Helter Skelter Page #9

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Would you believe that?

Mr. Bugliosi and Mr. Stovitz

have been very fair with you, Mr. Manson.

Well, but see, now,

I was gonna ask...

...if he wouldn't mind

just calling the whole thing off.

I think it might save us

a whole lot of trouble.

And disappoint all these people?

Never, Mr. Manson.

Good one, Your Honor. That's good.

But for example, okay,

if I'm to properly mount...

...a proper type of defense,

it behooves me...

...to be able to interview Linda Kasabian

and Sadie Mae Glutz.

But their lawyers, they're denying me too.

Would you believe that?

They have that right.

Yeah, well, see,

but I got this message now.

See, Sadie says that the DA

over there...

...made her say everything she said,

so therefore...

...she would like very much to...

What is the word there?

I give up, what is the word?

Bugliosi, can you help me out?

- Recant?

- That's it.

She would like to recant

the whole crazy confession.

She's not gonna testify.

Okay, now, one more motion...

Where's my motion?

Here's... Here's my motion.

Okay, Charles Manson...

...a.k.a. Jesus Christ, prisoner

and the family of the infinite soul...

...are filing this motion on behalf

of Manson Christ...

...charging that the sheriff

is depriving me...

...of my every last spiritual, mental,

physical and molecular liberty...

...in an inconstitutional manner,

not in harmony with man's or God's law...

...asking that I be released as of now.

Right on, Charlie!

Heretofore, forthwith, and all that,

right about now!

Mr. Manson, you're wasting

the court's time.

Is that a no, Your Honor?

I'm appalled at your outlandish requests

and nonsensical motions.

It is abundantly clear to me...

...that you're incapable

of acting as your own lawyer.

Well, Your Honor, if there was

any Christian justice...

...someone would cut your head off!

Yeah, you. You can kill me now!

Come on! Kill me right now!

Yeah, oh, yeah, you can kill me!

Oh, yes, you can!

But, oh, no, no, you can't

give me no attorney.

Yeah, yeah. You think I'm on trial.

Well, this court is on trial.

This court is out of order,

out of God.

Mr. Manson, your status as acting

as your own attorney is now vacated.

Mr. Manson.

Are you God? Are you God?

This is your world, man!

This is your life, man!

- Quiet!

- You are a joke!

Take me! Nail me on the cross!

Calm down.

You are a joke.

You are a mockery of justice.

- You are a joke.

- Quiet!

- You are a joke.

- Kill me a thousand times!

Piggy!

He tries to pass himself off

as an innocent buffoon in court...

...but he's controlling the defense.

And now he got to Sadie.

- What's happening with Tex Watson?

- In jail in Texas fighting extradition.

We're looking at a separate trial.

you're trying to cheer me up.

I can't believe this.

We've got Manson tied to Helter Skelter.

We've got motive.

But with no witness,

we're dead in the water.

Linda?

When can I talk to somebody?

Not just yet.

I have to get rid of this.

I can't keep this inside.

We have to wait.

Let them offer you a deal.

I just want to tell it.

You will go to prison, Linda.

This prosecutor is very, very good...

...and he's seeking the death penalty.

I don't care about that.

You saw and heard things

that will help put those people away...

...but you didn't hurt anyone.

They will give you immunity

if we ask for it.

They need you now. Believe me.

Let me call Bugliosi

and talk to him about immunity.

What's the matter, Linda?

Why couldn't they

have been here that night?

You ready to walk us through

what happened?

- Good girl.

- you're doing a great job.

You can see the head.

That's it, here we go, here we go!

- That's it. Push one more, and that's it!

- Come on.

- Here we go.

- It's a boy.

- Good job.

- A little baby boy.

- Nice. Nice work.

- Congratulations.

Not yet, please?

It's okay. He'll never know.

He'll never know.

He's beautiful. He's pure.

This will never, ever touch him.

He'll be waiting for you.

You wanted to say something to me?

I'm a busy man these days,

with the trial starting tomorrow.

I wanted to let you know

I don't really care about any of this.

I have Xed myself from your world.

Because, see, in your world...

...you think I'm bad or whatever it is

you need me to be for you...

...but in my world, I didn't kill nobody.

I know. You programmed

your followers to do it for you.

Come on, Bugliosi. Come on!

I had no influence over them kids.

Their parents had them way before I did.

Your schools had them by the throat.

Your TVs and your movies...

Oh, but look at you over there...

...trying so hard to believe that

I had all the influence over them kids.

I showed them the way

back to themselves.

That's all.

You controlled those kids,

and you know it.

The way back to themselves.

And, yeah, for this...

I know they'd die for me for this...

...but I didn't ask nobody

to kill for me.

You see, your kids,

they came to me...

...with all your disease

already up inside their head.

How do you feel about that, huh?

That's right. Your kids.

The ones you threw away.

Well, these outcasts,

they come to me, and I do what?

I free them. How terrible!

I freed them from society, their parents.

I freed them from themselves.

You dispose of them.

I pick them up by the roadside

and I say to them:

.. You listen, now: Whatever you do

for your brothers and sisters is good...

...as long as you do it with a good thought.

Do as your love tells you to do...

Oh, but I see now, you can't see that

as being love, can you?

No, you gotta call that dirty.

You've gotta say,

.. That's dirty. My child.

My child is a criminal.

My child is a crook.

My child, my child.

Oh, but it's not my child...

That's why they come to me,

that's why they stay...

...and that's why they would die for me.

Well, I think they're all going to

get their wish, Charlie.

And you're gonna lead the way.

Well, there are plenty more coming,

Bugliosi, you see.

And it don't really matter when you kill me,

because I'll always be around, you see.

Ready to pull them back in.

That's right. Take me

to the gas chamber now.

Say... Get in there and sit down.

Give us your life again...

There will still be someone,

just like me, who will reach out...

...and pull your children from the

garbage heap that you made for them.

You!

You remember that!

The world better remember that...

...when they're feeding,

drunk on their blood, man!

The world better remember that when

their children come after them with knives!

You remember!

you'll stay isolated from

the general population from now on.

you'll be safe.

Are you going to be okay

facing Manson in court?

Are you still in love with him?

Some of the things he said were true.

But he's really good at taking the truth

and making a lie out of it.

I guess I'll go.

You need anything else?

No.

What did you name your son?

Angel.

Do you have a family?

Kids?

Yeah.

You have a nice life?

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