. 'Hail, fine fellows, it is I, Billy.' Oh, yes! 'Taking the train into the backyard of America.' We have matching hair! Welcome! 'And my route, 6,000 miles and 26 states. A great, big, fat, epic story.' Smile, you bugger. (GIGGLING) 'Rich in history...' They couldn't stop us. We weren't afraid. '..about people...' I said, "Well, I'm gonna do what my papa did, sing my troubles away!" '..moving through a landscape straight from the silver screen.' I think I'm gonna get hit in the face by a huge fish. Whoa! 'Not a bad trip, eh?' We're been waiting for you! That's great, I've been waiting for you all my life. Ha ha ha! That's right! Whoo! 'The last stretch of my journey is gonna take me through some of the most evocative, enchanting and disturbing parts of America. From the segregated south up into the industrial north until I reach my final destination, New York.' I'm very comfortable on the road. It just suits me, the constant change of scenery. I think I've lost my ability to concentrate. I just...I like the constant changes. I like meeting new people. Even at this late stage in my life, you know? It's still a joy. 'I'm starting in the biggest state of them all, Texas, so big you could fit all of France in it and still have room left over to squeeze in Switzerland as a handbag accessory. Culturally it's rich in religion, guns and barbecue, and there's plenty to explore. The Alamo is revered as the spiritual birthplace of Texas. As you can see from this almost dramatic reconstruction, the Alamo was the site of the most famous battle in American history, where the US borrowed a small part of Mexico. Which it has yet to return. Fans of the quirky, however, may want to visit the toilet seat museum.' I don't know about you but some of my best ideas have come when I was sitting on one of these. (IMITATES FART) 'But I'm looking for a real Texas experience, something off the tourist trail.' (SCHOOL BELL RINGS) 'And that's what brought me to O'Connor High School in the suburbs of San Antonio. Nothing but nothing can prepare you for Texas' greatest love, Friday night high school football.' TANNOY: 'Welcome, everyone, to another great night of high school football.' I'm at a football match in San Antonio. When I say I'm at a football match, it's an American football match. It's kinda hard to understand. I've tried to understand it very hard since I came to live here. (WHISTLE BLOWS) 'More than religion, more than guns and Republican politics, THIS is what defines real Texas.' There's no pies, no Bovril, no chanting about the sexual deviation of the referee. But this is a funny game and I'm gonna enjoy myself. (CHEERLEADERS CHANTING) 'And really, what's not to enjoy? From what I can see going to school in the States...' OHS pickers! '..is like being in a movie and thanks to Hollywood we all know the cast of this teenage drama. There's the Jocks...' A bunch of idiots losing brain cells, knocking heads. But it gives you college money, so why not, right? '..the cheerleaders...' # OC's what you need! # '..and the dancers.' My name is Ezra. (LAUGHTER) This is Cheer, Dance and Pep Squad and we promote school spirit and we cheer and we dance at the football games. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 'And providing a soundtrack to it all are the 380... You heard me, 380 marching band members. It really is a cast of thousands and slap bang in the middle of it...' If you don't run the football you can't make the tackle. 'In a role fit for Gene Hackman is David Malesky, or Coach, as he is known to the rest of the world.' Let's start becoming the football team that we can be. Let's go! This is more than just a single event, it's a community event. Get your hats on, let's get ready. The parents get into it just as much as the players and maybe a little bit more so. (CHEERING) 'And would you believe it? I'm gonna be sat next to the biggest fan of them all, Lisa. Or Mrs Coach, as she's known to her friends.' I've never sat with my wife at a football game. Don't want to. From what my daughters tell me, she's kinda... she's a little bit on the crazy side. Oh! He fumbled it! He fumbled it and we got the ball back! Whoo-hoo! Good job! 'If I could offer one piece of advice when sitting next to a kettle of enthusiasm like Lisa it would be simple:' Yeah, get him! Get him! GET HIM! Oh, man! 'Enjoy it, and remove your hearing aids if you have them.' Get him, get him! Wow. 