narrator: 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.
[laughter]
- I'm not saying you shouldn't pursue your dreams.
I'm just saying you need to be practical about it.
- You want me to be practical about being a dreamer?
Isn't that, like, a paradox?
- [laughs] I'm just being honest.
Most dreamers don't succeed. Fact.
- [gasps]
[ominous music]
- Oh, my God!
♪
[line trilling]
- 911, what's your emergency?
- Hi, we--we just--
there's a dead body in Central Park.
[siren wailing]
[camera flash pops]
- DOA took two to the chest.
Found two discharged shell casings over here.
No ID, no wallet, no phone.
♪
- Looks like a robbery.
White guy walking through the park.
- Just like the old days, right?
What's the saying? "History doesn't repeat itself,
but it rhymes"? - Mark Twain.
♪
"Hythena,
working hard to keep you alive."
- Not hard enough.
♪
[dramatic music]
♪
- We're sorry to bother you, Ms. Ellis.
- What's going on? Did something happen?
- We're investigating a homicide.
- A homicide? What's that got to do with me?
- We found a pen in a victim's jacket
with your company's name on it.
We did some googling and he's one of your partners.
- [gasps lightly]
Oh, my God, that's--
That's Kyle.
[somber music]
I'm sor-- are you saying he's dead?
- We're sorry, ma'am.
I can't imagine what you must feel.
♪
- We can come back at another time if you want.
- [breathes deeply]
I'm fine. - Good.
So the victim's name was Kyle Morrison, correct?
- Yes. He's my COO...
and fiancé.
- Was there anything unusual going on with Kyle?
Any problems?
What about you two? Any issues?
- No. We were doing great.
We were in love.
- Any money problems?
- The company we started is doing very well.
Kyle owns--
owned 10% of the stock.
- Can you tell us what Kyle was up to today?
Help us establish a timeline?
- The company hosted a conference.
We do it every year. It's called Quest.
We were at the Peninsula Hotel from 8:00 to 4:00.
- After that?
- Kyle went back to the office.
- What about you? - I came home.
I made some calls, and then I met a few investors
for dinner around 8:00.
- When was the last time you and Kyle talked?
- Around 9:30, just after I finished dinner.
- What did you talk about?
- I told him that my dinner went well,
and that I was gonna take a walk.
- A walk? At 9:30 at night?
- Helps me wind down.
- Hmm. Okay.
- No, I didn't see anything unusual.
But I wasn't really looking either.
I was too busy making sure that Nina was happy.
- Nina--I thought you were with Kyle most of the day?
- I was, but he's easy.
Nina's the one in charge.
Has opinions on everything.
The signage, the lighting, the coffee cups.
The milk. Literally.
She wanted 1%, not non-fat, not 2%.
But it's hard to argue with her.
I mean, she's the founder of the hottest tech company
in the world. She's worth over $2 billion.
- But, to be clear, there were no problems, right?
- No, the event was a big success.
Even Nina was happy.
- Kyle was definitely under a lot of pressure.
- What do you mean?
- He was the COO of a start-up tech company
on the verge of going public.
- Mm-hmm.
- He was in charge of putting together
the sales materials, the financial projections.
- Any stressful issues that weren't work-related?
- Not that I'm aware of.
- Any altercations or arguments?
Hostile phone calls?
- Yeah.
About a week ago, some guy called Kyle.
He was really upset.
Demanded to speak to him right away.
I said he wasn't available, and he went nuts.
Got really angry.
Said something like,
"If that coward doesn't call me back in the next hour,
I'm gonna come down there and beat his ass."
- You got this guy's name and number?
- Damn right I called Kyle Morrison.
- Did you threaten to beat his ass?
- Yes, sir.
- Did you ever meet up with him or confront him?
- No.
Tried to track his ass down a few times, but...
- You actually went looking for him?
- Yes, sir, I waited outside his office building two times.
Didn't find him. But I will.
Swear on the lives of my three daughters.
- You might want to take that back.
Kyle's dead. Someone shot him.
- You don't seem too upset.
- I'm not.
