1 00:00:01,236 --> 00:00:03,045 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:03,104 --> 00:00:06,984 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:07,108 --> 00:00:08,883 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:08,977 --> 00:00:11,617 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,846 --> 00:00:13,347 These are their stories. 6 00:00:14,281 --> 00:00:17,160 Fifteen people? I cooked enough for 50. 7 00:00:17,217 --> 00:00:18,821 You think anyone eats it? 8 00:00:18,952 --> 00:00:20,556 So concerned if they're gonna fit 9 00:00:20,621 --> 00:00:22,191 into their tiny little clothes. 10 00:00:22,289 --> 00:00:23,734 Well, I guess a rehearsal dinner, 11 00:00:23,790 --> 00:00:26,794 Mr. and Mrs. Vance want to make sure they put out a good spread. 12 00:00:26,860 --> 00:00:29,534 Honey, if I had that spread when I was getting married, 13 00:00:29,596 --> 00:00:32,008 my man might've stayed just for the leftovers. 14 00:00:32,065 --> 00:00:33,066 (LAUGHING) 15 00:00:34,868 --> 00:00:37,678 Oh! Sweet Jesus! 16 00:00:37,838 --> 00:00:39,646 It's Christy Garrison! 17 00:00:39,705 --> 00:00:41,707 Quick, get Mr. Vance! 18 00:00:42,275 --> 00:00:44,277 Christy Garrison, 15. 19 00:00:44,343 --> 00:00:46,619 ID'd by her dad, Michael Garrison. 20 00:00:46,679 --> 00:00:49,489 You read about him? Guy's worth half a billion dollars. 21 00:00:49,548 --> 00:00:51,687 Another lesson in what money can't buy. 22 00:00:51,751 --> 00:00:53,162 He the suit or the blue shirt? 23 00:00:53,219 --> 00:00:55,995 Blue shirt. Guy in the suit is Mark Vance, the neighbor. 24 00:00:56,055 --> 00:00:57,693 That the lady who found the girl? 25 00:00:57,757 --> 00:01:00,431 Yeah, Vondie Morris. She's the Vances' cook. 26 00:01:00,559 --> 00:01:02,800 She wrings her hands one more time, they're gonna fall off. 27 00:01:03,329 --> 00:01:04,636 Anything in her pockets? 28 00:01:04,696 --> 00:01:06,869 20 bucks. An inhaler, full. 29 00:01:06,932 --> 00:01:09,105 BRISCOE: Ah, asthma. Sex? 30 00:01:09,334 --> 00:01:11,439 Don't know. Clothes aren't torn, her nails look fine. 31 00:01:11,503 --> 00:01:12,777 No sign of a struggle. 32 00:01:12,871 --> 00:01:15,613 Yeah, except somebody clocked her against the wall. 33 00:01:15,740 --> 00:01:18,744 Well, no robbery. Her jewelry's still on. 34 00:01:19,044 --> 00:01:20,751 Stick here, Agnelli. Be nice. 35 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,360 Miss Morris, uh, you came outside... 36 00:01:24,416 --> 00:01:27,329 At 7:30. I let Nell in, another maid. 37 00:01:27,385 --> 00:01:29,261 I'm a live-in. Nell, she lives out. 38 00:01:29,386 --> 00:01:31,957 You see or hear anything last night? Early this morning? 39 00:01:32,022 --> 00:01:34,628 No. I was tired. Had an early night. 40 00:01:34,992 --> 00:01:36,062 You knew this girl? 41 00:01:36,126 --> 00:01:39,664 I've seen her time to time. Outside smoking, that's all. 42 00:01:40,597 --> 00:01:43,168 Do you need me? I got breakfast to put on the table. 43 00:01:43,233 --> 00:01:44,541 No. Maybe later. Thanks. 44 00:01:44,635 --> 00:01:45,943 ED: ...doing outside in the middle of the night? 45 00:01:46,003 --> 00:01:47,073 I don't know what she was doing outside 46 00:01:47,137 --> 00:01:48,548 in the middle of the night, Detective. 47 00:01:48,605 --> 00:01:49,777 We all went to bed early. 48 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,377 We had dinner together last night. Our house. 49 00:01:53,010 --> 00:01:54,113 Both families. Everyone. 50 00:01:54,177 --> 00:01:56,179 Anybody have a bedroom faces the alley? 51 00:01:56,713 --> 00:01:59,455 Yes, we do. But we didn't hear anything. 52 00:01:59,716 --> 00:02:03,289 You go in, Mr. Garrison. You be with your family. We'll be in shortly. 53 00:02:04,287 --> 00:02:05,891 Is that gate locked all the time? 54 00:02:06,089 --> 00:02:07,159 Yes. 55 00:02:08,124 --> 00:02:11,196 Uh, who has access to it from the outside? 56 00:02:11,594 --> 00:02:13,972 Immediate families. Mine, Michael's. 57 00:02:14,330 --> 00:02:16,606 My chauffeur, Sammy. He's the only one with an opener. 58 00:02:16,666 --> 00:02:17,804 Could you get him, please? 59 00:02:17,867 --> 00:02:20,142 He's not here yet. He was due at 6:30. 60 00:02:20,202 --> 00:02:21,545 He late a lot? 61 00:02:21,603 --> 00:02:22,775 Not like this. 62 00:02:22,838 --> 00:02:24,875 He comes, takes the limo out of the garage, pulls it up. 63 00:02:24,973 --> 00:02:26,384 Can we see the limo? 64 00:02:26,441 --> 00:02:27,647 Yes, of course. 65 00:02:29,144 --> 00:02:30,521 Sammy been with you long? 66 00:02:30,612 --> 00:02:33,149 Since the beginning of the year. He's Vondie's son. 67 00:02:36,485 --> 00:02:39,364 Why do I get the feeling Sammy won't be calling in sick? 68 00:03:29,569 --> 00:03:32,607 I haven't seen my son. He doesn't check in with me. 69 00:03:32,672 --> 00:03:34,413 Did you talk to him on the phone? Uh-uh. 70 00:03:34,941 --> 00:03:36,681 Any idea where he is? 71 00:03:36,742 --> 00:03:38,881 Mr. Vance knows where he lives. 72 00:03:39,077 --> 00:03:41,387 We sent a patrol car to his house, Mrs. Morris. 73 00:03:41,547 --> 00:03:42,958 Sammy wasn't there. 74 00:03:43,015 --> 00:03:44,085 Now, where else could he be? 75 00:03:44,149 --> 00:03:45,219 A girlfriend? 76 00:03:45,284 --> 00:03:47,230 I don't know why he's not here. 77 00:03:47,319 --> 00:03:48,696 I don't know why you're so keen on 78 00:03:48,754 --> 00:03:52,224 whoever killed that poor child being my child. 79 00:03:52,291 --> 00:03:55,363 I'm just keen on finding out who did it, Mrs. Morris. 80 00:03:55,427 --> 00:04:00,342 Why is it always some raised-right black boy you got your eye on? 81 00:04:03,634 --> 00:04:05,204 She must have gone outside. 82 00:04:05,837 --> 00:04:07,544 She knew I hated smoking. 83 00:04:08,539 --> 00:04:10,314 I should have let her smoke in here. 84 00:04:11,175 --> 00:04:13,086 Did she know Sammy Morris? 85 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:17,291 I can't see how. 86 00:04:17,348 --> 00:04:18,952 Christy goes to boarding school. 87 00:04:19,250 --> 00:04:21,127 She's just been back two days. 88 00:04:21,185 --> 00:04:22,789 Either of you have dealings with him? 89 00:04:23,121 --> 00:04:25,431 He drove us, Nick and me. 90 00:04:25,722 --> 00:04:26,826 Nick is? 91 00:04:26,990 --> 00:04:29,971 Mercedes' fiancé, Nicholas Vance. 92 00:04:31,461 --> 00:04:32,940 What's Sammy like? 93 00:04:33,463 --> 00:04:35,966 I don't know. He's just the driver. 94 00:04:36,233 --> 00:04:39,237 The last time either of you saw Christy was what time? 95 00:04:39,302 --> 00:04:41,782 We left the Vances' around 10:00 o'clock. 96 00:04:42,672 --> 00:04:44,049 Mike Vance was tired. 97 00:04:44,107 --> 00:04:46,610 He had, uh, chemo for prostate cancer. 98 00:04:47,277 --> 00:04:49,985 So, it was right after that, 99 00:04:52,114 --> 00:04:54,822 maybe 10:30, when my angel went to bed. 100 00:04:57,052 --> 00:04:58,690 The last time I saw her. 101 00:05:00,756 --> 00:05:02,963 Mark leaves before I'm awake. 102 00:05:03,292 --> 00:05:05,033 I rarely see Sammy. 103 00:05:05,394 --> 00:05:07,431 He seemed a nice enough young man. 104 00:05:07,696 --> 00:05:08,868 How about you two? 105 00:05:08,931 --> 00:05:11,207 He sometimes drives me when Dad doesn't need him. 106 00:05:11,267 --> 00:05:13,110 He's a pretty friendly guy. 107 00:05:13,169 --> 00:05:14,944 Friendly with the neighbors? 108 00:05:15,004 --> 00:05:17,677 If Christy was outside, I'm sure he would have talked to her. 109 00:05:18,673 --> 00:05:19,708 You ever talk to him? 110 00:05:19,774 --> 00:05:22,277 No. Dad won't let him drive me. 111 00:05:22,343 --> 00:05:24,254 Ethan doesn't need a driver. 112 00:05:24,579 --> 00:05:26,957 Caught him outside smoking a joint one morning. 113 00:05:27,182 --> 00:05:29,458 Said something about it, and he just told me to shut up. 114 00:05:29,584 --> 00:05:30,824 Any other problems? 115 00:05:30,885 --> 00:05:34,264 A week ago my father said he had to set Sammy straight. 116 00:05:34,322 --> 00:05:35,960 Set him straight? 117 00:05:36,024 --> 00:05:37,230 MERCEDES: Nick. 118 00:05:39,127 --> 00:05:40,800 BRISCOE: Excuse me. I hate to intrude, 119 00:05:40,862 --> 00:05:43,774 but your father had to set Sammy straight about what? 120 00:05:43,830 --> 00:05:46,367 He was using the limo's car phone for personal calls. 121 00:05:46,500 --> 00:05:47,843 Who was he calling? 122 00:05:48,001 --> 00:05:49,412 Sounded like a girlfriend. 123 00:05:49,636 --> 00:05:51,638 You know who she is? No, sir. 124 00:05:51,705 --> 00:05:53,378 Do you have the cell phone bills? 