1 00:00:01,527 --> 00:00:03,234 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:03,295 --> 00:00:07,107 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:07,266 --> 00:00:09,075 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:09,134 --> 00:00:11,876 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,937 --> 00:00:13,644 These are their stories. 6 00:00:41,133 --> 00:00:44,114 "Oh, Morris, how much trouble can one little dog be?" 7 00:00:45,004 --> 00:00:48,213 Did she ever walk you once? When, June? 8 00:00:48,941 --> 00:00:52,445 It's gotta be 20 below. What's the matter, your pipe frozen? 9 00:01:00,586 --> 00:01:03,294 Come on, another dog did it. You could do it, too. 10 00:01:06,492 --> 00:01:08,165 Thank you. 11 00:01:13,298 --> 00:01:14,675 (EXPLOSION) 12 00:01:19,405 --> 00:01:23,979 I didn't see anybody. I was cleaning up my dog's crap, the whole place blew up. 13 00:01:24,376 --> 00:01:27,482 We found the baggie over there. You think Forensics wants it? 14 00:01:27,546 --> 00:01:29,787 No. What about my dog? 15 00:01:30,249 --> 00:01:32,729 She ran away. She's afraid of loud noises. 16 00:01:32,785 --> 00:01:37,131 Then she's living in the wrong town, pal. Keep an eye out for his dog. 17 00:01:38,290 --> 00:01:41,169 Maybe a homeless guy lit a fire. It's a cold night. 18 00:01:41,293 --> 00:01:45,105 Hell of a can of Sterno. Not if he put it on top of a propane tank. 19 00:01:45,164 --> 00:01:47,075 We're trying to reach the construction company, 20 00:01:47,132 --> 00:01:48,907 see what kind of flammables they had around. 21 00:01:48,967 --> 00:01:52,437 Nobody's answering the night number. So what, we just sit around here all night? 22 00:01:52,504 --> 00:01:54,609 Hey, why don't you arson guys build us a campfire, 23 00:01:54,673 --> 00:01:55,845 and we'll toast some marshmallows? 24 00:01:55,908 --> 00:02:00,550 We're tracking the seat of the explosion. When the site cools, we start sifting. 25 00:02:01,113 --> 00:02:03,957 Now, you keep your guys from messing up the scene. 26 00:02:05,250 --> 00:02:07,491 LOGAN: Lennie! Over here. 27 00:02:12,224 --> 00:02:13,362 It's a kid. 28 00:02:18,731 --> 00:02:21,210 Where'd they find him? Up there. 29 00:02:21,866 --> 00:02:25,507 Hey, did you see his face? It must have been smashed by a girder. 30 00:02:25,570 --> 00:02:29,108 Did he say anything? He was crying. He's lucky they heard him. 31 00:02:29,974 --> 00:02:32,147 Let's hope he keeps rolling sevens. 32 00:03:25,129 --> 00:03:27,803 Four hours in surgery. What can they be doing? 33 00:03:28,599 --> 00:03:31,671 Mrs. Cuneo, I know this isn't easy, but do you have any idea 34 00:03:31,736 --> 00:03:34,580 what your son was doing on that construction site? 35 00:03:35,173 --> 00:03:38,985 I work all night. Subway token booth. I tell him to stay in. 36 00:03:39,410 --> 00:03:41,617 Well, was there any problems with Robbie 37 00:03:41,679 --> 00:03:43,784 in terms of lighting fires, anything like that? 38 00:03:43,848 --> 00:03:45,885 Robbie's never been any trouble. 39 00:03:46,117 --> 00:03:49,030 BRISCOE: He have any friends who might get in trouble? Gangs? 40 00:03:49,387 --> 00:03:53,233 He's only 12 years old. They start pretty young these days. 41 00:03:53,424 --> 00:03:57,236 You want to know what he was doing on that building? Mountain climbing. 42 00:03:57,295 --> 00:04:01,004 I took him to the Adirondacks last summer. He met some college kids, 43 00:04:01,132 --> 00:04:04,443 they showed him how to use ropes, harnesses, carabiners. 44 00:04:04,569 --> 00:04:07,413 Took him up a stone face. He was crazy for it. 45 00:04:07,672 --> 00:04:09,242 He was climbing that building? 46 00:04:09,307 --> 00:04:12,151 Closest thing there is in this city to a mountain. 47 00:04:13,444 --> 00:04:14,821 Mrs. Cuneo? Yeah. 48 00:04:16,147 --> 00:04:17,251 I'm sorry. 49 00:04:21,452 --> 00:04:24,592 This is preliminary, but that explosion was no accident. 50 00:04:24,755 --> 00:04:28,100 Nitroglycerin, sodium nitrate, ammonium oxalate. 51 00:04:28,726 --> 00:04:30,433 Straight dynamite. Yes. 52 00:04:31,062 --> 00:04:33,440 What, are you talking chemistry courses in your spare time? 53 00:04:33,497 --> 00:04:34,874 What spare time? 54 00:04:34,932 --> 00:04:37,674 I had a case once, back before you were born. 55 00:04:37,735 --> 00:04:41,012 Guy tried to bomb his wife, he wound up blowing up the cat. 56 00:04:41,172 --> 00:04:42,947 This guy knew what he was doing. 57 00:04:43,007 --> 00:04:46,147 The dynamite was positioned at support beams and tie girders, 58 00:04:46,210 --> 00:04:49,157 and then tamped with cement bags to center the blast. 59 00:04:49,213 --> 00:04:53,320 Blow the beams, blow the building. At least our man was considerate enough 60 00:04:53,517 --> 00:04:57,294 to aim the collapse on to the back of the lot, not out into the street. 61 00:04:57,355 --> 00:05:00,427 Yeah, well, we're gonna give him a good citizenship award as soon as we catch him. 62 00:05:00,491 --> 00:05:01,993 What did he use for ignition? 63 00:05:02,059 --> 00:05:06,269 Detonating cord, blasting caps coordinated by a kitchen timer. 64 00:05:06,931 --> 00:05:09,309 The kind you can buy in any dime store. 65 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:11,946 Yeah, the guy set the alarm and just went for a stroll. 66 00:05:12,003 --> 00:05:14,244 Where did the dynamite come from? On site? 67 00:05:14,305 --> 00:05:17,309 No, it was a renovation job, so there was no blasting. 68 00:05:17,375 --> 00:05:19,514 Someone could have carried it in in a shopping bag. 69 00:05:19,577 --> 00:05:23,753 Construction. You got 50 suspects before you do your first interview. 70 00:05:23,814 --> 00:05:28,160 Rotten building inspectors, mobbed-up haulers, protection racket enforcers, 71 00:05:28,352 --> 00:05:29,729 insurance scams. 72 00:05:29,987 --> 00:05:32,024 We're thinking about dropping in on the building owner, 73 00:05:32,089 --> 00:05:35,229 seeing if his policy's up to date. Don't let me keep you. 74 00:05:39,563 --> 00:05:44,137 It was built as a mercantile center in the 1880s. Wonderful architecture. 75 00:05:45,036 --> 00:05:48,506 The idea was to gut it and partition the floors into small suites 76 00:05:48,572 --> 00:05:50,051 around a central reception area. 77 00:05:50,107 --> 00:05:53,554 And everything was partitioning smoothly? Oh, sure. 78 00:05:54,745 --> 00:05:56,725 Once I'd convinced the city I wasn't disturbing 79 00:05:56,781 --> 00:05:58,920 any ancient Indian burial grounds, 80 00:05:59,383 --> 00:06:02,364 and the Landmarks Commission I wasn't destroying any sacred moldings, 81 00:06:02,420 --> 00:06:05,629 and the environmental people... And your insurance was all in order? 82 00:06:05,957 --> 00:06:07,129 Yes. 83 00:06:08,025 --> 00:06:10,198 So you'll be collecting how much? 84 00:06:10,728 --> 00:06:15,473 $4.8 million. And it's the worst thing that's ever happened to me. 85 00:06:15,666 --> 00:06:18,408 Oh, sounds like you had a pretty nice life so far. 86 00:06:21,038 --> 00:06:23,780 That money just makes up what I'm out of pocket. 87 00:06:24,475 --> 00:06:28,389 I had that building 90% leased to an ad agency and a publisher. 88 00:06:28,512 --> 00:06:31,322 That was money in the bank for the next 20 years. 89 00:06:31,415 --> 00:06:33,918 You still own the property, correct? Yes. 90 00:06:34,018 --> 00:06:36,828 Until the dead boy's mother sues me for negligence. 91 00:06:36,887 --> 00:06:40,164 Mr. Gaston, it's somebody's fault that boy is dead. 92 00:06:40,558 --> 00:06:43,004 Yes, I know, but it's not mine. 93 00:06:45,129 --> 00:06:48,941 The site was under the control of the general contractor, Buzz Palley. 94 00:06:49,166 --> 00:06:50,975 I'm supposed to be doing an inventory, 95 00:06:51,035 --> 00:06:54,448 the bomb squad cops won't even let me on the site to get to my office trailer. 96 00:06:54,505 --> 00:06:58,681 Well, right now your trailer is under about eight feet of rubble, Mr. Palley. 