- Why all the hate?
What the hell did Kyle ever do to you?
- He ruined my life.
- How's that?
- My wife took one of those cancer screening tests
his company sells. Came back negative.
Then ten months later, she didn't feel so good.
Went to the doctor, said she had Stage 4 uterine cancer.
- Sorry to hear that.
But how is that Kyle Morrison's fault?
- If she tested positive,
she would've gone to a doctor, nipped it in the bud!
Instead, she just sat there, watching TV,
ignoring the symptoms!
The cancer was spreading like wildfire.
- Where were you last night, around 10:00?
- At New York Hospital with my wife,
feeding her popsicles,
helping her to get through the chemo.
- Morley's alibi checks out.
- His anger was very real. - What's that mean?
- Good chance that Morley wasn't the only one
that found himself on the wrong side
of an erroneous screening test.
- Medical tests aren't meant to be perfect.
Mistakes happen.
- Yeah, until it happens to you.
I mean, imagine a loved one
gets a false negative, they get really sick.
Not really hard to imagine
somebody getting worked up about that.
- I get it, but the company claims
its tests are 96% accurate.
So there's not gonna be a lot of false negatives out there.
- Not so sure about that. - What's that mean?
- Just found a deleted email,
sent from the Chief Technology Officer
to Kyle Morrison a month ago.
Says, "We need to terminate
"all patient screenings immediately.
"The tests don't work.
This whole damn thing is a sham."
♪
. - Big Tech has changed the world. Electric cars.
Artificial Intelligence.
Virtual reality. - Hard to keep up.
- Is that your crotchety-ass way of saying
you miss the way things were?
- Just because it's new and shiny
doesn't make it good. - Huh.
To-may-to, to-mah-to.
- Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.
- [chuckles] Okay.
[doorbell rings]
This is a spread.
Derek Seaver?
I'm Detective Bernard. This is Detective Cosgrove.
We'd like to ask you a few questions.
- About what?
- Kyle Morrison.
- I signed a non-disclosure agreement
when I left the company as part of my severance package.
So I-I can't talk about him--
- We're investigating a murder, Mr. Seaver.
The NDA is non-applicable. - Sorry, I'm not talking--
- We just have a few questions, sir.
The first one is, why did you send an email
to Kyle saying the company was a sham?
- Like I said, I'm not talking.
[door thuds]
- Seaver was always sending hysterical emails,
looking to stir up trouble.
Thought it would distract us from realizing
how incompetent he was.
- But to be clear, your screening tests work?
- [scoffs] Of course they work.
The data is unassailable,
passed through the FDA with flying colors.
- If that's the case, then why did Seaver
say the technology was fraudulent?
- Because he was on the verge of getting fired.
He was trying to create some leverage,
so he could negotiate a fat severance agreement.
- Did Seaver and Kyle get along?
- No, Seaver hated him.
He resented the fact that Kyle
had a bigger title, more stock options.
- Did he blame Kyle for getting fired?
- [sighs]
When Kyle broke the news, Seaver went crazy.
I mean, he started screaming.
He smashed his computer with a golf club.
- Hmm.
- On paper, this guy Seaver is a saint.
He went to MIT,
teaches code to inner-city kids, helps them write it.
- You know I don't care about paper.
I care about evidence. I care about motive.
- His motive is strong.
Getting fired two months before the company
he helps build goes public.
- So he was looking down a pretty big pay day?
- Really big.
$200-$300 million.
- And what was he doing the night of the murder?
- I'm still looking into that. But I did run his plate.
The LPR shows he was definitely in Manhattan
at the time of the shooting.
- Just got off the phone with the Scarsdale PD.
They found the 9mm Glock in the sewer.
Same caliber casings found at the scene.
- Wait, they actually found a gun in the sewer?
- Mm-hmm. - How? Why?
- Someone called last night and said they saw a man
pull over to the side of the road,
and drop a gun in the sewer...
on Saratoga Drive,
which is a block from where Derek Seaver lives.
- Witness say what kind of car?
- Mm-hmm, blue Tesla.
- Just like Seaver's.
