1 00:00:00,890 --> 00:00:02,950 In the criminal justice system... 2 00:00:03,027 --> 00:00:06,864 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: 3 00:00:06,934 --> 00:00:08,800 The police who investigate crime... 4 00:00:08,870 --> 00:00:11,636 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,708 --> 00:00:13,176 These are their stories. 6 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,749 Ladies and gentlemen, I am not a criminal. 7 00:00:17,818 --> 00:00:20,584 I just need some money for my medicine. 8 00:00:20,656 --> 00:00:23,218 So help me not break the law. 9 00:00:23,294 --> 00:00:24,319 Thank you. 10 00:00:24,797 --> 00:00:25,787 Change? 11 00:00:25,866 --> 00:00:28,462 Can you spare some - Hey, thank you, buddy, thanks a lot. 12 00:00:28,537 --> 00:00:29,732 Spare some change? 13 00:00:29,806 --> 00:00:32,173 How about you, sir? You got some change? 14 00:00:32,376 --> 00:00:34,539 Excuse me, can you spare some change? 15 00:00:34,614 --> 00:00:38,576 Oh, yeah. That's right, just turn your back, ignore me, walk away, huh? 16 00:00:38,654 --> 00:00:41,489 What, you think I'm not gonna go anywhere, Mr. Rockefeller? 17 00:00:41,559 --> 00:00:44,758 Well, I got news for you. I got no place to go! 18 00:00:46,467 --> 00:00:47,696 Change? 19 00:00:48,738 --> 00:00:51,299 Excuse me, sir, can you spare some change? 20 00:00:52,110 --> 00:00:54,842 You know, I got a right to be here, too! 21 00:01:03,562 --> 00:01:04,928 Oh, my God! 22 00:01:12,678 --> 00:01:15,547 Six months until my pension. Now it's gonna be spent in a courtroom. 23 00:01:15,616 --> 00:01:17,608 Let's get a little head start on your statement. 24 00:01:17,686 --> 00:01:18,676 Hey, what's to say? 25 00:01:18,754 --> 00:01:20,747 I mean it's rush hour. I'm on my way downtown... 26 00:01:20,825 --> 00:01:22,760 a guy dives off the curb in front of my rig. 27 00:01:22,828 --> 00:01:24,990 He wants to kill himself. What does he gotta use me for? 28 00:01:25,066 --> 00:01:26,055 How compassionate. 29 00:01:26,133 --> 00:01:28,160 I'm the one who's gotta take all the blood tests. 30 00:01:28,237 --> 00:01:30,433 It ain't like I could've turned away. 31 00:01:34,047 --> 00:01:36,950 The guy was a maniac. I know he pushed him deliberately. 32 00:01:37,019 --> 00:01:39,717 One of our homeless hordes was hassling the commuters. 33 00:01:39,790 --> 00:01:41,224 I'm gonna need a description. 34 00:01:41,293 --> 00:01:43,455 He had on a dirty blue coat and a plaid scarf. 35 00:01:43,529 --> 00:01:44,827 And he was filthy. 36 00:01:45,099 --> 00:01:48,765 Well, that narrows it down. Look, did you get a look at his face? 37 00:01:49,406 --> 00:01:50,806 Who wants to look? 38 00:01:51,777 --> 00:01:53,143 Good luck. Thanks. 39 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,574 Well, he was begging for change. 40 00:01:55,650 --> 00:01:58,746 I work for a living. I'll be damned if I give it away. 41 00:01:58,822 --> 00:02:00,552 You remember anything about him? 42 00:02:00,625 --> 00:02:03,460 We tried to get away. He couldn't take a hint. 43 00:02:03,530 --> 00:02:05,692 Maybe we should have given him something. 44 00:02:05,767 --> 00:02:08,898 He shoves a cappuccino cup from Bon Matin in my face. 45 00:02:08,973 --> 00:02:11,842 That's $3 a throw. He doesn't need my quarter. 46 00:02:11,911 --> 00:02:13,209 Hey, Logan! 47 00:02:14,649 --> 00:02:16,811 Mr. Keeley was standing next to the victim. 48 00:02:16,886 --> 00:02:19,857 How you doing? I'm Det. Logan. Did you get a look at this homeless guy? 49 00:02:19,924 --> 00:02:21,790 I saw him coming and turned my back. 50 00:02:21,860 --> 00:02:24,353 So you didn't actually see anybody get pushed? 51 00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:26,562 No, I heard the guy scream. 52 00:02:26,636 --> 00:02:29,368 All right, we'll call you if we need you. Thank you. 53 00:02:32,379 --> 00:02:34,280 Not easy to read the ID. 54 00:02:34,348 --> 00:02:36,944 Renkmeyer, Harry. Thirty-two. 55 00:02:42,629 --> 00:02:45,121 I guess he should've given the guy a quarter, huh? 56 00:03:35,919 --> 00:03:37,444 We give the second cup free... 57 00:03:37,521 --> 00:03:41,324 so these bums lift a paper cup out of the trash and come in for a refill. 58 00:03:41,395 --> 00:03:43,091 You ever see one wearing a plaid scarf? 59 00:03:43,164 --> 00:03:45,327 Oh, yeah. You mean Bruce Springsteen. 60 00:03:45,402 --> 00:03:48,168 Some kind of musician, plays the air guitar. Between gigs... 61 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,539 he uses the scarf to wash car windows. 62 00:03:50,610 --> 00:03:53,878 So he's a regular around here? Yeah, couple of times a week. 63 00:03:53,950 --> 00:03:56,887 He lives in the neighborhood. Lucky us. 64 00:03:56,955 --> 00:03:58,753 Where in the neighborhood? 65 00:03:59,124 --> 00:04:02,493 Well, he did invite me back to his place once... 66 00:04:02,563 --> 00:04:04,726 but I didn't go. 67 00:04:06,937 --> 00:04:08,839 The guitar-playing squeegee man? 68 00:04:09,977 --> 00:04:11,639 Yeah, that'd be Rudy. 69 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,149 He has a part-time job in the psycho ward at Bellevue. 70 00:04:15,218 --> 00:04:17,450 And the rest of the time he lives here? 71 00:04:17,522 --> 00:04:19,150 You ever been in Bellevue? 72 00:04:19,225 --> 00:04:22,025 Well, I think it's time for Rudy's monthly checkup. 73 00:04:23,733 --> 00:04:24,758 Is this his crib? 74 00:04:24,835 --> 00:04:26,736 Yeah, but you're gonna have to come back at night. 75 00:04:26,804 --> 00:04:28,329 During the day they're all out working. 76 00:04:28,407 --> 00:04:29,397 Working? 77 00:04:29,476 --> 00:04:31,240 Hey, that's what they call it. 78 00:04:31,312 --> 00:04:33,441 All right, we'll come back for the night shift. 79 00:04:33,516 --> 00:04:36,248 Come on, let's go pay a visit to the late Mr. Renkmeyer. 80 00:04:38,958 --> 00:04:40,791 There's not much of him to see. 81 00:04:40,862 --> 00:04:43,560 Without the driver's license you couldn't even give him a name. 82 00:04:43,633 --> 00:04:45,534 Next of kin ID him? Yeah, she called. 83 00:04:45,603 --> 00:04:49,234 We wanna wait until we glue him back together and make sure it's really him. 84 00:04:49,310 --> 00:04:51,643 You can't tell from the face and the ID? 85 00:04:51,713 --> 00:04:54,115 You try playing speed bump to an 18-wheeler. 86 00:04:54,951 --> 00:04:58,014 We'll x-ray the body, look for fillings, surgical pins. 87 00:04:58,124 --> 00:04:59,490 It's a hell of a way to go, huh? 88 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,392 Well, he took something with him. 89 00:05:01,463 --> 00:05:03,659 Under his fingernails, ripped blue fibers. 90 00:05:03,733 --> 00:05:05,031 Blue fibers? 91 00:05:05,102 --> 00:05:07,698 So he grabbed onto the guy who pushed him? 92 00:05:08,140 --> 00:05:10,133 You better get this to Forensics. 93 00:05:10,211 --> 00:05:12,807 You think Rudy, the guitar player, is back from work? 94 00:05:14,852 --> 00:05:17,220 Welcome to Strawberry Fields West. 95 00:05:17,290 --> 00:05:19,782 The berries are smelling a little ripe. 96 00:05:21,831 --> 00:05:24,266 Hey, old-timer, you know a guy named Rudy? 97 00:05:24,469 --> 00:05:25,595 Guess not. 98 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:28,674 I should sleep so well. 99 00:05:28,743 --> 00:05:31,144 Well, he puts in a longer day than you. 100 00:05:35,854 --> 00:05:38,484 Hey, now, baby 101 00:05:40,094 --> 00:05:41,084 Get into my 102 00:05:42,265 --> 00:05:43,961 Rudy! Hey, Rudy! 103 00:05:44,034 --> 00:05:45,400 Show's over, baby. 104 00:05:45,470 --> 00:05:47,063 Hey, this is my encore. 105 00:05:47,140 --> 00:05:49,770 Come on, Elvis, let's go. Get out of here! 106 00:05:50,412 --> 00:05:54,010 Where have all the flowers gone? 107 00:05:54,987 --> 00:05:58,152 I'll tell you, man, lawyers, bankers - Indian chiefs. 108 00:05:58,759 --> 00:06:02,528 It's the system, man. It's only as strong as its weakest member. 