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1 00:00:06 [rock music playing]
2 00:00:25 This is real. This is a robbery.Step away from your cages.
3 00:00:30 [man 1] He was the most prolificbank robber in the Pacific Northwest.
4 00:00:35 [woman 1] He keeps changing his disguises.
5 00:00:36 He seems like he's in a movie,robbing bank after bank.
6 00:00:41 [man 2] Three or four banks,
7 00:00:42 one right after the otherin the same evening.
8 00:00:44 [woman 2] In the FBI,we like to give nicknames to bank robbers.
9 00:00:48 His moniker was "Hollywood."
10 00:00:51 Pretty fitting,
11 00:00:52 especially when we learnedthat he really was inspired
12 00:00:55 by Bodhi in Point Break.
13 00:00:56 Why be a servant to the lawwhen you can be its master?
14 00:01:01 You wanna open the vault,or do you want me to do it?
15 00:01:03 [woman 2] He'd been successfulfor four years.
16 00:01:06 That's why he becameour number one priority.
17 00:01:08 He was not a stupid bank robber.
18 00:01:10 [man 3] Hollywood was probablyone of the most dangerous people
19 00:01:13 that I went up against,
20 00:01:14 because he was a true professional.
21 00:01:16 [man 2] He wantedto decimate the city of Seattle,
22 00:01:18 and it was not only doable,it was winnable.
23 00:01:22 They knew that this mangot millions over the years.
24 00:01:24 They knew that he humiliated them.
25 00:01:27 [man 1] When he walkedinto the Lake City branch to rob us,
26 00:01:30 he walked right past his wanted poster.
27 00:01:33 Don't panic. This is a robbery.Step away from your counter.
28 00:01:36 [reporter 1] What happened herereads straight from a movie script.
29 00:01:39 [reporter 2] He wears heavy makeup, a wig...
30 00:01:41 [reporter 3] His co-staris this 9 mm. handgun.
31 00:01:43 [reporter 4] The most prolific bank robberin the country.
32 00:01:45 He's number oneon the FBI's Most Wanted List.
33 00:01:49 [man 4] They could not figure outwho this guy was,
34 00:01:52 and where he was gonna hit next.
35 00:01:54 [man 5] Was this guy some kind of a ghost?
36 00:01:57 How does he just slip away like that?
37 00:01:59 [rock music intensifies]
38 00:02:18 [music fades]
39 00:02:24 [suspenseful music playing]
40 00:02:30 Hollywood was a unique casefor us in Seattle.
41 00:02:34 We knew from evidence
42 00:02:36 that he was familiarwith security practices.
43 00:02:39 He knew how long he hadbefore he had to get out of there.
44 00:02:43 He was a smart bank robber.
45 00:02:47 He became our number one priority
46 00:02:49 after I becamethe supervisor of our task force.
47 00:02:53 [intriguing music playing]
48 00:02:54 Shawn Johnson was the FBI agentthat was the lead on the case.
49 00:02:59 He was like an encyclopedia on Hollywood.
50 00:03:03 He's number oneas far as, uh, the amount of money
51 00:03:06 that any bank robber has taken.
52 00:03:08 Hollywood was a professional bank robber.He worked at it. He perfected his craft.
53 00:03:14 I think he was enjoying what he did.
54 00:03:16 I think money was part of it,but at that point in time,
55 00:03:18 it was just the, uh, adrenaline rush,the challenge.
56 00:03:23 [Ellen] When I assigned Mike to head upthe Seattle Police response to it,
57 00:03:28 I knew that it would bean electric relationship.
58 00:03:32 [man 3] Shawn and I were night and day,oil and water, two different styles.
59 00:03:37 My partner at the time summed it up.
60 00:03:40 "Shawn Johnson was the fire,and Mike Magan was the can of gasoline."
61 00:03:45 I heard one descriptionthat I'm not sure if I agree with,
62 00:03:47 but I was the brains and he was the brawn.
63 00:03:49 Don't agree with that 100%,
64 00:03:51 but the brain partI agree with for myself.
65 00:03:54 [Mike] Ellen Glasser wasa very talented supervisor
66 00:03:58 who believed in the "KISS" method:Keep It Simple, Stupid.
67 00:04:01 [Ellen] As one of the first women agentsin the FBI,
68 00:04:05 to be able to be supervising
69 00:04:07 this violent crime squadand the task force
70 00:04:10 was such an awesome thing for me.
71 00:04:13 Not only was I in this badass job,
72 00:04:17 I also was blessedto have four young children,
73 00:04:20 and so sometimes I feel likeI was two different people.
74 00:04:25 A lot of the guys called me Agent Mom.
75 00:04:30 [intriguing music playing]
76 00:04:35 [man 4] In the '90s,Seattle was a city in major transition.
77 00:04:40 [intriguing music continues]
78 00:04:44 You went from a two company town,Weyerhaeuser and Boeing,
79 00:04:48 to then you add Microsoft,
80 00:04:49 and then all the companiesthat came around Microsoft.
81 00:04:53 Bezos from Amazon.
82 00:04:56 Starbucks was growing like gangbusters.
83 00:05:00 There was a flood of moneythat came into Seattle.
84 00:05:04 It was amazinghow many banks were popping up.
85 00:05:07 I didn't put two and two togetherat the time
86 00:05:09 that all the cash coming infrom the tech boom was fueling this,
87 00:05:13 but you could find a bankin the grocery store.
88 00:05:15 You could find a bankjust about every corner.
89 00:05:18 [reporter] In Washington state,the number of bank robberies is exploding.
90 00:05:22 I told my wife,"Don't go into a bank in Seattle."
91 00:05:24 Chances are it'll get robbed."
92 00:05:26 [reporter 1] Three men raninto the US Branch Bank in Woodinville
93 00:05:29 with a shotgun...
94 00:05:29 [reporter 2] A man enters the bank,
95 00:05:31 and usually passes a noteto the teller demanding money.
96 00:05:33 [David] There werea lot of bank robberies.
97 00:05:35 I don't know that we did one every night,but we did a lot of them.
98 00:05:38 Let's go to Deborah Horne,who's at the scene with the latest.
99 00:05:41 That's right, David.Just a very few moments ago...
100 00:05:43 [woman 1] Seattle was an exciting place.
101 00:05:45 We were sort ofcoming into our own as a city,
102 00:05:48 certainly in terms of beingwell-known around the country.
103 00:05:50 We had Nirvana, so you have grunge.
104 00:05:53 [David] Grunge, to me,to a certain extent,
105 00:05:56 was that frustrationthat a lot of people were feeling
106 00:05:59 about changes that were comingto their communities.
107 00:06:03 [man 6] The whole grunge thing,it was so anti-corporate
108 00:06:06 and anti-brandsand big-name and fame was all... [scoffs]
109 00:06:09 Nobody cared.Nobody wanted any of that shit.
110 00:06:12 People were literally anti-establishmentfor all the right reasons.
111 00:06:14 They hated all the oppression,they hated the colonialism,
112 00:06:17 they hated the attackon human rights and the environment.
113 00:06:20 And ripping off banks,if they're getting away with it?
114 00:06:23 People love that.
115 00:06:24 [reporter] He's robbed 14 banks in Seattlesince, uh, June of 1992.
116 00:06:27 Wow! He's pretty clever. [chuckles]
117 00:06:30 Darn clever.
118 00:06:31 It's the ultimate F-you to the man.
119 00:06:34 - [woman] It's Mr. Hollywood.- [reporter] Hollywood, right.
120 00:06:36 We knew that there was a guywith a bunch of disguises
121 00:06:39 who was robbing banks,not hurting anybody.
122 00:06:41 No shots were fired.
123 00:06:43 Sounds very bold. [chuckles]
124 00:06:45 There may have been some rooting for him,and people talk about Robin Hood...
125 00:06:52 [Jimmy] The mystique of the bank robbergoes back to the Robin Hood thing.
126 00:06:55 You steal from the richand give to the poor.
127 00:06:58 Duh. How noble is that?
128 00:07:01 [Ellen] He was kind of legendaryin terms of bank robbers.
129 00:07:05 [Mike] But in terms of who Hollywood was,we couldn't have been more wrong.
130 00:07:10 [birds chirping]
131 00:07:17 Hey, Bubba!
132 00:07:21 [man 7] Wow, a man with his shirt off.
133 00:07:24 Come on back!
134 00:07:28 [man 7] Let's go, boys. Come on.
135 00:07:31 - You still filming?- [man 7] We're filming this whole trip.
136 00:07:35 You gotta hold the camera steady.
137 00:07:37 [man 7] That's a little easiersaid than done, man.
138 00:07:40 As you can see, we're deep in the forest.
139 00:07:46 And there's not a whole lot of light.
140 00:07:53 [pensive music playing]
141 00:07:58 - Okay, Tarzan. What do you want to do?- Go up top.
142 00:08:01 - [man 7] Go up top?- Yeah.
143 00:08:04 [man 7] We're goinginto Scurlock's domain.
144 00:08:07 What's the elevation here, mate?
145 00:08:09 - [Scurlock] 75 feet.- [man 7] 75 feet above what?
146 00:08:11 [Scurlock] The floor of the cedars.
147 00:08:14 Down there.
148 00:08:18 [man 7] Tell us the story, mate.
149 00:08:19 How long did it take you?What's the deal here?
150 00:08:21 Took me about two weeksto build this whole thing.
151 00:08:23 - [man 7] Two weeks to build this.- Six stories.
152 00:08:27 Fifty-eight tons of wood.
153 00:08:29 Did a little work.Kind of ate breakfast before I did it.
154 00:08:32 [man 7 laughs] Okay.
155 00:08:36 Okay, no, it really took maybe...I don't know.
156 00:08:40 - Three or four months?- [man 7] Three or four months.
157 00:08:42 [tranquil music playing]
158 00:08:47 [woman 3] The Treehousewas a really amazing, amazing place.
159 00:08:51 A place you could goto get out of the norm of society.
160 00:08:57 [woman 4] The first time I wentto the Treehouse, Scott answered the door.
161 00:09:01 He was stripped nakedexcept his tool belt.
162 00:09:06 I'd never had anybodyanswer the door quite like that,
163 00:09:08 but I pretendedthat it was an everyday occurrence.
164 00:09:12 You'd see furniture,like you would in a normal house,
165 00:09:16 and you'd walk across the deck,and here was a toilet, here was a shower.
166 00:09:22 It was like a real bathroom,
167 00:09:24 except you hada wonderful outdoor experience.
168 00:09:28 [Elizabeth] It was built aroundseven trees and it was really well-made.
169 00:09:32 It was like cedar boardsand picture windows.
170 00:09:35 It was an extravagant tree house.
171 00:09:38 There was a huge oven range,
172 00:09:40 and we carriedthis oven range up the stairs,
173 00:09:43 70 feet to the first floor.
174 00:09:46 [man 2] My brotherwas good friends with Scott,
175 00:09:48 and he said he'd hire meto come out and build his house.
176 00:09:51 And I said, "Yeah, why not?"
177 00:09:53 We did someof the most insane construction.
178 00:09:56 We would be hangingfrom ropes from our ankles
179 00:09:58 to be able to nail itand bolt it in place. And...
180 00:10:02 It was insanely dangerous.
181 00:10:03 All of it was dangerous,but we didn't care.
182 00:10:06 [gentle music playing]
183 00:10:10 The Treehouse was Scott'sinner personality that came to life.
184 00:10:14 He was safe.It was his harbor. It was his anchor.
185 00:10:18 He was free from it all.
186 00:10:22 [Scott] I'm sitting at my desk,40 feet in the trees.
187 00:10:26 The deck extends off the rimlike a ballerina's tutu in full twirl.
188 00:10:31 It's wide enough in placesto bake in the sun's rays,
189 00:10:35 and maybe catch a wink of sleepif you're not scared of rolling off.
190 00:10:39 [man 7] What's going on?
191 00:10:39 [Scott] I like just sitting on the edge,gazing across the trees at Mount Rainier.
192 00:10:43 [man 7] Talk to us.
