YT YouTube2Text

YouTube2Text → Transcripts → Crime Boss Brought His Mistress to Christmas Gala—Pregnant Wife Warned, “Someone Will Kll You at...

Crime Boss Brought His Mistress to Christmas Gala—Pregnant Wife Warned, “Someone Will Kll You at... — Transcript

by Framed Stories · 4,250 words · 593 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

Open in transcriber Summarize with AI Download SRT/VTT

Full transcript

0:00At 7:52 on Christmas Eve, Monica Stone
0:03stood at the top of the Aldridge Hotel's
0:05grand staircase, 34 weeks pregnant, and
0:07watched her husband walk through the
0:09revolving door with Brianna Clark's hand
0:11tucked into his arm. Below her, 300
0:14guests had come to a charity gala for
0:15the Harbor Children's Fund. A 40ft tree
0:18stood in the center of the lobby, strung
0:20with 11,000 white lights. A string
0:22quartet played near the check-in desk.
0:24Snow fell past the tall windows, and the
0:27marble floor gave back every candle in
0:28the room. It was an expensive room built
0:31to make everyone in it look forgiven. If
0:33you've got a moment, drop the name of
0:35your town in the comments. I read them
0:37all and I love seeing where you are.
0:39Brianna was Patrick's executive
0:41assistant. She was 27 and she had been
0:43on the payroll 14 months. Tonight, she
0:46wore a black satin dress with thin
0:47straps and her dark hair was pinned up
0:49with a single comb. Patrick's palm
0:52rested at the small of her back. A boss
0:54does not touch an employee that way. He
0:56touches her that way only if he has done
0:57it before in private many times. Monica
1:00put a hand on her belly. Her daughter
1:02shifted under the dusty rose silk one
1:04slow roll from left to right. Monica
1:06waited for the pain to come. It came a
1:08few seconds late, which is how it
1:09usually works. She had been collecting
1:12small things for 4 months. Patrick
1:14showering the minute he got home. A new
1:17passcode on the phone that used to
1:18charge beside their bed. two prenatal
1:20appointments at 28 weeks and 31 replaced
1:23by port meetings that appeared on no
1:25Barnes group calendar. A long dark hair
1:27on the shoulder of a coat she had taken
1:29to the cleaner herself. Suspicion had
1:31been cruel, but it had also left a door
1:33open. Maybe there was an explanation.
1:35The way Patrick looked at Brianna closed
1:37it. The lobby went quiet in patches. The
1:40hotel's general manager studied the
1:42floor. Judge Harmon's wife lowered her
1:44champagne glass an inch. They knew or
1:46knew enough. You can always tell when a
1:48room has been waiting longer than you
1:50have. Patrick found her at the foot of
1:52the stairs. His hand left Brianna's
1:54back. For half a second, something like
1:56shame crossed his face. Then it
1:58disappeared behind the calm that had
2:00made city officials return his calls for
2:0211 years. Patrick Stone ran the Stone
2:04family's waterfront holdings, and the
2:07family's name had once been enough to
2:08settle a dispute without paperwork.
2:11Monica, you came. I live with you. He
2:15glanced at Brianna. She's here for the
2:17press. The son is asking about the
2:18federal review of the Pier 9 contracts.
2:21Is that why her coat is on your arm?
2:24Brianna looked at the floor. Patrick did
2:25not. Not here. You brought her here. His
2:29jaw tightened. Tonight matters more than
2:31us. Monica almost smiled. That's the
2:34first accurate thing you've said in 4
2:36months. He heard something in her voice
2:38then. It was not grief and it was not
2:40anger. It was a level tone the kind a
2:42person uses to read out a balance. What
2:44did you do? Walk me to the mezzanine
2:46library, she said. Smile while you do
2:49it. People are watching. Monica, at 9:30
2:52tonight, a man on a harbor lift is going
2:55to shoot you on the terrace. The people
2:56who hired him need me out of the
2:58building before then or standing beside
3:00you when it happens. Brianna comes too.
3:03Brianna's head came up. Patrick looked
3:05at his wife the way you look at a
3:07stranger who has said your name
3:08correctly. Then the husband went away
3:10and the boss came back. His eyes
3:12measured the doors, the balconies, the
3:14waiters, the reflections in the glass.
3:16He did not argue. He offered Monica his
3:19arm. Take it, she walked ahead of him,
3:21up the stairs, one hand on the rail,
3:22counting steps. There were 22. The
3:25library on the mezzanine had one door to
