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with knives and forks 169 times?

Drugs? Who knows?

.. Why.. isn't our problem.

We don't have to prove motive.

But without the why,

we don't have a case against Manson.

Now, if Manson had actually participated

in these murders...

...if he was there,

the motive would be irrelevant.

It could be Dodger tickets, wouldn't matter.

He was there and did it.

But he wasn't there,

didn't personally kill anyone...

...but ordered them to be killed.

Now, if we can't prove why...

...he would order anyone else

to commit these murders...

...that's a reasonable-doubt case.

- So why did he order them?

Everyone says Manson talked

about a war called Helter Skelter.

He mentioned it to the murderers

before Tate.

It was on the refrigerator at LaBianca.

- Misspelled.

- Probably just stupidity.

We're not talking

about Rhodes Scholars.

But if we can tie this

Helter Skelter idea to the murders...

...and then tie Manson to the words

.. Helter Skelter.. written at the scene...

...that's the same

as finding his fingerprints.

- It sounds like a stretch to me.

- Aaron...

...if we only nail Tex and the girls

and not Manson...

...it won't be a successful prosecution.

This is gonna ruin my reputation...

...being seen with a guy in a suit.

- My leathers are all being cleaned.

- Right.

Joey, what can you tell me

about Helter Skelter?

Charlie got all his

beliefs from two places...

...the Bible and the Beatles.

- The White Album.

He believed the Beatles

talked directly to him.

The Beatles are talking to you?

.. You say you got a real solution.

Well, you know, we'd all love

to see the plan...

There it is right there.

Who you think they, re talking to?

.. Revolution Number 9...

Take that by you again.

.. Revolution Number 9...

They're telling me to look, where?

Where? In your bottle?

In the Bible, man. In the Bible.

Check it out, check it out.

Revelation 9.

See the part about the four angels.

Four angels.

Their faces were as the faces of men.

They had hair as the hair of women.

Who do you think they're talking about?

Your mother in Russia?

Talking about the Beatles, man.

Out of the mouths of the four angels

issued fire and brimstone.

Breastplates of iron. Hey, see that?

Breastplates of iron.

Well, now what...? Oh, electric guitars.

Read verse 15.

.. The four angels were loosed...

...which were prepared for an hour,

and a day, and a month, and a year...

...for to slay the third part of men...

- Helter Skelter.

One third of mankind will die. Whitey.

All the whitey is that one third.

And everybody believed it?

The whole family?

Hook, line and sinker.

They used to spend days in the desert...

...looking for the hole

that led to the bottomless pit...

...to hide when Helter Skelter started.

Did Manson ever say anything to you

that made you feel Helter Skelter...

...was tied in to the Tate-LaBianca killings?

Not at the time,

but looking back on it, you know...

I don't know, Joey.

There was this feeling on the ranch like...

...people getting impatient,

Charlie, especially.

When was this Helter Skelter

gonna start, right?

And then one day, right before the cops

raided Spahn and arrested everybody...

- But after the murders?

- Right.

I went up to Charlie and I says,

.. What's with Helter Skelter, man?

You know, like,

kidding around with him.

I showed blackie how to do it.

So Helter Skelter is a race war.

The blacks will destroy the whites.

Except for Charlie and the family,

because they, ll be hiding in the desert.

So he orders the Tate-LaBianca killings

thinking blacks will be blamed...

...and that will start the war.

That's Helter Skelter, man.

I still don't get one thing.

What does Manson get out of it?

Is he just a swell guy who wants

to help the black man?

Hell, no. Charlie hates blacks.

He hates Jews. He even hates women.

He once told me that women

were slaves with no souls.

No, whatever it is,

it ain't for the benefit of mankind.

- It's for the benefit of Charlie.

- How? How does it benefit him?

- I don't know.

- Who would?

Paul Watkins. He left the ranch

right before the murders started...

...but he spent a lot of time

with Charlie in the desert.

You think you knew Manson

better than the others?

I lived with him for one year straight.

I know Charlie.

I became Charlie.

Everything that I once was,

was Charlie.

There was nothing left of me anymore.

And all the people in the family?

There's nothing left of them anymore.

They're all Charlie too.

You seem like a solid guy,

Paul, a smart guy.

Why did you stay so long?

I thought Charlie was Christ.

What did he tell you

about Helter Skelter?

Helter Skelter... Stay with me, now.

Helter Skelter begins with black men

going in white people's homes.

Ripping them off, killing them off.

Blackie will wipe out whitey...

...cut up piggy bodies,

take that piggy blood...

...put it all over all the piggy walls.

Now, I got an idea this might make

the white man a little unhappy.

There will be revolution, revelation.

Blackie will rise.

Oh, and bye-bye, whitey.

Then blackie will be on top.

In the meantime, we,

you and me, we will be hiding...

...all the wiser, in the desert,

the bottomless pit.

Oh, but what did I tell you...

...about blackie having himself

a little problem?

See, Blackie's gonna find out:

.. Oh, no!

He can only do what the white man

taught him how to do.

He can only do what the white man

would let him.

And I'll say...

I'll scratch Blackie's little head like that...

...his fearful, fuzzy head, and I'll say,

.. That's all right, that's all right.

You just go on over there.

Do whatever it is you think is useful...

And then the black man,

even without whitey...

...the black man will be back

where he will always be.

And it will be my world then.

My world.

So Manson was going

to rule the planet?

The thing about Charlie is,

he was always preaching love.

Charlie had no idea what love was.

Charlie was so far from love,

it wasn't even funny.

Death is Charlie's trip.

It really is.

More fan mail, Charlie.

It's love mail, man.

These are people who know

what's right.

Let me know if you get

any naked pictures.

Rack 11.

You got a visitor.

You know, the pigs here

aren't real bad, man.

They're just real dumb.

I just play a little dumber,

and they start thinking they're smart.

The dumber they think you are,

the better they feel...

...and the more they let you slide.

So you gonna beat this thing, Charlie?

Well, what do you think they got, man?

I wasn't there, so they

can't tie me to anything...

...so they got nothing, right?

And no matter what,

them girls will take the rap.

You don't worry about it.

You just make sure

that everybody at the ranch...

Or you know what to do about it.

What about Sadie?

Oh, you mean, that stupid b*tch?

Yeah, I'm gonna have to shut her up.

Your Honor, the sheriff and the DA,

sitting somewhere over there...

...they are denying me my rights.

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