1 00:00:01,034 --> 00:00:02,707 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:02,769 --> 00:00:06,649 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:06,707 --> 00:00:08,584 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:08,642 --> 00:00:11,418 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,478 --> 00:00:12,616 These are their stories. 6 00:00:14,348 --> 00:00:15,759 There ought to be a law, 7 00:00:16,483 --> 00:00:18,657 nobody under 18 sits in first class. 8 00:00:19,087 --> 00:00:20,395 Especially the red-eye. 9 00:00:20,455 --> 00:00:22,332 That little boy was so cute. 10 00:00:22,390 --> 00:00:24,301 He didn't spill his apple juice in your lap. 11 00:00:25,927 --> 00:00:28,032 I'm still sticky. I'm gonna take a shower. 12 00:00:29,263 --> 00:00:31,743 You sure your sister doesn't mind letting us use her loft? 13 00:00:31,799 --> 00:00:33,779 Why should she mind? She's halfway to London. 14 00:00:47,115 --> 00:00:48,253 Meryl! 15 00:00:48,316 --> 00:00:50,193 Victim's Lucy Young. It's her place. 16 00:00:50,718 --> 00:00:52,356 This woman was loaded. 17 00:00:52,420 --> 00:00:53,900 Upstairs neighbor said she lived alone. 18 00:00:53,989 --> 00:00:55,525 Parents are both deceased. 19 00:00:55,591 --> 00:00:57,070 No boyfriend they can remember. 20 00:00:57,126 --> 00:00:59,436 She bled through to the apartment downstairs? 21 00:00:59,962 --> 00:01:01,669 Her hands were severed at the wrists. 22 00:01:01,730 --> 00:01:03,038 ED: Where are they? 23 00:01:03,098 --> 00:01:04,304 Under the coffee table. 24 00:01:04,867 --> 00:01:06,278 Rings are still on the fingers. 25 00:01:06,335 --> 00:01:08,246 The knife matches the set in the kitchen. 26 00:01:08,303 --> 00:01:10,579 Masking tape on her mouth, her own kitchen knives... 27 00:01:10,639 --> 00:01:12,585 The guy didn't bring his own tools. 28 00:01:12,641 --> 00:01:14,018 Beside the cutting 29 00:01:14,076 --> 00:01:16,317 there's blunt-force trauma to the back of her head. 30 00:01:16,378 --> 00:01:18,585 Let me guess, he used the blender. 31 00:01:18,647 --> 00:01:21,059 Whatever he used, it fractured her skull. 32 00:01:21,116 --> 00:01:22,754 I make time of death around midnight. 33 00:01:22,818 --> 00:01:24,092 ED: Lenny. 34 00:01:24,153 --> 00:01:26,793 Blood imprint on the table. 35 00:01:26,855 --> 00:01:28,300 Waffle pattern. 36 00:01:28,357 --> 00:01:30,668 Looks like it could be the grip of a gun. 37 00:01:30,894 --> 00:01:32,999 What about witnesses? Still canvassing. 38 00:01:33,063 --> 00:01:34,303 Building manager any help? 39 00:01:34,364 --> 00:01:35,468 He got here before we did. 40 00:01:35,532 --> 00:01:38,706 He found a can of pepper spray just inside the building. 41 00:01:38,768 --> 00:01:40,179 Starts with a push-in off the street, 42 00:01:40,236 --> 00:01:42,238 she tries to ward him off with the pepper spray. 43 00:01:42,305 --> 00:01:44,114 I guess he overreacted. 44 00:02:35,559 --> 00:02:37,197 HOWARD: Lucy was like most of our neighbors. 45 00:02:37,261 --> 00:02:39,571 We'd say "hi" to each other, but that's about it. 46 00:02:39,630 --> 00:02:41,633 But she'd always warm up when I was with the baby. 47 00:02:41,700 --> 00:02:43,236 ED: What did she do for a living? 48 00:02:43,301 --> 00:02:46,373 Some kind of fund-raiser work for charities, I think. 49 00:02:46,438 --> 00:02:47,746 When was the last time you saw her? 50 00:02:47,806 --> 00:02:51,015 Yesterday morning. I was on my way to work, and she was trying to catch a cab. 51 00:02:51,676 --> 00:02:53,587 What about you? A few days ago. 52 00:02:54,746 --> 00:02:57,454 What about last night? Either of you notice anything out of the ordinary? 53 00:02:58,850 --> 00:03:03,162 I came home about 7:00, and Beth and I never left the house. 54 00:03:04,322 --> 00:03:05,323 ED: Mrs. Miller? 55 00:03:07,526 --> 00:03:09,836 There was something a little before 9:00. 56 00:03:10,595 --> 00:03:13,667 Howard was in the shower and I was trying to get the baby to sleep. 57 00:03:13,732 --> 00:03:15,939 The buzzer rang and a man asked for Lucy. 58 00:03:16,001 --> 00:03:17,913 Don't tell me you buzzed him in. I didn't. 59 00:03:17,970 --> 00:03:20,610 I just told him she lived in six. 60 00:03:20,673 --> 00:03:22,016 He sounded like he knew her. 61 00:03:22,074 --> 00:03:23,519 He just had the wrong floor. 62 00:03:23,576 --> 00:03:26,079 Detectives, we got a witness up the block. 63 00:03:26,145 --> 00:03:27,351 Thanks. 64 00:03:30,183 --> 00:03:31,992 I was coming back from my parents' place. 65 00:03:32,051 --> 00:03:35,828 It was around 10:30, and a guy was sitting on the steps 66 00:03:35,888 --> 00:03:37,390 over there at the loading dock. 67 00:03:37,456 --> 00:03:38,526 What did he look like? 68 00:03:38,591 --> 00:03:41,231 He was white, he had dark hair, 69 00:03:41,294 --> 00:03:44,707 I would say about 40. I would recognize him if I saw him again. 70 00:03:44,764 --> 00:03:46,243 You ever notice him around here before? 71 00:03:46,299 --> 00:03:47,937 No. I do see people sleeping 72 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,809 there all the time, but this guy wasn't homeless. 73 00:03:49,869 --> 00:03:52,907 It might have been one of your neighbors just out for some fresh air. 74 00:03:52,972 --> 00:03:54,350 I don't think so. He looked 75 00:03:54,408 --> 00:03:56,081 like he was waiting for someone. 76 00:03:56,143 --> 00:03:57,588 BRISCOE: You read his mind? 77 00:03:57,644 --> 00:04:01,717 No. He gave me the once-over when I walked by. Maybe he thought I was someone else. 78 00:04:02,916 --> 00:04:05,328 A clear view of the victim's front door. 79 00:04:06,386 --> 00:04:07,888 Somebody left some garbage. 80 00:04:07,955 --> 00:04:09,195 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 81 00:04:11,024 --> 00:04:13,197 Hey, we ain't open yet. Yeah, you are. 82 00:04:13,260 --> 00:04:14,637 Who cleans up out here? 83 00:04:14,695 --> 00:04:15,765 Me. 84 00:04:15,829 --> 00:04:17,399 How often do you sweep up? 85 00:04:17,464 --> 00:04:19,910 Every night before we close up. 5:00. 86 00:04:19,967 --> 00:04:23,278 So this garbage wasn't out here when you went home last night? 87 00:04:23,337 --> 00:04:25,874 No, sir. Your company have a night watchman? 88 00:04:25,939 --> 00:04:28,215 Not for a couple of years. All right, thanks. 89 00:04:31,713 --> 00:04:33,715 "Drug Hut." Receipt? 90 00:04:33,781 --> 00:04:36,352 Empty. Let's bag it off for prints. 91 00:04:38,253 --> 00:04:41,132 Our witness is in with the sketch artist and as soon as the composite's done, 92 00:04:41,189 --> 00:04:42,759 we'll circulate it with the local Drug Huts. 93 00:04:42,824 --> 00:04:44,132 We have a psycho on our hands? 94 00:04:44,192 --> 00:04:47,173 Well, the guy didn't just stumble onto Lucy Young. He knew her name and 95 00:04:47,228 --> 00:04:48,366 where she lived. 96 00:04:48,429 --> 00:04:49,806 M.E. said she put up a fight, too. 97 00:04:49,864 --> 00:04:51,673 Navy blue fibers underneath her fingernails. 98 00:04:51,733 --> 00:04:53,212 Well, that corroborates your witness. 99 00:04:53,268 --> 00:04:56,340 M.E. also says that she was knocked out cold by something 100 00:04:56,404 --> 00:05:00,546 with a distinct, hard edge, an inch or two in length, then her wrists were cut. 101 00:05:00,608 --> 00:05:03,020 Yeah, there was a waffle pattern similar to a gun handle 102 00:05:03,077 --> 00:05:05,649 imprinted in the blood on the coffee table. 103 00:05:05,714 --> 00:05:06,784 Sexual assault? 104 00:05:06,849 --> 00:05:09,591 No. No evidence of penetration, no fluids. 105 00:05:09,652 --> 00:05:12,565 No rape, no robbery? Why not just shoot her and be done with it? 106 00:05:12,621 --> 00:05:13,793 ED: Too much noise? 107 00:05:13,856 --> 00:05:15,335 Or a big score to settle. 108 00:05:16,158 --> 00:05:18,638 We got the names of some of her friends from her Palm Pilot. 109 00:05:19,662 --> 00:05:20,800 Check 'em out. 110 00:05:21,397 --> 00:05:24,378 I was Lucy's roommate at Vassar. 111 00:05:24,433 --> 00:05:26,276 About the closest friend she had. 112 00:05:26,335 --> 00:05:28,337 Ms. Young have any enemies? 113 00:05:28,404 --> 00:05:30,748 Do you think she was killed by somebody she knew? 114 00:05:30,806 --> 00:05:34,720 Well, the way she was killed, Ms. Fadden, it's a possibility. 115 00:05:34,777 --> 00:05:36,051 What do you mean? 116 00:05:36,111 --> 00:05:37,249 Her hands were severed. 