jenny block returns to her block. the idol judges are in brooklyn for the new season. >> rocking the snake skin. can i borrow your trainer? i would love to get the leg look you have. >> you're doing quite all right. >> this is d squared. adam is here and doing an amazing job. >> that's adam lambert filling in for keith urban who is back in australia after nicole kidman's father passed away unexpectedly. right now we've got a new interview with someone who ro record i a song with jennifer, queen latifa. >> any guest who hur dream guest would be? >> prince. >> i would go beyonce. >> queen latifa breaking out in song the second we sit down. inviting only "extra" behind the scenes of her daytime talk fest, season two up and running. and dishing with me about her

a-list lineup of special guests. >> new actress on the screen, reese witherspoon. >> you're helping her out? >> yeah, you know, i figure she's got talent this kid. denzel is coming. >> big stuff too. >> he's coming through. >> so is queen's executive producer jada pinkett smith, her first appearance as a guest. >> you probably have someone on your dream list. let's shout them out. >> beyonce stop playing. jay, you know better. i will come find you. mr. president, let's talk to the people about what's going on. >> so much always going on in this entrepreneur's busy life, on the life of blues singer betsy smith. >> when you slow down, what do you like to do? >> chill at 120 miles per hour. >> how did you get started on the motorcycle kick? >> there's a feeling i can't get anywhere else when i'm riding. once you pass 80 miles per hour, you pretty much in god's hands. >> congratulations on the second

season. we'll be watching and supporting. >> congratulations to you, i'll be watching and supporting. when you see beyonce and jay-z -- >> i know what's up. i'm giving them the message. >> tell them that. >> i'll give them the look, what up? >> you had that look down. what do we call that look? >> that's the stop playing look. >> okay, let me try it. ready? little more work. >> little bit more work. meanwhile, we'll head to atlanta where we grabbed a new interview with octavia spencer on the set of red band society. how about this? nice. >> her cinderella oscar win for "the help" put her on hollywood's a list. >> opened doors so much. >> now opening doors for us inviting "extra" to her seriously snarky tv series red band society. >> she needs to wear a heart monitor. >> assuming she has one. >> the fault in our stars meets

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>> coming up, clooney wedding countdown, the cast of the daytime hit "the reel". >> did he change or she change? >> what tracy just revealed that's got them green with envy. then move over hunger games, a new fan frenzy has begun. >> you guys used to this now wherever you go? >> no. >> we're with the cast of the maze runner. >> no one has ever survived a night in the maze. >> what happens? >> next.

welcome back, everyone, let's send it across to universal where renee is in the middle of a sea of fans. >> from our crowded universal studios hollywood, hundreds of fans psyched to get up close and personal with the cast of "the maze runner". >> are you used to this now

wherever you go? >> no. >> like "the hunger games", it's based on a series of post apocalyptic thrillers. >> no one ever survived a night in the maze. >> what happens to them? >> the twist? when we first meet the main characters in this story, their memories have been erased. >> can you tell me your name? >> i can't remember anything. >> are you ready for your life to completely change with a film like this coming out. >> we're excited fans will finally get their book brought to life and hope we did all right. it seems everyone is excited so it's cool. >> heart tlob dillon o brian leading the cast and on the uq series skins and playing the fake son in in "we're the millers". >> are you ready for the sequel?

>> if people want to see the sequel -- >> sounds leak a yes to me. the wild bus ride to universal caught on video and extratv.com. >> while it's week two for tracy and i, we're also dressing like lakers girls. but there's a bunch of shows that premiered this week including the new talk show "the reel". >> welcome to "the reel". >> they are outspoken and outrageous. >> you got to get into the fundyes. >> unapologetic and as real as they get. >> they gave us a talk show. >> lonnie love and adrian, the bold new tell it like it is talk show team. >> what is different about "the real". >> five women going through five different things and talking about it like there's nothing holding back. >> lonnie not holding back on who tops her dream guest list. >> any fine man, especially if

his name is idris elba. >> i got to interview him weeks ago. >> the ladies wouldn't mind putting george clooney in the hot seat either? >> is a man that finds the right woman that makes you wants to marry him. >> did he change or she change? >> or is she knocked up? >> i wanted to know how they felt about the ray rice scandal. >> no one should lay their hands on anyone ever. >> i'm just mad you get to work with mario. >> "the real" getting real about my second week on the job at extratv.com. >> let's head renee. >> i'm with with elizabeth banks, pitch perfect two and how to crash the super bowl. first getting recent about the photo celebrity hacking scandal, jennifer lawrence a victim. >> it's a absolute horrible violation of people's privacy. i hope that person is prosecuted

