[film reel ticking]
[instrumental music]
Where are y'all headed?
Well, we're trying to get up to Santa Susana Pass Road
but however far you can take us.
- Oh, Spahn Ranch? - Hey, yeah. How did you know?
Yeah, well, not quite, uh, all the way up there.
My, uh, my aunt lives nearby.
What you got there?
[laughs] Some money, I guess.
Hey, if you're gonna take us all the way
we should buy you breakfast.
Right on.
[indistinct chatter]
I don't know.
I thought "Tiptoe Through The Tulips"
was a pretty far-out song if you're a little high.
I guess I was a lot high when I first heard it.
Seems like a fag to me.
Hey, watch it.
Tex here told the army he was an acid head homosexual
to get out of the war, so..
I'm not actually a homosexual.
I mean, who sings like that?
Guy with his voice all high like a girl
and his tiny little whatchamacallit.
It's a put on.
[dramatic music]
Everything's a put on.
Tiny Tim is just having fun.
Hey, we better get out of here.
[birds squawking]
[humming]
Uh, sing that one.
♪ Ride take a free ride
♪ Take my place
♪ Have my seat
♪ It's for free
♪ Ride my see-saw
♪ Ride
♪ Ride my see-saw ♪
Damn. Okay.
Goodnight, Katie.
Goodnight, Lulu.
Goodnight, Sadie.
Goodnight.
"Lying in your prison bed
"womb straining, sweat pouring
"you deliver your child within these concrete walls
"and steel bars.
"Because your infant is born here
"in here, she is labeled, numbered
"and her mugshot is taken.
"She is called a criminal.
But you and I know she is another awesome female warrior."
Wow. I thought it was really powerful, Tina.
- Mm-hmm. - Thank you.
Pardon me, ladies. Karlene, can I speak with you?
- Sure. - Ooh.
You guys, go ahead.
I need your help with the Manson girls
over in the Special Security Unit.
Since the death penalty was lifted
no one knows what to do with them.
The Governor doesn't want them in general population
so they are on death row indefinitely.
Just the three of them, stuck in those cells 23 hours a day.
I can't let them rot in there.
Good morning, ladies.
- Hi, Miss Carlson. - Hello, Miss Carlson.
I'd like you to meet Karlene Faith.
- Hi, Karlene. - Nice to meet you, Karlene.
Nice to meet you all.
Karlene is a graduate student at UC, Santa Cruz
and she teaches some of the inmates here.
Now that you're gonna be staying with us
I think it's a good time
to talk about taking some classes with her.
So that... that means we are staying in the SSU for good then?
Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
We're offering college courses to residents here.
You'd be free to study just about anything you want.
Literature, Philosophy, Journalism.
Are we gonna learn about shit like Women's Lib?
Language, please, Susan.
[laughing]
We don't have to study Women's Lib, no
although I do teach a Women's Studies course here in CIW.
Women's Studies.
Far out.
I'll leave you ladies to it.
- Thank you, Miss Carlson. - Bye, Miss Carlson.
- Oh, thank you, Jimmy.
- Thanks, Jimmy. - Thank you, Jimmy.
Hey, Karlene, do you want some grape Tang?
Pretty please, Jimmy, can we have
some grape Tang for our guest?
Thanks, Jimmy.
Jimmy always takes care of us.
And you should hear him sing.
♪ I'll never smile
Our favorite guard should have been a famous crooner!
♪ Until I smile at you ♪
Ooh!
Thank you.
You're Susan, right?
I'm Sadie. Susan's dead.
Charlie named me Sadie.
- Where are you from? - I'm from the now.
I'm from everywhere.
Hello. I'm Lulu.
On the list they gave you, I'm sure it says Leslie
but I'm Lulu.
And I'm Katie.
I think I would be interested in studying the women of the pioneer.
That's what we were doing with Charlie.
Learning how to live off the land and be self-sufficient.
Earth mothers.
[instrumental music]
♪ The only way you're happy
♪ Is not where you're not free ♪
♪ Your home is where you can be what you are ♪
♪ 'Cause you are born free
♪ Now they'll show you the castle ♪
Hey, Gypsy.
- Who's this? - I'm Leslie.
Welcome to the ranch.
Welcome to our family. Come and meet Charlie.
What an absolutely perfect day for you to come see us.
Charlie says it's not a day for working.
So we are just being today.
♪ Now they'll show you their castle ♪
[scatting]
♪ And I want a little smoke smoke smoke smoke now ♪
♪ Mmm mmm ♪
Well, Jesus, I guess I'm your best friend.
Play something for me, Little Paulie.
[guitar music]
I got a blank, Charlie!
Well, well, well, well, well.
Looky, looky here.
Well, hey there, Brother Bobby?
What do we have here?
Gypsy said Leslie would be happy with you.
Gypsy, Gypsy, Gypsy, my baby Gypsy.
You brought someone just like I asked.
Now that's a good soldier.
[chuckles]
[laughter]
Be my mirror.
[laughs]
[humming]
My name's Charlie.
[laughs]
Where did you find her?
She was hanging around my harem for a while.
But it was turning into a bad scene with my old lady.
Beautiful Brother Bobby.
He really knows how to make love to the girls.
That's what they all tell me.
Sadie's made love to Bobby, right?
Yeah, we've all made love to him at this point, huh?
[laughs]
I can't take another man's woman.
She's not mine, Charlie.
Gypsy told me all about you and the family.
- I can't take her. - Charlie.
I think we should let her stay.
She digs us and she's hungry.
She's a seeker.
[guitar music]
Where are your parents?
It doesn't matter to me. I'm on my own journey.
Well, what do you have for us? Do you have a car?
- No. - Well, then we'll get you one.
We'll get you a car. We'll find you a car.
You know why? Because old ego is a too much thing.
Old ego is a too much thing. He'll make you fool yourself.
You'll think you're somebody else.
You'll ride that whole subway train.
You like her, you teach her.
You keep an eye on her, and you see if she belongs with us.
And, you, Katie is my everything.
Katie is me. You pay attention to what she does.
If you're even half as good as her, then you can stay.
[guitar music]
When I first met Charlie, I just knew.
