1 00:00:00,885 --> 00:00:02,876 In the criminal justice system... 2 00:00:02,954 --> 00:00:06,720 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: 3 00:00:06,791 --> 00:00:08,657 The police who investigate crime... 4 00:00:08,727 --> 00:00:11,252 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,330 --> 00:00:13,059 These are their stories. 6 00:00:13,799 --> 00:00:16,233 Where's the regular guy? He sick? I don't know. 7 00:00:16,301 --> 00:00:19,793 His mother didn't give me a note. These boxes are not regulation. 8 00:00:19,872 --> 00:00:23,035 He owes me $5 on the Knicks. You have to replace them. 9 00:00:23,108 --> 00:00:25,167 I do? I look like I own the building? 10 00:00:26,412 --> 00:00:27,777 Mailman. Package. Tell your boss. 11 00:00:27,846 --> 00:00:28,938 Be right there... 12 00:00:29,014 --> 00:00:32,883 Sure. As soon as I tell him to replace the lock, ten 40-year-old refrigerators... 13 00:00:32,952 --> 00:00:35,750 a dozen faucets, and give me that raise that he promised... 14 00:00:35,822 --> 00:00:38,052 Yeah, tell him to repaint the hall. Give it some color. 15 00:00:38,124 --> 00:00:39,819 Here you go. Thanks. 16 00:00:39,893 --> 00:00:42,453 So, what time you finish? See you later. 17 00:00:43,797 --> 00:00:46,857 You want to see the neighborhood? I've seen the neighborhood. 18 00:00:46,933 --> 00:00:49,458 Yeah, but have you seen it with an Italian? 19 00:00:56,444 --> 00:00:59,345 The victim is Florence Manning, 48. 20 00:00:59,413 --> 00:01:01,847 They took her to St. Mary's in bad shape. 21 00:01:01,949 --> 00:01:04,281 Burns? That's the least of it. 22 00:01:04,351 --> 00:01:07,650 Looks like she opened up an explosive package with a letter opener. 23 00:01:07,722 --> 00:01:10,817 Blew into her neck. What do we got? 24 00:01:11,493 --> 00:01:12,517 Confetti. 25 00:01:13,795 --> 00:01:17,162 Piece of the stamp. A young Elvis. 26 00:01:17,432 --> 00:01:19,297 That might be the postmark. 27 00:01:19,367 --> 00:01:22,268 Yeah, Grand Central Station. That's gonna be a big help. 28 00:01:22,337 --> 00:01:24,362 She delivered the package an hour ago. 29 00:01:24,439 --> 00:01:27,306 You remember anything about it? It didn't fit into the box. 30 00:01:27,375 --> 00:01:31,506 I was bending it. It could've gone off. A return address? 31 00:01:32,515 --> 00:01:34,642 Do you know how much mail I carry? 32 00:01:37,453 --> 00:01:38,579 Yeah? 33 00:01:40,423 --> 00:01:41,549 Okay. 34 00:01:42,859 --> 00:01:44,986 Yeah. Thanks. 35 00:01:46,996 --> 00:01:51,194 Your route just got one stop shorter. Florence Manning didn't make it. 36 00:02:40,319 --> 00:02:44,949 One of the nurses called me at work. She said Florence asked her to. 37 00:02:46,025 --> 00:02:48,289 I figured if my sister was talking... 38 00:02:48,894 --> 00:02:51,590 She gave them my number. She must've been awake. 39 00:02:51,664 --> 00:02:54,429 Has anybody spoken to you since you got here? 40 00:02:55,669 --> 00:02:57,000 She's dead. 41 00:02:58,338 --> 00:03:00,602 I mean, how can things change so fast? 42 00:03:00,707 --> 00:03:03,073 Look, I know it's not much consolation, Mr. Rossi... 43 00:03:03,143 --> 00:03:05,668 but we do want to catch whoever did this. 44 00:03:05,879 --> 00:03:09,007 I'll kill him. You catch him, I'll kill him. 45 00:03:09,082 --> 00:03:10,913 Him. You have some idea? 46 00:03:14,187 --> 00:03:16,656 It's got to be some psycho. I don't know. 47 00:03:17,225 --> 00:03:20,194 Did anyone ever threaten your sister? Harass her? 48 00:03:20,695 --> 00:03:24,187 She taught third grade. She collected recipes. 49 00:03:24,565 --> 00:03:27,090 How about her personal life? She live alone? 50 00:03:28,402 --> 00:03:31,530 She got separated from her husband about a year ago. 51 00:03:31,706 --> 00:03:35,336 Where can we find him? Hudson Polytech. 52 00:03:35,844 --> 00:03:38,506 He's a big deal over there. Edward Manning. 53 00:03:40,048 --> 00:03:42,812 She was going to move out to... 54 00:03:43,418 --> 00:03:46,387 the West when the school year ended. 55 00:03:46,455 --> 00:03:50,221 She hadn't wanted to come to New York when I got this appointment. 56 00:03:50,559 --> 00:03:52,550 When did you last speak to her? 57 00:03:53,495 --> 00:03:55,019 Three weeks ago. 58 00:03:57,567 --> 00:04:00,798 We spoke mostly through lawyers. We were getting divorced. 59 00:04:00,970 --> 00:04:02,460 And how was that going? 60 00:04:02,538 --> 00:04:06,565 Divorce is painful. Ours was as amicable as could be expected. 61 00:04:07,644 --> 00:04:10,636 What do you do here. Is it doctor or professor? 62 00:04:10,713 --> 00:04:12,977 I'm a high-energy physicist. 63 00:04:13,049 --> 00:04:15,745 Director of the nuclear reactor laboratory here. 64 00:04:15,818 --> 00:04:17,946 Reactor? Like in Chernobyl? 65 00:04:18,055 --> 00:04:20,785 No, like a hundred safe ones you never heard of. 66 00:04:22,626 --> 00:04:26,494 Do you have any idea who killed my wife? Do you, Professor? 67 00:04:30,801 --> 00:04:33,895 I thought no one used regular mail for packages anymore. 68 00:04:33,971 --> 00:04:37,999 I guess the junk mailers are still loyal. Yeah. So are the Mad Bombers. 69 00:04:38,076 --> 00:04:41,568 What, you think it's a nut? How about a scrambled egghead? 70 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:43,713 The husband? 71 00:04:44,316 --> 00:04:46,910 Listen to this, courtesy of the University Press Service: 72 00:04:46,985 --> 00:04:51,115 "Prof. Edward Manning, BA, Cornell, PhD, MIT... 73 00:04:51,556 --> 00:04:54,992 "when he was 26, co-discovered the omega-minus particle. 74 00:04:55,060 --> 00:04:56,687 "Beginning in 1981... 75 00:04:56,795 --> 00:04:59,765 "led an experiment seeking evidence of proton decay... 76 00:04:59,832 --> 00:05:02,062 "which, if established, would demonstrate... 77 00:05:02,134 --> 00:05:05,592 "that all matter in the universe will eventually disintegrate." 78 00:05:05,871 --> 00:05:08,863 Yeah, but who's that lady I saw him with last night? 79 00:05:08,941 --> 00:05:10,568 Guy like this could commit a murder... 80 00:05:10,643 --> 00:05:12,907 then jump in the time machine to cover his tracks. 81 00:05:12,979 --> 00:05:16,142 Let's start with our kind of science. Go see Forensics. 82 00:05:17,249 --> 00:05:20,014 The explosive was plastique. RDX. 83 00:05:20,087 --> 00:05:21,349 Military stuff? 84 00:05:21,421 --> 00:05:25,187 Once upon a time. Now about as hard to get as illegal guns. 85 00:05:25,625 --> 00:05:28,685 From the radius of the damage, I'd say it was a small charge. 86 00:05:28,762 --> 00:05:31,128 A lot of smoke but not much power. 87 00:05:31,231 --> 00:05:35,327 Tell that to Florence Manning. The letter opener was a fluke. 88 00:05:35,402 --> 00:05:37,563 By rights, the bomb should only have wounded her. 89 00:05:37,637 --> 00:05:41,699 And scared the hell out of her. So our bomber got lucky, huh? 90 00:05:41,776 --> 00:05:45,507 Or unlucky, depending on whether he felt like being a murderer. 91 00:05:47,382 --> 00:05:50,545 Firing pin? Yeah. Opening the package released it. 92 00:05:50,618 --> 00:05:53,416 Allowing a spring to push the nail against a metal plate... 93 00:05:53,488 --> 00:05:56,946 completing an electrical circuit, and Merry Christmas. 94 00:05:57,025 --> 00:05:59,721 Classic design. Handsomely executed. 95 00:05:59,794 --> 00:06:02,355 Your man has some technical sophistication. 96 00:06:02,431 --> 00:06:04,331 Like maybe a physicist? 97 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,493 Experimental or theoretical? 98 00:06:08,637 --> 00:06:10,195 I never liked the guy. 99 00:06:10,773 --> 00:06:14,766 I mean, unless you could talk about nuclear molecules... 100 00:06:14,977 --> 00:06:16,842 he'd treat you like a moron. 101 00:06:16,912 --> 00:06:19,506 Your sister keep up her end of the conversation okay? 102 00:06:19,581 --> 00:06:21,982 For the first 20 years, I guess. 103 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,912 You think Edward did it? He said the divorce was amicable. 