193 00:10:44 [Scott] I get a feelingof subtle exhilaration.
194 00:10:48 I want a lot out of this life.
195 00:10:51 I think it will be a long search
196 00:10:53 before I find the placewhere God wants me.
197 00:10:56 My mind is like an undisciplined childthat has gone wild.
198 00:11:00 I'll just have to catch it.
199 00:11:07 Everybody loved Scott.Everybody loved the Treehouse.
200 00:11:11 The two were connected.
201 00:11:14 We clicked right awaywhen we first met in school
202 00:11:17 and we just both had a lot of energy,wild and free.
203 00:11:20 We'd like to drink beer.
204 00:11:23 Mark Biggins is an interesting character.
205 00:11:25 He and Scottwent to Evergreen College together.
206 00:11:29 [Elizabeth] People that came to Evergreenwere in some ways misfits.
207 00:11:34 Me included.
208 00:11:35 People are pretty progressive.
209 00:11:37 It wasn't like people taking crazy drugsand drinking and being crazy in that way.
210 00:11:42 It was very earthy.
211 00:11:43 Playing drums and taking mushroomsand sitting around fires.
212 00:11:47 It was also a very tight community.
213 00:11:51 [Mark] Fate just threw us together.
214 00:11:53 Scott was this wild and free guy.
215 00:11:56 Even more sothan the other Evergreen students
216 00:11:59 who were considered wild and free.
217 00:12:01 Mark is just a really tender, gentle soul,you know?
218 00:12:06 He played guitar and wrote poetry.
219 00:12:11 But he was having a really hard time.He was struggling.
220 00:12:14 So I think Scotty really helped him out.
221 00:12:16 [Mark] I called him on the phone,and I said, "Man, my marriage is over."
222 00:12:20 "I don't know what I'm gonna do,where I'm gonna go."
223 00:12:23 And he says, "Well, get on up here!Move in with me."
224 00:12:27 [Steve] Mark Biggins was a big, gruff man.
225 00:12:30 He smoked Chesterfield straights.He probably did a pack or two packs a day.
226 00:12:34 He would knock bourbons downlike it was no big deal.
227 00:12:37 That was the bond between him and Scott.
228 00:12:39 Biggins could drink Scott to hell.
229 00:12:49 [Mark] I lived at the Treehousefor many years. So did my daughter.
230 00:12:53 And perfect strangerswould come knocking on the door
231 00:12:56 and they'd say, uh,
232 00:12:59 "Oh, we heard there's thisreally cool tree house on this property."
233 00:13:02 Or "Can we go see it?"And we'd have to turn them away.
234 00:13:05 I mean, it got so bad we actually builta gate across the driveway.
235 00:13:11 And the Treehousewas not built by Scott alone,
236 00:13:14 even thoughit's been quoted in many places,
237 00:13:17 but, uh, dozens of peopleworked on that place.
238 00:13:23 [woman 5] My brother Scottwas never gonna be controlled
239 00:13:25 and he wanted to be free.
240 00:13:27 He was an adrenaline junkie.He loved doing daring things.
241 00:13:32 We're sitting at 60 feet up in the airat six stories and
242 00:13:35 this is the first timeI've ever done this.
243 00:13:37 [laughter]
244 00:13:39 [Mark] So he's gonna do approximatelya 100-foot climb upside down.
245 00:13:43 Anytime go, Rambo, Tarzan.
246 00:13:46 [Scott] Woo!
247 00:13:50 - Whoa!- [Mark] Oh! [laughs]
248 00:13:54 He just kept wanting to gohigher and higher and higher
249 00:13:57 and he needed more and more and more.
250 00:13:59 [Mark] Right now,if he slipped he's gonna fall
251 00:14:04 60 feet to the ground.
252 00:14:05 [Scott] This is hard!
253 00:14:06 [Mark] I told you.This is a death act, my friend.
254 00:14:08 [Suzanne] He was, uh, an adventurer.
255 00:14:10 He loved the excitement of life,and wanted new things and new experiences.
256 00:14:16 But he made certain pivotal choices
257 00:14:19 that led him into directionshe couldn't turn around and back out of.
258 00:14:25 [intriguing music playing]
259 00:14:35 [Scott] In my studies,I've gotten on the wrong track,
260 00:14:38 delving into areasnot good for my spiritual growth.
261 00:14:44 A voice speaks loud and clear.
262 00:14:46 "Remember what you are here for."
263 00:14:49 I understand, but do not change course.
264 00:14:53 He was always in pursuitof something of his own world.
265 00:15:02 [Mark] When I first met him,
266 00:15:03 he was aspiringto get a degree in medicine,
267 00:15:06 but that fell by the waysideonce he worked in the chemistry lab
268 00:15:11 and he saw an opportunityto make a lot of money.
269 00:15:21 Scott was the first person in my lifeI had ever known to produce crystal meth.
270 00:15:26 He would, at nighttime,
271 00:15:27 go up through the ceilingsand crawl into the laboratory.
272 00:15:31 Scotty's professors discovered him.They kicked him off the campus.
273 00:15:35 Said, "Don't you ever, ever, ever, evershow your face here again."
274 00:15:39 He was smart enough to have been a doctor.
275 00:15:43 He was one course shortof graduating in chemistry and biology.
276 00:15:46 He would have been pre-med.
277 00:15:48 But he didn't wanna be.
278 00:15:49 That was not who he was and he knew that.
279 00:15:53 And then he just continuedright on down that road.
280 00:15:58 [Steve] This grew and grew and grewand he became so prolific,
281 00:16:01 and his product was so absolutely pure.
282 00:16:04 If you were ever to try his stuff,
283 00:16:06 I'm telling you,it was something unbelievable.
284 00:16:10 He did have a reputation for producingsome of the finest substance, uh, around.
285 00:16:17 I never heard anybody say... saythat somebody else's meth was better.
286 00:16:23 Scott's use of crystal methwas very moderate and controlled.
287 00:16:29 He just enjoyed itand it inspired him for creativity.
288 00:16:34 [Steve] As time went on, he boughta piece of property with a barn on it.
289 00:16:37 And so I went out thereto renovate the barn.
290 00:16:40 In the loft of the barn,he had his whole laboratory set up.
291 00:16:45 Captain Pat was the front man.He was the finance man.
292 00:16:49 The only times they metwere in the forest,
293 00:16:51 transferring product and money.
294 00:16:54 When Scott would bring180 lb. to Captain Pat,
295 00:16:56 he would give him $2 million.
296 00:16:59 [Mark] Pat was the onewho introduced Scott to the meth world.
297 00:17:03 The Captain, that was Pat's nickname.
298 00:17:05 He'd take it down to Barstowand sell it to the Hells Angels.
299 00:17:09 And then Scottwould come back to the Treehouse
300 00:17:11 with these boxes full of $20 bills.
301 00:17:14 Scott and I would sit and count it out.We'd be up all night counting money.
302 00:17:18 But this got dangerous.I mean, really dangerous.
303 00:17:22 Captain Pat was murderedby some person who was trying to rob him
304 00:17:25 and he was murdered in his sleep.
305 00:17:28 Scott was devastated when he heard.
306 00:17:32 But that's what people do in that world,and he didn't want to be any part of it.
307 00:17:36 And that's when he quit.
308 00:17:39 [Alban] Crystal methwas his income, period.
309 00:17:41 And so when he quit distributing,he needed a new way to make money.
310 00:17:49 [Steve] At that time in the '90s,
311 00:17:51 Point Break was oneof the big bank robbery movies.
312 00:17:54 [Bodhi] Little hand saysit's time to rock and roll.
313 00:17:56 [Steve] Scott would watch films and seedifferent things to get ideas from.
314 00:18:01 [Jimmy] Scott was down on banksand insurance companies.
315 00:18:03 It feels like everyone at the time was.
316 00:18:06 [Bodhi] On the floor, asshole.
317 00:18:07 The money's insured,so it's not worth dying for.
318 00:18:11 He was always wantingto find a way to beat the system.
319 00:18:17 - He's a real searcher.- What's he searching for?
320 00:18:19 [woman] The ride. The ultimate ride.
321 00:18:22 [Steve] What he liked about Point Breakwas the individualism of Bodhi
322 00:18:25 and his fearlessness toward life,
323 00:18:26 whether it was robbing banksor whether it was surfing on wild waves.
324 00:18:32 And so when he gotout of the drug business,
325 00:18:35 that's when he said,"I'm gonna become a bank robber."
326 00:18:37 [Bodhi] Thank you very much,ladies and gentlemen,
327 00:18:39 and please don't forget to vote!
328 00:18:41 [tense music playing]
329 00:18:48 [Mark] The first bank we robbed,
330 00:18:49 we were just talking about it,kicking the idea around.
331 00:18:52 How would we do it?Could you do this and get away with it?
332 00:18:56 Scott told Mark before the robbery,
333 00:18:58 "Do not say anything.Just come in and keep people orderly."
334 00:19:01 "Okay, okay."He called him Boss. "Okay, boss."
335 00:19:03 [Mark] A friend of mine dropped us offa block away from the bank,
336 00:19:07 and she was supposed to meet usat this designated spot.
337 00:19:13 Our plan was to waitfor a bank customer to arrive,
338 00:19:18 then use his car as a getaway car.
339 00:19:22 [Steve] Biggins putshis Ronald Reagan mask down.
340 00:19:26 Rock and roll!
341 00:19:29 [Mark] Scott went in first.He was gonna announce the robbery
342 00:19:32 and then I would come inand make sure that nobody left.
343 00:19:37 I was so freaked out.
344 00:19:39 Like, "I can't believethis is actually happening
345 00:19:42 and I'm actually doing this."
346 00:19:45 [Steve] Biggins has his gun in his hand
347 00:19:46 and he says,"Every motherfucker on the ground!"
348 00:19:49 Scott turns around and says,"Everybody stand up! Stand up!" [laughs]
349 00:19:53 Because he doesn't want anybody walking byto see people on the ground.
350 00:19:58 [Mark] I think Scott orderedeverybody on the ground.
351 00:20:00 I think everybody was downwhen I walked into the bank.
352 00:20:05 If you've ever been in a carthat you've lost control,
353 00:20:08 and it, you know, things slow down,
354 00:20:11 that's what happened to me in the bank.
355 00:20:13 Everything was in slow motion.
356 00:20:16 Finally, it was time to leave,
357 00:20:17 and Scott goes,"Mark, did you get the keys?"
358 00:20:20 He actually used my name.
359 00:20:23 I bent down and I said,"Sir, can I have your car keys?"
360 00:20:28 And the poor guy,he was really frightened.
361 00:20:32 It's a brand-new carand I couldn't hear that it had started.
362 00:20:37 [engine starts]
363 00:20:41 And as I was doing that,this other car pulls in.
364 00:20:47 Finally Scott goes,"I think the car's started."
365 00:20:49 "Put it in reverse.Let's get out of here."
366 00:20:52 We started driving through suburbia.
367 00:20:55 We get out at this designated spotand there's no van.
368 00:20:59 My friend panicked and went to point B.We had a backup.
369 00:21:06 And we end uprunning across this golf course.
370 00:21:11 We could hear police cars coming.There are sirens.
371 00:21:14 And there's my friend,parked where she's supposed to be.
372 00:21:17 [sirens wail]
373 00:21:20 That's the way it was.It was a comedy of errors.
374 00:21:22 I don't know how they didn't get caught,but they didn't.
375 00:21:24 [Mark] And then I started thinking
376 00:21:26 about all the possible clueswe might have left behind.
377 00:21:29 We used Scott's van.
378 00:21:31 If anybody took down the license plate,
379 00:21:33 I thought, "Well,they're gonna show up any minute."
380 00:21:36 At one point, I sat up and said,
381 00:21:38 "I am never doing that again."
382 00:21:41 Scott goes, "Are you sure? Let's godo another one! Right now!" [laughs]
383 00:21:48 [Steve] After the robbery, Biggins gotreal scared and drove off to Montana.
384 00:21:55 But all of the failuresinspired Scott to go deeper into it.
