AC ARNELLE BLACK_GUYS BLACK_MAN_1 BLACK_MAN_2 BOB_COSTAS BOYFRIEND CAMERAWOMAN CARL CHRIS COMMANDER COP COP_11 CROWD DIRECTOR EVERYBODY FAMILY GIDDY_BLACK_TEEN GIL GIRLFRIEND HODGMAN HOST JASON JESSE_JACKSON JIM_HILL JOHNNIE KARDASHIAN KARDASHIAN_KIDS KARDASHIAN_ON_RADIO LANGE LAPD_SPOKESMAN LAWYER LAWYER_1 LAWYER_2 LAWYER_3 LAWYER_4 LA_RADIO_DJ LINELL_SHAPIRO MAN_IN_SUIT MARCIA MICHAEL MOM NBC_GUY NEGOTIATOR NEIGHBOR_MAN_1 NEIGHBOR_MAN_2 NEIGHBOR_MAN_3 NEWS_ANCHOR OJ OPERATOR PETER_JENNINGS PHOTOGRAPHER PILOT POPS REPORTER REPORTER_1 REPORTER_2 SECURITY_GUARD SHAPIRO SHAWN SHERIFF SHERIFF_1 SHERIFF_2 SHIRLEY SWAT_2 SWAT_OFFICER THE_COUPLE TOM_BROKAW TV_ANNOUNCER TV_DIRECTOR VANNATTER VOICE VOICE_ON_RADIO VOICE_ON_TV WHITE_MAN WOMAN_IN_SUIT YOUNG_COP LAPD SPOKESMAN Okay, I have an official announcement. This morning, detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department sought and obtained a warrant for the arrest of OJ Simpson, charging him with the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman. Mr. Simpson, in agreement with his attorney, was scheduled to surrender to the Los Angeles Police Department at 11 a.m. That then became 11:45... LAPD SPOKESMAN Mr. Simpson has not appeared. LAPD SPOKESMAN The Los Angeles Police Department is now actively searching for Mr. Simpson. GIL If it were our absolute goal, could we look more incompetent? GIL This is the worst day of my life. This is worse than the day I was diagnosed with cancer. LAPD SPOKESMAN Mr. Simpson is out there somewhere! We will find him – MARCIA It's friggin' Shapiro. He screwed all of us! God forbid a celebrity do a perp walk -- GIL It's always the big cases that melt down. McMartin. Twilight Zone. Menendez. Why's it always the famous ones? LAPD SPOKESMAN ...we need to find him. We need to bring him to justice...! MARCIA He can't hide forever. Everyone knows his face. PILOT Think he went to Bundy? Rockingham? ...Maybe he's driving to the Mexican border! ...What about Marina Del Rey? He could get to international waters. TOM BROKAW One of the most stunning announcements you're ever gonna hear on live television. OJ Simpson, one of this country's best-known personalities, is a suspect in a double homicide, a terribly gruesome crime... and he is at large. TOM BROKAW There is now a statewide manhunt underway for OJ Simpson in California. VOICE ON TV ...he was last seen with his former teammate AC Cowlings... YOUNG COP We've received 110 tips so far LANGE "He's with Magic Johnson." "He's in Atlanta." "He's eating lunch with Dionne Warwick at the Ivy." Cripes! VANNATTER We have to weed out the crackpots. Make sure we put out the year and the plates on that white Bronco. SHAPIRO Tell him Robert Shapiro is calling. He'll know what it's about. GIL what do you want? SHAPIRO Gil -- GIL i wish i could reach into this goddamn phone and strangle you! SHAPIRO I-I'm sorry he did this to us. C'mon! You know me, Gil. I'm a fixer. I don't pull this kind of stuff -- GIL How does a murder suspect disappear from a houseful of people?!! SHAPIRO I didn't know he would run. You have to believe me! I'm a good guy. You remember that time I got Erik Menendez to surrender from Israel? And I backed your campaign. A-and you came to my 50th birthday party! Remember that party? That was a great party GIL Bob, find your client and deliver him. KARDASHIAN Hey. Uh, Bob, can I show you something? KARDASHIAN oj left a suicide note. KARDASHIAN It's terrible. I have no idea what we're supposed to do. Do we need to give this to the police? SHAPIRO Jesus Christ. Who signs a suicide note with a happy face? KARDASHIAN that's oj. always looking on the bright side. MARCIA This guy he's with. Can somebody explain to me who AC Cowlings is? HODGMAN he's a fourth-rate linebacker. he followed oj around, always showing up on his teams: 'sc, the bills, the 49ers. he's sort of a poor man's oj. "oj"... "ac"... get it? GIL Can you two quiet down? I