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In the criminal justice system
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the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups,
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the police
who investigate crime
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and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.
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These are their stories.
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I'm afraid you're going to have to come
out of there, ma'am. Store's closed.
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I'm sorry,
I'm not dressed yet.
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I'm sorry, ma'am.
Rules are rules.
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Are you going to punish me?
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Depends on
whether you cooperate.
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Try this one.
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Jose, this is
completely see-through.
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So?
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Come on,
I just finished my rounds.
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Floors five,
six and seven are all ours.
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What was that?
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Wait here.
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No, here. On second thought, you better go.
Pass key will get you out.
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Bobby, it's Jose. I heard something on eight.
Sounded like shots.
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I'll send someone up.
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Hello, Bobby,
call an ambulance.
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Oh, damn,
it's Mr. Spiegel.
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Jose, what's going on up there?
Who's that?
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Jose?
Irma, baby, I told you to go.
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I got scared.
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Oh, my God!
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Go, baby. Go!
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I was in the seventh-floor dressing
room when I heard the shots.
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That part
of your usual rounds?
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No, no. Not really.
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Well, what were
you doing there?
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If I tell you,
it's gonna cost me my job.
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If you don't tell me, I'm gonna
think you have something to hide.
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I was in there
with my girlfriend.
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It wasn't like that.
She was modeling stuff. Underwear.
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What time did she leave?
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Right after
I found Mr. Spiegel.
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But you gotta leave her out of it.
She still lives at home.
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Her old man finds out,
he's gonna kill her.
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Well, you better come up
with a story for pops,
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because we're
gonna have to talk to her.
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Bobby Fox, head of security.
Before that, 20 years at the 19.
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I was in the security office
when Jose called in the shots.
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The victim's
an executive here?
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Yeah, Richard Spiegel,
chief financial officer.
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Kate Bergreen's husband.
Wow.
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Yeah, the ones who own the place.
Hmm.
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Well, somebody got out without
setting off security.
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Well, the executive suite has its own
elevator and exit to the street.
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No whistles, no bells.
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What about the
rest of the store?
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It's wired all around. But they hand out
the pass keys like they're gumballs.
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I warned them, but unless
you make six figures,
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the Bergreens don't want to
have much to do with you.
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Lucky us.
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Jose told us you got to
the store at about 8:00?
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I don't know why I let
him talk me into it.
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Did you notice anything
suspicious on your way out?
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I wasn't exactly looking.
I mean, I was so freaked.
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That dead guy's eyes
were open, staring up.
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How about when you arrived?
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Can you think of anything
that might help us?
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There was this guy,
this tall, skinny guy
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with long brown hair
standing outside, screaming.
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Where?
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By the executive entrance.
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But at first, I just figured
he was some crazy guy.
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Something changed your mind?
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I saw he was on a cell phone,
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ragging on somebody.
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Did you get close enough
to see his face?
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I was in a hurry.
Jose was waiting.
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Your murder weapon's
a.22 caliber pistol.
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Could be a stealth shooter
for the mob.
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Any signs of burglary?
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Well, they're still trying to
figure out if anything's missing.
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Kind of stuff
that store carries,
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two shopping bags worth
would be quite a haul.
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Best shoe department in the city.
Highest prices, too.
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You know, it also could
be a current or former employee
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running around with a pass key.
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Well, have somebody
run their names through BCI.
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What about the wife?
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Kate Bergreen-Spiegel
has two secretaries.
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One for work, and another one for
her appointments at her apartment.
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You ever hear of that?
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In Danielle Steele novels.
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Yeah, well, her home secretary has managed
to squeeze us in for a 10 o'clock.
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I spoke to Richard about 7:00.
He was waiting in his office for a call.
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Thank you. He said he didn't
know when he'd be home.
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And that's the last time
you spoke to him?
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Yeah.
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You were here all night?
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With Dad,
and Chloe, my daughter.
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How do you tell a three-year-old
her daddy's never coming home?
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Do we
have to do this now?
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Well, it's best to get all this while
it's still fresh in your mind.
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What were your husband's
responsibilities at the store?
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I brought in Richard six months
ago to supervise our expansion.
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More stores? Yes.
Chicago, Dallas and Beverly Hills.
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All Laura's idea.
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My other daughter.
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When my doctor made me retire,
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I made Laura and Kate co-presidents.
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What did Spiegel do before
he came to work for you?
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Richard was CFO
of Cromwell Industries.
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He had a brilliant
financial mind.
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Did your husband have any
enemies that you know of?
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Business associates?
Employees he might've let go?
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I'm sure he fired people.
He did all of that.
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Did he ever mention anybody
who was particularly upset?
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We never talked
about business much.
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You are co-president
of the company.
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I'm president of clothes.
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Everything you see when you
walk through the store.
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Richard handled
everything else.
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With my sister.
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Believe me, I wish I could
take the day off to grieve.
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It's bad enough that your investigation
delayed our opening for two hours.
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The show must go on, huh?
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If the store is open, someone
has to be here running it.
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We understand that Mr.
Spiegel let several employees go recently.
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A few. But they were all given
very generous severances.
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Do you think a former
employee is responsible?
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A man gets murdered in the workplace,
it's a logical place to start.
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Any non-employees
he might've offended?
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Probably several hundred a day.
This is New York.
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I mean business associates, suppliers.
That type of non-employee.
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The only people we seem to
offend is our competition.
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Anybody in particular?
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D&S. Davenport and Styles.
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They seem to think we're engaged
in some kind of holy war.
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Over what?
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Our designers mostly.
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The latest battleground
was Paul Medici.
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They claimed they had him exclusively.
We disagreed.
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Richard was
dealing with the lawyers.
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They were suing you?
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For several million dollars.
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Richard thought that
they were just posturing.
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When was the last time
you saw Richard?
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Around 7:00, as I was leaving the building.
He was waiting for Mr. Medici.
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They'd been
trading calls all day.
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He needed me to come
in and sign some legal papers.
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Papers regarding the D&S case?
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Yeah, that's right.
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Richard said they'd settled their differences
and everyone would walk away happy.
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Yourself included?
Absolutely.
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I'd think a little guy like you gets
put in the middle of a big lawsuit,
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it couldn't be
too good for business.
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There's no such thing
as bad publicity, Detective.
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Actually,
it was a very silly dispute.
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First, D&S said I couldn't sell to
anyone else, then they said I could.
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No, no, no, no, no!
Is no one listening?
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This is three inches too long.
Like this! Go, go. Go make it happen!
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Spring shows begin next week.
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This time of year,
everyone gets on my nerves.
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Everyone except Spiegel?
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I just signed
the papers and left.
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And what time was that?
8:00.
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See, we got a report of a man
matching your description
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outside Bergreen's right about that time.
A very angry man.
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If that was me, I was on the phone
with Valerie, my best cutter.
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You'd think she'd pick
a better time to elope.
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You can call her in Vancouver.
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And where'd you go after
the meeting with Spiegel?
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I was at the AIDS Foundation
benefit for kids at the Armory.
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I donated some dresses.
I even paid for a patron's ticket. $600.
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One lousy litigation.
You believe the mess these lawyers can make?
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Anyone been able to translate?
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Well, D&S claimed Bergreen's enticed Medici
into violating the terms of his contract.
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They said he was making private
label dresses for Bergreen's
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while he was exclusive to them.
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Hey, Lennie, didn't you
work with this guy?
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John Podbielski?
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Pot Belly? Yeah.
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John and I once worked vice in the 13.
He signed an affidavit declaring he'd seen
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the private label dresses being
made at Medici's sweatshop.
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Take him for a walk in the park.
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I'd be looking at Medici.
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He was gonna take a hit
on the settlement?
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Parties to the suit were proposing
that he eat the dresses
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he manufactured for Bergreen.
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Ouch.
Yeah.
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It was a lot more
combustible than that.
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Spiegel's the guy
who proposed stiffing him.
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He doesn't want to pay his bills.
So what else is new?
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From where I sit, Spiegel wanted
Medici going down in flames.
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Why?
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I tell you that,
I'm violating my contract.
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These guys still owe me money.
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You don't want to
help us clear a homicide?
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Hey, Pot Belly, come on.
We collared $5 whores together.
