1 00:00:00,882 --> 00:00:02,713 In the criminal justice system... 2 00:00:02,784 --> 00:00:06,618 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: 3 00:00:06,688 --> 00:00:08,519 The police who investigate crime... 4 00:00:08,590 --> 00:00:11,354 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,426 --> 00:00:13,121 These are their stories. 6 00:00:16,532 --> 00:00:18,762 On a school night, she did that? 7 00:00:18,835 --> 00:00:20,325 What am I gonna do? 8 00:00:20,403 --> 00:00:21,529 Don't let her out. 9 00:00:21,604 --> 00:00:24,698 Well, she says if I lock her in the bedroom... 10 00:00:24,774 --> 00:00:26,435 she's going out the window. 11 00:00:26,509 --> 00:00:28,704 You ever seen those clubs they go to? 12 00:00:28,978 --> 00:00:30,412 Fifteen years old. 13 00:00:30,614 --> 00:00:32,741 Your hell years are just beginning. 14 00:00:35,486 --> 00:00:37,613 2:30. Cooper's already in? 15 00:00:39,657 --> 00:00:41,420 Not on a Wednesday, he ain't. 16 00:00:41,492 --> 00:00:43,357 Hey, Billy? Cooper? 17 00:00:44,629 --> 00:00:46,119 Hey, Coop. 18 00:00:47,098 --> 00:00:48,429 Oh, man... 19 00:00:52,871 --> 00:00:55,237 What the hell happened in here? Coop! 20 00:00:58,576 --> 00:00:59,737 Billy! 21 00:01:09,622 --> 00:01:11,146 Oh, man... 22 00:01:12,058 --> 00:01:13,116 Look at that. 23 00:01:13,192 --> 00:01:15,320 Practically singed the buttons off. 24 00:01:15,762 --> 00:01:17,753 Couple of feet away at the most. 25 00:01:17,931 --> 00:01:20,126 Yeah, two in the chest at close range. 26 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,327 Somebody wasn't taking any chances. 27 00:01:22,502 --> 00:01:24,663 Cooper, William. 56. 28 00:01:24,738 --> 00:01:26,103 Owned the place. 29 00:01:27,307 --> 00:01:28,535 Jimmied open. 30 00:01:28,975 --> 00:01:31,809 Some crackhead didn't expect to find anybody home. 31 00:01:32,313 --> 00:01:35,578 Right. So they struggled, and the crackhead shot him. 32 00:01:35,750 --> 00:01:39,584 I hope Officer Kenney isn't taking the Sergeant's Exam real soon. 33 00:01:39,721 --> 00:01:42,189 Tough going on the spatial relations test. 34 00:01:42,523 --> 00:01:44,048 I'm good at geometry. 35 00:01:44,426 --> 00:01:45,450 Yeah? 36 00:01:45,527 --> 00:01:48,257 Well, you got an overturned file cabinet here... 37 00:01:48,764 --> 00:01:50,595 lot of papers on the floor... 38 00:01:50,733 --> 00:01:52,428 but nothing much in the middle. 39 00:01:52,501 --> 00:01:54,696 So, what did they do, have a fight... 40 00:01:54,837 --> 00:01:56,498 take a break for a snack... 41 00:01:56,572 --> 00:01:58,437 and then switch to the other side here? 42 00:01:58,507 --> 00:02:02,911 Then, when the bell rang at the end of round one, they walked into the back office. 43 00:02:05,248 --> 00:02:07,239 I guess maybe there was no fight. 44 00:02:07,317 --> 00:02:09,046 It's worth thinking about. 45 00:02:10,854 --> 00:02:14,256 Outside. CSU thinks he used it to pry the door. 46 00:02:14,325 --> 00:02:16,225 Oh, let me see that. 47 00:02:17,728 --> 00:02:18,922 I love it. 48 00:02:19,764 --> 00:02:21,823 He breaks in, shoots the guy... 49 00:02:22,066 --> 00:02:24,864 then he goes outside and breaks in again. 50 00:02:25,536 --> 00:02:27,094 Guy was in a hurry. 51 00:02:27,872 --> 00:02:29,272 In the back alley. 52 00:02:29,741 --> 00:02:31,299 Gets better by the minute. 53 00:02:31,376 --> 00:02:34,436 Kills for petty cash, tosses a $500 gun. 54 00:02:34,513 --> 00:02:36,105 Get this to Forensics. 55 00:02:37,048 --> 00:02:40,211 Any other brilliant theories, let us know. 56 00:02:41,953 --> 00:02:44,855 You keep pictures around of your daughter like that? 57 00:02:45,858 --> 00:02:47,519 It's not his daughter. 58 00:02:47,593 --> 00:02:49,254 Unless he's into incest. 59 00:02:50,396 --> 00:02:51,920 Mister and Missus. 60 00:03:46,957 --> 00:03:49,892 Who? I mean, who would kill William? 61 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,220 Well, did your husband have any problems with his employees? 62 00:03:53,296 --> 00:03:55,457 I mean, anyone who was angry at him? 63 00:03:55,799 --> 00:03:58,564 Why did he go down there? 64 00:03:59,503 --> 00:04:02,961 People work for him. Why does he do it himself? 65 00:04:03,441 --> 00:04:04,738 What about friends? 66 00:04:04,809 --> 00:04:07,334 Could he have possibly gone to see a friend? 67 00:04:07,912 --> 00:04:09,709 I know of no one like this. 68 00:04:10,815 --> 00:04:12,749 I don't know William's friends. 69 00:04:12,985 --> 00:04:16,580 Maybe if we could see his phone list, datebook... 70 00:04:17,155 --> 00:04:19,180 I look for this, okay? 71 00:04:20,592 --> 00:04:24,323 We were going to have our second anniversary soon. 72 00:04:27,667 --> 00:04:29,567 I came here to be safe... 73 00:04:29,936 --> 00:04:31,665 they kill my husband. 74 00:04:32,238 --> 00:04:34,331 Well, Mrs. Cooper, I'm sorry to do this to you... 75 00:04:34,407 --> 00:04:37,638 but I'm going to have to ask you where you were last night. 76 00:04:41,447 --> 00:04:42,574 Me? 77 00:04:50,024 --> 00:04:51,821 Mrs. Cooper... 78 00:04:55,195 --> 00:04:56,457 I understand. 79 00:04:57,031 --> 00:05:00,798 In Moscow, they ask where were you, it's certain you'll next go to jail. 80 00:05:00,869 --> 00:05:02,734 No, no, we're not arresting you. 81 00:05:02,804 --> 00:05:05,204 Now, please, just tell us where you were. 82 00:05:06,041 --> 00:05:08,032 I was home. 83 00:05:08,810 --> 00:05:11,210 Like always. Waiting for William. 84 00:05:11,446 --> 00:05:13,711 Okay. Were you home all night? 85 00:05:14,250 --> 00:05:15,615 Yes... Well, no. 86 00:05:16,185 --> 00:05:17,311 I went out... 87 00:05:17,386 --> 00:05:19,149 to get pastry... 88 00:05:20,189 --> 00:05:21,884 for his breakfast. 89 00:05:23,993 --> 00:05:27,953 I can bake for him, but he likes it better from the market. 90 00:05:33,503 --> 00:05:36,438 I told him, "For God's sake, don't go down there alone." 91 00:05:36,506 --> 00:05:37,734 The dumb son of a bitch. 92 00:05:37,808 --> 00:05:40,641 Phil, he's dead. Getting angry isn't going to help. 93 00:05:40,911 --> 00:05:42,903 You saw Irina? She's okay? 94 00:05:44,315 --> 00:05:45,646 Poor broad. 95 00:05:45,717 --> 00:05:48,550 You know, she was the best thing ever happened to him. 96 00:05:48,619 --> 00:05:49,745 Vacation in Russia. 97 00:05:49,821 --> 00:05:52,722 We all think he's nuts, till he comes back with her. 98 00:05:52,790 --> 00:05:54,519 Well, she said... 99 00:05:54,592 --> 00:05:56,184 he had some paperwork. 100 00:05:56,661 --> 00:05:58,186 Yeah, weekend orders. 101 00:05:58,263 --> 00:05:59,924 We're restaurant trade. 102 00:06:00,466 --> 00:06:02,297 I could've done them tonight. 103 00:06:03,135 --> 00:06:06,400 It'll be like Grand Central Station down there, getting ready for the rush. 104 00:06:06,472 --> 00:06:09,964 Well, then he must've had some reason for going there last night. 105 00:06:10,442 --> 00:06:13,742 Well, him and Irina had plans tonight, for their anniversary. 106 00:06:14,681 --> 00:06:17,115 What are you asking? Why he was there? 107 00:06:17,617 --> 00:06:19,312 It was a break-in, right? 108 00:06:19,386 --> 00:06:21,752 You were close to Mr. Cooper, weren't you? 109 00:06:21,821 --> 00:06:23,049 Close enough. 110 00:06:23,123 --> 00:06:24,351 Mr. Guardino... 111 00:06:24,424 --> 00:06:26,483 this is a murder investigation. 112 00:06:27,695 --> 00:06:29,322 You think Billy wasn't clean? 113 00:06:29,397 --> 00:06:32,730 The meat business has an odor all its own, not always from the cattle. 114 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,861 Billy was the guy who stood against the wall at the junior prom. 115 00:06:36,937 --> 00:06:39,167 Forget enemies, the guy didn't have friends. 116 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:40,764 Mr. Excitement. 117 00:06:41,175 --> 00:06:42,973 Did he happen to own a gun? 118 00:06:44,646 --> 00:06:47,046 Yeah. A Browning. 119 00:06:47,182 --> 00:06:49,946 He kept it next to his desk. Why? 120 00:06:51,553 --> 00:06:55,250 Fifteen million hand guns, most of them don't stray far from home. 121 00:06:55,323 --> 00:06:57,519 Killed with his own gun. Big surprise. 122 00:06:57,593 --> 00:07:00,391 No employees with yellow sheets or O.C. connections... 