104 00:06:26,990 --> 00:06:28,981 Sure. Like a weekend in Bosnia. 105 00:06:30,293 --> 00:06:34,229 Florence was a little more open with me than you, honey. Frank has a temper. 106 00:06:34,297 --> 00:06:37,562 Open about what? Edward's mid-life crisis. 107 00:06:37,667 --> 00:06:40,898 He decided to recapture his youth by sleeping with one. 108 00:06:41,372 --> 00:06:42,862 Before they separated? 109 00:06:42,940 --> 00:06:45,170 He told Florence he wanted to marry the girl. 110 00:06:45,242 --> 00:06:48,439 How did Florence like being tossed out with the garbage? 111 00:06:48,746 --> 00:06:51,214 After following him around like an army wife? 112 00:06:51,282 --> 00:06:54,251 This university, that university. Son of a bitch. 113 00:06:54,318 --> 00:06:56,786 He took her to Geneva once for two years. 114 00:06:56,887 --> 00:07:00,846 The scientists he worked with spoke English, not the people in the stores. 115 00:07:00,925 --> 00:07:04,418 She spent the whole time feeling lonely and miserable. 116 00:07:04,796 --> 00:07:08,857 So I guess she felt she deserved a little more than an honorable discharge? 117 00:07:08,934 --> 00:07:10,424 He wanted a divorce. 118 00:07:10,502 --> 00:07:14,996 She made it as long, as complicated, as expensive as possible. 119 00:07:16,808 --> 00:07:18,935 There are no secrets in a divorce. 120 00:07:19,811 --> 00:07:24,078 My personal situation is documented in a stack of court filings this high. 121 00:07:24,150 --> 00:07:26,015 You did say it was amicable. 122 00:07:26,085 --> 00:07:28,645 No, I said it was as amicable as could be expected. 123 00:07:28,721 --> 00:07:31,212 Your girlfriend, she one of your students? 124 00:07:32,125 --> 00:07:34,320 Does she have to be involved in this? 125 00:07:34,393 --> 00:07:37,521 No secrets in a murder investigation, either, Professor. 126 00:07:38,931 --> 00:07:42,094 She's a chemist. A very bright young woman. 127 00:07:42,368 --> 00:07:45,964 And your wife was keeping you from this bright young woman? 128 00:07:47,107 --> 00:07:49,632 Florence and I were married 22 years. 129 00:07:51,278 --> 00:07:54,475 Because I wanted a divorce doesn't mean that I hated her. 130 00:07:54,548 --> 00:07:56,709 And it certainly doesn't mean I killed her. 131 00:07:56,783 --> 00:07:59,479 Look at it from our side. She was killed by a bomb. 132 00:07:59,553 --> 00:08:01,145 Physicists make bombs. 133 00:08:02,589 --> 00:08:06,959 Given enough time and money, I could possibly build you an atomic bomb. 134 00:08:07,195 --> 00:08:09,060 I know nothing of conventional explosives. 135 00:08:10,198 --> 00:08:12,996 Our reactor is behind this wall. A shield is being lowered... 136 00:08:13,434 --> 00:08:17,165 in order to conduct a diffraction experiment on that target. 137 00:08:17,739 --> 00:08:20,299 I'm going to leave before I'm bombarded with neutrons. 138 00:08:20,375 --> 00:08:22,104 I suggest you do the same. 139 00:08:28,117 --> 00:08:30,312 We talked about marriage at one point. 140 00:08:30,386 --> 00:08:32,684 But I don't see him right now. 141 00:08:32,755 --> 00:08:36,486 Did you change your mind when the first Mrs. Manning went up in flames? 142 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,222 Please. Do you know what kind of man Edward is? 143 00:08:41,096 --> 00:08:43,087 The things that he's working on? 144 00:08:43,165 --> 00:08:45,999 Well, we know he's working on getting a new wife. 145 00:08:46,536 --> 00:08:49,767 He's investigating the fundamental nature of matter. 146 00:08:50,273 --> 00:08:53,709 How the universe began. How the universe will end. 147 00:08:53,944 --> 00:08:57,311 Well, we're just a couple of simple city boys, Miss Thomas... 148 00:08:57,380 --> 00:09:00,247 but we know that you and Edward were planning on getting married... 149 00:09:00,317 --> 00:09:03,411 and Florence was standing in the way. I told you that's on hold. 150 00:09:03,486 --> 00:09:06,456 Yeah, that's because Florence Manning put it on hold. 151 00:09:06,757 --> 00:09:11,251 I didn't realize how complicated divorce could be. 152 00:09:12,029 --> 00:09:13,758 I thought it'd be over a long time ago. 153 00:09:13,831 --> 00:09:16,356 You give him a message, "It's now or never"? 154 00:09:17,134 --> 00:09:19,568 No, it wasn't that simple. 155 00:09:20,304 --> 00:09:23,637 And the delay gave us some time to think about what we really wanted. 156 00:09:23,708 --> 00:09:26,610 He still gives the impression of really wanting you. 157 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:30,079 Yeah, well... 158 00:09:30,849 --> 00:09:33,682 I guess he thought if the divorce went through... 159 00:09:36,488 --> 00:09:40,185 You know, we did stop by Florence's apartment a couple of weeks ago. 160 00:09:40,492 --> 00:09:42,119 He had some papers for her to sign... 161 00:09:42,194 --> 00:09:45,254 and I waited in the car and there was this man... 162 00:09:45,964 --> 00:09:48,297 who was looking through one of her windows. 163 00:09:48,368 --> 00:09:50,393 A man? With a beard. 164 00:09:52,138 --> 00:09:53,969 I don't know, maybe she has a boyfriend. 165 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:56,201 Or maybe she had a peeping Tom. 166 00:09:56,276 --> 00:09:59,177 He went to ring the bell as Edward was coming out... 167 00:09:59,279 --> 00:10:03,079 and I couldn't hear what they were saying, but it looked as if they started to argue. 168 00:10:03,149 --> 00:10:05,982 Did Edward tell you who he was? No. 169 00:10:06,853 --> 00:10:08,754 He just said he was some nut. 170 00:10:10,190 --> 00:10:12,488 Now, if Florence Manning did have a boyfriend... 171 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:14,493 it'd be the best news her husband ever had. 172 00:10:14,561 --> 00:10:17,086 He would've sent champagne, not a bomb. 173 00:10:20,434 --> 00:10:22,368 What's the matter, you hungry? 174 00:10:22,803 --> 00:10:25,397 What's that guy working on? The end of the universe? 175 00:10:25,472 --> 00:10:30,274 Life. It's here, everything falls apart, and it's over. 176 00:10:31,846 --> 00:10:34,406 You actually think the universe is gonna end? 177 00:10:34,849 --> 00:10:37,249 Usually I'm just hoping the week'll end. 178 00:10:37,752 --> 00:10:40,619 Well, I mean, if it's all just gonna disappear... 179 00:10:41,523 --> 00:10:44,686 what does it matter if you make Sergeant or what kind of car you drive? 180 00:10:44,759 --> 00:10:46,556 I mean, all the things we worry about? 181 00:10:46,628 --> 00:10:50,565 You wanna tell Florence Manning's brother it doesn't matter if we find her killer? 182 00:10:50,633 --> 00:10:53,761 You think Van Buren will buy it? Let's go see Manning. 183 00:10:57,006 --> 00:10:58,473 A man with a beard? 184 00:11:00,109 --> 00:11:01,872 I really don't remember. 185 00:11:01,944 --> 00:11:06,574 Your girlfriend remembers him pretty well. And she's not the one whose face he got in. 186 00:11:07,383 --> 00:11:10,581 There might have been someone. A street person. 187 00:11:10,854 --> 00:11:13,550 You remember if he said anything to you? 188 00:11:14,358 --> 00:11:15,848 Spare change? 189 00:11:15,926 --> 00:11:18,759 He didn't say anything about your wife? Come on. 190 00:11:19,229 --> 00:11:22,357 Your wife didn't mention that she was expecting anybody? 191 00:11:23,900 --> 00:11:25,094 A bum? 192 00:11:26,870 --> 00:11:30,739 I'd help you if I could. This is the first time you haven't accused me. 193 00:11:31,843 --> 00:11:34,073 Nobody? Never? 194 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:37,675 Yeah. She would've told you, right? 195 00:11:39,016 --> 00:11:40,483 Okay, thank you. 196 00:11:41,753 --> 00:11:45,450 Florence Manning never told her sister-in-law about any new man in her life. 197 00:11:45,523 --> 00:11:48,151 No boyfriends, no stalker, no psycho. 198 00:11:48,359 --> 00:11:52,023 Yeah, Manning's girlfriend saw the guy on the 21st about 10:00 a. m. 199 00:11:52,297 --> 00:11:54,162 Florence Manning's datebook. 