1 00:01:09,694 --> 00:01:13,572 We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert ... 2 00:01:13,656 --> 00:01:16,492 when the drugs began to take hold. 3 00:01:29,255 --> 00:01:32,925 I remember saying something like ... I feel a bit light-headed. 4 00:01:33,009 --> 00:01:36,011 Maybe you should drive. 5 00:01:38,348 --> 00:01:42,434 Suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what ... 6 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:46,396 looked like huge bats all swooping and screeching and diving around the car. 7 00:01:46,481 --> 00:01:52,319 And a voice was screaming: Holy Jesus, what are these god-damn animals? 8 00:01:53,071 --> 00:01:56,073 Fucking pigs! - Did you say something? 9 00:01:56,533 --> 00:01:59,535 Never mind. It's your turn to drive. 10 00:01:59,786 --> 00:02:05,874 No point in mentioning these bats. The poor pig will see them soon enough. 11 00:02:16,511 --> 00:02:20,681 Fucking pigs! Flying! Shit. All right, let's see ... 12 00:02:22,350 --> 00:02:27,896 We had 2 bags of grass, 57 pellets of mescaline, 5 sheets of high powered ... 13 00:02:27,981 --> 00:02:32,568 blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a galaxy of multi-coloured ... 14 00:02:32,652 --> 00:02:37,322 uppers, downers, screamers, laughers. Also a quart of tequila, quart of rum, 15 00:02:37,407 --> 00:02:39,992 case of beer, pint of raw ether ... 16 00:02:41,077 --> 00:02:45,038 and 2 dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip ... 17 00:02:45,123 --> 00:02:49,001 but once you get locked into a serious drug collection the tendency ... 18 00:02:49,085 --> 00:02:53,463 is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me ... 19 00:02:53,548 --> 00:02:57,885 was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible ... 20 00:02:57,969 --> 00:03:02,055 and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get ... 21 00:03:02,140 --> 00:03:06,310 into that rotten stuff pretty soon. - A House Sub-Committee report says ... 22 00:03:06,394 --> 00:03:10,397 illegal drugs killed 1 60 American GIs last year, 23 00:03:11,274 --> 00:03:14,026 40 of them in Vietnam. 24 00:03:15,195 --> 00:03:18,280 One toke, man. One toke over the line. 25 00:03:20,533 --> 00:03:25,621 Sitting downtown in a railway station. One toke over the line. 26 00:03:26,664 --> 00:03:32,252 One toke. You poor fool. Wait till you see those god-damn bats, man. 27 00:03:39,177 --> 00:03:42,763 Let's give that boy a lift. - What? No! Wait. 28 00:03:44,140 --> 00:03:47,392 We can't stop here, this is bat country. 29 00:03:50,730 --> 00:03:55,067 I never rode in a convertible before. - Is that right? 30 00:03:55,485 --> 00:03:59,404 Well, I guess you're about ready? - We're your friends. 31 00:03:59,489 --> 00:04:05,077 We're not like the others. Really. - Out, or I'll put leeches on you! 32 00:04:06,829 --> 00:04:08,914 Get in! 33 00:04:13,127 --> 00:04:17,214 How long could we maintain. How long before one of us starts raving an ... 34 00:04:17,298 --> 00:04:21,134 jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? 35 00:04:21,386 --> 00:04:25,472 This same lonely desert was the last home of the Manson family. Would he ... 36 00:04:25,556 --> 00:04:29,643 make that grim connection when my attorney starts screaming about bats ... 37 00:04:29,727 --> 00:04:33,814 and huge manta rays coming down on the car? If so ... well, 38 00:04:33,898 --> 00:04:37,818 we'll just have to cut his head off and bury him somewhere. Because it ... 39 00:04:37,902 --> 00:04:41,989 goes without saying that we can't turn him loose. He'd report us at once to ... 40 00:04:42,073 --> 00:04:45,909 a outback Nazi law enforcement agency and they'll run us down like dogs. 41 00:04:45,994 --> 00:04:49,288 Did I say that? Or just think it? 42 00:04:52,917 --> 00:04:56,420 He's just admiring the shape of your skull. 43 00:04:56,671 --> 00:05:00,757 Maybe I had better have a chat with this boy, I thought. Perhaps, if I ... 44 00:05:00,842 --> 00:05:04,928 explain things, he'll rest easy. All right, listen. There's one thing you ... 45 00:05:05,013 --> 00:05:09,099 should probably understand. Can you hear me? Good! 46 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:13,687 I want you to have all the background. This is a very ominous assignment with ... 47 00:05:13,771 --> 00:05:17,858 overtones of extreme personal danger. I'm a Doctor of Journalism, man. 48 00:05:17,942 --> 00:05:21,945 This is important, god-damnit! This is a fucking true story! 49 00:05:22,030 --> 00:05:27,534 Hey! Where are you going? Sit down! - Get your hands off my fucking neck! 50 00:05:27,618 --> 00:05:31,705 Our vibrations were getting nasty. But why? Was there no communication ... 51 00:05:31,789 --> 00:05:36,001 in this car? Had we deteriorated to the level of dumb beasts? 52 00:05:36,085 --> 00:05:40,172 I want you to understand that this man is my attorney. He's not just some ... 53 00:05:40,256 --> 00:05:44,384 dingbat I found on the Strip, man. He's a foreigner. I think he's Samoan? 54 00:05:44,469 --> 00:05:48,555 It doesn't matter. Are you prejudiced? - Hell, no, sir. 55 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:52,642 I didn't think so. Because in spite of his race, this man is extremely ... 56 00:05:52,727 --> 00:05:56,396 valuable to me. Oh, shit. I forgot about the beer. Do you want some? 57 00:05:56,481 --> 00:05:58,565 No. - Ether? 58 00:05:58,858 --> 00:06:02,277 What? - Never mind, let's get to the heart. 59 00:06:03,363 --> 00:06:07,366 24 hours ago we were sitting in the Polo Lounge of Beverly Heights Hotel ... 60 00:06:07,450 --> 00:06:13,163 in the patio section, of course. Drinking Singapore Slings with mescal ... 61 00:06:13,247 --> 00:06:19,002 on the side, hiding from the brutish realities of this foul year 1971. 62 00:06:21,506 --> 00:06:24,508 Perhaps this is the call you've been ... 63 00:06:24,634 --> 00:06:27,969 waiting for all this time, sir. - Perhaps. 64 00:06:29,263 --> 00:06:32,140 Yeah? Mmm, really? Right. 65 00:06:34,352 --> 00:06:37,354 Yeah. Why not? Yeah. 66 00:06:38,272 --> 00:06:41,608 That was headquarters. They want me to ... 67 00:06:45,613 --> 00:06:47,697 Thank you. 68 00:06:48,783 --> 00:06:52,869 They want me to got to Las Vegas at once make contact with a Portuguese ... 69 00:06:52,954 --> 00:06:57,040 photographer named Lacerda. He'll have all the details. All I have to do is ... 70 00:06:57,125 --> 00:07:00,877 check into my soundproof suite, he'll seek me out. What do you think? 71 00:07:00,962 --> 00:07:06,299 Sounds like trouble. You're gonna need plenty of legal advice for this thing. 72 00:07:06,384 --> 00:07:09,428 Oh, yeah. - As your attorney, I advise you to ... 73 00:07:09,512 --> 00:07:13,181 rent a very fast car with no top. And you'll need the cocaine. 74 00:07:13,266 --> 00:07:17,436 Tape recorder for special music ... Acapulco shirts. 75 00:07:18,229 --> 00:07:22,023 And get the hell out of LA for at least 48 hours. 76 00:07:22,108 --> 00:07:24,192 Blows my weekend. - Why? 77 00:07:25,236 --> 00:07:30,240 Because, I'm gonna have to go with you. And we're gonna have to arm ... 78 00:07:30,324 --> 00:07:33,493 ourselves to the teeth. - Well, why not? 79 00:07:34,620 --> 00:07:38,331 I mean, if a thing's worth doing it's worth doing right. 80 00:07:38,416 --> 00:07:41,501 This is the American Dream in action. 81 00:07:42,420 --> 00:07:44,504 Wait! 82 00:07:46,424 --> 00:07:50,218 We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end. 83 00:07:50,303 --> 00:07:54,306 Indeed. We must do it. What kind of story is this? 84 00:07:54,390 --> 00:07:58,310 It's the Mint 400. It's the richest off-road race for motor cycles and ... 85 00:07:58,394 --> 00:08:02,439 dune buggies in the history of sport. It's a fantastic spectacle in honour ... 86 00:08:02,523 --> 00:08:06,610 of some fatback grossero who owns the luxurious Mint Hotel in Las Vegas. 87 00:08:06,694 --> 00:08:10,697 That's what the press release says. - As your attorney, I advise you to buy ... 88 00:08:10,781 --> 00:08:14,784 a motor cycle. How else can you cover a thing like this righteously? 89 00:08:14,869 --> 00:08:18,747 Well, we're gonna have to drum it up on our own. 90 00:08:18,831 --> 00:08:21,249 Pure Gonzo journalism. - Jesus! 91 00:08:31,636 --> 00:08:35,722 Getting hold of the drugs and shirts had been no problem. But the car and ... 92 00:08:35,806 --> 00:08:39,893 tape recorder were not easy to round up on a Friday afternoon in Hollywood. 93 00:08:39,977 --> 00:08:43,146 Sounds beautiful. Great, hang on to it. 94 00:08:44,398 --> 00:08:49,319 The gentleman has a major credit card. - Don't take any guff from these swine. 95 00:08:49,403 --> 00:08:53,615 You just got through saying that. Do you realise who you're talking to? 96 00:08:53,699 --> 00:08:56,201 Do you? Be over in 30 minutes. 97 00:09:00,998 --> 00:09:05,126 We're gonna need a sound store. - We need unlimited credit. 98 00:09:05,211 --> 00:09:09,297 Jesus, we will, man. You Samoans are all the same. You have no faith in the ... 99 00:09:09,382 --> 00:09:13,051 essential decency of the White man's culture. 100 00:09:13,928 --> 00:09:17,889 The store was closed but the salesman said he would wait if we hurried. 101 00:09:17,974 --> 00:09:22,060 But we were delayed en route when a Stingray in front of us killed a 102 00:09:22,144 --> 00:09:26,898 pedestrian. We had trouble again at the car rental agency. 103 00:09:27,567 --> 00:09:31,987 Hey, Mr. Duke. If I could just get your John Hancock, you're on your way. 104 00:09:32,071 --> 00:09:35,907 Listen you're gonna be real careful with this car, right? 105 00:09:35,992 --> 00:09:40,495 Oh yeah, man, of course. - Oh good, Jesus! No, no, no ... 106 00:09:45,585 --> 00:09:50,547 Holy smokes. You just backed over a 2 foot concrete abutment, you didn't ... 107 00:09:50,631 --> 00:09:54,759 even slow. Maybe, 45 miles an hour. - There's no harm done. 108 00:09:54,844 --> 00:09:57,887 Oh? - I always test the transmission that ... 109 00:09:57,972 --> 00:10:01,725 way. Boy, this is really a nice pen. - Yeah. Listen you fellas ... 110 00:10:01,809 --> 00:10:05,478 haven't been drinking, have you? - No, not me. 111 00:10:06,230 --> 00:10:10,317 We're responsible people. - As you know. Hey, hey, hey! 112 00:10:10,401 --> 00:10:14,321 God-damnit! You've got my pen! God-damn hippies! 113 00:10:17,533 --> 00:10:21,494 We spent the rest of that night rounding up materials and packing ... 114 00:10:21,579 --> 00:10:25,999 the car. Then we ate some mescaline and went swimming. 115 00:10:27,418 --> 00:10:31,379 Our trip was different. It was to be a classic affirmation of everything ... 116 00:10:31,464 --> 00:10:35,550 right in the national character; a physical salute to the fantastic ... 117 00:10:35,635 --> 00:10:39,721 possibilities of life in this country. But only for those with true grit and ... 118 00:10:39,805 --> 00:10:43,475 we are chock full of that, man. - Damn' right! 119 00:10:44,435 --> 00:10:50,440 My attorney understands this concept despite his racial handicap. Do you? 120 00:10:50,566 --> 00:10:56,655 He said he understood but I could see in his eyes that he didn't. He lies. 121 00:11:10,670 --> 00:11:12,754 Medicine! - What? 122 00:11:13,464 --> 00:11:17,050 Medicine! - Medicine? Oh, right. It's right here. 123 00:11:17,134 --> 00:11:21,221 Don't worry. This man has a bad heart. Angina pectoris. But we have a cure ... 124 00:11:21,305 --> 00:11:25,642 for it. Here you go. All right. Big whiff, sonny boy. 125 00:11:28,688 --> 00:11:32,440 There you go. Much better. Now for the doctor. 126 00:11:46,038 --> 00:11:51,292 What the fuck are we doing out here in the middle of the desert? 127 00:11:52,002 --> 00:11:56,339 Somebody call the police. We need help. We need help. 128 00:12:06,350 --> 00:12:08,435 The truth. - Truth? 129 00:12:09,645 --> 00:12:13,481 That we're going to Vegas to croak ... - Vegas ... 130 00:12:13,816 --> 00:12:17,652 ... a scag baron named Savage Henry. - It's true. 131 00:12:18,612 --> 00:12:22,532 Why? Because I've known him for years but he ripped us off. 132 00:12:22,616 --> 00:12:26,453 And you know what that means. - Now you know what that means, right? 133 00:12:26,537 --> 00:12:29,789 Savage Henry has just cashed his cheque. 134 00:12:30,207 --> 00:12:34,627 Cashed his cheque. - And we're gonna rip his lungs out. 135 00:12:34,962 --> 00:12:39,048 Gonna eat them. That bastard won't get away with this. What is going on this ... 136 00:12:39,133 --> 00:12:43,052 country when a scum-sucker like that can get away with sandbagging a Doctor ... 137 00:12:43,137 --> 00:12:47,640 of Journalism? Can you tell me that? - Thanks for the ride. I like you guys. 138 00:12:47,725 --> 00:12:52,395 Really, don't worry about me. - Wait! Come back and have a beer. 139 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,064 Shit! Fuck! I'm gonna miss him. 140 00:12:57,193 --> 00:13:01,279 Move over. We have to get out of California before that kid find a cop. 141 00:13:01,363 --> 00:13:07,202 Come on, scoot over you fat bastard. - We had a real freak on our hands. 142 00:13:11,123 --> 00:13:15,210 It was absolutely imperative that we get to the Hotel before the deadline ... 143 00:13:15,294 --> 00:13:20,965 for press registration. Otherwise we might have to pay for our suite. 