97 00:06:59,210 --> 00:07:02,281 Great. I got nothing to do for a while. What can I do for you? 98 00:07:02,345 --> 00:07:04,825 Do you have any idea who might have wanted to shut you down? 99 00:07:04,881 --> 00:07:08,328 Who didn't? Unions are screaming bloody murder from day one. 100 00:07:08,718 --> 00:07:12,962 I manage to put up buildings without them. It's the only way I can ever make a low bid. 101 00:07:13,023 --> 00:07:16,596 Well, dynamite's kind of a drastic way to settle a labor dispute. 102 00:07:16,659 --> 00:07:19,003 They're picketing, boycotting, blocking the gate. 103 00:07:19,062 --> 00:07:21,542 Well, that's part of the drill, isn't it? 104 00:07:22,198 --> 00:07:26,476 A week ago Thursday, just after quitting time, three shots come out of nowhere. 105 00:07:26,569 --> 00:07:28,879 Two through my trailer, one into a cement bag. 106 00:07:28,938 --> 00:07:32,181 And you think it was union people? The picket line went dumb, 107 00:07:32,242 --> 00:07:35,780 but I figure it was one of them or Calvin Tiller. 108 00:07:37,514 --> 00:07:39,289 Self-proclaimed king of the blacks. 109 00:07:39,349 --> 00:07:43,525 He screams about jobs for minorities until you pay him off to go away. 110 00:07:43,586 --> 00:07:44,656 And you didn't pay? 111 00:07:46,689 --> 00:07:49,465 There wasn't enough room in my bid to cover extortion. 112 00:07:50,593 --> 00:07:52,300 (PEOPLE SHOUTING) 113 00:07:56,399 --> 00:07:59,642 The man send you boys to see me? LOGAN: Yeah. 114 00:08:01,171 --> 00:08:05,176 He told me to ask you personally about an incident on Church Street last night. 115 00:08:05,241 --> 00:08:07,517 May I see your identification, please? 116 00:08:14,517 --> 00:08:16,428 You wanna check my teeth now? 117 00:08:16,886 --> 00:08:19,457 You see this, people? CROWD: Yeah. 118 00:08:19,522 --> 00:08:23,527 The black man tries to get ahead and here come the police. 119 00:08:23,793 --> 00:08:26,740 Mr. Tiller, we have to ask you a couple of questions. 120 00:08:26,796 --> 00:08:29,743 Yeah, well, I'm a little busy right now trying to get some justice 121 00:08:29,799 --> 00:08:33,269 for the community from the B&C construction company. 122 00:08:33,336 --> 00:08:34,337 Yeah. That's right. 123 00:08:34,404 --> 00:08:38,375 We're trying to get a little justice for a boy who was killed last night. 124 00:08:40,143 --> 00:08:41,884 You here to arrest me? 125 00:08:43,813 --> 00:08:45,190 No. 126 00:08:45,648 --> 00:08:50,028 Yeah, well, then if you want to see me, make an appointment. 127 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:52,061 (PEOPLE LAUGHING) 128 00:08:52,489 --> 00:08:54,730 MAN 1: That's it. MAN 2: That's right. 129 00:08:55,258 --> 00:08:57,761 Mr. Palley and I couldn't come to an understanding, 130 00:08:57,827 --> 00:09:00,865 so I moved on to a greener pasture. LOGAN: You walked away? 131 00:09:01,197 --> 00:09:05,168 What about "justice for the community"? Justice is like everything else. 132 00:09:05,235 --> 00:09:06,339 It's negotiable. 133 00:09:06,402 --> 00:09:08,473 In other words, you negotiate a payoff for yourself, 134 00:09:08,538 --> 00:09:10,779 and to hell with the brothers on the line. 135 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,320 Look, I spread it around. My people are happy. 136 00:09:13,376 --> 00:09:17,222 But you weren't happy, were you, Calvin? 'Cause Buzz Palley wouldn't ante up. 137 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:18,384 So I moved on. 138 00:09:18,448 --> 00:09:20,985 So maybe you wanted to say a dramatic goodbye? 139 00:09:22,418 --> 00:09:26,093 Look, I shut them down, not blow them up. It's a nice living. 140 00:09:26,222 --> 00:09:27,929 Why take a chance on messing up a good thing? 141 00:09:27,991 --> 00:09:30,028 Maybe Palley just pissed you off. 142 00:09:30,093 --> 00:09:33,768 I never make the mistake of getting emotional about my work, Detective. 143 00:09:33,830 --> 00:09:37,334 All Palley did was confuse me. My price is very reasonable. 144 00:09:37,667 --> 00:09:39,408 But he wouldn't even talk. 145 00:09:41,271 --> 00:09:44,548 Some alibi. "I'm not an arsonist, I'm an extortionist." 146 00:09:44,908 --> 00:09:47,115 It plays for now. Yeah, union time. 147 00:09:47,510 --> 00:09:48,682 Not tonight. 148 00:09:51,948 --> 00:09:55,327 Palley goes non-union to save a buck, and it comes out of the workers' hide. 149 00:09:55,385 --> 00:09:57,888 You can't live on the wage, anymore. Somebody took the work. 150 00:09:57,954 --> 00:09:59,627 The desperate and the stupid. 151 00:09:59,689 --> 00:10:03,728 They each do three or four different jobs. No work rules. Safety codes out the window. 152 00:10:03,793 --> 00:10:05,170 No wonder the damn building fell down. 153 00:10:05,228 --> 00:10:07,708 The building fell down because somebody dynamited it. 154 00:10:07,764 --> 00:10:10,608 Probably some scab carpenter filling in for a mason 155 00:10:10,667 --> 00:10:13,113 who confused explosives with mortar. 156 00:10:13,169 --> 00:10:15,274 Look, why don't you save the speeches for Labor Day? 157 00:10:15,338 --> 00:10:18,842 I'll give you a short one. My men build buildings. They don't blow them up. 158 00:10:18,908 --> 00:10:21,149 They just fire warning shots. Nobody got arrested for that. 159 00:10:21,211 --> 00:10:23,122 We're gonna take another look. You take another look, 160 00:10:23,179 --> 00:10:24,487 you're not gonna find zip. 161 00:10:24,547 --> 00:10:27,824 Mr. Stevens, your men did push that job a little hard. 162 00:10:27,884 --> 00:10:30,956 If anything, they were restrained. 163 00:10:31,020 --> 00:10:32,624 Palley's the one that's been playing hardball. 164 00:10:32,689 --> 00:10:35,431 He nearly ran over three pickets with a cement truck. 165 00:10:35,491 --> 00:10:39,439 Never a dull moment at that work site. What was the picket captain's name? 166 00:10:39,495 --> 00:10:43,637 Roy Beggs. He's in the shape-up hall down there. 167 00:10:45,568 --> 00:10:48,048 Palley didn't give us the jobs, that's bad enough. 168 00:10:48,104 --> 00:10:49,879 But he didn't give us any respect. 169 00:10:49,939 --> 00:10:53,216 Oh, come on, what do you want him to do, send milk and cookies to your picket line? 170 00:10:53,276 --> 00:10:55,847 We maybe get a little too close to the gate one day. 171 00:10:55,912 --> 00:10:57,323 He has to gun a truck at us? 172 00:10:57,380 --> 00:11:00,190 Barney Collins breaks his elbow diving for cover. 173 00:11:00,750 --> 00:11:03,230 Something like that, you're gonna want to retaliate, right? 174 00:11:03,286 --> 00:11:05,789 Hey, I went to see Palley. Firm but polite. 175 00:11:06,122 --> 00:11:08,762 He said the next time he aimed a truck at us, he wouldn't miss. 176 00:11:08,825 --> 00:11:13,035 We were a bunch of losers, on and on. He practically dared us to shut him down. 177 00:11:13,096 --> 00:11:15,076 And did you? We didn't have to. 178 00:11:15,665 --> 00:11:19,044 Palley got fired off the only other job he had going two weeks ago. 179 00:11:19,102 --> 00:11:21,582 This one was headed for the crapper, too. 180 00:11:24,674 --> 00:11:27,712 You notice how Palley antagonizes everybody? 181 00:11:27,777 --> 00:11:29,779 I mean, these guys, Tiller... 182 00:11:30,046 --> 00:11:33,118 Stupid. Unless he's got an agenda. 183 00:11:34,217 --> 00:11:36,629 Let's go talk to the guy that fired him. 184 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:41,324 I fell in love with Palley's bid. I should have taken another look at Palley. 185 00:11:41,390 --> 00:11:43,870 Why? He get his pliers mixed up with his wrenches? 186 00:11:43,925 --> 00:11:46,496 No, he got my money mixed up with his. Oops. 187 00:11:47,129 --> 00:11:49,609 He's non-union, so I expect some hassles. 188 00:11:50,299 --> 00:11:52,438 We're waiting for concrete so we could build a retaining wall 189 00:11:52,501 --> 00:11:53,775 before we do our blasting. 190 00:11:53,835 --> 00:11:55,815 Job involved demolition? Some. 191 00:11:56,271 --> 00:11:58,217 Did Palley have access to the dynamite? 