125 00:05:54,775 --> 00:05:57,381 Regina isn't here. What's she done? 126 00:05:57,444 --> 00:05:59,651 We're after her boyfriend, Sammy. 127 00:05:59,746 --> 00:06:01,987 She left with him last night. What time? 128 00:06:02,049 --> 00:06:03,790 I heard them. Five something in the morning, 129 00:06:03,850 --> 00:06:05,523 they're dressed, going out the door. 130 00:06:05,586 --> 00:06:07,064 Any idea where they might have gone? 131 00:06:07,119 --> 00:06:10,123 She said they were going to her sister Evelyn's in Queens. 132 00:06:10,223 --> 00:06:11,429 I hope they stay there. 133 00:06:11,524 --> 00:06:13,401 I can get some sleep for a change. 134 00:06:13,459 --> 00:06:14,767 You got the sister's address? 135 00:06:14,827 --> 00:06:16,363 Yeah. I'll get it. 136 00:06:20,166 --> 00:06:21,406 I come home after the night shift, 137 00:06:21,467 --> 00:06:22,946 the wife and kids are gone. 138 00:06:23,336 --> 00:06:25,338 Bitch takes the suitcase, the kids' clothes. 139 00:06:25,404 --> 00:06:27,475 Any idea where they'd go that time of night, Mr. Jasper? 140 00:06:27,540 --> 00:06:29,417 That time of night, I expect my wife flat 141 00:06:29,475 --> 00:06:31,386 on her back in bed, legs spread. 142 00:06:32,043 --> 00:06:34,250 Her busy-body sister, Reggie, she must have put her up to this. 143 00:06:34,312 --> 00:06:35,450 Yeah, well, leaving you in the lurch and all. 144 00:06:35,513 --> 00:06:38,926 My point. So, you're gonna get my kids, right? 145 00:06:39,117 --> 00:06:40,118 Bring my wife back? 146 00:06:40,252 --> 00:06:43,290 Well, we'd love to help you out, Mr. Jasper, but we don't know where they are. 147 00:06:43,355 --> 00:06:45,631 Well, where'd she go? It'll only be her mother's in Jersey. 148 00:06:47,292 --> 00:06:50,296 This time, I want you to arrest my no-good husband. 149 00:06:50,428 --> 00:06:53,034 Well, actually we're looking for Sammy Morris. 150 00:06:53,231 --> 00:06:54,676 You're Regina Cobb? 151 00:06:54,799 --> 00:06:58,268 Reggie. What do you want with Sammy? Man's a hero. 152 00:06:58,402 --> 00:07:00,143 Sure. Where's the hero now? 153 00:07:00,204 --> 00:07:02,184 My sister calls last night. 154 00:07:02,239 --> 00:07:04,981 Says Frankie the Fist beat on her before going to work. 155 00:07:05,042 --> 00:07:07,147 Come get her. I call Sammy. 156 00:07:07,278 --> 00:07:10,418 He says he'll get the limo, come over, get me, go to Queens, 157 00:07:10,481 --> 00:07:12,188 we'll get my sister, the kids. 158 00:07:12,249 --> 00:07:14,195 So, he stole Mr. Vance's limo? 159 00:07:14,251 --> 00:07:15,252 Borrowed. 160 00:07:15,452 --> 00:07:16,954 He brought us by here. 161 00:07:17,021 --> 00:07:19,194 And then what? He just vanishes? 162 00:07:21,959 --> 00:07:23,369 Brady threw up again. 163 00:07:23,426 --> 00:07:26,066 These men don't need to know your brother's business. 164 00:07:26,129 --> 00:07:27,665 Your little brother got sick? 165 00:07:27,764 --> 00:07:30,643 In the car. Uncle Sammy was mad. 166 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:32,577 He gotta get the car washed. 167 00:07:33,836 --> 00:07:36,180 So, where's the nearest car wash? 168 00:07:36,739 --> 00:07:38,412 Sammy Morris? 169 00:07:39,409 --> 00:07:41,446 Yeah. We need you to come with us. 170 00:07:41,511 --> 00:07:42,956 What for? Borrowing the car? 171 00:07:43,012 --> 00:07:45,117 For the murder of Christy Garrison. 172 00:07:45,181 --> 00:07:47,024 What, the sister? She's murdered? 173 00:07:47,283 --> 00:07:48,989 You're kidding me. If I was kidding you, 174 00:07:49,051 --> 00:07:50,997 I'd be wearing a fez and no pants. 175 00:07:51,053 --> 00:07:53,363 I didn't do anything, man. I swear for God. 176 00:07:53,422 --> 00:07:56,096 School ID. Christy Francis Garrison. 177 00:07:56,191 --> 00:07:59,195 Lipstick inside, pocket mirror, palm pilot. 178 00:07:59,328 --> 00:08:00,329 Let's go. 179 00:08:01,596 --> 00:08:03,598 I was bringing the limo back. 180 00:08:03,899 --> 00:08:06,675 Accident in the tunnel held us up, Brady got sick. 181 00:08:06,802 --> 00:08:08,076 I had to wait for the car wash to open. 182 00:08:08,136 --> 00:08:09,809 I couldn't bring the limo back like that. 183 00:08:09,871 --> 00:08:11,942 Yeah, right. Compared to offing the neighbor, 184 00:08:12,007 --> 00:08:14,043 messing up the boss's car is a big no-no. 185 00:08:14,108 --> 00:08:16,315 I had nothing to do with what happened to that girl. 186 00:08:16,377 --> 00:08:17,947 Lab found semen in the back seat, 187 00:08:18,012 --> 00:08:19,923 Sam, next to Christy's disco bag. 188 00:08:19,980 --> 00:08:21,550 You have nothing to do with that? 189 00:08:21,816 --> 00:08:23,523 What, you think I'm gonna hop in the back seat, 190 00:08:23,684 --> 00:08:26,221 have a go at my girlfriend, her sister and kids in the car? 191 00:08:26,287 --> 00:08:28,563 Actually, that's not what we were thinking. 192 00:08:30,324 --> 00:08:31,769 Is my mom okay? 193 00:08:31,826 --> 00:08:34,170 BRISCOE: Your mom's fine, kid. She's the true believer. 194 00:08:34,228 --> 00:08:36,333 I didn't do anything. That's why she believes me. 195 00:08:36,397 --> 00:08:38,967 Well, she's the only one holding down the fort. 196 00:08:39,132 --> 00:08:41,669 You ask Mr. Vance. He knows I had nothing to do with it. 197 00:08:41,768 --> 00:08:42,906 How would he know? 198 00:08:44,270 --> 00:08:46,307 I get along with him. He gives me my props. 199 00:08:46,373 --> 00:08:49,183 And Christy Garrison? She disrespect you? 200 00:08:49,242 --> 00:08:50,482 I don't know her. 201 00:08:50,577 --> 00:08:53,148 But the rest of her family, they got more money than manners. 202 00:08:53,246 --> 00:08:55,351 Right. So, you figure you make friends with Christy, 203 00:08:55,415 --> 00:08:58,521 get close to that money, and maybe some of it falls in your pocket. 204 00:08:58,585 --> 00:09:01,361 Around those people, I keep my hands in my pocket. 205 00:09:01,855 --> 00:09:04,391 All right, so if you're straight with this, you'll volunteer some blood. 206 00:09:04,456 --> 00:09:05,935 We can test it against the semen. 207 00:09:06,225 --> 00:09:08,637 Do it. So, my mom won't get in trouble. Go ahead. 208 00:09:10,729 --> 00:09:14,836 No jackpot, gentlemen. Lab says Sammy's blood doesn't type with the semen. 209 00:09:14,933 --> 00:09:16,776 Lot of traffic in that limo. 210 00:09:16,835 --> 00:09:20,681 The M.E. put the time of death between 3:00 and 5:00 in the morning. 211 00:09:20,839 --> 00:09:22,910 So, who came knocking at her back door last night? 212 00:09:22,975 --> 00:09:24,386 I found something. 213 00:09:24,443 --> 00:09:26,116 It's a handwritten note in her palm pilot. 214 00:09:26,211 --> 00:09:29,350 "It's the bomb. Call me." And it's signed Kelly. 215 00:09:29,414 --> 00:09:32,486 There's a phone number and a time, 12:30 last night. 216 00:09:32,583 --> 00:09:35,359 Maybe Christy went out, brought someone back with her. 217 00:09:35,420 --> 00:09:38,833 Her parents said the little angel went to bed at 10:30. 218 00:09:39,357 --> 00:09:40,461 You were never a kid? 219 00:09:40,525 --> 00:09:42,505 Allspice didn't take his ginkgo. 220 00:09:43,661 --> 00:09:46,005 I met Christy down at Club Isis, on Avenue B. 221 00:09:46,064 --> 00:09:47,566 She with anybody, Kelly? 222 00:09:47,632 --> 00:09:50,476 Everybody. She was wasted. Coming on to everyone. 223 00:09:50,535 --> 00:09:52,640 BRISCOE: What's this note "It's the bomb" mean? 224 00:09:52,703 --> 00:09:53,875 It means it's cool. 225 00:09:53,938 --> 00:09:55,541 What was cool? The whole scene. 226 00:09:55,605 --> 00:09:58,142 So, you met her, you hung out a little while, then what? 227 00:09:58,208 --> 00:09:59,516 She had trouble breathing. 228 00:09:59,576 --> 00:10:01,749 I think she ran out of her asthma medication or something. 229 00:10:01,812 --> 00:10:03,723 She left with some guy. ED: You know him? 230 00:10:04,281 --> 00:10:05,385 You remember what he looked like? 231 00:10:05,449 --> 00:10:06,450 WOMAN: Kelly. I don't know. 232 00:10:06,516 --> 00:10:08,359 Look, I gotta go help a customer. 233 00:10:08,452 --> 00:10:09,590 No, you gotta help us. 234 00:10:09,719 --> 00:10:12,791 Now, what did the boy at this cool scene look like? 235 00:10:12,856 --> 00:10:16,360 He was cute. Just a general impression. It was dark, you know? 236 00:10:16,460 --> 00:10:18,201 He wearing anything you remember? 