- Bring him in.
- Of course I didn't kill Kyle.
- The evidence tells a different story.
- No, I don't care what the evidence says,
I'm telling you the truth.
If I didn't sign the damn NDA, I--
- To hell with the NDA!
Like I keep telling you, it's not enforceable.
Just tell them what you know.
- More specifically, tell us why
you dumped a gun into a sewer on Saratoga Drive?
- A gun?
So what the hell are you talking about?
I've never even touched a gun.
- Look, Derek, we know you didn't like Kyle Morrison,
that you blame him for getting you fired.
- That's not true. Kyle and I were friends.
He was a good guy.
And I-- I didn't get fired.
I quit.
- You quit?
You walked away from all that IPO money voluntarily?
- You're damn right I did. - Why?
- Because the screening tests are bogus.
They don't actually work.
They're only 50% accurate, like flipping a damn coin.
[dramatic music]
We're talking about cancer here.
People's lives.
- How could the FDA approve those tests
if they're so flawed?
- Because Nina Ellis fabricated the results.
♪
- You told all this to Kyle? - Of course.
But he didn't believe me.
Not at first.
He didn't think Nina could actually do
something that evil.
So I showed him all the data,
all the results.
A week later, he called me.
He realized I was telling the truth,
said he was gonna pull the products off the market
and postpone the IPO.
But someone shot him.
- Any idea who that someone might be?
- Nina Ellis.
No doubt.
- But she was madly in love with the guy.
- The only thing Nina is madly in love with
is Nina.
♪
[indistinct police radio chatter]
♪
- Hey, Sara's got something.
Yeah.
- We got this from the lobby downstairs.
It's from the day of the murder.
- Looks the same. - Mm-hmm.
♪
- Definitely traces of blood on it.
- Thanks.
- Lot of reasons Kyle's DNA could be on that coat.
- That is correct.
But the most obvious one is that she was wearing it
the night she shot his ass in cold blood.
- What else do we have? - She tried to frame
a former employee for the murder.
She actually called the Scarsdale PD,
said she saw some guy in a blue Tesla
drop a gun in the sewer.
- Ambitious. - Oh, you've got no idea.
- Motive?
- Well, her company is a house of cards.
And Kyle wasn't comfortable moving forward with the IPO.
He wanted to delay it, wanted to make sure
the screening tests actually worked.
Nina wasn't interested.
She didn't want anyone or anything standing in the way
of her date with immortality, so she killed him.
- We have any proof she was near the scene of the murder?
- No. We do not.
- [chuckles]
It's solid... [hands clap]
But, right now,
everything can be explained away.
The blood, the phone call, the motive.
- This woman needs to get off the street.
We need to end the charade.
We need to tell people that these tests are phony.
So we're gonna arrest her today.
Whether or not you decide to charge her with murder...
that's on you.
♪
- Nina Ellis, you need to come with us.
- I can't. Well, not now.
I'm going to London.
We're kicking off the Road Show for the IPO.
But I'll be back in three days,
and we can talk about Kyle's murder then.
- Yeah, that's not how this works.
- What do you mean?
- He means the Road Show is cancelled.
The only trip you'll be taking
is to the 27th precinct.
- I'm confused. - Allow me to clarify.
You won't be needing that luggage for this trip.
Nina Ellis, you're under arrest
for the murder of Kyle Morrison.
[handcuffs click]
. - People ask for remand, Your Honor. - Defense requests bail be set
at $5 million cash.
Ms. Ellis also agrees to wear an ankle-monitor
and agrees to surrender her passport.
Your Honor, my client runs one of
the most important healthcare companies in the world.
She's absolutely vital to this entity's existence.
Without her, business will suffer.
Hundreds of employees will lose their jobs--
- Save the speech, Ms. Stanley.
Bail is set at $5 million. [gavel clacks]
- She gets to walk out on bail?
Nina Ellis needs to pay for what she did to my son,
suffer the way Kyle suffered.
- Mr. Morrison...
I'm very sorry for your loss.
I give you my word we will do our best--
- Your best? That's not good enough, pal.
