By Nelka
Based on true story
You know what's the worst thing about being dead.?
i got something.
You got too much time to think.
Thinking is Painful.
Knowing things is painful.
see these tress?
They know what's gonna happen.
They know someone's gonna die.
I was a regular girl once.
I lived in a regular town.
Pikeville, Kentucky. 1988.
I dreamed of getting away like all the other girls.
But things go wrong. as things will.
Mines close.. Companies go under.
Marriage fall apart.
Jobs disappear and paychecks stop.
But the kids are still there.
And the bills keep coming.
And you do what you gotta do.
Or that's what you tell yourself.
You do what you gotta do.
Treasury Department
But is changes you.
little by little, step by step
Soon enough you're running withe the devil himself.
Soon enough you're cashing his checks.
By God! Jackie O! Hey Bumpy
Y'all coming over tonight?/ Hell Yeah!
Check day, ain't it? Excatly it is.
All Right.
i'll come back later.
what are you doing here,sis?
coming for your annual perm?
Welcome to Pikeville, Kentucky.
The town never lets go.
oh, what in the hell?!/ Hi , mom.
you're still in your PJs at 2 in the afternoon?
Did you eat?
No? No? Why?
Why? Because Daddy's still asleep. That's Why.
God dammit, Cash. This is Why I divorced your hairy ass.
It is the middle of the afternoon and the kids ain't et.
and they're playing video games again.
That is too damn violent fo kids, and even you know that.
it is cartoons or nothing.
There you go, darling. Thanks,mom.
Ok good girl. That a bullshit.
You divorced me to get 86$ more a month from the welfare.
You wouldn't have to yell at me, Susie.
The Second you stirred beside me, i'd be ready to rise and shine.
That's your boyfriend hitting on me, you dumb slut!
And pay me my rent money, bitch.
And i ain't your god damned Susie.
You think i trust you alone in a room with my percocets?
They're yours now, huh? Then why i gotta give you half my checks?
Don't start, Susie. To help with the kids?
You don't even make them breakfest. And don't call me Susie.
I don't wanna hear it. I pick up the checks and i cash them.
The hell kind of contribution are you making?
Gimme.
Where's the other half?
I cashed the West Virginia check, and i ain't cashed the Kentucky one yet.
Why not? Cause there was a cop in the bank.
So? So?
I don't like having no cop watching me whilst, I'm perpetrating fraud, okey?
You're not perpetrating fraud in Kentucky.
You live in Kentucky.
You're perpetrating fraud in West Virgnia.
Oh, you want the money, you get it. How about that?
How abut I stay in bed
and you drive to all hell and gone!
And i don't see your friend Joe B Kicking in no rent money neither.
Why you gotta left every sombitch you ever know in the joint...
I said, I don't wanna hear it.
Okay?
Okay.
There's only two ways to make money in the town since the mines shut down.
One's the funeral business.
And the other's selling drugs.
Why anybody'd wanna come here from somewheres else...
I'll never know.
Hi, Putnam Hey, Todd!
First time I saw Mark Putnam...
I thought he looked like a picture in a magazine.
Welcome to FBI Pikeville.
Mark Putnam. This my wife, Kathy.
Him and his famliy both.
Like he's step out of a dream when nothing ever went wrong.
Like i finally teke it too much and suddenly start to see things.
That Would be nice to start off withe a bang, huh?
Solve a big case.
Even in a backwater like this.
There's a couple of old drug cases that Todd gave up on.
Mayve they'll let you take one and run with it.
There's also a bank robber in the area.
He's robbed eleven banks in four months, and he's only gotten 21,000.
That's less than a third of the national average.
i guess evan the banks around here are broke.
on the other hand he's had about three times...
...as long a run than the average bank robber.
so he's gotta be doing something right.
What?
I just like that my wife knows all the relevant statistics.
Don't Just drop your clothes wherever you take them off, Mark.
She's coming home. My baby's coming home.
Coal Run Village Bank. 5 miles from Pikeville.
Still have mu soul,
coming home.
Put the gun down! Get out of the car!
Put it down right now! Get out of the car!
FBI Office Pikeville
Who created this filling system?
Not me, I'm not fixing it either.
I'm retiring in six months.
I heard you were a file clerk before you got accepted to the academy.
Is that right?
They say file clerks don't make good agents.
They do say that, don't they?
Yeah. Well, they're wrong.
FBI Pikeville.
Why'd you show yourself, Deputuy?
As opposed to what?
Letting him walk into the bank with a shotgun?
As opposed to waiting inside,
as per the memo I sent your boss
Wh're trying to trap the man.
With civillians in there? That's nuts.
I understand you didn't get a plate number either .
They wasn't no plate number. They wasn't no plate.
You recognize the vehicle?
No.
Well i guess that's it, then.
Whatta you want?
wann be there when you interview the owner of the truck.
Look, It's better that than making me call my supervisor in Covington and...
Telling him I want to keep you under 24 hour surveillance.
Are you threatening me?
where're y'all from anyway? Danville, Connecticut.
