WEBVTT - Jimi Hendrix Episode 12: Who Killed Jimi Hendrix? 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.520 The twenty seven Club is the production of I Heart 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:07.000 Radio and Double Elvis Media. Jimmie Hendricks died at the 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:12.200 age of and he died under mysterious circumstances. I can 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:15.120 give you twenty seven reasons why that statement is true. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.000 Three would be the number of theories that armchair detectives 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:24.960 would bandy about for years after Jimmy's untimely death. Another 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.200 two would be the number of hitmen Michael Jeffrey, Jimmy's manager, 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.560 sent on a covert mission to drown Jimmy with booze 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.880 and pills, if, as one theory goes, Michael Jeffrey killed 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.080 Jimmie Hendrix. Two more would be the number of white 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.360 paramedics who refused to revive and treat the famous black 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.680 rock star as they drove him to an undignified death 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:49.520 at St. Mary Abbott's hospital, if, as another theory goes, 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:55.240 the neglectful paramedics really did kill Jimmie Hendrix. Twenty is 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.840 the number of the recommended dosage of vesper x, a 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.880 powerful barbiturates that would be fund in Jimmy's body. Twenty 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:08.639 times the recommended dosage all totally on this our final 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:14.000 episode of season one, covert hitman, neglectful paramedics, twenty times 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:18.600 the recommended dose, and Jimmie Hendricks. I'm Jake Brennan in 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:57.080 this cosy. James Tappywright wished he could unhear when he 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:01.240 just heard. It's shocked him. It shall olenged everything he knew. 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.400 It rocked his world, and it scared the ship out 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:09.080 of him. Michael Jeffrey had just confessed to Jimmie Hendricks's murder, 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.079 not in so many words, that is, it was strongly implied. 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.400 He had no choice. He told Tappy he was out 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.560 of options. He had to do it. Tappy and Michael 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:26.680 Jeffrey were at Jeffrey's apartment in February discussing the upcoming 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.880 American leg of the Jimmy Plays Berkeley Tour. They had 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.359 just finished touring the documentary film around the UK and Europe, 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.200 where they had sold out venues and continued to spread 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:40.160 the gospel of Jimmie Hendricks. His death was still fresh 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.880 in the minds of many. The movie could give fans 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.520 the thing that they would never be able to experience again. 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.520 A live performance by Jimmie Hendricks delivered on a thirty 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.239 ft tall movie theater screen, and they had a few 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.160 drinks and a few more, and Jeffrey was relaxed, but 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.359 also a little drunk. Tappy had noticed a change in 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.440 Jeffrey's recent daily to meet here. He was no longer 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.519 under pressure, no longer under the gun, and Tappy would notice. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.919 He had been working for Jeffrey since the days back 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.000 in Newcastle, running clubs and bringing up the animals. A 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.399 respected roady, a doer. Tappy was there through it all, 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.880 did what needed doing, helped here, help there. Tappy was everywhere, 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.680 rubbing elbows with everyone, from the Beatles and the Rolling 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.440 Stones to kN Tina Turner to Elvis Presley. And he 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.239 was there as Jeffrey took on more responsibility with Jimmy 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.320 and the studio, took on more debts, new debts to 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.880 pay for old debts, even newer debts to pay for 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.080 the new debts to pay for the old debts. Tappy 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.920 was the one who would drive Jeoffrey out to New Jersey, 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.600 who was secluded suburban mob house. He'd sit in the car, 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.240 tap his fingers on the steering wheel as he listened 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.080 to the Archie's the Foundations, to Tommy James and the 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:52.880 Shawn Dells while Jeffrey was inside doing his business, shaking hands, 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:57.480 making deals, signing his life away. Jeffrey would walk back 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.400 to the car, suitcase in hand, loaded up with fresh 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.560 bills handed to him by mafia kingpins, the guys who 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.600 could afford to live in these ostentatious and Jersey mansions. 