1 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:18,959 I am a prosecutor. 2 00:00:19,844 --> 00:00:22,761 I'm a part of the business of accusing... 3 00:00:23,724 --> 00:00:24,968 ... judging... 4 00:00:25,518 --> 00:00:26,928 ...and punishing. 5 00:00:28,271 --> 00:00:30,678 I explore the evidence of a crime... 6 00:00:31,650 --> 00:00:33,974 ...and determine who is charged... 7 00:00:35,196 --> 00:00:37,235 ...who is brought to this room... 8 00:00:37,324 --> 00:00:39,530 ...to be tried before his peers. 9 00:00:41,704 --> 00:00:44,194 I present my evidence to the jury... 10 00:00:45,208 --> 00:00:47,330 ...and they deliberate upon it. 11 00:00:48,171 --> 00:00:51,041 They must determine what really happened. 12 00:00:53,552 --> 00:00:55,176 If they cannot... 13 00:00:56,180 --> 00:01:00,676 ...we won't know if the accused deserves to be freed or to be punished. 14 00:01:02,313 --> 00:01:04,519 If they cannot find the truth... 15 00:01:05,525 --> 00:01:07,683 ...what is our hope of justice? 16 00:02:43,105 --> 00:02:44,563 Where's Nat? 17 00:02:45,191 --> 00:02:46,981 Burying a goldfish. 18 00:02:47,611 --> 00:02:51,359 That he forgot to feed. Kid's gotta learn responsibility. 19 00:02:51,782 --> 00:02:53,156 He's nine. 20 00:02:53,409 --> 00:02:56,362 When you were nine, you fed the animals on the block... 21 00:02:56,455 --> 00:02:58,661 ...and made dinner, did everyone's homework... 22 00:02:58,749 --> 00:03:01,239 ...and, in your spare time, you practiced law. 23 00:03:01,336 --> 00:03:04,087 I didn't practice law until I was ten. 24 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:06,250 Listen to this. 25 00:03:06,509 --> 00:03:10,174 "In their first face-to-face debate, Nico Della Guardia... 26 00:03:10,556 --> 00:03:13,011 "...appeared to throw Raymond Horgan off stride... 27 00:03:13,101 --> 00:03:16,054 "...with an opening swipe at the prosecuting attorney's... 28 00:03:16,145 --> 00:03:20,225 "...twelve-year tenure as 'an uninterrupted retreat from reality... 29 00:03:20,651 --> 00:03:25,443 "'...and slow-motion surrender to thugs, punks and hand-wringing liberals."' 30 00:03:25,824 --> 00:03:27,650 The guy's unbelievable. 31 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,323 I'm finally starting to get used to that rug on Della Guardia's head. 32 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,075 Don't eat standing up. Sit down. 33 00:03:35,170 --> 00:03:38,336 Food goes down easier. It has the help of gravity. 34 00:03:38,590 --> 00:03:39,869 Oh, God. 35 00:03:41,010 --> 00:03:42,800 Yet another lawyer. 36 00:03:50,855 --> 00:03:54,021 I won't be home till late. I got a game after school. 37 00:03:56,738 --> 00:03:59,608 Like his father, he doesn't come home till he has to. 38 00:03:59,700 --> 00:04:02,866 If Raymond loses this election, I could be home a lot. 39 00:04:45,215 --> 00:04:47,586 Rick, I looked this over last night. 40 00:04:48,384 --> 00:04:49,758 Top count, max. 41 00:04:49,845 --> 00:04:51,504 It's a first offense! 42 00:04:51,764 --> 00:04:54,337 No plea to anything but the A-1 felony. Period. 43 00:04:54,434 --> 00:04:55,713 On all of them? 44 00:04:55,853 --> 00:04:57,014 All of them. 45 00:04:57,104 --> 00:04:59,511 And no promises on the sentence. 46 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,268 - Good morning. - Good morning. 47 00:05:06,950 --> 00:05:08,360 This is for you. 48 00:05:09,787 --> 00:05:11,945 Someone put it under the door last night. 49 00:05:12,039 --> 00:05:13,947 I found it when I came in. 50 00:05:18,005 --> 00:05:20,376 Mr. Big Cheese wants to see you now. 51 00:05:20,467 --> 00:05:21,794 I'll be right along. 52 00:05:21,885 --> 00:05:23,675 He said "now," now. 53 00:05:47,291 --> 00:05:48,665 What's wrong? 54 00:05:49,794 --> 00:05:52,331 Carolyn Polhemus was murdered last night. 55 00:05:53,674 --> 00:05:55,832 Her cleaning lady found the body this morning. 56 00:05:55,927 --> 00:05:58,762 Some creep got into her place and strangled her. 57 00:05:58,847 --> 00:06:01,966 It looks like she was raped. He tied her up... 58 00:06:02,643 --> 00:06:06,094 ...he beat her with some instrument and strangled her. 59 00:06:06,357 --> 00:06:08,978 No weapon. No sign of forced entry. 60 00:06:10,444 --> 00:06:13,279 Unless you want me here, I'm supposed to meet the coroner. 61 00:06:13,365 --> 00:06:15,986 That's all right. Go on, get out of here. 62 00:06:16,828 --> 00:06:18,570 I can hear Della Guardia now. 63 00:06:18,664 --> 00:06:23,207 "If Raymond Horgan can't protect his own attorneys, how can he protect citizens?" 64 00:06:24,045 --> 00:06:27,211 Tommy Molto's secretary said he wasn't coming in today. 65 00:06:28,050 --> 00:06:32,178 Some fucking Acting Head of Homicide he turned out to be, the little creep. 66 00:06:32,264 --> 00:06:35,264 I should have fired him when we fired Nico. 67 00:06:35,893 --> 00:06:37,885 If I had balls, I'd do it now. 68 00:06:39,064 --> 00:06:41,637 I want you to handle this case personally. 69 00:06:41,734 --> 00:06:43,726 I will assign it to somebody. 70 00:06:43,820 --> 00:06:45,859 Who will you assign it to? Homicide? 71 00:06:45,947 --> 00:06:48,105 Tommy Molto? For Christ's sake! 72 00:06:49,285 --> 00:06:52,819 Della Guardia would love that. Molto would tip him off on everything. 73 00:06:52,914 --> 00:06:57,576 They're so close you can see Molto's nose sticking out of Nico's bellybutton. 74 00:07:02,134 --> 00:07:03,461 Listen to me. 75 00:07:05,931 --> 00:07:07,305 What a waste. 76 00:07:08,768 --> 00:07:11,258 Beautiful, sexy gal. Hell of a lawyer. 77 00:07:13,523 --> 00:07:16,096 That's her ending. That's her au revoir. 78 00:07:17,278 --> 00:07:19,234 The first thing we got to think about... 79 00:07:19,322 --> 00:07:22,738 ...is what the public thinks in the middle of an election. 80 00:07:27,582 --> 00:07:30,203 Take charge of this one for me, okay? 81 00:07:31,003 --> 00:07:32,959 If you care about my health. 82 00:07:34,299 --> 00:07:36,789 You're the only around here I can trust. 83 00:07:38,471 --> 00:07:43,014 Greer's a good investigator, but I'd prefer someone I'm used to working with. 84 00:07:43,310 --> 00:07:44,589 Lipranzer. 85 00:07:44,770 --> 00:07:46,228 Whatever you want. 86 00:07:47,356 --> 00:07:49,312 Just catch me a bad guy. 87 00:09:06,205 --> 00:09:07,698 So, I'm here. 88 00:09:10,543 --> 00:09:13,164 What the hell was she doing with a B file? 89 00:09:13,672 --> 00:09:17,254 Bribery of elected officials. The case number is on her computer. 90 00:09:17,344 --> 00:09:20,547 But the case itself isn't among the papers in her files. 91 00:09:20,722 --> 00:09:22,630 Why? Did she take it home? What? 92 00:09:22,725 --> 00:09:24,266 Maybe it was taken? 93 00:09:24,435 --> 00:09:26,343 Check the apartment. What do you got here? 94 00:09:26,438 --> 00:09:28,477 Bunch of pictures of a dead lady. 95 00:09:28,566 --> 00:09:30,474 - No weapon found, yet? - Nada. 96 00:09:30,651 --> 00:09:32,061 It's a weird one. 97 00:09:32,153 --> 00:09:35,106 She was strangled by the ropes but by the way he tied her... 98 00:09:35,199 --> 00:09:38,034 ...it's like he put himself between her legs and pumped... 99 00:09:38,119 --> 00:09:42,662 ...so they tightened up like he was trying to let his weight strangle her. 100 00:09:42,874 --> 00:09:45,080 Like he was trying to fuck her to death. 101 00:09:45,169 --> 00:09:46,746 Look at the next one. 102 00:09:53,514 --> 00:09:58,141 Check the computer for sex offenders and cross match on Carolyn's name... 103 00:09:58,686 --> 00:10:00,844 ...or this business with the ropes. 104 00:10:02,775 --> 00:10:06,025 Find out which of the creeps she put away is out on parole. 105 00:10:06,112 --> 00:10:10,774 I never did understand why you put her in charge of rape and all that sicko shit. 106 00:10:11,786 --> 00:10:14,276 She wanted it. And she was good. 107 00:10:14,957 --> 00:10:16,783 Yeah, too good, maybe. 108 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:19,786 I'm not grabbing this, yet. 109 00:10:21,297 --> 00:10:22,494 You worked with this broad. 110 00:10:22,591 --> 00:10:26,256 She wouldn't leave her fucking door and windows wide open. 111 00:10:26,346 --> 00:10:30,557 She was drinking with him. She gave him a glass of beer, like she was entertaining. 112 00:10:30,642 --> 00:10:32,550 - Fingerprints on the glass? - Yeah. 113 00:10:32,645 --> 00:10:34,553 Greer sent it down to the lab. 114 00:10:34,647 --> 00:10:39,143 You mean somebody she let in opened the windows so it looked like a break-in? 115 00:10:39,487 --> 00:10:43,485 She wasn't going to let some sex maniac she sent to jail in for a beer. 116 00:10:45,536 --> 00:10:48,073 On the other hand, we're talking Carolyn. 117 00:10:49,291 --> 00:10:50,286 Mac... 118 00:10:50,709 --> 00:10:54,327 ...tell me what Carolyn Polhemus was doing with a bribery file. 119 00:10:55,256 --> 00:10:58,459 I had no idea Carolyn was interested in crimes above the waist. 120 00:10:58,552 --> 00:11:02,170 It's on her computer, but not on mine or the department's. 121 00:11:02,349 --> 00:11:03,926 That makes no sense. 122 00:11:04,475 --> 00:11:06,217 Why don't you ask Raymond? 123 00:11:06,979 --> 00:11:08,721 Ready for something else? 124 00:11:10,108 --> 00:11:11,601 Molto's left. 125 00:11:12,152 --> 00:11:15,852 His secretary came back from lunch and found his desk cleaned out. 126 00:12:09,014 --> 00:12:10,341 Exercise? 127 00:12:11,810 --> 00:12:13,303 Masturbation. 128 00:12:14,688 --> 00:12:16,846 The refuge of the lonely housewife. 129 00:12:19,319 --> 00:12:22,070 Missed the 8:35. I tried to call, but you weren't here. 130 00:12:22,156 --> 00:12:25,359 Nat had dinner at Josh's, and I was at the university. 131 00:12:25,493 --> 00:12:28,696 I tried to get in a little extra time on the mainframe. 132 00:12:29,790 --> 00:12:31,200 Get anything done? 133 00:12:33,670 --> 00:12:34,784 Who am I kidding? 134 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,046 Still working on my dissertation at my age. It's ridiculous. 135 00:12:38,134 --> 00:12:40,803 You were the best mathematician in your class. 136 00:12:41,304 --> 00:12:44,304 Second best just made full professor at MIT. 137 00:12:45,601 --> 00:12:46,880 All I've made are beds. 138 00:12:46,978 --> 00:12:49,100 And now, the Channel Six local news. 139 00:12:49,189 --> 00:12:54,017 Carolyn Polhemus, assistant prosecuting attorney in Raymond Horgan's office... 140 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,190 ...was found brutally murdered in her Southside apartment. 141 00:12:57,283 --> 00:13:01,233 Police are about to release a statement about the circumstances of her death.... 142 00:13:01,330 --> 00:13:02,444 You hear? 143 00:13:02,539 --> 00:13:05,990 Eugenia was thrilled to be messenger of bad tidings. 144 00:13:08,213 --> 00:13:09,671 Yeah, I'll bet. 145 00:13:11,509 --> 00:13:14,213 From top to bottom we are riddled with cruelty. 146 00:13:14,428 --> 00:13:16,716 We must expose and punish it... 147 00:13:16,890 --> 00:13:20,970 ...especially when inflicted upon the impotent and the ignored. 148 00:13:22,898 --> 00:13:25,269 You sound like a woman with a mission. 149 00:13:26,026 --> 00:13:27,056 I am. 150 00:13:28,362 --> 00:13:30,354 The murder of Ms. Polhemus-- 151 00:13:32,535 --> 00:13:34,028 You have a suspect? 152 00:13:34,370 --> 00:13:36,196 We have diddly-shit. 153 00:13:41,045 --> 00:13:45,422 So Dan Lipranzer and Rusty Sabich will work night and day for next two weeks... 154 00:13:45,551 --> 00:13:48,468 ...to catch Raymond a killer. That's the strategy. 155 00:13:49,472 --> 00:13:51,879 You're in charge of this investigation? 156 00:13:53,101 --> 00:13:55,425 Raymond insisted I take it on. 157 00:13:57,441 --> 00:14:02,068 With 150 lawyers, they couldn't find one who didn't fuck her to put in charge? 158 00:14:05,408 --> 00:14:06,949 Did you tell Raymond? 159 00:14:07,578 --> 00:14:10,662 This is a conflict of interest. Is that professional? 160 00:14:13,335 --> 00:14:15,742 Barbara, I'm Raymond's chief deputy. 161 00:14:16,088 --> 00:14:18,080 You are so predictable. 162 00:14:20,177 --> 00:14:22,750 It's your way of reliving the whole thing. 163 00:14:23,014 --> 00:14:25,765 She's dead and you're still obsessing. 164 00:14:37,448 --> 00:14:38,443 Rusty. 165 00:14:39,450 --> 00:14:40,480 Nico. 166 00:14:41,036 --> 00:14:42,695 She was just.... 167 00:14:43,790 --> 00:14:46,280 - Splendid. - That's it. Very good. 168 00:14:47,211 --> 00:14:50,046 Raymond's pressing hard on that case, I imagine. 169 00:14:50,714 --> 00:14:53,287 Raymond presses hard on every case, Nico. 170 00:14:53,552 --> 00:14:56,671 You know who would've been hard to beat? You. 171 00:14:57,640 --> 00:14:59,964 You would've been tough. Very tough. 172 00:15:00,518 --> 00:15:03,637 You are really something. Where's Tommy Molto? 173 00:15:04,315 --> 00:15:05,144 Molto? 174 00:15:05,233 --> 00:15:08,269 I thought he'd come to the funeral of his favorite colleague. 175 00:15:08,362 --> 00:15:10,603 You must really have him scrambling. 176 00:15:15,787 --> 00:15:16,984 Judge. 177 00:15:22,630 --> 00:15:24,289 Who's that with Raymond? 178 00:15:24,423 --> 00:15:26,747 I'm told that's her ex-husband. 179 00:15:29,096 --> 00:15:30,922 I didn't know she had one. 180 00:15:33,309 --> 00:15:35,135 Teaches college someplace. 181 00:15:35,436 --> 00:15:37,594 Carolyn Polhemus worked for me. 182 00:15:38,941 --> 00:15:40,138 I hired her... 183 00:15:40,485 --> 00:15:42,393 ...over the objections of... 184 00:15:42,946 --> 00:15:46,730 ...many of our prosecutors who felt she just didn't have the stuff. 185 00:15:47,994 --> 00:15:50,449 I see those prosecutors here today... 186 00:15:52,124 --> 00:15:54,448 ...along with the judges she defied... 187 00:15:55,629 --> 00:15:58,298 ...and the defense attorneys she defeated. 188 00:16:00,634 --> 00:16:02,293 Why are they all here? 189 00:16:04,139 --> 00:16:07,472 They're here because Carolyn Polhemus stood for something. 190 00:16:09,146 --> 00:16:11,054 She stood for justice. 191 00:16:28,503 --> 00:16:30,709 The Prosecutor's Office, under my leadership... 192 00:16:30,797 --> 00:16:33,003 ...has a conviction rate of over 91 percent. 193 00:16:33,092 --> 00:16:35,131 Mr. Della Guardia, or... 194 00:16:35,803 --> 00:16:39,847 ...as he is known to those of us who have had to work with him, "Delay"-- 195 00:16:40,184 --> 00:16:42,057 There's food here for 100 people. 196 00:16:42,145 --> 00:16:43,603 A lot of no-shows. 197 00:16:44,523 --> 00:16:46,016 They smell a loser. 198 00:16:47,275 --> 00:16:50,441 - Good speech. - What the hell is happening with Carolyn? 199 00:16:51,197 --> 00:16:52,655 Everything's in the works. 200 00:16:52,741 --> 00:16:56,489 I reassigned her cases, and this afternoon I gotta deal with Molto's stuff. 201 00:16:56,579 --> 00:16:58,737 What's with this reassignment shit? 202 00:16:58,831 --> 00:17:00,324 Goddamn it, Rusty! 203 00:17:00,542 --> 00:17:03,661 I told you to give this investigation top priority. 204 00:17:04,923 --> 00:17:08,623 Nico is eating me alive with this thing. The election is in ten days. 205 00:17:08,719 --> 00:17:11,554 If you don't find Carolyn's killer, we are both history. 206 00:17:11,639 --> 00:17:14,889 Turn all of that administrative bullshit to Mac. 207 00:17:15,269 --> 00:17:17,261 Mac has more than she can handle. 208 00:17:17,355 --> 00:17:20,521 And let me remind you, we lost two key PA's in one day. 209 00:17:20,734 --> 00:17:24,185 You only have time for the election. I've got to run the office. 210 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:27,399 Fuck the office! Don't you see what's happening? 211 00:17:27,534 --> 00:17:30,867 If you don't find me a killer, there is no fucking office! 212 00:17:32,416 --> 00:17:35,085 I want you right on top of Carolyn's case, understand? 213 00:17:35,168 --> 00:17:39,497 Run out every ground ball and do it in an orderly goddamned fashion! 214 00:17:41,635 --> 00:17:44,125 Start acting like a fucking professional! 215 00:17:44,264 --> 00:17:46,719 The campaign is a total disaster. 