123 00:07:00,463 --> 00:07:02,863 no prints on the gun or the screwdriver. 124 00:07:02,932 --> 00:07:04,229 And a phony struggle. 125 00:07:04,300 --> 00:07:06,791 The shooter knew him, or knew he was there. 126 00:07:07,003 --> 00:07:08,027 Or not. 127 00:07:08,104 --> 00:07:10,971 Someone shows up, doesn't look threatening, he lets them in. 128 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,169 Yeah, the wife wouldn't look too threatening wrapped in one of those furs. 129 00:07:14,244 --> 00:07:17,179 Come on, man. She said she was a student in Russia, not an actress. 130 00:07:17,247 --> 00:07:18,908 Hey, I can cry at a traffic ticket. 131 00:07:18,982 --> 00:07:21,542 I mean, two cops. She could work up some tears. 132 00:07:21,618 --> 00:07:23,108 You know, the back security door... 133 00:07:23,187 --> 00:07:25,553 of her apartment building leads directly to the street. 134 00:07:25,622 --> 00:07:28,353 Now, she could have gone out without the doorman ever seeing. 135 00:07:28,426 --> 00:07:30,587 Wives always shoot husbands? 136 00:07:30,662 --> 00:07:32,061 Do you happen to have a motive? 137 00:07:32,130 --> 00:07:35,429 He's 56, she's 26. He's rich, she's gorgeous. 138 00:07:35,500 --> 00:07:36,694 I gotta be a genius? 139 00:07:36,768 --> 00:07:39,635 How rich was he? Do we know what he was worth? 140 00:07:40,105 --> 00:07:44,566 Bloomingdale's was $2,000 a month, up until three months ago. 141 00:07:44,710 --> 00:07:46,234 Then it just stops short. 142 00:07:46,312 --> 00:07:48,712 Like maybe he cut up her charge card? 143 00:07:49,248 --> 00:07:50,943 Not for lack of cash. 144 00:07:51,317 --> 00:07:53,717 $190,000 in a money market. 145 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:56,279 Would you kill for that? 146 00:07:56,356 --> 00:07:59,154 If you can live on $6,000 a year in interest. 147 00:08:02,095 --> 00:08:03,119 Two years ago... 148 00:08:03,196 --> 00:08:07,633 $10,000 to the Russian-American Friendship League. 149 00:08:07,734 --> 00:08:09,929 He must've really loved her mother country. 150 00:08:10,003 --> 00:08:11,995 Russian-America... We got that. 151 00:08:22,884 --> 00:08:25,182 That $10,000 wasn't out of generosity. 152 00:08:26,388 --> 00:08:28,720 Magda, age 20. 153 00:08:29,424 --> 00:08:31,756 Svetlana, 22... 154 00:08:32,261 --> 00:08:35,059 and looking for a considerate American gentleman. 155 00:08:35,164 --> 00:08:37,257 All that's missing is the appliance section. 156 00:08:37,332 --> 00:08:39,857 This is a Sears catalogue for wives. 157 00:08:44,674 --> 00:08:46,073 Cooper... 158 00:08:46,743 --> 00:08:50,645 A week at the Hotel Metropol, met with several women... 159 00:08:51,247 --> 00:08:52,646 fell for Irina. 160 00:08:52,715 --> 00:08:54,307 The first Mrs. Cooper. 161 00:08:56,086 --> 00:08:57,678 How about you fellas? 162 00:08:58,389 --> 00:09:01,790 You still cheek-by-jowl with your blushing brides? 163 00:09:02,326 --> 00:09:04,624 Two priors, no conviction. 164 00:09:05,062 --> 00:09:06,552 You run a lovely business. 165 00:09:06,630 --> 00:09:09,724 Cooper wanted what a lot of guys want, and bitch they aren't getting. 166 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,964 Hot meals and no migraines when you blow in her ear. 167 00:09:13,038 --> 00:09:14,232 What about Irina? 168 00:09:14,306 --> 00:09:17,503 I guess all she cared about was the bulge in his wallet, huh? 169 00:09:17,576 --> 00:09:20,204 How do girls like her feel after they get their citizenship? 170 00:09:20,278 --> 00:09:24,214 When you're on your first coffee break, Ivan and Boris are on their third vodkas. 171 00:09:24,282 --> 00:09:25,978 Cooper would look good to you, too. 172 00:09:26,052 --> 00:09:27,849 Maybe it isn't love, but what is? 173 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:30,218 Whatever it is, you're not gonna find it in a catalogue. 174 00:09:30,289 --> 00:09:32,348 So Cooper wanted a wife and didn't know how to do it. 175 00:09:32,425 --> 00:09:34,222 Who are you to smile down your nose? 176 00:09:34,293 --> 00:09:35,624 Who, me? 177 00:09:35,895 --> 00:09:38,728 I'm the kind of guy who thinks you don't buy women like groceries. 178 00:09:38,798 --> 00:09:40,699 About the citizenship papers. 179 00:09:40,767 --> 00:09:42,359 When does Mrs. Cooper get hers? 180 00:09:42,436 --> 00:09:46,202 Normally two years. Irina had another eight weeks. 181 00:09:47,975 --> 00:09:49,670 How easy is it? 182 00:09:49,843 --> 00:09:51,401 All right, I'll wait. 183 00:09:52,045 --> 00:09:53,979 Buys his wife from a catalogue. 184 00:09:54,348 --> 00:09:56,613 Whatever happened to long stems and chocolates? 185 00:09:56,684 --> 00:09:58,879 Hey, the guy was a middle-aged nerd. 186 00:09:58,953 --> 00:10:00,250 You gotta feel sorry for him. 187 00:10:00,321 --> 00:10:01,652 I feel sorry for her. 188 00:10:01,723 --> 00:10:04,988 What, two lonely people in the night? Wait till you get to be 55. 189 00:10:05,059 --> 00:10:06,720 I don't care how lonely he was. 190 00:10:06,794 --> 00:10:09,923 Hey, you want to hang out with someone, you want to get to know them... 191 00:10:09,999 --> 00:10:11,762 you talk to them, maybe they come home with you. 192 00:10:11,834 --> 00:10:14,394 You don't have to buy some desperate kid from Russia. 193 00:10:14,470 --> 00:10:16,461 Excuse me, Robert Redford. 194 00:10:16,538 --> 00:10:17,664 Yeah? 195 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,208 All right. Thanks, Eddie. 196 00:10:21,410 --> 00:10:23,571 Boy, the INS really believes in marriage. 197 00:10:23,646 --> 00:10:26,980 You get divorced before two years, you don't get to salute the flag. 198 00:10:27,050 --> 00:10:29,644 And if you're still married when your sponsor stops a bullet? 199 00:10:29,719 --> 00:10:33,621 Then they call it special circumstances, and Irina gets her papers without Billy. 200 00:10:33,690 --> 00:10:37,319 All right, it's only a motive if he was getting divorced, which he wasn't. 201 00:10:37,394 --> 00:10:38,554 Maybe. 202 00:10:38,695 --> 00:10:40,095 Look, the marriage broker said... 203 00:10:40,164 --> 00:10:43,224 that Cooper stayed in touch with another couple he arranged. 204 00:10:43,301 --> 00:10:46,202 You're new here, maybe you talk to other people in the same boat, huh? 205 00:10:46,270 --> 00:10:47,965 Come on. I'll drive. 206 00:10:49,907 --> 00:10:51,807 It's been at least a year. 207 00:10:51,876 --> 00:10:53,673 This Cooper fellow, he was... 208 00:10:53,744 --> 00:10:57,272 pardon me, not so big in the socializing department. 209 00:10:57,916 --> 00:10:59,076 How about the wife? 210 00:10:59,151 --> 00:11:01,142 Well, we really didn't know her that well. 211 00:11:01,219 --> 00:11:03,210 Irina and Billy nice people. 212 00:11:03,288 --> 00:11:06,382 Very nice, very happy. Like me. 213 00:11:06,692 --> 00:11:09,890 I give her whatever she wants, so she's happy. 214 00:11:10,797 --> 00:11:12,264 Well, Mr. Berman... 215 00:11:12,465 --> 00:11:15,366 your wife just said how happy the Coopers were. 216 00:11:15,535 --> 00:11:18,333 You just said you hadn't talked to them in a year. 217 00:11:18,538 --> 00:11:20,130 So how would she know? 218 00:11:20,907 --> 00:11:21,999 What's this about? 219 00:11:22,075 --> 00:11:23,406 Mrs. Berman... 220 00:11:23,676 --> 00:11:25,872 did Irina have any problems at home? 221 00:11:29,650 --> 00:11:33,177 Irina, she wants to be out of the house. 222 00:11:33,354 --> 00:11:34,582 She wanted a separation? 223 00:11:34,655 --> 00:11:36,179 No, to be out. 224 00:11:36,490 --> 00:11:39,085 To have, you know, own life. 225 00:11:40,028 --> 00:11:41,962 She gets job to have own money. 226 00:11:42,364 --> 00:11:43,592 William is not happy. 227 00:11:43,665 --> 00:11:47,658 So, the hot meals and the housework weren't quite enough for her? 228 00:11:48,036 --> 00:11:49,628 My wife made a friend. 229 00:11:50,238 --> 00:11:51,535 I didn't like Cooper. 230 00:11:51,606 --> 00:11:53,836 I wouldn't have him in for cocktails. 231 00:11:54,410 --> 00:11:56,640 Irina is some kind of lab technician. 232 00:11:56,712 --> 00:11:58,407 I'll get you her number. 