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In the criminal justice system
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the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups,
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the police
who investigate crime
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and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.
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These are their stories.
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Stop! Stop!
Give me that!
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Somebody hold the guy!
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Hey, you!
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Get him! This guy
stole my purse!
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We're gonna get you!
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Hold it right there!
Come back here!
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Hey!
Stay where you are!
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I tell you to stop
and you stop.
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I was trying to catch a cab.
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Yeah, well,
we'll give you a ride.
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He put it in there.
I saw him.
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Are you Sharon Lasko?
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No, I'm Mrs. Dubinsky.
That's not mine.
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That's mine.
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Ah! Looks like
you've been a busy boy.
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Central, we've got a 10-22 on
6th Avenue and Spring Street,
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with a male in custody.
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Do you have a previous 10-22 with a
complainant named Lasko, Sharon,
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white female, 23?
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Checking.
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Sir, this looks like blood.
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I want
to press charges.
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Do I have to go down
to the police station?
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Lasko, Sharon. Reported missing
three days ago. Some kind of model.
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Where is she?
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I don't know
anything about that.
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I was in rehab till last night.
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And I see they did an excellent job.
Where'd you get the wallet?
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Okay, so exactly when?
And exactly where?
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I got out of
the clinic about 6:00.
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We haven't checked that.
But we did.
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I came over here
to hang around.
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What?
To meet somebody?
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I needed to clear my head.
That rehab really messes it up.
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All right. So you're out here breathing
the clean, fresh air. Then what?
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It was around here somewhere.
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You want me to call CSU?
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No, let's spread out
a little bit.
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Now, you're sure you never met
this model someplace else before?
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Yeah, I was at the model's ball.
That's why I'm still wearing my tuxedo.
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Hey, Lennie.
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I got a jacket over here.
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With more blood.
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Lots more blood.
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Monogrammed Sharon.
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If she's lucky
she'll just catch a cold.
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Sharon Lasko's agent reported
her missing three days ago.
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She didn't show up for a
meeting with an advertiser
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who was considering using
her for some big commercial.
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So what did
Missing Persons get?
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These. Her agent brought them in.
Her first calendar.
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A still from her commercial
for Green Apple Fizz
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and these are
called head shots.
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That's it?
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Well, plus the message
on her answering machine
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said she was on a photo shoot.
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But her agent checked
the agencies that use her,
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and no one knows
about any shoot.
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You tend to remember somebody
who looks like this.
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That's got to help when
you go knocking on doors.
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Well, Missing Persons
wouldn't know.
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They told me they've
been a little backed up.
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What? Missing Persons is too backed
up to investigate a missing person?
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Well, they figured a 23-year-old
model, she runs with a fast crowd.
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Her agent said last year
she went off for a week
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with a Saudi Arabian prince.
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Any family?
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Parents.
In Astoria.
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She won a Miss Schoolgirl contest
when she was in the third grade.
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Her talents were
singing and tap.
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I called that guy
at Missing Persons.
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He acted like she was some
party girl running around.
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When did you talk
to Sharon last?
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It's been a couple of weeks.
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She's been so busy with work.
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Do you know where?
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I think she was
doing a catalog.
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She used to call us
every time she got a job,
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but she's so successful now.
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Yeah. They tend to
drift away a little.
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She comes to dinner
at least once a month.
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But she only eats
vegetables now.
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They have to be
so thin, you know.
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It's a full-time job.
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The diet, the exercise, the make-up.
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How about her friends?
Do you know any of their names?
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She used to room
with Monica Wickes.
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You see her picture
everywhere now.
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Wait. Here.
Here, here she is with Sharon
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when they did a Value Bin ad.
They were just starting out.
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Detective, find her
for us. Please?
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What do you mean she's missing?
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Nobody's seen her
for a few days.
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Her parents are worried.
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We understand she's
done this once before.
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Some Arab prince?
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Ahmad.
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He met her backstage at a Bernilli show.
Took her to Prague for a weekend.
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Is he still in her life?
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Not after that Monday.
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He's a charter member of the
Model of the Week Club.
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Uh...
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Well, could he have
given her name to another member?
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I wouldn't know.
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Her parents said you
used to be roommates.
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One room in Chelsea.
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We were running around
from agency to agency
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with portfolios
we had taken in Queens.
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Why'd you split up?
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We started making enough money
to afford our own apartments.
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Sharon always wanted
one with a balcony.
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So when's the last time
you saw her?
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A couple of weeks ago.
I was out dancing with friends.
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She was with
a girl named Amber.
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I talked to her
on Thursday.
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She wanted to borrow my aqua silk shoes.
She was going to a party at Psycho.
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And that would be?
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The nightclub.
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What's the matter?
She didn't have enough shoes of her own?
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My thinking exactly.
I mean, she's Miss Green Apple Fizz
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and I'm still pushing Femme
Elegante for a day job.
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Look, I'm on commission here.
If either one of you is interested...
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Hmm.
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What's the fragrance?
Radishes?
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You like it?
I've got it in after-shave.
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Do you splash it on personally?
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So this party,
was it on Thursday night?
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Yeah, I told Sharon I was going
myself, wearing those shoes.
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So you saw her there?
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Her and everybody else.
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Lots of models.
Some basketball players.
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It went pretty late.
It was in the VIP room.
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Was Sharon with
anybody in particular?
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When I left she was talking to the
owner of the club. Something Scannell.
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It looked pretty intense.
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Frederick Scannell?
Yeah.
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He likes to hobnob
with us beautiful people.
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So you know this Scannell?
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Yeah, from OCCB.
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His file's thick enough to use
as a booster seat for my kids.
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What? Rackets?
Nah! Drugs.
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Funnels the money through restaurants,
nightclubs, you name it.
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On paper he's
a major entrepreneur.
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So the money's clean.
You ever bust him?
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Not yet.
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Fringe benefit of owning
a club, the private parties.
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Yeah.
Models, athletes.
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I hate to be rude, but what do
you bring to the table? Drugs?
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No drugs allowed here, Detective.
They're illegal.
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It's my back room
my guests like.
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They don't have to
mess with the rabble.
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Just you.
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I'm not so bad.
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Sharon and I were getting
along very nicely.
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Yeah. We heard you were having
a very intense conversation.
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Yeah, I was trying
to get into her pants.
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That's why
I have these parties.
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And did you?
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No. The guy she came
in with, Ken Soames.
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The basketball player?
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Yeah, decided he wanted
to leave the same way.
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He interrupted us, rudely.
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Yeah, he's slow,
but no jump shot.
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Warms the bench when he's not
home on a drug suspension.
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And he's a friend of yours.
What a coincidence.
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First of all,
he's no friend of mine.
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Second of all, if I was
in drugs, which I'm not,
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I wouldn't sell them retail to anyone,
let alone a loser like Soames.
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If he's such a loser, you
must've been pretty upset
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when Sharon walked off
with him instead of you.
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It was only 5:00 a.m.
The night was still young.
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I ended up with a girl
from Cats. Very frisky.
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Yo, I gotta get in the tub
before this cools off.
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This'll just take a minute.
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Sharon Lasko was a friend
of yours, am I right?
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Yeah, we went out for a while.
It was pretty fun, but it's over.
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We heard you were keeping it alive at 5:00 a.
M. At Scannell's place.
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Those models, man, they
keep hours like Dracula.
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I just wanted to go home.
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Don't you mean, you just wanted
Sharon to go home with you?
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Yeah. But she didn't.
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We heard she did.
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She went as far as the street
in front of my building.
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I went upstairs.
She went to her place.
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Did anyone see you go
your separate ways?
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What is this?
You think I did something to her?
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Well, your last drug suspension led
off with a DUI and a swing at a cop.
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I mean, you're hotter off
the court than you are on.
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Up yours. I went upstairs.
She went home.
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If you don't believe me,
ask the limo driver.
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He went up alone, but he
wasn't too happy about it.
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So they argued?
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Well, they were all over each other at first.
You know, 6:00 a.m., a little drunk.
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Then he was like, " Come on, baby,
come on, baby, come on, baby."
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And what was she like?
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Well, she didn't want to.
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He tried to drag her
out of the car.
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And you, being
a good citizen...
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I told him I'd call a cop
if he didn't lay off.
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And?
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She took care of it herself.
Almost slammed the door on his hand.
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Too bad. Might've helped
his outside jump shot.
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So where'd you take
her after that?
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Home and then the aircraft
carrier with the museum.
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The Intrepid?
Yeah.
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I waited outside her place while she changed.
Then it was off to the river.
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She was worried about how cold it was.
She was just wearing some skimpy dress.
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Her message said she had a photo shoot.
Did you see a photographer?
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No. She just got
out of the car.
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How the hell am I
supposed to remember?
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Hey, I'd remember.
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You don't take in
1,200 tickets a day.
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Hey, Lennie.
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Mr. Nakiyama here
thinks he saw her.
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I sold her a double espresso.
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I thought maybe
she was Cindy Crawford.
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Her name is Sharon Lasko, if
this is the woman you saw.
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Yeah. I saw her.
No milk, four sugars.
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I never heard of Sharon Lasko.
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Well, maybe you've
just seen her face.
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Yeah.
I saw her here.
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Was there anybody with her?
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What'd he look like?
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We don't know.
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A man with a camera.
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Ah!
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He paid for the espresso.
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Did you get a good look at him?
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I don't remember.
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Hmm.
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So she was either
with a photographer
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or some tourist taking pictures
of the aircraft carrier.
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She wouldn't drag herself down to
the Hudson after an all-night party
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unless it was for a job.
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Twenty-three years old.
She's into limos, jocks, drug dealers.
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I guess you're planning a
convent for your girls.