Hopped on a bus and I never looked back.
But Charlie's like a... beacon of light or something.
I mean, look at you, you're here.
- Hey, Tex. - Hello there.
How you doing?
Tex hasn't reached awareness yet.
He's still working on letting go of his ego.
Charlie says, "Let go of your ego
and be like a finger on a hand."
Come on. I want you to meet George.
George Spahn. It's his ranch.
Hello?
[indistinct chatter on TV]
Squeaky is so kind to him.
- She's a generous soul. - I'll say.
It's beautiful here.
We don't get hung up about sex. You get it?
We just be.
We let things happen.
We let go.
I think you're gonna love it.
Hurry up now, everybody. Come on.
- Dennis. - Hey, girl.
And who is this pretty thing?
- I'm Leslie. - Ah, welcome.
I'm not in this family, but..
...I dig this family.
Hi.
Beach Boys Dennis?
That's really Dennis Wilson?
- He's just Dennis to us. - Time for communion.
You've turned on before, right?
Millions of times.
Just, uh, wasn't expecting it right now.
[instrumental music]
I spent my life in jail for you.
So that you could ride your bicycles.
Have your birthday parties.
I never had a life. I don't even know what life is.
But you all had a life.
Your parents told you what to do and you did it.
And for payment, you got what?
You got little cookie cutter minds.
Look what happened to Sandy.
Spoiled Sandy.
Spoiled Sandy had to come to her new daddy
to find something real.
Take off your clothes for us, Sandy.
Do it.
Help her. Come on. Can't you see she needs help?
Tex.
Get up here.
Go on.
Now you look at how parents abuse their children.
If they loved her
why did they allow doctors to cut up her body like this?
And then they felt bad
and then they spoiled her.
And now Sandy can't let go of her ego.
It's not your fault, it's your parents' fault.
Would you say that to me?
It's my parents' fault.
And it's not your fault.
[sobs] It's not my fault.
Now turn around.
It's not your fault.
It's not my fault.
It's your parents' fault.
It's my parents' fault.
Now come and tell her that she looks beautiful.
- You look beautiful, Sandy. - You look beautiful.
- You're beautiful. - Perfect.
You look beautiful.
We love you so much.
You look so beautiful.
[indistinct song]
You are beautiful, Sandy.
[sobbing]
[laughing]
So he led Katie away
and I asked Squeaky if Katie was Charlie's old lady.
And Squeaky told me
"Nobody belongs to anybody here
"except Charlie.
We all belong to Charlie."
I thought that was pretty far out.
Then she says, "If you're lucky, he'll pick you next."
Every girl should have a daddy like Charlie.
Something for you to take a look at for next week.
The Bible is the only book Charlie let us have around.
Charlie says that authors are evil.
Trying to play mind tricks on the reader.
So do you feel like you'd be doing something bad
by studying with me?
Because if you are going to do these classes with me
you're going to have to read books.
I'm also gonna leave a copy of this.
Have any of you read it?
This book changed my life.
It looks like it could be interesting.
Can you believe Charles Manson wouldn't let them read?
It's been three years since they had any contact with him.
But all they do is talk about him
and spout his bullshit.
I want you to come talk to them.
You should do your poetry workshop.
No way.
There are real victims in this prison.
They're the ones I wanna help.
Maybe these women are victims too.
Would you be saying that if it was your sister?
Your pregnant sister who got stabbed 20 times.
It's Leslie's shower time
so it's your time in the yard, Pat.
And, Susan, I guess it's just gonna be you and me for a bit.
Perfect opportunity for a hand job.
Just teasing, Jimmy. I know you love your Alice!
Oh, there you go. Wow.
Those tomatoes are looking great.
We'll give you some when they are ripe.
♪ Time keeps on flyin'
♪ You think you're lovin' baby ♪
♪ But all you're doin' is tryin' ♪
♪ Can you feel?
♪ Are your feelings real?
♪ Look at your game girl ♪
Good morning.
Charlie's sending us on a garbage run to LA today.
You're coming with me.
He says you can split at the end of the day
and go on your way if you want to.
But I don't wanna go.
Charlie is the most beautiful person I've ever met.
- Does he want me to leave? - No.
I don't know.
Oh.
Don't go through a big change about it, okay?
Just get up and let's go. Come on.
[indistinct whispering]
Wake up, sleepy heads.
Come on.
Welcome to Spahn Ranch, ladies and gentlemen.
500 acres of gorgeous land with horses you can rent
and remains of the famous movie set.
Uh, who here likes the New Western?
Okay, well, guess what. "Bonanza," "The Lone Ranger.."
- How do you like our bus? - It's far out.
It's a joke on all the straights we pass on the road.
They think we're a movie crew.
Listen up, girls, I have a new rule.
No women will ever carry money. Not even pennies, you dig?
That's why I'm sending Paul with you.
You give your panhandling money to him.
You... you still here?
Alright, good. Well, give your money to Paul.
Come on.
Attagirl.
Don't stay out too late now, kids.
Bye.
♪ Garbage dump oh garbage dump
♪ Why are you called a garbage dump? ♪
♪ Oh garbage dump oh garbage dump ♪
♪ That sums it up in one big lump ♪
Look, they're not even opened.
Oh, no, no. We don't eat dead animals.
Charlie says it's like eating fear.
Hey, man. You guys can't be in there!
Don't be uptight, friend. We're not hurting anyone.
O... okay, but my manager won't...
"But my manager won't."
Oh, be nice to the square. He doesn't know any better.
Come join us. You're kind of cute.
Maybe you could just quit your job and run away with us.
[screams]
I'm... I'm serious.
Y... you guys can't be in there.
♪ Garbage dump oh garbage dump ♪
♪ Why are you called a garbage dump? ♪
♪ Oh garbage dump oh garbage dump ♪♪
[indistinct chatter]
- Oh, no. - Men first.
Thank you.
Mother Mary.
Now we can eat.
Does anybody know what time it is?
No.
I'm just messing with you.
[laughs]
You know what time it is, it's now.
Look, there's a reason I asked you to give up
your watches and your clocks and your calendars.
I know that was difficult, but where did it get us?