237 00:10:18,628 --> 00:10:19,628 No. 238 00:10:20,262 --> 00:10:23,266 Okay, go ahead. Thanks for all your help. 239 00:10:23,332 --> 00:10:27,109 CSU found a full inhaler in Christy's pocket at the scene, 240 00:10:27,169 --> 00:10:29,115 but her inhaler was empty at the club. 241 00:10:29,205 --> 00:10:32,152 There's a 24-hour drugstore on First and Avenue A. 242 00:10:33,275 --> 00:10:36,848 Yeah, I remember her. Pretty girl. Pretty sick. 243 00:10:37,179 --> 00:10:40,490 She came in with a boy, showed me her inhaler, and, uh, wanted a refill. 244 00:10:40,616 --> 00:10:42,425 You give it to her? Oh, yeah. Standard procedure. 245 00:10:42,485 --> 00:10:44,590 I gave her one from behind the counter to hold her. 246 00:10:44,652 --> 00:10:47,462 Got her doc's phone number, went to call for a refill, 247 00:10:47,522 --> 00:10:49,559 and when I got back, they're gone. 248 00:10:49,657 --> 00:10:51,364 Can we see your security camera tapes? 249 00:10:51,426 --> 00:10:52,996 Yeah, sure. 250 00:10:55,530 --> 00:10:56,531 Okay. 251 00:10:57,599 --> 00:10:58,600 There. 252 00:10:58,733 --> 00:11:00,144 Time stamp's in the corner. 253 00:11:00,268 --> 00:11:03,806 BRISCOE: 12:56 a.m. There's Christy. 254 00:11:07,175 --> 00:11:08,176 Who's that? 255 00:11:10,077 --> 00:11:12,148 BRISCOE: That's Ethan Vance. 256 00:11:12,412 --> 00:11:15,052 Another angel who went to bed early. 257 00:11:21,154 --> 00:11:22,792 She called me just before midnight, 258 00:11:22,856 --> 00:11:24,164 and she said she wanted to go to a club. 259 00:11:24,224 --> 00:11:25,498 ED: How'd she sound? 260 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:28,665 She was up for going out. A witness at the club said she was wasted. 261 00:11:28,729 --> 00:11:30,800 Look it, I didn't give her anything, okay? 262 00:11:30,898 --> 00:11:34,505 Look it, you lied to us, okay? Believing you isn't at the top of our list. 263 00:11:34,668 --> 00:11:35,975 I don't like your tone, Detective. 264 00:11:36,035 --> 00:11:38,208 I was trying to protect her reputation. 265 00:11:38,337 --> 00:11:40,339 She gonna get a rep for wheezing? 266 00:11:41,574 --> 00:11:43,076 So, you brought her home. Then what? 267 00:11:43,476 --> 00:11:46,389 I stayed with her while she had a smoke, and I went to bed. 268 00:11:46,546 --> 00:11:47,547 BRISCOE: What time? 269 00:11:48,414 --> 00:11:50,416 Uh, I don't know It was before 2:00. 270 00:11:50,483 --> 00:11:53,760 You didn't take her out for a quick spin around the back of the limo? 271 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:55,321 No. 272 00:11:55,621 --> 00:11:58,761 ED: We heard she was at the club flirting with anything with a heartbeat. 273 00:11:59,225 --> 00:12:00,226 Yeah. So? 274 00:12:00,293 --> 00:12:01,293 That make you jealous? 275 00:12:02,527 --> 00:12:03,528 That was kid stuff. 276 00:12:03,595 --> 00:12:05,268 Well, at 15, she was a kid. 277 00:12:05,330 --> 00:12:06,707 Maybe you should have thought of that before 278 00:12:06,765 --> 00:12:08,767 you took advantage of her condition. KAUFER: That's enough. 279 00:12:08,967 --> 00:12:10,947 He admits to being with Miss Garrison, 280 00:12:11,002 --> 00:12:12,447 not to having sexual relations. 281 00:12:12,504 --> 00:12:14,450 Fine. Then let him volunteer his blood. 282 00:12:14,506 --> 00:12:16,543 KAUFER: Absolutely not. ED: Sammy Morris gave blood. 283 00:12:16,608 --> 00:12:18,315 He isn't Sammy Morris. 284 00:12:19,477 --> 00:12:21,479 You said you'd cooperate. 285 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:23,785 We have. But on this point, 286 00:12:23,848 --> 00:12:25,758 I have to listen to our attorneys. 287 00:12:25,983 --> 00:12:29,157 All right. We'll have to let the district attorney handle it. 288 00:12:30,654 --> 00:12:32,964 KAUFER: Besides invading the privacy of an individual 289 00:12:33,023 --> 00:12:34,832 who hasn't been charged with any crime, 290 00:12:34,892 --> 00:12:36,963 a DNA match would prove nothing. 291 00:12:37,027 --> 00:12:38,370 It would certainly place him with the victim 292 00:12:38,429 --> 00:12:40,067 at the approximate time she was killed. 293 00:12:40,197 --> 00:12:42,336 You have any other supporting evidence for a murder charge? 294 00:12:42,466 --> 00:12:44,503 They have nothing except sleazy innuendo. 295 00:12:44,568 --> 00:12:46,241 Which even if true, is evidence of nothing. 296 00:12:46,337 --> 00:12:48,317 It might be evidence of rape. 297 00:12:48,372 --> 00:12:50,215 There is no evidence of forcible sex. 298 00:12:50,274 --> 00:12:51,377 Statutory rape. 299 00:12:51,441 --> 00:12:52,784 Oh, go on. Your Honor, 300 00:12:52,842 --> 00:12:55,322 this is simply an attempt to embarrass a prominent family. 301 00:12:55,411 --> 00:12:59,291 Miss Carmichael, I have to weigh Mr. Vance's privacy rights against 302 00:12:59,349 --> 00:13:01,761 the chance you'll establish a fact, 303 00:13:01,818 --> 00:13:04,492 which isn't even evidence of a substantial crime. 304 00:13:04,654 --> 00:13:06,258 Motion denied. But Your Honor... 305 00:13:06,322 --> 00:13:09,303 Until you have actual evidence of murder, 306 00:13:09,425 --> 00:13:11,632 take no for an answer, hmm? 307 00:13:13,930 --> 00:13:15,932 ED: The girl was a walking drugstore. 308 00:13:15,999 --> 00:13:22,506 Tox panel shows cocaine, GHB, marijuana, liquor, Xanax, albuterol, Ativan, aspirin. 309 00:13:22,571 --> 00:13:24,778 We're still waiting on the other autopsy test results. 310 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:25,841 So far, that's it? 311 00:13:25,907 --> 00:13:29,047 So far, we got some rich folks running interference for their brat. 312 00:13:29,111 --> 00:13:30,556 You got a problem with rich people? 313 00:13:30,646 --> 00:13:31,818 Other than the fact that they're trying 314 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:33,860 to buy their way out from under a murder charge? 315 00:13:33,915 --> 00:13:35,121 They're just trying to protect their kid. 316 00:13:35,183 --> 00:13:37,322 With or without a platinum card, they're still parents. 317 00:13:37,419 --> 00:13:40,400 Parents who have their names on a wing at the public library. 318 00:13:40,455 --> 00:13:42,434 So, they impressed a judge. 319 00:13:42,490 --> 00:13:43,992 Find something more impressive. 320 00:13:45,293 --> 00:13:48,433 I don't see how you can be right about this. 321 00:13:48,763 --> 00:13:50,970 I mean, the Vances are practically family. 322 00:13:51,065 --> 00:13:53,170 They're the best people. Well, the parents, maybe. 323 00:13:53,234 --> 00:13:55,305 No, even their boys. 324 00:13:57,638 --> 00:14:01,347 Ethan admits to taking your daughter to a club at 1:00 in the morning. 325 00:14:01,509 --> 00:14:04,820 Ever know Ethan to lose his temper? Get violent? 326 00:14:05,413 --> 00:14:06,823 No. No. No. 327 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:08,889 Did Christy have a thing going with him? 328 00:14:08,982 --> 00:14:11,963 No. They were like brother and sister, ever since we moved in. 329 00:14:12,052 --> 00:14:14,032 ED: When was that? Two years ago. 330 00:14:14,688 --> 00:14:17,862 Ever get the impression Ethan wanted to be more than a big brother? 331 00:14:18,725 --> 00:14:20,568 No. Never. 332 00:14:20,627 --> 00:14:21,833 BRISCOE: I don't get it. 333 00:14:21,995 --> 00:14:23,997 The kid takes your daughter out for a night on the town, 334 00:14:24,064 --> 00:14:26,601 and you're not the least bit suspicious of him? 335 00:14:26,666 --> 00:14:28,475 You don't understand. 336 00:14:29,969 --> 00:14:32,881 The Vances have gone out of their way to make us feel at home. 337 00:14:32,971 --> 00:14:34,814 So? You're rich, they're rich. 338 00:14:34,873 --> 00:14:36,716 Why shouldn't they make you feel welcome? 339 00:14:37,376 --> 00:14:40,755 (EXHALES) The Vances, as you very well know, are old money. 340 00:14:42,081 --> 00:14:44,288 And the ink isn't dry on your dough. 341 00:14:44,850 --> 00:14:47,194 People like the Vances often don't let you forget it. 342 00:14:47,252 --> 00:14:49,630 Mark and Marianna have been awfully decent to us. 343 00:14:49,688 --> 00:14:51,463 It is hard to believe that their son could 344 00:14:51,523 --> 00:14:54,333 have anything to do with Christy's death. 345 00:14:56,095 --> 00:14:57,630 VONDIE: You apologize all you want. 346 00:14:57,695 --> 00:14:59,231 That won't get my boy his job back. 347 00:14:59,297 --> 00:15:01,800 Look, Sammy cooperated. We hope you will, too. 348 00:15:01,866 --> 00:15:03,937 So, I tell you stories out of school, 349 00:15:04,001 --> 00:15:06,106 then I'll be looking for a job, too. 350 00:15:06,170 --> 00:15:07,376 We just want the truth. 351 00:15:07,438 --> 00:15:10,248 The truth is that little girl wasn't such a good girl. 352 00:15:10,308 --> 00:15:12,379 Why do you think they sent her to boarding school? 