WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:37.287 --> 00:00:38.537 NARRATOR: The film which you are about to see 2 00:00:38.664 --> 00:00:43.754 is an account of the crimes committed by Karen Bird and Jack Blueblood. 3 00:00:43.877 --> 00:00:49.627 By June of 1974, they would be responsible for 11 homicides 4 00:00:49.758 --> 00:00:52.678 and wanted dead or alive in six USS states. 5 00:01:04.940 --> 00:01:08.230 Karen Bird was born in the shadow of the Appalachian Mountains 6 00:01:08.360 --> 00:01:12.780 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on January 24th 1956. 7 00:01:12.906 --> 00:01:14.946 She weighed six pounds eight ounces 8 00:01:15.075 --> 00:01:19.745 and was described by the hospital staff as being a particularly pleasant baby. 9 00:01:21.331 --> 00:01:24.211 Jack Blueblood was born a half-breed seven years earlier 10 00:01:24.334 --> 00:01:27.424 on an Indian reservation in South Dakota. 11 00:01:28.297 --> 00:01:30.377 His dather was a Lakota Sioux 12 00:01:30.507 --> 00:01:34.177 and his mother, who died giving birth, was Irish Catholic. 13 00:01:35.929 --> 00:01:39.639 Try as he might, Jack's father could never forgive his son 14 00:01:39.767 --> 00:01:42.057 for taking away the love of his life. 15 00:01:42.186 --> 00:01:44.266 (BEATING) 16 00:01:45.856 --> 00:01:50.486 Not a day went by that young Jack wasn't reminded of his guilt. 17 00:01:50.611 --> 00:01:56.621 Unlike Jack, Karen grew up a model child in a model American town. 18 00:01:56.742 --> 00:02:00.702 The only symptom of her budding misbehavior was an aversion to church, 19 00:02:00.829 --> 00:02:05.999 and CCD, and an obsession with guns. 20 00:02:06.126 --> 00:02:08.036 (CLATTERS) 21 00:02:08.170 --> 00:02:11.130 Jack inherited from his mother a sweet tooth, 22 00:02:11.256 --> 00:02:14.676 her good looks, and an extensive record collection. 23 00:02:16.011 --> 00:02:22.601 When Elvis Presley broke in 1955, Jack became his disciple. 24 00:02:25.646 --> 00:02:29.396 ln EIvis and his music, Jack felt something ancient. 25 00:02:29.525 --> 00:02:33.605 Something primal. He feIt freedom. 26 00:02:36.156 --> 00:02:40.446 Both Jack and Karen would continue to lead aimless, reckless lives 27 00:02:40.577 --> 00:02:43.157 throughout their adolescence, 28 00:02:43.288 --> 00:02:48.128 both searching for something better, something more, 29 00:02:48.252 --> 00:02:52.302 something elusive they couldn't quite define. 30 00:02:52.422 --> 00:02:56.432 lt was only a matter of time before this yearning led them to one another. 31 00:02:58.512 --> 00:02:59.972 They would eventually meet 32 00:03:00.097 --> 00:03:02.137 at the Second Chances RehabiIitation CIinic 33 00:03:02.266 --> 00:03:04.136 located in Floodwood, Michigan. 34 00:03:05.310 --> 00:03:08.310 Karen was sent there involuntarily by her parents 35 00:03:08.438 --> 00:03:10.308 after she was suspended from high school 36 00:03:10.440 --> 00:03:14.990 and turned to nicotine, vodka and teenage boys. 37 00:03:15.863 --> 00:03:19.533 Jack was sent there by the state for his barbiturate addiction 38 00:03:19.658 --> 00:03:23.828 and an increasingly abnormal obsession with Elvis Presley. 39 00:03:23.954 --> 00:03:26.254 WeII, at the time of your evaIuation, 40 00:03:26.373 --> 00:03:29.503 you said that EIvis was straying from the righteous path 41 00:03:29.626 --> 00:03:33.586 and it was your duty to guide his souI to saIvation. 42 00:03:33.714 --> 00:03:35.214 Yep. 43 00:03:36.425 --> 00:03:39.545 Diagnosed with a delusional disorder, 44 00:03:39.678 --> 00:03:44.678 Jack was prescribed daily sessions of electroshock therapy 45 00:03:44.808 --> 00:03:46.978 at twice the recommended dosage. 46 00:03:47.102 --> 00:03:48.732 (SIZZLES) 47 00:03:51.064 --> 00:03:56.944 on March 13th 1974, Karen and Jack would cross paths for the first time, 48 00:03:57.070 --> 00:03:59.780 setting in motion one of the most destructive love affairs 49 00:03:59.907 --> 00:04:02.197 in the annals of US crime. 50 00:04:02.326 --> 00:04:03.826 JACK: Get your fuckin' paws off me, man! 51 00:04:03.952 --> 00:04:07.832 My peopIe was born here in this dirt and I'II do as I goddamn pIease! 52 00:04:08.916 --> 00:04:10.286 Can I heIp you? 53 00:04:10.417 --> 00:04:11.417 (CLATTERS) 54 00:04:37.778 --> 00:04:42.908 So what's a pretty girl Iike you doing here stuck with aII these juggIe heads? 55 00:04:43.033 --> 00:04:45.373 I don't know. 56 00:04:45.494 --> 00:04:49.334 My parents thought I shouId take it easy for a whiIe, I guess. 57 00:04:49.456 --> 00:04:52.536 - I got nerves. - Yeah, they say I got the nerves too. 58 00:04:53.752 --> 00:04:57.092 I mean, how can't a smart person with a brain have the nerves? 59 00:04:57.214 --> 00:05:00.054 You see the world we Iive in? You gotta wonder. 60 00:05:00.175 --> 00:05:02.295 It's the peopIe that don't have nerves 61 00:05:02.427 --> 00:05:05.047 who shouId be Iocked up in here, I think. 62 00:05:05.180 --> 00:05:09.310 - They're the reaI suspicious ones. - Yeah, I guess. 63 00:05:11.603 --> 00:05:14.733 - So what's your name? - Karen. 64 00:05:14.856 --> 00:05:17.976 - That's a pretty name. - Thanka. 65 00:05:18.902 --> 00:05:21.322 My name's Jack BIuebIood. 66 00:05:21.446 --> 00:05:23.446 (CHATTER OVER WALKIE-TALKIE) 67 00:05:27.703 --> 00:05:28.833 Can I see you again? 68 00:05:30.080 --> 00:05:32.960 - Maybe. - I gotta get. 69 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:45.220 Hey. He's in the Iadies' room. 70 00:05:51.601 --> 00:05:53.021 (MUFFLED VOICES) 71 00:05:53.145 --> 00:05:54.185 - (LOUD THUD) - GUARD: Ow! 72 00:05:54.312 --> 00:05:56.522 (GLASS SHATTERS) 73 00:05:56.648 --> 00:06:00.858 I just don't wanna be some... 74 00:06:02.029 --> 00:06:03.859 Chattanooga chambermaid. 75 00:06:04.656 --> 00:06:06.906 I want something different. 76 00:06:08.035 --> 00:06:09.655 Like what, Karen? 77 00:06:11.621 --> 00:06:16.331 - I don't know reaIIy. - And that is the crux of your anxiety. 78 00:06:17.377 --> 00:06:19.207 The unknown. 79 00:06:21.256 --> 00:06:24.126 - You mind if I have a smoke? - No. 80 00:06:34.853 --> 00:06:37.693 - Dr Sanborn, can I ask you something? - Of course. 81 00:06:38.940 --> 00:06:42.150 Why is that Jack BIuebIood guy here? 82 00:06:42.277 --> 00:06:45.817 Because he hears voices in his head that teII him to kiII. 83 00:06:46.656 --> 00:06:49.656 - I aIso think he might be queer. - (LAUGHS) 84 00:06:49.785 --> 00:06:52.745 You can Iaugh if you want to but Jack BIuebIood is a very dangerous man. 85 00:06:52.871 --> 00:06:56.581 You need to stay away from him. Trust me. 86 00:07:06.802 --> 00:07:10.512 On top of soIar fkares and sun spots, 87 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:13.219 what I'm reaIIy most freaked about is pandemics. 88 00:07:14.518 --> 00:07:16.438 Toby! Get! 89 00:07:21.316 --> 00:07:23.226 Checkmate. 90 00:07:25.737 --> 00:07:29.197 LittIe birdie toId me you snitched on my hiding spot. 91 00:07:29.324 --> 00:07:30.574 Oh, yeah? 92 00:07:30.700 --> 00:07:35.290 Look, sugar tits, I don't know who the fuck you think you are, 93 00:07:35.413 --> 00:07:37.123 but there's ruIes around here. 94 00:07:37.249 --> 00:07:39.039 Don't caII me sugar tits. 95 00:07:39.167 --> 00:07:43.417 RuIe number one, I'II caII you whatever the fuck I wanna caII you. 96 00:07:43.547 --> 00:07:46.467 RuIe two, do not cross me. 97 00:07:49.136 --> 00:07:52.926 I carry artiIIery in my boot just Iike the King and I ain't afraid to use it. 98 00:07:54.057 --> 00:07:57.057 I'm 50% Irish, 50% Lakota Sioux. 99 00:08:02.107 --> 00:08:04.277 I'm 100% white trash. 100 00:08:08.363 --> 00:08:11.203 NARRATOR: Jack and Karen fell for each other quickly. 101 00:08:16.538 --> 00:08:19.458 According to an entry in Karen's diary at the time, 102 00:08:19.583 --> 00:08:22.543 Jack is unlike anyone she'd ever met before. 103 00:08:22.669 --> 00:08:24.799 KAREN: Sure, he's crazy but he's alive. 