233 00:12:03,252 --> 00:12:05,413 Irene worked three afternoons a week. 234 00:12:05,488 --> 00:12:07,547 I told her to take a few days off. 235 00:12:07,623 --> 00:12:11,458 Irene? I guess she was more American here than at home. 236 00:12:11,528 --> 00:12:12,927 She does excellent work. 237 00:12:12,996 --> 00:12:15,396 I don't know how you judge people, but that's enough for me. 238 00:12:15,465 --> 00:12:17,456 Her husband must use a different kind of yardstick. 239 00:12:17,534 --> 00:12:19,229 We heard he didn't want her out of the house. 240 00:12:19,302 --> 00:12:21,600 If you're suggesting that- Hey, really, that's crazy. 241 00:12:21,671 --> 00:12:24,300 Excuse me. I have to check on some blood tests. 242 00:12:26,277 --> 00:12:28,711 They've become friends. 243 00:12:29,313 --> 00:12:32,976 Maybe you can tell us what she's keeping locked up in her test tube. 244 00:12:33,351 --> 00:12:34,841 Cooper was here one night. 245 00:12:34,919 --> 00:12:37,080 The only night she ever worked late. 246 00:12:37,355 --> 00:12:39,256 And he wanted her to come home. 247 00:12:39,324 --> 00:12:40,621 Nothing major. 248 00:12:52,471 --> 00:12:55,600 You were here the night her husband stopped by, right? 249 00:12:56,943 --> 00:12:59,309 Do you know why Cooper went to Russia? 250 00:13:02,081 --> 00:13:05,539 These guys want women to clean the house, raise the kids... 251 00:13:05,752 --> 00:13:08,722 and then prance around in a teddy when they get home. 252 00:13:09,156 --> 00:13:13,024 Well, Miss Farrell, are we talking about Irina Cooper's problems or yours? 253 00:13:13,093 --> 00:13:14,754 Her husband was a jerk. 254 00:13:15,763 --> 00:13:18,664 Irina has a son in Russia, six years old. 255 00:13:19,366 --> 00:13:20,856 Cooper wouldn't bring him over. 256 00:13:20,935 --> 00:13:23,166 Maybe she felt she deserved better. 257 00:13:23,238 --> 00:13:25,365 I deserve better from this company. 258 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:27,704 Doesn't mean I'm gonna kill my boss. 259 00:13:30,011 --> 00:13:31,444 The lady's got a point. 260 00:13:31,513 --> 00:13:34,949 Every disgruntled wife kills her husband, they'd be lined up to Poughkeepsie. 261 00:13:35,016 --> 00:13:38,418 Hey, disgruntled is when they're picking your underwear up off the floor. 262 00:13:38,488 --> 00:13:41,821 I mean, Irina travels 10,000 miles to get a new life... 263 00:13:41,891 --> 00:13:45,019 and Billy boy slips a piston every time she looks out the window. 264 00:13:45,094 --> 00:13:47,324 Plus, he leaves her kid stranded in Moscow. 265 00:13:47,396 --> 00:13:48,658 Is that motive? 266 00:13:48,731 --> 00:13:50,562 Well, he cut off her charge cards. 267 00:13:50,633 --> 00:13:53,501 I mean, he promised her the dream and he gave her dreck. 268 00:13:53,570 --> 00:13:56,061 And if he says "divorce," she goes back to Russia. 269 00:13:56,139 --> 00:13:58,664 That's motive. Prove it, I'd be convinced. 270 00:13:58,976 --> 00:14:00,034 Mike? 271 00:14:00,611 --> 00:14:04,411 I don't know. Yeah, she probably knew he had the gun. 272 00:14:04,481 --> 00:14:06,449 I just don't see this particular woman... 273 00:14:06,517 --> 00:14:08,452 going down there, popping him... 274 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:10,454 and crying three hours later when we walk in. 275 00:14:10,522 --> 00:14:11,784 I don't see that. 276 00:14:11,856 --> 00:14:13,653 Wait a minute. 277 00:14:13,992 --> 00:14:18,258 Cooper was down there alone that night because they had plans for the next night. 278 00:14:18,329 --> 00:14:20,661 The night he was supposed to go into the office. 279 00:14:20,732 --> 00:14:23,566 Now, what I want to know is, who made the plan? 280 00:14:26,205 --> 00:14:29,231 Thursday night, "Irene," followed by a question mark. 281 00:14:29,475 --> 00:14:32,376 Now, this guy made a note to himself every time he hiccupped. 282 00:14:32,444 --> 00:14:34,435 How come he didn't know what kind of plans she had? 283 00:14:34,513 --> 00:14:35,707 Does that matter? 284 00:14:35,781 --> 00:14:38,478 Yeah, it matters if she didn't have any plan. 285 00:14:38,952 --> 00:14:41,819 If she was just trying to get him down there alone. 286 00:14:43,723 --> 00:14:46,749 Your husband wasn't happy about your working. 287 00:14:47,494 --> 00:14:48,961 William understands. 288 00:14:49,262 --> 00:14:51,321 I have education, I want to work. 289 00:14:51,398 --> 00:14:52,730 You have a son in Russia. 290 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:54,529 Mr. Cooper didn't want him to come over here. 291 00:14:54,602 --> 00:14:56,126 Oh, no, no. 292 00:14:56,604 --> 00:15:00,199 William just wanted to wait until we have child together. 293 00:15:00,274 --> 00:15:03,107 Mrs. Cooper, your husband worked that night... 294 00:15:03,544 --> 00:15:06,570 because you both made plans for the next night, right? 295 00:15:07,249 --> 00:15:09,513 Can you tell us what those plans were? 296 00:15:13,722 --> 00:15:15,815 It was William's idea. 297 00:15:16,425 --> 00:15:20,293 He likes Broadway musicals, so we had tickets. 298 00:15:20,362 --> 00:15:23,890 Well, you wouldn't have gone to the theater the night after your husband died. 299 00:15:23,967 --> 00:15:26,765 So, do you happen to have those tickets? 300 00:15:31,007 --> 00:15:33,271 This is not right, what you are doing. 301 00:15:33,776 --> 00:15:36,904 You think I wanted my husband to be shot? 302 00:15:38,115 --> 00:15:40,709 You call my friends, go where I work... 303 00:15:40,784 --> 00:15:42,046 So, you don't have the tickets? 304 00:15:42,119 --> 00:15:43,484 If I do not? 305 00:15:45,623 --> 00:15:48,956 You think I lied to William so I could kill him? 306 00:16:13,953 --> 00:16:16,148 William would've liked to go. 307 00:16:17,390 --> 00:16:19,950 Maybe you can trade them in. Take your wife. 308 00:16:21,260 --> 00:16:25,322 Thursday night. $65 a piece. Guys and Dolls. 309 00:16:29,703 --> 00:16:30,795 It's possible. 310 00:16:30,871 --> 00:16:32,839 The tickets keep him out of the office Thursday... 311 00:16:32,906 --> 00:16:35,101 when it's busy, get him in when it's deserted. 312 00:16:35,175 --> 00:16:38,145 Listen to what we're saying. She didn't have the tickets, we nail her. 313 00:16:38,212 --> 00:16:40,146 She did have the tickets, we still nail her. 314 00:16:40,214 --> 00:16:42,910 The only way she wins is if she's in a sauna with six witnesses. 315 00:16:42,984 --> 00:16:45,544 Mike, she did know he was there alone. 316 00:16:45,620 --> 00:16:46,848 That's right. 317 00:16:46,921 --> 00:16:49,048 Oh, yeah? Well, if she's so smart... 318 00:16:49,123 --> 00:16:51,148 how come she didn't make that phony break-in look real? 319 00:16:51,225 --> 00:16:54,389 You know what I think? She reminds you of some kind of wife you don't like. 320 00:16:54,463 --> 00:16:56,124 Okay, so I'm not crazy about her. 321 00:16:56,198 --> 00:16:58,792 From what I hear, I'm not crazy about her late husband, either. 322 00:16:58,867 --> 00:17:02,098 Look, I listened to her, I looked at her. 323 00:17:02,337 --> 00:17:04,737 You can call it instinct, you can call it whatever you want. 324 00:17:04,807 --> 00:17:06,069 No way she pulled the trigger. 325 00:17:06,141 --> 00:17:07,666 Maybe she had help. 326 00:17:09,079 --> 00:17:10,444 Maybe. 327 00:17:10,547 --> 00:17:12,344 I could buy she's involved. 328 00:17:12,549 --> 00:17:14,380 Say she was home when he got hit. 329 00:17:14,451 --> 00:17:17,215 She went out. Maybe she was waiting for a phone call. 330 00:17:17,287 --> 00:17:18,948 Yeah. Job's done, honey. 331 00:17:19,022 --> 00:17:21,958 Then she goes and meets somebody, and they get their stories straight. 332 00:17:22,026 --> 00:17:23,516 But not over the phone. 333 00:17:23,594 --> 00:17:26,392 The doorman said Danish from a Korean market. 334 00:17:26,464 --> 00:17:29,024 Get a picture of the lady. Take a stroll. 335 00:17:33,804 --> 00:17:34,862 This is eight. 336 00:17:34,939 --> 00:17:36,498 How many more of these delis are we gonna do? 337 00:17:36,575 --> 00:17:38,839 Wait, you don't think this is worthwhile? 338 00:17:38,910 --> 00:17:40,844 Listen, Cooper wanted her home. 339 00:17:40,912 --> 00:17:41,936 Midnight. 340 00:17:42,013 --> 00:17:45,949 Shouldn't she have already bought the Danish and be home waiting for him? 341 00:17:46,718 --> 00:17:48,982 Unless she knew he wasn't coming home. 342 00:17:49,154 --> 00:17:51,248 Thank you. Let's keep going. 