[door closes]
Whoa. Pat, help your brother with that tackle box.
Shotgun!
Nuh-uh. You had it last time.
So? I called it. And I'm the oldest.
Uh, Dad, you're still wearing your badge.
I don't think the fish will be impressed.
Very funny, wise guy.
Everyone buckled?
Buckled.
Me, too.All right, then.
[car alarm blaring]
[dog barking]
WOMAN: The beauty of this bracelet is it can be casual.
You could wear it for an elegant evening out.
Just look at this.
Unbelievable, the detail.WOMAN 2: Mm.
Just so beautiful.
WOMAN 2: Right here.WOMAN: Yep.
Just beautiful, and look how beautiful it looks layered.
Can you get a close-up on it?
MAN: Freeze! FBI! Don't move![child wails]
[crying]Stay where you are! Stay where you are!
Do not move!
WOMAN: Please, I-I need you to tell me where my son is.
And I need to go home.
MAN: Well, then just answer the question, Mrs. Doherty.
Where is your husband?
I told you, I don't know where he is.
I can only tell you where he was.
He-he was at dinner with his cousin.
He was gonna ask about a job.
When was the last time you spoke with him?
Earlier this evening.
I really need you to tell me where my son is
and that he's okay.
Does the name Jackson Miller mean anything to you?
He's the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division
of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives.
He was murdered
a few hours ago, along with his two little boys.
Car bomb.
You know anything about that, Alicia?
No, of course not.
Did your husband ever talk about making bombs,
Mrs. Doherty?
No.Is he a member of a group
called the '76 Righteous Crusaders?
I've never heard that name.
What about the Old World Army?
No. What are those?
T-Teams? Clubs?Did he ever talk about wanting
to hurt federal law enforcement?
Ever threaten to hurt anyone?
I need to see my son.
I need to see Max.
[door opens]
Hi, Mrs. Doherty. I'm Special Agent Easley.
I've been watching and listening
to you from the other room.
Now, I know you want to get out of here.
I know you want to see your little boy, and I really want
to make that happen. Okay.
Here's my problem.
You know this building?
Yeah.
You have a storage unit in this building,
don't you, Mrs. Doherty?
Yeah.
This your storage unit?
I-I think so.
It... it looks like it.
I-- I haven't been there in a long time.
It's the same number.
Hmm. NYPD went in there with a search warrant, all right?
Took them 20 minutes to take off all these locks here.
This is what they found.
See that?
Got enough firepower in there to take out half of Woodside.
I've never seen any of this before.
Where's your husband, Mrs. Doherty?
[crying]: I don't know!
BENNY: Got a U.S. senator on here.
The heads of the New York division
of both the FBI and Homeland Security.
You're looking at Adam Doherty's hit list?
[sighs]: Oh, yeah.
Almost a dozen names.
He was convinced the federal government
was out to murder its own citizens.
Said he wanted to "return the country
to the purity of its founding."
I hate to say it, but the more I learn about this guy,
the happier I am he died
in that police shoot-out.
How do you feel about representing his wife?
Well, let's not pretend we have a choice here.
When the Federal Defenders Office calls,
they're not asking.
Adam made me get the storage unit.
He said we had too much stuff.
So you rented the unit.
Did you know about the weapons?
No. Right after I rented it, Adam took the keys.
He said he didn't want me to lose them.
The one time I asked for them back--
I wanted to hang on to some of Max's baby things,
even though he'd outgrown them--
Adam, he...
What?
He choked me...
and knocked me down to the floor...
in front of my son.
Did you help your husband murder that ATF agent
and his two little boys?
Did he force you to help him?
Did you do it to...
protect yourself and your son?
I would never...
I could never hurt anyone.
And Adam knew that.
And I need you to believe me.
I had no idea what Adam was planning.
I swear.
Look, Alicia, according to the FBI,
your DNA was all over those homemade detonators
they found in the storage unit.
Adam had me buy him circuit boards and electrical tape.
He... he said he was gonna do freelance computer repairs.
I had no idea
he was using that stuff to make bombs.
BULL: Okay, but why are
the antigovernment militias and hate groups
that Adam mentions in his manifesto
on your computer's search history?
ALICIA:Have you ever been around someone
who believes something so hard you...
you start to think maybe you'rethe one who's crazy?
Adam would talk about the ATF stealing people's guns
to kill kids with.