and to the fullest extent of the law. >> here to fight with us? >> i am, i will. >> the hunger games cast back to fight again. >> we lovemaking the movies today -- >> and missing one of their own. >> it was a complete and utter shock and total tragedy. >> hoffman filming mocking jay part one and almost all of two before his death. >> elizabeth reprizing her role and director duties for pitch perfect 2. >> i wanted to tell stories about the characters people love, fat amy and becca. >> it's a cheap trick. >> another trick, crashing the super bowl with doritos. >> they invite people to send in a commercial that they then air during the super bowl and fans get to vote. most exciting part. >> get more into at doritos.com. >> coming up later, jennifer

lawrence is the girl on fire. >> it's the things we loathe most that destroy us. >> the first look at the brand-new hunger games trailer.

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20, 25 feet away from me, sitting all by himself. it felt like a magnet was coming me to come to him. and finally i bumped shoulders with him on purpose. >> jimmy explained he was a brand new inmate, needing directions to the library. hall, obliged. >> i kind of slapped him on the shoulder, said thanks a lot. i appreciate that from a cool guy like you. >> after that, they occasionally talked. but the next step came when jimmy was invited to join hall's breakfast club. >> which in the prison system it's a big thing of who you're invited to have your breakfast with. >> keene thought he was making progress. but then prison politics got in the way. >> i left out of that chow hall one morning and a few really big muscular guys came up to me and said, hey, the old man wants to

talk to you right now. right now he wants to talk to you. >> the old man was celebrity mof owe sew, vincent, also known as the odd father who used to wonder around new york city in his bathrobe pretending to be nuts. >> he goes, hey, boy, what's wrong with you? what's wrong with you? why you hanging around with all them baby killers. you hang with us from now on. you hang around them people, maybe somebody comes up and puts a knife in your back. he would be at my cell early in the morning, jimmy, get up. we're going to play bocce ball. what about breakfast? >> we'll get a round of bocce ball in first ch. >> you're trying to get out of prison. >> he was taking up jimmy's valuable time. making it harder to talk to hall. but then he learned hall's favorite show was america's most wanted. so one saturday night in the tv room jimmy would make a daring move. putting his body on the line

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several months in missouri's toughest federal prison, jimmy keene could have won a popularity contest. he charmed everyone just as beaumont knew he would. he even won over some convicts with his lending library of pornographic magazines and he managed to placate the chin and the mob faction by day while circling his prey, suspected serial killer larry hall with one on one bull sessions at night. >> we just talked about a lot of normal things, hung out, made him feel like i was wanting to be his friend. >> but it wasn't fast enough for keene, who feared someone might recognize him and blow his cover. >> if you went by the fbi's technical terms, i was pretty much staying right on pace, but from my point of view of being in this place, it was starting to get very hard. >> on the outside, the mission mastermind, larry beaumont could only sit and wait for

second-hand news on how this crazy scheme of his was going. >> now, were you pacing the floors, waiting for updates during all this? >> i don't know if i paced the floors. but i was eager to get updates. i had information that he was starting to trust him. they were talking, that kind of thing. >> but beaumont had absolutely no idea that a breakthrough moment had arrived. it was a saturday night. keene and hall were in the prison's tv room, watching "america's most wanted" again. >> and here comes this big prisoner and he's a big, muscular buff guy and walked over to the tv and turned the channel. and hall looks at me and real quietly mumbles under his breath and says, hey, that's not right. i was watching that. i thought, you know what, this is a prime opportunity for me. >> jimmy, a martial arts expert who continued working out in prison was ready for this moment. he got up and changed the channel back. >> he jumped up and he slobbering all over the place, you turn that channel again i'll rip your damn head off.

you don't touch that tv. he is going on all crazy and stuff and turns the channel and sits back down. i just looked at him and i turned the channel again. he jumps up and starts cussing at me and i through a particular cuss word at him that i knew would send him off. he took a wild hay swing at me, i kicked him through three rows of chairs and beat him to a pupal. >> paul had a ring side view of saturday night's main event. afterwards, he staunchly defended jimmy as the retail ya tor, not the insta gator when prison officials interviewed eyewitnesses about the tv room brawl. >> you're larry hall's new hero. >> yeah. i became his new best friend and hero, too. >> jimmy could sense that his heroics brought him even closer to hall, and now he was ready to make a bold move. in the prison library, jimmy had figured out a strategy to draw hall out on tricia reitler.

