.
- In the criminal justice system,
the people are represented
by two separate, yet equally important groups:
the police, who investigate crime,
and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.
These are their stories.
- Yeah! [applause]
[cheers and applause]
- They doubted us.
Said we wouldn't work.
Tried to shame us.
But here we are, six months later.
To my true love. - [whispering] I love you.
- I can't wait to marry you tomorrow.
[applause]
[tense music]
- We got a name for the vic? - Bob Gladstone.
- Toy company guy?
I got kids, man.
Gladstone Toys were a mainstay under our Christmas tree.
- He was staying in the presidential suite.
- Ooh, nice.
- This place is bigger than my house.
- We got a time of death?
- Based on temp and rigidity,
I'd say between 10:00 p.m. and midnight.
- So, what, someone whacked him from behind?
- Managed to crack his skull.
- According to his key card log,
he entered the room at 9:46 p.m.
- Any sign of forced entry?
- Not even a scratch on the door.
- All right, so he let the killer in,
or they had a key card.
- Anybody find a murder weapon?
- Nothing.
- We're looking for a heavy object,
at least 10 inches in length with 2 sharp points.
- Manager said there was a bronze sculpture missing
from that pedestal.
- Death by fine art. Hmm.
Any witnesses?
- Someone down the hall heard an argument around 10:30 p.m.,
looked out, saw a waiter leave the room.
- Who found him? - Fiancée.
EMTs are with her now.
She's shaken.
They were supposed to get married today.
- I hate weddings.
[dramatic music]
* *
- You have no idea who this waiter might have been?
- No.
Mr. Gladstone didn't order anything from in-room dining,
and no one was sent to his room.
- But you have surveillance in that hallway?
- Yes, of course.
But at Mr. Gladstone's request,
we turned off all cameras inside the hotel for privacy.
But we doubled our security detail.
- Anyone acting strange? - Everyone.
I've never seen so many people at a wedding
want to stop a wedding, except the bride.
- We were supposed to be flying to Bora Bora tomorrow
for our honeymoon.
- Now, I know this is a very difficult time for you,
but we do need to ask you some questions.
- Can you think of anyone who'd want to hurt Bob?
- Everyone was pissed at Bob for marrying down.
It was nothing new.
But there was this one guy
at the end of the rehearsal dinner
that I'd never seen before.
He seemed worked up.
- Last night?
- Yeah, he got in Bob's face as we were leaving,
and then he handed him this folder.
- A folder?
Any idea what was in it? - Beats me.
Bob got us away from him fast,
but he glanced at the folder as we rode up in the elevator,
and he seemed upset.
I asked what it was, but he told me not to worry.
That was the last time that I saw him alive.
We wanted separate rooms before the big day.
He was a romantic.
- Did you leave this room between 10:00 and midnight?
- No.
- The man who handed him the folder,
can you tell us what he looked like?
- Uh, about your height, white shirt, black vest.
- Like a waiter's uniform?
- Yeah, that's right.
- Thank you.
Hey, file was in Gladstone's room.
- The waiter handed him a pile of X-rays?
- Medical bills.
- The patient's name is Lydia Zellicheni?
- Zellicheni? - Yeah.
- Yeah, here, last night's waitstaff--Emile Zellicheni.
- And here's a civil suit filed three years ago
by Lydia Zellicheni against Gladstone Toys.
Judge tossed it last month.
- I had nothing to do with it.
- Yeah? 'Cause your boss says
you only started working here three weeks ago
and that you specifically asked
to work last night's rehearsal dinner.
So it kind of seems like you were trying to get close
to Bob Gladstone.
- We know you confronted Gladstone at the end of dinner.
- I gave him some documents. I just wanted to talk.
It was my only chance, but he blew me off.
- And a witness saw a waiter coming from his room
around the time he was murdered.
- [sighs]
- We can put you in a lineup.
- After my shift, I went up to his room.
- To kill him? - No, to plead with him.