And, I mean, in my mind I knew it was nuts,
but he was so certain, and so sometimes I...
I would google what he said
to see if maybe it was real.
The websites that came up, they...
they were crazier than he was.
So why not tell the FBI any of that?
I mean, they questioned you for hours that night,
and all you did was lie about Adam,
about his beliefs, about everything.
Why?
I didn't know he was dead.
I figured I still had to live with the man.
M-My son still had to live with the man.
[Alicia sniffles]
Did they tell you where he is?
My son?
'Cause they won't tell me.
Yes. He's been placed with a foster family,
pending the outcome of your trial.
I have to see him.
C-Can you make them let me see him?
We'll ask, but,
uh, you shouldn't get your hopes up, Mrs. Doherty.
In cases like this...If you can't get me to see him,
will you let whoever he's with now know
that he needs a night-light?
He can't sleep without a night-light.
A-And, then, even with a night-light,
sometimes you just have to hold him
while you watch television.
And that-that will get him to sleep, too.
Night-light, television.
We'll tell them.
Okay, Mrs. Doherty...
I'm sorry, I...
[sighs]
I've forgotten your names.
I'm Dr. Bull. This is Mr. Colón.
Bull. Colón.
A doctor of lies.
A perfume man.
Nice to meet you.
And thank you...
for your help.
♪
[knocking]
Hey!
Are we interrupting anything?
I was over at A.D.A. Kiehl's office,
and we were talking about you and the campaign,
and we were gonna call, and we realized
you're seven blocks away, so we walked.Benny.
No, no, come on in. Come on in.
KIEHL: First and foremost,
thanks for sending your sister my way.
She's got a hell of a Rolodex,
and that is gonna come in very handy
when it comes time to do some fundraising.
Well, Izzy's my name, and arm-twisting's my game.
So, you ready to have
a tough conversation?
What do you mean?What kind of tough conversation?
[sighs]: You need to know...
not everybody at the prosecutor's office
is exactly thrilled about your new client.
Oh. And why is that?
Well,
there's a lot of people that work over there--
yours truly included-- that want to endorse you.
And?And a lot
of those people are gonna have trouble
speaking up for a guy who's defending a terrorist.
Particularly when that guy
is running to be the city's top prosecutor.
"Miss Ammunition," huh?
Benny,I'm on your side.
You were my idea.
You know, maybe one of us can talk to Jason
and just see if you can sit this one out,
have him put Chunk on it.
No, no, no, no, no. I'm not doing that.
It's a really, really tough case.
This girl is in a hell of a jam.
She's a kid, a victim of abuse.
Lied to authorities.
It's her word against the government.
How can I walk away from that?
And you know she's innocent?
I have no clue.
I just know she needs me.
I can't stop doing the job I have now
just because I want a new one.
And hopefully,the voters will understand that,
and if they don't, then maybe I'm not their guy.
Well, it's not actually the voters
I'm worried about at the moment.
We're asking people to write some big checks,
volunteer their time, and we're already getting some pushback
with these headlines.
I don't know what to tell you.
Why don't we
just take a breath.
There's a long way till April,
there's a long way till Election Day,
and we even have some time before I have to do
any real arm-twisting.
Actually, we don't.
These next couple of weeks are about endorsements and money.
One gets you the other, and right now we have neither.
Well, you have my word that when the time comes,
I will get you all the money you need.
But for now, let's let the defender defend.
I mean, who knows,
maybe this whole...
innocent-till-proven-guilty thing will catch on.
And would you go so far as to say
that Mrs. Doherty hindered your investigation?
Absolutely.
She repeatedly made false or misleading statements
on the night of the bombing
about her husband's whereabouts,beliefs, behaviors.
She withheld information, even though we warned her
doing so could be putting innocent lives at risk.
And when you informed Mrs. Doherty
that her husband had been killedexchanging gunfire with police,
what was her reaction?
Uh, she burst into tears.
Completely inconsolable for a good ten minutes or so.
I guess that's to be expected from a grieving widow
who loved and supported her husband.
Objection!Counsel is testifying.
Sustained.
The jury will disregard the A.U.S.A.'s assertion.
YOUNG:Agent Easley, other than
the DNA and computer forensics you've detailed so far,
is there further evidence that Mrs. Doherty
knew of her husband's plansand assisted in their execution?