>> i noticed he was reading his hometown newspaper. that was important for me to start cracking into his psyche. >> even though the gull was trisha's body, jimmy decided to ask first about something already public knowledge, hall's conviction in the jessie roach case. jimmy fibbed that his mother lived near wabash and read about jessie's case. >> she gets that newspaper from that hometown where you're from and all the newspaper stories say you've killed multiple women. >> that was a big risk, though. >> it all was a big risk. larry, i don't care what you're in here for, but be honest with me. tell me what happened. i'm still going to be your friend no matter what. i've had girls do my wrong in my life. i understand how girls can get under your skin and how they can be bothersome to you. >> jimmy said he pressed hall about jessie roach. at last, hall began to open up, recalling that september day in 1993. >> he was driving down a back country road and he seen her

walking her bicycle. >> hall, then told jimmy exactly how he abducted and killed jessie. . you must have been revolted. >> oh, god, lester e it was probably the hardest thing i did in my life to pretend to this kind of stuff, pretend to be his friend and not just rip him apart. but i knew what the mission involved. i knew what was at stake for me. i knew what was at stake for the people's families that were still, you know, trying to find their daughters. >> a major transformation was taking place. jimmy was starting to care about more than just himself. and now he was determined to squeeze the most crucial confession out of larry hall. and not just for himself. but for the family of tricia reitler. >> i started thinking i don't know where this is still going to lead, how long this is going to take, but something is now happened. coming up -- a disturbing discovery. has jimmy keene solved the mystery of the missing girls? >> what are these things any

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roach. >> i opened that door and he's feeling that he can trust me enough now. >> but jimmy felt he needed to wait a bit before going for the goal line. >> how did you broach trisha reitler. >> i had to slowly keep plotting. >> days later he thought the time was right. he tried that hometown newspaper employ again. >> the pneumonia say you killed this girl from the college over here. what happened there? >> jimmy couldn't be sure how hall would react. had he been too blunt, too direct? no. it was all clicking. according to jimmy, hall began to open up about tricia and said he drove his van right up to her that day he saw her outside school. >> he said that he tried to kiss her and when he did, she started fighting very violently and said she was a very strong girl and fought stronger than anybody had ever fought before. >> and did he admit it? >> he said that he had killed

her and he knew he had done it again. these are his words that he knew he had done it again and he said he went way out in the woods and buried her way out in the woods. >> hall gave a general location for tricia's body near a river in indiana. jimmy needed more specific information. luckily, he seemed to stumble into it a few nights later when he spotted hall inside the prison wood shop, a restricted area. >> there's nobody at the door, no guards or anything and i went in there, and as i came up from behind him, he had all these little different statues lined up, ten, 15 of them maybe. and i couldn't tell what they were at first. as i got closer, i notice head had a big map laid out. he dove on that map and folded that thing up really fast and slid it off to the side of the table. and i go, what are these things any way? they're these little falcons and he goes, they watch over the dead, jimmy. they do. >> and they look like -- >> a good size chess piece. >> jimmy had a strong feeling

that the wood carved falcon and the map were journal keeping via serial killer. >> that map had little red dots all over it of illinois, indiana, wisconsin. you look down at this map, you could see all of those little spots were burial spots where he's got somebody. >> all those months of dangerous, painstaking work had paid off, but jimmy had cracked the case. mission accomplished. >> once you see the map, the falcons, you want to tell the fbi about it, right? >> i did. i went to the hot line i had for the fbi girl. i called. i got a voice recording. >> so jimmy left a message for his fbi contact to come get him, the map, and the falcons. his freedom and the answers to trish sha's parent's prayers were now just hours away. >> i was elated. i felt i wrapped this up. >> you were expecting the troops to come marching in. >> didn't quite work that way. >> what he couldn't know was his

fbi contact didn't get his voice mail. and his one inside contact the chief psychiatrist, was on vacation. >> then you got a little full of yourself, didn't you? >> i did. i went back to my cell. i was happy. i thought you know what, 24 hours they said they'll have me out of here. i got what they need. this is it. i went across to his cell over there. >> impulsively, jimmy decided he just couldn't leave prison without giving his fake friend a piece of his mind. >> the repulsiveness i felt about him throughout the whole time i had to stay being his friend and the december tan and dislike i had for him, that i thought it was good for me to unload on him and tell him what i really thought of him and who he really was. i said, you know, i'm going to be going home tomorrow, larry. i said you're a crazy killer and i started calling him everything you could think of. >> with that, jimmy returned to his cell and waited to be released. you're going home the next day

you think and things take another turn. >> about 5:30 in the morning, i hear some little lady in a white doctor smock come walking in. >> it was hall's psychologist and she was furious that jimmy had blasted her patient, turning him into an erosional rack. grab him, put him in the hole. >> they put me in the hole and keep me in there. i'm not worried. they told me 24 hours they'll have me out of here. >> but morn turned into afternoon into evening and the cavalry hadn't arrived. it was hard time at its hardest. >> you can't see if it's day or night because you're in the hole but you can tell what time of day of night it is by what meal is coming through the door slot. here is breakfast, lunk and dinner. next thing is breakfast again. here is coming lunch again. where are these guys? my thoughts were, they did me wrong. they got what they needed, they got the info and they pulled the rug out from under me. >> while jimmy was wondering

where they were, beaumont was looking for him, too. >> and we were like, where could he be? he's in a prison for god sakes. >> they lost you. >> yeah, they lost me. >> but had they also lost their best chance at finding the