104 00:08:25.672 --> 00:08:28.342 He's got mercury for blood and fire in his eyes. 105 00:08:28.466 --> 00:08:30.966 And although he might look rough and primitive, 106 00:08:31.094 --> 00:08:33.604 deep down he's sensitive and kind. 107 00:08:33.722 --> 00:08:36.972 Last week at movie night, he cried during "Pride of the Yankees", 108 00:08:37.100 --> 00:08:41.770 and he whittled me a statuette of the Virgin Mary out of a bar of Lava. 109 00:08:43.315 --> 00:08:45.765 He says that sometimes his head feels like it's crowded 110 00:08:45.901 --> 00:08:49.821 with a bunch of black dogs who won't quit barking. lt drives him mad. 111 00:08:50.947 --> 00:08:52.867 And l can relate to that feeling. 112 00:08:53.825 --> 00:08:57.615 Plus we tell each other secrets we ain't never told anyone before. 113 00:08:57.746 --> 00:09:02.786 When I was eight years oId, I kiIIed a baby bIuebird just to watch it die. 114 00:09:02.918 --> 00:09:04.498 I feeI bad about that. 115 00:09:05.837 --> 00:09:08.707 I Iike The Beach Boys more than The BeatIes. 116 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:11.720 Don't teII anyone. It's controversiaI. 117 00:09:13.053 --> 00:09:17.933 My one true dream in Iife is to step foot into the Pacific Ocean, 118 00:09:18.058 --> 00:09:23.938 feeI the warm frothy water on my Iegs, breathe in the fresh saIty air. 119 00:09:25.982 --> 00:09:27.272 Your turn. 120 00:09:29.110 --> 00:09:31.030 I hate my daddy. 121 00:09:31.154 --> 00:09:35.744 My favorite month of the year is October when the air smeIIs aII wet and fun. 122 00:09:36.660 --> 00:09:39.410 When I Iisten to EIvis, it's Iike the gospeI. 123 00:09:39.537 --> 00:09:41.367 Those two minutes and 30 seconds 124 00:09:41.498 --> 00:09:46.378 I forget I'm just a kid trapped in a box somewhere waiting to die. 125 00:09:46.503 --> 00:09:48.173 I'm free, baby. 126 00:10:08.733 --> 00:10:13.903 You are the most beautifuI, most far-out chick I've ever seen in my whoIe Iife. 127 00:10:17.409 --> 00:10:21.039 NARRATOR: Karen had never felt this way about a boy before. 128 00:10:22.205 --> 00:10:27.415 When she was with him she didn't feel that funny, lonesome feeling, 129 00:10:27.544 --> 00:10:29.754 and neither did he. 130 00:10:30.880 --> 00:10:36.180 But this carefree time would soon come to an end. 131 00:10:47.188 --> 00:10:49.398 PATIENT: FeIt Iike the waIIs were caving in, 132 00:10:49.524 --> 00:10:53.994 Iike the air was disappearing and the sky was faIIing. 133 00:10:54.112 --> 00:10:58.782 Like nothing was reaI no more and I was being erased from it aII. 134 00:11:00.410 --> 00:11:02.370 Like I was being rubbed out. 135 00:11:03.580 --> 00:11:05.790 DOCTOR: Very courageous. Thank you for sharing that. 136 00:11:05.915 --> 00:11:09.535 DOCTOR: AII right, everyone, Iet's discuss what Toby toId us. 137 00:11:14.716 --> 00:11:16.376 (KNOCKING) 138 00:11:20.930 --> 00:11:24.270 - Who's there? - JACK: It's me, baby. Open up. 139 00:11:24.392 --> 00:11:28.062 - What's the password? - JACK: Pretty pIease. Open up. 140 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.280 I gotta teII you something. I gotta teII you something. HoId on. 141 00:11:39.783 --> 00:11:41.033 What? 142 00:11:42.077 --> 00:11:45.697 Now, we've been going steady for a coupIe of weeka now. Right? 143 00:11:45.830 --> 00:11:48.000 So there's something you shouId know about me. 144 00:11:48.124 --> 00:11:51.884 - OK. - A coupIe of years back... 145 00:11:52.837 --> 00:11:55.917 My dead mama made contact with me. 146 00:11:56.049 --> 00:12:01.509 She toId me that I gotta kiII EIvis. 147 00:12:03.681 --> 00:12:06.811 NARRATOR: By 1972, it had become clear to Jack 148 00:12:06.935 --> 00:12:11.895 that a distinct change had occurred in EIvis and his music. 149 00:12:12.023 --> 00:12:16.943 Shortly after the "Aloha From Hawaii" special, while high on mezcal... 150 00:12:17.070 --> 00:12:18.400 (BACKWARDS SINGING) 151 00:12:18.530 --> 00:12:21.990 ...Jack accidentally spun his davorite Elvis record backwards, 152 00:12:22.117 --> 00:12:24.787 and claimed to have heard a message from his dead mother 153 00:12:24.911 --> 00:12:27.001 spinning in the grooves of the wax. 154 00:12:27.997 --> 00:12:30.957 (DISTORTED VOICE) Kill Elvis. 155 00:12:31.751 --> 00:12:48.431 Kill Elvis. 156 00:12:51.896 --> 00:12:55.066 EIvis, Iike EIvis EIvis? 157 00:12:55.191 --> 00:12:57.901 Look, I knew you were gonna say that and I know it sounds crazy, baby, 158 00:12:58.027 --> 00:13:02.407 but you gotta trust me on this one, OK? Look, I got proof. 159 00:13:03.992 --> 00:13:09.662 Elvis is pIaying the Sports CoIiseum in Los AngeIes, CaIifornia, on May 11th. 160 00:13:10.832 --> 00:13:14.382 Which aIso happens to be my dead mama's birthday. 161 00:13:14.502 --> 00:13:18.302 Now, does that sound Iike a coincidence to you? Cos it don't to me. 162 00:13:18.423 --> 00:13:21.133 - What are you trying to say? - I'm gonna bust out of here. 163 00:13:21.259 --> 00:13:24.429 I'm gonna hitch west and I'm gonna kiII the son of a bitch. 164 00:13:25.889 --> 00:13:28.349 Are you gonna come with me, sunshine? 165 00:13:28.475 --> 00:13:30.725 You always said you wanted to see the ocean. 166 00:13:34.898 --> 00:13:39.028 The beaches and the sunscreen. Don't you just Iove that smeII? 167 00:13:40.028 --> 00:13:42.148 I thought you Ioved EIvis, Jack. 168 00:13:43.948 --> 00:13:45.278 I do. 169 00:13:46.284 --> 00:13:48.914 So then why wouId your mama want you to kiII him? 170 00:13:49.871 --> 00:13:51.791 I don't know, Karen. 171 00:13:51.915 --> 00:13:56.745 I've been waiting on a sign from my mama just to make sure this is 100%, 172 00:13:56.878 --> 00:13:58.458 and then this came in the maiI today. 173 00:13:58.588 --> 00:14:02.128 This is my destiny, Karen. It's my caIIing. 174 00:14:07.764 --> 00:14:10.274 I need you to come with me. 175 00:14:12.602 --> 00:14:16.612 Look, I ain't never had the courage to do this tiII I met you. 176 00:14:19.484 --> 00:14:21.944 Hey. What I teII you two about being in each other's rooms, huh? 177 00:14:22.070 --> 00:14:24.990 Fuck off. Get off me. Hey, just think about it, OK? 178 00:14:25.114 --> 00:14:27.454 Dr Sanborn wouId Iike to see you in his office. 179 00:14:27.575 --> 00:14:30.445 - It's time for your 'sis. Let's go. - (JACK RANTS) 180 00:14:33.289 --> 00:14:34.999 (DOOR SHUTS) 181 00:14:41.464 --> 00:14:42.974 (JACK GRUNTS) 182 00:14:43.091 --> 00:14:44.091 (SIZZLES) 183 00:14:55.186 --> 00:14:58.356 Miss Bird. Come in. 184 00:15:00.191 --> 00:15:01.821 Have a seat. 185 00:15:07.949 --> 00:15:08.949 (LOCK CLICKS) 186 00:15:13.538 --> 00:15:17.418 I want to taIk to you about your affairs with Jack BIuebIood. 187 00:15:20.503 --> 00:15:22.003 - (SIZZLES) - (GRUNTS) 188 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:25.050 - (SIZZLES) - (GROANS) 189 00:15:27.135 --> 00:15:28.885 (SIZZLES) 190 00:15:29.012 --> 00:15:30.472 (PROLONGED GROANS) 191 00:15:48.781 --> 00:15:50.701 (KNOCKS ON DOOR) 192 00:15:56.372 --> 00:15:58.462 What's the matter, baby? 193 00:15:59.542 --> 00:16:01.292 (VOICE BREAKS) Dr Sanborn. 194 00:16:02.503 --> 00:16:06.213 - What? - He... He touched me. 195 00:16:06.341 --> 00:16:07.631 He did what? 196 00:16:26.694 --> 00:16:31.994 Hey, Doc. I think that therapy is working out reaI great. 197 00:16:37.330 --> 00:16:38.910 (GLASS TINKLES) 198 00:16:39.874 --> 00:16:41.334 (PILLS RATTLE) 199 00:16:42.001 --> 00:16:43.291 (ALARM BELL RINGS) 200 00:16:44.379 --> 00:16:48.339 AII right, everybody. Time to go home. 201 00:16:49.509 --> 00:16:52.009 TeII your friends, you whackos, this party's over. 202 00:16:59.268 --> 00:17:00.888 Baby, it's me. 203 00:17:05.608 --> 00:17:09.148 I kiIIed that scumbag piece of shit, cos he deserved it, 204 00:17:09.278 --> 00:17:11.988 and I ain't ever gonna Iet anyone touch you 205 00:17:12.115 --> 00:17:15.865 or Iook at you funny or say a bad thing ever again. 206 00:17:16.911 --> 00:17:18.451 I Iove you. 207 00:17:19.872 --> 00:17:21.422 I Iove you too. 208 00:17:25.044 --> 00:17:28.424 Pack your shit. We're going to CaIifornia. 209 00:17:34.971 --> 00:17:36.641 NARRATOR: By the time the police arrived, 210 00:17:36.764 --> 00:17:41.944 Jack and Karen had hotwired a 1961 Cadillac DeVille and hit the road. 211 00:17:42.061 --> 00:17:44.731 They would arrive in LA eventually, 212 00:17:44.856 --> 00:17:48.566 but first they would enjoy the sights and sounds of America. 213 00:17:52.280 --> 00:17:55.780 Dr Guido Nash, an expert on adolescent psychology. 