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I'm planning
to raise them right.
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Hey, Rey, I got news for you.
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All your advice is optional after
the day they buy their first bra.
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00:10:45,007 --> 00:10:46,167
Yeah, I'll lock
them in their room.
246
00:10:46,242 --> 00:10:47,766
Then we'll arrest you.
247
00:10:47,843 --> 00:10:49,504
Hey, look at this.
248
00:10:50,913 --> 00:10:52,210
The Statue of Liberty?
249
00:10:52,281 --> 00:10:54,443
Oh! Is that that thing
behind the red-head?
250
00:10:54,518 --> 00:10:57,248
Now, look at this.
Lady Liberty again.
251
00:10:57,921 --> 00:11:01,254
Two different models,
same photographer.
252
00:11:01,324 --> 00:11:02,416
You see a pattern?
253
00:11:02,492 --> 00:11:04,392
Some guys have favorite places.
254
00:11:04,461 --> 00:11:07,055
Yeah, see who's partial
to big boats.
255
00:11:10,300 --> 00:11:13,633
I'm new here. I don't know whether
that's under "aircraft carrier"
256
00:11:13,704 --> 00:11:14,933
or "Intrepid."
257
00:11:15,006 --> 00:11:17,338
Boats? Ships?
Flat-tops?
258
00:11:17,508 --> 00:11:19,499
Oh, here we are, Intrepid.
259
00:11:22,213 --> 00:11:24,113
Looks like a popular site.
260
00:11:24,182 --> 00:11:27,310
Well, actually, a lot of these
are done by the same guy.
261
00:11:27,385 --> 00:11:28,409
Ew!
262
00:11:28,486 --> 00:11:30,215
Not your favorite?
263
00:11:30,288 --> 00:11:33,724
Well, I've been here long enough
to hear of him. Rick Kasteler.
264
00:11:33,791 --> 00:11:35,088
We don't represent him anymore.
265
00:11:35,159 --> 00:11:37,993
What'd he do?
Screw up his f-stop?
266
00:11:38,330 --> 00:11:39,888
F-stop is right.
267
00:11:39,965 --> 00:11:42,559
A model he was working
with sued the agency.
268
00:11:42,634 --> 00:11:46,263
Said he got up close and personal
with more than his lens.
269
00:11:46,739 --> 00:11:50,072
We noticed how often you like to
shoot at the Intrepid, Mr. Kasteler.
270
00:11:50,142 --> 00:11:54,875
Yeah. Well, it's just something about
long legs against those big gun barrels.
271
00:11:55,380 --> 00:11:56,608
It works.
272
00:11:59,519 --> 00:12:03,387
Cindy, the nose.
They can't get me a kid without a cold?
273
00:12:03,456 --> 00:12:05,048
When was the last time
you shot there?
274
00:12:05,125 --> 00:12:06,251
About three days ago.
275
00:12:06,326 --> 00:12:07,384
With Sharon Lasko?
276
00:12:07,460 --> 00:12:08,449
Yes. Why?
277
00:12:08,528 --> 00:12:10,393
She's missing.
Missing?
278
00:12:10,630 --> 00:12:12,621
Yeah. Have you seen her?
279
00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:15,565
Let's take a break. No.
280
00:12:15,635 --> 00:12:18,468
You seem to be the last
person to see her.
281
00:12:20,340 --> 00:12:22,935
Except for whoever saw her
after I left the Intrepid.
282
00:12:23,010 --> 00:12:23,999
When might that have been?
283
00:12:24,078 --> 00:12:25,238
It was about 2:00
in the afternoon.
284
00:12:25,312 --> 00:12:28,406
And what? You just left her sitting
there among the big gun barrels?
285
00:12:28,482 --> 00:12:30,473
I was late to meet
my wife and son.
286
00:12:30,551 --> 00:12:32,712
He was in a school play,
Peter and the Wolf.
287
00:12:32,787 --> 00:12:35,585
Yeah, well, the thing is, Rick,
we can't seem to find anybody
288
00:12:35,656 --> 00:12:38,284
who remembers hiring you
to do a shoot with Sharon.
289
00:12:39,794 --> 00:12:42,422
Nobody hired me.
I was doing her a favor.
290
00:12:42,496 --> 00:12:43,691
What kind of favor?
291
00:12:43,765 --> 00:12:48,361
I know how to get these girls' composites
ready for TV and movie people.
292
00:12:48,436 --> 00:12:49,994
Sharon was looking
to get into that area.
293
00:12:52,974 --> 00:12:54,305
Curtis.
And these kids?
294
00:12:54,376 --> 00:12:57,277
You're advancing their careers
with the Mister Mittens campaign?
295
00:12:57,345 --> 00:12:59,973
You never know, Detective.
You never know.
296
00:13:00,048 --> 00:13:01,948
Okay, we're on our way.
297
00:13:04,286 --> 00:13:06,482
They just found Sharon Lasko.
298
00:13:08,324 --> 00:13:11,054
Carters unload dumpsters here.
That's probably how she traveled.
299
00:13:11,127 --> 00:13:12,151
Dumpsters from where?
300
00:13:12,228 --> 00:13:14,719
East Side, West Side,
all around the town.
301
00:13:14,797 --> 00:13:16,765
This guy's pooch
uncovered the body.
302
00:13:16,833 --> 00:13:18,528
How messed up is she?
303
00:13:18,601 --> 00:13:19,693
A little banged up.
304
00:13:19,769 --> 00:13:22,135
But there's a bloody
dent in her skull.
305
00:13:22,205 --> 00:13:24,799
I'm willing to bet
that's pre-mortem.
306
00:13:28,045 --> 00:13:30,070
Diet, exercise, make-up.
307
00:13:35,652 --> 00:13:37,677
How do you like the photographer?
Not much.
308
00:13:37,754 --> 00:13:39,722
He makes his living
shooting runny noses,
309
00:13:39,790 --> 00:13:43,351
but he says Sharon Lasko expected
him to help make her a star.
310
00:13:43,427 --> 00:13:46,191
He must've done a hell
of a sales job on her.
311
00:13:46,263 --> 00:13:48,288
Maybe it included
a private session.
312
00:13:48,365 --> 00:13:50,891
He gets too friendly
with Sharon, she gets mad.
313
00:13:50,969 --> 00:13:53,062
You think his career could
handle another lawsuit?
314
00:13:53,137 --> 00:13:56,334
Well, find out exactly
how he earned the last one.
315
00:13:57,508 --> 00:14:00,238
He offered to take some intimate
portraits, no extra charge.
316
00:14:00,311 --> 00:14:03,803
Said they'd really open doors.
The only door he wanted open was mine.
317
00:14:03,882 --> 00:14:05,713
Did he get physical with you?
318
00:14:05,783 --> 00:14:07,307
It started out
he was touching me.
319
00:14:07,385 --> 00:14:11,321
He said the camera would pick up my glow.
Then it got too personal.
320
00:14:11,389 --> 00:14:13,415
And he wouldn't stop?
321
00:14:13,492 --> 00:14:15,460
No, he thought
I was enjoying it.
322
00:14:15,527 --> 00:14:16,687
I had bruises to prove it.
323
00:14:16,762 --> 00:14:18,457
Well, sounds like you
had a criminal case.
324
00:14:18,530 --> 00:14:20,521
A body model topped up with silicone,
325
00:14:20,599 --> 00:14:22,760
alone with a cheesy
camera-jockey shooting nudes?
326
00:14:22,835 --> 00:14:25,668
A jury adds that up
and says it was my fault.
327
00:14:25,738 --> 00:14:27,296
So where'd he take you?
His place?
328
00:14:27,373 --> 00:14:30,865
No, he usually works out of his
house, but his wife was around.
329
00:14:30,943 --> 00:14:34,903
He had the key to an apartment an ad
agency lets its visiting clients use.
330
00:14:34,981 --> 00:14:36,005
Hmm. Yum!
331
00:14:36,082 --> 00:14:38,414
After you've finished, they're
gonna count all of these, Jenner.
332
00:14:38,485 --> 00:14:40,476
Yeah. Don't forget
to search my shorts.
333
00:14:40,553 --> 00:14:43,818
How long are you gonna be here?
I've got a friend coming over.
334
00:14:43,890 --> 00:14:46,290
Yeah. Well, you might want to
make a call and cancel her.
335
00:14:46,359 --> 00:14:48,293
Now was this place cleaned
up when you first got here?
336
00:14:48,361 --> 00:14:51,057
Not really. I wasn't due
to come in until tomorrow
337
00:14:51,131 --> 00:14:53,190
and I would have waited, I didn't
know you guys were coming.
338
00:14:53,266 --> 00:14:55,131
Well, you stand there, you
don't touch anything else.
339
00:14:55,201 --> 00:14:56,191
Can I put my clothes on?
340
00:14:56,270 --> 00:14:58,261
Yeah. Please.
341
00:15:00,374 --> 00:15:01,636
Swell place for a party.
342
00:15:01,709 --> 00:15:04,940
Yeah. The PBA ought to make R and
R facilities like this an item
343
00:15:05,012 --> 00:15:06,343
in the next negotiation.
344
00:15:06,414 --> 00:15:07,745
Yeah. I'd settle
for a raise.
345
00:15:07,815 --> 00:15:09,282
Will you lighten up?
346
00:15:09,350 --> 00:15:11,511
Come on, picture this,
"Detective Rey Curtis
347
00:15:11,585 --> 00:15:14,315
"on his afternoon break in
a Jacuzzi with a hooker."
348
00:15:14,388 --> 00:15:18,621
Yeah. Picture me lying dead in an
alley with my wife standing over me.