feel like I'm going to vomit. GIL I want to say something to the entire community. Mr. Simpson is a fugitive of justice! SHAWN I hope they catch him. You know he did it. CARL You don't know that. They're just tearing down another black man. CARL You want me to turn off the TVs, tell them to get back to work? JOHNNIE No... that's fine. Let 'em watch. There's something... big happening here. GIL ...all authorities throughout California. Rest assured, we will find Mr. Simpson. CHRIS Hey! Is the TV on?? POPS Course I'm watchin'. You picked a hell of a day to leave town. CHRIS Well how was I supposed to know -- What is that?!! POPS It's Arnold Palmer's last U.S. Open! He's retiring today. CHRIS Pops, c'mon – GIL Now, you can tell that I am upset! This is a very serious case. CHRIS He looks horrible. Oh my God -- Marcia's dying up there. POPS You know all those people? CHRIS Shh! GIL Many of us, perhaps, had empathy for him. We saw the falling of an American hero. To some extent, I viewed Mr. Simpson the same way. But let's remember, we have two innocent people who were brutally killed. REPORTER But how could this happen? That's the question! The entire world is focused on this one man, and he slipped away. How can you answer that? GIL I can't. POPS You think he'll get away? CHRIS No way. OJ humiliated them. He's dead meat. SHAPIRO I don't like the subtext of all this. There's an unspoken villain. KARDASHIAN who... ac? SHAPIRO huh? no! me. everyone's blaming me. i've always had a clean reputation. we need our own press conference. LA RADIO DJ find oj! he's in a white bronco, license plate 3dhy503! call in with your tips! some people say he's going to the coliseum. reliving the scene of his greatest triumphs! LA RADIO DJ Other people say there might be a shootout at Bundy. LA RADIO DJ There's also a rumor he'll go back to the cemetery, where he buried Nicole just yesterday. Maybe he'll ask her for forgiveness. KARDASHIAN Bob, I can't do this. Truly. I'm not a public person. SHAPIRO Don't worry. I have faith in you. I'll go out first, clear up any misconceptions, then you can read the suicide note with an appropriate gravitas. KARDASHIAN But... what if OJ's already dead? SHAPIRO Look. Let me give you a little secret. When I was working on the Brando case, he introduced me to Jack Nicholson. Jack told me that the best acting advice he ever got was from John Wayne. And what John said was... "Speak low. And speak slow." SHAPIRO I must make one thing perfectly clear: I am as shocked as anybody by this turn of events. Over the past twenty-five years, I have on numerous occasions made similar arrangements with the LAPD and the district attorney's office and Mr. Garcetti. They have always kept their word to me, and I have always kept my word to them. In fact, I arranged the surrender of Erik Menendez from Israel. JOHNNIE What a prick. Robert Shapiro's focused on his number one priority: Robert Shapiro. SHAWN What would you be saying? JOHNNIE Well, I certainly wouldn't keep falling back on the pronouns "me, myself and I!" people, when you take these jobs, you have only one role: you are in service to your client. you never betray that individual. SHAPIRO oj has been under a doctor's care, and we had a very real concern that he might choose this avenue. oj -- for the sake of your children, please surrender immediately, to any law enforcement official. REPORTER What were the last words you heard from oj? SHAPIRO Oh, they were of a complimentary nature. He thanked me for everything I had done. And now, I would like to introduce you to one of Mr. Simpson's closest and dearest friends, Mr. Robert Kardashian. KARDASHIAN KIDS oh my god! oh my god!!! it's daddy!! KARDASHIAN T-this letter was written by OJ today. "To whom it may concern: I think of my life and feel I've done most of the right things. So why do I end up like this? I can't go on. No matter what the outcome, people will look and point. I can't