1 00:00:02,100 --> 00:00:03,841 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:03,902 --> 00:00:07,748 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:07,806 --> 00:00:09,683 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:09,741 --> 00:00:12,517 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:12,577 --> 00:00:13,783 These are their stories. 6 00:00:15,313 --> 00:00:18,089 The regular doorman always lets me deliver to the front door. 7 00:00:18,149 --> 00:00:19,594 Too bad he's not on duty today. 8 00:00:19,651 --> 00:00:21,153 Hey, look, I'm running a little late here. 9 00:00:21,219 --> 00:00:23,495 Well, then you're gonna have to hurry around to the service entrance. 10 00:00:23,555 --> 00:00:25,626 Come on, I'm trying to make a living here. MAGGIE: Leave me alone! 11 00:00:25,691 --> 00:00:27,295 So am I. (CRASHING) 12 00:00:27,359 --> 00:00:28,360 WOMAN 1: My God! 13 00:00:31,330 --> 00:00:32,468 MAN 1: Get an ambulance! 14 00:00:34,767 --> 00:00:37,509 I just heard the crash. I didn't see anything before that. 15 00:00:37,770 --> 00:00:38,840 Okay. 16 00:00:38,904 --> 00:00:41,180 She shot out in front of me, scared-like. 17 00:00:42,842 --> 00:00:44,788 Scared, huh? Yeah. Looking behind her. 18 00:00:44,844 --> 00:00:46,983 Looked like she was running away from somebody. 19 00:00:47,046 --> 00:00:48,218 Did you see anybody with her? 20 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:50,487 I barely saw her till I hit her. 21 00:00:50,549 --> 00:00:52,153 Take a look at who it is. 22 00:00:52,218 --> 00:00:53,788 Margaret Abbott. 23 00:00:53,853 --> 00:00:55,628 The Margaret Abbott? Maggie Abbott. 24 00:00:55,688 --> 00:00:58,066 Oh, my God. I killed Maggie Abbott. 25 00:00:58,124 --> 00:01:00,866 Found this button on the sidewalk. It was torn off her sweater. 26 00:01:00,926 --> 00:01:03,668 Aside from the expected bruises and broken bones, 27 00:01:03,729 --> 00:01:06,505 she had a contusion around her wrist. Like somebody grabbed her. 28 00:01:06,565 --> 00:01:07,635 Mugging... 29 00:01:07,700 --> 00:01:10,408 She was still wearing a diamond tennis bracelet on her other wrist. 30 00:01:10,469 --> 00:01:13,780 Pocketbook was found on the sidewalk. Credit cards, 20 bucks. 31 00:01:13,839 --> 00:01:16,513 Hudson University Law faculty card. 32 00:01:16,576 --> 00:01:18,419 She was just appointed to the appellate court. 33 00:01:19,112 --> 00:01:20,785 Looks like she ran out of appeals. 34 00:02:11,199 --> 00:02:13,509 WARREN: I talked to Maggie just after lunch. 35 00:02:15,536 --> 00:02:19,006 We'd made plans to go out to the island early this weekend. 36 00:02:20,508 --> 00:02:21,646 (SIGHS) 37 00:02:23,077 --> 00:02:25,353 She just walked in front of a car? 38 00:02:25,413 --> 00:02:26,551 It was a cab. Right. 39 00:02:26,614 --> 00:02:29,026 The driver thinks she may have been chased into the street. 40 00:02:30,184 --> 00:02:33,165 Somebody deliberately what? 41 00:02:33,221 --> 00:02:36,395 Somebody killed Maggie? 42 00:02:36,457 --> 00:02:37,800 We don't know. 43 00:02:37,859 --> 00:02:40,066 Mr. Abbott, the police are canvassing the area. 44 00:02:40,127 --> 00:02:42,164 They're doing everything that can be done. 45 00:02:42,230 --> 00:02:44,369 Your brother's taking the first flight out of Heathrow. 46 00:02:44,432 --> 00:02:45,911 Did you reach Annie? No. 47 00:02:45,967 --> 00:02:48,174 I left a message at the senator's office. 48 00:02:48,236 --> 00:02:49,237 Okay. 49 00:02:50,104 --> 00:02:51,174 I'm sorry. 50 00:02:52,039 --> 00:02:53,882 If the D.A.'s office can be of any help... 51 00:02:53,941 --> 00:02:55,147 (WHISPERS) Thank you. 52 00:02:55,209 --> 00:02:57,655 Mr. Abbott, if you don't mind, 53 00:02:57,712 --> 00:02:59,420 there's a couple of things we'd like to clear up. 54 00:02:59,948 --> 00:03:00,949 All right. 55 00:03:01,183 --> 00:03:03,857 Was your wife having any problems? At work? At home? 56 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,593 She was busy. It's the end of the school year. 57 00:03:07,322 --> 00:03:10,201 And then there's the whole circus surrounding her nomination. 58 00:03:10,259 --> 00:03:13,365 Has she received any threats? Strange calls? 59 00:03:13,428 --> 00:03:16,170 You mean, did she have any enemies? 60 00:03:16,231 --> 00:03:19,644 Detective, pick up a copy of the New York Ledger. The Press. 61 00:03:19,701 --> 00:03:21,237 The right wing nuts in this town 62 00:03:21,303 --> 00:03:23,010 were determined to block her appointment. 63 00:03:23,071 --> 00:03:26,018 But do I think they would have killed her? No. 64 00:03:26,441 --> 00:03:28,079 BRISCOE: What about your marriage? 65 00:03:28,143 --> 00:03:29,781 If the people who hated her didn't kill her, 66 00:03:29,845 --> 00:03:31,552 then the people who loved her did? 67 00:03:31,613 --> 00:03:33,422 Is that what you're asking? 68 00:03:33,482 --> 00:03:36,759 We're sorry, Mr. Abbott, but we have to ask these kind of questions. 69 00:03:36,818 --> 00:03:38,559 So, you were here at work all day? 70 00:03:38,620 --> 00:03:40,293 Except for lunch, yes. 71 00:03:40,355 --> 00:03:41,698 BRISCOE: Where'd you go for lunch? 72 00:03:41,757 --> 00:03:43,031 The Yale Club. 73 00:03:43,825 --> 00:03:45,600 Forgive me, but I want to see my daughter, 74 00:03:45,661 --> 00:03:48,369 so she doesn't hear what happened from someone else. 75 00:03:48,764 --> 00:03:50,108 BRISCOE: Thank you. 76 00:03:51,868 --> 00:03:53,609 In just 30, 40 minutes, 77 00:03:53,670 --> 00:03:57,174 this guy's assistants called every area code in the northern hemisphere. 78 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:58,685 Well, when you're through being impressed, 79 00:03:58,741 --> 00:04:00,311 can you connect him up to this? 80 00:04:00,376 --> 00:04:01,753 At the time his wife was killed, 81 00:04:01,811 --> 00:04:03,154 he says he was at the Yale Club. 82 00:04:03,212 --> 00:04:05,123 They confirm he came in. Had a salad. 83 00:04:05,181 --> 00:04:07,525 Couldn't pinpoint the time or how long he stayed. 84 00:04:07,583 --> 00:04:08,960 And the wife? 85 00:04:09,018 --> 00:04:11,624 As far as we know, she was on her way home from Hudson Law. 86 00:04:11,688 --> 00:04:14,259 She put up a fight? Anything under her fingernails? 87 00:04:14,324 --> 00:04:15,860 M.E.'s still working it up. 88 00:04:16,626 --> 00:04:20,199 Maggie Abbott. This one's going to be a mess. 89 00:04:23,333 --> 00:04:24,471 Lennie. 90 00:04:25,768 --> 00:04:26,769 How you doing? 91 00:04:30,139 --> 00:04:31,584 It doesn't get better. 92 00:04:32,241 --> 00:04:33,379 I can imagine. 93 00:04:34,577 --> 00:04:35,578 Thanks. 94 00:04:41,852 --> 00:04:43,889 Marrying into that family, you know you're going to be the focus 95 00:04:43,954 --> 00:04:45,991 of a certain amount of attention. 96 00:04:46,523 --> 00:04:48,093 But recently it seemed to be getting to her. 97 00:04:48,525 --> 00:04:50,505 We heard she liked to stir the pot. 98 00:04:50,561 --> 00:04:53,770 Even people who violently disagreed with her respected her. 99 00:04:53,831 --> 00:04:57,608 What about her relations with the students, the other faculty? 100 00:04:57,901 --> 00:04:59,676 Romantic attachments? 101 00:04:59,737 --> 00:05:02,047 She wasn't the kind of person to make that kind of mistake. 102 00:05:02,106 --> 00:05:03,881 What kind of mistake would she make? 103 00:05:03,941 --> 00:05:05,249 Maggie had a good marriage. 104 00:05:05,509 --> 00:05:08,012 She was ambitious. Had big plans. 105 00:05:08,078 --> 00:05:10,524 Best legal mind I've come across in 40 years. 106 00:05:10,881 --> 00:05:15,057 You said that it started to get to her. Anything in particular? 107 00:05:15,319 --> 00:05:19,028 I don't know. She just didn't seem like her old self. 108 00:05:21,392 --> 00:05:23,838 "Maggie Abbott, feminist hypocrite." 109 00:05:23,894 --> 00:05:25,430 Small potatoes. How about this? 110 00:05:25,496 --> 00:05:27,806 "Bloody Maggie attacks pro-life rally." 111 00:05:27,865 --> 00:05:28,866 "Bloody Maggie-" 112 00:05:29,533 --> 00:05:33,277 Maggie at the opera. Leaving some fashion show. 113 00:05:34,239 --> 00:05:35,912 Even at her kid's school play. 114 00:05:36,408 --> 00:05:38,854 Here's a shot of her skinny dipping off their yacht. 115 00:05:38,910 --> 00:05:41,083 Imagine, everywhere you go, everything you do. 116 00:05:41,613 --> 00:05:43,650 And if her name was Maggie Jones? 