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NARRATOR:
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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So I said,
"As long as you're
living under my roof,
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"you're not putting
a hole through
your tongue."
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This younger generation.
Piercing this,
tattooing that.
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Next day, she come
home with a ring
in she belly button.
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I said,
"What's this?"
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And she said,
"Well, Mama,
it's not my tongue."
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Lord knows, there
are worse places.
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(LAUGHING) Girl,
I'm not even going there.
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What's this on
the washer?
Looks like blood.
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(GASPS)
Oh, my Lord.
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Couple of housekeepers
found her around 9:00.
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Looks like her
skull's fractured.
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Can we get in
for a look?
Not yet.
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There's a partial shoe
print and some dust
we want to preserve.
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BRISCOE: Looks like she
got clocked pretty good.
You find a weapon?
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Probably the corner of
that washing machine.
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Well, maybe she
just fell and
hit her head.
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Doubtful. The damage
was pretty extensive.
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Plus dust indicates
somebody dragged the body
under here to hide it.
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We know her
name yet?
No ID.
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But the super's over there.
Says he recognizes her.
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Thanks.
Thanks, Reed.
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Excuse me.
You know this girl?
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(SIGHS) Her name's
Julie Cade. Lives in 3C.
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Nice family.
Who's gonna tell 'em?
We'll take care of it.
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Was anybody from the
building working down
here this morning?
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Maintenance guys
don't get in till 9:00.
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What about the
service entrance?
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Stays locked up
till my guys get in.
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He could've come
through the front door.
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You have cameras
in the building?
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Just a doorman, 2417.
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No money in the
reserve fund for
more security.
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Pay now or pay later.
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(CRYING) We moved here
last fall from Boston.
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They said this was
a good neighborhood.
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Do you feel
up to answering
a few questions?
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(EXHALES)
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Uh, what time
did Julie leave
this morning?
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She, uh, went
downstairs to the
laundry room about 7:30.
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She spilled some
water on her sweater.
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She wanted to throw it
into the dryer for a few
minutes before school.
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ED: And that was
the last time
you saw her?
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I went to work out.
I figured she was just going
to school from there.
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Did Julie know
anybody in the building?
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Just a few people
to say hello to,
I guess.
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BRISCOE: We're gonna
need their names.
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My God.
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Do you think
it was someone...
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My husband told her just
to put on something else,
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but you know how
teenage girls are.
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I still have to call
his office (SOBBING)
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and tell him.
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I take over from the
night man at 6:00 a.m.
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Stay till 2:00
WOMAN: Thanks, Bill.
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So, do you remember
anybody unusual
in the building?
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Say around 7:30,
8:00?
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Oh, that's
my busy time.
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Tenants walking their dogs,
kids going to school,
people going to work.
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Half the time,
I'm out here hailing
somebody a cab.
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So, it's possible
that somebody
could've slipped
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in and out and you
didn't see them?
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(LAUGHS) You know,
if they expect me to
keep track of everybody
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who comes and goes,
they need to hire
a second guy.
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We're just trying
to figure out what
happened here.
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Yeah.
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Only thing comes to mind
when I was helping Brian
Becker on the school bus,
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someone went in past me
wearing sweats.
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Hood was up.
Couldn't see
who it was.
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Short? Tall?
Average.
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Man, woman, black,
white, young, old?
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Couldn't tell.
Like I said, couldn't
see the face.
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They were wearing
a jacket on
over the sweats.
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What kind of jacket.
You know, a jacket.
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Dark. Stripes
on the sleeves.
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Gold, or tan maybe.
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Why didn't you
stop this person?
I was busy.
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And they seemed
to know where
they were going.
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So, you think it might
have been somebody
who lives in the building?
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Like I said, couldn't
say one way or another.
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The body was
found at 9:00.
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The M.E. estimated
that she'd been dead
for about an hour?
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Yeah. Julie's mother
said she went downstairs
at 7:30 to dry a sweater.
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Yeah, we found it
in one of the dryers.
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What about this
person who slipped
past the doorman?
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Well, the description's
sketchy at best.
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And the shoe print?
It's just a partial.
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How partial?
Not enough to
determine size,
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but they're pretty
sure that it's from
a running shoe.
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Yeah, Latent thinks
they got some good
lifts off the washer.
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We'll run 'em
through the system.
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Well, how about
her tox screen?
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It came back clean.
But they did find traces of
something on her sweater.
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It looks like
sodium thiosulfate.
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Sodium what?
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Well, the lab says
it's used for a variety
of different things,
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like dechlorinating pools
or photographic immersion.
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That's developing
pictures.
Thank you.
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Now, why would this stuff
be in a laundry room?
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It's not something
you'd want to wash
your clothes with.
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Well, she got it
on herself somehow.
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We're gonna go back
and canvass the building,
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see if anybody saw her
there this morning.
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All right.
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I was waiting for the, uh,
elevator in the basement,
and she got off.
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Poor thing. To think
a thing like that could
happen in this building.
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What were you
doing down there so
early, Mrs. Quinn?
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Well, I like to do
my laundry early,
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before the cleaning
women come and hog
all the dryers.
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Was anyone with
the Cade girl
when you saw her?
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Not that I recall.
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Was there anybody else
doing laundry downstairs?
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The only other
person I saw in the
basement was Mark.
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Mark somebody.
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Nice-looking young man.
Lives on 11.
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Mark's still
at work.
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What time did he
go out this morning?
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Early. I was still in bed.
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Is this about that girl
who was killed
in the basement?
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It's possible
that your husband
may have been
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one of the last people
to see her alive.
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How's that?
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Someone thinks they saw
your husband doing laundry
in the basement this morning.
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(SCOFFS) Mark
doing laundry?
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Believe me,
whoever it is,
they're mistaken.
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What other reason
could he have for being
down there at that hour?
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I don't know.
But I'm sure
he'll be happy
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to answer your questions
when he gets home.
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When will
that be?
Later tonight.
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Maybe it'd be better
if we just, uh, talked
to him at his job.
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I'm not sure he'll
be in the office.
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Mark's a photographer
for Metro City Magazine.
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Really?
He take all these?
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WOMAN: Every one.
Oh, they're really nice.
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Does he develop
his own prints?
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He's very picky
about processing.
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He even turned
the maid's room
into a darkroom.
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You mind
if I get quick look?
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I'm a bit of an amateur
photographer myself.
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He doesn't like me
to go in there.
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I ruined a batch
of pictures once.
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But I guess he wouldn't mind.
Just don't touch anything.
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Oh, my God, they're
all of that girl.
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Maybe he was
freelancing for Vogue.
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Look, I told you,
the first I heard
about Julie
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was when my wife called
and told me you guys
were coming down.
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So what were you
doing in the basement
this morning, Mr. Knapp?
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I keep my, uh, bike
in the storeroom.
Sometimes I bike to work.
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What time'd you
leave for work?
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Around 7:30.
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You can check
with the doorman.
He saw me leave.
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We will.
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Did you run into
Julie down there?
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Um, no, the last
time I saw Julie
was yesterday.
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She came by my apartment
to check out her prints.
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Just the two of you
in your darkroom?
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It's not what
it looks like.
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Those photos were
for her yearbook.
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Pretty slick yearbook.
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The seniors at her
school design their
own yearbook pages.
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She asked me
to take them.
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So you were just
helping her out?
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She told me that, um,
everyone at her
school thought
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that she was plain
and uptight.
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She asked me to
make her look hip,
sophisticated.
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Look, the last thing that
this kid needed was
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some middle-aged man
hitting on her.
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What do you mean,
the last thing
she needed?
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Was Julie
having problems?
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Some relationship with
a kid at her school.
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It wasn't going so well.
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BRISCOE: She say who?
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I asked her once
if she wanted
to talk about it,
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but she said
that she couldn't.
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As far as I know,
Julie wasn't going
with anybody.
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How well did
you know her?
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Well, she was new,
and I was supposed to be
her sponsor for a semester,
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but we didn't
really connect.
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Who did she
connect with?
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Monica Heath,
Alicia Milford.
Matty Helder.
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The Dream Team.
Like the elite,
you know?
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Pretty fast crowd
for the new kid.
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I think she was like
their science project.
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ED: Who was she
the tightest with?
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Mostly Alicia.
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ED: We heard that
you and Julie were
pretty close friends.
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I just tried to
look out for her.
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Was there anybody
in particular who
gave her a hard time?
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A hard time?
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We heard that the kids
thought she might have
been a little uptight.
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She wasn't even going
to go to the Spring Dance.
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Said it was sexist.
Stuff like that.
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Julie wasn't uptight.
It's just, it's hard
being new.
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ED: Did she mention
anything?
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I mean, anything
she might have been
worried about recently?
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(BELL RINGS)
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That's the end
of second period.
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Okay, you girls go
ahead to class. Thanks.
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I got a lock cutter
in the car.
