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00.00.00.23	GEMINI PICTURES PRESENTS
00.00.05.10	IN ASSOCIATION WITH ZIPPER BROTHERS FILMS
00.00.20.11		DARIUS Over the years, I have operated trains in the New York City subway system, Metro North, Long Island Railroad, New Jersey Transit. And yet I have never, ever been an employee of any of these agencies.
00.00.40.05 00.00.43.00 00.00.47.10 00.00.52.10 00.00.56.16		NEWSREADER 1 Well, a Manhattan man is getting a free ride to prison. NEWSREADER 2 McCollum, said to have an encyclopedic knowledge of all things transit-related. NEWSREADER 3 He started hijacking modes of city transportation before I was even born. NEWSREADER 4 A notorious New York City public transit bandit. NEWSREADER 5 Darius McCollum's is a unique and troubled New York story.
00.01.06.16		DARIUS I have spent more than half of my adult life in prison. My home became the subway, and I didn't want to give it up.
00.01.20.07	Opening title: OFF THE RAILS
00.01.25.22	TEXT SLATE ‘SEPTEMBER 1, 2010’
00.01.29.22		NEWSREADER 6 A man with a reputation for impersonating a transit worker is in trouble with the law once again. The Queens district attorney says 45-year-old Darius McCollum was arrested Tuesday morning for allegedly a New York Trailways bus from a maintenance yard in Hoboken. He faces 15 years in prison if convicted.
00.01.53.00	TEXT SLATE ‘This is Darius’ 29th incarceration’
00.01.48.06		DARIUS PTC The reason why I'm at Rikers Island is that I came from New Jersey with a bus. I picked up some passengers, I took them to the airport, and during that course, I was apprehended by NYPD.
00.02.08.11		DARIUS PTC I've been living my life in the past, and it's like I'm chasing a dream that I can't seem to get.
00.02.16.20		DARIUS PTC Ever since I was 15 years old, I have been running towards the subway system.
00.02.25.01		DARIUS PTC And the thing is, it's like I'm still living that same life over and over.
00.02.33.05		DARIUS Here in New York City, I'm known as the Train in the Neck. To some people, I'm known as the Train Nut. People tell me that I'm crazy, but maybe they mean it, "He's crazy because he's different.”
00.02.49.09		DARIUS PTC Unfortunately, yes, I did break the law. But what do we do about the diagnosis that caused me to commit the crime?
00.03.01.07	TEXT ON SCREEN ‘Darius has Asperger’s syndrome’
00.03.05.17	TEXT ON SCREEN ‘Asperger’s is an autistic disorder characterized by high intelligence, social impairment, and intense interest in one subject’
00.03.16.08		DARIUS I'm really good with trains, but I can't seem to figure out people. And it's hard for me to tell what someone is thinking or feeling. I get confused in social situations. I have trouble making friends.
00.03.35.02	LORI SHERY Advocate for Darius Founder, ASPEN Autism Group	LORI SHERY People in the spectrum, they like routine, and they like rituals and they like schedules. And trains run on a schedule.
00.03.48.07		DARIUS The transportation system provides a routine schedule every single day, 365 days per year, unless it's a leap year, of course. Darius McCollum has a schedule too. I know what time I want to get up. I know what time I want to eat. I know what time I want to go out and do things. And I keep it the same way pretty much every single day.
00.04.11.03	JUDE DOMSKI, Playwright, Boy Steals Train (based on Darius’ life)	JUDE DOMSKI When you hear of crimes like this - hijacking a train, driving it - it’s usually for some monetary gain or an act of terrorism. For Darius, it was for the joy of driving the train safely. All of his crimes were victimless. There were no crashes. He would safely make all of the stops, make the announcements.
00.04.35.06		DARIUS When I'm actually taking a city bus, I'm not just out for a leisurely joyride. I'm actually doing the duties of a bus driver. I'm picking up the passengers. I'm actually collecting the fares. And I'm staying directly on the route to make sure the passengers get to where they have to go.
00.04.53.11	MICHAEL JOHN CARLEY Diagnosed with Asperger’s	MICHAEL JOHN CARLEY Sometimes when we have Asperger's syndrome, we are gullible enough to commit to some really questionable ideas. But what nobody can ever question is the commitment level to whatever idea we latch on to. That's going to be more than the next guy.
00.05.14.19		DARIUS I like to compare myself to Superman. He was migrated here through some kind of meteor. I was migrated here through the transportation thing. I was born in Brooklyn. Superman came from some distant planet. His weakness is Kryptonite. My weakness is the third rail. His thing of being a superhero is saving the world and trying to bring about world peace. My thing is getting people from point A to point B in a timely fashion.
00.05.45.20	MICHAEL GARFINKLE, PHD Psychoanalyst Assessed Darius	MICHAEL GARFINKLE, PHD If you ask him about it, he says, "I'm volunteering my time,” I mean, as if he's a high schooler getting community service hours. It's a benevolent act.
00.05.57.10		DARIUS PTC I was just providing a service to the public, because how many people in their right mind actually go and take a train or a bus and actually bring it back?
00.06.07.04	RAY SANCHEZ Transportation Reporter, Newsday	RAY SANCHEZ We're talking about a subway system where people are killed every day. And yet it was Darius McCollum whose face appeared in every locker room, in every tower in the New York City subway system. You know, it wasn’t the most prolific mugger or, you know, the most wanted rapist but Darius McCollum.
00.06.29.19	LIZ LOEBMAN Social Worker Supervised Darius	LIZ LOEBMAN There was nothing about him that seemed like hardened inmate, criminal, who's been going back and forth to prison.
00.06.36.16		LORI SHERY He can be very, very charming.
00.06.38.12		JUDE DOMSKI, Affable, friendly.
00.06.43.22		DARIUS When I was a kid coming up, I definitely had a happy childhood. When I was younger, there were some women who was attracted to me. I had some girlfriends. I was good-natured. I was well-dressed. I was always polite. It was something about me that people just overall they liked about me. I never was really close with my father. He was only home on Sundays. His day was sports. "Leave me alone. Don't bother me.” Drink a beer, that's it. Just by seeing us together, you pretty much know I'm a mama's boy, because my mother pampers me, and I pamper my mother.