Where's that?
It's about an hour and a half from New York city?
You know, the center of the world?
You gotta name?
Mark Puntnam.
Randy McCoy.
What, like the Hatfields and the McCoys? Yup.
I got that family habit of holding a grudge too.
So how long you been working for the sheriff's department?
Since November.
New sheriff's a friend of my mom's.
A friend of your mom's? That's how you got the job?
Yup.
How long you been a goverment man?
About two weeks.
First Yankee I seen ain't afraid to got dirty.
Is that the truck? That's the truck! Get in!.
I don't get it. Why would they bring the truck back here?
Well they good ol' country bandits, boy!
They just bringing the truck back to it's rightful owner!
You okay, boy? Hell yes, you kidding?
Hold on!
Here it is!
All Mark Putnam Wanted was to be a hero.
It was his childhood dream
To be in the FBI and catch bad guys.
You catch bad guys for a living
Then you must be a good guy, right?
FBI! Stop or i'll shoot!
Anyways, It was right around then that one
Of our dumbass customers got into a fight.
It was my little borther Bones he fought with.
You know this one? I'm trying to play cards.
My baby boy ! That's my boy!
That's my brother right there.
Give me my fucking money, bitch!
My money now./ Fuck you!
Get Off my brother, Get off me!
Stop it! Get off him!
You pick the wrong man to mess with.
What are you doing then?
Get out. what're you doing?
Wait, Stop on it!
Georgia, come on! Bones!
Honey!
Let me see.
Keep the pressure. Son of a bitch...
Shit. Shit.
Honey, It's okay. You'll be okay!
Bones, sweetheart! Bones!
Bones! Honey, wait, No!
I'll get him to the ER.
Yeah, What's up?
Local drug dealer's in trouble.
Like to turn snitch to get out of it.
Your deputy told me to tell you.
No, he didn't.
In the middle of the night.
He won't be out of the bed like everbody else, didn't he?
You think if we wait a few hours,
we will catching them doing something stupid, right?
And Auburn with the rebound, here they come the other way,
and 9 to 12 guys are bringing it along the side line...
... into the front court. they spread out now.
Oh shit! Stay here!
Where else would i go?
It's your moron of a brother.
Bones! Jeez , am I glad to see you.
We told the cops it was self defense, honey, Okat.?
You don't got nothing to worry about. Good, It's ture.
They didn't believe that shit.
Now come on in, hony. What can we get you?
Good to see you too, man. Is he dead?
He's gonna be fine, honey. He's in the hospital.
FBI! Open up!
You've come back to give yourself up, understand?
Don't let no one in unless they show you a warrant.
Give it!
Open up! FBI!
Lose the straw, you moron!
Open it!
I have reason to believe you're harboring a fugitive.
We ain't harboring nothing.
And anything you find without warrant is fruit of the poison tree.
God Dammit! i'm sorry, Susie.
Okay, We're legal.
Over there. All right.
Susie, Cash. How y'all doing?
Move.
Randy, wanna start with the bathroom?
Sure.
You all right?/ Yeah.
Why don't you go sit down there around the coffe table?
I told you not let anyone in unless...
...they showed you a warrant.
He showed me his gun, all right?
i didn't mean that as a question. I said sit down.
Ain't you got something to say?
I didn't start this. You can stop it, though.
You want me to save you dumb brother's ass?
It's none of my business,
but i'd be worried about saving my own ass right now, Cash.
Is that right?
Well, the cocaine residue on the table. alone's enough to violate you
send you back to a prison for two years.
And that is if your wife flushed your whole stash,
which i somehow doubt.
Been peeping through keyholes, have you?
Absolutely.
Got a mirror in here.
Looks like it was used in a bakery.
Those are prescriptional!
You got a prescription for a thousand percocet?
He's got something worth a lot more than that.
He knows something that'll get him a deal,
and Bones one too.
I don't wanna be a party to nobody getting ratted out.
Be quiet now, honey.
You know i don't make any deals...
...unless I got somthing in writing.
What's thay Cash?
I Said I ain't saying nothing...
...until I got a deal in writing .
Oh, you done this before, huh?
He's done this lots of times before.
What do you say we leave Cash here...
...to think over his limited options...
...and take the brother and the drugs fot now?
I say we can do whatever we want.
All right.
Bones shot that boy in self-defense.
That's a facy!
You are the one who made...
Get off me! I'd say you're on stronger ground when...
...you try and talk your husband into making a deal.
Is that right?/ Yeah That's right.
You hear that, dickfor?
Only way we're getting out of this is if we make a deal.
I got a smart wife too, Cash.
I find it best to shut up and listen.
Nightnight.
Okay, let me get this .straight
You want a weekly salary.
You want to be off probation.
You want to negotiate the size of your bonus...
...for this infotmation before you tell us what it is.
And if you testify, you want to be in Witness Protection.
That's it?
You do realize that's a lot to ask, right?
Even if you were John Gotti, that's a lot to ask .
