1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about 2 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 1: Serge Gainsburg are insane. They involve illicit romance, scandalous pop 3 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 1: songs condemned by the Vatican, and shocking liaisons too forbidden. 4 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: The last he carried out a whirlwind affair with Bridge 5 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: of Bardoux at a time when she was not only 6 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: the premier sex symbol in the world but married to 7 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: a powerful millionaire. Her love inspired him toward a creative breakthrough, 8 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: just as their fling barreled toward a doomed ending, an 9 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: ending that resulted in a cease and desist letter, in 10 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: the physical destruction of great music. Unlike that music I 11 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: played for you at the top of the show. That 12 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: wasn't great music. That was a preset loop for my 13 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 1: melotron called Jazz Hands Confidential MK. One. I played you 14 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 1: that clip because I can't afford the rights to Hello 15 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: Goodbye by the Beatles. Now, why would I play you 16 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: that specific slice of Yes No High, Low Stop Go Cheese? 17 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 1: Could I afford it? Because that was the number one 18 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: song in America on January second, nineteen sixty eight, And 19 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: that was the day that Serge Gainsburg and Bridget Bardeaux 20 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: released the album Bonnie and Clyde, a starcross collaboration so 21 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: powerful that it stopped them from ever again making music together. 22 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: On this episode, Illicit Romance, Scandalous Songs, Shocking Liaisons, Bonnie 23 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: and Clyde, Bridget Bardou and Serge Gainsburg, I'm Jake Brennan 24 00:01:51,200 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: and this is Disgraceland West, Dallas, Texas, nineteen thirty two. 25 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 1: Twenty one year old Bonnie Parker was glad to be 26 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: out of jail, but not thrilled to be home. She 27 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: wanted to be with Clyde, out on the road, living 28 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: by the gun, living fast. But Bonnie wasn't so fast, 29 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: not like Clyde and the others. She had strengths, like 30 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 1: her loyalty, but outrunning a posse was not one of them, 31 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: which was how she wound up separated from the gang. 32 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 1: In the first place. They were hauling ass through an 33 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: unforgiving swamp, law men hot on their trail, gunshots echoing 34 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: in the near distance. Bonnie knew she was too slow. 35 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,799 Speaker 1: At this rate, they'd all get caught. Even Clyde was 36 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: later than she was, limping like he did on account 37 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: of the two toes he purposefully cut off his left foot. 38 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: That was a prison hack, figuratively and literally, in a 39 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: bloody painful one at that not as painful as the 40 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: rape that he endured day in and day out for 41 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: an entire year at the hands of another inmate, A 42 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: year of sexual torture and degradation that Clyde eventually ended 43 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: with a lead pipe split that raypie fucker's head right 44 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: in two, and then he split off his own toes 45 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: with an axe blade. That little stunt got him off 46 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: work detail and eventually got him paroled. These days, it 47 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: went without saying Clyde Barrow was not going back to prison, 48 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: so Bonnie stayed behind. She let the pose capture her 49 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: and drag her to the town single jail cell, and 50 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: then she told the judge that Clyde's gang had kidnapped 51 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: her and forced her to go along as they unsuccessfully 52 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: tried to knock over a hardware store. Of course, it 53 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: was bullshit. Bonnie Parker was no damsel in distress. She 54 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: was as complicit as the rest of them. But she 55 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: told the lie to avoid hard time. And she told 56 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: another lie, this one to her mother, that she was 57 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: done with Clyde Barrow for good. Which suited her mother 58 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: just fine, because Clyde Barrow wasn't welcome here. Clyde was 59 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: a degenerate and outlaw, a man who robbed banks and 60 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: corner stores, a man who stole cars and took lawman hostage, 61 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: all while the decent people of America sank into a 62 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: great depression and struggled to make ends meet. Bonnie didn't 63 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,479 Speaker 1: tell her mother that Clyde was coming back for her. 64 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: Clyde was the best man she knew. He made her 65 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: feel wanted. He listened to her, and she listened too, 66 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: about how Clyde, a high school dropout, was never going 67 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: to make a decent wage at an honest job and 68 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 1: never wear the clothes other people wore, or drive their cars, 69 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 1: not legally, that is, Clyde was a have not I 70 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: never will. And the two lovers bonded in their mutual frustration, 71 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: and then they did something about it together. But tonight 72 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: Bonnie and Clyde were not together, not yet at least. 