117 00:05:43,715 --> 00:05:45,319 Here's something different. 118 00:05:45,383 --> 00:05:47,590 "Iron Maggie's broken heart." 119 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,994 "The latest appellate court nominee appeals to her husband, 120 00:05:52,057 --> 00:05:53,536 "'Leave the interns alone."' 121 00:05:55,393 --> 00:05:56,804 "Phil Marco's New York." 122 00:05:56,861 --> 00:05:57,999 I never read it. 123 00:05:58,696 --> 00:05:59,936 I bet Maggie did. 124 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,708 Tell you the name of the intern? Are you kidding? 125 00:06:04,769 --> 00:06:06,749 Mr. Marco, we're trying to solve a homicide. 126 00:06:06,805 --> 00:06:08,375 Yeah. Well, solve it without my sources. 127 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,351 You got this item from the intern herself? 128 00:06:10,408 --> 00:06:11,910 Look, I don't have anything to tell you 129 00:06:11,976 --> 00:06:13,546 about the story or the Abbotts, 130 00:06:13,611 --> 00:06:18,082 or the unfortunate death of Mrs. Abbott. Now, I have a deadline. 131 00:06:18,149 --> 00:06:20,823 It's going to be kind of hard to make it from our interrogation room. 132 00:06:20,885 --> 00:06:22,365 Oh, you pull me in for questioning, 133 00:06:22,421 --> 00:06:24,765 and I run tomorrow's column blank 134 00:06:24,824 --> 00:06:27,395 with a headline that it was delayed by a couple of storm troopers 135 00:06:27,460 --> 00:06:30,168 with an uncertain grasp of the constitution. 136 00:06:30,229 --> 00:06:32,368 It'll be a big boost to circulation. 137 00:06:32,998 --> 00:06:35,000 So pull me in, Detective. I would love it. 138 00:06:39,905 --> 00:06:42,351 Oh, I'm sorry. Mr. Abbott isn't in the office today. 139 00:06:42,408 --> 00:06:44,388 I'd be happy to leave a message that you called. 140 00:06:44,443 --> 00:06:46,787 We didn't come here to talk to him. 141 00:06:46,846 --> 00:06:48,257 Well, who would you like to talk to? 142 00:06:48,314 --> 00:06:49,520 We'll start with you. 143 00:06:50,549 --> 00:06:51,687 I don't think so. 144 00:06:51,750 --> 00:06:53,752 This story about Mr. Abbott and the intern... 145 00:06:53,819 --> 00:06:54,889 Look, I'm busy. 146 00:06:54,954 --> 00:06:56,331 CURTIS: What do you know about it? 147 00:06:56,388 --> 00:06:59,369 The day I got this job, the first thing they told me, you know what it was? 148 00:06:59,425 --> 00:07:03,066 Yeah. Don't get pulled in for questioning about your boss's wife's death. 149 00:07:04,029 --> 00:07:08,171 Now, listen to this. You tell us, we don't tell anybody. 150 00:07:08,234 --> 00:07:10,544 You don't tell us, we tell your boss 151 00:07:10,603 --> 00:07:12,173 we have to bring you downtown. 152 00:07:12,238 --> 00:07:13,877 Then you lose your job. 153 00:07:15,642 --> 00:07:17,417 But you can't tell anyone it came from me. 154 00:07:20,747 --> 00:07:24,126 Julianne Lowry. When the news got out, she left. 155 00:07:25,852 --> 00:07:27,354 Thanks. 156 00:07:28,789 --> 00:07:30,735 I don't know how that rumor got started. 157 00:07:30,790 --> 00:07:32,269 How do any rumors get started? 158 00:07:32,325 --> 00:07:33,668 So there was nothing to it? 159 00:07:33,727 --> 00:07:37,004 Mr. Abbott's wife was one of my professors at law school. My mentor. 160 00:07:37,063 --> 00:07:39,100 She got me the internship at Abbott, Mitchell and Crowe. 161 00:07:39,166 --> 00:07:41,077 Then why leave, Miss Lowry? 162 00:07:41,134 --> 00:07:43,307 Mr. Abbott said, given what his wife was going through, 163 00:07:43,370 --> 00:07:46,180 he had to avoid even the appearance of anything improper. 164 00:07:46,239 --> 00:07:48,549 Do you know how his wife took that article? 165 00:07:48,608 --> 00:07:49,678 I've gotta get back to work. 166 00:07:49,743 --> 00:07:52,519 Your new job, clerking for a judge. 167 00:07:52,579 --> 00:07:55,423 That's a pretty big step up for somebody still in law school. 168 00:07:55,482 --> 00:07:57,689 It's part-time, and I'm very good at what I do. 169 00:07:57,751 --> 00:07:59,731 Did Mr. Abbott help you with a recommendation? 170 00:07:59,786 --> 00:08:01,163 If you had an affair with Warren Abbott, 171 00:08:01,221 --> 00:08:03,634 maybe it had something to do with Mrs. Abbott's death. 172 00:08:03,691 --> 00:08:06,262 Maybe you could end up an accomplice. 173 00:08:06,327 --> 00:08:07,829 Did you tell that to Warren? 174 00:08:09,297 --> 00:08:12,608 I didn't think so. You'd better talk to my lawyer. 175 00:08:12,667 --> 00:08:14,112 You have a lawyer? 176 00:08:14,168 --> 00:08:15,613 I'll get one if I have to. 177 00:08:19,740 --> 00:08:20,878 REPORTER 1: There he is! 178 00:08:20,942 --> 00:08:22,012 Mr. Abbott? REPORTER 2: Come on. Let's go! 179 00:08:22,076 --> 00:08:23,180 Checking back in? 180 00:08:23,911 --> 00:08:25,686 What are you talking about? The suitcases. 181 00:08:25,746 --> 00:08:26,952 REPORTER 1: Come on, guys! 182 00:08:27,014 --> 00:08:29,187 Reporters were camped outside. 183 00:08:29,250 --> 00:08:30,923 Yesterday I stayed at a hotel. 184 00:08:30,985 --> 00:08:32,623 You sure it wasn't more like two weeks ago? 185 00:08:32,687 --> 00:08:35,395 When the news broke about you and your intern friend? 186 00:08:35,456 --> 00:08:37,231 We can check with the hotel. 187 00:08:37,725 --> 00:08:40,831 Maggie and I both decided to go to a hotel. 188 00:08:40,895 --> 00:08:43,205 You both stayed there? We can check that, too. 189 00:08:43,698 --> 00:08:45,109 You do whatever you have to. 190 00:08:45,166 --> 00:08:48,079 I'm not quite done. About you and this intern... 191 00:08:48,135 --> 00:08:51,412 She's a child, for Christ's sake. Now, I'm done. 192 00:08:52,807 --> 00:08:55,584 (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) 193 00:08:56,645 --> 00:08:58,750 The staff at the hotel remember Mr. Abbott. 194 00:08:58,814 --> 00:09:00,293 But they don't remember Mrs. Abbott. 195 00:09:00,349 --> 00:09:01,692 Do they remember Miss Lowry? 196 00:09:01,750 --> 00:09:05,095 No. But room service put a couple of dinners for two on his tab. 197 00:09:05,153 --> 00:09:08,999 Unless it was champagne and strawberries, I wouldn't jump to any conclusions. 198 00:09:09,057 --> 00:09:11,298 My hunch is we're looking at a Staten Island divorce. 199 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:13,237 Wham, bam, no muss, no fuss. 200 00:09:13,295 --> 00:09:15,206 A guy like that? A place that public? 201 00:09:15,264 --> 00:09:16,868 You think he'd take the chance? 202 00:09:16,932 --> 00:09:18,741 It's more private than the Oval Office. 203 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,212 M.E.'s report, nothing under Mrs. Abbott's nails. 204 00:09:21,270 --> 00:09:23,682 But there was chlorine residue on her skin and hair. 205 00:09:23,739 --> 00:09:24,945 Swimming pool? 206 00:09:25,007 --> 00:09:27,544 Well, she had a gym card in her wallet a block from where she was killed. 207 00:09:27,609 --> 00:09:28,679 Hmm. 208 00:09:29,711 --> 00:09:32,487 I can't believe it. She worked out with Matt until 2:00 209 00:09:32,547 --> 00:09:34,993 and then she did her usual 20 laps in the pool. 210 00:09:35,050 --> 00:09:36,961 What happened? She leave alone? 211 00:09:37,019 --> 00:09:39,659 I didn't see her leave, but that weenie from the Ledger, Phil Marco, 212 00:09:39,721 --> 00:09:41,598 was in here looking for her earlier. 213 00:09:41,657 --> 00:09:42,795 The gossip columnist? 214 00:09:42,858 --> 00:09:43,962 We get a lot of celebs. 215 00:09:44,259 --> 00:09:46,467 Last month we found him sleazing around here for a story, 216 00:09:46,529 --> 00:09:48,338 trying to sneak a photographer in here. 217 00:09:48,398 --> 00:09:51,470 When he asked for Mrs. Abbott, did he say why he wanted to see her? 218 00:09:51,534 --> 00:09:54,276 No. But he asked if I'd like a 20 to let him in. 219 00:09:54,604 --> 00:09:56,413 You take it? Of course. 220 00:09:56,472 --> 00:09:58,281 You let him in? Are you kidding? 221 00:09:58,341 --> 00:10:00,014 He was out of here real fast. 222 00:10:00,076 --> 00:10:03,057 Not his choice. I can be very persuasive. 223 00:10:04,247 --> 00:10:06,227 I hope you're finished. MARCO: Just... 224 00:10:08,651 --> 00:10:10,597 A warrant? Am I under arrest? 225 00:10:10,653 --> 00:10:13,327 You're a material witness in the death of Margaret Abbott. 226 00:10:13,389 --> 00:10:14,868 Put that in your column. 