small and lay low.
- [cell doors slamming]
[prison buzzer blaring]
[people chattering, echoing]
[echoing overlapping chatter]
[Amanda's voice, echoing] No! No! No!
[Edda] [voice muffled]
Amanda, are you okay?
Amanda?
- Are you okay, honey?
- [bell tolling]
[Amanda] Maybe there was no free for me.
[solemn music playing]
[Edda] [on phone] Hey, it's Mom.
How's the new place?
[calendar dates ticking]
Amanda, honey, why aren't you
picking up your phone?
Honey, I'm getting worried.
Why aren't you picking up your phone?
- [suspenseful music playing]
- [dates ticking rapidly]
[clock ticking normally]
[knocking at door]
[knocking continues]
[Edda] Amanda, can I come in?
- [knocking]
- Amanda!
[door creaking]
Oh.
[under breath] God.
- Okay.
- What are you doing?
- Come on, get up.
- Mom.
- Girls' trip.
- God, no, I don't wanna go anywhere.
Tough shit. You've been holed up here
for weeks living like a ghost. Here.
Come on, get up.
Car's parked in the red.
[Amanda sighs]
[people chattering]
Mom, what is this?
It's It's a conference
for people like you,
- for exonerees.
- No, Mom.
No, I think I think
it's gonna really help
- Mom!
- to talk to someone.
I'm not an exoneree.
I just got reconvicted, okay?
- I do not belong here.
- Yes, you do belong here.
- You're innocent.
- Well, I am tired of explaining that
over and over again, okay?
Okay, just, will you give it 20 minutes?
Please.
[whispering] Come on.
[people chattering]
[melancholic music playing]
You don't have to explain
a thing, little sister.
We know.
[melancholic music continues playing]
Hello. Welcome to the Innocence Network.
My name is Antoine Day,
and like many of you,
I was wrongfully convicted
of a crime that I did not commit.
I spent ten years of my life
in prison for a murder that happened
[Amanda] In this one room,
there were at least 100 people
who, like me, had lost years to prison
for crimes they didn't commit.
They already knew my story
because they'd lived it
for a lot longer than I had
and with a lot less attention.
Altogether, these people had spent
a staggering 1,749 years in prison.
What had happened to them mattered.
The truth mattered.
My freedom mattered.
And I was going to make the most of it
as long I had it.
Nice to meet you. [chuckles]
[melancholic music continues]
[mouthing] Thank you.
[soft music playing]
["Maybe Not" by Cat Power
playing over earbuds]
A dream that I see,
don't kill it, it's free ♪
You're just a man,
you get what you can ♪
We all do what we can ♪
So, we can do just one more thing ♪
[eerie music playing]
[Amanda] Then, reality struck again
[reporters chattering]
threatening to rip everything away.
[sirens wailing]
- [sirens continue wailing]
- [people shouting]
[newscaster] [on TV]
We now go live to one of our reporters
as the police there prepare
for a possible arrest.
- Julie?
- Anything?
- [Edda] No.
- [Julie] [on TV] Yes, Bill, I'm here
on the scene, where it is clear
from what we are seeing
- that they intend to place him
- Oh, my God,
they're they're waiting outside
to arrest Raffaele.
There's no There's no cops.
It's just the vultures.
[Julie] [on TV] Back to you.
[newscaster] Italy's Supreme Court
is set to rule today
on whether to uphold
the latest guilty verdict
against Amanda Knox
and Raffaele Sollecito.
If the verdict is confirmed,
Knox could face extradition.
An acquittal by the Court of Cassation
would send Knox and Sollecito's case
back to a lower court.
Meredith Kercher's family
has made their wishes clear.
They are convinced of Amanda's guilt,
and would like to see her imprisoned
back where this began, in Italy.
[overlapping shouting]
We've just gotten word
that the verdict is coming in.
[reporter] Cameras are not allowed
inside the courtroom.
That means we won't see
the decision handed down
- Fuck this.
- in real time, but
Where are you going?
[Amanda]
Getting Italian news, it'll be faster.
What the hell is she doing?
[reporter] This is a case
that has seen reversals, appeal.
[reporter speaking Italian]
[somber music playing]
[reporter] Raffaele Sollecito
e Amanda Knox
[reporter continues speaking Italian]
- [Edda] What What's happening?
- Assolti.
[Chris]
"Assolti," that means, uh, acquitted.
- Acquitted?
- Assolti.
- [Edda] You're sure?
- So, I'm free.
- Amanda, you're sure?
- I'm free. I think it's over.
- Are you dead serious?!
- [all cheering]
[all cheering]
- Oh, my God!
- [relieved laughter]
[sobbing] It's over.
[speaking Italian]
- God!
- [cheering continues]
[Amanda]
I need to I need to call Raffaele.
- Raffaele!
- [Raffaele] [on phone] Amanda.
- [Amanda] It's crazy.
- [laughing] Can Can you believe it?
[Amanda] I know, we're free, Raffaele!
- [overlapping chatter]
- We're free! See!
Congratulations!
[Knox/Mellas family clapping]
[all] Congratulations!
[cheering over phone]
- [phone ringing]
- Ciao. Ciao.
[Edda] Oh, shh! Hello?
Hey, it's Carlo. It's Carlo.
- It's Carlo?
- Yeah.
Carlo? Carlo, is this real?
Is this happening?
- Is it really over?
- Amanda, this is unprecedented.
- Is it?
- I'm shaking.
They are not even kicking it back
to a lower court to re-adjudicate.
- You are done. You are done.
- Congratulations, Amanda.
[sobbing] Oh, my God!
[Carlo] The court cited a complete lack
of biological evidence
and quote, "stunning flaws
in Mignini's investigation."
It's the best possible outcome.
[sobbing] Oh, my God, thank you.
The only issue is that
they left open the possibility
that you were inside the house.
As a witness.
[dramatic music playing]
What?
They They still say I was there?
[Carlo] It doesn't matter.
You are never going to have
to face another trial ever again.
- [Carlo] Are you happy?
- [Luciano Ghirga] Eh?
[dramatic music continues]
[muffled indistinct chatter]
[Amanda] But it did matter,
much as I didn't want it to.
Them maintaining the lie
that I was there that night
marked me the liar,
somehow still complicit.
It denied that I'd been wronged,
that I'd been hurt,
and people wanted me to hurt.
[phone dings]
[computer chiming]
[notifications chiming and whooshing]
[computer keys clacking]
[chiming and whooshing continues]
[Amanda] My prison would always be
the false stories spun about me,
all born out of the first fiction
created in those early days
of November 2007.
I was never going to be free
until I was free of that story.
[chiming continues]
The story of me, the monster.
Until I understood
why it was written in the first place.
[chiming and whooshing stop abruptly]
[dramatic music playing]
There was only one thing
I could think to do.
[dramatic music continues playing]
I had to go to the author.
[suspenseful music playing]
[solemn music playing]
[music swells]
[music fades out]
- [typewriter clacking]
- [bell dings]
[rooster crowing]
[fanfare playing]