216 00:17:47,225 --> 00:17:50,890 Haven't taken a poll in two weeks. We don't know where the hell we are. 217 00:17:50,980 --> 00:17:54,146 You're ten minutes late for the bar meeting on criminal procedure. 218 00:17:54,234 --> 00:17:56,724 Call them and tell them I'm on my way. 219 00:18:01,910 --> 00:18:04,400 Did you assign a bribery case to Carolyn? 220 00:18:04,830 --> 00:18:06,489 There's a file missing. 221 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,416 Loretta, find my driver. Tell him to be ready to leave. 222 00:18:10,545 --> 00:18:13,581 She had a case on her computer we can't account for. 223 00:18:13,925 --> 00:18:16,083 It was logged in as a B file. 224 00:18:19,098 --> 00:18:21,422 Nobody knows where it came from. 225 00:18:23,645 --> 00:18:24,924 Nobody knows where it went. 226 00:18:25,022 --> 00:18:28,307 Where the hell is my speech? It was right here on my desk. 227 00:18:28,401 --> 00:18:29,775 Cody has it. 228 00:18:30,028 --> 00:18:32,020 You're giving me a runaround. 229 00:18:33,115 --> 00:18:36,281 Cody, pull the car around. I'll meet you down in front. 230 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:39,693 Give me a straight answer, will you, Boss? 231 00:18:50,387 --> 00:18:53,803 There's the B file, Tiger. Read it, and we'll talk. 232 00:18:57,145 --> 00:18:58,223 "Dear Mr. Horgan. 233 00:18:58,313 --> 00:19:02,311 "This is about a deputy prosecuting attorney who is taking bribes. 234 00:19:02,443 --> 00:19:05,776 "Five years ago, a person I'll call 'Noel' got arrested. 235 00:19:05,865 --> 00:19:08,652 "I gave him $1,500 to pay somebody off. 236 00:19:09,827 --> 00:19:13,659 "We went out to North Branch. A secretary who seemed to know Noel... 237 00:19:13,791 --> 00:19:18,667 "...took him into the PA's office, where a man he could not see talked behind him. 238 00:19:19,339 --> 00:19:23,337 "Ten days later, Noel went to court and a lawyer from the PA's office... 239 00:19:23,469 --> 00:19:26,635 "...told the judge that the case was dismissed. 240 00:19:26,932 --> 00:19:29,849 "I can't remember the lawyer's name. I hope you get him. 241 00:19:29,936 --> 00:19:33,102 "I hope you get Noel, too. He has let me down." 242 00:19:33,774 --> 00:19:35,600 - Unsigned. - Unsigned. 243 00:19:36,694 --> 00:19:38,271 Five years ago. 244 00:19:38,572 --> 00:19:40,564 That guy must write real slow. 245 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:42,990 "Noel equals Leon." 246 00:19:44,537 --> 00:19:46,529 This is Carolyn's handwriting. 247 00:19:46,623 --> 00:19:49,707 Looks like she went to North Branch to see Kenneally. 248 00:19:59,013 --> 00:20:01,337 You'll love what I got from Painless. 249 00:20:05,813 --> 00:20:08,019 There's this guy's semen inside her vagina... 250 00:20:08,108 --> 00:20:09,767 ...but there's nothing outside. 251 00:20:09,860 --> 00:20:13,858 Painless figures she didn't spend much time on her feet after sex. 252 00:20:14,157 --> 00:20:16,992 He says, normally, he'd see the guy's little thingies... 253 00:20:17,078 --> 00:20:20,447 ...swimming upstream in the womb, when he looked under the microscope. 254 00:20:20,540 --> 00:20:23,030 Instead, this guy's was all dead. 255 00:20:23,836 --> 00:20:25,709 Nothing went nowhere. 256 00:20:25,839 --> 00:20:27,997 So Painless figures he's sterile. 257 00:20:28,634 --> 00:20:30,460 He's got blood type A. 258 00:20:31,679 --> 00:20:33,053 My very own. 259 00:20:33,473 --> 00:20:36,224 I thought of that. But you got a kid. 260 00:20:38,896 --> 00:20:40,223 Anything from hair or fiber? 261 00:20:40,315 --> 00:20:42,307 No hair or skin fragments under her nails. 262 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,273 Carolyn would've fought back. 263 00:20:44,361 --> 00:20:46,982 Maybe she was playing sex games with the wrong guy. 264 00:20:47,073 --> 00:20:50,489 The rope is K-Mart, Sears, Walgreen's. You name it. 265 00:20:50,703 --> 00:20:54,403 They found carpet fibers from some other location. Zorak V. 266 00:20:54,582 --> 00:20:56,704 It's only the biggest seller. 267 00:20:58,045 --> 00:21:00,749 You call the Fingerprint Lab on the bar glass? 268 00:21:01,925 --> 00:21:03,122 Oh, I forgot. 269 00:21:03,218 --> 00:21:05,625 You are a class-A fuck-up, you know? 270 00:21:05,721 --> 00:21:08,092 They ain't going to expedite it for me. 271 00:21:08,182 --> 00:21:11,515 I got the phone company printout on her apartment. 272 00:21:14,232 --> 00:21:18,941 I notice that one of the numbers that comes up is yours a number of times. 273 00:21:19,238 --> 00:21:21,277 At the office. We were working cases together. 274 00:21:21,365 --> 00:21:23,273 No, she's calling your home. 275 00:21:26,956 --> 00:21:29,078 She never called me at home. 276 00:21:39,138 --> 00:21:40,845 I made these calls... 277 00:21:41,515 --> 00:21:43,970 ...to Barbara from Carolyn's apartment. 278 00:21:45,395 --> 00:21:46,936 "Late again, kid." 279 00:21:48,065 --> 00:21:50,982 "This trial's a bitch. I'll catch dinner in town." 280 00:21:56,492 --> 00:21:58,650 I'd just as soon you'd let it go. 281 00:22:00,998 --> 00:22:05,161 If Barbara sees a phone company subpoena, now, she'll bust a gut. 282 00:22:09,675 --> 00:22:12,510 Under the circumstances, if you don't mind... 283 00:22:13,514 --> 00:22:15,091 ...I'd appreciate it. 284 00:22:18,686 --> 00:22:20,179 I gave Barbara... 285 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:24,852 ...enough pain. 286 00:22:29,116 --> 00:22:31,024 Polhemus was bad news. 287 00:22:32,704 --> 00:22:35,954 Know what they're calling you and your partner downtown? 288 00:22:36,042 --> 00:22:37,037 Spare me. 289 00:22:37,126 --> 00:22:38,999 "Mission Impossible." 290 00:22:39,378 --> 00:22:42,165 Guerasch, bring that shit in my office. 291 00:22:42,966 --> 00:22:46,964 So you're figuring what? The guy she was having cocktails with did her? 292 00:22:47,055 --> 00:22:51,053 I figure it was somebody who knew what he wanted it to look like. 293 00:22:51,185 --> 00:22:53,307 Cop. PA. A private dick. 294 00:22:53,938 --> 00:22:57,104 Remember that lady PA who was here four months ago? 295 00:22:57,234 --> 00:22:58,727 Yeah, nice set of lungs. 296 00:22:58,820 --> 00:23:01,986 This kid's gonna make a copper. Never forgets a bra size. 297 00:23:02,074 --> 00:23:04,066 He wants to know what she was looking for. 298 00:23:04,159 --> 00:23:07,076 She was looking for someone by the name of Noel. 299 00:23:09,500 --> 00:23:11,706 It took me a week to find this crap. 300 00:23:11,794 --> 00:23:14,664 Five years back, they booked 150 a day then. 301 00:23:14,839 --> 00:23:16,166 Public indecency. 302 00:23:16,258 --> 00:23:18,582 They were cleaning out the faggots. 303 00:23:18,677 --> 00:23:21,796 Back when Raymond got some balls for a day and a half. 304 00:23:23,267 --> 00:23:25,425 - She find anything? - I don't know. 305 00:23:25,603 --> 00:23:29,268 When I gave these files to her, they were in nice order. 306 00:23:29,649 --> 00:23:31,890 The bitch just trashed them. 307 00:23:32,111 --> 00:23:34,981 She never gave a shit about anybody else's work. 308 00:23:35,198 --> 00:23:37,190 One's completely missing. Look. 309 00:23:37,284 --> 00:23:39,774 See right here? It skips a number. 310 00:23:41,122 --> 00:23:42,864 Tommy Molto been looking at these? 311 00:23:42,958 --> 00:23:45,080 What does Molto have to do with this? 312 00:23:45,169 --> 00:23:47,493 Would there still be a court file on this case? 313 00:23:47,589 --> 00:23:51,123 That far back, it'd have to be in storage on microfilm by now. 314 00:23:56,558 --> 00:23:58,965 You don't want to say what this is about, maybe? 315 00:23:59,061 --> 00:24:00,803 Gee, Lionel, I can't. 316 00:24:01,647 --> 00:24:03,888 She used to ask about you, you know. 317 00:24:03,983 --> 00:24:07,731 Five, six years ago when she worked out here as a probation officer. 318 00:24:07,822 --> 00:24:10,443 - Five years ago I didn't know her. - Sure you did. 319 00:24:10,534 --> 00:24:12,905 The night you brought the Night Saints in. 320 00:24:12,994 --> 00:24:15,531 You were hot stuff. A regular fucking hero. 321 00:24:15,623 --> 00:24:17,947 Breaking the meanest guy this side of Watts. 322 00:24:18,043 --> 00:24:21,079 There was a lot of talk you'd end up in Horgan's job. 323 00:24:21,172 --> 00:24:23,496 She wanted to know what you were like. 324 00:24:24,009 --> 00:24:26,333 I told her you didn't fuck around. 325 00:24:28,264 --> 00:24:29,841 Dad, look who's here. 326 00:24:31,685 --> 00:24:34,472 - How are you? - Good. Mom's in a good mood. 327 00:24:34,564 --> 00:24:36,437 How'd you know I'd be on this ferry? 328 00:24:36,523 --> 00:24:38,064 Took a chance. 329 00:24:39,778 --> 00:24:41,188 How was your day? 330 00:24:41,864 --> 00:24:45,363 Well, I figured out today, it's ten years this week... 331 00:24:45,869 --> 00:24:48,359 ...that I'm working on my dissertation. 332 00:24:48,789 --> 00:24:51,873 I thought we'd celebrate. Going to take us to dinner? 333 00:24:53,879 --> 00:24:56,286 Why don't you just give up on that dissertation? 334 00:24:56,382 --> 00:24:58,172 It makes you miserable. 335 00:24:58,719 --> 00:25:00,794 Your mom's not a giver-upper. 336 00:25:01,722 --> 00:25:02,966 Maybe that's her problem. 337 00:25:03,057 --> 00:25:05,381 I sure wouldn't do math unless I had to. 338 00:25:05,476 --> 00:25:07,800 You got my genes in the math department. 339 00:25:07,896 --> 00:25:10,565 If not for your mom, I'd still be taking algebra. 340 00:25:10,650 --> 00:25:12,642 I had to be good at something. 341 00:25:12,902 --> 00:25:14,810 You were good at everything. 342 00:25:15,572 --> 00:25:16,816 School. 343 00:25:18,534 --> 00:25:20,324 Did you ever cheat? 344 00:25:20,704 --> 00:25:22,779 Like borrow someone else's homework? 345 00:25:22,874 --> 00:25:25,281 Copy it and pretend it was mine? 346 00:25:27,378 --> 00:25:31,210 Why do I have the feeling that question has some personal relevance? 347 00:25:31,509 --> 00:25:33,002 I didn't say I did. 348 00:25:33,386 --> 00:25:34,879 It's all right, kid. 349 00:25:37,516 --> 00:25:39,591 It's good to see you guys happy. 350 00:25:47,236 --> 00:25:48,231 Pretty. 351 00:25:49,698 --> 00:25:50,859 It's new. 352 00:25:52,410 --> 00:25:53,903 It's very pretty. 353 00:26:47,478 --> 00:26:49,553 Mr. Polhemus? I'm Rusty Sabich. 354 00:26:51,149 --> 00:26:54,731 Seems so strange to be talking about her after all these years. 355 00:26:55,613 --> 00:26:58,150 You hadn't had much contact with her, then? 356 00:26:58,324 --> 00:27:00,114 None since she left. 357 00:27:01,161 --> 00:27:02,571 What about her family? 358 00:27:02,663 --> 00:27:05,236 I have no idea where she came from. 359 00:27:05,667 --> 00:27:10,128 She lied her way into the university. Made up some kind of background. 360 00:27:11,841 --> 00:27:13,999 She was very good at playing roles. 361 00:27:16,597 --> 00:27:19,052 When she left me, I lost all pride. 362 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,350 I begged her not to leave. 363 00:27:22,187 --> 00:27:25,638 The last time she looked at me, it was with disgust. 364 00:27:25,817 --> 00:27:29,517 Disgust that somebody she'd looked up to could be so weak. 365 00:27:30,365 --> 00:27:34,528 At that moment, I had the most desperate wish that she were dead. 366 00:27:37,874 --> 00:27:42,037 Maybe she made a man feel like that who actually acted on his fantasy. 367 00:27:44,007 --> 00:27:47,672 Would you like to see what she looked like at that time? 368 00:27:50,723 --> 00:27:52,050 Yes, I would. 369 00:27:54,394 --> 00:27:57,311 They were taken at about the time we were married. 370 00:28:12,583 --> 00:28:14,456 This isn't just work? 371 00:28:17,173 --> 00:28:18,168 No. 372 00:28:38,783 --> 00:28:43,112 On the Polhemus thing, what the fuck is happening to the fingerprints report? 373 00:28:43,454 --> 00:28:47,452 Don't give me that computer crap! You know I don't understand that shit. 374 00:28:48,044 --> 00:28:50,879 They want to know how big a field you want it run against? 375 00:28:50,964 --> 00:28:52,541 We could do convicted felons... 376 00:28:52,633 --> 00:28:55,717 ...anybody ever fingerprinted, county employees, etc. 377 00:28:55,887 --> 00:28:59,220 Just do felons. We'll do the rest if we need them. 378 00:28:59,558 --> 00:29:01,846 Do them all. I may never get back on. 379 00:29:01,936 --> 00:29:03,975 Do everybody. How soon? 380 00:29:05,316 --> 00:29:06,893 What the fuck takes a week? 381 00:29:06,984 --> 00:29:09,474 The man has the biggest murder case in the city... 382 00:29:09,570 --> 00:29:11,645 ...and he has to kiss your ring? 383 00:29:12,491 --> 00:29:14,150 I know. I know. 384 00:29:15,996 --> 00:29:18,996 We don't have jurisdiction over the computer. 385 00:29:21,627 --> 00:29:25,078 - A week. Probably ten days. - I need them yesterday. 386 00:29:25,591 --> 00:29:28,627 I'll push, but I don't think you'll see them any sooner. 387 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,385 Have your copper get the glass back from Evidence and down to the lab... 388 00:29:32,474 --> 00:29:34,596 ...in case they need it for anything. 389 00:29:37,188 --> 00:29:38,765 Ah, Mr. Sabich. 390 00:29:39,566 --> 00:29:41,439 Real important stuff. 391 00:29:41,736 --> 00:29:44,143 We got the chief deputy with us. 392 00:29:44,614 --> 00:29:47,021 Lipranzer and I were wondering, on your report... 393 00:29:47,117 --> 00:29:51,613 ...are you indicating the guy bashed her after she was strangled by the ropes? 394 00:29:51,790 --> 00:29:53,164 Read the fucking report. 395 00:29:53,250 --> 00:29:54,447 This report? 396 00:29:54,584 --> 00:29:57,668 No, not that report. My report. The autopsy. 397 00:30:01,427 --> 00:30:03,502 See anything with bruises on the wrists... 398 00:30:03,596 --> 00:30:06,596 ...bruises on the ankles, bruises on the knees? 399 00:30:06,683 --> 00:30:09,636 Are you saying she was raped and then tied up? 400 00:30:09,770 --> 00:30:11,560 Tied up last, yeah. 401 00:30:11,940 --> 00:30:14,609 She already died from multiple head injuries. 402 00:30:15,027 --> 00:30:17,149 Rape? Now I'm thinking... 403 00:30:18,113 --> 00:30:19,025 ...no. 404 00:30:19,407 --> 00:30:20,236 Why? 405 00:30:21,243 --> 00:30:22,736 Read the fucking report. 406 00:30:22,828 --> 00:30:24,238 - This report? - No. 407 00:30:25,415 --> 00:30:27,323 This report? The chemist's report? 408 00:30:27,417 --> 00:30:29,243 Yeah, the chemist's report. 409 00:30:29,586 --> 00:30:33,251 She had a two percent solution of nonoxynol-9 in her vagina. 410 00:30:33,424 --> 00:30:37,422 A spermicide used with a diaphragm. That's why his sperms were dead. 411 00:30:37,555 --> 00:30:40,591 Diaphragm? You missed a diaphragm in the autopsy? 412 00:30:41,267 --> 00:30:44,885 No. You've been to autopsies. You slice her wide open. 413 00:30:45,189 --> 00:30:47,311 No diaphragm in that lady. 414 00:30:47,609 --> 00:30:49,186 What happened to it? 415 00:30:49,778 --> 00:30:51,188 Somebody took it. 416 00:30:53,449 --> 00:30:55,322 I think it's a setup. 417 00:30:55,869 --> 00:30:57,279 This man... 418 00:30:57,621 --> 00:31:00,538 ...is her lover. He comes over. They have drinks. 419 00:31:00,959 --> 00:31:04,458 This lady has intercourse with him. Real nice. Okay? 420 00:31:05,130 --> 00:31:08,463 But he's an angry guy. Picks up something, kills her. 421 00:31:08,593 --> 00:31:10,881 Tries to make it look like rape. 422 00:31:11,013 --> 00:31:12,340 Ties her up. 423 00:31:12,473 --> 00:31:14,299 Pulls out the diaphragm. 424 00:31:15,102 --> 00:31:16,928 That's what I think. 425 00:31:19,481 --> 00:31:21,389 What does Tommy Molto think? 426 00:31:24,238 --> 00:31:28,567 You got his phone number right there. Want to jot it down in case you need it? 427 00:31:29,452 --> 00:31:30,910 Next time you talk to him... 428 00:31:30,996 --> 00:31:32,952 ...tell him to call me so I can find out... 429 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,040 ...what's going on in my own fucking investigation. 430 00:31:37,337 --> 00:31:38,581 Painless... 431 00:31:38,923 --> 00:31:41,544 ...you tell Molto, and you tell Nico, too... 432 00:31:41,634 --> 00:31:44,303 ...that this is cheap, cheap politics. 