1 00:00:01,025 --> 00:00:03,016 In the criminal justice system... 2 00:00:03,093 --> 00:00:06,722 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: 3 00:00:06,797 --> 00:00:08,697 The police who investigate crime... 4 00:00:08,766 --> 00:00:11,530 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,602 --> 00:00:13,331 These are their stories. 6 00:00:34,859 --> 00:00:36,190 Mildred? 7 00:00:40,965 --> 00:00:43,058 Mildred, are you all right? 8 00:01:00,219 --> 00:01:01,618 Oh, my God. 9 00:01:03,022 --> 00:01:04,512 Mildred? 10 00:01:11,430 --> 00:01:12,658 Mildred. 11 00:01:14,633 --> 00:01:17,466 We took the call. Found the door jimmied. 12 00:01:19,505 --> 00:01:21,564 Bashed in is more like it. 13 00:01:21,841 --> 00:01:24,674 Neighbors? Nobody home. Everybody works. 14 00:01:25,411 --> 00:01:28,972 Went through the place hit or miss. Dialing for dollars. 15 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:35,550 They didn't bother breaking this drawer open. 16 00:01:35,622 --> 00:01:37,647 Maybe something scared them off. 17 00:01:38,225 --> 00:01:39,954 It sure wasn't her. 18 00:01:42,929 --> 00:01:45,056 Mildred Bauer, 82. 19 00:01:45,599 --> 00:01:48,432 Bruises on her arms, cut along her jaw. 20 00:01:49,569 --> 00:01:52,470 Think the burglar knocked her around? Or she fell. 21 00:01:52,539 --> 00:01:53,801 Is this her? 22 00:01:54,474 --> 00:01:56,999 Looks like she lost about 30 pounds. 23 00:01:57,144 --> 00:02:01,046 Yeah, well, there's no way she put up much of a struggle. 24 00:02:01,615 --> 00:02:04,584 Would you check the bottom drawer of the dresser? 25 00:02:04,651 --> 00:02:06,449 Ma'am, you really ought to let us take you in. 26 00:02:06,521 --> 00:02:10,423 That's where she kept her jewelry, and you'll need to know what's missing. 27 00:02:10,491 --> 00:02:12,982 If you don't let us take you in, I'm gonna ask you to sign this. 28 00:02:13,060 --> 00:02:17,224 I gave her a pair of Georgian silver candlesticks... 29 00:02:17,298 --> 00:02:21,598 eight Christmases ago. No, 10 Christmases ago. They're gone. 30 00:02:22,036 --> 00:02:26,530 And as for her furs, she... Oh, that's right. 31 00:02:26,841 --> 00:02:28,103 Oh, she, uh... 32 00:02:28,176 --> 00:02:31,236 She gave them away. Ma'am, are you sure you're all right? 33 00:02:31,312 --> 00:02:34,975 No. But I'm alive. 34 00:03:25,501 --> 00:03:29,767 Old people living alone, get sick, fall down. 35 00:03:30,039 --> 00:03:31,063 Sayonara. 36 00:03:31,140 --> 00:03:33,005 This one may have had some help. 37 00:03:33,076 --> 00:03:35,670 Her apartment was broken into. What, the bruises? 38 00:03:35,745 --> 00:03:38,942 Don't jump to conclusions. People her age get them rolling over in bed. 39 00:03:39,015 --> 00:03:40,380 Well, what about a heart attack? 40 00:03:40,450 --> 00:03:42,475 I mean, the intruder scares her, that's homicide. 41 00:03:42,552 --> 00:03:45,454 She looks like the poster girl for about six different diseases. 42 00:03:45,522 --> 00:03:47,490 A heart attack might have been redundant. 43 00:03:47,558 --> 00:03:51,551 How about time of death? At least 12 hours. 44 00:03:52,529 --> 00:03:54,554 You'll get my report on Tuesday. 45 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,264 Morgue. Yeah? 46 00:03:59,236 --> 00:04:00,726 Hold them there. 47 00:04:01,105 --> 00:04:03,130 Waiting room. Next of kin. 48 00:04:04,341 --> 00:04:08,539 Laura and I begged her to get out of that apartment and go into a home. 49 00:04:08,612 --> 00:04:10,842 We found one, a nice one. 50 00:04:12,683 --> 00:04:14,913 My mother-in-law was stubborn. 51 00:04:15,085 --> 00:04:18,647 Even my dad, when he was alive, tried to get her to move. 52 00:04:19,257 --> 00:04:22,454 She heard "nursing home," it meant she was gonna die. 53 00:04:22,527 --> 00:04:25,428 To think someone killed her for that stuff. 54 00:04:26,665 --> 00:04:28,599 There was nothing valuable. 55 00:04:28,667 --> 00:04:31,761 Do you know... Were there any delivery people or anybody... 56 00:04:31,836 --> 00:04:35,101 who might have known that she was living there alone? 57 00:04:35,473 --> 00:04:38,067 She didn't. I hired a live-in for her. 58 00:04:38,143 --> 00:04:41,544 Didn't you talk to Maria? There was no one in the apartment. 59 00:04:41,613 --> 00:04:43,103 Maybe she was running errands. 60 00:04:43,181 --> 00:04:45,240 There was no sign of anybody else living there. 61 00:04:45,317 --> 00:04:49,083 I saw Maria on Tuesday. She and Grans were playing checkers. 62 00:04:50,555 --> 00:04:52,080 Maria Gonzales. 63 00:04:52,258 --> 00:04:55,227 Do you have an address? She lived in. 64 00:04:57,296 --> 00:05:01,027 Maria Gonzales. Dominican. She was paid in cash. 65 00:05:01,901 --> 00:05:04,893 There's no address. She's probably illegal. Good luck. 66 00:05:04,971 --> 00:05:07,565 You want to knock on every door in Washington Heights? 67 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,767 You want to let it sit? I wouldn't mind checking out... 68 00:05:09,842 --> 00:05:11,275 the new Thunderbirds at the auto show. 69 00:05:11,344 --> 00:05:13,107 All we've got for sure is a B and E. 70 00:05:13,179 --> 00:05:15,079 And she lived there. Why would she break in? 71 00:05:15,147 --> 00:05:17,581 Right, she lived there. So where the hell is she? 72 00:05:17,650 --> 00:05:19,709 She was supposed to be taking care of the lady. 73 00:05:19,785 --> 00:05:22,652 She's probably taking care of another old lady right now. 74 00:05:22,722 --> 00:05:24,189 Illegals don't like trouble. 75 00:05:24,256 --> 00:05:27,749 She's out shopping, comes back, the lady's dead, she takes off. 76 00:05:28,028 --> 00:05:29,996 Maybe she got tired of being a maid... 77 00:05:30,063 --> 00:05:32,861 and decided to give herself a little farewell bonus. 78 00:05:32,933 --> 00:05:35,902 You want to find a maid, talk to other maids. 79 00:05:36,570 --> 00:05:38,902 She is Dominica, I am Haitian. 80 00:05:38,972 --> 00:05:40,872 We are not friends at home, or here. 81 00:05:40,941 --> 00:05:43,967 I didn't ask if you sent her valentines. I just asked if you know her. 82 00:05:44,044 --> 00:05:46,911 She worked for a Mrs. Bauer. Lived in that building there. 83 00:05:46,980 --> 00:05:49,847 No, I don't think so. All right. Thanks. 84 00:05:51,351 --> 00:05:54,616 I'm looking for a girl named Maria. She's a maid. I think she hangs out here. 85 00:05:56,456 --> 00:05:59,824 That one doesn't speak English. That one doesn't like Dominicans. 86 00:05:59,894 --> 00:06:01,657 How about this one? She doesn't do windows? 87 00:06:01,729 --> 00:06:03,788 No, this one doesn't know any Marias. Right? 88 00:06:03,865 --> 00:06:05,264 No. No Marias. 89 00:06:05,333 --> 00:06:08,131 That lady that was killed, are you investigating that? 90 00:06:08,202 --> 00:06:09,567 Yes, we are, ma'am. 91 00:06:09,637 --> 00:06:13,505 Rosa, you remember Mildred Bauer. I used to talk to her. 92 00:06:13,574 --> 00:06:17,476 No, I don't remember. You know her, Rosa. 93 00:06:17,779 --> 00:06:19,804 The skinny lady with the kidney. 94 00:06:19,881 --> 00:06:22,475 Maybe we better talk this over down at the INS. 95 00:06:22,550 --> 00:06:24,848 You do have your green card, don't you? 96 00:06:24,919 --> 00:06:28,411 You want Maria Gonzales? I'll tell you where she's staying. 97 00:06:28,489 --> 00:06:31,948 She's staying with my boyfriend, Felix Ortega. 98 00:06:32,728 --> 00:06:35,526 Write it in your book. She took him away. 99 00:06:44,139 --> 00:06:45,731 What do you want? 100 00:06:45,874 --> 00:06:47,000 Maria Gonzales. 101 00:06:49,478 --> 00:06:50,604 We can wait. 102 00:06:50,679 --> 00:06:51,703 Felix? 103 00:06:58,954 --> 00:07:01,184 You are here about Mrs. Bauer. 104 00:07:02,024 --> 00:07:04,425 I am very sorry for her. Really? 105 00:07:04,494 --> 00:07:07,793 How'd you know there was anything to be sorry about? 