1 00:00:00,915 --> 00:00:02,622 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:02,684 --> 00:00:06,598 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:06,654 --> 00:00:08,463 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:08,523 --> 00:00:11,299 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,359 --> 00:00:12,997 These are their stories. 6 00:00:16,964 --> 00:00:18,500 (GUN FIRING ON TV) 7 00:00:18,566 --> 00:00:20,239 Honey, come to bed. We have to get up early. 8 00:00:20,301 --> 00:00:21,803 Shh! In a minute. 9 00:00:21,869 --> 00:00:23,610 WOMAN: Help! Help! 10 00:00:23,938 --> 00:00:25,349 (WOMAN SCREAMING) 11 00:00:25,406 --> 00:00:26,510 (TV TURNS OFF) 12 00:00:26,574 --> 00:00:29,248 WOMAN: Leave me alone! Get away from me! 13 00:00:29,510 --> 00:00:30,818 (WOMAN SCREAMING) 14 00:00:31,145 --> 00:00:32,351 (LOUD THUDDING) 15 00:00:38,953 --> 00:00:41,399 BENNETT: Found this gold chain right here, broken. 16 00:00:41,456 --> 00:00:43,402 Probably what caused the ligature marks on her neck. 17 00:00:43,458 --> 00:00:44,664 Lucky for her it broke. 18 00:00:44,726 --> 00:00:46,535 So what did the paramedics say about her chances? 19 00:00:46,594 --> 00:00:47,834 I wasn't here when they took her out. 20 00:00:47,895 --> 00:00:51,069 You could call the hospital. They took her to Hudson Terrace. 21 00:00:51,132 --> 00:00:53,908 All I heard was her shouting for somebody to leave her alone, 22 00:00:53,968 --> 00:00:55,709 then she comes crashing down the stairs. 23 00:00:55,770 --> 00:00:59,149 I come right out, and I don't see anybody up there. 24 00:00:59,207 --> 00:01:01,153 How do I know it wasn't you? 25 00:01:01,209 --> 00:01:03,780 My wife was with me. She's inside, you can ask her. 26 00:01:03,845 --> 00:01:06,086 I will. You hear anything? 27 00:01:06,147 --> 00:01:09,856 All I heard was an army of cops, and paramedics invading my building. 28 00:01:09,917 --> 00:01:11,328 Thanks for your help. 29 00:01:11,386 --> 00:01:13,593 Did she have a husband? A boyfriend? 30 00:01:13,654 --> 00:01:15,190 Not that I know of. 31 00:01:15,256 --> 00:01:16,496 Do you know of anybody else in the building 32 00:01:16,557 --> 00:01:17,865 who might want to throw her down the stairs? 33 00:01:17,925 --> 00:01:20,405 (SIGHING) It's a small building. I got six units. 34 00:01:20,461 --> 00:01:21,769 Three of 'em got old ladies in 'em, 35 00:01:21,829 --> 00:01:24,901 one's the guy you just talked to, and one's mine. 36 00:01:24,966 --> 00:01:26,172 Anybody with you tonight? 37 00:01:26,567 --> 00:01:28,774 Yeah, the shrew I married. 38 00:01:28,836 --> 00:01:31,077 Now, if I was gonna toss anybody down the stairs... 39 00:01:31,139 --> 00:01:34,018 Yeah. Yeah. This is Mr. Golavski, he owns the building. 40 00:01:34,075 --> 00:01:36,077 He's bending over backwards to cooperate. 41 00:01:36,144 --> 00:01:38,454 Victim's in surgery, it'll be a while till we can talk to her. 42 00:01:38,513 --> 00:01:39,651 Can you let us into her apartment? 43 00:01:39,781 --> 00:01:40,851 Yeah. Sure. 44 00:01:41,416 --> 00:01:43,362 How would somebody get into this building? 45 00:01:43,418 --> 00:01:45,659 With a key, or if somebody buzzed them in. 46 00:01:45,953 --> 00:01:48,934 This guy here was Johnny-on-the-spot. He didn't see anybody. 47 00:01:48,990 --> 00:01:50,401 So how did the assailant get out? 48 00:01:50,458 --> 00:01:52,301 The roof door's unlocked. 49 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:54,067 You can only get out that door. 50 00:01:54,128 --> 00:01:56,506 You wanna get back in, you gotta have a key. 51 00:01:56,564 --> 00:01:58,805 So all we have to do is find the invisible man, 52 00:01:58,866 --> 00:02:01,278 and see if he's got roof tar on his shoes. 53 00:02:50,785 --> 00:02:52,458 CURTIS: This her? GOLAVSKI: Yeah. 54 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:54,591 Woman who looks like this usually has a boyfriend. 55 00:02:54,655 --> 00:02:57,158 What would I know? She just moved in a couple weeks ago. 56 00:02:57,225 --> 00:02:58,260 She work? 57 00:02:58,326 --> 00:02:59,396 I don't rent to deadbeats. 58 00:02:59,460 --> 00:03:00,962 She's a nurse, St. Mark's Hospital. 59 00:03:01,028 --> 00:03:02,098 Where'd she live before? 60 00:03:02,163 --> 00:03:03,369 I don't know. 61 00:03:03,431 --> 00:03:04,774 You could check her application. 62 00:03:04,832 --> 00:03:06,106 She didn't fill one out. 63 00:03:06,167 --> 00:03:08,704 Oh! How much did she grease you? 64 00:03:08,769 --> 00:03:10,874 I own the building. I can run it how I want. 65 00:03:10,938 --> 00:03:12,918 You wanna know where she was before, ask her. 66 00:03:12,974 --> 00:03:14,783 I will, if she lives. 67 00:03:15,676 --> 00:03:17,917 Close the door when you leave. 68 00:03:17,979 --> 00:03:19,754 Lennie, e-mail. 69 00:03:19,814 --> 00:03:21,919 They're all signed "Giovanni." 70 00:03:22,783 --> 00:03:25,764 Phone sex has been replaced by e-mail sex? Who knew? 71 00:03:25,820 --> 00:03:27,800 People don't usually print out their e-mail. 72 00:03:28,456 --> 00:03:29,992 Is she out of danger yet? 73 00:03:30,057 --> 00:03:32,128 Doctors say they won't know till the swelling goes down. 74 00:03:32,193 --> 00:03:34,469 The dates run from last March to a few weeks ago. 75 00:03:34,529 --> 00:03:36,668 Do we have any idea who Giovanni is? 76 00:03:36,731 --> 00:03:39,735 Well, she lodged complaints with her online company when the e-mail started. 77 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,371 They say they're trying to track him down, but no luck. 78 00:03:42,436 --> 00:03:44,746 She's changed her e-mail address half a dozen times. 79 00:03:44,805 --> 00:03:46,716 The messages just keep coming. 80 00:03:46,774 --> 00:03:48,583 "Slip into your blue satin nightgown 81 00:03:48,643 --> 00:03:52,819 "and wait for me on your new queen-sized Sleepeze mattress. 82 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:54,450 "Does it squeak when your naked hips 83 00:03:54,515 --> 00:03:57,223 "bounce up and down on it while you're..." Ooh! 84 00:03:57,285 --> 00:03:59,458 There's a blue satin nightgown in her closet, 85 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:00,965 and her mattress is a Sleepeze. 86 00:04:01,022 --> 00:04:04,492 He knows what kind of toothpaste she uses, soap, floor wax, you name it. 87 00:04:04,559 --> 00:04:06,505 Yeah, and he's thought up new uses for all of them. 88 00:04:06,561 --> 00:04:08,302 It just gets more and more intense as it goes. 89 00:04:08,629 --> 00:04:11,667 Any real threats, like "I'm coming to push you down the stairs"? 90 00:04:11,732 --> 00:04:12,767 No. 91 00:04:13,634 --> 00:04:15,671 Let's find out who he is anyway. 92 00:04:17,505 --> 00:04:19,781 Changing her e-mail address didn't do any good, 93 00:04:19,840 --> 00:04:21,342 but it wasn't until she started getting 94 00:04:21,409 --> 00:04:23,616 phone calls that she moved the first time. 95 00:04:23,678 --> 00:04:24,679 The first time? 96 00:04:24,745 --> 00:04:27,749 She keeps having to move, and the guy keeps finding her. 97 00:04:27,815 --> 00:04:29,795 You know what he said in his phone calls? 98 00:04:29,850 --> 00:04:32,729 He told her to stop trying to avoid him, or he'd kill her. 99 00:04:32,787 --> 00:04:34,095 I told her to go to the police. 100 00:04:34,155 --> 00:04:35,395 And did she? 101 00:04:35,456 --> 00:04:37,026 They said there was nothing they could do. 102 00:04:37,091 --> 00:04:38,661 We put her on the day shift 103 00:04:38,726 --> 00:04:40,967 so she wouldn't have to be out at night. 104 00:04:41,495 --> 00:04:43,702 She moved again, he found her again. 105 00:04:45,433 --> 00:04:48,607 He threatened to come here, and take out as many people as he could. 106 00:04:48,669 --> 00:04:49,875 When was that? 107 00:04:49,937 --> 00:04:51,644 About two weeks ago. 108 00:04:51,706 --> 00:04:52,946 Did he ever show up? 109 00:04:53,007 --> 00:04:55,487 Well, nobody shot up the place yet. 110 00:04:55,543 --> 00:04:57,614 The administration took some new security precautions. 111 00:04:57,678 --> 00:04:59,055 Maybe he got scared off. 112 00:04:59,113 --> 00:05:00,490 She have any idea who he is? 113 00:05:01,048 --> 00:05:02,925 Poor Andrea. 114 00:05:02,984 --> 00:05:04,691 Having to look over your shoulder all the time, 115 00:05:04,752 --> 00:05:06,060 that's no way to live. 116 00:05:06,821 --> 00:05:09,495 No, I don't know a damn thing about her. 117 00:05:09,557 --> 00:05:12,299 She wouldn't even leave a forwarding address when she moved out of here. 118 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,306 What'd you do with her security deposit? 119 00:05:14,362 --> 00:05:16,035 Put my kid through Harvard. 120 00:05:16,931 --> 00:05:18,467 So how long was she here? 121 00:05:18,532 --> 00:05:19,704 Three or four months. 122 00:05:20,635 --> 00:05:22,205 Here's her mail I couldn't forward. 123 00:05:22,269 --> 00:05:23,748 The security deposit's on top. 124 00:05:23,804 --> 00:05:25,579 Anything else? Maybe later. 