385 00:22:00 He realizedhe could handle the banks himself
386 00:22:03 as long aseverything outside was controlled.
387 00:22:06 And that's why he came for me.
388 00:22:08 He was very scientific, analytical.
389 00:22:11 I was more improvising, artistic.
390 00:22:15 I had worked in sculpturethroughout Europe, in Germany and Norway.
391 00:22:21 I didn't care about the banks themselves.It didn't matter.
392 00:22:23 "Great. Take 'em down."
393 00:22:24 "Take every last pennythey have in the bank."
394 00:22:27 "That's no problem for me."
395 00:22:29 But I couldn't imagine doing it.I just thought, "This is... This is insane."
396 00:22:35 But it's Scott and he's convincing.
397 00:22:38 He said, "Man, this is the easiest thing.It's like taking candy from kids."
398 00:22:42 "There's millions to be made in this."
399 00:22:47 But, as we always said,
400 00:22:49 there is no school of trainingfor bank robbers.
401 00:22:53 Doing what Scott and I did
402 00:22:54 is the most creative thingI've ever done in my life.
403 00:22:57 Much more than the art world.
404 00:23:01 Finding the perfect bankwas a moment of exhilaration.
405 00:23:05 It's like finding a piece of marblethat is perfect for some image
406 00:23:10 that I have that I want to sculpt.
407 00:23:12 I would sit on the street,close enough that I could observe it.
408 00:23:16 I'd write downthe time of arrival of armored cars.
409 00:23:20 The deliverieswere an important time of day
410 00:23:22 because that's when you've gotthe most money in the bank.
411 00:23:27 If it was summer,I would have my windows down
412 00:23:29 and I'd have Bach or jazz going on.
413 00:23:34 I'd be on the scanner all day,listening to the police calls.
414 00:23:39 [police radio chatter]
415 00:23:40 [Steve] And I would watchthe patrols in that bank area
416 00:23:43 to know when they'd come.I would log down the times.
417 00:23:48 A number of the banks we did,
418 00:23:49 there was a very consistent patrol route
419 00:23:52 that the cops tookat certain times of the day.
420 00:23:57 We learned these routes
421 00:23:57 so that five minutesafter the cops left the area,
422 00:24:00 we knew it was time to hit the banks.
423 00:24:04 I spent months driving around the streetsdoing surveillance.
424 00:24:13 You can't get a jump on a bankgoing in with some stupid mask on.
425 00:24:17 It's ridiculous.
426 00:24:19 So I would prepare these prosthetics,like they do in Hollywood.
427 00:24:23 ["Goodbye Horses" by Q Lazzarus playing]
428 00:24:28 What we wanted were just components,like a nose, a chin, cheeks.
429 00:24:33 ["Goodbye Horses" continues]
430 00:24:37 He wore D.A.R.E. caps for two reasons.
431 00:24:39 The first thing people think of
432 00:24:41 is that he's probably a copwho wears a D.A.R.E. hat,
433 00:24:44 and also to smite the police.
434 00:24:45 'Cause it's like, "Here I am."You know what I mean? "Dare me."
435 00:24:49 ♪ I see my hopes and dreamslying on the ground... ♪
436 00:24:52 [Steve] When I first saw him,he came back from the woods
437 00:24:55 and I just stood there frozen.
438 00:24:57 I go, "Oh my God Almighty.What in the fuck is this?"
439 00:25:03 I could look at it and there'd be no wayyou'd ever think this was Scott Scurlock.
440 00:25:07 ♪ Goodbye horses... ♪
441 00:25:08 [Scott] I feel transformedin an eerie, magical way.
442 00:25:11 ♪ I'm flying over... ♪
443 00:25:13 [Scott] I'm changing rapidlyin this stage of my life.
444 00:25:15 ♪ Goodbye horses... ♪
445 00:25:17 [Scott] I feel like a different person.
446 00:25:19 ♪ I'm flying, flying, flying ♪
447 00:25:23 [tense music playing]
448 00:25:30 [Steve] The very first bank robberythat I did
449 00:25:33 was the same bankthat he did with Mark six weeks earlier.
450 00:25:37 The important thing in taking down a bank
451 00:25:40 is that initial 15 secondswhen nobody thinks anything's happening.
452 00:25:46 And he looked like a personthat might have had a skin ailment.
453 00:25:50 So people would avoid looking at him.
454 00:25:55 [teller] How can I help you?
455 00:25:56 This is a robbery. Nobody move.
456 00:25:59 [Steve] He wouldpull the gun out casually.
457 00:26:03 Nobody in their right mindwould ever say no to this man.
458 00:26:07 You two! Money in the bag.Everyone stay calm.
459 00:26:09 [police radio chattering]
460 00:26:11 [Steve] I was sitting with the scannerand the radio, and that was it.
461 00:26:15 There was never any risk on my partbecause I had my own alibi.
462 00:26:19 I had my own reason for being there,and I would never be caught,
463 00:26:23 unless of courseI had to call him out of the bank.
464 00:26:25 And the beauty of all of this
465 00:26:27 was creating and developingone of these robberies
466 00:26:31 so that everythingwould work flawlessly, safely,
467 00:26:35 and that the actual outcome waswhat we wanted, which was the money.
468 00:26:39 We didn't talk the whole way.
469 00:26:43 When we got to the Treehouseand began counting the money,
470 00:26:46 it was just five or ten thousand dollars.
471 00:26:49 I go, "Man. This is ridiculous."
472 00:26:51 "Who wants to go to prisonfor this little bitty kibbles and bits?"
473 00:26:55 [tense music playing]
474 00:26:58 [Mike] In the early 1990s,I arrested my first bank robber,
475 00:27:01 and I thought, "Shit,this is like shooting fish in a pond."
476 00:27:04 I don't mean to say itin a braggadocios manner,
477 00:27:07 but within a period of five or six months,
478 00:27:10 I had cleared close to 80 cases,and it became very addictive.
479 00:27:15 I was subsequently assignedto the FBI's violent crime task force.
480 00:27:21 Hollywood flew under the radar
481 00:27:22 for the first couple of robberiesbecause of the low take.
482 00:27:25 When a suspect gets on top of the counterand dances around
483 00:27:27 and tries to get command and control,
484 00:27:29 and you have to carjackan old man for his Cadillac,
485 00:27:33 it showed that these guyswere bumbling idiots.
486 00:27:35 They probably started to ask themselves,"Hey, what are we doing wrong here?"
487 00:27:41 [Steve] I said, "Scott, I'm not gonnado this for 10, 15, 20 thousand dollars."
488 00:27:46 "It's stupid."
489 00:27:47 "We either do this right,and we either go for the vault,
490 00:27:50 or I don't do it anymore."
491 00:27:51 "I don't wanna be messed upin this nonsense."
492 00:27:53 He goes, "We can't do the vault'cause I don't have enough information."
493 00:27:56 - So he hired Mustang.- [telephone rings]
494 00:27:59 Mustang was a special young woman.I've never quite met a woman like her.
495 00:28:04 [sultry music playing]
496 00:28:07 She was hiredto work in the Seafirst Bank as a teller.
497 00:28:11 She got the manualsand she got all of the bank protocol
498 00:28:14 for teller stations, for the vaults,the armored car deliveries.
499 00:28:20 Once we hadall the inside information from Mustang,
500 00:28:23 we knew we could do what we needed to do.
501 00:28:25 [funky music playing]
502 00:28:37 [Steve] We learned from the protocolwhat to say.
503 00:28:40 This is real. This is a robbery.
504 00:28:43 [Steve] There's certain terminologyyou use to the bankers,
505 00:28:46 and when they hear that terminology,they know you know what's going on.
506 00:28:51 Who's the vault teller?
507 00:28:53 [woman] That's me.
508 00:28:56 [Steve] This was the phenomenon of Scott.
509 00:28:58 He could control the lobby
510 00:29:00 and still deal with the vaultat the same time.
511 00:29:03 [tense music playing]
512 00:29:08 [Scott] Quickly.
513 00:29:10 [tense music continues]
514 00:29:13 [Steve] He wants them to be calm.
515 00:29:15 "Go over there. Just open the vault."
516 00:29:17 "There's no problem.Don't worry. Everything will be fine."
517 00:29:20 "Just let me get in and get out."
518 00:29:23 [tense music continues]
519 00:29:33 [Steve] It's like he's goinginto this catacomb of fantasy.
520 00:29:36 [tense music continues]
521 00:29:48 Do you have another bag?
522 00:29:49 [police radio chatter]
523 00:29:53 [Scott] Everyone on the floor. Let's go!
524 00:29:56 [tense music continues]
525 00:30:00 [Steve] When we got home,we drove into the back of the studio.
526 00:30:03 I said, "How'd you do?" And he says,"Oh, man, it wasn't... Not good."
527 00:30:06 "It was another bad one."I go, "Oh, fuck me, man."
528 00:30:09 "What, are you kidding me?"
529 00:30:10 And we get inand he dumps out this big bag.
530 00:30:12 And it's just like... And I go, "Oh, man."
531 00:30:14 [tense music continues]
532 00:30:18 That was the biggest haul.It was the game changer.
533 00:30:22 Not only for us, but for the FBI.
534 00:30:27 [music fades]
535 00:30:29 I began with the FBI in 1987.
536 00:30:32 By the timeof the Hollywood investigation,
537 00:30:34 I was the most experienced agentin the Seattle division
538 00:30:37 working bank robberies.
539 00:30:39 I'm trying to recall the cases I workedwhere somebody did what Hollywood did,
540 00:30:44 from doing teller drawers
541 00:30:45 to doing armed takeoversto doing vault takeovers.
542 00:30:50 I can't think of anyone elsethat took that route.
543 00:30:54 The Hollywood investigationwas similar to a jigsaw puzzle.
544 00:30:58 We had little clues here,little clues here.
545 00:31:00 Starting to put the big picture together.
546 00:31:03 I think Hollywoodwas enjoying what he did.
547 00:31:06 First four robberies,he got more than the average bank robber.
548 00:31:12 But then he started going into the vaults.
549 00:31:14 Doing vault robberies on your ownis very risky,
550 00:31:17 because you have no ideawhat's happening in the rest of the bank.
551 00:31:20 It's more exposure.It's more potential for alarms going off.
552 00:31:25 At that point in time,his level of sophistication went up.
553 00:31:30 The threat went up.
554 00:31:32 It was a challenge to him,and he wanted to challenge us.
555 00:31:35 But the big picture here was what?
556 00:31:37 It was, "Who is Hollywood?Who is Hollywood?"
557 00:31:43 - [man] All right. You ready?- Welcome to the Treehouse. Come right in.
558 00:31:49 [Suzanne] My parentswere totally in awe of the Treehouse
559 00:31:51 because my dad loved building things.
560 00:31:55 [man laughs] This is going to bethe dining room.
561 00:31:58 [Scott] Yup.
562 00:31:59 [Suzanne] It was oneof the most remarkable edifices ever.
563 00:32:03 So they were in awe of who Scotty wasand what he had done in that arena.
564 00:32:08 [wistful music playing]
565 00:32:11 We grew up in a loving household.
566 00:32:13 My father was a minister,a very well-loved minister.
567 00:32:17 My mother was a teacherof learning disabled children.
568 00:32:22 We were preacher's kids, and darn it,from a very young age,
569 00:32:26 we were gonna prove to everybodythat we're not goody-two-shoes.
570 00:32:30 [man] Both of us were very adventurous.That's what made us friends.
571 00:32:33 He had a different quality,a fearlessness.
572 00:32:38 There were showroom housesall around Reston, Virginia.
573 00:32:42 We knew how to get into all of them.
574 00:32:45 Scotty and I both learnedhow to pick locks.
575 00:32:49 We did not learn to pick locksto steal anything.
576 00:32:52 We learned how to pick locks
577 00:32:54 so we could getto the other side of the door.
578 00:32:57 [wistful music continues]
579 00:32:59 [Suzanne] As he grew olderinto his teen years,
580 00:33:02 he became more and moreand more secretive.