106 00:07:08,998 --> 00:07:12,126 I have friends who work on that street. They told me. 107 00:07:12,202 --> 00:07:15,171 Weren't you supposed to be with Mrs. Bauer when she died? 108 00:07:15,238 --> 00:07:17,365 No. Not after Tuesday. 109 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:19,169 What happened after Tuesday? 110 00:07:19,242 --> 00:07:21,836 You get distracted? They fire me. 111 00:07:21,911 --> 00:07:26,314 Mrs. Bauer fired you? Not Mrs. Bauer, her granddaughter. 112 00:07:26,516 --> 00:07:28,347 You weren't there yesterday? 113 00:07:30,253 --> 00:07:31,845 You mind if we come in and look around? 114 00:07:31,921 --> 00:07:33,786 You got a warrant? I know the law. 115 00:07:33,857 --> 00:07:36,087 Look, we don't find anything, you're in the clear. 116 00:07:36,159 --> 00:07:38,185 Yeah, don't do us any favors. 117 00:07:38,596 --> 00:07:42,760 Hey, did we forget to mention? Your other girlfriend said hi. 118 00:07:43,534 --> 00:07:46,662 Maria said I fired her? That's crazy. 119 00:07:49,773 --> 00:07:53,038 Oh, my God, she must have robbed the place. 120 00:07:54,411 --> 00:07:57,812 But why would she hurt Grans? Did your grandmother ever... 121 00:07:59,783 --> 00:08:02,547 Sorry. I'm hungry. 122 00:08:05,856 --> 00:08:08,154 The last couple of months, my mother and I noticed... 123 00:08:08,225 --> 00:08:10,888 some things missing from the apartment. 124 00:08:10,962 --> 00:08:14,193 Nothing much. An old radio, a winter coat. 125 00:08:14,266 --> 00:08:16,166 Wouldn't that be a reason to fire her? 126 00:08:16,234 --> 00:08:19,101 It was small stuff. My grandmother was incontinent. 127 00:08:19,471 --> 00:08:20,563 You know what that means. 128 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:23,608 It's not easy to find people to take care of someone like that. 129 00:08:23,675 --> 00:08:27,372 You didn't think Maria's stealing was worth mentioning before... 130 00:08:27,445 --> 00:08:31,814 when we're investigating a burglary that's connected to your grandmother's death? 131 00:08:32,517 --> 00:08:36,851 I guess so. But Maria lives there. You said someone broke in. 132 00:08:38,990 --> 00:08:42,586 The maid's boyfriend, the lovely and appealing Felix Ortega... 133 00:08:43,362 --> 00:08:45,353 two burglary convictions. 134 00:08:45,898 --> 00:08:49,299 What about Laura's boyfriend? Think we ought to check him out? 135 00:08:50,169 --> 00:08:51,158 Why? 136 00:08:51,304 --> 00:08:53,898 I want to know who's associating with the suspect. 137 00:08:53,973 --> 00:08:55,463 Since when is she a suspect? 138 00:08:55,541 --> 00:08:59,068 Now that you know the maid was stealing, you get a search warrant for the asking. 139 00:08:59,145 --> 00:09:02,273 Well, why didn't she mention the maid was stealing until we asked? 140 00:09:02,348 --> 00:09:06,045 And tell me again, why would the maid break into the place she lived? 141 00:09:06,118 --> 00:09:11,021 To throw us off the scent? Is Maria Gonzales actually that smart? 142 00:09:11,524 --> 00:09:14,084 Or did Laura Bauer fire her and take away her key? 143 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,892 An old lady wetting her pants? You don't fire somebody who's willing to clean up. 144 00:09:17,965 --> 00:09:20,627 Even if they do walk off with the occasional ashtray. 145 00:09:20,701 --> 00:09:22,259 My old man got pretty hard to handle... 146 00:09:22,336 --> 00:09:24,634 when he started thinking my mother was trying to poison him. 147 00:09:24,705 --> 00:09:25,672 Alzheimer's? Yeah. 148 00:09:25,739 --> 00:09:28,003 Couldn't stop him from throwing his dinner in the toilet... 149 00:09:28,075 --> 00:09:29,201 and eating birdseed. 150 00:09:29,276 --> 00:09:32,712 I told Mike, if I ever start to drift, to take my gun and shoot me. 151 00:09:32,779 --> 00:09:35,748 You got nothing better to do, you hassle a Dominican? 152 00:09:35,916 --> 00:09:38,384 Hey, everyone needs a hobby. 153 00:09:41,154 --> 00:09:45,147 $400? Somebody been to the pawn shop since yesterday? 154 00:09:45,225 --> 00:09:47,455 I work the trucks. I save my money. 155 00:09:47,995 --> 00:09:49,520 "Rafeal Nava... 156 00:09:50,431 --> 00:09:53,298 "Barahona, Republica Dominicana." 157 00:09:55,003 --> 00:09:57,130 My nephew. For his birthday. 158 00:09:58,406 --> 00:10:01,967 You're gonna have to buy some more brown wrapping paper. 159 00:10:11,386 --> 00:10:15,516 See, what we have here is one of those little cultural differences. 160 00:10:19,327 --> 00:10:22,729 Now, I gave my nephew a baseball mitt. 161 00:10:24,633 --> 00:10:26,032 That's them. 162 00:10:26,702 --> 00:10:30,103 I know that Mildred told her to polish these once a week... 163 00:10:30,172 --> 00:10:32,640 but they haven't been polished in months. 164 00:10:32,708 --> 00:10:34,266 Now, you're absolutely certain... 165 00:10:34,343 --> 00:10:36,971 that these are the candlesticks you gave to Mildred Bauer? 166 00:10:37,046 --> 00:10:40,379 Well, just because I'm old, Detective, doesn't mean I'm senile. 167 00:10:40,449 --> 00:10:42,644 Maria tells us that Mrs. Bauer gave them to her. 168 00:10:42,718 --> 00:10:45,243 If she gave them to anyone she'd give them to her granddaughter. 169 00:10:45,321 --> 00:10:46,185 They were very close. 170 00:10:46,255 --> 00:10:48,450 She ever tell you she was gonna give them to Laura? 171 00:10:48,524 --> 00:10:50,856 She didn't tell me anything the last few weeks. 172 00:10:50,926 --> 00:10:53,190 I'd go to visit, and the maid wouldn't let me in. 173 00:10:53,262 --> 00:10:56,232 She said Mildred couldn't be disturbed. 174 00:10:56,700 --> 00:11:01,103 The only thing that disturbed Mildred was a Democrat in the White House. 175 00:11:02,906 --> 00:11:05,602 It's your basic "he said, she said," Detective. 176 00:11:05,942 --> 00:11:08,740 Miss Gonzales says that Mrs. Bauer gave her the candlesticks. 177 00:11:08,812 --> 00:11:11,007 Now there's no one alive that says she didn't. 178 00:11:11,081 --> 00:11:14,244 Which kind of brings us to the main event, Counselor. 179 00:11:14,317 --> 00:11:15,978 Regarding Mrs. Bauer's death... 180 00:11:16,052 --> 00:11:19,180 Miss Gonzales is prepared to cooperate completely. 181 00:11:19,289 --> 00:11:21,484 Really? She's gonna give us her boyfriend? 182 00:11:21,558 --> 00:11:25,289 Laura caught me giving Mrs. Bauer extra food and water. 183 00:11:25,362 --> 00:11:26,727 She told me not to. 184 00:11:26,796 --> 00:11:29,527 She told you not to feed her grandmother? 185 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,966 She said give her just a little water... 186 00:11:32,036 --> 00:11:35,164 spread the food around on the plate so it looks like more. 187 00:11:35,239 --> 00:11:37,264 I did, but she was hungry. 188 00:11:37,575 --> 00:11:41,033 She was so thin. I tried to give her more. 189 00:11:42,380 --> 00:11:44,473 Miss Bauer came in and saw. 190 00:11:44,882 --> 00:11:48,181 She was very angry. You were fired, right? 191 00:11:50,454 --> 00:11:52,115 Well, how'd you feel about that? 192 00:11:52,189 --> 00:11:55,283 I was worried. I knew she wouldn't feed her. 193 00:11:57,828 --> 00:12:00,023 I went on Friday with Felix. 194 00:12:00,932 --> 00:12:02,559 We knocked on the door. 195 00:12:02,934 --> 00:12:04,765 Mrs. Bauer didn't come. 196 00:12:05,937 --> 00:12:07,700 Felix broke it open. 197 00:12:08,874 --> 00:12:10,239 We saw her. 198 00:12:11,710 --> 00:12:13,371 We knew she was dead. 199 00:12:13,445 --> 00:12:17,404 And you looted the place. No. We didn't take anything. 200 00:12:19,684 --> 00:12:23,120 I didn't believe it, either, till she showed me these. 201 00:12:29,494 --> 00:12:31,587 "One chopped, cooked carrot. 202 00:12:32,898 --> 00:12:34,491 "Half a potato only." 203 00:12:34,567 --> 00:12:37,229 Laura Bauer left them on the refrigerator. 204 00:12:37,303 --> 00:12:40,795 Little reminders to starve her grandmother to death. 205 00:12:49,816 --> 00:12:52,080 "Only one cup of water today." 206 00:12:52,552 --> 00:12:55,419 You sure the maid wasn't over-watering the plants? 