125 00:05:26,207 --> 00:05:28,653 Hey, check the return address. 126 00:05:28,709 --> 00:05:32,589 "Detective Lloyd Fraker, NYPD, 31st precinct." 127 00:05:33,848 --> 00:05:35,885 He tried to kill her. Man! She okay? 128 00:05:35,950 --> 00:05:37,020 CURTIS: Don't know yet. 129 00:05:37,084 --> 00:05:38,654 So I guess that guy at Rikers got out. 130 00:05:38,719 --> 00:05:40,062 At least you know who to hang it on, right? 131 00:05:40,121 --> 00:05:41,225 What guy at Rikers? 132 00:05:41,288 --> 00:05:42,358 We talking about the same thing? 133 00:05:42,423 --> 00:05:44,266 Andrea Blake, cyber-stalker, inmate. 134 00:05:44,325 --> 00:05:45,736 We're with you on the first two. 135 00:05:45,793 --> 00:05:47,397 Okay, she comes by a while ago, 136 00:05:47,461 --> 00:05:50,101 shows me a stack of e-mail from some creep who calls himself 137 00:05:50,164 --> 00:05:53,043 Casanova, or Don Juan, or something like that. 138 00:05:53,100 --> 00:05:55,341 She got this letter that really spooked the hell out of her. 139 00:05:55,403 --> 00:05:56,677 What letter? 140 00:05:58,372 --> 00:06:00,283 Told her I was sorry, there was nothing I could do. 141 00:06:00,341 --> 00:06:01,547 What did you write to her about? 142 00:06:01,609 --> 00:06:03,555 I was just following up, seeing if she had any new info. 143 00:06:04,145 --> 00:06:07,615 "This is to inform you that Peter Morgan, an inmate at Rikers Island, 144 00:06:07,682 --> 00:06:11,186 "filed a request with the Board of Elections for your current address. 145 00:06:11,252 --> 00:06:14,825 "The Freedom of Information Act requires that we comply with such requests. 146 00:06:14,889 --> 00:06:18,098 "Accordingly, we have provided Mr. Morgan with your address." 147 00:06:18,159 --> 00:06:19,638 Is this a great country or what? 148 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:21,501 Did you talk to this guy at Rikers? Morgan? 149 00:06:22,029 --> 00:06:23,531 Hey, I got a load of real cases. 150 00:06:23,597 --> 00:06:25,702 I told her she might want to think about moving again, 151 00:06:25,766 --> 00:06:27,643 and this time, don't register to vote. 152 00:06:31,806 --> 00:06:32,876 What about it? 153 00:06:32,940 --> 00:06:35,580 BRISCOE: Why did you want Andrea Blake's current address? 154 00:06:35,643 --> 00:06:38,180 Guy named Lowery asked me to sign some letter he'd written. 155 00:06:38,245 --> 00:06:39,280 This looks like it. 156 00:06:39,346 --> 00:06:41,257 You're an accommodating fellow, aren't you? 157 00:06:41,315 --> 00:06:43,261 For a carton of cigarettes in this hellhole, 158 00:06:43,317 --> 00:06:45,092 I'd accommodate Mike Tyson. 159 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:47,160 Is Lowery still here? 160 00:06:47,221 --> 00:06:49,132 Got out early last week. 161 00:06:49,190 --> 00:06:50,601 So why'd he want her address? 162 00:06:50,758 --> 00:06:53,136 I didn't ask him, 'cause I didn't care. 163 00:06:57,965 --> 00:07:00,969 Hi. Can you tell us where Russell Lowery is? 164 00:07:01,102 --> 00:07:04,015 If you'll settle for a guess, the Night Crawler. 165 00:07:04,071 --> 00:07:05,550 It's a bar down the street, toward Amsterdam. 166 00:07:05,606 --> 00:07:06,710 You can't miss it. 167 00:07:07,608 --> 00:07:11,852 Oh, when you find him, could you send him back wherever he came from? 168 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:13,950 Why is that? 169 00:07:14,181 --> 00:07:16,320 (SIGHING) I went out with him once. 170 00:07:16,384 --> 00:07:19,593 The man's an octopus with, like, zero grasp of what "no" means. 171 00:07:19,653 --> 00:07:21,360 Now he won't leave me alone. 172 00:07:21,422 --> 00:07:22,696 You know off-hand if he owns a computer? 173 00:07:23,491 --> 00:07:26,438 He used to. He put a notice up downstairs trying to sell it. 174 00:07:26,494 --> 00:07:28,064 You know why he wanted to get rid of it? 175 00:07:28,596 --> 00:07:30,872 Said he was gonna be gone for a while. Some cruise. 176 00:07:31,999 --> 00:07:33,808 Yeah, around Rikers Island. 177 00:07:34,769 --> 00:07:37,113 Sometimes when you meet a woman, you just know immediately. 178 00:07:37,171 --> 00:07:39,674 It's karma, fate, destiny. 179 00:07:39,740 --> 00:07:42,584 Far as we can tell, it's pretty much every woman you see. 180 00:07:42,877 --> 00:07:45,050 (CHUCKLING) I like to spread my bounty. 181 00:07:45,112 --> 00:07:46,614 Andrea Blake. 182 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,092 Karma. We met at a bar, we clicked. 183 00:07:49,150 --> 00:07:50,288 When was that? 184 00:07:50,951 --> 00:07:52,862 I don't know. Three, four months ago. 185 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:54,922 Someplace on Eighth Avenue, I don't remember the name. 186 00:07:54,989 --> 00:07:56,161 She gave me her number. 187 00:07:56,223 --> 00:07:58,066 Then why did you need the Freedom of Information Act 188 00:07:58,125 --> 00:07:59,604 to track her down? 189 00:08:00,161 --> 00:08:01,469 Wrong number. 190 00:08:02,096 --> 00:08:04,872 She must've accidentally transposed some of the digits. 191 00:08:04,965 --> 00:08:07,445 Yeah. Being with you probably made her dizzy. 192 00:08:07,501 --> 00:08:09,811 I have that effect on women. 193 00:08:10,838 --> 00:08:12,340 It's a gift. 194 00:08:12,406 --> 00:08:15,819 So why did you have somebody else sign the letter? 195 00:08:17,611 --> 00:08:20,319 Pete. I felt sorry for him. 196 00:08:20,381 --> 00:08:22,884 I figured this was a way I could slip him some smokes 197 00:08:22,950 --> 00:08:25,055 without hurting his pride, you know? 198 00:08:25,319 --> 00:08:27,299 You ever live in the same building as Andrea Blake? 199 00:08:27,354 --> 00:08:29,163 No. I'd have noticed her. 200 00:08:29,223 --> 00:08:30,258 YOU got a job? 201 00:08:30,324 --> 00:08:31,325 Used to. 202 00:08:31,392 --> 00:08:33,929 Free Radicals. It's this club teenagers go to, 203 00:08:33,994 --> 00:08:36,338 slam into each other. They call it dancing. 204 00:08:37,164 --> 00:08:40,338 I stamped their hands when they went in. Got fired when I got busted. 205 00:08:40,401 --> 00:08:41,505 How about before that? 206 00:08:41,569 --> 00:08:43,742 Before that, I was living in Pennsylvania. 207 00:08:43,804 --> 00:08:46,785 So what'd you do about Andrea Blake when you got out of Rikers? 208 00:08:46,841 --> 00:08:49,481 You went to the address you got from the Board of Elections? 209 00:08:49,543 --> 00:08:53,218 I was going to, but I met somebody else. 210 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,557 Really? You went to all that trouble to find her, then you just dropped it? 211 00:08:57,918 --> 00:09:00,330 I have a very short attention span. 212 00:09:01,822 --> 00:09:03,927 There, it's in the e-mail. 213 00:09:05,159 --> 00:09:08,629 "I like to spread my bounty, and that's not all I like to spread." 214 00:09:09,496 --> 00:09:11,806 Know a judge who'll issue a search warrant based on this? 215 00:09:11,866 --> 00:09:13,106 Well, that's why we called you. 216 00:09:13,167 --> 00:09:15,670 We want to hang onto him while we investigate. 217 00:09:15,736 --> 00:09:17,044 What makes you think it's him? 218 00:09:17,104 --> 00:09:19,414 Well, he went to a lot of trouble to track down the victim, 219 00:09:19,473 --> 00:09:21,384 and he recently got rid of his computer. 220 00:09:21,442 --> 00:09:23,752 But the guy who bought it installed an eight-gig hard drive, 221 00:09:23,811 --> 00:09:26,655 threw out the old one. No way to trace what Lowery did. 222 00:09:26,714 --> 00:09:28,557 It's not a crime to sell a computer. 223 00:09:28,616 --> 00:09:30,186 What was Lowery in Rikers for? 224 00:09:30,251 --> 00:09:31,491 Raging hormones. 225 00:09:31,552 --> 00:09:33,259 He grabbed a woman on Riverside. 226 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,563 Wouldn't let go of her arm while he told her what he wanted to do to her. 227 00:09:36,824 --> 00:09:38,428 Well, the judge released him conditionally. 228 00:09:38,492 --> 00:09:40,665 If he screws up, he goes back to Rikers. 229 00:09:40,728 --> 00:09:41,968 This woman who lives in his building? 230 00:09:42,029 --> 00:09:43,508 What, the one who called him the octopus? 231 00:09:43,564 --> 00:09:45,601 If you can get her to make a harassment complaint... 232 00:09:45,666 --> 00:09:47,703 She seemed pretty interested in getting rid of him. 233 00:09:48,969 --> 00:09:51,074 Probably won't hold, but it's worth a try. 234 00:09:51,138 --> 00:09:52,276 (PHONE RINGING) 235 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:54,578 Van Buren. 236 00:09:56,176 --> 00:09:58,383 Okay, thanks. My men are on their way. 237 00:09:59,179 --> 00:10:02,058 The victim's awake. Take Lowery's mug shot with you. 238 00:10:06,453 --> 00:10:10,162 I went out to throw my garbage down the chute, 239 00:10:11,859 --> 00:10:14,897 and somebody grabbed me from behind. 240 00:10:15,663 --> 00:10:17,074 We didn't find any garbage. 