1 00:00:06,326 --> 00:00:08,101 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:08,161 --> 00:00:12,042 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:12,099 --> 00:00:13,908 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:13,968 --> 00:00:16,778 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:16,837 --> 00:00:18,817 These are their stories. 6 00:00:19,473 --> 00:00:21,111 BOY: Steven Leder takes the subway. 7 00:00:21,175 --> 00:00:23,314 Steven Leder didn't move to New York six months ago. 8 00:00:23,377 --> 00:00:24,879 Nobody else gets walked to school. 9 00:00:24,945 --> 00:00:25,980 That's not true. 10 00:00:26,046 --> 00:00:28,788 I know for a fact Stacy Lake gets walked to school by her mom. 11 00:00:28,849 --> 00:00:31,353 (SIGHS) Stacy Lake is a girl. 12 00:00:31,419 --> 00:00:32,921 So is her mom. 13 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:39,661 (BELL RINGING) 14 00:00:40,228 --> 00:00:41,229 What's the matter? 15 00:00:41,296 --> 00:00:42,400 It's sticky. 16 00:00:42,464 --> 00:00:43,841 Let me see. 17 00:00:46,468 --> 00:00:48,072 Wait right here. 18 00:00:58,347 --> 00:00:59,985 What is it? I want you to go on in. 19 00:01:00,049 --> 00:01:01,426 You're not gonna walk me in? 20 00:01:01,484 --> 00:01:03,361 Do as I say. Right now! 21 00:01:04,687 --> 00:01:06,325 Kid and his father found him this morning. 22 00:01:06,389 --> 00:01:07,390 Do we know who he is? 23 00:01:07,456 --> 00:01:08,867 No wallet. No ID. 24 00:01:08,924 --> 00:01:11,599 Took a slug to the chest, near the neck, close range. 25 00:01:11,661 --> 00:01:13,402 Looks like a second bullet grazed him. 26 00:01:13,463 --> 00:01:14,874 ED: Stickup gone bad. 27 00:01:14,931 --> 00:01:16,968 Well, let's set up a 100-foot perimeter. 28 00:01:17,034 --> 00:01:18,741 Maybe we'll get lucky with ballistics. 29 00:01:18,802 --> 00:01:20,679 There's a lot of this red dust on his clothes. 30 00:01:20,737 --> 00:01:22,216 CSU OFFICER: Probably from this wall over here. 31 00:01:22,272 --> 00:01:24,115 The school just finished sandblasting the facade. 32 00:01:24,174 --> 00:01:25,551 ED: There's a key on the end of this chain. 33 00:01:25,609 --> 00:01:27,520 BRISCOE: Don't suppose his address is on it? 34 00:01:27,577 --> 00:01:29,523 CSU OFFICER: Make it easy, wouldn't it? 35 00:01:29,579 --> 00:01:31,389 He looks too young to be a teacher. 36 00:01:31,449 --> 00:01:34,157 Headmistress was at a board meeting this morning. 37 00:01:34,218 --> 00:01:35,458 She's on her way. 38 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:36,999 Headmistress? 39 00:01:37,055 --> 00:01:39,296 As schools go, Wilshire is the Ritz. 40 00:01:39,357 --> 00:01:42,930 Yeah, well, somebody better tell 'em they just lost their four-star rating. 41 00:02:34,415 --> 00:02:37,862 He's not from the school. Not a parent either, as far as we know. 42 00:02:37,918 --> 00:02:39,898 So, how would he get on the school grounds? 43 00:02:39,954 --> 00:02:41,558 Gate's closed around 5:00, 44 00:02:41,622 --> 00:02:46,230 but the nighttime custodian keeps the side door open until just after 8:00. 45 00:02:46,293 --> 00:02:50,241 Paul Miller, Justin Menkies. Your homeroom teacher's waiting. 46 00:02:50,297 --> 00:02:52,208 Any discipline problems we should know about? 47 00:02:52,266 --> 00:02:54,144 If there's any problem in this neighborhood, 48 00:02:54,202 --> 00:02:56,443 I can assure you it's not at Wilshire. 49 00:02:56,505 --> 00:02:57,506 Meaning? 50 00:02:57,572 --> 00:03:01,748 Meaning we've had trouble since the city opened that residence around the corner. 51 00:03:01,810 --> 00:03:03,187 A homeless shelter? 52 00:03:03,245 --> 00:03:07,489 A transitional center for recovering substance abusers. 53 00:03:07,549 --> 00:03:10,291 We had a teacher mugged not two months ago. 54 00:03:10,352 --> 00:03:13,027 Maybe somebody had another relapse. 55 00:03:14,390 --> 00:03:16,392 Every time somebody trips in this neighborhood 56 00:03:16,459 --> 00:03:17,767 we get a visit from you guys. 57 00:03:17,827 --> 00:03:18,999 We heard that one of your residents 58 00:03:19,061 --> 00:03:21,564 got popped for robbing a teacher a couple of months ago. 59 00:03:21,631 --> 00:03:23,167 How come nobody runs for cover 60 00:03:23,232 --> 00:03:25,508 when they see our guys picking litter off the ground? 61 00:03:25,568 --> 00:03:27,912 Maybe because people don't know who they really are. 62 00:03:27,970 --> 00:03:31,042 How about last night? Anybody from the center out and about? 63 00:03:31,107 --> 00:03:32,609 Curfew's 8:00. 64 00:03:33,844 --> 00:03:36,222 So, you do a bed check? What? 65 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,556 It's not a correctional facility, Detective. 66 00:03:38,615 --> 00:03:39,855 ED: Meaning what? 67 00:03:39,917 --> 00:03:41,726 We work on the honor system. 68 00:03:43,654 --> 00:03:46,362 We're gonna need a list of all your residents. 69 00:03:46,823 --> 00:03:49,565 We're already into it, Chief. That's right. 70 00:03:49,626 --> 00:03:51,162 Thank you. 71 00:03:51,228 --> 00:03:52,798 Well, it seems that concerned parents 72 00:03:52,863 --> 00:03:54,673 at the Wilshire School carry some weight. 73 00:03:54,732 --> 00:03:56,405 Anything turn up at that shelter? 74 00:03:56,467 --> 00:03:57,537 Transitional residence. 75 00:03:57,602 --> 00:04:00,947 Almost all of their guys have sheets. Mostly drug related. 76 00:04:01,005 --> 00:04:03,178 Well, I guess their concerns are justified. 77 00:04:03,241 --> 00:04:05,812 The director swears they were all in for the evening. 78 00:04:05,877 --> 00:04:07,720 What about the M.E.'s findings? 79 00:04:07,779 --> 00:04:09,122 Kid was shot with a .38. 80 00:04:09,180 --> 00:04:10,625 Alcohol level over the limit. 81 00:04:10,682 --> 00:04:13,322 Ed, got that forensics report. 82 00:04:13,384 --> 00:04:16,423 They might be able to lift a set of partials from that pack of smokes. 83 00:04:16,488 --> 00:04:19,401 Also, may have gotten something on your key. 84 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:22,462 Not just a house key Detective. A Medeco. 85 00:04:22,528 --> 00:04:24,269 Yeah, it's a good lock. So? 86 00:04:24,330 --> 00:04:26,332 Every one of them is cut differently. 87 00:04:26,398 --> 00:04:29,004 Some even require ID cards to replace. 88 00:04:29,501 --> 00:04:31,037 See this stamp? 89 00:04:31,270 --> 00:04:33,147 Means it's part of a master key system. 90 00:04:33,205 --> 00:04:35,379 So, there's gotta be thousands of those floating around. 91 00:04:35,442 --> 00:04:38,116 Yeah, but this one's a real granddaddy. 92 00:04:38,178 --> 00:04:41,318 So, you're saying we can actually trace this back to its owner? 93 00:04:41,381 --> 00:04:42,689 Maybe halfway. 94 00:04:42,749 --> 00:04:45,593 I called Medeco. They say the key was part of a shipment 95 00:04:45,652 --> 00:04:48,462 to Fields Hardware back in '72. 96 00:04:48,521 --> 00:04:51,127 Here's a faxed copy of the order slip. 97 00:04:56,030 --> 00:04:57,134 Look, can we make this quick? 98 00:04:57,198 --> 00:04:58,973 I'm 30 yards short on a concrete pour. 99 00:04:59,033 --> 00:05:00,876 Okay, we're just trying to track down a set of locks 100 00:05:00,935 --> 00:05:02,744 you guys purchased through Fields Hardware. 101 00:05:02,803 --> 00:05:03,975 Fields? Uh-huh. 102 00:05:04,038 --> 00:05:05,517 My old man did business with them. 103 00:05:05,573 --> 00:05:07,416 They've been out of business probably 20 years. 104 00:05:07,475 --> 00:05:11,252 Yeah, we know. But we traced this order for some locks to you guys. 105 00:05:11,312 --> 00:05:14,350 Look, the last time I cooperated with you guys, 106 00:05:14,415 --> 00:05:16,623 I got 17 union violations. 107 00:05:16,685 --> 00:05:21,191 Hey, we're not interested in who's buried in the meadowlands, Mr. Panero. 108 00:05:25,060 --> 00:05:26,266 (SIGHS) 109 00:05:26,561 --> 00:05:27,631 .72? 110 00:05:28,430 --> 00:05:30,706 My old man ran the business then. 111 00:05:30,766 --> 00:05:34,111 An order this small would have been for a residential building. 112 00:05:34,169 --> 00:05:38,448 We put up a bunch of post-wars around that time. Mostly near Union Square. 113 00:05:38,808 --> 00:05:40,719 Could have belonged to any one of 100 apartments here. 114 00:05:40,777 --> 00:05:42,120 And that's just in this building. 115 00:05:42,178 --> 00:05:44,158 You know, there's four others just like it in this neighborhood. 116 00:05:44,213 --> 00:05:45,419 All of them use Medecos. 