192 00:11:58,273 --> 00:12:00,446 He was the GC. He had all the keys. 193 00:12:00,709 --> 00:12:03,349 So, anyway, I pay for materials as they're ordered. 194 00:12:03,412 --> 00:12:05,892 Sol pay for the concrete. It never shows up. 195 00:12:05,948 --> 00:12:08,189 Palley said the union workers at the yard wouldn't load it. 196 00:12:08,250 --> 00:12:11,163 And meanwhile, Palley has your money? No. He's got my concrete. 197 00:12:11,219 --> 00:12:14,029 I called the yard. It's non-union. They loaded the concrete, 198 00:12:14,089 --> 00:12:17,332 but Palley delivered it to the job he's doing with Gaston. 199 00:12:17,659 --> 00:12:21,038 Palley's stealing from you to buy materials for his other job? 200 00:12:21,163 --> 00:12:22,267 That's it. 201 00:12:22,497 --> 00:12:27,071 You know the babe in the woods act doesn't quite go with the Armani suit, Mr. Gaston. 202 00:12:27,235 --> 00:12:30,079 Don't you check out the finances of the contractors you hire? 203 00:12:30,138 --> 00:12:33,449 I wasn't building the World Trade Center, Detective. 204 00:12:33,709 --> 00:12:36,383 Palley said he could handle it. I took him at his word. 205 00:12:36,445 --> 00:12:39,187 You'd be very popular at our weekly poker games. 206 00:12:39,247 --> 00:12:43,354 His bid was low. Sometimes contractors take on a break-even job 207 00:12:43,418 --> 00:12:45,227 just to amortize their equipment. 208 00:12:45,287 --> 00:12:47,961 Let's pretend Palley was having a money problem. 209 00:12:48,023 --> 00:12:51,630 Now he comes to you and he says he can't afford to finish the job. 210 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,900 Do you give him more money? We had a contract. 211 00:12:55,130 --> 00:12:58,168 He does the job at the agreed-upon price, or I sue him. 212 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:01,240 Even if it puts him out of business? That's his problem. 213 00:13:01,303 --> 00:13:02,714 You had a contract? 214 00:13:02,771 --> 00:13:05,752 Well, there was a standard force majeure clause. 215 00:13:05,941 --> 00:13:10,185 Contract's void if the job shuts down by war, tidal wave, 216 00:13:10,645 --> 00:13:13,251 terrorist violence, act of god... Bombing? 217 00:13:13,882 --> 00:13:17,159 Yes. Job's over. And Palley's off the hook? 218 00:13:24,192 --> 00:13:27,230 So I'm having a little cash-flow problem, so what? 219 00:13:27,295 --> 00:13:30,674 You've got more than a little problem, Mr. Palley. We looked. 220 00:13:30,832 --> 00:13:33,403 You've been bouncing checks from here to Bronxville. 221 00:13:33,468 --> 00:13:35,607 Your bank cut off your line of credit. 222 00:13:35,670 --> 00:13:38,810 What are you people, the police or the IRS? What is this? 223 00:13:38,874 --> 00:13:41,787 If you couldn't afford to finish Gaston's renovation, 224 00:13:41,843 --> 00:13:44,881 that gave you a hell of a reason to make the place go boom. 225 00:13:44,946 --> 00:13:46,857 LOGAN: Right on Robbie Cuneo's head. 226 00:13:49,117 --> 00:13:51,290 That kid was 12 years old, Palley. 227 00:13:51,486 --> 00:13:55,593 You could have picked up the dynamite easy from that job you got fired from. 228 00:13:56,525 --> 00:13:58,562 There's a lot of dynamite around. 229 00:13:58,627 --> 00:14:01,631 Look, that explosion put me out of business. 230 00:14:01,696 --> 00:14:04,472 No, Mr. Palley. It saved you from bankruptcy. 231 00:14:04,733 --> 00:14:06,337 No, no. No what? 232 00:14:08,236 --> 00:14:12,446 When that job exploded, I was 48 hours away from getting $2 million. 233 00:14:13,175 --> 00:14:15,314 More than enough to finish in the black. 234 00:14:15,377 --> 00:14:17,653 What were you expecting, a visit from the tooth fairy? 235 00:14:18,113 --> 00:14:21,219 I was expecting an investor in my construction company. 236 00:14:26,922 --> 00:14:30,995 I returned from China last night. This is first I heard of the explosion. 237 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,773 Well, Mr. Palley says you were planning on investing with him? 238 00:14:37,432 --> 00:14:39,412 Is this part of a criminal investigation? 239 00:14:39,468 --> 00:14:42,108 No, just a background check. It's off the record. 240 00:14:42,170 --> 00:14:43,740 I am from Hong Kong. 241 00:14:44,472 --> 00:14:47,112 We will be reuniting with China in two years. 242 00:14:47,943 --> 00:14:52,187 My family is exploring investment opportunities in several countries. 243 00:14:52,614 --> 00:14:54,958 And one of them was Mr. Palley's construction company? 244 00:14:55,016 --> 00:14:58,964 It was a possibility. Mr. Palley and I had several dinners together 245 00:14:59,020 --> 00:15:02,524 before I went out to China to investigate another possibility. 246 00:15:02,958 --> 00:15:05,302 A plastic toy factory in Fujian. 247 00:15:05,794 --> 00:15:09,003 Yeah, well, he says the deal was set. Does he? 248 00:15:10,432 --> 00:15:14,005 When a company needs an investment to expand, that's good. 249 00:15:14,503 --> 00:15:18,110 When a company needs an investment to survive, that's not good. 250 00:15:18,573 --> 00:15:20,519 We heard Palley was belly-up. 251 00:15:20,575 --> 00:15:23,317 I took his books with me to study on the flight. 252 00:15:23,845 --> 00:15:28,624 By the time we reached cruising altitude, I knew we would be investing elsewhere. 253 00:15:29,251 --> 00:15:31,993 Did Palley know this? I called from the plane. 254 00:15:32,587 --> 00:15:35,591 I left a message with his wife, Christine. 255 00:15:36,825 --> 00:15:39,704 No, I'm not Mrs. Palley. I'm Buzz's sister, not his wife. 256 00:15:39,761 --> 00:15:42,867 Well, this is the address he gave us. Is Mrs. Palley here? 257 00:15:42,931 --> 00:15:44,171 Buzz isn't married. 258 00:15:44,232 --> 00:15:47,509 He's been camping on our couch ever since that explosion ruined his trailer. 259 00:15:47,569 --> 00:15:51,381 He was living on the construction site? Oh, just for a little while. 260 00:15:51,706 --> 00:15:54,846 So, he doesn't have his own apartment? He was looking for a new place. 261 00:15:54,910 --> 00:15:59,017 Well, his old place, did he move out because he was having trouble paying the rent? 262 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:01,924 No, nothing like that. Look, Buzz isn't here right now. 263 00:16:01,983 --> 00:16:04,520 Well, we know all about his money problems, Mrs... 264 00:16:04,586 --> 00:16:07,499 Lyttle. It was just a temporary thing. 265 00:16:07,689 --> 00:16:10,169 Buzz has got a new contract he's very excited about. 266 00:16:10,225 --> 00:16:12,762 He's at the Buildings Department right now. 267 00:16:13,128 --> 00:16:15,369 Now what? I'm trying to get this paperwork through 268 00:16:15,430 --> 00:16:17,239 before the clerks take another coffee break. 269 00:16:17,299 --> 00:16:20,939 Those for the new job? Yes. I'm still in business. Is that a crime? 270 00:16:21,001 --> 00:16:24,471 It is if you freed yourself up for the new job by blowing up the old one. 271 00:16:24,538 --> 00:16:27,781 I told you. I was expecting... And we talked to Mr. Kee. 272 00:16:28,509 --> 00:16:32,651 Did you know he's back from China? Then I assume he told you we had a deal. 273 00:16:32,713 --> 00:16:35,159 Actually, he said to send regards to your wife. 274 00:16:35,215 --> 00:16:37,593 Did you get married and forget to tell your sister? 275 00:16:37,651 --> 00:16:40,962 I wined and dined Mr. Kee a few times. My girlfriend came along. 276 00:16:41,021 --> 00:16:43,592 Your girlfriend? Chris Chappel. 277 00:16:43,991 --> 00:16:45,664 I told Kee she was my wife. 278 00:16:45,726 --> 00:16:49,003 Chinese, they like to do business with a stable family man. 279 00:16:50,798 --> 00:16:53,711 LOGAN: So where'd you meet Palley? On a job? CHRIS: Yeah. 280 00:16:54,201 --> 00:16:56,613 I kind of stand out from the other guys. 281 00:16:57,638 --> 00:16:59,515 Is it tough being the only woman on the job? 282 00:16:59,573 --> 00:17:00,881 I hold my own. 283 00:17:03,243 --> 00:17:06,053 I don't want to be rude or anything, but shouldn't you guys be out 284 00:17:06,113 --> 00:17:07,717 trying to find out who blew up that building? 