227 00:10:18,127 --> 00:10:19,128 All right. Let me get this straight. 228 00:10:19,195 --> 00:10:21,573 I ask to talk to somebody at a gym, 229 00:10:21,631 --> 00:10:24,168 and this somehow makes me involved in that somebody's death? 230 00:10:24,233 --> 00:10:28,306 You're involved because you forgot to tell us that you were at the somebody's gym. 231 00:10:28,371 --> 00:10:30,351 You talk to Mrs. Abbott when she came out? 232 00:10:30,406 --> 00:10:31,714 She was dodging my phone calls. 233 00:10:31,774 --> 00:10:34,516 Once more. You talk to Mrs. Abbott when she came out? 234 00:10:34,577 --> 00:10:36,114 No. I left before. 235 00:10:36,180 --> 00:10:37,955 BRISCOE: What'd you want to talk to her about? 236 00:10:38,015 --> 00:10:40,291 I wanted to confirm something I was gonna run in Sunday's column. 237 00:10:40,351 --> 00:10:42,092 CURTIS: What? Look, I don't have to tell you. 238 00:10:42,152 --> 00:10:44,257 Where did you go when you left the gym? 239 00:10:44,321 --> 00:10:46,358 I grabbed a cab, headed down to the Trattoria. 240 00:10:46,423 --> 00:10:49,461 I had a lead on another story. Much bigger, believe me. 241 00:10:49,526 --> 00:10:51,506 You want to tell us about that? 242 00:10:51,562 --> 00:10:55,203 Bebe Vaughn. She was giving a birthday party for her hairdresser's niece. 243 00:10:55,265 --> 00:10:57,370 She'll confirm that you talked to her? 244 00:10:57,434 --> 00:11:01,314 I couldn't get through Bruder. Her manager. Alan Bruder. A real Visigoth. 245 00:11:06,043 --> 00:11:08,990 Marco? Yeah. He slithered in. 246 00:11:09,046 --> 00:11:10,150 CURTIS: What time? 247 00:11:10,214 --> 00:11:15,163 We got there at 2:00, I don't know. It might have been a half hour later. 248 00:11:15,219 --> 00:11:16,289 Sit down. 249 00:11:16,353 --> 00:11:17,423 Can't pin it down, huh? 250 00:11:17,488 --> 00:11:18,523 No. It's a zoo. 251 00:11:18,589 --> 00:11:22,332 Between the fans, paparazzi, and Bebe's people, 252 00:11:22,826 --> 00:11:24,737 a little too busy to watch the clock. 253 00:11:24,795 --> 00:11:28,005 How did Marco seem? Unctuous. Vicious. 254 00:11:29,467 --> 00:11:31,811 He owes me. I saved his life. 255 00:11:31,870 --> 00:11:34,407 Bebe would've torn his eyes out if she'd seen him there. 256 00:11:34,806 --> 00:11:37,980 That popular, huh? He ran a piece she was pregnant. 257 00:11:38,076 --> 00:11:42,320 You know, he'd get something off the Internet, off a toilet wall. 258 00:11:42,914 --> 00:11:45,190 Doesn't bother to confirm anything if it's close to deadline. 259 00:11:45,250 --> 00:11:47,196 He's afraid somebody else will run with it first. 260 00:11:47,252 --> 00:11:49,755 So he seemed okay to you? Nothing out of the ordinary? 261 00:11:49,821 --> 00:11:53,394 Yeah. Except for the piece of tissue paper on his shaving cut. 262 00:11:53,825 --> 00:11:56,101 Doesn't usually wear that on his cheek. 263 00:11:59,364 --> 00:12:00,399 I don't know about you, 264 00:12:00,465 --> 00:12:03,708 but I don't usually shave in a taxi in the middle of the afternoon. 265 00:12:03,768 --> 00:12:06,146 Well, Marco could've gotten scratched by her tennis bracelet. 266 00:12:06,204 --> 00:12:08,707 All those diamonds have sharp edges. (CELL PHONE RINGING) 267 00:12:09,841 --> 00:12:13,448 Curtis. Yeah. Lennie, hold on. It's Mallory. 268 00:12:14,846 --> 00:12:16,621 Yeah? BOY: Hey, mister. 269 00:12:16,681 --> 00:12:17,786 Talk to me. 270 00:12:18,584 --> 00:12:21,087 BOY: Throw here! BRISCOE: Uh-huh. Hmm. 271 00:12:22,788 --> 00:12:24,028 Yeah. Right. Thanks. 272 00:12:24,657 --> 00:12:25,658 What's up? 273 00:12:25,724 --> 00:12:27,829 Mallory's snitch claims that the drug dealer 274 00:12:27,893 --> 00:12:30,601 Danny Jones put out the hit on my daughter. 275 00:12:30,663 --> 00:12:32,609 Tell me something I don't know. 276 00:12:32,665 --> 00:12:34,110 What the hell am I supposed to do? 277 00:12:34,166 --> 00:12:35,543 One step at a time, Lennie. 278 00:12:35,601 --> 00:12:37,478 Yeah. Over the edge. 279 00:12:38,204 --> 00:12:39,911 I cut myself, so what? 280 00:12:40,005 --> 00:12:43,282 We found blood on Mrs. Abbott's bracelet. You want us to go further? 281 00:12:44,143 --> 00:12:46,623 My client wants to cooperate. 282 00:12:47,012 --> 00:12:48,252 We're listening. 283 00:12:49,181 --> 00:12:51,354 I met Maggie Abbott outside the gym. 284 00:12:51,417 --> 00:12:54,591 She was still angry about the piece on her husband and his little intern. 285 00:12:54,653 --> 00:12:55,757 CURTIS: Was it true? 286 00:12:56,388 --> 00:12:57,458 I had a deadline. 287 00:12:58,524 --> 00:13:00,401 We walked, talked. 288 00:13:00,459 --> 00:13:01,529 About what? 289 00:13:01,594 --> 00:13:03,039 An unwanted pregnancy. 290 00:13:03,128 --> 00:13:05,472 You can read about it if I ever get out of here to confirm it. 291 00:13:05,531 --> 00:13:07,306 You talked? Like what, old friends? 292 00:13:07,366 --> 00:13:11,816 Not quite. I told her I was going with the story. That's when she slapped me. 293 00:13:12,439 --> 00:13:14,851 She turns to go. I try to stop her. 294 00:13:14,908 --> 00:13:17,980 I grab her sweater. She pulls free and runs into the street. 295 00:13:19,112 --> 00:13:20,147 Taxi hit her. 296 00:13:20,714 --> 00:13:22,091 And what did you do? 297 00:13:24,050 --> 00:13:25,961 I got scared and ran off. 298 00:13:26,019 --> 00:13:29,523 At worst, my client is guilty of harassment in the second degree 299 00:13:29,589 --> 00:13:32,092 and assault three. Nothing more. 300 00:13:35,061 --> 00:13:36,802 Marco's facilitating himself. 301 00:13:37,030 --> 00:13:40,443 VAN BUREN: Anything else going on between Marco and Mrs. Abbott? 302 00:13:40,500 --> 00:13:43,276 Oh, if she promised him an exclusive and then reneged, 303 00:13:43,336 --> 00:13:44,815 he might have thrown a hissy fit. 304 00:13:44,871 --> 00:13:46,544 So he threw her into traffic? 305 00:13:46,606 --> 00:13:49,712 She was good copy for him. More valuable alive than dead. 306 00:13:50,010 --> 00:13:51,421 So what do we do, take him at his word? 307 00:13:51,478 --> 00:13:53,048 Let him go with a slap on the wrist? 308 00:13:53,113 --> 00:13:56,287 Not necessarily. Look, if there was a pattern of harassment, 309 00:13:56,349 --> 00:13:59,763 if he was stalking her, there might be something we can prosecute. 310 00:14:03,724 --> 00:14:05,829 He's responsible for my wife's death? 311 00:14:05,893 --> 00:14:08,772 BRISCOE: That's what we're trying to determine. If he was stalking her... 312 00:14:08,829 --> 00:14:10,206 He was stalking us! 313 00:14:10,264 --> 00:14:12,335 He was in front of the building every other day. 314 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:13,970 He'd track us down to restaurants. 315 00:14:14,035 --> 00:14:15,878 He must've been paying off waiters. 316 00:14:15,937 --> 00:14:18,383 Once he showed up at one of my wife's classes. 317 00:14:18,439 --> 00:14:19,679 Because of this affair? 318 00:14:19,740 --> 00:14:21,185 Alleged affair. 319 00:14:21,242 --> 00:14:22,949 The Abbott name sells papers. 320 00:14:23,010 --> 00:14:24,683 Dad, I'm home. 321 00:14:24,745 --> 00:14:26,190 Laura! Hi, honey. 322 00:14:27,715 --> 00:14:28,750 I got pizza. 323 00:14:28,816 --> 00:14:32,059 Just stick it in the oven. I'll be right in. As soon as I'm done. 324 00:14:32,119 --> 00:14:33,564 Sorry, Dad. No. It's okay. 325 00:14:34,488 --> 00:14:37,992 Did Marco ever make any threatening remarks to you or your wife? 326 00:14:38,059 --> 00:14:40,437 I took everything he said as a threat to my family. 327 00:14:40,494 --> 00:14:42,906 He told us he was working on a story about a pregnancy. 328 00:14:42,964 --> 00:14:45,467 That's why he approached your wife. An unwanted pregnancy. 329 00:14:46,901 --> 00:14:49,541 Well, whose pregnancy was it? Your wife's? Miss Lowry's? 330 00:14:49,604 --> 00:14:50,913 What a load of crap. 331 00:14:51,239 --> 00:14:53,014 Nothing to it, huh? That's right. 332 00:14:53,075 --> 00:14:55,214 You working for the Ledger now? 333 00:14:55,277 --> 00:14:58,952 Marco was responsible, directly or indirectly, for my wife's death. 334 00:14:59,781 --> 00:15:01,385 What are you going to do about that? 335 00:15:03,285 --> 00:15:04,992 So what if he calls himself a journalist? 336 00:15:05,053 --> 00:15:07,829 He doesn't have a First Amendment right to chase her into traffic! 