433 00:31:44,471 --> 00:31:46,593 Cheap Police Department bullshit. 434 00:31:46,807 --> 00:31:50,970 God better help them and help you, too. I can't make a case for tampering. 435 00:31:51,646 --> 00:31:56,107 Our poll shows Della Guardia's leading Horgan by four percent. Eight days left. 436 00:31:56,986 --> 00:31:58,693 At least it's made somebody happy. 437 00:31:58,780 --> 00:32:00,688 I don't want to see you out of here. 438 00:32:00,783 --> 00:32:02,656 Come on, pal. We're old news. 439 00:32:02,744 --> 00:32:06,955 I'd miss you. Who else here can talk morality and ethics and not break me up? 440 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:11,785 Voters smell an exhausted man who's lost sight of all the important issues. 441 00:32:12,172 --> 00:32:13,665 Issues? Bullshit. 442 00:32:13,841 --> 00:32:17,174 The only issue is Raymond Horgan has respect for the law... 443 00:32:17,345 --> 00:32:21,592 ...and Nico Della Guardia will fuck the law for politics. That's the issue. 444 00:32:24,855 --> 00:32:25,933 Rusty.... 445 00:32:26,857 --> 00:32:29,098 Have you ever been to an Irish wake? 446 00:32:30,778 --> 00:32:33,185 Come on over and pull up a glass. 447 00:32:34,199 --> 00:32:37,199 Know what Della Guardia is going to find out? 448 00:32:37,579 --> 00:32:39,701 You run for office because... 449 00:32:40,540 --> 00:32:43,991 ...you think you can make people do things, make things better. 450 00:32:44,086 --> 00:32:45,330 But you can't. 451 00:32:45,505 --> 00:32:46,784 Nobody can. 452 00:32:47,841 --> 00:32:51,423 You get a few potholes filled, keep the lid on the best way you can. 453 00:32:51,512 --> 00:32:52,839 But in the end... 454 00:32:52,930 --> 00:32:56,180 ...all you can do is try to hang on to the fucking job. 455 00:33:00,399 --> 00:33:03,020 I never used to drink when I started here. 456 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,693 Then, you still believed you could make a difference. 457 00:33:09,243 --> 00:33:11,401 Funny, part of me still does. 458 00:33:13,916 --> 00:33:16,038 A guy as tough as you are... 459 00:33:16,710 --> 00:33:19,913 ...you're still hanging on to the shreds of your ideals. 460 00:33:20,465 --> 00:33:22,421 The shreds are all I got. 461 00:33:24,595 --> 00:33:26,421 You're a good man, Rusty. 462 00:33:28,933 --> 00:33:30,260 God bless you. 463 00:33:34,274 --> 00:33:36,266 So, tell me, who's our bad guy? 464 00:33:37,611 --> 00:33:40,446 It could be a boyfriend. Some guy she picked up. 465 00:33:42,617 --> 00:33:46,567 Whoever it is knew enough about her to know what to make it look like. 466 00:33:46,956 --> 00:33:49,363 Could be a law-enforcement type. 467 00:33:52,004 --> 00:33:53,034 Jesus. 468 00:33:53,130 --> 00:33:54,457 One of us. 469 00:34:05,604 --> 00:34:07,596 You and Carolyn have a thing? 470 00:34:07,982 --> 00:34:11,896 Don't beat around the bush. Just come right out and ask the question. 471 00:34:15,324 --> 00:34:19,571 I'll say that the decedent and I were both single and both adults. 472 00:34:21,165 --> 00:34:22,824 Yeah, I had a thing with her. 473 00:34:23,502 --> 00:34:25,992 She thought like everybody else thought... 474 00:34:26,088 --> 00:34:28,329 ...that I wasn't going to run again. 475 00:34:28,674 --> 00:34:32,292 That I could just hand the mantle over to anyone I chose... 476 00:34:34,390 --> 00:34:36,216 ...so why not a broad? 477 00:34:36,559 --> 00:34:37,803 Why not her? 478 00:34:39,980 --> 00:34:41,177 One more question? 479 00:34:41,273 --> 00:34:44,273 I gave her the B file because she asked me for it. 480 00:34:46,947 --> 00:34:48,773 Because I was fucking her. 481 00:34:50,618 --> 00:34:51,779 Stupid, huh? 482 00:34:53,539 --> 00:34:55,827 She went over to Northside... 483 00:34:57,586 --> 00:34:59,910 ...shoveled through the records. 484 00:35:01,131 --> 00:35:03,039 There wasn't anything there. 485 00:35:06,054 --> 00:35:08,212 At least that's what she told me. 486 00:35:11,228 --> 00:35:13,267 What are you going to do now? 487 00:35:13,855 --> 00:35:15,562 Once the party's over? 488 00:35:16,066 --> 00:35:17,263 I don't know. 489 00:35:17,902 --> 00:35:19,443 I got an idea. 490 00:35:20,906 --> 00:35:23,313 Suppose we try to get you on the bench. 491 00:35:23,575 --> 00:35:27,407 I should still have enough clout to pull that off. What do you say? 492 00:35:28,081 --> 00:35:30,702 Why don't we just see what the future holds. 493 00:35:35,590 --> 00:35:37,748 Would that have satisfied her? 494 00:35:38,135 --> 00:35:39,213 What's that? 495 00:35:39,303 --> 00:35:40,417 A judgeship. 496 00:35:40,513 --> 00:35:43,964 I wonder if a judgeship would've satisfied Carolyn Polhemus. 497 00:35:59,537 --> 00:36:00,532 Rusty! 498 00:36:00,621 --> 00:36:03,906 Come say hello to Carolyn Polhemus. Have you met? 499 00:36:04,668 --> 00:36:06,126 I've seen Rusty. 500 00:36:06,337 --> 00:36:09,788 I want to bring Carolyn on board as a prosecuting attorney. 501 00:36:10,009 --> 00:36:14,588 She's been working probation, Northside, and she just passed her bar exam. 502 00:36:15,432 --> 00:36:16,759 Congratulations. 503 00:36:16,850 --> 00:36:18,011 Thank you. 504 00:36:18,144 --> 00:36:20,681 She comes very highly recommended. 505 00:36:22,149 --> 00:36:24,722 Why don't we see if we can find a nice place for her. 506 00:36:24,818 --> 00:36:26,810 I'd like the Index Division. 507 00:36:27,154 --> 00:36:29,644 That's not a job, it's a jail sentence. 508 00:36:29,908 --> 00:36:32,445 Rape, sex crimes, child molestation. 509 00:36:33,204 --> 00:36:35,030 We can do better than that. 510 00:36:35,498 --> 00:36:39,412 It's hard to get a conviction on a rape. It's a dead-end for someone ambitious. 511 00:36:39,503 --> 00:36:43,168 So you get the worst attorneys trying the hardest cases? 512 00:36:44,343 --> 00:36:47,842 Listen to this. We got another idealist in the office. 513 00:36:57,192 --> 00:36:59,018 He's five years old. 514 00:36:59,528 --> 00:37:03,027 The doctors found 23 healed fractures from old wounds. 515 00:37:05,202 --> 00:37:07,360 Victim of his own beloved mother. 516 00:37:08,873 --> 00:37:10,366 I need your help. 517 00:37:11,042 --> 00:37:12,701 Your wife called. 518 00:37:16,132 --> 00:37:17,958 Why don't you fire her? 519 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,174 Civil service. They're here forever. 520 00:37:21,263 --> 00:37:24,797 Why don't you give this to Nancy. You haven't had experience with kids. 521 00:37:24,893 --> 00:37:26,719 Nancy's not available. 522 00:37:26,854 --> 00:37:30,020 And, besides, I'd like to try this case myself. 523 00:37:32,236 --> 00:37:33,563 With your help. 524 00:37:34,321 --> 00:37:35,980 Outline it for me. 525 00:37:37,074 --> 00:37:38,532 About a month ago... 526 00:37:38,618 --> 00:37:41,987 ...the mother brought him into the West End Pavilion Hospital. 527 00:37:42,081 --> 00:37:44,916 The boy was unconscious from severe head injuries. 528 00:37:45,001 --> 00:37:46,660 She said he fell. 529 00:37:46,753 --> 00:37:48,211 The doctor says... 530 00:37:48,547 --> 00:37:52,331 ...the head wounds were too symmetrical to be the result of a fall. 531 00:37:52,761 --> 00:37:54,254 He told me... 532 00:37:54,430 --> 00:37:58,428 ...he was treating a child whose mother had crushed his head in a vise. 533 00:38:00,395 --> 00:38:02,850 We have any proof it was the mother? You got the vise? 534 00:38:02,940 --> 00:38:05,181 Just the testimony of the child. 535 00:38:05,402 --> 00:38:09,565 When he sees the mother in the courtroom, he'll recant. An iffy case. 536 00:38:10,574 --> 00:38:13,147 I've examined him several times and... 537 00:38:13,745 --> 00:38:15,487 ...I think he's begun to trust me. 538 00:38:15,581 --> 00:38:19,495 Look, how many child abuse cases does this office handle in a year? 539 00:38:19,628 --> 00:38:20,872 Over a thousand. 540 00:38:20,962 --> 00:38:22,954 Every one of them terrible. 541 00:38:23,590 --> 00:38:25,463 Every one of them heartbreaking. 542 00:38:25,551 --> 00:38:28,836 But I can't stop everything else to take care of one case. 543 00:38:28,931 --> 00:38:32,050 You're going to have to get somebody else to help you. 544 00:38:32,726 --> 00:38:34,718 You don't like me, do you? 545 00:38:36,565 --> 00:38:39,138 I think you've turned out to be a damn good prosecutor. 546 00:38:39,235 --> 00:38:43,862 You were pissed off when Raymond hired me because I didn't have to go through the channels like everyone else. 547 00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:47,451 Clearly, you're not like everyone else. 548 00:38:47,578 --> 00:38:51,955 You think I got this job because I fucked some fat-cat friend of Raymond's. 549 00:38:55,588 --> 00:38:57,046 Look, it's late.... 550 00:39:00,136 --> 00:39:02,626 Come on, I'll drive you to your ferry. 551 00:39:06,019 --> 00:39:08,260 This is not the way to the ferry. 552 00:39:08,688 --> 00:39:10,514 I want you to meet somebody. 553 00:39:10,607 --> 00:39:12,813 Wendell, this is Rusty Sabich. 554 00:39:15,614 --> 00:39:18,318 He's a very important man in our office. 555 00:39:18,576 --> 00:39:21,493 He's going to help me when we go to court. 556 00:39:22,497 --> 00:39:24,821 Remember what I told you about court? 557 00:39:25,125 --> 00:39:26,203 Yeah. 558 00:39:26,961 --> 00:39:28,454 Now, tell me. 559 00:39:29,548 --> 00:39:31,836 There's a judge and some nice people. 560 00:39:31,925 --> 00:39:33,798 They're called a jury. 561 00:39:34,220 --> 00:39:36,591 And you're gonna ask me questions. 562 00:39:37,098 --> 00:39:38,377 About what? 563 00:39:42,022 --> 00:39:43,812 About what happened. 564 00:39:44,357 --> 00:39:45,352 When? 565 00:39:46,068 --> 00:39:47,561 When I got hurt. 566 00:39:48,028 --> 00:39:49,984 What else did I tell you? 567 00:39:50,949 --> 00:39:53,866 You said that if I told what Mommy did... 568 00:39:54,578 --> 00:39:57,828 ...the judge and the nice people will protect me... 569 00:39:58,082 --> 00:40:00,655 ...and Mommy wouldn't hurt me anymore. 570 00:40:01,420 --> 00:40:03,376 Do you think you can do that? 571 00:40:03,465 --> 00:40:05,671 Answer my questions in court? 572 00:40:06,384 --> 00:40:08,672 And tell what Mommy did to you? 573 00:40:11,683 --> 00:40:13,342 I think you can. 574 00:40:13,727 --> 00:40:15,517 Mommy will be there. 575 00:40:16,523 --> 00:40:19,607 She can't hurt you. She can't even talk to you. 576 00:40:20,277 --> 00:40:22,269 You'll be completely safe. 577 00:40:24,824 --> 00:40:26,198 You promise? 578 00:40:27,995 --> 00:40:29,369 I promise. 579 00:40:38,091 --> 00:40:39,833 His father got to him last night. 580 00:40:39,927 --> 00:40:43,093 Told him God would put him in hell if he testified against his mother. 581 00:40:43,180 --> 00:40:44,258 He's terrified. 582 00:40:44,348 --> 00:40:47,717 If you're not ready, we'll ask the judge for a couple more days. 583 00:40:47,811 --> 00:40:48,806 No. 584 00:40:48,937 --> 00:40:51,606 We've got to do it now or we'll lose him for good. 585 00:40:51,691 --> 00:40:55,024 Your mommy took you to the hospital because you were hurt. 586 00:40:55,570 --> 00:40:57,526 What part of you was hurt? 587 00:40:58,199 --> 00:40:59,360 My head. 588 00:41:00,368 --> 00:41:02,027 How was it hurt? 589 00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:09,037 Wendell, how did you hurt your head? 590 00:41:12,550 --> 00:41:14,209 I don't remember. 591 00:41:18,557 --> 00:41:20,549 Have you ever seen this? 592 00:41:21,102 --> 00:41:22,050 Yes. 593 00:41:22,145 --> 00:41:23,342 Where? 594 00:41:23,731 --> 00:41:25,521 - In the cellar. - At home? 595 00:41:25,733 --> 00:41:26,728 Yes. 596 00:41:26,901 --> 00:41:29,391 Did somebody put your head inside it? 597 00:41:30,947 --> 00:41:32,191 Wendell? 598 00:41:34,285 --> 00:41:37,903 What did you say when somebody put your head in the vise? 599 00:41:39,250 --> 00:41:43,164 You told me you screamed when your head was put in the vise. 600 00:41:44,506 --> 00:41:45,703 Remember? 601 00:41:46,342 --> 00:41:47,586 You told me. 602 00:41:50,681 --> 00:41:52,055 "I promise... 603 00:41:52,224 --> 00:41:53,801 "...I'll be a good boy. 604 00:41:53,893 --> 00:41:55,600 "I'll be a good boy." 605 00:41:56,521 --> 00:41:58,347 Did somebody answer? 606 00:42:00,610 --> 00:42:01,807 Mommy. 607 00:42:02,070 --> 00:42:05,273 Mommy said I was a bad boy and I deserved to die. 608 00:42:05,907 --> 00:42:07,946 And then what did Mommy do? 609 00:42:08,661 --> 00:42:10,902 She made it tighter and tighter. 610 00:42:10,997 --> 00:42:12,455 On your head? 611 00:42:12,666 --> 00:42:15,453 She hurt my head. My mommy hurt my head. 612 00:42:17,630 --> 00:42:19,705 No further questions, Your Honor. 613 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:21,922 The doctors have told us... 614 00:42:22,178 --> 00:42:23,802 ...that the wounds... 615 00:42:23,889 --> 00:42:27,174 ...that Wendell suffered could not have come from a fall... 616 00:42:27,267 --> 00:42:29,804 ...as the defense would have you believe. 617 00:42:30,772 --> 00:42:34,639 The police told us they found a vise at the home of the defendant. 618 00:42:35,570 --> 00:42:37,776 Medical experts have testified... 619 00:42:37,948 --> 00:42:41,364 ...that the size and the shape of the jaws of that vise... 620 00:42:41,493 --> 00:42:46,451 ...exactly match the size and the shape of the wounds to the little boy's head. 621 00:42:46,875 --> 00:42:49,163 And this evidence is clear... 622 00:42:49,671 --> 00:42:51,330 ...and uncontested. 623 00:42:53,216 --> 00:42:56,051 But the most compelling evidence in this trial... 624 00:42:56,137 --> 00:42:58,924 ...comes not from doctors, or police officers... 625 00:42:59,141 --> 00:43:01,347 ...or other expert witnesses. 626 00:43:01,519 --> 00:43:03,677 The most damning testimony... 627 00:43:04,146 --> 00:43:07,099 ...comes from an abused and frightened child... 628 00:43:07,401 --> 00:43:10,271 ...who overcame his fear and his pain... 629 00:43:10,989 --> 00:43:13,562 ...to tell you, in his own words... 630 00:43:14,367 --> 00:43:16,359 ...what really happened. 631 00:43:17,621 --> 00:43:21,868 If you're to remember nothing else as you begin your deliberations... 632 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:23,952 ...remember Wendell's words: 633 00:43:24,839 --> 00:43:26,878 "My mommy hurt my head." 634 00:43:28,552 --> 00:43:30,591 "My mommy hurt my head." 635 00:43:35,018 --> 00:43:37,057 "My mommy hurt my head." 636 00:44:15,526 --> 00:44:17,103 Congratulations. 637 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,028 It's gonna be so good. 638 00:47:01,941 --> 00:47:04,099 You're still in love with her. 639 00:47:08,241 --> 00:47:09,948 It was never love. 640 00:47:11,119 --> 00:47:12,778 What was it, then? 641 00:47:19,422 --> 00:47:21,129 It was never love. 642 00:47:23,968 --> 00:47:26,803 What did she have to make you feel so much? 643 00:47:39,154 --> 00:47:40,980 Ladies and gentlemen... 644 00:47:41,407 --> 00:47:43,149 ...Raymond Horgan. 645 00:47:58,886 --> 00:48:00,712 Thank you. Thank you. 646 00:48:02,850 --> 00:48:04,972 I wanted to come down and say a few words... 647 00:48:05,061 --> 00:48:09,355 ...before I call Mr. Della Guardia and congratulate him on his victory. 648 00:48:10,442 --> 00:48:12,019 No, no, no. Come on. 649 00:48:13,405 --> 00:48:17,189 Of all the wonderful things that have happened to me in 12 years... 650 00:48:17,994 --> 00:48:19,867 ...the best has been... 651 00:48:20,580 --> 00:48:23,201 ...knowing and working with all of you. 652 00:48:24,168 --> 00:48:26,741 Wait till you hear what's going down. It's strange. 653 00:48:26,838 --> 00:48:30,004 Someone's fucked up over at the Hall. It's way wrong. 654 00:48:30,092 --> 00:48:31,799 - Why? - I get a message. 655 00:48:31,886 --> 00:48:35,966 I'm supposed to be in the chief's office 8:00 tomorrow to be interviewed. 656 00:48:36,058 --> 00:48:37,053 By Molto. 657 00:48:37,142 --> 00:48:39,098 No discussion. Interview. 658 00:48:39,187 --> 00:48:40,764 It's like they're after me, right? 659 00:48:40,856 --> 00:48:43,144 Another thing. When I came back tonight... 