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.000 Tappy was there too when the calls started coming in, 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.920 when Jeffrey couldn't pay the mafia back. Jeffrey was over extended, 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:18.599 ambitious and greedy. Michael Jeffrey was fucked. Where's the money, Michael, 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.120 The heated mob voices would say from the other end 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.719 of the phone, Where's the fucking money? Ship in. Tappy 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:28.279 started living his life by looking around every corner, checking 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:33.360 underneath cars before getting inside, screening phone calls, Remaining extremely 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.320 wary of strangers. He lived his life every day like 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.960 someone was coming for his boss, Michael Jeffrey's head. And 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:44.440 now sitting in Jeffrey's apartment reminiscing on a wildly successful 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:49.200 documentary film Tour, things seem more relaxed. Tappy was no 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.320 longer on edge. Jeffrey had paid off the I R S, 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.560 paid off the Mob. He was even able to buy 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.839 out Jimmy's interest in electric ladies studios from Jimmy's father, 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.400 Al Tappy wanted to know where did Jeffrey get all 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:05.960 that money? Why was everything coming up roses, And that's 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.560 when the mood of the room changed. Jeffrey tensed up. 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.360 It had obviously been weighing on him all this time. 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.800 The secret he had. He had many secrets, all collected 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.440 through many years of his life, but this one, this 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.120 one may have been the hardest to keep inside, because 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.640 even though Jeffrey was a great keeper of secrets, this 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:29.360 one felt different. I had no bloody choice, Jeffrey told Tabby. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.640 The implication hung there in the air like a thick 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.039 fog of Dunhills smoke. The look in Michael Jeffrey's cold 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.400 eyes filled into blanks. The look said a lot. Mostly 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.719 it said, I'm a survivor. When the ship house starts 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.120 to go up in flames, I'm the motherfucker with the 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.839 fire extinguisher. I'm Michael Jeffrey. I do what needs doing 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:56.720 to get myself undone, my man, qualified man. The look 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.800 filling in the space around Jeffrey's last comment, I had 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:03.400 no bloody choice. It also said it was the payout 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.320 and the two million dollar insurance policy took out on 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.320 Jimmy's head. And it was the insurance policy that rescued 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.640 Jeffrey from certain ruin or even death from his debtors. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:17.600 The mob again, according to James Tappy, right, Michael Jeffrey 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:22.040 had no bloody choice. Tappy could believe it. Michael Jeffrey, 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.400 former agent of the Special Forces for the British Intelligence 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:31.280 Michael Jeffrey mobbed up. Michael Jeffrey, professional badass, Michael Jeffrey, 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:35.200 trained killer, or so he told Tappy. Jeffrey sold that 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.680 image hard, and guys like Tappy bought it hook line 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.880 and sinker. Tappy put two and two together Jeffrey's vague 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.719 confession and the reports from the attending doctors about the 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.279 red wine that had been in Jimmy's mouth and throat 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.040 but not in his stomach, and now Tappy was burdened 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.720 with this bombshell, one of a handful of people who 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.680 knew about it. He wished he didn't. He'd been on 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.200 the sidelines for most of his life on a need 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.279 to know basis, and now he was privy to the deepest, 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:07.120 darkest secrets. He sat across the table from Jeffrey in 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.360 the apartment and picked up what was being put down. 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.440 Tappy was convinced that Jeffrey had offered Jimmy. Convinced that 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.800 Jeffrey had sent a couple of goons to that apartment 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.280 in Nodding Hill and it was there that they forced 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:57.560 the red wine down Jimmy's throat until he drowned. James. 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.960 Tappy right sat on his bar stool in a near 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:05.080 empty seaside Whitley Babe pub Convinced Michael Jeffrey killed Jimmie Hendricks, 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:09.560 his imagination went into overdrive. He could see it all, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.560 how it all could have come together, and it was 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:19.160 moving fast. When Michael Jeffrey got the news that Jimmy 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.640 had taken meetings with Chaz Chandler and Alan Douglas, it 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.480 was the last straw. Tappy knew this. He knew Jimmy 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.320 meeting with Chaz again would have flipped out his boss Jeffrey. 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.600 So Tappy knew that if Jeffrey did what he thought 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.240 he did, they need to have the idea circling around 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.480 in his head for a while before moving on it, 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.880 Before taking it from just an annoying thought to an idea. 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.960 He needed to execute on. Michael Jeffrey's days as manager 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.360 to the greatest guitar player in the world were numbered. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.880 If Jeffrey lost Jimmy, Tappy figured, then he would have 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.679 no way out from his mob debts. So Jeffrey moved quick. 