337 00:15:08,123 --> 00:15:09,534 I admit he's a pest. 338 00:15:09,591 --> 00:15:11,764 A pest? He tore her sweater! 339 00:15:11,827 --> 00:15:13,500 Isn't that assault? JACK: Or self defense. 340 00:15:13,562 --> 00:15:15,371 He got a cut on the cheek from her. 341 00:15:15,964 --> 00:15:19,104 Reporters and stalkers, the line gets blurred. 342 00:15:19,167 --> 00:15:20,669 There's nothing legit about Marco. 343 00:15:20,736 --> 00:15:22,181 The guy's got a criminal record. 344 00:15:22,237 --> 00:15:24,774 Harassment, criminal nuisance, even breaking and entering. 345 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:26,615 He hunted Maggie Abbott down. 346 00:15:27,642 --> 00:15:31,385 His lawyer offered a plea of harassment two, assault three. 347 00:15:31,446 --> 00:15:34,154 He'll pay a fine for chasing a woman to her death. 348 00:15:34,216 --> 00:15:38,028 Her choice to run. See if they'll make a deal. First Degree harassment. 349 00:15:38,086 --> 00:15:41,068 B misdemeanor, max he gets 90 days, suspended. 350 00:15:41,124 --> 00:15:42,501 Is that so? 351 00:15:50,099 --> 00:15:51,578 Freedom of the press at any cost. 352 00:15:51,634 --> 00:15:53,341 That should generate some nice editorials. 353 00:15:53,403 --> 00:15:55,280 Can't have too many friends in the media. 354 00:15:55,338 --> 00:15:57,215 Especially at election time. 355 00:15:57,273 --> 00:15:58,684 Lay off. 356 00:15:59,909 --> 00:16:01,855 The attacks on Adam are getting personal. 357 00:16:02,345 --> 00:16:05,087 Feldman accused him of prosecutorial Alzheimer's. 358 00:16:05,148 --> 00:16:06,354 I don't know about you, but I know 359 00:16:06,416 --> 00:16:09,260 I don't want to be working for Gary Feldman come November. 360 00:16:13,656 --> 00:16:17,866 By the time we got to 61st Street, Mrs. Abbott was pretty upset. 361 00:16:17,927 --> 00:16:20,806 She slapped me. Ran into the street. 362 00:16:20,863 --> 00:16:23,673 I grabbed her sweater. I tried to stop her. 363 00:16:25,234 --> 00:16:27,407 She went right in front of the taxi. 364 00:16:28,638 --> 00:16:30,743 I got scared. Took off. 365 00:16:32,976 --> 00:16:35,388 That's it. I'm sorry. 366 00:16:37,081 --> 00:16:38,219 Are the People satisfied? 367 00:16:40,417 --> 00:16:41,418 Yes, Your Honor. 368 00:16:42,052 --> 00:16:43,497 Then, in accordance with the plea agreement, 369 00:16:43,554 --> 00:16:46,433 I'm sentencing you to 30 days suspended sentence, 370 00:16:46,490 --> 00:16:48,231 four weekends community service, 371 00:16:48,292 --> 00:16:51,296 a $5,000 fine, and two years probation. 372 00:16:51,361 --> 00:16:52,965 We're adjourned. 373 00:17:04,441 --> 00:17:06,944 Three shell casings a few feet from the body. 374 00:17:07,878 --> 00:17:09,255 Nine millimeter. 375 00:17:09,313 --> 00:17:11,418 The shooter stood close. He didn't want to miss. 376 00:17:11,482 --> 00:17:12,756 UNI: Where were you going? ZAREM: I was on my way 377 00:17:12,816 --> 00:17:14,659 to Morean's when I heard the shots. 378 00:17:14,718 --> 00:17:16,425 How many did you hear? Three. 379 00:17:16,487 --> 00:17:18,125 POP, pop, pop, like that. 380 00:17:18,188 --> 00:17:19,223 You see the shooter? 381 00:17:19,289 --> 00:17:22,737 By the time I got to the corner, all I saw was Marco, lying there. 382 00:17:23,428 --> 00:17:24,429 BRUDER: Bobby! 383 00:17:25,096 --> 00:17:27,940 (CHUCKLES) Hey, what happened here? 384 00:17:27,999 --> 00:17:29,706 Phil Marco got shot. 385 00:17:29,768 --> 00:17:31,975 Dead? No kidding. 386 00:17:32,237 --> 00:17:33,443 Yeah. 387 00:17:39,177 --> 00:17:40,781 Give the people what they want. 388 00:17:50,155 --> 00:17:51,498 A standing ovation. 389 00:17:51,556 --> 00:17:54,036 Yeah. Don't worry. We took down all their names just in case. 390 00:17:54,092 --> 00:17:55,127 There's an obvious place to start. 391 00:17:55,193 --> 00:17:57,469 Assuming Warren Abbott is that stupid. 392 00:17:57,529 --> 00:17:58,906 Or that angry. 393 00:17:58,963 --> 00:18:01,375 Whoa! Check the box next to stupid. 394 00:18:01,466 --> 00:18:04,936 Nine years ago, Abbott got a carry permit for a nine mil. 395 00:18:05,003 --> 00:18:06,744 That get us a search warrant? 396 00:18:06,805 --> 00:18:09,513 If he's the only citizen with a permitted gun. 397 00:18:09,574 --> 00:18:12,612 Guess you guys will have to find that gun the old fashioned way. 398 00:18:14,613 --> 00:18:17,253 My gun? I haven't seen my gun in the last four years. 399 00:18:17,316 --> 00:18:19,023 Last place being where? 400 00:18:19,084 --> 00:18:21,030 I'm not sure. I'll have to think about it. 401 00:18:21,087 --> 00:18:22,464 Well, why didn't you report it missing? 402 00:18:22,521 --> 00:18:25,127 I didn't say it was missing. It's just misplaced. 403 00:18:25,191 --> 00:18:26,795 CURTIS: Why'd you get it in the first place? 404 00:18:26,859 --> 00:18:29,533 I was litigating a case against Local 904. 405 00:18:29,595 --> 00:18:31,040 I was advised to get some personal protection. 406 00:18:31,096 --> 00:18:32,336 Advised by who? 407 00:18:32,698 --> 00:18:34,200 Local 904. 408 00:18:35,401 --> 00:18:37,074 So where were you last night? 409 00:18:38,070 --> 00:18:40,550 Well, I wasn't outside Morean's shooting Phil Marco. 410 00:18:40,606 --> 00:18:43,450 You know, that's exactly what we thought you were gonna say? 411 00:18:43,509 --> 00:18:45,250 How about telling us what you were doing. 412 00:18:45,611 --> 00:18:46,988 I was at Julianne Lowry's. 413 00:18:47,046 --> 00:18:48,992 The intern you weren't having an affair with? 414 00:18:49,048 --> 00:18:51,551 Makes me a hell of a son of a bitch, huh? 415 00:18:51,617 --> 00:18:53,358 She helping you get over your wife? 416 00:18:53,686 --> 00:18:54,892 Why don't you ask her? 417 00:18:56,255 --> 00:18:58,929 And if I find that gun, I'll be sure to let you know. 418 00:19:01,694 --> 00:19:04,174 He came over about 7:30. We talked. 419 00:19:04,231 --> 00:19:05,904 Until what time? 2:00 or 3:00. 420 00:19:05,966 --> 00:19:07,570 He didn't want to stay all night because of his daughter. 421 00:19:07,634 --> 00:19:08,806 She's home from school. 422 00:19:08,869 --> 00:19:10,906 How thoughtful. What'd you talk about? 423 00:19:11,638 --> 00:19:13,845 His wife, us, I don't know. 424 00:19:14,207 --> 00:19:15,845 Phil Marco? 425 00:19:15,909 --> 00:19:17,013 Not really. 426 00:19:17,077 --> 00:19:20,581 About a story Phil Marco was working on? An unwanted pregnancy? 427 00:19:21,414 --> 00:19:23,860 No. Mr. Abbott didn't get you pregnant, did he? 428 00:19:24,284 --> 00:19:25,354 No. 429 00:19:25,418 --> 00:19:28,126 Because that would give him another good reason to shoot Marco. 430 00:19:29,222 --> 00:19:30,530 Look, what Warren likes me to do, 431 00:19:30,590 --> 00:19:32,627 you can't get pregnant from. Okay? 432 00:19:34,294 --> 00:19:35,329 Okay. 433 00:19:35,395 --> 00:19:36,874 Now, if you'll excuse me. 434 00:19:39,833 --> 00:19:41,073 Strike two. 435 00:19:41,134 --> 00:19:43,444 Be nice to know who was feeding Marco his info. 436 00:19:47,474 --> 00:19:52,514 The Kennedys, Trump, Madonna, the Giffords, the entire tabloid hit parade. 437 00:19:53,513 --> 00:19:57,553 Here we go. Abbott. Separate folders for Warren, Margaret, 438 00:19:57,618 --> 00:20:01,156 the whole mishpocheh. Not a lot of notes. 439 00:20:01,222 --> 00:20:03,532 Maybe Marco didn't want to be confused by the facts. 440 00:20:03,591 --> 00:20:06,663 Well, he already knew all about Warren's favorite hobby. 441 00:20:06,727 --> 00:20:10,197 What's this entry here? F. Howard and a number. And Laura. 442 00:20:10,264 --> 00:20:13,211 Yeah. Frank Howard. He's married to one of Warren's sisters. 443 00:20:13,267 --> 00:20:14,837 Some kind of tree-hugger. 444 00:20:14,902 --> 00:20:16,779 Oh, yeah. He helped clean up the Hudson. 445 00:20:16,837 --> 00:20:19,317 Maybe he liked to dish the dirt to Marco. 446 00:20:21,309 --> 00:20:23,949 I have no idea why he'd have our number. 447 00:20:24,011 --> 00:20:26,548 Neither Frank nor I would ever take his calls. 448 00:20:26,614 --> 00:20:28,287 Well, somebody did. 449 00:20:28,349 --> 00:20:32,024 His phone records show that he called your number the night he was murdered. 450 00:20:32,086 --> 00:20:36,091 Oh. He called Betty's number. Our daughter. 451 00:20:36,858 --> 00:20:38,599 Why would she talk to Marco? 452 00:20:39,393 --> 00:20:41,873 She was in her room with Laura, Warren's daughter. 