last appeal. maybe a nun could help him get into heaven but could she help him get out of prison? what she helped him do was get a lawyer and together they hunted for the truth. >> this is one case that kept me up at night for six years. >> he says, i know you're innocent. i know the guy who is committed this crime. >> tonight, will justice finally arrive? >> this is my wall of hope. everyone here has been unjustly convicted and freed. >> i'm lester holt and this is "dateline." here's josh mankiewicz. >> sing sing correctional facility. the maximum security prison in new york. this is the big house. home to some of the worst of the

killers, rapists, drug dealers. >> good morning. >> thank you. >> it is not where you'd expect to find this gentle woman. >> in sing sing, they call me grandma. >> grandma is sister joanna khan, a nun. >> i began working at sing sing more than 12 years ago. this is the battle about general. >> grandma volunteers at the prison. working with inmates in a theater program. she even teaches them chinese. through the years, grandma has helped dozens of men. but she says this inmate here on stage, a convicted killer, has changed her. >> he is just so brave. watching him all these years, i took such courage myself watching him. >> sister joanna remembers the first time she met this inmate. he was sitting alone eating. >> he said, my family send me 30

so i said, your family must love you very much. and he said, yes, because they know i'm innocent. and that's how the whole story began. >> a story that began with the unlikely friendship between a nun and a convicted killer would grow into a quest that would shake the faith of ep those sworn to uphold the law. >> i thought the people innocent, god has to see him through. >> so who is this convicted murderer? he issen mate 97-a-7088. 38-year-old eric glisson. we first met him in the spring of 2012 when a "dateline" producer working on a different story in sing sing met eric in the cell. >> you're going to film me? >> he had been locked up for 18 years. >> you want to see what it's like to live in here? i can touch the walls with my hands. >> eric told us he didn't belong

>> my story is that i'm unjustly convicted for a crime i didn't commit and from february 3rd of 1995 until the present date i've been sitting in here lingering every day wondering whether this mistake will be corrected. >> we've heard that before. many times. but what if he was telling the truth? so, over time -- >> how are you doing, snan. >> we began visiting eric. >> what's up? you're looking good. >> and listening to his story. >> when i got arrested i was always under the impression people who are guilty actually go to jail. i didn't believe that i would be convicted of a crime that i didn't do. >> when police put the cuffs on him in 1995 eric was 20 years old. the brand new father of a 1-week-old baby girl. since then, their only time together has been spent in sing sing's visiting room. >> i have a family who i love.

my daughter, i need to get home to her and be a father. >> eric often shared his story with sister joanna. over time, she felt compelled to do something, anything for him. so she called the only lawyer she knew. >> the first person i could think of was mr. peter krauss. >> i trust her judgment. >> attorney peter cross agreed to see if there's truth to eric's story but there was still one problem. this is not the law you normally practice. >> no, not at all. i'm a corporate lawyer. i do corporate litigation. i don't do criminal work. >> shar main was his assistant. >> out of the blue one day i get this call. you have a collect call from -- an inmate at sing sing correctional facility. like, okay. >> soon she found herself spending hours on the phone with the inmate.

by the time you talk to somebody every day, personal things start to slip in. >> friendship. >> friendship. >> in the meantime, her boss was checking out eric's xlams of innocence. did you believe at the beginning? >> i'm not going to say i didn't disbelieve. i'm practicing law for a listening time. okay? >> and people law. >> they certainly color the truth. this is a man who was convicted of murdering someone. so, of course, i approached it with some skepticism. >> once cross learned the facts, he agreed to take eric's case at no charge. representing a man who didn't seem hardened by prison but almost frightened. >> it's terrifying because you can just be walking in the yard and then you could be shanked. that's the life of prison. >> a life he's lived for nearly two decades. a story he was telling us if true was as explosive as it was tragic. >> it turns out that the police

all the evidence that they disclosed to solve this crime from the beginning. >> not only was eric insisting he was wrongfully convicted, he said others were, too. all of them locked away for life for the same crime. >> five other people, five other people was also convicted of this crime. >> six people. could all of them actually be innocent? >> time now is approximately 7:15. >> to find out, we'll go back almost two decades and take a hard look at how it all began. >> is it possible to get something so important, so wrong, about so many people? when we come back, we investigate what the police didn't to find out what witness really saw from her window the day of the murder. >> how's the detectives could have decided to run with this still shocks me today.ing a hot new deal at mcdonald's that starts with you.

