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That that could be my child is probably the moment of the turning point where i started questioning everything that i have been led to believe all those years. >> there was plenty of times where i would see some of my brothers kick the crap out of their old ladies. >> i had a really good friend, and she was nine months pregnant and her boyfriend of ten years punched her in the eye. and this is the white power movement. and this happens all the time. >> after a while, [ muted ] like that eats at you. and then you just realize that all these things you've been telling yourself for years upon yea...

>> bryon's breakaway from the skinheads was accelerated when julie became pregnant. it would be bryon's first biological child. >> when we found out we were pregnant with him i realized it wasn't about just me anymore. i had this baby coming, and the partying had to stop. being a derelict had to stop. but he really opened my eyes to what it means to be a man basically and to try to step up to the plate. >> bryon slowly withdrew from skinhead activities, spending more time with family and less time with the vinlanders. >> i was trying to actually provide food for my family and the crew took a s...

Being the worst. are you thinking 10? >> i'm thinking 11. >> i'm giving you some more medicine in your i.v. okay? >> i was a little intimidated by both of them. my first impression of bryon came from the other nurses. they told me he had a lot of tattoos on his face. they didn't really know exactly what all they meant but they weren't good. i had never seen anyone with that many tattoos on their face. >> all right. i'm going to let you sign and then i'll give you this. and we'll let you go. >> don't sign any legal documents today either. you've had general anesthesia. she's in charge of you to...

Were like a cockroach. they were like second class citizens. >> at age 29, julie joined the national alliance. >> the national alliance is a neo-nazi movement and this particular organization is not the kind that goes around wearing swastikas and brown shirts. they were looking for a more subtle member because they felt like if their members were in the system, they could make more changes. >> after 16 years in the movement, bryon, along with his wife julie, became disillusioned. despite repeated death threats, they got out. >> you have to understand, this is a culture that in their minds they...

And he put a .380 in my face. it was a big gun. he planted it against my forehead and told me he was going to shoot me. and so at that point, i was scared to death, obviously. i thought i was going to die. but it really dawned on me the next morning that i came that close to having my brains all over the side of a building. and i still -- i still see his face and feel that gun on my forehead most nights, actually. >> it's bryon's third treatment, but it's the first on his neck. >> going to start slipping you some cocktails while we get those monitors put on. >> because of bryon's neck sensitiv...