241 00:10:18,499 --> 00:10:20,445 I'm... I'm sorry, I... 242 00:10:21,101 --> 00:10:23,911 It was after I dumped the garbage, 243 00:10:23,971 --> 00:10:26,713 and I was on my way back to my apartment. 244 00:10:27,541 --> 00:10:28,781 Did he say anything? 245 00:10:33,247 --> 00:10:35,853 I don't remember the exact words. 246 00:10:38,819 --> 00:10:40,992 He said that he was Giovanni. 247 00:10:41,655 --> 00:10:45,762 (SOBBING) See, last year I started getting this e-mail... 248 00:10:45,826 --> 00:10:47,100 We found it. 249 00:10:47,761 --> 00:10:52,574 Anyway, he started saying what he was going to do to me, 250 00:10:53,267 --> 00:10:54,803 like in the e-mail. 251 00:10:55,736 --> 00:11:00,913 And I screamed, and I struggled, and I shouted, and... 252 00:11:02,876 --> 00:11:09,122 Anyway, I guess he got mad, and he threw me down the stairs. 253 00:11:10,184 --> 00:11:12,687 How do you think Giovanni knew all about you? 254 00:11:12,753 --> 00:11:14,994 What soap you use, stuff like that? 255 00:11:15,055 --> 00:11:16,693 I don't know. 256 00:11:16,757 --> 00:11:22,036 It's like somebody was watching me all the time. 257 00:11:23,063 --> 00:11:25,202 And you don't know what it's like. 258 00:11:25,933 --> 00:11:27,913 You don't know who it is like, 259 00:11:27,968 --> 00:11:31,074 is it a neighbor, is it somebody you work with? 260 00:11:31,138 --> 00:11:35,348 This guy says he met you in a bar on Eighth Avenue a few months ago. 261 00:11:37,644 --> 00:11:39,146 I don't go to bars. 262 00:11:39,713 --> 00:11:41,124 BRISCOE: Not ever? 263 00:11:41,181 --> 00:11:43,661 I don't like the atmosphere. Why go? 264 00:11:43,717 --> 00:11:46,254 You make it sound like my daughter did something wrong. 265 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:48,459 No, no. We have to check. 266 00:11:48,789 --> 00:11:50,200 BLAKE: How can this be Giovanni? 267 00:11:50,257 --> 00:11:54,467 I don't know this man, how can he know so much about me? 268 00:11:54,528 --> 00:11:56,906 Okay, if it's not him, who's your candidate? 269 00:11:56,964 --> 00:12:00,537 You have no idea how much time I have spent on this, 270 00:12:01,502 --> 00:12:04,949 and the only name that I have ever been able to come up with 271 00:12:05,839 --> 00:12:08,012 was Louis Dutton. 272 00:12:09,576 --> 00:12:10,714 Who is he? 273 00:12:10,778 --> 00:12:15,090 He lived in my building where I was when the e-mail first started. 274 00:12:16,417 --> 00:12:17,487 CURTIS: Why him? 275 00:12:18,452 --> 00:12:21,661 I would be at the supermarket, and he'd be there. 276 00:12:22,222 --> 00:12:24,532 I would be at the dry cleaner, 277 00:12:24,591 --> 00:12:27,094 and he would be in line right behind me. 278 00:12:28,195 --> 00:12:30,197 Did you tell Detective Fraker about him? 279 00:12:31,298 --> 00:12:33,403 He said that he would look into it, 280 00:12:34,802 --> 00:12:37,112 but I never heard anything. 281 00:12:37,838 --> 00:12:40,614 I mean, first the e-mail, and now the phone calls, 282 00:12:40,674 --> 00:12:43,587 and now he tries to kill me. Please help me. 283 00:12:43,977 --> 00:12:46,014 Please, make him stop! 284 00:12:56,657 --> 00:12:59,831 Let me know if we can reciprocate. Thanks. 285 00:13:00,961 --> 00:13:04,067 Philadelphia PD says Lowery was incarcerated 286 00:13:04,131 --> 00:13:06,407 at the Rawling Correctional Facility in Brownsville 287 00:13:06,467 --> 00:13:08,708 from January to September of last year. 288 00:13:08,769 --> 00:13:10,305 What for? Computer fraud. 289 00:13:10,370 --> 00:13:13,374 He was hacking into people's bank accounts, and helping himself. 290 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:15,147 So he knows how to send e-mail. 291 00:13:15,209 --> 00:13:16,415 Cons got computers? 292 00:13:16,477 --> 00:13:19,185 The officer I spoke to didn't know, but said he doubted it. 293 00:13:19,246 --> 00:13:21,749 Rawling is a private prison run for profit. 294 00:13:22,683 --> 00:13:23,787 What'd you do with Lowery? 295 00:13:23,851 --> 00:13:26,764 He's back at Rikers on a harassment complaint from one of his neighbors. 296 00:13:26,820 --> 00:13:28,163 Any other suspects? One. 297 00:13:28,222 --> 00:13:30,224 Louis Dutton. No record. 298 00:13:30,290 --> 00:13:32,429 Find out if we want to change that. 299 00:13:34,595 --> 00:13:36,131 Louis Dutton? Yeah. 300 00:13:36,530 --> 00:13:37,873 We're investigating a complaint. 301 00:13:37,931 --> 00:13:39,467 Where were you two nights ago around 1:00 a.m.? 302 00:13:39,533 --> 00:13:42,537 First, unless you can connect me with the objective of your investigation, 303 00:13:42,603 --> 00:13:44,378 you have no right to question my whereabouts. 304 00:13:44,805 --> 00:13:47,843 Oh, good, a constitutional scholar. Do you know Andrea Blake? 305 00:13:48,208 --> 00:13:50,017 And second, I'm under no obligation 306 00:13:50,077 --> 00:13:51,988 to answer your questions under any circumstances. 307 00:13:52,079 --> 00:13:54,559 Maybe he'd like to repeat all this down at the precinct. 308 00:13:54,615 --> 00:13:57,186 Third, I'm not going anywhere with you 309 00:13:57,251 --> 00:14:00,027 unless you arrest me, and I'm waiting to hear what the charge would be. 310 00:14:00,087 --> 00:14:01,361 That's a nice camera you got in there. 311 00:14:01,421 --> 00:14:03,697 What size lens is that, 500 millimeter? 312 00:14:03,757 --> 00:14:04,861 And a scenic view. 313 00:14:04,925 --> 00:14:06,632 BRISCOE: Yeah. You get a nice close-up of the pigeon crap 314 00:14:06,693 --> 00:14:08,195 on the windowsill across the way. 315 00:14:08,262 --> 00:14:10,105 Or the person who lives in that apartment. 316 00:14:10,998 --> 00:14:12,136 You're wasting my time. 317 00:14:12,199 --> 00:14:14,304 And here's a tip, you're wasting yours, too. 318 00:14:16,770 --> 00:14:18,340 SEBASTIAN: Yeah, I remember Andrea Blake. 319 00:14:18,405 --> 00:14:20,043 Nice lady, friendly, good tipper. 320 00:14:20,107 --> 00:14:21,711 Which apartment she live in? WOMAN: Sebastian. 321 00:14:21,775 --> 00:14:23,049 TH-. 322 00:14:23,110 --> 00:14:27,490 7H? Would that be across the airshaft from Louis Dutton in TB? 323 00:14:28,115 --> 00:14:29,890 Yeah. Who's in there now? 324 00:14:29,950 --> 00:14:33,227 A 19-year-old girl from Toadsuck, Arkansas, 325 00:14:33,287 --> 00:14:35,494 who thinks she's gonna be the new Betty Buckley. 326 00:14:35,556 --> 00:14:38,093 Yeah, I'm not making that up. Toadsuck, Arkansas. 327 00:14:38,158 --> 00:14:40,331 You know if Dutton has his own darkroom equipment? 328 00:14:40,427 --> 00:14:43,465 I don't know. He gets a lot of mail from a photo lab. 329 00:14:43,530 --> 00:14:45,771 Yeah. You remember the name of the place? 330 00:14:45,832 --> 00:14:49,939 Sure. Imagine Photo Lab. I think it's on Third Avenue. 331 00:14:52,906 --> 00:14:54,886 Who processes these? The guys in the back. 332 00:14:54,942 --> 00:14:56,683 Didn't anybody think to notify the police? 333 00:14:56,743 --> 00:14:59,053 I know it looks like he's invading people's privacy... 334 00:14:59,112 --> 00:15:00,182 Looks like? 335 00:15:00,247 --> 00:15:02,056 These people obviously have no idea they're being photographed. 336 00:15:02,115 --> 00:15:04,595 Nude women in their own apartments, shots up women's dresses. 337 00:15:04,651 --> 00:15:07,461 No, no. He always sends signed releases with the film. 338 00:15:07,521 --> 00:15:08,829 We keep 'em on file. 339 00:15:10,891 --> 00:15:12,097 (CHUCKLES) 340 00:15:12,159 --> 00:15:14,730 Did you ever notice the handwriting's the same on all these signatures? 341 00:15:14,795 --> 00:15:16,103 What does he do with these? 342 00:15:17,431 --> 00:15:20,002 Look up this address 343 00:15:21,635 --> 00:15:22,773 on the net. 344 00:15:24,504 --> 00:15:26,506 PROFACI: This guy takes pictures of naked women. 345 00:15:26,573 --> 00:15:29,247 They don't know he's doing it, and this is what he does with them? 346 00:15:29,309 --> 00:15:32,381 CURTIS: He puts himself in the pictures, and has virtual sex. 347 00:15:32,946 --> 00:15:34,425 Is that him? Yeah. 348 00:15:34,481 --> 00:15:35,892 He should keep his clothes on. 349 00:15:35,949 --> 00:15:37,553 Candid Camera for the '90s? 350 00:15:37,618 --> 00:15:39,427 Louis Dutton's website. 351 00:15:39,486 --> 00:15:41,659 Baronmuchhumpin.com. 352 00:15:41,955 --> 00:15:43,832 (SCOFFS) Who's the girl? 353 00:15:43,891 --> 00:15:45,529 The new Betty Buckley. 354 00:15:45,592 --> 00:15:48,766 That's the apartment Andrea Blake lived in when the e-mail started. 355 00:15:48,829 --> 00:15:50,467 Dutton live there at the time? Yep. 356 00:15:51,465 --> 00:15:53,775 In this one picture, I can see a box of Wheaties, 357 00:15:53,834 --> 00:15:56,178 a can of Pledge, a Dominos pizza box. 358 00:15:56,236 --> 00:15:57,806 Yeah. You look through that window long enough, 359 00:15:57,871 --> 00:16:01,512 you'll see everything she owns, and every brand name she uses. 360 00:16:01,575 --> 00:16:04,146 Mmm. Get a search warrant. 361 00:16:04,211 --> 00:16:06,851 And tell the new Betty Buckley to close her blinds. 