453 00:20:41,929 --> 00:20:44,239 Warren was stuck downtown on business, 454 00:20:44,298 --> 00:20:47,303 God knows what, and he asked if Laura could spend the evening with us. 455 00:20:47,369 --> 00:20:48,439 Did she spend the evening? 456 00:20:48,503 --> 00:20:50,346 She left just before 9:00. 457 00:20:50,405 --> 00:20:52,885 Right after Marco's call. Do you know where she went? 458 00:20:53,208 --> 00:20:55,518 I don't know. She seem upset? 459 00:20:55,577 --> 00:20:58,854 Laura's high-strung. Her mother's death hit her very hard. 460 00:20:58,914 --> 00:21:00,325 I didn't want her to leave. 461 00:21:00,382 --> 00:21:01,486 BRISCOE: Why not? 462 00:21:01,550 --> 00:21:03,723 Two years ago she tried to commit suicide. 463 00:21:03,785 --> 00:21:06,561 I was afraid she might do something to herself. 464 00:21:07,222 --> 00:21:08,758 You know if she's been pregnant? 465 00:21:08,824 --> 00:21:10,326 No. Of course she hasn't. 466 00:21:10,759 --> 00:21:12,295 You're assuming? 467 00:21:12,361 --> 00:21:13,772 She's been on the pill since she was 14. 468 00:21:13,829 --> 00:21:16,332 I think I would have heard something from my daughter. 469 00:21:17,432 --> 00:21:21,107 Laura's on the pill, and dad's girlfriend is a technical virgin. 470 00:21:21,169 --> 00:21:22,705 That brings us back to Mrs. Abbott. 471 00:21:22,771 --> 00:21:25,081 So she had an abortion. No big deal to her. 472 00:21:25,140 --> 00:21:26,517 Who said anything about an abortion? 473 00:21:26,575 --> 00:21:29,784 Well, Marco just said his story is about an unwanted pregnancy. 474 00:21:29,845 --> 00:21:31,847 Do we know if she was pregnant when she was killed? 475 00:21:33,882 --> 00:21:35,054 I spoke to the M.E. 476 00:21:35,117 --> 00:21:38,224 Maggie Abbott had a hysterectomy right after her daughter's birth. 477 00:21:38,288 --> 00:21:39,733 How do we know exactly when? 478 00:21:39,789 --> 00:21:41,063 Well, the procedure that was used, 479 00:21:41,124 --> 00:21:42,967 a Spalding-Richardson, is no longer done. 480 00:21:43,026 --> 00:21:44,630 It's no longer taught. 481 00:21:44,694 --> 00:21:46,765 Last time Rodgers saw it was back in 1982. 482 00:21:46,829 --> 00:21:48,365 And even then it was pretty rare. 483 00:21:48,431 --> 00:21:50,934 So no unwanted pregnancies since. 484 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,879 Are you saying the unwanted pregnancy was the daughter? 485 00:21:53,936 --> 00:21:56,439 Yes. Unwanted if Abbott's not her father. 486 00:21:56,506 --> 00:21:58,679 What's this? Nothing else fits. 487 00:21:58,741 --> 00:21:59,913 Beautiful. 488 00:22:00,543 --> 00:22:04,286 Motive evidence straight out of the tabloids. 489 00:22:04,347 --> 00:22:07,351 And how about means and opportunity? 490 00:22:07,417 --> 00:22:08,987 You getting that from the comic books? 491 00:22:09,052 --> 00:22:11,259 Warren Abbott has an alibi. The girl doesn't. 492 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,095 She had access to her father's gun. 493 00:22:13,156 --> 00:22:15,659 Marco called her, probably told her what he knew. 494 00:22:15,725 --> 00:22:20,572 Right. Keep in mind this is Warren Abbott's daughter. 495 00:22:21,331 --> 00:22:23,038 His friends have deep pockets. 496 00:22:23,099 --> 00:22:25,978 Not a constituency I can afford to alienate. 497 00:22:26,035 --> 00:22:29,040 Make sure he's in the room when you question her. 498 00:22:29,873 --> 00:22:32,251 Have the police pick her up and notify Warren Abbott. 499 00:22:32,309 --> 00:22:33,982 Jamie Ross? Yes? 500 00:22:40,350 --> 00:22:43,661 It's Neal again. He's pulling me into court over Katie's custody. 501 00:22:47,257 --> 00:22:48,497 Marco didn't say much. 502 00:22:48,559 --> 00:22:50,937 Just that he had some information about my mother. 503 00:22:50,994 --> 00:22:52,371 What sort of information? 504 00:22:52,429 --> 00:22:53,772 I don't know. 505 00:22:54,198 --> 00:22:55,404 He said it was important. 506 00:22:55,466 --> 00:22:57,002 Your aunt said you were upset, Laura. 507 00:22:57,067 --> 00:23:00,139 Of course she was upset. Her mother's dead because of that bastard. 508 00:23:00,204 --> 00:23:03,083 Mr. Abbott, we'd rather hear what your daughter has to say. 509 00:23:04,141 --> 00:23:05,848 ROSS: Why were you upset, Laura? 510 00:23:07,311 --> 00:23:09,951 Mr. Marco said we had to meet to talk about my mother. 511 00:23:11,482 --> 00:23:13,985 I didn't want to. I tried to hang up. 512 00:23:15,285 --> 00:23:19,393 But he started to say stuff that was wrong, so I'd try to correct him, 513 00:23:19,457 --> 00:23:21,061 and all of a sudden I was talking to him. 514 00:23:21,126 --> 00:23:23,003 If the son of a bitch weren't dead... 515 00:23:23,728 --> 00:23:24,934 Did you meet with him? 516 00:23:26,931 --> 00:23:29,468 I was going to but I changed my mind. 517 00:23:31,469 --> 00:23:32,504 Why? 518 00:23:35,507 --> 00:23:36,508 I just did. 519 00:23:38,877 --> 00:23:39,981 Where did you go? 520 00:23:40,044 --> 00:23:41,114 I went home. 521 00:23:42,814 --> 00:23:44,691 I watched some videos and then I went to sleep. 522 00:23:44,749 --> 00:23:46,456 She was asleep when I got home. 523 00:23:49,687 --> 00:23:51,325 Did you know that your father owns a gun? 524 00:23:51,389 --> 00:23:53,300 See, that's it. This is exactly what I mean. 525 00:23:53,358 --> 00:23:56,202 Mr. Abbott... This is how you prosecute cases? 526 00:23:56,261 --> 00:23:58,172 By running head games on young girls? 527 00:23:58,229 --> 00:23:59,503 If you want to help your daughter, 528 00:23:59,564 --> 00:24:00,770 encourage her to tell the truth. 529 00:24:00,832 --> 00:24:02,334 Isn't that why you went home, to get the gun? 530 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:03,572 Don't answer that, sweetheart. 531 00:24:03,635 --> 00:24:05,478 Arlen, we're done. We're done. 532 00:24:06,538 --> 00:24:10,783 If you leave now, Mr. Abbott, I will have no choice but to arrest your daughter. 533 00:24:10,843 --> 00:24:12,117 What! On what evidence? 534 00:24:12,178 --> 00:24:13,555 Her whereabouts are unaccounted for 535 00:24:13,612 --> 00:24:16,149 and she had access to the same caliber weapon that killed Marco. 536 00:24:16,215 --> 00:24:17,216 And she had a motive. 537 00:24:17,283 --> 00:24:18,318 What motive? 538 00:24:18,384 --> 00:24:21,024 Marco was about to publish a story 539 00:24:21,087 --> 00:24:23,067 about an affair her mother had... 540 00:24:23,122 --> 00:24:24,192 Stop right there. 541 00:24:24,256 --> 00:24:26,497 I want my daughter to wait outside. 542 00:24:26,559 --> 00:24:28,732 Come on. Go on. It's all right. 543 00:24:30,463 --> 00:24:31,999 My daughter has been traumatized enough. 544 00:24:32,064 --> 00:24:34,374 She doesn't need to find out from you I'm not her real father. 545 00:24:34,467 --> 00:24:35,707 It's true? 546 00:24:36,602 --> 00:24:38,707 There was a teaching assistant at Hudson Law 547 00:24:38,771 --> 00:24:40,444 when Maggie was pregnant with Laura. 548 00:24:40,506 --> 00:24:44,420 Big crush on Maggie. Unrequited. He had a wild imagination. 549 00:24:44,476 --> 00:24:46,547 He started this story. 550 00:24:48,047 --> 00:24:49,185 Laura called me. 551 00:24:49,248 --> 00:24:52,991 She told me Marco wanted to meet with her to discuss these rumors. 552 00:24:53,052 --> 00:24:54,622 I told her to go home. 553 00:24:55,521 --> 00:24:58,092 I shot Marco! I'd do it again! 554 00:25:07,634 --> 00:25:09,045 What if he's covering for the daughter? 555 00:25:09,102 --> 00:25:12,481 He's not covering for his daughter. He thinks he can beat it. 556 00:25:12,539 --> 00:25:13,916 And you're confident he can't? 557 00:25:13,974 --> 00:25:15,282 I have his confession. 558 00:25:15,342 --> 00:25:17,015 Incomplete confession. 559 00:25:17,077 --> 00:25:20,081 And a room full of lawyers who charge $500 an hour. 560 00:25:20,147 --> 00:25:22,525 A plea offer, Adam, for cold-blooded murder? 561 00:25:22,582 --> 00:25:24,823 Marco contributed to his wife's death 562 00:25:24,884 --> 00:25:27,922 and he was ready to humiliate what's left of his family. 563 00:25:28,822 --> 00:25:30,495 Murder two, 15-to-life. 564 00:25:30,724 --> 00:25:33,102 ROSS: His friends will be grateful. ADAM: Hope so. 565 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,004 Feldman's talking about an October surprise. 566 00:25:36,062 --> 00:25:37,632 We make this deal and Marco's colleagues 567 00:25:37,697 --> 00:25:39,404 will give Feldman all the press he needs. 