353 00:15:12,443 --> 00:15:15,151 We know she had bad habits. What about Ethan? 354 00:15:16,681 --> 00:15:19,355 Look, you have to talk to us, Mrs. Morris. 355 00:15:19,550 --> 00:15:22,689 Ethan did a little drinking. All boys do that. 356 00:15:22,786 --> 00:15:24,322 He ever get violent when he drank? 357 00:15:24,387 --> 00:15:27,425 No. He got sick sometimes, that's all. 358 00:15:27,491 --> 00:15:29,300 Ever forget what he did the night before? 359 00:15:29,459 --> 00:15:32,167 I don't know. He's not an alcoholic. 360 00:15:32,229 --> 00:15:33,708 But he drinks enough to get sick. 361 00:15:34,631 --> 00:15:36,076 (SIGHS) By accident. 362 00:15:36,166 --> 00:15:38,043 He gets drunk by accident? 363 00:15:38,101 --> 00:15:40,513 Yes. Like at Nick's bachelor party. 364 00:15:40,570 --> 00:15:42,846 They carried Ethan home, sick as a pup. 365 00:15:42,906 --> 00:15:46,911 It was because he gave blood that morning at his school and he hadn't eaten. 366 00:15:46,977 --> 00:15:49,547 That was his excuse? He gave blood? Where? 367 00:15:49,612 --> 00:15:52,286 At his school, Langley Prep. 368 00:15:52,548 --> 00:15:53,959 I don't see anything here. 369 00:15:54,016 --> 00:15:57,395 Langley Prep. Two weeks ago. Blood drive. Ethan Vance. You have records of that. 370 00:15:57,453 --> 00:15:59,831 We do. And you keep records for public use? 371 00:15:59,889 --> 00:16:03,496 Tracking donors, eliminating AIDS, other blood-transmitted diseases? 372 00:16:03,592 --> 00:16:07,506 Of course. And the donated blood is carefully screened, tracked? 373 00:16:07,563 --> 00:16:09,372 Yes, but it's private information. 374 00:16:09,432 --> 00:16:11,912 We're not asking you to tell us if Ethan Vance has any disease. 375 00:16:11,967 --> 00:16:13,809 We just want to know where the blood is. 376 00:16:14,035 --> 00:16:15,446 We don't want to drink it. 377 00:16:21,709 --> 00:16:24,212 V-A-N-C-E. Ethan Daniel. 378 00:16:24,279 --> 00:16:25,656 We'd like to know if the blood was used. 379 00:16:25,713 --> 00:16:29,217 No, it was not used. And, no, I can't give it to you. 380 00:16:29,517 --> 00:16:31,326 BRISCOE: You see this? Oh. 381 00:16:32,153 --> 00:16:33,154 Ah. 382 00:16:33,588 --> 00:16:35,090 You see this? 383 00:16:35,156 --> 00:16:38,625 Temporary restraining order. We're prevented from giving up the blood. 384 00:16:38,692 --> 00:16:40,569 Who issued this thing? 385 00:16:41,495 --> 00:16:43,532 Judge Walter Schreiber. 386 00:16:43,964 --> 00:16:46,774 So, does this mean somebody comes in here bleeding from every orifice, 387 00:16:46,834 --> 00:16:48,336 you can't give it to them either? 388 00:16:48,435 --> 00:16:52,178 That means, you're B-positive, Detective, and your head explodes, 389 00:16:52,239 --> 00:16:54,014 I gotta take a pass. 390 00:16:56,843 --> 00:16:57,844 (SIGHS) 391 00:16:58,145 --> 00:16:59,988 CARMICHAEL: Why slap an order on the blood if they aren't 392 00:17:00,047 --> 00:17:01,720 concerned about what the blood will show? 393 00:17:01,782 --> 00:17:04,523 Violation of doctor-patient privilege, pure and simple. 394 00:17:04,584 --> 00:17:07,258 Why Miss Carmichael's insistent on getting her panties in a... 395 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:08,799 Mr. Eliezer. 396 00:17:09,355 --> 00:17:12,359 Ethan Vance gave the blood away in a school drive. 397 00:17:12,425 --> 00:17:15,429 There was no privilege implied, nor any expectation of it. 398 00:17:15,494 --> 00:17:17,440 There wasn't even a doctor. ELIEZER: Doctor? Nurse? 399 00:17:17,496 --> 00:17:20,375 What difference does it make? It was a medical procedure. 400 00:17:20,433 --> 00:17:23,505 Privilege implies choice about how the blood would be used. 401 00:17:23,603 --> 00:17:27,050 Ethan Vance did not, nor could he, mandate to whom the blood would 402 00:17:27,106 --> 00:17:29,449 be given or in what manner it might be used. 403 00:17:29,508 --> 00:17:31,715 Once he provided it to a federally funded agency, 404 00:17:31,776 --> 00:17:33,449 his blood became public domain. 405 00:17:33,511 --> 00:17:36,014 I think the key words here, Your Honor, are "his blood." 406 00:17:36,081 --> 00:17:40,291 It was blood given up to be used on or for anyone. 407 00:17:40,685 --> 00:17:41,686 It was not a blood test. 408 00:17:42,020 --> 00:17:43,158 SCHREIBER: I agree. 409 00:17:43,221 --> 00:17:46,759 The minute he gave blood, Mr. Vance forfeited his right to privacy. 410 00:17:47,259 --> 00:17:48,761 I'll lift the restraining order. 411 00:17:48,827 --> 00:17:50,397 The police can have the blood. 412 00:17:51,163 --> 00:17:54,007 Ethan Vance's DNA didn't match the semen in the limo. 413 00:17:54,732 --> 00:17:56,973 But it matched the semen found in the girl's body. 414 00:17:57,902 --> 00:17:59,973 I thought you already did a rape kit. 415 00:18:00,070 --> 00:18:02,277 This wouldn't have shown up on a rape kit. 416 00:18:02,473 --> 00:18:04,919 Oh, the New York Disco Diet. 417 00:18:05,175 --> 00:18:06,984 She had sex within a half hour of her death. 418 00:18:07,077 --> 00:18:09,717 Different semen. So, there's another player on the scene. 419 00:18:09,780 --> 00:18:11,817 One from the home team. 420 00:18:12,650 --> 00:18:15,563 I ran a mitochondrial DNA on the two semen samples. 421 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:17,991 They're from two related individuals. 422 00:18:19,856 --> 00:18:20,857 (SIGHS) 423 00:18:20,957 --> 00:18:22,868 M.E. says we can count the father out. 424 00:18:22,926 --> 00:18:25,270 With prostate surgery, chemo, she doubts if 425 00:18:25,328 --> 00:18:27,137 he could come up with the goods. 426 00:18:27,397 --> 00:18:29,343 That leaves the groom, Nicholas Vance. 427 00:18:29,399 --> 00:18:30,878 Bring both brothers in? 428 00:18:30,934 --> 00:18:33,039 Absolutely. Charge them with murder? 429 00:18:33,603 --> 00:18:36,413 Their lawyers will have that bounced before we can say boo. 430 00:18:36,472 --> 00:18:39,282 Start with statutory rape, and we'll work up the food chain from there. 431 00:18:42,745 --> 00:18:45,122 Ethan Vance, we're gonna need your hands. 432 00:18:45,180 --> 00:18:48,389 Why? You're under arrest for the rape of Christy Garrison. 433 00:18:48,884 --> 00:18:50,420 You can thank me later. 434 00:18:53,322 --> 00:18:55,097 I hope you went for the Ming vase. 435 00:18:55,157 --> 00:18:56,295 What do you want? 436 00:18:56,592 --> 00:18:58,230 We can, uh, talk in my car, huh? 437 00:18:58,293 --> 00:19:02,173 What can you possibly have to tell me in your car that you can't tell me here? 438 00:19:02,864 --> 00:19:04,400 That you're under arrest. 439 00:19:04,666 --> 00:19:06,907 This is ridiculous. For what? 440 00:19:07,436 --> 00:19:09,848 Rape. What? Who? 441 00:19:10,304 --> 00:19:12,215 Mr. Vance, in the car, please. No, no, no, no, no. 442 00:19:12,273 --> 00:19:14,378 Just who did I allegedly rape? 443 00:19:14,442 --> 00:19:16,786 Your late future sister-in-law. 444 00:19:17,578 --> 00:19:19,216 I'm sorry, Miss. 445 00:19:25,987 --> 00:19:28,024 A million dollars each? That's ludicrous, Your Honor. 446 00:19:28,089 --> 00:19:30,626 My clients are charged with statutory rape. 447 00:19:30,691 --> 00:19:33,638 And forcible rape. They're also suspects in a murder. 448 00:19:33,761 --> 00:19:36,240 They had sex with a 15-year-old within half an hour of her death. 449 00:19:36,296 --> 00:19:38,572 If they had substantiating evidence of murder, 450 00:19:38,632 --> 00:19:40,339 they would have charged my clients with murder. 451 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,880 I want to keep them from running before we can gather that evidence. 452 00:19:42,936 --> 00:19:45,746 These are people of means... And people without means never flee? 453 00:19:46,006 --> 00:19:49,852 Your Honor, Nicholas Vance is engaged to be married. Ethan is a full-time student. 454 00:19:49,910 --> 00:19:51,082 This family is well known. 455 00:19:51,144 --> 00:19:53,317 And well connected enough to facilitate flight. 456 00:19:53,380 --> 00:19:55,485 Two million dollars is simply prohibitive. 457 00:19:55,548 --> 00:19:56,583 They have assets. 458 00:19:56,650 --> 00:19:58,357 The Vances are heavily invested, Your Honor. 459 00:19:58,418 --> 00:20:00,227 They would have to liquidate a large part of their assets. 460 00:20:00,286 --> 00:20:01,286 Property, then. Mortgaged. 461 00:20:01,353 --> 00:20:04,095 Some in the process of being sold, others in escrow. 462 00:20:04,256 --> 00:20:06,236 Mr. Kaufer, is this a temporary situation, 463 00:20:06,292 --> 00:20:07,771 or are your clients just poor? 464 00:20:07,826 --> 00:20:10,306 Pedal back on the sarcasm, Miss Carmichael. 