285 00:17:07,781 --> 00:17:10,557 Well, we have to be just a little bit methodical, Miss Chappel. 286 00:17:10,618 --> 00:17:12,154 We'd like to clear up a couple of points with you. 287 00:17:12,219 --> 00:17:13,254 Okay. 288 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:18,167 Did you take a message for your boyfriend from a Mr. Kee about three weeks ago? 289 00:17:18,492 --> 00:17:19,800 I don't know. When? 290 00:17:19,893 --> 00:17:23,932 It's kind of important. He told you to tell Palley that their deal was off. 291 00:17:25,099 --> 00:17:26,601 Is that what Mr. Kee says? 292 00:17:26,667 --> 00:17:30,308 Well, do you want us to bring him over so you can play 20 Questions with him? 293 00:17:32,606 --> 00:17:34,677 Okay, I remember. 294 00:17:34,942 --> 00:17:38,048 Well, did you give the message to him? No. 295 00:17:38,512 --> 00:17:39,889 What? You forgot? 296 00:17:41,515 --> 00:17:43,688 I didn't want to be the one to give him the bad news. 297 00:17:43,751 --> 00:17:46,823 I figured Mr. Kee would send him a letter or something. 298 00:17:48,022 --> 00:17:50,093 You think she's lying to protect Palley? 299 00:17:50,157 --> 00:17:53,400 Well, he's not my type, but there's no accounting for taste. 300 00:17:53,460 --> 00:17:56,907 If he knew that his angel from the East wasn't coming through with the bucks, 301 00:17:56,964 --> 00:17:59,205 he might've thought he had no choice but to blow that building. 302 00:17:59,266 --> 00:18:02,645 If he didn't know, he'd hold off until he heard from Mr. Kee. 303 00:18:02,703 --> 00:18:07,015 Which brings us back to square one. Today's topic, "Do female hardhats lie?" 304 00:18:07,474 --> 00:18:10,478 No. Square one is, "Did Palley build that bomb?" 305 00:18:11,345 --> 00:18:13,086 He had access to dynamite. 306 00:18:13,814 --> 00:18:17,921 Ask the bomb squad if they found bomb-making materials in Palley's trailer. 307 00:18:20,788 --> 00:18:24,827 We divided the scene into a grid. We're still sifting, section by section. 308 00:18:25,225 --> 00:18:28,695 BRISCOE: Did you get to the trailer? Yeah, it was in the collapse zone. 309 00:18:28,762 --> 00:18:30,673 A lot of the structure landed on top of it, 310 00:18:30,731 --> 00:18:33,439 including the beams where the charges were set. 311 00:18:33,567 --> 00:18:36,514 So, can you tell the difference between what's in the trailer 312 00:18:36,570 --> 00:18:39,278 and what fell on top of the trailer? Yes. 313 00:18:40,174 --> 00:18:43,018 It's a three-dimensional grid. We measure depth. 314 00:18:43,077 --> 00:18:44,715 Yeah, well, this is where we came in. 315 00:18:44,778 --> 00:18:47,190 Did you find anything in the trailer? 316 00:18:47,247 --> 00:18:50,592 What do you mean, like batteries? Pieces of wire? Safety fuse? 317 00:18:50,651 --> 00:18:53,962 Nope, just file cabinets. Office supplies. 318 00:18:54,121 --> 00:18:56,465 Plus personal effects, right? No. 319 00:18:57,157 --> 00:18:59,967 No clothes? No toilet kit? Just office stuff. 320 00:19:00,094 --> 00:19:01,937 Yeah, but Palley lived in the trailer. 321 00:19:02,396 --> 00:19:06,811 If he had anything personal in that trailer, he moved it out before the explosion. 322 00:19:07,201 --> 00:19:09,203 Jeez, isn't that a coincidence? 323 00:19:09,670 --> 00:19:13,413 I kept most of my stuff at my sister's place. There wasn't much room in the trailer. 324 00:19:13,474 --> 00:19:16,148 Your sister's place is four miles away. What'd you do? 325 00:19:16,210 --> 00:19:17,883 Run there every time you had to change your underwear? 326 00:19:17,945 --> 00:19:20,858 I kept a few things with me. I took them to the laundry that day. 327 00:19:20,914 --> 00:19:23,827 Yeah, what about your toothbrush? You take that to the laundry, too? 328 00:19:23,884 --> 00:19:25,557 Half the building is on my trailer. 329 00:19:25,619 --> 00:19:28,759 My toothbrush could be mixed up with pieces of the fifth-floor conference room. 330 00:19:28,822 --> 00:19:31,666 So what about you? I mean, you live there. 331 00:19:32,426 --> 00:19:34,463 The building blows up in the middle of the night. 332 00:19:34,728 --> 00:19:35,798 Where were you? 333 00:19:35,863 --> 00:19:37,308 I couldn't sleep. I was taking a walk. 334 00:19:39,166 --> 00:19:43,046 Well, that either makes you the luckiest son of a bitch that ever lived, 335 00:19:43,704 --> 00:19:45,945 or you've been lying to us since we laid eyes on you. 336 00:19:46,006 --> 00:19:47,076 I'm telling you the truth. 337 00:19:47,141 --> 00:19:51,021 You told us there was nobody at the site at night. But you were. 338 00:19:51,111 --> 00:19:53,057 I couldn't tell people I couldn't afford an apartment. 339 00:19:53,113 --> 00:19:55,150 You couldn't tell us, because then we'd know you were broke 340 00:19:55,215 --> 00:19:56,956 and had a motive to blow that building. 341 00:19:57,017 --> 00:19:58,928 I couldn't tell anybody. 342 00:19:58,986 --> 00:20:01,990 Word gets out I'm busted, it's vulture time. I'm out of business. 343 00:20:02,056 --> 00:20:06,732 Hey, we saw the contract for your next job. A sweet deal on the East Side. 344 00:20:06,794 --> 00:20:10,207 And all you had to do was finish the Gaston job, solvent, to get to it. 345 00:20:10,264 --> 00:20:11,971 I was gonna finish the Gaston job fine. 346 00:20:12,032 --> 00:20:14,478 Then how come you practically begged those union guys 347 00:20:14,535 --> 00:20:17,812 and Calvin Tiller to shut you down? You can't roll over for those people. 348 00:20:17,871 --> 00:20:21,978 They wouldn't do you the favor of shutting you down, so you did it yourself. 349 00:20:22,576 --> 00:20:24,715 You killed a 12-year-old boy. 350 00:20:25,579 --> 00:20:26,717 How does that feel? 351 00:20:29,650 --> 00:20:31,493 I want to call a lawyer now. 352 00:20:32,619 --> 00:20:34,155 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 353 00:20:39,526 --> 00:20:42,598 And that concludes the entertainment portion of our program. 354 00:20:42,663 --> 00:20:46,270 Do we let his lawyer walk him home? There's no witness, no physical evidence. 355 00:20:46,333 --> 00:20:49,906 There is motive, a pile of circumstances, a stack of lies. 356 00:20:49,970 --> 00:20:52,211 With some very creative explanations. 357 00:20:52,573 --> 00:20:54,917 Do you gain anything from another day or two? 358 00:20:54,975 --> 00:20:57,819 Not unless an eyewitness crawls out of the rubble. 359 00:20:58,212 --> 00:21:00,919 Let's see how Mr. Palley likes Rikers Island. 360 00:21:03,683 --> 00:21:06,857 Arthur Palley, you're under arrest for arson and murder. 361 00:21:07,987 --> 00:21:09,796 You got the right to remain silent. 362 00:21:09,856 --> 00:21:12,962 Anything you do say, can and will be used against you in a court of law. 363 00:21:13,025 --> 00:21:14,436 Do you understand? 364 00:21:15,528 --> 00:21:17,371 PENCE: Talk about your rush to judgment, McCoy. 365 00:21:17,430 --> 00:21:19,341 What'd you do, outrun the proverbial speeding bullet 366 00:21:19,398 --> 00:21:20,900 on your way to the grand jury? 367 00:21:20,967 --> 00:21:24,437 It didn't take a superhuman effort to convince them, Mr. Pence. 368 00:21:25,004 --> 00:21:28,474 Access to dynamite, financial need, lying to the police. 369 00:21:29,308 --> 00:21:31,288 To the grand jury, that sounded like means, 370 00:21:31,344 --> 00:21:33,688 motive and evidence of a guilty conscience. 371 00:21:33,746 --> 00:21:36,784 You slice it thinner than the prosciutto at Primavera. 372 00:21:36,849 --> 00:21:40,023 Have you even considered that someone else had motive to plant that bomb? 373 00:21:40,086 --> 00:21:42,760 The police investigated Calvin Tiller, the unions. 374 00:21:42,822 --> 00:21:45,428 No, this bombing wasn't business. It was personal. 375 00:21:45,491 --> 00:21:49,234 That building was made to fall on the trailer where my client was living. 