349
00:15:19,561 --> 00:15:22,121
Hey, what do you know?
A bucket of trash.
350
00:15:22,197 --> 00:15:24,859
Cigarette butts.
Now, do we know, did Sharon smoke?
351
00:15:24,933 --> 00:15:28,232
Most of them do. Two ticket stubs.
Adult admissions.
352
00:15:29,237 --> 00:15:31,569
The Intrepid Museum.
353
00:15:33,675 --> 00:15:37,805
So you're still absolutely sure you
left Sharon Lasko on that ship?
354
00:15:38,580 --> 00:15:40,013
Yes. I already
told you.
355
00:15:40,082 --> 00:15:42,517
And you went right from the
ship to the school play?
356
00:15:42,585 --> 00:15:43,711
Yes.
357
00:15:44,287 --> 00:15:48,018
You sure you didn't stop at
an apartment on East 52nd?
358
00:15:49,659 --> 00:15:52,219
Has your wife ever been
to that apartment?
359
00:15:52,295 --> 00:15:55,025
I bet she'd really like
that double tub.
360
00:15:55,631 --> 00:15:57,792
I don't know anything about
what happened to Sharon.
361
00:15:57,867 --> 00:15:58,925
I didn't even know
that she was missing.
362
00:15:59,002 --> 00:16:01,061
Come on, Kasteler.
How'd it go down?
363
00:16:01,137 --> 00:16:03,436
Were you trying to make
her glow for the camera?
364
00:16:03,507 --> 00:16:05,907
You know, you can stop
lying about being there.
365
00:16:05,976 --> 00:16:08,638
Forensics found your fingerprints and
the fingerprints of Sharon Lasko
366
00:16:08,712 --> 00:16:10,407
at that little
ad agency playpen.
367
00:16:10,481 --> 00:16:13,211
So what? I'm married.
I don't advertise.
368
00:16:13,283 --> 00:16:15,843
You got her there, right?
You got her out of her clothes.
369
00:16:15,919 --> 00:16:17,910
You got out the champagne.
370
00:16:17,988 --> 00:16:20,582
So what's my motive?
I was having too good a time?
371
00:16:20,657 --> 00:16:22,887
Maybe she wanted you to stop.
372
00:16:24,194 --> 00:16:25,321
She would have gone all day.
373
00:16:25,397 --> 00:16:26,659
Would have?
374
00:16:26,731 --> 00:16:29,029
So she did pull the plug
on your little party?
375
00:16:29,100 --> 00:16:30,328
No. She'd been
up all night.
376
00:16:30,402 --> 00:16:32,063
She said she needed some
coke to keep her going.
377
00:16:32,137 --> 00:16:34,128
I didn't have any.
So she said stop.
378
00:16:34,205 --> 00:16:35,900
You got frustrated, right?
You got mad.
379
00:16:35,974 --> 00:16:38,169
No. I got on the phone
to a drug dealer I know.
380
00:16:38,243 --> 00:16:42,236
I got his machine.
By then it was time to get to my kid's play.
381
00:16:42,313 --> 00:16:46,010
Look, Sharon was in the shower when I left.
I swear to God.
382
00:16:52,491 --> 00:16:54,618
She had intercourse within
a few hours before she died.
383
00:16:54,693 --> 00:16:55,853
Any signs of rape?
384
00:16:55,928 --> 00:16:58,658
No. No tearing.
No bruising.
385
00:16:58,731 --> 00:17:00,096
Just enough to kill her.
386
00:17:00,166 --> 00:17:03,966
Well, standard rape MO doesn't include
breaking the victim's skull with a bottle.
387
00:17:04,036 --> 00:17:07,005
There was glass in the wound
and some bruises on the neck.
388
00:17:07,073 --> 00:17:08,734
He tried to strangle her first?
389
00:17:08,808 --> 00:17:10,276
She went down fighting.
390
00:17:10,343 --> 00:17:12,140
There was skin under her nails.
391
00:17:12,212 --> 00:17:17,081
A different blood type than the semen.
Whoever had sex with her didn't kill her.
392
00:17:17,150 --> 00:17:18,515
You're sure of that?
393
00:17:18,585 --> 00:17:21,452
Sorry. You're gonna have to catch
the guy that actually did it.
394
00:17:21,521 --> 00:17:23,989
Thanks for the tip.
Anything else?
395
00:17:24,057 --> 00:17:26,685
Yeah. There was cocaine
in her system.
396
00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:28,827
Thanks again.
397
00:17:29,496 --> 00:17:33,092
Kasteler said he didn't have any,
and the rest of his story checks.
398
00:17:33,167 --> 00:17:34,862
So what'd she do?
Go back to Scannell?
399
00:17:34,936 --> 00:17:37,234
Well, if he did have drugs, he
would've scored with her at the party.
400
00:17:37,305 --> 00:17:38,704
But she walked out with Soames.
401
00:17:38,773 --> 00:17:42,539
Who is also no stranger to the
world of controlled substances.
402
00:17:42,610 --> 00:17:45,670
I told you, I never saw her again.
I'm clean now anyway.
403
00:17:45,746 --> 00:17:47,941
Yeah,
and I can slam-dunk.
404
00:17:48,015 --> 00:17:49,710
Look, man, look, when
I first came into the league
405
00:17:49,784 --> 00:17:51,445
things were pretty crazy, okay?
406
00:17:51,519 --> 00:17:53,215
But I finally decided
I'd rather keep making
407
00:17:53,288 --> 00:17:55,552
a million bucks a year
than inhale cocaine.
408
00:17:55,624 --> 00:17:57,251
I mean, you find
that so hard to believe?
409
00:17:57,326 --> 00:17:59,419
So where were you making
your money Friday afternoon?
410
00:17:59,495 --> 00:18:01,087
Right here.
Practicing.
411
00:18:01,163 --> 00:18:03,893
But you're still the guy who would know
where a girl could score some blow.
412
00:18:03,966 --> 00:18:07,367
Look, Sharon wouldn't come to me.
She knew I was out of it.
413
00:18:07,436 --> 00:18:08,630
So who?
414
00:18:11,874 --> 00:18:13,136
That limo driver, Johnny.
415
00:18:13,208 --> 00:18:14,698
The one who drove
you home from the party?
416
00:18:14,776 --> 00:18:16,506
Yeah. The team
uses that service.
417
00:18:16,579 --> 00:18:18,911
Johnny's always
trying to suck up.
418
00:18:18,982 --> 00:18:21,007
Sharon and I did lines
in the back seat once.
419
00:18:21,084 --> 00:18:24,144
He told her if she ever wanted
some more, just give him a call.
420
00:18:24,220 --> 00:18:25,710
How come you never
mentioned this before?
421
00:18:25,788 --> 00:18:29,349
What? I'm just gonna start talking
to a couple of cops about drugs?
422
00:18:29,425 --> 00:18:33,191
Look, I didn't even know this had anything
to do with Sharon getting murdered.
423
00:18:33,263 --> 00:18:37,131
Passengers ask me for drugs,
they ask me for prostitutes.
424
00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:38,896
One guy even asked
where he could buy a gun.
425
00:18:38,969 --> 00:18:43,099
We're not talking about the asking, Johnny.
We're talking about the getting.
426
00:18:43,174 --> 00:18:45,301
Ken Soames used
to pack his nose
427
00:18:45,376 --> 00:18:47,640
during any ride that lasted
longer than three minutes.
428
00:18:47,711 --> 00:18:49,076
I don't know
where he got his stuff.
429
00:18:49,146 --> 00:18:51,740
What about a pretty girl
like Sharon Lasko?
430
00:18:51,815 --> 00:18:52,804
If she wanted some?
431
00:18:52,883 --> 00:18:56,046
I'm sure she could get it.
But not from me.
432
00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:59,146
Some people think it helps them perform.
I think it screws them up.
433
00:18:59,223 --> 00:19:00,691
You were worried
about her career?
434
00:19:00,759 --> 00:19:03,819
She rode in my car
a few times. We talked.
435
00:19:03,895 --> 00:19:06,830
She said she was having trouble getting
work after the Apple Fizz campaign.
436
00:19:06,898 --> 00:19:08,092
What about Friday?
437
00:19:08,166 --> 00:19:10,691
You see her again after you dropped
her off at the aircraft carrier?
438
00:19:10,769 --> 00:19:15,536
No, no. I headed out for an airport run,
I got caught in a jam on the Van Wyck.
439
00:19:15,974 --> 00:19:18,169
You know, you guys are wasting
your time talking to me
440
00:19:18,243 --> 00:19:21,076
when the guy who killed Sharon
is still running around.
441
00:19:23,983 --> 00:19:27,942
Kasteler's waiting for a written apology.
Just don't mail it to his wife.
442
00:19:28,020 --> 00:19:30,853
The basketball player's
alibi stands up.
443
00:19:30,923 --> 00:19:32,254
What about the limo driver?
444
00:19:32,325 --> 00:19:34,759
He would have been an easy way
for Sharon to feed her habit.
445
00:19:34,827 --> 00:19:36,886
Traffic on the Van Wyck
always sucks.
446
00:19:36,963 --> 00:19:39,693
Five will get you ten he knows
a shortcut through Brooklyn.
447
00:19:39,765 --> 00:19:41,858
Yeah, he seemed a little funky.
448
00:19:41,934 --> 00:19:43,060
Why would he kill her?
449
00:19:43,135 --> 00:19:46,537
It sounds like Sharon Lasko was a
girl that was fun to do drugs with.
450
00:19:46,607 --> 00:19:47,733
Hey, here we go.
451
00:19:47,808 --> 00:19:51,642
Three outgoing calls while Kasteler
was at the ad agency pad with Sharon.