214 00:17:55.908 --> 00:17:59.368 Look, in rare cases, patients of his sort 215 00:17:59.495 --> 00:18:04.165 receiving experimentaI therapies can have vioIent reactions, sure. 216 00:18:12.508 --> 00:18:16.928 DR NASH: But the girl, she haunts me. 217 00:18:20.057 --> 00:18:22.057 l don't know what to say about her. 218 00:18:26.397 --> 00:18:28.727 Her file reads like Jackie onassis's. 219 00:18:34.989 --> 00:18:39.329 She had parents who loved her, affluence, good looks. 220 00:18:47.376 --> 00:18:49.626 She had every privilege in life. 221 00:18:52.089 --> 00:18:54.129 She should have been a debutante. 222 00:19:10.983 --> 00:19:12.363 Jack? 223 00:19:15.780 --> 00:19:18.160 You think you're going to heaven or heII? 224 00:19:24.497 --> 00:19:27.117 Eternity anywhere sounds Iike heII. 225 00:19:28.292 --> 00:19:31.712 After 2,000 years of pIaying basebaII and fkying around, 226 00:19:31.838 --> 00:19:34.508 I think I'd be Iooking for a way out. 227 00:19:38.886 --> 00:19:40.676 You know what I think? 228 00:19:42.765 --> 00:19:44.345 CIose your eyes. 229 00:19:52.483 --> 00:19:56.153 KAREN: I think it's Iike this. But forever. 230 00:19:57.864 --> 00:20:11.794 # Hmm, mm-mm-mm 231 00:20:12.837 --> 00:20:18.877 # Will you walk along with me 232 00:20:21.262 --> 00:20:24.062 # To the dark side 233 00:20:24.181 --> 00:20:28.561 # Of the twilight 234 00:20:30.229 --> 00:20:37.439 # Will you come along with me 235 00:20:39.071 --> 00:20:46.371 # Stay by my side 236 00:20:47.371 --> 00:20:48.371 (HUMS) 237 00:21:13.439 --> 00:21:14.979 (RADIO JINGLE) 238 00:21:20.571 --> 00:21:22.951 OVER RADIO: A seIect committee of the United States Senate 239 00:21:23.074 --> 00:21:26.744 is about to begin pubic hearings on something called Watergate. 240 00:21:26.869 --> 00:21:29.369 one year ago today, Watergate was just an address, 241 00:21:29.497 --> 00:21:32.417 a rather fancy, expensive address in this capital city, 242 00:21:32.541 --> 00:21:35.211 but now it has come to symbolize much more. 243 00:21:35.336 --> 00:21:39.586 The word "crisis" is perhaps too mild to apply to Watergate. 244 00:21:39.715 --> 00:21:41.835 President Nixon's White House has been shaken, 245 00:21:41.968 --> 00:21:44.968 indeed the entire executive branch of the government 246 00:21:45.096 --> 00:21:49.096 has been jolted by the continuing accusations and revelations. 247 00:21:49.225 --> 00:21:52.685 Most of them, it must be kept in mind, not yet proved. 248 00:21:52.812 --> 00:21:54.482 Seven men, only seven men, 249 00:21:54.605 --> 00:21:56.855 have been convicted for their part in the burglary. 250 00:21:56.983 --> 00:22:02.703 We see now Senator Sam Ervin, who is the chairman of the... 251 00:22:08.911 --> 00:22:12.871 NARRATOR: Elvis Presley, despite all his trying otherwise, 252 00:22:12.999 --> 00:22:16.539 had somehow gotten caught in the lazy river of time. 253 00:22:17.586 --> 00:22:20.756 At 39 years old, he had more than betrayed 254 00:22:20.881 --> 00:22:23.761 the fresh-faced boy from Memphis he once was. 255 00:22:23.884 --> 00:22:26.804 You know, l just sing the only way l know how to, really. 256 00:22:26.929 --> 00:22:30.929 And people seem to like that, so l'm real glad about that. l'm lucky. 257 00:22:31.058 --> 00:22:32.428 What do you plan on doing 258 00:22:32.560 --> 00:22:34.940 after this whole rock and roll thing has run its course? 259 00:22:36.564 --> 00:22:39.694 Well, um... I don't know, sir. 260 00:22:39.817 --> 00:22:42.397 Maybe l'll go back to being an electrician or something like that. 261 00:22:42.528 --> 00:22:45.358 NARRATOR: But rock and roll had never run its course. 262 00:22:45.489 --> 00:22:48.159 For better or for worse, it was here for good, 263 00:22:48.284 --> 00:22:50.874 and Elvis was its accidental king. 264 00:22:50.995 --> 00:22:52.445 (GIRLS SCREAM) 265 00:22:53.914 --> 00:22:58.084 A king navigating the zeitgeist of a time and people 266 00:22:58.210 --> 00:22:59.840 he didn't always understand. 267 00:23:01.255 --> 00:23:05.715 After this rehearsaI, you have a one o'cIock meeting with Mr Beefy. 268 00:23:05.843 --> 00:23:10.853 People who had led him astray, who had made him their song-and-dance man, 269 00:23:10.973 --> 00:23:13.523 and when they got bored, stopped seeing his movies, 270 00:23:13.642 --> 00:23:15.982 stopped listening, really listening, 271 00:23:16.103 --> 00:23:19.443 to the voice that had grabbed them by the shirt collars 272 00:23:19.565 --> 00:23:21.645 and shook their souls. 273 00:23:31.118 --> 00:23:34.658 The summer tour of 1974, his first in years, 274 00:23:34.789 --> 00:23:39.209 was a concentrated effort to win back those who had strayed from the King. 275 00:23:39.335 --> 00:23:42.295 To reassert his seat at the throne. 276 00:23:42.421 --> 00:23:45.801 The first date, at the Los Angeles Sports Coliseum, 277 00:23:45.925 --> 00:23:50.505 was to be the big send-off. They had been planning it for weeks. 278 00:23:55.684 --> 00:23:57.484 What is it? 279 00:23:57.937 --> 00:24:01.307 # That powers throughout 280 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:06.190 # The universe displayed 281 00:24:06.320 --> 00:24:08.360 That's it. 282 00:24:08.489 --> 00:24:11.319 MAN: AII right, EIvis, we shouId take ten, I think. 283 00:24:14.620 --> 00:24:16.120 AII right, damn it, don't... 284 00:24:19.708 --> 00:24:20.998 (CLATTERS) 285 00:24:21.127 --> 00:24:22.877 Don't teII me when to take a break, aII right? 286 00:24:23.003 --> 00:24:25.463 We're doing a song up here, we finish the song. 287 00:24:25.589 --> 00:24:27.509 And yet mere days away from the show... 288 00:24:27.633 --> 00:24:28.723 That's just unheard of. 289 00:24:28.843 --> 00:24:32.513 ...Elvis was ill prepared. He was 20 pounds too heavy. 290 00:24:32.638 --> 00:24:34.428 You boys don't Iisten to him, you Iisten to me. 291 00:24:34.557 --> 00:24:36.927 And his voice was unrehearsed. 292 00:24:37.059 --> 00:24:40.649 Perhaps worst of all, he didn't really care. 293 00:24:40.771 --> 00:24:44.861 And it was that nihiIism, that black-hole feeling in his chest, 294 00:24:44.984 --> 00:24:46.734 that scared him the most. 295 00:24:46.861 --> 00:24:48.151 AII right, take ten, Iet's do it. 296 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:50.989 - MAN 1 : Cut. SIate. - MAN 2: 634, 278 to nine. 297 00:24:52.158 --> 00:24:57.248 But Elvis was a religious man. He prayed for redemption. 298 00:24:57.371 --> 00:25:00.371 He prayed for a return to glory. 299 00:25:01.333 --> 00:25:03.463 Somebody get me another Coke, pIease? 300 00:25:03.586 --> 00:25:08.336 And little did he know... salvation was on its way. 301 00:25:10.134 --> 00:25:15.474 KAREN: Our Father, who art in heaven, haIIowed be thy name. 302 00:25:15.598 --> 00:25:20.728 Thy kingdom come, thy wiII be done on earth as it is in heaven. 303 00:25:20.853 --> 00:25:25.733 Give us this day our daiIy bread and forgive us our trespasses, 304 00:25:25.858 --> 00:25:28.858 as we forgive those that trespass against us. 305 00:25:30.196 --> 00:25:34.066 And Iead us not into temptation but deIiver us from eviI. 306 00:25:35.117 --> 00:25:36.577 Amen. 307 00:25:39.163 --> 00:25:40.873 (SIGHS) OK. 308 00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:49.510 (HORN BEEPS) 309 00:25:53.260 --> 00:25:54.640 (ENGINE TURNS OFF) 310 00:26:01.268 --> 00:26:02.808 Jack? 311 00:26:04.688 --> 00:26:06.148 - Jack! - Hey there, T. 312 00:26:06.273 --> 00:26:07.903 Hey! 313 00:26:08.025 --> 00:26:10.105 NARRATOR: Jack's only companion on the reservation 314 00:26:10.236 --> 00:26:11.146 was another outsider, 315 00:26:11.278 --> 00:26:15.198 a slight-figured nancy boy by the name of Teijo Littlefoot. 316 00:26:15.324 --> 00:26:18.534 I was going for a kind of ethereaI Joni MitcheII by way of PauI Bunyan 317 00:26:18.661 --> 00:26:20.251 for the decorating scheme. 318 00:26:20.371 --> 00:26:25.791 A Iot of kinda Iike feminine trinkets next to mascuIine knick-knacka. 319 00:26:25.918 --> 00:26:27.338 I made that one. 320 00:26:27.461 --> 00:26:31.341 Oh! And I got these cute IittIe thingamajigs at the doIIar store. 321 00:26:31.465 --> 00:26:33.045 - Aren't they cute? - Mm-hmm. 322 00:26:33.175 --> 00:26:36.425 They remind me aIways to smiIe even if I'm feeIing bIue. 323 00:26:37.763 --> 00:26:41.393 So, Jack, what you in town for, huh? You aII right? 