Yes. We actually have video
of Mr. and Mrs. Dohertyvisiting
and surveilling the scene of thecrime a week before the bombing.
Objection, Your Honor!
The defense has not heard of this video,
and it certainly hasn't been authenticated, either.
This is a clear violation of the rules of discovery.
Your Honor, the FBI was finally able
to decrypt Adam Doherty's phone late last night.
There was no time to turn it over
before Agent Easley took the stand.
But I know he can testify to the phone's chain of custody
and authenticate the video.
I'm gonna take you at your word, Ms. Young, and allow it.
Adam, look, it's Daddy!
Oh, now's your big chance. Are we gonna do it for Daddy?
Can you show him?
Adam, are you getting it?
[chuckles]: Adam, babe, are you getting it?
ADAM: Oh, yeah. Don't worry.
I got it all right.
I thought he was filming Max.
I-I was talking about Max.
He was doing a backwards roll like in his baby gym class.
Agent Easley.
[sucks teeth]
We all saw your video and we all heard your video.
And I got to tell you, I'm not sure I heard what you heard,
and I'm certainly not sure I saw what you saw.
Well, it is what it is.
Actually, I'm not so sure about that.
I mean, yes, Adam was photographing the home
of the ATF agent he ultimately killed.
The home, the car-- no doubt about that.
But isn't it possible that Mrs. Doherty had no idea
what he was actually filming?
Isn't it possible that when she said, "Are you getting it?"
she was actually referring to the backward roll
her three-year-old son was doing to impress his father?
Objection, Your Honor. Calls for speculation.
BENNY: I beg to differ, Your Honor.
My question requires no more speculation
than the AUSA's assertion that this video
somehow shows my client casing a crime scene.
Mr. Colón has a point.
The witness will answer the question.
I suppose it's possible.
Isn't it also possible that... [inhales, sighs]
...Alicia Doherty, uh,
thought she was just spending a beautiful day
at the park with her family?
Isn't it possible that she had no idea
what her husband was up to,
that he was simply using her and their child
as pawns in his depraved game?
I suppose anything is possible.
Anything's possible.
Thank you. No further questions, Your Honor.
Your Honor, may I be heard on redirect?
Go ahead.Agent Easley,
how far is that park from the Doherty apartment?
It's 45 minutes. Two subway rides.
Are there any closer parks for a family outing,
if that was indeed what Mrs. Doherty thought was going on?
Dozens. Which is why I'm all but certain
Alicia Doherty went to that specific park
for one reason and one reason only:
to help her husband plan a terrorist attack.
[quiet murmuring]
YOUNG: How long had your late husband been an ATF agent, Mrs. Miller?
21 years.
And how old were your little boys?
Patrick was 12.
Teddy was ten.
MARISSA: Wow. Even with no mirror jurors,
I can tell you from here they're all red.
Not a one of 'em on our side.
[quietly]: Marissa,
your job is to tell me what I don'tknow.
Now, tell me about the day it happened.
The day you lost your husband and your children.
Jack was late
coming home from work.
And the boys were... [chuckles softly]
...the boys were stir-crazy,
between school at home and not getting to see their friends.
So when...
When Jack took them...
...I was relieved.
Of course, now I-I wish...
I wish I would have never let them out the door.
[sniffles]
Uh...
I had just turned on the computer,
and there was... this flash.
It lit up the whole house.
The front windows shattering.
The SUV blowing apart.
And what I realize now was probably screaming.
Then I ran outside,
and there was just this heat.
A wall of fire and smoke.
And that smell.
And I knew that that smell was my babies.
[sniffles]
IZZY: Jason?
Try to contain your happiness, but... [sighs]
I have a feeling this whole "Benny for D.A." thing
is gonna go away.
Did you say something or was I dreaming?
I said I think this whole "Benny for D.A." thing
is just gonna evaporate.
Okay.
Well, can you help me out here?
Do you want me to cry or...
throw a party?
I just want to make you happy.
[sighs] I learned something today
in my new, voluntary campaign finance job.
Oh, gosh.
I'm... all ears.
Which actually isn't a very attractive look, but...
Endorsements beget contributions,
and contributions beget endorsements.
It's symbiotic.
Everybody wants to back a winner.
You know, the electorate sees
that someone gets an endorsement,
they want to contribute.
If the press,
opinion makers, fellow politicians see
that someone's raking in the finance money,
then they are happy to endorse.