465 00:20:10,396 --> 00:20:12,342 The charge at present is not murder. 466 00:20:12,531 --> 00:20:15,444 A million each for two counts of rape is not indicated. 467 00:20:15,668 --> 00:20:18,046 Bail is set at $100,000 per. 468 00:20:18,203 --> 00:20:19,204 (GAVEL STRIKES) 469 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,446 You can expect our motions on this crap tomorrow. 470 00:20:24,576 --> 00:20:27,385 Sounds like you're the one with the knot in your shorts. 471 00:20:28,713 --> 00:20:32,058 The firm of Eliezer, Kaufer and Larkin has 500 lawyers. 472 00:20:32,150 --> 00:20:34,562 And all of them must have been working on these last night. 473 00:20:34,619 --> 00:20:35,654 ADAM: Yes, right. 474 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:37,631 They cover the waterfront. Everything from tossing 475 00:20:37,688 --> 00:20:40,066 the DNA to changing the color of my lipstick. 476 00:20:40,158 --> 00:20:43,731 They have studies from a Dr. Euclidene of Lucerne, 477 00:20:43,795 --> 00:20:47,470 a lab in the UK, expert witnesses lined up from all points. 478 00:20:48,199 --> 00:20:49,940 They're bringing in the pros from Dover. 479 00:20:50,368 --> 00:20:53,576 Yeah, and the pros will confuse a jury enough to make them think 480 00:20:53,770 --> 00:20:55,841 DNA is a new pop group. 481 00:20:57,340 --> 00:20:59,251 The Vances are spending a lot of money for people 482 00:20:59,309 --> 00:21:02,347 who were pleading poverty at the bail hearing. 483 00:21:02,946 --> 00:21:06,120 Well, I checked their finances. Lots of restructured loans. 484 00:21:06,216 --> 00:21:08,457 The old money seems to be getting a bit arthritic. 485 00:21:08,552 --> 00:21:10,862 Maybe they borrowed a cup of money from their neighbor. 486 00:21:10,921 --> 00:21:14,095 The Vances still have fire power. They will not go gently. 487 00:21:14,157 --> 00:21:16,932 Neither will we. Read and respond. 488 00:21:17,259 --> 00:21:19,102 What about your murder investigation? 489 00:21:19,161 --> 00:21:21,869 Search warrant's already executed on the Vances' house. 490 00:21:22,531 --> 00:21:25,978 The boys' rooms, Ethan's locker at school came up empty. 491 00:21:26,035 --> 00:21:28,140 Any evidence that this was forcible rape? 492 00:21:28,304 --> 00:21:29,339 CARMICHAEL: No. 493 00:21:29,505 --> 00:21:30,950 Then where's their motive for murder? 494 00:21:31,807 --> 00:21:34,048 Ethan had motive. Jealousy. 495 00:21:34,243 --> 00:21:37,019 He has sex with Christy first, and comes back and finds her with Nick. 496 00:21:37,113 --> 00:21:40,526 And Nick slept with his fiancée's under-age sister. 497 00:21:40,583 --> 00:21:43,586 She tells anyone, it might put the kibosh on the wedding plans. 498 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:46,321 Two motives, 499 00:21:47,055 --> 00:21:48,830 one possible killer. 500 00:21:49,491 --> 00:21:50,492 Pick one. 501 00:21:52,627 --> 00:21:55,631 Nicholas Vance is not Mercedes' former fiancé. 502 00:21:56,431 --> 00:21:57,739 They're still engaged. 503 00:21:59,167 --> 00:22:01,204 I'm sorry? I'm confused. 504 00:22:02,270 --> 00:22:05,376 We have proof he had sexual relations with your sister. 505 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:06,913 I don't believe it. 506 00:22:07,307 --> 00:22:08,650 It's okay, Mercedes. 507 00:22:08,942 --> 00:22:10,615 Nick wouldn't do that. 508 00:22:11,612 --> 00:22:15,082 PEPPER: We're told you can make DNA say anything you want it to say. 509 00:22:15,182 --> 00:22:17,458 Why in the world would we want to... I don't know. 510 00:22:17,885 --> 00:22:21,230 First you picked on this black man, now on the boys. 511 00:22:21,455 --> 00:22:23,526 Maybe rich people are fair game. Mrs. Garrison... 512 00:22:23,590 --> 00:22:26,696 We've had this terrible thing happen to us. 513 00:22:27,194 --> 00:22:28,867 Now, we're just trying to salvage whatever 514 00:22:28,929 --> 00:22:31,273 happiness we can for our only daughter. 515 00:22:32,765 --> 00:22:35,268 Why do you insist on destroying that? 516 00:22:35,802 --> 00:22:36,803 Look, 517 00:22:37,970 --> 00:22:41,247 I'm sorry your fiancé is not the man you thought he was. 518 00:22:42,408 --> 00:22:44,354 Only you know what he's capable of. 519 00:22:45,645 --> 00:22:47,283 When you're ready to help us, 520 00:22:47,780 --> 00:22:49,817 you can call me at this number. 521 00:22:55,922 --> 00:22:59,164 Nick? I got nothing bad to say about him. 522 00:22:59,424 --> 00:23:01,370 When you drove Nick around, what did you talk about? 523 00:23:01,426 --> 00:23:04,964 Look, my mom's too old to get another job. 524 00:23:05,197 --> 00:23:07,302 Mr. and Mrs. Vance like her, and she likes them. 525 00:23:07,365 --> 00:23:09,106 I'm not getting in the middle of this. 526 00:23:09,167 --> 00:23:10,874 I don't want to hurt your mother, 527 00:23:11,102 --> 00:23:13,480 and you telling me what you know about Nick can't do that. 528 00:23:13,538 --> 00:23:15,449 I'm saying guy's been good to me. 529 00:23:15,507 --> 00:23:16,713 Good to you? 530 00:23:17,475 --> 00:23:19,250 He's the guy who pointed the finger at you 531 00:23:19,311 --> 00:23:21,814 in the first place the morning of the murder. 532 00:23:21,980 --> 00:23:25,483 He told us you were using his dad's car phone to call your girlfriend. 533 00:23:25,849 --> 00:23:28,125 He did? Come on. 534 00:23:28,185 --> 00:23:30,756 How do you think the police found out about Regina? 535 00:23:31,822 --> 00:23:34,462 Man, I was on that phone with her because I was cooling my jets, 536 00:23:34,592 --> 00:23:37,596 waiting while Nick was popping one off with his girlfriend. 537 00:23:37,795 --> 00:23:39,706 You mean, someone besides Mercedes? 538 00:23:40,231 --> 00:23:42,575 Someone way besides Mercedes. 539 00:23:46,437 --> 00:23:49,679 He's my lover and he hasn't tried to kill me yet. 540 00:23:51,074 --> 00:23:52,576 How often do you see him? 541 00:23:52,642 --> 00:23:54,553 (CHUCKLES) You know. 542 00:23:54,911 --> 00:23:56,515 No, I really don't. 543 00:23:56,646 --> 00:23:58,182 As often as he wants it. 544 00:23:58,748 --> 00:24:01,627 Sometimes four times a week, sometimes once a month. 545 00:24:01,951 --> 00:24:03,294 You know he has a fiancée. 546 00:24:03,353 --> 00:24:06,163 Yeah. Well, we all got someone. 547 00:24:06,289 --> 00:24:08,701 And you still do this? You see him? 548 00:24:09,959 --> 00:24:11,597 Why shut off the faucet? 549 00:24:11,828 --> 00:24:13,238 It's Nick Vance, lady. 550 00:24:13,295 --> 00:24:16,572 Ain't some homeboy named Jo-Jo who brings me a can of beer once a month. 551 00:24:16,765 --> 00:24:18,335 And after he's married? 552 00:24:19,167 --> 00:24:20,840 Why would it stop? 553 00:24:21,470 --> 00:24:24,110 Look, his fiancée's Mercedes Garrison, okay? 554 00:24:24,172 --> 00:24:27,381 I met her once. Some snooty store Nick took me to. 555 00:24:27,943 --> 00:24:30,651 Nick says she has some issues. 556 00:24:30,812 --> 00:24:32,917 Issues? With you? 557 00:24:33,415 --> 00:24:34,826 Some emotional junk. 558 00:24:35,450 --> 00:24:38,828 You know how rich people are. You can afford a therapist, you see one. 559 00:24:39,487 --> 00:24:41,091 You met her at a store. 560 00:24:41,455 --> 00:24:43,093 You let on who you were? 561 00:24:43,190 --> 00:24:44,692 She knows who I am. 562 00:24:45,092 --> 00:24:46,298 Really? 563 00:24:46,594 --> 00:24:48,403 Look, lady, it ain't a big deal. 564 00:24:48,796 --> 00:24:51,504 I'm, like, on his payroll, and she knows it. 565 00:24:52,333 --> 00:24:55,780 When she can't find him, she calls here looking for him, 566 00:24:56,003 --> 00:24:58,244 like I'm an answering service. 567 00:25:00,107 --> 00:25:02,917 I tried asking Mercedes about Nick's girlfriend. 568 00:25:03,244 --> 00:25:04,916 Couldn't get past the front door. 569 00:25:05,245 --> 00:25:08,283 But the IUDS confirm calls from the Garrison house to the girlfriend. 570 00:25:08,348 --> 00:25:09,827 Mercedes afraid of Nick? 571 00:25:09,916 --> 00:25:11,156 That why she'd put up with him? 572 00:25:11,217 --> 00:25:14,596 These people are aliens, Jack. I have no idea what any of them are thinking. 573 00:25:14,654 --> 00:25:16,224 What the hell is this marriage about? 574 00:25:16,289 --> 00:25:19,133 Well, I'm guessing love is not at the top of the hit parade. 575 00:25:19,192 --> 00:25:21,502 So, Carlita says Mercedes knows about her. 576 00:25:22,295 --> 00:25:25,868 We can't ask Mercedes, 'cause she's playing MIA. Who else would know? 577 00:25:26,166 --> 00:25:28,271 Your fiancé's sleeping around, you're gonna tell someone. 