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larry beaumont successfully suck informant jimmy keene into the springfield prison in 1998. he just didn't expect to lose him there. >> goes off your radar? >> yeah, he disappeared. couple weeks we didn't know what the heck happened. we were getting frantic. >> two weeks later, only after keene's psychiatrist contact returned from vacation did they finally find jimmy. >> by noon the fbi was there and she kept apologizing. i'm really sorry. something happened with the message. >> at last, investigators got to search the wood shop and hall's cell. but by then, the map and the falcons, items jimmy believed could lead to trisha were gone. >> what were you thinking telling larry hall you were out of here? and dressing him down? >> people probably wouldn't understand the mounting pressure that kettle is ready to boil over at any time, you know. it just felt good to unload on

the guy. >> the problem as i see it, you've unloaded on him, he knows you're against him but nobody has that map. >> right. i'm disappointed i didn't wait another day or two, at least. i should have waited a few more days. i wish i could have done more for them, but i did all i could do. but i feel in my being i did all i could. >> the people who could benefit the most, trisha's parents only learned about the secret operation ten years later in 2008 when the story came out in a playboy magazine article. the reitler's have thankful for jimmy courage and the corroborating details he said he got from hall, but they're furious he blew his cover before finding their daughter. >> why would you have been so close? >> yes. >> and then give it up like you did? >> i try not to dwell on that at all because it eats at me and it's very hard to deal with that he was that close. >> jessie roach's parents find

small consolation in that jessie was the victim who tripped up hall. >> if something good could possibly come out of losing jessie, it's the fact that he's in prison and he will never get released. >> hall remains in federal prison with no possibility of parol. in recent years, he actually has made more murder confessions to reporters and investigators. >> i sincerely believe that there are young girls out there somewhere who are alive today because larry hall is in prison. >> do you think he killed before? >> i think he killed before and i think he could kill again. >> jimmy did tell beaumont that hall had killed again but there was no documentation. it was just jimmy's word. so to be sure, the prosecutor made him take a lie detector test and jimmy passed with flyifly ing colors. >> he was telling us the truth. the bottom line is we had

further information that larry was responsible for tricia. >> a grateful beaumont decided to reward him with full credit for his brave undercover work, releasing him from prison and scrubbing his criminal record clean. >> from his perspective, he expected to get nothing, but from my perspective, of course he spent time in the loonny bin with this guy and gone through this whole process -- >> for 15 years, jimmy had been the only one to see those falcons that hall said watched over the dead. >> the problem is we never got them, though. they disappeared. we don't know what happened to them. >> you've never seen the falcons. >> i'll show you a picture. that's one of the falcons. >> date line took pictures of a falcon when we met larry hall's twin brother. he said larry carved the falcon in the wood shop at the springfield prison and then mailed it to their mother. >> i showed a photo of that picture to both beaumont and

jimmy. >> it's bizarre but it's also reassuring to me lester and i'll tell you why. now these falcons backs everything i've said. it's exactly what it would look like. >> after becoming a free man in 1999, jimmy got to spend five more years with a father he idolized before big jim passed away. and he's kept his nose clean, not wasting his incredible opportunity. >> he sees the whole experience as something that gave him a second chance at life. he's done well in real estate and co-wrote a book with an awe "in with the devil." he says he's working on several hollywood problgts. the academy award winning producer of the departed owns rights and brad pitt is interested. >> i've talked with brad pitt and his people and brad pitt

loves the relationship that i had with my father. he loves the fact that this happened in his own hometown. >> but jimmy is especially proud he says that his book reenergized some cold case investigations, several targeting hall in indiana and wisconsin, at least one near a civil war reenactment site. investors dug up locations where hall spent time over the years and found articles of women's clothing and a belt modified with wooden handles, all sent out for dna testing. but cold case detectives following leads still haven't developed enough evidence to bring charges. >> the walls are closing in on him. there would be no cold case files open if it wasn't for me, none. i did a good deed and i did a lot of good things and that's where i feel the redemption comes in. i've done something good for the things that i did wrong.

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