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Ed.
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Check out the jackets.
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Yeah, gold stripes.
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I got a feeling somebody
knows her combination.
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227 students at Strickland
are on varsity teams
and wear those jackets.
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Yeah, and 43 of
them are girls.
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What about
the photographer?
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The school yearbook
advisor confirmed
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that Julie submitted
some of Knapp's proofs
for her yearbook page.
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Now, maybe he was
getting some cheap thrills,
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but his story
seems to check out.
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The doorman said Knapp left
on his bike around 7:30.
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Julie wasn't killed
till around 8:00,
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so that pretty much
gets him off the hook.
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The doorman also
ID'd a Polaroid of
the varsity jacket
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that he said slipped by
him a few minutes later.
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Yeah, we're thinking that's
who the shoe print in the
laundry room belongs to.
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VAN BUREN: So, what are we
doing to find Cinderfella?
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Mrs. Cade gave us
Julie's laptop.
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Anything interesting?
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Well, I'm checking
her e-mails. There's no
mention of a boyfriend yet.
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But she wrote
these last week.
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"People think
it's all about sex,
but it's not.
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"Why can't anyone
understand that?"
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And, "This is their problem,
not my problem."
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Who'd she send these to?
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The screen name
of the recipient was
A-Mil at Strickland.
232
00:11:33,545 --> 00:11:35,582
Someone at school.
You track it down?
233
00:11:36,081 --> 00:11:38,288
A-Mil. Her best friend
is Alicia Milford.
234
00:11:41,253 --> 00:11:43,859
(ALL CHEERING)
235
00:11:43,922 --> 00:11:47,961
Okay, that's good.
But next time, everything
needs to be much tighter.
236
00:11:48,026 --> 00:11:50,370
More energy,
girls, all right?
237
00:11:50,428 --> 00:11:51,736
Leesh...
238
00:11:54,099 --> 00:11:56,909
Okay, why don't you
guys practice the toss?
239
00:11:59,804 --> 00:12:01,374
Is everything
all right?
240
00:12:01,473 --> 00:12:04,079
We think there's
something you forgot
to tell us, Alicia.
241
00:12:04,142 --> 00:12:06,247
What do
you mean?
Well...
242
00:12:06,311 --> 00:12:09,849
You said that, uh,
Julie wasn't upset
about anything.
243
00:12:11,082 --> 00:12:13,323
She wasn't.
Not as far
as I know.
244
00:12:15,687 --> 00:12:16,927
Where'd you get these?
245
00:12:16,988 --> 00:12:18,558
ED: We printed 'em
off her laptop.
246
00:12:18,657 --> 00:12:20,864
What's this "problem"
she's referring to?
247
00:12:22,394 --> 00:12:25,466
Alicia, look,
if you know something,
now is the time to say so.
248
00:12:27,732 --> 00:12:29,905
Maybe you should talk
to Headmaster Marsh.
249
00:12:29,968 --> 00:12:31,345
BRISCOE: What about?
250
00:12:33,305 --> 00:12:36,047
Was she seeing
a teacher or something?
Is that what this is about?
251
00:12:37,042 --> 00:12:38,282
These aren't
about a guy.
252
00:12:38,343 --> 00:12:40,380
Matty, don't...
They're gonna
find out anyway.
253
00:12:41,379 --> 00:12:42,653
Find out what?
254
00:12:45,617 --> 00:12:47,961
These e-mails are
about Cherry.
255
00:12:52,190 --> 00:12:56,434
"Cherry" was an Internet
message board created
by two of our students.
256
00:12:56,494 --> 00:12:58,371
Girls in the school
were rated sexually.
257
00:12:58,430 --> 00:13:00,501
Details about what they
would or wouldn't do.
258
00:13:00,565 --> 00:13:02,977
A list of who the
virgins supposedly were.
259
00:13:03,101 --> 00:13:06,480
Sort of a new version of
the bathroom wall, huh?
260
00:13:06,538 --> 00:13:08,449
Was Julie Cade written
up on the site?
261
00:13:08,506 --> 00:13:09,814
WOMAN: No, she wasn't.
262
00:13:09,874 --> 00:13:12,047
Why was she so concerned
about the message board?
263
00:13:12,677 --> 00:13:16,090
Julie was a very serious girl.
She found the whole
thing offensive.
264
00:13:16,748 --> 00:13:19,092
Demeaning to women.
It was demeaning.
265
00:13:20,685 --> 00:13:24,030
A couple of weeks ago
someone left an anonymous
note on my desk
266
00:13:24,089 --> 00:13:26,035
naming the students
who were running it.
267
00:13:26,091 --> 00:13:29,231
One of our faculty
members identified the
handwriting as Julie's.
268
00:13:29,294 --> 00:13:32,275
Did you talk to her?
She admitted
writing the note.
269
00:13:32,330 --> 00:13:33,934
Did anybody contact
the police?
270
00:13:34,466 --> 00:13:37,470
We consulted a lawyer.
We were told that no
crime had been committed,
271
00:13:37,535 --> 00:13:39,572
but we suspended
the two students
for a week
272
00:13:39,637 --> 00:13:41,049
and we shut down
the message board.
273
00:13:41,107 --> 00:13:42,552
Sounds like
a slap on the wrist.
274
00:13:42,608 --> 00:13:43,916
WOMAN: Not at Strickland.
275
00:13:43,976 --> 00:13:46,889
Believe me,
this won't look good on
their college applications.
276
00:13:46,946 --> 00:13:51,156
Look, we're not
talking Columbine here.
Just very poor judgment.
277
00:13:51,250 --> 00:13:53,526
Do the students
know about that note?
278
00:13:53,586 --> 00:13:55,691
We tried to keep it quiet,
but as you can imagine,
279
00:13:55,754 --> 00:13:57,495
it's hard to keep a
secret in high school.
280
00:13:58,524 --> 00:14:01,334
We're going to need
to talk to these
two cyber-gen I uses.
281
00:14:01,660 --> 00:14:04,197
Peter Grimes
and John Lucero.
282
00:14:04,263 --> 00:14:06,072
The students are
at lunch right now.
283
00:14:10,369 --> 00:14:12,406
Peter Grimes?
John Lucero?
284
00:14:12,471 --> 00:14:13,472
Yeah.
285
00:14:13,539 --> 00:14:16,281
As soon as you're
done stuffing you faces,
we need to talk to you.
286
00:14:16,342 --> 00:14:19,789
About what?
Oh, putting mayo on
corned beef, for openers.
287
00:14:19,845 --> 00:14:21,950
Hey...
Lunch is over.
Get up, John boy.
288
00:14:22,648 --> 00:14:25,561
Yo, I know my rights.
You can't put your
hands on students.
289
00:14:25,618 --> 00:14:29,464
I'm gonna file
a complaint.
Aw, stick it on your
message board, Lurch.
290
00:14:32,658 --> 00:14:35,332
Nobody was supposed
to know about the board.
It was a secret.
291
00:14:35,394 --> 00:14:38,068
If nobody was supposed
to know, then why do it
in the first place?
292
00:14:38,130 --> 00:14:40,269
It was a goof,
that's all.
293
00:14:40,866 --> 00:14:42,903
We only told people
we thought we could trust.
294
00:14:42,968 --> 00:14:44,572
So you must've
been pretty pissed off
when you found out
295
00:14:44,637 --> 00:14:45,945
somebody dropped
a dime on you.
296
00:14:46,005 --> 00:14:47,211
I wasn't mad.
297
00:14:47,273 --> 00:14:48,843
Oh, come on, bro,
you got suspended.
298
00:14:48,908 --> 00:14:51,752
Don't tell me you
didn't want to know
who busted you.
299
00:14:52,378 --> 00:14:55,916
I was curious, maybe.
But I didn't go looking.
300
00:14:56,715 --> 00:14:59,195
You and John didn't
make a few phone calls
asking around?
301
00:14:59,251 --> 00:15:00,855
No. I didn't.
302
00:15:03,656 --> 00:15:05,260
But John did, didn't he?
303
00:15:09,361 --> 00:15:11,204
Tell him what you know.
304
00:15:12,998 --> 00:15:14,534
He's my best friend.
305
00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:16,773
FATHER: Oh, for God
sakes, Peter, stand up
for yourself for once.
306
00:15:16,836 --> 00:15:19,248
One of your classmates
is dead, bro.
307
00:15:19,305 --> 00:15:20,682
This ain't no goof no more.
308
00:15:20,739 --> 00:15:21,740
He wouldn't have hurt her.
309
00:15:21,807 --> 00:15:24,981
Yeah, but he knew that
it was Julie that got you
guys suspended, right?
310
00:15:25,044 --> 00:15:26,318
Right?
311
00:15:26,378 --> 00:15:27,584
(SIGHS)
312
00:15:28,347 --> 00:15:30,418
After we got busted,
he freaked.