- You, do you feel more free? - Yes, Charlie.
And why is that, Katie?
- I'm living in the now. - Mm-hmm.
I don't need a soulless gadget to tell me how to live.
I don't wanna be like the plastic people.
Exactly.
That's what our parents and our schools taught us.
You live by these numbers. You play by these rules.
That time is over.
I'm here to make the new rules and the new rules are no rules.
Oh, yeah.
[instrumental music]
I think it's time for us to give you a name.
Now what is it those, uh, those people named you
the ones you occupied a house with and called a family?
- Les... - No, I don't wanna know.
You're gonna be Lulu.
Welcome, Lulu.
Welcome.
Yeah, what do we think of that, guys? Lulu.
- Yeah! There we go. - Lulu.
- Hi, Lulu.
- Lulu. - That's far out!
- Hi, little Lulu. - Hi, Lulu.
See, what we're trying to do here is
we're trying to break down inhibitions.
We're trying to live in our bodies every night.
Touch each other. Touch yourselves.
See?
It's not a foreign country. Your body's like a plant.
If you don't give it love, then... it will die.
A little birdie told me Tex here doesn't know how to give head.
To me, man, that's... that's a crime.
- Come on, Charlie. - Now don't get uptight, man.
I want my family to know each other in every way.
We got no secrets. We got no shame.
It's not your fault that no one taught you.
- You heard of Freud? - Yeah.
Well, looky here, man.
The dude was always talking about oral fixations.
I mean, we all got 'em.
Cat was right. You need to suck on something.
That's why you got a mouth. That's why women got titties.
You see kids? They're always sucking
on their thumbs or their fingers
or they're chewing on suckers or jawbreakers.
And people are always sticking pickles
or smokes and zuzus in their face, you dig?
Point is, Tex, if you're gonna suck on something
then you better be fucking good at it, man.
Gypsy, you get your fine ass up here now. Come on now.
Don't get uptight, man. Come on.
We got no secrets. We got no shame.
Now look.
Oh, alright. I see you.
[laughter]
You see this guy? This is the guy who needs attention.
- Yeah. - Mm-hmm.
But you gotta be slow, like you care.
Come on now.
[instrumental music]
Give it to her, Tex.
[moaning]
[cheering]
[moaning]
[crying]
It's okay.
Don't get uptight about Sandy, man.
She's having an ego death.
What we're trying to do here, man, is submit. Let go.
Get rid of materialistic culture of hang-ups. You dig?
We're all about love here.
Except sometimes, there has to be some death itself.
Changes, tears.
Weird trips.
That's how it is.
That's how it's always been.
[whistling]
Oh, that's cool. You're not into it. That's okay.
You don't have to do anything you don't wanna do here.
It's not, that's not what we're about.
Let's just go back.
No. I... I want to...
stay here with you right now.
What is it you don't like about your body?
Come on now, you hate something.
All women do. What is it, tits too small?
Huh?
Ass too big?
What is it for Lulu? No, don't you hide for me.
Tell me what it is that you hate.
My thighs, I guess.
- Too fat. - No.
You are perfect. You say it to me.
You say I am perfect.
I am perfect.
Hey, little girl.
Now listen to me.
If you wanna be free of all the bad experiences
and inhibitions that are crushing you
you have to imagine that you are making love to your daddy, okay?
That's what all the girls want and can never have.
[moaning]
Ladies, we have our own special cell for school now.
I'm not sure what you all did to make Miss Carlson
like you so much, but she gave the okay.
Thanks, Jimmy.
It's been a long time.
Ah, I'm sorry, ladies. I'm gonna have to break that up.
- It's not really allowed to.. - Okay.
Ta-da.
- Lovely. - Yeah.
Okay.
Let's talk about this one.
- Did you all read it? - It was horrible.
It was very depressing.
I felt really bad for the women in those situations.
A lot of women right here in this prison
are survivors of domestic violence.
They defended themselves
and this is where it landed them.
That is so sad.
That makes me really sad.
Are you friends with them? Do you help them?
Yes, and yes.
I'm working with a woman now who's trying
not to let her daughter be put into foster care.
She killed her abusive husband
she went to prison, and now her kid has no parents.
- What's her name? - How long is she in for?
How old is her kid?
I'm not really allowed to give details like that.
Well, what about you? Do you have kids?
Yes. I have four kids.
And what does your husband do?
As much as I'd love to talk about me
I am here to teach you
and I am not a subject that merits a college class.
I feel so lucky.
We'll have to decorate. Make things for it.
- It's like being home again. - Yeah.
The family BC.
- BC? - Before the crimes.
When everything was about love.
Yeah. Like when Mary gave birth to Pooh Bear.
And we all witnessed the miracle.
[groaning]
- You can do it. - Yeah. You got this, mama.
- One, two, three, push! - One, two, three, push!
[groaning]
- Charlie's here. - It's alright, baby.
It's alright. It's alright. Nice and easy.
Paul, why don't you play some music?
We want this motherfucker to come out dancing, right?
You just push, honey. You take it easy.
Go with the motion.
Go with the motion, Mary.
Somebody get me a razor blade and sterilize it for me, please?
[groaning]
Come on, darling. Come on, darling.
You can take it nice and easy now.
You take it nice and easy now, alright?
Just go with the motion, darling.
You're gonna go with the motion. Alright.
Great, I'm gonna make a little cut now.
- Charlie! - One, two, three.
Oh, no, you're gonna give it to me right now.
Give it to me now. Oh, there we go. There we go.
That's it, come on, one more, one more time!
One more time! One more time! One more time now.
[grunting]
Come on, darling! Here we go, here we go!
Come on! Come on! Come on!
Come on now. You give me that squeeze!
- Push! - Come on! Come on! Come on!
Push!
That's alright. That is coming!
Oh, yeah. Oh, we got it!
We got it! Oh!
Dig this. The little motherfucker, man, he's out!
Woo! Yee-haw!
Alright, we got a baby! We got a baby!
Dig this little dude, Mary.
Take this little one.
Alright now, alright.
- Yeah, you did so good, mama. - Yeah.
- There you go. - So beautiful.