660 00:48:43,234 --> 00:48:46,733 ...they took all the receipts of the evidence I inventoried on Polhemus. 661 00:48:46,821 --> 00:48:48,563 No questions asked. 662 00:48:49,116 --> 00:48:50,609 Sounds like you're off the case. 663 00:48:50,701 --> 00:48:53,072 Sure. Fine, but figure this in. 664 00:48:53,204 --> 00:48:57,118 I'm at the North Branch before 5:00, going through the microfilm. 665 00:48:57,751 --> 00:49:00,122 All of this hits by 6:00, 6:30. 666 00:49:01,005 --> 00:49:03,922 Look what I picked up while I was out there. 667 00:49:04,135 --> 00:49:06,341 The case number matches the complaint number... 668 00:49:06,429 --> 00:49:08,836 ...that was missing when you saw Kenneally. 669 00:49:08,932 --> 00:49:10,924 Five years ago. Bingo. 670 00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,596 And look who's listed as Leon's probation officer. 671 00:49:17,109 --> 00:49:18,187 "Carolyn Polhemus." 672 00:49:18,277 --> 00:49:20,269 Wait. Here's the best. 673 00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:24,156 Who do you think was the deputy handling the case? 674 00:49:26,788 --> 00:49:28,115 Tommy Molto. 675 00:49:28,665 --> 00:49:32,876 You keep this because I don't know what the fuck is happening with me. 676 00:49:39,887 --> 00:49:41,297 Tommy Molto. 677 00:49:41,932 --> 00:49:45,846 Tommy Molto once worked here, but we think he might be dead. 678 00:49:46,812 --> 00:49:48,389 Raymond's inside. 679 00:49:48,481 --> 00:49:50,307 We've been waiting for you. 680 00:49:58,577 --> 00:49:59,607 Rusty. 681 00:50:01,247 --> 00:50:02,906 Molto and Delay... 682 00:50:04,668 --> 00:50:07,668 ...have questions about the Polhemus investigation. 683 00:50:08,505 --> 00:50:10,829 This should not be handled this way. 684 00:50:11,259 --> 00:50:13,417 You should speak with Rusty alone. 685 00:50:14,597 --> 00:50:15,426 What's this about? 686 00:50:15,515 --> 00:50:18,800 You were at Carolyn's apartment the night she was killed. 687 00:50:18,935 --> 00:50:20,179 Bullshit. 688 00:50:26,153 --> 00:50:28,359 What was it, a Tuesday night? 689 00:50:30,700 --> 00:50:33,535 Barbara was at the university. I was babysitting. 690 00:50:33,620 --> 00:50:35,742 Keep your fucking mouth shut. 691 00:50:35,873 --> 00:50:38,031 We got the fingerprint results... 692 00:50:38,126 --> 00:50:40,663 ...the ones that you could never remember to ask for. 693 00:50:40,755 --> 00:50:43,245 They're your prints all over the bar glass. 694 00:50:43,340 --> 00:50:45,332 Yours, Rozat K. Sabich. 695 00:50:46,094 --> 00:50:48,881 Five feet from where the woman was found dead. 696 00:50:49,390 --> 00:50:53,222 Or maybe you didn't remember that all county employees get printed. 697 00:50:57,733 --> 00:50:59,226 This is absurd. 698 00:50:59,861 --> 00:51:02,897 The phone records you told Lipranzer not to get? 699 00:51:03,032 --> 00:51:05,273 We had the phone company pull them this morning. 700 00:51:05,367 --> 00:51:07,323 You were calling her all month. 701 00:51:07,412 --> 00:51:10,412 There's a call from your house to hers that night. 702 00:51:16,173 --> 00:51:18,081 My God, you're serious. 703 00:51:22,180 --> 00:51:23,922 Tommy, for Christ's sake! 704 00:51:24,141 --> 00:51:25,171 Sabich. 705 00:51:25,935 --> 00:51:28,057 I want you to know one thing. I know. 706 00:51:28,147 --> 00:51:29,059 Sure you do. 707 00:51:29,147 --> 00:51:31,269 Go ahead, play cool. I know. 708 00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,724 You killed her. You're the guy. 709 00:51:34,738 --> 00:51:35,733 Oh, yeah? 710 00:51:35,822 --> 00:51:38,739 Yeah, you're right. You're always right. 711 00:51:45,626 --> 00:51:48,792 They think I killed her. They're going to charge me. 712 00:51:49,673 --> 00:51:52,792 Don't be seen with me, man. They'll fucking bury you. 713 00:51:55,972 --> 00:51:58,759 I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. 714 00:52:00,645 --> 00:52:02,138 Are you sick? 715 00:52:05,734 --> 00:52:09,150 Nico and Molto are charging me with Carolyn's murder. 716 00:52:11,951 --> 00:52:15,569 They found my fingerprints on a glass of beer in her apartment. 717 00:52:19,585 --> 00:52:21,078 What does this mean? 718 00:52:21,212 --> 00:52:23,251 Grand jury investigation. 719 00:52:24,633 --> 00:52:28,417 They will or they won't indict me. If they do, there'll be a trial. 720 00:52:31,308 --> 00:52:33,514 It's not going to go that far. 721 00:52:36,690 --> 00:52:38,848 I'm going to need a lawyer. 722 00:52:41,195 --> 00:52:43,864 A very, very good lawyer. Expensive lawyer. 723 00:52:47,703 --> 00:52:49,861 It could break us financially. 724 00:52:51,165 --> 00:52:53,204 We can mortgage the house. 725 00:52:54,211 --> 00:52:56,037 Or sell it if we have to. 726 00:52:59,301 --> 00:53:01,209 What time does Nat get home? 727 00:53:02,888 --> 00:53:03,918 Nat? 728 00:53:06,893 --> 00:53:08,090 Oh, Rusty! 729 00:53:21,704 --> 00:53:24,704 A lot of people think Raymond shouldn't run again. 730 00:53:25,542 --> 00:53:30,537 If he agrees to step aside, the party will let him decide who will take his place. 731 00:53:32,550 --> 00:53:35,005 They know he won't hand it all to Nico. 732 00:53:35,095 --> 00:53:36,553 That's for sure. 733 00:53:38,224 --> 00:53:39,883 Who would he choose? 734 00:53:41,770 --> 00:53:43,512 Somebody from the office. 735 00:53:44,524 --> 00:53:46,397 Carry on his traditions. 736 00:53:46,568 --> 00:53:47,563 You? 737 00:53:51,949 --> 00:53:53,359 Mac, maybe. 738 00:53:54,703 --> 00:53:57,372 She'd make a great candidate, in that wheelchair. 739 00:53:57,456 --> 00:53:59,946 That chair is not very telegenic. 740 00:54:02,003 --> 00:54:03,710 I think he'd pick you. 741 00:54:06,217 --> 00:54:07,924 You're the natural. 742 00:54:14,185 --> 00:54:15,215 Rusty... 743 00:54:15,353 --> 00:54:18,270 ...if you let him know you want it, it'll be you. 744 00:54:19,275 --> 00:54:21,896 I should just tell Raymond his time is up? 745 00:54:22,112 --> 00:54:23,938 - You could be tactful. - No. 746 00:54:25,031 --> 00:54:26,228 Why not? 747 00:54:27,451 --> 00:54:29,609 I'm not going to bite that hand. 748 00:54:30,038 --> 00:54:32,445 If Raymond wants out, that's up to him. 749 00:54:32,792 --> 00:54:36,243 He's still the best candidate around, against Della Guardia. 750 00:54:36,504 --> 00:54:39,457 Without Raymond, Nico doesn't have an issue. 751 00:54:39,842 --> 00:54:43,674 Pull the party's people and Raymond's people together behind somebody else... 752 00:54:43,764 --> 00:54:46,717 ...that person would walk into the PA's office. 753 00:54:47,268 --> 00:54:48,892 It wouldn't be close. 754 00:54:57,656 --> 00:54:59,814 You've thought a lot about this. 755 00:55:00,576 --> 00:55:02,449 He just needs a push. 756 00:55:06,041 --> 00:55:08,448 Push him yourself. It's not in me. 757 00:55:14,927 --> 00:55:15,875 What? 758 00:55:16,637 --> 00:55:19,424 Were you all set on being chief deputy? 759 00:55:21,310 --> 00:55:22,388 Carolyn... 760 00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:28,098 ...if I can get away tonight shall I get some take-out? 761 00:55:29,111 --> 00:55:31,780 I like you, Rusty, but I think it's over. 762 00:55:32,866 --> 00:55:35,487 It's just not right for me now. It's over. 763 00:55:35,577 --> 00:55:37,284 I don't accept that. 764 00:55:37,496 --> 00:55:39,073 You don't accept it? 765 00:55:39,207 --> 00:55:40,700 Do I have a say? 766 00:55:43,254 --> 00:55:45,376 I don't want us to end up enemies. 767 00:55:53,850 --> 00:55:55,889 Mac said it was all right. 768 00:55:56,270 --> 00:55:57,728 Have it your way. 769 00:56:00,984 --> 00:56:02,726 Someone's in my office. 770 00:56:04,697 --> 00:56:05,894 What is it, Rusty? 771 00:56:05,991 --> 00:56:08,908 I wanted to talk about this rapist you habitualized. 772 00:56:08,994 --> 00:56:10,618 There's some problems. 773 00:56:11,497 --> 00:56:13,405 I'm late for an appointment. 774 00:56:13,625 --> 00:56:16,910 I would appreciate it if you could put it in a memo. 775 00:56:17,546 --> 00:56:19,087 You keep avoiding me. 776 00:56:19,174 --> 00:56:22,756 You communicate through memos. You skip meetings I'm supposed to go to. 777 00:56:22,844 --> 00:56:24,503 It's affecting work. 778 00:56:24,596 --> 00:56:25,710 My work? 779 00:56:26,891 --> 00:56:28,088 My work. 780 00:56:29,269 --> 00:56:31,593 I tried to make it easier for you. 781 00:56:34,692 --> 00:56:36,767 You make me feel uncomfortable. 782 00:56:36,862 --> 00:56:40,028 I just want to be with you. Can't we just talk about it? 783 00:56:41,701 --> 00:56:44,072 I'm involved with someone else. 784 00:56:45,164 --> 00:56:46,443 Since when? 785 00:56:46,957 --> 00:56:48,949 What is it you want from me? 786 00:56:50,838 --> 00:56:52,462 What do I have to do? 787 00:56:54,718 --> 00:56:55,796 Grow up. 788 00:57:33,724 --> 00:57:35,265 Rozat K. Sabich? 789 00:57:37,729 --> 00:57:39,637 Rusty, I don't like to be here. 790 00:57:39,732 --> 00:57:41,973 A search warrant for these premises. 791 00:57:44,862 --> 00:57:46,189 Come on in. 792 00:58:02,969 --> 00:58:05,459 They're taking swatches from your suits. 793 00:58:05,722 --> 00:58:08,888 They'll try to match threads from my clothing and the carpet... 794 00:58:08,976 --> 00:58:11,811 ...with fibers they might find at her apartment. 795 00:58:11,896 --> 00:58:14,386 They're not looking for a murder weapon? 796 00:58:14,483 --> 00:58:16,641 I wouldn't be stupid enough to bring it home. 797 00:58:16,736 --> 00:58:20,899 If they look for it and don't find it, they'll have to admit that in court. 798 00:58:21,408 --> 00:58:23,732 I'll have to give a blood sample. 799 00:58:24,203 --> 00:58:25,577 If you refuse? 800 00:58:26,122 --> 00:58:27,912 They've got a warrant. 801 00:58:28,083 --> 00:58:29,707 It's all routine. 802 00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,755 I'm going to ask Sandy Stern to take my case. 803 00:58:39,764 --> 00:58:41,091 Hi, Sandy. 804 00:58:48,525 --> 00:58:52,357 I realize you would like to avoid public places at a time like this... 805 00:58:52,447 --> 00:58:56,029 ...but I don't think it is wise for you to go into hiding. 806 00:58:57,202 --> 00:59:00,571 I'm flattered that you want me to represent you in this case. 807 00:59:00,665 --> 00:59:03,286 You have been my toughest adversary. 808 00:59:05,255 --> 00:59:08,208 Did you get my subpoena from the grand jury? 809 00:59:08,383 --> 00:59:11,383 This morning. Clearly, we will not let you testify. 810 00:59:13,306 --> 00:59:16,472 Sandy, you expect me to take the Fifth Amendment? 811 00:59:16,811 --> 00:59:18,138 Of course. 812 00:59:19,980 --> 00:59:21,390 That I cannot do. 813 00:59:22,984 --> 00:59:27,195 You don't want to prepare the prosecutor by giving him pretrial statements. 814 00:59:27,282 --> 00:59:30,982 Sandy, I don't think this case is ever going to go to trial. 815 00:59:31,745 --> 00:59:35,161 If I take the Fifth and refuse to testify before the grand jury... 816 00:59:35,250 --> 00:59:37,408 ...it could destroy my reputation. 817 00:59:40,089 --> 00:59:42,330 The results of the blood tests have come back. 818 00:59:42,425 --> 00:59:46,043 They have identified you as someone who secretes A-type antibodies... 819 00:59:46,138 --> 00:59:49,507 ... just like the man who had last been with Ms. Polhemus. 820 00:59:49,851 --> 00:59:52,851 Chances of this being a coincidence are one in ten. 821 00:59:52,980 --> 00:59:57,024 So, I believe you will be charged and that you will go to trial. 822 00:59:57,193 --> 01:00:01,855 Have you anything to tell this grand jury about the death of Carolyn Polhemus? 823 01:00:02,158 --> 01:00:04,862 On the advice of counsel, I decline to answer. 824 01:00:05,121 --> 01:00:09,498 Wouldn't it be fair to say you were rather well acquainted with Ms. Polhemus? 825 01:00:09,709 --> 01:00:11,997 On the advice of counsel, I decline to answer. 826 01:00:12,087 --> 01:00:14,874 Weren't you, in fact, intimate with the lady? 827 01:00:16,384 --> 01:00:19,088 On the advice of counsel, I decline to answer. 828 01:00:20,138 --> 01:00:23,341 You are under arrest. "You have the right to remain silent. 829 01:00:23,434 --> 01:00:26,434 "Anything you say can and will be used against you. 830 01:00:26,647 --> 01:00:30,229 "You have the right to have a lawyer present during questioning. 831 01:00:30,693 --> 01:00:34,607 "If you cannot hire a lawyer, one will be appointed to represent you. 832 01:00:36,701 --> 01:00:39,536 "You may stop answering questions at any time." 833 01:00:39,663 --> 01:00:42,332 Do you understand the rights I have explained to you? 834 01:00:42,416 --> 01:00:44,491 Call Sandy Stern to make bail. 835 01:00:59,104 --> 01:01:01,096 Sandy should be available in a few hours. 836 01:01:01,190 --> 01:01:03,098 Let's see what they got. 837 01:01:03,943 --> 01:01:06,267 Can't believe there could be any more surprises. 838 01:01:06,362 --> 01:01:09,695 That's when they come. That's why they're called surprises. 839 01:01:13,538 --> 01:01:16,028 Do we now understand Della Guardia's case? 840 01:01:17,459 --> 01:01:18,952 Yes, I think I do. 841 01:01:20,213 --> 01:01:21,706 Let me hear it. 842 01:01:25,637 --> 01:01:27,961 Sabich is obsessed with Polhemus. 843 01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:30,798 She ditches him for another man. 844 01:01:31,310 --> 01:01:33,136 Sabich becomes enraged. 845 01:01:33,229 --> 01:01:34,806 He can't let go. 846 01:01:35,482 --> 01:01:37,640 One night, knowing his wife is out... 847 01:01:37,735 --> 01:01:40,486 ...he calls her and begs her to see him again. 848 01:01:41,072 --> 01:01:43,064 Carolyn finally agrees. 849 01:01:44,243 --> 01:01:47,160 She rolls around with him for auld lang syne. 850 01:01:47,455 --> 01:01:48,948 Then something goes wrong. 851 01:01:49,041 --> 01:01:52,492 Sabich is jealous. He wants more than she's willing to give. 852 01:01:53,170 --> 01:01:54,367 He blows it. 853 01:01:54,464 --> 01:01:57,168 Gives her what for with some heavy instrument. 854 01:01:57,384 --> 01:01:59,708 Decides to make it look like rape. 855 01:02:00,054 --> 01:02:03,886 Sabich is a prosecutor, knows there'll be dozens of suspects. 856 01:02:04,685 --> 01:02:06,012 He ties her up. 857 01:02:06,103 --> 01:02:09,519 Opens the latches to make it look like someone slipped in. 858 01:02:10,859 --> 01:02:13,100 And this is the diabolical part... 859 01:02:13,905 --> 01:02:16,775 ...pulls out her diaphragm so it looks like rape. 860 01:02:17,075 --> 01:02:20,159 But in his haste and confusion, he makes mistakes. 861 01:02:20,913 --> 01:02:23,119 He forgets the glass he drank from. 862 01:02:23,291 --> 01:02:27,419 He doesn't think the forensic chemist will be able to ID the spermicide. 863 01:02:28,214 --> 01:02:30,704 But we know he did evil to this woman... 864 01:02:30,926 --> 01:02:35,422 ...because he lied about his presence in her apartment the night she was killed. 865 01:02:35,932 --> 01:02:38,054 His fingerprints on the glass... 866 01:02:38,143 --> 01:02:40,812 ...his blood type A identified from semen... 867 01:02:41,313 --> 01:02:45,180 ...fibers from the carpets in his home, tell us he was there. 868 01:02:47,238 --> 01:02:48,897 Very convincing. 869 01:02:51,075 --> 01:02:53,399 But their evidence of motive is weak. 870 01:02:53,495 --> 01:02:55,570 That's where we must attack. 871 01:02:56,040 --> 01:03:00,203 Is there any proof of prior amorous relationship between the two? 872 01:03:00,463 --> 01:03:01,541 A few telephone calls. 873 01:03:01,631 --> 01:03:03,753 They can be accounted for by business needs. 874 01:03:03,841 --> 01:03:05,085 - Any diary? - No. 875 01:03:05,844 --> 01:03:08,880 No note that came with flowers? No lovers' correspondence? 876 01:03:08,973 --> 01:03:10,134 - No. - Good. 877 01:03:10,225 --> 01:03:11,802 Gossip will not be admitted. 878 01:03:11,894 --> 01:03:15,892 There are calls from my home to Carolyn's in October of last year. 879 01:03:16,065 --> 01:03:19,018 You were trying the case of Wendell McGaffney then. 880 01:03:19,319 --> 01:03:21,061 Reason enough for calling her. 881 01:03:21,155 --> 01:03:24,488 Why did I tell Lipranzer not to get my home phone records? 