362 00:16:08,515 --> 00:16:10,688 CURTIS: We're seizing your computer, your camera, 363 00:16:10,751 --> 00:16:13,561 and 16 rolls of exposed, but unprocessed film. 364 00:16:13,620 --> 00:16:15,429 This is a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment. 365 00:16:15,489 --> 00:16:16,832 Yeah. Well, the judge didn't think so. 366 00:16:16,890 --> 00:16:20,235 Rey. You got a lot of pictures of Andrea Blake here. 367 00:16:20,294 --> 00:16:22,035 But she's got her clothes on in all of them. 368 00:16:22,095 --> 00:16:23,836 Must've been quite a disappointment, huh? 369 00:16:23,897 --> 00:16:25,501 CURTIS: And we're arresting you. 370 00:16:25,565 --> 00:16:27,169 Now, I know you're a stickler, so, 371 00:16:27,234 --> 00:16:32,343 violation of penal law 235.21, and 240.20 sub 7, 372 00:16:32,406 --> 00:16:34,784 that's disseminating indecent material to minors, 373 00:16:34,841 --> 00:16:37,651 and creating a physically offensive condition by any act 374 00:16:37,711 --> 00:16:39,281 which serves no legitimate purpose. 375 00:16:39,346 --> 00:16:42,225 240.20 sub 7 is unconstitutionally vague, 376 00:16:42,282 --> 00:16:43,920 and will never survive an appeal. 377 00:16:43,984 --> 00:16:46,726 You probably already know you have the right to remain silent. 378 00:16:46,787 --> 00:16:48,425 Why don't you use it? 379 00:16:49,323 --> 00:16:51,894 The last I heard, bad taste is not a crime. 380 00:16:51,958 --> 00:16:54,165 If it was, Louis here would be facing life. 381 00:16:54,795 --> 00:16:57,503 It's bad enough I have to listen to these Neanderthals denigrate my art, 382 00:16:57,564 --> 00:16:58,804 don't you do it, too. 383 00:16:58,999 --> 00:17:01,001 Bouncing breasts are art? 384 00:17:01,768 --> 00:17:02,803 Troglodyte. 385 00:17:02,869 --> 00:17:04,507 Where were you at 1:00 a.m. last Saturday? 386 00:17:04,571 --> 00:17:06,278 What does that have to do with the charge? 387 00:17:06,340 --> 00:17:08,547 We're investigating him for attempted murder. 388 00:17:09,710 --> 00:17:11,212 They're railroading me. 389 00:17:11,278 --> 00:17:12,552 They're desperate to shut down my website. 390 00:17:12,612 --> 00:17:14,421 Don't say anything. 391 00:17:15,716 --> 00:17:17,024 Give me some details. 392 00:17:17,617 --> 00:17:20,723 Well, somebody shoved Andrea Blake down a flight of stairs. 393 00:17:20,787 --> 00:17:22,528 Where were you last Saturday night? 394 00:17:22,589 --> 00:17:24,933 Does the name Giovanni mean anything to you? 395 00:17:24,992 --> 00:17:28,064 You have no right to pry into any area of my life. 396 00:17:28,128 --> 00:17:29,801 Look, we have your computer. 397 00:17:29,863 --> 00:17:32,070 If there's any evidence on the hard drive, we're gonna find it. 398 00:17:32,499 --> 00:17:34,945 Evidence of what? I have no idea what you're talking about. 399 00:17:35,002 --> 00:17:37,175 You're fishing. End of discussion. 400 00:17:38,205 --> 00:17:42,585 You can make bail after the arraignment. And keep your mouth shut. 401 00:17:43,377 --> 00:17:44,913 Mr. Sanchez is leaving. 402 00:17:44,978 --> 00:17:47,982 Mr. Dutton will be enjoying our hospitality. 403 00:17:51,718 --> 00:17:53,561 (SIGHING) Maybe we could take a picture of Dutton 404 00:17:53,620 --> 00:17:55,463 over to Miss Blake's current address. 405 00:17:55,522 --> 00:17:57,433 See if anybody noticed him hanging around. 406 00:17:57,491 --> 00:17:59,129 Is there one of him with his clothes on? 407 00:17:59,192 --> 00:18:00,762 I vote for a mug shot. 408 00:18:01,628 --> 00:18:02,902 You ever see this guy hanging around? 409 00:18:02,963 --> 00:18:05,341 If I say I've seen him, will you leave me 410 00:18:05,399 --> 00:18:07,140 and my building out of this mess? 411 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,077 You're a real ray of sunshine, aren't you? 412 00:18:09,136 --> 00:18:11,707 You guys have brought me nothing but trouble. 413 00:18:12,205 --> 00:18:16,153 Now I got to fumigate. I never seen so many cockroaches. 414 00:18:16,209 --> 00:18:18,052 Well, you run a roach motel, that's your problem. 415 00:18:18,111 --> 00:18:19,556 You seen this guy or not? 416 00:18:19,613 --> 00:18:21,320 I run a clean building. 417 00:18:21,381 --> 00:18:23,554 It's that girl, that Andrea Blake. 418 00:18:24,418 --> 00:18:26,728 It's her stinking, rotten garbage sitting there the whole time 419 00:18:26,787 --> 00:18:28,494 with the heat on while she was gone. 420 00:18:28,555 --> 00:18:29,693 She's back? 421 00:18:29,756 --> 00:18:31,497 Her and her roach colony. 422 00:18:33,293 --> 00:18:35,398 I never seen this guy. 423 00:18:36,296 --> 00:18:38,537 She told us she took her garbage out. 424 00:18:40,267 --> 00:18:42,110 I don't understand why you had me come down here. 425 00:18:42,169 --> 00:18:44,479 You're just asking me more questions about Louis Dutton. 426 00:18:44,538 --> 00:18:46,779 We're trying to find out if he's linked to the e-mail 427 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:48,513 you say somebody sent you. 428 00:18:49,576 --> 00:18:50,919 I say? 429 00:18:53,146 --> 00:18:54,989 What's this all about? 430 00:18:55,048 --> 00:18:56,721 Well, you told us you took out the garbage 431 00:18:56,783 --> 00:18:59,286 the night you were attacked, right? 432 00:18:59,719 --> 00:19:02,962 I took out half of it. 433 00:19:03,023 --> 00:19:05,731 There's only one trash can in your kitchen. 434 00:19:05,792 --> 00:19:08,136 You let your garbage pile up? 435 00:19:09,896 --> 00:19:11,239 Sometimes. 436 00:19:11,298 --> 00:19:14,040 Your place is so clean you could eat off the floor. 437 00:19:14,434 --> 00:19:16,243 Miss Blake, you're a nurse, right? 438 00:19:16,303 --> 00:19:18,078 So you know about people coming in 439 00:19:18,138 --> 00:19:20,277 with phony ailments, looking for attention. 440 00:19:24,644 --> 00:19:27,181 Oh, God, you don't believe me. 441 00:19:27,380 --> 00:19:29,189 We get the same thing sometimes. 442 00:19:29,649 --> 00:19:32,255 People making up stories about being victimized, 443 00:19:32,319 --> 00:19:34,458 confessing to crimes they didn't commit, 444 00:19:34,521 --> 00:19:37,058 saying they witnessed an incident they didn't. 445 00:19:38,859 --> 00:19:41,999 This is a nightmare. He is real. 446 00:19:42,496 --> 00:19:45,773 He tormented me with the phone calls and the e-mail. 447 00:19:45,832 --> 00:19:48,335 He tried to kill me. You have to listen. 448 00:19:48,402 --> 00:19:50,404 Miss Blake, there's absolutely no evidence 449 00:19:50,470 --> 00:19:52,780 that anybody pushed you down those stairs. 450 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,649 Now, we think you started getting e-mail that scared you. 451 00:19:57,144 --> 00:19:58,555 You went to the police, 452 00:19:58,612 --> 00:20:02,458 they told you they couldn't do anything until there was a crime committed, 453 00:20:02,516 --> 00:20:05,963 so you faked a crime. 454 00:20:06,686 --> 00:20:08,097 He's real. 455 00:20:08,588 --> 00:20:11,296 You threw yourself down those stairs, didn't you? 456 00:20:12,225 --> 00:20:14,330 He is out there. Please! 457 00:20:15,195 --> 00:20:18,699 Look, we really do want to help you, but you got to tell us the truth. 458 00:20:18,765 --> 00:20:24,147 The truth is he tried to kill me! I am dead unless you help me! 459 00:20:31,378 --> 00:20:34,723 And you don't even believe that I need help. 460 00:20:34,948 --> 00:20:36,427 We believe you about the e-mail. 461 00:20:36,483 --> 00:20:39,054 If it was Dutton, he won't be doing it again. 462 00:20:48,962 --> 00:20:50,771 He's going to kill me. 463 00:20:50,830 --> 00:20:53,310 Look, these guys that hide behind computer screens, 464 00:20:54,634 --> 00:20:56,238 they usually aren't even dangerous. 465 00:20:56,703 --> 00:20:58,740 It's like obscene phone calls. 466 00:20:58,805 --> 00:21:02,582 Your guy'd probably faint if he had to be in the same room with you. 467 00:21:06,213 --> 00:21:08,124 So she filed a false police report. 468 00:21:08,181 --> 00:21:09,922 Yeah. But we don't want to charge her. 469 00:21:09,983 --> 00:21:12,088 How do you want to proceed on those other charges against Dutton? 470 00:21:12,152 --> 00:21:14,029 Should we spring him? No. Leave him where he is. 471 00:21:14,087 --> 00:21:16,067 What about the other one, Lowery? The octopus. 472 00:21:16,122 --> 00:21:18,625 Oh, he's out. The judge took one look at our charge and released him. 473 00:21:18,692 --> 00:21:19,727 Miss Ross? 474 00:21:19,793 --> 00:21:21,602 The hospital where Miss Blake works... 475 00:21:21,661 --> 00:21:24,267 Thanks. I got a request from their attorney for the police report, 476 00:21:24,331 --> 00:21:26,242 and the disposition on the alleged attack. 477 00:21:26,299 --> 00:21:27,505 Why? 478 00:21:27,601 --> 00:21:29,581 She cost them a lot of money in added security. 479 00:21:29,636 --> 00:21:32,617 If she made the story up, they'll probably sue her to recover their costs. 480 00:21:33,106 --> 00:21:34,312 And fire her. 481 00:21:34,941 --> 00:21:36,181 Would that surprise you? 482 00:21:36,977 --> 00:21:38,479 What's the guy's name? Her lawyer? 