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D-Tower houses the worst of the worst.

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Supermax, if you will.

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Go, baby!

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Come on, baby!

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Open up!

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It's dark, and it's dirty.

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It felt like it was a predator stalking me.

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He knows where I am.

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He can see us.

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There is something very dark going on here.

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I'm going to kill you.

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I'm going to kill you.

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I'm going to kill you.

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I'm going to kill you.

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This is going to kill me.

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I was proud to wear the badge.

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I was proud to be an attention officer.

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I enjoyed it.

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2009, I was being transferred to Australia Jail,

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which is an all-female facility.

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I was going to be working the night shifts,

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from 8 p.m. in the evening to about 6 o'clock in the morning.

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I had heard a lot of rumors about Australia Jail,

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but what's the worst that can happen?

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It's hard to understand

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the worst of America Jail

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I walked in to check in with security control.

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It was pretty much the brain of the entire jail.

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Hello?

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I'm kind of waving at the camera like, hey, you know, I'm here.

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Hello? It's Officer Yates. It's my first date.

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You let me in?

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Nothing. Just nothing.

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Nothing.

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Eventually the officer let me in.

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There was definitely anxiety of meeting the new team.

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Okay, folks, just a few items for today.

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What kind of attitudes am I going to be met with?

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You know, are people going to say, hey, what's up? How are you doing?

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You know, glad to have you on board.

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We have a new officer with us today.

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Welcome aboard.

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Day Yates, welcome.

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Thank you.

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So you will be partnered up with Officer Brown.

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Okay.

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Officer Yates, I'm Officer Brown.

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Nice to meet you.

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Nice to meet you.

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I was wet by the years. I was green as possible.

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I was a complete rookie.

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I got it.

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He just looked young. He didn't look seasoned.

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He was a kid. It's really my impression.

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Officer Brown and Officer Yates are going to be on D-Tower tonight.

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D-Tower is a housing unit that we house the worst of the worst.

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Supermax, if you will.

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Officer Brown and Officer Yates.

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Requesting access to D-Tower.

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It's a jail within a jail.

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It's a punishment tower.

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I started seeing the lights are starting to flicker.

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It's becoming hotter and hotter.

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It was hotter than most parts of the jail that I've been in before.

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There's like food on the ground and, you know, the smell is horrendous.

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This paint is just terrible.

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There's graffiti written all over the walls.

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It was almost like the forgotten tower of Australia Jail.

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Has it always been like this?

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Never been here myself, so...

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You've never been here?

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Not to this part.

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How long have you been here?

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Just a year.

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Male officer on the floor.

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Just screaming and yelling and just hysteria was like a gladiator arena.

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We are all here.

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We are all here.

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We got this.

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I was a little scared.

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Come here!

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You all right, man?

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Get that baby back to me.

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Open up!

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Open up!

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Open up!

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Open up!

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On the start of every shift, we relieve the other officers on duty.

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You guys?

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The officers seemed kind of stressed out.

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They seemed exhausted.

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How was your night?

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It's going guys, Officer Yates.

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They left without even speaking.

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It's kind of awkward behavior, not something that I would definitely normally see, right?

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From the control room, you can see all four cell blocks.

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You can see all corridors.

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There's a few blind spots, but that's what we have cameras for.

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They're everywhere, day or night.

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All right, I'll go do count first.

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I volunteered to do the count first.

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I'm going to do the count first.

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I'm going to do the count first.

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I volunteered to do count that night.

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I really wanted to get an idea of what the facility was like.

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Count is the single most important thing that we do on our job, ever.

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As long as those inmates are there, where they're supposed to be, everything else doesn't matter.

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I'm going to do the count first.

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And then I noticed something kind of strange.

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Why is there a sergeant inside the house unit?

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Part of me is thinking maybe I screwed up and did something wrong my first day here.

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Or maybe they're just coming to say hello, maybe?

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I walked into the control room.

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There was nobody in there.

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Hey, where'd the sergeant go?

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What do you mean?

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No one's come in since you left.

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I didn't know what he was talking about.

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I could have swore I just saw it.

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Just me here.

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I knew without a shadow of a doubt that there was a sergeant standing right behind him.

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I was left confused.

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I think I just need some coffee or something.

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We've got something here.

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Security checks are done approximately every 25 minutes, all night long.

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I'm going to do my count.

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It was 11 o'clock. It was lights out.

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Lights out, ladies.

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Hit your bunks, 11 p.m.

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It's very quiet.

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There's a certain kind of silence that's different inside of a jail.