882 01:03:24,576 --> 01:03:27,945 I take it for granted that a person of an innocent state of mind... 883 01:03:28,038 --> 01:03:30,077 ...would rule himself out as a suspect... 884 01:03:30,166 --> 01:03:33,166 ...and save a busy detective from wasting time. 885 01:03:34,505 --> 01:03:38,419 Clearly, they hope to win the case on the strength of their physical evidence. 886 01:03:38,509 --> 01:03:41,545 I'd like to look at that glass. It could help me. 887 01:03:41,638 --> 01:03:43,962 List a motion for production of physical evidence. 888 01:03:44,058 --> 01:03:46,631 I want an inventory of everything in that apartment. 889 01:03:46,728 --> 01:03:49,099 Where's the contraceptive jelly... 890 01:03:49,398 --> 01:03:53,182 ...the chemist is saying he finds present? In her medicine cabinet? 891 01:03:53,278 --> 01:03:54,736 I don't know. 892 01:03:57,825 --> 01:03:59,817 I'll hear worse in court. 893 01:04:00,496 --> 01:04:02,820 I never asked her what she was doing. 894 01:04:02,956 --> 01:04:04,497 One word of caution. 895 01:04:04,708 --> 01:04:07,198 We do not want to lead Della Guardia... 896 01:04:07,420 --> 01:04:10,207 ...to evidence he has not thought to obtain. 897 01:04:10,675 --> 01:04:14,838 Best we conduct a search ourselves without disclosing our intentions. 898 01:04:15,430 --> 01:04:19,891 Also, your mention of Carolyn's personal habits leads to this thought. 899 01:04:20,896 --> 01:04:23,184 We should subpoena her doctors. 900 01:04:23,691 --> 01:04:25,730 Who knows what we might discover. 901 01:04:25,818 --> 01:04:28,225 There's one big surprise, however. 902 01:04:30,032 --> 01:04:32,487 Raymond Horgan's on their witness list. 903 01:04:32,994 --> 01:04:34,072 Why? 904 01:04:35,414 --> 01:04:38,083 It's a hell of a way to impress my new partners. 905 01:04:38,166 --> 01:04:41,166 I'm here three days and I get a grand jury subpoena. 906 01:04:42,172 --> 01:04:46,004 I was wondering what we might expect, in terms of your testimony. 907 01:04:47,846 --> 01:04:51,926 I'm going to testify about Rusty's conduct of the Polhemus investigation. 908 01:04:52,267 --> 01:04:55,137 - How he volunteered to handle it. - Just a second. 909 01:04:56,356 --> 01:04:58,348 You insisted I take it on. 910 01:04:58,526 --> 01:05:00,103 I don't remember it that way. 911 01:05:00,194 --> 01:05:02,186 What are you trying to do to me? 912 01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:04,272 What am I trying to do to you? 913 01:05:05,033 --> 01:05:07,108 What are you trying to do to me? 914 01:05:10,958 --> 01:05:12,866 I thought I had your loyalty. 915 01:05:16,506 --> 01:05:19,257 Why didn't you tell me about you and Carolyn? 916 01:05:19,343 --> 01:05:23,423 Under the circumstances, I have to advise Rusty not to respond. 917 01:05:24,766 --> 01:05:26,508 Clearly, he would like to. 918 01:05:26,685 --> 01:05:28,724 Let me ask you something. 919 01:05:29,230 --> 01:05:32,349 Why were his fingerprints all over that goddamn glass? 920 01:05:33,903 --> 01:05:36,061 That's what I'm going to testify. 921 01:05:36,572 --> 01:05:38,398 That he wanted the case. 922 01:05:38,742 --> 01:05:41,908 That I had to chew his ass to get him to move on it. 923 01:05:43,039 --> 01:05:45,529 He seemed more interested in if, when and how... 924 01:05:45,626 --> 01:05:49,042 ...I was fucking Carolyn Polhemus than in his own investigation. 925 01:05:49,129 --> 01:05:51,833 When push came to shove, he stood in my office... 926 01:05:51,925 --> 01:05:56,552 ...he told us he'd been nowhere near her apartment the night she was killed. 927 01:05:59,517 --> 01:06:01,675 That's what I'm going to testify. 928 01:06:02,271 --> 01:06:04,726 And I'll be goddamned pleased to do it. 929 01:06:05,859 --> 01:06:08,943 How can you think that I could do a thing like that? 930 01:06:12,533 --> 01:06:15,106 You always had the cork in too tight. 931 01:06:16,121 --> 01:06:17,698 We all saw that. 932 01:06:20,127 --> 01:06:22,119 When you blew, you blew. 933 01:06:23,839 --> 01:06:25,416 Come on, Rusty. 934 01:06:33,101 --> 01:06:37,145 When did this relationship take place between Raymond and Carolyn? 935 01:06:37,439 --> 01:06:39,810 Just after she stopped seeing me. 936 01:06:42,070 --> 01:06:43,978 Delay's got his motive. 937 01:06:46,242 --> 01:06:50,738 What if I told you Raymond secretly assigned a bribery case to Carolyn? 938 01:06:51,499 --> 01:06:54,915 Some poor son of a bitch on a public-indecency charge... 939 01:06:55,003 --> 01:06:57,624 ...paid off a PA to have his case dismissed. 940 01:06:57,798 --> 01:07:01,249 Turns out, the guy's probation officer is Carolyn... 941 01:07:01,970 --> 01:07:05,173 ...and the deputy assigned to the case is Tommy Molto. 942 01:07:06,267 --> 01:07:10,181 Day after I find this out, I'm charged with Carolyn's murder. 943 01:07:12,691 --> 01:07:15,561 Before we venture down the road into actual accusation... 944 01:07:15,654 --> 01:07:18,358 ...we must consider the matter very carefully. 945 01:07:21,203 --> 01:07:24,536 It can't be a coincidence it lays out this way, Sandy. 946 01:07:30,297 --> 01:07:32,170 I mean, I'm innocent. 947 01:07:39,558 --> 01:07:42,227 God, I made a fool of myself today with Sandy. 948 01:07:42,562 --> 01:07:43,676 How? 949 01:07:44,064 --> 01:07:45,890 I told him I was innocent. 950 01:07:47,276 --> 01:07:49,564 I thought he would've asked you that by now. 951 01:07:49,654 --> 01:07:51,231 No, it's axiomatic. 952 01:07:51,824 --> 01:07:54,065 Defendants rarely tell the truth. 953 01:07:55,203 --> 01:07:59,580 Lie to the cops, lie to your lawyer, lie to the jury that tries your case. 954 01:08:01,085 --> 01:08:04,085 Leave the bastards out there with a grain of doubt. 955 01:08:09,845 --> 01:08:11,338 You never asked. 956 01:08:13,350 --> 01:08:15,009 If you're innocent? 957 01:08:19,984 --> 01:08:21,561 You want me to? 958 01:08:38,298 --> 01:08:39,791 Please draw a name. 959 01:08:48,310 --> 01:08:50,218 "Judge Larren Lyttle." 960 01:08:51,064 --> 01:08:53,435 I have some motions from the defense. 961 01:08:53,525 --> 01:08:56,525 Mr. Stern, you want to examine the scene of the crime? 962 01:08:56,612 --> 01:08:59,447 Yes, Your Honor. To evaluate the physical evidence... 963 01:08:59,532 --> 01:09:02,983 ...to see if it actually proves what the prosecution claims. 964 01:09:03,204 --> 01:09:04,614 Mr. Della Guardia? 965 01:09:04,831 --> 01:09:07,701 With proviso that nothing be removed, nothing disturbed. 966 01:09:07,792 --> 01:09:09,784 - No objection. - Granted. 967 01:09:10,504 --> 01:09:12,496 Mr. Stern, anything further? 968 01:09:12,840 --> 01:09:16,173 We notice that Mr. Molto is listed both as a prosecutor... 969 01:09:16,262 --> 01:09:19,678 ...and as a witness for the prosecution. We object to that. 970 01:09:19,807 --> 01:09:22,380 I take it you are speaking of where Mr. Sabich... 971 01:09:22,477 --> 01:09:26,640 ...responds to Mr. Molto's accusation of murder by saying: "You're right." 972 01:09:28,193 --> 01:09:30,066 "Yeah, you're right." 973 01:09:30,613 --> 01:09:33,068 Your Honor, the man admitted the crime. 974 01:09:33,199 --> 01:09:35,820 Come on, Mr. Delay Guardia. Really. 975 01:09:36,870 --> 01:09:40,950 Tell a man he's engaged in wrongdoing and he says, "Yeah, you're right." 976 01:09:41,084 --> 01:09:44,453 Everyone knows that's facetious. We're all familiar with that. 977 01:09:44,546 --> 01:09:47,879 Shit, if Mr. Sabich had come from my neighborhood... 978 01:09:48,134 --> 01:09:50,375 ...he would've said, "Your momma." 979 01:09:51,389 --> 01:09:55,387 But, in Mr. Sabich's part of town I would think they would say: 980 01:09:55,893 --> 01:09:57,635 "Yeah, you're right." 981 01:09:57,729 --> 01:10:00,516 And what they mean is, "You are wrong." 982 01:10:00,858 --> 01:10:02,565 Just to be polite. 983 01:10:04,739 --> 01:10:07,905 Your Honor, isn't that a question for the jury? 984 01:10:08,242 --> 01:10:12,738 On the contrary, Mr. Delay Guardia, it is first a question for the court. 985 01:10:13,416 --> 01:10:17,745 If you use Mr. Sabich's statement and risk my ruling it out of order... 986 01:10:18,254 --> 01:10:20,661 ...then I will bar Mr. Molto from prosecuting. 987 01:10:20,758 --> 01:10:22,964 But if he is the prosecutor... 988 01:10:23,595 --> 01:10:26,595 ...then Mr. Sabich's statement may not be offered. 989 01:10:27,684 --> 01:10:30,257 And I'll see you in court in three weeks. 990 01:10:31,646 --> 01:10:34,183 Ernestine, show in the next bunch. 991 01:10:42,618 --> 01:10:45,025 What the fuck are you doing with those? 992 01:10:45,121 --> 01:10:49,949 We don't want Molto thinking fingerprints we leave here today are from before. 993 01:10:51,505 --> 01:10:55,503 We're not going to plant anything, if that's what you're worried about. 994 01:10:57,762 --> 01:10:59,255 The law's the law. 995 01:11:00,766 --> 01:11:02,758 Yeah, I know, Glendenning. 996 01:11:09,276 --> 01:11:10,603 Diaphragm? 997 01:11:12,113 --> 01:11:13,855 I don't know. The bathroom? 998 01:11:13,949 --> 01:11:15,110 Where? 999 01:12:02,593 --> 01:12:03,754 Nothing. 1000 01:12:04,010 --> 01:12:06,334 Fucking cops always forget something. 1001 01:12:07,265 --> 01:12:08,509 What is it? 1002 01:12:08,850 --> 01:12:10,177 Her phone book. 1003 01:12:10,686 --> 01:12:13,603 Check with her doctors on the contraceptive stuff. 1004 01:12:14,191 --> 01:12:16,812 Carolyn never seemed worried about anything like that. 1005 01:12:16,902 --> 01:12:20,816 She's got them under "D." Jesus, she's got a lot of doctors. 1006 01:12:21,950 --> 01:12:26,078 If the chemist says spermicide is present, and it's not seized from here... 1007 01:12:26,164 --> 01:12:28,120 ...then you tell me where it's at? 1008 01:12:28,207 --> 01:12:31,706 I don't know. Maybe I took it when I took the diaphragm. 1009 01:12:32,546 --> 01:12:34,372 It doesn't make sense. 1010 01:12:36,051 --> 01:12:39,384 You got to remember, I wasn't thinking very clearly. 1011 01:12:41,223 --> 01:12:44,888 If I had been, I wouldn't have left my fingerprints on the glass. 1012 01:12:46,606 --> 01:12:48,432 You were a former chief deputy prosecutor. 1013 01:12:48,525 --> 01:12:51,098 How does it feel to be on the other side? 1014 01:12:54,156 --> 01:12:56,825 Think you might be a political scapegoat? 1015 01:12:57,077 --> 01:13:00,611 Sorry, we're not about to try this case on the courthouse steps. 1016 01:13:00,707 --> 01:13:02,995 How do you feel about your husband, now? 1017 01:13:03,084 --> 01:13:04,245 All rise. 1018 01:13:07,089 --> 01:13:10,588 The Superior Court for the county of Kindle is now in session. 1019 01:13:10,677 --> 01:13:13,927 The Honorable Larren L. Lyttle, judge presiding. 1020 01:13:14,932 --> 01:13:18,182 Draw near and give your attention and you shall be heard. 1021 01:13:18,269 --> 01:13:21,472 God save the United States and this honorable court. 1022 01:13:21,649 --> 01:13:24,602 The People vs. Rozat K. Sabich, for trial. 1023 01:13:26,029 --> 01:13:27,736 May it please the court. 1024 01:13:27,906 --> 01:13:31,357 The State's evidence will show that on or about April 1... 1025 01:13:31,536 --> 01:13:34,952 ...Carolyn Polhemus, a deputy prosecutor in Kindle County... 1026 01:13:35,792 --> 01:13:37,618 ...was brutally murdered. 1027 01:13:38,628 --> 01:13:42,672 The proof will show that this murder was perpetrated by her colleague... 1028 01:13:43,134 --> 01:13:44,924 ...Rozat K. Sabich. 1029 01:13:46,179 --> 01:13:48,966 How are we to answer this, Rusty Sabich and I? 1030 01:13:50,559 --> 01:13:55,055 Mr. Della Guardia's case involves no facts but supposition upon supposition. 1031 01:13:55,900 --> 01:13:57,607 Guess upon guess. 1032 01:13:59,070 --> 01:14:01,940 When you listen to the evidence, ask yourselves... 1033 01:14:02,073 --> 01:14:03,815 ...why Rusty Sabich... 1034 01:14:04,827 --> 01:14:07,496 ...the finest prosecutor of this county... 1035 01:14:08,832 --> 01:14:11,868 ...a man who has devoted his life to preventing... 1036 01:14:12,087 --> 01:14:15,752 ...and punishing criminal behavior, not to committing it... 1037 01:14:18,177 --> 01:14:20,335 ...sits here as the accused. 1038 01:14:21,849 --> 01:14:22,927 Why? 1039 01:14:23,100 --> 01:14:25,092 The State calls Detective Harold Greer. 1040 01:14:25,185 --> 01:14:27,509 May we have a word with the bench? 1041 01:14:29,024 --> 01:14:33,104 This witness will testify about a bar glass. They have no bar glass. 1042 01:14:33,572 --> 01:14:35,113 What about this? 1043 01:14:35,449 --> 01:14:38,449 I learned the first time last night, from Tommy.... 1044 01:14:38,869 --> 01:14:41,324 Hold it right there. Inside, gentlemen. 1045 01:14:41,581 --> 01:14:44,617 I request that Mr. Sabich join us in chambers. 1046 01:14:44,710 --> 01:14:47,200 He is an integral part of the defense. 1047 01:14:50,550 --> 01:14:52,340 Where is the fucking glass? 1048 01:14:52,428 --> 01:14:57,090 Police Evidence Room was where it was supposed to be, but they can't find it. 1049 01:14:57,560 --> 01:15:01,889 We won't be talking about evidence that nobody can find. Not in my court. 1050 01:15:04,443 --> 01:15:08,737 We don't object to the photographs, just to testimony about fingerprints. 1051 01:15:09,616 --> 01:15:11,904 I will reserve decision, gentlemen. 1052 01:15:14,246 --> 01:15:17,864 A stroke of luck. Their disorganization will help us with the jury. 1053 01:15:17,960 --> 01:15:19,868 They'll find the glass. They always do. 1054 01:15:19,962 --> 01:15:22,962 Ladies and gentlemen, these photos depict horrors... 1055 01:15:23,050 --> 01:15:26,086 ...you may be expected to react to with disgust. 1056 01:15:26,887 --> 01:15:29,175 But I am instructing you, that in themselves... 1057 01:15:29,265 --> 01:15:32,764 ...they are proof of nothing except the nature of the crime. 1058 01:15:46,579 --> 01:15:48,120 How you doing? 1059 01:15:48,664 --> 01:15:51,867 - They making it tough on you? - Those cupcakes? Come on. 1060 01:15:52,502 --> 01:15:54,541 Is there anything you need? 1061 01:15:55,757 --> 01:15:58,710 Yeah, I got to find this guy, Leon. Leon Wells. 1062 01:15:58,886 --> 01:16:02,884 The guy who's supposed to have bribed the PA at the North Branch. 1063 01:16:04,184 --> 01:16:07,137 I wouldn't ask, but it might really matter. 1064 01:16:07,438 --> 01:16:11,352 Think Molto's kinky on this? Set you up to keep you from looking? 1065 01:16:11,692 --> 01:16:15,143 You want to hear me say I think it might be possible? I do. 1066 01:16:15,281 --> 01:16:17,154 Okay, after I testify. 1067 01:16:17,742 --> 01:16:19,319 They got their eyes on me. 1068 01:16:19,411 --> 01:16:23,409 When I'm off the stand, they'll ease up. I'll work on it then. Hard. 1069 01:16:23,999 --> 01:16:25,326 You're a pal. 1070 01:16:28,172 --> 01:16:29,665 Is he gonna help? 1071 01:16:31,050 --> 01:16:33,967 After he testifies. Might be too late by then. 1072 01:16:35,180 --> 01:16:37,172 I think it's going well. 1073 01:16:38,017 --> 01:16:41,849 The jury's gonna remember pictures of Carolyn tortured to death. 1074 01:16:43,691 --> 01:16:46,146 They'll want somebody to pay for what they saw. 1075 01:16:46,235 --> 01:16:47,609 Tomorrow, Raymond... 1076 01:16:47,695 --> 01:16:51,527 ...my friend and mentor, will testify he thinks I'm guilty. 1077 01:16:53,745 --> 01:16:55,903 Then come the physical proofs: 1078 01:16:56,248 --> 01:16:58,952 Fingerprints. Fiber. Bodily fluids. 1079 01:17:03,215 --> 01:17:04,957 They all point to me. 1080 01:17:05,426 --> 01:17:07,881 You know the defendant, Rozat Sabich? 1081 01:17:08,806 --> 01:17:12,506 Sure, I know Rusty. I've known him since he was a law student. 1082 01:17:12,601 --> 01:17:14,059 He was my second in command. 1083 01:17:14,145 --> 01:17:15,971 Would you identify him? 1084 01:17:21,654 --> 01:17:22,851 That's him. 1085 01:17:24,867 --> 01:17:28,995 You assigned Mr. Sabich to supervise the investigation in this case? 1086 01:17:31,083 --> 01:17:32,576 He volunteered. 1087 01:17:32,669 --> 01:17:33,948 And I accepted. 1088 01:17:34,378 --> 01:17:36,868 He promised to pursue it vigorously. 