73 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,159 Speaker 1: Clyde Barrow was behind the wheel of a stone Ford 74 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: V eight rolling through a stringtown, Oklahoma, a one horse 75 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: town perhaps, but still he knew it was a bad 76 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 1: idea to stop Clyde's reputation preceded him, So did the 77 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: murder of a jewelry shop owner some four hours south 78 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 1: in Hillsboro, Texas. That man didn't have to die. He 79 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: put his own fate in motion, though the moment that 80 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: he reached for the gun he kept next to his cash, 81 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: one of Clyde's guys beat him to it. Bang dead. 82 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: Made no difference that Clyde didn't pull the trigger. He 83 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 1: was the face of the gang, a gang that had 84 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:58,239 Speaker 1: finally crossed the line from stick up men to cold 85 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: blooded killers. One of those guys, Raymond, wanted a party. 86 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:09,039 Speaker 1: String Town's open pavilion shone bright in the darkness. A 87 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: guitar and fiddle played hillbilly music while the locals danced 88 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 1: and passed around flasks of bootleg whiskey. In a swankie 89 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: stolen suit, Raymond stuck out like a sore thumb did 90 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 1: over Clyde, idling in his fancy va. It was time 91 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: to move on before they pressed their luck a little 92 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 1: too far. Clyde called Raymond back. Raymond didn't return alone. 93 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: The county sheriff was here now, leaning inside the ford's 94 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: open window. He'd made Clyde by sight, or on a hunch, 95 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: perhaps he spied the gun in the back seat. Either way, 96 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: the sheriff played it cool. He politely informed Clyde that 97 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: they were all under arrest. Clyde thought of that dead 98 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:55,720 Speaker 1: shop owner in Hillsboro, prison work, detail, the abuse, the humiliation, 99 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: and then he thought about Bonnie. How he would do 100 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: anything I see her again. Anything. Clyde and Raymond drew 101 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: their guns and fired through the open window. The sheriff 102 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: was blown back off the ford and landed on the street. 103 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: His pistol hit the ground. A bystander picked it up 104 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 1: and began to shoot. He was joined by the Condes 105 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: under sheriff, who came running up with a sidearm, blasting 106 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,679 Speaker 1: Clyde through the ford in a first and hit the gas. 107 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: The car lurched forward and slammed into a culvert. It 108 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:31,239 Speaker 1: rolled the horndo its side, stuck. Clyde and Ramon pulled 109 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: themselves from the wreck, pistols first fire and round after round. 110 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: The under sheriff was hit. He dropped to the dirt dead. 111 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 1: Clyde and Raymond scrambled for the woods, chaotically shooting behind 112 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: their backs as they ran away from the commotion. Clyde 113 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: found another car, he hot wired in and drove it 114 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: for a few miles, and then ditched it for the 115 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: next one. He did this numerous times, thinking it would 116 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: cover his tracks keep the cops guessing. Cops who at 117 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: this very moment were assembling knew posse to track down 118 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: what was quickly becoming one of the most infamous crime 119 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: gangs in the country. But no posse was taking clyde barrow. 120 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: Not today. He quickly made his way back to West Dallas, 121 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: where Bonnie Parker was waiting for him, And when he 122 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: reached her and put her hand in his once more, 123 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: something clicked. It was electric. Bonnie and Clyde would never 124 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 1: be a part again. Paris, nineteen sixty seven. Bridget Bardow 125 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 1: let her hand wander underneath the table until it met his. 126 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: She wasn't expecting what happened next. A shock, a vibration, emotion, 127 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: and lust cascading in a physical ripple that shot up 128 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: her arm and enveloped her entire body. She looked deep 129 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:56,719 Speaker 1: into his eyes and felt the connection mental, physical, spiritual. 130 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 1: The rest of the world fell away. It crumbled, it burned, 131 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: It sank into the ocean, and was swallowed by the ground. 