00.07.27.00	LIZ MCCOLLUM Mother	LIZ MCCOLLUM He was the first thing I saw in the morning and the last thing I saw at night.
00.07.31.10		DARIUS She wanted me to have the best education. My mother always helped me out with my homework. So my mother did everything she could to provide for me. The only thing I didn't like when I was a kid was taking cod-liver oil in the morning for breakfast.
00.07.45.21		LIZ MCCOLLUM I loved to take that boy anywhere. We rode the trains all the time.
00.07.51.04		DARIUS We went to off-Broadway plays. My mother used to take me shopping.
00.07.54.17		LIZ MCCOLLUM And he can shop. He can really shop.
00.07.57.20		DARIUS My parents one year bought me a drum set. I wasn't really good at it. I tried to learn how to play the guitar. I just made noise with it. My calling wasn't to be a musician, even though I kind of wanted to be like Liberace. My overall calling was listen…. you know, like, the wheels on the bus keep going round and round, that type of thing. So I chose to stick for the train.
00.08.29.08		DARIUS In the '70s and ‘80s, the subway was dirty and dangerous. But for me, it was paradise. Looking up at these big machines, it was just something I fell in love with.
00.08.42.15		LIZ MCCOLLUM He loved the train so much. He'd be looking at everything. He wouldn't miss nothing. He used to go from one place to the other, peeping out the doors. He'd grab me by the hand and, "Come on, Ma, look out there. See the track?
00.08.56.10		DARIUS “I want to look. Let me see. Let me see.” She says, "No, no, no. Just come over here and have a seat."
00.09.01.20		LIZ MCCOLLUM We had people calling up when he was seven years old, asking him how to get to different parts of New York by the train. And he could tell them.
00.09.51.01	TEXT SLATE ‘RIKERS ISLAND Maximum Security Unit’
00.09.20.04	TEXT SLATE ‘2011. A year after his arrest, Darius still awaits trial’
00.09.25.17		DARIUS DOING A TRAIN ANNOUNCEMENT VOICE Attention, passengers, we are being held here by the train dispatcher. We shall be moving shortly. We are sorry for any inconvenience.
00.09.41.08		DARIUS I actually enjoyed going to school. I even asked for extra work. They thought I was a nerd. They used to say, "Well, gee, "you get better scores than I do. I got a job for you; I want you to do my homework.” They'd be like, "What you got for lunch today? I'm eating your lunch.” I didn't want to be bullied. I didn't want to be picked on. I didn't want to have to be beaten up. I used to have to make up escape routes just to get away from them.
00.10.11.01		DARIUS One day when I was 12 years old, it was a winter storm that took place. There was two of us in the classroom. The teacher gave me and the other kid a puzzle. The other kid, he wanted to do both puzzles. She said, “No. You do your puzzle that I gave you. He'll do the puzzle that I gave him.” While she was trying to straighten out some shelves, she left a pair of scissors on her desk drawer.
00.10.43.11		LIZ MCCOLLUM And suddenly, this kid comes over to Darius while he was looking like this, had the scissors, and stabbed him in his back.
00.10.50.16		DARIUS And I yelled real loud, believe me. I yelled so loud, it probably shook the school. And she turned around, and she saw him about to stab me again. And she was like, "Help, help!” And then had to hold me down on the ground, because I was losing blood. I didn't even know if I was gonna die or not.
00.11.16.06		LIZ MCCOLLUM I had saw him when he was on that gurney, with all the blood running out of him.
00.11.25.16		LIZ MCCOLLUM, Mother And I saw the fear in his face.
00.11.29.20		DARIUS When I got to the hospital, I had to get surgery done, because I had a punctured lung.
00.11.35.04		LIZ MCCOLLUM The doctor said that if he hadn't had the care that he had, he said he would have died, because that scissors blade was so close to the heart.
00.11.45.19		DARIUS It was the changing point of my life.
00.11.51.04		DARIUS After the stabbing incident, I just didn't trust kids my age. I didn't know who to trust. I didn't know who to be around. I became more and more frightened of going to school. It was like, I would pull the fire alarm just to get the heck out of school. When I felt pressured, I would throw the desk at the students and so forth, like that. And I just didn't want to go anymore.
00.12.17.08		DARIUS The subway became my new school.
00.12.21.17		DARIUS I used to ask what a certain button was or certain switches were. The employee told me, "These buttons here control the doors. This button here is for the buzzer.” I just learned by listening to the radios. I learned by listening to the dispatchers. I learned by listening to the tower operators. I kept myself advancing all the time.
00.12.43.12		DARIUS I was issued a full uniform at that age of 12 years old. I felt like as if I was actually part of the team.
00.12.53.21		LORI SHERY Here was a kid who was lonely and found acceptance and comfort in the subways. Why? Because all of the workers thought he was the most interesting kid they'd ever met. He could talk about all kinds of things train-related and with expertise in it.
00.13.12.23		DARIUS My phone may ring, like, about 5:00 in the morning. They used to be like, "Listen, Darius, can you come in and help me out over here for the day?” I'm like, "Sure, I have no problem with that.” Sometimes people would try to fight over me. "I want him to cover me for the train.” "Well, I want him to cover me in the token booth.” "No, I want him.” "No, I want him.” Wherever I could make the person the most happiest, that's where I pretty much ended up going. And they used to actually say, "Well, listen, you want to learn how to operate a train?” I'm like, "Okay."
00.13.39.14	TEXT SLATE ‘APRIL1978’
00.13.43.00		DARIUS The guy says, "Come on, let's take a ride.” I'm not expecting to operate the train. I was expecting just to charge the train up for him. He says, "All right, now, listen, take this lever here. Once that light comes on… oh, there it is… release your brakes, nice and easy, there you go.” You can hear the ‘boom’. You can feel the train starting to kick in from behind. He says, "Just let the train roll.” I just felt like, “Wow, I'm actually moving a train.” It's like, “Cool, this is, like, really groovy.” It was something I'd been waiting for all my life to do, and then next thing you know, here I am, actually doing it. And he says, "Pump the brake, pump the brake, and let the train just ease up to the ten car marker, and let the throttle go."
00.14.27.21		DARIUS I guess you could say it was like me actually losing my virginity, because I'm more adapted to the trains than I am, you know, with the women part. I just felt so doggone good, it was like, "Gee, I can't wait to go do it again."