117 00:05:42,886 --> 00:05:44,695 Are you all right? 118 00:05:44,754 --> 00:05:49,134 I've known Lucy 15 years. I can't imagine 119 00:05:49,192 --> 00:05:52,002 her mixed-up with anybody capable of that. 120 00:05:52,362 --> 00:05:54,808 Her neighbors said she worked with charities. 121 00:05:55,532 --> 00:05:59,605 She was a charity. Her father left her millions of dollars. 122 00:05:59,669 --> 00:06:01,046 Who'd she give her money to? 123 00:06:01,104 --> 00:06:03,948 Actors, artists, musicians. 124 00:06:04,007 --> 00:06:05,748 The further out of the mainstream, the better. 125 00:06:06,676 --> 00:06:09,156 Any of these charity types giving her any trouble? 126 00:06:10,814 --> 00:06:15,524 She was having problems with an artist that she helped out. 127 00:06:15,585 --> 00:06:17,759 I overheard a phone call, and Lucy was in tears. 128 00:06:17,822 --> 00:06:20,200 ED: She say any more about it? 129 00:06:20,257 --> 00:06:21,702 All I know is, it was about money. 130 00:06:22,626 --> 00:06:25,038 Who would know the whole story? 131 00:06:25,096 --> 00:06:27,372 Arnie Fields, Lucy's business manager. 132 00:06:31,469 --> 00:06:33,745 I never had a client who was murdered. 133 00:06:33,804 --> 00:06:37,274 Her friend said she was having some problems with an artist. 134 00:06:37,341 --> 00:06:40,618 Well, I know she bought a piece of sculpture recently. 135 00:06:40,678 --> 00:06:42,055 From where? 136 00:06:42,113 --> 00:06:45,026 Uh... Here. (GRUNTING) 137 00:06:48,185 --> 00:06:52,099 A check for $25,000 138 00:06:52,156 --> 00:06:53,830 payable to Erica Yelin. 139 00:06:53,892 --> 00:06:55,872 Mind if I take a look? 140 00:06:55,927 --> 00:06:57,406 This Yelin an artist? 141 00:06:57,462 --> 00:06:58,873 I think so. 142 00:07:01,233 --> 00:07:04,578 A check made to cash for a hundred grand, on the 3rd. 143 00:07:04,636 --> 00:07:05,637 What was that about? 144 00:07:07,172 --> 00:07:10,153 That kind of money changes hands a week before a murder, we need to look into it. 145 00:07:11,643 --> 00:07:14,624 The money was for Paul Radford, the art dealer. 146 00:07:14,679 --> 00:07:17,956 The Radford Gallery? He's not one of her charity cases. 147 00:07:18,016 --> 00:07:20,690 Well, I assumed Lucy bought some more art. 148 00:07:20,752 --> 00:07:22,891 Why with cash? She would've given him a check 149 00:07:22,954 --> 00:07:25,161 for appraisal purposes, like she did with Yelin. 150 00:07:25,824 --> 00:07:28,431 She never told me what it was for. 151 00:07:28,494 --> 00:07:31,236 Lucy intended our affairs to be confidential. 152 00:07:31,297 --> 00:07:33,675 Unfortunately, she's not here to confirm that. 153 00:07:33,733 --> 00:07:36,043 Where were you Tuesday night, Mr. Radford, around midnight? 154 00:07:36,102 --> 00:07:39,174 At my gallery, paying bills, answering some letters. 155 00:07:39,238 --> 00:07:40,239 Alone? 156 00:07:40,306 --> 00:07:43,776 Yes. You don't seriously think I was involved in this horror show? 157 00:07:43,843 --> 00:07:46,255 She gave you a hundred thousand dollars and you won't tell us why. 158 00:07:49,949 --> 00:07:53,226 Lucy backed a number of up-and-coming artists with that money. 159 00:07:53,686 --> 00:07:54,721 Why'd she need you? 160 00:07:54,787 --> 00:07:56,391 I was her talent scout. 161 00:07:56,456 --> 00:07:59,596 So, she just handed you a wad of cash with no strings attached? 162 00:07:59,992 --> 00:08:01,528 Take a look around, Detective. 163 00:08:02,495 --> 00:08:06,911 Most of this art was given to me by artists I discovered and nurtured. 164 00:08:06,967 --> 00:08:08,640 Lucy wanted to be a part of the magic. 165 00:08:08,702 --> 00:08:10,443 The money was a small price to pay. 166 00:08:11,138 --> 00:08:14,017 Show us your paperwork, we'll let you get back to your magic. 167 00:08:14,308 --> 00:08:16,413 I don't feel comfortable with that. 168 00:08:16,477 --> 00:08:18,957 Maybe you'd be more comfortable at the precinct. 169 00:08:19,012 --> 00:08:21,424 I'm sure you understand. 170 00:08:21,482 --> 00:08:23,189 These were cash incentives. 171 00:08:23,250 --> 00:08:25,287 As in undeclared income? 172 00:08:25,352 --> 00:08:28,265 We're looking for a murderer, not a bunch of tax cheats. 173 00:08:28,322 --> 00:08:30,461 I'm sorry, I don't think you speak for the IRS. 174 00:08:30,524 --> 00:08:33,403 I'll have to refer you to my lawyer. 175 00:08:33,594 --> 00:08:37,269 Radford doesn't strike me as a guy who'd get his silk robe bloody. 176 00:08:37,331 --> 00:08:40,074 If he's just a talent scout, why is he scared of the IRS? 177 00:08:40,135 --> 00:08:43,708 So what? She pepper sprays a guy she knows? 178 00:08:43,771 --> 00:08:46,650 Maybe the artist she bought the sculpture from was one of these up-and-comers. 179 00:08:48,610 --> 00:08:50,317 Paul Radford is an arrogant bastard, 180 00:08:50,378 --> 00:08:52,187 but he's good at what he does. 181 00:08:52,247 --> 00:08:55,023 If your work needs exposure, he's the man. 182 00:08:55,083 --> 00:08:57,222 Your work looks pretty exposed already. 183 00:08:57,285 --> 00:08:59,265 That's what Lucy liked about it. 184 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:00,355 I'm gonna miss her. 185 00:09:00,421 --> 00:09:03,027 Well, I'm sure Radford can find you another patron. 186 00:09:03,091 --> 00:09:05,469 Well, to tell you the truth, Paul's not a big fan. 187 00:09:05,527 --> 00:09:08,940 We read that he showed your work at his gallery on Long Island City last year. 188 00:09:08,997 --> 00:09:10,271 That was Lucy's doing. 189 00:09:10,331 --> 00:09:11,901 That gallery is a launching pad, 190 00:09:11,966 --> 00:09:13,968 and I'd been trying to get in there for a long time, 191 00:09:14,035 --> 00:09:15,913 but Paul kept dissing me. 192 00:09:15,971 --> 00:09:17,973 How did Ms. Young manage to change his mind? 193 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,748 All I know is Lucy was impressed with my work, 194 00:09:20,809 --> 00:09:22,379 said she'd talk to Paul. 195 00:09:22,444 --> 00:09:25,015 And two weeks later, I was in a group show there. 196 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:26,923 Sounds like some money changed hands. 197 00:09:26,982 --> 00:09:28,962 Well, if it did, it couldn't have been too much. 198 00:09:29,018 --> 00:09:30,053 Why do you say that? 199 00:09:30,119 --> 00:09:34,431 I was supposed to have a solo show at Paul's gallery in Chelsea next month, 200 00:09:34,490 --> 00:09:37,994 but I got a call from Lucy this past weekend. 201 00:09:38,060 --> 00:09:39,835 Paul backed out. 202 00:09:40,429 --> 00:09:42,670 Well, Sam, it takes six weeks, you know that. 203 00:09:42,731 --> 00:09:43,903 Paul. 204 00:09:45,034 --> 00:09:48,538 It takes six... It takes six weeks to do that. Yep. 205 00:09:48,604 --> 00:09:50,311 What the hell is going on? 206 00:09:50,372 --> 00:09:52,284 We're gonna take a little ride, to finish our discussion. 207 00:09:52,342 --> 00:09:53,980 There is nothing to discuss. 208 00:09:54,044 --> 00:09:57,582 You took Lucy Young's money and stiffed her. 209 00:09:57,647 --> 00:10:02,187 She gave you a hundred grand to exhibit Erica Yelin's show at your Chelsea gallery. 210 00:10:02,252 --> 00:10:04,789 You took the money and you ran out. 211 00:10:04,854 --> 00:10:06,390 Close the door, please. 212 00:10:07,991 --> 00:10:11,200 What happened, Mr. Radford? She threaten to expose you? 213 00:10:11,261 --> 00:10:14,435 Maybe you lopped off her hands to make it look like some psycho. 214 00:10:14,631 --> 00:10:16,907 You have vivid imaginations. 215 00:10:16,967 --> 00:10:19,504 Erica's show was canceled because her work isn't selling. 216 00:10:19,569 --> 00:10:22,106 Lucy even had to buy one of her pieces. 217 00:10:22,172 --> 00:10:24,015 And the money she paid me 218 00:10:24,074 --> 00:10:25,883 was to support a show this summer. 219 00:10:25,942 --> 00:10:28,048 A water colorist named Harvey Cornell. 220 00:10:28,112 --> 00:10:29,420 Why didn't you tell us that before? 221 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:30,982 I had to protect my reputation. 222 00:10:31,048 --> 00:10:33,824 I hold myself out as a neutral arbiter of talent. 223 00:10:33,885 --> 00:10:36,764 Instead of a hustler for sale to the highest bidder. 224 00:10:36,821 --> 00:10:41,566 Museums take secret commissions when pieces they're exhibiting are sold. 225 00:10:41,626 --> 00:10:45,073 Remember the Sensation exhibit that caused the big stir at the Brooklyn Museum? 