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I'm going to go to the jail.

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And suddenly I hear clink, clink, clink, clink, slam.

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I noticed a door was open.

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Well, that door shouldn't be open.

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I'm thinking, what is going on?

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This is Yates and D-Tower.

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Go ahead.

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I got a door opening and closing in hallway four.

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They've told me that the door was decommissioned. It doesn't work.

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Probably not.

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I assumed that it was probably just a maintenance issue.

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Went back to doing, you know, my work.

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And then I started hearing footsteps.

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I assumed my partner had come back.

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But couldn't see anything with my eyes down the hallway.

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The footsteps stopped right at the doors.

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When I look up at the camera view, there's nobody there.

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I'm not sure if it's the door.

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I'm figuring I'm a new guy.

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Maybe they're kind of hazing me a little bit. Maybe it's kind of like a joke.

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All right, guys. Very funny. You got me. You pranked a new guy.

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All of a sudden, I heard...

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There's nobody there.

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There's nowhere they could have hid. There's nowhere they could have gone.

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I'm thinking to myself, like, wow, this is going to be a really long night.

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Maybe tomorrow night will be much easier.

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I'm going to go get a car.

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Hey, you catch a car in the game last night?

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I noticed that the season staff were literally robots.

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It's part of our job as attention officers to be desensitized, to not show emotion.

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But it's a whole other level that was happening at this jail.

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Yates, Simpson.

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I got paired with Officer Simpson.

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I got you two guys on D Tower tonight.

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You got it. That's three times this week.

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Come on.

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Officer Simpson was just pacing back and forth.

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He's kind of talking to himself a little bit.

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I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this.

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He knows where I am, right?

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He can see us.

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I'm like, okay, this is kind of weird.

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I was a few hours later into my shift.

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Are you okay, man?

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Oh, no, I got to get out of here.

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Get out of here?

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I need to go.

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You're not feeling well?

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I got a soda. You want it?

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And all of a sudden, I noticed a man in one of the...

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cell blocks.

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Hey, who was that?

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And I'm like, okay, who the hell was that?

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I'm going to go in my security check.

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When I arrived to the location, he was nowhere to be found.

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I'm going to go in my security check.

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Suddenly, I heard...

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I want to. I want to. I want to.

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Inmate.

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No.

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No. No.

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Inmate.

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I'm like, who is she talking to?

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No. No. No.

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What I saw was a natural.

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That look, that stare kind of perforated through my entire body.

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I was frozen in fear.

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He's here.

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He's here.

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I don't want to kill myself.

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She kept telling me that he was here or he was here.

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Inmate, this is a secure facility.

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The only officer on the floor is me.

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No. No. No. No.

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Help.

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Help.

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Help.

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Help.

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Help.

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Help.

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Help.

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Help.

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Help.

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Help.

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Help.

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Help.

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Help.

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Help.

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Help.

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Help.

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Help.

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He was here.

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The sergeant was here and he told me I got to kill myself.

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That time at night, there was no reason for a sergeant to be in a cell block.

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Is he still here?

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He's right behind you.

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...

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Hey.

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He was here.

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The sergeant was here and he told me I got to kill myself.

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Is he still here?

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He's right behind you.

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There was nobody there.

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But I knew that I had seen something on the monitors.

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Who is that sergeant?

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I got it. We're gonna be okay.

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Follow me.

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I was worried about Jay every day.

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I was worried about Jay every day.

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Just like cops that work the streets, his life was in danger.

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So every single day, it was a relief.

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To have someone that's more than just your wife, I mean, for her to be your best friend,

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that's something that, you know, it's hard to find.

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So, how did it go?

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I'm exhausted.

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Sorry.

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Hey, Dad, can you see my report card?

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Nothing, hey, buddy, Dad, he's tired, okay?

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That was very strange, because usually he would spend time with the boys,

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but today he started actually really being distant.

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My mind was just completely just shot.

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My body was shot.

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I'm thinking to myself, I've got to get out of Detower.

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I can't do this job at this place every day with all that was going on.

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Later that night, I was back in Estrella.

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Suddenly I hear a slider door open.

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But there was nobody down in the other hallways.

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All the inmates were asleep, they're inside their cells.

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It didn't make any sense.

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I started to hear it screeching.

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I assumed that it was my partner dragging a chair to the tower.

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But then I realized he was an indeed tower.

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Suddenly the chair was gone.

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00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000
I thought, hey, I'm going to get out of here.

271
00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000
I'm going to get out of here.