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within the walls of sing sing a convicted murderer has convinced a nun and a corporate lawyer that there's been a terrible miscarriage of justice. eric glisson is in the 18th year of a 25 to life murder sentence. he claims he's innocent. you ever been in prison before this? >> no. >> what's it like to live in prison? >> it's hell. >> 7:22, brutal killing of a recruiter is under investigation. >> nightmare began on the night of january 18th, 1995. the new york city detectives lining this hallway in the bronx were entering a crime scene as chilling as it was violent. >> she had three pairs of handcuffs on her wrists. >> the victim's name was denise raymond. she was an executive with

cops videoed the entire scene and anything that might seem important. >> detectives are mystified over the vicious killing of a successful executive. >> the case went to detective time ioell. he led a team of detectives who worked through the night knocking on dorrs and collecting evidence. then as the sun rose the next morning, some of the cops turned third attention to another murder, another bloody crime scene. this is the video police recorded of that second murder scene. it was seemingly unrelated but just a half mile away in the same precinct. this was a busy night for the murder business in the bronx. >> time now is approximately 7:15 a.m. on january 19th, 1995. >> this time, a liver ri cab driver of bath diop slumped over the steering wheel shot multiple times. the victim of an apparent robbery. the driver's money and cell phone were missing.

driver's murder would be headed by 31-year-old detective mike don nolly working alongside detective aiello. the two detectives ended up putting their heads and their cases together concluding the same group of several people committed both murders. >> did you know the other people? >> i knew two of them. >> these are good friends of yours? >> acquaintances. >> february 4th, 1995. >> one of those goois was 19-year-old michael cosme, the first suspect arrested. >> i have one thing to say, though. i'm innocent. i didn't do it. i wasn't there. >> eric was also questioned at the precinct where he adamantly denied knowing anything about either killing. >> please don't blame me for something i have not done. why is this happening to me? i don't know what's going on. i just want to be with my daughter. if i knew what took place that

anything, i would tell you. >> i'll give you the rights one more time. >> detectives did not believe him. eric glisson and five others were arrested for both murders. >> originally you were charged with both murders, denise raymond murder and cab driver murder. >> yes. >> but by time the time eric went to dril, prosecutors dropped charges against in the denise raymond case citing lack of evidence. so what evidence was there against him in the cab driver case? really pretty simple. there was a witness against him. her name -- miriam tavares. she told the cops she looked out the window and saw it all. eric and the others smack in the middle of the robbery that ended in murder. is it possible that miriam saw you commit a crime? >> no. >> not any crime? >> i wasn't there. >> bad blood between you and miriam? >> yes. bad blood. >> she said she had a brief sexual relationship with miriam

>> you have a flung and cut her off abruptly, she may feel slighted. >> slighted enough to make you a murder snekt. >> i guess so. >> whatever her motivation, the question is, how reliable was she as a witness? all these years later, eric finally had someone to take another look at miriam's story. attorney peter cross. >> there's no doubt that this woman was lying. i went out to the crime scene and she could not possibly have seen what she said occurred. >> so what could miriam really see? here's the problem with miriam's story. from that police video, we know this is where the cab came to rest. we also know the shooting happened a couple of car lengths back, sort of where that red suv is. we know a man this that building called 911 when he heard the shots and he said he saw only one person running away from the scene. now, a couple of weeks later, miriam comes forward. she lives in that building over

now you're looking at me from just outside the window through which miriam said she saw all of this happen. this has to be easily 100 yards away. and she says she saw six people from the neighborhood commit the crime. she says she heard what they said and she saw what they stole. and she said she saw all of it looking through this bathroom window. the only problem is, if you go back to where the shooting actually happened, it's pretty clear miriam couldn't have seen anything at all. >> she said from the bathroom window she heard these conversations going on inside the car. i mean, it's just incredible testimony. >> but what disturbed cross even more, detective don nelly never looked at the crime scene from the perspective you just did. >> wouldn't that sort of be standard operating procedure to check out what witnesses say? >> you would think so. i think they got on the horse early on in this case and they rode that horse and they weren't

