The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox (2025) s01e08 Episode Script

1
[people arguing in Italian]
[door thudding]
- Everyone out!
- A foot!!!
[camera clicking]
There she was, like Perugia herself.
I would deliver her justice.
Guilty!
[Amanda Knox] No! No! No! Please!
Hey, where the fuck are my journals?
Foxy Knoxy. An American Witch.
Do you know a man named Rudy Guede?
His prints and DNA
are all over the murder scene.
They found the killer?
[Curt Knox] He's got a history of
drug use, aggression towards women.
Why are they still
going after our daughter?
You know what my lawyers told me?
Rudy Guede robbed a nursery school
five days before the murder.
What? So, why wasn't he in jail?
- If he had been, then
- Meredith would still be alive.
They got it all wrong.
Amanda wasn't there.
She doesn't have anything to do with it.
[Amanda] I might never get out of here.
You need to start accepting
a life without me.
- My girl. She's All her fight is gone.
- Okay, but she's gonna be alright.
[Edda Mellas] If I'm gonna lose her
anyway, then what's the point?
I'm terrified to hope.
It's killing me.
She's innocent, you know.
My job is to see darkness
and bring it into the light.
When we get out from here,
we go to Gubbio.
I want lunch and dinner.
[inmates chanting] Libertà! Libertà!
[reporter] Amanda, what's it like
being back home?
I keep thinking
that I'm going on with my life,
and then there are these moments
where I just can't.
Everyone hates me, even the people
who think I'm innocent.
My prison would always be
the false stories
- spun about me, the monster.
- [notifications dinging]
[dinging stops]
There was only one thing
I could think to do.
I had to go to the author.
What is this?
This is utterly inappropriate.
She's reaching out.
Reaching out? To what end?
This is no. This is not done.
Please remove it.
It's not Anthrax, I assure you.
You've grown to love her. I see that.
I also see how it blinds you.
To what she's capable of.
I will not be ensnared.
But, what can she possibly want from me?
What does it say?
I imagine if you open the thing,
you'll find out.
[old jazz music playing]
Mr. Mignini. I have long
wanted to reach out to you.
I have always hoped to have the
opportunity to get in touch with you
outside the interrogation
room and the courtroom
where we were forced into the
adversarial roles given to us
by the judicial system.
Prosecutor and defendant.
[Amanda] I always suspected
that this made it impossible for us
to see and understand each other.
When I was 20, when I was imprisoned
and on trial,
you seemed a powerful and scary man
- intent on destroying my life.
- [family chattering in Italian]
But when I saw interviews with you,
I realized that image of you was wrong.
It was flat and two-dimensional,
like the media's image of me.
[baby cooing]
I saw you as a man,
not just as my prosecutor,
a father of daughters
with genuine motivations.
I saw a man who was not evil,
and I too am not a monster.
It's difficult.
In my daily life, I often feel
that what I experienced in Italy
is in the past.
But at any minute, I suddenly
feel in the middle of it again.
[door bell jingling]
[book thuds]
Like I'm still in prison and on trial.
[ominous music playing]
After I've taken the blame ♪
[bell dings]
- [music lightens]
- You say you're through ♪
[Amanda] Even in my happiest moments
- [both exclaiming]
- [people cheering]
when I'm regaled with affection,
surrounded by love and family
[cheering and applause]
I am haunted by memories
of helplessness,
loneliness, and grief,
and the sense that I'm being hunted.
[cameras clicking]
[dramatic music playing]
[Amanda] Even in times of great promise,
I am tortured by the question, "Why?"
- [crib clatters]
- Why did this happen to me?
- [computer chimes]
- [gasps]
I hope that by talking to you,
I will find out this answer.
Oh, my God, Chris, he wrote back.
- What does he say?
- [sighs]
Amanda.
After the third letter you sent me,
I couldn't not answer you.
No one in my career has called me
"My Prosecutor."
No former defendant
has embraced me as you did.
As for talk of the trial,
we can't go back in time.
But I have not stopped
reflecting since then.
And while I appreciate your openness,
I will never, ever allow that my
professional conduct be distorted,
even partially, in the name of
"understanding."