226 00:10:45,129 --> 00:10:48,633 Charles Saatchi gave them money, they exhibited art he owned. 227 00:10:48,699 --> 00:10:52,340 Nice scam. His art goes up in value and he gets a write off. 228 00:10:53,671 --> 00:10:55,378 It's the way of my world, Detective. 229 00:10:56,841 --> 00:10:59,412 I left here around 9:00 on Tuesday night. 230 00:10:59,477 --> 00:11:01,115 Was Mr. Radford still here? 231 00:11:01,178 --> 00:11:03,887 He stayed to write some checks and take care of some paperwork. 232 00:11:03,982 --> 00:11:06,724 Anybody who can verify what time he left? 233 00:11:06,785 --> 00:11:09,959 I don't think so. But I'm pretty sure he was here 'cause the next day 234 00:11:10,022 --> 00:11:13,629 he handed me a big stack of bills and letters to run to the post office. 235 00:11:13,692 --> 00:11:15,865 Lennie, take a look. 236 00:11:17,829 --> 00:11:19,001 Who painted this? 237 00:11:19,064 --> 00:11:20,236 An artist named Mark Vee. 238 00:11:20,299 --> 00:11:21,676 He just had a show here. 239 00:11:21,733 --> 00:11:24,043 It's called Perfect Woman #3. 240 00:11:24,102 --> 00:11:26,378 Look, Ma, no hands. And no mouth. 241 00:11:31,343 --> 00:11:34,290 A woman this perfect had to be painted by a man. 242 00:11:34,346 --> 00:11:38,385 Mmm-hmm. Mark Vee, one of Art Digest's painters to watch in the new millennium. 243 00:11:38,450 --> 00:11:40,158 What's his connection to Lucy Young? 244 00:11:40,219 --> 00:11:43,564 Well, according to Paul Radford, she backed him to the tune of 20 grand a year. 245 00:11:43,623 --> 00:11:45,830 Anything beyond a professional relationship? 246 00:11:45,892 --> 00:11:47,667 Not that anybody knows about. 247 00:11:47,727 --> 00:11:50,936 Guy's got a couple of old dope busts in Pittsburgh, 248 00:11:50,997 --> 00:11:53,671 and one obscenity conviction in Cincinnati. 249 00:11:53,733 --> 00:11:54,905 Over this stuff? 250 00:11:54,967 --> 00:11:59,074 He went through a religious phase, dipping holy images into bodily fluids. 251 00:11:59,138 --> 00:12:01,516 Ugh! I'm glad he moved on. 252 00:12:01,574 --> 00:12:03,884 Any beefs between him and Lucy Young? 253 00:12:03,943 --> 00:12:05,081 Not that we've heard of. 254 00:12:05,144 --> 00:12:08,648 Well, let's see what this Mr. Vee has to say for himself. 255 00:12:10,616 --> 00:12:11,822 Too bad about Lucy. 256 00:12:11,884 --> 00:12:15,799 Sorry for your loss. Twenty grand buys a lot of paint thinner. 257 00:12:15,856 --> 00:12:17,893 Lucy meant more to me than money. 258 00:12:17,958 --> 00:12:19,596 Yeah? How so? 259 00:12:19,660 --> 00:12:22,140 She believed in my work. 260 00:12:22,196 --> 00:12:23,766 She must've had a strong stomach. 261 00:12:23,831 --> 00:12:26,311 My art revolts you. Good. 262 00:12:26,367 --> 00:12:28,870 You know, Ms. Young's hands were cut off. 263 00:12:30,571 --> 00:12:31,709 I didn't know. 264 00:12:31,772 --> 00:12:33,809 Remarkable coincidence, don't you think? 265 00:12:33,874 --> 00:12:35,353 You mean my painting? 266 00:12:35,409 --> 00:12:37,286 It's definitely misogynistic. 267 00:12:37,344 --> 00:12:38,516 Whatever you say. 268 00:12:38,579 --> 00:12:41,890 How about you say where you were the night Ms. Young was killed. 269 00:12:41,949 --> 00:12:43,553 You're investigating me? 270 00:12:43,617 --> 00:12:45,358 The killing resembles your painting. 271 00:12:45,419 --> 00:12:47,831 I was with a reporter. We were at Waterloo. 272 00:12:47,888 --> 00:12:49,765 (SIGHS) And the reporter's name? 273 00:12:49,823 --> 00:12:53,067 Betsy Braun. From Pitch magazine. 274 00:12:53,128 --> 00:12:56,405 I was at the bar with Mark from 11:00 to about 2:00. 275 00:12:56,464 --> 00:12:57,909 He's a fascinating man. 276 00:12:57,966 --> 00:12:59,445 You like the stuff he paints? 277 00:12:59,501 --> 00:13:02,277 To tell you the truth, no. But my editor does. 278 00:13:02,337 --> 00:13:06,410 How's that work? She signs your paycheck, so you write him good reviews? 279 00:13:06,474 --> 00:13:08,579 This is more of a personality piece. 280 00:13:08,643 --> 00:13:10,145 He's controversial. 281 00:13:10,211 --> 00:13:12,487 A lot of people are offended by Mark's work. 282 00:13:12,547 --> 00:13:14,083 Anybody you're aware of? 283 00:13:14,149 --> 00:13:17,995 You know, there was a guy at the opening who was harassing some of the guests. 284 00:13:18,053 --> 00:13:19,191 What do you mean, harassing? 285 00:13:19,254 --> 00:13:21,530 Well, he was saying things like they should be ashamed 286 00:13:21,589 --> 00:13:24,297 for supporting Mark. They asked him to leave. 287 00:13:24,359 --> 00:13:25,736 I followed him out and tried to talk to him. 288 00:13:25,794 --> 00:13:27,638 Thought it'd be good stuff for my article. 289 00:13:27,696 --> 00:13:29,198 Does he look anything like this? 290 00:13:29,999 --> 00:13:31,034 A lot. 291 00:13:31,100 --> 00:13:32,170 Did you get his name? 292 00:13:32,234 --> 00:13:33,338 He wouldn't give it to me. 293 00:13:33,402 --> 00:13:34,847 But I think he's from Brooklyn. 294 00:13:34,904 --> 00:13:37,043 Why? He had a bad haircut? 295 00:13:37,106 --> 00:13:40,315 He was bitching about wasting an hour and a half on the I train. 296 00:13:40,376 --> 00:13:41,411 Thank you. 297 00:13:43,012 --> 00:13:46,084 Hour and a half on the I train, you'd wind up in Canarsie. 298 00:13:46,148 --> 00:13:48,458 Well, let's see how many Drug Huts they got out there. 299 00:13:51,287 --> 00:13:54,734 Take a look, he may have been in Tuesday night, bought something small. 300 00:13:54,790 --> 00:13:58,101 I was here then, but I don't recognize him. 301 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,198 We are gonna need your credit card receipts for that night. 302 00:14:02,031 --> 00:14:03,443 Let's check with the pharmacist. 303 00:14:03,500 --> 00:14:06,106 Why, figure our guy came in to pick up something for his nerves? 304 00:14:06,169 --> 00:14:07,204 Guy lives in the neighborhood, 305 00:14:07,270 --> 00:14:09,272 he's gotta get sick sooner or later. 306 00:14:09,339 --> 00:14:10,374 What can I do for you? 307 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,249 You recognize him from the neighborhood? 308 00:14:13,910 --> 00:14:17,187 Yeah, Claritin. Ten milligrams, five refills. 309 00:14:18,181 --> 00:14:19,751 How about a name and address? 310 00:14:19,816 --> 00:14:21,159 I'll get it from our records. 311 00:14:24,221 --> 00:14:26,223 SARAH: Hey, did 3G call you here? 312 00:14:26,289 --> 00:14:30,294 Larry likes to play opera at night, and they've been complaining about the noise. 313 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,636 We're not here about opera, ma'am. 314 00:14:32,696 --> 00:14:34,733 Uh, this is Larry's apartment. 315 00:14:34,798 --> 00:14:36,141 Uh, would you mind seeing if he's home? 316 00:14:36,199 --> 00:14:39,204 Sure. Larry? 317 00:14:39,270 --> 00:14:41,011 It's Sarah. The police are here. 318 00:14:41,072 --> 00:14:43,313 Uh, thanks. We'll take it from here. 319 00:14:46,077 --> 00:14:47,715 Larry Brunig? 320 00:14:47,778 --> 00:14:48,813 Uh: yes? 321 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,190 I'm Detective Green. This is my partner, Detective Briscoe. 322 00:14:52,149 --> 00:14:54,595 BRISCOE: Where were you last Tuesday night? 323 00:14:54,652 --> 00:14:55,892 Why? 324 00:14:55,953 --> 00:14:58,559 It's been a long day. Can we do this without a whole lot of conversation? 325 00:15:00,224 --> 00:15:03,068 Well, I left work around 5:30. 326 00:15:03,561 --> 00:15:05,199 Got here at little after 6:30. 327 00:15:05,263 --> 00:15:07,334 You went straight home from the subway? 328 00:15:07,398 --> 00:15:08,775 I stopped at the Drug Hut first. 329 00:15:10,601 --> 00:15:12,012 And then? 330 00:15:12,069 --> 00:15:13,946 Stayed home. 331 00:15:14,005 --> 00:15:15,508 You know a woman named Lucy Young? 332 00:15:16,909 --> 00:15:17,979 No. 333 00:15:18,043 --> 00:15:20,023 How about Mark Vee? 334 00:15:20,078 --> 00:15:21,148 No. 335 00:15:21,213 --> 00:15:24,217 And I suppose you have never been to the Paul Radford Gallery? 