568 00:25:39,466 --> 00:25:41,070 Who reads the papers anyway? 569 00:25:41,902 --> 00:25:46,044 (SIGHS) This looks like fun. Motion to suppress Abbott's confession. 570 00:25:46,973 --> 00:25:48,247 I was expecting that. 571 00:25:48,308 --> 00:25:51,188 That's just the appetizer. Then we have a dozen other motions, 572 00:25:51,245 --> 00:25:53,088 to introduce Marco's employment records, 573 00:25:53,147 --> 00:25:55,127 gossip columns, criminal record. 574 00:25:55,183 --> 00:25:56,719 Mostly just throw-away arguments. 575 00:25:56,917 --> 00:25:58,362 A smokescreen. Brief it all. 576 00:25:58,853 --> 00:26:00,457 I got a custody hearing at 1:00. 577 00:26:02,757 --> 00:26:05,499 I'll get started. Go kick Neal Gorton's ass. 578 00:26:10,898 --> 00:26:13,139 There's absolutely no basis for suppression. 579 00:26:13,201 --> 00:26:15,374 Mr. Abbott confessed freely and voluntarily. 580 00:26:15,436 --> 00:26:16,881 At the time he wasn't even a suspect. 581 00:26:16,938 --> 00:26:18,144 His daughter was. 582 00:26:18,205 --> 00:26:19,946 Arlen, if I may... 583 00:26:20,007 --> 00:26:21,918 My daughter was facing a murder charge. 584 00:26:21,976 --> 00:26:24,582 I was desperate to protect her. I spoke rashly. 585 00:26:24,645 --> 00:26:27,023 That goes to weight, Your Honor, not admissibility. 586 00:26:27,081 --> 00:26:30,358 If Mr. Abbott wants to repudiate his confession, let him do it on the stand. 587 00:26:30,418 --> 00:26:33,695 Your Honor, this so-called confession was an off-the-cuff remark, 588 00:26:33,754 --> 00:26:34,892 made in the heat of passion. 589 00:26:34,956 --> 00:26:37,459 If you let it in, we may as well go straight to sentencing. 590 00:26:37,525 --> 00:26:41,302 I'm going to let the jury decide this one, Mr. Levitt. The confession's in. 591 00:26:41,362 --> 00:26:42,933 What's the next item on this laundry list? 592 00:26:42,998 --> 00:26:44,500 LEVITT: Mr. Marco's criminal record. 593 00:26:44,566 --> 00:26:46,011 Completely irrelevant to the charges. 594 00:26:46,068 --> 00:26:48,173 As are the victim's work records, his writings. 595 00:26:48,237 --> 00:26:49,272 It's res gestae, Your Honor. 596 00:26:49,338 --> 00:26:51,511 Mr. Marco's own work set the stage for his death. 597 00:26:51,573 --> 00:26:52,847 The jury should hear about it. 598 00:26:53,308 --> 00:26:55,379 How much of his work are you seeking to introduce? 599 00:26:55,444 --> 00:26:57,651 Everything. I want to put his whole career before the jury. 600 00:26:57,713 --> 00:26:59,556 It's a ploy, Your Honor. 601 00:26:59,614 --> 00:27:02,720 The motion papers limited themselves to acts that took place 602 00:27:02,784 --> 00:27:04,786 starting two weeks prior to Mrs. Abbott's death. 603 00:27:04,853 --> 00:27:06,230 Now Mr. Levitt wants to extend it. 604 00:27:06,288 --> 00:27:09,132 Your Honor, I should at least be allowed to explain all the circumstances 605 00:27:09,191 --> 00:27:10,499 that led to Mr. Marco's death. 606 00:27:10,559 --> 00:27:12,129 All the relevant circumstances. 607 00:27:12,194 --> 00:27:13,867 Why not let the jury sort it out? 608 00:27:14,696 --> 00:27:15,800 (SIGHS) 609 00:27:17,132 --> 00:27:21,137 Please, Your Honor, give me some chance to defend myself. 610 00:27:22,771 --> 00:27:26,309 This one's yours, Mr. Levitt. I'm granting that request. 611 00:27:27,342 --> 00:27:29,413 That was a gift. (SCOFFS) Whatever. 612 00:27:29,478 --> 00:27:31,617 About your offer of 15-to-life, thanks, but no thanks. 613 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:32,887 You have another number in mind? 614 00:27:32,949 --> 00:27:35,589 Any time away from my daughter is too much. 615 00:27:35,652 --> 00:27:38,155 You take a plea, the circumstances of her birth 616 00:27:38,221 --> 00:27:40,360 won't be splashed across the tabloids. 617 00:27:40,423 --> 00:27:42,767 Don't be naive. The blood's already in the water. 618 00:27:42,825 --> 00:27:43,963 It's just a matter of time. 619 00:27:44,027 --> 00:27:45,370 It's no plea, Mr. McCoy. 620 00:27:46,295 --> 00:27:47,672 It's your funeral. 621 00:27:49,499 --> 00:27:51,103 REPORTERS: Mr. Abbott... 622 00:27:51,167 --> 00:27:52,544 (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) 623 00:27:55,738 --> 00:27:58,844 I was Marco's editor ever since he came over to the Ledger. 624 00:27:58,908 --> 00:28:01,388 He wrote a daily gossip and human interest column. 625 00:28:01,778 --> 00:28:03,780 Daily? That's a lot of gossip, isn't it? 626 00:28:03,846 --> 00:28:05,757 Well, the public has an insatiable appetite 627 00:28:05,815 --> 00:28:07,453 for stories about famous people. 628 00:28:07,517 --> 00:28:09,758 You say there was a lot of competition to get the hottest item? 629 00:28:09,819 --> 00:28:11,059 You have no idea. 630 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:13,726 So Mr. Marco was under a lot of pressure to come up with stories. 631 00:28:13,790 --> 00:28:15,394 That's true of any journalist. 632 00:28:15,458 --> 00:28:17,665 And certain people, certain families, 633 00:28:17,727 --> 00:28:21,106 like Mr. Abbott's family, are targeted, isn't that right? 634 00:28:21,164 --> 00:28:22,643 Targeted is a loaded word. 635 00:28:22,699 --> 00:28:24,111 Well, in the last year didn't your paper 636 00:28:24,168 --> 00:28:28,344 publish 538 stories about Mr. Abbott's family 637 00:28:28,405 --> 00:28:32,649 including his siblings, his spouses, his uncles, his cousins? 638 00:28:32,709 --> 00:28:35,087 And not because they discovered the cure for cancer. 639 00:28:35,145 --> 00:28:38,183 Well, if the public has a particular interest in certain people, 640 00:28:38,248 --> 00:28:39,556 yes, we tend to give them what they want. 641 00:28:39,616 --> 00:28:40,890 LEVITT: Thank you. 642 00:28:40,951 --> 00:28:43,591 Now, in this highly competitive business, 643 00:28:43,654 --> 00:28:47,761 what limits, if any, did you impose on Mr. Marco in his pursuit of stories? 644 00:28:47,825 --> 00:28:51,136 He had to adhere to the accepted standards of journalistic ethics. 645 00:28:51,195 --> 00:28:54,335 Really? Such as following a subject, that's acceptable? 646 00:28:54,398 --> 00:28:55,536 Yes. 647 00:28:55,599 --> 00:28:56,839 And taking pictures, also acceptable? 648 00:28:56,900 --> 00:28:58,106 Yes. 649 00:28:58,168 --> 00:28:59,738 Taking pictures of their children? 650 00:28:59,803 --> 00:29:01,305 If it's newsworthy. 651 00:29:01,372 --> 00:29:03,613 Spying on them in their homes using telescopes? 652 00:29:03,674 --> 00:29:05,676 As long as they don't trespass. 653 00:29:05,743 --> 00:29:07,518 Going through their garbage? Yes. 654 00:29:07,578 --> 00:29:09,057 Invading their privacy? 655 00:29:09,112 --> 00:29:11,251 As I said, as long as they don't trespass. 656 00:29:16,087 --> 00:29:17,566 Defense eight. 657 00:29:17,622 --> 00:29:20,569 This is a deposition 658 00:29:20,625 --> 00:29:22,434 given by a hotel maid in a lawsuit 659 00:29:22,494 --> 00:29:23,802 brought by Mr. Abbott's nephew, 660 00:29:23,862 --> 00:29:26,365 Gregory Abbott, against the Barrington Hotel. 661 00:29:26,431 --> 00:29:28,536 In it, the maid states that Mr. Marco 662 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,671 bribed her to let him into the suite 663 00:29:30,735 --> 00:29:32,578 in which Mr. Abbott's nephew was staying. 664 00:29:32,637 --> 00:29:35,584 Now, did you discipline Mr. Marco for taking such action? 665 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,210 No. No. 666 00:29:37,275 --> 00:29:40,279 Well, then, I ask you again, what limits, if any, 667 00:29:40,345 --> 00:29:43,588 did you impose on Mr. Marco in his pursuit of stories? 668 00:29:46,150 --> 00:29:48,528 Would none be an accurate answer? 669 00:29:51,422 --> 00:29:52,560 Miss Sanger? 670 00:29:52,624 --> 00:29:53,694 It's all right, Your Honor. 671 00:29:53,758 --> 00:29:55,863 She doesn't have to answer. 672 00:30:04,135 --> 00:30:08,175 Miss Sanger, this is a copy of your paper. 673 00:30:09,842 --> 00:30:11,583 From two years ago, yes. 674 00:30:13,379 --> 00:30:15,052 People's 19. 675 00:30:17,116 --> 00:30:20,563 Would you describe Mr. Marco's column from that day? 676 00:30:20,619 --> 00:30:22,292 The highlighted item? 677 00:30:23,088 --> 00:30:26,934 Mr. Marco reported a rumor that a Borough president 678 00:30:26,992 --> 00:30:31,065 had charged the city for an intricately carved mahogany headboard 679 00:30:31,130 --> 00:30:34,202 as a gift to a woman, not his wife. 680 00:30:36,168 --> 00:30:38,045 A rumor? 