>> we wanted to speak with miriam tavares. she died of a drug overdose in 2002. other than her testimony, tlefs no prince r prints, nothing, that tied eric or the others to the cab driver's murder. eastbound so, detectives don nelly and aiello went with what they had and closed both murder cases. within three weeks, they arrested their suspects and the bronx district attorney tried them. in all, six people were convicted. we'll call them the bronx six. five men and a woman. all sent away facing 25 to life. one of them was eric glisson. what's it like to hear that verdict read? >> it is like a shot in the chest. it is like your heart just melts. just dissolves. you actually think that, you know, they read the wrong verdict. that this can't be true.

detectives don nelly and aiello's work. so proud that five months after the arrests the department allowed the detectives to be featured in "new york" magazine about how they amazingly cracked the cases. >> how the detectives could have believed that and decided to run with this and send them to jail for the rest of their lives on the basis of this garbage still shocks me today. >> all these years later, attorney cross knew his opinion of the detective work in this case wasn't going to free eric glisson or anyone else. >> i think the only kind of evidence that's going to sway a court is if we can point to who the real killers are. >> that was quite a lot to hope for. but from behind bars, eric glisson was already on the trail. >> i got some documents and so i see this guy's name keeps coming up. a surprise visitor and an answered prayer. >> he said, i'm sorry. i know you're innocent.

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these are the people we're calling the bronx six, five men and a woman. all convicted and sent away for 25 years to life for committing murder. all insisted they were innocent. we met one of them, eric glisson, in sing sing, where from behind bars he'd been trying to get answers ever since he was locked up. >> i've been fighting these people for years. asking for documents which they

>> they're not going to convict me for something that i didn't do and just expect me to accept it. i'm going to fight to the end. i'm a fighter. i die on my feet, not on my knees. >> as the years passed, eric took college courses offered by the prison. he learned about the law and fought his case. >> how did he get that evidence in his possession? >> the courts denied all his appeals. >> i don't -- i don't have any appeals left. nothing. >> it was a lonely fight and then in 2006 he met sister joanna khan in one of the prison's programs, the woman he calls grandma. >> there's particular dark time. he would say, grandma, it's really hard. >> i just lost my last appeal. i don't know what i'm going to do. >> i always say let's keep the faith and let's go and pray and i said, we have many, many

>> sister joanna offered more than just her prayers. that's when she brought in peter cross who was now fighting for eric on the outside. >> so you have detective don nelly as the officer assigned. >> yep. >> with eric as his guide, cross got up to speed. to have any chance of having another day in court eric knew he'd need powerful evidence, evidence of actual innocence. he started thinking. if he and the other five co-defendants had nothing to do with the two murders, then who did? after more than a decade of trying, finally, some of eric's requests for documents in his case began trickling in. >> i came across one document which had my name as well as my other co-defendants and one name stood out, it was an individual i found out was part of a gang called sex, money, murder. >> eric was on to an important lead. sex, money, murder.

three words meant danger and notorious gang from the foundview section of the bronx. >> 1997, october, sex, murderoney, murder became my assignment. >> this was all sex, money, murder territory? >> yeah. we are in the heart of it. >> while investigating the gang, an informant told him details of a crime the gang members had committed. >> there was a cab driver who had been killed in the vicinity of soundview. >> he went to the south bronx to see if there was any truth to the story. >> early 1998, walked in the precinct. went up stairs, walked into the detective squad room. >> you say what do you know? >> soundview. >> and the response? >> nothing that fit that description. >> but the informant insisted the murder did happen. >> you didn't only make one trip to the 43rd precinct. >> made two. nothing that fits that description

>> any reason the police department bouldn't tell you the truth? >> i thought about that. >> he said the answer might be simple. as far as the nypd was concerned, this homicide was solved. closed. >> the detective may have looked only in the open homicide drawer and never bothered to even look to see if there's anything other than an unsolved homicide that fit that description. >> as far as you know, that's the end of it i moved on. >> he soon retired from the nypd not knowing six people had already been convicted. meantime, eric was stuck in prison. it wasn't until 2012, 14 years later, he pit paydirt and it came in the form of cell phone records. remember, the cab driver's cell phone had been stolen by whoever killed him. >> i found hundreds of calls after his death. >> the records showed the first call was made from the victim's phone minutes after the