109 00:06:02,599 --> 00:06:04,067 And you're looking at him. 110 00:06:04,669 --> 00:06:06,764 I bet that really gets your blood going. 111 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:08,900 I'm on fire, man. I see them every day. 112 00:06:08,976 --> 00:06:12,540 They spend more on one suit than I've made in the last 10 years. 113 00:06:12,650 --> 00:06:15,382 And when I ask them for change they just turn their backs. 114 00:06:15,455 --> 00:06:17,185 And you give them a little push? 115 00:06:21,364 --> 00:06:23,230 You guys think I did it? 116 00:06:26,573 --> 00:06:28,041 No way, man. 117 00:06:28,108 --> 00:06:30,738 We got a whole crowd of people who saw you there, Rudy. 118 00:06:30,813 --> 00:06:32,008 You know, it's funny. 119 00:06:32,082 --> 00:06:34,814 They don't notice me when my hand's out asking for change. 120 00:06:34,887 --> 00:06:37,083 So you're saying you didn't shove anybody into traffic? 121 00:06:37,157 --> 00:06:39,719 Hey, some guy gets squashed on my corner... 122 00:06:39,795 --> 00:06:41,229 they say I did it, huh? 123 00:06:41,297 --> 00:06:43,267 I mean, it's bad for business. Think about it. 124 00:06:43,335 --> 00:06:44,701 No, you think about it. 125 00:06:44,770 --> 00:06:47,900 And we got a semi-private cell for you to think about it in. 126 00:06:48,343 --> 00:06:50,540 You guys can't arrest me. What's the charge? 127 00:06:50,614 --> 00:06:51,980 Singing off-key. 128 00:06:52,817 --> 00:06:54,308 My client wants to go home. 129 00:06:54,386 --> 00:06:56,219 Home? It's wall-to-wall rats. 130 00:06:56,290 --> 00:06:58,987 I'm not here to defend his home furnishings, just his rights. 131 00:06:59,060 --> 00:07:01,087 You haven't got anything on him in this murder. 132 00:07:01,164 --> 00:07:02,792 He just happened to be in the vicinity. 133 00:07:02,867 --> 00:07:04,665 And he was hassling pedestrians. 134 00:07:04,737 --> 00:07:06,365 He was talking to pedestrians. 135 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:08,602 Did anyone see him push anybody? 136 00:07:11,949 --> 00:07:15,388 The fabric under the victim's nails doesn't match the suspect's coat. 137 00:07:17,559 --> 00:07:19,586 So go back to square one. 138 00:07:20,964 --> 00:07:23,025 He definitely got run over by a truck. 139 00:07:23,101 --> 00:07:25,367 Brilliant, Rodgers. We already noticed that. 140 00:07:25,439 --> 00:07:28,842 The truck didn't kill him. He was already dead. 141 00:07:28,911 --> 00:07:29,970 Heart attack. 142 00:07:30,047 --> 00:07:33,177 What attacked Mr. Renkmeyer's heart was a small piece of lead. 143 00:07:33,252 --> 00:07:34,550 He was shot? 144 00:07:34,921 --> 00:07:38,324 X- rays found an anterior entry wound in the upper-left quadrant. 145 00:07:38,595 --> 00:07:42,055 Straight through the heart, then it lodged in the spine, .32. 146 00:07:42,133 --> 00:07:43,897 Thought you might want it. 147 00:07:44,871 --> 00:07:47,774 I'll call CSU, tell them to start looking for a shell. 148 00:07:51,482 --> 00:07:53,952 I don't understand. What can I tell you? 149 00:07:54,020 --> 00:07:57,584 Well, we're trying to find out who killed your husband, Mrs. Renkmeyer. 150 00:07:57,660 --> 00:07:59,993 He was killed by a crazy, homeless person. 151 00:08:00,431 --> 00:08:03,891 It seems we were wrong about how your husband died, ma'am. 152 00:08:03,970 --> 00:08:05,233 He was shot. 153 00:08:06,508 --> 00:08:09,604 By a homeless man? We don't know. 154 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:11,979 Had your husband been threatened by anybody? 155 00:08:12,051 --> 00:08:13,382 Harry? Of course not. 156 00:08:13,787 --> 00:08:16,313 Mr. Renkmeyer worked for a company called Nature's Way? 157 00:08:16,391 --> 00:08:18,384 He was Chief Financial Officer. 158 00:08:19,262 --> 00:08:21,027 They make baby food. 159 00:08:21,333 --> 00:08:24,634 Had he been having any problems? Acting oddly in any way? 160 00:08:30,048 --> 00:08:32,610 You think someone killed him on purpose? 161 00:08:32,686 --> 00:08:33,744 Why? 162 00:08:43,537 --> 00:08:45,165 What's up? Detective. 163 00:08:45,239 --> 00:08:49,042 You ever hear the story of the farmer's daughter and the needle in the haystack? 164 00:08:49,113 --> 00:08:51,344 I'm just glad our guy didn't use a revolver. 165 00:08:51,416 --> 00:08:53,716 We opened the grating, picked through the gutter. 166 00:08:53,787 --> 00:08:55,653 Crap people throw on the street. 167 00:08:55,724 --> 00:08:57,626 They don't throw away shell casings. 168 00:08:57,694 --> 00:08:59,890 But they do when they use an automatic gun. 169 00:09:00,699 --> 00:09:03,864 I would say a. 32. And I would say very recent. 170 00:09:06,609 --> 00:09:07,941 When you called, I thought... 171 00:09:08,011 --> 00:09:09,877 you should talk to both me and my partner. 172 00:09:09,948 --> 00:09:11,975 Harry worked very closely with both of us. 173 00:09:12,052 --> 00:09:14,681 Steve Green, Detectives Briscoe and Logan. 174 00:09:14,756 --> 00:09:16,521 Gentlemen, sit down. 175 00:09:16,626 --> 00:09:19,027 You want some coffee? No, thanks. 176 00:09:19,096 --> 00:09:21,191 So what's your thinking on this? 177 00:09:21,267 --> 00:09:23,760 The bum who shot Harry was stalking him? 178 00:09:23,838 --> 00:09:26,000 We're thinking it wasn't the bum. 179 00:09:26,910 --> 00:09:29,311 Are you saying somebody wanted him dead? 180 00:09:29,381 --> 00:09:31,646 Harry? I don't think so. 181 00:09:32,152 --> 00:09:35,784 Well, we're wondering, did Mr. Renkmeyer have any bad habits? 182 00:09:35,858 --> 00:09:39,557 When I started this company, I wanted someone dependable in accounting. 183 00:09:39,632 --> 00:09:41,931 No one was better than Harry Renkmeyer. 184 00:09:42,002 --> 00:09:44,404 And Mr. Renkmeyer was happy working here? 185 00:09:44,473 --> 00:09:46,704 We're a growing company. He was well paid. 186 00:09:46,776 --> 00:09:50,647 He was also in charge of the money. Did he ever want more than he earned? 187 00:09:51,552 --> 00:09:53,350 Maybe he had a gambling problem... 188 00:09:53,421 --> 00:09:54,821 a couple of girlfriends? 189 00:09:54,890 --> 00:09:58,659 No. Harry was so conservative. We used to make fun of his button-down shirts. 190 00:09:58,931 --> 00:10:00,900 How about enemies in the business? 191 00:10:02,169 --> 00:10:03,603 Did he fire anybody? 192 00:10:03,672 --> 00:10:04,867 Just the usual. 193 00:10:04,941 --> 00:10:08,743 He let go of a bookkeeper about a year ago. He said she was incompetent. 194 00:10:09,148 --> 00:10:10,582 It was personal. 195 00:10:14,523 --> 00:10:16,014 That's what he said. 196 00:10:16,660 --> 00:10:18,390 There'd been something between them. 197 00:10:18,463 --> 00:10:20,398 Steve? You didn't know. 198 00:10:21,936 --> 00:10:23,700 They asked about girlfriends. 199 00:10:25,442 --> 00:10:28,413 We worked together for three years, and nothing. 200 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,645 We were closing out the fiscal year, putting in late hours. 201 00:10:31,719 --> 00:10:33,712 You know how these things go. Yeah. 202 00:10:33,789 --> 00:10:36,054 You get together for a couple of drinks after work... 203 00:10:36,126 --> 00:10:38,460 and pretty soon it's your place or mine, right? 204 00:10:39,966 --> 00:10:42,334 Harry didn't look it, but he liked a good time. 205 00:10:43,806 --> 00:10:45,171 We had some fun. 206 00:10:45,242 --> 00:10:46,938 Was he a big spender? 207 00:10:47,012 --> 00:10:49,038 No, strictly Dutch treat, but I didn't mind. 208 00:10:49,115 --> 00:10:51,415 I kept telling myself it was just for fun but... 209 00:10:51,486 --> 00:10:53,011 You got involved. 210 00:10:53,489 --> 00:10:54,980 We made plans. 211 00:10:55,058 --> 00:10:58,086 He was going to get some money together and divorce his wife. 212 00:11:00,234 --> 00:11:02,796 Miss Torvald didn't seem too happy about being dumped. 213 00:11:02,872 --> 00:11:05,273 What, you think she carried a grudge for a year? 214 00:11:05,342 --> 00:11:06,810 Or his wife did. 215 00:11:06,878 --> 00:11:10,180 If she knew about his definition of employee relations. 