3:27the corridor and one to the service
3:29stair. Its windows faced the courtyard
3:31instead of the harbor. Monica had chosen
3:33it on Tuesday along with the time. Three
3:36people were waiting. Wendy Harris,
3:38Monica's attorney for nine years, sat at
3:40the long table with a laptop and a
3:42leather folder. Roy Bennett, Patrick's
3:44head of security for 19 years, stood by
3:46the service door with his arms folded
3:48and a scar under his chin. The third was
3:50a woman in a gray suit with her hair
3:52pulled back and a federal ID clipped to
3:54her belt. "Special agent Robin Fischer,"
3:57the woman said. "Baltimore field office.
3:59I have 11 agents in this building, a
4:01tactical team in the harbor place garage
4:03and a very short time." Patrick turned
4:05to his wife. You went to the FBI Tuesday
4:08morning at 10:15. You had no right to
4:11bring federal agents into my family. I
4:14had every right. I'm one of the people
4:16on the list. She laid a single sheet of
4:18paper on the table. Wendy slid a second
4:20one beside it. Monica had spent 6 years
4:23as a forensic accountant for the state
4:25controller before she married, and she
4:27still read a ledger the way other people
4:28read faces. Franklin Marine Services,
4:31she said. Three invoices paid out of the
4:33Pier 9 maintenance account between
4:35October 19th and December 12th. The
4:38first is for crowd control consulting.
4:40Second is for aerial lift rental Pier 9
4:42terrace December 24 98 to 10 p.m. The
4:45third is for vehicle service. Together
4:47they come to $310,000.
4:51Patrick read the first line. That's a
4:53maintenance vendor. Franklin has no
4:55trucks, no state license, and a mailbox
4:57in Delaware. It was incorporated 11 days
5:00before the first invoice. Someone
5:02approved all three through the executive
5:03operations code. Who has that code?
5:06Fischer asked. Roy answered before
5:08Patrick could. Mr. Stone Me for security
5:11items and Carl Watkins. The name sat in
5:13the room for a moment. Carl Watkins was
5:1666 years old. Patrick's late father's
5:18attorney and the man who had taught
5:20Patrick how to tie a tie, how to read a
5:22contract, and how to wait. He sat on the
5:24board of Barnes Group. He had been at
5:26the hospital the night Patrick's father
5:27died. He called Patrick's son and
5:30Patrick had never corrected him. No,
5:32Patrick said. The voting trust, Monica
5:35said. He closed his mouth. In October,
5:38you signed an amendment. When our
5:40daughter is born, the family trust
5:42dissolves and control of her share
5:43passes to me as trustee. Carl has run
5:46that trust for 15 years. He gives it up
5:48at birth. If you and I both die before
5:49she's born, nothing changes. He stays.
5:52And you announce the Pier 9 audit 6
5:54weeks before the first Franklin payment
5:56cleared. Carl would not. A week ago, I'd
6:01have said you wouldn't bring your
6:02assistant to a Christmas gala. Patrick
6:04flinched. Roy looked at the ceiling.
6:07Fischer spoke again. Mrs. Stone brought
6:09us the invoices. We confirmed the lift.
6:12It was delivered to the Pier 9 service
6:14yard at 4:40 this afternoon and is
6:16staged under the terrace. A man in a
6:18harbor maintenance jacket has been
6:19working on it for 3 hours. We have not
6:21touched him. Why not? Patrick said.
6:25Because a man on a lift is a gunman. a
6:27text on his phone from the person who
6:28hired him is a conspiracy case. Brianna
6:31had not spoken since the lobby. She
6:33stood near the bookshelf with her arms
6:35wrapped around herself. When Monica
6:37turned to her, she stepped forward as
6:39though she had been called to a desk. 3
6:41weeks ago, Brianna said, "Mr. Watkins
6:44asked me to move the toast to the
6:45terrace. He said the son wanted harbor
6:47photographs. I changed the run of show.
6:49He asked me to send him Patrick's
6:51arrival time and route, and I did. He
6:53asked about the car, and I told him
6:55about the car." Her voice shook once and
6:56steadied. I sent him Mrs. Stone's
6:58schedule, too. He said he wanted to make
7:00sure she wasn't overtaxed. Did he know
7:03about the two of you? Monica asked. He
7:06told me to bring her. Brianna looked at
7:08Patrick. Tonight, Mr. Watkins said that
7:10if you walked in together, the board
7:12would finally see you as unattached. He
7:14said it would be kinder to Mrs. Stone to
7:16stop pretending. He said you were going
7:18to leave her after the baby anyway.