My wife--she went to one of his stores,
and she fell down a flight of stairs.
And now she's...
she's paralyzed.
You know what the cost of those medical bills are?
We were supposed to be compensated,
but his goddamn company outlawyered us.
- Is this revenge? - No, I--
- Emile, that witness heard you arguing.
- I was overheated when I went, yes, but...
Gladstone surprised me.
- How's that?
- He listened.
He said that he could tell how much I loved my wife
and that he knows
what it's like to care deeply for a woman.
- You got any proof of this? - He gave me his card.
Yeah? - Yeah.
- Gladstone wrote his personal number,
said that he'd make things right.
Told me he'd call his CFO right away to make arrangements.
And now he's...
he's dead.
Oh, God.
- What time was this? - Around 10:30 p.m.
- 10:30? - Yeah.
- All right, we're gonna look into this.
For now, you stay put.
We got Gladstone's phone records.
Looks like he made an 18-minute call
to the company CFO at 10:40 p.m.
- That's a lot of business talk the night before your wedding.
- Old friends, apparently.
CFO says he thought Gladstone was making a huge mistake
with the wedding--no prenup.
They got into it.
- "No prenup"? Idiot.
- Twice divorced.
- So who gets Gladstone's money now that he's dead?
- Yeah, a lawyer sent us his will.
Dates back to his first marriage.
Apparently, Gladstone was a widower.
Anyway, the will leaves everything
to his current spouse, unless he's unmarried,
in which case, it gets split between his children.
- Also, video from outside the hotel just landed.
Zellicheni left the hotel at 10:44 p.m.
while Gladstone was on that call.
Not a speck of blood.
Doesn't seem to return to the hotel.
- Who's that guy leaving the hotel carrying that bag?
- That bag's a pretty good size.
- Does he come back?
[suspenseful music]
- Yep, ten minutes later and no bag.
- Maybe he goes outside,
ditches the murder weapon, and goes back in?
- Run facial rec. - Mm-hmm.
* *
Paul Gladstone, the vic's son.
Looks like he was arrested years ago
at an Occupy Wall Street protest.
- And since the dad was unmarried,
he's set to inherit 100 million.
- Maybe he changed his mind about money.
* *
.
- I guess I'm not surprised.
- That your father was murdered?
Is it because maybe you had something to do with it?
- What? No.
Just... money makes people crazy.
- So wanting to inherit $100 million
didn't make you crazy? - I gotta say, man,
that timing works out pretty sweet for you.
- I want nothing to do with the Gladstone fortune.
I never have.
I gave it up ages ago, refused to take any money from my dad.
I joined the Peace Corps.
- You joined the Peace Corps?
Gave up a townhouse in Tribeca for a hut with no plumbing?
- Best decision ever.
Now I work for the World Kitchen.
I spent the last six months in Gaza.
Came back for the wedding because my dad wanted me here.
- It didn't bother you that your dad was marrying
a woman younger than you?
- Of all the horrific problems going on in the world,
that didn't make my list.
I've never seen my dad happier.
- I'm surprised, you know, as his kid,
that you didn't have any, uh, suspicions.
- Yeah, my sister had that covered.
- Not down with the wedding, huh?
- Amanda was freaking out
because our dad hadn't updated his will.
Wanted me to meet with her and our dad's lawyer
as soon as I got into town. - Did you?
- Like I said, family money isn't my endgame.
- Did you see your dad last night after dinner?
- No. - No?
- No, I went to my room to catch up on emails.
- Yeah?
Then why were you leaving the hotel last night
around 11:00?
What were you dumping, Paul?
- I asked catering
for the rehearsal dinner food that they were gonna throw out
so I could bring some to a local food pantry, okay?
That's a bag full of leftovers.
Ask them.
- All Souls Food Pantry
confirms Paul Gladstone's story.
So please tell me you have something
on the other Gladstone kid.
- Amanda Gladstone Nestor--
married to a guy named Derek Nestor,
who works at Gladstone Toys.
