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In the criminal justice system,
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the people are represented by two separate
yet equally important groups-
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the police, who investigate crime,
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and the district attorneys,
who prosecute the offenders.
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These are their stories.
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English, okay?
I saw them kiss after the game.
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On television?
No, the queen of England,
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she called and asked me to go
with her to the World Series.
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I just asked a question.
It was dumb.
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Almost as dumb as Pudge kissing that
pitcher- what's-his-name-- on national TV.
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Pudge is not a fruitcake. I
know that, and you know that.
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But the gringos, they don't understand.
He's got a World Series ring.
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He doesn't care what gringos think.
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See, that's the attitude
that's gonna keep us down.
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In America,
we have to act like Americans.
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This guy must have had some party.
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It's good to be the boss.
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No. No, it's not.
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Señor Zachary.
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Borracho?
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Muerto.
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Two maids found the head honcho
on the floor in his office.
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Arnold Zachary. “A” to "Z"
Get it?
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Yeah, that's clever, man.
You want some coffee?
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We got a kid running down the block.
Yeah. Black's good.
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I'm fine.
Call Gruber, add another black.
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You want a bear claw?
This Greek guy--
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Let me tell you--
Guy's gotta eat.
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Two more claws.
None for me, man.
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One bite-- to die.
Speaking of which--
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Arnold Zachary, 55.
Owns the joint.
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Looks like he went hand-to-hand
with the Fifth Cavalry.
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Anything taken?
This mess, who can tell?
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There's a safe over there.
It's all locked up.
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Jewelry, watch, and whatnot
are still on the body.
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So is a pocket full of hundreds.
A grand, give or take.
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We've got massive cranial trauma.
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- Mandible's busted.
- What's this?
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Looks like coke, but these days,
I ain't doing a taste test.
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You'll get it over to the lab?
Already done.
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From temp and lividity,
I put death between 8:00 and 9:00.
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And what about the peanut gallery?
Stitchers. Night shift. Downstairs.
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They couldn't hear anything
with the machines.
Cause of death?
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- Unofficially, crap kicked out of him.
- And officially?
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Cardiac arrest caused by
massive physical trauma.
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Yeah, but his shirt held up.
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It's a terrible, terrible thing.
Mr. Zachary was a good boss.
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“Good boss."
Those are two words you don't
usually hear in the same sentence.
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No, he's strict.
We have to be here on time.
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Still, he has a cake on birthdays.
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Good sick time. He cares.
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Maria had a baby,
and he sent her flowers
with a basket of food.
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What time do you work?
I'm on the 4:00-to-12:00 shift.
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I go to school days.
Mr. Zachary wrote me
a letter of recommendation.
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You didn't hear anything
from the office?
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With these machines?
I didn't know nothing happened
until I saw the police.
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How does this compare
to other factories?
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So you want to know
if this is a sweatshop?
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Is it?
We got air conditioning,
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soda machines with ice,
good heat in the winter,
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and we get paid what everybody else
gets paid for an eight-hour shift.
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How's that?
You got any openings?
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Are you Detective Briscoe?
Uh, close enough.
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- Mrs. Zachary's upstairs.
- You're gonna have fun with that one.
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This is crazy.
He can't be dead.
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I'm sorry, Mrs. Zachary.
I'm 26.
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How can I be a widow?
I don't know what to do.
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Mrs. Zachary, was your husband
always at the office this late?
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The shop goes 24-6.
He liked to show his face
during every shift.
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From what I can tell,
his employees liked him.
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What's not to like?
He's big, cuddly
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I called him Bear.
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You know, some union guys
have been bothering him recently.
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- We'll check it out.
- They had a security camera...
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around the back entrance
to the building.
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- I rewound it.
- You wouldn't believe the theft
in this business.
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Shirts?
Designs.
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Arnie was a genius
at making quality for half the price.
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Here we go.
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He's camera shy
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He knew exactly
where the camera was.
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Who uses that entrance?
Nobody.
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The security guards are around front.
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He's in and out
in less than half an hour.
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- Any guesses, Mrs. Zachary?
- Sorry.
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Get this to the lab. Get a copy.
Make sure that everybody
that works here sees it.
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Mrs. Zachary, was everything
okay on the home front?
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Excuse me?
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I've heard about
what a wonderful designer
your husband was, what a great boss,
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but I haven't heard about
what a great husband he was.
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I'm not an emotional person, okay?
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My shrink tells me someday I'll explode.
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Arnie was my husband.
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I loved him very much.
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Does that answer your question?
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Okay, stop. Blow it up.
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No wedding ring.
That's the first thing you'd think of.
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Keeping one off my finger
is all I think about.
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Okay next.
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Hold on.
What's that on the hat?
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- Looks like a "B."
- Bring up the other frame.
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Now, can you isolate
the hat on both?
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"B.B."
Bed and breakfast?
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Baked beans.
Barrel of bubkes.
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This isn't gonna help. Thanks.
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Let's go talk to our friendly union rep.
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"A" to "Z" Design.
That's Arnie Zachary right?
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Yeah. The recently departed
Arnie Zachary.
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Oh, that's a shame.
He was a good guy.
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I went to his first wedding.
Hold it.
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You guys are Homicide?
Good guess.
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And you think someone here
had something to do with this?
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He's a nonunion shop.
Rag trade?
He's not the only one.
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Yeah, but he was the one
that was hassled by your guys.
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We hand out leaflets. That's it.
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Usually, they get
thrown in the garbage.
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Look, we couldn't unionize that shop,
even if we wanted to.
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Why's that?
You didn't get a look
at who works there, did you?
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They looked like good people.
Put it this way:
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A good tenth of them
don't file tax returns.
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The white powder on your guy's jacket?
It was baking flour.
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Thank you, Krispy Kreme.
The thing is,
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I analyzed his stomach contents.
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Steak, green beans, potato.
My kind of guy.
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So no flour?
No flour.
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I think they call that a clue, Watson.
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It's what I get paid for.
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The victim ate a hearty meal,
then went back to the office...
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for some face time with the night staff.
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Any luck with the candid camera?
Not yet.
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Okay, so there's only one bakery
in Manhattan with the initials B.B.
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That was on the intruder's hat.
And?
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Bagel Baker.
They cook and deliver
to stores throughout the city.
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See ya.
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- What did he do?
- We just need to ask him a few questions.
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That doesn't sound good.
We got onion, salt, sesame, everything.
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No, a name would be nice.
What do you want?
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Him? That could be Camacho.
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First name?
Uh, Miguel. He drives for us part time.
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I don't know.
Maybe that's not him.
Is he here now?
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He called in sick.
That usually means he's
got a pony running at Belmont.
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I'd check the O.T.B.,
98th, on the West Side.
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Ah, tough day, huh?
“O“ for four.
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You should know,
nobody wins at the track, Miguel
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Hey! Hey!
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Police! Hold it!
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- Now get down!
- Okay, don't shoot.
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I'm coming down.
Nice and slow.
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What the hell
were you running for?
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What's the matter with you?
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You do understand your rights
as I read them to you?
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I-I don't need rights.
I didn't do anything.
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That wasn't the question.
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Yeah,yeah. I understand. I'm not stupid.
I thought you were I.N.S.
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I said “police.”
I like it here, man.
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I don't know who you are.
I-I-I don't want to be sent home.
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You-- You have to believe me.
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You don't have to worry about
being sent back to Tijuana, Miguel.
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El Chorro is where I'm from.
It's a pigsty.
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Yeah, well,
maybe in the next 25 to life,
they'll fix it up.
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- What?
- We got you on film, Miguel.
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For what?
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Arnold Zachary.
Who?
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So it wasn't Zachary's face
that ran into your knuckles?
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I was in a fight.