00.14.51.01		DARIUS Back on January 29, 1981, I was only 15 years old. I was with a friend of mine, Carl Schulak. Carl used to operate the E train, and he asked me, "Would you be interested in driving the train by yourself? All you have to do is just go down to the World Trade Center, come back, and pick me up.” I says, "What the heck? I'll do it.” When we get down to the train station at 34th Street and 8th Avenue, he actually set foot off the train. And I opened the window, he says, "All right, make sure you pick me up when you come back.” He went to go see a girlfriend of his who was actually a railroad clerk. Conductor closes the doors, I just move on out. That was my first time operating a train solo. I'm actually picking up passengers. It's like, wow!
00.15.40.06		DARIUS Next stop is 23rd Street. The next stop is 14th Street, West 4th Street, Spring Street, Canal Street, World Trade Center Hudson Terminal. I followed the whole entire line, as if I'd been doing it for years. When I pulled into Chamber Street, a passenger saw me operating the train and went downstairs and told the tower. The tower called ahead and told the dispatcher, "Listen, check out that train. I think there's a kid driving the train.” My conductor goes to me, "Hey, where's Carl at?” I'm like, "Oh, he's around.” I get down to the other end of the train, charge the train up, put the lights on. I'm waiting for the dispatcher to give me the signal so I can proceed. The dispatcher is like, "What are you doing?” "What do you mean, what am I doing?” He says, “Where's the train operator at?” I says, "I am the train operator.” He says, "No, no, no, no. Seriously, where's the train operator?” "I'm telling you, I'm the train operator. Matter of fact, I got to leave. Let me have my signal so I can go." He says, "Give me one minute.” I already knew that he knew at that point that I wasn’t the actual train operator. But I figured, you know, if I make everything look good, he might just give me the signal so I can go. He comes back outside to me, "Listen, the train’s out of service.” I'm like, "Train's out of service?” go to the PA system, I says…
00.16.56.04		DARIUS DOING A TRAIN ANNOUNCEMENT VOICE Attention, passengers and conductor, be advised, this train's out of service. I repeat, this train's now out of service.
00.17.02.17		DARIUS And transit cops came down there, and then another boss came down there. He says, "Listen, where’s the train operator at?” I'm like, "I don't know.” And then the cops detain me.
00.17.19.06		DARIUS There was TV cameras outside of my house three or four days straight.
00.17.23.23 00.17.28.12		NEWS REPORT Update: the latest from News 4 New York. NEWSREADER Transit Authority officials were stunned, to say the least, late today, when they heard a 15-year-old Queens boy had actually hijacked a subway train and taken it for a joyride, stopped at stations along the route, let some passengers get on, some passengers get off, had a fine time.
00.17.43.23		DARIUS My mother didn't want me to even mention the word ‘train’ in the house. And she kept saying the same thing over and over: "If you hadn't never started going down there, none of this would have ever happened."
00.17.56.00		DARIUS My mother was like, "Do not set a foot out that house unless I tell you to.” I wasn't trying to defy my mother, but I just felt as if I had to go back down there. It was like the devil's advocate in my head. The one side was like, "No, don't go.” One part was saying, “Go." My mother was trying to do everything she could to hold me back. But I went anyway. I didn't care what my mother was saying. And that's all there is to it.
00.18.27.14		LIZ MCCOLLUM I got tired of crying and worrying, trying to find out where he is. So I got to the place I didn’t worry about him anymore. I just turned him over to God. I said, "You take care of him.”
00.18.41.01	TEXT SLATE ‘At 17 and 18, Darius applied to work for the MTA. He was rejected both times’
00.18.52.00		DARIUS The transit system made up excuses not to hire me. They felt that I was an embarrassment to the system. You know, "We feel that you will be a liability, because look at who you are, look at the name that you created for yourself.” And at that point, I was directly to give up from hanging out in the subway system. So I kept doing what I did.
00.19.18.01 00.19.27.02 00.19.36.10	TEXT SLATE ‘Darius continued to ‘work’ for the MTA over the next 30 years driving more than 500 trains and buses’ TEXT SLATE ‘His stints between incarcerations lasted just a few months. He stayed in halfway houses and shelters’ TEXT SLATE ‘As a felon, he struggled to find work, subsisting on food stamps. He was often homeless’
00.19.46.09		DARIUS DOING A TRAIN ANNOUNCEMENT VOICE Good morning, passengers. The dynamite D train making express stops. Next stop on this train will be Fordham. Please step in, not step out, and please stay out of closing doors. The next stop on this train will be 34th Street and 6th Avenue. Excuse me, if you'll please step in the door, it would be appreciated, so the train can move. Thank you.
00.20.09.17	MICHAEL JOHN CARLEY Advocated for Darius GRASP Asperger’s Organization	MICHAEL JOHN CARLEY Darius, all these years, had this man as his lawyer named Stephen Jackson. He was one of these celebrity lawyers who was just trying to make a name for himself. He signed on with Darius because Darius was high-profile.
00.20.26.14		DARIUS Whenever my name came across the newspapers, it was like, oh, Jackson to the rescue. What did Jackson do to help me? Nothing.
00.20.36.19		MICHAEL JOHN CARLEY, Jackson didn't show up for Darius' court dates, which meant that Darius would spend maybe another six months just sitting in jail. Darius had even at one point, asked the judge, "I really need to change my lawyer. I don't want to keep going back to jail without even having been charged yet.” And because the courts label Asperger's as a mental defect, the judge's response was, "You are not capable of making the decision to terminate your lawyer.”
00.21.13.09 00.21.17.10		NEWS REPORT You're watching New York 1: news all morning. NEWSREADER An attorney is charged with stealing more than $100,000 from his clients. Stephen Jackson stole more than $150,000 from Capital One Bank in a fraudulent check scheme. Jackson faces several charges, including grand larceny, forgery, and identity theft.
00.21.37.03	SALLY BUTLER Darius’ New Attorney	SALLY BUTLER I think that the judge chose me to take this case because I sort of am one of those people that don't really handle somebody’s… am I allowed to say bullshit? From day one, I thought it was an interesting case. Just when you get a case file that is five inches thick, you know that there’s gonna be something interesting. And I felt bad, because the case had been hanging around for so many years and nothing had been done.