They got three kids.
She's a textbook socialite-- lots of social media posts
of her decked out at fundraisers,
stuff like that.
No priors of any kind.
Nothing to indicate she's got a temper.
- Maybe lady of leisure blows a gasket
when she's no longer apple of Daddy's eye.
- Hold up. I got something.
The vic's lawyer confirmed
Amanda contacted him several times
about her father's will.
Was concerned some kind of elder abuse
might have been at play
and asked about legal steps to assume power of attorney.
- Maxine, take Leni and Rowan in the next room.
Come on, honey.
- Thank you, guys. - Thank you. Okay.
Please have a seat.
Sorry. [groans]
- So...
you weren't a big fan of the fiancée?
- The gold digger who conned my dad
into thinking she loved him?
- I guess that's a no.
- I was very transparent
about my disapproval and my concern.
- Did you and your dad fight about the wedding?
- When he first told me, yes.
I pretty much asked him to get a cognitive test.
- What about last night? You guys get into it?
- No.
I played the dutiful daughter,
and I smiled gracefully through the entire rehearsal dinner.
[sniffles] And then I came up here
and was in the room all night with the kids and my husband.
My oldest ended up with an ear infection.
I had to play phone tag with the pediatrician.
- Okay, well, we will need to speak
with your husband as well. - Of course.
[sniffles] He took Eloise to the doctor an hour ago.
He should be back soon.
- Do you have any idea who might wanna kill your father?
- I never trusted Chloe.
She's been angling for his money since day one.
- But she doesn't inherit anything
unless they're married,
so there's no real motive there.
- I'm just telling you, I don't trust her.
- Okay.
Anything else strange?
- [scoffs] The entire dinner was bizarre.
But the weirdest thing was this mystery woman.
- "Mystery woman"?
- In the middle of dinner,
my dad was talking intensely to this woman.
I've never seen her before in my life.
And my dad wasn't exactly an extrovert.
They got really quiet when I passed
on my way to the ladies' room.
He didn't even make an introduction.
At a wedding rehearsal dinner-- it was unusual.
- Okay.
We will check that out. Thank you.
- [sighs]
- Get the photos of the dinner from the wedding photographer.
- Lobster and oysters?
Shoot, I get invited to the wrong weddings.
- What about her? She fits the bill.
- Looks a little close for comfort.
- Yeah, look at these photos from earlier.
There, look, you see how she's staring
at Gladstone and his fiancée with that obsessive look
in her eye? - Mm-hmm.
- If she's a jealous old flame, she's not playing it cool.
Yeah, our mystery woman, she definitely came alone.
She's not seen here with anybody
for more than a couple minutes.
You got that guest list over there?
- Yeah, right here.
Looks like one woman came solo--
Serena Levy, hotel room 415.
- You look pretty focused
on Bob Gladstone and his fiancée right there.
There some sort of history between you guys?
- You think I'm a jilted ex-lover?
My only history with Bob is as his therapist.
- You're a shrink?
- A relationship therapist,
specializing in sex and intimacy.
Bob enlisted me to become more open to love,
to overcome his inhibitions, insecurities.
- He worried that his fiancée might be more into his money
than into him?
That ever cause any issues?
- No, despite the public's relentless obsession
with their age difference, they were very much in love.
We should all be so lucky.
- Well, there's a whole lot of decades and dollars
between those two.
- Bob and Chloe were deeply happy,
despite their differences.
Bob's biggest issue was his son-in-law.
- Amanda's husband?
- Derek Nestor.
- Any issues between them last night?
- Derek got a bit drunk,
and after Amanda took the kids upstairs,
he hung around, started arguing with Bob.
- You know what about?
- No.
[suspenseful music]
- 12 o'clock.
- Derek Nestor.
NYPD, I'm Detective Riley. This is Detective Walker.
Like to ask you a few questions
about your relationship with Bob Gladstone.
- Yeah, of course. More than happy to help.
Just, um...
uh, why don't you head up to Mom?