132 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: From this moment on, it was just the two of them. 133 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: Before she took hold of his hand, Serge Gainsburg was 134 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: already in awe of the woman sitting across from him. 135 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 1: I mean, just look at her s Bridget Bardo, we're 136 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 1: talking about just like millions of other men around the world, 137 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: the Surge was undeniably drawn to the French sex symbols 138 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 1: jaqui okay, actually that's bullshit. We do in fact sequa 139 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: we sequa treviien. But Serge Gainsburg was different. He knew this. 140 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 1: He wasn't traditionally handsome like Jacques Dutrump or Johnny Halliday. 141 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: He thought his ears were too big, his mug was 142 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,839 Speaker 1: too ugly. He was just a songwriter, an unorthodox He 143 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: had a provocative singer who for years tried unsuccessfully to 144 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,680 Speaker 1: fit in with French chanson or French ya ya, before 145 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: a big win at the Eurovision Song Contest suddenly put 146 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: him on the world map. He didn't realize that at 147 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: the time, but he wasn't destined to fall in line. 148 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: Serge Gainsburg would redefine French music. More on that later, 149 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 1: Bridget Bardou, she didn't just want Serge Gainsburg to write 150 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: songs for her. She wanted him. Their blossoming romance was 151 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: by definition not only surprising but illicid. Bridget Bardeau was 152 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: married to a German playboy, but Bridget Bardoux got off 153 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: on the illicit and twice divorced. Serge Gainsburg was as 154 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 1: much an agent provocateur as he was a musician. After all, 155 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 1: this is the man who followed up that Eurovision win 156 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: by writing a song called Les Susette for an eighteen 157 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: year old chantouse who thought she was singing about how 158 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: much she liked to suck on lollipops. But well, you 159 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 1: get the picture. So for Bridget Bardeaux and Serge Gainsburg, 160 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 1: keeping their newfound love under raps only added to its allure, 161 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 1: and it greatly inspired Surge to write songs unlike he 162 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: or anyone else in the French pop world were writing 163 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: songs like Bonnie and Clyde, both epically romantic and also 164 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 1: patently fucking weird. A duet between Bridget and Surge the 165 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 1: Beauty and the Beast. The duo performed the song on 166 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: French TV on January first, nineteen sixty eight, but they 167 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: kept the chemistry very detached so French surge sleeves, rolled up, 168 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:32,559 Speaker 1: ty loosened, gun in a shoulder holster, puffing on a 169 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: half smoke. Gitm Bardeaux in a long skirt with an 170 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 1: even longer slit, Garters beret, black eyeliner, Tommy gun in 171 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: her very capable hands. They weren't actually Bonnie and Clyde, 172 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 1: not really, But like Bonnie and Clyde, they were empowered 173 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: by lust, if not love, they were consumed with passion. 174 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: But the provocative nature of their union, it's illicitness. It 175 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 1: was either truly beautiful or it was doomed. They didn't care. 176 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: Nothing mattered as long as they were together. Dexfield Park, Texas, 177 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three. Bonnie Parker sat lookout in the passenger 178 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 1: seat of a Ford VA not the same V eight 179 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: that her lover and partner in crime, Clyde Barrow, had 180 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,079 Speaker 1: rolled into a culver back in Stringtown, Oklahoma, nearly a 181 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: year prior, and not the other V eight that Clyde 182 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: had just recently crashed in Wellington, Texas, doing seventy on 183 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: a pitch black night. He didn't see the detour science 184 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 1: or that the road ahead was closed. The wooden barricade. 185 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: It was no match for Clyde's lead foot in that particular, 186 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: V rolled over half a dozen times before coming to 187 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: arrest in a river bed. Battery, acid hot boiling leaped 188 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: out onto Bonnie's leg, each drop sizzling her skin, the 189 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 1: smell of burning flesh, flesh that was being flayed away 190 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 1: right before her eyes, right down to the bone which 191 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 1: was now poking out for all to see. Well, at 192 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: least they had each other, That's what Bonnie told herself. 193 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: But Bonnie needed more than Clyde's love and support right now. 194 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: Her leg was a mess. It was only a matter 195 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:35,680 Speaker 1: of time before some bacterial infection set in, maybe even 196 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: gay and green. Bonnie needed medical supplies, and the rest 197 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 1: of the gang needed food and new clothes. Thus Bonnie 198 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: sat and yet another stone forward V Eight while Clyde 199 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: ran errands on Main Street, USA. Legit errants, not robberies, 200 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,080 Speaker 1: all the same. It was a risk. Their names were 201 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:56,599 Speaker 1: all over the papers and their pictures too, thanks to 202 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 1: undeveloped rolls of film they left in a car after 203 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,679 Speaker 1: a shootout and drop them Missouri. Dozens of pictures, pictures 204 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: that showed a murderous gang in the middle of a 205 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: crime spree, goofing off Bonnie pretending to hold Clyde at gunpoint. 