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This is gonna cost me
a very good client.
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Hey, John, how often do you
need a set of plates run?
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Medici's been throwing a little
humpski into Spiegel's wife.
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Ooh.
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Did Spiegel know?
I didn't tell him.
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I don't even think Medici
knew we were on to him.
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How long?
Twice a week at least
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for the two months
I've been assigned.
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Any documentation?
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Like animals they go at it.
I got pictures.
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Okay, we're alone.
We're in this delightful room.
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Now do I get to know why you
had to talk to me again?
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How long you been involved
with Kate Spiegel?
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She's Bergreen's
fashion director.
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She saw my designs a couple
of years ago, and I...
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Who took these?
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Put yourself
in the here and now, Paul.
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Whoever took them, there they are.
That's what we want to talk to you about.
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I'm sure you can understand
why I would be reluctant
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to broadcast my
involvement with Kate.
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Your reluctance to broadcast is
what we call hindering prosecution.
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It's a felony. We were having an affair.
It happens.
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Even among police
detectives, I would think.
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You were the last
one to see Spiegel alive,
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he was screwing you with this
lawsuit, and you're doing his wife.
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I had nothing to do with
Spiegel's murder, I swear.
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Yeah, but if Spiegel
was out of the way,
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it would make things a whole lot easier
for the two of you, wouldn't it?
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You think I wanted to marry her?
To move in together? No.
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I liked things
just the way they were.
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You tell Kate that?
Was that her attitude?
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I don't know.
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She never talked about her
marriage, and I didn't ask.
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Yeah, and the fact that she
had more money than God
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and ran the most important store in town,
this was just a physical thing, right?
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Exactly.
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Yeah, with all
those models hanging around...
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I find all women
beautiful, Detective.
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Yeah, well, Paul, there's
one other problem, see.
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That AIDS benefit you were
attending the night of the murder?
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Nobody saw you there.
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Now,
we're gonna start all over.
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The affair, what happened last night.
Don't waste our time again.
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I was with Kate at my showroom.
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The Medici Benefit.
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What time did Kate leave?
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About 9:30.
241
00:12:38,269 --> 00:12:40,601
Spiegel didn't get
killed until 10:00.
242
00:12:40,671 --> 00:12:44,266
After Kate left,
I called Petra. A model.
243
00:12:44,942 --> 00:12:47,273
She came by at 10:00,
and stayed
244
00:12:49,712 --> 00:12:51,805
all night. You can call her.
245
00:12:57,353 --> 00:13:00,446
A killer's walking around,
my husband's killer,
246
00:13:00,656 --> 00:13:03,888
and you're wasting your time
investigating my personal life.
247
00:13:03,993 --> 00:13:06,427
You haven't answered
the question, Mrs. Spiegel.
248
00:13:06,596 --> 00:13:09,690
I was not with Paul Medici
that night or any other.
249
00:13:09,866 --> 00:13:12,699
Well, Paul says you were with him
at the start of the evening,
250
00:13:12,769 --> 00:13:14,599
and he was with
another acquaintance later.
251
00:13:14,670 --> 00:13:16,570
The later part we got verified.
252
00:13:16,638 --> 00:13:19,300
If Paul says he was
with me, he's a liar.
253
00:13:20,375 --> 00:13:22,309
Was that your daughter
we passed on the way in?
254
00:13:22,377 --> 00:13:25,107
The little girl
standing with your father?
255
00:13:25,180 --> 00:13:26,169
Why?
256
00:13:26,714 --> 00:13:30,514
I wouldn't want her to walk in
while I was showing you these.
257
00:13:35,356 --> 00:13:39,053
Well, I bet the boys down at the
precinct got a big charge out of these.
258
00:13:39,126 --> 00:13:40,251
Did you pass them around?
259
00:13:40,327 --> 00:13:43,263
Were you with Paul Medici the
night your husband was killed?
260
00:13:44,598 --> 00:13:47,726
Is my total humiliation
your objective?
261
00:13:49,370 --> 00:13:52,702
Because if it is,
you have certainly succeeded.
262
00:13:54,641 --> 00:13:58,475
Yes, I was with him.
We had sex that very night.
263
00:13:59,379 --> 00:14:01,609
Would you like to know
what positions?
264
00:14:01,681 --> 00:14:03,205
When did you leave his studio?
265
00:14:03,283 --> 00:14:05,944
I don't know.
About 9:00.
266
00:14:06,018 --> 00:14:07,610
That's not what you
told us before.
267
00:14:07,686 --> 00:14:10,678
Because I wanted to spare
my family embarrassment.
268
00:14:11,023 --> 00:14:13,890
Is that something
you can possibly understand?
269
00:14:13,959 --> 00:14:15,756
Where'd you go after you left?
270
00:14:15,828 --> 00:14:17,853
Home. I was
home from 9:30 on.
271
00:14:17,930 --> 00:14:19,453
Can anyone corroborate that?
272
00:14:19,530 --> 00:14:22,022
I went to the kitchen for some tea.
273
00:14:22,601 --> 00:14:25,832
I went to my father's room.
We watched the news together.
274
00:14:25,904 --> 00:14:28,600
My God, I feel like
I'm a suspect here.
275
00:14:29,074 --> 00:14:32,270
Was your husband aware of
your affair with Medici?
276
00:14:32,343 --> 00:14:33,742
Yes, he was.
277
00:14:34,012 --> 00:14:35,741
And how did he react?
278
00:14:35,813 --> 00:14:37,280
Well, I hate to
disappoint you, Detective,
279
00:14:37,348 --> 00:14:40,545
but there was no big fight.
There was no divorce.
280
00:14:40,752 --> 00:14:42,276
There was no custody battle.
281
00:14:42,353 --> 00:14:43,752
A model family.
282
00:14:43,821 --> 00:14:46,448
Richard and I
had an open marriage.
283
00:14:46,523 --> 00:14:48,548
I was free to partner
with anyone I wished
284
00:14:48,925 --> 00:14:52,417
as long as I took proper
precautions, which I always did.
285
00:14:52,496 --> 00:14:55,897
Then why was your husband playing tough
with Medici on this contract dispute?
286
00:14:55,966 --> 00:14:57,957
Are the two of you dense?
287
00:14:58,300 --> 00:15:01,737
I know nothing about business things.
I never cared.
288
00:15:03,073 --> 00:15:05,906
But Richard was not
out to get anybody.
289
00:15:05,976 --> 00:15:10,504
Well, call me old-fashioned, Mrs.
Spiegel, but I find that hard to believe.
290
00:15:11,447 --> 00:15:13,745
We are not like you, Detective.
291
00:15:15,618 --> 00:15:17,882
So you don't buy
the open marriage scenario?
292
00:15:17,953 --> 00:15:19,443
Not unless Spiegel
tells me himself.
293
00:15:19,522 --> 00:15:21,786
LUDS from Spiegel's
office phone came back.
294
00:15:21,857 --> 00:15:25,758
Six calls the week before the murder
to an attorney, David Solomon.
295
00:15:25,827 --> 00:15:28,022
You know, I think his datebook
listed an appointment with that guy
296
00:15:28,096 --> 00:15:29,427
on his last day.
297
00:15:29,497 --> 00:15:30,759
It could be business related.
298
00:15:30,832 --> 00:15:32,663
A month's salary
this guy's a divorce lawyer.
299
00:15:32,734 --> 00:15:34,224
You're on.
300
00:15:35,203 --> 00:15:37,763
I don't do divorces.
I'm a criminal attorney.
301
00:15:38,173 --> 00:15:40,164
What do you make a month?
302
00:15:40,275 --> 00:15:42,743
You were representing Richard
Spiegel on a criminal charge?
303
00:15:42,811 --> 00:15:44,335
Well, that's
privileged information.
304
00:15:44,412 --> 00:15:47,142
Did it have anything to do with the
D&S lawsuit against Bergreen's?
305
00:15:47,215 --> 00:15:50,446
No, see, that's a civil suit.
I am a criminal attorney.
306
00:15:50,517 --> 00:15:52,041
And I'm a police detective.
307
00:15:52,186 --> 00:15:54,313
What kind of criminal law
do you practice?
308
00:15:54,388 --> 00:15:56,288
Corporate.
