Trainwreck: Balloon Boy

Name: Trainwreck: Balloon Boy
Released: 2025

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Movie Name	Trainwreck: Balloon Boy
Release Name	Trainwreck.Balloon.Boy.2025.1080p.WEBRip.x264.AAC5.1-[YTS.MX]
Year	2025
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Language	English
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1 00:00:06,297 --> 00:00:07,340 [tense music plays] 2 00:00:07,424 --> 00:00:09,259 [dispatcher] 911, what's your emergency? 3 00:00:09,342 --> 00:00:11,761 {\an8}[man 1 speaking] 4 00:00:11,845 --> 00:00:13,888 {\an8}-[dispatcher] Mm-hmm. -[man 1 speaking] 7 00:00:14,389 --> 00:00:17,225 -[man 1] And, uh, it took off! -[dramatic music plays] 8 00:00:17,308 --> 00:00:21,271 This is a very unusual situation that is unfolding right now. 9 00:00:21,354 --> 00:00:25,358 It involves a home-built UFO powered by helium. 10 00:00:25,442 --> 00:00:26,818 What the hell's going on? 11 00:00:26,901 --> 00:00:28,945 [chuckles] What is this thing? 12 00:00:29,029 --> 00:00:30,447 [man 2] My immediate response was, 13 00:00:30,530 --> 00:00:32,824 "You have to be jerking my bobber." [chuckles] 14 00:00:32,907 --> 00:00:36,453 {\an8}[woman] It does have the capability of going 10,000 feet. 15 00:00:36,536 --> 00:00:38,955 {\an8}It's so bizarre that you wanna laugh. 16 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:40,957 [dispatcher] Okay, so what's wrong? 17 00:00:41,041 --> 00:00:43,251 [man 3] But then, all of a sudden, it turns serious. 18 00:00:43,334 --> 00:00:44,711 [music swells, stops] 19 00:00:44,794 --> 00:00:47,797 [man 1 speaking and sobbing] 20 00:00:47,881 --> 00:00:48,715 [music resumes] 21 00:00:48,798 --> 00:00:49,924 -[tires squeal] -[siren wails] 22 00:00:50,008 --> 00:00:52,469 [male reporter] Has there ever been a situation like this? 23 00:00:52,552 --> 00:00:55,096 [man 4] I think that young man's in for a heck of a ride. 24 00:00:55,180 --> 00:00:56,347 Holy cow. 25 00:00:56,431 --> 00:00:57,348 Oh my God. 26 00:00:57,932 --> 00:01:01,603 The first call that we got to Sky9 came from the family's home. 27 00:01:01,686 --> 00:01:03,480 That sounds like the Heenes. 28 00:01:03,563 --> 00:01:06,900 -Three, two, one. -[boy] Two, one. 29 00:01:06,983 --> 00:01:10,070 All I wanted to do was make a really fantastic project for the kids. 30 00:01:10,153 --> 00:01:13,656 Mayumi! You didn't put the… [bleep] …tether down! 31 00:01:13,740 --> 00:01:16,951 But what if my stupid experiment kills my son? 32 00:01:17,035 --> 00:01:18,870 [reporters clamoring] 33 00:01:18,953 --> 00:01:23,166 [Mayumi] The reality was so hard to accept. 34 00:01:23,249 --> 00:01:25,126 What have we done? 35 00:01:25,210 --> 00:01:29,380 [Kim Christiansen] It is like a horrific version of the movie Up. 36 00:01:29,464 --> 00:01:33,343 I couldn't wrap my head around it. It-- It really was like a science fiction. 37 00:01:34,177 --> 00:01:36,012 [man 3] The media starts digging in. 38 00:01:36,763 --> 00:01:37,847 Who are the Heenes? 39 00:01:37,931 --> 00:01:40,475 They're uncontrollable. They're just, uh-- They're wild. 40 00:01:40,558 --> 00:01:43,520 [Kim] We just got confirmation that this family had been featured 41 00:01:43,603 --> 00:01:45,897 on a reality show last year. 42 00:01:45,980 --> 00:01:47,065 Look at you, man! 43 00:01:47,607 --> 00:01:52,320 This family is crazy. This dad should be arrested. 44 00:01:52,403 --> 00:01:54,614 Really, really focus on my voice. 45 00:01:54,697 --> 00:01:58,493 The motto at the sheriff's office is, "You lie, you die." 46 00:01:58,993 --> 00:02:00,912 We're cutting this thing off, okay? 47 00:02:00,995 --> 00:02:05,500 Fuck those guys. This is a tight-knit, loving family. 48 00:02:05,583 --> 00:02:07,043 [male reporter] He's at 100 feet. 49 00:02:07,127 --> 00:02:09,337 [man 3] We all thought that once that balloon came down, 50 00:02:09,420 --> 00:02:10,839 this whole thing would be over. 51 00:02:10,922 --> 00:02:13,383 [suspenseful music builds, swells, fades] 52 00:02:13,466 --> 00:02:16,302 [voice breaking] It's supposed to be a fun project. 53 00:02:17,137 --> 00:02:19,597 -[sniffles] -But it was only just the beginning. 54 00:02:20,348 --> 00:02:22,642 [electronic whooshing] 55 00:02:22,725 --> 00:02:26,688 [distorted electric guitar note plays] 56 00:02:30,108 --> 00:02:31,109 [birds chirping] 57 00:02:31,192 --> 00:02:32,777 [pleasant music plays] 58 00:02:32,861 --> 00:02:35,405 [Richard Heene] In 2009, we were living in Colorado, 59 00:02:35,488 --> 00:02:37,657 and we had moved there from California. 60 00:02:40,535 --> 00:02:41,744 [thunder cracks] 61 00:02:41,828 --> 00:02:46,040 We wanted to chase tornadoes and do, uh, science research projects. 62 00:02:46,124 --> 00:02:47,375 [fuse crackling] 63 00:02:47,458 --> 00:02:50,211 [whooshing] 64 00:02:50,295 --> 00:02:54,382 {\an8}I have a very deep passion for things that are unknown. 65 00:02:54,465 --> 00:02:56,050 [clicking rapidly] 66 00:02:56,134 --> 00:02:57,051 There it goes! 67 00:02:57,135 --> 00:02:59,012 -Yeah! -[Mayumi] Congratulations! 68 00:02:59,095 --> 00:03:01,347 -How do you feel? [giggles] -[Richard yells excitedly] 69 00:03:01,431 --> 00:03:04,475 {\an8}Our Heene family is very unique. 70 00:03:04,559 --> 00:03:05,727 [Falcon] Yeah! Look! 71 00:03:05,810 --> 00:03:07,145 [Mayumi] Falcon, six. 72 00:03:07,228 --> 00:03:09,189 -They're scissors. -[Mayumi] Ryo, eight. 73 00:03:09,272 --> 00:03:11,399 -Strippers. -[Mayumi] And Bradford is ten. 74 00:03:11,482 --> 00:03:14,235 We adventure together, build together. 75 00:03:15,069 --> 00:03:18,239 {\an8}-[intriguing music plays] -We like to make sure we chase a thrill. 76 00:03:18,323 --> 00:03:21,242 {\an8}-[hail pattering] -We're in the middle of Hurricane Gustav. 77 00:03:21,784 --> 00:03:24,871 -[hail thuds on window] -[Richard] Oh my! Damn! 78 00:03:24,954 --> 00:03:28,416 {\an8}[Bradford] My dad was always making us look up science experiments on YouTube. 79 00:03:28,499 --> 00:03:29,667 {\an8}[Richard] There we go! [gasps] 80 00:03:29,751 --> 00:03:31,794 {\an8}[Bradford] We were super interested in UFOs. 81 00:03:32,462 --> 00:03:35,256 [electronic trilling] 82 00:03:37,383 --> 00:03:39,594 [Tina Chavez] We lived across from the Heene house. 83 00:03:40,637 --> 00:03:44,557 {\an8}And Richard, just right from the jump, just this big energy, 84 00:03:44,641 --> 00:03:47,560 {\an8}constantly pacing, talking 100 miles an hour. 85 00:03:47,644 --> 00:03:49,771 But he was super smart. 86 00:03:49,854 --> 00:03:53,900 He could build anything. He could put electrical things together. 87 00:03:53,983 --> 00:03:56,861 I always asked him and said, "Are you from MIT or what?" 88 00:03:58,404 --> 00:04:02,242 [Tina] Our bedroom window overlooked the Heenes' backyard. 89 00:04:06,204 --> 00:04:07,622 [Richard] All right, pull this off. 90 00:04:08,414 --> 00:04:13,002 [Dean] One time, I looked out the window and noticed he was working on something. 91 00:04:13,086 --> 00:04:14,629 [Richard] Same thing we did last time. 92 00:04:14,712 --> 00:04:16,965 It really did look like a silver disk. 93 00:04:17,048 --> 00:04:19,133 -[Richard] Got it? Pull! -[Bradford] Yup. 94 00:04:19,801 --> 00:04:26,724 My husband, Richard, always wanted to build a flying saucer since 1979. 95 00:04:26,808 --> 00:04:27,642 [chuckles] 96 00:04:27,725 --> 00:04:31,688 I just thought, "What if everybody could be flying around like The Jetsons?" 97 00:04:31,771 --> 00:04:33,773 [The Jetsons theme song plays] 98 00:04:34,941 --> 00:04:36,317 It would be just wonderful. 99 00:04:38,903 --> 00:04:41,864 Everybody could be pulling out of their garage in flying saucers, 100 00:04:41,948 --> 00:04:43,324 going to school and work. 101 00:04:43,408 --> 00:04:45,702 And you wouldn't have all this traffic. 102 00:04:45,785 --> 00:04:48,788 [electronic whooshing and trilling] 103 00:04:49,580 --> 00:04:50,498 [ominous sting] 104 00:04:50,581 --> 00:04:52,292 [intriguing music plays] 105 00:04:52,375 --> 00:04:55,003 We started working on a flying saucer 106 00:04:55,086 --> 00:04:58,131 that was gonna be 20 feet across and 6 feet tall. 107 00:05:02,468 --> 00:05:05,763 When he said, uh, "We're gonna try to make, like, a flying saucer." 108 00:05:05,847 --> 00:05:08,141 And we're like, "Oh fuck! That's fucking cool." 109 00:05:08,224 --> 00:05:12,729 Okay, Brad, take station A over here. I mean, on B. I'll take number A. 110 00:05:12,812 --> 00:05:15,064 -[Bradford] Hurry up. Move. -[Richard] Here we go. 111 00:05:15,148 --> 00:05:19,319 It took us two weeks to assemble a whole flying saucer. 112 00:05:20,111 --> 00:05:21,112 Here we go. 113 00:05:22,113 --> 00:05:23,448 [Mayumi chuckles] 114 00:05:23,531 --> 00:05:25,074 -Pretty cool, huh? -[Mayumi] Yeah. 115 00:05:25,158 --> 00:05:28,661 [Richard] We were hoping to do the test launch on our anniversary. 116 00:05:29,370 --> 00:05:31,664 The concept is to tether the flying saucer down, 117 00:05:31,748 --> 00:05:33,374 and let it hover at 20 feet. 118 00:05:34,292 --> 00:05:36,169 And we could observe with the video cameras 119 00:05:36,252 --> 00:05:38,338 whether it's gonna move left or right or up and down. 120 00:05:39,422 --> 00:05:40,423 Here we go. 121 00:05:41,257 --> 00:05:43,134 -What do you guys think? -[boys giggle] 122 00:05:43,217 --> 00:05:44,302 [boy] Cool. 123 00:05:44,385 --> 00:05:47,847 [Richard] Underneath the flying saucer is this compartment. 124 00:05:47,930 --> 00:05:49,682 Go, look in here. 125 00:05:49,766 --> 00:05:50,933 [Falcon] Can we go inside? 126 00:05:51,017 --> 00:05:53,019 [Richard] Uh, I don't think that's a good idea. 127 00:05:53,561 --> 00:05:55,897 It was not designed to have people go in it. 128 00:05:55,980 --> 00:05:59,400 It was a compartment that had to have access to put the helium in it. 129 00:06:01,527 --> 00:06:04,364 [Bradford] My dad would make me video pretty much every experiment, 130 00:06:05,239 --> 00:06:07,533 but, at the same time, like, keep my brothers in check. 