144 00:13:24,637 --> 00:13:28,556 Jesus! Did you see what God just did to us, man? 145 00:13:29,767 --> 00:13:33,853 God didn't to that. You did it. You're a fucking narcotics agent, I knew it. 146 00:13:33,938 --> 00:13:37,482 That was our cocaine, you pig! You fucking pig, swine, whore! 147 00:13:37,566 --> 00:13:41,653 You better be careful. Plenty of vultures out here. They'll pick your ... 148 00:13:41,737 --> 00:13:45,323 bones clean before morning. - You fucking whore. 149 00:13:45,407 --> 00:13:49,160 Here's your half of the sunshine acid. Eat it. 150 00:13:50,538 --> 00:13:52,622 Yeah ... 151 00:13:52,915 --> 00:13:54,999 right. 152 00:13:55,543 --> 00:13:59,087 How long do I have? - As attorney, I advise you to drive at ... 153 00:13:59,171 --> 00:14:03,883 top speed. It'll be a miracle if we're there before you turn into a animal. 154 00:14:03,968 --> 00:14:07,053 Pig fucker, pig fucker, pig fucker ... 155 00:14:09,598 --> 00:14:13,685 Are you ready for that? Checking into a Vegas hotel under a phoney name with ... 156 00:14:13,769 --> 00:14:17,856 intent to commit capital fraud on a head full of acid? 157 00:14:17,940 --> 00:14:22,277 I sure hope so. - 30 minutes. It was going very close. 158 00:14:54,310 --> 00:14:58,271 Come on, take the ticket. We're busy here. Come on, take the ticket. 159 00:14:58,355 --> 00:15:00,440 Take it. Take the ticket. 160 00:15:03,235 --> 00:15:06,905 I need this, right? - I'll remember your face. 161 00:15:08,032 --> 00:15:11,951 There is no way of explaining the terror I felt. 162 00:15:23,422 --> 00:15:27,842 I was pouring sweat. My blood is too thick for Nevada. 163 00:15:28,302 --> 00:15:32,680 I've never been able to properly explain myself in this climate. 164 00:15:32,765 --> 00:15:34,849 Ok. Be quiet. Be calm. 165 00:15:36,769 --> 00:15:39,604 Name. Rank. And press affiliation. 166 00:15:41,398 --> 00:15:43,483 Nothing else. 167 00:16:06,006 --> 00:16:08,091 Hi, there! 168 00:16:10,135 --> 00:16:14,347 My name Raoul Duke on the list. Free lunch, final wisdom ... 169 00:16:14,431 --> 00:16:16,683 ... total coverage. Why not? 170 00:16:18,602 --> 00:16:20,687 I have my attorney ... 171 00:16:24,733 --> 00:16:28,528 with me and I realise that his name is not on that list. 172 00:16:28,612 --> 00:16:33,366 But we must have that suite. Yes, we must have that suite. 173 00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:39,372 What's the score here? What's next? - Your suite isn't ready yet. But ... 174 00:16:39,456 --> 00:16:43,876 someone was looking for you. - No, we haven't done anything yet. 175 00:16:43,961 --> 00:16:46,045 Move. - I can handle this. 176 00:16:47,339 --> 00:16:51,426 This man suffers from a bad heart but I have plenty of medicine. 177 00:16:51,510 --> 00:16:57,432 My name is Doctor Gonzo. Prepare his suite at once. We'll be in the bar. 178 00:17:16,452 --> 00:17:19,370 Fire! - Hey, beat it. Beat it. Go on. 179 00:17:22,541 --> 00:17:26,127 Well, I like the way you did that. - Come on. 180 00:17:26,879 --> 00:17:29,547 Come on. Let's get some peanuts. 181 00:17:31,425 --> 00:17:34,969 Peanuts? - That's one thing that's good for you. 182 00:17:35,054 --> 00:17:38,139 Oh, God! - 2 cuba libras, beer, mescal. 183 00:17:39,808 --> 00:17:41,893 I bet you're a Libra? 184 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:51,444 Who's Lacerda? - Lacerda? 185 00:17:51,653 --> 00:17:56,491 Yeah, he's waiting for us on the twelfth floor. Room 12-50. Lacerda. 186 00:17:56,575 --> 00:18:00,661 I couldn't remember. The name rang a bell but I couldn't concentrate. 187 00:18:00,746 --> 00:18:04,415 Terrible things were happening all around us. 188 00:18:06,877 --> 00:18:12,173 Order some golf shoes. Otherwise we'll never get out of this place alive. 189 00:18:12,257 --> 00:18:16,427 Impossible to walk in this muck. No footing at all. 190 00:18:19,348 --> 00:18:23,267 Mr. Roger Pratt, please call the hotel operator. 191 00:19:00,180 --> 00:19:04,267 I was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo. And somebody was giving ... 192 00:19:04,351 --> 00:19:10,523 booze to these damn things. It won't be long before they tear us to shreds. 193 00:19:12,901 --> 00:19:16,988 I just went upstairs to see this man Lacerda. Says he's a photographer. 194 00:19:17,072 --> 00:19:21,159 But when I mentioned Savage Henry, he freaked. He understands we're ... 195 00:19:21,243 --> 00:19:25,872 on to him. Have you seen his eyes? You'll understand we have a magnum. 196 00:19:25,956 --> 00:19:30,376 Please! Tell them to get out their fucking golf shoes. 197 00:19:30,544 --> 00:19:34,964 Jesus, look at that bunch over there, man. They've spotted us. 198 00:19:35,048 --> 00:19:40,970 That's the press table. We're gonna have to sign in for our credentials. 199 00:19:42,347 --> 00:19:44,432 Ok ... 200 00:19:44,850 --> 00:19:47,268 Are you ready? Are you ready? 201 00:19:48,729 --> 00:19:52,481 Come on, hurry up! - Wait, don't leave me, man! 202 00:19:54,067 --> 00:19:58,237 2 club sandwiches, and, er, 2 more club sandwiches. 203 00:19:59,448 --> 00:20:01,782 1, 2, 3, 4 shrimp cocktails. 204 00:20:04,161 --> 00:20:08,289 And 9 fresh grapefruits. - Vitamin C. We need all we can get. 205 00:20:08,373 --> 00:20:12,418 One box of cereal. - There's a big machine in the sky. 206 00:20:12,502 --> 00:20:15,922 A quart of rum. - Some kind of, I don't know, 207 00:20:16,006 --> 00:20:19,550 electric snake coming straight at us. - Shoot it! 208 00:20:19,635 --> 00:20:23,721 Not yet. I wanna study its habits. - You motor cyclists are hearty eaters. 209 00:20:23,805 --> 00:20:27,892 I need the cart. I need to return with the cart. Thank you. But the cart ... 210 00:20:27,976 --> 00:20:31,520 needs to go back. I'll be back. - You bastard! 211 00:20:31,605 --> 00:20:35,149 I've been hit, man. - I leave you alone for 3 minutes and ... 212 00:20:35,234 --> 00:20:40,071 you start waving that god-damn marlin spike around, yelling about reptiles. 213 00:20:40,155 --> 00:20:44,283 What are you talkin' about, man? - They were ready to call the cops. 214 00:20:44,368 --> 00:20:48,329 Sir, you're lucky I came back in time. - Don't come near me, man. 215 00:20:48,413 --> 00:20:51,916 Don't come fucking near me! Leave me alone! 216 00:20:52,668 --> 00:20:56,671 The only reason they gave us press passes was to get you out of there. 217 00:20:56,755 --> 00:21:01,092 Oh God, what's that? - That scene straightened me right out. 218 00:21:01,176 --> 00:21:03,261 Who's at the door? 219 00:21:06,056 --> 00:21:08,140 Just a minute. 220 00:21:08,642 --> 00:21:10,893 Oh, shit! Oh mother of God! 221 00:21:13,939 --> 00:21:16,857 Hi, I'm Lacerda, your photographer. 222 00:21:24,032 --> 00:21:26,534 Duke? - Uh-huh. He's back there. 223 00:21:27,911 --> 00:21:29,996 Duke? Duke? 224 00:21:30,622 --> 00:21:33,207 Hi! Lacerda. Your photographer. 225 00:21:34,918 --> 00:21:40,047 You're not Portuguese, man. - Hi, you missed the bikes checking in. 226 00:21:40,132 --> 00:21:43,301 Man, what a sight! Husqvarnas. Yamahas. 227 00:21:44,094 --> 00:21:46,178 DMZs. 228 00:21:46,722 --> 00:21:48,723 Kawasakis. 229 00:21:48,807 --> 00:21:51,726 Maicos. Pursang. Swedish fireballs. 230 00:21:54,021 --> 00:21:59,692 A couple of Triumphs, here and there a CZ. All very, very fast. Very. 231 00:22:01,820 --> 00:22:03,988 What a race it's gonna be. 232 00:22:09,161 --> 00:22:11,245 Yeah! 233 00:22:13,874 --> 00:22:18,544 I'm gonna let myself out. - We know what you're up to, man. 234 00:22:30,349 --> 00:22:33,184 Let me tell you. He's lying to us. 235 00:22:34,519 --> 00:22:37,271 I could see it in his eyes. - Eyes? 236 00:22:40,317 --> 00:22:43,486 Panic on, Charlie. Turn this shit off. 237 00:22:51,578 --> 00:22:54,997 The racers were ready at dawn. Very tense. 238 00:22:55,707 --> 00:23:00,211 In some circles the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, 239 00:23:00,295 --> 00:23:04,382 the Kentucky Derby and the Lower Oakland Roller Derby finals all ... 240 00:23:04,466 --> 00:23:09,136 rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed. 241 00:23:09,554 --> 00:23:11,639 Fuck off, man! - All right. 242 00:23:12,015 --> 00:23:16,102 It was time to get grounded. To ponder this rotten assignment and figure out ... 243 00:23:16,186 --> 00:23:20,189 how to cope with it. It was time to do the job. Those of us who had been up ... 244 00:23:20,273 --> 00:23:24,193 all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink. 245 00:23:24,277 --> 00:23:27,363 We were, after all the absolute cream ... 246 00:23:28,323 --> 00:23:32,410 of the national sporting press. We were gathered here in Las Vegas for ... 247 00:23:32,494 --> 00:23:35,329 this very special moment in sport. 248 00:23:36,706 --> 00:23:41,710 And when it comes to a thing like this you don't fool around. 249 00:23:46,842 --> 00:23:48,926 Money plays. Money plays. 250 00:23:49,970 --> 00:23:55,099 "Kill the body, the head will die". Ali/Frazier fight — Crazy shit, man. 251 00:23:55,183 --> 00:24:00,187 A proper end to the sixties. Ali beaten by a human hamburger. 252 00:24:00,605 --> 00:24:04,191 Both Kennedys murdered my mutants. - Hey, they're starting! 253 00:24:04,276 --> 00:24:07,319 Oh, shit, they're startin'. Let's go! 254 00:24:07,404 --> 00:24:11,490 Welcome to the start of the 50,000 dollar Mint 400 desert race. 255 00:24:11,575 --> 00:24:15,536 With a purse of 50,000 dollars going to the winner of this gruelling, 256 00:24:15,620 --> 00:24:20,791 gut wrenching, dust eating, in your face moto-cross extravaganza. 257 00:24:20,876 --> 00:24:22,960 And away we go. 258 00:24:28,008 --> 00:24:30,009 That's it. 259 00:24:30,093 --> 00:24:34,180 Our second group of 1971 is getting in place. Kawasakis. Triumphs. Maicos. 260 00:24:34,264 --> 00:24:38,350 Here we are. We're ready to go. It's the green flag and they're off! 261 00:24:38,435 --> 00:24:42,521 Another great start with a lot of dirt happening on the hill. All right. 262 00:24:42,606 --> 00:24:46,692 Here we go with the third group. And they're off! There we go. 263 00:24:46,776 --> 00:24:50,863 Number 45 ragged in the number 4 position is choking, 264 00:24:50,947 --> 00:24:53,032 his rattle flying ... 265 00:24:54,075 --> 00:24:58,621 You better wet those bandannas you got stretched over your face ... 266 00:24:58,705 --> 00:25:02,791 There was something like a 190 more bikes waiting to start. 267 00:25:02,876 --> 00:25:07,379 They were due to go off, 10 at a time. Every 2 minutes. 268 00:25:07,464 --> 00:25:09,548 There you go, buddy. 269 00:25:13,094 --> 00:25:18,182 God-damnit, what day is it? Saturday? - Shit! More like Sunday. 270 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,320 By ten they were spread out all over the course. It was no longer a race. 271 00:25:31,404 --> 00:25:36,367 Now it was an endurance contest. The idea of trying to cover this race is ... 272 00:25:36,451 --> 00:25:39,703 any conventional press sense was absurd. 273 00:25:40,789 --> 00:25:43,541 Hi! It's pretty great, huh? - What? 274 00:25:43,917 --> 00:25:46,001 Come on in! 275 00:25:50,173 --> 00:25:54,677 I'm just gonna try different combinations of lense and film until ... 276 00:25:54,761 --> 00:25:58,097 I find something that works in this dust! 277 00:25:59,307 --> 00:26:04,478 What the fuck! That's fucking machine guns, man, they're firing at us. 278 00:26:04,563 --> 00:26:09,066 It's god-damn war zone, man. Get us outta here quick. Quick, man! Quick. 279 00:26:09,150 --> 00:26:13,320 We're gonna be killed for fuck's sake. - What the ... 280 00:26:14,114 --> 00:26:16,615 Oh no, oh god. Oh God. Oh God. 281 00:26:18,910 --> 00:26:21,996 Where's the damn race? - Beats me, man. 282 00:26:23,373 --> 00:26:27,459 We're just good patriotic Americans like yourselves. 283 00:26:27,544 --> 00:26:31,422 What outfit you fellas with? - Oh, the sporting press. 284 00:26:31,506 --> 00:26:34,008 We're friendlies. Hired geeks. 285 00:26:39,639 --> 00:26:41,724 Yeah. - Let's go. 286 00:26:44,227 --> 00:26:48,731 Good luck, gentlemen. Freaks. Take me back to the pits. 287 00:26:48,982 --> 00:26:53,319 No, no, no! We have to go on. We need total coverage. 288 00:26:53,737 --> 00:26:57,865 It was time, I felt for an agonising reappraisal of the whole scene. 289 00:26:57,949 --> 00:27:00,284 You're fired. Awful jackass! 290 00:27:04,331 --> 00:27:08,500 Get me out of here! - I never want to see you again. 291 00:27:08,710 --> 00:27:12,463 I gotta take photos. Just drive into the dust! 292 00:27:18,094 --> 00:27:22,431 The race was definitely under way. I had witnessed the start. 293 00:27:22,515 --> 00:27:25,684 I was sure of that much. But what now? 294 00:27:26,227 --> 00:27:28,312 What comes next? 295 00:27:35,987 --> 00:27:40,699 Turn up the radio. Turn up the tape machine. Roll your window down. 296 00:27:40,784 --> 00:27:46,789 Let us taste this cool desert wind. Ah, yes, this is what it's all about. 297 00:27:47,707 --> 00:27:51,794 Total control now. Tooling along the main drag on Saturday night in Vegas. 298 00:27:51,878 --> 00:27:55,798 2 good old boys in a fire apple red convertible. 299 00:27:57,175 --> 00:28:00,260 Stoned, ripped, twisted. Good people. 300 00:28:02,597 --> 00:28:06,350 Hot fuck. That sounds heavy. 