581 00:33:04 And we used to call himthe master of disinformation
582 00:33:07 because he wouldn't outright lie to you,
583 00:33:09 but he would tell you somethingthat you knew wasn't quite right
584 00:33:14 or he would leave something out.
585 00:33:18 When he first started to do crazy stuff,
586 00:33:22 one of the things he did,and I think he was 15, maybe 16,
587 00:33:26 was that he and this friend stole a car,
588 00:33:29 a van I believe,from a local day care center,
589 00:33:32 and drove it to the beach,and they got caught.
590 00:33:36 And I think that wasa big break for my father,
591 00:33:39 because he realized with that event
592 00:33:42 that somethinghad really gone south in Scotty.
593 00:33:45 [wistful music continues]
594 00:33:47 He grew up and didn't outgrow the behaviorthat we had as kids or adolescents.
595 00:33:53 He just sort of refined itand kept right on going.
596 00:33:57 [Steve] Everything with Scottwas a stepping stone.
597 00:34:00 The Hawthorne Hills Bankwas the opening of a new world for us.
598 00:34:05 Once you enter the vaults,you're on another level.
599 00:34:09 At this point,
600 00:34:10 when we would intentionallyleave a vehicle for the cops,
601 00:34:13 we would make sure we hired a person,
602 00:34:15 either a woman or some guythat looked totally different from us,
603 00:34:19 maybe he'd be 6 ft. 3 in.and long, scraggly hair or whatever,
604 00:34:24 give him $1,000,
605 00:34:25 he would go purchase the car,drive it to me, and I would take it.
606 00:34:31 We sanitized them with mineral spirits.
607 00:34:34 We would get female hairand put that in the back seat.
608 00:34:39 Tried to make italways as confusing as possible.
609 00:34:42 Sometimes there were multiple roads
610 00:34:44 leading to the bankwhere police would be coming,
611 00:34:46 so we would hire somebody as a lookout.
612 00:34:49 My role, only two occasions I did,uh, was to be a point man.
613 00:34:53 He gave me a radio, told me to park here.
614 00:34:57 When you see the police coming,just say, "Mama's coming."
615 00:35:00 That's all you gotta do.
616 00:35:02 There was no hesitation on my partto help Scott out.
617 00:35:04 You know,it was just a thing among friends.
618 00:35:08 [Steve] One of Scott's main methodologieswas to repeat robbing the same bank.
619 00:35:12 Nobody's gonna believethat you're gonna come right back
620 00:35:14 and do the same thing againwithin a few days.
621 00:35:21 The first thing we'd do,we'd dump all the money out
622 00:35:23 and then we would go throughwith ultraviolet lights
623 00:35:26 any money that looked likeit might be marked.
624 00:35:29 New money was the most dangerous
625 00:35:30 'cause you have sequential serial numbers,so we would scatter those around.
626 00:35:36 We would lock up all of the equipmentin military canisters
627 00:35:40 that we would bury in the ground.
628 00:35:42 Then we took the clothesback into the forest
629 00:35:44 and we had a pitwhere we burned everything.
630 00:35:47 After that, I had to go launder the money.
631 00:35:49 ["I Want More" by Can playing]
632 00:35:51 Scott did a lot of sportsbook gambling.
633 00:35:53 And the laundering of the money,he thought of that.
634 00:35:56 That was his creation.It's an ingenious creation.
635 00:36:01 You place the same amount of moneyon both teams that are playing
636 00:36:03 at two different casinos,
637 00:36:05 and one of the teams is gonna win.
638 00:36:09 So you end up getting back all your money
639 00:36:11 except for what the house receiveson the losing team,
640 00:36:13 which is 5%.
641 00:36:16 We weren't losing anything, really.
642 00:36:17 ["I Want More" continues]
643 00:36:19 Scott did a lot with his money
644 00:36:21 and he just lived his lifethe way he wanted to live it.
645 00:36:24 ["I Want More" continues]
646 00:36:28 Travel, seeing the world,meeting different people.
647 00:36:30 That's what he loved.
648 00:36:33 [Scott] I have been realizing latelythe virtues of traveling alone.
649 00:36:37 All my wildest experienceshave happened while I'm alone.
650 00:36:40 [T.J.] Scott was definitelya man of mystery.
651 00:36:43 He would disappear for a while.
652 00:36:46 One time I thought maybe he was CIA.Maybe he was a pot grower.
653 00:36:52 [Jimmy] I never really asked himwhat he did for money.
654 00:36:55 He must be a contractor. I don't know.That's why he was so handy building.
655 00:37:04 I found out that he was really interestedin stopping the logging of the forest.
656 00:37:10 [Steve] He worked with Earth First,
657 00:37:11 and he would give donation moneyto these environmentalists.
658 00:37:14 And I said, "Why do you do that, Scott?Why waste money on these hippies?"
659 00:37:18 [Alban] Scott did view himselfas a Robin Hood figure.
660 00:37:22 And I think it was, uh, evidentin the way he acquired the money
661 00:37:26 and then also the way he dispersed it.
662 00:37:29 [Jimmy] In terms of him beinga Robin Hood figure, I know that was true.
663 00:37:32 He gave money to me. He gave moneyto other people and other things.
664 00:37:35 I saw him give money away.
665 00:37:38 [Steve] He helped people.
666 00:37:39 They needed something, he'd give thema few thousand dollars for whatever.
667 00:37:43 He spread the money around.
668 00:37:46 [Mark] It's a funny relationshipyou have with money.
669 00:37:48 You didn't earn it.You stole it. You took it.
670 00:37:50 Spend it freely, and then go get more.
671 00:37:52 [Scott] Mmm, mmm.
672 00:37:53 [Steve] He wasn't Robin Hood.
673 00:37:55 If you look at Robin Hood,it was idealistic.
674 00:37:57 He stole from the rich and gave,you know, all of that nonsense.
675 00:38:00 And Scott wasn't like that.
676 00:38:01 He helped people that he knew
677 00:38:03 if he needed somethingin the future to be done,
678 00:38:06 he could call on themand they would do it.
679 00:38:10 [suspenseful music playing]
680 00:38:18 [Steve] Regardlessof how successful it all was,
681 00:38:21 there's a certain pointwhere you're challenging fate
682 00:38:24 and it doesn't always turn outthe way you want it to turn out.
683 00:38:28 [suspenseful music continues]
684 00:38:29 One robbery we had to abort
685 00:38:31 because a customer recognized himas he was walking in.
686 00:38:36 I got the dispatch call,and I had to call him out.
687 00:38:40 [Steve on radio] We're out.Let's go, let's go.
688 00:38:43 [Steve] For the next one,as soon as he got in his getaway car,
689 00:38:46 the dye pack blew upand he threw that whole thing out.
690 00:38:49 [suspenseful music continues]
691 00:38:52 [tires screech]
692 00:38:54 We found the vehiclejust blocks away from the bank.
693 00:38:58 I sat in that station wagonat the scene for a couple of minutes,
694 00:39:02 just absorbing that.
695 00:39:04 That was the closestI had come to him at that point in time,
696 00:39:07 sitting in that carwaiting for the next robbery to happen.
697 00:39:11 We were able to trace itto previous owners.
698 00:39:14 Through that, we were ableto develop composite sketches
699 00:39:17 of individuals who had bought cars.
700 00:39:20 [Ellen] We had a police profiler come in
701 00:39:22 and brief all of the peoplethat were working on the case
702 00:39:25 who suggestedthat he might be a police officer.
703 00:39:28 We thought that because of the skillthat he had when he was robbing banks.
704 00:39:32 There was suspicionthat Detective Magan had
705 00:39:35 that Hollywood might be a police officer.
706 00:39:37 Shawn Johnson had the beliefthat Hollywood could be a police officer.
707 00:39:42 Did I believe he was a police officer? No.
708 00:39:44 I didn't buy that theory.
709 00:39:46 We definitely considered it,
710 00:39:48 and we thought thatthat made him more dangerous.
711 00:39:51 We wanted to get the word outso we could solve this case.
712 00:39:54 So we used the media,
713 00:39:55 and that was partof a very carefully laid-out plan.
714 00:39:59 We told you abouta bank robber nicknamed Hollywood.
715 00:40:02 He's number oneon the FBI's Most Wanted List.
716 00:40:05 [reporter] Disguises are the reasonthe FBI dubbed this man Hollywood.
717 00:40:08 He's successfully hitmore than a dozen banks
718 00:40:10 in the past four years.
719 00:40:12 [David] It changed the story dramatically
720 00:40:14 when the FBI came outwith this nickname of Hollywood,
721 00:40:17 because we knew that they were havinga hard time tracking this guy,
722 00:40:21 and it seemed to be on a cycle.
723 00:40:22 Like every six months,a bank was being hit,
724 00:40:24 and it became, "Was this Hollywood again?"
725 00:40:26 [reporter] FBI agentShawn Johnson's mission
726 00:40:29 is to find anyonewho knows anything about Hollywood.
727 00:40:31 I think initially,we'll start off, uh, door-to-door,
728 00:40:35 half of us on one side, half on the other.
729 00:40:37 [David] You didn't usually seean FBI agent walk into a neighborhood
730 00:40:40 and say, "Can you tell me anythingabout this bank robbery?"
731 00:40:43 That was wild, to see an agent,you know, being so open.
732 00:40:48 Also a clue that they had no clue.
733 00:40:52 Maybe I wanted him to knowthat I was there, you know?
734 00:40:56 I was there too. So here's me on TV.
735 00:40:59 [mysterious music playing]
736 00:41:02 [Mike] Most suspects followed their media.
737 00:41:04 In fact, I think they actually loved it.
738 00:41:07 [Steve] The first timewe heard about Hollywood
739 00:41:09 was from the two-page articlewith Shawn Johnson.
740 00:41:11 He was saying,
741 00:41:12 "Somebody out there knows who this man isand we need your help."
742 00:41:15 - [reporter 1] His nickname is Hollywood.- [reporter 2] Hollywood wears makeup...
743 00:41:19 [Steve] That nameinfluenced him immensely.
744 00:41:21 I think it built him up even more.
745 00:41:23 I think it excited him,
746 00:41:24 without him saying it or acknowledging it,but I know his personality.
747 00:41:28 Deep inside, he was proud.
748 00:41:29 [Ellen] We thought he would rob againif he was getting so much attention.
749 00:41:37 [tense music playing]
750 00:41:41 [Steve] Each robbery was an opportunityto try something new.
751 00:41:45 For the getaways, we would try to figureout what the FBI would expect us to do,
752 00:41:50 and then we would just do the opposite.
753 00:41:52 For the bank we wanted to do, to get away,
754 00:41:54 you either go down Madisontoward the police coming in,
755 00:41:57 or you have to go all around the lake.
756 00:42:00 So I said, "Why don't you get into the vanand just stay there?"
757 00:42:03 "And I'll go to a restaurant,
758 00:42:04 and I'll sit and wait for the heat to go."
759 00:42:07 "When the police are gone,I'll get back out in my car,
760 00:42:09 and I'll radio you and let you know,uh, that it's clear to come out."
761 00:42:14 He had a van and we had it retrofittedso he could get under the floor.
762 00:42:17 So if they shined lights in there,they couldn't see him.
763 00:42:20 [tense music continues]
764 00:42:24 I told Scott, I said,"Man, this is gonna be big."
765 00:42:26 "I just had a dream last night."
766 00:42:28 "We're gonna haveover a quarter of a million dollars
767 00:42:30 and you're gonna get out safely."
768 00:42:32 "It's not gonna be a problem."
769 00:42:34 [tense music continues]
770 00:42:42 [sirens wail]
771 00:42:45 [Steve] It was a good 45 minutesI was in the restaurant.
772 00:42:50 There was four or five cop cars out there,
773 00:42:52 and I could just look out the window
774 00:42:54 and see when it was dispersedand finished.
775 00:42:57 I arrive at the scene and I'm thinking,
776 00:43:02 "Is this guy some kind of a ghost?How does he just slip away like that?"