'For those that are interested, the O'Connor Panthers are in blue and gold and going by Lisa's reactions...' Throw it. Throw it! Shit! '..it's not going very well.' (KLAXON) Whose was that?! Now, David's mad at somebody down there and he's chewing him out, can you see? You're making these guys look like a million dollars! Can't even cover a stinkin' pass! It was third 20! How many times do I have to tell you? Of course, they are 15 and 16 years old. Time to man up! 'But keeping to a Hollywood script there's sure to be a last-minute rally any minute... ..now.' Guys, come over here! RUN! Whoo! (KLAXON) (CHEERING AND CHANTING) 'It would be the easiest thing to take a mocking stance about all this enthusiasm. It feels the most un-British of things, school pride.' # Everybody do the OC rumble, everybody do the OC rumble! # 'But...look at it. All this bright-eyed optimism. A community of all ages cheering each other on to the sound of 100 trombones and drums. What kind curmudgeon would deny anyone this? Not I. And to top it all a finale fit for a movie.' OK, here we go. Please, Jesus. 'The final play of the game and there's only one point in it.' Oh, yes! Come on! Whoo! Yes! (CHEERING) 'And O'Conner win! And yes, this really did happen.' (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) CROWD: OC! OC! Shit! 'Forget all the glitter, shoulder pads and stadium lighting, this is what 1,000 happy children look like at play.' # OC Team, they're at the top! # Go two by two, they can't be stopped! # Whoo! (CHEERING) 'O'Connor High, I salute you.' Oh, man... That was a brilliant time to score. It was awesome. 1 'So, it's good by enthusiastic Texas and hello swampy Louisiana. Louisiana is, for lack of a better word, kind of peculiar. And how often do you get to describe a place like that? Maybe it's the almost obscene humidity mixed with the old world southern hospitality, but the overall impression is both well mannered and sticky. It's not to say it's bad, it's just different.' Welcome to the nice wee town of Rayne, Louisiana. What does Rayne have to offer? (FROG CROAKS) It is the frog capital of America. That's right, the frog capital of America. Bullfrogs thrived in the swamps that surround this place and it used to have a huge frog industry, even exporting frogs to France. Unfortunately the frog industry fell through because of cheaper offers from other places, but the frog is still important. There are 110 frog statues in this town. Hi! Hello! We're been waiting for you! That's great, I've been waiting for you all my life. Oh, my gosh! I'm so excited! We have lots of fun things to show you today. We have a frog festival we're going to tell all you about. 'Every town in this part of Louisiana identifies itself with a local food product. Rice, crawfish, chilli peppers. As long as you can stick it in your mouth a town will celebrate it and name a festival after it and crown a queen in its name. Which is why there were numerous Shrimp Queens, Chilli Queens and even a Rat Queen scattered around Louisiana. But it's competitive, where mothers, daughters and friends vie for the crown. Knowing all that, being declared the Frog Queen sounds rather charming.' I am the unmarried division...uh... 18 to 23? Something like that. But I'm Miss Rayne Frog Festival, Carly Chaumont. I'm 18, Frog Festival Queen, Gabby Guilbeau. I'm Junior Frog Festival Queen, Kailey Hollier. And I'm the married division, I'm Dana Fontenot, the Ms Frog Festival Queen. And this beautiful girl is actually our Miss Rayne, she represents the whole city year round. We also have some special attendants. This is our golden age Frog Festival King and Queen, if y'all can introduce yourself. Mary Alice Pastor. My name is Michael Pastor. Are you King and Queen Frog? Yes. We're the OLD queen and king. Well, I'm exceptionally old as well, so feel free... feel free to be old. 'It's not just the queens that get to compete during a frog festival, the big hoppers also get to play along too.' He's only a frog. 'These are wild frogs caught by the town's menfolk.' They have dressed their frogs... (CHUCKLES) ..for a costume contest and we would like you to judge them. Oh, God, they're real frogs! That one's breathing! What's this one called? Infrognito. (LAUGHS) And this is Duece? Yes, sir. Well, it's very, very difficult but I think I've come to the conclusion that Infrognito is the winner. Yay! He doesn't look too happy about winning. (LAUGHTER) Smile, you bugger! 'Now, cover your eyes, ladies and gentlemen, because the frogs are about to disrobe to take part in what is probably best described as a Frog Olympiad.' The frogs can go anywhere, we're gonna measure three jumps. 