131 00:06:08,117 --> 00:06:10,370 -[Falcon] I'm inside! -[Ryo] He's inside. 132 00:06:10,453 --> 00:06:12,705 [Bradford] Falcon was pretty wild and chaotic. 133 00:06:12,789 --> 00:06:13,706 [Ryo] Falcon, out! 134 00:06:13,790 --> 00:06:16,376 [Mayumi] You are inside. Come on, get out. 135 00:06:17,001 --> 00:06:21,631 I don't wanna say a shit starter, but, like, he's always getting into stuff. 136 00:06:21,714 --> 00:06:22,924 [Ryo] Get out! 137 00:06:23,007 --> 00:06:25,301 [Bradford] He'd be touching shit he wasn't supposed to. 138 00:06:25,802 --> 00:06:29,180 He was super interested in hiding in the bottom of the flying saucer. 139 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:31,224 [Falcon giggles] 140 00:06:32,683 --> 00:06:34,310 [Mayumi chuckling] Sneaky! 141 00:06:38,564 --> 00:06:40,566 [adventurous music plays] 142 00:06:44,195 --> 00:06:47,407 So we're gonna put this on. I need you to go take care of, um… 143 00:06:48,282 --> 00:06:50,910 -I need you to tether it down, okay? -[Mayumi] Okay. All right. 144 00:06:51,661 --> 00:06:55,456 My main focus was tie down the flying saucer, 145 00:06:56,165 --> 00:06:57,917 so it's gonna be secure. 146 00:06:58,626 --> 00:07:01,045 [Richard] So I guess I'll bring the bottles out. 147 00:07:01,712 --> 00:07:03,881 -[clanks] -We got the helium hose hooked up. 148 00:07:03,965 --> 00:07:04,799 It's filling up. 149 00:07:05,550 --> 00:07:07,677 -[boys giggle] -Look at this. It's working. 150 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:09,220 -It's getting puffy. -[Mayumi laughs] 151 00:07:09,303 --> 00:07:12,640 -Yeah, Mom. Is this, like, the best? -[chuckles] Yeah. 152 00:07:12,723 --> 00:07:15,226 -[Richard] Huh? -I'm like a kid now. 153 00:07:15,309 --> 00:07:16,310 [laughing] Yay! 154 00:07:17,270 --> 00:07:20,064 [Richard] This is the moment we've been waiting for. 155 00:07:20,148 --> 00:07:24,402 -Here we go. Three, two, one. -[Mayumi] Two, one. 156 00:07:25,445 --> 00:07:26,446 [Richard] I pull the pin. 157 00:07:26,529 --> 00:07:28,781 -[Ryo] Whoa! -[Richard] Oh my God. 158 00:07:28,865 --> 00:07:31,409 I'm watching this, and here's-- here it is. 159 00:07:31,492 --> 00:07:33,244 I mean, this is it at 20 feet. 160 00:07:33,327 --> 00:07:34,662 [adventurous music swells] 161 00:07:34,745 --> 00:07:35,997 [ominous music plays] 162 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:37,748 [shouting] Mayumi, the tethers! 163 00:07:37,832 --> 00:07:38,666 [Mayumi] What?! 164 00:07:38,749 --> 00:07:40,960 -You didn't put the fucking tether down! -I did! 165 00:07:41,043 --> 00:07:42,253 -[grunts] -I did! 166 00:07:42,336 --> 00:07:44,422 -No. No. -[tense music playing] 167 00:07:45,298 --> 00:07:46,340 It wasn't 20 feet. 168 00:07:46,424 --> 00:07:49,760 The tethers, like, snapped, and it took off. 169 00:07:49,844 --> 00:07:53,264 It keeps going up, going up. 170 00:07:54,140 --> 00:07:56,476 -[Richard] Why didn't you tie it down? -[Mayumi] I did! 171 00:07:56,559 --> 00:07:59,187 [Richard] I was so fucking pissed. 172 00:07:59,687 --> 00:08:02,398 It was hundreds of dollars… gone. 173 00:08:03,191 --> 00:08:06,235 As I was recording, I remember looking around and not seeing Falcon. 174 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:07,945 [Bradford] Dad! Dad! 175 00:08:08,029 --> 00:08:11,866 And I kept trying to tell him that Falcon was in the flying saucer. 176 00:08:11,949 --> 00:08:13,493 -Jesus Christ! -Falcon was in there. 177 00:08:13,576 --> 00:08:14,785 Falcon was in the ship. 178 00:08:14,869 --> 00:08:17,455 And I was, like, super fucking scared. 179 00:08:17,538 --> 00:08:19,123 Like, that's my brother. 180 00:08:19,207 --> 00:08:21,959 This shit's taken off, and there's nothing you can do. 181 00:08:22,043 --> 00:08:24,128 -Dad, Falcon's in there. -[Richard] Where? 182 00:08:24,212 --> 00:08:26,714 -[Bradford] In the ship! -[Richard] He was just here. 183 00:08:26,797 --> 00:08:28,466 [Bradford] No, he's in there! 184 00:08:29,175 --> 00:08:31,802 -[Richard and Mayumi] What?! -[Bradford] I saw him crawl in. 185 00:08:31,886 --> 00:08:34,639 -[Richard] No, he's not. He was just here. -[Bradford] Yeah. 186 00:08:34,722 --> 00:08:36,182 Wait a minute. Where is Falcon? 187 00:08:36,682 --> 00:08:38,392 [unsettling sting] 188 00:08:38,476 --> 00:08:41,521 I'm running around the yard. I go towards the garage. 189 00:08:41,604 --> 00:08:42,438 Falcon! 190 00:08:42,522 --> 00:08:43,481 He's always hiding. 191 00:08:43,564 --> 00:08:44,649 -Falcon! -[Mayumi] No! 192 00:08:44,732 --> 00:08:47,068 [Richard] I go inside the house. I'm shouting. 193 00:08:47,151 --> 00:08:48,569 Maybe he went to the bathroom. 194 00:08:48,653 --> 00:08:51,948 I'm running through the living room. I go upstairs. I'm shouting for him. 195 00:08:52,031 --> 00:08:53,115 -Falcon! -[door opens] 196 00:08:53,199 --> 00:08:57,828 [Mayumi] And the more we visit every place he could be in… 197 00:08:57,912 --> 00:09:01,541 [voice breaking] …is, "This is out. This is out. This is out." 198 00:09:01,624 --> 00:09:02,500 [whimpers] 199 00:09:03,918 --> 00:09:05,461 What have we done? 200 00:09:05,962 --> 00:09:07,380 [eerie music plays] 201 00:09:07,463 --> 00:09:09,465 [Dean] I heard all the screaming and yelling 202 00:09:09,549 --> 00:09:11,425 and the chaos in their backyard. 203 00:09:12,593 --> 00:09:14,720 My son, Brennan, he ran back, he says, 204 00:09:14,804 --> 00:09:19,392 "Dad, they said Falcon got in the balloon, and it took off." 205 00:09:19,892 --> 00:09:22,353 And my heart started to beat through my chest. 206 00:09:22,436 --> 00:09:25,022 I was getting very frantic, you know? 207 00:09:25,106 --> 00:09:27,483 And I was like, "Okay, this cannot be happening." 208 00:09:29,902 --> 00:09:32,863 [Richard] All I could think about was, "Oh my God." 209 00:09:33,364 --> 00:09:36,367 "The winds were taking him straight to an airport." 210 00:09:36,450 --> 00:09:38,953 "He's headed straight for air traffic." 211 00:09:40,329 --> 00:09:42,123 I thought, "I gotta call the FAA." 212 00:09:43,624 --> 00:09:45,626 I get on the phone, and I told them, 213 00:09:45,710 --> 00:09:48,129 "I think my son's in this experimental flying saucer." 214 00:09:48,212 --> 00:09:51,382 And then she told me, "Well, if you've got an emergency, 215 00:09:51,465 --> 00:09:53,509 then you need to dial 911." 216 00:09:54,510 --> 00:09:56,429 So I called 911. 217 00:09:56,971 --> 00:09:59,056 -[dispatcher speaks] -[Richard speaks] 218 00:09:59,140 --> 00:10:00,433 [dispatcher speaks] 219 00:10:01,058 --> 00:10:04,061 -[Richard speaks] -[dispatcher] Okay. 220 00:10:04,145 --> 00:10:05,646 [Richard speaks] 221 00:10:06,188 --> 00:10:07,440 [dispatcher speaks] 222 00:10:08,232 --> 00:10:11,652 The operator asked me to get on the phone, 223 00:10:11,736 --> 00:10:15,448 so she could verify what he was saying to her. 224 00:10:15,531 --> 00:10:18,284 She asked me the same question over and over. 225 00:10:18,868 --> 00:10:20,786 [dispatcher speaks] 226 00:10:20,870 --> 00:10:21,746 [Mayumi] Yes. 227 00:10:21,829 --> 00:10:23,664 [Mayumi speaks] 228 00:10:23,748 --> 00:10:29,837 You heard him. Why I need to explain? Please put somebody on it. 229 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,131 [Mayumi sobbing] 230 00:10:32,214 --> 00:10:33,466 [Mayumi speaks] 231 00:10:33,549 --> 00:10:34,425 [Mayumi sobs] 232 00:10:34,508 --> 00:10:36,135 [voice breaking] Why you don't get it? 233 00:10:36,218 --> 00:10:38,846 -[siren wails intermittently] -[ominous music plays] 234 00:10:41,807 --> 00:10:43,643 [Bob Heffernan] I'm sitting in my patrol car, 235 00:10:44,393 --> 00:10:47,438 about to get off duty before going on an elk hunt… 236 00:10:47,521 --> 00:10:48,898 -[radio beeps] -[dispatcher speaks] 237 00:10:48,981 --> 00:10:51,567 …when I started hearing cracklings over the radio 238 00:10:51,651 --> 00:10:54,236 {\an8}of a missing six-year-old boy 239 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,948 {\an8}that supposedly went up in a flying saucer, 240 00:10:58,032 --> 00:11:01,327 {\an8}and I'm thinking, "What in the world's going on here?" 241 00:11:01,410 --> 00:11:02,953 -[sirens wailing] -[tense music plays] 242 00:11:03,037 --> 00:11:05,873 So I got to the Heene house as soon as I could. 243 00:11:07,083 --> 00:11:09,710 Richard and Mayumi were very distraught. 244 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,465 We conducted a very thorough search of the home. 245 00:11:15,091 --> 00:11:17,968 Not only did we do it a second time, we did it a third time. 246 00:11:18,052 --> 00:11:19,428 [camera shutter clicking] 247 00:11:19,512 --> 00:11:22,264 Plus, there was other people searching for other possibilities 248 00:11:22,348 --> 00:11:24,934 of where the child may be, um, 249 00:11:25,434 --> 00:11:28,979 but I started to have this gut-wrenching thought of, 250 00:11:29,772 --> 00:11:31,816 "Man, this could be really bad." 251 00:11:31,899 --> 00:11:33,275 [music fades] 252 00:11:33,359 --> 00:11:35,695 {\an8}I'm Kim Christiansen. We'll get to the economy in a moment, 253 00:11:35,778 --> 00:11:39,949 {\an8}but, first, some breaking news about a very unusual situation. 254 00:11:40,032 --> 00:11:41,575 It involves a child 255 00:11:41,659 --> 00:11:44,870 and a home-built aircraft in the shape of a UFO, 256 00:11:44,954 --> 00:11:46,414 powered by helium. 257 00:11:46,497 --> 00:11:48,958 -[timer beeping] -[tense string music plays] 258 00:11:49,041 --> 00:11:51,877 The child's father actually called our information center in a panic, 259 00:11:51,961 --> 00:11:53,963 asking if we would launch our helicopter. 