subject my children to that. This way they can move on and go on with their lives." KARDASHIAN "I'm proud of how I lived. My mama taught me to do unto others. I treated people the way I wanted to be treated." KARDASHIAN "Nicole and I had a good life together. I've always loved her and always will. We had our ups and downs... but no more than what every long-term relationship experiences. "At times I felt like a battered husband. But I loved her. Make that clear to everyone. KARDASHIAN Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life. Please think of the real oj... and not this lost person. REPORTER 1 Who are you?? KARDASHIAN R-Robert Kardashian. REPORTER 1 Kazany? REPORTER 2 Rakashian? Can you please spell that? KARDASHIAN KIDS "kardashian"!! kardashian!! "k-a-r, d-a-s, h-i-a-n!!" MARCIA Did I hear that correctly? He feels like a battered husband? HODGMAN Well, y'know, he cut his hand when he was killing her. REPORTER Sir, I'm still unclear... what is your connection to Mr. Simpson? KARDASHIAN ON RADIO I've known OJ more than twenty years. We double-dated, when I dated my exwife, and he dated his ex-wife. BOYFRIEND Oh my God. There's a white Bronco behind us. GIRLFRIEND You liar! No there isn't ! THE COUPLE oh my god!!! oh my god!! it's ac cowlings!!! BOYFRIEND Yes! It's them!! They're going north on the 5, right before it merges with the 405! SHERIFF We have sighted a white Ford Bronco, north of Irvine Center Drive. License plate Three David Henry Young Five Zero Three. SHERIFF 1 I think we caught him. SHERIFF 1 Sir, step out of the vehicle. AC no! hell no! SHERIFF 1 sir, you need to turn off your engine and step from the vehicle, now. AC do you know what's goin' on?! oj's in the backseat, with a gun to his head! SHERIFF 1 Can I... speak with Mr. Simpson? OJ No! I'm not speaking to nobody! Tell him the gun is loaded! AC what? i know! i'm dealing with it! SHERIFF 1 We don't want a situation here. We don't want anyone to get hurt. You both need to get out -- AC that's not happening. back off!! SHERIFF 2 Do we shoot? SHERIFF 1 i'm not shooting at oj simpson, unless somebody authorizes it. CAMERAWOMAN Bob! Hey -- there's a lot of police activity on the 405. KARDASHIAN I have some bad news. KARDASHIAN i was with oj this morning... and he was in bad shape. SHIRLEY W-what do you mean...? KARDASHIAN I mean -- I think he's killed himself. FAMILY nooo!! KARDASHIAN I'm so sorry!! KARDASHIAN But he wanted you to know that he loved you all. He loved everybody. KARDASHIAN oj's in a better place. ARNELLE no. you're wrong! look! ARNELLE Dad!! LINELL SHAPIRO bob! where have you been? do you have any idea what is happening?!! SHAPIRO Well, yeah. I had a press conference, then I filled up the gas tank LINELL SHAPIRO bob! they found him! oj's driving up and down the freeway! he's got police escorts! SHAPIRO he's... alive?! wow. good for you, oj. good for you. okay -- it's not over yet. we're still in the game. BOB COSTAS Hello, I'm Bob Costas. It is our professional obligation to cover the ballgame tonight... BOB COSTAS we are of course mindful of the oj simpson situation and we will apprise you of any new developments MARCIA Why don't we stop him?! Shoot out his tires! GIL we don't want a shootout on live tv. we're on every network in the country. HODGMAN What's the protocol? GIL The "protocol"? I don't know, Bill! What is the protocol for an armed celebrity fugitive being chased by twelve police cars and seven helicopters? I thought I was gonna run for mayor PETER JENNINGS At one point he was headed in the direction of where his mother lives, but that may no longer be the case. Only those who know the particular freeway topography of Los Angeles will be able to recognize this scene precisely. There have been a variety of reports as to what has transpired in the vehicle... AC what do you want me to do???! OJ I should die. AC no! put down the gun, juice! OJ I'm tired of you drivin' me