Nina is evil.
She has no morals, no soul.
She'll do anything to win. Anything.
This is about making her pay for what she did to my son.
[dramatic music]
- There she is! - Ms. Ellis, Ms. Ellis!
- Ms. Ellis! Did you kill Kyle Morrison?
- Is the IPO still going forward?
- Of course I didn't kill Kyle.
He was the love of my life.
And, yes, the IPO is moving forward.
Hythena is the premier medical-testing company
in the world. Every day,
we're trying to find new ways to save lives.
This trial is not gonna stand in our way.
I couldn't be more excited to share my truth.
This is an important moment, not only for me,
but for every other
unapologetically ambitious female entrepreneur
who refuses to conform to archaic gender stereotypes
and societal pressures.
[reporters clamoring] - Nina!
- Ms. Ellis!
- Kyle's father was right.
[sighs] This won't be easy.
The defendant killed Kyle Morrison
because he was gonna reveal the truth
that the screening tests didn't work.
As such, we'd like to present evidence
to support that theory,
witnesses who are on the wrong end of these fallacious tests.
- These witnesses are not even remotely connected
to the murder case.
They will only serve to distract and confuse the jury.
- The flawed tests are the reason
Nina Ellis committed murder.
- All medical tests have flaws.
Mr. Price knows this.
He just wants to paint my client as a bloodless CEO
who doesn't care about the wellbeing of her customers.
- That is exactly what I'm trying to do,
because that's exactly who she is.
- One, that is out of line and untrue.
Two, extrinsic evidence of prior bad acts
is inadmissible under the Molineaux doctrine.
And, three, it paints an unfair
and inaccurate picture of the facts.
You can't just talk about the customers
with adverse consequences.
What about the ones with beneficial consequences
who got accurate results?
Who credit the company for saving their lives?
Nina Ellis is on trial for murder,
not faulty screening-tests.
- I agree.
There will be no witnesses talking about bad test results.
Understand me, Mr. Price?
- That's ridiculous.
Bad test results are the reason Kyle is dead.
- Nothing we can do.
So let's turn our attention
to picking the best jury possible.
We need people who aren't susceptible to manipulation.
So women better than men,
less educated better than more educated,
poor better than rich. - You sure about that?
- Confirmation bias.
Wealthy, educated people tend to believe
other wealthy, educated people. [elevator dings]
We need skeptics.
People who can't wait to call out a rich white woman
for being greedy and deceitful.
- On a cold night in February,
the defendant shot and killed
her fiancé and co-worker, Kyle Morrison,
to perpetuate the fraud that she is a tech visionary,
that her company is a cutting-edge leader
in the healthcare industry.
In simplest terms, the defendant killed
Kyle Morrison because he was gonna derail
the company's IPO, a transaction in which
the defendant stood to make over $2 billion.
The only person standing in the way
of the defendant's greatness was Kyle Morrison.
He was a decent and honest man.
He knew the company's screening tests didn't work.
They didn't detect the cancers they claimed to detect.
So he told the defendant they needed to delay the IPO
and pull their products from the market.
She refused.
He insisted.
So she killed him.
[somber music]
I know that sounds implausible.
But, you see, the defendant doesn't think or act
like the rest of us.
She believes that she's special,
that the rules of society, they don't apply to her.
That the end always justifies the means.
That killing your fiancé?
It's just another cost of doing business.
Make no mistake...
The poised and successful woman you see...
at the defense table
is a cold-blooded killer.
♪
As cold-blooded as they come.
. - What's Jing Reed? - Better not to ask. - What's that mean?
- Means it's really good,
but it's better not to know what you're actually eating.
Sautéed crickets.
- Seriously? - Mm-hmm.
Biggest hurdle we face
is making it clear Kyle wasn't actually mugged.
That it wasn't a random act of violence.
The only person who could have killed him
was, in fact, Nina Ellis.
What is it?
- Don't think we need to worry about
proving Nina actually killed Kyle.
- What are you talking about?
- She just changed her defense.
[phone thuds]
- Nina Ellis
is going for a battered woman defense.