Sincerely, Dr. Giuliano Mignini.
- Oh, my God, Chris.
- What?
He He says he won't discuss
the case with me,
but then he tells me to watch this.
M-Maigret is suffering
because he put an innocent man in jail.
- You have to listen to this.
- [keyboard clacking]
- Mignini told me to watch this.
- [keyboard clicking]
[Detective Maigret speaking Italian]
[Amanda] "When you find yourself
"circling around a solution
and you can't grasp it,
"you are truly tempted to invent,
"to construct a guilty party.
"But in the moment you reopen
your eyes to the facts
they become erroneous."
[dramatic music swelling]
Holy fuck.
[reporter 1]
Amanda Knox's roommate's killer
was released early from prison today.
[reporter 2] Third defendant
was convicted and imprisoned
[reporter 3] National headlines
and deep controversy
[reporter 4] Guede has told his lawyers
he wants to be forgotten.
[reporter 5] conviction of 30 years
in the first degree
[reporter 6] reduced Guede's jail time
by an additional 45 days.
[reporter 7] maintains his innocence,
saying that Amanda Knox
- Amanda Knox
- Amanda Knox
- Amanda Knox.
- Amanda Knox.
Amanda Knox.
- [Deanna Knox] You have an announcement?
- Hmm?
You invited Dad and Mom,
you have news.
- You're pregs again.
- What? Really?
- No. No, I'm
- Honey.
- [Deanna chuckles]
- No, I'm not.
Um
Uh, I'm I'm thinking
of going back to Italy.
[birds chirping]
- [Chris Mellas] What?!
- [Curt] Why?
What are you talking about?
I have been writing letters
with Giuliano.
- Giuliano?
- Pig-nini?
- [Curt] Since when?
- Uh, a while now.
Amanda, what the fuck?
- [Edda] Why would
- [Curt] Come on, Chris. Seriously?
Wh I mean why?
Because hating him forever
doesn't help me understand anything.
- I mean, what's to understand?
- Him.
Why Why he came after me.
Why he hated me.
Why he ignored evidence.
- I mean [chuckles]
- Because he's evil. An ogre.
- An asshole.
- Ja, this, yes.
W-What has he been saying to you?
We We talk about a lot.
We talk about our families.
You talked about us with him?
- He has agreed to meet with me.
- Jesus.
- [Edda] What?
- [Curt] Meet with you?
Where Where are you
gonna meet, Perugia?
- I mean, you can't go back there, Amanda.
- I know.
The people there,
they're still out for blood.
I know, I'll I'll lay low.
I'll stay hidden.
[Edda]
Oh, but you'll show yourself to him?
The man who threw you in jail
with no evidence.
[Chris]
It's been a decade since you're free.
Why don't you just move on?
Yeah, that's easy for you to say, Chris,
you don't have the word "murderer"
branded on your face.
You're e-exonerated, honey.
It's all That's all over.
- [Curt] Yeah.
- [Christopher Robinson] It's not though.
Did you know Rudy Guede was released
early from prison today?
What? Why didn't you say anything?
Yeah, you know what the first headline
we read was?
"Amanda Knox's Roommate's Killer Freed."
Not "Meredith Kercher's Killer Freed,"
not "Rudy Guede Freed."
Meredith's murder is always discussed
in the context of Amanda.
People are fixated on her,
and they've completely
forgotten everybody else.
I mean, she also posts a lot of shit
that makes people angry.
[Edda] She was proven innocent.
But Edda,
people still think she was involved.
And believe me, I have spent
I don't know how many hours
arguing with them online.
Oh, really, you spent
hours arguing online?
Who cares what a bunch of idiots
on the internet think?
You wouldn't care if millions of people
thought you were a killer?
You'd do anything
to change the narrative.
- Oh, since where are you the expert?
- [Edda] Chris.
- That's right, you weren't there.
- [Edda] Please.
Yeah, well, I'm here now, man.
Oh.
She needs this.
[Curt] Okay, with all due respect,
how can she possibly need this?
This guy is dangerous
and he is vindictive.
- [Edda] Please.
- Amanda, you You're You're doing well.
- Your Your life is full.