578 00:25:28,335 --> 00:25:29,335 Maid of honor? 579 00:25:29,768 --> 00:25:30,872 Do you know who she is? 580 00:25:30,936 --> 00:25:32,711 Maybe the society pages? 581 00:25:34,506 --> 00:25:36,452 Merce hinted Nick played around. 582 00:25:36,542 --> 00:25:38,021 She didn't seem to mind. 583 00:25:38,077 --> 00:25:41,149 I'm having a hard time understanding what Mercedes sees in him. 584 00:25:41,213 --> 00:25:43,489 He's Nick Vance, for one thing. 585 00:25:43,616 --> 00:25:47,962 Mrs. Garrison was turned down for membership to the Merrimont Club three times. 586 00:25:48,087 --> 00:25:50,397 Since the engagement, she's in. 587 00:25:50,990 --> 00:25:53,061 That's so important to Mercedes? 588 00:25:53,826 --> 00:25:56,135 I met her in boarding school in Connecticut. 589 00:25:56,294 --> 00:25:59,138 They had just gotten back from Argentina, where her dad was working. 590 00:25:59,363 --> 00:26:01,070 I think her parents spent their last dime 591 00:26:01,132 --> 00:26:02,907 getting her into St. Bethany's. 592 00:26:03,201 --> 00:26:05,010 I thought her parents were loaded. 593 00:26:05,470 --> 00:26:08,314 Not till Mr. Garrison cashes in his stock options, maybe. 594 00:26:09,307 --> 00:26:11,378 What was her relationship with Christy like? 595 00:26:11,743 --> 00:26:13,780 Big age difference, so they weren't close. 596 00:26:13,845 --> 00:26:16,826 Did you see either of them the Sunday, the day before Christy was killed? 597 00:26:16,914 --> 00:26:19,087 I was supposed to meet them at Taryn Hsu on Saturday, 598 00:26:19,150 --> 00:26:21,026 Merce's final fitting for her wedding gown. 599 00:26:21,318 --> 00:26:24,925 But she called me on my cell, told me change of plans, to meet her at Paillard. 600 00:26:24,988 --> 00:26:26,058 Why? 601 00:26:26,757 --> 00:26:28,327 She said Christy wasn't going to join us, 602 00:26:28,392 --> 00:26:30,770 that they had gotten into some kind of fight at the store. 603 00:26:30,961 --> 00:26:32,338 A fight about Nick? 604 00:26:32,562 --> 00:26:33,939 Mercedes didn't say. 605 00:26:34,064 --> 00:26:35,236 She just talked about her dress. 606 00:26:35,298 --> 00:26:37,039 It was being delivered that afternoon. 607 00:26:37,267 --> 00:26:38,803 Did you ask her about the fight? 608 00:26:38,902 --> 00:26:41,075 Yes. She ignored the question. 609 00:26:41,638 --> 00:26:43,413 Whenever she got really anxious or 610 00:26:43,473 --> 00:26:44,577 she forgot to take her medication, 611 00:26:44,641 --> 00:26:46,176 she would just freeze you out. 612 00:26:46,275 --> 00:26:47,913 What kind of medication? 613 00:26:48,144 --> 00:26:49,623 I don't know. 614 00:26:50,179 --> 00:26:52,455 She's always been on something for something. 615 00:26:53,282 --> 00:26:55,228 I didn't work that Saturday. 616 00:26:55,384 --> 00:26:57,557 I wasn't supposed to work Sunday either. 617 00:26:58,154 --> 00:26:59,963 But the manager called me up at home. 618 00:27:00,022 --> 00:27:01,797 Told me to pick up the dress at the Garrison house 619 00:27:01,857 --> 00:27:03,564 and bring it back for repairs. 620 00:27:03,826 --> 00:27:05,066 What kind of repairs? 621 00:27:05,127 --> 00:27:06,731 We had to replace the sleeve. 622 00:27:06,796 --> 00:27:08,776 Somebody spilled something on it and tore it. 623 00:27:08,965 --> 00:27:10,443 Is it still here? Yes. 624 00:27:10,498 --> 00:27:12,205 Can I see it? Sure. 625 00:27:13,701 --> 00:27:16,045 Did you speak to the Garrisons when you picked up the dress? 626 00:27:16,104 --> 00:27:19,745 No. The maid, Anna, handed it to me at the door. 627 00:27:21,042 --> 00:27:22,885 Right or left? Left. 628 00:27:25,747 --> 00:27:26,919 Hmm. 629 00:27:27,048 --> 00:27:29,255 Yeah, someone spilled something, all right. 630 00:27:32,554 --> 00:27:34,227 Lab confirmed it's blood. 631 00:27:34,456 --> 00:27:37,766 The rips are bite marks. Bite pattern matches Christy Garrison's. 632 00:27:38,125 --> 00:27:41,163 So, Mercedes tried on the dress at home on Sunday. Mmm-hmm. 633 00:27:41,328 --> 00:27:43,239 Christy bites her for some reason. 634 00:27:43,564 --> 00:27:46,101 Couple of hours later, Christy's dead. 635 00:27:46,433 --> 00:27:48,276 I guess big sister bit back. 636 00:27:55,275 --> 00:27:58,586 I pick up the phone, and some politico on the other end 637 00:27:58,645 --> 00:28:00,646 says he owes Mark Vance a favor. 638 00:28:01,381 --> 00:28:05,158 I turn on the faucet, and someone he plays golf with falls out. 639 00:28:05,218 --> 00:28:07,425 Now never mind the Vance boys. 640 00:28:07,486 --> 00:28:09,227 It's the Garrison girl. 641 00:28:09,389 --> 00:28:12,165 I don't want to stand up with egg on our faces either, Adam. 642 00:28:12,291 --> 00:28:14,532 I'm preparing papers to move on Mercedes. 643 00:28:14,594 --> 00:28:16,596 Can't go near her with nothing more 644 00:28:16,662 --> 00:28:19,074 than teeth marks on a wedding dress. 645 00:28:19,131 --> 00:28:22,135 And we stop playing musical suspects. 646 00:28:26,104 --> 00:28:27,583 The clerk from the store said she picked up the 647 00:28:27,639 --> 00:28:29,812 wedding dress from the Garrisons' maid. 648 00:28:31,176 --> 00:28:34,248 The door is closed, but I hear them fighting. 649 00:28:34,479 --> 00:28:35,651 Did you hear what it was about? 650 00:28:35,747 --> 00:28:38,523 No, I hear yelling. I don't get the words. 651 00:28:38,583 --> 00:28:41,496 Then someone screams, and Miss Christy runs out crying. 652 00:28:41,586 --> 00:28:42,587 And Mercedes? 653 00:28:42,654 --> 00:28:46,932 She comes out, too, crying, holding her arm in her wedding dress. 654 00:28:47,259 --> 00:28:51,002 Miss Pepper, she comes, takes Mercedes back into the room. 655 00:28:51,529 --> 00:28:53,531 Was this the first time you saw them fight? 656 00:28:53,864 --> 00:28:57,607 The temporary agency sends me for help for the wedding. 657 00:28:58,169 --> 00:28:59,773 Two weeks only I was there. 658 00:28:59,837 --> 00:29:02,215 Then Miss Christy dies No more job. 659 00:29:02,473 --> 00:29:05,682 Anyone else who works in the house might be closer to the girls? 660 00:29:06,277 --> 00:29:09,087 Elyssa Fuegos. She's working there many years. 661 00:29:11,649 --> 00:29:14,095 Hey, the Garrisons' attorney, Peter Behrens, 662 00:29:14,151 --> 00:29:16,653 wants to bring Mercedes in to talk. This should be interesting. 663 00:29:16,719 --> 00:29:18,096 Well, as of three days after the murder, 664 00:29:18,154 --> 00:29:21,033 Elyssa Fuegos has been working at the Garrison villa in Puerto Vallarta. 665 00:29:21,090 --> 00:29:22,398 How nice for her. 666 00:29:22,458 --> 00:29:24,165 She's been working for the Garrisons 667 00:29:24,227 --> 00:29:25,706 on and off for the past 20 years. 668 00:29:25,762 --> 00:29:27,298 She was Mercedes' nanny. 669 00:29:27,630 --> 00:29:29,701 Talk to the Feds. Notify the Mexican authorities. 670 00:29:29,799 --> 00:29:31,801 Let's bring Miss Fuegos back to New York. 671 00:29:36,706 --> 00:29:38,913 It's been brought to our attention that you've been talking to people 672 00:29:38,975 --> 00:29:42,114 at Taryn Hsu and a maid for the Garrisons. 673 00:29:42,544 --> 00:29:43,784 JACK: So what? 674 00:29:44,580 --> 00:29:46,719 We feel the inevitable is coming. 675 00:29:47,082 --> 00:29:48,322 What's inevitable? 676 00:29:49,318 --> 00:29:51,161 Arresting Mercedes. 677 00:29:51,687 --> 00:29:53,462 We prefer to come forward. 678 00:29:53,655 --> 00:29:56,636 As you probably know by now, Mercedes isn't well. 679 00:29:56,692 --> 00:29:58,729 She's been under a doctor's care for years. 680 00:29:58,794 --> 00:30:01,001 Even if she did something, she's not responsible. 681 00:30:01,063 --> 00:30:02,872 You're conceding to an "if" now? 682 00:30:02,965 --> 00:30:05,002 No, I'm conceding nothing. 683 00:30:05,901 --> 00:30:08,107 Dr. Dana Ritchie, attesting to the fact 684 00:30:08,169 --> 00:30:12,447 that she's been Miss Garrison's primary physician for most of her life 685 00:30:12,507 --> 00:30:17,115 and has prescribed different psychogenics and tranquilizers in myriad dosages. 686 00:30:18,312 --> 00:30:23,887 Librium, Ativan, Xanax, Soma, Zoloft, Elavil. 687 00:30:24,018 --> 00:30:28,797 Dr. Paul Terino, psychiatrist. Valium. She sleepwalks. 688 00:30:28,889 --> 00:30:33,860 Dr. Leslie Sowers, shrink. Ritalin. She's ADHD. 689 00:30:34,995 --> 00:30:40,206 Dr. Sally Kleiman, behavioral specialist. Prozac. She's PPD. 690 00:30:42,702 --> 00:30:44,113 Cut to the chase. 691 00:30:44,571 --> 00:30:46,608 Man two. Diminished capacity, 692 00:30:46,673 --> 00:30:49,415 no jail time, she goes into the GlenAugust Clinic. 693 00:30:49,543 --> 00:30:50,544 CARMICHAEL: GlenAugust? 