216 00:11:10,251 --> 00:11:12,243 Don't wives always know? 217 00:11:12,321 --> 00:11:13,380 Mine did. 218 00:11:13,456 --> 00:11:16,052 Yours didn't hire a hit man. Not yet. 219 00:11:17,363 --> 00:11:19,195 We were married nine years. 220 00:11:19,266 --> 00:11:21,828 It wasn't the first time. I said, "End it." 221 00:11:21,904 --> 00:11:22,996 Harry did. 222 00:11:23,072 --> 00:11:25,872 She told us he was putting money away, planning a divorce. 223 00:11:25,943 --> 00:11:27,377 He was lying to her. 224 00:11:27,446 --> 00:11:30,646 Look, it changed after Sam was born. 225 00:11:31,086 --> 00:11:32,611 Harry wanted to stay with me. 226 00:11:32,688 --> 00:11:35,716 And you wanted to stay with him? Of course I did. 227 00:11:35,793 --> 00:11:38,423 So everything was perfect. I don't understand. 228 00:11:38,498 --> 00:11:41,469 If Harry had any problems, they weren't about our marriage. 229 00:11:41,536 --> 00:11:43,471 Did Harry have any problems? 230 00:11:44,008 --> 00:11:47,946 It was just the aftermath, the affair, having a baby. 231 00:11:49,517 --> 00:11:52,545 He was restless. He talked about getting another job. So what? 232 00:11:52,622 --> 00:11:56,287 He was unhappy at work? Did he tell you what was bothering him? 233 00:11:58,465 --> 00:12:00,366 A couple of weeks ago... 234 00:12:00,969 --> 00:12:04,032 middle of the night, I heard him in the kitchen. 235 00:12:05,911 --> 00:12:08,973 He was throwing out baby food he'd brought from the office. 236 00:12:09,283 --> 00:12:10,546 What for? 237 00:12:12,221 --> 00:12:14,885 He just said, "We're not feeding this to Sam anymore." 238 00:12:15,660 --> 00:12:17,653 He wanted me to buy another brand. 239 00:12:23,774 --> 00:12:25,572 It's not about the wife. 240 00:12:25,644 --> 00:12:28,410 Yeah, the horizontal tango with the bookkeeper was over. 241 00:12:28,482 --> 00:12:30,384 But he was looking for a new job. 242 00:12:30,453 --> 00:12:31,579 Flip a coin. 243 00:12:31,654 --> 00:12:34,022 I mean, the baby food moguls say he was happy in his work. 244 00:12:34,092 --> 00:12:36,289 But his wife says he has résumés in the mail... 245 00:12:36,362 --> 00:12:38,923 and he didn't even want to keep their stuff around the house. 246 00:12:38,999 --> 00:12:41,799 You don't like your job, does it mean you throw away the product? 247 00:12:41,871 --> 00:12:43,864 Maybe there was something wrong with the baby food. 248 00:12:43,942 --> 00:12:44,967 Or the company. 249 00:12:45,044 --> 00:12:47,070 Maybe he didn't want the food around the house... 250 00:12:47,147 --> 00:12:48,911 'cause it reminded him of trouble at the office. 251 00:12:50,285 --> 00:12:53,724 You think your job's not gonna last, you're gonna look to move on. 252 00:12:53,792 --> 00:12:55,054 Let's check their books. 253 00:12:55,128 --> 00:12:58,497 I'll get a subpoena. Get the D.A.'s auditors over there. 254 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,630 It looks like they were in the classic start-up squeeze. 255 00:13:01,705 --> 00:13:04,107 This baby food was walking off the shelves. 256 00:13:04,176 --> 00:13:05,474 Then the money was pouring in. 257 00:13:05,545 --> 00:13:06,911 That's not the way it works. 258 00:13:06,981 --> 00:13:09,610 You have to pay for supplies to make this stuff months before... 259 00:13:09,685 --> 00:13:10,947 you get paid for selling it. 260 00:13:11,020 --> 00:13:13,855 The more successful you are, the more strapped you are for cash. 261 00:13:13,925 --> 00:13:17,329 So you go to the bank, you show them your sales records, and you borrow money. 262 00:13:17,398 --> 00:13:19,094 Yeah, new ideas are hard to sell. 263 00:13:19,168 --> 00:13:21,468 Miss Madsen had a $2 million loan. 264 00:13:21,539 --> 00:13:25,774 But she had to pledge her personal assets as collateral and pay six points over prime. 265 00:13:25,846 --> 00:13:27,712 That's a sweet deal for the bank. 266 00:13:27,782 --> 00:13:31,778 Apparently, not sweet enough. They called the loan six months ago. 267 00:13:35,128 --> 00:13:37,655 I worked very hard to get Ann Madsen that loan. 268 00:13:37,732 --> 00:13:39,530 The timing was in our favor. 269 00:13:39,602 --> 00:13:42,596 The bank was under pressure to help women entrepreneurs. 270 00:13:42,674 --> 00:13:44,803 But not under pressure to keep on helping them? 271 00:13:44,878 --> 00:13:47,347 I fought our loan committee on this one for months. 272 00:13:47,415 --> 00:13:50,443 Her accounts were technically out of balance. We had to call the loan. 273 00:13:50,521 --> 00:13:52,717 Out of balance? You mean there was money missing? 274 00:13:52,791 --> 00:13:56,320 No, nothing like that. It was just that her inventory, plus receivables... 275 00:13:56,397 --> 00:13:58,559 fell below some arbitrary figure. 276 00:13:58,634 --> 00:13:59,795 I tried to save it, but... 277 00:13:59,869 --> 00:14:02,134 Well, she must have spent part of that $2 million. 278 00:14:02,207 --> 00:14:03,231 How did she pay it back? 279 00:14:03,308 --> 00:14:05,278 She get a loan from some other bank? 280 00:14:05,346 --> 00:14:09,250 She got a new partner. They must have found the money somewhere. 281 00:14:10,454 --> 00:14:13,289 Did she say Steve Green was a new partner? 282 00:14:13,792 --> 00:14:15,124 We didn't ask. 283 00:14:15,295 --> 00:14:19,325 It sounds like they're operating with no visible means of financial support. 284 00:14:19,669 --> 00:14:22,504 A time like that, where do you go for $2 million? 285 00:14:22,574 --> 00:14:25,443 You don't go to the neighborhood loan shark. 286 00:14:25,513 --> 00:14:28,848 And why did her finance guy end up with a bullet in his heart? 287 00:14:29,552 --> 00:14:33,184 You know, I'm starting to think you're right. These people are all mobbed up. 288 00:14:33,259 --> 00:14:35,626 I think we should ask about the investors. 289 00:14:37,266 --> 00:14:39,963 After Harry was killed, we explored, in our own minds... 290 00:14:40,037 --> 00:14:42,166 any possible connection to our company. 291 00:14:42,241 --> 00:14:45,804 We looked at the books before we gave them to you. They were straight. 292 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:49,512 Well, we heard Mr. Renkmeyer was looking for a new job. 293 00:14:50,789 --> 00:14:53,088 I can't believe that. He would have told me. 294 00:14:53,159 --> 00:14:57,030 Do you have any idea why he wouldn't want his baby eating Nature's Way products? 295 00:14:57,634 --> 00:15:01,504 He took a couple of cartons from the office. Maybe you can tell us. 296 00:15:01,573 --> 00:15:03,166 What's this have to do with his being shot? 297 00:15:03,242 --> 00:15:05,576 Mr. Renkmeyer was in finance. 298 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,549 He must have done a good job, because after your loan was called... 299 00:15:08,618 --> 00:15:10,747 you've been running this company on absolutely no money. 300 00:15:10,823 --> 00:15:13,292 Harry took care of that by bringing Steve into the company. 301 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,354 Steve arranged refinancing. It was part of our partnership agreement. 302 00:15:16,431 --> 00:15:18,924 I pledged my own assets. I believe in this company. 303 00:15:19,002 --> 00:15:20,561 There's nothing about that in your books. 304 00:15:21,941 --> 00:15:26,313 It came from a private venture capital group. They like to operate quietly. 305 00:15:26,382 --> 00:15:27,975 Okay, where can we find them? 306 00:15:28,051 --> 00:15:30,715 Why, Detective? You have an idea for a new product? 307 00:15:31,991 --> 00:15:33,459 Where can we find them? 308 00:15:34,061 --> 00:15:35,290 I've got it. 309 00:15:41,674 --> 00:15:43,472 It's not exactly Wall Street. 310 00:15:43,544 --> 00:15:45,479 It ain't Little Italy, either. 311 00:15:50,054 --> 00:15:53,584 There is no one here, mister. You must make an appointment. 