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GEMINI PICTURES PRESENTS |
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IN ASSOCIATION WITH ZIPPER BROTHERS FILMS |
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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Opening title: OFF THE RAILS |
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TEXT SLATE ‘SEPTEMBER 1, 2010’ |
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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. |
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TEXT SLATE ‘This is Darius’ 29th incarceration’ |
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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. |
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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. |
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DARIUS PTC Ever since I was 15 years old, I have
been running towards the subway system. |
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DARIUS PTC And the thing is, it's like I'm
still living that same life over and over. |
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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.” |
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DARIUS PTC Unfortunately, yes, I did break the
law. But what do we do about the diagnosis that caused me to commit the
crime? |
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TEXT ON SCREEN ‘Darius has Asperger’s syndrome’ |
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TEXT ON SCREEN ‘Asperger’s is an autistic disorder characterized
by high intelligence, social impairment, and intense interest in one subject’ |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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? |
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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. |
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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. |
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LORI SHERY He can be very, very charming. |
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JUDE DOMSKI, Affable, friendly. |
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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. |
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LIZ MCCOLLUM Mother |
LIZ MCCOLLUM He was the first thing I saw in the
morning and the last thing I saw at night. |
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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. |
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LIZ MCCOLLUM I loved to take that boy anywhere.
We rode the trains all the time. |
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DARIUS We went to off-Broadway plays. My
mother used to take me shopping. |
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LIZ MCCOLLUM And he can shop. He can really shop. |
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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. |
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DARIUS |
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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? |
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DARIUS “I want to look. Let me see. Let me
see.” She says, "No, no, no. Just come over here and have a seat." |
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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. |
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TEXT SLATE ‘RIKERS ISLAND Maximum Security Unit’ |
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TEXT SLATE ‘2011. A year after his arrest,
Darius still awaits trial’ |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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LIZ MCCOLLUM I had saw him when he was on that
gurney, with all the blood running out of him. |
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LIZ MCCOLLUM, Mother And I saw the fear in his face. |
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DARIUS When I got to the hospital, I had to
get surgery done, because I had a punctured lung. |
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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. |
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DARIUS It was the changing point of my
life. |
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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. |
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DARIUS The subway became my new school. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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." |
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TEXT SLATE ‘APRIL1978’ |
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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
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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." |
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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! |
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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… |
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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. |
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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. |
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DARIUS There was TV cameras outside of my
house three or four days straight. |
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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. |
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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." |
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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. |
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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.” |
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TEXT SLATE ‘At 17 and 18, Darius applied to
work for the MTA. He was rejected both times’ |
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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. |
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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’ |
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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. |
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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. |
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DARIUS Whenever my name came across the
newspapers, it was like, oh, Jackson to the rescue. What did Jackson do to
help me? Nothing. |
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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.” |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.” |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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TEXT SLATE ‘After waiting 3 years in jail,
Darius was sentenced to 5 years with the possibility of parole’ TEXT SLATE ‘1997’ |
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NYC SUBWAY WORKER |
NYC SUBWAY WORKER Darius knows how to talk the talk
and walk the walk. He knows the system fantastically. |
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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. |
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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." |
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DARIUS I would give them suggestions more
so, not really tell them what to do. |
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NYC SUBWAY WORKER He's giving all this grief to the
people out there. |
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DARIUS And it provided such comfort for the
guys, they were like, "Wow, you're a good boss." |
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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. |
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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’ |
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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. |
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LORI SHERY This is somebody who not just would
love their job but would live for their job. |
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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? |
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TEXT SLATE ‘FEBRUARY 2000’ |
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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. |
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DARIUS This was my 19th arrest. They asked
me a series of questions relating to the crime. |
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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. |
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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. |
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CARTOON CLIP This looks like a job for Superman. |
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RAY SANCHEZ Transportation Reporter, Newsday |
RAY SANCHEZ Someone tripped the brakes on the
train, and he immediately sprung into action. |
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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. |
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CHARLES BILAL Retired Rikers Island Imam |
CHARLES BILAL He loved relieving people of their
burdens. That was his fantasy. That's his thing. |
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DARIUS I was just trying to be the regular
Good Samaritan kind of guy. |
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DARIUS After everybody gets off, we now have to find out what actually caused the train to trip. |
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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. |
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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. |
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DARIUS They was
under suspicion that I was the one that actually caused the train to go into
emergency from the tower. |
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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. |
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DARIUS I was trying to do everything I
could to get myself cleared. |
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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. |
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DARIUS All of this was directly all
impossible. |
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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. |
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TEXT SLATE ‘Darius was charged with reckless
endangerment for tripping the train’s emergency brakes from the tower’ TEXT SLATE ‘ONE YEAR LATER Sentencing’ |
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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. |
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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. |
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LORI SHERY She decided that Darius really was
doing these things willfully, and there were no excuses. |
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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. |
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LORI SHERY Basically, they were wasting time in
her court room. |
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LORI SHERY I sentence the defendant to five
years in prison. |
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DARIUS DOING A TRAIN ANNOUNCEMENT
VOICE Stand clear of the closing doors,
please. |
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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. |
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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. |
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DARIUS She says, "You work here?” I'm
like, "Yes, I work here.” |
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RAY SANCHEZ He was impersonating a subway
conductor. She was impressed with his uniform. |
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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. |
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RAY SANCHEZ Nelly had a problem pronouncing
‘Darius’, so she translated his name into "Dario." |
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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’. |
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DARIUS I ended up moving in with her. She
even gave me the keys to her place and everything. |
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NELLY RODRIGUEZ [speaking Spanish] He cooked and cleaned the house and
everything. |
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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. |
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NELLY RODRIGUEZ [speaking Spanish] Honestly, I thought to leave him.