'And fear not, viewers. The only thing hurt this day was my dignity.' This stick is only for a gentle poke, if your frog gets a little stubborn. So, three jumps, we're gonna catch the frog and mark it. So, we'll let...uh... What am I doing here? Argh! (LAUGHTER) I thought it was going up the leg of my trousers. (LAUGHTER) OK, Billy. Wake up. (LAUGHTER) (GUFFAWING) (FROG CROAKS) Whoa! Yay! (APPLAUSE) They call me The Leaper! Well, that was unique, to say the least. That was, huh? Did you decide that he's your new best friend, you'd like to take him home with you? Oh, ho! Don't put me on the spot! 'My journey through America's back yard has brought me to Louisiana. I have to say, there's nowhere else quite like it. Equal parts French, Spanish and African American culture's thrown together in a cauldron of exotica. And the spice that holds it all together is music.' This here behind me, this shack, is the Offshore Lounge, which is the legendary home of zydeco music. Particularly played by Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swap Band. Come on in and meet them. 'The best description I ever heard of zydeco was funky folk music, and it's the only time I would ever choose to hear an accordion being played. Chubby has performed all over the world but it's in this ramshackle room...' # Please don't leave me, please don't leave me '..that his father built and played in that he calls home.' # I don't want you to break my heart # 'In its heyday fans would travel hundreds of miles to spend long weekends dancing to Chubby and his father's syncopated country boogie.' 'Now, heartbreakingly, the club has closed.' Ha ha ha ha! What she said, what she said! Excellent. Hey, how you doing, sir? Nice to meet you, Chubby. Nice to meet you too, my friend. This must take you back, playing in here. Oh, it does, it does. We miss those days. I mean, coming up as a little boy, I was 15 when I first got in this club, and just to think about all the great music that's been here. My father's music. I joined my daddy's band at 10 years old. Uh...Was - 10? 10 years old. Daddy would notice that I played drums at home. I beat on my momma's pots and pans. So, he kind of heard me and he never rehearsed me, now. His drummer didn't show up at one time and he said, "You know what? I need you to go get Chubby." I'm in New York, playing in the afternoon, with my friends, football in New York. The guitar player came, he was an old guy, we called him Mitsen. He came, he said, "Ch-ch-ch-Chubby..." He stuttered. "Ch-ch-Chubby." I said, "What's up, Mit?" "Y-y-y-your daddy needs you!" (LAUGHTER) I said, "For what?" "T-t-to play the drums." That's how I got the gig with my daddy. You know, coming up when I was a little boy my grandfather would get off work, he was a sharecropper. Six o'clock, right after supper, he'd grab his accordion, he'd go sit on the porch. You could hear his old foot, he was stomping hard. (SINGS) You couldn't help but hear that thing. I come running out the back and I'm like, "Wow! I'm gonna watch Papa play." And he'd sit there and he'd play. And I said, "Papa, where you getting this music from?" He said, "Oh, child, I have a lot of troubles in my life and I can't afford a psychiatrist or nothin' like that so I sing the blues away, I sing my troubles away." I said, "So, you're telling that music is your medicine?" "Oh, yes, yeah. Music is my medicine. I go play on the front porch and I let it all out." # Oh, the blues been with me all the time # I said, "I just can't believe that you take that instrument and put it in your hand and everything is fine." "Everything's fine, child!" So, how's it working out for you? # My baby don't have to worry # She don't have to rob or steal # A lot of time when I was coming up in my younger days I wouldn't relate to it but I got older. I got a family of my own, I got me a woman too. Yeah! So, I said, "I'm gonna do what my Papa did. I'm gonna sing my troubles away!" Low down dirty shame! That's the blues right there, baby. (LAUGHS) (APPLAUSE) Excellent. Thank you, sir. Thank you. 1 'This is the Mississippi Delta, three million acres of wetlands spread across the Gulf of Mexico and home to two million alligators. It's a hot and sodden place where the humidity sits on you like a wet duvet. I love it.' I had crawfish pot pie last night for my dinner and it was delicious. I feel like such a Cajun today. 'I'm joining Captain Kurt for an evening skim across the Bayou. He's an old school Cajun.' 'Lived around here all his life. I've been promised a fish spectacular unlike anything I've ever seen before. Whatever that means.' This is a man-made canal. There's a gas pipeline that runs through here. That's exactly what they'd like us to think. Do you know? Every time I see these places I get the feeling somebody's looking at me. (CHUCKLES) I think I've seen too many movies. I keep getting the feeling there's people creeping through the bushes with bad intentions. I'm just waiting for the... Urgh! Excuse me. Urgh! 