777 00:43:07 [tense music continues]
778 00:43:12 [Steve] One thing he discoveredwhile he was in the van
779 00:43:14 was the condensation from his breathing.
780 00:43:17 If the police had been aware,
781 00:43:18 they would see thatand think there was someone in there.
782 00:43:23 I went overto a wine shop across the street
783 00:43:25 and when I came out of the wine shop,they had all gone.
784 00:43:27 And I went to the car
785 00:43:29 and I got my radio outand I radioed Scott,
786 00:43:32 and I said, "Boss, let's go."
787 00:43:42 It was this cat and mouse game.
788 00:43:44 It was clear that policeand law enforcement were frustrated.
789 00:43:47 They couldn't figure outwho this person was.
790 00:43:50 [reporter 1] What everyoneseems to remember
791 00:43:52 is how he orders people aroundand threatens to shoot them.
792 00:43:55 [reporter 2] FBI agents are frustrated
793 00:43:56 that Hollywood has been ableto get away with so much for so long.
794 00:44:00 They fear that he will turn violentbefore he's caught.
795 00:44:03 [David] I think that's what changedthe Hollywood story,
796 00:44:06 is that, until we startedto hear from the tellers
797 00:44:09 who told these horrifying stories,he hadn't hurt anybody.
798 00:44:12 [tense music playing]
799 00:44:14 [Shawn] He got more desperate sometimes.He tried to get in the vault.
800 00:44:18 The vault tellers weren't thereto let him in, he got real upset.
801 00:44:21 He said, "It's Christmas.I don't want to kill anybody,"
802 00:44:23 and used a stun gunon one of the employees.
803 00:44:26 So he was willing to use weapons.
804 00:44:28 I've seen people crying.
805 00:44:31 I mean, just very emotional,and you're trying to get to the point
806 00:44:34 where you calm them down a bitto... to talk to them, what happened.
807 00:44:38 It was unlike any robbery that any of themhad ever gone through before.
808 00:44:42 [bank teller] We could not tellfrom one second to the next
809 00:44:45 what he was likely to do.
810 00:44:46 He was extremely threatening.
811 00:44:49 [Ellen] Bank robberyis not a victimless crime.
812 00:44:52 The people that arein the bank are traumatized,
813 00:44:55 tellers are traumatized.
814 00:44:57 When you have a gun pointed at your face,where people threaten to kill you,
815 00:45:01 these take a toll on human beings.
816 00:45:04 I've been robbed 14 times,
817 00:45:06 and one of thosewas the Hollywood bank robber.
818 00:45:10 He commanded this presence,
819 00:45:12 and he told everyone to freezeand everyone froze.
820 00:45:16 It's unusual for a robberto have that much control.
821 00:45:20 It doesn't ever leave you.
822 00:45:23 You can go on with your life,but it doesn't ever leave you. Ever.
823 00:45:28 [bank teller] There's got to be somethingmore that we can do to stop these people.
824 00:45:31 Somebody's going to get hurt.
825 00:45:33 He thought that he wasjust having the greatest time,
826 00:45:37 living his best life.
827 00:45:40 But for him to thinkthat he was gonna get away with this
828 00:45:44 was just a false premise.
829 00:45:46 [laughter]
830 00:45:47 [Steve] When you stepinto the world we were living,
831 00:45:50 you have no ideathe toll it's gonna bring upon you.
832 00:45:52 It's impossible.
833 00:45:55 After so many years of bank robberies,
834 00:45:57 you are no longer the same personthat you were before you began.
835 00:46:03 [Alban] Scott started to get stressed.
836 00:46:06 He was no longerthe casual, happy-go-lucky person.
837 00:46:09 That person was gone.
838 00:46:12 [T.J.] The vibearound the Treehouse changed.
839 00:46:14 He became more closed off,and more isolated, and way less social.
840 00:46:21 [Steve] Scott had melive up at the front house
841 00:46:24 to keep people out of there.
842 00:46:26 More and more,his life was becoming secretive
843 00:46:29 and he needed to have people away.
844 00:46:31 He didn't want people around,seeing what he was doing.
845 00:46:36 [Mark] Once you do cross the Rubiconand start living that life,
846 00:46:40 you have to lieto everybody about everything.
847 00:46:44 Everybody you care about.Everybody you meet.
848 00:46:49 [Scott] I keep goingin the wrong direction.
849 00:46:51 I start things and then stopbefore the great benefit can be gotten.
850 00:46:55 Many females have feltmy no-follow-through.
851 00:46:59 Do I just want to want?Is that why I get no satisfaction?
852 00:47:04 I one time kidded with himwhen I'd observe him with certain women.
853 00:47:08 I'd say, "What do you do? Treat womenlike condiments? Give me a break."
854 00:47:12 [T.J.] Is he single or what?You got women in your bed?
855 00:47:16 [Scott] Things don't computelike they used to.
856 00:47:18 I usually feel free and secureabout my plans in life,
857 00:47:22 but now I'm beginning to feel captured.
858 00:47:26 [T.J.] Cheers!
859 00:47:27 [Suzanne] He showed up at the door,"Gotta talk to you."
860 00:47:31 And as we're sitting there,he's sitting across from me
861 00:47:34 and he just starts to cry,like tears streaming down his face.
862 00:47:37 And he says,"Suze, I don't know what's going on."
863 00:47:40 "But when I look in the mirror,the face looking back at me isn't my own."
864 00:47:44 "What is that?"
865 00:47:46 I knew at that pointhe was really in trouble.
866 00:47:49 This light and dark tussle in him,he was losing the battle.
867 00:47:54 [Steve] He started drinking more and moreand more to subdue the anxieties.
868 00:47:59 But Scott wanted one final act,
869 00:48:02 and that was three or four banks,
870 00:48:03 one right after the otherin the same evening.
871 00:48:06 We get 10 to 15 million dollarsand we call it a day.
872 00:48:09 I go about my business,you go about yours.
873 00:48:12 [tense music playing]
874 00:48:13 We had three banks figured out.
875 00:48:16 First, you hit a small bank,go in and get out,
876 00:48:20 and you don't care about the money.
877 00:48:21 You just care aboutdiverting the police to that small bank.
878 00:48:24 Then you go back and hit a bigger bank.
879 00:48:27 Then by the time they get there,there's a third one.
880 00:48:29 I mean, what are they gonna do?
881 00:48:31 We wanted to decimate the city of Seattle,
882 00:48:34 and it was not only doable,it was winnable.
883 00:48:36 [tense music playing]
884 00:48:39 [Shawn] I was getting a bit frustratedduring this investigation.
885 00:48:42 We had come up witha couple of getaway vehicles and such,
886 00:48:45 but it was getting closebut not close enough.
887 00:48:48 I got tired of waiting,just reacting to his bank robberies.
888 00:48:53 I started digging back through the files,
889 00:48:55 back through the MO,
890 00:48:58 the time of day, the day of the week,
891 00:49:00 location of the banks,how much money he was taking.
892 00:49:04 I knew he had an ego.
893 00:49:06 That's why I knew he was gonna come backat some point in time.
894 00:49:10 I sat down and did the math,
895 00:49:13 figured out that he was going throughapproximately $21,000 a month.
896 00:49:19 So with that in mind,
897 00:49:20 I predicted that he was going to hitone of three days
898 00:49:24 the following year in January.
899 00:49:27 I knew that he would be back.
900 00:49:29 Certain locations I thoughtwere likely targets.
901 00:49:33 It was a waiting gamefor them to come back,
902 00:49:34 and that we were in the right spotat the right time.
903 00:49:43 [Steve] After the last big robbery,we took a year off.
904 00:49:46 We were finally planningto take down three banks,
905 00:49:49 but we needed another person
906 00:49:50 because of the logisticsof taking down these banks.
907 00:49:58 [Mark] After the first bank robbery,
908 00:49:59 I went right to Montanaand was hiding out there
909 00:50:02 and then Scott showed upand drew me back into it.
910 00:50:07 Scott's been goinginto the banks by himself,
911 00:50:09 and he was having troublewith crowd control.
912 00:50:12 So he told me, "All you have to dois stand in the lobby."
913 00:50:15 "Make sure nobody leaves.That's all you gotta do."
914 00:50:20 [Shawn] A year had passedsince I made those predictions
915 00:50:22 on three days in Januarythat he was gonna hit.
916 00:50:24 - [police radio chattering]- So myself and a task force member
917 00:50:28 surveilled banks I figuredwere logical targets for Hollywood.
918 00:50:31 First day, nothing happens.
919 00:50:34 Second day, nothing happened.
920 00:50:38 The third day, I was out therewaiting for him by myself.
921 00:50:42 [Steve] With Mark back,we decided to hit one bank,
922 00:50:44 just to get the feel of it,before we hit three.
923 00:50:46 [tense music playing]
924 00:50:49 [Mark] My second robberywas so different than the first.
925 00:50:53 More under control, went a lot smoother.
926 00:50:55 It was more like a job than an adventure.
927 00:50:58 [tense music continues]
928 00:50:59 [indistinct radio chatter]
929 00:51:04 [Shawn] I knew immediatelybased on the description,
930 00:51:07 "Oh shit, it's Hollywood."
931 00:51:08 He's hitting another bank a mile upfrom where I was waiting for him.
932 00:51:11 He came back just as I said.He came back the third day.
933 00:51:17 I was getting closer and I felt like,"I'm just a couple of minutes behind you."
934 00:51:20 "Not months, not weeks.Just a few minutes behind you now."
935 00:51:23 [tires screech]
936 00:51:25 [Shawn] I proceeded up to the bank.We had secured the scene.
937 00:51:29 I was the first follow-up personat the scene.
938 00:51:33 And I get to the bankand I'm looking at Shawn Johnson,
939 00:51:35 like, "How did you get here so fast?"
940 00:51:37 And I found outthat he and FBI agents only
941 00:51:41 were running their own surveillancelooking for Hollywood.
942 00:51:45 He cut everybody else outon the task force.
943 00:51:48 Other task force officers decidedthat what I was doing was crazy.
944 00:51:53 "He's not gonna come back.He's not gonna be here."
945 00:51:55 [Ellen] I remember howthat kind of ramped up everybody's energy
946 00:51:59 to work this case,
947 00:52:00 'cause it had been some gapsince his previous robbery.
948 00:52:04 [Mike] Everybody on the task forcethought at that point
949 00:52:06 that something badwas definitely gonna happen.
950 00:52:10 And to Ellen's credit,
951 00:52:12 she saw that this casewas spinning a little bit out of control,
952 00:52:16 and we needed to put an end to it.
953 00:52:23 [Ellen] Hollywood was kind of predictable
954 00:52:25 in terms of the times of dayand where he would rob.
955 00:52:28 We hatched a plan to do surveillances,
956 00:52:30 hoping that one of our guyswould be out on the street
957 00:52:34 when he robbed a bank.
958 00:52:35 We needed the Seattle Police Department.We needed their special patrol unit.
959 00:52:39 We needed aerial resources.
960 00:52:42 - We added extra FBI resources.- [camera clicks]
961 00:52:44 To get all of that in linewas an absolutely Herculean effort.
962 00:52:50 So we made a commitmentto bring all these resources together
963 00:52:54 for an indefinite period.
964 00:52:59 This was a time whenone of the new techniques was ProNet.
965 00:53:03 It was using these electronic tracersthat were attached to money.
966 00:53:08 They would shoot their signal to towers.
967 00:53:10 And so then you had to havea mechanism to follow the tags.
968 00:53:14 So we had to put 'emin a lot of police cars.
969 00:53:16 [Shawn] I had to go back againthrough the robberies to date
970 00:53:20 to find out logical targetsthat I would hit again
971 00:53:23 to put devices into the banks.
972 00:53:25 [Ellen] We put two of these electronictracers in as many banks as we could.
973 00:53:31 [Mike] Everything revolved around time.
974 00:53:34 The more of these tracking devicesthat were in the vault,
975 00:53:36 the more time it allowed me to get there.
976 00:53:39 [Al Pacino] If it's between youand some poor bastard
977 00:53:42 whose wife you're gonna turn into a widow,
978 00:53:46 brother, you are going down.