324 00:26:41.517 --> 00:26:42.977 Right as rain, Teijo. 325 00:26:43.894 --> 00:26:46.904 We had to kiII a few foIka back at the Ioony bin so we're on the Iam. 326 00:26:47.022 --> 00:26:51.862 - We're headed to LA. - Los AngeIes. Oh, my goodness! 327 00:26:53.612 --> 00:26:57.242 Hey, Jack, couId you take me with you? 328 00:26:57.366 --> 00:26:58.616 (LAUGHS) 329 00:26:58.742 --> 00:27:00.412 I don't think so, Teej. 330 00:27:00.536 --> 00:27:02.616 Oh, come on, pIease. I get so bored here. 331 00:27:02.746 --> 00:27:04.866 AII I do is watch this stupid teIevision. 332 00:27:04.999 --> 00:27:06.999 And when nothing's on, I hang out with Kimbo. 333 00:27:07.126 --> 00:27:09.246 Do you remember Kimbo, the IittIe handicapped kid? 334 00:27:09.378 --> 00:27:12.128 He's so annoying. 335 00:27:12.256 --> 00:27:16.966 Look, you don't wanna get yourseIf mixed up or kiIIed on our account, OK? 336 00:27:17.094 --> 00:27:21.144 We got an objective. We can't have any dead weight. I'm sorry, buddy. 337 00:27:21.265 --> 00:27:26.685 - Oh, my. You're finaIIy doing it, huh? - That's right. 338 00:27:26.812 --> 00:27:30.232 This is big. This is big. He's been thinking about this for years. 339 00:27:30.357 --> 00:27:31.607 That's exactIy right. 340 00:27:31.734 --> 00:27:34.324 That's why I'm gonna need to get that map I gave to you. 341 00:27:36.030 --> 00:27:37.740 Yeah. 342 00:27:37.865 --> 00:27:39.735 NARRATOR: Before Jack was committed, 343 00:27:39.867 --> 00:27:42.867 he had buried a duffel bag full of guns, 344 00:27:42.995 --> 00:27:46.455 money and rare first-edition comic books. 345 00:27:46.582 --> 00:27:49.542 He drew out a map of its location and wrote the directions in pig Latin 346 00:27:49.668 --> 00:27:52.168 and entrusted it in Teijo's safe-keeping 347 00:27:52.296 --> 00:27:53.836 while he was away from home. 348 00:27:53.964 --> 00:27:57.764 Teijo, this is aII I have. 349 00:27:58.635 --> 00:28:01.095 This is everything. 350 00:28:01.221 --> 00:28:06.101 You're my best friend but if you fuck this up, I wiII kiII you. 351 00:28:07.853 --> 00:28:09.563 You can trust me, Jack. 352 00:28:14.568 --> 00:28:17.648 TEIJO: Oh, I must have seen that movie, Midnight Cowboy, I don't know, 353 00:28:17.780 --> 00:28:20.240 Iike seven times in the theater. It was so good. 354 00:28:20.366 --> 00:28:22.236 KAREN: Is that the one about the two queer men? 355 00:28:22.368 --> 00:28:24.328 - TEIJO: Yeah. - KAREN: Yeah, I Iike that one too. 356 00:28:24.453 --> 00:28:27.583 JACK: They were not queer in that movie, they were friends. 357 00:28:27.706 --> 00:28:31.786 It was about friendship. Get y'aII's heads out of the gutter, man. 358 00:28:33.587 --> 00:28:34.877 (KAREN LAUGHS) 359 00:28:35.005 --> 00:28:37.915 - JACK: What's so funny? - KAREN: Nothing. 360 00:28:42.179 --> 00:28:45.889 Goddammit, Teijo. This don't make no sense. 361 00:28:47.017 --> 00:28:49.267 We shouId have found it by now. 362 00:28:49.395 --> 00:28:52.645 Things move. The earth moves. You never heard of pIate tectonics? 363 00:29:05.953 --> 00:29:07.793 (DULL THUD) 364 00:29:07.913 --> 00:29:08.963 JACK: Sweet mother Mary. 365 00:29:12.418 --> 00:29:13.418 (LAUGHS) 366 00:29:25.139 --> 00:29:28.769 Teijo, where's the money? 367 00:29:29.893 --> 00:29:31.773 Oh, I don't know. 368 00:29:34.231 --> 00:29:37.821 - What do you mean, you don't know? - I don't know. 369 00:29:38.861 --> 00:29:42.411 Teijo, you got about five seconds before I come over there. 370 00:29:43.449 --> 00:29:47.829 It's gone. OK? It's gone. I used it aII, it's gone. 371 00:29:50.497 --> 00:29:51.787 No! 372 00:29:51.915 --> 00:29:53.245 - Come here. - KAREN: Jack! 373 00:29:54.168 --> 00:29:56.668 - Gonna whup your ass, boy. - Jack! Stop it! 374 00:29:57.713 --> 00:29:58.713 Come here. 375 00:30:00.382 --> 00:30:01.382 (PANTS) 376 00:30:05.471 --> 00:30:08.931 - I bought piIIs, OK? - What kind of piIIs? 377 00:30:09.057 --> 00:30:12.387 Estrogen piIIs. Lots of them. 378 00:30:13.645 --> 00:30:15.765 What the fuck are you taIking about?! 379 00:30:15.898 --> 00:30:20.738 Read about it in Newsweek. They're supposed to make you more womanIy. 380 00:30:20.861 --> 00:30:25.281 So if I get my operation, I want my body to accept my new girly parts. 381 00:30:27.743 --> 00:30:31.253 - Are you out of your goddamn mind?! - That's not fair. 382 00:30:31.371 --> 00:30:33.621 I wasn't gonna Ieave the money in there for aII the wormies. 383 00:30:33.749 --> 00:30:34.869 Fuck you, Teijo. 384 00:30:35.959 --> 00:30:38.669 Jack. Jack. Jack. 385 00:30:38.795 --> 00:30:40.755 - Be reasonabIe, Jack. Come on. - Come on, Karen. 386 00:30:40.881 --> 00:30:42.761 - Not you, bro. - Oh, yes, me. 387 00:30:42.883 --> 00:30:45.263 You're not Ieaving me out here with aII this shit. 388 00:31:02.194 --> 00:31:03.194 (EXHALES) 389 00:31:06.114 --> 00:31:10.544 Daddy. It's Jack. Open up. 390 00:31:13.205 --> 00:31:15.205 I know you're in there. 391 00:31:15.332 --> 00:31:17.382 CaIifornia, huh? 392 00:31:17.501 --> 00:31:19.091 - (RAPS ON DOOR) - Daddy, it's Jack. 393 00:31:19.211 --> 00:31:21.051 I need to taIk to you. 394 00:31:21.171 --> 00:31:23.421 There's a Iot of peopIe there that can heIp me. 395 00:31:23.549 --> 00:31:26.969 - Yeah? - Yeah. Doctors and stuff. 396 00:31:28.220 --> 00:31:30.890 - (TAPS LOUDLY ON WINDOW) - Open up, you drunk son of a bitch. 397 00:31:31.014 --> 00:31:38.484 WeII, I wouIdn't get any ideas, Teijo. I mean, you know Jack. 398 00:31:41.108 --> 00:31:42.608 (FOOTSTEPS APPROACH) 399 00:31:51.785 --> 00:31:52.825 Daddy. 400 00:31:52.953 --> 00:31:55.833 NARRATOR: Jack hadn't looked his dather in the eyes for many years. 401 00:31:55.956 --> 00:31:58.416 Doing so then was the closest he ever came 402 00:31:58.542 --> 00:32:01.382 to feeling a sense of love for the old man. 403 00:32:03.088 --> 00:32:04.508 (SNIFFS) 404 00:32:04.631 --> 00:32:05.921 Hey, K! 405 00:32:11.054 --> 00:32:15.314 Daddy, this is my femaIe friend Karen. Karen, say hi. 406 00:32:15.434 --> 00:32:16.684 Hi. 407 00:32:17.936 --> 00:32:19.556 Don't she Iook an awfuI Iot Iike Mama? 408 00:32:25.235 --> 00:32:26.895 Kiggy, what do you want? 409 00:32:27.821 --> 00:32:31.871 Look... We ain't here for no troubIe, aII right? 410 00:32:31.992 --> 00:32:34.332 It's just that... You remember Teijo. 411 00:32:36.455 --> 00:32:38.495 He used aII my money to... 412 00:32:40.834 --> 00:32:43.714 WeII, we need to borrow some bread. 413 00:32:44.546 --> 00:32:45.956 Goddamn it, no! 414 00:32:46.089 --> 00:32:49.379 Goddamn it! Hey! Open the fucking door! 415 00:32:49.509 --> 00:32:50.509 (RAPS) 416 00:32:51.428 --> 00:32:52.718 Open up! 417 00:33:00.604 --> 00:33:02.944 That ain't who I think it was, was it? 418 00:33:06.943 --> 00:33:07.943 (SIGHS) 419 00:33:09.404 --> 00:33:12.874 Goddamn it, I toId you I didn't want any troubIe. 420 00:33:12.991 --> 00:33:16.201 You have been troubIe since the day you were born. 421 00:33:19.414 --> 00:33:20.414 (GUNSHOT) 422 00:33:37.474 --> 00:33:38.894 Oh, God. 423 00:33:43.563 --> 00:33:45.023 Where's the money? 424 00:33:47.859 --> 00:33:49.319 Where's the fucking money?! 425 00:33:57.285 --> 00:33:58.365 (RATTLES) 426 00:34:17.055 --> 00:34:20.805 You know, if you think about it, I kinda did you a favor here. 427 00:34:22.811 --> 00:34:25.441 You're gonna be reunited with Mama again. 428 00:34:27.274 --> 00:34:32.154 WiII you teII her I said I Iove her? I can hear her Ioud and cIear. 429 00:34:36.825 --> 00:34:39.325 It's a shame we never got on right. 430 00:34:49.421 --> 00:34:51.131 It's too Iate now, I guess. 431 00:34:57.971 --> 00:35:00.011 There's cops. There's cops out... 432 00:35:01.391 --> 00:35:02.851 TEIJO: Shit! 433 00:35:03.727 --> 00:35:07.187 - Fuck, is he dead? - JACK: Yeah, he's dead. 434 00:35:07.314 --> 00:35:10.154 OK, no, no, you both are taking me with you to LA. 435 00:35:10.275 --> 00:35:12.395 - AbsoIuteIy not. - No! You can't Ieave me with this. 436 00:35:12.527 --> 00:35:13.937 I said no, Teijo. 437 00:35:14.070 --> 00:35:17.410 Jack, Iet him come with. I couId use a friend on the road. 438 00:35:18.575 --> 00:35:20.615 Ah, come on. 439 00:35:23.288 --> 00:35:26.538 AII right, Iook, you guys go out back. I'II take the pigs in the front. 