:14:04
Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.
:14:08
Victorian-era orchid hunter
William Arnold...
:14:10
...drowned on a collecting expedition.
:14:14
Osmers vanished without a trace
in Asia.
:14:19
Augustus Margary survived toothache,
rheumatism, pleurisy and dysentery...
:14:26
...only to be murdered when
he completed his mission...
:14:29
...and traveled beyond Bhamo.
:14:35
Laroche loved orchids, but I...
:14:38
I came to believe he loved the
difficulty and fatality of getting them...
:14:42
...almost as much as he loved
the orchids themselves.
:14:46
I've been a professional horticulturist
for, like, 12 years.
:14:51
I owned my own plant nursery,
which was destroyed by the hurricane.
:14:54
I'm a professional plant lecturer.
:14:56
I've given over, like, 60 lectures
on the cultivation of plants.
:15:00
I'm a published author,
both in magazine and book form.
:15:03
And I have extensive experience
with orchids...
:15:06
...and the asexual micropropagation
of orchids under aseptic cultures.
:15:11
That's laboratory work.
It's not at all like your nursery work.
:15:17
I'm probably the smartest person
I know.
:15:20
- Thank you.
- You're very welcome.
:15:26
Mr. Laroche?
I'm Susan Orlean.
:15:29
I'm a writer for The New Yorker.
It's a magazine that...
:15:31
I'm familiar with The New Yorker.
:15:34
"The New Yorker?
Yes, The New Yorker." Right?
:15:37
That's right.
:15:39
I'm very interested in doing a piece
on your situation here, and...
:15:42
Yeah? Yeah.
:15:44
You wanna put this in?
:15:46
I don't care what goes on here.
:15:48
I'm right, and I'll take it all the way
to Supreme Court.
:15:51
Because that judge can screw herself.