452
00:19:51,712 --> 00:19:54,340
Kasteler said
he called a drug dealer.
453
00:19:57,284 --> 00:19:59,343
Answering machine. Jerry.
454
00:20:00,087 --> 00:20:02,055
Give that to Narcotics.
455
00:20:04,625 --> 00:20:08,926
Yeah, lmperial Palace?
How's your mu shu? Okay.
456
00:20:09,964 --> 00:20:12,023
He says it's very, very good.
457
00:20:12,100 --> 00:20:14,500
Kasteler really knows
how to treat a girl.
458
00:20:14,569 --> 00:20:16,537
I'm sorry, wrong number.
459
00:20:18,439 --> 00:20:20,634
East River Limo Service.
460
00:20:20,708 --> 00:20:22,175
The one Johnny drives for.
461
00:20:23,511 --> 00:20:25,376
All right.
Keep on it.
462
00:20:25,913 --> 00:20:27,574
Two guys out with the flu.
463
00:20:27,649 --> 00:20:30,983
A busted tranny.
And my mechanic was deported.
464
00:20:31,053 --> 00:20:32,611
His papers looked kosher to me.
465
00:20:32,688 --> 00:20:33,950
This was Friday afternoon.
466
00:20:34,023 --> 00:20:37,652
Yeah, yeah, here we are.
Let's see.
467
00:20:37,726 --> 00:20:38,852
Uh...
468
00:20:38,927 --> 00:20:40,087
Okay.
469
00:20:40,696 --> 00:20:44,894
Yeah, no. If a Sharon Lasko got a ride
in a limo, it wasn't one of ours.
470
00:20:44,967 --> 00:20:46,457
Around 2:00.
She called you.
471
00:20:46,535 --> 00:20:48,730
Hey, everybody who rides,
it's in the book.
472
00:20:48,804 --> 00:20:51,035
Well, she might have been
looking for Johnny Stivers.
473
00:20:51,107 --> 00:20:52,301
Johnny?
474
00:20:53,777 --> 00:20:55,802
This was a model?
Good-looking?
475
00:20:55,879 --> 00:20:57,870
Right. Not one of
those ugly models.
476
00:20:57,947 --> 00:21:02,145
I picked up a call from a girl.
She sounded so bad she must've been gorgeous.
477
00:21:02,218 --> 00:21:04,118
But she's not in the book?
478
00:21:04,187 --> 00:21:06,985
Right. She wanted to
talk to Johnny directly.
479
00:21:07,057 --> 00:21:09,525
I told her he was busy.
Airport runs back to back.
480
00:21:09,592 --> 00:21:10,581
You're sure of that?
481
00:21:10,660 --> 00:21:11,718
Hey, it's in the book.
482
00:21:11,795 --> 00:21:12,854
So who drove the girl?
483
00:21:12,930 --> 00:21:13,954
Nobody.
484
00:21:14,031 --> 00:21:15,965
I just forwarded the call
to Johnny's cellular.
485
00:21:16,033 --> 00:21:17,364
Where's Johnny now?
486
00:21:17,435 --> 00:21:19,027
Far as I know, he's home.
487
00:21:19,937 --> 00:21:21,336
And his car?
488
00:21:22,673 --> 00:21:24,834
It's out there.
I'll show you.
489
00:21:24,909 --> 00:21:28,401
A normal good washing
would've still left plenty,
490
00:21:28,479 --> 00:21:30,879
but this seat
was steam cleaned.
491
00:21:31,215 --> 00:21:33,115
You're not gonna find
anything off the surfaces.
492
00:21:33,184 --> 00:21:35,085
One point for Johnny.
Ah!
493
00:21:35,153 --> 00:21:38,953
But we do not stop at surfaces.
494
00:21:39,891 --> 00:21:41,791
They do tune-ups, too.
495
00:21:44,062 --> 00:21:45,393
Glass.
496
00:21:45,464 --> 00:21:48,695
That's enough to compare with what
we found in Sharon Lasko's head.
497
00:21:48,767 --> 00:21:52,828
Yeah. Now let's see how
this baby likes UV light.
498
00:22:00,747 --> 00:22:02,339
Glass and blood.
499
00:22:09,722 --> 00:22:10,746
What is it?
500
00:22:10,823 --> 00:22:12,882
I thought you were done with me?
Oh! It's just starting.
501
00:22:12,959 --> 00:22:16,019
John Stivers, you're under arrest
for the murder of Sharon Lasko.
502
00:22:16,095 --> 00:22:17,357
You have the right
to remain silent.
503
00:22:17,430 --> 00:22:20,229
Anything you say can and will be
used against you in a court of law.
504
00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:21,562
Hey, where are you going?
505
00:22:21,635 --> 00:22:25,332
You also have the right to have
incriminating evidence in your apartment.
506
00:22:25,406 --> 00:22:27,840
A bloodstained suit
would be nice.
507
00:22:29,109 --> 00:22:30,133
Rey.
508
00:22:34,515 --> 00:22:36,949
A shrine to
the late Sharon Lasko.
509
00:22:50,064 --> 00:22:53,363
You'd think the murder rate
was at an all-time high,
510
00:22:53,635 --> 00:22:56,069
instead of the lowest
in 10 years.
511
00:22:56,404 --> 00:23:00,465
Pretty model, 15 minutes of
fame tragically cut short.
512
00:23:00,542 --> 00:23:03,444
So is our budget.
This have to go to trial?
513
00:23:03,512 --> 00:23:04,672
It won't be a long one.
514
00:23:04,747 --> 00:23:07,511
She called Johnny Stivers for a
ride just before she got killed.
515
00:23:07,583 --> 00:23:10,950
Blood's in his car and we know
he was infatuated with her.
516
00:23:11,020 --> 00:23:12,647
An obsessed fan.
517
00:23:13,489 --> 00:23:17,687
What was his motive?
Trying to get her autograph and he slipped?
518
00:23:18,794 --> 00:23:20,455
The evidence is overwhelming
that he killed her.
519
00:23:20,529 --> 00:23:21,962
I don't mind
letting a jury guess
520
00:23:22,031 --> 00:23:24,192
what it was he wanted
from her and didn't get.
521
00:23:24,266 --> 00:23:25,632
Hormones.
522
00:23:26,303 --> 00:23:29,761
Offer to knock off a couple
of years off the sentence.
523
00:23:30,073 --> 00:23:31,768
He'll take a plea.
524
00:23:32,876 --> 00:23:35,868
Twenty-to-life
instead of 25?
525
00:23:36,012 --> 00:23:37,411
It's a gift.
526
00:23:37,481 --> 00:23:38,675
It is?
527
00:23:39,583 --> 00:23:42,814
What do you give your girlfriends
on Valentine's Day, Jack?
528
00:23:42,886 --> 00:23:45,081
Jewelry made out of twigs?
529
00:23:45,155 --> 00:23:47,989
Do you really want to
go to trial, Deirdre?
530
00:23:48,593 --> 00:23:52,689
Her blood was in his car.
His blood was under her fingernails.
531
00:23:52,763 --> 00:23:54,025
He can do the full term.
532
00:23:54,098 --> 00:23:58,865
Actually, I was thinking of
man one, say, three-to-nine.
533
00:23:58,936 --> 00:24:00,631
Three years
for a brutal murder?
534
00:24:00,705 --> 00:24:02,673
That's not thinking.
That's hallucinating.
535
00:24:02,740 --> 00:24:04,207
We'll see.
536
00:24:04,275 --> 00:24:07,210
Here's my notice of
our affirmative defense.
537
00:24:08,112 --> 00:24:10,206
Extreme emotional disturbance.
538
00:24:10,282 --> 00:24:13,080
You walk in on your wife
in bed with a lover,
539
00:24:13,151 --> 00:24:15,415
that's extreme
emotional disturbance.
540
00:24:15,487 --> 00:24:17,955
Not the violent act of
some kind of obsessed fan.
541
00:24:18,023 --> 00:24:21,959
That's not what it was.
Sharon and I had a relationship.
542
00:24:22,027 --> 00:24:24,894
That's right. You were her driver.
What happened?
543
00:24:24,963 --> 00:24:27,397
Did you get upset because she
made you give up a parking space?
544
00:24:27,466 --> 00:24:31,870
She was doing it with that photographer.
I loved her. She loved me.
545
00:24:31,938 --> 00:24:35,465
She did? I'm not aware there were
any photos of you above her bed.
546
00:24:35,542 --> 00:24:36,975
Read the statute.
547
00:24:37,043 --> 00:24:40,274
The reasonableness
of a defendant's emotion
548
00:24:40,346 --> 00:24:45,147
is to be determined by the circumstances
as he perceived them to be.
549
00:24:45,218 --> 00:24:48,915
It's irrelevant whether or not
his perceptions are correct.
550
00:24:49,355 --> 00:24:52,620
Is there any indication that
Sharon Lasko and Johnny Stivers
551
00:24:52,692 --> 00:24:54,820
were more than
passenger and driver?
552
00:24:54,895 --> 00:24:57,762
Well, the police never looked.
They didn't have a reason to.
553
00:24:57,831 --> 00:24:59,423
Well, we do now.
554
00:24:59,833 --> 00:25:02,700
Does it really matter?
Even if he mistakenly believed
555
00:25:02,770 --> 00:25:04,101
they had
a serious relationship,
556
00:25:04,171 --> 00:25:07,937
he still qualifies for extreme
emotional disturbance.
557
00:25:08,008 --> 00:25:10,476
Mistakenly, not idiotically.
558
00:25:10,544 --> 00:25:12,808
If there are no grounds
for his alleged beliefs,
559
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,314
the jury will see
he's just lying.