- You But you You're a mother now,
you have a beautiful baby girl.
Why can't you just
Can you not just focus on that?
That's exactly what I'm doing.
You know the first thing I said to Eureka
when she was born?
I said, "I'm sorry.
I am I'm sorry I'm your mom."
[Edda] Oh, honey.
This This shadow I've been
living under since I'm 20,
I'm supposed to, what, accept that
our daughter has to live under it too?
And I And I'm not gonna have to wait
until she can read about it herself.
The The tomes of malignant shit
about me online.
It's gonna happen on the playground.
As soon as one gossipy parent
tells their kid who I am,
she's gonna she's gonna have
so many questions
that I do not have the answer to.
This meeting with Mignini
might give me one, okay?
And if there's any chance
that he'll finally see me
and wipe the slate clean
it's fucking worth it.
Talk to you, please?
[wine glass thuds]
Are you fucking kidding me right now?
Okay. I didn't expect
you to understand
How could you do this to us?
After everything we've been through.
To Mom?
Do you have any idea how hard it was?
Fighting to get you back
nearly killed her.
And I don't know if you're even capable
of noticing,
but Mom and Chris
didn't sleep in the same bed
for over a year after you got back.
Wait a minute, what? I didn't know that.
What did you think that was?
Fifteen months of jet lag
keeping him on the sofa?
Chris was basically a bachelor
in Italy, for what,
three years, so that he could
be there and visit you.
They didn't know how
to live together anymore.
That is not my fault, Deanna.
No, nothing's your fault.
Not on "The Amanda Show."
[distant dog barking]
Wow. That is not fair. That's not fair.
What's not fair is that
I had to drop out of school,
that Ashley was getting into
literal fights with classmates,
Delaney was having panic attacks.
The blast radius of you
going to Italy was pretty huge.
Look, I Again, I am I am so sorry
for everything you went through, I am.
But I am the one who went to prison.
And I am still in prison.
Please.
You're gonna do whatever the fuck
you want, aren't you?
[dramatic music playing]
[dramatic music playing]
No, the police cannot suggest.
[crying] Just one second.
She's crying?
- [Mignini speaking Italian]
- Please, can I
- Can I please just explain myself?
- [Mignini continues speaking Italian]
Can you just look at me for one second?
- [softly knocking]
- Hey, you're still here.
Yeah, I was helping your mom clean up.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- [chuckles softly]
- Chris was playing video games.
- Do you need a minute?
- No, no.
She's asleep.
Are you sleeping at all?
- Yeah. I remember those early years.
- Yeah.
They're tough.
You have nothing to apologize for.
It just about broke my heart
hearing you said that to Eureka.
You're a fantastic mom.
She's lucky to have you.
You're the strongest person
I've ever known.
- Dad.
- And God knows you've proven
that you can hold your own.
But now that you're dead-set
on going back to Italy
I have to say that your judgment
about handing yourself back to him
I'm sorry, I just
I do not trust Mignini.
I'm not asking you to trust Mignini,
I'm asking you to trust me.
[gentle music playing]
It's just the last time
that I gave you my blessing,
it did not turn out so well.
I can't not go.
[Edda] Well, then I'm going with you.
Fuck if I'm gonna let you set foot
in that country again without me.
[dramatic music playing]
[Edda] Amanda, I don't like this.
I don't like this at all.
[Christopher] Well, this is the plan.
So, can you
I swear to God, if
you tell me to relax
I'm not telling you to relax.
I harbor a wish that you'd relax,
but I'm not telling you to relax.
Okay, here we go.
Just like we talked about.
Don't move, don't make a sound.
They see you, they make a call.
They make a call, and they're all
hunting you inside of ten minutes.
[Edda] He's hunting her already.
He never stopped, never will,
and here we are,
just going into the mouth of the wolf.
- Mom, Mom, will you please?
- It's a trap.
- It's not a trap.
- It is a trap that that monster
has set for you,
and you are walking right into it.
We should just turn back, Amanda.
There's no way we're going back.
[dramatic music playing]
[thunder rumbling]
[music fades out]
[loud knocking]
- What's happening?
- [officer] Kuh-nox!