Nice try, Miguel.
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Okay, that's a step
in the right direction.
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- At a bar.
- That's not.
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Okay, for laughs, what bar?
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The Equator.
It's-It's on 116th Street.
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And who'd you get in a fight with?
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Some dude. He-- He say he don't
like illegals stinking up his city.
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- That's your story?
- It's true.
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- Can I go?
- Always in a hurry, this guy. Sit tight.
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- You're not going to call I.N.S.?
- No, we got first dibs on you, Miguel.
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- You know what dibs are?
- ¿Qué?
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It means your ass is ours.
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Damn, man. You ain't
never heard of an air freshener?
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We got a girl for that.
She hasn't shown in a couple of weeks.
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Smells like she might've
died up in here.
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Your friend is sensitive.
He's not as worldly as we are.
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Now, we were talking about Miguel.
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Yeah, he was here.
I don't know. Maybe at 8:00.
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You're sure about that?
Could be later.
I don't keep track.
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But there was a little pushin'
and shovin' with Carlo around 10:00.
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No big deal
Carlo?
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Miguel said the fight was because
somebody was slandering his heritage.
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It was. Carlo's Puerto Rican.
Oh, it's all a rich tapestry.
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Carlo was too wasted for it to get big.
A couple of guys put him in a cab.
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And what? Miguel hung out?
Till closing,
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moaning that he's not getting any
'cause his girl just had a kid.
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By any chance,
would his girl's name be Maria?
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Aren't they all?
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The girl I interviewed at the scene
said Zachary was extra sweet
to a girl named Maria.
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And?
That Maria just had a baby.
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Miguel's Maria just had a baby.
And?
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So, maybe that puts Miguel
at the scene.
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Miguel, he has a big mouth,
but he wouldn't 't hurt nobody
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Did he ever have any trouble
with Mr. Zachary?
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Eh, Señor Zachary from the fábrica?
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Why would you ask that?
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Oh, you don't know.
Mr. Zachary's dead.
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Somebody murdered him
last night.
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Oh, no.
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You think Miguel was involved?
Miguel didn't even know him.
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We don't know
what happened, Maria.
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Mr. Zachary
has been very good to me.
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He was going to give me
eight weeks off when I had José.
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Miguel wouldn't hurt him.
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He wouldn't do anything that
might take him away from José.
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- You and Miguel are married?
- We would be if we could get a license.
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Eh, you won't go to I.N.S.?
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No, no. Don't worry.
That's not our department.
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Did anybody at work ever have
trouble with Mr. Zachary?
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No. Wait. I-I'll show you, huh?
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Oh, here. Let me. I have some
experience with these little guys.
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Hi.
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Okay.
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See? Just like riding a bike.
You ridin' too fast. He's droolin'.
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Hey, are you thinking
what I'm thinking?
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If you're thinkin' how that baby
ended up with blue eyes? Yeah.
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It's okay
See? Navidad
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Our company Christmas party.
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See, that's Señor Zachary
in the Santa suit.
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We all loved him.
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This dude gives a button stitcher
eight weeks' maternity.
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The department gives what, six?
Maybe he's one of the good guys.
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Could be I had an extra
cynic pill this morning,
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but nobody running a business
is that good.
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And you're thinking what?
I'm thinking that Zachary had more...
230
00:13:07,741 --> 00:13:09,830
than a rooting interest
in little José.
231
00:13:09,894 --> 00:13:11,857
As in he's the proud papa?
232
00:13:11,914 --> 00:13:15,356
Hey, I held the kid
Pale skin, blue eyes.
233
00:13:15,414 --> 00:13:19,087
What are the odds that both Maria
and Miguel have the recessive gene?
234
00:13:19,150 --> 00:13:22,559
“You messed with my woman."
That's number one
on the top-ten motive list.
235
00:13:22,617 --> 00:13:28,046
Van Buren.
Okay, I'll tell them.
236
00:13:28,103 --> 00:13:31,672
Okay. You guys sent something
to the D.N.A. lab?
237
00:13:31,738 --> 00:13:34,803
Yeah, that baby got up close
and personal with Lennie's jacket.
238
00:13:39,277 --> 00:13:42,284
So this guy comes in and says he's got
the shot heard round the world.
239
00:13:42,341 --> 00:13:44,970
What are you talking about?
Ralph Branca, Bobby Thompson.
240
00:13:45,033 --> 00:13:47,363
1951.Giants, Dodgers.
241
00:13:47,423 --> 00:13:51,268
The most famous home run ever hit,
but nobody ever found the ball.
242
00:13:51,327 --> 00:13:54,024
This collector paid almost seven figures,
only he got ripped off.
243
00:13:54,086 --> 00:13:57,691
How could you tell?
D.N.A. None from Ralph Branca
anywhere on the ball.
244
00:13:57,755 --> 00:14:01,761
Dino, that is fascinating
but how we doing
on Lennie's jacket?
245
00:14:01,828 --> 00:14:04,296
You like Chinese, don't you?
Uh, D.N.A.
246
00:14:04,352 --> 00:14:06,476
Duck sauce and hot mustard.
247
00:14:06,540 --> 00:14:08,973
- This is only a preliminary, mind you.
- Dino, come on, man.
248
00:14:09,031 --> 00:14:11,555
At first blush, your dead guy--
Arnold Zachary.
249
00:14:11,622 --> 00:14:14,089
Yeah. He should be
handing out cigars.
250
00:14:14,147 --> 00:14:16,981
He's the father?
That's a big yep.
251
00:14:20,172 --> 00:14:22,169
Where's Miguel?
It's good you're worried about him,
252
00:14:22,225 --> 00:14:24,188
'cause he's in
a whole lot of trouble.
253
00:14:24,244 --> 00:14:27,113
I told you.
He wouldn't hurt Mr. Zachary.
254
00:14:27,173 --> 00:14:29,433
Look, we're way past that now.
255
00:14:29,495 --> 00:14:32,192
We even know why he did it.
No.
256
00:14:32,254 --> 00:14:35,789
Look, I know that Miguel
isn't José's father.
257
00:14:36,799 --> 00:14:39,163
Arnold Zachary is.
We already know that.
258
00:14:39,222 --> 00:14:42,091
That's science.
You can't even argue it.
259
00:14:42,150 --> 00:14:44,273
So what happened, Maria?
260
00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:47,243
Miguel took one look at José
and flipped out?
261
00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:49,997
No.
262
00:14:50,059 --> 00:14:51,919
Miguel.
263
00:14:51,978 --> 00:14:54,641
Look, I gotta tell you--
If you keep protecting him,
264
00:14:54,705 --> 00:14:56,668
the D.A.'s gonna consider you
an accessory.
265
00:14:56,724 --> 00:15:00,030
¿Qué?
That means you go to jail too.
266
00:15:00,089 --> 00:15:03,028
What's gonna happen
to little José?
267
00:15:03,085 --> 00:15:05,048
He didn't kill anyone.
268
00:15:05,105 --> 00:15:07,297
He wouldn't hurt Mr. Zachary.
269
00:15:08,302 --> 00:15:10,667
I was married, Miguel
270
00:15:10,725 --> 00:15:14,799
Then one time, I walk into this bar,
and I saw my lovely bride--
271
00:15:14,865 --> 00:15:18,434
my “for better or for worse,
till death do us part" missus--
272
00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:21,531
locking lips with Joe
from the shoe store.
273
00:15:22,977 --> 00:15:24,997
So?
274
00:15:25,064 --> 00:15:27,394
So Joe was lucky
I wasn't carrying,
275
00:15:27,454 --> 00:15:32,171
because I picked him up by the neck
and threw him headfirst
out into the street.
276
00:15:32,233 --> 00:15:34,357
You picked the wrong woman.