979 00:53:50 [Mark] Scott and I had watched Heat,which was a pretty intense movie.
980 00:53:53 - [screaming]- [grunting]
981 00:53:56 [man] Don't move! Don't fucking move.
982 00:53:58 [Mark] The bank robbing scenesin that movie are spot-on.
983 00:54:01 And then the shootoutjust scared the bejesus out of us.
984 00:54:08 I remember Scott and Ilooking at each other, just going,
985 00:54:11 "Oh my goodness, what if that happened?"
986 00:54:17 And that was the game we were playing.
987 00:54:21 It was a real possibility,which put the fear of God into us.
988 00:54:25 Fear of our own mortality.
989 00:54:27 [dramatic music playing]
990 00:54:30 Throughout my time working on this case,
991 00:54:32 I always thoughtthere was a great possibility
992 00:54:35 that someone could get hurt.
993 00:54:37 I've been closeto other bank robberies before in the FBI
994 00:54:41 where colleagues of mine were killed
995 00:54:44 in a major shootout in Miami in 1986.
996 00:54:49 [reporter] In a firefightlasting over four minutes,
997 00:54:51 two special agents of the FBI were slainand five other agents were wounded.
998 00:54:56 We may not have known who Hollywood was,
999 00:55:00 but what we did know is thatif we faced off with him in the street,
1000 00:55:03 he would not go down without a fight.
1001 00:55:08 [somber music playing]
1002 00:55:12 [Steve] At some pointin the middle of everything,
1003 00:55:14 I had a very vivid dream.
1004 00:55:18 I was crawling up a beach from the water
1005 00:55:20 and a shark had just bittenboth of my legs off.
1006 00:55:23 [somber music continues]
1007 00:55:28 [Steve] I took the dream as advice.
1008 00:55:31 The advice was to get out of it.
1009 00:55:35 I could sense that Scott feltthat there was something looming.
1010 00:55:41 We took hikes up in the Olympics.The Olympics were special to Scott.
1011 00:55:46 That was our time of peace.
1012 00:55:49 We cleared our mind of the city,of the chaos,
1013 00:55:52 and we would go up there in natureand we'd challenge ourselves.
1014 00:55:57 On the top of Mount Washington,
1015 00:55:58 Scott said to me, "Listen. No matter what,let your own hand be the hand of fate,
1016 00:56:02 and never let your enemydictate your fate."
1017 00:56:06 "You make sure you're in controlof what you do with your life."
1018 00:56:11 [Alban] One bank was not enough for Scott.
1019 00:56:13 He wanted to do three banks.
1020 00:56:15 I said, "You're nuts, man."
1021 00:56:17 I talked to Steve and I told him,
1022 00:56:19 "Listen, man. I think this guyis getting out of hand here."
1023 00:56:23 "And I'm going to Californiaand I suggest you come with me."
1024 00:56:26 And he actually was thinking about it,
1025 00:56:29 except he didn't want to let Scott down.
1026 00:56:33 [Steve] With the final robbery,I knew I had to go through with it,
1027 00:56:36 because something had to culminate.Something had to finalize itself.
1028 00:56:41 The last time that I saw Scott,
1029 00:56:43 I had this really bad dream.
1030 00:56:47 The dream involved guns, a shootout.
1031 00:56:50 It was in Seattle. People were running.
1032 00:56:52 And I'm telling him this dreamand he got all white.
1033 00:56:57 He took a big breath and says,"You're probably not gonna see me again."
1034 00:57:00 "I'm probably gonna goto the Seychelle Islands."
1035 00:57:03 And I go, "Really?"I said, "You're gonna come back, right?"
1036 00:57:06 He goes, "I don't thinkyou're gonna see me again."
1037 00:57:09 [somber music continues]
1038 00:57:13 [Scott] I walk into the night and screamat God to make his message known to me.
1039 00:57:18 God is not respondingand I sense rejection.
1040 00:57:22 It is a time of painand anger and resentment.
1041 00:57:26 Where the fuck do I go from here,oh great winged white horseman in my mind?
1042 00:57:32 This will be the last entryfor a long time.
1043 00:57:34 [music fades]
1044 00:57:41 [Steve] We prepared for yearsto rob these banks.
1045 00:57:44 And about two weeks before Thanksgiving,
1046 00:57:47 Scott said there's good news and bad news.
1047 00:57:50 The bad news is that they now haveProNet tags in the vault money.
1048 00:57:54 There is no way to beat the tagsin time to do our original plan.
1049 00:57:58 So we had to abandonthe multiple banks scenario.
1050 00:58:00 [tense music playing]
1051 00:58:02 The good news is,we take this bank up on 125th Street.
1052 00:58:06 Mustang told us that there should be
1053 00:58:08 five to seven million dollarswithin the bank.
1054 00:58:11 So our whole game plan changed.
1055 00:58:15 But the tracers we had to figure out,and we had to figure out quickly.
1056 00:58:19 We did a bankjust to see how we had to deal with it.
1057 00:58:23 We de-disguised Scott into a ski mask.
1058 00:58:26 We didn't want them to thinkit was Hollywood taking out the tracers.
1059 00:58:30 And I said, "Listen, just go in there.Don't even fuck around with the tellers."
1060 00:58:36 "Go into the vault, get the money,
1061 00:58:37 and when you come out,we'll have the tracers."
1062 00:58:40 "Then we'll find outhow they're planted in the money."
1063 00:58:44 All of these tagswere put between $20 bills,
1064 00:58:48 because you can fan it,you can feel this lump.
1065 00:58:52 In a very short time, we got twothat we discarded out the window.
1066 00:58:56 And then after all of that,
1067 00:58:57 we both felt comfortable and confidentthat we could actually do it.
1068 00:59:05 [tense music playing]
1069 00:59:14 [Shawn] I woke up the morningof Thanksgiving Eve 1996.
1070 00:59:18 My wife says to me that morningbefore I leave, "This is the day."
1071 00:59:21 "This is the day.You're catching Hollywood today."
1072 00:59:23 And I'm thinking, "Well,yeah, I... I don't know about that."
1073 00:59:27 [Mike] Thanksgiving weekwas always a short week
1074 00:59:29 and most of the peoplearen't even in the office.
1075 00:59:33 [Steve] We wake up Thanksgiving Eve.
1076 00:59:35 We look out the windows.The rain was pounding.
1077 00:59:38 It was gray and dark.It was beautiful. Wonderful.
1078 00:59:40 Perfect day for what we were doing.
1079 00:59:42 [tense music continues]
1080 00:59:43 I'm in there cleaning,setting things up, making it perfect.
1081 00:59:48 [Mark] We go to the makeup room
1082 00:59:49 and we put onthe prosthetic pieces and the wigs,
1083 00:59:52 and there wasn't really a lot said.
1084 00:59:55 [Steve] I walk into the studio.Scott has the guitar case out.
1085 00:59:59 He has his assault rifle out.He has the shotgun out.
1086 01:00:03 [Mark] The idea wasthat if a cop car came up on us,
1087 01:00:07 we would grab the shotty,jump out, and shoot out the engine,
1088 01:00:10 and disable the cop car.
1089 01:00:13 [Steve] Everything was finalized.
1090 01:00:14 We were ready to get in the vanand take off for Seattle.
1091 01:00:19 We had Mustang as a lookout on the hill.
1092 01:00:22 It's time to do it.
1093 01:00:24 [music fades]
1094 01:00:31 We had been trained specificallyon the Hollywood Bandit.
1095 01:00:37 And when he walkedinto the Lake City branch to rob us,
1096 01:00:40 he walked right past his wanted poster.
1097 01:00:42 Don't panic. This is a robbery.
1098 01:00:46 [Steve] Scott walks in first, setsthe motion of getting everybody in place,
1099 01:00:50 and then Mark comes in,
1100 01:00:52 and he startsdirecting the patrons in there.
1101 01:00:55 [Mark] You're not even afraid.
1102 01:00:56 You've rehearsed it in your mindand you've done it before,
1103 01:00:59 and so you do it.
1104 01:01:01 My worst nightmare. Not one Hollywood,but two, walk through the door.
1105 01:01:06 And shit just hit the fan.
1106 01:01:08 So I started pulling up the bill trap,which sets off an alarm.
1107 01:01:13 Who's the vault teller?
1108 01:01:16 So I said, "Well, that's me."
1109 01:01:18 So we both went back,
1110 01:01:20 and the vault can openwith a special duress combination
1111 01:01:26 that activated another alarm.
1112 01:01:28 [tense music playing]
1113 01:01:30 I wanted every fuckinglaw enforcement agency in Seattle there,
1114 01:01:36 and there as quick as possible.
1115 01:01:39 [Mike] The office was a ghost town.Nobody was there. Lights were out.
1116 01:01:44 [Ellen] I'm at my desk,just trying to tie up some loose ends.
1117 01:01:47 [Mike] We're monitoringthe Seattle police radio
1118 01:01:49 when the tones go out.
1119 01:01:51 And you hear this beep, beep, beep.
1120 01:01:54 They're in there for two minutes,three minutes, five minutes.
1121 01:01:56 I don't hear anything from Mustang.Everything is cool.
1122 01:01:59 And then finally I get the radio.
1123 01:02:01 [dispatch] We have two suspectswho entered the bank with hats on.
1124 01:02:04 Long green coats,
1125 01:02:05 wearing white pancake style makeupon their faces.
1126 01:02:08 [Scott Levine] I hear someone calling inover a radio, "You've been seen."
1127 01:02:15 - He was not calm.- Get in here. Help!
1128 01:02:17 [Scott Levine] He was angry.He wanted in, he wanted out.
1129 01:02:20 He meant business.
1130 01:02:21 [Scott] Let's go, let's go, let's go!
1131 01:02:26 [Scott Levine] I dumped the ProNetinto the bag.
1132 01:02:28 As he has a gun aimed at me,
1133 01:02:31 I'm thinking,"Is he gonna come back and shoot me?"
1134 01:02:35 [keys tapping]
1135 01:02:36 Mike runs by and he says,
1136 01:02:38 "A bank's been hit.I think it's Hollywood."
1137 01:02:40 [Mike] We ran to the car,turn on the lights,
1138 01:02:43 turned on the sirenand took off down Second Avenue.
1139 01:02:47 [Shawn] I leave my officeabout five o'clock,
1140 01:02:48 thinking the day's over with.
1141 01:02:50 I walk into the kitchen of my house,my pager goes off.
1142 01:02:53 I looked down. It was Hollywood.
1143 01:02:56 [Mark] Scott was in the vaultfor a little too long, I thought.
1144 01:03:00 But then here he comesbounding out of that area,
1145 01:03:03 and he had this great big duffle bag,which I took immediately.
1146 01:03:07 I'm grabbing the 1,080,000in this duffle bag.
1147 01:03:11 [tense music playing]
1148 01:03:14 - [sirens wailing]- By this point, we can hear the sirens.
1149 01:03:18 And that's when we noticedthat there were cops everywhere.
1150 01:03:22 Thick as flies.
1151 01:03:24 [sirens continue wailing]
1152 01:03:26 [Steve] Scott yells, "Steve,maybe we should just abort right now."
1153 01:03:28 "Let's just quit."
1154 01:03:30 I say, "What the fuckare you talking about?"
1155 01:03:31 "Let's go! Get this shit done.Get these tracers out."
1156 01:03:34 I was driving that fucking carlike it was stolen.
1157 01:03:36 We were getting updates constantlyfrom the chief dispatcher.
1158 01:03:40 Two suspects armed with handguns,
1159 01:03:43 but I'm trying to focus onthe tracking devices that left the bank.
1160 01:03:46 [Mike] Do we have any signsgoing at all at this time?
1161 01:03:49 [dispatch] Wedgwood and Lake Cityare both hot.
1162 01:03:52 [Shawn] I'm followingthis tracking device.
1163 01:03:53 It's hitting different areas of the city,
1164 01:03:55 different antennas, hot and cold,hot and cold.