483 00:21:44,618 --> 00:21:46,655 I'll take care of it. Thanks. 484 00:21:49,256 --> 00:21:51,327 BRISCOE: So I asked 'em, "Was it the same old problem?" 485 00:21:51,391 --> 00:21:54,338 They said, "Yeah, he wanted to have sex twice a day, 486 00:21:54,394 --> 00:21:56,305 "she wanted to have it twice a year." 487 00:21:56,363 --> 00:21:57,671 So what'd you do? 488 00:21:57,731 --> 00:21:59,711 I wrote 'em a summons which said, 489 00:21:59,766 --> 00:22:03,145 "You must have sex once a week, and only once a week." 490 00:22:03,203 --> 00:22:04,273 And they bought it? 491 00:22:04,337 --> 00:22:05,372 BRISCOE: Yeah. I'm the police! 492 00:22:05,438 --> 00:22:06,576 (ALL CHUCKLING) 493 00:22:35,669 --> 00:22:37,842 Beaten and stabbed, broken neck. 494 00:22:39,339 --> 00:22:41,546 At least she can't say "I told you so." 495 00:22:44,744 --> 00:22:46,087 (SIGHS) 496 00:22:49,316 --> 00:22:52,661 BLAKE: (ON TAPE) It's Giovanni! It's the man in the picture! 497 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:54,120 OPERATOR: Ma'am, can you hear me? 498 00:22:54,187 --> 00:22:55,791 He's on the fire escape! (GLASS SHATTERING) 499 00:22:56,222 --> 00:22:58,463 Oh, my God! He's coming in! 500 00:22:58,525 --> 00:22:59,868 Ma'am, can you get out of the apartment? 501 00:22:59,926 --> 00:23:02,668 Please help me! Get away from me! 502 00:23:02,729 --> 00:23:03,730 (BLAKE SCREAMING) 503 00:23:07,667 --> 00:23:09,806 What does she mean, "The man in the picture"? 504 00:23:09,869 --> 00:23:11,576 We showed her Lowery's mug shot. 505 00:23:11,638 --> 00:23:13,276 ROSS: What about Dutton? 506 00:23:14,107 --> 00:23:16,713 She knew him, she would've just said, "It's Dutton." 507 00:23:17,344 --> 00:23:19,688 We checked on him anyway. He's still at Rikers. 508 00:23:20,613 --> 00:23:22,354 This is all we have? 509 00:23:25,218 --> 00:23:28,222 Let's get a search warrant for Lowery's apartment. 510 00:23:28,288 --> 00:23:30,734 Try Judge Livingston, he has lower standards. 511 00:23:32,058 --> 00:23:33,503 How did you get this? 512 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,200 You got nothing to connect me to the murder, I didn't do it. 513 00:23:36,262 --> 00:23:38,401 You better hope so, 'cause if I find out you did, 514 00:23:38,465 --> 00:23:40,672 I'm gonna push your face through the back of your head. 515 00:23:40,834 --> 00:23:41,835 You heard that. 516 00:23:41,901 --> 00:23:43,539 Say what? You'll have to speak up. 517 00:23:45,572 --> 00:23:47,574 You'll see I like classical music. 518 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:49,586 I'm particularly fond of Mozart. 519 00:23:49,642 --> 00:23:52,122 Hey, Lennie, look at this, and this. 520 00:23:54,214 --> 00:23:57,058 How many recordings of Don Giovanni do you own? 521 00:23:57,617 --> 00:24:00,461 All but two. I don't think it's a crime. 522 00:24:03,456 --> 00:24:05,629 Briscoe and Curtis searched Lowery's apartment. 523 00:24:05,692 --> 00:24:08,104 They found 25 recordings of Don Giovanni. 524 00:24:08,161 --> 00:24:09,162 They deduced he's an opera fan. 525 00:24:10,430 --> 00:24:11,602 That's helpful. 526 00:24:11,664 --> 00:24:13,575 Have you read the file? Yeah. 527 00:24:13,967 --> 00:24:17,107 Lowery was in prison in Pennsylvania when the e-mail started. 528 00:24:17,637 --> 00:24:20,948 If he's Giovanni then he must've had access to an online computer. 529 00:24:21,608 --> 00:24:23,383 Have they checked that out? No. 530 00:24:24,911 --> 00:24:26,913 How sure are they about Lowery? 531 00:24:27,013 --> 00:24:29,220 They dropped the ball, somebody got killed. 532 00:24:29,282 --> 00:24:31,319 They're sure, and they want him. 533 00:24:31,851 --> 00:24:33,330 Send them to Pennsylvania. 534 00:24:37,891 --> 00:24:41,361 Our philosophy is, you keep 'em busy, they won't make any trouble. 535 00:24:41,428 --> 00:24:43,135 Lowery was one of our best workers. 536 00:24:43,196 --> 00:24:44,266 Doing what? (DOOR BUZZING) 537 00:24:44,330 --> 00:24:46,867 Well, we have contracts with several companies. 538 00:24:46,933 --> 00:24:49,675 Lowery worked for Homebody. 539 00:24:50,036 --> 00:24:51,037 What's Homebody? 540 00:24:51,104 --> 00:24:52,174 It's a catalog company. 541 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,546 These men are taking orders from customers. 542 00:24:57,043 --> 00:24:58,818 Can they send e-mail from these computers? 543 00:24:58,878 --> 00:25:00,949 No. Only the supervisor. 544 00:25:01,014 --> 00:25:02,288 (INMATES CHATTERING) 545 00:25:02,348 --> 00:25:04,658 WILSON: I'm not a prisoner. I work for Homebody. 546 00:25:05,318 --> 00:25:07,298 We specialize in mid-range home furnishings. 547 00:25:07,354 --> 00:25:09,800 Your callers know they're talking to prisoners? 548 00:25:09,856 --> 00:25:12,632 Computers are set up so the worker never sees the information. 549 00:25:12,692 --> 00:25:14,296 He's inputting your credit card number, 550 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:16,203 but all he's seeing is a row of X's. 551 00:25:16,262 --> 00:25:19,937 I knew one con could memorize 70 digits from hearing 'em once. 552 00:25:19,999 --> 00:25:21,569 We screen them carefully before we hire them. 553 00:25:21,634 --> 00:25:24,774 Russell Lowery, he an example of your careful screening? 554 00:25:24,838 --> 00:25:27,250 A hacker who's in prison for computer crime. 555 00:25:27,674 --> 00:25:29,244 Russell Lowery? Ring a bell? 556 00:25:29,409 --> 00:25:31,480 Sure, I think I remember him. 557 00:25:32,445 --> 00:25:34,550 You let him use your computer, didn't you? 558 00:25:34,614 --> 00:25:35,854 How'd you work it? 559 00:25:36,349 --> 00:25:38,829 Did he tell you that? He's a liar. 560 00:25:39,252 --> 00:25:40,595 He's a better liar than you are. 561 00:25:41,654 --> 00:25:44,658 I have the only key. Nobody gets in here but me. 562 00:25:46,426 --> 00:25:48,963 I ordered a desk for Katie from Homebody last year. 563 00:25:49,028 --> 00:25:52,100 I gave my name, address, phone, and credit card numbers to a convict? 564 00:25:52,165 --> 00:25:54,145 Yeah. The prisoners make $350 an hour. 565 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,736 They get to keep half of it. 566 00:25:55,802 --> 00:25:58,305 The rest goes into a victim's restitution fund. 567 00:25:58,371 --> 00:26:01,011 Now, we don't know how much the prison makes out of the contract, 568 00:26:01,074 --> 00:26:02,280 nobody will tell us. 569 00:26:02,342 --> 00:26:05,448 But we went back over Andrea Blake's records. 570 00:26:05,512 --> 00:26:09,892 Now, she ordered an end table from Homebody, about a month before the e-mail started. 571 00:26:09,949 --> 00:26:12,020 She calls to order some stuff, she gets Lowery. 572 00:26:12,085 --> 00:26:13,723 She used to be outgoing, friendly. 573 00:26:13,786 --> 00:26:16,062 They chat, she triggers something in him. 574 00:26:16,122 --> 00:26:17,328 Once he had her credit card number, 575 00:26:17,390 --> 00:26:19,461 he could find out anything he wanted to know about her. 576 00:26:19,692 --> 00:26:20,966 CURTIS: He logs onto the Internet. 577 00:26:21,027 --> 00:26:22,734 BRISCOE: You let your fingers do the stalking. 578 00:26:22,795 --> 00:26:24,775 The databases give him e-mail address, 579 00:26:24,831 --> 00:26:27,368 social security number, bank accounts, credit report, 580 00:26:27,434 --> 00:26:29,038 everything she ever ordered by phone. 581 00:26:29,102 --> 00:26:32,447 Yeah. But who orders toothpaste and soap over the phone? 582 00:26:32,505 --> 00:26:35,111 I mean, this guy knew what brand of frozen waffles she ate. 583 00:26:35,174 --> 00:26:36,812 She had a supermarket discount card. 584 00:26:36,876 --> 00:26:39,584 You mean every time they scan my discount card at the market... 585 00:26:39,646 --> 00:26:42,320 Everything you buy goes into their computer under your name. 586 00:26:42,382 --> 00:26:45,795 Even if they don't sell the data to other companies, a hacker can find it. 587 00:26:46,052 --> 00:26:47,053 Like Lowery did. 588 00:26:48,321 --> 00:26:50,323 We're getting ahead of ourselves here. 589 00:26:50,890 --> 00:26:53,461 We haven't tied him to Andrea Blake. 590 00:26:53,526 --> 00:26:55,528 The only way we can do that is this supervisor 591 00:26:55,595 --> 00:26:57,541 who says Lowery never used his computer. 592 00:26:57,864 --> 00:26:58,934 He was lying. 593 00:26:59,299 --> 00:27:00,471 All right. 594 00:27:01,634 --> 00:27:03,341 Let's see if we can prove any of this. 595 00:27:04,070 --> 00:27:06,414 Get a subpoena for Homebody's Pennsylvania phone records, 596 00:27:06,472 --> 00:27:08,509 and a subpoena for this supervisor. 597 00:27:09,909 --> 00:27:11,718 And arrest Russell Lowery. 598 00:27:13,947 --> 00:27:15,051 Not guilty. 599 00:27:15,114 --> 00:27:16,684 Your Honor, the case against Mr. Lowery 600 00:27:16,749 --> 00:27:19,161 is a figment of the District Attorney's imagination. 601 00:27:19,219 --> 00:27:21,825 Then the trial should be mercifully short, Counselor. 