I-I'll be up in a minute, sweetie.
- So someone saw the two of you
get into an argument at dinner last night?
- Oh, right, that.
Look, I...
I love my wife.
I just wanted to spare her
getting into an ugly screaming match with her dad.
- You mean a fight about the wedding?
- [sighs] Amanda was understandably apoplectic
about the idea of this hussy
who's barely old enough to drink seducing her father.
And Bob wasn't listening to any advice, so I...
I decided to hire a PI.
- And what did he find?
- The PI dug up a mound of dirt on Chloe Thompson.
- What was in it? - More like what wasn't in it--
an OnlyFans page, a profile on an escort website,
two separate accounts on two separate sugar baby sites,
a bankruptcy filing.
That girl is a parasite.
She targeted Bob.
- So you spoke to your father-in-law
about what the PI found? - It was a Hail Mary.
And I cornered him at the end of the dinner.
But I just felt like it was my obligation to my wife
and to this family.
- How did Bob take it?
- He didn't wanna hear a word against Chloe, but...
I showed him some of the images from the PI on my phone,
and they--well, they spoke for themselves.
- He get upset?
- Yeah.
He went...
totally pale.
He said he was gonna confront Chloe
before any vows were exchanged.
- Where were you after dinner, between 10:00 and midnight?
- I was back in my hotel room with my wife and kids,
praying that Bob would get himself out of this
before anything was made legal.
- So you think the bride-to-be flipped out
when the victim confronted her with these sexy little secrets?
- Yeah, I'm thinking he tells her
he's gonna call off the wedding, right?
She goes ballistic,
figures she put in the time with the old man,
you know, really earned it.
- Yeah, but this doesn't jive with the rest of the stuff
we know about her.
- Derek Nestor was right about her bankruptcy filing.
Plus, we found a domestic disturbance call
from an ex-boyfriend.
- Yeah, there's some sort of sealed teen arrest
still in the system.
- But you accessed prints from that, right?
- Yeah, it's still in the juvie system,
and it matches the prints found in Gladstone's room
near the body.
- Well, she found the body, so that might explain that.
- Hold on.
I just found the mother lode of motive.
Here's a marriage license from Las Vegas.
- Where the two lovebirds were caught
on that jumbotron, right?
- Yeah, looks like they had a secret quickie wedding there
months ago.
- So this whole thing is all for show.
- So Chloe Thompson was already set
to inherit his whole fortune as his legal wife.
- So, if Gladstone finds out about her past,
he's not threatening to call off the wedding.
He's threatening divorce.
- She'd lose everything.
So murdering him
was the only way for her to lock in his fortune.
[tense music]
* *
- What's happening?
What's--what's going on? Why are you all here?
- Ms. Thompson, I told you before--
we have a right to search this room.
You need to stay out of the way.
- Where's Bob? - Keep her out of the way.
- Took the body to the morgue an hour ago.
- "The morgue"? Oh, my God.
What did I do?
- Detective.
This was in the closet.
- Murder weapon.
Chloe Thompson, turn around and place your hands
behind your back. - What? Why?
- You're under arrest for the murder of Bob Gladstone.
- What?
- You have the right to remain silent.
Do you understand? - But I didn't do it.
- Enough with the charade. You know what you did.
- This is a mistake. You don't understand.
I loved him. - There she is!
[all shouting]
* *
- Hey, relax. Move back. - [crying] Please.
.
- "Black Widow's Web of Lies."
Well, they branched out from the gold digger angle.
- He was 74. She's 22.
Of course the media can't get enough.
- If the press is any proxy for the jury,
we shouldn't have any trouble getting a conviction.
- How'd the arraignment go?
- Well, defense said she's innocent.
About 100 hotel guests and workers
had the opportunity to kill Gladstone.
And then they said that she is the victim
of a sexist prosecution and an overzealous DA's office
that just needed an easy target.
- Sign of a weak case whenever opposing counsel
tries to argue bias instead of facts.