29 cent hot dogs. 301 00:28:09,020 --> 00:28:13,190 What are we doing here? Are we here to entertain ourselves do the job? 302 00:28:13,274 --> 00:28:17,361 Do the job, of course. Here we go. A crab Louie and a quart of Le Piat's ... 303 00:28:17,445 --> 00:28:19,530 muscatel for 20 dollars. 304 00:28:22,117 --> 00:28:26,120 I advise you to drive over to the TROPICANA and pick up on Guy Lombardo. 305 00:28:26,204 --> 00:28:28,288 He's there. - Why? 306 00:28:28,915 --> 00:28:32,501 Why? Why what? - Well, why should I pay my hard-earned ... 307 00:28:32,585 --> 00:28:36,672 dollars to watch a fucking corpse? I don't know about you but in my line of ... 308 00:28:36,756 --> 00:28:39,591 business it's important to be hep. 309 00:28:40,468 --> 00:28:45,013 What the hell do you think you're doing? This is not a parking area. 310 00:28:45,098 --> 00:28:48,016 You can't park your car here. - What? 311 00:28:48,643 --> 00:28:51,061 You can't park your car here. 312 00:28:52,814 --> 00:28:57,276 Is it not a reasonable place to park? - Reasonable? You're on a sidewalk! 313 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,988 We want this car parked. - You can't park on the sidewalk! 314 00:29:01,072 --> 00:29:04,742 Excuse me, sir. - Drove from LA for this show. 315 00:29:07,162 --> 00:29:12,499 We're friends of Debbie's. - It's cool, baby. We'll see you later? 316 00:29:13,168 --> 00:29:16,587 This was Bob Hope's turf. Frank Sinatra's. 317 00:29:18,298 --> 00:29:22,384 Spiro Agnew's. The place fairly wreaked of high-grade formica and ... 318 00:29:22,469 --> 00:29:27,806 plastic palm tress. Clearly a high-class refuge for big spenders. 319 00:29:30,351 --> 00:29:34,271 Has she started? Is she on stage? - Yes she is. Full house. 320 00:29:34,355 --> 00:29:38,108 I'm sorry, sir. - We've come LA for this show. 321 00:29:38,777 --> 00:29:42,780 I said there are no seats left, sir. - Fuck seats! 322 00:29:42,864 --> 00:29:46,700 We're friends with Debbie. - Well, that depends. 323 00:29:48,870 --> 00:29:52,414 Come and talk to me for a second here, come on. 324 00:29:52,499 --> 00:29:56,084 Your attitude constitutes a breach of faith. 325 00:29:59,798 --> 00:30:03,550 In Nevada that's illegal. Your name? - My name? 326 00:30:04,052 --> 00:30:06,053 Tony Pitzicatta. 327 00:30:06,137 --> 00:30:09,681 Tony Pitzicatta, ok. - What may I ask is your name, sir? 328 00:30:09,766 --> 00:30:13,852 It's on my driver's licence. - I think we've met before. 329 00:30:13,937 --> 00:30:16,980 Might be able to squeeze you in, sir. - Thanks. 330 00:30:17,065 --> 00:30:19,817 You'll have to stand in the back. 331 00:30:20,735 --> 00:30:24,530 After a lot of bad noise he let us in for nothing. 332 00:30:24,614 --> 00:30:28,450 Provided we would stand quietly at the back and not smoke. 333 00:30:28,535 --> 00:30:32,621 Ladies and gentlemen. The Desert Inn is proud to present the one, the only, 334 00:30:32,705 --> 00:30:35,874 the incomparable, Miss Debbie Reynolds! 335 00:30:39,754 --> 00:30:43,841 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's wonderful to be here with all you ... 336 00:30:43,925 --> 00:30:47,010 fabulous people. Let's rock and roll! 337 00:30:53,518 --> 00:30:56,103 Hey, what the hell is going on? 338 00:31:09,409 --> 00:31:12,995 Jesus creeping shit! We wandered into a fucking time capsule, man. 339 00:31:13,079 --> 00:31:15,080 Scumbag! - What? 340 00:31:15,164 --> 00:31:19,001 I'll find where you live and burn your house down, you piece of shit! 341 00:31:19,085 --> 00:31:23,630 What? What happened? - One of these days I'll toss a fucking ... 342 00:31:23,715 --> 00:31:25,799 bomb in that place. 343 00:31:39,647 --> 00:31:45,235 Ok. Here we are. This is the place! They'll never fuck with us here. 344 00:31:46,654 --> 00:31:50,157 Where's the ether? Mescaline's not working. 345 00:31:53,703 --> 00:31:55,787 There we go. 346 00:31:57,916 --> 00:32:00,000 Right. 347 00:32:00,877 --> 00:32:02,961 Yeah, why not. 348 00:32:04,714 --> 00:32:06,798 Yeah. 349 00:32:11,679 --> 00:32:15,766 Devil ether. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early ... 350 00:32:15,850 --> 00:32:19,937 Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor skills: blurred vision, 351 00:32:20,021 --> 00:32:24,107 no balance, numb tongue. The mind recoils in horror unable to ... 352 00:32:24,192 --> 00:32:28,195 communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting because you can ... 353 00:32:28,279 --> 00:32:32,366 actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way ... 354 00:32:32,450 --> 00:32:34,534 but you can't control it. 355 00:32:38,414 --> 00:32:42,501 You approach the turnstiles and you know that when you get there you have ... 356 00:32:42,585 --> 00:32:46,672 to give the man 2 dollars or he won't let you inside. But when you get there ... 357 00:32:46,756 --> 00:32:50,759 everything goes wrong. Some angry Rotarian shoves you and you think ... 358 00:32:50,843 --> 00:32:54,930 "What's happening here? What's going on?" When you hear yourself mumbling: 359 00:32:55,014 --> 00:32:58,266 Dog's fucked the Pope. No fault of mine. 360 00:33:01,062 --> 00:33:05,399 Ether is the perfect drug for Vegas. In this town they love a drunk. 361 00:33:05,483 --> 00:33:08,485 Fresh meat. - Come on, buddy, come on. 362 00:33:09,278 --> 00:33:13,824 So they put us through the turnstiles and turned us loose inside. 363 00:33:13,908 --> 00:33:16,994 Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, 364 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,916 visitors of all ages! The Bazooko Casino Circus ... 365 00:33:24,711 --> 00:33:27,796 proudly presents, The Flying Fellinis! 366 00:34:35,907 --> 00:34:37,991 Excuse me. 367 00:34:43,206 --> 00:34:47,292 A drug person can learn to cope with things like seeing their dead grandma ... 368 00:34:47,376 --> 00:34:51,463 crawling up their leg with a knife in her teeth but nobody should be asked ... 369 00:34:51,547 --> 00:34:55,550 to handle this trip. Bazooko Circus is what the whole hep world would be ... 370 00:34:55,635 --> 00:34:59,721 doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This was the Sixth Reich. 371 00:34:59,806 --> 00:35:03,892 Place your bets, where everyone ... - Step right up and shoot the pasties ... 372 00:35:03,976 --> 00:35:09,481 off the nipples of the ten foot bald dyke with a cotton candy coat. 373 00:35:15,071 --> 00:35:19,157 Step up to this fantastic machine. For just 99 cents your likeness will ... 374 00:35:19,242 --> 00:35:23,286 appear 200 feet tall on a screen over downtown Las Vegas. For just 99 cents ... 375 00:35:23,371 --> 00:35:27,457 more, you can have a voice message. Say whatever you want, fella. 376 00:35:27,542 --> 00:35:31,503 Oh, they'll hear you all right. Ok, keep moving, keep moving. 377 00:35:31,587 --> 00:35:35,674 The ether was wearing off. The acid was long gone. 378 00:35:35,758 --> 00:35:41,263 But the mescaline was running strong. Good mescaline comes on slow. 379 00:35:41,681 --> 00:35:45,767 The first hour's all waiting. And then about half-way through its second hour ... 380 00:35:45,852 --> 00:35:49,938 you start cursing the creep who burned you because nothing's happening. 381 00:35:50,022 --> 00:35:52,858 And then, zang! - I hate to say this ... 382 00:35:53,860 --> 00:35:58,071 but this place is getting to me. I think I'm getting ... 383 00:35:58,156 --> 00:36:01,741 "The Fear". - Nonsense. We came here to find the ... 384 00:36:01,826 --> 00:36:06,371 American Dream. Now that we're right in the vortex, do you wanna quit? 385 00:36:06,455 --> 00:36:10,667 Man, we've found the "Main Nerve". - That's what gives me "The Fear". 386 00:36:10,751 --> 00:36:12,836 Oh look. - What? 387 00:36:13,379 --> 00:36:18,675 There's 2 women fucking a Polar Bear. - Don't tell me those things. 388 00:36:18,759 --> 00:36:21,761 Not now, man. This is my last drink. 389 00:36:24,056 --> 00:36:27,642 How much money can you lend me? - Not much. Why? 390 00:36:27,727 --> 00:36:29,728 I have to go. - Go? 391 00:36:29,812 --> 00:36:33,440 Yeah. Leave the country. - Calm down. You'll be straight in a ... 392 00:36:33,524 --> 00:36:37,611 few hours. Just sit down. Sit down! - Don't fuck around, man! 393 00:36:37,695 --> 00:36:42,949 This is serious. One more hour in this town, I'll kill somebody. 394 00:36:43,618 --> 00:36:47,370 Ok. I'll lend you some money. - Can we make it? 395 00:36:48,706 --> 00:36:52,250 I wanna leave fast. - Ok. Let's pay this bill. 396 00:36:52,335 --> 00:36:56,213 Get up very slowly. I think it's gonna be a long walk. 397 00:36:56,297 --> 00:36:58,381 Light, sir? 398 00:37:00,176 --> 00:37:03,094 Do they pay you to screw that bear? 399 00:37:03,804 --> 00:37:07,891 What? What the fuck did he say to me? - He's wrong. 400 00:37:08,351 --> 00:37:12,437 You better take care of your friend. - Madam, sir, baby, child, whatever ... 401 00:37:12,521 --> 00:37:16,608 Got change? Here, take this. That should be enough. I'm sure. All right, 402 00:37:16,692 --> 00:37:19,277 let's go downstairs and gamble. 403 00:37:21,447 --> 00:37:26,868 You guys don't fucking give up. - Where did he go? Where did he go? 404 00:37:31,374 --> 00:37:35,794 When is this thing gonna stop? - Stop? It's not ever gonna stop, man. 405 00:37:35,878 --> 00:37:38,964 Stop! - Don't move, you'll come around. 406 00:37:39,507 --> 00:37:42,008 Fuck, he's ... Where did he go? 407 00:37:44,804 --> 00:37:47,889 Let go. Quick, like a bunny. Come on. 408 00:37:48,683 --> 00:37:50,767 Hop! Come on. Hop! 409 00:37:52,311 --> 00:37:55,563 Oh, you snivelling chicken shit bastard! 410 00:38:05,116 --> 00:38:08,368 I'm melting. I'm ok. - Come on, you fell. 411 00:38:09,078 --> 00:38:12,998 You fell, let's go. - Some son-of-a-bitch pushed me. 412 00:38:13,374 --> 00:38:17,919 Come on. All right, you stay here and go to jail, I'm leaving. 413 00:38:18,004 --> 00:38:21,423 Come on, you fiend. Nothing, I want nothing. 414 00:38:21,507 --> 00:38:24,009 You see that? Some son-of-a-bitch ... 415 00:38:25,553 --> 00:38:29,639 just kicked me in the back. - Yeah. The bartender. Wanted to stomp ... 416 00:38:29,724 --> 00:38:33,935 you for what you said to the waitress. - Cows are gonna kill me! 417 00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:38,356 Bisexuals are gonna kill me. Let's get out of here. Where's the elevator? 418 00:38:38,441 --> 00:38:42,527 No, fuck. Don't go near the elevator. That's just what they want us to do. 419 00:38:42,611 --> 00:38:48,283 Trap us in a steel box. Take us down to the basement. Come here, man! 420 00:38:49,577 --> 00:38:53,747 Don't run, man. They'd like any excuse to shoot us. 421 00:38:55,499 --> 00:39:00,587 You drive. You drive. I think there's something wrong with me. 422 00:39:07,261 --> 00:39:09,346 Wrong door. Wrong door. 423 00:39:10,097 --> 00:39:14,184 Not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Extremely menacing vibrations were all ... 424 00:39:14,268 --> 00:39:18,605 around us. We finally made it to the room but the key ... 425 00:39:19,148 --> 00:39:24,235 wouldn't open the door. - Those bastards have changed the lock. 426 00:39:24,695 --> 00:39:26,780 Already? 427 00:39:27,448 --> 00:39:33,203 They've probably searched the room, man. Jesus Christ, we're finished. 428 00:39:35,623 --> 00:39:38,291 Watch out, watch out, watch out! 429 00:39:42,129 --> 00:39:46,132 Bolt everything. Use all chains. - No one's there, we're good. 430 00:39:46,217 --> 00:39:49,302 Phew. That's better. Much better now. 431 00:39:50,304 --> 00:39:52,722 Where did this one come from? 432 00:39:54,642 --> 00:39:58,895 That's Lacerda's. - Yeah, I thought we might need it. 433 00:39:59,271 --> 00:40:02,857 What for? - What for? So we can go up there and ... 434 00:40:02,942 --> 00:40:06,611 blast him out of bed with the fire hose, man. 435 00:40:08,489 --> 00:40:12,826 We leave that poor bastard alone. He told me he was gonna turn in early ... 436 00:40:12,910 --> 00:40:16,496 I knew it. He's got a hold of my woman, man. 437 00:40:17,748 --> 00:40:21,876 You mean that little blonde groupie with the film crew? Shit! 438 00:40:21,961 --> 00:40:25,547 Think he sodomized her? - That's right, laugh about it. 439 00:40:25,631 --> 00:40:31,469 He'll be glueing her eyes shut now. - You damn honkies are all the same. 440 00:40:33,514 --> 00:40:37,600 Jesus, God Almighty, man. Where did you get that big fucker? 441 00:40:37,685 --> 00:40:43,106 Room service sent it up. I needed something to cut the limes, man. 442 00:40:44,066 --> 00:40:48,069 Limes? What limes? - They didn't have any. They don't grow ... 443 00:40:48,154 --> 00:40:51,322 in the desert. That dirty toad bastard. 444 00:40:53,451 --> 00:40:58,121 I knew I should have taken him out when I had the chance. 445 00:40:58,247 --> 00:41:02,667 Now he has her, man! He's got a hold of my baby, yeah. 446 00:41:04,253 --> 00:41:09,299 I remembered the girl. We'd had a problem with her in the elevator a ... 447 00:41:09,383 --> 00:41:14,137 few hours earlier. My attorney had made a fool of himself. 448 00:41:23,689 --> 00:41:25,773 You must be a rider. 449 00:41:27,860 --> 00:41:29,944 She's speaking to you. 450 00:41:34,617 --> 00:41:39,287 What class are you in? - Class? What the fuck do you mean? 451 00:41:40,122 --> 00:41:42,874 What do you ride? See, we're here ... 