602 00:27:21,888 --> 00:27:23,424 Miss Ross, People on bail? 603 00:27:23,623 --> 00:27:26,194 The People request the defendant be remanded without bail. 604 00:27:26,292 --> 00:27:30,968 Your Honor, the prosecution's entire case is based on my client's love of opera. 605 00:27:31,030 --> 00:27:33,738 Our case is, he stalked and killed the victim. 606 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,440 Given the seriousness of the charge, bail is denied. 607 00:27:36,502 --> 00:27:38,778 The defendant is remanded. Next case. 608 00:27:39,839 --> 00:27:43,150 BAILIFF: "Docket number 026797..." 609 00:27:43,943 --> 00:27:46,719 I hope we have more than Mozart to take to trial. 610 00:27:46,779 --> 00:27:48,781 The Brownsville D.A. issue the subpoenas yet? 611 00:27:48,882 --> 00:27:50,828 The prison's the big employer in the area. 612 00:27:50,883 --> 00:27:52,794 The D.A.'s giving me the runaround. 613 00:27:52,852 --> 00:27:55,059 I've got nothing to threaten them with. 614 00:27:55,121 --> 00:27:58,261 The catalog company's based here. Threaten them. 615 00:28:00,026 --> 00:28:03,200 This is up to the local authorities in Brownsville, Miss Ross. 616 00:28:03,262 --> 00:28:05,572 And Mr. Wilson is a free individual, 617 00:28:05,632 --> 00:28:07,270 I can't force him to do anything. 618 00:28:08,001 --> 00:28:09,708 I'm sure you must have some influence. 619 00:28:09,769 --> 00:28:11,407 How do you think the public would react 620 00:28:11,471 --> 00:28:14,281 if they found out they were giving their credit card numbers to criminals? 621 00:28:14,340 --> 00:28:16,217 Every precaution is taken. 622 00:28:17,076 --> 00:28:19,682 The arrangement actually benefits the customers 623 00:28:19,746 --> 00:28:21,316 by keeping the costs down. 624 00:28:22,014 --> 00:28:24,756 And the prisoners learn a marketable skill. 625 00:28:26,586 --> 00:28:29,829 And you don't care that your policies have resulted in a murder? 626 00:28:29,889 --> 00:28:31,994 No. I see no reason to think that's true. 627 00:28:32,225 --> 00:28:35,536 You may change your mind when you're facing charges of obstruction of justice. 628 00:28:38,364 --> 00:28:40,105 If you think you can make that stick. 629 00:28:40,433 --> 00:28:42,071 I don't think I can. 630 00:28:42,935 --> 00:28:45,677 But I do know how this will play out on the Six O'Clock News. 631 00:28:45,738 --> 00:28:47,342 I like talking to reporters. 632 00:28:47,407 --> 00:28:48,613 They're so eager. 633 00:28:50,476 --> 00:28:54,117 I'll bring your proposal to the attention of my superiors. 634 00:28:58,584 --> 00:29:01,394 Who makes the best workers? Murderers? Rapists? 635 00:29:02,555 --> 00:29:04,159 Child molesters? 636 00:29:05,858 --> 00:29:06,893 (DOOR CLOSING) 637 00:29:07,260 --> 00:29:09,866 I told the police I have the only key. 638 00:29:10,830 --> 00:29:13,401 I can't help your case. Why would you want me to testify? 639 00:29:13,666 --> 00:29:15,407 The police don't believe you. 640 00:29:16,336 --> 00:29:17,815 Neither do I. 641 00:29:19,072 --> 00:29:21,552 If you had given your key to an inmate, 642 00:29:22,041 --> 00:29:23,315 would you lose your job? 643 00:29:23,376 --> 00:29:24,787 (SCOFFS) Of course I would. 644 00:29:24,844 --> 00:29:26,824 So you're between a rock and a hard place here, aren't you? 645 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,951 I would be if I'd given anybody the key. 646 00:29:30,049 --> 00:29:31,858 Are you aware somebody used your computer 647 00:29:31,918 --> 00:29:33,795 to send obscene and harassing e-mail 648 00:29:33,853 --> 00:29:35,764 to a young woman who was subsequently murdered? 649 00:29:35,822 --> 00:29:36,926 That's what I was told. 650 00:29:36,989 --> 00:29:40,334 Where were you on the night of February 2nd? That was a Friday. 651 00:29:42,094 --> 00:29:43,232 At my cabin in the Poconos. 652 00:29:43,596 --> 00:29:44,700 Alone? 653 00:29:45,365 --> 00:29:47,345 Yes. Did anybody see you? 654 00:29:49,268 --> 00:29:51,214 You're making it sound like I killed her. 655 00:29:51,270 --> 00:29:54,149 The phone records prove the e-mail was sent from your computer. 656 00:29:55,008 --> 00:29:56,043 I guess so. 657 00:29:56,109 --> 00:29:58,988 Well, if you're the only one with access to the computer, 658 00:29:59,045 --> 00:30:00,547 then you must've sent the e-mail. 659 00:30:00,613 --> 00:30:02,456 I'm ready to amend the indictment 660 00:30:02,515 --> 00:30:07,794 against Mr. Lowery to include you as an accomplice, unless you tell me the truth. 661 00:30:09,522 --> 00:30:13,732 Did Russell Lowery have access to your computer at Rawling prison? 662 00:30:14,827 --> 00:30:16,067 Mr. Wilson? 663 00:30:18,364 --> 00:30:19,570 Yeah. 664 00:30:20,166 --> 00:30:23,204 Should we tell Homebody Wilson's been siphoning money from the company? 665 00:30:23,302 --> 00:30:26,647 Lowery found evidence, and used it to blackmail Wilson. 666 00:30:26,706 --> 00:30:28,310 Poetic justice. 667 00:30:29,842 --> 00:30:32,846 The defense is moving to suppress the 911 tape. 668 00:30:35,481 --> 00:30:37,017 BLAKE: (ON TAPE) Get away from me! 669 00:30:37,083 --> 00:30:38,221 (BLAKE SCREAMING) 670 00:30:39,886 --> 00:30:42,093 The victim, in a state of panic, 671 00:30:42,622 --> 00:30:45,034 is describing a man breaking into her apartment. 672 00:30:45,892 --> 00:30:48,065 She identifies the intruder as "Giovanni." 673 00:30:48,127 --> 00:30:51,233 And you're seeking to introduce this as an identification 674 00:30:51,297 --> 00:30:53,299 of the defendant, Mr. Lowery? 675 00:30:53,366 --> 00:30:56,973 Yes, sir. Miss Blake had previously seen Mr. Lowery's mug shot. 676 00:30:57,637 --> 00:31:01,244 The police believed that he was the Giovanni who was stalking her. 677 00:31:01,974 --> 00:31:03,453 So what if the police believed it? 678 00:31:03,509 --> 00:31:05,511 Miss Blake couldn't ID the photo. 679 00:31:06,345 --> 00:31:10,259 The police never told Miss Blake the real name of the man in the picture. 680 00:31:11,017 --> 00:31:12,758 To her he was Giovanni. 681 00:31:13,386 --> 00:31:16,265 So when she identified her murderer by that name, 682 00:31:16,656 --> 00:31:19,660 it was as if she had said, "Russell Lowery is killing me." 683 00:31:19,725 --> 00:31:21,602 The problem is the tape is hearsay. 684 00:31:21,761 --> 00:31:24,105 This is a clear exception to the hearsay rule. 685 00:31:24,197 --> 00:31:27,007 Her statements are admissible as excited utterances. 686 00:31:27,567 --> 00:31:30,207 This does seem to be an exception, Mr. Minetti. 687 00:31:31,604 --> 00:31:33,914 The victim had no earthly reason to lie. 688 00:31:33,973 --> 00:31:36,453 I see no bar to admitting the tape. 689 00:31:36,509 --> 00:31:39,251 Mr. McCoy is leaving out one salient point, sir. 690 00:31:39,912 --> 00:31:41,323 Two weeks before she died, 691 00:31:41,380 --> 00:31:43,917 Miss Blake fabricated an attack on herself, 692 00:31:43,983 --> 00:31:46,190 and told the police that Giovanni did it. 693 00:31:46,485 --> 00:31:47,930 Is that true, Mr. McCoy? 694 00:31:47,987 --> 00:31:50,399 The police reports are attached to my papers, Judge. 695 00:31:55,361 --> 00:31:58,137 She threw herself down a flight of stairs? 696 00:31:58,197 --> 00:32:02,441 And she destroyed her own veracity by making the false accusation. 697 00:32:02,969 --> 00:32:05,279 The police concluded that she was desperate. 698 00:32:05,738 --> 00:32:07,775 No one would take her plight seriously. 699 00:32:07,874 --> 00:32:09,615 Everywhere she turned for help, 700 00:32:09,675 --> 00:32:12,451 she was sent away with a pat on the head and a "Don't worry about it." 701 00:32:12,512 --> 00:32:15,152 But she falsely accused Mr. Lowery? 702 00:32:15,214 --> 00:32:16,750 She didn't know Mr. Lowery. 703 00:32:17,049 --> 00:32:18,722 She accused Giovanni. 704 00:32:18,951 --> 00:32:21,090 It was only later that she was able to link the two, 705 00:32:21,154 --> 00:32:23,600 as she clearly did on the 911 tape, 706 00:32:23,656 --> 00:32:27,160 at a time when, as Your Honor says, she had no earthly reason to lie. 707 00:32:28,027 --> 00:32:30,598 Unfortunately, Mr. McCoy, the young woman is not here 708 00:32:30,663 --> 00:32:32,973 to clarify her state of mind. 709 00:32:33,533 --> 00:32:35,911 All we know is, she lied once, 710 00:32:36,602 --> 00:32:39,845 so we can no longer make a presumption of credibility. 711 00:32:40,473 --> 00:32:41,975 The tape is inadmissible. 712 00:32:43,509 --> 00:32:44,886 MINETTI: Thank you, Judge. 713 00:32:49,849 --> 00:32:51,419 I don't understand. 714 00:32:53,653 --> 00:32:55,564 It's a technicality, Mrs. Blake. 715 00:32:56,455 --> 00:32:58,867 The accused has the right to cross-examine his accuser, 716 00:32:58,925 --> 00:33:00,233 and in this case, he can't. 717 00:33:00,660 --> 00:33:02,230 Do you hear yourself? 718 00:33:03,029 --> 00:33:08,206 This person gets away with killing my daughter because he killed her. 719 00:33:08,934 --> 00:33:11,540 They really brainwash you people in law school, don't they? 720 00:33:11,604 --> 00:33:13,811 The protections are there for everyone. 