336 00:15:24,283 --> 00:15:26,524 No, I haven't. 337 00:15:26,585 --> 00:15:28,189 Are you sure I'm the person you want to talk to? 338 00:15:29,588 --> 00:15:33,229 Maybe we're wrong. Look, do you mind if I use your phone? My battery went dead. 339 00:15:34,293 --> 00:15:37,331 Oh, gee, I'm sorry. I'm waiting for a call from my doctor. My mother's ill. 340 00:15:38,864 --> 00:15:40,866 So... Sorry about that. 341 00:15:45,237 --> 00:15:49,014 The magazine reporter picked Brunig's DMV photo out of a six pack. 342 00:15:49,074 --> 00:15:51,419 Says he was the troublemaker at Vee's opening. 343 00:15:51,477 --> 00:15:54,321 Well, that's a start. What about Lucy Young's neighbor? 344 00:15:54,380 --> 00:15:55,552 She couldn't make the photo. 345 00:15:55,615 --> 00:15:57,526 Brunig did say he went to the Drug Hut that night. 346 00:15:57,584 --> 00:15:58,756 Were his prints on the bag? 347 00:15:58,818 --> 00:16:00,024 Latent couldn't lift anything. 348 00:16:00,086 --> 00:16:02,862 Well, see if you can tie him directly to Lucy Young. 349 00:16:02,922 --> 00:16:05,664 Talk to the artist. If Brunig made trouble at the gallery, 350 00:16:05,725 --> 00:16:08,035 maybe he made trouble somewhere else. 351 00:16:10,697 --> 00:16:12,677 I don't remember him from my opening. 352 00:16:12,732 --> 00:16:15,110 Course, I was feeling pretty good that night. 353 00:16:15,168 --> 00:16:18,479 Was it public knowledge that Lucy Young was backing you? 354 00:16:18,538 --> 00:16:20,017 Not too many people knew about it. 355 00:16:20,073 --> 00:16:22,110 Lucy didn't want to catch any flack. 356 00:16:22,175 --> 00:16:25,645 Any way this guy Brunig could have gleaned it from one of the art periodicals? 357 00:16:26,046 --> 00:16:29,858 My girlfriend clips my reviews. You're free to look at 'em. 358 00:16:30,451 --> 00:16:31,452 Sure. 359 00:16:31,819 --> 00:16:33,423 I have some calls to make. 360 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:43,274 "Mark Vee has tweaked more than a few old-school noses" 361 00:16:43,330 --> 00:16:46,174 "bravely defying the conventions of political correctness." 362 00:16:47,234 --> 00:16:49,612 Daily Ledger. Letters to the editor. 363 00:16:49,670 --> 00:16:52,310 "Artists like Mark Vee threaten our moral fiber." 364 00:16:52,373 --> 00:16:54,319 "Why must philanthropists like Lucy Young" 365 00:16:54,375 --> 00:16:56,855 "patronize the most decadent elements of our culture?" 366 00:16:56,910 --> 00:16:58,082 Signed? 367 00:16:58,379 --> 00:17:00,381 Name withheld on request. 368 00:17:04,919 --> 00:17:07,763 Our newspaper receives, thousands of letters every year. 369 00:17:07,822 --> 00:17:11,167 Our policy is to respect the privacy wishes of our correspondents. 370 00:17:11,226 --> 00:17:14,264 Your editorial policy is not a legal privilege. 371 00:17:14,329 --> 00:17:16,866 Ever hear of the First Amendment, Ms. Carmichael? 372 00:17:16,931 --> 00:17:18,911 Our readers need to be able to express themselves 373 00:17:18,967 --> 00:17:21,641 without fear of intimidation or retribution. 374 00:17:21,703 --> 00:17:25,241 There's no promise of confidentiality made by the paper, Your Honor. 375 00:17:25,306 --> 00:17:29,254 Well, that's true, Mr. Ervin. These are unsolicited letters. 376 00:17:29,311 --> 00:17:32,190 Ms. Carmichael is marching us down the slippery slope, Judge. 377 00:17:32,247 --> 00:17:35,558 And Mr. Ervin could be protecting the identity of a vicious murderer. 378 00:17:36,451 --> 00:17:39,023 (SCOFFS) Doesn't sound like this letter was written by Hannibal Lecter. 379 00:17:39,088 --> 00:17:42,069 Is this a fishing expedition or do you have a suspect? 380 00:17:42,124 --> 00:17:43,569 Larry Brunig. 381 00:17:43,626 --> 00:17:45,128 Let me see the original letter. 382 00:17:45,194 --> 00:17:47,435 If Brunig wrote it, I'll order disclosure. 383 00:17:51,167 --> 00:17:53,147 I'm sorry, Ms. Carmichael. Not your guy. 384 00:17:54,136 --> 00:17:57,015 And I'm inclined to protect this writer's anonymity. 385 00:17:58,841 --> 00:18:02,653 Judge, the paper may not print every letter it receives on a controversial subject. 386 00:18:03,412 --> 00:18:05,517 Well, that's true. Isn't it, Mr. Ervin? 387 00:18:05,581 --> 00:18:09,723 Sure. Our editor may use one letter to represent a segment of public opinion. 388 00:18:10,319 --> 00:18:12,196 Are there unprinted letters on this subject? 389 00:18:12,254 --> 00:18:13,460 It's possible. 390 00:18:13,523 --> 00:18:16,094 Well, if there are any from Larry Brunig, turn it over to the D.A. 391 00:18:17,861 --> 00:18:21,900 ED: "Purveyors of misogynist filth like Mark Vee need to be ignored", 392 00:18:22,466 --> 00:18:25,003 "but those responsible for its dissemination offend" 393 00:18:25,068 --> 00:18:27,742 "the sensibilities of good people everywhere." 394 00:18:27,804 --> 00:18:30,307 "Their fate should be in a category all its own." 395 00:18:31,375 --> 00:18:33,013 No wonder they didn't print that. 396 00:18:33,076 --> 00:18:34,612 It's practically a death threat. 397 00:18:34,678 --> 00:18:36,453 I wrote a letter. I didn't kill that woman. 398 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,923 You told us you never heard of Mark Vee or Paul Radford. 399 00:18:40,183 --> 00:18:43,255 I misspoke, okay? I was home that night. You can ask my landlady. 400 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,823 We will. My partner's there right now, searching your apartment. 401 00:18:52,830 --> 00:18:55,242 I'm gonna call over there, Mr. Brunig. 402 00:18:55,299 --> 00:18:57,939 Anything you want to say before we find out what he turned up? 403 00:18:58,002 --> 00:18:59,743 He won't turn up anything. 404 00:19:07,845 --> 00:19:11,088 You know, they find something out there, I gotta go right to the D.A. 405 00:19:11,149 --> 00:19:14,460 So, you and I don't have a lot of time to set things straight. 406 00:19:15,219 --> 00:19:17,460 There's nothing to set straight. 407 00:19:17,522 --> 00:19:20,093 Look, I'm on your side. 408 00:19:21,759 --> 00:19:24,433 You think this painting didn't piss me off, too? 409 00:19:25,831 --> 00:19:29,244 The first time I saw it, it turned my stomach. 410 00:19:33,305 --> 00:19:36,548 You're making this very hard on yourself, Mr. Brunig. 411 00:19:36,608 --> 00:19:40,556 We have a room full of witnesses who put you in the gallery. 412 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:42,852 What if I was there? 413 00:19:43,415 --> 00:19:45,554 I can imagine how you felt. 414 00:19:46,185 --> 00:19:49,689 What do you think it's like being a woman and seeing this? 415 00:19:51,323 --> 00:19:52,597 It's disgraceful. 416 00:19:53,058 --> 00:19:54,093 Yeah. 417 00:19:54,159 --> 00:19:55,729 You know what this guy used to do? 418 00:19:56,728 --> 00:19:59,072 Marinate Madonnas in pig's blood. 419 00:19:59,398 --> 00:20:01,036 And he calls that art. 420 00:20:01,100 --> 00:20:03,341 Now, how does he get away with that? 421 00:20:03,403 --> 00:20:04,507 I don't know. 422 00:20:04,571 --> 00:20:09,042 And Lucy Young, she's the one who made it all possible. 423 00:20:09,676 --> 00:20:11,622 I told you I didn't know her. 424 00:20:11,678 --> 00:20:13,555 All that money she had. 425 00:20:13,947 --> 00:20:16,052 And what can people like me and you do? 426 00:20:17,350 --> 00:20:19,330 Write letters that they don't even publish. 427 00:20:19,652 --> 00:20:21,859 You ask me, she brought it on herself. 428 00:20:22,255 --> 00:20:24,201 What you did to her was 429 00:20:25,859 --> 00:20:27,839 Biblical justice. 430 00:20:29,362 --> 00:20:31,603 An eye for an eye. 431 00:20:32,532 --> 00:20:34,205 Now, you lay it out for me, 432 00:20:35,969 --> 00:20:38,075 and I'll see what I can do for you. 433 00:20:42,076 --> 00:20:43,316 I'm getting very tired. 434 00:20:43,377 --> 00:20:48,258 Yes. Tell me what happened and it'll all be over. 435 00:20:51,852 --> 00:20:53,559 Can I get some coffee? 436 00:20:54,655 --> 00:20:58,831 You signed your name to this letter, 437 00:20:59,493 --> 00:21:02,303 so I know you're not a coward. 438 00:21:03,397 --> 00:21:05,172 Black, please. 439 00:21:09,303 --> 00:21:11,283 Bunch of brochures from art galleries. 440 00:21:11,872 --> 00:21:13,853 Nothing on Mark Vee. 441 00:21:13,909 --> 00:21:18,119 How does Brunig slog through six quarts of blood and we can't find a drop? 442 00:21:18,180 --> 00:21:19,386 Maybe he's not our guy. 443 00:21:19,447 --> 00:21:20,926 Or he cleans up real good. 444 00:21:21,683 --> 00:21:24,391 Detective, we got something on the metal detector. 445 00:21:33,094 --> 00:21:34,505 Waffle grip. 446 00:21:36,197 --> 00:21:37,505 My lawyer show up yet? 447 00:21:37,566 --> 00:21:39,409 I told him to meet you at Rikers Island. 