200 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:57,836 "Toast and coffee, 115 calories. 201 00:11:58,404 --> 00:12:00,201 "9:30, manicure. 202 00:12:00,839 --> 00:12:04,673 "Noon, lunch with Anna." She kept a very neat diary. 203 00:12:07,980 --> 00:12:09,106 Yeah. 204 00:12:09,548 --> 00:12:12,518 She'd be upset to see what a mess her place got into. 205 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:17,012 What now? Another insight into the nature of time and matter? 206 00:12:18,425 --> 00:12:20,154 Maybe. Look at that. 207 00:12:23,263 --> 00:12:27,199 Is that on the negative? Something twisted, like a spring. 208 00:12:28,067 --> 00:12:29,967 Like the spring in that bomb. 209 00:12:32,873 --> 00:12:34,465 It's radioactive. 210 00:12:34,942 --> 00:12:37,467 When the spring was collected at the crime scene... 211 00:12:37,545 --> 00:12:40,810 it must've been placed in a bag next to the unexposed film. 212 00:12:41,582 --> 00:12:42,571 See? 213 00:12:43,384 --> 00:12:46,182 Its image was imprinted before the picture was taken. 214 00:12:46,253 --> 00:12:47,550 Is it safe to stand here? 215 00:12:47,621 --> 00:12:50,647 If I was a man, I wouldn't carry any of this in my front pocket. 216 00:12:50,724 --> 00:12:52,988 What is it, uranium? Nope. Steel. 217 00:12:53,060 --> 00:12:56,121 My car is steel. It doesn't set off a Geiger counter. 218 00:12:56,198 --> 00:12:58,598 This stuff didn't start off radioactive, either. 219 00:12:58,667 --> 00:13:00,965 Some of its atoms must have been converted... 220 00:13:01,036 --> 00:13:05,370 to unstable isotopes by exposure to high-energy particles. 221 00:13:05,707 --> 00:13:09,939 Suppose the bomb was built or stored in a room next to a nuclear reactor? 222 00:13:10,445 --> 00:13:11,810 That could do it. 223 00:13:12,247 --> 00:13:15,342 You got any suspects with nuclear reactors in their basements? 224 00:13:15,418 --> 00:13:17,386 As a matter of fact we do. 225 00:13:19,922 --> 00:13:23,016 So now you suspect me of murdering my wife... 226 00:13:23,092 --> 00:13:25,856 because the bomb that killed her was radioactive? 227 00:13:26,195 --> 00:13:29,824 Our expert says it was stored near a source of high-energy particles. 228 00:13:29,899 --> 00:13:32,959 Like those things that chased us out of here yesterday. 229 00:13:34,003 --> 00:13:36,632 Can I assume that the bomb components were steel? 230 00:13:36,707 --> 00:13:40,575 See, our point is, Doc, maybe you don't have to assume. Maybe you know. 231 00:13:41,979 --> 00:13:43,276 I'm assuming. 232 00:13:43,847 --> 00:13:46,008 If they're steel and they're going radioactive... 233 00:13:46,083 --> 00:13:48,847 then you're probably talking about cobalt 56. 234 00:13:49,620 --> 00:13:52,088 Did your expert take a gamma ray spectrum? 235 00:13:52,222 --> 00:13:54,918 Well, the Geiger counter was pretty convincing. 236 00:13:56,027 --> 00:13:57,858 I'll make it simple for you. 237 00:13:57,962 --> 00:14:00,487 This reactor could not irradiate that bomb. 238 00:14:01,499 --> 00:14:04,297 I'm afraid that's a little too simple, Professor. 239 00:14:04,636 --> 00:14:08,436 The iron atoms in steel are converted to cobalt 56... 240 00:14:08,706 --> 00:14:11,106 by collision with high-energy protons. 241 00:14:11,476 --> 00:14:15,003 A reactor like this one produces low-energy neutrons... 242 00:14:15,613 --> 00:14:18,583 nothing above 2.5 million electron volts. 243 00:14:18,651 --> 00:14:21,347 We're going to need some documentation on that. 244 00:14:21,687 --> 00:14:24,247 I'll lend you a freshman physics textbook. 245 00:14:25,424 --> 00:14:28,188 You didn't bother to run the super-framistan test... 246 00:14:28,260 --> 00:14:30,888 or whatever the hell it is, and we end up looking like idiots. 247 00:14:30,963 --> 00:14:33,864 It's a gamma-ray analysis, and you didn't ask for it. 248 00:14:33,933 --> 00:14:35,867 Since when do we tell you how to do your job? 249 00:14:35,935 --> 00:14:38,063 Since every time you walk in here. 250 00:14:41,007 --> 00:14:43,908 The energy signatures of the isotopes in the bomb. 251 00:14:44,644 --> 00:14:48,375 These are the spectrum lines from cobalt 56. Multiple peaks. 252 00:14:48,815 --> 00:14:51,340 Then there's no way Manning's gizmo could make this stuff? 253 00:14:51,418 --> 00:14:52,646 No. 254 00:14:52,819 --> 00:14:55,185 But a particle accelerator can. 255 00:14:55,722 --> 00:14:59,181 There is one in the area, at Manhattan University. 256 00:15:00,494 --> 00:15:04,430 That's why we call it an accelerator, Detective. It accelerates protons. 257 00:15:04,966 --> 00:15:09,903 So when one of them slams into an iron atom, it automatically becomes cobalt 56? 258 00:15:09,971 --> 00:15:13,668 Sometimes. I didn't know the police investigated particle interactions. 259 00:15:13,741 --> 00:15:18,202 You know Edward Manning over at Hudson Polytech? He ever come over here? 260 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:21,909 Dr. Manning? This is one of the last places on Earth he'd set foot. 261 00:15:21,984 --> 00:15:26,444 No scientific cooperation? He never drops by to borrow a cup of protons? 262 00:15:26,521 --> 00:15:28,250 Our director is Arthur Stedman. 263 00:15:28,323 --> 00:15:31,554 Twenty years ago, he and Manning were both chasing a new nuclear theory. 264 00:15:31,627 --> 00:15:34,357 Manning proved it two weeks after Stedman did. 265 00:15:34,429 --> 00:15:37,660 Stedman got the Nobel Prize. And Manning got sore. 266 00:15:37,733 --> 00:15:39,861 There's no prize for second place. 267 00:15:40,169 --> 00:15:43,002 Where do these accelerated protons run free around here? 268 00:15:43,072 --> 00:15:47,099 In the accelerator chamber, where the researchers set up the experiments. 269 00:15:47,176 --> 00:15:50,407 These researchers, we're gonna need a list of their names. 270 00:15:51,848 --> 00:15:53,873 Well, I don't really like going down there at night. 271 00:15:53,950 --> 00:15:56,418 I mean, it's all locked up and everything, but, you know... 272 00:15:56,486 --> 00:15:58,613 Any other grad students work late? 273 00:15:59,055 --> 00:16:01,991 I don't know, Barry Ramsey. He practically lives there. 274 00:16:02,059 --> 00:16:03,924 He's always doing something with the tools. 275 00:16:03,994 --> 00:16:05,222 What tools are those? 276 00:16:05,295 --> 00:16:08,662 Well, they're supposed to be just for the experiments but... 277 00:16:08,999 --> 00:16:10,796 Was something stolen? 278 00:16:10,868 --> 00:16:13,894 Did Barry know a woman named Florence Manning? 279 00:16:14,371 --> 00:16:17,101 The woman that was killed? Did he know her? 280 00:16:18,442 --> 00:16:22,436 I don't think Barry Ramsey has noticed that people come in two sexes. 281 00:16:23,381 --> 00:16:25,042 He calls me "fella." 282 00:16:27,185 --> 00:16:29,210 This is the way it is, fella. 283 00:16:29,921 --> 00:16:32,913 If I don't finish my thesis this year, I'm ruined. 284 00:16:33,525 --> 00:16:36,323 The accelerator's a quiet place to work. 285 00:16:38,296 --> 00:16:40,264 Cocoa? No, thanks. 286 00:16:40,499 --> 00:16:42,592 You need tools to write a thesis? 287 00:16:43,369 --> 00:16:46,463 No. I use a laptop computer to write a thesis. 288 00:16:46,706 --> 00:16:49,971 I use tools to fix my VCR, my toaster. 289 00:16:52,111 --> 00:16:56,411 Any other night owls at the accelerator? Not really. 290 00:16:57,116 --> 00:16:59,914 Except when it's running, then everybody's there. 291 00:16:59,985 --> 00:17:01,248 And Max Weiss. 292 00:17:03,123 --> 00:17:05,819 Max Weiss. He's not on the list. 293 00:17:06,026 --> 00:17:08,722 No. He's not on staff anymore. His post-doc ran out. 294 00:17:08,795 --> 00:17:11,229 But he still hangs around, plays with the atoms? 295 00:17:11,298 --> 00:17:13,892 He still has a desk. He's a good scientist. 296 00:17:13,967 --> 00:17:17,334 He just hasn't found a new job yet. He's working on something. 