721 00:33:13,873 --> 00:33:16,183 Sometimes it makes it harder for us to get a conviction. 722 00:33:19,979 --> 00:33:22,585 Andrea worked with Nurses Without Borders. 723 00:33:25,818 --> 00:33:27,195 She worked on her vacations, 724 00:33:28,587 --> 00:33:31,033 she worked to save children all around the world. 725 00:33:33,292 --> 00:33:35,795 But you don't give a damn about that, do you? 726 00:33:36,629 --> 00:33:39,803 All you care about is protecting the so-called rights 727 00:33:39,866 --> 00:33:41,675 of a maniac who killed her. 728 00:33:42,968 --> 00:33:43,969 (SIGHING) 729 00:33:44,370 --> 00:33:46,816 Why didn't anybody protect her rights? 730 00:33:48,207 --> 00:33:50,187 We're not giving up, Mrs. Blake. 731 00:33:53,646 --> 00:33:56,286 If you can't use the only evidence you have, 732 00:33:56,349 --> 00:33:58,226 what exactly are you planning to do? 733 00:34:02,955 --> 00:34:04,730 I don't disagree with her. 734 00:34:05,558 --> 00:34:09,005 Sometimes we're so intent on a grain of sand, 735 00:34:09,462 --> 00:34:10,941 we lose sight of the beach. 736 00:34:11,731 --> 00:34:15,838 Without the 911 tape, can you convince a jury 737 00:34:15,901 --> 00:34:18,313 that Lowery was the man coming through the window? 738 00:34:18,904 --> 00:34:20,906 There was no skin under her fingernails, 739 00:34:20,973 --> 00:34:22,919 and nobody's blood but hers at the scene. 740 00:34:22,975 --> 00:34:24,977 Whatever he did with his clothes and the knife, 741 00:34:25,044 --> 00:34:27,149 the police haven't found them. 742 00:34:27,213 --> 00:34:30,820 We can prove he's Giovanni, he's the cyber-stalker, that's about it. 743 00:34:31,384 --> 00:34:32,886 The tape was the only piece of evidence 744 00:34:32,952 --> 00:34:35,159 which identified Lowery as the killer. 745 00:34:35,221 --> 00:34:37,724 Without the connection, there is no case. 746 00:34:41,227 --> 00:34:43,264 I hear some judge threw out the tape. 747 00:34:44,764 --> 00:34:46,107 We're waiting for the other shoe to drop. 748 00:34:46,165 --> 00:34:47,269 Which is? 749 00:34:47,333 --> 00:34:49,609 Motion to dismiss. Which we're gonna lose. 750 00:34:49,669 --> 00:34:51,910 The tape's out 'cause she lied about the first attack? 751 00:34:51,971 --> 00:34:53,177 Yes. 752 00:34:53,472 --> 00:34:55,110 I don't think she lied. 753 00:34:55,374 --> 00:34:57,376 I think the guy pushed her down the stairs. 754 00:34:58,744 --> 00:35:00,519 Did it occur to you to mention this sooner? 755 00:35:00,580 --> 00:35:02,116 I didn't know there was gonna be a problem. 756 00:35:02,181 --> 00:35:04,923 Do you have anything besides an opinion based on hindsight? 757 00:35:04,984 --> 00:35:06,725 BRISCOE: Twenty-eight years experience. 758 00:35:07,420 --> 00:35:08,490 Why'd you change your mind? 759 00:35:11,324 --> 00:35:14,362 You saw the crime scene photos and you have to ask me that? 760 00:35:14,427 --> 00:35:17,203 We made a mistake and she paid for it. 761 00:35:17,563 --> 00:35:19,304 You understand the implications? 762 00:35:19,398 --> 00:35:21,674 Yeah, the defense has a police report 763 00:35:21,734 --> 00:35:23,509 that says the opposite of what I'm saying. 764 00:35:23,803 --> 00:35:27,307 Minetti will tear you to shreds on the stand, I can't stop it. 765 00:35:27,973 --> 00:35:29,577 I can make the case. 766 00:35:29,675 --> 00:35:31,052 Under oath? 767 00:35:33,412 --> 00:35:35,221 You set it up. I'll be there. 768 00:35:42,354 --> 00:35:44,027 We're indicting Lowery for attempted murder. 769 00:35:44,590 --> 00:35:46,228 For the incident on the stairs? 770 00:35:46,892 --> 00:35:49,532 I'm not sending Briscoe to the lions without backup. 771 00:35:50,930 --> 00:35:52,375 What about the police report? 772 00:35:52,498 --> 00:35:53,772 You heard the man. 773 00:35:55,134 --> 00:35:56,875 The police made a mistake. 774 00:36:02,541 --> 00:36:05,988 And there were injuries other than the ones from the fall. 775 00:36:06,045 --> 00:36:09,788 Miss Blake's neck was scratched, bleeding from where she'd been choked. 776 00:36:09,849 --> 00:36:12,489 Is there anything else to support your conclusion, Detective? 777 00:36:12,585 --> 00:36:16,123 The gold necklace used to choke her was totally mangled. 778 00:36:16,188 --> 00:36:17,633 Now, if you were gonna do that to yourself, 779 00:36:17,690 --> 00:36:19,601 you'd use a piece of cheap costume jewelry, 780 00:36:19,658 --> 00:36:21,695 not something that costs 300 bucks. 781 00:36:23,763 --> 00:36:27,404 My goodness, isn't this convenient for the prosecution's case? 782 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:29,679 How am I supposed to answer that? 783 00:36:29,869 --> 00:36:32,315 Why don't you give us your opinion, Detective Briscoe? 784 00:36:32,371 --> 00:36:34,078 That seems to be all you have to offer. 785 00:36:34,340 --> 00:36:39,085 Can we have less sarcasm, and more elucidation, Mr. Minetti? 786 00:36:39,311 --> 00:36:41,985 Detective Briscoe, did you really change your mind, 787 00:36:42,047 --> 00:36:44,960 or did you, in your zeal to convict my client, 788 00:36:45,017 --> 00:36:46,758 decide to commit perjury? 789 00:36:46,852 --> 00:36:48,160 JACK: Your Honor. 790 00:36:48,254 --> 00:36:50,791 I'd like to hear the answer, Mr. McCoy. 791 00:36:51,991 --> 00:36:55,939 I reinterpreted the evidence based on subsequent events. 792 00:36:55,995 --> 00:36:57,201 "Reinterpreted"? 793 00:36:57,263 --> 00:36:59,368 Is that the way you talk, Detective Briscoe? 794 00:36:59,431 --> 00:37:00,535 Have you been coached? 795 00:37:00,599 --> 00:37:04,911 Your Honor, Detective Briscoe approached the D.A.'s office, he was not coached. 796 00:37:05,571 --> 00:37:08,575 You're accusing a police detective of lying under oath, 797 00:37:08,641 --> 00:37:11,645 and two Assistant D.A.s of suborning perjury. 798 00:37:12,144 --> 00:37:14,351 Do you have anything to back up your charges? 799 00:37:14,413 --> 00:37:15,892 Yeah. His opinion. 800 00:37:15,948 --> 00:37:18,155 All right. That'll do, Detective Briscoe. 801 00:37:19,819 --> 00:37:21,321 Move on, Mr. Minetti. 802 00:37:21,954 --> 00:37:25,094 Detective Briscoe, didn't the landlord state 803 00:37:25,157 --> 00:37:28,195 that there was no way for an intruder to enter the building? 804 00:37:28,260 --> 00:37:32,072 I went back to the building, and rang several buzzers at random. 805 00:37:32,131 --> 00:37:35,374 An old lady buzzed me in. She thought I was the pizza she ordered. 806 00:37:35,434 --> 00:37:39,507 Did she buzz anyone in on the night of the first incident? Did anybody? 807 00:37:39,572 --> 00:37:40,642 Nobody admitted it. 808 00:37:40,706 --> 00:37:42,549 So the answer to that question is no. 809 00:37:42,608 --> 00:37:44,986 The answer is, he got in the building somehow. 810 00:37:45,044 --> 00:37:47,422 No. Not if the attack was faked. 811 00:37:47,479 --> 00:37:51,655 Didn't Miss Blake acknowledge by her behavior that she made this story up? 812 00:37:52,051 --> 00:37:53,052 No. 813 00:37:54,186 --> 00:37:57,099 The official police report says she did. I quote, 814 00:37:58,090 --> 00:38:00,696 "When he asked Miss Blake if she made up the story, 815 00:38:00,793 --> 00:38:02,204 "she burst into tears." 816 00:38:02,261 --> 00:38:04,104 Who wouldn't? She was terrified. 817 00:38:04,163 --> 00:38:06,439 And there we were accusing her instead of helping her. 818 00:38:06,498 --> 00:38:07,841 By ..we'.. you mean yourself, 819 00:38:07,900 --> 00:38:10,073 and your partner, Detective Curtis? 820 00:38:10,369 --> 00:38:11,404 Yes. 821 00:38:11,470 --> 00:38:14,474 Does Detective Curtis concur with your revised conclusion? 822 00:38:14,540 --> 00:38:15,644 As far as I know. 823 00:38:16,342 --> 00:38:18,379 Let's have a yes or no, Detective. 824 00:38:19,511 --> 00:38:20,581 Sure he does. 825 00:38:20,646 --> 00:38:23,422 She didn't stab herself six times and break her own neck. 826 00:38:23,616 --> 00:38:25,152 Nor did my client do that, Judge. 827 00:38:26,085 --> 00:38:27,689 Mr. McCoy, 828 00:38:28,254 --> 00:38:31,701 you've amended the indictment to include the attempted murder charge? 829 00:38:32,024 --> 00:38:33,059 Yes. 830 00:38:33,125 --> 00:38:34,229 MINETTI: Judge, that's a blatant attempt 831 00:38:34,293 --> 00:38:37,331 to give credence to Detective Briscoe's flip-flop. 832 00:38:37,396 --> 00:38:39,501 All right, Mr. Minetti, that's enough. 833 00:38:40,699 --> 00:38:43,145 You can bring this up again in front of the jury. 834 00:38:43,202 --> 00:38:45,876 I'm going to let them decide the victim's credibility. 835 00:38:46,372 --> 00:38:47,908 Tape's back in. 836 00:38:49,942 --> 00:38:53,116 Where the hell do you get off pulling a stunt like this? 837 00:38:53,212 --> 00:38:55,317 They were gonna dismiss the charges. 838 00:38:55,381 --> 00:38:57,554 So you lie to a judge? I didn't lie. 839 00:38:57,616 --> 00:39:01,860 I'm looking at the transcript, Lennie. You're an inch away from perjury! 