- [door banging]
- What's happening? No, no, no, no!
- What the fuck is going on?
- No, Chris!
- No! Do not
- Chris, please! No!
[overlapping shouting]
- [Edda] Amanda!
- Mom!
[overlapping shouting continues]
[dramatic music playing]
- [softly] Hey, hey, hey.
- What's happening?
- You're okay.
- Where am I? Where are we?
We're in the safe house. We're in Italy.
[Amanda sighing deeply]
[sniffling] I'm sorry.
- No, don't be sorry.
- I'm sorry.
[sighs]
You're ready for this, okay?
You're gonna do great tomorrow.
I don't know what I'm doing here.
I mean, am I Am I fooling myself?
Am I gonna leave
more fucked up than I came?
- No, you're not fucked up.
- What am I
Am I not? I want Giuliano Mignini
to tell me he's sorry.
I want him to admit
that he hurt me, that's
[sighs heavily]
If you go in there
needing something from him
you'll fail.
I know, and I can't fail.
[car engine revving]
- Amanda.
- Don Saulo, ciao!
You're here!
Look at you!
Were you followed?
No, I don't think so.
Oh, the baby!
- [Eureka whining]
- Si.
Hello, Mrs. Mellas.
Welcome.
We must go, we don't have much time.
- Is he here?
- Not as yet.
I I'm just gonna stay here,
on on this bench.
I don't wanna see
that man's face ever again.
[Don Saulo speaking Italian]
[Edda sighs]
[dramatic music playing]
Christopher, you can wait here.
[dramatic music continues]
- I'll be right here.
- [sighs]
- Okay?
- Okay.
- Alright.
- I love you.
I love you too.
- [Eureka cooing]
- [whispering] Love you, sweetie.
Okay.
Come this way.
Okay.
I'm, uh, I'm gonna let him talk first.
I'm gonna I'm gonna let him
say anything he has to say,
and then and then I'm gonna speak.
- Right.
- Okay.
Oh, God, I'm nervous.
[sirens wailing]
[dramatic music playing]
Hello, Amanda.
My Prosecutor.
You came.
You came. From across the world, for me.
You have butterflies?
Excuse me?
In your stomach.
Um yeah, I guess.
[Eureka cooing]
Ah.
You brought the little treasure.
I don't like being away from her.
Of course, of course.
Shall we sit?
Come, Amanda.
[chair scraping, echoing]
[Amanda] Um
Uh
If you want to go first
I'm here to listen whatever you
Ladies first.
Whoops. I'm sorry.
I've prepared some notes
[inhales deeply]
You made a terrible mistake.
And I, and many other people,
suffered unnecessarily because of it.
You deprived Meredith's
family of closure.
You wrongly imprisoned innocent people.
And you painted me as a sexual deviant
and killer in the public imagination.
It's okay, Amanda.
But I learned something
from that experience.
[sighs deeply]
I learned how easy it is for us to see
only what we want to see.
To flatten others
into cardboard characters
into devils
and saints.
I'm guilty of this too.
When I was on trial
you were a frightening man
who had only one goal
to destroy my life.
[Amanda sniffling]
But I know this image of you is wrong.
[sniffles]
It is as flat and as two-dimensional
as "Foxy Knoxy."
You've said this to me.
What?
You said this to me in your first letter.
But you need to say it again?
I didn't come here to prove you wrong.
I believe that you acted
with genuine noble motivations,
even though you caused tremendous harm.
And I believe that you were trying
to bring justice to a grieving family.
And I want you to know
that I do not hate you.
It took courage for you to come here.
- We have this in common.
- [chuckles] Oh? [sniffles]
Do you think it is wise for me
to interact with you at all?
Given the vicious attacks
leveled against me
by the Knox PR machine?
In my 41 years of service,
never did I experience
such ruthless slander against me.
I know you felt unjustly villainized
by the U.S. press.
I was the corrupt medieval inquisitor.
I was blamed for everything.
Never have I been so outraged.
People trying to profit
from the destruction of my name.
I can only imagine
how painful that can be.
[Giuliano Mignini]
Then you reach out to me,
say "My Prosecutor"
with such affection
Uh
I will admit it, it moved me.
