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In coming that tragic day on may 14th, hill city. the right thing to do in this case would be to return the dinosaur to hill city. [ cheers and applause ] >> we've got now over 20,000 signatures on the one petition, the first petition to bring sue back. and they're from all 50 states and from 14 other countries. >> a lot of people didn't have a lot of money around here, so they wanted to contribute any way they could do that. so there were a lot of fund-raisers, parades, buttons, posters. a show of maybe there is justice. because i think to me it was just a huge injustice the fact they could e...

Was writing about him and he should be my subject, i broke the first rule of journalism and fell in love with my subject. so we started dating and in our emotional ridiculousness, got married really quite quickly, within months of my moving here. but, it was okay. it was okay for what was going on there. and so we traversed this together and i had created for myself the additional burden of trying to be a journalist and separate my personal feelings from my job. two federal courts have sided with the government, saying sue should stay in the box, because there's no proof the dinosaur is bein...

Said it purchased the fossil from maurice williams. originally maurice williams said that too, but then he changed his claim, and he said he had not sold the fossil and that he owned it. >> mr. williams. >> pete and neal had made a deal with maurice williams for $5,000. on that saturday, the day before we finished getting sue out of the ground, that we gave maurice williams a check for $5,000, that said for "theropod sue" on the bottom of the check. even though $5,000 may not seem like a lot, it was a lot of money for our company to spend, and no one had ever paid that much for an undiscovered...

Was what a great job they were doing preparing the specimen. i'd heard inklings that the black hills institute boys had found something. one of the first things i saw was actually, you know, part of the skull of sue still encased in matrix. 65 million years later, this animal really had the power to give you goose bumps. >> to see the look on pete's face and neil's, those guys were just like proud papas. they would inform you. they would go do classes at school for the kids, so it was very educational for all of us, and i learned a lot from that. >> ever since we created that little museum on ...

Timbuktu or something. just kind of had some little conversations with her. >> it was precious. it was sweet. she was his person. and later, i would realize, she was more of his person than any other person has ever been and ever will be. i got to say, that dinosaur and pete larson were made for each other. and so he had to go talk to her. and that was what -- how it should be.