- She's claiming that Kyle physically, mentally,
and sexually abused her on a regular basis,
and that the only way out
of this relationship was to kill him.
- Is there any evidence to support this?
- No, nothing. - Not that we're aware of,
anyway.
- No police reports, no emails, no texts.
- So she's just gonna get on the stand and lie?
- She's really good at it, too.
- "No man has a good enough memory
to be a successful liar."
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Yeah, well...
Things have changed since he was around.
Honesty isn't exactly in vogue any more.
People lie.
Even worse, people have gotten used to it.
It's become an accepted part of our society,
which is why it's so dangerous.
Let Nina tell her story.
Then pick her apart.
Expose the lies.
Let this jury see who this woman really is.
- We were together, on and off, for about five years.
And this past year, things got serious.
We fell in love.
Got engaged.
- You were in love with Kyle?
- Yes, but it was...
Complicated. - What do you mean?
- Kyle was brilliant,
charming...
He was also abusive.
- Abusive? What do you mean by that?
- I mean that he...
at times, he would get physical with me.
Grab me.
Hurt me. Threaten me.
- Can you be more specific?
Can you give us a recent example?
- Yes. A few weeks before I shot Kyle,
we got into an argument.
He thought I was flirting with an investor,
a very wealthy investor.
He called me a whore...
a slut.
- What happened next?
After he called you these horrible names?
- He grabbed me.
He slapped me.
[dramatic music]
[sobs]
Then he tied both my hands to the bed post.
And he raped me.
- You did not consent to this?
- No. No, I begged him to stop.
I said that I wanted to leave, but he just laughed.
And he said that he would never allow me to leave.
He told me that if I ever split up with him
or dated anyone else, that he would kill me.
- He used those exact words?
- Yes. - Did you believe him?
- [exhales sharply] Yes.
When Kyle was upset or when something triggered him,
it's like he became a different person.
- This horrifying incident that you just related...
was this the only time that he hit you?
Raped you? Threatened you?
- No, it happened regularly.
- Why did you shoot Kyle Morrison?
- Because I was afraid he was gonna kill me.
♪
. - Hate to say it, but-- - Oh, I know. A few of the jurors bought her story.
- Mm-hmm, Juror 7 and Juror 9, to be exact.
- We'll make up ground on cross.
I'll pick apart each and every assertion of abuse.
Hopefully, the jury will realize she's lying.
- What do you mean
"pick apart each and every assertion of abuse"?
- I know this is a... [door clicks]
Delicate subject, but, come on, Sam.
We both know she's lying her ass off.
- Do we?
I mean, we know she's lying about her company,
about her screening tests being accurate.
But that doesn't mean she's lying about this.
- She never told anyone Kyle was abusive.
She never sent a text. She never made a phone call.
She never called 911, or filed a police report--
- Lots of victims don't report abuse.
Just the way it is.
- But most victims aren't pathological liars
on trial for murder.
- I get it, but... - But what?
- Times have changed.
The MeToo movement changed the way
people think about abuse...
for the better,
meaning we need to change the way we think about it, too.
- You're worried about us undermining the movement?
- Women have been speaking up about abuse for years,
but nobody believed them or cared.
Now they do, finally.
If we start attacking Nina's claims,
it's like we're ignoring all the progress that's been made.
- [exhales deeply]
I agree with everything you just said.
But our job isn't to cater to movements.
It's to follow the law and get justice for victims,
irrespective of the political consequences.
- So what are you saying?
- We can't risk a not guilty verdict
because it might negatively impact the MeToo movement.
- It's not just that, Nolan.
We didn't screen for domestic abuse, remember?
We screened for street smart.
People skeptical of power, wealth.
- What do you remember about the jury questionnaires?
- Jurors 7 and 9
reported they were victims of domestic abuse,
and Juror number 4
said her sister's husband was prone to violence.
MeToo or no MeToo, we're behind the 8 ball.
[somber music]
- You want to offer Nina a deal?
- Given the facts of this particular case,
we think it's prudent. - You think it's prudent
to give a murderer a deal?