681 00:30:38,604 --> 00:30:39,981 Yes. At the time. 682 00:30:42,408 --> 00:30:46,914 But it resulted in an investigation, isn't that right? 683 00:30:46,979 --> 00:30:51,325 Yes. It uncovered a systematic abuse of city funds. 684 00:30:51,784 --> 00:30:54,162 The Borough president was forced to step down. 685 00:30:54,220 --> 00:30:58,601 So, a rumor in a gossip column 686 00:30:58,658 --> 00:31:01,867 resulted in serious political consequences. 687 00:31:01,928 --> 00:31:04,238 For the Borough president, certainly. 688 00:31:04,297 --> 00:31:07,403 How did Mr. Marco uncover his story? 689 00:31:07,467 --> 00:31:10,004 He went through the Borough president's garbage. 690 00:31:10,070 --> 00:31:12,641 If we were to operate under a slew of restrictions 691 00:31:12,706 --> 00:31:15,949 all we would ever print would be press releases. 692 00:31:16,009 --> 00:31:17,420 Thank you. 693 00:31:21,615 --> 00:31:23,925 When you have no case, attack the victim. 694 00:31:23,984 --> 00:31:27,056 Especially when the victim represents everything that's wrong with journalism. 695 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,727 The public still remembers a mangled car in a Paris tunnel. 696 00:31:30,790 --> 00:31:32,428 If they don't, Levitt'll remind them, 697 00:31:32,525 --> 00:31:35,563 with Marco's criminal record, his writings... 698 00:31:35,629 --> 00:31:38,337 It should have all been suppressed. 699 00:31:38,398 --> 00:31:39,877 Sorry to do this to you again, Jack, 700 00:31:39,933 --> 00:31:41,879 but I've got to meet my lawyer in 15 minutes. 701 00:31:41,935 --> 00:31:44,575 Neal's driving me up the wall. He claims if I get married, 702 00:31:44,638 --> 00:31:46,640 Katie'll spend more time with David than with me 703 00:31:46,706 --> 00:31:47,845 because of my long hours. 704 00:31:47,908 --> 00:31:49,080 If you get married? 705 00:31:49,143 --> 00:31:53,489 He's got a judge convinced Katie'll be better off with him than with David. 706 00:31:53,547 --> 00:31:56,391 So it's David or the job. No-brainer. 707 00:32:06,294 --> 00:32:08,467 LEVITT: Dr. Neustadt, you hold the Wilson chair 708 00:32:08,529 --> 00:32:11,271 at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, is that right? 709 00:32:11,332 --> 00:32:12,504 Yes, sir. 710 00:32:12,566 --> 00:32:16,605 Are there any generally accepted rules that govern legitimate reporting? 711 00:32:16,671 --> 00:32:18,742 Of course, as there are in any profession. 712 00:32:18,806 --> 00:32:20,114 Could you tell us what they are? 713 00:32:21,075 --> 00:32:23,954 Well, before you file a story, you make sure that any fact 714 00:32:24,011 --> 00:32:26,514 is confirmed by at least two sources. 715 00:32:26,580 --> 00:32:30,323 And if it's a controversial story, at least three or more. 716 00:32:30,384 --> 00:32:31,829 Do you ever pay these sources? 717 00:32:31,886 --> 00:32:33,297 Absolutely not. 718 00:32:33,354 --> 00:32:35,163 What about reporting on private lives? 719 00:32:35,222 --> 00:32:38,602 If it affects the story, yes. Yes, you can go with it. 720 00:32:38,660 --> 00:32:40,469 But if it is just gossip? 721 00:32:40,529 --> 00:32:45,205 Then it's just that. It is gossip. It's not journalism. 722 00:32:45,267 --> 00:32:47,543 Eavesdropping, telephoto pictures? 723 00:32:47,602 --> 00:32:49,707 Some tabloids use these methods, 724 00:32:49,771 --> 00:32:51,944 but they debase the profession. 725 00:32:53,742 --> 00:32:58,213 They create a tendency to focus on trivia like a politician's intimate life 726 00:32:58,280 --> 00:32:59,816 rather than his policies. 727 00:33:00,649 --> 00:33:02,856 That is not news, that's noise. 728 00:33:02,918 --> 00:33:07,526 It's licentious. It corrupts journalists. 729 00:33:08,757 --> 00:33:10,202 Thank you. 730 00:33:15,997 --> 00:33:17,601 Dr. Neustadt. 731 00:33:20,702 --> 00:33:23,410 Who makes the rules governing journalists? 732 00:33:23,472 --> 00:33:26,282 Well, no one makes them. They're customary. 733 00:33:26,341 --> 00:33:30,654 Well, then, who decides when the rules are broken? 734 00:33:30,713 --> 00:33:35,093 Reasonable men and women can agree on reasonable restraints 735 00:33:35,151 --> 00:33:37,062 to irresponsible journalism. 736 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,533 In your courses, do you teach the work of Ida Tarbell, 737 00:33:40,590 --> 00:33:43,161 Lincoln Steffane, Upton Sinclair, 738 00:33:43,226 --> 00:33:44,933 and more recently, I.F. Stone? 739 00:33:44,994 --> 00:33:46,234 Yes, I do. 740 00:33:46,295 --> 00:33:50,641 And isn't it true that all of them published exposes about, 741 00:33:50,700 --> 00:33:53,772 for instance, the meatpacking and oil industries, 742 00:33:53,836 --> 00:33:57,249 which at the time were widely regarded as irresponsible? 743 00:33:57,306 --> 00:33:59,843 Yes, that's right, but history has shown 744 00:33:59,909 --> 00:34:02,822 that these journalists were in fact acting responsibly. 745 00:34:02,879 --> 00:34:04,187 Oh. History. 746 00:34:07,650 --> 00:34:12,326 And how can we be sure that history won't be equally as kind 747 00:34:12,388 --> 00:34:13,799 to a reporter like Mr. Marco? 748 00:34:14,323 --> 00:34:16,997 Well, we can't. 749 00:34:17,059 --> 00:34:19,563 And aren't there generally accepted responses 750 00:34:19,630 --> 00:34:22,338 for someone who doesn't like what he reads in the newspaper? 751 00:34:22,399 --> 00:34:24,902 Letters to the editor? Lawsuits? Yes. 752 00:34:24,968 --> 00:34:29,144 Would you say that murder was one of the generally acceptable responses? 753 00:34:29,206 --> 00:34:30,241 Of course not. 754 00:34:30,307 --> 00:34:36,622 But there are countries where journalists have been shot for what they've published. 755 00:34:37,014 --> 00:34:38,254 Yes, but we have a free press, 756 00:34:38,315 --> 00:34:41,228 and the whole point of the First Amendment 757 00:34:41,285 --> 00:34:44,129 is that no one can control the press. 758 00:34:45,589 --> 00:34:46,966 Thank you. 759 00:34:51,895 --> 00:34:54,398 Defending Marco makes my skin crawl. 760 00:34:54,465 --> 00:34:57,105 Levitt's backed us into a corner. I know how he feels. 761 00:34:57,167 --> 00:35:00,637 Yesterday, The Observer ran a squib about me and Neal. 762 00:35:00,704 --> 00:35:01,739 I feel sorry for Abbott's kid. 763 00:35:02,573 --> 00:35:04,143 "Abbott's secret's out!" 764 00:35:04,208 --> 00:35:06,711 "Abbott's struggle to survive Marco smear." 765 00:35:06,777 --> 00:35:09,951 "Lovesick teacher's aide started wild rumor about Maggie's love child." 766 00:35:10,013 --> 00:35:11,891 Let me see that. 767 00:35:13,451 --> 00:35:14,589 What? 768 00:35:14,652 --> 00:35:17,826 Dig up all the clippings you can find about Abbott. 769 00:35:23,127 --> 00:35:27,439 WARREN: My daughter's had counseling, but emotionally she's fragile. 770 00:35:27,499 --> 00:35:32,414 When Mr. Marco called her that night, asking to meet her, she called me. 771 00:35:32,470 --> 00:35:36,612 She was in tears. I went to see Mr. Marco. 772 00:35:36,675 --> 00:35:38,416 My wife was dead. 773 00:35:38,476 --> 00:35:43,858 There was no reason for him to pursue the so-called story of my daughter's birth. 774 00:35:43,915 --> 00:35:48,489 I asked him to leave her alone. He refused. I offered to pay him. 775 00:35:49,087 --> 00:35:51,897 He said that'd make an even better story. 776 00:35:51,956 --> 00:35:55,927 I told him it could drive my daughter to commit suicide. 777 00:35:55,994 --> 00:35:57,564 He didn't care. 778 00:35:58,296 --> 00:36:00,902 He tried to leave. I grabbed him. 779 00:36:00,965 --> 00:36:02,536 He said he'd love for me to hit him. 780 00:36:02,601 --> 00:36:05,241 He said he'd get it on the front page. 781 00:36:06,539 --> 00:36:08,541 That's when I shot him. 782 00:36:09,008 --> 00:36:13,252 I didn't mean to kill him. But, God help me, I wanted to stop him. 783 00:36:14,113 --> 00:36:17,754 I couldn't let him do to Laura what he'd done to Maggie. 784 00:36:17,816 --> 00:36:18,920 Thank you very much. 785 00:36:30,262 --> 00:36:32,003 You recognize this? 786 00:36:34,033 --> 00:36:37,310 Yes. That's an article about my daughter's sweet 16 party. 787 00:36:38,971 --> 00:36:40,450 People's 21. 