the numbers called traced back to relatives of two sex, money, murder gang members of jose rodriguez and gilbert vega. eric believed he finally had evidence showing who the real killers were. >> took me 16, 17 years to get those through freedom of information. >> they were never provided to the defense? >> no. it turns out that the police and the district attorney had all the evidence at their disposal to solve this crime from the beginning. >> so he wrote a letter to the u.s. attorney proclaiming his innocence and detailing the information he'd found out about the sex, money, murder gang. it was a hail mary pass. in an amazing stroke of luck, eric's letter landed on this man's desk. his name, john o'malley, an investigator for the u.s. attorney in new york. days after reading eric's letter, o'malley made a personal trip to see eric in sing sing. >> immediately, john o'malley just stood up and he asked me.

i said, yes. he shook my hand and said i'm sorry. i said sorry for what? he says, you know, i know you're innocent. when he said that, i said, what are you talking about, sir? he said, listen. i know the guy that is committed this crime. >> how did o'malley know? he worked with detective forselli on the gang case ten years earlier and back then the two gang members, jose and gilbert actually confessed the cab driver shooting to o'malley. >> he said, when i read this letter, everything just came back to me from that day. i put it altogether. when these guys confessed to me. >> o'malley didn't want to appear on camera but told us he also checked with the nypd after the confessionings in 2002 and like the detective before him, o'malley was told there was no record of the crime. after getting eric's letter in 2012, o'malley addressed the court in a sworn affidavit

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for the first time in his 18-year struggle to prove that he didn't pull a trigger eric glisson finally had his hands on a smoking gun. an affidavit from a federal investigator saying eric was innocent. >> he asked me, do i have an attorney? i told him, yeah. i said, i promise you i'll call this lawyer today. >> so i was standing online in a bank. >> peter cross remembers that phone call. >> mr. o'malley tells me, peter, i'm with the u.s. attorney's office. we know that innocent is client. that was such an emotional moment for me. i, like, tears welled up in my eyes right in font of the teller. >> i thank god every day for john o'malley. when i looked in that man's eyes, you know, i see a man who

i saw a man who was honest. >> o'malley's affidavit was enough for the bronx d.a. to reopen the case. and to get in front of a judge. but that would take time. two more months. but now at least eric had reason to hope and in his cell he assembled a little photo gallery of whoers who have been exonerated. >> this is my wall of hope. everyone here has been unjustly convicted and freed. >> on august 5th, 2012, eric's lawyer goes to court. >> this is our first appearance to try to get the judgment vacated. >> cross is joined by his assistant shar main chester. by now, they have worked on the case for six years. >> i want to see him out. i said i'm not visiting you here again. this is it. >> finally, cross argues his case to the judge. >> my client is 17 years plus in

>> it doesn't go down like a hollywood script. prosecutors do not admit there's been a terrible mistake. >> your honor, we'll be seeking an extension of the time to answer those questions. >> how much of an extension are the people seeking? >> just -- your honor, 30 days. >> another month. cross is frustrated. >> he told me they were starting the investigation in june looking into this matter. i was able to get my papers ready and it seems to me that another couple of weeks should be enough to get a response to the motion. >> you have heard the saying that the wheels of justice grind slowly? now you've got a front-row seat. >> we have been trying to put together facts and circumstances surrounding this now 15-year-old trial. >> is there any point in time you make the determination that you're going to concede, i will -- >> translation -- this isn't going to end today. eric stays in prison. but two weeks later, peter cross

earlier that morning he'd gotten a call from the d.a.'s office and he has good news for eric. >> i received a call from the d.a. in the bronx telling me that they're ready to make a deal. >> i'm going up now to see eric, to talk to him about the conditions for his release. >> eric's used to visits from his lawyer. >> good to see you. >> and very used to keeping his own hopes -- >> looking good. >> thank you. >> -- on ice. >> get you -- >> yeah. i was working out running. jogging. >> you know i wouldn't be coming up here -- >> cross wants to make sure this sinks in and so he slowly reveals the details. >> i was very surprised today. look. i got a call from ed pullty today saying that we have a proposal for you. the d.a. is now prepared to give you a conditional dismissal of the indictment and vacate the conviction.