297 00:17:17,437 --> 00:17:19,667 Does he ever work alone? Sure. 298 00:17:20,207 --> 00:17:24,008 Nights I play Mah Jongg, but I haven't seen him in three or four days. 299 00:17:24,145 --> 00:17:25,635 Maybe he got a job. 300 00:17:26,013 --> 00:17:27,640 Maybe he finished one. 301 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:35,112 Okay, listen, you be good, okay? And you go in there and watch TV... 302 00:17:35,189 --> 00:17:37,987 and take your little sister, all right? Okay, there you go. 303 00:17:38,059 --> 00:17:40,789 And I promise I'll come in and read you a story. 304 00:17:43,198 --> 00:17:46,998 When Max is here, he likes to read to them, but Max is always at work. 305 00:17:47,169 --> 00:17:48,659 At the lab? 306 00:17:49,204 --> 00:17:52,867 What is this about? It's just a routine inquiry. He can tell you. 307 00:17:53,842 --> 00:17:55,503 Is it a security check? 308 00:17:55,577 --> 00:17:58,068 He applied for a job at Los Alamos, and that would be... 309 00:17:58,147 --> 00:18:00,445 I'm sorry, the FBl does those. 310 00:18:00,516 --> 00:18:01,505 I see. 311 00:18:01,583 --> 00:18:03,609 Is this your husband? Yes. 312 00:18:04,420 --> 00:18:07,548 Well, I don't think they're hiring, anyway. Budget cuts. 313 00:18:07,791 --> 00:18:10,191 I think my husband was born about 20 years too late. 314 00:18:10,260 --> 00:18:11,488 For the arms race? 315 00:18:11,561 --> 00:18:14,530 Well, to get the kind of job doing the work he likes. 316 00:18:14,597 --> 00:18:16,724 And you said he was working now, right? 317 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,031 Yes, he is at work. It's just in another field. 318 00:18:20,503 --> 00:18:22,994 Can you excuse me for a minute? I'm sorry. 319 00:18:24,909 --> 00:18:25,933 Good night, Max. 320 00:18:26,010 --> 00:18:27,375 Thank you. 321 00:18:29,647 --> 00:18:31,012 You went to my apartment? 322 00:18:31,081 --> 00:18:34,642 Well, we didn't know to look for you here. We thought you were a scientist. 323 00:18:34,718 --> 00:18:36,049 I am a scientist... 324 00:18:36,120 --> 00:18:39,248 who has to support five people without a permanent position. 325 00:18:39,323 --> 00:18:41,553 Did you know Florence Manning? 326 00:18:43,327 --> 00:18:46,024 I read about her. Yeah, but did you know her? 327 00:18:47,966 --> 00:18:49,331 I've heard of her husband. 328 00:18:49,401 --> 00:18:52,962 Did you ever have words with him in front of his wife's building? 329 00:18:54,039 --> 00:18:56,473 I don't think I can help you. Actually, you can. 330 00:18:56,541 --> 00:18:59,203 If you don't mind, we'd like you to come down to the precinct. 331 00:18:59,277 --> 00:19:00,904 Take part in a line-up. 332 00:19:01,413 --> 00:19:04,576 Do I have to? It really might be in your best interest. 333 00:19:06,485 --> 00:19:08,180 I don't think I have to. 334 00:19:16,128 --> 00:19:18,119 Just keep your eye on the door. 335 00:19:18,431 --> 00:19:21,628 Tell us if you see the man you saw outside Mrs. Manning's apartment. 336 00:19:21,701 --> 00:19:23,328 It was a couple of weeks ago, you know. 337 00:19:23,402 --> 00:19:26,895 Do the best you can. And I didn't really get a close... 338 00:19:29,610 --> 00:19:32,670 The man with the beard. Is that him? 339 00:19:33,313 --> 00:19:35,713 You're supposed to tell us. I don't... 340 00:19:37,484 --> 00:19:42,387 No, I don't know. Listen, I got to get home by 5:00, okay? 341 00:19:42,723 --> 00:19:45,123 Don't worry, we'll give you a lift home. 342 00:19:47,095 --> 00:19:50,861 Wait a minute. That's him, the doorman. 343 00:19:54,335 --> 00:19:56,394 Only he wasn't dressed like that. 344 00:20:00,441 --> 00:20:03,069 Excuse me, we're getting ready to run an experiment here. 345 00:20:03,144 --> 00:20:05,169 Hey, Ramsey. How's your toaster? 346 00:20:05,246 --> 00:20:08,580 We have a warrant to search any premises occupied by Max Weiss... 347 00:20:08,651 --> 00:20:11,245 including any storage areas pertaining thereto. 348 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,380 I think it would be in your best interest to show us what's his. 349 00:20:14,456 --> 00:20:16,356 I'm not sure I can do that. 350 00:20:16,425 --> 00:20:18,916 Okay, we're going to have to take this whole room apart... 351 00:20:18,994 --> 00:20:23,454 including the accelerator and you can have Gyro Gearloose here glue it back together. 352 00:20:23,532 --> 00:20:25,329 He uses that drawer. 353 00:20:27,403 --> 00:20:28,803 Locked. 354 00:20:30,006 --> 00:20:31,496 Wait, fella. 355 00:20:37,580 --> 00:20:38,672 There. 356 00:20:39,616 --> 00:20:41,914 Well. 357 00:20:44,154 --> 00:20:46,918 Recognize that wire? Merry Christmas. 358 00:20:48,191 --> 00:20:51,719 You think Max Weiss was planning to re-grout his bathroom tiles? 359 00:20:51,829 --> 00:20:54,127 I think we better call the Bomb Squad. 360 00:20:58,169 --> 00:21:01,764 I want you to run the scientific method on these, Dr. Weiss. 361 00:21:02,606 --> 00:21:06,064 The plastic explosive found in your drawer... 362 00:21:06,143 --> 00:21:09,602 matches the explosive in the bomb that killed Florence Manning. 363 00:21:10,182 --> 00:21:13,447 The wire in your drawer... 364 00:21:13,518 --> 00:21:17,215 matches the wire in the bomb that killed Florence Manning. 365 00:21:18,090 --> 00:21:22,186 You were seen acting a little strange... 366 00:21:22,461 --> 00:21:24,725 outside Florence Manning's apartment. 367 00:21:26,431 --> 00:21:30,061 Am I under arrest? We can't afford a lawyer. 368 00:21:30,203 --> 00:21:34,105 If you want a lawyer and can't afford it, one will be provided at no charge. 369 00:21:34,173 --> 00:21:38,041 That is what they said at the college clinic. There's a $20 deductible. 370 00:21:40,580 --> 00:21:42,775 Do you want a lawyer, Dr. Weiss? 371 00:21:43,816 --> 00:21:45,511 I don't know what to do. 372 00:21:47,820 --> 00:21:49,378 I just don't know what to do. 373 00:21:49,455 --> 00:21:50,718 Do you want a lawyer? 374 00:21:50,791 --> 00:21:53,885 This guy plotted a bombing? The evidence nails him. 375 00:21:53,961 --> 00:21:55,189 But no motive. 376 00:21:55,362 --> 00:21:58,798 Yeah, you want motive, the husband's loaded with it, but no evidence. 377 00:21:58,866 --> 00:22:02,427 What about putting the two together? It's worth a shot. 378 00:22:02,836 --> 00:22:05,304 Meanwhile, what do we do with Albert Einstein here? 379 00:22:05,372 --> 00:22:06,737 Arrest him. 380 00:22:08,409 --> 00:22:09,933 We looked for connections. 381 00:22:10,010 --> 00:22:12,241 Manning told us he never heard of Weiss. 382 00:22:12,313 --> 00:22:14,713 Weiss told us he read about Manning in the newspaper. 383 00:22:14,783 --> 00:22:17,445 But Weiss got his PhD at the University of Wisconsin. 384 00:22:17,519 --> 00:22:20,852 Until five years ago, Manning taught there. It's a big campus. 385 00:22:20,922 --> 00:22:24,653 Weiss called Manning's office eight times in the last four months. 386 00:22:24,726 --> 00:22:28,162 Before or after the bombing? Before. And three weeks ago... 387 00:22:28,229 --> 00:22:30,789 Weiss, who if he had a nickel, it would die of loneliness... 388 00:22:30,865 --> 00:22:33,630 deposited $3,500 in his checking account. 389 00:22:33,702 --> 00:22:36,762 Manning hired Weiss to kill his wife? 390 00:22:37,006 --> 00:22:38,906 I know of one way to find out. 391 00:22:40,276 --> 00:22:41,402 I think it's clear... 392 00:22:41,477 --> 00:22:43,377 Mr. Weiss does not wish to make a statement. 393 00:22:43,446 --> 00:22:45,209 Yeah? Well, we do. 394 00:22:45,281 --> 00:22:47,875 You're nailed, Max. You're going away. 395 00:22:48,384 --> 00:22:50,648 No more bedtime stories for the kids. 396 00:22:51,654 --> 00:22:55,284 We know you made the bomb small, Max. We don't think you were trying to kill her. 397 00:22:55,358 --> 00:22:58,885 And that can work in your favor. If you tell us what happened. 398 00:22:59,229 --> 00:23:02,721 Did someone hire you to do it? I would never kill anybody. 