Well, I got a lot to offer.
Who's John Gotti?
Well, all right. Uh... Entertain our guests while i go speak to my boss?
Yeah, I'll tell'em my fishing story.
So me and my cousin Fred, we was out noodling one day.
Hey, you got a phone i can use? He's not a big guy,
cause he's from my mother's side .
In private?
Grabs one by the lower lip, pulls it out of the hole.
Wraps his legs around the tail.
Biggest God damn catfish i ever seen.
62 pound flathead.
He reached in with his hand? Yeah.
They was noodling, you moron. Don't you listen?
Creekview. Who asked you?
Susan Smith?
Yeah? Y'all got a call.
Yeah?
It's me, Your sister.
Somthing wrong with the kids? No, Just...
Someone from the Welfare in West Virginia Called.
Shit.
She was checking up on you.
You're sure she's from Welfare?
Yeah. She knew your case numbers and everything.
All right. Anything else?
No, I juse... Thought You'd wanna know.
Yeah, all right. Thanks. See you later.
Meet me in the parking lot at the driver thru at 07:00 AM.
07:00 AM? Why would i do that?
To get your brother a better deal?
To keep your husband out of prison?
Maybe to get a little something for yourself too?
I don't want to talk to Cash anymore. I want to talk to the boss.
When he asks you what the call was about,
Say "None of your business. You don't own me."
Just like that. That wat i'll know you're coming.
You sicced the Welfare on me.
Is there another option?
Maybe ask for somthing ressonable?
His God damned boss said no.
I did say were asking for to much, Cash.
Well, if you want to catch big fish, you got to cut good bait.
Did You realy tell thim a fishing story?
Yeah, but i didn't think it would affect his mind, though.
That's not funny, man. I got a lot to think about here.
who was bothering you back there anyway?
None of your business.
You don't own me.
Are we done here?
I could really do with a cup of coffee.
Waitress?
God damn her.
Here. This is for coming to meet me today.
Nice ride. Yeah?
I inherited if from the guy i replaced here.
He just left fot his new assignment in Los Angeles.
Lucky him.
You're not a big fan of Pikeville?
I grow up in a town about this size.
Alls i know is, every time i fall down...
I end up rolling right back here. I figure
I figure that maked this the bottom of the world.
Well, your husband's negotiating himself out of a deal...
...that could get you both out of here.
Is he always this hardheded about getting what he wants?
He won my heart, didn't he?
And you keep calling him my husband.
He's my ex.
Yeah, but you live together.
We live under the same roof.
But we're not together.
I can see he's not smart enough for you.
He's dickfor.
what is a dickfor anyway?
Well now... I just got to keep that in my little book of momories, Mr. Hotshot FBI.
I guess I should've seen that one coming , huh?
So what do you want most out of life, Susan?
Seriously. What would turn your life around? right now if it happened?
You must think about it, I certainly do
Rehab.
And money.
Rehab and money.
So you're a drug addict who wants to get help,
but you live with your ex, who's a coke dealer.
I imagine that must be hard.
I didn't say any of that You did.
Why don't tell you what i really want?
I know what you want.
And i know what's Federal crime and what ain't.
That's the way the devil comes.
He don't come to you as evil.
He don't come to you on fire.
He Comes as everything you ever wanted.
He comes to you as you.
That's my pappy over there. Hiram Grumbley
And on the other side
is Cash's daddy. Amos G. Smith.
Son of a bitch.
So i remember you saying when you fall down...
you always end up back here. Where'd you go where you fell down?
you rememeber everything i say, do you?
Yeah, of course.
Pittsburgh.
Me and Cash we lived in Pittsburgh for a year.
Why don't you tell me about some of Cash's customers?
And what they do for a living? That kind of stuff.
you mean what other crimes do they commit?
crime that you can get thim jammed up for?
Exactly.
Mark, i'de be taking a hell of big risk.
These people don't fuck around.
They find out you're a snitch, they burn down your house.
And that is just a warning.
You keep doing it, they will cut out your tongue...
...and feed it to their dogs.
That's why they'd be willing to put you through rehab.
Send you and your kids to a new state with...
a new identity, a decent job.
They do that?
Yeah, they do it all the time.
if you help me put this bank robber away...
I bet they'd give you ten grand.
Yeah, ten grand.
I'm not judging you, Susan.
I'm just saying, you've never tried to make a clean break of it,
so don't give up hope.
It's hope that's fucking me up.
I understand.
Here. Take this for now.
Just remember, big risk pay big money.
small risk, small money.
Okay?
Pretty, ain't they?
You want to hold one of the guns?
They feel like... power.
You know?
Just make sure you reed the papers next few days, okay?
Easy street's just down yonder.
Come on!
Damn.
You ain't started to go to the church again, have you?
Why?
You wouldn't care if i was being ordained, Am i right?
Come on, Susan. You can't keep doing this to me!
If you want me to keep playing you, you have to give me something.
Seriously!
I've given you hundreds of dollars and you haven't given me a god damned thing.