117 00:05:45,481 --> 00:05:47,483 Yeah, we know. We've been. 118 00:05:49,385 --> 00:05:50,455 Hey: Hmm? 119 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:51,965 You recognize this kid? 120 00:05:52,021 --> 00:05:54,797 I can't say I do. I recognize the T-shirt. 121 00:05:54,857 --> 00:05:56,633 ED: The T-shirt? The logo. 122 00:05:56,694 --> 00:05:59,265 A few years ago, a theater group threw a benefit. 123 00:05:59,330 --> 00:06:02,174 I helped them put up some posters. It looked just like that. 124 00:06:02,232 --> 00:06:04,007 What's that lady's name, the one who runs it? 125 00:06:04,068 --> 00:06:05,877 The one who lives down the block on Gramercy Square? 126 00:06:05,936 --> 00:06:08,280 Mrs. Dubow? That's the one. Yeah. 127 00:06:09,039 --> 00:06:10,541 They're called Booth Scholarships, 128 00:06:10,607 --> 00:06:13,087 so underprivileged kids can study theater. 129 00:06:13,143 --> 00:06:16,682 Edwin Booth. Greatest American actor of his day. 130 00:06:16,748 --> 00:06:18,386 His brother killed Abraham Lincoln. 131 00:06:18,450 --> 00:06:19,451 John Wilkes. 132 00:06:19,517 --> 00:06:20,894 Never the actor Edwin was. 133 00:06:20,952 --> 00:06:23,159 Yeah, but a better shot. 134 00:06:23,221 --> 00:06:25,326 Is this kid one of the scholarship winners? 135 00:06:25,390 --> 00:06:29,668 My God. That's Peter and Johanna Wilder's boy, Scott. 136 00:06:29,728 --> 00:06:32,072 Peter Wilder, the real estate developer? 137 00:06:32,130 --> 00:06:33,939 What happened to him? 138 00:06:36,602 --> 00:06:39,776 You say Scott's body was found in the school yard? 139 00:06:40,439 --> 00:06:42,077 ED: That's right. 140 00:06:42,908 --> 00:06:44,910 Maybe he was coming home. 141 00:06:47,580 --> 00:06:49,958 Scott attended school at Wilshire when he was younger. 142 00:06:51,283 --> 00:06:55,754 The truth is, we haven't seen our son in some time. 143 00:06:55,821 --> 00:06:58,234 This was him the day he graduated. 144 00:06:59,159 --> 00:07:00,797 Good-looking kid. 145 00:07:02,195 --> 00:07:05,506 (SIGHS) Why is it you haven't been in contact with him? 146 00:07:05,999 --> 00:07:09,242 Scott dropped out of college a few years ago, 147 00:07:10,537 --> 00:07:12,141 refused to take any real job. 148 00:07:12,205 --> 00:07:15,675 He was having a hard time finding himself. 149 00:07:15,742 --> 00:07:18,223 My wife liked to make excuses for our son, 150 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:22,984 but it was pretty obvious that by continuing to support him, 151 00:07:23,050 --> 00:07:25,826 we were just preventing him from growing up. 152 00:07:25,887 --> 00:07:27,366 So you stopped? 153 00:07:29,424 --> 00:07:31,404 I don't know if either of you ever had a child 154 00:07:31,459 --> 00:07:34,167 make decisions you knew were destructive. 155 00:07:34,695 --> 00:07:37,506 It was the hardest thing lever had to do, 156 00:07:37,966 --> 00:07:40,469 to tell him he couldn't stay with us. 157 00:07:42,137 --> 00:07:44,014 It was almost two years ago. 158 00:07:44,072 --> 00:07:47,519 Do you have any idea what Scott did to support himself? 159 00:07:49,645 --> 00:07:53,388 The last time I spoke to him, he was working at a bike shop. 160 00:07:54,149 --> 00:07:56,186 A place on Canal and Sixth. 161 00:07:56,251 --> 00:07:59,062 I gave him this key the day he left. 162 00:08:00,156 --> 00:08:04,696 I told him, no matter what, no matter what was happening in his life, 163 00:08:06,029 --> 00:08:08,532 he could always use it to come home. 164 00:08:11,601 --> 00:08:12,875 (SOBBING) 165 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:19,651 Scott? No, Scott hasn't been by in over a month. 166 00:08:19,710 --> 00:08:20,882 Why? Something happen? 167 00:08:20,945 --> 00:08:22,424 No, he just didn't show. 168 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,393 The way it worked was, he'd come by mostly weekends, 169 00:08:25,449 --> 00:08:28,328 re-valve a few shocks, straighten out a few derailers. 170 00:08:28,385 --> 00:08:29,989 I gave him cash all the time, 171 00:08:30,054 --> 00:08:32,762 depending upon how many bikes he did, but it wasn't a regular thing. 172 00:08:32,823 --> 00:08:35,030 Do you have a number for him, some place you could call? 173 00:08:35,125 --> 00:08:37,867 I think he lived with a girlfriend, but I never got a number. 174 00:08:37,929 --> 00:08:39,966 What about these guys back there? Anybody friendly with him? 175 00:08:40,031 --> 00:08:41,806 Maybe, check it out. 176 00:08:42,868 --> 00:08:44,677 So you don't even know his girlfriend's name? 177 00:08:44,736 --> 00:08:46,647 No, man, we just worked together sometimes. 178 00:08:46,705 --> 00:08:48,150 So the subject of chicks never came up? 179 00:08:48,206 --> 00:08:51,210 Yo, man, if he's getting buck, you know, why am I gonna want her number? 180 00:08:51,276 --> 00:08:52,584 This guy's like a real gentleman. 181 00:08:52,644 --> 00:08:54,521 Yeah, his piece, right? 182 00:08:54,746 --> 00:08:55,986 Besides, Scott was real personal. 183 00:08:56,047 --> 00:08:57,685 I don't think he'd even like me talking about it. 184 00:08:57,749 --> 00:08:59,696 I don't think he'd mind too much now. 185 00:08:59,752 --> 00:09:00,924 Oh, yeah? 186 00:09:00,987 --> 00:09:02,830 ED: Scott's dead, Adam. 187 00:09:02,889 --> 00:09:05,267 So if you do know who he was hooked up with, 188 00:09:05,324 --> 00:09:07,099 we'd appreciate it if you told us. 189 00:09:09,562 --> 00:09:11,235 Her name is Karen. 190 00:09:12,031 --> 00:09:15,501 I don't know where she lives, but I know where she might work. 191 00:09:15,568 --> 00:09:18,447 How? How'd it happen? 192 00:09:18,504 --> 00:09:20,314 BRISCOE: He got shot. 193 00:09:21,408 --> 00:09:23,149 You don't seem too surprised. 194 00:09:23,210 --> 00:09:25,121 I knew something like this could happen. 195 00:09:25,179 --> 00:09:27,318 Now why would you think that? 196 00:09:28,448 --> 00:09:30,758 When I first met Scott, he was a mess. 197 00:09:30,817 --> 00:09:33,093 His dad kicked him out of his house, did you know that? 198 00:09:33,153 --> 00:09:36,430 From what we heard, Scott was pretty much responsible for his own problems. 199 00:09:36,490 --> 00:09:39,199 Scott did things to get back at his father. 200 00:09:39,260 --> 00:09:40,261 ED: What kind of things? 201 00:09:40,328 --> 00:09:42,330 He used drugs, sold drugs. 202 00:09:44,265 --> 00:09:46,370 Scott thought his father was this big fake. 203 00:09:46,434 --> 00:09:49,677 A guy who pretended to be a big family man, a big charity giver, 204 00:09:49,737 --> 00:09:52,115 but would just never deal with his own son. 205 00:09:52,173 --> 00:09:55,586 So, by destroying his own life, he gets even with his father. 206 00:09:55,643 --> 00:09:57,350 Sounds like a great plan. 207 00:09:57,412 --> 00:10:00,860 I thought Scott finally got it, was ready to move on. 208 00:10:02,051 --> 00:10:03,291 ED: But? 209 00:10:04,153 --> 00:10:08,192 (SIGHS) A few weeks ago, I come home and find some money in a drawer. 210 00:10:08,257 --> 00:10:09,668 $1,000. 211 00:10:09,725 --> 00:10:11,170 Did you ask him where he got it? 212 00:10:11,226 --> 00:10:13,001 He wouldn't tell me. 213 00:10:14,496 --> 00:10:17,272 Sol used the money to pay the rent, and told him to leave. 214 00:10:17,333 --> 00:10:18,903 Sounds like you did the right thing. 215 00:10:18,968 --> 00:10:19,970 Where did he go? 216 00:10:20,870 --> 00:10:22,406 I don't know. 217 00:10:22,472 --> 00:10:24,952 (CELL PHONE RINGS) Excuse me. Green. 218 00:10:25,008 --> 00:10:27,284 What about other people Scott worked with? 219 00:10:27,344 --> 00:10:32,020 No, I mean, way back, there was this one guy, Richie, but since then... 220 00:10:32,616 --> 00:10:34,289 Richie have a last name? 221 00:10:34,351 --> 00:10:35,489 We never met. 222 00:10:35,552 --> 00:10:36,929 ED: Yeah, thanks. 223 00:10:36,987 --> 00:10:39,092 Lennie, that was Forensics. 224 00:10:39,155 --> 00:10:41,227 They got a match on the partials from the pack of cigarettes. 225 00:10:41,292 --> 00:10:42,396 Okay. 226 00:10:42,994 --> 00:10:45,167 If we have any other questions, we'll be in touch. 227 00:10:45,229 --> 00:10:46,640 Do his parents know? 228 00:10:47,531 --> 00:10:48,635 Yeah. 229 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:50,941 Did they even care? 230 00:10:56,107 --> 00:10:57,643 ED: Greg Carter? GREG: Yeah? 231 00:10:57,708 --> 00:11:00,781 You wanna stop sweeping. We'd like a word with you. 232 00:11:00,846 --> 00:11:02,883 What's this about? You recognize this guy? 233 00:11:02,948 --> 00:11:05,428 No. His body turned up at that school over there. 