840 00:39:01,921 --> 00:39:03,491 More like a foot, foot and a half. 841 00:39:05,324 --> 00:39:07,201 I am not laughing. 842 00:39:07,660 --> 00:39:11,039 How dare you go behind my back on something like this? 843 00:39:11,096 --> 00:39:12,473 We owe this girl something. 844 00:39:12,531 --> 00:39:15,671 We called her a liar and we sent her straight into Lowery's arms. 845 00:39:15,734 --> 00:39:18,112 Well, I don't think she lied, and that's what I said. 846 00:39:18,170 --> 00:39:20,172 And thanks to you, Lowery's gonna walk. 847 00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:22,515 What the hell is that supposed to mean? I stopped him from walking. 848 00:39:22,575 --> 00:39:24,418 What, for a couple of minutes? 849 00:39:24,476 --> 00:39:27,480 His lawyer just subpoenaed me to testify at the trial. 850 00:39:27,546 --> 00:39:29,150 For the defense! 851 00:39:29,215 --> 00:39:30,751 Fine. So back me up. 852 00:39:30,816 --> 00:39:33,956 One of my detectives lying under oath is more than enough. 853 00:39:34,019 --> 00:39:35,020 Thank you. 854 00:39:35,855 --> 00:39:37,266 That's it! 855 00:39:40,593 --> 00:39:42,334 I don't like being submarined. 856 00:39:42,394 --> 00:39:44,067 I got a right to my opinion. 857 00:39:44,129 --> 00:39:45,836 No. What you got is a lot of nerve, Lennie, 858 00:39:45,898 --> 00:39:48,105 making it sound like I agree with you, partner. 859 00:39:48,167 --> 00:39:51,478 It never occurred to me that you wouldn't, partner. 860 00:39:51,537 --> 00:39:53,039 What, you wanna see this scum bounce? 861 00:39:53,105 --> 00:39:55,312 I want to see him strapped down with a needle in his arm, 862 00:39:55,374 --> 00:39:57,980 but I'm not gonna perjure myself to make it happen! 863 00:39:59,178 --> 00:40:00,282 (SCOFFS) 864 00:40:05,784 --> 00:40:08,128 Curtis is standing by the original report. 865 00:40:10,456 --> 00:40:12,402 Briscoe said Curtis agreed with him. 866 00:40:12,458 --> 00:40:13,493 Another mistake? 867 00:40:13,559 --> 00:40:16,904 St Mark's Hospital wanted a copy of the police report after the first incident. 868 00:40:16,962 --> 00:40:18,805 They were gonna fire Blake if she made it up. 869 00:40:18,864 --> 00:40:20,571 And? Curtis said he'd handle it. 870 00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:22,170 And? 871 00:40:22,868 --> 00:40:24,108 She didn't get fired. 872 00:40:27,206 --> 00:40:29,345 I make notes of all my meetings, Miss Ross. 873 00:40:29,408 --> 00:40:31,547 I'll make notes of this one right after you leave. 874 00:40:31,610 --> 00:40:32,611 Here it is. 875 00:40:33,045 --> 00:40:35,548 "Detective Curtis, re: Andrea Blake." 876 00:40:35,681 --> 00:40:37,524 Did you ask him for a copy of the police report? 877 00:40:37,583 --> 00:40:39,187 Yes. As I told you, 878 00:40:39,251 --> 00:40:41,356 if Andrea Blake had made up these stalking stories, 879 00:40:41,420 --> 00:40:42,455 we would have fired her, 880 00:40:42,521 --> 00:40:45,900 and probably sued her for the cost of the extra security measures. 881 00:40:45,958 --> 00:40:48,598 Did Detective Curtis give you the report? No. 882 00:40:49,094 --> 00:40:50,869 He said the report would be available in litigation, 883 00:40:50,929 --> 00:40:52,806 but he didn't think we had cause to sue her. 884 00:40:52,865 --> 00:40:53,900 Did he say why? 885 00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:57,811 He said she was being stalked, and she did have reason to fear for her safety. 886 00:40:58,404 --> 00:41:00,145 Did he mention her tumble down the stairs? 887 00:41:01,140 --> 00:41:03,416 He told me the police had no incontrovertible evidence 888 00:41:03,475 --> 00:41:04,954 to show she made it up. 889 00:41:06,245 --> 00:41:08,486 Is Detective Briscoe telling us the truth? 890 00:41:08,914 --> 00:41:10,951 All he said was he changed his opinion. 891 00:41:11,016 --> 00:41:12,927 After the tape was suppressed. 892 00:41:12,985 --> 00:41:15,022 We'll never know when he changed his mind. 893 00:41:15,254 --> 00:41:16,790 I've got to go with what we've got. 894 00:41:16,855 --> 00:41:19,631 What you've got is two cops making us look like morons. 895 00:41:20,292 --> 00:41:22,203 Who are both trying to do the right thing. 896 00:41:22,261 --> 00:41:24,707 Their good intentions could cost us a conviction. 897 00:41:24,763 --> 00:41:26,436 Offer Lowery a plea. 898 00:41:26,498 --> 00:41:28,136 I did. Minetti turned it down. 899 00:41:28,634 --> 00:41:30,079 Then do something else. 900 00:41:37,009 --> 00:41:38,784 I only have one move left. 901 00:41:40,346 --> 00:41:42,292 Hang Rey Curtis out to dry. 902 00:41:43,248 --> 00:41:45,194 MINETTI: Detective Curtis, when you investigated 903 00:41:45,250 --> 00:41:47,992 what the prosecution calls the attempted murder, 904 00:41:48,053 --> 00:41:51,796 what evidence did you find that my client had ever been in Miss Blake's building? 905 00:41:53,158 --> 00:41:54,193 None. 906 00:41:54,259 --> 00:41:58,002 Did you find any evidence that my client had pushed Miss Blake down the stairs? 907 00:41:58,063 --> 00:41:59,133 No. 908 00:41:59,198 --> 00:42:02,975 Did you find any evidence that anybody pushed Miss Blake down the stairs? 909 00:42:03,469 --> 00:42:06,348 Well, the situation lent itself to various interpretations. 910 00:42:06,505 --> 00:42:09,179 I see. Your Honor, defense's number eight. 911 00:42:09,775 --> 00:42:12,415 Is this your report of the incident, Detective Curtis? 912 00:42:14,913 --> 00:42:16,893 Yes. And you concluded that 913 00:42:16,949 --> 00:42:19,361 Andrea Blake faked the attack in the building? 914 00:42:19,651 --> 00:42:20,686 I did. 915 00:42:20,753 --> 00:42:23,165 Do you still stand by your report? 916 00:42:26,658 --> 00:42:27,830 Yes, I do. 917 00:42:28,293 --> 00:42:30,796 Thank you, Detective Curtis. Nothing further, Judge. 918 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,876 Did your investigation conclude 919 00:42:37,369 --> 00:42:40,873 that Miss Blake was being stalked by a man using the name Giovanni? 920 00:42:40,939 --> 00:42:42,941 Yes. Did your investigation 921 00:42:43,275 --> 00:42:46,552 conclude that Russell Lowery and Giovanni were the same person? 922 00:42:47,112 --> 00:42:48,182 Yes. 923 00:42:48,247 --> 00:42:49,487 Did your investigation conclude 924 00:42:49,548 --> 00:42:53,826 that Miss Blake was in lethal, and immediate danger from her stalker? 925 00:42:53,886 --> 00:42:54,921 Not at first. 926 00:42:55,220 --> 00:42:58,030 At what point did you reach that conclusion, Detective? 927 00:42:58,524 --> 00:43:01,562 When you saw her lying dead on the ground 928 00:43:01,627 --> 00:43:04,164 of multiple stab wounds, and a broken neck? 929 00:43:04,863 --> 00:43:06,536 Did you make a mistake 930 00:43:07,466 --> 00:43:09,343 that cost the victim her life? 931 00:43:09,568 --> 00:43:11,741 Look, the police investigate crimes. 932 00:43:11,804 --> 00:43:13,806 Once we concluded there was no attempted murder, 933 00:43:13,872 --> 00:43:15,283 there was nothing to investigate. 934 00:43:15,374 --> 00:43:18,514 No. You concluded that no crime had been committed, 935 00:43:18,944 --> 00:43:21,925 and that she faced no serious threat from Mr. Lowery? 936 00:43:22,915 --> 00:43:23,916 Yes. 937 00:43:23,982 --> 00:43:29,364 But you told her employer that she was in danger from Giovanni? 938 00:43:31,924 --> 00:43:32,925 Yes. 939 00:43:32,991 --> 00:43:34,061 Did you lie? 940 00:43:34,126 --> 00:43:35,537 Look, I felt sorry for her. 941 00:43:35,594 --> 00:43:38,006 I didn't think that she should get fired from her job. 942 00:43:38,764 --> 00:43:40,607 Is that a yes? You lied? 943 00:43:45,070 --> 00:43:46,174 Yes. 944 00:43:46,438 --> 00:43:47,849 Are you lying now? 945 00:43:51,376 --> 00:43:52,548 No. 946 00:44:00,419 --> 00:44:01,989 I'm finished with this witness. 947 00:44:09,294 --> 00:44:11,205 Will the defendant please rise? 948 00:44:13,632 --> 00:44:16,704 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict? 949 00:44:17,169 --> 00:44:18,375 FOREWOMAN: Yes, Your Honor. 950 00:44:19,037 --> 00:44:21,677 On the charge of attempted murder, how do you find? 951 00:44:22,674 --> 00:44:24,551 We find the defendant guilty. 952 00:44:26,044 --> 00:44:28,888 On the charge of murder in the second degree, how do you find? 953 00:44:29,615 --> 00:44:31,094 We find the defendant guilty. 954 00:44:41,660 --> 00:44:44,664 I hope he stays in prison for a long time. 955 00:44:44,730 --> 00:44:47,176 We'll be asking for life without parole. 956 00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,175 Perhaps that's not much comfort. 957 00:44:50,702 --> 00:44:51,976 It helps. 958 00:44:54,940 --> 00:44:56,647 Beautiful day, huh? 959 00:44:59,545 --> 00:45:01,081 No hard feelings, Rey. 960 00:45:01,813 --> 00:45:03,759 I'm glad Lowery went down. 961 00:45:09,354 --> 00:45:10,628 You okay? 962 00:45:11,089 --> 00:45:12,762 I'm okay with what I did. 963 00:45:13,225 --> 00:45:14,966 I just hope you're okay, Lennie.