272
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000
I'm going to get out of here.

273
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000
Boom, like right in my face, out of nowhere.

274
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000
Who just threw a chair at my tower?

275
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,000
This is Officer Yates.

276
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000
Identify yourself.

277
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,000
Look around 360 degrees, there's no one there.

278
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:27,000
These things that were happening, there was no logical explanation.

279
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000
It was like nonstop.

280
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,000
It's early morning hours, everyone's asleep, everyone's completely out.

281
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,000
And I'm watching my partner conduct a security walk.

282
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,000
It was around one in the morning.

283
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,000
Most inmates were sleeping.

284
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,000
Every shift we have to do three random cell searches.

285
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,000
I noticed two girls were awake.

286
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,000
Stand up to be caught.

287
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,000
You gotta perform a cell search.

288
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000
No, seriously.

289
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,000
Hands out here please.

290
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,000
I'm not going to do that.

291
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000
I'm not going to do that.

292
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,000
Yates, performing a cell search on 1A4.

293
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,000
You got eyes on me?

294
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000
Copy that.

295
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,000
Alright, open door please.

296
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000
Don't move until I say.

297
00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,000
Doing a cell search, you're very vulnerable.

298
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,000
I was exposed, I was relying on my partner to keep an eye on the inmates.

299
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000
You got eyes on me?

300
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,000
Affirmative.

301
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,000
I'm looking for contraband, whether it be weapons, drugs.

302
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,000
I'm not going to do that.

303
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,000
Suddenly I felt like I wasn't by myself.

304
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:11,000
I'm searching the bottom bunk and all of a sudden I knew somebody wanted to hurt me.

305
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,000
But the inmates are sitting about 15, 20 feet away from me.

306
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,000
Did you move?

307
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,000
Did you get up? Did you just move? Did you touch me? Did you grab me?

308
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,000
Yeah, unless you want us to.

309
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,000
At that time I was 190 pounds.

310
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,000
I don't think I was going to be able to do that.

311
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000
I was going to be able to do that.

312
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,000
I was 190 pounds.

313
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,000
I don't think the females that I pulled out could have done that.

314
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,000
It hit me like a ton of bricks.

315
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,000
If it wasn't the inmates, you know what was it?

316
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000
Want your mommy?

317
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,000
Oh, I'm staying.

318
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000
Come here.

319
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:23,000
Walking in my first day at Australia was, you know, like the lost kid at the first day of school.

320
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,000
And I walked in, everybody was just kind of quiet.

321
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,000
Like they didn't know what to say or what to do.

322
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,000
I recognized Officer Yates and I was like, hey.

323
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,000
Remember me? Padilla.

324
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000
Hey.

325
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:46,000
He wasn't being the officer that I first knew him as.

326
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,000
What's going on? Long night?

327
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:57,000
He wasn't so well kept anymore, not shaven and just looking very, you know, down was weird to see.

328
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000
And it was out of place.

329
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,000
It's just something you don't normally see on him.

330
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000
Okay, we have a new officer joining us today.

331
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,000
Officer Padilla, welcome aboard.

332
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:14,000
She will be working with Officer Yates at D Tower tonight.

333
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:28,000
I was doing security walk while Officer Yates was in the control room.

334
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,000
D Tower was just seemed neglected.

335
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000
It's dark and it's dirty.

336
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:39,000
I've never seen a tower like that before in a jail.

337
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,000
I heard what I thought was a male voice.

338
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,000
I'm in a female facility. Why am I hearing a male's voice?

339
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,000
Where the hell is this coming from?

340
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,000
All right, maybe it's from outside.

341
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,000
And I could still hear the voice.

342
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,000
I radioed Yates.

343
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,000
She kept saying, you know, I'm hearing this male voice talking.

344
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,000
Okay, I'll just finish up and be right there.

345
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,000
What the hell is going on? Who is this and what do they want?

346
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:18,000
Suddenly I hear it from the other side of the sail block.

347
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,000
I hear it from the other side of the sail block.

348
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,000
Meanwhile I sunbathe with Officer Yates.

349
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,000
Okay, and she will show that where would be.

350
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,000
Place clear.

351
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,000
I payurate her curiosity,

352
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,000
and go on even though I can't hear her voice.

353
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,000
And tell her here is the Blue Zeus,

354
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,960
the mikey, programming,

355
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,000
and so we're gone and said to pull out the knife,

356
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,000
just make it as if it weren't us.

357
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:38,980
And then the boy stopped.