234 00:11:05,484 --> 00:11:06,861 Yeah, well, I wouldn't know anything about that. 235 00:11:06,918 --> 00:11:10,422 Well, what about your prints being on a pack of cigarettes we found in his pocket. 236 00:11:10,489 --> 00:11:13,402 What do you know about that? You smoke, Greg? 237 00:11:14,393 --> 00:11:15,838 What happened, Greg? You get a little craving? 238 00:11:15,894 --> 00:11:17,202 You need a little money for something? 239 00:11:17,262 --> 00:11:20,472 Sure, robbery gone bad. Happens all the time. 240 00:11:20,533 --> 00:11:23,013 My problem's with the bottle, man. I don't touch that other stuff. 241 00:11:23,069 --> 00:11:25,675 ED: (SIGHS) Tell us what you did with the gun. 242 00:11:25,738 --> 00:11:28,514 I told you, kid gave me a cigarette. I didn't have any gun. 243 00:11:28,574 --> 00:11:30,576 BRISCOE: What time was that? 244 00:11:30,643 --> 00:11:33,522 (SIGHS) Look, I'm out after curfew, I could lose my room. 245 00:11:33,579 --> 00:11:36,458 You could lose a whole lot more than that if you don't tell us the truth. 246 00:11:37,583 --> 00:11:40,530 Look, I tell you what I saw, you'll make it right for me? I mean, at the program? 247 00:11:40,586 --> 00:11:43,295 You'll have to make this right on your own, Greg. 248 00:11:44,491 --> 00:11:45,993 I was having a hard time that night. 249 00:11:46,060 --> 00:11:47,767 It gets like that for me sometimes. 250 00:11:47,828 --> 00:11:49,739 I had to get out, you know? 251 00:11:49,797 --> 00:11:51,777 Anyway, I see this kid out by the school having a smoke, 252 00:11:51,832 --> 00:11:53,436 so I stopped and asked him for one. 253 00:11:53,500 --> 00:11:55,502 I hope for your sake that's not the end of the story. 254 00:11:55,569 --> 00:11:59,210 No, no. I went into this little store across the street, right? Bought a soda. 255 00:11:59,273 --> 00:12:02,653 When I come out, I see this kid arguing with somebody. 256 00:12:03,378 --> 00:12:05,153 Okay. What did this somebody look like? 257 00:12:06,281 --> 00:12:09,262 It was a girl. White About his age. 258 00:12:09,751 --> 00:12:12,254 Tall, short brown hair. 259 00:12:13,855 --> 00:12:16,495 He said she was carrying a dark backpack with reflective strips. 260 00:12:16,558 --> 00:12:18,629 Yeah, is there a Richie there? 261 00:12:18,693 --> 00:12:20,695 Thanks, sorry to bother you. What about his ex? 262 00:12:20,762 --> 00:12:21,798 Short blonde hair. 263 00:12:21,864 --> 00:12:23,468 And we think this guy's telling the truth? 264 00:12:23,532 --> 00:12:26,570 He seems like a drunk trying to make the grade, can't hack it. 265 00:12:26,635 --> 00:12:28,637 What about this other angle? This Richie? 266 00:12:28,704 --> 00:12:32,413 Well, we been going through the girlfriend's phone records, making calls. 267 00:12:32,475 --> 00:12:36,355 So far, all we know is that they ordered a lot of takeout, but no Richie. 268 00:12:36,412 --> 00:12:38,949 Lieutenant, there's a Detective Lopez here to see you. 269 00:12:39,014 --> 00:12:40,493 VAN BUREN: How can we help you, Detective? 270 00:12:40,549 --> 00:12:43,190 You tell me. Somebody paged me about an hour ago. 271 00:12:43,253 --> 00:12:44,254 ED: You plain clothes? 272 00:12:44,321 --> 00:12:47,029 Narcotics. How'd you guys get my number? 273 00:12:50,127 --> 00:12:53,472 Yeah. That's the kid. I met him once in Central Park by the bandstand. 274 00:12:53,530 --> 00:12:54,702 Made a small buy. 275 00:12:54,765 --> 00:12:56,176 Why didn't you arrest him? 276 00:12:56,233 --> 00:12:58,713 You know how it is. We were waiting on a bigger fish. 277 00:12:58,769 --> 00:13:00,214 How big a fish you after? 278 00:13:00,270 --> 00:13:01,647 That's Peter Wilder's son. 279 00:13:02,940 --> 00:13:04,715 The real estate guy? 280 00:13:05,209 --> 00:13:06,882 I'm gonna crack Richie's skull. 281 00:13:06,944 --> 00:13:07,979 Richie? 282 00:13:08,045 --> 00:13:09,149 LOPEZ: Punk CI. 283 00:13:09,213 --> 00:13:11,420 He's the one who brought me this kid. 284 00:13:11,482 --> 00:13:12,483 Why. You guys know him? 285 00:13:12,550 --> 00:13:15,258 We're waiting to be formally introduced. 286 00:13:17,054 --> 00:13:20,001 You been a bad boy, Richie. Look at me. 287 00:13:20,525 --> 00:13:22,870 Didn't I tell you there couldn't be any secrets between us? 288 00:13:22,928 --> 00:13:24,669 Look... No, no, no, no. You look. 289 00:13:24,730 --> 00:13:28,109 You're gonna talk to these homicide detectives about this dead kid. 290 00:13:28,167 --> 00:13:30,306 I hear you held back, Richie, 291 00:13:30,369 --> 00:13:32,508 I'm gonna make arrests you don't want me to make 292 00:13:32,571 --> 00:13:35,017 on complaints you don't wanna sign. 293 00:13:35,374 --> 00:13:36,910 You understand? 294 00:13:38,977 --> 00:13:40,650 This is all yours. 295 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:43,558 Make me proud, Richie. 296 00:13:45,952 --> 00:13:48,398 He thinks you cost him a promotion. 297 00:13:48,655 --> 00:13:50,931 I guess nothing works out the way you hoped. 298 00:13:50,990 --> 00:13:54,369 Yeah, things didn't work out too good for Scott Wilder either. 299 00:13:54,427 --> 00:13:55,633 I don't know anything about this. 300 00:13:56,963 --> 00:13:58,533 Fine by us. 301 00:13:58,598 --> 00:14:01,772 Look, all I know is, 302 00:14:03,103 --> 00:14:05,310 I don't hear from Scott for, like, a year, 303 00:14:05,372 --> 00:14:08,876 and then suddenly he calls me up and pushes me to help him move some coke. 304 00:14:08,943 --> 00:14:10,854 BRISCOE: You sure it was him pushing you? 305 00:14:10,911 --> 00:14:12,891 He said he needed money. Right away. 306 00:14:12,947 --> 00:14:14,654 So you hooked him up? 307 00:14:14,715 --> 00:14:16,695 We used to run together. 308 00:14:17,051 --> 00:14:20,191 Then he got out. Least, I thought he did. 309 00:14:21,222 --> 00:14:24,363 Then I get this call, and he shows up with his girlfriend. 310 00:14:24,426 --> 00:14:26,531 What'd this girl look like? 311 00:14:27,295 --> 00:14:31,004 Maybe 20, 21. Short brown hair. Pretty. 312 00:14:31,066 --> 00:14:32,704 BRISCOE: What was she wearing? 313 00:14:32,767 --> 00:14:34,872 Suede jacket, brown. 314 00:14:34,936 --> 00:14:36,882 ED: She carrying a backpack? 315 00:14:36,938 --> 00:14:38,918 Yeah. Now you say it, I think so. 316 00:14:38,974 --> 00:14:40,009 Does she have a name? 317 00:14:40,075 --> 00:14:41,520 This girl didn't say anything. 318 00:14:41,576 --> 00:14:43,614 I got the feeling she didn't wanna be there. 319 00:14:43,679 --> 00:14:45,386 ED: Where'd this little meeting take place? 320 00:14:45,448 --> 00:14:47,894 McDonald's. Boerum Hill. 321 00:14:48,251 --> 00:14:50,026 Scott said he was staying nearby. 322 00:14:50,086 --> 00:14:53,556 So you got him back on coke, then you introduced him to an undercover, 323 00:14:53,623 --> 00:14:54,863 that about the size of it? 324 00:14:54,924 --> 00:14:58,667 Hey, I don't make the introduction. I breach my agreement. 325 00:14:58,728 --> 00:15:03,074 But I never told Lopez who Scott was, and I kept the sale under an ounce. 326 00:15:05,035 --> 00:15:07,709 ED: Karen, we think that Scott was seeing another girl. 327 00:15:07,771 --> 00:15:10,650 We also think she might have been involved in what happened to him. 328 00:15:10,707 --> 00:15:12,584 I know this is tough, but 329 00:15:12,643 --> 00:15:15,453 any chance you throwing him out had anything to do with her? 330 00:15:18,749 --> 00:15:20,820 He really broke my heart, you know? 331 00:15:20,884 --> 00:15:22,056 Yeah, I do. 332 00:15:22,119 --> 00:15:23,325 So you do know about her? 333 00:15:24,222 --> 00:15:25,758 Not who she is, 334 00:15:28,927 --> 00:15:32,067 but when I found the money, I also found this. 335 00:15:32,964 --> 00:15:35,410 I don't know why I even carry the damn thing around with me. 336 00:15:35,466 --> 00:15:37,377 "Alan Rosenbeck OB/GYN." 337 00:15:37,435 --> 00:15:38,709 It's an appointment card. 338 00:15:38,770 --> 00:15:40,841 I take it the appointment wasn't for you. 339 00:15:40,905 --> 00:15:44,250 And the writing on the back, it's not Scott's. 340 00:15:46,278 --> 00:15:49,122 I'm afraid all I can say is that Scott Wilder was a patient. 341 00:15:49,181 --> 00:15:51,252 Correct me if I'm wrong, Doc, 342 00:15:51,317 --> 00:15:54,230 but as far as I can tell, Scott Wilder couldn't have been pregnant. 343 00:15:54,286 --> 00:15:57,290 And if he just accompanied some girl here, that doesn't make him a patient. 