- Mm. - What'd the judge say?
- Denied bail. - Good.
Families in this city grew up on Gladstone Toys.
How's our evidence? - It's strong.
We have the murder weapon.
ME also found lipstick traces on the vic's hotel robe.
It seems like she worked her charms
and then bashed his skull in when his back was turned.
- Motive's clear too.
Chloe gets Gladstone's entire fortune now that he's dead.
- Unless we convict her.
- We will.
- The decedent sustained multiple blunt force injuries
consistent with repeated strikes
by a heavy object to the back of the head.
It's what we often see in crimes of passion.
- Detective Riley, I am showing you
what's been marked as People's Exhibit 8.
Could you identify this item for the jury?
- This is a photo of a sculpture
that was found in the defendant's hotel suite
during our search.
Its weight and dimensions are consistent
with the injuries to the victim's skull.
- And how was the defendant behaving at the time of arrest?
- She was behaving erratically.
Kept on saying, "What did I do? What did I do?"
We could smell alcohol on her breath.
- Thank you. No further questions.
- Detective, uh, did Ms. Thompson actually say
that she murdered Mr. Gladstone?
- No.
- And you have no direct evidence
that she was intoxicated-- no BAC test?
- Correct.
- And even if she were drinking...
is it possible her behavior could indicate devastation
over her husband's unexpected death?
- It's possible.
- Last question--
as for the attack you described,
are you aware that Ms. Thompson was diagnosed
with a rotator cuff tear just days before the wedding?
- Objection. - Meaning it would be
near impossible for her to swing an object of that size
and weight with the force required to kill the victim.
- Your Honor, she is testifying.
- Sustained.
- Nothing further.
- Chloe was telling him what to eat,
who to socialize with.
Bob even let her sit in on business meetings.
The family was very concerned.
- Did you do anything to address these concerns?
- I hired a private investigator
to look into her.
He confirmed everything that I had feared.
Gave me a sizable file on her troubling past.
- Did you share this information with Mr. Gladstone?
- Yes, I showed him what was in the file on my phone
at the rehearsal dinner.
- Your Honor, we move to admit the investigative file
into evidence.
- Objection.
- We would have moved to admit this evidence sooner,
but we've only just been able to authenticate
the contents of this entire file.
It is quite extensive.
- Our objection still stands.
The contents of this file are irrelevant
and reinforce sexist stereotypes.
- We're not doing this in front of the jury.
My chambers, now.
- The jury is entitled to know
the circumstances leading to Mr. Gladstone's death.
- Andrews versus White--
the Supreme Court just overturned a murder conviction
because the prosecutor
mentioned the defendant's sex life.
The--the photos in this file go far beyond that.
- These images are quite suggestive.
- The evidence in Andrews was offered
solely for the purpose of character assassination.
That is not what's happening here.
Mr. Nestor showed these images to Mr. Gladstone,
who intended to confront the defendant,
and hours later, he was murdered.
It goes directly to motive. - No, this is not about motive.
This is a veiled attempt to humiliate my client
in front of the jury.
This is prejudicial beyond reason.
We are using it to show what Mr. Gladstone knew,
how it influenced his actions before his death.
It's central to our case.
- No doubt these images are prejudicial,
but I find them relevant
to establishing the prosecution's theory.
You may show them to the jury, Mr. Price.
- What did Mr. Gladstone say after you showed him this file?
- He told me he was going to confront her
and end the relationship.
- And how would that affect the defendant financially?
- Well, if he left her, she'd get nothing.
Didn't matter they had already married in Vegas months ago.
Even without a prenup,
they weren't married long enough
for her to claim anything was marital property.
- Thank you, Mr. Nestor.
- Are you aware that my client told Bob all about her past,
everything that was in those files and more
a few months after they met and that he forgave her?
- Well, if that's what she told you, she must be lying.
- Objection, Your Honor.
This line of questioning lacks foundation.