7:20Patrick said, "I never told him that.
7:23You told me the marriage was over. I
7:25said it was strained. Monica kept her
7:28eyes on Brianna. How many times did he
7:30ask about my appointments?
7:33Four. Which ones? The 28-week visit, the
7:3731 week. And he asked whether you'd be
7:40on your feet all night tonight. Monica
7:42did the arithmetic out loud because it
7:44was cleaner than the alternative. A
7:46woman who finds out about an affair in
7:48front of 300 people is under stress. A
7:50woman at 34 weeks under stress goes to a
7:53hospital. A woman in a hospital is not
7:55at the terrace. She looked at Patrick.
7:57He didn't just use the affair. He
7:59arranged it so I would be in a bed when
8:01the shooting started. Patrick's face
8:03went white. He knew you were pregnant.
8:06He knew exactly how far along. The only
8:09sound was the quartet muffled one floor
8:11down. Then there was a knock. Three
8:13wraps patient and polite. Royy's hand
8:15went under his jacket. Fischer looked at
8:17Monica and gave one small nod. Carl
8:20Watkins opened the door himself. He wore
8:22a gray tuxedo and a silver pocket
8:24square, and his white hair was combed
8:25back the way it had been combed for 50
8:27years. He looked at the table, at
8:29Patrick, at Brianna, at the paper under
8:31Wendy's hand. He did not look at the
8:33federal ID on Fisher's belt, and that
8:35was how Monica knew he had seen it.
8:37Patrick, the mayor is asking for you.
8:39His eyes moved to Monica. They were
8:41kind. They were always kind. And you,
8:43sweetheart, should be sitting down. You
8:45look pale. I'm tired, Uncle Carl.
8:47Patrick is taking me home. Of course, he
8:50smiled. The terrace can wait. We'll make
8:52the toast at 9:30 as planned, and you'll
8:54both be tucked in by 10:00. Of course,
8:57Monica said. He lingered 1 second longer
9:00than a man should. Then he closed the
9:02door, and his footsteps went away down
9:04the corridor at the same unhurried pace.
9:07Fischer exhaled. He counted the room. He
9:09counted the exits, Roy said. I watched
9:11him. At 9:02, Fischer's radio gave two
9:15clicks. A team had taken the man on the
9:17lift without a sound. They found a long
9:19rifle in a toolbox under a tarp and a
9:20burner phone in his jacket. The phone's
9:23last message was from a number that had
9:24been active for 9 days. It said, "Wait
9:26for the word." Before the rest of this
9:29story, let me turn it over to you for a
9:30second. Staying true to one person for a
9:33lifetime is no small thing these days.
9:35If you've been married a long while,
9:37what kept the two of you loyal to each
9:39other? Fisher's people cloned the
9:41handset in 4 minutes. Now, the word
9:43could be read before it was sent. Here
9:45is the plan, Fischer said. Mr. Mr.
9:47Watkins expects a shot at 9:30. At 9:29,
9:50he'll text the lift. We hold the lift.
9:52When he sends it, we have him. After
9:53that, he'll try to leave. Where from?
9:56Patrick said. Wherever his driver is
9:59waiting. Monica looked at the invoice
10:01again. Her eye went to the third line
10:03and stopped. Vehicle service, she said.
10:06$18,400.
10:08Brianna, who drives Patrick home
10:10tonight? The armored Suburban. Mr.
10:12Watkins arranged the detail. It's at the
10:14North Service Dock. Dale Puit behind the
10:16wheel. "Mr. Watkins asked us to stage it
10:19there for $9.45." "$18,000 is too much
10:22for a car wash," Monica said. Fisher was
10:25already on the radio. 4 minutes later, a
10:27bomb technician in a dock jacket
10:29reported from under the Suburban.
10:31Something was wired to the ignition and
10:33taped to the frame rail where the fuel
10:34line ran. It was not a clean device. It
10:37was a poor panicked afterthought. The
10:39second plan of a man who suspected the
10:41first might fail. Patrick sat down. He
10:44did not seem to decide to. His legs did
10:45it for him. Dale drives me to church, he
10:48said. Every Sunday. He drove you for 6
10:50years, Roy said. He also drove Mr.
10:52Watkins. Patrick looked at his wife
10:55across the table. You found all this
10:57alone. I had Wendy. I had Robin. I had a
10:59calendar. She kept her voice flat. I
11:01also had 4 months of being told I needed
11:03rest. He opened his mouth. She did not
11:06give him the room. I'm not telling you
11:08this to hurt you. I'm telling you
11:10because you asked how. And the answer is
11:12that I did what I do. You encouraged me