That was kind of a mistake.
- [sniffling]
- Excuse me?
It It was a linguistic foible.
Um, in in English,
we say "my prosecutor"
without connoting affection.
Um, it really just means,
"the prosecutor of my case."
And as you know,
there are things we say in English
that don't have an exact
counterpart in Italian.
Like, "see you later."
Courageous indeed.
Just a moment.
[whispering] What's happening?
- I don't know.
- Who's he calling?
[Don Saulo] I don't know.
[trembled breathing]
I'm scared, I'm scared.
- [Don Saulo] I feel okay.
- [Amanda] You do?
But you can leave anytime, if you need.
- Okay.
- Stay calm, Amanda.
- Huh?
- I'm trying, I'm trying.
[Mignini] I apologize.
Uh
[chuckles softly]
I'm responsible for telling my wife
when it's time to take her pills.
Just please tell me,
are the police on their way?
What?
What do you think this is?
Dear, you asked me to meet.
Did you think I would use this meeting
- to what, to entrap you?
- No, no, I didn't.
But my my people, my family,
they all think that
You see? This is what I'm talking about.
We don't just go around arresting people
without cause here.
- Why don't we sit?
- This case has shown me
the dark side of America,
its ignorance, its entitlement.
You must understand, Amanda,
my prosecuting you wasn't personal.
When you asked
for a life sentence for me,
that felt pretty personal.
The sentences I ask for
do not reflect the heart
of the person I'm trying.
They reflect the severity of the crime.
And the crime against Meredith
was severe.
- But I did not kill her.
- Look, Amanda,
I did my duty in full conscience,
given the facts I had at the time.
Now, look at you,
you are free now.
- It's water under the bridge.
- Why are you here, Dottor Mignini?
- What do you mean?
- Why Why did you come here today?
Because this meeting is extraordinary,
it's something that doesn't happen.
So, I'm a curiosity? You You
wanted to see how I turned out?
I came to care for you
through our letters.
Why did you send me Maigret?
To help you understand me and my role.
Not to admit you were wrong?
Oh.
Amanda, by the time I got to you,
the police had already made
some investigative decisions.
You mean investigative mistakes.
They weren't used to cases
of this magnitude.
- The media attention, the the pressure.
- [scoffs] Neither was I.
It was hard on you. I know that.
People think I'm a monster.
- I never called you a monster.
- Foxy Knoxy,
femme fatale, adulteress, Luciferina.
Oh, I never called you Luciferina.
- Pacelli did.
- You didn't have to.
You placed me at the scene of the crime.
You talked about how I tortured
and taunted Meredith.
Amanda, that was
my approximation of the crime.
An investigator must painstakingly
reconstruct a past event
which he didn't observe.
Yeah, through evidence, I would hope.
This is where you think you know,
but you don't know, okay?
Initially, an investigator
is guided by his reasoning,
but also by hypothesis
that the crime scene suggests to him.
And he must follow his hypothesis
and be ready to review it
when he realizes
that his assumption
is arbitrary and not proven.
But your assumption was arbitrary
and not proven.
- I followed the evidence.
- What evidence?
[Mignini] There was a lot of evidence,
Amanda.
The bra clasp,
the the the staged break-in.
I didn't stage a break-in.
- Please, stay calm and lis
- No. No.
Your attachment to this theory
of the break-in being staged
is the mistake from which
all of your fantasies about me grew.
- It was a lens, it was bias.
- Oh, please.
There's none of my DNA
at the crime scene.
You said I cleaned up traces
of my own invisible DNA
while leaving Guede's intact?
That's impossible, that's bias.
The absence of that evidence
is not evidence of your absence.
You said I was in a love triangle
with Rudy, based on nothing.
I didn't have his phone number,
I didn't even know his name.
In his interviews, Rudy has always said
he was attracted to you.
And you said I murdered Meredith
because of what?
Jealousy? Hygiene?
Meredith didn't invite you
to spend Halloween
with her and her British friends.
You think I murdered my friend
because she didn't invite me
to go trick-or-treating?
I interviewed the British girls.
They all had animosity towards you.