Alright, darling.
[panting]
Dig this little dude.
[indistinct song on radio]
"And the fifth angel sounded
"and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the Earth.
"And to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
And he opened the bottomless pit..."
Do you know about the bottomless pit?
We're gonna find it. Well, I'm gonna find it
and we're gonna live in it.
The question is your answer. Keep reading.
That's Charlie.
Hey, Charlie. Hey, listen, this is Kay.
Well, how do you do?
Welcome, ma'am.
Oh, I see.
You make a man ashamed to show his pecker.
That's what Eve did.
Look where that got us.
Do I make you uncomfortable, little girl?
No.
You're just rude.
Is that what daddy taught you, to be polite?
No. No, my daddy taught me
not to take shit from men like you.
That's what he taught me. - Keep reading.
- Charlie, I... - Go home to daddy, little girl.
You don't belong here.
Shoo.
I'm sorry, Charlie.
"And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the Earth."
Get her out of here so I don't have to look at her piggie face.
You see that, Lulu.
Not every stupid hippie girl can waltz onto my land
and get a free dinner.
I need to see something in your eyes.
Keep reading.
"And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the Earth."
The Beatles.
"And unto them was given power.."
Me.
"...as the scorpions of the Earth have power."
Me.
"And it was commanded them
"that they should not hurt the grass of the Earth
neither any green thing.."
[instrumental music]
[laughter]
I have wings and I can fly now.
[laughing]
Charlie says there's gonna be a revolution
and we're gonna wait it out in the bottomless pit.
Like it says in Revelations.
And that there will be babies that are homeless
and they need saving from all the killings.
And then we'll stay underground and make music
and make love until the violence is over.
And then... and then when it comes time for us
to rise to the surface again, some of us
will begin to feel budding wings on our backs.
- Wings? - Yes.
Some of us want to become winged elves.
Me and Sandy, Squeaky.
Charlie says it would happen.
Karlene thinks we're crazy.
No. I would never use that word.
I'm just surprised to hear some of this stuff.
You've to admit it's pretty far out.
You must know that elves
are mythical creatures
and therefore human beings can't turn into elves
or sprout wings?
Well, hey, man, it's no more far out than heaven and hell.
- Yeah. Charlie says that... - Yeah, but what do you think?
Pat, do you still think it's possible
that you will become a winged elf?
Well, I guess not now. Not... not when we're in here.
You won't become a winged elf
whether you're in here or out in the world.
Karlene, tell us about your kids.
Pretty please?
What are their names? How old are they?
We spend too much time talking about us in here.
They are 15, 14, 11 and 7.
You have a 7-year-old?
He must miss you so much.
- I see him every weekend. - I didn't mean it like that.
I took my family all around the world.
To Germany, to France, to Ethiopia.
We've been through a lot together
and they are always surprising me.
Mom, I have a new family now.
Leslie, what are you talking about?
[sobbing] We're your parents.
Mom, please stop crying.
Listen to me. I need you to stop loving me.
You're never gonna see me again.
♪ Your home is where you're happy ♪
♪ It's not where your.. ♪
We were all way into our trips
and hanging out inside the bus
when Charlie just decides he has to go.
He starts running down the road
we all start begging him to come back to us.
"Charlie! Charlie!"
It was really scary.
We can all laugh about it now.
Right at that moment, I was probably sitting
in my secretarial school
freaking out but not even knowing it.
We don't talk about our pasts.
We don't have pasts.
Our lives started when we met Charlie.
But Charlie talks about his time in prison...
How dare you question Charlie?
You need to talk less and listen more.
[music on car stereo]
- Dennis! - Dennis!
Hi.
Hey.
Hey, beautiful. Did you miss me?
No, we've been busy.
Lots going on here. Charlie wants...
Oh, Charlie, Charlie, Charlie.
Let's talk about what Greg wants.
What does Greg want?
Stand up girls, let's give the guys what they want.
You're all beautiful
but right now, I just wanna get high and play music, man.
Come on then, the girls are always here.
Let's go play.
[guitar music]
I came to tell you something, Charlie.
I talked the band into recording your song
"Cease To Exist."
- Everyone likes it, man. - That's far out.
Yeah. I can't promise more than that though.
We'll just see how it works out.
♪ Pretty girl
♪ Pretty pretty girl
♪ I'll cease to exist
♪ I'll be a rock star ♪
Alright, man.
Hey, Charlie. This is Linda.
Well, hey there.
Looky, looky here.
Where's that baby's daddy?
We split. He went sailing around the world or something.
Take that baby to be with the other little kiddies here.
Tex tells me that you have a car?
Alright. I think we can keep her.
Let me show you around.
Don't worry. Ruth Ann is great with the kids.
And just think, if you're loyal to Charlie
she will always be taken care of.
Here everything belongs to everyone.
Gypsy tells me you had a far-out session making it with Tex.
Yeah.
When we came, my... my fists were clenched
and my sides and arms were paralyzed.
That's your ego dying.
Is that bad? To have your ego dying?
No. That's what Charlie's trying to help us do.
Kill our egos. Be one consciousness.
- Love you, sweetheart. - Come on. Let's go.
What... what happened? Is your mom okay?
Oh, she's fine.
Oh.
[sobbing]
I just can't stand it.
She might think I ended up in here
because of something they did or the way that they raised me.
No one has visited her the whole three years.
I told my mother to stop loving me..
...and she would never see me again.
She kept loving me, anyway.
[instrumental music]
[indistinct chatter]
Now listen up. I want everyone to show my good friend Phil here
a lot of love tonight.
He's my jailhouse brother.
We were at San Quentin together.
So Katie, Lulu, why don't you come
and make the man feel welcome?
♪ I feel much better on the other ♪
♪ Side ♪
Shit. Well, look at that.
You know, we all thought he was fucking crazy in prison.
Talked a lot of nonsense, but..
...maybe I should have listened.
Now my good friend Dennis here
has an announcement to make.
Uh, yeah, Charlie's song
"Cease To Exist" is on the record.
[gasping]
[cheering]
Now all you need to do is get your friend Terry Melcher
to come up here and listen to me play
and I know he'll wanna sign us.