11:14to stop doing it. Carl encouraged you to
11:16encourage me. At 9:14, the first
11:19tightening began low in her abdomen. She
11:21pressed two fingers to her wrist and
11:23watched the second hand of the library
11:24clock. It lasted 40 seconds. It did not
11:27hurt. Braxton Hicks, she told Fischer,
11:30"I'll time them. We can get you to a
11:32hospital." "Not until he's in
11:34handcuffs." Patrick stood. I'm going to
11:37the terrace. "No," Monica said.
11:41He raised me. [sighs] I know. If I
11:44confront him, you'll do what you've
11:47always done. You'll make it about you,
11:48and he'll watch you do it. She did not
11:50raise her voice. He built this entire
11:52night on the belief that you would chase
11:54something. A woman, a shot, a rumor.
11:57Stay in this room. Stay where you're
11:58useful. For a long moment, Patrick
12:01looked at her. He had once been a man
12:03who walked into rooms and rearranged
12:04them. Now, he stood still with both
12:06hands at his sides, and the stillness
12:08cost him visibly. All right, he said.
12:12Fischer gave a small surprised nod. It
12:14was the first time all night anyone had
12:16seen him take an order. Downstairs, Carl
12:19Watkins took the microphone at 9:21.
12:21Monica watched him on a screen Roy had
12:23wired from the ballroom camera. He
12:25thanked the donors by name. He mentioned
12:27the $1.4 million raised for pediatric
12:29care. He spoke of Patrick's father, of
12:32the harbor of family. He said he would
12:34ask them all in a few minutes to join
12:36him on the terrace to see the lights on
12:38the water. At 9:26, he stepped away from
12:41the microphone and checked his phone. At
12:449:27, he checked it again. At 9:29, he
12:47typed something with one thumb slowly
12:49and without hurry and pressed send. In
12:52the library, Fisher's tablet chimed. She
12:54read it aloud. Proceed. It was one word.
12:56It was the entire case. Move, Fisher
12:59said into her radio. Monica could not
13:01see what happened on the terrace because
13:03nothing happened on the terrace. The
13:05lift sat empty, its operator already in
13:07custody for almost half an hour, and the
13:09doors to the balcony were locked from
13:11inside. On the ballroom screen, she
13:13watched Carl look at his phone, then up,
13:15then at the terrace doors. For 3
13:17seconds, his face did something she had
13:19never seen it do in 15 years. It lost
13:21its warmth. What was underneath was
13:23older and planer than anything she had
13:25expected. It was the face of a man doing
13:27arithmetic. He walked toward the north
13:29corridor. He did not run. He had been
13:32calm all his life and saw no reason to
13:34stop now. He took his coat from the
13:35check girl, thanked her, and pressed a
13:3720 into her palm. Monica went down the
13:40staircase. She did it deliberately, one
13:42hand on the rail, one on her belly.
13:44Wendy a step behind her. She stopped at
13:46the third step from the bottom under the
13:48tree where the lobby was full and every
13:50guest could see her. Carl reached the
13:52revolving door at 9:38. Four agents in
13:55evening clothes stood on the other side
13:57of it. Fischer was in the middle with
13:59her badge held at chest level. Carl
14:01Watkins, she said. You're under arrest
14:03for conspiracy to commit murder. The
14:06quartet stopped. A woman near the coat
14:08check dropped her glass and the sound
14:10carried across the marble like a shot.
14:12Carl turned his head and found Monica on
14:14the stairs. He took her in. The dusty
14:16rose dress, the hand on the belly, the
14:19clean level eyes. He seemed to
14:20understand finally which of them had
14:22been doing the arithmetic. The numbers
14:24were mine first, he said quietly. I
14:27taught your husband everything he knows
14:28about them. That's how I found them,"
14:30Monica said. They took him out through
14:33the revolving door. The cold air pushed
14:35the lobby's candle flames sideways. 300
14:38people watched the man who had run the
14:40Stone family's affairs for 15 years walk
14:42out in handcuffs, his silver pocket
14:44square still perfectly folded. By
14:46morning, there would be a photograph. He
14:48would not be able to order anyone to
14:49bury it. At the North Dock, Dale Puit
14:52was already face down on the concrete
14:54with his hands behind his head, still
14:56gripping the keys to a car he had been
14:57told was a gift. He cried the whole
15:00time. He cooperated within the hour. At