207 00:12:55,488 --> 00:12:57,786 It wasn't the plants that died. 208 00:12:59,425 --> 00:13:03,122 When my old man lost his mind, I never thought of starvation as a solution. 209 00:13:03,196 --> 00:13:06,654 Well, the maid still has a little credibility problem. 210 00:13:06,766 --> 00:13:10,294 You think she made this up? That's a hell of an imagination. 211 00:13:10,370 --> 00:13:12,133 ME's report was due this morning. 212 00:13:12,206 --> 00:13:14,606 Before we go after a grieving relative for murder... 213 00:13:14,675 --> 00:13:17,974 why don't we make sure we know how Mrs. Bauer died? 214 00:13:18,345 --> 00:13:22,441 You wanted me to look for trauma. Nothing. For a heart attack. Nothing. 215 00:13:22,516 --> 00:13:25,781 Well, what were we supposed to think? She was found dead during a break-in. 216 00:13:25,853 --> 00:13:29,880 She was found dead during the war in Bosnia, too, but that didn't kill her, either. 217 00:13:29,957 --> 00:13:33,620 Hypotension, diminished organ size, kidney shutdown... 218 00:13:33,861 --> 00:13:35,658 these are all signs of dehydration. 219 00:13:35,729 --> 00:13:37,720 How was she eating? She wasn't. 220 00:13:37,798 --> 00:13:41,860 High levels of amino and fatty acids in her plasma. She was catabolizing muscle. 221 00:13:41,936 --> 00:13:43,927 So she was starved to death. Absolutely. 222 00:13:44,005 --> 00:13:46,303 Unless she didn't have an appetite, because she was sick... 223 00:13:46,374 --> 00:13:48,501 or she didn't want to eat, 'cause she was depressed. 224 00:13:48,576 --> 00:13:50,237 Well, don't go out on a limb. 225 00:13:50,311 --> 00:13:53,974 Look, I can tell you how she ended up. I can't tell you how she got that way. 226 00:13:54,048 --> 00:13:56,448 But she definitely starved to death. 227 00:13:57,285 --> 00:13:59,150 Why are you asking me? 228 00:13:59,621 --> 00:14:02,351 You found Maria. She had my grandmother's things. 229 00:14:02,423 --> 00:14:05,221 Laura, your grandmother didn't die during the burglary. 230 00:14:05,293 --> 00:14:08,990 She died of a lack of food and water. You recognize these? 231 00:14:15,037 --> 00:14:19,201 What are you saying? Do you think I neglected my grandmother? 232 00:14:19,275 --> 00:14:22,073 I'm just asking if the handwriting looks familiar. 233 00:14:22,144 --> 00:14:25,978 Yeah, I wrote them. I had to give Maria specific instructions. 234 00:14:26,615 --> 00:14:29,675 You admit you told Maria to restrict your grandmother's food? 235 00:14:29,752 --> 00:14:31,982 She was feeding her empanadas. 236 00:14:32,254 --> 00:14:35,519 All those spicy sauces. Was the water spicy, too? 237 00:14:35,624 --> 00:14:37,524 Her intake had to be monitored. 238 00:14:37,593 --> 00:14:40,721 Liquid balance was very difficult with her condition. 239 00:14:40,796 --> 00:14:41,922 Her condition? 240 00:14:41,997 --> 00:14:45,831 My grandmother had pneumonia last spring. It led to a kidney problem. 241 00:14:47,304 --> 00:14:49,568 Did you make that diagnosis yourself? 242 00:14:49,639 --> 00:14:53,541 No, Dr. Matthewson did. He's on East 56th Street. 243 00:14:54,444 --> 00:14:57,311 She had arthritis. I had her on painkillers. 244 00:14:57,847 --> 00:15:01,544 Last year she broke a hip, spent six weeks in the hospital. 245 00:15:02,419 --> 00:15:06,685 This year, pneumonia, then acute kidney disease. 246 00:15:06,890 --> 00:15:09,859 Did you tell the granddaughter to restrict her water? 247 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:14,153 To minimize fluid retention. She had to watch her protein intake, too. 248 00:15:15,665 --> 00:15:19,102 These diet restrictions, how long were they supposed to last? 249 00:15:19,170 --> 00:15:21,297 Depends on how the case progresses. 250 00:15:21,405 --> 00:15:23,805 How did Mrs. Bauer's case progress? 251 00:15:25,977 --> 00:15:29,344 I'm afraid I don't know. She missed her appointments. 252 00:15:29,413 --> 00:15:33,372 Don't you take some kind of an oath to follow up on the treatment of sick people? 253 00:15:33,451 --> 00:15:35,043 My receptionist called. 254 00:15:35,119 --> 00:15:37,417 She was told Mrs. Bauer was seeing another doctor. 255 00:15:37,488 --> 00:15:39,217 Told by Mrs. Bauer? 256 00:15:39,890 --> 00:15:41,687 By her granddaughter. 257 00:15:43,361 --> 00:15:45,386 So the medical excuse holds up. 258 00:15:45,463 --> 00:15:49,923 Yeah, but Laura Bauer said her grandmother was seeing another doctor. 259 00:15:50,468 --> 00:15:52,994 No one asked the old doctor for her records. 260 00:15:53,071 --> 00:15:55,335 So she took her home and left her there. 261 00:15:55,407 --> 00:15:58,865 And applied the low-protein diet a little overenthusiastically. 262 00:15:58,944 --> 00:16:01,538 Come on, Mike. You really believe that girl did it on purpose? 263 00:16:01,613 --> 00:16:04,605 The old lady was left alone. There was no food in that apartment. 264 00:16:04,683 --> 00:16:06,810 The maid didn't have a motive to starve or kill her. 265 00:16:06,885 --> 00:16:09,285 Okay, what's the granddaughter's motive? 266 00:16:09,688 --> 00:16:12,179 Some old ladies have bank accounts. 267 00:16:12,457 --> 00:16:15,153 The granddaughter is an heir. To what? 268 00:16:19,297 --> 00:16:20,889 Mildred, rich? What's rich? 269 00:16:20,966 --> 00:16:24,060 Anything with six zeros. Not Mildred. 270 00:16:24,136 --> 00:16:27,072 A couple of hundred grand in bonds. All left to charity. 271 00:16:27,140 --> 00:16:30,109 So Laura Bauer didn't stand to inherit a dime? 272 00:16:30,176 --> 00:16:33,145 What about Laura's mother? No love lost there. 273 00:16:33,212 --> 00:16:36,739 When Mildred's son divorced her, she got enough for a summer wardrobe... 274 00:16:36,816 --> 00:16:38,909 and a few lunches at Schraft's. 275 00:16:38,985 --> 00:16:42,011 Okay, so the old lady wasn't crazy about Laura or her mother. 276 00:16:42,088 --> 00:16:44,522 She liked Laura once she started taking care of her. 277 00:16:44,590 --> 00:16:48,151 Set up an education fund. Laura's planning on law school. 278 00:16:48,461 --> 00:16:52,192 Mildred liked to slip her a little extra. Bought her a BMW. 279 00:16:52,265 --> 00:16:54,460 A little extra? Used. 280 00:16:54,634 --> 00:16:57,967 Now wait a minute. Did Laura know she wasn't inheriting? 281 00:16:58,038 --> 00:17:00,506 I mean, maybe she figured she was getting something. 282 00:17:00,574 --> 00:17:03,600 Video will. I use it with my elderly clients... 283 00:17:04,645 --> 00:17:07,580 to demonstrate competence. 284 00:17:08,315 --> 00:17:10,749 Where am I supposed to look, dear? Over there, Grans... 285 00:17:10,818 --> 00:17:12,479 There's Laura right there, Mike. 286 00:17:12,553 --> 00:17:14,248 I guess she knew what she wasn't getting. 287 00:17:14,321 --> 00:17:17,688 Laura didn't need Mildred's money. She was going to law school... 288 00:17:17,758 --> 00:17:20,352 and Mildred said that she brought over her fiancé... 289 00:17:20,427 --> 00:17:23,123 Kent Halliwell, a fine old Boston name. 290 00:17:23,664 --> 00:17:26,258 Mildred was a bit of a snob. Here. 291 00:17:28,168 --> 00:17:31,036 I give and bequeath my entire estate... 292 00:17:31,406 --> 00:17:34,239 to United Charities of Manhattan. 293 00:17:35,110 --> 00:17:37,135 Mildred was old-fashioned. 294 00:17:38,046 --> 00:17:40,037 She took care of Laura's education. 295 00:17:40,115 --> 00:17:44,347 Beyond that, she thought inherited money made people soft. 296 00:17:46,154 --> 00:17:49,146 If anything, the kid had a motive to keep the old lady alive. 297 00:17:49,224 --> 00:17:51,988 When she went, so did all the goodies. I don't know. 298 00:17:52,060 --> 00:17:55,552 How about if we prove Laura Bauer was lying to her grandmother? 299 00:17:55,630 --> 00:17:58,064 Then would you buy she's lying to us? 300 00:17:58,133 --> 00:17:59,760 About the fiancé? 301 00:17:59,901 --> 00:18:04,566 You think that black guy she's shacking up with is from a fine old Boston family? 