Financial fraud, primarily.
309
00:15:56,390 --> 00:15:59,518
What, was Spiegel in some
kind of financial hot water?
310
00:15:59,660 --> 00:16:00,786
I can't comment on that.
311
00:16:00,861 --> 00:16:02,089
Who can?
312
00:16:03,896 --> 00:16:06,626
Bergreen's comptroller,
Charles Herman.
313
00:16:08,101 --> 00:16:10,535
We asked Herman to come in,
he showed up with his lawyer.
314
00:16:10,603 --> 00:16:14,039
Well, we give him a walk on any of the
creative accounting moves he pulled,
315
00:16:14,107 --> 00:16:15,234
he'll dish the dirt.
316
00:16:15,342 --> 00:16:17,775
You think some kind of financial
scam got Spiegel killed?
317
00:16:17,910 --> 00:16:19,400
Hey, money makes
the world go around.
318
00:16:19,479 --> 00:16:23,040
I mean, it's take-a-number time on
who could've wanted this guy gone.
319
00:16:23,883 --> 00:16:25,282
Herman have any kind of record?
320
00:16:25,351 --> 00:16:26,716
He's clean.
321
00:16:28,321 --> 00:16:30,379
Let's see what he has to say.
322
00:16:30,455 --> 00:16:33,720
I told Laura it was wrong and I
didn't want to be a part of it.
323
00:16:33,792 --> 00:16:37,387
I mean, every deduction on my
income taxes is legitimate.
324
00:16:37,762 --> 00:16:39,787
We'll take
your confession later.
325
00:16:39,865 --> 00:16:42,356
Tell us what was
going on at the company.
326
00:16:42,834 --> 00:16:44,027
The company was broke.
327
00:16:44,101 --> 00:16:47,264
Mainly because Laura had so much
money tied up in the expansion.
328
00:16:48,472 --> 00:16:50,167
When things started
going really bad,
329
00:16:50,241 --> 00:16:54,303
she insisted I use the employees' 401
k contributions to pay our bills.
330
00:16:54,412 --> 00:16:56,379
Which is illegal.
331
00:16:56,447 --> 00:16:57,471
She threatened to fire me.
332
00:16:57,548 --> 00:16:58,776
I have two kids.
I can't...
333
00:16:58,849 --> 00:17:00,646
Did Spiegel know?
334
00:17:00,951 --> 00:17:03,146
Not at first.
335
00:17:03,220 --> 00:17:05,415
When he found out, he
confronted Laura in my office.
336
00:17:06,357 --> 00:17:10,190
He said she was breaking the law
and he wouldn't stand for it.
337
00:17:10,660 --> 00:17:12,992
She said she was the boss and
things would be done her way.
338
00:17:13,062 --> 00:17:15,087
Isn't her father still the CEO?
339
00:17:15,165 --> 00:17:16,655
He didn't know anything.
340
00:17:16,733 --> 00:17:18,701
Laura wouldn't let me send
him the monthly reports
341
00:17:18,768 --> 00:17:22,533
while he was recovering from his surgery.
She said bad news might kill him.
342
00:17:22,604 --> 00:17:23,593
What do you think?
343
00:17:23,672 --> 00:17:25,503
I think Laura
was more concerned
344
00:17:25,574 --> 00:17:28,475
about Mr. Bergreen finding
out she was doing a bad job.
345
00:17:28,577 --> 00:17:30,909
Did you ever hear Laura
threaten Spiegel?
346
00:17:30,979 --> 00:17:32,277
Not specifically.
347
00:17:35,484 --> 00:17:39,045
Laura said Kate brought in
Spiegel to make her look bad,
348
00:17:39,254 --> 00:17:42,052
and Spiegel thought
Laura was incompetent.
349
00:17:42,291 --> 00:17:44,623
Yes, our cash reserves are
a little low right now,
350
00:17:44,693 --> 00:17:47,628
but when the December
revenues are posted...
351
00:17:48,197 --> 00:17:51,427
You have to understand that Charles
Herman is a nervous little man
352
00:17:51,499 --> 00:17:54,332
who doesn't understand the first thing
about the retail clothing business.
353
00:17:54,402 --> 00:17:56,336
You said you
left the store at 7:00?
354
00:17:56,404 --> 00:17:57,428
That's right.
355
00:17:57,505 --> 00:17:58,802
And what did you do
after you left?
356
00:17:58,873 --> 00:17:59,931
I stopped for dinner.
357
00:18:00,007 --> 00:18:01,031
Where?
358
00:18:01,108 --> 00:18:02,699
An Indian restaurant
on Sixth Street
359
00:18:02,776 --> 00:18:06,007
between First and Second.
And, no, I don't remember the name.
360
00:18:06,079 --> 00:18:07,068
Did you use a credit card?
361
00:18:07,147 --> 00:18:09,241
No, I paid in cash.
362
00:18:09,317 --> 00:18:13,014
I'm afraid I have to tell you that I'm
beginning to feel like I'm a suspect.
363
00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:14,451
Where did you go after dinner?
364
00:18:14,522 --> 00:18:15,920
I visited my father.
365
00:18:15,989 --> 00:18:17,388
What time?
366
00:18:17,457 --> 00:18:21,325
My God, the only thing that's missing
is a spotlight shining in my face.
367
00:18:21,895 --> 00:18:25,558
I think I got there a little before
10:00, I stayed about an hour,
368
00:18:25,632 --> 00:18:28,259
and then I went home.
Is that good enough?
369
00:18:28,334 --> 00:18:29,323
Did you see your sister?
370
00:18:29,401 --> 00:18:30,527
No.
371
00:18:30,970 --> 00:18:33,962
You were in your sister's
apartment and you never saw her?
372
00:18:34,039 --> 00:18:38,840
My sister has an 18-room townhouse.
It's not that difficult to miss each other.
373
00:18:39,545 --> 00:18:42,513
I don't get how both sisters
could be visiting their father at 10:00
374
00:18:42,580 --> 00:18:45,071
and not see each other.
I don't care how big the place is.
375
00:18:45,149 --> 00:18:46,810
Which one do you like?
376
00:18:46,884 --> 00:18:48,182
Maybe Laura?
377
00:18:48,254 --> 00:18:49,448
Laura gets rid of Spiegel
378
00:18:49,521 --> 00:18:52,490
'cause he's about to expose
her financial shenanigans.
379
00:18:52,558 --> 00:18:56,516
Which would put
her in jail and Spiegel in her office.
380
00:18:56,594 --> 00:18:57,618
Curtis.
381
00:18:57,695 --> 00:19:02,132
Or Kate killed him because a divorce would
make her lose her kid and half her money.
382
00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,428
A woman in a custody battle.
Not a pretty picture.
383
00:19:05,503 --> 00:19:08,903
Okay, good. Send it over to
the lab for prints. Thanks.
384
00:19:08,972 --> 00:19:13,204
A couple of uniforms in the 35 took a.22
Ruger off an armed robbery perp.
385
00:19:13,310 --> 00:19:14,902
Ballistics says
it's our murder weapon.
386
00:19:14,978 --> 00:19:17,708
Perp's being transferred
to our precinct now.
387
00:19:18,548 --> 00:19:22,142
We have some more questions
we need to ask you, Clarence.
388
00:19:22,585 --> 00:19:24,052
Look, man, I already...
389
00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:27,784
I told those other officers that
I robbed the grocery store.
390
00:19:28,158 --> 00:19:29,523
I did it.
391
00:19:29,660 --> 00:19:31,218
You know,
that's very refreshing,
392
00:19:31,295 --> 00:19:33,263
you taking
responsibility like that.
393
00:19:33,329 --> 00:19:37,197
But we're interested in where
you got the gun you used.
394
00:19:37,967 --> 00:19:40,561
But I...
Could I say something first?
395
00:19:41,137 --> 00:19:44,038
I just wanted to tell you
that if smack were legal, see,
396
00:19:44,106 --> 00:19:48,439
I wouldn't have to be robbing nobody,
'cause I would buy it in a store,
397
00:19:48,510 --> 00:19:53,038
and it would probably
only be like a dollar a hit.
398
00:19:53,548 --> 00:19:56,642
That's a very nice vision
of the future, Clarence.