260 00:11:54,046 --> 00:11:55,673 [dramatic sting] 261 00:11:55,756 --> 00:11:59,844 [Jimmy Negri] The news director told me that we needed to find this flying saucer 262 00:11:59,927 --> 00:12:01,929 that has a six-year-old boy in it. 263 00:12:02,638 --> 00:12:07,810 I was just in shock and awe and ran to the airport as fast as I could. 264 00:12:07,893 --> 00:12:10,980 {\an8}And we take off like crazy, flying southeast, 265 00:12:11,063 --> 00:12:14,150 {\an8}to try to find this poor little boy in this craft. 266 00:12:15,484 --> 00:12:19,530 {\an8}We're just out in the middle of nowhere, looking for a spot in the sky. 267 00:12:20,114 --> 00:12:23,409 {\an8}-[male reporter] There. Oh! We passed it. -[Kim] We thought we saw it. 268 00:12:23,492 --> 00:12:24,952 {\an8}I think we're getting back to it. 269 00:12:25,035 --> 00:12:27,913 {\an8}[reporter] Up and right. There you are. Oh! You went past it. 270 00:12:27,997 --> 00:12:29,915 {\an8}-[Kim] There it is. -[hopeful music plays] 271 00:12:29,999 --> 00:12:33,919 {\an8}[Negri] Finally, finally. Sorry, guys, it's been a needle in a haystack here, 272 00:12:34,003 --> 00:12:36,088 {\an8}but we've tracked it now, and it's, uh… 273 00:12:36,172 --> 00:12:40,718 {\an8}If you'll be patient with me for a moment, I'll zoom in. Maybe see the child in here. 274 00:12:40,801 --> 00:12:42,553 {\an8}When I first see it, 275 00:12:42,636 --> 00:12:43,971 {\an8}it's at like 10,000 feet, 276 00:12:44,847 --> 00:12:45,931 {\an8}but it's cooking. 277 00:12:46,015 --> 00:12:48,809 {\an8}It's blowing as fast as the winds will blow it. 278 00:12:51,020 --> 00:12:53,564 {\an8}Now, I'm even more afraid because it's real, 279 00:12:53,647 --> 00:12:55,566 {\an8}and all we can do is shoot a picture. 280 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,319 {\an8}You know, you're watching a NASCAR wreck, 281 00:12:58,402 --> 00:13:00,988 {\an8}and there ain't a doggone thing you can do about it. 282 00:13:01,071 --> 00:13:03,073 {\an8}[suspenseful music playing] 283 00:13:05,075 --> 00:13:07,286 {\an8}I am watching the TV 284 00:13:07,369 --> 00:13:12,416 {\an8}when MSNBC breaks into a Barack Obama town hall. 285 00:13:12,500 --> 00:13:15,169 {\an8}Um, I'm gonna ask all three of you to hang on just a minute 286 00:13:15,252 --> 00:13:18,172 {\an8}because we have rather an incredible breaking news story 287 00:13:18,255 --> 00:13:19,840 {\an8}that we're following right now. 288 00:13:19,924 --> 00:13:22,968 [man 3] I thought, "Wait a minute. What's going on here?" 289 00:13:23,803 --> 00:13:27,807 It looks like this Jiffy Pop popcorn-type thing 290 00:13:27,890 --> 00:13:29,975 floating across the-- the sky. 291 00:13:31,101 --> 00:13:34,271 {\an8}As a journalist, I am looking at this, 292 00:13:34,355 --> 00:13:37,233 {\an8}and I'm thinking, "You couldn't even make it up." 293 00:13:37,316 --> 00:13:40,069 {\an8}[male reporter] Vinny, our floor director, said he thought he saw 294 00:13:40,152 --> 00:13:42,112 {\an8}a small arm sticking out of there. 295 00:13:42,196 --> 00:13:45,157 {\an8}[Robert] It's like this train wreck right in front of you. 296 00:13:45,241 --> 00:13:46,909 It's so horrifying. 297 00:13:46,992 --> 00:13:49,036 And then everybody broke into their programming. 298 00:13:49,620 --> 00:13:53,624 {\an8}[Kim] It is like a horrific version of the movie Up. 299 00:13:53,707 --> 00:13:58,045 {\an8}They saw the door was unlocked and that when it took off that the boy… 300 00:13:58,128 --> 00:14:03,050 {\an8}I'm flipping through the channels, and this has gone from a hyper-local story 301 00:14:03,133 --> 00:14:05,886 {\an8}-to ABC, NBC, CBS… -[speaking indistinctly] 302 00:14:05,970 --> 00:14:08,097 {\an8}…CNN, Fox News. 303 00:14:08,180 --> 00:14:11,183 An incredible drama playing out on live television. 304 00:14:11,267 --> 00:14:12,935 Everyone starts covering this thing. 305 00:14:13,018 --> 00:14:16,772 These pictures are coming to us from KUSA. We're getting them right now on the fly. 306 00:14:16,856 --> 00:14:17,857 This is all live. 307 00:14:17,940 --> 00:14:20,609 There's only one compartment. And he's just breathing in helium. 308 00:14:20,693 --> 00:14:21,777 He could get asphyxiated. 309 00:14:21,861 --> 00:14:23,362 The story completely blew up. 310 00:14:23,445 --> 00:14:25,447 [dramatic music plays] 311 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:28,242 [text messages chiming] 312 00:14:30,369 --> 00:14:33,455 {\an8}[female reporter 1] We also know the Colorado National Guard is involved. 313 00:14:33,539 --> 00:14:36,292 And this is kind of an Apollo 13 situation. 314 00:14:36,917 --> 00:14:37,751 [music stops] 315 00:14:37,835 --> 00:14:39,920 [Robert] I'm worried, "Is the kid gonna fall out?" 316 00:14:40,004 --> 00:14:44,967 "Are we gonna watch a small child die on national TV?" 317 00:14:45,050 --> 00:14:47,011 [timer beeping] 318 00:14:47,094 --> 00:14:50,556 [male reporter] Police say Richard Heene is inside the house right now. 319 00:14:50,639 --> 00:14:53,559 The Larimer County Sheriff's Office is also on hand. 320 00:14:54,727 --> 00:14:57,730 [Dean] We've seen all the different media vans pull up. 321 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,900 Reporters were walking the neighborhood. 322 00:15:01,901 --> 00:15:04,528 They'd come up to our house and knock on our door. 323 00:15:04,612 --> 00:15:06,697 "Can we get a statement?" "No, you can't." You know. 324 00:15:08,574 --> 00:15:10,075 [Richard] We couldn't afford cable. 325 00:15:10,576 --> 00:15:12,828 So I was in the dark as to what was going on. 326 00:15:13,579 --> 00:15:15,497 But one of the cops told me I gotta stay put. 327 00:15:15,998 --> 00:15:19,001 [impatiently] And I'm like, "I can't just stand here and do nothing." 328 00:15:19,084 --> 00:15:21,378 I needed to know what the hell was going on. 329 00:15:22,046 --> 00:15:25,299 You know, there was a thousand things going through my mind, 330 00:15:25,382 --> 00:15:27,009 and I really felt helpless. 331 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:31,722 "Oh my God, what are we gonna do?" You know. "Is he gonna be safe?" 332 00:15:31,805 --> 00:15:34,391 -[phone ringing] -[suspenseful music playing] 333 00:15:34,475 --> 00:15:37,645 That's when we received the report of a neighbor 334 00:15:37,728 --> 00:15:42,232 claiming she had taken photographs of something falling from the spaceship. 335 00:15:43,484 --> 00:15:44,985 [camera shutter clicks] 336 00:15:47,363 --> 00:15:50,783 [voice breaking] They are not sure, but it could be Falcon. 337 00:15:53,869 --> 00:15:56,705 [Bob] It isn't the-- the best-quality photo, 338 00:15:56,789 --> 00:15:58,707 and it could be a bird, 339 00:15:58,791 --> 00:16:02,878 but we have to assume that there's some credibility to it. 340 00:16:02,962 --> 00:16:04,046 [music fades] 341 00:16:04,672 --> 00:16:06,507 How do you deal with that? It's like… 342 00:16:06,590 --> 00:16:09,718 What if one of my stupid experiments killed my son? 343 00:16:13,430 --> 00:16:15,933 -[timer beeping] -[suspenseful music plays] 344 00:16:16,016 --> 00:16:19,853 [female reporter] It's clear that the helium is leaving at a quicker rate. 345 00:16:19,937 --> 00:16:21,563 {\an8}He'll be descending more quickly, 346 00:16:21,647 --> 00:16:26,235 {\an8}and, um, um, this is-- I don't know how much longer he'll stay in the air. 347 00:16:27,653 --> 00:16:30,698 [Brian Willie] I'm on this road, and Jimmy, the pilot of Sky9, 348 00:16:30,781 --> 00:16:34,034 {\an8}told me that I should be just underneath it at any moment. 349 00:16:35,202 --> 00:16:39,498 When I finally see it, my heart's pumping because it's deflating, 350 00:16:39,581 --> 00:16:42,001 and I can see that it's deflating and lowering. 351 00:16:43,419 --> 00:16:46,296 [female reporter 1] And as you can see, it's losing a lot of helium. 352 00:16:46,380 --> 00:16:47,631 [Brian] I have no idea 353 00:16:47,715 --> 00:16:50,217 how long it's gonna be in the air or where it's going. 354 00:16:50,801 --> 00:16:52,886 And I had an eight-year-old son, at the time, 355 00:16:52,970 --> 00:16:57,141 and I just keep thinking about what I would be going through as a dad. 356 00:16:57,224 --> 00:17:02,271 [male reporter 1] It is clearly losing a tremendous amount of gas. Yes. 357 00:17:02,354 --> 00:17:05,315 [male reporter 2] I think he's less than 200 feet off the ground. 358 00:17:05,399 --> 00:17:08,152 {\an8}[male reporter 3] He's going down. He's at 100 feet. This is ending. 359 00:17:08,235 --> 00:17:10,404 [gravel crunching under tires] 360 00:17:10,487 --> 00:17:14,366 [Brian] I jump out, grab my camera, and I just start running. 361 00:17:18,287 --> 00:17:21,790 [male reporter 1] He's coming down now. Here it goes. Yeah, he's coming down now. 362 00:17:23,417 --> 00:17:27,046 -Very softly. Very softly. -[male reporter 4] Look at that. 363 00:17:27,755 --> 00:17:28,922 [male reporter 1] Oh my God. 364 00:17:30,466 --> 00:17:31,675 [Brian] As the balloon lands, 365 00:17:31,759 --> 00:17:36,221 I'm now the only person on the ground that is live with video. 366 00:17:36,305 --> 00:17:38,474 [tense music playing] 367 00:17:38,557 --> 00:17:40,309 [reporter 1] It's ended, and it's ended well. 368 00:17:40,392 --> 00:17:43,353 {\an8}All we need to know is, "How is little Falcon Heene?" 369 00:17:43,437 --> 00:17:44,980 {\an8}[female reporter 2] And that's all. 370 00:17:45,981 --> 00:17:48,525 [Brian] The first responders are poking holes in it, 371 00:17:48,609 --> 00:17:49,777 they're searching through it. 372 00:17:49,860 --> 00:17:53,530 They turn it over, and they're looking for the door. 373 00:17:54,907 --> 00:17:56,992 And I have to report what's going on. 374 00:17:57,076 --> 00:17:58,786 [man] Find the door on this thing. 375 00:17:58,869 --> 00:17:59,745 [music fades] 376 00:17:59,828 --> 00:18:02,498 {\an8}[reporter 1] Brian, what are you seeing there next to the balloon? 