452 00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:48,338 getting a little footage on the race for a television series. 453 00:41:48,422 --> 00:41:52,175 I thought maybe we could use you. - Oh, use me? 454 00:41:53,385 --> 00:41:56,471 I ride a ... - I thought, here it comes. 455 00:41:58,098 --> 00:42:03,937 I ride the big fuckers, you know. The big ones. The really big fuckers. 456 00:42:04,063 --> 00:42:07,857 Vincent Black Shadow. We're with the factory team. 457 00:42:07,942 --> 00:42:10,026 Bullshit! - What? 458 00:42:10,486 --> 00:42:12,570 Bullshit! 459 00:42:14,698 --> 00:42:18,785 I think there's some kind of ignorant chicken-shit. Move over, man! 460 00:42:18,869 --> 00:42:22,956 Some kind of ignorant chicken fucker in this town. You pink motherfucker. 461 00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,876 I can show you better than I can tell you, man. 462 00:42:27,711 --> 00:42:29,796 You got a light? 463 00:42:32,049 --> 00:42:34,133 No. - No ... 464 00:42:38,222 --> 00:42:42,058 You don't trust me, do you? Put the smile away. 465 00:42:42,768 --> 00:42:46,771 It's ok. I know these guys. - Keep trying me, jerk-off. 466 00:42:46,855 --> 00:42:50,984 You wanna impress her? Well, impress her with me. Impress her with me. 467 00:42:51,068 --> 00:42:53,152 Oh fuck. - Ok ... 468 00:43:02,496 --> 00:43:04,581 Police are coming. 469 00:43:05,624 --> 00:43:09,294 Oh shit! Fucking police are coming after you. 470 00:43:09,420 --> 00:43:12,839 Give me the key. Give me the god-damn key! 471 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:24,392 Come on, man. - Put the knife away. 472 00:43:24,768 --> 00:43:29,606 Been walking all day. Come on. It's in my pocket. God-damn! 473 00:43:37,448 --> 00:43:39,532 It's serious now, man. 474 00:43:44,204 --> 00:43:46,372 That girl understood, man. 475 00:43:49,877 --> 00:43:53,796 She fell in love with me, man. Eye contact, man! 476 00:44:02,931 --> 00:44:08,186 Let's go up there and castrate that fucker. I'll take the blame, man. 477 00:44:08,270 --> 00:44:12,273 Why don't you just leave that weird fucker alone, man? Come on. 478 00:44:12,358 --> 00:44:17,445 Have you made a deal with him? Did you put him on to her, man? 479 00:44:22,368 --> 00:44:27,455 All right, look, you better put that god-damn blade away, man. 480 00:44:27,623 --> 00:44:32,377 Get your fucking head straight. I'm gonna go get the car washed. 481 00:44:32,461 --> 00:44:36,297 One of the things you learn, after years of dealing with drug people ... 482 00:44:36,382 --> 00:44:40,468 is that you can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug. 483 00:44:40,552 --> 00:44:46,641 Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye. 484 00:44:52,690 --> 00:44:57,694 What was I doing out here? What was the meaning of this trip? 485 00:44:58,278 --> 00:45:02,281 Was I just roaming around in a drug frenzy of some kind? 486 00:45:02,366 --> 00:45:07,453 Or had I really come out here to Las Vegas to work on a story? 487 00:45:11,750 --> 00:45:14,585 Who are these people? These faces? 488 00:45:15,879 --> 00:45:20,466 Where do they come from? They look like caricatures of used car dealers from Dallas. 489 00:45:20,551 --> 00:45:24,971 And, Jesus, there are a hell of a lot of them at 4:30 on a ... 490 00:45:25,055 --> 00:45:29,058 Sunday morning. Still humping the American Dream. 491 00:45:29,309 --> 00:45:33,396 That vision of the big winner somehow emerging from the last minute ... 492 00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,649 pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino. 493 00:45:37,025 --> 00:45:39,277 Change a twenty. Thank you. 494 00:45:41,405 --> 00:45:44,490 Here we go. - Ok. Spinning the wheel ... 495 00:45:45,617 --> 00:45:48,286 Make me rich. Make me very rich. 496 00:45:49,788 --> 00:45:52,039 That's ten. - Oh you bastard! 497 00:45:54,585 --> 00:45:57,920 No, no. Calm down. Learn to enjoy losing. 498 00:46:19,443 --> 00:46:23,529 Fuck, man. It's a fucking great deluge in here. Don't touch that. 499 00:46:23,614 --> 00:46:28,785 Leave it alone. Don't fuck with it, man! Damn it! Jesus Christ. 500 00:46:29,411 --> 00:46:32,246 Oh God. Did you eat all this acid? 501 00:46:33,999 --> 00:46:37,502 That's right. Music! - You better pray to God there's some ... 502 00:46:37,586 --> 00:46:41,839 thorazine in that bag. - Music, man. Put the tape on! 503 00:46:42,591 --> 00:46:46,177 What tape? - Jefferson Airplane. "White Rabbit" 504 00:46:46,261 --> 00:46:50,348 I need a rising sound. - I'm leaving here in 2 hours. 505 00:46:50,432 --> 00:46:54,769 Then they're gonna come up here and beat the mortal shit out of you. 506 00:46:54,853 --> 00:46:57,605 Fuck! Ok. I'll do it. I'll do it. 507 00:46:58,774 --> 00:47:02,860 Just do me one last favour, will you? Can you give me 2 hours? It's all ... 508 00:47:02,945 --> 00:47:08,616 I ask, man. 2 hours to sleep before tomorrow. I suspect it's gonna be ... 509 00:47:08,826 --> 00:47:13,454 a very difficult day. - I'll give you all the time you need. 510 00:47:13,539 --> 00:47:16,457 Electrocution. You don't want that. 511 00:47:17,167 --> 00:47:19,252 Fuck off! 512 00:47:26,134 --> 00:47:28,219 God-damn ... 513 00:47:41,441 --> 00:47:46,696 Help! Help! Help me! Somebody help! - Shit! He's killing himself. 514 00:47:48,365 --> 00:47:53,119 Don't touch it, man. Don't touch it! For fuck's sake, man. 515 00:47:53,537 --> 00:47:55,621 Back! 516 00:47:58,250 --> 00:48:00,334 Back, motherfucker! 517 00:48:03,380 --> 00:48:06,549 On a roll, man. I need it again. - What? 518 00:48:07,050 --> 00:48:10,052 When it comes to that fantastic note ... 519 00:48:10,679 --> 00:48:13,848 where the rabbit bites its own head of. 520 00:48:15,267 --> 00:48:18,436 I want you to throw that fucking radio ... 521 00:48:20,188 --> 00:48:24,775 into the tub with me. - You're going completely sideways! 522 00:48:25,444 --> 00:48:29,530 That'll blast you right through the wall. You'll be dead in 10 seconds. 523 00:48:29,615 --> 00:48:33,534 Fuck, they'll make me explain things. - Bullshit! 524 00:48:33,911 --> 00:48:37,079 Don't fuck with me now, man. I'm Ahab. 525 00:48:41,084 --> 00:48:44,962 Oh Jesus Christ. - Ok, you weird fucker, sit down! 526 00:48:45,047 --> 00:48:49,842 Back in the tub! I'll plunge this into your fucking throat, man. 527 00:48:49,927 --> 00:48:52,261 Don't make me use this, man! 528 00:48:54,348 --> 00:48:57,850 All right, man. Probably the only solution. 529 00:48:58,852 --> 00:49:04,023 Let me make sure I've got this all lined up. You want me to throw this ... 530 00:49:04,107 --> 00:49:09,195 thing into the tub when the "White Rabbit" peaks? Is that it? 531 00:49:11,281 --> 00:49:15,076 I was beginning to think I was gonna have to go outside and get one of the ... 532 00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:18,913 god-damn maids to do it. - No, man. I'll do it. 533 00:49:19,539 --> 00:49:21,791 Shit! What are friends for? 534 00:49:27,464 --> 00:49:29,548 Are you ready? 535 00:49:31,510 --> 00:49:34,178 Close your eyes. Yeah, good boy. 536 00:49:38,266 --> 00:49:42,144 White Rabbit! White Rabbit! - Quiet, you're wasting my time. 537 00:49:42,229 --> 00:49:45,147 Get out of here, man. Out! Get out! 538 00:49:48,527 --> 00:49:51,028 Ok, close those peepers. 10 ... 539 00:49:55,367 --> 00:49:57,451 9, 111. 72. 3. 540 00:50:11,967 --> 00:50:14,468 I need sleep, I'm tellin' you. 541 00:50:36,450 --> 00:50:39,035 Mace! Mace, man! You want this? 542 00:50:41,788 --> 00:50:45,332 You'd do that, wouldn't you? - Well, why not? 543 00:50:45,417 --> 00:50:49,003 You fucking bastard! - Just a minute ago you were asking me ... 544 00:50:49,087 --> 00:50:54,175 to kill you. Now you wanna kill me. What I should do is call the police! 545 00:50:54,259 --> 00:50:58,012 Boy, are you upset! There'll be no point, man, 546 00:51:00,182 --> 00:51:04,268 calling the cops. - No choice. I wouldn't sleep with you ... 547 00:51:04,352 --> 00:51:09,940 wandering around with a head full of acid, and wanting to slice me up. 548 00:51:10,025 --> 00:51:13,611 Who said anything about slicing you up, man? 549 00:51:14,988 --> 00:51:19,325 I just wanted to carve a little "Z" on your forehead. 550 00:51:20,410 --> 00:51:24,497 Get back in the tub. Eat some reds and try to calm down. 551 00:51:24,581 --> 00:51:28,667 Smoke some grass, shoot some fucking smack. Shit, do whatever you've gotta ... 552 00:51:28,752 --> 00:51:33,589 do, but, please, let me get some fucking rest, man, please. 553 00:51:33,673 --> 00:51:36,258 Please. Get up, you pig fucker! 554 00:51:37,761 --> 00:51:39,845 Up! Up! - Well, I ... 555 00:51:43,683 --> 00:51:45,768 Yeah ... 556 00:51:46,686 --> 00:51:50,689 You need to get to work. God-damn, what a bummer. 557 00:51:51,650 --> 00:51:53,984 You scurvy, shyster bastard. 558 00:51:55,153 --> 00:51:57,822 I'm a Doctor of Journalism, man. 559 00:51:58,490 --> 00:52:02,660 Don't let me keep you up. Don't let me keep you up. 560 00:52:04,079 --> 00:52:06,580 Do you ever clean your shorts? 561 00:52:08,250 --> 00:52:10,584 Clean your shorts, god-damn! 562 00:52:15,257 --> 00:52:19,343 The acid had shifted gears on him. The next phase would probably be one ... 563 00:52:19,427 --> 00:52:23,430 of those hellishly intense introspective nightmares. 4 hours of ... 564 00:52:23,515 --> 00:52:26,100 of catatonic despair and drugs. 565 00:52:36,611 --> 00:52:41,157 Ignore the nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the ... 566 00:52:41,241 --> 00:52:46,120 "Love Generation". My attorney had never been able to accept the notion ... 567 00:52:46,204 --> 00:52:50,291 often espoused by former drug abusers that you can get a lot higher without ... 568 00:52:50,375 --> 00:52:52,459 drugs than with them. 569 00:52:54,254 --> 00:52:58,465 And neither have I, for that matter. ♪ When the truth is found ♪ 570 00:52:58,550 --> 00:53:00,634 ♪ To be lies ♪ 571 00:53:03,054 --> 00:53:05,639 ♪ And all the joy within you dies ♪ 572 00:53:09,603 --> 00:53:12,188 ♪ Don't you want somebody to love ♪ 573 00:53:13,064 --> 00:53:15,649 ♪ Don't you need somebody to love ♪ 574 00:53:16,776 --> 00:53:19,612 ♪ Wouldn't you love somebody to love ♪ 575 00:53:20,447 --> 00:53:23,115 ♪ You better find somebody to love ♪ 576 00:53:29,372 --> 00:53:32,625 1965, the great San Francisco acid wave. 577 00:53:36,296 --> 00:53:40,966 I recall one night in a place called "The Matrix". There I was ... 578 00:53:41,051 --> 00:53:44,136 Mother of God. There I am! Holy fuck! 579 00:53:47,057 --> 00:53:51,143 Clearly I was a victim of the drug explosion. A natural street freak 580 00:53:51,228 --> 00:53:53,646 just eating whatever came by. 581 00:53:55,023 --> 00:53:57,107 Any-body want some L-S-D? 582 00:54:01,488 --> 00:54:04,156 I got all the makings right here ... 583 00:54:05,951 --> 00:54:08,452 all I need is a place to cook. 584 00:54:14,876 --> 00:54:18,963 I decided to eat only half of the acid at first. But I spilled the ... 585 00:54:19,047 --> 00:54:22,549 rest on the sleeve of my red woollen shirt. 586 00:54:27,472 --> 00:54:29,556 What's the trouble? 587 00:54:32,060 --> 00:54:35,229 Well, all this white stuff on my sleeve ... 588 00:54:38,817 --> 00:54:40,901 is LSD. 589 00:54:57,961 --> 00:55:01,964 With a bit of luck his life was ruined forever ... 590 00:55:02,841 --> 00:55:06,927 Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all his favourite bars ... 591 00:55:07,012 --> 00:55:10,931 men, in red woollen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things ... 592 00:55:11,016 --> 00:55:13,100 he'll never know. 593 00:55:19,357 --> 00:55:23,527 Strange memories on the nervous night in Las Vegas. 594 00:55:23,820 --> 00:55:25,904 Has it been 5 years? 6? 595 00:55:27,615 --> 00:55:33,037 It seems like a lifetime. The kind of peak that never comes again. 596 00:55:35,665 --> 00:55:39,752 San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to ... 597 00:55:39,836 --> 00:55:42,588 be a part of. But no explanation, 598 00:55:44,466 --> 00:55:48,552 no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that ... 599 00:55:48,636 --> 00:55:53,724 you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. 600 00:55:54,184 --> 00:55:56,268 Whatever it meant. 601 00:56:04,402 --> 00:56:08,238 There was madness in any direction at any hour. 602 00:56:08,531 --> 00:56:11,283 You could strike sparks anywhere. 603 00:56:11,910 --> 00:56:16,830 There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right ... 604 00:56:16,915 --> 00:56:21,418 that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle ... 605 00:56:22,962 --> 00:56:27,466 that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. 606 00:56:27,550 --> 00:56:32,012 Not in any mean or military sense. We didn't need that. 607 00:56:32,097 --> 00:56:36,183 Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum we were riding ... 608 00:56:36,267 --> 00:56:39,353 the crest of high and beautiful wave. 609 00:56:43,858 --> 00:56:46,693 So now less than 5 years later you ... 610 00:56:48,029 --> 00:56:52,282 can go up on a steep hill in Vegas and look west and, 611 00:56:52,492 --> 00:56:57,746 with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high water mark. 612 00:56:57,831 --> 00:57:02,418 That place where the wave finally broke and rolled back. 613 00:57:20,145 --> 00:57:22,229 Room service! 