'But the danger that fills the air of these parts doesn't come in the shape of poisoned darts but in flying fish.' Oh, there's a fish just jumped. There's one right there that jumped out, look! Jumped on that bank! (LAUGHS) What are they? They are Asian carp. A big flood in 1978 overflowed these farms and they got loose and one female can lay up to two million eggs in one year. So, we're now literally up to our backsides in those carp, everywhere. And they go crazy when they hear the engines and start jumping. I had, I think, 15 in the boat in five minutes one time. All of 'em that big. They hit you, they take your head off. See how fast they jumping on, they weigh 30 pounds. He hit you in the face, he can kill you. You reckon? Oh! I don't fancy our luck tonight. I think I gonna get hit in the face by a huge fish. Whoa! Oh, there's one on the boat! Oh, it's huge. Now you believe me. He's awful heavy. (CHUCKLES) Well, we had a little excitement. I wonder why they do it. Maybe it's evolving into a kangaroo. (CHUCKLES) (LAUGHTER) 'As evening falls the mosquitoes come out to play and it's time to head ashore.' Have you ever run across an 86-year-old who was this crazy? Never! (CHUCKLES) 'Tomorrow morning I'll be leaving Louisiana, heading north over the mighty Lake Pontchartrain.' (PLAYS BANJO) 'A huge expanse of water uniting the surrounding parishes of New Orleans and a source of inspiration to every writer and musician in the area.' 'I'll be sad to go.' # It was on a bright March Monday # I bid New Orleans adieu # And I took the road to Jackson Town # My fortune to renew # I cursed all foreign money # No credit could I claim # And in my heart I'm longing for # The lakes of Pontchartrain # 1 'Running from New Orleans to New York, the Crescent Route is a steel spine that America formed itself around. It ploughs through the Gothic heart of the South. Coming into the state of Alabama you are acutely aware that the terrible dark history of segregation, lynching and institutional brutality sits far too close to the present day here. I'm heading to Birmingham, forever associated with the civil rights movement. But before I get there I need to make one very personal and special stop.' I'd like you to indulge me a little here. I'm in Montgomery, Alabama. When I was a little boy, about 11, 12-ish, my father took me to a marketplace in Glasgow called The Barras. My father bought a record that changed my life. # HANK WILLIAMS: Long Gone Lonesome Blues It was called Long Gone Lonesome Blues, by Hank Williams, my absolute hero. I've come here to say hello and goodbye. I think I've come to say thank you. Hank Williams had 35 records in the American top 10, 11 number ones. That's my favourite, I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You. Well, there's Long Gone Lonesome Blues. My God, what a writer. Yesterday I sent an email to my daughter and told her I was coming here and she sent me one back saying, "I'm so lonesome I could cry." He has that profound effect on people. God, I loved him. So I've come to say thank you. Thank you, Hank. And I can't help it, I'm still in love with you. Now, here's a mark of superduper stardom. So many people steal stuff from your grave that they put Astroturf down. But it doesn't stop... some people. 'Riding the Crescent Route conversations come easy. Like this one with some national park rangers. The subject matter, however, is far from comfortable.' We're only a generation from segregation. You know, Tony and I...Actually, all of us... All three of us. ..lived to see the end of segregation, the beginnings of integration, to now. We're old but we aren't THAT old. Even growing up in the city of Atlanta there were sections of town that you did not go in. I remember, as a very young child, there was this place that were used to cut through, this road, this back road to go to the grocery store. One Saturday, I remember we went through, and they turned my head and they wouldn't let me look and we didn't go through that way. That was because there was somebody hanging from a tree. This was right in the city of Atlanta. Not in a rural area, not far from downtown. Not far from the train station. (TRAIN HORN BLOWS) 'The shadow of man's brutality is long. It's almost impossible to think of my next stop, Birmingham, Alabama, without thinking of segregation and violence. It's hard to believe that in my lifetime, in the richest and most forward thinking nation on earth, it was considered acceptable, even a point of civic pride in Alabama, to dress up in Halloween costumes, burn crosses and lynch people.' 