302 00:18:04,807 --> 00:18:06,138 Black Irish. 303 00:18:06,208 --> 00:18:10,076 What'd the lawyer say the fiancé's name was? Kent Halliwell? 304 00:18:10,146 --> 00:18:13,604 What you say we find Mr. Halliwell? Check out his tan. 305 00:18:17,153 --> 00:18:20,418 Laura and I are friends, sure. What's this about? 306 00:18:20,489 --> 00:18:23,151 We heard that you were engaged, right? 307 00:18:23,325 --> 00:18:26,522 Well, no. I mean, not really. 308 00:18:27,496 --> 00:18:28,861 We went out for a while. 309 00:18:28,931 --> 00:18:31,422 Then you know that Laura's going out with someone else, right? 310 00:18:31,500 --> 00:18:34,469 Well, so am I. But we still see each other sometimes. 311 00:18:35,371 --> 00:18:37,636 What does this have to do with her grandmother's death? 312 00:18:37,707 --> 00:18:39,368 It was that maid, wasn't it? 313 00:18:39,442 --> 00:18:42,809 Did you tell Mrs. Bauer that you were Laura's fiancé? 314 00:18:47,617 --> 00:18:49,141 I liked the old lady. 315 00:18:49,219 --> 00:18:51,744 She was sick, and Laura said it would cheer her up. 316 00:18:51,822 --> 00:18:56,225 Hey, I want to cheer up an old lady, I buy her a 10-year subscription to TV Guide. 317 00:18:56,293 --> 00:18:57,885 She was dying... 318 00:18:58,295 --> 00:19:01,662 and she wanted to feel like her life meant something. 319 00:19:02,065 --> 00:19:04,397 That the Bauers would carry on. 320 00:19:04,634 --> 00:19:07,068 She told her we loved that awful apartment... 321 00:19:07,137 --> 00:19:09,469 and that we couldn't wait to live in it after we were married. 322 00:19:09,539 --> 00:19:13,237 Which would be when? Never? She was dying. 323 00:19:13,778 --> 00:19:16,338 She liked to hear that Laura was doing well. 324 00:19:16,747 --> 00:19:18,544 Laura told her she was going to law school. 325 00:19:18,616 --> 00:19:20,083 She wasn't going to law school? 326 00:19:20,151 --> 00:19:22,449 Look, she was just trying to make her feel better. 327 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,921 I mean, what does it matter? She loved Laura. 328 00:19:26,190 --> 00:19:29,284 She even left her that apartment, for God's sake. 329 00:19:35,666 --> 00:19:37,224 Here, three months ago. 330 00:19:37,301 --> 00:19:41,294 "Mildred Bauer and Laura Bauer became tenants in common... 331 00:19:41,372 --> 00:19:44,137 "with right of survivorship." Co-owners. 332 00:19:44,877 --> 00:19:46,868 So the apartment wasn't in the estate. 333 00:19:46,945 --> 00:19:48,970 Remember Halliwell said she told her grandmother... 334 00:19:49,047 --> 00:19:51,538 they wanted to live there after they got married? 335 00:19:51,617 --> 00:19:54,882 The old lady signed it over. Maybe not a wise move. 336 00:19:54,953 --> 00:19:57,547 Yeah, tell me about it. I did it before my second divorce. 337 00:19:57,623 --> 00:19:59,056 That's why I can't go home, anymore. 338 00:19:59,124 --> 00:20:03,288 Hey, this girl works fast. The bank filed a UCC-1 yesterday. 339 00:20:03,929 --> 00:20:07,023 Laura has already borrowed against the property. 340 00:20:07,966 --> 00:20:11,800 Still think she was an innocent bystander? Okay, maybe not. 341 00:20:12,771 --> 00:20:15,797 "Westside Financial, $75,000." 342 00:20:15,874 --> 00:20:18,366 Now that buys a pretty nice funeral wreath. 343 00:20:18,444 --> 00:20:20,674 Let's get a subpoena for her checking account... 344 00:20:20,747 --> 00:20:23,113 and find out what else was on her shopping list. 345 00:20:25,852 --> 00:20:27,877 She gave you a check for $60,000. 346 00:20:27,954 --> 00:20:30,320 Yeah, the minimum for limited partners. 347 00:20:30,857 --> 00:20:34,384 It was a good investment, so I offered Laura a chance to get in. 348 00:20:34,727 --> 00:20:36,991 Hey, arugula salad, $12. 349 00:20:37,063 --> 00:20:40,555 She'll make her money back in a week. Maybe a year. 350 00:20:41,601 --> 00:20:44,968 Body-healthy food presented with style. People like it. 351 00:20:45,204 --> 00:20:48,503 Sounds like it was lucky for Laura her grandmother died when she did. 352 00:20:48,574 --> 00:20:50,338 She was pretty old. 353 00:20:50,477 --> 00:20:55,210 How'd Laura take the news? She was sad. They were very close. 354 00:20:55,849 --> 00:20:57,840 The other night, Thursday, we were going to a club... 355 00:20:57,918 --> 00:21:00,819 Laura insisted on stopping to check on her grandmother. 356 00:21:00,888 --> 00:21:02,947 Thursday? You sure? Yeah. 357 00:21:03,223 --> 00:21:05,987 Did you go in with her? We waited in the car. 358 00:21:06,060 --> 00:21:09,029 She came back. She said her grandmother was sleeping. 359 00:21:09,530 --> 00:21:10,622 Why? 360 00:21:11,298 --> 00:21:14,699 Look at the timing, Miss Kincaid. Thursday night. 361 00:21:15,169 --> 00:21:19,833 The maid was fired on Tuesday. If she fired the maid. 362 00:21:19,907 --> 00:21:23,400 It doesn't matter. Laura's the one we know who's been lying to us. 363 00:21:23,478 --> 00:21:25,571 She said she hadn't been there since Tuesday. 364 00:21:25,647 --> 00:21:29,549 The maid and her boyfriend came calling on Friday. The old lady was dead. 365 00:21:29,617 --> 00:21:32,518 You sure she wasn't still alive, and they didn't finish her off? 366 00:21:32,587 --> 00:21:35,078 They weren't there long enough to starve her to death. 367 00:21:35,156 --> 00:21:38,922 Worse case, she was almost dead, they did nothing to help. 368 00:21:38,994 --> 00:21:41,724 You're saying when the granddaughter stopped by Thursday night... 369 00:21:41,796 --> 00:21:43,730 that she was definitely still alive? 370 00:21:43,798 --> 00:21:46,266 Laura left the beautiful people outside... 371 00:21:46,334 --> 00:21:49,701 and ran in to check and see if her grandmother was dead yet. 372 00:21:49,771 --> 00:21:52,740 If she'd have been dead already, Laura would've packed the body off... 373 00:21:52,807 --> 00:21:54,900 to the funeral home, case closed. 374 00:21:54,976 --> 00:21:58,970 But she's still alive, starving, and Laura runs off to the disco. 375 00:21:59,815 --> 00:22:03,876 Tough case. No weapon. More omission than commission. 376 00:22:03,953 --> 00:22:07,912 What's tough about it? She starved an 82-year-old woman to death. 377 00:22:08,758 --> 00:22:12,922 Depraved indifference to human life. It's homicide. 378 00:22:15,064 --> 00:22:16,531 Bring her in. 379 00:22:25,307 --> 00:22:27,935 Detective, what are you - Laura Bauer, you're under arrest... 380 00:22:28,010 --> 00:22:29,444 for the murder of Mildred Bauer. 381 00:22:29,513 --> 00:22:31,105 You have the right to remain silent. 382 00:22:31,181 --> 00:22:34,014 Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. 383 00:22:34,084 --> 00:22:35,278 Do you understand that? 384 00:22:35,352 --> 00:22:38,150 You have the right to an attorney. Should you refuse... 385 00:22:40,490 --> 00:22:43,516 Look, Mildred Bauer had diabetes, arthritis... 386 00:22:43,593 --> 00:22:45,720 heart condition, high blood pressure... 387 00:22:45,796 --> 00:22:47,991 and kidneys you could have used as doorstops. 388 00:22:48,065 --> 00:22:50,431 What I'm saying, Ben, is that she died of natural causes. 389 00:22:50,500 --> 00:22:54,664 Starvation is a natural cause in Somalia. In New York City, it's murder two. 390 00:22:54,738 --> 00:22:56,467 Come on, Ben. She lied to her grandmother. 391 00:22:56,540 --> 00:22:58,098 She lied to her grandmother's doctor. 392 00:22:58,175 --> 00:23:00,735 She ordered her grandmother's maid to withhold food. 393 00:23:00,811 --> 00:23:02,780 And now she ends up with her grandmother's apartment. 394 00:23:02,847 --> 00:23:05,111 Well, she just happens to be Mrs. Bauer's granddaughter. 395 00:23:05,183 --> 00:23:07,674 Who should the woman give the apartment to, the PLO? 396 00:23:07,752 --> 00:23:09,845 She might have lived longer if she had. 397 00:23:09,921 --> 00:23:11,616 I didn't kill Gran. 398 00:23:11,722 --> 00:23:16,591 Look, even if Laura had made errors in judgment, which I do not grant... 