206 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: Bonnie with her foot up on the fender of a sedan, 207 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 1: handgun in her right hand, cigar in her mouth. They 208 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: flaunted both their notoriety and their elusiveness in front of 209 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: the whole country, a country full of people who wanted 210 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 1: to tear Bonnie and Clyde apart, like the people of Stringtown, 211 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: their under sheriff dead. Or Joplin, where Clyde littered a 212 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: posse with bullets from his Browning automatic rifle, hitting a 213 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: police officer in the face and nearly severing his arm 214 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: from his body. And over in Plate City, where a 215 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: shootout seriously wounded Clyde's brother Buck, the left Buck's wife Blanche, 216 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: with shards of glass in her eyes. Buck and Blanche 217 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: were new arrivals to the Barrel gang. Buck had only 218 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: recently left the joint, and he was rusty. Rusty enough 219 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: to catch a slug from a highway patrolman that came 220 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: screaming through the air swiftly entered his left temple and 221 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 1: exploded out of his forehead, ripped off a piece of 222 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: his skull. It fucked him up and slowed him down, 223 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 1: and he couldn't move, not like his brother and the 224 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: others were moving. Now. Rousted from their hiding place in 225 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: Dexfield Park at five in the morning, not because Clyde 226 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: was caught running errands in town because some goodie two 227 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: shoots fucko couldn't mind his own business when he stumbled 228 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: upon their makeshift campsite. The mob that had shown up 229 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: to capture them was about fifty people strong. Most of 230 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: them lickered up. The outlaws were quickly surrounded, and they 231 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: began to shoot their way out. Tiste shotguns, Clyde's browning 232 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: and the posse retaliated. So many holes blasted into the 233 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: V eight and the gang was forced to hit the ground. 234 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: Running down a hill tore the river. Clyde kept firing 235 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: as forty five until all he heard were empty clicks. 236 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: Bonnie was slow, slower than usual, even her bad leg 237 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: throbbed every time she took a step. Buck's whole world spinning, 238 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: the wind, blowing a violent cas where his skull was 239 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: missing and his brain was exposed. Clyde knew it was 240 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 1: either Bonnie or his brother. He couldn't help them both, 241 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: and he'd already made the decision to never leave Bonnie 242 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: behind again, so Clyde grabbed Bonnie and ran. He dragged 243 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: her down the hill. More shots rang out behind them. 244 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 1: Bonnie felt a burning sensation there in her abdomenue. She 245 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: looked down. Her nightgown was soaked with blood. Clyde didn't 246 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: let go. They made it to the river, then into 247 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: dense brush. They had a few minutes tops before the 248 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: posse was on top of them. Most likely they'd stopped 249 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 1: to deal with Buck and probably blanched too, seeing as 250 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: her wounds were just as much of a liability. But 251 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: Clyde couldn't worry about that. Now he had to worry 252 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: about Bonnie. He remained calm and found a nearby farm 253 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 1: pointed as empty forty five at the family and told 254 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: him he was taking their nineteen twenty nine Plymouth and 255 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 1: he laid Bonnie down in the back seat, and then 256 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: Clyde Barrow, got behind the wheel, hit the gas and 257 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:06,680 Speaker 1: drove bridget Bardou approached the motorcycle wearing black thigh high 258 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 1: boots and a black leather mini skirt. Her eyeliner was black, 259 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: her hair was blonde. Sex on fool so hot that 260 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 1: Serge Gainsburg's TV screen appeared to be melting. She was 261 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: a French female Jim Morrison lighting the fire of anyone 262 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:26,679 Speaker 1: who watched, and oh boy did they watch. Surge and 263 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,239 Speaker 1: everyone else with a television and a pulse watched as 264 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:33,199 Speaker 1: Bridget Bardowu lip synced her new single Harley Davidson, another 265 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:38,160 Speaker 1: of Surge's infectious compositions. Bridget couldn't care less about motorcycles. 