277
00:15:34,421 --> 00:15:37,256
Oh, that happens all the time,
Miguel.
278
00:15:37,315 --> 00:15:41,458
It's just that, uh, some of us
find out about it sooner than others.
279
00:15:41,523 --> 00:15:44,724
What do you say, Miguel?
Maria loves me.
280
00:15:44,787 --> 00:15:47,484
But she was sleeping with Zachary.
281
00:15:48,254 --> 00:15:50,584
Liar!
282
00:15:50,643 --> 00:15:52,904
She had his baby.
283
00:15:52,966 --> 00:15:55,801
No.
284
00:15:55,861 --> 00:15:58,868
You must have got a charge
out of kicking his brains in.
285
00:15:58,923 --> 00:16:02,527
- I know I loved throwing
Joe out on the street.
- It wasn't me!
286
00:16:02,592 --> 00:16:06,574
On, yeah, I forgot.
You're a lover, not a fighter, huh?
287
00:16:06,631 --> 00:16:10,165
So what kind of a guy lets another man
get away with something like that?
288
00:16:15,045 --> 00:16:19,464
I hope Lennie's doing better than I did.
He's got his story. He's sticking to it.
289
00:16:19,522 --> 00:16:22,793
Ah, what are you gonna do?
True love conquers all.
290
00:16:22,854 --> 00:16:24,817
Huh. Let's use it.
291
00:16:24,873 --> 00:16:28,110
We're gonna find prints, Miguel,
somewhere in Zachary's office.
292
00:16:28,172 --> 00:16:30,801
Lennie, forget it.
The lieutenant says she's
had enough.
293
00:16:30,864 --> 00:16:33,389
- She wants to charge both of 'em.
- Maria?
294
00:16:33,457 --> 00:16:35,753
Social Services is coming
for the baby
295
00:16:35,812 --> 00:16:39,014
You had your chance, pal.
No. Wait.
296
00:16:41,938 --> 00:16:45,175
- I did it.
- Did what?
297
00:16:47,289 --> 00:16:50,422
I killed him for what he did to Maria.
298
00:16:51,429 --> 00:16:54,126
She didn't know
I was going down there.
299
00:16:54,190 --> 00:16:56,853
She had nothing to do with it.
300
00:16:56,916 --> 00:16:58,935
It was all me.
301
00:17:04,825 --> 00:17:09,209
Docket number 476295,
People versus Camacho, Miguel H.
302
00:17:09,268 --> 00:17:12,333
Charge is murder
in the second degree.
Oh!
303
00:17:12,398 --> 00:17:16,347
Thank you for getting my day
started off with a bang, Mr. Camacho.
304
00:17:16,404 --> 00:17:19,710
De nada, señor.
That was rhetorical, sir.
305
00:17:19,769 --> 00:17:23,511
- Language problem, Judge.
- As long as he wasn't speaking wiseass.
306
00:17:23,573 --> 00:17:27,280
Spanish, Your Honor.
Let's see how he does with a plea.
307
00:17:30,136 --> 00:17:32,155
No guilty, Your Honor.
308
00:17:32,223 --> 00:17:35,425
As the defendant is in the country
illegally, the People request remand.
309
00:17:35,487 --> 00:17:38,861
Oh, you're not having a good day,
are you, Mr. Camacho?
310
00:17:38,921 --> 00:17:41,480
Your Honor, I object.
Save your breath, counselor.
311
00:17:41,546 --> 00:17:45,999
One thing about
They need a ticket to get in.
312
00:17:46,057 --> 00:17:48,214
Defendant is remanded without bail.
313
00:17:48,278 --> 00:17:50,297
Next.
314
00:17:50,365 --> 00:17:52,661
Murder two?
Come on, Jack.
315
00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:56,496
Cheating wife, murdered lover.
It's as old as the Old Testament.
316
00:17:56,557 --> 00:17:58,887
Is there a legal argument
in there someplace?
317
00:17:58,947 --> 00:18:01,920
Are you really that thick,
or are your boxers
just tied in a knot...
318
00:18:01,976 --> 00:18:03,939
because of
the citizenship thing?
319
00:18:03,996 --> 00:18:06,429
You know me better than that.
Can you spell racism?
320
00:18:06,486 --> 00:18:09,286
Any other defendant
would have been offered man two,
321
00:18:09,347 --> 00:18:12,354
extreme emotional disturbance,
and you would've called it a day.
322
00:18:12,410 --> 00:18:17,162
He waited a week after he found
out that the baby wasn't his
before he killed Arnold Zachary.
323
00:18:17,223 --> 00:18:19,748
Go back and look at
the good book written by
the apostles up in Albany.
324
00:18:19,814 --> 00:18:23,223
It's called a cooling off period,
and it negates the lesser mens rea.
325
00:18:24,291 --> 00:18:26,816
Ooh, they get prettier and smarter.
326
00:18:26,883 --> 00:18:29,040
I'll consider man one.
He serves the maximum.
327
00:18:29,105 --> 00:18:31,068
You'll shove it is what you'll do.
328
00:18:31,124 --> 00:18:33,557
I didn't mean to--
Stay cool, Miguel
329
00:18:33,615 --> 00:18:37,322
Once you get to know Mr. McCoy
a little better, you see,
where he's concerned,
330
00:18:37,384 --> 00:18:40,150
smoke in the bedroom doesn't always mean
there's a fire in the mattress.
331
00:18:40,212 --> 00:18:42,175
- Vanessa--
- Jack, we're talking about...
332
00:18:42,231 --> 00:18:44,194
different cultures here.
333
00:18:44,251 --> 00:18:46,374
The Latins--
You know, it's a macho thing.
334
00:18:46,438 --> 00:18:49,204
Humiliation in the community,
it's a powerful force.
335
00:18:49,265 --> 00:18:51,733
You're not going to argue that--
Yeah, yeah yeah.
336
00:18:51,790 --> 00:18:55,290
I'm crude, I'm disgusting,
and I win cases.
337
00:18:55,358 --> 00:18:57,722
Could I please finish a sentence here?
Why?
338
00:18:57,781 --> 00:19:00,111
I'm not listenin' to you anyway.
And it appears...
339
00:19:00,170 --> 00:19:02,133
you didn't pay much attention
to the indictment either.
340
00:19:02,190 --> 00:19:06,838
- Your client confessed.
When is a confession
not a confession?
341
00:19:06,902 --> 00:19:10,609
- When it's coerced.
- - He signed his Miranda warnings.
342
00:19:10,671 --> 00:19:12,691
That's right. In English.
343
00:19:12,758 --> 00:19:14,721
As you well know,
my client is hardly fluent.
344
00:19:14,778 --> 00:19:18,186
That's ridiculous, Vanessa!
Jack, I was talking!
345
00:19:18,245 --> 00:19:20,942
And how is that different
than when I was talking?
346
00:19:21,005 --> 00:19:23,909
Because I'm a lady.
Here's my motion to exclude.
347
00:19:26,356 --> 00:19:29,960
And if you feel like loosening
the knot in the old boxers,
you know where to find me.
348
00:19:30,025 --> 00:19:32,825
Come on, Miguel.
349
00:19:33,996 --> 00:19:36,360
Call Briscoe or Green
or whoever screwed this up.
350
00:19:38,742 --> 00:19:40,705
It 's a crock is what it is.
351
00:19:40,762 --> 00:19:42,953
I asked him if he understood
what I was saying.
352
00:19:43,017 --> 00:19:44,980
In English.
Of course in English.
353
00:19:45,037 --> 00:19:47,435
And he understood me fine.
How do you know?
354
00:19:47,493 --> 00:19:49,823
Because I asked him right after
Ed grabbed him trying to escape...