344 00:15:57,356 --> 00:15:58,596 Look, I'm just not comfortable 345 00:15:58,657 --> 00:16:01,001 getting into specific treatments with you. 346 00:16:01,060 --> 00:16:03,666 All right, how about you just tell us the girl's name? 347 00:16:03,729 --> 00:16:07,268 Look, from what you been telling me, I understand what's at stake, but... 348 00:16:07,334 --> 00:16:08,938 What if we got written consent from the parents? 349 00:16:09,002 --> 00:16:11,039 That's only half the equation. 350 00:16:11,104 --> 00:16:15,075 I can't violate one patient's privacy at the request of another. 351 00:16:15,141 --> 00:16:16,814 I really am sorry. 352 00:16:17,877 --> 00:16:20,414 A guy goes to see an OB/GYN for one of two reasons 353 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:22,187 Either he wants to be a father, or he doesn't. 354 00:16:22,248 --> 00:16:25,024 Hard to believe fatherhood was at the top of this kid's list. 355 00:16:25,085 --> 00:16:26,429 Either way, without a steady job 356 00:16:26,487 --> 00:16:29,263 he'd have had a hard time paying for one on Park Avenue. 357 00:16:29,323 --> 00:16:32,361 Yeah, well, enter drugs as a career opportunity. 358 00:16:32,426 --> 00:16:35,566 And Karen seizes the proceeds to pay the rent. 359 00:16:35,629 --> 00:16:36,835 Maybe he swallowed his pride. 360 00:16:36,897 --> 00:16:38,740 Well, the parents said they hadn't seen him. 361 00:16:38,799 --> 00:16:40,472 I don't care how much you hate your father, 362 00:16:40,534 --> 00:16:42,536 you still go see him when you're in trouble. 363 00:16:42,603 --> 00:16:44,480 My daughter never did. 364 00:16:46,341 --> 00:16:48,651 Wait a minute. Hold on a second. 365 00:16:49,978 --> 00:16:51,389 Hey, how you doing, man? 366 00:16:51,446 --> 00:16:52,891 You mind if I ask you a couple of questions 367 00:16:52,948 --> 00:16:54,450 about your building's sign-in sheet? 368 00:16:54,516 --> 00:16:55,756 What do you need? 369 00:16:55,817 --> 00:16:58,661 Scott was seen arguing with her at the crime scene the night of the murder. 370 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:01,633 From all accounts, it wasn't the woman he was living with. 371 00:17:01,690 --> 00:17:03,397 The doctor wouldn't tell you anything about her? 372 00:17:03,458 --> 00:17:05,199 Not without the other patient's consent. 373 00:17:05,260 --> 00:17:07,764 We might have a grandchild out there somewhere. 374 00:17:07,830 --> 00:17:10,037 You don't have any idea who she is? 375 00:17:10,099 --> 00:17:12,079 This is the sign-in sheet from the doctor's lobby 376 00:17:12,135 --> 00:17:13,512 the day your son had an appointment. 377 00:17:13,569 --> 00:17:15,480 We're hoping you recognize the name. 378 00:17:15,538 --> 00:17:17,017 We told you, we hadn't heard anything 379 00:17:17,073 --> 00:17:18,677 about our son in over two years. 380 00:17:18,741 --> 00:17:21,244 We understand what the situation was, 381 00:17:21,310 --> 00:17:25,452 it's just, sometimes it's tough keeping such a hard line with your kid. 382 00:17:25,515 --> 00:17:28,224 A woman did call once looking for Scott. 383 00:17:28,485 --> 00:17:30,123 ED: When was that? JOHANNA: Maybe eight weeks ago. 384 00:17:30,187 --> 00:17:31,188 You never told me that. 385 00:17:31,255 --> 00:17:33,701 I just didn't want to start all that again with you and Scott. 386 00:17:33,757 --> 00:17:35,759 I thought we agreed. You agreed. 387 00:17:35,826 --> 00:17:37,237 We both did. 388 00:17:37,995 --> 00:17:40,271 That counselor told us we had to let him go. 389 00:17:40,364 --> 00:17:43,436 That it was the only way. Don't re-write history, Johanna. 390 00:17:44,668 --> 00:17:46,808 Did you get a name? A number for this girl? 391 00:17:46,871 --> 00:17:48,248 JOHANNA: We only spoke for a moment or two. 392 00:17:48,306 --> 00:17:51,412 When I told her Scott wasn't here, she just hung up, so... 393 00:17:51,476 --> 00:17:54,980 Wait, wait. Here. Jessie I think that's it. 394 00:17:57,649 --> 00:18:00,425 Wilder didn't sign in, and from the handwriting, 395 00:18:00,485 --> 00:18:03,591 it could be like a Jessie Lucas, Logan, it's hard to tell. 396 00:18:03,655 --> 00:18:05,100 Well, those are pretty common names. 397 00:18:05,156 --> 00:18:07,501 The handwriting matches the one on the back of the appointment card. 398 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:10,541 If it's the same girl he took with him to see Lopez's Cl, 399 00:18:10,596 --> 00:18:12,735 she probably lives somewhere near Boerum Hill. 400 00:18:12,798 --> 00:18:15,608 What's the D.A.'s position on a subpoena for the doctor? 401 00:18:15,668 --> 00:18:17,204 They're working on it. 402 00:18:17,269 --> 00:18:21,046 Okay, in the meantime, let's get some of our people on the Brooklyn phone books, 403 00:18:21,107 --> 00:18:23,109 and have DMV run all the possibles, 404 00:18:23,175 --> 00:18:27,090 see if we can get an address on anyone matching our description. 405 00:18:31,618 --> 00:18:33,529 Twelfth time's a charm. 406 00:18:36,523 --> 00:18:40,733 Jessie left for the store about 15 minutes ago. She'll be back any second. 407 00:18:40,794 --> 00:18:41,898 Is this your daughter, Mrs. Lucas? 408 00:18:41,962 --> 00:18:42,963 BRENDA: Yes. 409 00:18:43,029 --> 00:18:44,565 ED: She still wear her hair like this? 410 00:18:44,631 --> 00:18:47,841 No, it's shorter. Look, you guys haven't told me what this is all about? 411 00:18:47,902 --> 00:18:50,439 BRISCOE: We just need to talk to her. 412 00:18:51,539 --> 00:18:53,280 Mom? What's going on? 413 00:18:53,341 --> 00:18:56,049 These are police officers. They want to ask you some questions. 414 00:18:56,110 --> 00:18:58,090 About what? Scott Wilder. 415 00:18:59,347 --> 00:19:00,451 Jess? 416 00:19:00,748 --> 00:19:02,989 BRISCOE: Maybe we should talk someplace else. 417 00:19:03,050 --> 00:19:04,154 Am I under arrest? 418 00:19:04,218 --> 00:19:06,061 What for? What'd you do? 419 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:07,930 I didn't do anything. 420 00:19:08,290 --> 00:19:11,362 We got a witness who puts you at the crime scene arguing with him. 421 00:19:11,426 --> 00:19:12,598 I didn't kill him. 422 00:19:12,661 --> 00:19:14,436 We know you made a drug buy with him, Jessie. 423 00:19:14,496 --> 00:19:17,670 Yeah, a drug buy you didn't seem too happy about. 424 00:19:17,733 --> 00:19:19,679 ED: What happened, he rip you off? Is that it? 425 00:19:19,735 --> 00:19:21,009 It was nothing like that. 426 00:19:21,069 --> 00:19:23,481 Then what was the argument about? 427 00:19:23,539 --> 00:19:24,643 I mean, it wouldn't have anything to do 428 00:19:24,706 --> 00:19:26,379 with a doctor's appointment, would it? 429 00:19:26,442 --> 00:19:27,443 BRISCOE: You know what I think? 430 00:19:27,509 --> 00:19:28,682 I think he got you pregnant, 431 00:19:28,745 --> 00:19:30,122 and that he didn't want the baby. 432 00:19:30,180 --> 00:19:31,250 That's sick. 433 00:19:31,314 --> 00:19:32,657 ED: Or maybe he didn't want you. 434 00:19:32,715 --> 00:19:35,059 I mean, he's sleeping with you. He's living with another woman. 435 00:19:35,118 --> 00:19:36,426 That couldn't make you feel good. 436 00:19:36,486 --> 00:19:37,931 Will you please just stop! 437 00:19:37,987 --> 00:19:39,432 Then you find out that he won't pay, 438 00:19:39,489 --> 00:19:41,162 only you know about his family. 439 00:19:41,224 --> 00:19:43,534 You know that he comes from money. No! 440 00:19:43,593 --> 00:19:45,470 You called his parents' house one day. 441 00:19:45,528 --> 00:19:46,836 ED: What was that, a shakedown? 442 00:19:46,896 --> 00:19:48,899 No. You don't understand. 443 00:19:49,133 --> 00:19:51,636 Scott wasn't my lover or my boyfriend. 444 00:19:51,702 --> 00:19:55,980 We were brother and sister. Okay? Brother and sister. 445 00:20:01,579 --> 00:20:03,354 And I want a lawyer. 446 00:20:08,385 --> 00:20:11,959 Brother and sister? So much for our theory about a lovers' quarrel. 447 00:20:12,023 --> 00:20:13,434 And she lawyered up. 448 00:20:13,492 --> 00:20:16,234 But my detectives did some digging on the Internet, 449 00:20:16,294 --> 00:20:20,640 and it seems this doctor authored several papers on kinship analysis. 450 00:20:20,699 --> 00:20:21,837 Kinship analysis? 451 00:20:21,900 --> 00:20:24,380 Yeah. It's a paternity test when the parents aren't available. 452 00:20:24,436 --> 00:20:26,347 Yeah. But I just haven't heard of too many cases 453 00:20:26,404 --> 00:20:27,815 where the mother doesn't know. 454 00:20:27,873 --> 00:20:29,444 Well, it looks like she was trying to prove 455 00:20:29,509 --> 00:20:32,513 Peter Wilder as her father using his son to do it. 456 00:20:32,578 --> 00:20:33,682 So why kill him? 457 00:20:33,746 --> 00:20:35,623 It's gotta have something to do with that test, 458 00:20:35,681 --> 00:20:38,287 but her physician is refusing to release her file. 459 00:20:38,351 --> 00:20:41,423 So, we were hoping you could nudge him a little. 