399 00:23:16,661 --> 00:23:20,256 she, at most, hastened Mrs. Bauer's inevitable death by, what... 400 00:23:20,331 --> 00:23:22,697 a matter of weeks? Days, maybe. 401 00:23:22,767 --> 00:23:26,203 Danielle, do you remember the bar exam? Yes. 402 00:23:26,270 --> 00:23:28,636 And, Miss Bauer, this might interest you. 403 00:23:28,706 --> 00:23:31,698 A woman falls off the top of the Empire State Building. 404 00:23:31,776 --> 00:23:35,076 She passes the second floor, where a man shoots her... 405 00:23:35,147 --> 00:23:38,310 and kills her seconds before she hits the ground. 406 00:23:38,817 --> 00:23:41,342 Is that man guilty? Yes. 407 00:23:41,954 --> 00:23:43,717 But what if the man doesn't shoot her? 408 00:23:43,789 --> 00:23:47,020 What if, as she falls, she asks him for a ham sandwich... 409 00:23:47,092 --> 00:23:49,617 and he's just a little slow in handing it to her? 410 00:23:49,695 --> 00:23:51,720 Is that what happened, Miss Bauer? 411 00:23:51,797 --> 00:23:54,994 You just took your time feeding your grandmother? 412 00:23:55,501 --> 00:23:57,935 I don't believe this is happening. 413 00:23:58,504 --> 00:24:02,565 No. I made sure my grandmother was well-cared for. 414 00:24:02,808 --> 00:24:04,435 You made sure she didn't eat. 415 00:24:04,510 --> 00:24:07,001 I did what the doctor told me to do. 416 00:24:07,079 --> 00:24:10,345 I was going to school. I was trying to have a life. 417 00:24:11,184 --> 00:24:15,280 How many old people did you take care of while you were studying for finals? 418 00:24:20,326 --> 00:24:22,055 I was there all the time. 419 00:24:22,128 --> 00:24:26,394 Believe me, Mildred's own daughter never cared for her the way Laura and I did. 420 00:24:26,666 --> 00:24:30,432 I didn't know she had a daughter. Shirley. Lives in California. 421 00:24:32,005 --> 00:24:34,371 She didn't even come to the funeral. 422 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:38,399 You have to understand. Mildred was a very difficult person. 423 00:24:40,013 --> 00:24:41,481 She refused to eat. 424 00:24:41,549 --> 00:24:43,073 What I understand is... 425 00:24:43,150 --> 00:24:46,984 your daughter got Mrs. Bauer's apartment, and you got nothing. 426 00:24:47,488 --> 00:24:49,683 What's that supposed to mean? 427 00:24:51,091 --> 00:24:54,857 Maybe I wasn't fond of Mildred, but I wouldn't want to see her suffer. 428 00:24:54,929 --> 00:24:58,365 You weren't fond of her, but you helped take care of her? 429 00:24:58,432 --> 00:25:00,992 At first, then Laura took over. 430 00:25:02,136 --> 00:25:06,505 Look, Laura was her grandchild. I was just her son's ex-wife. 431 00:25:07,575 --> 00:25:09,839 Is Laura as bitter as you are? 432 00:25:09,944 --> 00:25:12,640 I'm not bitter. I'm realistic. 433 00:25:14,916 --> 00:25:17,316 The mother knows more than she's willing to say. 434 00:25:17,385 --> 00:25:18,818 Maybe we should push her. 435 00:25:18,887 --> 00:25:23,187 It's a stretch, but we could indict her as complicit in neglecting Mrs. Bauer. 436 00:25:23,258 --> 00:25:26,125 Penal Law 26025. 437 00:25:27,028 --> 00:25:29,553 It's only illegal to neglect an old person... 438 00:25:29,631 --> 00:25:34,466 if the victim's incompetent because of mental disease or defect. 439 00:25:35,237 --> 00:25:36,670 A curiosity of the law. 440 00:25:36,738 --> 00:25:40,936 Well, we argue hunger and thirst affected Mrs. Bauer's mind before she died. 441 00:25:41,009 --> 00:25:44,069 It's only a misdemeanor. Greater curiosity of the law. 442 00:25:44,179 --> 00:25:47,445 Murder by starvation, I think that's enough to move a jury. 443 00:25:47,516 --> 00:25:50,314 Well, be sure you get one with gray hair. 444 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,986 The young get impatient with old people, especially cantankerous ones. 445 00:25:55,258 --> 00:25:58,227 Oh, really? Speaking from personal experience? 446 00:25:58,995 --> 00:26:01,623 I'm a sweetheart, and I'm middle-aged. 447 00:26:06,202 --> 00:26:10,901 I don't know anything about it. All I watch on TV is the nature shows. 448 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,705 Do you think someone who's arrested and brought to trial is probably guilty? 449 00:26:14,777 --> 00:26:18,269 I'm open-minded. The police make mistakes. 450 00:26:18,848 --> 00:26:21,181 Indeed. Thank you. 451 00:26:22,552 --> 00:26:24,679 Miss Kincaid. Juror 14. 452 00:26:27,658 --> 00:26:30,058 Mr. Stern, are you married? 453 00:26:30,460 --> 00:26:32,826 I'm a widower. Nine years. 454 00:26:32,996 --> 00:26:35,794 So you live alone? Nine years. 455 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,868 You have children? Two boys. 456 00:26:39,002 --> 00:26:41,664 A draftsman and a businessman. 457 00:26:41,805 --> 00:26:43,466 The recycling business. 458 00:26:43,540 --> 00:26:46,031 Have you ever thought about what arrangements you would make... 459 00:26:46,109 --> 00:26:49,545 if you were unable to live alone? If? You mean when. 460 00:26:49,980 --> 00:26:51,106 When. 461 00:26:51,281 --> 00:26:55,810 Move in with my kid sister. West Palm Beach. She has a room ready. 462 00:26:56,321 --> 00:26:57,913 Okay, thank you. 463 00:27:00,692 --> 00:27:01,920 Miss Melnick? 464 00:27:01,993 --> 00:27:04,655 No questions, Your Honor. Ready to approach. 465 00:27:04,729 --> 00:27:06,026 Approach. 466 00:27:08,166 --> 00:27:11,829 Your Honor, the People have only one challenge for cause. 467 00:27:11,903 --> 00:27:13,393 Juror number 6. 468 00:27:13,471 --> 00:27:18,033 The gentleman who said, "God doesn't want anyone to live past three score and ten?" 469 00:27:18,376 --> 00:27:19,400 Granted. 470 00:27:19,477 --> 00:27:22,571 No challenges for cause, Your Honor, but I will exercise peremptories... 471 00:27:22,647 --> 00:27:25,013 against 2, 11, and 14. 472 00:27:29,988 --> 00:27:33,788 Jurors 2, 6, 11, and 14... 473 00:27:34,126 --> 00:27:37,220 you are excused, with thanks, from service here. 474 00:27:44,503 --> 00:27:45,970 Your Honor... 475 00:27:46,038 --> 00:27:50,407 she's removing every juror over 65 without even bothering to question them. 476 00:27:50,476 --> 00:27:53,411 They're peremptories, Ben. I can use them against anyone I want. 477 00:27:53,479 --> 00:27:56,107 The Supreme Court does not entirely agree with you, Danielle. 478 00:27:56,181 --> 00:27:57,205 Really? 479 00:27:57,282 --> 00:27:59,080 In Georgia v. McCollum: 480 00:27:59,152 --> 00:28:01,848 "White defendants accused of assaulting blacks... 481 00:28:01,921 --> 00:28:03,980 "cannot exclude blacks from the jury." 482 00:28:04,057 --> 00:28:07,823 Now we have an old woman murdered. Old people are being excluded. 483 00:28:07,894 --> 00:28:09,555 It's an exact parallel. 484 00:28:09,629 --> 00:28:12,530 Are you saying the defendant isn't getting a jury of her peers? 485 00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:15,898 I am saying the jury should represent the community. 486 00:28:16,035 --> 00:28:18,401 People who look like the victim, as well as the defendant. 487 00:28:18,471 --> 00:28:21,304 The principle of McCollum has already been extended to gender. 488 00:28:21,374 --> 00:28:23,604 It's appropriate for you to extend it to age. 489 00:28:23,676 --> 00:28:26,611 And I can extend it to left-handed redheads. 490 00:28:26,846 --> 00:28:29,508 Maybe I'm overly humble, Counselors... 491 00:28:29,582 --> 00:28:32,643 but I don't feel up to rewriting the Bill of Rights this week. 492 00:28:32,787 --> 00:28:35,415 Ben, if your case is any good... 493 00:28:35,489 --> 00:28:38,151 you can convince jurors under 65, too. 494 00:28:41,996 --> 00:28:43,725 That Mildred was strong. 495 00:28:43,798 --> 00:28:45,231 When she got pneumonia... 496 00:28:45,299 --> 00:28:49,099 as she asked me to sell her ticket for that month's matinee club... 497 00:28:49,170 --> 00:28:51,900 she said she'd be better in time for Miss Saigon. 