399
00:19:56,751 --> 00:19:59,379
Now, will you tell us
where you got the gun?
400
00:19:59,454 --> 00:20:02,149
I found it in a trash can.
401
00:20:02,222 --> 00:20:03,211
Where?
402
00:20:08,029 --> 00:20:10,259
Are you gonna help me out?
403
00:20:10,999 --> 00:20:13,262
If you give me some answers,
I'll talk to the D.A., sure.
404
00:20:13,334 --> 00:20:16,770
All right.
The trash can
405
00:20:17,971 --> 00:20:21,771
was right outside
this big store over on 50th.
406
00:20:21,842 --> 00:20:23,309
Bergreen's?
407
00:20:23,377 --> 00:20:24,401
Yeah.
408
00:20:24,812 --> 00:20:28,941
Clarence here found the gun in a
trash can just outside the store.
409
00:20:29,015 --> 00:20:32,576
I'll raise you. Laura Bergreen's
prints are on the barrel.
410
00:20:32,652 --> 00:20:35,485
Nice call, Rey.
Her prints are in the system?
411
00:20:35,555 --> 00:20:39,012
Yeah, she was busted for
smoking pot when she was 18.
412
00:20:39,091 --> 00:20:41,525
The gun's permitted
to a Jeffrey Arbaugh.
413
00:20:41,593 --> 00:20:44,859
He gives Seymour Bergreen's East
Hampton estate as his address.
414
00:20:44,931 --> 00:20:48,230
Mmm-mmm. What is it you say, Lennie?
"Thank God they're stupid"?
415
00:20:48,301 --> 00:20:50,326
Yeah, even the rich ones.
416
00:20:54,106 --> 00:20:56,040
Jeffery Arbaugh?
417
00:20:56,108 --> 00:20:58,941
It's Arbaugh.
Rhymes with "saw."
418
00:21:00,011 --> 00:21:04,675
Well, Mr. Rhymes-with-saw, your gun
was used to kill Richard Spiegel,
419
00:21:05,149 --> 00:21:07,617
and you happen to live
in his father-in-law's house.
420
00:21:07,685 --> 00:21:08,982
You want to explain all that?
421
00:21:09,053 --> 00:21:10,042
Richard's dead?
422
00:21:10,121 --> 00:21:11,486
You didn't know?
423
00:21:12,823 --> 00:21:14,120
This is terrible.
424
00:21:15,893 --> 00:21:17,292
Nobody told me.
425
00:21:17,962 --> 00:21:20,692
I don't read papers
or watch TV.
426
00:21:20,765 --> 00:21:24,064
I prefer face-to-face
communication.
427
00:21:24,268 --> 00:21:26,202
Oh, thanks.
I'll remember that.
428
00:21:26,270 --> 00:21:28,295
So, where were you two nights ago?
429
00:21:28,439 --> 00:21:31,635
I was teaching my transcendental
meditation class.
430
00:21:32,308 --> 00:21:37,507
I know, you think TM has been supplanted
by more with-it forms of meditation,
431
00:21:37,580 --> 00:21:38,740
but I have to tell you...
Hey!
432
00:21:38,815 --> 00:21:41,716
How did your gun
end up killing Mr. Spiegel?
433
00:21:42,152 --> 00:21:44,313
I don't consider it mine.
434
00:21:44,386 --> 00:21:45,910
It's registered to you.
435
00:21:45,988 --> 00:21:48,183
Kate felt unsafe
much of the time.
436
00:21:48,257 --> 00:21:52,694
She thought a gun, its being
more than its presence,
437
00:21:52,828 --> 00:21:54,887
would make her
feel more secure.
438
00:21:54,963 --> 00:21:56,260
I bought it for her as a favor.
439
00:21:56,331 --> 00:21:58,663
So it was Kate's gun.
440
00:21:58,734 --> 00:22:01,931
I suppose.
In a physical sense.
441
00:22:02,037 --> 00:22:04,062
What exactly
is your relationship to Kate?
442
00:22:04,139 --> 00:22:08,508
I'm her philosophical and
spiritual exploration guide.
443
00:22:09,344 --> 00:22:11,743
And I feed the dogs.
444
00:22:11,879 --> 00:22:15,007
Did she ever seek your
guidance on her marriage?
445
00:22:16,651 --> 00:22:18,278
I don't think I should...
446
00:22:18,352 --> 00:22:19,842
You should.
447
00:22:20,755 --> 00:22:22,814
She was very troubled.
448
00:22:22,890 --> 00:22:24,220
Why?
449
00:22:24,357 --> 00:22:28,589
Richard had threatened to divorce her
and seek custody of their child.
450
00:22:29,596 --> 00:22:33,999
Mr. Bergreen, your son-in-law was
shot with your daughter's gun.
451
00:22:34,601 --> 00:22:37,195
And your other daughter's
fingerprints are on it.
452
00:22:37,537 --> 00:22:40,529
Somehow, this investigation
keeps leading us back here.
453
00:22:40,674 --> 00:22:44,906
Notwithstanding, my daughters had
nothing to do with Richard's death.
454
00:22:45,078 --> 00:22:48,912
You told us before Kate was with
you the night of the murder?
455
00:22:49,316 --> 00:22:50,543
Correct.
456
00:22:50,816 --> 00:22:52,716
Around 9:30?
457
00:22:52,785 --> 00:22:53,809
That's right.
458
00:22:53,886 --> 00:22:54,978
What about Laura?
459
00:22:56,555 --> 00:22:58,420
Yes, she was here, too.
460
00:22:58,657 --> 00:23:00,249
And what time was that?
461
00:23:00,326 --> 00:23:03,089
Around the same time.
She stopped by.
462
00:23:03,428 --> 00:23:06,727
Mr. Bergreen, were Kate and
Laura with you together?
463
00:23:06,798 --> 00:23:07,822
No.
464
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,867
If either one of your daughters
asked you to provide an alibi...
465
00:23:11,936 --> 00:23:15,498
I answered your questions.
Now get out.
466
00:23:17,775 --> 00:23:22,474
Two shaky alibis, two legitimate
motives, Kate's gun, Laura's prints.
467
00:23:22,714 --> 00:23:24,238
Maybe they did it together.
468
00:23:24,315 --> 00:23:25,475
I sure as hell don't buy
469
00:23:25,550 --> 00:23:28,713
those now-you-see-her, now-you-don't
visits to the old man.
470
00:23:28,786 --> 00:23:30,810
We got no proof
of a conspiracy.
471
00:23:30,921 --> 00:23:33,617
Well, anyone you pick up now won't
be arraigned until tomorrow.
472
00:23:33,690 --> 00:23:37,319
We'll stick them in jail overnight,
see who starts talking.
473
00:23:39,796 --> 00:23:43,356
Laura Bergreen, you're under
arrest for the murder of Richard Spiegel.
474
00:23:43,432 --> 00:23:44,456
What are you doing?
475
00:23:44,534 --> 00:23:45,558
Would you please turn around?
476
00:23:45,635 --> 00:23:47,034
Oh, you're
going to regret this.
477
00:23:47,103 --> 00:23:48,400
You have the right
to remain silent...
478
00:23:48,471 --> 00:23:49,904
Is this some kind of sick joke?
Come on.
479
00:23:49,972 --> 00:23:51,837
Because I am not laughing,
and my lawyer won't be either.
480
00:23:51,908 --> 00:23:54,070
I don't know who
authorized this, but...
481
00:24:02,285 --> 00:24:04,685
Your sister is two rooms down.
482
00:24:05,655 --> 00:24:09,920
I understand she didn't care for the
powdered eggs at Central Booking.
483
00:24:10,225 --> 00:24:13,922
Between fending off advances and
waiting for toilet privileges,
484
00:24:13,995 --> 00:24:16,259
I didn't have time to ask.
485
00:24:16,331 --> 00:24:18,162
I wouldn't think
you'd want to go back.
486
00:24:18,934 --> 00:24:22,994
Has it sunk in yet, Miss Bergreen?
The situation you're in?
487
00:24:23,804 --> 00:24:27,399
You mean being the target of envious
and vindictive district attorneys?
488
00:24:27,508 --> 00:24:31,468
I mean the prospect of spending
the rest of your life in prison.