Please don't take this the wrong way,
but I'm not sure that was worth waking up for.
No, I'm not done.
Nobody wants to endorse or contribute
to someone who defends a woman
who may very well have aided and abetted an anarchist
that killed three people,
two of them children.
I don't know what to tell you.
We're already into the trial.
I mean, even if I wanted to make a change--
throw Chunk in there, maybe--
I think the damage is done.
That's all you got for me?
No.
[grunts]
Do you mind if I share some words of wisdom
from this really beautiful Puerto Rican woman
I used to date, then married, then divorced,
then we had a child together but I plan on marrying her again?
I knew you were keeping secrets from me.
She always used to say--
And did I mention that she had this really successful company
that she sold for millions of dollars?
Something called a lifestyle company.
Which is essentially a fancy way of saying
that she would sell people products
they neverwould have thought that they needed,
but she convinced them that they weren't products--
they were essentials,
essentials they had to have.
Otherwise, their lives were completely meaningless.
Are you making fun of me?
Of my work?
She said...
every setback,
every potential disaster,
every product that hasn't been successfully sold
by some maverick maven
is an opportunity.
A roll of brown toilet paper is a very off-putting idea
until you show people how chic it can be
in a bathroom fitted with gold fixtures.
This isn't gonna work.
Quoting me to me?
That's just another form of marketing.
You're trying to...
compliment me out of my misery.
But, Izzy,
take a step back.
What your brother's doing is a very noble thing,
and you know that.
He believes in the justice system.
He believes everybody deserves their day in court.
There's got to be some way to turn that into a positive,
particularly for somebody running for D.A.
Hmm.
Should I give you the... digits
of that beautiful Puerto Rican girl I used to date?
Oh. Roll over.
Go back to sleep. [grunts]
Okay.
But only because you're making me.
[grunts]
RENFROW: We had my daughter Grace's
birthday party at this tots gym a few months back.
Gracie was so excited that Alicia brought Max.
She just adores him.
And the kids were having a great time.
That is, until Max's dad showed up.
You mean Adam Doherty?
Yeah. That's who I mean.
And what happened after Mr. Doherty showed up to the party?
He just...
went off on his wife.
On Alicia.
He started calling her words
that you should never use in front of children.
Words you should never use at all.
A lot of the kids were crying, and it was ugly.
BENNY:And do you recall, Mrs. Renfrow,
what, uh, Mr. Doherty was so angry about?
It was something about the car.
He was mad that Alicia had driven to the party.
Apparently, he had arranged to sell the car that day,
and when the buyer came to get it, it wasn't there.
Only Alicia didn't know that because he never told her.
Uh... [scoffs]
So, let me get this straight.
Mr. Doherty was going to sell the family's only car
and didn't tell his wife?
That's the way I heard it.
And when Alicia tried to remind him of that
to defend herself, he said of course he didn't tell her,
because she's too stupid to tell stuff to.
Objection, Your Honor. Hearsay.
I beg to differ, Your Honor.
The witness is testifying to what was said
in what was a very public display of temper.
She's not testifying as to the veracity
of the events themselves, only that they were
spoken about loudly in front of many adults and children.
Overruled.
"Too stupid to tell stuff to."
So let me ask you, Mrs. Renfrow,
does that sound like someone who would trust their wife
to help them plan a terrorist attack?Objection.
Calls for speculation, relevance, no foundation.
The list goes on, Your Honor.
Sustained. Watch it, Mr. Colón.
Forgive me, Your Honor.
I have no further questions.
Mrs. Renfrow, do you know a woman
by the name of Hannah Hinson?
Sure. She's my best friend at the office.
Did you ever discuss the defendant with your colleague?
Once, yes.
YOUNG:And what was the nature of this discussion?
W-Well, I needed some advice.
I mean, Alicia had asked me a pretty big favor,
and I wasn't sure how to respond.
What was the favor?
She asked if I would look after Max
if anything ever happened to her.
Objection. Hearsay.
No, it is not hearsay because it's not being offered
for the truth in the matter discussed,
but as evidence of Alicia Doherty's mental
and emotional state at the time.
I'm going to allow it.
You may continue, Ms. Young.
And when did Mrs. Doherty make this request, Mrs. Renfrow?
Sometime in early November, I think.
Early November.
Well, that's just before Adam Doherty
murdered Agent Miller and his little boys.