But yes, the
the court found that motive
mm was not the clearest part
of our case.
[sighs]
The only thing
that you could ever prove
was that I lived in the house
where Meredith died,
- but I was not there that night.
- That, we can't debate.
The final ruling says you were there.
Well, I am telling you that I wasn't.
You cannot argue with the ruling.
- It's definitive.
- [scoffs]
And it says you are innocent, Amanda.
I don't care about the ruling,
I care about the truth.
And I am I am telling you the truth!
- What do you want me to do?
- [sighs]
Go back on all I said, all I did?
I'm sitting here, I came.
What more do you want?
Why didn't you see me
when you looked at your daughters?
[Amanda sobbing]
You often said that when you
looked at your daughters,
you saw poor Meredith.
That That she could have been them.
But I I was just a girl, too.
[sobbing]
I was just a young girl, too.
I don't know
[Amanda continues sobbing]
[sniffling]
[gentle music playing]
I didn't hate you, Amanda.
So, why did you come after me?
Because I didn't know you then
as I know you now.
So, you wouldn't prosecute me now?
If I was asked to prosecute this case,
I I would decline to do so
because I know you.
So, you understand that I'm innocent?
Giuliano.
You know that I'm innocent.
[sighs heavily]
I confirm the position I took
as a prosecutor.
I decided on the basis of the acts.
Look, Amanda
In life, you can make mistakes.
And I could have been
wrong about some things.
It's also true
there's the judicial truth
and then there's the real truth.
We can only do
our best to ensure
that the two truths coincide.
Two truths?
One truth. I'm innocent.
[sighs]
[somber music playing]
You know, today is the anniversary
of the day I lost my father.
He loved opera.
His favorite was
Puccini's The Girl from the West.
It was playing in Florence.
He borrowed his friend's car
to drive to see it.
He was run off the road by two
motorcyclists racing against traffic.
He died because of lawlessness.
And I grew up without a father.
It has been the
greatest wound of my life.
And then there is us.
Bound by this case.
I condemn you, and you reach out to me,
and we meet.
It is most extraordinary.
Only a thing done in books.
I don't think it is a coincidence
that today, of all days
my very own Girl of the West
has appeared.
[crying]
[sighs heavily]
God sees we both suffer.
[gentle music playing]
I see that you suffer.
You're a man cleaved in two.
Real truth
and judicial truth?
The prosecutor and the man?
To be opposing oneself.
To walk the world
as two things that never meet
That must be so hard.
I wouldn't be able to live like that.
My soul in unrest.
- [Eureka crying]
- [Christopher] Hey, um
Sorry, I'm so sorry to interrupt.
Uh, she's gone through her milk.
Okay, uh,
I'll I'll be there in a minute.
I'm sorry.
I should go and feed her.
Of course.
No duty is more sacred.
Uh
I must go too.
I have plans.
Well.
[chuckles]
Eureka is beautiful.
A gift from the heavens.
She's transformed you, you know.
Motherhood will do that.
No.
It hasn't transformed me, actually.
Who you see is who I've always been.
Mm.
Shall I see you out?
[chuckles]
[sighs softly]
Oh, thank God. Hey. Hi.
Amanda? You okay?
[Christopher sighs]
- Is she okay?
- Yeah, she's just processing.
Okay, wh what did he say?
So many things.
He, uh, he held my hand, Mom.
- Oh, my God.
- I know.
He He apologized?
Uh, no, he He stands by what he did.
Right, so he's evil.
- No, he believes me.
- He believes He believes what?
He said you're you're innocent?
N-Not in those exact words,
- but it doesn't matter.
- Right, so he's a coward.
No, he said he believes
the person he now knows.
The me he now knows can't have done it.
Right, so he'll he'll s
He'll say that publicly?
H-He's in turmoil, Mom.
The man is trying.
- He's trying?
- He's trying. Yes.
- [scoffs]
- [bag drops]
I just
All these years, every step,
I've wanted to just
fucking crawl inside you
so I could feel how you felt,
so I could be in it with you.
But this, this risk,
to to you, to your baby,
to Chris, and yes, to me, and for what?
For what?
For nothing.
Nothing.