00.22.00.22		SALLY BUTLER He likes to talk a lot. He writes me a letter every day. And if I haven't received a particular letter, he gets very upset. It's already been a challenge, and I've only had the case for two months.
00.22.13.21		SALLY BUTLER So when he stole this bus, which I think is wild, that he got through Manhattan and he ends up in Queens, and when the police officers stop him, he says he stole the bus. So he was pretty much cooked.
00.22.29.01	MICHAEL DOUGHERTY, Former NY Assistant D.A. Prosecuted Darius	MICHAEL DOUGHERTY The thing I want to see most of all is Mr. McCollum never arrested again. I would love to see some solution that would afford him the opportunity to never go back into the transit system and commit the crimes that he's committed on so many hundreds of occasions. But certainly, if he's gonna continue to put the public at risk, I think prison is an option that has to be considered.
00.22.50.15		SALLY BUTLER When he stole this bus, there was a lot of media attention. When there's media attention, the district attorney's office digs their heels in deeper. They're so fearful that he will get out and steal a bus, steal a train, and then they'll bring this back up and say, “Listen, they had a chance to throw him in jail, and instead they gave him this alternative sentence, and as a result, we've got this massive pileup of subway trains.”
00.23.20.09		SALLY BUTLER He must now do more jail time than the last time. And the last time was two and a half to five years in prison. This time, the offer is three to six years in prison, and they don't want to come down from that offer.
00.23.37.19		SALLY BUTLER If he were to lose the case, he could get up to 7 1/2 to 15. He will go into a maximum facility, and he will be in with the worst of the worst: the killers, the gang leaders, those that are doing 25 years to life.
00.23.57.16		SALLY BUTLER Then he has the option of pleading an insanity defense, that this is something that he will do based upon his Asperger’s. If a jury were to say, "We agree,” they remand him to psychiatric custody and he remains there until such time they decide they've cured him. So they could keep him forever. And he would be locked up with the criminally insane. And it's a bad place to be.
00.24.30.08		SALLY BUTLER It's in lockdown, it's cages, it's whatever they want. Every client I've had that is in that sort of a facility, I've never seen them get well. I've never seen them released. They die there. He's an individual that New York State Corrections doesn't know how to handle, doesn't want to handle, and doesn't have the money or the support to figure it out. Failure is in the cards for him.
00.25.04.01 00.25.12.11	TEXT SLATE ‘After waiting 3 years in jail, Darius was sentenced to 5 years with the possibility of parole’ TEXT SLATE ‘1997’
00.25.14.17	NYC SUBWAY WORKER	NYC SUBWAY WORKER Darius knows how to talk the talk and walk the walk. He knows the system fantastically.
00.25.21.10		DARIUS Even thought I was a conductor at one point in time, I was a train operator at one point in time, I'm kind of like, you know what, I need to improvise. I need to give myself a raise.
00.25.32.08		NYC SUBWAY WORKER He somehow got a hold of a superintendent's badge. He takes out a transit van, and he goes out to a general order site and inspects it. And he makes people move the flags around, saying, "Oh, this is not set up according to regulation."
00.25.47.15		DARIUS I would give them suggestions more so, not really tell them what to do.
00.25.51.01		NYC SUBWAY WORKER He's giving all this grief to the people out there.
00.25.53.11		DARIUS And it provided such comfort for the guys, they were like, "Wow, you're a good boss."
00.25.58.13		NYC SUBWAY WORKER He gets away with it for the first night, goes out the second night, you know, signs out the equipment, goes out and inspects another general order. By the third night, he does it again. And now some of the people are wondering, "What's going on? Superintendent Manning told us to do this.” They finally figured out that Superintendent Manning was Darius McCollum.
00.25.19.20 00.26.20.22 00.26.22.00 00.26.23.05	TEXT SLATE ‘GRAND LARCENY 18 MONTHS IN PRISON’ TEXT SLATE ‘TRESPASSING 18 MONTHS IN PRISON’ TEXT SLATE ‘CRIMINAL IMPERSONATION 18 MONTHS IN PRISON’ TEXT SLATE ‘CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPERTY 18 MONTHS IN PRISON’
00.26.27.22	MARCIA SCHEINER Autism Employment Specialist	MARCIA SCHEINER The best outcome for Darius would be for him to be hired by the MTA. One, they wouldn't have somebody stealing their buses and their trains anymore. And two, they would have an employee who probably knows more than anybody who works there.
00.26.43.11		LORI SHERY This is somebody who not just would love their job but would live for their job.
00.26.49.11		NYC SUBWAY WORKER The MTA cannot take a chance with Darius McCollum. He's a loose cannon. We've got a big rulebook, and the rules are written in blood. Every rule is down here because someone got hurt. If you legitimize him by giving him a job, who knows what he could do?
00.27.15.10	TEXT SLATE ‘FEBRUARY 2000’
00.27.17.13 00.27.17.13 00.27.19.12		MICHAEL DOUGHERTY How you doing? DARIUS Pretty good. MICHAEL DOUGHERTY As you know, my name is Michael Dougherty. I'm the assistant DA here in New York County. I'm the prosecutor who's now in charge of this case for which you've been arrested.
00.27.27.23		DARIUS This was my 19th arrest. They asked me a series of questions relating to the crime.
00.27.34.06		DARIUS "At what time did you actually enter the train station of 57th Street?” I told them I entered the train station maybe about 6:00-something in the evening. "What was you doing when the train came into the train station?” I said, "I was sitting in the tower, trying to get warmed up.” Now, seeing as I got the keys for the tower, naturally, I could just let myself on in.
00.27.53.07		DARIUS There was a northbound N train coming into the train station. This one guy who was driving the train, his name was Chris, he picked up speed, and bam. All you here is ‘Chow’. Now, when you hear, “Chow," that means the train just went into emergency.
00.28.08.16		CARTOON CLIP This looks like a job for Superman.
00.28.12.17	RAY SANCHEZ Transportation Reporter, Newsday	RAY SANCHEZ Someone tripped the brakes on the train, and he immediately sprung into action.