266 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: If she was being honest, Fast cars were her thing. 267 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: Her Triumph spitfire with the top down didn't matter. This 268 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: song was about the vibe, about freedom, rebellion, about how 269 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:51,640 Speaker 1: it was better to die than to let someone else 270 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: tell you how to live your life. Real love, vigilanti shit. 271 00:17:55,640 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 1: Bridget Bardeau and Serge Gainsburg were love outlaws on the lamb, 272 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 1: not from the law, but from the papers, the paparazzi. 273 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 1: They tooled around Paris and her Triumph, Bridget behind the 274 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: wheel and the smoke from Serge's cigarette leaving a pungent trail, 275 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 1: and the awake one minute here and the next gone. 276 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: Bridget was quickly realizing that her marriage to gun their 277 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: sacks playboy, a multi millionaire jack of all trades, but 278 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: Master of None was a sham. She didn't love him, 279 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: not in the purest sense. She didn't want him like 280 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: a truck. She didn't watch the world disintegrate before her 281 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 1: very eyes when she touched him. At that moment, Sergia's 282 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: hand touched hers on the gearshift. She hit the clutch 283 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 1: with her left foot and punched it into third. Surge's 284 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: heart skipped a beat. She made him feel like a 285 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 1: man twenty one years old, not forty, back when he 286 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: was still green, up late playing music in nightclubs, up 287 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: early to paint, burning that candle, courses in composition and orchestration, 288 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 1: learning the difference between cabarets and music halls. I was 289 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: like the clap, but it was the everyday listeners who 290 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 1: plunk down cash, never enough cash. It had seemed, at 291 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: least for a time, a prolonged period of time, when 292 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: Phillips Records enjoyed having Surged on their roster. Even a 293 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: few people were buying his albums. But then it all changed. 294 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 1: First Eurovision, then BB as she was known. Their first 295 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,640 Speaker 1: date a disaster. He could hardly believe she was interested 296 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:29,640 Speaker 1: in him, of all people. His confidence was shot. Maybe 297 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,159 Speaker 1: he was just drunk. He wanted to make it up 298 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:35,120 Speaker 1: to her with a gift a song, the most beautiful 299 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: love song he could imagine. Serge Gainsburg played Je tem 300 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 1: Juana pou for Bridge Bardoux on her piano, a duet 301 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: between two lovers as they have breathless passionate sex. The 302 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: ultimate fuck song, but then also the ultimate anti fuck 303 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 1: song too. That Surge who was put it, seeing as 304 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 1: the title translates to I love you me neither as 305 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: in come on you, and I know that this is 306 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 1: just some raw animal attraction, no need to attach an 307 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:08,160 Speaker 1: actual emotion to it, which was either Surge's own anxiety's 308 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: talking or just as trademark Deadpan's sense of humor. Either way, 309 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 1: it was, in Surge's mind his first real love song, 310 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 1: just as real as the recording session that followed. Barclay Studios, Paris, 311 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,520 Speaker 1: Surge and Bridget stepped inside a small glass vocal booth 312 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 1: and closed the door behind them. They stood chest to 313 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 1: chest in front of the same microphone. The backing track 314 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 1: began to play in their headphones. A dramatic swirl of 315 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: strings and organ consumed the three piece backing band like 316 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: a slow moving tornado of ecstasy. The studio lights dimmed 317 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 1: and the two sang. Then Bridget began to moan jetten. 318 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 1: Surge touched her body with his hand and the two 319 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: felt that electric shock again. He knew his detached response 320 00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:01,159 Speaker 1: would drive her wild. One on Plue tailed with a shudder. 321 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:06,360 Speaker 1: Sem She made more noises, no words, though, just sounds 322 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:10,959 Speaker 1: of orgasmic euphoria, each sound going straight into the microphone 323 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,359 Speaker 1: and straight to the bulch and Surge his pants. He 324 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 1: thought of her back at his place in his bed, 325 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 1: one hand running up the curve of her naked thigh 326 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: and the other clasping a gton smokee down to the filter, 327 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 1: and the windows of the vocal booth fogged up. The 328 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 1: song ended. Serge Gainsburg bass in the afterglow, knowing that 329 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: jateem Monapleaux was the most provocative piece of music he'd 330 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: recorded to date. That alone would be huge for sales. 