Magnolia
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:04:00
What?
:04:01
Shut the fuck up!
:04:04
Added to this,
the tenants turned out to be...

:04:08
Fay and Arthur Barringer...
:04:10
Sydney's mother and father.
:04:13
When confronted
with the charge...

:04:15
which took some figuring out
for the officers on the scene...

:04:19
Fay Barringer swore she did not
know the gun was loaded.

:04:23
She always threatens me with it,
but I don't keep it loaded.

:04:27
And you didn't load the gun?
:04:29
Why would I load the gun?
:04:31
A young boy
who lived in the building...

:04:33
sometimes a visitor and friend
to Sydney Barringer...

:04:36
said that he had seen,
six days prior...

:04:38
the loading of the shotgun.
:04:40
Ricky, come here a minute.
:04:42
It seems that all
the arguing and fighting...

:04:44
and violence was far too much
for Sydney Barringer...

:04:47
and knowing his mother and
father's tendency to fight...

:04:50
he decided to do something.
:04:53
He said he wanted them
to kill each other...

:04:56
and all they wanted to do
was to kill each other...

:04:59
and he would help them do that
if that's what they wanted.

:05:02
Sydney Barringer jumps
from the ninth floor rooftop.

:05:06
His parents argue
three stories below.

:05:09
Her accidental shotgun blast
hits Sydney in the stomach...

:05:12
as he passes the arguing
sixth floor window.

:05:15
He is killed instantly,
but continues to fall...

:05:18
only to find,
five stories below...

:05:21
a safety net
installed three days prior...

:05:23
for a set of window washers
that would've broken his fall...

:05:26
and saved his life -- if not
for the hole in his stomach.

:05:29
So Fay Barringer was charged
with the murder of her son...

:05:33
and Sydney Barringer noted as
an accomplice in his own death.

:05:38
And it is in the humble opinion
of this narrator...

:05:40
that this is not just
"something that happened."

:05:43
This cannot be
"one of those things."

:05:47
This, please, cannot be that.
:05:49
And for what
I would like to say, I can't.

:05:52
This was not just
a matter of chance.

:05:57
These strange things
happen all the time.


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