Sounds to me like Alicia knew what was coming.
Sounds to me like she was making plans
in case she got caught in the fallout.
BENNY: Objection.
Counsel is testifying, inflammatory.
It's not true, I swear.
HANCOCK: Objection sustained.
The jury will disregard
Ms. Young's assertions.
MARISSA: Oh, my.
Is this going as badly as it sounds?
No.
It's worse.
It had been a bad few days, so I promised Max
we could do something fun.
And I always used to love making
those snowflakes when I was a kid.
You-you know, the ones where you fold the paper
and you cut-cut out the pieces?
But I-I couldn't find the scissors,
so I started looking in Adam's desk, and that...
...that was a no-no.
No one was supposed to go near Adam's desk.
So I'm looking...
...and all of a sudden I feel something
pressed against my head...
...and it's Adam's gun.
And he cocks it
and he tells me that if I ever touch his stuff again,
he'll end me.
And I looked over and Max was standing in the doorway.
And he wasn't crying anymore, he was just staring at us,
at his dad and his mom and the gun.
[sniffles]
And that's why I asked Mrs. Renfrow
if she would look after Max.
I was just scared.
Adam had been acting really extreme lately.
A-And I... I don't know,
maybe I should have known that he was up to something,
but I just...Okay.
I'm gonna stop you right there, Alicia.
Don't second-guess yourself.
Don't say things like "I should have known."
I don't understand.
When you apologize or editorialize,
you're giving the prosecutor fuel for her cross-examination.
"How could you not know what your husband was up to?
You're his wife." Does that make sense?
Yeah, I guess so.
Okay. I know
it's been a long day, I know you're tired.
But this is our last chance
to prepare you for your testimony tomorrow.
And what I'd like to do is have Mr. Palmer here pretend
to be the A.U.S.A. cross-examining you.
Okay?
CHUNK: Then at 8:56 p.m.,
two and a half hours after the bomb detonated,
you placed a call to your husband. Why?
To see when he'd be home from dinner.
CHUNK:Well, if that's all that it was,
then why didn't you leave a message?
I-I don't know. I-I just didn't.
Are you sure that you weren't calling him to see
if he'd made his escape?
If everything had gone according to plan?
There was no plan.
I thought he was at dinner.
I didn't know what was going on.
I just thought he'd be home by 8:00 or-or 8:15,
and I hadn't heard from him.
So it's your testimony, then, that at the time that you placed
that call, you had no idea about the bombing?
Yes.Remember,
Ms. Doherty, you are under oath.
Is something the matter?
Can the other side tell what I was watching on TV?
I mean, could, like, the cable company tell them or something?
Is there a record somewhere?
Uh, why do you ask, Alicia?
The truth is, I didn't know what Adam was gonna do.
And I definitely didn't help him do it.
But that night, Max fell asleep
and-and I was flipping through channels and...
and a news report came on about an attack.
So I changed the channel right away because,
because I didn't want Max to wake up and see it.
But I heard "bombing," and I heard "ATF,"
and-and I don't know, I couldn't help it.
I thought that-that maybe...
You thought it might be Adam?
You thought that your husband was responsible for the attack,
and you decided to call him
and not the authorities?
What if he had been planning to hurt more people?
[crying]: I don't know.
I don't know-- I-I didn't know for sure that it was him.
And-and I thought that maybe I would call him
and-and he would be with his cousin
and everything would be fine.
But-but then he didn't answer and then suddenly the FBI
was at the door and it all just ha...
It all happened so fast.
You know what?
I think we can still put Alicia on the stand.
Now...
what she told us back there wasn't great,
but it doesn't materially change the case.
I mean, she didn't know about Adam's plans beforehand
or share his intent on committing that bombing,
so she's still not guilty of aiding and abetting.
BULL: Well,
technically, you are right, but I don't think
the letter of the law is gonna to save us here, Benny.
Jury's looking for someone to blame,
and if they hear that Alicia
was even slightly suspicious of Adam,
even if it was after the fact, I'm worried they will feel
that's reason enough to hold her accountable.
Come on, guys, she thinks her husband did it,
but she didn't call the police or tell the FBI
when they showed up?
I'm sorry. Game over. [chuckles]
I don't think the "It all happened so fast"
is gonna fly as an excuse.
Wait a second.
What time was the bombing?
Sometime around 6:30.