355
00:19:49,883 --> 00:19:51,846
and again before he said anything.
356
00:19:51,903 --> 00:19:54,405
And you asked him in English?
We are in America.
357
00:19:54,460 --> 00:19:56,515
How's your Spanish?
It isn't.
358
00:19:56,581 --> 00:19:58,544
But if I didn't think
I was communicating with him,
359
00:19:58,601 --> 00:20:00,656
I would have called in
a detective who is fluent.
360
00:20:00,721 --> 00:20:02,684
But you knew that Miguel
was an illegal alien?
361
00:20:02,741 --> 00:20:06,149
Yeah. He was also a criminal,
if that means anything to anybody.
362
00:20:06,207 --> 00:20:09,684
This is crap.
This is why I hate lawyers.
363
00:20:09,741 --> 00:20:11,704
Me too.
364
00:20:11,761 --> 00:20:13,724
He's been a cop long enough
to know--
365
00:20:13,780 --> 00:20:16,409
What? That a suspect understands him?
That's not the point.
366
00:20:16,472 --> 00:20:20,179
He's dealing with an illegal alien,
whose first language isn't English.
367
00:20:20,242 --> 00:20:23,306
Oh, please. Miguel Camacho's
lived in this country for six years.
368
00:20:23,372 --> 00:20:26,310
He's got a job. He earns a living,
and he speaks the language.
369
00:20:26,368 --> 00:20:28,767
And if he doesn't, he should.
370
00:20:28,825 --> 00:20:30,788
Don't look at me.
As far as I'm concerned,
371
00:20:30,845 --> 00:20:32,808
we've got more cuffs
on the cops than the criminals.
372
00:20:32,864 --> 00:20:34,827
The Miranda warnings
area formality.
373
00:20:34,884 --> 00:20:37,891
Hell, they've become trite.
Everybody knows their rights, Jack.
374
00:20:37,946 --> 00:20:40,172
I wonder how Judge Larkin
will take that argument.
375
00:20:40,235 --> 00:20:44,653
Larkin, huh? I hear she had the right
turn signal removed from her car.
376
00:20:49,322 --> 00:20:52,456
Hello? Miranda.
Has anyone ever heard of it?
377
00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:54,712
It's only been around since 1966.
378
00:20:54,775 --> 00:20:57,403
Your Honor, the detectives
informed the defendant of his rights.
379
00:20:57,468 --> 00:21:00,773
Yeah. Yeah.
And they might as well
have been talking to a wall
380
00:21:00,834 --> 00:21:04,840
The police had a long conversation
with him in English before he confessed.
381
00:21:04,906 --> 00:21:07,500
Before they read him his rights?
No.
382
00:21:07,565 --> 00:21:10,090
My point is that they were convinced
he understood enough English.
383
00:21:10,157 --> 00:21:13,255
Really?
What exactly is enough...
384
00:21:13,321 --> 00:21:16,225
when it comes to the Fifth Amendment
right against self-incrimination?
385
00:21:16,283 --> 00:21:19,151
He understood enough
to waive those rights twice.
386
00:21:19,211 --> 00:21:24,100
And it is the prosecution's burden
to show said waiver
was knowing and intelligent.
387
00:21:24,159 --> 00:21:26,248
My client is an illegal alien,
Your Honor.
388
00:21:26,312 --> 00:21:28,539
Did the police know that?
Of course they did
389
00:21:28,601 --> 00:21:31,068
In the Connelley case,
the Supreme Court held..
390
00:21:31,125 --> 00:21:35,739
That a defendant in the middle
of a psychotic episode was
capable of knowingly waiving--
391
00:21:35,803 --> 00:21:38,834
Are you proposing that a person not born
within the borders of this country...
392
00:21:38,900 --> 00:21:41,230
is the equivalent of being psychotic?
393
00:21:41,290 --> 00:21:45,537
I'm saying that a person who,
by the mere act of breathing
our air, is committing a felony,
394
00:21:45,598 --> 00:21:49,374
should not be afforded
more rights than a citizen
with a mental illness.
395
00:21:49,435 --> 00:21:54,325
Excuse me.
Equal protection applies to
any person within the borders.
396
00:21:54,383 --> 00:21:59,307
Now, if you're implying that Mr. Camacho
is somehow less than a person-
397
00:21:59,364 --> 00:22:03,542
I'm saying this is a legal tactic
born of a hollow legal formality.
398
00:22:03,605 --> 00:22:06,474
Miranda is a hollow formality,
is it?
399
00:22:06,533 --> 00:22:09,402
What I meant, Your Honor,
was when form
dictates substance--
400
00:22:09,462 --> 00:22:12,733
Don't dig yourself in any deeper,
counselor.
401
00:22:12,793 --> 00:22:17,177
Hollow formality or not,
the confession is out.
402
00:22:19,963 --> 00:22:22,936
Pity the poor immigrant?
403
00:22:22,993 --> 00:22:25,426
I'm not proud of what I said
in there, Serena.
404
00:22:25,483 --> 00:22:29,971
Maybe it's time somebody said it.
Jack!
405
00:22:30,026 --> 00:22:32,551
Jack, no hard feelings, right?
As a matter of fact--
406
00:22:32,618 --> 00:22:35,315
Che sera. Okay, let's see
what you don't have.
407
00:22:35,378 --> 00:22:38,178
You don't have a confession,
which means you don't
have a motive.
408
00:22:38,239 --> 00:22:40,707
We can prove Miguel's girlfriend
was cheating on him.
409
00:22:40,763 --> 00:22:43,495
Yeah. But you can't prove
that he knew about it,
which means you don't have a case,
410
00:22:43,557 --> 00:22:47,034
which means that man two dealie
is sounding awful good
right about now.
411
00:22:47,091 --> 00:22:50,155
Not to me it's not.
Oh, I knew you'd say that.
412
00:22:50,221 --> 00:22:54,135
So why'd you bring it up?
I love to see you
stew in your own juices.
413
00:22:55,876 --> 00:22:59,583
Is there something I should know about?
Inevitable discovery.
414
00:22:59,646 --> 00:23:01,609
That's not what I was asking.
415
00:23:01,665 --> 00:23:03,926
No, but it's how we
make motive admissible.
416
00:23:03,987 --> 00:23:06,386
Get it from another
independent source.
417
00:23:07,555 --> 00:23:10,528
I switched to nights at"A” to "Z"
when I went back to school
418
00:23:10,584 --> 00:23:14,394
How long ago was that?
Uh, this semester. A month maybe.
419
00:23:14,455 --> 00:23:16,785
So before that, you worked with Maria?
Sure.
420
00:23:16,844 --> 00:23:19,346
Did you see her son?
He is so adorable.
421
00:23:19,402 --> 00:23:21,526
He smiles, and you
just want one of your own.
422
00:23:21,590 --> 00:23:25,091
I haven't seen him.
Makes me wonder
what I'm doing here.
423
00:23:25,158 --> 00:23:27,350
It sounds like you two are close.
424
00:23:27,413 --> 00:23:29,914
We worked together
for over a year at the shop.
425
00:23:29,971 --> 00:23:33,138
Yeah. That'll do it.
Did she ever mention
anything about Miguel?
426
00:23:34,211 --> 00:23:37,413
“Miguel did this. Miguel did that
You know, stuff girls talk about.
427
00:23:37,477 --> 00:23:40,610
Did she ever talk about anyone else?
Anyone she was seeing?
428
00:23:40,674 --> 00:23:43,773
Besides Miguel? Noway.
She loves him.
429
00:23:43,838 --> 00:23:45,892
He loves her.
He's a good guy.
430
00:23:45,958 --> 00:23:48,621
A little overprotective,
if you ask me.