00.28.18.03		DARIUS I proceed out of the tower. I go to the train operator’s position. I'm like, "What happened?” He's like, "I don't know.” His conductor got a call from command, saying, "Listen, get the passengers off the train.” I'm coming up in between the cars, unlocking the storm doors. The main thing is to get the people off the train so they can at least continue in their route without a problem.
00.28.40.11	CHARLES BILAL Retired Rikers Island Imam	CHARLES BILAL He loved relieving people of their burdens. That was his fantasy. That's his thing.
00.28.50.08		DARIUS I was just trying to be the regular Good Samaritan kind of guy.
00.28.56.04		DARIUS After everybody gets off, we now have to find out what actually caused the train to trip.
00.29.04.03		DARIUS A couple of cops come along. The train operator, he was the one that initiated for the cops to actually come because he recognized me from the wanted poster. His conductor was trying to, like, keep him quiet, like, "Listen, let the guy do what he's doing. He's all right.” Now, I could have took off and ran down the platform, but I chose to be, like, if I cooperate with you, I probably won’t have any problems. I told the transit cop, I'm like, "Listen, you got me.” He says, "What do you mean, you got me?” I'm like, "I don't work for transit.” "Are you serious?” And he was like, "Can't believe it.” The detectives told me I would have to go down to the DA's office to make a video. And I'm thinking that if I can give you a video that's going to help clear my name, then let's go for it.
00.29.53.20 00.29.57.15 00.29.59.01		MICHAEL DOUGHERTY I'm struggling a little bit to believe that you didn't flip the switch that stops the train. DARIUS Yeah, I know. MICHAEL DOUGHERTY You know that we think you did.
00.30.00.16		DARIUS They was under suspicion that I was the one that actually caused the train to go into emergency from the tower.
00.30.08.04 00.30.08.23 00.30.09.19 00.30.11.14 00.30.12.17 00.30.18.19		MICHAEL DOUGHERTY You do it? DARIUS No, I didn't. MICHAEL DOUGHERTY You know why I think you did, because... DARIUS I know so much about it. MICHAEL DOUGHERTY You know so much about it. Box is right there inside the control room. It's a very small room, right? DARIUS Yep. But it's just like I told them before. I says, if you would have dusted that board, you're not gonna find my fingerprints on it.
00.30.24.16		DARIUS I was trying to do everything I could to get myself cleared.
00.30.28.11		DARIUS The keys that I have can key me into the tower, but the keys that I have would not give me access to switches.
00.30.37.00		DARIUS All of this was directly all impossible.
00.30.39.08 00.30.45.05		MICHAEL DOUGHERTY Maybe it was an accident; maybe it was a mistake. But I want you to be honest with me about it, because otherwise I don't believe you. DARIUS No, I'm being as honest as I can be. I didn't touch the board under any circumstances.
00.30.52.15 00.31.00.04	TEXT SLATE ‘Darius was charged with reckless endangerment for tripping the train’s emergency brakes from the tower’ TEXT SLATE ‘ONE YEAR LATER Sentencing’
00.31.02.16	LORI SHERY Asperger’s Advocate Founder, ASPEN	LORI SHERY Darius' mother was there. She was sitting next to me. She had come up from North Carolina. He looked defeated. And seeing how vulnerable he really was, my heart just went out for him. Of course, he wasn't allowed to speak to anyone, and I'm sure that was very, very hard for his mother, sitting there and not being able to go over to him. The Honorable Carol Berkman was the judge.
00.31.33.09
00.31.42.11		RAY SANCHEZ Without any psychiatric evaluations, she decided that he didn't have Asperger’s just based on her review of Asperger's on the Internet. You know, she did a Google search.
00.31.54.03		LORI SHERY She decided that Darius really was doing these things willfully, and there were no excuses.
00.32.01.15		ACTORS VOICE OF HON. CAROL BERKMAN Asperger's would not disable him from knowing that he's not supposed to take the trains, which I gather has been his specialty. He can stop doing this.
00.32.12.06		LORI SHERY Basically, they were wasting time in her court room.
00.32.15.15		LORI SHERY I sentence the defendant to five years in prison.
00.32.28.05		DARIUS DOING A TRAIN ANNOUNCEMENT VOICE Stand clear of the closing doors, please.
00.32.42.03		DARIUS I got released from prison a few years later. I pretty much stayed to myself, becoming more of a loner. One night, I was in Brooklyn. I'm walking through the train station and there's this one lady sitting there on the bench. I says, "Wow, you look cold.” She says, "Yeah, mucho frio."I sat down next to her and I keep her company. I had always been looking for that one girl who's compatible to me. If I could find this lady, my train days are over. My bus days are over.
00.33.20.07		RAY SANCHEZ She was a seamstress from Ecuador. Didn't speak a word of English. He didn't speak a word of Spanish. They somehow managed to communicate.
00.33.31.03		DARIUS She says, "You work here?” I'm like, "Yes, I work here.”
00.33.35.02		RAY SANCHEZ He was impersonating a subway conductor. She was impressed with his uniform.
00.33.40.11		DARIUS "You get paid good?” I'm like, "Yes, I get paid very, very, very, very good.” She wrote down her phone number, and she wrote down her name.
00.33.48.00		RAY SANCHEZ Nelly had a problem pronouncing ‘Darius’, so she translated his name into "Dario."
00.33.55.01		NELLY RODRIGUEZ [speaking Spanish] Dario told me that he liked me and asked me to be his girlfriend. Sometimes he would bring me flowers. He would tell me that I was his ‘honey’. He always called me ‘honey, honey’.
00.34.13.06		DARIUS I ended up moving in with her. She even gave me the keys to her place and everything.
00.34.18.05		NELLY RODRIGUEZ [speaking Spanish] He cooked and cleaned the house and everything.
00.34.28.12		RAY SANCHEZ It wasn't until sometime later when he was arrested that Nelly realized that he was the great imposter of the New York City subway.
00.34.38.19		NELLY RODRIGUEZ [speaking Spanish] Honestly, I thought to leave him. But when Dario called me from jail, he asked for forgiveness.
00.34.50.22		DARIUS She came to pretty much very visit. I used to call her every day, tell her how much I miss her.
00.34.58.04		NELLY RODRIGUEZ [speaking Spanish] There in jail, Darius asked me to marry him. And then we got married in there.