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.720 If he was going to survive avoid being clipped by 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.360 the mafia, then Jimmie Hendricks had to go. It was 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.160 the only way for Michael Jeffrey. It was never a 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.199 question of if he could do it, It was a 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.000 question of how. In his rampant imagination, Tappy could see 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.640 Jeffrey going into full James Bond Boat total Mission Impossible 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:17.600 waking fantasy. Tappy saw Jeffrey tightening his cuff links, smoothing 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.920 his pressed white shirt, donning his black jacket, punching his cuffs, 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.400 methodically cleaning the lenses of his dark prescription glasses with 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.320 the pocket square from his suit jacket, the theme from 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.680 Peter Gunn playing in a loop in his head on 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.760 Max Volume. Tappy knew the training from Jeffrey's days laid 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.520 dormant inside of him, and that Jeffrey thought of it 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.120 as an ace up as sleeve. It was in part 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.439 what gave him the balls to deal with the mafia types. 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.400 He's so casually borrowed money from that training coiled inside 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.080 of him like a sleeper sell ready to be activated, 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:55.680 covert deep cover. No more. Now it was alive, ship 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.720 was on. Warner Brothers weren't the only ones with half 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.480 a fucking clue. Mike Jeffrey knew how thin the mortal 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.680 coil was being stretched by his client, Jimmy Hendricks, so 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.280 he took out a two million dollar life insurance policy 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.959 on his star attraction as well. And now, after all 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.600 the bullshit, after the arrest in Toronto and the subsequent trial, 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.280 the kidnapping at the Salvation Club, the shakedowns on the 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.120 streets of Harlem, the drugs and the girls, and the 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:25.480 constant deviation from the master plan, after Jimmy collapsing on 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:29.040 stage and barely escaping an island on fire, after coming 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.840 out from under a recording studio that was hell bent 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.199 on sinking no matter how hard they tried to keep 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.560 it afloat, After the back alley fist fights and threatening 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:41.120 phone calls and claims of illegitimate children, after all the 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.040 other fame hungry hangers on who wanted a piece of 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:48.680 Jimmy's pie. After all of that, at this time, finally 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.880 for Michael Jeffrey to cash in on his Voodoo child 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:57.760 cash cat to quit while he was ahead. Jimmy wasn't 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.720 gonna listen anymore. Jeffrey had resorted to keeping Jimmy as 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.719 preoccupied and disoriented as possible. He controlled his mind by 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.000 dosing him with drugs. He controlled his location by buying 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.160 him that swank house outside of Woodstock. He controlled his 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.080 creativity by giving him the recording studio of his dreams. 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.600 He did all of this just so he could minimize 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.560 the amount of not listening that Jimmy would do. Tabby 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.079 knew that Jeffrey knew that. The simple truth was that he, 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:26.440 Michael Jeffrey could not carry on with Jimmy Hendrix. If 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.920 Jimmy's behavior didn't drive him to the point of no return, 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.079 then his debt to the mob to keep him and 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:35.040 Jimmy happy and on the charts certainly did. Jeffrey had 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.240 no other artist in his stable that was enough of 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.600 a moneymaker. He wasn't going to bring him the bacon 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.800 with soft machine, no offense. He was losing his grip, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.600 and he was too smart to not know the Chaz 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:49.440 Chandler wasn't too far behind. Chaz was always there when 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.840 it came to Jimmy, never quite out of the picture, 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.160 waiting in the cut, about to strike and steal Jeffrey's 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.600 voodoo child right out from under him, cut him down 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:01.520 to size. Tabby heard the rumors, Ship. They weren't even rumors, 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.800 they were more like public declarations. Jeffrey was a cheat, 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.760 a scoundrel, and opportunists. Eric Burden flat oled accused Jeffreys 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.520 stealing money from the animals, and Burden let anyone who 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.520 would listen know that he thought Michael Jeffrey was a 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.240 dirty thief, that he set up an offshore tax haven, 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.040 funneled skim and earnings from his bands into it to 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:23.079 avoid heavy UK taxes, move money around from country to country, 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.959 island to island, suitcase to suitcase. Good fellow and a 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.000 good fellow. Tappy knew that if Jimmy didn't know what 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.240 Burden knew, that he would know soon enough. And he 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.120 fucking a knew that Michael Jeffrey would have known this too, 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.880 known this that if Jimmy Hendricks cut Michael Jeffrey loose, 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:42.200 then Jimmie Hendricks was a fucking dead man. No Jimmy, 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.040 no money, no money, no more yank with the boys 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.000 from Jersey. It was a death sentence for Jeffrey. And 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:49.680 if the mob didn't get on and the I R 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.600 s would they take the studio, his houses, his fancy clothes, 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.439 his fancy drugs. They take every last thing and leave 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.960 him with barely the shoes on his feet. He'd have 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:00.679 to take the subway or the tube to work in 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:04.120 some downtown shipole or worse, to the unemployment office like 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:08.320 some ordinary joe. Fuck that. He wasn't gonna let that happen. 