376 00:21:49,295 --> 00:21:51,502 Are you rehearsing your opening statement? 377 00:21:51,564 --> 00:21:55,011 No, I'm telling you, you're about to commit a miscarriage of justice. 378 00:21:55,067 --> 00:21:57,206 Police ever question Hank Chappel? 379 00:22:00,673 --> 00:22:01,913 That figures. 380 00:22:04,076 --> 00:22:07,853 I don't have time today to play What's My Line? Who's Hank Chappel? 381 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:09,991 He's my girlfriend's husband. 382 00:22:10,816 --> 00:22:13,888 Palley's girlfriend is married? The police didn't tell us. 383 00:22:13,953 --> 00:22:15,455 Don't you work here, too? 384 00:22:15,521 --> 00:22:18,991 If I were Palley, I'd want to give the jury an alternate theory of the crime. 385 00:22:19,058 --> 00:22:21,800 Blame the husband. Blame the mafia. Blame the bogeyman. 386 00:22:21,861 --> 00:22:24,034 Now, sometimes the bogeyman is guilty. 387 00:22:24,430 --> 00:22:27,274 The building did fall on the trailer where Palley was living. 388 00:22:27,333 --> 00:22:28,835 We're going to look into it. 389 00:22:28,901 --> 00:22:31,507 We don't even know if this guy knew his wife was having an affair. 390 00:22:31,571 --> 00:22:34,484 Should we start with him? No. Start with the wife. 391 00:22:34,774 --> 00:22:38,654 Buzz said my husband did it? He doesn't even know about me and Buzz. 392 00:22:39,145 --> 00:22:40,522 Are you sure? 393 00:22:41,113 --> 00:22:44,651 Hank's the kind of guy that if he thought I was fooling around, he'd mention it. 394 00:22:44,717 --> 00:22:46,924 Oh, not shy about his feelings? 395 00:22:47,220 --> 00:22:49,131 Oh, I know what you want me to say. 396 00:22:49,188 --> 00:22:53,068 Jealous, bad temper... You got yourself a killer, right? Wrong. 397 00:22:53,259 --> 00:22:56,433 You already arrested one innocent man. What, do you want to arrest another one? 398 00:22:56,495 --> 00:22:59,635 If your husband didn't do it, all we want is to clear him. 399 00:22:59,699 --> 00:23:02,145 Now, where was he the night of the bombing? 400 00:23:02,201 --> 00:23:04,147 He was home. What, all night? 401 00:23:05,538 --> 00:23:08,781 I had a long day. I went to bed early. I'm not sure what time he got home. 402 00:23:08,841 --> 00:23:10,115 He works late? 403 00:23:13,079 --> 00:23:15,923 If that was it, I wouldn't have looked twice at Buzz. 404 00:23:15,982 --> 00:23:20,897 No, Hank's got himself a custom-fit stool over at a place called Barclay's. 405 00:23:22,688 --> 00:23:25,726 Second from the end. Ever since he moved here from Jersey. 406 00:23:25,791 --> 00:23:28,237 What about Monday night, two weeks ago? 407 00:23:29,195 --> 00:23:31,641 Rangers played Boston at home. He was here. 408 00:23:31,697 --> 00:23:33,233 You talking about Hank? 409 00:23:34,900 --> 00:23:37,073 Did he stay for the post-game party? 410 00:23:37,136 --> 00:23:40,015 Look, Hank's good people. Things just haven't been going his way. 411 00:23:40,072 --> 00:23:43,212 You mean with his wife? What are you? Some kind of a cop? 412 00:23:43,276 --> 00:23:46,814 That isn't much of a secret, is it? How long has he known? 413 00:23:47,079 --> 00:23:49,753 Everyone who's set foot in this bar has known for the last two months. 414 00:23:49,815 --> 00:23:52,762 But Hank's been calming down about it. He tells people? 415 00:23:52,818 --> 00:23:55,822 Look, you ask around, you're gonna hear about the night he had nine 7&7s, 416 00:23:55,888 --> 00:23:58,562 and he stood on the bar and said he was gonna shoot the guy. 417 00:23:58,624 --> 00:24:02,299 I seen that. Someone did shoot at the guy. 418 00:24:02,428 --> 00:24:05,272 It wasn't Hank. I know bar talk, and that was just bar talk. 419 00:24:05,331 --> 00:24:06,935 I'm telling you first. 420 00:24:07,633 --> 00:24:10,136 Three days after Hank Chappel's outburst in the bar, 421 00:24:10,202 --> 00:24:13,615 the shots were fired into Palley's trailer. Everyone assumed it was the union. 422 00:24:13,672 --> 00:24:16,983 Now you assume it's Chappel? He claimed credit in advance. 423 00:24:17,109 --> 00:24:19,555 Even if he got drunk and took a few potshots at Palley, 424 00:24:19,612 --> 00:24:21,614 it doesn't mean he came back and blew up the building. 425 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,184 For the past year, Chappel's been working as a pick-and-shovel day laborer. 426 00:24:25,251 --> 00:24:28,926 Before that, he was certified for demolition work with explosives. 427 00:24:29,522 --> 00:24:31,934 Suspended because of a drinking problem. 428 00:24:32,892 --> 00:24:34,337 I don't believe this. 429 00:24:36,195 --> 00:24:37,731 Get a search warrant. 430 00:24:40,599 --> 00:24:43,705 HANK: What the hell is going on here? This is my apartment. 431 00:24:43,803 --> 00:24:45,612 Christine, what's going on? CLAIRE: Are you Hank Chappel? 432 00:24:45,671 --> 00:24:47,412 Yeah. We're executing a search warrant. 433 00:24:47,473 --> 00:24:49,248 Please just sit over there till we're done. 434 00:24:49,675 --> 00:24:50,881 LOGAN: We're done. 435 00:24:55,114 --> 00:24:59,085 .38 caliber. Hello. How about this? 436 00:24:59,952 --> 00:25:03,525 Blasting caps, detonator cord. His license is suspended. 437 00:25:03,589 --> 00:25:06,001 I guess he was moonlighting on the side. 438 00:25:09,562 --> 00:25:12,099 What are you telling me? She was sleeping around? 439 00:25:12,164 --> 00:25:15,304 Come on, Hank, we talked to your bartender. 440 00:25:15,568 --> 00:25:19,812 You told the whole world that your wife was sharpening somebody else's pencil. 441 00:25:20,339 --> 00:25:25,721 Well, okay, maybe I had a feeling she was, but it wasn't that big a deal. 442 00:25:25,978 --> 00:25:28,151 Oh, so it didn't bother you at all? 443 00:25:29,215 --> 00:25:33,823 Maybe she wasn't the only one, you know, who's knocking one off on the side. 444 00:25:34,253 --> 00:25:36,426 You were cheating, too, Mr. Chappel? 445 00:25:37,456 --> 00:25:38,456 Yeah. 446 00:25:39,424 --> 00:25:42,030 I mean, I figured Christine was entitled to even the score. 447 00:25:42,093 --> 00:25:45,905 And taking potshots at Palley, is that part of your forgive-and-forget philosophy? 448 00:25:45,964 --> 00:25:49,605 I didn't shoot at anybody. Mr. Chappel, the ballistics laboratory 449 00:25:49,667 --> 00:25:53,114 has already matched the slugs in Palley's trailer to your gun. 450 00:25:55,173 --> 00:25:57,449 Do you want to stop wasting our time? 451 00:26:00,478 --> 00:26:03,459 I was drunk. I just wanted to scare him. 452 00:26:04,015 --> 00:26:05,255 And when he didn't take the hint, 453 00:26:05,316 --> 00:26:08,195 you thought you'd just drop a building on his head? 454 00:26:10,555 --> 00:26:13,058 I swear on a stack I did not set no bomb. 455 00:26:21,766 --> 00:26:25,543 Okay, we got two balls in the air. Time to decide which one to catch. 456 00:26:25,670 --> 00:26:29,015 Well, jealousy. Demolitions expert. Took three shots at Palley. 457 00:26:29,441 --> 00:26:32,047 And Palley? Motive and circumstantial evidence. 458 00:26:32,110 --> 00:26:36,525 Right, got it. The bomb squad matched the detonating cord found in Hank's toolbox 459 00:26:36,581 --> 00:26:40,222 to fragments found at the scene. Well, that's not circumstantial. 460 00:26:40,752 --> 00:26:43,255 I was due in Judge Friedman's chambers eight minutes ago. 461 00:26:43,321 --> 00:26:45,426 I'm probably already in contempt. 462 00:26:46,224 --> 00:26:49,205 Can anybody here make a case for Palley over Chappel? 463 00:26:52,163 --> 00:26:53,403 Sold. Bye. 464 00:26:55,567 --> 00:26:56,705 Arrest him. 465 00:26:58,303 --> 00:26:59,976 Stand up, Mr. Chappel. 466 00:27:00,238 --> 00:27:04,015 Henry Chappel, you're under arrest for arson and the murder of Richard Cuneo. 467 00:27:04,075 --> 00:27:06,646 You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will... 468 00:27:09,948 --> 00:27:12,485 Mr. Newbill, you're 469 00:27:13,885 --> 00:27:17,594 with the Division of Safety and Health of the New York Department of Labor, 470 00:27:17,655 --> 00:27:20,363 which formerly licensed Henry Chappel? 