313
00:15:30,482 --> 00:15:32,928
It was like he was
obsessed with finding out
who turned us in.
314
00:15:32,985 --> 00:15:34,487
Well, why was it
so important to him?
315
00:15:34,553 --> 00:15:38,365
He's got coaches
calling him from
Colgate, Dartmouth.
316
00:15:39,491 --> 00:15:41,368
He was going to
play college ball.
317
00:15:41,427 --> 00:15:43,532
This is going to
mess up his whole life.
318
00:15:46,999 --> 00:15:49,206
Last Friday he found
out it was Julie.
319
00:15:49,268 --> 00:15:50,975
How did he find out?
I don't know.
320
00:15:52,171 --> 00:15:55,243
But he said he was just
going to tell the
bitch off, that's all.
321
00:15:57,409 --> 00:15:59,582
I mean, scare her a little.
322
00:16:01,981 --> 00:16:03,426
We weren't hurting anybody.
323
00:16:03,482 --> 00:16:05,723
Calling your
classmates whores?
324
00:16:05,784 --> 00:16:08,162
You know,
if the truth hurts,
I'm sorry.
325
00:16:08,220 --> 00:16:10,393
I see your son's
got a lot of remorse
for this, huh?
326
00:16:10,456 --> 00:16:13,528
Hey, he's here
and he's cooperating.
What more do you want?
327
00:16:14,493 --> 00:16:17,337
How did you find out
Julie Cade was
the one who busted you?
328
00:16:17,997 --> 00:16:20,773
(STAMMERS) I didn't even
know that it was Julie.
329
00:16:20,833 --> 00:16:23,404
(LAUGHS) That's not what
your friend Peter told me.
330
00:16:23,469 --> 00:16:25,278
FATHER: Are you
calling my son a liar?
331
00:16:25,337 --> 00:16:26,509
Hey, if the truth hurts.
332
00:16:26,572 --> 00:16:29,382
We don't have to sit here
and listen to your insults.
333
00:16:29,441 --> 00:16:31,216
As a matter
of fact, you do.
334
00:16:32,378 --> 00:16:34,619
Now, where were you
8:00, Tuesday morning?
335
00:16:35,347 --> 00:16:38,351
I was...
Home eating
breakfast with me.
336
00:16:39,385 --> 00:16:41,160
Now, look, unless my son
is under arrest,
337
00:16:41,220 --> 00:16:43,599
we're through answering
any more of these questions.
338
00:16:45,659 --> 00:16:47,070
We're through.
339
00:16:48,261 --> 00:16:49,535
For now.
340
00:16:51,631 --> 00:16:53,474
Well, I just got
off with the D.A.
341
00:16:53,533 --> 00:16:57,345
Apparently there's no crime
we can hold them on
for the message board.
342
00:16:57,404 --> 00:17:00,942
If we cut Lucero loose,
we're not going
to get his prints.
343
00:17:01,007 --> 00:17:03,851
No judge is going
to give us a warrant based
on what his cyber-pal says.
344
00:17:03,910 --> 00:17:05,856
Especially if his
father's his alibi.
345
00:17:06,613 --> 00:17:08,593
Well, maybe if there was
some other way we could prove
346
00:17:08,648 --> 00:17:11,492
Lucero knew it was
Julie who turned him in.
347
00:17:12,352 --> 00:17:14,889
How did she find out
about this message board?
348
00:17:14,955 --> 00:17:18,402
The webmaster gave us
a list of all the students
who logged onto Cherry.
349
00:17:18,458 --> 00:17:21,564
We can cross-reference
that list with
her e-mail addresses.
350
00:17:22,228 --> 00:17:25,300
Could be whoever
told her told Lucero.
351
00:17:25,932 --> 00:17:27,275
Okay.
352
00:17:28,535 --> 00:17:32,108
Julie and I were doing
a computer science project
together in the library,
353
00:17:32,172 --> 00:17:34,152
and I had Cherry up
on the back window.
354
00:17:34,207 --> 00:17:36,483
When I came back
from the bathroom,
she was staring at it.
355
00:17:36,543 --> 00:17:38,079
I take it she
wasn't amused.
356
00:17:38,144 --> 00:17:41,125
No, man, she was
really pissed.
357
00:17:41,181 --> 00:17:44,492
I told her she wasn't
even on the damned thing,
but she didn't care.
358
00:17:44,551 --> 00:17:46,758
She thought it was really
gross and degrading.
359
00:17:46,820 --> 00:17:49,699
How did she know it
was Lucero and Grimes?
You tell her?
360
00:17:49,756 --> 00:17:51,292
What else could I do?
361
00:17:51,358 --> 00:17:54,134
I mean, she was right.
The whole thing was
kind of twisted.
362
00:17:54,194 --> 00:17:56,003
You didn't happen
to tell John Lucero
363
00:17:56,062 --> 00:17:57,905
you were the one
who gave him up?
364
00:17:57,964 --> 00:18:00,069
Yeah, right. You think
I have a death wish?
365
00:18:00,133 --> 00:18:01,203
What do you mean?
366
00:18:01,268 --> 00:18:02,804
John's a
state-ranked wrestler.
367
00:18:02,869 --> 00:18:04,780
He, like, hurts
people recreationally.
368
00:18:04,838 --> 00:18:08,149
So how did he find out
Julie was the one
who turned him in?
369
00:18:08,208 --> 00:18:09,482
I don't know.
370
00:18:09,542 --> 00:18:13,149
But I heard he and Julie
got into this big thing
at some party Friday night.
371
00:18:13,213 --> 00:18:15,625
What party?
Melissa Gelson's.
372
00:18:16,683 --> 00:18:18,128
John's girlfriend.
373
00:18:22,489 --> 00:18:25,834
Ask anybody.
The argument that Julie
had wasn't with John.
374
00:18:25,925 --> 00:18:28,405
So who was it with?
Denny Cannon.
375
00:18:28,461 --> 00:18:30,099
He's on the wrestling
team with John.
376
00:18:30,196 --> 00:18:33,040
This argument have
anything to do with
the message boards?
377
00:18:33,099 --> 00:18:37,172
Cherry? No, totally not.
It had to do
with Alicia Milford.
378
00:18:37,237 --> 00:18:38,716
What about her?
379
00:18:38,772 --> 00:18:41,412
Well, Alicia was with Denny
at the party.
380
00:18:41,775 --> 00:18:45,154
With her?
You know, like kissing
and stuff, making out.
381
00:18:45,245 --> 00:18:47,691
ED: Well, how did this
cause a problem for Julie?
382
00:18:47,747 --> 00:18:49,454
Well, Julie didn't
really like jocks.
383
00:18:49,516 --> 00:18:51,154
She thought she was, like,
better than them, you know.
384
00:18:51,217 --> 00:18:53,754
Maybe she just
didn't like her friend
hooking up with jocks
385
00:18:53,820 --> 00:18:55,993
who post sex rumors
on the Internet.
386
00:18:56,456 --> 00:18:59,062
(LAUGHS) Or maybe she
just didn't like the fact
387
00:18:59,125 --> 00:19:02,265
that nobody thought
she was hot enough to
post anything about her.
388
00:19:02,996 --> 00:19:06,603
Look, when she saw
Denny with Alicia,
she went ballistic.
389
00:19:06,666 --> 00:19:08,873
She went up to Denny
and told him to
leave her alone.
390
00:19:08,935 --> 00:19:10,676
BRISCOE: And then
what happened?
391
00:19:11,004 --> 00:19:13,211
Well, then Denny called her a
bitch, and blah, blah, blah,
392
00:19:13,306 --> 00:19:15,047
but that's really
all that happened.
393
00:19:15,108 --> 00:19:16,178
And you saw all this?
394
00:19:16,242 --> 00:19:17,983
I heard about
it later, okay?
395
00:19:18,044 --> 00:19:20,718
BRISCOE: So, where was John
when all this was going on?
396
00:19:20,847 --> 00:19:22,986
With me.
In my bedroom.
397
00:19:29,889 --> 00:19:31,664
Coach said you guys
want to talk to me?
398
00:19:31,725 --> 00:19:33,636
Yeah, Denny.
Take a seat.
399
00:19:34,761 --> 00:19:38,732
We hear, uh, you had
a little problem with Julie
Cade last week at a party?
400
00:19:39,232 --> 00:19:40,404
I wouldn't
call it a problem.
401
00:19:40,467 --> 00:19:42,708
No? What happened?
402
00:19:42,769 --> 00:19:44,214
Nothing.
403
00:19:45,606 --> 00:19:47,813
I was with a friend
of hers, Alicia.
404
00:19:48,742 --> 00:19:50,244
Julie wasn't cool
with it, that's all.
405
00:19:51,011 --> 00:19:52,752
Now, why would
she care that you
were with Alicia?
406
00:19:53,581 --> 00:19:55,959
I don't know.