694 00:30:51,244 --> 00:30:53,554 You're suggesting she killed her sister, 695 00:30:53,713 --> 00:30:57,183 but a few months of rest and a high-fiber diet will make it all better? 696 00:31:00,252 --> 00:31:01,754 I just want... 697 00:31:03,155 --> 00:31:05,795 I did something terrible, 698 00:31:06,992 --> 00:31:09,268 and if I can... It's all right, Mercedes. 699 00:31:13,732 --> 00:31:15,939 Did you know about this, Mrs. Garrison? 700 00:31:16,235 --> 00:31:17,270 No. 701 00:31:18,170 --> 00:31:19,513 No, I... 702 00:31:20,472 --> 00:31:24,613 I thought there was a chance. But no, I wasn't sure. 703 00:31:24,742 --> 00:31:27,188 Okay, I think Mr. McCoy has heard enough. 704 00:31:28,179 --> 00:31:29,385 I don't think so. 705 00:31:30,648 --> 00:31:32,184 Before I agree to any kind of plea, 706 00:31:32,250 --> 00:31:33,888 I want our shrink to talk to her. 707 00:31:34,085 --> 00:31:35,189 Oh, I don't know. 708 00:31:38,890 --> 00:31:41,029 I don't see how we can refuse them. 709 00:31:43,995 --> 00:31:46,566 I remember a fight. 710 00:31:49,766 --> 00:31:52,110 I don't remember what the fight was about. 711 00:31:52,169 --> 00:31:54,115 Does that happen to you a lot? 712 00:31:54,204 --> 00:31:55,842 That you can't remember things? 713 00:31:56,139 --> 00:31:57,675 Yeah. 714 00:31:58,075 --> 00:32:00,954 I take so many medications. 715 00:32:03,013 --> 00:32:04,993 And some things I remember, 716 00:32:05,816 --> 00:32:08,524 I'm not sure they really happened. 717 00:32:08,885 --> 00:32:12,196 Your marriage to Nicholas Vance, is it important to you? 718 00:32:13,522 --> 00:32:16,662 Yeah. It's important to our families. 719 00:32:17,393 --> 00:32:19,168 I asked if it was important to you. 720 00:32:21,097 --> 00:32:22,235 Oh, um... 721 00:32:22,898 --> 00:32:23,899 Sure. 722 00:32:25,301 --> 00:32:27,247 I always wanted to be married. 723 00:32:28,304 --> 00:32:29,408 Do you love Nick? 724 00:32:30,940 --> 00:32:31,941 Of course. 725 00:32:32,041 --> 00:32:33,918 Even though he has other women in his life? 726 00:32:37,313 --> 00:32:39,383 I know he'll take very good care of me. 727 00:32:43,418 --> 00:32:44,726 What about your sister? 728 00:32:46,154 --> 00:32:47,827 Like her? Hate her? 729 00:32:48,356 --> 00:32:49,630 I loved her. 730 00:32:50,692 --> 00:32:53,138 Uh, I was sent away when she was born, 731 00:32:53,862 --> 00:32:57,105 and when I came back she was already there. 732 00:32:57,999 --> 00:33:00,309 I never got to know her very well. 733 00:33:02,203 --> 00:33:03,705 I regret that. 734 00:33:04,371 --> 00:33:06,112 What was this fight about? 735 00:33:11,378 --> 00:33:13,756 I don't remember what the fight was about. 736 00:33:15,282 --> 00:33:16,955 Was it about Nick? 737 00:33:17,851 --> 00:33:18,852 No. 738 00:33:23,257 --> 00:33:25,134 Maybe it was about Nick. 739 00:33:27,561 --> 00:33:29,233 It must have been. 740 00:33:31,764 --> 00:33:34,370 Was there another issue between you and Christy? 741 00:33:35,968 --> 00:33:37,504 No, nothing. 742 00:33:38,905 --> 00:33:39,906 Oh... 743 00:33:41,007 --> 00:33:44,420 She stole some makeup from me when she was 11. 744 00:33:45,745 --> 00:33:49,022 Um, some jewelry two years ago. 745 00:33:50,283 --> 00:33:51,284 Sister stuff. 746 00:33:52,652 --> 00:33:55,257 Yeah, sister stuff. 747 00:33:58,323 --> 00:34:00,325 How did you feel about her having sex with Nick? 748 00:34:08,266 --> 00:34:10,507 Christy had a lot of problems. 749 00:34:12,537 --> 00:34:14,983 But your lawyer said you killed her because 750 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,884 you were enraged when you saw her with Nick. 751 00:34:21,745 --> 00:34:22,746 Yeah. 752 00:34:25,549 --> 00:34:26,755 Do you remember it? 753 00:34:37,561 --> 00:34:40,565 I detected some big ugly critter under a rock, 754 00:34:40,631 --> 00:34:42,508 but I wasn't able to turn it over. 755 00:34:42,867 --> 00:34:46,245 Seeing your sister having sex with your fiancé is big and ugly. 756 00:34:46,502 --> 00:34:48,573 She's conveniently forgotten it? 757 00:34:49,305 --> 00:34:51,182 Or she can't bear to remember. 758 00:34:51,641 --> 00:34:52,642 Or? 759 00:34:52,942 --> 00:34:54,250 She never saw it. 760 00:34:54,377 --> 00:34:55,947 But she did kill her sister. 761 00:34:56,546 --> 00:34:58,822 The signals this girl sends out are so jumbled 762 00:34:58,915 --> 00:35:01,657 I can't tell what she knows, what she imagines, 763 00:35:01,718 --> 00:35:04,824 what she's done, what she's convinced herself she did. 764 00:35:04,954 --> 00:35:06,297 The drugs? 765 00:35:06,456 --> 00:35:08,026 That's just one factor. 766 00:35:08,591 --> 00:35:11,537 This woman's been rewired by a lot of different hands. 767 00:35:11,894 --> 00:35:13,635 So, what do we do with this plea? 768 00:35:15,597 --> 00:35:17,133 I said I'd have our guy look at her. 769 00:35:17,199 --> 00:35:18,542 He looked at her. No deal. 770 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,444 (SIGHS) What are you going for? Jail time? Atrial? 771 00:35:21,503 --> 00:35:23,483 Or are you just going to grind that family into the dirt? 772 00:35:23,539 --> 00:35:25,541 I'm going to do my job. 773 00:35:27,476 --> 00:35:30,320 Elyssa Fuegos is on a plane out of Mexico right now. 774 00:35:30,646 --> 00:35:34,116 Our luck, three more suspects'll pop up before the wheels touch down. 775 00:35:34,750 --> 00:35:36,285 You drag me thousands of miles. 776 00:35:36,350 --> 00:35:37,624 You order me here. 777 00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,528 This wouldn't have been necessary if the Garrisons 778 00:35:39,587 --> 00:35:41,066 hadn't spirited you out of the country. 779 00:35:41,122 --> 00:35:42,465 There was no subterfuge. 780 00:35:42,557 --> 00:35:44,901 The Garrisons bought the villa three months ago. 781 00:35:44,992 --> 00:35:47,438 They needed Mrs. Fuegos to organize the household. 782 00:35:47,528 --> 00:35:50,008 Three days after their daughter was murdered? 783 00:35:50,798 --> 00:35:53,540 You've worked for the Garrisons since Mercedes was born? 784 00:35:53,634 --> 00:35:56,376 Except when they moved for four years to Argentina. 785 00:35:56,938 --> 00:35:58,713 They couldn't afford to bring me along. 786 00:35:58,940 --> 00:36:01,385 They brought me back when they came home with the new baby, Christy. 787 00:36:01,441 --> 00:36:04,684 So, you were there that Sunday when Mercedes and Christy had a fight? 788 00:36:05,445 --> 00:36:07,254 I don't know anything about a fight. 789 00:36:08,014 --> 00:36:09,891 Christy bit Mercedes? 790 00:36:11,651 --> 00:36:13,153 I don't know about that. 791 00:36:13,987 --> 00:36:15,728 Have the Garrisons talked to you? 792 00:36:17,524 --> 00:36:20,164 Did they tell you we can put you in prison for perjury? 793 00:36:22,195 --> 00:36:24,232 These are good people. Why are you... 794 00:36:24,731 --> 00:36:26,004 Mrs. Fuegos, 795 00:36:26,699 --> 00:36:29,475 they're going to drop you no matter what you do. 796 00:36:29,668 --> 00:36:33,810 You can't protect them. You can't protect Mercedes. You can tell the truth. 797 00:36:33,906 --> 00:36:37,820 Mercedes has been charged with murder. She killed Christy. 798 00:36:39,445 --> 00:36:41,391 What? She confessed. 799 00:36:45,651 --> 00:36:47,653 She didn't do it. I know. 800 00:36:48,621 --> 00:36:49,622 HOW? 801 00:36:50,556 --> 00:36:51,829 I was with her. 802 00:36:51,890 --> 00:36:53,631 She was sick from her pills. 803 00:36:54,292 --> 00:36:55,532 And what time was this? 804 00:36:55,793 --> 00:36:59,297 She called me just after 2:00 in the morning. She was throwing up 805 00:36:59,964 --> 00:37:01,443 I stay in her room all night. 806 00:37:01,966 --> 00:37:04,708 Then I woke her up when the police came. 807 00:37:04,769 --> 00:37:06,840 I can understand why you'd want to protect Mercedes. 808 00:37:06,938 --> 00:37:08,645 How could you say she did it? 809 00:37:08,706 --> 00:37:11,585 She didn't even remember I slept in the room with her. 810 00:37:11,976 --> 00:37:14,422 I called the poison control from her room 811 00:37:14,479 --> 00:37:17,015 because I was concerned about her pills. 812 00:37:18,015 --> 00:37:19,926 What about Mr. and Mrs. Garrison? 813 00:37:20,517 --> 00:37:22,497 Did you hear them get up during the night? 814 00:37:22,919 --> 00:37:23,920 No. 815 00:37:25,289 --> 00:37:27,565 Whose idea was it to send you to Mexico? 816 00:37:28,926 --> 00:37:30,564 Mrs. Garrison told me. 817 00:37:31,128 --> 00:37:33,301 She said her and Mr. Garrison wanted 818 00:37:33,363 --> 00:37:35,309 the house ready for after the wedding. 