448 00:21:39,467 --> 00:21:41,344 We found out what you've been feeding your plants. 449 00:21:41,403 --> 00:21:43,679 You're under arrest for the murder of Lucy Young. 450 00:21:43,738 --> 00:21:45,445 You have the right to remain silent. 451 00:21:45,507 --> 00:21:48,545 Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law. 452 00:21:50,413 --> 00:21:52,757 Can I get a better look at Number 3? 453 00:21:53,950 --> 00:21:56,396 Have Number 3 step forward, please. 454 00:21:56,986 --> 00:21:58,294 Step forward. Right here. 455 00:22:00,289 --> 00:22:01,290 Stay there. 456 00:22:01,757 --> 00:22:03,737 Okay. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that that's him. 457 00:22:03,793 --> 00:22:05,431 That's the guy that was on the loading dock. 458 00:22:05,494 --> 00:22:06,632 You're pretty sure? 459 00:22:06,696 --> 00:22:08,403 You're here to observe, Mr. Olson. 460 00:22:08,898 --> 00:22:10,502 Take your time, Ms. LaPorte. 461 00:22:11,567 --> 00:22:14,275 Well, I think that that's him. 462 00:22:15,738 --> 00:22:17,547 Thank you. We'll be in touch. 463 00:22:20,109 --> 00:22:21,918 Well, I believe Mr. Brunig will be leaving, too. 464 00:22:22,645 --> 00:22:24,147 You think I'm letting him back on the street? 465 00:22:25,048 --> 00:22:26,686 We're arraigning him on gun possession. 466 00:22:29,519 --> 00:22:31,829 Larry Brunig leads a fairly unremarkable life. 467 00:22:32,422 --> 00:22:34,561 He was a proofreader at an insurance company, 468 00:22:35,025 --> 00:22:36,766 and his sheet's clean, not even a traffic ticket. 469 00:22:37,527 --> 00:22:39,063 Somebody spike his oatmeal one morning? 470 00:22:39,596 --> 00:22:42,839 Apparently he had problems with the paintings the victim promoted. 471 00:22:43,367 --> 00:22:46,610 It's a big leap from writing a letter to chopping off her hands. 472 00:22:46,670 --> 00:22:48,047 What's he got for an alibi? 473 00:22:48,505 --> 00:22:49,643 Home by himself. 474 00:22:51,074 --> 00:22:52,075 Prove he wasn't. 475 00:22:53,677 --> 00:22:57,557 I'm sure Larry was home that night. I remember his music being up real loud. 476 00:22:58,248 --> 00:22:59,693 What time was that? 477 00:22:59,750 --> 00:23:00,923 Around 7:30. 478 00:23:01,419 --> 00:23:03,399 My mah-jong game was just getting started 479 00:23:03,454 --> 00:23:06,162 and Bev Schlenoff was complaining she couldn't hear. 480 00:23:06,591 --> 00:23:07,831 It must have been pretty loud. 481 00:23:08,159 --> 00:23:09,467 These walls are like paper. 482 00:23:09,727 --> 00:23:12,833 So I called Larry on the phone, and he turned it off. He's nice that way. 483 00:23:13,831 --> 00:23:16,209 Once it was quiet, did you hear him leave his apartment? 484 00:23:16,934 --> 00:23:17,935 I wouldn't know. 485 00:23:18,770 --> 00:23:21,216 Usually when he gets home from work, he's in for the night. 486 00:23:21,673 --> 00:23:23,243 Not much of a social life? 487 00:23:23,308 --> 00:23:24,309 Not recently. 488 00:23:24,609 --> 00:23:26,646 But when he moved in here, he was a different person. 489 00:23:27,345 --> 00:23:28,756 Different in what way? 490 00:23:29,414 --> 00:23:30,893 Let me show you something, dear. 491 00:23:34,485 --> 00:23:35,623 See? 492 00:23:37,322 --> 00:23:39,893 That's not bad. Brunig did that? 493 00:23:40,325 --> 00:23:43,670 Larry couldn't make his rent one month, so he gave me this instead. 494 00:23:44,763 --> 00:23:46,003 How long ago was that? 495 00:23:46,665 --> 00:23:50,511 Oh, five or six years ago. Then one morning I got up 496 00:23:50,936 --> 00:23:54,509 and all the paintings that were in his apartment were out with the garbage. 497 00:23:55,140 --> 00:23:56,881 The canvasses had been slashed. 498 00:23:58,177 --> 00:24:00,487 That's a pretty big statement. Did he ever talk to you about it? 499 00:24:02,081 --> 00:24:04,584 From what I could tell, he just gave up. 500 00:24:06,719 --> 00:24:09,996 Larry Brunig. He'd turn up with a new painting every three or four months. 501 00:24:10,589 --> 00:24:12,695 I only sold one, to a lady in Great Neck. She liked it 502 00:24:12,759 --> 00:24:15,137 because the colors matched her sofa. 503 00:24:15,195 --> 00:24:17,471 You know, I saw one of his paintings. It wasn't half bad. 504 00:24:17,831 --> 00:24:19,811 I have something really nice that might interest you. 505 00:24:19,866 --> 00:24:20,901 No thanks. 506 00:24:20,967 --> 00:24:22,241 I'll give you a break on the price. 507 00:24:22,302 --> 00:24:23,781 I'm not in the market, Mr. Boyd. 508 00:24:23,837 --> 00:24:25,942 All right. Larry tried hard. 509 00:24:26,005 --> 00:24:28,178 He was prolific, but the kind of work he did just wasn't selling. 510 00:24:28,241 --> 00:24:30,084 I had to stop representing him. 511 00:24:30,143 --> 00:24:31,520 How'd he react when you told him? 512 00:24:31,578 --> 00:24:34,582 Larry's not stupid. He saw the writing on the wall, took a day job. 513 00:24:34,647 --> 00:24:36,251 We parted ways on good terms. 514 00:24:37,250 --> 00:24:38,991 When's the last time you spoke to him? 515 00:24:39,052 --> 00:24:42,226 I heard from him three years ago. In fact, I did him a big favor. 516 00:24:42,288 --> 00:24:43,426 What kind of favor? 517 00:24:43,990 --> 00:24:46,664 I got a call from a woman who was traveling with Larry in Spain. 518 00:24:46,726 --> 00:24:48,866 Said he was having some trouble with the police and needed money. 519 00:24:49,330 --> 00:24:51,310 I sent him some. What happened? 520 00:24:51,365 --> 00:24:53,902 I never got the whole story I wired him $2,000. 521 00:24:54,335 --> 00:24:55,814 Took him about a year, but Larry paid me back. 522 00:24:56,504 --> 00:24:58,347 Do you remember the woman's name? 523 00:24:58,739 --> 00:25:02,710 It was his girlfriend. She said she worked with Larry at some insurance company. 524 00:25:06,714 --> 00:25:09,092 We went to Spain together on vacation. 525 00:25:09,583 --> 00:25:13,929 I knew Larry loved art, but all he wanted to do was visit churches and museums. 526 00:25:14,855 --> 00:25:18,359 You had Otto Boyd wire him some money while you were there. What was that about? 527 00:25:19,794 --> 00:25:21,239 Larry's got enough problems. 528 00:25:22,696 --> 00:25:26,167 You had to make the call for him, so I assume he was in jail. 529 00:25:26,568 --> 00:25:29,048 If you want to know what happened, try the Barcelona police. 530 00:25:30,205 --> 00:25:31,548 Do you know what he did to that woman? 531 00:25:31,606 --> 00:25:33,608 I know what I read in the paper. 532 00:25:34,276 --> 00:25:36,313 Well, let me tell you what wasn't in the paper. 533 00:25:37,045 --> 00:25:39,423 She was still alive when he cut her hands off. 534 00:25:42,384 --> 00:25:44,022 Larry wouldn't do that. 535 00:25:44,085 --> 00:25:46,326 He was offended by a painting she sponsored. 536 00:25:46,922 --> 00:25:48,128 A woman with no hands. 537 00:25:49,024 --> 00:25:50,435 A painting? 538 00:25:51,126 --> 00:25:52,662 Talk to me, Ms. Branson. 539 00:25:55,964 --> 00:25:58,274 Larry kept going back to this one museum. 540 00:25:58,333 --> 00:26:01,440 There was a painting by Salvador Dali. 541 00:26:02,038 --> 00:26:03,210 He took me to see it. 542 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,720 It was this woman, she had no head, no hands, no feet. 543 00:26:08,478 --> 00:26:11,015 I couldn't understand his fascination. 544 00:26:11,714 --> 00:26:14,786 Made me think he was a little strange. 545 00:26:15,651 --> 00:26:17,187 How'd the police get involved? 546 00:26:17,253 --> 00:26:18,926 One night, Larry called me at our hotel. 547 00:26:19,555 --> 00:26:21,034 He, uh, was in jail. 548 00:26:21,891 --> 00:26:24,098 They said he tried to vandalize the painting with spray paint. 549 00:26:25,628 --> 00:26:28,632 CARMICHAEL: The guards jumped Brunig before he could get the top off the can. 550 00:26:28,698 --> 00:26:29,768 Thank heavens. 551 00:26:29,832 --> 00:26:32,972 As they dragged him away, Brunig shouted the museum should be closed down 552 00:26:33,035 --> 00:26:35,037 for hanging paintings by women-haters. 553 00:26:35,404 --> 00:26:38,079 What do you get in Spain for trying to paint a painting? 554 00:26:38,709 --> 00:26:41,087 Well, they detained him until he paid a fine, 555 00:26:41,145 --> 00:26:44,217 and made the State Department invalidate his passport for travel to Spain. 