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3:01
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Setting WMM up as handsome, charming, rogue-ish
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4:18
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"What happened next, I like to imagine" - Lepore taking liberties with the unknown
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5:41
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"These too are actors, and this too has been a charade, an experiment"
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7:48
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This episode is going to focus on the invention of the lie detector
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8:04
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The lie detector is different from the polygraph - WMM invented the lie detector, which tests blood pressure
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9:53
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Lepore returning to the idea of the ordeal, which she talks about at length in Ep. 1
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10:46
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WMM thought the lie detector would prevent police from beating suspects up
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11:46
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Frye charged with the murder of Dr. Brown, the richest black man in Washington - do we know yet that Frye is also black?
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13:04
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Frye is linked to the murder of Dr. Brown - and we learn he is black
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13:29
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They wouldn't have recorded an interrogation in 1922 but there was a transcript
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15:17
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"You can see things in a photograph that you can't see in a transcript"
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15:33
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Lepore notes that the photograph is structured in a way to show a black man surrounding by white men trying to "read" his body
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17:46
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Frye later writes that it was impossible for a black man in Washington in 1922 to get a fair trial
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19:32
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Setting up a distinction between other people finding the truth and a machine finding the truth
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20:09
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Lepore acknowledging that in the early 1920s only white men could serve on a jury
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20:46
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Lepore: "I love this part - the jousting, the little duel"
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22:05
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Lepore calls the judge a "piece of work," but this is based on the reenactment?
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24:58
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"It's not an accident that his test subject was a penniless black man accused of murder"
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25:10
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Lepore acknowledging the "Negro problem" that many social scientists of that time wanted to solve
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26:05
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Getting expert insight from a colleague of Lepore's at Harvard
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28:40
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WMM wanted to turn Frye into numbers to prove that he was innocent - almost a white savior approach?
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29:41
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Lepore makes several assumptions - she thinks WMM actually wrote the appeal, not his students
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31:15
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Courts ruled against Frye and the lie detector - set something up called the Frye Test
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31:38
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"Listen for what the rule says, but listen too to what it doesn't say"
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32:49
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WMM was arrested for fraud between Frye's conviction and appeal - WMM was a notorious liar
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33:16
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Lepore interviews WMM's son about the lie detector test
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38:04
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WMM is painted as a sort of silly character even though he committed fraud and lied frequently
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38:31
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WMM moves to Hollywood to work as a consulting psychologist on films
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39:12
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"Hold on to your hats - here comes the real voice of WMM"
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43:12
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Lepore claims that she knows for certain that Frye did not get a fair trial
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3:24
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Beginning of a reenactment where WMM tests out the unreliability of eyewitnesses during his lecture
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8:30
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WMM describing how the lie detector works (presumably to his students?) - Lepore then describes it as a movie scene that we would all be familiar with
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11:05
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Start to get a reenactment of a police interrogation
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11:10
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We meet James Alphonso Frye
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11:29
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Reenacting Frye writing about himself later
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13:33
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Verbal reenactment of a written transcript - we don't know what the voices would have sounded like
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13:59
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Switching back and forth between reenactment and Lepore's descriptions of the transcript
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14:37
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Reenactment and Lepore's own take are that the admission was cautious - how do we know that?
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15:39
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Actor playing Frye recounts his experience of being hooked up to the lie detector
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18:02
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Frye's "voice" recounting the ways in which he will be guilty no matter what
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21:28
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Reenactment of the judge paints him as condescending towards the lie detector - do we know this for sure?
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31:40
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Voice actor reading the Frye Test guidelines
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2:27
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Feet creaking on floor and door opening
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5:50
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Ticking of a clock and buzzer going off
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17:15
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Footsteps as Frye walks to the front of the courtroom to testify
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17:20
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Sound of water pouring into a glass
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