You know how freaky
girls get sometimes.
407
00:19:56,016 --> 00:19:58,121
Oh, you gotta beat 'em
off with a stick?
408
00:19:58,185 --> 00:19:59,994
DENNY: I didn't say that.
409
00:20:00,054 --> 00:20:01,795
We heard that you
called Julie a bitch?
410
00:20:03,157 --> 00:20:04,636
She was a bitch.
411
00:20:09,029 --> 00:20:13,876
Look, I had a couple of beers.
It was wrong, okay? I know.
412
00:20:14,402 --> 00:20:17,178
Where were you before
school the morning
Julie got killed?
413
00:20:17,972 --> 00:20:19,542
Running in Central Park.
414
00:20:20,007 --> 00:20:21,577
I'm trying to make weight
for a match next week.
415
00:20:22,877 --> 00:20:24,356
You run in these?
416
00:20:24,411 --> 00:20:25,754
I have running shoes.
417
00:20:26,580 --> 00:20:27,718
ED: You got 'em
with you?
418
00:20:29,083 --> 00:20:30,391
They're at home.
419
00:20:32,987 --> 00:20:35,092
Look, I really have
to get back to practice.
420
00:20:35,189 --> 00:20:36,634
BRISCOE: Yeah, you run along.
421
00:20:37,358 --> 00:20:39,201
Just don't
run too far.
422
00:20:42,329 --> 00:20:44,570
Latent's processing
all the prints from
the laundry room.
423
00:20:44,632 --> 00:20:46,373
So far, none of them
are in the system.
424
00:20:46,467 --> 00:20:49,346
So, for all we know,
one of them could
be Denny Cannon's.
425
00:20:50,137 --> 00:20:52,845
IUDs from Julie Cade's
cell phone finally came in.
426
00:20:52,907 --> 00:20:56,377
Look. Morning of
the murder, she got a
three-minute call at 7:51.
427
00:20:56,443 --> 00:21:00,016
We tracked down the number.
Came from a pay phone
on 87th and Park.
428
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,526
That's a block away
from Denny Cannon's
apartment.
429
00:21:02,583 --> 00:21:04,153
He said he
was out running.
430
00:21:04,218 --> 00:21:06,494
Forgot to mention it
was from a crime scene.
431
00:21:06,554 --> 00:21:08,329
Now we can get
that warrant.
432
00:21:13,694 --> 00:21:15,970
What's this about?
ls Denny in some
kind of trouble?
433
00:21:16,030 --> 00:21:17,202
We're not sure yet.
434
00:21:17,264 --> 00:21:18,743
Well, then why do you
have a search warrant?
435
00:21:18,799 --> 00:21:20,005
You can read
it yourself.
436
00:21:20,067 --> 00:21:23,514
In the meantime,
we need to know where
your son keeps his shoes.
437
00:21:23,571 --> 00:21:25,915
His shoes? All over
the apartment.
438
00:21:25,973 --> 00:21:27,646
Ma'am, you can either point
us in the right direction,
439
00:21:27,708 --> 00:21:29,813
or we can make a real
mess of this place.
440
00:21:29,877 --> 00:21:31,857
Mostly in his
bedroom closet.
441
00:21:31,912 --> 00:21:33,118
Thank you.
442
00:21:37,051 --> 00:21:38,257
What's going
on, Mom?
443
00:21:40,187 --> 00:21:42,667
MOTHER: Maybe if you tell me
what you're looking for.
444
00:21:43,424 --> 00:21:44,630
ED: Hey, Lennie,
445
00:21:45,559 --> 00:21:47,038
there's blood
on his sleeve.
446
00:21:47,094 --> 00:21:50,541
Yeah, I bet that jacket
goes real nice with
these sneakers, huh?
447
00:21:51,565 --> 00:21:52,873
I didn't do anything.
448
00:21:52,933 --> 00:21:55,072
Yeah, and I guess
that's chocolate
ice cream, right?
449
00:21:55,135 --> 00:21:56,671
You know,
the next time you're
in a laundry room,
450
00:21:56,737 --> 00:21:59,081
you might want to try
doing some laundry.
451
00:22:03,143 --> 00:22:04,850
I told you,
I was running.
452
00:22:04,912 --> 00:22:07,290
So somebody else
just happened to
use a pay phone
453
00:22:07,348 --> 00:22:09,851
a block from your house
to call Julie Cade?
454
00:22:10,184 --> 00:22:11,959
Look, I don't know
her cell phone number.
455
00:22:12,019 --> 00:22:13,362
I don't even know
where Julie lives.
456
00:22:13,420 --> 00:22:14,694
Lived.
457
00:22:14,755 --> 00:22:17,258
What happened, Denny?
Your boy Lucero
put you up to this
458
00:22:17,324 --> 00:22:19,235
after Julie blew
the whistle on him?
459
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:20,932
It wasn't like that.
460
00:22:20,995 --> 00:22:23,339
Or were you cheating
on Julie with Alicia?
461
00:22:23,397 --> 00:22:24,569
What are you talking about?
462
00:22:24,632 --> 00:22:27,238
People at the party
said Julie got all
up in your face
463
00:22:27,301 --> 00:22:29,042
when you started
making out with Alicia.
464
00:22:29,103 --> 00:22:30,912
And there was blood
on your jacket.
465
00:22:30,971 --> 00:22:32,814
That's from a nosebleed
I got after practice.
466
00:22:32,873 --> 00:22:35,479
ED: We found your shoe
print in her laundry room.
467
00:22:35,542 --> 00:22:36,782
No way.
Way.
468
00:22:36,844 --> 00:22:39,051
That's a Nike
tread, dude.
Same as yours.
469
00:22:39,113 --> 00:22:41,093
Lab results
just came in.
470
00:22:41,148 --> 00:22:43,594
The blood isn't consistent
with Julie Cade's.
471
00:22:43,817 --> 00:22:45,319
I told you,
I had a nosebleed.
472
00:22:45,386 --> 00:22:47,765
But that still doesn't
explain why the lab found
473
00:22:47,822 --> 00:22:50,530
strands of Julie's hair on
the inside of your jacket.
474
00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:54,670
I think it's time
for an explanation.
475
00:22:59,367 --> 00:23:00,607
I want to talk
to my parents.
476
00:23:00,802 --> 00:23:02,839
Mom and Daddy can't
bail you out now.
477
00:23:04,139 --> 00:23:05,618
Then I want to
see a lawyer.
478
00:23:10,245 --> 00:23:11,588
What've we got on him?
479
00:23:11,646 --> 00:23:13,284
At this point,
it's all circumstantial.
480
00:23:13,348 --> 00:23:14,418
Strong or weak?
481
00:23:14,482 --> 00:23:17,725
A varsity jacket which
Julie's doorman ID'd,
with her hair on it,
482
00:23:17,786 --> 00:23:21,529
a pay phone call to Julie
a block from Denny's apartment
shortly before she was killed,
483
00:23:21,590 --> 00:23:24,196
and a partial shoe print
consistent with
his running shoe.
484
00:23:24,259 --> 00:23:25,533
Consistent?
485
00:23:25,594 --> 00:23:29,132
Every high school kid
in America has a pair
of running shoes.
486
00:23:30,131 --> 00:23:34,079
His fingerprints don't
match any of the sets
we lifted from the washer.
487
00:23:34,135 --> 00:23:36,615
I'm not even sure
we have enough
for conviction.
488
00:23:37,739 --> 00:23:39,582
We've done it with less.
489
00:23:39,641 --> 00:23:43,088
And we have witnesses
who saw Julie and Denny
arguing at a party
490
00:23:43,144 --> 00:23:44,919
a few nights before
she was killed.
491
00:23:44,980 --> 00:23:46,618
What's your theory
on motive?
492
00:23:47,682 --> 00:23:48,922
Payback.
493
00:23:48,983 --> 00:23:51,486
Either for blowing
the whistle on his friend,
John Lucero,
494
00:23:51,553 --> 00:23:54,693
or trying to break up
a budding romance
with Alicia Milford.
495
00:23:54,756 --> 00:23:56,167
Well, you better
nail it down.
496
00:23:56,624 --> 00:23:59,935
With only a fragment
of a shoe print tying
him to the scene,
497
00:23:59,995 --> 00:24:01,201
motive's all we've got.
498
00:24:06,901 --> 00:24:10,439
ALICIA: I really don't
know why Julie was
so upset that night.
499
00:24:10,505 --> 00:24:11,882
The girl who threw
the party thought it was
500
00:24:11,940 --> 00:24:13,851
because you and Denny
were together.
501
00:24:13,908 --> 00:24:16,388
Alicia's known Denny
since they were
in grade school.
502
00:24:16,444 --> 00:24:19,015
Now, why would
that upset Julie?
503
00:24:19,881 --> 00:24:22,452
SERENA: I was
hoping your daughter
could explain that.