>> not going to be today. but it will be by the 13th i think. >> wow. >> do you believe that? >> well, it hasn't set in yet. >> i know. >> the initial shock. >> i know. >> all the fighting we have done over these years. >> yeah. >> um -- i don't know what to say right now. >> but, unfortunately for eric, a month later he's still behind bars. >> these people just don't want to let me go. they want to continue to hold me and torture me. you know, the mental trauma i'm going through right now because of this, i'm wondering whether, you know, they may renege on this agreement. >> as excruciateing as the hours are, eric shares something with us beyond that wall of hope that's helped him wake up every morning. >> there's a bench by the water

barbershop i look at that bench and i wonder if i'll ever be able to look from down there up here. that's one of my main goals while i was in here, to sit on that bench as a free man. >> coming up -- will eric glisson ever get to sit on that bench? he finally gets his day in court. >> we have the decision to take this unprecedented and exceptional step. >> when "dateline" continues. than verizon, at&t and t-mobile. based on data from the world's foremost authority on independent measurement. so, extended by popular demand, we're still cutting prices in half. switch to sprint and save 50% on most verizon, at&t or t-mobile rates. what about verizon? 50% off. at&t too? 50% off. even t-mobile? 50% off. and we'll even cover your costs to switch. up to $650 per line. this is a limited time offer. so hurry in and switch today. when your cold makes you wish...

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this bench outside sing sing is only a few hundred yards from the prison but to eric it might as well be in china. how many times you look at that bench? >> every day. >> and thinking i'll be on there one day? >> i want to see what it looks like from that bench to the window because all i know is what it looks like from the window to the bench. >> finally, on october 22nd, 2012, four months after a

eric's innocence his day in court has come. eric's been transferred from sing sing and is waiting in a holding cell in the bronx county courthouse. >> apparently the court officers were advised -- >> it's a long, painful road for lawyer peter cross. >> kept me up at night for six years because i knew we had to find like the one-armed man to get him out of jail. >> eric walks into the urtroom. >> number 4 and 5 on the calendar, eric glisson. >> standing next to him is cathy watkins, the only woman of the bronx six. like eric, she was tried only for the cab driver's murder and in 1997 they went on trial together. eric says he doesn't know her now and didn't know her then. >> when trial started, the officers bringing us up to the court and an officer says this is watkins. i said, cathy watkins?

i said, i'm eric glisson. how are you involved this? she said, i don't know. how are you involved? when's going on? we both didn't know. we was confused. >> now 18 years later, assistant district attorney nicole quur ri's office believes there may have been a misunderstanding. the d.a.'s office continues to investigate. >> we have made a decision to take this unprecedented as you know, judge, an exceptional step that we are going to consent the conditional va katding of the conviction for these two defendants and the conditions being that the defendants do wear those electronic monitoring bracelets. >> all that's left now is for the judge to make it official. >> the record reflects that the official vacater of the conviction as to mr. glisson and ms. watkins is granted and each

own recog any sans. [ applause ] >> eric's friends and family and the news media are waiting for him outside. and now, for the first time in nearly two decades, eric glisson is about to take his first steps as a free man. >> eric, what is your emotion right now? >> this is the major points in my life and i worked hard. i persevered. and with effort and determination i'm standing here before you. >> now, it's his co-defendant cathy watkin's turn also wrongfully convicted. >> 17 years. >> almost 18.

now she is 46. >> i didn't do it. 100% innocent. i'm innocent. all the way. >> by january 2013, the convictions for the rest of the bronx six were overturned. for both the cab driver murder and fed-ex executive denise raymond. this is carlos perez, 25 when he was locked up. >> i even wrote -- to 1995. just clinton, bush? i don't know. clinton. the president. we're innocent. nobody listened. >> davon ayers. he was 19 when he was convicted. >> spent all of my 20s and most of my 30s there and trying to get on with life as i know it as today. >> and michael cosme. remember him? >> i have one thing to say, though. i'm innocent. i didn't do it. i wasn't there.

18 years later. finally, someone believed him. and while we now know those two gang members confessed to the cab driver murder, fed-ex executive denise raymond's killer or killers have never been brought to justice. we wanted to speak to someone from the nypd or the bronx district attorney's office but both declined comment citing the multiple civil suits they face as the bronx six seek millions in damages against new york city. and those two detectives, don nelly and aiello portrayed as super sleuths in 1995 are now both retired and didn't have anything to say to us. but in court filings, attorneys for the city of new york deny that either detective threatened witnesses or falsified statements. and point out that several juries heard the witnesses' testimony of the time and believed them.