15:0210:40, Patrick came down from the
15:05library. He looked 10 years older. He
15:07stopped a few feet from Monica. And for
15:09the first time that night, he did not
15:11reach for her. May I? No. He nodded. I
15:16wasn't going to ask for anything. I
15:17wanted to say I was wrong. Not about
15:19Carl, about you. Which part? All of it?
15:23She waited. He was not good at this. He
15:26had grown up in a house where an apology
15:27was a lease payment and he had never
15:29learned the trick of speaking without a
15:31lawyer in the room. I brought her
15:33because I was a coward, he said. I let
15:35Carl tell me it would be easier if the
15:37decision were made for me. I told myself
15:39you'd want to know. I told myself it
15:41would be kinder in public. It wasn't
15:42kinder. It was easier for me. Yes, I'll
15:46tell the board that all of it. I won't
15:48say he made me. Good. I want to be at
15:52the delivery. She looked at him
15:54steadily, the way she had looked at the
15:55invoices. No. His face did something
15:58complicated. Monica, you will not be in
16:01the room. Not for the birth, not for the
16:02first hour. You'll wait where the nurses
16:04tell you to wait. You don't get that,
16:06Patrick. You gave it away in August. He
16:09swallowed. Whatever argument he had
16:11prepared left him at once. After a
16:13moment, he nodded. Brianna stood a
16:15little apart near the foot of the tree,
16:17holding her own coat in both hands. She
16:19came forward when Monica looked at her.
16:22I'll give them everything, Brianna said.
16:23My texts, my emails with Mr. Watkins.
16:26I'll testify. I know you will. I didn't
16:30understand what he was using me for. You
16:32understood what you were doing for
16:33yourself, Monica said. That's the part
16:36you'll live with. Brianna's eyes filled.
16:38She didn't ask to be forgiven. Monica
16:41watched her go to Fisher's side and give
16:42her phone to an agent without being
16:44asked twice, and she felt nothing she
16:45could name. It was not mercy, and it was
16:48not triumph. It was the tired
16:50administrative satisfaction of a column
16:51that finally balanced. The contractions
16:54changed at 11:50. They stopped being a
16:56rehearsal. The nurse from the hotel's
16:58first aid station timed three of them at
17:016 minutes apart and called an ambulance
17:03without waiting for Monica's permission.
17:05At Mercy Medical, a resident checked
17:07her, frowned, and asked a lot of
17:09questions. The cervix was changing. The
17:11doctors gave her medication to slow
17:13things down and a bed on the maternity
17:15floor. Patrick came as far as the
17:17waiting room and sat down in a plastic
17:18chair. Her sister Holly arrived at 1:15
17:21in the morning in a Parker over pajama
17:23pants with a halfeaten granola bar in
17:25her fist. She sat on the edge of the bed
17:28and said nothing for a long while. "Is
17:30he outside?" Holly asked finally. "Yes."
17:33"Do you want him in?" "No." "Okay,"
17:37Holly said and took Monica's hand in
17:38both of hers. Hazel Stone was born at
17:416:03 on the morning of December 27. At
17:4434 weeks and 3 days, 4 lb 14 oz. She
17:48cried before the doctor finished lifting
17:49her. A thin, furious sound. The
17:51pediatrician checked her breathing
17:53twice, pronounced her small but fine,
17:55and carried her to the warming table.
17:57Holly cut the cord. Monica held her
17:59daughter for 11 minutes, then slept.
18:01Patrick met Hazel at 9:40 that morning
18:04through the nursery glass with a nurse
18:05standing beside him. He stood there for
18:0820 minutes without moving. When Monica
18:10was wheeled past, he did not step toward
18:12her. She noticed that she did not reward
18:14it. The agreement Wendy drew up ran 14
18:17pages. Monica would hold sole legal
18:19custody, and Patrick supervised
18:21visitation at the start with a review at
18:236 months. The house on Bolton Hill was
18:25hers. The family trust was dissolved,
18:27and Hazel's share went to an independent
18:29fiduciary instead of to anyone named
18:31Stone. Patrick signed on January 8th in
18:34Wendy's conference room without asking
18:35to change a word. He pleaded guilty in
18:38March to two counts connected to the
18:40Pier 9 contracts. He had fed the audit
18:42himself, handing over every record,
18:44including the ones that sank his own
18:46company. Barnes group went into
18:48receiverhip by April. The Stone name