How so?
431
00:23:48,685 --> 00:23:52,025
Like, a month
after she got pregnant,
he made her quit work.
432
00:23:52,084 --> 00:23:55,964
Like, what are you gonna do?
Sit around the apartment
all day getting fat?
433
00:23:59,557 --> 00:24:01,576
You interested in a burger?
434
00:24:03,057 --> 00:24:05,857
Hello?
just a minute.
435
00:24:06,860 --> 00:24:09,385
These are Zachary's canceled checks
over the past year.
436
00:24:09,451 --> 00:24:14,134
In the beginning of each month,
he wrote a check for $3,000,
payable to “Cash.”
437
00:24:14,197 --> 00:24:17,330
Walking-around money.
That's a hell of a walk.
438
00:24:17,395 --> 00:24:20,528
It looks like they were all cashed
at a place called Geraldo's.
439
00:24:20,593 --> 00:24:23,427
Restaurant?
It could be.
440
00:24:23,487 --> 00:24:27,492
Jack, there are nine of them,
starting with the month
that Maria got pregnant.
441
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:31,129
It looks like they were all endorsed
by someone named Anita Sanchez.
442
00:24:32,136 --> 00:24:36,923
Call the bank. Find out
where and who Geraldo is.
443
00:24:36,983 --> 00:24:39,003
Pay him a visit.
444
00:24:40,417 --> 00:24:43,860
I don't want any trouble.
Why? Are you doing some thing
you should be ashamed of?
445
00:24:43,917 --> 00:24:47,659
I'm an honest businessman.
Then you have nothing
to worry about.
446
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,683
Did you cash that check?
447
00:24:49,740 --> 00:24:52,941
Sure. It's got my stamp.
Seventy cents on the dollar.
448
00:24:53,005 --> 00:24:55,335
That's pretty good.
It pays for the bum checks.
449
00:24:55,395 --> 00:24:59,710
I'm sure it does. All of these checks
were endorsed by Anita Sanchez.
450
00:24:59,769 --> 00:25:02,902
Sure. And I got
a bridge to sell you.
451
00:25:03,977 --> 00:25:08,120
I ask for I.D. Most people
give me what they bought
on Broadway for 20 bucks.
452
00:25:08,184 --> 00:25:11,593
So you don't know
Anita's real name?
No. But I know who does.
453
00:25:11,651 --> 00:25:14,716
She lives with this guy
from the O.T.B. I know.
Miguel something.
454
00:25:14,781 --> 00:25:16,973
They're always here together.
455
00:25:18,518 --> 00:25:21,181
Every month like clockwork,
456
00:25:21,243 --> 00:25:23,539
starting with the month
Maria got pregnant.
457
00:25:23,599 --> 00:25:26,733
It's called a salary, Jack.
She wasn't working.
458
00:25:26,797 --> 00:25:30,103
She told her friends that Miguel
insisted she stay home
to protect the baby.
459
00:25:30,163 --> 00:25:32,963
Which only helps to prove that
he thought the baby was his.
460
00:25:33,024 --> 00:25:36,765
That's one way to look at it.
The other is that they were
blackmailing Arnold Zachary.
461
00:25:36,827 --> 00:25:38,916
"Pay up or we'll tell the wife. ”
462
00:25:38,982 --> 00:25:43,194
Three thousand a month,
minus the check casher's cut.
463
00:25:43,255 --> 00:25:45,218
They're not what you'd call
master criminals.
464
00:25:45,275 --> 00:25:47,535
That's why they got caught.
Think about it.
465
00:25:47,598 --> 00:25:51,546
Zachary was worth millions.
Why would they ask
for nickels and dimes?
466
00:25:51,603 --> 00:25:55,310
Maybe they weren't greedy.
Maybe they were just stupid.
467
00:25:55,372 --> 00:25:57,702
No. We didn't do anything wrong.
468
00:25:57,762 --> 00:25:59,781
I had to. I--
You killed someone.
469
00:26:01,027 --> 00:26:05,274
José-- He's not really Maria's baby.
470
00:26:06,614 --> 00:26:09,622
The doctor-
No. Maybe this isn't the best time, Miguel.
471
00:26:09,677 --> 00:26:11,973
Sure. We can always
tack on kidnapping too.
472
00:26:12,033 --> 00:26:14,398
No, no. We didn't take José.
473
00:26:14,456 --> 00:26:16,752
Mrs. Zachary, she couldn't--
474
00:26:17,654 --> 00:26:21,028
The doctor put José inside Maria.
475
00:26:21,087 --> 00:26:24,427
Are you saying Maria is a surrogate?
Yes.
476
00:26:24,486 --> 00:26:29,100
- The surrogate.
- And you didn't know about this?
477
00:26:29,165 --> 00:26:31,127
Who would think to ask?
478
00:26:31,184 --> 00:26:34,122
Mr. Zachary, he pay Maria to stay healthy,
479
00:26:34,180 --> 00:26:37,153
so the baby could stay healthy.
480
00:26:37,209 --> 00:26:39,172
I-It wasn't blackmail.
481
00:26:39,229 --> 00:26:41,524
- Then why murder?
- Okay Wait. Whoa.
482
00:26:41,585 --> 00:26:46,406
That's one too many questions
without an offer on the table.
483
00:26:46,465 --> 00:26:49,965
- Jack?
- Cart before the horse, Vanessa.
484
00:26:50,033 --> 00:26:52,156
Yeah, but we're rolling downhill,
485
00:26:52,221 --> 00:26:55,021
and we're not gonna stop
until there is an offer on this table.
486
00:27:01,342 --> 00:27:05,623
That is exactly why
the legislature refuses to make
surrogacy contracts legal
487
00:27:05,683 --> 00:27:07,646
Oh, really?
I thought it was those blinders...
488
00:27:07,703 --> 00:27:09,666
they had permanently blocking
their vision.
489
00:27:09,722 --> 00:27:12,695
Not every step science takes forward
is a good thing, Serena.
490
00:27:12,751 --> 00:27:15,185
It's not necessarily
a bad thing either.
491
00:27:15,242 --> 00:27:17,468
If it ends in baby trafficking,
it is.
492
00:27:17,531 --> 00:27:19,550
I suppose we should outlaw cars
because some people...
493
00:27:19,618 --> 00:27:22,487
have a couple of drinks
before they head home.
494
00:27:22,546 --> 00:27:25,852
Do I hear a little maternal instinct
bleeding through?
495
00:27:25,912 --> 00:27:28,919
Some feminists
might argue just the opposite.
496
00:27:28,975 --> 00:27:32,889
Legalizing surrogacy would be
the ultimate step forward
in women's liberation.
497
00:27:32,946 --> 00:27:36,148
It would de-biologize motherhood,
and women could become mommies...
498
00:27:36,211 --> 00:27:38,943
without going through
pregnancy and childbirth.
499
00:27:39,005 --> 00:27:41,024
And this is
a good idea because?
500
00:27:41,092 --> 00:27:43,055
Equality ring a bell?
501
00:27:43,111 --> 00:27:45,843
Femininity would no longer
be defined by fertility.
502
00:27:45,904 --> 00:27:48,911
No, that would be left
to the new breeder class--
503
00:27:48,968 --> 00:27:52,376
women who use their bodies
as a means of making a living.
504
00:27:52,435 --> 00:27:54,432
We used to have a word
for women like that.
505
00:27:54,487 --> 00:27:56,645
That's what the rest
of the feminists argue.
506
00:27:56,709 --> 00:28:00,347
The bottom line is, is that if surrogacy
were legal and regulated,
507
00:28:00,411 --> 00:28:02,374
Arnold Zachary
might still be alive.