331 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,120 Speaker 1: It would also blow the lid off the worst kept 332 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 1: secret in France that he and Bridget Bardoux were fucking. 333 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: He didn't care let the whole world know. The record 334 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: plant began to press promotional forty five's, and before it 335 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: was even released, the word was out. The new Surge, 336 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: Gainsbury and Bridget Bardeau single was scandalous. Four minutes and 337 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,719 Speaker 1: thirty five seconds of a Morris panting as Paris's Sunday 338 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: paper called it, word reached. Gunther Sachs, Bridget's multi millionaire 339 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,199 Speaker 1: playboy husband, was beside himself. He wasn't about to sit 340 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: idly by while his wife made sex records with that 341 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: clownish Quasimoto. Never mind what it would do to her career, 342 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 1: It would make a fool out of him, and Gunter 343 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:27,199 Speaker 1: Sachs was no fool. The next morning, a letter arrived 344 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 1: at Serge's house Cease and desist, destroy all copies Ger 345 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:38,440 Speaker 1: tim mona pleux no longer existed. Serge Gainsburg and Bridget 346 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:47,160 Speaker 1: Barde We're done. We'll be right back after this word 347 00:22:47,359 --> 00:23:00,640 Speaker 1: word word. Texas Highway one, fourteen Easter Sunday, nineteen thirty four, 348 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,639 Speaker 1: Clyde Barrow leaned against the latest stone Ford VA parked 349 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: on the side of the road. With his brother Buck 350 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: dead and gone. It was now more important than ever 351 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 1: to pay visits to family back in West Dallas, especially 352 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,440 Speaker 1: around the holidays. But Clyde Barrow and his outlaw lover, 353 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 1: Bonnie Parker, were the most sought after criminals of the country, 354 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: and that made visits tough, so instead of going to 355 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 1: family in the city, they arranged for family to meet 356 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 1: them at strategic spots out in the country, like this 357 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,160 Speaker 1: isolated stretch of road where they now waited for people 358 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 1: to arrive. And people did arrive, just not the people 359 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: they were expecting. Bonnie was sitting in the passenger seat 360 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: thinking about how much her leg continued to bother her. 361 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 1: They had yet to find proper medical treatment for her injuries. 362 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: Bones still protruded from the skin. She drank whiskey to 363 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 1: take the edge off, so did Henry Methfinn, the only 364 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: other member of the Barrow game here at the moment 365 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,919 Speaker 1: standing next to Clyde. Henry was a convict who managed 366 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 1: to escape from a prison farm a few months earlier 367 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 1: when Bonnie and Clyde staged a dramatic breakout for another 368 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,160 Speaker 1: gang member that left one guard dead in its wake. 369 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 1: Henry was new here, and Henry was drunk. He didn't 370 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: fully understand Clyde Barrow's code that Clyde didn't actually want 371 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 1: to kill anyone. Well, the son of a bitch who 372 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 1: raped him back in prisoned to what was coming, but 373 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,639 Speaker 1: out here on the road. Clyde only shot when he 374 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 1: was out of other options, which happened far more frequently 375 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: than he liked. He was actually more fond of taking 376 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: CoP's prisoner when the gang wasn't outnumbered, that is, show 377 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 1: them what he was capable of, show them that he 378 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:40,199 Speaker 1: had some compassion Henry. Though Henry wasn't feeling very compassionate 379 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: when they heard the rumble of motorcycles coming from down 380 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 1: the road. He was just buzzing on some high proof liquor. 381 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:50,400 Speaker 1: Soon two figures came into view, not Bonnie and Clyde's families, 382 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:55,360 Speaker 1: two Texas Highway patrola riding two wheelers with shotguns strapped 383 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,119 Speaker 1: to the side. Henry grabbed his rifle and hit it 384 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 1: behind his back. Roll slowed their bikes upon approach. Clyde 385 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,119 Speaker 1: didn't want to wait to see if they would be recognized. 