1165 01:03:58 I'm trying to follow that signal.
1166 01:03:59 Finally Scott yelled out, "I got one!"
1167 01:04:01 He gave me two $20 bills
1168 01:04:03 that were glued togetherwith the ProNet tag,
1169 01:04:05 and I threw it out the windowand kept going down the street.
1170 01:04:08 [Mike] An officerpops up on the radio and says,
1171 01:04:10 "I'm starting to geta real strong indication here."
1172 01:04:13 I roll up on the scene
1173 01:04:14 and found on the streetthe tracking device discarded.
1174 01:04:18 And immediately, I said, "Oh, shit."
1175 01:04:21 But I knew there's one moretracking unit still out there.
1176 01:04:25 They were back there working. I said,"Biggins, straighten your mind up."
1177 01:04:28 "Get the fucking shit going.Don't be afraid. Just get it done."
1178 01:04:32 [Mark] It was such a panicwith all the police out buzzing around.
1179 01:04:36 We knew that they were hunting us.
1180 01:04:38 We had taken $1,080,000 out of the bank
1181 01:04:42 and it was too difficultto find the tracking devices.
1182 01:04:47 [sirens wailing]
1183 01:04:49 All of a sudden my display lights upand goes, "Poof!" It's game day. Showtime.
1184 01:04:54 [dramatic music playing]
1185 01:04:58 [Steve] Scott said, "Pull over.I want to drive. I know better where...'
1186 01:05:01 I said, "I know where I'm going.Just do what you gotta do."
1187 01:05:03 And he was stubborn.
1188 01:05:04 [Scott] Get over here!
1189 01:05:06 [Steve] And I finally said, "Okay,"and I looked behind my driver's seat,
1190 01:05:09 and there was this pile of money.
1191 01:05:11 And they didn't haveany order to what they were doing,
1192 01:05:13 and I go, "Oh my God. Oh my fucking God."
1193 01:05:17 [Scott] Just drive!What are you doing? Let's go!
1194 01:05:19 I'm still a ways back.I need to get there.
1195 01:05:21 It's my case. I need to be there.
1196 01:05:24 [Mike] I'm listening to the toneand it's going, "Eeee."
1197 01:05:26 And I'm following the display
1198 01:05:28 and it's guiding me intowards this white van.
1199 01:05:31 And I shut off all my lights
1200 01:05:33 and I'm just following the display
1201 01:05:34 right towards the rear endof this Chevy van.
1202 01:05:38 I could see there was condensationon the back windows.
1203 01:05:42 [Ellen] And we could see lightsthrough the back window.
1204 01:05:45 It looked very odd.
1205 01:05:47 So we knewthey were scouring through the money.
1206 01:05:51 I said, "Radio,we're gonna be doing a felony car stop."
1207 01:05:53 [Mike] We're gonna have to doa felony stop here.
1208 01:05:55 I'd like to have more units.
1209 01:05:58 [Steve] And so Scott, as he pulls up,we're on a little knoll,
1210 01:06:01 he pulled up to the street to turn left.
1211 01:06:03 And as he turned left, I saw the cop cars.
1212 01:06:05 Three cop cars behind us.
1213 01:06:08 [Mike] The van coasted to a stopagainst the curb.
1214 01:06:11 As I was getting out of the carand drawing my pistol and going on target,
1215 01:06:16 I realized that the suspectwas already out of the van.
1216 01:06:21 The police have always said we shot first.It didn't happen that way.
1217 01:06:24 They were the ones that ambushed usand began shooting at us.
1218 01:06:27 Meyers' mouth is moving again,so he's obviously lying.
1219 01:06:30 Let me tell you this.Let me tell you this.
1220 01:06:34 I could see, along the driver's side door,a silhouette,
1221 01:06:39 and it was dark,but I could see they had a rifle.
1222 01:06:43 And I saw the rifle come down on me.
1223 01:06:46 [Ellen] I didn't see it.
1224 01:06:48 I... I could only seethrough the front windshield.
1225 01:06:50 So I never saw anybody get out of the van.
1226 01:06:55 [Steve] The reason for those gunswasn't to have a shootout with the cops.
1227 01:06:58 It was to disarm the vehicle.
1228 01:07:00 No. That rifle was pointed right at me.
1229 01:07:03 Everything that I was taughtwas kicking in.
1230 01:07:06 He went down to take aim at me,
1231 01:07:09 and I thought, "Oh, shit."
1232 01:07:10 And for some reasonthe rifle was not firing.
1233 01:07:13 And then,"click, click, click." Three clicks.
1234 01:07:16 I go, "Oh my God."
1235 01:07:18 Suddenly the cops started shootinginto the back of the van.
1236 01:07:23 I could tell my roundswere going through the back door.
1237 01:07:25 [Mark] All I remember is getting hitby a bullet, and getting knocked over.
1238 01:07:30 Suddenly, my left armjust starts flying in front of my face.
1239 01:07:33 "They fucking shot my arm off!They fucking shot my arm off!"
1240 01:07:37 I'm screaming.
1241 01:07:38 And then a little bit further up,Scott stops again and gets a shotgun.
1242 01:07:42 When we get to that second location,a firefight really ensues.
1243 01:07:46 As I was getting out of the carto draw down on the van again,
1244 01:07:50 I heard three of the loudest booms.
1245 01:07:52 [gunshots]
1246 01:07:54 [Ellen] There are bulletswhizzing by my head.
1247 01:07:57 All I could see was glass breaking.
1248 01:08:00 I didn't have my body armor,and I am in the middle of a shitstorm.
1249 01:08:06 I'm trying to communicatewith the FBI office.
1250 01:08:09 I'm telling 'em, "Shots fired."
1251 01:08:13 [Mike] The van takes off again.
1252 01:08:15 [Steve] My left armis just floating in the air.
1253 01:08:17 Biggins is shot in the abdomen.
1254 01:08:19 Blood everywhere.
1255 01:08:21 And then suddenlythe van comes to a thud. Boom.
1256 01:08:23 [van crashes]
1257 01:08:27 As I lay in the back of the van,Scott runs off.
1258 01:08:30 I'm thinking,"This is what we always spoke about."
1259 01:08:32 We were all in this on our own.
1260 01:08:35 [Mike] As I was runningtowards the vehicle,
1261 01:08:37 I'm seeing a silhouette of a bodyrunning south in an alley.
1262 01:08:43 [Steve] The wipers were going,it was still in gear,
1263 01:08:46 and Biggins is not saying a word,
1264 01:08:47 so I don't knowif he's alive or if he's dead.
1265 01:08:50 And Scott's gone
1266 01:08:51 and all I could hearwere all the cops yelling,
1267 01:08:54 "He's gone. He's running over there."
1268 01:08:55 "Shoot that motherfucker!Kill him! Kill him!"
1269 01:08:59 I went to the alley and I... I stopped.
1270 01:09:01 I thought, "Don't go down this alley.This is what we call the Fatal Funnel.
1271 01:09:05 At that point I realized I should back offand go back to the van
1272 01:09:08 where other officershad two suspects down.
1273 01:09:12 And I saw this white maledown on the ground handcuffed.
1274 01:09:14 I said, "Who are you? Are you Hollywood?"
1275 01:09:16 And he says, "No. He ran down the alley."
1276 01:09:19 I said, "Shoot me, son of a bitch.You were doing it a minute ago."
1277 01:09:22 "Just shoot me.Kill me, get it over with."
1278 01:09:24 He said, "Don't worry about it.The courts will take care of your ass."
1279 01:09:28 When he told me to shoot him, I said,"No. You're not getting out of this one."
1280 01:09:31 "We beat you at your game."
1281 01:09:35 [Steve] I didn't want to go to prison.
1282 01:09:36 I mean, at that point nothing mattered.Life was over as far as I was concerned.
1283 01:09:41 And suddenly, the fearand the pain and all that goes away,
1284 01:09:44 and I looked in the vanand I saw this pile of money
1285 01:09:47 and all the bullet holesthat the cops put in the van
1286 01:09:49 were like laser beams of light.
1287 01:09:53 And suddenly, this beautiful divine musiccame into my head.
1288 01:09:56 I'd never heard earthly music like it.
1289 01:10:00 And the money becamealmost like this talisman of...
1290 01:10:04 "What is it? It's a bunch of paper.Who gives a shit?"
1291 01:10:07 "Who does what people do
1292 01:10:09 for this stupid stuffthat has no meaning, really?"
1293 01:10:13 [ethereal music playing]
1294 01:10:19 [Mike] The Fire Departmentwas at the scene treating Biggins,
1295 01:10:22 and he was motionlesslike he was dead on the ground.
1296 01:10:25 As I was looking at him, the firefighterlooked up at me and he went...
1297 01:10:29 He gave me a thumbs down. I thought,"Oh, shit. I just killed somebody."
1298 01:10:33 I took a deep breath and I said to myself,"This is something I never thought about."
1299 01:10:39 I'd been in one previous shooting,but I was not in a shooting like this.
1300 01:10:43 This was a shootout.
1301 01:10:47 [Mark] Outside of the van,I was in and out of consciousness.
1302 01:10:51 I remember Mike Maganopening one of my eyelids,
1303 01:10:54 checking to see if I was living or dead.
1304 01:10:57 I remembered having a sense of reliefthat it's finally over.
1305 01:11:02 I can let it go now.I don't have to live like this anymore.
1306 01:11:10 [reporter 1] The two men who were shotwere taken into custody
1307 01:11:13 and then taken to the hospital.
1308 01:11:14 One man remains at large.
1309 01:11:16 [reporter 2] Dozens of officers,FBI agents, K-9 units,
1310 01:11:19 even the SWAT teamwere called in to look for the fugitive.
1311 01:11:22 Especially if somebody'sstill on the loose, that's a scary thing.
1312 01:11:26 They could be anywhere.
1313 01:11:29 [Shawn] I follow the ambulancedown to Harborview Hospital.
1314 01:11:33 I would deal with the crime scene later.I need to talk to Steve
1315 01:11:36 and find out who elsewe were looking for that night.
1316 01:11:39 This is it. I'm not putting up with thisanymore. This has gotta be the closure.
1317 01:11:44 [Steve] In the waiting roomin the hospital,
1318 01:11:46 Shawn Johnson asked me questions.
1319 01:11:49 And if you can imagine me being shot upand I'm in a situation, here we are,
1320 01:11:53 Scott's on the loose,I don't know if he's dead or alive,
1321 01:11:57 Biggins might die.
1322 01:11:59 Your mind is not clear.
1323 01:12:01 So I'm trying to protect myself.
1324 01:12:05 After two hours,Steve Meyers finally tells me
1325 01:12:07 that the person I'm looking foris Scott Scurlock.
1326 01:12:10 He said Scott Scurlock is Hollywood.
1327 01:12:13 [dispatch] Seattle Police and Fire 19.
1328 01:12:15 [man] Yeah, I know they're doing a searchin our neighborhood.
1329 01:12:18 - [dispatch] Yeah.- [man] Somebody just pounded on our door.
1330 01:12:21 [woman 1] There is a canoewith a tarp over it.
1331 01:12:23 [dispatch] Uh-huh.
1332 01:12:24 [woman 1] I don't knowif anybody should check it.
1333 01:12:26 [woman 2] I didn't see anybody,but I'm thinking that, um, under my deck
1334 01:12:29 would be a good hiding place.
1335 01:12:31 I keep hearing that the officersare going door-to-door
1336 01:12:35 throughout the nightand throughout the day,
1337 01:12:37 trying to find some lead.
1338 01:12:39 Nothing is turning up.
1339 01:12:40 [woman 3] I'm just wondering, in my areathere's police all over and helicopters...
1340 01:12:44 [dispatch] Right,you need to stay inside, ma'am,
1341 01:12:46 and, uh, try not to tie upthe emergency lines with calls.
1342 01:12:50 When I learned that Hollywood had escaped,
1343 01:12:52 I was angered because so much workhad gone in to try to apprehend him.
1344 01:12:56 The only word that kept comingto my mind is, "Fuck. Really?"