312 00:15:53,661 --> 00:15:56,496 Well, who would that appointment be with? 313 00:15:56,699 --> 00:15:58,793 You leave your name, pozhaluista, here. 314 00:15:58,904 --> 00:16:01,237 And they call you, okay? Lady. 315 00:16:01,541 --> 00:16:04,603 That's not the way it works. I know nothing. 316 00:16:08,853 --> 00:16:12,758 I don't think these people are gonna exactly give Citibank a lot of competition. 317 00:16:12,827 --> 00:16:15,798 Well, no wonder Steve Green didn't want to talk about it. 318 00:16:15,865 --> 00:16:18,665 Well, it was his partner who gave us the address. 319 00:16:23,177 --> 00:16:25,170 When Harry brought Steve in, it saved my life. 320 00:16:25,248 --> 00:16:27,342 I was staring at a backlog of orders I couldn't fill. 321 00:16:27,418 --> 00:16:29,945 The bank was going to take the house I inherited from my mother. 322 00:16:30,022 --> 00:16:32,618 I'd lose everything. Steve got me all the capital I needed. 323 00:16:32,694 --> 00:16:35,494 Did you ever meet the people from Brookings who made this loan? 324 00:16:35,565 --> 00:16:37,227 I was busy promoting baby food. 325 00:16:37,301 --> 00:16:40,204 Steve handled the whole thing. All I did was sign papers. 326 00:16:40,273 --> 00:16:42,174 I take it you trust him completely? 327 00:16:42,243 --> 00:16:44,372 He's honest. He's hands-on. 328 00:16:44,447 --> 00:16:47,077 You know, hardworking son of immigrants. 329 00:16:47,151 --> 00:16:48,585 Steve Green? 330 00:16:48,654 --> 00:16:50,350 Immigrants from where? Scarsdale? 331 00:16:50,423 --> 00:16:53,087 His real name is Sasha Gruskov. He was born in Russia. 332 00:16:56,433 --> 00:16:58,801 What kind of interest did you pay on this loan? 333 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:01,635 Twenty-five percent. 334 00:17:01,709 --> 00:17:03,769 That's one point less than usury. 335 00:17:03,879 --> 00:17:05,006 Didn't that seem kind of high? 336 00:17:05,081 --> 00:17:07,517 Yes, but I had no choice. 337 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:10,683 Makes sense Steve Green changed his name. 338 00:17:10,758 --> 00:17:14,252 Gruskov family: extortion, credit card fraud, prostitution. 339 00:17:14,330 --> 00:17:16,800 The Mafia's taking lessons from them. 340 00:17:17,068 --> 00:17:20,267 Well, for Gruskov money, 25% was obviously a family favor. 341 00:17:20,340 --> 00:17:23,243 Hey, they put money on the street at 20% a week. 342 00:17:23,312 --> 00:17:26,181 And Little Miss Organic doesn't know who she's dealing with? 343 00:17:26,250 --> 00:17:29,347 Maybe Harry Renkmeyer knew. He brought Steve Green to the company. 344 00:17:29,423 --> 00:17:30,948 Report on your print. 345 00:17:31,025 --> 00:17:32,960 For the partial we had to go with the AFIS... 346 00:17:33,028 --> 00:17:35,521 and they only started to feed cards into their computer. 347 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:37,899 How's it stand? One million in, 60 million to go? 348 00:17:37,970 --> 00:17:40,372 Well, lucky for you, they started with the two-time losers. 349 00:17:40,441 --> 00:17:44,175 Lucky for us, our print belonged to one. Nikolai Rostov, Brighton Beach. 350 00:17:44,247 --> 00:17:46,148 Assault and more assault. 351 00:17:46,217 --> 00:17:48,517 Brighton Beach. Gruskov family. 352 00:17:48,588 --> 00:17:52,185 Think he knew Steve Green? Let's pay him a visit with a warrant. 353 00:17:53,196 --> 00:17:55,928 Look, I don't like this. You should really wait for him. 354 00:17:56,001 --> 00:17:57,902 Well, don't worry about it, huh? 355 00:17:57,970 --> 00:18:00,236 Nick must have a good job. 356 00:18:00,541 --> 00:18:01,941 He drives a Camaro. 357 00:18:02,011 --> 00:18:03,639 Oh, yeah? 358 00:18:03,713 --> 00:18:05,147 You seen him around lately? 359 00:18:05,216 --> 00:18:06,775 Sure, I saw him this morning. 360 00:18:06,852 --> 00:18:09,789 He likes silk suits to go with his Camaro. 361 00:18:10,024 --> 00:18:11,515 Good for him. 362 00:18:12,862 --> 00:18:14,125 You know what? 363 00:18:16,669 --> 00:18:19,265 Judging by his taste in ammunition... 364 00:18:20,676 --> 00:18:22,406 he also likes. 32s. 365 00:18:23,414 --> 00:18:26,283 I got a pea coat. Navy issue. 366 00:18:27,721 --> 00:18:29,120 You. Stick around. 367 00:18:57,738 --> 00:19:00,732 Nickie, you're under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. 368 00:19:00,809 --> 00:19:03,678 Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. 369 00:19:03,748 --> 00:19:04,738 Do you understand that? 370 00:19:04,816 --> 00:19:07,309 Hey, Nickie, this the flavor of the week? 371 00:19:10,126 --> 00:19:15,066 "Docket number 96522, the People v. Nikolai Rostov. 372 00:19:15,134 --> 00:19:17,934 The charge is murder in the second degree." 373 00:19:19,074 --> 00:19:21,168 Shoots a man, pushes him under a truck. 374 00:19:21,244 --> 00:19:23,646 I've heard of overkill, but this is ridiculous. 375 00:19:23,948 --> 00:19:25,473 Can we get a plea here? 376 00:19:25,551 --> 00:19:27,247 Not guilty. Bail application? 377 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,347 My client has strong ties to the community. 378 00:19:29,424 --> 00:19:31,825 And another community 12,000 miles away. 379 00:19:31,896 --> 00:19:34,491 Your Honor, my client is a citizen. 380 00:19:34,566 --> 00:19:37,560 "Give us your tired, your poor, your vicious." 381 00:19:37,638 --> 00:19:38,663 Miss Kincaid? 382 00:19:38,740 --> 00:19:40,733 Due to the risk of flight, Your Honor... 383 00:19:40,811 --> 00:19:43,805 Thank you, that's all I need to hear. I'll give this citizen his rights. 384 00:19:43,882 --> 00:19:45,578 He's remanded without bail. Next? 385 00:19:45,652 --> 00:19:48,452 Six years the Brooklyn D.A. Has been asking: 386 00:19:48,523 --> 00:19:51,050 "Is Steven Green part of his family?" 387 00:19:51,128 --> 00:19:53,597 Now we have him. We have his hit man. 388 00:19:53,665 --> 00:19:56,431 And we're gonna roll him against him until he does somersaults. 389 00:19:56,503 --> 00:19:58,166 Are we clear on the motive? 390 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,211 We assumed Harry Renkmeyer knew about tainted food. 391 00:20:01,278 --> 00:20:03,679 So we called the USDA. We were right. 392 00:20:03,748 --> 00:20:05,445 They closed Nature's Way this morning. 393 00:20:05,519 --> 00:20:07,511 Renkmeyer could've blown that company apart. 394 00:20:07,589 --> 00:20:10,253 $2 million. That's a big loss for the Gruskovs. 395 00:20:10,327 --> 00:20:13,765 Killing a man over that. You'd think they have other means of persuasion. 396 00:20:13,832 --> 00:20:14,959 The Russians? 397 00:20:15,034 --> 00:20:17,766 They make the Colombians look like the Von Trapp family. 398 00:20:17,839 --> 00:20:19,899 Adam, the Colombians roll on each other. 399 00:20:19,976 --> 00:20:21,342 The investment bankers do. 400 00:20:21,411 --> 00:20:22,879 But Russian hit men? 401 00:20:22,948 --> 00:20:25,474 Twist him till he's a corkscrew. Make it work. 402 00:20:29,425 --> 00:20:32,055 My client owns an ice cream parlor in Brighton Beach. 403 00:20:32,130 --> 00:20:34,224 A front for the Gruskov family. 404 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:36,236 I own my business. It's mine. 405 00:20:36,304 --> 00:20:37,362 Nick. 406 00:20:39,442 --> 00:20:43,506 I went cross-town yesterday, watched the witnesses parade past the lineup. 407 00:20:43,816 --> 00:20:47,117 My client was number two, number six was very popular. 408 00:20:47,188 --> 00:20:51,890 As they say in law school, Larry, eyewitnesses are like dessert. 409 00:20:52,131 --> 00:20:54,293 They're nice, but they're not necessary. 410 00:20:55,303 --> 00:20:58,502 Mr. Rostov left his thumbprint on a shell casing... 411 00:20:58,574 --> 00:21:01,340 and fiber from his coat under the dead man's fingernails. 412 00:21:01,413 --> 00:21:05,352 You didn't mention the slug from the victim. Did they match it to my client's gun? 413 00:21:06,220 --> 00:21:09,818 I guess not. And I bet you can't match the lip mark on the shell. 