around! AC i'm helping you! what do you need? OJ Uh, take me to the cemetery. AC no, man! we already went there! OJ Why is this happening to me? I don't understand... I had such a beautiful family. Nicole... Sydney... Justin... AC You've still got the kids! Think of the kids! OJ I want this to end. Just take me home. I wanna see Mama. AC We got half the cops in California in pursuit. I don't know if they'll let us!! OPERATOR This is 911. What is your emergency? AC this is ac. i have oj in the car! OPERATOR Who is this? AC you know who i am, goddammit! ac!! you tell those police to just back off. he's alive. he's got a gun to his head! OPERATOR Hold on a moment. Where are you? Is everything else okay? AC what?! no, what kind of stupid-ass question is that? everything is terrible! just clear the freeway! we're driving to brentwood! NBC GUY They're clearing the freeway!! There's nobody else driving on it! TV DIRECTOR What?! You're kidding. NBC GUY we've got to cut to oj. TV DIRECTOR i can't! it's the nba finals!! do you realize how much these spots are going for? NBC GUY Put the game in the box. TV DIRECTOR what?? no! NBC GUY you have to. think clearly! oj is news, entertainment, and sports! TV DIRECTOR Jim, I can't. In twenty-four years, I've never done anything like this. NBC GUY oj gets the big screen. i'm calling upstairs JIM HILL oj, al, if you're listening to me... if you can hear me, guys, please stop. i can't begin to tell you, oj, how many people have called this station, praying for you and wanting your safety. there are a lot of people who believe that if you two keep up with what you're doing right now, that the worst is going to happen. MICHAEL Hey!! What are you doin' here? This is one crazy day. CHRIS Good to see you, bro. MICHAEL Wow. I should hit up the fellas -- tell 'em you're here. You're a star. CHRIS Nah, I'm nothing. MOM what?! if they shoot oj, you get to prosecute him. CHRIS no, if the cops shoot oj, i prosecute the cops. My division, Special Investigations, only goes after government workers. We're not too popular. If OJ jumps out of that Bronco waving a gun, and forty cops open fire... you can bet it'll be investigated. POPS if forty cops blow away oj simpson, your city's gonna burn to the ground! again! LAWYER 1 I can't believe this is the 405 on a Friday night. Where are all the cars? LAWYER 2 the backup on sepulveda must be unbelievable. oj shut down l.a LAWYER 3 Look, it's like when the Pope comes to town. LAWYER 4 It's like the world's longest Ford Bronco commercial. MARCIA phil! question! how is oj back in his white bronco??! VANNATTER What do you mean? MARCIA I mean... the Bronco was full of blood! We impounded it! How can he be driving it? VANNATTER Uh... hang on a sec'. VANNATTER tom! how is oj back in the bronco? LANGE believe it or not, there are two white broncos. ac cowlings worships oj so much, he bought the identical car MARCIA Unbelievable. What's the situation at rockingham ? VANNATTER extreme. swat is taking over. SHIRLEY c'mon, oj. c'mon... KARDASHIAN oj? OJ bob. bob, i've been lookin' for you. i called the house in encino, but you weren't there. i don't know if you heard what's happening... KARDASHIAN Yeah. Juice. I heard. You're on every channel. OJ I just want you to know I love you, Bobby. Bobby, you're the best. KARDASHIAN Hey, you know I feel the same OJ Remember how much fun we used to have? Wow. Remember that night the four of us went to that steakhouse that used to be on La Cienega? I forget the name. You, me, Nicole, Kris, we had so many good times... You gotta tell everybody I love 'em. Say goodbye for me. Say goodbye to Don Ohlmeyer. Skip Taft, Wayne Hughes, Craig Baumgarten. Louie Marx. Marcus Allen. Cathy, Reggie... If I'm forgetting anybody, let 'em know. KARDASHIAN oj, you're gonna see 'em all again. OJ No. I just want to come home and see my Mama one last time. KARDASHIAN Ehh, I'm not sure coming home is such a hot idea. KARDASHIAN