399 00:23:03,266 --> 00:23:04,756 Is this train going somewhere? 400 00:23:04,835 --> 00:23:07,599 Max, you told us you didn't even know Edward Manning. 401 00:23:07,671 --> 00:23:10,799 You called him 12 days ago, you called him 10 days ago. 402 00:23:10,874 --> 00:23:13,605 He was my thesis advisor at Wisconsin. 403 00:23:13,678 --> 00:23:17,842 Sure. Did he tell you about his problems? Did he tell you about the divorce? 404 00:23:17,915 --> 00:23:19,314 I didn't know about... 405 00:23:19,383 --> 00:23:23,717 Max, you got one way to help yourself. What did Manning ask you to do? 406 00:23:24,689 --> 00:23:27,852 Wait a minute. Just let me think. 407 00:23:28,092 --> 00:23:30,822 Will you leave me alone with my client? 408 00:23:32,597 --> 00:23:33,929 You, too. 409 00:23:40,205 --> 00:23:43,402 If I had a client charged with murder who was willing to testify... 410 00:23:43,475 --> 00:23:45,943 that someone hired him to commit the crime... 411 00:23:46,011 --> 00:23:48,878 what could be worked out for this client? Manning? 412 00:23:49,148 --> 00:23:50,638 I'm speaking hypothetically here. 413 00:23:50,716 --> 00:23:54,710 Hypothetically, if your client's testimony was truthful and productive... 414 00:23:54,787 --> 00:23:57,278 his charge might drop to Manslaughter One. 415 00:23:57,891 --> 00:24:00,052 Hypothetically, he might accept. 416 00:24:00,994 --> 00:24:04,054 Manning? Hypothetically, yes. 417 00:24:10,703 --> 00:24:12,762 I never meant to kill her. Max. 418 00:24:13,806 --> 00:24:16,674 What's on the table, Ben? You tell me. 419 00:24:16,744 --> 00:24:19,178 We don't need a plea to convict Mr. Weiss. 420 00:24:19,246 --> 00:24:21,771 The FBl raised saliva from the stamp on the bomb. 421 00:24:21,849 --> 00:24:23,874 It matches his DNA. 422 00:24:23,951 --> 00:24:26,545 I needed the money. I only meant to scare her. 423 00:24:26,620 --> 00:24:29,748 Let me get this straight. Prof. Manning came to you? 424 00:24:31,158 --> 00:24:32,955 I asked him for a job. 425 00:24:33,027 --> 00:24:36,520 At Wisconsin, years ago, he wanted to hire me... 426 00:24:36,598 --> 00:24:38,657 as part of his proton decay project. 427 00:24:38,733 --> 00:24:42,669 I was up for a tenure-track position at Oberlin, I said no. 428 00:24:44,172 --> 00:24:47,505 Then they asked Manning for a reference. He blackballed you? 429 00:24:47,576 --> 00:24:50,545 He never answered the letter. I found out about that. 430 00:24:51,179 --> 00:24:54,740 I would have been an associate professor by now, instead of a... 431 00:24:55,584 --> 00:24:56,984 You know what they pay post-docs? 432 00:24:57,053 --> 00:24:59,681 Sir, there are other ways of making a living. 433 00:24:59,755 --> 00:25:02,485 I went to Manning. He knows my work, he knows I'm good. 434 00:25:02,558 --> 00:25:05,652 Good at what? Good at physics? Good at murder? 435 00:25:05,728 --> 00:25:09,357 He knew I was in the Army Reserve. That is how I paid for Wisconsin. 436 00:25:09,432 --> 00:25:13,926 So Prof. Manning hired you to kill Florence Manning? 437 00:25:17,874 --> 00:25:20,274 Kill. That's what he said. 438 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:24,911 Call off your dogs, Ben. 439 00:25:24,982 --> 00:25:28,008 The police are turning Prof. Manning's life upside down. 440 00:25:28,085 --> 00:25:29,609 He's a murder suspect, Bill. 441 00:25:29,686 --> 00:25:31,677 They're not going to invite him to a dinner dance. 442 00:25:31,755 --> 00:25:36,192 Max Weiss is looking at 25 years in Attica, cold. 443 00:25:36,326 --> 00:25:38,795 Anyone would make up a story to cut a deal. 444 00:25:38,863 --> 00:25:42,424 The police won't find any evidence to support it because there isn't any. 445 00:25:42,500 --> 00:25:46,960 The $3,500 dollar deposit to Weiss's account was a check from your client. 446 00:25:48,606 --> 00:25:51,439 Give me some credit. I almost won the Nobel Prize. 447 00:25:51,509 --> 00:25:53,636 You think I'd pay a hired killer by check? 448 00:25:53,711 --> 00:25:57,238 With your attitude, sir, you might think yourself too smart to get caught. 449 00:25:57,315 --> 00:25:59,716 I know what's going on here, Ben. 450 00:25:59,952 --> 00:26:04,651 The law says you can't convict a man on the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice. 451 00:26:05,858 --> 00:26:09,817 If you believe that check would stand up as corroboration... 452 00:26:09,895 --> 00:26:12,329 you'd have arrested Prof. Manning by now. 453 00:26:12,898 --> 00:26:15,799 I hired Weiss to do some research. I knew him from Wisconsin. 454 00:26:15,868 --> 00:26:17,392 He was a good man. I thought he was. 455 00:26:17,469 --> 00:26:19,995 If you knew him from Wisconsin, why did you tell the police... 456 00:26:20,073 --> 00:26:23,406 that you didn't recognize him when you saw him outside your wife's apartment? 457 00:26:23,476 --> 00:26:26,775 He also knew my wife from Wisconsin, too, and I never thought he killed her. 458 00:26:26,846 --> 00:26:29,314 It didn't seem right to get him involved. 459 00:26:29,582 --> 00:26:32,745 Awfully kind of Manning to protect Weiss from the police. 460 00:26:32,819 --> 00:26:35,014 I gather he's not the kindly type? 461 00:26:35,088 --> 00:26:38,455 His story might explain why he told the police he didn't know Weiss... 462 00:26:38,525 --> 00:26:41,290 but it doesn't explain why he lied to his own girlfriend. 463 00:26:41,362 --> 00:26:43,523 So, Ben, do you believe Weiss? 464 00:26:43,597 --> 00:26:46,589 The check is the only evidence he has to support his story... 465 00:26:46,667 --> 00:26:50,068 aside from the fact that he had no motive to do it on his own. 466 00:26:50,137 --> 00:26:52,765 He had no motive, or you haven't found it yet? 467 00:26:53,074 --> 00:26:54,837 Max liked Florence Manning. 468 00:26:55,276 --> 00:26:59,679 Her husband treated his grad students like slaves. She baked them cookies. 469 00:26:59,747 --> 00:27:03,149 How much did your husband like her? 470 00:27:03,518 --> 00:27:04,883 What do you mean? 471 00:27:08,223 --> 00:27:10,691 Max and Mrs. Manning in a lover's quarrel? 472 00:27:10,759 --> 00:27:13,592 Oh, God, if you knew him at all. 473 00:27:14,229 --> 00:27:18,563 He loves me, and the children, and subatomic particles. 474 00:27:18,633 --> 00:27:20,225 Mrs. Weiss... 475 00:27:21,304 --> 00:27:23,772 he's admitted he sent the bomb. 476 00:27:26,476 --> 00:27:29,968 Well, then he's lying. I mean, he couldn't have. 477 00:27:30,980 --> 00:27:34,211 He's covering up for someone. I don't know, maybe Manning? 478 00:27:34,417 --> 00:27:36,009 I know my husband. 479 00:27:36,085 --> 00:27:38,315 We've talked to people who worked with him. 480 00:27:38,388 --> 00:27:41,516 They say he's been erratic, moody. 481 00:27:42,993 --> 00:27:46,827 A couple of months ago he got an idea. A breakthrough idea... 482 00:27:46,897 --> 00:27:49,627 I don't know, don't ask me, I don't understand it. 483 00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:52,999 He applied for a research grant. He was so excited. 484 00:27:53,070 --> 00:27:56,130 It was going to launch him, it was going to save us. 485 00:27:57,474 --> 00:27:58,873 I was just afraid. 486 00:27:59,610 --> 00:28:02,978 Of being saved? No. Of what happened. 487 00:28:03,815 --> 00:28:05,476 Of what always happens. 488 00:28:06,117 --> 00:28:09,416 He didn't get the grant. He was devastated. 489 00:28:10,989 --> 00:28:12,980 You say he's been moody lately. 490 00:28:13,591 --> 00:28:17,527 He can't support his family doing the work he loves. How would you feel? 491 00:28:19,898 --> 00:28:22,366 Miss Kincaid, what's gonna happen to him? 492 00:28:26,172 --> 00:28:28,072 What's going to happen to us? 493 00:28:29,208 --> 00:28:32,609 "Potential Super Symmetric Models for Higgs Scattering... 494 00:28:32,678 --> 00:28:35,442 "an Experimental Overview by Max Weiss." 495 00:28:39,051 --> 00:28:43,488 You know what I took for my science requirement? Physics for Poets. 