386 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,239 Speaker 1: Let's take them, he told Henry, meaning let's force them 387 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: at gunpoint inside the car and take them for a ride. 388 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: Henry knew and drunk interpreted it in a different way. 389 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,679 Speaker 1: He quickly pulled his rifle from behind his back and 390 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: aimed it at one of the cops point blank. He 391 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: pulled the trigger and The cop was blown off his 392 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 1: bike and hit the dirt dead on impact. The other 393 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 1: cop grabbed shells from his pocket and frantically began to 394 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: load them into his shotgun. Clyde was irritated, fucking Henry 395 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: if he wants something done right and all that, Clyde 396 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,320 Speaker 1: pulled his pistol and fired, not a kill shot that 397 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 1: was intentional. The cop fell off his bike, wounded but 398 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: still alive, but not for long. Henry reloaded, then pointed 399 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 1: his rifle directly at the cop on the ground, leaning 400 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 1: out begging for his life, and the Barrel gang claimed 401 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: their next victim. Serge Gainsburg thought about shoving a gun 402 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 1: in his mouth and pulling the trigger, or maybe he'd 403 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: just throw his body into the sin. He was despondent, 404 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,919 Speaker 1: denied love, denied expressing that love in a song. Worst 405 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:22,120 Speaker 1: of all, denied her. Didn't matter that the Paris papers 406 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: were just now getting around, the publishing photos of the 407 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 1: two of them together Christmas shopping. That was old Mews. 408 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: Now Bridget was gone back with Gunther, her husband, a 409 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,639 Speaker 1: man that Surge knew she didn't love, not in the 410 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,439 Speaker 1: way she loved him. Regardless, she had a marriage to 411 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,160 Speaker 1: consider a career as well. Even the world's premiere sex 412 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: symbol could push things too far, hence the last minute 413 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 1: decision to pull Getaine on the pou, or so the thinking. 414 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: When Serge went back to his house and spent Christmas alone, 415 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 1: his two children with their mother elsewhere, just his piano, 416 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,679 Speaker 1: his gitans, some French wine in his regrets to keep 417 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 1: him company. And then there was a knock on the door. 418 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: He opened it and was stunned into silence. Bridget stood 419 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 1: before him, suitcase in hand. She couldn't stay, though. She 420 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 1: was on her way down Maria in Spain to shoot 421 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: a movie with Sean Connery, but she needed to see 422 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 1: Surge one more time. She needed closure. Inside the house, 423 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,679 Speaker 1: Bridget picked her right index finger with a needle. A 424 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 1: droplet of blood crimson red emerged on the tip of 425 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 1: her white skin. She took a page a Surge of 426 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,879 Speaker 1: sheet music and wrote in her own blood Jatins. She 427 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: passed the needle to Surge. He pricked his index finger 428 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: and watched as the blood began to ooze out. He 429 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 1: took the same piece of sheet music and with his 430 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: own blood wrote his own message, Juan no on Pleau 431 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 1: two Outlaw Lovers felt that surge of electricity again, the 432 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: same one they felt when they touched under the table, 433 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,800 Speaker 1: and then again when they sang into the same microphone 434 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: inside a vocal booth. Bridget packed the bloodstained piece of 435 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: sheet music in her suitcase and kissed Surge goodbye. Then 436 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: she walked out the door and got on a plane. 437 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: But she didn't actually leave. She wasn't truly gone. She 438 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 1: was still here long after her body left the room. 439 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 1: In Surge, his hands, his mouth, his breath, and his 440 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 1: tears as he was in hers, their love refused to die. 441 00:28:36,720 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: It was eternal. Beingville Parish, Louisiana, May twenty third, nineteen 442 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 1: thirty four. Six police officers lay in wait in the bushes, 443 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: guns drawn loaded ready. They watched as the Ford V 444 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: eight mosied along at a good clip, probably sixty miles 445 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: an hour or so, down a straightaway stretch of road. 446 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: Behind the wheel Clyde Barrow couldn't see the men hiding 447 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 1: up ahead. From the passenger seat. Bonnie didn't pay much attention, 448 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: but Clyde did see a logging truck stopped in the 449 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 1: middle of the road blocking his way. As he got closer, 450 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 1: he recognized the man standing next to it. Henry Methven's father, Clyde, 451 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: came to a stop next to the truck. He rolled 452 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 1: his window down and asked mister Methvin what seemed to 453 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: be the problem. Damn thing won't start. Clyde came the reply, 454 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 1: It was all a ruse, a plan concocted by the 455 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: concerned members of the Methvin family along with the posse 456 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,720 Speaker 1: of lawmen who had been pursuing Bonnie and Clyde for 457 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,719 Speaker 1: two years. The plan being that right now, at this moment, 458 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: the Texas ranger in charge would stand up from where 459 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: they were hiding and give the outlaws a chance to surrender. 460 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 1: But someone else stood up first, the b Nvil parish deputy. 