00.35.08.22		DARIUS I enjoyed my wife, and after my release, we just figured we can work things out together.
00.35.18.14		RAY SANCHEZ Everything was fine in their relationship until Darius started disappearing and Nelly began to suspect that he was having an affair.
00.35.26.22		NELLY RODRIGUEZ [speaking Spanish] I asked him, where he was going, where he had been.
00.35.34.01		RAY SANCHEZ She said, "Darius, why are you coming home so late? Do you have someone else?” And he says, “No." His other women are the trains.
00.35.43.07		NELLY RODRIGUEZ [speaking Spanish] Honestly, I thought that Dario was going to change. But it wasn’t like that.
00.35.54.14		DARIUS The hope that she represented was dead. She could change me but I don't think she understood what I was going through.
00.36.04.23		RAY SANCHEZ She said, "Who do you love more, me or the trains?” And he looked at her and he says, "Well, if I have to pick one, I'm gonna go with the trains."
00.36.16.03		NELLY RODRIGUEZ [speaking Spanish] It would have been a better life if he loved me and not the trains. For me it was very hard, very hard.
00.36.45.08	TEXT SLATE ‘Darius and Nelly have since separated’
00.36.56.16	TEXT SLATE ‘CHRISTMAS EVE RELEASE DAY 2013’
00.37.10.12 00.37.11.16		VOICE OFF CAMERA How do you feel? DARIUS Good, happy now.
00.37.16.12		DARIUS I'm only issued directly $40, that's it. That's for me to basically get home or whatever I need.
00.37.23.21		SALLY BUTLER He comes out with no housing. He comes out with no services. He just lands on the street.
00.37.32.03 00.37.34.01 00.37.34.18 00.37.37.03 00.37.38.06 00.37.40.18		DARIUS MAKING A PHONE CALL Hello. LIZ MCCOLLUM, Darius’ Mother on the phone Who is this? DARIUS MAKING A PHONE CALL It's me. LIZ MCCOLLUM, Darius’ Mother on the phone Darius? DARIUS MAKING A PHONE CALL It's me, yeah. Hi, Ma. LIZ MCCOLLUM, Darius’ Mother on the phone I know you’re out but you can’t come home.
00.37.43.19	HOWARD IRVING, PHD Therapist Evaluated Darius	HOWARD IRVING, PHD The parole board won't let him go back to North Carolina while he is on probation.
00.37.50.16 00.37.56.18 00.37.58.12		LIZ MCCOLLUM, Darius’ Mother on the phone Tell them your mother is sick and she needs you. Your mother and your father are both sick. DARIUS MAKING A PHONE CALL Where's Daddy at? LIZ MCCOLLUM, Darius’ Mother on the phone He’s still in the hospital.
00.37.59.23		HOWARD IRVING He has to go back to New York City where all his problems are. And, in fact, it's about the worst thing they can do for him.
00.38.09.19 00.38.13.03 00.38.14.18 00.38.16.00 00.38.20.14 00.38.23.05		LIZ MCCOLLUM, Darius’ Mother on the phone I miss you. Even though I’ve been talking to you. But I miss you. DARIUS MAKING A PHONE CALL I know, but… LIZ MCCOLLUM, Darius’ Mother on the phone You know nothing. DARIUS MAKING A PHONE CALL I do too. All right, I'll talk to you later. Yeah, all right. All right, love you too. LIZ MCCOLLUM, Darius’ Mother on the phone As long as you gonna stay out of jail that’s all I’m interested in. DARIUS MAKING A PHONE CALL No problem.
00.38.26.13 00.38.37.23		RADIO STATION A little Jingle Bell Rock on …. DARIUS No, heck no. [humming with radio] ♪ It's only you in my life ♪
00.38.34.21		DARIUS I'm happy. I'm like…. I’m just happy. See, New York City, I'm back at home.
00.38.44.17		JUDE DOMSKI I don't think he's ever paid rent or held a job. He has no skills to live in the real world.
00.38.55.01		DARIUS That's the little 7th Street train yard. There's the 1 train right there, going back Uptown.
00.38.59.17		JUDE DOMSKI And he does what he knows how to do.
00.39.03.11		DARIUS If you go a little further down, you'll see the other train tracks, which is for Metro North, which comes into Highbridge. I'm actually really excited, more than I'm probably showing. But, you know, I really do appreciate everything that’s going on today.
00.39.27.00 00.39.28.02 00.39.29.09 00.39.30.20 00.39.32.02 00.39.32.21 00.39.35.07 00.39.37.05 00.39.39.07 00.39.40.18	SALLY BUTLER Darius’ Attorney	DARIUS Hey, what's up? SALLY BUTLER Hey. DARIUS Happy New Year. SALLY BUTLER Oh, it's good to see you, man. DARIUS It's good to see you too. SALLY BUTLER Look at this, you're not wearing orange. DARIUS Yeah, thank God, you know what I mean? SALLY BUTLER Oh, how are you? DARIUS Oh, good, I tell you. SALLY BUTLER Come in here, come on. Come here, let me hear how your life is going.
00.39.44.08 00.40.04.17 00.40.07.23		DARIUS You know, being downstairs in the subway or being around the buses, hearing the engines, you know, I still get the… I have to fight through all that stuff and it's kind of hard. Listen, I bought this thing so I can keep myself busy. I got to run from the cops, get all the coins and so forth, like that. So, yeah, this is not that bad. I need something like this to keep, you know, my mind active a little bit. SALLY BUTLER We got all these fun things while you were locked up, so this is pretty new to you, right? DARIUS This is all new to me, yes.
00.40.09.19 00.40.14.07 00.40.15.09 00.40.16.23 00.40.21.09 00.40.22.16 00.40.23.03 00.40.39.10 00.40.42.05 00.40.47.21		SALLY BUTLER Are you just getting on the subway to go to point A and point B, or are you…. DARIUS Point A to point B. SALLY BUTLER Have you been on any buses? DARIUS Of course. Have I been on the bus? Yeah. SALLY BUTLER And you weren’t in the driver's seat? DARIUS No. SALLY BUTLER Okay, good answer. So I guess the question is, what are you gonna do this time differently than all the other times? You know that right now, you're on the hustle and bustle of getting your life back together again, but it's all going to come to a point in which you've got to address this. DARIUS Yeah. Well, I'm gonna work on it. SALLY BUTLER No, no, no, no, no. "I'm gonna work on it,” doesn't work for me. I want to hear, what are you going to do? DARIUS What I was saying is, is that I don't know what kind of counseling I'm gonna get that's going to help me move on.