414 00:21:09,894 --> 00:21:12,090 Very hard with a. 32, isn't it? 415 00:21:12,164 --> 00:21:16,263 Keep dancing, Counselor. Your client can start counting 25 years. 416 00:21:16,338 --> 00:21:17,567 Without motive? 417 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:20,805 Just one hole in the physical evidence, he walks. 418 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,415 He had no reason to kill Mr. Renkmeyer. 419 00:21:23,483 --> 00:21:25,418 Steven Green had motive. 420 00:21:25,486 --> 00:21:26,886 The Gruskov's money. 421 00:21:26,955 --> 00:21:30,155 Oh, you're gonna turn this into a trial about the Russian mob. 422 00:21:30,228 --> 00:21:31,958 No judge'll let it happen. 423 00:21:32,031 --> 00:21:34,900 You won't even get to order chicken Kiev for lunch. 424 00:21:35,536 --> 00:21:37,198 So where are we going? 425 00:21:37,272 --> 00:21:39,765 You want to make an offer? Please, make it. 426 00:21:43,116 --> 00:21:46,646 Manslaughter one, your client names Steven Green... 427 00:21:46,722 --> 00:21:49,887 as the man who ordered the hit on Harry Renkmeyer. 428 00:21:50,662 --> 00:21:52,893 You will be convicted, sir... 429 00:21:52,966 --> 00:21:55,402 your lawyer's two-step notwithstanding. 430 00:21:56,305 --> 00:21:59,173 And, by the way, who is paying your lawyer's fee? 431 00:22:00,678 --> 00:22:03,080 Whose interest does he really represent? 432 00:22:03,383 --> 00:22:06,479 Nick, I advise you to go back to your cell. 433 00:22:20,045 --> 00:22:23,016 About the time Nixon's getting tossed from the White House... 434 00:22:23,084 --> 00:22:27,285 young Stevie's dad here gets shot, and the kid goes off to a private school in Maine. 435 00:22:27,357 --> 00:22:29,622 And the cousins build the business. Yeah. 436 00:22:29,694 --> 00:22:32,494 Are they successful enough to float million-dollar loans to Steve? 437 00:22:32,566 --> 00:22:33,625 By now? 438 00:22:33,701 --> 00:22:36,001 They could pay the debt of a Third World country. 439 00:22:36,072 --> 00:22:38,166 The shooter, Rostov, on the lower left, 440 00:22:38,242 --> 00:22:39,471 what do you know about him? 441 00:22:39,544 --> 00:22:42,310 All right. This guy, a cousin, we had him in '89. 442 00:22:42,382 --> 00:22:44,852 Truckload of fur. Grand larceny for the third time. 443 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,946 We turned him, he was gonna testify. 444 00:22:47,023 --> 00:22:50,484 He's out on bail. They found him with a slug in his heart. 445 00:22:50,563 --> 00:22:51,997 Put there by Mr. Rostov. 446 00:22:52,066 --> 00:22:53,557 We think so, yeah. 447 00:22:53,635 --> 00:22:55,729 And it wasn't the first time. 448 00:22:55,805 --> 00:22:58,799 Two years before that, we had a witness in Rikers... 449 00:22:58,877 --> 00:23:02,213 at the same time as Joe Andreyev, another friend of the family. 450 00:23:02,283 --> 00:23:04,252 Witness falls off a catwalk. 451 00:23:04,319 --> 00:23:07,449 And if you believe that, I'll introduce you to the tooth fairy. 452 00:23:07,525 --> 00:23:09,016 What about Steven Green? 453 00:23:09,094 --> 00:23:12,464 Changed his name, moved out of Brooklyn, got an M.B.A., and never looked back. 454 00:23:12,534 --> 00:23:13,592 You're not saying he's clean? 455 00:23:13,702 --> 00:23:14,669 Oh, no. 456 00:23:14,737 --> 00:23:18,141 He looks good in a $1,000 suit, but it doesn't cover the dirt. 457 00:23:18,577 --> 00:23:20,808 How solid is this information? 458 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,350 I believe it. My boss believes it. 459 00:23:24,086 --> 00:23:25,520 Convincing a jury? 460 00:23:27,258 --> 00:23:29,124 We may not be able to mention the Russian mob... 461 00:23:29,195 --> 00:23:31,392 without a better connection to Rostov. 462 00:23:31,465 --> 00:23:33,331 We still convict him. 463 00:23:33,702 --> 00:23:36,571 Well, that doesn't get us an arrest of Steven Green. 464 00:23:37,709 --> 00:23:39,644 What about Ann Madsen? 465 00:23:40,113 --> 00:23:42,811 The police are fairly sure she wasn't involved. 466 00:23:43,018 --> 00:23:45,989 If she's not involved, what does she bring us? 467 00:23:46,424 --> 00:23:50,591 Whatever didn't seem important to them before might be important now. 468 00:23:51,866 --> 00:23:53,960 See if you can get her in. Tonight. 469 00:23:55,806 --> 00:23:57,104 I never knew. 470 00:23:57,175 --> 00:24:00,078 I thought Steve's family was in real estate. 471 00:24:00,514 --> 00:24:03,006 You knew they were Russians from Brighton Beach. 472 00:24:03,486 --> 00:24:05,955 Please, I grew up in Westchester. 473 00:24:06,023 --> 00:24:08,858 To me, Brighton Beach is a place in a Neil Simon play. 474 00:24:08,928 --> 00:24:12,128 Sure, I met Steve's relatives. I knew they didn't shop at Brooks Brothers. 475 00:24:12,201 --> 00:24:14,397 I never thought they were gangsters. 476 00:24:14,471 --> 00:24:17,670 Did you ever see Nikolai Rostov with Steven Green? 477 00:24:27,159 --> 00:24:28,821 This is really scaring me. 478 00:24:31,733 --> 00:24:33,429 Miss Madsen? 479 00:24:41,049 --> 00:24:44,283 He was in Steve's office late at night. 480 00:24:44,922 --> 00:24:46,618 The night before Harry... 481 00:24:47,493 --> 00:24:49,223 Before he was shot. 482 00:24:49,730 --> 00:24:51,393 You know why he was killed. 483 00:24:51,467 --> 00:24:54,870 The police told you. He wouldn't feed your product to his own son. 484 00:24:57,243 --> 00:24:59,269 A week before it happened... 485 00:25:00,882 --> 00:25:03,910 Harry said Steve was buying apricots from Poland. 486 00:25:03,987 --> 00:25:05,580 They were moldy. 487 00:25:05,657 --> 00:25:08,457 He was afraid kids would get sick, maybe die. 488 00:25:08,595 --> 00:25:10,724 He was gonna go to the government. 489 00:25:10,799 --> 00:25:12,825 Steve said it wasn't true. 490 00:25:12,902 --> 00:25:15,395 He was going to talk to Harry, reassure him. 491 00:25:15,474 --> 00:25:17,706 A week later he ends up dead. 492 00:25:18,479 --> 00:25:19,913 It's an odd coincidence. 493 00:25:20,583 --> 00:25:22,211 I asked Steve... 494 00:25:22,786 --> 00:25:26,019 after the police came, "Did you have anything to do with this?" 495 00:25:26,125 --> 00:25:28,618 He said I was crazy. Why would he kill anybody? 496 00:25:29,531 --> 00:25:31,432 I didn't know about his family. 497 00:25:36,409 --> 00:25:40,314 When they arrested this man, I saw his picture in the paper. 498 00:25:42,085 --> 00:25:44,282 Steve knows I saw him in the office. 499 00:25:45,658 --> 00:25:47,422 It's the link we needed. 500 00:25:47,494 --> 00:25:49,760 She can put Steven Green together with his hit man. 501 00:25:49,832 --> 00:25:53,235 Yep, and I can put my barber on Broome Street together... 502 00:25:53,304 --> 00:25:55,273 with half the hit men in the city. 503 00:25:55,340 --> 00:25:59,279 One of them slits somebody's throat, you can't prove the barber ordered it. 504 00:25:59,347 --> 00:26:01,544 What else was Rostov doing in Green's office? 505 00:26:01,618 --> 00:26:03,519 Selling spring vacation trips to the Baltics? 506 00:26:03,588 --> 00:26:04,681 No. 507 00:26:04,757 --> 00:26:07,022 Discussing ice cream baby food. 508 00:26:07,093 --> 00:26:09,723 You don't have enough to arrest Steven Green. 509 00:26:09,798 --> 00:26:11,494 The jury can draw the inference. 510 00:26:11,568 --> 00:26:14,334 Never ask a jury to think. They want to hear it. 511 00:26:16,043 --> 00:26:20,415 Connect Green with his family, and the jury will buy the motive. 512 00:26:23,522 --> 00:26:26,322 The hit man, defendant Rostov, was born in Minsk. 513 00:26:26,393 --> 00:26:30,696 As was Mr. Green, and as was Mr. Green's father, Ivan Gruskov. 514 00:26:30,767 --> 00:26:34,569 Do the People plan to convict my client based on a common dialect? 515 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,268 Hold on, Mr. Weaver. 516 00:26:36,343 --> 00:26:40,214 Just because a connection's ephemeral, who's to say it isn't real? 517 00:26:40,283 --> 00:26:44,450 With the history of the Gruskov family and Mr. Green's loan to Nature's Way... 518 00:26:44,524 --> 00:26:47,757 the People will show why Rostov shot Renkmeyer. 