489
00:24:31,980 --> 00:24:33,948
How'd you sleep last night?
490
00:24:34,015 --> 00:24:37,108
You know something
I've learned as a prosecutor?
491
00:24:38,285 --> 00:24:42,449
Family members turn on each
other as often as anybody else.
492
00:24:43,057 --> 00:24:45,821
Whatever blood oath
they may have taken,
493
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,520
as soon as things fall
apart, one of them talks.
494
00:24:50,263 --> 00:24:53,130
And whoever talks first
is much better off.
495
00:24:53,199 --> 00:24:55,258
Are you offering immunity?
496
00:24:55,735 --> 00:24:57,498
Her gun is the murder weapon.
497
00:24:57,570 --> 00:24:59,697
It was in a drawer
in my office.
498
00:25:00,173 --> 00:25:02,402
Eight thousand people
knew where it was.
499
00:25:02,774 --> 00:25:04,935
You have no case, Miss Ross.
500
00:25:05,177 --> 00:25:08,669
And unless you're dropping the
charges or offering immunity,
501
00:25:08,747 --> 00:25:10,340
we have no reason
to give you anything.
502
00:25:10,416 --> 00:25:12,714
Your client's fingerprints
are on the murder weapon.
503
00:25:12,819 --> 00:25:14,945
She showed me her gun
when she bought it.
504
00:25:15,020 --> 00:25:17,079
She wanted me to see
how light it was.
505
00:25:17,155 --> 00:25:20,181
You were so desperate to stop
Spiegel's plan to inform your father,
506
00:25:20,258 --> 00:25:21,486
you ordered your comptroller...
507
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,688
Says Charles Herman,
who has immunity.
508
00:25:27,099 --> 00:25:29,498
Your New-Age friend
will testify that Mr. Spiegel
509
00:25:29,567 --> 00:25:32,365
was going to divorce you
and take your child.
510
00:25:32,436 --> 00:25:36,133
If that statement were admissible
in court, we'd contest it.
511
00:25:36,841 --> 00:25:37,967
What makes you think it isn't?
512
00:25:38,042 --> 00:25:41,442
My client's conversations with Mr.
Arbaugh are privileged.
513
00:25:41,511 --> 00:25:42,739
On what grounds?
514
00:25:42,812 --> 00:25:43,972
Priest-penitent.
515
00:25:44,314 --> 00:25:48,012
It's amazing. He's like a shrink
and a rabbi rolled into one.
516
00:25:52,123 --> 00:25:55,250
After graduation
from Yale Divinity,
517
00:25:55,325 --> 00:25:58,317
I was ordained
by the Episcopal Church.
518
00:25:59,162 --> 00:26:03,462
Then I ministered two small
congregations in Virginia.
519
00:26:04,100 --> 00:26:06,533
But after a time,
you left the church.
520
00:26:06,602 --> 00:26:09,730
Church work
became too confining.
521
00:26:10,906 --> 00:26:15,343
Too many demands from parishioners,
not enough time for serious studies.
522
00:26:15,678 --> 00:26:17,839
So you never gave up
your religious studies.
523
00:26:17,913 --> 00:26:20,676
Oh, no. Nor did I give
up my counseling work.
524
00:26:20,748 --> 00:26:24,809
I became a
personal spiritual advisor.
525
00:26:25,754 --> 00:26:29,588
So your work with Kate Bergreen
was in your role as clergyman.
526
00:26:30,059 --> 00:26:34,552
Oh, yes. She referred to our
meetings as spiritual sessions.
527
00:26:34,862 --> 00:26:39,196
During these sessions, did Kate
Bergreen ever talk about her marriage?
528
00:26:39,300 --> 00:26:42,030
She talked about her problems
with Richard all the time.
529
00:26:42,103 --> 00:26:46,436
We were working to overcome
them when he died.
530
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,071
Thank you very much.
531
00:26:50,277 --> 00:26:55,647
Mr. Arbaugh, in your capacity as
spiritual advisor to Mrs. Spiegel,
532
00:26:55,716 --> 00:26:57,149
did you receive a salary?
533
00:26:57,217 --> 00:26:58,241
Yes.
534
00:26:58,318 --> 00:26:59,579
What was that salary?
535
00:26:59,652 --> 00:27:02,120
I was paid $400 a week.
536
00:27:02,254 --> 00:27:07,283
And for that $400, did you provide any
services other than spiritual advice?
537
00:27:09,596 --> 00:27:11,257
I helped out around the house.
538
00:27:11,331 --> 00:27:12,558
How?
539
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:18,500
I walked the dogs
and watered the plants.
540
00:27:19,205 --> 00:27:23,266
Some of the people we spoke to out there
said that you also cut the grass,
541
00:27:24,210 --> 00:27:27,804
wash the cars, do some house
painting, clean the pool.
542
00:27:27,879 --> 00:27:29,904
Goes on.
Is this an accurate list?
543
00:27:29,981 --> 00:27:32,074
Sloth is bad for the soul.
544
00:27:32,450 --> 00:27:37,581
What percentage of the time you're
working is spent performing spiritual
545
00:27:37,655 --> 00:27:40,145
as opposed to secular duties?
546
00:27:40,224 --> 00:27:41,624
I'm always a priest.
547
00:27:41,693 --> 00:27:44,127
Who spends most of his
time mowing the lawn.
548
00:27:44,195 --> 00:27:47,790
You can hardly be called a
professional member of the clergy.
549
00:27:47,899 --> 00:27:50,231
The declaration
of belief I took
550
00:27:51,002 --> 00:27:55,961
committed me to the 39 Articles
of the Faith of my church.
551
00:27:57,641 --> 00:28:01,270
Show me one article that says
a priest can't walk the dog.
552
00:28:02,312 --> 00:28:04,506
A court-anointed clergyman.
553
00:28:06,516 --> 00:28:10,919
Wonder how Cardinal O'Connor feels about
being equated with Jeffrey Arbaugh.
554
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:12,514
Not as bad as I feel.
555
00:28:12,588 --> 00:28:15,318
His Eminence doesn't have to try
a murder case without a motive.
556
00:28:15,391 --> 00:28:18,882
Losing Kate's motive
is the least of our problems.
557
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,089
And I don't see
any proof of conspiracy.
558
00:28:22,165 --> 00:28:24,395
They both had reasons
to want Spiegel dead.
559
00:28:24,567 --> 00:28:26,194
They're both tied
to the murder weapon.
560
00:28:26,269 --> 00:28:29,102
Where is the proof
that they agreed to kill him?
561
00:28:29,238 --> 00:28:31,705
Unfortunately,
they didn't sign a contract.
562
00:28:31,773 --> 00:28:32,865
We can't talk to their shrinks,
563
00:28:32,941 --> 00:28:35,910
their friends won't talk to us.
Who's left?
564
00:28:37,345 --> 00:28:39,779
Miss Laura said I should call
her if you people came by.
565
00:28:39,848 --> 00:28:43,545
She was very unhappy with the
mess you made here last time.
566
00:28:43,685 --> 00:28:45,276
I came to speak with you.
567
00:28:45,352 --> 00:28:47,286
Me? I have my Green Card.
568
00:28:47,688 --> 00:28:51,522
I'm not from the INS, Mrs.
Manquez, I'm from the District Attorney's Office.
569
00:28:52,159 --> 00:28:55,185
It's in your best
interest to talk to me.
570
00:28:55,262 --> 00:28:57,456
Okay. Come in.
571
00:29:02,469 --> 00:29:04,994
In the days before
Mr. Spiegel was murdered,
572
00:29:05,072 --> 00:29:07,199
did Kate Bergreen come
here to visit her sister?
573
00:29:07,842 --> 00:29:10,139
I don't remember.
574
00:29:10,210 --> 00:29:11,609
What about Miss Laura?
575
00:29:11,678 --> 00:29:14,408
Did she visit with Kate
or talk to her on the phone?
576
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,107
I don't remember.
577
00:29:17,050 --> 00:29:20,611
Look, Mrs. Manquez, I appreciate
your loyalty to your employer,
578
00:29:20,687 --> 00:29:25,350
but withholding information is a crime.
You don't look like a criminal to me.
579
00:29:33,699 --> 00:29:36,327
I heard something.