I keep telling you, My life would be in danger.
I know that your life in danger now, isn't it?
How long do you think you can keep this up?
How long before you find yourself in jail or dead?
Then, what are your kids going to do? How are they going to live?
You think the judge 'll give them to Cash,
or you think they'll wind up in foster care?
You got a kid, huh? Yeah.
A wife too?
We're talking about you, Susan.
Tell me what she's like.
Is she young? Is she pretty?
Does she have a good body?
She keeps herself fit, If that's what you mean.
Oh, she's too highclass for me.
Is that it? No.
Cause high class ain't always so good in a women.
If she won't suck you dick at the movies,
Then what the hell sort of good is she?/ Oh, come on. Stop it.
Cash mat treat you like a cheap whore,
but that's no reason to talk like one.
Susan...
You're the key to everything, i want to do here,
do you understand that?
To me, you're the most important women in thes town.
For God's sake, learn to act like it.
Martin, Kentucky. 26 mile From Pikeville.
His name is Joe B.
My ex mate him in prison.
He lives with us.
He has for four months.
I didn't know how to tell you.
I'm sorry.
Outstanding.
You've actually seen the shotguns?
Susan, this is amazing!
Oh Come on, Susan. I can't do that. You know that.
Yeah, okay.
He actually talked about an upcoming robbery.
God, I hate to say it but i think,
we've got to let him go through with this one.
or else it won't mean thinf in court.
Damn.
All right, everybody! This is a stick up!
Get away from the door! Come on, move it!
Go, right now! Right now!
Hey here, you fill that bag up withe money,
and do it quick! Okay.. Okay!
You two! Get the fuck out of that room!
Right now, old man!
And freeze! Put up your hands!
Shit! Shit!
All right, All yours! Get there in that there
Come on!
Help me so i don't have to kill you now.
All right. Now just give me the rest of the money, old lady!
All of you, let's go! Idon't got all day!
Come on! Hurry up now! Do it quick!
I heard you!
Come on, come on, come on!
Not all the way. Now i'm sorry i ruined all y'all's days!
Please!
Come on, come on, come on! Okay.
Ah, shit! Ah, shit I'm shot
Ah, shit!!
Shit!!
Highland Strip Mine R78. 6 Mile from Pikeville.
Guess what?
Joe B just robbed the Premier Mountain Bank.
You ready for this?
Yeah, Yeah, what what next?
Well, he's probably looking for a place to...
hide out , You gotta help me figure out where.
Okay.
I gotta go.
See you.
Halo.
Hey, boy.
I got some money for you, but, oh...
It's gonna be hard to pass.
It's covered in dye.
You want it anyway?/ No, everythings cool...
Mh, If you won't mind is okay Mhm
Why don't you give me that number for up there where you're at, will you?
Okay, here it comes.
shoot.
I'll call you back. Call me back.
All right. We'll be looking out.
What're you doing?
What do you think?
Mama, you don't gotta carry that.
Georgia, Help the women, Will you? What's wrong with you, huh?
Thank you. You're welcome, Gimme.
You'd better be right about this. Yeah i know.
You've hot three different agencies involved on,
the word of one drug addict.
That's the kind of math that'll got you fired.
Joe, Down! Joseph Beauregard Reevis!
Get Down! This is the FBI and the Kentucky State Police.
You're surrounded Come out with your hands up in the next 30 second...
...or we're coming in!
Shit!
Okay. You take my mommy.
You two hide in the closet. I'm going out back. Okay?
Gimme a minute to ger dressed!
Hold your fire. I'm going in after him.
Go, Go, Go!
FBI! Freeze!
Stop or I'll shoot!
Shots fired, reported shots fired Shots fired 111 5th Street.
You cocksucking sons of bitches!
In a fair fight i'd kick all your fucking asses,
You hear me?! No, No! Don't go!
Get him in the car. Get on the ground now!
Get on the ground now Stay there!
Son of a bitch! when I heard that shot i damn,
near wet myself. Yeah, Imagine how i felt.
And who got shot and by the time you came around the corner.
My heart is beating like a bass drum!
Well, you should've seen his face.
Well, thank God for handcuffs, right?
And when it started, when the lights come... on like .. Phew!
Yeah, that was pretty cool, huh?
I felt like we were on the TV news.
We did it, didn't we?
Yeah, we did.
We are a hell of a team.
You deserve a reward.
Did you ever come like...
Like it came up from your toes...
And traveled through your whole body?
No.
Well got us one of those cabins, boy, and you will.
Hi, sweetheart.
Hi!. Kathy. Kathy! Guess what?
We got him. He's in custody.
Hi, sweetie Daddy's home!
You hungry? Yeah, I know, sweetie.
God, did you got into a fight?
Oh, no. It's nothing. I got in a scuffle.
Congratulations.
Putnam residence. Who's calling?
Miss Putnam?
This is Susan Smith. I hope you don't mind my calling you ar home.
I'm looking for your husband, but i can't say why.
I've heard all about you, Susan.