I'll do my best to get him out here, man.
Now that's right.
[screaming]
[cheering]
Alright, man. Thanks.
Now, Katie, get everyone together.
Tell them just stop what they're doing right now and come here.
- Okay. - Soon. Now.
Terry Melcher is coming to hear me play.
So we need to be ready. I mean, we need to be more than ready.
Terry Melcher.
Terry Melcher!
Come on.
Dennis' producer, the guy who can give me
a record deal, goddamn it.
Yeah.
When Terry hears me play, he's gonna lose his mind
which means the world gets to hear my music.
And then all the lost young loves during the mayhem
and the killing will hear my music
and they will know that they have a home.
So, guys, make this place look spotless.
Get rid of all the stuff that stinks.
And, girls, you bake some cookies.
Go to the grocery store.
I don't want no garbage run food for Terry.
And I want a deer skin shirt and pants held together by laces.
I want him to see my commitment to going back to the land.
But don't they have to kill the deer for that?
Lulu has a question. Would you like to repeat that, Lulu?
Don't they kill the deer...
What we have here..
[laughing]
...what we have here is a contradiction.
Lulu thinks she sees a contradiction
and her tiny female brain is gonna have a freak out.
If you think I'm going against my own words
then maybe you just aren't evolved enough yet
to understand what's going on.
Old JC said a lot of things his followers didn't understand
and they stuck around.
No sense makes sense. You dig?
[indistinct chatter]
♪ You think you're lovin' baby ♪
♪ But all you're doin' is tryin' ♪
♪ Can you feel?
♪ Are those feelings real?
♪ Look at your game girl
Chorus.
♪ Say l.. ♪ Ooh...
No, no, no.
Again, again, again, again, again.
Until we get it right on the night.
Again. We need to do it again.
This is Terry Melcher. Again.
- Again. - Again.
- Chorus.
♪ What a mad delusion ♪ Ooh
♪ Livin' in that confusion ♪ Ooh
♪ Frustration and doubt ♪ Ooh
♪ Can you ever live without the game? ♪♪
We don't have enough of a spectacle.
Again.
Sounds good, Charlie.
I didn't ask for your opinion.
I asked for your titties and your shapes.
I know it sounds good.
Chorus!
♪ What a mad delusion ♪ Ooh
♪ Livin' in that confusion ♪ Ooh
♪ Frustration and doubt ♪ Ooh
♪ Can you ever live without the game? ♪♪
Well, hey there, partner.
Hey, man. How you doing?
We got some special zuzus and food for ya
and of course, we got the girls.
Thank you, Charlie. I don't have a lot of time.
We'll just get down to the music, huh?
- Play me something. - Alright.
Look, you gotta be all business, then yo, we'll be all business.
I guess the music's really the love, anyway, right?
Yeah, man.
Alright. Here we go.
[guitar music]
Thank you for coming, Mr. Melcher.
Appreciate your time.
Alright.
♪ Here's a time for livin'
♪ Time keeps on flyin'
♪ You think you're lovin' baby
♪ When all you're doin' is tryin' ♪
♪ Can you feel?
♪ Are your feelings real?
♪ Look at your game girl
♪ What a mad delusion ♪ Ooh
♪ Livin' in that confusion ♪ Ooh
♪ Frustration and doubt ♪ Ooh
♪ Can you ever live without the game? ♪
♪ The sad sad game
♪ My game
♪ Just to say you love's not enough ♪
♪ Anything can be true
♪ Oh you can tell those lies baby ♪
♪ But there ain't no foolin' you ♪
♪ Can you feel?
♪ Are those feelings real?
♪ Look at your game girl
♪ Ay ay ay
♪ The sad game
♪ My game
♪ Ay ay ay ♪
[applause]
Alright now.
So what do you think of our place, man?
I mean, we dig it here, you know.
We learn it's possible to live without restrictions.
I mean, dig it, we live on other people's garbage
and we live well, you know...
Hey, Charlie, man, let's take a walk.
Talk about the music.
Alright, man.
You know, I mean, look, we get off into these trees..
...we go walking.
Gotta take the horses out, you know.
Yeah, so, uh..
That was perfect. So beautiful.
You girls made me cry. Your voices were so sweet.
It's all happening.
[indistinct chatter]
That music you were playing..
Finally, the world gets to hear Charlie's music.
More popular than Jesus.
That suit looks outasight.
He looks like a rock star already.
Well, man, what did he say?
He looked like he was really digging it.
Is he gonna sign you like he should?
I mean, he gave me money.
How much is it?
I couldn't sign a contract on the spot.
That's just not how Charlie Manson operates.
My word is my bond. I don't need no written contract.
What about that money?
Well, it's just hay money.
I'm sure he wanted the horses to eat well.
[laughing]
You know, let's eat some of the cookies
those motherfuckers didn't want.
[laughing]
[guitar music]
Who made this salad dressing?
I did.
Well, smells a bit like piss.
Well, that's 'cause I pissed in yours.
Don't play that shit with me, woman!
[grunts]
Look at me! Look at me!
[groans]
I will not listen to that kind of talk.
You take that shit down the road. You dig what I'm saying?
Look at me. Look at me.
Look at me in the eye. Look me in the eye.
[groans]
What? You wanna fucking hit me?
Fuck you!
Get the fuck out of here.
- You wanna fucking hit me? - Ah, no!
Huh?
I will break your fucking wrist.
I will break your fucking fingers!
What? What? Stop fighting!
Stop fighting me.
You stop fucking..
Stop fighting me. Whoa.
Whoa. Whoa.
[moaning]
Quit fighting me.
Get up.
Now you go back in the kitchen and go, go about your business.
You can go ahead and eat, Sandy.
Hey, are you okay?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I feel good.
Listen.
Getting hit by the man you love is no different
than making love to him.
Charlie just gives me what I need.
I brought you gifts.
[laughs]
[sniffs]
I love the way new books smell.
[laughs]
Thank you so much.
We have a Christmas present for you.
Did you bring it, Katie?
Sadie did this. The sun.
And that's a butterfly. Lulu did it.
It's just like the one we made for Charlie.
Ready, baby girl?