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this way. >> listen, man. >> it's october 22nd, 2012. after living in a prison cell for 18 years, eric glisson is finally a free man. >> turning down to shelby pier. >> and we are by his side as he experiences all of it. >> oh! i seen this in the magazine. >> eric's first few hours of freedom --

>> hello? >> part discovery. >> hello? >> he's never actually used a cell phone. >> yeah. where's cynthia? hello? >> you have it upside down, eric. >> hello. >> no, no, upside down. like this? >> hello? huh? can you hear me now? like the commercial? that was my first cell phone call. first cell phone call. >> his first meal? lamb chops. >> wow. it's like jumping up out of the a coffin and walking. you know? it is like being read your last rites. and all of a sudden, a miracle happens.

walking in the room and knows exactly how to resuscitate you. you're back living again and you're back out in society an you're wondering, you know, will they accept you? yeah. you see? >> on his first night of freedom, eric's lawyer treats him to a hotel room. >> i have a key that's a plastic card. wow. oh, this is excellent. holy -- wow. got to be at least a 46-inch tv. bed. wow. i used to sleep on a metal frame

bed. >> but the real joy for eric is reuniting with his daughter cynthia cynthia. >> ready, set go. >> she was a week old when he was arrested. now she's nearly 18. >> you cheated. you cheated. >> shh. >> and that degree he began working on behind bars? eric started taking classes again two days after his release. and finally, received that long awaited diploma from mercy college. today, a fully exonerated eric glisson is a businessman. an entrepreneur. >> i'm doing everything single handedly. the reconstruction of the ceiling. going to be four tables. >> on the one-year anniversary

fresh juice business that he built himself named fresh take. >> afternoon, sir. how are you doing? >> nice place you have here. >> thanks. >> where did you get fresh take? >> i knew that i had a fresh take on life. i'm free now. i'm no longer the victim. i'm the victor. i won. >> you seem to have come through this remarkably free of bitterness and anger or you're hiding it very well. >> well, i don't have any animosity against anybody at this point. except the people who raised the prices. because the strawberry's the primary thing. >> that's crime. >> yeah, it is a crime. i mean -- >> eric has a business partner. someone he met when he was still locked up. >> he's become my brother. >> it's charmain chester. >> i teem annoying older sister. >> they opened their store in

eric says he loves it. >> pivotal point in my life. taught -- gave me a lot of tools. >> on this day, we had a little surprise for him. he hasn't seen sister joanna khan since he's been released. the woman that put eric on a quest for freedom all those days ago. >> working together collectively. oh my god! oh my god! oh my god! grandma. grandma. oh my god. >> god bless you. >> thank you. oh my god. they told me you were in china. >> i was. >> eric has now been a free man for more than three years. >> it's rough. it's not the walk in to the sunset that everyone expects.

life that will be with me forever. i can't unshake them. >> and he said he's not the only one who's been having a hard time. >> like especially with my daughter, cynthia, our relationship has been strained. still since a lot of resentment of my absence. for a major part of her life. >> but now, there's a new person for whom eric can be fully present. cynthia has a new sister. meet baby scarlet. >> i have a second chance to raise a daughter. to be in her life. to take her to the park. horsey back rides. you know? all of the kisses. and hopefully one day give her hand away in marriage. there's no price for that. >> and what's the price for unjustly spending 18 years in prison? eric and the rest of the bronx

both the state and city of new york for their wrongful convictions. the state settled, each of the original defendants was awarded $3.9 million. the lawsuit against the city of new york is still pending. there was one last thing we wanted to do with eric. remember that bench eric could see from inside sing sing? not too long after his release we took him back there. and watched him finally make good on that promise to himself. to get that other view of the prison. this time, from the outside. >> that's all for now.

thanks for joining us. .[ panting ][ woman ]i'm so-- so glad you called.[ man ]i'm so glad you were free. [ woman ]oh, god. i-- i love your eyes. okay. now what? huh! - oh! oh! oh! oh! oh! oh! - [ man laughing ]