560
00:25:16,952 --> 00:25:18,977
We're not very close, but
he is my little brother.
561
00:25:19,054 --> 00:25:21,784
I'm not gonna say
anything to hurt him.
562
00:25:21,856 --> 00:25:24,484
He told us he killed her, Ms.
Stivers.
563
00:25:25,126 --> 00:25:26,286
He said that?
564
00:25:26,361 --> 00:25:27,350
Yes.
565
00:25:28,229 --> 00:25:30,629
The only question
we have is why.
566
00:25:31,032 --> 00:25:33,159
I don't know why
he does anything.
567
00:25:33,234 --> 00:25:35,395
I only see him
a couple times a year.
568
00:25:35,470 --> 00:25:38,030
I moved out of the house
when he was still a kid.
569
00:25:38,107 --> 00:25:40,735
Would you know
if he had a girlfriend?
570
00:25:40,810 --> 00:25:42,710
Me and the rest of the world.
571
00:25:42,778 --> 00:25:45,406
If Johnny had a girlfriend it
would lead off the 6:00 news.
572
00:25:45,481 --> 00:25:47,608
Not exactly
Mr. Popularity?
573
00:25:48,951 --> 00:25:52,045
When he was in high school he
used to try out his lines on me
574
00:25:52,121 --> 00:25:56,080
to work up the nerve to...
For the real girl.
575
00:25:57,026 --> 00:25:59,893
"I'm Johnny, can I buy
you a cup of coffee?"
576
00:25:59,962 --> 00:26:01,931
"Did anyone ever tell you,
you have nice eyes?"
577
00:26:01,999 --> 00:26:03,398
He saw that one in a movie.
578
00:26:07,037 --> 00:26:10,939
He talked about her all the time.
He drove her once in a while, you know.
579
00:26:11,008 --> 00:26:12,600
What did he say about her?
580
00:26:12,676 --> 00:26:14,234
That she was a good person.
581
00:26:14,311 --> 00:26:16,745
Not stuck-up.
That she liked him.
582
00:26:16,813 --> 00:26:18,610
Even though he was
just a limo driver?
583
00:26:18,682 --> 00:26:20,707
Hey, I'm a limo driver,
I do great.
584
00:26:20,784 --> 00:26:21,808
No offense.
585
00:26:21,885 --> 00:26:23,979
It just seems he was
starstruck about her.
586
00:26:24,055 --> 00:26:28,014
Yeah. We were in a bar once,
watching this ball game,
587
00:26:28,092 --> 00:26:29,389
her commercial came on.
588
00:26:29,460 --> 00:26:32,952
He went nuts, telling everybody
to shut up and watch.
589
00:26:33,031 --> 00:26:35,261
Do you think
they were intimate?
590
00:26:35,333 --> 00:26:36,925
I don't think so.
591
00:26:37,001 --> 00:26:38,434
Did he say he did?
592
00:26:38,503 --> 00:26:40,198
He said it was gonna happen.
593
00:26:40,271 --> 00:26:44,572
He had taken her on a date to the
Ginger Club, said she got pretty hot.
594
00:26:44,910 --> 00:26:48,846
He said he took her to the Ginger? Sure.
He took her there and dropped her off.
595
00:26:48,914 --> 00:26:50,745
So there was nothing
going on between them?
596
00:26:50,816 --> 00:26:52,044
Mmm.
597
00:26:52,117 --> 00:26:54,312
She might have made nice with
the guy once in a while.
598
00:26:54,386 --> 00:26:56,479
Made nice?
599
00:26:56,555 --> 00:26:57,681
Talked nice.
600
00:26:57,756 --> 00:26:59,223
I've seen the guy.
He's homely.
601
00:26:59,291 --> 00:27:00,553
So she wasn't interested?
602
00:27:00,626 --> 00:27:03,891
Look, there was one interesting
thing about that guy.
603
00:27:03,962 --> 00:27:06,830
He had good cocaine, and he
gave it to her for free.
604
00:27:06,900 --> 00:27:08,993
Could he have believed
that she loved him?
605
00:27:09,069 --> 00:27:10,161
Hmm?
606
00:27:11,404 --> 00:27:13,964
Did you ever want something from
a guy you weren't interested in?
607
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:15,029
Sure.
608
00:27:15,108 --> 00:27:16,769
Smiled when
you asked him for it?
609
00:27:17,343 --> 00:27:19,834
Let his arm
brush against your boob?
610
00:27:19,913 --> 00:27:22,074
She led him on for drugs?
611
00:27:23,616 --> 00:27:25,811
No. She wouldn't have
gone to bed for it.
612
00:27:25,885 --> 00:27:28,787
But I think she made
a little sweet conversation.
613
00:27:28,856 --> 00:27:32,519
It was pathetic. He never had a chance with her.
She was using him.
614
00:27:32,593 --> 00:27:35,562
When he finally realized that,
it must've made him angry.
615
00:27:35,629 --> 00:27:37,927
If you'll pardon my ignorance,
isn't your theory of the case
616
00:27:37,998 --> 00:27:40,330
getting to be
a little like theirs?
617
00:27:40,401 --> 00:27:42,995
They say he was
an outraged boyfriend
618
00:27:43,070 --> 00:27:45,732
and you say he was an
outraged would-be boyfriend.
619
00:27:45,806 --> 00:27:49,037
There's a world of difference
between a jealous lover
620
00:27:49,110 --> 00:27:51,739
and some horny bastard who's mad
he can't get to first base.
621
00:27:51,813 --> 00:27:54,304
Eloquent. Can't wait
for your closing argument.
622
00:27:54,382 --> 00:27:57,317
Johnny Stivers' motive was
garden-variety frustration.
623
00:27:57,385 --> 00:28:00,821
If that qualifies as extreme
emotional distress,
624
00:28:00,889 --> 00:28:04,689
then almost any murderer qualifies.
They're all upset about something.
625
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:09,629
Just be careful you don't have a killer
who's more sympathetic than your victim.
626
00:28:13,236 --> 00:28:15,602
We found
her body in a landfill.
627
00:28:15,671 --> 00:28:19,937
It had been thrown in a dumpster and
carried there in a garbage truck.
628
00:28:20,576 --> 00:28:21,873
Was it bloody?
629
00:28:21,944 --> 00:28:25,243
Yes, the skull was fractured
through to the brain.
630
00:28:25,314 --> 00:28:26,508
I see.
631
00:28:29,352 --> 00:28:32,719
And when you first interviewed
the defendant about her murder,
632
00:28:32,789 --> 00:28:34,381
did he seem upset by it?
633
00:28:34,457 --> 00:28:37,120
No. He acted as if
he barely knew her.
634
00:28:38,862 --> 00:28:42,559
Did Mr. Stivers say that he saw Ms.
Lasko on the last day of her life?
635
00:28:42,633 --> 00:28:45,659
Yes, he said he had driven
her home from a party
636
00:28:45,736 --> 00:28:48,830
along with a basketball
player named Ken Soames.
637
00:28:49,306 --> 00:28:53,003
And did he say what she and Mr.
Soames did in his presence?
638
00:28:53,477 --> 00:28:54,944
He said they were
all over each other.
639
00:28:55,012 --> 00:28:56,536
In a sexual way?
640
00:28:56,613 --> 00:28:57,740
Yes.
641
00:28:57,816 --> 00:28:59,807
Did he seem upset by that?
642
00:29:00,051 --> 00:29:01,040
No, he didn't.
643
00:29:01,119 --> 00:29:04,748
When you searched Mr.
Stivers' apartment after his arrest,
644
00:29:05,290 --> 00:29:07,554
what did you find on the
wall of his bedroom?
645
00:29:07,625 --> 00:29:10,287
All kinds of pictures
of Sharon Lasko,
646
00:29:10,695 --> 00:29:13,892
ads cut out of newspapers,
calendars, you name it.
647
00:29:15,433 --> 00:29:18,869
He didn't just have a photo
or two in a silver frame,
648
00:29:19,337 --> 00:29:21,067
like a man might have
of his girlfriend?
649
00:29:21,140 --> 00:29:23,108
Objection.
Overruled.
650
00:29:25,978 --> 00:29:29,004
No, it was a full-out shrine,
like somebody obsessed.
651
00:29:29,081 --> 00:29:32,107
Move to strike.
The witness is not a psychologist.
652
00:29:32,184 --> 00:29:36,018
Sustained. The jury will disregard
the witness's last remark.
653
00:29:36,622 --> 00:29:38,613
I have no more questions.
654
00:29:40,693 --> 00:29:43,527
Detective Briscoe, is this
one of the photographs
655
00:29:43,597 --> 00:29:46,430
that you saw on
Mr. Stivers' bedroom wall?
656
00:29:46,766 --> 00:29:47,960
Yes, one of the many.
657
00:29:48,034 --> 00:29:50,195
Would you describe it, please?
658
00:29:50,670 --> 00:29:55,471
It's a glossy photo of Sharon Lasko
with an inscription on the front.
659
00:29:55,542 --> 00:29:57,100
Please read it.
660
00:29:58,345 --> 00:30:01,803
"To Johnny, my main man in a big car.
Love, Sharon."
661
00:30:01,882 --> 00:30:04,545
Like the kind of note a man
might get from his girlfriend?
662
00:30:04,619 --> 00:30:05,608
Objection.
663
00:30:05,686 --> 00:30:06,983
He asked the same question.
664
00:30:07,054 --> 00:30:08,043
And you objected.
665
00:30:08,122 --> 00:30:09,487
And he overruled.
666
00:30:09,557 --> 00:30:10,922
Counselors!
667
00:30:11,158 --> 00:30:14,423
The objection is overruled.