But when Dario called me from jail, he asked for forgiveness. |
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DARIUS She came to pretty much very visit.
I used to call her every day, tell her how much I miss her. |
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NELLY RODRIGUEZ [speaking Spanish] There in jail, Darius asked me to
marry him. And then we got married in there. |
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DARIUS I enjoyed my wife, and after my
release, we just figured we can work things out together. |
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RAY SANCHEZ Everything was fine in their
relationship until Darius
started disappearing and Nelly began to suspect that he was having an affair. |
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NELLY RODRIGUEZ [speaking Spanish] I asked him, where he was going,
where he had been. |
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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. |
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NELLY RODRIGUEZ [speaking Spanish] Honestly, I thought that Dario was
going to change. But it wasn’t like that. |
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DARIUS The hope that she represented was
dead. She could change me but I don't think she
understood what I was going through. |
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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." |
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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. |
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TEXT SLATE ‘Darius and Nelly have since
separated’ |
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TEXT SLATE ‘CHRISTMAS EVE RELEASE DAY 2013’ |
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VOICE OFF CAMERA How do you feel? DARIUS Good, happy now. |
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DARIUS I'm only issued directly $40, that's
it. That's for me to basically get home or whatever I need. |
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SALLY BUTLER He comes out with no housing. He
comes out with no services. He just lands on the street. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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RADIO STATION A little Jingle Bell Rock on …. DARIUS No, heck no. [humming with radio] ♪ It's only you in my life ♪ |
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DARIUS I'm happy. I'm like…. I’m just
happy. See, New York City, I'm back at home. |
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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. |
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DARIUS That's the little 7th Street train
yard. There's the 1 train right there, going back Uptown. |
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JUDE DOMSKI And he does what he knows how to do. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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DARIUS I talk to my mother every single
day, and I miss my mother. |
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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. |
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DARIUS My mother was always my greatest
influence in life. |
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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. |
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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." |
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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. |
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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. |
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LIZ MCCOLLUM I would love to go up there to see
him, but I can't make that kind of trip. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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SALLY BUTLER He was working there, and I know
that there was tours, he would be fantastic at
leading a tour. |
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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. |
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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. |
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TEXT SLATE ‘A week after his release, parole
ordered Darius to wear an ankle bracelet to prevent him from riding the
subway’ |
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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." |
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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. |
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TEXT SLATE ‘Two days later, Darius removed his
ankle bracelet’ |
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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. |
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SALLY BUTLER Some people can take a pill. He gets
a five-minute or a ten-minute ride, and he's happy again. |
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TEXT SLATE ‘The next day, Darius was caught
without his ankle bracelet’ TEXT SLATE ‘He was sent back to jail for
another year’ |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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TEXT SLATE ‘AUGUST 2015’ |
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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. |
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JUDE DOMSKI He has managed to remain impervious
to the incredibly depressing surroundings that he's been in most of his life. |
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DARIUS [PLAYING WITH A KITE] Yeah, come on, up, up, up. |
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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... |
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DARIUS [PLAYING WITH A KITE] Come on, there you go. |
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MICHAEL JOHN CARLEY, You know,
that little glow of emotional strength that sometimes exists in some of us. |
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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. |
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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. |
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TICKET BOOTH Where you going? DARIUS North Carolina. The reservation
should already be in there. |
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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. |
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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. |
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LIZ MCCOLLUM Oh, boy. Let me tell you, you don't
know the half. |
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DARIUS My mom is the only person that can
give me the love I need. |
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LIZ MCCOLLUM What you got in here? |
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DARIUS We make a good team. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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TEXT SLATE ‘THREE MONTHS LATER’ TEXT SLATE ‘NOVEMBER 11, 2015’ |
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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. |
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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. |
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TEXT SLATE ‘Darius is currently in jail
awaiting trial. He faces up to 15 years in prison’ |
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