504
00:24:22,550 --> 00:24:23,961
I really don't know.
505
00:24:25,086 --> 00:24:26,759
Melissa said you and Denny
were kissing,
506
00:24:26,821 --> 00:24:29,062
and that Julie told him
to leave you alone.
507
00:24:29,491 --> 00:24:30,834
You were kissing
Denny Cannon?
508
00:24:30,892 --> 00:24:32,701
Dad, we were just
playing around.
509
00:24:34,562 --> 00:24:36,473
So there was nothing
more between you?
510
00:24:36,531 --> 00:24:38,306
You mean, like,
were we dating?
511
00:24:39,234 --> 00:24:40,611
We're friends.
512
00:24:41,970 --> 00:24:43,506
Then why did
Julie get upset?
513
00:24:46,441 --> 00:24:50,014
Look, Julie thought Denny
and his friends were jerks,
you know,
514
00:24:50,078 --> 00:24:53,491
because of all those
things they posted
on that message board.
515
00:24:53,548 --> 00:24:55,653
Cherry?
(LAUGHS) It was
mostly a joke,
516
00:24:55,717 --> 00:24:57,628
Julie just didn't get it.
517
00:24:57,686 --> 00:25:00,667
How you can defend that
awful website, or whatever
that thing was called...
518
00:25:00,722 --> 00:25:01,792
I'm not defending it,
519
00:25:01,856 --> 00:25:04,632
I'm just not getting
all worked up about it,
that's all.
520
00:25:05,694 --> 00:25:08,607
Somebody told the police
that Denny called
Julie a bitch.
521
00:25:10,165 --> 00:25:11,508
He'd had a few beers.
522
00:25:11,566 --> 00:25:13,477
They were serving
beer at this party?
523
00:25:13,535 --> 00:25:15,037
I didn't have any.
524
00:25:16,037 --> 00:25:18,108
Now, Denny was
a little buzzed.
525
00:25:19,908 --> 00:25:22,354
Julie just didn't want
him hanging all over me.
526
00:25:22,410 --> 00:25:24,481
That's all that
happened, I swear.
527
00:25:32,420 --> 00:25:33,922
MONICA: I already
talked with the police.
528
00:25:33,988 --> 00:25:37,162
Then why didn't you
mention Julie's argument
with Denny Cannon?
529
00:25:37,625 --> 00:25:39,127
Other kids saw it, too.
530
00:25:39,194 --> 00:25:41,265
What does that have
to do with anything?
531
00:25:42,363 --> 00:25:43,808
Well, what did Alicia say?
532
00:25:43,865 --> 00:25:46,038
That Julie was angry
about the message board.
533
00:25:46,100 --> 00:25:48,740
Look, I don't want to
get anyone in any trouble.
534
00:25:48,803 --> 00:25:51,284
A girl's been
killed, Monica.
One of your classmates.
535
00:25:51,340 --> 00:25:52,944
I know that, okay?
536
00:25:53,008 --> 00:25:54,715
Then talk to me.
537
00:25:59,815 --> 00:26:03,126
At the end of the night,
Julie was really upset.
538
00:26:03,185 --> 00:26:05,495
She was crying and
she wouldn't stop.
539
00:26:05,554 --> 00:26:07,124
What was she
crying about?
540
00:26:07,623 --> 00:26:10,297
At first, I thought
she was just drunk,
but...
541
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:11,997
But she wasn't.
542
00:26:14,463 --> 00:26:16,568
Alicia took her
into the kitchen,
543
00:26:16,632 --> 00:26:17,736
and she was trying to
talk to her, you know,
544
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,802
trying to get her
to stop crying.
545
00:26:19,869 --> 00:26:22,179
And that's when Julie
said something about
546
00:26:22,972 --> 00:26:24,417
Denny assaulting her.
547
00:26:24,473 --> 00:26:26,783
You mean verbally?
I know they had
a disagreement.
548
00:26:29,011 --> 00:26:30,285
She meant physically.
549
00:26:30,346 --> 00:26:31,825
What makes you say that?
550
00:26:31,881 --> 00:26:35,124
Because I heard Julie
say that she wanted
to go to a crisis center.
551
00:26:36,786 --> 00:26:38,527
I spoke to a girl
named Julie on the 15th.
552
00:26:38,587 --> 00:26:39,895
What did she tell you?
553
00:26:39,955 --> 00:26:42,128
Well, first of all,
she called,
she didn't come in,
554
00:26:42,191 --> 00:26:43,397
so I really have
no way of confirming
555
00:26:43,459 --> 00:26:44,802
that we're talking
about the same person.
556
00:26:44,860 --> 00:26:47,568
I traced the call
from Julie Cade's
cell phone records.
557
00:26:48,230 --> 00:26:50,176
Oh. I guess it
was her, then.
558
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,812
Well, this Julie told me
that she was at a party.
559
00:26:53,869 --> 00:26:57,180
That a boy cornered her in
a bedroom, pushed her down,
560
00:26:57,239 --> 00:26:59,549
and a friend came in and
they both tried to kiss her.
561
00:26:59,608 --> 00:27:00,985
Stick their hands
up her shirt.
562
00:27:01,043 --> 00:27:02,181
Did they rape her?
563
00:27:02,578 --> 00:27:05,787
They threatened to,
but apparently someone
came in and broke it up.
564
00:27:05,848 --> 00:27:07,122
Did she tell
you who?
565
00:27:07,583 --> 00:27:10,359
I got the impression
that it was a girl.
A friend of hers.
566
00:27:11,220 --> 00:27:13,063
What about the
names of the boys
who attacked her?
567
00:27:15,124 --> 00:27:16,762
Just one name, Denny.
568
00:27:16,826 --> 00:27:18,828
She didn't have
the chance to give me
the other boy's name.
569
00:27:20,029 --> 00:27:21,770
Do you know if she was
planning to press charges?
570
00:27:21,864 --> 00:27:23,343
Well, I certainly
urged her to.
571
00:27:23,399 --> 00:27:26,937
But like I was saying,
before I could refer her
to the police, she hung up.
572
00:27:27,603 --> 00:27:29,378
I was hoping that
she'd call back.
573
00:27:30,573 --> 00:27:31,813
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
574
00:27:32,641 --> 00:27:35,144
I think Alicia Milford is
protecting Denny Cannon.
575
00:27:35,210 --> 00:27:37,156
By not telling you
about the assault.
576
00:27:37,213 --> 00:27:39,989
I finally got a hold
of Denny Cannon's
phone records.
577
00:27:41,150 --> 00:27:44,188
He called Julie Cade
the night before
she was killed.
578
00:27:44,253 --> 00:27:46,995
It's a little odd to
be calling a girl you
just sexually assaulted.
579
00:27:47,056 --> 00:27:49,832
Not if you're trying
to convince her
not to press charges.
580
00:27:49,892 --> 00:27:52,566
Yeah, but if she refused,
it certainly gives us motive.
581
00:27:53,796 --> 00:27:55,798
(STAMMERING)
It's not like we
hurt her or anything.
582
00:27:55,864 --> 00:27:58,276
Two guys in a bedroom,
touching her
against her will.
583
00:27:58,334 --> 00:28:00,575
Not letting her go
when she said stop.
584
00:28:00,636 --> 00:28:01,637
What do you call that?
585
00:28:01,704 --> 00:28:06,175
The point is, Julie
Cade told you she was
going to the police.
586
00:28:06,642 --> 00:28:09,418
I tried to explain
to her that we were
just kidding.
587
00:28:09,879 --> 00:28:11,756
And when she wouldn't
listen, you got scared.
588
00:28:11,814 --> 00:28:14,886
Of course, I got scared.
Everything had gotten
way out of hand.
589
00:28:14,950 --> 00:28:17,954
JACK: Which is why
you called her again
the morning she was killed.
590
00:28:18,020 --> 00:28:19,795
I never called anyone
that morning.
591
00:28:20,055 --> 00:28:21,693
If your client's not
willing to tell the truth,
592
00:28:21,757 --> 00:28:23,998
we can start picking
a jury this afternoon.
593
00:28:27,763 --> 00:28:30,369
We were... We were just
trying to teach her a lesson.
594
00:28:30,432 --> 00:28:31,911
That is the truth.
595
00:28:34,269 --> 00:28:38,149
Look, that night
at the party, John
came and found me
596
00:28:38,207 --> 00:28:40,585
and said that Julie
was in the bedroom,
597
00:28:40,643 --> 00:28:43,749
that she was alone,
and that this was our
chance to get her back.
598
00:28:45,614 --> 00:28:46,991
So, I went with him.
599
00:28:48,250 --> 00:28:49,729
John started
to grab her.
600
00:28:50,319 --> 00:28:52,060
We were both
pretty wasted.
601
00:28:52,856 --> 00:28:55,735
We both started kissing her,
and John lifted
up her sweater.