- That's not what I meant-- - Well, what is it, Price?
You afraid of losing?
Tarnishing your sterling reputation?
- No, I'm-- I'm trying to be honest,
to tell you where we're at.
- We've evaluated the evidence, the strengths, the weaknesses.
And we think a manslaughter plea
would be a reasonable result.
- We know it's not perfect,
but we're trying to be pragmatic.
- Yeah, on my son's nickel. You get a guilty plea,
and my son's reputation goes to hell.
His legacy gets shattered.
Nina shot and killed my only child.
But that wasn't enough.
Now she's got to kill him again on the stand.
Accuse him of hitting her? Of raping her?
And you're just gonna let her get away with it.
- It's not that simple.
- That's what people say when they're afraid
of making a tough decision.
"It's not that simple."
But, hey, you're the prosecutors.
You get to make the decisions.
So, if you wanna make a deal,
if you wanna cut that evil sociopath a break,
that's up to you.
But if you're asking for my blessing?
You can kiss my ass.
[door slams]
- I appreciate that Kyle's father's angry.
But it's our job to make the hard decisions.
Not his. - I understand that.
[door clicks] But...
He was the only reason I considered
a plea in the first place.
I was trying to be respectful.
But he wasn't interested.
He wanted justice for his son.
- And that moved you?
- It did. - Understandable.
But being moved doesn't change the likelihood of success.
It certainly doesn't make the jury any less sympathetic
to the defendant's allegations of domestic violence.
Brian Morrison's son was just murdered, for God's sake.
His thinking is clouded by rage and hate.
What he thinks, what he wants, can't matter here.
I appreciate your resolve.
Don't let your ego get in the way.
- It isn't ego.
It's belief.
- Belief.
[dramatic music]
Belief in what? - In the system.
In the ability of 12 people,
regardless of their own personal relationship
to domestic abuse, to see the truth.
When I'm through with this trial,
the jurors will see the exact same thing I see
on that witness stand--
a charming, sophisticated killer.
♪
- Okay, let's roll the dice.
♪
. - Your former Chief Technology Officer stated, under oath, that the test results submitted
to the FDA were fraudulent, that the data that he reported
was different than the data
that was actually included in the application.
- Is there a question here, Your Honor?
- Get to it, Mr. Price.
- When the CTO finished the application,
you were the only other executive
in the company who reviewed it.
You were also the only executive who signed it,
which means you lied about the data, the results.
- That's not correct.
I reviewed what Derek Seaver sent me,
made a few edits in the narrative portion
of the application, signed it, then submitted it.
- In the past 18 months, there have been
approximately 4,000 customer complaints,
all of them claiming to have received
either a false negative or a false positive--
- Science isn't perfect.
False negatives and positives are to be expected--
- 4,000 complaints.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
God knows how many other people have received
inaccurate results but didn't bother
to complain or don't even know it yet.
- The tests work.
But that doesn't mean that we're not striving to improve
their accuracy, to make them foolproof.
- According to your recent S-1 Registration Statement,
you've sold a total of 8,000 tests.
That means, your accuracy rate is approximately 50%.
Heads you have cancer, tails you don't.
- The technology that we've developed will disrupt
the healthcare industry and save millions of lives.
- Save lives? Your screening tests are killing people.
- Objection!
- Sustained.
You've made your point, Mr. Price.
- 46 former employees
have sued your company for wrongful termination.
Each and every one of them stated they were fired
for speaking the truth--
- Objection! Mr. Price is giving a speech.
- I'll get straight to it, Your Honor.
You don't care about the truth, do you?
- That's preposterous. I'm a scientist.
The truth is literally the only thing that matters.
But it's complicated.
I mean, what is "the truth"?
It's a tricky question,
trickier than most of us would like to admit.
So, we use science to help define it,
to arrive at the functional truth--
what something does as opposed to what something is.
- I have no idea what you just said.
- Then allow me to try again.
Short and sweet, this time.
I believe in the truth.
- As long as it suits your interests.
- Objection!
- Move on, Mr. Price.