614 00:57:26,067 --> 00:57:29,486 Good morning, sir. - What do you want, man? 615 00:57:30,780 --> 00:57:33,824 Room service. - This is not mine, you're in the ... 616 00:57:33,908 --> 00:57:37,703 wrong room. Get the fuck out! I got a gun. It's not mine, man. 617 00:57:37,787 --> 00:57:39,788 Get out! 618 00:57:39,873 --> 00:57:43,959 I have the bill. I need you to sign ... - All right. Give it. Hurry up! 619 00:57:44,043 --> 00:57:46,628 Don't move, man. Be very still. 620 00:57:48,339 --> 00:57:50,841 Saying nothing to no-one, man. 621 00:57:54,679 --> 00:57:57,598 The decision to flee came suddenly. 622 00:57:59,267 --> 00:58:03,228 Or maybe not. Maybe I'd planned it all along subconsciously waiting for ... 623 00:58:03,313 --> 00:58:08,567 the right moment. The bill was a factor, I think because I had no ... 624 00:58:08,651 --> 00:58:12,738 money to pay for it. Our room service tabs had been running somewhere ... 625 00:58:12,822 --> 00:58:15,657 between 29 and 36 dollars per hour ... 626 00:58:16,868 --> 00:58:19,953 for 48 consecutive hours. Incredible. 627 00:58:20,955 --> 00:58:25,709 How could it happen? But by the time I asked this question there was no ... 628 00:58:25,793 --> 00:58:30,130 one around to answer. That attorney of mine, Doctor Gonzo, was gone. 629 00:58:30,215 --> 00:58:32,549 He must have sensed trouble. 630 00:58:34,552 --> 00:58:36,637 A "Z"? 631 00:58:37,096 --> 00:58:41,308 Panic. It crept up my spine like first rising vibes of an acid frenzy. 632 00:58:41,392 --> 00:58:46,146 All these horrible realities began to dawn on me. Oh fuck! 633 00:58:50,735 --> 00:58:55,197 Here I was alone in Las Vegas. Completely twisted on drugs, 634 00:58:55,281 --> 00:58:59,910 no cash, no story for the magazine. And on top of everything else ... 635 00:58:59,994 --> 00:59:04,081 I had a gigantic god-damn hotel bill to deal with. 636 00:59:06,626 --> 00:59:10,754 I didn't even know who'd won the race. Maybe nobody. 637 00:59:10,838 --> 00:59:14,800 How would Horatio Alger have handled the situation? 638 00:59:14,884 --> 00:59:19,721 Stay calm. Stay calm. I'm a relatively respectable citizen. 639 00:59:20,598 --> 00:59:25,102 A multiple felon, perhaps, but certainly not dangerous. 640 00:59:26,354 --> 00:59:30,440 Luckily I had taken the soap and grapefruit and other luggage to the ... 641 00:59:30,525 --> 00:59:34,653 car a few hours earlier. Now it was only a matter of slipping the noose. 642 00:59:34,737 --> 00:59:37,906 Hey, wait! Here! Take this. All right. 643 00:59:39,534 --> 00:59:41,952 Mr. Duke! Mr. Duke! - Oh, shit! 644 00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:48,208 We've been looking for you. - The game was up. They had me. 645 00:59:48,293 --> 00:59:51,795 Fine books have been written in jail. - Sir? 646 00:59:52,297 --> 00:59:54,339 What? 647 00:59:54,424 --> 00:59:58,510 This telegram came for you. Well, actually, it's not for you. 648 00:59:58,595 --> 01:00:02,681 It's for somebody named Thompson but it says "Care of Raoul Duke". 649 01:00:02,765 --> 01:00:05,809 Does that mean anything? - Yes, yes, thanks. 650 01:00:05,893 --> 01:00:10,355 I checked the register for this man. I figured he might be part of your team. 651 01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:14,526 He is. Don't worry. Get it to him. - What confused us was Doctor Gonzo's 652 01:00:14,611 --> 01:00:18,697 signature on the telegram form Los Angeles when we knew he was right ... 653 01:00:18,781 --> 01:00:23,118 here in the hotel. - Right. Never try and understand a ... 654 01:00:23,286 --> 01:00:27,289 press message. About half the time we use codes especially with Dr. Gonzo. 655 01:00:27,373 --> 01:00:30,459 See you. - Tell me when will the Doctor ... 656 01:00:33,046 --> 01:00:35,881 be awake? - Awake? What do you mean? 657 01:00:36,883 --> 01:00:41,053 Well, my manager, Mr. Heem, would like to meet him. 658 01:00:42,639 --> 01:00:46,725 It's nothing unusual. Mr. Heem likes to meet all of our large accounts. 659 01:00:46,809 --> 01:00:50,896 Put 'em on a personal basis, you know, just a chat and a handshake. 660 01:00:50,980 --> 01:00:55,067 You understand. - Of course. But if I were you I would ... 661 01:00:55,151 --> 01:00:59,237 leave the Doctor alone until after he's eaten his breakfast because he's ... 662 01:00:59,322 --> 01:01:01,657 a very crude man. Jesus God. 663 01:01:04,452 --> 01:01:08,538 But he will be available maybe later this morning? 664 01:01:10,541 --> 01:01:15,796 Look the telegram is actually all scrambled. It's from Thompson. 665 01:01:16,172 --> 01:01:20,842 Not to him. All right? Now I've got to go. I've gotta get to the race. 666 01:01:20,927 --> 01:01:24,513 But no hurry, the race is over. - Not for me. 667 01:01:25,556 --> 01:01:29,309 Well, let's have lunch! - Rightio, man rightio. 668 01:01:33,564 --> 01:01:38,235 Jesus. Bad waves of paranoia, madness, fear and loathing, 669 01:01:38,986 --> 01:01:42,739 intolerable vibrations in this place. Get out. 670 01:01:43,741 --> 01:01:48,537 The weasels were closing in. I could smell the ugly brutes. 671 01:01:48,621 --> 01:01:52,708 Do me one last favour, Lord just give me 5 more high speed hours before you ... 672 01:01:52,792 --> 01:01:56,878 bring the hammer down. Just let me get rid of this god-damn car and ... 673 01:01:56,963 --> 01:01:59,047 off this horrible desert. 674 01:02:06,889 --> 01:02:11,685 Oh, you evil bastard! This is your work. You better take care of me, 675 01:02:11,769 --> 01:02:16,189 Lord. If you don't you're gonna have me on your hands. 676 01:02:23,448 --> 01:02:27,159 Pull over. Pull over. - Hey! Good morning. How are you? 677 01:02:27,243 --> 01:02:29,911 All right, man. Doing very well. 678 01:02:31,998 --> 01:02:36,001 Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a traffic cop. 679 01:02:36,085 --> 01:02:40,839 Your normal speeder will panic and pull over to the side. This is wrong. 680 01:02:40,923 --> 01:02:45,093 It arouses contempt in the cop heart. Make the bastard chase you. 681 01:02:45,178 --> 01:02:49,264 He will follow. But he won't know what to make of your blinker signal ... 682 01:02:49,348 --> 01:02:53,268 that says you're about to turn right. This is to let him know you're pulling ... 683 01:02:53,352 --> 01:02:57,355 off for a proper place to talk. It'll take him a moment to realise that he's ... 684 01:02:57,440 --> 01:03:00,859 about to make a 180 degree turn, at speed. 685 01:03:01,486 --> 01:03:06,907 But you will be ready for it braced for the G's and the fast heel. 686 01:03:17,835 --> 01:03:19,920 Hi. How are you? 687 01:03:23,132 --> 01:03:27,761 Just what in the hell did you think you were doing? I wanna know. 688 01:03:27,845 --> 01:03:32,516 Let me see your licence. - Of course, officer. Right here. 689 01:03:35,645 --> 01:03:37,729 Oh my gosh. 690 01:03:42,151 --> 01:03:44,820 It's me. - May I please have that? 691 01:03:47,657 --> 01:03:49,741 I knew I was fucked. 692 01:03:56,165 --> 01:04:00,210 I see you have two cases of beer, a basket of grapefruit, 693 01:04:00,294 --> 01:04:04,673 stack of T-shirts and towels, light-bulbs. Do you realise what you ... 694 01:04:04,757 --> 01:04:08,844 did when you drive like that? - I know, I'm guilty. I understand it. 695 01:04:08,928 --> 01:04:13,014 I knew it was a crime. I did it anyway. Shit, why argue? 696 01:04:13,099 --> 01:04:17,143 I'm a fucking criminal. Look at me. - You have a strange attitude. 697 01:04:17,228 --> 01:04:19,312 Maybe. 698 01:04:19,647 --> 01:04:23,400 You know, I've feeling you need to take a nap. 699 01:04:23,943 --> 01:04:28,029 There's a rest area just up ahead. I'd like you to go up there, 700 01:04:28,114 --> 01:04:32,033 pull over, and get a few hours sleep. - That's not gonna help me. I've been awake ... 701 01:04:32,118 --> 01:04:36,204 for too long, 3 or 4 nights maybe. I can't even remember. If I go to ... 702 01:04:36,289 --> 01:04:40,208 sleep now, I'm dead for 20 hours. - What are you carrying 2 cases ... 703 01:04:40,293 --> 01:04:43,378 of soap for, son? - I wanna stay clean. 704 01:04:45,423 --> 01:04:47,507 No ... Here's how it is. 705 01:04:49,719 --> 01:04:53,805 What I put into my book as of noon, is that I apprehended you for ... 706 01:04:53,890 --> 01:04:57,976 driving too fast! I advised you to proceed to the next ... 707 01:04:58,060 --> 01:05:00,145 rest area. Stop! 708 01:05:04,233 --> 01:05:09,571 I advised you to proceed to the next rest area. Your stated destination, 709 01:05:09,655 --> 01:05:11,907 right? And take a long nap. 710 01:05:15,745 --> 01:05:18,163 Do I make myself clear? - Well, 711 01:05:20,082 --> 01:05:24,169 how far is Baker? I was sort of hoping to ... I don't know, 712 01:05:24,253 --> 01:05:28,006 stop there for lunch. - Not in my jurisdiction. 713 01:05:28,257 --> 01:05:32,093 City limits are 2.2 miles beyond the rest area. 714 01:05:32,303 --> 01:05:35,221 Can you make it that far? - I'll try. 715 01:05:36,098 --> 01:05:42,270 I've been wanting to go to Baker for a long time. Yeah, heard a lot about it. 716 01:05:42,355 --> 01:05:45,690 Excellent seafood. You know, I'm thinking ... 717 01:05:47,234 --> 01:05:51,821 a guy with your kind of mind ought to try the land-crab. 718 01:05:52,490 --> 01:05:55,825 Excellent seafood. - Land-crab? All right. 719 01:05:57,203 --> 01:05:59,537 Why not? Thanks for the tip. 720 01:06:01,582 --> 01:06:03,667 Look at me in the eyes. 721 01:06:06,837 --> 01:06:08,922 Everything all right? 722 01:06:12,218 --> 01:06:15,387 May I have a little kiss before you go? 723 01:06:16,180 --> 01:06:18,264 I'm very lonely here. 724 01:06:25,815 --> 01:06:29,651 I felt raped. The pig had done me on all fronts ... 725 01:06:30,194 --> 01:06:34,280 and now he was going off to chuckle about it on the west side of town. 726 01:06:34,365 --> 01:06:38,451 Waiting for me to make a run for LA. "Why, yes, officer, of course. 727 01:06:38,536 --> 01:06:42,622 I'll take advantage of that rest area. And I can't tell you how grateful I'm ... 728 01:06:42,707 --> 01:06:46,793 for this break you wanna give me." Get a grip, man. 729 01:06:47,336 --> 01:06:51,339 If I boom straight for LA he'll bust me for sure. 730 01:06:51,590 --> 01:06:54,926 No. This was not the time for a showdown. 731 01:06:57,096 --> 01:06:59,180 This was Death Valley. 732 01:07:02,226 --> 01:07:04,811 Oh fuck! Sweet Jesus, it's him. 733 01:07:06,897 --> 01:07:08,982 Oh my God! 734 01:07:14,488 --> 01:07:20,160 Shit! Come on, you fucking bastard. Oh God, oh God! I've got to go ... 735 01:07:23,873 --> 01:07:27,959 Well they've nailed me. I'm trapped in some stinking desert crossroads called ... 736 01:07:28,044 --> 01:07:32,047 Baker. I don't have much time. They'll hunt me down like a fucking beast. 737 01:07:32,131 --> 01:07:36,926 Who? You sound a little paranoid. - I need a fucking lawyer immediately! 738 01:07:37,011 --> 01:07:42,515 What? Didn't you get my telegram? - What telegram, you worthless bastard? 739 01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:46,686 I'll cripple your ass for this. - You're supposed to be in Vegas. 740 01:07:46,771 --> 01:07:50,857 I rented a suite at THE FLAMINGO. You're supposed to be covering the ... 741 01:07:50,941 --> 01:07:55,445 National District Attorney's Conference. I made all reservations. 742 01:07:55,529 --> 01:07:57,864 Everything is arranged. Now, 743 01:07:58,866 --> 01:08:02,535 what the fuck are you doing out there in the middle of the desert? 744 01:08:02,620 --> 01:08:06,956 Nothing. Never mind. It's all a big joke. I'm actually ... I'm poolside at ... 745 01:08:07,041 --> 01:08:11,127 THE FLAMINGO right now. Talking from a portable phone some dwarf brought out ... 746 01:08:11,212 --> 01:08:15,298 from the casino. I have total credit. Don't come anywhere near this place, 747 01:08:15,382 --> 01:08:18,968 you bastard. Foreigners aren't welcome here. 748 01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:23,932 Well, this is how the world works. All energy flows according to the ... 749 01:08:24,016 --> 01:08:26,184 whims of the Great Magnet. 750 01:08:27,144 --> 01:08:29,646 What a fool I was to defy him. 751 01:08:31,065 --> 01:08:34,567 I was going back to Vegas. I had no choice. 752 01:08:37,071 --> 01:08:41,157 I had to get rid of The Shark. Too many people might recognise it, 753 01:08:41,242 --> 01:08:43,576 especially the Vegas police. 754 01:08:44,620 --> 01:08:48,706 Luckily my credit card was still technically valid. 755 01:08:48,791 --> 01:08:52,544 Now this was a superior machine. 10 grand worth of gimmicks ... 756 01:08:52,628 --> 01:08:55,213 and high-price special effects. 757 01:08:55,881 --> 01:08:59,968 The rear windows leapt up with a touch like frogs in a dynamite pond. 758 01:09:00,052 --> 01:09:04,139 The dashboard was full of esoteric lights and dials and meters ... 759 01:09:04,223 --> 01:09:08,268 that I would never understand. If the pigs were gathering in Vegas ... 760 01:09:08,352 --> 01:09:12,355 I felt the drug culture should be represented as well. And there was ... 761 01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:16,401 a certain bent appeal in the notion of running a savage burn on one Vegas ... 762 01:09:16,485 --> 01:09:20,488 hotel and then just wheeling across town and checking into another. 