18:50disappeared from the harbor signage by
18:51June. He was sentenced to 46 months with
18:54credit for cooperation and he reported
18:56to a federal facility in West Virginia
18:58on a wet Tuesday morning in September.
19:00Monica did not go to see him off. She
19:02sent a photograph of Hazel, 8 months old
19:04and furious over a bowl of mashed peas.
19:06He wrote back, "Thank you. I'm sorry.
19:08That's all I'll say." It was the first
19:11sentence he had ever sent her that asked
19:12for nothing. Roy Bennett resigned in
19:15January and took a job running security
19:17for Monica's new firm. Monica Stone
19:19Forensic opened on the third floor of a
19:21converted warehouse with four employees
19:23and a window facing the harbor. By
19:25summer, she had 11 clients. Two of them
19:27were hospitals. One was a charity that
19:29had been losing money to a trustee for 6
19:31years and had assumed it was inflation.
19:33Carl Watkins went to trial in November,
19:3511 months after the gala. The case took
19:389 days. Dale Puit testified. The man
19:40from the lift testified. Brianna Clark
19:42testified for 2 hours and 40 minutes,
19:44and the defense lawyer did not shake her
19:46once. The jury was out for 6 hours and
19:48returned with a verdict on every count.
19:51At sentencing, the courtroom was full.
19:53Carl sat at the defense table in a gray
19:55suit with his hands folded, his white
19:57hair freshly cut, his silver pocket
19:59square tucked in exactly as it had been
20:00in the lobby. Monica sat in the third
20:02row alone. Hazel was at home with Holly.
20:05It was the only day she had left her
20:07daughter for the whole morning. The
20:09judge spoke for 11 minutes. She said the
20:11defendant had planned the deaths of a
20:13man, a woman, and an unborn child for
20:15money and had built the plan on the
20:17victim's trust and a family's private
20:18grief. She said the defendant had shown
20:20no remorse. She sentenced him to 30
20:23years without parole. Carl did not
20:25react. When the baiff touched his elbow,
20:28he stood and turned toward the gallery
20:30as he always did at the end of a meeting
20:32to be sure he had not forgotten
20:33anything. His eyes found Monica. They
20:36held there for a moment. He was 67 years
20:39old. He had spent his whole life
20:41believing paper could be arranged to say
20:42what he wanted, and he was about to
20:44spend his last years in a room where
20:46nothing he said would be written down.
20:48"You should have stayed home,
20:49sweetheart," he said almost gently. "I
20:52did, Monica said. That's how I found
20:53you." The baiff led him out. The side
20:56door closed with a flat, ordinary click.
20:59Outside, the sky over Calvert Street was
21:01the color of old puter. A light snow had
21:03started, the first of the season. Monica
21:05stood on the courthouse steps and let it
21:07settle on her shoulders. Her phone
21:08buzzed once. It was Holly with a
21:11photograph of Hazel asleep on a quilt,
21:13one fist tucked under her chin. She
21:15wrote back, "Coming home." Then she
21:17walked down the steps and into the cold.
21:20A woman who had once been told to rest,
21:21and she did not look back. Sometimes a
21:24quiet feeling in your gut sees what
21:26everyone else around you misses. Have
21:28you ever trusted your instincts about a
21:30danger or a deception even when others
21:32told you not to worry?

About this transcript

This page contains the full transcript of Crime Boss Brought His Mistress to Christmas Gala—Pregnant Wife Warned, “Someone Will Kll You at... by Framed Stories, generated from the public captions YouTube serves with the video. The transcript has 4,250 words across 593 segments, with the original timestamps preserved so you can click any line to jump to that moment in the embedded player.

What you can do with it

Use the transcript to take notes, quote the speaker, build a study guide, generate a summary with ChatGPT or Claude via the YouTube Summary tool, or export it as a timed subtitle file with YouTube to SRT. You can also re-open it in the transcriber to translate the transcript into 100+ languages.

Free YouTube transcript tool

YouTube2Text is a free YouTube transcript generator — no signup, no daily limit. Paste any YouTube link and get the full transcript instantly, with timestamps, click-to-jump, translation to 100+ languages, AI prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and exports to TXT, SRT, VTT, or Markdown.