461 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 1: With an itchy finger on the trigger of his Remington Madellee. 462 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: He took aim and fired the semi automatic rifle burst open. 463 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 1: Was shot. After shot, most of the bullets at the ford, 464 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 1: but one sailed directly through the driver's side window, into 465 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 1: Clyde Barrow's left temple and out the right side of 466 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: his head. Clyde went limp dead, his foot eased off 467 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 1: the brake pedal, and the V eight began to roll forward. 468 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 1: Bonnie shrieked the rest of the law men were up 469 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: right now, all of them aiming their firearms at the fort. 470 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,840 Speaker 1: The bullets flew, smashing through the car's metal, the doors, 471 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 1: the windows, and into Bonnie Parker's hysterical body. The Ford 472 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: rolled to a ditch on the side of the road 473 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 1: and stopped, living by the gun, dying by the gun, fast, 474 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 1: living on the slow road to doom. Bonnie Parker and 475 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: Clyde Barrow doomed, just as Serge Gainsburg and Bridget Bardeaux 476 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 1: would be doomed some thirty four years later. The whole 477 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 1: thing was too good to be true. The ugly agent 478 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,880 Speaker 1: provocateur and the beautiful sex goddess beset by morals and 479 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 1: expectations of the world, they were born into. Surge, for one, 480 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 1: coped with the loss of Bridget by drinking, smoking, and 481 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:43,880 Speaker 1: writing his song initials BB, a wash in cinematic strings 482 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,959 Speaker 1: and horns, immortalized the memory of his illicit romance, a 483 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,320 Speaker 1: crime against what was right, against unions and vows and 484 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 1: holy matrimony, a crime that nonetheless felt good to commit. 485 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 1: Surge could never give up on love, no matter how 486 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,840 Speaker 1: moral or immral. He founded again with Jane Berkin, a 487 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 1: British actress and singer who re recorded shatem Mouna Pou 488 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 1: with him. When it was released in nineteen sixty nine, 489 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: it was called pornographic band in Portugal, Brazil, Sweden and Italy, 490 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 1: where the Vatican deemed it obscene. But not before it 491 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 1: got to number two on the Italian charts, not before 492 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 1: Serge Gainsburg earned his first global hit, the kind of 493 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 1: hit he could never have with Bridget. Surge was thinking 494 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: about her now. The index finger he once pricked, the 495 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: needle writing a message in blood, began to throb. He 496 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,040 Speaker 1: could feel his heart beating there, but not just his 497 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 1: own heart, Bridget's heart too. The two hearts pounded in 498 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 1: his ears ninety seven beats per minute, the tempo of 499 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 1: their song Bonnie and Clyde. The other instruments fell in line, 500 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 1: the drums, the bass, the quika, sounding out an eerie 501 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 1: call in the distance. Every two measures. The strings began 502 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: to rise like swells on the ocean. The two of 503 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,240 Speaker 1: them were on that sound stage again, dressed in character, 504 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: recording their Bonnie and Clyde video. He with his Colt 505 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 1: forty five, she with her Tommy gun. After the shoot, 506 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 1: they jumped back in her Triumph spitfire. The top was 507 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: down and the wind blew her hair back. The sound 508 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 1: of the engine reving made him hard as a rock. 509 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,520 Speaker 1: Surge gazed into the black eyeliner circling her two eyes 510 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,400 Speaker 1: and was ushered down a tunnel. His stomach twisted up 511 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 1: in knots mon mon buge Leon, the sells bb. She 512 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 1: pressed hard on the gas pedal, and the spitfire surged ahead. 513 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 1: The road became a sound, a feeling, a feeling of 514 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 1: love so overwhelming it felt wrong to pursue it that 515 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 1: they continued once again. 516 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:50,440 Speaker 2: The world was. 517 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 1: Falling away, crumbling, burning. It all sank into the ocean. 518 00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: The press, pavazzi, dump their sacks. None of it mattered. 519 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:12,440 Speaker 1: It was just two of them, living fast, living for passion, physical, fictional, forbidden, doomed, disgraced. 520 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:21,360 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan and this this Disgraceland. 521 00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,920 Speaker 2: Disgraceland was created by Yours Truly and is produced in 522 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,520 Speaker 2: partnership with Double Elvis. 523 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,120 Speaker 1: Credits for this episode can be found on the show 524 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,920 Speaker 1: notes page at disgracelampod dot com. 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