788 00:36:42,474 --> 00:36:46,217 Did the photographer and reporter sneak into your house? 789 00:36:47,146 --> 00:36:49,217 No. I invited them in. 790 00:36:49,281 --> 00:36:52,525 Why, if you treasure your privacy so much? 791 00:36:52,586 --> 00:36:56,329 It was better than having them climb trees and jump fences. 792 00:36:59,025 --> 00:37:00,504 People's 22. 793 00:37:01,595 --> 00:37:06,066 This profile of you appeared in a national business magazine last year. 794 00:37:07,968 --> 00:37:10,141 You allowed the reporter to observe you 795 00:37:10,203 --> 00:37:12,706 spending an intimate evening at home with your family. 796 00:37:12,773 --> 00:37:14,343 Isn't that right? 797 00:37:14,407 --> 00:37:15,886 Yes. I remember that. 798 00:37:16,610 --> 00:37:18,920 Didn't this article coincide 799 00:37:18,979 --> 00:37:23,189 with the opening of a branch office of your firm in Los Angeles? 800 00:37:23,249 --> 00:37:25,525 Objection, Your Honor. I fail to see the relevance of this. 801 00:37:25,585 --> 00:37:26,962 Objection overruled. 802 00:37:28,622 --> 00:37:31,034 Yes. The article happened to coincide 803 00:37:31,091 --> 00:37:33,162 with the opening of my Los Angeles branch. 804 00:37:33,226 --> 00:37:36,298 Is it fair to say that you've managed the news 805 00:37:36,363 --> 00:37:38,969 and used your private life to advance your career? 806 00:37:39,032 --> 00:37:40,477 Absolutely not. 807 00:37:44,972 --> 00:37:46,508 People's 23. 808 00:37:48,643 --> 00:37:50,486 Do you recognize this? 809 00:37:51,979 --> 00:37:53,981 Yes. It's an article about the smear 810 00:37:54,048 --> 00:37:57,120 directed at my daughter and my late wife's reputation. 811 00:37:57,818 --> 00:37:59,263 An article arranged by you? 812 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:00,731 Absolutely not! 813 00:38:00,788 --> 00:38:02,426 You had nothing to do with its publication? 814 00:38:02,490 --> 00:38:04,094 Nothing. 815 00:38:07,328 --> 00:38:12,505 The article refers to a rumor started by a lovesick teacher's aide. 816 00:38:13,901 --> 00:38:16,939 Other than you, how many people knew about the origin of this rumor? 817 00:38:17,004 --> 00:38:18,642 I have no idea. 818 00:38:18,706 --> 00:38:20,447 Do you have a publicist? Yes. 819 00:38:20,508 --> 00:38:24,854 I use her to clarify and correct stories that appear now and then. 820 00:38:24,912 --> 00:38:28,052 Isn't it a fact that your publicist contacted 821 00:38:28,115 --> 00:38:30,061 the reporter who wrote this article? 822 00:38:30,117 --> 00:38:33,291 Your Honor, Mr. McCoy has no right to attack me, 823 00:38:33,354 --> 00:38:34,595 to attack my private behavior. 824 00:38:34,656 --> 00:38:35,964 Please, Mr. Abbott. 825 00:38:36,024 --> 00:38:38,334 To be dragging my private life into this. 826 00:38:38,393 --> 00:38:41,465 He's no better than that son of a bitch, Marco. 827 00:38:54,242 --> 00:38:57,985 The right to free speech is not more important than the right to privacy, 828 00:38:58,046 --> 00:39:00,458 the right to be left alone. 829 00:39:00,515 --> 00:39:03,428 Which one of you would like to be secretly photographed while sunbathing? 830 00:39:03,485 --> 00:39:07,763 Or while on your honeymoon? Or coming home with a newborn baby? 831 00:39:07,823 --> 00:39:11,532 Mr. Marco pursued Mr. Abbott's wife, he hunted her down, 832 00:39:11,593 --> 00:39:15,473 until she ran in front of a taxi. And what did the State do? 833 00:39:15,530 --> 00:39:18,136 A rap on the knuckles, and let him go. 834 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,477 Let him go to hunt down Laura Abbott. 835 00:39:21,536 --> 00:39:24,484 He set her in his sights as surely as if he held a gun. 836 00:39:26,042 --> 00:39:27,885 Now, Mr. McCoy has pointed out 837 00:39:27,944 --> 00:39:29,753 that there are ways to respond 838 00:39:29,812 --> 00:39:31,257 to what you read in the press. 839 00:39:31,314 --> 00:39:34,022 Letters to the editor. That's all fine. 840 00:39:34,851 --> 00:39:36,922 But Mr. Abbott was facing life and death. 841 00:39:36,986 --> 00:39:39,193 His daughter's life and death. 842 00:39:40,289 --> 00:39:42,530 No time to write letters. 843 00:39:43,593 --> 00:39:47,837 Mr. Abbott shot Mr. Marco. But he did it in the heat of the moment. 844 00:39:48,998 --> 00:39:54,038 Mr. Marco provoked my client. He drove him to fire that gun. 845 00:40:01,210 --> 00:40:05,158 Of course, people should be protected 846 00:40:05,214 --> 00:40:08,388 against gross invasions of their privacy. 847 00:40:09,285 --> 00:40:11,356 There should be limits. 848 00:40:12,488 --> 00:40:15,527 But there must also be constraints on what a man can do 849 00:40:15,592 --> 00:40:18,072 when his privacy has been invaded. 850 00:40:18,829 --> 00:40:21,776 Even when his family's privacy has been invaded. 851 00:40:23,767 --> 00:40:30,514 Now, you may like Mr. Abbott and sympathize with him. 852 00:40:32,443 --> 00:40:36,016 And you may not like Mr. Marco. 853 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,617 From what I know of Mr. Marco, I don't much like him. 854 00:40:38,682 --> 00:40:40,389 And I don't much like what he was going to do. 855 00:40:40,451 --> 00:40:44,297 But that cannot be a justification for what happened to him. 856 00:40:46,657 --> 00:40:49,638 We may not like tabloid journalism 857 00:40:49,693 --> 00:40:52,799 and the cult of celebrity that it feeds. 858 00:40:54,331 --> 00:40:59,804 The hunger for fame over virtue, for gossip over integrity. 859 00:41:01,405 --> 00:41:06,185 To us it may seem an unpleasant, miserable, disgusting game 860 00:41:06,244 --> 00:41:09,453 with which we would prefer to have nothing to do. 861 00:41:10,148 --> 00:41:14,426 But Mr. Abbott participated in it willingly. 862 00:41:16,020 --> 00:41:17,624 It was only when it turned against him 863 00:41:17,689 --> 00:41:20,101 that he took out his gun and shot Mr. Marco. 864 00:41:21,026 --> 00:41:26,135 We may not want a world in which celebrity and gossip 865 00:41:26,197 --> 00:41:28,404 are all mixed up with news. 866 00:41:30,268 --> 00:41:31,474 It's messy. 867 00:41:34,973 --> 00:41:37,647 But our society can survive the mess. 868 00:41:37,709 --> 00:41:40,781 What it cannot survive without 869 00:41:40,845 --> 00:41:45,157 is the free and easy exchange of information. 870 00:41:45,216 --> 00:41:48,629 All kinds of information. Even if it's unpleasant. 871 00:41:48,686 --> 00:41:52,259 Even if it's irrelevant. Even if it's just gossip. 872 00:41:53,992 --> 00:41:57,440 We sort it out and we blunder on, 873 00:41:58,130 --> 00:42:00,337 but we blunder on free. 874 00:42:00,399 --> 00:42:04,142 The only alternative is a world in which people, 875 00:42:04,203 --> 00:42:08,083 if they're smart enough, rich enough, powerful enough, 876 00:42:08,741 --> 00:42:10,220 likable enough, 877 00:42:11,610 --> 00:42:13,817 can stop the truth from being told. 878 00:42:14,947 --> 00:42:20,021 Warren Abbott shot Philip Marco to shut him up! 879 00:42:22,388 --> 00:42:26,598 With premeditation. In cold blood. 880 00:42:28,794 --> 00:42:32,401 Because he didn't like what Mr. Marco was going to write. 881 00:42:44,276 --> 00:42:45,619 Has the jury reached a verdict? 882 00:42:45,911 --> 00:42:47,789 Yes, we have, Your Honor. 883 00:42:47,847 --> 00:42:50,350 JUDGE: On the first count of the indictment, murder in the Second Degree, 884 00:42:50,417 --> 00:42:51,725 how do you find? 885 00:42:51,785 --> 00:42:55,392 The jury finds the defendant, Warren Abbott, not guilty. 886 00:42:55,455 --> 00:42:57,025 On the second count of the indictment, 887 00:42:57,090 --> 00:42:58,626 manslaughter in the First Degree, 888 00:42:58,692 --> 00:42:59,796 how do you find? 889 00:42:59,860 --> 00:43:02,363 We find the defendant not guilty. 890 00:43:02,429 --> 00:43:04,409 On the third count of the indictment, 891 00:43:04,464 --> 00:43:06,000 manslaughter in the Second Degree, 892 00:43:06,066 --> 00:43:07,841 how do you find? 893 00:43:08,134 --> 00:43:10,136 We find the defendant guilty. 894 00:43:30,524 --> 00:43:31,798 (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) 895 00:43:31,858 --> 00:43:33,963 Man two, seven years max. 896 00:43:35,228 --> 00:43:38,038 Want to give odds he doesn't do even that? 897 00:43:38,098 --> 00:43:42,172 I see Abbott isn't trying to prevent the press from doing its job today. 898 00:43:42,236 --> 00:43:43,977 Today, it's news.