I'm afraid Mark isn't here right now.
He's out making friends with the locals.
Which i have to say is easier said than done around here.
Well shit, Kathy, If you ain't got nobody to talk To,
you're knocking on the wrong doors.
Around here, the rich folk, they got bugs up their asses.
You wanna find yourself some losers if you Wanna have any fun.
actually, that's true in Connecticut too.
Is it?
Listen, I don't wanna cross any wires or nothing.
but do you wanna get a cup of coffee or something?
Hey, I mean. If you don't want to, it's okay.
No, no... I think that's great idea.
Good.
Okay, well,lemme just think of somewhere. that's... out of the way.
we gotta keep this on the down low you know.
Yeah, we do, don't we?
Yeah.
Varney, Kentucky. 18 miles from Pikeville.
Mark? God, he's the straightest arrow I ever met.
He told me that, at this junior prom...
His date took him out to the football field to join her friends.
And he run. All the way home.
Two miles.
He already knew he wanted to be in the FBI.
It's the most important thing in the world to him.
Not more than you and the baby. Well, No.
Well, I hope not.
Well, What about you? You as straight as an arrow to?
Not really.
I got thrown out of Catholic school for smoking pot.
Than i discovered boys and I really want on a tear.
By the time I was 18, My nickname was "Trouble".
When i was 18 I wanted to be a Playboy Playmate.
I guess one day I realized that all my friends...
...were growning up and I wasn't,
They were all getting married and starting families.
and i was still waking up with men i didn't know.
I decided it had to stop. Yeah? How'd you do it?
I told my parents the truth.
And then i met Mark.
Now we have a fiveyear plan.
We're going to stay here for two years.
Then get transferred to one of the big regional offices...
...with a little more room for advancement.
Then we're going to have another baby.
You made this plan together?
So you're kind of a team.
Mark told me that you want to make a new start too, Susan.
I just want to tell you I think that's really great.
I'd love to help you If i can.
You don't want that, huh?
No, I don't really drink anymore.
I was going to order a Diet Coke but you were too fast for me.
You mind? Oh, no!
You're making me crazy.
I haven't felt this way since i was 15.
I could do this forever.
I couldn't get enough ot that man.
My dad was a truck driver.
You should've seen his face...
...when he found out I got a scholarship to Pomfret.
He told everybody about it.
told his dispatcher.
What's Pomfret?
It was a private school we couldn't afford.
Even with the scholarship,
he had to raise like a thousand dollars a year to pay the extra.
It's was hard you know.
That was the first time he talked about me to his friends.
I think it was the first time he felt, like , proud of me.
He loved you.
Yeah.
then he had to go die when i was in college.
I just wish he could've been there when i got into the FBI, You know.
He would've gone crazy.
You don't have to be perfect...
...to get people to love you, Mark.
Of course I started to think i deserve better.
that i should be the one by his side.
Maybe i was pushing too hard.
And then Denver Rhodes walked in.
One of y'all Mark Putnam?
I am, Why?
I'm about to hand you the biggest case of your life, boy.
Two god damned tons of weed.
You can close the drawer. I ain't armed.
You're best to take notes, boy..
I got a lot to say.
He told Mark about a bit smuggling operaion over in Stoneville.
run by a cook named Rufus Green.
He was moving trucks full of dope from Mexico,
and stashing them in a played out old mine he bought.
Now this man just ain't interstate. He's international.
Now, I understand that there can be some compensational arrangements made?
Mark started worked all the time on that bust.
Yes, Your Honor. I'm seeing a search warrant...
...on the Cormorex Coal in Medford.
For all the buildings and structures thereon,
for all persons thereon, for all vehicles thereon.
I have three kinds of supporting material...
Rufus ain't fucking around.
If he finds out i'm meeting you, I'm dead, man.
I'm going to talk to him. I promise you that, Denver.
Show me a man who working all the time...
And I will show you the women he's hunger for.
This is thr single biggest case this division's ever sean.
Listen to me, I spoke to the Bureau.
I think they're willing to go as high as 30 grand.
Al right.
Do you think you could stay in there a little longer?
Now, as we know,
Rufus Green works out of an abandoned coal mine
This is his headquarters.
This is an overview of the entire compound.
It's filled with many warehouses...
...that we believe could hold up to 5,000 marijuana.
And i will faithfully execute. the office of president of the United States
And will to the best of my abilities...
Preserv, Protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States...
I told you. You Can't come here.
Where were you?
I waited at the motel for an hour.
I told you, sometimes things would come up...
...and i wouldn't be able to see you.
Okay? I told you that.
Why didn't you call?
cause something came up.
Why didn't you answer?
cause something came up, Susan.
Susan, I can't always drop everything for you, okay?
I have a job. I have a family.
But i need you too.
When me and Cash lived in Pittsburgh,
we know a new drug dealer...
...who used to brag on how he had a cop in his pocket.
A Captain.
Now, you gotta look into that, don't you?
It would be a feather in your cap, wouldn't it?
