Transcript: Leah Remini: Scientology & the Aftermath (Season 1 Episode 07): Subliminal messaging (2017)

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[The Church disputes many of the statements made by Leah Remini.
…viewers should know the duplicity at work when Ms. Remini stage-managed her departure from the Church of Scientology…
…she desperately tried to remain a Scientologist in 2013, knowing full well she was on the verge of being expelled for refusing to abide by the high level of ethics and decency Scientologists are expected to maintain…
…her transgressions were so egregious she was expelled, which remains the source of her bitterness today…
(Excerpt from letter received from the Church of Scientology 09/09/2016)]

LR (in studio, dark background): Here’s what the church has to say about the Reisdorfs.

LR (reading): “The church disputes many of the statements made by the Reisdorfs. Lois Reisdorf, an expelled Scientologist who had been spouting hate speech on various anti-Scientology web sites.

“Brandon Reisdorf drove to the Church of Scientology of Los Angeles, got out of his car and threw a hammer through a window. He has also sent threatening e-mails to Scientologists. According to a Tarasoff reporting form issued by Brandon’s psychiatric care providers, Brandon Reisdorf has been threatening to harm Mr. David Miscavige.]

[Screen: LOS ANGELES, CA]

LR (in car with MR): Did you ever actually see this letter that I got from the church of Scientology?

MR: No. No.

LR: Well, it’s delightful.

MR (laughing): I bet.

LR: The Church of Scientology is accusing me of inciting hate crimes.

So it says (reading), “Leah Remini’s anti-Scientology antics has also inflamed acts of religious hate. Ms. Remini’s support of wife beater Ron Miscavige and another apostate Lois Reisdorf, an expelled Scientologist who had been spouting hate speech on various anti-Scientology web sites, coincided with a hate crime and death threat by Reisdorf’s son.

“Brandon Reisdorf drove to the Church of Scientology of Los Angeles, got out of his car and threw a hammer through a window. He then retrieved the hammer, threw it again a second time, even more forcefully, and drove off.

“The car he escaped in was registered to his mother, Lois.”

And so that’s because of me.

MR: Right.

LR: Not because of what they did to this kid.

MR: Right.

LR: Not because of what they do to people. But it’s because I’m sending a tweet out. Or because I wrote a book.

I can only imagine that their intent is to hurt my reputation, ultimately my reputation being hurt would lead to me not being hired in this business.

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[Screen: Confidential
28 March 1972

COUNTER ATTACK TACTICS ²

CS-G Hat
GOWW Hat
D/G Hats
A/G Hats
Bu of Info

PRINCIPLE: When PR and Legal find themselves engaged in handling attacks, Intelligence has failed.

SITUATION: Those who attack Scientology as proven by Oxford Capacity Analysis graphs, criminal or shady record, personal lives etc., are provenly suppressive. When such people, as is currently common, ascend into the heights of governments or public or private organizations, or the press, they are able to exert the fullest dramatization against anything which might benefit others and usually do.

Being suppressive (a kind word for insane) their aims are destructive.

This is not limited to their fancied enemies. They are destructive to themselves and their own government or institution….

1. These persons can always lose their jobs. These jobs, permitting them power to destroy, are valuable to them. This is a POINT OF VULNERABILITY.

2. If the person’s job is also not valuable to him or if he cannot be made to lose his job, something can be found which he is seeking to protect and it can be threatened.]

MR: They believe if they can get away with that sort of shit, that it puts you in the mindset of “My God, they’ll do anything!”

LR: I did not expect this, Mike. I really didn’t.

MR: Okay.

LR: I expected them to come out and say that we’re liars and bitter apostates. But this is–

MR: I understand that.

LR: taking it to a level that is so f—ing vile to me as a person, that I feel that I’m going to have to hire a f—ing lawyer and go after this <bleep>.

LR (in studio): The church? They create fighters, and they have themselves to thank when those fighters then fight against them.

[Scene: Hollywood Hills]

[Screen: 1950
SCIENCE FICTION WRITER L. RON HUBBARD PUBLISHES “DIANETICS.”

LRH: I am the writer of the textbooks of Scientology.