The witness may answer.
668
00:30:15,062 --> 00:30:16,256
What was the question?
669
00:30:16,330 --> 00:30:18,230
Is that inscribed photograph
670
00:30:18,299 --> 00:30:21,826
the kind of memento a man might
get from his girlfriend?
671
00:30:23,604 --> 00:30:25,094
Possibly, yes.
672
00:30:29,044 --> 00:30:32,639
Mr. Soames, were
you ever in the presence
673
00:30:32,714 --> 00:30:35,148
of Sharon Lasko
and Johnny Stivers?
674
00:30:36,184 --> 00:30:38,709
Yes. He used to
drive us sometimes.
675
00:30:39,888 --> 00:30:42,880
And what kinds of things
would she say to him?
676
00:30:43,425 --> 00:30:47,486
She'd ask him to drive her places.
She'd ask him to get her drugs.
677
00:30:48,631 --> 00:30:51,532
And what kinds of things
would he say to her?
678
00:30:52,168 --> 00:30:53,465
He'd try to make conversation,
679
00:30:53,536 --> 00:30:56,972
try to impress her by telling
her about places he'd been,
680
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,769
celebrities he'd driven.
681
00:30:58,841 --> 00:31:01,002
And how would she react?
682
00:31:01,444 --> 00:31:03,844
When he wasn't around,
she'd laugh about him.
683
00:31:03,913 --> 00:31:07,212
She knew he liked her.
She thought it was funny.
684
00:31:07,283 --> 00:31:09,444
She didn't think highly of him?
685
00:31:09,519 --> 00:31:10,748
She didn't think
anything of him.
686
00:31:10,821 --> 00:31:12,880
And he knew that?
687
00:31:13,157 --> 00:31:14,715
It was pretty obvious.
688
00:31:14,792 --> 00:31:16,123
Thank you.
689
00:31:19,530 --> 00:31:23,762
Mr. Soames, we've heard testimony
that on the day Ms. Lasko died,
690
00:31:23,834 --> 00:31:27,736
you and she had sexual contact in
the back seat of Mr. Stivers' car.
691
00:31:27,805 --> 00:31:29,329
It wasn't sexual.
692
00:31:29,406 --> 00:31:30,566
What would you call it?
693
00:31:30,641 --> 00:31:34,669
It was just like some making out,
some kissing, some petting.
694
00:31:34,746 --> 00:31:36,976
And Mr. Stivers
could see you?
695
00:31:38,116 --> 00:31:40,710
If he looked
in the rear-view mirror.
696
00:31:41,086 --> 00:31:46,251
Did you and Ms. Lasko have more extensive
sexual contact in Mr. Stivers' car?
697
00:31:48,893 --> 00:31:50,656
Yes.
What did you do?
698
00:31:52,230 --> 00:31:54,756
After another party
once, we had sex.
699
00:31:54,834 --> 00:31:56,096
Sexual intercourse?
700
00:31:56,836 --> 00:31:58,098
Yeah.
701
00:31:58,170 --> 00:32:01,970
And Mr. Stivers could see what Ms.
Lasko was doing?
702
00:32:02,708 --> 00:32:03,697
I suppose.
703
00:32:03,776 --> 00:32:05,767
And she performed this act
704
00:32:06,345 --> 00:32:10,543
in Mr. Stivers' presence after
she knew how he felt about her?
705
00:32:12,651 --> 00:32:14,312
Yeah, I guess so.
706
00:32:15,688 --> 00:32:20,285
If you were in his place, how
would that make you feel?
707
00:32:21,595 --> 00:32:22,755
Objection!
708
00:32:22,829 --> 00:32:24,990
Withdrawn.
No further questions.
709
00:32:28,735 --> 00:32:31,727
Well, I think her behavior with Soames
should have made things pretty clear
710
00:32:31,805 --> 00:32:33,636
even to Johnny Stivers.
711
00:32:33,707 --> 00:32:36,232
Men have a way of
deluding themselves.
712
00:32:36,309 --> 00:32:38,608
I hope you're not speaking
from personal experience.
713
00:32:38,679 --> 00:32:40,442
Not recent.
I hope.
714
00:32:41,449 --> 00:32:44,282
She was having sex with
another man in front of him,
715
00:32:44,352 --> 00:32:45,944
that's not exactly a valentine.
716
00:32:46,020 --> 00:32:48,545
Yeah, but the defense brought it
up to make him look like a victim.
717
00:32:48,623 --> 00:32:50,318
She did him wrong.
718
00:32:50,391 --> 00:32:54,384
He was practically a stranger.
How could she have done him wrong?
719
00:32:54,462 --> 00:32:55,759
Promiscuous women, Claire.
720
00:32:55,830 --> 00:32:59,266
They still get put on trial
even after they're dead.
721
00:33:00,869 --> 00:33:03,167
Whenever I drove her,
we talked.
722
00:33:03,238 --> 00:33:06,765
She talked about her career
and personal things, too.
723
00:33:06,842 --> 00:33:11,541
Her family, her brother, he was
having some trouble at school.
724
00:33:11,947 --> 00:33:15,246
We've heard testimony that
she just ordered you around,
725
00:33:15,317 --> 00:33:16,409
like a servant.
726
00:33:16,485 --> 00:33:18,510
No. She loved me.
727
00:33:20,322 --> 00:33:21,949
Mr. Soames was wrong?
728
00:33:22,024 --> 00:33:24,050
Well, he wasn't always with us.
729
00:33:24,127 --> 00:33:25,719
She was dumping him anyway.
730
00:33:25,795 --> 00:33:26,989
How did you know that?
731
00:33:27,063 --> 00:33:28,462
She told me.
732
00:33:29,032 --> 00:33:31,125
That morning, when I brought
them home from the party,
733
00:33:31,201 --> 00:33:33,226
she wouldn't go upstairs
with him.
734
00:33:33,303 --> 00:33:34,736
She didn't want to.
735
00:33:34,804 --> 00:33:37,739
Did you think that was
because you were there?
736
00:33:37,807 --> 00:33:41,334
Yes. She wanted me to see
that things were changing.
737
00:33:42,011 --> 00:33:43,410
She asked me to meet her later.
738
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,073
Did she tell you why?
739
00:33:45,149 --> 00:33:48,880
Well, I had asked her for a coffee.
It was kind of a standing invitation.
740
00:33:48,953 --> 00:33:50,477
She said she would.
741
00:33:50,554 --> 00:33:53,580
And she said she wanted
me to get her some coke.
742
00:33:53,657 --> 00:33:54,681
What did you do?
743
00:33:54,758 --> 00:33:56,817
I got some for her, as a gift.
744
00:33:57,428 --> 00:33:58,895
I knew she was tired.
745
00:33:58,963 --> 00:34:00,362
Where did you get it?
746
00:34:00,464 --> 00:34:03,956
Tenth Avenue, in the 40s.
It's not very hard to find.
747
00:34:04,602 --> 00:34:07,595
And that afternoon
Sharon did call you?
748
00:34:07,672 --> 00:34:10,641
Yeah, I was just
finishing up another job.
749
00:34:10,709 --> 00:34:12,336
And I went right over
and picked her up.
750
00:34:12,410 --> 00:34:14,139
What happened then?
751
00:34:14,212 --> 00:34:17,443
I asked her if she wanted to
have a coffee in Little Italy.
752
00:34:17,516 --> 00:34:20,713
And she said she didn't.
She just wanted the coke.
753
00:34:21,186 --> 00:34:22,983
Did she tell you why?
754
00:34:23,622 --> 00:34:28,855
Yeah. She said nothing went
better with sex than coke,
755
00:34:29,462 --> 00:34:32,124
and she had just had sex
with that photographer.
756
00:34:32,198 --> 00:34:33,597
What did you say to her?
757
00:34:33,666 --> 00:34:36,226
I thought we had a date.
She laughed.
758
00:34:37,003 --> 00:34:38,868
What else did she say?
759
00:34:40,706 --> 00:34:43,732
"Home, James."
And she laughed again.
760
00:34:43,809 --> 00:34:45,504
She was very high.
761
00:34:45,578 --> 00:34:47,307
What happened then?
762
00:34:49,248 --> 00:34:51,911
I got in
the back seat with her.
763
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,953
I couldn't understand
why she had changed.
764
00:34:57,124 --> 00:34:59,354
She loved me.
She told me so.
765
00:35:00,627 --> 00:35:04,563
I tried to kiss her.
We did that before, many times.
766
00:35:07,501 --> 00:35:10,368
She slapped me,
said that I made her sick.
767
00:35:14,008 --> 00:35:18,069
And I felt my neck
starting to get hot
768
00:35:20,014 --> 00:35:22,608
and I hit her with a bottle.
769
00:35:25,286 --> 00:35:28,653
But I never, never
wanted that to happen.
770
00:35:31,226 --> 00:35:32,989
I loved that woman.
771
00:35:41,136 --> 00:35:42,899
Quite a performance.
772
00:35:43,439 --> 00:35:44,463
Everything but a chorus of
773
00:35:44,540 --> 00:35:47,668
"You picked a fine time
to leave me, Lucille."
774
00:35:47,743 --> 00:35:51,008
You really think he got that cocaine
for Sharon just as a favor?
775
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:52,513
He thought he was gonna
have a party with her,
776
00:35:52,581 --> 00:35:53,707
like all the other guys.
777
00:35:53,782 --> 00:35:55,977
She said no, and he got mad.
778
00:35:56,051 --> 00:36:00,148
Wait a minute. He told the police that he
was booked all that day on airport runs,
779
00:36:00,223 --> 00:36:02,885
and he was stuck in traffic
on the Van Wyck.