358
00:30:38,980 --> 00:30:59,960
And then all of a sudden, I saw a man.

359
00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:01,960
Hello?

360
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:02,960
Sargeant?

361
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,960
Hello?

362
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:13,940
Hello?

363
00:31:13,940 --> 00:31:23,940
Hello?

364
00:31:23,940 --> 00:31:26,940
He wasn't there.

365
00:31:26,940 --> 00:31:30,940
The man had vanished from the corner.

366
00:31:30,940 --> 00:31:57,920
He scared the crap out of me.

367
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,900
I saw something. Someone.

368
00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:03,900
I knew no other officer that could have been there.

369
00:32:03,900 --> 00:32:05,900
Let's go back to the control room.

370
00:32:05,900 --> 00:32:09,900
You would have known. Another officer's presence would have been known there.

371
00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:11,900
I'm like, okay, I'm not crazy.

372
00:32:11,900 --> 00:32:19,900
She's thought this is some real stuff going on.

373
00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:21,900
Day by day, Jay was changing.

374
00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:26,900
His attitude, his demeanor and everything was completely changing.

375
00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:32,900
It scared me as a wife. I didn't know what to do.

376
00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:38,900
Just a few hours ago, a detention officer from Australia jail was found unconscious here in his home.

377
00:32:38,900 --> 00:32:42,900
Doctors believe it was an attempted suicide.

378
00:32:42,900 --> 00:32:48,900
Paramedics did their best to revive Mr. Mark Simpson, and he is now in critical condition at a local hospital.

379
00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:53,900
This is not the first time that a staff member from Australia jail has attempted to take their own life.

380
00:32:53,900 --> 00:32:57,900
I felt like a ton of bricks hit my chest.

381
00:32:57,900 --> 00:33:03,900
That is the same jail my husband's working at.

382
00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:11,900
Later that night, I was back in D-Tower.

383
00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:18,900
It was time for the first security check of the night.

384
00:33:18,900 --> 00:33:22,900
My partner was up in the control room.

385
00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:31,900
I hear what sounds like a choking.

386
00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:40,900
I hear the noise again. You know, like this gasp of air.

387
00:33:40,900 --> 00:34:02,900
I knew what that sound was. That was the sound of someone hanging themselves.

388
00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:29,900
There's nobody there.

389
00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:37,900
She's literally hanging.

390
00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:44,900
She was gone. She's gone.

391
00:34:44,900 --> 00:34:57,900
I just lost my grip. I just lost all... I felt like I lost my sanity.

392
00:34:57,900 --> 00:35:04,900
I was worrying that he was going to, you know, maybe drive himself sick.

393
00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:10,900
He was going to maybe take his own life.

394
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:16,900
It was hard. It was hard to see him go through this. I tried talking to him and, you know, he really kind of just brushed me off.

395
00:35:16,900 --> 00:35:25,900
He said, you know, everything's fine.

396
00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:31,900
I worried that whatever was going on in this jail was going to take me to a place where maybe I'd take my own self out.

397
00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:42,900
You know, that's what I worried about.

398
00:35:42,900 --> 00:35:47,900
And suddenly I had this overwhelming sensation that I wasn't alone.

399
00:35:47,900 --> 00:35:56,900
Looking in my review mirror.

400
00:35:56,900 --> 00:36:01,900
There was nobody there.

401
00:36:01,900 --> 00:36:11,900
But still, in the back of my mind, I couldn't shake the thought that there's someone following me.

402
00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:20,900
Hey, kid. Come on in. It's time to eat, okay?

403
00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:24,900
It was finally the weekend and Jay and I both were going to have a day off.

404
00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:30,900
Usually we'd take the kids, load up, go hiking.

405
00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:32,900
Oh, hey, Dad.

406
00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:40,900
But Jay was like a zombie. I mean, he'd even look at me.

407
00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:45,900
Jay.

408
00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:51,900
At that moment I was a little angry at him. I told him, Jay, get up, get in the shower, get your clothes.

409
00:36:51,900 --> 00:36:55,900
Come on. We're ready to go, right? You're excited?

410
00:36:55,900 --> 00:36:59,900
I'm not going anywhere. I'm not doing anything all right.

411
00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:05,900
Jay?

412
00:37:05,900 --> 00:37:10,900
Dammit, can you give me a break?

413
00:37:10,900 --> 00:37:14,900
What's wrong with you? The kids and I were going to spend the whole day with you.

414
00:37:14,900 --> 00:37:18,900
Did I tell you to come and you're a woman?