343 00:17:53,292 --> 00:17:54,520 Yeah... 344 00:17:55,228 --> 00:17:56,661 The Russian fox. 345 00:17:57,430 --> 00:17:58,954 I guess you know her pretty well. 346 00:17:59,031 --> 00:18:01,226 She's in a lot. What'd she do? 347 00:18:01,501 --> 00:18:04,061 You see her Wednesday night, 12:00, 12:30? 348 00:18:04,737 --> 00:18:06,137 She was... 349 00:18:06,206 --> 00:18:09,334 She was here late once. I don't remember the night. 350 00:18:09,543 --> 00:18:12,444 Buying stuff with her husband, lucky guy. 351 00:18:12,513 --> 00:18:14,777 Yeah, 50s, a little overweight, right? 352 00:18:14,948 --> 00:18:16,848 What are you talking about? He was in his 30s... 353 00:18:16,917 --> 00:18:19,112 looks kind of like you, but shorter. 354 00:18:20,855 --> 00:18:22,948 I really need to know which night. 355 00:18:26,594 --> 00:18:27,856 Ma. 356 00:18:36,071 --> 00:18:39,165 Wednesday night. Some kid spilled soda on my chemistry book. 357 00:18:39,241 --> 00:18:41,539 All right, now the guy with the Russian fox... 358 00:18:41,610 --> 00:18:42,907 did you get a good look at him? 359 00:18:42,978 --> 00:18:44,070 Sort of. He was... 360 00:18:44,146 --> 00:18:46,842 He was hanging around outside. Kept looking in to hurry her. 361 00:18:46,916 --> 00:18:48,110 Here's my card. 362 00:18:48,184 --> 00:18:49,515 I'm gonna be calling you, okay? 363 00:18:49,585 --> 00:18:51,577 All right. Thanks a lot. 364 00:18:55,826 --> 00:18:57,555 I was wrong. Oh? 365 00:18:58,428 --> 00:19:00,521 We got enough to get a warrant to go to her apartment? 366 00:19:00,597 --> 00:19:01,791 Judge Beck'll think so. 367 00:19:01,865 --> 00:19:03,423 We'll wake him up in the morning. 368 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:05,298 I'll bring him some Danish. 369 00:19:14,512 --> 00:19:16,343 I do not have a boyfriend. 370 00:19:16,814 --> 00:19:19,408 Who were you with that night, the dog-walker? 371 00:19:19,817 --> 00:19:21,251 Oh, the clerk. 372 00:19:21,386 --> 00:19:24,355 He always looks at me. He wants to dream about me. 373 00:19:25,057 --> 00:19:27,548 Your boyfriend was 10 feet away. 374 00:19:27,793 --> 00:19:29,420 I don't think the clerk was dreaming. 375 00:19:29,494 --> 00:19:30,961 Hey, Mike. 376 00:19:33,065 --> 00:19:36,558 "Submitted to Federal Insurance Company by William Cooper. 377 00:19:36,636 --> 00:19:39,036 "A bill from the Westside Women's Clinic. 378 00:19:39,272 --> 00:19:41,206 "Services for Irina Cooper. 379 00:19:42,008 --> 00:19:44,977 "D and C, vacuum suction. Outpatient elective... 380 00:19:45,645 --> 00:19:46,942 "abortion." 381 00:19:47,614 --> 00:19:50,175 It was a medical problem. 382 00:19:51,252 --> 00:19:52,981 We were sorry to lose the child. 383 00:19:53,053 --> 00:19:55,021 It says elective abortion. 384 00:19:55,422 --> 00:19:56,946 What made you decide? 385 00:20:02,263 --> 00:20:04,595 I might remember her. I might not. 386 00:20:05,033 --> 00:20:06,432 I wouldn't tell you if I did. 387 00:20:06,501 --> 00:20:08,332 Come on, Doc, we know the rules. 388 00:20:08,403 --> 00:20:11,566 Then you know patients have the absolute right to confidentiality. 389 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:13,767 Yeah, that's as far as medical records. 390 00:20:13,842 --> 00:20:15,070 We don't care about her blood test. 391 00:20:15,143 --> 00:20:16,735 We just want to know what her husband said. 392 00:20:16,811 --> 00:20:18,506 Is that under patient privilege? 393 00:20:18,580 --> 00:20:21,072 Doc, I'm gonna break our rules. 394 00:20:21,150 --> 00:20:24,517 Now, we're not supposed to talk about an ongoing investigation... 395 00:20:24,587 --> 00:20:27,715 but would it stir your memory if I told you that her husband's dead... 396 00:20:27,790 --> 00:20:29,587 and we think she killed him? 397 00:20:31,861 --> 00:20:34,227 No. Not this couple. The guy adored her. 398 00:20:34,297 --> 00:20:36,858 He'd have held her hand through the procedure if we let him. 399 00:20:36,934 --> 00:20:39,494 He was about 5'9", in his 30s, right? 400 00:20:39,569 --> 00:20:41,628 Well, I didn't notice his height, but, yeah... 401 00:20:41,705 --> 00:20:44,230 30ish, good-looking Puerto Rican guy. 402 00:20:45,242 --> 00:20:47,301 I didn't ask who the father was. 403 00:20:47,377 --> 00:20:49,038 I was helping a friend. 404 00:20:49,514 --> 00:20:51,539 Well, if she was about to have a tanned... 405 00:20:51,616 --> 00:20:54,312 wavy-haired baby, I'd say you're more than friends. 406 00:20:54,385 --> 00:20:56,853 What happen, her husband find out about you? 407 00:20:56,921 --> 00:20:58,513 The abortion was his idea, wasn't it? 408 00:20:58,589 --> 00:21:01,456 He didn't want to play Russian roulette, in case the kid wasn't his. 409 00:21:01,526 --> 00:21:03,016 I did a friend a favor. 410 00:21:03,094 --> 00:21:04,118 Yeah, you're quite a friend. 411 00:21:04,195 --> 00:21:06,562 Even went with her to buy Danish for her husband. 412 00:21:06,632 --> 00:21:08,065 I don't know what you're talking about. 413 00:21:08,133 --> 00:21:10,431 Well, let us make it easy for you, Mr. Nunez. 414 00:21:10,502 --> 00:21:13,665 You and Mrs. Cooper, Wednesday, midnight, Third Avenue. 415 00:21:16,108 --> 00:21:19,043 The night her husband was killed, I was working here. 416 00:21:19,245 --> 00:21:20,678 All night. Alone. 417 00:21:20,947 --> 00:21:24,383 Well, the medical log says you checked out at 10:15. 418 00:21:25,552 --> 00:21:27,144 I have work to do. 419 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:28,680 Excuse me. 420 00:21:28,955 --> 00:21:31,947 We do have a witness who saw you with her. 421 00:21:33,326 --> 00:21:34,521 No, sir. 422 00:21:34,595 --> 00:21:37,257 I went out for a walk, I came back 15 minutes later. 423 00:21:37,331 --> 00:21:39,231 I must've forgotten to sign in. 424 00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:41,593 Now, if there's nothing else... 425 00:21:43,104 --> 00:21:44,628 You notice those lab gloves? 426 00:21:44,705 --> 00:21:45,694 Yeah. 427 00:21:45,773 --> 00:21:47,365 You don't want to leave prints... 428 00:21:47,441 --> 00:21:48,932 There's talc on those gloves. 429 00:21:49,011 --> 00:21:50,535 Could've left some on the gun. 430 00:21:50,612 --> 00:21:53,513 Oh, terrific. CSU uses the same gloves. 431 00:21:53,582 --> 00:21:56,415 Same kind of gloves, yes. But are they identical? 432 00:21:58,320 --> 00:21:59,947 In the garbage. 433 00:22:00,022 --> 00:22:01,717 I think that means I didn't steal them. 434 00:22:06,996 --> 00:22:10,022 You probably think it's easy, finding talc on a gun. 435 00:22:10,099 --> 00:22:13,296 I had a girlfriend who loved the stuff. Stayed on her body forever. 436 00:22:13,369 --> 00:22:15,462 Yeah, I bet you never dusted her for prints. 437 00:22:15,538 --> 00:22:17,597 Never mind. I don't want to know. 438 00:22:18,174 --> 00:22:20,735 Dusting contaminates the surface... 439 00:22:20,811 --> 00:22:23,041 so we took apart the butt casing. 440 00:22:23,113 --> 00:22:24,671 Voilà, talc. 441 00:22:24,748 --> 00:22:28,844 The bad news is, the talc in CSU's gloves and Mr. Nunez's is identical. 442 00:22:28,919 --> 00:22:30,580 I hope that means there's good news. 443 00:22:30,654 --> 00:22:32,212 The anti-caking agent. 444 00:22:32,523 --> 00:22:35,152 Nunez's brand uses microcrystallines. 445 00:22:35,226 --> 00:22:37,319 Does the job, bad for the environment. 446 00:22:37,395 --> 00:22:40,728 CSU switched to a brand with organic dehydroxants. 447 00:22:40,799 --> 00:22:43,962 The environment's not on my mind today. What about the gun? 448 00:22:44,035 --> 00:22:45,764 Mr. Nunez's talc. 449 00:22:45,837 --> 00:22:48,534 Give me two hours, and I'll sign my name to it. 450 00:22:51,911 --> 00:22:54,903 Well, the D.A.'s gonna want to know why the boyfriend went along. 451 00:22:54,980 --> 00:22:58,541 Hey, the jury takes one look at her, it's not such a big leap. 452 00:23:00,619 --> 00:23:02,086 Talc on a gun? 453 00:23:02,288 --> 00:23:04,416 We'll have the parade of the expert chemists. 454 00:23:04,491 --> 00:23:06,755 A witness puts him with her the night Cooper was killed. 455 00:23:06,827 --> 00:23:07,919 Circumstantial. 456 00:23:07,994 --> 00:23:10,622 Claire, the boyfriend took her to get an abortion... 457 00:23:10,697 --> 00:23:14,155 but the husband filed the insurance claim. Is that circumstantial? 