471 00:27:20,892 --> 00:27:25,272 He had a blaster's certificate. He was qualified to handle explosives for use 472 00:27:25,330 --> 00:27:27,537 in the controlled demolitions of structures. 473 00:27:27,599 --> 00:27:30,944 And in your opinion, would someone with Mr. Chappel's qualifications 474 00:27:31,002 --> 00:27:35,075 have been able to construct and detonate the bombs used in this demolition? 475 00:27:35,206 --> 00:27:37,777 Yes. Would such a person have been able to 476 00:27:37,842 --> 00:27:40,550 detonate these bombs in such a precise way 477 00:27:40,745 --> 00:27:44,090 that the building would have collapsed on Mr. Palley's trailer? 478 00:27:44,148 --> 00:27:46,526 Yes. Thank you. 479 00:27:50,755 --> 00:27:53,964 Mr. Newbill, how do people get a blaster's certificate? 480 00:27:54,459 --> 00:27:56,029 They take an exam. 481 00:27:56,094 --> 00:27:58,836 How do they study for the exam? They read books. 482 00:27:58,897 --> 00:28:02,845 Books on how to set off explosives? Those would be the most useful ones. 483 00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:04,902 Isn't it possible that any adult 484 00:28:04,969 --> 00:28:08,178 with sixth-grade reading skills could have made this bomb? 485 00:28:08,239 --> 00:28:10,082 If they could pass the test. 486 00:28:14,078 --> 00:28:18,356 Yes. I was having an affair with Mr. Palley. JACK: And your husband knew it? 487 00:28:18,550 --> 00:28:21,827 Objection. She cannot testify as to what someone else knew. 488 00:28:22,353 --> 00:28:23,457 Sustained. 489 00:28:24,355 --> 00:28:27,893 Mrs. Chappel, did you ever tell your husband that you were having an affair 490 00:28:27,959 --> 00:28:29,495 with Mr. Palley? Objection. 491 00:28:29,561 --> 00:28:33,031 That would be a confidential communication between a husband and wife. 492 00:28:33,097 --> 00:28:35,634 So it would, Mr. McCoy. 493 00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:38,510 So I don't have to answer? JUDGE CAFFEY: You do not. 494 00:28:42,106 --> 00:28:43,710 All right, Mrs. Chappel, 495 00:28:44,442 --> 00:28:47,946 how long before the bombing did you begin your affair with Mr. Palley? 496 00:28:50,081 --> 00:28:51,651 About six months. 497 00:28:51,883 --> 00:28:55,456 And how many nights a week did you spend with him in his trailer? 498 00:28:59,390 --> 00:29:00,528 Your Honor. 499 00:29:03,962 --> 00:29:06,465 You have to answer this one, Mrs. Chappel. 500 00:29:09,467 --> 00:29:12,073 One or two. All night long? 501 00:29:15,073 --> 00:29:16,108 Yes. 502 00:29:16,641 --> 00:29:19,121 And your husband was at home those nights? 503 00:29:25,817 --> 00:29:26,921 I suppose. 504 00:29:28,052 --> 00:29:32,023 So one or two nights a week for six months your husband waited for you at home, 505 00:29:32,090 --> 00:29:34,195 but you never came? Objection. Asked and answered. 506 00:29:34,259 --> 00:29:36,899 So unless your husband was stupid, Mrs. Chappel, 507 00:29:36,961 --> 00:29:39,202 he had to know what was going on. Objection! 508 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,209 Withdrawn. Nothing further. 509 00:29:46,404 --> 00:29:50,284 Mr. Palley told us that he'd taken his clothes to the laundry that day. 510 00:29:50,942 --> 00:29:53,582 And what did you make of this explanation? 511 00:29:54,512 --> 00:29:57,118 Well, I thought it was one coincidence too many. 512 00:29:57,181 --> 00:29:58,592 What action did you take? 513 00:29:58,649 --> 00:30:01,858 My partner and I consulted with our supervisor 514 00:30:01,919 --> 00:30:06,163 and with Assistant District Attorney Kincaid, and we proceeded to arrest Palley. 515 00:30:06,224 --> 00:30:09,068 At this point in time, did you think you had your man? 516 00:30:09,127 --> 00:30:11,368 Oh, sure, but... Are you aware of any new evidence 517 00:30:11,429 --> 00:30:13,272 that would explain away the coincidences 518 00:30:13,331 --> 00:30:15,971 that aroused your suspicions about Mr. Palley? 519 00:30:16,601 --> 00:30:19,103 No, I'm not. Thank you. 520 00:30:21,938 --> 00:30:23,679 Detective Briscoe, 521 00:30:25,542 --> 00:30:27,419 before you arrested Mr. Palley, 522 00:30:27,878 --> 00:30:33,590 did you or anyone else check to see if he had in fact taken his clothes to the laundry? 523 00:30:34,251 --> 00:30:35,252 No. 524 00:30:37,854 --> 00:30:41,427 Did you find any bomb-making materials in his possession? 525 00:30:43,493 --> 00:30:44,494 No. 526 00:30:44,761 --> 00:30:46,707 Before you arrested Mr. Palley, 527 00:30:46,763 --> 00:30:50,142 were you aware that his lover, Chris Chappel, was married? 528 00:30:51,168 --> 00:30:52,545 No, I wasn't. 529 00:30:52,602 --> 00:30:54,548 You didn't bother to find out? 530 00:30:54,805 --> 00:30:58,776 Since we already had a viable suspect, it didn't seem pertinent. 531 00:30:58,842 --> 00:31:00,913 Does it seem pertinent now? 532 00:31:02,679 --> 00:31:05,558 Yes. In retrospect, Detective Briscoe, 533 00:31:06,450 --> 00:31:10,262 is it fair to say that the arrest of Mr. Palley was premature? 534 00:31:13,156 --> 00:31:14,658 I suppose so. 535 00:31:15,358 --> 00:31:16,735 No more questions. 536 00:31:18,328 --> 00:31:21,434 I knew about her and Palley, but that was ending. 537 00:31:21,498 --> 00:31:23,637 She and I were working things out. 538 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:27,045 If you were working things out, why did you fire a gun at Mr. Palley? 539 00:31:27,104 --> 00:31:30,142 I didn't fire at him. If I had I wouldn't have missed. 540 00:31:31,708 --> 00:31:34,587 I'd had a few drinks. I was letting off some steam. 541 00:31:35,045 --> 00:31:38,219 So maybe you had a few more drinks, let off more steam 542 00:31:38,281 --> 00:31:39,453 and bombed that building. 543 00:31:39,516 --> 00:31:42,429 Look, that was precision demolition work, all right? 544 00:31:42,619 --> 00:31:44,724 I would have had to be cold sober to do it. 545 00:31:44,788 --> 00:31:48,167 And I wasn't cold sober very much around that time. 546 00:31:49,126 --> 00:31:53,438 Mr. Chappel, did you dynamite that building at 435 Church Street? 547 00:31:53,497 --> 00:31:57,104 No. I never would. I didn't have any reason to. 548 00:31:57,601 --> 00:31:58,705 Thank you. 549 00:32:03,740 --> 00:32:06,880 Mr. Chappel, what happened to your blasting certificate? 550 00:32:07,677 --> 00:32:09,247 It was suspended. 551 00:32:09,479 --> 00:32:10,583 And why was that? 552 00:32:11,081 --> 00:32:13,527 I showed up at a job site after I'd been drinking. 553 00:32:13,583 --> 00:32:16,462 And what happened? The GC asked me to leave the site. 554 00:32:17,020 --> 00:32:18,465 And what happened next? 555 00:32:19,289 --> 00:32:20,825 We had an argument. 556 00:32:21,424 --> 00:32:24,064 I hit him. He called the police. 557 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:25,434 I see. 558 00:32:25,495 --> 00:32:29,500 You said when you fired your gun at Mr. Palley, you missed on purpose. 559 00:32:29,566 --> 00:32:31,739 That's right. Even though you'd been drinking? 560 00:32:31,802 --> 00:32:35,682 Right. If you could fire a .38 caliber pistol 561 00:32:35,739 --> 00:32:40,188 with precision when you'd been drinking, why couldn't you rig dynamite? 562 00:32:40,377 --> 00:32:43,654 It's not the same thing. But you're a demolitions expert. 563 00:32:44,514 --> 00:32:47,051 You could have rigged that bomb blindfolded, couldn't you? 564 00:32:47,117 --> 00:32:50,121 I don't know. I don't even know how it was rigged. 565 00:32:50,220 --> 00:32:54,327 So if it had been a simple bomb, then you could have rigged it drunk? 566 00:32:54,658 --> 00:32:56,695 Maybe. I didn't do it. 567 00:32:59,596 --> 00:33:01,200 Do you love your wife? 568 00:33:04,935 --> 00:33:05,936 Yeah. 569 00:33:06,036 --> 00:33:09,848 So how did you feel when you thought about her being with Buzz Palley? 