819 00:37:35,566 --> 00:37:38,012 Mercedes still wanted to get married to Nick? 820 00:37:40,437 --> 00:37:44,282 Mercedes never knew what she wanted, except peace. 821 00:37:45,942 --> 00:37:47,580 Thank you, Mrs. Fuegos. 822 00:37:48,077 --> 00:37:50,353 I need to instruct you not to leave the city 823 00:37:50,413 --> 00:37:52,950 and not to discuss what you told us with anybody. 824 00:37:57,420 --> 00:37:58,421 (CLEARS THROAT) 825 00:38:00,256 --> 00:38:03,726 Someone convinced Mercedes to fall on her sword. 826 00:38:03,859 --> 00:38:05,497 Or they convinced her she did it. 827 00:38:05,928 --> 00:38:08,134 Either way, it turns my stomach. 828 00:38:08,830 --> 00:38:11,242 Plead diminished capacity, a couple of months rest 829 00:38:11,299 --> 00:38:14,712 at GlenAugust, and Mercedes is on her way back down the aisle. 830 00:38:16,037 --> 00:38:17,038 So, which one? 831 00:38:17,639 --> 00:38:19,448 Mr. or Mrs. Garrison? 832 00:38:19,607 --> 00:38:22,144 Unless we want to give Adam a heart attack, we better pick one. 833 00:38:22,944 --> 00:38:24,423 Let's bring in the whole family. 834 00:38:27,449 --> 00:38:31,329 Elyssa Fuegos said you called her at around 2:00 in the morning. 835 00:38:32,053 --> 00:38:33,224 You remember that? 836 00:38:34,722 --> 00:38:35,860 I don't know. 837 00:38:36,090 --> 00:38:38,468 You were sick from your medication. 838 00:38:38,759 --> 00:38:40,864 Miss Fuegos stayed with you until the morning. 839 00:38:41,929 --> 00:38:45,467 Simply put, Miss Garrison, you didn't kill your sister. 840 00:38:47,234 --> 00:38:49,612 Elyssa practically raised Mercedes. 841 00:38:49,670 --> 00:38:51,206 Of course she'd say anything. 842 00:38:51,505 --> 00:38:54,418 She called the poison control hotline on your daughter's phone. 843 00:38:54,541 --> 00:38:58,010 The phone records confirm a call was made at 2:57 in the morning. 844 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,520 We believe her, Mrs. Garrison. Your daughter's innocent. 845 00:39:04,350 --> 00:39:06,330 You told me you saw her do it. 846 00:39:06,753 --> 00:39:08,391 She killed Christy. That's what you said. 847 00:39:08,454 --> 00:39:09,797 Michael, not here. 848 00:39:09,856 --> 00:39:11,836 For God sake, Paula, what could you be thinking? 849 00:39:12,492 --> 00:39:14,972 I wanted it to end. It had to be her. 850 00:39:15,328 --> 00:39:16,329 Why? 851 00:39:16,729 --> 00:39:18,606 Why not that creep, Nick? 852 00:39:19,832 --> 00:39:22,176 We couldn't find a reason Nick would have killed Christy. 853 00:39:24,369 --> 00:39:26,315 Or his brother, or some maniac. 854 00:39:28,073 --> 00:39:29,074 It's you. 855 00:39:30,175 --> 00:39:31,848 Mercedes, don't... 856 00:39:32,277 --> 00:39:35,156 You did it. You killed my daughter. 857 00:39:41,086 --> 00:39:43,965 You took her away from me, and now you've killed her. 858 00:39:44,656 --> 00:39:46,033 Mercedes. 859 00:39:46,658 --> 00:39:48,398 Christy was your daughter. 860 00:39:50,394 --> 00:39:53,136 In Argentina, when I was 14. 861 00:39:53,564 --> 00:39:55,100 Mercedes, not in front of strangers. 862 00:39:55,166 --> 00:39:56,975 I needed her to know. 863 00:39:57,201 --> 00:40:00,478 That afternoon, I told her. That's why she was so angry. 864 00:40:00,538 --> 00:40:02,814 We agreed, she was never supposed to know. 865 00:40:02,873 --> 00:40:04,113 She had a right to know! 866 00:40:04,175 --> 00:40:05,916 And you had a right to be happy. 867 00:40:07,311 --> 00:40:09,154 She was going to ruin that, darling. 868 00:40:10,147 --> 00:40:11,148 CARMICHAEL: Ruin what? 869 00:40:11,615 --> 00:40:14,561 Your chances of joining the Mayflower Tea Club if they ever found out 870 00:40:14,617 --> 00:40:16,619 your daughter was knocked up at 14? 871 00:40:18,655 --> 00:40:20,328 Is that what Christy threatened? 872 00:40:23,093 --> 00:40:24,970 You saw her outside with Nick and Ethan. 873 00:40:26,696 --> 00:40:28,437 JACK: You confronted her. 874 00:40:29,332 --> 00:40:31,539 That's when she told you she knew? 875 00:40:33,903 --> 00:40:35,007 No. 876 00:40:35,071 --> 00:40:36,573 Oh, my God, Paula. 877 00:40:39,541 --> 00:40:41,851 I am not going to discuss this here. 878 00:40:45,614 --> 00:40:48,857 Michael, we're leaving. Mr. Behrens, tell him. 879 00:40:51,553 --> 00:40:53,555 Mr. Garrison, we should leave. 880 00:40:55,491 --> 00:40:56,731 You, too, Mercedes. 881 00:41:04,265 --> 00:41:07,212 Mrs. Garrison, I suggest you get yourself an attorney. 882 00:41:18,779 --> 00:41:22,192 Briscoe, Green and a bucket of cops have been over that house, Jack. 883 00:41:22,250 --> 00:41:24,526 And? They found a pantsuit of Pepper's. 884 00:41:24,585 --> 00:41:27,031 Elyssa confirms Pepper was wearing it the night of the murder. 885 00:41:27,121 --> 00:41:28,122 Blood splatters? 886 00:41:28,189 --> 00:41:30,327 If we had both parts of the pantsuit. 887 00:41:30,791 --> 00:41:32,771 They found the pants but not the jacket. 888 00:41:33,460 --> 00:41:34,962 Can I see you two in here? 889 00:41:38,565 --> 00:41:41,637 You know the Vances. They have something to say. 890 00:41:43,703 --> 00:41:46,877 What our sons did was inexcusable. 891 00:41:47,073 --> 00:41:48,780 We're dealing with them harshly. 892 00:41:50,510 --> 00:41:52,786 You've come to make apologies for your sons? 893 00:41:54,914 --> 00:41:57,656 We've come to tell you who killed Christy Garrison. 894 00:42:01,587 --> 00:42:04,124 That night, we heard Nick come in. 895 00:42:04,256 --> 00:42:06,634 I wanted to know what he'd gotten into this time. 896 00:42:06,892 --> 00:42:08,428 I stopped him on the stairs. 897 00:42:08,494 --> 00:42:13,409 We heard noises outside. Yelling. Our room is over the service alley. 898 00:42:13,799 --> 00:42:15,506 Christy was screaming at Pepper. 899 00:42:15,568 --> 00:42:17,206 MARK: Christy was attacking her. 900 00:42:17,269 --> 00:42:21,045 I ran down the stairs, got outside. Christy was sliding down the wall. 901 00:42:21,105 --> 00:42:24,382 Christy was rushing her, striking her. 902 00:42:24,909 --> 00:42:26,786 Pepper didn't have a choice. 903 00:42:26,845 --> 00:42:28,051 Christy was dead. 904 00:42:28,646 --> 00:42:30,626 Pepper was inconsolable. I... 905 00:42:31,015 --> 00:42:33,291 I told her to go inside We'd handle it. 906 00:42:33,518 --> 00:42:37,728 It was an act of cowardice on our parts that we didn't come forward earlier. 907 00:42:37,789 --> 00:42:40,599 You kept silent when your sons were suspected of murder. 908 00:42:41,859 --> 00:42:42,860 Why? 909 00:42:42,927 --> 00:42:45,429 We knew they hadn't done it. That they'd be released. 910 00:42:45,495 --> 00:42:47,497 CARMICHAEL: And when Mercedes was arrested? 911 00:42:47,564 --> 00:42:50,738 She hadn't done it. She's fragile. 912 00:42:50,934 --> 00:42:52,743 MARIANNA: We knew that would come out. 913 00:42:53,003 --> 00:42:56,712 And you good Samaritans come forward now because... All right, Jack. 914 00:42:57,107 --> 00:42:59,178 I'm sorry, Adam. It's just so damned convenient. 915 00:42:59,242 --> 00:43:03,315 Pepper is accused of murder. It was self-defense. We saw it. We can help. 916 00:43:09,286 --> 00:43:10,286 (SIGHS) 917 00:43:11,153 --> 00:43:12,598 You know where to find us. 918 00:43:12,655 --> 00:43:14,259 We'll be of whatever help we can. 919 00:43:23,599 --> 00:43:26,603 I think we can make a case for murder against Pepper Garrison. 920 00:43:26,669 --> 00:43:28,148 The case is self-defense. 921 00:43:28,204 --> 00:43:29,945 We can go for it, Adam. 922 00:43:30,006 --> 00:43:32,145 The girl was hopped up on drugs. 923 00:43:32,308 --> 00:43:34,481 Vances are impeccable witnesses. 924 00:43:35,677 --> 00:43:39,682 And Pepper Garrison has a rock-solid affirmative defense. 925 00:43:40,115 --> 00:43:42,026 Never get a conviction. 926 00:43:47,889 --> 00:43:50,495 CARMICHAEL: Society page, the long awaited honeymoon 927 00:43:50,559 --> 00:43:53,130 of Nicholas and Mercedes Vance. 928 00:43:53,595 --> 00:43:54,596 Greece. 929 00:43:55,564 --> 00:43:57,305 Must be lovely this time of year. 930 00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:00,179 Take a look. 931 00:44:00,568 --> 00:44:01,875 Page is marked. 932 00:44:02,736 --> 00:44:06,115 Vance Affiliated Industries announces a huge infusion 933 00:44:06,173 --> 00:44:09,552 of cash and stock from its new partner, 934 00:44:09,643 --> 00:44:11,884 the Garrison Investment Group. 935 00:44:13,981 --> 00:44:15,392 This was a merger. 936 00:44:16,050 --> 00:44:17,757 It was never a marriage. 937 00:44:20,554 --> 00:44:22,465 The laws for the rich are different. 938 00:44:24,658 --> 00:44:26,659 What laws for the rich?