377 00:18:02,581 --> 00:18:05,834 {\an8}[Brian] Well, I've got, uh, some information 378 00:18:05,918 --> 00:18:09,755 {\an8}that, um, I'm not quite sure how to-- how to say, 379 00:18:09,838 --> 00:18:14,301 {\an8}but, uh, I don't believe that they found anybody, uh, with this balloon. 380 00:18:14,384 --> 00:18:16,136 -[reporter 2] Oh my goodness. -[Brian] Um… 381 00:18:16,220 --> 00:18:17,721 I don't, uh… 382 00:18:18,263 --> 00:18:20,641 [microphone crackling] 383 00:18:21,183 --> 00:18:23,060 [Brian inhales, sighs] 384 00:18:23,143 --> 00:18:26,313 {\an8}[male reporter] Apparently, KUSA, their photojournalist is on the scene, 385 00:18:26,396 --> 00:18:29,817 {\an8}he's saying that there was nobody in, uh, this compartment. 386 00:18:30,526 --> 00:18:35,823 {\an8}It was gut-wrenching, telling the world that there was no boy in this balloon. 387 00:18:35,906 --> 00:18:37,199 [gloomy music playing] 388 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:47,918 I was expecting, "It's landed. We found him. He was safe." 389 00:18:51,505 --> 00:18:53,340 Then where is he? Did he fall out? 390 00:18:57,177 --> 00:18:59,179 There's no way he-- he would be alive. 391 00:19:03,183 --> 00:19:07,062 Take Lewis with you, um, and start at 36. 392 00:19:07,146 --> 00:19:09,022 [Bob] The ground search was underway, 393 00:19:09,106 --> 00:19:12,943 and we were hoping that we would be able to find Falcon 394 00:19:13,569 --> 00:19:15,612 somewhere along the flight path. 395 00:19:17,781 --> 00:19:20,742 [Dean] They had to go back over the whole 55 miles. 396 00:19:21,493 --> 00:19:23,537 We thought, "Okay, you know, 397 00:19:23,620 --> 00:19:26,039 we're getting ready to have a community funeral." 398 00:19:32,421 --> 00:19:34,423 [music ends] 399 00:19:37,968 --> 00:19:39,178 [beeps] 400 00:19:39,261 --> 00:19:41,013 [Bob] I'm standing in the kitchen. 401 00:19:41,513 --> 00:19:44,516 All of a sudden, I started hearing commotion, screaming. 402 00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:47,060 I didn't know what was going on. 403 00:19:47,144 --> 00:19:52,357 I… don't know if they had gotten word that I hadn't gotten or what. 404 00:19:52,441 --> 00:19:54,276 [tense piano notes playing slowly] 405 00:19:55,235 --> 00:19:57,779 At first, I couldn't even believe it. 406 00:19:57,863 --> 00:19:58,989 [inhales sharply] 407 00:19:59,072 --> 00:20:01,575 And, then, look again. 408 00:20:01,658 --> 00:20:03,243 I just remember turning around. 409 00:20:03,952 --> 00:20:05,204 Oh my God. 410 00:20:05,287 --> 00:20:07,289 Falcon! [laughs] 411 00:20:07,372 --> 00:20:09,333 -You're home! -[uplifting music plays] 412 00:20:09,416 --> 00:20:11,793 I can still see him, in my-- in my head, 413 00:20:11,877 --> 00:20:14,588 little, small six-year-old Falcon standing there. 414 00:20:14,671 --> 00:20:15,839 [music intensifies] 415 00:20:15,923 --> 00:20:19,343 [Mayumi] Richard rushed out to him and hugged him. 416 00:20:21,053 --> 00:20:24,765 [laughing] And then we didn't leave him alone anymore. 417 00:20:24,848 --> 00:20:30,562 I couldn't believe it. It was the greatest surprise I ever had. 418 00:20:35,609 --> 00:20:37,194 [music ends] 419 00:20:39,571 --> 00:20:41,782 [Falcon] I was very confused at the reaction. 420 00:20:42,866 --> 00:20:46,119 I'm just like, "Hey, Mom, I'm hungry." 421 00:20:46,203 --> 00:20:49,665 And they're just, like, freaking out. They're like, "Oh!" 422 00:20:49,748 --> 00:20:53,418 He said, "Why are you guys crying?" 423 00:20:53,502 --> 00:20:55,254 [laughing] Something like that. 424 00:20:56,004 --> 00:20:59,424 I said, "Man, you really had us worried. Where the hell were you?" 425 00:21:00,175 --> 00:21:04,179 When Falcon tells us where, I couldn't believe it. 426 00:21:04,263 --> 00:21:05,597 [tense music plays] 427 00:21:05,681 --> 00:21:07,683 [Falcon speaking indistinctly] 428 00:21:08,809 --> 00:21:11,937 [Falcon] On that day, I was trying to sneak in the flying saucer 429 00:21:12,020 --> 00:21:15,107 because, well, it's a flying saucer. 430 00:21:15,190 --> 00:21:16,483 It's really cool. 431 00:21:17,526 --> 00:21:20,112 [Falcon grunting and giggling] 432 00:21:20,195 --> 00:21:23,156 There's a little compartment there that is perfect for my size. 433 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,033 I wanted to live in there, you know? 434 00:21:25,742 --> 00:21:28,036 [Richard] Falcon, get out now! Come here! 435 00:21:29,162 --> 00:21:32,291 What the hell are you doing? Get outta there now! 436 00:21:33,625 --> 00:21:36,086 [Falcon] Once he yelled at me a few times, I was scared. 437 00:21:36,169 --> 00:21:38,839 And I was like, "You know what? I'm just not gonna be here." 438 00:21:38,922 --> 00:21:43,135 And then I remember wanting to go inside and just chill out for a bit. 439 00:21:43,885 --> 00:21:46,138 I made my way through the house 440 00:21:46,221 --> 00:21:50,350 up to my new hiding spot, the garage attic. 441 00:21:50,434 --> 00:21:51,435 [snoring] 442 00:21:51,518 --> 00:21:56,064 I just chilled there for a while, and then I got bored, fell asleep. 443 00:21:56,148 --> 00:21:57,774 [suspenseful music playing] 444 00:21:57,858 --> 00:22:00,986 And then it wasn't until I woke up later 445 00:22:01,069 --> 00:22:05,115 that I started hearing weird noises, like people or cars, maybe. 446 00:22:05,699 --> 00:22:11,246 Then, eventually, I succumbed to my hunger and… boredom. 447 00:22:11,330 --> 00:22:13,206 And then I walked down there, and I'm like, 448 00:22:13,290 --> 00:22:16,543 "Holy, there's a lot of people here. This is crazy." 449 00:22:16,626 --> 00:22:17,669 [indistinct radio chatter] 450 00:22:17,753 --> 00:22:20,922 I literally could not get past all the legs and stuff. 451 00:22:22,132 --> 00:22:24,217 And then one guy's like, "Who are you?" 452 00:22:24,301 --> 00:22:25,552 -[music stops] -[laughs] 453 00:22:25,635 --> 00:22:28,388 We have, uh, got breaking news tonight. 454 00:22:29,181 --> 00:22:32,517 The, uh, child has been found alive. 455 00:22:32,601 --> 00:22:35,520 The six-year-old boy was never in the balloon. 456 00:22:35,604 --> 00:22:37,314 He was in the house. 457 00:22:37,397 --> 00:22:39,399 {\an8}[texts chiming] 458 00:22:41,568 --> 00:22:43,070 {\an8}[Robert] He was at the house? 459 00:22:44,821 --> 00:22:47,866 You had police searching the entire house, 460 00:22:47,949 --> 00:22:50,160 and they couldn't find a six-year-old boy? 461 00:22:50,243 --> 00:22:51,953 [disorienting sting] 462 00:22:52,871 --> 00:22:54,915 [Bob] I know that is a priority 463 00:22:54,998 --> 00:22:58,293 each and every time we have a missing child case, 464 00:22:58,377 --> 00:23:01,922 is search the home, search the home, search the home. 465 00:23:02,506 --> 00:23:05,300 And I had thought we had done it. 466 00:23:05,842 --> 00:23:08,929 I thought we had done it thorough enough, um, 467 00:23:09,721 --> 00:23:11,598 but obviously we hadn't. 468 00:23:11,681 --> 00:23:13,683 [tense drumbeat plays] 469 00:23:16,061 --> 00:23:18,563 -[reporters clamoring] -[camera shutters clicking] 470 00:23:20,107 --> 00:23:24,486 [Robert] You can just imagine the calls going out from producers saying, 471 00:23:24,569 --> 00:23:26,905 "You need to get to this house right now." 472 00:23:26,988 --> 00:23:28,031 [honking horn] 473 00:23:28,115 --> 00:23:31,993 So you have cars flooding this neighborhood, 474 00:23:32,661 --> 00:23:35,205 and journalists going up to the Heenes' front door 475 00:23:35,288 --> 00:23:38,542 and trying to get an interview, but the Heenes are not talking. 476 00:23:38,625 --> 00:23:40,585 [man speaking indistinctly] 477 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,381 [Jim] Our press information officer approached me and said, 478 00:23:44,464 --> 00:23:46,800 "Sheriff, this is bigger than I can handle." 479 00:23:46,883 --> 00:23:48,552 "Would you take it over?" 480 00:23:48,635 --> 00:23:50,554 [dramatic music playing] 481 00:23:50,637 --> 00:23:56,435 Sometimes the man at top just has to, uh, man up and-- and do it. 482 00:23:57,060 --> 00:24:00,814 Authorities still don't know for sure whether he was ever inside the balloon, 483 00:24:00,897 --> 00:24:03,024 although his, uh, brothers who are outdoors… 484 00:24:03,108 --> 00:24:05,735 [Jim] I met Richard, Mayumi, and the children, 485 00:24:06,361 --> 00:24:10,615 and Richard decided that he wanted to go out and address the media. 486 00:24:12,242 --> 00:24:14,453 [Richard] I did not wanna talk to the press, 487 00:24:14,536 --> 00:24:15,454 but they told me, 488 00:24:15,537 --> 00:24:17,914 "If you don't talk to them, give them something, 489 00:24:18,790 --> 00:24:20,792 they'll follow you around for two weeks." 490 00:24:21,334 --> 00:24:24,004 And I thought, "Oh my fucking God." 491 00:24:26,131 --> 00:24:28,258 I said, "Well, can you come out with me?" 492 00:24:31,219 --> 00:24:33,013 This is Richard, the father. 493 00:24:33,096 --> 00:24:36,725 He's, obviously, a little, uh, intimidated with all these cameras and stuff, 494 00:24:36,808 --> 00:24:38,185 so be gentle, all right? 495 00:24:38,268 --> 00:24:41,480 [Richard] So I had to transition from all that crap that just happened. 496 00:24:42,147 --> 00:24:45,150 I tried to… have a good composure. 497 00:24:45,233 --> 00:24:47,194 I really, really wanna thank 498 00:24:47,277 --> 00:24:49,779 the local police department of Larimer County. 499 00:24:49,863 --> 00:24:52,282 But all I wanted to do was run back in the house. 500 00:24:52,365 --> 00:24:56,703 I wanna thank the news helicopters that were helping out in the search. 501 00:24:56,786 --> 00:25:01,249 It was weird because they were rung out, but they also seemed kind of disconnected. 502 00:25:01,333 --> 00:25:03,251 Okay, uh, any other questions? 503 00:25:04,294 --> 00:25:05,587 We needed our time. 504 00:25:06,296 --> 00:25:10,550 I needed to cherish the time with my son after what just happened. 