Zeitoun: Part 4: Tuesday September 27 Summary & Analysis

Raleigh calls Kathy to tell her that there’s finally a court date. He asks Kathy to gather as many character witnesses as she can to come to court and testify. Afterward, she realizes she’s forgotten to ask where the courthouse is. Raleigh isn’t answering, so she calls the district attorney’s office, where the woman who answers says that there’s no court right now. The woman transfers her to another man, who says that where court hearings are being held is privileged information. She protests that it’s a public court, and she’s the prisoner’s wife, but to no avail. The third person she talks to says the same thing.

Kathy begins to cry again, furious at the levels of bureaucracy and incompetence. After calming down, she calls CNN and tells a producer her story—the producer says she will investigate.

Raleigh calls Kathy back and apologizes, saying that he’s found out that the hearing will be held at Hunt the next day. Kathy calls friends and clients, and eventually seven people say they’ll come.

Zeitoun is again handcuffed and taken out of his room to meet Raleigh. He smiles and says he wants out. Raleigh tells him that Zeitoun can either pay $75,000, and be refunded if he won his case, or pay about $10,000 total and lose that amount either way. Raleigh agrees with Zeitoun that the bail is about 100 times what it should be. It seems silly to Zeitoun to throw away $10,000, so he asks Raleigh to try to reduce it, or to see if he can use his property as bail.

Now that Zeitoun knows that Kathy and his family know he’s alive, he doesn’t think it’s worth it to get free a few days early, especially when he can’t work.