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.839 He got in the zone, he got a character, and 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:15.120 he moved with the quickness. Tappy can see it all happening. 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:19.079 Michael Jeffrey is Michael Caine and funeral in Berlin, doing 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.080 what had to be done to save his ass. A 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.400 qualified man smashing her motherfucker's face him with a vase 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.960 of roses without thinking twice if need be. But but 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.120 he wasn't about to get his own hands dirty in 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:34.440 the process. Jeffrey was too smart for that. Tappy knew 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.360 it best for Jeffrey to stay on the sidelines, call 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.600 the shots from behind his dark prescription classes don't risk 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:45.240 that two million dollar life insurance paym the goon is 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.240 listened intently, and Michael Jeffrey spoke, this is what you're 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.800 gonna do. Jimmy and his old lady are powering around 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.520 town today. Go sweat the Sammer kid. She's got a 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.920 room there. Wait till he's alone. Even if you have 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.320 to wait all night. Wait, he'll be watching. You'll be 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.080 waiting when he's alone. That's when you can't do it. 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.720 Tappy could see them in his mind's eye, the goons. 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:12.079 They're peering inside the Samarkan flat window, hiding undercover in 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.400 the small gardens and wrought iron fencing out front. They 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.400 watched while Monica made Jimmy the tuna sandwich, their own 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.000 bellies rumbling. They just needed to get this over with 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.920 so that they could go eat. They were starving. The 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.840 sun was coming up. Monica's eyes were going down. She 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.720 passed out. Jimmy absent mindedly grabbed a fistfull of sleeping 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:35.040 pills Monica's vesper x and slugged them back with another 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.040 swig of wine from the glass next to the bed. 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.080 It felt like he hadn't slept in days, and at 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.640 this moment it was all he needed the pills to 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.520 do the trick. Little did he know he was making 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:50.120 the job for the goons waiting outside all the more easy. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:56.480 The goons stood quiet, watching, whispering, waiting. A few hours 0:14:56.560 --> 0:15:00.280 later Monica woke, walked drowsily around the apartment, and then 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.640 she left, took a hike on up the street. Left 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.600 Jimmy passed out cold in bed. It was time the 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.400 goons tried the front door unlocked. They were in easy. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.480 They swept into the flat like a gust of wind, 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.760 closed the door behind the dead bull blatched. They spoke 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.880 in hand signals, blinks of the eye, head nods. They 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.040 were in all black, black pants, black shirts, black beanie hats, 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.480 and they moved swiftly. Tappy could see them in his mind, 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.200 and now he thought of another Michael Caine reference gambit. 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.600 The goons would have been tall, one routon the other sickly, 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:35.320 a real young yang thing, one lanky, one short stacked. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.960 The sickly goon spied the bottle of red wine on 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.640 the kitchen counter waiting for them, just as Jeffrey had said, 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.160 Jimmy's crypt tonite, and Jeffrey called it the fellow should 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.960 use it to their advantage. Jimmy was laying in bed, 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.000 fully closed on top of the sheets, his black strap 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.640 nestled next to him. The two stood over sleeping Jimmy 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:54.880 Hendrix and the sickly Goon pulled the cork from the 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.720 half empty bottom for red wine. It made a startling 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:01.200 popping sound, loud enough that Jimmy was roused. He started 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.480 mumbling something about Brian Jones, something about rotis reading, like 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.240 he was talking to them. The sickly goon with the 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.760 wine bottle motioned to his partner, who grabbed the front 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.880 of Jimmy's shirt and lifted his head slightly from the pillow. 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.800 Jimmy's eyes fought to open up, but the pills were 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:20.480 fighting him. He just kept mumbling Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, like 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.720 a tick, like it was on a loop in his brain. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.520 And the sickly goon squeezed Jimmy's prone cheeks with his 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.200 left hand and shoved the wine bottle into Jimmy's mouth 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.800 was his right. The bottle was turned upside down and 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:33.880 the red wine came out like it had busted through 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.920 a floodgate. Jimmy's eyes still weren't fully open as he 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.720 started to guzzle the Bluese that was being forced on him, 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.080 and the bottle smacked against one of his front teeth. 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.640 He started to choke, made wretching noises, sending SIPs of 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:51.000 wine splattering onto the sickly goon's black jacket. Two held 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.760 him there, made him take it, made him taste it, 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.880 made him swim in it, drowning it. After the last 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.080 drop was out of the bottle, they dropped Jimmy's head 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:03.240 back down onto the pillow. He was unconscious again, seemed, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:07.959 but his chest was still heaving. The goons split fast. 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.879 The empty wine bottle was recorked, put back on the 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:14.240 kitchen counter, and they could hear sputtering and wretching coming 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:17.879 from the bedroom, and then silence. They left up the 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.840 front door, closed it behind them. They had done Michael 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.000 Jeffrey's bidding, and now they were getting something to eat, 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:29.520 and they were fucking starving. And James Tappy right sitting 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.280 on his bar stool, but a year after his boss's 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:36.160 most famous client up and died, was thirsty as fuck. 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.879 The thought of it, all, the why, the how, the 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.600 who is shook Tappy with fear. He pushed the who 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.360 done into the back of his mind, straightened himself out 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:50.160 on his stool, shrugged, and ordered another pint. It could 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.240 have happened that way, but Tappy wouldn't know for sure. 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.320 The only thing he was sure of was that Jimmie 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.280 Hendricks was dead and that Michael Jeffrey was a bad, 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:04.920 bad and we'll be right back after this word were were? 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.840 Monica Danemon spoke calmly as she told her attorney the 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.000 same story she'd been telling the world for over twenty years, 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.320 the same story she told the day Jimmie Hendricks died, 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.040 The same story she told in the Inner World of 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.480 Jimmie Hendricks, the book she had just published. The same 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:26.760 story she was now being taken to court over charged 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:31.520 with libel against Cathy Etchingham, another of Jimmie Hendricks's former girlfriends. 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.960 But Monica didn't see herself as just another girlfriend. She 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.399 told the attorney. Monica Daneman hadn't known Jimmie Hendricks for 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:42.400 that law. The connection she felt was strong, and who 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.199 were they to tell her that her connection wasn't strong, 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:47.879 she didn't feel the way she felt, or that Jimmy 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.080 wasn't as true blue as she believed him to be. 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.520 The haters were just jealous they wanted what she had 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:56.960 and they couldn't have it. Who fucking who for them? 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.359 When she first met Jimmy in a bar and Dusseldor 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.840 if it was all over all downhill, She left Germany, 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.360 left her job as an ice skating instructor, and went 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:09.359 where Jimmy went. Sometimes she'd get his attention, other times not. 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:12.040 And they had a few nights together here, a few 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.919 nights together there, and then those last days in London 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.800 at the Samarcan she had his complete attention in the garden, 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:20.760 he told her he loved her, He told her that 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.040 he would marry her. Didn't matter if he said those 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:25.920 same things to other girls on other days and other gardens. 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:28.600 He belonged to her now and she wasn't about to 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:33.400 let go. And Kathy Etchingham I thought Monica was offered, 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:36.680 not deluded, that she had casually met Jimmie hendrickson a 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:40.600 bar and Dooseldorf and almost instantly concocted a fantasy where 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.919 she and Jimmy were the leading roles. And furthermore, she 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.399 would say whatever she needed to say to push other people, 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:49.440 people like Kathy further out of the picture. No one 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:51.560 was going to write her out of history, least of 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.960 all a delusional ice skater. Monica had been accused of 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.359 a lot of things in Jimmy's death. Accused of neglect, lies, 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.119 