'Everyone knew it was happening, everyone knew it was wrong and no one was doing anything about it. So, in 1963 Martin Luther King turned to the children of Birmingham and asked them to do something extraordinary.' 'He asked them to step into the front line of the war against segregation by staging peaceful protest marches.' All right! 'What happened next, though, defies belief and to tell me about it are four of them in the back of an unassuming church.' I remember sitting in Glasgow watching you on the news. You did? Yeah, on television. It was worldwide. OK. I never thought anybody cared. There had never been any indication that anybody cared about what we were subject to. And when we decided we would no longer have this, that we didn't want to live this way any more, that upset them very bad. They had our parents over a barrel. If they had gotten out to demonstrate... ..uh...they could have lost their jobs. Exactly. And, well, we weren't working so we really didn't have anything to lose and everything to gain. They couldn't stop us. We weren't afraid. Right. 'On May 2 Miss Janice and her friends were just teenagers when they joined hundreds of children at the 16th Street Baptist Church. The supposed plan was to march to the town hall and talk to the Mayor about segregation. But they all knew they weren't going to make it that far.' We walked out the church, 16th Street, the Church, the high, high steps. We came down the steps singing, We Shall Overcome, we were walking in pairs and got maybe a block away before a police officer stopped us. He said, "If you get out of the line nothing's gonna happen. You stay in the line, you're going to jail." There was a line of policemen and dogs. It was, sort of, a frightening feeling. I was intimidated looking at a white man wearing a gun. Then somebody started singing, "We are not afraid.", and that gave me the courage to remain in the line and go on to jail. We heard all of the fire... the fire engines coming and we was saying among ourselves, "Oh, must be a fire somewhere." We were looking around only for the firemen to jump off the truck and start spraying us. 'Remember the name, Bull Connor. He was the thug that wore the chief of police badge. He was the one that ordered the dogs and fire hoses to be turned on the children that day.' 'On the first day of the march Bull Connor arrested 973 children and still more came, more got arrested. By the fifth day the jails were full with over 3,000 children. The youngest was just six years old.' And they would push us in that box. I mean, hundreds upon hundreds. They were literally at the door stuffing us in. You couldn't even see the person in front of you. Some people couldn't breathe. It was horrible. It was horrible. And it was so many of us that the jail had reached its full capacity and it was packed, so we got on a bus and they took us over to the state fairground. We didn't know where we were going, they just told us, "Get up, you're leaving now! Get up!" That's terrifying. It sure was. Because we were thinking that we were gonna be lynched. Did that cross your mind? Yes, it did! See, I've never been... I'm a little white boy, I've never been in a situation where I thought somebody was gonna lynch me. Well, we did. The interesting thing about going to Fair Park, blacks could not go there. This was the state fair ground. Really? And no, we couldn't go. And I passed it many times. You'd see the ferris wheel and hear the music, smell the popcorn and all of that. Cotton candy too. Cotton candy, all those things. So, when those buses turned into the state fairground we started cheering. Yay! Yeah, yeah! And, of course, they didn't let us ride anything! They carried us on. This is a picture of us in jail, sitting on the floor. Sitting there in the middle, I was happy to be there. How long did you spend in there? I was in there about three weeks. Really? Oh, yeah. And then they were tell us that Doctor Martin Luther King was dead and that our parents didn't want us any more and we were gonna be there forever. And so we sat there. My mother did caution me before I left home and so she told me, "I'm sending you to school, don't go anywhere and get yourself into any trouble." And I said, "Yes, ma'am, I did go to school, I just wasn't gonna stay." So... But my mother, she knew I was going. "I knew you would do it." But she did not discourage me from going. Well, that's good. She was proud of you. Yes. I'm very proud and privileged and deeply honoured to be sitting with four people who changed the world for the better. Thank you very much. Thank you. 