556 00:26:44,848 --> 00:26:46,691 It establishes a pattern of behavior and a motive. 557 00:26:47,217 --> 00:26:49,458 We'll need a witness from the Barcelona Museum. 558 00:26:49,519 --> 00:26:50,520 Barcelona, 559 00:26:51,655 --> 00:26:53,225 a headless woman, it's... 560 00:26:54,158 --> 00:26:55,159 Surreal? 561 00:27:00,697 --> 00:27:02,506 "Docket number 4219," 562 00:27:02,566 --> 00:27:05,672 "People v. Larry Brunig, murder in the first degree." 563 00:27:05,869 --> 00:27:07,473 Murder one? That's over-charging. 564 00:27:07,971 --> 00:27:09,973 The victim's hands were severed before death. 565 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,282 She was killed in a cruel and wanton manner. 566 00:27:13,111 --> 00:27:15,216 Murder one sounds good to me. How's he plead? 567 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:16,588 Not guilty, Your Honor. 568 00:27:16,648 --> 00:27:17,718 People request remand. 569 00:27:18,116 --> 00:27:20,027 My client has a steady job a stable residence, 570 00:27:20,084 --> 00:27:21,620 absolutely no criminal record. 571 00:27:21,686 --> 00:27:23,393 In this country. 572 00:27:23,454 --> 00:27:26,594 Your Honor, he was arrested in Spain. He tried to deface a prominent painting by 573 00:27:26,658 --> 00:27:29,161 Salvador Dali, which depicted a dismembered woman. 574 00:27:30,261 --> 00:27:31,569 What about this, Mr. Olson? 575 00:27:31,863 --> 00:27:34,935 What happened in Spain is not admissible against my client. 576 00:27:34,999 --> 00:27:37,309 I'm asking Your Honor to preclude this evidence. 577 00:27:37,902 --> 00:27:40,815 It's admissible at a bail argument. I'm remanding him. 578 00:27:41,339 --> 00:27:42,818 I'll refer your motion to the trial judge. 579 00:27:42,874 --> 00:27:43,978 Next case. 580 00:27:44,809 --> 00:27:46,447 COURT CLERK: "Docket number 367..." 581 00:27:46,511 --> 00:27:49,322 They can't place my client at the murder scene, so they attack his character. 582 00:27:49,748 --> 00:27:50,852 It's relevant to his motive. 583 00:27:50,916 --> 00:27:53,021 He tired to attack a painting, not a person. 584 00:27:53,085 --> 00:27:56,259 But the Barcelona incident shows that he was incited to violence 585 00:27:56,322 --> 00:27:59,064 by exactly the same image. It's practically his trademark. 586 00:27:59,258 --> 00:28:01,761 He had white paint. Now they're talking about a kitchen knife. 587 00:28:02,161 --> 00:28:03,731 It has no probative value. 588 00:28:03,796 --> 00:28:07,073 Don't I have to weigh the possibility of prejudice, Mr. McCoy? 589 00:28:07,132 --> 00:28:09,112 Exactly, Judge. No jury can hear about Barcelona 590 00:28:09,168 --> 00:28:11,079 and still dispassionately weigh the evidence. 591 00:28:11,136 --> 00:28:14,049 Give the jurors some credit. They make these kinds of distinctions all the time. 592 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,677 Oh, I don't give them that much credit. 593 00:28:18,444 --> 00:28:21,584 I'll allow the testimony to come in with a limiting instruction. 594 00:28:25,452 --> 00:28:26,897 Here's what you can do with your motive. 595 00:28:29,522 --> 00:28:30,694 Insanity defense? 596 00:28:31,157 --> 00:28:33,865 Not quite. Extreme emotional disturbance. 597 00:28:33,927 --> 00:28:35,634 The painting made me do it. 598 00:28:39,933 --> 00:28:42,413 When did you first encounter the defendant, Ms. Poster? 599 00:28:43,370 --> 00:28:45,008 At the opening party for Mark Vee. 600 00:28:45,071 --> 00:28:48,143 He, uh, went from piece to piece muttering and shaking his head. 601 00:28:48,708 --> 00:28:52,087 He'd confront the guests and challenge their opinion on the work. 602 00:28:52,645 --> 00:28:54,750 A number of arguments broke out, and I had to ask him to leave. 603 00:28:55,815 --> 00:28:57,488 Did you ever see Mr. Brunig after that? 604 00:28:58,318 --> 00:29:01,766 He came back to the gallery four times during the Mark Vee show. 605 00:29:02,323 --> 00:29:03,666 And how did he behave? 606 00:29:03,724 --> 00:29:04,896 Nothing like the first time. 607 00:29:05,826 --> 00:29:08,705 He would just look at Perfect Woman #3 for a while and then he'd leave. 608 00:29:09,864 --> 00:29:11,810 No muttering? No. 609 00:29:12,333 --> 00:29:13,869 No confrontations? 610 00:29:13,934 --> 00:29:15,311 No. He didn't open his mouth. 611 00:29:15,369 --> 00:29:18,373 Did he appear agitated or affected by the painting in any way? 612 00:29:18,773 --> 00:29:19,774 Not in the least. 613 00:29:21,642 --> 00:29:22,643 Nothing further. 614 00:29:24,545 --> 00:29:26,081 Ms. Poster, did you ever speak to Mr. Brunig 615 00:29:26,147 --> 00:29:28,093 during his subsequent visits to the gallery? 616 00:29:28,749 --> 00:29:30,194 No. Just that first time. 617 00:29:30,951 --> 00:29:32,988 So, unless you could read his mind, 618 00:29:33,054 --> 00:29:35,057 you really didn't know whether he was agitated or not. 619 00:29:35,524 --> 00:29:36,935 He didn't seem upset to me. 620 00:29:37,259 --> 00:29:40,069 The one time he did seem upset, you had him removed from the gallery? 621 00:29:40,495 --> 00:29:41,530 Right. 622 00:29:41,763 --> 00:29:43,800 So it's quite possible that he was hiding his emotions 623 00:29:43,865 --> 00:29:45,435 in order to avoid getting thrown out? 624 00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:46,808 Objection. JUDGE: Sustained. 625 00:29:46,868 --> 00:29:48,745 For all you know, he was burning up inside. 626 00:29:48,804 --> 00:29:49,908 Sustained! 627 00:29:51,873 --> 00:29:52,908 Nothing further. 628 00:29:56,278 --> 00:29:59,555 OLSON: Who was your model for Perfect Woman #3, Mr. Vee? 629 00:30:00,382 --> 00:30:01,656 There was no model. 630 00:30:02,050 --> 00:30:03,961 It's solely a product of my imagination. 631 00:30:04,553 --> 00:30:06,863 You imagine women with their body parts amputated? 632 00:30:07,222 --> 00:30:08,758 Yeah, I suppose I do. 633 00:30:09,124 --> 00:30:10,364 But it's just fantasy. 634 00:30:10,860 --> 00:30:12,965 A fantasy which you choose to share with the public. 635 00:30:13,663 --> 00:30:15,973 I suppose that's one way to define art. 636 00:30:17,133 --> 00:30:19,306 How do you intend people to feel when they view this? 637 00:30:19,802 --> 00:30:23,443 I can't predict people's emotional response to my art. 638 00:30:23,506 --> 00:30:26,851 What they feel about this painting is based on their own experience. 639 00:30:27,577 --> 00:30:30,421 So disgust and outrage would be valid responses? 640 00:30:31,114 --> 00:30:35,290 Sure, but I hope the viewer goes deeper than a visceral reaction to the work. 641 00:30:35,351 --> 00:30:36,421 What do you mean by that? 642 00:30:36,486 --> 00:30:39,763 Anybody can look at Perfect Woman #3 and be offended. 643 00:30:40,957 --> 00:30:42,527 I want to challenge their preconceptions. 644 00:30:44,827 --> 00:30:48,435 You're a provocateur, Mr. Vee, aren't you? 645 00:30:49,566 --> 00:30:50,601 You might say that. 646 00:30:50,667 --> 00:30:52,704 You seek to arouse a reaction? 647 00:30:53,337 --> 00:30:56,580 The bigger the reaction, the better. That's what the work is about. 648 00:30:59,710 --> 00:31:00,950 I have nothing further. 649 00:31:03,914 --> 00:31:07,293 Did you intend your work to be taken literally, Mr. Vee? 650 00:31:08,285 --> 00:31:10,196 VEE: What do you mean "literally"? 651 00:31:10,921 --> 00:31:14,334 Did you intend this painting to promote hatred of women? 652 00:31:14,892 --> 00:31:18,271 I wouldn't expect any two people to experience it the same way. 653 00:31:19,363 --> 00:31:21,172 You wanted to provoke discussion? 654 00:31:21,432 --> 00:31:22,434 Yes. 655 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,170 JACK: Challenge people's perceptions? 656 00:31:24,235 --> 00:31:25,305 VEE: Yes. 657 00:31:25,370 --> 00:31:29,045 Did you ever intend your work to provoke violence? 658 00:31:29,474 --> 00:31:30,953 Provoke violence? 659 00:31:31,009 --> 00:31:35,685 No. But I can't deny this painting has violent content. 660 00:31:37,015 --> 00:31:39,962 It doesn't surprise me that some people can't handle it. 661 00:31:45,823 --> 00:31:47,598 Olson will depict his client as 662 00:31:47,659 --> 00:31:49,866 slipping into a dissociative state prior to the murder. 663 00:31:50,662 --> 00:31:52,938 It sounds like you're describing some form of psychosis. 664 00:31:53,698 --> 00:31:57,373 Brunig won't say his dog told him to do it, just that he acted on impulse. 