You Don't Know Jack Page #9

another in my life."

- ( mumbling ) - (

door clanging )

( door buzzes )

"how may I live without my name?

"

"I've given you my soul.

"

Margo.

Margo.

You were right.

It's nicer.

It is nicer.

Oh.

( mumbling )

"because it is--

because it is--

Because it is my--

Because it is"--

( chatting )

Jackson:

It's been 19 days.

I'm granting mr.

Fieger's request

To reduce

your bond to $100.

- Thank you, your honor.

- ( people whispering )

( whispers ) if you want

to fire me, go ahead.

Jack on tv:
So is

there anything else

You wish to add, tom,

or have heidi tell us?

Or, heidi, is there

anything you would add

Before we conclude

this discuion?

( both crying )

I'm sorry, honey.

That's all

I wanted to say.

It's too much for us.

( crowd chanting ) jail jack!

Jail jack!

Jail jack!

Jail jack!

Jail jack!

Jail jack!

Jail jack! Jail jack!

Jail jack!

- ( reporters speaki ) - mr.

Thompson, what happened?

I remind kevorkian this

"not guilty" verdict

Does not change the fact that

we still have a ban in effect.

- ( crowd shouting ) -

I think mankind took--

Took an historic

step today

Out of the dark ages.

It makes me think of

the nuremberg trials.

When a law is deemed

immoral by you,

You must disobey it.

You must disobey it.

- Thank you.

- Dick.

The man's invincible.

So am I.

I just got word that the

court of appeals is

Gonna hear arguments

on your ban!

Hell, I'm gonna

win that too!

Jack:
Why can't we have

clinics doing this stuff?

Every city should have a clinic

where someone can go to.

As a matter of fact, I just got an idea.

I'm gonna have one of my own.

How does it feel

to be victorious?

Victorious?

I never feel victorious.

I just go ahead

and do what I do.

This isn't a victory to me.

It's just common sense.

Neal:
You don't need hardly nouhing.

The walls are good.

Janet:
No, they're not.

You can't leave it white.

- What's wrong with white?

- You want something that's cream

Or robin's egg blue.

Something that's warm.

Something

that's peaceful.

Jack:
Should it be

higher, you think?

Well, I don't have any window

nails on me right now, doc.

Well, you know, neal, it's

not like it's 500 lbs.

You just lift it up--

there it is.

- That looks good.

- ( grunts )

Jack:
It's not centered enough,

but who cares, right?

- There you go.

- I think it's perfect.

- Yup.

- No, I couldn't tell

Because I've got to go

outside and see it. Here.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah!

Fieger:
So if you're unconscious,

they have the right

To turn off the feeding

tube and let you die.

But if you're

conscious, rational

And begging

for assistance,

To be allowed to die,

We refuse.

We refuse.

Now how is it possible

That a mentally-

competent adult

Does not have the right to

look a doctor in the eye

And say "I've had enough"?

"I can't endure

anymore pain.

Help me.

I've had enough.

"

- ( gas hissing ) - fieger:

Do we really want

The government making

those decisions for us?

No.

It can't be.

It just n't be.

Man on tv:
In a rented

storefront in warren,

Kevorkian aided the death of a

kanuas city, missouri, woman

- Who had been inflicted with lou gehrig's disease.

- Forget it. Forget it.

Are you trying to say you

didn't know who I was?

You didn't really think it was gonna

be an armenian bakery, did you?

You've got 24 hours to vacate.

Not a minute more.

Neal:
If we can get into

another storage unit--

Not storage unit,

but another place,

We've got

a place to move--

Move all the crap so

we don't have to--

Jack:

You've got to store it

Or they're gonna throw

it out on the street.

- Oh, shoot.

- ( doorbell rings )

- Neal:
Ray boy.

- Jack:
They shut us down, ray.

They just shut us down.

You know,

the same kind of thing,

Spurred the '67 riots,

you know.

You remember? Of course you remember.

You were there.

You were a captain,

weren't you?

What's the matter?

- Ooh.

- Hey, jan.

- Janny?

- Hmm?

- What's going on?

- I've got the cancer,

Pancreatic.

They diagnosed me

this morning.

They've given me

six months,

But I'm not

rolling over like that.

Here, make yourself useful.

Put that in the oven.

- Here.

- Oh, what you got,

- Pecan sandies here?

- No, it's chocolate chip.

- Here, here's another one.

- Yeah

So what's new with you?

( oven door clangs )

They shut us down,

So we're gonna have to,

You know,

find another place.

We will.

We'll find another place.

Don't worry.

( distant train whistling )

( geese honking )

Hey, jack.

Hey, geoff.

They don't want

to eat today.



I'm sorry to hear

about janet.

( sighs )

Here.

The court of appeals'

ruling just came in

And they ruled

in our favor.

They said that the law

was so poorly worded

That it could not

be upheld.

Oh.

Well, I'm glad to hear

There's still some smart

people in power left.

That was

the good news.

They also ruled that there's no

constitutional right to commit suicide...

I take back

what I just said.

...And that aiding

in one falls under

An old common-law

definition of murder.

Common law?

What the hell is that?

We're gonna retry him

on sherry miller

And marjorie wantz.

Those two weren't terminal

And it's my job to see

they get justice.

- Are you really certain that-- -

I've got him in my crosshairs now.

The public doesn't want

another trial.

From all I hear, they're

ready to turn the page.

I stopped worrying abouman:Blic

perception public crusader ago, david.

- Or attention- grabbing egotist?

- Okay, jack?

- I'm okay. - You be the judge as dr.

Jack kevorkian

Appears at the courthouse

Locked in an old-fashioned

wooden pillory.

Prosecutor dick thompson can

only hope his roll of the dice

Finally muzzles the

maverick physician.

Top defense lawyer mayer

morganroth has his money on jack.

- Woman:
Why the stocks?

- This is a clear manifestation

Of the existence

Of the inquisition

in the state.

Medieval punishment for

a medieval concept.

- This is not a trial.

- Thompson:
Your honor, please.

What law have I broken? Tell.

What law he I broken?

Some antiquated common laws.

Common law.

- Do you know that it's a crime...

- You honor--

...To convert from

christianity to islam?

- Did you know that was a common law?

- May I continue please?

Also, it's a crime not to

believe in the bible.

That's a common law.

This is not a trial.

- Your honor-- - this is t a trial.

It's a lynching,

And I'm not gonna participate

in my own lynching.

Can we all presume-- just

for the hell of it--

- That we are really in a courtroom, okay?

- No, I will not presume.

- That there's a judge, a jury...

- I refuse to presume.

...And real witnesses.

Can we presume that this is a real trial?

No, we can't, because

there is no law here.

- Am I wrong?

- You're wrong!

Prove it.

Cite to me one...

Common-law case

of assisted suicide.

- One. Go ahead. I'm listening.

- I will ask the questions, sir.

- We're all waiting. Cite one.

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