[sighs]
- Mom.
- I'll be in the car.
- [people chattering]
- [bell tolling]
What time did he say he would arrive?
Uh, he He texted five minutes ago,
he's parking.
[Edda] Oh.
I think that's him.
Raffa.
Ciao. [chuckles]
- Ciao.
- Amanda.
[both speaking Italian]
Yeah, yeah, I'm good.
- Hi, Edda.
- Raffaele.
Look at you. You look great.
[laughing] No, Edda.
This is just my work clothes.
Oh.
- How are you?
- I'm well.
- Hi, I'm
- [Raffaele chuckles]
- Oh, my God, I'm so sorry.
- I'm Chris.
Sorry, this is Chris.
My husband.
- It's, um, so nice to finally meet you.
- Also you.
And this is Eureka.
My baby.
[Amanda chuckles]
- [whispering] She's beautiful.
- Thank you.
Maybe we can walk a bit?
Yeah. Sure.
- Yeah?
- Si.
Okay.
Let's go.
- [Raffaele Sollecito] Si.
- [Amanda chuckles]
- We'll be back.
- Ciao.
- [both laughing]
- What?
No, nothing, nothing.
You look great.
You look like a real man now.
[both chuckle]
You look exactly the same.
I look like a man, too?
- No.
- [both laughing]
No, you're a liar, I look old.
I have little wrinkles now.
You can see 'em when I smile.
- Chicken feet.
- [chuckles] So close.
- Crow's feet.
- Oh.
That's good, it means years
of much smiling, no?
I don't know about that.
[people chattering faintly]
- Now you, what?
- No, what?
- What?
- No.
It's just
We're in Gubbio.
Finally, eh?
[Amanda chuckles]
Yes.
Gubbio, finally.
Seemed only right.
[Raffaele] Mm.
Wow.
So, did you get what
you're needing from him?
From Mignini?
- I don't know. [scoffs]
- Mm.
Maybe.
Maybe I'm crazy.
No, not crazy.
The one person who doesn't see you
as you want to be seen,
the one person who withholds affection,
you chase this, even if you have love
in front of you.
So
Wow.
No, it's common,
people do it all the time,
want to make peace with the one
who hurts you most.
[wind whistling]
How's your life, Raffaele?
What's going on?
- Dating is hard.
- [laughing] Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, women find out
who I am, they're not interested.
Or even worse, they're interested
for all the wrong reasons.
Yeah. I know.
And, um, building a career
I finally got a chance to leave Italy,
start over in tech company.
- Yeah?
- So excited, I moved to Paris.
- Yeah? And what?
- And my boss googled me.
"So, uh, sorry kid, you're fired.
Back home you go."
- You know what I think about a lot?
- What?
This night that I dragged
Meredith to this concert
- that no one else would go to with me.
- Oh, that concert.
And it was Astor Piazzolla's
Le Gran Tango.
We were the youngest people
in the audience by, like,
at least 30 years.
I remember head-banging
like I was at a rock concert,
and Meredith was just mortified.
[chuckles]
And once the movement ended,
I watch her leave,
and I look over,
and I see this nerdy guy with glasses,
just looking at me, like that.
- [both laughing]
- Nerdy? No, muscular.
- Of course, of course.
- Uh-huh.
Muscular and handsome and
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- And this
- And nerdy.
This handsome, nerdy guy
with the glasses,
um, goes over
to this beautiful blue-eyed girl.
Aw, thank you.
And ask, "Can I excuse me,
can I sit next to you?"
And she smiles and says yes.
And his English is bad.
- Bad.
- And her Italian is bad too.
- Bad.
- Yeah.
But they talk about music.
- And Seattle.
- [laughing]
And have much connection.
Do you regret meeting me?
Do you regret me, Raffa?
[Raffaele sighs]
I I want to be honest with you.
- Okay.
- Okay.
And, uh, there were times
where I think I did.
Yes.
But not now.
- [choking up] No?
- No.
Because y-you can feel it, right?
The heart, it aches and it hurts.
- Yeah.
- It breaks and causes you pain.
But it's
Y-You don't wish you don't have it
because it's part of you.
