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Soliah and Olson: Dual lives driven by passion // From political radical to devoted mother and neighbor, many roles are revealed in an intimate look at the life and times of a St. Paul woman accused of being a fugitive.
She was a church clerk and one of a group of women that would count the weekend offerings and take them into the bank every monday morning. >> crocker national bank. they had a perfect setup. so it was ideal. and we strig belled -- if anything, we struggled on who was going to go in. everybody wants to go in, maybe, know what i mean? everyone wants to be the one in on this. so we had a discussion. no, we have to have them when we're doing it. we have to make a statement and all that. [ bleep ] that. emily's never been in a bank before. >> in the end we decided two men and two women would go in...
Uninformed human being not to know of the trauma she had been through by just looking at her. >> have you met bailey? what's he like? >> i've only met him like twice. >> what's he like? does he seem a nice guy? >> he was okay, he was real patronizing. >> really? yeah. well, he's not here the whole time like johnson is. >> al's real nice. >> is he? >> bailey, i don't know him, you know. he just kind of drifts in and -- you know, says, you know, blah, blah, blah. then i just go, oh, okay. >> she writes letters to steve soliah, these dramatic love letters to her boyfriend, saying, i want to keep ...
First time i met mike, he talked about wanting to do an operation while on lsd. >> i had nothing to do with patty hearst being kidnapped, although it may be one of the few things i wouldn't mind taking credit for. i didn't meet patty hearst until the three of them came back from hiding out in the country. she had a pretty vivacious personality. she used to call bill little hitler. that tells you a lot right there. >> mike and i butted heads. we never got -- i think we had -- i think we had a good shoving match one time. when i think about it. >> we were just hiding them out. we didn't agree wi...
Younger brother. >> steven wasn't radical, per se, he was a progressive-minded person. pretty low-key, easygoing guy. >> patty hearst and steve soliah develop a relationship. and they wind up living together for quite some time. they fall in love. and it's just an illustration of how she has become part of the group. >> we took this lawyer up to meet them, because hopefully we were going to try to get them to cuba. so right in the middle of it, patty says, "i'll see you guys later, i'm going to go get some stuff at the store." and he's like -- he's like in shock. like, i thought she was brainw...