1089 01:17:37,090 --> 01:17:38,204 Did he? 1090 01:17:38,342 --> 01:17:40,500 Not to my way of thinking, no. 1091 01:17:41,513 --> 01:17:44,348 I got the feeling he was stalling on the investigation. 1092 01:17:44,433 --> 01:17:47,350 I let him know that I wasn't happy about that. 1093 01:17:49,731 --> 01:17:52,934 He brought in his own detective to replace Harold Greer. 1094 01:17:53,152 --> 01:17:56,651 Then he gave his new partner instructions to ignore evidence... 1095 01:17:56,739 --> 01:18:00,024 ...about telephone calls between his house and Carolyn's. 1096 01:18:01,370 --> 01:18:05,414 He tried to limit the scope of the fingerprint search to exclude his own. 1097 01:18:07,837 --> 01:18:12,214 He was more interested in whether I had been intimate with Carolyn Polhemus... 1098 01:18:12,467 --> 01:18:14,708 ...than in the facts surrounding her murder. 1099 01:18:14,804 --> 01:18:17,377 What did you tell him about you and Ms. Polhemus? 1100 01:18:17,474 --> 01:18:19,051 I told him the truth. 1101 01:18:19,769 --> 01:18:22,010 That we'd been together for about three months. 1102 01:18:22,104 --> 01:18:24,226 This, of course, was after I was divorced. 1103 01:18:24,315 --> 01:18:26,473 At that time, or any other time... 1104 01:18:26,610 --> 01:18:29,445 ...did he inform you of his personal relationship with her? 1105 01:18:29,531 --> 01:18:33,659 There is no proof in the record of any relationship between them. 1106 01:18:34,077 --> 01:18:36,069 I'll let the question stand. 1107 01:18:37,081 --> 01:18:41,494 But Mr. Della Guardia is asking a question based on his assumption... 1108 01:18:42,130 --> 01:18:46,424 ...that something was going on between Mr. Sabich and Ms. Polhemus. 1109 01:18:46,802 --> 01:18:49,043 Just because he thinks it's so... 1110 01:18:49,305 --> 01:18:50,964 ...doesn't make it so. 1111 01:18:51,766 --> 01:18:52,927 Proceed. 1112 01:18:53,727 --> 01:18:56,264 I never would've let him handle the investigation... 1113 01:18:56,355 --> 01:18:59,355 ...if I thought he'd been intimate with the victim. 1114 01:18:59,818 --> 01:19:01,477 Nothing further. 1115 01:19:02,112 --> 01:19:03,653 Have you any... 1116 01:19:03,948 --> 01:19:05,856 ...personal knowledge... 1117 01:19:05,993 --> 01:19:10,204 ...that there was ever a relationship between Mr. Sabich and Ms. Polhemus? 1118 01:19:10,498 --> 01:19:12,240 That's the point. He didn't tell me. 1119 01:19:12,333 --> 01:19:14,704 Please answer the question I asked you. 1120 01:19:16,130 --> 01:19:18,086 Do you remember the question? 1121 01:19:18,300 --> 01:19:19,295 I do. 1122 01:19:19,842 --> 01:19:21,917 But you chose not to answer it. 1123 01:19:22,805 --> 01:19:24,595 I apologize, Mr. Stern. 1124 01:19:24,849 --> 01:19:28,633 I have no personal knowledge that such a relationship ever existed. 1125 01:19:28,896 --> 01:19:31,517 Assuming there was something to disclose... 1126 01:19:31,649 --> 01:19:36,026 ...you believe he should have informed anyone in a responsible position? 1127 01:19:36,113 --> 01:19:36,894 I do. 1128 01:19:36,989 --> 01:19:40,488 Certainly you would give any information you had on a case... 1129 01:19:40,619 --> 01:19:42,860 ...to your investigating staff? 1130 01:19:43,038 --> 01:19:44,317 Certainly. 1131 01:19:45,207 --> 01:19:46,451 Mr. Horgan... 1132 01:19:46,918 --> 01:19:50,002 ...you removed a file, a so-called B file... 1133 01:19:50,339 --> 01:19:54,550 ...from Ms. Polhemus's office after the investigation of her murder began? 1134 01:19:54,969 --> 01:19:56,711 What's the relevance of this? 1135 01:19:56,805 --> 01:19:59,675 The witness has testified on direct examination... 1136 01:19:59,767 --> 01:20:03,634 ...that Mr. Sabich did not bring to his attention information... 1137 01:20:03,814 --> 01:20:05,391 ...that he regarded as pertinent. 1138 01:20:05,483 --> 01:20:10,110 The defense is entitled to explore Mr. Horgan's standards in this regard. 1139 01:20:10,739 --> 01:20:13,656 Subject to a later connection, I'll allow it. 1140 01:20:14,494 --> 01:20:15,987 Continue, Counselor. 1141 01:20:16,497 --> 01:20:19,414 And you gave that B file to Mr. Sabich... 1142 01:20:19,833 --> 01:20:23,877 ...only after he informed you it was missing from Ms. Polhemus's office? 1143 01:20:24,715 --> 01:20:26,089 That's true. 1144 01:20:27,176 --> 01:20:30,093 You've told us that you and Carolyn were lovers. 1145 01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:32,304 For a short time, yes. 1146 01:20:33,350 --> 01:20:34,891 B-file cases... 1147 01:20:35,353 --> 01:20:38,437 ...cases involving bribery and official misconduct... 1148 01:20:38,899 --> 01:20:42,102 ...are normally assigned to the assistant deputy. 1149 01:20:42,528 --> 01:20:45,101 At the time, Mr. Sabich. Is that not true? 1150 01:20:45,198 --> 01:20:46,988 That was the usual practice, yes. 1151 01:20:47,076 --> 01:20:50,694 You gave this highly sensitive matter in this B file... 1152 01:20:50,914 --> 01:20:53,914 ...to Carolyn Polhemus while you were sleeping with her? 1153 01:20:54,001 --> 01:20:56,123 That appears to be the time frame. 1154 01:20:58,340 --> 01:21:00,498 The answer to the question is yes. 1155 01:21:01,928 --> 01:21:06,637 Weren't you concerned, in the midst of a nip-and-tuck election campaign... 1156 01:21:07,059 --> 01:21:10,475 ...about word leaking out that you had secretly given a file... 1157 01:21:10,563 --> 01:21:12,934 ...that was in Mr. Sabich's area of authority... 1158 01:21:13,025 --> 01:21:15,776 ...to an assistant with no experience in such matters... 1159 01:21:15,862 --> 01:21:18,435 ...with whom you were sleeping at the time? 1160 01:21:19,574 --> 01:21:21,566 It may have crossed my mind. 1161 01:21:22,745 --> 01:21:25,580 Who knows? It was not an ideal situation. 1162 01:21:27,084 --> 01:21:28,328 Far from it. 1163 01:21:30,129 --> 01:21:31,326 And, sir... 1164 01:21:31,881 --> 01:21:33,873 ...you come to this courtroom... 1165 01:21:33,967 --> 01:21:35,923 ...where the life of a man... 1166 01:21:36,053 --> 01:21:40,216 ...who served you faithfully for 12 years now hangs in the balance... 1167 01:21:40,391 --> 01:21:43,095 ...and you tell us you withheld evidence from him... 1168 01:21:43,187 --> 01:21:46,271 ...that might have assisted in his investigation? 1169 01:21:58,122 --> 01:21:59,236 All right. 1170 01:22:02,837 --> 01:22:04,461 Is it fair to say... 1171 01:22:04,964 --> 01:22:08,000 ...that the chief deputy is the person in the office... 1172 01:22:08,093 --> 01:22:11,259 ...in whose judgement you place the greatest confidence? 1173 01:22:13,099 --> 01:22:16,099 I regarded him as the best lawyer for the job, yes. 1174 01:22:16,227 --> 01:22:18,896 And you gave Mr. Sabich the authority... 1175 01:22:19,357 --> 01:22:22,726 ...to decide when and where to fire Mr. Della Guardia? 1176 01:22:22,945 --> 01:22:24,319 Gentlemen... 1177 01:22:24,906 --> 01:22:26,732 ...let's stop right there. 1178 01:22:28,743 --> 01:22:31,233 What is the relevance of who fired who? 1179 01:22:31,455 --> 01:22:35,784 Judge, it's our theory that Mr. Sabich is being framed in this case. 1180 01:22:37,254 --> 01:22:40,207 - I don't believe it. - Your response has been noted. 1181 01:22:40,466 --> 01:22:43,632 If Mr. Stern is truly going to endeavor to prove... 1182 01:22:43,762 --> 01:22:47,213 ...that the case against Mr. Sabich has been manufactured... 1183 01:22:47,350 --> 01:22:51,134 ...then this history of antagonism is relevant for those purposes. 1184 01:22:51,271 --> 01:22:53,559 What about this missing B file? 1185 01:22:53,649 --> 01:22:56,685 We believe it's being withheld because it contains evidence... 1186 01:22:56,778 --> 01:22:58,900 ...that is necessary to the defense. 1187 01:22:58,989 --> 01:23:01,740 So, we intend to pursue this matter... 1188 01:23:02,202 --> 01:23:05,986 ...until we have a full understanding on how it bears on the truth. 1189 01:23:06,332 --> 01:23:10,080 I don't know where this will lead us, but I'll tell you two things: 1190 01:23:10,253 --> 01:23:13,040 You'd better be prepared for the prosecution's response... 1191 01:23:13,132 --> 01:23:17,545 ...because he is going to be entitled to a great deal of latitude in answering. 1192 01:23:17,887 --> 01:23:20,175 'Cause I am going to give him that. 1193 01:23:25,105 --> 01:23:29,185 Do you recall we spoke about a B file that you assigned to Ms. Polhemus? 1194 01:23:29,944 --> 01:23:32,019 I'll remember it for quite some time. 1195 01:23:32,114 --> 01:23:35,280 - Was Mr. Molto involved in this case? - Objection! 1196 01:23:35,410 --> 01:23:36,903 Objection sustained. 1197 01:23:37,079 --> 01:23:39,700 Mr. Stern, you're playing with fire. 1198 01:23:41,333 --> 01:23:44,867 Do you know what investigation, if any, Mr. Molto pursued-- 1199 01:23:44,963 --> 01:23:47,002 I'll answer that! He took no action. 1200 01:23:47,091 --> 01:23:49,546 He wasn't going to chase Sabich's red herrings. 1201 01:23:49,635 --> 01:23:53,086 Mr. Della Guardia, you will remember you're the prosecutor... 1202 01:23:53,181 --> 01:23:54,758 ...not the witness. 1203 01:24:00,649 --> 01:24:04,896 Perhaps we can all learn something about red herrings and scapegoats. 1204 01:24:05,905 --> 01:24:07,315 That is all. 1205 01:24:07,741 --> 01:24:10,314 This court is adjourned for the weekend. 1206 01:24:11,913 --> 01:24:14,237 I don't understand what you're doing. 1207 01:24:14,666 --> 01:24:16,658 You're alienating the judge. 1208 01:24:16,919 --> 01:24:20,999 When I said they manufactured a case, you wanted nothing to do with it. 1209 01:24:21,425 --> 01:24:23,464 Clearly, I changed my mind. 1210 01:24:23,761 --> 01:24:25,385 On the basis of what? 1211 01:24:25,805 --> 01:24:27,002 Instinct. 1212 01:24:31,145 --> 01:24:33,552 If you don't like it, you can always come home. 1213 01:24:33,648 --> 01:24:34,927 I wanna go. 1214 01:24:35,359 --> 01:24:37,315 All my friends will be there. 1215 01:24:37,987 --> 01:24:39,361 I'll be okay. 1216 01:24:43,619 --> 01:24:45,492 Come here. Sit down. 1217 01:24:47,499 --> 01:24:50,334 Look, I'm accused of doing something I didn't do. 1218 01:24:51,003 --> 01:24:54,502 This trial is gonna give me a chance to clear myself. 1219 01:24:55,217 --> 01:24:57,423 - That's what's gonna happen. - Of course. 1220 01:24:57,511 --> 01:24:58,708 Of course. 1221 01:24:59,931 --> 01:25:02,421 Here are the postcards. Use them. 1222 01:25:02,559 --> 01:25:04,883 - Don't forget to write. - They make me. 1223 01:25:05,396 --> 01:25:06,806 What about me? 1224 01:25:17,536 --> 01:25:19,113 Did Mr. Sabich ever tell you... 1225 01:25:19,205 --> 01:25:22,289 ...he had a personal relationship with Ms. Polhemus? 1226 01:25:22,835 --> 01:25:23,830 No. 1227 01:25:24,294 --> 01:25:25,953 Did Mr. Sabich, at any time... 1228 01:25:26,046 --> 01:25:29,878 ...order you not to get phone records of calls from his home? 1229 01:25:30,010 --> 01:25:32,417 He never ordered me. He asked me. 1230 01:25:32,597 --> 01:25:35,170 He asked you not to get those records? 1231 01:25:35,516 --> 01:25:36,630 Did you oblige him? 1232 01:25:36,726 --> 01:25:39,845 I was taken off the case before I got to those records. 1233 01:25:39,980 --> 01:25:42,684 - You did or did not get those records? - I did not. 1234 01:25:42,776 --> 01:25:45,895 We had a lot of higher-priority items on our mind. 1235 01:25:47,656 --> 01:25:49,114 A high-priority item... 1236 01:25:49,200 --> 01:25:53,661 ...was the analysis of fingerprints found in Ms. Polhemus's apartment. 1237 01:25:53,956 --> 01:25:55,995 Who talked with the Fingerprint Lab? 1238 01:25:56,084 --> 01:25:57,198 Mr. Sabich. 1239 01:25:57,294 --> 01:25:59,250 Did you ask him to expedite the reports? 1240 01:25:59,337 --> 01:26:00,415 Yes, sir, I did. 1241 01:26:00,505 --> 01:26:02,793 What did he say, if anything? 1242 01:26:03,468 --> 01:26:04,842 He said he forgot. 1243 01:26:04,928 --> 01:26:06,255 He forgot? 1244 01:26:09,517 --> 01:26:11,010 Rusty forgot. 1245 01:26:12,103 --> 01:26:15,306 Would it be fair to say the two of you, by working together... 1246 01:26:15,399 --> 01:26:17,723 ...have formed a personal friendship? 1247 01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:19,897 I suppose so, yes. 1248 01:26:20,239 --> 01:26:21,863 Were you assigned initially? 1249 01:26:21,950 --> 01:26:24,619 Harold Greer initially handled the case. 1250 01:26:25,912 --> 01:26:28,153 Has Mr. Sabich ever expressed to you... 1251 01:26:28,249 --> 01:26:31,285 ...any reservations about Harold Greer's abilities? 1252 01:26:31,545 --> 01:26:35,163 Everybody that I know thinks of Harold Greer as a top-grade cop. 1253 01:26:35,424 --> 01:26:39,552 Do you know who decided to replace Harold Greer and bring you on this case? 1254 01:26:39,638 --> 01:26:41,048 Mr. Sabich. 1255 01:26:43,476 --> 01:26:44,755 Do you feel.... 1256 01:26:44,853 --> 01:26:45,931 Withdrawn. 1257 01:26:46,437 --> 01:26:50,351 To your knowledge, does the defendant have a closer personal relationship... 1258 01:26:50,443 --> 01:26:53,894 ...with anyone on the police force than he does with you? 1259 01:26:54,448 --> 01:26:56,356 Not that he's mentioned, no. 1260 01:26:56,868 --> 01:26:58,990 So it's fair to say, Detective... 1261 01:26:59,078 --> 01:27:03,705 ...that you are the police officer least likely to suspect him of murder. 1262 01:27:04,585 --> 01:27:07,158 I would never believe that. Never. 1263 01:27:07,673 --> 01:27:09,879 Thank you for your cooperation and answering... 1264 01:27:09,966 --> 01:27:13,417 ...what must have been painful and difficult questions for you... 1265 01:27:13,513 --> 01:27:16,217 ...considering your relationship to the defendant. 1266 01:27:16,308 --> 01:27:17,635 Nothing further. 1267 01:27:21,190 --> 01:27:24,025 You made reference to a theory you were developing that... 1268 01:27:24,109 --> 01:27:27,275 ...Ms. Polhemus might have been the victim of a revenge killer. 1269 01:27:27,364 --> 01:27:29,190 Someone she had once sent to jail. 1270 01:27:29,283 --> 01:27:32,865 Yes, sir. We thought of that as our most likely case. 1271 01:27:33,287 --> 01:27:35,611 To identify possible suspects... 1272 01:27:36,082 --> 01:27:40,709 ...you reviewed cases she had prosecuted, and was currently prosecuting... 1273 01:27:40,880 --> 01:27:42,788 ...going back several years? Correct? 1274 01:27:42,883 --> 01:27:43,997 Yes, sir. 1275 01:27:44,260 --> 01:27:46,335 Were you able to find all those files? 1276 01:27:46,428 --> 01:27:48,420 No, sir. A file was missing. 1277 01:27:49,015 --> 01:27:51,386 This is the so-called B file... 1278 01:27:51,727 --> 01:27:54,217 ...that was withheld from you and Mr. Sabich... 1279 01:27:54,314 --> 01:27:57,765 ...until Mr. Sabich requested it personally from Mr. Horgan? 1280 01:27:58,068 --> 01:27:59,098 Yes, sir. 1281 01:27:59,194 --> 01:28:00,901 It involved allegations-- 1282 01:28:00,988 --> 01:28:02,398 Let's move on. 1283 01:28:03,450 --> 01:28:07,032 You've been warned about riding off in all directions. 1284 01:28:07,288 --> 01:28:08,829 No further questions. 1285 01:28:09,457 --> 01:28:11,283 No redirect, Your Honor. 1286 01:28:12,002 --> 01:28:14,872 We need subpoenas for Carolyn's doctors... 1287 01:28:15,173 --> 01:28:16,999 ...and for phone company records... 1288 01:28:17,092 --> 01:28:18,965 ...to check for errors. 1289 01:28:19,303 --> 01:28:21,840 I don't think we need to bother with that. 1290 01:28:22,723 --> 01:28:25,926 You said there was something wrong with the phone records. 1291 01:28:26,020 --> 01:28:29,186 That you never called Polhemus the night of the murder. 1292 01:28:31,819 --> 01:28:34,938 Jamie, I'd like a moment alone with my client. 1293 01:28:38,285 --> 01:28:39,695 - Sure. - Thanks. 1294 01:28:49,173 --> 01:28:52,209 I used to call Carolyn's apartment after it was over. 1295 01:28:54,430 --> 01:28:55,804 I'd call... 1296 01:28:58,518 --> 01:29:00,059 ... just to hear her voice. 1297 01:29:00,145 --> 01:29:02,433 Then I'd hang up, like a goddamn kid. 1298 01:29:05,611 --> 01:29:08,944 I'm not sure I called that night or not. I don't remember. 1299 01:29:11,242 --> 01:29:15,405 Contrary to my original hopes, we will have to present a defense. 