To bust crooked captain on the Pittsburgh PD?
When Was this?
For i got pregnant by Cash, Like a fool.
Al right, listen. We'll talk about it some time, Okay?
When?
I'll call you.
When?
Tomorrow. I promise.
What?
Did you have fun at the Red Clay Motel?
No. Bullshit.
Bumpy said he saw you coming out of there.
I didn't say I wasn't there.
I said i didn't have no fum.
What did Bumpy do anyway
run up here and squeal...
so you can get him high, right?
What are you...
Why don't you go stay at you boyfriend's house, Wherever he is.
You Can't... You Can't do this.
If you come in here, I'll break your fucking neck.
No. No, Cash.
Cash, you can't!
You get the hell out of here.
We have to let her stay, Mark. At least for tonight.
Tomorrow she can move in with her sister.
We have to, She can't go home.
I don't believe that.
You think that she's making it up?
I wouldn't put it past her. She's not a liar.
How do you know?
Because I know that you'd never take the word of an...
...informant that you know to be a liar.
Then i found out what was really going on.
Can i tell you my news now?
Sure! Sure, What's that?
I'm pregnant.
I'm due on March,
Which wasn't part of the plan.
Don't you think?
That's... incredible.
Well hey, Susie.
How y'all doing? How's Cash?
Everything's okay. Thanks, Rufus.
Well, I hope business is good too.
it's almost the end of the month.
Now, What's got you so upset you.
had to come all the way out here and tell me about it?
The FBI is about to bust your pot smuggling deal.
And how the fuck would you know?
Trust me Rufus. I know.
We were up on the hill watching the place,
and just before down two trucks come down going real fast.
We couldn't get down here near in time to catch them.
Yrah, I heard.
We won't get all this connections, but uh...
There's enough loose pot around here...
...to make an interstate Trafficking case against old Rufus Green.
Sorry, Mark. it's not your fault.
The hell y'all doing here?
This is a Crime scene, Mr. Green.
This is my property.
You wanna confess to interstate Trafficking now, Rufus?
Or you wanna wait until you're indicted?
Now that'll be the day.
Now, I ain't been up this way in years.
I got plans for this property.
but i don't hang around here.
It's a dump.
I can back him up on that, officer.
I ain't never been up here before neither.
We got photos of him here, dumbass.
The fuck you calling, dumb? And it's Special Agent Putnam to you, boy.
Well then you got pictures of your little girlfriend up here too, than.
That's right?
What did you just say? You heard me.
No, What did you just say?
Go on, Rufus.
He heard me?
Mommy! Mommy!
Mark. Somebody broke the window at the side of the house.
Mommy!
Shh, Shh, It's okay, sweetie. It's okay.
Okay, hang on you got it man you got it?
I try you go!
Mommy, Mom!
Hey.
Who are you expecting to call, anyway? What do you mean?
I mean you're guarding the phone like you did when you were 13.
I don't know. Nobody.
Why don't you get out of bed and help me with the groceries then?
Sis, I gotta go.
Ain't nothing good gonna come of that. Of what?
You know what. Messing around with that gooddman Federal cop!
I'm an imprptant informant.
One day i might disappear into Witness Protection,
so you better enjoy me whilst I'm here.
You're gonna get yourself killed.
Rufus Green sent somebody to burn down my house last night.
You don't blame me, do you?
Yeah I do.
I did not tell Rufus Green about your precious drug bust.
Of course you did, Susan. Bullshit.
Jesus Christ, stop lying.
My kid was in that house. You put my family in danger.
I did not.
I got six grand in this bag here for you.
If you sign this receipt? I'll give it to you right now.
I was gonna hold on to it until after you testified.
Then i realized i needed it to get through this encounter.
This encounter's gonna be hard for you, huh?
No, It's gonna be hard for you. I don't want to see you anymore.
Do you understand? Only unless i have to.
What does that mean, Only if you have to?
If there's blood on the ground, call me.
Otherwise leave me alone.
It don't work that way, Mark. It do not work that way.
This ain't no way to treat your star fucking witness.
Hey Mom! it's a Mustang! How do you know what a Mustang is?
Everyone knows! Everyone knows, do they?
And my girl knows as well.
And what do you think, Mister? Where the hell did you steal that at?
I love it!
I bought it. With what?
With half the four grand i got. Imma give you the other half.
Where the hell did you get four grand?
I extorted that guy.
That guy from the Red Clay Motel.
All right. Give me the money.
Are we even? What do you mean?
You know what i mean.
Are we even?
Yeah. Give me the money.
Watch your side here. All right.
Lock it down.
Got it.
Let's go.
No, don't You've got borken ribs.
I did not expect you to come to see me
Tell you what, If i'd know you'd have come...
I would have kicked his ass a whole lot sooner.
Gimme.
It's from Kathy.
God, Mark...
You're the only man i ever knew that's been good to me.
Lock the door, Wil you?
I'm trying to stop betraying my wife.
And she thinks if i avoid you, I'm betraying you.