498 00:28:51,972 --> 00:28:55,806 And was she? I don't know. I went to see her... 499 00:28:56,210 --> 00:29:00,271 and the maid, Spanish girl, said that she had orders from Laura... 500 00:29:00,347 --> 00:29:02,144 no one could come in. 501 00:29:02,883 --> 00:29:04,875 Laura had us all fooled. 502 00:29:04,953 --> 00:29:07,615 Objection. Hearsay. Sustained. 503 00:29:08,390 --> 00:29:10,722 The jury will disregard the last remark. 504 00:29:10,792 --> 00:29:15,024 Mrs. Hodge, please confine your testimony to what you saw. 505 00:29:16,565 --> 00:29:20,661 Well, Mildred disappeared into the apartment... 506 00:29:20,735 --> 00:29:22,464 with a bad cough... 507 00:29:22,737 --> 00:29:26,730 and next time I saw her, she was dead. 508 00:29:28,276 --> 00:29:33,077 Did you have any reason to believe that Mrs. Bauer should have been isolated? 509 00:29:33,148 --> 00:29:35,548 Of course not. She wasn't a child. 510 00:29:35,917 --> 00:29:38,216 And when was the last time you heard from her? 511 00:29:38,287 --> 00:29:42,018 She sent me a note a few weeks before she died. 512 00:29:42,391 --> 00:29:47,090 She wanted to know if I could contribute to the engagement gift for Laura. 513 00:29:47,330 --> 00:29:48,661 A tablecloth. 514 00:29:48,731 --> 00:29:52,064 Mildred said she was going to give Laura some bonds... 515 00:29:52,134 --> 00:29:54,602 for her future great-grandchildren. 516 00:29:54,670 --> 00:29:59,107 And that was to celebrate the defendant's engagement to Mr. Halliwell, correct? 517 00:29:59,175 --> 00:30:00,233 Yes. 518 00:30:00,543 --> 00:30:04,309 I gather the engagement is off. Thank you. 519 00:30:05,781 --> 00:30:07,612 No further questions. 520 00:30:10,453 --> 00:30:14,151 Mrs. Hodge, you had no way of really knowing... 521 00:30:14,224 --> 00:30:16,624 how sick Mrs. Bauer was, did you? 522 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,020 All my friends are dying fairly regularly now. 523 00:30:21,632 --> 00:30:24,328 Mildred didn't have that look they get. 524 00:30:24,468 --> 00:30:27,460 Yes, but you didn't see her for the last weeks of her life, did you? 525 00:30:27,538 --> 00:30:28,698 They wouldn't let me. 526 00:30:28,772 --> 00:30:32,731 Yet you said you didn't see any reason to keep the world away from Mrs. Bauer. 527 00:30:32,809 --> 00:30:36,540 Now, for instance, did you know that her grocer was overcharging her? 528 00:30:36,613 --> 00:30:37,978 How could I know that? 529 00:30:38,048 --> 00:30:42,610 Did you know that a plumber charged her $800 to fix pipes that weren't even broken? 530 00:30:42,686 --> 00:30:45,815 She didn't need to be protected from me. Really? 531 00:30:45,890 --> 00:30:49,826 Isn't it true that you borrowed $300 from Mildred Bauer over a year ago? 532 00:30:49,894 --> 00:30:52,522 Well, the Medicare didn't cover some dental work. 533 00:30:52,597 --> 00:30:54,690 Well, she knew that I'd pay her back. 534 00:30:54,766 --> 00:30:56,256 Did you? I would have. 535 00:30:56,334 --> 00:30:58,529 Could that be why you were kept from seeing her? 536 00:30:58,603 --> 00:31:01,265 Because you were one of those people who were taking advantage... 537 00:31:01,339 --> 00:31:03,330 of your so-called friend? 538 00:31:05,076 --> 00:31:07,442 She twisted everything. Couldn't you stop her? 539 00:31:07,512 --> 00:31:09,275 Mrs. Hodge, I asked you... 540 00:31:09,347 --> 00:31:11,907 if there was anything in your relationship with Mrs. Bauer... 541 00:31:11,983 --> 00:31:13,541 that they could hold against you. 542 00:31:13,618 --> 00:31:16,644 Now, how could I tell it mattered if I had my teeth fixed? 543 00:31:16,722 --> 00:31:19,247 I also said that there are rules in the courtroom... 544 00:31:19,325 --> 00:31:20,986 that do not apply in the outside world. 545 00:31:21,060 --> 00:31:23,358 Well, don't patronize me, young man. 546 00:31:23,429 --> 00:31:25,090 I'm trying not to patronize you, ma'am. 547 00:31:25,164 --> 00:31:28,031 Politicians want our votes, and everybody wants our money. 548 00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:30,864 Otherwise, they don't even see you, unless you're walking too slow... 549 00:31:30,936 --> 00:31:35,339 and then they push you aside. If you're a burden, now they can kill you. 550 00:31:39,645 --> 00:31:43,581 It's no problem. We have the lying and thieving illegal alien maid. 551 00:31:44,049 --> 00:31:45,710 I wouldn't count on that. 552 00:31:45,784 --> 00:31:49,151 Her lawyer called. INS is deporting her in six hours. 553 00:31:54,995 --> 00:31:57,793 It was understood that my client wouldn't face any charges. 554 00:31:57,864 --> 00:32:01,664 The burglary was dropped. Well, thanks for nothing. You had no case. 555 00:32:01,735 --> 00:32:03,168 And we talked to Immigration. 556 00:32:03,236 --> 00:32:05,704 Proceedings against Miss Gonzales will be suspended 557 00:32:05,772 --> 00:32:07,069 until after Laura Bauer's trial. 558 00:32:07,140 --> 00:32:10,576 That won't do her any good. Miss Gonzales has grown fond of New York. 559 00:32:10,644 --> 00:32:11,702 God knows why. 560 00:32:11,778 --> 00:32:16,010 Charlie, you know the jurisdiction was federal. It's out of my hands. 561 00:32:16,750 --> 00:32:20,516 We will need assurances that deportation proceedings will be dropped. 562 00:32:20,587 --> 00:32:22,282 Or what? Or Miss Gonzales... 563 00:32:22,355 --> 00:32:25,689 gets on that airplane tonight, and you fly solo in the courtroom tomorrow. 564 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,662 Wrong. She testifies, or she's jailed for contempt. 565 00:32:29,730 --> 00:32:32,927 She serves that sentence, and then she's deported. 566 00:32:42,476 --> 00:32:43,773 I told her... 567 00:32:43,844 --> 00:32:45,903 you got to feed her or she's gonna die. 568 00:32:45,980 --> 00:32:48,312 And how did Miss Bauer respond when you said that? 569 00:32:48,382 --> 00:32:52,011 She said, "You want to work here, do what I say." 570 00:32:52,753 --> 00:32:56,019 And did you do what she said? I couldn't just do nothing. 571 00:32:56,425 --> 00:33:00,191 I gave her extra food. That's when she fired me. 572 00:33:00,829 --> 00:33:04,663 So what happened after she fired you? I called Felix. 573 00:33:05,067 --> 00:33:08,969 He came to help me take my things. We were going. 574 00:33:09,137 --> 00:33:12,971 That's when I remembered I had Mrs. Bauer's medicine in my bag. 575 00:33:13,041 --> 00:33:14,872 She wouldn't take it that morning. 576 00:33:14,943 --> 00:33:18,106 So please tell the court what happened next, Miss Gonzales. 577 00:33:18,180 --> 00:33:22,276 I went back upstairs and told Miss Bauer I had the medicine. 578 00:33:22,417 --> 00:33:23,884 She said, "Keep it." 579 00:33:23,985 --> 00:33:26,681 Her grandmother didn't need it, anymore. 580 00:33:27,522 --> 00:33:29,457 Thank you. Your witness. 581 00:33:32,962 --> 00:33:36,762 Miss Gonzales, you and your boyfriend, Felix Ortega... 582 00:33:36,833 --> 00:33:40,166 broke into Mrs. Bauer's apartment the day she died, didn't you? 583 00:33:40,236 --> 00:33:43,137 We wanted to see if she was all right. Yeah. 584 00:33:43,206 --> 00:33:44,833 But she wasn't all right, was she? 585 00:33:44,907 --> 00:33:46,534 She was lying on the floor, dead... 586 00:33:46,609 --> 00:33:48,975 and you stepped over her to steal her valuables. 587 00:33:49,045 --> 00:33:51,206 No. We ran away. 588 00:33:51,380 --> 00:33:53,712 You were arrested for burglary, weren't you? 589 00:33:53,783 --> 00:33:54,807 Yes. 590 00:33:54,884 --> 00:33:56,818 Mrs. Bauer's silver candlesticks... 591 00:33:56,886 --> 00:33:59,446 were found in Mr. Ortega's apartment, were they not? 592 00:33:59,655 --> 00:34:00,747 Yes. 593 00:34:00,823 --> 00:34:04,191 And yet, the District Attorney chose to drop those charges, didn't he? 594 00:34:04,261 --> 00:34:06,024 I didn't take anything. 