415
00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:23,900
He was just treating me like I was just an inmate.

416
00:37:23,900 --> 00:37:28,900
And every day it was just getting worse.

417
00:37:28,900 --> 00:37:32,900
I had to do something to bring my husband back.

418
00:37:32,900 --> 00:37:37,900
I couldn't live on this earth without him.

419
00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:50,900
So that would be worse thing in the world.

420
00:37:50,900 --> 00:38:01,900
I wanted to find out what was going on with my husband in this jail.

421
00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:05,900
A new story popped up.

422
00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:09,900
In court today, in a case that has shocked the small Phoenix community,

423
00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:26,900
Maricopa County detention officer, Dean Thomas, has pleaded guilty to one charge of first degree murder for killing his wife in 2005.

424
00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:35,900
I really didn't want anything to do with anybody. I just wanted to be alone. I wanted to be by myself.

425
00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:48,900
Officer Thomas' family reports that they noticed a significant change in his personality after he began working at a stray of jail.

426
00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:53,900
All of a sudden I heard the door. I assumed that it was my wife.

427
00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:58,900
Damn it, Marie. Will you give me some space?

428
00:38:58,900 --> 00:39:02,900
Marie!

429
00:39:02,900 --> 00:39:09,900
I see this lady. I had no idea who this woman was.

430
00:39:09,900 --> 00:39:10,900
Hello?

431
00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:17,900
She wasn't even blinking. She was just staring at me.

432
00:39:17,900 --> 00:39:19,900
And suddenly...

433
00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:27,900
AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

434
00:39:27,900 --> 00:39:39,900
AAAAAAAAHHHHH!

435
00:39:39,900 --> 00:39:46,900
In court today, Maricopa County detention officer, Dean Thomas, has pleaded guilty to one charge of first degree murder.

436
00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:49,900
I'm like, okay, this is really scary.

437
00:39:49,900 --> 00:40:00,900
On the 15th of February 2005, detention officer Dean Thomas left his shift at the jail and in a vicious attack killed his wife by stabbing her repeatedly in the back with a kitchen knife.

438
00:40:00,900 --> 00:40:08,900
Was the same thing going to happen to me?

439
00:40:08,900 --> 00:40:16,900
All of a sudden I heard the creaking sound of our front door.

440
00:40:16,900 --> 00:40:26,900
Jay? Jay?

441
00:40:26,900 --> 00:40:31,900
Jay?

442
00:40:31,900 --> 00:40:34,900
Jay?

443
00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:38,900
He didn't say nothing to me.

444
00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:42,900
Honey?

445
00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:48,900
All of a sudden he turned his head.

446
00:40:48,900 --> 00:40:53,900
And he looked at me and goes, I'm waiting for the inmates.

447
00:40:53,900 --> 00:40:55,900
What?

448
00:40:55,900 --> 00:41:04,900
And I'm like, babe, wake up, you're not in the jail. Wake up.

449
00:41:04,900 --> 00:41:06,900
He's... Jay?

450
00:41:06,900 --> 00:41:14,900
Come on honey, please look at me. Please, Jay, you've got to turn around, okay?

451
00:41:14,900 --> 00:41:24,900
It scared the living crap out of me. Those were not my husband's eyes.

452
00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:27,900
But I wasn't going to give up on him.

453
00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:44,900
Jay? Jay, look at me. Come on. Where are you? What's wrong with you? Just talk to me. Please.

454
00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:46,900
Are we?

455
00:41:46,900 --> 00:41:53,900
Jay?

456
00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:58,900
It helped me for the first time for a very long time.

457
00:41:58,900 --> 00:42:02,900
That hug was almost like the warmth.

458
00:42:02,900 --> 00:42:11,900
Like I was freezing cold for so long and then all of a sudden I had that warmth wrap around me.

459
00:42:11,900 --> 00:42:16,900
I could have lost the best thing that ever happened to me.

460
00:42:16,900 --> 00:42:19,900
And I lost her, my mind would have been completely gone. I wouldn't...

461
00:42:19,900 --> 00:42:24,900
I would have never been normal again.

462
00:42:24,900 --> 00:42:32,900
Honestly, today I feel that they're still a part of me. That's still in that jail.

463
00:42:32,900 --> 00:42:35,900
A part that will never be released.

464
00:42:35,900 --> 00:42:51,900
Do I ever think he was really a sergeant in real life? Oh no, I don't think he was a real sergeant in real life.

465
00:42:51,900 --> 00:42:54,900
I think he was just a demon in disguise.