[Scene: grayscale image of a Scientology cross coming out of an erupting volcano. Geometric embellishments

[Screen: The Basis for a new religion]

LRH: The aim and goal is to put man in a, a mental condition ah where he him, can solve his own problems.]

[Scene: large grayscale 3D Scientology cross with geometric embellishments]

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LR: It offers you a sense of purpose in life. Not only are you fixing yourself, but you’re also helping mankind.

[Transition frames]

[Screen:
FOR 35 YEARS
LEAH REMINI WAS A DEVOUT SCIENTOLOGIST]

[Scene: Scientology promotional video
Leah Remini
Celebrity Centre Annual Gala, 1999

LR: Without any Scientology organization, things are not going to change on this planet.]

[Scientology promotional video: KSW event]

[Scene: 2013
LEAH PUBLICLY SPLIT WITH THE CHURCH

Female reporter: After years of slowly questioning Scientology…
[New York Post: TV star quits Scientology]
Male reporter: Leah Remini in her very public break with Scientology….]
[People: Leah Remini: MY ESCAPE FROM SCIENTOLOGY]

[Scene: Black bird lights on Scientology cross atop the Super Power building in Clearwater. Scene fades to black.]

LR (in studio): I didn’t want to find out that what I had done my whole life was a lie.

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[Background: low opacity grayscale Scientology cross with geometric embellishments, centered.]

NOW LEAH WILL EXPOSE

[Scene: Leah walking toward a white front door of an apartment or house.]

[Scene: Leah walking toward a blue front door of an apartment or house. Mike Rinder walking behind her.]

[LR and MR approach the front blue-gray door of a white house; LR rings bell]

[Scene: LR facing camera inside a restaurant; hugging a blonde woman in blue shirt.]

[Screen: dark background; low opacity cross inside an abstract geometric design]

THE ABUSES OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR [fading in]

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THE ABUSES OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR [full opacity]

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THE ABUSES OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR RELIGION [33 ms.]

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THE ABUSES OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR

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THE ABUSES OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION [67 ms.]

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THE ABUSES OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR

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THE ABUSES OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR CULT [34 ms.]

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THE ABUSES OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR

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THE ABUSES OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR RELIGION [33 ms.]

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THE ABUSES OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR

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THE ABUSES OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION [34 ms.]

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THE ABUSES OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR

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THE ABUSES OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR CULT [33 ms.]

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THE ABUSES OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR

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THE ABUSES OF THIS BILLION DOLLAR RELIGION [66 ms.]

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[Black background]
RELIGION

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[Scene: Ideal Org chapel fades in; audience applauding]
RELIGION [ 1.601 seconds]

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RELIGION [ .467 seconds]

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CORPORATION [33 ms.]

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EMPIRE [34 ms.]

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RELIGION [67 ms.]

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CORPORATION [34 ms.]

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CULT [33 ms.]

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RELIGION [33 ms.]

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[Scene: Ideal Org information kiosk]
CORPORATION [ 1.535 seconds]

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[Scene: Bridge Publications assembly line]
CORPORATION [67 ms.]

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CULT [33 ms.]

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RELIGION [33 ms.]

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CORPORATION [34 ms.]

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CULT [67 ms.]

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RELIGION [67 ms.]

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CORPORATION [33 ms.]

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[Scene: KSW event; audience applauding]
EMPIRE

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LR (in studio): Fight for your family. Fight for your daughters, your sons. Get them out of this thing.

[Scene: Sea Org members walking on sidewalk.]

LR: You’re not going to continue to lie to people and abuse people and take their money and their lives. If I can stop one, then I’m going to do it.

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[Transition frames: horizontal blinds effect]

Wavy white lines on left side. Distorted Scientology cross coming into focus.

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BELIEVER [33 ms.]

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ENEMY [33 ms.]

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SURVIVOR [33 ms.]

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OUTCAST [33 ms.]

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BELIEVER [33 ms.]

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TRAITOR [33 ms.]

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BELIEVER [33 ms.]

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TRAITOR [34 ms.]

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ENEMY [33 ms.]

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DEFECTOR [34 ms.]

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LEAH REMINI

LEAH REMINI
SCIENTOLOGY AND THE AFTERMATH

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