458 00:23:14,234 --> 00:23:16,099 What if it was the boyfriend's baby? 459 00:23:16,169 --> 00:23:18,434 That's reason to abort, not to kill her husband. 460 00:23:18,506 --> 00:23:20,906 Her husband probably forced her to have the abortion. 461 00:23:20,975 --> 00:23:24,308 I mean, how would you feel? Lose the baby, sweetheart, or go back to Russia? 462 00:23:24,378 --> 00:23:27,313 Meanwhile, she's got a kid over there he won't bring over. 463 00:23:27,381 --> 00:23:28,973 I'd want to kill the guy. 464 00:23:29,050 --> 00:23:30,244 We're not indicting you. 465 00:23:30,318 --> 00:23:33,254 Cooper divorces her, she's on the next plane to Moscow. 466 00:23:33,322 --> 00:23:36,223 You know what Immigration thinks of green card marriages. 467 00:23:36,291 --> 00:23:38,782 She could wait five years for another chance... 468 00:23:38,861 --> 00:23:41,694 Yeah. This broad's had a taste of Zabar's. 469 00:23:41,763 --> 00:23:45,722 There's no way she's gonna go back to waiting in line for day-old borscht. 470 00:23:55,578 --> 00:23:56,738 I don't know where they are now. 471 00:23:56,813 --> 00:23:59,976 Unless you have some kind of warrant, this is private property. 472 00:24:00,049 --> 00:24:01,380 Excuse me. 473 00:24:10,461 --> 00:24:13,055 Now you'll take me to jail. 474 00:24:13,130 --> 00:24:14,825 That's right, Mrs. Cooper. 475 00:24:14,899 --> 00:24:16,526 Now we will take you to jail. 476 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:20,833 Alex Nunez, Irina Cooper, you're under arrest for the murder of William Cooper. 477 00:24:20,906 --> 00:24:22,999 Okay, let's go. You have the right to remain silent. 478 00:24:23,074 --> 00:24:26,134 Anything you do say can and will be used against you... 479 00:24:27,279 --> 00:24:29,611 "Docket number 680821. 480 00:24:29,681 --> 00:24:33,311 "People of the State of New York v. Irina Cooper and Alejandro Nunez. 481 00:24:33,386 --> 00:24:37,584 "Charges are murder in the second degree and conspiracy in the second degree." 482 00:24:39,425 --> 00:24:41,416 Mr. Morrison, your client have a plea? 483 00:24:41,494 --> 00:24:42,791 Not guilty. 484 00:24:43,029 --> 00:24:44,394 Mr. Feldman? 485 00:24:44,830 --> 00:24:46,263 Not guilty. 486 00:24:46,332 --> 00:24:49,860 Life is beautiful, all God's children are innocent. 487 00:24:49,937 --> 00:24:51,268 Let's talk bail. 488 00:24:51,338 --> 00:24:53,863 Your Honor, Mr. Nunez has relatives in Puerto Rico. 489 00:24:53,941 --> 00:24:55,465 The People feel flight is a risk. 490 00:24:55,542 --> 00:24:58,204 We ask both defendants be held without bail. 491 00:24:58,278 --> 00:24:59,370 Your Honor... 492 00:24:59,446 --> 00:25:02,712 last time I looked, Puerto Rico was a Commonwealth of the United States. 493 00:25:02,784 --> 00:25:05,082 And, I doubt they'll be running off to Russia. 494 00:25:05,153 --> 00:25:07,314 I don't want them running anywhere. 495 00:25:07,755 --> 00:25:11,714 Mrs. Cooper isn't a citizen, she has motive to flee, no bail for her. 496 00:25:11,793 --> 00:25:15,320 $200,000 for Mr. Nunez, cash or bond. Next. 497 00:25:15,563 --> 00:25:19,022 Come on, Ben, I mean, circumstantial isn't the word for it. 498 00:25:19,101 --> 00:25:20,693 What word would you like? 499 00:25:20,769 --> 00:25:22,703 Greed? Adultery? 500 00:25:22,805 --> 00:25:24,602 Either of them spells premeditation. 501 00:25:24,673 --> 00:25:27,403 They also spell "if" and "maybe." 502 00:25:27,543 --> 00:25:29,340 Now, granted, you might have a case. 503 00:25:29,411 --> 00:25:31,675 These people were caught in a terrible trap. 504 00:25:31,747 --> 00:25:33,272 They're hardly cold-blooded killers. 505 00:25:33,350 --> 00:25:34,840 It was an accident. 506 00:25:34,918 --> 00:25:38,354 Both of your clients conspired to get Mr. Cooper into that office... 507 00:25:38,421 --> 00:25:40,321 so Mr. Nunez could shoot him. 508 00:25:40,824 --> 00:25:42,416 Was it your idea, sir? 509 00:25:42,659 --> 00:25:44,320 Or did she persuade you to do it? 510 00:25:44,394 --> 00:25:46,589 She didn't persuade me to do anything. 511 00:25:46,663 --> 00:25:48,256 Is there an offer on the table? 512 00:25:48,332 --> 00:25:50,459 If Mrs. Cooper pleads to man one... 513 00:25:50,534 --> 00:25:52,729 and Mr. Nunez takes murder two... 514 00:25:52,803 --> 00:25:55,203 we can talk about a sentencing recommendation. 515 00:25:55,273 --> 00:25:57,298 Plead them both down, or no deals. 516 00:25:57,375 --> 00:25:59,343 Mr. Nunez gets man one, three-to-nine. 517 00:25:59,410 --> 00:26:01,173 Mrs. Cooper doesn't serve a day. 518 00:26:01,245 --> 00:26:04,773 Mr. Nunez, are you gonna take the whole rap because you love her? 519 00:26:05,250 --> 00:26:08,481 Doesn't matter what you do to me, as long as Irina doesn't go to jail. 520 00:26:08,553 --> 00:26:11,920 You're facing 25-years-to-life imprisonment. 521 00:26:12,057 --> 00:26:13,718 Now, if she talked you into doing this... 522 00:26:13,792 --> 00:26:16,226 You heard him. They're in this together. 523 00:26:19,232 --> 00:26:21,962 Fine. Then they go to trial together. 524 00:26:22,969 --> 00:26:24,061 Alex. 525 00:26:30,343 --> 00:26:33,336 Oh, I guess you're sure that the gun makes your case. 526 00:26:33,414 --> 00:26:36,315 Yeah, it better. I wouldn't count on your eyewitness. 527 00:26:39,653 --> 00:26:41,621 You think he's bluffing? 528 00:26:41,689 --> 00:26:43,156 Tom Morrison? 529 00:26:44,458 --> 00:26:48,190 He couldn't bluff if he was holding an ace-high straight flush. 530 00:26:48,663 --> 00:26:50,722 The Korean grocer has no record. 531 00:26:50,799 --> 00:26:53,267 He has 20/20 eyesight, and picked Nunez out of a line-up. 532 00:26:53,335 --> 00:26:55,599 He's a perfect witness. Yeah. 533 00:26:55,670 --> 00:26:58,230 Trial Lesson Number 12. A perfect witness... 534 00:26:58,473 --> 00:27:01,409 always has dirt under his nails. 535 00:27:01,577 --> 00:27:03,477 So, what's the argument, Counselor? 536 00:27:03,546 --> 00:27:08,347 The victim buys a bride, and he treats her like property. She has an affair. 537 00:27:08,551 --> 00:27:11,111 He finds out about it, and the fact that she's pregnant... 538 00:27:11,187 --> 00:27:13,087 with God-knows-whose child. 539 00:27:13,155 --> 00:27:15,282 And he forces her to have an abortion. 540 00:27:15,358 --> 00:27:17,259 He threatens to send her back to Russia. 541 00:27:17,327 --> 00:27:20,888 She tells her lover he'll be alone at the office, take care of it. 542 00:27:22,032 --> 00:27:23,499 Convict the boyfriend. 543 00:27:23,567 --> 00:27:26,058 You don't prove that they had an affair... 544 00:27:26,136 --> 00:27:28,468 the mail-order bride gets her postage back. 545 00:27:28,538 --> 00:27:30,005 That won't be easy. 546 00:27:30,073 --> 00:27:32,406 The doorman at Cooper's building never saw Nunez. 547 00:27:32,477 --> 00:27:35,844 Nunez lives in a brownstone basement. His neighbors never saw Irina. 548 00:27:35,913 --> 00:27:38,381 We checked credit card receipts. No hotels. 549 00:27:38,449 --> 00:27:42,112 Go through the credit cards again. They weren't invisible. 550 00:27:43,087 --> 00:27:46,251 And this affair wasn't carried on in the back room at work. 551 00:27:46,325 --> 00:27:48,020 Somebody knows something. 552 00:27:49,528 --> 00:27:53,055 I told the police, if they were having an affair, I didn't see it. 553 00:27:53,198 --> 00:27:54,927 You saw them leave together often. 554 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,492 You knew Irina was getting an abortion. Why did she ask Mr. Nunez to go with her? 555 00:27:58,570 --> 00:28:01,233 She needed moral support. Wouldn't you? 556 00:28:01,307 --> 00:28:05,403 If I needed moral support, I'd probably ask somebody I cared very deeply for. 557 00:28:06,079 --> 00:28:07,273 You're not stupid. 558 00:28:07,347 --> 00:28:10,180 A good-looking guy, a beautiful woman with an older husband. 559 00:28:10,250 --> 00:28:13,048 Alex Nunez saw what he wanted, and he went for it. 560 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,588 If you don't testify, he gets away with it. 561 00:28:15,656 --> 00:28:17,248 You've got some nerve. 562 00:28:17,324 --> 00:28:20,953 Where'd you go to school? Radcliff? Vassar? One of those places? 563 00:28:21,028 --> 00:28:22,825 Alex worked his way through City College. 