508
00:28:02,430 --> 00:28:05,265
And if we convict Miguel,
maybe it won't happen again.
509
00:28:05,325 --> 00:28:07,690
And how big of an “if”
is that?
510
00:28:07,748 --> 00:28:10,514
Two illegal aliens killing
over an illegal contract.
511
00:28:10,576 --> 00:28:15,465
I'd say the “if” is smaller than
a slice of bread inside the bread box.
512
00:28:18,990 --> 00:28:21,619
On the night
of November the 11th,
513
00:28:21,683 --> 00:28:23,646
the defendant, Miguel Camacho,
514
00:28:23,702 --> 00:28:27,582
went to visit Arnold Zachary
in his office.
515
00:28:28,516 --> 00:28:32,154
The two men had business
to discuss.
516
00:28:32,218 --> 00:28:35,385
They had a disagreement.
Words got heated.
517
00:28:35,449 --> 00:28:37,606
Threats were made,
518
00:28:37,670 --> 00:28:42,215
and Arnold Zachary ended up dead
on the floor of his office...
519
00:28:42,282 --> 00:28:45,254
with three broken ribs,
a broken jaw,
520
00:28:45,311 --> 00:28:49,856
internal bleeding
and a coronary arrest.
521
00:28:49,922 --> 00:28:52,481
Those are the facts in this case.
522
00:28:52,547 --> 00:28:58,411
Everything else you will hear,
no matter how emotional, is irrelevant--
523
00:28:58,471 --> 00:29:01,742
a smoke screen designed
to obfuscate the facts.
524
00:29:02,812 --> 00:29:05,441
When you ignore
the irrelevancies,
525
00:29:05,505 --> 00:29:07,765
when you blow away the smoke,
526
00:29:08,770 --> 00:29:12,580
you will have no choice
but to find the defendant guilty...
527
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,234
of murder in the second degree.
528
00:29:21,526 --> 00:29:26,277
A woman being asked
to give up her baby--
529
00:29:26,339 --> 00:29:28,428
irrelevant.
530
00:29:28,493 --> 00:29:31,500
A man trying to stay in this country--
531
00:29:31,556 --> 00:29:33,553
smoke screen.
532
00:29:33,610 --> 00:29:38,832
I'll tell you what. That's one
cold-hearted prosecutor we've got here.
533
00:29:39,870 --> 00:29:41,833
Let me tell you a little story.
534
00:29:41,889 --> 00:29:46,205
My client and his girlfriend,
Maria Villanueva,
535
00:29:46,265 --> 00:29:49,204
left the barrios of El Chorro, Mexico.
536
00:29:49,260 --> 00:29:52,967
They left the dirt and the filth
and disease.
537
00:29:53,030 --> 00:29:56,875
They left the drug dealers that would
kill you just as soon as look at you,
538
00:29:56,934 --> 00:29:58,691
and they came here.
539
00:29:58,752 --> 00:30:01,518
They got jobs.
And everything was hunky-dory.
540
00:30:01,579 --> 00:30:05,251
until Maria's boss came to her
with an ultimatum.
541
00:30:05,315 --> 00:30:08,552
He said to her, "Maria,
542
00:30:08,613 --> 00:30:12,929
I want you to act as a surrogate
for my wife and me.
543
00:30:12,989 --> 00:30:17,202
I want you to carry our baby.“
Maria was 24 years old.
544
00:30:17,263 --> 00:30:19,731
The last thing she wanted to be
was pregnant,
545
00:30:19,788 --> 00:30:22,990
never mind
with someone else's baby.
546
00:30:23,052 --> 00:30:26,725
She told him as much.
But he said to her,
547
00:30:26,789 --> 00:30:30,634
“You do it, or I'll ship your
Mexican ass back to El Chorro."
548
00:30:30,692 --> 00:30:33,631
Objection!
Maria was as good as raped,
549
00:30:33,688 --> 00:30:35,410
ladies and gentlemen.
Counselor.
550
00:30:35,473 --> 00:30:38,813
A figurative gun was held to her head
by the so-called victim--
551
00:30:38,872 --> 00:30:41,465
- Chambers, Your Honor.
- Now!
552
00:30:41,531 --> 00:30:44,698
Rape? A gun to her head?
553
00:30:44,762 --> 00:30:47,321
It's all inflammatory
I want a mistrial.
554
00:30:47,387 --> 00:30:51,128
Excuse me, but what
Mr. Zachary did to Maria--
that's inflammatory.
555
00:30:51,191 --> 00:30:53,819
Sweatshops are illegal.
Slavery is illegal.
556
00:30:53,883 --> 00:30:55,846
But forced childbirth,
that's okay?
557
00:30:55,902 --> 00:30:59,242
She could have said no.
Have you ever been to El Chorro?
558
00:30:59,302 --> 00:31:01,299
Believe me, you'd do anything
not to go there.
559
00:31:01,356 --> 00:31:04,798
- Your Honor, the Zacharys paid Maria.
- To eat and to pay for heat...
560
00:31:04,856 --> 00:31:06,819
while she was carrying their child.
561
00:31:06,875 --> 00:31:09,882
The law says that the circumstances
of the surrogacy...
562
00:31:09,938 --> 00:31:13,645
are irrelevant when it comes
to the defendant's guilt
on the murder charge.
563
00:31:13,707 --> 00:31:16,979
You know, the truth is, Mr. McCoy,
unless they changed the law,
564
00:31:17,039 --> 00:31:21,493
the defense is permitted to present
any reasonable defense it sees fit.
565
00:31:21,550 --> 00:31:24,316
Not without a modicum of proof!
Hey, I have witnesses.
566
00:31:24,377 --> 00:31:27,407
Or are you gonna keep them
off the stand 'cause they don't
have their green cards yet?
567
00:31:27,473 --> 00:31:29,665
No, but if they're not already
on your witness list--
568
00:31:29,729 --> 00:31:33,976
Your Honor, my client just informed me
of the facts surrounding the surrogacy.
569
00:31:34,037 --> 00:31:36,837
Here's a novel idea.
Try talking to your client.
570
00:31:36,898 --> 00:31:39,365
He doesn't understand the system.
He may not be the only one.
571
00:31:39,422 --> 00:31:42,486
- Are you calling me a liar?
- I'm saying that you're carrying...
572
00:31:42,552 --> 00:31:44,675
zealous representation
to an absurd extreme.
573
00:31:44,740 --> 00:31:48,515
- This is your third defense.
- And that's for the jury to decide.
574
00:31:48,577 --> 00:31:51,102
But without witnesses,
there is no decision.
575
00:31:51,168 --> 00:31:53,727
Excuse me, counselor.
Weren't you the one...
576
00:31:53,794 --> 00:31:57,432
who argued against
hollow formalities in the law?
577
00:31:57,496 --> 00:31:59,688
Your Honor-
Don't worry.
578
00:31:59,752 --> 00:32:02,415
I'll give you time to talk
to Ms. Galiano's witnesses.
579
00:32:02,477 --> 00:32:04,738
As soon as she finds them.
580
00:32:06,853 --> 00:32:11,203
I've been performing I.V.F. -- in vitro
fertilization-- for almost 10 years.
581
00:32:11,262 --> 00:32:14,028
Thats thousands of healthy babies.
582
00:32:14,090 --> 00:32:17,590
Was there anything unique about
the Zacharys' case, Dr. Harrington?
583
00:32:17,657 --> 00:32:22,444
Not particularly.
I implanted a fertilized ovum
into a healthy young woman.
584
00:32:22,504 --> 00:32:25,236
- Maria Villanueva.
- That's correct.
585
00:32:25,297 --> 00:32:29,211
Are you aware of how she came
to agree to be a surrogate?