595 00:34:06,096 --> 00:34:08,360 You were scheduled to be deported yesterday, weren't you? 596 00:34:08,432 --> 00:34:11,595 Objection. Relevance. It's relevant if the District Attorney... 597 00:34:11,668 --> 00:34:15,001 used his power, for the second time, Your Honor, to influence the testimony... 598 00:34:15,072 --> 00:34:17,336 of this witness. That is not true, Your Honor. 599 00:34:17,407 --> 00:34:18,669 Approach. 600 00:34:22,579 --> 00:34:26,345 The truth of any testimony here will be decided by the jury. 601 00:34:26,416 --> 00:34:29,476 If I'm slandered, Your Honor, I have to reply. 602 00:34:31,088 --> 00:34:32,214 Miss Melnick... 603 00:34:32,289 --> 00:34:36,522 any more remarks that provoke Mr. Stone will also provoke me... 604 00:34:36,961 --> 00:34:39,759 and you will regret it. Yes, Your Honor. 605 00:34:41,032 --> 00:34:43,728 Mr. Stone, your objection is overruled. 606 00:34:47,672 --> 00:34:49,037 Miss Gonzales... 607 00:34:49,174 --> 00:34:52,405 you were scheduled to be deported yesterday, were you not? 608 00:34:52,477 --> 00:34:53,501 Yes. 609 00:34:53,578 --> 00:34:57,981 And the District Attorney took action to prevent that deportation, did he not? 610 00:34:58,049 --> 00:35:01,576 I don't know. You don't know? You're here, aren't you? 611 00:35:04,222 --> 00:35:05,348 Nothing further. 612 00:35:05,423 --> 00:35:08,985 Miss Gonzales, did I or anyone in the District Attorney's office... 613 00:35:09,061 --> 00:35:13,293 ever tell you to say anything but the truth? No. It is the truth. 614 00:35:13,432 --> 00:35:17,528 And in regard to Miss Melnick's inference about your deportation... 615 00:35:17,603 --> 00:35:19,798 what are your plans tomorrow? 616 00:35:20,539 --> 00:35:23,474 They are sending me back to Santo Domingo. 617 00:35:25,611 --> 00:35:26,942 Thank you. 618 00:35:28,881 --> 00:35:33,477 Grans had some cousins in New Jersey, too. They never visited, either. 619 00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:37,678 So the care of your grandmother fell entirely upon your shoulders, didn't it? 620 00:35:37,756 --> 00:35:41,454 I didn't mind. She could be kind of difficult... 621 00:35:41,528 --> 00:35:45,692 but she said we were a lot alike, that crankiness ran in the family. 622 00:35:46,766 --> 00:35:49,394 Laura, would you please explain to the court... 623 00:35:49,469 --> 00:35:52,199 why you told your grandmother that you were going to law school? 624 00:35:52,272 --> 00:35:54,137 Because I am going to go. 625 00:35:54,207 --> 00:35:57,074 My grades just weren't good enough to apply right now. 626 00:35:57,143 --> 00:35:59,611 I'm taking courses to get my average up. 627 00:35:59,679 --> 00:36:03,547 When you gave Maria Gonzales instructions about feeding your grandmother... 628 00:36:03,617 --> 00:36:06,643 did you ever believe that these instructions would be harmful? 629 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:09,518 Of course not. I was following the doctor's orders. 630 00:36:09,589 --> 00:36:11,955 But she stopped seeing that doctor, didn't she? 631 00:36:12,025 --> 00:36:15,359 My grandmother didn't like him. She was very particular. 632 00:36:15,429 --> 00:36:20,025 I tried to get her to see someone else, but she said she was feeling better. 633 00:36:20,902 --> 00:36:23,166 I just tried to keep her comfortable. 634 00:36:23,437 --> 00:36:26,804 Laura, when you stopped by your grandmother's apartment... 635 00:36:26,874 --> 00:36:31,504 the night before her body was found, why didn't you do anything to help her? 636 00:36:31,812 --> 00:36:35,407 She was in bed. I thought she was sleeping. 637 00:36:37,084 --> 00:36:39,314 I thought everything was fine. 638 00:36:41,188 --> 00:36:44,021 Thank you. Your witness. 639 00:36:46,995 --> 00:36:50,624 I assume you have more than a few questions, Mr. Stone? 640 00:36:51,466 --> 00:36:53,058 Yes, Your Honor. 641 00:36:53,302 --> 00:36:55,497 We'll recess until tomorrow morning. 642 00:36:56,672 --> 00:36:59,436 The loving grandchild versus the undesirable alien. 643 00:36:59,508 --> 00:37:00,805 Now there's an even match. 644 00:37:00,876 --> 00:37:03,071 Everything undermines the maid's credibility. 645 00:37:03,145 --> 00:37:05,841 The boyfriend, the burglary, the deportation. 646 00:37:05,914 --> 00:37:08,678 The INS doesn't deport people who blow up Lower Manhattan. 647 00:37:08,750 --> 00:37:12,311 Why did they suddenly get interested in a Dominican maid? 648 00:37:12,654 --> 00:37:14,178 Let's ask them. 649 00:37:16,124 --> 00:37:18,092 Her name was on our watch list. 650 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,619 We check it against arrest records, there she was. 651 00:37:22,765 --> 00:37:24,858 And here we are. 652 00:37:25,568 --> 00:37:29,629 Why was her name on the list? Was she some kind of notorious maid? 653 00:37:30,306 --> 00:37:33,639 Anonymous telephone informant, a couple of months ago. 654 00:37:33,710 --> 00:37:36,543 Gave us her name, told us where she lived. 655 00:37:36,746 --> 00:37:39,647 Like we can spare people to pick people up. 656 00:37:39,949 --> 00:37:43,214 We put her on the list. Worked out fine. 657 00:37:43,886 --> 00:37:45,683 Somebody gave you her address? 658 00:37:45,755 --> 00:37:49,054 Probably her boyfriend's other girlfriend. That's the usual. 659 00:37:50,893 --> 00:37:53,488 What was the date on that phone call? 660 00:38:02,706 --> 00:38:05,266 I only wanted my grandmother to be happy. 661 00:38:05,342 --> 00:38:09,608 So to make her happy, you lied about going to law school... 662 00:38:09,947 --> 00:38:12,916 and you lied about investing in a restaurant... 663 00:38:12,983 --> 00:38:15,781 and you lied about your engagement to Mr. Halliwell, correct? 664 00:38:15,853 --> 00:38:17,946 It wasn't done to harm her. 665 00:38:18,022 --> 00:38:20,354 You see no harm in lying to an old woman... 666 00:38:20,424 --> 00:38:23,086 in order to get her to give you her apartment? 667 00:38:23,227 --> 00:38:26,994 She gave me that apartment because she loved me, and I loved her. 668 00:38:27,065 --> 00:38:29,397 And you didn't have any resentments toward her... 669 00:38:29,467 --> 00:38:31,958 for demanding your time and your attention? 670 00:38:32,270 --> 00:38:33,328 No, I didn't. 671 00:38:33,405 --> 00:38:37,739 And you didn't resent her for wanting another kind of granddaughter? 672 00:38:37,942 --> 00:38:41,901 One who could go to law school and marry someone like Kent Halliwell? 673 00:38:42,113 --> 00:38:44,479 She had high standards. I respected that. 674 00:38:44,549 --> 00:38:47,916 And you didn't resent her denying you an inheritance? 675 00:38:48,119 --> 00:38:51,748 One that you and your mother thought was rightfully yours? 676 00:38:52,090 --> 00:38:53,819 I am not my mother. 677 00:38:54,359 --> 00:38:57,419 Well, you are either the most patient person I ever met... 678 00:38:57,495 --> 00:39:00,192 or you're lying now to make the jury happy. 679 00:39:00,266 --> 00:39:02,700 Objection, Your Honor. Withdrawn. 680 00:39:03,369 --> 00:39:05,997 Miss Bauer, on the day that your grandmother died... 681 00:39:06,072 --> 00:39:08,370 you told the police that you did not know... 682 00:39:08,441 --> 00:39:11,001 where Maria Gonzales lived, is that correct? 683 00:39:11,911 --> 00:39:12,935 Yes. 684 00:39:13,012 --> 00:39:16,743 Yet the same day, someone called the Immigration and Naturalization Service... 685 00:39:16,816 --> 00:39:19,410 told them exactly where Miss Gonzales lived... 686 00:39:19,485 --> 00:39:22,648 and suggested that she be picked up and deported. 687 00:39:23,856 --> 00:39:27,451 Did you make that call? Objection. Where did this call come from? 688 00:39:27,526 --> 00:39:30,962 Your Honor, we would like to introduce into evidence... 689 00:39:31,030 --> 00:39:34,228 the local usage details on Miss Bauer's telephone. 