1300 01:29:22,548 --> 01:29:24,207 My first instinct is... 1301 01:29:24,383 --> 01:29:26,339 ...to put Barbara on the witness stand. 1302 01:29:26,428 --> 01:29:27,340 No. 1303 01:29:27,429 --> 01:29:30,928 She's an attractive woman and there are five men in the jury. 1304 01:29:31,058 --> 01:29:33,975 She can also support your alibi quite effectively. 1305 01:29:34,062 --> 01:29:35,888 It's not negotiable, Sandy. 1306 01:29:42,490 --> 01:29:44,280 When I was a prosecutor... 1307 01:29:44,366 --> 01:29:48,613 ...I always knew I had a winner when the defendant refused to testify. 1308 01:29:50,332 --> 01:29:52,407 All I want to do is to tell the truth. 1309 01:29:52,502 --> 01:29:55,586 The jury wants to hear me say I didn't do it. 1310 01:29:55,755 --> 01:29:58,043 And that, you will do very well. 1311 01:30:01,847 --> 01:30:05,761 But with every word, you will confirm what the prosecution is saying. 1312 01:30:05,894 --> 01:30:08,431 That you were overwhelmed with a sexual obsession... 1313 01:30:08,521 --> 01:30:12,353 ...that took a wrong turn into rage when she ended the affair. 1314 01:30:13,111 --> 01:30:17,524 You will have gone a long way to eliminating the jury's reasonable doubt. 1315 01:30:18,575 --> 01:30:20,567 The State offers as evidence... 1316 01:30:21,079 --> 01:30:23,320 ...from the defendant's suitcoat... 1317 01:30:23,457 --> 01:30:27,289 ...a hair identified by the Police Crime Lab as that of the deceased. 1318 01:30:27,379 --> 01:30:31,293 The skirt of the deceased contaminated with fiber identified as Zorak V... 1319 01:30:31,383 --> 01:30:34,502 ...a carpet fabric found in the home of the defendant. 1320 01:30:35,263 --> 01:30:37,753 Chemist's identification of blood type... 1321 01:30:37,933 --> 01:30:41,384 ...and semen from the vagina of the deceased as type A. 1322 01:30:41,896 --> 01:30:44,600 Results of a blood test of Rozat Sabich... 1323 01:30:44,691 --> 01:30:47,098 ...identifying his as blood type A. 1324 01:30:48,279 --> 01:30:52,407 The shirt of the deceased, contaminated with the fiber Zorak V... 1325 01:30:53,201 --> 01:30:55,905 ...carpet fabric used in the defendant's home. 1326 01:31:00,127 --> 01:31:02,498 The State calls Detective Morris Dickerman. 1327 01:31:02,589 --> 01:31:04,747 This relates to missing evidence. 1328 01:31:04,966 --> 01:31:07,124 I hope you're not considering allowing them... 1329 01:31:07,219 --> 01:31:10,670 ...to proceed with the fingerprint evidence in the absence of the glass. 1330 01:31:10,765 --> 01:31:14,050 If so, we would like to be heard on that question. 1331 01:31:14,645 --> 01:31:16,304 I understand that. 1332 01:31:16,689 --> 01:31:19,939 You may want to do some research into this issue. 1333 01:31:20,652 --> 01:31:24,270 You hit the books tonight and I'll listen to you tomorrow. 1334 01:31:25,158 --> 01:31:26,817 And if I were you... 1335 01:31:27,203 --> 01:31:30,951 ...I'd roll up my shirtsleeves and go to the Evidence Room... 1336 01:31:31,124 --> 01:31:33,032 ...and find that glass. 1337 01:31:33,502 --> 01:31:36,171 You're not going to get any sleep again. 1338 01:31:36,297 --> 01:31:39,962 That glass is the strongest piece of physical evidence that I was there. 1339 01:31:40,052 --> 01:31:45,094 If I can find solid precedents to keep it out of evidence, their case will fail. 1340 01:31:48,813 --> 01:31:51,897 Get something to eat and don't drink too much coffee. 1341 01:31:54,653 --> 01:31:55,850 Thanks. 1342 01:31:55,946 --> 01:31:57,107 For what? 1343 01:31:57,490 --> 01:31:59,149 For hanging in there. 1344 01:32:00,995 --> 01:32:02,536 What did you expect? 1345 01:32:17,055 --> 01:32:18,548 Yeah, just a sec. 1346 01:32:20,894 --> 01:32:22,221 It's your uncle. 1347 01:32:24,482 --> 01:32:25,643 My uncle? 1348 01:32:32,742 --> 01:32:35,742 We got something on that very important matter. 1349 01:32:36,998 --> 01:32:38,954 I'm downstairs, in the lobby. 1350 01:32:40,334 --> 01:32:43,169 We're working to keep the glass out of evidence. 1351 01:32:43,338 --> 01:32:45,496 Fuck the glass. I found Leon. 1352 01:32:45,716 --> 01:32:47,922 Feature this. He's a Night Saint. 1353 01:33:15,127 --> 01:33:16,122 Leon! 1354 01:33:17,714 --> 01:33:19,373 Answer the door. 1355 01:33:26,058 --> 01:33:28,299 Open up, Leon! It's the police! 1356 01:33:28,895 --> 01:33:30,803 We just want to talk, Leon. 1357 01:33:37,740 --> 01:33:38,984 On the floor! 1358 01:33:40,826 --> 01:33:43,495 - Don't even breathe! - What the fuck you doing? 1359 01:33:47,668 --> 01:33:49,042 I'm Detective Lipranzer. 1360 01:33:49,129 --> 01:33:51,964 This is Mr. Sabich from the prosecutor's office. 1361 01:33:52,090 --> 01:33:54,046 We have a few questions, Leon. 1362 01:33:54,218 --> 01:33:57,254 If you're straight with us, we're gone in five minutes. 1363 01:33:57,347 --> 01:33:59,884 Five, six years ago, you paid off a deputy PA... 1364 01:33:59,975 --> 01:34:03,141 ...$1,500 to make some trouble you had go away. 1365 01:34:03,729 --> 01:34:05,056 555-3469. 1366 01:34:06,191 --> 01:34:08,017 Jack Friedman, you ask for. 1367 01:34:12,533 --> 01:34:14,110 What the fuck he do that for? 1368 01:34:14,201 --> 01:34:16,691 He wants your complete attention. 1369 01:34:17,205 --> 01:34:21,867 Rusty Sabich is getting on the phone, he will tell your present associates... 1370 01:34:21,961 --> 01:34:26,706 ...that five years ago you paid off a PA to get off a rap on molesting an officer. 1371 01:34:27,092 --> 01:34:28,122 To wit: 1372 01:34:28,468 --> 01:34:32,050 Trying to get paid to suck his cock in a public place. 1373 01:34:33,266 --> 01:34:34,510 Now, Leon.... 1374 01:34:36,062 --> 01:34:38,683 How about five minutes of your time? 1375 01:34:48,118 --> 01:34:49,944 This blonde bitch... 1376 01:34:51,330 --> 01:34:53,820 ...my probation officer, set it up. 1377 01:34:55,419 --> 01:34:57,209 In the PA's office. 1378 01:34:58,298 --> 01:35:00,206 Man standing behind me. 1379 01:35:06,099 --> 01:35:08,589 And she be telling me, when I come in: 1380 01:35:09,937 --> 01:35:11,929 "Just don't turn around. 1381 01:35:13,274 --> 01:35:15,266 "Just do what the man say." 1382 01:35:17,905 --> 01:35:19,102 He said: 1383 01:35:22,620 --> 01:35:25,289 "Just leave the money in the top drawer." 1384 01:35:28,209 --> 01:35:30,248 Fifteen hundred dollars. 1385 01:35:31,630 --> 01:35:33,289 You never saw him? 1386 01:35:34,134 --> 01:35:36,126 But he knows who it was. 1387 01:35:44,772 --> 01:35:46,479 Judge Motherfucker. 1388 01:35:49,152 --> 01:35:51,144 That's what we all call him. 1389 01:35:54,784 --> 01:35:56,325 Larren Lyttle. 1390 01:35:59,080 --> 01:36:01,036 I bet Larren was porking her... 1391 01:36:01,125 --> 01:36:03,829 ...and taking the money to keep her in style. 1392 01:36:05,339 --> 01:36:07,461 Sometimes I hate being a cop. 1393 01:36:11,471 --> 01:36:14,721 Sorry, pal. You were counting on it being Molto. 1394 01:36:20,107 --> 01:36:24,318 If you leak this stuff we got on him to Larren, he might dismiss your case. 1395 01:36:29,994 --> 01:36:32,152 Okay, it was just a thought. 1396 01:36:34,750 --> 01:36:35,745 All rise! 1397 01:36:35,834 --> 01:36:39,000 This court is in session. Judge Larren Lyttle presiding. 1398 01:36:45,764 --> 01:36:47,174 Where's Kemp? 1399 01:36:47,724 --> 01:36:52,516 We just received the medical examiner's files on the reports from her doctors. 1400 01:36:52,689 --> 01:36:54,681 He's going over them right now. 1401 01:36:54,775 --> 01:36:58,025 We may have a surprise in the medical testimony. 1402 01:37:00,699 --> 01:37:03,534 Mr. Molto, you have completed your search? 1403 01:37:09,751 --> 01:37:11,209 Your Honor... 1404 01:37:11,420 --> 01:37:14,504 ...the police have not been able to locate the glass. 1405 01:37:14,758 --> 01:37:15,872 All right. 1406 01:37:16,385 --> 01:37:18,875 Mr. Stern, I have studied your arguments. 1407 01:37:19,431 --> 01:37:22,930 You are about to hear the testimony of a fingerprint expert... 1408 01:37:23,060 --> 01:37:27,354 ...concerning evidence that he claims to have identified on a certain glass. 1409 01:37:28,358 --> 01:37:33,150 I am instructing you as a matter of law that you are entitled to consider... 1410 01:37:33,447 --> 01:37:37,908 ...the prosecution's failure to make the glass available to the defense. 1411 01:37:38,245 --> 01:37:40,367 I am not telling you what to do. 1412 01:37:40,916 --> 01:37:43,585 But it is permissible for that one fact alone... 1413 01:37:43,669 --> 01:37:48,212 ...to raise a reasonable doubt that would require Mr. Sabich's acquittal. 1414 01:37:49,551 --> 01:37:51,792 Mr. Stern's objection is overruled. 1415 01:37:52,513 --> 01:37:55,217 His exception is noted for the record. Proceed. 1416 01:37:55,768 --> 01:37:56,882 I'm sorry. 1417 01:37:57,894 --> 01:37:59,767 He's right, under the law. 1418 01:38:00,565 --> 01:38:04,563 Based on the lateral slash on the anterior portion of the fingerprint... 1419 01:38:04,862 --> 01:38:07,068 ...the distinctive center whorl... 1420 01:38:07,449 --> 01:38:10,236 ...and the exact match on the top swirl... 1421 01:38:11,244 --> 01:38:15,871 ...I am certain the fingerprint on the glass from Polhemus's apartment... 1422 01:38:16,752 --> 01:38:20,963 ...is identical to that contained in the employment file of Rozat K. Sabich. 1423 01:38:21,924 --> 01:38:23,002 Very good. 1424 01:38:24,302 --> 01:38:27,302 We are calling Dr. Kumagai, the county coroner. 1425 01:38:27,640 --> 01:38:29,762 There are three depression fractures... 1426 01:38:29,851 --> 01:38:33,469 ...like from a heavy, blunt instrument. Maybe a hammer. 1427 01:38:34,148 --> 01:38:36,140 Here...here...and here. 1428 01:38:37,986 --> 01:38:39,894 This, and this over here, are... 1429 01:38:39,989 --> 01:38:43,488 ...sharp, deep penetrations of the skull and of the brain... 1430 01:38:43,619 --> 01:38:46,869 ...like with a hatchet, or maybe a meat cleaver. 1431 01:38:47,414 --> 01:38:51,661 I call to your attention the results of the forensic chemist's analysis... 1432 01:38:52,129 --> 01:38:53,706 ...State's exhibit 63. 1433 01:38:57,760 --> 01:39:00,429 I think we might just nail this sucker. 1434 01:39:00,639 --> 01:39:05,182 That report states the specimen of semen taken from Ms. Polhemus's body... 1435 01:39:05,896 --> 01:39:09,728 ...has been identified as being of Mr. Sabich's blood type. 1436 01:39:09,942 --> 01:39:11,269 You are correct. 1437 01:39:11,695 --> 01:39:14,814 It also indicates the presence of chemicals... 1438 01:39:15,157 --> 01:39:16,484 ...consistent... 1439 01:39:16,659 --> 01:39:19,363 ...with the use of a birth-control device. 1440 01:39:20,288 --> 01:39:21,567 A diaphragm. 1441 01:39:22,207 --> 01:39:23,285 It does. 1442 01:39:24,878 --> 01:39:27,036 Your opinion is that this was... 1443 01:39:27,464 --> 01:39:28,874 ...a staged rape? 1444 01:39:28,966 --> 01:39:30,708 That is my opinion. 1445 01:39:31,552 --> 01:39:33,294 And the way it was done... 1446 01:39:33,471 --> 01:39:34,798 ...suggests... 1447 01:39:35,724 --> 01:39:37,301 ...the knowledge... 1448 01:39:37,685 --> 01:39:39,926 ...of investigative techniques? 1449 01:39:40,940 --> 01:39:43,228 That's what I told Mr. Molto. 1450 01:39:44,401 --> 01:39:46,725 All of these deductions depend... 1451 01:39:47,155 --> 01:39:49,859 ...on the presence of spermicidal jelly... 1452 01:39:50,159 --> 01:39:53,409 ...in the specimen you sent to the forensic chemist? 1453 01:39:53,539 --> 01:39:54,736 Yes, sir. 1454 01:39:56,124 --> 01:39:59,575 How many autopsies do you perform in a week, Dr. Kumagai? 1455 01:40:00,672 --> 01:40:01,951 One, two... 1456 01:40:02,633 --> 01:40:04,340 ...ten. It all depends. 1457 01:40:04,969 --> 01:40:08,801 Would it surprise you to know you performed 18 autopsies... 1458 01:40:08,974 --> 01:40:12,259 ...in the two weeks surrounding Carolyn Polhemus's death? 1459 01:40:12,478 --> 01:40:13,592 No, sir. 1460 01:40:14,564 --> 01:40:16,223 Sounds about right. 1461 01:40:17,276 --> 01:40:20,442 Given that number, isn't it fair to say that... 1462 01:40:20,905 --> 01:40:24,274 ...the specifics of any one examination may slip your mind? 1463 01:40:26,120 --> 01:40:28,610 I take notes while I do the autopsies. 1464 01:40:29,124 --> 01:40:30,403 Notes, yes. 1465 01:40:31,960 --> 01:40:34,747 These notes led you to tell Detective Lipranzer... 1466 01:40:34,839 --> 01:40:36,961 ...that the murderer was sterile? 1467 01:40:37,468 --> 01:40:40,255 Looking back, you must have thought you were a fool... 1468 01:40:40,347 --> 01:40:44,974 ...to have escaped something so obvious as the use of a contraceptive spermicide. 1469 01:40:46,312 --> 01:40:48,351 All the sperm were dead. 1470 01:40:49,650 --> 01:40:54,146 I didn't have the forensic chemist's report about the spermicidal jelly. 1471 01:40:54,321 --> 01:40:58,817 In the absence of any other explanation, I thought the guy was sterile. 1472 01:41:01,331 --> 01:41:04,996 Do you recognize your notes of your autopsy of Ms. Polhemus? 1473 01:41:07,546 --> 01:41:09,502 Yes, sir, my signature. 1474 01:41:14,514 --> 01:41:16,553 Unless there is any objection... 1475 01:41:16,642 --> 01:41:20,592 ...would you please read the short passage marked by the paper clips? 1476 01:41:21,689 --> 01:41:23,348 Page two, Counsel. 1477 01:41:24,025 --> 01:41:25,684 Read it out loud, please. 1478 01:41:25,778 --> 01:41:27,770 "The Fallopian tubes... 1479 01:41:27,989 --> 01:41:30,028 "...are ligated and separated. 1480 01:41:30,491 --> 01:41:32,815 "The fimbriated ends appear...." 1481 01:41:46,637 --> 01:41:48,214 That's not right. 1482 01:41:48,556 --> 01:41:50,097 Your own autopsy notes? 1483 01:41:50,183 --> 01:41:53,183 You dictate them as you perform the procedure. 1484 01:41:58,276 --> 01:41:59,271 But not right. 1485 01:41:59,361 --> 01:42:02,943 I show you the records of Dr. Lubin, a gynecologist... 1486 01:42:03,324 --> 01:42:07,618 ...who performed this procedure on Ms. Polhemus six and a half years ago. 1487 01:42:10,082 --> 01:42:13,700 Would you explain to the jury what a "tubal ligation" is? 1488 01:42:19,135 --> 01:42:21,839 Would you explain, in layman's language... 1489 01:42:22,264 --> 01:42:24,256 ...what a "tubal ligation" is? 1490 01:42:33,987 --> 01:42:35,979 She had her tubes tied. 1491 01:42:38,326 --> 01:42:42,240 Is it possible for a woman with this procedure to conceive a child? 1492 01:42:43,666 --> 01:42:44,495 No way. 1493 01:42:44,583 --> 01:42:46,575 Can you think of any reason... 1494 01:42:47,003 --> 01:42:49,707 ...for a woman who had her tubes tied... 1495 01:42:50,091 --> 01:42:51,881 ...to use a spermicide? 1496 01:42:54,220 --> 01:42:55,594 No reason. 1497 01:42:56,431 --> 01:42:58,090 No medical reason. 1498 01:42:59,644 --> 01:43:00,758 I think of nothing. 1499 01:43:00,854 --> 01:43:03,605 Does it not follow, given these facts... 1500 01:43:03,774 --> 01:43:06,395 ...that the specimen you sent to the chemist... 1501 01:43:06,485 --> 01:43:09,569 ...was not taken from the body of Carolyn Polhemus? 1502 01:43:10,866 --> 01:43:12,858 I can't account for it. 1503 01:43:15,788 --> 01:43:17,863 So you don't know what happened. 1504 01:43:19,877 --> 01:43:22,996 Wherever you got that specimen from, Doctor... 1505 01:43:23,966 --> 01:43:25,874 ...you sent it to the chemist... 1506 01:43:25,969 --> 01:43:29,053 ...while you were secretly communicating with Mr. Molto... 1507 01:43:29,138 --> 01:43:31,130 ...behind Mr. Sabich's back. Am I right? 1508 01:43:31,225 --> 01:43:33,466 Do you accuse me, Mr. Stern? 1509 01:43:34,729 --> 01:43:36,306 Sit down, Doctor. 1510 01:43:38,650 --> 01:43:40,523 I think we have had enough... 1511 01:43:40,611 --> 01:43:43,564 ...unsupported accusations for one case... 1512 01:43:46,619 --> 01:43:48,160 ...Dr. Kumagai. 1513 01:43:49,081 --> 01:43:50,871 You may step down, Doctor. 1514 01:43:51,625 --> 01:43:55,207 Do I take it, Mr. Delay Guardia, that the State rests? 1515 01:43:59,844 --> 01:44:01,503 Judge, may we approach? 1516 01:44:08,980 --> 01:44:11,351 We would like Mr. Molto to testify. 1517 01:44:11,608 --> 01:44:12,603 No. 1518 01:44:12,693 --> 01:44:15,693 Judge, you said we would be entitled to some leeway... 