519 00:26:47,829 --> 00:26:48,990 Which is? 520 00:26:49,064 --> 00:26:52,662 Renkmeyer was a threat to a $2 million mob investment. 521 00:26:52,738 --> 00:26:56,801 There's not a scintilla of evidence linking my client to an alleged Russian mob. 522 00:26:56,878 --> 00:26:58,574 Rostov rents from this family. 523 00:26:58,648 --> 00:27:01,813 Along with hundreds of residents from the borough of Brooklyn. 524 00:27:01,886 --> 00:27:03,479 Doesn't make him a hired killer. 525 00:27:03,556 --> 00:27:05,024 What else do you have, Ben? 526 00:27:05,091 --> 00:27:06,855 A string of arrests dating from the '70s. 527 00:27:06,928 --> 00:27:09,694 Yes, the Gruskovs were implicated in racketeering... 528 00:27:09,766 --> 00:27:12,100 not Steven Green, or my client. 529 00:27:12,504 --> 00:27:13,631 Your Honor... 530 00:27:13,706 --> 00:27:15,835 allow this, it's guilt by association. 531 00:27:15,910 --> 00:27:18,277 It is no accident that your client met with Mr. Green... 532 00:27:18,347 --> 00:27:19,975 the night before Renkmeyer was shot. 533 00:27:20,050 --> 00:27:21,518 All right. 534 00:27:22,554 --> 00:27:26,823 I understand you need motive, Ben. If this was about racketeering, okay. 535 00:27:27,663 --> 00:27:31,795 If you could prove Rostov worked for Mr. Green's family, okay. 536 00:27:33,138 --> 00:27:36,508 But connect this to baby food based on a single loan? 537 00:27:39,750 --> 00:27:42,880 There'll be no reference to the Russian mafia at Rostov's trial. 538 00:27:44,491 --> 00:27:45,618 Ludicrous. 539 00:27:46,227 --> 00:27:48,561 Adam, you can't be surprised. 540 00:27:48,632 --> 00:27:51,398 She's being very literal. Judge Barry? 541 00:27:51,470 --> 00:27:54,600 She thinks that we ought to supply the defendants with nice clothes... 542 00:27:54,675 --> 00:27:56,143 so the jury won't be prejudiced. 543 00:27:57,380 --> 00:28:00,180 Maybe we have to forget about going after Steven Green. 544 00:28:00,585 --> 00:28:03,055 Well, we put his hit man away, he gets another one. 545 00:28:03,123 --> 00:28:05,525 To hell with the branches. Let's chop down the tree. 546 00:28:05,594 --> 00:28:07,756 The hit man turned down your deal. 547 00:28:07,830 --> 00:28:10,630 I'm not going lower than manslaughter one. 548 00:28:13,340 --> 00:28:17,245 What did that cop say about snitches? The ones that turned on the Gruskovs? 549 00:28:19,817 --> 00:28:22,117 These here are federal marshals, sir. 550 00:28:23,991 --> 00:28:26,393 And they're here to offer you protection. 551 00:28:27,129 --> 00:28:29,793 I'm not saying nothing about Steve Green. 552 00:28:29,867 --> 00:28:31,563 Do you think you'll survive in prison? 553 00:28:31,637 --> 00:28:33,231 He's a survivor, always has been. 554 00:28:33,307 --> 00:28:37,644 Mr. Rostov, this is a transfer paper for Mr. Joseph Andreyev. 555 00:28:38,348 --> 00:28:41,683 Now, he's been moved here, to Riker's, from Attica. 556 00:28:41,754 --> 00:28:44,190 You ordered it. You had him moved here. 557 00:28:44,258 --> 00:28:48,823 Mr. Andreyev killed a witness against your family two years ago. 558 00:28:49,634 --> 00:28:53,903 Suppose he's in the yard, and you're with him, and he's got a knife? 559 00:28:53,975 --> 00:28:55,375 Ben, this is coercion. 560 00:28:55,444 --> 00:28:58,813 Now, we're prepared to move you to a high-security federal prison. 561 00:28:58,883 --> 00:29:00,010 If you cooperate. 562 00:29:00,085 --> 00:29:01,678 Or you can stay here. 563 00:29:03,023 --> 00:29:05,391 The offer is 8 and a third to 25. 564 00:29:07,498 --> 00:29:09,524 And you tell us who ordered the hit. 565 00:29:09,602 --> 00:29:11,833 He has nothing to say. That's it. We're finished. 566 00:29:11,905 --> 00:29:14,774 Mr. Rostov, you know what goes down... 567 00:29:14,843 --> 00:29:17,211 with anybody who worries the Gruskovs. 568 00:29:18,015 --> 00:29:21,317 You know what happened two years ago. Same thing happened in '89. 569 00:29:28,934 --> 00:29:30,425 Gentlemen. Wait. 570 00:29:30,503 --> 00:29:31,596 Nick. 571 00:29:34,477 --> 00:29:36,241 I'll tell you what you want. 572 00:29:37,615 --> 00:29:40,586 Who knows? Maybe Steve Green skipped town. 573 00:29:40,654 --> 00:29:42,213 Costa Rica? 574 00:29:42,523 --> 00:29:45,016 I don't think he's the surf-and-sand type. 575 00:29:45,128 --> 00:29:47,621 Someplace colder, maybe, where he can ski. 576 00:29:48,433 --> 00:29:50,903 Colder where he can make license plates. 577 00:29:52,273 --> 00:29:53,707 There he is. 578 00:29:57,883 --> 00:30:01,184 Sasha Gruskov, you're under arrest for the murder of Henry Renkmeyer. 579 00:30:01,255 --> 00:30:02,746 The name is Steven Green. 580 00:30:02,824 --> 00:30:05,351 You're still under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. 581 00:30:05,429 --> 00:30:08,264 Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. 582 00:30:08,334 --> 00:30:09,392 Do you understand that? 583 00:30:09,469 --> 00:30:10,937 You have the right to an attorney. 584 00:30:11,405 --> 00:30:14,501 Steven Green will spend his 60th birthday in a cell. 585 00:30:14,577 --> 00:30:16,068 A little bloodlust, Ben? 586 00:30:16,146 --> 00:30:17,637 For the truth? Yes, sir. 587 00:30:17,749 --> 00:30:18,842 Occupational hazard. 588 00:30:18,918 --> 00:30:20,113 Ben? 589 00:30:21,021 --> 00:30:23,821 Ann Madsen's here. You better talk to her. 590 00:30:30,704 --> 00:30:34,302 My phone rang at 11:00, 12:00, 1:00, every hour on the hour, nobody there. 591 00:30:34,378 --> 00:30:36,210 We're putting you under protective custody. 592 00:30:36,281 --> 00:30:37,772 I got in a cab to come down here... 593 00:30:37,850 --> 00:30:39,842 somebody in a car waved a flashlight across my face. 594 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,617 You'll be in a witness protection program. 595 00:30:41,690 --> 00:30:42,748 We'll move you out of the city. 596 00:30:42,824 --> 00:30:44,589 How did they even know I was here? 597 00:30:44,929 --> 00:30:48,264 Look, I've done all I can just talking to you. 598 00:30:48,334 --> 00:30:49,859 I can't testify against Steve. 599 00:30:49,937 --> 00:30:51,930 Miss Madsen, listen carefully. 600 00:30:52,775 --> 00:30:55,678 You're gonna have to leave New York no matter what. 601 00:30:55,746 --> 00:30:58,876 You've got to face the truth that your life will never be the same. 602 00:30:58,952 --> 00:31:00,011 Don't do this to me. 603 00:31:00,087 --> 00:31:01,487 A man is dead. 604 00:31:01,556 --> 00:31:04,789 He had a wife and a child, and unless you've changed your mind... 605 00:31:04,862 --> 00:31:06,261 he was a friend. 606 00:31:06,332 --> 00:31:08,995 Please. Of course I cared about Harry. 607 00:31:09,069 --> 00:31:11,835 But Steve and his family, now that I know who they are... 608 00:31:11,907 --> 00:31:13,034 how can I testify? 609 00:31:13,109 --> 00:31:15,306 If you refuse to testify... 610 00:31:15,380 --> 00:31:18,180 you're subject to indictment for hindering prosecution. 611 00:31:18,251 --> 00:31:20,243 Oh, come on. Miss Madsen... 612 00:31:20,321 --> 00:31:23,987 anyone who dances with the devil thinks they can walk away. 613 00:31:24,061 --> 00:31:25,324 You can't. 614 00:31:28,101 --> 00:31:29,968 It was only baby food. 615 00:31:30,872 --> 00:31:33,035 Oh, my God, how did I end up here? 616 00:31:37,584 --> 00:31:39,280 He coerced the witness. 617 00:31:39,353 --> 00:31:41,983 The arrest of Steven Green is a farce. 618 00:31:42,458 --> 00:31:43,790 What did you do, Ben? 619 00:31:44,462 --> 00:31:45,760 Tell her. 620 00:31:45,965 --> 00:31:47,194 Larry, you were there. 621 00:31:47,267 --> 00:31:50,261 Mr. Packard, please. I speak English. I can ask the questions. 622 00:31:50,606 --> 00:31:51,665 Ben? 623 00:31:51,741 --> 00:31:54,210 Yes, Your Honor, I did ask for a prisoner to be transferred. 624 00:31:54,980 --> 00:31:56,881 To make his client feel threatened? 