496 00:28:44,357 --> 00:28:46,621 Geology 101, Rocks For Jocks. 497 00:28:47,494 --> 00:28:49,758 Weiss's notebooks. His papers. 498 00:28:49,830 --> 00:28:53,129 If he was doing research for Manning, here's no indication. 499 00:28:53,667 --> 00:28:55,999 That's good. That means he's telling the truth. 500 00:28:56,069 --> 00:28:57,502 Not according to his wife. 501 00:28:57,571 --> 00:29:01,439 She swears the only thing on Weiss's mind lately was this. 502 00:29:03,043 --> 00:29:05,774 "An Alternative Mode for Proton Decay." 503 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,008 His rejected grant application. Proton decay? 504 00:29:09,684 --> 00:29:11,549 That's Manning's field. 505 00:29:16,224 --> 00:29:19,682 Edward Manning and his team filled a vat with 1,000 tons of fluid... 506 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,593 containing 100 billion quintillion protons. 507 00:29:22,663 --> 00:29:24,790 They surrounded it with detectors, computers. 508 00:29:24,866 --> 00:29:27,836 They studied it for eight years at a cost of three million dollars... 509 00:29:27,903 --> 00:29:30,030 and they never saw a proton decay. 510 00:29:30,339 --> 00:29:32,864 Maybe they proved that protons don't decay. 511 00:29:32,941 --> 00:29:35,205 That's not what they wanted to prove. 512 00:29:35,611 --> 00:29:39,172 Manning was unfulfilled... 513 00:29:39,848 --> 00:29:41,076 severely. 514 00:29:41,149 --> 00:29:45,051 Last time I talked to him he had some new idea, some new approach. 515 00:29:45,521 --> 00:29:48,548 Could he be working on it with Max Weiss? 516 00:29:49,559 --> 00:29:52,926 Weiss has a reputation as a murderer, but not as a physicist. 517 00:29:53,196 --> 00:29:55,858 He has some new idea about proton decay. 518 00:29:55,932 --> 00:29:58,492 Applied for a grant from the American Science Foundation. 519 00:29:58,568 --> 00:29:59,694 Rejected? 520 00:30:00,270 --> 00:30:03,831 No doubt deservedly. I served on the Foundation's peer review panels. 521 00:30:03,907 --> 00:30:06,706 You should see some of the garbage that comes in. 522 00:30:07,645 --> 00:30:10,546 Peer review. Did Manning do that? 523 00:30:10,748 --> 00:30:14,013 Of course. Especially in a field like proton decay. 524 00:30:14,852 --> 00:30:16,285 It's his specialty. 525 00:30:17,588 --> 00:30:21,354 Weiss applied for a grant to look at old data from Manning's experiment. 526 00:30:21,425 --> 00:30:25,191 Weiss's theory was that protons had decayed, but hadn't been detected. 527 00:30:25,262 --> 00:30:29,495 Yeah. And if Weiss was right, Manning'd look foolish. 528 00:30:29,668 --> 00:30:33,297 Now, Manning headed the panel that reviewed Weiss's proposal... 529 00:30:33,371 --> 00:30:34,804 and he rejected it. 530 00:30:34,873 --> 00:30:37,535 He's the expert in the field. That's the way the system works. 531 00:30:37,609 --> 00:30:38,974 The panel's confidential... 532 00:30:39,044 --> 00:30:42,980 but I figure that Weiss put this conflict of interest together... 533 00:30:43,048 --> 00:30:44,538 and he starts calling Manning. 534 00:30:44,616 --> 00:30:48,713 By that time, Manning was working on his new idea about proton decay. 535 00:30:49,055 --> 00:30:51,216 Now, these are his laboratory logs. 536 00:30:51,357 --> 00:30:55,623 Manning requested copies of the same data Weiss wanted to look at. 537 00:30:55,695 --> 00:30:56,719 Perfect. 538 00:30:57,129 --> 00:30:59,996 First he torpedoes Weiss's idea, then he steals it. 539 00:31:00,099 --> 00:31:02,090 It still doesn't link to the murder. 540 00:31:02,168 --> 00:31:04,659 Weiss had reason to hate Manning, not Mrs. Manning. 541 00:31:04,737 --> 00:31:08,401 It's not unheard of to take revenge on a man by killing his wife. 542 00:31:08,475 --> 00:31:09,840 But Adam, it doesn't make sense. 543 00:31:09,910 --> 00:31:12,640 This man and wife hated each other. They were separated. 544 00:31:12,713 --> 00:31:16,945 But maybe Weiss didn't know they were separated. He hadn't seen them in years. 545 00:31:18,452 --> 00:31:21,182 If Weiss didn't know that they were separated... 546 00:31:21,855 --> 00:31:24,824 maybe we're wrong about this case from the beginning. 547 00:31:26,593 --> 00:31:29,961 But then we found this in your apartment. 548 00:31:30,765 --> 00:31:33,825 Last year's Hudson Polytech Faculty Directory. 549 00:31:34,569 --> 00:31:35,763 Fascinating, Ben. 550 00:31:35,837 --> 00:31:39,398 You find any old phone books? Back issues of National Geographic? 551 00:31:39,807 --> 00:31:42,275 It lists Prof. Manning's old address. 552 00:31:42,410 --> 00:31:44,605 The one he shared with his wife before he moved. 553 00:31:44,679 --> 00:31:46,704 You addressed the bomb to Dr. Manning... 554 00:31:46,781 --> 00:31:48,578 and you didn't know that he'd moved. 555 00:31:48,650 --> 00:31:50,585 Substitute carrier didn't know that, either. 556 00:31:50,653 --> 00:31:54,020 I've been to the Foundation. We know what Manning did to you. 557 00:31:54,089 --> 00:31:56,057 So you killed his wife by mistake. 558 00:31:56,125 --> 00:31:58,753 But then you realized that you could still hurt him... 559 00:31:58,827 --> 00:32:01,955 and help yourself by claiming that he hired you, right? 560 00:32:02,164 --> 00:32:06,032 This interview is over. Max. We have an understanding. 561 00:32:06,435 --> 00:32:08,801 We don't need his testimony. Deal's off. 562 00:32:08,871 --> 00:32:11,204 Fine. I prefer an acquittal, anyway. 563 00:32:12,008 --> 00:32:15,068 Cynthia Thomas's identification of my client was bogus. 564 00:32:15,145 --> 00:32:18,774 I'm going to get it thrown out, and all the evidence it led you to. 565 00:32:23,386 --> 00:32:27,015 The State's witness did not pick Dr. Weiss out of a properly constituted line-up. 566 00:32:27,090 --> 00:32:30,389 Your Honor, Dr. Weiss declined to participate in that line-up. 567 00:32:30,460 --> 00:32:32,691 So the police took Miss Thomas to a place... 568 00:32:32,763 --> 00:32:35,527 where she could see the defendant among many other people. 569 00:32:35,599 --> 00:32:37,863 Yes, but those many other people wore business suits. 570 00:32:37,935 --> 00:32:40,904 My client was dressed like an organ grinder's monkey. 571 00:32:45,409 --> 00:32:48,173 Does look conspicuous, Ben. That's a posed photo. 572 00:32:48,245 --> 00:32:51,271 In context, as a doorman, he blends in with the background. 573 00:32:51,348 --> 00:32:52,509 It's reasonable to assume... 574 00:32:52,584 --> 00:32:54,677 that Miss Thomas would have overlooked him because of that. 575 00:32:54,753 --> 00:32:56,050 In a get-up like this? 576 00:32:56,121 --> 00:32:59,056 There should be a door. In front of a door he looks like a doorman... 577 00:32:59,124 --> 00:33:00,216 Ben. 578 00:33:01,059 --> 00:33:03,687 How many men with beards walked out that door? 579 00:33:05,397 --> 00:33:06,887 At least one. 580 00:33:08,333 --> 00:33:10,324 Wow. One. 581 00:33:13,439 --> 00:33:15,873 The witness identification is excluded. 582 00:33:15,942 --> 00:33:19,241 The identification led to the search warrant which led to the bomb materials. 583 00:33:19,312 --> 00:33:20,404 It should all be excluded. 584 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:21,970 Your Honor, I'm sure you realize... 585 00:33:22,048 --> 00:33:25,176 that the police could have obtained that warrant on other unrelated grounds. 586 00:33:25,251 --> 00:33:27,048 But they didn't. But they could have. 587 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:28,883 I would have issued one. 588 00:33:29,589 --> 00:33:32,888 The identification is out. The bomb is in. 589 00:33:34,161 --> 00:33:35,526 Thank you. 590 00:33:37,097 --> 00:33:39,759 So, what? Dr. Manning... 591 00:33:40,701 --> 00:33:44,865 the link between Dr. Weiss and your wife... 592 00:33:45,239 --> 00:33:46,638 we lost it. 593 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,235 Now you're the only person who can testify... 