1519 01:44:15,780 --> 01:44:18,899 ...if the defense proceeded with this frame-up theory. 1520 01:44:18,992 --> 01:44:21,862 Yes, but I did not know then, Mr. Della Guardia... 1521 01:44:21,996 --> 01:44:26,705 ...that your evidence would disappear after last being seen with Mr. Molto. 1522 01:44:26,835 --> 01:44:28,791 I didn't know that Mr. Molto... 1523 01:44:28,879 --> 01:44:31,998 ...and the chief pathologist would manufacture evidence... 1524 01:44:32,092 --> 01:44:33,669 ...and testimony. 1525 01:44:33,761 --> 01:44:37,805 And I tell you, that is a fair interpretation of the day's events. 1526 01:44:37,932 --> 01:44:41,265 I'm still considering the question of what happens to Mr. Molto... 1527 01:44:41,353 --> 01:44:43,012 ...but what isn't gonna happen... 1528 01:44:43,105 --> 01:44:46,355 ...is him getting up on the witness stand and making matters worse. 1529 01:44:46,443 --> 01:44:48,269 Withdraw, gentlemen. 1530 01:44:54,077 --> 01:44:57,362 On behalf of the people of Kindle County, the State rests. 1531 01:44:58,375 --> 01:45:00,165 This court is adjourned. 1532 01:45:00,501 --> 01:45:04,629 You should savor today, Sandy. No lawyer gets many crosses like that. 1533 01:45:04,799 --> 01:45:06,755 What a colossal blunder. 1534 01:45:08,137 --> 01:45:10,924 Tomorrow I will make the motion for a dismissal. 1535 01:45:11,015 --> 01:45:15,226 If the dismissal is not granted, we must proceed with the defense. 1536 01:45:16,939 --> 01:45:20,105 I need to know if you still insist on testifying. 1537 01:45:21,779 --> 01:45:23,652 Of course, you know my strong objections. 1538 01:45:26,534 --> 01:45:29,107 Why is he so against your testifying? 1539 01:45:29,663 --> 01:45:33,363 He's afraid I'll tell the truth about my relationship with Carolyn... 1540 01:45:33,460 --> 01:45:37,042 ...thus giving the prosecution the motive they've been lacking. 1541 01:45:38,215 --> 01:45:39,708 One could argue... 1542 01:45:40,843 --> 01:45:44,294 ...if the jury feels I'm being truthful about something so painful... 1543 01:45:44,390 --> 01:45:48,138 ...they should believe me when I say I didn't commit the murder. 1544 01:45:50,063 --> 01:45:51,640 What would you think? 1545 01:45:52,817 --> 01:45:54,975 If I were a member of the jury? 1546 01:45:59,575 --> 01:46:02,410 And I heard you admit how much she meant to you? 1547 01:46:06,334 --> 01:46:08,741 I think I'd conclude you were guilty. 1548 01:46:13,592 --> 01:46:15,169 I want to testify. 1549 01:46:17,890 --> 01:46:19,514 What would you say? 1550 01:46:24,147 --> 01:46:26,851 I'd say you were the only man I ever loved. 1551 01:46:29,362 --> 01:46:30,855 And I still do. 1552 01:46:33,910 --> 01:46:36,946 Before we begin our presentation, I would like to-- 1553 01:46:37,080 --> 01:46:39,119 Make a motion for dismissal? 1554 01:46:39,583 --> 01:46:40,613 Yes, Your Honor. 1555 01:46:40,709 --> 01:46:42,416 Sit down, Counselor. 1556 01:46:47,342 --> 01:46:50,960 I have reflected on this case at length, ladies and gentlemen. 1557 01:46:53,058 --> 01:46:54,551 I understand... 1558 01:46:54,769 --> 01:46:57,342 ...the prosecutors have suspicions. 1559 01:46:59,065 --> 01:47:01,734 Perhaps Mr. Sabich was there that night. 1560 01:47:02,236 --> 01:47:04,442 The State might be granted that. 1561 01:47:04,656 --> 01:47:07,941 And if the prosecutors had ever found that glass... 1562 01:47:08,578 --> 01:47:10,736 ...I might be more convinced. 1563 01:47:11,080 --> 01:47:12,906 Maybe before yesterday... 1564 01:47:13,542 --> 01:47:17,789 ...I might have said there were reasonable grounds for those suspicions. 1565 01:47:17,964 --> 01:47:20,039 But now, I'm not so sure. 1566 01:47:23,095 --> 01:47:24,921 So after yesterday... 1567 01:47:25,598 --> 01:47:28,005 ...there is no proof of motive here. 1568 01:47:28,310 --> 01:47:32,937 There is no concrete evidence that there ever was an intimate relationship. 1569 01:47:33,566 --> 01:47:36,235 There is no effective proof, so far as I am concerned... 1570 01:47:36,320 --> 01:47:40,104 ...that would give a reasonable person grounds to believe that... 1571 01:47:40,408 --> 01:47:45,366 ...Mr. Sabich had carnal relations with Ms. Polhemus on the night of her death. 1572 01:47:46,249 --> 01:47:47,742 In point of fact... 1573 01:47:47,959 --> 01:47:50,794 ...there's not one shred of direct proof... 1574 01:47:51,047 --> 01:47:53,917 ...that Mr. Sabich murdered Ms. Polhemus. 1575 01:47:56,470 --> 01:47:58,296 Under these circumstances... 1576 01:47:58,389 --> 01:48:00,879 ...I cannot allow this trial to continue. 1577 01:48:02,477 --> 01:48:03,721 Mr. Sabich... 1578 01:48:04,897 --> 01:48:06,805 ...you are discharged, sir. 1579 01:48:08,776 --> 01:48:11,860 I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am... 1580 01:48:11,989 --> 01:48:14,313 ...that any of this has taken place. 1581 01:48:15,827 --> 01:48:18,662 Not even the pleasure of seeing you free... 1582 01:48:18,831 --> 01:48:20,289 ...can make up for this... 1583 01:48:20,374 --> 01:48:23,078 ...this disgrace to the cause of justice. 1584 01:48:24,505 --> 01:48:26,331 I wish you Godspeed. 1585 01:48:28,593 --> 01:48:30,134 Case dismissed. 1586 01:48:43,112 --> 01:48:44,653 Hey, Rusty! Come on. 1587 01:48:45,030 --> 01:48:46,820 Give the missus a big hug. 1588 01:48:51,872 --> 01:48:54,991 Nobody can say anything adequate at a time like this. 1589 01:48:55,085 --> 01:48:57,920 We're very grateful, very pleased it's all over. 1590 01:48:58,672 --> 01:49:00,249 I want to go home, now. 1591 01:49:00,341 --> 01:49:03,010 I'll talk to Nat. I'll phone him, tell him. 1592 01:49:03,970 --> 01:49:07,255 For the record, I have the highest regard for Rusty Sabich. 1593 01:49:07,350 --> 01:49:09,884 You think you're out of a job? 1594 01:49:12,990 --> 01:49:14,567 You're the very best. 1595 01:49:20,124 --> 01:49:23,457 How'd you know what was behind Larren's fear of the B file? 1596 01:49:24,338 --> 01:49:26,793 You question the judge's integrity? 1597 01:49:27,634 --> 01:49:29,840 With just cause, wouldn't you say? 1598 01:49:30,304 --> 01:49:33,886 You knew that file didn't have a damn thing to do with my case. 1599 01:49:34,309 --> 01:49:38,009 Yet you let Larren know you'd drag it in at any opportunity. 1600 01:49:38,315 --> 01:49:40,770 That it would come out that he was taking bribes. 1601 01:49:40,860 --> 01:49:42,982 That Carolyn was the courier. 1602 01:49:45,825 --> 01:49:47,651 You blackmailed him, Sandy. 1603 01:49:52,667 --> 01:49:54,326 We speak now tonight... 1604 01:49:56,213 --> 01:49:58,917 ...and these things are never spoken of again. 1605 01:50:00,344 --> 01:50:01,374 Agreed? 1606 01:50:05,517 --> 01:50:08,517 Larren's divorce left him in a state of disorder. 1607 01:50:09,523 --> 01:50:14,399 He was drinking too heavily and fell into a relationship with a beautiful, but... 1608 01:50:14,696 --> 01:50:16,355 ...self-serving woman. 1609 01:50:18,201 --> 01:50:19,398 The fact is... 1610 01:50:19,494 --> 01:50:22,530 ...Larren himself grew suicidally depressed. 1611 01:50:23,416 --> 01:50:25,871 He wanted to resign from the bench. 1612 01:50:26,086 --> 01:50:28,541 Raymond Horgan talked him out of it. 1613 01:50:28,882 --> 01:50:31,040 Raymond knew he was taking bribes? 1614 01:50:31,885 --> 01:50:33,544 Larren told him. 1615 01:50:35,556 --> 01:50:38,889 Raymond cleaned up the Northside, as you recall... 1616 01:50:39,937 --> 01:50:42,772 ...and he also rescued a distinguished mind... 1617 01:50:42,941 --> 01:50:45,728 ...and a career that does honor to the bench. 1618 01:50:50,785 --> 01:50:54,236 I believe Larren today did what he thought was just. 1619 01:50:56,751 --> 01:50:58,410 You tell me, Rusty. 1620 01:51:00,130 --> 01:51:01,789 Was justice done? 1621 01:51:11,479 --> 01:51:12,972 How are you doing? 1622 01:51:21,993 --> 01:51:23,570 Christmas present. 1623 01:51:37,805 --> 01:51:38,919 Jesus.... 1624 01:51:41,852 --> 01:51:45,018 You're hanging your ass out a good long way on this one. 1625 01:51:45,524 --> 01:51:47,516 It was them that fucked up. 1626 01:51:48,277 --> 01:51:51,610 Remember, they came around, they grabbed all the evidence. 1627 01:51:51,948 --> 01:51:54,948 The glass wasn't there. I took it down to Dickerman. 1628 01:51:55,912 --> 01:51:58,449 The very next day I get a call from the lab. 1629 01:51:58,540 --> 01:52:01,209 The test is done. I can pick up my glass. 1630 01:52:02,295 --> 01:52:06,874 When I went down there, Molto had signed a receipt, "Returned to Evidence." 1631 01:52:07,468 --> 01:52:10,219 The idea was that I'll put it back in. 1632 01:52:10,973 --> 01:52:13,344 Only I got nowhere to put it... 1633 01:52:13,894 --> 01:52:16,645 ...since it ain't my goddamn case anymore. 1634 01:52:18,483 --> 01:52:20,724 So I tossed the thing in my drawer. 1635 01:52:21,404 --> 01:52:24,488 I figured, sooner or later somebody's got to ask me. 1636 01:52:25,910 --> 01:52:27,154 Nobody did. 1637 01:52:28,163 --> 01:52:29,822 You think I killed her. 1638 01:52:32,919 --> 01:52:34,661 The lady was bad news. 1639 01:52:39,344 --> 01:52:41,419 That makes it okay I killed her? 1640 01:52:41,514 --> 01:52:42,793 Did you? 1641 01:52:45,394 --> 01:52:46,508 Oh, pal. 1642 01:53:09,967 --> 01:53:10,831 Nat! 1643 01:53:11,970 --> 01:53:13,297 Where's Mom? 1644 01:53:13,472 --> 01:53:16,045 Upstairs in the bathroom throwing up when I saw her. 1645 01:53:16,142 --> 01:53:18,466 She's got her university interview today. 1646 01:53:18,562 --> 01:53:19,889 What's the big deal? 1647 01:53:19,980 --> 01:53:21,639 No eggs for me, thank you. 1648 01:53:21,732 --> 01:53:23,059 That looks nice. 1649 01:53:23,151 --> 01:53:24,312 You think? 1650 01:53:24,653 --> 01:53:28,152 That dumb old college would be lucky to have you teaching there. 1651 01:53:28,241 --> 01:53:29,651 You tell her, kid. 1652 01:53:30,578 --> 01:53:33,781 I'll do some work around the house while I still have time. 1653 01:53:33,874 --> 01:53:35,498 I've lived to see the day. 1654 01:53:35,584 --> 01:53:38,074 Give me a hand with the fence when you get home. 1655 01:53:38,171 --> 01:53:39,997 I can't. I got a game after school. 1656 01:53:40,090 --> 01:53:41,369 Good luck, Mom. 1657 01:53:50,521 --> 01:53:51,931 Go get them, kid. 1658 01:55:55,351 --> 01:55:56,678 I did it. 1659 01:56:03,403 --> 01:56:05,145 I fooled them all. 1660 01:56:08,368 --> 01:56:09,742 The interview. 1661 01:56:10,996 --> 01:56:13,071 They think I'm qualified. 1662 01:57:19,586 --> 01:57:22,255 You understand what happened had to happen. 1663 01:57:24,384 --> 01:57:26,921 It couldn't have turned out any other way. 1664 01:57:29,891 --> 01:57:31,799 A woman's depressed... 1665 01:57:33,813 --> 01:57:35,271 ...with herself... 1666 01:57:36,442 --> 01:57:37,852 ...with life... 1667 01:57:39,613 --> 01:57:43,445 ...with her husband, who had made life possible for her until he was... 1668 01:57:43,534 --> 01:57:45,822 ...bewitched by another woman. 1669 01:57:47,623 --> 01:57:49,081 A destroyer. 1670 01:57:54,215 --> 01:57:55,673 Abandoned... 1671 01:57:58,888 --> 01:58:01,046 ...like someone left for dead... 1672 01:58:02,810 --> 01:58:04,885 ...she plans her suicide. 1673 01:58:08,484 --> 01:58:10,476 Until the dream begins. 1674 01:58:12,531 --> 01:58:15,318 In the dream, the destroyer's destroyed. 1675 01:58:16,745 --> 01:58:18,903 That's a dream worth living for. 1676 01:58:23,920 --> 01:58:25,959 Now, with such simplicity... 1677 01:58:29,761 --> 01:58:32,880 ...such clarity, everything falls into place. 1678 01:58:36,520 --> 01:58:38,393 It must be a crime... 1679 01:58:38,815 --> 01:58:43,276 ...that her husband can declare unsolved and be believed by all the world. 1680 01:58:44,322 --> 01:58:46,693 She must make it look like a rape. 1681 01:58:48,328 --> 01:58:51,032 But she must leave her husband clueless. 1682 01:58:51,540 --> 01:58:53,911 Once he discovers who it was... 1683 01:58:55,337 --> 01:58:58,788 ...he'll put the case into the file of the unsolved murders. 1684 01:59:00,594 --> 01:59:02,586 Another break-in by some... 1685 01:59:03,139 --> 01:59:04,798 ...sex-crazed man. 1686 01:59:09,940 --> 01:59:11,481 But all his life... 1687 01:59:13,110 --> 01:59:15,232 ...he'll know that it was her. 1688 01:59:20,203 --> 01:59:23,073 She remembers a set of glasses she bought for the woman... 1689 01:59:23,165 --> 01:59:27,792 ...some time before, a housewarming gift from her husband and his office. 1690 01:59:28,297 --> 01:59:30,087 She buys another set. 1691 01:59:31,426 --> 01:59:33,999 Her husband has a beer one night... 1692 01:59:36,308 --> 01:59:38,632 ...doesn't even comment on the glass. 1693 01:59:39,812 --> 01:59:41,768 Now she has his fingerprints. 1694 01:59:46,320 --> 01:59:48,395 Then on a few mornings... 1695 01:59:49,950 --> 01:59:54,030 ...she saves the fluid that comes out when she removes her diaphragm. 1696 02:00:00,631 --> 02:00:02,623 Puts it in a plastic bag. 1697 02:00:04,177 --> 02:00:06,584 Puts the bag in the basement freezer... 1698 02:00:07,849 --> 02:00:09,128 ...and waits. 1699 02:00:12,062 --> 02:00:14,731 She calls the woman and asks to see her. 1700 02:00:15,525 --> 02:00:18,609 Stops first at the U and logs onto the computer. 1701 02:00:18,905 --> 02:00:20,813 Now she has her alibi. 1702 02:00:23,327 --> 02:00:25,235 She goes to the woman. 1703 02:00:26,164 --> 02:00:28,072 The woman lets her in. 1704 02:00:29,168 --> 02:00:33,747 When her head is turned, she removes the instrument from her bag and strikes. 1705 02:00:36,345 --> 02:00:38,253 The destroyer is destroyed. 1706 02:00:41,894 --> 02:00:43,886 She takes a cord out... 1707 02:00:45,899 --> 02:00:47,938 ...that she brought along... 1708 02:00:50,155 --> 02:00:51,945 ...and ties her body... 1709 02:00:52,533 --> 02:00:55,533 ...in ways her husband described perverts do. 1710 02:00:58,624 --> 02:01:00,366 She feels power... 1711 02:01:02,378 --> 02:01:03,788 ...control... 1712 02:01:05,716 --> 02:01:09,085 ...a sense that she's guided by a force beyond herself. 1713 02:01:12,183 --> 02:01:16,133 Takes a syringe and injects the contents of the Ziploc bag... 1714 02:01:17,857 --> 02:01:20,015 ...leaves the glass on the bar... 1715 02:01:21,111 --> 02:01:23,518 ...unlocks the door and windows... 1716 02:01:25,909 --> 02:01:27,319 ...and goes home. 1717 02:01:31,542 --> 02:01:33,450 And life begins again. 1718 02:01:40,220 --> 02:01:41,713 Until a trial... 1719 02:01:44,851 --> 02:01:47,222 ...when she sees her husband suffer... 1720 02:01:48,564 --> 02:01:50,223 ...the way she never... 1721 02:01:51,318 --> 02:01:52,597 ...intended. 1722 02:01:55,407 --> 02:01:57,565 She is prepared to tell the truth. 1723 02:01:58,870 --> 02:02:00,696 Right up to the very end. 1724 02:02:04,377 --> 02:02:05,704 But magically... 1725 02:02:08,507 --> 02:02:10,499 ...the charges were dismissed. 1726 02:02:14,015 --> 02:02:15,841 The suffering was over. 1727 02:02:18,729 --> 02:02:20,270 They were saved. 1728 02:02:26,781 --> 02:02:27,895 Saved? 1729 02:02:37,420 --> 02:02:39,827 The murder of Carolyn Polhemus... 1730 02:02:40,465 --> 02:02:42,291 ...remains unsolved. 1731 02:02:44,554 --> 02:02:48,967 It is a practical impossibility to try two people for the same crime. 1732 02:02:51,313 --> 02:02:53,139 Even if it wasn't... 1733 02:02:54,526 --> 02:02:57,443 ...I couldn't take his mother from my son. 1734 02:03:00,033 --> 02:03:01,740 I'm a prosecutor. 1735 02:03:02,119 --> 02:03:05,369 I have spent my life in the assignment of blame. 1736 02:03:07,543 --> 02:03:10,116 With all deliberation and intent... 1737 02:03:10,839 --> 02:03:12,914 ...I reached for Carolyn. 1738 02:03:13,634 --> 02:03:15,875 I cannot pretend it was an accident. 1739 02:03:18,098 --> 02:03:19,556 I reached for Carolyn... 1740 02:03:19,642 --> 02:03:23,093 ...and set off that insane mix of rage and lunacy... 1741 02:03:25,191 --> 02:03:27,812 ...that led one human being to kill another. 1742 02:03:30,907 --> 02:03:32,317 There was a crime. 1743 02:03:34,370 --> 02:03:35,994 There was a victim. 1744 02:03:38,500 --> 02:03:40,326 And there is punishment.