'In 1964, after more than 100 years of struggle, Lyndon B Johnson signed the Civil Rights Bill into law. It would be nice to think that was the end of the story but as we all know, it's far from over yet.' (TRAIN HORN BLOWS) Well, that will remain with me for the rest of my life. I was deeply, deeply moved by it. I mean, it's as brave as any soldier, although soldiers are brave, but... ..to do it without a gun and to march and hold your head up and say, "This is what I believe in." That's a particularly beautiful kind of bravery. 1 (TRAIN HORN BLOWS) 'The days are getting shorter and I'm almost home. The eastern seaboard is both the birthplace and the right place to end our series on America.' 'With just 200 miles to go before I reach New York, my penultimate stop is approaching. The grand port of Baltimore is a tough place.' 'A blue-collar town in a white-collar world, it's got an edge, but I like that.' 'Cities should make you feel alive. Which is ironic, when you consider Baltimore has the same murder statistics as New York City.' 'The only difference being that 600,000 people live in Baltimore and 8.5 million live in New York.' 'Which brings me to the city morgue, but be warned, while what you're about to see involves no dead bodies it may well be one of the creepiest things you'll see all year.' Frances Glessner Lee was a remarkable woman. She lived here in Baltimore at the beginning of the last century. She had her heart set on a medical career but her father wouldn't let her, he made her study domestic stuff. She got married, had three children. Life rolled on, the marriage failed, divorced, and at the age of 50 she decided to study forensic medicine. Which, at the time, was remarkable. Her contribution was extraordinary. She built dolls houses. That's putting it kind of simply. She made miniatures of crime scenes, which she called 'nutshell examples of mysterious deaths'. Detectives could study them at their leisure and they're here in the morgue. Let's go have a look at them. Never say that I never take you anywhere nice. Hi. Hi, how are you? Just great. Welcome to The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Deaths. 'Still used by detectives, these very adult dollhouses are completely off-limits to the general public. So this is a real, albeit macabre, treat. As it obviously is for my endearingly affable guide, Bruce Goldfarb.' If you look at the nutshells and the people who are portrayed here they're not just a snapshot of these deaths, they're also a glimpse into the way people lived at the time. Each one of these took as long to build as a real house and each one cost what a house cost to build. No! Yes. You were looking at, in 1930s money, about $3,500 to $6,000 for a model. You could easily buy a house for that kind of money in the 1930s. That's extraordinary. She didn't actually do it with her own hands, did she? All the fabric, the furniture, the figures, the blood splatter and all the detail work is in her own hand. Look at this ashtray with these handrolled cigarettes. Oh, my lord. Look at the size of the teenie wee things. They contain tobacco. She hand rolled them and then burned them and stubbed them out to make an ashtray full of cigarettes. Good Lord. And the books have real pages, they open up. Look at us, we're talking about the knitting. There's a body on the stairs. Oh, yes, there's a body too. (CHUCKLES) 'Frances wasn't just a dirty pensioner needing a hobby. These homicidal dioramas, each one a real-life scenario, enabled the police to return to preserved crime scenes again and again without disturbing evidence. But the real joy for a humble welder like myself is the unique opportunity they provide to play at being Columbo.' Here's this bathroom, a very humble bathroom. The poor woman is in the bathtub, the water running in her face. She met an unfortunate end. This is truly - Is that supposed to be a bottle of booze on the carpet? I believe it is. So, she's supposed to have got drunk and fallen in? That's a possible scenario. I must tell you, the answers, the solutions are kept secret. I actually can't tell you the answer. Really? Yes, I'm sorry. This is a really sad one. She was terribly brutalised. She's been assaulted. Oh, she still has the knife sticking out of her stomach. Her mother sent her to the butcher's store to get some ground beef and there's the ground beef. (CHUCKLES) Yeah, she never came home. Does anything strike you about anything? The knife wound, for example. Yes. It's not bleeding. There's no blood. So, that's