I got this.
[instrumental music]
You see that? She trusts me. She's not afraid.
You'd die for me, wouldn't you, girl?
Of course, Charlie.
You, uh, got a knife for me?
♪ You're gonna wake up one morning ♪
♪ As the sun meets the dawn
Girls, these Straight Satan Gods
I think we need them.
Tex tells me he got into a little complication
with a black man.
It might come back on us.
So I want you to make them feel welcome.
Give them your gift. Show them a good time.
Charlie doesn't like us to do speed.
Charlie can't see us right now.
♪ When you never need me
♪ You're gonna wake up wondering ♪
♪ Why'd you sleep all alone
♪ No one's gonna stop you baby ♪
♪ I'm not coming home I'm not coming home ♪♪
- Where you headed? - Anywhere but here.
This album is a musical roadmap to our future.
Now when he talks about the piggies
he's talking about the rich and the powerful
needin' a damn good whacking. The "Blackbird."
It's the black man's time to rise.
And "Revolution 1," it's a call to arms. It's time.
"Revolution 9," it's the soundtrack to the war.
It's guns. Screaming.
Does that make you feel afraid?
No. It's like you always said it would be.
You're damn straight it's like I always said it would be.
You should feel proud. You should all feel proud.
And why should you all feel proud? Lulu, why?
Because we're already living like revolutionaries.
Yes! Now dig this.
In Revelations, in the Bible
it talks about the locusts coming to Earth.
Now that's the Beatles.
And he talks about the locusts having scales
like iron breastplates.
That's the Beatles' guitars. And dig this.
He talks about five angels coming to Earth.
Now this five angels, four of them are the Beatles
the other one is me.
And the other one is me because I am given the key
to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
And where is the bottomless pit?
The one you told us about in Death Valley?
- The one we're going to find. - Yes!
So "Helter Skelter" is the thing, man.
It's what the black man's gonna do
to start the race war.
But just like the Bible says
I will lead my family to the bottomless pit
and we will live out the war underground
and we will expand to 144,000
and then we will come back like the 12 tribes of Israel.
And when we come back, the black man will not know
how to act or how to be
or how to govern or what to do.
And so, we cannot leave!
We cannot leave because you're white people
and you will be murdered.
You will be made into black slaves.
And Tex, Tex!
Tex is gonna be sorry that he ever left our tribe.
- Thanks for coming out here. - That's okay.
Hey, look, my wife just wants to know
all about these crazy Manson girls.
Yeah.
I get asked about them a lot too.
Yeah.
Um, okay, now you were all just kids
when the Watts Riots happened, but it's a perfect example.
Here you have black Americans
oppressed for generations, at the end of their rope.
You know, things got out of hand back then
but the message was sent.
Yeah, Charlie said that Watts was the beginning.
I really think that a race war would have started
if they hadn't put us in here.
The black man is rising up and his time is coming.
Do you think it's still coming?
Um..
Well, Bobby Seale was bound and gagged in a courtroom
but last year they let him go, so..
We don't know who that is.
Black Panthers?
Y'all don't get any news in here at all?
Oh, yes. We know the Black Panthers.
Charlie said that black people wouldn't be able
to lead themselves after the revolution
that they would need his help.
Yeah, I heard that he said that.
It's okay, he said you wouldn't understand now
but that you would thank him later.
But..
You don't think that's true?
I find that to be a deeply racist idea.
That black people would need a white man
to tell them what to think.
When black people take their power back
there's no chance in hell that...
Charlie said...
Let's listen to what Bill has to say.
There's no chance in hell that we would turn
to a white person for leadership.
And black people were brought here as slaves in 1619.
And even after slavery
and the eventual abolishment of slavery
we are still getting crushed by racism.
We don't trust the white men
and we certainly don't need one to lead us.
You hear me?
[no audio]
The trouble with blackie is
he wants to fuck all the white women
turn all the white babies brown.
We can't have that. That's what makes whitey mad.
Well, we're gonna help blackie out.
We're gonna start a race war called Helter Skelter.
And we start this war by killing some white people
and making it look like the black man's work.
Blackie's been waiting for this. Blackie is waiting.
And then the piggy cops will come down on blackie
when they find the rich dead piggies.
Then the revolution will begin.
You understand me?
Helter Skelter is upon us.
[sobbing]
Lulu, what's wrong?
Did you ever start to think that maybe Helter Skelter
isn't coming down at all?
That Charlie was wrong?
No. No.
Don't let this place get to you.
It would be happening right now if we weren't in here.
Please don't give up now.
- Okay. - Please, I need you.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you.
Lulu, this knife might be the only thing
between you and blackie slitting your throat.
Thrust and jab like you mean it.
Thrust. Jab. Lift.
Stab the chair.
Good, Mary.
I know everyone thinks we're these scary creatures
who committed these horrible crimes
but we were just engaging in the dance of life and death.
Charlie says there is no death.
So you're saying it's okay to take someone's life?
Leslie, Susan, is that what you think?
No.
I'm saying that I'm starting to think
that the devil took a hold of me so I could find my way to God.
So Charlie is the devil?
No, Charlie is Charlie and the devil is the devil.
So you all still believe
that thing he was talking about
Helter Skelter?
[sighs]
The other night, I started to doubt it and I got shaky.
You felt doubt. What made you feel that doubt?
That was just for a minute, right, Lulu?
She doesn't doubt anymore.
[clears throat] Sorry to interrupt your studies, ladies.
I am afraid I have bad news.
The decision has come down and you will remain here in SSU
for the duration of your sentences.
Fucking motherfuckers!
They can't fucking do this shit to us!
We're fucking human beings!
You are considered an escape risk
and too well known.
No!
I'm never gonna see Charlie again.
[sighs]
We don't know what's gonna happen.
There's always parole. You could get out.
No, you. You could get out.
They'll never let me out of here.
It's my fault you're in here.
Charlie said make sure everyone does something that night
and I made sure you did.
You must hate me.
I could never hate you.
Good afternoon, ladies.
Special treat for you today.
No school.
Just a mini concert.
Ladies, I brought Robin to play for you..
Ladies, why would you do this?