460 00:20:41,821 --> 00:20:43,732 Yes. I love litigating in the dark. 461 00:20:47,493 --> 00:20:48,494 JUDGE: Ms. Carmichael. 462 00:20:48,561 --> 00:20:52,271 Your Honor, we're requesting a subpoena releasing Scott Wilder's medical file. 463 00:20:52,332 --> 00:20:55,245 I see I have a written waiver from the deceased's parents. 464 00:20:55,302 --> 00:20:56,406 What's the complication? 465 00:20:56,470 --> 00:20:59,781 Release of these records would violate my client's doctor-patient privilege. 466 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:03,549 His client shouldn't be allowed to control the medical information of anyone else. 467 00:21:03,610 --> 00:21:05,317 Judge, the results of the kinship analysis 468 00:21:05,379 --> 00:21:08,519 contains physical data contributed by my client, 469 00:21:08,582 --> 00:21:10,358 which means you can't release one 470 00:21:10,418 --> 00:21:12,455 without revealing information about the other. 471 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:13,999 CARMICHAEL: Your Honor, even if that's true, 472 00:21:14,055 --> 00:21:16,262 she gave up any privilege when she volunteered 473 00:21:16,324 --> 00:21:18,065 the results of the analysis to the police. 474 00:21:18,126 --> 00:21:20,163 Her statement to the police wasn't voluntary. 475 00:21:20,228 --> 00:21:22,003 It was the product of interrogation. 476 00:21:22,063 --> 00:21:24,600 There's also the issue of self-incrimination. 477 00:21:24,666 --> 00:21:26,668 The D.A.'s just trying to get these records, 478 00:21:26,734 --> 00:21:30,205 so they can find a motive to a crime my client isn't even charged with. 479 00:21:30,272 --> 00:21:31,910 What about it, Ms. Carmichael? 480 00:21:31,974 --> 00:21:33,681 We're just trying to ascertain the facts, Your Honor. 481 00:21:33,742 --> 00:21:35,779 Sounds more like you're fishing for them. 482 00:21:35,844 --> 00:21:38,188 In any event, at this point, 483 00:21:38,247 --> 00:21:40,124 she's not a defendant, and without a charge, 484 00:21:40,182 --> 00:21:42,458 I'm afraid the People have not met their burden. 485 00:21:42,518 --> 00:21:43,724 Subpoena denied. 486 00:21:43,786 --> 00:21:45,288 (BANGS GAVEL) 487 00:21:46,121 --> 00:21:47,725 So now, all we have is a witness 488 00:21:47,790 --> 00:21:50,362 who puts her at the school arguing with him. 489 00:21:50,427 --> 00:21:52,498 And we still don't know what the argument was about. 490 00:21:53,129 --> 00:21:55,268 Not to mention a lawyer who won't let her say a word. 491 00:21:55,332 --> 00:21:56,936 Maybe she doesn't have to. 492 00:21:58,602 --> 00:22:00,104 Say it's true. 493 00:22:00,170 --> 00:22:03,151 Say you just discovered you're the daughter of a very wealthy man, 494 00:22:03,673 --> 00:22:05,914 what would you want from him? 495 00:22:05,976 --> 00:22:08,855 Acknowledgment. Money. Contact. 496 00:22:08,912 --> 00:22:10,915 So where would you start? 497 00:22:11,215 --> 00:22:13,752 You feeling like a little man to man? 498 00:22:19,156 --> 00:22:24,037 My purpose in asking these questions is not to pry into your life, Mr. Wilder. 499 00:22:26,897 --> 00:22:28,808 You think this girl killed him? 500 00:22:28,866 --> 00:22:32,041 A witness places her with your son that night, 501 00:22:32,104 --> 00:22:35,210 another puts her with Scott at a drug buy. 502 00:22:35,907 --> 00:22:37,511 At this point, she's a suspect. 503 00:22:38,944 --> 00:22:40,855 It's all so incredible. 504 00:22:41,780 --> 00:22:43,453 Is she your daughter? 505 00:22:50,589 --> 00:22:52,467 I honestly don't know. 506 00:22:53,259 --> 00:22:56,399 I had an affair with her mother a long time ago. 507 00:22:56,462 --> 00:22:59,170 And you've never taken a paternity test? 508 00:23:00,199 --> 00:23:01,769 We advised against it. 509 00:23:01,834 --> 00:23:04,610 But I've given this woman whatever financial support she's asked for. 510 00:23:04,670 --> 00:23:06,172 Submitting to a paternity test 511 00:23:06,239 --> 00:23:10,187 results in a loss of control over the situation, even with small odds. 512 00:23:10,243 --> 00:23:13,885 I wasn't about to play Russian roulette with child support. 513 00:23:13,947 --> 00:23:18,862 Look, my wife knows nothing about this. 514 00:23:20,521 --> 00:23:23,695 Were you aware that Jessie had made contact with your son? 515 00:23:23,757 --> 00:23:24,758 PETER: No. 516 00:23:25,559 --> 00:23:27,937 But about six months ago, I'm sitting at my desk, 517 00:23:27,995 --> 00:23:31,533 and a receptionist calls me and tells me my daughter's on line three. 518 00:23:31,598 --> 00:23:32,669 You spoke to her? 519 00:23:32,734 --> 00:23:35,544 The truth is, we just hoped she'd go away. 520 00:23:36,137 --> 00:23:38,139 What other contact did you have with her? 521 00:23:38,206 --> 00:23:39,514 PETER: Never face to face. 522 00:23:39,574 --> 00:23:41,952 After all these years, what was the point? 523 00:23:42,010 --> 00:23:43,717 But, she kept calling. 524 00:23:44,345 --> 00:23:46,086 So what did you do? 525 00:23:47,582 --> 00:23:49,562 I contacted her mother. 526 00:23:50,051 --> 00:23:52,328 Brenda had no idea what her daughter was doing. 527 00:23:52,388 --> 00:23:55,028 She made a promise that it would stop. 528 00:23:55,091 --> 00:23:56,434 It didn't. 529 00:23:58,260 --> 00:24:00,706 That's a letter that Mr. Wilder received from Jessie. 530 00:24:01,063 --> 00:24:04,510 In it, she threatens to sell her story to the tabloids. 531 00:24:08,170 --> 00:24:10,776 Unless you pay $250,000. 532 00:24:13,677 --> 00:24:16,283 I decided to let my lawyers handle it. 533 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:18,684 JACK: His lawyer told Jessie Lucas 534 00:24:18,749 --> 00:24:21,992 she'd be committing a felony if she persisted in her demands. 535 00:24:22,052 --> 00:24:25,295 Well, just what a girl wants to hear from her father. 536 00:24:25,355 --> 00:24:30,065 Wilder also threatened to terminate his financial support for Brenda Lucas. 537 00:24:30,927 --> 00:24:33,636 Nothing like pouring gasoline on a fire. 538 00:24:34,065 --> 00:24:37,137 Which might explain why she'd kill Peter Wilder. 539 00:24:37,468 --> 00:24:41,109 But his son? By all accounts, Scott Wilder was helping her. 540 00:24:41,606 --> 00:24:45,144 Well, maybe she didn't want to share any of her newfound inheritance. 541 00:24:45,209 --> 00:24:47,189 Or maybe he was part of the plot, 542 00:24:47,245 --> 00:24:49,748 and in the end, somehow, tried to double-cross her. 543 00:24:49,814 --> 00:24:53,126 Why not revenge? Or any other reason, for that matter. 544 00:24:53,552 --> 00:24:55,054 We could pick her up. 545 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:57,862 I'm not arresting her for homicide based on speculation. 546 00:24:57,923 --> 00:25:01,393 An arrest could give us leverage with her or her mother. 547 00:25:06,064 --> 00:25:08,237 Ms. Lucas. Is your daughter home? 548 00:25:08,300 --> 00:25:09,301 She's in her room. 549 00:25:09,368 --> 00:25:11,041 Would you ask her to come out, please? 550 00:25:11,103 --> 00:25:12,411 Why? 551 00:25:12,471 --> 00:25:13,542 Mom? 552 00:25:14,741 --> 00:25:17,813 Jessie Lucas, we have a warrant for your arrest. 553 00:25:18,578 --> 00:25:21,320 My daughter did not kill Scott Wilder. 554 00:25:21,381 --> 00:25:24,885 The charge isn't murder, Ms. Lucas. It's extortion. 555 00:25:30,957 --> 00:25:32,800 I came here on my own. 556 00:25:32,859 --> 00:25:36,239 You can't force me to testify against my own daughter. 557 00:25:36,297 --> 00:25:38,436 CARMICHAEL: Actually, we can. 558 00:25:38,499 --> 00:25:40,775 What purpose would that serve? 559 00:25:40,835 --> 00:25:45,306 Peter Wilder tells us you knew of your daughter's efforts to contact him. 560 00:25:45,372 --> 00:25:47,511 Peter Wilder is a bastard. 561 00:25:47,908 --> 00:25:51,014 Well, being a bastard isn't a defense to blackmail. 562 00:25:51,078 --> 00:25:52,352 Yeah, well, it ought to be. 563 00:25:52,413 --> 00:25:54,894 It ought to be a defense to anything she did. 564 00:25:54,950 --> 00:25:56,588 Including murder? 565 00:25:59,187 --> 00:26:02,066 Peter Wilder would never agree to anything. 566 00:26:02,724 --> 00:26:05,170 He always threatened me with money. 567 00:26:06,094 --> 00:26:07,801 And all this time, my daughter is growing up 568 00:26:07,863 --> 00:26:09,672 believing that he's her father. 