- We'll have several witnesses testify
to learning about these conversations
between my client and the victim
when we present our case, Judge.
- Overruled, but move it along.
- Let's talk about lying.
Do you recall your last performance review
at Gladstone Toys, the one that Bob wrote?
Let me refresh your memory.
The defense presents Exhibit 12.
If you would please read aloud,
just the lines that summarize your performance.
- "Derek is untrustworthy and inept.
"He cannot be relied upon
to manage his team effectively."
- That must have been humiliating.
- Bob had exacting standards. I expected it.
And as his son-in-law, he held me to a higher bar,
always reminded me that hard work pays off.
- But Chloe didn't have to work hard,
did she?
Bob used to invite her into the boardroom
and ask her business advice
in front of your longtime colleagues
on matters that fell under your purview.
- They were really minor things.
- Yes or no-- he asked her advice
on decisions you should have made?
- Yes, a few times.
- Did that bother you?
Turn you against her?
- It seemed inappropriate, but it was Bob's company.
- Did it bother you when you realized
that Chloe was to inherit his estate?
- Excuse me?
- The only way that you and your wife
would inherit Bob Gladstone's estate
is if Chloe were convicted. - Objection.
- So you have every reason to lie here today,
because my client is the only thing standing
between you and hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Ms. Kimura, the objection is sustained.
[tense music]
- No further questions for this witness.
* *
.
- Defense made Derek out to be a money-hungry liar
with a vendetta against Chloe.
- Well, I think we're okay.
You're underestimating the power
of that private investigator's file.
- What do you mean?
- You see the jury's reaction to those photos?
I mean, idea of a working class girl
using her sexuality to get to the top--
it's a familiar narrative.
The jury fully bought it.
- Are you saying it's a false narrative?
- Sometimes. - [scoffs]
- Ah, when I was in law school...
I went on a few dates with a visiting professor.
I really liked him.
He wasn't even a decade older than me,
but suddenly the word around school
was that I was sleeping my way to an A.
- What did you do? - I ended it.
Never spoke to him again.
Trust me, those, uh, stains--
they don't come out easily.
- I'm not ashamed of my past.
I took my mom on her first real vacation
with the money I made from those escort websites.
- So you did it for the money.
- I was looking for love too.
Aren't we all?
- Did you find it--love?
- When I met Bob.
- You met him on one of these sites?
- No, I met him in one of his stores.
I was looking for a birthday gift
for my niece, so...
I went to Gladstone Toys late in the day,
but they were closing early for some big company event.
Bob saw me panicking, begging to get in,
and he made them open the doors for me.
And he helped me pick out a wooden puzzle for her.
We started talking.
He ditched his event, and...
suddenly, an hour had passed.
I was as surprised as anyone.
- "Surprised"? How?
- That we could really connect, that he got me.
And, yeah, he was older, but so what?
I mean, we were both adults.
I'd been with so many jerks.
And with Bob, it was
the first time I felt like somebody
saw the real me--
loved me and--and accepted me,
even when I told him about the escort work.
Bob was a really gentle man.
[voice breaking] I would never hurt him.
- Chloe, I'm going to ask you about your arrest
for Mr. Gladstone's murder.
What did you mean when you said,
oh, God, what did I do?
- I blamed myself.
See...
I had begged Bobby for a fancy ceremony,
and he was just happy that we had eloped in Vegas.
But I'd always dreamed
of this big fairy-tale wedding, and...
maybe if I hadn't have drawn
so much attention to our relationship,
people wouldn't have turned against him.
- How did the murder weapon end up in your room?
- No idea.
I-I had never seen that thing before.
- Do you know how many people entered and exited your room
that morning? - I don't know.
A lot--medics, housekeeping, wedding guests.
I also stepped out a few times.
- Did you and Bob argue
about anything the night of the murder?
- No.
Definitely not.
- Chloe...
I'm going to show you
what we refer to as Defense Exhibit 14.
It's the hotel key card records from the night of the murder.