I fell like i'm letting everybody down.
Susan, I need you stay away from Cash, Until the trial.
I want you in good shape if you're gonna testify.
I need you, Mark.
More then ever.
If you don't, I don't know what i'll do.
There. Okay? You're gonna be fine.
All you gotta do is tell the truth, alright?
Okay.
You ready to meet your new partner?
My What? Your new partner.
Bob Singer, this is Mark Putnam.
I don't like working with Yankess.
You shouldn't have to, Bob, You are obviously care enough as is.
Bob Worked undercover drug in Baltimore.
Tough duty.
Somebody tried to kill him, so the Bureau transferred him here.
Somebody to make your littl bank robber look like a schoolgirl.
If somebody tries to kill you, the Bureau will transfer you?
Of Course. Think of the liability.
Snitch!
Raise yout right hand.
Do your solemnly swear to tell the truth , the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Yeah, I do
Please be seated.
How long have you know Mr. Reevis?
Since he got out of prison and come stay with us.
Last year in the spring, I guess?
The fall, I'm sorry. I didn't mean that...
I was confused. It's been a while.
In the fall. All right.
Could you tell us in you own words...
what you found in his room?
He had a green dufflebag with two sawedoff shoutguns in it.
And tow black ski masks.
Liar! Your are a liar!
Thank you very much, Miss Smith. Thank you for your courage.
You've begun to make it safe for a person in Pike Country...
...to go into the bank...
When a man tells you more than once you're doing the right thing...
It means you're doing the right thing for him .
FBI Safe House. 41 miles from Pikeville.
Water heater's busted again.
What, It's gonna take two of y'all to fix the water heater?
Apparently the FBI have rules about male agents...
...being left alone withe female informants.
That's funny. Nobody told me.
Yeah, nobody told me either.
And they damn well should have.
I knew Mark didn't have no use for me no more.
He'd already told me he was turned his drug case...
...to tha Fat Bob.
And then when i heard he was leaving town...
and he didn't have the guts to tell me to my face...
they will go together.
Then i had to see for myself.
I been fucking your husband, you know that?
I said, I been fucking you fucking husband, you stupid cow!
Oh what, don't mean nothing to you?
Don't that make you feel nothing?
It makes me feel bad. For you.
That you wanted a better life so much that you,
thought you could just take mine.
That's not gonna happen.
Shit.
Anyways, they all got what they wanted.
Mark was the golden boy of the FBI.
This is Mark Putnam, everybody.
He's broken more cases in his first year...
...then any two of you together.
If you want to learn how to be meticulous and thorough,
Watch this guy.
Kathy got the big house, and of course...
Mr. Perfect.
Sold!
Rufus Green retired to Mexico.
Denver Rhodes got his 30 grand and blow it..
Fat Bob got to run the Pikeville FBI All by himself.
Even my dumbass brother Bones got off with time served.
Me? Guess what i got.
Traitor!
Get up, Susan! Get in there!
Come on, Georgia!
The day Mark Putnam come to town...
is the day my life went to shit.
You wanna do something about it, Susie?
Like what?
And don't call me "Susie".
Like file an official complaint.
The Bureau would take allegations very, very seriously.
I look to you like the kind of person...
...who gets revenge by filling a complaint?
Well what do you want to do? I'll help you do it.
Whatever it is. I'll help you do it.
You want me to take you to the ER? No.
I can send you the report but it's gonna be... we had an undergover agent
this is Agent Clark. who is point on that now?
I can't tell you who they are i would be comporomising the opartion...
good I'll make note of that. Illinois 9011. Yes.
Registered to Mr. Abner Huggins.
Address 141203...
Lake Shore Drive. Hey, Mark.
You know someone named Susan?
Who maybe a tad hostile?
Yeah, I'll take her in the conference room.
Hallo?
Hallo? Mr. Perfect?
You know, you should have been agent, Susan.
How'd you find me?
Cut the crap, Mark. I'm pregnant,
What're you...
Jesus Christ... Susan.
You wanna know what he said?
Are you sure?
He asked me if i was sure if was his son son of a bitch.
I'm not saying it like that.
I'm saying are you sure it's mine?
You find out what a man's made of...
...When you catch him by surprise.
Look, I'm coming back to court in Pikevill in two weeks.
We'll talk then, Okay?
What the fuck took you so long?
What? I saw you park!
What the fuck took you so long to get up here?
What are you talking about? I'm sick of this shit, Mark.
You fucked me over. You piece of shit!
How'f you even know i was here?
Cause i'm staying here.
In the Pikeville? Who's paying for that?
The FBI.
You mean Bob Singer./ Yeah.
And why's Bob Singer paying for you to stay in the Pikeville?
Ah, so i can chew your head off, that's why!
Cause he hates the fact that...
I fucked you and i will not fuck his fat ass!
I told you i'd make time this weekend.
I'm ready now.
Well i'm not, Susan. I'm beat.
And i gotta prep this drug trafficking case...
...at the courthouse all day tomorrow.