564 00:28:22,897 --> 00:28:25,365 He's no gold digger. He is not like that. 565 00:28:25,433 --> 00:28:28,459 I'm not questioning his motive, only the result. 566 00:28:28,803 --> 00:28:33,104 Look, Alex wanted to help her. He was going to pay to bring her son over. 567 00:28:33,408 --> 00:28:37,538 All Cooper wanted was a housekeeper during the day and a hooker at night. 568 00:28:37,879 --> 00:28:39,608 You make me testify... 569 00:28:39,981 --> 00:28:41,812 you won't get what you need. 570 00:28:43,518 --> 00:28:44,951 We can make them look guilty. 571 00:28:45,020 --> 00:28:46,386 They'll also look sympathetic. 572 00:28:46,456 --> 00:28:48,481 They also killed her husband. 573 00:28:49,325 --> 00:28:51,589 The men on the jury won't be weeping for her. 574 00:28:51,661 --> 00:28:52,685 The women will. 575 00:28:52,762 --> 00:28:55,128 And any witness we use makes Cooper look bad. 576 00:28:55,198 --> 00:28:56,460 He did buy a bride. 577 00:28:56,532 --> 00:28:58,693 Sympathy is not our only problem. 578 00:28:58,835 --> 00:29:01,100 It's whose version of the truth the jury'll believe. 579 00:29:01,171 --> 00:29:02,695 Now, if they agree with us... 580 00:29:02,773 --> 00:29:04,434 that Nunez killed Cooper... 581 00:29:04,508 --> 00:29:07,534 "I only went there to talk with him. He pulled a gun... 582 00:29:07,611 --> 00:29:09,670 "we struggled. I didn't intend to kill him." 583 00:29:09,746 --> 00:29:11,077 Maybe that was part of the truth. 584 00:29:11,148 --> 00:29:12,843 If they had said that in the first place. 585 00:29:12,916 --> 00:29:15,249 But they wrecked the office after the killing... 586 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,187 make it look like a burglary. And how did Nunez know... 587 00:29:18,256 --> 00:29:19,723 that Cooper would be there? 588 00:29:19,791 --> 00:29:21,315 They can sell it as coincidence. 589 00:29:21,392 --> 00:29:23,622 Irina Cooper could walk. So? 590 00:29:23,695 --> 00:29:25,128 Call Stan Feldman. 591 00:29:27,365 --> 00:29:29,560 If I say it was Alex? 592 00:29:30,536 --> 00:29:31,594 No. 593 00:29:31,837 --> 00:29:33,361 It wasn't his fault. 594 00:29:33,439 --> 00:29:35,430 Whose fault was it, Mrs. Cooper? 595 00:29:40,746 --> 00:29:42,236 It's nobody's. 596 00:29:43,349 --> 00:29:44,816 Mrs. Cooper. 597 00:29:46,853 --> 00:29:48,150 Mrs. Cooper. 598 00:29:52,092 --> 00:29:53,457 You lied. 599 00:29:54,327 --> 00:29:56,318 You cheated on your husband. 600 00:29:57,264 --> 00:29:59,790 You arranged to have him in his office. 601 00:30:00,902 --> 00:30:03,393 What do you think a jury will do with that? 602 00:30:13,781 --> 00:30:15,079 William... 603 00:30:15,918 --> 00:30:17,613 took me from Russia. 604 00:30:21,523 --> 00:30:23,320 I loved him for that. 605 00:30:25,093 --> 00:30:26,890 He was not a bad man. 606 00:30:27,696 --> 00:30:28,924 Only... 607 00:30:30,433 --> 00:30:31,832 very simple. 608 00:30:32,635 --> 00:30:34,796 He was like- he was like a child. 609 00:30:36,973 --> 00:30:38,600 Irina. No! 610 00:30:40,977 --> 00:30:43,309 I say nothing about Alex! 611 00:30:51,255 --> 00:30:53,348 He was giving Irina a tour of the office, 612 00:30:53,424 --> 00:30:55,153 right after she came over. 613 00:30:55,593 --> 00:30:57,754 He took the gun out and he showed it to her. 614 00:30:57,828 --> 00:31:00,161 How did Mrs. Cooper respond to the gun? 615 00:31:01,833 --> 00:31:05,564 She talked about some Russian gun a Tokev, Tokarev, something. 616 00:31:05,937 --> 00:31:08,030 And she said it was just as nice... 617 00:31:08,106 --> 00:31:10,199 and that she'd used it in the Russian Army. 618 00:31:10,275 --> 00:31:12,266 Thank you. Your witness. 619 00:31:12,978 --> 00:31:14,537 Mr. Guardino... 620 00:31:15,314 --> 00:31:18,875 you testified that Mr. Cooper liked to brag about his gun. 621 00:31:18,951 --> 00:31:20,043 What did you mean? 622 00:31:20,119 --> 00:31:22,986 He waved it at just about everybody who came in the place. 623 00:31:23,055 --> 00:31:26,388 He told them he took lessons, he was a good shot. 624 00:31:26,993 --> 00:31:29,861 So, many people knew he had the gun. 625 00:31:30,330 --> 00:31:32,764 Anybody could have come in and shot him, is that right? 626 00:31:32,833 --> 00:31:36,291 Objection. Calls for a conclusion. Sustained. 627 00:31:40,941 --> 00:31:42,238 Mr. Guardino... 628 00:31:44,345 --> 00:31:46,313 was your boss well-liked? 629 00:31:47,382 --> 00:31:49,350 I wouldn't say he was well-liked, no. 630 00:31:49,417 --> 00:31:53,376 Billy, Mr. Cooper, didn't do real good with people. 631 00:31:53,988 --> 00:31:55,615 He said that's what he had me for. 632 00:31:55,690 --> 00:31:58,022 Isn't it true that no one in all the nearby businesses... 633 00:31:58,092 --> 00:31:59,856 had a decent word to say for him? 634 00:31:59,928 --> 00:32:03,091 That he'd angered many of them by being rude and hostile? 635 00:32:03,165 --> 00:32:04,530 Yeah, you could say that was true. 636 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,295 And isn't it also true... 637 00:32:06,468 --> 00:32:08,800 that several employees quit... 638 00:32:08,971 --> 00:32:12,702 because they felt Mr. Cooper had cheated them on their hours? 639 00:32:12,841 --> 00:32:14,139 Yeah, they did. 640 00:32:14,711 --> 00:32:16,611 What a surprise he got shot. 641 00:32:17,614 --> 00:32:19,741 Thank you. No more questions. 642 00:32:21,317 --> 00:32:23,785 I knew where they were going. It doesn't prove anything. 643 00:32:23,853 --> 00:32:27,186 That her lover went with her to an abortion, that doesn't prove anything? 644 00:32:27,257 --> 00:32:29,852 She needed company. So, they were having an affair. 645 00:32:29,927 --> 00:32:31,519 I didn't say that. 646 00:32:33,464 --> 00:32:36,661 Your Honor, permission to treat the witness as hostile. 647 00:32:36,734 --> 00:32:38,031 You may do so. 648 00:32:38,269 --> 00:32:39,668 Miss Farrell... 649 00:32:39,804 --> 00:32:41,328 did Mr. Nunez... 650 00:32:41,505 --> 00:32:44,134 give Mrs. Cooper presents at the office? 651 00:32:45,343 --> 00:32:48,574 Didn't he give her a silver compact from Tiffany's? 652 00:32:49,114 --> 00:32:52,083 And didn't you, in fact, select it for him... 653 00:32:52,150 --> 00:32:54,948 and watch him charge it to his credit card? 654 00:32:55,020 --> 00:32:56,146 How would you know that? 655 00:32:56,221 --> 00:32:58,656 The salesperson remembers you. 656 00:32:58,725 --> 00:33:01,250 Now, did what I just describe in fact happen? 657 00:33:01,794 --> 00:33:02,818 Yes. 658 00:33:02,895 --> 00:33:06,353 Were these presents given as a friend or as a lover? 659 00:33:07,667 --> 00:33:09,897 Weren't they, in fact, more than friends? 660 00:33:09,969 --> 00:33:11,027 I guess they were. 661 00:33:11,104 --> 00:33:14,404 Now, Miss Farrell, didn't you dislike William Cooper? 662 00:33:14,475 --> 00:33:16,272 He was a bully. Nobody liked him. 663 00:33:16,343 --> 00:33:18,470 But didn't you advise Mrs. Cooper and encourage her... 664 00:33:18,545 --> 00:33:20,706 to have her affair with Mr. Nunez? 665 00:33:20,848 --> 00:33:23,078 Well, I told her that- Told her what? 666 00:33:23,851 --> 00:33:25,250 That American women... 667 00:33:25,319 --> 00:33:28,687 don't have to put up with the likes of William Cooper? 668 00:33:29,524 --> 00:33:32,220 I only wanted to help her. I didn't know this would end up... 669 00:33:32,293 --> 00:33:33,487 With her husband dead? 670 00:33:33,561 --> 00:33:34,755 You don't understand! 671 00:33:34,829 --> 00:33:37,593 What is it that we do not understand, Miss Farrell? 672 00:33:37,665 --> 00:33:42,295 She missed her son! She wanted to bring him over, and he wouldn't let her. 673 00:33:43,839 --> 00:33:45,739 He made her have an abortion! 674 00:33:45,808 --> 00:33:48,470 He told her he'd divorce her. He'd have her deported! 675 00:33:48,544 --> 00:33:50,307 She didn't have any choice! 676 00:33:50,379 --> 00:33:52,847 Any choice but to kill her husband? 677 00:33:54,784 --> 00:33:56,877 Was that her only choice? 678 00:34:06,696 --> 00:34:08,823 Why did she have to cry? 679 00:34:08,899 --> 00:34:11,333 She didn't want to say they were having an affair. 680 00:34:11,401 --> 00:34:12,960 At least Ben got her to admit it. 681 00:34:13,037 --> 00:34:16,097 That jury hears any more about the dead Mr. Cooper... 