602
00:28:57,727 --> 00:29:00,230
That's when she started
saying no and everything.
603
00:29:02,098 --> 00:29:05,545
John pushed her
on the bed and said,
604
00:29:06,469 --> 00:29:09,006
"What's the matter?
You saving yourself
for someone?"
605
00:29:11,374 --> 00:29:15,823
She tried to get up,
so I held her down.
606
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,457
John got on top of her
and was saying, like,
607
00:29:20,517 --> 00:29:23,623
"What are you, frigid?
You got a problem with sex?
Is that it?"
608
00:29:24,187 --> 00:29:27,293
She tried to scratch him.
John got really pissed so...
609
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:31,730
He grabbed her hair hard.
610
00:29:33,229 --> 00:29:37,405
She just lay there quiet
I got right next to her,
and I was like,
611
00:29:39,235 --> 00:29:41,044
"Maybe you just
don't like guys."
612
00:29:43,740 --> 00:29:45,242
At first, she didn't
say anything.
613
00:29:45,308 --> 00:29:48,846
She just lay there, like...
Like with this...
With this look on her face.
614
00:29:48,912 --> 00:29:52,223
This weird look, like...
Almost like she was calm.
615
00:29:54,517 --> 00:29:55,928
She said no,
616
00:29:57,787 --> 00:29:59,789
she didn't like guys.
She liked girls.
617
00:30:02,659 --> 00:30:03,763
She was gay.
618
00:30:13,203 --> 00:30:15,513
Why didn't we know Julie Cade
was gay before now?
619
00:30:15,572 --> 00:30:16,812
I'm not sure
we do know.
620
00:30:16,873 --> 00:30:19,581
We have no idea
why she said it,
or even if she said it.
621
00:30:19,642 --> 00:30:22,714
Still, it's the kind
of red herring that can
turn a trial into a circus.
622
00:30:22,779 --> 00:30:24,781
SERENA: If the defense
can attack the sexuality
of the victim,
623
00:30:24,848 --> 00:30:26,350
they can cast doubt
on our motive.
624
00:30:26,416 --> 00:30:30,762
Which is that Julie Cade
was murdered to stop her
from filing assault charges.
625
00:30:30,820 --> 00:30:32,857
I don't see how it matters
whether she was gay or not.
626
00:30:33,523 --> 00:30:35,503
What about the
other boy, Lucero?
627
00:30:35,592 --> 00:30:36,969
Can he confirm
Denny's account?
628
00:30:37,027 --> 00:30:38,301
Well, Lucero's
retained counsel.
629
00:30:38,361 --> 00:30:40,705
He refuses to talk
unless we give him
a free pass.
630
00:30:40,764 --> 00:30:42,573
JACK: Making a deal
with Lucero
631
00:30:42,632 --> 00:30:43,940
to substantiate
an allegation
632
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,344
by Denny Cannon
benefits them, not us.
633
00:30:46,403 --> 00:30:48,849
LEWIN: Well, we have
to find out the truth
one way or another.
634
00:30:48,905 --> 00:30:50,009
Yeah, but none of her
friends ever mentioned
635
00:30:50,073 --> 00:30:51,484
anything about
Julie being gay.
636
00:30:51,741 --> 00:30:52,913
Maybe no one knew.
637
00:30:52,976 --> 00:30:56,253
In 2002? In a high school
in New York City?
638
00:30:56,312 --> 00:30:57,950
When I was in high school
I had a very close friend,
639
00:30:58,014 --> 00:31:01,188
and I had no idea
she was gay until
she came out in college.
640
00:31:01,251 --> 00:31:04,892
She always said she was
too afraid until then.
I'm not sure much has changed.
641
00:31:05,655 --> 00:31:08,261
Why don't we
re-interview everybody
who was at the party?
642
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,531
This is serious,
Melissa.
Look, I know
this is serious.
643
00:31:13,630 --> 00:31:14,973
Then tell me what
happened. Otherwise,
you're going
644
00:31:15,031 --> 00:31:17,671
to find yourself facing
charges of your own.
645
00:31:17,734 --> 00:31:20,146
Charges?
Obstruction.
646
00:31:20,203 --> 00:31:23,207
Accessory after the
fact to sexual assault.
647
00:31:23,273 --> 00:31:24,809
Why do you keep
calling this an assault?
648
00:31:25,108 --> 00:31:26,883
They were just
messing around.
649
00:31:26,943 --> 00:31:28,422
Then you did know
what happened.
650
00:31:29,913 --> 00:31:31,483
You are dating
one of these guys.
651
00:31:31,548 --> 00:31:33,755
Is that how you would
want him to treat you?
652
00:31:34,451 --> 00:31:35,623
They were drunk.
653
00:31:35,685 --> 00:31:37,426
And that makes
it okay?
654
00:31:38,388 --> 00:31:41,392
Every girl that
I've talked to is
defending these boys.
655
00:31:41,457 --> 00:31:42,731
How is that possible?
656
00:31:42,792 --> 00:31:45,170
We've known them since,
like, elementary school.
657
00:31:46,663 --> 00:31:49,667
Your boyfriend
wasn't fooling around,
or playing around,
658
00:31:49,733 --> 00:31:51,735
or messing around.
659
00:31:51,801 --> 00:31:54,783
He and Denny Cannon
were assaulting Julie Cade.
660
00:31:55,773 --> 00:31:58,913
A girl just like you,
Melissa. Just like you.
661
00:31:58,976 --> 00:32:00,683
They would never
have raped her.
662
00:32:00,745 --> 00:32:02,315
You can't know that.
663
00:32:02,379 --> 00:32:03,380
Look, they had
her on the bed.
664
00:32:03,447 --> 00:32:05,654
When she said she
was gay, they stopped.
665
00:32:07,785 --> 00:32:09,662
You were there then,
weren't you?
666
00:32:12,423 --> 00:32:14,198
I walked in at the end.
667
00:32:15,059 --> 00:32:18,165
When I came in,
they were all sitting on the
bed, and Julie was crying.
668
00:32:18,662 --> 00:32:20,005
Did you talk to her?
669
00:32:20,097 --> 00:32:21,838
No. She left the room.
670
00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:24,373
John told me
what happened.
671
00:32:24,635 --> 00:32:27,013
He made me promise
not to tell anyone.
672
00:32:27,338 --> 00:32:28,578
Did you?
673
00:32:28,639 --> 00:32:30,482
No. No one.
674
00:32:32,877 --> 00:32:35,619
ALICIA: I've never heard
anyone say Julie was gay.
675
00:32:35,679 --> 00:32:38,250
And she didn't tell you
about it after the assault?
676
00:32:38,315 --> 00:32:39,658
No.
677
00:32:39,984 --> 00:32:41,361
What did
she tell you?
678
00:32:42,019 --> 00:32:44,295
Nothing. She just
wanted to go back home.
679
00:32:45,522 --> 00:32:47,866
I talked to
Monica Heath, Alicia.
680
00:32:47,925 --> 00:32:50,838
I know that Denny Cannon
assaulted Julie that night.
681
00:32:51,428 --> 00:32:54,238
And I also know that
she told you about it.
682
00:32:56,300 --> 00:33:00,373
Look, I'm sorry.
I was trying to
protect Julie's privacy.
683
00:33:01,038 --> 00:33:04,144
She didn't want people
to know what happened.
She made me promise.
684
00:33:05,643 --> 00:33:08,522
Monica says that Julie
wanted to talk to
a crisis counselor.
685
00:33:10,748 --> 00:33:12,091
I don't remember that.
686
00:33:18,722 --> 00:33:20,292
SERENA: Right now,
it's all just speculation.
687
00:33:21,258 --> 00:33:22,635
I don't understand.
688
00:33:23,661 --> 00:33:25,572
I thought Julie
was killed over
this message board.
689
00:33:25,629 --> 00:33:29,270
What difference
does it make
if she was gay or not?
690
00:33:29,333 --> 00:33:32,337
We just want to make
sure we've considered
every possibility.
691
00:33:34,505 --> 00:33:35,950
(SIGHS)
692
00:33:36,006 --> 00:33:38,509
I tried to broach the subject
with her once or twice.
693
00:33:39,376 --> 00:33:42,516
I always thought we had
an open relationship
with our daughter.
694
00:33:44,348 --> 00:33:45,986
It's going to be pretty
hard to accept the fact
695
00:33:46,050 --> 00:33:48,291
that she thought she
had to hide it from us.
696
00:33:48,352 --> 00:33:52,357
Ms. Southerlyn just said
that none of this has
been substantiated yet.
697
00:33:53,657 --> 00:33:55,568
What do the other kids say?
698
00:33:55,626 --> 00:33:57,469
That your daughter
was principled.
699
00:33:58,262 --> 00:34:00,139
That she stood up for
what she believed in.
700
00:34:00,731 --> 00:34:02,802
But nothing about
being gay?