1345 01:12:59 Hollywood was right there.How did he get away?
1346 01:13:04 [suspenseful music playing]
1347 01:13:09 [Mike] For the next several hours,I was walking around with nervous energy
1348 01:13:13 when my pager went off.
1349 01:13:15 [man] I think that bank robber might behiding in my camper in the backyard.
1350 01:13:20 [dispatch] And what makes you think that?
1351 01:13:21 [man] I saw somebody's in thereand it's all locked up
1352 01:13:24 and nobody's supposed to be in there.
1353 01:13:26 It was my old partner and he said to me,
1354 01:13:29 "They have your suspect corneredright near the shooting scene."
1355 01:13:33 [dispatch] Could you tellif it was male or female?
1356 01:13:35 [man] No, I just saw some dark hair.
1357 01:13:38 - [dispatch] Okay. How long ago?- [man] I just came in, right now.
1358 01:13:43 [Mike] The officersare dispatched to the camper.
1359 01:13:46 They're pounding on the camper,trying to see who's inside.
1360 01:13:49 So they bust the windowand spray in pepper spray.
1361 01:13:52 And a moment laterthey hear a single gunshot.
1362 01:13:54 [gunshot]
1363 01:13:55 [Mike] The officersfire back into the camper.
1364 01:13:58 - [gunshots]- [smashing glass]
1365 01:14:06 I was told that 76 roundshad been fired into the camper
1366 01:14:09 by officers who were at the scene.
1367 01:14:14 [David] Good evening.
1368 01:14:15 Thanksgiving has been interruptedfor dozens of families.
1369 01:14:17 It's a police standoff,
1370 01:14:19 and the suspect may bethe bank robber known as Hollywood.
1371 01:14:22 [reporter] Right now,Hollywood the bank robber,
1372 01:14:24 one of the luckiest,most prolific in the country,
1373 01:14:27 looks like his luck has run out.
1374 01:14:30 [tense music playing]
1375 01:14:32 [Mike] As I was arriving,
1376 01:14:34 Seattle policewas getting there simultaneously
1377 01:14:36 with their armored vehiclesand setting up a command post.
1378 01:14:39 [Shawn] We had helicopters.We had armored vehicles.
1379 01:14:43 There were probably a couple of hundredlaw enforcement officers there that day.
1380 01:14:46 I'd never seen such a huge response.
1381 01:14:48 This is Thanksgiving Day.
1382 01:14:50 The whole city is at homewith their families
1383 01:14:53 and able to watch what's happening on TV.
1384 01:14:57 Not only doesthe entire neighborhood come out,
1385 01:14:59 but if you live near that neighborhood,you come out.
1386 01:15:02 People come to see what is happening,
1387 01:15:04 especially when somethingthat's almost like a movie
1388 01:15:07 is so close to their homes.
1389 01:15:08 [David] I mean,a quiet North Seattle neighborhood,
1390 01:15:12 and you have hundreds of police,the SWAT team.
1391 01:15:17 All this happening on Thanksgiving.
1392 01:15:19 A Thanksgivingthat nobody's going to forget.
1393 01:15:21 Our last of our guests were leaving
1394 01:15:24 and I got a callfrom my Aunt Helen who lives in Seattle,
1395 01:15:27 and she was hysterical.
1396 01:15:29 [reporter] Our top story...
1397 01:15:30 [Suzanne] It was all over the Seattle newsthat there was this police shootout
1398 01:15:34 with this bandit named Scott Scurlock,
1399 01:15:36 and there's a SWAT teamaround this little trailer
1400 01:15:40 in this lady's backyard.
1401 01:15:42 And then I, at that point, sat down
1402 01:15:46 and just said... [exhales] "Whoa. Whoa."
1403 01:15:50 It was just so mind-blowing
1404 01:15:53 to find out that he's been robbing banksfor five years.
1405 01:15:58 [reporter 1] People areout of their homes,
1406 01:16:00 their Thanksgiving disruptedby this, uh, police manhunt
1407 01:16:03 that has been going on now
1408 01:16:05 for more than 24 hoursin this neighborhood.
1409 01:16:07 [reporter 2] Police and FBI agentshave been in standoff mode,
1410 01:16:10 guns drawn, and negotiators in place.
1411 01:16:13 [David] The standoff is still underway.
1412 01:16:15 We know that shots have been fired.
1413 01:16:17 They've been banging on the door.They've tried to contact him. They can't.
1414 01:16:22 They wanted this to endin the way they wanted it to end.
1415 01:16:24 They weren't gonna take any chances.
1416 01:16:28 [Shawn] And after two hours of no responsewe decided to make entry into the camper.
1417 01:16:32 [tense music playing]
1418 01:16:36 [Shawn] I walk in with the Tactical Team.
1419 01:16:40 We found a body underneath the table.
1420 01:16:43 I had a picture with me. I look down.
1421 01:16:45 [tense music continues]
1422 01:16:49 Scott.
1423 01:16:50 At that point, I knew that it was...We had him.
1424 01:16:54 And turned out that he had killed himself.
1425 01:16:56 That first shot the officers heardwas him killing himself.
1426 01:17:05 [reporter] Good evening.
1427 01:17:06 A suspected bank robber who died yesterdayduring a standoff with police
1428 01:17:10 apparently killed himself.
1429 01:17:11 [David] Scott Scurlock,who police dubbed Hollywood,
1430 01:17:14 was found dead in a camper last night...
1431 01:17:15 [Steve] I woke up the next morningin the hospital and the TV was going
1432 01:17:19 and the news was carpeted with us,
1433 01:17:23 and my name and Scott Scurlockfrom Olympia, Washington, deceased.
1434 01:17:29 A self-inflicted wound.
1435 01:17:32 And, uh, I kind of looked and I just go...
1436 01:17:37 "Thank God," you know.I just said, "Thank God."
1437 01:17:41 The shootout was the end.
1438 01:17:43 Not only the end of our endeavors,but the end of a certain life that I had.
1439 01:17:50 We were like two comets that came together
1440 01:17:53 and we met up and we started flyingthrough the fucking universe
1441 01:17:57 and suddenly, boom!It's all busted up in one second.
1442 01:18:00 It's gone.
1443 01:18:06 [Ellen] I feel like this episodetested me in every possible way.
1444 01:18:11 I was thinking about my kidswhen the shooting started,
1445 01:18:15 and wondering, you know,am I doing the right thing
1446 01:18:17 by doing this jobwhen there's a lot of other jobs
1447 01:18:20 I could be doing in the FBI?
1448 01:18:22 [somber music playing]
1449 01:18:25 [Mike] A day doesn't go bywhere you don't think about it.
1450 01:18:30 My only question to him would probably be,"Why did you take your life?"
1451 01:18:36 And I'll quote Mark Twain,
1452 01:18:37 and Mark Twain saidthat he would never wish death upon a man,
1453 01:18:41 but he's read some obituarieswith great pleasure.
1454 01:18:46 [Shawn] The major regret I havein this investigation
1455 01:18:48 is the fact I never gotto sit down with Scott
1456 01:18:51 and talk to him face-to-face, man-to-man.
1457 01:18:56 If I had been in the vehicle that night,in front of that pursuit line,
1458 01:18:59 would I have done what Mike did,shoot into the back of that van? No.
1459 01:19:02 There's always another day to catch him.Seriously, there's always another day.
1460 01:19:06 [somber music continues]
1461 01:19:09 [camera clicking]
1462 01:19:13 [Suzanne] It was heartbreakingfor the whole family.
1463 01:19:15 It was almost like a...like a double whammy of... of,
1464 01:19:18 "Whoa. He was doing what?He ended up here?"
1465 01:19:23 My father adored Scottand was heartbroken.
1466 01:19:28 Not only that we lost him.We also lost who we thought he was.
1467 01:19:32 [Scott's father] I missbeing able to love him.
1468 01:19:35 I miss being loved by him.
1469 01:19:38 And he really genuinely loved me.
1470 01:19:41 I don't thinkthere's any question about that at all.
1471 01:19:43 And I loved him dearly.No matter what he was like.
1472 01:19:47 The number of secrets he hadabout the life he had been leading
1473 01:19:50 were so huge
1474 01:19:52 that if he had walked out of that trailer,put his hands in the air, and surrendered,
1475 01:19:58 he would have had to have facedhis entire world.
1476 01:20:02 And I honestly believethat the last decade of his life,
1477 01:20:06 he was making choices that he knewwere gonna come down to a dead end.
1478 01:20:14 [Steven] I received a call.
1479 01:20:16 "Scotty's died.He died in a bank robbery."
1480 01:20:19 My mind immediately went into,
1481 01:20:22 "He was trying to stop the bank robbery.He was being the hero."
1482 01:20:25 And so I asked the question. "Well,how did he die in the bank robbery?"
1483 01:20:28 And the answer came backthat he was the bank robber.
1484 01:20:32 It felt like my heartand my brain exploded.
1485 01:20:35 [Steve] When I was in prison,Mustang visited me four or five times.
1486 01:20:39 She would always come on the anniversary,the day before Thanksgiving.
1487 01:20:43 She'd always think of Scott.
1488 01:20:45 And I got a letter from her sister,said that she'd committed suicide.
1489 01:20:50 She just couldn't bear the factthat all that she'd been involved with
1490 01:20:53 over the years with Scott and me,
1491 01:20:55 and that suddenly he's deadand I'm in prison for all these years,
1492 01:20:59 and that she is walking free.
1493 01:21:02 It's like, she's not walking freein her own soul.
1494 01:21:04 I don't think she believedshe was walking free.
1495 01:21:08 [T.J.] Steve Meyers,who used to go to Shakespeare plays
1496 01:21:11 with my husband and I.
1497 01:21:13 He's going to prison.
1498 01:21:14 We have Mark Biggins.
1499 01:21:16 Sensitive guy. Poet, guitar player.
1500 01:21:20 He's going to prison. Blows my mind.
1501 01:21:24 People always say,"Oh, you knew the guy in the Treehouse?"
1502 01:21:26 "You knew Hollywood?"I'd go, "Hey, I didn't know Hollywood."
1503 01:21:30 "I knew Scott Scurlock."
1504 01:21:34 [Mark] Scott and Ihad several discussions about,
1505 01:21:37 "What are you gonna do if we get caught?"
1506 01:21:41 And he would always, always say,
1507 01:21:43 "I'm not going to prison.I'm gonna head for the white light."
1508 01:21:49 I've read the victim impact statements
1509 01:21:51 and some bank tellers and some customersin the bank were... were truly traumatized
1510 01:21:57 by the... the whole experience,and that I regret sincerely.
1511 01:22:02 [somber music continues]
1512 01:22:07 [T.J.] Scott had a T-shirtthat said "Live Free or Die."
1513 01:22:10 And I think he spent a lot of yearsfiguring out how to live free.
1514 01:22:15 But in the end,
1515 01:22:18 he died and he wasn't free.
1516 01:22:25 [Steve] After his death,
1517 01:22:27 the Treehouse diedwithin a year, a year and a half.
1518 01:22:29 It crumbled and fell.
1519 01:22:31 I mean, this tree house and Scottwere one soul, inseparable.
1520 01:22:37 And Scott's death was its death.
1521 01:22:40 And it had to be that way.
1522 01:22:45 [Mark] After being released from prison,I went back to the Treehouse.
1523 01:22:50 It looked like a shipwreck.
1524 01:22:52 It was just a pile of timber.
1525 01:22:55 And I took some of Scott's ashesand spread them and said goodbye, finally.
1526 01:23:03 [Scott] I have just finishedreading my whole diary
1527 01:23:05 and it seems like a thing of the past.
1528 01:23:09 I feel like a completely different person.
1529 01:23:12 So many things have happened to me
1530 01:23:14 that there's no wayI could write them all down.
1531 01:23:19 My mind seems to be farther than my bodyfrom the earth below.
1532 01:23:24 I feel excited but scared.
1533 01:23:30 It is a time of new beginnings.
1534 01:23:41 [soft rock music playing]
1535 01:26:33 [music fades]