00.40.55.17		DARIUS Yeah, I just bought the newspaper and I heard that I was actually in it, so I wanted to verify it for myself. If you notice, this is the whole article. Down here, it even says, "Transit bandit sprung from jail.” So I just figured I just wanted to see what it says about me.
00.41.14.15 00.41.35.09 00.41.36.10 00.41.36.20 00.41.38.07 00.41.39.20 00.41.41.20 00.41.45.21		DARIUS You know what the funniest thing is? I'm gonna tell you something funny. My picture came out in the newspaper on the 25th. I'm on the train, I got the paper open. Like, I was talking to this one girl like, "You know who this guy is?” “No." "You sure? Come on, I'm sitting right here next to you.” Got my picture plastered in the newspaper, but nobody knows who the heck I am. SALLY BUTLER You're yesterday's news. DARIUS Yeah. SALLY BUTLER Can you remain yesterday's news? DARIUS I'm gonna remain yesterday's... SALLY BUTLER That is the question here. DARIUS I'm going to remain yesterday's and beyond news. I'm not going, you know... SALLY BUTLER Okay.
00.41.50.09		DARIUS I haven't been able to see my parents for the past almost four years now. I want to go see my parents in North Carolina, but by me being on parole, I can't leave New York.
00.42.09.02 00.42.09.22		LIZ MCCOLLUM Hello. DARIUS MAKING PHONE CALL I just figured I'd call and see how you were doing and everything and check on you.
00.42.14.01		DARIUS I talk to my mother every single day, and I miss my mother.
00.42.24.22 00.42.29.17 00.42.31.23 00.42.33.15 00.42.38.00		DARIUS It's supposed to be up in the 40s all weekend here in New York. If that's the case, I can go to a swimming pool then. LIZ MCCOLLUM A swimming pool in 50 degrees! You crazy? DARIUS MAKING PHONE CALL You never heard of the Polar Bear Club? LIZ MCCOLLUM Them cold people? You don’t know them. DARIUS MAKING PHONE CALL It was a joke, Ma.
00.42.41.23		DARIUS My mother was always my greatest influence in life.
00.42.47.10 00.42.48.20 00.42.50.04 00.42.51.06		DARIUS MAKING PHONE CALL All right, love you, have fun. LIZ MCCOLLUM Yeah, okay, I'll see you. DARIUS MAKING PHONE CALL All right, bye. LIZ MCCOLLUM All right, bye.
00.42.54.01		DARIUS There are many times when I have felt that I was a disappointment to my mother by not staying out of the subways, not coming home and talking about my problem. I never followed through on a lot of things that I should have. But my mother always made it like, "You're not a disappointment. Don't think of it like that."
00.43.21.14	LIZ MCCOLLUM Darius’ Mother	LIZ MCCOLLUM I don't care what he does. I'm gonna still always love him, no matter what he does. I love him, and it's because he is my kid, so I love him.
00.43.39.13		DARIUS My mom is so old, if something happened to her and I wasn't able to get to her, I really wouldn't be able to forgive myself.
00.43.53.19		LIZ MCCOLLUM I would love to go up there to see him, but I can't make that kind of trip.
00.44.02.06		SALLY BUTLER She's 87, and she worries about him and she wants him to be able to stand up on his own two feet, and...he can't right now. He can't.
00.44.16.16		DARIUS When I'm not in jail and I'm not in transit, I don't know what to do with myself. I feel as if I don't have no purpose. I collect government benefits, but I would prefer to earn a paycheck.
00.44.35.12	CHARLES BILAL Retired Rikers Island Imam	CHARLES BILAL I just think there should be a way that the MTA can do something to help him.
00.44.43.21		DARIUS We are standing out in front of the New York City Transit Museum. It looks like an actual subway station. But if you notice the sign that says "NYTM, enter.” Well, I used to be a volunteer down here. I used to come here pretty much on a daily basis.
00.44.58.04		DARIUS There was so much down there to keep you active and to keep you motivated. It was like, ‘hmm, this could be my new home’. By me being a volunteer, maybe it will show that I'm a good person.
00.45.12.20		SALLY BUTLER He was working there, and I know that there was tours, he would be fantastic at leading a tour.
00.45.18.19		DARIUS VO The director of the museum, she started getting phone calls, like, "Listen, we don't want the guy on the property.” And she came to me that day and said, "Listen, Darius, I want to keep you. I don't see there's any problem with you being down here. I mean, the thing is, you're doing a wonderful job, but unfortunately I'm going to have to, you know, ask you to leave.” This would have been a stepping-stone for me, because I felt like as if I was actually on my way to help me grow. My ambition was more so just shattered. I had just lost hope.
00.46.02.03		MICHAEL JOHN CARLEY It was proposed that the best thing for Darius would be if we just destroy this passion for trains, stamp it out, kill it. But if you do that, you may be destroying the capacity for future passion for anything else. And that's a lousy life to subject somebody to, if you succeed.
00.46.27.00	TEXT SLATE ‘A week after his release, parole ordered Darius to wear an ankle bracelet to prevent him from riding the subway’
00.46.43.23	LIZ LOEBMAN Social Worker Supervised Darius	LIZ LOEBMAN One of Darius’ parole stipulations was that he was not to go anywhere on the trains. That included going down the stairs, onto the platform. I remember Darius walking to the train with me and he couldn't come down the steps. It was almost like an electric fence. Like, he had to stop. It was really strange watch him and sort of have to be like, “Bye," you know, and, "You figure it out."
00.47.15.18		DARIUS I'm tired of wearing this stupid ankle bracelet. Trains are the only thing I have left. If I can't ride the trains, then I might as well be back in jail.
00.47.30.01	TEXT SLATE ‘Two days later, Darius removed his ankle bracelet’
00.47.40.04		LORI SHERY People in the spectrum, they have their own coping mechanisms to calm themselves down. Having that same interest, going back to it, it's soothing.