It might mean something.
580
00:29:36,401 --> 00:29:37,663
What did you hear?
581
00:29:37,736 --> 00:29:42,173
Well, the night before Mr.
Spiegel died, Mrs. Kate did call here,
582
00:29:42,241 --> 00:29:46,337
and she asked to speak with Miss Laura right away.
So she was with her masseur,
583
00:29:46,411 --> 00:29:48,436
and I brought her
the portable phone,
584
00:29:48,513 --> 00:29:51,276
and I left the room.
I didn't hear nothing.
585
00:29:51,349 --> 00:29:53,010
Do you know where I can
find this masseur?
586
00:29:53,918 --> 00:29:56,819
Very nice people.
Big tippers.
587
00:29:58,389 --> 00:29:59,981
What kind of mood was Laura in?
588
00:30:00,057 --> 00:30:02,184
Who knows about
moods of rich people?
589
00:30:03,126 --> 00:30:05,617
She looked dark, unhappy.
590
00:30:07,264 --> 00:30:09,960
With money like that,
I would be happy all the time.
591
00:30:10,066 --> 00:30:12,933
Was there anything that was making
her particularly unhappy that night?
592
00:30:13,003 --> 00:30:17,804
She didn't talk to me. But hands feel stress.
More after Kate called.
593
00:30:18,742 --> 00:30:20,141
Did you hear
what she said to Kate?
594
00:30:20,210 --> 00:30:22,906
Only when they start to argue.
595
00:30:23,246 --> 00:30:25,874
Then I hear,
"We have to stop him."
596
00:30:26,116 --> 00:30:31,018
I don't want to hear personal conversation.
I say, "Do you want me to leave?"
597
00:30:31,553 --> 00:30:36,422
Now Miss Bergreen angry at me, says,
"You are not going anywhere."
598
00:30:36,859 --> 00:30:38,793
What did Laura say next?
599
00:30:38,861 --> 00:30:43,058
She turned away on phone.
Still argue.
600
00:30:44,165 --> 00:30:47,999
I hear, "If you don't do
it, Kate, then I will."
601
00:30:48,102 --> 00:30:52,403
Then she says, "Okay,"
and come back on table.
602
00:30:53,275 --> 00:30:54,503
Thank you.
603
00:30:54,777 --> 00:30:55,800
Uh...
604
00:30:55,877 --> 00:31:00,337
How about I give you a
full-body massage, no charge?
605
00:31:05,219 --> 00:31:09,348
How many ways can I say it?
There was no conspiracy.
606
00:31:09,890 --> 00:31:11,881
The conversation
between Kate and Laura
607
00:31:11,959 --> 00:31:14,689
is proof of an agreement
to kill Richard Spiegel.
608
00:31:14,761 --> 00:31:18,720
It's one side of a phone call
taken totally out of context.
609
00:31:19,399 --> 00:31:21,229
If anything,
it implicates Laura.
610
00:31:21,300 --> 00:31:22,358
It's an agreement.
611
00:31:22,435 --> 00:31:26,804
If you people had even the smallest clue,
you'd realize that my sister and I
612
00:31:26,872 --> 00:31:29,067
haven't agreed on anything
since the day I was born.
613
00:31:29,141 --> 00:31:30,233
Kate,
let me handle this.
614
00:31:30,309 --> 00:31:33,837
Does anyone care what we really
talked about that night?
615
00:31:33,981 --> 00:31:36,813
Or is mounting my head on the
wall all you're interested in?
616
00:31:36,882 --> 00:31:37,906
Tell us.
617
00:31:37,984 --> 00:31:40,043
Not until we know
what you're doing for us.
618
00:31:40,119 --> 00:31:41,381
Fair enough.
619
00:31:41,454 --> 00:31:45,117
Your client pleads guilty to conspiracy,
we tell the judge she cooperated...
620
00:31:45,191 --> 00:31:48,353
I'm talking about full
immunity. Nothing short.
621
00:31:49,894 --> 00:31:52,454
That must have been
some conversation.
622
00:31:52,530 --> 00:31:53,554
It was.
623
00:31:55,767 --> 00:31:57,098
You have it.
624
00:32:00,904 --> 00:32:05,341
Richard knew Laura's expansion
plans were destroying the company.
625
00:32:05,976 --> 00:32:10,243
He told her she should step down.
She could still be called President,
626
00:32:10,815 --> 00:32:13,874
she just wouldn't be
running the company anymore.
627
00:32:13,951 --> 00:32:17,409
Laura said she'd do whatever
was necessary to stop him.
628
00:32:18,856 --> 00:32:23,623
I called to settle her down, but
all she could talk about was,
629
00:32:24,495 --> 00:32:29,193
"He has to be stopped.
If you don't do it, I will."
630
00:32:33,102 --> 00:32:35,662
Your client has been
indicted for murder.
631
00:32:35,738 --> 00:32:37,228
Why haven't
we heard this already?
632
00:32:37,473 --> 00:32:41,340
I just told my lawyer,
after my stay in jail.
633
00:32:42,711 --> 00:32:44,941
I don't know why
I didn't mention it earlier.
634
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,774
I didn't think she meant...
635
00:32:51,387 --> 00:32:53,616
I guess I didn't
want to believe it.
636
00:33:00,929 --> 00:33:03,454
You want me to grant
immunity to Kate Bergreen,
637
00:33:03,532 --> 00:33:05,295
whether or not
she killed her husband.
638
00:33:05,367 --> 00:33:07,834
Her version of the phone
conversation is consistent
639
00:33:07,902 --> 00:33:11,235
with the theory of Laura as sole
killer, but I don't buy it.
640
00:33:11,305 --> 00:33:15,503
Yesterday, the same conversation
made Kate a co-conspirator.
641
00:33:15,776 --> 00:33:18,404
That's right, and I think
we can convict them both.
642
00:33:18,479 --> 00:33:23,472
And I think with their father as an alibi,
there's a good chance they'll both walk.
643
00:33:24,184 --> 00:33:26,346
We make this deal with Kate,
644
00:33:26,620 --> 00:33:29,180
at least one of the sisters
goes away for the murder.
645
00:33:29,256 --> 00:33:33,089
Are we more concerned with our
conviction rate or with seeking justice?
646
00:33:33,159 --> 00:33:35,684
Laura was
the driving force in this,
647
00:33:37,964 --> 00:33:39,864
and, I think, the shooter.
648
00:33:39,933 --> 00:33:41,764
If you really believe that,
649
00:33:42,735 --> 00:33:44,134
make your deal.
650
00:33:48,273 --> 00:33:51,731
The night before he died,
Laura threatened my husband.
651
00:33:53,011 --> 00:33:56,071
Do you know what
prompted your sister's threat?
652
00:33:56,548 --> 00:33:59,175
My sister knew that Richard was
about to let our father know
653
00:33:59,250 --> 00:34:02,185
about the damage
she had done to Bergreen's.
654
00:34:05,524 --> 00:34:09,483
Why was Laura's fear of exposure to
your father so frightening to her?
655
00:34:09,595 --> 00:34:11,290
Objection.
Calls for speculation.
656
00:34:11,363 --> 00:34:14,195
No one knows Laura Bergreen
better than her own sister.
657
00:34:14,298 --> 00:34:16,357
Objection sustained.
658
00:34:16,434 --> 00:34:17,958
I'll
re-phrase the question.
659
00:34:19,237 --> 00:34:24,368
Did Laura ever tell you how she felt
about being exposed to your father?
660
00:34:24,608 --> 00:34:27,099
Yes. The night
before the murder.
661
00:34:27,177 --> 00:34:28,542
What did she say?
662
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,948
She said she'd spent the last 20 years
working at the store for one reason,
663
00:34:34,551 --> 00:34:37,781
to prove to my father
that she could take it over.
664
00:34:38,053 --> 00:34:42,218
And she asked for the millionth time
how I could have married Richard.
665
00:34:42,292 --> 00:34:43,816
How did you respond to that?
666
00:34:43,894 --> 00:34:45,885
I told her how I live my life
was none of her business.
667
00:34:45,996 --> 00:34:49,159
And what about
Richard's plan to expose her?
668
00:34:49,633 --> 00:34:51,532
What did you say about that?