And what time did the FBI get to Alicia's house?
About 9:00.
Am I the only one who thinks that's awfully fast?
All rise for the honorable Judge Tia Hancock.
[door opens]
[speaking indistinctly]
[whispers]: You can sit right here.
HANCOCK: Mr. Colón,
you may call your next witness.
Yes, Your Honor. The defense would like to recall
FBI Agent Easley to the stand.
Agent Easley, you are part
of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, are you not?
I am.And I'm guessing, as part
of that task force, you are familiar
with the extremist group the '76 Righteous Crusaders?
Yes, I'm very familiar with them.
They're a paramilitary fringe group.
Organized mostly online.Ah.
And-- uh, what is it, exactly, that they stand for?
Well, the Righteous Crusaders idealize America
at the time of its founding.
They believe that since that time,
the ideas and principles upon which this country
was founded have, one by one, become eroded.
And that the federal government has become
increasingly more tyrannical over the last 200 years,
and that to be a true patriot is to take up arms against it.
So they incite violence, against their own government?
They do.
That sounds more like treason than patriotism.
[laughs softly] Well, that's why they're classified
as a terrorist organization.
And isn't it also true that the ATF
is a favorite target of this group?
Well, the Righteous Crusaders very much view
the ATF as a threat to the Second Amendment.
There's a lot of conspiracy theories revolving around
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
if you spend any time at all in these, uh,
Crusader chat rooms.
Ah, yes, the chat rooms.
Turn up the volume.
Here comes the good stuff.
Can't wait.
BENNY: Agent Easley...
...I have a transcript...
...of an online conversation
between Adam Doherty
and some members of the, uh, '76 Righteous Crusaders.
And in it, Adam writes--
and I'm quoting here--
"When are we gonna slaughter those murderous ATF bastards
"like the pigs they are?
"I'm going to bomb them to hell and back
"and make them rue the day
they perverted our country and all it stands for."
Then there's a response
from someone named "Minuteman 90."
Um, would you be so kind as to read that response for me?
"You, sir, are a true patriot.
"Death to the ATF.
"Be sure to hit me up.
"I can get you all the explosives
and firepower that you need."
Whoa.
"All the explosives and firepower you need."
Sounds like scary stuff.
You know what it also sounds like?
It sounds like Minuteman 90
and Adam Doherty were working together on something.
Maybe even had a hand in the very murders
we're talking about here today.
Which makes me curious.
You ever look into this guy?
This Minuteman 90?
You know, send out agents to talk to him?
Follow him? See what he's up to?
No, we did not.
Really? Huh.
Just sounds like such a no-brainer to me.
[laughs]
Here's something funny.
I had a cyber analyst I work with do some digging,
and she found the most amazing thing.
It turns out that several
of Minuteman 90's posts can be traced back
to an IP address at the FBI's New York field office.
Does that surprise you?
No.
Here's another funny thing.
The IP address associated
with those posts is actually registered...
to you.
[gallery and jury murmuring]
Isn't that right, Agent Easley?
He's so good at this stuff.
Yes, it is.
So how do you explain that, Agent Easley?
"Minuteman 90" is an online alias.
It's myonline alias.
I used it to go undercover to try
and infiltrate the Righteous '76 Crusaders online
so that the Bureau could have their eyes and ears
on the group, know what they were up to
and... and monitor potential bad actors.
And is that when you first became aware of Adam Doherty?
Yes.
Was he one of the bad actors
you were monitoring?
Yes, he was.
So, let's review.
You knew Adam Doherty wanted to build bombs
so as to wreak havoc on the government.
You knew he hated the ATF.
So in fact, isn't it true
that you knew so much about Adam Doherty,
that the second that bomb went off,
you knew exactly who set it?
I had a strong suspicion, yes.
Of course you did, because you'd been following him,
you had agents following him,
you saw him case the Miller home.
Isn't that right?
I asked you
a question, Agent Easley.
Isn't that why you were able to get a warrant
less than two and a half hours after it happened,
and go to his house
and break down his door?
Yes.
So explain something to me and the jury.
If you knew all of this,
then why didn't you arrest Adam Doherty
before he killed Agent Miller and those two little boys?
Before Monica Miller lost her entire family?
Before we all ended up here?
Objection! Agent Easley is not the one on trial here.
Well, maybe he should be!
Objection overruled.