505 00:25:12,010 --> 00:25:15,013 But people kept pushing me and pushing me and pushing me. 506 00:25:15,096 --> 00:25:18,016 You know, "Go do this interview. Go do that." 507 00:25:20,810 --> 00:25:23,396 So I agreed to this one producer, 508 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:27,067 "Yeah, fine, I'll do the show, uh, for Larry King." 509 00:25:27,150 --> 00:25:28,902 -[tense music plays] -[timer beeps] 510 00:25:29,528 --> 00:25:31,238 It was set to be in the evening. 511 00:25:32,572 --> 00:25:36,535 Camera guys, sound guys walked in, directors, producers. 512 00:25:37,327 --> 00:25:42,290 I said, "Richard, when you go on Larry King, it's worldwide." 513 00:25:42,874 --> 00:25:46,127 And he was like, "It's okay, we can handle it." 514 00:25:47,254 --> 00:25:48,588 [Richard] I felt nervous. 515 00:25:49,214 --> 00:25:51,550 My kids were confused. 516 00:25:52,175 --> 00:25:56,054 But I felt a sense of, uh, pressure that I had to keep going. 517 00:25:56,930 --> 00:25:57,806 Not only that… 518 00:25:57,889 --> 00:26:00,016 [sputtering] …it was live television. 519 00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:01,309 [theme music plays] 520 00:26:02,978 --> 00:26:05,564 We wanna welcome our viewers in the US and around the world. 521 00:26:05,647 --> 00:26:07,691 {\an8}I'm Wolf Blitzer sitting in for Larry tonight. 522 00:26:07,774 --> 00:26:10,902 {\an8}Wanna go right out to Fort Collins, uh, Colorado. 523 00:26:10,986 --> 00:26:13,321 {\an8}I don't know if Falcon can hear me, but was he-- 524 00:26:13,405 --> 00:26:15,824 {\an8}'Cause I know, at some point, he fell asleep in that garage. 525 00:26:15,907 --> 00:26:18,326 {\an8}Did he hear you screaming out, "Falcon, Falcon"? 526 00:26:19,327 --> 00:26:22,914 Uh, he's asking, Falcon, did you hear us calling your name at any time? 527 00:26:22,998 --> 00:26:24,457 -Mm. -You did? 528 00:26:24,541 --> 00:26:25,542 You did? 529 00:26:26,376 --> 00:26:27,627 Why didn't you come out? 530 00:26:28,587 --> 00:26:29,421 Um… 531 00:26:31,381 --> 00:26:35,218 You guys said… that, mm… 532 00:26:36,970 --> 00:26:38,555 we did this for the show. 533 00:26:39,222 --> 00:26:40,140 Man. 534 00:26:40,849 --> 00:26:42,183 -[tense music plays] -No. 535 00:26:43,268 --> 00:26:44,978 Wait, what did he say? 536 00:26:45,061 --> 00:26:45,979 [sighs] 537 00:26:46,479 --> 00:26:48,148 [Richard] My earpiece was super, super loud. 538 00:26:48,231 --> 00:26:51,776 I got a major hiss, and I don't know what he said. 539 00:26:52,444 --> 00:26:57,449 So I kind of blew it off, like, you know, "What-- Whatever he said." 540 00:26:57,532 --> 00:26:59,409 Our reaction was like a… 541 00:27:00,660 --> 00:27:01,828 "What?" [chuckles] 542 00:27:01,911 --> 00:27:05,582 I remember I was shocked when he said, um, we did this for a show, Falcon. 543 00:27:06,166 --> 00:27:08,251 I didn't know what the fuck he was talking about. 544 00:27:08,335 --> 00:27:11,546 I looked at Dean, and I thought, "Here it goes." 545 00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:13,840 "It's gonna take a whole new other spin now, 546 00:27:14,507 --> 00:27:15,884 from that one little comment." 547 00:27:15,967 --> 00:27:18,887 [producer] I appreciate it was hard to hear, but I think you did hear him, 548 00:27:18,970 --> 00:27:20,430 because you say, "Man." 549 00:27:21,473 --> 00:27:25,185 Well, yeah, I mean, I did hear him faintly, 550 00:27:25,268 --> 00:27:27,228 but I didn't understand anything he said. 551 00:27:27,312 --> 00:27:30,023 {\an8}[Wolf] What-- What did he mean, "We did this for the show"? 552 00:27:30,857 --> 00:27:32,776 {\an8}Um, I have no idea. 553 00:27:32,859 --> 00:27:34,861 {\an8}I think he was talking about the, uh, media. 554 00:27:34,944 --> 00:27:37,072 {\an8}They've been asking him a lot of questions. 555 00:27:37,155 --> 00:27:40,241 He's only six, just six years old, 556 00:27:40,325 --> 00:27:42,243 and people read into that 557 00:27:42,327 --> 00:27:44,454 whatever fuckin' thoughts they wanted to read into. 558 00:27:44,537 --> 00:27:46,373 [ominous music playing] 559 00:27:46,456 --> 00:27:50,210 And after that is when everything blew up. 560 00:27:50,293 --> 00:27:51,419 [dramatic string music plays] 561 00:27:51,503 --> 00:27:55,674 "Did it for a show." Everyone's wondering what exactly did he mean. The family says… 562 00:27:55,757 --> 00:27:57,759 {\an8}[texts chiming] 563 00:28:00,887 --> 00:28:05,558 {\an8}All that money wasted looking for a boy that was naughty. Get the… man. 564 00:28:05,642 --> 00:28:09,938 I think it's crazy how I was able to just say a single sentence 565 00:28:10,021 --> 00:28:12,023 and affect the whole state of the country. 566 00:28:12,107 --> 00:28:15,568 {\an8}[male reporter] From the ordeal in the air to an ordeal on air 567 00:28:15,652 --> 00:28:19,114 {\an8}with one pressing question, "Was it all an elaborate hoax?" 568 00:28:19,197 --> 00:28:21,533 The family are gonna get in trouble. 569 00:28:21,616 --> 00:28:23,076 {\an8}[texts chime] 570 00:28:23,159 --> 00:28:24,452 {\an8}[grunts uncomfortably] 571 00:28:25,370 --> 00:28:27,997 [sputtering] It was like the biggest nightmare ever. 572 00:28:28,081 --> 00:28:30,208 And I'm like, "Oh my God." 573 00:28:30,291 --> 00:28:32,127 -[music fades] -[dramatic sting] 574 00:28:33,670 --> 00:28:38,341 In the morning, we all asked Falcon, "What are you talking about?" 575 00:28:38,425 --> 00:28:39,259 [chuckles nervously] 576 00:28:39,342 --> 00:28:43,430 Falcon said, uh, before the interview happened, 577 00:28:43,513 --> 00:28:47,100 so many cameramen was in the garage asking Falcon 578 00:28:47,183 --> 00:28:49,477 how did he get up in the attic. 579 00:28:50,019 --> 00:28:51,104 "Can you show me?" 580 00:28:52,397 --> 00:28:54,858 [male reporter] Falcon, that's how you get up, through there? 581 00:28:54,941 --> 00:28:56,234 [people talking indistinctly] 582 00:28:56,317 --> 00:28:59,863 [Falcon] I still remember that reporter's face vividly. 583 00:28:59,946 --> 00:29:01,114 [laughs] 584 00:29:01,197 --> 00:29:02,574 I remember his face, 585 00:29:02,657 --> 00:29:04,993 and I remember him asking me the question, 586 00:29:05,660 --> 00:29:08,037 "Could you show me how you go up there for my show?" 587 00:29:08,121 --> 00:29:09,706 And I said, "Yeah, sure." 588 00:29:09,789 --> 00:29:11,249 [young Falcon talking indistinctly] 589 00:29:11,332 --> 00:29:13,710 [Richard] I do remember going, like, "Oh my God." 590 00:29:14,294 --> 00:29:16,504 "I'd better get on some other show 591 00:29:16,588 --> 00:29:19,340 to prove that it was not a publicity stunt." 592 00:29:19,424 --> 00:29:22,719 Richard, Mayumi, Falcon, brothers Bradford and Ryo. 593 00:29:23,428 --> 00:29:28,308 {\an8}You know, the message boards are lit up this morning with skeptics. 594 00:29:28,391 --> 00:29:32,353 {\an8}-[tense, intriguing music playing] -You had said, "We did this for a show"? 595 00:29:32,437 --> 00:29:36,524 {\an8}There were a lot of cameras out front-- in front of our yard, 596 00:29:36,608 --> 00:29:38,735 {\an8}and we were, of course, uh, getting interviewed. 597 00:29:38,818 --> 00:29:41,321 {\an8}[Diane Sawyer] Falcon, you okay there? 598 00:29:41,404 --> 00:29:43,364 {\an8}I think they really thought it'd help them. 599 00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:45,200 {\an8}Mom, I feel like I'm gonna vomit. 600 00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:46,701 {\an8}[Mayumi] Oh… 601 00:29:46,785 --> 00:29:50,288 {\an8}But then Falcon starts getting sick being on TV. 602 00:29:50,371 --> 00:29:51,706 He doesn't wanna do this, 603 00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:56,628 and, now, it's playing out almost like a circus sideshow. 604 00:29:56,711 --> 00:29:59,172 {\an8}[Richard] Should we take you to the bathroom? 605 00:29:59,255 --> 00:30:00,089 {\an8}Yeah. 606 00:30:00,173 --> 00:30:03,635 {\an8}[Dean] You'd thought they'd have said, "We're gonna go to a commercial 607 00:30:03,718 --> 00:30:05,303 {\an8}while he gets himself together." 608 00:30:05,386 --> 00:30:09,682 {\an8}No! No. They just went at it, you know. 609 00:30:09,766 --> 00:30:11,810 {\an8}[Diane] Is he okay? Is somebody gonna go with him? 610 00:30:11,893 --> 00:30:14,687 {\an8}Mayumi, do you wanna run with him? That's okay. 611 00:30:14,771 --> 00:30:16,189 {\an8}-Is that okay? -[Diane] Sure. 612 00:30:16,272 --> 00:30:17,649 {\an8}-Okay. -[Diane] We understand. 613 00:30:17,732 --> 00:30:19,234 {\an8}-[Falcon coughing] -[Mayumi] Thank you. 614 00:30:19,317 --> 00:30:22,278 {\an8}[Tina] Falcon's poor little body is upset, distressed, 615 00:30:22,362 --> 00:30:23,655 {\an8}and he's throwing up, 616 00:30:23,738 --> 00:30:26,241 {\an8}and questions are coming at them. 617 00:30:26,324 --> 00:30:29,285 {\an8}And I feel like I have to go out and defend them. 618 00:30:29,369 --> 00:30:32,622 {\an8}They are, um, inventors. 619 00:30:32,705 --> 00:30:35,959 {\an8}They want that type of attention, not about their-- their babies being lost. 620 00:30:36,042 --> 00:30:38,336 This was not a joke. 621 00:30:38,419 --> 00:30:41,506 So I was, you know, giving them the benefit of the doubt. 622 00:30:41,589 --> 00:30:43,174 [indistinct conversations] 623 00:30:44,425 --> 00:30:50,306 The local and national news starts to report on who the Heenes are. 624 00:30:50,390 --> 00:30:53,935 Richard Heene claims he's a storm chaser and an inventor. 625 00:30:54,018 --> 00:30:56,229 {\an8}[reporter 1] His kids apparently use foul language a lot. 626 00:30:56,312 --> 00:30:58,773 {\an8}I mean, there are a lot of things that jump out as red flags. 627 00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:01,317 {\an8}[reporter 2] Richard Heene says he's chosen to raise his family 628 00:31:01,401 --> 00:31:03,027 {\an8}unafraid of adventure. 