570 00:33:11,708 --> 00:33:12,812 I didn't think about it. 571 00:33:12,876 --> 00:33:15,948 You didn't think about it the night you fired your gun? 572 00:33:17,114 --> 00:33:20,789 It didn't come to mind all those nights your wife didn't come home? 573 00:33:22,819 --> 00:33:25,857 I thought about how we were gonna work things out. 574 00:33:25,922 --> 00:33:29,665 Sure. Just as soon as Buzz Palley got tired of having your wife in his bed. 575 00:33:30,594 --> 00:33:33,302 Didn't you wish he was dead? Of course I did! 576 00:33:37,767 --> 00:33:39,644 But I didn't kill him. 577 00:33:39,703 --> 00:33:41,910 No. But you tried. 578 00:33:53,016 --> 00:33:55,496 JUDGE CAFFEY: Mr. Foreman, has the jury reached a verdict? 579 00:33:55,552 --> 00:33:56,929 Yes, we have, Your Honor. 580 00:33:56,987 --> 00:34:01,094 On the first count of the indictment, arson in the first degree, how do you find? 581 00:34:01,157 --> 00:34:03,694 We find the defendant, Henry Chappel, guilty. 582 00:34:04,828 --> 00:34:08,173 On the second count, murder in the second degree, how do you find? 583 00:34:08,231 --> 00:34:10,768 We find the defendant, Henry Chappel, guilty. 584 00:34:22,779 --> 00:34:24,884 You wanna celebrate with a drink? 585 00:34:25,282 --> 00:34:28,786 Okay, sure. If you're buying. 586 00:34:29,219 --> 00:34:33,031 Counselors. Going out to dance on Hank Chappel's grave? 587 00:34:34,958 --> 00:34:37,529 I'm sorry about the cross-examination, Detective. 588 00:34:37,594 --> 00:34:40,131 I just had to rule out Palley as a suspect. 589 00:34:40,196 --> 00:34:43,040 Hey, no problem. They pay me plenty to look like an idiot. 590 00:34:43,099 --> 00:34:46,205 It wasn't personal. I know, but it got me thinking. 591 00:34:52,542 --> 00:34:55,751 Palley says he avoided getting killed when the bomb went off 592 00:34:55,812 --> 00:34:57,415 because he was out taking a walk. 593 00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,983 It sounded bogus, but coincidences do happen. 594 00:35:00,049 --> 00:35:03,189 Yeah, but if he was taking a walk, how come he never came back? 595 00:35:03,252 --> 00:35:05,698 I checked the reports of all the officers who were at the scene. 596 00:35:05,754 --> 00:35:08,928 Palley showed up at 6:30 a.m., his usual starting time. 597 00:35:09,225 --> 00:35:13,571 So either he walked to Paramus, or he knew the building was gonna blow. 598 00:35:13,862 --> 00:35:16,035 Because he was the one who blew it. 599 00:35:19,601 --> 00:35:21,672 Nobody noticed this before? 600 00:35:22,204 --> 00:35:25,151 Nobody thought about it that night. Palley wasn't a suspect. 601 00:35:27,710 --> 00:35:31,522 He could have come running back from his walk and said he'd just heard the explosion. 602 00:35:31,580 --> 00:35:34,117 He didn't wanna have to tell us that he was living in the trailer. 603 00:35:34,183 --> 00:35:36,254 That would have made him a suspect. 604 00:35:36,318 --> 00:35:39,265 So he set the bomb, grabbed his stuff and walked away? 605 00:35:39,321 --> 00:35:40,925 And never looked back. 606 00:35:42,658 --> 00:35:46,697 You know, in retrospect, it does seem fair to say 607 00:35:46,762 --> 00:35:50,073 that the prosecution of Mr. Chappel was premature. 608 00:35:56,438 --> 00:36:00,181 Look, this doesn't prove anything. No. 609 00:36:03,846 --> 00:36:07,760 But I don't feel like celebrating yet. 610 00:36:10,686 --> 00:36:16,466 You got a conviction. Some cop trying to save his reputation is not evidence. 611 00:36:16,625 --> 00:36:18,400 Well, we're trying to get some. 612 00:36:18,460 --> 00:36:20,963 We got a wiretap on Chris Chappel's phone all weekend. 613 00:36:21,030 --> 00:36:24,739 So you think it was her and Palley? What Briscoe said makes sense. 614 00:36:26,068 --> 00:36:28,605 If Palley was telling the truth, he would have shown up at the scene 615 00:36:28,670 --> 00:36:30,308 a few minutes after the explosion. 616 00:36:30,372 --> 00:36:33,945 And Mrs. Chappel had access to her husband's demolition supplies. 617 00:36:34,109 --> 00:36:36,055 Yep, husband had to know that. 618 00:36:36,745 --> 00:36:38,622 If he didn't make the bomb, 619 00:36:38,681 --> 00:36:42,458 why couldn't he have pointed a finger at his wife when you arrested him? 620 00:36:42,518 --> 00:36:43,690 Denial? Love? 621 00:36:44,620 --> 00:36:47,794 Maybe he was covering for her. While he takes the fall? 622 00:36:48,424 --> 00:36:52,702 This guy's better than Romeo and Juliet. What are you getting from the wiretap? 623 00:36:53,095 --> 00:36:56,702 Chris and Palley have talked three times about dinner plans, not dynamite. 624 00:36:56,765 --> 00:36:58,244 Well, that's progress. 625 00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:00,871 And the surveillance warrant expires in 14 hours. 626 00:37:00,936 --> 00:37:02,574 So shake them up. 627 00:37:03,839 --> 00:37:05,443 You got her number? 628 00:37:08,911 --> 00:37:11,448 CHRIS ON TAPE: That DA called, he told me to come in, Buzz. 629 00:37:11,513 --> 00:37:13,493 PALLEY: Just calm down. 630 00:37:13,549 --> 00:37:16,359 Why would he call? He's got to know something. 631 00:37:16,418 --> 00:37:17,988 Hank's been convicted. 632 00:37:18,454 --> 00:37:21,128 Thank God, but if they find out what happened... 633 00:37:21,190 --> 00:37:26,196 Don't worry, they don't know anything. Have a drink. I'll see you later. 634 00:37:28,297 --> 00:37:33,144 That's the end of the tape. And the warrant. Add that to Palley's stack of lies. 635 00:37:33,569 --> 00:37:35,606 And his mystery walk to nowhere. 636 00:37:37,439 --> 00:37:38,611 Arrest them. 637 00:37:41,143 --> 00:37:45,592 Pardon my ignorance, but isn't my client's husband already in jail for this crime? 638 00:37:45,948 --> 00:37:50,419 Yeah, because he was framed. PENCE: Last week you said he was guilty. 639 00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,257 We stand corrected. Actually, Mr. McCoy, you stand nowhere. 640 00:37:55,090 --> 00:37:57,001 First, you've convicted someone else, 641 00:37:57,059 --> 00:38:00,131 which is a hell of a burden to overcome in bringing a new charge. 642 00:38:00,195 --> 00:38:03,608 Second, your tape recording is ambiguous at best. 643 00:38:04,333 --> 00:38:07,371 And finally, no jury is ever going to hear it, anyway. 644 00:38:09,505 --> 00:38:11,507 It's a joint motion to suppress. 645 00:38:12,374 --> 00:38:13,682 This meeting is over. 646 00:38:15,944 --> 00:38:19,892 The application for the warrant is insufficient on its face, Your Honor. 647 00:38:23,552 --> 00:38:26,556 Well, perhaps I've been at this too long, but this looks fine to me. 648 00:38:26,622 --> 00:38:29,228 A list of alleged lies by Mr. Palley, 649 00:38:29,425 --> 00:38:32,929 detonator cord found in Mrs. Chappel's apartment... 650 00:38:33,529 --> 00:38:36,567 Judge Finkel found it met the threshold of probable cause. 651 00:38:36,632 --> 00:38:39,238 It's not my place to... HARTMAN: Begging Your Honor's pardon, 652 00:38:39,301 --> 00:38:42,976 the issue is not what's included in the District Attorney's affidavit, 653 00:38:43,038 --> 00:38:44,540 but rather what's omitted. 654 00:38:44,606 --> 00:38:48,486 Specifically, that another man had already been convicted of the crime. 655 00:38:50,078 --> 00:38:52,820 Is that so? The Church Street bombing, Your Honor. 656 00:38:52,881 --> 00:38:55,361 This is that case? The history is irrelevant. 657 00:38:55,417 --> 00:38:57,897 The itemized evidence was sufficient for these defendants. 658 00:38:57,953 --> 00:38:59,125 That's all that's required. 659 00:38:59,188 --> 00:39:00,326 HARTMAN: Irrelevant? 660 00:39:00,489 --> 00:39:04,699 That the jury found someone guilty of a felony beyond a reasonable doubt 661 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:08,537 necessarily negates the presumption that someone else probably did it. 662 00:39:08,797 --> 00:39:12,040 At a minimum, it should have been included in the equation. 663 00:39:12,334 --> 00:39:15,747 The issuing judge found the application satisfactory, Your Honor. 664 00:39:15,804 --> 00:39:19,217 Well, it doesn't satisfy me. The tape is excluded. 