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Please answer the question.

- Could you repeat the question, please?

- Yes.

- Now we're getting somewhere.

- Mr Malik,

what was your role in the Marks cartel?

- Guilty.

- Who did you take your orders from?

- Guilty.

- Your Honour...

This behaviour

will not be tolerated in my court.

In your opinion, Mr Lane, would you say

that this business constituted

a drugs organisation with a hierarchy?

Most definitely.

And was there somebody

at the top of this hierarchy?

- Yes.

- Who would that be, Mr Lane?

It would be Howard Marks.

Could you please point

to the head of this cartel?

For the record, I'd just like to point out

that he's addressing Mr Marks.

Yes, we have that on the record, thank you.

And in your understanding, Mr Combs,

who was it you were actually dealing with

in the Marks cartel?

That would be Howard Marks.

Would you mind pointing to Mr Marks,

Mr Howard Marks?

For the record, your Honour,

I'd like to point out who he's pointing to.

Yes, we have that on the record, thank you.

Would you mind pointing to Mr Marks?

Uhh...does the defence have any questions

for this witness?

No.

No physical contact.

You may hold hands. You have 20 minutes.

Hello, love.

What's wrong with your hands?

It's just...

It's just an allergy or something. Stress.

Are you OK?

There's a problem. With the kids.

Wh...

Asha's boyfriend's become a junkie.

- He spends his time beating them.

- No.

They've left little Patrick locked in his room.

No. No. No.

Amber said he threatened her

if she opened the door.

- No, no.

- She screamed and screamed.

No, no, no.

But it's all right now. It's all right.

- But I need to be with them.

- I know. I know you do.

Please.

- They need me.

- I know, Judy. I know.

Come on, Howard.

Come on, plead guilty.

Plead guilty and we'll let Judy go home.

You've gotta stop using her like this.

Think of your children.

The pain....they're suffering.

Then again,

I couId aIways appear to cooperate.

Have you heard of a man

named James McCann?

F***ing Christ.

Stop my f***ing car?

You don't know

who you're f***ing dealing with!

I'm the Kid! Look at the Kid go!

Got you covered.

- Hands in the air!

- Don't make a move.

I am Captain James McCann

of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

And I am surrendering

to tools of the British Empire,

and I demand the status of prisoner of war.

This'll be a grand story

in the bars on St Paddy's Day, fellas, eh?

How you helped out the f***ing Brits!

I'm the Emerald Pimpernel!

This is the case of the United States

versus Howard Marks,

I see that Mr Marks is present.

Would the defendant please rise?

Mr Marks, federal statutes

prohibit trafficking in marijuana.

I have taken an oath to administerjustice,

and to perform all duties

agreeable to the laws of the United States.

So, even if I were, uh, to agree

that the laws concerning

the use and sale of marijuana

were inappropriate, even foolish,

I would have to abide by them

until Congress has repealed them.

I impose the following sentence.

As to Count One of the indictment,

for a term of ten years.

As to Count Two of the indictment,

a term of fifteen years.

Sentences to run consecutively,

for a total of twenty-five years.

Case is dismissed.

Doing time began to get hard.

l'd been down for four years

and l had more than another twelve to do,

as seemed certain

I wouId be denied paroIe.

Judy couIdn't wait for me that Iong.

No one could.

At the age of 60,

l would re-enter the world,

skint, full of hate,

and compIeteIy unempIoyabIe and useIess.

I wouId be oId and ugIy.

No one wouId want to shag me.

l caught shingles

and had several bouts of flu.

Smoke and phIegm fiIIed my Iungs.

l couldn't piss properly.

I couIdn't bend my Ieft Ieg.

I had pains everywhere.

Abscesses fiIIed my gums.

Jesus Christ!

God! Make it f***ing stop!

Please.

Please help me. Please help me.

Please help me.

Shh!

Oh, f***ing hell.

I can't feel a f***ing thing.

Daddy...

Daddy's coming...

Daddy...

l was given the job

of teaching EngIish grammar

to prisoners studying

their General Education Diploma.

Most of my pupiIs were Iooking at

the rest of their life behind bars.

An inmates' teacher, if not cautious,

couId find himseIf regarded

as a semi-hack orjaiIhouse snitch.

I was scared,

but I appIied the usuaI ruIe.

Never show your fear.

you can call me Howard.

And so I became the jaiIhouse Iawyer.

I wrote to congressmen, judges, Iawyers,

had some successes,

got convictions overturned.

To whom it may concern...

US Immigration wouId not aIIow Judy

back into the country to visit me

because she had a conviction.

But that couId not stop the kids.

I thought Amber was Judy.

When I finaIIy saw Francesca,

she Iooked Iike my memory of Myfanwy.

Myfanwy wanted to share

her sixteenth birthday with me.

I had five days of heavenIy visits.

l loved them so much.

Since he joined the education programme,

these kids, some got out.

Even those that are staying

have learned to read, to write...

There was no reason whatsoever

to think that anything had changed

with respect to the big dope deaIers

never being granted parole.

But I went through the motions

and turned up in the prison

paroIe hearing rooms

to present my case

on the Iast day of January 1995.

Mr Marks, due to evidence that

the recommendation you spend

the majority of your sentence

in the UK was ignored,

because of pleadings by the DEA

for you to remain in Terre Haute

your sentence has turned out harsher

than the court originally intended.

In light of this, I am recommending to the

United States Regional Parole Commission

for you to be released on parole

on March 20th.

Thank you.

C-Can I call home please?

It's OK.

Like I said, are there any plain-clothes

policemen in the audience tonight?

Thank f*** for that.

Don't bogart that joint, my friend

Pass it over to me

Don't bogart that joint, my friend

Pass it over to me

RoII another one

Just Iike the other one

You've been hoIding onto it

And I sure wouId Iike a hit

Don't bogart that joint, my friend

Pass it over to me

Don't bogart that joint, my friend

Pass it over to me

RoII

Another one

Just Iike the other one

That one's just about done to the end

So come on, be a real friend

Don't bogart that joint, my friend

Pass it over to me

Don't bogart that joint, my friend

Pass it over to me

Come on, everybody, now.

Sing along now

Don't bogart that joint, my friend

Pass it over to me

Don't bogart that joint, my friend

Pass it over to me

Don't bogart that joint, my friend

Pass it over to me

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