No.
701
00:34:02,866 --> 00:34:04,743
What about Alicia Milford?
702
00:34:04,802 --> 00:34:08,511
She and Julie were
so close. Perhaps Julie
confided in her.
703
00:34:08,572 --> 00:34:11,485
Unfortunately, Alicia Milford
has been less than forthcoming
704
00:34:11,542 --> 00:34:12,885
about what happened
at that party.
705
00:34:14,044 --> 00:34:17,514
I don't understand.
Why would Alicia lie?
706
00:34:17,581 --> 00:34:21,427
Because she and
that whole bunch
of spoiled bastards
707
00:34:21,485 --> 00:34:23,761
care more about their
image than they care...
708
00:34:29,493 --> 00:34:31,495
I told Julie to
forget about 'em.
709
00:34:32,329 --> 00:34:33,774
To find her own crowd.
710
00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:37,579
She wouldn't listen to me.
711
00:34:40,404 --> 00:34:41,747
I'm sorry.
712
00:34:42,906 --> 00:34:44,214
It just doesn't
make any sense.
713
00:34:44,274 --> 00:34:46,276
Alicia and Julie
were best friends.
714
00:34:52,282 --> 00:34:54,262
She never told
her parents?
715
00:34:54,318 --> 00:34:56,127
I think her
mother suspected.
716
00:34:57,289 --> 00:34:58,927
Coming out's got to be
a pretty tough thing to do,
717
00:34:58,990 --> 00:35:01,470
no matter how understanding
your parents are.
718
00:35:01,526 --> 00:35:04,598
Alicia Milford was
her best friend.
She had no idea either.
719
00:35:05,230 --> 00:35:07,073
She had to have
had an idea, Jack.
720
00:35:07,132 --> 00:35:09,635
I mean, look at these
e-mails Julie sent her.
721
00:35:09,701 --> 00:35:11,908
"People think it's all
about sex, but it's not.
722
00:35:12,537 --> 00:35:14,608
"Why can't anyone
understand that?"
723
00:35:15,306 --> 00:35:17,047
I don't think
she's talking about
the message board at all.
724
00:35:17,108 --> 00:35:19,145
I think Julie's talking
about being gay.
725
00:35:23,748 --> 00:35:27,286
JACK: We can offer you
the same deal
we offered Melissa Gelson.
726
00:35:27,819 --> 00:35:29,890
Immunity from prosecution.
727
00:35:29,954 --> 00:35:32,161
MRS. MILFORD:
Prosecution from what?
728
00:35:32,223 --> 00:35:34,169
Obstruction of justice.
729
00:35:34,225 --> 00:35:36,068
Accessory after the fact.
730
00:35:36,127 --> 00:35:39,006
You knew about
a sexual assault and
you never came forward.
731
00:35:39,064 --> 00:35:40,839
Julie didn't want
anyone to know.
732
00:35:40,899 --> 00:35:43,209
I gave her my word.
I told you that.
733
00:35:43,935 --> 00:35:45,539
Did you know Julie Cade
was gay?
734
00:35:45,904 --> 00:35:47,110
What did you just ask her?
735
00:35:47,172 --> 00:35:48,981
SERENA: Julie's parents say
you were her best friend.
736
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:50,781
We saw the e-mails
she sent you.
737
00:35:50,842 --> 00:35:52,253
This has gone
far enough.
738
00:35:52,310 --> 00:35:55,052
We're here to trying
to assure it doesn't
go any further.
739
00:35:55,113 --> 00:35:57,423
Julie wasn't a lesbian.
That's crazy.
740
00:36:02,087 --> 00:36:03,760
Have you ever been
in Julie Cade's apartment?
741
00:36:04,089 --> 00:36:05,500
We were friends.
742
00:36:05,557 --> 00:36:07,833
What about the laundry
room in her building?
743
00:36:07,892 --> 00:36:09,428
ALICIA: No, don't think so.
744
00:36:11,830 --> 00:36:12,865
You're not sure?
745
00:36:12,931 --> 00:36:14,933
She just said
she didn't think so.
746
00:36:16,401 --> 00:36:18,403
Were you having
a relationship
with Julie Cade?
747
00:36:18,470 --> 00:36:21,747
(GASPS)
What the hell do you
mean, a relationship?
748
00:36:21,806 --> 00:36:23,376
Are you calling our
daughter a pervert?
749
00:36:23,441 --> 00:36:25,751
I'm not gay.
Are you people sick?
750
00:36:25,844 --> 00:36:29,314
MR. MILFORD: Who the hell
are you to come in here with
these disgusting accusations?
751
00:36:30,348 --> 00:36:32,726
Can she account for
her whereabouts on the
morning of the murder?
752
00:36:33,618 --> 00:36:36,155
She doesn't have to.
I'm getting a lawyer,
753
00:36:36,221 --> 00:36:39,134
and you two can get
the hell out of my house!
754
00:36:47,899 --> 00:36:50,880
SERENA: Alicia Milford's
one of the prettiest
girls in that school.
755
00:36:50,935 --> 00:36:53,313
Captain of the
cheerleading squad,
honors student,
756
00:36:53,371 --> 00:36:56,511
and according to her
teachers, a finalist for
the Dana Stokely Award.
757
00:36:56,574 --> 00:36:57,712
What's that?
758
00:36:57,776 --> 00:37:00,222
Basically, a ticket
into the college
of your choice.
759
00:37:00,278 --> 00:37:03,259
Not exactly a standard
resume for a murderer.
760
00:37:03,314 --> 00:37:05,794
Maybe not. But it's
still someone with
a lot to lose.
761
00:37:05,850 --> 00:37:08,660
If Julie Cade was going
to press charges against
Denny for the assault...
762
00:37:08,720 --> 00:37:12,327
The statements she made
about being gay would have
been made public. Coffee.
763
00:37:12,390 --> 00:37:13,767
And Alicia was
her best friend.
764
00:37:13,825 --> 00:37:15,395
Her very close
best friend.
765
00:37:15,460 --> 00:37:18,805
Wouldn't be long before
the other students
put two and two together.
766
00:37:18,863 --> 00:37:21,275
The thought of
being outed seems
to terrify her.
767
00:37:21,733 --> 00:37:23,371
Enough to commit murder?
768
00:37:24,936 --> 00:37:28,406
Well, I was a teacher.
I've seen a lot of very
scared, very desperate kids.
769
00:37:28,473 --> 00:37:31,079
There's an enormous
pressure to conform
at that age.
770
00:37:31,209 --> 00:37:33,052
We lifted prints from
her locker at school.
771
00:37:33,111 --> 00:37:34,818
They match a set we
found on the washer.
772
00:37:34,913 --> 00:37:37,120
So, we can put
Alicia Milford in
the laundry room.
773
00:37:37,248 --> 00:37:38,852
We just can't
pin down the time.
774
00:37:38,917 --> 00:37:41,591
Does she have an alibi?
Her parents didn't
provide one.
775
00:37:41,653 --> 00:37:43,155
She was also on the
cheerleading squad,
776
00:37:43,221 --> 00:37:46,566
which means she owns
the same school jacket
that the doorman ID'd.
777
00:37:46,624 --> 00:37:47,694
What about the shoe print?
778
00:37:47,759 --> 00:37:50,569
Briscoe and Green executed
a search warrant this morning.
779
00:37:50,662 --> 00:37:53,268
They recovered a pair of
her Nike running shoes.
780
00:37:53,331 --> 00:37:55,038
Tread pattern's consistent.
781
00:37:55,100 --> 00:37:57,046
She can still point the
finger at Denny Cannon.
782
00:37:57,102 --> 00:37:59,013
Especially since
we don't have anybody
who can testify
783
00:37:59,070 --> 00:38:01,210
that Alicia was involved
with Julie Cade.
784
00:38:01,807 --> 00:38:04,879
But without that,
we don't have fear of
being outed as a motive.
785
00:38:06,679 --> 00:38:08,181
Maybe there's
another way.
786
00:38:08,814 --> 00:38:10,623
Get Alicia Milford
to tell the truth.
787
00:38:10,683 --> 00:38:12,026
What are you thinking?
788
00:38:12,084 --> 00:38:14,530
If our theory
about her fear of
being outed is true,
789
00:38:14,587 --> 00:38:15,861
maybe we can
use that fear.
790
00:38:16,355 --> 00:38:18,335
If it could drive her
to commit murder,
791
00:38:18,391 --> 00:38:20,598
it could be strong enough
to make her take a plea.
792
00:38:20,659 --> 00:38:23,435
You can't seriously
be considering outing her
into a guilty plea.
793
00:38:24,096 --> 00:38:26,303
Well, but we manipulate
the system every day.
794
00:38:27,199 --> 00:38:28,974
Threaten to take
children from parents,
795
00:38:29,034 --> 00:38:31,844
to embarrass spouses with
their partner's infidelities.