569 00:26:09,731 --> 00:26:10,766 You know, he could have put a stop to this 570 00:26:10,832 --> 00:26:13,073 a long time ago if he'd just... 571 00:26:16,572 --> 00:26:18,745 Jessie didn't kill his son. 572 00:26:19,475 --> 00:26:22,149 Scott was helping her, for God's sake! 573 00:26:22,211 --> 00:26:24,418 Helping her extort her father? 574 00:26:27,216 --> 00:26:28,286 You can answer our questions now, 575 00:26:28,351 --> 00:26:31,798 or you can answer them later, in front of a Grand Jury, Ms. Lucas. 576 00:26:34,791 --> 00:26:38,933 I was a different person when I knew Peter. 577 00:26:41,431 --> 00:26:43,570 I was dating several men. 578 00:26:43,634 --> 00:26:47,377 It's a little difficult to tell your daughter you don't know... 579 00:26:47,938 --> 00:26:49,679 What did you tell her? 580 00:26:50,607 --> 00:26:54,020 One day she saw me looking at a newspaper photograph of Peter. 581 00:26:54,077 --> 00:26:57,389 He was standing there with his wife and Scott. 582 00:26:58,883 --> 00:27:00,920 Anyway, Jessie just asked me, 583 00:27:02,453 --> 00:27:04,194 "Is that my daddy?" 584 00:27:04,689 --> 00:27:06,669 She was eight years old, 585 00:27:08,826 --> 00:27:10,863 and the look in her eye... 586 00:27:12,163 --> 00:27:14,404 She needed my answer to be yes. 587 00:27:14,899 --> 00:27:18,973 Can you understand that? I couldn't deny her that. I just couldn't. 588 00:27:21,941 --> 00:27:24,854 Only I didn't know then that it wasn't true. 589 00:27:32,451 --> 00:27:35,125 I can't believe she gave you this. 590 00:27:35,187 --> 00:27:38,499 JACK: You believed this man was your father for a long time. 591 00:27:38,558 --> 00:27:41,562 Until the kinship analysis told you he wasn't. 592 00:27:41,995 --> 00:27:44,407 It must have come as quite a shock 593 00:27:44,864 --> 00:27:48,141 when you discovered Peter Wilder wasn't your father. 594 00:27:48,501 --> 00:27:49,502 CARMICHAEL: Only you weren't going to let that 595 00:27:49,569 --> 00:27:51,480 get in the way of a little extortion, were you? 596 00:27:51,538 --> 00:27:52,881 Don't answer her. 597 00:27:56,077 --> 00:27:58,216 It has to have been difficult 598 00:28:01,215 --> 00:28:05,857 seeing this family sailing through life year after year, 599 00:28:07,855 --> 00:28:10,358 while you and your mother struggled. 600 00:28:12,059 --> 00:28:14,039 But none of it was real. 601 00:28:14,962 --> 00:28:18,137 You knew that the moment you saw the test results. 602 00:28:19,101 --> 00:28:21,206 Which means Scott knew, too. 603 00:28:23,171 --> 00:28:25,845 Killing him would've been the only way the truth would never be known. 604 00:28:28,043 --> 00:28:29,920 You're charging her with murder? 605 00:28:29,978 --> 00:28:32,083 We have motive, we have opportunity. 606 00:28:32,147 --> 00:28:34,423 The only thing we don't have is a murder weapon. 607 00:28:35,951 --> 00:28:37,488 Jess, you have to tell them. 608 00:28:37,553 --> 00:28:38,827 I can't. 609 00:28:39,722 --> 00:28:41,099 I've already done enough. 610 00:28:41,157 --> 00:28:44,900 How does being convicted of a crime you didn't commit help anyone? 611 00:28:44,961 --> 00:28:46,167 (SIGHS) 612 00:28:47,864 --> 00:28:51,676 Counselor, if there's something to say, now would be the time. 613 00:28:54,570 --> 00:28:57,313 Jess, please. Just tell them. 614 00:29:03,147 --> 00:29:06,390 I was wrong, about all of it. 615 00:29:07,618 --> 00:29:12,067 About Peter Wilder being my father, Scott, all of it. 616 00:29:14,391 --> 00:29:16,894 I just wanted to make him notice me. 617 00:29:18,830 --> 00:29:20,309 Peter Wilder? 618 00:29:23,134 --> 00:29:26,047 I really believed he was my father. 619 00:29:29,207 --> 00:29:30,811 I mean, I would look at his picture 620 00:29:30,875 --> 00:29:33,947 and just know that he was my dad. 621 00:29:35,113 --> 00:29:37,150 And I couldn't understand 622 00:29:38,651 --> 00:29:40,528 why he didn't love me. 623 00:29:41,487 --> 00:29:45,128 I couldn't understand what was wrong with me. 624 00:29:47,059 --> 00:29:52,407 How my own father could just pretend I didn't exist. 625 00:29:54,867 --> 00:29:59,544 Finally, I realized that money was the only thing important to him. 626 00:30:00,173 --> 00:30:03,245 So you had Scott help you blackmail his father? 627 00:30:04,644 --> 00:30:06,988 But I was wrong about Scott, too. 628 00:30:08,315 --> 00:30:11,626 He wasn't happy. Not the way I'd imagined. 629 00:30:11,685 --> 00:30:13,596 Scott hated his father. 630 00:30:15,355 --> 00:30:17,232 What happened that night? 631 00:30:18,926 --> 00:30:21,964 Scott and I were supposed to meet him at the school. 632 00:30:23,731 --> 00:30:26,439 But standing there, knowing the truth, 633 00:30:27,769 --> 00:30:30,306 I wanted nothing from this man. 634 00:30:32,807 --> 00:30:36,277 So I told Scott I couldn't do it, and then I left. 635 00:30:38,145 --> 00:30:42,253 Scott wasn't the one who backed out that night. I was. 636 00:30:49,825 --> 00:30:51,896 If Jessie's telling the truth, 637 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:56,033 she and Scott arranged to meet Wilder at the school that night 638 00:30:56,098 --> 00:30:57,509 to receive the payoff. 639 00:30:57,566 --> 00:31:00,571 Only, once the kinship analysis proved that he wasn't her father, 640 00:31:00,637 --> 00:31:01,809 she couldn't go through with it. 641 00:31:01,871 --> 00:31:04,351 JACK: Apparently, the son still wanted to go forward. 642 00:31:04,407 --> 00:31:06,910 His relationship with the father is that bad? 643 00:31:06,976 --> 00:31:08,284 Wilder himself admitted that he hadn't 644 00:31:08,344 --> 00:31:10,153 spoken with his son in over two years. 645 00:31:11,414 --> 00:31:12,484 Okay. 646 00:31:12,549 --> 00:31:16,087 The boy's on drugs, obviously nothing else is working. 647 00:31:16,152 --> 00:31:18,530 I mean, what could be more painful for any parent 648 00:31:18,588 --> 00:31:20,296 than to tell their kid to get out? 649 00:31:20,357 --> 00:31:23,167 He seemed to have no problem doing it to Jessie Lucas. 650 00:31:23,227 --> 00:31:24,297 He wasn't her father. 651 00:31:24,361 --> 00:31:25,465 But he never knew that. 652 00:31:25,529 --> 00:31:28,533 And by his own admission, he fought against ever finding out. 653 00:31:28,599 --> 00:31:30,545 All that time, leaving this girl growing up 654 00:31:30,601 --> 00:31:33,343 with the delusion that he was her father. 655 00:31:35,739 --> 00:31:37,946 Why would Wilder kill his boy? 656 00:31:38,442 --> 00:31:40,423 My guess? Wilder couldn't stand the betrayal. 657 00:31:40,479 --> 00:31:41,924 LEWIN: Why didn't she say this to the police 658 00:31:41,980 --> 00:31:43,653 the first time she was questioned? 659 00:31:43,715 --> 00:31:46,093 Well, if not for the lawyer, she probably would have. 660 00:31:46,151 --> 00:31:48,392 In any event, she would have been admitting to extortion. 661 00:31:48,453 --> 00:31:50,990 And there was always Wilder's threat to cut off the mother. 662 00:31:51,056 --> 00:31:53,127 Do we have anything to corroborate her story? 663 00:31:53,191 --> 00:31:54,864 Two days before Scott Wilder's death, 664 00:31:54,926 --> 00:31:58,135 Mr. Wilder withdrew $250,000 from a brokerage account. 665 00:31:58,196 --> 00:32:00,040 The same amount of the extortion demand. 666 00:32:00,099 --> 00:32:04,013 And Mr. Wilder has a .38 caliber handgun registered in his name. 667 00:32:06,972 --> 00:32:08,474 Get a warrant. 668 00:32:08,674 --> 00:32:11,348 I don't understand how you can come into our home, 669 00:32:11,410 --> 00:32:13,788 and make these accusations? He was our son. 670 00:32:13,846 --> 00:32:15,519 Do you understand? Our only child. 671 00:32:15,581 --> 00:32:17,891 How could you even think we had anything to do with this? 672 00:32:17,950 --> 00:32:20,124 Just calm down. It's going to be okay. 673 00:32:20,187 --> 00:32:23,464 No, it's not. Nothing's ever going to be okay again. 674 00:32:23,824 --> 00:32:27,499 Do you have any safes in the house, Mr. Wilder? Any private lock boxes? 675 00:32:27,561 --> 00:32:28,596 PETER: No. 676 00:32:28,662 --> 00:32:31,506 It's just that we don't like to destroy personal property unless we have to. 677 00:32:31,565 --> 00:32:32,635 I told you no. 678 00:32:32,699 --> 00:32:34,576 Mr. Wilder, would you mind coming here. 679 00:32:34,634 --> 00:32:36,375 We need you to show us the clothes you were wearing 680 00:32:36,436 --> 00:32:38,006 the night of your son's death. 681 00:32:38,071 --> 00:32:41,212 I don't think I can remember what I was wearing that night. 682 00:32:41,275 --> 00:32:43,482 Well, do you wear the same coat every day? The same shoes? 