629 00:31:03,111 --> 00:31:05,321 {\an8}-[shouting indistinctly] -[Mayumi chuckles] 630 00:31:05,405 --> 00:31:09,868 {\an8}And then you find out that the guy and his wife were on Wife Swap. 631 00:31:09,951 --> 00:31:11,494 -[music ends] -[dramatic whoosh] 632 00:31:11,578 --> 00:31:15,331 [Richard] Did you not sign up to swap lives with another woman? 633 00:31:15,415 --> 00:31:19,085 [loudly] Did you? Did you? No, I'm talking. I asked a question. 634 00:31:19,168 --> 00:31:21,379 -[amusing music plays] -[softly] She wants to get down. 635 00:31:23,256 --> 00:31:25,758 {\an8}Are you getting down or are you sitting down? 636 00:31:26,342 --> 00:31:31,097 {\an8}I was on the TV show Wife Swap with Richard and Mayumi Heene. 637 00:31:32,557 --> 00:31:36,185 It's gonna be a new adventure, yeah! 638 00:31:36,269 --> 00:31:40,815 [Sheree] When I saw the flying saucer on the TV, I thought, 639 00:31:40,899 --> 00:31:44,569 "I don't know why they were saying the kid was in the balloon, 640 00:31:44,652 --> 00:31:46,654 but I knew that he wasn't." 641 00:31:47,155 --> 00:31:49,240 [female producer] How did you know that he wasn't? 642 00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:52,368 I'm a psychic. 643 00:31:52,452 --> 00:31:53,703 [dramatic music plays] 644 00:31:53,786 --> 00:31:57,248 [Richard] The bottom line is you're lazy, and you don't wanna do a damn thing. 645 00:31:57,332 --> 00:31:58,750 And you suck! 646 00:32:00,001 --> 00:32:04,380 When I saw the balloon, what went through my head was, 647 00:32:05,006 --> 00:32:08,760 "Richard did this purposely." That was my first reaction. 648 00:32:08,843 --> 00:32:10,178 I told you no meat. 649 00:32:10,261 --> 00:32:12,472 He was trying to get attention. 650 00:32:12,555 --> 00:32:13,514 Look at you, man! 651 00:32:13,598 --> 00:32:16,434 Richard, I told you no meat. You'll be cleaning it up-- 652 00:32:18,019 --> 00:32:19,646 [gentle piano music plays] 653 00:32:19,729 --> 00:32:23,024 But as I got to know Mr. Heene on the show, 654 00:32:23,608 --> 00:32:27,904 I saw that he was a very caring person about his children. 655 00:32:27,987 --> 00:32:30,740 And I just couldn't imagine 656 00:32:30,823 --> 00:32:33,201 that he would purposely say 657 00:32:33,284 --> 00:32:36,245 -that his son was in the balloon. -[music ends] 658 00:32:37,580 --> 00:32:38,581 Boys! 659 00:32:38,665 --> 00:32:40,166 [Mayumi and boys laughing] 660 00:32:40,249 --> 00:32:43,127 [Jim] Realizing that they had some exposure to television 661 00:32:43,211 --> 00:32:46,714 made it possible that the emotions they expressed, 662 00:32:46,798 --> 00:32:48,800 as this incident unfolded, 663 00:32:48,883 --> 00:32:51,177 were acting and were not genuine. 664 00:32:51,260 --> 00:32:53,596 -[female producer] Had you seen Wife Swap? -No. 665 00:32:54,097 --> 00:32:58,685 And as you can tell from my attire, I'm kind of into the Western genre. 666 00:32:58,768 --> 00:33:01,854 You know, the values in those early television shows, 667 00:33:01,938 --> 00:33:05,942 those are kind of my values, you know, truth, honesty, the American way. 668 00:33:06,025 --> 00:33:08,987 People were accusing us of being fame-hungry 669 00:33:09,070 --> 00:33:10,780 because we were on Wife Swap, 670 00:33:10,863 --> 00:33:12,573 which is completely not true. 671 00:33:13,241 --> 00:33:15,827 I'd have never done Wife Swap in a million years. 672 00:33:15,910 --> 00:33:19,038 It sounded gross to me, but then they offered to pay us. 673 00:33:19,622 --> 00:33:20,623 And we needed money. 674 00:33:21,249 --> 00:33:23,668 -[intriguing music plays] -[reporters clamoring] 675 00:33:24,502 --> 00:33:28,297 [Richard] On Friday, there was so much backlash coming in, 676 00:33:28,381 --> 00:33:30,925 and everybody starts criticizing us. 677 00:33:32,051 --> 00:33:35,555 And we needed a way to prove to everybody 678 00:33:35,638 --> 00:33:38,349 yeah, it was a real, accidental thing that happened, 679 00:33:38,433 --> 00:33:40,018 and it was very, very dangerous. 680 00:33:41,352 --> 00:33:44,063 And that's why we released those clips. 681 00:33:44,897 --> 00:33:48,109 {\an8}A Fox News alert, it's a brand-new video just in to Fox. 682 00:33:48,192 --> 00:33:50,695 {\an8}We've got some home video, we're told, 683 00:33:50,778 --> 00:33:55,825 {\an8}that shows the moment that that notorious balloon left the ground. 684 00:33:56,325 --> 00:33:59,704 Look, it's a real project. We didn't make this stuff up. 685 00:34:01,164 --> 00:34:03,916 -Mayumi, the tethers! You didn't put… -[Mayumi] What?! 686 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,421 [Robert] When I saw that, I thought the emotion that Richard showed 687 00:34:08,504 --> 00:34:13,009 seemed so over the top and really playing for a camera. 688 00:34:13,593 --> 00:34:15,011 {\an8}[reporter] In the following chaos, 689 00:34:15,094 --> 00:34:17,680 {\an8}Richard Heene doesn't seem to hear his older son, 690 00:34:17,764 --> 00:34:20,600 {\an8}who repeatedly yells, "Falcon is in the ship!" 691 00:34:20,683 --> 00:34:22,685 {\an8}-[Bradford] Dad, Falcon's in there! -[Richard] Where? 692 00:34:22,769 --> 00:34:25,063 {\an8}-[Bradford] In the ship! -[Richard and Mayumi] What?! 693 00:34:25,146 --> 00:34:26,981 It was reality television show-acting. 694 00:34:27,065 --> 00:34:30,109 [reporter] This video is only gonna add fuel to the fire, perhaps, 695 00:34:30,193 --> 00:34:31,694 that this could, in fact, be a hoax. 696 00:34:31,778 --> 00:34:33,905 {\an8}The police insisted yesterday they didn't think it was. 697 00:34:33,988 --> 00:34:35,656 {\an8}They said they weren't gonna file… 698 00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:37,742 [Richard] Some comments said, "They're faking it." 699 00:34:37,825 --> 00:34:39,869 I'm like, "You gotta be shitting me." 700 00:34:39,952 --> 00:34:41,245 "There's no way." 701 00:34:42,038 --> 00:34:42,872 Look at it. 702 00:34:42,955 --> 00:34:46,209 I mean, there wasn't, like, you know, some kind of production. 703 00:34:46,292 --> 00:34:48,044 {\an8}-[screams] -You didn't put the tether down. 704 00:34:48,127 --> 00:34:50,546 {\an8}-Jesus Christ! -Falcon was in there! Falcon was in there! 705 00:34:50,630 --> 00:34:54,175 {\an8}[Richard] I was yelling at him because I was beyond angry. 706 00:34:54,258 --> 00:34:56,844 It was completely 100% real. 707 00:34:56,928 --> 00:35:00,348 And I just thought giving these guys clips would, uh, solve the issue, 708 00:35:00,431 --> 00:35:01,265 but it didn't. 709 00:35:01,349 --> 00:35:02,475 [tense music plays] 710 00:35:02,558 --> 00:35:03,559 Come here. 711 00:35:04,310 --> 00:35:05,770 Okay, see that? 712 00:35:06,729 --> 00:35:09,190 There's light out there, a lot of light, okay? 713 00:35:09,732 --> 00:35:11,943 How-- How are we gonna sleep? Look at this. 714 00:35:12,652 --> 00:35:14,654 I told them, "No more interviews." 715 00:35:14,737 --> 00:35:18,616 "The story's done. We're done." But they're still out there. 716 00:35:21,119 --> 00:35:23,329 [door knocker clacking] 717 00:35:24,122 --> 00:35:25,957 [male reporter] Mr. Heene, please come out. 718 00:35:26,791 --> 00:35:28,626 [Richard] Saturday rolls around, 719 00:35:28,709 --> 00:35:33,339 and right around noon I get a call from, I believe it was, Heffernan, 720 00:35:33,422 --> 00:35:35,967 uh, stating I could come down to the sheriff's office 721 00:35:36,050 --> 00:35:37,593 and pick up my flying saucer. 722 00:35:39,303 --> 00:35:42,890 So I went down. I was excited. "Hey, I'm gonna get my flying saucer." 723 00:35:43,724 --> 00:35:46,644 And then he says, "Before I give you your flying saucer, 724 00:35:46,727 --> 00:35:49,564 mind if I ask you a few questions so we can clear things up?" 725 00:35:49,647 --> 00:35:52,525 And he asked me if I wouldn't mind taking a polygraph. 726 00:35:52,608 --> 00:35:53,943 [music ends] 727 00:35:54,026 --> 00:35:58,281 I had no intention of ever releasing the balloon to him at this point, 728 00:35:58,364 --> 00:36:01,242 but I did use that tactic 729 00:36:01,826 --> 00:36:05,121 to get his cooperation to come into the sheriff's office. 730 00:36:05,204 --> 00:36:06,247 [talking indistinctly] 731 00:36:06,330 --> 00:36:09,584 That was a message I tried to leave him, that I believed him, 732 00:36:09,667 --> 00:36:11,544 we believed him, and we're on the same side. 733 00:36:11,627 --> 00:36:13,504 [female producer] What are you actually thinking? 734 00:36:13,588 --> 00:36:16,591 Well, actually, I'm thinking I'm hoping that we can get him on a polygraph 735 00:36:16,674 --> 00:36:19,135 and, you know, get an admission. 736 00:36:19,218 --> 00:36:21,512 I can just imagine you walking out of here today, 737 00:36:21,596 --> 00:36:24,056 going up to those cameras and giving them the what-for, 738 00:36:24,140 --> 00:36:26,976 and say, "Guess what? I took the polygraph and I passed it." 739 00:36:27,059 --> 00:36:28,186 [suspenseful music plays] 740 00:36:28,269 --> 00:36:30,563 I'm feeling, "Okay, I'll take the polygraph." 741 00:36:31,147 --> 00:36:33,441 "I'll pass, I get my flying saucer, and I go home." 742 00:36:33,941 --> 00:36:37,612 When you spoke to 911, did you know Falcon was not in the balloon? 743 00:36:37,695 --> 00:36:38,529 No. 744 00:36:39,030 --> 00:36:41,741 Okay, I gotta get some circulation here. 745 00:36:42,241 --> 00:36:46,078 [Jim] It was obvious Mr. Heene was employing countermeasures. 746 00:36:47,496 --> 00:36:50,917 You know, tensing up, uh, not answering questions directly, 747 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,629 but having to think of them and doing some mind exercises, 748 00:36:54,712 --> 00:36:58,132 as well as almost comically pretending to fall asleep. 749 00:36:59,508 --> 00:37:01,427 These are the published techniques 750 00:37:01,510 --> 00:37:04,263 of things that you can do to try to defeat a polygraph. 