682 00:34:16,174 --> 00:34:17,368 they'll wish they'd killed him. 683 00:34:17,441 --> 00:34:20,740 They can hear that he was mean and domineering, and they can call it... 684 00:34:20,812 --> 00:34:21,972 grounds for divorce... 685 00:34:22,046 --> 00:34:24,480 but I won't let them accept it as a defense for murder. 686 00:34:24,549 --> 00:34:26,642 Since when do they accept that these two murdered him? 687 00:34:26,717 --> 00:34:29,243 They have to accept it when they hear about the gun. 688 00:34:29,321 --> 00:34:31,255 You better nail that boyfriend. 689 00:34:31,490 --> 00:34:34,254 They're sure not gonna believe that she put him up to it. 690 00:34:34,326 --> 00:34:36,089 If they don't believe that he did it... 691 00:34:36,161 --> 00:34:37,788 any reasonable doubt... 692 00:34:38,197 --> 00:34:40,757 all this crying will get them both acquitted. 693 00:34:45,138 --> 00:34:48,107 He was hanging around outside. He was in a real hurry. 694 00:34:48,174 --> 00:34:51,007 Is the man who called to Mrs. Cooper from the street... 695 00:34:51,077 --> 00:34:52,942 is he in the courtroom today? 696 00:34:53,012 --> 00:34:54,707 Yes, he's right over there. 697 00:34:54,781 --> 00:34:56,373 Let the record please indicate... 698 00:34:56,449 --> 00:34:59,613 that the witness pointed to the defendant, Alejandro Nunez. 699 00:34:59,687 --> 00:35:01,518 The record will so indicate. 700 00:35:01,655 --> 00:35:03,646 Thank you. No further questions. 701 00:35:07,995 --> 00:35:08,984 So... 702 00:35:10,965 --> 00:35:13,127 the defendant is the man you saw? 703 00:35:13,268 --> 00:35:14,633 The one I pointed to. 704 00:35:14,703 --> 00:35:17,365 And he wore a suit and tie, is that right? 705 00:35:17,639 --> 00:35:19,163 That's what I said. 706 00:35:23,178 --> 00:35:26,443 Can you see those three men in suits in the back of the courtroom? 707 00:35:26,514 --> 00:35:28,073 Your Honor, objection. 708 00:35:28,150 --> 00:35:29,947 Counsel will approach, now. 709 00:35:32,955 --> 00:35:35,219 What are you doing? That's what I want to know. 710 00:35:35,291 --> 00:35:38,886 What kind of theatrical crap are you pulling in my courtroom? 711 00:35:39,061 --> 00:35:40,460 The witness is Korean. 712 00:35:40,529 --> 00:35:43,055 I want to see if he can identify non-Asians. 713 00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:46,294 What the hell are you talking about? I have case law on point. 714 00:35:46,370 --> 00:35:48,304 I hope to God you do, Tom. 715 00:35:48,605 --> 00:35:50,630 I'll see you in chambers now. 716 00:35:51,642 --> 00:35:54,304 Recess. We'll be back. Don't go away. 717 00:35:54,878 --> 00:35:56,938 The case is People v. Lawson. 718 00:35:57,081 --> 00:35:59,515 Criminal Term, Part 48. It was last February. 719 00:35:59,584 --> 00:36:01,882 The eyewitness is Japanese, the defendant's Hispanic. 720 00:36:01,953 --> 00:36:05,582 The court allowed expert testimony on cross-racial identification. 721 00:36:05,690 --> 00:36:07,055 Mainly that Japanese... 722 00:36:07,125 --> 00:36:08,592 can't identify people of other races. 723 00:36:08,660 --> 00:36:10,184 And what he's doing with it, Your Honor... 724 00:36:10,261 --> 00:36:11,786 is legalized racism- I'm sorry, but... 725 00:36:11,864 --> 00:36:13,593 there's a long history- I know the history... 726 00:36:13,666 --> 00:36:15,793 A long history in the New York courts. In Lawson... 727 00:36:15,868 --> 00:36:17,995 the witness was from Japan, Your Honor. 728 00:36:18,070 --> 00:36:21,267 And in all those cases, the witnesses were from foreign countries... 729 00:36:21,340 --> 00:36:23,103 had no contact with other ethnic groups. 730 00:36:23,175 --> 00:36:24,608 My witness, however... 731 00:36:24,677 --> 00:36:27,272 grew up on East 28th Street, New York City. 732 00:36:27,347 --> 00:36:30,316 That's a hair I'm not willing to split. I'll split it. 733 00:36:30,383 --> 00:36:33,841 I don't like it any more than you do, Ben, but there's a lot of cases here. 734 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,548 What I won't allow is that stunt you just pulled. 735 00:36:36,623 --> 00:36:37,988 You have an expert witness? 736 00:36:38,058 --> 00:36:39,150 I do, Judge. A psychologist. 737 00:36:39,225 --> 00:36:41,717 Why didn't we hear about this witness before trial? 738 00:36:41,796 --> 00:36:43,024 Gee, Ben, I'm sorry. 739 00:36:43,097 --> 00:36:44,792 I was a little late with my legal research. 740 00:36:44,865 --> 00:36:46,230 You knew about this weeks ago. 741 00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:48,495 You warned me that this witness would be a problem. 742 00:36:48,569 --> 00:36:50,196 I don't recall that, Ben. 743 00:36:50,271 --> 00:36:51,898 Off the record, please. 744 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,273 I can't prove this, Tom, but I think you're lying. 745 00:36:56,645 --> 00:36:58,613 Your Honor, really... Don't play dumb with me. 746 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,739 You didn't want Ben to know where you were going. 747 00:37:00,816 --> 00:37:02,340 I'll let you have your witness. 748 00:37:02,417 --> 00:37:05,318 One of these days you'll get caught, you're gonna get disbarred... 749 00:37:05,387 --> 00:37:07,184 and I'll be there to applaud. 750 00:37:07,255 --> 00:37:08,950 Court's back in session. 751 00:37:12,195 --> 00:37:13,423 Ben... 752 00:37:14,697 --> 00:37:15,823 was that necessary? 753 00:37:15,898 --> 00:37:18,890 You better brush up on your dumb act. You almost lost a career back there. 754 00:37:18,968 --> 00:37:20,492 My obligation is to get my client acquitted. 755 00:37:20,570 --> 00:37:22,561 At any price? Set any precedent? 756 00:37:22,739 --> 00:37:24,764 Relax, Ben. I don't see any reporters around. 757 00:37:24,841 --> 00:37:26,776 Think this through with me, okay? 758 00:37:26,844 --> 00:37:30,746 All blacks are to be excluded from identifying whites, and vice versa? 759 00:37:30,981 --> 00:37:33,176 That's a license for interracial homicide. 760 00:37:33,250 --> 00:37:34,842 Excuse me, Lorenzo de' Medici. 761 00:37:34,918 --> 00:37:36,852 You know, who made you the great arbiter of justice? 762 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,650 A Chinese guy could blow you away and get off scot-free... 763 00:37:39,723 --> 00:37:42,192 because of cross-racial identification. 764 00:37:42,660 --> 00:37:45,891 And that's the most comforting thought I've had all day. 765 00:37:49,067 --> 00:37:50,796 It's a common phenomenon. 766 00:37:50,902 --> 00:37:52,096 It's not about racism. 767 00:37:52,170 --> 00:37:54,138 Well, what is it about, Dr. Holtz? 768 00:37:54,205 --> 00:37:57,505 Well, we tend to see people's faces in terms of our own race. 769 00:37:57,610 --> 00:37:59,771 But facial structures are different. 770 00:37:59,979 --> 00:38:01,776 If an Asian, for example... 771 00:38:01,981 --> 00:38:05,576 tried to see a Hispanic's cheekbones as if the person were Asian... 772 00:38:05,885 --> 00:38:08,217 he wouldn't make the correct distinctions. 773 00:38:08,287 --> 00:38:12,156 So, can we make this more specific? Are there statistics in the field? 774 00:38:12,392 --> 00:38:16,328 Well, my studies show that people identifying those of another race... 775 00:38:16,596 --> 00:38:20,054 make four times as many mistakes as they do with members of their own race. 776 00:38:20,133 --> 00:38:21,828 Four times as much? 777 00:38:24,771 --> 00:38:28,139 That's a lot, isn't it? Eyewitness identification is risky enough. 778 00:38:28,209 --> 00:38:31,303 Cross-racial identification simply can't be trusted. 779 00:38:31,646 --> 00:38:32,772 Thank you. 780 00:38:32,914 --> 00:38:34,438 No further questions. 781 00:38:36,484 --> 00:38:37,951 Sir... 782 00:38:38,953 --> 00:38:43,516 are you telling this courtroom that, white Americans, for example... 783 00:38:43,592 --> 00:38:45,219 cannot identify black Americans? 784 00:38:45,294 --> 00:38:48,058 I didn't say that. I said they're more likely to make mistakes. 785 00:38:48,130 --> 00:38:50,030 Do they always make mistakes? 786 00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:52,995 Well, no. Of course not. 787 00:38:55,003 --> 00:38:58,201 Now, sir, this is a police report... 