Charlie spoke to us last night. He told us to.
He told us to protest.
Jesus fucking Christ.
How the hell did they get razors?
The guards love them.
They have all kinds of things in their cells.
Are you okay?
It's just as long as they're stuck alone together
in that unit just repeating their brainwashing back to each other..
I mean, they're never gonna see the real world again
so what is it we can really do for them?
I just wanna remind them
if I can..
...of who they were before they ever met Charles Manson.
I just wanna give them back themselves.
[instrumental music]
Let's go take a walk.
Where's Charlie?
He went somewhere with Paul.
Seems like he's been gone forever.
- You like living here? - Yeah. You should join us.
- Nah, I need my freedom. - Freedom?
That's all we have here.
I like you.
You should come away on adventures with me.
I have a lot of responsibilities here.
We're preparing for a war.
Well, if we're all gonna die
we better get to making love, huh?
Well, I don't know about that.
Come on.
You might be my last chance, baby.
[chuckles]
Hey. Who the fuck are you?
Sorry, man. I came..
I came with Danny and them guys.
- I thought you... - Get the fuck out of here.
And don't you come back unless you're invited
which you wont be.
Get up. Get out.
You want me to help get your dick in your pants?
Get the fuck out of my barn!
You guys got a weird scene going on up here, man.
You ask me first!
You don't just whore around.
That is it.
No more hippie kids looking for a free ride and a quick lay.
Nobody has any visitors unless it goes through me.
We need to stay focused on our scene.
No more outsiders.
[whistles]
I'm gonna go on an adventure.
You can come.
Bring Lulu.
Bring that Linda girl. We'll use her car.
We get in the rich people's houses
and we get in their heads, you dig?
You just, you get in and get out. Don't be afraid.
Mess things up a bit, but don't break anything.
Alright, take a wallet here and there
but mostly just let them know that they're not safe.
But what if they wake up?
Don't allow them to. Use your training, man. Be invisible.
[instrumental music]
He'll wake up and say, "Honey, where did I put my wallet?"
And he'll say, "Why did you put the portraits upside down?"
[laughing]
What's in the wallet?
Uh, uh, sixty bucks and three credit cards.
Well, that's nothing. Next time we tie some piggies up
and we scare them to death.
[instrumental music]
Lulu, I think you should leave here.
I came to help you do that.
It looks like you're being made to stay here against your will.
I can take you right now.
You can drop that broom, get on my bike and we'll be gone.
Nobody will stop us.
No.
I'm staying here.
I want to be here. I-I mean..
Thank... thank you.
Are you sure about this?
I ain't expecting nothing from you.
I mean, we... we ain't gotta ball
just 'cause I get you out of here.
You just look like you need rescuing, that's all.
I'm sure.
[instrumental music]
Let's go.
You wanna leave me?
Jump.
That's my Lulu.
I knew you weren't going anywhere.
Hi.
How are you?
I've realized
if I succeed in making them really accept what they did..
...then they will have to live with that horror.
Isn't that what prison's for?
Atonement?
Taking responsibility for one's actions?
They will have to live with that horror every day
for the rest of their lives.
I'm opening the door to that torment.
To the place where their punishment truly begins.
- I like the 9-11. - Yeah, me too.
I like the little guy though.
That's, uh, that's personal.
Personal?
[dramatic music]
I mean, it was just like you said it'd be out there.
Plastic people everywhere.
But I belong here with you.
Well, then get ready to fight.
Now we put the piggy in the chair.
- Who's the piggy? - Who's the piggy?
- Kill the piggy. - Kill the piggy!
Now imagine we just yanked this piggy out of his car.
I want you to look at him and I want you to stare at him
and I want you to scare him to death!
Now we could tie him up and we could scare the piggy
into willing us all of his money.
We could kill his family in front of him
but I need you to give this gift to me.
Are you willing to die for me, Tex?
Are you willing to let me kill you?
Yeah, Charlie.
Charlie, you can kill me.
You can kill me. I'm ready.
I'm ready.
We put the piggy in the chair.
You can kill me, Charlie.
- I can kill you. - You can kill me.
- We can kill you. - You can kill me.
- We can kill you. - You can kill me!
- We can kill you! - You can kill me!
Tex Watson's gone.
He doesn't exist anymore.
Now there's just this.
A body named Tex
that carries around a little piece of Charlie.
A little piece of the infinite.
It's Charlie Manson, baby.
Yeah, for Terry.
Yeah, well, I can call back, but..
Yeah, man, I dig. That's cool. I can call back.
That's no problem. Alright.
You think I don't know you're there, Terry?
You think I don't know you're there?
I'll burn your fucking eyes out
with this fucking cigarette.
You fucking weasel fuck.
[dramatic music]
[indistinct music]
[indistinct chatter]
[knocks]
Oh.
Hello. Welcome. Do I know you?
Uh, no, no, I'm just looking for Terry.
Terry Melcher. I've been to a few parties here.
- Hey, have I met you before? - No.
Well, um..
...Terry moved to Malibu, so he's not here.
But are you a friend of Terry's?
- Please come in if you want. - No, no, thank you.
Okay. Goodnight.
Goodnight.
[humming]
- Thank you. - Well, of course.
...world-famous director Roman Polanski.
Beautiful Sharon Tate had no way of knowing
the horrific tragedy that would soon befall her.
I can feel very alone at a party
on the set or in general
if I'm not in harmony with the things around me.
I'm very sensitive to ugly situations.
I'm quick to read people
and I pick up if someone's reacting to me
as just a sexy blond.
Times like those, I freeze.
Lord Jesus..
Who would you like to be in your next life?
I open up the door to my heart.
Please come in and forgive my sins.
[sniffing]
No!
Dig.
The time is now, man. Helter Skelter.
You go into Terry Melcher's old house
and you make it look like blackie's work.
Couple of weeks ago, me and Mary went on an acid run
in Hollywood, you know.
Even though they gave us this, this really special stuff
called Orange Sunshine.
And when we got outside
we were convinced that we were invisible.
Yeah. So we hitched a ride over the Canyon, right
and the driver, all of a sudden, he just jerks around
and he starts screaming at us, you know, like
"Who are you? What the fuck are you doing to my car?"