751 00:37:04,347 --> 00:37:06,140 Can I stand up for a second? I gotta… 752 00:37:06,224 --> 00:37:07,308 God, this… 753 00:37:07,391 --> 00:37:09,685 -What's up? -No, I'm just dozing off. 754 00:37:09,769 --> 00:37:10,978 [operator] Okay. 755 00:37:11,062 --> 00:37:12,396 [Richard] I'm really tired. 756 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,316 I believe it was something like 50, 54 hours I hadn't slept. 757 00:37:16,067 --> 00:37:17,485 [operator] Take some deep breaths. 758 00:37:20,071 --> 00:37:21,030 -Good. -Good? 759 00:37:21,113 --> 00:37:23,824 [Richard] And I've been a diabetic since I was 15 years old. 760 00:37:25,076 --> 00:37:28,162 So I prick my finger, I test myself, 761 00:37:29,288 --> 00:37:31,958 and my blood sugar has skyrocketed. 762 00:37:32,667 --> 00:37:35,962 Okay, Richard, you are gonna have to focus and concentrate. 763 00:37:36,629 --> 00:37:39,257 And then, uh, he gets upset. 764 00:37:39,340 --> 00:37:43,135 So really, really focus on keeping your eyes open. 765 00:37:43,219 --> 00:37:44,845 [Richard] I don't know why he's upset. 766 00:37:44,929 --> 00:37:49,058 I'm answering everything truthfully, everything that he asked me. 767 00:37:49,141 --> 00:37:50,685 The polygraph was inconclusive. 768 00:37:50,768 --> 00:37:54,230 I couldn't get a reading because of the countermeasures that he employed. 769 00:37:54,313 --> 00:37:56,857 -[reporters clamoring] -[camera shutters clicking] 770 00:37:56,941 --> 00:37:59,860 So now we transition to Mayumi. 771 00:38:04,282 --> 00:38:06,867 Mayumi is brought into the sheriff's office, 772 00:38:06,951 --> 00:38:09,453 and we're gonna try to give her a polygraph. 773 00:38:12,081 --> 00:38:15,710 [Bob] We're talking to Richard too, so we're getting both stories, okay? 774 00:38:16,502 --> 00:38:19,839 [Mayumi] After the polygraph, Bob Heffernan said, 775 00:38:19,922 --> 00:38:22,049 "Your polygraph has failed." 776 00:38:22,133 --> 00:38:25,678 And, uh, I said, "Really?" 777 00:38:25,761 --> 00:38:27,305 I wish, uh… 778 00:38:28,014 --> 00:38:32,018 I really wish, uh, one of us can stay with the kids, 779 00:38:32,935 --> 00:38:34,812 but that may not happen. 780 00:38:35,313 --> 00:38:38,607 [Bob] She was tearful and proceeded to tell me 781 00:38:38,691 --> 00:38:41,319 that, "Yes, this was a hoax," 782 00:38:41,402 --> 00:38:45,865 and she was, in fact, making a confession. 783 00:38:45,948 --> 00:38:49,452 Did you guys build this for the purpose of this hoax? 784 00:38:49,535 --> 00:38:51,454 Is that the whole purpose of building it? 785 00:38:51,537 --> 00:38:53,414 Um, honestly, 786 00:38:53,497 --> 00:38:58,627 this, uh, uh, experiment itself was not only for this. 787 00:38:58,711 --> 00:39:01,672 Back then, my English was worse, 788 00:39:01,756 --> 00:39:06,427 and the word "hoax" itself, I misunderstood. 789 00:39:06,510 --> 00:39:10,848 [Bob] This was all a… a hoax, okay. 790 00:39:10,931 --> 00:39:13,434 [Jim] She had a degree in English from Japan, 791 00:39:13,517 --> 00:39:16,937 went to three more years of college in the United States. 792 00:39:17,021 --> 00:39:18,773 There was not a language barrier. 793 00:39:18,856 --> 00:39:22,318 [Bob] You're finally saying, "Yeah, we lied, 794 00:39:22,401 --> 00:39:24,028 and the reason it was a hoax is 795 00:39:24,111 --> 00:39:27,531 we were just trying to make ourselves marketable." 796 00:39:27,615 --> 00:39:31,285 I also learned that the Heenes had been working very hard 797 00:39:31,369 --> 00:39:34,622 to try to get themselves a TV show. 798 00:39:34,705 --> 00:39:37,333 It would be helpful if they ended up in the news 799 00:39:37,416 --> 00:39:39,377 or got their name out there somewhere. 800 00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:42,296 And I think that's what their motivation was 801 00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:43,589 for this whole hoax. 802 00:39:44,298 --> 00:39:45,674 That makes no sense. 803 00:39:45,758 --> 00:39:48,844 -[music fades] -Why would I even consider doing something 804 00:39:48,928 --> 00:39:50,554 that's gonna turn on me, 805 00:39:50,638 --> 00:39:52,264 potentially sending me to jail? 806 00:39:52,348 --> 00:39:54,809 Like, how am I gonna get a TV show doing that? 807 00:39:54,892 --> 00:39:57,395 [Bob] Did you tell the boys what you were doing? 808 00:40:00,606 --> 00:40:01,649 We told them. 809 00:40:01,732 --> 00:40:04,110 [Bob] How'd you get them to go along with it? 810 00:40:04,193 --> 00:40:07,738 Did you just ask them to act like their brother got up in the balloon? 811 00:40:11,409 --> 00:40:12,493 Yeah. 812 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:17,206 Something like that. 813 00:40:18,290 --> 00:40:24,046 After her interview, I had enough to proceed with criminal charges. 814 00:40:24,130 --> 00:40:26,090 [dramatic string music plays] 815 00:40:29,468 --> 00:40:31,929 [reporter 1] They're heading back to the house right now. 816 00:40:32,721 --> 00:40:35,766 [reporter 2] Last night, police seized evidence from the Heene home, 817 00:40:35,850 --> 00:40:39,603 {\an8}and of the four charges the department hopes to file over the next few days, 818 00:40:39,687 --> 00:40:41,647 {\an8}two are Class 4 felonies, 819 00:40:41,730 --> 00:40:46,110 {\an8}which carry up to six years of jail time and $500,000 in fines. 820 00:40:47,111 --> 00:40:48,362 [dramatic sting] 821 00:40:49,321 --> 00:40:52,241 [Richard] We go from Thursday being an emergency situation 822 00:40:52,908 --> 00:40:55,828 to Sunday, now, we're wanted felons. 823 00:40:58,831 --> 00:41:02,835 And a woman approached me, gave me a number and said, 824 00:41:02,918 --> 00:41:05,546 "You should call this attorney. His name's David Lane." 825 00:41:08,340 --> 00:41:10,050 {\an8}[David] It's the Sunday after the incident, 826 00:41:10,134 --> 00:41:12,553 {\an8}and they came in from Fort Collins. 827 00:41:14,472 --> 00:41:17,641 It was very clear that Richard and Mayumi loved those kids 828 00:41:18,184 --> 00:41:20,561 with all their s-- their hearts and souls. 829 00:41:21,145 --> 00:41:24,815 Mayumi's English was-- was not good, um, 830 00:41:24,899 --> 00:41:31,780 so we were explaining words to her, like "hoax" and "fraud." 831 00:41:32,364 --> 00:41:34,033 [Bob] You assumed he was in the attic? 832 00:41:34,116 --> 00:41:35,159 No, I didn't. 833 00:41:35,242 --> 00:41:39,163 And then I saw the video of Mayumi's so-called "confession." 834 00:41:39,246 --> 00:41:40,456 It really wasn't a confession. 835 00:41:41,248 --> 00:41:43,751 [Bob] Where was Falcon? Was Falcon in the attic? 836 00:41:43,834 --> 00:41:44,919 [intriguing music playing] 837 00:41:45,002 --> 00:41:46,879 I really didn't know. 838 00:41:46,962 --> 00:41:50,424 When you're dealing with someone without a good grasp of the language, 839 00:41:50,508 --> 00:41:53,969 these leading questions are pretty much guaranteed 840 00:41:54,053 --> 00:41:57,181 to get false statements out of a-- a suspect. 841 00:41:57,264 --> 00:41:59,600 [Bob] And you knew he was somewhere in the house, 842 00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:01,936 but you didn't know he was up in the attic? 843 00:42:02,019 --> 00:42:02,895 No. 844 00:42:02,978 --> 00:42:04,438 I told David Lane, I said, 845 00:42:04,522 --> 00:42:08,901 "I am not confessing to these charges. No way." 846 00:42:09,777 --> 00:42:12,029 He said, "Before you do anything, 847 00:42:12,112 --> 00:42:15,616 what you gotta do is go look into the case of Tim Masters." 848 00:42:16,242 --> 00:42:19,078 {\an8}Tim Masters is innocent, all right? 849 00:42:19,161 --> 00:42:20,704 {\an8}[people cheering and applauding] 850 00:42:21,288 --> 00:42:23,082 [David] I represented Tim Masters 851 00:42:23,165 --> 00:42:25,918 in a lawsuit against the prosecutors in Larimer County 852 00:42:26,001 --> 00:42:27,586 for a murder he didn't commit. 853 00:42:27,670 --> 00:42:29,838 [male reporter] Masters was convicted of killing a woman 854 00:42:29,922 --> 00:42:32,091 whose body had been found near his home. 855 00:42:32,174 --> 00:42:33,175 His attorneys claimed 856 00:42:33,259 --> 00:42:36,011 prosecutors withheld crucial evidence from the defense, 857 00:42:36,095 --> 00:42:38,180 an allegation the district attorney denies. 858 00:42:38,264 --> 00:42:39,723 [tense music plays] 859 00:42:39,807 --> 00:42:42,268 [David] I was thinking, "These cops are corrupt." 860 00:42:43,477 --> 00:42:45,646 He was falsely imprisoned for ten years. 861 00:42:45,729 --> 00:42:48,691 And I'm like, "Oh… I'm not going through this." 862 00:42:48,774 --> 00:42:50,317 I thought there's a good chance 863 00:42:50,401 --> 00:42:52,736 they're getting screwed by the system here. 864 00:42:52,820 --> 00:42:56,699 I'll work pro bono, and we can work out details later. 865 00:42:56,782 --> 00:42:58,909 And I'll jump in and see what I can do. 866 00:42:59,660 --> 00:43:02,788 David Lane's known throughout Colorado for being anti-police. 867 00:43:02,871 --> 00:43:06,292 I can tell you the Larimer County Sheriff's Office is not corrupt, 868 00:43:06,375 --> 00:43:08,627 nor was the Fort Collins Police Department, 869 00:43:08,711 --> 00:43:10,838 nor is the judicial system in Larimer County. 870 00:43:10,921 --> 00:43:13,048 They were interested in getting convictions. 871 00:43:14,008 --> 00:43:17,761 And when you have a media frenzy like you had here, 872 00:43:17,845 --> 00:43:21,640 it could result in an injustice for Richard and his family. 873 00:43:22,891 --> 00:43:26,854 {\an8}Until I can look at what the evidence is in this case, 874 00:43:26,937 --> 00:43:28,897 {\an8}you know, uh, we're left in the dark 875 00:43:28,981 --> 00:43:32,067 {\an8}in terms of what the Sheriff's Department claims they've got. 876 00:43:32,151 --> 00:43:35,195 {\an8}I don't think a whole lot of David Lane. He's-- He's a media whore. 