594 00:33:49,309 --> 00:33:52,506 that you saw Dr. Weiss at your wife's apartment. 595 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,573 And you're also the only person who can supply a motive. 596 00:33:57,018 --> 00:33:58,645 Can I? What motive is that? 597 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:02,087 I don't want to play games with you, sir. Don't play games with me. 598 00:34:02,157 --> 00:34:04,284 We know what you did to Dr. Weiss. 599 00:34:06,127 --> 00:34:07,253 I see. 600 00:34:08,096 --> 00:34:12,260 So you want me to announce to the world that I'm a scientific thief and a fraud. 601 00:34:12,333 --> 00:34:14,632 No, sir, I want you to tell the truth. 602 00:34:16,105 --> 00:34:20,166 The truth, Mr. Stone, is that I'm near the end of a career... 603 00:34:20,509 --> 00:34:25,469 that I had the good fortune or misfortune to begin very brightly. 604 00:34:27,249 --> 00:34:30,184 I used to look around at meetings in laboratories. 605 00:34:30,252 --> 00:34:32,812 I was always the youngest person in the room. 606 00:34:33,322 --> 00:34:37,350 Then one day at a conference I looked around, and I was the oldest person there. 607 00:34:37,427 --> 00:34:39,224 Thirty years had slipped by. 608 00:34:40,764 --> 00:34:43,995 People were gathered around one of the stars. He was 29. 609 00:34:45,402 --> 00:34:48,303 I was the fourth speaker on the 5:00 panel. 610 00:34:50,006 --> 00:34:52,941 I know I have something more to contribute to physics. 611 00:34:53,009 --> 00:34:55,170 Something you stole from Max Weiss. 612 00:34:58,883 --> 00:35:00,942 I'll not end my career in disgrace. 613 00:35:01,018 --> 00:35:05,853 I understand, sir, but the alternative is letting your wife's murderer go free. 614 00:35:08,426 --> 00:35:11,918 One single human life on the time scale of the universe. 615 00:35:13,731 --> 00:35:15,926 You and I have different priorities. 616 00:35:21,974 --> 00:35:25,876 He's an aging boy wonder, and he wants the glory days back. 617 00:35:26,511 --> 00:35:28,103 And it's no coincidence... 618 00:35:28,180 --> 00:35:30,307 he picks up someone else's hot idea... 619 00:35:30,382 --> 00:35:32,748 and a young girlfriend at the same time. 620 00:35:33,085 --> 00:35:36,248 I sure thought he'd testify against the murderer of his own wife. 621 00:35:36,321 --> 00:35:38,756 We've threatened him with a subpoena, with contempt... 622 00:35:38,825 --> 00:35:40,258 he swears he'll stand mum. 623 00:35:40,326 --> 00:35:42,556 Scientists have a star system... 624 00:35:43,363 --> 00:35:46,196 makes Hollywood look like a socialist love-in. 625 00:35:46,699 --> 00:35:50,658 Only they don't keep score in money or starlets. It's reputation. 626 00:35:51,004 --> 00:35:54,940 If he's worried about his scientific reputation, let's attack him there. 627 00:36:01,248 --> 00:36:03,716 Aren't you being a little inconsistent, Ben? 628 00:36:03,784 --> 00:36:07,652 Unless your client testifies fully and freely, he'll be indicted. 629 00:36:07,821 --> 00:36:09,721 Haven't you just finished proving... 630 00:36:09,790 --> 00:36:12,782 Weiss lied about my client hiring him to kill his wife? 631 00:36:12,860 --> 00:36:15,328 I didn't say he'd be indicted for murder. 632 00:36:15,462 --> 00:36:17,362 I'm going to indict him for larceny. 633 00:36:17,431 --> 00:36:18,797 Larceny? 634 00:36:19,034 --> 00:36:23,232 What larceny? Grand Larceny in the 4th degree. 635 00:36:24,172 --> 00:36:26,936 "Theft of secret scientific material. 636 00:36:27,008 --> 00:36:31,741 "Any article, device or substance which constitutes, represents, evidences... 637 00:36:31,813 --> 00:36:35,681 "reflects or records a scientific or technical process... 638 00:36:35,750 --> 00:36:37,980 "invention or formula." 639 00:36:38,053 --> 00:36:40,284 And that's basically what Prof. Manning did... 640 00:36:40,356 --> 00:36:43,757 when he stole the idea from Max Weiss's proposal. 641 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:45,349 Cute. 642 00:36:45,928 --> 00:36:48,692 You know that law applies to computer programs. 643 00:36:50,399 --> 00:36:51,764 Secret formulas. 644 00:36:52,668 --> 00:36:54,465 Plagiarism isn't larceny. 645 00:36:54,837 --> 00:36:56,862 I'll let a jury decide that. 646 00:36:56,939 --> 00:37:00,432 But don't think I won't show that jury every detail... 647 00:37:00,877 --> 00:37:02,708 of Prof. Manning's deceit. 648 00:37:03,580 --> 00:37:07,175 Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't a charge of larceny presuppose... 649 00:37:07,250 --> 00:37:09,775 that the thing allegedly stolen have value? 650 00:37:12,055 --> 00:37:15,286 Weiss's idea was flawed, amateurish and worthless. 651 00:37:16,660 --> 00:37:18,252 That's why I rejected his proposal. 652 00:37:18,328 --> 00:37:21,162 No serious physicist would have wasted an hour on it. 653 00:37:21,232 --> 00:37:23,792 That's awfully convenient for you to say that, sir. 654 00:37:23,868 --> 00:37:25,460 Yes, quite convenient. 655 00:37:27,305 --> 00:37:30,365 I'll be happy to testify about this at length. 656 00:37:32,777 --> 00:37:35,143 I'm the leading authority in the field. 657 00:37:36,781 --> 00:37:38,146 Ask anyone. 658 00:37:39,183 --> 00:37:41,982 If Manning swears that the theory is worthless... 659 00:37:42,321 --> 00:37:44,255 you gotta prove that it isn't. 660 00:37:44,890 --> 00:37:46,414 Now, what the hell's the theory? 661 00:37:46,492 --> 00:37:49,222 That protons eventually fall apart. 662 00:37:49,828 --> 00:37:51,796 Is this something I need to be worried about? 663 00:37:51,864 --> 00:37:56,801 It means all matter in the universe will eventually disintegrate in a certain way. 664 00:37:57,269 --> 00:38:00,898 Terrific. Now all we gotta do to win a larceny trial... 665 00:38:01,674 --> 00:38:03,505 is prove how the universe will end. 666 00:38:03,576 --> 00:38:06,807 No, all I do is get my own group of expert witnesses. 667 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:08,404 Who you going to get, the Almighty? 668 00:38:08,481 --> 00:38:12,247 Physics professors. That's all Manning is. Oh, physics professors. 669 00:38:13,887 --> 00:38:15,821 Better get a jury of insomniacs. 670 00:38:15,889 --> 00:38:18,449 We want an expert who'll keep the jury awake? 671 00:38:18,925 --> 00:38:20,517 We've already got one. 672 00:38:21,127 --> 00:38:22,356 You got to be kidding. 673 00:38:22,430 --> 00:38:25,228 You want Dr. Weiss to testify that Manning stole his theory? 674 00:38:25,299 --> 00:38:27,164 It's your decision, Dr. Weiss. 675 00:38:27,234 --> 00:38:30,328 He'd be establishing a motive you'd nail him with at his own murder trial. 676 00:38:30,404 --> 00:38:32,235 He'll be convicted no matter what he does. 677 00:38:32,306 --> 00:38:33,796 He'd be out of his mind to help you. 678 00:38:33,874 --> 00:38:37,935 Doctor, you and I both know that no one takes you seriously as a scientist. 679 00:38:39,013 --> 00:38:43,508 Now, isn't this the only possible chance you have to make your reputation? 680 00:38:46,688 --> 00:38:50,988 You had an insight into proton decay, and Edward Manning stole it. 681 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:55,326 Do you want the rest of the scientific community to know this or not? 682 00:38:55,897 --> 00:38:57,421 You don't understand. 683 00:38:57,966 --> 00:39:02,665 I don't care about scientific reputation. I care about science. 684 00:39:02,737 --> 00:39:05,434 Max, this can't help you. Nothing can help me. 685 00:39:05,508 --> 00:39:09,205 Prof. Manning says your theory is flawed. I don't care what he says. 686 00:39:09,278 --> 00:39:12,736 Amateurish, worthless. He has no imagination. 687 00:39:14,550 --> 00:39:16,347 Do you know how he set up his experiment? 688 00:39:16,419 --> 00:39:17,977 Max. This room... 689 00:39:19,088 --> 00:39:23,047 is about the size of the vat he used to fill with fluid. 690 00:39:23,893 --> 00:39:28,797 Manning put photomultiplier tubes there, there, there... 