[scoffs] So we realized
that we actually were invisible
and what Charlie said was true.
Once you burn every thought out of your head..
...there's nothing left for anyone else to see.
So we were staring into the setting sun..
...and..
...it felt like we were looking right at God.
And I realized..
...I realized that the closer the sun got to setting
the closer I knew the end of the world was.
What Charlie said was true.
The apocalypse is at hand and the present world is dying.
From then on, I haven't had a trace of doubt in my mind.
It's coming down and it's coming down fast.
[dramatic music]
[sobbing]
Please.
Please, just take me with you.
Please just let me live to have my baby.
[sobbing]
Please.
Kill her.
[sobbing]
No, no, no.
Adorned with bright, shiny things
I see that as something totally pure and beautiful.
And what do you make of some of the dark subjects
in your husband's films?
Everything that's realistic
has some sort of ugliness in it.
Even a flower is ugly when it wilts..
Sadie, can you, please, turn it down?
The ocean when it becomes violent.
Was informative
interesting
but so graphic.
I saw Lulu blushing when she was reading it.
I wasn't.
Karlene, don't take this the wrong way
but are you a lesbian?
This seems kind of like a lesbian book.
No, I'm not, Susan.
Oh. I'm sorry.
And glad.
It's against the Lord's way and I would worry for you.
Well, we will have to agree to disagree there.
You can tell us if you are.
I won't pass judgment on you.
It's just that you dress that way
and you never talk about your husband, so..
My husband and I split up a year ago.
I don't like... talking about him much.
He's not a good man.
I never saw you as someone
who would be with a bad man.
There are a lot of things about all of you
that I would never guess from looking at you.
Like, did you really believe
that you were going to find an underground cave
and live that way during the revolution?
So much of what you've told me doesn't make logical sense.
How would you survive in a cave?
We wanted to believe something big was gonna happen.
I mean..
Do you remember in 1969..
...it really felt like there was gonna be
a huge cosmic shift
and things were never gonna be the same?
Like there was gonna be some big thing
that was gonna change everything?
Come on, Karlene..
...you were there.
Didn't it feel that way to you?
Yeah, it did.
It felt that way to most people I know.
But it didn't make them kill strangers.
But we had to.
It was for..
For what?
What was it for?
My hand hurts.
The... the knife didn't have a proper handle
and it just kept hitting the bone.
So it's all going down like Charlie said?
Yeah..
It's pretty heavy.
But... but it's like Charlie said.
"If you love everything
then you don't have to think about things." Right?
- Right on. - Okay.
- What was it like? - The people were very young.
It didn't seem right.
But it was the right thing to do.
[sniffles]
Charlie asked me to do it and I did it.
No ego. No trip.
Charlie taught us that death and life are the same thing
so there's nothing to be afraid of.
You can't be afraid if you don't exist.
Yeah.
[sighs]
Honey, can you rub my feet
just for a minute?
It's always just for a minute.
[telephone ringing]
That will be Cory letting us know she got in okay.
Get up.
Stand over here. Last night was too messy.
Tonight we're gonna go out and we're gonna get it right.
Uh-huh?
I wanna go.
You come along then.
[dramatic music]
Well..
...there's two people in there.
I got them ready for ya.
They're calm. Don't freak them out.
Do something witchy.
And find your own way home.
What are you gonna do?
You're gonna kill us, aren't you?
Did he say to kill them? - You're gonna kill us.
Please, don't do this.
Where's my wife?
I have a chest full of money at the store.
Please. No! No! No! No! No!
No! Come on. Rosemary! Rosemary!
No! No! I got money!
I got money! I got money! I got money!
[muffled screaming]
What are you doing?
Go take care of her.
Go!
[muffled groaning]
Get away from me!
[crying]
Get away! Get away!
[grunting]
Somebody help us!
Somebody help!
[crying] No! No! No! No!
No!
Get away!
Tex!
No! No!
Tex!
[screaming]
[groaning]
Come on now, Lulu.
Charlie says everyone has to do something.
[screaming]
[panting]
[screaming]
It was all for nothing.
We did those horrible things for nothing.
Lulu, we did what we had to do.
Call me Leslie now, please.
My name is Leslie.
We didn't have to do any of it.
But we did.
And why?
Do you know why, Katie?
Sadie?
Why did we do those things?
Jimmy?
Jimmy, can I get out, please?
[sobbing]
[instrumental music]
[bikes revving]
[instrumental music]
♪ Peace of mind
♪ To find is not easy
♪ When the one you love
♪ You don't trust
♪ When I picture the image
♪ Of someone else beside her
♪ I see a reflection of violence ♪
♪ And emotion of life that is used ♪
♪ Oh oh oh oh oh
♪ I see a reflection of violence ♪
♪ And emotion of life that is used ♪
♪ You will see
♪ That the mind cannot furnish ♪
♪ Things that you want were gone ♪
♪ What can I see
♪ When the one thing
♪ That you had had passed
♪ Is not pretty
♪ You want to love so hard
♪ But you bleed through every time ♪
♪ Oh oh oh oh oh
♪ You want to love so hard
♪ But you bleed through every time ♪♪
[instrumental music]
♪ Frankincense and eucalyptus
♪ Bring me into my mother's kitchen ♪
♪ With rosaries and crystal beads ♪
♪ Her pink heart bleeds out
♪ Green money that she'll give to me ♪
♪ And I remember the day that I felt she was afraid ♪
♪ Of me dying
♪ And I remember the day that I felt she was afraid ♪
♪ Of me living too
♪ Rosemary cotton dry linen
♪ My mother's body is the only one ♪
♪ That I've ever lived in
♪ And I remember the day that I felt she was afraid ♪
♪ Of me dying
♪ And I remember the day that I felt she was afraid ♪
♪ Of me living too
♪ Coffee toast jam with butter ♪
♪ I hear every word she utters ♪
♪ And I can't wait
♪ To taste
♪ And I remember the day that I felt she was afraid ♪
♪ Of me dying
♪ And I remember the day that I felt she was afraid ♪
♪ Of me living too ♪