877 00:43:35,279 --> 00:43:36,864 I didn't think they had anything. 878 00:43:36,947 --> 00:43:37,906 [music fades] 879 00:43:39,033 --> 00:43:43,495 Then the DA comes to us with this so-called deal. 880 00:43:44,330 --> 00:43:48,834 They said, "Richard, we want you to take a felony conviction." 881 00:43:49,668 --> 00:43:52,254 "We want you to agree to 30 days in jail." 882 00:43:52,921 --> 00:43:57,176 "If you do that, Mayumi can plead to a misdemeanor 883 00:43:57,259 --> 00:44:00,179 that will not cause her to be deported back to Japan." 884 00:44:00,262 --> 00:44:02,931 And I'm thinking to myself, "You motherfuckers." 885 00:44:03,015 --> 00:44:06,185 "You're gonna-- You're threatening to deport the kids' mom?" 886 00:44:07,102 --> 00:44:08,520 You know. "Over this?" 887 00:44:09,772 --> 00:44:11,857 "What the hell's wrong with you people?" 888 00:44:11,940 --> 00:44:13,942 [intriguing music plays] 889 00:44:16,820 --> 00:44:20,366 [Mayumi] If I try to fight in the court, 890 00:44:20,449 --> 00:44:22,701 and if I lose it, 891 00:44:23,243 --> 00:44:28,248 I might… need to leave country. 892 00:44:29,124 --> 00:44:33,796 And then, which means, I won't be able to see kids, 893 00:44:33,879 --> 00:44:36,423 I won't be able to see Richard. 894 00:44:38,467 --> 00:44:41,053 [Jim] Nothing like that ever came from my office. 895 00:44:41,136 --> 00:44:44,390 And knowing the district attorney as I do, 896 00:44:44,473 --> 00:44:48,352 it's highly inconceivable that they would have pressured them 897 00:44:48,435 --> 00:44:50,062 to accept a plea deal. 898 00:44:52,022 --> 00:44:55,192 So we're facing all these felonies and misdemeanors 899 00:44:55,275 --> 00:44:58,153 that could result in Mayumi getting deported. 900 00:44:58,654 --> 00:45:01,365 It could result in our children being taken away. 901 00:45:02,032 --> 00:45:03,575 Uh, I go to jail. 902 00:45:04,243 --> 00:45:06,120 What the hell are we gonna do? 903 00:45:06,620 --> 00:45:08,622 -[dramatic sting] -How are the kids doing, Richard? 904 00:45:09,248 --> 00:45:12,751 [Richard] So we go to court, and I told David, 905 00:45:12,835 --> 00:45:16,547 "I am not going to plead guilty. Why can't I fight this?" 906 00:45:16,630 --> 00:45:19,508 He goes, "Well, you can, and I could probably win." 907 00:45:21,009 --> 00:45:23,470 "But your wife, you need to think about her." 908 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,975 [sputtering] And I'm like, "I can't plead guilty." 909 00:45:28,058 --> 00:45:29,059 [music fades] 910 00:45:34,523 --> 00:45:35,733 Good morning, Your Honor. 911 00:45:36,233 --> 00:45:37,609 How do you plead? 912 00:45:39,111 --> 00:45:39,945 [David] Guilty. 913 00:45:41,071 --> 00:45:42,531 [judge] Mr. Lane, I've read the file… 914 00:45:42,614 --> 00:45:45,826 [Richard] Then I thought, "I need this over and done with as fast as possible." 915 00:45:45,909 --> 00:45:49,538 [sputtering] We've gotta push this aside, so we can get on with our lives. 916 00:45:49,621 --> 00:45:51,123 [tense music playing] 917 00:45:51,206 --> 00:45:55,335 {\an8}Richard and Mayumi Heene, the couple behind the now infamous Balloon Boy Hoax, 918 00:45:55,419 --> 00:45:56,962 {\an8}well, they now know their fate. 919 00:45:57,045 --> 00:45:59,256 {\an8}[male reporter] Richard Heene will spend 30 days in jail. 920 00:45:59,339 --> 00:46:01,550 {\an8}His wife received a 20-day sentence. 921 00:46:01,633 --> 00:46:03,594 {\an8}She will sign in at the jail each day, 922 00:46:03,677 --> 00:46:05,804 {\an8}but then go out to perform community service. 923 00:46:06,889 --> 00:46:08,807 [David] Richard took one for the family. 924 00:46:12,770 --> 00:46:16,815 I'm a crier, sorry. This really brings some tears to my eyes. 925 00:46:16,899 --> 00:46:19,943 -[female producer] Why is that? -It's just so unfair. 926 00:46:23,572 --> 00:46:27,493 {\an8}The motto at the sheriff's office is, "You lie, you die." 927 00:46:27,576 --> 00:46:29,161 There's no second chances. 928 00:46:31,413 --> 00:46:34,875 {\an8}[Bradford] When my dad went to jail, it, like, really hit me. 929 00:46:35,375 --> 00:46:40,297 In a way, kind of my fault because I overreacted a ton. 930 00:46:41,757 --> 00:46:45,427 I kept telling him Falcon was in there because I believed he was in there, 931 00:46:47,054 --> 00:46:48,764 and he wasn't. [chuckles uncomfortably] 932 00:46:48,847 --> 00:46:49,973 [sniffles] 933 00:46:50,057 --> 00:46:54,603 I remember feeling bad that I did something wrong… 934 00:46:54,686 --> 00:46:56,021 [reporters clamoring in video] 935 00:46:56,104 --> 00:47:00,067 …but just looking back on it now, it's like I-- I was six years old, 936 00:47:01,276 --> 00:47:03,487 and all these adults took whatever I said, 937 00:47:03,570 --> 00:47:08,575 and they're able to just string together what they thought was something else 938 00:47:08,659 --> 00:47:10,661 and make it so, so big. 939 00:47:10,744 --> 00:47:12,704 It's-- It's like-- It's baffling. 940 00:47:12,788 --> 00:47:13,747 [music ends] 941 00:47:14,456 --> 00:47:15,582 [dramatic sting] 942 00:47:16,625 --> 00:47:20,295 [Richard] I finished my jail time. I'm done. I finished it. 943 00:47:20,379 --> 00:47:24,424 And I called my probation officer, and I'm like, "I wanna move." 944 00:47:25,551 --> 00:47:28,345 There's just too much attention. It's too much. 945 00:47:29,346 --> 00:47:32,891 I mean, there were, uh, neighbors, there was the press. 946 00:47:33,559 --> 00:47:36,436 I wanted all those fucking people just to go away. 947 00:47:37,563 --> 00:47:38,605 And so we left. 948 00:47:40,691 --> 00:47:44,361 [Falcon] I had to get out of school. I had to stop seeing my friends. 949 00:47:44,444 --> 00:47:46,613 And that, like, really makes me mad, like… 950 00:47:47,114 --> 00:47:49,867 Like, how did-- how did this happen, you know? 951 00:47:49,950 --> 00:47:51,952 [intriguing music plays] 952 00:47:53,620 --> 00:47:57,958 [Tina] The last time we saw the Heenes was just prior to them going away. 953 00:47:59,293 --> 00:48:03,171 I knocked on the door. They didn't answer. We tried to talk to the boys. 954 00:48:03,255 --> 00:48:05,465 The boys would say, "Hi, we can't talk to you anymore." 955 00:48:06,633 --> 00:48:12,222 Um, it felt very hurtful at that point. I had my mind set that it was a hoax. 956 00:48:12,723 --> 00:48:15,517 It's kind of crazy to imagine that this is where he was. 957 00:48:16,143 --> 00:48:17,644 Then he fell asleep. 958 00:48:18,937 --> 00:48:21,690 Richard pulled on the heartstrings of our family. 959 00:48:21,773 --> 00:48:23,609 He pulled on the heartstrings of a nation. 960 00:48:23,692 --> 00:48:25,611 He pulled on the heartstrings of the world. 961 00:48:25,694 --> 00:48:27,154 That was so unfair. 962 00:48:27,654 --> 00:48:29,907 So unfair for somebody to do that. 963 00:48:29,990 --> 00:48:32,367 Richard just played us all. [chuckles in disbelief] 964 00:48:33,994 --> 00:48:34,912 [music fades] 965 00:48:34,995 --> 00:48:38,874 [Sheree] I think everybody has a belief system, 966 00:48:38,957 --> 00:48:43,045 and they like to say this is who someone is. 967 00:48:43,128 --> 00:48:48,175 But people like Richard are not regular people. 968 00:48:48,258 --> 00:48:49,635 They're complicated. 969 00:48:50,302 --> 00:48:55,057 So if you think you know him, you probably don't. 970 00:48:56,808 --> 00:48:58,810 [pensive string music plays] 971 00:49:00,187 --> 00:49:03,732 [Richard] After this whole incident, we came to Florida… 972 00:49:03,815 --> 00:49:05,108 [dogs barking] 973 00:49:05,192 --> 00:49:06,526 …and started a new life. 974 00:49:08,612 --> 00:49:11,740 We found this place, and this place feels like a fortress. 975 00:49:13,158 --> 00:49:17,454 It's a place where you can hide and just forget about what happened. 976 00:49:18,705 --> 00:49:21,375 Good boy! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! 977 00:49:28,048 --> 00:49:32,177 To get pardoned makes a statement in that, you know, I'm a good person. 978 00:49:32,678 --> 00:49:35,681 Everything that you said about me before was not true. 979 00:49:35,764 --> 00:49:37,182 That's how I feel about it. 980 00:49:37,891 --> 00:49:39,685 This one, we gotta cut right here. 981 00:49:39,768 --> 00:49:41,770 [Jim] I was surprised the governor pardoned him 982 00:49:41,853 --> 00:49:44,356 without reaching out to us in law enforcement 983 00:49:44,439 --> 00:49:46,191 or anybody that had been involved. 984 00:49:46,274 --> 00:49:47,609 The thing that upset me is 985 00:49:47,693 --> 00:49:52,572 that he did it without having Richard make any sort of admission as to his guilt. 986 00:49:52,656 --> 00:49:55,117 We-- We want the water to flow the whole span… 987 00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:59,204 [Mayumi] After the pardon, I became a US citizen officially. 988 00:49:59,287 --> 00:50:00,205 [Richard laughs] 989 00:50:00,288 --> 00:50:01,957 And now, I don't need to worry 990 00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:05,460 about being separated from kids and my husband. 991 00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:09,214 [Richard] Guys, I wanna see what this looks like. Seriously. 992 00:50:09,923 --> 00:50:12,801 With the flying saucer coming to an end, 993 00:50:12,884 --> 00:50:15,095 it's kind of a sad story because I loved it. 994 00:50:15,595 --> 00:50:17,305 But that doesn't hold me back. 995 00:50:17,389 --> 00:50:18,432 All right. 996 00:50:19,433 --> 00:50:20,350 I like it. 997 00:50:20,434 --> 00:50:21,935 I'm working on something new… 998 00:50:22,019 --> 00:50:22,894 [music fades] 999 00:50:22,978 --> 00:50:24,479 …and it's gonna be really big. 1000 00:50:25,397 --> 00:50:28,108 -[female producer] Really? -Yeah. [laughs] 1001 00:50:28,191 --> 00:50:29,651 [tense music playing] 1002 00:50:29,735 --> 00:50:31,236 [dramatic string music plays]