625 00:31:56,949 --> 00:32:00,216 If his client had nothing to hide, he had nothing to worry about. 626 00:32:00,289 --> 00:32:01,780 What is this, semantics? 627 00:32:01,858 --> 00:32:04,054 You told him he'd be knifed in the yard. 628 00:32:04,629 --> 00:32:06,929 Well, I suggested that. You said I was bluffing. 629 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,096 You're going to let them proceed against Steven Green? 630 00:32:10,405 --> 00:32:11,896 This is outrageous. 631 00:32:11,975 --> 00:32:13,705 It's close to the line... 632 00:32:14,779 --> 00:32:17,842 but Mr. Rostov felt the threat, whether it was real or not. 633 00:32:17,919 --> 00:32:19,410 That's his decision. 634 00:32:21,291 --> 00:32:22,725 Let's go to trial. 635 00:32:26,299 --> 00:32:29,897 Our team went to the processing plant after a call from your office. 636 00:32:29,972 --> 00:32:32,534 What did the Agriculture Department find? 637 00:32:32,610 --> 00:32:35,843 Our inspectors at Nature's Way sent samples of 16 lots... 638 00:32:35,915 --> 00:32:37,383 to our lab in Washington. 639 00:32:37,451 --> 00:32:39,978 Of those, 12 contained spoiled food. 640 00:32:40,056 --> 00:32:42,082 And what did the Department do? 641 00:32:42,159 --> 00:32:45,928 We obtained an administration order to shut down their production line. 642 00:32:45,999 --> 00:32:47,433 Now, these spoiled lots... 643 00:32:47,502 --> 00:32:49,972 do you know what dates they were processed on? 644 00:32:50,039 --> 00:32:52,702 Yes. The week of March 10th, this year. 645 00:32:52,776 --> 00:32:55,338 That's the week of Mr. Renkmeyer's death, right? 646 00:32:55,414 --> 00:32:56,404 Objection. 647 00:32:57,585 --> 00:32:59,144 No, I'll allow it. 648 00:33:00,390 --> 00:33:02,052 Yes, that same week. 649 00:33:02,126 --> 00:33:05,723 Now, if you had found these spoiled lots then, in March... 650 00:33:05,798 --> 00:33:07,392 what would you have done? 651 00:33:07,469 --> 00:33:10,268 Exactly what we did. Shut the company down. 652 00:33:11,876 --> 00:33:15,211 Steve had other businesses. He had a lot of visitors to the office. 653 00:33:15,282 --> 00:33:17,046 Did you ever have the opportunity 654 00:33:17,118 --> 00:33:18,450 to see these people? 655 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,355 Sometimes I saw them, but I was never introduced. 656 00:33:22,093 --> 00:33:26,122 Now, you've testified that after Mr. Renkmeyer was killed... 657 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,661 you saw a photo of his accused killer in the newspaper. 658 00:33:29,873 --> 00:33:31,501 Prior to that date... 659 00:33:31,576 --> 00:33:33,671 had you ever seen Nikolai Rostov? 660 00:33:35,883 --> 00:33:36,976 No. 661 00:33:41,359 --> 00:33:42,418 Miss Madsen... 662 00:33:42,494 --> 00:33:43,756 I saw his picture in the paper. 663 00:33:43,829 --> 00:33:45,560 I had never seen him before in my life. 664 00:33:45,633 --> 00:33:47,625 Please, consider your answer carefully. 665 00:33:47,703 --> 00:33:50,105 Do you recall telling me that you saw Nikolai Rostov? 666 00:33:50,174 --> 00:33:51,164 Objection. 667 00:33:51,509 --> 00:33:52,704 Asked and answered. 668 00:33:53,079 --> 00:33:54,172 Sustained. 669 00:34:03,830 --> 00:34:07,200 A brief recess, Your Honor? A moment with my witness? 670 00:34:10,241 --> 00:34:12,176 Any objection, Mr. Packard? 671 00:34:12,244 --> 00:34:14,236 Not at all, Your Honor. No objection. 672 00:34:14,882 --> 00:34:16,009 I don't have to talk to you. 673 00:34:16,084 --> 00:34:17,416 I suggest you do. 674 00:34:17,487 --> 00:34:19,979 Do you want to go to jail to protect these people? 675 00:34:20,057 --> 00:34:21,286 It's better than dying. 676 00:34:21,359 --> 00:34:24,660 You are as well-guarded as any witness possibly can be. 677 00:34:24,732 --> 00:34:26,667 I don't think they can even get near you. 678 00:34:26,735 --> 00:34:28,533 Maybe not today. Where will you send me? 679 00:34:28,605 --> 00:34:30,575 Kansas? Iowa? They'll find me. 680 00:34:30,642 --> 00:34:31,734 Miss Madsen... 681 00:34:31,810 --> 00:34:34,440 you will tell the truth, or I'm gonna prosecute you. 682 00:34:34,515 --> 00:34:37,350 I'm sorry, Mr. Stone. I've done all I can. 683 00:34:59,256 --> 00:35:02,159 Officer, the charge is felony perjury. 684 00:35:03,030 --> 00:35:05,090 Take her to the 5th Precinct. 685 00:35:07,104 --> 00:35:08,595 Just a minute, Officer. 686 00:35:10,075 --> 00:35:14,138 Ben, do you want to do this? It won't change her mind. 687 00:35:18,288 --> 00:35:20,155 Officer, take her away. 688 00:35:27,070 --> 00:35:29,063 Don't tell me it's required. 689 00:35:29,141 --> 00:35:31,736 She perjured herself and destroyed this case. 690 00:35:31,811 --> 00:35:33,576 Is that what it's about? 691 00:35:33,648 --> 00:35:36,015 Or is it about you looking foolish in front of a jury? 692 00:35:36,987 --> 00:35:38,546 It's felony perjury. 693 00:35:38,623 --> 00:35:42,892 How many felony perjury indictments did we file last year? 694 00:35:43,598 --> 00:35:44,587 She lied. 695 00:35:44,666 --> 00:35:48,105 Without her testimony, there's no motive, there's no link to Green... 696 00:35:48,173 --> 00:35:50,301 and there's no corroboration of Rostov. 697 00:35:50,376 --> 00:35:53,746 The total number of felony perjury indictments... 698 00:35:53,816 --> 00:35:56,081 we filed last year was four. 699 00:35:57,788 --> 00:36:01,955 And we do this to hardened criminals, not innocent bystanders. 700 00:36:02,029 --> 00:36:06,128 If she lies, she's no longer innocent, and these people don't go away. 701 00:36:06,203 --> 00:36:09,197 Are you prepared to testify against her in front of a judge? 702 00:36:09,274 --> 00:36:11,072 Her word against yours? 703 00:36:11,312 --> 00:36:12,540 And Claire's. 704 00:36:16,220 --> 00:36:18,485 You really want to prosecute Ann Madsen? 705 00:36:18,557 --> 00:36:19,785 If I have to. 706 00:36:20,527 --> 00:36:23,020 But maybe a few nights in Rikers... 707 00:36:24,667 --> 00:36:26,397 will change her mind. 708 00:36:33,616 --> 00:36:36,348 Were you hired to kill Mr. Renkmeyer? 709 00:36:36,420 --> 00:36:38,218 Hired for money? No. 710 00:36:38,857 --> 00:36:41,157 Let's say I was asked to do it. 711 00:36:41,228 --> 00:36:42,457 Who asked you? 712 00:36:44,100 --> 00:36:45,261 Steve Green. 713 00:36:46,771 --> 00:36:50,334 He asked you to commit murder, and he wasn't going to pay you for it? 714 00:36:50,410 --> 00:36:51,400 Why was that? 715 00:36:51,479 --> 00:36:52,606 Steve's family. 716 00:36:53,148 --> 00:36:54,173 When they ask... 717 00:36:54,250 --> 00:36:55,275 Objection. 718 00:36:55,352 --> 00:36:56,547 May we approach? 719 00:36:56,621 --> 00:36:57,645 Approach. 720 00:37:02,398 --> 00:37:03,730 Judge, you ruled on this. 721 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,200 Your Honor... 722 00:37:05,269 --> 00:37:09,105 how the witness was compensated by the defendant is relevant. 723 00:37:09,175 --> 00:37:10,837 He just said he wasn't compensated. 724 00:37:10,911 --> 00:37:12,904 Because he was a member of the Gruskov family. 725 00:37:12,982 --> 00:37:14,848 This is an end run, Ben, and you know it. 726 00:37:14,918 --> 00:37:17,047 The witness is only testifying to what he knows. 727 00:37:17,122 --> 00:37:18,954 Why he acted, who instructed him. 728 00:37:19,025 --> 00:37:21,962 You're linking the witness to the defendant through his family. 729 00:37:22,030 --> 00:37:25,195 I told you, it's prejudicial, and I won't allow it. 730 00:37:25,269 --> 00:37:26,999 Your Honor, off the record... 731 00:37:27,073 --> 00:37:30,010 this decision of yours has forced me to prosecute a woman... 732 00:37:30,078 --> 00:37:32,479 who committed perjury out of fear for her life. 733 00:37:33,383 --> 00:37:38,119 Whatever happens to her is as much your responsibility as mine. 734 00:37:40,795 --> 00:37:44,164 Exception noted, Counselor. Step back. 735 00:37:51,179 --> 00:37:52,647 Mr. Rostov... 736 00:37:54,385 --> 00:37:56,514 who directed you to commit this murder? 