586
00:32:29,269 --> 00:32:31,932
She said she was a friend
of Mr. Zachary
587
00:32:31,995 --> 00:32:34,187
Did she at any time
give the impression...
588
00:32:34,251 --> 00:32:38,325
that she had been forced
or coerced in anyway
into carrying the child?
589
00:32:38,391 --> 00:32:41,019
Quite the contrary.
She seemed excited about it.
590
00:32:41,083 --> 00:32:44,824
Certainly, I wouldn't have been involved
if I thought there was anything
underhanded going on.
591
00:32:44,886 --> 00:32:46,905
Thank you, Doctor.
592
00:32:50,878 --> 00:32:54,218
Are you aware, Doctor,
that most surrogate mothers...
593
00:32:54,277 --> 00:32:57,686
earn just above the poverty level?
Yes.
594
00:32:57,743 --> 00:33:01,014
And that over 40 percent of them
are unemployed?
595
00:33:01,076 --> 00:33:03,543
- Yes.
- Well, did you ever wonder why?
596
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,984
I'm not a sociologist.
Could it be they're
not all that altruistic?
597
00:33:08,043 --> 00:33:10,408
Objection.
Withdrawn.
598
00:33:10,466 --> 00:33:13,439
Were you there when Maria
decided to become a fetus-sitter?
599
00:33:13,495 --> 00:33:17,099
Objection.
What the hell
would you call her?
600
00:33:17,164 --> 00:33:19,127
Answer the question, Doctor.
601
00:33:21,069 --> 00:33:23,124
No. She had already
made up her mind.
602
00:33:23,189 --> 00:33:26,793
So you don't really know
what went into the making
of that decision, do you?
603
00:33:26,858 --> 00:33:29,359
Not firsthand, no.
604
00:33:33,353 --> 00:33:37,807
You know, when you're a kid,
you get the Barbie doll,
you play mommy
605
00:33:37,864 --> 00:33:41,170
I know it's not fashionable
or P.C.
606
00:33:41,229 --> 00:33:43,192
Finally, it was gonna happen for me,
607
00:33:43,249 --> 00:33:47,254
thanks to men like Dr. Harrington,
thanks to science.
608
00:33:47,322 --> 00:33:50,524
And don't forget the girls
like Maria Villanueva.
Of course not.
609
00:33:51,697 --> 00:33:55,105
- Maria was an angel.
- You spent time with her, did you?
610
00:33:55,164 --> 00:33:58,836
At first, I didn't think I'd want to.
I don't know. Maybe it was jealousy
611
00:33:58,900 --> 00:34:03,514
Maybe I was just scared that someday
I'd be walking through FAO Schwarz
with my baby,
612
00:34:03,578 --> 00:34:07,527
and I'd see her, and I wouldn't know
what to say or how to act.
613
00:34:07,583 --> 00:34:11,565
But... Arnold said
she wanted to meet me.
614
00:34:11,622 --> 00:34:14,526
So we had dinner,
and I was glad we did.
615
00:34:14,585 --> 00:34:17,178
She seemed wonderful.
A real angel.
616
00:34:17,244 --> 00:34:21,731
Did you or your husband
ever pressure her in to doing
anything she didn't want to do?
617
00:34:21,787 --> 00:34:26,642
Absolutely not. Sure, she was
a little nervous at first, but so was I.
618
00:34:26,701 --> 00:34:29,295
I didn't know what to say.
619
00:34:29,359 --> 00:34:33,778
I mean, what do you say to someone
who's gonna be carrying your eggs?
620
00:34:33,836 --> 00:34:35,925
But it all worked out until--
621
00:34:44,943 --> 00:34:47,606
Maybe it would have
worked out differently...
622
00:34:47,670 --> 00:34:50,333
if you got together
more than that one dinner.
623
00:34:50,396 --> 00:34:53,231
I was warned not to get too close,
Just in case.
624
00:34:53,290 --> 00:34:57,100
Just in case what?
I know surrogates
sometimes change their minds.
625
00:34:57,161 --> 00:35:01,442
Is that why you picked someone
who couldn't possibly mount
a legal fight against you?
626
00:35:01,503 --> 00:35:04,705
Objection.
Withdrawn.
627
00:35:04,768 --> 00:35:08,509
Did you ever accompany Maria
to her medical checkups?
628
00:35:08,571 --> 00:35:11,636
- No.
- This angel that was carrying your baby,
629
00:35:11,702 --> 00:35:13,665
you weren't interested
in how she was doing?
630
00:35:13,721 --> 00:35:16,280
- Of course I was.
- But you never went up...
631
00:35:16,346 --> 00:35:19,651
to Spanish Harlem to visit
to have a cup of tea,
to shoot the breeze?
632
00:35:19,712 --> 00:35:21,870
To be honest,
I didn't know where she lived.
633
00:35:21,933 --> 00:35:24,998
You never asked?
No.
634
00:35:25,063 --> 00:35:27,026
You said that you were aware
that surrogates...
635
00:35:27,083 --> 00:35:29,711
sometimes change their minds
about giving away their babies.
636
00:35:29,776 --> 00:35:31,669
Did you and your husband
have a plan
637
00:35:31,728 --> 00:35:34,425
you know, just in case
Maria slammed on the brakes?
638
00:35:34,488 --> 00:35:36,451
I guess we'd just find another one.
639
00:35:36,507 --> 00:35:38,733
Another what?
Womb.
640
00:35:40,849 --> 00:35:44,889
- Like a pizza oven?
- A pizza oven is a lot cheaper.
641
00:35:46,133 --> 00:35:49,140
This girl, we were paying her
$3, 000 a month.
642
00:35:49,196 --> 00:35:51,697
That's on top of her salary
from the company
643
00:35:51,754 --> 00:35:55,736
Some people would say
what you're getting is priceless.
644
00:35:55,793 --> 00:35:58,800
What I'm paying for
is what I don't get.
645
00:35:58,856 --> 00:36:01,187
And that is?
Lower back pains,
646
00:36:01,246 --> 00:36:03,243
morning sickness
and stretch marks.
647
00:36:03,299 --> 00:36:06,133
Excuse me. I'm a little confused.
648
00:36:07,136 --> 00:36:11,750
Are you saying that you are
physically able to bear children?
649
00:36:12,824 --> 00:36:17,369
- I never said I couldn't have a baby.
- Whoa. Let me get this straight.
650
00:36:17,435 --> 00:36:21,475
Your husband is dead,
my client is on trial for his life...
651
00:36:21,542 --> 00:36:25,352
because you wanted
to maintain your figure?
652
00:36:37,562 --> 00:36:41,705
What the hell happened in there?
Besides our star witness
ruining our case?
653
00:36:41,770 --> 00:36:44,800
Would it have been
so hard for her to act
a little human on the stand?
654
00:36:44,866 --> 00:36:46,955
Well, she sure as hell did
before I prepped her.
655
00:36:47,020 --> 00:36:49,613
So, when should I
be expecting your call?
656
00:36:49,679 --> 00:36:51,871
About what?
Come on, Jack.
657
00:36:51,934 --> 00:36:54,999
After that show,
my offer of man two should
be lookin' pretty damn good.
658
00:36:55,064 --> 00:36:59,678
Of course, you can keep talking,
but unless I hear magic words,
I'm not listening.
659
00:36:59,743 --> 00:37:01,866
What magic words?
"Time served.”
660
00:37:01,931 --> 00:37:04,456
At least you didn't say
an innocent man.
He killed a man.
661
00:37:04,522 --> 00:37:08,264
- Just because Mrs. Zachary--
- I, for one, am willing to wager...
662
00:37:08,325 --> 00:37:11,160
that jury now thinks
birds of a feather marry each other.
663
00:37:11,220 --> 00:37:13,240
She's despicable.