683 00:32:43,544 --> 00:32:47,082 Well, the same coat. A gray overcoat. It's here in the closet. 684 00:32:47,148 --> 00:32:48,991 There's a few different shoes I could've been wearing. 685 00:32:49,050 --> 00:32:50,085 They're upstairs. 686 00:32:50,151 --> 00:32:52,324 Bag the coat. I'm gonna check upstairs for the shoes. 687 00:32:52,387 --> 00:32:53,422 CROWELL: Peter? Johanna? 688 00:32:53,488 --> 00:32:55,593 Stephen, thank God you're here. 689 00:32:55,656 --> 00:32:57,226 I came as quickly as I could. 690 00:32:57,291 --> 00:32:59,396 I'm Mr. Wilder's attorney. What's going on? 691 00:32:59,460 --> 00:33:00,633 We have a search warrant. 692 00:33:00,696 --> 00:33:02,107 I'd like to see it, if you don't mind. 693 00:33:02,164 --> 00:33:03,199 They're going through everything. 694 00:33:03,265 --> 00:33:05,006 They want his coat, his shoes. 695 00:33:05,067 --> 00:33:06,137 For what purpose? 696 00:33:06,201 --> 00:33:08,078 It's not because we're cold, Counselor. 697 00:33:08,137 --> 00:33:10,310 They think Peter killed Scott. 698 00:33:10,372 --> 00:33:11,749 Based on what? 699 00:33:11,807 --> 00:33:13,718 Well, for openers, your client can't produce 700 00:33:13,776 --> 00:33:16,416 a .38 caliber handgun that's registered in his name. 701 00:33:16,478 --> 00:33:19,755 I already told them I purchased that gun over eight years ago. 702 00:33:19,815 --> 00:33:21,295 I didn't even know it was missing until today. 703 00:33:21,351 --> 00:33:22,523 ED: Lennie. 704 00:33:22,585 --> 00:33:24,189 What do you got? 705 00:33:24,954 --> 00:33:26,297 Red dust. 706 00:33:26,356 --> 00:33:29,132 You been to any construction sites lately, Mr. Wilder? 707 00:33:29,192 --> 00:33:32,036 Peter, don't say a word. Not a single word. 708 00:33:34,631 --> 00:33:36,042 What do we hear? 709 00:33:36,099 --> 00:33:37,840 CARMICHAEL: Briscoe and Green couldn't find the gun. 710 00:33:37,901 --> 00:33:39,175 Great. 711 00:33:39,235 --> 00:33:41,477 I thought you fixed this damn thing. 712 00:33:41,539 --> 00:33:43,541 They also couldn't find any record 713 00:33:43,607 --> 00:33:45,177 of Wilder reporting the gun stolen either. 714 00:33:46,444 --> 00:33:48,549 Still means you don't have a murder weapon. 715 00:33:48,613 --> 00:33:50,615 We've tried homicides without one before. 716 00:33:51,282 --> 00:33:52,386 We'll make the case. 717 00:33:52,450 --> 00:33:54,657 In front of a Grand Jury, maybe. 718 00:33:54,718 --> 00:33:56,493 You really think atrial jury's gonna believe 719 00:33:56,554 --> 00:33:58,397 that Peter Wilder killed his own son? 720 00:33:58,456 --> 00:34:01,164 This guy was happy to see Jessie Lucas charged. 721 00:34:01,225 --> 00:34:04,503 Difficult or not, I think we have an obligation to prosecute. 722 00:34:04,563 --> 00:34:06,804 We also have a burden of proof. 723 00:34:07,098 --> 00:34:10,079 And since it's gonna be my ass they'll use as target practice, 724 00:34:10,135 --> 00:34:12,206 I'd like to test that proof. 725 00:34:12,270 --> 00:34:13,613 Get a preliminary hearing? 726 00:34:13,672 --> 00:34:15,515 Get a judge to back our position, 727 00:34:15,574 --> 00:34:18,953 to agree that there's probable cause to indict Wilder. 728 00:34:23,416 --> 00:34:26,124 I lived with Scott almost two years. 729 00:34:26,185 --> 00:34:29,257 And in that time, how would you describe his relationship with his father? 730 00:34:29,322 --> 00:34:30,630 They didn't speak. Why? 731 00:34:30,690 --> 00:34:33,296 Objection. The witness is being asked to testify 732 00:34:33,359 --> 00:34:35,202 as to the mental state of another person. 733 00:34:35,261 --> 00:34:38,606 The witness lived with the victim for almost two years. 734 00:34:38,664 --> 00:34:39,938 Certainly she knew his mind. 735 00:34:39,999 --> 00:34:42,606 I do think I need a little context here. 736 00:34:42,669 --> 00:34:45,172 I'll allow it, if the witness knows. 737 00:34:46,173 --> 00:34:47,948 Scott's father was bigger than life. 738 00:34:48,675 --> 00:34:51,679 Everything about him, even the buildings he put up. 739 00:34:52,479 --> 00:34:56,825 Scott always felt like he could never measure up. No matter what he did. 740 00:34:57,418 --> 00:35:00,422 I think he just wanted to get even that night. 741 00:35:02,323 --> 00:35:05,668 The dust found on Mr. Wilder's shoes is from fireclay brick. 742 00:35:05,727 --> 00:35:07,604 JACK: What's the significance of that? 743 00:35:07,662 --> 00:35:09,869 It's the same brick used at the Wilshire School. 744 00:35:09,931 --> 00:35:13,504 Our analysis of the dust also showed other variables unique to the site, 745 00:35:13,568 --> 00:35:16,208 including chemicals used in the sandblasting process. 746 00:35:16,271 --> 00:35:19,650 So the dust on Mr. Wilder's shoes can be identified with the school? 747 00:35:19,707 --> 00:35:21,482 It's an exact match. 748 00:35:27,883 --> 00:35:30,864 Your evidence indicates that my client was present at the school yard? 749 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:31,921 DENSON: Correct. 750 00:35:31,987 --> 00:35:33,660 But when, you don't know? 751 00:35:33,722 --> 00:35:34,723 No. 752 00:35:34,790 --> 00:35:38,033 So, had my client gone to the school yard on a subsequent morning, 753 00:35:38,093 --> 00:35:40,801 doing what any grieving parent might do, 754 00:35:40,863 --> 00:35:43,504 visiting the site where his child died, 755 00:35:44,101 --> 00:35:47,048 that would be consistent with your findings, wouldn't it? 756 00:35:48,071 --> 00:35:49,550 Yes, it would. 757 00:35:50,540 --> 00:35:52,349 No further questions. 758 00:35:54,611 --> 00:35:57,854 JACK: When did you first make contact with Scott Wilder? 759 00:35:57,914 --> 00:36:00,053 About eight months ago, 760 00:36:00,117 --> 00:36:01,528 through a private investigator. 761 00:36:01,585 --> 00:36:03,930 Why were you so interested in meeting him? 762 00:36:03,988 --> 00:36:07,162 At the time, I thought Peter Wilder was my father. 763 00:36:07,225 --> 00:36:08,898 Why make contact with his son? 764 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,997 Because he wouldn't see me. 765 00:36:11,395 --> 00:36:13,306 He wouldn't even speak to me. 766 00:36:14,232 --> 00:36:19,477 I had been told about a type of paternity test, a kinship analysis, 767 00:36:19,937 --> 00:36:24,148 and that test can verify whether two people share a common parent. 768 00:36:24,877 --> 00:36:27,517 What was Scott's reaction meeting you? 769 00:36:27,579 --> 00:36:29,252 He wanted to help. 770 00:36:29,748 --> 00:36:33,662 The night of Scott Wilder's murder, you were with him? 771 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:34,789 Yes. 772 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:36,321 Tell the court why. 773 00:36:39,458 --> 00:36:42,462 We'd arranged to meet Mr. Wilder to get money. 774 00:36:42,961 --> 00:36:44,498 Money for what? 775 00:36:45,765 --> 00:36:48,871 To keep Scott and me quiet about the fact he was my father. 776 00:36:49,502 --> 00:36:51,812 And did you in fact meet Mr. Wilder that night? 777 00:36:51,871 --> 00:36:53,544 No. I did not. 778 00:36:53,606 --> 00:36:54,914 Why not? 779 00:36:54,974 --> 00:36:57,784 Because I found out I wasn't his daughter. 780 00:36:59,879 --> 00:37:02,553 And finding out just made me understand 781 00:37:02,615 --> 00:37:05,756 that whatever it was I was looking for from him, 782 00:37:05,820 --> 00:37:08,061 I wasn't ever going to find it. 783 00:37:08,789 --> 00:37:11,633 And I needed to get on with my own life. 784 00:37:16,096 --> 00:37:18,940 Did Scott Wilder agree with your decision? 785 00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:22,879 No. In fact, he got angrier. 786 00:37:24,104 --> 00:37:25,584 See, Scott... 787 00:37:26,241 --> 00:37:30,280 See, Scott thought that he was finally going to be able expose his father, 788 00:37:30,612 --> 00:37:35,459 and when I told him that I wasn't his sister, he just couldn't let it go. 789 00:37:36,318 --> 00:37:39,322 He thought that if he did that his father would just get away with it. 790 00:37:39,387 --> 00:37:41,628 With the affair and everything. 791 00:37:44,894 --> 00:37:48,068 And I just couldn't convince him to leave with me. 792 00:37:48,998 --> 00:37:51,604 And where did all this take place? 793 00:37:51,667 --> 00:37:53,578 At the Wilshire School. 794 00:37:54,704 --> 00:37:58,083 Scott said that was the place that it had all started. 795 00:37:58,474 --> 00:38:01,216 The beginning of all the disappointments. 796 00:38:03,679 --> 00:38:06,126 And he thought it should end there. 