[buzzer alarms]
(Forrest voice-over) Unlike most pillow fights,
this one would have to take place in a County jail
where I was awaiting trial for murder.
I requested a meeting with the prison psychiatrist.
You wanted to see me for something?
Yes, I think I have figured out a way
to reform the chronically violent.
I want to organize a pillow fight.
And I know that sounds crazy,
but the idea is that it could divert
everyone's aggressive feelings into harmless fun.
So what do you say?
May be worth a shot.
Is that a yes?
(Forrest voice-over) Apparently that was a yes because later that day
a guards versus prisoners
pillow fight received official approval.
Did you see that? We're gonna have a pillow fight on Tuesday.
You are all cordially invited
to a prisoners versus guards pillow fight.
It's gonna be a little bit fun.
[laughs] I'm pretty sure.
(Forrest voice-over) The life of an accused murderer behind bars
is a lonely and frightening one.
This pillow fight seemed like a good opportunity
to get to know people and to take my mind
off of the terrible guilt that was consuming me.
This pillow fight was MacNeil's suggestion,
so let's all thank him for coming up with
a new activity for you all.
[applause] - It's my pleasure.
All right, MacNeil, this is your baby.
- You wanna start us off? - Well, I mean, listen,
the great thing about a pillow fight
is the simplicity of it. My question for you is:
"Hey, who is ready to feel like a kid again?"
[laughs] Okay.
The other thing that I want to tell you about pillow fights,
just so you're aware,
is that in a pillow fight, you never know
when you might get a sneak-attack.
[laughs] I surprised you, right?
See that? Okay...
Well, come on, now. Oh, ay, ay, ay, ay.
Let's all join in. All right?
Let's have a pillow fight!
[laughs]
- [grunts] - Oh, [bleep]!
- [groans] - Hey, hey, hey!
[grunting, groaning]
They're [bleep]ing weighted!
(Forrest voice-over) I had not considered that
while these men may have been novices at pillow fighting...
(Forrest) Where did the weights come from?
(Forrest voice-over) They had expertise at smuggling
items into places they did not belong.
Stop it! Stop it!
(Forrest voice-over) Places like prisons...
and pillowcases.
The resulting melee was a terrifying horror
- to behold. - You set us up, MacNeil!
- What? I didn't do anything! - Oh, you did!
[screams]
- [electricity crackles] - [screams]
[police siren blaring]
Was it darkness within the hearts
of the pillow fighters that turned innocent
sleeping equipment into improvised...
deadly weapons?
Or is pillow fighting a twisted bloodsport
in disguise, a feather-stuffed form
of combat that inspires brutality in otherwise
gentle creatures?
No way to know for sure.
What I do know is that my dreams of world peace
and my nose were shattered together in one fell swoop.
And, so, I am forced to give pillow-fighting...
just one--oh, sorry.
I want to get the plies together.
Toilet paper.
- One star. - Zing.