788 00:39:00,009 --> 00:39:01,340 about a line-up. 789 00:39:02,078 --> 00:39:03,568 Do you recognize it? 790 00:39:04,314 --> 00:39:05,906 Yes, Mr. Morrison showed it to me. 791 00:39:05,982 --> 00:39:09,179 Yes, would you please read Section 3 out loud? 792 00:39:12,556 --> 00:39:14,956 The line-up consisted of six Hispanic men... 793 00:39:15,025 --> 00:39:17,755 all between 5'6" and 5'9". 794 00:39:18,295 --> 00:39:20,422 The witness, Richard Kim... 795 00:39:21,132 --> 00:39:24,829 picked suspect Nunez as the man he saw with suspect Cooper. 796 00:39:25,036 --> 00:39:26,162 Six men... 797 00:39:26,705 --> 00:39:28,104 all the same race... 798 00:39:28,173 --> 00:39:29,470 all the same height... 799 00:39:29,541 --> 00:39:32,339 yet the witness, a Korean-American... 800 00:39:32,410 --> 00:39:34,071 picked the defendant. 801 00:39:34,412 --> 00:39:37,973 That's not a 1-in-4 chance, sir, that's 1-in-6. 802 00:39:39,251 --> 00:39:40,879 And he picked the only person... 803 00:39:40,953 --> 00:39:42,580 personally connected... 804 00:39:43,456 --> 00:39:44,684 to both the victim... 805 00:39:44,757 --> 00:39:46,281 and the co-defendant. 806 00:39:47,793 --> 00:39:49,727 Is that a coincidence? 807 00:39:50,530 --> 00:39:51,724 Well... 808 00:39:52,064 --> 00:39:54,362 statistically, I mean, one could argue... 809 00:39:54,433 --> 00:39:56,800 the witness simply made a mistake. 810 00:39:56,904 --> 00:40:00,840 Yes, but couldn't one argue that he is a normal American citizen... 811 00:40:01,408 --> 00:40:04,104 who is able to recognize his fellow citizens... 812 00:40:04,378 --> 00:40:06,209 and he picked the right man? 813 00:40:06,847 --> 00:40:08,474 Yes. Fine. Thank you. 814 00:40:10,185 --> 00:40:13,677 Quick, lock the doors. Somebody might walk in with a case we can win. 815 00:40:13,755 --> 00:40:14,949 Come on, Adam. 816 00:40:15,023 --> 00:40:17,617 The jury didn't buy it. Cross-racial identification? 817 00:40:17,692 --> 00:40:21,150 I wouldn't count your chickens. Your omelet just hit the fan. 818 00:40:21,262 --> 00:40:23,730 We still have motive. They were having an affair. 819 00:40:23,798 --> 00:40:27,030 Lots of women have affairs. They don't kill their husbands. 820 00:40:27,203 --> 00:40:29,865 You could hear "not guilty" twice. We should be looking for a deal. 821 00:40:29,939 --> 00:40:31,566 I think they'll convict on Nunez. 822 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,632 And Miss Moscow will be out winning beauty contests. 823 00:40:34,810 --> 00:40:36,573 Maybe not. What if I... 824 00:40:36,979 --> 00:40:39,038 drop the murder charge on her... 825 00:40:40,217 --> 00:40:42,048 and only go with conspiracy? 826 00:40:44,654 --> 00:40:45,882 You're gonna do what? 827 00:40:45,956 --> 00:40:50,586 Stan, let's be honest. I know that Mrs. Cooper could walk on murder two. 828 00:40:50,727 --> 00:40:54,687 You know that with only the lower charge, they'll convict. 829 00:40:54,765 --> 00:40:55,754 Maybe. 830 00:40:55,833 --> 00:40:59,325 If they convict, guaranteed, she gets out of prison, she goes back to Russia. 831 00:40:59,403 --> 00:41:01,803 Unless she turns on Mr. Nunez. 832 00:41:02,106 --> 00:41:03,334 Right. 833 00:41:04,508 --> 00:41:07,443 If she does, she doesn't get deported. 834 00:41:08,846 --> 00:41:09,871 Okay. 835 00:41:13,085 --> 00:41:15,952 Why do I get the feeling you've already talked to Immigration? 836 00:41:16,021 --> 00:41:18,387 3- to-9 is better than 8-to-25. 837 00:41:18,523 --> 00:41:21,014 If she's convicted, we'll fight for the max. 838 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:29,591 Meet me at Rikers in two hours. 839 00:41:40,314 --> 00:41:42,214 My client won't leave her cell. 840 00:41:42,283 --> 00:41:43,341 She's not interested. 841 00:41:43,417 --> 00:41:45,476 Did you tell her what would happen if she was convicted? 842 00:41:45,552 --> 00:41:48,646 The truth? I don't think she cares, one way or the other. 843 00:41:49,189 --> 00:41:52,681 Not that I believe in such things, but I think she loves Mr. Nunez. 844 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:53,853 Excuse me. 845 00:41:56,498 --> 00:41:58,864 Maybe he doesn't love her quite as much. 846 00:41:59,968 --> 00:42:01,936 But then maybe he does. 847 00:42:04,272 --> 00:42:05,864 We say nothing. 848 00:42:06,207 --> 00:42:08,004 Mr. Nunez feels differently. 849 00:42:09,578 --> 00:42:12,240 Irina, listen - No, you're not going to prison. 850 00:42:13,482 --> 00:42:15,916 Irina, you could both go to prison. 851 00:42:16,385 --> 00:42:17,682 I did it. 852 00:42:18,187 --> 00:42:20,451 You can't blame her. Alex... 853 00:42:20,723 --> 00:42:21,951 not another word. 854 00:42:22,024 --> 00:42:23,515 Did you do it alone? 855 00:42:24,861 --> 00:42:28,126 Who told you that Mr. Cooper would be in his office? 856 00:42:29,132 --> 00:42:31,157 Can we get an offer on the table? 857 00:42:31,868 --> 00:42:34,996 Mr. Nunez pleads to man one, he does the max. 858 00:42:35,072 --> 00:42:38,600 Mrs. Cooper, accessory, 3-to-9... 859 00:42:38,776 --> 00:42:40,505 she does not get deported. 860 00:42:41,346 --> 00:42:42,779 Stop it! 861 00:42:43,114 --> 00:42:45,742 Listen to the lawyer. Don't tell them anything! 862 00:42:45,817 --> 00:42:49,184 Irina, if we lose, you go to jail. 863 00:42:49,554 --> 00:42:50,987 You want to go back? 864 00:42:51,055 --> 00:42:52,352 Why did we do this? 865 00:42:52,423 --> 00:42:54,289 So you could stay, so you could have your son. 866 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,828 You talk too much! I talk too much? 867 00:42:57,329 --> 00:42:58,523 You don't get it. 868 00:42:58,597 --> 00:43:01,430 They look at me, they see a greedy spic! They look at you... 869 00:43:01,500 --> 00:43:03,263 they see a whore. 870 00:43:04,603 --> 00:43:06,503 You see this beautiful woman? 871 00:43:07,106 --> 00:43:08,836 You know how dumb she is? 872 00:43:08,908 --> 00:43:10,933 She didn't know that going out with a Puerto Rican... 873 00:43:11,010 --> 00:43:13,274 was supposed to be such a lousy catch. 874 00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,914 Tell them, Irina. Tell them! 875 00:43:26,961 --> 00:43:28,292 William... 876 00:43:29,029 --> 00:43:30,929 William treats me like a cow. 877 00:43:33,367 --> 00:43:34,891 I am a woman. 878 00:43:36,904 --> 00:43:41,205 He promised me he would bring my son, and then he said no. 879 00:43:45,147 --> 00:43:48,116 I do not want to fall in love with Alex... 880 00:43:49,618 --> 00:43:50,812 but I do. 881 00:43:53,623 --> 00:43:55,318 William sees us at work. 882 00:43:55,658 --> 00:43:58,559 He knows. He said I must have an abortion. 883 00:43:58,628 --> 00:44:01,062 He doesn't want Alex's child. 884 00:44:04,567 --> 00:44:06,535 We didn't know what to do. 885 00:44:06,602 --> 00:44:08,594 We didn't know if it was mine... 886 00:44:09,406 --> 00:44:11,340 and he wanted to get rid of it. 887 00:44:12,810 --> 00:44:13,799 Like... 888 00:44:14,878 --> 00:44:16,778 like it was some dirty shirt. 889 00:44:20,050 --> 00:44:21,278 And then... 890 00:44:22,019 --> 00:44:24,818 he said maybe I'm going back to Russia. 891 00:44:26,191 --> 00:44:29,922 And he said it again, and again, and again. 892 00:44:40,339 --> 00:44:42,899 I told Alex he would be there. 893 00:44:45,544 --> 00:44:47,034 I begged him. 894 00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,711 I said, stick it out just two more months, then let her go. 895 00:44:52,051 --> 00:44:54,247 You're saying you didn't plan to kill him? 896 00:44:54,321 --> 00:44:56,186 You did wear plastic gloves. 897 00:44:58,525 --> 00:44:59,651 Yes. 898 00:45:02,295 --> 00:45:04,729 I knew I could do it, if he said no. 899 00:45:06,099 --> 00:45:08,261 Irina told me where the gun was. 900 00:45:16,711 --> 00:45:18,838 I just didn't want her to go back. 901 00:45:28,223 --> 00:45:31,454 She comes from Russia, ends up in a cell at Bedford for three years. 902 00:45:31,527 --> 00:45:35,554 Nunez wanted to save her, he ends up killing a guy, and goes away for 15. 903 00:45:35,731 --> 00:45:37,666 I think she might wait for him. 904 00:45:38,601 --> 00:45:41,536 She came for the American dream, waited all her life for it. 905 00:45:41,604 --> 00:45:43,333 Maybe she'll wait for him.