You know what, I should've killed her when i had the chance.
Killed who, Susan?
I didn't mean that. Just slipped out.
I mean, Jesus. Look at you.
You're so stoned you don't even know what you're saying.
Fuck you, Mark!
What the last time you ate, huh?
Have you eaten anything all day?
Let me drop my bags, and i'll take you to the drivethru, okay?
Okay?
Okay.
i ain't got no money.
Everone in this town wants me dead.
What happened to witness protection?
They gave me the cash to relocate on my own.
Okay, so what happened to that? What happened to it?
What do you want me to do, Susan?/ I want you suffer.
I mean, about the baby.
Imma tell your wife about the baby.
Imma tell the FBI.
Fat Bob says they will fore you on the spot .
Fat Bob again, huh?
You're everything he hates about the Bureau.
Bunch of candyassed hypocrites wearing suits and ties.
Well, he don't wear no suit and tie.
But he don't fuck his informants neither.
Susan, to be honest. You don't look like 5 months pregnant.
Have you thought about getting an abortion?
Can we please just try and have a reasonable conversation?
You were gonna save me.
I needed someone to save me.
and you were gonna be the one. You even said so yourself.
Susan, If i could drob everthing ...
...and start again, I would.
I'm trying to do the right thing. I just i can't
But the most important thing here the baby.
What do you want to do about it?
Do you want me and Kathy to raise it?
You and Kathy?
I am a good mother!
Come on, Susan. Where are your kids now?
You take that back, you son of a bitch!
How dare you!
Susan..
Christ,What the hell's the mater with you, Susan?!
You're trying to kill us both?/ Me? You're the one who's screwing me.
I'll be damned if i'll walk you prance back to Chicago...
...with that stuckup wife of yours.
How about we leave my wife out of this, okay?
She's the only one who hasn't brought this on herself.
You fucked up my life.
Oh,Jesus. Just tell me Susan. Please. What is it that you want?
I Want you to have this baby with me.
I want you to be there when he's born,
and i want you to sign the birth certificate as his daddy.
Second, I want you to leave thay whore Kathy...
...and those stuckup brat kids.
I swear, If you say one more thing about my wife...
Oh, what are you gonna do, huh? You gonna hit me?
Well go ahead. Cause man have been hitting me my whole life.
Jesus Christ, please, can we just try to find a solution to our problam?
Our problam? Your problam?.
I never been happier in my life.
Cause I... I told all my friends that,
Imms raise me an FBI baby.
Oh my God. You're fucking nuts
Do you realy think i'd ever let a kid of mine grow up with you?
Fuck you. Fuck you... Fuck you to hell!
Well, That wasn't exactly a meeting of the minds.
At least he felt bad about bad about the whole thing.
He couldn't eat.
He couldn't sleep.
For months he didn't know what to do.
Then all of a sudden, he did.
I need to tell you something.
Now?
Yeah. Before i tell anyone else.
It's about me and Susan.
Don't. It's over. It's in the past
It's not.
All right, shoot.
I'm so sorry, Kathy.
It's worse tham you think.
Did you get her pregnant?
Yeah.
Kathy.
Don't.
I didn't mean don't have a drink.
Good.
I meant there's more.
Jesus! Cut it out
Fuck you, Fuck You!
Stop! Stop it!
You're not gonna win! You're never gonna win!
Stop it!
It was an accident. I swear
It was an accident...
Why didn't you tell somebody?
We were fighting.
It was an accident while we were fighting. That's manslaughter.
I'm going to Washington today to confess.
I have to.
You have to?
It's what my father would have wanted. Your Father?
You're worried about your father?
Course, I remember those last few minutes...
...a little different then he does.
But people only remember what they can stand to.
Don't tell anyone. Not anyone.
It can stay between you and me.
I can live with this.
I can.
I can't.
Baby, I've tried, I...
I just can't.
By then, Mark wanted to be punished. He thougt he deserved it
The average sentence for manslaughter is six years,
you serve two.
I'm sorry.
Mark took 14 and took 10.
You're just doing your job.
Kathy stood by him, or tried to.
She died of drink about a year before he got out.
Yes, I did.
You did what, Agent Putnam?
It's important that you be specific.
For a second it sounded like you meant to say...
I did mean that.
I killed her. I broke her neck.
He surprised a hell lot of people around here.
They figured somebody else has done it.
He told them where to find me, too.
or they wouldn't have had no proof or nothing.
I got something!
Couse, he didn't deside to confess until ten months...
...after he killed me.
so the dogs got at me pretty good.
If i hadn't've been so mad ,
I would have just had the baby by myself.
God damn you, Mark.
That's her.
I guess i was wrong about all them getting what they wanted, huh?.
In the long run, anyways.
Course, in the long run, who does?
Like i said. .
Worst thing about being dead?
You get too much time to think..
The Putnam children lived with their grandparents...
...until Mark was released from prison in 2000.
Susan Smith children were raised by her sister.
Susan ex-husband still lives in the Pikeville area.