690 00:39:37,237 --> 00:39:39,899 Yes, I called them. 691 00:39:40,740 --> 00:39:43,174 So you lied to the police, as well. 692 00:39:43,276 --> 00:39:47,576 Why all the lies, Miss Bauer? And why the call to the INS? 693 00:39:48,215 --> 00:39:50,843 Because Miss Gonzales knew what you were up to... 694 00:39:50,917 --> 00:39:53,044 and you didn't want her telling anybody? 695 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:57,614 That's not it. I was confused. I felt guilty. 696 00:39:57,691 --> 00:40:00,421 Of course you did, because you killed your grandmother. 697 00:40:00,494 --> 00:40:02,894 No, because I couldn't save her! 698 00:40:08,069 --> 00:40:12,301 I knew she was dying. She refused to go to a hospital. 699 00:40:13,141 --> 00:40:15,439 She said all of her friends were dead... 700 00:40:15,510 --> 00:40:19,742 the pain was so bad she couldn't sleep, and it wasn't going to get any better. 701 00:40:21,983 --> 00:40:24,577 She told me that she wanted to die. 702 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,279 I begged her to eat. I argued with her, but she was so stubborn. 703 00:40:32,994 --> 00:40:37,158 I felt guilty because I hadn't argued harder. 704 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,694 When she asked me why she should go on living... 705 00:40:42,237 --> 00:40:44,501 I couldn't give her an answer. 706 00:40:56,018 --> 00:40:59,351 Mr. Stone, a priest has been waiting to see you since 8:00... 707 00:40:59,421 --> 00:41:01,548 so I put him in your office. 708 00:41:02,858 --> 00:41:04,086 Thanks. 709 00:41:04,693 --> 00:41:07,127 Mildred Bauer was my parishioner. 710 00:41:08,530 --> 00:41:12,194 When Laura was arrested, the papers made it sound like she was guilty. 711 00:41:12,268 --> 00:41:15,328 I didn't know what to think. But now, I feel that I... 712 00:41:15,405 --> 00:41:18,238 Excuse me, Father, I have to ask you this. 713 00:41:18,641 --> 00:41:21,132 Did her lawyer call you? 714 00:41:21,744 --> 00:41:23,575 No. She doesn't know. 715 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,981 I heard about Laura's testimony on the news. 716 00:41:27,917 --> 00:41:32,149 I mean, I don't know what I know for sure, really. 717 00:41:34,424 --> 00:41:36,984 Mildred came to see me a few months ago. 718 00:41:37,060 --> 00:41:39,722 She was ill. She was in pain. 719 00:41:40,263 --> 00:41:44,428 She said she didn't think God would want her suffering to continue. 720 00:41:45,736 --> 00:41:47,761 I knew where she was headed. 721 00:41:47,838 --> 00:41:51,069 Then she asked if she let herself die... 722 00:41:51,775 --> 00:41:55,643 if she let God's course manifest itself... 723 00:41:55,713 --> 00:41:57,908 would it be the same as suicide? 724 00:41:57,982 --> 00:41:59,813 Now, I cautioned her: 725 00:42:01,619 --> 00:42:04,213 Despair is an insult to God. 726 00:42:04,588 --> 00:42:07,819 God doesn't want her help to work his ways. 727 00:42:08,659 --> 00:42:12,459 And if she did what I thought she wanted to do... 728 00:42:13,097 --> 00:42:16,533 I couldn't bury her. But you did bury her. 729 00:42:17,201 --> 00:42:21,730 She didn't shoot herself. She didn't take pills. I didn't know anything. 730 00:42:22,874 --> 00:42:25,672 I had to give her the benefit of a doubt. 731 00:42:27,846 --> 00:42:30,440 Miss Bauer, it's pretty damn convenient. 732 00:42:30,515 --> 00:42:34,849 You suddenly remember that your grandmother wanted to commit suicide... 733 00:42:34,919 --> 00:42:39,083 after you're put on trial for murder, and the case turns against you. 734 00:42:39,224 --> 00:42:41,954 If you're not a Catholic, it's hard to explain. 735 00:42:42,027 --> 00:42:44,587 I am a Catholic, Miss Bauer. Try me. 736 00:42:45,030 --> 00:42:48,193 Then you know. Suicide is a mortal sin. 737 00:42:49,100 --> 00:42:53,765 My grandmother wanted to be buried in consecrated ground next to her parents. 738 00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:57,368 I couldn't tell anyone. Murder is a mortal sin, too. 739 00:42:57,443 --> 00:43:00,241 You just don't get it. She wanted to die. 740 00:43:01,047 --> 00:43:05,279 Why do you think she never called for help? There was a phone next to her bed. 741 00:43:06,485 --> 00:43:09,318 It doesn't explain why you called the INS. 742 00:43:09,522 --> 00:43:13,049 Maria is a Catholic, too. What if she said something? 743 00:43:13,125 --> 00:43:16,754 What if I had to bury my grandmother in a public cemetery? 744 00:43:17,129 --> 00:43:19,620 You were willing to go to prison to keep this a secret? 745 00:43:19,699 --> 00:43:24,103 I never conceived of being arrested, let alone convicted. 746 00:43:25,205 --> 00:43:26,672 I'm innocent. 747 00:43:27,708 --> 00:43:30,768 Danielle, how can I possibly know this is true? 748 00:43:31,311 --> 00:43:33,575 Your client has a pretty good record of lying. 749 00:43:33,647 --> 00:43:35,308 I had to lie. 750 00:43:35,749 --> 00:43:37,512 I can be forgiven for lying. 751 00:43:37,584 --> 00:43:41,020 Suicide is the only sin that can't be forgiven. 752 00:43:45,292 --> 00:43:49,456 In all honesty, Adam, I'm not sure of anything involved in this case. 753 00:43:49,529 --> 00:43:51,554 It's the jury that has to be sure. 754 00:43:51,631 --> 00:43:53,189 I talked to the funeral home. 755 00:43:53,266 --> 00:43:57,067 Mildred Bauer called a month before she died to make arrangements for herself. 756 00:43:57,138 --> 00:43:58,537 There you are. 757 00:43:58,606 --> 00:44:01,040 Two years ago I bought a cemetery plot. 758 00:44:01,109 --> 00:44:04,169 I wake up one morning, I'm depressed, I skip lunch. 759 00:44:04,245 --> 00:44:06,543 You gonna lock me in my closet and starve me? 760 00:44:06,614 --> 00:44:08,206 Adam, help me out here. 761 00:44:08,282 --> 00:44:12,013 If Mildred Bauer wanted to die, this is not the case we started out with. 762 00:44:12,086 --> 00:44:16,022 You don't know what Mildred Bauer wanted, nor did that girl. 763 00:44:16,090 --> 00:44:18,251 She should have taken her grandmother to the hospital. 764 00:44:18,326 --> 00:44:21,784 To die hooked up to a bunch of machines? Or to live? 765 00:44:21,929 --> 00:44:25,387 I think we ought to offer her a deal. Assisted suicide. 766 00:44:25,466 --> 00:44:28,264 If you believe the girl, she's hardly guilty of that. 767 00:44:28,336 --> 00:44:31,898 That's my problem. I don't know if she's not lying again. 768 00:44:32,441 --> 00:44:34,636 Melnick'll take the plea? I think so. 769 00:44:34,710 --> 00:44:36,871 She knows we've got a shot to convict. 770 00:44:36,945 --> 00:44:39,937 So the two of you want to pressure the girl... 771 00:44:40,949 --> 00:44:44,385 to plead to a lesser offense that she might not be guilty of... 772 00:44:44,453 --> 00:44:47,718 because she's about to be convicted of a more serious crime... 773 00:44:47,790 --> 00:44:49,587 she might be guilty of. 774 00:44:49,658 --> 00:44:52,593 Does that make sense to you? With our system... 775 00:44:52,661 --> 00:44:55,027 and imperfect knowledge, yes. 776 00:44:59,768 --> 00:45:02,293 How long would I have to be in jail? 777 00:45:03,273 --> 00:45:04,604 Two years. 778 00:45:07,377 --> 00:45:10,175 I still don't think I did anything wrong. 779 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:13,579 They remove feeding tubes in hospitals all the time. 780 00:45:14,083 --> 00:45:17,143 If you're convicted of murder, you'll serve 25. 781 00:45:23,092 --> 00:45:25,526 It was so hard to know what to do. 782 00:45:26,729 --> 00:45:29,926 Some days she was so clear about what she wanted. 783 00:45:32,068 --> 00:45:33,592 Other times... 784 00:45:36,307 --> 00:45:37,706 Other times? 785 00:45:38,209 --> 00:45:40,404 We've accepted the deal, Ben. 786 00:45:48,853 --> 00:45:51,344 That girl ought to send you a thank-you note. 787 00:45:51,422 --> 00:45:53,481 She's going away for two years, Adam. 788 00:45:53,557 --> 00:45:56,458 And when she gets out, she'll be, what, 24? 789 00:45:56,527 --> 00:45:58,586 Twenty-five. Twenty-five. 790 00:45:59,897 --> 00:46:03,526 I'd do two years in Attica happily, if I walked out 25.