The counsel
for the defense will ask the question one more time,
and the witness will answer it.
Agent Easley,
why in the world did you not arrest Adam Doherty
before he killed Agent Miller and his two young sons?
Because we couldn't.
Because as disturbing as Doherty's threats were
online in that chat room,
they were vague enough to be under the safety net
of constitutionally-protected speech.
That's why I was attempting
to try and sell him those explosives in that conversation.
I wanted to get him on something solid,
something that would stick in a court of law.
But ultimately, he-he wouldn't make a deal.
And without him actually buyingthe contraband,
we didn't have enough to bring him in on.
And I... and I convinced myself then,
since he wasn't able
to buy the explosives that he was looking for,
that he... that he couldn't really do any harm.
And clearly, I was wrong.
BENNY: Okay. Let's talk about
the, uh, woman on trial here,
his wife.
On what basis did you arrest her?
She was his wife.
It was her storage unit, and
it was her fingerprints we found on some of the bombs.
All made from components she freely admitted under oath
to purchasing without having any knowledge
of what they were going to be used for.
So she says.Okay.
So she says. So, you know what?
Now the burden falls on you.
Agent Easley, do you have a single piece
of concrete evidence that supports your assertions
against my client?
Do you have a single piece
of surveillance video that indicates
she's visited the storage unit in the last 18 months?
No.
The testimony of a single agent that followed her there?
No.
Come on. Something!
A-a-a text? A-a-a cell phone transcript?
A single piece of physical proof that indicates
she had anything at all to do with this?
No, I do not.
[sniffles]
Your Honor,
the defense rests.
Alicia Doherty is charged with aiding
and abetting her husband. That means
she's charged with knowingly helping him
commit his heinous crime.
Now, ladies and gentlemen
of the jury, I've been sitting in this courtroom
every day single day alongside of you, and I've heard
nothing that proves beyond a reasonable doubt
that Alicia had any idea what it was that Adam was planning.
I mean, she didn't know what was on that tape in the park.
She didn't know what was in the storage unit.
And she certainly didn't know about the plans
he was hatching online with his fellow extremists.
So what didshe know? Did she know
her husband believed in conspiracy theories
and belonged to extremist groups? Yes.
Do you know who else knew?
The FBI.
Did she know her husband hated the ATF?
Yes, of course she knew that.
But you know who else knew that?
That's right.
The FBI.
Now here's the big one.
Did she know her husband was getting ready
to plant a bomb underneath the family car of an ATF agent?
No, she did not.
In fact, the only person
who might have known that was Minuteman 90.
And as you heard him testify,
he didn't believe Adam Doherty had the explosives material
to pull off the things he was threatening to do.
So, he kept the information to himself.
[sighs]
Ladies and gentlemen, the only person we can blame
for the deaths of Agent Miller
and his two little boys is already dead.
Sure. Yeah, we can be critical of the FBI,
with all of their expertise and resources,
for not doing more to stop this madman.
But you cannot blame my client.
Because all that would accomplish would be
to add Alicia and her three-year-old boy
to a parade of innocent victims, both living and dead,
who have already suffered at the hands
of this misguided zealot and his heinous crime.
And if that's not enough
to convince you to vote "not guilty,"
remember that-that... that monstrous government?
That terrible country
that Adam Doherty was striking out against?
Well, in that place we all call "the United States of America,"
in that country,
we are all innocent until proven guilty.
And ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
nothing has been proven here today.
Except, hopefully, Alicia Doherty's innocence.
Thank you for listening.
[quiet murmuring]
Guy's good, isn't he?
And if I lose him to the D.A.'s office, then...
MAX: Mommy!
[gasps]
Mommy!Oh. [cries]
Thank you. Thank you so much.
You are very, very welcome.
Okay. Let's... Oh.
Ah. Oh!
Congrats on the verdict.
And what are you doing here?
I saw an opportunity, and I took it.
Quoting me to me? How dare you.
This is my new friend,
Vincent Moreau from the New York Ledger.
And what did you say the title of the editorial
that you're writing for tomorrow's paper's gonna be?
"Why Benjamin Colón is the Right and Just Choice
for Manhattan's District Attorney."
Oh, my goodness. [laughs]
Is the Ledgerendorsing my candidacy?
New York needs a man like you.
Very impressive, Ms. Colón.
[whispers]: I hate you.
[laughs] You're making me blush.
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