You swiped your key card at 9:42 p.m.
You did not exit your room again that night, correct?
- Correct.
After I said good night to Bob, I went straight to bed,
thinking that the next morning
was gonna be the happiest day of my life.
- Thank you.
No further questions.
- Ms. Thompson, you say... [clears throat]
You didn't see Bob Gladstone after you said good night?
- That's correct.
- How do you account for the lipstick traces
that were found on his robe, on his neck,
on his mouth?
- When I found him, I just--
I started screaming for help.
I-I-I tried to give him CPR.
- He had been dead almost ten hours by this point?
- I'm not a doctor. I-I was all alone.
I-I had no idea how long he'd been dead.
I just--I wanted to do something.
I wanted to save the person that I loved most in the world.
[tense music]
Why is it so hard for you to believe that I loved him?
What is wrong with you all?
[crying]
- Your Honor, we would like to request a brief recess, please.
- [sighs] Let's adjourn for the day.
- [crying]
- Mr. Price, Mr. Price.
[breathing heavily]
Chloe lied on the stand.
She left her hotel room that night.
I saw her in the hallway right after the murder.
She must have left her door latch out
so she didn't need her key card.
I mean, hearing her lie on the stand,
this performance about how much she loved him--
I cannot let her get away with my father's murder.
- Okay, what exactly did you see?
- [sniffles]
I heard a woman sobbing in the hallway hysterically,
so I looked through the peephole,
and I saw Chloe hurrying back into her room.
- What time was this?
- Uh...
around 11:00 p.m.
I was on the phone with my daughter's pediatrician
when it happened.
* *
- Coming forward at the 11th hour
to change her story is pretty damn convenient,
but it doesn't mean she's lying.
- Oh, but it's definitely suspicious.
I mean, she keeps her mouth shut this whole time,
then she hears Chloe testify, hears how persuasive she is.
- Chloe is very charming.
Hell, she duped a ruthless businessman
into marrying her with no prenup.
- But did she?
Dupe him?
Maybe Chloe really loved Bob Gladstone.
Maybe she didn't marry him for his money.
- Sounds unlikely, but-- - But why?
- Seriously? - Yes.
Why can't this be real love--
or at least what they consider love?
Maybe it's not even love.
Maybe it's just two adults having fun.
I mean, what's so wrong with that?
- Nothing.
But in my experience, attractive young women
don't just happen to fall in love
or have fun with any old 70-year-old.
The men tend to be quite wealthy.
That's just the way it is.
So let's focus on Gladstone's daughter for the moment,
dig into her statement that she saw Chloe in the hall,
and if it holds up,
put Amanda on the stand as a rebuttal witness.
- Hey.
Just got back from the medical clinic.
Apparently they record all incoming phone calls.
- So she was telling the truth?
- Her fever hasn't gone down, and I don't know what--
[knock on door]
What happened? Derek.
- Close the door to the kids' room.
- What's on your shirt? Are you okay?
- I'm fine. Just go in the other room with the kids.
* *
.
- The phone call undercuts Derek's credibility,
and it would allow the defense to present him
as an alternate suspect.
- How so?
- He lied about his alibi.
He definitely left his room near the time of the murder,
which means we have to share the recording with the defense.
- Agreed.
But we still have a defendant
with a murder weapon in her hotel room,
plus a multimillion-dollar motive.
- R-right, but we also have a material witness
that we can no longer trust
and another witness who can't wait to put
the final nail in Chloe's coffin.
- So let's dig deeper.
Figure out what's really going on here.
- There's no camera footage from the hotel,
so we have no idea
what Derek was doing outside his room that night.
And if his shirt had any blood on it,
it's probably in some Staten Island landfill by now.
It's all a he-said, she-said.
You find anything?
- Maybe. [sighs]
It looks like Derek is in pretty serious debt--
three houses, a slew of bad investments.
But none of this proves that he killed Bob.
- Just that he had motive. - [sighs]
And that he was counting
on inheriting a lot of money from Bob.