691 00:39:29,266 --> 00:39:33,396 linked to a computer programmed to pick out signs of proton decay. 692 00:39:34,338 --> 00:39:36,499 But do you know what he looked for? 693 00:39:38,909 --> 00:39:40,206 One mode only. 694 00:39:42,079 --> 00:39:43,103 Here. 695 00:39:44,348 --> 00:39:47,876 A positron track going one way. The other way... 696 00:39:48,553 --> 00:39:49,918 a neutral pion. 697 00:39:51,856 --> 00:39:55,883 But what if protons don't decay that way, but into a positron... 698 00:39:56,261 --> 00:39:58,752 and two neutrinos? 699 00:39:59,264 --> 00:40:01,528 Manning's computers never would have found them... 700 00:40:01,599 --> 00:40:04,124 because they weren't looking for them. 701 00:40:04,836 --> 00:40:07,328 Protons could have been decaying every day. 702 00:40:09,108 --> 00:40:10,939 Do you know what that means? 703 00:40:15,314 --> 00:40:17,077 We can synthesize... 704 00:40:17,316 --> 00:40:20,285 three of the basic forces of the universe. 705 00:40:21,620 --> 00:40:23,679 We would be on the verge... 706 00:40:26,259 --> 00:40:28,727 of reading the mind of God. 707 00:40:31,765 --> 00:40:34,666 He'll testify, won't he? Yeah, I think he will. 708 00:40:35,101 --> 00:40:37,729 He'll put a noose around his own neck to defend a theory... 709 00:40:37,804 --> 00:40:39,965 that maybe 500 people in the world understand. 710 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,975 I don't know, I'm beginning to think I understand it. 711 00:40:43,043 --> 00:40:45,341 Our murderer is one hell of a teacher. 712 00:40:47,582 --> 00:40:49,516 Am I supposed to be impressed? 713 00:40:50,818 --> 00:40:53,378 Go ahead. Tear down his theory. 714 00:40:53,854 --> 00:40:55,583 Max Weiss will defend it. 715 00:40:56,257 --> 00:40:59,021 And I'm sure the jury will find it compelling. I know I did. 716 00:40:59,093 --> 00:41:01,084 He's a scientific nobody. 717 00:41:01,395 --> 00:41:03,863 He's not the only one who'll testify, sir. 718 00:41:03,931 --> 00:41:07,493 Prof. Stedman is a somebody. We've been rivals for 30 years. 719 00:41:07,569 --> 00:41:08,866 Jacob Munson at Princeton... 720 00:41:08,937 --> 00:41:10,962 finds Weiss's theory interesting. 721 00:41:11,039 --> 00:41:15,032 So does Chadrasan at Michigan. We're still sending the documents around. 722 00:41:15,310 --> 00:41:19,406 You're flying in witnesses from all over the country to prosecute a Class E felony? 723 00:41:19,481 --> 00:41:24,145 If your client doesn't testify in a trial involving the murder of his wife... 724 00:41:24,219 --> 00:41:26,119 I'll fly them in from Jupiter. 725 00:41:26,188 --> 00:41:30,125 And tell him he can't worry about his reputation anymore. He doesn't have any. 726 00:41:30,193 --> 00:41:32,491 You're ruining me as a man of science. 727 00:41:33,496 --> 00:41:35,657 Sir, you did that yourself. 728 00:41:36,566 --> 00:41:39,467 I'm just asking you to tell the jury how you did it. 729 00:41:47,143 --> 00:41:50,636 I was close to the answer. I'd been working on proton decay for 10 years. 730 00:41:50,714 --> 00:41:52,477 Doctor, isn't that the reason... 731 00:41:52,549 --> 00:41:54,380 that you were chosen to chair the panel... 732 00:41:54,451 --> 00:41:57,716 that actually reviewed Dr. Weiss's research proposal? 733 00:41:57,955 --> 00:42:00,446 I'm acknowledged as the leading authority. 734 00:42:01,392 --> 00:42:04,259 When I saw his idea, everything snapped into place. 735 00:42:04,461 --> 00:42:08,488 I believed, I still believe, I would have seen the thing myself in a week or a day. 736 00:42:08,565 --> 00:42:10,830 So what did you do about that? 737 00:42:10,969 --> 00:42:13,836 I rejected his proposal. There were some errors in it. 738 00:42:13,905 --> 00:42:15,429 How did Dr. Weiss react? 739 00:42:15,507 --> 00:42:19,307 He called me. He threatened to go to the Office of Research Integrity. 740 00:42:19,911 --> 00:42:23,142 I told him he'd be wasting his time. I had status, he had none. 741 00:42:23,214 --> 00:42:25,409 Did he believe that? It was true. 742 00:42:26,885 --> 00:42:30,549 I sweetened it by saying I'd put his name on the paper I was writing as co-author. 743 00:42:30,623 --> 00:42:33,683 He'd be able to get a job then. I gave him some money to tide him over. 744 00:42:33,759 --> 00:42:36,592 Sir, were you gonna put his name on that paper? 745 00:42:37,396 --> 00:42:39,193 His proposal was a guess. 746 00:42:39,332 --> 00:42:41,892 I'd been working on the problem for 10 years. 747 00:42:42,368 --> 00:42:44,165 I told him I'd changed my mind. 748 00:42:44,236 --> 00:42:47,637 So you told the man who came up with the crucial idea... 749 00:42:47,707 --> 00:42:51,542 that he was not going to get any credit or any recognition. 750 00:42:52,879 --> 00:42:56,246 I didn't think he earned it. How did he react to that, sir? 751 00:42:56,983 --> 00:42:58,382 He got very angry. 752 00:42:59,586 --> 00:43:03,488 He said he would go to the Office of Research Integrity and take his chances. 753 00:43:03,557 --> 00:43:05,081 And what did you do? 754 00:43:05,158 --> 00:43:07,058 I knew his post-doc was up. 755 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,220 He was being considered for an assistant professorship. 756 00:43:10,430 --> 00:43:14,299 I saw he didn't get the job. Someone in the department owed me a favor. 757 00:43:14,869 --> 00:43:18,805 If Weiss wasn't on the faculty, then his complaint would carry no weight. 758 00:43:19,307 --> 00:43:21,400 Did he know that you'd done that? 759 00:43:21,876 --> 00:43:24,743 He called me. It was frightening. 760 00:43:25,213 --> 00:43:26,578 What did he say? 761 00:43:28,516 --> 00:43:31,974 That I was starving his children. That he would make me pay. 762 00:43:42,398 --> 00:43:44,889 Mr. Foreman, has the jury reached a verdict? 763 00:43:44,967 --> 00:43:46,400 We have, Your Honor. 764 00:43:46,468 --> 00:43:48,368 On the sole count of the indictment... 765 00:43:48,437 --> 00:43:49,631 Murder in the 2nd degree... 766 00:43:49,705 --> 00:43:51,297 how does the jury find? 767 00:43:51,373 --> 00:43:54,070 We find the defendant, Max Weiss, guilty. 768 00:43:54,477 --> 00:43:57,105 The jury is excused with thanks. 769 00:43:58,014 --> 00:44:00,244 Dr. Weiss is remanded to Rikers Island... 770 00:44:00,316 --> 00:44:01,908 pending sentencing. 771 00:44:03,853 --> 00:44:05,320 This court is now adjourned. 772 00:44:10,627 --> 00:44:14,724 Your Honor, my client wishes to make a statement before sentence is imposed. 773 00:44:17,668 --> 00:44:21,536 I want to apologize to Mrs. Manning's family... 774 00:44:22,473 --> 00:44:23,872 with all my heart. 775 00:44:25,609 --> 00:44:27,076 I am so sorry. 776 00:44:31,782 --> 00:44:35,446 All that's ever mattered to me is my family and my work. 777 00:44:36,621 --> 00:44:38,816 All I ever wanted to do was physics. 778 00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,090 When I saw I was losing it, I couldn't stand it. 779 00:44:47,532 --> 00:44:49,466 If I could do it over again... 780 00:44:49,935 --> 00:44:51,664 I would be a bus driver... 781 00:44:52,404 --> 00:44:56,273 an accountant, anything, my whole life without science... 782 00:44:57,977 --> 00:45:00,104 if I could take that package back. 783 00:45:03,616 --> 00:45:05,880 Yes, Dr. Weiss, but it's too late. 784 00:45:07,086 --> 00:45:09,680 Your actions were callous and deadly. 785 00:45:11,090 --> 00:45:13,991 I sentence you to an indeterminate term of imprisonment... 786 00:45:14,060 --> 00:45:15,995 of from 25 years to life... 787 00:45:16,063 --> 00:45:20,591 to be served at a facility selected by the Department of Corrections. 788 00:45:32,346 --> 00:45:36,340 But on the other hand, he killed a woman, so I had to play it by the book. 789 00:45:36,718 --> 00:45:38,185 You feel bad about that? 790 00:45:38,253 --> 00:45:41,154 Twenty-five years. He's not your typical killer. 791 00:45:41,222 --> 00:45:42,917 He is. He killed somebody.