669
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:52,862
Well, I don't remember exactly.
670
00:34:52,935 --> 00:34:57,167
It was something like,
"Dad'll understand."
671
00:34:58,607 --> 00:35:02,407
I was trying to calm her down,
but she just kept going.
672
00:35:04,012 --> 00:35:09,951
She said if Richard talked to him, Dad
wouldn't give her another chance.
673
00:35:11,319 --> 00:35:14,413
She was talking like
he was going to disown her.
674
00:35:16,324 --> 00:35:18,416
Thank you.
Nothing further.
675
00:35:20,428 --> 00:35:24,524
Weren't you also charged by Mr.
McCoy with murdering your husband?
676
00:35:25,433 --> 00:35:26,627
Answer my question,
Mrs. Spiegel.
677
00:35:26,701 --> 00:35:30,500
You were charged with murder and
conspiracy to commit murder, correct?
678
00:35:30,804 --> 00:35:32,362
Those charges
have been dismissed.
679
00:35:32,439 --> 00:35:36,603
They were only dismissed after you
volunteered to testify against your sister.
680
00:35:36,677 --> 00:35:38,440
I volunteered
to tell the truth.
681
00:35:38,512 --> 00:35:42,312
The entire truth would have to include all
the reasons you had to kill your husband.
682
00:35:42,416 --> 00:35:43,848
I loved my husband.
683
00:35:43,916 --> 00:35:46,476
Your affair with Paul Medici, the
prospect of a messy divorce...
684
00:35:46,552 --> 00:35:48,281
Objection.
Assumes facts not in the record.
685
00:35:48,354 --> 00:35:49,844
Objection overruled.
686
00:35:49,922 --> 00:35:53,688
In fact, your affair embroiled your
family in a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
687
00:35:53,759 --> 00:35:56,955
You had more to hide
from your father than Laura.
688
00:35:58,531 --> 00:36:00,965
None of that changes
what my sister did.
689
00:36:03,436 --> 00:36:07,964
Laura got to Kate's apartment
about 9:45 p.m.
690
00:36:08,241 --> 00:36:10,834
She stayed for
a little over an hour.
691
00:36:11,142 --> 00:36:14,600
How can you be so certain
about the time Laura arrived?
692
00:36:15,447 --> 00:36:18,905
I take my heart medication
four times a day.
693
00:36:18,984 --> 00:36:24,580
That night, Laura brought me my pills a
little before the 10:00 news started.
694
00:36:25,356 --> 00:36:28,086
Thank you, Mr. Bergreen.
Nothing further.
695
00:36:31,762 --> 00:36:36,722
Your other daughter, Kate,
arrived home about 9:30 p.m.
696
00:36:37,201 --> 00:36:38,259
Yes.
697
00:36:38,602 --> 00:36:42,766
And shortly thereafter,
Kate also came to your room.
698
00:36:43,507 --> 00:36:44,565
Yes.
699
00:36:44,775 --> 00:36:49,177
Maybe you can help me with something
that doesn't make sense, Mr. Bergreen.
700
00:36:49,312 --> 00:36:51,542
Kate said she watched
the news with you.
701
00:36:51,614 --> 00:36:53,741
Laura said she watched
the news with you, too.
702
00:36:53,816 --> 00:36:55,841
But they didn't see each other.
703
00:36:57,153 --> 00:36:58,518
How can that be?
704
00:37:00,323 --> 00:37:02,085
Did you watch the news twice?
705
00:37:02,157 --> 00:37:07,185
Yes.
10:00 on nine, 11:00 on four.
706
00:37:09,731 --> 00:37:14,465
Isn't it true that Laura couldn't
have seen Kate that night
707
00:37:14,970 --> 00:37:18,701
because Laura wasn't
at the apartment at 10:00 p.m.
708
00:37:18,774 --> 00:37:20,332
When Richard Spiegel
was murdered?
709
00:37:20,409 --> 00:37:23,242
You have it backwards,
Mr. McCoy.
710
00:37:23,979 --> 00:37:29,917
It was Kate who wasn't at the apartment.
She was at the store. She...
711
00:37:29,984 --> 00:37:31,076
Sidebar, Your Honor.
712
00:37:31,152 --> 00:37:32,585
Objection to the sidebar,
Your Honor.
713
00:37:32,653 --> 00:37:36,180
I'd like to hear what this witness has to say.
The unabridged version.
714
00:37:36,257 --> 00:37:38,350
So would I.
Continue, Mr. Bergreen.
715
00:37:41,394 --> 00:37:43,419
She needed me to cover for her
716
00:37:43,496 --> 00:37:48,866
because she wasn't at the apartment
till after 11:00 that night.
717
00:37:55,041 --> 00:37:57,532
What did she
need you to cover for?
718
00:37:57,610 --> 00:37:59,441
She told me the next day.
719
00:38:02,048 --> 00:38:03,777
She killed Richard.
720
00:38:06,820 --> 00:38:08,582
So your father is lying?
721
00:38:08,654 --> 00:38:11,521
Of course he's lying.
To protect Laura.
722
00:38:11,590 --> 00:38:12,989
Neat trick.
723
00:38:13,492 --> 00:38:18,054
Your father says you confessed, you
deny it, the jury has reasonable doubt.
724
00:38:18,864 --> 00:38:22,060
Your sister walks, and you're
immune from prosecution.
725
00:38:22,166 --> 00:38:25,101
Dad said he was talking
to Laura's lawyer, Greer.
726
00:38:25,269 --> 00:38:28,705
Greer told him I had nothing to worry
about because of the immunity.
727
00:38:28,773 --> 00:38:31,334
Laura's lawyer told him
to offer that testimony?
728
00:38:31,410 --> 00:38:32,877
I don't know.
729
00:38:33,245 --> 00:38:37,442
I know my father would do anything
he had to to keep Laura out of jail.
730
00:38:37,815 --> 00:38:39,009
And you weren't in on it?
731
00:38:39,083 --> 00:38:40,550
Oh, yeah, I was in on it.
732
00:38:40,618 --> 00:38:44,076
Kate has been completely forthright,
and I resent your implying...
733
00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:48,488
Do you think I would volunteer to be
branded a murderer? A husband-killer?
734
00:38:49,025 --> 00:38:50,492
And then what?
735
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,495
I stroll through the rest of
my life like nothing happened?
736
00:38:53,563 --> 00:38:55,531
It's nonsense, and you know it.
737
00:38:55,732 --> 00:38:58,997
Seymour Bergreen perjured himself.
Go after him.
738
00:38:59,069 --> 00:39:01,764
No. No.
739
00:39:02,838 --> 00:39:05,568
The idea that Kate confessed
to her father is a joke.
740
00:39:05,641 --> 00:39:08,166
Hmm.
Some joke.
741
00:39:08,244 --> 00:39:10,213
We go after
Seymour for perjury.
742
00:39:11,648 --> 00:39:14,411
You think that'll get him
to recant his testimony?
743
00:39:14,483 --> 00:39:18,317
The idea sure bothered Kate.
Maybe she'll convince him to come clean.
744
00:39:18,421 --> 00:39:21,584
Maybe she won't.
It's no time to speculate.
745
00:39:22,491 --> 00:39:24,356
Closing arguments
start tomorrow.
746
00:39:24,427 --> 00:39:26,155
We can ask for a continuance.
747
00:39:26,227 --> 00:39:27,922
'Cause your case
is out the window.
748
00:39:27,996 --> 00:39:31,932
If Laura's lawyer told Seymour
to lie, he suborned perjury.
749
00:39:34,068 --> 00:39:35,365
That what Kate said?
750
00:39:35,437 --> 00:39:37,166
It sounded like it to me.
751
00:39:37,472 --> 00:39:40,770
Maybe Judge Larkin will grant us a
continuance to investigate the charge.
752
00:39:40,874 --> 00:39:44,901
No sense being timid.
I'm gonna ask for a mistrial.
753
00:39:50,518 --> 00:39:53,350
Suborning perjury?
That's preposterous.
754
00:39:53,587 --> 00:39:57,921
Prior to his testimony, Mr.
Bergreen asked me about Kate's legal status.
755
00:39:58,425 --> 00:40:01,292
I simply assured him that she was
immune from further prosecution.