accused of poisoning him, used of waiting too long to 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:04.560 call an ambulance. But she stuck to her story. She 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.520 sat across the table from her attorney and spoke her truth, 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:13.120 the things she believed. Others called them conspiracies, fantasies, falsehoods, 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:15.480 meant to benefit no one but Monica Daneman, but she 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.520 stood her ground. She told her attorney that she thought 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:22.160 the paramedics were neglectful. The paramedics refused to give Jimmy 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:26.119 the help he needed because he was black. It was 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:28.800 so fucking obvious, she thought, I could see it in 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.840 her mind, see how the whole thing played out. It 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.160 was obvious because Jimmy's life was full of more than 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.359 his fair share of racist encounters. He had told her 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:39.560 about the time that the cops had stopped Jimmy and 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.439 Cathy as they walked on the streets of London. Jimmy 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.000 dressed in that antique royal vet core jacket, guilty only 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.800 of walking while black, or perhaps more accurately, walking while 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:52.920 black with a white woman on his arm. Jimmy had 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.600 also told her stories about touring with the experience in 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:58.280 the States, about the restaurants in the South where he 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:01.600 would begrudgingly eat with the rest the tour crew, and Jimmy, 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:03.919 the only black man in the joint, he managed to 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:07.119 sit through an awkwardly quick meal, all white eyes in 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:10.400 the place on him the entire time. The tour made 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:12.480 its way to Seattle, where a cop pulled a gun 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.080 on Jimmy, a cop who was hired to protect him 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:17.760 because he was walking hand in hand with a white woman. 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.760 Other cops pulled their guns too. The whole situation turned 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.399 into a standoff of extremely ignorant proportions and ended with 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:28.760 hired cops walking off the job simply because they couldn't 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:31.960 stomach Jimmy, a black man walking with a white woman. 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:35.280 Monica was convinced that the day he died was the 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.160 same thing that a couple of white paramedics walked into 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:40.560 the flat, saw a white woman with a black man, 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:47.840 and their inherent racism flared to the surface. Monica closed 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:51.040 her eyes and envisioned the whole scenario clearly in her head. 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:57.440 She could see Jimmy's life slipping away inside the ambulance. 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:00.240 Every bump in the road that the ambulance hit, he 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:03.320 felt it in his bones. His stomach went into revolt 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:06.160 with every sharp turn, each breath he took, it felt 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:09.880 like it could be his last. He was sitting up 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.800 in a stretcher, his shirts soiled with vomit and wine 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:15.920 spots dried red wine threw out his hair, his eyes 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:19.119 swarming around in his head. He felt his pulse quicken 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:22.080 and then suddenly dropped down to a dribble, and then 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:24.879 it quickened again. He was just as surprised as anyone 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:27.280 that he was actually conscious in the back of this ride. 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:29.479 He could have sworn he felt dead there for a 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:32.520 few minutes earlier in the morning, and the paramedics both 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:35.000 sat in the front of the ambulance, one driving, another 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:37.960 riding shotgun. Shouldn't one of them be back here with me, 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:41.480 Jimmy thought, fighting the ways of pain and nausea. Why 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:45.160 wasn't someone taking his vitals, monitoring his pulse, making sure 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:48.200 he remained in this world. I'll meet in the next one, 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:52.240 don't be late. And they passed the first hospital. Through 0:22:52.240 --> 0:22:54.639 his half masted eyes, he watched the hospital come and 0:22:54.640 --> 0:22:57.480 go through the ambulance window. He raised his arm, pointed 0:22:57.520 --> 0:22:59.919 out the window, mumbled some words something to draw ten 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:01.679 into the fact that they had just driven by a 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:05.119 fucking hospital. His mumbling seemed to fall on deaf ears, 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:08.159 and the paramedics weren't any rush to get to their destination. 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:12.679 They weren't in a rush period. The two paramedics had 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:15.760 arrived at Monica's rented flat about ten minutes after she 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:18.840 made the call, and they took their time, didn't bust 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:21.639 down the apartment door, didn't scatter and make up for 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:26.360 lost time. They walked patiently into the bedroom, found Jimmy unconscious, 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:28.680 and gradually got him up on the stretcher and packed 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:32.240 into the ambulance. They slapped his face, attended to and 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:35.159