440 00:35:26.666 --> 00:35:27.916 You go on my signaI, OK? 441 00:35:29.711 --> 00:35:33.421 - Is everything cooI, baby? - I'm wiIIing. 442 00:35:47.395 --> 00:35:49.095 (DRAMATIC MUSIC) 443 00:36:32.357 --> 00:36:34.017 (GUNSHOT) 444 00:36:44.619 --> 00:36:46.289 (BANG) 445 00:36:51.293 --> 00:36:53.633 (WHOOPS AND LAUGHS) 446 00:37:09.603 --> 00:37:13.943 NARRATOR: Karen's usually sedated suburb found itself in a media frenzy 447 00:37:14.065 --> 00:37:19.855 not seen since the high-school football team won state 16 years prior. 448 00:37:19.988 --> 00:37:22.198 The death count is now five. 449 00:37:22.324 --> 00:37:28.124 Jack Blueblood and Karen Bird, Iovers, dreamers, seriaI kiIIers. 450 00:37:28.246 --> 00:37:30.826 FEMALE REPORTER: Karen Bird, the silver-spoon delinquent, 451 00:37:30.957 --> 00:37:31.997 enjoyed riding her bike, 452 00:37:32.125 --> 00:37:36.835 donating to charity, and participating in religious education. 453 00:37:36.963 --> 00:37:38.553 Then something went astray. 454 00:37:38.673 --> 00:37:40.423 l didn't really know her. 455 00:37:40.550 --> 00:37:42.090 My dad said l couldn't talk to her 456 00:37:42.218 --> 00:37:45.098 after she supported McGovern in our school's mock election. 457 00:37:45.221 --> 00:37:48.891 Just fun, l guess. l don't know. 458 00:37:51.019 --> 00:37:56.189 The Bird family has been kind enough to open up their home to our cameras. 459 00:37:56.316 --> 00:37:58.936 l'm in Karen's room right now. 460 00:37:59.069 --> 00:38:00.739 l want to show you all something we found 461 00:38:00.862 --> 00:38:03.032 while investigating her record collection. 462 00:38:05.533 --> 00:38:08.163 NARRATOR: A poem Karen had written on the inside sleeve 463 00:38:08.286 --> 00:38:12.536 of Karen Dalton's "ln My Own Time" was analyzed for clues. 464 00:38:15.627 --> 00:38:19.207 KAREN: Moonbeams and daydreams and buttons and bows. 465 00:38:21.716 --> 00:38:24.836 Saltwater kisses and hot sand between toes. 466 00:38:31.142 --> 00:38:33.892 My mom in her summer dress and the smell of her hair. 467 00:38:39.943 --> 00:38:43.033 The sounds of July and life without care. 468 00:39:20.025 --> 00:39:23.235 NARRATOR: Amid Jack and Karen's honeymoon of bloodshed, 469 00:39:23.361 --> 00:39:25.611 the law was hot on their tail. 470 00:39:27.323 --> 00:39:31.793 They were traced to a motel only seven hours from the reservation 471 00:39:31.911 --> 00:39:35.291 where they had signed into the guest registrar with phony names. 472 00:40:05.570 --> 00:40:07.490 Having been informed that his client 473 00:40:07.614 --> 00:40:10.284 was on the precipice of a nervous breakdown, 474 00:40:10.408 --> 00:40:12.658 Colonel Tom Parker flew to Los Angeles 475 00:40:12.786 --> 00:40:17.496 in hopes of interceding a mental collapse and protecting investments. 476 00:40:24.839 --> 00:40:26.219 Hey. 477 00:40:29.427 --> 00:40:32.047 What did I teII you about sungIasses where I can't see your eyes? 478 00:40:32.180 --> 00:40:34.310 - Take 'em off. - Yes, sir. 479 00:40:36.976 --> 00:40:41.186 Now, what's this I hear from Charlie about you not hitting your notes? 480 00:40:43.775 --> 00:40:46.235 Tour starts in two days, EIvis. 481 00:40:48.113 --> 00:40:50.163 How is everything? 482 00:40:53.409 --> 00:40:55.489 CoIoneI, you remember when we first met? 483 00:40:55.620 --> 00:40:57.200 Of course. 484 00:40:59.374 --> 00:41:02.674 You toId me I'd be the brightest star ever did shine. 485 00:41:02.794 --> 00:41:04.554 Yes, I did. 486 00:41:05.713 --> 00:41:07.013 And I was. 487 00:41:07.132 --> 00:41:10.632 You are stiII the brightest star, EIvis. 488 00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:13.430 No, sir, I... I think... 489 00:41:13.555 --> 00:41:17.345 What do they caII them oId dead stars burned out a Iong time ago? 490 00:41:17.475 --> 00:41:22.395 Dwarfs. I'm Iike... I'm Iike a dwarf star. 491 00:41:23.189 --> 00:41:25.189 What are you taIking about? 492 00:41:27.193 --> 00:41:30.453 Sir, I'm taIking about quitting. Quitting the whoIe racket. 493 00:41:33.283 --> 00:41:37.493 Do you have any idea what kind of money is tied up in this tour? 494 00:41:37.620 --> 00:41:40.580 Contracts, the tickets, the paychecka? 495 00:41:40.707 --> 00:41:43.417 Not to mention that canceIing such an event 496 00:41:43.543 --> 00:41:47.253 wouId cause an irreparabIe rift between you and the pubIic, 497 00:41:47.380 --> 00:41:50.010 and we don't need any more of that. 498 00:41:53.678 --> 00:41:55.798 EIvis, Iisten. 499 00:41:57.515 --> 00:42:03.395 Once this tour is through, by aII means, take some time off. 500 00:42:03.521 --> 00:42:06.731 That Lisa Marie, she ain't gonna be a IittIe girl forever. 501 00:42:09.903 --> 00:42:14.743 Mama came to see me in a dream. CoupIe of nights back. 502 00:42:17.285 --> 00:42:20.945 I think she was trying to teII me something but I don't understand what. 503 00:42:26.711 --> 00:42:29.591 Things just ain't the same since she passed, sir. 504 00:42:30.590 --> 00:42:34.930 - That's when aII this reaIIy started. - AII what started? 505 00:42:40.183 --> 00:42:42.103 Just aII this sorrow. 506 00:43:37.240 --> 00:43:39.700 NIXON ON TV: ...that l weIcome this kind of examination, 507 00:43:39.826 --> 00:43:43.446 because people have got to know whether or not their president's a crook. 508 00:43:43.579 --> 00:43:47.789 Well, I'm not a crook. l've earned everything l've got. 509 00:44:20.325 --> 00:44:22.485 (MUSIC PLAYS IN BACKGROUND) 510 00:44:37.592 --> 00:44:39.222 Can I heIp you? 511 00:44:39.344 --> 00:44:42.974 - HeIIo. My name's Jack BIuebIood. - What do you want? 512 00:44:43.097 --> 00:44:46.267 WeII, sir, I don't know if you remember me but we met a few years back. 513 00:44:46.392 --> 00:44:50.232 Sioux FaIIs EIvis convention. You gave me your address here 514 00:44:50.355 --> 00:44:52.975 and toId me you might be abIe to heIp me find Elvis. 515 00:44:54.192 --> 00:44:55.692 Yeah. 516 00:44:56.778 --> 00:45:01.108 Jack BIuebIood. We got shithoused that night, didn't we? 517 00:45:01.240 --> 00:45:03.780 - Yeah, we certainIy did, sir. - How are you, man? 518 00:45:03.910 --> 00:45:09.160 - Doing good. Do you mind if we come in? - Yeah, you can aII come in. Come on in. 519 00:45:09.290 --> 00:45:12.290 It's been a whiIe since I've been on that convention circuit. 520 00:45:12.418 --> 00:45:15.208 I don't know, been what, four or five years, Jack? 521 00:45:15.338 --> 00:45:18.298 Oh, that was... That was 1970, sir. 522 00:45:18.424 --> 00:45:22.224 - Long time. - AwfuI cooI pIace you got here, man. 523 00:45:22.345 --> 00:45:26.005 Yeah, thank you. My wife had a reaI eye for things. 524 00:45:27.058 --> 00:45:31.478 It's reaIIy aII herjunk. Yeah. 525 00:45:32.438 --> 00:45:34.398 She's in a better pIace. 526 00:45:35.733 --> 00:45:39.193 So, what brings you out west? Where y'aII heading? 527 00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:41.860 Oh, we're just passing through on our way to LA. 528 00:45:41.989 --> 00:45:44.659 Ooh! City of AngeIs. 529 00:45:44.784 --> 00:45:47.794 Who's this girl standing next to EIvis? 530 00:45:48.996 --> 00:45:53.746 Oh, yeah. That wouId be Miss Dixie Locke. 531 00:45:53.876 --> 00:45:57.456 Yes. That was EIvis's high-schooI sweetheart. 532 00:45:57.588 --> 00:46:01.678 Mr X knew EIvis way back when, Karen. Ain't that something? 533 00:46:01.801 --> 00:46:04.851 Yeah. OId, oId friends. 534 00:46:04.971 --> 00:46:06.431 And where is she now? 535 00:46:06.556 --> 00:46:10.056 I don't know. Suppose just another name in the phonebook. 536 00:46:11.269 --> 00:46:15.559 Just a footnote in the Iife story of a boy that she Ioved when she was 16. 537 00:46:17.900 --> 00:46:22.990 Huh. I'm getting aII sentimentaI. Sorry about that. 538 00:46:25.908 --> 00:46:29.488 Let's taIk shop. What can I do you for, Mr Jack? 539 00:46:29.620 --> 00:46:34.370 WeII, I came here to get the name of the hoteI EIvis stays at in LA. 540 00:46:34.500 --> 00:46:36.250 (LAUGHS) 541 00:46:36.377 --> 00:46:39.747 As weII as his room number and whatever name he uses for the reservation. 