I found this text sent to his brother.
"Years spent kissing up to my father-in-law,
"and some tramp waltzes in and steals the family fortune.
"Amanda is useless at convincing him.
It's up to me now."
- Talk about parasites. - [scoffs]
- Doesn't seem like Amanda found Prince Charming.
What are you thinking?
- Let's find out how bad this marriage really is,
see what kind of leverage we might have.
- If you would like to discuss
my client's rebuttal testimony--
- Uh, no, that's not why we asked you here.
Please.
Amanda...
We know you lied to us.
We have a recording that proves you misled us
about Derek's whereabouts on the night of the murder
and about seeing Chloe in the hall.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- He left the room and returned around the time
of your father's murder.
- He went to get ice down the hall.
It was a couple of minutes.
I told you, our daughter was sick.
- What was on his shirt?
Why did you worry that he wasn't okay?
- I--
- Amanda, you don't have to say anything.
This is a fishing expedition.
Unless there are charges on the table, this meeting is over.
- Trying to help someone cover up a murder
is a serious, serious matter.
- But if you cooperate
and tell us everything you know, there's a chance--
Amanda, Amanda,
there's a chance you can walk away from this.
- Why are you covering for him?
- [crying] You mean the father of my children?
- Who killed your father.
- You think Derek stays
if he can't get his hands on that money?
He dug himself into some deep financial holes,
and he is counting on that inheritance,
on your inheritance.
- Derek and I love each other very much,
and I have nothing to hide.
- Amanda...
this is your one chance.
- We're done talking.
- Can we even build enough of a case
against Derek without Amanda? - No.
But our case against Chloe is still strong,
even with this new information.
- What? Are you serious?
We know Derek and Amanda lied,
that he left his room around the time of the murder.
- Sure, but that doesn't prove
that Derek is a killer or that Chloe is innocent.
For all we know, Derek was in the hallway getting ice.
- At a minimum, we need to give this recording
over to the defense.
They're gonna use it to attack Derek's credibility,
pretty much gut his testimony.
- Okay, true, but he did not say a whole hell of a lot.
- Your point?
- Like it or not, we can still win this,
if we still believe that Chloe committed the crime, of course.
- So either we admit we arrested the wrong person
and just hope somehow we can build a case
against the son-in-law...
- Or roll the dice on convicting
a young, innocent woman...
for being a whore.
- Excuse me?
- Isn't that what this whole thing is really all about--
our inability to believe
that Chloe can actually really like or even love
someone like Bob Gladstone, that...
maybe it wasn't some big con?
- I hear what you're saying, Sam, but--
- Do you really believe the jury can possibly
be objective about all this,
given the amount of slut-shaming evidence
we've jammed down their throat?
[suspenseful music]
- I agree with Sam here.
If there's even a chance that she's innocent,
we have to drop the charges,
r-regardless of the blowback.
* *
- Okay.
Let's start investigating the son-in-law
and the wife, today.
- So I'm free?
- Yes, you are. You can go home.
- That's it?
- So who killed Bob?
- Um, we're doing everything in our power to get an answer.
- You don't know?
Was it Derek?
I never trusted him.
- We can't discuss the investigation at this time.
- Right.
You have to take your time
and make sure you arrest the right person.
Well, either way, I'm gonna get Bob justice.
He's a good man. He deserves better than this.
* *
It really never occurred to you
that I might be telling the truth?
That I wasn't a money-chasing killer?
- [sighs]
- Chloe, it's-- it's just that--
- Sounds like a no to me.
- No, it's just more complicated than that.
- No, it's not.
Showing your body on the Internet
doesn't make you a bad person.
And it sure as hell doesn't make you a murderer.
Get me out of here.
I never wanna see these people again.
* *
- I can't believe that we almost...
- Yeah.
- The whole relationship just seemed so...
unlikely.
- And tragic.
I guess that's what makes a great love story.
* *
[dramatic music]
* *
[wolf howls]