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No-show, so that's why nothing happened. >> hinckley went home for the holidays, signing in at this basement gun range a few days after christmas. and again on a monday after the inauguration day. in the first week of march, 1981, john hinckley came back to yale for the last time, clearly more disturbed. at this dorm, he left that note for jodie foster, "just wait, i'll rescue you very soon." then on his final night here, an hour after midnight, march 6th, he shoved this farewell message under the door to her room. >> jodie, good-bye. i love you six trillion times. don't you maybe like me just...

>> at trial, the jury would be told john hinckley had watched the movie "taxi driver" at least 15 times. the disturbed cabbie, like hinckley, would practice on a gun range as part of a plan to assassinate this presidential candidate, but spotted by the secret service, he runs away, about the same time the taxi driver becomes obsessed with this 12-year-old prostitute played by child actress, jodie foster, and tries to rescue her from life on the street. >> i don't know who's weirder, you or me. >> suck on this. >> in the end, the cabbie kills her pimp and other predators, then becomes a hero, a...

Her pimp and other predators, then becomes a hero, as the young girl is returned to her parents. early in march 1981, three weeks before he did shoot the president, john hinckley would leave this note under the door of jodie foster's dorm room at yale university. >> jodie foster, love, just wait, i'll rescue you very soon. please cooperate, j.w.h. >> at 18, jodie foster had enrolled as a freshman at yale in the fall of 1980. hinckley followed her there. he phoned her twice, late at night. >> who is this? >> is this jodie? >> who is this? >> is this jodie? >> who is this? >> this is john. >> jo...

Inauguration day. in the first week of march, 1981, john hinckley came back to yale for the last time, clearly more disturbed. at this dorm, he left that note for jodie foster, "just wait, i'll rescue you very soon." then on his final night here, an hour after midnight, march 6th, he shoved this farewell message under the door to her room. >> jodie, good-bye. i love you six trillion times. don't you maybe like me just a little bit? you must admit i'm different. it would make all of this worthwhile, john hinckley, of course. >> when hinckley flew back to denver, his father forced him to stay at...

>> hinckley went home for the holidays, signing in at this basement gun range a few days after christmas. and again on a monday after the inauguration day. in the first week of march, 1981, john hinckley came back to yale for the last time, clearly more disturbed. at this dorm, he left that note for jodie foster, "just wait, i'll rescue you very soon." then on his final night here, an hour after midnight, march 6th, he shoved this farewell message under the door to her room. >> jodie, good-bye. i love you six trillion times. don't you maybe like me just a little bit? you must admit i'm differe...