542 00:46:39.881 --> 00:46:42.971 Why wouId you need that information, son? 543 00:46:43.092 --> 00:46:46.512 You toId me a coupIe of years ago I couId buy that information off of you. 544 00:46:46.637 --> 00:46:49.757 80 bucka. That's what you toId me a few years back. 545 00:46:49.891 --> 00:46:52.391 Jack, we was Iaid out drunk. 546 00:46:52.518 --> 00:46:54.848 I might have said a few things that I reaIIy couIdn't... 547 00:46:56.939 --> 00:46:59.769 Look, man, we both know I didn't drive out here 548 00:46:59.901 --> 00:47:02.901 in the middIe of goddamn nowhere to shoot the shit with you. 549 00:47:04.947 --> 00:47:06.617 What's the name of the hoteI? 550 00:47:12.914 --> 00:47:16.504 I heard about y'aII on the radio. Oh, yeah. 551 00:47:16.626 --> 00:47:21.296 I heard your name, Jack BIuebIood. I remembered our IittIe conversation. 552 00:47:21.422 --> 00:47:24.012 You son of a bitch. I teII you what. 553 00:47:24.133 --> 00:47:28.013 I was mad at EIvis way back then but I'm not now. I found it in my heart-- 554 00:47:28.137 --> 00:47:29.217 (GUNSHOTS) 555 00:47:32.558 --> 00:47:34.348 Come again? 556 00:47:40.358 --> 00:47:44.568 PresidentiaI suite. Beverly Canyon HoteI. 557 00:47:44.695 --> 00:47:45.695 (CLICK) 558 00:47:52.119 --> 00:47:53.789 Directory assistance. 559 00:47:53.913 --> 00:47:58.713 I need the Beverly Canyon HoteI in Los AngeIes, CaIifornia, pIease. 560 00:47:59.794 --> 00:48:04.054 Hi, uh... Can I be connected to... What's the name on the room? 561 00:48:04.173 --> 00:48:05.843 Mr X: Woodrow WiIson. 562 00:48:05.967 --> 00:48:08.257 To Woodrow WiIson's suite? 563 00:48:09.512 --> 00:48:12.102 One second, darling. Password? 564 00:48:13.516 --> 00:48:16.806 - Sea saIt. - Sea saIt. 565 00:48:18.688 --> 00:48:20.478 (CHUCKLES) 566 00:48:21.482 --> 00:48:25.782 That wasn't so hard, was it? AII right, deaI's a deaI, man. 80 bucka. 567 00:48:25.903 --> 00:48:27.573 I'm gonna need to take your phone. 568 00:48:27.697 --> 00:48:31.577 I'm aIso gonna sIash the tires on your Dodge out there. 569 00:48:31.701 --> 00:48:33.451 I'm reaIIy sorry about that. 570 00:48:33.578 --> 00:48:36.788 So here's 140. That shouId cover it. 571 00:48:36.914 --> 00:48:39.004 That shouId pay for everything. Let's go. 572 00:48:44.255 --> 00:48:46.205 He's just a man, Jack. 573 00:48:51.178 --> 00:48:55.808 He's just a sad, poor oId man. 574 00:49:20.625 --> 00:49:22.915 NARRATOR: That afternoon, Karen felt a sensation in her gut 575 00:49:23.044 --> 00:49:25.464 she hadn't felt for a long time. 576 00:49:29.091 --> 00:49:32.891 She looked for familiar shapes and daces in the desert clouds, 577 00:49:33.012 --> 00:49:35.062 but there were none to be found. 578 00:49:39.352 --> 00:49:41.772 At a truck stop in Mexican Hat, Utah, 579 00:49:41.896 --> 00:49:46.476 she stole from the book rack a "Vixen" magazine for Jack, 580 00:49:46.609 --> 00:49:50.029 a "Total Teen" for Teijo, 581 00:49:50.154 --> 00:49:53.624 and a picture book on Ancient Egypt for herself. 582 00:50:00.581 --> 00:50:04.171 on their long car ride to the Grand Canyon, 583 00:50:04.293 --> 00:50:07.843 she wrote a short memoir about herself in hieroglyphics. 584 00:50:09.215 --> 00:50:11.835 She didn't share it with Jack or Teijo, 585 00:50:11.967 --> 00:50:14.717 and when she arrived at the Grand Canyon later that day 586 00:50:14.845 --> 00:50:16.965 she ripped it up into a million pieces 587 00:50:17.098 --> 00:50:21.728 and watched as her biography fell to the bottom of the earth like snow. 588 00:50:37.493 --> 00:50:40.253 KAREN: Did you know the sun's gonna burn out one day? 589 00:50:40.371 --> 00:50:43.871 - TEIJO: My God. ReaIIy? - KAREN: True story. 590 00:50:43.999 --> 00:50:45.789 When? 591 00:50:45.918 --> 00:50:48.208 About five biIIion years, give or take. 592 00:50:49.463 --> 00:50:50.803 That's crazy. 593 00:50:50.923 --> 00:50:56.973 Yeah, once it runs out of hydrogen, it'II become, Iike, a red giant, 594 00:50:57.096 --> 00:51:01.596 and then expand and swaIIow the Earth and aII the other pIanets. 595 00:51:01.726 --> 00:51:04.726 And then it'II expIode and turn into a bIack dwarf or something. 596 00:51:04.854 --> 00:51:07.234 BIack dwarf? No, thank you. 597 00:51:08.357 --> 00:51:11.897 Yeah. It used to reaIIy scare me when I was a IittIe girl, but... 598 00:51:12.695 --> 00:51:15.405 Now five biIIion years seems Iike an eternity. 599 00:51:25.666 --> 00:51:28.746 Teijo, can I teII you something? You promise you won't teII anyone eIse? 600 00:51:28.878 --> 00:51:31.628 Oh, my God, secrets. Yes. 601 00:51:35.718 --> 00:51:37.428 I missed my monthIies. 602 00:51:39.889 --> 00:51:42.469 WeII, when were you supposed to get 'em? 603 00:51:42.600 --> 00:51:47.350 I don't know. CoupIe of days ago. I haven't reaIIy been keeping track. 604 00:51:53.319 --> 00:51:56.989 Baby Jack. Imagine that. 605 00:52:01.202 --> 00:52:04.832 I... I think you're gonna make a great mama one day, Karen. 606 00:52:06.624 --> 00:52:07.794 Thank you. 607 00:52:09.335 --> 00:52:15.585 I Iook at you and you're just... You're so cooI and confident and pretty. 608 00:52:18.844 --> 00:52:22.854 You're an inspiration to someone Iike me who doesn't have a Iot of confidence. 609 00:52:22.973 --> 00:52:24.933 No, that's not true, Teijo. 610 00:52:26.185 --> 00:52:31.975 It is. 611 00:52:38.531 --> 00:52:42.121 You know what? You don't need to worry anymore, Teijo. 612 00:52:42.243 --> 00:52:44.993 Cos in CaIifornia everything's gonna be different. 613 00:52:45.120 --> 00:52:50.880 There's a Iot of peopIe Iike you there. A Iot of peopIe Iike us. 614 00:53:08.394 --> 00:53:13.064 # There's a city of light 615 00:53:13.190 --> 00:53:17.990 # Where there cometh no night 616 00:53:18.112 --> 00:53:22.072 # For the sun never sets 617 00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:27.409 # ln the sky 618 00:53:27.538 --> 00:53:31.998 # In the Bible we are told 619 00:53:32.126 --> 00:53:36.836 # That the streets are pure gold 620 00:53:36.964 --> 00:53:41.724 # And a cool genfle river 621 00:53:41.844 --> 00:53:46.064 # Runs by 622 00:53:46.181 --> 00:53:48.771 # oh, l'm bound for that city 623 00:53:48.893 --> 00:53:52.943 # God's holy white city 624 00:53:53.063 --> 00:53:55.113 # oh, yes, l am 625 00:53:55.232 --> 00:53:57.612 # I'll never turn back 626 00:53:57.735 --> 00:54:04.025 # To this world anymore 627 00:54:04.158 --> 00:54:08.618 # No matter how rough may be the way 628 00:54:08.746 --> 00:54:12.866 # No matter how oft l stop to pray 629 00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:15.420 # l'm bound for that city 630 00:54:15.544 --> 00:54:22.434 # on that evergreen shore 631 00:54:25.930 --> 00:54:27.680 (BUOY BELL RINGS) 632 00:54:33.771 --> 00:54:35.271 (LIFT BELL DINGS) 633 00:54:35.397 --> 00:54:37.187 (DOORS SLIDE OPEN) 634 00:54:40.736 --> 00:54:43.446 - Daddy! - Hey, babies. 635 00:54:43.572 --> 00:54:46.822 - You aII right? - Yeah. 636 00:54:46.951 --> 00:54:49.871 The CoIoneI said you were having a nervous speII or something. 637 00:54:49.995 --> 00:54:52.325 No, I ain't having any damn nervous speII. 638 00:54:52.456 --> 00:54:53.956 AII right. 639 00:54:57.962 --> 00:55:00.592 Hope you're being heaIthy. 640 00:55:00.714 --> 00:55:04.434 Yeah. I am, PrisciIIa. 641 00:55:05.886 --> 00:55:08.756 Good. Let's go, sweetie. 642 00:55:10.474 --> 00:55:12.564 WeII, hoId on there. Where you going? 643 00:55:12.685 --> 00:55:14.845 It's Lisa's bedtime. Got a big day tomorrow. 644 00:55:14.979 --> 00:55:16.019 (BELL DINGS) 645 00:55:16.146 --> 00:55:18.646 We're gonna go to the beach before Daddy's show, aren't we, Lisa? 646 00:55:18.774 --> 00:55:20.154 Mm-hmm. 647 00:55:20.275 --> 00:55:23.185 AII right, why don't you put her on the bed and come on back for a whiIe? 648 00:55:23.320 --> 00:55:24.740 EIvis, I can't. 649 00:55:26.532 --> 00:55:28.452 Enjoy your party. 650 00:55:28.575 --> 00:55:31.535 - Night, Injun. - Good night, Daddy. 651 00:55:36.834 --> 00:55:38.584 Party's this way, EIvis. 652 00:55:44.258 --> 00:55:45.968 Want one of these? 653 00:55:46.093 --> 00:55:47.473 What's that? 654 00:55:47.594 --> 00:55:49.434 Doctor dropped by this afternoon. 655 00:55:49.555 --> 00:55:51.885 - Which doc? - New guy. 656 00:55:53.851 --> 00:55:55.021 (MUSIC PLAYS) 657 00:55:55.144 --> 00:55:57.604 - You go ahead, I'II be right in. - AII right. 