665 00:39:20,275 --> 00:39:22,551 We ran into some damn good lawyering. 666 00:39:22,611 --> 00:39:25,251 Without the tape, there's no point in even going to a grand jury. 667 00:39:25,314 --> 00:39:26,418 Wonderful. 668 00:39:26,949 --> 00:39:29,953 We've got a truckload of evidence against an innocent man 669 00:39:30,018 --> 00:39:32,294 and zip against the people who did it. 670 00:39:32,354 --> 00:39:36,234 In the future, if we ever go to trial again, maybe we ought to know what we're doing. 671 00:39:36,291 --> 00:39:40,670 The standard for conviction is reasonable doubt, not absolute certainty. 672 00:39:40,795 --> 00:39:44,402 Hank Chappel will be happy to know that. Get the guy out of jail. 673 00:39:46,767 --> 00:39:50,510 Let me get this straight. You want me to undo a jury conviction? 674 00:39:51,272 --> 00:39:52,307 The jury was wrong. 675 00:39:52,373 --> 00:39:54,751 Somebody commit perjury? No. 676 00:39:54,809 --> 00:39:57,449 Was evidence wrongfully admitted? No. 677 00:39:57,512 --> 00:40:00,459 Did I commit reversible error? No, Your Honor. 678 00:40:00,514 --> 00:40:03,324 Twelve reasonable people sat in the jury box. 679 00:40:03,551 --> 00:40:06,964 They listened to the evidence which you so articulately presented 680 00:40:07,021 --> 00:40:11,492 over the course of eight days. After 16 hours of thoughtful deliberation, 681 00:40:11,559 --> 00:40:13,732 they decided in their heart of hearts 682 00:40:13,794 --> 00:40:17,003 that Hank Chappel deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. 683 00:40:17,064 --> 00:40:18,737 Who are we to argue? 684 00:40:18,799 --> 00:40:21,143 The problem is that Hank Chappel is innocent. 685 00:40:21,202 --> 00:40:25,742 The problem is that you changed your mind. But you're the prosecutor, not the jury. 686 00:40:25,807 --> 00:40:28,981 So what you think doesn't count. This is absurd. 687 00:40:29,043 --> 00:40:33,583 This is the American system of justice, and I believe in it. Don't you? 688 00:40:34,415 --> 00:40:36,588 You want me to release Mr. Chappel? 689 00:40:37,118 --> 00:40:41,294 Find reversible error in the trial transcript or prove to another jury 690 00:40:41,422 --> 00:40:43,959 that somebody else committed the crime. 691 00:40:51,732 --> 00:40:54,178 The only way we can get Chappel released 692 00:40:54,235 --> 00:40:56,909 is to prove his wife and Palley committed the crime. 693 00:40:58,639 --> 00:41:01,984 Which we can't do because we convicted Chappel. 694 00:41:03,144 --> 00:41:04,919 Joseph Heller would love this one. 695 00:41:04,979 --> 00:41:08,517 The cornerstone of the system is that it is better for 10 guilty men to go free 696 00:41:08,583 --> 00:41:10,824 than for one innocent man to go to jail. 697 00:41:10,885 --> 00:41:13,798 Someone should tell that to Judge Caffey. I tried. 698 00:41:14,855 --> 00:41:18,064 He believes in juries. Well, juries make mistakes. 699 00:41:20,528 --> 00:41:23,737 Then why is it that I feel like we're the ones who've been making all the mistakes 700 00:41:23,798 --> 00:41:25,277 around here lately? 701 00:41:31,172 --> 00:41:33,277 Maybe we should make another one. 702 00:41:33,741 --> 00:41:37,712 That tape of Chris Chappel and Palley... Yeah, what about it? It's dead. 703 00:41:37,879 --> 00:41:40,519 What if we change our theory of what it means? 704 00:41:40,615 --> 00:41:45,223 What if Mrs. Chappel was talking about having committed the crime not with Palley, 705 00:41:45,286 --> 00:41:48,199 but with her husband. You believe that? 706 00:41:50,091 --> 00:41:53,334 If it were true, the tape would be admissible against her. 707 00:41:54,629 --> 00:41:57,940 Her husband's conviction wouldn't hurt us, it would help us. 708 00:41:58,199 --> 00:42:01,976 The fact that a husband has been convicted of a crime increases the probable cause 709 00:42:02,036 --> 00:42:03,845 that his wife was involved. 710 00:42:03,938 --> 00:42:07,545 So we argue a theory we know is wrong to convict the right person? 711 00:42:07,608 --> 00:42:09,110 Who says it's wrong? 712 00:42:10,845 --> 00:42:13,826 The jury that convicted Hank Chappel says it's right. 713 00:42:15,916 --> 00:42:17,657 Get Mrs. Chappel in here. 714 00:42:23,758 --> 00:42:26,739 PALLEY: Hank's been convicted. CHRIS: Thank God, 715 00:42:26,994 --> 00:42:29,167 but if they find out what happened... 716 00:42:29,797 --> 00:42:33,768 Very nice, but it's been excluded. That's because we misinterpreted it. 717 00:42:34,669 --> 00:42:38,276 What happened is your client committed the crime with her husband. 718 00:42:38,906 --> 00:42:41,716 Nothing like changing horses in mid-stream, Jack. 719 00:42:41,943 --> 00:42:44,753 I'm the first one to admit when I make a mistake. 720 00:42:45,446 --> 00:42:47,824 All I have to do is admit it to a judge, 721 00:42:47,948 --> 00:42:50,758 and the jury's gonna hear Mrs. Chappel's confession. 722 00:42:50,818 --> 00:42:55,267 Oh, come on. Her statement is open to a million interpretations. 723 00:42:55,423 --> 00:42:57,960 Maybe. But we have a corroborating witness. 724 00:42:59,660 --> 00:43:03,802 You think Buzz is gonna testify? JACK: She's not referring to Mr. Palley. 725 00:43:03,864 --> 00:43:06,242 She's talking about your husband. Remember him? 726 00:43:10,071 --> 00:43:11,516 Hank won't lie about me. 727 00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:14,583 Show him in. 728 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:20,281 CHRISTINE: Hank. 729 00:43:21,482 --> 00:43:22,756 Christine. 730 00:43:25,619 --> 00:43:27,189 I heard the tape. 731 00:43:29,123 --> 00:43:32,832 We're going to get you out of here. I've got a lawyer who says he'll appeal. 732 00:43:32,893 --> 00:43:38,605 Christine, I'm in for 25 years and nobody is getting me out. 733 00:43:38,933 --> 00:43:41,777 You put him on the stand, Jack, and you're suborning perjury. 734 00:43:41,836 --> 00:43:45,113 A jury convicted him. As far as I'm concerned, he's guilty. 735 00:43:45,973 --> 00:43:48,681 And he certainly knows who his accomplices are. 736 00:43:49,810 --> 00:43:52,347 I'm gonna tell them you were in it with me. 737 00:43:53,114 --> 00:43:57,961 But, Hank, you know that isn't true. True? 738 00:44:02,256 --> 00:44:04,293 I know what's true 739 00:44:05,926 --> 00:44:08,873 and it's... 740 00:44:13,834 --> 00:44:19,340 Why did you do this to me? Why did you do this to me? 741 00:44:20,073 --> 00:44:21,074 HANK: Why? 742 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:35,890 What are you offering, Jack? 743 00:44:38,024 --> 00:44:39,765 What does she have to say? 744 00:44:46,766 --> 00:44:47,938 It was Buzz. 745 00:44:50,870 --> 00:44:54,579 He was desperate. It was either blow up the building or go bankrupt. 746 00:44:56,376 --> 00:44:57,855 I got him the cord. 747 00:45:00,914 --> 00:45:02,222 (CRYING) 748 00:45:02,282 --> 00:45:06,389 We never thought anyone would be there. God. 749 00:45:07,954 --> 00:45:09,331 And your husband? 750 00:45:13,793 --> 00:45:16,103 Just off somewhere drinking, as usual. 751 00:45:24,771 --> 00:45:27,308 Arson two, man one. 752 00:45:28,741 --> 00:45:29,742 Ten years. 753 00:45:31,945 --> 00:45:32,946 God. 754 00:45:40,854 --> 00:45:43,391 Judge Caffey signed Hank Chappel's release order. 755 00:45:43,456 --> 00:45:46,335 And Palley's lawyer called. He wants to talk deal. 756 00:45:48,194 --> 00:45:51,038 The hell with him. He can do 25-to-life. 757 00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,903 So you got the wrong man, then you got the right one. 758 00:45:56,970 --> 00:45:58,142 One for two. 759 00:45:59,939 --> 00:46:02,579 My batting average should be better than that. 760 00:46:02,876 --> 00:46:07,689 You make big decisions in a hurry. Then you press too hard. That's part of your job. 761 00:46:08,448 --> 00:46:12,828 With the fringe benefit that from time to time we convict someone who's innocent? 762 00:46:13,052 --> 00:46:15,965 It could be better. We could have the death penalty.