Hey. Uh, Jason. Where's your grandma? JASON Oh. She was having heart palpitations. Probably from all the stress. She's in the hospital. JASON Is my dad gonna die? WOMAN IN SUIT This is insane. I can't believe I've been standing here for two hours. MAN IN SUIT I'm afraid if I leave, I'll miss him getting shot. SECURITY GUARD Should we order Dominos? DOMINO'S MAN This is crazy! We've run out of cheese. AC what? who is this?! LANGE This is Detective Tom Lange, with the Los Angeles Police Department. AC H-how'd you get this number?! LANGE You called 911. AC well, you just tell the cops to back off! stay away from us!! OJ ac! it's the cops? gimme the phone. OJ hey, this is oj. look, i just want to say how sorry i am. i didn't mean for all you guys to have to come out like this. i know it's late on a friday. you cops work hard. you probably want to go home, see your kids... LANGE It's okay. We're just doing our jobs. So... uh, I understand you have a gun? OJ Yeah. But, don't worry, it's not for you. I would never hurt any of you guys. This gun's for me. LANGE No, no, you don't want to do that. Things will get better. You should just toss it out the window. OJ N-no... I can't do that. I need to go with Nicole. Yeah. That's all I'm trying to do. I just can't do it here on the freeway. I couldn't do it in a field. I tried to do it at her grave. Now I just want to do it at my house. LANGE oj, we want to keep you alive. we're not going to bother you. we know you want to go home. we'll let you go there. but, the gun is scaring everybody. please. can you just throw it away? OJ No. I deserve to get hurt. JOHNNIE Gentlemen, the last I heard, the man was still alive. DIRECTOR We gotta stay ahead of the news. JOHNNIE Yes, this is a complex situation. But, we must remember that he is a person who's not used to being arrested. He's fragile. Confused... Whenever I see a black man being chased by armed officers... my guard goes up. HOST With all due respect, this is a probable killer who fled from the police – JOHNNIE Innocent until proven guilty! JOHNNIE if the lapd is involved, we should let history be our guiding principle! JOHNNIE Time after time, police shoot first, then offer sloppy apologies afterwards. 30 years ago, a young man named Leonard Deadwyler was driving his pregnant wife to the hospital. She was about to give birth to their child. But that very same LAPD saw a black man driving too fast, so they did what they do: They shot and killed him. JOHNNIE I represented Leonard's family. It was one of my very first cases. Unfortunately, the first of many. It's a terrible thing. Leonard's only crime... was the color of his skin. NEIGHBOR MAN 1 Hey Chris! Get over here! I thought you were gonna give us a little playby- play. NEIGHBOR MAN 1 Look at OJ go! He can still run. Those fuckin' police can't get him. NEIGHBOR MAN 2 Remember his run in '67, against UCLA? NEIGHBOR MAN 1 That was the best! Nobody could catch the Juice. CHRIS I dunno what you guys are cheering for. Jim Brown was a much better player. EVERYBODY what?! how dare you! oj is local! he went to galileo high! CHRIS so what? oj never gave back. you see any parks around here named for him? any children's centers? now jim brown cared about black people. he was an activist. he spoke up. once oj made his money, he split and never came back. he became white NEIGHBOR MAN 1 Well... you got the cops chasin' him. He's black now! JESSE JACKSON oj has really fixed his way into the lives of two generations of people. in one sense, his loss diminishes all of us. MARCIA why does that sound like a eulogy? oj's not dead. he's driving on the 405. i want oj to finish this day alive. i want to prosecute him. i want to convict him. i want him to pay the price for his horrible actions. LAWYER I just saw people cheering. VOICE ON RADIO oj has passed culver boulevard. he's approaching washington boulevard... GIDDY BLACK TEEN He's almost here!! BLACK