665 00:31:58,103 --> 00:31:59,707 Triggered by viewing the painting. 666 00:31:59,772 --> 00:32:03,015 The testimony he went back to see it several times supports that position. 667 00:32:03,542 --> 00:32:05,419 Nobody forced him to go back there. 668 00:32:05,477 --> 00:32:07,423 The more you can show his actions to be deliberate, 669 00:32:07,479 --> 00:32:10,585 the less likely they'll be viewed as impulsive. 670 00:32:10,649 --> 00:32:12,287 Just take him through it frame by frame. 671 00:32:13,085 --> 00:32:14,155 You foresee any potholes? 672 00:32:15,621 --> 00:32:18,227 Well, he might claim something in his background made him vulnerable. 673 00:32:18,290 --> 00:32:19,769 He flopped as an artist. 674 00:32:19,825 --> 00:32:21,896 Or something more basic, from his childhood. 675 00:32:22,695 --> 00:32:25,767 Maybe you'll figure it out from the gallery. See you in the morning. 676 00:32:25,831 --> 00:32:26,935 DR. SKODA: Yeah. 677 00:32:28,601 --> 00:32:29,739 Thanks. 678 00:32:32,972 --> 00:32:35,078 I have to say, Jack, that painting disturbs me, too. 679 00:32:35,475 --> 00:32:39,013 There's being disturbed and there's using it as an excuse to commit murder. 680 00:32:39,913 --> 00:32:41,654 It's no better than pornography. 681 00:32:42,315 --> 00:32:44,454 And what, pornography causes violence? 682 00:32:45,051 --> 00:32:47,827 I'm not hardcore like some feminists, but there's something to it. 683 00:32:48,021 --> 00:32:51,230 There's no proven correlation between looking at smut and committing crimes. 684 00:32:52,726 --> 00:32:56,469 I don't care what the numbers say. It's more subtle. It objectifies women. 685 00:32:57,230 --> 00:32:58,675 You want to police what people think? 686 00:32:59,065 --> 00:33:03,070 The Supreme Court says expression can be regulated based on community standards. 687 00:33:03,136 --> 00:33:06,049 Where I come form, they'd toss that thing in the barbecue pit. 688 00:33:06,873 --> 00:33:09,376 That's your solution? Burn it? 689 00:33:09,442 --> 00:33:12,583 I'm not advocating that, but your jury might. 690 00:33:20,855 --> 00:33:22,596 The defense calls Larry Brunig. 691 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,737 Uh, Your Honor, I see Dr. Skoda, the People's psychiatrist, in the gallery. 692 00:33:30,364 --> 00:33:31,604 He's entitled to observe. 693 00:33:36,938 --> 00:33:38,315 I want him excluded from the courtroom. 694 00:33:38,372 --> 00:33:39,373 JUDGE: On what grounds? 695 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,716 The People are trying to end-run the statute. He can't testify here. 696 00:33:42,209 --> 00:33:44,553 I'm entitled to his advice before I cross. 697 00:33:45,346 --> 00:33:47,554 Are you stipulating that you're not calling him on rebuttal? 698 00:33:47,916 --> 00:33:49,190 I haven't made that decision yet. 699 00:33:49,251 --> 00:33:50,252 There you go, Judge. 700 00:33:50,652 --> 00:33:53,496 There's nothing that says I can't call an expert in rebuttal. 701 00:33:53,722 --> 00:33:55,292 He's trying to intimidate Mr. Brunig. 702 00:33:55,524 --> 00:33:58,664 How would your client be intimidated by someone he doesn't know or recognize? 703 00:33:58,894 --> 00:33:59,929 This was a setup. 704 00:34:00,128 --> 00:34:01,607 But the bell has already rung. 705 00:34:01,863 --> 00:34:03,103 Then I'll find someone else. 706 00:34:03,165 --> 00:34:06,476 I'm not stopping this trial while you go shopping for a shrink. 707 00:34:08,003 --> 00:34:09,607 You want Dr. Skoda to testify? 708 00:34:10,205 --> 00:34:12,742 Give him the transcript of the defendant's testimony. 709 00:34:13,242 --> 00:34:14,414 Now let's go. 710 00:34:22,685 --> 00:34:25,256 I first read about Mark Vee's opening in a magazine. 711 00:34:27,323 --> 00:34:30,270 The paintings sounded so violent, I wanted to see them for myself. 712 00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,265 Is that when you first came into contact with Lucy Young? 713 00:34:34,263 --> 00:34:38,643 Yes. Heard the show would never have gotten off the ground without her. 714 00:34:39,168 --> 00:34:40,374 Did you approach her? 715 00:34:40,436 --> 00:34:43,849 I wanted to talk to her about the filth she was supporting. 716 00:34:45,241 --> 00:34:47,482 But they asked me to leave before I had the chance. 717 00:34:48,077 --> 00:34:49,385 Because you were disruptive? 718 00:34:50,046 --> 00:34:53,027 I just wanted to understand what it was people liked about it. 719 00:34:55,518 --> 00:34:56,861 One of them called me a fascist. 720 00:34:58,122 --> 00:34:59,795 Why did you seek Lucy Young out again? 721 00:35:01,458 --> 00:35:02,766 I never planned it. 722 00:35:04,328 --> 00:35:07,002 But I found out she backed a lot of this filth. 723 00:35:07,564 --> 00:35:08,702 Like what? 724 00:35:08,766 --> 00:35:10,473 Defilements of the Virgin Mary, 725 00:35:11,001 --> 00:35:13,538 sculptures made with animal feces... 726 00:35:13,604 --> 00:35:14,639 And this? 727 00:35:14,705 --> 00:35:16,446 See, that is not art. 728 00:35:16,507 --> 00:35:20,250 Art is about beauty and life. 729 00:35:21,612 --> 00:35:23,319 Like Renoir, or Degas. 730 00:35:23,380 --> 00:35:25,189 It made you angry, Larry? Yes. 731 00:35:26,050 --> 00:35:29,862 So what did you do with all of this anger that was building up inside of you? 732 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,698 I got Lucy Young's address off the Internet, 733 00:35:33,758 --> 00:35:35,362 so I decided to confront her. 734 00:35:35,693 --> 00:35:37,764 To harm her? No. 735 00:35:37,829 --> 00:35:42,471 I just wanted to tell her what a terrible thing it was 736 00:35:42,534 --> 00:35:44,036 to support this 737 00:35:44,769 --> 00:35:47,079 and what it would do to the children who saw it. 738 00:35:48,340 --> 00:35:50,752 What happened when you got to the building that night? 739 00:35:51,543 --> 00:35:53,022 She wasn't there at first, 740 00:35:54,479 --> 00:35:57,858 so I decided to wait across the street. My mind was racing. 741 00:35:59,417 --> 00:36:02,955 Then when she finally turned the corner, 742 00:36:03,955 --> 00:36:05,332 my heart started pounding. 743 00:36:05,390 --> 00:36:07,165 What did you do when she arrived? 744 00:36:09,228 --> 00:36:12,266 I came up to her at the door. I told her I wanted to talk. 745 00:36:14,033 --> 00:36:17,776 She said to leave her alone or she'd scream. 746 00:36:19,371 --> 00:36:21,282 Then she pulled out a can of mace. 747 00:36:22,374 --> 00:36:24,376 And you forced her inside with a gun? 748 00:36:24,443 --> 00:36:25,717 Yes. 749 00:36:25,778 --> 00:36:27,314 And you hit her over the head? 750 00:36:27,379 --> 00:36:28,653 Yes. 751 00:36:30,016 --> 00:36:31,962 She wouldn't listen to me. 752 00:36:32,752 --> 00:36:34,288 And then, Larry? 753 00:36:34,353 --> 00:36:35,491 She was lying there... 754 00:36:37,923 --> 00:36:40,529 All I could think about was that. 755 00:36:41,427 --> 00:36:43,407 I couldn't get this picture out of my head, 756 00:36:44,463 --> 00:36:47,502 and the things that it made me think about were horrible. 757 00:36:51,371 --> 00:36:52,782 What it made me do. 758 00:36:53,740 --> 00:36:55,515 What did you do, Larry? 759 00:36:58,678 --> 00:37:00,521 I went to the kitchen 760 00:37:02,215 --> 00:37:04,525 and I got a knife and some tape... 761 00:37:06,953 --> 00:37:09,729 I can't say it. Please, just don't make me say it. 762 00:37:09,790 --> 00:37:11,064 Nothing further. 763 00:37:16,062 --> 00:37:17,769 Before you went to confront Lucy Young, 764 00:37:17,831 --> 00:37:19,902 you made sure to bring your gun along with you? 765 00:37:20,768 --> 00:37:21,974 BRUNIG: Yes. 766 00:37:22,670 --> 00:37:24,650 You planned to harm her, Mr. Brunig. 767 00:37:24,705 --> 00:37:27,413 No! I just wanted to make her listen. 768 00:37:27,475 --> 00:37:30,046 And then you laid in wait for her for an hour and a half. 769 00:37:31,245 --> 00:37:33,191 I don't remember exactly how long it was. 770 00:37:33,247 --> 00:37:35,887 Well, do you remember cleaning your fingerprints off, 771 00:37:35,950 --> 00:37:37,793 disposing of your bloody clothes? 772 00:37:38,219 --> 00:37:40,426 After I realized what I'd done, I got scared. 773 00:37:41,355 --> 00:37:45,531 Hardly the actions of a man acting on emotion, Mr. Brunig. 774 00:37:45,593 --> 00:37:46,936 Objection. Argumentative. 