- Your company filed for bankruptcy last month.
Over 35 investors have filed lawsuits.
The trustee estimates the value
of the ongoing business is zero.
So, if the screening tests were so accurate,
and the data was so amazing,
how could the company be worth nothing?
- The valuation has nothing to do with the technology.
It has to do with this trial,
with the fact I'm not able
to run the company because I shot Kyle,
because the DA's Office charged me with murder.
- Because you shot and killed Kyle Morrison.
- He was going to kill me!
I did what I had to do!
[tense music]
- If Kyle was so violent,
how come you never told any of your friends?
Or called the police?
- Because I was afraid.
And ashamed.
- Afraid and ashamed?
Really?
I've read several interviews you've given--
interviews where you talk about being fearless,
about destroying the so-called Boys Club.
About kicking men in the balls who dare insult
your ability to run a tech company.
- That was my persona speaking.
It's not who I really am deep down.
- I don't know there really is a deep down.
You're whoever you need to be in any given moment.
Confident alpha dog CEO.
Abused, battered victim--
- Kyle Morrison abused me.
Beat me. Raped me.
He broke my arm three months ago
because I smiled at another man.
I spent three hours at the hospital.
So don't you dare question my truth!
- That's my job, Ms. Ellis,
to question your truth,
to question your ridiculous assertions.
- Objection! - Sustained.
- Nothing further.
♪
- Thought you weren't gonna challenge
the abuse allegations?
- I changed my mind.
- How come? - Because I needed to.
- You needed to attack her victimhood?
- No, I attacked her credibility.
- You played into her hands, Nolan--you alienated the jury.
- Or I made them realize that she's lying,
weaponizing their victimhood for her own personal gain.
This isn't about the past or women or a movement.
It's about what Nina Ellis did to Kyle Morrison.
- You called her a liar.
You told the jury you didn't believe she was raped, beaten,
without any real proof.
- So let's find some.
- Excuse me?
- If Kyle really broke her arm three months ago,
sent her to the hospital,
why didn't they present the medical records?
Why didn't they make that a major part of their case?
- I'll call Cosgrove and Bernard.
Have them dig into it.
- Yep, Nina Ellis came to the ER
on January 8th at 2:14 p. m.
- For a fractured arm? - Patient fell,
suffered a mid-shaft humerus fracture
on her right nondominant arm.
- Any mention of how it happened, how she fell?
- No.
- Was anyone with her? A man, a woman?
- I'm not sure. I wasn't working that day.
- Can we see your video footage?
- Sure. - Okay.
- Ms. Fox, what do you do for a living?
- I'm an equestrian coach, a horse riding instructor.
- Did you ever instruct the defendant?
- Yes, I was her coach.
- Were you coaching her on January 8th of this year?
- Yes.
- Can you tell us what happened on that day?
- We were trying to simulate a polo match.
That's why I was coaching Nina.
She wanted to join the Southampton Polo Team.
So we were riding,
playing polo, and she fell off her horse.
- Then what happened?
- I ran over to her. She was in a lot of pain.
Said her arm hurt.
- What did you do next?
- I drove her to the hospital in Southhampton.
- Did the doctors perform an X-ray?
- Yes, they said she had a broken arm.
- Was the defendant in any pain
prior to the accident? - No.
- And in your experience as an equestrian coach,
would it be possible to ride a horse
or simulate a polo match with a broken arm?
- No. That's highly unlikely.
[soft dramatic music]
- Last question.
Was the defendant's fiancé, Kyle Morrison,
present that day, either on the polo field or in the hospital?
- No.
♪
- Will the defendant please rise?
Has the jury reached a verdict?
- Yes, Your Honor.
- What say you?
- On the count of murder in the First Degree,
we find the defendant...
guilty.
[indistinct chatter]
- They got it wrong.
♪
- Thank you. Thank you.
- No protesters.
That's good.
- How's that?
- Shows the movement is real.
People saw through Nina's lies.
- I get it, but it's tricky.
The mantra is "The victim's truth is the only truth."
- Yes.
As long as the victim is actually telling the truth.
♪
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