GUYS go oj!!! REPORTER Why are you rooting for him? BLACK MAN 1 we're not cheering oj. we're booing the lapd! REPORTER It doesn't sound like booing. BLACK MAN 2 we're doin' both. oj's running, cause he's innocent! BLACK MAN 1 He's a black man being hunted by the police. They pick you up for anything! I know I'd run! OJ Those people shouldn't be on the freeway. That's not safe. AC They're out because they love you. They still love you, Juice. CROWD juice! juice! juice! SWAT OFFICER We need everyone off the property! For your own safety. JASON I'm not leaving! My dad needs me! This is my home! KARDASHIAN And I'm not leaving either. I'm Mr. Simpson's attorney! SWAT OFFICER Hey! Who are you? PHOTOGRAPHER roger sandler, time/life photography. we have an "arrangement" with the west l.a. division... SWAT OFFICER Your funeral. Don't get caught in the crossfire. AC Oh, this is ridiculous. How do they expect us to get through? OJ Honk PETER JENNINGS Look here. Look at all these people rushing, waving! There is an absolutely, utterly macabre nature to all this. WHITE MAN Murderer!!! OJ ac, you gotta get me to my house. AC I'm trying AC let us in!!! OJ I'm home. VOICE HEY! JASON Dad!! JASON Dad! I wanna help you! AC Jason! Get away! I'm handling this. JASON Dad! Please, put down your gun!! SWAT 2 Who is that? COMMANDER Send in the Negotiator. NEGOTIATOR OJ! How can I help you??! AC Leave us alone!! NEGOTIATOR I'd like to speak with Mr. Simpson! NEGOTIATOR oj...? AC There's a guy in that tree!! This is a trick! NEGOTIATOR no. no trick. we want oj safe -- AC There's guns in my face, everywhere! COMMANDER kill the lights. i said, tell the choppers, kill all the lights. now!! JOHNNIE They don't want us to see NEGOTIATOR oj! we want to get you out of the bronco! NEGOTIATOR We want to get you safely into your house. NEGOTIATOR oj! can you open the door, so we can talk? AC He doesn't wanna talk to you! Beat it! AC Juice. What do you want to do...? OJ I should've killed myself this morning. KARDASHIAN oj. it's bobby... please, c'mon out. your family's here. we just want to help you... OJ Is my mama here? KARDASHIAN Uh, no. But she's waiting on the house phone, to talk to you. We can do that. OJ I'd sure like to come inside. It would be good to sit down, relax a bit... KARDASHIAN That's a great idea. Yeah, we should do that. OJ I feel bad for all this mess I caused. All these guys out here... KARDASHIAN They just want you to be safe. They want to make sure nothing bad happens. KARDASHIAN Uh huh. Uh huh. Sure, of course. Hang on a sec'. KARDASHIAN He doesn't want to be arrested outside -- you have to do it in the house, away from the cameras. NEGOTIATOR Fine. But the gun has to stay in the vehicle. KARDASHIAN okay. oj, we're good to go. just make sure you leave the gun in the car. that's real important. NEGOTIATOR Simpson is about to leave the vehicle. Subject says he will not be armed COMMANDER no hotheads! we're on tv! no firing, unless you're fired upon first! TV ANNOUNCER apparently, oj is about to get out of the car... COP he's got a gun!! KARDASHIAN no!! those are pictures! those are framed pictures of his kids!! OJ I'm sorry, I'm sorry... OJ I'm so sorry I put you guys through this... OJ I'm so sorry, guys...! OJ Can I talk to my mama? And can I get a glass of orange juice? COP 11 of course, oj. OJ Hello, Mama...? OJ Yes, Mama. Yeah, Mama. Yeah... Me, too. MARCIA He's alive! Thank God, he's alive. We can take him to trial! TOM BROKAW We are witnessing tonight a modern tragedy and drama of Shakespearian proportion... NEWS ANCHOR a story that held the country spellbound has climaxed. oj simpson's incredible journey... is finished. MICHAEL Too bad you're not workin' on this case. NEIGHBOR MAN 1 What? You better not. He got framed! NEIGHBOR MAN 2 I was thinking the same thing. CHRIS oh, c'mon. i can guarantee you, oj was not framed -- NEIGHBOR MAN 3 Sure he was! POPS You stay the hell away from this.