- [softly] Oh, Raffa.
- And it's the most important part.
So, what I do regret
is you going home that day to shower.
Fucking hell.
[laughing]
Yeah, me too. [laughing and sniffling]
God, if I hadn't
Yeah, I know, if.
If, if, if.
[laughing]
You know why I did that?
Why I went home that morning?
Because I wanted to wear a skirt.
[Amanda laughing]
[Raffa chuckles softly]
You had this romantic trip to
Gubbio planned for us.
[sniffling]
You made me feel like I was
in a romantic movie.
And I wanted to dress the part.
[birdsong]
[Raffaele sighs, chuckles]
[Amanda laughing]
- Shall we find you some truffles?
- [laughing]
[Amanda sniffling]
Maybe we just stay here,
just a second longer.
- Okay?
- Okay.
[wind whistling]
[Raffaele inhales deeply]
[Amanda sighs]
[birdsong]
- [bell tolling]
- [dog barking]
[gentle music playing]
[birdsong]
[Amanda] Hi.
[Edda] Hey.
[sighs]
When I used to come
and see you in prison and, uh,
and I'd stay in Perugia
for those long stretches
there was so much time
between visits, you know,
because I only got to see you
- an hour every Tuesday.
- An hour every Tuesday.
And I I would I would spend my time
fighting for you,
any way I could,
but there were times when
there were times when a friend
would ask me for lunch
or say, "Come relax, have a picnic."
I would be sipping delicious wine and
looking out at a view like this.
[birdsong]
And someone might say something
that struck me as funny,
and I'd go [gasps] I'd go to laugh.
- [sobbing]
- [whispering] Oh, Mom. Mom.
I'd feel so guilty.
- That's okay.
- Because [sobbing]
Because how dare a mother laugh
when her daughter
You had it worse than I did.
No, you did.
[sighs] I don't
I don't know how you did it.
[sniffling]
Now that I have Eureka
if if anything like that
ever happened to her,
I don't I don't think
I'd survive it, I don't.
[Amanda sighs, sniffles]
So, you're glad you came?
For 15 years, I've been
defined by something that I didn't do.
And for the first time
since I was 20 years old,
I felt like I was actually
doing something
to take my life back.
I wanted him to apologize to me, I did.
I did.
[sniffling]
And I thought
I thought maybe I needed him to see me
so that I could be okay,
but the truth is, I am.
I am okay.
I showed up with kindness.
As a person that I'm really proud of.
And that's all I can do.
That's all I can ever do.
And I guess I thought
y-you'd be proud of me, too.
Hey.
I am. I'm very proud of you.
[gentle music playing]
Oh, please, can we get
the fuck out of here now?
[both laughing]
[sniffling]
Yeah.
There's just one more thing.
[gentle music playing]
- [Christopher] Babe, you good?
- [Amanda] Yeah. Yeah.
Do you Do you mind if I go alone?
- Just
- No.
Okay. Thank you.
[gentle music continues playing]
[Amanda] It was fate that Meredith
was home that night and I wasn't.
I was the lucky one.
[gentle music continues playing]
Some people will always
define her by me, and me by her.
But the truth is, we were just two girls
at the start of our lives.
[gentle music continues playing]
We went thrift shopping,
and made cookies, and ate pizza.
Just normal stuff.
And I hate that I have to dig
through over a decade of trauma
just to reach my memories of her.
Smart, beautiful Meredith.
Giddy and serious Meredith.
Loving and deep Meredith.
I've never really had a chance
to mourn her.
But I think in coming back,
I'm finally mourning the both of us.
The lives we could have had.
[sighs]
This twisted tale
isn't what I thought mine would be.
And some of you believe I'm innocent.
Some may still think I'm guilty.
And you know, that's okay.
Because it's hard to escape judgment.
It's hard to change one's own mind,
much less someone else's.
Change is not guaranteed,
but it's possible.
And I can't help it. I'm me.
I hold on to hope.
[gentle music continues playing]
[footsteps approaching]
[curtain scraping closed]
[Mignini sobbing]
[gentle music playing]
- [typewriter clacking]
- [bell dings]
[rooster crowing]
[fanfare playing]