after death. Ah, there you go. You start to piece together a story. You just have to stare at it for a couple hours and you start to figure it out! (LAUGHS) This one was found in... It was a rooming house, yeah. And she had checked in, I think it was Mr and Mrs John Smith. If you pull the handle and look at the bottom of the pillow, do you see what's on the bottom of the pillow? Is that blood? It's actually lipstick. Is it? Yeah. Oh, so it's been forced on her face. Ah, see, 17 to go. Piece of cake. Constable Slow strikes again! (LAUGHS) 'It's hard to overemphasise the impact Frances and her dollhouses had on the world around her. What's even more remarkable is how, 70 years later, the models are still being used by murder detectives to this very day.' Sadly the facts of violent death do not change. You can strangle, shoot, stab. There's only so many things that you can do. Some things are eternal and violent death is one of them. 'I wouldn't call the nutshell scenes beautiful but they are mesmerising. It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'death stare'. Before I leave Bruce has one more study to show me.' This is Scarpetta House. It's a training facility. This was a gift from Patricia Cornwell, the novelist. We use this space to create death scenes for training purposes. There's all sorts of things around. We have prop weapons, prop victims. Hangings, stabbings, we have a suicide note here. Well, I don't think I'll be renting the room. It seemed such a good idea at the time. We have a vacancy. Just become available. 'My last stop is unassuming but so very American.' Whoo! Who's ready?! Who...is...ready?! That's what I'm talking about! Whoo! 'The Farantos family are the American dream writ large. Three generations of sons who came from Greece and built a life here.' Hey, Billy, how you doing? Absolute pleasure, nice to meet you, sir. I hear your hotdogs are extremely good. The best, the best. Could I have one? Yes, absolutely. Just one? Just one. You can't eat just one, but OK. In all the years I've been touring in America and filming in America I always finish exactly the same way, with a hotdog, usually at the airport, and it usually isn't very good. I've been told that the hotdogs here at Andy's place are amazing, so I mean to finish on a high. More chopped onions, Alex, please. That's for you, sir. Thank you very much. I love your arm technique. Yeah! My grandfather started that. This is the business. Eggs over easy, wheat toast. 'Since opening its doors in 1927 Andy, his father and grandfather have served over 4.5 million hotdogs.' This place, it made a lot of people, not wealthy, but it made a lot of people happy. You know, if you look down on these stools you can see thousands and thousands of hotdogs. You can see where it's been worn down, you know, from people just... Oh, that's great. 'In many ways this is the America I came looking for. Simple, honest, hard-working.' This is the best hotdog I've ever eaten. Thank you. Off to New York, we'll see you again. OK, all right. Jesus! Whoo! Ha ha ha! That's right! You're going live! (TRAIN HORN BLOWS) 'And there you have it, 6,000 spectacular miles. America. There was so much I wanted you to see and so much I wanted to show you but the train kept rolling and you know what? It's been a blast.' (CHUCKLES) 'For me the backyard of America has proven to be the home of the unsung but the finest parts of this breathtaking country.' Is it quite safe to inhale? (GUFFAWS) 'I've met the very best of people...' Aww! '..an unforgettable hugger from Montana.' I've fallen in love! 'A noble king of the dispossessed in Seattle.' So, the point is...? The point is keeping people safe. 'There have been some tough old dames... (SHOUTING AND GROANING) '..and the bravest souls I've ever met.' They couldn't stop us. We weren't afraid. 'I still love America, I always will. It'll never cease to overwhelm or frustrate me.' Bugger off. Go on! 'I wish there were less guns, I wish they would stop flying the Dixie flag, but most of all I wish America well.' (LAUGHTER) 'Some moments will stay with me forever, but not one would I choose to forget.' What am I doing here? 'It's a privilege doing a trip like this, to be given the time to look out a window at the best movie never written. You should do it. You don't have to come here, just put the phone down.' 'Get on a train.' And ride! Oh, that's lovely. 'Even if it's just to see your granny.' What a gas, what a life! That's the life for me. 'There it is, the end of the line. New York.' Life is good, you should have been here. (WHISTLE BLOWS) 8:08 to Boston, coaches in the rear.