797 00:38:10,253 --> 00:38:11,596 Thank you. 798 00:38:18,762 --> 00:38:21,504 You spent a long time on this quest to find your father, didn't you? 799 00:38:22,165 --> 00:38:23,200 All my life. 800 00:38:23,266 --> 00:38:25,838 You hired a lawyer and a private investigator? 801 00:38:25,904 --> 00:38:26,939 He wouldn't talk to me. 802 00:38:27,005 --> 00:38:30,543 And you're not one to take no for an answer, are you, Ms. Lucas? 803 00:38:30,742 --> 00:38:32,517 Not from my father, no. 804 00:38:33,444 --> 00:38:36,152 But he wasn't your father. 805 00:38:37,115 --> 00:38:38,150 I didn't know that. 806 00:38:38,216 --> 00:38:39,593 So you called Mr. Wilder 807 00:38:39,651 --> 00:38:43,189 and you told him that you'd gotten his son to help you? 808 00:38:43,254 --> 00:38:44,665 Yes. 809 00:38:44,722 --> 00:38:47,636 But, even when you knew, when you knew for a fact, 810 00:38:47,693 --> 00:38:48,933 that he was not your father, 811 00:38:48,994 --> 00:38:51,531 that didn't stop you from trying to blackmail him either, did it? 812 00:38:51,597 --> 00:38:52,974 I didn't go through with it. 813 00:38:53,032 --> 00:38:54,807 But Scott did? Yes. 814 00:38:54,867 --> 00:38:57,973 Scott, the son who stood to inherit everything, 815 00:38:58,037 --> 00:39:01,416 and you, the rejected child with nothing. 816 00:39:01,940 --> 00:39:03,851 But it was him, he was the one that did it. 817 00:39:03,909 --> 00:39:05,252 That's what we argued about. 818 00:39:05,311 --> 00:39:06,848 You argued? Yes. 819 00:39:06,913 --> 00:39:10,827 But it wasn't about Scott wanting to go through with it, was it? 820 00:39:11,284 --> 00:39:12,490 The D.A.'s report indicates 821 00:39:12,552 --> 00:39:15,863 that you told them that you were responsible for Scott's death. 822 00:39:15,922 --> 00:39:17,026 That's not what I meant. 823 00:39:17,090 --> 00:39:19,627 CROWELL: Scott Wilder was in possession of information 824 00:39:19,693 --> 00:39:24,233 that would forever put to rest your obsession that his father was yours, 825 00:39:24,297 --> 00:39:27,370 that would turn off, forever, the money spigot. 826 00:39:29,070 --> 00:39:31,983 You knew that the only way that your plan could succeed now 827 00:39:32,039 --> 00:39:34,986 would be if Scott were to keep his mouth shut, 828 00:39:35,676 --> 00:39:38,247 and that's why you killed him, didn't you? 829 00:39:38,312 --> 00:39:39,347 No. 830 00:39:39,413 --> 00:39:41,393 And now you dare come into this courtroom, 831 00:39:41,449 --> 00:39:43,895 and blame his father for his death. 832 00:39:44,919 --> 00:39:46,729 Haven't you done enough to this family, 833 00:39:46,788 --> 00:39:49,598 without dragging them through all of this? 834 00:39:54,863 --> 00:39:56,843 LEWIN: The press won't be kind to us tomorrow. 835 00:39:56,898 --> 00:39:59,401 Wilder's people will see to that. 836 00:39:59,468 --> 00:40:02,176 JACK: It won't be the first time we've taken a hit in the headlines. 837 00:40:02,237 --> 00:40:03,944 It's the first time I have. 838 00:40:04,006 --> 00:40:05,883 If we can get Wilder to take the stand... 839 00:40:05,941 --> 00:40:07,580 LEWIN: No, he won't testify. 840 00:40:07,643 --> 00:40:11,113 Not now. Why should he? His lawyer did all the work for him. 841 00:40:11,180 --> 00:40:14,320 This guy always gets his lawyers to do the work for him. 842 00:40:14,384 --> 00:40:16,386 And he always plays to win. 843 00:40:16,452 --> 00:40:18,523 LEWIN: What's your point? 844 00:40:18,588 --> 00:40:20,966 Jessie Lucas had been going after that money for months. 845 00:40:21,024 --> 00:40:23,527 Why suddenly fold your hand that night? 846 00:40:23,593 --> 00:40:25,334 And why go down there by yourself? 847 00:40:26,462 --> 00:40:28,340 Something made him change his mind. 848 00:40:28,398 --> 00:40:30,344 Or he never changed his mind at all. 849 00:40:30,801 --> 00:40:33,213 He went down there because he had no intention of paying. 850 00:40:37,107 --> 00:40:40,054 I hope this meeting is to inform us you're withdrawing charges. 851 00:40:40,110 --> 00:40:42,112 No, I'm afraid not. 852 00:40:44,615 --> 00:40:46,060 What's this? 853 00:40:46,116 --> 00:40:47,254 CARMICHAEL: Those are the phone records 854 00:40:47,317 --> 00:40:48,922 from your client's place of business. 855 00:40:48,987 --> 00:40:52,298 I'm sorry, I don't understand. Phone records of what? 856 00:40:54,092 --> 00:40:57,301 Will you explain it to her, Mr. Wilder, or should we? 857 00:41:01,866 --> 00:41:04,142 Your husband called Brenda Lucas several times 858 00:41:04,202 --> 00:41:06,580 in the days before Scott was killed. 859 00:41:07,405 --> 00:41:10,546 JACK: We know she told you Jessie wasn't your daughter, 860 00:41:10,609 --> 00:41:13,818 but your son was still willing to betray you, wasn't he? 861 00:41:13,879 --> 00:41:16,723 He was still willing to fleece his old man, 862 00:41:17,116 --> 00:41:19,426 and you just couldn't let him get away with that, could you? 863 00:41:19,485 --> 00:41:20,691 It wasn't like that. 864 00:41:20,753 --> 00:41:23,893 You sat there and allowed your lawyer to accuse that girl of murder. 865 00:41:23,956 --> 00:41:25,560 What else could it be? 866 00:41:28,562 --> 00:41:29,939 You did it. 867 00:41:30,731 --> 00:41:31,732 You killed him. 868 00:41:33,366 --> 00:41:35,403 Listen to me, Johanna. Listen to what? 869 00:41:35,468 --> 00:41:38,210 How to turn our son out into the streets? 870 00:41:40,207 --> 00:41:41,379 CROWELL: All right. I'm gonna need an adjournment 871 00:41:41,441 --> 00:41:42,818 to have these records examined. 872 00:41:42,876 --> 00:41:45,186 No. Let's get it over with. 873 00:41:45,245 --> 00:41:47,191 This is not wise, Peter. 874 00:41:47,247 --> 00:41:49,956 What the hell's left to protect, Stephen? 875 00:41:53,221 --> 00:41:55,030 I've been running from this thing for too long. 876 00:41:58,159 --> 00:41:59,968 I went to meet Scott. 877 00:42:00,762 --> 00:42:05,211 Yes, I was angry, but I thought if I could just talk to him. 878 00:42:05,266 --> 00:42:07,007 Just to talk to him, Jo. 879 00:42:09,304 --> 00:42:12,046 Why can't you people just leave it alone? 880 00:42:12,441 --> 00:42:14,978 What happened that night, Mr. Wilder? 881 00:42:21,450 --> 00:42:24,431 He was waiting for me in the school yard, 882 00:42:24,486 --> 00:42:27,092 the same way he did when he was a boy. 883 00:42:27,389 --> 00:42:30,371 (LAUGHS) He was so sure he had me. 884 00:42:32,862 --> 00:42:36,002 When I told him I knew the truth 885 00:42:38,334 --> 00:42:41,406 it was like his whole world just fell in on him. 886 00:42:43,206 --> 00:42:46,847 Like the only reason for his being alive was to show me up. 887 00:42:50,181 --> 00:42:52,218 That's when I saw the gun. 888 00:42:52,883 --> 00:42:55,329 He must've taken it at some point when he was in the house. 889 00:42:55,386 --> 00:42:56,865 I don't know. 890 00:42:57,455 --> 00:43:00,402 At first, I thought he was going to shoot me, 891 00:43:01,292 --> 00:43:04,364 but then he pointed it... 892 00:43:05,896 --> 00:43:08,103 He pointed it at his own head. 893 00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:11,503 He started to cry. He said, 894 00:43:11,569 --> 00:43:13,139 "This is what you wanted all along, isn't it?" 895 00:43:13,204 --> 00:43:14,649 "What you always wanted." 896 00:43:16,641 --> 00:43:21,090 I could see he was going to do it, too. Just to get back at me. So stupid. 897 00:43:23,948 --> 00:43:26,394 So I just reached for it, 898 00:43:27,018 --> 00:43:28,929 but he wouldn't let go. 899 00:43:35,528 --> 00:43:37,439 The gun went off twice. 900 00:43:39,665 --> 00:43:44,273 When I looked down, his eyes were open. 901 00:43:49,408 --> 00:43:50,786 And, God... 902 00:43:51,645 --> 00:43:54,717 God help me, I just picked up the gun and I ran. 903 00:43:58,986 --> 00:44:00,488 I would never hurt him. 904 00:44:00,554 --> 00:44:03,865 Whatever you may think of me, Johanna He was my son. 905 00:44:06,393 --> 00:44:10,102 We gave up the right to call him our son 906 00:44:11,799 --> 00:44:13,403 a long time ago. 907 00:44:34,156 --> 00:44:38,002 Can I assume you won't be going forward with the murder charge? 908 00:44:38,427 --> 00:44:40,839 If we can verify it was a suicide. 909 00:44:46,201 --> 00:44:47,976 CARMICHAEL: One child starved for his recognition, 910 00:44:48,037 --> 00:44:50,347 the other crushed under the weight of his disapproval. 911 00:44:50,406 --> 00:44:53,854 With a father forced to admit complicity in his son's suicide. 912 00:44:53,910 --> 00:44:56,356 There are worse places than prison.