775 00:37:46,994 --> 00:37:48,064 Sustained. 776 00:37:49,697 --> 00:37:52,610 At one point in your life, you were a professional artist. 777 00:37:54,335 --> 00:37:56,646 My mother taught me how to paint when I was a boy. 778 00:37:57,940 --> 00:37:59,851 She was a gifted artist herself. 779 00:37:59,908 --> 00:38:02,388 And then one day, you just gave up. 780 00:38:03,212 --> 00:38:05,089 My paintings weren't selling. 781 00:38:05,414 --> 00:38:09,055 And people like Lucy Young wouldn't help you. 782 00:38:09,117 --> 00:38:10,687 That's right. 783 00:38:10,752 --> 00:38:15,223 But Mark Vee was featured at a major gallery. 784 00:38:15,290 --> 00:38:18,066 People were lining up to see his work. 785 00:38:18,126 --> 00:38:21,539 They think they're smarter than you because they worship this crap. 786 00:38:23,899 --> 00:38:27,711 That's all it is, and you know it. Everybody here knows it. 787 00:38:29,271 --> 00:38:31,911 You were a failure, Mr. Brunig. 788 00:38:31,974 --> 00:38:33,454 That has nothing to do with this. 789 00:38:33,509 --> 00:38:35,284 You were jealous and bitter. 790 00:38:35,345 --> 00:38:36,346 No. 791 00:38:36,412 --> 00:38:39,120 And that's why you kept going back there, isn't it? 792 00:38:39,182 --> 00:38:40,991 To wallow in your own misery! 793 00:38:41,050 --> 00:38:42,393 This did something to me. 794 00:38:42,452 --> 00:38:45,023 Then why didn't you confront the artist instead of Lucy Young? 795 00:38:45,088 --> 00:38:49,036 Without her money, people wouldn't even be able to see these sick paintings. 796 00:38:49,459 --> 00:38:53,100 So, to protest, 797 00:38:54,731 --> 00:38:57,177 you cut off a woman's hands. 798 00:38:58,868 --> 00:39:01,212 Can you explain that to me, Mr. Brunig? 799 00:39:02,405 --> 00:39:04,908 Lucy Young did this to me. 800 00:39:07,377 --> 00:39:09,255 She made me feel this. 801 00:39:11,048 --> 00:39:13,619 She put this painting in a gallery. 802 00:39:16,153 --> 00:39:17,689 I had to make it stop. 803 00:39:24,528 --> 00:39:27,202 Look, Jack, everything he describes about that night, 804 00:39:27,264 --> 00:39:29,710 the way his rage spiked, the way he killed her, 805 00:39:29,767 --> 00:39:31,747 it suggests a loss of self-control. 806 00:39:31,802 --> 00:39:33,372 And the gun he brought along? 807 00:39:33,437 --> 00:39:35,041 Ultimately, he didn't shoot her. 808 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,748 If I could talk to Brunig alone, I'd have some better insight. 809 00:39:38,809 --> 00:39:40,516 Well, you can't. The law doesn't allow it. 810 00:39:41,078 --> 00:39:44,891 Based on this cold record, nothing I could say would help you. 811 00:39:45,317 --> 00:39:46,421 Thanks. 812 00:39:50,355 --> 00:39:51,561 ADAM: Now what? 813 00:39:51,623 --> 00:39:52,795 We go to a verdict. 814 00:39:52,857 --> 00:39:54,427 Get a second opinion. 815 00:39:55,527 --> 00:39:58,997 If I put a hired gun up there, Olson'll call Skoda in rebuttal. 816 00:39:59,064 --> 00:40:00,065 Then offer murder two. 817 00:40:00,131 --> 00:40:01,633 I don't accept their argument. 818 00:40:01,700 --> 00:40:03,077 It's better than manslaughter, Jack. 819 00:40:03,134 --> 00:40:06,411 We compromise now, we're admitting art incites violence. 820 00:40:06,471 --> 00:40:08,576 This is not about freedom of expression. 821 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,620 Isn't it? If we buy into this defense, 822 00:40:10,675 --> 00:40:12,518 how far behind do you think the censors will be? 823 00:40:13,211 --> 00:40:14,417 Here we go. 824 00:40:14,479 --> 00:40:17,358 You want the government sniffing around the museums, Adam? 825 00:40:18,149 --> 00:40:20,790 Can't you see the little picture for a change? 826 00:40:21,187 --> 00:40:23,064 What do we do when the next defendant comes around 827 00:40:23,122 --> 00:40:24,965 and says that a book made him angry? Or a movie? 828 00:40:25,024 --> 00:40:27,834 That's exactly what's gonna happen if Brunig wins. 829 00:40:29,095 --> 00:40:30,870 If the jury buys it, there's nothing I can do 830 00:40:30,930 --> 00:40:32,705 but I won't pave the way. 831 00:40:33,733 --> 00:40:35,644 A painting's not an excuse for murder. 832 00:40:42,041 --> 00:40:45,284 Larry Brunig was a profoundly troubled man, 833 00:40:46,279 --> 00:40:50,386 isolated, tortured by his career disappointment, 834 00:40:50,449 --> 00:40:53,760 all of that repressed creativity burning a hole inside of him. 835 00:40:55,388 --> 00:40:58,859 And then Larry saw this, 836 00:41:00,060 --> 00:41:04,031 and it brought to the surface all of that anger and all of that emotion. 837 00:41:05,699 --> 00:41:09,442 He became obsessed with it. It enraged him. 838 00:41:09,870 --> 00:41:14,376 Now this painting, it may not enrage you and me like it enraged Larry, 839 00:41:14,841 --> 00:41:17,321 but under the law, you must step into his shoes 840 00:41:17,377 --> 00:41:18,947 and decide whether he was emotionally overcome 841 00:41:19,012 --> 00:41:21,686 the night he committed this horrible crime. 842 00:41:23,850 --> 00:41:26,797 Now, please take a good, hard look at this. 843 00:41:28,455 --> 00:41:30,992 I want you to think about what it did to Larry. 844 00:41:31,325 --> 00:41:32,964 It poisoned him. 845 00:41:33,027 --> 00:41:36,065 And in his mind, Lucy Young was the one 846 00:41:36,130 --> 00:41:38,804 that inflicted this poison on him. 847 00:41:38,866 --> 00:41:41,676 Larry's mental distress was real. 848 00:41:42,637 --> 00:41:44,742 And for one regrettable moment, 849 00:41:47,542 --> 00:41:48,816 he lost control. 850 00:41:51,879 --> 00:41:53,654 Because of this. 851 00:42:08,197 --> 00:42:09,904 I don't care for this painting. 852 00:42:11,166 --> 00:42:15,342 It's offensive to me, and I'm not going to stand here and tell you otherwise. 853 00:42:17,606 --> 00:42:22,385 But it doesn't give Larry Brunig an excuse for killing Lucy Young. 854 00:42:23,145 --> 00:42:27,321 Mr. Brunig wants to use his obsession as a permission slip 855 00:42:27,383 --> 00:42:28,623 to commit murder. 856 00:42:33,722 --> 00:42:36,760 If you go down that road, where does it end? 857 00:42:37,693 --> 00:42:40,503 Any person who's hypersensitive 858 00:42:40,562 --> 00:42:43,099 has a defense against a charge of murder. 859 00:42:43,165 --> 00:42:48,206 Any bigot can plead extreme emotional disturbance. 860 00:42:48,271 --> 00:42:53,721 Whether you like it or not, Mark Vee had every right to create this. 861 00:42:53,777 --> 00:42:56,485 Lucy Young had every right to support it. 862 00:42:57,413 --> 00:43:02,385 And Larry Brunig had every right to hate it. 863 00:43:02,452 --> 00:43:06,025 If he wanted to, he could stand on a street corner 864 00:43:06,089 --> 00:43:09,536 and rail against it to anyone who passed by. 865 00:43:09,592 --> 00:43:16,100 But he had no right to kill Lucy Young to express his opinion. 866 00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:22,311 He found Mark Vee's painting insulting to women. 867 00:43:23,841 --> 00:43:27,721 But he's the one who clubbed a woman's head 868 00:43:28,245 --> 00:43:31,715 and chopped her up in her living room. 869 00:43:31,782 --> 00:43:34,956 Larry Brunig planned this crime in advance 870 00:43:35,019 --> 00:43:38,125 and carried it out with brutal efficiency. 871 00:43:38,189 --> 00:43:42,763 His claim that he just wanted to confront Lucy Young about her patronage 872 00:43:42,826 --> 00:43:45,500 is belied by the fact that, on the night in question, 873 00:43:45,563 --> 00:43:47,372 he packed a gun. 874 00:43:50,468 --> 00:43:54,143 On some level his anger may be understandable, 875 00:43:57,676 --> 00:44:00,885 but don't let him use it to get away with murder. 876 00:44:10,622 --> 00:44:12,568 Has the jury reached a verdict? 877 00:44:12,624 --> 00:44:14,194 FOREPERSON: We have, Your Honor. 878 00:44:14,259 --> 00:44:15,829 Will the defendant please rise? 879 00:44:18,530 --> 00:44:20,032 On the sole count of the indictment, 880 00:44:20,098 --> 00:44:23,045 murder in the first degree, how do you find? 881 00:44:23,101 --> 00:44:26,014 We find the defendant guilty. 882 00:44:40,152 --> 00:44:42,894 I hear the First Amendment's alive and well. 883 00:44:42,955 --> 00:44:45,959 For now. It'll keep taking potshots. 884 00:44:46,025 --> 00:44:48,266 And the Larry Brunigs of the world won't help. 885 00:44:49,228 --> 00:44:51,401 Maybe if he hadn't stopped painting.