763 01:09:20,573 --> 01:09:24,909 Me and a 1,000 ranking cops from all over America. Why not? 764 01:09:24,994 --> 01:09:30,832 Move confidently into their midst. - Welcome to The Flamingo Hotel, sir. 765 01:09:32,543 --> 01:09:34,794 Sir? - Oh, hi, all right. Ok. 766 01:09:37,214 --> 01:09:43,052 ♪ I'm addicted to your charms You're getting to be a habit with me ♪ 767 01:09:45,139 --> 01:09:50,310 ♪ I used to think your love was something that I could take or ... ♪ 768 01:09:51,020 --> 01:09:56,232 My arrival was badly timed. ♪ But now I couldn't do without ♪ 769 01:09:56,317 --> 01:09:59,152 ♪ my supply I need you for my own ... ♪ 770 01:10:18,464 --> 01:10:22,759 I'm a police chief from Michigan. Look, fella, I have explained to you. 771 01:10:22,843 --> 01:10:26,930 I have this postcard which says that I have a reservation ... 772 01:10:27,014 --> 01:10:30,600 in this hotel. - I am very sorry, Sir, but you're on ... 773 01:10:30,684 --> 01:10:33,019 the 'late' list. And so your ... 774 01:10:34,313 --> 01:10:39,943 reservation has been transferred to the, MOONLIGHT motel which is just ... 775 01:10:40,027 --> 01:10:44,197 out on Paradise Boulevard. - We've already paid for our ... 776 01:10:44,281 --> 01:10:48,159 god-damn room. - It's actually a very fine place of ... 777 01:10:48,244 --> 01:10:52,330 lodging and it's only 16 blocks from here. It has a pool, sauna, steam. 778 01:10:52,414 --> 01:10:56,501 Listen, you filthy little faggot! I want a manager down here! Now! Now! 779 01:10:56,585 --> 01:11:00,380 Now, because I'm sick of listening to your dog-shit! 780 01:11:00,464 --> 01:11:04,801 I am very sorry, sir. - Get off of me! Get away from me! 781 01:11:04,885 --> 01:11:08,972 Can I call you a cab? - Of course I could hear what the ... 782 01:11:09,056 --> 01:11:13,977 clerk was really saying. - Listen, you fuzzy little shithead. 783 01:11:14,812 --> 01:11:19,357 I've been fucked around in my time by a fairly good cross-section of mean ... 784 01:11:19,441 --> 01:11:21,609 tempered, rule-crazy cops, 785 01:11:23,570 --> 01:11:25,655 and now it's my turn. 786 01:11:28,075 --> 01:11:30,994 So fuck you, officer I'm in charge. 787 01:11:32,579 --> 01:11:36,666 I really hate to interrupt but if I could just slide on through and get ... 788 01:11:36,750 --> 01:11:40,878 out of your way? Raoul Duke. I think my attorney made the reservation. 789 01:11:40,963 --> 01:11:45,049 Duke Raoul. Certainly, sir. - My bags are out there in that ... 790 01:11:45,134 --> 01:11:50,346 white Cadillac convertible thee. Maybe somebody could bring it to the room? 791 01:11:50,431 --> 01:11:53,433 Let me get a quarter of Wild Turkey, 792 01:11:54,476 --> 01:11:59,564 two fifths of Bacardi, some ice for the room and, let's see ... 793 01:11:59,732 --> 01:12:03,568 Some lime chunks, what do you think? - I say ok. 794 01:12:05,029 --> 01:12:09,365 Now you don't worry about a thing. You don't hesitate ... 795 01:12:09,575 --> 01:12:12,327 to call me Sven. - All right, Sven. 796 01:12:13,829 --> 01:12:17,415 Thank you very much. I know, I know, I know. 797 01:12:18,876 --> 01:12:22,962 It's hideous. You're gonna be fine though. You're doing well. 798 01:12:23,047 --> 01:12:28,968 I'll see you later. Don't touch it. Ok. Goodnight. Pardon me. Bye, Sven. 799 01:12:29,553 --> 01:12:32,221 Look what you did! God-damn you! 800 01:12:32,389 --> 01:12:36,559 We wouldn't stay in this hotel if you begged us! 801 01:12:38,145 --> 01:12:40,229 Magic moments, 802 01:12:41,023 --> 01:12:43,274 When two hearts are caring, 803 01:12:45,694 --> 01:12:49,364 Magic moments, Memories we've been sharing ... 804 01:12:53,535 --> 01:12:56,621 Home sweet home. What kind of shit ... 805 01:12:59,666 --> 01:13:02,835 Shit! What the fuck? Stop it! Stop it! 806 01:13:03,796 --> 01:13:07,256 She's biting my leg off. You degenerate pig! 807 01:13:07,341 --> 01:13:10,343 Please! God-damn ... - Can't be helped. 808 01:13:10,594 --> 01:13:15,306 That's Lucy like "Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds". Lucy be cool, 809 01:13:15,391 --> 01:13:19,811 god-damnit. Remember what happened at the airport, ok? 810 01:13:20,145 --> 01:13:22,230 Come on. 811 01:13:24,358 --> 01:13:27,944 No more of that, ok? That's my client, Lucy. 812 01:13:28,278 --> 01:13:33,950 That's Mr. Duke, famous journalist. He's paying for this suite, Lucy. 813 01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:38,079 He's on our side. He loves artists. 814 01:13:40,457 --> 01:13:43,876 Lucy paints portraits of Barbra Streisand. 815 01:13:45,838 --> 01:13:48,172 Right? - I drew these from TV. 816 01:13:50,551 --> 01:13:53,386 Really! She came all the way down. 817 01:13:55,764 --> 01:13:58,808 What's the name of that town? - Montana. 818 01:13:58,892 --> 01:14:02,895 Montana. Just to give these portraits to Barbara. 819 01:14:03,814 --> 01:14:07,942 We're going over to the Americana tonight to meet her backstage. 820 01:14:08,026 --> 01:14:11,612 I desperately needed peace. Rest. Sanctuary. 821 01:14:13,532 --> 01:14:17,618 I hadn't counted on this finding my attorney on acid and locked into some ... 822 01:14:17,703 --> 01:14:21,914 kind of preternatural courtship. Well, they must have brought ... 823 01:14:21,999 --> 01:14:24,083 the car round by now. 824 01:14:28,839 --> 01:14:31,674 So why don't ou-yay and ... I-ay ... 825 01:14:33,594 --> 01:14:36,012 o-gay and et-gay the uff-stay 826 01:14:37,890 --> 01:14:39,974 out of the unk-tray. 827 01:14:49,735 --> 01:14:52,904 Absolutely. Yeah, let's get the stuff. 828 01:14:54,615 --> 01:14:59,702 We'll be right back, Lucy. Give me a kiss, one kiss, one kiss. 829 01:15:00,370 --> 01:15:02,371 No. No. - Why not? 830 01:15:02,456 --> 01:15:04,540 No. - Ok. 831 01:15:10,380 --> 01:15:12,465 Don't answer the phone. 832 01:15:20,224 --> 01:15:22,308 God bless. 833 01:15:24,811 --> 01:15:27,563 Well, what are your plans? - Plans? 834 01:15:29,566 --> 01:15:32,485 The child in the bedroom? - Oh, Lucy. 835 01:15:33,445 --> 01:15:35,530 I met her on the plane. 836 01:15:37,491 --> 01:15:39,992 Yeah, she's a religious freak. 837 01:15:41,245 --> 01:15:45,331 I gave her a cap before I realised. Jesus, she's never ... 838 01:15:45,415 --> 01:15:50,002 even had a drink before. - It'll probably work out. We can keep ... 839 01:15:50,087 --> 01:15:54,173 her loaded and then peddle her ass at the drug convention. She's perfect for ... 840 01:15:54,258 --> 01:15:58,344 this gig. These cops'll go 50 bucks a head to beat her into submission and ... 841 01:15:58,428 --> 01:16:02,515 then gang fuck her. We set her up in one back-street motel, hang pictures ... 842 01:16:02,599 --> 01:16:07,687 of Jesus. And then turn these fucking pigs loose on her. She's strong, man. 843 01:16:07,771 --> 01:16:09,855 She'll hold her own. 844 01:16:11,066 --> 01:16:15,152 Jesus Christ, I knew you were sick but I'd never expected to hear you say ... 845 01:16:15,237 --> 01:16:19,991 that kind of stuff. You bastard. - Straight economics, man. 846 01:16:20,367 --> 01:16:24,370 This girl's a godsend. Shit! She could make us a grand a day. 847 01:16:24,454 --> 01:16:27,790 That's ugly, man. Stop talking like that. 848 01:16:28,333 --> 01:16:32,420 Well, I figure she can do about four at a time. Christ, if we keep her full ... 849 01:16:32,504 --> 01:16:36,507 of acid, that's more like 2 grand a day. Maybe 3. 850 01:16:38,552 --> 01:16:43,097 What if I beat the dumb shit out of you? Would that make you feel ... 851 01:16:43,181 --> 01:16:47,852 any better? You filthy bastard! - All right, listen to me. 852 01:16:48,020 --> 01:16:52,106 In a few hours she'll probably be sane enough to work herself into some sort ... 853 01:16:52,190 --> 01:16:56,152 of towering Jesus-based rage at the hazy recollection of being seduced ... 854 01:16:56,236 --> 01:17:00,281 by some kind of cruel Samoan who fed her liquor and LSD ... 855 01:17:00,365 --> 01:17:04,452 dragged her to a Vegas Hotel room, and then savagely penetrated every ... 856 01:17:04,536 --> 01:17:09,415 orifice in her little body with his throbbing, uncircumcised member. 857 01:17:09,499 --> 01:17:12,752 That's so ugly, man. - Fuck, truth hurts. 858 01:17:20,594 --> 01:17:22,678 Lord help her, man. - Well, 859 01:17:25,682 --> 01:17:29,769 you'll go straight to the gas chamber for this one. Even if you manage to ... 860 01:17:29,853 --> 01:17:33,856 beat that they'll still send you back to Nevada for rape and sodomy. 861 01:17:33,940 --> 01:17:36,442 No, she's gotta go, man. - Shit! 862 01:17:38,695 --> 01:17:43,199 It doesn't pay to try to help somebody these days, huh? 863 01:17:47,746 --> 01:17:51,707 Come on! Let's go to work. - Yeah, Americana Hotel? 864 01:17:51,792 --> 01:17:54,710 I need a reservation. For my niece. 865 01:17:55,921 --> 01:18:00,341 Look, I want her treated very gently. She's an artist and ... Fuck off! 866 01:18:00,425 --> 01:18:04,512 She might seem a trifle high-strung. She's doing her Masters thesis on, 867 01:18:04,596 --> 01:18:08,599 well, Barbara Streisand. - It's time to meet Barbara. 868 01:18:08,684 --> 01:18:13,270 Last name? I'd rather not say. My brother's in politics. 869 01:18:13,397 --> 01:18:16,982 Yeah, you understand. I felt like a Nazi but ... 870 01:18:17,317 --> 01:18:21,654 it had to be done. Yeah, yeah, righto. Ok, yeah. Bye. 871 01:18:28,537 --> 01:18:32,123 Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy, 872 01:18:32,207 --> 01:18:34,458 And I feel like loving you, 873 01:18:36,336 --> 01:18:40,339 Love is such a sweet thing, Good enough to eat ... 874 01:18:42,175 --> 01:18:45,886 Lucy was a potentially fatal millstone round both our necks. 875 01:18:45,971 --> 01:18:49,890 There was absolutely no choice but to cut her adrift and ... 876 01:18:49,975 --> 01:18:54,061 hope her memory was fucked. - Here's an extra ten bucks, buddy, 877 01:18:54,146 --> 01:18:56,647 make sure she gets there safe. 878 01:18:59,443 --> 01:19:01,527 That's that. 879 01:19:03,613 --> 01:19:08,534 Go ahead, take off slowly. We don't wanna attract attention. 880 01:19:13,290 --> 01:19:19,295 Let's find a good seafood restaurant and eat some red salmon. Red salmon! 881 01:19:30,557 --> 01:19:34,226 Oh no, man. We're gonna be late. We gotta go. 882 01:19:36,062 --> 01:19:38,147 God-damn mescaline! 883 01:19:39,983 --> 01:19:44,278 Why the fuck can't they make it a little less pure? 884 01:19:45,322 --> 01:19:49,492 I welcome you to the Third National DA's Convention ... 885 01:19:49,659 --> 01:19:52,411 on Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. 886 01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:58,209 And now, without further ado the man who will define this cancer eating ... 887 01:19:58,293 --> 01:20:02,213 at the heart of America: Doctor L. Ron Bumquist. 888 01:20:11,389 --> 01:20:15,476 I saw these bastards in "Easy Rider". I didn't believe they were real. 889 01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:20,022 Not like this. Not hundreds of them. - They're nice you get to know them. 890 01:20:20,106 --> 01:20:25,319 Know them? These are in my damn blood. - Don't say that word around here. 891 01:20:25,403 --> 01:20:28,572 You'll get them excited. - You're right. 892 01:20:28,907 --> 01:20:32,576 ... us to do this is for each one of us to try ... 893 01:20:33,912 --> 01:20:37,581 and attempt to imagine what it is like inside ... 894 01:20:37,749 --> 01:20:40,751 of the possessed mind of the addict. 895 01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:44,004 For example a dope fiend ... 896 01:20:45,882 --> 01:20:47,967 refers to the reefer butt ... 897 01:20:49,594 --> 01:20:51,679 as a "roach" because ... 898 01:20:53,723 --> 01:20:55,808 it resembles a cockroach. 899 01:20:57,435 --> 01:21:01,522 What the fuck are these people talking about? You gotta be crazy on acid to ... 900 01:21:01,606 --> 01:21:04,900 think a joint looked like a god-damn cockroach. 901 01:21:04,985 --> 01:21:08,821 You will notice that I have distinguished 4 distinct states ... 902 01:21:08,905 --> 01:21:12,658 of being in the cannabis or marijuana society. 903 01:21:13,702 --> 01:21:15,786 They are cool, 904 01:21:17,289 --> 01:21:20,708 groovy, hip and square. Seldom, if ever ... 905 01:21:23,336 --> 01:21:27,423 Just face it, man, he's too crazy. Watch what you're doing, man. 906 01:21:27,507 --> 01:21:31,427 What a fucking nightmare. - If he figures out what is ... 907 01:21:31,511 --> 01:21:34,513 happening then he can rise one notch ... 908 01:21:35,974 --> 01:21:41,145 and become hip. And then, if he can convince himself to approve ... 909 01:21:42,731 --> 01:21:44,899 of what is happening, then ... 910 01:21:46,610 --> 01:21:48,777 he becomes groovy. Groovy. 911 01:21:51,865 --> 01:21:56,201 And then, after that, he can actually raise himself to the rank 912 01:21:56,286 --> 01:21:58,370 of cool. 913 01:21:59,497 --> 01:22:02,499 He can become one of those cool guys. 914 01:22:04,502 --> 01:22:09,840 Doctor Bumquist? Do you think the anthropologist, Margaret Mead's 915 01:22:10,008 --> 01:22:13,844 strange behaviour of late, sir, could be explained by a private ... 916 01:22:13,929 --> 01:22:16,847 marijuana addiction? - Good question. 917 01:22:18,141 --> 01:22:22,061 I'm not really sure I can answer that. But what I can tell you, sir, 918 01:22:22,145 --> 01:22:24,730 is if Margaret Mead, at her age ... 