737 00:37:57,356 --> 00:37:58,483 Steve Green. 738 00:37:58,592 --> 00:38:01,563 And did he tell you why he wanted Harry Renkmeyer killed? 739 00:38:01,630 --> 00:38:05,194 The guy was gonna talk. I don't know about what. 740 00:38:05,871 --> 00:38:07,430 Nothing further. 741 00:38:07,507 --> 00:38:10,137 Your Honor, may I be heard in chambers? 742 00:38:10,946 --> 00:38:13,142 A motion to dismiss is premature. 743 00:38:13,216 --> 00:38:14,707 I have to consider it, Ben. 744 00:38:14,786 --> 00:38:18,520 The only thing the People have established is that Mr. Rostov is the killer. 745 00:38:18,592 --> 00:38:21,256 There is no evidence linking my client to the shooting. 746 00:38:21,330 --> 00:38:24,165 Ben, if that's your last witness, I'm sorry. 747 00:38:24,803 --> 00:38:26,795 The statute's clear. 748 00:38:26,872 --> 00:38:30,402 You can't convict solely on the basis of accomplice testimony. 749 00:38:30,479 --> 00:38:33,917 Your Honor, as you well know, my only other witness won't testify... 750 00:38:33,984 --> 00:38:35,475 because she's been threatened. 751 00:38:35,554 --> 00:38:38,389 Are you implying that I'm involved with witness tampering? 752 00:38:38,459 --> 00:38:40,258 I'm not implying anything, sir. 753 00:38:40,329 --> 00:38:41,353 Ben. 754 00:38:41,430 --> 00:38:42,830 I have to make a ruling. 755 00:38:42,899 --> 00:38:44,425 I haven't rested my case, Your Honor. 756 00:38:44,503 --> 00:38:45,869 In the morning you will. 757 00:38:45,939 --> 00:38:48,738 If you have nothing then, I'll grant the motion. 758 00:38:50,646 --> 00:38:52,137 I can't do it. 759 00:38:53,050 --> 00:38:54,815 Then we are prepared to prosecute you. 760 00:38:54,887 --> 00:38:58,325 Come on, Ben, I don't believe you. You'll put her in jail for a year? 761 00:38:58,392 --> 00:39:02,229 The penalty for conspiracy to commit murder is 25 to life. 762 00:39:03,468 --> 00:39:04,560 You wouldn't. 763 00:39:04,636 --> 00:39:05,797 This is crazy. 764 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:07,908 I didn't have anything to do with it. 765 00:39:07,976 --> 00:39:09,467 Because you say so? 766 00:39:11,148 --> 00:39:13,413 Are you protecting Mr. Green or yourself? 767 00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,622 You don't believe that. You're only trying to scare me. 768 00:39:16,690 --> 00:39:19,889 There's no evidence my client was involved in the death of Harry Renkmeyer. 769 00:39:19,962 --> 00:39:23,491 If you're innocent, and you don't do this, they'll go on killing. 770 00:39:23,568 --> 00:39:26,334 They killed Harry Renkmeyer. They'll kill you. 771 00:39:26,406 --> 00:39:27,840 Not if I don't testify. 772 00:39:27,909 --> 00:39:28,968 Really? 773 00:39:29,044 --> 00:39:33,074 Will you ever go to a movie and not look over your shoulder? 774 00:39:33,385 --> 00:39:37,085 Will you ever have a child and be comfortable sending her to school? 775 00:39:39,295 --> 00:39:42,266 If you testify, we'll get you a new identity. 776 00:39:42,333 --> 00:39:44,667 You don't, you're on your own. 777 00:39:47,509 --> 00:39:49,273 I'm not a policeman. 778 00:39:49,812 --> 00:39:52,942 I'm not the District Attorney. It's not my job. 779 00:39:55,055 --> 00:39:57,024 He can't do this, can he? 780 00:39:57,693 --> 00:39:59,355 I don't have to do this. 781 00:40:00,230 --> 00:40:01,859 Don't lie to her. 782 00:40:04,003 --> 00:40:07,270 Ann, I'm an officer of the court. I understand what you're trying to do... 783 00:40:07,342 --> 00:40:09,312 but it's improper for me to say it's right. 784 00:40:09,646 --> 00:40:11,478 You are a citizen. 785 00:40:11,549 --> 00:40:13,177 A witness to a crime. 786 00:40:13,252 --> 00:40:15,950 You don't do this, the system doesn't work. 787 00:40:16,023 --> 00:40:17,890 I don't care about the system. 788 00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,863 I admit, I should have been more suspicious of Steve Green... 789 00:40:20,932 --> 00:40:22,628 but I don't deserve this. 790 00:40:22,902 --> 00:40:25,134 I made a mistake. That's all. 791 00:40:26,340 --> 00:40:29,608 The mistake you're making is not telling the truth. 792 00:40:39,162 --> 00:40:41,325 I believed I could be in business... 793 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:45,031 and make a decent product, and make the world a better place. 794 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,543 Maybe that's naive, but that's what I believed. 795 00:40:49,046 --> 00:40:52,609 When you discovered that Mr. Green did not share your values... 796 00:40:52,685 --> 00:40:54,210 what did you do? 797 00:40:54,622 --> 00:40:56,250 I told him... 798 00:40:56,325 --> 00:41:00,230 we didn't have to save money by risking the health of children. 799 00:41:00,999 --> 00:41:03,799 I told him Harry Renkmeyer was right. 800 00:41:04,973 --> 00:41:06,874 And what did he tell you? 801 00:41:07,744 --> 00:41:10,715 He said he would discuss it with Harry. 802 00:41:12,118 --> 00:41:14,019 Everything would be just fine. 803 00:41:15,090 --> 00:41:19,689 Now, we've heard Mr. Nikolai Rostov testify that he killed Harry Renkmeyer. 804 00:41:21,333 --> 00:41:25,898 Previously, did you say that you had never seen Mr. Rostov in person? 805 00:41:31,917 --> 00:41:33,887 Yes, I did, but I lied. 806 00:41:35,891 --> 00:41:37,189 And why was that? 807 00:41:39,531 --> 00:41:41,557 I was in fear for my life. 808 00:41:44,139 --> 00:41:46,199 Would you please tell the court now... 809 00:41:46,275 --> 00:41:48,802 if you ever saw Mr. Rostov... 810 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,749 before you saw his photo in the paper? 811 00:41:59,264 --> 00:42:00,630 Yes, I did. 812 00:42:01,902 --> 00:42:04,064 Please, tell us where and when. 813 00:42:10,383 --> 00:42:12,352 In Mr. Green's office... 814 00:42:13,788 --> 00:42:16,987 just past 11:00, the night before Harry was killed. 815 00:42:22,403 --> 00:42:23,530 Thank you. 816 00:42:30,584 --> 00:42:32,280 In the People v. Steven Green... 817 00:42:32,353 --> 00:42:34,322 on the sole count of the indictment... 818 00:42:34,389 --> 00:42:36,859 the charge is murder in the second degree. 819 00:42:36,927 --> 00:42:38,725 Has the jury reached a verdict? 820 00:42:38,797 --> 00:42:40,288 We have, Your Honor. 821 00:42:40,366 --> 00:42:42,393 We find the defendant guilty. 822 00:42:43,672 --> 00:42:46,540 The jury is excused with the Court's thanks. 823 00:42:47,545 --> 00:42:50,984 The defendant is remanded into custody until sentencing. 824 00:42:51,986 --> 00:42:53,750 We're adjourned. 825 00:43:03,672 --> 00:43:04,662 Ben? 826 00:43:10,217 --> 00:43:13,188 They were moving Ann Madsen out of her apartment. 827 00:43:14,156 --> 00:43:16,126 She was shot in the street. 828 00:43:18,197 --> 00:43:19,665 Surrounded by cops? 829 00:43:22,137 --> 00:43:25,472 They shot the guy that killed her. He had no ID. 830 00:43:26,644 --> 00:43:29,444 They still don't know who the hell he is. 831 00:43:32,988 --> 00:43:35,720 And she never even made it to the hospital. 832 00:43:36,761 --> 00:43:38,855 Knowing who you are, Ben... 833 00:43:40,367 --> 00:43:42,132 you didn't have a choice. 834 00:43:50,986 --> 00:43:55,392 I never thought I'd get a letter of resignation from you. 835 00:43:56,394 --> 00:43:59,331 Thought you'd be here long after I was gone. 836 00:44:00,901 --> 00:44:04,840 It's not entirely about you. 837 00:44:06,077 --> 00:44:07,875 That's kind of you. Thank you. 838 00:44:09,483 --> 00:44:11,885 Steven Green has filed an appeal. 839 00:44:14,392 --> 00:44:15,951 Based on what? 840 00:44:16,028 --> 00:44:18,463 Coercion of a witness. Ann Madsen. 841 00:44:22,171 --> 00:44:24,003 Considering the witness is dead... 842 00:44:24,074 --> 00:44:26,203 the Appeals Court should be amused. 843 00:44:35,827 --> 00:44:38,958 I've brought Claire up to speed on my open cases. 844 00:44:39,033 --> 00:44:40,592 She'll be fine. 845 00:44:41,470 --> 00:44:42,460 And you? 846 00:44:44,108 --> 00:44:45,804 I'm clear as a bell.