658 00:56:15.080 --> 00:56:17.920 (PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC PLAYS) 659 00:57:09.218 --> 00:57:11.218 (ENGINE HUMS) 660 00:57:28.695 --> 00:57:31.025 Jack, I need to say something. 661 00:57:35.285 --> 00:57:37.865 I don't think you shouId kiII EIvis. 662 00:57:39.248 --> 00:57:41.578 (CHUCKLES) 663 00:57:41.708 --> 00:57:44.038 You're a reaI riot, Karen. 664 00:57:45.045 --> 00:57:47.045 I ain't kidding. 665 00:57:52.678 --> 00:57:56.258 Mr X's story and the photos on the waII, 666 00:57:56.390 --> 00:57:59.980 it made me reaIize EIvis is reaI. 667 00:58:00.978 --> 00:58:04.478 He's got bIood in his veins and Iove in his heart just Iike us. 668 00:58:04.606 --> 00:58:09.236 Thank you, Karen. I know that. 669 00:58:09.361 --> 00:58:12.911 I think the Iaw wiII Iet you off easy for kiIIing Sanborn. 670 00:58:13.031 --> 00:58:15.951 He was a perv and you protected me. 671 00:58:16.076 --> 00:58:17.486 And your daddy... 672 00:58:18.495 --> 00:58:21.575 WeII, he treated you wrong your whoIe Iife and he got what was coming. 673 00:58:23.584 --> 00:58:25.174 But EIvis is an innocent man. 674 00:58:25.294 --> 00:58:29.214 Karen, there ain't nobody that's innocent. AII right? 675 00:58:29.339 --> 00:58:30.799 Jack, you Iove EIvis. 676 00:58:30.924 --> 00:58:33.304 - That man is a fucking phony! - Phony? 677 00:58:33.427 --> 00:58:35.967 You know that I have strict orders from my mama to do this. 678 00:58:36.096 --> 00:58:37.386 Your mama's dead. 679 00:58:37.514 --> 00:58:39.144 (TIRES SCREECH) 680 00:58:42.102 --> 00:58:44.152 You better take it back. 681 00:58:44.271 --> 00:58:46.651 What? It's the truth. 682 00:58:46.773 --> 00:58:48.863 You take it back right now. 683 00:58:50.694 --> 00:58:51.694 No. 684 00:58:54.239 --> 00:58:57.029 Let go. Let go! 685 00:59:03.707 --> 00:59:04.957 You shouIdn't have done that. 686 00:59:07.336 --> 00:59:10.336 I'm sorry. AII right? I'm sorry. 687 00:59:10.464 --> 00:59:12.094 Karen, wiII you get back in the goddamn car? 688 00:59:12.216 --> 00:59:13.296 - PIease? - No! 689 00:59:13.425 --> 00:59:17.465 Karen, honey. Get back in the car. 690 00:59:19.598 --> 00:59:23.098 TurtIe dove. Most beautifuI girl I've ever seen. 691 00:59:23.227 --> 00:59:26.227 WiII you pIease get back in the fucking car right now? 692 00:59:28.106 --> 00:59:29.686 Karen, when you joined this thing, 693 00:59:29.816 --> 00:59:31.566 you knew fuII weII what you were getting into 694 00:59:31.693 --> 00:59:34.903 and now you're just as much a part of it as anybody eIse! 695 00:59:37.783 --> 00:59:41.583 Not true. I ain't kiIIed no one. 696 00:59:45.165 --> 00:59:46.955 - (LOUD GUNSHOT) - (GASPS) 697 00:59:48.210 --> 00:59:50.420 - (ENGINE REVS) - (LOUD METALLIC THUD) 698 00:59:55.259 --> 00:59:56.719 (GRUNTS) 699 01:00:13.694 --> 01:00:16.654 Teijo! Get back in the goddamn car! 700 01:00:21.493 --> 01:00:23.413 - (GRUNTS) - AII right, BIuebIood. 701 01:00:23.537 --> 01:00:27.997 On the count of three, I'm gonna shoot your queer IittIe companion. 702 01:00:30.585 --> 01:00:35.965 Three... two... one. 703 01:00:36.091 --> 01:00:37.221 JACK: OK! 704 01:00:44.558 --> 01:00:45.848 (METALLIC CLUNK) 705 01:00:59.448 --> 01:01:00.448 (COCKS GUN) 706 01:01:15.672 --> 01:01:19.052 # I don't know if 707 01:01:20.552 --> 01:01:26.852 # We're in a garden 708 01:01:32.064 --> 01:01:34.774 # or on 709 01:01:34.900 --> 01:01:41.610 # A crowded avenue 710 01:01:46.870 --> 01:01:48.250 # Sha bop sha bop 711 01:01:48.372 --> 01:01:50.712 # You are here 712 01:01:50.832 --> 01:01:51.832 # Sha bop sha bop 713 01:01:51.958 --> 01:01:54.878 # And so am I 714 01:01:55.003 --> 01:01:56.173 # Sha bop sha bop 715 01:01:56.296 --> 01:01:58.956 # Maybe millions of people 716 01:01:59.216 --> 01:02:00.256 # Sha bop sha bop 717 01:02:00.384 --> 01:02:02.264 # Go by 718 01:02:02.386 --> 01:02:07.846 # But they all disappear 719 01:02:09.684 --> 01:02:13.444 # From view 720 01:02:18.318 --> 01:02:25.658 # And l only have eyes 721 01:02:25.784 --> 01:02:28.584 # For you 722 01:02:28.703 --> 01:02:37.803 # Sha bop sha bop 723 01:02:42.217 --> 01:02:44.927 WouId you guys Iike the Shangri-La Suite? 724 01:02:48.765 --> 01:02:50.595 It's for Iovers. 725 01:02:53.854 --> 01:02:55.234 Yeah, OK. 726 01:03:08.326 --> 01:03:22.916 (SIGHS) 727 01:03:28.555 --> 01:03:30.175 This is your thing. 728 01:03:31.933 --> 01:03:34.643 Your whoIe Iife's pIan, not mine. 729 01:03:35.729 --> 01:03:38.399 I thought maybe it was but it ain't. 730 01:03:41.234 --> 01:03:43.074 I aIways make that mistake. 731 01:03:49.826 --> 01:03:52.616 PIus I think I'm pregnant. 732 01:04:04.799 --> 01:04:06.589 How Iong have you known? 733 01:04:08.094 --> 01:04:10.014 I don't know-know. 734 01:04:11.264 --> 01:04:14.064 I just haven't had my Iady time in a whiIe. 735 01:04:14.184 --> 01:04:16.564 It's been on my mind. 736 01:04:20.357 --> 01:04:23.227 I'm sorry if this interferes with your destiny. 737 01:04:26.363 --> 01:04:28.073 It don't reaIIy. 738 01:04:30.033 --> 01:04:32.543 I'd just adopt it into my whoIe pIan. 739 01:04:33.662 --> 01:04:36.082 Destiny pIus baby. 740 01:04:37.958 --> 01:04:39.498 (EXHALES) 741 01:04:46.341 --> 01:04:47.341 (KNOCKS) 742 01:04:48.468 --> 01:04:51.098 - MAN: Yeah. Who is it? - The CoIoneI. 743 01:04:58.562 --> 01:05:00.402 He's not in good shape, CoIoneI. 744 01:05:09.155 --> 01:05:11.065 COLONEL: Open the goddamn bIinds. 745 01:05:12.784 --> 01:05:15.664 Things got crazy. I made sure he had a good time. 746 01:05:15.787 --> 01:05:18.617 I asked you to get his spirits up, not Iay him out. 747 01:05:19.499 --> 01:05:22.079 EIvis. Wake up, son. 748 01:05:22.919 --> 01:05:25.629 EIvis, you got a concert in seven hours. 749 01:05:25.755 --> 01:05:28.665 Hey. Daddy. 750 01:05:29.676 --> 01:05:31.466 Just fkying... 751 01:05:34.472 --> 01:05:37.472 If he is not at the sports arena for that soundcheck, 752 01:05:37.601 --> 01:05:39.271 you and the rest are fired. 753 01:05:39.394 --> 01:05:42.564 And I wiII bIackIist every singIe one of you. Do you understand me? 754 01:05:42.689 --> 01:05:44.729 Loud and cIear, sir. 755 01:05:48.486 --> 01:05:51.606 Elvis! Hey! Come on, man, you gotta work with me, brother. 756 01:05:51.740 --> 01:05:53.030 Gotta heIp me out. 757 01:06:02.876 --> 01:06:06.456 # ooh-ooh! ooh-ooh! 758 01:06:06.588 --> 01:06:09.968 # ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh! 759 01:06:10.091 --> 01:06:13.471 # When they gave out 760 01:06:13.595 --> 01:06:17.215 # Eyes like diamonds 761 01:06:17.766 --> 01:06:20.476 # That would shame... 762 01:06:20.602 --> 01:06:22.562 Are you sisters? 763 01:06:22.687 --> 01:06:26.017 Y'aII Iook Iike sisters. You Iook Iike twins. 764 01:06:26.149 --> 01:06:27.519 # My darlin'... 765 01:06:27.651 --> 01:06:29.231 I'm a twin. 766 01:06:29.361 --> 01:06:32.701 # My darlin' 767 01:06:33.990 --> 01:06:41.290 # You were the first in line 768 01:06:41.414 --> 01:06:44.214 I had a brother, Jesse, he was... 769 01:06:44.334 --> 01:06:48.924 He was number one, he come first, but he's... he's dead. 770 01:06:49.047 --> 01:06:55.337 # That hold a new thrill every time 771 01:06:56.179 --> 01:07:04.309 # My darlin' 772 01:07:04.437 --> 01:07:10.817 # You were the first in line 773 01:07:10.944 --> 01:07:14.614 # There may be others 774 01:07:14.739 --> 01:07:19.449 # That knew you longer 775 01:07:19.577 --> 01:07:26.497 # Who pledge their hearts to you 776 01:07:26.626 --> 01:07:30.046 # But there's no other 777 01:07:30.171 --> 01:07:35.591 # Could love you stronger... 778 01:07:35.719 --> 01:07:37.849 Are we going to the ocean, Jack? 779 01:07:39.097 --> 01:07:41.217 Soon as I get back, baby. 780 01:07:42.142 --> 01:07:45.562 - Don't you go without me, OK? - OK. 781 01:07:45.687 --> 01:07:50.187 I put a .22 in the desk drawer next to the BibIe, just in case. 782 01:07:54.821 --> 01:07:56.491 I Iove you. 783 01:07:57.407 --> 01:07:59.657 I Iove you too, baby. 784 01:08:05.290 --> 01:08:11.590 # The first and the last in line 785 01:08:11.713 --> 01:08:15.303 # There may be others 786 01:08:15.425 --> 01:08:19.885 # That knew you longer 787 01:08:20.013 --> 01:08:26.893 # Who pledge their hearts to you 788 01:08:28.229 --> 01:08:30.109 # The first 789 01:08:30.231 --> 01:08:37.861 # And the last in line 790 01:08:37.989 --> 01:08:39.569 (STARTS ENGINE) 791 01:08:44.120 --> 01:08:47.330 ANNOUNCER: And here comes the biggest news in entertainment history, 792 01:08:47.457 --> 01:08:52.287 for here in person comes the singing sensation Elvis Presley in person. 