919 01:22:26,191 --> 01:22:28,275 smoked grass ... 920 01:22:29,319 --> 01:22:36,867 she'd have one hell of a trip. One ... 921 01:22:36,952 --> 01:22:42,122 more layer of deviance to the woman. - This is fucking bullshit! 922 01:22:42,457 --> 01:22:44,708 I'll be down in the casino. 923 01:22:46,252 --> 01:22:48,337 Down in front, man. 924 01:22:51,132 --> 01:22:54,677 Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for having me. 925 01:22:54,761 --> 01:22:56,929 Projector, please. - Lights. 926 01:23:01,142 --> 01:23:05,729 The sinister menace of Narcotics. - Know your dope fiend. 927 01:23:05,855 --> 01:23:09,942 Your life my depend on it. You will not be able to see his eyes ... 928 01:23:10,026 --> 01:23:14,113 because of T-Shades but his knuckles will be white from inner tension. 929 01:23:14,197 --> 01:23:18,283 And his pants will be crusted with semen from constantly jacking off ... 930 01:23:18,368 --> 01:23:21,120 when he can't find a rape victim. 931 01:23:22,539 --> 01:23:26,625 He will stagger and babble when questioned. He will not respect your ... 932 01:23:26,710 --> 01:23:30,796 badge. The dope fiend fears nothing. He will attack, for no reason, 933 01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:34,883 with every weapon at his command including yours. 934 01:23:35,051 --> 01:23:39,138 Beware, any officer apprehending a suspected marijuana addict should ... 935 01:23:39,222 --> 01:23:43,308 use all necessary force immediately. One stitch in time on him will ... 936 01:23:43,393 --> 01:23:45,477 usually save nine on you. 937 01:23:53,528 --> 01:23:56,280 Oh God, oh God. Shit, shit, shit! 938 01:24:06,541 --> 01:24:08,792 Yeah? - Yes, Mr. Duke, hello. 939 01:24:09,044 --> 01:24:13,297 You have one message. Call Lucy at the Americana Hotel, 940 01:24:13,381 --> 01:24:15,466 room 1600. 941 01:24:16,885 --> 01:24:18,969 Hello? - Lucy called. 942 01:24:21,890 --> 01:24:23,974 What? - Lucy called. 943 01:24:25,018 --> 01:24:27,102 What? - Luce called, huh! 944 01:24:40,325 --> 01:24:46,163 Those 2 men in the dock they gave me the LSD, and took me to the hotel. 945 01:24:46,873 --> 01:24:51,502 I don't know what they done to me but I remember it was horrible. 946 01:24:51,586 --> 01:24:53,670 They gave you what? - LSD! 947 01:24:55,131 --> 01:24:57,216 Castration! 948 01:24:59,219 --> 01:25:01,637 Double castration! You swine! 949 01:25:04,099 --> 01:25:07,101 - Where's my .357, man? - Who the fuck knows, man? 950 01:25:08,103 --> 01:25:13,857 You can't leave me alone in this snake pit. You bastard, what did you do with my .357? 951 01:25:15,527 --> 01:25:18,654 - This room is in my name. - Tough titty, man. 952 01:25:19,656 --> 01:25:23,867 Okay, goddamn it! You're right. 953 01:25:24,661 --> 01:25:28,497 She's my problem. I'll call her. I'll get her off our backs. 954 01:25:28,581 --> 01:25:33,252 Hey, it's gone too fucking far, man. - I'll take that into consideration. 955 01:25:33,336 --> 01:25:35,504 Relax! - Let me handle this. 956 01:25:39,717 --> 01:25:44,138 What did you do with my shoes? - American Hotel, room 1600, please. 957 01:25:44,222 --> 01:25:48,183 As your attorney I advise you to take a hit out of the little brown bottle 958 01:25:48,268 --> 01:25:51,436 in my shaving kit. You won't need much. 959 01:25:54,566 --> 01:25:56,650 Just a tiny taste. 960 01:25:58,945 --> 01:26:01,029 Ah, there it is. 961 01:26:04,701 --> 01:26:08,579 What is this shit? - That stuff makes pure mescaline seem ... 962 01:26:08,663 --> 01:26:11,582 like ginger beer, man. - Ginger beer? 963 01:26:12,876 --> 01:26:15,127 Adrenochrome. - Adrenochrome? 964 01:26:24,387 --> 01:26:26,471 Hello? 965 01:26:26,598 --> 01:26:28,682 Hi, Lucy. God bless. 966 01:26:30,768 --> 01:26:34,855 Yeah, it's me. What? Hell no, I taught the bastard a lesson ... 967 01:26:34,939 --> 01:26:38,108 he'll never forget. What? No, not dead. 968 01:26:39,944 --> 01:26:43,238 Well, he won't be bothering anybody for a while. 969 01:26:43,323 --> 01:26:46,742 Yeah, I left him out there. I stomped him, 970 01:26:47,702 --> 01:26:51,622 and pulled all his teeth out. - What a terrible thing to lay on ... 971 01:26:51,706 --> 01:26:55,709 somebody with a head full of acid. - But we have a problem. 972 01:26:55,793 --> 01:26:59,880 That bastard cashed a bad check downstairs and gave you as reference. 973 01:26:59,964 --> 01:27:04,426 They'll be looking for both of you. Yeah, I know, Lucy, 974 01:27:04,510 --> 01:27:08,597 but you can't judge a book by its cover. Some people are just ... 975 01:27:08,681 --> 01:27:13,602 basically rotten. Anyway, the last thing in the world you wanna do ... 976 01:27:13,686 --> 01:27:15,771 is call this hotel again. 977 01:27:17,148 --> 01:27:21,151 They'll trace the call and put you straight behind bars. 978 01:27:21,236 --> 01:27:24,905 No, I'm moving to the 'Tropicana' right away. 979 01:27:26,824 --> 01:27:30,160 I think I'll try and use a different name ... 980 01:27:30,912 --> 01:27:33,664 but I'll let you know what it is. 981 01:27:34,749 --> 01:27:39,169 I gotta get off. Probably got this phone tapped, baby. 982 01:27:41,130 --> 01:27:44,841 Yeah, I know, it's horrible but it's all over now. 983 01:27:44,926 --> 01:27:48,095 Oh my God, there's someone at the door. 984 01:27:53,268 --> 01:27:55,769 No, I'm innocent! It was Duke. 985 01:27:59,649 --> 01:28:01,733 It was Duke. It was him. 986 01:28:03,820 --> 01:28:05,904 It was him! 987 01:28:10,243 --> 01:28:12,494 Don't put that thing on me! 988 01:28:22,380 --> 01:28:24,464 That's ... 989 01:28:25,591 --> 01:28:30,345 that. That's the last we should be hearing from Lucy, man. 990 01:28:35,518 --> 01:28:40,689 She's probably stuffing herself down the incinerator about now. 991 01:28:42,400 --> 01:28:45,819 You know what we need? We need some opium. 992 01:28:58,166 --> 01:29:02,002 I remember slumping on the bed. His performance ... 993 01:29:02,337 --> 01:29:06,423 had given me a bad jolt. For a moment I thought his mind had snapped that ... 994 01:29:06,507 --> 01:29:10,469 he actually believed he was being attacked by invisible enemies. 995 01:29:10,553 --> 01:29:12,971 But the room was quiet again. 996 01:29:14,057 --> 01:29:19,061 Where'd you get this, man? - Never mind. It's absolutely pure. 997 01:29:19,520 --> 01:29:23,774 What kind of monster client was it? - Satanism freak. 998 01:29:24,692 --> 01:29:28,278 I think there's only one source for this stuff. In the ... 999 01:29:28,363 --> 01:29:31,698 adrenalin gland from a living human body. 1000 01:29:33,326 --> 01:29:37,662 I know. But the guy didn't have any cash to pay me. He offered ... 1001 01:29:37,747 --> 01:29:42,250 me human blood, said it would take me higher than I'd ever been in my life. 1002 01:29:42,335 --> 01:29:46,588 I thought he was kidding so I told him I'd just as soon have an ounce or so ... 1003 01:29:46,672 --> 01:29:51,593 of pure adrenochrome. Or maybe just a fresh adrenaline gland ... 1004 01:29:52,512 --> 01:29:56,056 to chew on. - I could feel the stuff working on me. 1005 01:29:56,140 --> 01:30:00,894 The first wave felt like a combination of mescaline/methedrine. 1006 01:30:00,978 --> 01:30:04,147 Maybe I should take a swim, I thought. 1007 01:30:04,607 --> 01:30:06,691 Yes, sir. 1008 01:30:07,485 --> 01:30:10,737 Thy nailed this guy for child molesting. 1009 01:30:12,782 --> 01:30:16,701 He swore he didn't do it. "Why should I fuck with children", 1010 01:30:16,786 --> 01:30:21,206 he said. "They're too small." Christ, what could I say? 1011 01:30:21,290 --> 01:30:25,627 Even a god-damn werewolf is entitled to legal counsel. 1012 01:30:25,711 --> 01:30:28,630 Didn't dare to turn the creep down. 1013 01:30:30,758 --> 01:30:34,678 He might have picked up a letter opener and gone ... 1014 01:30:35,388 --> 01:30:38,056 after my pineal gland. You know. 1015 01:30:39,559 --> 01:30:42,978 Yeah. Why not? We should get some of that. 1016 01:30:45,648 --> 01:30:49,234 Just eat a big handful and see what happens. 1017 01:30:49,652 --> 01:30:51,736 Some of what? 1018 01:30:55,825 --> 01:30:59,494 Extract of pineal. - Yeah, that's a good idea. 1019 01:31:00,788 --> 01:31:05,625 One whiff of that stuff'll turn you into something out of a ... 1020 01:31:06,586 --> 01:31:09,588 god-damn medical encyclopaedia, man. 1021 01:31:11,174 --> 01:31:14,968 Beautiful fucking tits, man! - Man, your head will swell up like ... 1022 01:31:15,052 --> 01:31:19,890 a water melon. Probably gain about a 100 pounds in 2 hours. 1023 01:31:19,974 --> 01:31:22,809 Right! - Grow claws, bleeding warts. 1024 01:31:24,312 --> 01:31:26,813 Yes! - And then you notice about ... 1025 01:31:27,440 --> 01:31:30,942 6 huge hairy tits swelling up on your back. 1026 01:31:31,694 --> 01:31:33,778 Fantastic! - You go blind. 1027 01:31:37,700 --> 01:31:41,661 Your body would turn to wax. They'd have to put you in a ... 1028 01:31:41,746 --> 01:31:47,417 wheelbarrow, and when you scream for help you'll sound like a racoon. 1029 01:31:49,003 --> 01:31:52,964 Man, I'll try just about anything but I'd never in hell touch ... 1030 01:31:53,049 --> 01:31:56,885 a pineal gland. - Finish the fucking story, man! 1031 01:31:58,346 --> 01:32:04,434 What happened? What about the glands? - That stuff got right on top of you. 1032 01:32:05,311 --> 01:32:08,813 Look at your face. You're about to explode. 1033 01:32:16,155 --> 01:32:20,242 Maybe you could just shove me into the pool, or ... 1034 01:32:21,702 --> 01:32:25,664 Man, if I put you in the pool right now you'll sink like a ... 1035 01:32:25,748 --> 01:32:31,336 god-damn stone. You took too much, man. You took too much, too much. 1036 01:32:33,464 --> 01:32:37,425 Don't try and fight it, you'll get brain bubbles, 1037 01:32:37,510 --> 01:32:41,596 strokes, aneurysms. You'll just wither up and die. 1038 01:32:45,309 --> 01:32:49,604 And continue killing innocent people. - Allow the last hopes for peace and ... 1039 01:32:49,689 --> 01:32:53,525 freedom of millions of people to be suffocated. 1040 01:32:53,776 --> 01:32:57,445 So tonight to you the great, silent majority. 1041 01:32:59,574 --> 01:33:01,825 Sacrifice, and sacrifice ... 1042 01:33:13,963 --> 01:33:17,799 ♪ I hear the cottonwoods whispering above, ♪ 1043 01:33:20,469 --> 01:33:22,971 ♪ Tammy, Tammy, Tammy's in love. ♪ 1044 01:33:29,020 --> 01:33:33,064 What kind of rat-bastard psychotic would play that song right now, 1045 01:33:33,149 --> 01:33:35,233 at this moment? 1046 01:33:37,612 --> 01:33:42,824 When I came to the general back-alley ambience of the suite was so rotten, 1047 01:33:42,908 --> 01:33:44,993 so incredibly foul. 1048 01:33:47,371 --> 01:33:52,375 How long had I been lying there? All these signs of violence. 1049 01:33:53,377 --> 01:33:57,464 What had happened? There was evidence in this room of excessive consumption ... 1050 01:33:57,548 --> 01:34:03,219 of almost every type of drug known to civilised man since 1544 A.D. 1051 01:34:10,227 --> 01:34:13,063 Ah, Debbie, thank God. Oh, Debbie. 1052 01:34:16,942 --> 01:34:19,235 Good Lord. Watch your knees, Sir. 1053 01:34:19,320 --> 01:34:23,406 What addict would need all these coconut husks and honeydew rinds? 1054 01:34:23,491 --> 01:34:27,577 Would the presence of junkies account for all these uneaten French fries? 1055 01:34:27,662 --> 01:34:32,248 These puddles of glazed ketchup on the bureau? Maybe so. 1056 01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:37,087 But then why all this booze? And these crude pornographic photos smeared with ... 1057 01:34:37,171 --> 01:34:41,591 mustard? These were not the hoof-prints of your normal ... 1058 01:34:42,093 --> 01:34:45,929 God-fearing junkie. It was too savage. Too aggressive. 1059 01:34:46,013 --> 01:34:50,433 Put your hands where I can see them. - Jesus, God, man! 1060 01:34:51,102 --> 01:34:56,898 Put your hands where I can see them! Put your hands where I can see them! 1061 01:34:56,982 --> 01:35:00,652 Grim memories and bad flashbacks. Get a grip. 1062 01:35:02,196 --> 01:35:08,201 Maintain. How many nights and weird mornings hat this shit been going on? 1063 01:35:24,844 --> 01:35:28,596 Something ugly had happened. I was sure of it. 1064 01:35:34,562 --> 01:35:36,896 Who's that? Shit, that's me. 1065 01:35:40,151 --> 01:35:42,986 No, no, please, I'm only the maid! 1066 01:35:51,954 --> 01:35:55,498 You're under arrest. - She must have used the pass key. 1067 01:35:55,583 --> 01:35:58,668 I noticed her sneaking, so I took her. - What made you do it? Who paid you? 1068 01:35:58,753 --> 01:36:02,630 Nobody. I'm the maid. - You're just a part of it as they are. 1069 01:36:02,715 --> 01:36:06,259 Part of what? - The dope ring. You must know what's ... 1070 01:36:06,343 --> 01:36:10,513 going on here. Why we're here? - I know you're cops. 1071 01:36:11,140 --> 01:36:15,226 But I thought you were just here for the convention. I swear. All I wanted ... 1072 01:36:15,311 --> 01:36:19,606 to do was clean up the room. I don't know anything about no dope. 1073 01:36:19,690 --> 01:36:23,443 Come on, baby, don't try to tell me you never heard of the Grange Gorman. 1074 01:36:23,527 --> 01:36:27,864 Oh, I swear to Jesus. - Maybe she's telling the truth. 1075 01:36:28,032 --> 01:36:32,786 Maybe she's not part of it. - No, I swear I'm not. I swear. 