756
00:40:01,361 --> 00:40:02,988
The implication is obvious.
757
00:40:03,063 --> 00:40:06,759
He assured Mr. Bergreen he could lie
on the stand at no risk to Kate.
758
00:40:07,033 --> 00:40:10,127
The possibility of an ethical
violation casts a taint
759
00:40:10,203 --> 00:40:12,262
on the integrity
of this trial, Your Honor.
760
00:40:12,338 --> 00:40:13,600
There's the ethical violation!
761
00:40:13,673 --> 00:40:16,164
Mr. Greer,
restrain yourself.
762
00:40:16,542 --> 00:40:18,668
What is it you want here,
Mr. McCoy?
763
00:40:18,743 --> 00:40:21,735
I see no alternative
to your declaring a mistrial.
764
00:40:22,013 --> 00:40:26,348
On the basis of a single ambiguous
statement attributed to Mr. Greer?
765
00:40:26,652 --> 00:40:28,620
We only started
our investigation.
766
00:40:28,688 --> 00:40:31,418
He's desperate, Your Honor.
He's stalling.
767
00:40:32,891 --> 00:40:35,485
I'm sorry, Mr. Greer,
but under these circumstances,
768
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,724
I have no choice but to take the
mistrial application under advisement.
769
00:40:39,798 --> 00:40:41,356
I have
a better idea, Your Honor.
770
00:40:41,433 --> 00:40:44,868
If Mr. McCoy needs some time
to conduct his investigation,
771
00:40:44,935 --> 00:40:46,800
I'd agree to
a short continuance.
772
00:40:46,871 --> 00:40:48,998
How long would you need?
773
00:40:49,073 --> 00:40:50,631
Two weeks, minimum.
774
00:40:52,343 --> 00:40:54,038
You get five days.
775
00:40:55,045 --> 00:40:57,309
Mr. Bergreen,
sometimes we do things
776
00:40:57,381 --> 00:41:00,474
without fully considering
all the ramifications.
777
00:41:01,818 --> 00:41:03,980
Have you thought about the
effects of your testimony?
778
00:41:04,054 --> 00:41:06,784
And I don't just mean
getting Laura off.
779
00:41:07,758 --> 00:41:09,521
You'll always love Kate,
780
00:41:09,927 --> 00:41:13,919
but other people are not as tolerant
as you are of a confessed murderer.
781
00:41:14,030 --> 00:41:17,557
You don't need to concern
yourself with me or my family.
782
00:41:17,634 --> 00:41:20,569
What you said in court
will ruin Kate's life.
783
00:41:20,637 --> 00:41:23,367
She'll be a pariah.
It's an ignominious existence,
784
00:41:23,439 --> 00:41:24,837
and you will be responsible.
785
00:41:24,907 --> 00:41:26,966
Unless
you recant your testimony.
786
00:41:27,075 --> 00:41:30,670
Which would mean Laura goes to jail.
What would you do?
787
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,607
Did you come up with
this scheme by yourself?
788
00:41:33,715 --> 00:41:36,878
You gave her immunity.
It's not my fault.
789
00:41:38,252 --> 00:41:42,713
Either you lied on the stand, Mr.
Bergreen, or you lied to the police.
790
00:41:42,791 --> 00:41:46,090
There's about five felonies
we can charge you with.
791
00:41:47,329 --> 00:41:49,729
Do you really
want to go to jail?
792
00:41:51,632 --> 00:41:53,327
Tell us the truth.
793
00:41:53,768 --> 00:41:57,226
The truth is, I love my daughters.
Both of them.
794
00:42:01,208 --> 00:42:03,607
We'll see how much
they love you.
795
00:42:05,312 --> 00:42:06,973
You're going to be arrested.
796
00:42:14,354 --> 00:42:16,288
Why are you doing this?
797
00:42:17,289 --> 00:42:18,586
We have no choice.
798
00:42:18,657 --> 00:42:22,560
What he said about me is wrong, but
he was just trying to protect Laura.
799
00:42:22,629 --> 00:42:24,256
All of it is wrong.
800
00:42:24,331 --> 00:42:25,696
A trial will kill him.
801
00:42:25,765 --> 00:42:26,959
I'm sorry.
802
00:42:35,174 --> 00:42:37,802
Three days,
no word from Laura's camp.
803
00:42:38,377 --> 00:42:41,278
Where are we
on the subornation charge?
804
00:42:41,347 --> 00:42:43,644
Greer answered
all our subpoenas.
805
00:42:44,382 --> 00:42:46,680
We haven't found anything
in the record to support it.
806
00:42:46,751 --> 00:42:50,209
Yeah, so we go back to trial
in two days with nothing.
807
00:42:50,788 --> 00:42:52,722
See if Laura'll take a plea.
808
00:42:52,790 --> 00:42:54,155
I think we're wasting our time.
809
00:42:54,225 --> 00:42:56,124
You're not being
paid by the hour.
810
00:42:56,193 --> 00:43:01,655
Find out. And if she says no,
we got real troubles, don't we?
811
00:43:08,539 --> 00:43:10,938
I guess your
smear campaign failed.
812
00:43:11,008 --> 00:43:12,942
My office turned over
a truckload of records,
813
00:43:13,010 --> 00:43:14,978
and you still couldn't
come up with anything.
814
00:43:15,045 --> 00:43:17,536
We'd like to discuss
a plea for your client.
815
00:43:17,614 --> 00:43:18,911
How do you sleep
at night, McCoy?
816
00:43:18,982 --> 00:43:20,847
Why don't you
represent your client now
817
00:43:20,917 --> 00:43:22,008
and chew me out later?
818
00:43:22,084 --> 00:43:23,108
We're not dealing.
819
00:43:23,185 --> 00:43:25,085
My sister said she did it.
820
00:43:25,154 --> 00:43:26,621
That's a matter of opinion.
821
00:43:26,722 --> 00:43:29,520
We're prepared to drop the
charges against your father
822
00:43:29,592 --> 00:43:30,752
in exchange for your...
823
00:43:30,826 --> 00:43:33,090
I said no deals.
824
00:43:33,162 --> 00:43:36,029
Is this what you wanted?
Your father going to jail?
825
00:43:36,098 --> 00:43:38,532
He will not go to jail.
He's bluffing.
826
00:43:41,170 --> 00:43:43,934
Laura isn't even interested
in hearing the offer.
827
00:43:44,006 --> 00:43:46,474
Game-playing's over.
Finish the trial.
828
00:43:46,542 --> 00:43:48,100
What about Seymour's
perjury charge?
829
00:43:48,176 --> 00:43:49,871
It's a felony.
If we drop the charge,
830
00:43:49,944 --> 00:43:51,639
we look like
even bigger jackasses.
831
00:43:51,713 --> 00:43:55,012
Offer him a plea and a $10,000 fine.
He can afford it.
832
00:43:55,083 --> 00:43:56,983
Now, go face the music.
833
00:44:03,157 --> 00:44:06,524
Ladies and gentlemen of
the jury, have you reached a verdict?
834
00:44:06,593 --> 00:44:08,356
We have, Your Honor.
835
00:44:17,538 --> 00:44:19,870
Would the defendant
please rise?
836
00:44:20,641 --> 00:44:23,838
On the sole count of the indictment,
murder in the second degree,
837
00:44:23,911 --> 00:44:25,811
how does the jury find?
838
00:44:26,513 --> 00:44:30,915
We find the defendant,
Laura Bergreen, not guilty.
839
00:44:31,451 --> 00:44:35,182
The defendant is released.
The jury is excused.
840
00:44:35,254 --> 00:44:36,983
This court is adjourned.
841
00:44:52,872 --> 00:44:56,932
We screwed up.
We're not supposed to screw up.
842
00:44:58,810 --> 00:45:00,937
You act like it's
the first case you ever lost.
843
00:45:02,681 --> 00:45:05,514
It isn't.
Doesn't mean I have to like it.
844
00:45:07,651 --> 00:45:10,779
A murder goes unpunished,
it's bad for business.
845
00:45:10,955 --> 00:45:15,119
Laura Bergreen's not the first rich
person to get away with murder,
846
00:45:16,861 --> 00:45:18,886
and she won't be the last.