He's got to be just as bad.
664
00:37:13,307 --> 00:37:16,246
What do you say, Jack?
Time's up. You know me.
665
00:37:16,302 --> 00:37:19,206
I always love
swinging for the fences.
666
00:37:21,149 --> 00:37:24,156
I wanna know what happened between
the time you prepped Mrs. Zachary...
667
00:37:24,212 --> 00:37:26,771
and when I put her on the stand.
668
00:37:26,837 --> 00:37:30,647
She trapped me.
We prepped you for hours.
669
00:37:30,708 --> 00:37:33,233
We asked you every conceivable
question they could ask.
670
00:37:33,300 --> 00:37:35,263
I got nervous.
671
00:37:35,319 --> 00:37:39,232
Mrs. Zachary
this is the trial of the man
who killed your husband,
672
00:37:39,291 --> 00:37:42,125
the one person
you loved in the world,
673
00:37:42,185 --> 00:37:44,549
and you're saying
you just screwed it up?
674
00:37:44,609 --> 00:37:47,134
You have no idea
how much I loved him.
675
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,163
Oh, my God.
676
00:37:49,220 --> 00:37:52,720
No, Jack, there are actually
two people in the world she loved.
677
00:37:52,788 --> 00:37:55,622
I've never been pregnant,
Mrs. Zachary,
678
00:37:55,682 --> 00:37:59,022
but I gotta tell you, I can't imagine
any woman, no matter how bitchy,
679
00:37:59,081 --> 00:38:03,499
avoiding the entire process
over something as trivial as stretch marks.
680
00:38:03,558 --> 00:38:07,162
If you haven't noticed,
I'm not any woman.
681
00:38:07,227 --> 00:38:11,610
Actually, I suspect you're not as different
as you'd have the world believe.
682
00:38:15,304 --> 00:38:17,359
You want a baby.
683
00:38:17,425 --> 00:38:20,558
You want one so badly
you'd do anything,
684
00:38:20,622 --> 00:38:24,697
even commit perjury
to ensure an acquittal for
the man who killed your husband.
685
00:38:24,762 --> 00:38:28,538
That's crazy.
Miguel killed Arnie.
686
00:38:28,599 --> 00:38:30,757
It was all an act, Jack.
687
00:38:30,821 --> 00:38:34,999
Mrs. Zachary wanted the jury to hate her,
and therefore hate her husband
688
00:38:35,061 --> 00:38:37,494
Miguel gets to walk.
You get to keep the baby.
689
00:38:37,552 --> 00:38:39,571
You had a deal from the beginning.
690
00:38:39,639 --> 00:38:43,047
Isn't that right, Mrs. Zachary?
Why do you care so damn much?
691
00:38:43,106 --> 00:38:45,539
Because your husband was murdered.
692
00:38:45,596 --> 00:38:48,362
And that baby
is all I have left of him
693
00:38:50,242 --> 00:38:52,572
I have friends who
by their 26 birthday...
694
00:38:52,631 --> 00:38:55,156
were already on
their second husbands.
695
00:38:56,165 --> 00:39:00,446
Me-- I've been through
three miscarriages.
696
00:39:01,651 --> 00:39:05,094
It's funny, I got into Smith College,
early decision.
697
00:39:05,152 --> 00:39:07,171
Do you know how difficult?
698
00:39:08,417 --> 00:39:12,227
I graduated magna cum laude
and had my master's degree
before I was 21.
699
00:39:13,229 --> 00:39:15,662
I married the man of my dreams.
700
00:39:16,663 --> 00:39:18,626
We had everything.
701
00:39:18,682 --> 00:39:22,159
Friends, money.
702
00:39:22,216 --> 00:39:25,785
House in the Hamptons
during the summer,
the condo in Aspen.
703
00:39:28,544 --> 00:39:30,770
I was the perfect person...
704
00:39:31,842 --> 00:39:34,608
with the perfect life.
705
00:39:34,670 --> 00:39:36,930
And everything was perfect,
706
00:39:37,934 --> 00:39:40,459
except for my imperfect uterus.
707
00:39:42,175 --> 00:39:46,628
I'd walk through Arnie's factory
and look down at all these women,
708
00:39:47,695 --> 00:39:52,952
gossiping about nonsense,
sewing buttons for $3 an hour...
709
00:39:53,012 --> 00:39:56,995
so they could go home
to their 12 kids, and I--
710
00:40:02,100 --> 00:40:04,464
I was this close to a baby.
711
00:40:07,015 --> 00:40:10,045
Did Miguel and Maria
try to extort money from you?
712
00:40:10,111 --> 00:40:13,680
All I know is Miguel left a
message on our machine.
713
00:40:15,799 --> 00:40:18,772
He wanted to see Arnie
alone at the office that night.
714
00:40:18,829 --> 00:40:21,733
Why didn't you tell
the police about this?
715
00:40:21,790 --> 00:40:25,532
He killed Arnie!
I didn't know what
he would do to my baby!
716
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,563
We have to talk.
Things have changed.
717
00:40:32,628 --> 00:40:36,438
I'll be in your office
in one hour. Be there.
718
00:40:36,499 --> 00:40:40,504
I'm sure you recognize this.
719
00:40:40,572 --> 00:40:44,015
- Where'd it come from?
- When Mr. Zachary didn't come home
720
00:40:44,072 --> 00:40:47,412
his wife thought this
might come in handy someday.
721
00:40:47,471 --> 00:40:49,802
What?
To blackmail my client?
722
00:40:49,861 --> 00:40:52,558
Well, it takes one
to know one, Vanessa.
723
00:40:52,621 --> 00:40:55,020
It's obvious what's going on here.
724
00:40:55,078 --> 00:40:58,315
Maria and Miguel were trying
to hold up the Zacharys.
725
00:40:58,377 --> 00:41:01,911
She should be in the back
of a police car right about now.
726
00:41:05,209 --> 00:41:08,984
He said if Maria
help him with the baby,
727
00:41:09,046 --> 00:41:12,019
he help us, with the I.N.S.,
to stay here.
728
00:41:12,075 --> 00:41:14,038
She said she can do it.
729
00:41:14,095 --> 00:41:17,435
She think because the baby not hers,
it's not going to be hard
730
00:41:17,494 --> 00:41:20,432
But after nine months,
731
00:41:20,489 --> 00:41:23,014
it was part of her.
732
00:41:23,081 --> 00:41:25,813
She couldn't just give it up.
733
00:41:25,875 --> 00:41:28,135
I love her, Mr. McCoy.
734
00:41:29,342 --> 00:41:33,450
I try to explain to Mr. Zachary
but he got mad
735
00:41:33,515 --> 00:41:38,231
He-- He said--
He said to give the baby,
736
00:41:38,294 --> 00:41:40,853
or he's going to turn us in
to the I.N.S.,
737
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,754
and they send us back to Mexico.
738
00:41:46,170 --> 00:41:48,190
Very persuasive, Miguel.
739
00:41:54,955 --> 00:41:57,354
Eloquent.
740
00:42:00,205 --> 00:42:02,168
It's time, Jack.
741
00:42:02,225 --> 00:42:04,658
You talk, I listen.
742
00:42:15,150 --> 00:42:18,627
He agreed to man one.
He'll do 15.
Sounds generous.
743
00:42:18,683 --> 00:42:22,252
The day he gets out, he's deported.
What about his sidekick?
744
00:42:22,319 --> 00:42:27,001
It turns out Maria and her child
were long gone before the cops
ever got to her apartment.
745
00:42:27,065 --> 00:42:29,062
My guess is back to El Chorro.
746
00:42:29,117 --> 00:42:33,800
Between mom and apple pie,
I don't know many women
who would choose the latter.