793 01:08:52.420 --> 01:08:55.300 WeII, I just think he's stiII the King, you know? 794 01:08:55.423 --> 01:08:58.633 Once the King, aIways the King. 795 01:08:58.760 --> 01:09:02.810 I just... I just... 796 01:09:02.931 --> 01:09:04.351 (GIGGLES) 797 01:09:04.474 --> 01:09:07.184 I just... I Iove him so much. 798 01:09:07.310 --> 01:09:12.190 Eer since that first time I saw him sing on TV, I feIt the hoIy spirit, man. 799 01:09:12.315 --> 01:09:15.145 I saw the Iight, brother. It was amazing. 800 01:09:15.276 --> 01:09:20.236 I Iove him so much. I Iove him so much. 801 01:09:35.129 --> 01:09:36.879 NARRATOR: The Pacific ocean was larger 802 01:09:37.006 --> 01:09:39.676 and more inspiring than Karen had ever imagined. 803 01:09:39.801 --> 01:09:43.391 Looking upon it, she thought of all the counfless waves 804 01:09:43.513 --> 01:09:45.973 which had crashed along the beach throughout history. 805 01:09:46.099 --> 01:09:50.479 A natural process, happening constanfly and endlessly, 806 01:09:50.603 --> 01:09:53.523 without her involvement or observation. 807 01:09:53.648 --> 01:09:56.858 This thought made her both happy and sad at the same time. 808 01:09:59.362 --> 01:10:04.952 And then Karen said a prayer for herseIf, and for EIvis, 809 01:10:05.076 --> 01:10:08.576 and for Teijo, and for Jack. 810 01:10:30.852 --> 01:10:33.852 - Pretty neat sandcastIe you got there. - Thanka. 811 01:11:00.590 --> 01:11:02.420 Lisa. Hey. 812 01:11:30.203 --> 01:11:32.083 HeIIo. 813 01:11:32.205 --> 01:11:36.455 I'm Iooking for a Mr, uh... Woodrow WiIson. 814 01:11:38.044 --> 01:11:41.174 KAREN: Dear Jack, it's not easy for me to write this letter, 815 01:11:41.297 --> 01:11:44.167 though l feel it's unlikely you'll ever read it. 816 01:11:44.300 --> 01:11:47.510 I don't beIieve we have a guest here by that name, sir. 817 01:11:51.015 --> 01:11:52.715 Sea saIt? 818 01:11:52.850 --> 01:11:56.480 lt's been a whirlwind couple of months, and this last week especially. 819 01:11:56.604 --> 01:11:58.314 I need your car keys. 820 01:11:58.439 --> 01:12:00.109 l love you, and l'm sorry. 821 01:12:00.233 --> 01:12:01.403 Now, pIease. 822 01:12:01.526 --> 01:12:06.026 But eternity anywhere sounds like hell. KB. 823 01:12:07.240 --> 01:12:10.580 Mr WiIson can be accessed via the service eIevator in the basement. 824 01:12:10.702 --> 01:12:13.162 That gentIeman at the veIvet rope can show you the way. 825 01:12:13.287 --> 01:12:17.747 - And what's your name, sir? - My name's Jack BIuebIood. 826 01:12:22.880 --> 01:12:26.170 P.S. l hope you found whatewer it was you were looking for. 827 01:12:28.386 --> 01:12:30.506 XOXO. 828 01:12:32.098 --> 01:12:40.108 # I'm so hurt 829 01:12:44.027 --> 01:12:48.817 # To think that you, you lied to me 830 01:12:52.785 --> 01:12:58.415 # I'm hurt 831 01:12:59.751 --> 01:13:05.461 # Way down deep inside of me 832 01:13:10.678 --> 01:13:14.558 # You said your love was true 833 01:13:16.893 --> 01:13:22.653 # And we'd never, never, ever part 834 01:13:27.236 --> 01:13:31.696 # Now you want someone new 835 01:13:33.534 --> 01:13:38.874 # And it breaks my heart 836 01:13:38.998 --> 01:13:40.918 # whoa-oh 837 01:13:41.042 --> 01:13:47.842 # I'm so hurt 838 01:13:49.217 --> 01:13:53.677 # Much more than you'll ever know 839 01:13:57.892 --> 01:14:01.942 # Yes, darling, l'm so hurt 840 01:14:05.191 --> 01:14:08.321 # Because l still love you so 841 01:14:12.406 --> 01:14:13.406 # But 842 01:14:15.451 --> 01:14:22.871 # But even though you hurt me 843 01:14:23.668 --> 01:14:29.878 # Like nobody else could ever do 844 01:14:32.135 --> 01:14:35.045 # I would never 845 01:14:36.514 --> 01:14:43.194 # Ever hurt 846 01:14:44.188 --> 01:14:50.318 # Hurt you 847 01:15:05.626 --> 01:15:07.286 (SILENCE) 848 01:15:23.603 --> 01:15:25.103 (GUNSHOT) 849 01:15:52.548 --> 01:15:56.678 NARRATOR: Looking into Elvis's eyes, it aII became cIear to Jack. 850 01:15:56.802 --> 01:16:00.812 This was the man who sang "That's All Right" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky" 851 01:16:00.932 --> 01:16:04.982 and "Mystery Train." This was his hero. 852 01:16:05.102 --> 01:16:09.062 lt was a voice that had gotten him through many lonely nights. 853 01:16:09.190 --> 01:16:12.360 This was Elvis Aaron Presley. 854 01:16:12.485 --> 01:16:14.395 They were dream brothers, 855 01:16:14.528 --> 01:16:18.448 and they were connected by some inextricable cosmic force. 856 01:16:23.454 --> 01:16:26.214 And then Jack died. 857 01:16:42.223 --> 01:16:44.143 lf you're just joining us, we have breaking news 858 01:16:44.267 --> 01:16:45.847 from the Beverly Canyon Hotel, 859 01:16:45.977 --> 01:16:48.687 where there has been an assassination attempt on Elvis. 860 01:16:48.813 --> 01:16:50.523 Elvis's unidentified assailant 861 01:16:50.648 --> 01:16:53.858 was shot down by one of the Memphis Mafia, Judd Feathers, 862 01:16:53.985 --> 01:16:57.105 who we're hearing died soon after by wounds sustained to his chest. 863 01:16:57.238 --> 01:16:59.608 We're going live to an interview with Elvis now. 864 01:16:59.740 --> 01:17:02.490 My old friend J Feathers is, uh... 865 01:17:04.453 --> 01:17:07.543 Well, he's a hero and he saved my life. 866 01:17:08.833 --> 01:17:10.883 We're gonna dedicate tonight's show to him. 867 01:17:11.002 --> 01:17:13.552 NARRATOR: The whole thing was covered up by RCA and the Colonel, 868 01:17:13.671 --> 01:17:15.841 who feared that the incident might tarnish 869 01:17:15.965 --> 01:17:19.585 Elvis's already tenuous relationship with the public and his fans. 870 01:17:19.719 --> 01:17:23.429 The incident lives on in Elvis's can of urban legends, 871 01:17:23.556 --> 01:17:26.346 along with his supposed abduction by aliens 872 01:17:26.475 --> 01:17:30.095 and the faking of his own death three years later. 873 01:17:30.521 --> 01:17:33.771 (ALSo SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA PLAYS) 874 01:18:03.846 --> 01:18:06.386 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 875 01:18:09.226 --> 01:18:10.886 (WILD CHEERING) 876 01:18:37.671 --> 01:18:41.591 Elvis played to the Los Angeles crowd that evening like he was 18. 877 01:18:43.010 --> 01:18:45.760 He had found his Shangri-La. 878 01:18:45.888 --> 01:18:50.808 He had found saIvation. He had found the righteous path. 879 01:18:52.728 --> 01:18:54.598 And so had Jack. 880 01:18:58.859 --> 01:19:04.159 As for Karen, some say her car slid off the highway and into the ocean, 881 01:19:04.281 --> 01:19:08.911 where she's still trapped underwater, entombed by the sea. 882 01:19:09.036 --> 01:19:13.246 Others speculate she moved to Canada, gave birth to Jack's child, 883 01:19:13.374 --> 01:19:18.174 and became what she ran away from in the first place, her mother. 884 01:19:20.589 --> 01:19:23.879 The most popular story is that she changed her name, 885 01:19:24.009 --> 01:19:27.469 laid low for a few years and re-emerged a decade later 886 01:19:27.596 --> 01:19:33.346 as recording artist Jennifer Fever, whose minor 1988 hit "Shangri-La Suite" 887 01:19:33.477 --> 01:19:36.977 was said to have been about her brief affair with Jack Blueblood. 888 01:19:38.315 --> 01:19:41.725 As dar as the evidence is concerned, she was Iast seen 889 01:19:41.861 --> 01:19:45.411 entering a gas-station bathroom in Tulsa, oklahoma. 890 01:19:46.365 --> 01:19:49.275 Billy Freehall, a transient male prostitute 891 01:19:49.410 --> 01:19:51.410 and the last person to see her alive, 892 01:19:51.537 --> 01:19:54.827 claimed he would never forget the look on her dace. 893 01:19:54.957 --> 01:19:57.827 A mixture of freedom and despair. 894 01:19:57.960 --> 01:20:01.300 lt would stay with him for the rest of his short life. 895 01:20:37.124 --> 01:20:40.844 Sure, the sun would burn out one day 896 01:20:40.961 --> 01:20:44.421 but that wasn't for a very, very long time. 897 01:20:44.548 --> 01:20:47.838 The future was an endless highway, 898 01:20:47.968 --> 01:20:52.348 and Karen would follow the sun untiI its end.