780
00:36:02,959 --> 00:36:05,689
When did he have time to cruise
the West Side looking for drugs?
781
00:36:05,762 --> 00:36:07,696
He couldn't have been
stuck in traffic too bad.
782
00:36:07,764 --> 00:36:10,892
When Sharon called him,
he got right to her.
783
00:36:10,967 --> 00:36:14,300
Maybe he was hanging around
waiting for her call.
784
00:36:15,005 --> 00:36:16,472
He was obsessed with her.
785
00:36:16,539 --> 00:36:18,439
So one of the airport
runs was a phony?
786
00:36:18,508 --> 00:36:20,443
At least one had to be.
787
00:36:20,511 --> 00:36:23,207
But why book a phony run?
He could have just said he didn't have a job.
788
00:36:23,281 --> 00:36:25,772
Because it doesn't
create an alibi.
789
00:36:26,217 --> 00:36:27,206
Premeditation.
790
00:36:27,285 --> 00:36:29,685
Which makes
his whole defense a crock.
791
00:36:30,621 --> 00:36:32,851
Those airport runs,
what do we know about them?
792
00:36:36,527 --> 00:36:39,860
I don't know about those names, the
bookings go back a lot of months.
793
00:36:39,930 --> 00:36:42,991
Your accountant doesn't make you
keep a paper trail that long?
794
00:36:43,068 --> 00:36:46,697
I have a record of the charges,
but the names of the passengers?
795
00:36:46,772 --> 00:36:48,069
I'm sorry.
796
00:36:48,140 --> 00:36:49,630
Who paid for the limo?
797
00:36:50,809 --> 00:36:52,071
It's a corporate account.
798
00:36:52,144 --> 00:36:54,772
Okay, then, I'll take its name.
799
00:36:54,846 --> 00:36:57,110
I don't know, these are
confidential business records.
800
00:36:57,182 --> 00:36:59,412
This is a murder investigation.
801
00:36:59,484 --> 00:37:00,576
I can have you subpoenaed.
802
00:37:00,652 --> 00:37:01,710
Murder?
803
00:37:01,787 --> 00:37:04,085
If you don't cooperate,
you could go to jail.
804
00:37:04,156 --> 00:37:07,820
Wait a minute. This is just
some kind of little tax thing.
805
00:37:07,894 --> 00:37:10,021
What is?
806
00:37:10,096 --> 00:37:11,393
Well, I don't really
understand it.
807
00:37:11,464 --> 00:37:13,056
The owner of the agency
used to book
808
00:37:13,132 --> 00:37:16,260
a lot of dummy limousine runs
with Mr. Stivers.
809
00:37:16,336 --> 00:37:17,462
To do what?
810
00:37:17,537 --> 00:37:21,473
I don't know. That was between
him and the owner, Mr. Scannell.
811
00:37:21,541 --> 00:37:24,203
Frederick Scannell was talking
with Sharon Lasko at the party
812
00:37:24,277 --> 00:37:26,838
eight hours before
she was killed.
813
00:37:26,914 --> 00:37:30,111
The police thought he was
trying to pick her up.
814
00:37:30,184 --> 00:37:32,982
Scannell is
a major drug dealer.
815
00:37:33,053 --> 00:37:35,453
This Johnny Stivers
works for him.
816
00:37:35,789 --> 00:37:38,587
Stivers doles out drugs
to Sharon Lasko.
817
00:37:39,159 --> 00:37:43,289
Wild idea, but her death just might
have something to do with drugs.
818
00:37:43,364 --> 00:37:45,525
Which means something
to do with Scannell.
819
00:37:45,599 --> 00:37:47,726
Get the police back into it.
820
00:37:51,639 --> 00:37:53,163
We know Scannell has
a Colombian connection.
821
00:37:53,241 --> 00:37:55,106
We know the stuff
lands in the Southeast.
822
00:37:55,176 --> 00:37:57,076
He's been laughing
in my face for 10 years.
823
00:37:57,145 --> 00:37:58,271
You can't make a move on him?
824
00:37:58,346 --> 00:38:00,439
We can't even stop him from
getting a liquor license.
825
00:38:00,515 --> 00:38:02,983
He's never within
100 miles of the product.
826
00:38:03,051 --> 00:38:07,351
He uses cut-outs, couriers, safe
houses rented by other people.
827
00:38:07,422 --> 00:38:10,585
Couriers, a guy in a limo
who fits in at the airport,
828
00:38:10,659 --> 00:38:12,786
that's pretty good cover
for moving quantities.
829
00:38:12,862 --> 00:38:15,296
Is there any correlation
between the dummy runs
830
00:38:15,364 --> 00:38:18,561
Scannell booked Johnny Stivers
for and Scannell's activities?
831
00:38:18,634 --> 00:38:21,865
Let's see, January 9th,
832
00:38:22,872 --> 00:38:25,067
Scannell was in Palm Springs.
833
00:38:25,808 --> 00:38:30,404
February 1st, Lake
Tahoe, and on and on.
834
00:38:30,479 --> 00:38:32,208
And he worked pretty
hard to not to be around
835
00:38:32,281 --> 00:38:33,874
while Johnny
was running his errands.
836
00:38:33,950 --> 00:38:36,646
The only time
he was in the city
837
00:38:38,388 --> 00:38:40,754
was the day
Sharon Lasko was killed.
838
00:38:40,824 --> 00:38:43,292
Some sweetheart she picked
to get mixed up with.
839
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,295
You think he booked the phony limo
run to buy Johnny time to kill her?
840
00:38:46,363 --> 00:38:50,060
He booked the limo. It didn't go anyplace.
And Johnny did kill her.
841
00:38:50,167 --> 00:38:52,158
Why? What was Sharon
Lasko to Scannell?
842
00:38:52,235 --> 00:38:55,137
He says just a potential roll in
the sack who turned him down.
843
00:38:55,206 --> 00:38:58,198
So he had her killed?
I know some men who take rejection hard...
844
00:38:58,276 --> 00:39:00,676
There's no evidence she was in
the drug business with him.
845
00:39:00,745 --> 00:39:02,736
And she's not in the surveillance.
Maybe she was new.
846
00:39:02,814 --> 00:39:04,145
Maybe she was discreet.
847
00:39:04,215 --> 00:39:06,046
Well, the way she ran around
the last day of her life,
848
00:39:06,117 --> 00:39:08,711
she doesn't impress me
as a very discreet person.
849
00:39:08,786 --> 00:39:11,755
Go back to her friends.
Find out what the hell really happened.
850
00:39:11,823 --> 00:39:14,917
Look, I've got closing
arguments tomorrow. Okay?
851
00:39:19,097 --> 00:39:22,191
I can't believe you people.
I've been reading about this trial.
852
00:39:22,267 --> 00:39:24,929
Why don't you dig Sharon
up and kick her around?
853
00:39:25,003 --> 00:39:27,904
Hey, we just want to bury
her killer or killers.
854
00:39:27,973 --> 00:39:29,736
Killers?
You got that creep.
855
00:39:29,808 --> 00:39:32,470
He was part of
a major drug organization.
856
00:39:33,512 --> 00:39:34,877
Oh, God.
857
00:39:38,383 --> 00:39:39,715
Oh, what?
858
00:39:42,722 --> 00:39:44,781
Sharon was doing great.
859
00:39:44,858 --> 00:39:46,450
And part of doing great
in this business
860
00:39:46,526 --> 00:39:48,892
is going to the right places
and being seen.
861
00:39:48,962 --> 00:39:51,055
And at some of those places,
there's drugs involved.
862
00:39:51,130 --> 00:39:53,963
And Sharon didn't know
how to just say no?
863
00:39:55,001 --> 00:39:56,798
Look, she had a great look.
864
00:39:56,870 --> 00:40:01,000
But she was insecure, and with the
drugs she felt more confident.
865
00:40:03,244 --> 00:40:06,077
And the more confident you
are the better you look,
866
00:40:06,146 --> 00:40:08,580
until you start showing up
late and looking like hell.
867
00:40:08,649 --> 00:40:11,743
You think drugs led
Sharon into bad company?
868
00:40:11,819 --> 00:40:13,309
I don't know.
869
00:40:16,190 --> 00:40:18,681
I had to get her
out of my life.
870
00:40:18,759 --> 00:40:19,987
It would really
help us to know,
871
00:40:20,060 --> 00:40:23,428
could Sharon have been
involved in the drug business?
872
00:40:24,299 --> 00:40:25,288
As a customer.
873
00:40:25,367 --> 00:40:27,995
What about as a courier?
Models travel.
874
00:40:28,069 --> 00:40:30,469
Sharon always
worked in New York.
875
00:40:31,172 --> 00:40:33,163
Look, as far as I know,
876
00:40:33,241 --> 00:40:35,835
her biggest drug connection
was her boyfriend,
877
00:40:35,911 --> 00:40:37,811
that basketball player.
878
00:40:38,980 --> 00:40:43,110
Come on, Soames, we all know her
modeling career was circling the bowl.
879
00:40:43,184 --> 00:40:44,651
Look, I knew Sharon, okay?
880
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:46,449
The last thing she would
ever do is sell drugs.
881
00:40:46,522 --> 00:40:49,616
Well, the last thing is what
people do when they're desperate.
882
00:40:49,692 --> 00:40:52,286
You always had a good supply.
Maybe she was selling drugs to you?
883
00:40:52,361 --> 00:40:53,350
That's ridiculous.
884
00:40:53,429 --> 00:40:55,021
Where'd you get your coke?
885
00:40:55,097 --> 00:40:58,760
It's not hard, although I know
you guys are working on it.
886
00:41:00,102 --> 00:41:01,433
Smart guy.