796
00:38:32,304 --> 00:38:33,874
This is different, Jack.
797
00:38:33,939 --> 00:38:35,282
JACK: Why?
798
00:38:35,374 --> 00:38:39,754
Well, it plays into the notion
that there really is something
wrong with being gay.
799
00:38:39,812 --> 00:38:41,792
We run the risk
of seeming like bigots.
800
00:38:42,081 --> 00:38:46,188
I don't see how we
can abandon a viable
negotiating tactic
801
00:38:46,252 --> 00:38:49,062
because it's
politically incorrect.
Not if she's guilty.
802
00:38:49,121 --> 00:38:51,158
Yeah, but that's
assuming she'd rather
serve time in prison
803
00:38:51,223 --> 00:38:52,725
than have people find
out she's a lesbian,
804
00:38:52,792 --> 00:38:54,237
and that's a pretty
big gamble.
805
00:38:54,293 --> 00:38:56,466
Really? She already
killed to keep
it a secret.
806
00:38:57,730 --> 00:38:59,539
What would you
offer her, Jack?
807
00:39:00,366 --> 00:39:03,438
Man one. As to
sentence, let's hear
what happened first.
808
00:39:04,837 --> 00:39:06,510
Better for her to have
to answer the question
809
00:39:06,572 --> 00:39:09,212
in a conference room
than on a witness stand.
810
00:39:09,275 --> 00:39:11,050
A kinder, gentler
plea bargain?
811
00:39:11,143 --> 00:39:13,214
JACK: What we do is
make a deal
812
00:39:13,279 --> 00:39:15,486
using whatever we have
for leverage.
813
00:39:15,547 --> 00:39:19,222
And right now, what
we have for leverage
is Alicia Milford's fear.
814
00:39:25,424 --> 00:39:27,461
We're here to offer
her a plea. Man one.
815
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:28,766
A Plea?
816
00:39:28,827 --> 00:39:30,238
We thought you might
be more comfortable
817
00:39:30,296 --> 00:39:32,333
discussing it without
your parents here.
818
00:39:32,398 --> 00:39:34,344
She hasn't even
been charged yet.
819
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,641
And once she is,
the offer's withdrawn.
820
00:39:37,937 --> 00:39:41,248
I have a model witness
A girl who never in
her life even jaywalked.
821
00:39:41,907 --> 00:39:45,047
She's also a girl
who fled the scene
and lied at every turn.
822
00:39:45,111 --> 00:39:47,057
HAMILTON: And your
evidence of this is what?
823
00:39:47,112 --> 00:39:50,491
A set of her fingerprints
found in the laundry room.
824
00:39:51,150 --> 00:39:52,993
A Strickland
varsity jacket,
825
00:39:53,285 --> 00:39:54,559
and a shoe print.
826
00:39:54,653 --> 00:39:56,189
HAMILTON: All of this
is circumstantial.
827
00:39:56,288 --> 00:39:59,758
You've already brought these
charges against Denny Cannon
based on the same evidence.
828
00:40:00,059 --> 00:40:01,163
Your motive is what?
829
00:40:01,227 --> 00:40:03,764
Your client's fully
aware of what we think
her motive was.
830
00:40:03,829 --> 00:40:05,706
I told you,
I'm not a lesbian.
831
00:40:05,798 --> 00:40:09,302
JACK: You're certainly
free to take that position
on the witness stand.
832
00:40:09,368 --> 00:40:11,848
And, of course,
I'd be within my rights
833
00:40:11,904 --> 00:40:13,781
to cross-examine you
on the issue.
834
00:40:18,477 --> 00:40:19,854
She doesn't have to testify.
835
00:40:21,547 --> 00:40:24,426
I'll bring her relationship
with Julie Cade to light.
836
00:40:25,284 --> 00:40:28,458
I'll put Denny Cannon,
John Lucero,
on the stand.
837
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:30,158
You'll let that
go unrefuted?
838
00:40:30,222 --> 00:40:31,895
HAMILTON: I'll make
a motion to preclude.
839
00:40:31,957 --> 00:40:33,129
And you'll lose.
840
00:40:34,193 --> 00:40:38,573
Your client's sexual
relationship with the victim
is our theory of the case.
841
00:40:40,199 --> 00:40:43,112
Your classmates,
your teachers, everyone
you know in the city
842
00:40:43,168 --> 00:40:45,375
will be able to Judge
that for themselves,
843
00:40:46,372 --> 00:40:47,680
including your parents.
844
00:40:48,974 --> 00:40:50,647
Why are you
doing this to me?
845
00:40:50,709 --> 00:40:54,384
This is blackmail.
You're using the threat of
outing her to coerce a plea.
846
00:40:54,446 --> 00:40:57,791
I'm not. I'm simply
previewing our case
847
00:40:57,850 --> 00:41:02,766
so your client can
consider the ramifications
of refusing our offer.
848
00:41:03,757 --> 00:41:05,464
SERENA: There's no
judgment here, Alicia.
849
00:41:06,326 --> 00:41:07,828
Just tell us the truth.
850
00:41:16,870 --> 00:41:19,578
What if what happened in the
laundry room was an accident?
851
00:41:21,875 --> 00:41:23,786
You're going to have
to be more specific.
852
00:41:23,877 --> 00:41:26,585
An argument.
Julie slipped, she fell.
853
00:41:26,646 --> 00:41:29,149
Our forensics indicates
quite a lot of force
was necessary
854
00:41:29,216 --> 00:41:31,127
to account for
the fatal head injury.
855
00:41:31,184 --> 00:41:34,324
Well, worst-case scenario,
we get the trial judge
to instruct the jury
856
00:41:34,387 --> 00:41:36,458
as to extreme
emotional disturbance.
857
00:41:37,090 --> 00:41:38,933
In reality, you're
offering her nothing.
858
00:41:38,992 --> 00:41:43,372
Except the opportunity
to keep her sexual
identity under wraps.
859
00:41:44,531 --> 00:41:47,603
Have you thought about
the publicity this trial
is going to receive,
860
00:41:47,667 --> 00:41:49,271
especially from
the gay press?
861
00:41:49,836 --> 00:41:54,683
Or the lesbian support groups
who will be out in force
on the courthouse steps?
862
00:41:58,478 --> 00:42:00,617
No trial.
HAMILTON: Alicia...
863
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,354
Whatever they want to do
I just can't deal with that.
864
00:42:03,416 --> 00:42:05,862
We have a shot at this.
I don't care.
865
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,131
You don't know
what it's like
866
00:42:17,397 --> 00:42:21,072
to have to wake up and
be perfect every day.
867
00:42:24,204 --> 00:42:26,184
Nobody wants me to be gay.
868
00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:30,153
Not my parents,
not my friends, nobody.
869
00:42:35,081 --> 00:42:39,052
I just... (CRYING)
I just wanted to talk to her.
870
00:42:40,787 --> 00:42:42,698
To make her understand
871
00:42:43,256 --> 00:42:46,533
she couldn't press
charges against Denny
without ruining everything,
872
00:42:46,593 --> 00:42:48,129
but she wouldn't listen.
873
00:42:49,028 --> 00:42:51,838
She said she was going
to the police that afternoon.
874
00:42:55,902 --> 00:43:00,408
Before meeting Julie,
I never even thought
about being...
875
00:43:02,475 --> 00:43:04,477
So I told her,
"You can't do this to me.
876
00:43:04,544 --> 00:43:07,081
"You can't do this to me,"
and I pushed her,
877
00:43:07,147 --> 00:43:08,683
and she screamed, really mad.
878
00:43:08,748 --> 00:43:12,491
She slapped me,
and I pushed her again hard,
879
00:43:15,855 --> 00:43:18,392
and she hit her head against
the washing machine.
880
00:43:22,929 --> 00:43:24,738
So, I got on the floor
with her.
881
00:43:25,932 --> 00:43:28,811
She wasn't breathing.
She was just
882
00:43:30,436 --> 00:43:33,144
lying there with
this soft look on her face.
883
00:43:35,508 --> 00:43:36,885
I remember thinking,
884
00:43:38,278 --> 00:43:42,055
this must be the way
she looks when she's asleep.
885
00:43:57,964 --> 00:44:01,275
I just finished with
the probation officer
for Denny and Lucero.
886
00:44:01,334 --> 00:44:03,245
Well, hopefully fear
of the felony conviction
887
00:44:03,303 --> 00:44:05,978
will convince them
to keep their hands
to themselves.
888
00:44:07,007 --> 00:44:10,216
I wonder if Alicia will
ever come to terms
with who she really is.
889
00:44:10,411 --> 00:44:12,584
She'll have to face
herself sooner or later.
890
00:44:13,380 --> 00:44:15,189
And when she does,
she'll realize
891
00:44:15,249 --> 00:44:17,661
she killed the only person
who really knew her.