00.47.56.00		SALLY BUTLER Some people can take a pill. He gets a five-minute or a ten-minute ride, and he's happy again.
00.48.05.06 00.48.12.16	TEXT SLATE ‘The next day, Darius was caught without his ankle bracelet’ TEXT SLATE ‘He was sent back to jail for another year’
00.48.29.02	JUDE DOMSKI Playwright, Boy Steals Train (based on Darius’ life)	JUDE DOMSKI He has been stuck in this revolving door for his whole entire life. He gets caught. He lands back in jail. They don't rehabilitate him. He gets out. He does it again. And they have not addressed the problem.
00.48.52.15	MICHAEL DOUGHERTY Former NY Assistant D.A. Prosecuted Darius	MICHAEL DOUGHERTY Why would prison be the option on the table? As I sit here now, I don't know of another option that would solve his problem.
00.49.02.23	LIZ LOEBMAN Social Worker Supervised Darius	LIZ LOEBMAN Your run-of-the-mill drug counselor at a program is not what he needs. He needs a real high level of care and expertise. I've been doing this a long time and I don't feel that I'm adequately equipped to handle this.
00.49.19.21	MICHAEL JOHN CARLEY Advocated for Darius GRASP Asperger's Organization	MICHAEL JOHN CARLEY There is this suggestion that's been made to me plenty of times: "Just give it up. The guy's almost 50. He's been doing this since he was 15 years old.” And I certainly can't argue from the standpoint of all of the success that I've personally had with him, because I haven’t. He's still right where he was when we found him.
00.49.46.00	TEXT SLATE ‘AUGUST 2015’
00.49.53.19		DARIUS I just got released without any parole restrictions. I don't have no probation. I don't have anybody hanging over my head. I can pretty much go wherever I want to go. But if I got caught again, I'll get a mandatory 15 to life sentence. And since I'm 50 years old now, there's a possibility that I can definitely die in jail.
00.50.24.00		JUDE DOMSKI He has managed to remain impervious to the incredibly depressing surroundings that he's been in most of his life.
00.50.36.12		DARIUS [PLAYING WITH A KITE] Yeah, come on, up, up, up.
00.50.39.04		MICHAEL JOHN CARLEY, Somebody who's had that much time in the prison system coming out as somebody who actually looks like they have the capacity to be truly happy...
00.50.49.23		DARIUS [PLAYING WITH A KITE] Come on, there you go.
00.50.52.07		MICHAEL JOHN CARLEY, You know, that little glow of emotional strength that sometimes exists in some of us.
00.50.58.23		DARIUS I just want to live a life and be free. This is my absolute last chance. From this day forward, guess what. I'm done.
00.51.19.20		DARIUS DOING A TRAIN ANNOUNCEMENT VOICE This is the last final stop. All passengers are asked to leave the train. This train is going to the yard. Thank you for riding with the New York City Transit Authority, and thank you for riding this train.
00.51.38.21 00.51.39.14		TICKET BOOTH Where you going? DARIUS North Carolina. The reservation should already be in there.
00.51.51.15		DARIUS I only have two true loves: the trains and my mom. When I was a kid, I used to see my mom every single day. But over the past 30 years, I have only seen my mom five or six times.
00.52.20.21 00.52.29.00 00.52.35.01 00.52.36.14 00.52.38.16 00.52.39.19 00.52.40.23 00.52.42.16 00.52.42.16 00.52.46.19 00.52.47.08 00.52.48.21 00.52.52.07 00.52.52.23		LIZ MCCOLLUM Darius. Hey. You lost some weight. DARIUS Yeah, hey. Mm. Yeah. Hi. How are you? LIZ MCCOLLUM I'm fine. How are you? DARIUS I'm good. I'm good. LIZ MCCOLLUM You didn't shave. DARIUS Ah, I figured I'd shave when I get home. LIZ MCCOLLUM You should shave before. DARIUS That's all right. Yeah. LIZ MCCOLLUM Yeah. You lost some weight too. DARIUS I lost some weight. LIZ MCCOLLUM Not enough….oh. DARIUS I know. [laughs] I told you I was coming home. LIZ MCCOLLUM Mm-hmm. DARIUS Yeah.
00.52.57.16		LIZ MCCOLLUM Oh, boy. Let me tell you, you don't know the half.
00.53.15.16		DARIUS My mom is the only person that can give me the love I need.
00.53.19.16		LIZ MCCOLLUM What you got in here?
00.53.21.11		DARIUS We make a good team.
00.53.33.19		DARIUS In New York, I have things that I look forward to going to. Being in North Carolina, it is kind of dull. I go out to the backyard. All I hear is crickets. There's no excessive people walking around. So I have to try to find ways to keep myself busy.
00.54.07.16		DARIUS I've done a great job of impersonating other people and it's time for me to just be myself. I had to go through the rituals of getting up every day, dressing up like an actual MTA employee. And guess what? I've never been. Just like you have a reality show, well, this is my reality. I'm not a transit employee. It's time to stop running down a dream.
00.54.56.22		DARIUS I have spent the last 50 years as the train guy. But guess what. I would like to be known as just Darius. Darius came out of his shell. He let the trains go.
00.55.31.23 00.55.36.18	TEXT SLATE ‘THREE MONTHS LATER’ TEXT SLATE ‘NOVEMBER 11, 2015’
00.55.36.18		NEWSREADER JIM DOLAN 50-year-old Mr. McCollum was arrested tonight and charged, once again, with stealing a form of mass transit. He apparently went to the Port Authority and jumped in this running Greyhound bus and took off on his latest joyride. He has spent 18 years of his life in prison for repeatedly, uncontrollably, obsessively hijacking trains and buses. And, yeah, police say he did it again.
00.56.03.10		SALLY BUTLER ON THE NEWS He was actually applying for jobs. He ran out of money, and he didn't want to tell us. And he was going to be homeless on the night that this happened. That's where he really has difficulties, when he gets scared, and any person facing homelessness with not a dime in their pocket is going to be scared. This is not necessary. We can do something about this as a society rather than lock people up and throw the key away.
00.56.29.05	TEXT SLATE ‘Darius is currently in jail awaiting trial. He faces up to 15 years in prison’
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