1076 01:36:35,873 --> 01:36:40,752 In that case, maybe she can help. - Oh, yes. I help you all you want! 1077 01:36:40,836 --> 01:36:42,921 I hate dope. - So do we. 1078 01:36:43,964 --> 01:36:48,927 We should put her on the payroll. - Do you think you can handle it? 1079 01:36:49,011 --> 01:36:51,596 What? - One phone call every day. 1080 01:36:52,139 --> 01:36:56,810 Don't worry if it doesn't add up. - You'd pay me for that? 1081 01:36:56,936 --> 01:37:01,022 You're damn right we would. But the first time that you say anything about ... 1082 01:37:01,106 --> 01:37:05,902 this to anybody you will go straight to prison for the rest of your life. 1083 01:37:05,986 --> 01:37:07,987 What's your name? - Alice. 1084 01:37:08,072 --> 01:37:10,156 Prove it! Ok. 1085 01:37:11,242 --> 01:37:15,745 Just ring Service and ask for Alice. - All right, Alice. 1086 01:37:18,541 --> 01:37:22,710 You'll be contacted by Inspector Rock. Arthur Rock. 1087 01:37:23,504 --> 01:37:27,590 He'll be posing as a politician. So you'll have no problem recognize him. 1088 01:37:27,675 --> 01:37:31,427 That's right. Inspector Rock will pay you, in cash. 1089 01:37:31,512 --> 01:37:35,348 1,000 bucks, the 9th of every month. - I'd do just about anything ... 1090 01:37:35,432 --> 01:37:38,768 for that. - You and a lot of other people. 1091 01:37:39,144 --> 01:37:42,981 Come here. Password: One hand washes the other. 1092 01:37:43,148 --> 01:37:47,318 The minute your hear that you say: I fear nothing. Say it. 1093 01:37:47,403 --> 01:37:49,571 I fear nothing. - All right, 1094 01:37:51,198 --> 01:37:55,535 now get the fuck out of here. Listen. Nice meeting you. 1095 01:37:55,619 --> 01:37:59,706 Oh, don't bother to make up the room. Just leave a pile of towels and soap ... 1096 01:37:59,790 --> 01:38:03,877 outside the door exactly at midnight. That way, we won't have to risk ... 1097 01:38:03,961 --> 01:38:09,549 another one of these little incidents. - Whatever you say, gentlemen. 1098 01:38:12,428 --> 01:38:16,514 Terrible gibberish. Splintered memories looming up out of the ... 1099 01:38:16,599 --> 01:38:18,933 time-fog. Just press "play". 1100 01:38:20,561 --> 01:38:22,353 This is it, the American Dream. 1101 01:38:22,521 --> 01:38:25,857 - We're sitting on the main nerve. - Yeah, yeah. 1102 01:38:26,025 --> 01:38:27,483 Don't get me started. 1103 01:38:27,651 --> 01:38:30,653 The owner always wanted to run away and join the circus when he was a kid. 1104 01:38:30,821 --> 01:38:33,907 Now the son of a bitch owns the circus. 1105 01:38:34,074 --> 01:38:37,619 Ah, man. Real license to steal. 1106 01:38:37,786 --> 01:38:43,333 Oh, yeah. The American Dream come true. Pure Horatio Alger. 1107 01:38:43,500 --> 01:38:45,585 Yeah. Welcome to the happy place. 1108 01:38:47,546 --> 01:38:51,174 Listen. Let's get down to brass tacks here. 1109 01:38:51,342 --> 01:38:54,719 - How much for the ape? - How much you got? 1110 01:38:54,887 --> 01:38:58,097 How much do you think he'd take for the ape? 1111 01:38:58,265 --> 01:39:00,475 Just wait here. I'll be back. 1112 01:39:00,643 --> 01:39:05,647 Madness. It made no sense at all. I desperately needed the facts. 1113 01:39:05,814 --> 01:39:10,735 Oh, God, oh, God! Little old person coming through! Get out the way! 1114 01:39:14,156 --> 01:39:17,700 What the fuck is going on? Where's the ape, man? 1115 01:39:17,868 --> 01:39:21,704 Forget about it. He attacked a man, bit off the head of the bartender ... 1116 01:39:21,872 --> 01:39:23,915 and the cops came and took him away. 1117 01:39:26,710 --> 01:39:29,253 Is that your car? 1118 01:39:29,421 --> 01:39:32,382 - What's the bail? - There's too many zoos! 1119 01:39:33,884 --> 01:39:37,136 - Somebody stop them! - You poor fools don't understand. 1120 01:39:37,304 --> 01:39:40,056 This car is property of the World Bank. That money goes to Italy. 1121 01:39:40,224 --> 01:39:42,433 You can't put on a circus without a tent. 1122 01:39:42,601 --> 01:39:47,647 - This top is completely jammed. - Something's wrong with the motor. 1123 01:39:47,815 --> 01:39:49,691 We're all riders of the storm. 1124 01:39:49,858 --> 01:39:52,902 - Where are you, you fucking monkey? - You can't do that! 1125 01:39:54,697 --> 01:39:58,950 You people voted for Hubert Humphrey! And you killed Jesus! 1126 01:39:59,118 --> 01:40:01,369 There was every reason to believe that we'd been heading for trouble ... 1127 01:40:01,537 --> 01:40:04,038 that we'd pushed our luck a bit too far. 1128 01:40:04,206 --> 01:40:05,832 Oh, God! Shit! 1129 01:40:08,335 --> 01:40:10,753 Right ... Uh ... 1130 01:40:10,921 --> 01:40:15,508 The possibility of physical and mental collapse ... 1131 01:40:16,468 --> 01:40:18,970 is now very real. 1132 01:40:19,138 --> 01:40:21,681 No sympathy for the devil ... 1133 01:40:21,849 --> 01:40:23,933 Keep that in mind. 1134 01:40:24,101 --> 01:40:25,685 Buy the ticket. 1135 01:40:26,979 --> 01:40:29,105 uh ... Take the ride. 1136 01:40:32,943 --> 01:40:36,112 Hello. You folks wanna buy some heroin? 1137 01:40:44,663 --> 01:40:48,583 Hey, honkies. God-damn. - Pull ahead, pull ahead. 1138 01:40:48,667 --> 01:40:52,003 I wanna sell you some pure fucking smack. 1139 01:40:52,796 --> 01:40:58,301 This is the real stuff. That's right, I just got back from Vietnam. 1140 01:41:07,102 --> 01:41:11,355 I wanna sell you some pure fucking smack. Pure fuck! 1141 01:41:14,401 --> 01:41:18,321 God-damn, you bastard! Pull over! I'll kill you! I'll kill you! 1142 01:41:18,405 --> 01:41:20,740 Pull over. Come on. - Oh shit! 1143 01:41:31,752 --> 01:41:33,836 Ok, let's see here. 1144 01:41:42,971 --> 01:41:46,808 The mentality of Las Vegas is so grossly atavistic ... 1145 01:41:46,892 --> 01:41:51,479 that a really massive crime often slips by unrecognised. 1146 01:41:55,818 --> 01:41:59,904 North Vegas is where you go when you have fucked up too often on the Strip. 1147 01:41:59,988 --> 01:42:05,326 And when you're not even welcome in the cut-rate downtown places. 1148 01:42:08,914 --> 01:42:13,000 The North Star Coffee Lounge seemed like a fairly safe haven from our storms. 1149 01:42:13,085 --> 01:42:17,171 No hassles, no talk. Just a place to rest and regroup. 1150 01:42:17,256 --> 01:42:21,759 I wasn't even hungry. There was nothing in the atmosphere of the ... 1151 01:42:21,844 --> 01:42:27,765 North Star to put me on my guard. - Psst. 2 glasses of ice water with ice. 1152 01:42:29,977 --> 01:42:32,645 2 glasses of ice water with ice! 1153 01:42:38,110 --> 01:42:40,194 2! 1154 01:42:48,120 --> 01:42:51,998 She looked like a burnt out caricature of Jane Russell. 1155 01:42:52,082 --> 01:42:54,917 She was definitely in charge here. 1156 01:42:58,463 --> 01:43:02,216 He did it very casually but I knew that our peace was about ... 1157 01:43:02,301 --> 01:43:04,886 to be shattered. - What was that? 1158 01:43:17,941 --> 01:43:20,276 What is this? - It's a napkin. 1159 01:43:21,403 --> 01:43:26,657 Don't give me that Bullshit. I know what that means. You fat god-damn pimp bastard. 1160 01:43:27,492 --> 01:43:31,871 That's the name of a horse I used to own, ma'am. What's wrong with you? 1161 01:43:31,955 --> 01:43:36,042 The question mark was emphasised. - Listen, you son-of-a-bitch. I gotta take ... 1162 01:43:36,126 --> 01:43:42,215 a lot of shit in this place but I do not have to take it off no spic pimp! 1163 01:43:44,927 --> 01:43:48,596 Well, anybody that knows anything knows that. 1164 01:43:50,974 --> 01:43:55,061 Go on, pay your check and get the hell out of here! Do you want me to call the cops? 1165 01:43:55,145 --> 01:43:58,814 I'll call the fucking ... - Oh, shit! 1166 01:44:01,902 --> 01:44:03,986 Oh fuck! 1167 01:44:07,783 --> 01:44:09,867 Want me to call the cops? 1168 01:44:35,477 --> 01:44:39,480 How much is that lemon meringue pie? - Her eyes were feared but her brain ... 1169 01:44:39,564 --> 01:44:43,234 was functioning on survival level. - 35 cents. 1170 01:44:43,860 --> 01:44:47,697 How much is that lemon meringue pie? - 35 cents. 1171 01:44:48,824 --> 01:44:51,325 What a wasted town. No, honey. 1172 01:44:52,703 --> 01:44:55,871 Honey, no the whole pie. The whole pie. 1173 01:45:06,258 --> 01:45:08,342 What? 1174 01:45:10,637 --> 01:45:12,722 3? 1175 01:45:18,061 --> 01:45:20,146 3? 4? 1176 01:45:23,442 --> 01:45:25,526 5? 1177 01:45:26,903 --> 01:45:28,988 Call it 5. 1178 01:45:53,138 --> 01:45:55,222 I'll be in the car. 1179 01:46:51,780 --> 01:46:55,699 The sight of a blade had triggered bad memories. 1180 01:46:55,951 --> 01:47:00,037 The glazed look in her eyes said her throat has been cut. 1181 01:47:00,122 --> 01:47:04,375 She was still in the grip of paralysis when we left. 1182 01:47:11,341 --> 01:47:16,720 It was all over now. We'd abused every rule that Vegas lived by burning the ... 1183 01:47:16,805 --> 01:47:20,891 locals, abusing the tourists, terrifying the help. The only chance ... 1184 01:47:20,976 --> 01:47:23,978 now, I felt was the possibility that ... 1185 01:47:25,147 --> 01:47:29,483 we'd gone to such excess that nobody in a position to bring the hammer ... 1186 01:47:29,568 --> 01:47:32,653 down on us could possibly believe it. 1187 01:47:32,821 --> 01:47:36,490 15 minutes to get my attorney to the airport. 1188 01:47:36,825 --> 01:47:38,909 Could we make it? 1189 01:47:44,040 --> 01:47:47,543 Oh, shit! - Oh God, you son-of-a-bitch! Oh God! 1190 01:47:52,966 --> 01:47:56,677 You're going the wrong way, man. - Fuck off, fat boy. 1191 01:47:56,761 --> 01:47:58,846 Stop, you fucker! 1192 01:48:03,477 --> 01:48:06,812 Take off right here! Take off right here! 1193 01:48:15,030 --> 01:48:18,949 God-damn, we're lost! What are we doing out here ... 1194 01:48:19,326 --> 01:48:23,996 on this godforsaken road? The airport is over there, man. 1195 01:48:24,581 --> 01:48:29,335 God-damn, it's over there! - I've never missed a plane yet. 1196 01:48:55,445 --> 01:48:57,530 What the fuck! 1197 01:49:00,534 --> 01:49:04,620 I'm gonna drop you next to the plane. - I'm gonna have to take the blame. 1198 01:49:04,704 --> 01:49:08,332 They'll crucify me. Right here. - Ridiculous, man. Just say ... 1199 01:49:08,416 --> 01:49:12,920 you were hitchhiking to the airport. And I picked you up. 1200 01:49:13,004 --> 01:49:15,089 You bastard. - Get out! 1201 01:49:26,226 --> 01:49:29,270 Hey, listen, don't take any guff from ... 1202 01:49:29,354 --> 01:49:33,482 these swine. And if you have any trouble, remember you can always send ... 1203 01:49:33,567 --> 01:49:36,151 a telegram to the right people. 1204 01:49:37,529 --> 01:49:41,615 Oh yeah, explaining my position. Some asshole wrote a poem about that once. 1205 01:49:41,700 --> 01:49:46,120 It's probably good advice if you have shit for brains. 1206 01:49:50,792 --> 01:49:54,295 There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. 1207 01:49:54,421 --> 01:49:58,382 A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for ... 1208 01:49:58,466 --> 01:50:03,053 mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die. 1209 01:50:24,659 --> 01:50:28,245 ♪ There you stood on the edge of your feather ♪ 1210 01:50:31,374 --> 01:50:33,459 ♪ Expecting to fly ♪ 1211 01:50:37,130 --> 01:50:39,214 ♪ Well I laughed ... ♪ 1212 01:50:39,299 --> 01:50:43,385 We're all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fuelled ... 1213 01:50:43,470 --> 01:50:48,057 the sixties. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. 1214 01:50:48,141 --> 01:50:51,810 He crashed around America selling consciousness expansion ... 1215 01:50:51,895 --> 01:50:55,981 without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that ... 1216 01:50:56,066 --> 01:50:59,902 were lying in wait for all those people who took him seriously. 1217 01:50:59,986 --> 01:51:04,073 All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy ... 1218 01:51:04,157 --> 01:51:08,160 peace and understanding for 3 bucks a hit. But their loss and failure ... 1219 01:51:08,244 --> 01:51:11,664 is ours too. What Leary took down with him ... 1220 01:51:12,290 --> 01:51:16,251 was the central illusion of a whole lifestyle that he helped create. 1221 01:51:16,336 --> 01:51:20,255 A generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers who never understood ... 1222 01:51:20,340 --> 01:51:24,426 the essential old mystic fallacy of the acid culture: 1223 01:51:24,511 --> 01:51:29,098 the desperate assumption that somebody or at least some force is tending the ... 1224 01:51:29,182 --> 01:51:31,767 light at the end of the tunnel. 1225 01:51:39,150 --> 01:51:43,487 There was only one road back to LA, US Interstate 15. 1226 01:51:44,280 --> 01:51:48,867 Just a flat-out high-speed burn through Baker and Barstow and Berdoo. 1227 01:51:48,952 --> 01:51:53,038 Then on to the Hollywood freeway, straight into frantic oblivion: 1228 01:51:53,123 --> 01:51:57,543 safety, obscurity, just another freak in the freak kingdom. 1229 01:51:57,627 --> 01:52:00,629 ♪ I was born in a crossfire hurricane ♪ 1230 01:52:04,676 --> 01:52:08,095 ♪ And I howled at my ma in the driving rain ♪ 1231 01:52:11,725 --> 01:52:13,809 ♪ But it's all right now ♪ 1232 01:52:16,354 --> 01:52:19,523 ♪ In fact it's a gas, But it's all right ♪ 1233 01:52:22,402 --> 01:52:24,486 ♪ I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash. ♪