887
00:41:01,904 --> 00:41:03,064
We start poking
around in your life
888
00:41:03,139 --> 00:41:04,401
and mail the results
to the commissioner,
889
00:41:04,473 --> 00:41:06,703
you'll be hustling basketball
on the playgrounds.
890
00:41:06,776 --> 00:41:08,870
What are you fellows coming
down on me for? Huh?
891
00:41:08,946 --> 00:41:10,777
I mean, you know
I didn't kill Sharon.
892
00:41:10,847 --> 00:41:13,315
You were at a party
given by Scannell.
893
00:41:13,383 --> 00:41:15,908
Your girlfriend was in a
conversation with Scannell.
894
00:41:15,986 --> 00:41:18,250
The guy that owns
the club? So what?
895
00:41:18,322 --> 00:41:19,687
So how well
did Sharon know him?
896
00:41:19,756 --> 00:41:21,621
She didn't.
She just met him that night.
897
00:41:21,692 --> 00:41:22,681
How do you know that?
898
00:41:22,759 --> 00:41:24,317
She didn't even know
who he was.
899
00:41:24,394 --> 00:41:25,725
When we first walked in,
she asked me
900
00:41:25,796 --> 00:41:29,232
if he was the spray-on hair
guy from the infomercials.
901
00:41:29,566 --> 00:41:31,467
So she had no
connection with Scannell?
902
00:41:31,536 --> 00:41:32,560
No.
903
00:41:32,637 --> 00:41:37,040
Look in her entire life she had that
one short conversation with him.
904
00:41:37,475 --> 00:41:39,136
It was about drugs,
but it was stupid.
905
00:41:39,210 --> 00:41:40,370
It was about drugs?
906
00:41:40,445 --> 00:41:43,039
It wasn't business.
She was drunk, telling him some story
907
00:41:43,114 --> 00:41:44,877
about how some jerk
tried to impress her
908
00:41:44,949 --> 00:41:46,883
by showing her a whole
trunk full of cocaine.
909
00:41:46,951 --> 00:41:49,146
A trunk full of cocaine?
910
00:41:49,220 --> 00:41:52,190
Did Mr. Scannell seem
interested in that?
911
00:41:52,257 --> 00:41:55,249
He would have seemed interested
to hear her hat size.
912
00:41:55,327 --> 00:41:57,090
He wanted to do her.
913
00:41:57,563 --> 00:41:59,554
Did she say who showed
her the cocaine?
914
00:41:59,632 --> 00:42:03,193
I didn't even stop to listen.
I just wanted to take her home.
915
00:42:03,268 --> 00:42:05,532
Was it Johnny Stivers?
916
00:42:05,604 --> 00:42:06,628
A limo driver?
917
00:42:06,705 --> 00:42:09,003
You said he was always
trying to impress her.
918
00:42:09,074 --> 00:42:11,975
Yeah, but where would
he get that much blow?
919
00:42:17,017 --> 00:42:19,417
Well, I'm glad you've come
to your senses, Jack.
920
00:42:19,486 --> 00:42:23,980
Only the price has gone up since my
client's appearance on the stand.
921
00:42:24,057 --> 00:42:26,287
Man one.
Year, year pro.
922
00:42:26,359 --> 00:42:28,850
The price has gone
higher than that.
923
00:42:28,928 --> 00:42:30,896
Our motion to amend
the indictment.
924
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:35,825
Murder one?
Killing a witness.
925
00:42:35,935 --> 00:42:37,233
What are they talking about?
926
00:42:37,304 --> 00:42:39,738
Your murder of Sharon Lasko, Mr.
Stivers.
927
00:42:39,807 --> 00:42:42,571
It was a crime of
passion, like you said.
928
00:42:42,643 --> 00:42:45,339
Only it was Frederick
Scannell's passion, wasn't it?
929
00:42:45,413 --> 00:42:47,040
I don't know
anybody named Scannell.
930
00:42:47,114 --> 00:42:48,877
Think about it.
931
00:42:49,583 --> 00:42:53,883
If Scannell talks first, he gets
the deal, and you get to die.
932
00:42:59,528 --> 00:43:01,325
My client and I have
been reading the papers.
933
00:43:01,396 --> 00:43:03,227
Someone else has confessed
to this murder.
934
00:43:03,298 --> 00:43:05,858
Someone who worked for Mr.
Scannell.
935
00:43:06,301 --> 00:43:08,599
Here it comes again.
You guys never give up.
936
00:43:08,670 --> 00:43:10,137
No, we don't.
937
00:43:11,073 --> 00:43:13,871
I think Sharon Lasko had a very
important conversation with you
938
00:43:13,942 --> 00:43:15,876
the night before she was murdered.
Yeah.
939
00:43:15,944 --> 00:43:17,411
I said, " Do you want
to come to my place?"
940
00:43:17,479 --> 00:43:19,276
She said,
"Maybe some other time."
941
00:43:19,347 --> 00:43:21,942
She told you someone showed
her a trunk full of cocaine.
942
00:43:22,018 --> 00:43:23,007
Did she?
943
00:43:23,086 --> 00:43:24,644
Yes. And I think
it was your cocaine.
944
00:43:24,721 --> 00:43:26,814
And that's not very likely.
I don't have any cocaine.
945
00:43:26,889 --> 00:43:30,052
And you didn't like hearing that
from some dizzy bimbo at a party.
946
00:43:30,126 --> 00:43:31,991
Do you have
a theory here, McCoy,
947
00:43:32,061 --> 00:43:34,256
or are you just spraying
Cheez Whiz into the wind?
948
00:43:34,330 --> 00:43:36,890
Sharon Lasko
was blabbing to strangers
949
00:43:36,966 --> 00:43:40,026
that Johnny Stivers showed her
a large amount of cocaine
950
00:43:40,103 --> 00:43:44,200
that belonged to your client, in a vehicle
that was regularly used by your client.
951
00:43:44,274 --> 00:43:47,209
So your client ordered
Mr. Stivers to kill her
952
00:43:47,277 --> 00:43:49,268
before she blabbed
to the wrong stranger.
953
00:43:49,346 --> 00:43:51,780
And you're gonna
prove this how?
954
00:43:53,283 --> 00:43:54,307
We have Mr. Stivers.
955
00:43:54,384 --> 00:43:57,376
The guy's about to get off with a
slap on the wrist for manslaughter.
956
00:43:57,454 --> 00:44:00,014
You think he's gonna
confess to murder one?
957
00:44:00,090 --> 00:44:01,216
They're here.
958
00:44:01,291 --> 00:44:03,054
Let's ask him.
959
00:44:03,627 --> 00:44:04,616
We're leaving now.
960
00:44:04,695 --> 00:44:07,597
That would be
a mistake, Mr. Scannell.
961
00:44:07,665 --> 00:44:10,225
You'd miss your only chance
to avoid a death sentence.
962
00:44:10,301 --> 00:44:12,394
I thought we had the offer?
963
00:44:14,139 --> 00:44:17,006
First one to talk
wins life in prison.
964
00:44:17,075 --> 00:44:19,270
If I'm the master criminal
you say I am,
965
00:44:19,344 --> 00:44:21,869
this guy wouldn't stay alive six
months in prison if he talks.
966
00:44:21,946 --> 00:44:24,471
Make another threat, you'll
leave this office under arrest.
967
00:44:24,549 --> 00:44:25,538
Don't exert yourself.
968
00:44:25,617 --> 00:44:27,017
I don't care if you do kill me!
969
00:44:27,086 --> 00:44:28,280
Shut up.
Fred.
970
00:44:28,354 --> 00:44:30,151
He knew I loved her, he
thought that made it funny.
971
00:44:30,222 --> 00:44:33,316
You're an idiot.
You can still walk out of here.
972
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,859
I got a call to go to a
corner on the East Side.
973
00:44:37,930 --> 00:44:40,194
He got into the car
with two men.
974
00:44:40,266 --> 00:44:41,597
He said Sharon
had to be shut up
975
00:44:41,667 --> 00:44:44,135
and she was so stupid there
was only one way to do it
976
00:44:44,203 --> 00:44:47,138
and it was up to me,
because it was my fault.
977
00:44:48,207 --> 00:44:52,804
I told him I couldn't
kill her, I loved her.
978
00:44:54,548 --> 00:44:57,415
He said fine,
then they'd kill her and me.
979
00:45:00,754 --> 00:45:02,984
One of the men took out a gun.
980
00:45:04,724 --> 00:45:06,385
I was very scared.
981
00:45:08,461 --> 00:45:10,486
I'm... I'm so sorry.
982
00:45:18,372 --> 00:45:19,839
Deal, Jack?
983
00:45:26,147 --> 00:45:28,138
Murder two.
The maximum.
984
00:45:30,585 --> 00:45:32,382
Now you're gonna die.
985
00:45:33,388 --> 00:45:35,356
I'm doing it for Sharon.
986
00:45:40,495 --> 00:45:44,454
This kid falls in love with a girl he
had no chance in the world to get.
987
00:45:44,533 --> 00:45:46,933
And in a stupid, hopeless
attempt to impress her,
988
00:45:47,002 --> 00:45:48,970
he shows her $1 million
worth of cocaine.
989
00:45:49,037 --> 00:45:51,870
Yeah. I guess etchings
don't work anymore.
990
00:45:52,774 --> 00:45:55,744
And as a result, he ends
up having to kill her.
991
00:45:55,812 --> 00:45:57,643
It's a story for Sophocles.
992
00:45:57,714 --> 00:45:59,181
Or Larry, Moe and Curly.
993
00:45:59,249 --> 00:46:01,615
Yeah, I always
loved those guys.